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

May 19, 1846 iota! anZi Vrabintial 8.M5. ST. JAMES'S CHURCH.—On Thursday, a meetir ' e of the proprietors of pews was held in the above Church, to consider the best means of repairing the roof and venti lating the building. Mr. Hampton presided, and Mr. Royden was called to the chair. The chairman pointed out the insecurity of the roof of the church, and mentioned several improvements that might be made in the interior, to make it more commodious, and afford more accommo dation to the poor. The proposed alterations would cost about £6OO. During the last four years £7OO had been expended in repairing and improving the church ; only about. £lO O of which had been contributed by the seat owners. tie suggested that a rate of one year's pew rent be levied on the roprietors to be collected immediately, and that the repairs of church be commenced without delay. The course pointed 6 t by the chairman was ap proved of by the meeting. It was rated that in case the plan proposed did not produce a suffie.ie:::w of funds, a subscription would be made. PAVING AND SEWERAGE.—At the usual weekly meet kg of the Commissioners, on Thursday, a letter bac!:2, , / been received from Mr. Duncan as to some new taps and pipes required at the water-works in Green-lane, a long 6. l seussiOn ensued, several members being of opinion, that from the present eiretirrstances in which the Board was placed as regarded the Corporations, it would ri , :t be desirable to incur further expense at present. It was ul timately decided to wait until the law clerk's return from London. The Chairman read a letter from Mr. Deane, the law-clerk, as to the position of the Board in reference to their bills in Parliament, from which it appeared that, after a lengthened discussion with the gentlemen in charge of the Corporation Bill, the latter, in consideration of all opposition to the Corporation Bill being withdrawn, con sented to the introduction into that bill of a clause to legalize the costs incurred by the commissioners in re spect to their two bills, and to authorise the same to be deducted out of any moneys which may come into their hands previously to the surrender of their powers to the Corporation. The letter also stated that the committee had announced their unanimous decision that the pream ble of the Corporation Bill had been proved, and that the resolution of the committee was unanimous, which, of course, disposes of the Toxteth-Park Bill as well as that of the Liverpool Commissioners. DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY. — James Gent was appointed assistant at the transit sheds, at a salary of 255. per week ; James Thom and John Harrison, as foremen coopers at the Albert Dock, at a salary of £2 per week each. The Harbour Masters Committee recommended the following appointments :—Mr. M'Bride, as dock master, to the Albert and Salthouse Docks, at a salary of £3OO per annum, with £4O for house rent, until he is pro vided with a residence ; Mr. Herbert, as assistant to Mr. M'Bride, at a salary of £l6O per annum. Jeremiah Griffiths, one of the gatemen at George's Dock, was ordered to be dismissed for being intoxicated while on duty, be having been several times reported. The Parlia mentary Committee reported as to the present position of the Dock Bill ; it had passed the standing orders of the House of Lords ; and, with regard to the opposition of the Liverpool and Bury Railway. the committee up stairs had decided, and made good the objections taken by the trust to the making of works on the north sides of their northermost docks, the necessary notices not having been complied with. The line of railway the company pro posed to make on the east side of those docks would stand good, and would have to be opposed on its merits. It was stated that several dock gatemen would be required at the Albert Dock, and the appointments would be made on Wednesday. PUMPING OPERATIONS.-013 the 31st July, 18-13, the coal mines of John Fitzgerald, Esq., at Pendleton, were stopped by a large influx of water , which stopped alto gether the getting of coal at Pendleton, which suppled Manchester market with that article to the extent of nearly a thousand tons daily. Mr. Fitzgerald having re solved to get rid of this water, set several pumping engines to work, equivalent altogether to that of 260 horses. The quantity of water pumped and otherwise raised from the pit is calculated to have averaged from 3,000 to 3,500 gallons per minute, during about twelve months! 180,000 gallons an hour; 4,320,000 gallons per day of twenty-four hours ; or, in a whole year, not less than 1,576,800,000 gal lons of water must have been raised and got rid of at the lower estimate of 3,000 gallons a minute. On the 24th December last, it was found that the surface of the water in the pit had been lowered to the level of the aperture by which the influx from the other mines had flooded the pit 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 cut 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, to the 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 tember. Their particulars are known, and their payment stopped. The box also contained the manifest of the ship Passenger ; and scrip, estimated at £40,000 in se veral railways. The clerk states shat he took the box di rect to the Royal Bank. laid it upon the counter, and re- The wheelwrights and smiths at Manchester have re turned to work. The expense of the packet service, between Liverpool and 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 her 'den, and commanded by Capt. Rsthbone, 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. STARRING.—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 bad first struck him, and knocked out one of his teeth. FURIOUS DRIVING.—The folloViing parties were sum moned before the magistrates, on Wecirws.do.y. and fined for the above offence, namely, John Moore, 40s. and 'Costs; Hugh Nl' Cartney, 205.; and Chas. Davenport, 20s. Last Monday, Thomas Pagan, living in Portland-street, fell down stairs, whilst intoxicated, and received such a shock as to cause concussion of the brain, of which he died the same night. On Saturday, a fire broke out in a mill occupied by Messrs. Galt, Albion-street, Gaythorn, Manchester, which :vas 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 that he died almost immediately. _ The Mersey and Ribble CariYing 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 2a. 61 _ A man named Brown, living at Warrington, has bee❑ committed for trial charged with the manslaughter of his father. A quarrel took place betwren 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 Birkenhead, of an assault on Thomas Founds and Thomas Lloyd. Nealewas an old offender, and was sentenced to two months' imprisonment; Farrell was ordered to pay 40 5., or, in default to be imprisoned one month. LOST CHILDREN.—Under this head, Captain Willis, the chief constable, in his statistical returns of the Man chester police reports, s tates that, during the year 18 45 , the total num b er o f children reported to be lost amounted to 4064. Of these, )702 were restored to their parents by the police, the remaining 2362 having been found by their Parent s or friends. A. Rio Janeiro journal speaks of a project for esta blishing a transatlantic communication between Liverpooland Para by means of steam ; from which latter place it is intended that boats of less steam-power and dimen hus shall ascen d t h e r i ver o f th e Amazons, as far as Bolivia; while a railway shall cross the country to Arica, on the Southern Sea. TUE " 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 cur ocal legislature. , A FACT F OR T EMPERANCE ADVOCATES.—Thelltitn uer of perso ns b roug ht b e f ore the M anc hester justices durin g the past year, charged by the police with having been found " drunk and incapable," amounted to 2185, and of persons " drunk and disorderly," 2003. What amount of money ma y h ave b een s p en t in bringing about thiscons ummation, is a question we leave for Mr. Bab ba ie and his calculating machine. FATAL ACCIDEN T IN F ORDING THE DEE.-00 Satur day week, as the carriage of the Hon. Lloyd Mostyn 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 seat on the box into the river and drowned. The guide managed to extricate the horses and carriage, and re turned 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, pliced at the bar of the police court, on a charge of smuggling whiskey. It appeared that the prisoner was stopped on his wry 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 Stanhope-street, with eleven pounds of tobacco con cealed under his coat. •••••• • . 0 • V V BUILDINGS WITHIN THE BOROUGH OF MANCHESTER. turned to the office. The clerk at the bank states, upon We learn from Captain Willis's police statistics, that the the other hand, that tbe box. if left upon the counter, number of buildings, on the 31st December, 1845, within was not seen by him, and that upon looking over all the the borou g h, were 5(1744. He classifies them as follows: other boxes which had been sent in upon Saturday factories, 123; foundries, 48; warehouses and workshops, evening, and missing tbe identical one from the number, 3813; dwelling-houses, 41,606; shops used as dwelling- he reported the circumstance. Nothing further was houses, 4712; cellar dwellings, 5385; places of worship, heard of the matter for some hours afterwards, when the 9 7; 'public schools, 106; military barracks, 1 ; banks, 16; missing box, emptied of the whole of its contents, was markets, 14 ; railway stations, 4 ; gas stations, 5 ; work- found in one of the streets leading from London-road to houses, 2; infirmary, hospitals, and dispensaries, 7; Islington. It was immediately conveyed by the police night asylum, 1; lock-hospital, 1; penitentiary, 1; public man on duty to the Central Police-station, where a re institutions, 27. The cellar dwellings, being only portions port of the robbery was subsequently made. Placards of other dwellings, are not included in the gross total. have been issued, offering £2OO for the apprehension of MANSLAUGHTER.—Last week an inquest was held at the thief or thieves, and other necessary steps taken, but Halton. near Runcorn, on the body of a young man no tidings have yet been heard. Circumstances which named Thomas Gerrard, the son of a respectable farmer, have since transpired completely exonerate both the clerk tenant to Sir Richard Brooke, Bart., of Norton Priory, who conveyed the box, and the clerk at the bank, from who had died, it was supposed, in consequence of injuries all suspicion, if any ever attached to him. received in his side. It appeared that be had been at a CAUTION TO EMIGRANT AGENTS.—On Thursday, Public -house in Lower Walton, and had a fight with two Lieutenant Hodder, the government agent, appeared be trties- one of whom he subsequently complained had fore Mr. Rushton to pr efer a char g e a g ainst John Keenan, kicked him in the side. The evidence having been fnlly an emigrant agent in this town, for having fraudulently Bone into, and a post mortem examination made, the jury obtained money from six perions who had come from Ire found a v er di c t of manslaughter against William and land, and had taken their passage to New Y or k, b y re- P eter Berwi c k, and they were committed to Chester presenting himself as J. W. Shaw , emi g rant a g ent. It a %tie t o take their trial at the next assizes. appeared that the complainants, together with a number .0 t a THE STRIKE AT MANCHESTER.—We are not aware of other persons, had paid a deposit of £1 each to Mr. there is anything fresh to report respecting the move- O'Neal, agent at Cork for Messrs. J . W. Shaw and Co., m eats of the masters, one firm whose premises have been in order to secure berths on boa rd the ship Mayfield, for u nder the protection of the police-officers, are so con- New York. A printed ticket, with Mr. Shaw's name in rinsed that the strike is at or near an end, that the offi- large letters , was given to each of them by Mr. O'Neale , een th e h ave been dispensed with by them. The meeting of to show they had taken their passage. The p arties arrived o Co mmittees Liverp ool and Manchester will be held in this town on Sunday evening , by the Cork steamer, in en Tuesday , in this town, we understand , to consider and company with 150 o ther emi g rants. When they landed, decideQs upon the rules to govern the association. These, they were met by a person in Mr. Keenan's em p lo y , who, Live rpool hav e b e f ore s t a t e d, have been preparing both at upon the tickets being shown him, directed them to Mr. _ and Manchester, and this meeting will be pre- Keenan's o ffi ce. Whilst there, one of them asked for Mr. i?aratory to assembling the united committee.—Manches- Shaw, and he was then shown Mr. Keenan. The man, ter Courier. on coming up to him, inquired if he was Mr. Shaw, to b_CHILD CHOKED BY A PEA.—On Tuesday last, a little which Mr. Keenan replied in the affirmative. The tickets en% scarcely two years old, living near Crumpsall, not far were presented to him, and £4 each additional was exacted t r c'ln Manchester, had a few peas given to it by its mother for their passage. This was paid, and another ticket , cs Play with, when, it appears, the little thing swallowed given to them for their passage in a vessel called the Ash -4,9e, and immediately exhibited symptoms of choking. burton, which would not sail for detect time after. The Ash- The child was immediately taken to a surgeon, who fear- poor fellows not being able to the fraud, walked long that, from its difficulty in breathing, it would die if away, and did not find out the trick which had been played ,81,3rmething was not done, made an incision into the child's upon them until they sought a passage on board the May ;n. oat, and inserted a flexible tube for the purpose of ena- field, which left the port on Wednesday morning last, with ..°_n a ng the little sufferer to breath, but all this was of little a number of the friends of the complainant. Mr. Rush il, for the child died in about an hour afterwards. Upon ton, after carefully investigating the case, said the magis 71e:ening the region of the throat and wind pipe, on the trates would not be doing their duty if they did not mark larynxng morning, a pea was found firmly fixed in the the case by the utmost penalty the law could defendant was accordingly fined £lO, and his e migra tion ILLEGAL .A PPROPRIATION . — On Friday, at the Ses- license revoked. 11 Hen ry s, Henry Wm. Stevens, John Tho mas P ou l es land, and Nothing but an inspection, we can assure our readers, H Avery, were tried for appropriating to their own will satisfy them as to the wonderful perfection which the use £l4O, received from Messrs. Hornby and Co., as the French have attained in their imitation of fruits and premium of an insurance in the Liverpool Fire and Life flowers. An hour spent in this delightful way, at Mrs. Company. It appeared that the prisoners were all clerks Girvan's establishment, Upper Arcade, will satisfy them In the company's office; and that Stevens, whose duty it that we have not hinted idly. Was to collect the money, or one of the others, received it. KIRKDALE FLORAL AND HORTICULTURAL SHOW. — They laid in stores and 'were on board a vessel on the point It is with pleasure we refer our readers to an advertise of sailing for New York, when they were apprehended. ment in our paper of to-day, announcing the first borti- The court was crowded with persons, who appeared to cultural exhibition for the season, at Kirkdale. on Tues take great interest in the proceedings; the connexions of day, the 26th, and not the 25th, as errononeouely stated the lads being of the most respectable character, and their by a contemporary. The arrangements are such as will conduct up to this time exemplary. The prisoners were found guilty ; and Stevens was sentenced to be imprisoned four months, and his companions three months each. MEETING IN TOXTETH-PARK.—On Wednesday even ing a meeting was called in Torteth-park of persons fa vourable to an amalgamation of the highway trusts of that township with those of Liverpool, under the management 2f the Corporation. The meeting was held in Toxteth- Mill-street. Mr. Richard Harbord, presided. A zsultory discussion took place, in which Mr. May, Mr. unb urY Mr J Finh sen Mr Wing, r. Hugh es, and other ' • • ' •' gentlemen took part. Mr. are Paine proposed, as thisfollows:—" meeting, that an amalgamation of North and South I°_ateth Wards with the borough of Liverpool, so far as will,,ighway trust and supplying of water are concerned, shi p , inasmuch highly conducive to the best interests of this town as it will lead to a reduction of local tax ation, not only surpass those of previous years, but are enterec rich spirit by Mr. New and others, that we fee lat 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 into wit satisfiei 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 of the 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 THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. JUNCTION RAILWAY, On Saturday, in pursusl., ment, a meeting of the serip.: AH , tion Railway Company was heid this town, for the purpose of submi'!:s:t'", . ation a bill now pending in parliamen4. for making a railway from Mold, in the col to the Hooton station of the Chester and ir~r~►,,. Railway." About a dozen of the meat substantial shrreholdeia were present, including Edward Oakeley, Esq., Philip Davies Cooke, Esq., John Wynne Eyton, Esq., Thomas Jones Wilkinson, Esq., &c. Mr. OAKELEY, Chairman of the Provisional Directors, presided, and made an interesting statement, shewing the prospects of the company to be highly favourable. He said that the bill which they had met to consider had been read a second time. The capital proposed to be raised was £280,000, in 5,600 shares, and one call had been made—a deposit of £2 15s. per share—which bad been paid on the Thole of the shares. In consequence of a few of the al lottees not having paid their deposits, such shares had been sold at a premium, the profit of which would go to the cr , clit of the company. The prospects of the concern were, in every respect, very promising. Independent of the general traffic, the contiguity of the line to the Vale of Clwyd afforded a certainty of great returns from parties going on pleasure excursions from this and other localities. The mineral traffic was of the best description. They could supply coal to Birkenhead and its neighbourhood, and to the steam-boats on the Mersey. They could also supply excellent building-stone, limestone in a calcined state, bricks, &c. ; and many circumstances would give an advantage to the shareholders. It was gratifying to state that the landowners throughout the line were almost una nimously in favour of the undertaking, including Sir Ste phen Glynne, the lord-lieutenant and member for the county, who would have been present, at the meeting, but was detained in London by his duties in Parliament. The lord-lieutenant, the high sheriff, and the grand juries of the counties of Denbigh and Flint, had petitioned in favour of the bill. He concluded by saying, that if any gentleman wished for further information, he would gladly supply it. In reply to a question put by a Scripholder, the CHAIR MAN said that the parliamentary and other expenses so far did not exceed 255. a share. He explained that the utmost economy had been observed by the directors, but that the parliamentary expenses were the same for a short line like theirs (of about 14 miles) as of one much longer. The expenses of the proposed Birkenhead and Llangollen line (which had since fallen through) were much greater. On the motion of Mr. WYNNE EYIoN, of Leeswood, seconded by Mr. JONES WILKINSON, it was then " Resolved unanimously,—That the shareholders pre sent having heard the statement of the Provisional Directors, do hereby fully authorise them to proceed in their application to Parliament for a bill to construct the said railway, subject to such modifications or arrange ments as they (the directors) may deem expedient ; and resolved unanimously. that the directors be empowered, if they should deem it to the interest of the company, to postpone further proceedings in parliament until the next session." Mr. COOKE said he believed their traffic table would exhibit most favourable features. They could carry coal, lime -stone, building-stone, brick, tiles, pottery, lead, &c. at a cheap yet advantageous rate. There would be no tunnel on the line. One had been in contemplation, but it was decided that an inferior gradient at that point was preferable. A tunnel would cost £lO,OOO, and the extra expense of locomotives to work the gradient would be about £lOOO a-year only, so that the latter was fixed upon. Mr. RIGBY (we believe), said he was now carrying 3,000 tons a-week from the district of the line—that he was about to open three new coal-mines, and that the whole of that traffic would fall into the line. Mr. COOKE said the directors had no individual interest in the line, beyond having property in the district. Their chief object was, that the railway should open out the mi neral wealth of that valuable part of Wales. If formed, it would also undoubtedly command a great traffic for plea sure parties, particularly on Saturdays, as they could spend the Sunday in delightful and salubrious localities to which it would convey them. The scrips, which were of large amount, were then noted and returned, and the meeting, which was marked by the utmost unanimity, broke up. THE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION the Protestant faith of their fathers. He exhorted those around him to go and do likewise, that such a declaration .e of the new orders of midis- might become general through the country. The next Triers in the Mold J unc- parliament would make or mar England—the next parlia •hc Adelphi Hotel, in ment would either recover their lost ground or s,nd them *o their consider.. further down the inclined plane of religious error ; but be ''.d " A hill it that Anti-Christ was about to prevail ; its temporal tri. Flint, umph would be but the prelude of its everlasting over 'd throw. r0, ,,r) ,s visitation t ' Mr. J. BATFMAN; in . proposing the next resolution, `-d the testimony or Sir R. Peel. to allow that the ,Heaven o' f for Providence,tbe c one : s h s i t c o h i:s had deprived mygte,...st, , n of the poor in Ireland of food, was the a great p:IT" s- which had punishment ° year, and for the ne.lect of the )... .titionP of been made last , - •.qt tant fell ° I also es fellow-subjects. jects. It `was 1,500,000 of our Pr, R. Peel was last th rown ou t of singular that when Sir ..„,,,,,,. office by the late Whig gove...'"'"" it was by a m a j or i ty of 32, exactly the number of mt:.'nl)(:rs which, under the Roman Catholic Relief Bill, the Prennij." had treacherously admitted into the House of Commons. ..iglin, Sir R. Peel had deceived his Protestant supporters, a;:`..! 'utak, he was tottering to his fall, and when he fell, be trusted that he would " fall like Lucifer, never to rise again." The Rev. Mr. M'ILwAINE seconded the motion, and the resolution, which was a protest against the principles of the Maynooth grant and the public encouragement of l'opery was then put and carried. Several other gentlemen addressed the meeting. 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 steamships 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 Ender, 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 ter 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, wriren 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. PILOT AG E.—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. ARCHITECTURAL CONGRESS.—The architects from all parts of the world talk of bolding a general congress of architects once every three years, the first to take place at Athens. Lord Worsley, ALP., 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, teat when the " Religious Opi nions Relief Bill" is passed, the Pope will have more au thority, and Romanists more license in this country tha of the Popish countries of the continent The annual meeting of this society was held on Wed- in any nesday in the large room at Exeter-hall. FIGHT FOR £5OO.—A pugilistic encounter took place Mr. PLUMPTRE, who occupied the chair, expressed his the other day between Gill (of Coventry) and Norley (of satisfaction at once more meeting the friends of the so- Manchester) for £5OO, at a place called Withy Green, near ciety in defence of the Protestant faith. He did not wish Oxford. After a hard fight Gill was declared the victor. on the present occasion to speak in terms of antipathy or The number of fires that have taken place in the metro unkindness towards his Roman Catholic fellow sinners, polis and its suburbs since the commencement of the year, but as to the system of the Church of Rome, be felt according to the records kept by the brigade authorities, bound constantly to protest against it. He had had amounts to more than 300. many opportunities of seeing the tyranny which was ex- In the years 1835-39, there was 315 murders, and in the ercised over the Roman Catholics in Popish countries. year 1840-44, there were 347 ; being an increase of ten per He was sorry to say that i n the E s t a blished Church of cent. ; while the increase of the population would account England there were men who were propagating the prin. for but six per cent. ciples of Popery, but who were destitute of the honesty to The Rev. Dr. Ullathorne, of Coventry, has been ap avow their connexion with the Roman sect. He looked p o i n t e d R om an Catholic vicar-apostolic of the western upon the concessions which had been made to 11omanisnn district, in the place of the late Dr. Briggs. Dr. Ulla as a heavy blow dealt at the Protestant faith. It would thorne is a member of the Benedictine order. therefore be their duty, henceforth, to resist such conces- On Thursday, between the hours of four, a.m. and five, sions to the utmost, for although there might be trying p.m., no fewer than seven fires occurred in the metropo and sifting times before them, he had very little doubt his, some of which were attended with considerable da that the cause of truth would ultimately triumph. mage. The Secretary then read the report.—The first portion Major Beniowski has discovered a simple process by of that document was employed in denouncing the con- which the daily newspapers, or any book printed from duct of her Majesty's government, who under the pre- common type, may be printed so as to be read by the tence of expediency had sacrificed the institutions of the blind. country, and to drown the cry of justice to Ireland had Mrs. Jane Culliford, who has reached her 108th year, attempted the destruction of the church. The present walked a few days since to Taunton from Yeovil Marsh, government had followed in the path of their predeces- two miles. She appeared in good health and full of sors, for the Charitable Trusts Bill, the Religious Opini- energy.—Doreet ufirontrie. ons Bill, and others of a similar character brought forward On Sunday week a fine Dutch galliot arrived at Preston by them, were all steps in the wrong direction. The re- with a cargo of oats from Holland, This is the first ves port then referred to the vigorous efforts made by the so= sal of the kind that has been up at Preston, and a great ciety to oppose the progress of the Maynooth Bill—the number of persons witnessed its arrival. number of petitions then presented against it being more At a special meeting held at the India House, on Wed than 10,000, and the signatures amounting to a million nesday, a pension of £5OOO and £2OOO per annum, were and a quarter. The total receipts of the society for the voted, by a large majority, to Lord Hardinge and Lord year were £1,157, and the expenditure £1,044, the Bahl- Gough respectively. lities incurred being about £250. Their stock in hand A handsome collar has been presented by the Humane might be valued at £5OO or £6OO, but this could not at Society to the dog " Bess," which saved a female from once be made available for the society. The number of drowning at Granton Pier in November last. The collar additional subscriptions during the past year bad consi- bears a suitable inscription engraved on silver. derably increased. Several standard Protestant works The " strike" at Birmingham is at an end. The mas had been added to the publications of the society, and nu- ters have withdrawn the written declaration, and the men merous grants bad been made for the cause at home and are to declare verbally that they do notsupport any branch abroad and in the colonies. The report expressed the of the building trades that is at present " out on strike." satisfaction which should be felt at the establishment of STRIKE FOR WAGES.—The shipcarpenters and sawyers the college at Malta, the National Club and the Evange- at Maryport made a general strike on Friday morning for lical Alliance fur the maintenance of Protestant principles. an advance of wages. They have hitherto had 18s. per The report concluded by stating the confidence which the week and demand 20s.—Cumberland Parquet. Protestant world had reason to feel in the ultimate tri- SEAMEN IN LONDON.—The number of unemployed umph of the truth. seamen in London is less than for many years past, there Sir D. MACKWORTH moved the first resolution that not being above 200 in the Sailors Home, nearly the the report be adopted Ile regretted that the Romish whole of whom have but just returned from distant voyages. church met with so sad an ally in tkis country, not in Captain B. A. Somerset has consented to stand for those who were at present inclining to its doctrines, but Monmouthshire, on protection principles, at the first in the general apathy and indifference of the people. opportunity. Lord Granville Somerset is the present After adverting to the doctrines contained in the charge member, and has displeased the electors by voting for of the Archbishop of Lyons, and the state of religious opi• free trade. nions in France generally, he concluded by saying that he Nine persons went through the ceremony of initiation spoke in no spirit of enmity to Roman Catholics, and that into the freedom of the borough of Alnwick, by wading he relied upon the distribution and reading of the bible as through a muddy pool, called the " Freemen's Well," and the ultimate and great support of the Protestant princi- perambulating the boundaries of the moor, on St. Mark's plea. Day. The Rev. Mr. STowELL said that they were there a A Naptha Company has taken a portion of the Dart body of men much misunderstood, very much maligned, moor prison, which was formerly inhabited by the French but by the blessing of God they were there unshaken in prisoners, for the purpose of erecting a chemical apparatus, their principles, and undiminished in their confidence. and extracting Depths, ammonia, tar, &c., from the peat The candle which was lighted by Laimer and Ridley was with which Dartmoor abounds. not to be put out because there were traitors in the camp. A. pauper named Patrick M`Carthy, aged 68, committed No, it would shine out, and never be extinguished till it f - . 4 c , tine wounds on his person with a knife, in was lost in the blaze of eternity. The retrospect of the 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 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 7'elegraph. A bootmaker at Bradford, named Gudgeon,.llas been v aughter There was another feature of the past year in the secessi ons which had taken place from the church of England . . prisoner had a pitched battle with a man named Beards worth, and the latter received such injuries during the affray as to cause his death. 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 The quantity of salt sent from the United Kingdom to foreign countries in 1843. was 12,9-16,452 bushels ; in 1844 13,413,884 bushels; in 1845, 14,319,482 bushels. By far the greater part of this quantity was exported from Liver pool. 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 wh - om they were the parents, They which ROmanismexercised on the heart of every one, however gentlemanly, however sensible or ,good 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 I I to hand them over to the ravening wolves of Rome. We were acquitted. FOOD FOR ENGLAND.—There have been shipped from ,ondon, this week, over thirteen thousand ittore. to 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 ber borders, she would lose the confidence of Protestant Eng- land. And if Dr. Pusey, and those who thought witt s of flour s as many nnrlr. lard kc.—New York He, a boy fourteen years of age, living at Lam ..d himself by hanging whilst showing his over, t , apping was executed at were would grand o 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 execu- share the dark abyss of, Romish [ley mu so unless it was intended that hereafter there should be a bridge across the gulpb which 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- POI SONIN G.—Several members of a respectable family named Ball, in Norfolk, having recently died tinder cir cumstances which excited suspicion, the bodies have been exhumed, and the discovery made that their death was caused by arsenic. It is said that suspicion rests on more than one person. RICH ACTRESSES.—Mrs. Kean, Mdlle, Taglioni, ; and turns the beam ag Kenneth IV kill ; is o native a MELANCHOLY CASE.—On Monday evening, about nine o'clock, a man rung the belt at the door of Mr. Probyn, of Lower Belgrave•street, London, and on its being opened by the servant, she was told that her mother had died very suddenly. The announcement had such an effect on the poor girls mind, that she ran up stairs and was heard to exclaim, that " She would soon be with her mother." Immediately a loud crash was heard in t house, into which she had thrown herself window, and fractured her arm and other injuries. She was perfectly sens veyed to Sr. George's Hospital. LOAN SOCIETIES. —We tear its name is I them at their homes My visit to t rea of the 'rom the attic rid met with nd was con- mentary r would se Cuba aporting- .s of these people ying the effects of_nang EFFECTS OF TRACTARIINISM F. Mr. Maslen nrpnr'neti to t patrick Recorder. The pupils of M of a music —At Kilmore,on Su raid, Apr Last w The deceased and Ire( acted in accordanCe will fell to a dc lese three persons composed the congregation, .ar consisted of as many hundreds.—Down- all in London Among themselves they have the most extensive shopping establishments in Glasgow, mat and made purchases to the extent of £BO-. On examining be Dr the contents of her purse, she found she had only £5O, • li _rid figures in theatrical costumf £2lO, and a Rembrandt, from the Winckler collection , cony___ was bought by another gentleman connected with the copy of a "prohibitory order" now i trade, for £204. Unions of England, which preclude e erection I RATHER NEW.—A few days ago, a lady visited , one of . exercising any discretion in the case er for I the reply of the Commissioner of the guardia but was acco .rtaken, as Soper has been, by severe Fanny Kemble, Fanny_ Ellsler, Miss Stephens, (n Dow;ger Countess of Essex) Miss Shirreff, and Cosily others, have accumulated large fortunes by their -pro fession. We believe the richest actress on the stage at present is Madame Celeste. On Tuesday week Edward Powell, of Cargwell, was 3,... grinding a knife. on a new stone, weighing about 10 cwt. , when too much power was applied to the wheel and the stone flew to fragments, breaking the thigh of the unfor tunate man, and forcing the knife into his lower jaw. He 4 . d~ti in a few minutes. Gova: NG ' ... —Mr. Bingham, the magistrate , recently sorry to see that the horrible most barba -ttlements of America, was rapidly roes part of the back: try; and that he was deter gaining ground in this (0t,.7 that came before him, to mined, in every case of the kino. check such brutality as much as LC , ' The Times of yesterdeky week was pa supplement the full size of the principal sheet, In tamed 1,941 advertisements, the duty on which would £145 Ils. Gd. ; which, added to £125, the stamp duty on 30,000 conies, the average daily _ circulation, gives with a ' ^on- £270 Ils. 6d., as the contribution of the Times of yester day week to the revenue of the country. THE SQUADRON or EVOLUTION.—Ort Wednesday last the experimental squadron got under weigh at Portsmouth and proceeded to sea, accompanied by numerous yachts and steamers, filled with curious spectators. A sharp squall, which came on about two o'clock, soon put the latter to flight, and about five o'clock the fleet was lost from sight A verdict of " Wilful Murder" has been returned against Eliza Clark, who threw ber children into the river over Battersea Bridge. The body of the third child has been found. On Friday, at the Central Criminal Court, the unfortunate woman was found not guilty, on tie ground of insanity. She will be confined during her Majesty's pleasure. Alexander Reid, a sailor, belonging to the frigate Row ley, was brought up at Bow-street, on Wednesday, having been caught sleeping in a tent in the royal garden at Buck ingham Palace. lie stated that he only went into the garden to see the Queen, and being sleepy, was tempted to lie down o❑ her Majesty's sofa. The prisoner was re manded. At Sunderland, on Wednesday, Robert Henry Leigh ton, master, John Bowmaker, mate, and William Grozier and Thomas Fairclongh, seamen, and Thomas Wallace, an apprentice, part of the crew of the schooner Helen, of Sunderland, were committed to Durham gaol on a charge of sinking the vessel by boring holes in her bottom, while on her way to the Baltic. CARNA AVON IiEGATTA.-At the preliminary meeting for the holding of this year's regatta, it was determined that the contests should come off on Thursday, the 27th, and Friday, the 28th August neat. The Hon. Colocel Douglas Pennant, member for the county, will be pre sident. Three superb pieces of plate stand over from the contests of last year. . . . Within the last ten days no fewer than eighty of the water-fowl have been found dead around and in the orna mental water of St. James's Park. It was determined to watch ; and it was found that a pair of Egyptian geese, which had not long been placed in the park, were in the habit of attackit g the smaller birds, and that one bite was sufficient to cause death. CH F ESE.-It acpears from a parliamentary return that for the year ending the sth January last, the importation into Great Britain of European cheese was 201,253 cwt. ; from the United States of America, in the year, 66,337 cwt.; and from the British possessions, 234 cwt., making the aggregate of the importation of cheese in one year, 267,824 cwt A MALTHUSIAN VlLLAGE.—Glapwell, a village near Chesterfield, was thrown into a state or unusual wonder- ►rent and .urprise last week, through a tercale resinent there having given birth to one of her own species, an event which had not occurred in the above village for the last seventeen years, although containing twenty-two families. Mr. Robert Patterson, the son of " Old Mortality," a worthy, quiet character of the olden school, who rernern /IPTP(I frllloll n (~Mein-or wridi thp acrri- ceding centuries; died at his place of residence. Balmac lellan Village, on the 30th ult., at the ripe age of ninety- one years During the case of an application, last week, to Vice- Chancellor Knight Bruce, respecting the infringement on a patent right to pencils, a question arose as to the num ber of gross that had been sold, when his Honour, after apparently weighing some knotty point in his mind, said, "I am ashamed to confess my ignorance, gentlemen, hut I do not know how many dozen make a gross." The diffi• -- cults having been solved, the case was proceeded . with. The duty on the importation of foreign wheat last week receded to 16s. per quarter. There has been a fall in the price of grain throughout the country, and no one can doubt that under the influence of fine weather, which prevailed last week, and the measure now pending in Parliament, the price of wheat, ere the lapse of many weeks, will be at ruinously low rates to the home pro ducer. from a par fewer than 114 ncietieF, of which 42 are situate in Midd appear that these societies are not very pr: table con cerns. Persons are generally induced to stain a loan, v. hicli is spent in a few days, and they find it no very easy matter to pay weekly sums for a period of a year. In Middlesex last year 2 were discontinued, and 18 others yielded no net profit s a f ter the payment of interest and the cost of managem en t. O ne of the societies in Tot r t o o a d £ l l i 3 a 6 d 2 1 , 1 3 5 9 . rr h e applications rear i e n l6 t the a n year,of which 1,957 were borrow ers . Th e net profit of the Con cern en b amounted an-, u rl - 3 4 d. socie ties in Liverpool, one of which had nearly 4,000 applicati ons last year : the society granted only 1,776 applications. INCREASING STRENGTH OF THE BRITISH NAVY.--. 'Cording to the last official returns, it appears there are ?I '' 'q of 100 ships of war now building at our different up :',.!. Rio. v‘hich are no I , ss than 35 steam-frigates arsenals, !tn.._ , _ 36 eli; four . .gun frigates; ten 50-gun and other wat` -, :.7° c y, the line, averaging from 80 to 84 ten ships a each—viz., the _Agarne,inon, the Crio , sus, the ~:sistible, the Majestic, the Meeacge, the Brunswick, the Cressy. the Lion, the Mars, and the Sans Pareil ; sir. ships 0f the line of 90 guns each--viz.; the Aboukir, the Exmouth, the Princess Royal, the Acgters , the Hannibal, and the St. Jeao d'Acre; six ships of the line, first-rates, of 110 guns- each—viz., the Marlborough, the Royal Frederick, the Victoria, the Prince of Wales, the Royal Sovereign, and the Windsor Castle; and lastly, the Royal Albert, of 120 guns. DISGRACEFZ - L SCENE.—A scene of unparalleled atro-4 city occurred at the Marley Hut Close, South Brent, So merset, on Sunday week ; two men, named Charles Pur nell and Robert Parsons, induced two boys to fight, and after a contest of one hour, one was killed. It appears that the men had taken the two boys into a " tornroy" shop, and given them beer, and set them to fight. Esen when they saw deceased was the weaker of the two, and was nearly dead, they brutally insisted on his continuing the contest, and defied the bystanders to interfere. At ength, he was taken up and carried into one of the huts, and oniy survived a few minutes. The jury, at the inquest, re turned an unanimous verdict of manslaughter against Hutchings, Purnell, and Parsons, all three of whom have absconded. The coroner immediately issued his warrant for their apprehension, and it is to be hoped that they may now be brought to justice. Purnell has lost his left hand just above the wrist.—Bristol Mirror. SORROW UNTO DEATII.-It was our melancholy duty to record, in a late obituary, the death of the lovely and only daughter of the late W. Duberly, Esq., of Dursley_ It is now our still more painful task to announce the death of tier brother, Mr. H. Duberly, a remarkably handsome young man. It appeared that on Thursday, after the decease of his sister, to whom he was devotedly attached, he arrived at Torquay, to accompany her re mains to Dursley. The melancholy task was accom plished on the Monday, and on the hearse arriving at the late residence of his mother (now that of Mr. G. Duberly, his brother,) he bad the coffin opened, and sat by it until one in the morning, in overwhelming grief. Again at RR early hour he resumed his sad vigils ; at the funeral, which took place about noon, he evinced the strongest emotion and sorrow, and on his return became alarmingly ill. Two surgeons were in attendance, but medical skill proved, unhappily, ineffectual—he dikl at four o'clock on Wednesday morning.—Bristol Mirror. DIFFERENCES Iti THE CABINET.—It is stated, upon what we believe to be unexceptionable authority, that the sugar question, which is said to have had more to do with ical scrun!es, has It is tary from office than theolo b ated a serious difference in the cabinet that the colonial secretary, and another c whose connection with what is called the West India terest is less direct, have refused to go the length the pr trier desires in removing West India prolection ; ai West India agriculture while they destroy the r of English agriculture, pretending that they ref' sugar because it is slave-grown, while they are i slave•grown sug:irs and slave-grown ma It is said that Sir R. Peel swallowed his defeat in prefer ence to impeding the progress of his "comprehensive from America- —l3rilannia A YOUNG CRIMINAL. — In the New Court, Old Bailey, London, on Thursday, Thomas Miller, a smutty-dressed boy, only eight years of age, pleaded guilty to stealing a bear, va he proper champ. The boy had to be plaed on a stool that the court might see him. The common sergeant made some in quiries respecting the prisoner, when, to the astonishment of every one present, it was stated that he had I ieen 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 management. The learned Judge said it was very diffi cult indeed to deal with such a case as this. If the prisoner was set at large there was very little hope rf his reforma tion; and the best course that could possibly be adopted was to place him at the disposal of the -, ment, by sentencing him, nominally, to be trar EXTRAcEDINARY THRESHING MACHINE.-011 Tues day the trial was made of a pony threshing machine, at Trefullock, in the parish of St. Enoder, built by Mr. Thomas Staple, of Blue Anchor, and the result was the threshing of a hundred sheaves of barley, quite clean, in the very short space of seven minutes. The horses em- govt ployed were a couple of ponies, walking at a steady pace Apo , —Falmouth Packet. he Tnr, Ottroak”. •••• •..........,, , ..says—" The packet which will sail from Liverpool in a WHAT WILL THE LORDS Do?—According to some few days will convey to the United States the real im- of our private accounts, there is a possibility that the pression produced here by the late intelligence. If the corn bill may be defeated in the House of Lords on the resolution was intended as a threat or a hostile measure, second reading ; but the more general expectation is, that it has totally failed to have any effect whatever, except a clause fatal to its becoming law will be carried in com that it is probable Mr. Pakenham will be at once em- mittee. The Government is calculating upon a majority powered to bring the controversy to a prompt and final of thirty-four on the first division ; but it is confidently issue. asserted, that in this are included all the bishops and the Cuurons PETITION.—In the House of Lords, on names of several peers, who, either like the Duke of Cam- Thurssay evening, Lord Normanby presented a petition, bridge and the Archbishops of York and Canterbury, the prayer of which was of a singular nature. The pe• will not Tote at all—or of others, who, although they have titioner stated that he had invented a new medicine for not made a formal declaration upon the subject, will cer diseases of the chest, and he prayed their lordships to tainly vote against the bill. With great pride and gratifi appoint a committee to investigate the merits of his in- cation, we announce that every one of the Irish Conser vention. The noble lord facetiously remarked. that he vative peers, with the exception of L or d B an d on — an ex • rted for seven should be sent .s, but ,th a recommendation th supposed the petitioner desired that their lordships' com- ception that, we own, astonishes and distresses us—will mittee should try the medicine themselves. vote against the destruction of the agricultural interests in A COUNTER FACT FOR FREE TRADERS. — At a recent Ireland : and that those who were looked u p on as doubt land-letting by auction at Kirton, near Boston, not a sin- ful, or who were said not to have made up their minds gle lot was disposed of. One of the best fields was upon the subject, have decided wisely and justly. and bought in at 265. per acre rental I This speaks whole vo- amongst the latter Lords Erne, Clancarty. Ranfurly, &c. lumes. The land thus offered for public competition com - — Dublin Mail. The London correspondent of the Dub _,___, es, . . FI laCO U 4 0,1 , 0 ‘.•• .. ... . 0 and situate in the best part of the county, amidst the most spirited and enterprising graziers, and offered on the cus tomary terms. . . . on this subject—" Expresses were despatcnea irom 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 diplornativie, was himself the bearer of the express, in order that he may assume the position of Charo d'Affaires, in the absence of the Am Lord Heytesbury will, of course, be ' ordered ove DESTITUTION AND POOR LAW RELIEF Brinsley Sheridan has written a letter to The 2 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 peth, and Lord John Russell, The Duke of Devonshire takes them in a heap, and keeps them two or t h ree 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. WHO 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 .bodilydevelopmentsareof -Mr. R • "cannot afford to support and educate , without proper I -- tailingi'.hedestitute circumstances of several poor labou remunera communication addressed to the editor of the Western inDorsetshire, who had asked him to step in betwee Times, who says that " his own bands are full of small them and their immediate employers. In one case. ama - • , • life." could only r A JUVENILE LAMBERT.—There is at present in the his son, upon which to support hit city of Glasgow, a boy nine years of age, standing 4 feet family of six young children ; at 64 inches. He measures round the. chest 441 inches ; were but is, a week, for the sup; round the belt 464 ; round the thigh 24 ; round the calf of families of six persons. Mr week, including I d in others the wages nst 14 stone e islan ley were he mea of our western Archipelago, between Cana and bkye, in hour, when I found that the direction of Spar Cave, and brought hither by his fa- take of consisted merely of a small quantity of horse beans tiler, who is in no affluent circumstances, for exhibition. and turnip tops boiled in water. 1 asked the wife of one The boy's sole language is the energetic language of Os- of the men what she intended to prepare for her husband's sian.—Scotch paper. supper when he returned home from his hard day's work ? THE WEATHER IN TIIE MIDLAND COUNTIES. — and her answer was, in the most cheerful tone. ' Why, During the last week, there has been a most gratifying bless you, sir, horse beans and turnip tops.' I believe this change in the state of the weather - the cold east wind to b e th e con dition of the agricultural labourers generally which prevailed during the previous fortnight having been 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 Bettescombe andthe adjoining parisbes-" the wheat, which was looking sickly and stunted in Alarch —Mr. Sheridan declares his conviction the has already in a great measure_recovered its wonted fresh?: fixed state of the Dorsetshire labourers • such is the hat, be the ay, the average amount of w . . well. The orchards are in full blossom, and, if the nights always the same:4s. a week. keep free and fresh for the next ten days, there will be I condition, , however, has been greatly a . . !ir distressed vated by the SALE OF PICIM RES.—The collection of Mons. Duval, of I case, that of William Soper, NJ ,de to the buy to Mr. rtumps - s Some of the pictures fetched great prices rel du Jardin" brought £1,150 to a private purchaser who also bought a single head ( one of those wonders of I ti n , and 1 Geneva, was or mer 'uesday II; Pc Ik • ft, )r a pair of bal 7 for the "boos a. So- e order, s elaborate ' will, stand b°Ta ' n "- a 7 r - o " te n to the 1.)-o-c—r Comte " The Pleasur uney's f nown from - -• Hardship of the osed of for £393 odd. A " Watteau ," consist!ng of i Guardians 11--' and will materially benefit the health and comfort of the inhabitants." The amendment was then put to the 43 t . e, when there appeared in favour of it, 30; against it, mMit. itYALL'S GRAND CONCERT.—We perceive that RYalls, hiving been unable to complete his expected 'Arrangements for the Theatre-Royal, has announced his c oncert to be held at the Concert Hall, in Lord Nelson !street. The talents of this gentleman, as a public vocal lot, it have been as muc h an d as deservedly adm i re d as hi s .ers and high respectability have been commended in t lis more private avocations of a teacher of singing, and w e hope, therefore, he will be favoured with liberal en c_oyeragernent from all our fashionable townsfolk. The brated prima donna, Madame Albertazzi, is we find, 7.4 gaged • also her sister, Mdlle. Howson, Mr. S. L. Hat. La n , and the Belgian violinist, Vieuxtemps , who, it ap rt? 8 . from an announcement in the Dramatic and Masi ?G' Review of last Saturday week, has obtained a most &eat:ative appointment as "premier violinist to his imperial i s fstY the Emperor of Russia," from whose court he a„:1!ilY expected ; and as this is likely to be his farewell ( 12 1 . 1 .arane in England, some interest will be excited "nit his visit to this neighbourhood. there will be two trains despatcnea 110111 pvv 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 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 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 carriages will be covered in, and the journey being guaran- past year. It might be that Ronge and some or toe other meeting at Cambridge, is Sir Roderick Impey Murchison. teed not to exceed ninehours, either conveyance offers the leaders had entered on a devious course ; but it was not Donglas Jerrold is " off" Punch; and the presiding same degree of comfort and celerity of movement. Parties likely that those who had come out of the dark should genius of Bradbury and Evan's famous periodical is Mr. a vailing themselves of this excursion, will have the option see clearly at first. But he would now turn to the future„ Thackeray, th e Mi c hael Angelo Titmarsh of Fraser. of remaining in the metropolis either seven or fourteen in which he saw fresh concessions to Rome boldly put W as hi ng t on I rv i ng has just completed a " Life of Maho days, at it may best suit their convenience. forward. The Roman Catholic Relief Bill was ill omened, mot. " C ONS UMPTION. —AN EXTRAORDINARY CORE BY and the Religious Opinions Bill would so far re p e al the The principal scenes of Dicken's new story are laid in the West of England ; he is now his own publisher. HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OINTMENT.—Mary Gilmore, oath of supremacy. And what would they get for these An inquest on the body of a young woman, that was aged 21, the daughter of Mr. Henry Gilmore, residing in concessions ? Hollow thanks and base perfidy. There found in a privy attached to Verulam Chapel, at Bromley, Church-street, Shoreditch, was in the secon d s t age of was another prospect before them, viz., either the despolia- and which has been proceeding for three years, was consumption, and considered past recovery, when, as a tion of the revenues of the Church of Ireland, or to endow brought to a conclusion on Thursday, the jury having then last resource, llrge quantities of Holloway's Ointment the Roman Catholic clergy there. He had been told, on met for the sixteenth time, and returned a verdict of were ru bbed twice a day into her chest and left side, good authority, that either one or other of these measures wilfulmurder aga inst some person or persons unknown. which were imbibed into the lungs, and there stop- was seriously contemplated, and if so, he did not care which, Mr. Green, the noted tr ronaut, ascended from Ipswich ped the ravages of this otherwise fatal disease as for both were equally to be apprehended. We were on on Tuesday last, this being his 321st ascent. The descent e ff ec tu a lly a s though the remedy had been applied to the eve of another election; and though he had never was i n safety, b u t a spring car employed in carrying the an u l c e ra ted sore palpable to the eye. The pills were asked nor influenced a vote hitherto in Manchester, a b a ll oon a ft erwar ds upset, and Mr. Green was thrown out, taken as directed, and the young person was perfectly declaration had been got up and signed, binding the elec. the silk and cordage , weig hin g four cwt., fallin g u p on him, cured in three months. tors not to support any can didate who, would not def en d b ut he was no t mu ch injured. and nig into V- sted that one of tb long with her owever e carriag boys s just step of arriving at a fin mansion, judge of his' surprise when the officials of a I roo lunatic asylum seized him and held him fast. The lady I plat IMPROVED SIGNALS. & dal harbou of distress, s had, of course, specially prepared a warrant for his corn mittal. Before he cnuld procure liberation, the fair one ingenuity, as, by a simple c 0,.. and goods had disappeared, and have not since been heard falling of the tide is indicated with th of.—Glasgow ArDus. a knowledge of which must be of inc. IRON.—A letter received this morning from Birming- to vessels entering a harbour where the ham, announces the important branch of manufacture of owing to stormy weather and other cau iron as still continuing prosperous—there being many rectly ascertained by the ordinary tat to onasess a great arloar large orders on hand, wiliCh cannot I xecuter time to come The demand for locomotive engin es is so g erm... ,—„,, „, „„„ very great, that the large makers will not engage to u t m ost certainty, thus preventing the possibility of colli execute fresh orders under three years. The a g ent of an mon. Mr. B ettie has also invented a new lap,, to be extensive colliery proprietor, near Dudley , la tel y tendered used as a signal of distress at sea, the light indicating a considerable order for engines, for mineral purposes ; whether the vessel requiring a ss i s t ance b e a s t eam er or a but it could not be undertaken within th at p erio d . The sailing vessel. There are two lamps, varying in colour. home consumpt io n for iron is very brisk —particularly which, together with the requisites for trimming, lighting. from the engineering departaient : there i s, therefore , now &c., are contained in a square box. ani so arranged as to no prospect of a reduction in price.—Mmtng Journal of render them available under any ciromatencesi. *ad int i 4 Saturday. the greatest certainty and facility, —On ThurFda] t the Unc Ting lights, &