The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-07 00:00:00

Nov. 7, 1848. tittraturt. POETRY. --- THE SISTERS (From the Dublin University Magazine.) Come hither, gentle sister, And raise me in the bed ; Now place yourself behind me, And press this weary head; For I have much to tell you, When all are fast asleep — You need not be alarmed Though I should wildly weep. There now, I'm nicely settled, And we are all alone, With nothing to distress us But the wintry wind's sad moan, And the flickering of that taper, Where a winding-sheet I see Ah ! death that comes too soon to some, Brings happiness to me. I've placed me, dearest sister, That you may not mark my face; And yet the tale 1 have to tell Knows nothing of disgrace. But weeks have grown to months, dear, And months have swelled to years, Since first I had within my heart The fountain of sad tears. Do you remember, darling, An eve in leafy June? The sun had set in crimson light, And gently rose the moon. We wandered by the river's side — Henry our friend was there; You surely must remember it, That sunset was so fair. Your heart is wildly beating— I feel each heavy throb ! Oh ! lay me on the pillow— I'll give back sob for sob I I long thought that he loved me— That eve I heard him say That you were all the world to him— Oh ! turn not thus away. But let me tell you all, dear, Whilst life and strength remain — I know he is returning To visit you again ; I pray for happiness to both — But would that I were dead, And laid in shrouded slumber In the churchyard's quiet bed! Oh I promise me, that to my grave You will together come, And shed a tear of pity O'er her who has gone home; Then look up to the heavens And remember I'm in bliss, Where in a few short years you both Shall share my happiness. Then do not grieve that I am called To leave this earthly scene; You know I shall be happier Than ever I have been. My health has been but weak, at best. For many a weary day, And you have been so kind to me I love you fervently. Now, fare thee well, sweet sister I The dawn is cold and grey — Oh ope that gloomy casement That my soul may pass away The cocks are crowing loudly— The world begins to wake — Oh I take me to your bosom, I knew my heart would break! VARIETIES The completest pun on the records of literature is pro duced in the following words, which were inscribed on a tea-chest :—" Tu DOCES" which is the second person singular of the verb doceo, to teach ; and when literally translated, becomes THOU TEA-CHEST. A GOOD ANSWER.—" What shall I do," said a liquor seller to a temperance lecturer, " if I quit selling rum ? " " Go into the poorhouse," said the lecturer, " and be supported . there, and let the poor you have made paupers Wine out." AN UPSTART.—A negro boy was driving a mule in Jamaica, when the animal suddenly stopped and refused to budge. " Won't you go, eh ?" said the boy. " Feel grand, do you? I s'pose you forget your fadder was a jackass ? "-American paper. It was a beautiful idea of the infant astronomer who said the stars were " boles in the sky for the glory of God to shine through." Another admirable answer, also of a child, was, when asked if there was any place in the uni verse where God is not, he unexpectedly replied, " Yes, God is not in the thoughts of the wicked." THE OLD TOWN OF EDINBURGH.—There is a strength of character, a determination to get over difficulties, in the very positions the houses occupy. Auld Reekie is built on, and between, and up that succession of rocky ridges, which makes it the most wonderful town in the world to look upon, but the most difficult to erect. The houses, almost all, stand with their limbs gathered under neath them on one side, and hanging down over a preci pice on the other. They are like giraffes, with short hind legs and long front ones, or vice versa'. There is hardly one which is privileged to stand comfortably on level ground. Modern improvements enable the spectator to take in the construction of the town at a glance. We step with our traveller on to that grand George the Fourth's Bridge, which now conveys all the traffic of this side of the capital, at one leap, from one ridge to another. A wilderness of ragged roofs, and garret windows, and smoking chimneys, all tumbling and battered in irregular rows, like a jaw of broken teeth, are level with our feet. The gilt weathercock of a venerable church tower seems within-arm's length. -•The grand pile of the Castle rock towers in the distance above, while deep below us runs that other muddy current of life, the Cowgate, with a repetition of the same scenes we have just related going on,—coal -heaps, dirt-heaps, children, herrings and all. From this depth, up to the level of the High Street, the houses go climbing, like trees up a mountain side ; the foundations of some level with the tops of others, like trees, too, on uneven ground, throwing out deep roots of masonary in search of support. A wild and rugged scene of artificial growth, with those alleys or wynds deep be tween the houses, looking like gorges and gullies worn by the action of mountain torrents. These wynds are the most wretched features of all. The traveller's greatest enthusiasm cannot gild the misery that too obviously dwells there. There is a species of dirt and wretchedness which goes beyond the spell of the picturesque. Some of them are wider and less squalid, and still tenanted, here and there, by the brass plates and iron scrapers of such few respectable householders as still linger on in the Old Town ; but the greater number are such as it seems pur gatory to dwell in, and not always safety to pass throug h. Nature does all she can to cleanse the filthy pavement and purify the mouldering walls ; blasts of wind whistle through them, and deluges of rain pour down them ; but not all the rivers of Damascus, nor the breezes from Ara bia, could sweeten these wretched ravines. The traveller feels, as. overcoming his strong disgust he stoops under 'the dark, cavern-like entrance, and plunges into the murky twilight of the wynd, that he has entered that at mosphere of, poverty which brings fever and pestilence, and every ill, moral and physical, to which flesh is heir, in its train. Here are none of the light and sunshine of the High Street, which make all look free, if they did not look happy. The blackened broken windows, stuffed up with clouts of rags, look directly on a blank wall, or down ea to the opposite dwellers' misery. Neighbours can shake hands out of the second story, or break heads, which they are more likely to do, out of the third the hous es project at each story till they almost meet, and you look up at a sepulchral light at top, as through a dark chimney. As for sunshine, it would be melancholy to see it here, and moonshine to expect it.—Fraser's Magazine. LAMENTING THE IRISH TRIALS. — We cannot but feel that it is among the very worst consequences of party con nexions that some persons are found almost to lament the issue of these trials because they have been conducted by a Whig government. A more melancholy feature in the history of faction could not well be disclosed. We will not be suspected of any partiality towards the present ministry, whose tampering with sedition and truckling to intimidate we have never ceased to denounce. Had it not been for the encouragement which they ever extended to the late Mr. O'Connell, the patronage with which they invested him, and the honours which they conferred on him in return for his parliamentary support while he still continued his seditious career, we would not now be writ ing on state trials, nor would we be living under a sus pended habeas corpus. If it be true that every danger is most successfully encountered when encountered manfully and resolutely, it is emphatically so of sedition. Check this agitation at once, when it assumes the aspect of sedi tion, and the evil is crushed in the bud ; but truckle to it, or foster it by extorted concessions, and it extends with increasing rapidity over the whole society, and becomes uncontrollable. Yet sutt has ever been the course of the present ministers down to within the last. few months, when the necessity for a contrary course was forced upon them—when they would themselves have been traitors to the Queen and Constitution had they faltered but an in stant ; and we cannot hesitate to say that by their ill-con ceived and unstatesmanlike policy, they have been the primary but unintentional authors of all the evils that have arisen. But though this be so, is it not unreasonable and senseless in the highest degree to treat the deeply-laid and well-matured schemes for a revolution in Ireland as a question at issue between the rebels and the cabinet mi nisters ? Whose property was at stake when Mr. Smith O'Brien declared that the estates of such of the Irish gentry as did not side with the people should be confis cated, and transferred to the national exchequer ? a de claration which his letter to the Mining Company showed to be no empty threat. Whose life was at stake when Mr. Meagher declared that if Irish nationality were re fused by the crown when demanded by a deputation from the parish delegates of Ireland, " then up with the barri cades, and invoke the god of battles ;" or when Mr. Mitchell taught his readers that " the plainest path to liberty was the path of a rifle bullet on point blank to your enemy's heart;" or when Mr. Duffy, in the Nation, re minded the servant-men of Dublin that they should be organized, " as they had the keys and arms of the citadel." Was it the person or the property of Lord John Russell that was imperilled by these atrocious doctrines ?—No ; it was our own properties and lives—the properties And lives of the well-affected and the loyal, of every denomin ation, in this island, but chiefly of the Protestant popula tion, as being, before all others, the mainstay of order, and of the British connexion. This was the stake that was at hazard. The choice was offered to us, either to yield to terrorism, to forswear our allegiance, to renounce the advantages of British connexion, and submit to the self-constituted directors of the country, or to yield our properties to confiscation, and expose our persons to t he Pikes, vitriol, and rifle-bullets, ' with which it was sought to intimidate us. It was to us—to every loyal Irishman — and not to the Whig ministry, that this alternative was Presented ; it is from this that we have escaped by the recent vindication of the law ; it is our own security, not ft_.-Vkl:hig triumph (if such it can be called), that we rejoice 1% 3 and we confess that our satisfaction at being rescued hag is nOVr gyratio n of the I, con ..tv of titular gO tO 3 veil ,ble an lg ita i nen n eon a :h the erwise weeks, unities 'owded the ) f the h e ld I other lrY lif bean witl! ° en d e a. ng th e )f such rid it is 3 pban is de- on, in ;1;;31 11 :1 h Y sic ( ' azliaca l 1 difa - If; hi s ffering — been under . i n the [led on 1y a d ' ping as Lt sloe. p a feW ,onder ndition T esta' ;, daill at time ely re- the en 3ind.--- o f the org ans imme- , or at al their , often Mantes, REAG I/ ' :a; pass" vith b!s wn resl• an Irisb if pre' Jong life I an ell& apologi Len, long rnething id Lord fixed his induce d Ir, whe ll u';, 10T10111.•_. l't, plat h 0110 111 ..! for 0, rop, ith, 1 r e d " arid been s' I wbat o m a here • 4 , tune, b°__l m in el?; '0 miSea e's some: oOrFa t haStene't °king at ItitUde 111 d, af t er a ircharge_ THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. A MAN STABBED BY HIS BROTHER.—Two young MURDER IN HEREFORDSHIRE.—On Friday, at Bri'ley, The Gazette of Tuesday contains a series of further men, brothers, living at Swainswick, near Bath, named a wretched drunkard, named Whitford, murdered his regulations for the general promotion of the public health, Thomas and Charles Cleverly, both of whom are labourers, wife. He was partially intoxicated, and on attempting to and the prevention of cholera. They affect every portion had fallen out about family matters, and meeting each go out to obtain more liquor, and findine that his wife of Great Britain. They have reference to the cleansing other in the road on Monday, renewed their quarrel, when had locked the door, he suddenly seized a 'heavy piece of of highways and public thoroughfares, the removal of blows ensued between them, and in scuffling together wood and beat out her brains by repeated blows. The nuisances, the cleansing of the dwellings of the poor, the Thomas stabbed his brother Charles in the left thigh, murderer was secured the next day. providing by guardians of the poor of medicines, medical and he bled profusely from the wound. He was conveyed SUICIDE OF CAPT. SWINEY, OP THE 63D REGIMENT. aid, and accommodation to poor persons afflicted with to the Bath United Hospital in a dangerous state, but —On Saturday this unfortunate gentleman destroyed cholera ; and to various other matters. hopes entertained that the injury will not prove fatal. himself in his apartment, No. 8, Cecil-street, Strand, CONSECRATION OF THE SABBATH.—It will be remem- A large county meeting was held at Mansfield on Fri- London. He had for a long time past been given to acts bered by many of our readers that towards th, day last, for the purpose of devising some fitting testimo- of excessive intemperance, which had brought on delirium nial to Lord George Bentinck, as the leader of the country tremens. The deceased was found lying on the floor with party. The Duke of Newcastle in the course of his re- a severe wound in his side. A regimental sword was marks said—" I much fear we have no successor to such lying es a man. Troublesome times are coming on, and we have To hay no one who will devote his life, as did Lord George Ben- handle , tinck, to all that may be considered good and true, in- forward upon its point. fluenced as he was by the noblest patriotism, and by all On the 18th ult. a corpse was found near a hedge in tr. , that which can impel a brave and honest citizen to stand vicinity of Halstead, not far from Seven Oake - • up for the rights and welfare of his country." that of a female about forty years of age ; Pe HORRIBLE DEATH.—On Thursday morning, about four have been extinct not more than twenty-fc o'clock, Mitchell, a dairyman, of Shoulder of Mutton- head, face, neck, and shoulders were a alley, near the North Country Pink, Limehouse, got up, and bruises ;on the ground were several mesa_ as was his usual custom, and went to milk the cows .. no- and the condition of the spot showed that the poor woe thing more was seen or heard of him till seven o'clock, had struggled strongly for life. She appeared to hae when some men perceived a portion of blue apron project- been slaughtered by blews from flints and kick toes have suffered materially : ing through the top of a pile of cow dung in the yard. nailed boots. The object of the crime seems to have bad, and three parts out of Upon making a closer inspection they found that it was been plunder only ; the woman's pockets had been rifled. useless. re :ern has the deceased's apron, and that the body was immersed She was on her return from hop-picking. , roner's t y wet we • . .. . head first in the soil. With all possible expedition the jury have met twice, but the inquiry is adjourned. It is le SUr deceased was got out, but life was quite extinct, and had suspected tl 1 i cohabited is sufferers. On been so for some time. It is supposed that the unfortu- her assassin. acres of we nate man was walking along the edge of the shoot, and SUMMARY PUNISHNIENT.—Las ing nee.. that he overbalanced himself and fell head foremost into hood of the Pinfold-gate, Loug for - the soil. ' into a state of great excitement by a report that a person e VERY ODD FELLOWS.—At Alphington, near Exeter, living there hed conducted himself in a most indecent there existed an Odd Fellows' Society, which latterly has manner towards his own daughter, a young woman 16 not been in a very flourishing condition, the effect of years of age. Proof, it is said, being obtained by flu which was that, about t A.() months ago, at a general meet- neighbours of the fact, they deterrn; ing of the body. a resolution was come to for breaking up punishment. He was accorde es , , the club and dividing the cash in band. This amounted drenched st a pump. 1 hey then procured a hand-cart to about £6O, and three of the body were deputed to in which they conveyed him to the canal, and threw him draw the money from the bank and place it in the "box," in. He crossed the water, and was getting out on the preparatory to another meeting, at which it was arranged oteer side, when two boatmen who had become ac the division should take place. The money was obtained quainted with the offence seized him, resolved to give and consigned to the custody of the box, each of the him another ducking, and threw him with main force deputation having a key to three different locks by which again into the water, and was sorer. time before he could the box was fastened. At the appointed time the meet- make his escape, half drowned ing took place, but neither of the custodians attended ; THE PRISON v. THE WORKEIOUSE.- ditto at several adjourned meetings. At length the mem- a female pauper was taken before the Ls bers did what they should have done at first—broke London charged with violently assaulting at, open the box, but of course there was no money there.— relieving officer. The charge having been proven, elle 1 eese s oi esutpeueee, may Oe garheree Bristol Gazette. complainant said :—There is no such thing as standing haviny entrusted lee , --e CONFESSION OF A HORSESTEALER.—The Rev. G. the violence of the paupers now. They are worse than vole^ - Walter, late of Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, and now of ever they wei e known to be formerly.—The Lord Mayor ; the Rocky Hills Probation station, Tasmania, Australia, Prisoner, what do you mean by these desperate attacks sends home the confession of a convict. In June, 1845, upon this man, who has never done you any injury ?- he hired a horse in York. and, riding it into Lincolnshire, Prisoner : I don't know, lam sure, but I'll pitch i sold it at Horncastle fair. Shortly afterwards he got a I him wherever I see him. I like it.—The Lord M? e arts are equally tuil, ana some Dane. ..- horse from Mr. Greenwood, at Lincoln, and sold it at ' You must find bail to act peaceably for three r others are in a very insecure state. The land itself is so corn- Stagshawbank. Next September Carlisle furnishes him before you make your next attack, at any gate pletely saturated with wet, and rotten, that in many of with a nag ; and at Stockwith fair, Lincolnshire, he got a mitted.—The Lord Mayor : It is quite ridiculous to sup the oldest drained districts the houses are continually customer. He then went to Doncaster races, and got a pose that while there is better food to be found in a miring down, whilst in several others the sowing of wheat horse and gig, both of which he sold at Boston. About prison than in a union the poor will prefer the latte . this season has been abandoned altogether. the 22nd of October, 1845, he hired a bay mare at South 1 That such a state of things should be is a mon-' ATTEMPTED MURDER BY POISON.—At Alton, Sussex, Shields to carry him to Chester-le-street, but he rode on anomaly. Ellen Heath has been committed for trial, charged with to H u dd er sfield, and effected a sale. Hardly another A DANGEROUS MISTAKE.—On Monday 16 _everai crowniess pineapples imve ,m. y.,:ii. ueen grown attempting to murder her husband, a carpenter, by mixing week had elapsed before he secured a pony at Halifax, working in the Pentrefelen pit, near Llangafelae and ripened in the hot houses at Claremont, the present arsenic with his dinner. The parties have been married and sold it at Newark, and in two or three days after that met his death under the following singular circume abode of Louis Philippe, and the appropriate name of twelve months. The woman had gone off with a young transaction he engaged a horse and gig at Grantham, one He had broueht with him a supply of food for his meals Wilson's sugar-house, Alston-street, in one instant. " republicans" has been given to those fruits. man, but returned to her husband, who took her back of which he sold at Peterborough, and the other at Nor- —among otlier things a pot of good strong tea—that is certain that there were 32 men on the premises at t, In the case of a sudden death at Halifax, a few days again. Finding himself ill immediately after eating, he wich. Thus, in less than five months, he sold seven plant " which cheers but not inebriates." In a similar time, but doubts are entertained whether three o r f our since, the coroner's jury returned a verdict that the de- suspected what had occurred, and went off to a surgeon, horses and two gigs. pot he had with him a more dangerous companion, a other individuals were not buried in the ruins. At ceased died of Asiatic cholera arising from neglected taking part of the victuals with him. Proper remedies THE SEA SERPENT.—One of the greatest difficulties pound and a half of powder—not the tea called gun- nine a.m. four were got out : one dead, three very diarrhea and not from epidemy. being applied he recovered, and the food was found on the face of the narrative, and which must be allowed powder—but good rock powder, used for blasting pur- badly bruised, and not expected to recover. During the JUVENILE OFFENDERS.—Prince Albert has consented strongly impregnated with arsenic. to destroy the analogy of the motions of the so-called poses. At the usual hour for the meal the canny man day five more . were exhumed : two dead, the others to lay the first stone of the new farm school for criminal AN ARTFUL DODGE.—As a farmer of Caterham was " Sea Serpent" with those of all snakes and anguilliform took up the pot and set it on the tire. It was the pot of more or less injured. Since 5 p.m. one got out, with only and vagrant boys which the Philanthropic Society is now making a bargain for some sheep, in Croydon fair, last fishes, is that no less than sixty feet of the animal were powder, not tea. The result may easily be imagined— the flesh torn from one leg, and able to walk honae. The establishing at Potter's Bar, near Barnet. week, with a farmer whom he did.not know, there was seen advancing a fieur d'eau at the rate of from twelve to an explosion, which burnt the man and a boy, and five cries and moans of many others are heard—two of them The Bristol Times notices the case of a young lady who some dispute about the price, and he left the pens. One fifteen miles an hour, without it being possible to per- who were at the time in a shed near the works with him. so near and unhurt, that wine has been conveyed to them recently seceded to the Church of Rome, and who has of the " swell mob," having overheard the conversation, ceive, upon the closest and most attentive inspection, any Fortunately the injuries received by the sufferers, though through a small aperture. At least twenty are yet to be returned to the Church of her baptism, influenced by the followed Mr. Clark, and said he did not like to lose the undulatory motion to which its rapid advance could be severe, are not such as to endanger their lives—a circum- sought out ; the greater part, it is feared, have perished. disgust she felt at questions put to her at confession. bidding, and would take his money for the sheep (naming ascribed. It need scarcely be observed that neither an stance which they owe, in great part, to the shed being The affair happened so instantly that three could no t be The much-vexed postal differenees which existed be- the price). They went to an inn, where the money was eel nor a snake, if either of those animals could swim at open, and the roof, we believe, partly uncovered.— Welch- counted till all was down. Verily, in the midst o f lif e we tween the United States and our Government is finally paid, the purchaser saying he would send for the sheep -el with the neck elevated. could do so without the front man. are in death." Since this was published several other aaranged to the satisfaction of both Governments. The shortly. On going, however: to the owner, the latter part of its body being thrown into undulation by the A BRAVE LASS.—On Sunday se'nnight, a family persons have been dug out. The lower part of the build arrangement has yet to go before the American Congress disclaimed all knowledge of the man to whom the money propulsive efforts of its tail. But, it may be asked, if the named Outlaw, living at the Round House on the turn- ing presents a mass of stone blocks, ponderous beams, for formal sanction. was paid, which was about £5O. animal seen by Captain M'Quhae was not allied to the pike road between Bury and Newmarket, went to Gazeley iron pillars, planking, sugar pans, and machinery firmly At the Durham quarter sessions, last week, John New- CHOLERA.—CHLOROFORM A Cene.—Dr. James Hill, snakes or to the eels, to what class of animals could it Church in the afternoon, leaving at home a daughter, jammed amongst each other, for not nearly all the ruins ton, a collier, was sentenced to a week's solitary confine- resident surgeon of Peckham House Asylum, in a lette r have belonged ? To this I would reply that it appears who, about four o'clock, locked the door and went to are yet removed. Altogether 17 bodies have been dug ment for smoking his pipe in a mine at Monkwearmouth. addressed to the Times of Monday morning, states, he more likely that the enormous reptile in question was meet her parents. On their return, they found the cham- out, 12 of whom were dead. The property destroyed is This practice is supposed to have occasioned many dread- placed the patient under the influence of chloroform, and allied to the gigantic Saurians, hitherto believed only to ber window and door open, and, on going up stairs a man valued at £15,000. ful explosions. "in one hour after the attack the patient had an abate- exist in the fossil state, and, among them, to the Plesio- jumped out of the window ;he had opened a bureau, but CURIOUS CASE.—In the course of last week a female One of the most dangerous operations in surgery, the ment of every bad sympton ; the nervous system being saurus. had taken nothing from it. The daughter immediately who calls herself Mary Kean or Hunter, and describes removal of the collar bone in the female, was dexterously completely tranquillized, the vomiting end cramps cm_ SIN9ULAR HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—As Mr. John Frost, gave him chase, and in spite of his threats that he would herself as a native of Dumfries, and respectably con performed by Mr. Henry Potter, on Tuesday, in New- sing ; the purging being checked, andethe heat of th e watch' and clock repairer. of Crich, was returning home do for her if she did not leave him, she continued the nected there, came from Liverpool by one of the steamers. castle-on-Tyne, whilst the Patient was under the influence body returning. His success," the doctor adds, " enc ou _ from Ripley fair on the 23d ultimo, and when near the Pursuit for full two miles, till she met with two gentle- In the same vessel was another female, residing in Gor of chloroform. raged us to persevere, and we have now employed it in Old Brewery, Ripley, be was attacked by four men, two men, who assisted her, and took the fellow into custody. bals, with whom Hunter entered into conversation, and FOREIGN POTATMLS. — The imPortations of Potatoes ten cases of malignant cholera with comPlete success, six of whom " blufted" him with a handkerchief, and held his On the following day he was brought before the magis- told a plausible story as to her object in visiting Glasgow. which have lately taken place from France and Belgium, having perfectly recovered, and four being convalescent' , arms backwards, whilst the other two rifled his Pockets. trates at Bury, and sentenced to three months' imprison- The result was, that Hunter was offered for the present have been of so numerous and extensive a character a s to REPORTED Loss or THE NETLET.— Considerable They took from him his watch, and a few shillings in rnent ; the magistrates complimenting the girl on h er c ou_ the shelter of the other's house, in which Hunter's have been quite remarkable and are of much interest and alarm has been felt at Woolwich in consequence of the silver, and instantly disappeared. What makes the cir- rage, and telling her she had done more than many of the chest was deposited. A day or two afterwards, the lady importance. non-arrival ot the Netley, a schooner belonging to the curnstance more singular is, that on bis recovering him- police would have done, and that she would make an ex- Hunter gave information to the criminal police at the central-office, that he r chest had been robbed, and a It has been noticed that all porters engaged in loading Board of Ordnance which is employed in conveying self from the fright which the attack naturally caused, and cellent member of the force ! —Norwich Post. and unloading charcoal, at Malta, and other parts of the stores between the ' Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, and the when about proceeding on the road, one of the robbers EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—On Tuesday night the quantity of wearing apparel, besides some money, stolen. Mediterranean, have escaped the cholera. The power of arsenals at Portsmouth and Plymouth, &c. It appears returned to him, and asked him if he had not been robbed. domestics of the Hon. Colonel Begot, of Eaton-square, The story seemed plausible, and the officers consequently . charcoal to absorb atmospherie impurities, is thus ren- that the Netley, which had a crew of six men and a boy, Mr. Frost answering in the affirmative, the robber held London, were retiring for the night, it occurred to one made a search among the pawnbroking offices ; and hay sf i tt n abn e G e ef o o sr r , e b h a toh l s we e w Gv e eo r rr e : b aw e , p hs p i c r p h e o li l it e cr n ea d -nc e so d pui a rr et n .d d , F c t i h r oe rg e d wi t h m ca e se ert w a a in s dered highly deserving of scientific investigation. left Devonpori on the 23rd of October. She encountered the watch up to his face, and asked him if that was his of them that the top of a cistern, used for supplying the ing succeeded in recovering part of the property, the THE ALLEGED gURDER OF SLATER. — The Bradford very severe weather, and it is feared that her cargo — w atch ; l ie re plied it was, and that he should like to have nursery, which fastens level with the floor, was not so paper states its belief that the statement made by Joseph heavy guns and shot—shifted in her hold, and that she it back, as it was a family watch. The robber then in- tight down as it should be, and she raised the flap for the Foster that he was the murderer of Robert Slater (a full foundered at sea. Inquiries have been made at the va- quired of him if he had any more money ;he replied purpose of forcing it down closer.. She was than horri- t p c l i a l r e r c t u t i e h m s e report of the particulars of which appeared in our last rious ports of the channel, but without success, and all not that he knew of," supposing that they had taken all fied at observing Emma Radwell, the housemaid, crouched continued for further investigation. In the meantime, paper) is an idle tale. hope of the safety of the crew is now abandoned. that he had. During his conversation with the man, two down in a sitting posture under the water, and quite dead. by the activity of Patrick, of. the southern criminal de- EXPLOSION OF POWDER MILLS.—OR Tuesday Morn- A WOUND IN THE LEG CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S more of the robbers came up, when they seized him a The most unaccountable part of the sad story is the small Pertinent, it was discovered that the plausible Mrs. Hun_ ing, about four o'clock, the three powder-mills at Sedge- OINTMENT AND PlLLS.—Extract of a letter f r om M r . second time, and again searched his pockets, but finding dimensions of the cistern, which has only an opening of ter was herself the party who had sent the articles to the wick, near-Kendal, were totally destroyed by an explo- Edward Nicholls, 34, Rose-street, C ov e n t_garden : —..To nothing, they , gave him his watch, and again wished him about 18 inches square, and so shallow that it was not Pawnshopl—that the parties charged were innocent of sion ; the report was heard at a distance of 40 miles, and Professor Holloway.—Sir,—For ye had a bad leg,' '' good night.' On his arrival home, Mr. Frost had the supposed capable of holding a human being, an 1 had there the knowledge even of the contents of the trunk, and the mistaken for thunder. Fortunately no person waspresent. and about four years ago an a ss formed, w hi c h the good fortune to find two half-crown pieces in one of his been any means for pulling the top down inside, taking party who had carried part of the articles to be pawned, TENPENNY POSTAGE STAMPS--Postage stamps of treatment adopted by severs edic,al men failed to heal, pockets, which had escaped the robbers' notice.—. Derby this to be a case of suicide, there is no human probability had done so at the desire of Hunter herself. In these the value of 10d. are about to be issued for the purpose of and I despaired of a cure • tely my friends recommended Reporter. of the body being discovered until decomposition took circumstances, the much wronged and robbed lady was postage, in addition to those now in use, they will be sold your medicines, an their use alone I soon found a A PREMATURE INTERMENT.—On Saturday evening, place. No reason can yet be assigned for this strange sentenced to 30 day's imprisonment, on a charge of wilful to the public a; the rate of 10d. each, whatever may be the great improveme and in a few weeks my leg was per- not long ago, a man who had been making a little too free affair, except some expressions the deceased let fall, that imposition.—Giasgow Citizen. number purchased. fectly cured, n now walk 10 miles a day with as great with " John Barleycorn," had to pass through the Taxal she feared she should not do her work to satisfy her mis- A meeting of the friends of peace was held on Tuesday, John M`Donald, the marine sentenced by court-mar- ease as whe was 20 pears old, and now lam 50." churchyard, where a deep grave had been dug (for an in- tress. at Exeter Hall, to receive M. Visschers, Councillor to the tial in July to transportation for life, for havlng struck Sold by ruggists, and at Professor Holloway's estab- terment on the morrow) close to the footpath over which THE MAN WITH MANY WlVES.—Bramall, or Beau- Belgian Government ;M. Francisque Bouvet, Member Captain Baynes of the Bellerophon, whilst in the execu- lishme , 244, Strand. the jolly fellow had to pass on his way home ; and being mont, the surgeon, was brought up again on Wednesday, of the French National Assembly ; the Baron Suringar, tion of his duty on board the said ship, has received a free HOARDING OF LlNEN.—Amongst the old customs still rather unsteady in his gait, and not quite ahle to maintain at the Mansion House, London, charged with having of Holland ; Eliliu Burritt, Esq., of the United States ; pardon, and has been set at liberty. . in vogue in this country that of hoarding up linen is one his true perpendicular, he unfortunately fell into the grave, married several young women, all of whom are now and Wm. Ewart, Esq., M.P., occupied the c h a i r . Th e Mr. S. G. Osborne, in a most forcible letter to the of the most inveterate. The following is a singular ex- ) and being unable to get out again, lie quietly resigned living. Elizabeth Tinley stated, that she was married vast hall was crowded in every corner. A French Na- Times on Thursday last, described the dreadful condition ample of this habit :—An old maid, 78 years of age, died himself to his fate, and went to sleep. Shortly afterwards to the prisoner on the 25th of March, 1843. He stated tional Guard, who had taken his seat on a back bench, of the poor of Hilton, Dorsetshire, and the extent to recently at Tocqueville. This person, who possessed one of his boon companions, in passing the same way, to her that his name was Henry Edward Beaumont, and was, on being perceived by the meeting, loudly welcomed which fever has been suffered to exist without any attempt rather a large fortune, lived with extreme parsimony. had the misforune to fall into the same grave and rouse five months after the marriage he went to sea. Emily forward to e chair on the first rank of the platform, and to check it. Her only luxury, her only expenditure, was for linen, the first occupant from his sleep, who, feeling himself Georgiana Rose, whose affections the prisoner had gained there again enthusiastically cheered. Mr. Scoble detailed The Baroness Cabral was on Thursday remanded for a which she laid by in her closets. An inventory made at the intruder s visit, muttered out in angry growl, " It's on the passage to India in the vessel in which he was the proceedings of the peace Congress at Brussels, and week, on a charge of stealing jewellery and other valuables after her death proves that in 14 closets she bad in reseive strange one cannot lie quietly in the grave.' These words acting as surgeon and she was a passenger, was the read the resolutions which the Congress had unanimously from a boarding-house in Finsbury-square, where she had more than 500 pairs of stockings, nearly 600 chemises, being uttered in a somewhat ghostly tone, so frightened next witness called. The poor young creature was an adopted, inculcating upon all Governments the propriety, been staying for some months. She was bailed out by the enormous quantity of 100 dozens of napkins I 2 dozen the intruder that he quickly scaled the walls of the clay object of great and general commiseration. She has not the essential necessity, of conducting their administration the Consul-General of Portugal. sheets, an innumerable quantity of caps, handkerchiefs, tenement and scampered away as fast as his legs could ' yet attained her 16th year, and upon being called upon upon principles of universal peace and harmony. Mr. The Stowe Estate will, ere long, be deprived of the &c. ; and, lastly, linen cloth sufficient to provide for the carry him to the friends he had just left at the public- according to the customary form to say whether she knew Scoble eulogised in the highest terms the courteous, the whole of its timber. A further and far more extensive wants of 500 persons.—Brusseis Herald. house, to whom he told the story of his misadventure ; the prisoner, she was quite overpowered by her feelings, deeply sympathising manner in which the deputation sale than the last one ;s to take place shortly. Persons GALLANT CONDUCT.— As Ceptain Thomas C. Irvine , the recital of which roused the people's curiosity, and and sobbed and wept bitterly. It was well that she had Pat, on the previous day, had waited on Lord J. Russell, are now employed in marking the various lots ready for late of the Liverpool barque Theodosia and his brother, they resolved to go in a body to the grave, and, if possible, but to answer a question or two. She stated that she had been received by the noble lord, who had expressed the auctioneer's hammer. the manager of the Bristol and South Welles Coal Corn. ascertain from whence sprung the apparent supernatural was now in Sussex, living with her friends , and that she his gratification at the late Congress as an efficient means PERMANENT PAUPERISM.—It is a curious fact that on Pane, in this city, were crossing the Marsh-bridge, St. voice which had so terrified their informant. Accordingly, had been married to the prisoner at the Old Church in towards the object which he, in common with the Con one day lest week three orders of removal were taken out Philip's, on Saturday, they saw in the water of the New with fear and trembling, they proceeded to the grave, and Fort William, Bengal, on the 30th of October, 1847, an d gress, had warmly at heart—the maintenance of peace before the magistrates of a Yorkshire borough in the cases Cut a boy in the act of drowning. At the risk of his life, found it tenanted by a faithful pot companion that had had lived with him afterwards as his wife. Anna Amelia throughout the world. The resolutions were moved, of paupers who had been respectively 18, 38, and 53 years Captain Irvine plunged in, and succeeded in saving the lately left their company, whom they quickly liberated Bland, who was supported to the chair in the w itness_ seconded, and supported by Mr. W. Bowley, of Glouces in uninterrupted receipt of parish pay. little fellow's life. 'This gentleman was, we understand, from his cold dormitory, to the infinite amusement of all box, and appeared to be in extreme affliction, gave evi- ter, Dr. Bowring, M. Visschers, W. Ewart, Esq., Elihu THE INDIAN MAILS.—The Southampton correspond- instrumental on a former occasion in saving the lives of present.—Derby Reporter. dence as to her marriage with the prisoner on the 30:h of Burritt, G. W. Alexander, Esq., the Rev. J. Burnet, M. ent of the Morning Herald says that Messrs. Cunard and fourteen of his fellow-men, when chief officer of the A LADY ACCIDENTALLY POlSONED.—Considerable September, 1848, and stated that she had lived w ith hi m Jousselin, the French National Guard before alluded to, Co. have tendered, in opposition to the Peninsular and Elizabeth Wood, he having been the only one of the excitement has existed in Romsey, Hampshire, and its till the Saturday on which he w as a pp re h e nd e d. er n the Rev. T. Spencer, Mr. Joseph Sturge, the Rey. Dr. Oriental Steam Navigation Company, for the conveyance ship's company who volunteered in a gale of wind to take neighbourhood, since Tuesday, in consequence of the Coach, a gentleman of well-known respectability in the Burn, Mr. Clapp, and Mr. D. W. Wire. of the Indian mails from Southampton, on the 20th of the crew off a wreck they met with in the Atlantic death of a lady, the wife of Sergisson Smith, Esq., of city, stated that he was brother to Rebecca Coach, the On Wednesday, Spencer Lindfield, 6G, widow, and each month. Single-handed he sculled a boat from one ship to the Jermyn's House, near Romsey, and grand-daughter of prisoner's first wife. She was now living with her parents Mary Anne Dryden, were indicted as principals for the At Kirmington, near Ceistor, on Monday night, some other, and succeeded in saving the whole of the crew.— the first Lord Gardner, by poison. It appears that Mrs. at Liskeard. The prisoner left her in 1842. The witness murder of Eliza Wilson, by using an instrument for the villains attacked the house of Mr. Hall, farmer, and Bristol Journal. Smith, for some slight illness, obtained a prescription here produced the letter which the prisoner had written to Purpose of abortion ; and Richard Orpin, aged 35, car effected an entrance to the drawing-room by smashing SHEEP WORRIED BY A HORSE,—On Saturday, the 25th from her Southampton physician, and sent to a Romsey his wife upon his departure, excusing himself for the ab- penter, was indicted as an accessory before the fact. the window to atoms ; but luckily Mr. Hall was not re- ult., a young horse out at grass, belonging to Mr. W. chemist to have it made up. A portion of the prescrip- sence of a day or two. Several other cases can be sub- The deposition of the dying girl spoke to the fact that tired to rest, and he captured one of the burglars named Ashburner, Pennington, near Ulverston, was disco d tion, as it was ordered, was three grains of salicine, which stantiated aeainst the • Th • d Orpin was father of the child, and that by his advice she vere prisoner. e prisoner passe as a Woolly. making a furious attack on a sheep. It seized the sheep is the essence of the willow bark. It seems that the che- surgeon, an'el was possessed of a certificate, which be- went to the other prisoners, the former of whom used A boy living at Great Clacton, in Essex, had been with its teeth, and tossed it a considerable height three or mist was in the habit of keeping his salicine and stryhy- longed to another person, whose name he erased by a an instrument three times, after which she became prohibited from playing with a gun. He secretly took it, four times, then kneeling upon it worried and tore it with nine side by side in some particular part of his shop. chemical process, for the purpose of substituting his own. seriously ill, and subsequently she died. A surgeon spoke loaded, from a cupboard, and concealed it in a ditch. A the ferocity of a bull-dog. The sheep, a large fat one of The latter medicine is well known as a deadly Poison , It is expected that the Apothecaries Company will prose- positively as to death having been caused by injuries little while afterwards, he tried to draw it out again by 20Ib. per quarter. when with difficulty rescued from the being the active principle of nux vomica. When used as cute bim for this offence, as transportation for seven received from the instrument in question, which was pro the muzzle ; the gun went off, the charge lodged in his savage attack of the 'horse, was not quite dead, but so a medicine, there is never more than the sixteenth part years is the heaviest punishment for all his matrimonial duced on the trial; but, on cross-examination, admitted side, and he died iu a few hours. mangled and torn that it was killed immediately, there of a grain given in a dose. The prescription was made offences. that in some cases the use of such instruments was ne- There is a difficulty in inducing a gentlemen to fill the being no hopes whatever of its recovery. About a fort- up in the dusk of the evening, and most unfortunately BRISTOL A FREE PORT.—By an act passed during the cessary to give relief, and the injury might have been office of mayor for the city of Bristol, in the ensuing night before a sheep was discovered in the same field the chemist took three grains from the strychnine instead last session of Parliament the docks of Bristol were trans- accidental. Mr. Parry, who appeared for Orpin, declined municipal year. Several parties who have been applied worried to death in a frightful manner, and three others of from the salicine bottle. The consequence was fright- ferred from the hands of a private company to those of addressing the jury, as there was little or nothing against to have expressed their intention to Pay the fine of £lOO very much mangled, and there is no doubt this was the ful. The unfortunate lady expired on Tuesday, in about the municipal corporation, with power to reduce the rates his client. Dryden had nothing more to say than what rather than serve. Civic honours appear to partake of work of the same horse.—Carlisle Patriot. twenty minutes after taking the prescription, and endured on vessels and goods, and to levy a borough rate not ex- she had admitted befoie the magistrate that she had the general depression. GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—On Friday the Colonial the most intolerable agonies. The description given by ceeding 4d. in the pound per annum on the rateable pro- given the deceased some medicine, whicli ;lie believed to On Friday intelligence was received at Lloyds of the Land and Emigration Commissioners appointed four Mrs. Smith's lady's maid of the singular effect of the perty of the borough in aid of such reductions. At a be " fine things" for the stomach. Mr. Ballantine urged total wreck of the emigrant ship Thetis, on her passage vessels, of not less than 500 tons each, to convey 250 poison on the frame, and the sufferings of her mistress, special meeting of the Town Council of Bristol, which was that little dependence could be placed upon the dying to Melbourne. The passengers and crew consisted of male and female emigrants to New South Wales and was of the most terrible description. The unfortunate held on Monday last, on the recommendation o f th e statement of the girl : and the jure, after a short de about forty persons. - ,The disaster occurred on the night Australia,—on the 4th December for Sydney, all the lady was a very beautiful woman, about 35 years of age, Docks Committee the followine reductions, amounting in liberation, actually returned a verdict of •‘ not guilty." of the 26th of June, at the entrance of Port Philip passengers to embark at Plymouth ; and the same date 1 and was the mother of five children. The chemist, when all to about £12,000 per annum, were una nimously re _ Judge Maule, who tried the case e was obliged to leave the Heads. another for Adelaide, all to embark from London ; 11th he accidentally saw, from the position of the salicine and solved upon, and to take effect on and after the Ist of court from illness, but the Recorder addressed the EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCR.--A valuable horse, December, Port Philip, all from London ; and ith Dec. strychnine bottles, that she must have used the latter, was November instant :—The tonnage rates on vessels tra- prisoners, telling them,—" They had had the benefit of belonging to a gentleman near the town of Chard, died part in London, the rest in Plymouth. Total, 1000 horror-stricken, and immediately pronounced that Mrs. ding from Africa, Honduras, Surinam and other ports in an impartial inquiry, and the jury had. fortunately for lately, and on opening the body, a row of large stones was adults, exclusive of children. On Thursday 164 fine Smith must have been poisoned. —Local paper. South America, the United States of 'America, East and them, returned a verdict of not guilty. He had read all found in the stomach. It is supposed by scientific men, young women, from Ireland, arrived at Plymouth to be BENEFITS FROM THE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON West Indies, all the ports within the Straits of Gibraltar the depositions, and it was quite clear that they had been that these concretions were formed in the stomach from sent out to Sydney under the care of respectable matrons. EpucaeroN.—lt is evident from the minutes presented and the southern whale fishery, reduced from 3s. to ls. ; in the habit of giving medical advice under very critical the food, by some peculiar and unexplained cause. On the arrival of the young women in the colony they to Parliament at the close of 1847-8, and from the time on vessels trading from the British colonies, Portugal, and suspicious circumstances, and he hoped they would THE CHOLERA.—The Times of yesterday, at the con- will be placed under the protection of the government which has elapsed since those minutes were laid on the Prussia, Russia, Spain without the Straits, and Sweden, take warning by the present transaction. elusion of a long article on the subject of the cholera, authorities until they are provided for. table of the House of Commons, that at the present mo- from 2s. to Is. ;on vessels from Flanders, France without STATE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE THIRD QUAR says,—" There is little more reason for believing the WRECK OF THE VICTORIA BALLOON.—The aeronaut, ment, at least two thousand pupil teachers have been ap- the Straits, Germany, Guernsey, Holland, Jersey, Nor- TER OF 1848.—We take the following extracts from the cholera to be an Asiatic production than a Baltic impor- Mr. Green, has had the misfortune to lose his balloon. prenticed under the sanction of the Committee of Council way, Poland, and Zealand, from ls. to 6d. per ton ; on all return, just received, of the mortality, &c., in 117 districts tation. It is but a modification of the ordinary results of He was preparing to ascend on Saturday, at Halstead, in on Education ! This involves for the current year an ex- vessels trading from Ireland from Bd. to 4d. per ton; and of England, in the quarter ending September 30, 1848 : impurity and want, and should be met with the ordinary Essex, during a violent hurricane. The machine was pense to the country of £20,000 for the stipends of pupil and on coasters from 6d. to 4d., except vessels from Car- " The mortality in the quarter is below the average. appliances of cleanliness and care." bold down by powerful men, but such was the violence of teachers, and £B,OOO for the gratuities of the teachers who diff, Newport, and other ports to the eastward of the Only 43.445 deaths were registered ; which is less by 6,034 In the New Court, on Monday', Emma Beaumont and the gale, that in an instant twenty human beings were educate them. These stipends will rise by the end of five Holmes, which are only charged at rates varying from ss. than the 49,479 deaths registered in the corresponding Mary Ann Fitzgerald, her servant, were found guilty of lifted up six or eight feet from the ground. The hoop years in annual instalments t o £40,00e. It is probable to 21s. per vessel per voyage. The dock rates on goods quarter of 1847 ; and 7,960 less than 51,405, the number having set fire to the dwelling-house of the former in broke in halves, dropping men and iron weights in a con- that in September, 1849, the number of pupil teachers were entirely a bolished on about 500 out of 600 articl e s registered in the September quarter of 1846. The mor_ Long Acre, having just completed an insurance in the fused heap beneath ; and the balloon rose to 16 or 18 feet, will be augmented to at least four thousand ;in which contained in the schedule ; and amongst other articles tality of the countre, it should be recollected, was low i n Westminster Fire-office for £4OO. Beaumont was sen- with the stakes, by which it had been confined, wrenched case the immediate annual charge will be £56,000 for sti- w hi c h ma y now be imported into Bristol entirely free of the three years 1843, 1844, 1845, and in the first quarter tenced to fourteen years' transportation, and Fitzgerald to from the ground, and two or three men still hanging on pends to the pupil teachers and gratuities to the masters— dock dues are the important ones of corn, flour, meal, of 1846 ; a slight increase took place in tbe spring quarter seven. the hoop, and the balloon rolling entirely over on its side which charge will increase bY annual instalments to rice, and other provisions ; cotton, wool, yarn, &c. At of 1846 ;in the summer a great mortality broke out, and John Higgins, a boy of very bad character, was sen- in the air (owing to the detention of one remaining rope), £96,000, at the end of five years. The Committee of the same meeting the Master of the Society of Merchants, continued through the autumn, as well as the whole of the tenced at the Thames Police Court, on Tuesday, to be the netting suddenly ripped up on the side of the balloon Council on Education must also, by the time these pages m r , G. W. Franklyn (who is also a member of the Town year 1847, until influenza raged epidemically at the close imprisoned for three months for stealing a coat. He was then uppermost, and the silk enclosure, shelling itself out have passed through the press, have granted certificates to Council), announced the determination o f th a t b o dy t o o f the year 1847, and was then and in the winter of 1848 placed in a cell adjacent to the court. Some time after - of the ripped envelope, burst from end to end. The men about four hundred teachers of dementarY schools, in- abolish the wharfage dues (which the Society of Mer- fatal to thousands. A remarkable improvement was ap wards he was found hanging by a handkerchief to wire- and weights and netting fell in mingled confusion--away volving a fixed annual charge (for their increase of salary) chants hold under lease from the corporation) on all parent in the spring of the year 1841, and was still more work over the door, quite insensible, but by surgical aid flew the immense mass of silk, rent in every direction, and of not less than £B,OOO ; which may on an average be ex- exports ; also on Irish goods imported ; thereby placing obvious in the summer quarter. While the deaths in the his life was saved. the grand balloon was no more. pected to last fifteen years. If four hundred teachers in the Irish trade on the same f oo tin g as th e coast i ng summers of 1846 and 1847 were 8,66 0 and 5,986 above, SINGULAR INCIDENT.—On a recent voyage of one of EDUCATION.—COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL.—The Rey. like manner obtain certificates in 1848-9, another annual trade, and that the rates on all goods of foreign impor- the deaths in the summer of 1848 were 809 below the the steam-packets from Bristol to Newport, about four F. Close in his recent pamphlet recommends co-operation 1 sum of £B,OOO will be added to the education estimates. — tation shoud be reduced throng:lout , the maximum not corrected average. * * The improvement in the public miles from land, a hawk was seen in close pursuit of a with the Committee of Council on Education on the fol- lt is impossible to calculate the cost that will be occa- to exceed 6d. per ton on an y ar ti c le. B r istol i s th ere _ health is considerable in all the divisions except London. small bird, which in its escape from impending destruc- lowing grounds :—" That the amount of moral, spiritual, sioned to the Government by their liberal proposals for fore now an entirely free port for exports, there being The deaths in the districts of Lancashire and Cheshire, in tion, flew to a gentleman on board, who took it in his and intellectual destitution, both in town and country supplying elementary schools with books. This cannot, neither dock, wharfage, or any other Port charge on the September quarters of 1846, 1847, and 1848, were hand, and when close to shore gave freedom to his fea- districts, is appalling and increasing. That no individual I however, be estimated at less than XlO,O OO Per annum ; exports, either on ves s e ls or goo ds, and inwa r ds th e 15,221, 17,080, and 11,7 20 . In the same Years the deaths thered captive, a green linnet. unassisted efforts of private and voluntary benevolence 1 promoting an annual outlay in the country at large of dock dues on s hippi ng are l ow . Wednesday l as t b e _ in the districts of Yorkshire were 5,708, 4,708, and 4,404 ; THE SMUGGLING CASE AT ROCHE STER.—On Thurs- are equal to the task of enlightening and evangelizing £30,000 in school books. — lf to all this be added the ing the d a y w h en th ese re d uc ti o ns came into o p era ti on , in the northern districts, 2.98 8 , 2,291, and 1,812 ;in the day William Christian, of Craven-street, Strand, publi- this narss of ignorance and vice. That the assistance annual grants to training schools, which must increase all the shipping in the Port was decorat ed with the flags north midland districts, 1,902, 1,604, and 1,369 ;in the can, John Eling, of Gravesend, van proprietor, and Edwin now offered by Government, is exactly that in kind and 1 from year to year, and which, when Queen's scholars of all nations, and they had guns firing , bell ringing, western, including the iron districts, 6,276, 5,041, and Harding, of High-street, Bermondsey, cab proprietor, degree, which is calculated to call up the energies of the ! enter the training schools, will provide for a large part of an d o th er popu l ar demonstrations ; and Monday, the 13th 4,755. ** A few cases of common cholera are referred remanded at a previous examination on a charge of country, and to secure a system of education adapted t o ' their expenditure, it is evident that the parliamentary instant, being the day which has been kept as a holiday to in the Lancashire districts. The population of some smuggling, to which they had since pleaded guilty, were the g eneral necessities of the land both in quality an d ee _ grant for the years 1849-50, must be raised from its Pre- for many y e ars past, in commemoration of the celebrated parts, like Hulme, has Probably diminished ; in o th er s it each convicted in a penalty of £lOO. tent. That the fears entertained by some i P•ous persons I sent amount of £125,000 to at least £lBO,OOO or £200,000 ; Edward Colston, one of Bristol's former munificent mer- has increased slowly ; and the Irish immigration into Lan- SUICIDE OF LORD MIDDLETON. — Lord Middleton, a relative to the interference of Government with the reli- 1 and that in the years 1850-1, or 51-52, a quarter o f a chants en d b ene f ac t or s, who founded and endowed a pub- cashire appears now to have ceased, or to excite no re healthful man, in the prime of life, but who has lately gious teaching in the schools are groundless. That indif- 1 million must be ann ually vo t e d f or this great national ob- lic school for clothing and educating about 80 poor boys mark. But the health of the Lancashire people has un been rather eccentric in manner, committed suicide, on ference or opposition to this movement arises, in too many ' , jece• This calculation has respect only to the present in his native city for ever, and many other public chari- questionably been better during the summer of 1848 than Wednesday, hy inhaling the fumes of burning charcoal. instances, from an almost unconscious prejudice against ' ratio of expenditure necessarily arising out of the existing ties, will this year be doubly honoured by a public pro- in that of 1846 ; after allowing for the operation of His lordship resided at Paperbarow-park, near Godalming. the higher cultivation of the minds of the working_d assee . plans now in operation : should that ratio of grants be c ession of the trades, and be observed throughout the city those changes which reduce the deaths w iteen i m ply- He dies without issue, and is succeeded by Charles That these considerations are strengthened and confirmed extended—especially in respect to training schools, at as a general bolyday to celebrate this most important ing a diminution of the rate of mortality—that is, of the Brodricke, son of the late Archbishop of Cashel and by the experience of the founders of the Church of Eng- least in their first formation—a much larger outlay may event in the annals of Bristol—the day from which it is an- Proportion the deaths bear to the population during a brother to the former incumbent of Shalforcl, land Training-Schools in Cheltenham." ,be anticipated.—Mr. Close's Pamphlet. ticipated she will date the restoration of her trade. given time. / from the revolutionary vortex is so great that we could well afford to accord to our political opponents any credit that they may claim for the suppression of a rebellion which their own pernicious policy materially contributed to produce.—Dublin University Magazine. ANOTHER VISIONARY.—Mr. Dingle, a farmer, of Great Orcheton, has forsaken his farm and commenced lecturing on the Millenium, saying he has been commanded so to do by a vision. He goes from town to town preaching that the Miilenial reign of Christ on earth will commence in the year 1850, &c. He has crowds of hearers.—Sher borne Journal. M. JULLIEN'S PROMENADE CONCERTS.—The enter prising Jullien resumed his popular entertainments, on Friday, in Drury-lane Theatre, and they promise to be more popular than ever. The house was crowded to the doors, and the various performances were received with vociferous applause, especially the National Anthem, which produced a perfect storm of loyal enthusiasm. At the Glamorgan Quarter Sessions, W. Squire Brad ley, described in the calendar as a gentleman, was con victed of having, at various times, embezzled sums of money amounting in all to £9OOO, the property of the Llynvi Valley Railway, he being at the time a servant to such company. Sentence, six months' imprisonment, with hard labour. CHOLERA IN HULL.—For 11 days not one case of cholera had occurred at Hull. On Sunday last, however, there were two fatal cases. One was that of a young sailor, named Henry Mallinson. who died on board a keel in the dock, and the other that of an elderly woman, named Mary Stubbs, residing in Sewer-land. The medical attendants declare both these to have been un doubted cases of cholera. JENNY LIND AT BRIGHTON.—This admired singer was the star of attraction at a concert which took place at Brighton on Tuesday. The large room at the Town-hall not being large,enough to accommodate the whole of the applicants for tickets, the orchestra was half-filled, and, in addition, a greater number of persons were obliged to content themselves with listening from an adjoining room, from no part of which was the orchestra visible. LOUIS PHILIPPE'S PRIVATE PROPERTY.—It is said in Paris that Louis Philippe and the Government have come to an understanding with respect to the private property of the Orleans family in France. The Count de Monta livet is to be " liquidateur," and a loan of twenty-four millions is to be raised to pay the most pressing claims on the property, and for the immediate support of the mem bers of the family now in England. SUDDEN DEATH, AND BURIAL.—On the 18th instant, an old man, named Thomas March, a native of the parish of Wick and Abson, dropped down, and shortly expired. By the direction of the overseer, the body was removed to an outhouse, where it remained until an inquest was held. In less than two hours after the inquest the body of the deceased was placed in a coffin with all his clothes on, just as he was picked up in the road, his hat being taken off and put under his head fora pillow, and, with out further ceremony, taken away for interment.—Bath Criitral 1t to laity. lose of A' few days ago, a fine whale measuring 30 feet in length and 13 in girth, was caught in the Humber. The Rev. James Parsons, of York, is President of the Congregational Union for the ensuing year. The letter signed " James Henderson," about the sea serpent turns out to be a hoax. One day last week five turnips, weighing altogether 751 b, were dug up on a farm near Halifax. Madame Grisi has been engaged in London for the winter months. Jenny Lind will remain in England through the winter and coming spring. The Marquis of Bute has lent his noble collection of pictures for ten years to the Royal Scottish Academy. The Marquis of Salisbury has returned to Hatfield House, Herts, from attending the funeral of the Hon. and Rev. Dr. Gerard V. Wellesley, at Durham. Charles Hastings, of Lincoln, has been committed for trial for having attempted to murder Lydia Graham, a woman of bad character. The Queen has appointed Mr. Henry Halford Vaughan, M.A.. of the Inner Temple, barrister, to be Regius Pro fessor of Modern History in the University of Oxford. One day last week the ex-Mayor of Salisbury, for a wager, carried a butcher's tray, laden with meat, through the market-place to his house. Five Post-office letter-carriers have been severally con victed, in London, of stealing letters containing money, and sentenced to transportation for seven years, Miss Hutchinson, a young lady lately living in Suff)lk street, Southwark, died in a cab, from disease of the heart, while returning from an evening party on Wednesday. The hills of Kent, particularly around Tunbridge Wells, were white with snow last week, and a heavy fall took place at Brighton and other towns on the coast. The Suffolk Chronicle says that singing has lately been introduced into the devotional services of the county gaol, Ipswich, and appears greatly to interest the prisoners. Mullins, the young surgeon and confederate of Cuffey and other Chartists, has been sentenced to transportation for life. A young lady named Pettit, who had formed a mis placed attachment, destroyed herself a few days since at last year a Christian gentleman offered three prizes of £25, £l5, and £lO, for the three best essays, to be writ ten by working men, upon the Temporal advantage of him, the point of v effected his objet he must have placed the w,.,,, fflrf•Pfl himself two months upwards of 950 essays were received, many :n3arkable for the talent exhibited that it was .t the number of prizes from three to f of British Chi to be prov .etl by the liberality Zany of tiles lditional prizes appeared to NORTH OF E have already been offered THE CI S IN THE 'GLAND. - We have blood who is y ant with the agriculture of the district, some important as to the yield of 0 - - ' -ns. The pota - nearly all s from materially : old pink ey I much in consequence of of the farmers made :he ex tremel et weatnei hay while tt of them will be great linrham. has twenty. iat a man with whom t 3e worear. ;t week the neighbour- and another is eng ly the same quantity of peas into t A great proportion of the barley is yet out, Red Wheat is sellinz at Barnard Castle at to cut yet ing nt— for manurL i in cart- Old yards hborough, was thrown ;d upon summary ,—Leicester Journal iayor of Portsmouth by cutting her throat with a razor. The ship-builders of Glasgow have received, lately, extensive orders, and their yards arc now scenes of great activity. NATIONAL PROTE3TANT CLIIB. - This institution has been revived, and three able and spirit-stirring addresses against the endowment of the Roman Catholic priesthood have been issued. Mr. Chambers has intimated his withdrawal from the Chronicle. THE FENS.—Never, within living memory, did the fens, at this time of the year, present so cheerless and sad a prospect. The roads are impassable, and the rivers full of water from bank to bank. The dykes and drains in many —Com- contest for the Edinburgh Provostship; and accordingly the field is left to Mr. Johnston without the probability of competition. The Bishop of Sodor and Man has written to the clergy of his diocese, directing them to observe Sunday, the 19th instant, as a day of thanksgiving for the late harvest, and for a most abundant supply of fish. ,st a collier, at 525. to 565. Potatoes, in consequence of the disease, are being hurried into the market at 2s. per bushel, but they are expected to advance to a much hie. THE LATE MAJOR CHIPCHASE.—This past held the ar He was former! ant officer. ointment of Barrack-master at Windsor. one of the noble Commander-in-Chief's •eer was actively He served in the Peninsular in the 61st Foot, froin 1809 to the en Busaco, pursuit of the fort of of 1812 , g the battle of Alassena, investment and capture of Nlmeida, •the battle of Fuentes Donor, the on Guinaldo vounded. That the Duke of Wellit ion of the charam on had a :er, military and otherwise, of MajorChipchase, may be .com the fact of his having entrusted him with a mission which, in fact, in volved the safety of the whole of En:Jpe. It may be recollected Oat, for some days previous to the battle of Salamanca, both Generals were continually watching their respective movements, each being ready to take ad vantage of the first blunder committed. The French a movement in the wrong direction, and the duke com menced his successful attack. Had Major Chipchase been either unfaithful or careless, the result might have been FALL OF MR. WILSON'S SUGAR-FIOUSE, GLASGOW— SERious Loss OF LIFE.—We published the following the second edition of the STANDARD Oi 7 Tuesday last : " A. very melancholy accident happened this morning at seven o'clock : the falling down of the whole of Mr. ARD. llr. , if he racier' Usable :ourse, lmes • elect ad of iougli d ea te for school not a t alloy' Y v er l rapist , a plal l 3tOragf