The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-19 00:00:00

May 19, 1846. Rota! anti Vrobintial gtluo. --...._. The wheelwrights and smiths at Manchester have re turned to work. The expense of the packet service, between Liverpool land Dublin, in the year 1845, was £26,831 Bs. Mr. Foster, the " Times Commissioner," attended our 'sessions this week, for the first time since he was called to the bar. The splendid new packet-ship Columbia, 1100 tons bur den, and commanded by Capt. Rathbone, late of the Ox ford was to leave New York for this port on the Ist inst. Prince Albert has consented to become the patron of the Carlingford Lough Regatta, at which it is expected the Mersey Yacht Club will be present in great strength. .STABBING.—On Wednesday, Mr. Rushton fined a seaman on board the ship Syra £5, for having stabbed the cook with a knife. The defendant said the cook had first struck him, and knocked out one of his teeth. FURIOUS DRIVING.—The following parties were sum moned before the magistrates, on Wednesday, and fined for the above offence, namely, John Moore, 40s. and , costs; Hugh M'Cartney, 205.; and Chas. Davenport, 20s. Last Monday, Thomas Fagan, living in Portland-street, fell down stairs, whilst intoxicated, and received such a shock as to cause concussion of the brain, of which he qdied the same night. On Saturday, a fire broke out in a mill occupied by Messrs. Galt, Albion-street, Gaythorn, Manchester, Which ARS destroyed. The total damage to the stock and building is estimated at about £3,500. On Friday, a seaman, named Thomas Maddocks, whilst -at work, felt into the hold of the ship Royal Victoria, lying in the Clarence Dock, and was so much injured tbat be died almost immediately. The Mersey and Ribble Carrying Company intend, on the Ist June, to put on a first-rate steamer between Liver pool and Preston, to convey goods and passengers. The boat is to run three times a week, and the fare for each person will be 2s. 6d. A man named Brown, living at Warrington, has been committed for trial charged with the manslaughter of his father. A quarrel took pla , :e between the two, both being intoxicated, and the son kicked and abused his father so much that he died in about half an hour. Great exertions are making to open the new Manchester Parks as early as possible. Several names have been sug gested as appropriate, and amongst the rest are, "The Queen's Park," "The Peel Park," "The Philips Park," "The Heywood Park." CAUTiON.—On Thursday, two young men, named George M'Cormick and William Steele, apprentices at Mr. Ogden's iron foundry, in Sefton-street, went during their dinner hour to bathe in the river, when unfortunately they got beyond their depth and were drowned. ARRIVAL OF AN EAST INDIAMAN AT FLEETWOOD. — The Tapley arrived on Friday, with a cargo of 10,505 gallons of rum, 1283 modes of sugar, 2436 modes of salt petre, 1742 of molasses, 644 of linseed, and 240 horn tips. The Tapley left Calcutta on the 20th of December. On Tuesday, two rough-looking dock labourers, named Michael Farrell and Patrick Neale, were convicted at Birkenh ea d , o f an assau l t on Th omas Founds and Thomas Lloyd. Nealewas an old offender, and was sentenced to two months' imprisonment; Farrell was ordered to pay 40 s- or , in default to be imprisoned one month. LOST CHILDREN.—Under this head, Captain Willis, the chief constable, in bis statistical returns of the Man chester Police reports, states that, during the year 1845, to 406 number of children reported to be lost amounted 0 4064. ,Of these, 702 were restored to their parents by t he Police, the remaining 2362 having been found by their parents or friends. i bIA Rio J ane i ro j ourna l spea k s o f a pro j ec t f or esta ishng a transatlantic communication between Liverpool and Para by means of steam ; from which latter place it 'ls intended that boats of less steam-power and dimen sions shall ascend the river of the Amazons, as far as Bolivia; while a railway shall cross the country to Arica, on the Southern Sea. THE " LITERARY BEACON."—We were yesterday favoured by the agent, Mr. Connor, London-road, with the third number of this interesting periodical, which, we are happy to find, bears out the indications of excellence which characterised the two former numbers. The article entitled " The Industrious Classes and Railroads" is admirably written, and worthy the serious consideration of,our ocal legislature. A FACT FOR TEMPERANCE ADVOCATES.—The num ber of pe rsons brou g ht b e f ore th e M anc h es t er j ust i ces durin been f- the past year, charged by the police with having and f ound drunk and incapable," amounted to 2185, persons " drunk and disorderly," 2003. What amount of money may this have been spent in bringing about consummation, is a u stion we leave for Mr. Bab- FATAL ACCIDENT IN FORDING THE DEE.—On Satur day week, as the carriage of the Hon. Lloyd Mostvn was crossing the Dee, from Parkgate to Flint, under the charge of a coachman and a guide, the horses got out Of their depth, and the coachman was thrown from his Peat on the box into the river and drowned. The guide managed to extricate the horses and carriage, and re tut ned back to Parkgate. Fortunately, no persons were inside the carriage. Lord Mostyn's carriage, which was under the pilotage of another guide, and was crossing at the same time, forded over in safety. SMUGGLING. —An , Irishman, named Felix O'Neile, was, on Friday, placed at the bar of the police court, on a charge of smuggling whiskey. It appeared that the prisoner was stopped on his way from the Wexford steamer, having placed three gallons of whiskey on a spring cart. He was discharged, Mr. Rushton informing the parties that they must proceed by information. Christopher Kelly, an Irish labourer about the docks, was fined £lOO, and in default of payment to be imprisoned six months. It appeared the prisoner was stopped, on the 11th instant, in S tatahope-street, with eleven pounds of tobacco con cealed under his coat. BUILDINGS WITHIN THE BOROUGH OF MANCHESTER. We learn from Captain Willis's police statistics, that the number of buildings, on the 31st December, 1845, within the bOrough, were 50,744. He classifies them as follows: — factories, 123; foundries, 48; warehouses and workshops, 3813; dwelling-houses, 41,606; shops used as dwelling houses, 4712 ; cellar dwellings, 5385 ; places of worship, 9 7; public schools, 106; military barracks, 1 ; banks, 16; markets. 14 ; railway stations, 4 ; gas stations, 5 ; work houses, 2; infirmary, hospitals, and dispensaries, 7; 'light asylum, 1; lock-hospital, 1; penitentiary, 1; public institutions, 27. The cellar dwellings, being only portions of other dwellings, are not included in the gross total. MAN SLAUGHTER.—Last week an inquest was held at Halton, near Runcorn, on the body of a young man ' l amed Thomas Gerrard, the son of a respectable farmer, tenant to Sir Richard Brooke, Bart., of Norton Priory, Who had died, it was supposed, in consequence of injuries received in his side. It appeared that he had been at a Public -house in Lower Walton, and had a fight with two kparties. one of whom h e su b sequen tly com pl a i ne d h a d ked him in the sid e . Th e ev id ence h av i ng b een fnlly ic g o ne li into, and a post mortem examination made, the jury fVetted a verdi ct o f mans l aug h ter aga i nst Willi am an d V B erwick, and they were committed to Chester eto take their trial at the next assizes. that the,.STIKE AT MANCHESTER.—We are not aware Meat s ' e ' 8 anything fresh to report respecting the move uncle of the masters, one firm whose premises have been ri nce r d t he Protection of the police-officers, ore so con that the strike is at or near an end, that the offi ..cLerB have been dispensed with by them. The meeting of .ee committees of Liverpool and Manchester will be held ,).4 idesday, in this town, we understand, to consider and atisec uPon the rules to govern the association. These, L ; we hav e b e f ore stated, have b een prepar i ng b ot h at ' y eti:loot and Manchester, and, this meeting will be pre paratory to assemblin the united committee.—Manches terCO trier, g CHILD years A PEA.—On Tuesday last, a little from scarcely two old, living near Crumpsall, not far t i o ' °ll3 Manchester, had a few peas given to it by its mother Play with, when, it appears, the little thing swallowed ~,f?; and immediately exhibited symptoms of choking. The child was immediately taken to a surgeon, who fear !NC that, from its difficulty in breathing, it would die if mething was not done, made an incision into the chid's nroat, and inserted a flexible tube for the purpose of elna 'mug the little sufferer to breath, but all this was of little ! °5ll , for the child di e d i n about an hour afterwards. Upon following morning, a pea was found firmly fixed in the larynx ILLEGAL APPROPRIATION.—On Friday, at the Ses sions Henry Wm. Steven s , J o h n Th omas P ou lesland, and Avery,Henry were tried for a pp ro p r i a t ing to their own use £l4O, Pre m ium of a ninsuranee in the Liverpool Fire and Life 'Company. It appeared that the prisoners were all clerks in the company's office; and that Stevens, whose duty it Was to collect the money, or one of the others, received it. They laid in stores and were on board a vessel on the point of sailing for New Yolk, w . hen they were a pprehended. The court was crowded with persons, who appeared to take great interest in the proceedings; the connexio ns o f th e lads being of the most respectable character, and their .ortcluct up to th's time exemplary. Th e p r ison ers were °° °( l guilty ; and Stevens was sentenced to be imprisoned tou r month s , and his companions three mon th s each. MEETING IN TOXTETH-PARK.—On Wednesday even n' a meeting was called in Toxteth-park of persons fa vourable to an amalgamation of the highway trusts of that t T ivils hiP with those of Liverpool, under the management ho•ant,hemeilol r s p t o re ra e t t i on . The meeting was held in Toxteth- Mr. Richatd Harbord, presided. A de ,! u k it °rY discussion took place in which Mr. May, Mr. 13-3-l uurY, Mr. J. Finch, sen., 114 , r. Wareing, Mr. Hughes, and other gentlemen took part. Mr. Paine proposed, as t"11. ame ndment, as follows :—" That it is the opi nion o f 18 meeting, that an amalgamation of North and South the tet h Wa r d s w i th the borough of Liverpool, so far as highway ° trust and supplyinbest interestsg of water are cos town be highly conducive to the - at P, inasmuch as it w ill l ea d to a re d uct i on o f l oca l tax -0,1 and will m a t er i a ll y b enefit the health and comfort the inhabit ants. " The amendment was then put to the .. t3. e, wh en there appeared in favour of it, 30; againstit, RFALL'S GRAND CONCERT.—We perceive that arr a ,qatis, having been unable to complete his expected . "gements for the Theatre-Royal, has announced his „ tr o e c e e . rt to be held at the Concert Hall, in Lord Nelson iatit; The talents of this gentleman, as a public vocal kerit a" been as much and as deservedly admired as his . hiaB and high respectability have been commended in , we zore Private avocations of a teacher of singing, and c o „._ Pe, therefore, lie will be favoured with liberal en 417:gement from all our fashionable townsfolk. The eri.„,_ated Prima donna, Madame Albertazzi, is we find, th ii, 6 !o ; also her sister, Mdlle. Ilowson, Mr. J. L. Hat ile,rB7r,!ci the Belgian violinist, Vieuxtemps, who, it ap . - eat b_ irr orn an announcement in the Dramatic and Must mltleafreltvveietv of last Saturday week, has obtained a most Ie aPpointment as "premier violinist to his imperial Y the Emperor of Russia," from whose court he appez4expected ; a n d as this is likely to be his farewell Ittriia„ mi •119: visit' England, some interest will be excited o this neighbourhood. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. 3,;, a Meeting of I the Protestant faith of their fathers. He exhorted those Sr. James's Cerfietete.-On Thursda around him to go and do likewise, that such a declaration the proprietors of pews writ Veld in the aboi'e On Saturday,in ' the new orders consider the best means of repairing the root and venti !Cburch, to e snd Mr. Tent, a . meeting of the scrip -holders in the Mold June- 1 parliament would make or mar England---the next parlia lating the building. Mr. Hampton presided, pe einted tleil Railway Company was held at the Adelphi Hotel, in went would either recover their lost ground or said them Royden was called to the chair. The chairman th is town, for the purpose of submitting to their consider- further down the inclined plane of religions ertor ; but be out the insecurity of the roof of the church, and mentio."ed several improvements that might be made in the interior, ation a bill now pending in parliament, en titl e d " A ' bill i t that Anti-Christ was about to pretail ; its temporal tri to make it more commodious, and afford more accomrno- f or making a r a ilway from M o ld, in the c oun t y o f Flint, umph would be but the prelude el its everlasting over dation to the poor. The proposed alterations would cost t o the Hooto n s t a ti on of the Ch es t er an d Bi r k enhead throw. about £6OO. During the last four years £7OO had been Rai, way." Mr. J. BAI EFTA:NY in proposing the next resolution, expended in repairing and improvin g the c h urc h ; on ly Aboiet a dozen of the meat substantial shareholders quoted th e testimony o f Si r R. P ee l , to a l low that the about £lOO of which had been contributed by the seat- were present, including Edward Oakeley, Esq., Philip mysterious visitation of Providence, which had deprived owners. He suggested that a rate of one year's pew re n t Davies Cootie, Esq., John Wynne Eyton, Esq., Th omas a great p or ti on o f the poor in Ireland o f food had was the be levied on the proprietors, to be collected i mme di a t e ly, Jones Wilkinscro, Esq., &c. punishment of Heavens for the concessions which and that the repairs of the church be commenced without Mr. OALaLEY, Chairman of the Previsional Directors, been made last year, and foe the neglect of the p e titi on o f delay. The course pointed out by the chairman was ap. presided, and made am interesting statement, sbewing the 1,500,000 of our Protestant fellow-subjects. It was a l so proved of by the meeting. It was stated that in case the prospects of the c ompany to be highly favourable. He singular that when Sir R. Peel was last thrown out of plan proposed did not produce a sufficiency of funds, a said that the bill which they had met to consider had been office by the late Whig government, it was by a majority subscription would be made. read a second time. The capital proposed to be raised was of 32, exactly the number of members which, under the PAVING AND SEWERAGE.—At the usual weekly meet- £280,000, in 5,600 shares, and one call bad been made—a Roman Catholic Relief Bill, the Premier had treacherously ing of the Commissioners, on Thursday, a letter having deposit of £2 15s. per share—which had been paid on the admitted into the House of Commons. Again, Sir R. been received from Mr. Duncan as to some new taps and whole of the shares. In consequence of a few of the al. Peel bad deceived his Protestant supporters, and again he pipes required at the water-works in Green-lane, a long lottees not having paid their deposits, such shares had was tottering to his fall, and when be fell, be trusted that discussion ensued, several members being of opinion, been sold at a premium, the profit of which wo u ld go to h e wou ld "f a ll like L uc if er , never t o r i se aga i n. " that from the present circu ms t ances i n w hi c h th e B oa rd the credit of the company. The prospects of the concern The Rev. Mr. Mgt:weenie seconded the motion, and was placed as regarded the Corporation, it would not be were, in every respect, very promising. Independent of the resolution, which was a protest against the principles desirable to incur further expense at present. It was ul- the general traffic, the contiguity of the line to the Vale of of the Maynooth grant and the public encouragement of timately decided to wait until the law clerk's return from Clwyd afforded a certainty of great returns from parties Popery was then put and carried. London. The Chairman read a letter from Mr. Deane, going on pleasure excursions from this and other localities. Several other gentlemen addressed the meeting. the law-clerk, as to the position of the Board in reference The mineral traffic was of the hest description. They , -- - to their bills in Parliament, from which it appeared that, could supply coal to Birkenhead and its neighbourhood, after a lengthened discussion with the gentlemen in charge and to the steam-boats on the Mersey. They could also of the Corporation Bill, the latter ' in consideration of all supply excellent building-stone, limestone in a ca l c i ne d opposition to the Corporation Bill being withdrawn, con- state, bricks, &c. ; and many circumstances would give an sented to the introduction into that bill of a clause to advantage to the shareholders. It was gratifying to state legalize the costs incurred by the commissioners in re- that the landowners throughout the line were almost una spect to their two bills, and to authorise the same to be nimously in favour of the undertaking, including Sir Ste deducted out of any moneys which may come into their phen Glenne, the lord-lieutenant and membe r f or t h e hands previously to the surrender of their powers to the county, who would have been present, at the meeting, but Corporation. The letter also stated that the committee was detained in London by his duties in Parliament. The had announced their unanimous decision that the pream- lord-lieutenant, the high sheriff, and the grand juries of the ble of the Corporation Bill had been proved, and that the counties of Denbigh and Flint, had petitioned in favour of resolution of the committee was unanimous, which, of the bill. He concluded by saying, that if any gentleman course, disposes of the Toxteth-Park Bill as well as that wished for further information, he would gladly supply it. of the Liverpool Commissioners. In reply to a question put by a Scripholder, the CHAIR. DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—James Gent was MAN said that the parliamentary and other expenses so appointed assistant at the transit sheds, at a salary of 255. far did not exceed 255. a share. He explained that the per week; James Thom and John Harrison, as foremen utmost econcmy had been observed by the directors, but coopers at the Albert Dock, at a salary of £2 per week that the parliamentary expenses were the same for a short each. The Harbour Masters Committee recommended line like theirs (of about 14 miles) as of one much longer. the following appointments :—Mr. M'Bride, as dock- The expenses of the proposed Birkenhead and Llangollen master, to the Albert and Salthouse Docks, at a salary of line (which had since fallen through) were much greater. £3OO per annum, with £4O for house rent, until he is pro- On the motion of Mr. WYNNE EY lox. of Leeswood, vided with a residence; Mr. Herbert, as assistant to Mr. seconded by Mr. JosrEs WILKINsoN, it was then M'Bride, at a salary of £l6O per annum. Jeremiah " Resolved nnanimously,—That the shareholders pre- Griffiths, one of the gatemen at George's Dock, was sent having heard the statement of the Provisional ordered to he dismissed for being intoxicated while on Directors, do hereby fully authorise them to proceed in duty, he having been several times reported. The Parlia- their application to Parliament for a bill to construct the mentary Committee reported as to the present position of said railway, subject to such modifications or arrange the Dock Bill ;it had passed the standing orders of the ments as they (the directors) may deem expedient ; and House of Lords; and, with regard to the opposition of resolved unanimously, that the directors be empowered, the Liverpool and Bury Railway. the committee up stairs if they should deem it to the interest of the company, to had decided, and made good the objections taken by the postpone further proceedings in parliament until the next trust to the making of works on the north sides of their session." northermost docks, the necessary notices not having been Mr. COOKE said he believed their traffic table would complied with. The line of railway the company pro- exhibit most favourable features. They could carry coal, posed to make on the east side of those docks would stand lime-stone, building-stone, brick, tiles, pottery, lead, &c. good, and would have to be opposed on its merits. It was at a cheap yet advantageous rate. There would be no stated that several dock gatemen would be required at the tunnel on the line. One bad been in contemplation, but Albert Dock, and the appointments would be made on it was decided that an inferior gradient at that point was Wednesday. preferable. A tunnel would cost £lO,OOO, and the extra nse of loco PUMPING OPERATIONS.—On the 31st July, 18-13, the expert coal mines of John Fitzgerald, Esq., at Pendleton, were abou £lOOO a-motives to work the g ra di en t wou ld b e year only, so that the latter was fixed stopped by a large influx of water, which stopped alto- upon. gether the getting of coal at Pendleton, which suppl ed Mr. RIGBY (we believe), said he was now carrying Manchester market with that article to the extent of 3,000 tons a-week from the district of the line—that he nearly a thousand tons daily. Mr. Fitzgerald h av i ng re - was about to open three new coal-mines, and that the solved to get rid of this water, set several pumping engines whole of that traffic would fall into the line. to work, equivalent altogether to that of 260 horses. The Mr. COOKE said the directors had no individual interest quantity of water pumped and otherwise raised from the in the line, beyond having property in the district. Their pit is calculated to have averaged from 3,000 to 3,500 chief object was, that the railway should open out the mi gallons per minute, during about twelve months! 180,000 neral wealth of that valuable part of Wales. If formed, it gallons an hour; 4,320,000 gallons per day of twenty-four would also undoubtedly command a great traffic for plea hours ; or, in a whole year, not less than 1,576,800,000 gal- sure parties, particularly on Saturdays, as they could lons of water must have been raised and got rid of at the spend the Sunday in delightful and salubrious localities to lower estimate of 3,000 gallons a minute. On the 24th which it would convey them. December last, it was found that the surface of the water The scrips, which were of large amount, were then in the pit had been lowered to the level of the aperture by noted and returned, and the meeting, which was marked which the influx from the other mines had flooded the pit by the utmost unanimity, broke up. in July, 1843, at the depth of 148 yards from the surface, and thus enabled the workmen to commence what is tech nically termed " tubbing." The pumping engines have now ceased, but the level of the water is still more than 350 yards below the surface, and the coal as yet above 100 yards below water. It is expected that coal will be again got about June or July next. The expense of these ope rations is not known, but it was said, at the time of the accident, that Mr. Fitzgerald would sustain a loss of £50,000. The total quantity of water pumped out would, it is said, form a canal of thirty-eight miles in length, twenty-one feet wide, and six in depth. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY IN LIVERPOOL.—On Saturday wee. a very extensive robbery took place at the Royal Bank, in this town. It is an old-established custom amongst the commercial firms here, for the purpose of security, to send their cash, bills of exchange, railway scrip, and other valuable documents, in tin boxes, t o th e bank and other places, there to be kept in strong iron safes until the following morning. Upon the afternoon of Saturday week, a highly respectable firm sent their box by one of their clerks, to be deposited, as usual, until Mon day morning, in the Royal Bank. The box contained at the time it was despatched from the office, bills of ex change to the large amount of £22,000. Most of the bills will become due in June, July, August, and Sep- of that. tee.. tember. Their particulars are known, and their payment duct of her Majee., stopped. The box also contained the manifest of the fence of expediency had same— ship Passenger ; and scrip, estimated at £40,000 in se- country, and to drown the cry of juste:., _ veral railways. The clerk states shat he took the box di- attempted the destruction of the church. The . rect to the Royal Bank, laid it upon th e coun t er , an d re - government h a d f o l lowed in the path of their preileces. .. turned to the o ffi ce. The clerk at the bank stat es , u p on sors , f or th e Ch ar i ta bl e T rusts Bill, the Religious Opini- I energy the other hand, that the box. if left upon the counter, was not seen by him, and that upon looking over all the other boxes which had been sent in upon Saturday evening, and missing the identical one from the number, he reported the circumstance. Nothing further was heard of the matter for some hours afterwards, when the missing box, emptied of the whole of its contents, was found in one of the streets leading from London-road to Islington. It was immediately conveyed by the police man on duty to the Central Police-station, where a re. port of the robbery was subsequently made. Placards have been issued, offering £2OO for the apprehension of the thief or thieves, and other necessary steps taken, but no tidings have yet been heard. Circumstances which have since transpired completely exonerate both the clerk who conveyed the box, and the clerk at the bank, from all suspicion, if any ever attached to him. CAUTION TO EMIGRANT AGENTS.—On .Thursday, Lieutenant Hodder, the government agent, appeared be fore Mr. Rushton to prefer a charge against John Keenan, an emigrant agent in this town, for having fraudulently obtained money from six persons who had come from Ire land, and had taken their passage to New York, by re presenting himself as J. W. Shaw, emigrant agent. It appeared that the complainants, together with a number of other persons, had paid a deposit of £1 each to Mr. O'Neal, agent at Cork for Messrs. J. W. Shaw and Co., in order to secure berths on board the ship Mayfield, for New York. A printed ticket, with Mr. Shaw's name in large letters, was given to each of them by Mr. O'Neale, to show they had taken their passage. The parties arrived in this town on Sunday evening, by the Cork steamer, in company with 150 other emigrants. When they landed, they were met by a person in Mr. Keenan's employ, who, upon the tickets being shown him, directed them to Mr. Keenan's office. Whilst there, one of them asked for Mr. Shaw, arid he was then shown Mr. Keenan. The man, on coming up to hi.., inquired if he was Mr. Shaw, to which Mr. Keenan replied in the affirmative. The tickets were presented to him, and £4 each additional was exacted for their passage. This was paid, and another ticket given to them for their passage in a vessel called the Ash- MOLD JUNCTION RAILWAY. GENERAL MISCELLANY Northampton is the successful candidate for the show of the Royal Agricultural Society in 1847. The unfortunate man Blewitt, who was shot by a young man in Drury-lane, expired last week. A blacksmith at Bristol has been committed for trial for the manslaughter of his wife. At present, the Princeton and the Mississippi are the only two steam-ships which bear the United States' flag. There were no less than twenty-two bankrupts in Tues day's Gazette. A fine youth named Glover, aged 17, was drowned late week whilst bathing in the river Calder, near Halifax. An old pair of satin shoes, once worn by Fanny Ellsler, lately realized upwards of £2O in the United States ! Mr. S. O'Brien, the Irish "martyr," is seen some times outside the door of his cell reading a huge book. He lives very sparingly, and puts on the air of a hermit. Twelve corn-stacks in the farm-yard of Messrs. Green, at Crawcrook, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, were destroyed by fire last week. They were ignited by an incendiary. RAILWAY DIGNITY.—King Hudson's heir apparent, an Eton boy, has been dubbed by his schoolfellows, "The Prince of Rails." A petition from Hull has been presented to the House of Commons, praying for the release of Mr. S. O'Brien from the Tower The quantity of fish sent from Scarborough along the railway to York, has averaged 80 tons per week during the whole of the winter. The Duke of Northumberland has consented to become one of thirty subscribers to pay off the building debt of the city of Westminster Mechanics' Institution. At the Eglington Park races, on Wednesday, the horse on which the Marquis of Waterford was riding, fell, and his Lordship had one of the bones of his shoulder fractured. The King of the French has, it is said, sent a reply, writ ten with his own hand, to the address of the Town Council of Edinburgh, on his escape from assassination. In Nottinghamshire, last week, in one wheat stack, up wards of two hundred and fifty rats and one hundred and sixty mice were killed, and many, of course, escaped. PILOTAGE.—The Admiralty have ordered that the ser vices of pilots are in future to be remunerated according to the draft of water of the vessels of which they have the charge THE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION The annual meeting of this society was held on Wed nesday in the large room at Eaeter•hall. Mr. PLumpTig, who occupied the chair, expressed his satisfaction at once more meeting the friends of the so ciety in defence of the Protestant faith. He did not wish on the present occasion to speak in terms of antipathy or unkindness towards his Roman Catholic fellow sinners, but as to the system of the Church of Rome, he felt bound constantly to protest against it. He bad had many opportunities of seeing the tyranny which was ex ercised over the Roman Catholics in Popish countries. He was sorry to say that in the Established Church of England there were men who were propagating the prin ciples of Popery, but who were destitute of the honesty to avow their connexion with the Roman sect. He looked upon the concessions which had been made to Romanism as a heavy blow dealt at the Protestant faith. It would therefore be their duty, henceforth, to resist such conces sions to the utmost, for although there might be trying and sifting times before them, he had very little doubt that the cause of truth would ultimately triumph. The Secretary then read the report.—The first portion of that document was employed in denouncing the con duct of her Majesty's government, who under the pre tence of expediency had sacrificed the institutions of the country, and to drown the cry of justice to Ireland had attempted the destruction of the church. The present government had followed in the path of their predeces sors, for the Charitable Trusts Bill, the Religious Opini ons Bill, and others of a similar character brought forward by them, were all steps in the wrong direction. The re port then referred to the vigorous efforts made by the so ciety to oppose the progress of the Maynooth Bill—the number of petitions then presented against it being more than 10,000, and the signatures amounting to a million and a quarter. The total receipts of the society for the year were £1,157, and the expenditure £1,044, the liabi lities incurred being about £250. Their stock in hand might be valued at £5OO or £6OO, but this could not at once be made available for the society. The number of additional subscriptions during the past year had consi derably increased. Several standard Protestant works had been added to the publications of the society, and nu merous grants bad been made for the cause at home and abroad and in the colonies. The report expressed the satisfaction which should be felt at the establishment of the college at Malta, the National Club and the Evange lical Alliance fur the maintenance of Protestant principles. The report concluded by stating the confidence which the Protestant world had reason to feel in the ultimate tri umph of the truth. Sir D. MACKWORTH moved the first resolution that the report be adopted He regretted that the Romish church met with so sad an ally in this country, not in those who were at present inclining to its doctrines, but in the general apathy and indifference of the people. After adverting to the doctrines contained in the charge of the Archbishop of Lyons, and the state of religious opi nions in France generally, he concluded by saying that he spoke in no spirit of enmity to Roman Catholics, and that he relied upon the distribution and reading of the bible as the ultimate and great support of the Protestant princi ples. On Sunday week a fine Dutch galliot arrived at Preston with a cargo of oats from Holland. This is the first ves sel of the kind that has been up at Preston, and a great number of persons witnessed its arrival. At a special meeting held at the India House, on Wed nesday, a pension of £5OOO and £2OOO per annum, were voted, by a large majority, to Lord Hardinge and Lord Gough respectively. _ _ A handsome collar has been presented by the Humane Society to the dog " Bess," which saved a female from drowning at Granton Pier in November last. The collar bears a suitable inscription engraved on silver. The " strike" at Birmingham is at an end. The mas ters have withdrawn the written declaration, and the men are to declare verbally that they do notsupport any branch of the building trades that is at present " out on strike." STRIKE FOR WA GES.—The shipcarpenters and sawyers at Maryport made a general strike on Friday morning for an advance of wages. They have hitherto had 18s. per week and demand 20s.—Cumberland Pacquet. SEAMEN IN LONDON.—The number of unemployed seamen in London is less than for many years past, there not being above 200 in the Sailors' Home, 'neatly the whole of whom have but just returned from distant voyages. Captain E. A. Somerset has consented to stand for Monmouthshire, on protection principles, at the first opportunity. Lord Granville Somerset is the present member, and has displeased the electors by voting for free trade. Nine persons went through the ceremony of initiation into the freedom of the borough of Alnwick, by wading through a muddy pool, called the " Freemen's Well," and perambulating the boundaries of the moor, on St. Mark's Day. The Rev. Mr. STOWELL said that they were there a body of men much misunderstood, very much maligned, but by the blessing of God they were there unshaken in their principles, and undiminished in their confidence. The candle which was lighted by La'imer and Ridley was not to be put out because there were traitors in the camp. No, it would shine out, and never be extinguished till it was lost in the blaze of eternity. The retrospect of the A haptha Company has taken a portion of the Dart moor prison, which was formerly inhabited by the French prisoners, for the purpose of erecting a chemical apparatus, and extracting naptha, ammonia, tar, &c., from the peat with which Dartmoor abounds. A pauper named Patrick M`Cartby, aged 68, committed suicide by inflicting wounds on his person with a knife, in the Newington Workhouse last week. The deceased was sensible after the injury, and wrote on a slate, "The devil tempted me." FATAL FIGHT ON A SUNDAY.—A fight took place on Sunday last, in a field near the Marley tunnel on the South Devon Railway, between two " navies," when one of them fell a corpse on the spot, just as he received a blow from his antagonist.—Devonport Telegraph. A bootmaker at Bradford, named Gudgeon, has been committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter. The prisoner had a pitched battle with a man named Beards worth, and the latter reeeived such injuries during the affray as to cause his death. The quantity of salt sent from the United Kingdom to foreign countries in 1843. was 12,946,452 bushel. ; in 1844 13,413,884 bushels; in 1845, 14,319,182 bushels. By far the greater part of this quantity was exported from Liver pool. _ _ burton, which would not sail for some time after. The poor fellows not being able to detect the fraud, walked away, and did not find out the trick which had been played upon them until they sought a passage on board the May field, which left the port on Wednesday morning last, with a number of the friends of the complainant. Mr. Rush ton, after carefully investigating the case, said the magis trates would not be doing their duty if they did not mark the case by the utmost penalty the I;tw could inflict. The defendant was accordingly fined £lO, and his emigration license revoked. past year presented to their view the most severe shock which Protestantism had received since the fatal year of 1829. It was not intellect that would save the Maynooth priesthood from the blackest doctrines and blasphemies of the dark ages. The staple of the education would not be improved, but the amount of production would be greatly increased, and from it would go forth to the colo nies, and over the country, men who would labour to subvert the settled foundations of the Protestant faith. There was another feature of the past year in the secessi ons which had taken place from the church of England to the church of Rome. Now they had gone to their own places, to which in honesty they should have gone at the beginning. They would mark the benumbing effect which Romanism exercised on the heart of every one, however gentlemanly, however sensible or good previ ously. He alluded to the conduct of Mr. Newman—for no Protestant Englishman could ever have drawn the principle of construing the articles of the church in a " non-natural " sense. He then alluded to the conduct of Mr. Faber, who, he hesitated not to say, notwith standing the correspondence which had appeared in the papers, had kidnapped two lambs from the fold of Christ to hand them over to the ravening wolves of Rome. We should be consoled for such secession if they served as beacons to the church. If the University of Oxford did not proceed as she had begun: to root out heresy from her borders, she would lose the confidence of Protestant Eng land. And if Dr. Pusey, and those who thought with him, did not soon go over, there would be a brand of dis honesty on them also. He did not hesitate to say that if Mr, Newman went over to the house of Rome, Dr. Pusey, and those who agreed with him, ought to do so too, and if they bad both gone to the verge they ought both to share the dark abyss of Romish heresy. They must do so unless it was intended that hereafter there should be a bridge across the gulph a hich used to separate Popery from Protestantism, and that one learned professor was intended to be the foundation stone on one side, and an other the foundation stone on the other. Mr. Stowel then adverted to the conversions from Popery to Protes tantism in Ireland, where the true spirit of our faith had been transported from this country, and where tractarian ism had made very little progress. The progress of the Reformation on the continent, in Germany, lerance, and the Swiss Cantons, was another interesting feature of the past year. It might be that Ronge and some of the other leaders had entered on a devious course ; but it was not likely that those who had come out of the dark should see clearly at first. But he would now turn to the future, in which he saw fresh concessions to Rome boldly p u t forward. The Roman Catholic Relief Bill was ill omened, and the Religious Opinions Bill would so far repeal the oath of supremacy. And what would they get for these concessions ? Hollow thanks and base perfidy. There was another prospect before them, viz., either the despolia tion of the revenues of the Church of Ireland, or to endow the Roman Catholic clergy there. He had been told, on good authority, that either one or other of these mea sures was seriously contemplated, and if so, he did not care which, for both were equally to be apprehended. We were on the eve of another election; and though he had never asked nor influenced a vote hitherto in Manchester, a declaration had been got up and signed, binding the elec tors not to support any candidate who would not defend Nothing but an inspection, we can assure our readers, will satisfy them as to the wonderful perfection which the French have attained in their imitation of fruits and flowers. An hour spent in this delightful way, at Mrs. Girvan's establishment, Upper Arcade, will satisfy them that we have not hinted idly. KIRKDALE FLORAL AND HORTICULTURAL SHOW.— It is with pleasure we refer our readers to an advertise ment in our paper of to-day, announcing the first horti cultural exhibition for the season, at Kirkdale, on Tues day, the 26th, and not the 25th, as errononeouely stated by a contemporary. The arrangements are such as will not only surpass those of previous years, but are entered into with such spirit by Mr. New and others, that we feel satisfied that they will not only be an auxiliary to the growing horticultural and botanical taste, but that they will meet public approbation. A spacious, and we may add elegant marquee will be erected, and every accommo dation will be provided for visitors ; and, as the future prizes depend upon the encouragement given to this show, we trust the attendance will be numerically great. EXTRAORDINARY CHEAP TRIP TO LONDON AND BACK —A fortnight ago we gave our readers to under stand that a contract had been entered into with the pro prietors ofthe Grand Junction Railway for a cheap excur sion train to London, to take its departure some day in Whitsun Week, and that the charge for the trip to and fro would be fixed at the astounding low charge of one guinea. An announcement to the same effect appears this day in our advertising columns, with this addition, that there wia be, two trains despatched from Liverpool,—one on the morning of Saturday, May 30, and the other on Monday, the Ist of June. The trains will consist of second and third class carriages, the fare by the latter being a guinea, and the former 30s. As the third class carriages will be covered in, and the journey being guaran teed not to exceed nine hours, either conveyance offers the same degree of comfort and celerity o f movemen t. P art i es availing themselves of this excursion, will have the option of remaining in the metropolis either seven or fourteen days, at it may best suit their convenience. CONSUMPTION.—AN EXTRAORDINARY CURE BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OINTMENT.—Mary Gilmore, aged 21, the daughter of Mr. Henry Gilmore, r e s idi ng i n Church-street, Shoreditch, was in the second stage of consumption, and considered past recovery, when, a s a last resource, large quantities of Holloway's Ointment were rubbed twice a day into her chest and left side, which were imbibed into the lungs, and there stop ped the ravages of this otherwise fatal disease as effectually ss though the remedy had been applied to an ulcerated sore palpable to the eye. The pills were taken as directed, and the young person was perfectly cured in three months. William Richardson, 49, and Anne Maria Richardson, 22, his daughter, were tried at the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesday, for the wilful murder of an incestuous il legitimate child, of whom they were the parents. They were acquitted. FOOD FOR ENGLAND.—There have been shipped from Baltimore to London, this week, over thirteen thousand barrels of flour, besides as many bushels of corn, and a great quantity cf beef, pork, lard, &c.—New York He rald, April 31. Last week, a boy fourteen years of age, living at Lam beth, destroyed himself by hanging whilst showing his younger brothers " how Tapping was executed at New gate." The deceased was continually speaking of execu tions, and frequently trying the effects of hanging. EFFECTS OF TRACTARIANISM.-At Kilmore, on Sun day, Mr. Mussen preached to his clerk, his sexton, and his son. These three persons composed the congregation, which last year consisted of as many- hundreds.—Down patriek Recorder. The pupils of Mr. Hullah, as a testimonial to their in structor, are endeavouring to raise funds for the erection of a music hall in London. Among themselves they have raised £5OO, and the proceeds from the choral meetings amount to about £3OO more. _ _ The British Association for the advancement of Sci ence, has fixed the period of the next meeting to be held at Southampton, for the week commencing Thursday, 10th September. The president, appointed at the last . meeting at Cambridge, is Sir Roderick Impey Murchison. Douglas Jerrold is " off " Punch ; and the presiding genius of Bradbury and Evan's famous periodical is Mr. Thackeray, the Michael Angelo Titmarsh of Fraser. Washington Irving has just completed a " Life of Maho met." The principal scenes of Dicken's new story are I laid in the West of England ; he s now Lis own publisher. An inquest on the body of a young woman, that was found in a privy attached to Verulam Chapel, at Bromley, and which has been proceeding for three years, was brought to a conclusion on Thursday, the jury having then met for the sixteenth time, and returned a verdict of wilfulmurder against some person or persons unknown. Mr. Green, the noted remnant, ascended from Ipswich on Tuesday last, this being his 321st ascent. The descent was in safety, but a spring car employed in carrying the balloon afterwards upset, and Mr. Green was thrown out, the silk and cordage, weighing four cwt., falling upon him, but he was not much injured. ARCHITECTURAL CONGRESS.—The architects from all parts of the world talk of holding a general congress of architects once every three years, the first to take place at Athens. Lord Worsley, M.P., has been appointed Deputy Grand Master of Freemasons for England. This highest office but one, is generally considered by the craft as pointing to a future election to the masonic throne. ANCIENT ART.—It is a singular fact, that the pattern now most common upon Paisley shawls, and which had always been a favourite, was in use among the Hindoos three or four thousand years ago. It is a startling fact, that when the " Religious Opi nions Relief Bill" is passed, the Pope will have more au- 1 thority, and Romanists more license in thi s coun t r y th an cultural changes which h ave so consp i cuous l y i mproved in any of the Popish countries of the continent! ! the appearance of the country during the present and pre- FIGHT FOR £5OO.—A pugilistic encounter took place ceding centuries, died at his place of residence. Balmac the other day between Gill (of Coventry) and Norley (of lellan Village, on the 30th ult., at the ripe age of ninety- Manchester) for £5OO, at a place called Withy Green, near one years. Oxford. After a hard fight Gill was declared the victor. During the case of an application, last week, to Vice- The number of fires that have taken place in the metro- Chancellor Knight Bruce, respecting the infringement on polis and its suburbs since the commencement of the year, a patent right to pencils, a question arose as to the num according to the records kept by the brigade authorities, her of gross that had been sold, when his Honour, after amounts to more than 300. apparently weighing some knotty point in his mind, said, " I am ashamed to my ignorance, gentlemen, but In the years 1835-39, there was 315 murders, and in the year 1840-44, there were 347; being an increase of ten per Ido not know how many dozen make a gross." The diffi cent. ; while the increase of the population would account culty having been solved, the case was proceeded with. for but six per cent: The duty on the importation of foreign wheat last week The Rev. Dr. Ullathorne, of Coventry, bas been ap- receded to 16s. per quarter. There has been a fall in the pointed Roman Catholic vicar-apostolic of the western price of grain throughout the co un t r y, an d no one can district, in the place of the late Dr. Briggs. Dr. Ulla- doubt that under the influence of fine weather, which thorne is a member of the Benedictine order. prevailed last week, and the measure now pending in On Thursday, between the hours of four, a.m. and five, Parliament, the price of wheat, ere the lapse of many p.m., no fewer than seven fires occurred in the metropo- weeks, will be at ruinously low rates to the home pro lis, some of which were attended with considerable da- ducer. image. —On Tues- EXTRAVRIIINARY THRESHING MACHINL. Major Beniowski has discovered a simple process by day the trial was made of a pony threshing machine, at which the daily newspapers, or any book printed from Trefullock, in the parish of St. Enoder, built by Mr. common type, may be printed so as to be read by the Thomas Staple, of Blue Anchor, and the result was the blind, threshing of a hundred sheaves of barley, quite clean, in Mrs. Jane Culliford, who has reached her 108th year, the very short space of seven minutes. The horses em walked a few days since to Taunton from Yeovil Marsh, Ployed were a couple of ponies, walking at a steady pace two miles. She appeared in good health and full of --Falmouth Packet. er ----Dorsct Chronicle. THE OREGON QUESTION.—The Times. of TI says—" The packet which will sail from Liverpool in a few days will convey to the United States the real im pression produced here by the late intelligence. If the resolution was intended as a threat or a hostile measure, it has totally failed to have any effect whatever, except that it is probable Mr. Pakenham will be at once em powered to briny the controversy to a prompt and final issue. CURIOUS PETMON.—In the House of Lords, on Thursr!ay evening, Lord Normanby presented a petition, the prayer of which was of a singular nature. The pe• titioner stated that be had invented a new medicine for diseases of the chest, arid he prayed their lordships to appoint a committee to investigate the merits of his in vention. The noble lord facetiously remarked, that he mitiee should try the medicine themselves. A COUNTER FACT FOR FREE TRADERS.—At a recent land-letting by auction at Kirton, near Boston, not a sin gle lot was disposed of. One of the best fields was bought in at 265. per acre rental ! This speaks whole vo lumes. The land thus offered for public competition com- prised 67 acres of the finest feeding land in Lincolnshire, and situate in the best part of the county. amidst the most spirited and enterprising graziers, and offered on the cus tomary terms. Dickens, Jerrold, and Mackay, and others of our popu lar writers, dine with the nobility every now and then. Sir Robert Peel had Charles Dickens the other day to dinner ; so had the Marquis of Lansdowne and Lord Mor pea), and Lord John Russell, The Duke of Devonshire takes them in a heap, and keeps them two or three days at a time, enjoying their society, and leaving the " boys" to roam at leisure over his noble grounds, on the under standing that they all meet at dinner time. Wwo WANTS A CHILD ?—The Western Times contains a letter, offering to any persons who may be desirous of adopting a child, a little boy between three and four years of age, " whose mental and bodily developments are of the first order," but whom the parties in charge of him " cannot afford to support and educate without proper remuneration." Prompt attention will be given to any communication addressed to the editor of the Western Times, who says that " his own hands are full of small life." A JUVENILE LAMBERT.—There is at present in the city of Glasgow, a boy nine years of age, standing 4 feet 61 inches. He measures round the. chest 41 inches ; round the belt 46k ; round the thigh 24 ; round the calf 16. ; and turns the beam against 14 stone! His name is Kenneth M`Caskill ; is o native of the island of Soa, one of our western Archipelago, between Cana and Skye, in the direction of Spar Cave, and brought hither by his fa ther, who is in no affluent circumstances, for exhibition. The boy's sole language is the energetic language of Os sian.—.S'eolch paper. THE WEATHER IN THE MIDLAND COUN'TIES.— During the last week, there has been a most gratifying ..dly nich prevailed during the previous fortnight having ben ~ in the west part of the county of Dorset. I know it to be succeeded by fine southerly breezes and genial sunshine ; so in the parish of Bettescorn be andthe adjoining parishes." the wheat, which was looking sickly and stunted in March —Mr. Sheridan declares his conviction that such is the has already in a great measure recovered its wonted fresh- ness, and, except on cold hard ground, promi s e s to yield fixed state of the Dorsetshire labourers ;—that, be the well. The orchards are in full blossom, and, if the nightsprice f wheat ht it may, the verag amount o wages remain o s always w the a same-7s. a a week e . Their dis f tressed keen free rind irPch fer the r‘ovf tor. ‘1....,0 i 1,..., ....:11 1,,,, - i ,ULlUillVil, LIU VI 1.1 l 1 , ucao uccu bicatay ap4l tit ...CU uy rein more than an average crop of fruit. SALE OF PICTURES.—The collection of Mons. Duval, of failure of their potato crops ; and upon this ground, in one case, that of Sor, aon made to the Geneva, was on Tuesday brought to Mr. Phillip s ' s ham- Poar Law Union Willi for am 'a pair half a of boots ; was but it was re rrier. Some of the pictures fetched great prices. A " Karel du Jardin" brought £1,150 to a p r i v ate purchaser, fused, and an order for the "house" g rant e d inste a d. So per refused to accept the order, since it would separate who also bought a single head ( one of those wonders of him and his family, and subject them to a sort of disci-. elaborate finish for which Denver stands, and perhaps ever pline and restraint from which they revolted. 11r. Sheri will stand, alone) for £490. " The Pleasure Party, by dan wrote to the Poor Law Commissioners, stating the Weenix, so well known from Delauney's engraving, was hardship of the case, and enquiring if the Board of disposed of for £393 odd. A "Watteau," co ns i s ti ng of I Guardians had acted in accordance with their instructions: several figures in theatrical costume, fell to a dealer for the reply of the Commissioners not only sanctioned the £2lO, and a Rembrandt, from the Winckler collection, conduct of the guardians, but was accompanied by the was bought by another gentleman connected with th e trade, for £204. Unions of England, which precludes the guardians from RATHER NEW.—A few days ago, a lady visited one of copy of a "prohibitory order" now in force in the several exercising any discretion in the, case of "an able-bodied the most extensive shopping establishments in Glasgow, man," even "with a wife and seven children," who may and made purchases to the extent of £BO. On examining be overtaken, as Soper has been, by severe and unexpected the contents of her purse, she found she had only £5O, privation. and suggested that one of the shop-b o y s s h ou ld j us t s t ep into the carriage along with her, and receive payment at IMPROVED SIGNALS, &c.—On Thursday, Mr. R. her mansion. Instead, however, of arriving at a fine Rettie, civil engineer, exhibited at the Underwriters'- mansion, judge of his surprise when the officials of a room, in presence of several gentlemen, some improved limatic asylum seized him and held him fast. The lady plans for signals of distress, steering lights, &c. ; also, a had, of course, specially prepared a warrant for his corn- tidal harbour lamp. The latter possesses considerable mittal. Before he could procure liberation, the fair one ingenuity, as, by a simple contrivance, the rising and and goods had disappeared, and have not since been heard falling of the tide is indicated with the greatest exactness, of.— Glasgow Argus. a knowledge of which must be of incalculable advantage laox.—A letter received this morning from Birming- to vessels entering a harbour where the state of the tides, ham, announces the important branch of manufacture of owing to stormy weather and other causes, cannot be cor iron as still continuing prosperous—there being many redly ascertained by the ordinary tables. The steering large orders on hand, which cannot be executed for a long lights appear to possess a great advantage over those ill time to come. The demand for locomotive engines is so general use, as the course of the vessel is shown with the very great, that the large makers will not engage to utmost certainty, thus preventing the possibility of colli execute fresh orders under three years. The agent of an sion. Mr. Rettie has also invented a new lamp, to be extensive colliery proprietor, near Dudley, lately tendered used as a signal of distress at sea, the light indicating a considerable order for engines, for mineral purposes ; whether the vessel requiring assistance be a steamer or a but it could n o t be undertaken within that period. The sailing vessel. Th ere are t wo l am p s , varying in colour, home consumption for iron is very brisk—particularly which, t oge th er w ith t h e requ i s it es f o r trimming, lighting. from the engineering department : there is, therefore, now &c., are contained in a square box. and so arranged a to no prospect of a reduction in price.—Mining Journal of rend er th em ava il a bl e un der any circumstances, and with. Saturday. the greatest certainty and facility. a respectable family I MELANCHOLY CASE.—On Monday evening, about nine • • died under cir- o'clock, a man rung The bell at the door of Mr. Probyn, have been of Lower Belgrave- street, London, and on its being opened was by the servant, she was told that her mother had died very suddenly. The announcement had such an effect on the =Several met/AM .... Pot sciPtiri d .. . named Ball, in Norfo!k, hatieg teeentiy I Immediately a loud crash was h ea :-4 - 1 in the area of the cumslances which' excited suspicion , the bodies - exhumed, and the dikotery made that their deat.. i house, into which she had thrown hersei7 . caused by arsenic. It is said that suspicion rests on until' t - than one person. 4 poor girls mind, that anc .-- - —"" wgis "all fr RICH ACTRESSES.--Mrs. Kean, Mdlle, laeoni, i' e ciaico, that '' She would :, , lon be with her tnoth er ) , others, po wag Fanny Kemble, Fanny Ellsler, Miss Stephens, (nu'vr er ha C ve ou a n c tceus m sfrom the attio t window, and fractured her arm and leg, and tritt with e M f i o s r s t u S n h e i s r re b ff y , and thei r M p a r n o y d fession. We believe the richest actress on the stage et' ot,..`ier injuries, She was perfectly sensible, and was con present is Madame Celeste. veye, s l to St. George's Hospital. On Tuesday wee k Ed war d P owe ll, o f C argwe ll, was LOALN, SOCIETIES. —W e learn fro m a par li amentary gri nding a knife on a new s t on e, we i g hi ng a b o ut 10 cw t., return tint,: last year there were no fewer than 144 loan when too much power was applied to the wheel and the societies, of which 42 are situate in Middlesex. It would stone flew to fragments, breaking the thigh of the unfor- appear that these societies are not very profitable con tunate man, and forcing the knife into his lower jaw. He cerns. Persons are generally induced to obtain a loan, died in a few minutes. which is spent in a few days, and they find it no very - Goucirio.—Mr. Bingham, the magistrate, recently easy matte? to pay weekly alms for a period of a year., said he was sorry to see that ' the horrible practice of In Middlesex last year 2 were discontinued, and 18 others gouging, which had been imported from the most barba- yielded no net profits after the payment of interest and rous part of the back settlements of America, was rapidly the cost of management. One o f t h e societies in Tot gaining groun d i n t hi s country; and that he was deter- tenham-court-road had 2,395 application s in the year, of mined, in every case o f th e ki n d t h at came b e f ore hi m, to which 1,957 were borro wers . Th e net profit c " check such brut a lity as muc h as poss ibl e. cern amounted to £136 14 s . 4d. Th ere are Ifit The Times of yesterday week was published with a ties in Liverpool, one of which had nearly 4,oooapplie... suppleme n t the full size of the principal sheet, and eon- pus last year : the society granted only 1,776 applications tained 1,941 advertisements, the duty on which would be INCREASING STRENGTH OF THE BRITISH NA-Os -C 145 Ils. 6d. ; which, added to .£125, the stamp duty on According to the last official returns, it appep.- - 30,000 copies, the average daily circulation, gives upwards of 100 ships of war now buildir - 4, £270 Ils. 6d., as the contribution of the Times of yester- arsenals, among which are no less than 35 , set, day week to the revenue of the country. I and other war steamers; four 36-gun frigates; ten 50-guru THE SQUADRON OF EVOLUTION.—On Wednesday last frigates ; ten ships of the line, averaging from 80 to 84 the experimental squadron got under weigh at Portsmouth guns each—viz., the Agamemnon, the Colossus, the and proceeded to sea, accompani e d by numerous yachts I Irresistible, th e M a j es ti c , th e M eeanee, t h e Brunswick, and steamers, filled w ith cur i ous spectators. A sharp the Cressy, the Lion, the Mars,and the San& Pareil ; si x squall, which came on about two o'clock, soon put the ships of the line of 90 guns each—viz., the Aboukir, the latter to flight, and about five o'clock the fleet was lost Exmouth, the Princess Royal,.the Algiers, the Hannibal,. from sight. and the St. Jean d'Acre; six ships of the line, first-rates. A verdict of " Wilful Murder" has been returned of 110 guns each—viz., the Marlborough, the Royal against Eliza Clark, who th rew h er c hild ren i nto t h e river Frederick, the Vi c t or i a , t h e P r i nce of Wales, the Royal over Battersea Bridge. The body of the third child has 1 Sovereign, and the Windsor Castle; and lastly, the Royal been found. On Friday, at the Central Criminal Court, 1 Albert, of 120 guns. the unfortunate woman was 'found not guilty, on tLe 1 DISGRACEFUL SCENE.—A scene of unparalleled atro ground- of insanity. She will be confined during her city occurred at the Marley Hut Close, South Brent, So. Majesty's pleasure. merset, on Sunday week; two men, named Charles Pur- Alexander Reid, a sailor, belonging to the frigate Row- nell and Robert Parsions, induced two boys to fight, and' ley, was brought up at Bow -street, on Wednesday, having after a contest of one hour, one was killed. It Repeats been caught sleeping in a tent in the royal garden at Buck- that the men had taken the two boys into a " teem) , " shop,. ingham Palace. He stated that he only went into the and given tlynn beer, and set them to fight. Eren whets garden to see the Queen, and being sleepy, was tempted they saw deceased was the weaker of the two, and waa to lie down on her M a j es ty' s so f a . Th e pr i soner was re- near l y d ea d , they b rutally insisted on his continuing the manded. contest, and defied the bystanders to interfere. At length, At Sunderland, on Wednesday, Robert H enr y L e i g h_ he was taken up and carried into one of the huts, and oniy ton, master, John Bowmaker, mate, and William Grozier survived a few minutes. The jury, at the inquest, re and Thomas Fairclough, seamen, and Thomas Wall ace , turned an unan i mous ver di ct of manslaughter against an apprentice, p ar t o f t he crew of the schooner Helen, o f Hutchings, Purnell, and Parsons, all three of whom have Sunderland, were committed to Durham gaol on a charge absconded. The coroner immediately issued his warrant of sinking the vessel by boring holes in her bottom, while for their app re h ens i on, an d i t is to be hoped that they on her way to th e B a lti c . may now be brought to justice. Purnell has lost his left CALtNARVON REGATTA.—At the preliminary meeting band just above the wrist.—Bristol Mirror. for the holding of this year's regatta, it was determined SORROW UNTO DEATH.—It was our melancholy duty that the contests should come off on Thursday, the 27th, to record, in a late obituary, the death of the lovely - - "-t.3.._ the 2Rth August next. The Hon. Color el only daughter of the late W. Dr' -Iv, Esq., of '-- ri up stn;-, Dan socie— t our dar:trent a rem-larukrsalbelvy is now our still more p a i n f u l tas k to - announce the death of her br o th er , M r . H. D u b erly, -...0._ _ 0 .... rennant, member: for the county, will be p re : It sident. Three superb pieces of pl a t e s t an d over f rom t h e contests of last year. handsom e y oung man. I t appeared that on Thursday, Within the last ten days no f ewer th an e i g hty o f th e after the decease of hi s s i s t er , to w h om h e was devotedly water-fowl have been found dead around and in the orna- attached, he arrived at Torquay, to accompany her re mental water of St. James' s P ar k. It was d e t erm i ne d to mains to Dursley. The me l anc h o l y tas k was accom plished on the Monday, and on th e h earse arr i v i ng at the watch ; and it was found that a p a i r o f E g ypti an geese , which had not long been placed in the park, were in the late residence of his mother (now that of Mr. G. Duberly, h habit of attacki ng th e sma ll er bi r d s, an d t h at one bi te was his brother,) he had the coffi n o p ene d, an d sat b y i t until sufficient to cause death. one in the morning, in overwhelming grief. Again at an, CHEESE.—It appears from a parliamentary return that early hour he resumed his sad vigils; at the funeral, for the year ending the sth January last, the importation which took place about noon, he evinced"the strongest into Great Britain of European cheese was 201,253 cwt. ; emotion and sorrow, and on his return became alarmingly from the United States of America, in the year, 66,337 ill. Two surgeons were in attendance, but medical skill on cwt. ; and from th e B r iti s h possess i ons, 234 cwt., mak i ng proved, unhappily, i ne ff ectua l—h e di e d at f our o ' clock o the aggregate of the importation of cheese in one year, Wednesday morni ng .—B r i s t o l Mi rror. 267,824 cwt. DIFFERENCES IN THE CABINET.—It is seated, upon A MALTHUSIAN VlLLAGE.—Glapwell, a village ne ar what we believe to be unexceptionable authority, that the Chesterfield, was thrown into a state of unusual wonder- sugar question, which is said to have had more to do witlx ment and surprise last week, through a female resident the m% sterious retirement of the present colonial secre there having given birth to one of her own species, an tary from office than theological scruples, has again cre event which had not occurred in the above village for the ated a serious difference in the cabinet. It is rumoured last seventeen years, although containing twenty-two that the colonial secretary, and another cabinet minister, families. whose connection with what is called the West India in- Mr. Robert Patterson, the son of " Old Mort a lity," a 1 terest is less direct, have refused to go the length the pre worthy, quiet character of the olden school, who remem_ racier desires in removing West India pro.ection ; and _ bered much of the early history of Galloway, and the - further, that they n......-a- -- ,__ e so large a party in the cabi— net as to defeat the minister's proposition. It certainly seems rather strange that the government should protect West India agriculture while they destroy the protection of English agriculture, pretending that they refuse Cuba sugar because it is slave-grown, while they are importing slave-grown sugars and slave-grown maize from America. It is said that Sir R. Peel swallowed his defeat in prefer.: ence to impeding the progress of his " comprehensive measure."—Britannia. A YOUNG CRIMINAL.—In the New Court, Old Bailey, London, on Thursday, Thomas Miller, a smartly-dressed boy, only eight years of age, pleaded guilty t o s t ea li ng a cast of a bear, value 40 5 ., the property of Thomas Beau champ. The boy had to be plaed on a stool that the court might see him. The common when, mane some in quiries respecting th e prisoner, when, to m the astonishment of every one present, it was stated that he had been twice convicted of felony in that court, and had been twice in dicted at another court for felony, but, on account of his age, he had escaped hitherto with a light punishment. The mother of the prisoner, a well-dressed woman, said her son was a boy of very evil habits, and quite beyond her managercent. The learned Judge said it was very diffi. '-ed to deal with such a case as this. If the prisoner large there was very little hope of `-: cult in . life reforma tion; and the best course that could possibly be adoated was to place him at the disposal of the government, by sentencing him, nominally, to be transported for seven years, but with a recommendation that he should be sent to the juvenile establishment in the Isle of Wight. WHAT WILL THE LORDS Do?—According to some of our private accounts, there is a possibility that the corn bill may be defeated in the House of Lords on the secvnd reading ; but the more general expectation is, that a clause fatal to its becoming law will be carried in com mittee. The Government is calculating upon a majority of thirty-four on the first division ; but it is confidently asserted, that in this are included all the bishops and the names of several peers, who, either like the Duke of Cam bridge and the Archbishops of York end Canterbury, will not vote at a!l—or of others, who, although they have not made a formal declaration upon the subject, will cer tainly vote against the bill. With great pride and gratifi cation, peers,we w n t o h u t n h c e e e t x h c a e t p e t v io e n ry o o f ne L o o f rd th ß e a l n ti n l_C a o n ns e e x r : ' vc c a e attii t ov i ne on that we own, astonishes and distresses us—will vote against the destruction of the agricultural interests Ireland t and that those who were looked upon as doubt ful, or who were said not to have made up their minds upon the subject, have decided wisely and justly, and amongst the latter Lords Erne, Clancarty. Ranfurly, &c. —Dublin Mail. The London correspondent of the Dub lin Mail of Friday adds as showing the ministerial fears on this subject—" Expresses were despatched from Lon don on Wednesday to the following Ambassadors, requir ing their immediate presence in Westminster, to take a part at the second reading of the bill, and to be present during the sittings in committee at its subsequent stages : Lord Cowley, Paris; Lord Holland, Florence: Lord Howard de Walden. Lisbon; Lord Westmoreland, Ber lin. At the latter court there is no Secretary of Lega tion ; but so urgent is the case, even with the majority of thirty-six, (which is the majority stated by the free traders by which the Lords will pass the bill), that Mr. Hamil ton, one of the corps diplomatique, was himself the bearer of the express, in order that he may assume the position of Charge d'A f faires, in the absence of the Ambassador. Lord Hcytesbury will, of course, be ordered over.' " DESTITUTION AND POOR LAW RELIEF.—Mr. R. Brinsley Sheridan has written a letter to The Times, de tailing the destitute circumstances of several no abour- ers and their families in the neighbourhood of his residence in Dorsetshire, who had asked him to step in between them and their immediate employers. In one case. a mart could only raise Os. a week, including Is. 6d. earned by his son, upon which to support himself, his wife, and a family of six young children ; and in others the wages were but is. a week, for the support, in some instances. of families of six persons. Mr. Sheridan visited some of them at their homes. " My visit to the dwellings of these poor people," be says, "chanced to be at their dinner hour, when I found that the meal they were about to par take of consisted merely of a small quantity of horse beans and turnip tops boiled in water. I asked the wife of one of the men what she intended to prepare for her husband's supper when he returned home from his hard day's work? and her answer was, in the most cheerful tone, Why, bless you, sir, horse beans and turnip tops.' I believe this to be the condition of the agricultural labourers cener