The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-26 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION. Standard-ojice, Ten o'clock. AWFUL COLLISION ON THE RIVER LAST NIG lIT.-DREADFUL LOSS OF LIFE. Through the skill and painstaking care of the com manders of the various cra't which navigate our river, it is not often we are called upon to record any very de structive casua!ty ; but it is now our du'y to give the par ticulars of a most heart-rending occurrence which took place on the Mersey last night, and which was unfortu nately attended with the most limentable consequences both to life and property. We may say at the outset that from all we can at present learn the accident seems to have been occasioned through no neglect or inattention, b-ut seems to have been one of those casualties which no human care or effort could have averted, though the con sequences are most distressing to those who have been by the accident bereaved of their relatives and friends. We love had an interview with Captsin Toompson, the in telligent commander of the Sea Nymph, (steamer). one of the vessels which unfortunately has been in collision, and he has politely favoured us with the following par ticulars:— The Sea Nymph, which trades between this port and Newry, was proceeding last night on her outward passage to the latter port, when, about eleven o'clock, just as she was off New Brighton, a steamer was seen coming up, which afterwards proved to be the Rambler steamer, coming into this port from Sligo. Both vessels, as far as we can learn, ported their helms—in conformity, we be lieve, with the requirement of the bye-law; but before the vessels got fully swung round, they came into collision; and as it may appear paradoxical to any but nautical readers bow, under such circumstances, so alarming a collision took place. we subjoin a diagram, which will illustrate and exhibit, with the following few remarks, the course which the vessels took immediately preceding and up to the instant when the collision occurred. The • The Roc a 1 I V /1 Rambler, inward bound, was outside, the Sea Nymph hugging the land. When both vessels ported their helms, the effect would be to force the bows along the dotted line, but, from their speed, i►isteail of cleariru, they came into collision at the point shown by the two stars. Captain Thompson was on the se.affilding over the engines, and had them stopped fully two minutes before the accident occurred. The rna , e, Mr. Samuel Easter, was forward. The sta►board bow of the Sea Nymph struck the lirboard how of the Rambler, and scrapii , g on toward; the paddle carried away her stem. The Rambler way run on shore near the Rock, and Captain Thompson having ascertained that she was there safe from sinking, brouiht his vessel into the Clarence Dock, and disch aged his cargo which has not suffered we are informed any material injury, though the dam ige done to the vessel is great, and it is said that her not slotting is owing entirely to her water tight compartments. We ae , certain so far what injury the sse!s had their lights up. have no But, a given, t of persons have turn out that u re t s still moil particulars we have dread) , itneotable to contem- we fear )f twenty are already dead, and many others more or less injured, some of them very seri ously, if not frtally. In the Mavzine Boathouse there sn, nine dead bodies : three more are in the dead in t are at present in a necessities anew and at present in t Gill, Mary Rowlar to give augsequent edition ospital; and twelve other persons •nt institution, having their ong those who are injured rn hospital, are—Catherine Ferny, John Roach, Mary za Connolly, Mary Batty, J. Patric ..26. ~..m.iml•lowi THIRD Standard- ruin 119 lliei After obtainin ied to N Ship public- Daniels, informed ulars we can gather up.to the reporters will probably be able ccurate information in a EDITION. ffice, Half-past Twelve o'clock —Further Particulars. near th that he f description, we pro- slip of which ferry the The pilot, Mr. William taken ou board outside ,npo coming right across Ordered the helm to he put engines; the Sea Nymph .a opinion, a-starboard, came stem on oow, cutting her completely down to the ..crying away momentarily the top-gallant forecastle, smaThilig to pieces a heavy patent windlass, and severing the deck half way across, and so shaking the whole frame of the vessel, that every water-tight com partment was rendered perfectly useless, and it w-- ,t ten passed the Rock and the weather parti bard a-port, and sto e! KOCK. ti t that &le tut started, and the v filled. _ Two principal off suesing et 3 order to lave sunk had not the engines been I run ashore, as she immediately f the Rambler were at the wheel, river pilot (a person carried in Light Alter vesse nes, and they were kept going for some arden her on as the tide attained its iunded, stir e of the passeng, of the ,ers, d They let go previous to her reac it is impossible to nil at that moment some I. The weight of persons in he some 11) caused her to upset, the actu4 ell events fiv maue through her larboard side enrage, a most extraordinary sight presented o f the fhoring of the quarter deck was and the remainder, a confused mass of some fl rating in the part of the vessr I. The scene -ifying, the whole, both fore covered with dead pigs, notlier portion of which whole saturated in the as we state below, at tering through to into th P.r smashed thrm.,„ 3 rats, boxes water which hid fi and abet labhied with human blood, and strev ,troon, broken boxes, t bevc nts of the windlass One poor woman, with her up from underneath the broken h fallen upon her portion of her brains nt out unfortunate's now lit windlass, the iron spindle of v up her infant hid fast ther's breas in the M many cagier, from the etu' informed. that on the bodies being stable of M . ... .- Life-Boat House for recognition, which stnte of their bodes and y improbable. We were searched by the con- Aer, not a coin of any kind vvvs found upon the whole. We believe that nearly all the persons on board the n....topr were nersous intending to emigrate to America. ascertal &bout 120 pigs, hoWrver as near as the biciCeiiing sight precluded thi them) were laid dead on deck 00 pigs sad 20 bullocks. overboard, in addition of the but board or lost The captain thinks the The remait The loss Fe from this astounding calamity, so far as o,rertain it. is as follows : Dead at N - orthern Hospital The master c the time the aecideta another man was holdi - seated in his house d procured one or —and that with these he id proceeded on his way eled her, however, L th a man cling to an oir, and three others were he I!fe-boat saved. They )n board was d faint irger life boat B tonal le Ran' succeeded in bringing 220 persons from le 6... its that, though he has be n t e en rears on the station, he never knew such a dis 1 -4: before. Of course it is impossible to say .rw many sere in the boat which was found bottom up. At the Nort hern Hospital the sufferers are going on as 7 ell as can he expected, with the exception of John Roach, who has since died. The following are the additional persons at present lying in the Northern Hospital .—Han. nab Tossey, Fergus Brown, Patrick Williams, and Patrick Geogban. Both vessels are nearly new, having been built last estrous nigl year, and are entirely constructed of iron. The Rambler is consigned to Messrs. Martin and Burns, and the Sea Nymph to Mr. Thomas M`Tear, by whom she had been purchased only a few months ago from the North-wrst of Ireland Steam Navigation Company for about £20,000. QUEEN VICTORIA'S EMPIRE.-" The Queen of Eng land is now sovereign over one continent, one hundred peninsulas, five hundred promontories, a thousand lakes, two thousand rivers, and ten thousand islands. She waves her hand, and five hundred thousand warriors march to battle to conquer or die.—She Lends her head, and at the signal a thousand ships of war and a hundred thousand sailors perform her bidding on the ocean. She walks upon the earth, and one hundred and twenty milli ons of human beings feel the slightest pressure of her foot. Come, all ye conquerors, and kneel before the Queen of England, and acknowledge the superior extent of her de pendent provinces, her subjugated kingdoms, and her vanquished empires. The Assyrian empire was not so wealthy. The Roman empire was not so populous. The Persian empire was not so extensive. The Arabian em pire was not so powerful. The Carthaginian empire was not so much dreaded. The Spanish empire was not so widely diffused. We have overrun a greater extent of country than Attila, that scourge of God, ever ruled ? We have subdued more empires and dethroned more kings than Alexander of Macedon ! We have conquered more nations than Napoleon in the plentitude of his power ever subdued ! We have acquired a larger extent of ter ritory than Tamerlone the Tartar ever spurred his horse's hoof across."—Finch, Boundaries of Empires. THE NIGHT BEFORE THE BATTLE OF FEROZEPORE.— The annals of war present us with no parallel to the re spective positions of the hostile armies that night. They were both within the lines, both bivouacking where they had lately stood. the dead and dying lying in multitudes beside them. The English bad carried the entrenchments and kept them ; the Sikhs w.!re entrenched again in a strong village, and both parties waited for the dawn to re new the battle. Only a couple of hundred yards, at the most, divided them. And then might be seen with what untiring zeal and energy good officers exert themselves to sustain the courage, and soothe the anxieties of the sol diers. Sir Henry Hardinge and Sir Hugh Gough seem never to have closed an eye. They wet t about from regi ment to regiment, speaking cheeringly to the sound, and kindly and smilingly to the wounded, and telling all that "they must fight it out on the morrow ; for it would ne ver do for a British army to suffer such a repulse." Moreover, the Sikhs exhibited no signs of et - image abated. On the contrary, having found out where the governor general had established his bivouac, they opened upon it, and upon the regiments near, such a fire, that, at mid night, Sir Henry found it necessary to direct two regi ments to stand to their arms and take the gun. And no bly these corps, the Queen's 80th. and the `Ltd Bengal European Light Infantry, performed their allotted task. They rushed upon the gun, bayoneted the gunners, drove away the line of infantry that supported it in the rear, and brought back the piece in triumph. There was rest for the wearied soldier throughout ti:e remainder of the night,—such rest, at least, as those find, who suffer from the combined pressure of cold, liiinger,:and and have nothing to support them except the hope of vic tory on the morrow. Sir Hugh Gough, in his excell-nt dispatch, calls it " a long n'ght," and so it was; but will the approach of dawn there was a prompt arous ng from every bivouac fire; and the formati4 , o of a li n e, l ess ex tensive than it had been on the previous day, but as regu lar and as pliable as if no sanguinary battle had been fought. Again was the horse artillery at its stations on either flank. Again were the heavy pieces formed in the centre ; and as soon as there was light enongh to discern objects, the strife was renewed.— Froser%v Magazine. WYCLIFFE AND THE FIRST ENGLISH BlBLE.—Wy cliffe remains in the full possession of the honour of the Bible. Neither a paraphrase of the entire contents, nor a literal version of certain parts, were regarded by him as sufficient. He looked at revelation as a perfect whole, and felt that, as such, it should be studied ; nor did be make his translation for his own use, or that. of the priesthood. It was for the people. He intended it not to be laid up on the s.,elf of his own study, or even to be copied for monastic libraries, but to be published, multi plied, and circulated, in all directions, for the ti,e of his fellow-countrymen at large. Nor would he guard it with he felt it to speak for itself, and sent it forth without note or comment—thus virtually asserting the right of private judgment, thus practically anticipating the great principle of the Reformation. That this act of Wycliffe's was a that it gave a tremendous shock to Papal prejudices, is apparent enough from the pages of his contemporary his torian, Knighton, who utterly deplores that the Gospel Pearl was cast abroad, and trodden under foot by the swinish multitude. It may seem in the present day no mighty thing to make a translation of the Latin Vulgate, and to attempt its general circulation; but those who are fame mof our first translator, should remember how wel the detractors from the glory of Columbus, the first to sail on an untried ocean, were rebuked by the familiar example of the broken egg. In such an age as that in which Wyeliffd lived, to translate the whole Bible for po- pular use, to conceive the ph,n as suited to the times, and to execute the project when so conceived, implied the pos session of qualities both of mind and heart, such as only the truly great and noble of our race possess. The ver sion made by Wycliffe, and the revision of it made by some of his followers, had an extensive circulation. This appears from the numerous MSS. of them which still exist, and which must have been multiplied and perused by private individuals, since they were excluded from col. legiate and monastic libraries, es books tainted with heresy. The effect of this extensive circulation, we are persuaded, has been greatly underrated agree with Mr. Anderson, that the religious opinions in England. which excited the opposition of the Rom . sh Church before the Reformation, were " indigenous," and Nod we fully vritings In English manuscript '—British Quarterly modes of electing the Supreme Pontiff—by inspiration, by compromise, by sc , utiny, and by access. An election by inspiration is effected by several of the Cardinals calling aloud, as by a sudden impulse, the n'me of the person whom they wish to raise to the Pontifical dignity. This method of resorting to the pretext of supernatural aid is seldom relied on, except when all human means have failed of success. If, however, a powerful party can be raised, and their efforts happen to be strongly seconded, the rest of the Cardinals, unwilling to distinguish them selves by a decided opposition, or to be the last in express ing consent, basten to concur in the choice. It is called an election by compromise when the Cardinals, not being able to determine on a proper person, agree to submit the minted for that purpose It was thus that John XXII after having obtained the solemn as,ent of the whole Col lege to abide by his decision, assumed to himself the Pon tificate, an event which induced the Cardinals not to en trut,t this power in future to any of their number without rence o ar event t cfrectually prevent the recur- n choosing a rope by scrutiny, the Cardinals each write their own narro , with that of the person whom they wish to recommend. on a billet or ticket, which they afterwards place, with many ceremonies on the altar of the chapel in which they assemble. Tne tickets are then taken out by officers appointed by their it appear that any one of the Cardinals has two-thirds of the votes in his favour, he is drelared to be canonically elected Pope. When, however, alter repeated trials, this does not occur, a new proceeding takes place, which is called election by access, in which any Caedinal may ac cede to the vote of another by an alteration of his ticket in a prescribed form. When by these means the choice of a Pontiff is effected, the tickets are prudently committed to the flames, to prevent all pretest tor further inquiry. With regard to tile custom or changing tie name on eleva _ _ Von to tile dignity of Pontiff, 111 r. Roscoe informs us, on the authority of the historian, Platina, that it originated with Pone Sergius 11. in the year 813. " Some persons affirm." lie says, " that Sergiui used formerly to be called ' Os Porci' (Pig-face); andt hat on acc , :unt of the ‘Veness of that title, he took the name of Sergius, a custom which has continued to the present time, although not adhered to."—Roscoe's Lorenzo De Medici. AN ADVENTURE WITH AN E EPHANT.—There are not many elephant-shots who have not been tooliA only barre ; hitt this is generally Delore they noire seen a serape. I should say a man was pettedly gunned for elephant-shooting with three double.. carrying balls foutteen or sixteen to the pound. with the same bore. wish moderate pressure over a charge anti half of pow- der, and the caps ought to fit exactly. I have been minus three caps out of four barrels when before a herd. Many elephant shots affect heavy guns. I think them utter nuislnces. Their weight fags you and heats you, and at power to lift them. I remember once coming hurriedly on an elephant with nothing bat a single bush between us, the temple struck the ear of the an'rnal pat ter aro u when she ►urned I p to my shoulder a second time be THE FOREIGN AID SOCIETY. The annual meeting of this society was held on Tues day, and there was a full attendance on the occasion. The Marquis of Cholmondeley, who presided, said that they were met to celebrate the sixth anniversary of the society, which was foimed to assist in the spread of the doctrines of the Reformation in foreign countr 4 es. The contents of the report, which he had read, had given him the de, pest satisfaction, and would to the friends and subsciibers of the society be, he was sure, a source of unfeigned thankfulness to Almighty God. The noble marquis concluded by calling on the secretary to read the report. _ _ The report commenced by congratulating the meeting on the growing success of the cause of truth on the Con tinent, but more particularly in France. It then reviewed the communications between the society and the following societies abroad :—The Societe Evangelique of Geneva, to the funds of which the society has added last year £620. The Socie:e Evangelique de France, to the foi;.: of which the society has sent £l,OOO. The Societe Evai:- gelique of Bordeaux and Lille, to which the society has contributed £155. The s •cicty also corresponded with M. Maton, in Belgium ; Dr. Gomez, in Portugal ; and with several pastors in Germany. The income of the society amounted to £2,408. Mr. Colquhoun moved the first resolution, which was that the report be adopted and printed. Referring to the progress of Protestant doctrines in France, he said that the people of that country wanted something more than the mere ceremonials of the Roman church, if they were asking for something on which to rest their hearts—. something more than gorgeous vestments, storied glass, or gothic aisles. These would not satisfy the inquiring mind, actuated by an earnest desire for something to sa tisfy the affections, to move the inner monitor, and guide his feelings and conduct—to direct the poor doubtful err ing creature of a day to some convictions which might lead to some truths which might satisfy and console him in the hour when nature failed, and when taste and fancy could no longer please. (Cheers.) As he meditated on these things his mind was carried from them to some matters referred to in the report, which had just been read. He heard in the north of France, wbere one of the societies, in connexion with theirs, laboured, some exam ples, which were very simple and striking, of what was now passing there, and he gave to the meeting an instance as an illustration. In almost all parts of France there existed an earnest desire for pastors, and the knowledge of Gospel truth, and he said, let England, then, contri bute of her wealth to uphold the existing Protestant con gregations, to proclaim the Divine truth, to make known in that immense country those great religious principles which she would best consult her own interest in extend ing, and which would form the very firmest bond of union between the two countries. He could not but look on the various efforts making in the present day to bring together two countries, which, like France and England, ought to be united, as pursued by any means more effec tive and satisfactory than those which the society pre sented. Let us, then, he said, from the abundance of truth with which we were favoured—let us, from the abundance of wealth vvith which England was blessed, contribute to the necessities and demands of the sister countries around us, and instead of raising the hostile standard of England once more on the fields of Cressy and Poictiers, let it be our glorious task in amity wish our friends on the other side of the water, where no jea lousy would trouble, no harsh suspicions enter, no feel ings of French or English glory arise to trouble our happy concord—let us raise that standard equally for both coun tries, round which all might gather, whatever might be their language—let us raise that standard, not in blond and crime and mutual distrust and strife, but to stream life and liberty and truth—the glorious standard of the living God. (Cheers.) • Pr - ofrss , r De La Harpe, from the Societe Evangelique of Geneva, seconded the motion, and in doing so entered pects of that society. From its smallness Geneva had no rivalry to sustain; but if we compared what Geneva had been enabled to do with its physical magnitude, we should be constrained to say that something had marked it out for action and influence in the world. He trusted that the society there which he represented would yet rise to an importance and power which its present position could not lead them to anticipate. The Count St. George supported the motion at some I,sngth. detailing the result of his experience as to the spread of Protestant doctrines in France. The motion was then put and carried, and the meeting broke up, after having been addressed by M. Audebez, from the tiocie , e Evange ique of Paris, Le Pasteur Cad hate, from that of Lille ; M. Panchaud, from Brussels ; the Earl r.f Galloway. and the Rev. B. Noel. most had boll Of it., I tire( as course did her no harm. I had to holt. In ten seconds I was down—her trunk twiddled about m'y legs, and, but . . was ra6ing it, anc as she was on her knees paykg every possible attention to me, I should most probably hate been expended. I have since found myself mote than half dead after a pursuit. in which I had carried a heavy eun : and a liebt ones do their work, I know no advantage the heavier have, wiless it ne tnat they may pos.ihly stun or stultify, or. perhaps, now and then kill a very big elephant. when the light ours would not. But this is a bare and rare imunssibility ; while the inconvenience arid nuisance of carr‘ing the hea- vies is incontestibie and nt-ver-ceasin2. i n *le elephant will oftf n take all you c.n give birn, the hat tell , I recommend is chiefly ise,dratile - iii dealing will a herd, both as regards the number you may kill, a•,(1 the chance of fresh elephants corning on you alter lon bays sed and resolute The twos fellows who carry your spare suns must be in , tructed to .:: . v: ' it ' .ll . l . ;;; a • rrived at the port of Bristol from keep very close, and by no means to allow their zeal to , __s_ Charles , . brinz themselves into action.—Fraser's Magazine. Je r ey , having a cargo cot &sting of 53 casks of cider un Why boatel, the produce and manufacture of the is l a n d . The is your nose in the middle of your face ? — Because supply cf this favourite beverage was I rmerly confined t's the scenter. to the coontirs of Devonshire and lit refordshire. A young lady said to her cavalier, " Please clasp my THE IRISH PEERS AND THE CORN BILL. —According cloak." " Certainly," said he, putting his arm around to the Dubin Eveninq Mail. thirty Ir i sh peers will vote her, " and the contents too." with the tiiiiisters on the corn bill, and twenty-nine A BD- EL-KADER'S BEST FRIEND.—Marsl , al Bugeaud agains t them. Some have not y et txprtssed an opinion is about to leave Algiers for a month. He intends taking , either y. w Of the thirty who %yill vote with the minis_ up his residence at Paris, FO that the French may have 1 ters, toli a rwere formerly Protectionists, of whom the Earl the earliest intelligence of his victories.—Punch. I of Bandon is one. EARLY CHERRIES.—In the garden of Mr. Kellie, Auldgirth-bridge, there is a May Duke cherry tree, on which may be seen ripe cherries, others fast approaching to maturity, and, at the same time, branches in full flower. Last season, Mr. Kellie had ripe cherries on the same tree, a week earlier than this season.—Dumfries Courier. FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENTS.—On Faturday week, an explosion took place at the Mynyddnewdd colliery, near Swansea. by which five colliers lost their lives.— Yos , erday (Monday) week, another similar accident oc c:iered at Penydarran Mountain pits, where two men were hurried into eternity. Neither of them were burnt, and death apparently resulted from suffocation. ISLE OF MAN.—James Grellier, Esq., late editor and proprietor of the Manx. Sun, has obtained a verdict of 40s. and costs against Messrs. Penrice and Wallace, pro prietors of the Manx Liberal for a libel. The plaintiff has appealed to the llouse of Keys against the smallness of the damages, and the defendants have applied for a trial.—The regatta in Douglas Bay is fixed for the 7 !, Sib of July. Ft n ')a Saturday week, an alarming fire broke out in ktich , t. :1-:d Brewery, Kilmarnock, the property of George Paiton, Esq. The fire commenced at the malt. kiln, and consumed the whole range of granaries and malt store, containing about a £lOOO worth of malt and barley ; besides destroyinz all the malt in operation on the ground floor. The loss of grain, buildings, &c., might be estimated at from £2OOO to £3OOO. A STRANGE PLACE FOR A BIRD'S NEST.—In a gar den belonging to the Rev. W. Snowdon, rector of Swil lington. a few miles from this town, one of our feathered songsters has actually built its nest in the hollow of the pump. The nest rests upon the piston, and contains four or five eggs; the rev. gentleman kindly allowing the poor bird to r main an undisputed tenant of the singular situa tion.—Wokefield Journal. On Sunday week, a serious affray took place at Shields harbour between a party of Italian seamen and some po licemen, arising out of one of the sailors being taken into custody for a riot. He was rescued by bis companions; but the policemen being reinforced, the prisoner and se veral of the sailors were scented and taken to bridewell. During the riot some of the policemen received severe stabs with stillitrs. Sir John Ross, the Arctic voyager, appeared in the Bankruptcy Court, last Wednesday, and obtained his certificate without opposition. The bankrupt stated that he had not been reinstated in office as consul at Stock holm, a Mr. Pringle having been appointed. He ex pressed his willingness to go thither for the benefit of his creditors, and arrange to get some of his valuables, which were in the hands of persons residing there. BIRTIS EXTRAORDINARY.—A poor married woman, of the name of Mason, residing near the Pound, Brom ley, was on Monday evening evening (May 18) safely de livered of fcur sons, all alive and well, by Mr. H. V. Garnan, jun., of Bow-road, Middlesex. Tha interesting little strangers have since been christened by the liev. Mr. Boyle, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. It is gra tifying toadd that the mother and her sons are going on well. Mr. Smith O'Brien still vegetates Diogenes-like in tub —cellar we meen—where like the goose in the fable he lays golden eggs for his master the Serjeant at-Arms, in the shape of fees, the amount of which already incurred is said to he enormous—more than sufficient to purchase an Irish principality. But Mr. O'Brien started wi , h the de claration that he would pay no fees, and if he does not choose to pay them, who will do it for him I be may pause long enough for an answer. Tne MINISTRY.—On Monday, in the Lords, a Minis terial measure, the Charitable Trusts Bill, introduced by the Lord Charm. , llcr, was rejected by a majority of 1, and on Tuesday night, in the Commons, the numbers were equal on a motion relative to the Bridpoit election, and ministers were saved only by the casting vote of the speaker. On Friday night, the second reading of the Faetory Bill was negatived by a mrjority of only ten, in a house of neatly four hundred members, ministers mus tering all their force against it. SEA GOING SPARROWS.—Last week, on the Aurora leaving the Broomielaw for Belfast, a sparrow's nest was discovered in the rigging, but the birds did not choose to accompany their nest, on that occasion, to the Green Isle. on the return of the vessel, however, the sparrows again visited their former abode, which had not been disturbed by the voyage, and deposited an e g in it, which attached them so much to it, that they valorously left their native land, and sailed with the Aurora for lreland.—Glusgow Chronicle. _ . . M U RDEA.—Nine weeks ago several Irishmen created a disturbance in New-street, Wakefield, by parading the street armed with sticks and pokers. apparently deter mined to murder some one. In their course they met with a man named Harry Skelton, accompanied by three men from Stanley, whom they attacked and beat very severely, especially Skelton, who lingered until Wednes day, when he died from the wounds he had received. At the inquest a verdict was returned of "Wilful Murder against John Sepiron end others at present unknown." THE CORN BILL IN THE. HOUSE OE LORDS.—The or ganisation of the country party opposition in the House of L'trds has been, we believe, completed. The number of peers aelually pledged against the Corn Bill is said to be 170; these, it is confidently expected, will be rein`orred to about 210. The number believed to be committed to the minister is stated 156; ten of the bishops we regret to say are included in this nureb,r. A greater number of the right rev. lords, however, will certainly oppose the bill ; the opinions, or rather, the probable votes, of five or six prelates are still unknown.—Standard. On Tuesday, Mr. Pullen, the auctioneer, sold by pub lic auction the Church of St. Benet Fink, Threadneedle street, the interior fittings of which wt re some time since similarly disposed of. The church was erected by Sir C. Wren, in 1673, and is to be removed for the purpose of forming the approaches to the Royal Exchange. The six stone columns with carved capitals, placed along the two sides of the building, and surporting the roof, realised £ll 18s. 6d. ; and the altar windows at the east end, hav ing in the centre a coat of arms iu stained glass, with the date 1695, brought £2. At the Mansion House, on Saturday, a poor girl named Glynn, was brought up by one Bennet, charged with rub bing his family ; this man's daughter and nephew attend ing to substantiate the charge, but it came out the accused had been cruelly seduced by the nephew, and she informed the magistrate (Alderman Gibbs) to their faces that they were worthless characters, the former, as she said, keep ing a vile house and the daughter superintending it, and that this trumped up charge was only a device to get rid of her. The complainants cut a sorry figure, and the worthy Alderman disnaissod the charge. DREADFUL SHIPWRFCRS.—On Wednesday last, two shipwrecks occurred off Harwich, in which fifteen or twenty persons have perished. One of the vessels lost is the Alert, of Whitby, Eskdale, master, bound from Oporto to Lon don. At ten o'clock on Tuesday night she struck on the Long Sand, and capsized at six on the following morning. The master and five others saved themselves in the boar, but seven passengers and two seamen were drowned. The other vessel, name unknown, but apparently of Danish buld, and laden with oats, was wrecked on the Gut.fleet. It is found that the whole of her crew are lost. POTATO DISEASE.—As a proof that there is no natural disease in potatoes, but that the visitation of last year arose from the damp sta e of the weather and the hoar frost, -we may mention the results of an experiment tried by the gardener to Robert Wrigh;., E-q , a Castle Head, near Windermere. He took a quantity of potatoes in a very bad state, cut out the worst parts, and planted up quite strong, and produced an excellent crop, perfectly sound and abundant in quantity. They were of the Ash leaf kidney description. This quite falsifies the assertion 3e disease had been api,roiching for years On Saturday a curious case occurred in the Court of Bankruptcy, in an opposition to a country bankrupt. It appeared the solicitor to the ast.ignees was unAle to leave Southampton, and sent uo the grounds of opposition through the medium of the electric telegraph. It was reduced into writing at the Nit,e Ehn Jati;,o, end for warded by exprt-Es to Mr. Smith, of Serjeant's-it,n, who attended before the commissioner and read the corothu- nication, and the case was adj,}urntd Mr. Smith said that on one occasion a me.age ,• minutes after it wAs dispatched frcm Southampton. SMOKING IN LONDON.—The number of tobacco pipes used in London last year was 364.600 gross, 52,416,000 pipes ; it requires 300 men, each man making 20 gross four dozen per week. for one year, to make them, the cost of which is £46,950. The average length of these pipes is twelve and a half niches, and if laid down in a horizontal position, end to end together, they would reach to the extent of 10,340 miles 16+3 yards ; if tht y were piled one ahove another perpendicularly, they would reach 135.138 times as high as St. Paul's ; they would weigh 1137 tons 10 cwt., and it would rtquire 104 tons 9 cat. 31 lite. of tobacco to fill them. Hors —We had about 160 pockets of hops weighed at the public scales on Saturday, which realised a small ad vance upon the rates of the previous week. There were also some considerable transactions between merchants and dealers ; and upon the whole the market was lively, with a prospect of advancing rates. The duty is set at £lB,OOO. and for the kingdom £170,000 is named. Pre sent prices :-1845, £4 10s. to £7, choice, £7 104. ; 1844, £5 to £6 6d., choice, £6 15s. ; old hops, £2 ss. to £5, choice, £5 12s. per cwt. The reports from all parts of the plantations represent the trine as growing most luxuri antly, and at present there is no attack of fly to cause any apprehension of injury to the crop.— Worcester Journal. THE DEBATE IN THE LORDS.-With regard to the duration of the debate in the Lords on the second reading of the corn bill, which would commence last night, the usually well•infortned London correspondent of the Dub lin Evening Mail says,--" The hill, as stated a fortrught since would be the case, is to be read a second time on Monday next. It is said that the debate will last for se veral nights. The House of Peers never sit on Wednes day, and the Restoration of King Charles (always kept as a holiday) falls on Friday. It is, therefore. possible that the debate may go over the Whitsuntide holidays—in fact, such must be the case if tie protectionists choose to pro long the discussion. But lam biiund to tell you that it is also said that Lord Stanley's purpose is to close the de base on Tuesday night, and that several peers are remain ing in town, and some coming over from Ireland under that itrqression." _ . VERY STRANGE IF TRUE.—John D;pby, a cottager, of Buxton, in Norfolk, and the grower of fonr crops if pntmtoe , in one year, in a letter to the Norinlk Chronicle, will gather produce the fine-t p , tato or potatoes in quality that ever were grown. One quart of these berth s will produce as much as a bus` el of our common po ato. T-ese berries sr, nf a small sub-tarce, and are to he planted whole. Thee must go through a regular process in the course of the winter. which is scarcely any trouble, and of no expense. I now have in my possession a quantity of potatoes raised from these berries last year, and it i% my intention to grow crop after crop this year, until the fourth crop. The size of the potatoes raised from the berry the first year are about that of a duck egg. The berries are so numerous that all England can bes upplied. THE CDT CURIOUS.—A funny recontre took place in Palace-yard, the other day. Dan'O'Connell was wending his weary steps to the house, along the pavement in front of Canning's monument, and Lord Brougham was coming in the opposite direction, on the same pavement. There was no escape. Dan, seeing who was approaching, turned up his nose a. little m )re than usual ; Lord Brougham seemed to think fora second, and deliberately "bonnetted" himself, that is, beat his hat fairly over his eyes, and ran past O'Connell as if he were bewitched. O'Connell laughed heartily, which was heard by Lord Brougham, who afterwards complained of the " rudcuess."—Corres pondent of the Chronicle. MESMERISM.—THE £lOO NOTE.—The six months during which the .E,lOO was to lie in the Messrs. Ball's bank, Dublin, to become the property of any clairvoyant who should read the number, date, &c., of the note with out breaking the envelope, expired on the 18th April, when the envelope was opened in the presence of persons connected with the bank. The note proved to be a printed cheque (No. 1.), is , ued by the house of Messrs. Ball and Co., for £lOO, payable to (Edipus or hearer, and dated the Ist of October,- 1845. The English words (written on a separate piece of paper) were, "To CEdipus alone." To most people the above fact will be conclu sive on the subject of the alleged faculty called clairvoy ance. THE BURDENS ON LAND.—The committee appointed by the House of Lords in the early part of the session to inquire into the peculisr burdens, if any, which land has to bear, have just presented their report. They recom mend an improvement of the law of real property ; that counties and boroughs should be exempt from the portions of expense which they bear for criminal prosecutions and maintenance of prisoner' , ; that owners of houses under the value of £lO shall be made liable for the rates at which they are assessed ; that the expense of supporting pauper lunatics shall be borne by the public generally, as well as some branches of the expenditure for the maintenance and relief of the poor; that the militia rate periodically cast upon the land shall be borne by government ; and that the experiments for testing the process of malting barley for the purpose of fattening cattle shall he repeated, with the co-operation of persons of acknowledged skill in agriculture. THE i{OPE-MAKING TRADE.—We understand that a bill has been brought up before the House of Commons, for the purpose of exempting the rope-making trade from the Factory Act, on the ground that the business is con ducive to the health of the workers; and the using of steam or water power on• the premises is the only reason assigned by the inspectors for placing rope-works under this act. Also, that those roperies where manual labour or horses are employed do not come under its meaning, although manufacturing the same material, and on a simi lar principle. The petition also sets forth the injustice of the private manufacturers being placed under the act ; while the dock-yards at Chatham and otherwise, although equally harsh, are exempt from its operation. A deputa tion from London. Liverpool, the Clyde, and Leith, had an interview with Sir James Graham, on the subject, who was understood to say that government would not oppose the passing of the hill. FATAL EFFECTS OF JESTING.—OH Friday. an inquest was held at Lincoln, touching the death of Sarah Tustin, aged 28, who had died from the eff-cts of taking oil of vitriol. She had been cook at the Lincoln Asylum, and left there on Tuesday, having hired herself for the next year (after the usual May Day holidays) as conk in the family of a respectalde solicitor in that city. It had been arranged that she was io hate the company of her suitor, a young man named Earn,haw, for the holidays, and she went to the house of his sister on Niaud's Hill. On Wed nesday morning Earnshaw was prevented from going to Lincoln, and a fellow -servant of his, who had accompanied his waster to Lincoln fat stock market, had the crue!ty and falsehood to tell her that she need not expect Earn shaw, as he was gone to spe.id his holidays at Boston with another young woman. She immediately procured a quan tity of oil of vitriol, under pretence that it was for cleaning brass utensils, and swallowed about an ounce and a half. A surgeon was promptly called in, but medical aid was vain, and she died the following night. Not long after committing the rash act, Earnshaw arrived at his sister's house, for the purpose of spending his holidays in the company of the deceased, and found her in that dreadful state which the burning acid would cause. The jury re turned a verdict of "Temporary insanity."—Doncaster Gazette. _ _ _ CONSERVATISM AND RomANtsm.--One thing is plain to the most cursory observation—the :tau to neyociale with the Pope of RI me is made safe and ea , v, which by our "rugged" ancestors was utterly blocked up and pro- hibited. The Lord Chancellor of England who is a "con servative"! by the way—talks of the right and the pro priety of Roman Catholic subjects of the crown of Eng land `• moderalf ly and t(mperatelp maintaining the see of Rome in matters spiritual" I 1 This, he declares, cannot be considered any offence against the ,:onstitution of England. It was become impossible to consider such conduct to be any constitutional offence. Such a question as the Pope's supremacy may, it seems, be "mooted" in the present state of the law; and it also appears that the supremacy of the' crown of England stands equally firm on the ground of the common law, as if it were bolstered up by a hundred statutes. But further, it appears. from Lord Brougham's and other speeches, that the Pope's supremacy is "a drtam, a fiction, a fraud, an impmture. a nullity," and soforth; so that there is no occirion for any act to declare or maintain either the supremacy of the crown of England or the nullity and nonsense of the supremacy of the Pope; though "moderately and tem p-7.0(4y' —that'a the phrase—papists !nay "moot" the ecclesiastica There was a great uproar one night last week at till Opera, caused by the absence, on the plea of indisposition assailed with mock salutations and tremendous hissing. An occupant of the stalls called out "No Perrot." with stentorian lungs, at which the feelings of the inventor of the "pas de fascination" were so wounded that he lOst his presence of mind, and he addressed the audience in French, reproaching them for their ingratitude after he had done his " possible" on their behalf, then tore his hair in a rage, and rushed off the stage. This incident stopped the ballet, and the uproar for " Lumley" was re newed. At this stage a diversion was afforded by a tre mendous outcry from the " omnibus box," a•kine " where is Carlotta Grisi ?" but no reply was made to this query. At last, M. St. Leon, the husband of Cerito, came for ward, and spoke in French, beginning. with the words " Respectable public," which immediately commanded attention. He assured the audience that medical men had stated that his wife was incapable of fnllfillir.g her duties on that evening. The uproar was not quelled till Lucile Grab') made a pantomimic appeal to the gallantry of the rioters by clasping her hands at the stage lamps, and the emente continued with more or less force until the fall of the curtain. SIR R. PEEL AND HIS PORTRAIT PAINTERS. — We have been amused with the different portraits which ex cited Protectionist politicians have recently drawn of Sir R. Peel. Here are three samples :—Mr. D'l-raeli, in his speech in the House of Commons on Friday night, termed him " the burglar of other's intellects," described his life as a " grelt appropriati.in clause," and declared that " fr,im the days of the Conqueror down to the termination of the last reign, you will find no statesman who has corn milted petty larceny on so great a scale." The Duke of Richmond, in a similar strain, on Monday evening, ac cused the Premier in the House of Lords of political cowardice and dishonesty, lending a sting to the accusa tion by regretting " the great distinction which some men make between public and private honour." But the editor of the Morning Herald, on Wednesday. put the finishing touch to this painting in black. The Times having, in its sportir•e phraseology, spoken of ''the ele phantine hide of the Premier's p litical conscience ;" the former journalist declares the figure a mistake, for, says he. the Premier " has not the hide of the elephant. 1 - tE HAS MORE OF THE NATURE OF THOSE BEINGS WHO BELIEVE AND TREMBLE,' THOUGH THEY MAY NOT BE there remains noshing more of which he can he accused. AN F LOP EMENT.—Tne clandestine fight of MI,S Fanny Wilkinson, of Gledhow Mount, near Leeds, with Mr. J-shua Burton, Jun., on Monday night last, has been a subj.-et upon which a great deal has been said and conjec tured in Leeds and the neighbourhood, during the last few days. The young lady is highly respectable, being the daughter of John Wilkinson, Esq.. one of our most extensive and opulent flax spinners. The connexions of Mr. Burton are also of very high standing, his father be ing a wool merchant doing a large business, and a bank die ctor. The fair fugitive, we utideratand, is nineteen years of age, and Mr. Burton is some few years her senior. It is supposed that the young lady escaped from her father's house very soon after midnight, accompanied by a female attendant. Mr. Burton was of course near at hand, and a carriage being in waiting in an adjacent road. the party walked o'er one or two fields t.nd then reached the vehicle. By means of this conveyance they travelled rapidly to York, where they arrived sufficiently in time to proceed northwards by a train to Neweas le, which leaves the York station about five o'clock in the mot ning ; from Newcastle, it is presumed, to Gren,a Green, the place so May 26, IR-16. note to that effect for his daughter, Mrs. Pestle, for that purpose. It was considered necessary that the bodies of three other persons should be taken up and examined; and in order to allow time for this to be done, the inquest was further adjourned. At the adjourned inquest a ver dict was returned, that there was no evidence to show how the poison wd- administered. PROTECTION ro BRITISH INDUSTRY.—A. special general meeting of the various protection societies throughout the kingdom was held on Thursday, at Willis's Rooms, St. James's, London, for the purpose of affording the tenant-farmers of Great Britain a further opportunity of expressing their opinion on the commercial policy of the government, and of offering a practical re futation of the statements which have been so indus triously circulated by their adversaries, that they have become converts, or are reconciled to the free trade measures of the minister. The chair was taken by the Duke of Richmond, president of the Central Protection Society. The large room, capable of holding 2000 persons, as well as the passages leading to it, were crowded to ex cess by tenant-farmers and gentlemen interested in agri culture. Deputations were present from upwards of 200 country societies. The room having been found' much too small to hold the number of agriculturists who flocked from all parts of the country tc attend the meeting, a large party of them ad ,pted the suggestion of the Duke of Richmond, and adjourned to a lower room, where they held a meeting under the presidency of the Duke of Buckingham. We cannot give the speeches delivered at these meetings, but we may quote with satisfaction one announcement of the Duke of Richmond—" Lord Stanley will he the leader in the House of Lords, and I will give bail for his honesty as that leader." The meetings are described by the Morning Herald as " the ' great, st fact' of half a century." Lord George Bentinck and Mr. D'lsraeli made excellent speeches on the occasion ; and after the meeting had been addressed by agricul tural gentlemen from various countes, a scene .was enacted, which was evidently copied from the theatre. The favourites were called upon the stage. Lord G. Bentinck came forward to address the meeting, and was received with loud cheers. He was about to commence his address:when the chairman suggested that D'lsraeli also should stand forward. Mr. D'lbraeli accordingly e M f r o . rw M ar i d ie ! , ANrltort...k Miles" voice iles c (c a h m e e ers fo ) rw m ard r. . Mi A les v a tc o e— ca ' rn ' —" And Mr. Stafford O'Brien" (cheers.) Mr. Stafford O'Brien came forward. Several v , ices—" And Cdonel Stbthorpe (loud cheers), and Sir John Tyrrell, and" (loud cheers.) The last-named personages, and several others, having come forward, the entire body of e. ntle men, formed a line in front of the platform. Lord George Bentinck occupied the central and most prominent posi tion, about a step in advance of his colleagues, 'and supported on his left by Mr. D'lsraeli. This arrange ment called forth the repeated cheery of the assembly. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. GENERAL MISCELLANY A monument is about to be erected in Kensall-green Cemetery to the memory of the late Sir W. Alacnaughton. The notorious Joseph Ady was on Friday committed ge of fraud. 3e deaths recorded at Sheffield during the past quarter, is one of a child, one day old, from jaundice. The House of Lords will adjourn on Thursday for the Whitsuntide holidays, till the Thursday following. The Commons will adjourn on Friday, till the same day. In 1835, the number of pairs of boots and shoes imported into this country was 89,302, of which 78,267 pairs were imported from France. _ _ mongs' An inquest jury, on Friday, returned a verdict of man slaughter against the youth Graham, for shooting Blewett The foundation stone of a monument to John Knox. in Edinburgh. was laid on Monday. Dr. Chalmers and Dr. Candlish were among the speakers on the occasion. Captain Gladstone paired off on the. second reading of the Factory Bill (in favour) with Mr. Ludlow Bruges (against). 'Mr. Ferrand, M.P., has just allotted 140 roods of waste land to the combers and weavers, in the villages of Harden and Cullingwortb. Mail says that very alarming accounts have een received as to the health of Lord Lincoln. A violent attack of gout in the heart had assumed a very dangerous The Dublin Joseph Carter, a shoemaker, is in custody in London, charged with having attempted to murder another shoe maker, named Oddv, by stabbing him. The latter lies in a moot dangerous state at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Lord Heytesbury, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, has re ceived an official summons requesting his presence in London to vote in the Lords on the second reading of the corn law bill. On Tuesday, the " Octlands" estate, the well-known estate of the late Duke of York, was sold at public auc tion, for £64,496, exclusive of the timber, which sold for £6.142. The Gardeners' Chronicle remarks that we may rely on being pestered with wasps this summer to a great_extent. vigorous as in June. and as plentiful as in July. At the High Court, Edinburgh. on Tuesday, ten rail way labourers, charged with rioting, fire-raising, and as sault, at Fu•ie Bridge, on the 2nd of March, pleaded guilty, and were sentenced to varirus periods of impri sonment from two years to eight months. The Egholm Park races are to he discontinued till 1850. The reason stated is, that Lord Eglinton's en. gagements in public business, during the period specified, do not permit his lord-hip to devote that attention to the meeting nhich is necessary for its proper existence. _ Five hundred guineas and a splendid t , liver tankard have been presented to Tom Spring, the ex-champion, at general urbane conduct out of it. The m►ners of South Staffordshire, who were out on strike, finding that their employers were indifferent as to their rerurnine work at present, though willing to re t' •t to their pits. ...)em on former terms, have returneu TI e rate of wnges paid iN about 3s. 9d. a day. MANSLAUGHTER.—A verdict of mati.laughter was re- lury, on view o the body of a female who died in childbjd. of itiflin,ma- tion, produced by the alleged treatment of the midwife. New COINAGE. - Some time ago, the Rev. Mr. Adams, of Ilere'ord, suggested to the mint the propriety declined to act upon his proposal at the time, but within the last few days have deiermitied to take his advice. John Weeks, who murdered his brother in August, 1844, at Buxley, and afterwards absconded, committed snieirie last week by drowning himself in a pond near Tunbridge wells, where he has been residing under an as sumed name. On Wednesday, as the Duke of Wellington yr , s cross ing the entrance into Hyde Park, a hack cab ran agab,st him, and but for the presence of mind of a gentleman who puled his grace suddenly back, he must have inevitably been knocked down and run over. His hand appeared About a yrar ago it was determined to raise a testi monial to Dr. Je•phson, the distinguished physician at Leamington. Several thousand pounds were contributed, a por.ion of which has been expended in the purchase of These were oFened gardens MASON, THE INNOCENT CONVICT.—Sir James Gra ham bas conferred a gratuity of £25 upon Mason, as a small token of the misapprehension ur.der which he suffered. Mr. H udson has given lost rations for the em ployment of Mason, if he choose, at t h e earliest oppor- . . SUICIDES.—On Friday week, a young: woman, named Mary Hall, living at Worcester, hung herself to a nail in her bedroom, at the 'White Horse Inn, where she had been living as bar maid fur some time.—On Wednesday. a man unknoa n, threw himself into the river Severn, at Kemp. sey, near Worcester, and was drowned. A young gentleman, named Bennet Bather, an assistant at a sch,td near Brhtnl, was drowned in a bath in that town, last week. He bad gone to the deepest end, where tie water is seven feet deep. and bring enable to swim, was chow,,ed. His companions tried to help him, but d'd not sue. eed in saving him. E CTORS.— By a return recently printed it is stated that there are 553.132 persons on the reciter for Great r/..; 11...iner....P.A.hfi. 468.258 ; Wales, on Air 37. i 92 111.111111r15 uritig—r.rapr7 r 7 awl Scotland, 48,182. In the sest•it.n of 1844 a return wss i,sued prom which is appears that in 1839-43, the numb, 1.,. were 941.782. ERSN.Y IDI R. -F week that busomss done in this market. frr the season, than we have had to report for some time past. There has been a brisk hosinesS in some descriptions of Woollens in the Hall. at rather low prices, and a fair amount of bovine a d ne in the warehouses. LEICESTER.—M ore inquiries are maki g atter Worsted goods, and several buyers have visited our market, but withhold their purchases unto after the midsummer stock taking. Yarns re main the same. A large sale cr two has been effected in Wools. NOTTINGHAM.—The state of the staple manufactures of the midland counties cannt t he said to be improved. The temporal"' demand for cut up hose seems to have ended, as most of the glove trade is still in a pretty lair condition ; but the silk glove nranch is fnither depressed. The drawer, tan aeon, s.nd shirt brunch it is paintill to state. is again falling otl. The silk stock ing trade is now nearly becoming extinct. The fancy bobbin net trade is still in a most depressed condition, and the warp lace trade is wor- e than ever, and this depression has extended to silk blonde, the wages for which have been reduced two pence per yard. In the midst of so much gloom, there is great reason to hope for a lasting and extensive revival in the lace trade, the nvention of ve;vet lace being so far comp:ebA as to put the matter beyond doubt, and the patent specification WU' be enrolled early next month. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL. May. flour. sR 4Te.nro , Ana grui District Court, 11 Ditto, 1 1 rrenry Ltsvis. ~_ Ditto, 11 .6. William Bartley, audit Ditto, 12 26, Ihn Banastre Falkner, audit D Do, 12 26, F. Manero and Co. prop f and div. 26. W ebster and Harrison, proof and div. 26. John Threllfall, proof and div Ditto, IS 26. William Aburrow, Ist .. Court of Bankruptcy, London, 1 2 27, henry Blunt, audit s • • 27, James Robin- Croft 27, George Darrier, audit 2 2 7 7; J J c o ,li h . n i Sanderson, Roberts, proof audit ,n d. div.. Ditto, ' 28, William Hilditeh, audit 26. George Frederick Fairclough. proof R div 26, John H. Pemberton. proof and div. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPI4I.—We have had during ti!el past week a succession of operatic performances at this theatre which have been well sustained, Miss Delcy takiag the leading female characters. Last night this charming singer took her benefit, the piece being the opera of P$ Sonnambula. CHN.AP TRIP TO LONDON.—We would remind thoie of our readers who intend availing themselves of this, cheap excrusion train to London, either on the 30th 01 May, or Ist of June, and who have not yet received thtir tickets, to do so immediately, as we know for a fact, that the number of carriages for this occasion are limited, an, no more than the usual number will be allowed in esc4 carriage. ASSAULTING THE POLICE. —On Tuesday. Henri Lynch, Charles Moody, Richard Phillips; Henry Mer chant, and John Lockwood, were brought up, chzuged with maltreating police•ofcers 529 and 289. while in t he It appeared that, on Mond A new o. execntion of their duty rs of a public-house in Richmond-row. when the prisone interfered, and assaulted them with stones, brickbat s ! &c. Merchant and Moody were fined 40s. and costs, 0t in default to be imprisoned twenty-one days. The othe rs were ordered to pay a penalty of £5 each. or in d,l , ult tv be imprisoned two months; to find bail, themselves 1I £2O each, and two sureties in £lO, or be furl her imPr l ' soned three months. THEATRE ROYAL, WILLIAMSON-SQUARE,—I)ur io ! the past work the stock ctimpany of this theatre 11 ,0 r e , ceived an accession of talent by the temporary engag e . rnent of Miss Emmeline Montague, a young lady of wh o !: ability we have had frequent occasion to speak when , P 5 was amongst us two years ago. Miss Montague 11° 4 since we saw her, made great progress; anti, with stone and applicati,n, is destined to rake the hiAlest stand i t profession. Last night the African Roscius made his fi: appearance this season, for the benefit of t h e treasur e " Mr. Wachls. bp of PIGEON SHOOTlNG.—Pursuant to notice ; a num b -r disciples of the trigger met at Mr. J. Sl l gkesipill Tratimere, to shoot at pigeons, on Wednesday last. .; 1 0 first match consisted of eight members, at 10s , , five b"00 each ; £3 the first, and £1 the second prize. A Pe rs 3 o named Lee, from the neighbourhood of Bolton. wi l ls. first, killing all ; Messrs. Whiteley. S. Mills, T. l‘ il oot and W. Hurst tied for the Ac tut, each killing f , '" f i r dl of five. The same parties afters7ards shot at three ueen easels for another sweep, which terminated in a tie ir! . . °. oinc; Messrs. S. Mills. L , e, Whiteley, and W. Hurst. " I , et itr all. There mat brine sufficient birds to decide the e * the money was divided AMERICAN PRODUCE. into ihe-prrs of Londor iat l . S —The importations of profloci i and Liverpool, from the i' . ! tbe . . . . ~ . . the United States of Americ l ;ten• privileged in the speedy consummation of matrimonial produre of that country, have continued to be of aura the alliances. The occurrence was not discovered by the sive and important character'. The arrivals dots' l a ger family of the young lady until a few hours aft. r her de- past week have comprised an immense number of tr"', o to parture, so that all chance of capturing her in the course containing flour, hams, beef, pork, lard. in adtl'!; occl s were large quantities of wheat and Indian Corn, meal. ' 1 , 0 3 f's r o in f s h ti e t r ut p e r d ec i i n pit t a h te e j i t o r e ur li e ty y , w fr a n s m at an end. hatiri which it was ascertained cake, for feeding cattle; staves, for making casks i' l _,,,llf. that a party had gone in a carriage at an early hour in the cooperage purpose- , generally, and other articles i jn itel direction of York ; and on the same day they were married known as being produced in, and imported from 'h e boar a Gretna Green —Leeds Inldlip.ncer. States. In many instances the articles of food `' n n esili EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF Potsossisio.—During the h a v e comprised an important portion, and in OW e last week the inhabitants of Happieburgh, a village on the the whole of their entire c rrgoes. nu 0 n it,,r 1 .5 Norfolk coast, have been in a state of great excitement, in ASTHMA, SHORTNESS OF BREATH, C--°, 4 „....- 1 4 , consequence of the exhumation of a number of bodies be- COLDS —A TRULY SURPRISING CASE.—T he' y lieved to be poisoned. including those of a man named Williams. the resident Wesleyan minister at rrefltll Jonathan Balls, his wife, and four grand children, all of in the island of A nglesea, states, in a letter da . t i e lo ilowaY 0 whom recently died under very suspicious circumstances. of January, 1845, that he `• recommended ft; ,vis, 11 , 1 1 i; Information of the deaths having been given to Mr. Fil- Pills' to a poor man of the name of Hugh " - ; 0 1. hea vim, the county coroner, be, after some delay, i-sued his at the time was almost unable to walk for wal' e nr pear o a warrant for the exhumation of the bodies, which, when that he had only taken them a few days whet: 2 atuo i, an taken up, were placed in a tent at the back of the ;erish qtfte another man ; his breath was easy aeo n e wout lert church. On Monday last, an inquest was held at the he was increasin g d a ily s cure any cou2h, cold, or asthma. ,sea f o r t isr- ri , in strength." The' ~, tf Hill House, Happisburgh. A post mo , lem examination Pill having been made, the surgeons stated that they had NAVIGATION —To the inhabitants of a - o ther Olbf After the examination of Ann Pestle, wrong suspicions that the parties had been prisoner'. like unto Great Britain, and indeed to eve . r i Y, eg i n cea4, who identified the time nation, every instance of valour or slc o 'L,blf ,`,,, bodies of Jonathan Balls, her father, and Elizabeth Pestle, those devoted to navigation is justly and n i ':, st , heroP ner her darn:liter, the inquest was adjourned to Thursday. On teemed. The deed of Gra( e Darling was ,at t h e u h sc --°° eo Thursday, at the adj , urned itiqu-st, the evidence of the and benevolence; and recently the affair t o, . .. 8 d po t , _ t ., surgeons was proceeded with. Mr. Clowes, a surgeon, " Whim," which has been navigated bur i ; 1 1 1 ba „ds se r io he was called in to by Captain Kerridge and only one ma_n_i ne ~tlier. ov al deposed that on the 20th April last, attend Mr. Balls, whom he found vomiting and retching beard having di, d, with the exception Of u • , s tanee ' f n o rai violently. He died soon alter . He thought his death had was incapacitated. No such other it . , ti , e re cord been 06 been caused by eating some improper kind of fond. lie sk'll and indefatigable exertion is know.n ex `i ,o , ur e R lse k had analysed the contents of the stomachs at Jonathan of naval history ; f out their continual f, _ a 5 ,, a t t.. Balls and Elizabeth Pestle, and found that they contained atmosphere, a quantity of arsenic sufficient to cause death. Messrs. of Rheumati-m, which. had it occurteea. e ___ „,,red._ ~,,t Hewitt and Frith. surgeons. corroborated this last state- that o f the -hi, and cargo, would hay .. n re r , l .o ' wnit od , : n a provided w En an y ape W' went, Phoebe Neave deposed, that some years since she guard ag ainat t s h u e r y h w a e c r a e la i m n it h y o . u w d e y 7 1 77:::::: 6 ::::: refused the request of Jonathan Balls to write a note to all persons should be al p r. Saddler. chemist, for arsenic, with which the deceased Rheumatic Pill , , which may be taken at 4 said he was going to poison rats ; but she had written a restraint of employment. STATE OF TRADE MANCIIESTKR.—The continuance of fine weather and the prospect of the growing crops, coup ed with the somewhat ea , ier state of the n•oney market, appear to have given both •kippers and buyers for the home nv.rket a little more confi dence. The transact ons of the week have been on a iair scale, and prices remain tolerab:y firm with an upward tendency in the principal staples. The stocks of Yarn are very light, and prices are firm. being' well supp rted by the high rates of the raw • taple. We quote to day's prices for 26-inch 56 reed printers, 3s 8 , 1; 27-inch 64 ditto, 45 3d ; 27- nch 66 dirt' as 6d to 4i 9tl ; 27-inch 72 ditto. 55 lid to 55 aid; 36-inch 66 ditto, 5s lid; 3p-inch 72 ditt 6s 6cl; 40-inch G.E. 66 reed, gs to gs 3d; 411 inch G.F. 72 reed, ps ad to pi; KOCHI), LE.—There has been a thin attendance of luyerS in the market on Monday, and the bu!iness transacted was very limited, with, ut any change in prices. The Wool market waS quiet. and prices the same as last week. I eeus.—Not much hu-iness was done in our Cloth Halls on either atorday or Tuesday last; but the sales made in th" Halls are not a correct cri`erion at all times of the actual state of the Woollen trade; for sornetim. s, and the practice is increasing rally, large quantities of goods are delivered direct from the manufacturers tothe merchants. Such has been the case during the pr., sent week sevtral of the large shipping houses having received considerable quanti:ie- of goods. Stocks continue lot sma 1 in the bands of the manufacturers. many of w. om are now making to order. Prices are firm, and a good autumn trade s generally anticipated. BRADY RD.—Trade is assuming a rather improved aspect here, yet there are still many manufacturing operative:: out of employment. Great hopes are indulged thkt the passing of the free trade measures of the Government will lead to an extended demand for our piece goods, 'and that we shall have a good nut; mn trade. A fair anion' tof business was done in the piece market on Thursday, at late prices. No alteration in the Wool or Yarn departments worthy of notice. —We h the p easure of reporting this