The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-21 00:00:00

t Ira tur POETRY, THE CATARACT, BY THE REVEREND DR. ASPINAL I joy to hear the Cataract's sound ! Unsubjected by man's controul It's wales gigantic, as they bound, Fall grateful on my soul; And it's vast water-floods to me Bring ecl:oings from eternity! This is no garish summer day, No blade of verdure lifts it's head, The winter winds are out at play, As comes the Cataract's vt Like clarion blast of libertl I like this gl Ls cold bleak sod! s my mind, with God his ear ,es of our though we are no for Strand Some love the brooklet smooth as glass, And tome to hear the lisping rill Glide inurm'ring through the velvet grass With tongue subdued and still ; But the hoarse Cataract's roar for me I feel a Irous tc t, never still, For ages here thou'st held thy home Thy friend, each everla,ting hill, '1 by witness, Heav'ns great dome ; thou yet shalt flow, ns myriad lamps Shall glow, And the y brcad deep falls to me )f futurity grand cascade! I would that all NOTICES. Edinburgh Magazine If-century as full of vigour as in lthough we miss many of the • )ugh the Shepherd's voice is ger borne into dreamland, or , " Cloudlan, b eous by the rich fancy of the poet, who erst sung how " Bonnie Kilmenny gaed up the glen ;', and Christopher North, like his favourite, Homer, some times sleeps ; we have a mine of profound polotico-econo :^al knowledge in Mr. Alison ; Dr. Moir indulges us with sweet gushes of song ; and Bulwer dis courses pniiosophy, romance. and classical lore delight fully mingled. Young intellects too have sprung up, and in the pages of Maga are laying the foundations of a future world-wide reputation. We have said that we miss old friends ; we miss the poetic fancy, the racy wit, and the rollicking fun of the olden time ; but we hear in mind that we live in a utilitarian age—an age of iron—in which cotton bobbins and yarns, plain calicoes printed and dyed, exchanges and balances of trade, have driven the muses and the graces to dwell unseen in their native woods, far from the haunts of a generation which has sunk down to worship mammon as occasio " The God of its idolatry." Blackwood's present purpose is, eminently, usefulness. He has devoted himself to the patriotic task of unmasking the selfishness and folly which have dictated the recent policy of Great Britain's legislature ; and well he performs that task. During the past twelve months acme of the -isures of the injurious workings of our stem emanated from the pages of old ebony, sent month gives promise of further onslaughts The article with which the number The currency extension act of nature," displays a well-matured knowledge of monetary science, and a correct foreshadowing of the effect likely to be pro duced upon our social and industrial condition by the recent discoveries and the important events which are taking place upon the shores of the Pacific. Another most valuable political article is the concluding one, " British labour and foreign reciprocity," to which we referred at length in a leading article last week. It is closely reasoned, and contains a mass of correct statis '^al facts—their correctness being a singularity—which most crushing cap free trade s the enea .rty a fey nuts to crack" in The purely lite is very good, especially the ytton's " My Novel," and John Simpkin, West afford to the fre the at Iroaching session of parliament rtion of t' continuation of liulwer " Hungarian Militar aser's Magazine Londor Sketches. Fraser opens the pr nt number very appropriately with a review of the chief events which have marked the history of the half century just completed, and especially of the industrial and commercial progress which has been The subject is a most interesting one ; and lusions of the writer that the period from 1800 to pregnant both with social change and national growth than any past period of similar duration, -e, we think, fully borne out. Whether, however, the has been altogether for good may be reasonably .ive elsewhere an extract from this value *-ctructive paper is given upon the actuevet the cow 1850 was mor it commerce with Africa, in which it is shown ,ties of that great continent, both for pro suming are very little developed. The i fill up the number arc e than average merit. vv. A very that the We get ,ndel ; or The Railroad of Life. By Frank rse of this number, to have a notion ch our lively author is veral of his characters are depicted le, in every respect worthy of his 1. What can be better, for eagniple, llogue, between one of his charac- e kind of company into t to lead u most Ilve dAN OF MODERN TIMES HAS BEEN THE GREATEST BENEFACTOR TO HIS RACE? I doubt It opened a mine of very turned Miss Livingstone; ter, gravely," there was of James Watt had rather a x-railway director was pre on the Do•em-and-Foot-in-it Line. John was proposed; but some solminodeiately when ghty, not quite hiss Livingstone, atter deeply," continued Lei vorthy against whom no valid Eminent, I thought of I to men of modern times," inter im," returned Leicester, "was he City Dian, that t light paletot of free-born verty in priest hea it's superior vest' for the bouts, to the lady to wh9n, irt of instinctive apprehem sense, and accordingly d r resemblance to Ni Tv satisfactory likene I by this transforthation, Le Ito a ver ately sent for a doze 'eds on the sound .he visit concluded NEW MUSIC, t of tt t gracefull endered ords by Hime. Ir. 1-iime ichard Lin d Co. I discarded Moses & Son ngstone, entirely mystified rrator's unusual energy. that remarkable man, whos4 Is of my Buhver Lytton, Bart. The ipps. London : D'Almaine omposer Des credit both to London D'Almai .e all the works of this cora- Rautifully got up. By "T. H. Montgomery D'Almaine and Co. mber to have met before vu 3 any of Etre very ple ordinary players By J. 1 d Stoneman. s very brilliant and novel es is well carried out. It lon : Rust and Sta 1, 320, A most acceptable Christmas present, containing six beautiful songs, suitable for the Christmas fireside, from the pens of R. Anderson Rust, Alexander Lee, Guylott, Eugene Rolt, G. A. Macfarren, and Brinley Richards. Different in style as these pleasing songs are, we cannot give the pteference to any. Dedicated to Mr Anderson Rust. The Strathmore Quadrille _ Mrs. Charles Kean. By R don : Rust and Stahl. This excellent set of Quadrilles are marked by the best of the characteristics of the school from which they emanate, and which has produced some of our admired Polka and Quadrille music. The Court Waltzes. Dedicated to Mrs. Henry Baring, by R. Anderson Rust. London : Rust and Stahl. This is a peculiarly graceful composition. Catalan Polka. By R. Anderson Rust. London : Rust and Stahl Is in a very pretty, and indeed brilliant, style. The passages marked for the cornet solo are particularly effective. VARIETIES. MAY CATS.—In Wilts, and also in Devon, it is be lieved that cats born in the month of May will catch no mice nor rats, but will, contrary to the wont of all other cats, bring in snakes and slow-worms. Such cats are called " May cats," and are held in contempt.—Noles and Queries. TRUE BLUE.—From documents relative to the wars of the Scottish Covenanters, in the seventeenth century, it appears that they assumed blue ribbons as their colours, and wore them as scarfs, or in bunches fastened to their blue bonnets, and that the border English nicknamed them " blue caps" and " jockies." Hence the phrase, " True blue Presbyterian."—Notes and Queries. PLAGUE OF FLIES IN SOUTH AFRICA.—It being now summer, flies prevailed in fearful swarms in the abodes of the Boers, attracted thither by the smell of meat and milk. On entering Stinkurn's house, I found the walls of his large sitting-room actually black with these dis gusting insects. They are a cruel plague to the settlers in Southern Africa, and it often requires considerable ingenuity to eat one's dinner, or drink a cup of coffee, without consuming a number of them. When food is served up, two or three Hottentots, or Bush-girls are always in attendance, with fans made of ostrich-feathers, which they keep continually waving over the food until the repast is finished.- 7 A Hunter's Life in South Africa. A SPECIMEN OF STYLE.—The Durham Advertiser thus grandiloquently preached to its readers at the close of the year : " Ere another number shall reach the hands of our readers, another year will have gone away from the past into the present. Old Father Time, with one foot upon the apex of this terraqueous ball, and the other upon the borders of Lethe, will have struck ano ther blow upon the bell whose pealings echo the knell of years in the great abyss of eternity. Another wrinkle will have been added to the plastic brow of old Mother Earth, another link welded to the chain of annual cir cumstances, whose first ring was forged when chaos died, and long before Tubal Cain essayed his cunning skill." THE OLD JESUIT MISSIONARIES IN INDIA.—They assumed the character of Brahmans of a superior caste from the Western World ; they took the Hindoo names, and conformed to the heathen customs of this haughty and exclusive race, producing, in support of their preten sicns, a deed forged in ancient characters, to show that the Brahmans of Rome were of much older date than the Rrahmans of India, and descended in an equally direct line from Brahma himself. They composed a pretended Veda, in which they sought to insinuate the doctrines of Christianity in the language and phraseology of the sacred books of the Hindoos. They wore the cavy, or orange robe peculiar to the Saniassees, the fourth, and one of the most venerated, sections of the Brahmanical caste. They hung a tiger's skin from their shoulders, in imita tion of Shiva; they abstained from animal food, from wine, and certain prohibited vegetables ; they performed the ablutions required by the Shasters • they carried o n their foreheads the sacred spot of sandal-wood powder. which is the distinctive emblem of the Hindoos; and in order to sustain their assumed character to the utmost, they affected to spurn the Pariahs and lower castes who lay no claim to the same divine origin with the Brahmans. In carrying out this system, the Jesuits not only con tended that they were justified in the employment of such means by the sanctity of the object they were to accomplish, but they derived encouragement and facility from the many points of resemblance presented by the religion of their own church, as compared with the prac tices of the idolatry which they came to overthrow. " If," says the Abbe Dubois, himself a Roman catholic missionary in India, "any one of the several modes of Christian worship be calculated more than another to make an impression and gain ground in India, it is no doubt the catholic form, which protestants consider idolatry." its external pomp and show are well suited to the genius and disposition of the natives. It has a poojah, or sacrifice, processions, images, and statues; tirtan, or holy water ; feasts, fasts, and prayers for the dead ; invocation of saints and other practices which bear more or less resemblance to that of the Hindoos. Of these facilities and coincidences the Jesuits availed themselves to the utmost ; they conducted the images of the virgin, and the Saviour on triumphal cars, imitated from ,the orgies of Jaggernauth ; they introduced the dancers of the Brahmanical rites into the ceremonial of the church ; and, in fine, by a system of mingled decep tion and conformity, and a lire of indescribable privation, they succeeded in superseding the authority and the in fluence of the Franciscans throughout Southern India, and in enlisting multitudes of nominal converts to the church.—Tennent's Christianity in Ceylon. SHORT HORN CATTLE.—The North Riding is bounded on the south by the East and West Ridings, on the north by the River Tees, which separates it from Durham, and is traversed by the York and Newcastle Railway from York to the borders of the county near Darlington. The central and northern portions of the riding, situated along the valleys of the rivers, contain the greatest extent of valuable land. To the eastward lie the Yorkshire moors, comprehending an extent of 400,000 acres, and rising from 1,000 to 1,500 feet above the sea level. On the west the country rises to the highlands on the borders of Westmorlacd, with rich valleys of pasture land skirting the streams which drain that limestone country and flow through the picturesque dales of the North Riding. Much of the best land in the lower portion of the district of I•T;rthallerton, Catterick, and along the southern bank of the Tees, are found the most celebrated herds of short horn cattle which now exist in England. The opposite bank of the Tees, which gave the name to the breed of- Durham cattle, has lost its principal men, the Collings, and the best herds may now be said to be confined to the south side of Teesdale. There are still to be found men who have been bred from their childhood to study the peculiarities of form and symmetry which, combined with early maturity and great weight, have given the improved . _ often the first to see their stock in the morning, and the last to visit them at night, making the health of each development of such points as they think requisite,.'while everything else on the farm is made subordinate to the stock—these men have acquired a fame which is the re sult of such early application, and cannot long be main tained without it. They succeed ; and to all parts of the United Kingdom is diffused from the hands of not half ars7an man in the North Riding , the hlnnd which has the nati inues to improve every district into which it is introduced Two, three, or four hundred pounds for a bull is no uncommon price,. and a cow of rare form end breeding has been bought by a farmer for 300 guineas. Ireland and Lincolnshire bor row for a season the best animals which leave the district, and the Messrs. Booth have at this moment bulls which bring them in £lOO a year each, and are let to the same at that rate for a succession of years. But these :lost successful, for many, tempted by thes ine tl 3 ilar rates, try the syitem with - e'ut coUnt- le cost of patient study, constant application, and liberal outlay, by which such success has been achieved. It is not merely the first outlay, however lavish, that will place the beginner in the rank of a first-class breeder of short horns, He must be prepared to sacrifice every other consideration on his farm to their welfare, and after he has collected his herd, and fed and watched them with the unmost care, he must stand the risk and uncer tainty attending their management. If too fat, they cease to breed, or they produce dead calves ; if toe they lose caste, and their produce sells at secon, prices. One of the most experienced men in the district nent breeder a I having calves risks attending this usiness that it is every self into fewer hands.—Report on the of Yorkshire, by the Times CoMmissioner NAPOLEON The following le 111511 FILUCL4 it and so great are -the year narrow- Agriculture AND THE POPE ter from Napoleon to his step-son it does, upon the great question continues 0 pecuy or some tim MY SON,-1 have seen in the letter which his Holiness has dressed to you, but which, undoubtedly, he did not write—l re seen Hilt he threatens me. Can he believe then, that the ill publish, th he eyes of say, all the injuries I nave done to They do not know there is not a lermany, in Italy, in Poland, where I for religion than the Pope has done evil intent►ons, but through the angry I years in the date If this were so, I would stendor. ese subterranean meetings Italy, and which had been What would Pius Place my rone and Does he think at then the arms would fall from the hands of my soldiers? les he imagine that he would put a dagger into the hands of There w The Pop has too will not the Pope rend( 's? Is be more than J sed a holy pre the legations to him. I power. Priests are not o Caesar the things which s Christ upon earth? Per- aps, if he continue to trouble the affairs of my states. the me is not far distant when I shall recognise him only as lishop of Rome, as equal and of the same rank as the bishops fmy own states. I have no fear of being able to unite the ;allician, Italian, German, and Popish Churches in a council o transact my business without the Pope. "In fact, what can save in one country can save in another. 'he rights of the tiara are., at bottom, but duties, humiliation, nd prayer. I hold my crown from God and from my people, nd am responsible Only to God and my people. 1 will always •e Charlemagne to the Court of Rome, but never Louis le De. oonnaire. " Jesus Christ has not instituted a pilgrimage to Rome as Mahomet to Mecca. " Such are my sentiments, my son. I have thought it of importance that you should know them. I authorise only a single letter from you to his Holiness, to apprise him that I cannot consent that the Italian bishops should go to seek their institution at Rome. " NAPOLEON. " Dresden, July 28." THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. William Whitehead, Esq., of York, returned 40 per cenb to his tenantry, at. his rent audit, held at Beverley, on the 31st ult. Mr. Mitchell, an Edinburgh engraver, intends sending to the Exhibition a piece of gold so small that an ordinary pin's head will cover it ; yet it contains the whole of the Lord's Prayer. On Wednesday, whilst the miners were in full work at the Bwleh Consols Lead Mine, situated in the mountain near Aberystwith, a portion of the ground gave way, and buried two miners, married men, under the falling mass. SMOKE EFFECTUALLY CONSUMED.—A steam-boat, 011 Monday, was propelled up and down the Thames, no smoke escaping from the furnace, there being, in fact, no funnel. Windermere Lake on New Year's Day, during the night and following morning, rose one yard in height, owing to heavy rains. It is computed that 3,127,338,858 gallons of water fell in six hours. IMPUDENT THEFT.—Stephen Allan, a notorious delin quent, last week broke into the House of Correction at Spilsby, and robbed the turnkey of £l2 ! He was after wards taken and committed to prison. The corn markets have been very sluggish this week throughout the country. The average price of wheat for the week ending the 11th instant is only 38s. per quarter, with importations pouring in from all parts of the world. The arrangements for the erection of the marble arch at the Cumberland-gate entrance to Hyde-park will it appears be carried into effect with an extraordinary de gree of despatch. In a garden well stocked with fruit trees, at Yaffortb, near Northallerton, there is at present two throstle nests, in one of which is four eggs, and in the other one three eggs. There are also fruit trees irr bud. - in a coal-pit at Llanelly, as four men were ascending in the basket, it from some cause tilted over and preeipi tated them to the bottom. Three were killed on the spot, and the recovery of the fourth is doubtful. An explosion of fire damp occurred at Cwmbach, on Thursday last, in a level belonging to the Yniscedwyn• Iran Works, when four persons were seve.sely burnt. One of the sufferers died shortly after. • The extensive printing and publishing establishment of Mr. Nelson, at Gifford-park, has suffered considerably by Are. The loss is estimated at £2,000, which is fully covered by insurance in the Norwich Union. The Staffordshire potteries are overdone with orders, and a considerable advance has taken place in the prices. The foreign orders are more extensive than they have been for some years, and the general business is excellent. _ _ It is stated• that an order has been sent to the litristol parochial authorities, from the Secretary of State, for the erection of a lunatic asylum, the estimated cost of which is £50,000. A well-attfired man entered a spirit shop, in Edinburgh; a few days glice,•and after calling for a dram of spirits, deliberately swallowed flee mould and four dip candles, all of which, eneept the wicks,-he ate with apparent relish, consuming with them a pennyworth of bread. The widow of Lieutenant Wagborn has been addition ally pensioned by the liberality of Si r Jamsetjee Jujub hop, the wealthy native merchant of Bombay. The well known Parsee Knight has bestowed £2O per annum on Lieutenant Waghorn's relict. The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng land has decreased from £1 , 1,839;118' to £14,641,849, being a difference of 188269. The paper in actual circu lation had increased' from £20,286;251 to £21,125,108, being a difference of M38;857: On Saturday week, at Grays Thurrcek, a boat contain ing nine persons—viz., two watermen, two women, and five children, was being rowed over the river Thames. A coal brig going down the river unfortunately ran them down, and the whole party met a watery grave. It hap pened in consequence of a fog. Sir J. E. Eardley Wilmot, after struggling during the last three years against serious difficulties-arising from the pecuniary embarassments in which the Bbrkswell estate 'descended to him, has been- obliged to announce to his friends that he is making arrangements- for the total alienation of his property. The Friendship - Fire Company, of 'Baltimore, are going to send their splendid new engine to 'the worl'd's exhibi tion. Daniel Spuer, Esq., the president, is- going out with it at his own expense. 1i is stated'te be a machine of exquisite workmanshind will no doubt bear away the bell at the exhibitio n the American. fire engines are the finest in the worl. The Lancet of Saturday contained a useful paper on the adulteration of coffee. A. microscopic examination of 34 different qualities sold in.LOndon showed that with three exceptions the whole were adulterated. Chicory was-present in 31 instances, with the frequent'addition of roasted corn, beans, or potatoes, and in some cases the quantity of coffee was not more than a fifth of'tbe whole arti ale. Ile Durham tenants of the Duke of Cleveland• have no leases, but the holdings are hereditary, the same fami lies in direct descent occupying the same farms- for cen turies. His Grace's estates were valued fifty years ago, and the rent has never since undergone any change.. One of the bestfarmers on the estate has in his possession a lease of the land he now occupies, granted to one of his , ances tors in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. A boy, named Roberts, the son , of a tradesman living at Snareston, Leicestershire, went into his father'S- shop, on the 3d instant, took up a loaded gun, and said to his brother, a boy about five years old, " I will shovr--rou how to shoot dickey birds." The gun went off,' and the charge of shot dreadfully lacerated the younger boy,'S face and head ; but surgical assistance was immediately ob tained', and the child is now recovering. The•CHRYSTAL PALACE.—Mr. M. D. Wyatt, in an official report, says, that the width of the main avenue was within ten feet double that of the nave of Stl Paul's Cathedral, whilst its length was more than four times as great. The walls of St. Paul's were fourteen feet thick, those of the great building in Hyde Park were only eight inches'. St. Paul's occupied thirty-five years in building, whilst the Hyde-park building would be finished in less than halt that number of weeks. A _DARING Doc.—On Thursday last, in the afternoon, a large dog, not acquainted with the appearance of the railway trains that now pass through our links, had the daring audacity not only to barkr•but even to spring over the paling and attack the iron horse. After doing so only one beer-wow was heard, and when the guard looked down, the poor dog was literally divided in two, a half of him being on each side of the rail, in two pools of blood. —Montrose Standard. SHIPWRECK AND Loss OF LIFE.—The schooner En terprise, on her voyage from IMapooi and Stornaway, has been wrecked on a rock off the latter place. Mr. .Tohn Corbett, of Stornaway, was the only passenger. The captain and the crew took t&.the boats and were saved, leaving the unfortunate passenger to be drowned' in the cabin•. They state that they gave him notice of the danger, but that he laughed at it, thinking• they were "making fun of him." FERE 'AND Loss OF LIFE IN LONDON. night last, a fire broke out at the Coach and Horses public-house, St. Martin's-lane, which is kept by Ben• jamin Caunt, the notorious pugilist. Cana was, not at home. The alarm was not 'given till the usual way of escape was cut off by the flames ; some of the inmates and family escaped through the windows and over the roof; but two of Caunt'i children, aged nine and six s, besides his wife's cousin, a young womswof eighteen, perished, being suffocated: by the smoke. On Tuesday -Thomas CHARGE OF MURDER * BY A HUSBANL Johnson, an elderly man, by trade a shoemaker,, residing in Graham-street, Islington, London, is in custody, charged with the wilful murder of his wife. She was found lying dead on the floor in a pool of blood; the surgeon who examined her being of opinion that blows from the fist caused the wounds-on her person, and kicks from the boots. Blood was foand on the hands of the prisoner, and on his boots ; and , it appeared he had been imprisoned for ill-using her. The deceased was 6lyears of age. COLLIERY ExPLorpacoN.—On Tuesday last an explosion occurred in the Black Boy Colliery, about two miles from Bishop Auckland, which unfortunately resulted in the loss of two lives. About two o'clock, in the morning some of the men had proceeded to work, when the over man and a boy entered a drift recently. opened; they had proceeded upwards of a mile with naked candles, when it is supposed that they had come in contact with a " blower," or pent-up quantity of gas, which instantly exploded, and both were instantly killed by the blast. PIRACY IN, THR DowNs.—A - few, days since the crew of a Swedish brig lying in the Downs, , consisting of eight men, having secured the captain and mate in the cabin, proceeded to rifle the vessel of every,axticle of value ; and. among Other property of a portableAlescription, carried off the captain's watch. Having taken to the boat, they de serted her. on landing near the second battery, where the boat wasfound and secured by the coast-guard on duty. No trace of the delinquents has, yet been discovered. — Dover Telegraph. SIR JoR NBARROW'S MONUMENT.—The Ulverstone Adver.lister of the 9th inst. says :--" Whilst we are at press,, we are glad to hear a ,reerry peal from our old church bells, announcing that. the last stone of Sir John Barrow's Monumental Tower has been successfully raised —may it remain there to his honour for ages to come.. By, the kindness of Mr. Barrow, of the Admiralty, the workmen are being regale 4 within it ; flags are flying there, on the church steeple,, on the shipping, and, appro priately, one over the cottage in which Sir John was We learn from the Christian, Timei that " the inner, the outer, and the outermost circles of voluntarism" - have recently combined to present Dr. Pye Smith with,a testi monial for his long and brilliant services for fifty years as the president of one of their colleges. It consists of the sum of £2OOO, invested in trustees, the interest of which is to be applied to his use during the remainder of his life, and afterwards to provide divinity scholarships, bearing his name, in connection with the new college, London. The venerable Doctor was so overcome that he was obliged to get his son to respond for him. THE ALLI.GED " CALUMNY INTRItatiE IN HIGH LIFE."— A letter, signed William Doria, and dated from the Brunswick Hotel, has been published in the London papers, and contains the following paragraph :—" I have reason to believe that I am the person erroneously designa ' ted as the Attache of a distinguished foreign embassy in London. As far as lam concerned I beg to state that those paragraphs contain a series of gross misrepresenta tions, and that there is not one particle of truth in the statements, that I insulted the noble lady, that I was knocked down or kicked from the house, or that I ever refused to fight." ADULTERATION OF PEITER.—At the Court of Inland Revenue, on Wi enesd ay, Thomas Christie, the pro prietor of tea and grocery establishments in Bishopgate street, the Commercial-road East, and Whitechapel, Lon don, was charged, on three informations, with adulterating pepper with rice and other articles, by which he had in curred, for cry such offence, a penalty of £lOO. The information contained three other counts, charging him with having such adulterated pepper in his possession, by which he had incurred a further penalty of £3OO. It was proved that the proportion of rice was about one-third. The defendant was fined in the full penalty, on three counts of the information. of £3OO. Two at m. dealers vex° Ailed in £lOO each fora similar offence, THE LATE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE The Duke of Newcastle expired at Clumber-park, on the afternoon of Sunday week, in the presence of almost all the members of his immediate family. He was born on the 30th January, 1785. The third Duke. his father, married a daughter of the second Earl of Harrington, and died, at the age of 43, on the 17th 'of May, 1795 ; so that the noble personage just dead succeeded as fourth Duke NI hen he was only in the 11th year of his age. He re ceived his education at Eton, where he continued till very near the period when, according to the regulations of that school, he must have been superannuated. His mother, the Dowager Duchess, who had remained a widow five years, married in 1800 Sir Charles Crauford. In 1803 the young Duke quitted Eton, and joining his mother and stepfather, in taking advantage of the brief peace of Amiens, ventured upon a continental tour; but was un fortunately, on the renawal of hostilities, among the num ber of the English who were detained in France. There he passed four years of the most susceptible period of his life in a state of comparative inaction. On his return to England, in 1807, he had reached the 22d year of his age, when it was considered too late for him to go to Oxford, he being then a member of the Up per House of Parliament, the master of considerable es tates, and about to become a married man. Although he never received a shilling of pubiic money except the tri fling and occasional pay of a yeomanry commander ; al though he never held an office the possession of which in volved any invidious duties ; although he was a man, whose personal honour no one ever questioned, and whose personal courtesy bore a due proportion to his exalted rank, and one who in public or private never swerved from that which he believed to be just and honourable; yet scarcely any person of late years has been so vilified as the Duke of Newcastle. Forty years ago the head of the long-ennobled house of Pelham-Clinton, eleventh in succession from the firstEart of Lincoln, and fourth from the first Duke of INewcastle, was regarded as a youth of great promise, and known to be a person of great possessions. He entered on life with many personal advantages, with a fortune originally con siderable, and much improved by the accumulations of a ten years' minority; but besides these aids and appliances he bad the prestige of an ancient descent ; he possessed the highest rank in the peerage, and the political weight, which arose from the command of six seats in the House of Commons—namely, two for Boroughbridge, two for Aldborough, one for East Rettord,,and one for Newark. But his wealth and influence had been still further aug mented by a matrimonial alliance with one of the greatest heiresses then in England, whose landed estates even at that time produced £12.000 a-year, and who possessed a further fortune of £190,000. That lady, who bad only just completed her 18th year, was the daughter of the late Edward Miller Mundy, of Shipley,. in Derbyshire. Their marriage took place on the 18th of June. 1807, at Lambeth-palace, and was solemnised by. the Arch bishop of Canterbury. At the end of about 15 years this union was terminated by the death of the Duchess of Newcastle, but at its commencement it presented every prospect of being as long as it was happy ; and•in all re spects few men have begun the world with fairer pros pects and possessions than Henry Pelham Duke of New castle—young. manly, full of health and vigour, suitably wedded, and amply endowed, rich in political power, ancestral honours, and social rank ; still, as he advanced in life, the world did not smile on him. The Reform Act stripped his Grace of borough property, the money , value of which could not,. at one time, have been set down at less than £150,000. He, himself, estimated it at£2oo,ooo, Nothing can be more certain than that his ancestors and he expended large sums.in maintaining their parliamen tary interests—a mode of applying capital which, com bined with some not very fortunate purchases of land,. placed the Duke, at an advanced period of his life, in circumstances by no means easy as regarded his pecuniary affairs ; which fact his Grace did not hesitate publicly to acknowledge, as he might well do without any injury to his private character ;. for it is very generally understood that, whatever inconvenience he may have suffered in matters of finance, it had not been occasioned by profu sion or ostentation, but was, on the contrary, to be im puted to purchases of land far exceeaing in value the amount of capital that he could really command. His acquisition of Worksop Manor, when combined with his other possessions in Nottinghamshire, gave him the ownership of that which he was accustomed, and in some degree entitled, to call " the finest estate in England ;" but, though fairly sold and bought, the effort was one to which his resources were unequal. The purchase of the Hafod estate in Wales was, hewever, not so ill judged, though that event ultimately occasioned the Duke of Newcastle more trouble and anxiety than any pecuniary inconvenience which he ever underwent, for charges con nected with that property were brought in the House of Commons against him and the present Duke which deeply wounded the feelings of the deceased peer. It so hap pened that adjoining the Hafod estate there were 7,000 or 8,000 acres of waste land in which the Crown was some what interested. The former proprietor, from whose de visees the Duke made this purchase, had agreed with the Commissioners of Woods and Forests for the transfer of those rights, supposed to be about one. twentieth of the whole. The Duke accepted the estate from the vendors subject to this agreement. Now, it unfortunately occurred that the annual returns delivered to Parliament by the office of Woods and Forests made it appear that the Duke had purchased from the Crown—his eldest son acting on behalf of the Crown—a tract of 7,000 or 8,000 acres of land for a sum not much exceeding £l,OOO. In this transaction certain Lberal members of the Lower House thought they had discovered an amazing job per petrated between father and son—Lord Lincoln, the pre sent Duke, being at that time the Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests; but the valuation had been made in the time of the previous proprietor, long before the Duke of Newcastle had any connexion with the estate. Of the whole only a very small portion belonged to the Crown, and even that was contingent upon those waste lands be ing.inclosed, so that the valuation could not be impeached, and Lord Lincoln by a very simple statement of facts was enabled to give his accusers a triumphant answer. But this did not satisfy the Duke, who published a letter in which he stated, doubtless with perfect truth, that he was reluctantly drawn into this transaction with the Crown by the conditions on which he had purchased the estate, ana that Lord Lincoln made him pay interest for 6 years On the purchase money. Besides such causes of vexation, he experienced heavy domestic afflictions in the loss of some of his children, at an age when it could scarcely be said that the days of her youth had passed away. In September, 1822, the late Duchess of Newcas tle gave birth to twins. and on the 27th of that month her 1. Grace ex _ ired at Clumber-park, Nottinghamshire, the chief country residence of the family, being then only 33 years of age, having been born on the Ist of June, 1789. The deceased peer did not form a second matrimonial alliance, nor does fortune seem to have alleviated his do mestic losses by any great success as a legislator or a po litician. Upon himself even the Ministry which he sup ported could not well confer any office of much responsi bility, for though his integrity could never be suspected his discretion was by no means remarkable. He obtained from George 111. the rangership of Sherwood Forest, a situation of no pecuniary emolument; and on the death of the late Duke of Portland in 1809 he was appointed Lord-Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of Nottingham shire—an office that so far from being one of emolument is a source of expense to almost every holder. In this high posit'on he served under four monarchs, throughout a very eventful period, extending over 30 years. As lord-. lieutenant of Nottinghamshire, he refused to insert the name of a gentleman in the commission of the peace, on account of his not being a member of the Established: Church. Lord Cottenham, then Lord Chancellor, re monstrated with the Duke on this refusal, urging the obvious grounds why the nomination of the Government should be complied with. But the Duke replied by a stern refusal, and a warm avowal of his reasons ; and the result was his removal from the lord-lieutenancy. in which post he was succeeded by the Earl of Scarborough. The sole honour obtained from the Crown, of which, he was deprived only by death, was the Order of the. Garter, a distinction that he did not solicit, but which the Sove -12 commanded him to accept; for reign in the year itics were so entirely in the right as those of the Duke of Newcastle. In the days, however, when reform in Parliament was brought about,. it was evident that there existed a wide gulf between him and what might be called the spirit of the age. When the riots, to which the agitation of that great gpestion gave rise, attained their most dangerous elevation, the Royal castle of Nottingham was in a few hours- reduced to ashes. On Monday, the 10th of October,. 1831, at six o'clock in the evening, a furious mob demanded admission at the gate of the castle, which, having been refused,they Lien no man's the property of the Duke of Newcastle, the wild incen diaries of that period resolved to manifest their hatred of him and his order by setting fire to one of his dwellings and reducing to a heap of ruins one of the most interest ing relics of a bygone age. Of its noble apartments no- thing now remains save naked and blackened walls ; but possibly, the present or some future Duke of Newcastle may effect its restoration. At all events, its destruction will not speedily be forgotten. In the eyes of the inhabi tants of Nottingham and of the surrounding country the ilous though* ' conf .ration was awful ; and, owing to the magnitude of the building as well as the lofty eminence on which it stood, 'the fire, which lasted five hours, was visible at a prodigious distance The windows of the Duke of New, e's town mansion, in Portman-sq uare, were by London mobs ; and at the same time, when he fortified his residence at Clumber,, his precautions were found to. be by no means unnecessary. It, however, would be superfluous to say much more of the deceased peer than that his private virtues will be long remembered and ad• mired ; that his character, as an amiable, honourable, high-spirited English gentleman will be equally appre ciated. The late Duke is succeeded by his son, the Right Hon. Henry Pelham Clinton, Earl of Lincoln ; and a vacancy is thus created in the parliamentary representation of the atneral ~-01t5rellanp. A brevet will be issued on the 9th of November next, the birthday of the Prince of Wales. A farm is to be established at Dundee, in connexion with the ragged sehool. The provincial papers received this week record a great number of highway robberies, attended with unusual daring and atrocity. At Northampton sessions last week, the Duke of Graf. ton gave notice of a motion that the business of the sessions be hereafter opened with prayer. The Bugsworth Cotton Mill, at Chapel-en-le-Frith' near Derby, has been destroyed by fire. The loss £6,000' which is covered by insurance. At a meeting of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, on Tuesday, it was agreed to memorialise the Treasury in favour of a repeal of the duty on soap and a large reduci tiou in the duty on tea. MANSLAUGHTER BY ROAD TRUSTEES:--OR Monday Mr. Payne concluded the inquest on the body of William Brent, who met his death by an accident alleged to halt(' arisen from the disgraceful state of the road at Newington Causeway, Southwark. After hearing further evidence, the jury returned a verdict of " manslaughter against Mr. Pocock, chairman, and the five trustees of the South District Board of St. George, Southwark." On Saturday night last three men made a murderous assault on Mr. Wigg, tea-dealer, Walworth, as he was going home from his shop with a little boy, his son, with the intention of robbing him. They struck him on the head with a life-preserver ; and, although two of the ruffians were immediately afterwards apprehended, he was unable to appear against them until Wednesday, when they were fully committed. SUICIDE FROM WATERLOO-BRIDGE.-011 the morning of Friday last, between three and four o'clock, a respect able female, having first divested herself of her bonnet and shawl, jumped into the Thames from one of the re cesses of Waterloo-bridge. It being a fine moonlight night, the unfortunate creature's struggles were distinctly visible, and some lightermen hastened to her assistance, but she sunk and was drowned. About half-past six her body was found in the mud on the Lambeth shore; it is that of a female, aged about 25. A lamentable accident occurred on Friday in a new sewer which is in the process of formation in the Lower road, Islington, London, by which two lives were lost. This sewer was to run under the New River, and a la bourer having unfortunately perforated its bed, the water rushed in, and the two men, named Ellis and Bone, were swept away. So great was the rush of water that the body of Ellis was recovered at the mouth of a branch of the sewers at London-bridge, a distance of two miles. The body of Bone has not yet been found. PHILLIP'S PATENT'PiRE ANN/HILATOR.-011 Friday a public demonstration of the efficacy of this invention took place at the Gas Works, Vauxhall. A preliminary lecture havingbeen delivered by Mr. Phillips, heproceeded to set fire to a model of a ship then to a model of a house, and lastly to a building or house made exclusively of wood, in the interior of which were deposited shavings, covered with pitch and tar, wood covered with turpentine, &c. To describe the success of these experiments would only be to repeat that which we hale on former occasions at tempted to do—namely, to declare the perfect success of each experiment. A CANDIDATE FOR A JUVENILE REFORMATORY.—At one of the London police-offices, on Monday, a little boy, named Joseph Neville, was charged' with having picked a gentleman's pocket of a handkerchief: The prisoner was not expert at the attempt, and was caught in the act by the prosecutor, who seized and held him.—The Lord Mayor r krow bony have you been picking pockets ? Pri soner : have been at it just three months, sir.—Lord Mayor : And how many pockets have you picked during that time?: Prisoner (shaking his head) I really don't know.—The Lord Mayor :—Do you mean that you don't know because they were so many? Prisoner : I do, your Lordship.—The Lord Mayor then sentenced the wretched child to be imprisoned for one month, and:gave particular directions respecting him to the principal gaoler. VATAL OOentRENCE AT THE REGENT'S, CANAL DOCKS.. —On Thursday as a young man named Robert Aplett was heaving up the winch on board the Lively, a vessel re cently arrived from Germany, a discharge of firearms was heard, and Aplett exclaimed, "My God, I am shot !" falling back immediately a corpse. A shot had entered the right breast, leaving an orifice the size of a The shot, it appears, was fired in London-street, Ratcliff, 250 yards from the dock, by a youth named William East, who was taken inta'eustody the same evening brthe po lice, and made a confession to the effect that' he was amusing himself with a gun, and firing at an earthenware jug fixed ion'a post. He missed his aim, and the shot reached the poor man Aplett, who was at work on board the Lively schooner, and killed him on the spot. East underwent an examination at the Thames police-court.. A LAlrr OF' SPlHrr.—Andrew Carter was charged, at' the Mansion-house Ellice-office, with having stolen a pocket handkerchief.. Miss Caroline Weston, who resides in Bermondsey; said—Last night, a little after sixh'elock, as I was passing through Fenchurch-street, I saw the prisoner put his hand into the pocket of a gentleman and pull out part of a handkerchief. I immediately seized the prisoner by the collar,. and I called to the gentleman, who turned about, The handkerchief fell at his- feet. — The Lord Mayor: Yousheld the prisoner fast ? Witness : Certainly I did, my Lord ; and 1 would not let him go, as the attempt was so palpable.—The Lord Mayor-:: What have you to say, prisoner, to this lady's statement ? - The prisoner : I don't deny-that she took me, my Lord ; but what was I to do ? ' I am a Italian, in great distress, and as hungry as a wolf. I must eat ; and I must get something to buy food.—The Lord Mayor : is the prisoner known ?•-; The policeman into whose custody •the prisoner was given said the prisoner was the companion of thieves.—The• Lord Mayor : I shall send him for six • weeks to hard labour in prison. I cannot sufficiently express my admiration of the spirit and presence of mind exhibited by the young lady who performed so hazardous a flat as that of taking into custody a person of this de scription. The prisoner was then committed. SINGULAR AMP FATAL ACCIDENT.—On the 24th ult. a young man, named John Dalton, living as farm-servant with Mr. Newton.- of Hackthorpe, near Kendal, went with two fellow-servants, named John Hilton and James Blaylock. into the stable to attend the horses. Blaylock went up into the hayloft for the purpose of putting some hay into the racks, taking , a candle with him, which he placed against the wall. Hilton is a ventriloquist, and the deceased said to him,. " Let us frighten Blaylock." Hilton accordingly threw his voice on to the loft, making it appear as if another person was on the hay.mow, and the deceased went up the ladder on to the loft, and crept in on his hands and knees to where the candle was, and blew it out. Blaylock, on hearing the voice, was making towards the place from whence he fancied it proceeded, when the candle went out;. he immediately came to the mow-stead for the purpose of getting down, and threw a hay-fork, which he had with him, down before him. The deceased was lying by:the edge of the mow-stead, and one of the fork prongs struck him on the outside of the left knee. He immediately cried out to Blaylock, " 0 Frank, you have stabbed me." The wound was a very severe puncture, and in the course of the night the :: . nee swelled very much. On the following day the deceased went to Shap to consult a surgeon, who prescribed a certain course to be pursued with the wound, and advised him to keep to his bed entirely. The deceased, however, went about his work as usual. The knee grew gradually worse, and the deceased died from the effects of the wound on the 6th instant. MARRIAGE WEEIII A, DECEASED WlFes-SISTER.-A meeting of the inhabitants of Birmingham was held in the Town-hall, on Tuesday night, for the purpose of con sidering the propriety of petitioning Parliament for the abolition of the law-which prohibits a widower from mar rying the sister of:lyis- deceased wife ; there was a con siderable attendance of ladies. The Mayor occupied the chair, and was supported by the Rev. J. C. Miller, rector of St. Martin's, the Rev. J. B. Owen, vicar of Bilston, R. Spooner, Esq., M.P., the Jewish Rabbi, resident in Birmingham, and dissenting ministers representing various congregations of the town and neighbourhood. Letters were read from Mr. Scholefield, M.P., Mr. Mintz, M.P., and the Rev. J. A. James (Nonconformist), expressive of their concurrence in the object of the meeting, but re— gretting their inability to attend. The Rev. J. C. Miller; and the Rev. J$ B. Owen moved and seconded the adop tion of a petition to Parliament, prays.ng for the legalisa tion of marriages of the class above-mentioned. The Rev. Prebendary Gray, warden of Queen's College, moved an amendment to the effect—." That no petition upon the subject under discussion be uresented to Parlia, ment ; that the marriage of a man with his deceased wife's sister was especially prohibited by Scripture, by the prac, tice of the universal Church, and by the opinions of divines ando theologians of all agen. until a very recent. period." The Rev. Mr. Mackenzie, of the Scotch Church, seconded the amendment. Mr. Spooner, Ml;', supported.tho petition, and the Rey. J. C. Miller having replied, the mayor proceeded to take the sense of the meeting.. A very considerable number of hands were held up in favour of the amendment, and the original motion was carried almost unanimously, and amidst great applause. _ _ _ LOD:DION NEXT SUMMER.—There is much speculation afloat as to how we shall be able to lodge, board, and en tertain-.the numbers of strangers who may be expected to. visit London next year. The first point, no doubt, would be to establish something like, an approximation to the number of our future guests. We have not only to,consi der •the aggregate of the detachments which may arrive from France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Russia, and, in a word, from Europe generally, but to carry our calculations into other regions of the globe. The citizens of .the he course our shores in 1.. 01 the ensuing spring our awn East Indian possessions and the British colonies will also furnish their contingents. Is it exaggeration to say that from the whole surface of the habitable globe—leav ing the three kingdoms for the moment out of the account —a million of persons. will be attracted to London in the course of the ensuin , spring to visit the great Exhibition of the Industry of alrNations ? We leave this"portion of the question to the decision of our more speculative rea ders. The only datum which we can offer to assist their ingenuity is the statement which has reached us that the railway companies have made arrangements to convey 10,000 visitors from Vienna alone. If this be so, the " ex pectation" of the number of continental foreigners who may visit us next spring may be stated in the shape of a very obvious.. proportion. Be this,, however, as it may, there can be little doubt that, of the 28,000,000 persons who compose the population of the British Isles—London excepted —we shall at least have 11,000,000 visitors to the great Exhibition of next spring. Were all these birds of passage to, settle down in a single swarm, the population of London would for the time be doubled. We should require. two Smithfields, two Leadenhalls, two Billings gates,, two Covent-gardens. Our milkmen would require a double supply of chalk, and, our bakers of alum as many omnibuses would traverse our streets;, twice as many Hansom cabs be careering from one side of the town towards Kensington. Where are all these people to feed, to sleep ? What are the laundresses about ? We dare not follow the subject out in its infinite ramifications. No doubt keen eyes are already directed towards the pos sibilities of the future. Many a speculator looks to the season of the Great Exhibition as a golden time, and has already planned his measures for taking tithe of the stran gers. Where personal interest is so actively concerned, there is not much occasion for urging the necessity of timely preparation.—Times. EXTRAORDINARY CURE OF AN ULCERATED LEG By HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.— fillet of a letter from Mr. Eastwood, of No. 4, ell-street, Hull, to Professor Holloway :—" Sir,— r two years 1 was grievi ously afflicted with a bad 1 , which was full of ulcers. I applied to several doct and took their remedies, but without the least go ;at length, happily for me, I pro cured some of yo Ointment and Pills from Mrs. Noble, of this town,y Ich had the effect of curing my leg in a brief space f time, in gratitude for which "I make this case kn ,in the hope that others may derive benefit by aclopti g a similar coma," Jan. x 1,1851. REPORTED Loss OF UPWARDS Or THREE HUNDRED LtvEs.--During the: week several appalling losses have been reported at Lloyd's, and have excited considerable attention in consequence of the great loss of life by which they were attended. The most heartrending are those announced in the early part of the week ; the total loss, with all hands, of two whaling ships in the Arctic Seas, off Behring's Straits, and the wreck of two English ves sels, with adventures for the gold mines at California, off the west coast of South America. The wrecks of the whalers were discovered by a Captain Roy, on the Ist of September last, off the West Cape ; but the barriers of ice along the land, and a heavy gale precluded him ap proaching nearer than three miles of the spot where they lay. Subsequently he ascertained from the natives, some 200 miles to the southward of the wrecks, that the vessels were lost in the early part of last spring, and that all the hands had perished. No information could be gleaned as to where they belonged. The English vessels lost on the west coast of South hmerica were supposed to be the Julia and Lucifer: the former was a barque, and was on a passage from Panama to San Francisco, w ith 250 passen gers on board ; the Lucifer, a schooner, had 50 persons on board, and was proceeding from the latter port for Boston. With the exception of about twenty individuals all met with a watery grave. STRANGE EMIGRATION SCHEME FOR PAPPER CHIL DREN.-At the weekly meeting of the Marylebone Board of Guardians on Friday, Captain Thomas W. B. Burrows, of the brig James, sent in a written application for boys and girls irons the workhouse, to be' conveyed by him to Bermuda as emigrants. Sir James Hamilton, Bart.— What must be the ages of the children ? Captain Bur r( ws—Between twelve and fourteen. Sir James Hamil ton—What do you do with them when you get them at Bermuda ? Captain Burrows—l apprentice them as do mestic servantsuntil they are eighteen. air James Hamil ton—On what conditions do you take them r Captain Burrows—l charge them £6 passage money, for which I find them in bed, bedding, and board. The parish pro vide their outfits. Mr. Merriott—After they serve their apprenticeshipwhat becomes of them ? Captain Burrows— Why, they get other situations. Mr, Merriott—Are there any funds to' assist them to get situations, or returning home if they desired after their apprenticeship ? Captain Burrows—No, sir. I have already taken out 60' children from St. Pancras workhouse. (Surprise.) Mr. Artand— Are they steerage passengers ? Captain Burrows—No, I put them in the cabin. Mr. Artand—Have you a female ' to attend to-them on board ? Captain Burrows—The last time I went out there was in the cabin a female passenger aged nineteen. Mr. Artand—That was accidental. Capt. Burrows—Yes, sir.. In further conversation Captain But-- rows said he sailed on the 25th, and would take auy num- . ber of children. The board considered the matter as too' grave to be hastily decided on, at all events no children' should be sent out on the 25th. RAGGED SCITOOIi EMIGIVATION.—A meeting of the' friends and supporters of ragged schools took place on- Friday, at the Surenile Refuge, Old Pye-street, West minster, for the purpose of taking leave of eleven boys, selected from the various ragged schools hi the metropolis, who are about to be sent out tcPAustralia, at the cost of the Ragged School - Union. The ceremony, which was of a most interesting character, took place in the presence of the children, one hundred in number, who are taught in the Refuge, and who were regaled' with tea and cake in company with the friends- who attended. After tea the chair was taken by Mr- Geo. Wilson,. who briefly stated the object of the meeting. The eleven intending emi grants were arranged on a form on the left of the chair, and were neatly and cleanlyattired. Each was provided with a capacious chest, for the purpose -of containing their clothes and other necessaries, which had- been supplied by the Ragged School Union. Their looks were indicative of robust health, and they appeared to be in a high state of joyful anticipation. Hitherto the emigrants from the schools have been sent to the docks in the metropolis. On this occasion a different plan was pursued ; they were sent by train to Liverpool, on Saturday% Five of them embarked the same day in the Carlton, for Adelaide; the remaining six on board the Condor, yesterday, for Port Philip. Both those ships were first-rate vessels; the Condor was 1,500 tons burden, the Carlon nearly as large. They belonged to first-rate firms -in Liverpool ; and the accommodation, on account of the size of the vessels, was far superior to that of any- of the London ships. The other passengers in the vessels • were of the working classes, of a class above the boys • that were going out ; therefore confidence might be placed in them. MURWER.—An old widow lady named Mary - Kinder, aged 78, lived with two daughters on a farm at Hattersley, near Ashton-under-Lyne. On Thursday evening the servant man went out to the shippon, which is about seventy yards-- from the house, followed by the female servant named Sarah Fox. After milking .two beasts. the latter returned by the back way into the house, being absent about twenty minutes. After putting down the milk cans tstkn l wl p i t importance i. g r which wi pt aaeh i bscero h at oy v in the letellen, she went f orwar d i n t o t h e h ouse - part , an d not seeing her mist ress , s h e l oo k e d roun d an d saw the parlour door ajar : on go i ng f orwar d s h e perce i ve d M rs. Kinder lying her whole l eng th a l ong th e p ar l our fl oor. Thinking she must h ave f a ll en i n a fit, s h e ran t o h er an d lifted her up. She found, however, that her mistress was dead, and lying in a pool of blood, having had h er s k u ll completely battered in by some blunt instrum en t.- Th e neighbourhood was immediately apprised of th e d rea df u l circumstance, and Mr. Little, the , speci a l high -constable, found that the parlour door was bespatte re d w ith bl oo d, guidon-the parlour floor was found a p or ti on of the old la hi d brains, and some small b ones b ro k en f rom t h e the surgeon took i n t o hi s care. On-examina scertained that th e w h o l e o f t h e b oxes and drawers e stains were rans ac k e d, b ut th at noth i ng o f was found missin g . It i s th ere f ore supposed Id lady is known to be possess e d o f consider able the murderers were in search of money, which being denied them by the deceased, they committed the dreadful crime. The daughters of the old lad - had gone to see a sister in the neighbourhood of Armfield, and consequently were absent at the time of the murder: On two separate occasions the house, which is in a retired locality, has been entered burglariously, and about two years ago-a person of the name of Timperly was trans ported for life for being concerned in those burglaries. ARRANGEMENT OF GOODa..EN THE EXHIBITION.—The question as to the best mode of arranging goods for the exhibition has been most eatisfactorily settled by the executive committee. The proposed mode of arranging the• productions of foreign countries, in separate and dis tinct nations, is probably the only one which, under. the circumstances of the case, would have been found practi cable. Several parties have proposed that the whole of the articles exhibited should' be arranged in classes ;:but such an arrangement, unless-carried out in its integrity, would be perfectly useless—while to sort out, arrange, and classify the productious.of the world, and to cover an area of: some twenty acres-with the goods so, arranged, would. be an utter impossibility within the short time allotted for so doing. All sounds of dissatisfaction on the part of foreign countries, with respect to their allotted place in the building, are obviated by the principle of ar ranging them according to , thtir respective latitudes. The mode• adopted in this respect is as unique as it is calcu lated to prove interesting to, the visitor. Treating the building in this manner c the transept, being about the centre of the building, will be considered as the equator and in. its neighbourhood:will be exhibited the productions of India, China, Arabia,, Persia, Turkey, and of , the tropics. The productions of the most northern latitudies will. weepy the extremities of the building . , A:visitor entering the building at+ the eastern extremity will' find himself among the productions of the United States,.and will then pass on to :Russia and the northern countries, to France, Germany, Italy, and the southern latitudes,till he arrives at the productions of Egypt, Arabia,. China, Persia, and the tropical countries. Crossing the tran sept, he will leave behind the productions of foreign pro ductions of foreign nations, and enter into the western portion of the building, devoted to England and her colonies. The productions of India, Ceylon, and other of our tropical colonial possessions, will occupy the space nearest to the transept, and Canada the western extremity of the building the remaining portions being occupied by the productions-of the United Kingdom. The whol e of the machinery in motion will occupy a portion of the north-western extremity of the TRADE PREFE.RRED, TO AGRICULTURE, BY. A NOBLE MAN.—UnIike Lancashire and the West Riding, the coal fields of Durham have not led to the establishment of a large manufacturing population, the coal being wrought principally far export to London, and to the east coast and continental ports. In this bus'ness large oapi' als are employed, partly by speculators, but principally by the great landowners themselves, whose incomes, like those of Lords Londonderry and Durham, are chiefly derived from. coal. To gi7e an idea of the capital employed is this busi erry, for the le harbour of Seaham at a cost little, if at all, short of £300,000, and to this harbour he has about 40 . .nailes of railroad leading from vested is working coal has been so much m ore remune rative n differ ent lad, othatlie c ollieri es. ro T ve h ro e e m n ; u s r o n n f t rGm h e cap i ta l att r hav e ai in vested been comparatively neglected,,and the skill and enterprise so abundantly lavished below ground form a very marked contrast with the absence of those qualities and the evi dentdefect of capital everywhere too conspicuous on its suSace. To show the different progress made in the two departments within the last 80 years, we may mention that the system of farming then practised, viz., " two crop and fallow," as described by Arthur Young in 1770, with &yield of 16 bushels of wheat, and 30 each of barley and oats per acre, is exactly, the common practice of the pre ent day, with a yield rather diminished than increased. nay mention t ;e of his own rade. construe ~ • For the coal-waggon, roads then, "the track of the wheels. was marked with pieces of timber let into the road, for , the wheels of the waggons to run on, by which one horse is enabled to draw 50 or 60. bushels of coals." These roads led to the shipping ports. As in process of years the trade increased, " keels" were employed, with light draught of water,. enabling them to penetrate many miles up the tidal rivers to wharfs at no great distance from the collieries, to which the wooden tracks (gradually super seded by iron rails) conducted. The progress of business and discovery of steam power have in turn nearly done away with the keels and the consequent expense of tran shipment, and thousands of tons of coal are now more cheaply and expeditiously taken from the mouth of the coal prix and laid in the holds of sea-going vessels than hundreds, probably even tens of tons, of coals were slowly and laboriously dragged by horses along the wooden tracks described by Arthur Young.— Times Commissioner. AND FASHION. COURT The Earl of Aberdeen, Sir G. Grey, and T. B. Macau lay arrived at Windsor Castle on Tuesday, to visit her Majesty and the Prince, and left on Thursday. The Duchess of Kent has also been among the visitors at the Castle._ — Tie; Majesty received at Windsor Castle, on Saturday. the Duke and Duchess de Nemours and the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale. A large party is zkow assembled at the palace at Blen heim. His Grace the Duke of Marlborouh has collected about him his OA sons,api daughters with AU his grand. children.