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.[Teri Elii re. _~-- NO'l'l(.;ES Dr. Jeffrey's Pamph:et on the St y ptic and other Virtues Matico Plant from South America. Third Lon.ion. Editio Kem tin medicinal v-irtt extensive le upon the plant in a land and r through Out E the ma a wher styptics , ariect or y al failed. re other VARIETIES ally in cases of con intime before death id fallen leep dur •emarked that " i Ird of all animals : the ^. inhabitants of L in his circular. "all peen lained by the coadjutors in been to learn how to tell for w to a brisk brunette; "just let in please." " La! Mr. White, your hand, if words of Saxon or: d he .as so callea —There is one character toUst E The g'u A draper who recen coin t 3 goods liarities of r " Miss Brown, I h nes," said a young me ha, how sudden you are Lord and Lady a from Laf-ord (loaf-giver) ining at his own expe gin. Lord is * - - - 1 from his number of retainers or dependants. Lady is called Lat-oian (loaf-server), be cause she cut and served rnund the bread to the guests. Mr. Tomlinson, the barrister, requested a witness the other day, in the Nisi Punts Court, to give the ipsissima verba used by the defendant •• You're a d—d thief," was tie witness's qui( k reply, one which convul3ed the court and jury with Laughter. _ . A certain eminent man lately offered a publisher, in Paternoster-row, a '• Treatise on the Hand," which the worthy bookseller declined with a shake of the head, say- Ave too many treatises on our ing, " My dear bands alread " Yes, your bonour 4 t ground, ' "In the back yard was Ar 'his ondent of the Cam- bridge Advertiser m atmospheric influence animal food is likely to be( generally known that a hi l e twitted, it cannot be too f ch4rred stick boiled with dis igreeabl ANSWH rough some mistake an in t 1 out of nr person appointed to the 2trudtr, and received the post of honour c a ball should open me in GRAsS UN small quantiti —You sowing nitrate of soda in beautiful verdur the beach trees i weather under trees a mos igied. I have used it under green. Havir io well on g►ass always looks small scale, I have long grass in t which the cattle never could eat that t field —Gardener's Chr THE HATE other pa I now find Las of the NGLAND unfrequently meet with an emigrant from the old country. who bates the land ace him birth ; usually limited out of it for crime, abominable in America vluch g be dete ; from his former fears s them and his ennntra. just uunisi hair, nasal t chances are speech and manner, the met with an outcast to World. Cousin cc rl. " what do ry mischievous young TI a Pretty young la 8 it coz 1 you! but it's the truth s you will give me agreed—you shall that Annual that I wanted have ow—Ciont blush so— aid you wire t 'coking man she ever lai TIIE FROZEN DEA THE HOSPICE OF THE GRAND ST. BERNARD greatest interest at the interest indeed—is that -a 1.01 J. There they are, some of them life departed, and the Death Angel rost and snow, stiffened and em- The floor is thick with nameless balmed them skulls, and b But around the wail very position in which the 3 ble, and in this air, by the pieservi nd human dust, he-aped in confusion. Is are groups of poor sufferers in the , as rigid as mar element of an eter nal frost, almost as uncrumbling. There is the mother and a child, a most affecting image of suffering and love. The face of the little rut remains to the mother's bosom, only the back part of the skull bring visible, the body enfolded in her careful arms, carrtui in vain, affectionate in vain, to shield. her offs:it int: from the elemental wrath of the tempest. The snow fell fast and thick, and the hnrric:ine wound them up in one white shroud, and bu ried them. There is also a tall, strong man, standing al o ne, the face dried and black, but the white unbroken teeth firmly set and closed, grinning from the fleshless jaws—it is a most awful look at you from the rec face seems to 8 of the sepulchre, as if it storm. Thr re are otber . groups more indistinct, but these two are never to be forgotten; and the whole of those dried and frozen remnant, of humanity are a terrific de monstration of the fearfulness of this mountain pass, when the elements, let loose in fury, encounter the un bappy traveller. You look at all this through the grated window; there is just light enough to make it solemnly and diszincfly visible, and to read in it a powerful record of mental and physical agony, and of maternal love in death. The little child, hiding ifs face in its mother's both frozen to death—one can never forget roup, nor the memento mori, nor the token of death -Dr. Che wanderings. THE WORLD'S TEETOTAL CONVEN of a woodcut, pn bosom the less low prominent par this scer of the day, we c The chief claim which some of these public gen tlemen have for occupying their di•tinguizhed position be fore a large and respectable assembly, is the fact, that they were once enormous drinkers, the wonder and asto nishment of their respective neighbourhoods for the speed with which they emptied cans of ale, and swigged glasses of spirits. They severally nearly mined their respective families dren ; II They beat their wives arid starved their olds to death's docr ; a to be any better re only once much They revel in They do not profes than the rest of the world ; they worse. They glory in tha' distinction descriptions of ‘thai aboriginal period of their existence which poets refer to the heroic ages of tile - world. The act i on ma y b e ma i n t a i na bl e against any person causing world was in th se old days magmfii.ently drunk; it has death through neglect, &c., notwithstanding the death of now attained a civilised sobriety. In the same way, Mr. ' the person injured. The act is to have immediate opera- Thompkii,s was once a reeling sot, nut is now a respects- lion, and not to extend to Scotland. ble shoemaker. . He will dwell on all the details of his u, - r v.- ' q D .... ... prior state of life I describe the swimming of the cri.dne,s; the floods of drink -,NFOUNDED REPORT OF AN AMBURGR'S ,EATII —By letters rerei% ed by Mr.Wallett, the clown at A stley's, from Boston, United States, it appears that there is not which wer hirst w at the pump which followed next. hat he was once a beast, and elf as a wonderful moral the slightest foundation for the report that Van Amburgh, the famous brute-tamer, had been destroyed by a tigress at Voonsuckett, Rhode Island, while endeavouring at the request of a young lady to take away some meat which the beast was about to devour. The story is a pure tabri- and exhibits hi . The audiiiii 0:4 it w‘,111( 3 on a Chic conjurer Without pro ration, invented to bring a newspaper into notoriety. Van Amburgh was reported to be in good health, and making a very successful tour.—Sun of Saturday Jobu Davies. the mate on board the Citizen " A fessing a the won! ) the dec ease of drunkenness it that we would rather one men reformec abased at the recollection of I paraded gentlemen, in s stand forward with s s - sitt, than twenty of these boat, on the Thames, whilst trying to disengage a mop from a chain at the hull of ihe boat, on Saturday week, lost his balance. fell overboard, and was drowned. dew& 45 years of age, and has left a wife and eight children On the same day, Richard Lewis, tt Citizen " D" steam boat, was er stcoats and cravats, who and rhetorical flou d that they rashes have been di _ ting sots and disgraces to humanity : as if they were proud of it. There would be more real amount of gnod in one penitent, humble-minded Chris tian case of reformation, than in twenty such cases as these, where the vice is reformed, and man is not. Ge muine reformation chances the whole man : adulterated and quack reformation systems do not make the man, but the individual vice their scope. So long as that is re moved, they are con'ent. And the teetotal penitent shows but too clearly the inferior basis of his reformation by the exhibition be makes. e engine driver of Oged, unknown to LUC the mast one of the paddle-boxes, when the order to ' go on" was given, and the poor fellow's brains were it stantly dashed out, and his lifeless body fell into the Thames. Mr. Cobden has lived to sup with royalty. We learn (says the Manchester Guardian) that Mr. Cobden, on his way to Paris, received an invitation to dine with the King at the Chateau d'Eu : and he accordingly joined the fa mily dinner party at the chateau, where be was most gra ciously and cordially received by the King, the Queen, and Madame Adelaide. We understand, the same autho rity continues, that his Majesty (who speaks English per fectly well) showed an intimate knowledge of the pro ceedings of the Anti-Corn-Law League, and of the re for the repeal of the corn-laws. 11SCELLANY reached 1 62,000. now 9.. per quarter , been restored to the CtJURT•MARTIAL.—Her Majesty's pleasure has been announced respecting the court-martial on gunner and driver Richard Gilbertson, at Woolwich. The sentence of the court finding him guilty of the several chnrges has ut the r J be pulled down in order to en. ian 84.8 ,:en confirmed, and as a been sentenced to undergo an imprisonment of eighty-f,ur of which are to be solitary, divided in periods of fourteen days each, and the hard lanour, and furthermore that be be placed under stoppages not exceeding two-thirds of his daily ; to the Duke the , amount of 4d., the value of one round of carbint t in one nd on Frid ral bad character h Six million dollars, c South America, arrive ort, last week, by her remainder with Majes pay to Lovel, Holland, Gage, and Denman it against the second reading of the DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—An accident of a frightful na ture occurred at Navenby, on the 23d ultimo, to a boy about ten years of age, nephew to Mr. J. Rollitt. By some mischance, he was precipitated from a loft of hay, and in falling was caught by one of the prongs of a com mon hay-fork, which entered the back and lower part of the head, and came out at the top completely transfixing and suspending him. The fork was with considerable difficulty extracted by two men in the field, who took home the poor youth to all appearances dead. I n a s h or t time reaction took place. The boy is now fast getting bet ter, atter using the means which surgical aid suggested, and though he has lost a considerable portion of his brains, exhibits no proof that his intellect is at all impaired.— , Stamford and Lincoln Mercury, s ship Amer land, with 24,000 of Sutherland. Lords StanboOl bave signed a prot Sugar Dutit a Bill. The Duke of Marlborough has contradicted " the absurd statements in the public journals," relative to his being dangeriusly ill. Great want of reapers has been felt both in England and Scotland. Irish reapers have got from 3s. 6d. to ss. 6d. per day ;. and in additi on , three pints of ale each. The failure of the apple crop in Herefordshire has led to a great increase in the price of cyoer, the supply of which, the present season, is expected to be very limited. THE BRITISH QUEEN.—The hulk of this unfortunate ship, we learn from the Brussels journals , wa s recently towed to Tamese, preparatory to being broken up. TlON.—Upon the flair, the London stiwles the official. greatt men in the str One mas work o OLD PORT Lancaster and C the wreck of t tion. I Envelopes lioinan Ca On Thu in the q quently, ' day, a bottle of po rEIREE HOUS n the Mint, lON 0 t the present t pau3, Jr] supply t the Ilex ter of Br OA w•h. a It bas been pr. p Mr. Newman is about to ply a long visit to Rome, with the view of completing his preparation for the priest hood. A man, named Parker, died on Monday in London Hospital, and several other persons are seriously ill, from eating pies made of poisonous berries, sold by country- s as bilberr (died last week, and several others seri- —The submarine ad )rary wooden frame- y, at the via- rers employed on nny, off Weymouth, br ay, three tave been imbled down in the receipt of money. An entire sheet of paper used, as the postmark must be on to conbtitu A WHOLE FAMIL —l)r. Duke, of mernb. rs of his fa to the last few days, confura st price is was a General nuw, conse- London, as may mo ance of one quar- made flour ms to public at- ery remarkable one put for .. , and the Ch., .. people 1, bp t metropo , without the as ish nobleman should de at Rome, in the fecognled quality of ambassador, and that, on the part of his Li Ainess, a nuncio should be accredited to London. The nezotiations with Rome are, that an En at present, it i Mrs. La Fon had a re St. Clement' s said, conducted by a Catholic priest. of Wisnpole-street, Cavendish•square, between Temple-bar and cute cut from taining £307, which she had just received in Fleet-street for the rent of houses POTATOES FROM VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.—A ship ar rived in the London Docks from Hobart Town, called the. North Briton, has brought 4228 bags of wheat, 243 bags of flour, and, among a variety of other articles, 20 baskets of pctatoes, the production of that distant colony. It was announced in the Commons, on Monday week, that the great statue of the DuKe is, after all, to be put on the arch, but only for three weeks on trial. If it looks well it is to stay ; but if ht r Majesty's government, " ad vised by competent persons:, are displeased with the Hannah Barker, aged 21 years, was on Thursday last ced from the Central Criminal Court Sessions to isported for ten years, having been found guilty on administering a quantity At public dinner __, Bright, M.P. for that c that gentleman declined to ate for the repre.,entation of the vite him to become a candidate for that town in conjunc- tion with Mr. Cobden THE DAGENHAM MURDER.—The three persons ar rested on suspicion of being c licerned in the murder of the policeman at Dagenharn were liberated on Saturday, no case whatever hay n hat all the s .ements made by the boy Welch appear] were to On Thursday week, some reapers working on the farm of Mr. John Bloomfield, of Little Stonham, entered upon a wager as to the quantity or work they could perform, but such was the extreme hest that three of them fell down from eat) .usiion. two of whom died on the spot, nd a third lies, it is said, without hopes of recovery. In the Clouse of Lords, on Friday, the Contagious Prevention Bill passed throug committee, Marquis of Lansdowne stating that the bill was not intro dueed to provide especially against cholera, but generally against all disorders connected with want of proper clean- Barfoo!, of Wes am, position iusband, with intent to murder him yen in Durham on Tuesday to Mr DEATH BY FLY-WATER.--MrS itiously lett sot' " fly-water,"'s c some bread she was eating. ane soon sickened, and died within twelve hours. The o other was ignorant of the poisonous nature of t QUIRY MiXfUre ANDOVER UNION COMMITTEE.—CLOSE OF THE IN -This committee, whose inquiries have been pro •,vening brought tracts(' for so long a period, on their labours (as far as the reception of evidence is con ,. Monday hey have sin reported t house, and the purport of the report will be found else where. DEPOSITORS IN SAVINGS-BANKS.—It is shown by a turn just. issued, that on the 20th of November last, 062,930 depositors, and in amount -banks. Of the nun,ber, 1,041,194 were individual depositors, and the amount £29.814,455. The remainder of the money was deposited by charitable were in number 8. in savi A new claimant as heir-at-law to "Jemmy Wood-" the celebrated Gloucester banker, ha pprared, the ter- case was tried on Saturday werk at GlouCesfrr, ar minated by the jury stopping the proceedings, they being unanimously of opinion that the claimant bad not made out his pedigree, and recorded the verdict for the defen dant. A city case on the same point was tried the same day, and with a similar result. TILE SCREW versus PADDLES.—The Rattler and Alec to were lashed together, and each tried to go a-bead at the highest pressure the engines could with sroety be worked at, when the superiority of the screw was proved in - towing - me prtome-wneet - sreamer 'Dam w aro. ane nut - - tier and the Polyphemus are to be tried in a similar man ner ; and, from the above experiment, it is believed that the result will be the same MELANCHOLY FACT.. before the magistrates in the cours it was not a single vacant place in a‘ , 37 of the asylums Lincoln, Hull, or liessle. It seems therefore at York that this dreadful malady is rapidly increasing, the acco modations for the insane having until a very recent pe riod been amply sufficient.—Hull Packet. INGENIOUS FRAUDS.—An elderly man, named James Wright, was committed for trial from orship-street Po lice-court, on Monday, charged with having obtained se veral parcels, at the different metropolitan railway sta tions' by means of forging orders These orders pur ported to be signed by persons to whom goods were con signed ' • and the part of the case that puzzles the police is how W right could have obtained the extensive and varied information on which his operations were based. THE PENN Y- A-M ILE SYSTEM.—Amongst the new projects of the day is one of an omnibus company to com pete with the penny boats, &c., on the river. It is pro moat I posed to rail 10.000 shares of £2 each ; 100 omnibuses to be put on the roads. The company has been duly regis- stated that the net profit on . one omnibus is, if 11 , 4 full, £175 3s. 6d ; two-thirds full, £375 3s. 6d. ; full £721 3s. 6d per cent. per annum. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON ON DRUNKENNESS.— When the Duke of Wellington was examined before the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the subject of military punishments, be gave the following pithy answer to a question on military drunkenness. Lord Wbarn cliffe inquired, " Is drunkenness the great parent -4 crime in the British army, in your opinion?" The answer of great captain w — as given in a single word ;it was, NVARIABLY." Comment iN here superfluous. The two bills to abolish deodands and compensate the families of persons killed by accidents, which were re ferred to a select committee, have just been issued as amended. Deodands and the forfeiture of chattels are to cease on the 12 , 11 of September next. There are seven clauses in the second bill, by which it is proposed that an —An insane woman was brought m Wec when the M of some observations. remarked that THE LIVERPOOL STANnARD. MURDER IN WARWICESRIRE.—WiIIiaIII Cave, a far mer, of Hornton, in Warwickshire, has been committed to take his trial for the murder of Hannah Tredwell. The prisoner is a married man, with a wife and family. He had carried on an illicit intercourse with deceased, who was about forty years old, and had had several children by him. She frequently importuned him for money, and waited for him with that intent on the morning of the murder. A quarrel ensued between them, and he shot her in the neck with his gnn. Her body was found lying in unfrequented pathway which is cut between two STRANGE ACCIDENT.—The wife of Mr. Strutt, the sexton of St. Peter's parish, Colchester, had a narrow escape from death on Sunday week, by accidentally swal _ h some beer which she was drinking. The insect in passing down her throat stung it severely, without, however, leaving its stint in the wound ; fortu nately the windpipe escaped uninjured, or death must have ensued, but it renewed its attacks upon the stomach, occasioning great pain; medical ail was soon procured, and a powerful emetic providentially effected speedy dis lodgment of the wasp, though it was alive and vigorous when ejected from the stomach.—Essex Standard. PAUPER BURIALS.—Our readers will remember the great sensation caused throughout the country by an in structional letter to churchwardens from the Poor-law Commissioners, (acting upon the opinion of Mr. Coode) ; tat owing a wasp wit t toe "excessive" charge for tolling the bell at the funeral of paupers could not be allowed : it is right now to state that, from evidence given before the committee of " Commons, it appears that Sir T. F. Lewis, one commissioners, was no party to any such pro ceeding. He said—" My objection was to the horribly offensive regulation, that the poor pauper was not to have the bell tolled at his funeral. I was not aware that Mr. Coode had been consulted on the subject. But I think Mr. Chadwick (the Secretary) deliberately and intention ally withheld tbose regulations from me, and had them submitted in my absence." At the Appleby Assizes, last week, a most atrocious case, which excited a great sensation in the neighbourhood at the time of its occurrence, came on for trial. The ac cused were four young men, the eldest being only twenty one, railway " navies." The vicims of the outrage weje two young ladies, Miss Jane Dover and Miss Elizabeth Dover, the sisters of a gentleman who occupies a farm at Scarside, near Shap ; they reside there with their widowed mother. On the 19th April last, the ladies had been to visit a married sister, and were returning in the evening, while it was yet light, along a bridle-path, leading from the Shap-road to their home. At about a quarter of a mile from the house they were accosted and assaulted by the prisoners, and detained for hours the victims of re peated violences. The charge was fully established ; the jury immediately returned a verdict of guilty, and the criminals were sentenced to be transported lot life. ,e House of EGG LAW.—A scmewhat ludicrous exhibition of this mode of procedure was witnessed in Stamford butter market, on Friday last, and which was inflicted upon a female vendor of eggs—one of those who visit this market evidently with the intention of defrauding the public. This honest woman, it appears, had stood in the market that day with a basket of putrid eggs, part of which she succeeded in . palming off at the usual market price, hoping, no doubt, to get clear off before the purchasers found out their mistake; but she had good reason to la ment her dishonesty ; for before she could make her exit her enraged customers returned, and, possessing them selves of the remainder of her ware, pelted her with them so lustily that she was obliged to retreat into a trades man's shop close by to avoid a further infliction of this not very agreeable punishment, which has doubtless taught her that, after all, honesty is the best policy."—Lincoln shire Chronicle. _ SINGULAR DEATH.—On Wednesday, a retired sailor, 71 years of age named Adam Krighorn, was drowned un der circumstances of a novel and extraordinary kind. It appears that the deceased went into a reservoir in connex ion with a mill at Cowden, Dalkeith, for the twofold pur pose of bathing and of displaying to a number of boys some aquatic feats. After going through a variety of dextrous evolutions, he put his feet to the ground, where they sunk into the clay, soil, or mud, and were held fast, the water being so deep as to reach about an inch above the crown of his head. The boys stood on the margin of the pool gazing with unlivided attention, thinking that this was a preparatory attitude to the performance of another feat. They continued to stare for fully half an hour, till some persons of more advanced age were at tracted to the spot, whose suspicions were awakened, and by whom the poor man was dragged on shore a corpse.— Scotsman. _ WITNESSES' EXPENSES.—At the Bristol assizes, last week, an amusing incident occurred, exhibiting the right of witnesses to demand their expenses before giving evi dence. In the course of a trial, an old woman, named 3owles, was called upon to give evidence. The moment she entered the box she desired to know who was to pay her for her trouble? Mr. Justice Erle said the woman must look to the attorney who subpoenaed her; and she had a perfect right to the money if she chose to demand it. The witness replied that she had been in attendance six days, and her claim was 2s. 6d. a-day, and she would rather be paid before she gave evidence. His lordship smiled, and said, " Well, you have a right to say so." The attorney gave her a sovereign, upon which she deli berately took her purse from her pocket and delivered to him 55., the amount of the change. The coolness and presence of mind displayed by the old lady excited a great deal of laughter. THE SALT TRADE TO INDIA.---At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the White Salt Trade, at North wich, on the 13th inst., this resolution was passed It being highly desirable for the interests of the salt trade of this country, that the Indian markets, (whose annual con sumption is at least 250,000 to 890.000 tons,) should be fairly opened for the admission of British manufactured salt. which can tetipplied of a far purer quat ty, and at than lower rates, t - przscrucca unuer me most India Company's system,—resolved : that each salt manufactu rer, in Cheshire and Worcestershire, be requested to use his interest to abolish a monopoly so injurious:to the in terests of the salt trade of England." It was also resolved : "That as the admission of Bash salt into India inti mately affects not only the price, but also the supply, of Bengal sugars, the various merchants and associated bodies should be corresponded with upon the subject"— A general meeting of the salt trade of England is to be held at Northwich, on the 31st instant. A BLIND MAN FRANTIC.—At the Leeds Court House, on Monday week, a blind mendicant, named Thomas Philips, was charged by police officer Best with various acts of violence of an aggravated nature. On Sunday af ternoon while under the excitement of intoxication, be seized hold of an aged woman, in Marsh•lane, and ac- tually bit a piece out of her arm. He also drew out a knife, and several parties very narrowly escaped being stabbed by him. His conduct attracted a large number of persons, who, however, dreaded to approach him ; but at length he was boldly seized by a young man present, and given into custody. It was not without difficulty th,t he was conducted to the police-office; and in doing so, the policeman's coat was literally torn to pieces. The magistrates fined him £5 and costs, and in default of pay ment he was committed to Wakefield House of Correction for two months. On bearing the punishment he would have to undergo, he prayed loudly for mercy, and evinced great agony of feeling at the condition in which he was placed. PolsoNous BERRIES.—John Hollands, an old Cam bridge man, an herb gatherer, was charged last week, at the Thames Police-court, with causing the deaths of Thomas Parker and Samuel Jones, by selling the berries of deadly nightshade as " nettle berries," which the de ceased eating, died. Several persons came forward and deposed that they had also bought berries from the pri- Boner, and were dangerously ill after eating them. T e prisoner, who said he bought the berries of a man near the Elephant and Castle, and was not aware of their danger ous properties, was remanded for a week. The magistrate remarked that one of ordinary acuteness, who was in the habit of collecting herbs, and particularly a countryman, ought to know the dangerous properties of berries of the deadly nightshade. He directed the police to ascertain whether the prisoner was in the practice of supplying herbs to the herbalists and others, and whether he had been in the habit of selling the .deadly nightshade as nightshade. If he had done so the case might assume a new aspect. DEATH OP Sin CHARLES WETHERELL.—We regret to announce the decease of the above venerable and dis tinguished lawyer. Sir Charles expired on Monday evening, at five o'clock, at Preston Hall, near Maidstone, whither, it will be recollected, be was conveyed imme diately after the accident, which has resulted in his death. Sir Charles was the son of the late Dr. Wetherell, Master of University College, Oxford, and was born in 1770. Having undergone the necessary tuition, under the gui dance of his father and other able men, he became a decoy of Magdalen Coll e, Oxford, where he pursued his stu dies with unceasing ardour and perseverance, and pro ceeded to the degree of B.A. about 1790. On leaving the University he came to London, and entered himself a student of the Inner Temple, of which society he has for many years past been a bencher. He studied the equity branch of his profession, and after having kept his terms was called to the bar about 1794. His practice was at first inconsiderable, but he suffered no pecuniary inconvenience from this circumstance, in consequence of receiving a handsome paternal allowance. On the death of his fa ther he came into a very large fortune, but. nevertheless, continued his attendance at court, and exerted himself very earnestly in the prosecution of his profession. His first employment of importance was in the year 1818, when Preston, Thistlewood, Hooper, and others were indicted for high treason. The counsel for the prisoners were Wetherell, Copley, and Holt, and upon this occasion the deceased distinguished himself by the delivery of a speech of great force and eloquence, in which he so se verely censured the conduct of government in employing spies, that the Earl of Liverpool. who was present, is said to have been visibly incensed. The talent and boldness, however, displayed by Mr. Wetherell were alone remem bered, and_on the promotion of Sir John Copley to the Attorney-Generalship, the former was appointed General. About this time be received the h onour o f knighthood and came into parliament, where he took every opportunity of putting himself forward as a d e b ater and supporter of the government. At this the tar diness of the Court of Chancery was constantly the sub ject of remark, and whenever the name of Lord Chan ce ll or Eldon was brought forward in debate, Sir Charles was immediately upon his lees as his ardent defender. On Sir John Copley being appointed Master of the Rolls, Sir Charles became Attorney- General, which office he resigned on the formation of a ministry by Mr. Canning. He was, however, reinstated by the Duke of Wellington, but w as subsequently dismissed on account of his refusal to Sup port, or even to draw the bill for the relief of the cat holies' to whose claims be was a vebement opponen t. Sir Charles bas invariably maintained tory principles, and at Bristol, of which city he has for many years been the recorder, about the period of the passing of the reform bill , his pop: litical tenets had well nigh been fatal to his personal safety. The riots in that city, and narrow escape of the learned knight from the fury of a licentious mob, must still be fresh in the recollection of our readers. THE HALIFAX AND BOSTON MAILS.—The following is from the report of the select committee of the House of Commons upon this subject :—" That your committee have inquired into the circumstances connected with the granting of the present contract for the conveyance of mails from England to Halifax and Boston, as well as other matters referred to them, and are of opinion that the arrangement has been concluded on terms advantage ous to the public service, and have been most efficiently lierformed by Mr. Cunard. But your committee do not wish to express any opinion whether a more advantageous one might not have been entered into bad the tender been thrown open to public competition. Your committee, however, cannot but regret that the above arrangements involve consequences injurious to the Great Western Steam-ship Company; and considering the meritorious character of the services rendered by the latter company, and its priority of establishment on the New York line, will be glad if, on any future extension of the roya; mail service, it receives the favourable 'consideration of the government." FRACAS BETWEEN THE HON. MR. SUTTON AND MR. CHRISTIE.—Towards the close of the inquiry on Tues day, before the Andover Committee, a scene of great excitement took place. in which the above-named gentle men were the principal actors. It appears that a question was put to Mr. Parker (then under examination) by Mr. Christie. Before the answer was given, the Hon. Mr. Sutton, in a state of excitement, ordered the room to be cleared, and, as we are given to understand, charged Mr. Christie with putting the question with an improper pur pose. This charge was strongly resented by Mr. Chris tie ; and Mr. Sutton, making use of an expression which left an impression upon the minds of those present that he intended to send a hostile message to Mr. Christie, rushed out of the room, and left the house. With a view to prevent this object, immediate application was made to the sitting magistrate at Westminster Police-court for a warrant against the honourable gentleman, and it was expected that he would have been brought up the follow ing day for the purpose of being bound over to keep the peace. Owing, however, to the intervention of some prudent friends on both sides, we believe we may say that the affair has been so far settled as to render judicial interference unnecessary. THE LATE MURDERS AT BARNARD CASTLE.—A further investigation into this tragical affair took place at Greta-bridge, near Barnara Castle, on Tuesday. Fifteen witnesses were examined, including the girl Humphrey, whose disclosures will be yet fresh in the recollection of those who perused them three weeks ago. A. young man, named Harrison, deposed that about a week before Yates (the young man murdered) was missing, George Barker, who then slept with bim, asked him ( Harrison) to go with him and assist to beat Yates, which he declined to do. He also stated, that on the night of the murder he well remembers it was past two o'clock when Barker came into the house at which they were living as fellow-servants. He slept with him, and he started much in his sleep. The person who laid out Yates after the body was found, stated that he bled very much from his head. Only two of the persons charged were present at the examination. viz. Barker and Raine, the Home Secretary having re fused to order the removal of Breckin from Durham gaol, where he is now under sentence. Barker wept much as the witnesses gave their evidence, but Raine was unmoved, and, when they had to retire, left the room with a smile. The magistrates committed them to York Castle, to take their trial at the next Yorkshire assizes, on a charge of wilful murder. A RAILWAY ADVENTURE.—A few days ago two ladies entered the railway station at York, and took tickets for Derby. Their next care was to seat themselves in the train. One of the ladies had made the trip before; the other had not. It devolved, therefore, on the former to undertake the proud task of making her companion as wise as herself. Not a town or station, castle or church, was passed; but the name was told. Daylight was dying just as they shot by Chesterfield church ; and when the petticoated veteran pointed it out to the travelling tyro, it was barely visible in the twilight. Another hour brought them to the terminus, and they alighted at the station in glad anticipation of a welcome from awaiting friends. But no ! not one familiar face presented itself—no hand was extended to greet them on their arrival. Uneasy suspicions began to aiise in their minds, and were strengthened when, emerging from the station, they found themselves on high ground, and dimly perceived, in the valley below, a rolling river, separating two towns, and crowded with shipping. Could this be Derby ? " Derby!" exclaimed a by-stander ; " no,'ladies, this is Gateshead, and von is Newcastle!" The fair travellers had "taken the wrong turn" at York ; and the massive towers of Durham cathedral had been mistaken for the corkscrew steeple of Chesterfield church !—Gateshead Observer. HORRIBLE M TIRDER. —A horriblecrimewascommitted, on Saturday week, at the Guildhall Coffee-house, London. John Smith, the cook at that hotel, cut the threat of .Su san Rosin, the kitchen-maid. No person was present when the wound was inflicted, but the poor girl was seen by several persons to run from the kitchen with a fright ful gash in her throat, from which the blood was pouring in torrents. She fell at the foot of the stairs, and died almost immediately. The prisoner was examined at the Mansion-house, on Saturday afternoon, and the same evening an inquest was held, when a verdict of " wilful murder " was returned. It appears that the deceased and the prisoner were heard disputing about some unkindness on his part towards a Mrs. Reilley ; she told him he had not acted like a man, and he would find it out before many months were over. He replied that she would per hap's find it out before many days were over. The de• ceased was sitting preparing some vegetables for the pot, and at this period the girl who overheard the above re marks was sent by Smith to the bar for some lard. She returned immediately and met the deceased rushing from the kitchen with her throat cut. The surgeon deposed that he found two gashes, one of which was of great depth. The larger vessels on one side being all divided. - The - prisoner is a marriea — nran. lie seemeerttrguffer great mental agony during his examina'ion before the Lord Mayor. He was committed to take his trial for murder. At the Central Criminal Coutt, on was sentenced to death without any hope of mercy ;prclay, he THE POTATO CROPS, Tle evil which last year was proclaimed through our streets without any just reason, is this year really come upon us. Almost universally through the country the late potato crops have been attacked by the disease, and in many places the second early kinds, and even the early ones, have not escaped. A month at least earlier than its ravages commenced in 1845, it is now really alarming, as the main crops, upon which so many of the working po pulation of Britain chiefly depend for their winter food, are irretrievably damaged. Last year, at least to this country, and this generation, the disease was, with slight local exceptions, entirely new. We knew nothing of its nature, or its cause, beyond what chemical investigation or theory could supply. The pota to being afflicted with a superabundance of moisture, and the season having been very unusually wet, it was natural to suppose that the drenching rains, the superabundant moisture with which the earth had been visited, was the cause of the disease, The only other theory which exten sively prevailed was, that the root was worn out; thow4h we must acknowledge that some few individuals, iu differ ent quarters, made much neater " guesses at the truth" than either of these. This year, if it has done nothing else, has shown us that these two theories must be exploded as idle dreams. The spring was unusually dry—yet the disease has visited us earlier, and is more virulent than before; and that the disorder does not proceed from the plant being worn out is evidenced by the fact, that potatoes raised newly from seed, and from tubers imported from abroad, have suffered in common with the rest. Nor will the Buckland theory of the impregnation of the earth with the spawn of fungi from the last year's crops account for this. as our own ex periments will shew. And now, having thus far dealt in generals, we will come to particulars ; and as all the experiments we detail have been made by ourselves, or those with whom we are intimately acquainted, we will vouch for their accuracy. Our readers are aware that we all along combatted the idea, pretty generally prevElent, that the potatoe root was worn out. In order, however, to try every plan, we last year procured tubers imported from Russia, others im ported from America, others, of a very sound description, from Oxfordshire, others equally soue,cl from another part of Warwickshire, and, in addition to these, saved some of our own growth, drying the second earlies and "pieinp" the late ones. The dried tubers of the second early varie ties which we had saved for seed being all touched with the disease we planted in autumn, the rest 9 planted in spring; and an acquaintance of ours planted at the same time potatoes raised from the seed produced by the bal!s of 1844, Till Thursday week all these appeared to flourish luxuriantly, save that here and there among the late crops from our own seed a rather suspicious-looking top ap peared. Being called on business into Westmoreland, we left them on that day without the slightest idea that any thing was materially wrong ; but seeing, as we passed through Lancashire, the unmistakeable evidences of the last year's disease in the decayed tops, we enquired how long they had been in that state, and were answered— " Ver y lately, and in many instances it came all in one night." This, of course, made us fear for our own, and at our return we found the same evidences in the tops there, which we immediately ordered to be cut down. The results, then, of our experience and observation are as follow :—None of the potatoes we planted have en tirely escaped, save those which were got up before the Ist of this month ; of the rest the late sorts appeared by the tops to have suffered most, the American , and . • ones equally with the rest. .The on' ussian have found no tuber touched with the disease is thq grown from our own diseased sets, well dried and planted in autumn ; and the new variety planted by our neighbour from seed of 1844 is the worst diseased of any vie have seen—utterly worthless. One more fact we may mention. Some of the Russirin and American tubers, as well as some of our own, i.i.inted in land certainly not im pregnated with the spawn of fungi from former crops, e s no potatoes had ever been grown in it, since it was, some years since, dug in from the turf. The plain result of these facts is, that the cause of the disease must be looked for in a Cifferent quarter to those where we have looked for it hitherto. It is doubt!ess ATMOSPHERIC, whether or not connected with the light ning which has been so prevalent during the last two years we cannot say, but of this we are certain, IT IS AT MOSPHERIC—a direct infliction of an inscrutible Provi dence. Respecting the preservation of this year's crops much bas been said, but most of it bas been founded on the idea that the disease arose in the potato, and not in the top,— was generic not atmospheric. Experiment however has proved, that if it cannot be cured it can at least be allevi ated. Mr. Jasper Rogers, of Dublin, has proved that either strewn among the crops when stored, or planted with the seed, carbon, either in the shape of woodashes, soot, or peat charcoal, has a beneficial tendency. We planted our first crop of kidneys this year in soot, to keep out wire worms, and never bad a finer crop. Th e cnbon absorbs the moisture of the potatoe, and tends to top the progress of decay. A simpler mode however has proved efficacious. It is to mow down the tops and leave the potatoes in the ground till they are wanted fur con sumption. They spoil less there than when exposed to the atmosphere. Of course if they last till frost comes, as many of them are near the surface, it will be safer to cover them over with rubbish or litter. And now for the future. This useful plant must not be lost or given up in despair as worthless, because for two years successively heaven has visited us with a miasma or some other infliction that has partially destroyed it. The duty of man is to use the means, and, even against hope, still hope for a blessing. It is not the first time this root has been afflicted ; some thirty years ago a somewhat similar visitation came upon it, and, though not so general in itsoperations, lasted two or three years. We would enjoin the horticulturists still to persevere in attempts to preserve and raise it, notwithstanding their two years' losses. Let some of the soundest small pota toes be selected from those usually given to the pigs, and laid in the sun to green and harden for next year's seed ; and let them be supplied with carbon of some kind when planted, and with heaven's blessing we may not only save the early varieties, which arc this year litile affected, but also the later and more prod-active sorts, which keep so much longer. Above all, let all who have opportunity continue to raise new varieties from seed, and persevere, in spite of repeated failures, in their endeavours thus to secure a national as well as an individual good. Since writing the above we have seen a letter from Mr. Balkwill, chemist, of Kingsbridge, to the Secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society, in which he attributes the disease to a green bug, about the sine of a common house fly. He says he observed these insects in many cases when the tops were deseased, but never when they were perfectly healthy ; and seeing one of them void a greenish fluid, he smeared it on a healthy leaf, which soon after showed• signs of the disease. This idea we saw some weeks ago in an American paper, where it was stated that the " poison fly," which had so injured the potatoes last year, had again commenced its ravages. We fancy, how ever, that though this fly may, in some cases, accompany the disease, it is not the cause of it. Through the state ment alluded to, we watched ours minutely, but saw no such flies or any other kind of blight. Besides, what a quantity of such bugs would it have required to infect a whole field in a night, and a whole kingdom in a few days. They must, like the locusts of Egypt, have been so plen tiful, as to be observed everywhere. [We copy the preceding article from the Birmingham Advertiser. Mr. 3. Prideaux, in a letter to the editor of the Exeter Flying Post, recommends the cutting off of the stem of the growing crop on the first symptoms of dis ease being apparent, as noticed by us lass week—a plan which we observe has been adopted in several gardens in this locality. A correspondent of the Times, writing from the neighbourhood of London, affirms that the disease be gins in the leaf of the plant, next attackslthe:stem, and gra dually goes down into the tubers, which seem to receive the infection from the small fibres which attach them to the stem. He suggests, therefore, that if the plants were pulled up, and the roots allowed to remain on the ground, a separation would be made between the diseased and sound parts, and, thus a certain amount of food preserved. Every field, he says, should he carefully watched, and, on the very first symptom of disease in the potato the plant should be pulled up, which can be best done by the per son placing a foot on each side of the drill and lifting it out. In the earlier crops this may be done immediately, as the potatoes are full sized, and if not ripe, nearly so. The object of delay in regard to the others is, that the growth may not be checked sooner than necessary, and the risk of springing in the ground at the end of the year diminished; as he thinks they ought to remain there till he usual time of digging. THE SANITARY STATE OF SOME PARTS OF LIVERPOOL "The nuisance,m ler public or private, which is in defiance of sanitary principles, has a threefold character. For such must be suicidal on the part of the author, immoral towards the neighbourhood, and impious against the Creator." TO THE E PITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. LETTER XV Mn. EDITOR,—The rAising of the Sailors' Home is a most necessary and praise-worthy institution, and for Prince Albert to have laid the foundation-stone is a mat ter of congratulation between its founders and the town. But, after all the bustle, where has it been laid ? upon what site have the Corporation and the Committee et osen to uprear a building, the estimated cost of which is to be £24',000? Why, in a puddle hole, cheek by jowl with the ugly Custom-house. Is not such a locality very question able for residence by day and night ? The ground, al though, of course, rock at the bottom of all, yet is nothing but the oil wash of the tide, and made-ground ; hence it becomes a likely malarious bed, unhealthy for people to live in. The Custom-house stands objectionably, for these reasons, even though it be chiefly occupied by hu man beings during the day time only, and that for short hours; but when a large building is to be located in the same unfavourable district, the numerous occupants of which will have to pass night as well as day there, the full force of the objection - tells against it. There is no doub: the architect will have something in his power, through the resources of art, towards preventing the mis chief; and these aids, no doubt, be will zealously call in _ _ to operation for the purpose :. but it is questionable whe ther he can sufficiently forestall the evil to be complained of. Time will show, since the experiment is committed for trial. It is a pity that, in all Liverpool, a spot could not have been pitched upon presenting less obnoxious foundations than the lowest level of Liverpool Proper. It may be thought that it is late in the day to aver these things ; still, if they have validity, it roust be replied, " better late than never." It is a pity that such a pos sible source of prejudice to the health of the inmates has not been mere maturely weighed. If the Woodside people were to locate an institution, for day and night abode, upon the site of the middle of Wallasey-pool, when the tide will be shut out, would they be considered as do ing a wise thing ? Net ihe cases would be parallel, excepting the the period -t: in tne particular ot ot time, as so much greater which has elapsed between the tidal wash of Paradise-street and its present state. Yet even this hardly weakens the parallel; I question if it do not strengthen it. These remarks are not the first notice of the peculiar unhealthiness of the site of Paradise-street. It has been a matter of general notoriety all along, and no longer since than May 22, of the present year, a talented letter from Dr. Briggs, formerly a practitioner in Liverpool, called the attention of the public, and of the authorities especially, through the columns of the Liverpool Journal, to the errors of planting the Custom-house where it is, and the inhabiting of such quarters as Paradise-street. Now, what would he say to the project of a Sailors' Home on the same unhealthy site ! I shall quote from the doc tor's letter, in the hope that good may come of the exa mination of the question, although it is an unpleasing task to deliberate over a deed past, and all but irrevocable; also in the light of a medical protest against the unsuit able selection, lest otherwise the profession of Liverpool should be reproached hereafter, and elsewhere, for having tacitly approved of mal-sanitary arrangements, one after another, in a town where their advice might have been very properly supposed to have we; ' very -,.asonab! - - supposition for French, German, Austrian, and other na tions to make, but rather a mistake when the English na tion are the party supposed guilty of taking medical advice into their public councils. John Bull likes to have his own en-enquiring way in matters of this and nearly all other kinds. I need offer no apology for ample quotation. The sub ject demands it, and the author will not object to the tres pass on his statements. . . . The impression of strangers must be, that Liverpool is a town of blunders ' • and though, as a resident, I may re gret that such should be the case, yet the next best thing, after learning a bitter truth as to facts, is, to remedy mat ters if possible, and, as far as possible, to mend that past, to have a care for the future, and to steer through the pre sent, by the light of experience shining on the "compass." Dr. B. observes (1 quote from a slip copy of the-Jour not, dated 22d May, 1846) : " Is it a fact that the present system of dockage is based on a correct principle? or, rather, is it not now a growing persua sion that it is radically bad ? and if so, does it not follow, that whatever is built upon it rests on a rotten foundation ? " All who know anything of the early history of Liverpool must needs hat e heard, or read, that before the Old Dock was lit,. what Wallasey Pool was till the other day. Where it had its origin I c i nnot say ; but, even in my time, it was to be seen as a perennial rill, in the open space between Great Nel son street North a , d Beau-street, from whence it descended, in some way, by what is now Whitechapel and Paradise-street, till it joined the river. •• There was living, until a very few years ago, a well-known respected gentleman, who has often said that his own father te. of the confined streets north of it, now stand,was a cow pasture, down to the pool, and which for years afterwards remained open, so that there was a ferry across it, from Lord-street to what is now Church-street. No dcubt tbere still exist num bers in Liverpool that have conversed with elderly persons who had themselves crossed this same ferry. . But from that time there has been nothing but a succession of steps in the wrong direction. The first great error, and that to which all else may be traced,Was that ever the old Corpora tion of Liverpool w,,s all Aced to have any sort of influence or control In the rearing of a new formation which was destined to attain such gigantic magnitude and importance. Now, for spirits and intellects of such an order, it was quite in keeping to conclude that their town, having got its one deck could never require a second ; and that, therefore, if the pool was arched over. and a street built on its two sides, it would be so much clear gain to themselves; all which was done; and to perpetual e their own sense of the happiness of their exploit, they gave it the name of Paradise-stiect i ! And now, without dwelling on the several intermediate n y y sic i ;l o w re or ! l h d a ,— n w hi h s ic m h o a r r a e l , punity ;—in either case a I , *P'ahi sooner or lab r. I know ly Paradise be still inhabited . " Unhappily - the mischief is of a far . more serious abiding terriblecl nahowatsr whetter indeed,c th o t e e rt r bet ~ be habitually hr God'si Tbat retribution itwouc fi nnea x ll i e ll lsaydar sure ul violated isar laws,—are to gl rs o ef foewal not, .t i :0 1 t t i iw e h by human beings or not. In my day, f ew. except such of the dispensary doctors as might have to attend patients in them during hot weather (as once was my lot) ca n h ave any idea of the extent and formidable Character of the nuisance ; indeed, I confess that, at first, I was far from being fully aware of it. To outward appearance. the cellar which I first visited was of the better order, and neat, the family being English ; whereas the great bulk of the occupants of such places were Irish or Welsh. Dining one of my late evening visits I heard a pump at work in the back cellar, in which, ;:s far as I recollect, some of the fa mily slept, though, of course, no air could be admitted, except what came from the cellar hi ,-- - - his back in front. I learnt that in t.._ apartment these was a well, in which the foul water that was constantly oozing in from the street was collected, and that it was necessary to empty the well every night ; nor have 1 yet forgotten the nausea produced by the sight a; d smell of a pail ful of this abominable fluid, all of which must needs be bro; ght through the front cellar, to be poured out into the kennel. I remember, too, a still more affecting scene, in the case of a fine Irish sailor boy, who died in a cellar on the other side of the street, in hot, damp weather, and who, in addition to all else, was obliged to have his face constantly covered with a net, to protect the swarms of flesh-flies and other doleful creatures with which all such places are infested. But I have since heard, though on • o certain authority. that the cellars in Para dise-street are no longer inhabited by human beings, and if this be a fact so much the better; but is it equally a fact that the constant exhalation of deleterious miasm has ceased ? Just the contrary. I advert to the published fact, that Liverpool has the bad pre-emineuce of being one of the most unhealthy Aug. 25, IS-46. of towns. And is it always to be so ? Most assuredly yes, so long as the original sin remains ; and, in fact, every additional step taken ou the same vicious principle does but the more in crease the generation of the malaria. In every case of depar ture from the right line. whether by individuals or committees, the only way for them to escape is, to measure back their steps to the point from which they have deviated. Re the effort ever so difficult or painful, there is nothing else for it. Never never, till this fools' paradise and th has taken the place of the Old Dock be swept foul, hidden rottenness, be reached and cured." The extent of cellar living to which Dr. B. alludes has been partially remedied by act of parliament ; but defini tions of heights and depths of windows and door-sills can not extinguish malarious exhalations so readily as ima gined by some. It is in past evidence, that a cellar va cated is not, therefore, a cellar purged of danger, the im mediate subjects of prejudiced health are removed, bat the malaria may go on developing at even an increasing rate, unless such places are actually filled up. In the parts of the town above high water mark, filling np cel lars may cure the evil, possibly ; but in parts of the town like this spot, which Dr. B. sarcastically denominates "fool's paradise'," the case is very different, for, unless I have been misinformed, the cellarage and kitchen range, empty or filled up, of numerous houses on this le vel, suffer at times insupportably from the fluid retained in the sub-soil around, which is forced upwards in all di rections by the flow of the tide; the sewers regurgitate from thi same cause owing to the hydrostatic pressure of the tide, and the stench of such reflwent fluids is neither tolerable nor healthy. If it had been the mere oozing of tidal sal: water, the thing would be endurable compara tively, although attended with inconvenience and expenses manifold, but when the stinking fluids are constantly bathing the foundation walls of houses so situated, even a fish•woman can pronounce a true and wise opinion. Roman cementing has proved fruitless,—against the agency of such immense periodical Ipressure nothing can answer perfectly. This district, reclaimed at so costly a price of health as well as money. had better have been given up again to the domain of Neptune, in the shape of dockage, as Dr. Briggs points out. The foundation stone of the Sailors' Home now lies in water, and they had to go through a bed of watery slush in order to clear a bedding for the stone, which speaks pretty plainly. By the way, it is a pity Prince Albert did dot postpone his visit a week or two later, for he would have had the novel pleasure of laying the stone under water, with a few diving feats : or the whole arena which was covered with planks for the Mayor and allied powers, might have been converted into a truly Venetian scene of the Doge and the bridal waves —a travestie of the Lord Mayor of London going in bis state wherry —or a naumachia of the Romans revived for the gratification of the Prince.. Of course there will be a small hospital and staff of attendants planned in the Sai lors' Home, if people are brought there to run risks -of sickness from malaria. e excrescence which away, can the RIGHT OF ROAD OVER A PIG-STYE. Windsor District. Back Corlet-street to Linden street, which latter is chiefly, if not entirely composed of new houses, presents a connecting pathway to and from these streets, which leads over a very extensive piggery, with all its appurtenances. The pathway is on a plane more elevated now than formerly, by means of a bridge of three planks, whereby the feet of the passers over are carried above the heads of the useful animals below. It is needless to say in the warm weather how pungent the sa lute to your nostrils must be. The road then leads round a large heap of muck from a shippon ; and around you on all sides are the varied tenements inhabited by cows, horses, pigs, &c. The whole forms a group such as must surely be rare and incredible to the uninitiated in mal-sanitary prospects. It was desirable to have the road closed, in order to put matters into a more profitable shape; but the blessed " privilege" of right of road has proved an untoward obstacle. Lindon-street is built upon what used to be an open pond. Vested rights here then, though presenting an ideal property in the volatile - Id disgusting air of a - -at- <ire, Do, pi ye, ,wever, worthless, prejudicial,—yet tenable by law, and cannot be inter fered with! THE CLEANLY AND TIDY PEOPLE NOT ONLY PARTAKERS IN COMMON CHANC S WITH THEIR ILTHY NEIGH- BOORS, BUT ACTUALLY MADE TO CLEAR AWAY THEIR NEIGHBOURS' FILTH Harding -street is badly scavenged, and has always been, from this cause and its crowded court and cellar popula tion, a complete hot-bed of fever of the common and eruptive forms, and of other diseases. Scarletina used 'to be very prevalent in this district. It is impossible that a street in so wretched a plight as it has been all along, can be healthy. Two or three weeks back my notes were made upon personal inspection, along with Mr. Greatrex, the surgeon to the district. (Since that time, of {purse, lam bound to admit a possible improvement in matters, owing to the possible increased vigilance of the authorities.) Inquiry showed that scavengers' carts very seldom visited the street. The people stated that sometimes stray country carts did pass along the street, and that they, prevailed upon them at times to cart away from the street heaps of offal. The street has no proper drain. The inhabitants, poor and ill-conditioned, cannot help themselves. The itate of ti' '-d _ entire street for years past has always calle, forth my strongest reprehension when I had• to visit parochially the sick and nuisance-struck I Now, suppose a poor, hard-working woman, with keen sense of cleanliness, and with a desire to secure her own health and comparative comfort, does actually take the pains and go to the expense of getting a cart to remove away the accumulated street filth lying opposite her own house—because if the authorities do not do it she in self-defence must—is not this a hardship ? what if the upshot of such a sacrifice to cleanliness l e health-seeking on her part only brin gs d own upon her t o contributions of her neighbours' o ff a l an d sweep i n gs' who are too idle, or indisposed a t l eas t, t o pu t thems,."- to an expense which by unfairness they can impose upon the shoulders of an exemplary neighbour. Is not this hardest of all ? It is a fact that such is the case in this street. Does not the apathy of authorities in this case leave a poor woman struggling to be clean and orderly in her inapu- deuce of her idle and worthless neighbours P—The " canna be lashed" outwitting the virtuous. So society works; and yet the rich feel no jar ! _ In the court in Duckinfield-street from which the case I mentioned in my last, of dysentery was obliged to be removed to the hospital, a case of cholera in an infant, in a house opposite, has proved fatal. NOXIOUS RESULTS FROM ASH-PITS OVERFLOWING At Windsor, in the notoriously bad scavengered Hard inz-street, a coin t was visited by us, the health of the resi dents in which was jeopardised by an overflowing ashpit• The door was open because it could not be closed, the contents of the place spreading themselves over the yard. It had been in this condition for a month past. One party was ill and complained loudly of the nuisance, to which he attributed his illness—he said the rent collectors had promised to see to it. The court was peculiarly dis advantaged inasmuch as it presented a double cul de sac form, whereby ventilation fur the dilution of the noxious gases was rendered impossible. The entrance was through one of the usual cramped archways—th e length o f the court yard was seven yards—it contained four houses. It was flagged. Many of the terraces and _ cour t s i n t his . . street have their aslip - its full to excess, and in numerous instances the cellars adjoining are more or less flooded thereby. One deserted cellar was said to have its floor overflowed, where some time back an illicit whiskey still had been found out. Tenants have to empty these cellars to preserve them in anything like utility. In one cellar, eight or ten months ago, which was daroP from ashpit overflow, three children living over the .cellar had been taken ill at once, and one died. We happened to meet a landlord of about twenty houses at one end of the street, of the name of Ward. He vo lunteered a statement to us that he was ready to do all he could for the well-being and comfort of his tenants—be had done what he could—he was ready to meet the au thorities half way in any improvements, and would gladly, for that end, enter into any bond or agreement. This is highly creditable to him, and it were to be wished that 00 proper a feeling were responded to more generally. Another landlord in Barton-lane had adopted some im provements on behalf of his tenants, which is praise. worthy, and I quote these instances with great pleasure, as lights amongst the gloomy shadows of landlordism. Yet in Barton-lane some ashpits are evidently o b nox i o us t ' . o undue accumulation, and from the escape Tnioiiiem.ot other ashpits in the rear of Harding. street. A general system of draining is greatly wanted for Ilarding.street, Barton-lane, &c. and unless the authori ties turn their attention to it in earnest, the occurrence of preventible sickness and its mortality per centage continue to disgrace this unhappy Atari/proper of badly pre-eminent Liverpool.—Yours, &c. Bedford-street. G. C. WATSON• STATE OF TRADE MANCHESTER.—There is no alteration to be noted in the pr ces t f our staple here since our report of last week, al though business has been more general and steady, and a veil fair amount done, printing cloths having the call. It is, ill: deed, expected that these fabrics will go higher than they are to, present ranging. The diminution of production which the resolutions of the Blackburn, Stockport, and other spinners, t o work short time, will cause, will have its effect in cr ea ting this result. The Yarn market is without change. An error, whose very magnitude was its own correction, occurred in our last week's publication, where, ny a typrgraphical mistake, we were made to say Yarns had fallen in price ‘• is ad to Is 4d per lb," instead of id to id per lb." For prices, we refer to our last week's quotations ROCHDALE.—We have had some little improvement in the demand for Flannels to-ray, but no change in prices. The 17.1",.1 •••• • • • . LEDs. —The Woollen trade continue u 'v nd — sioc ko _........, and the general tone of trade t , ansiictions is good, prices remainill steady, with a f it demand for goods, both for the home 6 101 " foreign market. BARNSLEY.—The Linen trade continues fiat, but the lane) drill houses are just beginning to give out more work, and 17 " understand that a good season is anticipated. BRADFORD.—Onr trade has exhibited no features of chang e this week. The demand for both the raw material and mar e, factured g• ods is better than it was a few w ee k s ago . stocks of piece goods are diminishing, and a good w i n ter trau, is anticipated. Worsted Yarns are i n goo d d eman d, b o th i d ,: the home and the foreign trade ; and n otice o f a s p ee d y a dvan c e of prices has been given to those . power. loom houses who 1,01 fur monthly delivery. Wools sell freely, at firm prices. er HUDDERSFIELD.—We bad only an indiff eren t marke t, l to which we cannot account, unless it is that the autumn trailed setting in later than it d oes genera ll y. N ew styles i n fa n cy goods, however, c i nti nue t o b e b oug ht up as free l y as C.-„ds There is also a f a i r d eman d f or k erseys and heavy go o generally. LEICESTER. —There is no alteration worthy of notice si de last week in the state of the demand. There is a fair ainl e r of business doing in the warehouses. The alteration, or ' at oll lowering of the Americ.in tariff, is likely to lead to exten_ 4 trade in that quart er . The W oo l mar k e t i s fi rm , an d pricesL u e fu ly supported. Wether skin Wools, short Wools, and tegg Wools are most in demand. to o, NorrixonAm.—The condition of the cotton hosier,' which had seemed for a moment to rally, has again given w o , of and we hear little e se in the town than complaints of v rß at het employment. The cut-up hose branch is, if anything. In r co w a better condition. The cotton glove trade has met with %bort are ()ace more siderable re-reverse , and many of the hand of employment. It is quite painful to advert to the 5.—.; 0 0. branch, which seems to be in a most lamentable c0ne....4 The fancy bobbin•net trade is still in a very low ConditiODOw the depression has at length reached Fraoce.