The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-31 00:00:00

erpool. By John treet, lortimer- Dignan, Soak rmer littl rol Life'.'— ly a hasty work, hours, and in the first et' have b: Ile we muse ban weaker men to it existe a of many are intr haract L, and his wa s recent w townsm H. V. I )rm of a Gr( windows, 1 ax candle , ! One m SKEW Eitel SECOND Eat CION. LIVERPOOL since; forin, Wheat, Indi of Barley, a the United There w ket this m dd. from t Standard-office, Two o'clock CORN EXCHANGE -T HI .cular of Friday last an ❑g yesterday, u large sec Meal, with nearly 3,000 .t, at a d es of last' :es of t key who hich they w ley will hustl of Lard isted I lation fro St. Paul al THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE STEAM-ENGiIkTE. (From Sir John Barrow's Autobiography.) The 'first discoverer, as we Englishmen &oil him to be, of the power of steam for moving weights, lifting water, &c., as well as of its locomotive power, has, in later times, been a subject of doubt and dispute. Not only has the story of the Marquis of Worcester, as told by himself, been called in question, but the French, even before his time, and M. Arago in our time, have claimed the discovery for another, one Salomon de Caus, a cele brated engineer in the time of Lous XIII., to whom he dedicated a book, published in 1615, entitled, An Ac count of Moving Forces, with various Machines as well for Use as for Pleasure. This work is undoubtedly prior, by nearly half a century, to Worcester's Century of In ventions, which was not published till 1663. This would prove nothing against the Marquis's discovery unless De Caus has mentioned steam among his " moving forces," of which I profess my ienorance, not havine se his treatise. But the charge of the Marquis having learnt his invention from De Cans himself is curious, and, if true, as it appears to be, decides the question against In an amusing French work, La France Historique, par Henri Berthoud, I find a very curious and interesting letter, from Madame Marion de l'Orme to her husband, the Marquis de Cinq-Mars, in which she says,— " I have done the honours of Paris to your English lord, the Marquis of Worcester. I have led him, or, rather, he has led me, from one curiosity to another; always making choice of the most sad and the most serious, speaking little, and listening with marked attten- tion. " We went to Becetre, where he pretends to have dis covered in a madman a man of genius. Had he not been raving, I verily believe your Marquis would have asked his liberty to take him to London. In crossing the court where mad people are kept, more dead than alive from fear, I observed, on the other side of a strong bar rier, an ugly face, screaming out, lam not mad ! I have made a discovery that would enrich the country that would carry it into effect.' And what is his discovery ?' I asked the keeper. Ah ! ' said he, you would never I guess :it is the vapour of boiling water. His name,' fl P , I I continued he, is Solomon de Caus. He came from Nor mandy, four years ago, to present a memorial to the king of the wonderful effect of steam for turning machinery, driving carriages, and a thousand other wonderful things : but the cardinal drove him away without listening to him. From that time he pursued the cardinal wherever he went, so that he ordered him to be shut up in the Becetre as a madman, where he has been three years and a-half. He has written a book on his wonderful discovery,. which I have here.' Lord Worcester is quite ravished with it and, after reading a few pages, ' This person,' said he, is an, and in my country, instead of shutting' him ~~1 o % b~ :T up, they would heap riches upon him. Bring me to him, I wish to question him.' He was taken to him, and re turned sorrowful and pensive. tAt present,' he said, he is very mad. Misfortune and captivity have for ever es tranged his reason. You have made him mad ; but when von threw him into this prison, you there buried the greatest genius of your age.' " From this time, it is said, the Marquis of Worcester never ceased talking of Saloman de Cans. and well he might talk and think of this poor maniac, if the story be true. The writer of the letter, the person it is written to, and the genius of whom it treats, were all well known characters of the time. De Caus was a distinguished of several ingenious works ; one of them is Les Raisons de Forces Mouvantes, arc., above mentioned, which went through several editions, and was published in several languages. He also published four or five other works, one of which, entitled Institution Harmonique, he dedi cated to Queen Anne of England. The above letter, there can be little doubt, is genuine. Marion de l'Orme was well known among the beaux esprits of Paris and the Court. She was accounted a woman of great talent for wit, and was the friend and associate of the celebrated Ninon. Arago asserts that De Caus was the first to dis cover the power of steam ; any one, even Papin, with his digester, was an inventor, according to Arago, rather than Englishmen. If De l'Orme's story be true, Wor s story of the cover of the cooking-pot being blown , himney is indeed blown up, and must be con- We English, however, are inclined ered as a romance to believe what the Marquis has declared to be the assurance may be relied on, that " he d and that his not to set down any other men's moreover, that " if he had, in any , ca to nominate likewise the inventor. ' se, acted on them, Here I leave it. DREADFUL OCCU RI 4CE AT GLASGOW SUFFOCATION OF TWO BOYS , ow Mail of Tuesday details a tragedy of 1 and heart-rending character, very - n the result, to that perpetuated in the le Misletoe Bough." The full -On Saturday afternoon, thr ►Vilson, were IT As the rest of the family the exception Mr. J. Wit were down the w absence occasioned at first no great ur sunnosed that the vortnasters, the eldest b r ad set off to join their n )f the family. As nothing had been he Wilson left home early yesterday mornini g to The Duke of Newcastle, and the clergy and gentry re siding in the vicinity of Worksop, have formed them selves into a society to suppress prize-fighting, as that neighbourhood has lately become the daily theatre on which pugilistic encounters have been decided. On Monday, two children, one four, the other two years of age, who had been left in the house alone a few minutes by their mother, a poor woman, in the Gallogate, Glasgow, were found burning, on her return, and died the same evening. On Wednesday, Miss Marianne Hannah Enock, an adult, was baptized publicly in Leominster Church, by the Rev. Charles Walter Robinson, A.M., curate. This young lady had been a disciple of the Society of Friends up to the period of her initiation into the church. A DELICATE SUIT IN CHANCERY.—The gentlemen of the long robe are likely to be engaged in a case, in the ensuing term, in which the dangers of the Romish confes sional will be strikingly developed, and the infallibility of the priesthood will be seriously questioned.—Birmingham Advertiser. _ The chief bailiff of the town of Darlington has convened a meeting of the inhabitants of that place to agree on an address to Sir R. Peel, to be presented to the right hon. Baronet on his passing through the town on his ensuing (his first public) visit to the county of Durham as the guest of the Marquis of Londonderry. One of the houses which failed last week made eighty thousand pounds, at the commencement of the season, by their successful dealings in Indian corn f All this has been lost, and their capital besides, by an unfortunate miscalculation of the. fluctuations of the market, and the state of the weather. _ _ _ THE MARKETS. — Wheat may now be bought at Mark lane" at 525. per quarter, scarcely one-half the price it was about two months ago—a fluctuation without parallel in England in so short a period. Some corn-dealers antici pate that before many weeks have passed wheat will be at ss. per bushel. At the Central Criminal - Court, on Monday, John - King - , 44, formerly an under librarian in the British Museum, was tried for sending a letterto Miss Lynn, a literary lady, threatening to accuse her of disgraceful. actions. He was found guilty, and sentenced' to seven years' transporta tion. The soi-disant nephew of the Duke of Wellington, " Eilam," has again figured in the newspapers. He sum moned Esther de Villars to the Bloomsbury County Court,- for the sum of £l5 money lent;: but, failing to make his appearance, the noble youth has been found liable in costs, including £1 to the lady for her attendance. Mr. Richards, one of the highly-talented troupe of artistes, styled the Collins family, has been drowned at Scarboro'. He swam out to a considerable distance, and, on returning, it is supposed, he found the resistance of the ebbing time more powerful than he anticipated, and, be lost his strength. and sunk. A WISE RESOLVE. - Sir John Guest, Bart., intends, it is said, giving £lOOO towards the building of a new Town hall at Merthyr, and £5O for a new clock for the market place in that town, instead of spending money in dinners, bang. &cl, as is usually the case on the return of members to Parliament. _ _ _ . . A. Las Such is the appearance of the orchards at present in the South of Devon, that prime old cider is selling at 20s. per hogshead. It is fully expected that new eider wiil be sold at 15s. per hogshead. The apples are growing fast, and the crop promises to be both excellent and abundant. — Exeter Gazette. _ _ _ .• RATE Or DISCOUNT. — On Thursday, many parties en tertained a strong expectation that a - reduction would be made in the rate of discount by the Bank of England, but this did not take place. It was, however, understood that advances are contemplated to be made within a short time upon bills and securities at five per cent. The governor of. the Bank of .England, has been, as a matter of course, succeeded by Mr. Morris, the deputy governor ; but, as yet. no appointment has been made of a successor to Mr. Morris; and some considerable diffi cuty has arisen in inducing any of the directors, itnme- diately in A few days since, as some workmen were engaged in pulling down an old neglected chimney, in some premises at Stockton, they were astonished at discovering a swarm of bees, by which they were vigorously assailed ; but they were amply compensated for the attack in the lar k which eventually fell to their lot. Jarwin, a young man of most respectable con in Birmingham, has been committed for trial at xt Warwick Assizes, charged with manufacturing Immense quantity of Turkish piastres, which he sent away to that country, but which were intercepted. He had sent off nine cases of the coin representing no less Edwin I ge quan- Throughout the northern counties nearly all the grain the harvest with rapidity, it by the middle of Sep s are splendid from diFe; Newcastl, aurnal. - fetch w ham, ar in 1845.1 to take I FIGHT of Cheltenham when I re two policemen at the spot were totally use but their exertions to prevent the - fi those in !ession of roduce, ur mar ethic of ,f Is. 6d a steady i I G at eleven years of i n family were, to ascertain if the runaways were there. He thad not, however, been long away, when a carter, who takes charge of a horse belonging to Mr. Wilson, went to 3e 1 I the- stable; which is attached to the wood -yard, ' for- the \ e - purpose of procuring some provender for the animal, which in had, it appears, been out in a park. from the Saturday .... The provender is kept in a corn )n openir iately summoned as ut it tanee, and they were taker s found that two of them, James Wilson I eleven, and Charlf ,about a year younge Lpparently fora consi le youngest a - boy bete seven and ( gilt years, son of Mr. James Wilson, show( t life was not entirely ext►nct prompt medical attendance, and fresh air he gradually T vived, so as to be able during the day to state, in a co herent manner, what had led to. the melancholy catas is proceeding It to a d weather continues most propition 3y a pa at the nu 20,355 int of their tonnage in 1844, 116 ships, 17 tons; in 1846, 151 [ thus be seen that both as to nearly doubles 184 A Boy. — On Tn o to the lock-up. She ,boythiukiug she had to send for a s went out to 1. gone :tn put 3L ,uil, 11Vt •esent an old woman of th, ~e v~lla. f her f WRITING UPON NEWSPAPERS.—An opinion has gone abroad, that, by a recent act of parliament, marks or names may be written upon newspapers without subject ing them to postage. This, however, is a mistake ; the old law in this respect is still in force, and no mark or writing of any kind is allowed, either upon the paper or cover, except the name and address of the person to whom it is sent. FEMALE HEROISM.—The Spectator calls attention to the heroism lately exhibited by the sisters Martha and Margaret Llewellyn, as not less worthy of notice than that exhibited by Grace Darling. During a storm off the coast of Fishguard, several vessels were driven ashore. One was in view. The boatmen refused to go mat; but the two sisters caused ropes to be lashed round them, and walking out among the breakers, got near enough to throw a rope to the stranded s; medal from the Hu subscription, have been their on] by which they-were iocietY, and a local eknowledgments a more than to Cremorne BALLOON RACI usual number of persor Gardens to witness the ascent of two balloons, viz., the Victoria and the Coronation balloons—the one directed by the veteran Mr. Charles Green, and the other by his brother, Mr. H. Green. The affair was called an aerial race, and certainly from the rapid rate at which the bal loons travelled the term was appropriate. The wind was blowing very fresh from•the north-east at the time of the ascent, seven o'clock, and the machines were carried through the air in the direction of Wimbledon Common, with extraordinary speed, the Victoria takingthe lead. KILLING PARTRIDGE BEFORE THE TIME, AND WITH OUT A CERTIFICAVE.—On Monday week, a covey of par tridges were enjoying themselves in basking in the sunshine, on the Lancaster and Preston Railway close to the Gars tang station-house, when a train came up, and, before the birds chose to get out of the way of danger, ran' among them, by which onslaught one bird was killed dead, and another, no doubt, mortally injured, although it contrived to get into an adjacent crop of uncut oats, and so escaped being secured. It is also - somewhat remarkable that,.at a later part of the day, ancrnearly at the exact spot, the same, or another covey, had actually to be flushed off the line'by one of the workmen employed upon it. DEATH OF GENERAL SIB GEORGE COCKBURN. - This renowned veteran, but rather eccentric politician, died on Wednesday last. near Bray, at the 84th year of his age. The deceased was the author of several pamphlets of decidedly deistical character. He had been an ultra democrat until a few years ago when he came round to Peelism. Some dozen years since he got his coffin made, and on the breastplate were engraved his military and family titles, with the words , " Died- day of 18—." This remembrancer of the fate of all men Sir George kept in,his bed-chamber, exposed to the view of all who entered. He was an excellent neighbour, but was not admired for either his religious or political opinions, which he was continually obtruding upon his friends. A:DISAPPOINTMENT IN GRAIN. - At Bridgnorth mar ket on , Saturday week a great many prime samples of both old and new woeat were exhibited, and the disposition evidently was to sell at lower prices than the previous week. A good sample was disposed of by Mr. Lewis, of Belswar dine, at 9s. per bushel, to Mr. Minshall, of Eardington Mill; 9s. and 9s. 4d. may be taken as the top price of the market. A very good sample was shown by Mr. Dyer of the Nnowl, which that gentleman asked lOs for. We did not hear of his selling, but the prices above may be quoted as being the correct return of the market. A gentleman farmer was pointed out who had, some little tune ago; refused 16s. 3d. per bushel for his wheat, re marking that " he smelt 205.," yet actually sold off the identical wheat for 9s. ! STRANGE CASE.—A correspondent of the Times states that in the Haslair Lunatic Asylum, in Hampshire, a lieu tenant in the navy had been confined for twenty years. He was an incurable lunatic, subject to violent maniacal paroxysms, and requ'ring great care ; he was also quite blind. He appears to have had a half-pay of some ss. a day, Is. 6d. of which per diem was applied to his own maintenance, the rest was paid to his wife, who also had a separate provision for herself. In twenty years she had been to see him once. One of his two sons once in that period of time called to ask after him. Notwithstanding this appall t severance of ti d by WT ')rot he was contracted by I to Win- natter w Y AND THE CLYDE from th( the Cly otch river carries the day over its peer ! Campare the shores of the I of the one-the peaked sierras of t lose sight of the banks of the Mers better. They are a couple of seed I disreputable banks. One wishes th a good poll vated than a bathing n try shores. shabbiness, The mud ich Pai well ex the paltry jealousy THE QUEEN respected corr touched or nations wh ;hall insert. have to reprobate in the person of our Queen :—Allow me to offer my best acknowledgments for your faithfulness as a journalist, in calling the attention of the public to the recent desecration of the Sabbath-by one vat.> should have set a better example to her subjects. It is not thus old George 111. would have acted. I could not help remark ing that when Louis Philippe visited these shores, ever stitiction EXCISE OPPRESSIOIS Edinburgh Weekly C road titl don a box, c IS, half a salmon , nt of one half-penny per bottle of duty, ion, for pay payable on Her - friend in London petitioned the comr said that it was in ignorance of any do the same was sent, and prayed that the b might be restored. The following is th Aug. 31, 1847. AN UNFORTUNATE HEDGEHOG.—A: gentleman in thht neighbourhood had a tame hedgehog in his garden which, in seeking his food, was at the same time a promoter of horticulture, by destroying many noxious insects. One day lately he unluckily went near a hire of bees, and a num ber of them attacked him with great fury ' • he defended himself by standing on his hind feet, and striking with his fore paws. Finding, however, that the bees were get ting the best of it, he coiled himself up in his bristly ar mour, but in doing so, enclosed some of his enemies, who stung him severely. He then unrolled himself, and re newed the fight for some time, but eventually retreated into a bush. Next morning the poor hedgehog was found dead ; showing that, however completely the stomachs of these animals can resist poison, they are not proof against its external application in the shape of the smarting , sting of the bee.—Montries Courier EXTRAORDINARY DEATH named Jefferies, was poaching fish in Sidlesharn, Sus sex, he attempted to pull a sole through the meshes of the net with his teeth, when the fish darted into his mouth and before assistance could be rendered he was a corpse. It went through the mouth into the larynx, with its head in the gullet, and the fins being extended trans fixed it in that situation. The man became totally over powered, and the attempts of his companion to - withdraw it were unavailing. Medical aid was sent for (a distance of four miles), but when- the medical man arrived, he found life totally extinct, and declined operating to re move the fish, judging it necessary not to interfere before an inspection had been made by the coroner and jury. The breadth of the fish was- about three fingers, and it continued to flicker for many hours. The ill-fated indi vidual was a young man, and has left a wife and` three children. A small subscription has been raised for the widow. On Thursday, as a man WHICH' sa THE BRUTE ?—An instance of animal sagacity and , humanity, unequalled in our remembrance, took place . before our door lately.. An unfortunate dog, in order to make sport for some fools, had a pan tied to. his tail, and was sent off on his travels towards Galt. He reached the village utterly exhausted, and lay down before. the steps of Mr. Young's tavern, eyeing most anxiously the horrid annoyance hung behind him, but unable to move a step further to rid himself of" the torment. Ano dog, a Scotch collar, came up at the same time, and seeing the distress of hircrony, laid himself gently down beside him, and, gaining. his confidence by a , few caresses, pro ceeded to gnaw the string by which the noisy appendage was attached to his friend's tail, and, with about a quarter of an hour's exertion, severed the cord, and started to his legs, with the pan hanging from the_ string in his mouth, departed. —Edin- on his travels in the highest glee at his success burgh Chronicle. AT STOPPER ON Anr.—ln the act recently passed for the regulation of the postage, there is a clause respecting " returned letters," for which those who have suffered from the annoyance of Mr. Joseph Ady will be thankful. It is , enacted that if an unpaid letter be refused by the party to whom it is addressed, the Postmaster General shall be entitled to recover the postage from the party sending the letter; and tnat the signature to it shall be considered sufficient evidence of the writer, unless the signature can be clearly proved to be a forgery: The effect of this clause will be to render Mr. Ady liable for the whole of his returned circulars • and, as he always sends them unpaid, the number refused by the parties to whom they are addressed must be considerable. Perhaps the ingenuity of the gentleman may assist him even yet in his attempt to furnish " valuable information ;" but paying the postage of his letters will certainly diminish his cor respondence. DARING FEAT. — The American frigate, Macedonia, formerly conquered from this country, and now sent over here with a gratuitous supply bf provisions, was waiting at the tail of the bank on Tuesday, when the queen arrived in the Clyde, Just when the queen's steamer was about to pass the Macedonia, and while cannons were roaring from the shoar in every direction, and the atmosphere re sounding with the huzzas of the multitudes, two seamen were observed to board the American fx )Qtly sitting ther, of the ite, the one royal, andthe Immed ilor was ( he too ran nimbly as one foot ! Lines round ;ely too' 1' his 11 at when he had nearly summit of the top-mast ; hed the top, he was, to app( fered down by officer; wlic conceive, counter- mug,. uut F YORK k cricket iesday, e most York- In the At the cot )re was ev iy on tl pp lauded the bowlers were , 11=11, A- Crosslimayaind. Ha )1y farther lipw f loch two alive for a day or two, b celled. )cv the after some ngton. The Wadsworth, hly ap- hich ap7 A corre- utiiat the sited last ou them P e : morn : gh 1 fettr; )n e feet rf it—is, to : te about th ROBOAM RLAND. CAIN. A veil ins , usual! 3. of Santa Maria , firew( ,ng of bell id the firing of Jath night. the theatre win has been of the t i earlier pen v C [able to paint a 1 Railway sta Jerson inqmr time the 7. rain would ) eight. "I art, was sharply a quart me," exclaimed ECTION BRIBERY 'ays changir r.—The firs. early as 1%! g the time on this lir t instance that occur 'ay 11, 1571, when practice was Longe (being a simple man, of small capacity to serve in parliament) acknowledges that he had given the returning officer, and others of the borough for which he was chosen, four pounds to be returned member, and was for that premium elected ; but for this offence the borough was amerced, the member was removed, and the officer was fined and imprisoned.—Com. Journal, 1571. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.—The Times, in commenting upon the able speech of Mr. John Stuart, the eminent Chancery barrrister and member for Newark, exposing the hurry, confusion, and contradictions in almost every Act of Parliament now passed by the Legislature, and calling aloud for the remedies he suggested, quotes as an example of pithy brevity in old days (before the march of intellect commenced) the following simple and beyond mistake intelligible Act, "Haredea marilentur absque disparagalione. ' (Stat. 9th Heu. 111. chap. 6). One of equal intelligence, and beyond all legal quibble, exists against the desecration of the Lord's day in the reign of an early Scottish James, "If one man fisheth on the Sabbath day he shall be whipped." NATURAL GAS JETS.—A correspondent informs us that in the village of Wigmore, in Herefordshire, there are fields which may be, and two houses which really are, lit up with a natural gas. The vapour, with which the subjacent strata seems to be charged, is obtained in the following manner A hole is made in the cellar of the house, or other locality, with an iron rod; a hollow tube is then placed therein, fitted with a burner, similar to those used for ordinary g as lights, and immediately on applying a flame to the jet a soft and brilliant light is ob tained, which may be kept burning at pleasure. The gas is very pure, quite free from any offensive smell, and does not stain the ceilings, as is generally the case with the. manufactured article. Besides lighting rooms, &c., it has been used for cooking ; and, indeed, seems capable of the.same applications as prepared carburretted hydrogen. There are several fields in which the phenomenon exists, and children are seen borilig holes, and setting the gas on fire for amusement. It is now about twelve months since the discovery, was made ; and a great number of the curious have visited, and still continue to visit, the spot. L'humbers'e Journal. OOK a r AC. JAC( A 11 TR'T discovE aair is to whi, panels, and read 'aloud, while all listen tention. With the Bible in one hand, in the,other to guard them, perse , net at strange hours in woods and glen: .ky and the bright stars of Heaven. uthor of " Cranrner's Life and Tir uently, when the services of the Sa these were generally prolonged un' ip collected to hear the Bible read covered with fresh grass, to listen to beautiful words, ' I am t he that believeth in me, thou ,nted by lartyrs 3f old time Leration, even in old age. Hymns are the first things we learn, and generally the last to be forgotten. They bring back memories of our innocent childhood, and we weep with Hood to find our selves further off from Heaven than we were then. They recal the death-beds of little children, or those of riper age, to whom those sweet hymns used to be as " songs in the night," and who are singing now in Heaven ! We have an old hymn-book which' we would not part with for its weight in gold ! so bright and golden are the recollec tions interwoven with its solemn and sacred melodies. Neither must we forget to mention, in connexion with this part of our subject, the Prayer-book, which we once thought it such an honour to be permitted to carry, and looked upon with a loving reverence that years have had no power to abate. But the bright binding and the gilded leaves have become tarnished and time-stained—ay, and tear-stained—since then. The sweet voice is hushed that mingled with ours in prayer and psalm. God forgive us if we sometimes forgot to pray in listening to its gentle responses ; for every Prayer-book has its associations. Leigh Hunt tells us, that his love of books is so great, that he has " a fond custom of writing upon one in preference to a desk, although he begs to say, for dignity's sake, he has a desk !" and observes, with great truth, that " it is not at all necessary to love many books in order to love them much. How natural it was," writes he, "inC. L. to give a kiss to an old folio, as I once saw him do to Chapman's Homer." Yes, it was very natural ! And we have done the same thing ourselves before now—only not to Chapman's Homer. Petrarch died with his head rest ing on a book ; and many have envied him a death so much in unison with his poetical and romance-loving life. For ourselves, dearly as we like books, and romance too, for the matter of that, there is but one on which we desire to lean in such an hour ; and, resting on its sweet pro mises of redeeming grace, so pass away in peace ! Book love is the spirit of hearth and homestead ! the great agent of civilisation and refinement. Its ministers are " a glo rious priesthood !"—its worshippers a countless multitude of all ages and countries. Here and there false teachers have risen up, and clouds of bewildering sophistry and error are ever darkening and sweeping over its clear he misphere; and it is for this reason that we would have all upon their guard lest they should be tempted to make shipwreck of this most sweet faith. " A blessing," writes Harriet Martineau, " upon all writers of voyages and tra vels !" A blessing, say we, upon Book-love, and Book lovers, and Book-writers, all over the world !—so that Vieir aim be the good, the beautiful, and the true ! Pranr's Magazine, Nazarites to her wn.q Dublin I in the mann( cording to 1 C them, 1 gro lurchyard s secured on the outsi iron hasp, fitting into a staple, closed on them. In fall the hasp, as it most unfortunately happened, fixed in the staple, and all the united strength of the poor captiv was insufficient to enable them to burst the bands of win a too truly, proved their tomb. On the•side on which t iyoungest boy was found the lid did not fit so close as t other parts and to the limited supply of air which h nct : been admitted through this crevice is to be attributed I the preservation. They had endeavoured to support ea orld. other's courage as well as they could in their dismal dun- au•Fwem . "el"'• sine. E XTRA ORDINARY SUICIDE.—On Wednesday afternoon geon : and before giving up hope, one of them broke the and blade of a penknife in the attempt to make an opening in much excitement prevailed in the quiet neighbourhood of time the side of the chest. After they had exhausted themselves Tottenham, in consequence of a gentleman, supposed to th an by unavailing shouts and cries, which were not heard on be a foreigner of distinction, having committed suicide. wit- earth, they all joined in prayer to the hearer and answerer The unfortunate man was observed by several labourers that of prayer. This is the last circumstance which the sur- running towards the river Lea. The men, suspecting his elves viving sufferer recollects, as he soon afterwards became • • insensible. To account for no noise being heard, or no pockets two intention, followed after, but the deceased, on reaching the edge of the river, instantly drew out of his pistols, and, firing one at his head, fell backwards into the one being within call, it may be mentioned that the wood river. The body was recovered shortly afterwards, but yard in which the stable is situated is locked up early on the Saturday afternoon, and is not again entered till Ar-- life was found to be quite extinct as has been already stated when the over him with watches anc considerable quantity were found in the d on Wed day mor ,ed in and a cuted erntral mein 1,1 nesday morning, that a lady of title, long notorious as a speculator, would prove a defaulter to some amount ; be fore,the close of business, however, the matter was said I to have been arranged. The gambling of married women The Times, the Economist, the Weekly Chronicle, Northern Star, the Lancet, and some other periodical are now represented in Parliament. At Worcester, on Tuesday, a young girl named Jar Steel was accidentally shot dead by her sweetheart, whi he was cleaning the touch-hole of a loaded gun with a ph aily, a rare iccurrence on ti it Stock Ex- )rOkers who lend Ives to the disrepu A Norwich auctioneer advertises the sale of twenty seven inns, public-houses, and beer-shops in one day, at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich. Connor, Miss Bonifase, of Shopwick, near Chichester, has insolent mbled on board the Victory at Portsmouth, to try John Agincourt, for having been Mr. Burnaby, midshipman of the extraordinary number of 106 ears or stem John Thompson, convicted at the Cumberland Assizes of the wilful murder of his wife by poison, was hanged at the City of Carlisle, on Saturday week. _ forecastle watch. The court found the prisoner guilty - , I.sentenced him to be hanged by the neck at the yard of one of her Majesty's ships. This sentence, which v.... v. vv.-. ./ • it was the strict duty of the court to pass on the prisoner, will not be carried into effect, but will be commuted to " such other punishment" (transportation for life, per- Rear-Admiral Phipps Hornby has been appointed to th command in the Pacific, to succeed Sir George Seymout and will hoist his flag in the Asia, 84 guns, at Sheerness. naps) as Her ....lv. , Y ..."Y P.a.v ~-, ~ ..v::. The organ factory of Mr. J. Walker, No. 2 7, Frances- THE LATE FATAL FIGHT BETWEEN Two BOYS.—The street, Tottenham court-road, London, was destroyed by inquest on the case of the lad recently killed in a fight at fire, the origin of which is unknown, on Monday morning London was resumed on Thursday, when the four men week. The total damage is estimated at nearly £20,000. who had aided and abetted were present. Evidence of The Yorkskireman, in a report of Ripon races, men- the particulars was heard, and the case was adjourned. tioned that in 1722, Mrs. Aislabir, of Studley, gave as a The inquiry was resumed on Friday. Mr. Blair, sur race prize, a teapot and canister, value £l2 ; and in 1724, geon, said he made a post mortem examination of the a piece of plate, value £l5, women to be riders. body of the deceased, and was of the opinion that the ex- A gold medal has been presented personally to Mr. citement produced by the fight, and the beer given to Waghorn by the present Pope, in recognition of his efforts him, had produced congestion of the brain, resulting in as a promoter of international intercourse. It is the first death. The jury unanimously returned a verdict of man medal ever presented by a Pope to a Protestant. slaughter against Robert Auty, the survivor in the fight, and against Joseph Johnson, Joseph Cater,,William New - of A public dinner will be given at Edinburgh, on the 14 th of September, to the Earl of Dalhousie, prior to his son, and William Aiger ; and the coroner issued his lordship's departure for India. The Duke of Buccleuch warrant for their committal to Newgate. will be in the chair. TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.—At a numerous and highly The sugar factory of Messrs. Craven and Lucas, of respectable meeting of the parishioners of East Stonehouse, Whitechapel, London, was partly destroyed by fire on near Plymouth, convened on Tuesday, Captain Toby, Wednesday last. The loss to the proprietors is very R-M., in the chair, for the purpose of giving expression great. to the general feeling of esteem and regard in which the A sculler's match for £lOO a side is to take place on Rev. T. L. Hill, M.A., late officiating minister of St. the Thames, on the 20th of September, between Robert George's Chapel, Stonehouse, is held by his congregation Coombes, the champion, and Robert Newell, who aspires and the inhabitants of the township, the following resolu that distinction. tion was proposed by Mr. A. Narracott, seconded by Mr. to At Nottingham, an old woman, named West, has been May, and carried unanimously :—" That the amount of committed for trial, for murder, in procuring abortion subscriptions (£5O) be presented to the Rev. T. L. Hill, by instruments, in a young woman, named Henson, who in a purse , accompanied wit h a testimonial on p archment, applied to her. with a list of the subscribers." To be presented in their A Durham paper mentions that on Tuesday week, a names by the chairman, treasurer, and secretary. The sermon was preached at Bishop Auckland, by a boy purse, which was very elegant, was worked and presented eleven years old, named Livingstone, who is said to have by Miss Boyle. expounded his text with much eloquence. THE BERKELEY QUARREL AGAIN.—Lord Fitzhardinge Pears are so plentiful this year that we on Monday last has addressed the Rims, in reply to its comments on his bought 44 (small ones, of course,, for a penny ! There conduct. He says—" I thoroughly feel the propriety of will be more perry and cider made th i s year than up to the sentiment you have expressed respecting the spectacle of fraternal strife. The painful exhibition was not corn the present period was supposed. Last year there was no fruit to be had.—Hereford Journal . menced by me, and has not been carried on by me , a nd A correspondent of the Times complains that, during these lines will close my part of the controversy—a con- Lieutenant Munro's trial, the gallery was farmed ! At troves into which I have been reluctantly led to protect the commencement of the trial ss. was the price for a myself." Mr. Grantley Berkeley has addressed the same seat; afterwards 2s. 6. The condemned cells and the paper in reply to the noble lord's former letter, and sub exhibition of their inmates are to be farmed next. mits the following reply, which he received to his attempts CONVERSION OF DIAMONDS INTO COKE. —At the at reconciliation :—" On reflection you must be aware meeting of the British Association, Dr. Farrady exhibited that so soon after a•defeat your proposal is premature : if some diamonds which he hadon, received from M. D um as, your desire is sincere all steps must come from Yon which had, by the action of intense beat, been converted From one who has seen, and has been consulted eIA Yaw , into coke. letter, and is a well wisher to both parties.!' it sun in the 'ection ay also 1847.—Madame,—The commis your letter requesting tl zed with other aftic !storation of som( for I ithout permit, I am directed express the regret of the board with your request; and they hal VY FAILURE your obedient s MORE 1-1 ,nnounced the stoppage of ,e cond firm of long standing - and h misplaced confidence in their foreign ( liabilities are stated at £145,000. The same paper of tl following day made public the failure of Messrs. Alexande Dickson, and Co., of Belturbet, near Belfast, distille and dealers in grain, and the liabilities are stated £200,000. Some houses in London and Liverpool a creditors to a large amount of the latter firm. On Satu day we had announced the failure of Messrs. W. and Woodley, of London, corn-brokers, for £90,000, but it understood that the assets will yield a considerable su plus. A few months back Mr. Woodley was about retire from bt with an chases having exceeded his i to find that the Liverpool h .s. Lvo being reported :—Mes and F. O'Neal and Co., and Mc all in the corn trad PAINFUL SCENE I Finney, Messrs. . W. Rowett and C On Tuesday last a somewhat inter esting scene occurred on the quay of the Humber-dock, in consequence of the arrival, from Quebec, of the chests, hammocks, and other personal effects, of the crew of that ill-fated vessel the Cove, of this port, which was wrecked letter the edi 1 immen It .....rr .n I.;gyp, nzes of Wednesd in and Co .espectabilitx, owing t Th The Hull Pt uses have again made their appearance Yorkshire ; two were found last we 4 Abbey Farm, and are now in the posses Luke Dennis.'—The Durham Chronic ture of a locust at Bishop Auckland as the r.fternoon of Saturday last, as the ostl Head Inn, Bishop Auckland, was sweep the inn, he found what he called a " grea he found to be a very fine locust, and is to this country in the egi 3RITANNIA BRIDGE The spe'cimencame to hand in having a - - - n inch and a very large length and :scribed as mentions —" The on the MeauX on of the Rev. the cap- On ler of the Queen's ding the front of in 'the pos- ) nave come (range chest, . . t was a straggler from the Lincoln the writer in the Durham Chronicle hen he was writing g description respondent of o raits, idge on the ,ee a wonder of the world of this kind ; first, there is the middle pier, rising out of the water founded on the Britannia Rock, after which the bridge is named. This rock can be seen at low water. The breadth of this pier is 62 feet by 5 3 feet and a quarter of an inch. The blocks of stone are 7 and 8 feet 1 - by 3 and 4 feet in }. •dth and -1 iong deepness , and they rise, stone upon stone, until the pier is 230 feet high. At the distance of 460 feet on each side of this centre pier there rise, near the water's edge, two other piers of the same gigantic breadth and height • while on side of these two piers, at the distance of 250 feet, ' -re rise two walls. Continuing outwards, the wall on scarcely be described, and even among several naruy burs, un. Light band, on the Carnarvon shore, does not extend who had braved many a storm, and had often witnessed its ponderous bulk far back, for the land is high and bold, the deaths of their comrades, its effect was very striking. and the railway comes along its elevated brow, and at once It will be remembered that this vessel proceeded, some lays hold of the bridge. But on our left hand, which is years ago, to Davis's Straits, commanded by Captain the Anglesea shore, the wall is the forehead and end of a Ross, with Mr. Humphrey as sailing master, in search of mighty embankment on which the railway is raised to the the missing whalers, and very early in the month of Oc- level of the bridge. There, then, are the four spaces be tober last she was wrecked upon Red Island. Eleven fore us, across which, in the iron tubes, the railway . is of the crew, eight men and three boys, took to the skiff, laid, namely, two spaces on each side of the centre pier lioping to reach the shore, but have never been heard of of 460 feet each (let the reader measure 460 feet on a strett since. The master, the cook, and the carpenter remained or on a road, and he will wonder at the vastness of this on board, and were saved. The ship with her stores were structure ;) and two more spaces of 250 feet respectively, condemned and sold upon Red Island, but the chests, at each end. The tubes are eight in number, each 01 hammocks, &c., of the crew were left at Quebec, but have them 30 feet on the exterior sid e , and 27 high in th e in now been brought over in the Indus, by Messrs. R. and terior. Each is 14 feet wide, and they are laid in couplet J. Gill, of this port, late owners of the Cove.—Hull parallel to each other. In the whole, with the breadth 0 ' Packet. the piers and the landward b u ildi ngs , th e l eng th o f the AN ILL-FATED FAMILY. — O n e of the m ost cool- bridge is one-third of a mile. In height the three pie° blooded murders ever perpetrated in this neighbourhood, are, as already said, 230 feet. Measuring from low water took lace on the morning of Sunday last , at Lan g shaw mark to the bottom of the tubes, the height is 130 fee t ' Farm in Heaton ; Betty Pilkington, an aged and respect- the tubes being 30 fe e t o n the side, and the pier 70 fee able female having been killed by her husband, Robert above the upper surface. As ornaments to the two wall! Pilking ton, an old man 56 years of age,. with a bar of iron which rise upon each shore, are four lions, two at each eod or poker, the particulars of which we give elsewhere. The of the bridge. The lions contain about 8,000 cubic fee' history of his family is a most melancholy one, and causes of stone. They lie couched, and yet the height of each amongst such of the inhabitants as are acquainted with it, is 12 feet, the greatest breadth across the body is 9 feet? horrifying thoughts. Piikington's father, in the middle the length 25 feet, the breadth of each paw 2 feet 4 incbe°' wa s hung for stabbing a fellow -creature ; Th e t u b es a r e made of plates of iron of various thickness eS ; after that melancholy event, which ought to riveted together. The iron increases in thickness as t i as h tn a ad v g eenaooctf long d fe is a warning to the remaining branche s o f th e procee d t owar d s th e cen t r e. The roofs of the tubes sv", family, his son—brother to the present monster in human formed of cells, and also the floors. These cells 1,„ shape—was transported for causing a man's death by formed of iron plates set on edge, the cells of the ruve, kicking ; and, to add to the catalogue, Orrell, who was being within a fraction of one foot nine inches square, Oa hung for poisoning his children some years ago, was cousin those of the floor being one foot nine inches wide, 61) ,,i to him. About three or four months ago, we had to two feet three inches deep. The rails on which the tral: record a lamentable event which occurred at Dockcocker, run are laid on these cells of the floor. The flat botto m public house, on the boundary of Halliwell and Heaton, the two upright sides, and the flat roof of each tube in which a man named Kershaw had been struck on the formed of plates, the thinnest of which is a quarter off,Z, head with a fire poker, by John Pilkington, son of the inch, and the thickest three quarters of an inch. owe present homicide, and which had well nigh terminated weight of each of the four long tubes will be about 19'; 1 0 his existence. Kershaw, however, (although at times tons; the weight of each of the four short ones labouring under an aberration of intellect) recovered, but 600 tons. In the whole there will be at least 7,6uu 'J. John Pilkington was committed for trial at the assizes, of iron used. The masonry was contracted for bY to and was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for the Nowell and Co., at £1 30 ,000 but from alterations in tb• offence. He had been ou t u p on b a il previous to trial, plans it will cost and on his departu re l e ft hi s mo th er i n c harge of the masonry by August, 1848, It will contain 1,300, 00 " , farm, which was the scene of the present murder.. feet Of Owe* £200,000. They expect to finish to in October last, with most of her crew. The scene was unusually painful, from the circumstance that no less than seven poor widows, all relatives of the deceased, were assembled to identify the very articles which they them selves had made up for the comfort of their partners in life ; and on the spot, too, where, only twelve months ago, they took their last farewell. Such a scene_ as this can * the time N timed in a boat in the nth] Lundred var distant from the new t and suppose it finished, we which iss pr th an I it is