The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-11 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE, TO CORRESPONDENTS. CUSTOms' DUTIES. A paragraph recently appeared in this paper stating that jive per cent on the customs' duties w ould be returned on application. This remark only re ferred to the duties on timber. We think it right to mention this, as some mistakes might possibly arise on the subject. The paragraph was copied from one of our con -14 temporaries. r will perceive that we have availed ourselves of his com munication. We shall be very happy to accede to his pro position, and shall feel obliged by his future favours on the topics referred to. Can" W. M.," who writes from Lancaster, refer us to an authentic report 'of a legal decision on the question which he mentions ? FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, ue de Bone, Paris, Bth September, 1840. DEAR STANDA RD,—The children of la jeune France are again on bad terms with the heads of the administration. No one can assign a plausible reason for their outrageous con !fact, for every one of 'the ouvriers had more or less money le his possession, so it could not have been distress that actuated them. It is confidently asserted in some of the Most respectable cqfe's that* these eineutes emanated from a tieets ource, and, consequently, they calculated on carrying y a coup de main. But I am happy to apprise you that these racailles, who have thus disturbed the tranquillity of the metropolis for these three days past, have all returned to their respective workshops. Thus the foolish charivari has terminated with hundreds of arrests. _Yesterd ay , t h ousands of workmen perambulated the streets Of the metropolis, in order to excite the populace to an open revolt. These public pertnrbators directed their steps towards the plains of Vauyirard, Mountrouge, a la Vilette, Pantin, and finally to this abominable faubourg St. Antoine, without the police of the Thiers adminstration stopping their dan gerous and diabolical progress. However, their aspect be came so serious, that the police thoug ht rto mak se veral ar res t s. N umerous arrests were also er made i n e t:e plains of /vri, where the workmen had assembled in great numbers. The br—a. pArw e no tiunale had dispersed them without any diffii ulty. The serru iers as well as the e'be nistes have faithfuity promise. to return to their respective ateliers, and resume their work. The Journal des Delete, a most influential organ in France, co m pl a i ns -i n severe -ter•ms of M. Thiers' doings.He accu ses t h e government of withholding the news Com modore Napie r f rom the evening papers,• blockading the coasts of Sy r i a , summoning the gyptians to evacuate the territory b e f ore t h e ratification of, the treaty which allowed ten days to Meliemit Ali Pacha to accept the propositions imposed upon him by the four powers. It is rumoured here that Napier's conduct was rash, and might consequently cause a general war. The tar summoned the Egyptians on the 10th of August to evacuate Syria, when the notification Was only made on the 16th to the old viceroy of the treaty of London : so it seems that the old diplomatist Palmerston is blundering again. A chevalier of the legion of honour asked Me the other night in the cafe Francais what the policy of t he whigs was? I told him that William Cobbett defined ; tin a most clear and exquisite manner, which I repeated to French : " Les whigs soot les libe'raux de l'Angleterre ,gua h a n d o hors du pouvoir." The chevalier gave a hearty ' a u intimated to me that Lord Palmerston's adminis tration was any thing but liberal ; c' est une ! he ex claimed. A propos, i t i s asserted in the political circles, Fr ench th e pretended note addressed by Lord Palmerston to the "ench government, through Guizot, has given great offence to alliuce parti es . Th ey a ll accuse M. Thi ers f or h av i ng t oo con- AdtlY v re tow lied and ') France It u on the assurances of beyond ord P doubt , ahnerston'sthat Lord rit -Palmerston. bamboozled M. Thiers for the purpose of r a ttling time, in order to carry his views into execution. It "n flipossible to describe the political feelings of all circles u of all shades of opinions : all agree in making war against the whig government. Most alarming news have reached Paris this evening. The northern provinces,' on this , s t id e ef the Rhine are presenting a most fearful aspect for `"e tranquillity of Prussia. Sarrelouis, a small town, but strongly fortified by V ban which has been consigned to !lie -kng of Preussia after the fall of Nris, its inhabitants, . t -4 w ell as its garrison, are ruining by hundreds to Thionville, l?,l,lace themselves under the tri-coloured flag of France— u the environs of Sarrelouis, Sarrebruck, Sierg, and a hun ,orled other places are on the verge of open rebellion' against • l e l Prussian government—soldiers, as well as the respective • abitants of the above places, are flying on the French !,:nntiers, to fight under the banners which Napoleon has left them as a token of valour and courage. Alsace is consequently A " th e qui vine ; the fi rs t s h o t o f a B r iti s h cannon fi re d on will be to compel Mehemit Ali Pacha to evacuate Syria, be hail e d by the Alsaciens with joy, because they will Z th en shake o ff t h e i r P russian slavery. The Journal des g bats ha s a sp l en did article on the disposition of the brave h i u eieux. Should C ommo d ore N ap i er pers i st in circulating s in flammatory proclamations, war will be inevitable. It !vas asserted at Tortoni's that the King of the brave Beies !..I.q in terceded between England and France. No such thi n g. ZThiers is too high spirited to stoop to a third person to in ricede when the honour of France is insulted. Rely on tleat lam asserting—war is determined on b Thiers—once will British cannons roar before Alexandria, s y o sure Thiers assume-a most formidable aspect. The Chambers are to be convoked immediately, to enable Thiers to lay before the French nation the memorandum of the treaty of London, and to act accordingly. at M. Thiers presided a part of Tuesday over the proceedings the Prefecture of Police. The chief command was given to Marshal Gerard, and the troops on the Boulevards were under the command of General Darriule. The troops !mounted to 50,000. The soldiers were under arms at St. -Denis this afternoon. A report was circulated this morning that a rescue of Prince Louis Napoleon was intended, in, consequence of which the Prince has been removed to Vin cennes. There were 25,000 cabinet-makers, who complained of new furniture being sold at under prices in the auction rooms : they intended to expel both buyers and sellers, but Were dissuaded from doing so by the Police, who has done in this emergency all in its power to put down madmen. Thus ended the tragical proceedings of thousands of mad men, who had been put in motion without knowing for what. Paris is tranquil again, and I am happy to say that the funds have a little improved to-day, Tuesday. H. HEARNE v.-STOWELL TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. The very calamitous result of this unfortunate trial, at this Peculiar crisis, induces me to call the attention of the pro testant public of the United Kingdom to the following im- Portant documents ; as affording the most complete refuta tion of the charge of libel, which has been attempted to be thrown on that excellent champion of protestantism, the Rev. Yugh Stowell, for the obvious purpose of diminishing the influence of his powerful advocacy of the cause of protestant Ch ristianity, and his fearless exposure of the abominable idolatry and debasing superstition of th e Ch urc h o f R ome. T he documents a ll u d e d to are as follows :- Ist. —The Coronation Oath. , tt Archbishop.—Will you to the utmost of your power main tt,lti the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and „ 1 ,17, Protestant reformed religion established by law? And the You maintain and preserve inviolably the settlement of t "f United Church of England and Ireland, and the doc i_loe, worship, discipline, and government thereof, as by t't established within England and Ireland, and the terri 6°.tles thereunto belonging? And will you preserve unto the 4 840 P4 and energy of England and Ireland, and to the ,a,lurches there committed to their charge, all such rights i d Privileges, as by law do, or shall appertain to them, or any f them li ng (or Q ueen ).—A er , T HIS I prom i se to d o. -- nd.—The Oath of supremacy, taken on admission to Public offices, by all her Majesty's subjects, being J members of the established protestant church •ure do swear that I do from my heart abhor, detest, . and ab a. • • th_, unplous and p heretical, that DAMNABLE DOCTRINE rinces excommunicated or deprived by the pope or any ;7ottiority of the S ee o f R ome , may b e d epose d or murt h ere d % t heir subjects, or any other whatsoe v e r . A n d I d o de that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or poten hath, or ought to have any j urisdiction, power, supe witrity, pre-eminence or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, hiu this realm.—So help me God. 3rd. —The Oath required to be taken by every clergyman of the Church of England, at the time of hi* ordina ,.e tion to the ministry. I3ishop.—Will you be ready with all faithful diligence . 0 banish and drive away all erroneous and strange doctrines t°7 ! tra ril to God's holy word; and to use both public and f,;;ivate monitions and exhortations, as well to the sick as to • e Whole within your cures, as need shall require, and occa lon shall be given ? Answer.-1 WILL, the Lord being my helper. p, sir, let me fearlessly ask, can any honest rational ! Il an for one moment assert, after reading these most import documents, (so happily framed by our protestant fore t l i ars, in better times, for the protection of the true pro estant faith !) that the rev. defendant, after the fact of the laPerstitious cruelty impos on 'Hara had been made a °wn to him in the authentic form which appeared in the proceedings, could do othrwise, in of his obliga tion to the Most High, as e well as indisciarge of his duty as a rninlster of the gospel of truth, than to raise his voice a gainst the abomination, and to proclaim it from the house t° ,.Ps and in every place where his influence would reach, to B "ew to the protestant public at least, the degrading bondage of that popish church, which is again attempting by every artifice in its power, to recover its dominion within this pro stant realm ? It is true that had Mr. Stowell omitted the ; t ame of the plaintiff, he might have secured himself from the legal responsibility to which he has been exposed ; but, sir, he is too honest and unflinching a soldier of the cross, to re sort to such paltry subterfuges to evade the law. Ile be lieved he was speaking the truth, and he gave the account Just as he received it in the honesty of his heart, without any evasion or mental reservation, in order that the plaintiff, if it were not true, might have the opportunity of contradicting it. Did he do so on the'trial ? Or did he attempt to prove that such a penance, as that stated to have been imposed by him on O'Hara, has not the sanction and authority of the Church of Rome, of which he is an officiating priest? Never! Not one of his witnesses ventured to make any such asser tion in the jury box—and if it were capable of proof, why was not the question boldly put to them by the plaintiff's C ounsel ? Neither has the plaintiff proved that he did not Order it! The poor bigotted devotee O'Hara himself, it is s aid, became (very conveniently) insane and was shut up in a InlloliC asylum, before the trial of the cause : so that the Ylaintiff was happily relieved from recording his evidence on the subject, and the defendant was of consequence, deprived of it, either on original, or cross-examination. Assuming, then, as I have a right to assume, in the ab sence of any evidence to the contrary, that the penance in t inestion i s p ar t o f th e di sc i p li ne o f the ' Church of Rome, it w as no libel on the plaintiff, as a priest of that church, to say that he had ordered it to be inflicted; in fact, in the P o pish dist r i c t s o f Ireland it i s no t or i ous l y common, as every fiery da lividual of the lower orders of Roman Catholic Irishmen well knows. With regard to the malice, technically charged to Mr. l '!(1well by the declaration in the cause, the learned judge, 7 1 „ O re whom the action was brought, distinctly acquitted I„ — ' 4 _, of any tntentional malice ; at the same time that his ;roship stated to the jury that in all cases of libel malice th a 's iMplied. Had his lordship stopped here, the jury would ,len have had to decide whether what the plaintiff had said ilgAt a libel, before the implied malice could have attached to 1 d efendant. Thus both the law and fact would have been W e 't with theof jur bo t y h , Bu who, t in the cases learned of lib judge el, ar unfortunately made by the ? judges . pe t One step farther. He pronounced the article coin- Ofd of to be a libel, and then the implied malice followed bo t e°llr se so that neither of these facts was left to the jury, t o - I , ° ° l Y the amount damages to which the defendant was *h ue liable for this act of implied malice towards a man I understand, is scarcely personally known to b 5 1 1 3 ' Is reported, h owever , th a t this part of the subject is to s et br ought before the superior court, I trust it will yet be j n .r.iight, should it appear that the learned judge was wrong e view which he took of it. c o ,, n ow come, i n conc l us i on, to cons id er the conduct of th e N o " te l,for the defendant on this momentous trial — most di e Mer k o as as regards the continuance of the liberty of free ti or T s loon in support of our p ro t es t an t re ligion and institu to h • And here I cannot but lame n t what appears to me couriaVe been th e ver y i n di scree t exerc i se, b y th e d e f en dant' s Nt h "I , of that discretion which was comm itted to him, in r este r t to cal li ng wit n esses in hi s b e h a lf. It i s sa id that he tr ust on the ground that no libel had been proved, and I but , t rist, in the result, it will appear that he was right ; obj ee p r estlraing that he was so, why did he not reserve that witting to then make " security doubly sure" by ng to the jury the three important documents at the head of this letter, in justification of the defendant's con duct; and then calling, first, the.several important witnesses who were in attendance (one formerly a Roman Catholic priest) to prove that such penances as that mentioned in the alleged libel are not only sanctioned by the Church of Rome, but commonly practised in Ireland and other Roman Catho lic countries ; and then, the three policemen, who supplied Mr.' Stowell with the information as to the actual infliction of the penance on O'Hara, in order to satisfy the jury, at all events, that the statement was not altogether a fabrica tion of the defendant's ; which, for anything that appeared at the trial, from the want of this evidence, the jury might very possibly have inferred : whereas, had this evidence been laid before them, it could not have failed to remove from their minds all idea of libel, or malice, on the part of the defendant, and the verdict must consequently have been in F.is favour! A new trial, under the order of the Court of Queen's Bench, will yet, it is confidently hoped; produce this desirable and proper result FIAT JUSTITIA P.S.—I have purposely passed over the learned judge's observations, at the beginning of his summing up, as to the equality in the eye of the law of the religions of the Church of Rome, and dissenters, with that of the established church. A reference to the statute-book, especially the laws against popery, would seem to militate against this- broad assertion. however correct it may be as applied to the legal rights of individuals professing any of those creeds. HEARNE v. STOWELL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—Allow me respectfully to suggest your stereotyping the following question and answer, so that you may afford your correspondents occasional opportunities for " jogging the memories" of the non-mi-recordo priests who figured at the recent trial : Counsel : " Are there not many instances where persons who inflicted penance on themselves have been held by your church as objects of admiration? "—Priest Crook, senior of St. Augustine's, Manchester : " That is a matter of ecclesi astical history upon which all men may form whatever opi nion they please. I know of no such instances." It may not he amiss to state here, that the Roman Bre viary, from which were made the extracts that appeared in the London Standard of last week, and which were copied into your journal of Tuesday last, is not only a work of the highest authority in the popish church, but also one out of which every Romish priest—not even excepting Mr. Crook himself—is obliged to read a considerable portion every day throughout the year. It has just occurred to me that it would be doing no small injustice to the " beatified me mory of Sant:Rosa, to limit her to the brief space allotted to her in your crowded columns of Tuesday's publication. I would, therefore, on the present occasion, volunteer my humble services in the way of 'asserting her just claims to " admiration " in the records of the' Vatican, as well as ber right to that exalted position which she, now occupies —viz, a canonised saint, with her festival and office for the 30th of August,—by furnishing an extract from the bull of her Ca nonization, detailing her austerities, &c., headed thus : " SANTA ROSA. CLEMENT X. An. Dom. 1673. " Codex constitutionum, quas summi pontifices ediderunt in solemni Canonizatione Sanctorum a Johanne 15, ad Benedictum 13, sive ab An. Dom. 993, usque ad A. D. 1729. Accurante Justo Fontanino, Archiepiscopo An cyrano. Rome. 1729. Ex typographia Reverend Ca mem Apostolicte. . . . " She changed the stones mid crosses—with which, when going to prayer in her childhood, and as yet ignorant of the use of whigs, she was loaded by her maid Marianne, who was almost the only person conscious of her mortifications— into iron chains, which she prepared as scourges, with which, after the example of St. Dominick, every night she offered herself a bloody victim to God to avert his just anger, even to the copious effusion of streams of blood, either for the sorrows of the holy church, or for the necessities of the endangered kingdom or of the city of Lima, or for compensating the wrongs of sinners, or for making an expiation for the souls of the dead, or for obtaining divine aid for those who were in their last agonies ; the servants being sometimes horror-struck at such dread ful blows of the chains ; and when the use of these was for bidden to her, she privately encircled her waist with one of them, bound thrice round her, so that it never was ap parent that she wore it, except when she was under the tor tures of the sciatica, which chain was afterwards loosened only by a miracle, and its links, after the virgin's death, were found to emit a wondrous and indescribably sweet odour. Lest any part of her innocent body should be free from Suf fering, she tortured her arms and limbs with penal chains, and stuffed her breast and sides with handfulls of nettles and small briars. She afterwards increased the sharpness of the hair-cloth, which reached from her neck beneath her knees, by needles mixed up with it, which she used for many years, until she was ordered to put it off, on account of the frequent vomiting of blood. When she laid aside this punishment, she substituted another garment less injurious to her health, but no less troublesome, for beneath it, every movement was painful to her. Her feet only were free from these suffer ings, which either by hitting them with stones, or by burn ing of an oven, she did not suffer to be free from torture. " She fixed upon her head a tin crown, with sharp little nails in it, and for some years never put it on without re ceiving wounds ; when she grew older, this was replaced by one which was armed with ninety nine points. " She desired the hardness of her bed to be such that it should rather drive away than invite sleep, so that when about to sleep, the same should be both a bed to her and an instrument of torture. Her pillow was either an unpolished trunk, or stones concealed for this purpose, which bed she afterwards so filled with sharp pieces of tiles, and triangular pieces of broken jugs, that the sharp points of each should be turned to her body, nor did she try to sleep until she had embittered her mouth with a draught of gall. " Near the time of her death, Rosa, throughout Lent, alternately sang the Canticles and praises of. God every day for a whole hour, with a melodious bird, in so orderly a man ner, that when the bird sang the virgin was silent, and when the virgin sang, the bird, who was most attentive, ceased to sing. She invited, moreover, the inanimate plants, after an unheard of fashion, to praise and to pray to God, pro nouncing budon the s Earth o T opt heTHE verse, Bless the Lord, a ll y e thi ngs w hi c h ' and TREES sh TOUCHED u e so visibly persuadedT E EARTH,a them, that THE if adoring their Creator with a solemn veneration." But as Father Crook, in all probability, was not ' senior of St. Augustine's, Manchester, in the, days of Pope Clement X,' ie, an. dom. 1663,— an d , moreover, as the above aus terities'—or self-inflictions are only ". matters of ecclesiasti xal history" (especially popish.priests—as convenience sug gests) " may form whatever opfhion'th'ey 131ease,'"—I am the more anxious, for the good of your readers—as well as being influenced by a desire to " stir up the pure mind" of the aforesaid priest, to draw attention to an event which took place at Rome so recently as 1830 . The occurrence, to which I allude is that of the canoniza of Alphonso Maria of Liguria, which, although it did not ac tually take place until 1830—yet, the testing of the witnesses as to his self-inflictions, &c. had commenced so far back as 1806. Tie following is the title of the work from which I extract:— " Sacra Rituum Congregatione, emo. et Rmo. Domino Car dinali Canacciolo relatore, beatificationis et Canonizationis, Ven. Servi Dei Alphonsi Maria de Ligorio, fundatoris servi. Redemptoris, ac olim Episeopi S. Agatha.—Romoe, 1806. Apud Lazarinium, Rev. Cam. Apos. typographum." ' The summary of his [Liguria's] virtues. " Witness,—The admirable and Reverend Father Dominick Corsano, Missionary of the Most Holy Redeemer, and Con fessor of the venerable servant of God." " I know for a certainty, that this servant of God con stantly scourged himself unbloodily and bloodily. And be sides the unbloody scourgings enjoined by his rule, he was wont to punish himself every day in the morning before the usual hour of rising, and in the evening after the signal for repose. On Saturdays he scourged himself till the blood flowed, and these scourgings were so violent, and caused so much blood to gush from his limbs, that not only was his linen always covered with it, but you might even see the walls of his small room stained, and even books which he kept in it were sprinkled with it. Also from what I have seen with my own eyes, and have heard declared by certain fathers who are worthy of credit, I know that this servant of God macerated his body, also, with hair cloth with sharp points in it, and with chains as well on the arms as on the legs, which he carried with him till dinner-time, and these for the most part were so armed with sharp points, that they filled with horror all who ever saw them. I have heard say, also, that he had a dress filled with a coat of mail with iron points ; that he had bandages of camel's hair ; and other instruments of penance were casually seen by me, and by others of my companions, notwithstand ing his zealous and circumspect secrecy. Of a similar kind was his extreme mortification in sleeping upon two planks covered with a sack with a little straw in it, so that it ap peared a hard stone. I frequently also heard say, that he slept during his few hours with a large stone hung on and tied to his feet. I well remember that he never shaved himself, when he was with us, with a razor, but only by little and little he did it with pincers, and he caused his assistant friar to make his clerical crown with the same pincers." I will bring my letter to a close by a quotation from the breviary—a quotation which ought to be especially precious to the Irish portion of the non mi recordo witnesses. S. Patritius. Breviarium Romanum ; die xvii. Martii. Dublinii, in typogr. H. Fitzpatrick, Typogr. and Bibliop. R. C. Col. Maynooth, MDCCCVIII. " They say that he (St. Patrick) was wont to repeat daily the whole psalter, together with the canticles, and two hun dred hymns and prayers, three hundred times on each day to worship God upon his knees, and in each canonical hour of the day to sign himself one hundred times with the sign of the cross. Dividing the night into three portions, he spent the first in running through one hundred psalms, and in two hundred genuflections; the second in running through the other fifty psalms, immersed in cold water, and with his heart, eyes, and hands raised to Heaven ; he yielded the third part to a short sleep upon a hard stone. Apologising for the length of this communication, and pledging myself to furnish you in my next some more speci mens of the " acts and monuments" of the canonised saints of the Romish breviary, I am, yours faithfully, P. St. Helen's, 10th Sept. 1840. ROYAL CHESHIRE MILITIA.--The lord lieutenant of the county has signed a commission, appointing the Hon. Hugh Cholmondeley, M.P. eldest son of Lord Delamere, colonel of this regiment, vice Parker deceased. DEATH BY DROWNING.—An inquisition was yesterday held, before Henry Heathcote Statham, Esq., deputy-coro ner, (in the absence of Mr. Curry,) on view of, the body of John Ball, who was drowned, on Tuesday night, in the gut of the Waterloo Dock. George Tarbuck, master of the flat John and Mary, said that the deceased was one of his men, and that about half-past eight o'clock on Tuesday night, while they were hauling the flat out of the Waterloo Dock by the basin gates, he was employed to fend off the vessel from the wall, and while in the act of doing so, assisted by the witness, with his back against the wall, he (the deceased) fell overboard. The flat was newly tarred with coal tar, and the deceased had his feet against her side. He told witness to go to the windlass and heave in the slack of the line. He went to do so, and immediately heard the deceased fall overboard. He took a boathook, and got hold of deceased's cap, thinking it was him, but let it go again. He then put the boathook dm4n, feeling along the wall with it, but could find nothing of him. The deceased had not hold of anything with his hands while he was feuding the flat off. An alarm was given, and search made for the deceased, but in vain. On the af ternoon of Wednesday the search was resumed, and after three hours and a half's exertion, his body was found. It was identified by his father, Thomas Ball, an elderly man, who is employed in hauling flats on the river Weaver. The coroner, and several of the jury, remarked on the careless practice of men pushing off flats with their backs against the quay wall, and not having hold of anything, so that if the vessel pays off quickly they cannot possibly save themselves from falling into the water. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death." The deceased was twenty-two years of. age. SHOCKING OCCUARENCE. —The Blackburn Standard gives a long account of a disorderly woman named Mary Ann Hanby., having thrown herself, on Tuesday night, from the window of the police-office, a height of ten yards. She threw herself head-foremost, and alighted upon her head in the street, just outside the kennel. It seems wonderful that she was not killed upon the spot : however, upon being picked up by one of the policemen it was found that she s till lived. She was taken into the office and medical assis tance immediately sent for. The left side of her skull was nearly bared, the scalp hanging from itin a most hideous manner. On other parts •of the body there were slight bruises, but no limbs were broken, neither were the injuries on any part, except the head, of serious moment. Of course the utmost attention that : medical skill could p rom p t , was paid to the patient, but fears ate entertained that death will be the result of this sad disaster. POLICE INTELLIGENCE..-TUESDAY, DARING STREET ROBBERY, John Wade, a strongly built young ;;;;,;as charged with having robbe d Mr. James Aslett, a tobacconist, of Manches ter-street. Mr. Aslett stated, that about half-past eleven o'clock on Monday night, he was sitting upon some steps next door but one to his own shop, waiting for his wife to return home. He saw the prisoner and another man walking arm in arm from Dale-street. When they came opposite to witness they stop ped, and without a word having passed they seized him, and rifled his waistcoat pocksts. They took out a shilling or eighteenpence. He was. sure he had a shilling, as he had felt it a few minutes before. He asked the men what they were about, upon which one of them struck him on the eye. They ran away, and witness pursued them, calling for help. The prisoner's compa n io n e n d eavoure d t o t r i p witness. He con tinued the pursuit, and at length jumped upon the prisoner's back, and got him down. He placed his knee upon the pri soner's breast, and kept him down till police•officer Rees Davies came up to his assistance. The prisoner was taken into custody. Witness examined his waistcoat pocket, and missed (he was certain) a shilling. Police.officer Rees Davies stated, that between eleven and twelve o'clock on Monday night, he was on duty in Dale street, when he heard a cry for help. He ran to Manchester street, when he found the prisoner on his back, and Mr. As lett kneeling upon him. Mr. Aslett told him that the prisoner and another man had robbed him. He took the prisoner to bridewell, when he was searched, and twelve or fourteen shillings found upon him. He was very violent, and struck and abused the officer very much. The prisoner having been cautioned in the usual manner said, he was sorry for what had occurred, but he was very drunk. The complainant was sitting upon some steps in Manchester-street with his legs stretched out. He (the pri soner) tripped over him, and the complainant immediately pushed him into the channel, upon which, he (the prisoner) struck him. He had money of his own, and never thought of such a thing as robbery. The prisoner was committed for trial. BURGLARY Edward Jukes, a decent-looking man, aged about thirty, was charged with having burgiariously broken and entered the premises of Mr. Mark Leicester, grocer and tea dealer, 63,, Islington. Mr. Leicester stated, that about half-past ten o'clock, on Saturday night last he quitted hi% shop and went into his xitchen, when he heard an unusual noise in a room above stairs. He got a lighted candle and was proceedinc , up stairs, and had already advanced a few steps, when he heard some person getting through the back chamberwindow which over looked the yard, to which a passage led. Mr. Leicester ran out of the house door into the passage, where he found the prisoner, about two yards from the entrance. The prisoner knocked out the candle which Mr. Leicester carried. Mr. Leicester attempted to grapple with him, but he at first strug gled very hard, and tore Mr. Leicester's shirt. At length Mr. Leicester succeeded in . obtaining a firm hold of him, when constable Pearson came up and pushed him into the house. On going into the back room Mr. Leicester found the window open, and that a looking-glass had been removed from the table, and placed on the room floor. Several hair brushes and the table cover had been removed, and there was the mark of a man's hand on the looking-glass. The prisoner' was taken to bridewell. On the return of Mr. Leicester and the officer, they searched the entry, and on the spot where the struggle took place they found a picklock. The prisoner must have got on the top of a wall, over a water cistern, to the window, which could easily be accomplished. Police-officer Pearson stated, that seeing Mr. Leicester pass out with a lighted candle and enter the passage, he ran over to him, and found him holding the prisoner fast. He took him into Mr. Leicester's house and searched him, but found upon him nothing but a handkerchief and twopence. His dress was marked with mortar, and the toe of his shoe and his knees appeared to have ben scoured against the wall. One of the prisoner's braces was unbuttoned, and witness assisted him to get it over his shoulder, in doing which he found that the button was missing. Mr. Leicester had shown him a button, which corresponded with those on the prisoner's trousers. William Goodwin, a shopman, residing in Devon-street, stated, that about half-past ten o'clock on Saturday night, he was putting up the shutters of Mr. Underhill's shop, in Islington. On seeing Mr. Leicester go up the passage with the candle, he followed, and saw the prisoner getting over Mr. Leicester's yard wall. William Jonei, a member of the Society of Friends, and an apprentice with Mr. Leicester, proved that he had closed the back bed-room window, about ten o'clock, on Saturday night. Elizabeth Williams, Mr. Leicester's servant, proved that she had found the button above alluded to in the yard on Sunday morning. The prisoner 'denied the charge. He was committed for trial POSSESSION OF PROPERTY BURGLARIOOSLY STOLEN On Sunday night or Monday mornir , last, between the hours of ten and six, the premises of Joshua Bignell, in Dwerryhouse-street, were entered, and a quantity of property stolen. Mr. Bignell went to bed about ten o'clock, having fastened up his house as usual. When his wife got up about six o'clock, she told him that the house had been robbed. He found that his writing-desk had been removed from the sideboard, and a quantity of letters, memoranda, and papers were strewed about the floor. Two drawers had been taken out of a chest of drawers. One of them had been forced with a chisel. He missed five sovereigns, seventeen shillings in silver, a watch, fifteen silver tea-spoons, a pair of silver sugar-tongs, two silver salt-spoons, a silver dessert-spoon, and several gold trinkets. Information was given to the police; and bills were printed and circulated describing the property. The watch was safe in a drawer on Sunday even ing. The front door was open on Monday morning, when the family got up. The lock had been forced. Catherine Bannon, a dirty-looking female, was yesterday placed before Mr. Rushton, charged with having offered the watch which Mr. Bignell had lost, for pledge. Charles Batten, pawnbroker, of Marybone, stated, that about three o'clock on Monday last, the prisoner offered the watch produced for pledge. He asked her whose it was, and she replied, that it was her own. She wished to have twenty shillings lent upon it, but he refused to lend her more than sixteen shillings. She gave her name Catherine Bannon. About five minutes afterwards a constable entered and de scribed the watch and was informed, that it had just been pledged by the prisoner. Edward O'Brien, police-officer 53, stated, that having re ceived a description of the prisoner from the last witness, he proceeded in search of her and found her in a public-house in North-street. She asked him what he wanted, and he told her he was to take her into custody for having pledged a stolen watch. She replied, " I never pledged a watch in my life, but my husband's. Where is the watch pledged ?" He replied. " You shall, know that by and by." She said,' "If I had pledged a watch I would tell all about it." She was taken to Bridewell, and on being searched three shillings were found on her. The prisoner in her defence said, she met a Young man, who asked her if she knew a pawnbroker, and on her reply ing in the affirmative, he asked her to pledge his watch, and he would give her a shilling. He told her to pledge it in her own name, and she assented. The prisoner was committed for trial. THE BOUNDARY QUESTION. Mr. Sharpies, a propiletor of bathing caravans on the north shore, appeared to answer a charge preferred against him by Mary Corking, one of the bathing establishment of Mr. 13u1- len, also a proprietor of caravans in the same locality. Mr. Davenport attended for Mary Corking, and Mr. Sharpies appeared in propria persona, and deended him self. _ . QV. , • The complainant stated, that, on Thursday last, at the hour of high water, she was attending to her duty on the beach, which duty was to invite such nymphs and swains as made their appearance into Mr. Bullen's caravans for the purpose of bathing themselves in the river. She was ful filling this duty to the best of her ability, and had invited a bevy of rosy-cheeked damsels from the country to walk into a machine, when Mr. Sharpies advanced to her, and, after rudely pushing her, struck her forcibly on her mouth. Mr. Sharpies being called upon for a reply, stated, that his bathing-ground joined that of Mr. Bullen, and it was well understood that no proprietor of machines was to intrude, or suffer any of his servants to intrude, upon that part of the beach which belonged to his neighbour. In defiance of this rule, however, Mr. Bullen and Mrs. Bullen, and the complainant, were always overstepping the line of demarca tion, and thus a perpetual border warfare was kept up. If they saw a knot of countrypeople standing within his boun dary, they were sure to go to them, and attempt to entice them away to their own district, and thus endless disputes were arising. It was but the other day that a number of strangers were passing along his ground, when they were ac costed in the very front of his own machines by Mr. Bullen's people, and taken away to their caravans. Thus they fre quently walked off both ladies and gentlemen. It was on an occasion of this sort that he went up and remonstrated with the complainant, who was at least four yards over the boun dary line. He did not strike her, however ; he merely pushed her back to her own ground. A gentleman, whose name did not transpire, was called as a witness on behalf of Mr. Sharpies. He said he had been a proprietor of caravans for a number of years, and he under stood the laws of the business perfectly well. The boun daries were well defined, and everybody knew the lines of demarcation well. It was a rule, that no proprietor should solicit passengers on any other thantis own ground, and that they should not in the course of their business cross the line on any account. He witnessed the transaction in question, and he saw the complainant cross the boundary and accost passengers, at least, five yards on Mr. Sharpies's ground. Mr. Sharpies merely went up to her and pushed her back to her own ground, on which she became exceedingly noisy and used much bad language. The complainant in answer to this said, that Mr. Sharpies not only pushed her, but struck her a violent blow on her mouth, which had left marks of her teeth in her lip, which were still visible. Mr. Rushton was of opinion that an assault had been com mitted, but he was not prepared to say that it was a very ag gravated one. The defendant was fined Is. and costs. WEDNESDAY. THEFT FROM A BUILDING Mr. Samuel Holme preferred a complaint against Patrick Carroll. Mr. Holine stated that he found the prisoner about a quarter of an hour before in. Bank Bnildings, where he (Mr. Holme) was laying a foundation. He had a sack full of canvass which he had stolen from the place. Every week they missed from their buildings, fragments of timber and other articles. The prisoner said the workmen had thrown him a few bits of old canvass which he put into his bag without suspecting that he was doing any harm.. r 7 Mr. Rushton ordered that he should he imprisoned four :eon days. CRUELTY TO A HORSE A carter, named Lunt, was brought up on a charge of having beaten a horse belonging to Mr. Robert Neilson, in a most unmerciful manner. It appeared that be struck the animal with a large staff on the legs until the blood gushed forth in torrents, and that he subsequently gave the unfortu nate beast a blow on the head with an iron crowbar. _ _ Mr. Rushton inquired what the prisoner had to say for Himself ? He replied that when he got the horse in charge he was told that if he did not make him go by force, he would not go at all. Mr. Rushton ordered him to pay twenty shillings and costs. He said he was not possessed of so much money, and that he would he obliged if his worship would give him time. Mr. Rushton said he would not give him a day ; that his conduct had been that of a savage, and that he should pay the penalty to the last farthing. STEALING IN A DWELLING-HOUSE Mr. James Ferguson charged his servant woman with pur loining some silver spoons and other articles in th e a ft ernoon of the-day preceding. He said that she had been recom mended to him as a very honest person hut she came into his service about nine o'clock the morning before ; and that about two o'clock in the afternoon she had contrived to pur loin the several articles mentioned. Mr. Rushton ordered her to be imprisoned for a month. POCKET PICKING A respectable widow - lady, named Mrs. Hannah Ripon, charged a sailor-boy with purloining 6s. 6d. from her person, at the Pier-head, the evening before. She said that she was standing on the quay at the time, looking at a steam-vessel leaving the port, when she thought she felt some one at her pocket. She instantly turned round, and observed the pri soner walking away. She then kept her eye on him until she had felt her pocket, and found that the money had been taken, upon which she went over to where he had taken his seat between two men, and gave him into the custody of a policeman. Policeman 458 said that after taking the boy to Bridewell he searched his person, and found 2s. 6d, in the waistband of his trousers, and the remaining 4s. in his pocket. Informations to this effect were sworn by Mrs. Ripon and the policeman, and the prisoner , was'committed for the ses sions. SELLING ADULTERATED SUGAR, • Constable 113 charged two women of very questionable appearance with selling sand for sugar. It appeared that one of them called at the house of a grocer in Regent -street on Saturday morning, and said she had eight pounds of sugar for'sale, which she would dispose of for 4s. Bd. The bargain was instantly struck, and at about three o'clock the second woman brought it, tied up in a paper parcel. Qn inspecting the quality, it appeared to be wOrth,pd. a pound, and she was accordingly paid the 4s. Bd. Shortly after leaving the place the parcel was opened, when it was found to contain about half-a-pound of sugar on the top, and the remaining 71 lbs. sand. One of the prisoners said, in her defence, that she pur chased it at the docks for three shillings, from a man named Smith, and that as she got it .she parten with it, without knowing that it contained anything besides sugar. Mr. Rushton said that he believed the defence to be nn true ; that the prisoners had practised a cruel fraud, and that he would send them to the sessions for trial. FALSE CHARGE OF-ROBBERY A cyprian wa:s next brought up,• charged with robbing a gentleman in Lord-street, the eveningbefore, of a purse con taining eight soverigns. The gentleman said he had committed a great mistake, for although he gave the girl in charge for robbinghim of the money, he still found he had it in his possession, though without his knowledge, all the time. Mr. Rushton inquired whether he was sober when he had given her in charge, to which Ire replied in the affirmative. One of the bridewell watchmen proved the contrary, and said he was drunk. Mr. Rushton said that he ought to be ashamed of himself ; that he got intoxicated, charged a girl with robbing him, put her into prison, and then finds the money in his own pocket. He would now discharge the girl, and at the same time advise her accuser to make her some compensation, for should she commence an action against him for false imprisonment, he would find himself rather awkwardly situated. The gentleman promised to compensate her, and retired. FELONY. Patrick Campbell, a labourer, was fined 50s and costs, for stealing a quantity of sandstone, in Smithdown-lane, from the highways, in the township of West Derby. SMUGGLIIVG. Two men of colour, belonging to the' sliip City of Poonab, were ordered to 'be imprisoned three days, for conveying on shore a bottle of wine and two bottles of ale. EFFECTS OF INTEMPERANCE. A woman named Mary Taylor charged her husband with maltreating and knocking her down in the street three seve ral times the evening before. The husband in his defenee said that his wife was con stantly in the habit of folloWing him from place to place, and that she exasperated him to such a degree on this occasion, that he found it impossible•to'keep.hiL hands off her. - Mr. Ruslitori - inquired Whether they ever had any children ? , Mr. Taylor replied in the affirmative. They had had two, but he had taken one away and put it out to nurse. He said that his reason for taking the child away from his mother was because she was not able to take care of it. He added that it had not been long since one of their children died, and that he believed it had been smothered by its mother, for she was drunk on the nights of Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and the child died on Tuesday: Mr. Rushton thought, from the hostile feelings they had evinced towards each other, that it was impossible for them to live together. The prisoner said he was " blowed if he'd live with her." (A laugh.) The prisoner's employer gave him an excellent character, and said that although he had been a year and some months in his einplovinent, he had never yet seen him intoxicated. Mr. Rushton desired the complainant to go and agree with her husband; and to be civil and obedient to him, for that he (the magistrate) would not interfere between them. YESTERDAY. SMUGGLING TOBACCO John Smith, a poor old negro, who had been remanded from Monday last, was finally placed at the bar, on a charge of smuggling from the ship Dahlia about seven pounds weight of negro-head and Cavendish tobacco, of foreign manufacture. The case was clearly proved against the prisoner, who said he had brought it for his own use, and not for sale. He expressed his anxiety "to get clear of it." Mr. Rushton said he wished he could ; but the laws against smuggling were very severe, and he had no power to mitigate the penalty, which was £lOO, or six months' imprisonment. He should impose the fine, so that he might memorialize the Commissioners of Excise, as the presetit was a first conviction. The magistrate then communicated with Mr. Brook, who appeared as solicitor for the Customs, and that gentleman stated that he should re present the case in the proper quarter in as favourable a manner as the circumstances would permit, the prisoner being an illiterate man, apparently ignorant of the law, and nothing being previously known against him. SAND AND SAWDUST SOLD FOR SUGAR Two elderly females, Catherine Burns and Mary Tobin, were placed at the bar, under the following charge :—Ann Cammack, the wife Of a cowkeeper, in Thomas's-street, stated, that the prisoner Burns came into her kitchen on Tuesday morning, with a sample of brown sugar, and asked her to buy a little, saying she had about fifteen pounds weight of it, for which she wanted sevenpeuce a pound. Witness looked at the sample, and agreed to take six pounds weight. The prisoner went away, and returned in about half an hour. She then said she had , a parcel . of seven or eight pounds weight at home, and witness agreed to take it. In the after noon the other prisoner, Mary Tobin, called with a parcel made up in a bag, and said that her sister-in-law had made a bargain with witness fcir some sugar, and she (Tobin) had brought it, and it was eight pounds and a half weight. Wit ness said it was too much ; but agreed to take it for 4s. Bd., which she paid, the half-pound being knocked off. She opened the bag, and found sugar at the top. The prisoner went away. In the evening witness opened the bag, and found that it contained sand and sawdust, with only about an inch in depth of sugar at the top. Witness's servant knew where the prisoner Burns lived, in John's court, Oriel-street. Both prisoners were afterwards foun4 togethei in the street, and were apprehended. It appeared, they were not sisters in-law. The bag containing the sand and sawdust was pro duced. The prisoner Tobin said she sold it as she had bought it ; and that she had bought it at the bottom of Oriel-street. Burns said she was quite innocent, and that the other prisoner had given her the sample to show to Mrs. Cammack. Both prisoners were committed for trial at the sessions.. THE LATE ATTEMPTED 11{URDER AT LUDLOW , COMMITTAL OF MISTERS, THE PRISONER. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) W Ludlow, Wednesday Evening. This morning the prisoner, in custody on a charge of attempting to • murder M r. M ac k r eth, ax the Angel nn, Ludlow, was brought up for final examination, and committed to take his trial for the offence. The prisoner, since his examination on -Monday last, has in a great measure discontinued reading his Bible, and seems more thoughtful; his spirits are very low, and he does not sleep well at night Underneath we give a verbatim copy of the prisoner's writing on the back of a tin plate, off which he ate his dinner on Monday last ; it is written in a neat hand, and it is supposed that it was written with a bit of glass : " Josiah Misters was charged with an attempt of cutting Mr. Mc Reath's throat on Thursday, the 20 day of August 1840, at the Angel Inn Ludlow. In my defence which that Almighty and Great God knows that 1 urn innocent and gives me that fortitude to support myself in this time of Trouble, and I am well aware that He will not let the innocent suffer for the Guilty, I trust in my Maker for he judgeth the heart, and I am sure that man cannot be greater than God in judgment and false witnesses may try to find me guilty but that Just One will make his testimony of no avail ; therefore Reader trust in God when you are in trouble and He will be ever your supporter. • Josiah Misters Birmingham." Mr. Mackreth, after describing himself as a traveller in the house of Christopher George and Co., at Bristol, and the circumstances of his arrival at the Angel Inn, Ludlow, on the 19th August, said,—l retired to bed between eleven and twelve o'clock. I took my travelling box with me. My bed-room was No. 17. I spoke to the chambermaid once, and she then left the room. I locked my bed-room door. I am positive of that. My window blind was down, with the exception of about four inches. I then retired to rest. 1 heard no noise during the time I was undressing. My large box was on a chair on the right-hand side of the bed, and my travelling box was on the dressing table. I put out the can dle before I got into bed. I awoke in a kind of half con sciousness. I felt fingers on my throat, and the blood run ning, but felt no pain. I became alarmed, and uttered these words, " Good God, what is this ?" At that moment I felt a person's hand on my chin. I jumped out of bed, and shrieked. I felt pulled back by the shoulders, on the opposite side of the bed. I fell down with my legs en tangled with the bed-clothes, in consequence of the struggle. I heard a person in my bed-room. He made a rustling noise, as if he was escaping from the room. I immediately made for the window, and dashed through a pane of glass with my hand. I called out as loud as I could, " murder," and " fire." After I cried out several times, I looked round the room, afraid some one was near me." It was just getting light. The window-blind was still down. I attempted to raise it, but could not, and I dashed through another pane of glass. I saw no one in my room. I heard some one go down stairs, and I then attempted to find my bed-room door. The door I found open about four Inches. I was still endea vouring to alarm the house. I heard a person below stairs, and I immediately went down holding by the banastres. I got to the landing opposite the kitchen-door. I saw a young man in the kitchen, whom I afterwards found was the post boy. I attempted to speak to him, to ask him to send for a surgeon, but I found that-I had lost the power of utterance. Mr. Cooke, the landlord, then. came to the kitchen-door. He seemed dreadfully alarmed, and said, " go back to your bed-room, pray." I returned up stairs, with Mr. Cooke with me. I stopped on' the stairs to speak, but could not. Mr. Cooke again desired me to go to my bed-room. , I was bleeding profusely from my throat. I put my hands to my throat, and discovered for the first time that it was cut. I stood a little at my bed-room door, endeavouring to speak to Mr. Cooke, but could not. I recollect then going into My bed-room persons came in. I s t oo d at the bottom of when several the bed. I heard some person say, " Wh o i s h e ?" " Where doei he come from?" Hearing theie words, I went to my dressing-box, and unlocking it, I gave out seve ral cards of our firm. I did this to let the persons know whom I was. I then felt very weak. I held out my hands, and a Mr. Peach came to support me. I did not know Mr. Peach at that time, but since I have ascertained that it was him. I recollect nothing more but going on the bed. 'Every one seemed to stand aloof from me. About ten minutes to a quarter of an hour I think elapsed from the time I was first awoke to the time I returned into my bed-room. I am posi tive I never went in any other direction than down stairs. This I will positively swear. I recollect some observations which led me to believe that the persons around me thought I had committed suicide. Mr. Cooke exclaimed, " Good God ! what made you do it?" I endeavoured by motions and signs to make them believe otherwise. One sign I made was pointing under the bed. The surgeon then arrived, who began to dress up my wounds. The opinion being still en tertained that I had committed suicide, I gave signs that I wanted pen and ink. On their being brought I wrote some words. The paper produced is my writing';—" Some villain has done it—is the windpipe cut—is there danger—the per son stood on my left—l grasped his hand —he escaped. Is the man found—W. M. Mackreth." That is what I wrote. It was in answer to questions put to me. I had one wound across the throat, and another across my cheek, leading to my mouth. There was another wound on.the surface of my tongue, and a slight one on my finger. I am certain that I felt being pulled back in bed. My night-shirt was torn in the strugee, from the shoulder down the back. When I broke one pane of glass I attemeted to raise the window. I found I could not do it, and I broke anoth er . I am not aware that I have lost any property. I have no reco ll ect i on of having eve r s een the prisoner. I recollect seeing a per son at the foot of my bed inquiring for his stockings ; he was assuming a great levity of conduct. I think it was the pri soner. The surgeon was then standing near me, I pointed to the prisoner on the morning, seeing leviq of conduct, and said, " Wh o is that man ?" I was induced to ask the question from the manner of the man. I will not swear po sitively that the prisoner is that man. I have no recollection of ever having seen the prisoner on the evening previous to the attempt upon my life. I was perfectly .sensible the whole of the time my wounds were being dressed. I had two razors in my own possession. One was in my large box, and the-other in my smajl box. had no other in my pos session. I am positive I locked my door, I am quite posi ..o-room. The water presented a dirty appearance, and on applying chemical tests to it, they found that it contained a strong so lution of alum. The prisoner had in his possession a lump of alum, which from its appearance had been recently used. 4 him hoe r•nesn.v4sr ose A. • n --Latin Has toe property of onuterating blood stains from linen, whilst the water will not possess that red colour which it would otherwise do if the blood was washed out with mere soap and water. J - osiah Vaughan, John Humphries, Richa r d H ance, and the Town-clerk of Ludlow were then examined, but the sub stance of their testimony has already been published. The TOWN-CLERK then asked the prisoner if he had any statement to make ?—The Prisoner said that there was one decided proof that it was not him who committed the deed— the cook in her evidence stated, that when she lighted Mr. Mackreth to bed, she saw his (the prisoner's) door closed, Mr. Mackreth also states that helocked his door, it appeared clear, therefore, that the room where. Mr. Mackreth slept must have been forced ; if not forced, it appeared equally clear, that he (the prisoner) could not be the ¶arty who com mitted the deed, seeing he was in his own bed-room according the cooks evidence. The Magistrates having consulted for a short time, the Mayor stated, that they considered they had ample evidence to justify them in committing the prisoner to take his trial at the ensuing Shrewsbury assizes.—Committed accordingly. THE LATE FAILURES IN MANCHESTER tive I did not go near the right side of the lobby leading to the stairs neither in going down nor in returning. I made no examination of my room previous to going to bed. I had (From the Manchester Guardian of Wednesday.) about £9O in my desk, in notes and gold. lam a very sound 'Since Friday last, much excitement has been caused upon sleeper; I generally go to sleep immediately on retiring to our Exchange, by 'the occurrence of three failures, one of bed. I never was in Ludlow before Wednesday the 19th. I which caused grea t suror i se. as we ll as a l arm. amnn7At. all have travelled for the firm nt 11.4.1,0 _ rasu I. u. tab Li LISWL aoou t one year and classes of persons • the party being generally considered a eight months. I was in their empl o y p rev i ous to that for man of considerable property, and having maintained his six years, but not in the capacity of traveller. credit in the market unimpaired, down to the very day when The Prisoner then cross-examined Mr. Mackreth with con- he stopped payment. Owing to these failures, it was fully siderable acutenss, but without impeaching any part of his expected that the market y es t er d a y wou ld h ave ' ex hibited a testimony. Dr. Lloyd stated that.he and others had made an analization of the slops whie` with that of !though the i .ueuce of t nts was felt to some - extent in the morning, the state of business in the afternoon was decidedly better than might have been reasonably expected ; and, upon the whole, a fair hosinpo.s tV.I. thln • • aL previous prices,—a tact a under the circumstances just mentioned, shows great ticity in the market. We think it right to state, with the view of correcting soma very erroneous statements which have been made in the I don newspapers, and elsewhere, that the extent of the prin cipal.failure, that of Mr. Forth, has been very greatly ex aggerated. Instead of £400,000 or £250,000, both of which sums have been mentioned, as the amount of his engagements, we are assured, on the very best authority, that they will cer tainly not amount to X 60,000, and will most probably not exceed £50,000. The effect of this failure on the London stock market has been (as will be perce,ved from our usual extracts from. the London newspapers) great to an extent which would be ridiculous, were it not attended with severe loss to many parties. Amongst other consequences produced by it in the metropolis, was a fall of £ll in the shares of the London and Birmingham, and £5 in those of the Great Western Railway, on tho alleged ground that Mr. Forth was a very large holder of those and other shares, which would necessarily be thrown upon the market by his failure. The fact is, as we are well assured, that Mr. Forth was not the owner of a single share in either of the companies named; and the entire amount of railway stock, of any kind, standing in his name, or belonging to him at the time of his stoppage (chiefly in undertakings of small importance,) did not exceed £lO,OOO, which, even if offered all at once, would not pro duce any very serious effect upon the market. With respect to the other two failures that have occurred, they are of minor consequence. The debts of one concern are said to amount to £25,000, and of the other to X 5,000 ; but neither of them is likely to be productive of any serious consequences in the neighbourhood. We think it ;right t,17 add, that several reports of further failures circulated yesterday (and amongst them that of a fo reign house here) were altogether destitute of foundation. MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE The weekly meeting of the Dock Committee was held yes terday, at the office in Revenue-buildings. There were present Messrs. Leathom, Benc, Holmes, Evans, Mellor, Middleton, Ripley, Thomas Holt, Martin, Barc lay, Chap man, Smith, Horsfall, G. Holt, and Tobin. Mr. Leathom, chairman of the committee, presided. The proceedings of the last meeting were confirmed ; and the accounts of the week were passed. CROSBY LIGHT-HOUSE. The SURVEYOR presented a report relative to Crosby Light-house. The report stated that when the lighti.house was erected, it was thought desirable that the interior should receive a coat of fire-proof plaster ; but it had since been found that the least quantity of moisture caused the plaster to run. The plaster, too, still retained its orighial offensive smell ; and the surveyor requested permission, •under these circumstances, to substitute common plaster, the cost of which he estimated at little more than £56. In answer to a question, the SURVEYOR repeated that the smell from the tire-proof plaster was very offensive. Mr. HORSFALL said he had visited the light-house about 10 days ago, and the smell from the plaster was then most offensive. In his opinion it would be desirable to get r•id of it as soon as possible. The CHAIRMAN asked the surveyor what the total cost would be ? The S URVEYOR replied about £lO. - MORTAR FOR DOCKS The SECRETARYrWd a letter, si g ned John Walker, from the commissioners of St. George's Quay, Lancaster, ad dressed to the surveyor (Mr. Hartley) stating that they had been in hopes of finishing their graving dock, but that it was not water-tight, .a circumstance which they attributed to the quality of their mortar. The letter further stated, that the commissioners had been strongly recommended to use hy draulic mortar, and that unless the dock committee supplied them with it. they, should not be able to obtain it. They hoped therefore that the committee would accommodate them with the quantity they wanted, and it should be paid for at the price charged. The CHAIRMAN said he had received two letters on the subject, and he had replied to both, that they should be laid before the committee. He thought that under the act of parliament the committee had no right to sell any part of the materials in their yard, and that if they did so, they should have parties continually asking them for mortar, bricks, and other articles. Mr. HORSFALL enquired what quantity the commissioners wanted ? The SURVEYOR replied, about £l2 worth. Mr. llomdEs (and others)--Let them have it. The SURVEYOR stated that the commissioners had applied to him twice for his advice on the construction of their grav ing dock, but on neither occasion had they adopted his sug gestions, and now they wanted this mortar to keep out the water. The CHAIRMAN asked the committee whether a reply should be sent to the commissioners, and also to Mr. Ste phenson, who was building a light-house at the Isle of Mull, who had applied for it, to the effect that the limestone from which the mortar was made, was to be had at Hawarden, where it was got? Mr. CHAPMAN considered that if the committee acceded to this application, they might be asked to become purveyors for all the docks in the world. _ _ Mr. HORSFALL said the principle laid down by Mr. Chap man, was very proper, but still, as the quantity they wanted was so very trifling, they might have it without setting up a precedent. The CHAIRMAN observed, that in order to get the mortar. the commissioners had only to get the limestone, as the com mittee had. and grind it down. Mr. CHAPMAN said it appeared to him, that although the commissioners would not take Mr. Hartley's advice in the first instance, they now not only wanted it, but the commit tee to supply them with mortar. By and .bye he supposed the committee would be called upon to supply them with engineers. Mr. RIPLEY remarked, that if the commissioners were to obtain the stone from Hawardeti, they had not the means of grinding it down. He would let them have the mortar. The CHAIRMAN'S impression was, that if this application were granted a door would be opened for the establishment of a very inconvenient principle. The application, hOwtver, was only for a small quantity. After a few further observations, the Surveyor was autho rised toteupply the mortar as.requested. GATES TO THE SOUTH BASIN The SURVEYOR requested the instructions of the commit tee on the erection of a gate to the South Basin, the object of which was to convert that basin into a dock. Mr. CHAPMAN said, that before this matter was decided, two questions should be consid3red, the utility and the cost of the contemplated alteration. The estimated cost was £2.1,000, and when that sum had been expended the dock would be of no earthly use in sending timber ships away, or in taking them in. It would not return sixpence in the way of revenue. The committee had now an opportunity of making this into a graving dock, capable of containing two large steamers of 3,000 tons burden each. If, however, there should be no large steamers, there would be the large timber ships from Canada or the United States, and thus the com mittee would derive a revenue from it. The SURVEYOR observed that the dock would not hold two large steamers, but only one large steamer and one large ship. Mr. CHAPMAN said the great point in his mind was to be prepared for the increasing business of the port, and a return in the way of revenue. Mr. HORSFALL remarked, that if the gates were made large enough, the dock might be converted into a graving dock whenever required. _ - - if Mr. CHAPMAN said, that was the case, the object he had in view would be gained. Mr. RIPLEY intimated that a few hundred pounds addi tional would be sufficient to make the gates suitable for a graving dock. Mr.EvArrs, after a few remarks upon Mr. Martin's ob servations upon revenue, which were totally inaudible to the reporters, said, that looking at the future great wants of the port, he had no idea that they could ever be provided for on this side of the river, where every convenience would be at hand. He considered that the space on this side the river would soon all be wanted for the convenience of trade ; and then the repair and building of ships must be carried on on the Cheshire side. After some further discussion, in which Mr. Horsfall, Mr. G. Holt, Mr. Evans, Mr. Chapman, and the Surveyor took part, a resolution was passed authorising the Surveyor to pre pare gates for the basin, 40 feet wide and 5 feet below the old dock sill. BRUNSWICK DOCK The Surveyor, after a report of his - upon the subject had been read, was directed to make two openings into Sefton street from the east quay of Brunswick Dock, for the accom modation of the timber trade. The cost was estimated at £67 10s. UNION AND COBURG DOCKS. The Surveyor requested permission to erect a temporary wall across the passage leading form Union Dock to Coburg Dock, for the purpose of rendering the latter more safe and efficient. The cost was estimated at from £250 to £3OO. Postponed, in order to obtain reports thereon from the South Harbour Master and the Masters of Brunswick and Queen's Docks. THE SMACK NEWCASTLE Some correspondence relative to the North West Light ship having been run foul of by the smack Newcastle was read. The damage to the light ship was stated to be £23, which having been paid by the commander of the Newcastle, and he further expressing his regret at the accident, further proceedings were ordered Co be stayed. KING'S DOCK QUAY. A resolution from the Watch Committee was read, stating that particular directions had been given to the police to see the wishes of the committee carried into effect relative to the convenience of the tobacco trade at this dock. PRINCE'S PIER MASTER An investigation was tnade into a charge against John Cor ley, master of Prince's pier, for receiving money from the masters of small vessels during the period he was gateman : at Prince's dock. The enquiry was very long, and many wit nesses were examined. It ended in Corley being kept in his present situation. Some other business of minor importance was next tran sacted, and the committee separated. NEW CHAPEL FOR. THE WELSH INDEPENDENTS.—On Monday, the foundation-stone of a new chapel about to be erected in Brownlow-street, for the use of the Welsh Inde pendents, was laid by Dr. Raffles. The area of the founda tion was crowded with people, chiefly natives of the princi pality, and around the verge o f the excavation numbers had assembled. The Rev. Dr. Raffles having taken his stand on the stone, gave out the psalm commencing " Before Je hovah's awful throne," which was sung by the multitude. The learned divine having received a glass jar, containing a record in Welsh and English, of the event, with a list of the ger.tlemen of the committee, deposited it within a cavity in the stone, which had been chiselled for that purpose. The reverend doctor, with a trowel which was presented to him by one of the masons present, assisted in spreading the mortar on the stone. The stone was then lowered to its place. Dr. Raffles then addressed the assembly. He said he was proud of the situation in which he was placed, and he esteemed it an honour to have been applied to on the occasion. They had laid the foundation-stone of an edifice, in which they and their families, and their descendants, he trusted, to remote generations, would worship the God of their fathers, and in which they would listen to the faithful preaching of the gospel. At the conclusion of the reverend doctor's speech, a hymn was sung in Welsh, and followed by addresses in the same language from the Rev. Mr. Pierce and the Rev. John Roberts, of Llanbrynmair. The Rev. William Williams, of Carnarvon, then gave out a hymn in Welsh, which was sung, after which Mr. Williams addressed the meeting. He was followed by the Rev. Mr. Griffiths of Neath, Glamorganshire. In the evening the friends of the undertaking assembled at a tea-party in the school-room of Pleasant -street Chapel. . • AWFULLY' SUDDEN DEATH.—To the numerous instances of sudden decease which have recently happened in this neighbourhood, we have to add that of Mr. Jeremiah Field ing, a gentleman exceedingly well known •in Manchester. We understand that Mr. Fielding was in Manchester until about five o'clock on Monday, apparently in his usual state of health ; but, on his return home, he felt a little indisposed, and retired early to rest. About midnight Mrs. Fielding was alarmed by hearing him groan ; and, finding that he did not answer when spoken to, she alarmed the servants, and, a light being procured, it was found that he was quite dead. This melancholy event has, we believe, been attended by one very remarkable circumstance : for some time previously, Mrs. Fielding had been in a bad state of health, and had lost her voice to such a degree that she could speak only in a whisper ; but the violent alarm to which she was subjected had the extraordinary effect Onierfeetry and immediately re storing her voice to its former state. JOURNAL OP THE MONEY MARKET, MONDAY EVENING.—There 'has been a perfect panic in the funds to-day. Consols have declined to 88i sellers for money and 89 for account. Exchequer "Bills 16s tp 18s pre mium. Bank Stock for the orening 1694 to 1701. India Stock 218 to 9. Foreign Stocks were also lower, although in respect of those on which no dividends are paying the wonder is rather that they .should have any value at all. Spanish Active with the May Coupons were 23ito f. Por tuguese Five per Cents 321 to 1, the Three per Cents 214- to Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents 50 to 1, the Five per Cents 100 to 1. Alexican Old Bonds 26-1 to 71. Co lombian 221 to 3f. An extensive depreciation in the prices of Railway Shares may also be noted. London and Bir mingham fell to 62 to 4, Great Western to 16 to 18, the Half Shares to sto 6 premium. North Midland Old Shares were 18 to 16 discount, the New par to 1 premium. Brighton 11/ to 10/, Blackwall 11 to * discount. These are very ruin ous fluctuations in values, and may be regarded, if events may be traced to their first cause, as part, and part only, consummation of the political ac hi evemen t s o f t h e Foreign ce. TUESDAY EVENING.—The English Stock Market conti nues agitated, and confidence seems generally paralysed. Consols have further declined to 87U for money and to 88 sellers for the account. After four o'clock bargains were done a shade lower. In Exchequer Bilis the offers have been so great that the premium has receded from 16s. to 18s. to 10s. to 15s. Bank Stock is quoted 169 to 170. Foreign Se curities have also experienced an increased depreciation, and here, as in the Consul market, all are sellers and no buyers. Spanish was . quoted '221 to 4. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents 50 to /, Ditto Five per Cents 99,1 to 1001. _ Portuguese Regency Bonds 311 to 32, Ditto Three per Cents 21 t o Colombian 221 to . Mexi can 251 t o 6. Danish 77 to 7!), and Belgian 99 to 100. Railway Shares still suffer severely from the effects of the general depression. The throwing of large quantities of Shares upon the market, in which specu lation has been of late kept alive, tends to depress their unfa favourable position. Blackwall were quoted at the close of the day 11 to 1 discount. Great Western 12 to 131 pre mium, Birmingham 64 to 66 premium, and New North Mid land 2 to 1 discount. WEDNESDAY EVENING.—The Stock Market has been greatly agitated to-day and Consols in the early part of it were down to 84*. They recovered at the close to 87t for for money and 88 to * for account. Exchequer Bills were 9s to 12s premium. Foreign Securities of course are more depressed still than home stocks. Spanish Active with the overdue Coupons left off at 22} to t t . Portugese Five per Cents 311 to 2, the Three per Cents 211 to Brazilian 78 to 80. Mexican Old Bonds 241 to 5.. Colombian 21t to 21. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents 50 to 1, the Five per Cents 94 to 91. Belgian 98 to 100. Railway Shares were nominally as follows :—London and Birmingham 64 to 6, Great West ern 11 to 13 premium. S o uth am pt on 501 t o 11 p er s h are. For other descriptions there was scarcely a quotation. COURT CIRCULAR.-THURSDA The Queen will hold a privy council, to-morrow afternoon, at Windsor Castle. The Duke, of Sussex came to town, yesterday afternoon, to pay a visit to the Princess Augusta. His royal highness remained at Clarence House, St. James's, half an hour, and left shortly before six o'clock, on his return to Wimbledon Park, the residence of . the Duke and Duchess of Somerset. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, the Duchess of Gloucester, and the Duke of Cambridge also visited the Priniless Augusta in the course of the day. The following account of the health of her royal highness was issued yesterday " Tee Princess Augusta has passed another restless and disturbed night. There is no material change in her royal highness's symptoms. _ ." Clarence tiouse, Septe.whog.,g.X.. Her Serene Highness thE - Dueliess'lcil i nf accompanied by the Princes Armand kGus • and the Princesses of Sixe Weimar, and atte*deci b.' r suites, . left Marlbo . r 4 fl e o m u se a , rk a e t d sixo'clo# yes te r ytri c)rn g n , u ,a gh ti for the TM\ b from th e Stairs, the Oceans eamtiOacket, for Rotterdam. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager left Marlborough. House, at half-past three o'clock yesterday afternoon, in an open barouche and four, with outriders, for her residence, Bushy House, Bushy Park. Her Majesty visited the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House, in the afternoon, previous to her departure. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—IIer Majesty and Prince Albert have remained within the castle during the whole of the day. this morning Lady Charlemont and the Hon. Miss Ca vendish drove out in a pony phaeton: Lord John Russell is expected at the castle this evening. Sir James Clark arrived this morning, and left the castle this afternoon. The following will be included in the Royal dinner party this evening :—H. R. H. the Duchess of Kent, the Princess and Princess Therese of Hohenlohe, Lady C. Dundas, Lady Charlemont, Baroness Spaeth, Madame de Hugel, Hon. Misses Cavendish and Cocks, Lord Lilford, Sir W. Lumley, Sir E. Bowater, Captain Seymour, Colonel Wemyss, Vis count Melbourne, Lord John R usse ll, an d the arl of Surrey. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—It WaS rumoured this morning that her Majesty was seriously indisposed, and that it was necessary, in consequence, to send an express to London, commanding the attendance of Sir James Clark. Sir James arrived in the course of the day, and advised her Majesty (as lam informed) not to leave the castle. In the course of the afternoon the Queen, I am happy to state, was considerably better, and Sir James Clark left about five o'clock. Neither her Majesty, however, nor her illustrious consort, ventured beyond the castle walls throughout the day. Such is the extensive nature of the alterations in contem plation at the stables and other outbuildings at Cumberland Lodge, for the accommodation of the prince's stud, and at Virginia Water, for his royal highness's dog-kennels, that it is not considered politic to proceed much farther in the ex penditure of money without applying to Parliament for a grant. Another grant must likewise be applied for (and ob tained, too!) before the new riding house, with its immense stabling and coach-houses, can be completed in accordance with plans upon which the buildings have been commenced. The £70,000 voted by the legislature for this purpose will not go half-way towards perfecting the works. Then there is the expense to be defrayed of laying out upwards of twenty acres of the Home Park in shrubberies and drives for the private use of her Majesty and Prince Albert.—Morning Herald. MANSLAUGHTER.—On Saturday night last a number of men and women, who had been drinking and dancing at the Volunteer public-house, Deansgate, Manchester, came out into the street, two of the men to fight, and the rest to wit ness.the battle. During the disturbance, a young man about twenty years of age, named Thos. Brown, a tailor, of Bell's Court, Wood-street, was knocked down, and fell with his bead on the pavement: Shortly afterwards three policemen came up, and the man who had knocked Brown down, ran away ; the policemen then conveyed Blown to Mr. 011ier's, surgeon, in Brazennose-street, who immediately got up; but, as soon as he saw the deceased, said he was dead. The police Subsequently apprehended the man who struck the deceased, named Samuel Wisdom, and who is an overlooker at Mr. Harding's mill, in Salford. An inquest was held on the body, on Monday last, and the prisoner was committed to take his trial at the next assizes, on the charge of man slaughter. The Hereford Times gives a portrait of Misters, the man charged with the attempt to murder Mr. Mackreth at Ludlow, and the Monnzouthshire Beacon also has one. We cannot say if either or both be like that person, but they are not at all like each other I MODEL OF WATERLOO.—Once more we beg to remind our readers that Capt. Siborn's truly elaborate model of the field of Waterloo will 'only remain a short time longer on view. We recommend an early visit to this interesting ex hibition. The subscription to the monument of the late Earl of Durham already amounts to upwards of £l,BOO. THE FORTHCOMING DONCASTER ST. LEGER.---For the great race, the St. Leger, only a moderate show is antici pated, and, taking everything into consideration, the horses are below mediocrity. The great uncertainty as to whether the flying Crucifix will stand a sufficient quantity of work to go through a St. Leger race has no doubt acted as a great check to the bettors on the race. It is to be hoped her noble owner will, should her leg fail, give immediate publicity for the sake of the unwary. My opinion is that Crucifix will not go to Doncaster. To proceed. That Launcelot is Scott's Leger horse there now exists little if any doubt; and f ew will be bold enough to say that their stablettheisseson has h been a weak one. Launcelot's runnin g f or Champagne and Two-year-old Stakes at 'Doncaster last year, when no toriously in an unfit state to run, proved him a true and honest racer; and his performance for the Derby justly en titles him to the foremost place in the betting (Crucifix, of course, excepted). It was observed by an experien ce d New market trainer, and one wh o i s not fo nd of a too great reduc tion in the system, just before the start for the Derby, that Launcelot was too fleshy, and ou g ht to h ave had at least two more sweats. It i s , I believ e, very generally ad m itt e d that Day, William Scott an d John ay, jun.,' destroyed their em ployers' chance for the great Epsom race, by running at such a destructive pace up the hill • and I, with thousands of others, feel most certain, if one had ben out of the race, that the o th er would have carried off' the De rby, e 1840. As it was,. it was " h ammer and tongs " all the way fr om the. turn ; in short, a match ; yet, in the end, like the fable of the two mastiffs fighti ng f or the bone, a little cur stept in and bore away the prize. When I saw Launcelot at the last Liverpool July Meeting, he looked amazingly fresh and well, and I have no doubt at this period that he is at least seven pounds better than when he displayed at Epsom. Here I close my remarks up on Launcelot by observing that he is my fancy for the Doncaster St. Leger, 1840. " The fiend is at mine elbow, an d tempts, saying t b me, Good Launcelot, use Your legs, take the start, run away from the lot.' My con science says yes."—Gibraltar Second.----01d Sporting Ma gazine for September. WARLIKE PREPARATIONS The quantity of large pieces of ordnance recently trans mitted to various parts of her Majesty's dominions, both at home and abroad, from the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, has been considerable ; and there are at present on the grounds the following large guns labelled, and ready for being shipped by the first opportunity for their destinations :—Six pieces of ordnance for Portsmouth, eight inches in diameter of bore, callable of projecting balls of 651 b weight a distance of three :idles, or eight-inclishell s filled with the most destructive frinds of instruments of warfare a similar distance, charged _ rith fn.:Ts in such a manner as t a. at the reuisite me with the g rea t es t certa i nty, and with almost unerring aim, from the.nature of the materials. Ten guns of exactly the same dimensions are labelled for Devonport, and ten for Corfu. In addition to these there are ten 32:pounders and wenty-six 24-pounders for Corfu, so that it would appear greatest number are for the British station in the Medi- It is now certain that the companies of the royal .ctillery sent out recently to the Mediterranean, ostensibly for the purpose of relieving the detachments stationed at Gib raltar, Malta, and Corfu, will not operatt as a relief to the others, whose period of foreign service has expired according to rotation, sealed orders having been transmitted that the troops previously on these stations are to remain until the affairs of the east are settled : but when that event will take place it is past human comprehension to ascertain. Prepara tions are in progress at head-quarters at Woolwich, for the pur pose of sending out a number of royal artillerymen to Constan tinople to brigade the Turks, and instruct them in the military movements of that corps. It was originally intended that Serjeant Maclean should accompany the men, as during his previous residence in Constantinople the Sultan bestowed a gold medal upon him as an especial mark of favour. It has now been decided however, that the men will be selected from the detachment recently returned from Spain, where they had considerable experience under the command of Lieut.- Colonel Colquhoun, and where their zeal, gallantry, and good conduct, displayed by them on all occasions during a long Course of service, called forth the warmest encomiums from Lord John Hay, and the entire approbation of Lord Bloom field, the commandant of the garrison, on their return home. The circumstance of artillerymen being• sent out to brigade the Turks is looked upon by the old soldiers who have re tired from the service as tantamount to a declaration of war, as they remember that a similar step was taken in 1801. Great progress has been made at the foundry of the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, preparatory to another large casting of brass ordnance, which will shortly take place, although the precise day has not yet been named. Twenty-five years of peace, even with a reduced establishment, owing to the improvements • that have taken place, has enabled the Ordnance department to keep up a far greater supply than the times required, but a casual visiter to the Royal Arsenal would at once discern a great number of vacancies where the largest description of guns are usually placed. It is now also determined upon that Napier's machine for snaking balls by compression will, be performed by steam, and the turners and borers of cantons will be arranged so as to work by the same moving power. At present the same system as was acted upon 40 years ago is used in the boring of large guns, by employing horses as the moving power. This alteration will relieve about ten artillerymen who take charge of the horses engaged in this duty.—.2lforning Herald of yesterday. terranean Mary Moody, apparently not more than 19 years of age has been committed by the magistrates at Belfast for trial charged with administering poison to her uncle, Alexandei Boyle, thereby causing his death. Lord and Lady Lyndhurst are at Marienbad, in Bohemia, Lord Albert Conyngham will resign his seat in the B r ous( of Commons, as representative of Canterbury, immediately on the assembling of, parliament. The United Service Gazette states positively, that the reason why Prince Albert declined to dine with the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House on the day the freedom of the city was presented to his Royal Highness was, that the noble lord at the head of the adtilinis.tration had not been invited There is a modified type of the cholera disease continuing at this season of the year very prevalent in some of tLe coun try districts, and some slight cases of the same disease have manifested themselves within the last few weeks in parts of the metropolis. The French call the disease cholerine. CRICKET.—KENT AGAINST ALL ENGLAND.—On Satur day the third and deciding match, between eleven picked players from the county of Kent and a similar number se lected from the several counties of England, terminated, at Bromley, in favour of the latter, by a majority of 139 runs. The game was commenced on Thursday. The Scotch newspapers publish very gratifying accounts of the result of the Scotch registrations. In the county of Perth alone the conservatives have augmented their majority by 145., In Dumbartonshire, the gain of the present year added to those since the last election, gives the conservatives a decided majority of more than 150. PARTRIDGE SHOOTING.—The seasbn opened on Tuesday, and although the weather was favourable for the diversion of sportsmen, we understand th a t very i n diff erent sport was met with, as the birds were chiefly in the corn, patches of which were uncut, and consequently could not be got at. The de struction of hares was inconsiderable, as they availed them selves of the same means of shelter. The receipts of the Bible Society for the past year, from all sourees, amounted to £111,449, being £6220 more than the preceding year, and £3700 more than any former year. The issues of Bibles and testaments were 776,360 copies, being 118,292 more than the preceding year. Total from the commencement of the institution, 12,322,471 copies of the Scriptures ; and the expenditure £2,640,160. THE HOP HARVEST.—The signal failure in the hop crops may be attributed in a great measure to the absence of those electric showers during the present year, which prove so de structive to the aphides (smother fly) and other obnoxious blights. It has been noticed by old experienced hop growers that in those seasons when the planters have been visited but by little thunder and lightning th e a t mosp h ere has been loaded with insects, and that the hop-bine has been most seriously affected in such instances. RETIREMENT OF LORD MORPETIL—We see by the Dub lin Evening Post, the official organ of Dublin Castle, that Lord Morpeth is about to retire. Doubtless Lord Morpeth must retire, because Mr, O'Connell has denounced him. We suppose that his lordship will be succeeded by a pledged Repealer. Lord Morpeth, however, merits no pity. His firmness in maintaining the union only renders by the eon mo di r fisting the levity with which he surrendered the in ees s the religion or truth. AFFLICTING AND AWFUL VISITATION. —Little more than a month ago, Mrs. Harding, wife of Mr. Joseph Harding, of Rodmead Farm, Upton Scudamore, died suddenly ; shortly after which her son and two daughters went into Wales, a change of scene being thought necessary to their health. During their absence their father, who had previ ously been in good health, also died suddenly, and was bu ried before they had any knowledge of his death—their friends not knowing where to direct them. On their return each of them was seized with a dreadful fever—of which, melancholy to relate, one of the daughters died in Beaufort buildings, Bath.—Devizes Gazette. MORTALITY IN LONDON.—The table of mortality for the week ending last Saturday gives a total number of 820 deaths, of which 457 are under the age of 15.; 235 between the ages of 15 and 60 ; and 128 of the age of 60 and upwards. These numbers show a weekly decrease in the deaths of nearly 200 compared with the returns of two years back. Of the 820 persons who died last week, 166 were from epidemic, endemic, and contagious diseases ; 181 from diseases of the brain, nerves, and senses; 190 from diseases of the lungs and other organs of respiration; 12 from diseases of the heart and blood-vessels ; 90 from diseases of the stomach, liver, and other organs of digestion ; 7 diseases of the kidneys ; 3 child bed ; 6 diseases of the joints ; 1 disease of skin ; 94 disease of uncertain seat ; 46 old age or natural decay ; 20 by violence, privation, or intemperance ; and 1 from a cause not specified. MOST ATROCIOUS MURDER.--On Saturday evening last a most inhuman murder was perpetrated within a mile of the town of Castlecomer, on the mail-coach road leading from thence to Dublin. The victim, a stout-looking young man, is suspected to have been a deserter. When discovered, he was lifeless, lying in a pool of blood on the middle of the road ; a man's hat was found close to his own, which led to the immediate apprehension of three carmen, who had passed the spot a short time before the murder occurred, on their way from Kilkenny, where they had been selling coals, one of whom claimed the hat in question. An inquest was held on the body of the deceased on Monday, the result of which was the immediate liberation of the carmen, against whom hardly a .suspicion was entertained, notwithstanding the re markable circumstance .of the hat of one of them being found on the spot where the murder was committed. This circumstance was satisfactorily accounted for by its having fallen off when the owner of it was asleep in his car, and was most probably picked up, either by one of the murderers or their unfortunate victim. It also appeared, from the evi dence, that about half an hour after the cars had passed, some persons (supposed tohave accompanied a corpse for in terment iu the course of the day, from an adjoining parish,) were heard wrangling at the entrance to the churchyard, and were supposed to have proceeded along the road to the scene of the murder,. as something like skirmishing was overheard there, and two men, strangers to those who met them, were seen running in all haste from the spot, towards the collie ries, who have not since been heard of.—Dublin Evening Mail. PACIFIC STEAMERS.—Extract of a letter from Captain Peacock, dated on board the Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steam-vessel Peru, lat. 9 15 N, long. 25 50 W, and 14 days from Plymouth :—" The Peru has hitherto had a most prosperous voyage, answering in every respect my most sanguine expectations. On leaving Plymouth we ex perienced a head wind, with a heavy cross swell, until t 1 evening of the following day, when 1 ordered the fires to burnt down, blew out the boilers, and made sail. o first trial of sailing, although deep, we got seven kilo', her. There was a good deal of swell on, and the •%, occasionally rolled deep ; but after a minute investigatio the moveable parts of the funnel, I saw no risk in towel it, and in eight minutes from the commencement I had , gratification to see it snug in the chock, without strainit4 rivet or a ropeyarn. When the wind died away we ha everything in its place again, and the fires alight in fou minutes from hauling taught the main gears. The operatiol, elicited the admiration of every one on board: The funnel, when down in the chock, lies within the level of the paddle boats, and at a distance would resemble a long mid-ship gun. It is completely out of the way of working the square main sail, and when down, the operation of sweeping it is much simplified. We had only one entire day's sailing before getting into the trades, and then only three more. The trade wind was very light, except for two days out of the three, when, with the wind dead aft, with lower topmast, and top-gallant s t u ddi ng -sails set, we went 11 knots for four consecutive hours, and in the 24 hours ran 225 miles. This was the greatest run under sail; the least was 140, and this was the fifth day of sailing, when near the edge of the variables. We only consume half a ton of coals per hour on the average, and find no difficulty of keeping steam without the additional length of funnel. The Hull coals are . exce lerlt, and in my o wn , as we ll as in the chief engineer's S out of 1 opinion, are superior to the Llanelly coals. The sails all admirably, and the engines work extremely well. I vacuum now exceeds 28 in both. I perceive the gr advantage of Sir Wm. Burnett's patent solution on the studding-sails and awnings ; it will increase their value 50 per cent. lam happy to inform you that my passengers are well, very contented, happy and comfortable, which }s daily expressed. I hope to be at Rio on the 26th easy, o' .which there is every prospect at present." THE LADY AND THE LAWYER, OR DENMAN OUT DONE.—An old dame, named Hannah Y eatman, annoyed by a keen cross-examination in the Court of Queen's Bench,. became unruly, and exclaimed , " D on ' t you go for to ax me any kevestions. I'm not a going to be bothered in this way, I'm too hold !" Chief Justice Denman : " You n ust an swer the questions, or I must commit you." Witness : " omit Com your granny ! Yo u oug h t to be ashamed of your self, ught The young ornan as uv her hevidence afore me, war taken hout of the Court alt dead, and all through you, sitting there so keviet in your big wig, and she in the asterisks.—For shame?" (Roars of laughter.) roßms.n. SUBMERSION OF LAND.—Among the proofs oc casionally add uce d to show that the existing hills have once been subme rge d , we may notice, that in digging on the Glen ffer range of hills for materials to form the Water Company's reservoir, a considerable number of oyster shells were found. Of the boulders found about, there were two which presented rather a singular appearance. They are probably above a ton each, and the one is laid on the top of the other, precisely in the way a mason would lay a stone he was about to work on the top of another. The upper block is limestone, the under one is whin. •Their position has not been disturbed.— Paisley Advertiser. 1., N't ,I es as ill ist vs