The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-06 00:00:00

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Ge ° 7; fottron , of Sta i r ° nomination o f a s how ue to have tin ii• f Mr. L e g if ares hirose„. prom ises to , a as to se progre to anytioab Jane 6, 1848. THE RESULT OF FREE TRADE AS REGARDS OUR COLONIES. (From Fraser's Magazine.) England sent out certain of her people to take posses sion of outlying territories in the West. These people re tained The character of English subjects, and their pro i*ediugs were governed by the English parliament, and ?e g u lated, checked, and c i rcumscr ib e d w ith th e i n t en t of )I'ol:noting English interests. They were not permitted to trifle with other natio ns , an d were ma d e p ecu li ar ly ame !able Ito the p rov i s i ons o f our nav i gat i on co d e. Th e W est , 11 thes feel these restrictions severely. They are close to rte continent o f A mer i ca. The natural tra d e o f t h ese r as ad L a would be with the United States ; but this trade been prevented flowing into this, which we term its natural c h annel, and has been forcibly brought to Eng land. In return, however, England said, We will make yo u v our excl us i ve supp li ers of sugar. All ot h er nat i ons can produce it shall be subject to a duty on its impor tation, Which will amount to a protective duty. We shall thus forward our own interests as respects our marine, the make a sac r ifi ce f or t h at benefit, by paying higher for 11 1 : 111 e gar we us e th an we s h ou ld d o were the trade open. 1 the restricti ons an d a d van t ages were th us recipro ni, .the system at least was just. But the moment that one-half of the old system is changed, the remainder be rtt,)ea a gross injustice. or example, if we determine ;have a free trade in sugar (to say nothing of the ;_lzent of injustice resulting from our legislation on rerY), all th e restr i ct i ons wh i c h t h en rema i n upon west 0 I ndian trade are violations of every principle fai rness and h ones t y . W e h o p e , therefore, that ti v l er f Y man wh o seeks for free trade i n sugar i s prepare d a t to the same time t o th row open t h e ports o f th e "West Indies the world at large, and to allow the West Indian the wselliole benefit o f the rule of " buying in the cheapest, w a l lg os in the dearest market.' Our colonial dominion th a t' uel l'be a thing wholly different in its nature from arWhich it is at present. That which is just and neces ea r egards the West Indies, is just and necessary also regards the East, and Canada and the whole of British I:la:America, Australasia, and the Cape of Good Hope; l? of all our colonies and outlying possessions. They teri n ' lw laet, to be colonies in the old acceptation of the byres" England can derive one only benefit from them Prv ent l ing tier ominion over them. She will be able to policy, She adoption bI. She will have free them of a restrictive commercial a „,, access to her colonial ports, her manufactur es w ill no t b e su bj ec t t o a ny exclusive 14;ur or in fact to any tax not sanctioned by herself. But she will h ave to meet the most co mplete competition in e very bran c h o f commerce. Her fabrics, her ships, her shape, will h ave to meeth foreign fabrics, i pital in every ps t and cap i ta l on terms of perfect equality ; and if the doctrine of f ree trade be fair and true as regards corn in England, this large consequence from it is also true. Our colonial empire goes t o th e ground—for who can say that Canada, t ra di ng with the United States as she pleases for all her cotton, woollen, iron; w ith France direct for her Wines ; with t h e Brazils for her sugar and her rum ; who will say that Canada is Enlish ? True, she may be just as Profitabl e t o us as at present. But if' there be any use helde possessio n o f co l o i e s, such as we have hitherto , we shall have them no longer; and again and again we must warn all who are the advocates of a free trade, that this is the fair and necessary deduction from the new theo ry which has found supporters in the leaders of both ae great parties of the State. There are persons, indeed, L'" will accept the consequence we have here set forth w ithout shrinking—who, so far from lamenting over this result, will openly avow such is the very end of all their present endeavours that that the description we have b gi ,, ve n, of the condition of our present colonies under this tegislation, is precisely that which they desire to see. kith these hardy, unflinching reasoners, we have no guar 1---vge understand them—differ, indeed, from their opi 'ells, but admire their honest, open speaking. But we bycurious to know whether such a result is contemplated Sir Rotert Peel and Lord John Russell ; and if not, unw do they dr aw the line ?r o how can they deny the deduc tion we have described as that which is the fair eda etiou from th e ce l e b ra ted rule laid down by Sir Ro hePeel hi ras ,i f, of " buying in the cheapest, selling in s dearest market." He at least must have seen that MI:1a. awn! hilaYtsitoenta 4°ra destroyed with one blow our whole ancient co , and brought as a necessary result the utter la But the • statesm rcrw , of the throw Of our old and dearly-maintained Navigation che is cast, and we must stand the hazard ; and all that remains for truly Conservative hum p h is at once to accept the new doctrine as a ant, though erroneous, creed; and by insisting _opus its being consistently applied, to lessen its mischie doeffects. This statement may at first appear a para /4' b l;t upon reflection, we think, will be found accurate. ""zinty is the greatest evil which can visit the com wrce of any country. A long-protracted period of tran n?u is but a prolongation of misery. Half free trade, if of „iic t,n prih a thing can be, is worse than the complete application e nciple. 1 , 4 PLE A FOR THE MOLES.—The Essex Herald pub c'ees the following letter from the Rev. G. Wilkins to a artner, who wrote to him inquiring how the wireworm !tad been exterminated in the rev. gentleman's land. It tico_nt,ains much sound, though, we dare say, unpalatable doctrine to the owners of smooth lawns and trim-bedded t ard ens :—" Some 10 years since, wben I came to my it was, and commenced cultivating the little land I hold, b e w as , I may s a y, f u ll o f w i reworms. N ot hi ng cou ld h ave W o n worse, f or my crops were i n some places ru i ned b y Oin entirely. Wh a t , t h en, did Id o ? I a d op t e d a p l an hick I recommended and published in periodicals many e ars, s since, viz., encouragine moles and partridges on my Ca • Instead of permitting a mole to be caught, I a ught all I could and turned them down alive • and soon am fields, one after another, were full of molehills, to the 1 ( 1 1111-l sernent of all my neighbours, who at first set me ~iirwn for half a lunatic ; but now several adopt my plan, 7, 141 are strenuous advocates of it. My fields became : a etlY like a honeycomb ; and this continued even among was s tanding and growing and ripening crops ; not a mole rpolested, but I still bought more. This summer I l 4 brought, which I turned down, but they were not li v : l ' e cl; I have nothing for them to eat—all that moles st l iPon is destroyed, and so, poor things, they must b: t ve, or emigrate to some distant land, and thus get - a ws tringed by savage men whom they aim to serve. i Pt my plan, and it will be sure to answer. If you a a " a nest of partridges, also encourage them ; all the ..!i m mer they li ve u p on i nsec t s , w i reworms , & c. , an d con fider how many millions a covey will destroy in a single Pittner ! Again, always remember that moles feed upon 'Peas, and of which the wireworm is the chief ; if you doubt this, open a mole and peep into his stomach. Again, do not fear that moles injure your crops, either in a field or in a garden ; it is a low and vulgar error to sup- Pose that they root up young corn,—they never go any- Where untill the wireworms have first destroyed the plants, and then, innocent things, they are punished for others' faults. If you do not like to see their hills, knock them about with a hoe, as I did ; in is a healthful amusement, and they will do your lands good. Do not despise any plan because the farmers will not adopt it in your neigh bourhood ; farmers will adopt nothing till driven to it, and nothing that is new and good." WHAT AUSTRIA HAS DONE FOR HER ITALIAN PRO viNcEs.—Burke, in one of his prophetic anticipations, Pronounced that the first ruin of Europe would be in its finance, and that every kingdom was, even in his day, wading into a boundless ocean of debt. Austria, of course, had felt its share ; and after the desperate wars of 18 0 5 and 1809, nothin g i s more won d er f u l i n the history finance, or more honourable to the great statesman Who for forty years presided over her fate, than that she S hould have escaped bankruptcy. But her liberalty to ner Italian provinces never failed. Some of the details, Which h ave a l rea d y reac h e d the public, give an extraor dinary, conception of the a l mos t pro di ga li ty w i t h w hi c h Austria has lavished her means upon the bridges, roads, a nd general public communications of Lombardy. We give those items in francs. Five millions spent in repair and constructing dikes in the Mantuan province. our millions in completing the canal of the Naviglio. million and a half for roads in the mountains of the 13er gamesque. A million and a half for the great corn- Mercial road of the Splugen. Two millions and a half kir the road over the Hiffer Jock. Three millions for continuing it along the shore of the lake Como. Three Vlaoris and a quar t er f or com pl e ti ng th e ca th e d ra l o f 'n. A million f or i m p rovemen t s i n th e city. H a lf million for the fi ne b r id ge over th e Ti c i no . Twenty rLein' millions for cross-roads, between 1814 a n d 1831, esides miscellaneous expenditure ;—the whole being not Vs than sixty-six millions in the fifteen years preceding 1 11 34, in the mere matter of keeping up the means of tercourse in a country where, half a century ago, the er a '3u-roads were little more than goat tracks ; besides the ~.111111al expense of about a million and a quarter on the Ar s e s of the roads since. And this munificent liberality Ar e B n , e _lllended in Lombardy alone. The expenditure in r iear l i e e in the latter period of its possession has been th e ; 1 5 : equal. The first French conquest had given it rep u b a i l .ne of constitution, and nothing else. The famous set zur l e was plundered to the last coin. On its second eina e its treasury was again emptied by its French 181411 Its ; and when it was restored to Austria in ittoi:s.ailitsap9pulation presented a pauper list of fifty-four individuals. Its commerce was in a state of decay; , its its and public buildings were in a state of its charitable establishments were without funds ; reparationstreecakfevvyears more must have filled its canals with the °f its houses. Within the next twenty years the cost the Austrian treasury not less than fifty & e Millions of francs ! Thus Venice rose from a eon pelat?l,l_ which all our travellers, immediately after the r iew ` .. e .. of 1815, pronounced to be irreparable ruin, and is k ti , t uPe of the first commercial cities in Italy. But the It o , Mil government had not been contented with a mere I roe tof h soil of • t" -- it ha nte or the modes eommunica ion thewhich extraordinary efforts in giving edu tio people. We are to remember the difficulties ,Whe re S'Ped9 all such efforts in Romish countries. Jeal ous the o priest regulates the faith, he must always be Iteverroze the education. But the German habits of the and 14 predominated over the superstition of Rome, 6 Pecies of military discipline was introduced, to lo ot l' a c n i , tho young Italians to learn the use of their indo of 18,,uerstandings. Within a few years after the peace Lbeaeinrce?,:ao nationalooontr school system was put in action in whole Within a few more years it had spread over The3', with such effect, that there was s e l i _ a _e, ( immune without its public place of education. !land th 2: 10 1 : for boys amounted to upwards of two thou orindr4e.e hundred, and for girls to upwards of twelve T he ve Nearly a . hundred of the schools for boys !ue hi gher r e T extensive course of practical knowledge. s"l'aph y, dr_wiTes learned architecture, mechanics, geo iistiful way a f..s:h g . l oo. aisn,d or r atural history, in the vigorous, P1g 0 ,, 11 dhigher" Nivihich German education is distinguished. portions of the former, were kluatol2_e,e_ thwns, for the practical acquirement :7e s r t knowledge most important for servants of public :nathemaiiue:rehtne.chief studies were history, commerce, ,e emistry and French, German, and Italian. the able sYstero, it. is'evident that very solid and vain- Wanecrillik might be made : and those were solely tne Austrian sovereignty.—Blackwood. MY UNCLE ROLAND'a , DISCOURSE UPON HONOUR. (Prom " The Caxton," in Blackwood's Magazine.) " Gentlemen," began the Captain, at this distinct ap peal thus made to him—" Gentlemen, God made the earth, but man made the garden.- God made man, but man recreates himself." _ " True, by knowledge," said my. father. " By industry," said Uncle Jack. " By the physical condition of his body," said Mr. Squills. " He could not have made himself other than he was at first in the woods and wilds if he had had fins like a fish, or could only chatter gibberish like a monkey. Hands and a tongue, sir ; these are the instruments of progress." " Mr. Squills," said my father,.nodding, " Anaxagoras said very much the same thing before you, touching the hands." " I can't help that," answered Mr. Squills ; •` one could not open one's lips if one were bound to say what nobody else had said. But, after all. our superiority is less in our hands than in the greatness of our thumbs. " Albinus, De Sceleto, and our own learned William Lawrence, have made a similar remark," again put in my father. " Hang it, sir !" exclaimed Squills, have you to know everything ?" " what business " Everything ! No ;"hut thumbs furnish subjects for in vestigation to the simplest understanding," said my fa ther, modestly. "Gentlemen," recommended my Uncle Roland, " thumbs and hands are given to.the Esquimaux, as well as to scholars and surgeons—and what the deuce are they the wiser for them ? Sirs, you cannot reduce us thus into mechanism. Look within. Man, I say, recreates himself. How? BY THE PRINCIPLE OF HONOUR. HiS first desire is to excel some one else—his first impulse is distinction above his fellows. Heaven places in his soul, as if it were a compass, a needle that always points to one end,—viz., to honour in that which those around him consider honourable. Therefore, as man at first is ex posed to all dangers from wild beasts, and from men as savage as himself, COURAGE becomes the first quality mankind must honour ; therefore the savage is coura geous ; therefore he covets praise for courage ; therefore he decorates himself with the skins of the beasts he has subdued, or the scalps of the foes he has slain. Sirs, don't tell me that the skins and the scalps are only bide and leather : they are trophies of honour. Don't tell me they are ridiculous and disgusting ; they become glorious as proofs that the savage has emerged out of the first brute-like egotism, and attached price to the praise which men never give except for works that secure or advance their welfare. By-and-by, sirs, our savages discover that they cannot live in safety among themselves unless they agree to speak the truth to each other ; therefore TRUTH becomes valued, and grows into a principle of honour; so brother Augustine will tell us that, in the primitive times, truth was always the attribute of a hero." " Right," said my father : " Homer emphatically gives it to Achilles." " Out of truth comes the necessity for some kind of rude justice and law. Therefore men, after courage in the warrior, and truth in all, begin to attach honour to the elder, whom they intrust with preserving justice amongst them. So, sirs, LAW is born—" " But the first lawgivers were priests," quoth my father. " Sirs, lam coming to that. Whence arises the desire of honour, but from man's necessity of excelling----in other words, of improving his faculties for the benefit of others,—though, unconscious of that consequence, man only strives f or th e i r p ra i se ? B u t th a t d es i re f or onour is unextinguishable, and man is naturally anxious to carry its rewards beyond the grave. Therefore, he who has slain most lions or enemies, is naturally prone to believe that he shall have the best hunting fields in the country beyond, and take the best place at the banquet. Nature, in all its operations, impresses him with the idea of an invisible Power ; and the principle of honour that is, the desire of praise and reward,—makes him anxious for the approval which that Power can bestow. Thence comes the first rude idea of RELIGION ; and in the death-hymn at the stake, the savage chants songs prophetic of the distinctions he is about to receive. Society goes on ; hamlets are built ; property is estab lished. He who has more than another has more power than another. Power is honoured. Man covets the honour attached to the power which is attached to pos session. Thus the soil is cultivated ; thus the rafts are constructed ; thus tribe trades with tribe ; thus Com- MERCE is founded and CIVILIZATION commenced. Sirs, all that seems least connected with honour, as we ap proach the vulgar days of the present, has its origin in honour, and is but an abuse of its principles. If men now-a-days are hucksters and traders—if even military honours are purchased, and a rogue buys his way to a peerage—still all arise from the desire for honour, which society, as it grows old, gives to the outward signs of titles and gold, instead of as once, to its inward essentials, —courage, truth, justice, enterprise. Therefore, I say, sirs, that honour is the foundation of all improvement in mankind." " You have argued like a schoolman, brother," said Mr. Caxton admiringly ; " but still, as to this round piece of silver,—don't we go back to the most barbarous ages in estimating so highly such things as have no real value in themselves—as could not give us one opportunity for instructing our minds." " Could not pay for a pair of boots," added Uncle Jack. " Or," said Mr. Squills, " save you one twinge of the cursed rheumatism you have got for life from that night's bivouac in the Portuguese marshes—to say nothing of the bullet in your cranium, and that cork leg, which must much diminish the salutary effects of your constitutional walk." " Gentlemen," resumed the Captain, nothing abashed, " in going back to these barbarous ages, I go back to the true principles of honour. It is precisely because this round piece of silver has no value in the market that it is priceless, for thus it is only a proof of desert. Where would be the sense of service if it could buy back my leg, or if I could bargain it away for forty thousand a-year ? No, sirs, its value is this—that when I wear it on my breast men shall say, ' that formal old fellow is not so useless as he seems. He was one of those who saved England and freed Europe.' And even when I conceal it here," (and devoutly kissing the medal, Uncle Roland restored it to its ribbon and its resting-place,) "and no eye sees it, its value is yet greater in the thought that my country has not degraded the old and true principles of honour by paying the soldier who fought for her in the same coin as that in which you Mr. Jack, sir, pay your bootmaker's bill. No, no, gentlemen. As courage was the first virtue that honour called forth—the first virtue from which all safety and civilization proceed, so we do right to keep that one virtue at least clear and unsullied from all the money-making, mercenary, pay-me-in -cash abominations which are the vices, not the virtues, of the civilisation it has produced." My Uncl e R o l an d h ere came t o a full stop ; and, filling his glass, rose and said solemnly—" A last bumper, gentlemen.—' To the dead who died for England ' " ANECDOTE OF THE FAR-FAMED MR. ROBT BAKEWELL The celebrated Mr. Robert Bakewell, of Dishley, in Leicestershire and the founder of the Ne w L e i ces t er Sheep, used t o tell an anecdote with exceedingly high glee, of a farmer not only of the olden school, but of th e golden times. This farmer, who owned and occupied 1,000 acres of land, had three daughters. When his eldest daughter married, he gave her one quarter of his land for her portion, but no money ; and he found, by a little more speed and little better management, the pro duce of his farm did not decrease. When his second daughter married, he gave her one-third of the remaining land for her portion, but no money. He then set to work and began to grub up his furze and fern, and ploughed up what he called his poor dry furze land ; nay, and when the furze covered in some closes nearly half the land. After giving half his land away to two of his daughters, to his great surprise he found that the produce increased ; he made more money because his new broken up furze land brought excessive crops, and at the same time he farmed the whole of his land better, for he employed three times more labourers upon it; he rose two hours sooner in the morning, had no more dead fallows once in three years, instead of which he got two green crops in one year, and ate them upon the land. A garden never re quires a dead fallow. But the great advantage was, that he had got the same money to manage 500 acres as he had to manage 1000 acres ; therefore he laid out double the money upon the land. When his third and last daughter married, he gave her 250 acres, or the half which remained, for her portion, and no money. He then found that he had the same money to farm one quarter of the land as he had first to farm the whole. He began to ask hiinself a few questions, and set his wits to work how he was to make as much of 250 as he had done of 1,000 acres. He then paid off his bailiff, who weighed twenty stone ; rose with the lark in the long days, and went to bed with the lamb : he got as much more work r done for his money : he made his servants, labourers, and horses move faster ; broke them from their snail's pace, and found the eye of the master quickened the pace of the ser vant. He saw the beginning and the ending of everything; and to his servants and labourers, instead of saying—" Go and do it," he said to them—" Let us go, my boys, and do it." Between come and go, he soon found out a great difference. He grubbed up the whole of his furze and ferns, and ploughed the whcle of his poor grass land up, and converted a great deal of corn into meat for the sake of the manure, and he preserved his blackwater (the essence of manure) ; cut his hedges down, which had not been plashed for forty or fifty years ; straightened his zig zag fences ; cut his watercourses straight, and gained a deal of land by doing so ; made dams and sluices, and ir rigated all the land he could ; he grubbed up many of his hedges and borders covered with bushes, in some places from ten to fourteen yards in width, some more in his small closes, some not wider than streets ; and threw three, four, five, and six closes into one. He found out, instead of growing whitethorn hedges and haws to feed foreign birds in the winter, he could grow food for man, instead of migratory birds. After all this improvement, he grew more, and made more of 250 acres than he did from 1,000 ; at the same time, he found out that half England at that time was not cultivated from the want of the means to cultivate it with. I let him rams, and sold him long-horned bulls (said Mr. Bakewell), and told him the value of labour, both in-doors and out, and what ought to be done with a certain number of men, oxen, and horses within a given time. I taught him to sow less and plough better ; that there were limits and measures to all things ; and that the husbandman ought to be stronger than the farm. I told him how to make hot land colder, and cold land hotter; light land stiffer, and stiff land lighter. I soon caused him to shake off his old deep rooted prejudices, and I grafted new ones in their places. I told him not to breed inferior cattle, sheep, or horses, but the best of each kind, for the best consumed no more than the worst. My friend became a new man in his old age, and died rich : whilst I bred cattle, sheep, and black THE irrEwPoor, STANDARD. horses for the good' of the public, nay, to enrich the pub lic, instead of growing rich myself ; for my house was an open one. I made more of my land than any man. 1. let for the season in 1789 three rams at one birth of one ewe at 1,200 gs. and seven for 2000 ; and of one ram, with taking in ewes, reckoning my own ewes at the same price, I made 1,200 gs. in one season. When shall we see the like again ! Prince Albert and the Duke of Cambridge have signified their intention of becoming members of the committee of public. baths and wash-houses in the north-west district of London ; and the Queen and Prince Albert have deter mined to contribute £lOO in aid of the establishment. The body of a young man, named Young, has been found at Kilmarnock, with a deep•gash in his throat. It is supposed that he has been murdered, as he was robbed of his watch and money. An Irishman has been appre hended on suspicion, in consequence of his having em ployed an acquaintance to pawn the watch. Torn Steele, Ireland's Pacificator, is lingering under severe illness at Peele's Coffee-house, Fleet-street. This unfortunate gentleman will be removed to Ireland with out delay, if he recover sufficient strength to, enable him to bear the fatigue of the journey. At present his imme diate friends are under great apprehensions as to the state of his health. IMPORTATION OF ARMS.—A.vessel arrived in the river from Gibraltar has brought several packages of muskets, consigned to a foreign house in the metropolis. As the importation of foreign arms into this country is totally prohibited they have not been delivered to the parties, but have been landed under detention, subject to the directions of the government authorities. SALE OF POLICIES OF ASSURANCE.—A policy of as surance for £l,OOO, in the - Union Life Office, on the life of a gentleman, aged 71, annual premium £3B-19s. 2d., was sold at Garraway's, on Wednesday, for £5OO ; also, one in the Kent Life Assurance Office for £7OO, annual payment £2O Bs. 6d., £380; and one in the London Life Assurance Office for £l,OOO, annual payment £37 10s., The manufacturing operatives have forwarded to the Queen a gold medal and an address of thanks for the royal assent given to the Ten Hours' Bill, now in full operation. Sir George Grey, in reply to Lord Ashley, assures the operatives of " Her Majesty's deep interest in all that concerns the happiness, comfort, and permanent welfare of her faithful and loyal subjects, of whom they form so important a nart. EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY.—On Saturday, whilst the workmen were engaged in an excavation in Union street, Southwark, they came upon an immense mass of human skeletons, which were lying piled with the great est regularity, without any admixture of earth or the remnant of coffins. It is calculated that at the very least there are the remains of from five to six hundred persons. Considerable excitement prevails in the neigh bourhood, it having_ been discovered that this spot was used to bury the dead during the great plague of London. HAIL-STORM.—A, terrificiail-aorm - decended on and around the village of Sheepscombe, Gloucestershire. about two o'clock on Wednesday the 17th ult. The hail-stones covered the fields to the depth of two inches, and in some places as much as from three to four inches deep, and they had not disappeared on the next morning. Immediately before the fall of hail, a most vivid flash of lightning, ac companied by, a stunning clap of thunder, struck a large ash-tree, shivering it from top to bottom, and strewing its bark and branches in all directions, but fortunately doing no further damage. A respectable tradesman in London, whose wife was taken in labour in the night, ran as fast as he possibly could for an accoucheur. A policeman on duty in the neighbourhood, seeing the defendant running, suspected that something was wrong, and stopped him. The defen dant told him his errand, but the officer not being satisfied would not allow him to proceed. Defendant then knocked him down, and by the fall the policeman's leg was broken. The tradesman was tried for the assault at the Central Criminal Court on Saturday, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment. WAGHORN ON EMIGRATION.—In a pamphlet, Mr. Waghorn has sketched out some most important sugges tions for emigration to Austria on an extensive scale. Like Mr. Alison, the historian, he shows how our men-of war and mercantile navy might be usefully employed in conveying our surplus population to a region where " the people are 180,000, the cattle 2,000,000, the sheep 8,000,000 ; being about thirteen head of oxen and fifty sheep for each person • and where the superabundance of food is wasted for want of mouths, the corn shed for want of reapers, and the wool impaired for want of shearers." EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA.—Few persons are aware of the extensive emigration which is going on from the port of London to the Cape and all the Australian colo nies. Ships, freighted with men, women, and children, sail daily from Gravesend to all parts of South Australia or the Cape of Good Hope, and numerous others are being taken up to supply the constant demand for accommoda tion for conveyance to those colonial possessions. On Thursday we visited a remarkably fine ship at Deptford, engaged to convey emigrants to Sydney. She is named the Castle Eden, and is of about 900 tons new, with ac commodation for 230 men, women, and children. STRANGE CHARGE.—On Wednesday, at Marlborough street Police-office, W. Lye, butler to Lady Elizabeth Repton, attended in consequence of a summons having been served upon her ladyship, charging her with having caused a carriage and pair of horses to be driven up near Gibb's-gate, Finchley-road, and giving to her footman a letter, with which he passed through the gate, thereby evading the payment of toll, amounting to ls., and which offence rendered her ladyship amenable to a penalty not exceeding £s.—The buttler admitted, on the part of her ladyship, the nonpayment, but urged that the carriage had not passed through the gate.—The magistrate decided the case by ordering that her ladyship should pay ss. for the offence, 2s. costs, and ss. for expenses incurred. THUNDER STORM.—On Monday a fearful thunder storm took place at East Retford, near Doncaster. The flashes of lightning were excessively vivid, and the peals of thunder rolled with tremendous effect. A " breball" exploded near the Independent Chapel, and a few yards off the lightning struck a small grocer's shop, shattering the chimney-pots to atoms, driving the broken fragments clean through the roof, and dislodging a considerable number of tiles. The fluid descended the flue and en tered the shop, where a female was serving a customer. It knocked her down and made its exit into the street, smashing to atoms thirteen squares of glass in the front windows ; in the back window also three squares were broken. A box of cigars was destroyed ; a stone of soap was reduced to a kind of pulp ; and tea and rice were scattered in every direction. The rain afterwards fell in torrents, and hail also. SINGULAR AND MELANCHOLY DEATHS OF TWO BRO THERS.—A man was drowned on Tuesday while bathing at the sands, near Tower-street, Leigh. His name was William Landale, and he belonged to North Leith. He was scarcely in three feet water, when it is supposed he was seized with apoplexy, as he fell suddenly down, and although assistance was speedily procured, life was extinct. The person in whose house deceased lodged having got the alarm of the above melancholy occurrence, hurried down to the sands, and when he returned to the house found the brother of the deceased, who also lodged with him, a corpse ! The cause of his death we have not heard . ; but it is said that he had been living irregularly for some days previous. He was about twenty-four years of age, and wrought occasionally as a porter. The two brothers, %hose deaths, arising from separate causes, were all but simultaneous, were interred together on Thursday. SINGULAR DEATH.--PRUSSIC ACID IN CHERRY STONES.—An inquest was held at Corfe Mullen, a few days since, on the body of Mary Anne Clark, an interest ing child, six years of age, daughter of Mr. James Charles Clark, gardner to George Harris, Esq. of Henbury House. It appeared that the deceased, with her little sister, one y ear her junior, went into the garden adjoining their cot tage, and with the assistance of a garden rake, got down some unripe cherries from a tree there, of which they partook. Shortly after eating them, they were both taken seriously ill, and within five hours the deceased had ceased to exist. Her sister, who appears to be of a strong constitution, though alarmingly ill for two days, is likely to recover, The jury, were satisfied that the death of the child was caused by the prussic acid contained in the stones of the cherries which she had swallowed.—Devizes Gazette. SIGNS OF RETURNING CONFIDENCE IN MONETARY MATTERS. — We record with sincere pleasure—and we think we cannot possibly adduce more satisfactory evi dence of the fact — that there is neither want of money nor of purchasers where money's worth is to be obtained, as the following enumeration of bond fide sales, effected at high prices in the course of the last few days, must clearly prove :—Sales of estates at Garraway's Coffee-house, by Messrs. Farebother, Clarke, and Lye, on the 31st of May —A copyhold farm, at Hurstperpoint, near Cuckfield, with farm-house and buildings, and ]OO acres of land, £4,100, Dagnalls Park estate, between Norwood and Croydon. consisting of a residence and 22 acres of land, £5,500. A capital leasehold mansion, held for 70 years, at £lOO per annum, in Queen's-road, Kensington, (unfinished, and subject to a mortgage of £5,000,) £6,800; and several estates, houses, and other property, also found purchasers. GREENLAND FISHERY.—The Hamilton Ross of Peter head, arrived at Aberdeen on Monday last, from the fishing, with 12,000 seals and reports as follows :—The Hull vessels all clean ; of the Dundee vessels, the Fairy clean; of the Dundee vessels, the St. Andrew, Flamingo, and Mary, clean ; of the Peterhead vessels, the Superior, clean ; the Traveller and Commerce not seen, but sup posed to have taken the ice at the same time as the Ham ilton Ross ; the Dublin, 10,000 seals ; the Eclipse, 10,000 ditto ; the Enterprise, with seals, but the quantity un known ; the Hamilton Ross, 12,000 seals ; the Resolution, 9,400 ditto • the North of Scotland, clean ; the Union, clean, the Victor, clean. The seals were all got in March, and only a few fortunate ships fell in with them. The Hamilton Ross left the ice on the 6th of May ; made her fishing in 73 45 north ; saw the superior on the 6th of May, with 40 seals, who reported all the British ships clean, unless those mentioned, but could give no dates. Six or seven of the Dutch vessels had from 2,000 to 5,000. seals each ; but all the others reported clean by the Su perior. —Aberdeen Journd. A NEW ADVENTURE .--An eApedition, altogether no vel at this port, has, within the last few days, been fitted out and despatched, at the sole expense f Mr. John Bowlby, who, at his own risk, has determined to try whe ther the fishery for cod at Davis' Straits cannot be suc cessfully carried on. He has, therefore, purchased her Majesty's late revenue cutter Bee, of the burthen of 70 tons, and a schooner named the Seaflower, of the burthen of 190 tons, and having thoroughly fitted, equipped, and stored them for the business, they left this port, the Sea flower about ten days ago, and the Bee on Tuesday last, for the before-mentioned fishing-ground. The crew of the former consists of sixteen hands, of whom Captain Smith is the commander, whilst Captain Weldon has charge of the Bee, whose crew numbers nine persons. Each ship's company includes a proper proportion of Orkneymen, trained to the fishing business, by whom it is intended that the fish, as caught, shall be headed, gut ted, backboned, salted, and packed. On arrival here the cargoes will be landed at the proprietor's establishment at Stoney-ferry, on the river Hull, where the process of cleaning and curing will be completed, and the articles will be ready for use or exportation. We believe that there exists in the trade of this port, with several parts of the world, a fair outlet for the commodity, which, in ad dition to home consumption, will, we hope, not only ren der Mr. Bowlby's present speculation a profitable one, but cause others to imitate his example.—Hull Adver tiser. FRIGHTFUL AND FATAL BOILER. EXPLOSION.—On Friday morning early, .a boiler connected with a puddling engine of the iron works of Mr. Jeffries, Harts-hill, near Dudley, burst with a tremendous explosion, which was heard two miles off. The men who had been working during the night had just left, and fortunately compara tively few of the day-men had arrived, when the accident occurred. The brickwork in which the boiler was encased was torn asunder, and propelled in every direction. The roof of the works was blown completely away ; several large furnace chimneys were smashed to atoms ; and the ruins of the whole fell upon the unfortunate men who were at work in the premises, or who were about to begin work. Por tions of the boiler and brickwork were thrown immense dis tances; and, some of them .falling into the neighbouring workshops, rendered the whole premises a complete ruin. A portion of the boiler, weighing not less than 26 cwt. , was blown a distance of ? a quarter of a mile. Up to Fri day night ten bodies had been extricated. Several of them have left wives and families. Amongst the persons injured was a girl who was 150 yards from the spot, when a brick alighted on her head, and hurt her very severely. THE DIORAMA. REGENT'S PARK, LONDON. — The new picture (for this season) is a view of Mount Etna, painted by M. Diosse, pupil of M. Dagurre, and is designed to show the various effects of light and shade by which dioramic views are distinguished. The point of view appears to have been remarkably well chosen, being a spot near the ruins of the Theatre at Taormina. The picture is seen under three different aspects—evening with moon light effects, sunrise, and night, or in comparative dark ness, and under the representation of an eruption of the mountain. The picture appears almost the place it rep resents, the pictorial illusion producing an apparent reality. The perfect representation of interiors of build ings had been before obtained, and is an easier task. The evening view is remarkably beautiful as regards the sky and clouds, and is worthy of great praise. The view by sunlight is brilliant and well toned, the coloring being subdued by the tints of nature, and having less of the gaudy glare by which some pictures of this class have been disfigured. The view of the eruption is also well managed ; there is no scenic effect and nothing is exag gerated.— Times. ATTEMPTED DISTURBANCES BY THE IRISH IN LONDON. —On the arrival in London of the inteiligence of Mitchel's conviction,, various clubs of Irish assembled, partly armed with muskets and pikes, in Clerkenwell green, where they were harangued by a Mr. Williams, with other speakers, by whom they were requested to follow him four abreast where he would lead them. The procession moved through the city to Finsbury-square, where the word was given " to the west." They then proceeded by Leicester-square to Trafalgar-square, increasing in numbers as they went along, and encouraged by exhortations to " be firm," " the time has now arrived," &c. Here, however, they were stopped by a strong body of police, when they were addressed by the leaders, who said that they had been disappointed in their expectations, and advised them to disperse, and. meet again on Wednesday evening.—On Tuesday a similar demonstration was attempted, but the police were prepared, and being ordered to clear the streets, they were obliged to resort to violent measures. Several persons were knocked down and severely injured. —On Wednesday a third attempt of the same kind was made ; but a large police and military force, particularly a troop of Life Guards, caused the crowds instantly to disperse. AN INNOCENT MAN IMPRISONED.—The Doncaster Gazette notices a singular disclosure which has recently been made at Gainsbro'. On Easter Monday, an alarm was created by the continued ringing of the bell at the Grammar School. Numbers of persons hastened to the spot, and found the servants greatly alarmed, in conse quence of an attack which they stated had been made on the house-burglars. From the description given of one of them, a man was taken into custody, examined before the magistrates, and the girls swearing positively to his dress and voice, he was committed to Kirton gaol. All these facts were made public at the time. From state ments made, it appears that, on the Monday evening allu ded to, two young gentlemen made a call on Mr. Willan, and as the servant girls were alone in the house, as a matter of precaution they asked the names of the persons who demanded admittance; this was twice refused, and the girls naturally enough became alarmed, rang the bell, and the visitors becoming perplexed in return walked away, and actually met several persons coming to render assistance. Some days elapsed before they became aware that a man had been sent to Kirton on the charge of at tempting a burglary ; and they put themselves in commu nication with the magistrates' clerk, who at once wrote to the secretary of state, detailing the above facts. No reply was received, and the poor fellow had been in gaol since the 26th of April last, suffering for a crime of which he was innocent, until Sunday last, when the clerk received a communication from the secretary of state, granting the man a free pardon. DOUBLE MURDER IN HUNTINGDONSHIRE. — On the 30th ult. a lengthened investigation took place into the death of Harriet Burton, wife of Charles Burton, huckster, and Mary Ann, his daughter, both of whom were found with their throats cut at Stilton, in the morning of Mon day last. At the close of the proceedings a verdict of " Wilful Murder " was returned against Charles Burton, then in custody. Since Monday the miserable man has confessed to the surgeon who attended him the particulars of the sanguinary deed. He said, " I first cut my wife's throat, when she was between asleep and awake, but find ing herself wounded, she jumped out of bed and rushed towards the window, whence she shrieked Murder !' I then immediately cut the throat of my little girl, and hav ing done so, I rushed at my wife, and, clasping her round the waist, I repeated the stroke across her neck. She then fell dead at my feet. I then made an attempt upon my own throat, but I was seized before I accomplished my purpose." Upon being questioned as to the cause which induced him to commit the rash at, he said, trouble caused me to contemplate suicide. I intended to destroy myself; but, knowing that I should leave my wife and children in penury, I thought it best that we should all die together." It appears that, on Saturday night, when the unhappy man went to the razor grinder's for the purpose of getting his razor sharpened, he was disap pointed in the rtceipt of a sum of money left him by a de ceased relative, and, having contracted a few debts, he was fearful he should not be able to discharge them ; hence the awful occurrence. On Wednesday he made a will, leaving the whole of his property to his son George, who was absent from home at the time the fatal deed was com mitted. MELANCHOLY DEATH OF Two SISTERS.—Two young females, sisters, named Ellen and J ane H ug h es, age d re spectively 19 and 15, were recently in the service of a gentleman named Cooper, at Southampton, when the elder girl was dismissed for impertinence, and her sister refused to remain without her. They were seen by seve ral persons during the two or three following days, and seemed in good spirits, though they said that rather than go home to their mother, who was cohabiting with a man to whom she was not married, they would throw them selves over the quay. They had both complained of ill treatment from their mother, and the younger girl had been severely beaten by the man, previous to their going to service. On Monday, the Sth ultimo, according to the evidence of their mother, they called at her house at Horton Heath, and told her of their having left their place, and said they were going to another situatio n . Sh e accompanied them back into Southampton, when they gave an address as the place they were going to. On Sa turday morning, the 13th ultimo, between seven and nine o'clock, they were again at Horton Heath in their mo ther's garden. She asked them the reason of their being there, when they told her they had got a holiday, and come to see her ; that they had arrived at ten o'clock the night before, but as she was gone to bed they did not like to disturb her, and they had been lying there all night. They went in and had breakfast with her, and remained till two o'clock, when they left, as they alleged, to go back to their place in Southampton. Ellen said, " Mo ther, go down to the bottom of the garden with us." She went, and they then kissed her, and said, " Good bye, God bless you," after which she saw them no more. On Tuesday, the 16th, having suspected that something was wrong, she went to Southampton and inquired for the address they gave her, when she found there was no such person or place, nor could she hear anything of them. The last that was seen of the unhappy and un fortunate girls, after this, was by a person named Wm. Purkiss, who saw them sitting on the rails of the bridge, over the brook in which they were found, at six o'clock on the same evening of the 13th. Their death occurred, no doubt, very shortly after this time, as they were not seen afterwards alive. The bodies were found several yards from the bridge, and had probably-floated down'the stream. They were lying clasped in each other's arms, their arms being round each other's waists; and they appeared to have been in the water seven or oight days.— Hampshire Independent. DREADFUL SUFFERINGS OF THE CAPTAIN AND C REW OF A BRIG BELONGING TO HULL.—For some months past great anxiety has been felt by many parties in Hull in consequence of the non-arrival, in due time, of the brig " Viatka." She was commanded by Captain Chambers, and left Archangel on the 30th of September, bound for Hull. All the other vessels from that port arrived suc cessively, though late, but the Viatka did not appear, and after a lapse of time was given up for lost. Nothing was heard of her until the 30th of March, when intelligence reached this country that she had put back into Jokan Harbour, in Cape Sweetnose Bay, on the 20th of Decem ber, with her cargo much heated, but the crew all safe. Information was subsequently received of her arrival at Berwick on the 26th ult., and on Wednesday last she ar rived at Hull, She had on board a cargo of linseed co dilla. Off Cape North she encountered . a succeesion of hurricanes from the S.W. The linseed, in consequence, became so much heated that great fears were entertained that she would take fire. The captain bore up for Ham merfest, but, through stress of weather, she did not reach it, and, after other hardships, reached Jokan Harbour. There the frost set in, and the island, as described, is one of the most dreary which the imagination can depict. Not a single human being was to be seen anywhere around, and the whole landscape was a vast ridge of mountains, covered with snow. The state of the weather and the cargo precluded all possibility of reaching Archangel or any other port, and they were therefore obliged to remain in this desolate region. On their arrival their provisions became so diminished that they were constrained to put themselves on a most limited allowance. Their fresh water also failed them, but of this they supplied themselves from the snow. In this miserable position they continued for six weeks without seeing a single inhabitant. On the 25th of January they at last descried some Laplanders who had come down to procure food. The captain succeeded in making them understand that he and his crew were on the brink of starvation ; but they were little better off them selves. They took the captain to Ponoi, sixty miles up the country. He spent one night with the natives on his way, but suffered dreadfully from the _cold, not having necessary clothing. On the following morning he started with them in a sledge, drawn by rein-deer, for Ponoi. He reached Ponoi in eight days, but his sufferings during the journey from the cold were indescribable. During the time that Capt. Chambers was away the crew were re duced to such a condition that they actually cut up all the spars they could spare, and even the warps, to make fires. It is utterly-impossible to describe:their miserable position. On arriving_at Ponoi, Capt. Chambers succeeded in for warding letters to the British consul at Archangel, and obtained money from that place-, which enabled him to purchase food for himself and crew from the natives. He also bought a winter dress, such as is worn by the natives, as he had experienced the most excruciating sufferings from the cold. Capt. Chambers, on returning, found his crew all safe, and with the money he had got he obtained about three weeks' provisions, with which scanty supply they set sail. They received some assistance from several vessels on their howeward trip, and arrived at Berwick on the 26th ult. The crew are now quite recovered after their great sufferings. _ The case of the " Queen v. Sugden," which remained over for judgment since last term, was decided on Tues. day in the Court of Queen's Bench, Dublin. Sir Edwd. Sugden had appointed his son to the Assistant Registrar-, ship of the Court of Chancery, which appointment was impugned by the head clerk, Mr. Kelly, who claimed the appointment under Lord Plunket's Act, which regulated, inter alia, the promotion in the Chancery Court. The case came before the Queen's Bench by quo warranto, and judgment was given in favour of Mr. Kelly. Thus, the appointment of the ex-Chancellor in favour of his son has been set aside. It is likely the matter will come be fore the House of Lords. STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY, ON THE IST JUNE, 1848. (From Colburn'J United &rvice Magazine.) [Where two places are mentioned, the last-named i s th a t at which the depOt of the regiment is stationed.] Ist Life Guards—Regent's Prk'36th—(lst batt.) Corfu. 2d Ditto—Hyde Park (2d batt.) Cephalonia Royal H. Guards—Windsor 37th—Ceylon, Chatham Ist Drag.Guards—Chatham 3 8th—Halifax, N.S., Boyle 2d—Piershill 39th—Hull 3d—Nottingham 40th—Galway 4th—Nottingham 41st—Buttevant sth—York 42d—Bermuda, Isle of Wight ; 6th—Dundalk Reserve batt., Bermuda. 7th—C. Good Hope, Maidstone 438—Templemore Ist Dragoons—Cahir 44th—(1st batt.) Malta 2d—Athlone (Reserve batt.) Cork 3d—Bengal, Maidstone 45th—CapeG.Hope, I.of Wight; 4th—New bridge Res. batt., Cape G. Hope 6th—Dublin 46th—Halifax, N.S., Dover 7th Hussars—Dubli 47th—Clonmel Bth—Ballincollig 4Sth—Dublin 9th Lancers—Bengal, Maiclkitn. 49th—Dublin 10th Hussars—Bombay„Maid- 50th—Bengal, Walmer stone 51st—Madras, Chatham 11th Hussars—Coventry 52d—Ashton-under-Lyne 12th Lancers—Hounslow 53d—Bengal, Chatham 13th Lt. Dragoons—Longford 54th—Bartiadoes, Jersey 14th—Bengal, Maidstone 55th—Dublin 15th Huss.—Madras, Maidston 56th—(1st batt.) Gibraltar 16th Lancers—Norwich (2d batt.) Gibraltar, I. of 17th—Dublin 57th—Enniskillen [Wight Grenadier Guards— 58th—N. S. Wales, Chatham (Ist batt.) Wellington Bar. 59th—Templemore (2d batt.) Winchester 60th—(1st bt.) Bombay,Chathm (3d batt.) St. John's Wood (2d bt.) Bury Coldstream Guards— Gist—Bengal, Chatham (Ist batt.) The Tower Old — Winchester (2d batt.) Windsor 6 3d — Manchester Scotch Fusileer Guards— 64th—Limerick (Ist batt.) St. George's Bar. 65th—N. S. Wales, Chatham (28 batt.) Portman-st. Bar. 66th—Barbadoes, Kinsale Ist Foot— 67th—Gibraltar, Isle of Wight Reserve batt., ( 0 1 s d t b b a a t t t t . . ) )_N ß . ir S r cotia, Stirling 6 68 9t t h h_l a u l l t l a in ; gar 2d—Athlone Malta, Isle of Wight 3d—Belfast 70th—Cork 4th—Madras, Chatham 71st—Naas sth—(lst bt ) Mauritius Reserve batt., Canada (2d bt.) Maurit., I.Wight 72d—West Indies, Sheerness 6th—(lst ht.) Cape G. Hope ; 73d—Cape G. Hope, Birr Reserve batt., Hudson's 74th—Dublin Bay and Youghal. 75th—Dublin 7th—Halifax, N.S., Waterford 76th—Corfu, Isle of Wight Bth—Bombay, Chatham 77th—Canada, Fermoy 9th—Portsmouth 78th—Bombay, Chatham 10th—Bengal, Chatham 79th — Gibraltar, Mullingar 11th—N. S. Wales, Chatham 80th—Bengal, Chatham 12th—Weedon 81st—Preston Reserve batt., Mauritius 82d—Halifax, N.S., Devonport 13th—Newry 838—Kilkenny 14th—Newport, South Wales 84th—Madras, Chatham 15th—Ceylon, Chester 85th—Dublin 16th—Corfu, Guernsey 86th—Bombay, Chatham 17th—Portsmouth 87th—Weedon 18th—Bengal, Chatham 88th—Trinidad, Tralee 19th—Quebec, Castlebar 89th—Preston 20th—Canada, Isle of Wight; 90th—Chatham Reserve batt., Canada 91st—Gosport ; Reserve batt., 21st—Calcutta, Canterbury Cape of Good Hope 22d—Bombay, Chatham 92d—Limerick 238—Halifax, Isle of Wight ; 93d—Canada, Aberdeen Reserve batt., Canada 94th—Madras, Chatham 24th—Bengal, Chatham 95th—China, Naas 25th—Madras, Chatham 96th—N. S.Wales, Chatham 26th—Cork 97th—Jamaica,Isle of Wight 27th—Glasgow Reserve batt, Jamaica. 28th—Canterbury 98th—Bengal, Chatham 29th—Bengal, Chatham 99th—N. S. Wales, Chatham 30th—Newcastle-on -Tyne Rifle Brigade 31st—Dublin (Ist batt.) Cape of G. Hope, 32d—Bengal, Chatham Bristol 33d—Edinburgh (2d batt.) Canada, Isla of 34th—Gibraltar, — l l i y b n r l a o l u ta t r h , Nenagh Wight Reserve batt., Quebec. COLONIAL CORPS Ist West India Regiment—Jamaica 2d Ditto—Windward and Leeward Islands. 3d Ditto—Demerara, Sierra Leone, &c. Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Ceylon and China Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Canada Cape Mounted Riflemen—Cape of Good Hope Royal Newfoundland Veteran Company—Newfoundland Royal Malta Fencibles—Malta St. Helena Regiment—St. Helena RAILWAY RECEIPTS. The following are the receipts of railways for the past week; that is to eay, up to the date to - which the rcapective returns are made:— RA I LWA YS, Aberdeen Amiens and Boulogne Arbroath and Forfar Birkenhead, Lan. and Cheshire Caledonian Chester and Holyhead Cockermouth and Workington Dublin and Drogheda Dublin and Kingstown Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen East Anglian Edinburgh and Glasgow Edinburgh and Northern Eastern Counties and N. Eastern East Lancashire Eastern Union and Ipswich and Bury Glasgow, Ganikirk, and Ctbrg Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr. Glasgow and Greenock Great Southern and Western Great Western Kendal and Windermere Lancashire and Yorkshire Lancaster and Carlisle Leeds and Thirsk Londonderry and Enniskillen London and North-Western London and Blackwall London & Brighton, South Coast London and South-Western M'chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle Midland, Bristol, and Birming ham Midland Great Western (Ireland) Newmarket Newcastle and Carlisle Norfolk North British Paris and Rouen Rouen and Havre Scottish Central Shrewsbury and Chester South-Eastern and Branches South Devon Taff Vale Ulster Whitehaven Junction Wishaw and Coltness York, Newcastle, and Berwick.. York and North Midland, &c... Week ending 1848. Amount. May 0 0 0 1299 0 0 0 0 0 703 0 0 3942 0 0 601 0 0 165 0 0 0 0 0 1156 0 0 920 0 0 498 0 0 3524 0 0 1528 0 0 14846 0 0 1039 0 0 1216 0 0 0 0 0 2175 0 0 1144 0 0 2363 0 0 20675 0 0 2709 1264 1357 21355 150 0 0 9342 0 0 1732 0 0 188 47246 1579 10240 9632 3186 633 480 10389 735 1607 771 284 STATE OF Ortitral Aliatilanp. No further riot has takan place at Bradford. Good fresh mackerel were sold in Bristol last week at a. penny each. A few days since a monster, in human shape, roasted a hedgehog alive, which he had found accidentally. Two inert at Bradford, charged with illegally training and drilling in that neighbourhood, have been committed for trial. A shepherd, named Macquat, was killed a few days since, at Leadhill, Lanarkshire, during a thunder-storm. A female at Bath, named Mrs. Gurriott, has-died from the effects of the bite of a cat which was ill at the time the poor woman was bitten. By a notice in the Gazette of Tuesday, Berwich-upon- Tweed is appointed an English port, from and after this day. The Duke of Sutherland subscribed the noble sum of £70,000 for the relief of the suffering people during the famine in the Highlands. The annual ball in aid of the funds of the Polish Asso ciation, took place at Willis's-rooms, on Monday night. There were upwards of 700 persons present.. Potatoes and bread are the same price per gallon in• Salisbury at the present time, namely, 10d.—a circum stance probably without parallel within memory. The John Bull says that Mrs. Mitchel is mot only not the niece of Sir W. Verner, but that she has no claim whatever to relationship with him. Some asparagus, grown by Mr. Hesell, gardener, Bar near Bristol, measures four inches and a half in girth, and is twelve inches in length ! The first premium of £lOO has been unanimously awarded to Messrs. Tnompsom and Johnstone, Eccleston square, London, for their plan of the County Infirmary about to be built in the city of Durham. Cheltenham is at present inundated with Irish paupers. Scores are arriving daily, and-a committee has been formed to provide a building in the outskirts of the town, for the reception of the casual poor. MODEL LODGING-HOUSES FOR FAMILIES.—The Queen Dowager has forwarded to the committee of the above so ciety £l5O, the Duchess of Kent £lOO, and the Duchess of Gloucester £5O. At Birmingham, on Monday, there was an attempted demonstration on behalf of the Irish confederate Mitchell, but only fifty persons made their appearance, and these were soon dispersed by a sharp shower of rain. DISINFECTING FLulns.—The Literary Gazette lately stated that the cesspools of Westminster had been opened to prove the efficacy of disinfecting fluids ; and that a dangerous typhus was the result. A GOOD EXAMPLE.—The East London Waterworks Company and the British Gaslight Company have gene rously afforded gratuitous supplies of water and gas to the model establishment, Goulston-square, Whitechapel. SINGULAR CIRCUSTANCE.—Last week, while some men were getting gravel in the river Trent, between Torksey and Dunham, a fine salmon leaped into the boat, and was captured. It weighed 181b.—Notts Journal. In several towns in Yorkshire, a dramatic performance, entitled " John Barleycorn," has been represented in aid of the temperence movement. The scene is a court of justice, and John is tried and found guilty of many crimes and offences. . Haymaking operations were commenced in the neigh bourhood of Bath a week ago, and the market was last week well supplied with green peas and other garden pro ductions. The former were reduced in price within a day or two from 2s. to 9d. and Bd. per peck. A day or two ago, Mr. Kent, a baker, of Mold, and his journeyman, died in consequence of eating some poison ous herb, while gathering hop-top in the fields. Mr. Kent's apprentice, who likewise ate some of the herb, is also dangerously ill, and not likely to recover. Near Brough, in Westmoreland, al6-inch seam of coal is ascertained to extend over a considerable district, being situated between the 4 fm. limestone and that beneath ; it has a plate roof of considerable thickness, extending to within 4 or 5 ft. of the limestone. __ SUICI CE.—On Friday, while John Hopper, eldest son of the late Mr. Ralph Hopper, of Benwell fishery, was walk ing leisurely on Backworth waggon-way, Durham, a train of 14 coal waggons coming down, he purposely threw him self before them across one of the rails, and was killed on the spot. HUNTINGDON.—His Grace the Duke of Manchester presided, on Tuesday, the 30th May, over a preliminary meeting for the purpose of establishing a Protestant Asso ciation. The attendance was numerous and respectable. Many clergymen were present. The meeting was ad= dressed by J. E. Gordon, Esq., and James Lord, Esq. A CONSIDERATE SoN.—A ew weeks ago, the son of a joiner, residing within a hundred miles of Alfreton, being short of work, made a coffin for his father, who lay ill, stating as his reason for so doing, that trade might stir, and if anything happened to the old man he should be all of a bustle. The old man is still living. A flock of sheep consisting of about 200, and belonging to Mr. Pinckney, of Amesbury, have been deliberately poisoned. Since January last, about twenty died a-day. £lOO reward having been offered, information was given which caused the apprehension of a labourer in the neigh bourhood. JESUITS IN ENGLAND.—A numerous party of Jesuits, who have recently been compelled to leave Italy, will shortly occupy Ugborough-house, near Chudleigh, which is now being prepared for their reception. This splendid mansion is the property of Lord Clifford, who is a zealous Roman Catholic. _ On Monday last, the towns of Newcastle, Shields, Sunderland and Durham were flooded by the overflowing of the Tyne and Wear, occasioned by heavy rains. At Bishopwearmouth the kitchen of a house was inundated so rapidly by the bursting of a sewer, that a woman and two children were drowned. The state of the affairs of Messrs. Carr, Tagmore, and Co., indicates the fearful depreciation of the value of mer cantile property which has recently occurred. When Dwarkenath Togmore left Calcutta on his last visit to England, he believed himself worth half a million sterling; in three years his house is in the Insolvent Court ! ISOPATHY.—A new species of quackery has made its appearance in Germany, and is now becoming known under the name of isopathy. According to this system, when a person is afflicted in any particular part, say the liver or the lungs, he is dieted on the same portions of animal food for a certain time, or until he recover. In a letter recently published by the Due de Joinville, he says, " our family could earn their living. A s t o me, a company in London has offered me the command of a vessel destined for India, so that you see that we can battle against want. My wife and my dear little ones are well. May we again behold our native land !" The meetings of Chartists have induced several parties in London, to come forward to be sworn in as special constables. Among the specials sworn in were the Mar quis of Worcester, the Marquis of Northampton, the Marquis of Drogheda, the Marquis of Hertford, E ar l Howe, Mr. Fitzroy Somerset, and all the servants of the establishment of the Duke of Beaufort. FATAL THUNDERSTORM.—On Sunday afternoon week the town and neighbourhood of Leeds were visited by a heavy storm of rain, accompanied with loud thunder ana lightning. Several buildings were slightly damaged by the lightning, but the inmates generally escaped without injury. One man was killed by the electric fluid at Fars ley, about five miles from the town. ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.—MISS H. Wells, the only daughter of Mrs. Burgoyne Wells, relict of Capt. B. Wells, who fell in the Affghanistan war, and heiress to a fortune of twenty thousand pounds, eloped last week from Chislehurst with a stone-mason named Graydon, and they were married at St. John's Church. The fortunate lover is a person of herculanean and robust frame, and the lady is six feet in height, with but one eye. Abraham Simmonds, a publican, was charged on Mon day before the Lord Mayor of London with being in pos session of two Bank of England notes for £l,OOO each, well knowing that they had been'stol en. The accusation arose out of a robbery committed in 1843 upon Mr. Blake more, M.P. for Wells, in an omnibus. Two of three £l,OOO notes stolen from that gentleman were found to be in the possession of the prisoner. The prisoner stated that he had received the notes at Epsom in payment of a bet. He was remanded for further inquiry. Bail was refused. Salter, a livery stable-keeper broiight an action in the Westminster County Court against Earl Fitzhardinge for £15.155., the hire of a horse ridden by Mrs. Barker. The Earl hired the horse for Mrs. Barker in 1846, and after wards bought it ; and the question was whether the £l5 15s. was not to have been included in the £65 paid for the horse. The plaintiff's books were produced, and the entry of the hiring was found to be in interpolated writing. The Judge thought the item had been " squeezed in " long since 1846, and gave judgment for the defendant. ALLEGED FORGERY.—The Rev. William Richardson Robinson, a non-beneficed clergyman, and a man of very intemperate habits, has been committed to Appleby gaol for trial at the next assizes, on a charge of having forged a bill for £35, and presented it for acceptance at the Lancaster Branch Bank at Kirby Lonsdale. Mr. Robin son had just been appointed master of Bowness school, and is son of the late Dr. Robinson, of Clifton, near Pen rith. He is a married man but has for some time past been seperated from his wife. A MAN ACCIDENTALLY SnoT.---On Wednesday, Mr. Robert Baters, of Ripon, was found lying dead in the road. The deceased was in the habit of going to a garden which he had, for the purpose of shooting sparrows ; and the supposition was, that deceased was attempting to open the garden gate, as the key was in the padlock, and th e gate from two to three inches open, and that in the act of stooping to open the lock, with the gun under his left arm, the trigger, by coming in contact with his knee or the gate, caused its discharge. On Tuesday, a man and three horses were drowned in a pool, at a place called Cinder Bank, near Netherton, whither it appeared the deceased, Joseph Anslow, a wag goner in the employ of the Bilston Flour Mill Company, had taken the horses to water, having left the waggon on the road contiguous thereto. It appears that the horses were attached by the traces, and Anslow was riding on the leading horse. After the deceased had watered the horses, he rode them into.the pool a second time, for the purpose of cooling them, when the leading horse got out of his depth, and dragged the other horses after him. SUICIDE OF THE QUEEN'S TRUMPETER.—Mr. G. C. Roberts, aged sixty, the Queen's trumpeter, committed suicide early on Monday, by cutting his arm with a razor, then his throat, and leaping from a parapet into his garden, where he was found in a pool of blood from the wounds stated, with a leg fractured in two places. He was very eccentric, and under the delusion that in consequence of the recent proceedings in Paris, and the meetings of the chartists here, he should come to poverty. He often sat up for nights together attending to his plants in hisgreen houses, or killing slugs in the garden. 0 0 0 145 0 0 42092 0 0 1252 0 0 12907 0 0 9624 0 0 2525 0 0 547 0 0 -- 27 I 20135 0 0 -- 21 1041 0 0 0 0 0 -- - 27 2074 • 0 0 0 0 -- - 27 2069 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -- - 28 596 0 0 -- 27 8260 0 0 -- 26 1350 0 0 -- 27 1660 A 0 -- 28 787 0 0 -- 28 207 0 0 0 0 0 -- 2- 7 12603 C 0 -- 27 8178 0 0 TRADE MANCHESTER,—There has been scarcely any change in the market during the week as regards either demand or prices. No activity is visible in any department of our export trade, the prevalent feeling being to abstain from all operations beyond what are necessary for the supply of immediate and urgent wants. The uneasiness and apprehension experienced during the middle of the week regarding local disturbances have, in a great measure, passed away. LEEDS.—The woollen trade of this town and district, is with out material alteration since our last. A fair amount of busi ness continues to be done, and during the week some purchases have been made for the American market ; but by the conti nental houses little is doing. Prices are utmaidered very low, and stocks are not heavy. HALIFAX—Pieces: We have had more business doing on Saturday than we have had for some time hack, but still at very low prices. Yarns still remain in every dull state, the demand being extremely limited. Wool is only in small demand, owing to many of the mills running two and three days per week. BRADFORD. . —Wool: The absence of business, during the turmoil of the week. has not only affected the consumption, but also the purchase of all kinds of combing wools, which have been very dull. There is no material increase in stocks, or alteration in prices. Noils and brokes in steady request, at former rates. Yarns : We cannot note any improvement in this branch of the trade. The demand continues dull, and the prices so unremunerating i as to retard any increase in the pro duction. Pieces : There s about the same doing in piece goods as for some time past. The quantity coming to market is limited,• and stocks on the decrease. The current prices for paramattas and ()deans forbid their manufacture; and fancy goods, unless they are new in style, will not realize prime cost. But the policy of the manufacturers, in making only to order, has prevented losses which would oth erwise have occurred. HUDDERSFIELD.—We have had very little doing in our market this week, no one buying anything but what they want for immediate use, and that is not a great deal at this season. We arc still of opinion that our prospects for the autumn trade are very favourable. Prices are still very low. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKFT.—The flannel market this week has been in a languid state; very little business has been done, and pieces of some sorts of goods were sold at lower prices than last week. The wool market was flat, and manu facturers would only purchase for present use. Prices rather lower than last week. HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.—The cut-up stocking branch still continues brisk, and the hands have made a slight attempt at an advance of wages ; but this was only partially acceded to, and the hosiers, feeling it as a check, gave out materials with a very sparing hand.—The drawer, pantaloon, and shirt branch has not improved in the same ratio as the stocking branches, many of the frames being still short of employment. The cotton glove trade is still in a very improved condition, but this is attributed to the glove hands having turned out, to avoid an abatement in their wages. The plain silk glove branch is still in a very fair condition, the hands in general having em ployment; but the other silk branches are in a most depressed condition.—The cotton lace trade is certainly improved, not only in demand, but what is of greater importance, in the me thod of conducting it. The pusher trade has so far improved, that we have heard of a few pusher machines being actually in the course of construction. Two years since this would have been thought an impossibility.—A considerable trade is carried on in making bobbin lace from white bleached cotton, in which bleached flax-thread is introduced in various patterns.—Tbe silk bobbin trade is still pretty good, and, if anything, increas ing. —The muslin laces still keep their ground. Several lace workmen have arrived from Lyons; they give a very-Sorry de scription of the Lyonnese manufacturers, who have reduced wages even beneath the Nottingham prices. They describe the Lyonnese workmen as a body of resolute, tall, powerful men, who feel keenly the injuries to which they have been subjected. The lace-workmen from Vienna are now on their war-honle.r•• Nottingham Journal.