The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-18 00:00:00

lasses ; Isible to t nain r.xpenait by the E, t• tr r a tut. NOTICES. Tit! en t g -s of Correction Preston ; Whitt London The abov who take an intere religiot cresting. report is t in the , er to con oners who .ortest n urns of holders in the I Laird. Liverpc Trust, in which he tecom- their o er, imputing gra tive to the fir ex trava Mr. I. colleagt 'h Report on the P: estop House . L. Clarke, Church-street, ,r and Co., Ave-Maria-lane, II worthy of perusal )ein; of society, in tion of the lowest and n the c prison discipline, most degraded of the human specie:. It is one of the signs of the progress of civilisation, of lvancement of Christian knowledge, and the right interpretation of Gospel truth, that the condition of the ost wretched of mankind is now, and has been for years 'ring that attention from the higher orders which it ' deserves ; and that no longer the morbid feeling , 4l to be the sole ingredient in dealing It is at were punishment, without the hu • nstruction and advice, tends only to fenders, and to increase rather than nge is allow cnt to convicted C: ble agency. Suddenly a branch line is thrown out from the main trunk, having an eye perhaps to the contents of the corner cupboard. Curious to know what is the moving principle of this singular intruder, you break through the thin brown-paper-like crust of the tunnel, and find it filled with a hurrying crowd of whity-brown insects, some with wings, some without, ell intent upon the extension of the line. Arrived at the ceiling, it goes right through plank or beam that may stand in its way. or, should the engineers so will it, takes a short cut through the wall into the next apartment. In the Isle of France they usually build their nest in trees. It looks like a huge excrescence upon the trunk, and every branch of that tree, as well as the trunk, has a covered way along it, so that, although millions may be engaged in bringing to the nest the produce of the tree or the earth beneath. yet not a single insect is seen about t place. It is this taste for living in the dark which gives them such a pale and unsunned complexion. In the course of their pro gress about the house, should anything peculiarly nppeti sing—such as a book-shelf, a box of old letters or deeds— lie in their way, they at once run their tunnel into its contents, and make use of it as a sort of half-way house till the premises are gutted, and nothing but a husk remains.—A Transport Voyage to the Mauritius. anci judge and out that s manning influence of vitiate and harden o diminish crime. Boys turned out of doors to get their living, by fathers who had tried all ways, but found it no use," coming ivation, temptation, and who have forsaken the ' idle and wretched " tramps" who - tering, as occasion may offer; and ) need to be taught better, or to be ,t out of mischief : those r, or be improved in their ail, " with the oh ne ;" cart!lesg pr story of r st by begging of h as they othAr- toyed in ord even the mo cruel punishments. No ! nor are ned benefitted or improved by it. tment is found to be by far the np!ishing the desired object. bin criminal society, ly by the inculcation says the Earl of Chichester, ioritv of instances, are The less bru nost e )Token chief! " are means that, i found to subdue th, and induce a s est and most reckless spirits, lowever painful to en f a real and lasting re- s the b, pentance." And here vs a a modificat len of their ' co prayer during men in Au were p Lowthc Otnerai Altsrellanv. On Valentine's day 40,750 letters more than the ordi nary averi.ge passed through the London post-office. Last year there were 10,000 tons more shipping built in Sunderland than in 1849, and 15,000 more than in 1848. It has been determined that the usual triennial musical festival should be this year given at Norwich. The King Consort of Portugal, accompanied by his two sons, intends visiting London during the exhibition. The fireman, so severely injured by the explosion of the steamer on the Clyde, has since died. No fewer than sixteen persons were on board the brig Laurel, run down on the Clyde, and they all perished. On Monday night, two poor men, who took refuge on a limekiln near Colligan, Dungarvan, were burnt to death. Nearly £B,OOO, out of £lO,OOO required to secure Mr. Eaton's legacy of £5,000, has already been subscribed in aid of the extension of the Bristol General Infirmary. For the office of clerk to the Worcester County Gaol, the salary of which is only fifty guineas per annum, there were no fewer than seventy-five candidates. A young female of the name of Turner, of York, drowned herself in the river Ouse last week, through being disappointed in love. A correspondent of the Morning Post, writing from Bognor, in Sussex, says that the note of the cuckoo has already been heard in that neighbourhood. Great distress prevails at present amongst the weavers of Carlisle. The number of unemployed is 531 ; partially employed, 1300; fully employed, 21. The hens of Egypt now lay eggs for the Londoners. Thirteen casks were lately landed at Southampton from Alexandria. An Orange Lodge was opened in Birmingham on Thursday last, under a warrant granted some years sitce by the Duke of Cumberland, grand master. Mr. Macready has purchased some property in Dorset shire, and it is his intention to make that county his place of retirement. The Gloucester Journal says that a respectable grocer in Coteford has suddenly left his business, and fled across the Atlantic, through a disappointment in love. The ladies of Gateshead have nearly completed their liberal subscriptions for a gold chain and badge to be worn by the Mayor of the borough. Miss Cooke, well known for her charitable gifts in Cheltenham, is no more. It is said that the bulk of her property goes to the Society for the Conversion of the Jews. A commercial traveller was robbed, tv few days since, in Glasgow, of £7OO in notes and eighteen sovereigns, in a house of ill fame. The whole of the notes have since been found buried in a saw pit. ADULTERATED COFFEE.—A sum of £1,500 has been subscribed by merchants interested in colonial coffee, for the prosecution of grocers and others adulterating coffee with other substances than chicory.—Shipping Gazette. The screw-steamer European has made another very rapid passage between Glasgow and London. With occasional head winds she accomplished the run to Graves end in 73 hours. On Wednesday evening, a lady and gentleman were locked up in the medal room of the British l‘ilnseum, where they had to remain until one o'clock next morning, when a search was instituted by their anxious friends. Messrs. Gardner and Urquhart, of London, have sus pended payment, with liabilities to the extent of about £50,000. The firm was connected with the East India trade. _ _ _ _ _ e branch, wt h Ch no THE LATE ELOPEMENT WITH " THE HON. MISS LUMLEY."-At the Nottingham Board of Guardians, on Tuesday, the first name on the relief list was Catherine Oldershaw, entered as follows :—Catherine Oldershaw, aged 25, abode Carpenter's Arms; able-bodied ' • in dis tress, her husband, Robert Oldershaw, having deserted her." AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS.—The agriculturists in this vicinity are in a very preairious condition ; many of the small holders in the clay parishes of Kirton, Wellow. and Laxton are very likely to give up their cottages in the spring, being unable in their present condition to pay rents and taxes. In the south portion of the parish of Edwinstowe many of the small freeholders are but scantily supported. —Doncaster Gazelle. RIOT AT Hum..—A serious fracas took place on Tues day morning, between a lage body of sailors and the police of the town. The sailors had assembled to prevent the sai►ng of a vessel called the Minstrel, her crew having signed articles for wages according to the new Marine Act. One of the police was dangerously hurt and not expected to live, and several others were more or less injured. Six sailors were taken prisoners. The sailors of Shields have nearly arranged their differ ences. A large public meeting of seamen was held at South Shields on Thursday, above 1000 men being pre sent, when the whole of the deputies who had seen at the interview urged on the meeting to allow the ships to go, and adopt every constitutional means, by petitioning and otherwise, to procure a redress of their grievances. The majority of the meeting seemed favourable to this project. A Roman correspondent of the Times states, that in addition to the chair of St. Peter at Rome, there is in the Church of St. Peter at Venice another chair, reported to have belonged to St. Peter, and brought from Antioch, whereon is carved, in the Arabic language, in Cuphic characters, " There is but one Gad, and Mahomet is his prophet;' together with a long inscription in the same language ; and that this latter is, in all probability, the chair to which Lady Morgan's story refers. GLANDEFM—A horse-dealer at Toppisfield recently bought a glandered horse for a few shillings. As it was a good-looking animal he endeavoured twee!! it as sound, hut fell a melancholy victim to his wickedness. Hastily wiping its nostrils as a customer appeared;• some of the contaminated matter was absorbed by a scratch on his hared. The poisow spread with wonderful rapidity, and he died in a few hours in great agony. He has left a widow and five children.—Dttutfrits paper. GIBING A STICX,—MT. l - loulston, an elder* man, of Gatehouse, was on Sunday week accosted, while walking in a lonely place, by a rough-looking fellow, who asked him for his stick. Mr. Houlston refused to gite it, of course ; upon which the ruffian said, "Then I'll take it." He attempted to put his threat in execution, hit Mr. Houlston unexpectedly knocked him down, and' then thrashed him soundly ; a mode of giving the stick which the scoundrel had not anticipated. Ann Al`l36noghue, a Sligo woman, cohabiting with Patrick Ganley, while recently rodging with him, at Ehil don, in the house of Willinm frvine, asked him to marry her. He said'he never wonkl. She took off her bonnets, a couple of haidkerchiefs, and'a pair of stockings, all of which she placed upon the fire; Then, kissing her para. , mour, and forgiving him all the ill he had done her, she , left the house, and was no more seen until Sunday last, when she was found, at Chapel-row, hanging from a tree, dead.—Hull Adv?riiser. A NOVEL PLEA.—OiI Tuesday, at the Criminal Court, a man, named Wishart, was found guilty of a felony, and a former conviction was proved against him. The novelty of the case was his plea in mitigation-of punishment. He entreated the court to " deal leniently with him, and give him a short imprisonment, as he was particularly anxious to see the Great Exhisition !"—and if' the court did that, he would strive to become a better member of society. The appeal had no effect on the recorder, who thought him " a dangerous man," and sentenced him to seven years' transportation. SUNDAY DESECRATION.-011 SUllaar;whilst the mem bers of the Free Church congregation at Minnyhive were Aing to church, a party of gentlemen (?) drove past in a drag at a ye) y rapid rate. Some of them had guns in their hands, with which they fired at and killed several cows, and one of them flourished a trumpet, which be sounded frequently. Such a wanton outrage upon the feelings of the inhabitants of the district would probably be more effectually met by a social than a legal punish ment, though it undoubtedly richly deserves-both.—Dum fries Courier. DANGERS OF GOING ASTRAY IN THE HIGHLANDS.—A cripple from Kentalen, near Balchullish, a few nights ago was travelling through Glendaror. The night being dark and stormy, he got entirely bewildered; and having once gone off the road, he could not regain it ; and while thus wandering, he suddenly got immersed to the arms in a deep bog, from which he could not extricate himself. In this perilous situation he had the presence of mind to contrive to keep from farther sinking, by laying his crutch across his breast, till his cries of distress were heard, and brought two women, carrying home faggots, to his assist ance, who threw in the end of one of their ropes, which he caught, and was drawn with some difficulty to terra firma, and taken to the nearest house, where he was kindly attended to.—Perth Courier. THE SUPPOSED CASE OF POISONING AT TODMORDEN. --The adjourned inquest on the body of Mrs? Cooper, the late wife of Mr. Cooper, of Stanfield-hall, Todmorden, (whose apprehension on a charge of murder was narrate d last week,) was held at Elton. near York, on Monday, when the result of the analysation was announced. The stomach of the deceased was found to be free from all poison, and death had resulted from natural causes. Mr. Cooper on Tuesday was discharged from custody ; but on application the magistrates declined to make any order respecting the letters in the custody of the police, which are of an extraordinary character, and show that months before his wife's death he was preparing for her successor. These and other facts gave rise to suspicions and to his apprehension. NIVW SHERIFFS.--011 the 11th of February, the fol lowing gentlemen were appointed to this office for their respective counties YORK:MITRE .—The Hon. Payan Dawnar, of Beningbrough Hall. Li NCOLIiSIi I RE.—Sir Charles Henry John Anderson, of Lea, Bart. NORFOLItic—Sir Willoughby Jones, of Cranther Hall, Bart. NOTTING IRE —John Franklin, of Gonalston, Esq. DtrunAm.—Robert Henry Allan, of Blackwell Hall, Esq. ANGLESEY.--Thomas Owen, Tyddyn Glan-y-mor. Esq. - BRECONSH I ItE.—Robert Raikes, Treberfield, Esq. CARNARVONt.HI'RE.—John Williams, Hafodyllan, Esq.' CA RDIGANSH rim—Erhest Augustus Vaughan, Earl of Lis burne, Ciosswood. DENIIIGHSH I RE.—T. Hughes, Astrad Hall, Denbigh, Esq. 1 , 131 M-sit IRE.—Wilsoll' Jones, Hartsheath Park, Esq. AIIOTHER RIOT' Alf BARHAM UNION WORKHOUSE. — A. second very serious riot took place at this workhouse on Sunday evening week. After supper, a large body of men commenced smashing the furniture and partitions. They drove back the goVernor and police who interposed, broke the windows, ransacked the provision store* ate up the previsions, drank the wine, and let flow the beer. Having refreshed themselves thus, they committed fresh destruction,. stripped the roof of its tiles, broke the doors, and burned the governor's account-books. They were in full possession of the building five hours. At length, a sufficient force having been collected, an entrance to the house was effected by battering-open the door, and thirty five of the most active of the rioters were taken into cus tody. Several of them have been examined before a magistrate, and have been committed to Ipswich for trial. GUTTA PERCiI'A WATER-PIL=E'.—A gutta percha pipe of two and a half inches calibre, and lOW feet in length, has been laid down for conveying the croton water to Black well's Island, Neva York. The line extends from the foot of Seventynintli-s!aeet to the iciand, the depth of the 'water varying from thirty to seven feet. The engineer first arranged his pipe in one length upon the island, and formed a line of th:tty boats, well manned, across the river. He then gave his order at the commencement of stick water, and the end of the pipewas drawn across the river by men upon the opposite shore, and was taken up b - r the men in the boats, and one hundred and ten anchors, each weighing thirty-two pounds each, were attached to thepipe, being ten feet apart. By word of command the men in the boats lowered at each point , to suit the inequa lities-in the bed of the river, as ascertained by previous survey. This was all accomplished in seven and one-half minutes, without accident.—New Yorkpaper. A Fax KILLED IN A C YTTAGE.—On Friday, the 31st ult., Earl Pitawilliam's hounds met at Norwood, in the neighbourhood of Peterborough, and soon after found a fox at Belharn Wood, when a fine race took place. Rey npri, keeping the lead over hill and dale-for an hour and twenty=five minutes, at length ran through the farm-yard of Mr. Jahn Rowell, at Longthorpe, proceeded down the village, and completed his course by bolting into the cot tage of Mrs. Mews. The affrighted woman, who was washing at the time, ran up stairs into the chamber, and Reynard After her. The fox, however, immediately ran down again, and the hounds coming in at the time, he tried to get up the chimney, but was pulledsdown by the pack, and killed under the fire-grate. Carter, the hunts man, was up in time to secure thehead and brush. Lady Charlotte Fitzwilliam was " in at the death," and Earl Fitzwilliam and the Earl of Aboyne were close at hand. Mrs. Melva? furniture, tubs, and clothes, were scattered about the room and much damaged, but handsome com pensation has been made. A VILLA IN.—At Lambeth Police-office, yesterda) week, Mr. W. G. Smith, a surgeon in-very good practice, and residing at sfl i Vauxhall-walk, was brought up on a war rant, and placed at the bar before the Hon. G, C. Norton, on a charge of assaulting Mary Ann- Han, a girl 13 years of age. The case occupied up Bards of two hours in its investigation, and the evidence, the greater portion of which was unfit for publication, disclosed scenes of the most disgusting profligacy that can well be conceived. It appeared that the prisoner, who is nearly 60:years old, and a married , man, but separated from his wife,. had in his confidence two little strumpets-named Ockingden and Macklallin, with whom he was on terms of profligate in timacy ; and those persons he induced to invite to his house a number of girls whose ages ranged from 16 to 18 years. Once within his reach, the prisoner commenced by plying his 7ictims with wine or spirits, principally gin, and by these means, and stating he :Mould require their services in assisting to clean up the house, he soon ef fected his purpose . and the names of seven or oiht were mentioned whom he had thus succeeded to ruin. Of the number, one cf the procuresses, Ockingden,. and two of the girls, Hail and Horne, were examined at considerable length, and their testimony as to the prisoner's frightful profligacy was perfectly conclusive. In the course of the proceedings Mr: Norton exclaimed, .that in the whole course of many years' magisterial- duty it had not been his misfortune to hear disclosed such a scene of abomina ble profligacy , as that related, and which made one doubt whether we lived in a civilised or barbarous-state of soci ety. An application was made to admit the prisoner to bail, but it was refused, Mr. Norton remarking, that he never knew of a case in which the accused wag less enti tled to any favour. ately fe the hus the upy d, wOo end of the a state of inseP.il and continued to appeared to be )od at ttie door, odd any one ap the sp intern which he cut enterin 181. o'm her dre Dwn wee, anu a t half an hour atte treat Inc cos, carious but she no, Wilkir had wit ,e to an in a large ural bus] record the observation of the chap aestly and successfully recommended f the encellulemene enforced at t the prisoners to take exercise them the Christian nether' to make lay for pardon at the hour of r, and also al and the meeting übt to break that produce derange. ar heavier affliction 7, about f giving instruction :h instruction as a short period to of giving lessons is !id that devised by .11 treatment upon of taught them to cinline, and in r their discharge been the resul 1, with an averag Lade relative to id the number the S ns, all sent system be adopted to- ut to the .rt of thieving as be relied upon, not oration, but from leave the country, led to avail them- d tact can ob- :e his £3 or £4 per named Clart )wed the pu crity and su filled up the thri here I got at lave been sup wife's skill, liv .nd only making ding off," i. e . active partn " I was . fifteen, k. It ali went in ces were made by cap and tassel, a collar." The il ; and on the first mpassion for him, in order if pos 1, who had been , had "libe been ye contributed to r narrative Hate their conduct, her conviction, she Id only solicitous to o warn her brother 'his determined and er part of her short leis than a weekly much' when she e pocket of a young eighteenpence n, in a short time that the money W given her the k What racter and fat And ho' possesses, as ion, thousands, qualities which ay the labour o COURT OF EXCHEQUER-FIB. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE LONDON DOCK COMPANY.—IMPORTANT REVENUE CASE.—The Solici tor-General, with Sir F. Thesiger, Q.C., Mr. Watson, Q.C., Mr. James Wilde, and Mr. Ballantine, were coun sel for the Crown.—Sir F. Kelly, Q.C., Mr. Peacock, Q.C., Mr. Macauley, Q.C., and Mr. Groves for the defen dants. There are eleven informations filed by the Attor ney-General, and the present charged the defendants with concealing 8,000 lbs. of cocoa, and 250. cwt of sugar ; with landing said goods without paying duty thereon, or with out duly entering them, and for withdrawing them from the ship without having duly reported them ; also, with fraudulently concealing them. From the statement of the case by the solicitor-General, it appeared that while it had formerly been the duty of the Custom-house officers to see cargoes which have been reported to the Custom house weighed at the ship's side, in order to ascertain the correctness of the reports, since the establishment of the docks the Crown placed such confidence in the Company that they were allowed to warehouse the goods before they were brought to the scales, and to deal with them in all respects as if the duty had been paid. Notwithstanding the confidence thus reposed in the Company, whose duty it was to report all cases of fraud on the part of their ser vants, a systematic plan of abstraction from packages of good sound sugar and other articles of importation had, for a considerable time existed upon a very extensive scale the quantities abstracted passing under the name of " sweepings," and the strongest inducements to carry on these practices, by which both the shipper and the owner were defrauded, being he'd out by the Company to their servants. The Solicitor- General havin g concluded, several Custom-house officers were called, who disposed to having seized a number of bags of cocoa, which were alleged to be sweepings, or that portion of the contents of a cargo which escaping by breaking of packages or otherwise become mixed with dirt and is a perquisite of the Company, but the greater portion of which they found to be quite clean. On two occasions, also, a quantity of cocoa and twenty eight casks of first-class sugar, alleded to contain sweep ings, had been seized, the officer calculating that the value of the seizure wag £3,000 or £4,000, and that he had left several tons v:eight of sweepings behind.—After the officers had given tlieir evidence the Court was adjourned. The case was resumed on Monday morning. The case occupied the whole of last week. The evi dence for the Dock Company related in a great measure doings in Davis's corner, especially to the molasses and black stuff which are made from drainings and the washing of sugar sweepings. Towards the close of the proceedings, a number of specific facts, which had been sworn to by a prominent witness for the Customs. were so distinctly shewn to be pure fictions by one of the present witnesses, that the Lord Chief Baron said it would he unnecessary to pursue that part of the examination any further, as it was quite clear that one class of the wit nesses on that point were altogether unworthy of credit. The case was then again adjourned: to the all The United Slates Literary World anncunces, that " hereafter authors will not be allowed to review their own hooks in its columns !" THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH BETWEEN ENGLAND AND FRANCE.—It is stated that the plans of the proposed submarine telegraph between England and France have been lodged with the French government, and that the company for carrying_out the undertaking is in course of lefinite formation. It is mentioned also that a telegra phic commnniention from Calais to Trieste will be com- illeted 1)7 the Ist of French lines will he o The Duke of Bra. A-onderul t a succulen A d - • Iv its inside the g In the Cr. eervant Girl return► it wa the girl's box for sat' not stole This adding of insult to injury determined a her action. _ _ _ Some I ho are noted for the robins at the and tLe ti, 1„ at the front of their mained to these ladies Six Irish cats !e, in his lordshir g the leaves of a yew tree. I late fall of baring the the superincumbent weight had broken ; mast extensive co •• . • _ h the cattle cropped during the with a c down a large The R who bad :El4l had sags that a man, n lent a than n by the owner apiti of merica.—B, s Lye zn aftem At S of Johi rcwri. DuF nan of the name I that f the inhabitants head action o his 1 at present_ in the har own t with c from t .t reduction in the town same port. The immed Cal e( Hung nople tc and supplit refugee ort of Bull ha four or five years, i A woman, 68 years old, who is deaf and dumb, was mar ried for the fourth time at Jordaston Church, Pembroke. shire, on the 21st ult., her bridegroom being a young man of 21. On Monday night a fire broke out in the Hargrieve Cotton Factory, situated at Duntocher, ten miles from Glasgow, and the property of Messrs Wm. Dunn and Company. The loss is computed at about £12,C00. The Earl of Eldon will, at his own expense, exhibit at the Great Exhibition a noble work of art, called " The Eldon and St: well Group," a colossal group in marble. 1 AN UNFORTUNATE MISTAKE.—At the Bristol Police 1 Pme e ' Court last week, George Livings was sent for trial for having stolen a " dummy," in imitation of a loaf of sugar, from the shop of a grocer. A fox, chased by two shepherd's dogs, rushed into the kitchen of the Joiners' Arms Intl, at Cliburn, Westmore land, a few days since, and took refuge in the cellar, where he was speedily killed by his pursuers. On Tuesday, Mr. Parnell, a gentleman, aged 88 years, residing in Baker-street, London, was burnt to death as he sat in his chair reading a newspaper. It is supposed that a spark must have flown from the grate upon the newspaper the deceased was reading. A toad was discovered, a few days since, in the centre of a rock, on Combo Down, near Bristol. The animal lived about three days after being brought to light. Its mouth was closed, but it breathed hard through its nos trils on exposure to the atmosphere. The Doncaster Gazette says that a rose tree in a gars I --I.,nhle b. --- den at High Field House,. presents a remarkable appear- TRAGEDY ance. It is covered with last year's flower-buds, which never expanded themselves, and which have withstood the winter without changing their appearance. The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng land has decreased from £14,347,457 to £14,278.164, being a difference of £69,2:33. The paper in actual circu lation has decreased from £20,812,657 to £20,381,557, being a difference of £431,100. A cap, of the most exquisite finish and workmanship, has been prepared by Mr. T. Middlebrook, can-maker, ofi Leeds, for the great Exhibition. It is composei of the finest white satin, and is most profusely and elaborately SINGULAR FREAK OF A DOGe—A person of the name of embroidered. James Casson, residing at Linthwaite, has a small broken haired terrier. For some time At.the Cambrian 1 Twery, Cardiff. on Wednesday week, ; past they had been visited by a respectable farmer and a pig-drover got dead drunk ; a rat, which defied all efforts to destroy it. A 'levy days ago, however, the visitor was again heard, and everyplace they were littered down in a shed, and when the drover arche in order to its at length carne to his senses, he found his companion lying by his side a corpse though the importunities of find hidi the dog, ng' the place; lower one of a The first piece of carpeting ever manufactured in the chest of drawers was opened, and out jumped the rat and Highlands of Scotland, was exhibited at Inverness a few theminstantly pounced upon his canine enemy, who, after days since. The round is of that eculiar brown and killing it, took it out into a field a couple of hundred yards g p white, called the Ord mixture, and the check is the royal distance, and there with his paws scratched a deep hole, Stuart tartan. It will be sent to the great exhibition. into which the dog placed its victim, filled up the grave, A. reward of £5O has been offered by government to and then left it.—Halifax Guardian. any person who shall give such information as will lead to The Rev. Septimus Hansard, curate of Ste Mary's, the conviction of the parties who cut the rope at the Paddington, charged Mrs. Penny, at the Marylebone Oldfield Colliery on the 23cl ult., which occasioned the i Police-office, on Tuesday, with threatening to " scratch death of three persons-. , his eyes out." The reverend gentleman had found the A esubLe dinner to Mr. Macready, the distirguished le-oman in a state of starvation: she had been the mistress tragedian, on his retirement from the English stage, is an- i sta wealthy individual, on whom Mr. Hansardprevailed nounced to take place at the London Tavern on the I st of . :o make her a weekly allowance. A portion of the money March. Sir Edward Balwer Lytton, Bart., will occupy laving one week been detained, the woman attacked Mr. the chair. ilansard as the cause, with gross insinuations against his The Minister of Commerce of Berlin has decided that norality. She expressed great contrition as well as gra all the manufacturers, workmen, and exhibitors proceed- itude to Mr. Hansard, at whose intercession she was inn to the Grand Exhibition of London, or returning see ely reprimanded, and bound in her recognimnees to therefrom, shall only pay two-thirds of the usual price on leep the peace. lAN DECANTER.—There will come from the Prussian railways. A man named Charles Gill, living in Clerkenwell, was us decanter of cut crystal, without a Notices have been issued from the General Post-office, committed onFridav for trial, ehargedwith sending a letter I thing is of such dimensions, that that, henceforth, all newspapers to be sent to the colonies threatening to take Lord John Russell's life if the Premier .ary height may sit with ease inside, or possessions abroad, or to foreign parts, must be put cid not redress some fancied grievance. The prisoner et dinner on a round table a yard ii into the Post-office within seven days after that on which tireatened in the letter to give the premier , "'a black )le ladder serves to bring people up and they were published. efe and a bloody nose, if he did not allow him to show decanter, which has been manufactured The strike of the sailors at Sunderland still continues. tee world that he was a great engineer ; and if the black fry of the Rue St. Sebastian, in Paris; The matter of wages, £4 10s. per voyage, is generally eee and bloody nose were not sufficient, half an ounce of ht from the base to the shoulder is three agreed to by the shipowners. The strike . is now alto a-. gunpowder and one pound- of lead would, according to arcumference nine yards. The stopper ther against the shipping offices and the register tickets, Xr. Cobden, test the resisting power of his skull." The id the whole decanter 12 cwt., and it is which can only be altered or abolished by an act of the Prisoner, who is represented as a man of some mechanical :nine eight hectolitres and a half of wine. ,legislature. genius, and who thinks his talents neglected , said his periments have been made with the voice 'While a lady was passing along a street in Glasgow, on cbject was to have his name better brought before the receptacle; the eff ec t of a song on the Tuesday week, a bold thief seized her gold watch-guard, public through the press. ,s described as something unearthly. which instantly snapped, as the watch was fastened to her DIMINUTIVE STEAM-ENGlNE.—Duting the past week, of Exchequer on Monday, Holmes, a dress. Luckily, however, the gold seals, key, and ring s Lilliputian steam-engine, which, exclusive of the boiler so sued as a pauper, obtained £6O. damages I connected with the chain, fell into the side pocket of her cod steam-pipes, only weighs three-quarters of an ounce, Lazarus, and Fanny, his wife, fo r an assault i cloak, so that the thief missed a part of his intended booty. las been exhibiting at Huddersfield. This truly wonder isonment. The plaintiff had been six weeks i While a man, named Edwards, was standing near a fa piece of exquisite workmanship, when the steam is on of the defendants, when one morning they labourer who was driving poles into the earth at Borth,, st full, works at an inconceivable speed and velocity, the ping a gold watch on the table. On their Cardiganshire, a few days since, the ring which guided the 4-wheel completing, it is said, 3600 revolutions per tni l'r boxes, itito cu b s i n o t dy. found I In nothing, tiie e evening andt a h e s y o n still o f sis s smg, and they sent for a policeman, who head of the mallet suddenly flew off and struck Edwards tote, the perfection of its various parts, and the rapidity o th n e t f h o e il l o t v‘ ea in d g , w d o 4 u y. nding him so severely that he died ore et* its motions, eremit; a beautiful and musical humming 'about ajarring or discordant sound ! Besides this, the ame home, and then it came out that he 1 Two young men, twin brothers, belonging to Nairn, raker, Wm. Radcliffe, who resides near Fraddleworth, has on the table had put it away in a drawer' named .lame i s and William Wilson , were drowned between also been exhibiting a piece of fine flannel, which contains The girl was of cou r se a t once lib erate d, N a i rn an d Comarty, on Thursday, the 16th ult. They 110 picks or thre ads of weft in one inc's. Both* of these -id she deserved what had happened, were proceeding to Cr°martY in an open boat to see some ciriosities are intended for the groat Exhibition of All lie watch, she lad other things. I relatives, and it is supposed that in a sudden squall or rations. `-----,.. I shift of wind, the boat was caught and capsized. MR. ROUALEYN GORDON CUMMING.—We understand DENSE Foa.---On Thursday, London during the entire teat this renowned sportsman has just returned to En afternoon was enveloped in a dense fog ;it came on about g'and from a hunting expedition in the Eastern parts of twelve o'clock, and gradually increased till two, when it Europe, where, since August, he has been hunting with became as dark as night, and continued so till three les usual success the nobler varieties-of game, which are o'clock, after which it slightly cleared off, but still re- still to be met with in the more remote and wilder dis - ' r thick. tticts. T rue to his old custom, this indefatigable N im - ---,,t v of the Earl of Lonsdale, 1 red has exerted himself with indefatigable zeal in amass in; extraordinary relics interesting to sportsmen and naturalists, and has succeeded in bringing to England a SPLENDID PIIESENTS.—The inhabitants of Hartlepool have presented to Mr. R. W. -Jackson a magnificent silver vase, valued at upwards of £5OO, as a token of their admiration for his skill, energy, and patient per severance displayed in projecting and executing the Hartlepool West Harbour and Docks. They have also Presented to Mrs. Jackson a.beautiful miniature of her son, set in fine gold, as a brooch ; and to Mr., Jackson, jun., they have given a handsome gold lever watch, with chain, seal, and key as a further acknowledgement of his valuable services. DREADFUL _ .—On Thursday, an- elderly man, named Ponder, a tailor and an• old soldier. at Col chester, cut the throat of a woman with whom he was cohabiting, whilst she was asleep, and afterwards hung himself by a cord to the bedpost. The bodies were not discovered until the next morning,- when the room was broken open in consequence of- neither party. making their appearance. It is supposed that povertrand dis tress, combined with the weak intellect of the man. caused him first to take the life of the female, -and then his own. section, wawa, we ULILIC/3L2114U, isf.,- -scss,ety to be added to his already unique and unrivalled excibition,at the Chinese Gallery, Hyde Park Corner. sned Goddard, I Some of the wild boars which fell to his rifle were of parcel for which a reward of incredible weight ; and the antlers of many of the at into an vin- I rival in size and grandeur even those of the fa- ABOLITION We Learn from the Hul -famed üblic meeting of the ratepayers of Hull, s unanimously re d why: RS and a induct .ch next, when the whole of t m to the public.—Time, wick brought another action for against the Weekly Dispatch, and was again defeated. Lord Campbell said :—" Whatever charge might be brought against the Duke of Brunswick, it certainly could not be that of silently acquiescing in any accusation which might be brought against him during his lifetime ; for, as they would probably be aware, he had brought several actions of a similar description. In the present instance he must make this observation, that the course which the duke had nursued was anything but creditable to him." TIIE RESIGNATION OF LORD EDDINGTON.—Lord Ehrington has published, in the Plymouth Journal, a letter to Lord John Russell, explaining that the reason of his resignation of the secretaryship to the Poor-law Board is the reduction of the salary, in pursuance of the recom mendation of a committee, from £1,500 to £l,OOO. He does not care for the difference of salary, hut wishes to , show that the servants of the public should be suit-' paid, and thinks it unbecoming that the secretary should he paid less than officers who are inferior to him in rank. His lordship retains his scat at the Sewers Board, and the other unpaid offices, to which he devotes his time and talents. THE FAITHFUL COLLIES.—A shepherd, named Camp bell, employed on the south side of Glenquoi c h, left home early on Tuesday week to obtain a supply of whiskey at Greenfield, on Locharkaig side, with which to observe the new year, old style. On his return, faint and weary with long fasting and walking, he seems t o have sat down to rest not far from the house of a brother shepherd, where he was to have spent the night. Next morning one of his dogs was observed whining about the house, and on being followed led the way to where its poor master was lying dead, watched over by anoth er faithful collie. The poor shenherd had apparently sunk under the influ ence of fatigue and exposure, the night having been very A BR.OBDI 'ranee ale: three pe and ea' diameter THE LIVERPOOL OANiiARD. :lx has been re- i paid their I rovule test on a poor man whom )tie of the jury said that , es were st tis. pe money to pl + arrival in I For their cistern with nn nagned Henry Wilson, abolition or a g to these importai ge, trade of the during the in le and othe the statements s in 184 peakers relative to the be produced in the trade of t 2; in 1851 • several of which had ,tol by the th© mot a greAtc, Feb. 18, 1851. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. ExTtS 1V RonaEni. — A respectable looking man, named Watts, was chArged on Friday, with having stolen £270 from the Neptune Hotel, in Clayton-square. It appears that the prisonerhad beefi2topyingat the Neptune. On the morning of the 7th of November last he reqapsted the boots to call him at six o'clock in the morning. Ac cordingly the boots went to his room a few minutes before six and found him gone. He came down stairs and saw the prisoner coming out of the commercial room, where a large sum of money was kept. He (prisoner) said to him, " So you have not called me, but it is no matter." The prisoner then called a car, and drove to the railway station, where he caught the seven o'clock tiiin to Man chester. The money was missed soon after his departure. One of the stolen notes was found in his possession. The prisoner stoutly denied the charge. He was remanded. YESTERDAY. HEROIC.—A number of lads were convicted in the pe. nalty of two shillings and sixpence for the old offence of " warring with stones." One little fellow, whose head did not reach to the top of the dock, was charged with throwing stones. A young man stated that the boy had annoyed the congregation of Zion Chapel during service, and he was obliged to drag the boy out. On being asked what he had to say, the little fellow, with a whimper, said "A lot of gentlemen dragged me out, and I was obliged to take my own part." SUSPICIOUS CASE.—Patrick Healey was charged with stealing twenty-nine pounds weight of soap. Officer 9-f, stopped him on Sunday in Great Howard-street, carrying a basket, which he stated contained butter. The butter, however, proved to be soap. The prisoner pretended that he had received it, with other luggage, from Ireland, and that he thought it was butter. Mr. Davenport, who ap peared for the man. attempted to chew his innocence. Mr. Rushton drily observed that the man knew the dif terence iirthe price of soap in Ireland and in this country, and remanded him. ROBBINCeA POLICEMAIV. , --A boy named Thos. Cofty was charged with having stolen a pair of boots. Walter Thor burne, a policeman, stated that he lodged at the house of the boy's uncle, when his boots had been stolen by the prisoner; he farther stated that the boy's- father was in America, and had promised to send for hie son, but had not as yet. Mr. Rushton committed him for seven days. EXTENSIVE Slat GGLING.—A, respectably-dressed mid die-aged man, who gave his name Moran,• with a younz man of equally respectable exterior, were remanded on a charge of having smuggled 2071b5: of tobacco. The pri soners left three boxes containing the contraband article at Whalley's public-house, Mans' Taland, on Saturday. ROBBERY BY TIM ADMINISTRAT/ON' CaLORO. FORM.—A prostitute, named Ann Weir, was brought up on the following charge :—James Newland, 3 young man from the country, stated that, on Sunday- evening, ho met a female in Vernon-street, whom he accompanied to a house in Grenville-street, • Scotland-road. Here heyrent up stairs, when, in a few minutes, a handkerchief was passed across his mouel• by some one, and he imme diately became insensible. When he recovered, he found his waistcoat unbuttoned, his watch and guard had been taken, and seventeen shillings from his pocket. We then went down stairs, where he saw the prisoner and her husband (who kept the house). They seized him, tore his coat, and threw him into the street. Mr. Rushton pointed out to the complainant the danger of going into houses of the description of that kept by the• woman, in the dark : he had ;ant himself in the power or people who, by the use of a towel steeped in chloroform, could have murdered him. The prisoner, who is a noto rious-character, was remanded to this day, when she will be committed. The delay is occasioned by the circum stanco of one of tle girls having been apprehended since the occurrence, in a state of extreme intoxication. BREAKING UP OF A HA UNT , 'OF Bus GLARS.--DaVid Evans, George Grundy, and Thomas Johnson, three young thieves, were placed in the dock, when Sullivan, an officer in plain clothes, stated that acting on information which had reached them, he and Grisenthwaite, on Sun day aftemoon, secreted themselvesin an unoccupied cellar in Sparling-street. In this cellar they found a quantity of leas, which had been stripped from some roof and de. posited there. The officers remained in their hiding place until half-past nine o'clock at night, when a number of rolls of canvas were pushed through . the window by some body outside. Sullivan rushed out end- seized two persons, and a third was taken by Grisenthwaite. They proved to be the prisoners. The canvas was identified by the ware houseman of Mr. Faulkner, of Sparling-street, and the lead by amen who had marked it on the roof, in conse quence of the great quantity of lead (S cwt.) recently cut from the roofs of houses in Sparling-street. Mr. Faulkner supposes that the canvas stolen from his warehouse would amount to between £lO and £lO. He considered that property in Sparling-street was not sufficiently guarded, and observed that a memorial to that effect signed by the most respectable occupiers in Sparking-street, had, in his opinion, not received that attention it demanded. Mr. Rushton explained that the Watch Committee was the proper teher uar e t v e i r d t e o nc a e. pply to. The prisoners were remanded for _ _ SMUGGLED' WHISKEY.—An old man and his wife, named Jones, were charged by an offirer of the inland revenue with having smuggled five quarts of whiskey. The old , man pleaded that the spirits-were sent to him by his son— Mr. Rushton ordered the wife to be discharged; and, in default of payment of the fine of XIO, in conside ration of his extreme age, committed the male defendant in the mitigated-term of one month. A DO.UNKEN NAVVT.—A fellow of , herculean propor tions was brought up, charged with having assaulted con stable 449: Tho officer stated that, between eight and nine o'Clockon Saturday night, he attempted to take the prisoner into custody for disorderly conduct, when he was seized by -him,. thrown down, and kicked in the mouth. It required seven officers to take the man into custody. Mr. Rushton fined him £5, or two months' imprisonment. MURDEROUS• ASSAULT ON THE POLICE.—Nine Irish men, principally dock labourers, were placed in the dock, charged with having assaulted five policemen, viz., M'Lellan, 100; Shumack, 590; Fell, 149+; Cookson, 347; and Belton, 61. M`Lellan, Shumack, and Bolton ap peared as witnesses. They each exhibited signs of having suffered- very ill treatment, their heads and faces being much swollen, and encased in handkerchiefs. One of the officers stated; that between twelve-and one o'clock on Saturday night,, while on duty in Snowden-street, Vaux hall-road, his- attention was attracted- to a public-house, in which a good deal of quarreling was- going on. As it was after the time for keeping open, he was about to clear the house, .wheys he was deterred by the violent eemea nourof the men he, however, obtained assistance, and succeeded in dispersing the crowd: The men in a abort time. turned upon the officers, and , commenced a most brutal onslaught on them. Shumaek was knocked into a cellar. A man jumped upon his-head, totally destroying hi&hat. The other officers were-knocked down as fast as they rose to protect themselves. Fell and Cookson v'ere so-severely injured as to be unable-to-attend in court and give evidence ; indeed the life of the latter (Cookson) THE EXHIBITION OF 185 L—At the meeting: on Satur day the Commissioners decided upon the following plan— first the issue of " season ticketa,'_?: the price of which will be for a. gentlercan, £3 35.,. and for a lady, £2 2s. These tickets rare not transferable, and means will be taken to prevent their transfer by. requiring the holder to give his signature upon each admission. The owner of a " season ticket" will be entitled -to admission on all occasions on: which the Exhibition is open, to the public. The Commissioners reserve to themselves. the power of raising the price of the season tickets,. after the first issue is exhausted, should circumstances• render such a course advisable. On Thursday, :the Ist of hay, being the first day of the Exhibition, season tickets only will be available, and no moniy will be received at the en trance doers. On the second and. third days, Friday and Saturday, the price will be upon, each day, for one ad mission only, £l. On Monday, the sth, of May, and the fourth day of the Exhibition„, the admission will be re duced to .55., and the same price continued for the suc ceeding seventeen days. On and after Monday, the 26th of May, or the twenty-second day of the Exhibition, the charges for admission will be on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays. and Thursdaysineach we ek, Is. ; on Fridays, WRECK OF THE STEAMER JOHN ADAMS 2s. 6d. ;..and upon Saturdays,- ss. The Exhibition will UPWARDS OF,IOO LIVES LOST.. (From the New. York Papers.) be open daily, Sundays excepted. Messrs. Sehweppa and _ Co., the well-known soda-water manufacturers, have On Monday morning, the 27th January, at three o'clock, the steamer John Adams, Captain H. A. Jones, with a been appointed caterers for, refreshments. Glasses of heavy freight and large number of passengers„ bound for • filtered water will be required to be su pp lied gratis to visitors, and a quantity of bread, cheese, and butter to be kept-for sale at prices to be agreed upon between theeo n - or sturnp and sank in two minutes. The c a bin parted. tracting parties, and it has-been arranged that none of the from the hull, and the latter went dow n i n a b ou t 60 feet other refreshments supplied shall be charged at a higher rate than that of any respectable London establishment. As all wines, beer, and spirituous liquors are strictly pro- - hibited, the task of supplying the light summer drinks Cincinatti, when near the head of Island 82, struck a snag., of water. She had about 90 or 100 ca bi n passenger s, a few' , of whom were saved., The ca bi n , i n b rea ki ng f r om the, hull, separated in the middl e , which doubtless was the cause of many of the ca bi n passengers saving their lives.. could not probably have fallen into better hands than that .The ladies in the ca bi n were a ll save d. Aft er suffering: of the contractors. many hours in the water, they were enabled to get ashore DARING MURDER, IN OP 'EN DAY, AT NEMPNETT, at the plantation of a Mr. Carter. The forward. portion of the cabin, with the fixtures, floated clown to Island 83. SOMERSET.--A most cruel murder has been perpetrated; where it grounded. About 3, p.m., the Peytona came at this village, which lies about eleven miles-from Bristol, on the Bridgewater-road. For many years past the vil, along and , took tae passengers on board e from that part of lage shop at Nempnett has been kept by an aged couple baste e st w e r t e o ck the fr o clw r e o n r c t e iso s n h o e f ptiileeweit:kw when she took: named William and , Sarah Wilkins, husband and wife, all on board with the exception of Captain Jones and his being each of them above seventy years-of age. About family, Mr. Wilson, the mate, and a few others. owing ten o'clock -on Saturday morning two men, one named to the time of her sinking, every one being asleep, and it John Wiles, a blacksmith, about fifty-six years of age, being so sudden, few were able to get sufficient clothing and who has recently worked in the village, and the other to cover themselves, and many of them are indeed in a Tnhn Smith, a labourer , about forty yeFs. old, most destitute condition. From Captain Shalcro s s an d . e the following summary of persons on the istlispaired of. The prisoners. are all most ilesperate. looking fellows_:: the officers presont succeeded in identi fying six of them; the other three were discharged. The names of those detained are H.iLedwix, Pat. Colenlab, Stephen Byrne,Andrew Byrne,JosepbWard, and another. They will be remanded until tho other officers are able to appear. ST/ 01W II G.—William Hamilton was charged with having stabbed the keeper of a beer.house, named John Fair clough, on. Saturday night, in the neighbourhood of Vauahall•road. Faiiclough was so seriously injured ;is to be incapable of leaving the hospital. The prisoner wail remanded. C=iSmx . k 'Wiles lked to be supplied wit e Shall a I others we m the nut he act 'of reaching I it for him, the ruffian struck her .a violent blow on i;;;W, L thick stick, about. eighteen inches long, officer! ..001 „firemen, and han —Cahin passenze assengers, 87 ; 2.: total, 230. which he had taken I Tr aved, as near as can t in passenzers., fit certained, is as old woman irr gers, ; Wiles then rushed at on a settl )7. Lost, 123. ad German and ilt him several heavy was also 11; crew, &c., tad ea. sengers were emigrants going to nejnatti for Cincinatt luced him to I ac ug up a spade which was Rounra;—OF £ l ,ooo,LOn — ilonday nighi an English gentleman ' was robbed in Glasgow of upwards of Xl,OOO. beat him with it on the head - -fisted of three Bank of England, n nurse contain ' S t giving tt t il ue e sa itraiemrnme. purpos llivin Pie lost property c notes for £3OO each. mg vane s tWofiletsheporold . veral 450. notes some low den We believe the robbery tools plae rarebeaded female, but no trace of ards t w he property has been CRUEL FRAUD.—A andon Ins vent Court, oTh arse. y with 6. r med David to put bernan J a piece of pa ceipt for £6O, that he had Led the paper. ect ; an. piece of paper, in. lieu be tom to b© bills of - r) the hands Toet. ds with irc 'Hug his brealrf.‘ op, and and havir improper regimen acting upv.. , week, constitution, late hours, both of retiring to rest and rib." co placed in in the morning, lay the foundation of intestinal as well as which appeared ra r! idl t -. pipe communi- skin diseases. T o a il s u c h we would recommend first a she commenced tak Hr Mr. Darrel change fe, as he was in for the reco v er of health, that efficacious family medi. ful medicin s effected a perfect cure. Females at the of system, and, secondly, as a power ful assistant astonishment o erself . )ns entered the ettio, Frampb on ' s Pill of Health, which has procured the meridia life, or girls entering into womanhood, shank', 1 approbation of persons in every station in society. a l ways a v e recourse to these invaluable pills.justice witless in clieckir ng ; in this hopeless star ly's Pills, and to the utt fit wa e was arrested 'her, buth , taken to retu., lied to petition the court for her disci', ison, ana, e. These. Law instantly rendered measure of by ctiering Rarriet Vickers bi 3, in his powei A acbarge . cl forthwith her bedr bedroom, god di a the chimney c all she lia