The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-29 00:00:00

ing the very 1 y any I to eau "Pr, 11 Pi condit of Bor hand.l rind the F the s great s. topic c assembly in Paris of country. The long- grand Pr ING IN PARIS.-1 k, the real d on the 9th of Sep sect are to be dis FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. The report of a revolution at St. Petersburgh proves tc be a Polish invention, though it is stated to have corn rorn Riga. serious imputations ru Rollin debts bN 'relate to t the public will ends ,ur to d One of th the evil Louis B Louis B in, who Ville on the 15th of Ma :1 Watrir was not at ti M. Caussi whom 1 lowest disapp Belgic porter at the harvest in t I. In t: a fair ay 3t at Sar mtemDl g, to c mob st Government is still. in 'doubt as to the course to be taken with the rebel leiiders. The result of O'Doherty's trials has led to further doubts of the nrourietv of tnakinz any fresh experiments upon trial by Yuri, as -the system exists in Ireland REWARDS OF THE CONSTABULARY.—The Lord Lieu tenant has awarded £2O to Constable Williams, of Mel linahone, and £5 to each of his men, for the firmness they so nobly displaced in the attempt on the part of Mr. W. Smith O'Brien, to tamper with their allegiance. He has noted Williams to the rank of Supernumerary Instable of the second class, with two chevrons of ion, and the senior sub-constable to the rank of )nstable with a chevron, and to each of the other men a also pron Head-Ca Madden, who arrested 11 geatlher, ©'Donohue and Lein to the rank of firs of £25. A Limerick pap one of the Irish rc :troll acco 3s of A has been promoted a second- C'illinan and Thorn Head-co rye, who held 1 . 1 t. O'f Head astable, with a reward he disembarkation of passengers at Kilrush. amongst vhom he had reason to believe was the rebel in question. ' The plank was put out," says our conternnorarv. " and e alacrity, and walking the gaunt! t betwe'n old lady, however, of ;hip to Wh( standing. His attention was attracted, his gallantry was roused, and he courtecusly descended, off ring his arm, Ind led the feeble old lady up to the landin7. Little did le know the sex of the lady. 'We are positively assured the was Richard O'Gorman—that he was among the )assengers numbers no hat effect was furnished Mr mesence on the spot. He is !rt; and that information to Little is obvious, from his said to have alted the squire g with the old lady as she vas extracted from t t would El Chesterfield 1- A. BREAKING U le of Mr. Charles C is wort} nnongs, ;ant tastc We co SECOND EDITLJN. Standard Office, _Eleven o'clock ANOTHER FATAL COLLISION py the following from the Underwriters' Room " The Cosmopolitan, Maxwell, from Liverpool to Africa and St. Lawrence, Brown, from Liverpool to New York were in contact on Sunday, about 25 miles S.W. of Ho lyhead. The crew of the Cosmopolitan, except one man drowned, got on board the St. Lawrence, which afterwards put into Kingstown, with damage to cutwater and loss of ibboom. Captain Maxwell reports that Captain Brown refused to let him have a boat to return to the Cosmopo- Titan, - to see the condition she was in.' FATAL EXPLOSION (FROM A CORR E'ONDENT.) An explosion of fire-damp happened yesterday (Mon day) morning, at Mr. Wood's coal-pit. Hindlev, (close to the road leading to Leigh,) which caused the death of three persons. Three others are dreadfully burnt, and one of them not expected to recover. The real cause of the•damp taking lire is unknown, but some people sup pose it was occasioned by a collier lighting his pipe out s safety lamps. Every person about the pit-mouth is in such confusion, that it is next to impos- of one of Davy' sible to ascertain further particulars, SENTENCES ON THE RIOTERS CROWN COURT.-THIS DAY This morning Mr. Justice CRESSWELL sentenced John Flyn, James Downey, James Mooney, Owen Gunn, and rch, to fifteen months' imprisonment. It will be seen from our assize report, that the prisoners. were convicted yesterday of riot and assault at Newtc Omni The body of a new-born female chili .o*, sewed up in a wrapper John Pritchard has been c the watcher at tl Britannia-bridge, near-B viseouut Arbuthnot, who )rted to the Hou is char f a 3 "not t and is final be found," - is supposed to ha At the sale at Stowe, on Tiles( poet, an exquisite work by Roubilliac, was bought Peel for 130 guineas The salary o Poor Law inspect guinea per day travelling expense led a v .9011 S U' murder of her ¶EIE 'LIVERPOOL STANDARD. one firm alone FELINE TEND. curred at Wincombe Hon! of Mrs. Gordon, a few day A crin to hel lescribet ~.~,.. The Mitchel Club in London was formally dissolved on Friday night. NovEL IMPORTATION.-By the Growler, arrived at Cork, from New York, heavily laden with Indian corn, are two cases of American Chairs ! During a thunder storm at Oldham, on Tuesday, one of three children playing in a cellar was struck dead by th e electric fluid, which appeared to have come down the chimney. On Tuesday, Jas. Smith , the man suspected of the murder the woman at Shaw-hill Common, as mentioned last week, was tried for the assault on the Rev. Mr. Haddo, of Ever leigh, on Tuesday, at Devizes assizes. The charge was for assaulting " with intent to kill and murder," and the evidence showed that the attack was of a more ferocious kind than at first reported. The fellow was hunted down by Mr. 'Gadd() and his servants, and when that gentletnat, attempted to seize him he defended himself with more stones. While he was in custody he said that he knocked the woman down. The verdict was " guilty," and the sentence seven years' transportation. TRADE OF BRISTOL.-Our Bristol contemporaries are in high spirits about the state of trade at their port. 'The Iran i-fer of the docks to the corporation will be carried out during the present month as settled by the act of Parliament. The receipts continue to increase ; the excess over the corresponding months of last year (dating from the Ist of May) being nearly £3OOO. During Jan. to April, in 1848, 169.917 tons of shipping entered the port, against 142,817 in 1847, being an increase of 27,100 tons, or 151 per cent. The improvement during the same period in the coasting trade is remarkable, namely, from 92,443 tons to 104,900, being an increase of 12,457 tons. laden with sugar are daily expected for The port is full of large class ships. A curious circumstance oc , S;taftesbury, the residence since. It appears the servants removing some straw, and found a nest of young rats, which, as a matter of course they destroyed, or in tended to do so; however, one of them more fortunate than its fellows, was not quite killed, and is now alive. A cat who was watching the proceedings, it seem seeing he young rat move, took it up in he; mouth and carried t t 9 the stable, where she has two kittens ; she placed the at the angl walls w library r WEI 3 Ttt apartm gentle spell, there was )hiloso prie tor. uch an on. .Dublin T occurred in Cork on Monday night, in . 0 extinguish which a man. named Short, Iree others were seriously hurt. A tremenc he White xried a near Dunleer, I dge over ne of the th,ou the lit Mast Junction Rail In Clare and Tippe the coining winter, which pro! to expect seed that The largest, market for potatot hown in Dublin, was that held on Tu, roof of the injury done to the crop, rt .nxious cultivators are to get rid of them thus early. The Cionmel Chronicle states that, on Monday night, a ang of men, headed by one Thomas Sullivan, seized a nan, who was watching a field of wheat, imprisoned him n a house, and carted off the whol e o f th e w h ea t. The yacht of Mr. Cuthbert, son of a merchant at Green . for the last two years s it shows how y, a large hay- letely perforted filo star. .st was a co ry a r ue of the prete A monument, consisting of a most massy centre tablet 18 feet broad, and- supported on either side bN ones, is about to be erected in tl southern Cemetery , week, there arrived in Landon no fewer than 89 vessels wholly or partly laden with foreign corn ; and the total quantity of grain imported on that day is estimated to have exceeded 50,000 quarters. The Sherborne Journal records an inquest, at Bran] Castle, on Sir.AugustusJahn Foster, Batt, P.I aged 68, .who, whilst labouring under a disc heart and lungs, which produced delirium, cut with a razo The Newspapers published in the Channel hands are for the future to be charged with postage, when trans mitted into Ms country. No fewer t sions of a paper published in the Channel Islands S have been forwarded here. Though the sale at Stowe appears to realise on an, average about £2OOO per day., some of the articles are dis posed of at a great sacrifice. A magnificent clock, which cost the late Duke of Buckingham 1000 guineas, was sold on Thursday fct r £5l. aved to be magnificent nd to the eve we write , d to wit )mer of valuable cactus, and An cs—ho rer an ex solate ! The mis s easy el !ns to kee le should hay id corn was wil- he work of ev murdered by some I diet of " Wilful murder against some p A verdict of wilful murder has been x have r husband by administering p'oison to him. A. Coroner's Jury has found that the late fi street, London, was occasioned by an exp but there was no evidence to shOw ho An explosion took place on Saturday, Yarmouth steamer, Earl of Liverpool, by whit the mechanics were scalded to death, but the t] escaped. On Tue electric fluid cor I by lid 'oil board the Lt in the nest. wk the warmth soon revived it vhere it is now enjoying the paternal care of the cat in an ,qual degree with her own off3pring !—Salisbury Herald. A NEW T►ucrc.—lt appears that some people are.going bout plundering the provincial magistracy and police Ir. J. Jaeoas, of Covent y a fellow who said he wa of p A Linc 1, of .# irnent e )wn pillows, a tin quilted cover ;hick was furnis' This magnificent duke re- Walesby, of nthatnpton aeinadequate sum of 86 —On Friday, as two ladie retired lane, at child, v The b! x years old, rrence, that name was Thomas Ireson Ang to have a swii deceased after it-Norfolk 17, a re- ?toms of the deepest con Lied gu. So completely did his appear story he told enlist the sympathy of longed. he said, to a high family, _ _ crime he had been induced to commit id a number of well-disposed people who heard the case terwards made a subscription, and started him from sherton gaol with a tolerable pocketful of cash. At the charge, with similar tears in his eyes, - and the same piteous story on his lips. In this case he was sentenced to four imprisonment INSTRUCTION OF THE BLIND.—We have received a pamphlet entitled "An Examination of the Embossed Systems, adopted in U. ? Kingriom, for Educating v observed a it exciter as near ti .th tear Anp.mst 29. 1S (Si A boat containing thirteen men was upset, last week. ln the Tay, at Perth, and six of the poor fellows were - drowned. OnTue H sda h y en A WONDERFUL ESCAFE.—A f ew d ays ago a glass-blower Princess of Hunslet, w hil s t i n a s t a t e o f i ntox i cation, trespassed on Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, and Princess Alic e, ' •he line of rail wa y w hi c h f orms t h e j unction between the ed the regatta at C owes . o t i h o e he Queen accom and a nied P ir)yin thece Albert,rrinee , o le ; te p Midland and Leeds and Bradford stations, in Leeds ; and The Court still remains at Osborne, and&hough called to by the engine-driver, was so stupified has received several distinguished visitors within . If pi that he was knocked down by the engi ne , an d the whole few days, but the weather has not been favoutnoidi train passed over him. When picked up by the points- out-door recreation. On Friday the Queen wani a (nail, be had received no further injury than the blow from privy council at Osborne. - n Sad, the engine. her 3 1 t , 8 1 Her MLjesty intends to embark at Woolwich 0 . cot A COUNTRYMAN PuzzLED.—Two gentlemen angling day next, on board the royal yacht. for her annua.l. _' et p n the Thames at Newham lately, could not agree upon sion to Scotland. The royal party will proceed cr es he appearance P‘ c 0 ' • favourite ' COURT AND FASHION. - -- J .. __ ~t one of .neir _ ga it s, the horse Aberdeen, a n d thence travel , in the royal carriage ly, and they agreed to refer the ques ti on t o a rust i c w h om Balmoral, the Scottish residence of royalty. r 1,50 They saw ploughing at a littl e di s t ance —" Wh oy, " said MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage (I ,_` 3 1 8 :. Hodge, with some a st on i s h ment , "N os, d r ' at it; I never Caroline Amelia Grosvenor, fourth daughter of the seed a horse fly, but I once seed a cow fall down a pre- quis and Marchioness of Westminster, and the cipice." RESOURCES OF CALlFouNrA.—Mines are discovered in solemnised many places, hut quicksilver is to enrich California be- Hanover-square. The ceremony was perfortne so i e ll m ia n m ised He o n n ry T L ue e s ig d h ay , e l l a t s le t s , t a s t on st. of G L eo or ra d e ,l s ,ei u, A l a bu t y rc o t, , yond all other mines. There is one now in operation be- Gr_ce the Archbishop of Canterbury. The bade longing. to Barro n ; F or b es , an d C o., an E nglish house in attended by the ladies Octavia and Agnes Grosvenor, S or, or -.. A s LI Mexico. The wor k men a t t hi s mine have. V nnlv the enm_ T. 4. = -vr;....., n,_..,_ , .. ... . ..... - ....., —,., ~, ~,,,,- a.......s Victoria Charlotte Grosvenor, her coustn• i t; l 7, e , D! mon try-pots, a fe w pi c k s an d crow- b ars, and for a few tuous entertainment was given at Grosvenor I"_ 00 days past have b o ttl e d o ff 300 d o ll ars per day. I presume the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, t_ugatch. the expenses are less th an one quarter. T he ore is sim- party. The bride and bridegroom , left town f ( l h il pie rock, mostly of a re d co l oar ;i s merely broken and ford-park, the Earl of Ellesmere's seat, near L' o " tan heated, producing one fourth its weight in pure metal. pass the honeymoon. By dropping a cinch of it. nn n hnt ;,,n, ----,..._ :, _:-._ —, ... „,.. ~..,,, . paatt.i.t vi it. MI L. IlUt, iron, covering it vvi.. a ter-cup two minutes, the cup is covered with the smoke This being rubbed carefully by the fingers, in some cases, -- *-- produced a globule of the size of a small pea. Almost the same expense and l a b our emp l oye d i n P ennsylvania, On Tuesday th e A rc hbi s h op of Canterbury 113 an terview with L or d J o h n R ussell in Downing-stree t: iet!ro in obtaining a ton of iron, will obtain a ton of quicksilver The Gazette contains an order from the Eed es co late , in California. Neither you nor your readers are expected Commissioners for the division of Prescot, lia c n s. to believe this most incredible story; yet, such is the fact. into two distinct parishes for ecclesiastieal purio- e ,lOlO l The quicksilver obtained at the Forbes mines, in one The Queen and Prince Albert have contribute d t ie tie week will pay for the machinery. When the expected the intended church at York Town, for the bene ,_ , ...0 s jo works from Europe reach this country, the tons of quick- Royal Military College. The Queen Dowager 3' silver will show for itself. Many other valuable mineral given £5O. f St , deposits have been discovered at San Jose de Guadaloupe, in the northern part of Upper California. , silver, and zinc, appear to be most abundant. The quick- day. This district was constituted upwards of .E.Y l i ;tolid Ju T de h , e S ti r r i s s t to s i t , on w e a o s f la a id ne b w y c A h r u c r i c w h ea f c o o r n tl T ie ho d r is p tr o, i_ n c u t T r e y b e l silver ore yields upon an average about fourteen per cent.; ago under Sir Robert Peel's Endowment Act. it, ` O f S', silver about fifty pe r cent. ; an d z i nc about eighty per from one of the poorest parts of the out-paris h t les , cent. As to gold, it is said that several mines containing Philip and Jacob, and contains a population 0 , 3 precious metal exist in these parts ; I have seen none ex , 5,000 persons. tracted. .m....=,....„,.............. .........._____ _ CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE TS OF TIII ] LATI STORM LAW .I.N7IE,'LLIG_LYCE, A. hurricane visited the neighbourhood of Peterhead, on 'n coast of Scotland, on Saturday morning week. d that upwards of 100 li ves h ave b een l ost. • • —* WESTERN CIRCUIT—. (Before Mr. Justice Coleridge and a S - --Q —Mr. Cockbur LSRJSTOL, AUGUST 2) {peciid jry t be in oper ourt t is st SCOTT t case, stated th a t thi s was an issue directed lt)' ' e 'MI tl Ituout 'iou herring-hoats, e ac h manne d b y crews of five or of Queen's B enc h to try the question whQther a Co ertoi ob six persons, we re k nown t o b e o ff t h e coast. in the course warrant of atto rne y g i ven b y the plaintiff had l' e , e ar aiY' , of Friday evenin g . O n n i g ht se tti ng i n a f urious gale tamed by fraud. The plaintiff was an officer in t 1 , )6 ., rer arose, the wind blowing from the S.S.W. At daybreak a and et the early part of this year be was with l' i l t hcg distressing scene presented itself : the beach was sirewn with the bodies of the fishermen and the wrecks of their ment at Norwich, and the case arose out of one ° m otel transactions which had now unfortunately bece ni ftero e j" fishing-boats. Many of the boats have been swamped of almost daily occurrence—he meant what '''' pi'w with all hands, and it is supposed about 70 boats have bill stealing. There existed in the metropolis as erg a t hee been destroyed. The accounts from Wick and other seaport towns on gang who obtained their subsistence entirely b l e rea ll : means; they obtained bills from the unwary n',' 0 di,',; the opposite shores of Murray Frith are very disastrous. lour by the fraudulent pretence of getting " e he bi''' It appears that the storm overtook the fishermen when counted, and for which tlo, ...,,•14.. —1,,, ~nce t at sea, about two o'clock in the morning, and there beine• never received a shilling. A verdict was rettnned for the plaintiff 8.151°5 lime upwards of a thousand boats exposed to the fury of the elements, many of them well laden with herrings, the loss could not be otherwise than g reat. At the break of day the I diate • RAILWAY AFFAIRS ~.,—. ..., ....c.atly zi.rewcu wan wreck. At the port of Wick finir or five boats' crews perished within sight of f their relatives and f r i en d s , an d a lt oget h er more than fifty *— fishermen were d r o wne d w ithi n a s h ort distance of the The Windsor, Stai nes an d South-WeAern I,°lloyso harbour. At all th e o th er p or t s a l ong the coast wrecks opene d l ast week. for loy 4 , have been cast ash ore . an d at t h e d ate of the last accounts The traffic on the Chester an d H o l y h ea d 1 121 l'o-,,, no true estimate could b e f orme d o f t h e actual loss of life the week ending August 19th, was £2,212 13s. Pi o P that had been occa s i one d b y t h e storm. One thing ap- o ffi ce f or the conveyance of mails, and toll. i t ideft, pears certain, that by th e ga l e o f F r id ay morning 200 fish- Shrewsbury an d Ch ester Railway company not 01 " S o ott et-men have perished, ab ou t 150 b oats h ave b een wrecked, Th e di spute between the enginemen of the tight to ;ped and taking into account th e va l ue o f the nets and other Western Rail wa y an d t h e di rectors has been br° fishing gear, as well as the herrings destroyed, £20,000 an amicable settlement and the men have rettl would not cover the damage done by this awful gale. work. At Stonehaven several fishing boats with their SD R.E7SDURV AND CIIESTEr e ttO ~ER RAILWAY. , S. _L'e lost. and much dam age was d one t o the mon) , 01 keying the last ar c h o f t h e D ee V i: °, u'oresell' boats. At Johnshaven simil ar ca l am iti es occurred ; va l e o f Llangollen, look place o n F r id a y, in the r t ' , ; ,wo boats were upset and eight pe rsons d rowne d . o f th e di rectors and their friends. The length t The gale on the east coast of Northumberland caused unrivalled viaduct is 1508 the height 147 fe o e c , feer e i considerable loss to the herring fishermen, several being number of arches 19; and the span of each arch e'd o obliged to abandon their nets ; and we have to add the . DREADFUL RAILWAY FIRE. Shortly after tad the loss of the lives of three fishermen who belonged to New- on Thursday morning, a dreadful fire haPPT e c i eef er 'f biggin, and who were caught in the sto rm , an d , i t i s sup- Ch ar lt on stat i on o f the West Kent Railway. " posed, in their attempt to tower the sail, the boat wna ahnut I non By five all P A 0 ° ~ „„,,, wja,, was t/Ut) Ul, i,uuu in. number, were saved. - upset and they were drowned. The boat was seen the ceased, but the loss will be at least 43,1100• following morning bottom up. could be ascertained for the calamity. 9° P er he fot A house was destroyed on Mond a y i n Q ueen ' s-p l ace, RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—It appears that of - t c ad be Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London. A sons killed and 99 injured, on all the railways °P_ Anf r, t.„ tall stack of chimneys w a s bl own d own , and . fallinc , upon public traffic in Great Brit a i n an d I re land, chT,ose:n tile rum carrieu it away, and torcect down every floor, de- half-year ending 20th June, 1848, there were — V,il•°`'i molishing the whole of th e f urn it ure , an d near l y kil l i ng a gers kill e d , and 60 injured from causes beyon d tl o til e child, the only person in th e h ouse a t t h e t i me. contro l ; 5 passengers killed, and 2 injured, owing t 6 1 ' The Wyvern yacht, a noble schooner of 205 tons, the own misconduct or want of caution. _. O . _ 0 property of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough, was FEARFUL ACCIDENT.—On Monday afternoon' pogo, caught in gale off Etembridge, near Portsmouth, on Mon- o'clock, an accident occurred on the Lancaster an u , i , too n A dea re .y 0 day afternoon_ in whirh Qh. 1..1- near [ - . - lainmast„ . hutwon railway, the result of which was almost instant ' ,e cup sne was competin for at the time. His Grace of the passengers, and serious injury to several and the Duchess were on board at the time, and his Grace mixed train left the Preston station at four ou' had a narrow escape from the fallin g mas t an d gear, b e i ng L ancaster ; at the Bay Horse station (a b ou t 'ls 001' on the after ladder at the time. rs from Lancaster) it stopped to let passeng e d ja On Wednesday. a portion of the town of O ver D arwen Whil s t t h e stat i on- k eeper and guard were engaged en was inundated by the bursting of a rese rvo i r , k nown as reeving luggage, to the di smay o f a ll , a tra i n wus, the Bold-venture Lodge, by which the cotton m ill o f p reac hi ng on t h e same li ne at a truly fearful ra t `ipnii ° Shnry.,l, anti (''n_ is - The res. ~ *l,l. pr...a 1,„ • , • , An, t 3 4 11e ! V tholera AU° bro 'lab( li - 'll Pt eg of Cr. !4.34e1a,,. assistai,c Tile a 0, 100.1v 1 as Re„" tt • t r e o e r2osol; h, of I'ctour re t o 1 - I RI it (t ar to 1„ 'lor sh a t till ii w ould 0 t PI S ' Div 41, J t wite4aefeuorr, .1r -- att. 44 rel!l 1,11eg: a e ° 4,l llrni e, varying ph In our Pt I by thi s to dart defiance on It is e Save not forgot convoked nod to which they wer held amid the cave solitary fastnesses of the Cevenn , 3Jontrevel an, just as fresh w They remember yet 1 the d their I s of Jean Ca'"' :hinx con' to the ca, nd his brave The approLi, 'ence will have an fin se influence over the future position of the Protestants :,,f France sere is said to c: )f Nixes Toulou. t much powerful talent among those o dreaded to this ry energy is hour, while their brethren of La Rochelle, t the most con- 11 and wealthy of the inl Its of th y Protest haul comnzerc —Paris wrrespondent of th YINEI:ARDS I AIISTRALIA.—The Australian journal :•alled Lander's Bushman, contains the following emarks on the growth of the tine in Western Australia :—" There is every reason to believe t day become a great wine country ['at Western Australia will one Its vineyards are be coming more and more numerous every year, and the wine produced in them is of a quality to lead us to be- however, he a new kind of wine, and therefore, before it will be prized in Europe, prejudices in favour of older 11 have to be overcome. Soil and climate com +heir nentilinr flaw-111r_ The bined give to different Nv of that name, vines which in Madeira produce the wine when brought to another country even in a co, latitude, and planted in a soil that chemically approaches as closely as possible to that which they have left, will produce a wine materially different from that called Ma deira. So with the wines of Xeres and Onnrtn_ of rt. 11P. rifle and Constantin. Different countries produce wines peculiar to themselves, and the wines of Western Austra liA will be found to be entirely sun qeneris. Those even rm.de of the poor( Ives and_ common sweet water one peculiarity : a good draught, in,tead of affecting the head or flushing the face, causes a most delightful glow to pervade the stomach, and it is of so comforting a na ture that the labourers in harvest prefer the home-made colonial wine to any other beverage. Every farm settler It may be here l wine fetches a is now ack rnentione vineyard to his eitate." gr - Owth and it the wine ulti lia than some of the finest foreign tely obtain celebrity for some peculiar f Australia are not The resource Led there is no know flavour it may fully developed yet, will bring forth, if labour be s tent its wants require. liplied the colony to an ex- Mr. Cuti be paid. n sent to which had been transferred n the Clyde, and for which gaol until a fine of £lOO A meeting of the friends of the Church Missionary Society was held in Youghal, on the evening of Monday, and on no former occasion, perhaps, did so many persons assemble in the Mall-room. Speeches were delivered by' the Rev. George Hazletiood and Rev. Thomas Nolan, of St. Barnabas, Liverpool.—Cork Paper•. The Globe announces that the Irish Governzneni, had a careful inquiry gone into, as to the state of the crops in that country ; and has learned, as a general result, that there is barely food enough in the island to supply the inhabitants until the Ist of January. We apprehend that the inquiry must have chiefly turned upon the state of the . • , Chelmsford was held, for the purpose of erecting a statue to the late Lord Chief Justice .Tiodal, in that his native town, when nearly £lOO was subscribed in a few minutes by about 20 individuals, as the commencement of a fund for that object. At the hotel, Crewe, on Monday morning, a waiter for the station refreshment-room, a female unknown in that part of the country was found dead in her bedroom, hay- She had on employ, and had conducted herself with great•propriety. A large party of young persons engaged a phaeton, on Tuesday,for a jaunt to Bath. The horse ran off. and a young lady, Miss Bartlett, jumped out, and was so much injured that she soon expired. Several others were seriously hurt, all the party having leaped from their IRELAND A writ of error has been the case into the House of Lo Mrs. O'Brien provides the meals and visit band daily raced by Mr. Martin to take hiteside have cs that amongst the tr( h O'Briea's portmanteau, some from Romish ecclesiastics. Peen re- The Evening Herald able papers found iu S of the worst are lette David Coughlan, of Drosvgan, .Tipperary, - having a commission of colonel in the rebel force ou him, has been arrested. The constable Haniver, who hail the warrant for the arrest of Mr. S. O'Brien at the Thurles station, and who was on the platform when Hulme laid hands on him, has been promoted to a first-class head constableship. Nil.. Thomas F. Meagher has been attacked with typhus fever. He i 3 under the attendance of Dr. Stokes. The unfortunate young man has been visited, by his father. R. Meagher. M.P. _ _ It is currently reported that Mr. John Dillon, for whose apprehension a reward of £3OO has been so long offered in vain, has effected his escape seaward. An auction of his furniture and other effects has been advertised for several days past. The Morning Chronicle states that, in O'Dolierty's ease, no fewer than forty-six jurors de c li ne d t o answe r to their names, and submitted to the infliction of fines of £5O each, rather than take their chance of serving an office usually considered to constitute the decus et tutamen of free citizensh:p." It is said that, in the early part of his life, Mr. O'Brien AV as for some time in the office of Mr. Thomas Booth, of Liverpool, a ft erwar d s B oot h an d W almsley, having come over, as numbers of young men from Ireland were then and have since been in the habit of doing, for the purpose of acquiring a knowledge of the corn trade. At the conclusion of the state trials, Mr. Butt sent a lostile message to the Solicitor-General, requesting to know whether a compliment which he had paid to the lttorney-General, " that he was a man who did not make .uis profession a trade," implied that Mr. Butt, in the 4olicitor's opinion, did. The Solicitor-General as sured Mr. Butt that his expressions had no oblique re errence to him. . • pULIILU grutmus ror tire quantity of oats grown in I re l an d sea t s . is immense ; but the bulk of these crops come to England So strong a hold has the genius of superstition among as their natural market; they cannot be purchased by the I the on, recently bitten by a mad 'dog, was sent to the church - St. Edrin's to eat the grass. which, it is believed, ?eculiar property of being an antidote to hydro- yaro of has the we are within a few weeks f the commencement of NEWS ABOUT THE POTATOE-CROP.---A - ...Lenient is going the round of the papers to the effect nounces the fact that the three Presidents destined to that in one part of the country a person on examining a govern the new Colleges are already selected. Two of potatoe-crop found that it was full of disease; he went in them are to be Roman Catholics; one, Sir Robert Kean, ten days after and saw that it was entirely gone ! Accord for the Southern College, the other, Dr. Kirwan, a ing to this ingenious piece of intelligence the best way Romish priest, for the Western College. The Northern will be to leave the disorder alon e —p er h a p s , lik e Si" College is to be presided over by a P r otest an t, th e Rev. H- - - "1 go (sir another famine in the sister country. THE Inisn COLLEGES.—A pamphlet from the pen of Dr. Ennis, Archbishop Murray' s E nvo y a t R ome , an- CHEERING M. Henry, described by Dr. Ennis as "a minister of that candy's fire, it will go off of itself. JULLIEN's BANKRUPTCY.—This bankrupt has obtained The debts now are £12,000. His attor- .s certificate the Irish clergy; his principles of honesty and liberality per cent. ! One of his ruinous speculations was engaging being known to all from experience ; he having been for Mddle. Dorus Gras at £2OOO for only a short time. One many years a member of the Board of National Education." item of his personal expenEes was £IBUO for presents to WEALTHY PAUPERS.—The failure of the potatoe cron his musicians in a rear ie prospects of the Is said to oe an ascertained tact, anc winter are most alarming. Mr. S. asked what means are to be adopt relieve the distress. We shall soon have abundant ap peals for eleemosynary aid ; but we hope we shall not have any more of the improvident exp en dit ure o f 1846. To tho . se well-meaning and benevolent. individuals who are THE KING OF THE BEI.G;AN'S ANNUITY The ac- lions from the mpena Great Britain, have been published, from which it appears that the annual expense of keeping up Claremont, to gether with certain pensions and salaries, amounts to On Si - inday last a party of frish reapers took their seats in a train travelling on the North Midland It.ilway from Treasury, in reference to the Irish Savings Banks :—" Se- Rotheram to Masbro'. Not having provided themselves veral parties who were inmates of the union workhouse, with the usual tickets they thought they might as well get as well as recipients of the late relief fund, appeared be- out before the train stopped. This they effected when the fore me as claimants, and three parties who were in the train was near Normanton. The engineer pulled up, how gaol as debtors came in the custody of the gaoler to claim ever, and guards, station men, and passengers followed in deposits." And again—" I would observe that by far the hot pursuit after the Irishmen. Several of them were taken, and next day were fined heavily by a magistrate. REMARKABLE PRESERVATION.—On Sunday, a child of Mr. Edgar, tewdealer, about two years old, having been taken by her sister into the attic, fell out of the window, a height offull 30 feet, upon the pebble pave and was taken up quite insensible ; but was f tract from a letter by regularly paid into thelxcheq out attention to the following ex- Mr. Tidd Pratt to the L or d s o f the though to all appearance in the greatest destitution, were not, horn the investigation 1 had made, parties for whom these institutions were intended, but they had invested theitmoney to the amounts before stated [viz., £l,lOO, £B5O, £620, £5OO, £4OO, £320, &c.], in order to avoid the payme .• acBcal Uptill i ' •• them, ••• and in numerous instances they were living on charity, or were recipients of i n d oor or ou td oor re li e f ; an d • .• .• nt below most utter utsregarti tor truth, and the attempts at fraud, falsehood, and subornation of perjury, which were made by the claimants."—A pretty result of the alms-system of 1846-1847 CONCILIATION.—We have done much to discourage Protestantism, and to encourase Ponerv_ That ;a fn cover. It is supposed that clothes acted as a para chute to break the'forceof the fall, and that she alighted • to back his waggon into a quickset hedge, at Horsemon. den, in Kent, and thus upset three hives of bees, which immediately attacked their disturbers with such fury, that means o an ivory ins ❑ouse, w ble enc THE CHARTISTS AND IRISH CONFEDERATES Another large meeting of these parties was held on Wednesday at the South London Chartist Hall. The chairman observed, that according to the Attorney- General, it was sedition to repeat at one meeting any sedi tious language that had been spoken by other speakers at any previous meeting. There were, he went on to state, 70,000 men out of employ in LondOn, but the Char ter would cure this, and all their other grievances, whilst the measures of Messrs. Hume and Cobden would prove wholly inefficacious. The proceedings at the meeting were of no general interest. At the Mansion house police-office on Wednesday, John Shaw, against whom a warrant had been issued by the Lord Mayor, for having attended an unlawful meeting and used seditious language was brought before his Lordship. A great deal of curiosity was excited by the examination, the prisoner having been chairman of the meeting in the Milton-street Theatre, at which the alleged seditious words were used, and J. J. Bezer having been a few days ago committed to Ncwgate upon a similar charge. The report of the prisoner's speech by a Govern ment short-hand writer, was read at length. He was then committed for a misdemeanour. On Wednesday, two more chartists—Hoyle and Ro gers, the latter apprehended at Nottingham —were ar rested. All the Manchester prisoners, except Burton and Leach, who have been bailed out; have been sent to Kirk dale Gaol, not having been able to procure the bail. -- The Standard stares that amongst the fire-balls, car tridges, &c., seized by the police at the lodgings of some of the Chartists lately arrested, are some missiles of a dia bolical character. They consist of a packet, somewhat square in form, covered with brown papal., and filled with nails, pieces of iron, and coarse gunpowder. Attached to each is a fusee of cotton, which leads to the powder. When ignited, the packet would in half a minute explode, and kill or seriously injure any one near. These missiles, it is supposed, were to have been thrown into the windows of houses the night the ringleaders were apprehended. On Wednesday, the following persons were apprehended at Ashton by Inspector Maiden, assisted by Mr. Sykes and Mr. Higgs, of the county constabulary, wi h a party his men :—James Taylor, - treasurer of the Chartist miation ; John Taylor, son of ditto; W. Atkinson, schoolmaster; James Harrop, gas fitter ; Edward Harrop, actory hand ; William Bonito!), ditto; W. Madn, la bourer; and I'. Storer, shoemaker. The whole of the above, and James RatelitTe, were apprehended under a bench warrant. Ratcliffe was arrested by Maiden, of Ashton, and Inspector Bates, of the detective force of Li ;crpool, on board the ship Ocean Monarch, bound for Boston, North America, in which be was found stowed ►w•ay in the hold among a quantity of old wood ynd hay._ 'William Dowling, artist and portrait painter, an Irish orrfederate, was brought before Mr. Henry, at Bow rtet on Monday, charged, on. the evidence of Powell, .vith.being one of the Chartist delegates present at the Lord Denman beer-shop on Tuesday evening, Avhen Mut . ins, th^. chairman, went round the room and a,ked each And obliged to I :elczate whether lie would come out arid fig,ht on the fol- ;he " Plotting Ceinniittee," whose duty it was to devise Aans for carrying out the i►:teaxted Chartist attack. lis also was remanded. 'ter its time von. is auout au yarns long anu zi yarns wide, the depth at nine o'c being considerable. The supplying stream, from the late to heavy rains, has been much swollen. The inm a t e o f a th house at the end of Back Water-street was alarmed by " • morning, and which was t he l it i s ier e. As soon as the engine"' he gain saw the approael: of the res bu, immediately put all steam on to get out of the wr tl '" p : B ro i auuni Lig Milo ne per- before he could attain any speed, the exPre" c anic r og e ceived his house to be surrounded by the torrent, and had dashed right into the hinder carriages. Four car„. scarcely escaped with his wife and children over the roof were completely dashed to pieces, and the wo,n_d_eie•tii!ote.ll, 0 ___ of his own any of the passengers escaped. An engine zi tly after the whole house was overset, went forward to Lancaster for surgeons, and on t'n /0 0 , ve persons who inhabited cellars in rival it was found, that although many were much l o q cgs were drowned. The reservoir is there was only one killed—a woman of the name situated 600 or 700 yards from the scene of the disaster, mondson, from Poulton-le-Sands, near Lancastero at an elevation of 200 feet above the town, so that the men received compound fractures of the skull , a v aitO e r force of the inundation may be imagined. A culvert lie in the House of Recovery in a hopeless e°„,,,11' through which the waste water of the reservoi r runs , an d M rs. Y a t es, o f L ancaster, had her face much out, " l°:' 'which 1 'which passes under the principal street of th e t own , was co ll ar- b one bro k en. A M i ss Bland, o f th e sato e ii ; j or'", burst, and the cellars filled with water; in these six per- received several injuries. The number of t he sons were drowned. In one house four children were amounts to between ten and twelve. When the vo idi j , carried out at the door by the torrent, but were fortunately driver and stoker on the express train saw wha, t .;„ijo o rl saved. Many persons were floated about, and much pro- evitably happen they jumped off and escape" ' — iree t 4 perty destroyed. The flood lasted about an hour. Mr. William Jackson, of Lancaster. one of the e , The gale was felt severely on the coast of the Isle of of the Lancaster and Preston Railway, was ti kll 9° . /l e lf Man. Several hundred fishing-boats assembled at the train at the time, and leaped out unhurt. Mr s " a 1 °!of Calf of Man were scattered in all directions, and four son, who was killed, had in her arms at the ti me ; W o o boats in seeking shelter in Port St. Mary bay we re d r i ven littl e b o y about four years old, who received j e l arre A il on the rocks and became total wrecks. Fort una t e ly only whatever. This is the fi r st co lli s i on that has o c yevio one man was drowned. the aa bLancastereeo opened an , d a P o Preston has ston causedßailway d during f t e li x e c ft e fe e T c ,li a At Penwortham and Hutton in this county th en h as 1 been much land under water. At the Old G range F arm , th e ne i g hb our h oo d . M r. B ec k ett, tea- d ea ler, l ie seef e ll occupied by Mr. Oliver Ball, in the latter t owns hip, up - t er , h a d a marve ll ous escape. H e was i n one of t lie 0 0 1 wards of fifty acres of grain, potatoes, &c., were covered. class carriages that was smashed to piecO• l oth Great numbers of persons at Charnock Moss, Penwor- through the bottom of the carriage when it P a tham, have suffered from the flooding of their crops. In escaped without even a mark of injury. some instances, potatoes and grain have been carried away ; and in one instance at Ojai nock Moss a haystack was a yard deep in water. At Longton, the whole of the lands near the Marsh, and the other low lands in the - ---- for ' Mr. Lawrence Heyworth is a candidate 1 0° township have been covered. In Longton and the neigh- „ea :,‘ the approaching election. bourhood the water has been across the turnpike-road, in places where the oldest villager does not remember such The Cheltenham Election Committee ei b ec , r e e d: is that Mr. Craven Berkeley was not duly ' an occurrence previously to have taken place. Hoole.was through his agents been guilty of treating• similarly visited ; and Bretherton Heys were also under water, as well as some of the low lands of Rufford. At POLITICAL MISCELLAN MORE ABOUT THE SPANISH MARRI Croston the streets were " swimming," according to our ----- informant's accountmany of the houses being let ~ je. A te bsl flooded, much furniture was floating about. The Revue Retrospective publishes a " 046 ,4 (Y of Lord Aberdeen to M. Guizot, dated Sep. 11 ' U lde 0- again shifts the burden of blame on to the s ''" 4 o o '.to o the French Government in the Spanish m arriaq jo er t i i e His lordship explains that, although Lord, f a ,i Keel s placed Prince Leopold on the list of candju a- 04 "lot Queen's hands it was because direct overtures deorSoir made by Queen Christiana, and not from a', l ,Ypoa other than the success of one of the sons 0' V cisco : , c °lc e o r to p r of rO t tiot " I have always done everything in my Pow -- ,, , , - ;oil 'mit that this country had no interest in the si , —":pie - ii, - Df Leopold, and to remove from your mind every Ot, s oc_ ket i to his intentions, if indeed he ever entertained alljoyar;ot,011 of which to this hour I am quite ignorant, were s e oln i pe the English Government. I had very . frequ ent t . all' oi, 'for with the Queen and Prince Albert on this subjeeaa pis 13 1 e o i remember saying to Jurnac, that after wha t h 0 pe Pl otit Prince could never speak to me again, if it Nye , . w itb 4 him to engage in any, intrigue for such an Ode" ,tiol:t knowledge." t in tru V u" .l l Lord Aberdeen reminds M. Guizot. tha •,. ri iag„gli'„ had been given to Mr. Bulwer, , when the r e ltliJi, t te re'i of Saxe Coburg wasproposed , that the feeling'. c A t o. , e t ° Government on the marriage question rernaiDe"prosPc Cofr and, after expressing his satisfaction e the c a iloi' t nely the marriage of the Queen with the Duke at' Soo ' the eludes with a free yet friendly warning en ' do . n°l sier union : d o" d i r - 4 ' " A descendent of Philip V. has been selectc !_ i bt O 0 0!,,, comprehend, therefore, why it has been thougb.ro!,7o.l !A l fa ' ti le x s.,osllri!y Lrie, ri l l : l i l t sary to abandon the engagement voluntarily V res eec t o t o me last year, and since frequently repeatT,teordiagoseaoiep marriage of the Duke de Montpensier. i' i ' i ` - pq prol tp es Are pi terms of that engagement, although the . of . )i ' l cu l " a demand the hand of the Infanta for the Prth e i d liaV e ., the he promised not to do so until the Queen silo C ured I o r , and the succession to the throne should be se arrscte rect line. rt 0 , 4. Lobe 1: 1 ; 0 e CO c o • " I did not feel called upon to object it ° t ier ite sinjoe: to t ? le n r t e h a e so co n n a v i n e ry a -, m t v h c eLi e • n a s r o p: s ar o e f o tries; and as the question itself would ilea:- - deci de d ict considerable time before it could be final it ,vas fi e possible that the views of policy b y Il i eCitia , '• rotO e ttel might, in the interval, receive some mo(J- - Nr the iieg tv, " You n.ay have reasons unknown to no, . aiii qtl e.t i co g adopted by the French Government ; alitt, l s „, a . 'jet . ., i ye, that to you they must appear sufficient, as_: di d aol q . o_7 t:;. you would never do anything for which 301., do r , ;-1 fo wl ", self to be fully justified. But 1 confess, ti ) te aco ni ,ou icyco t thfit I nrn nt n incq to iiPri•PicC all ade9?r,,,t }T il l' kild change which has taken "MA A alll.l 411, il IV.A AV i•LA •-•,. • ••• - me to state frankly, and without any disgul .. 4 I be u,, z i v , ~ sion upon the subject. Any other coin , e Iv,," t 'f r iervi'' p c , ' with my sincere regard tor you, and with In' roe to co pli I trust nothing can ever diminish. , c ars t°4oos.„ce ~, " The measure, as now contemplated, al , l ‘ d , , to set„rov?' - ,it6i place• I ain-sure ki- L : - , - „y . I` , T; o oD',"liiv vprt+ ,Inul:f fill ilnliev_ nnil may perhrtj2s ; : L.- , - ,,,t r . 0): sit a,,-rel,-,c 11:1, l•V1 &&&&& 111 liVill.j, ..... ••••- • But upon these niatters it 1 ' .", - I that, ..-, ~- i , % , preyent to decide. I have onlv to assure 3 0- , si o till , .` oo to 0 1 ' whether i❑ a public or private 'capacity, Yo u ~e rv all..6 l ,eil, slie and anxious to co-operate with you in the IT- 00 0 .0 0 1 0 er' good understandint.; which we have i ni PP i' Xties , lit i ' ' l rll' lY ' SCC(. , Efully maintained, under taany difi“ l ,,', i on - L i t ii. o ,l( SRCcountrie3 in the last tive years, and wlin:,_:o., o f 1, 0 . ), ~ SU:Vied is essential to the welfare and proslx r i . ; ' iliCe' i OP Believe me, lily dear M. 6uizio_ ever D'Am".. AusoP tr,Otic) It, 19 a very fonlis.h thing toi sleeping uartn?r, because he may aym i tf D 1 the Gaztlte.--Conanissicner 11 co. courage t god to man, and ^ to encourage that which virtuall: up the word of life from mankind, Thus have we sown; and how have we reaped ? The earth refuses to yield her fruit ; and ail our " conciliation" bestowed upon the peo- wal tu,4, uc lasi, unaer tne necessity of holding the island by military occupation, more than 40,000 men be ing now kept employed in putting down, and keeping down, a threatened rebellion ! It might have been sup posed, reasoning upon any ordinary principles of calcula tion, that the idea of " conciliating" the devotees of Rome would br tldq time hn,n, 1100.. —o,ll__ ueen at least suspectea of ta, But we observe no signs of any such enlightenment. the contrary, preparations are deliberately making, for a constant and avowed intercourse with the Pope, with a view of submitting to him, as Lord Clarendon began to do, recently, all the measures of our "Government haying reference to Ireland, in order that they may he modified to meet " his Holiness's wishes." The National System of Education in Ireland has now been in operation since 1632. A good trial of its quality and healing efficacy has accordingly been given. What arc the results ? Lord John Russell in his place in the Commons on Monday night, said they were admirable. His proof of his assertion was very simple. There were, he said, now established 4,000 schools, and 400,000 scho lars. We say, the results are bad. That the peater the number of schools, and the greater the number of scho lars, the worse the system has proved itself to be. Six teen years is a long time during which to prove the use fulness or efficacy:of a system. During a shorter period than that the child and the boy grow up to the man. Are the morals, the habits, the industry. the intelliqpile, thra peaceableness, the loyalty of the Irish population mani festly improved under this widely-spread course of teach ing of the Roman Catholic priesthood ? Not in the slightest degree; they are as immoral, as idle, as ignorant. less peaceable, and far less loyal than they were when the system began. Strange effects of a successful system of national education !—of what his lordship called on Mon day night, "a most comprehensive plan,"—" the bat teaching that could be given to the greatest number !" Record. was so dreadful life was preserved MONEY ORDERS. —The following notice has been issued by the authorities at the post-office: 1. The ad- b•“&11.CL1 IJII hereafter he transmitted to that office separate from all other advices, and in order to insure this, care must be taken to tie them up securely in a distinct packet. In granting money orders, and in advising the same, one christian name in full for either the payer or the remitter wni ue summent instead of all the christian names being furnished in full as hitherto required. The trades' union of the Britannia metal smiths of Sheffield has hired eleven acres of land at Gleadless Com mon, for the purpose of employing such of its members as have no work, and are consequently dependent on the funds of the union.. The wages allowed to the men are 14s. a-week, and 6d. a-week for each child under 13 year wie, and the rent maid f Pa. -3r the lam and outbuildings, is £l3; but it pulses will be defrayed by the shop at Sift ffield. It is said that property of the Duke of Duckm 6 .._ the amount of about-eighteen thousand a year cannot be sold. Neither the Duke nor his son Las the power of cutting off the Chandos entail, and by the proper sale of the other portion of the prop er t y , an d consequent sav i ng of interest and insurance, it is de c l are d, b y persons co ' potent to judge, that twelv e th ousand a year can b to the family during the duke's lif e . C an it b e the marquis, upon:otning to the d u k e d o m w vith two cottages is hoped that the ex -10 of the produce in a lid that I thirty ge.plt4tcapaa Ueg Two tiber-merehants of fling h a ve been con] for trial, ,barged with stealing timber from th Forest. One of the workmen, who was in the it mit led len help yc i - 1y timber yen find there ?" The answer " Itake what I think is the right timber." No wonder the Royal Forest will not repay the expenses of management. The in timber seized in the different yards of the forest, and on shipboard in Southampton Water, is said to exceed in value X 6,000. I nstruction, nu:twang /11 Writing, for the Sight! followi fbe author pamphlet will afford ," Hughes' System " for in- extract from - Mr. Hughes some idea of the system ing, music, and musical writing, on common writing paper, by simple raised characters, which are as plain to paper with th iroducible on rument as simply con§, which, with the aid of a forinula to - guide . the hand fioni line to line in, writing, or the various positions of the notes otherwise, infant or adult, to emancipate themselves from the mental darkness into which too many of them have unhappily fallen ; mainly from not having hitherto had anv efficient mode sufficiently expeditious for the purpose of impressing ideas on paper, and prosecuting their studies ie alphabet is composed of two distinct signs—a small dot and a large or rough one, which being combined and methodically arranged, in relative positions, so as to prevent confusion, represent all letters, punctua tion marks, figures, musical notes, Ike., Sze." TWO EXTRAORDINARY FEATS.—On concourse of persons assembled on the. mday, a large lodsfiack-rodd, witness Lie per wo exti. •dinary undertaken by the two celebrated pedestrians, Coates and Makepeace. The first feat was to pick up with the mouth, 50 eggs, placed one yard apart, to throw a side summerset twenty minutes. The eggs were placed in a straight line on the road, and as each one was picked up, it was dropped . . very cleverly performed by Coates, ini6-} minutes, being 31 minutes less than the time stipulated. After an inter val of about half an hour, Makepeace the pedestrian, commenced the second feat, which was to run a mile, walk a mile, wheel a barrow a mile, trundle a hoop a and endurance to an extraordinary degree, was performed with much ease and skill, although not quite within the specified time, by a few minutes, but this was entirely owing to the difficulty there was in keeping a clear course, for the spectators pressed so close to the pedestrian, that at times his progress and pace were much interfered with. SERVED HIM RIGHT.—A married man, living near Leeds, was lately wooing a buxom widow, who, hearing of her suitor's true character, determined on being re venged. Accordingly one night she invited him to tea, and scarcely had he finished his first cup, when, upon a signal from the widow, he was pounced upon by some of her female neighbours and acquaintances whom she had let into the secret. The first step was to throw a rope round him and pinion • his arms. A copious supply of gas tar and feathers was then brought, and the former was poured on the head and shoulders of the luckless Wight, who was afterwards profusely bedecked with plumage, so that when. his .relentless assailants had finished their operations he presented a most unusual spectacle, and might easily •hate been mistaken for some mad Indian fahir. His hat was also well stuck with feathers, anti in this strange plight he was most mercilessly turned out of the widow's domicile, to brave the loud laughs and jeering of scores of spectators. What made the matter worse, he had considerable difficulty in making hnrricade having been erected last - for the purpo It last, however, be .otection of a police- who took Lim to the Court and he v suffered to divest himself of his disagreeable out , ,vard habiliments, and for that of a goose to assume the com plexion of a man ; but whether he will_ venture again to to give way to hi doubtful. amatory propensities is more than CHARGE OF FORGERV.—On Wednesday the charge of forgery brought against Mr. G. W. Dumbell, of Douglas, of a ti7ort7;age deed for £l2OO whereby it is alleged that the claim under a prior mortgage was defeated. The pri soner is a solicitor and a member of the house of Keys. Mr. Dcemster Heywood took Lis seat at eleven o'clock, and the Court having been " fenced" in the usual form, his Honour ordered the coroner to bring in th e p r i soner . Mr. Dumbell accordingly made his appear a n ce s h or tly af . take his seat behind the bar, and near his counsel. one of whom sat beside him during the day. On entering the court several of his frit nds shook hands with him very cordially. The Attorney-General for the island, Mr. Ogden, appeared for. the prosecution ; Messrs. Blewitt, and James Gell, for the prisoner. The follow al jurymen answered to their names : — Robert Joseph - Roskell, - Smith, and Alexander Ind John Stephen, who did not au- J. S. Sh y-General hay ing praycdn tabs, 1 William \\Tooth, nswered, he jury wer Jo, mid tlic ery dilatory docunler. read Inc OI fp Icnccof c.Ne; t o'doc After the lapse of about half an hour the court occupied_ all next day, when the is congratula- adjourned. Tlit defendant was.nt.nnee Acquitted, =NS •tione of his fricada. .1(1 t ' l,, at t (3r }, e teare 4 ; Zll4 t ; Wt 6t erst 1)1. 1 ) ' ha Itr °4 eo 0 6 4 4. )3 1 Nrcer ti ta,Zitt ; Y t roei ta ttl%"V per pro, 03C trot that curi