The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-02-26 00:00:00

ANNUAL DINNER OF THE LIVERPOOL GUARDIAN SOCIETY The Annual Dinner of the members of this useful and increasing Society took place on Monday evening, at the Wellington Hotel, in Dale-stre3t, and was very rously attended. Previously to ti and other r the twenty- in February, 1 document The Committee cc tinned s •eceived the Annual names of The folloriing arc the I attempted fraud ,blished Is of the venting them from making bad d( mutual communication on this si s on the con- imes durini g ininz the cieties all over th nious fraud have t S of inv. criminal proceei the committee act sent of T. Wil The to appropriated .nd decorated inner seats, and y that t le, surpa: awn. ' lber at . . also to s were (solicitor to the t), Mr. W. Rox- arty of excel. 11 into recit ands, wines, and l and delicacy, the usual loyal n, Duchess hn Pembertor God save thi The President Albert, gave " loyal Highnes Royal Family," fol- then gave, the to members for the as a pleasing iety he set out ) our county and borough er of a deputation, waited ni them the most leo us r )n. On a r ton to meet the was quite sure smilink AY returned th .id if there was one Societ WANT OF A CURRENCY FOR OUR COLONIES The manifesto of the annexation party in Canada con tains a passage in which a comparison is drawn between the activity and enterprise apparent on the American side of the border, and the torpid state of thine :5 in their own country. The United States have their railways, their canals, their flourishing towns and cities, a growing com merce, a vast mercantile marine, and a powerful navy ; whilst the immense territory subject to the British crown is devoid of all these, and in the march to greatness and prosperity lags behind its republican neighbour most lamentably. The conclusion drawn by weak minds is that the source of the evil is in the institutions of the country. The present government can see no further than this, and are about to give to Canada an enlarged representative system. What Canada wants, however, and the absence of which is the direct cause of her comparatively stationary position, is a circulating medium to enable her population to exchange the products of their industry, and to emerge from a state which is little removed from that of barter. Take a glance at the position of the Canadian people, especially those of the upper province, at the present mo ment. Look at it, too, as a country to which we are driv ing—by our free-trade policy—the blood and sinew of our own land. The bulk of the population of Upper Canada have embarked their all in the fee simple and cultivation of the soil. Thsy are willing, if allowed, to produce for us inexhaustible supplies of the food which that soil is capable of yielding. But they have no money to pay for labour, or to regulate the ordinary exchanges of com merce. A few stray sovereigns brought out by emigrants, or local bank notes doled out on usurious terms, consti tute all the circulating medium which they possess. A freeholder with a thou Sand p oun d s i nves t e d i n l an d can • event of a ure of his expected amount of crop, command an accommodation of a. unsay bairn/Igs. vccastonaily the issues of money are suspended altogether, and nothing left for the farmer ex cept to barter his produce at the stores of the importer at whatever prices he chooses to fix. Having committed the mistake of investing the total amount of his capital in the tangible property of the soil, the settler cannot raise upon its security in an emergency above a tenth of its value; and then only by procuring endorsers to a three or four months' bill, which he cannot be assured of being in a position to meet at its maturity. Hundreds of such settlers are thus driven into a corner by the want of a little temporary monetary aid, and their property forfeited to their more fortunate possessors of a portion of the cir culating medium. A wise government, instead of beginning to tinker con stitutions, and to give to these colonies extended fran • cruses, would set themselves seriously to the work of giv ing them a steady and sufficient supply of money. Capi tal is there; value is there. They require only their re presentatives for the purpose of distribution and exchange. A few years ago an effort was made in Upper Canada to supply this want by the formation of a banking company, issuing notes payable in gold, or money of equal value, twelve months after date, an agreement having first been signed by upwards of five hundred freeholders and respect able traders in the province. From a letter before us, addressed by the gentlemen who originated and had the management of the Banking Company in question—Mr. William Banks, now of this town—to the lords of the treasury, we learn that this money circulated as readily as Bank of England money itself. Although nominally twelve months paper, they were redeemed by fresh issues, and became virtually cash ; and we have from Mr. Banks himself a representation of the surprisingly beneficial results which followed the adop tion of the system. The settler, who had paid a thousand pounds for his land, procured money accommodation to the extent of half that sum on its security. Every one pound note was thus based upon the best of all possible values ; and cultivation went on per *diem, instead of at tha snail's pace which is alone practicable in a country where there is no money. The operations of the country are attended with no loss. The system—only a make shift one we admit, but sufficient for a colony—shewed abundant fruits ; but the states legislature, incited no doubt by the lovers of usury, who in our own country are rewarded with peerages for devising the means of enrich ing themselves, instituted a bill to put it down, which, however, was defeated. The bank, nevertheless, with the prospect of a different result hanging over their heads, suspended its operations ; and Upper Canada is, in con sequence, at this moment enjoying a state of barter, or something worse in the state of a circulation of irredeem able paper. If her majesty's government would direct their atten tion to the erection of a monetary system suitable for our colonies, they would do ten thousand times more to bind them to the mother country than by the proposed plan of tinkering their institutions. Colonies want little more than facilities for the exercise of the industry and enter prise of their own population. A man goes to Canada or Australia to get rid of the turmoil of politics and party. not to have it foisted upon him. What d,;es the settler in Upper Canada want beyond the means of producing, and a market for his produce ? Both these requirements we are at present denying him FOREIGN. The mercantile advices from Vienna mention that it was reported from St. Petersburgh that the recent loan would not be sufficient for the completion of the Moscow Rail way, and that an additional 30,000,000 roubles would be required. The want of surgeons in the Austrian army is so greatly felt, that in order to induce civil surgeons to go into the army the military authorities have decreed that the usual fee for diplomas shall be remitted, and a present to be given of 100 to 150 florins. The celebrated composer, M. Louis Spohr, while walk ing on the 15th near Paris on the ice, had the misfortune to fall backwards, and received a hurt on his head. M. Spohr was immediately conveyed to his home, where every care and attention were shown him, but the pro fessional attendants despair of saving his life. Letters from Rome of the 13th describe that city as being in a most deplorable state. In the space of twenty eight hours 500 Romans belonging to the first families were arrested. There is scarcely a family which has not one of its families under arrest. Females have not been excepted. That which nothing else has been able to effect, the eruption of Vesuvius has effected, the flight, or rather the removal of the Pope. It is only, however, to the palace on Capo di Monte, where he can enjoy the magnificent scenes now being exhibited on Vesuvius without trembling at the dreadful roaring of the mountain, and without fear of being overwhelmed. LADIES' COMMITTEE FOR THE EXHIBITION OF INDUS TRY OF ALL NATIONS.—A most interesting meeting took place on Saturday evening at the residence of the Duchess of Sutherland, in order to form a committee of ladies to co-operate with his Royal Highness Prince Albert in car rying out the design of the Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations in 1851. Resolutions were agreed to by the following ladies who were present :—viz., the Marchio nesses -of Aylesbury, Westminster, Londonderry, and Clanricarde ; Viscountesses Jocelyn, Waldegrave, Pal merston, and Clanwilliam ; and Ladies Stanley, Mary Stanley, Grey, Dover, Peel, Foley, Caroline Lascelles, Shelburne, Ashburton, Granville, Flahault, &c. ; and Lords E. Howard and Dufferen were elected secretaries to the committee. )ther e tion be c neennnts Mr. W. M for the feast, I for wit 1 1 / 4 1r. Johr occupied t den, jun their eni: sit on. etceteras gratify the After thi f Lanc Queen," by Afr Royal Highness Prince of Wales lowed by " Win .equently calle with being ho wishing health member a menibe v r of the )se gentle deputation, a did oc Mr.( agitaling t tax he sl light of I Glee, The P ness of the gentleman on I great good ti scarcely known, he, had performed quiet Itentatious a r ion require it he public mind, anC I the health and hap' 6bolished, it was the tax on the (the mayor). The lad been a member of the highnay board more than 30 years to prov ,hat he deserved his 'present rght to have been in the civic )(tbePresident) was glad the proud position. Inc chair long before: horny Corporation had at langth paid him that compliment which his long public services became Mayor than he redoubled his former effort., deserved. Lie no soone was found patronising every mstuto.o... promote the well being of his fellow-citizens, or the general welfare of the town. (Hear, hear.) And last, though not least, he was there found to patronise the Guardian So , ' Mr. Pemberton aded to members ((lacers.) The - MAYoR, cordial thanks f much e ) return his most lived the toast applyi Lined when he :ted Mayor to at g to which he might be invited, his only ;int being the good of the town and it nhabita Ith of M. the society, although by doin tions laid down. (1 amidst loud and long to return ship then insisted y, the secretary to fringed the regula . Reay was drunk .) The Mayor had in- rn before " the presi tit he attributed this to retire at n from leec ire, and Mr the desirable: a month or so, to take nkruptcy law, and le window tax, the nt. was paid on Mr. RE AY I on taking him f :h of atinued he generally figured, and pl dent and officers of the soci to the fact of his Worship early hour, and are he v re two Hemingway, fiorn Binning and the lemen had bee ness of holding a congr into consideration maters of with common law, criminal law, the In (as his friend Mr. Crossley had said) t where law of arrest, and the question of fire opinion that at present two hundred nbargo was laid on the profits of ented him from being honest. o an important consideration 3 in its operation ast a gentlema six occ here the 1 at to a tradesman, who- and in a third in R.) was sure that 3 the amount of BANK FORGERIES.—An extensive forgery of the £5 notes of Messrs. Hall, West, and Borrer, of Brighton, has been discovered. A man was apprehended at Birmin:; ham for passing forged notes, when he threw a bundle of them into the fire, which turned out to be forgeries of the bank in question. The process by which the forgery was accomplished is somewhat new—having been accomplished by lithography—the counterfeit notes being prints from a well executed transfer to a printing stone of a genuine note. At the police-station the man in custody was strictly searched. His hat, coat, and waistcoat underwent the first examination, but the result was not important. " I must trouble you," said the chief officer, to " remove your trousers." The prisoner demurred and resisted ; but resistance was useless. His nether garment was taken off. " I suppose you will want my shirt next ?" said the prisoner. " Stockings first," replied the officer. The stockings were removed from the legs, and beneath the garters were found eight notes exactly similar to those already mentioned. " I suppose," said the prisoner, " you are satisfied now." " Not quite," said Mr. Chase ; but no further revelation attended the prosecution of the loudest manifesta- I search. A WISE PREDICTION. —ln his laboured statistical figures, produced on Thursday last, during the adjourned debate on Mr. Disraeli's motion, Mr. Wilson of the Eco nomist delivered himself of the following sage observa tion :—" The United States are not likely to export large quantities of wheat into this country. That country is increasing in population so rapidly that there will be a great demand within itself for wheat." America is ad ding daily to her stock of labour, the bulk of which must be employed in the cultivation of her virgin soil. Her new stock of farmers are going to eat up all the crops that they grow ! By and bye, if Manchester and Stockport go on apace, and increase the number of their spinning and weaving population, we may expect them, according to Mr. Wilson's logic, to have no calicoes to export, inas much as they will want more sheets and shirts ! The ar gument is one of the lamest we ever heard put forward, even by such a special pleader as Mr. Wilson ; and strik ingly decreases the value of his other ingenious specula tions upon the subject; such, for example, as the follow ing :—" Now a large amount of foreign wheat had bean imported, but no one could say that there had been a single quarter of wheat too much. He asked, where were the stocks of grain that now a f fected the prices ?" This - ,uestion is easily answered. The stocks which affect prices are in process of shipment from foreign markets from which Mr. Wilson would have us believe they cannot be imported here to leave a profit at less than from 455. to 555. pe r quarter. He continued :—" Either all the grain gro wn in this country and the immense quantity im ported had been consumed, or there must be an immense quantity on hand." Sagacious gentleman ! Either we h ave ate our loaf or we have it in the cupboard. But when the matter was looked into, nobody could say there had been or was too much wheat in the country." If there were two James Wilsons, however, getting up statistics for her Majesty's Whig Government, and both receiving only the same sum that one James Wilson receives, our friend of the Economist would be disposed to say that there was one James Wilson too much. " He denied the proposition that home-grown wheat bad been displaced by foreign." What does the gentleman mean ? If we are to-day eating bread made from Ame rican flour, we, certainly, are not eating the English grown article, which is thus far displaced. To-morrow we may be eating the produce of the British soil, and thus balancing matters. But if the introduction of tfie foreign article causes the price of the British one to be reduced a third, the displacement is felt severely in that most sen sitive part of an Englishman's person—his pocket. The ruminations of such politico-economical doctors as the editor of the Bconemist are unworthy of serious notice. .nsurance ; thus an man'whieh prey The receipt sta At present this A party in th having give COMM their mercy to giving the receipt had been informed would not become - bound for I the penalty where tradesmen trans hundreds, the large m the amount of millioi this la Commissioners of Inland Revenue this. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Reap con, his thanks for the manner in which drunk, and d situation of secretary to so Liverpool Guardian Society should render his renor reception equally gratifying factory to those with whom e CUAIRMAN returned thanks in a year had been a laboriou ne for the committee, and :rs. He noticed several equally so amo instances of culprits who this and other Guardian punishment. Amongst ( honest career of a preter le operation of ,ies been consigned to sever( hey had stopped the di game in this The M pm of ri The health of Mr. Thompson, Town Councillor, being thank, be made some facetious remarks on the recent election to the Town Council. and hoped the electors select men who would, for their own sakes, her were tradesmen in the town, or be one of - the most loin. (Cheers.) cheaply governed t, , Mr. REAY proposed, in coin health of Mr. Johnson, Secretary :ary terms, the Leeds Guardian and Al: ingham Society coupled with success to al , r the protection of trade He believed that had borne rnr and expense for mid be well for an for the )cieties, lg fund for general pur- itated that the so- sung, but it now nd they had been _ , of the Liverpool Society, s—tor that gentleman had freely them all the informatton and advice enabled him to favor which his experience Ho looked to the in eans of putting down fln try; (Cheers.) Town and Trade of Bs. (Cheers, followed by a swindling and fraud throughout the :r. HASTI/s Liverpool" in verylspr nautical glee.) ealth of the Solicitors The CHAIRMAN proposed the for the Society. (Glee.) .. Mr. EVANS returned thanks on beh of himself and his son in able and feeling terms. He knew that the society had done much good in the town. and he believed that it had done much good, by correspondence, with other towns. They had not succeeded to the full extent of their wishes, as to fraudulent parties about to emigrate, but they had gained so much that, upon due proof, such parties could be arrested within half an hour. Ho hoped such societies would long continue to be a protection to good men in trade, and a terror to evil-doers. (Cheers.) The SECRETARY proposed the health of Mr. Thorburne, as a young and most promising member of the bar. He spoke eloquently in behalf of such a society in connexion with the magistracy, as a truly a terror to evil-doers, as the last speaker had so expressed it.—(Cheers.) The toasts ended with "The Lancashire Witches," which was humourously proposed by Mr. Walker. The evening was passed in the most agreeable manner. —(Checrs.) Mr. HE MIN( during the last year t rather more than its share of the general good, and he thou arrangement to be come purpose of keeping up a. 3tiNsoN also re ciety he bE numbored_upwards of GOO r mmitted themselves to is done daily, and the well aware of ed by expressing health had been ad in filling the t a societ trusted When he mild meet with a ings, and satis- ,ry neat address THE I,IIERPOOL STIN6IIIO. Otneral .--•-•-•...ip1.--- Lord Gough has returned from India. All the deer in Dean Forest are to be destroyed. A thank-offering of £230 towards the repairs of Red cliff Church, Bristol, has been received by tie Mayor. The Moravian Missions obtain an average income from England of £3,000 a-year. To supply London, daily, with milk, 60,000 cows are required, yielding 100,030 gallons. Mr. Mirehouse, the common sergeant of London, died on Wednesday. At a great meeting held in Westminster on Thursday, to promote the Industrial Exhibition of 1851, £2,000 was subscribed. We have now a stock of upwards of one million of bales of cotton in the ports of Great Britain and the United States, and half of the crop yet to come in. There is an asylum for young thieves in Bristol, rented by two juvenile rascals—one 13 and the other 16 years old — who sub-let it to other tenants. A vessel just arrived in London, from Calcutta, has brought several hogsheads of " earth oil" as a portion of her cargo. The eldest daughter of M. Guizot is about to be mar ried to M. de Witt, the lineal descendant of the celebrated Dutchman, Jean de Witt. Captain Matthews, formerly of the Great Western, has been appointed to the command of the Glasgow and New York screw steam-ship City of Glasgow. The weekly cattle market at Wakefield has been discon tinued. As formerly, cattle markets will be held at Leeds and Wakefield alternately. The magistrates of Nottingham have fined an Inde pendent minister 40s. and costs for assaulting a married female. We are happy to find that there is everywhere a growing feeling for the entire closing of the post-office on the Sabbath-day. A gentleman, named Robson, formerly in the service of the late Duke of Northumberland, was killed, on Monday, at Berwick, by a train passing over him. An immense meeting was held at Edinburgh, on Mon day, the Lord Provost in the chair, to petition Parliament to close the post-offices on Sunday. GERMAN YEAST.—Since the commencement of the present year, the Norfolk steamer has brought over from Holland to Goole 4,536 bags of yeast in baskets—a proof that the article is becoming of considerable consumption. A correspondent of the Times advocates supplying London with water from Bala Lake; but Mr. Rawlinson has put a stop to the scheme by his estimate for carrying it out, viz., £10,000,000. Mr. Robert Stephenson, M.P., has announced his in tention of presenting to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle a marble bust of his illustrious father, the late George Stephenson. The furze on Wandsworth-common was set fire to, on Thursday evening, and drew out all the engines far and near, a space of three quarters of a mile being in flames at one time. NEW GREEN PEAS.—A small parcel of this early lux ury has been received in London by the Pacha steamer, from Lisbon, bearing as fresh an appearance as if grown in England. A quantity of meat has been roasted on the railway near Leighton Buzzard by a truck's taking fire. By the time the train stopped at the station most of the meat was cooked. While a man named Piper, in the service of a tanner of Dewsbury Moor, was superintending the chopping of some bark on Tuesday last, he fell amongsr the knives of the mill, and his body was chopped to pieces. Three Irishmen, who had deliberately broken some windows at Feversham, Kent, on Monday week, were seized by a mob, and were whipped out of the town, after one of them had been ducked under a pump. The Birmingham Journal relates that, on Friday night week, some burglars broke into a mill near Redditch, and stole thirteen packets of needles, averaging from 40,000 to 50,000 in each packet. A PAUPER'S " EFFECTS."—In a late return, made to the Banff Parochial Board, by a party applying for paro chial aid, the household property of which he was pos sessed was stated to be of the value of " 20." During a public-house brawl at Ruthin, John Lewis struck Thomas Thomas so severe a blow on the head with a poker, that he died shortly after, and the assailant has been committed on the charge of wilful murder. On Tuesday morning last, Mr. Samuel H. Turner, formerly a very respectable druggist in Scarbro', was found suspended to a tree in a plantation near Breckon Farm, in the township of Ayton. A boat, in which were William M'Gammon and his wife, went adrift from Leith, on Saturday week, and was not picked up until next morning, when the unwilling passengers were found in a very exhausted state. Fiftesn full-grown herrings ' which appeared to h ave been recently swallowed, we re lately taken out of the in side of a cod by a cook in a gentleman's family in Edin burgh. A - woman named Kelly accidentally fell head foremost into a midden at Preston, on Wednesday, and was buried up to her waist ; but some neighbours succeeded in res cuing her before she was suffocated. The Society of Dealers in Newspapers have presented a unanimous vote of thanks to the proprietors of the Spec tator and John Bull newspapers, in consequence of their discontinuing a Sunday edition of their journals. Perplexed by the question, " what is England to do with her rogues ?" the Morning Post hesitatingly sug gests the expedient of "founding some new penal colony on ground yet unbroken by the Anglo-Saxon spade." The ex-king of the French, with his consort and family, and attended by a large suite, have taken up their resi dence at the Star and Garter Hotel, Richmond. The in tention of his ex-majesty is to remain in Richmond till Easter. While the wife of a cattle dealer living at Barnby Dun, Yorkshire, was milking a cow in a stall on Thursday week, the cow suddenly kicked her into an adjoining stall, where she fell, and sustained so severe a concussion of the brain that she died in the course of a few minutes. An honest industrious man, living on Castle-hill, Holy well, has three sons, named Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; Abednego was baptised last Sunday wee k. Should he have three more he is to call them Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The mayor and magistrates of Kendal have formally requested the inhabitants in no case to offer relief to strolling beggars, their benevolence being in a majority of cases grossly abused, and tending to encourage the reci pients in a lazy and plundering course of life. The first of a new line of screw-ships, from Glasgow to New York, starts in March. These vessels are of a large capacity, and will afford great facilities for emigration. So far as experience goes, the voyage will generally be made in from 22 to 26 days. The Rev. James Bromley, a Wesleyan minister, who is stationed at Bath, having received notice of trial at a spe cial district meeting, on account of three letters that he has published on the subject of conference discipline, was suspended from the ministry last week. SHADDOCKS AND FORBIDDEN FRUIT.—A quantity of this tropical fruit has been received from the Bahamas, which, together with oranges, is being cultivated to a considerable extent for consumption in America, and is likely to prove of pecuniary benefit to our colonies. The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng land has increased from £16,850,255 to £17,089,901, being a difference of £239,646. The paper in actual circulation had decreased from £20,556,613 to £20,339,864, being a difference of £216,749. On Saturday a curious case was tried before a metropo litan court. A scoundrel induced a simple-minded ser vant-girl to `• marry" him, and persuaded her to believe that the ceremony consisted in jumping over a broomstick. Subsequently, he obtained possession of her little savings and next day abandoned his ruined victim. WISE VERDICT.—The coroner of Bristol—the bones of a couple of cavaliers or roundheads, slain at the siege of the city by Prince Rupert in 1643, having been turned up by some " navvies"—held an inquest upon them, and the jury returned an unimpeachable verdict of " Found dead." RELIGIOUS AGITATION.—" Before any person is now admitted to an office in the Wesleyan Society," states the Stamford Mercury, " the question is put, If you should find anything you disapprove of in management or discipline, will you quietly leave the body and not agi tate ?' " Last week, a girl in the service of a gentleman living at Windsor Hill, near Pembroke, thoughtlessly placed her master's powder flask upon the "fire jamb" in the kitchen. Shortly afterwards, the powder exploded, shat tered the fire-place to pieces, blew out the window, and severely burned the girl's face, hands, &c. Recently a hawk pounced upon a weasel, and was carry ing off his prize in triumph when he was observed to spread out his wings, and both came gradually to the ea , th. The hawk was dead, but the weasel, after turning round once or twice, began deliberately to make a meal on the carcase of his enemy. A fire broke out in the village of Blackawton on Friday evening. Four cottages were burnt down, and two others were unroofed to prevent the spreading of the flames. The fire first appeared in a thatched roof, not near a chimney, and is generally supposed to have been kindled by a wicked incendiary.—Plymouth Times. DISCOMMUNING AT CAmnainGE.—Two tradesmen have been discommuned fcr infraction of the regulations of the University of Cambridge—the one (who is one of the principal tailors of the town) for three months ; and the other (the keeper of "an old curiosity shop") during the pleasure of the authorities. • MURDER OF A HUSBAND.-At the Worship-street office, on Friday, Anne Merritt, who has several times been under examination on suspicion of having poisoned her husband, a turncock in the East London Water Com pany, was committed to Newgate on the charge of wilful murder. This is one of those cases of poisoning where the husband belonged to a benefit society. The sub-marine telegraph between France and England is to be completed by the Ist of September. The two points fixed are Cape Gaisner, near Calais, and the Shakspeare Cliff, near Dover. The distance is only eighteen English miles ; but the telegraph, consisting of seven wires, is to be twenty-three miles, to allow of oscillation. At the assizes at Appleby, on Wednesday, the most serious case in the calendar was that of the prisoners Richard Johnson. Henry Wilkinson, and Isaac Johnson, for night poaching, the latter being also charged with maliciously firing a gun at Robert Orphan, gamekeeper to the Farl of Lonsdale, Lowther Castle, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. The prisoners were convicted, and sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment. At Richmond police-court on Saturday week a grazier, named Fuller, and his servant were fined £lO 10s. and costs, for annihilating 38 oxen belonging to a gentleman there. Thirty-eight ears of oxen were placed on the table before the bench, some were five or six inches in length. Their exhibition created quite a sensation. Fuller performed most of the cruel acts himself, and jus tified himself on the ground, that he "cropped" the ear off to identify the beasts from others. The inhabitants of the fashionable town of Leamington Spa have subscribed a thousand pounds (to be continued annually) to provide a succession of amusements for the summer visitors, embracing archery fetes, horticultural shows, cricket matches, balloon ascents, pyrotechnic dis plays, daily musical performances, &c.; and to encourage fox-hunting. It is said that 10,000 pairs of boots and shoes are menu. factured daily in Bethnal-green, Whitechapel, and Spitalfields. Thousands of ladies' French shoes, that never saw France, are made at this end of the town, and worn by the first ladies in the land. The material and wages cost under 2s. per pair, and they are sold as goods imported from France at 4s. 6d. and ss. 6d. JENNY GEDDES REVIVED.-At Bridgend, near Swansea, the Latter-day Saints were lately holding a meeting in a tavern, when a fair hearer, thinking the priest to be personal, threw her patten at his head, and broke his nose. Down rushed the priest from his ros trum, and inflicted summary punishment, with his fists, on the rebellious saint. A Scotch paper mentions that on Saturday week, while an old woman named Robertson was filling a tub from ' the Kilmarnock Water. which flows at the bottom of the garden of the cottage where she lived, near Kilmarnock, the garden gate suddenly swung round on its hinges, and knocked her into the water, where she was drowned before her neighbours could rescue her. At the Episcopal Chapel in West-street, St. Giles's, London, an Sunday week, before reading the general thanksgiving, the officiating minister made the following unusual announcement :—" A person desires to return thanks to Almighty God for deliverance from captivity in the dungeons of the Inquisition at Rome." It was at once known that Dr. Achilli, who had arrived in England the night before, was in the chapel. At Guildhall, London, on Wednesday, Robert Leggatt, a respectable leather merchant, was sentenced by Alder man Carden to seven day's imprisonment for putting his arm round the waist of a lady in Leadenhall-market, insulting her with gross language. He pleaded drunken ness, and offered to apologise and pay any fine, but the Alderman very properly determined on making him an example. MINIATURE IN NATURE.-A curious and most novel specimen of the human race is now in existence at the Union workhouse at Yeovil. The object of this , remark is a female child, an " orphan," about six weeks old, but appearing much older ; the ponderous gravity of its whole bulk amounts to the astonishing weight of 21- lbs. The little creature is quite well, and to all appearance likely to live. LONGEVITY.—Janet Mackintosh, of Wyke, in the pa rish of Cromdale, Morayshire, died on the 16th Dec., at the good old age of 105 years ; and on the 6th ult. she was fol lowed by her husband, Robert Stewart, at the age of I'o2. This patriarchal pair enjoyed each other's society, ac man and wife, for the period of seventy-eight years ; they had nine daughters and one so n , forty-eight granchildren, and four great grandchildren. FUNERAL ECONOMY.—Last week took place a very plain and somewhat eccentric funeral of the Rev. J. Ford, at Navestock. The object of the plainness, we find, was that the money thus saved should be distributed amongst the poor in sheets and blankets ; and accordingly, on Saturday last, the sum of £5O was thus given away at the vestry, in sums of 10s. each, to 100 of the most deserving in the parish.—Chelmsford Chronicle. GENTLEMANLY AMUSEMENTS.—At the Bow-street office, on Tuesday, Mr. S. D. Worship, a solicitor, nth'. another gentleman (!) named Watts, were charged with being drunk and disorderly in the streets of London, an noying and pushing off the pavement every female they met. The magistrate, Mr. Jardine, said he should not fine the defendants, but sentence Lem to be imprisoned for seven days. Messrs. Horlock and Co., of Northfleet, have just com pleted the machinery of a trim little steam-schooner, destined for the service of the Channel Islands and France Steam Navigation Company. This light and elegant vessel is propelled by a pair of 20-horse engines, acting directly under the propeller shaft—thus dispensing with the use of any gear-wheels. Nearly- the whole of the works is of malleable iron. A seaman of the mail-packet Garland, fell into the sea at Calais, and his body was not recovered for ten minutes. For two hours, the commander of the steamer, Lieut. Wylde, the second master, and the engineer, took turns with the crew in applying the remedies recommended for the resuscitation of the apparently drowned, and their efforts were then crowned with success. The sailor has since been brought to Dover, and is going on well. A correspondent of the Morning Post states that the committee who are carrying into effect Mr. S. Herbert's emigration scheme, instead of sending out distressed needlewomen, are giving the advantage of their funds to parties well able to pay their passage money. Young women who have held lucrative situations as ladies' maids, and the daughters connected with emigrating fami lies having sufficient money, have been provided with free passages. Lord Nelson's daughter, Horatia, contradicts, in a letter to the Times, a statement made in the Liverpool Albion recently, that she is not the daughter of Lady Hamilton. There appears, however, great doubt that such is the case. A daughter of Lord Nelson's late chaplain distinctly de clares that she frequently heard her father say that Horatia was not the daughter of Lady Hamilton, but of a lady of high rank and of much stricter morals. The Rev. Erskine Neale confirms this. WHAT WILL BE THE FUTURE AVERAGE PRICE OF WHEAT.—We are unable satisfactorily to answer this question ; but we can state, on unquestionable authority, that a few days ago one of the principal city houses char tered several vessels at a freight of 6s. per quarter to load wheat at Odessa at 245. per quarter, free on board. The last weekly average was 365. 6d. ; being a fall of 7s. sd. per quarter on the price of the corresponding week of last year, that week being the second week of free trade. A large meeting of pitmen was held on Saturday last, on the Black Fell, near Wrekenton. There would be between three and four thousand present. The objects of the meeting were to adopt measures for the promotion of a better system of ventilation in mines, and to petition parliament for the appointment, of inspectors of mines. Resolutions and petitions to Parliament were unanimously adopted. The meeting was addressed by Mr. G. W. Reynolds, author of the " Mysteries of London," and other speakers. THE PROJECTED ARCTIC BALLOONS.—Mr. Shepherd, the "Messenger Balloon" projector, liberated five bal loons, such as are furnished to the Arctic ships, on Wed nesday, from the Admiralty, carrying between two and three thousand messages. MI the balloons ascended well ; and did not, as did those previously despatched, descend near London. They are probably now, with the high wind which has been blowing, scattered over the north of Europe. The matches burn for sixty hours.— Athenceum. John Stockwell, a well-known thief, has been com mitted for trial on various charges, at the Thames Police office. Two children, a boy and girl, aged respectfully eight and ten, gave evidence against him, stating, with artless simplicity, "'that gentleman," looking at the prisoner, " had pointed at things at different shops," saying, " there were some gifts for them." They took whatever they were desired, and gave them to the prisoner, who used to give them a shilling now and then, and plenty to eat and drink. ADVANTAGE OF CORONER'S INQUESTS IN CASES OF FIRE.—On Monday week a house and shop in Queen street, Exeter, occupied by Mr. Foote, grocer, was de stroyed by fire. The engines of the various insurance companies were soon on the spot. and the adjoining pro perty was saved. An inquest was held on Tuesday, which was adjourned to Thursday. On Wednesday a warrant was issued for Mr. Foote's apprehension, on a charge of setting fire to the premises, and he was accord ingly apprehended on Wednesday afternoon ; and, after a hearing at the Guildhall, he was remanded. THE GREAT EXHIBITION FOR 1851.—A most numerous and highly influential meeting of the inhabitants of West minster, in furtherance of the great work for the exhibi tion of the industry of all nations, in 1851, took place on Thursday, in Willis's rooms. Francis Smedley, Esq., the High Bailiff of Westminster, took the chair. On the platform were the Bishop of London, the Earl of Carlisle, Mr. J. Loyd, Mr. Leslie, J. Wyld, Esq., M.P. There were also present, several foreigners of distinction. The Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Mary Howard were pre sent, and appeared to take great interest in the proceed ings. At Chamisso Island, a cask of flour, left by Captain Beechey, twenty-three years previously, was dug up from the sand by the crew of a vessel lately visiting those parts. It required the united strength of two boats' crews, with a parbuckle and a large spar as a lever, to frse it alto gether. The sand was frozen Fo hard that it emitted sparks with every blow of the pickaxe. The cask itself was perfectly sound, and the hoops good ; out of the 336 lbs. of flour which it contained, 175 lbs. was as sweet and well tasted as any on board. The tin of beads was also found ; those not of glass much decayed ; the cotton stringing quite sound. CAPTURE OF A THIEF.—At Carlisle, on Saturday week, a thief was pursued by a policeman, and on reaching the side of the river, which was considerably swollen with the recent rains, the thief made a momentary halt ; but a second thought seemed suddenly to cross his mind, and he darted into the flood, with the intention of crossing to the other side; but as soon as he became immersed up to the neck in cold water, he made a dead stand. The policeman waited patiently at the edge of the water for a few minutes. During this time his half-starved victim's courage was cooled, and he came farther out, and stood up to his knees in the water, seemingly very resigned. He was soon afterwards secured and taken to the lock-up. FEARFUL COLLISION AT SEA.—A collision, of a most alarming character, involving the loss of two valuable vessels, was reported on Monday at Lloyd's, as having occurred on the night of Friday week. Both vessels were English traders ; one, the Floridian, a large barque of 300 tons burthen, belonging to Newcastle, the other was a brigantine, the Helen, belonging to Dumfries, from Lisbon, bound to Leith. The force with which they cama together was tremendous. The Helen foundered almost instantly after, her crew having barely . time to clamber among the wreck into the Floridian, which seemed in the same condition ; her hull was cut down to the water's edge, her mainmast was gone, as also the fore and bow sprit, and it was not expected she could outlive the night. One of the Helen's crew perished in attempting to gain the Floridian : he fell between the wrecks, and was either crushed to death or drowned ; he was never seen after, wards. By incessant working at the pumps, both cre ws managed to keep the vessel from sinking, but still the water gained in the hold, and it became evident that there was no chance of saving her, and that in a few hours she would follow the fate of the Helen. Very fortunately, on the morning of the 15th, her perilous situation was ob served by the schooner Victoria, on her way to London from Vallaviciosa, which bore down to her aid, and the master, Mr. Weis, with his boats, succeeded in taking off the wreck the crew of both vessels. The Floridian ills appeared under water in the course of an h our a f ter. T he loss of the vessels, with their cargoes, is calculated at upwards of X 17,000. HUMBOLLOT'S OPINION RELATIYE TO SIR JOHN FRANKIN.—A correspondent of an American paper, writing from Berlin, relates an interview with Humboldt the savant, when the following opinion as to the fate of Sir John Franklin was accidentally elicited from him ; " He thought it quite probable that Franklin had not perished, but was still shut in by the ice, and gave several facts of voyagers whom he had seen, and who had been for long seasons so detained in the northern seas. The Esquirnaux of the cost, lie said, were not at all dangerous; Franklin was well supplied with provisions, and would pro bably yet return to give an account of his voyage. Indeed, the report that the Esquimaux Indians had said that some vessels had long been fast in the ice, away off to the north, seemed to be fully confirmed." A TRAP FOR A THIEF.—One of the men in Mr. Biggs's tobacco manufactory, Bristol, having discovered, on Fri day morning, a parcel of. about 31bs. of snuff secreted away under a chest in a room, where it could only have been placed for dishonest purposes, informed the foreman, who told him to leave it there, attach a string to it, con vey it behind the chest to a room on the second floor, and tie it to a stick, which served as a sort of float, for the party hurriedly removing the parcel below, must pull the string, and give the signal up stairs. As the men were leaving the manufactory, the ma:. on watch saw the float dip, and running down stairs, secured the parcel on the person of a man named George Roberts, and with the string still attached to it. The act was complete, and the line of evidence connected. Roberts, who was one of the workmen in the warehouse, was, brought up before the magistrates on Monday, and committed for trial. A MOTHER ATTEMPTING TO DROWN THREE CHM DREN.—A woman, named Higgins, the wife of a wheel wright in London, attempted to drown her three children, aged respectively seven years, five years, and five months, and to terminate her own existence by the same means, on Monday evening. She was distinctly seen to approach the water of the Regent's Canal and put her two youngest children softly into the water, after which she plunged in herself, dragging the third child with her. A young man,. named Rollins, who was attracted to the spot by the alarm, succeeded in saving the lives of all the parties. The mother. whose distress seemed very great, regretted that she and her children had not been allowed to perish, and ascribed her commission of the act to the misconduct of her husband. She was brought up in custody at the Marylebone police court, on , Wednesday, and remanded for a week, preparatory to being sent for trial. The magistrate praised highly the conduct of the witness Rollins, who is a painter at 6, Devonshire-street, Lisson- A BAILIFF'S EXPEDIENT TO EFFECT AN ENTRANCE. We are informed, upon good authority, of an amusing circumstance which recently took place in the neighbour hood of Nottingham. A bailiff, after several ineffectual attempts to effect an entrance, for certain purposes, into the "oastle " of a county surgeon, hit upon the following expedient to accomplish his end :—After concealing his men as near the house as possible, he habited himself as a jolly country farmer, with his face well tied up, as if suffering from toothache, and thus accoutred, he easily gained admittance into the surgery of the unfortunate and unsuspecting .Esculapian. As may be supposed, the suf ferer was in no very particul ar h urr y t o un d ergo the very painful operation which the practitioner wasabout to per for and used every expedient to afford his men time to come up. The doctor, however, was called aside by his boy, who told him, " Mester, they've done yon ; the men c.iming towards the house." Upon which the former returned to his patient, on a pretence to • examine his mouth, and revenged himself by drawing a sound double tooth, thus consoling himself for having been so dex terously over-reached.—Nottingham Mercury: TEACHING ROMANISM.—The Brighton Guardian re ports an extraordinary meeting of the committee of the national schools in that town, at which the bishop was present by invitation, with forty of the clergy and princi pal inhabitants, to inquire into a charge made against the the schoolmaster of teaching Romish doctrine. The pro ceedings-were opened by Sir T. Blomfield, who charged Mr. Daymond that he " Denied that the Church of Rome was Antichrist,. or Babylon ; that he had expressed an opinion that it was the duty of Romanists on the •Conti nent to remain in that church instead of coming out of her ; that Christ was with the Church of Rome, not in the same degree r but as truly as with the Church of England ; and fourthly, that the Romanist should enter into the services of his Church, but not to say ' Amen' to those things of which he disapproved. He would move, " That the senti ments advocated by Mr. Daymond are opposed to the great principles of the Reformation, to the Church of Eng land, and to the Word of God, and therefore the committee had come to the painful resolution that he was unfit to be intrusted with the education of Protestant youth." In consequence of some suggestions, the resolution was altered by the mover to an expression of Mr. Davmond's unfitness to remain any longer a teacher in the school. FRAUD UPON THE ADMIRALTY.—At the Bow-street police, London, on Friday, William J. R. Smith and John Chappel Bouchier, said to be an officer in the army, were charged with a novel fraud. The prisoner Smith, it was stated, had been a clerk in the Admiralty, and had learnt there, among other matters, that it was customary to pay the masters or agents of vessels bringing home distressed British seamen from the colonies an allowance of Is. per head per day during the voyage. In the present case, a document purporting to be written and signed by the se cretary to the governor of Ceylon, and another document signed by Walter Bevis. as master of a vessel, had been presented at the Admiralty to substantiate a claim for £53 155., by a person who represented himself as the agent of the vessel. These documents were sworn, by those who knew the handwriting of Smith, to be appa rently written by him. The man who presented them was followed by a police inspector, who was set to watch him, into Chancery-lane,, where he met Smith, and shortly after they were joined by Bouchier. Smith and Bouchier were soon after apprehended; but the third party, who had applied at the Admiralty, escaped. There was no evidence to implicate Mr. Bouchier in the fraud, and he was therefore liberated on his own recognisance, and the case remanded for a week. THE TAILORS.—The public are now pretty well aware that there is a fearful amount of injury committed against the working classes thrcughout the kingdom, not by their rulers, nor by the owners and distributors of wealth, but chiefly by persons who have sprung from their own class, and who tyrannise over them by wringing from their toil worn hands a portion of their fair wages, that these harpies may spend it in luxury. Among the tailors this is espe cially the case, and mach exertion is now making to bring about a reform of this system. A public meeting, presided over by the mayor, was held in the Tailors' Hall, Bristol, on Wednesday evening, which filled the Hall to the very court below, which:was crowded by men vainly endeavour ing to gain admittance; some of the most respectable master tailors in the city attended, to countenance and assist the workmen by taking part in the proceedings, which were conducted in a manner most worthy of com mendation. Those laborious, long-suffering, and as we cannot doubt, ill-used men, appeal to the public and to Parliament to rescue them from the grinding tyranny by which they are kept to hard work, and steeped in hopeless • and remedy, it i s no poverty. Parliament is-not much in a temper to interfere easyf o for matter the protection for themof the n a oppresseduth cases, labourer, ouiei provide a d y e r d a o t e a great adi e a de n th a i nl kiwhats t he w matter.ive s and t ß h u a t k t i l n ie d a p a u d bl e ic on m si a children of these poor tailors undergo in the way of temp tation and hardship, when forced to work day and night to earn less than their husbands could formerly bring home by their single exertions from the workshop, and than those who are now employed by respectable masters still earn DISTURBANCE AMONG THE WESLEYANS.—A terrible disturbance took place on Tuesday night, at the Langton street Wesleyan Chapel, Bristol. It would seem that the Rev. Messrs. Dunn and Griffiths, two of the expelled Wesleyan ministers, having made preparations for preach. ing in that city, the Rev. the President of the Conference, Mr. Jackson, invited the members of the Bristol South Circuit to meet him at the Langton-street Chapel, with a view to hearing from him an explanation of the matters in dispute, and a vindication of the Conference policy. The admission having been by ticket of membership, the full particulars of what occurred within the walls of the sacred edifice have not transpired, but it is known that there was a very great disturbance, in the course of which (as some contend prematurely) the police of the Bedminster division were sent for. As soon as the president and some of the ministers ascended the platform, they were assailed with loud cries for the admission of Mr. Dunn. The president attempted to speak, but not a word could be heard from the incessant clamour of the majority of the congregation, who demanded the admission of the expelled ministers. Other ministers tried to get a hearing, but with no more success, while Mr. Griffiths, a brother of the expelled minister, who applied that he mislit be admitted to hoar the charges against him, was beard with tolerable patience, as were some other parties who spoke on the same side. The president and others at length declared the meeting dissolved, and left the building, having previously given notice that a meeting of the North Circuit, announced for the following evening, at Ebenezer Chapel, would not be attempted. On Tuesday night Mr. Dunn preached at Bridge-street (Independent), and Mr. Griffiths at•Ledge street (Independent) Chapel, both of which places were crammed. ADVENTURES OP A STRAY SHIP.—It will be in th re"ollection of our readers, that on the 9th of' January, the Talbot steamer, plyiag between Bristol and Carmar then, when off the Sker Point, ran foul of the French vessel L'Hirondelle, laden with a valuable cargo of oil. The vessel was left in a sinking state (as was then ;impo sed), and the Talbot, after receiving her crew on board, proceeded on her voyage. From the 9th to. the 30th ult. no trace of the missing vessel was discernible, but on the last named day, intelligence was published in Lloyd's list, that the still fl oa ti ng h u ll o f the lo!Hirondelle had been discovered between the Smalls and Bishop's Rocks. In the meantime, however, the Talbot was seized by an agent of the Admiralty, on behalf of the ow:.er of the L'Hirondelle, and the directors of the company were compelled to enter into a bond of £l,OOO compensation for the loss of vessel and cargo. This procedure stimu lated the energies of the directors to make diligent search for the vessel. Their agent, Mr. North Rees, did this, and made a rigid investigation in all the ports from Mil ford northwards throughout Cardigan Bay. During this week, Mr. Rees was informed that a vessel somewhat answering the description of the L'Hirondelle, had been seen beating about outside Cardigan bar. He was ulti mately successful in coming up with this fugitive of the ocean, finding her hull high and dry on Towyn sands, in Merionethshire. Her masts and sails were all gone, but the hull had received scarcely any damage. Sixty-four hogsheads and pipes of oil were landed, which bad not received any injury, and eight more which were partially damaged. Mr. Rees also found two watches in the cabin, together with the men's wearing app are l, an d a number of chains, cables, anchors. &e. It would thus appear that this vessel had alone, unguided, undirected, drifted about for at least thirty days,, exposed to the vari ous storms which td h hi a se v t aß e nr o ci sa c t c o u al r r a a nt r d do during t ni oe, thattolrish2 p o e a ih o a d ni , ens a e. n l.....s d , altogether was s wa ni carriedea over f down r gm d'eb• to '...... -~_ Feb 26, ii 6L su.,,w wee oi, tile I see t _----. O9 Ne 7 „ ----"" "E EDIT „,,,! vi tt ,.,. A " S SINGULAR L e A a ß t a s D t r 0 1 DISSOLUTION r o IC occurred d " on A 1 Of 14 d ! Cir Stephen's Ford, near Haverfordwest. The 14 , 0 04 I lis lig' Jones, Baptist minister, held a meeting in syr_l a fter td phl " 8 te cow-house, which was crowded to excess. Just set a . " ° P had given out the last hymn, and the choir were P ad d his ' , Nair ing with its performance, the beams gave wayL A bee, etki, g. sense, greater part of the congregation were precipita; Di The bill long into the lower stall, amidst a number ore°. „ jotdi n , °Pt reverend minister alighted on a cow's back, he , / , 5 , ebts, turn a boy perched upon his shoulders. Sever"'. s it t b e n:ose severe injuries,- and the confusion may be better Itt 0, , t 5, ,,1, 11 e bi T B u A es Pr darnig ht v ,T, than described. The reverend gentleman was se_T e i , 'at onl cated from his perilous position, happily without rein. injury. injury. Many of the congregation were with 1 01 414 THEirs• C culty released from under the beds, tables, chair s. which were heaped upon therm—Swansea Heral d o• o p riff ED, CRUELTY TO A CHILD.—At the Guildhall Polic!),-0 6 t EDIT ii on Thursday, Mr. Edward Kenealy, a barrister , li jag or, , km , wa No. 4, South-square, Gray's Inn, London, aPPe are bija 0 Ir r i t 2. 4 l 3 pt charged with brutally ill-treating his natural e er !,.....b e sif_is re. hanging it up and flogging it in a most cruel matt ° llosp o ,":n its ancles to the nape of its neck. Inspector i' I F so r:q f lid said that, according to the boy's account, his hands ristianakr tied, and that he was hung by them on a clothe s ta°sPher-c seven feet high, or thereabouts. Mr. Burt, the 0 sti a , ,' r to the West London Union, said, on Thursday , tueotics eof s o aulho of February, th e c hild' s case came un der 1 13 3' ' I t , Stal'el• th e e rates. There was a horizont a l mar k roun d th e child's 611 f i. etr `car ardor if a cord had been passed round his neck. The bil ot ol l atee al ee e t 'Y ret perfectly discoloured from bruises, suppuration ii 0: 111 1) ? . b iel pti. taken place in consequence of the rupture or sta a n d ;ti l a attra ebi is a sels : from the scapula down to the posteriors , a eto tt h „ettnd y v t ,e st arms and legs to the feet, were also in the Plea Vats ta s b% Pll Mr. Kenealy was allowed to char at large on eon,.t r ell• 41 , e ut ' his appearing to answer the ge on the sth or ... yr. / of °le 1 ,,,, wit} COMMITTAL OF A CONTUMACIOUS BANgg ij hn ce' tli t he w o % all meeting for choice of assignees in the case or J ° ",i,roii tier lj tY and c sey, corn and coal merchant, of Wareham, Norio.' t. t i e • 4 1 .,,,,. of before Mr. Commissi oner Fonblanque, on TuesclaY; (l ;ot Pjess ed ,,l,tle ( Lawrence : You said y ou h a d £4O at Manchester. ;;;,i 14 11 ° to t it 1 11 il is that money ?—Bankrupt : , At home.—Mr. La`c,lC,o his TD been What do you mean by a t h ome ? (N o answer. (k' l ori .iist oet4 Honour : Answer quickly, sir ; where is that ai 1 4 AN: 144 41 y l," answer.)—Mr. Lawrance : Come, take it out °„ jil : ttbi,', ll , :tie, pocket.—His Honour : Messenger, take that U. re Pbj:labon re `u custody ; carry him to Newgate.—The bankruet s' a ;el. In the to, t , called after the lapse of half an hour, and again e x ltl) 4 514: 1 ' 3 1)4, 4 He then admitted that the £4owas at home, but ( 51 " 1,4 ap t Zthe ti "' nobody knew where it was except himself.- -3 n , AN I ,'on lv t e s rance : Where is the money ?—Bankrupt : I su a L,r,it", ken ;',nernt, ° „i to-day.—Mr. Lawrance : Did you- bring any 101 5,T," lf` 1 ;14.'4e - f TC you from Manchester ?—Bankrupt :. Yes, ''''','" ' o ll,, .101 14 - b excit.,`" Honour :. Stand up in the box, witness. It l s :ii le I ce•leaw ;fi e your being obstinate here.—Mr. Lawrance : I is . "" 11 0 ', ern k le a n' an answer : where is the £4O ? (No answer.) — til f l'ett d h c bee -e fb a nour :. r expect an answer.—Bankrupt : I don' t ,' " t oe, ktln n - ", a t ilY, ' f"' any more ; and you may do what you- like wit' no eelv 4111-leln but a His Honour r Take him off immediately to the ' a " A O V - atho r t 'illt prison. Let him be committed without a moment s" rk;,ort,,, ' uPst , •, ual / —The bankrupt was then removed in custody. ,I C Kt ,;,, A d s ; ' INTRAMITHAL INTERMENT: IMPORTANT 11 V - 0 with -- '4 exf 4- ' THE BOARD- OF' HEALTH.—The Board of Health ha r d 'ti ff i !otte t i i a titi a report on the subject of intramural interment , al' IF, fo t , p'itto i ,,, 41 g propounded General Scheme for Extrarne ra por "to q n. _• Is' ••-we a pulture." The board first, at once and. for eve r ' `e o hibits all intramural interments. Public cemeterieseo i to be provided, sufficiently removed, and yet so rt°: ; : c tio sible as to meet the requirements of all. Nod is "i o re' will be made between the rich andthe • the P - ' 0 poor in , di o, sepulture, upon the principle that in the 11 -5 ' grave a ~n ; tions cease. The rich may have a greater sn' ° ",o ol splendour and funeral array, but in the religious sere re there will be no• difference. One of the great joP4 4 0 meats put forward is the immense amount of sa s ,';) , ,, the expense of interments that will be created. .1: 0 P the existing charges-the poor artisan will be iscu h ; t 0 mother earth, there to rest in peace, unscathed " i lj Sr, sexton's spade or boring iron. One point we vir° E. of' I . pecially refer t o , • namely the proposed e s t a blishmen 00 4 Royal Commi ss i on , h av i ng the complete ant' , e fll management and arran gemen t o f a ll t h e intermoneer metropolis. This p ro p ose d i mprovement will b e e' 3 0 without any dem an d i n th e revenue of the countr y, net IS will it interfere with the amount of the remuneratiooot ceived by the clergy for performing the last offices f ro' dead, as they will receive due compensation for th e 'otte their present receipts. In this comprehensive els°; ger,, ing seems to have been forgotten. Even the presen` l ios tons and parish clerks are cared for, so that they sb a f 0 1 1 be injured by the change- On a careful review ° „,js whole report, we unhesitatingly give it the entire o °i, , l‘ our approbation, and trust and believe that it sc'"ort hailed with pleasure by the public, and that the prop improvement will in p ar li ament receive that s.uppert if it so richly deserve Ob s.— server. il t Zp t S IR thir 143 L4 th Lti tope sfki r : ktt kr., 44L4 fr C h t o -as t 124 11%1 tbi! Jet s of gri es , l 0 4 , d (t 0 t l ,l l l 9 er e to w °P , t ' f C s "e ot , t heshi r 1 t11 01 3e1.1 6 rlllll ' I tret e al lghl t wo % d 0" t e d e a• re xto 4, s Peet dt 4 . Blto 2 tt , t )Ses s i ° Y t; mot 0 141 hre AdB°Pei ip e k o ti ttet i , pai e of t w :,8 4 . 4 OitOa t4th_reZni 21., Etßlurt 13e135. A fishing boat belonging to Poulton was wreck Friday, and the three fishermen were drowned. , ; ,,g l , l The Mayor of P r est on h as ca ll e d a town's mee"l consider " the p ro p r i e t y , o f pet i t i on i ng in suppor t bill to legalise m arr i ages w ith a d eceased wife's sistef On Wednesday, five young stirks, the property ° s toP T. Atkinson, farmer, Little Eccleston Hall, near Fr e were poisoned by eating some leaves of the yew tr ee , Last week, the Vi car o f Leigh, finding that a bri e o ok presented herself for marriage had not been chris" took her to the font, baptised, and then married bet' peZ Four boys were bei ng l e t d own B ra i dley lt t i Wigan, a few days since, when two were pitcbed .1 3 ,0 the tuh, through its com i ng i n contact with som e They fell to the bottom of the shaft, and were killed? At the sessions held at Preston, on Thursday, S it iO Phillips Kay Shuttleworth, Bert., of Gawthorpej near Burnley, and James Du g d a l e , E sq., o f Ivy v near Burnley, qualified as county magistrates. The persons who obtain a livelihood by wheeling o bV , to the householders at Lees, near Oldham, had procession last week, each man having with him a " barrow, laden with " black diamonds." n On Sunday week, two sermo ns were preac h e d , , ,k il n Parish Chur'h, Chorley, in aid o f th e f un d s o f t he liver Missionary Society, by the Rev. J. 0. Powell, of ~, a, pool, and collections m a d e amoun ti ng to £7 14s. lot; SINGULAR DEATH AT BU RY .—O n W e d nes day lo ro man named John Leech, an i nmate o f the Radcliff voro:, house, while eating so me b rea d an d cheese, ratiler,tie, ciously, a portion of th e same w hi c h had been ne swallowed unmasticated stuck in his throat, and ill' ately caused his de a th. Of , At the Blackburn p e tt y sess i ons on W ednes d a y $ 10 1 her of coal miner s were b roug h t up for leaving work 0° made out notice. Mr. R o b er t s, t h e b arr i ster, violent attack on th e mag i s t ra t es, b ut a f ter an elPre-'4 til l " of opinion fro m th e b enc h the colliers agreed to to their work u ncon diti ona ll y.S The shore a t P ar k gate i s th ronge d every tdof b il es i ' morning by a number of igno ran t f ana ti cs ca lling g oes ° selves "Dippers ;" and on the 10th inst. thirteen fio btlr, misguided reli g i on i s t s wen t th roug h a melanch.of4 lesque of th e sacramen t o f b apt i sm, amidst a (IL° crowd harge w of.men, women preferred the and chiren. 3,o ti lit A cas ld other day against ' te r Irish servant girl, a t th e Borough Court, Manche. s ,, ,lls a Mrs— Cohen, a fem a l e o f th e J ew i s h persues° (3f.'; mistress, who t o ld M r . M au d e that when sh e r, Cohen) char ge d th e pr i soner w i t h h av i ng ro bb e d b i ito " cursed' and s wore , an d spoke just exactly like ac rate lawyer." A poor woman on Monday week walked from Pbe..,t9 `44 ,18; I 81' 0/ Tb t he lost ~onal '14 4 rno hrly a tios bt liti l'es Pee• t' lt tr ' h favo stag tS it e S eri ( 'S wi Is ger) and io hay the t4 el/: 4 et l 7 f/ ode p art Ler ev k r t i to a e nt tr) ana era~ingg it ,Pb tooi ts tht at ire-bl,i, r 's o l l l ll (t Elt ll l eN ay 'l: R at T d; tt, 34 ktt% kn i t' rti 5 clod, ton station with her infant; eleven months - old , , /3 fj)eil bosom.. She went to the Londcn-road station, an,',„ 3 o to the Leeds station, in order to proceed to her 0- 1 .1/ 0 at Oldham. At the Leeds station she found, to be ll' o f ror, that the infant, which she had covered up ; I A shawl and a cape to protect it from the cold, wa s suffocation. THE TEN Houns ACT.—The largest delegate vi e l`fl a , ever held on this su bj ec t t oo k p l ace at t h e Cot a te Zde l 'o Tavern, Manchester, on Sunday. There were ;:.„`,0 1 ., gates present from th e var i ous manu f ac t ur ing " cog Lancashire and Yorkshire, amongst whom were 3 ,, t , derable number of managers an d over l oo k ers • th e ',o also several m ill owners present. The o bj ect o ' f th e te d ing was to consider the best means to be ad eP secure an efficient ten hours bill. 13 1 . 0 9 THE INGENIOUS MACHINE FO R THE U SE OF fOroi Mr. Hughes, Governor of Henshaw's sot.„11 , Blind, Old Trafford, has succeeded in producing 8 r i ,itiv.„ remarkable at once for its ingenuity, simplicity. an f' r 7,11 The machine consists principally of a circular dis°';',,pr o , Close to the edge of the disc is an embossed a e ' t ii i eti!,y, with the usual figures and points used in Pin' ,, troo Inside this circle is a disc of common letter-1 30 ' s el corresponding in number with the raised letter s 0 00 outer circle. The disc is moved longitudinallY.le4) of a screw, and any letter that may be wanted ' 5 0 ,, re„ 0 0 under a lever placed at right angles with the scr e ge t keeps the writing in a straight line. The tYpe s ; o f Fibl carbonised paper, under which is placed a 81, 1'0 5 0i paper, placed on a piece of pasteboard,_ and n isz'r desired impression is conveyed. The whole at th e 0 4 is not greater than afoot square. tinfp' s s ECCLESIASTICAL, PUNISHMENT.—For son' • n t , the city of Chester has bee n on the qui vie , CM quence of Mr. John Trevor, late editor Cour t for io m Chronicle, the treasurer of the County ~acil to` having,recovery a o t f t e m l a a l s l t d c e i b v i t c s , e a l e n e d ti o o n n e , d o e f fa t m h e e d cg e a highly respectable lady, the wife of Mr. o • o . o rsl' h jet; currier, of Chester. On the 14th instant, the A l !" Chancellor Raikes, passed a decree against th e to :v et o! sentencing him to pay all costs in. th e action ; b hc all scandalous assertions ; and to perform a Ir oda/ tr, penance in his parish church, St. Bride's. T''' l r t fof f ed,' was the day appointed by the Ecclesiastical Conotowetii, performance of the ceremony in the church• ofj il e d.S were in attendance, but, to the disappoint on j tr a of the most respectable inhabitants, when ',,rder e ell entered the church, the Rev. Mr. Hutton e'e, r , 0 0 , doors to be closed, and the only persons pres e- jerV parish clergyman, a proctor, Mr. Trevor, the t he c„iite the sexton. On Mr. Trevor returning fro , he. was followed by a large crowd, and was s" 0 ° ) saluted. 631 Tb‘ j a ri' THE LATE Ray. THQS. SHUTTLEWOET o f --We record with sorrow the death of the -n' e ,t e c; Shuttleworth Grimshaw, vicar of BiddenharTe ~, shire. The deceased gentleman was a native "" I ,ol .4 'eg':, eldest son of the late John Grimshaw, Essl b e boV e j t senior alderman, and several times mayor 0 1. He was also neph ew o f t h e l ate Ni c holas Gril le 0;6 who twice served the office of guild mayor' f the l e 15 and publicly known as an ardent supporter %lit religious societies, and more especially 0f the ilite l ,s° l ll/ a ot i ll e e vi T.,P e c i : c r e l s o 3l o thisy among the Jews an,. d years jo l l e v fe is lt it in jerusa r le e m m a,rpkaalbelset Palestine, p E le gy l p eth an ina d East. emdeiatot r aonMfd elegance le G eg r t im ni fce s e h araowifdwumwrisnoadr,ksmaannodfoLthgwer opoet te 8 vols, (now in its thi r d edition); au thor 0 w0 M. 3 r 0 the late Rev. Leh Richmond ; and otber io ner ° 00 1 loss will be sever e ly felt by the poor, by n 18110 I admiring circle of friends, and. the Ruh& 4 ' l it One to bo RekolaceclA