The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-24 00:00:00

Oct 24, 1843 °ENERAL MISCELLANY, 1 , StierWe regret to s t ate , th a t this distinguished V r.k d mg under v ery severe ill ness. ikli c h a r t4 l44 l3 liek i s the Provost elect of Ed i n b urgh, I , e Lis [laving retired in his favour. r ?RE COACH P.S.—Within the past week tv , ° hat ad ti been left on the road from Bris t,bttol4-er a tn (the Prince of W a l es ) c ea s ed running. pj lt: l o e s s e tiai the fi rs t stone o f t h e propose d new ittitho4•'lpswich was laid by the Mayor and 011,1stt•?-street Ward scrutiny ended on Thursday by kill" Mr. Lawrence,and the consequent re kik% ° ghee Hughes as Alderman. ti_k•t liti t MI • , N D_ ar swmii i turia.—Friday s Gazett e announces Vuysi j-telgh, Esq. has been appointed Captain cure Militia, vice Parker, deceased. totihes present time in a garden at Southport t h'Y • Heath, a fine bed of strawberries, quite tql oarli second crop this year. 4t1 20f P l ea was formally prorogued on Thursday to 044. Q mber. It is expected to meet for despatch I ,:„arlY in January. fit: i t tt et s' o ` c ensus of Scotland, 126,300 natives of I re- It 6 f t o rn , c(l as residing in that country, and 37,000 C ; 161, i gi r d ' 4 qros, H i f °. winter wheat is fast being brought to a siei:s_ Qat the north of England ; a more propitious Otwas not been known for years. qpi,ln assisti ng at the mess of the " 52nd depot at t l 4 t eoeived no ti ce to prepare th e i r co ffi ns, or klt arracks• 0 11 01 i l l tr ksi ti ea tint ,, MinotAsEx.—The total rental of Vier Be Lui Middlesex, as given . at the present b k Loo a :10tis, is £7.561.330, being an increase i)C ks b kt t '" Year of £1,5E31.922. linolo'riorr.—We lest n from Kendal that the 4.1111 4, ' n itia t :„. c ri ds. e, who comes out in the Whig-Radical ~ „c a tr will be opposed by Dr. Sleigh, on in °un ins of voncaster has returned the whole of his by the Town Council to that body, and all p h lim e t red during his mayoralty have been borne P urse. itt 'ht 4 ltty tkN ll , ACCIDENT.—On Monday last a serious 1 44%,liti t t n re i d at the Pasture-bill Colliery, whereby $P 4 14 14 7ti„ - 6,, 618 lost their lives by a sudden influx of • to e - Pap er . a gar 'kl? * bad Nti i amuitE.—We regret to learn the failure Zgo k , t ' s k b tie in town, extensively engage . d in t o ie Oef kei,Habilities are said to be about 1100,00 . i r t 4 de i tk le m % e,,"ighland sheep has received a new impe- L' g tfit a „ c eor - „ tn . ,niunicati on between Aberdeen and Hull. h""ozen to twenty as a treat at Christmas 1 4 114. 1 4 i.%ad t , e t ; 4 , d , r , ed per week are now received. of tk eel t i n Te Marylehone revising barritter. de- N it re wi nit :avour of retaining on the registry the Ift v w- tax collectors, as not coming within Ztq ta ttt li e 'uo of the 29th George 111. c. 41. t ft "lo•"—It is announced that the cur \\, this . e d'e I be the last under the taeputendePnerem i lt a is w :rated that the ' editor arid 134 , are to n witfidraw, and it will henceforth be N t "lts 4 , - ' l er Principles. kili'tknanBllLAcß, OCT. 10.—The Queen has been Oty',elsPit Elizabeth Marchioness of Douro to be iti ti tla th e . " of the bedchamber in ordinary to her r°° ro of Charlotte Duchess of Norfolk, Vai h le que n , 't k it ". th e of the late proclamation respecting N..,uunkers of Derby have issued a notice that 1110;:claY, they will be obliged to deduct sixpence t e4 ,' sovereign, and threepence for every half -111, "red. 1, 1 1 1 4 , 4 r e iast ovs,--Three men, inhabitants of . C!a:)- kva l ! ch ar , week apprehended and lodged in jail 1 / 4 ls l :Reaki n 4e of being connactee with the Resolis ista o , g open the prison of Cromarty, during &'ances.—lnverness Cr urier. h e6 toj. - -Last wee k, a t M r . Ferrand's sa l e NI, 4de _ r er f or Rochd a l e ), a goose 21 years of age, °c 48 years old, came under the hammer. ce* have become th e property of Mr. Albert Ap , h r lle t i - ‘-Ariv--On Saturday last Mr. Dearden l i Ne t h or at the Jolly Carter's public-house Heady itho,l on the body of Ann, the wife Of James Oubli c 4 4 3 Perired, had b een kill e d by a cow , near yiNN to "se oj),, N H sell game give power to sell it only at li t ll t i N qlh a i i : o A poulterer of Exeter was summoned 00t„,.ur i d e _ n Tuesday, for selling game at differ r one license • and the bench signified :1 1 ,4 44 : i i , of e nforcing ti:e law strictly on this bead. de Eo il ne k s , a younif tradesman, twenty-four neen committed to Newgate, charged Arc er o ,"enier of hi s wife, by administering to L1k14;4 Consent, drugs for the pur \;'• tl i e " LttlaoNtAr. thrioN.—On Saturday, Oct. t, tr, methodist Chapel, flunslet, Benjamin ile A rs 4," united, before the Marriage Registrar, Citld i f 1914 his step-mother, his father having orly i e tt 4 l e onths. The bridegroom is in his 20th Irtt,Ncp, P-mother and bride is in her 38th year. V P Wit 54 1 ti eas ,. Gts.—On the 11th instant, Messrs. 1 ) ,"4 (4 " , N 4 , 1", and Co., fancy manufacturers, jtked e an advance of twopence a yard in fo r .° e tC t ! l g the various fabrics they make, to all mploy. This advance was totall• ,e of pro- 'l4 -Op t, Ce i i i ,„vtn"q"lie-„ ri . Pl terd `I „1---This tax, it is now ascertained, will ki' 4, ^vv he i„ ° t f 5,100,000 per year. Sir . Robert tet,, f ; This"‘roduced this measure, estimated it, 11: 0 00 „ d eop e . t az is now in ale regular course of vr per r, "cittently augments the re lo s t tlogter tteluerter.---Standard. k 4 e l a t t ico ar r er on Sunday brought over from Lon -0101 • 411 r es ‘ 44 dred paupers, and landed the tinfor iN 114:4 the °lt the quay, penniless, shivering with Oor' t lYor.! l lost nit;.l.l enue nearly R~ 9t thNir one nn iseiitTlebeings bad sper pi~lce of "8 in Engl an d. "1 4 11 I" A few days ago a bottle „, EGASUS.— Piere' Wa bOrtie t on the Norfolk coast,. which !1 . 1 4 ti:11, Piec e Paper on which the following had Ar B, ,4" Probability by the gentleman whose 4 lii t t! sr l ,„'T°St at the last moment:—" Pegasus— Vi! ar Si nking ! The bottle s empty.— B°, into eternity ! Farewell !—Eurorr. : 1) tt5 L 141 10 . 4 148 been restored in Ross-shire. These tlt Still a W rong way to get their grievances re- A yes i n w ? cannot withh o ld our sympathy in the 'di mk,Pich so many of the Highland tenantry Tlie landlords will yet see cause to utivvise resolution to refuse sites for " 1 9 6 / 42 A t s rytts. has been elected Tseasurer for the ,4 40 4 ! ‘ ii the room of W. W. Salmon, 111% attempted to throw some . to blame k2.111„,„L c ‘ no mmunicating his intentions h hi Meek before it was announced at the Sea r'shiP stood alone in the Court as he un kNi2, 11 the A Atzst c0unt . 11, 4 40,2 414 ' 11 T OF THE BURGESSES OF WIND te p e nce Of nearly 200 of the burgesses of , n a y lected to pay the borough rate, made to IN fro the whole of their naines e for t ll O, the burgess list at the revision which `"e niayor and assessors on the 13th I the greater hot anot he r instance in this kingdom ~ttlhklv , It is lel to one in the Chain Cable Factory. yiNC l lte c i, t hat of a workma n, a smith, who, though tl:qt . ,,,k` ro ' n Years, is able to work for and earn his habits and annearance. no one r : i tiN ”Oritf lin E ight to be above 70 : he is now ; r„,,,,,,,, 1Q sight Years. 1 the %,, ' 1.7 rep to th‘ tep t tit „ El t- - A man of the name of Bryan iii e le . tt e a i L it eet ? in r to . Dublin from Manchester to \ i. i, .:_sativrtsand committed for has been arrested ::. c teaweaetstisttd in thee,a(l' i f l c t ? u r l t n rt i a u l r( o ie n r a o ;l t i n ar e gf a o te f I t , of the Queen's county, in the year ‘ f s ql e i h t i tl it tt lVrSr a s t i E , l r lD etober 16.—The rublie sales an ykiteti te, 're i s ' Check private business ) i o n the Tea \ d ae tilt a , 6totne interest mani f este d t k:89:, th e ° prices. The last overland se what 1 4 t of l s, ib deliveries f l i h. q. th e .. s. since this dayor home consumption ' \ht I t N ,Preeedinr, e i ... itt N,..L A ,..... 5 . 1 X weeks. i 1443,4 ) 1 vh ar .. th e te w LANDLORD.—WC art. AN L e,ll'"orare eats on the farms belonging to t e , ,;4. 4f th eir e disgusted at the appearance and kiv tii law tne eti - „° 0 0le landlord oaster . at „ ttif Doncaster t it l i 'r oe , % e rg at Don ii i t :N e : t eß 10; : and now he is linkfn h g a i s , h , lm ai s s e e l i f i t r th :ss l i repeal of the Corn L ?t! k t po r it e :ple ° ll l 4 STtAm te,R.:—We are aw gr s a . tified to I leer 41 ed 'et, vessel, besides her other boats p ee to l e „ 1 u two excellent life boats. These ' ilil l ith plc e ae lth, 6 feet 2 inches broad , and will \ik 1 1 1 4 241 1 eptk a , o "•, They are filled all round, under $ 1 ,, ,k 4 Idled w ( . 3 ,.`, , and would float with fifteen : a 4 SE wit h I ‘. l water.— Glasgow paper. kkk h it t ° gee t ' -- The London Tinos of Thurs. it % l i P 4°ll tt t° eorr , 6 e,,b e , le . o .. er espondents " We can insert ;,1 i, 0, 2 . -eb o th. o tory.' In the present state of k z, ‘ i;t1 1 Var a to ' mere mention of any subject to 011 asion.tl Obviates e te a s a s r p iy iri g t oo o d f c t o h n at ten m ti i o gh us t kr% ttlik„eettlaii e N kt,„t i .kbi,:.k_....T he 1 / 44,4,1, suggests il t s 4 1 110 4: t r ati ° 0 f n th f e Mill G ert i r e t 9 i r tu d rn s s ti s gg j I.g:Utlis),trhetiiat Ayr shoemakers ease should keep ot blltiletlltelle°fr s°llle o f f th o e ur W m es o t s , t in ad v m ie i w re a d s l t y i rl ie s 1 k .4 difeb,trth..ni ,Y profession butthe re could be i t Si lt4 t:"l'. 4P W2): e °f one ' poet on being Vor r lti ß ''Nir e Per. tenanted by 0, ~Itea. Pia ci . 11,eed not *t r - t 4;41 e - in tin. -- gay that an elopemen county (Devon) has been Nk tl e N 0 ~,°llvers at: ' ,v IN, tier e ase are lon during the past fortnight. 10,4 11 4 atIt t theinebandexceedingly distressing. The to t httl the i r ti f iat h er o al2d ix children, with a mar -I,lli , it sti P ip ~,_ e ne ..„ of eight children. Her bus 11,11it4Y h4S ap or t. 4 on a shooting expedition Y'll:riti c i °o l , ,,,! e oert i se ri of the flight of his wife. qs 04 -ith lorbe a n d 14 en , h er , learned that she had 1ty h4 11,,,e l a uce.r, whom she had fol. ° ttr n i, ) ); e n_ied him thence to Liver "C (I for A rnerica,—E4 ete' given to LIABILITIES THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. RUMOURED CAPTURE OP DOBSON, THZ MURDERER• Yesterday night Mr. Leach, the constable of Hudders field, came to Halifax with the glad news (which we hope may he true) that this parricide was in his custody at Huddersfield. From his statement it would appear that there is every reason to believe that he has for some time been in the neighbourhood.—Halifax Guardian, Satur day. MATCH FOR ONE THOUSAND GUINEAS.—Ina match for the above sum, p.p., which came off at Newmarket on Saturday, Lord George Bentinck's Captain Cook (S. Ro gers) beat Mr. Sainsbury's Chotornion (Mann). 7to 4 on Chortonion, who made the running, but was passed at the bushes, and beaten in a canter by 15 lengths. The trainer of Chortonion incurred a penalty by riding with the horses in the early part of the race. As a further and gratifying proof of the improvement in this country, we are happy to state that great activity prevails at this time at the Great Western Cotton Factory, in this city, to meet the demand for piece goods in the Irish, Northern, and London markets, where the fabrics of the above company are much in request. Between 1700 and 1800 hands are not only fully employed at the Works, but they are also obliged to pursue their opera tions during part of the night.—Brislol Journal. Some of Galileo's manuscripts, presumed to have been lost or burnt by order of the Inquisition, have been found at Florence, among the archives of the Palazzo Pitti. The Foreign Quarterly Review says :—" The manuscripts be sides being objects of curiosity, are likely to he useful to astronomical science, inasmuch as they contain informa tion respecting the eclipses of former times,—a course of the satellites of Jupiter, subjects to which Galileo directed great attention." DERBY CLUB FOR LADIES!—The present rage for speculation on the turf, and the great success which has attended the establishment of Derby lotteries, has sug gested the idea of a Derby club fir ladies only. The landlady of a highly-respectable tavern at the west end of the town, conceiving thlt ladies had' as much right to sport their loose cash on sporting events as their true and lawful protectors, and that only a favourable opportunity was wanting to display their mettle, determined to form a club, of which only the softer sex were qualified for members. A code of rules for th.. government of the society was speedily framed. and it was resolved that the club should be limited to 30 members, the subscription being 25s.—London paper. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—EIGHT PERSONS DROWNED. Two FISHING-BOATS LOST.—MONTROSE. Oct. 11--It is our painful duty to record the loss of eight fishermen belonging to Ferryden, this morning, between two and three o'clock, about 18 miles off the land, in consequence of the wind. which was gently at N.E. by N. having, in an instant, chopped round to S., whence it blew with ter rific fury, and capsized two fishing-boats, from which five men out of six belonging to the first, were rescued by another boat which was close by at the time ; but the se cond crew, consisting of seven individuals, all met a watery grave. They have left nineteen orphan child ren and fourwidows. In the last mentioned boat was James West, master, his son, and a young man, who was to be married next week to West's daughter, NARROW ESCAPES.—On Monday evening, the 16th of October, d ring a severe gale from the south-west, the smack Yeoman's Glory, belonging to Mr. Gill, M.P., Plymouth, went to Mevagissey Bay for shelter. Having no ballast on board, her crew possessed little control over her, and she unfortunately ran into the fishing-boat Mary, However, the fluke of the smack's anchor hooked the boat's gunwale and enabled the owner, John Andrew, aged 63, and his mate, Thomas Lee, 78, to get out just before she went down. The smack conveyed the poor men to Plymouth the next morning, when they were re ceived by the officers of that useful institution, the Ship wrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Society. On the even ing of the 17th John Andrew, who is a a stranger to Ply mouth, fell over the Custom-house quay, but the tide being low, the water reached only to his waist, and he thus escaped death by drowning a second time in twenty four hours. LATE CARLISLE BANK.—The creditors of Messrs. Forster and Co., bankers, Carlisle, will he glad to learn that a further dividend is expected early in the ensuing year. The estate has already paid 12s. in the pound ; and it was stated to the Commissioner at the Newcastle District Bankruptcy Court, that by Whitsuntide the whole of the estate uncollected will be realised, and a further sum of about £15,000 will be divided among the ' - creditors. On Monday the Earl of Lincoln, accompanied by Mr. Brnnel and Mr. Cubitt, inspected the Middlesex side of the river, from Vauxhall Bridge to Battersea Bridge, to ascertain the most eligible plan for the embankment of the river. Mr. Brunel was provided with thelevels and plans that he had lately made at the request of government. There will be a carriage road alongside the river from Battersea Bridge to the two Houses of Parliament.— Globe. BANK OF ENGLAND.—Quarterly a►erage of the weekly liabilities and assets of the Bank of England, from the 15th day of July to the 7th day of October, 1843, both in- clu•ive Circulation Deposits.. ASSETS £19,561,000 I Securities . 11,466,000 I Bullion.. £31,027,000 £22,193,000 12,078,000 £31,271,000 THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND.—The direc tors of this bank have this week made a call for 30s. per _ _ share, amounting altogether to X 6 10s. per share on 25,000 shares, every shilling of which is lost. The total loss in this concern is more than £3oo,ooo—indeed, with interest much exceeds that sum. The entire liabilities are now reduced to £71,000. When the bank stopped payment, they exceeded £1,400.000. The suspension took place in June, 1810. THE BRITISH QUEEN STEAMER.—Between six and seven o'clock on Wednesday evening, during the height of the storm, as the British Queen steamer was at the tail of the bank, on her passage across from Greenock to Helens burgh, it was found that she was making so much water as to render a continuance of the voyage dangerous, and she was immediately put about for Greenock Harbour. All the passengers, together with the crew, were landed in safety, and in a moment or two after the vessel sank. The chief cause of the accident is supposed to have been the Queen's coming against a small rock.—Scotch Reformers' Gazette. A THIEF HUNTED OUT.—Mr. Higgins, of Misterton, having been informed, on Sunday se'nnight, by his shep herd, that one of his fat sheep had been stolen during the night, immediately took his dog, a remarkably good one, of the sheep breed, to the fold, and the dog struck off the scent, and ran in a straight direction to the shepherd's house, where a part of the mangled sheep was found. Mr. Higgins at once charged his shepherd and another man who resides with him (and whose clothes he disco vered were bloody) with the theft. They were both fully committed to Taunton gaol to take their trial at the next assizes.—Somerset County Gazette. DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE HUMBER.—SIX Lives LOST.—On Tuesday night, about ten or eleven o'clock, the Three Sisters, Maltby, master, was lying at anchor off Sunk Island, when she was run down by the fishing smack William and Richard, Hodge, master, dur ing a dark night and stormy weather. The master and mate of the Three sisters succeeded in saving their lives by clinging to the William and Richard as it was passing over their keel, but we regret to state that Maltby 's wife, who was on deck at the time, arid his five children, who were in the cabin, all perished. —Hull Packet. FALSE REGISTRATIONS OF DEATHS.—It has recently been discovered' that a system of fraud has been carried on to a great extent in the metropolis by a set of designing nsionersof the East India Co., or annuitant: )f other public companies, i❑ order that they might obtair and also, in many of the alleged cases, representing that the deceased persons bad left large and destitute families, which has led to the granting of some allowance, either for the immediate support of the survivors, or on account of the supposed funeral expenses. An application was made on Saturday week, to the ma gistrates at the Mansion House, London, on behalf of the unfortunate Duke of Normandy and his wife and family of eight children. The duke is now confined for debt in Horsemonger-lane Gaol, and both he and his family are starving. It was stated that the unfortunate man's claim as dauphin of France is undoubted, and that the strength of it was the cause that the French government repudiated him. Alderman Johnson ordered some assistance to be rendered from the poor box, and requested the reporters to publish the application, in the hope that the public would voluntarily assist the unfortunate prisoner. COMMITTAL OF A DISSENTING MINISTER AND HIS SON, FOR BODY STEALING.—OR Thursday last, the Rev. Isaac Bridgeman, the Minister of a Dissenting Chapel at Walworth, whose case has been several times before the Court, was finally examined, with his son, a medical pupil, before Mr. Cottingham, at the Union Hall Police Office, on a charge of having removed the coffin and dead body of the late Mr. Tawney from the burial-ground of Mr. Bridgeman's chapel. Both the defendants were held to bail for their appearance to take their trials at the next Old Bailey Sessions for the misdemeanour.—Leeds paper. APPROACH OF WINTER.—On Tuesday morning, Ri vington Pike and the hills adjacent, appeared to be thickly co7ered with snow. The Welsh hills also wear the ap pearance of winter. At Burton last week, and on Mon day at Ulverston, there were heavy falls of snow. In Scotland the excessive rains and boisterous winds have also been succeeded by cold dry winds and occasionally severe frost and snow. The country generally begins to a wintry aspec estmoreland . vered with snow, and the grouse shooters have in conse quence forsaken their employment. BELL AND STEEPLE.—The law adviser of the Irish government has given an opinion, that there is no law to In Ireland. In England, there is a law which grants'to leration to Roman Catholic priests on certain conditions; but there is an express reservation, that those immunities shall not be enjoyed by priests who worship in buildings having a bell and steeple. We believe it is this enactment which prevents a striking clock being placed under the steeple of the Roman Catholic Chapel in Cookridge-street, in Leeds.—Leeds Intelligencer. SERIOUS ACCIDENT :TO LORD SHERBOURNE.—We eret to hear that a serious accident occurred to Lord Sherbone on Saturday morning last. His lordship was riding out, accompanied by Mr. William Harvey, of Brad. well-grove, and the Hon. John Dutton, when his horse suddenly shied and plunged furiously, by which his lord• ship was thrown with violence to the ground, breaking his collar-bone and two ribs. Messengers were immediately despatched for surgical assistance, which was promptly rendered, and we are happy to hear, by the latest accounts from Sherborne, that his lordship is progressing, though but slowly, towards recovery.—Cheltenham Chronicle. THE BANK OF MANCHESTER.—There was a meeting on Friday of the proprietors of this hank, when a report was read. It appears that there are still liabilities to the amount of about £400,000, and that to meet this another call of £2 per share will he necessary, and a call for that sum was agreed upon. Mr. Burdekin, as it already ap pears, took with him about £lO,OOO of the funds of the bank. The present call is caused by the winding up of several large accounts, much more unfavourably than was anticipated, especially those of Hiltons, of Darwen, and Joseph Raleigh, of Manchester, with which concerns the bank was a creditor for nearly £200,000. The proprietors will thus lose nearly, if not altogether, one million sterling. FIRE AT SUTTON HALL.—On Saturday morning; last about nine o'clock, flames were observed to issue (min a barn, forming part of the farm buildings adjoining Sutton Hall, the mansion of Joseph White, Esq., near Chester. An engine was obtained from Hooton, and messengers were dispatched to Chester for further assistance. Mr. Hill, with the Fire Police and their powerful engine, be longing to this city, set off at a quarter past ten o'clock and arrived at Sutton, a distance of eight miles, in 25 minutes. So rapid had been the progress of the devas tating element, that the whole of the farm buildings, containing a quantity of wheat and oats, were destroyed; the cheese, after a good deal of exertion, was saved ; and the efforts of the Chester Police successfully prevented the fire from communicating with the Hal!. A LITTLE BOY POISONED AT PLAY.-011 Sunday last some little boys were playing together near Wakefield, when two of them, called Willian Spawforth and James Wood, the one aged 12 and the other 10 produced a liquor in a small bottle, which they called Spanish juice water, and poured some of it down Francis Lumb's throat. Spawforth's grandmother having left home for the day, he took the opportunity of searching her cupboard for a file, when a playfellow who was with him, found a bottle containing oil of vitriol used for dyeing silks, which he tested, and finding that it blistered his lips offered it to other lads apparently for a joke, telling them it was Spanish juice water. The unfortunate deceased, more 'onfiding than the rest, swallowed a small quantity, and lthough every effort was used to destroy the effect of he poison, he died the following morning. The deceased of age. The two lads were appre -1 in custody till the Coroner's in- Jeing returned of " Died from tali - was." they were bout five years oil of Vitriol ! GALVANIC ELECTRICITY.—The galvanic apparatus made by Messrs Kemp, of the South-bridge, was on Fri nay last again successfully asplied to the simultaneous ignition of a number of shots for the purpose of disinte grating a large mass of stone in the quarry of Itosyth Castle, about two miles above the Queensferry. The shots were arranged in a line along a ledge of rock 70 feet long, 9 feet broad, and between 7 and 8 feet thick. Being loaded with moderate charges of gunpowder, and connected by the conducting wires with a large and powerful galvanic battery, and all the other preliminary preparations effected, immediately on completing the galvanic circle, 11 shots, which had been charged with about 351 b. of gunpowder, were instantaneously fired, and so great was the concen trated power of the simultaneous explosions, that the whole mass in front of the bores was instantly separated from contiguous rock; the separated portion containing a mass of not less than 3,780 cubic feet of stone, and weigh ing upwards of 260 tons.—Edinburgh Witness. ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE ON LONDON BRIDGE —On Thursday afternoon a most desperate attempt at suicide was made at London-bridge, by a soldier belonging for merly to the Royal Artillery. He precipitated ~i inself head foremost from the parapet. In his descent he came with his breast first against the buttress of the bridge, and fell into the water, nearly into a boat which was passing at the time, in which was a custom-house officer. The soldier rose to the surface, and was immediately seized by the person in the boat, and brought ashore. He was taken to St. Thomas's Hospital, when he was ...ale to state that his name was John O'Brien, and that be for merly belonged to the 7th battalion of the Royal Artil lery, but that ten days since he was discharged for mis conduct. He was immediately examined by the surgeon, who discovered that his breast-bone was broken, and that his face was greatly contused. On Thursday evening be was in a state of delirium, and was not expected to live through the night. WHAT IS THE END OF CORN-LAW AGITATION?—The following very happy exposition of the fraudulent fallacies of the Anti-Corn-Law Leaguers, was lately made by a noble lord at an agricultural meeting in Suffolk—Lord Rendlesbam—who so justly represents one of the divisions of that county. His remarks were to this effect :—" I cannot for the life of nice understand to what end the corn law agitation is directed. Is it to raise the price of corn, or is it to reduce it? If it be the object to raise the price of corn, where is the gain to the manufacturer? If it be the object to reduce the price, why tell the farmers that free trade will undoubtedly give them a higher price for their corn, and their labourers better wages? If the price of corn be raised upon one class, it must clearly be raised upon all. How are the labourers to gain except at the expense of the farmers, and how are the farmers to gain at the cost of the community ; and bow are manufacturers to gain an) thing by a free trade in corn, if the effect of such change is to benefit the farmer and to raise the price of corn !" JUNCTION OF THE ATLANTIC AN PACIEIC OCEANS. —The contract entered into by the Barings, of London, with the republic of New Grenada, for the construction of a ship canal across the isthmus of Darien, provides for ceding to the company the line for the projected work, with 80,000 acres of land interior. These princely mer chants do not appear in this transaction as the agents of the British government officially; but they are British subjects, protected by the government, and, doubtless, many important advantages will be secured to Great Bri tain, both political and commercial, by the completion of the vast work here projected. The completion of a ship canal between the two oceans thus projected will mark an era in the world's age. The event wilt stand forth to give a distinctive character to the century. It is to be a five years' work to endure for ever. The whole aspect of com merce will be changed by it. it will accelerate the revo lution now going on in China more rapidly and more thorougly than all the force of British armament, and not there only will it work changes, but in all Polynesia and Australasia, and the western coasts of South America, which are uow reached by doubling Cape Horn.--Balti more paper. DREADFUL CALAMITY.—CROMER, OCT. 11.—This morning, at about one o'clock, a gale suddenly rose, and at two it increased to a perfect hurricane. in the after noon of yesterday, as the weather was exceedingly fine and calm, a number of fishing boats, each containing a crew of four or five men, left Cromer in search of fish, and, as the elements were highly favourable, there is no doubt they went off to a grec t distance, for in such cases they often push their voyage to an extent of forty or fifty miles. Many of these boats are open and undecked, and not more than twenty feet long, and the largest afford but very slight protection against the weather or other casu alties. This morning none of the number that went out were in sight, and, up to the present hour, two o'clock, p.m., nothing has been seen or heard of them. There is one melancholy exception —a boat which contained five men has been washed ashore at Backton. near Minsley ; one body only has been found, and there is not the least doubt but that the whole crew have found a watery grave. One poor fellow has left a wife and six children. It is difficult to ascertain the number of boats absent, but it is commonly said about twelve or fourteen. Their fate is, of course, doubtful, but very serious apprehensions are entertained on account of them. Some vessels ate in sight, and one, apparently a large brig, has a signal of distress (a flag in her main rigging) flying. Messengers are sent out along the coast, and it is feared dreadful ac counts will be brought in in the morning. A vessel, the Friendship, from Goole, laden with chalk, has also come ashore at the same place, with a smaller kind of craft called a billy buoy, which was run ashore, and the mate, a Cromer man, lost his life. PRINCE ALBERT'S FARM.—Some two or three years since the Prince Consort purchased of the executors of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Glocester an im mense tract of land, extending over several thousands of acres, consisting principally of heath land, in the immediate vicinity of Bagshot, with a farm attached, known as the Rapley Farm. Upon this extensive property it is the in tention of his Royal Highness to try the experiment of breeding and rearing the blackcock, or cock of the woods, which is extremely plentiful in various parts of Scotland. The splendid live birds which were forwarded to the Prince as a present from the Duke of Hamilton about two months ago have been sent to his Royal Highness's do mains at Bagshot, where there is every probability that the experiment of rearing and breeding them will be as successful as can be desired. The blackcocks which were presented to the Prince were bred by the Duke of Hamil ton upon his Grace's estate in the Isle of Arran, in the Frith of Clyde. On Monday afternoon, immediately after luncheon, her Majesty and Prince Albert left the Castle in a carriage and four for Swinley, about three miles from Bagshot, where the saddle horses had been previously sent from Windsor, and the Queen and the Prince pro ceeded from thence to Rapley on horseback, and rode over a considerable portion of his Royal Highness's property. The game was found to be extremely abundant, especially hares, not a gun having been fired on the Prince's estate during the season. Her Majesty and the Prince returned to Swinley, and from thence to the Castle in the royal carriage and four. It is the intention of Prince Albert to inclose and cultivate a considerable portion of his large property in the neighbourhood of Bagshot. Two INFANTS DRUGGED TO DEATH BY A SERVANT. —On Saturday evening- last, a young mother was deprived of two young children by the culpable, and indeed crimi nal, conduct of a servant. Tl.e facts are shortly these : Mrs. Rogers, of Bangor-street, Carnarvon, wife of Mr. Rogers. commercial traveller, being engaged in the shop, had entrusted her two female infant children, one eighteen, and the other four months old, to her two female domes- tics, and, in the course of the night was much alarmed by one of them being in strong convulsions, and the other in a dying state. Medical aid was called in, and the ser vants subjected to a rigid examination, when one of them named Ellen Griffith, in whose charge the children were raorc immediately placed, stated that she hod given to them a small portion of gin, in order to make them sleep, and that was all the explanation that could be extorted from her. In the course of the night both the children died. On an investigation before the Coroner, it turned out that the girl Griffith, in order to keep the children quiet, had given them nearly a pennyworth of laudanum, which she had purchased of a druggist. The jury re turned a verdict of manslaughter agatnst Ellen Griffith and she was committed to the county gaol to Carnarvon, and a l p r el e riha r dac t rt i tg - i i icel a e ; at the next assizes. Circumstances have transpired, in t pt c , p li..e n sv n ea e i. c l.s t a i i o lt n os with druggingitvl r e r t t y ii s g riei.lf event, atnet x t t o ceon e rnt s n a i establish t l t i s tcc h ndr t n h t ao a neighbourhood, and particularly on Saturday nights, the cust om usual time for courting, accordi ng to the of the y, One druggist made th e degrading confession, t c l o la u t n l t i r egenerally dispensed laudanum to fifty or sixty ser vact girls on a Saturday night. L EICESTERSEITRE. - SHEARSLEY M URDER - h will be in the recollection of our readers that a person named Mes senger, hitherto residing at this place, and moving in a respectable sphere of lite as a farmer, and possessed of landed property, was fully committed fur trial at the March assizes, fur the wilful murder of his servant-man, at Whitsuntide last, by cleaving his head with a hatchet, and that the body was not discovered until the reaping of the corn was let to some Irishmen, who, going over it, found the head of a man dreadfully mangled, and the body in a ditch about three yards off. Several petitions for bail having been forwarded to the Home-office, the magistrates assembled in quarter-sessions on Tuesday last, received a communication therefrom, authorizing them to accept bail to the amount of £2,ooo—viz.. the prisoner himself in £l,OOO, and four sureties in £250 each, with 24 hours' notice. I FATAL ACCIDENT.-CAUTION TO BUILDERS On Saturday an inquest was held, before the borough coroner, to inquire into the circumstances touching the death of a young man, named Owen M'A Ulster, who met his death, the evening before, by the falling of a tank at Messrs. Platt's turpentine distillery, on the previous evening, as stated in a paragraph elsewhere. Thomas Occieshaw deposed, that he was a labourer, in the employ of Messrs. John Platt and Co., and that the deceased was twenty-nine years of age. On Friday even ing, between the hours of six and seven o'clock, witness and another man were working on a stage composed of bricks laid on iron beams. They were engaged in filling the pans with turpentine. The stage was about nine feet in height from the ground, and over it there was a large iron tank containing water, which formed a roof over the place where they were working. The tank was supported by four brick walls. Whilst they were in the act of filling the pans the north wall gave way ; the tank immediately fell, and, in falling, knocked down the stage on which they were working. Witness and his companion effected their escape as quickly as possible, by scrambling over the fallen materials. They soon after heard the sound of some one calling out from underneath the rubbish, and shortly discovered that it was a man of the name of Rigby. They then heard some one else calling out, and at once pro ceeded to render him assistance by clearing away the rub bish. The latter turned out to be the deceased, who was taken to the Southern Hospital in a most exhausted state. Rigby had not been completely covered with the materials. The walls by which the tank was supported had been erec ted about four months ; and the tank itself was about six or seven yards in length, the same in breadth, and about three feet in depth. John Gibson, who was working with the last witness gave a similar account of the accident. Thomas Bolton, engineer at the works of Messrs stated, that, about a quarter of an hour before the acci dent, it contained water to the depth of twenty-six inolies. When filled it contained water to the depth of nearly three feet. It was supported by five iron beams let into the walls STRANGE DISCOVERY.—A short time ago two human skeletons were found by persons enarged in digging the foundations of some houses in Gallowsacre-lane, Clifton, and consigned to the custody of a medical gentleman. Conjecture was busy as to who the parties could have been, and from subsequent inquiries, there is very little doubt that they were the bodies of two Irishmen. named Burnett and Payne, convicted of the murder of Richard Ruddle, coachman to Sir Robert Cann, on the 26th of October, 1743, nearly 100 years ago, and hung and gib beted on Clifton-down, near the scene of the crime. The victim on that occasion was, it seems, mistaken for a farmer named Winter, whom the murderers expected to cross the Down with a large sum of money in his posses. sion. On the death of Sir Robert Cann, who used great exertions to bring the perpetrators of the deed to justice. the bodies were taken from the gibbet, and it is supposed interred in the spot where they were discovered. DIMINISHED INTEREST ON EAST INDIA BONDS.— • The following notice, relative to the rate of interest upon India Bonds, was posted at the Stock-Exchange late on Wednesday afternoon. It had no material cff2ct on the price of those securities; indeed, it appears to have been anticipated on Tuesday, when lion] 775. pm. they de clined to 745. pm. They were done on Wednesday as high as 795. pm. and as low ai 745. pm., while in one or two cases bide were made at 735. pm. : " The Court of Directors of the East India Company do hereby give notice— " That the present rate of interest (X 3. 10s.). three pounds ten shillings per cent. per annum, on the Compa ny's bonds will cease and determine on the 31st day of October, 1844. " That from and after the 31st day of October, 1844, such bonds shall carry an interest only of (.£3) three pounds per cent. per annum. " That holders of bonds will be allowed to bring them in to be marked for continuation at the said interest of (X 3) three pounds per cent. per annum until the 18th day of September, 1844, and that such bonds as shall not be marked for continuation as aforesaid on or before the 18th day of September, 1844, shall he liable to be paid off on the said 31st day of October, 1844, on which day all in terest will cease. "JAMES MELVILL." Wm. Johnson, the engineer, who made the five iron beams, stated, that each of them was capable of hearing fifteen tons weight, the weight being laid on the whole length. The weight of the tank and the water it contained would be about ninety-five tons, sixty of which would be on the beams, and the remainder on the walls and other shorter beams. The whole weight on the beams would be fifteen tons less than they were capable of bearing. He had found, on examination since the accident, that the whole of the beams had been broken, and that the tank had been completely cut through. This must have bee❑ caused by the tank resting fur a moment on one of the beams. He considered the beams quite sufficent to bear the weight for which they were designed. From the ap pearance of the ruins he thought that some part of the bearings of the beams had shrunk, the consequence of which would be, that more weight would be thrown on one beam than on another, and this would have the effect of throwing the wall out; but he had not examined the place minutely enough to say that this had been the cause of the accident. ROYAL WEST INDIAN MAIL STEAM COMPANY. — The half-yearly meeting of this company was held last week. Captain Chappell, the secretary, read the report, which attributed the loss of the Solway, near Corunna, to an error in calculation, acquitting the Captain of all blame. It stated that a further curtailment of the steam ing operations would now be effected by a modification of the different routes, as approved by the Admiralty, but the advantages could not be showta at present, as the modifications did not come into effect till the end of June. Tht disbursements and receipts account for the half-year ending the 30'11 June, showed a balance, applicable to in surance and wear and tear, of £31.341 15a. 7d. Many reductions in expenditure, thought practicable at the last meeting, had been carried into effect, and the last call having been paid up, the directors had reduced the debt to £120,000, being £140,000 less than the sum owing at this time last year. Every vessel belonging to the com pany was now in a state of thorough repair and effective ness. The directors hoped that, from the omissions of so many places in the routes, there would, in future, he less cause for accidents, and, under the circumstances, they proposed that on the termination of the present year, or as the policies of the respective ships expire, the company should set aside a fund of 5 per cent to meet the contin gency of insuring their own vessels. A board of manage. ment had been appointed, who reported weekly to the directors. In conclusion, the directors held to their first opinion, that, with the encouragement of her Majesty's Government, the concern would, at no distant time, fairly compensate the parties who had embarked their capital in the undertaking. The statement of accounts showed the total receipts of the half-year to have been £158,048 14s. 7d.. of which £120,000 came from Gov ernment, and only £38,048 14s. 7d. from freight and passage money. The disbursements were £123,706 19s. After a long discussion, the report was adopted. Mr. Samuel Holine deposed that he was a builder. About tae latter end of February, he saw an order in his book for some bricklayers, who were wanted by the Messrs. Platt; and, on ascertaining that they had been sent, he called, as was his custom when new work was to be done, and saw Mr. Benjamin Platt, who told him that he wanted him to build a boiler house. A few bricks had been set at the time. Mr. Platt had a plan in his hand, and, after some general observations, witness left him, as he was engaged with the teen in setting out the work. In a few days after he called again, and tound that the foundation of the place was being built along with the ex ternal walls of the building. He saw that the external walls were being built in one solid mass with the walls of the boiler; and, on examining the plan, he found that the walls were two bricks in thickness. As the materials were old, he advised Mr. Platt to have the walls two feet thick ; but the latter said that he could not spare the room, and that he did not intend to carry the building to any great height. Witness told him that he had better build a square engine chimney, and turn the whole of the flues into it ; but, to the best of his recollection Mr. Platt replied that he could not spare the room : and, in reply to a question as to how he intended to build the flues, he replied, by protecting the m on brackets. Some further Some conversation then occurred as to what would be the best draft, after which witness told him that the bricks were not good ones, as they were made out of the old Park clay, and advised him strongly to get new ones to mix with them. Mr. Platt found his own materials. Witness went there afterwards and found that a vast num ber of pieces of brick, which were very wet, were being used, and he then told him that he disliked the way in which the building was going on. Mr. Platt replied, in a joking sort of way, that he was his own architect, that the build- in. was a small one, and he said, to the best of his (wit ness's) belief, " We'll risk it, " or words to that effect. As he found that Mr. Platt was with the men every day, and giving his own instructions, witness did not interfere much in consequence ; and on referring to his book, to see if notice had been given to the Building Surveyor, he found that it had not, and he accordingly served notice noon that officer. This was on the Gth of March. Ile thought it was upon that occasion that he asked Mr. Platt what sort of a roof he was going to put, and that they had some conversation about iron roofs. Mr. Platt THE DIME or WELLItiGTON.—The active and indus trious habits of the Duke of Wellington, now in the 75th year of his age, are well known. The following is a recent instance of his grace's vigorous activity at so advanced a period of life:—upon the Duke's arrival in London on Monday, the 2d inst., from Walmer Castle, en route to Windsor, to attend a Privy Council held that afternoon at the Castle, his grace unexpectedly met a messenger from her Majesty at Apsley-house, the bearer of an invi tation to dine with his sovereign on the following day at the splendid banquet given by her Majesty in ho - nou'r of the arrival of her illustrious visitor, the Grand Duke Michael of Russia. His grace proceeded to Windsor, at tended the Privy Council. and immediately it broke up returned to town by the Great Western Railway, and left London by the Dover Railway, arriving at Walmer Castle the same night; the duke having an engagement at Walmer, which he kept with his habitual punctuality. The duke left Wahner the next morning, proceeding in his carriage to Folkestone, and thence to town by the railway, intending to have reached the Paddington termi nus in time for the half-past 5 o'clock train to Slough. Upon arriving, however, at Paddington, the train had left some few minutes. and there was no other train to start until half-past 7 o'clock that evening, which would not have enabled his grace to reach Windsor Castle until half-past 8, the hour at which the royal dinner party were to assemble in the grand banquetting-room. As his grace was in his usual travelling attire, and as there would not have been time to have dressed for dinner after his arrival at the castle, the duke lost no time in returning to Apsley house, where he made his toilette, proceeded hack to Pad dington, left for Slough at half-past 7, arrived there at 12 minutes past 8, and entered the royal residence at half past 8, just in time to mingle with her Majesty's illustrious guests (as he reached the top of the grand staircase,) who were then proceeding to the magnificent banquet in the Waterloo Chamber. said, that he intended to put a cistern on the top, which was only once there afterwards, when the building was twelve feet high, but he spoke to Mr. Geoghan, one of his principal men, and told him, that they were using too many of the rubbishy bricks. Geoghan's reply was, that Mr. Platt was a very odd man, and that be had told them to use the old bricks up. Witness thereupon observed to Geoghan, that, as Mr. Platt gave his own directions, his going there was of no use; and he never went after that period. He had not surveyed ►he building since the acci dent; but he was of opinion, that the walls as built, were not capable of sustaining a weight of 115 tons. He was not surprised that morning when he heard of the accident. His impression was, that the cause of the accident had been from the expansion of the walls by the heat of so many furnaces, and in consequence of the flues being in in the interior of the walls. Mr. 'William Metcalfe, house-surgeon at the Southern Hospital, stated, that the deceased had been brought there on Friday evening, with a compound fracture of the skull on the right side, of which injury he died in about as hour after his admittance. The inquest was then adjourned. ADJOURNDD INQUEST YESTERDAY. Mr. Samuel Holme being agAn called, said he had made . . a survey of the building in - company with Mr. Welsh the A DESPERATE LEAP.—A few days since as a Twy- athilect and Mr. Benjamin Platt. They measured the ford constable was conveying a prisoner (who had been building, and found it 38 feet 3 inches long, and 24 feet sentenced to three months' imprisonment) from that place 6 inches broad, inside measurement; a large cistern had een placed on the roof of the buildi ng , supp or t e d par to Abingdon gaol, by the Great Western Railway, the b prisoner, shortly after the train started, and while it was tially by the wall, and partly by 5 iron girder beams, the proceeding at the rate of upwards of 30 miles an hour, depth of which was in the shape of the Roman letter T suddenly leaped from the carriage, tumbling over head inverted. The depth of the beams was ll inches, the and heels into the road. The constable, upon the impulse breadth of the bottom part 7.1 inches, and the sectional of the moment and without reflecting upon the danger he thickness an inch. The bearing of the beams being 24 would incur, immediately jumped out after him. Those feet 6 inches in the clear. He found also that the beams in the train who witnessed the foolhardy conduct of the had been laid on bond timber, which in one place appeared two men imagined that both must have been inevitably to have shrunk a, little where the beams rested upon it. killed. Extraordinary as it may appear, neither was .in The bottom of the cistern did not cover the whole breadth the least injured, and the prisoner was again captured by of the wails as appeared by the line of mortar on the bot the courageous constable, who walked along the line to torn, but appeared to have varied from 6to 7 inches on rt- 1 • his prism... --- i - - - _ the two en- , - ''''" • ne next station with his prisoner, and proceeded thence to his place of destination, where they arrived at a some what early hour in the morning. Upon reaching Abing don, the constable was advised by one of , the town police whom he met to give his prisoner something to eat at a public house hard by. This suggestion was adopted by the constable, who knowing, from his late experience, the slippery propensities of his charge, determined to keep a very sharp look out upon his movements. They had just despatched a hearty meal, when the constable left the room fora few seconds, the prisoner assuring him that upon his return " be would find him as right as the knocker at Newgate." However, during the absence of the " the trustful Dogberry," the knave quietly jumped out of the window, unknown to any one about the house, and got for the time clean off. The surprised and alarmed constable started off one way, over hedge, ditch, fence, and stile, and the landlord and hostler another ; but no tidings were obtained of the fugitive. The police of Abingdon, however, who were rather more wide awake than the unlucky wight from Twyford, got scent of the worthy in the course of the afternoon, and captured him shortly after dark the same evening. He was then safely housed in Abingdon • gaol, whence it is not likely he will give the slip until the expiration of his sen tence. FEARFUL STORE AT SEA. —Throughout Tuesday and Wednesday a most awful storm raged along the eastern coast, causing a tremendous sea. The loss of life and property was truly distressing. Among the many casu alties that occurred was, we regret to say, the total loss of the British built ship Berhampooter, C. G. Cowley commander, which took place about six o'clock on Wed nesday morning, on the rocks off the southeast portion of the town of Margate. The unfortunate ship, which was a very fine vessel, 550 tons burden, and which stood in the class A 1 at Lloyd's, was the property of Captain Arthur, and was chartered by Carter and Bonus, the emigrant agents of Leadenhall-street, for the conveyance of emigrants on the part of government to Port Philip. Owing to her size and construction she was well adapted for that line of traffic, every accommodation being made that could give comfort to the passengers during their tedious voyage. On Monday last she soiled from the London docks, having on board 94 emigrants besides the crew ; they consisted of 21 women, 44 children, and the rest men, chiefly belonging to the labouring class. The voyage to sea was as favourable as could be desired, and it was the intention of the captain to proceed to Cork for the purpose of receiving the remainder of the emigrants, but bad weather threatening, she hove to on Tuesday night in Margate Roads and anchored, orders being given to make her as snug as possible. The ship wore the gale gallantly, and hopes were entertained that she would ride it out, when a fearful blast drove her from her anchorage, and she was instantly hurled stem on the chalk rocks, about half a mile distant f rom Margate town, between Clifton Baths and Kingston, the sea at the same time breaking over her decks. As may be readily conceived, all was confusion on board, and the shock being so great as to carry away her rudder she instantly filled. The decks were now crowded by the unfortunate emigrants, and a scene of the most heartrending character presented itself, every one of them expecting every ,moment to be swept into the sea, and either be dashed to pieces or drowned. Captain Coe ley entreated of them to be tran (lntl, and fortunately they obeyed, and after a short lapse .;nas. This would cause an inequality of bearing on the wall, and the pressure would be on the internal breadth, instead of being on the centre of the wall. Wit ness thought from the scantling of the beams, that it was highly probable that when the cistern was filled with wa ter a sinking had taken place. If a slight expansion had taken place in the walls from the heat of the furnaces, the natural tendency would be an inequality of bearing on some one or more of the beams, which would cause a rush of water to the lowest point of the cistern, and an accident would be the result. The beams would break, which had been the case of all of them. He was of opinion that the beams were not calculated to support that weight of water in such a position, and had no doubt if there had been a row of iron pillars beneath them, the accident would not have occurred. He was at that moment using nearly double the quantity of metal in warehouse floors of 14 feet bearing, and he thought a combination of the causes he had named bad been the probable reason of the accident occurring. He could not describe the original construction of the tipper part of the building, and he had not been in it since it was about 12 feet high, until that (yesterday) morning. Mr. Platt was not a professional architect. Witness and partner found the mortar, which was mill mortar, and of the strongest description. It was usual to use old bricks in buildi ngs w h en t h ey were on pie premises, and were good. Hewes not aware whether improper bricks had been rejected —nor aware that they were put in. Witness objected to so many p i eces o f o ld bricks, and requested Mr. Platt to get new bricks and use them with the old. He afterwards saw new bricks on the premises. He advised iii.. Platt to turn all the flues into one general stack, but he declined doing so, and gave his own directions respecting them. The expansion of the wall would be above the furnace, and not below it, but it was impossible to say now whether that had been the case or not. It is not usual for a person not an ar chitect to erect buildings without employing an architect. The men sent by him to Mr. Platt's were as good work men as any they had. It was not what is called a cheap job. They were not restricted in cost, as it was done by day work. On his survey this morning he found a centre wall, which would make the building stronger. An iron tank was heavy, and such an accident might have oc curred in the best of buildings where a water tank is used. Mr. William Rishton said he was one of the surveyors appointed by the Corporation under the building act. Mr. James Woods was the other, and they divided the town, witness taking the south district. Witness received a notice to survey from Mr. Holme, and frequently visited them. On the first occasion they were about two feet high. The walls were built conformably to the act of parliament, and were half a brick thicker. lie was not aware what was to be put on the top. The walls were of the usual kind, and he thought them of sufficient strengt'i to bear the weight of the tank, provided the girders had been sufficient: Mr. Holme explained that cases arose in which beams, from a knot or an air hole, might bear a great weight for a long time, and yet might afterwards from the swaying or bending of the beams, break with a com paratively small weight. Mr. Rishton—re-examined--said that he bad no doubt but there were warehouses 60 feet in height that bore with w th e e ig g i a )t tn o e n t e h a ic e lc h n fl e o s o s r o , that carried a greater in rt,., in,adiur• was erected, and since the works have been f th v‘ a .a n ll t s he o t i l ' i l n y k , Thorra Bolton being recallvd, said that during the time of time several Margate luggers came off, and succeeded in taking every soul off the ill-fated ship, and landing them safely. The poor emigrants were in a most de plorable state, being completely drenched. Carts having been procured, they were, without loss of time, conveyed on to Margate, where they were billetted at the several public-homes. in operation, Mr. Platt was in the habit of hr. daily in the building and about it. He was tl four hours a day. The Coroner summed up, and as to the law of the case—express derived from the evidence, that there was no incaution on the part of 32r. Platt to render him amenable to a verdict arq, , his own opintor of manslaughter—leaving it, however, to the jury to come to their own conclusion. The jury returned, in a few minutes, a verdict of " Ac cidental death. Mr. Samuel Holme then rose and said, that seeing re porters present, he begged the permission of the Coroner to make an observation not connected with this case, but as a reflection arising out of it. It had been exceedingly painful to Mr. Platt, as well as to all parties connected with him, and it was from motives of humanity alone that he was induced to make the observation. it was, that in the present rage for constructing fire-proof ware houses the greatest caution was necessary ; and any want of skill in their construction might be attended,in our pub.. lic thoroughfares, with lamentable and fatal consequences. A are-proof building is not more dependant upon the strength of its walls, than upon the security of the arches of which the floors are formed. Loaded as warehouses now are, by the custom of the port, it is absolutely requi site that the greatest caution be adopted, not only in the strength of the bearing beams, but in the proper security of the tension rods which counteract the lateral thrust of the arches; and he felt convinced that if future ware houses, of brick and iron, alone, were erected in a slovenly and unskilful manner, accidents of a serious nature will occur, and it will be extremely difficult to ascertain, from the nature of the materials used, and their proper adapta tion, where the blame ought to rest. He felt it right to hazard these remarks as a necessary caution : for, al though accidents have happened, and no doubt will happen again, even in well-constructed buildings, from causes difficult to prevent, yet buildings constructed on the principles of being fire-proof, are peculiarly deserving of great care, and it is absolutely requisite that skilful architects should be employed to superintend their con struction. The Coroner felt exceedingly obliged by the valuable practical remarks of Mr. Holine, and hoped that atten tion would be generally paid to such a subject from such an authority. He hoped the reporters would give to such valuable suggestions every publicity. Mr. Welsh, the architect, who was present, desired to corroborate the opinions expressed by Mr. Holme in every respect, and stated that he agreed in every word which had fallen from that gentleman. VESSEL WRECKED : FIVE LIVES LOST.—The sloop Henry and Thomas, of Maryport. bound from Dublin to this port, with a cargo of flour, oatmeal, wheat, &c., was driven on the beach at Penllech, on the west side of Red wharf Bay, during a heavy gale, about eight o'clock, on Thursday morning week, the 12th instant, and totally wrecked. Out of six persons on board only one was with difficulty, and by the most strenuous exertions, saved. The persons who lost their lives in this calamity were the captain and his wife, a young man, aged twenty-two, the wife's son by a former marriage, and two youths, of the respective ages of seventeen anti fifteen, sons of the un fortunate couple. Joseph Daniel, aged twenty-four, the only survivor, is a son of the deceased captain by a for mer wife. BIRKENHEAD INNKEEPERS.-011 Tuesday last at the Quarter Sessions, Knutsford, an appeal was made by Mr. Henry Gough, the keeper of the tap of the Wood side Motel, who was convicted before the magistrates at Birkenhead for opening his house on the evening of Sun day, Sept. 24, between the hours of six and eight, during which time divine service was being performed in the church of Birkenhead. The alleged offence was proved by Wm. Porter, the superintendent of the Birkenhead Police, who acted under the instructions of Mr. Richard Fry, the churchwarden of Birkenhead. Mr. Fry was called upon, and, after describing the mode of service in the church of which he acts as churchwarden, said, on cross-examination,—l laid this information of my own accord.—Mr. Townsend : You are, then, an informer ? —1 considerered I was acting right in being so.—Are you not interested in this conviction—who is to pay the ex penses ?—The magistrates, I suppose, will pay the cost. I never was at Bidston Church ; it is not the superin tendent's duty to go there. Do not know whether there is church evening service at Bidston or not. I know that lately convictions were laid against several publicans of Birkenhead; I never gassed one against the defendant. Birkenhead, I know, is a parish of itself.—Read that summons. A previous information by Mr. Fry against another party was then handed up, and he read aloud till he came to the words "in the parish of Bidston, in the said county, in which said parish of Bidston the chapelry of Birkenhead is situated." The supression of these words excited a strong mark of disapprobation in the e ft e er t m h o e o Cathedraln , and serviceevening. m S tn u e p i p i c o e s s e , at a s seveni n Ches ter, h eis n where court.—The Chairman, a ft er d e lib erat i on with the other magistrates, said, ther e i s no case ; the service required is in h a the morning, and a succession of services follow in the other churches at various hours throughout the day, if such proceedings were adopted there, as are attempted at Birkenhead, the public-houses would hardly ever be opened during any part of the Sunday, and hardly a sin gle traveller could obtain any accommodation. The con viction is quashed. ANOTHER ASSAULT ON AN OFFICER OF THE WORK HOUSE.—On Friday last, a young and rather good look ing girl, apparently of about 15 years of age, named Mary Reynolds, was brought before Mr. Rushton, at the police court, under a charge of having grievously assaulted Mrs. Coleclough (or Colecroft) the superintendent of what is called in the establishment the female classification ward. Mr. Lowndes, solicitor, appeared on behalf of the parish authorities, and opened the case. It appeared tt -alit on Thursday, about noon, the prisoner had ha r d a quarrel will' anothar girl , that blorac had roaultoci , and that on Mrs. Coleclougg (as stated by herself) interfering to quell them, she was attacked by the prisoner, and her collar and cap torn off. Mr. Dowling, commissioner of police, inti mated to the magistrates that some irregularity had taken place in the workhouse with regard to the taking of the prisoner into custody, which he thought it proper to call attention to. He said that a police-officer (344) had been sent for, and that when the charge was made on his arriv ing at the house, he had stated that, as it was early in the day, the case might be brought before the court that day, (Thursday,) but the governor (Mr. Evans) had refused to prefer it then, alleging as his reason that the prisoner should have " another night iu bridewell," meaning (as we inferred,) that he should confine her over night as a preliminary punishment before he brought her to the po lice. court to have the case investigated, and her punish ment duly awarded by law. The police officer was called, and fully corroborated this observation of Mr. Dowling. He said that he found the prisoner locked up ; that he stated that he believed there would be sufficient time that day to have her brought before the magistrates, but that the governor refused to let her be :taken away, on the ground before stated. The words used by the governor were, " I'll not let her go; I'll give her a night's lodging here first." The governor being called upon by Mr. Rushton to reply to this charge of irregularity, said that he had a complaint to make against the police officer, and entered upon a somewhat disjointed statement, accusing the officer of not telling truly the whole of the facts. He said that Mrs. Coleclough was then suffering so much from the injuries she had received, that she could not then attend the court, she being in a fainting state for some time after the assault, and that this was the main reason which he had assigned for not bringing down the prisoner. The officer reiterated his statement, and said that another officer was present. Mr. Rushton said that what the governor had stated was a proper enough reason for the ease not being brought on the day before, but what was stated by the officer as having been said, was not so.—The Governor said that the Bridewell-keeper and the officer had refused to book the charge; and that he was himself prepared to come to the court at the time, but (he repeated) did not in consequence of the illness of Mrs. Colecleugh. Mr. Rushton said the Bridewell.keeper and the officer bad acted properly. It was their duty to obtain correct in formetion before a charge was booked, and the reason as signed for the detention of the prisoner over night did not appear satisfactory. She ought to have been brought to that court on the previous day, and might have been re manded, until Mr. Coleclough could appear. The gover nor admitted that in speaking to the officer he was under considerable agitation, arising from the assault. Mr. Rushton inquired of Mrs. Coleclough bow many paupers were in her department, and on being told 57, he said it was quite impossible for one female to manage so large a number. The prisoner, on being asked by Mr. Rushton what she bad to say, stated that another girl had quar relled with her, and had thrown sand upon and struck her ; that she had retaliated ; that Mrs. Coleclough had come up and struck her first with a rule for ruling books, and that she had certainly then, but not before, turned upon her and tore her cap. Mr. Rushton said she must pay £5 for the assault, or be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for three months. The prisoner said where could she get £5 ? and left the court shouting in a manner in dicating a revengeful feeling. [We should be the last to endeavour to extenuate the conduct of refractory pauper s , but conviction is forced upon us by this and other recent cases, that the present management of the workhouse, under, as we suppose, the new poor-law system, is most injudicious, if not oppressive, and calculated to produce continual collision between the officers and those placed under their care. The governor appears to labour under an impression that the house is to be regulated as a sort of gaol, rather than as an asylum for the poor and desti tute. It nes but recently that a pauper who had been re leased from the borough gaol for an assault, and where as he laboured under disease he had been put to the light oc cupation of picking oakum—went back to the house, and though still ill, and with a certificate from a district surgeon, to the effect that be was unfit for hard labour, he was immediately, and without any surgical examina tion, ordered to go and break stones, and a hammer was put into his hands. The consequence was. that the pauper—certainly a passionate and unruly man—commit ted an assault upon the governor and one of his officers, for which he is now again suffering punishment in prison. The case as it came out before Mr. Rushton showed the existence of an indiscreet, if not a vindictive, feeling to wards the man ; but on his being tried at the Sessions, all the witnesses heard before Mr. Rushton were not brought forward, though enough transpired to induce the jury to append to their verdict a remonstrance, as re garded the conduct of the surgeon of the house (since and subordination are treated over and above humanely. In that ou as idcall no one now before us, the respective priso w ne t r o s c m mitigate the retired), to the effect that he (the prisoner) had nol, D be t l e cha witnesses before the court with F of the house appearing in want against them — th e officers the seat near the ' and taking their places magic. court, in place of being put into the witness box --a strate, custom that would be more honoured in the breach than weight a ! of the evidence cer tainly required in a workhouse; but it is something new the i rn :sc a i n p d lin th e e f u for a governor of such an establishment to assume the magisterial office, and take upon himself to liminary puniihtnent upon an offender before he or she is brought before a legal tribunal—as he conceived such offender would ha _ the rge observance. against tin th It with by the pro, int he cd not in future be ample rigou , for we unhappily sec a clispositioc thoritative quarters to carry wttli mercies of the new poor law.)