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.~~ Etteraturr. VARIETIES. Why is Cobden interested in opposing free trade in wine?—Because he has bet..n long known to Stock-port.— Mephistopheles. It was observed lately, by the witty Lord , that Lord John Russell is a very good Undertaker, but a very bad Cabinet-maker. Fox's OPINION OF POLITICAL ECONOMY.—When Fox 'was asked whether he had any faith in political economy, the doctrines of which had become fashionable in his day, from the writings of Turgot and she French school, he answered—" That it was too undefined for his compre • bension ; that its views were either too large, or too in distinct. to give his mind the feeling of certainty." He well might say this, when no two of the modern political economists agree, and when all the theories of the last age are laughed at by all the theorists of the ore •sent. In the middle of the seventeenth century Sir Win. Petty, one of the most acute, and also one of the most practical men of the time, pronounced that the population of England would take three hundred and sixty years to double—the fact being, that it has doubk-d within about a seventh part of that period. Of London he predicts, that its growth must finally stop in 1842; and that then its population must amount to half the population of Eng land. Yet London is still growing, day by day, and yet its population scarcely exceeds a twentieth of the whole. —Blaawood's Magazine. POWER OF THE PRESS.—The power of the press is as boundless as that of society. It reaches the throne—it is welcomed in the cottage. It can pull down injustice, however lofty, and raise up lowliness, however deep. It castigates crimes which the law cannot reach, and pre vents those which the law can only punish, without re pressing them. Wherever an eye can see and a hand can write, there is the press. Persons in tribulation rely on it for redress, and they feel sure that wrong will not go unpunished if it be known to the journals. Like light, it penetrates into every nook and cranny of society, and car ries help and healing on its beams. It nips rising abuses in the bud. It stops the tide of tyranny when setting in full flood. It derives its vast power from the principle of its being. Seeking out truth, and representing reason, it concentrates on one point the whole moral power of society, and persuades and governs, without violence, by the mere knowledge that the physical power of society is always ready to vindicate the right. As it comes into full opera tion, the course of society becomes uniform and equal, and its ends are obtained:without those convulsions and rebel lions, by which a rude unlettered people make their will known.--Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine. THE MURDER OF THE WOUNDED FuonivE.—He struggled on, he knew not how, through the darkness ; moved on without a purpose, to no fixed goal ? and after a while—many hours might have elapsed, or not one, he knew not—he thought be heard the sound of human voices around him ; and presently a bright light gleamed before his face, so bright that he closed his eyes, and then he felt a hand upon him, some one raising his head. He was near the habitations of men. He opened his eyes, and thought he saw a woman's face—the face of a young Affghan woman. She bent over him ; she spoke, but the only answer he rendered back was a piteous groan. He thought, too, that there were children around him ; and, presently, the woman went her way, and again returned, bringing a bowl in her hands ; and she stooped down, and placed i+ to his lips. He drank slowly, painfully—but still the draught was most delicious. He thought it was milk; it seemed to fill him with new life and vigour. He spoke, as best he could—unintelligible the language, in distinct the voice—rendering back his thanks to the doer cf this Christian deed. He spoke in a language foreign to her; and she raised her hand, with a gesture exhorting to silence. Then there was a noise—a woman's shriek, a struggle—and in place of the gentle female face. there was the ferocious countenance of a bearded man. * * And the life-blood of Arthur Carrington spirted over the woman's garrnents.—Long Engagements.— Chapman and Hall's Monthly Series. . . . . _ CANALS.—There are 104 eauals in the united kingdom. The Leeds and Liverpool, 130 miles ; the Ellesmere, 109 ; the Grand Trunk, 93, with 37 of branches ' • the Grand Junction, 93k , with 53 of branches ; and the Oxford, 91, are the longest. The oldest is the Bridgewater, in 1758, and the next in 1770. In 1838, there were 2200 miles of canal in England, and 1800 of improved river navigation. In Ireland there were 300 miles of canals and 200 of rivers. 536 miles of canal in the united kingdom have been made since 1800. In England, (to 1844,) about 2400 miles of navigable canals have now been made, and wholly at the expense of private companies or individuals; in Ireland, 300 miles ; in Scotland, 200. These works are unequalled for extent, and for difficulties of all sorts successfully overcome. As specimens of the latter may be mentioned the tunnel at Blisworth, on the Grand Junction Canal, which is 3080 yards in length. The underground cuttings in the Duke of Bridgewater's Canal are said to be alto gether 18 miles long, and to have cost £170,000. The Marsden tunnel, in the Huddersfield Canal, is 5451 yards long. The tunnel at Sapperton, on the Thames and Se vern Canal. is 2a miles in length, and 250 feet below the highest point of the bill through which it is made. In the Thames and Medway Canal, between Gravesend and Ro chester, a tunnellk miles is cut through chalk ; and one of the tunnels of the Leominster Canal, at Penax, is 3850 yards long.—Salt's Statistics. A VISIT TO THE " TIMES" OFFICE, JUNE 17, 1844. in the evening we had dinner, as usual, and then an ad venture by night ; At twelve o'clock we ordered our carriages, and whither did they take us? To the office of the Times—that enormous journal, which with its impe rial folio covers the breakfast tables of the English every morning as punctually and as amply as their breakfast table-cloth,—that journal, of which every night 20,000 copies are composed and printed, and which pays yearly to the revenue the sum of £35,000 sterling for stamp duty ! It was not without interest to look for a few mo ments at this process, which is really calculated to dis gust one for ever with all which, in the language of trade, we are accustomed to call authorship ! The whole of an extensive building scarcely contains the offices of the re ceivers of notices and advertisements, the political writers, the clerks, and compositors, of which latter many first set up, at the same time, single columns, as we say, in companies, after which others arrange all together in suit able order, until the broad sheet is full. When all is now ready the forms are then lifted into the steam press, where the printing proceeds with enormous rapidity, while a boy only is required to lay in the white, damp sheets. If, compared with this facility of fingers, we re flect upon the tedious birth of a great classical work in art, or in the sciences, requiring ten years, where here only as many hours are sufficient, we arrive at singular results. These flying sheets now govern the age. The deep study of a single great work, the product of mind, will become more and more the property of the smallest Lumber.—Dr. Carus's Visit of the Kiny of Saxony. SIR JAMES GRAHAM IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. — His demeanour in the house is a study. As he enters below the bar, his red despatch-box in hand, his figure towers above most of the members, notwithstanding that of late years he has contracted a slight stoop. Extreme hauteur, tempered by a half-sarcastic superciliousness, is his prevailing characteristic ; and, as he slowly drags along his tall and massive frame, which still retains much of the fine proportions of youth, in his heavy-measured, almost slip-slop tread, towards his seat at the right of the Speaker's table, there is a self-satisfied, almost inane expression on the countenance, produced by a peculiar fall of the nether lip and a distorted elevation of the eye brows, that does not by any means prepossess you in his favour, or suggest any high idea of his intellect. He ra ther looks like some red-tape minister of the Tadpole school, or some pompous placeman, conceited of his acres. But by-and-by you learn to separate the more fixed habit of the features from this odd expression of the counte nance, till you see that the superciliousness is real, though exaggerated by the physical peculiarity. There are no traces of ill-nature in the face; but, on the other hand, there is nothing to encourage. Meanwhile he has seated himself, placed his red box on the table before him, stretched himself out to his full length, and awaits, with arms folded and hat slouched over Isis face, the question ing to which he knows he will be subjected at this parti cular hour, from half-past four to half-past five. He is not left long in his moody silence. Some one has put a question to him. It is Mr. Duncombe, who, if one is to judge by the malicious twinkle in his eye, and Isis affected tone of moral indignation, has got hold of some grievance —some letter-opening delinquency, or some case of ma gisterial cruelty and Home-office indifference with which he has worked upon the members who do the " British public " part in these little political dramas, for they are crying " Hear, hear 1" with a forty-John-Bull power. Does the Home Secretary start up to answer? Is he in dignant at the insinuations thrown out by his smart and ready - antagonist? Does he burn to relieve himself of the odium of having sanctioned a system of espionage, or of having neglected to redress some wrong—as he, the poor man's ex-officio trustee, is bound to do ? Oh, no ! he is in no hurry. The breath of the questioner has fall time to cool, and the voice of moral indignation to abate its energy, ere he stirs. Then he uncoils himself. rising slowly to bis full height and confronting his antagonist with a well-assumed consciousness of the extreme absur dity of his question, and the absolute impregnability of the defence • if, indeed, he shall condescend to make any answer at all; for you are left in doubt a moment whether he will not allow his supercilious expression to expa-id into a contemptuous laugh, and so sit down again. However, such things not being allowed by the sovereign people, and, as ministers, however despotically disposed, must answer questions, the next thing to be accomplished is to give as homoepathic a dose of information as possi ble, conveyed in the largest possible amount of indiffer ence, superciliousness, and wholesome parliamentary con tempt. There are stereotyped forms. The initiated know clmost the words. The cool, phlegmatic, impassible style is, of course, peculiar to the particular Home Secretary of whom we speak. His idea of the functions of his office seems to be, that he is to exercise the utmost possible power with the least possible accountability. He is to know nothing, see nothing, do 'nothing, but e hat he is absolutely compellable to know, see,,or do. If the enemy can ferret out a fact and prove it, so much the better for his case. Then, perhaps, it may be admitted. But the usual course is for Sir James, in his low-monotonous voice, and steady determined manner, to give an elaborate formal statement of words, with as few facts as possible, and leaving the matter as nearly as possible where be found it. This course has its advantage; for the ques tions put are often unmeaning, and even detrimental to the public service. Sometimes, however, matters grow more serious. The cool, hard', impassible functionary is compelled by a sense of duty to make a more elaborate statement, and then it is you perceive his superiority as a minister. The clearness, firmness, extent of information, and sound knowledge of his duty he displays, show him to be not deficient, either in act or in explanation, when he thinks it necessary. His questioner is then put hors de combat, and he himself gets a sort of license for that su perciliousness and apathetic indifference to populai cen sure which are so fatally urged to his prejudice.—Fraaer's Magazine. THE GRETNA-GREEN PARSON AND THE ACTOR. A very curious circumstance occurred on Christmas-day at this celebrated Temple of Hymen. The western mail having preceded a gentleman's carriage which was chang ing horses at Hamilton's, the Bush Inn, Carlisle, some wag journeying by it, on arriving at Gretna Green (the next stage)rinformed the landlord, the celebrated parson (in confidence), that a distinguished foreigner was follow ing close b?hind them, eloping with an English lady of great wealth, and that his services would he in requisition. In a moment all was bustle, the note of preparation sounded, and everything was arranged to give the supposed fugi tives a suitable reception. The room so recently the scene of the nuptials of Captain Ibbetson and the Lady Adele Villiers, was scarcely in readiness when a carriage and four was seen wending its way up the avenue (the house being some distance off the road), the horses gal loping fast and furious, as is the post-boys wont at the close of a stage; the steps were let down in an instant, when forth stepped a personage wearing " The shadowed livery of th- burnish:: I sun." This dignifiel, dusky per sonage was immediately ushered into the celebrated ap artment, followed closely by the landlord (we beg his pardon), the parson Linton himself. The lady not alight ing was attributed to bashfulness at the peculiarity of her supposed position. The following dialogue ensued : Parson Lintin (bowing): " You are welcome, sir, you are welcome to Scotland ; had I kenn'd ye were intending to honour my house wi' a visit but ten minutes afore, all would hae been in readiness for ye; that chiel Hamilton (dell take him) must hae been daft not to hae sent an express, as he always does on sic like occasions, and not trusted to a chance traveller; but as it is. we maun mak all possible haste. Saundie, yon lazy loon, what gars ye glowrin' at the gentleman, ye ill mannered tyke ; rin, sir, rin, and fetch the register ; stop, sir, stop, here are the keys. I beg, your pardon, sir, but— Dark Stranger : " Oh, no apology, sir; I thank you for your attention, but I am not so pressed for time that a slight delay of this nature will occasion me much incon venience ; but as soon as you can make your arrangements and send us forward, I will thank you." Parson Linton : " Oh certainly, sir, certainly : ob, here is the rigester, sir, here it is. I have got the signatures of some of the first of the land, and hope to have many more in spite of that meddling, ill-faur'd chit!, Lord Brougham ; ye ken, sir, I mak nae doubt that he endea voured (deil mend him) last year to interfere with my established rights; yes, sir, rights that have been mine and my forbears from time immemorial. Here, sir, is the signature of my Lord Westmoreland and Miss Child ; I ken him weal, sir, though I was but a wee laddie at the time ; they came galloping up just in the gloaming ' • and here is Captain Ibbetson and the Lady Adela, a braw lassie, and there is a firm hand she wrote at such a critical period ; and, singular enough, the last line but two — there is just room left for your name and that of the bonny leddy." Dark Stranger: " Is it customary, then, for your visi tors to sign their names in this, your register ?" " Linton • " Oh yes, sir ; all the patricians, sir, the pa tricians. We have another for the plebeians, ha, ha, ha! ah, I see all is in readiness, and if you please we will go forward with the ceremony." Dark Stranger : " Oh, with the greatest pleasure. Oblige me with pen and ink." Parson Linton : " But the leddy, sir, the leddy." Dark Stranger: " Oh, never mind; she is rather fa tigued from travelling, and is not disposed to alight; I will sign her name, which will be the same thing, I sup pose." Parson Linton : " Naething of the kind, sir ; naething of the kind • it wad ne stand in law ; the ceremony must be first performed, and then ye're responsible ; the cere mony first, sir, the ceremony." Dark Stanger : " The ceremony—what ceremony ?" Parson Linton : " The matrimonial tie; the ordained ordinance ye ken, sir; first call the bonny leddy wife, and then—" Dark Stranger: " Call her wife! why she is my wife; what else would you have me call her? You cannot sup pose, from onr very different complexions, that we stand in relation of brother and sister." Parson Linton: "Your wife! it's na possible ; did you not come post here to be married ?" Dark stranger : "To be married !—I came for post horses; besides, I have been in the enjoyment of that connubial state that religion enjoins for some years, and I hope you have ton much respect for your sacred calling to wish me to coun..ht the unchristian crime of bigamy." Parson Linton: " The Lord forbid, sir ; the Lord for bid." We may explain that the above dark-coloured stranger turned out to be Mr. Aldridge, the celebrated African tragedian ; a gentleman said to be possessed of the very highest histrionic and literary attainments, and who is at present fulfilling a round of engagements in the principal theatres in Scotland.—Hereford Journal. BENEFICIAL SANITARY RESULTS OF GOOD PAVING. (From the Liverpool Health of Towns' Advocate.) We need not say that a considerable amount of disease must arise from bad paving ; but we confess to have been hardly prepared for the disclosures made in the fol lowing experimental evidence. The facts are melancholy, because, if confirmed by other examples, they will shew what an awful extent of suffering has been inflicted on the poor by our neglect of so simple an improvement. But at the same time they afford most gratifying evidence of our power to alleviate the sanitary condition of the town. The data have been supplied by Mr. Carr, of the South Dis pensary, from his register, and shew only the cases of dis ease visited at their own homes. Six of the worst,courts, in one of the worst parts of Liverpool, were so notoriously unhealthy, that the medical attendant was hardly ever out of them ; and when any epidemics visited the town, these courts exhibited their results in perfection. Their sur face was in a most disgraceful state, being always covered to some depth with putrid mud, so that the inhabitants were compelled to place large stones at intervals, to ena ble them to reach their houses by stepping from one to another. In the course of last summer these courts were flagged, and the effect on their sanitary condition soon became apparent. To exhibit this, we have chosen five months, from August to December, inclusive, of 1844, before paving, and the same five months of 1845, the pav ing having been completed in the interim. We have se lected these periods, because the general sanitary condi tion of the town was nearly the same in both : TABLE EXHIBITING THE SANITARY EFFECTS OF FLAGGING. Number of Cases of Sickness Courts. No. of Houses. in Five Months. Crosby-street. Before Paving. After Paving. Ash Fir Pine... 8 Oak . 8 Beech 7 • 7 Brick-street. Bridport-court lB Total 57 The period of five months is too short to enable us to deduce accurate statistical results ; and there may be other causes operating in producing this extraordinary difference, but still we trust the evidence is sufficiently conclusive to satisfy the public of the soundness of the principles we advocate, while it ought to stimulate and encourage the authorities to prosecute vigorously the course of improve ment on which they have entered. The arrangements for cleansing the surfaces of courts and passages, which have been adopted by the Town Council within the last three weeks, are highly to be commended ; and the more fre quent sweeping of streets by the machine will be of much sanitary benefit. STEPHEN KEMBLE AS FALSTAFF—ANNO 1800.—One of the great histrionic dynasty, Stephen Kemble, has lately amused the town by his performance of Falstaff. He exhibited the humours of the jovial knight with skill enough to make the audiences laugh. But he was perhaps the first actor who ever played the fat knight to the life. His remarkable corpulence qualified him to play the cha racter without stuffing. The good humour of his visage was fully equalled by the protuberance of his stomach ; and if the " tutus in se teres atque rotundus" of Horace, is the poet's definition of a good man, the actor rose to the summit of human virtue. The best prologue, since the days of Garrick, ushered in this singular performance. A Falstaff here to-night, by nature made, Lends to your favourite bard his pond*rous aid; No man in buckram he, no stuffing gear I No feather bed, nor e'en a pillow here I But all good honest flesh, and blood, and bone, And weighing, more or less—some thirty stone. Upon the northern coast, by chance, we caught him : And hither, in a broad-wheed waggon. brought him ; For in a chaise the varlet ne'er could enter, And no mail-coach on such a fare would venture. Blest with unwieldiness, at least his size Will favour find in every critic's eyes; And should his humour, and his mimic art, Bear due proportion to his outer part, As once 'twas said of Macklin in the Jew, ' This is the very picture Shakspeare drew.' To you, with diffidence, be bids me say, Should you approve, you may command his stay, • To lie and swagger here another Oily. If not, to better men he'll leave his sack, And go, as ballast, in a collier, back." —Blackwood's Magazine. CRUELTY OF THE OLD SYSTEM OF COACHING.— " Reader." writes Hieover, " hast ever been in that abode of crippled horses, a coach stable ? 'Probably not, but I have, in hundreds, and have there seen the direful havoc of fast coaches. We must recolect that nothing but a high- couraged and a high-bred horse is fit for a coachhorse. Carrying this in our minds, we must not infer, because we see four horses going along without the constant application of - the whip, that they are going at their ease; quite the reverse; they are probably, even at that moment, suffering much, either from distress by pace or bodily infirmity ; for we are not to expect such coaches as a Brighton Age, a Windsor Taglioni, or a Birmingham Tantivy (were) on every road. These horses were bought in their prime, were kept in the highest possible condition, and, from their number, were allowed proper intervals and days of rest. Bat, taking a long line of road, many brutes of coachowners purchase only infirm horses, which, by dint of punishment, are made to do work for which they are deally totally unfit. It is enough for their owner that they o it, their free and generous spirits inducing them to pre fer the agony of going to that inflicted by the whip. These are (were) a few observations on their horses common in the mouths of coachmasters It will be cheaper to work him to death than to be at any expense about him.'—This means, that if resting him for three months will cost £3, and by working him to death £3 ss. is to he got out of him, he is condemned at once and works till he drops. 'lt will pay better to work him to death than to sell him at that price.'—That is, the price offered does not amount by ss. or 10s. to the amount of labour still left in him ; so be shares the fate of his companion above. He is cheap to whip to death at the price;' or 'I only bought him to whip to death.' This is a frequent remark when a low priced horse is puchased in, and said of some wreck of a splendid hunter wht) has carried our aristocracy in the first flight over Leicestershire."—Stable Talk and Tabk Talk. RIDING A DROMEDARY. (From the Knight of Gwynne.) " Dick French was the only one I ever heard of back ing a dromedary," said a fat, old farmer-like man, from the end of the table. " How was that, Martin?" said Daly, with a look that showed he either knew the story, or anticipated some thing good. " And by all accounts, it's the devil to ride," resumed the old fellow ; " now, it's the head down and the loins up, and then, a roll to one side, and then to the other, and a twist in the small of your back as if it were coming in two ; oh, by the good day ! Dick gave me as bad a stich in the one side just by telling me about it." "But where did he get his experience, Martin ? I never heard of it before," said Daly. " He was a fortnight in Egypt, sir," said the old far mer ; "he was in a frigate, or man-of-war of one kind or another, off—the devil o' me knows well where it was, but there was a consul there, a son of one of his father's tenants ; indeed, ould French got him the place from the government, and when he found out that Dick was on board the ship, what does he do, but writes him an invi tatian to pass a week or ten days with him at his house, and that he'd show him some sport. ' We've elegant hunting,' says he ; ' not foxes or hares, but a big bird, bigger nor a goose, they call'—by my conscience I'll for get my own name next, for I heard Dick tell the story at least twenty times." " Was it an ostrich?" said Tom. " No ; nor an oyster either, Mr. Conolly," said the old fellow, who thought the question was meant to quiz him. " 'Twas an Ibis, Martin," cried Daly, " an Ibis." ' 1 The devil a doubt of it, that's the name ; a crayture, with legs as long as Mr. Beecham O'Reilly's, and a way of going, half-flying, half-walking, almost impossible to catch, and they hunt him on dromedaries. Dick liked the notion well, and, es he was a favourite on board, he got lave for three days to go on shore, and have his fun, though the captain said at parting, ' It's not many drome daries you'll see, Dick, for the Pasha has them all up the country at this time.' This was true enough ; sorra a bit of a camel or dromedary could be seen for miles round ; but, however it was, the consul kept his word, and had one for Dick the next morning, a great strapping baste, all covered with trappings of one kind or other, elegant shawls and little hearth rugs all over him. The others were mounted on mules or asses, any way they could, and away they went to look after the goose, the Ibis,' I mean. Well, to be short with it, they came up with one, on the bank of a river, and soon gave chase. He was a fine strong fellow, and well able to run. I wish you heard Dick tell this part of it. Never was there such sport in the world ; blazing away altogether, as fast as they could prime and load, at one time at the goose, more times at each other ; the mules kicking, the asses braying, and Dick cantering about on his dromedary, upsetting every one near him, and shouting like mad. At last he pinned the goose up, in a narrow corner, among some old walls, and Dick thought he'd have the brush ; but sorra step the dromedary would stir. He spurred and kicked, and beat away with a stick as hard as he could ; but it was all no good—it was the carpets, maybe, that saved him, for there he stood fast, just for all the world as if he was made of stone. Dick pulled out a pistol and fired a shot in his car, but all to no use; he minded it no more than before. Bad luck to you, for a baste,' says Dick, ' what ails you at all, are you going to die on me ? Get along now. The divil receave a step I'll go, till I get some spirits and wather l' says the dromedary, for I m clean smothered with them bl—y blankets,' and with them same words the head of the baste fell off, and Dick saw tie consul's own mau wiping the perspiration from his face, and blowing like a porpoise. How the divil the hind legs bears it, I can't think,' says he ; lam nigh dead though I had a taste of fresh air.' The murther was out, gentlemen, for you see the counsel could not get a raal dromedary, and was obliged to make one out of a Christian, and a black fellow he had for a cook ; and, sure enough, in the beginning of the day Dick says he went like a clipper ; 'twas doubling after the goose destroyed him." THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. At the half-yearly meeting of the Charing Cross Bridge Company, a dividend of 18s., or nearly 71 per cent., was declared. The directors stated in their report that they were proceeding with the bill in parliament to enable them to complete the sale of the bridge to Messrs. Wm. Jack son and others, who were taking all proper steps to con clude the bargain. SALE OF A C HILD 1 - A woman named Taylor, residing in the neighbourhood of Farringdon-street last week sold her child, a fine little boy, to a lady who came in her car riage, and paid half a sovereign as earnest money. After wards she exhibited the urchin denuded of his dirty rags and clothed in the richest honour, and took him away with her, promising to call and pay the remainder of the " purchase-money' (X 2 or £5) as may be required. The grandfather cf the child repudiates the whole transaction INCENDIARISM.—A destructive fire, caused by some malicious incendiary, took place on Saturday week, at Bottisham, in Cambridgeshire. The flames extended over two farms and other buildings. and no less than 150 coombs of wheat, with several agricultural implements, were destroyed. What adds to the calamity is, that fifteen cottages were burned down, and 24 poorfamiliesthus turned out of house and home. The farms and stacks were par tially insured. THE LONDON ALDERMEN.—The Lord Mayor has thought it right to offer some explanation as to the charge of several of the aldermen being unfindable by John Doe and Richard Roe. His Lordship says, that there are not more of his brethren absent than are usually away at this time of the year. Certainly some may be abroad fo r pri vate affairs, and some may be abroad for health ; but it is not the less true, that at home there are numerous legal claimants on their attention, whom it is inconvenient for them to meet.—Railway Herald. In the melancholy case of shooting, between Harro gate and Otley, mentioned in last week's paper, the co roner's jury returned a verdict of " Excusable homicide." It appeared that John Brotherton, the poor fellow who was shot, had acted in the most imprudent manner, arising, no doubt, from his being intoxicated at the time, and that Hugh England, the servant man who fired the gun, as well as Mr. Atkinson and his family, were under great apprehension that Brotherton was one of a party of burglars who were trying to get into the house. SAVINGS' BANKS.—From an official return of Mr. Tidd Pratt, it appears that there are in England 445 savings' bank, with 832,290 accounts and deposits, amounting to £25,112,865. There are 428 tit n lly so cieties, investing directly with the National Debt Office, with an amount of deposits of £1,770,775. There are 23 savings' banks in Wales, 73 in Ireland, and 36 in Scotland. The average amount of each depositor in Wales is £2B, precisely the same as in England ; in Ire land it is £29, whilst in Scotland it is only £l4. DETERMINED SUICIDE. A young woman, named Lydia Price, 25 years old, having left her situation at Brecon, on Saturday, took arsenic, and afterwards applied for out-door relief at the workhouse. Being told that this could not be granted unless she became an inmate, she went away, and applied at . another chemist's shop for more arsenic, but cream of tartar was given to her in stead. Being taken ill, she was conveyed to the work house, where, notwithstanding an obstinate resistance on her part, the stomach pump was applied and the chest re lieved. It was, however, too late, and the rash woman expired the same evening. The jury returned a verdict offelo de se, and the suicide was interred without Chris tian burial. MANSION -HOUSE, SATURDAY.—RINGING A PEAL IN HONOUR OF PEEL'S TARIFF.—Miss Julia Jones, a very pretty damsel, dressed in a fashionable polka, was charged with pulling the bell of Mr. Bennett, of Fencburch-street, at two o'clock in the morning. Julia said she had supped with a party of friends, on her return from the theatre, and had perhaps taken a little more refreshment than agreed with her, as she had drunk two or three glasses to " the health of Sir R. Peel," and " Success to his Tariff," and she supposed it was that which induced her to ring a peal in honour of Peel. She hoped the Lord Mayor would look over the offence, as it was her first frolic. — The Lord Mayor discharged the fair Julia, having advised her to beware of her second frolic. SINGULAR ACCIDENT. — On the 4th instant, a young man, named Phelan, was engaged, with another person, at Messrs. Stephenson's engine factory, Newcastle-on- Tyne, in grinding a piece of iron on a grindstone driven by an engine, when in an instant the stone flew into numberless pieces, one of the parts flying upwards with tremendous force and breaking the beam and floor of the upper room, and, striking the steam-pipe in its descent, broke it. and filled the building with steam. Another portion of the stone is supposed to have struck Phelan, as, when the steam cleared away, be was discovered lying on his face, his head and face being dreadfully injured. He died about two hours afterwards. ALARMING ACCIDENT.—At the Broad Oak Colliery, near Ashton-under-Lyne, 20 poor men had a very narrow escape from being crushed to atoms, by the fall of 100 tons of rock and rubbish. It appears that a body of coal bad got on fire at the bottom of one of the pits, which the men had found great difficulty in trying to extinguish, on ac count of the great heat of the burning mass, but had at last succeeded in getting a fire engine down the pit. On Monday, the steam arising from throwing water on the burning coal, got into the roof, and brought down with a tremendous crash the mass of materials named above.— Fortunately the men had not commenced work, or every soul would have perished'; three are seriously injured. The fire is not extinguished. THE DISTIN FAMILY.—These accomplished performers on the Sax horns are at present in Paris, where they are highly popular. It appears they have attended soirees, given by the Duc de Montpensier, and other illustrious individuals. On Friday last, they had an especial " com mand" to the Tuileries, and they played a variety f their most attractive pieces, in the presence of the King and Queen of the French, Princess Adelaide, Duchess of Orleans, Duchess of Nemours, Dec de Montpensier, Due de Aurnale, Prince de Joinville, and about 60 guests of distinction. His majesty took occasion to express the pleasure he experienced in listening to the effects of the horns • and even to request the performance of " God save the queen." The Distins proceed immediately to Germany, on a three months' professional tour. SERIOUS'AFFRAY.—For some time, a hostile feeling has existed between the English and Irish workmen em ployed at the Derweet iron -works, and pugilistic en counters have been the consequence. On Sunday night, about nine o'clock, whilst a numbet of these workmen, composed chiefly of English, were sitting in a beer-house, at Blackhill, a party of the Irish repaired to the house, armed with sticks, stones, and other missiles, and com menced an attack upon it by smashing the windows and other outrages. Soon afterwards, the English party in side were joined by a number of their comrades, when a desperate engagement ensued, which lasted for several hours, and during which from forty to fifty on each side were more or less disabled by cuts and bruises, three of whom are now lying in a very precarious state, and almost beyond the hope of recovery.—Durham Chronicle. A DEEP BEGGAR.—A fellow is going about at Lincoln, vending trifling articles and begging, who, to induce the people to make purchases or give him something, pro fesses to be a religious person in reduced circumstances. To enable him to work the better upon the feelings of the religious, he produces what purports to be the certificate of a minister. It turns out that he has a number of those certificates, and that he is, if they are to be believed, a faithful member of nearly every religious sect in the country. Unfortunately, the other day, he endeavoured to exci e the pity of a Lincoln independent, and to clench the appeal, pulled out what he imagined and stated to be the certificate of an independent minister, as a proof of his godliness ; but, lo ! the paper turned out to be " the wrong one," the unitarian certificate, and so, of course, the scamp was turned out. Some alarmiag potato riots took place at Inverness a few days since. The lower classes opposed the shipment of potatoes, in spite of the police, magistrates, and mili tary, and they proceeded to smash windows, and threa tened or attempted to set fire to the Provost's distillery. Ten or twelve persons were wounded ; the riot act had to be read, and a proclamation issued ; and many were taken prisoners. No potatoes were shipped on Thursday, so that no opportunity was efforded to one side to brave the other. Some of the inhabitants think this is occasioned by fear acting on the farmers, and that they will not at tempt to ship. This is all delusion. The true cause of their inertness is the severity of the frost, which would spoil the potatoes between the barnyard and the wharf. Some farmers have sent supplies into the market. The potatoes sell at the exporting price, say 16s. per boll. To appease the populace, Mr. Fraser, farmer, called the town crier to advertise the inhabitants that whoever wished to purchase potatoes might be supplied by him with any quantity they wanted. BANNS OF MARRIAGE FORBIDDEN.--At Great Whit ley Church, on Sunday, the Ist instant, the bans of mar riage between Thomas Bowen and Elizabeth Stringer were publicly forbidden by the mother of the intended bridegroom. They had been published for two Sundays previously, but as soon as the reverend divine had com menced for the third and last time, out started Mrs. Bowen into the middle of the church, end exclaimed in a loud voice, to the utter astonishment of the clergyman and congregation, including also those occupying the pew of royalty, "/ forbid the banns in this church and all others." The reverend gentleman, for a rnomet,t or so, was in a " fix," but as soon as he recovered himself he told the old lady he would see her in the vestry after ser vice. We have not since heard the result.—On Sunday week, when the officiating minister at the parish church, Stockton, was publishing a long list of names of candi dates for connubial bliss, and in the act of pronouncing the names of a certain couple, an individual present ex claimed, in a loud stentorian voice, " I forbid the banns." On being afterwards requested to state the " why and the wherefore" he said the " would be" bridegroom was his son, and that he was only 18 years of age. The next day, however, matters were amicably arranged between the parties, and the indissoluble knot has since been tied. ROYAL COLLEGE OF CHYMISTRY.- -H is Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Wylde, on Thursday visited the laboratories of the Royal College of Chymistry. where he was met by Professors Hoffman, Brande, and Taylor, and Mr. Benjamin Bond Cabbell. His royal highness made a very minute inspection of the laboratories and examined every student as to the point they had reached in the systematic course of study adopted. He then witnessed a selection of interesting experiments, in cluding the method of analyzing organic compounds, known as Liebeg's organic combustion. His royal high ness, being well acquainted with the present state of the science of chymistry, has, from the first projection of the College of Chymistry, afforded it his support. After spending more than an hour in the laboratory, his royal highness met Lords Palmerston, Hill, Newry and Morne, and Ehrington, Sir J. J. Guest, Sir James Clark, Hon. W. B. Baring, M. P., J. Denison, M. P., Mr. W. Ewart, M. P., end presided at a meeting of the council. The principal resolution passed at this meeting was that the building of the laboratories be commenced forthwith. His royal highness then inspected the site for the labora tories and the plans of Mr. Lockyer, the architect, and expressed his approbation of all the arrangements for the establishment of the institution, and added a second dona tion of £lOO to the building fund. The lambing season this year has been exceedingly favourable. The earliest lambs obtained were from the Dorset ewes, and from the mild state of the weather they have continued on the grass lands, and are now in a for ward state. Among the south down ewes lambing is now very general. The lambs are dropped very strong. and more than the average number of twins are produced. Sheep feed is very abundant in most counties, and should the weather remain in its present mildness, the couples will continue in their folds, and lambs will be ready for the markets much earlier than usual. THE WARWICKSHIRE MURDER.—The examination of Reed, who was apprehended on Friday week, at Bir mingham, on suspicion of having murdered Thomas Tran ter, a farmer at Berkswell, twelve weeks ago, took place at Solihull, near Birmingham, on Monday. The magis trates took the examination privately, and the accused was remanded. He has always been described as a fresh coloured young lad, of eighteen years of age, but now is very haggard looking, and has the appearance of having suffered much privation. He was apprehended by a milk man, named Pane, in Dale-end, Birmingham, that person having previously known him. SENTENCE ON A RETURNED TRANSPORT.—A few months ago, a convict, named John Potter, surrendered himself at the Mansion-house, London, and alleged that he was an escaped convict from New South Wales. lie said he had a great chance of liberty, but he wished to surrender himself, and be sent back to the colony. He was aware of the dreadful sufferings of the convicts, yet he would not shrink from suffering if he could effect good to others. The fact was, that since he got away, he had been converted ; and, feeling the sinful and degraded state in which convicts lived, he thought that, if he again went over amongst them, he should prove an instrument of much good. Great sympathy was felt, and Sir James Graham was applied to for a pardon; but this, he said, could not be granted in the first instance—the prisoner must be dealt with in the ordinary way. The prisoner was, on Tuesday, brought into the New Court, when the Common Sergeant briefly referred to his case : without presuming in what way Government would act, he had only to pronounce the judgment as in an ordinary case of being unlawfully at large. The sentence was, that the prisoner be further confined in Newgate for three calendar months, and then be transported for life. • MIRACULOUS EscarE.—On Monday, a most alarming accident occurred at Sudbury, Derbyshire. Lord Ches terfield, and a number of distinguished guests from the seat of the noble Earl. arrived at Sudbury Hall, formerly the residence of the Queen Dowager, for the purpose of enjoying a day's fox-hunting. The morning was beauti fully flue, and the party exceeded any former gathering of the kind. They were met by Mr. .Meynell's hounds, and everything gave promise of a most delightful day's sport. An accident, however, occurred to Mr. Potle, of Radbourne Hall, which gave birth to another of a more fearful kind. This gentleman was thrown from his horse, and the animal galloped off at full speed, when it was met by the carriage of Lord Chesterfield, which contained four ladies—viz., Mrs. Clay, of Sudbury Hall, and her two daughters, and Miss Turner, who had kept the road as spectators of the sportsmen. The coachman, seeing the horse approaching, incautiously quitted his seat for the purpose of stopping the animal, when the horses dashed off with the carriage at full speed, for more than two miles, and threw the carriage on its side on an embank ment; the carriage was immediately righted again by the horses, but only to be upset on the other side; they went on a little further, when the carriage again was thrown on its right side, and the horses stopped of their own accord. Every assistance was immediately rendered to the unfor tunate ladies, who, we are happy to say, have escaped with their lives. Mrs. Clay had her collar-bone dislo cated, and the other ladies were slightly bruised. The jewellery, watches, and trinkets of the fair owners were scattered in all directions, and the carriage was almost dashed to pieces. SERIOUS RIOTS ON THE LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.--On Wednesday morning last, the banks and shops in Penrith were closed during a great part of the day, and all business had been suspended, in consequence of serious disturbances amongst the labourers employed on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway. That morning upwards of 2000 of these men, engaged between that town and Kendal, began to assemble in the neighbourhood, with the view of driving the Irish labourers from the line. Luckily no collision took place, the Irish having re treated. The labourers were armed with clubs and other weapons. A party of the English having learned that some Irish had taken refuge in a lodging-house in Pen rith, went to the place, before the civil power arrived, and seriously assaulted nine Irishmen. One or two are scarcely expected to survive. The Cumberland and Westmoreland Yeomanry Cavalry were called out. At eleven o'clock all was quiet. The disturbances com menced on Tuesday at the cutting at Hugh's Cragg. It peered that an Irishman had refused to do some work required by his overlooker or " ganger," and that the two got from words to blows. The remainder of the Irish then employed, about 60 in number, struck work, and went to Mr. Smith's works, at Plumpton, where a great number of their countrymen were employed. In the evening the whole of them, to the number of 500, formed in regular order, and marched through Penrith to the huts on Yanwath moor, to burn them down, but were prevented by the magistrates and civil power. Mr. Hasell, a magistrate, harrangued them in kind language, and they agreed to march back and meet next day (Wednesday), to receive their wages. It was also arranged that the Irish should work on one side of the Eumont viaduct, and the English on the other. In the cutting at Hugh's Cragg there are employed upwards of 600 English and about 60 Irish. About 13 men were wounded in the affrays, and nearly all are doing well. The riot act was read about noon. On Thursday night all remained quiet. The Irish in the neighbourhood of Penrith were paid off, and left the town, with the exception of four who were seriously hurt. From 200 to 300, armed with guns and other warlike weapons, were previously met by the yeomanry cavalry, at Milestone-house, and stopped, where the Irish appeared so desperate that the riot act was read, but, ultimately, it was agreed that they should be paid off, and they laid down their arms. After they had left the town all was again tranquil. DREADFUL MURDER AND SUICIDE.—A dreadful tra gedy was enacted on Thursday morning at the house, 16, Arthur-square, Commercial-road East, London. A man named Jeremiah Spence Stark, a coal-weigher, having murdered his wife by cutting her throat with a carving knife, destroyed himself with the same weapon. It ap pears that Stark, who was a man of violent temper, had lately made use of threats towards his wife, and was spoken to upon the subject by his wife's father, who lived in the same house. In consequence of an arrangement made by the wife's father, Stark and his wife slept in se parate beds on Wednesday night. Stark rose very early, and it is supposed that whilst his unfortunate wife was in the act of kneeling before the fire, and sweeping the ashes into a shovel, he came behind her, and inflicted several wounds on her neck and throat. A scuffle of very short duration then ensued, and the wife must have run towards the stairs, where she fell from exhaustion and loss of blood. The: man afterwards destroyed himself in the front kitchen, when his lifeless corpse, weltering in blood, was found stretched, on the floor in front of the fire-place. The police were immediately called in from the neighbouring station-house, and found both parties quite dead. The woman bad received several deep wounds on her neck and throat; the man only one, which nearly severed his head from his body. The fender and fire-irons were scattered about in every direction, and all things betokened a silent but terrible struggle. The only discoverable grounds for the terrible tragedy are these ; A little brother of the young woman Ellen Baxter, alias Stark, slept in the same apartment with her and her hus band, and on the previous night heard the latter abusing her, and calling her odious names. This he told to his father, who mildly remonstrated with Stark on the impro priety of his conduct. It would seem this galled the fel low, arid must have rankled all night in his mind. From the appearance of the front kitchen, which seemed to be the breakfast-room of the family, the young woman must have been at work in the place when Stark made the at- tack upon her, and the silent struggle between them must have been terrible. Her hands were cut in several places through the gloves which she had on doing her work. The poor young woman, who is supposed to have been in thq s fatnily way, is said to have been a good-tempered gir THE LANDLORDS AND THE PRICE OF WHEAT.—It is a generally-admitted fact, that the home market for British manufactures is larger than that of all foreign markets put together. It is of course next to impossible to calcu late with certainty the fall of the price of wheat conse quent on throwing the British market open to all the world, but we may assume that the reduction may be a bout ten shillings a quarter, which is the estimate of ex perienced men. Taking the consumption of Britain at 20,000,000 of quarters of wheat a-year, this beneficia! change, say the Free Traders, gives the country, accord. ing to this calculation, a saving of £10,000,000 a-veer ; that is, ten millions sterling, which was previously paid by the unjust operation of CLASS legislation to the lar.d holders, will be absolutely extinguished,—it will be no longer paid to them, and be an absolute saving to the community. But before we give such a statement an un qualified assent, it may he worth while to inquire what the landholders do with the ten millions thus acquired? Do they bury it, or is it absorbed in some mysterious way in• to the agricultural body, so that the rest of the nation, first robbed by their cupidity, continue to pine under their selfish obduracy ? By no means. Hence in a great de gree the strength of the home market for manufactures of which we have spoken. They, their families, their ser vants, t• eir dependants, hasten to spend it mainly on the various manufactures of the country. The ten millions do not leave the country, or are absorbed by some unpa triotic slough, but run instantly, as soon as acquired, into inumers.ble channels throughout the entire country, giving an astonishing impulse and life to every thing from the spinning frames and power looms of Manchester,--from the manufacturers of Leeds, Nottingham, Norwich, Bir mingham, Sheffield, down to the retail dealers in Recent or Bond-street, to those of the most insignificant village of the kingdom. If the wave of prosperity is directed with unnecessary, or as it regards the community at large, even hurtful force, over the green lawns of the aristocratic body, back it instantly flows with an impetuosity which carries it in its fructifying career to the remotest points and corners of the land. Admitting such a view of the question as this, it seems difficult to imagine that the evil of wheat being 10s. a quarter higher than it might be, is of the unqualified description which our Free Traders would have it to be. Let ten millions cease, according to their impetuous clamour, to come into the pockets of the land holders, it will equally cease to flow out of them again in to theirs, in the purchase, especially, of the decencies, luxuries, and refinem en t s o f li fe. If eventually the coun try suffer not, in consequence of the saving through the community at large from the lower price of bread, (to ac complish which fall the bakers must be suhjected to a spe cies of torture to charge only moderate profits, unknown to the nineteenth century,)—for the present an embar rassment and derangement in the channels of the home trade is likely to ensue, the extent, the duration, and con sequences of which he must be a bold man who shall pre dicate.—Record. Feb. 17, 1846. 3irtl)s, glarriages aiii Deatb. BIRTHS. On the 10th instant, in B er k e ley- sq uare, London, the 11°116 Mrs. Robert Boyle, of a son. Same day, Baroness de Moncorvo, of a son. Same day, the lady of the Rev. T. Bibby, of a son. don, ,the On the 11th inst an t, a t G rosvenor-cresc ent, Lon a , '" Countess of Clarendon, of a son. tivin S ' a ame day, at Gateshead, M rs . St ep h en Forster, of son and a daughter. Same day, in West Derby-street, the lady of George GreoleS' Esq., of a son. On the 12th instant, the l a dy o f Th omas W. Medcalf, F-! 4 '' °l Brunswick-square, Kirkdale of a daughter. ° YA M On the lath instant, at St. James'-terrace, the wife of Bourne, Esq., of Heathfield, of a daughter. MARRIED. chari es t On the 30th ultimo, at Hesse Cassel, Colonel Lor a ideS• A. F. Bentinck, to Countess Caroline Mechtildt, the ciaaghter of the nigning Count of Waldeck and Piermee' gr, f) 31st ultimo, at Edge-hill Church, by the R ev ' s tO , _%ir. John Mtillany, manager of the Botanic Ga rdens, Sarah, eldest daughter of J. Irving, Esq., of S c otland.ros a d ev. i. On the sth instant, at St. Ni c h o l as ' s Ch ur ch, by the o , s of, G. Headlam, Captain Da v id E vans, o f B ang or, to lola. eldest daughter of Captain Richa r d Ll o yd, o f Bamouthr nethshire. r On the 6th instant, at St. Luke's Church, by the Rev , Lawrence, Mr. John Joseph Beck to Elizabeth, daughter J. Norbury. Butch' On the Bth instant, at St. Philip's Ch urc h, Mr. William inson On th e Ber to instant, at St. Mark's C iss Catherine Cooph urch er. Mr. A . i3anir'S Brazier g i th insta, Mary, only daughter of the late C a pt a i n J. Park. On the L th instant, at the Parish Church, Orraskir''. d oe. Hewitt, corn and flour merchant, Latham, to MarY.„nodgel the late Mr. Thomas Webster, innkeeper, Ring4e-o' Latham, lgd• Same day, at Yarmouth, in the Isle of Wight. by the.„., Be tor "pl F. Arney, Vicar of Shalfleet, th e R ev. Wil l i am TwYne, i lia of Rayl, , hr - Nag Artyleigh, in the county of Essex, to Mary, second da the late Dougal Christie, Esq., o f M on t ague-squ are, 10 1"_,,nef, G. Same day, at St. Philip's Ch urc h , M r. Edwar d Burns. ."' to Mrs. Sarah Davies, of Copperas-hill. the Same day, at the Holy Trinity Church, Guildford, by H. Ayling, Charles M. Brocklesby, Esq., son of the late no Brocklesby, of Quebec, to Car o li ne, second daughter Cooke, Esq., of the former place. Stocker' On the llth instant, at St. Michael's Church, T. of this town, to Elizabeth, s econ d d aughter o f M r . M. of West Derby. Same day, at the Crescent Ch ape l , E ver t on, by the 1 1 !:,et,' 1°. Raffles, Silvester Fraser Nich o l, E sq., U pper P ar liament•4l - 0 1, to Hannah, youngest daughter of Joseph Williams, Esq. , sor Cottage. On the 12th instant, at W a ll asey Ch urc h , b y the Bryth, Mr. John Allen, to Mrs. Lloyd, third daughter of Dean, Esq., Liscard, Cheshire. • Same day, at Walton Ch urc h, b y th e Rev. Mr. L e igh, e r w is i . Grundy, cork-cutter, to Margaret, third daughter of Mr - Bird, watchmaker, of this town. or oeute t j Same day, at St. Michael's Ch urc h , b y the Rev. H. " r vet' M.A., Samuel Wylde Ackerley, Esq., to Jane, third daug the late Mr. S. R. Clarke, both of this town n oth Same day, at St. George's Church, Hanov . d Hanover-squ tre, ""tsoa by the Lord Bishop of O x f or d, th e Rev. Henry Blunt, eld es ns• of the late Rev. Henry Blu n t, R ector of Streatham, au .If urfn 1- of Chelsea, to Charlotte Mary, secon d d aughter of t h e la te Daniel, Esq., of Little Berkhamstead, Hens. dee ° Same day, at Brace Meole, S a l op, b y t h e V enera bl e Arch am, Bather, William Wood, E sq ., o f O akley Lodge, Fu l , b ,,ig, 0 Sarah, eldest daughter of Ri c h ar d Juson, Esq., of Re.'" that Samcounty. e day, at Astbury, Capt a i n A rc h er, 4th Drago on uar rci er fo to Eliza, eldest danghter of C. Swetenham, Esq., of t- -,o °' Cheshire. On the lith instant, at th e P ar i s h Church, W a lton, gutet lO ßichardson, shipowner, to Dorothy Anna T aylor, e ld e st dau of Mr. J. B. Taylor, of Wesley-street. DIED. Lately, at his seat in I re l an d , i n h i s 71st year, Rear- Ado' il3 Samuel C. Rowley. .. b et Lately, at Coßeton-terrace, Exeter, aged 92, Mrs. El l ' . Winstone. t oe Lately, at St. Petersb urg h , where she had been sing ing nt , d Italian Opera, after a very short illness, from a negiee te o re' the distinguished v oca li st Madame Castellan- She 0 0 d for last season at her M a j esty ' s Theatre and was re-engag e the present year. , 9 g i l4 On the 4th Aug us t , wrecked in the ship Cataraqui. 08 e ' Island, Bass's Straits, hound to Port Philip, W. G, Daw a° „ - bor f " eat son of the lat e T . Dawson, Esq., of Dublin. Also, o 'jo the same ship, age d 15, James Stoes, eldest son of CO` Black, of this port. On the Ist October, at Punta Arenas, South America, aged 33' Captain Wm. Chapli n, l ate of this town. Cad' On the 24th Oct o b er, washed overboard, off Cape 110_,•:: tain A. Bottomley, o f th e ship Joshua Waddington, of I . o ,t o tli w deeply regretted by all w i t h whom he was connecte d, business and private life. tbr, In October last, a t Aldborongh , North America, -Te'lrgr . son of the late Al exan d er M ' Callum, Esq., Leadmore, shire at On the 21st December, at the residence of his brothe r o dslet guayra, of fever, a ge d 23, Mr. Frederick Ritson 0 19 ninth son of the l a t e Wi ll i am Mawdsley, Esq., merchant. of town. On the 3d ultimo, ag e d 36 , C aptain John Bowden of w atersoo. road, deeply regr e tt e d. , On the 19th ultimo, aged 60, Ann, wife of Mr. WM- Kitchen-street. ,„ On the 24th ultimo, age d 102, Elizabeth Du ffi eld. "iebf* in the Gloucester Lu na ti c Asylum for more than twenty and cost her parish nearly esoo. 011 1 ' On the 25th ultimo, at Shawbury, Salop, aged 90, IT . iiio lll ,l l Massey, who, from early yout h , li ved as a servant in th `oeP' of Sir A. V. Corbet, an d f or many years past receive d 0 ' „ $ annuity from his employer. Same day, at Halifax, N.S., aft er h av i ng g i ven b—er• nee,ol stillborn child. Georgina, wife of Captain Arth ur Laval $59.i the Ride Brigade, and daughter of George J. Pennine°. of Cumberland-street, London. ' ll On the 28th ultimo, in his 20th year, M r. Ran d a l f el Fogg. On the 2gth ultimo, aged 45, Mr. H ug h Dav i es, agent o.al Parry's Mine, also a membe r i n t h e Independent C." Rhes-Cae for twenty-four years. 0;6 On the 30th ultimo, at T enement, near Pateley-brloo - 'of 100 years, Isabella, relict of Mr. G. Knowles, and mother. in e Rev. J. Knowles, for fifty years an itinerant preacher Wesleyan connexion. t On the 31st ultimo, at Hnllah , near Wrexham, . 11 . her year, Mrs. Sarah Mitchell. °cc! On the 2d instant, at he r res id ence, Vi ne-stree t , a- bill. Elizabeth, relict of the l a t e M r. T . Roberts, of Brownlosc.,,,er 5 io On the ad instant, at W aterford, aged 42, Mr. Janie " t Smith, late of this town. 9 0 Same day, aged sg, M r. P eter Fox, and on the Stu , 0 0 , , aged 10 months, Peter F ox Ferguson. grandson of the s' Same day, at Southwell, Nottinghamshire, aged 78, 4 Clay, Esq., Rear-Admiral of th e R ed. ipt e ' On the 6th instant, aged yg, Mr. John Fazackerlel , Duke-street. 000 Same day, at Apley-park, Salop, aged 64, Thomas Wh it ' , s „ Esq., formerly M.P. for Bridgnorth. (00( 1,1' Same day, aged 17, Edward, s on o f M r. J. Carney, 0- of street. cOl e On the Bth instant, in Mill-street, aged 48, Esther , Mr. W. Stmnan. Ni eD° Same day, aged 26, Edward, only son of the late 4 ,, Aspinall, Esq., of Everton. daughter 'f 4 Same day, aged 2 years, Isabella, youngest clang- 0 W. M'Cullnck, late of Whit e b aveu. r JO same day, at Oakleigh, Northwich, ID her 69th yea" 4 A wife of C. W. Neuma nn , E sq. 5D` Same day. suddenly, M r . J o h n Williams, ;boot an d maker, Hotham-str ee t.Y'r Same day, aged 1 year, Ann, daughter of Mr. Alelandef ray, of Mersey-street. r df ' On the 9th instant, a t hi s house, Dingle-hill, age d 7s. John Kearsley. • i ''''.° mr Same day, iu his 21st y ear , H enry, eldest son of • At) of Birkenhead, formerly o f Ch ester. V )ear, Same t ay, at De Beauv o i r , G uernsey, in her 94th ?I : Saumarez. widow of the late I. Dobree, Esq. Same day, at Ashborae, in his 94th year, John D ace° ty i Esq., formerly a solicitor. re' On the 10th instant, at D er b y, i n the 44th year of h --1 t ` s•P tir' Rev. Henry Hickman, We s l eyan Minister, and twealr „ d a his ministry. e O r Same day, at No, 24, Fleet- s t reet, o f rapid consuraP ~e ss , 22 years, Mr. Charles Ma c i ver, up h olsterer, of laverß A ir , cerely and deservedly regrett e d. oe ctT i jt Same day, Dorothy, wife o f M r . N ew t on, of PO"' t, ' Fairfield, and only daughter of the l a t e M r. R . SerjeaP _ ,r f. oaks, near Lancaster. - of I' S. - .aame day, aged IS, Samuel Frederick, third son Buckley, of Manchester, late of this t own . , r CI" On the 11th instant, aged 37 yea rs. Mi ss Elea ll- mgclol• daughter of Mr. John Clarke, tanner, Dou g l as , Isle 0f „,o, Same day, at I.er residence, 11, Clarence-street, E ve ,`,;foll , Hardman, relict of Richard Hardman, E sq ., o f this ' p oly eldest daughter of the late Samuel Woolrich. E s q., of til° Farnwoz th. ofO rtili Same day, at Birkenhead Abbey, Cheshi re , J e ssie F tb infant daughter of the Rev. Andrew Knox. Same day, aged 37, Eleanor, daughter of Mr. o' tanner, Pouglas, Isle of Man Same day, suddenly, aged 36, Mr. John Hodge. stun Birkenhead, h ffa dtA Same day, et Palace-house, in this c oun ty, Elizabet relictame day, of the lat at e Oxford, aged 102, Mary, J. Greenwood, Eiq. widow o f 5 tbe " .t tiv o S R. Holmes, D.D., formerly fellow of New College, as t er. plf sively Canon of Christ Church and Dea n of Winch'', sbe, race i ty retained her faculties to the last. Withi n th e last Ye g • c itili a frequent attendant at her parish ch u r c h, o ften „ . 41 5 sacrament with th congregatio. On the 14th instant, at her residence, Prescot street' W I Ann, rict o the lae r. Peer Ells. Same day, f in the Ith M year t of his s age, George u%oes re lf , ' son of Mr. John Carmichael, Hamilton-square, B ir iverD o tli er On the 15th instant, at the advanced.nge of 5 2, r o fa, of the late Captain B o lt on , o f Hi n d ley, war Wigan, a' s ocl o gOY in-law of Mr. James Reay, secretary of the Guardia dn ioa On the 15th instant, Anne, wife of Mr. Thomas Benson-street. RAILWAY TRAFFIC (From the Railway Magazin, GENERAL MISCELLANY. Packet-ships aPe about to sail monthly from Gloucester direct to Antwerp. _ _ _ EXPORTATION OF ENGLISH GRAIN.—A cargo of Eng lish barley was sold at Lynn, last week, for exportation to Holland. Mr. Tufnell, one of the Assistant Poor-law Commis sioners, has resigned his office, from dissatisfaction at the conduct of the Commissioners. The Mayor of Exeter has ordered the police to arrest .any person carrying about children afflicted with the small pox. The Duke of Wellington, in reply to an applieati n from Dover, states—" That his grace has no informa tion upon the intention of calling out of the militia." There is now lying at the West India Dock a single log of mahogany, so immense in size and valuable in qua lity that it has been sold for £l,OOO. Mr. Wakley, the coroner, remarked, on Friday, in a case of suicide, that he had bad no less than 26 similar cases before him in less than twelve days. Mr. Marcus, the sNarebroker of Leeds, has been com mitted for trial on the charge of forgery, but has been li berated on bail. A proposal has been made by some of the South Shields shipowners to raise a memorial, by public subscription, to the memory of the inventor of the life-boat. A convent of mercy is about to be established in New castle, Dean Coll has subscribed £6OO to the undertaking, and Dr. Ryan £5OO. MADAME ANAIDE CASTELLAN.-It iS said that this popular vocalist died lately in Russia, after a short Hitless. She was included in Mr. Lumley's list of engagements for the present season. At the Arches Court, on Thursday, Sir H. J. Fust suspended for eighteen months, the Rev. Mr. Cresswell, vicar of Creech, St. Michael, for habitual swearing and intoxication. On Saturday, at Redrice, near Andover, a person named Brierley, was shot through the neck by T. M. Sharman, with whom he had some dispute about money. He is expected to recover. A movement is now being made in Paisley for the abo lition of the custom, which is carried to an extravagant excess in Scotland, of providing refreshments to compa nies at funerals. _ _ _ FATAL FEAT.—On Tuesday, a tailor, named John Hilborne, aged 40. residing at Bristol, drank, for a wager, five pints of beer in five minutes. He died in a few min utes afterwards. . ARSON.—A servant at Oldstead Hall, near Thirsk, has been committed for trial on a charge of having set fire to the building. He was seen coming out of the apartment where the fire originated in a state of intoxication. For tunately no serious damage was done. The Commissioner of the Leeds Bankruptcy Court has committed a bankrupt to York Castle for not satisfactorily answering questions put to him as to recent dealings. He admitted his debts exceeded £20,000 but the assets were not more than £2OOO. The gentleman who leaped from one of the carriage windows, on the Chester Railway, while the train was Proceeding, was Mr. John Mollett, of Lane Delf, in the Potteries. He was 37 years of age, and has left a widow. Intoxication seems to have induced his mental infirmity. Two young people, who bad been out making prepara tions for their approaching marriage, quarrelled the other day on Westminster Bridge—threw their purchases, in cluding even the wedding ring, into the Thames, and se parated. At a recent meeting of the Austwick board of guardians, the assistant overseer of the Cleckheaton district was taken to task for getting drunk, on which one of the guar dians naively said he could see nothing wrong in the offi cers getting drunk, for he sometimes got drunk himself ! A Reading paper states that "a much respected clergy man of that town, presiding over a well-known school, has recently been presented with £5OO, as a grateful acknoiv ledgment from the surviving parent of a former successful pupil." Dr. Valpy is the gentleman alluded to. Sir G. W. Lefevre, Bart., late physician to the embaisy of Russia, destroyed himself last week by taking prussic acid. He had been labouring under delusions of mind. He was the author of several medical works, and was in affluent circumstances. LEEDS AND WEST-RIDING BANK.—A meeting of the shareholders in this bank took place at Leeds on Monday. It appeared that the liabilities of the company were about £350,000, and their assets £300,000; shewing a deficiency of £50,000, which loss will have to be borne by the share holders. FATHER AND SON KILLED.-011 Saturday week, at Shotton Moor Colliery, Durham, a man named Brown, aged 50, and his son, aged 16, were being lowered down the pit, when the chain broke, and they were precipitated to the bottom. The two were afterwards found quite dead, with their bodies crushed to pieces. All the best clocks that are now made in America are constructed with wooden pendulums, which are but little subjected to the influence of heat, and, as such, the rate of these horological machines is much improved. The great clock of the Horse Guards, so much celebrated for its accuracy, is furnished with a wooden pendulum rod. CATTLE IMPORTED FROM IRELAND.—From a paper issued by order of parliament, it appears that there have been imported into Great Britain from Ireland, in the quarter ending the sth of January, 1846, the following cattle :-32,883 oxen, bulls, and cows ; 583 calves ; 32,576 sheep; and 104,141 swine. An ingenious rogue has been reaping a good harvest in the metropolis by selling what he alleged were fine gera nium roots, in pots. After a few days the supposed plants Brooped, and on the owners transplanting them they were discovered to he slips only, secured by twine to the bot tom of the pot. COMMITTAL OF A SURGEON FOR MANSLAUGHTER.— Mr. Dickenson, surgeon, of Bilston, has been committed to take his trial for having, by his want of proper skill and attention, caused the death of Hannah Hickman, the wife of a working man, in her confinement. The offspring of the unfortunate deceased is now living, and is a fine healthy child. The " Terrible," war steamer, is being fitted but in a formidable manner. She is one of the most perfect .pe. cimens of war-ship buildinc , yet known. She can berth a thousand men, and from her construction would swim though her external keel and plank were off her bottom. Her engines are of 800 horse power. She is to have a complement of 240 officers, men and boys. The horrible case at Greenwich closed on '1 hursday, by a verdict of " wilful murder" against Win. Ri hardson. The coroner told the jury that they must dismiss from their minds that portion of the case, showing the inces tuous intimacy which had subsisted between the father and daughter, except so far as it showed the motives they would have for concealment. A STRANGE Vt•ITOC..—On Thursday, a large Durham cow came i❑ at one of the doors of the elegant shop of Messrs. Graham, Ludgate-hill, London, and walked round the shop, passing between some very valuable large china jars and glass, and made her exit through the second door, without doing any damage. This took place at about seven o'clock in the evening, when the shop was lighted up. o E f T s U a R t IsIsr1;, Uo,. assen - NAME. 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