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Ettrraturr. N 0 'l' 1 C E S. Dr. Jeffrey's Parnph:et on the Styptic and other Virtues of the Matico Plant from Suuth America. Third Editio.t. Keatings, London. • The above pamphlet has reached another edition, which is proof sufficient that the account of its medicinal virtues, by the laborious researches of Dr. Jeffreys, has been in extensive demand. The experiments made upon the plant in the ..sistt.r kingdoms, as well as throughout Eng land and remoter countries, bear out the statements made in this pamphlet of its utility as an article of the materia ineclica. It it do not supersede the use of other styptics, it well substitutes them ; and there are cases given where its services have been successfully availed of where other .styptics of the more powerful kind had failed. VARIETIES. Cuntous FACT.—The body, espec'ally in cases of con sumption, is often phosphoric a short time before death. A grntlernan observing that he had fallen asleep during a sermon preached by a ' bishop, a wag remarked that " it must have been Bishop the composer." The brave soul knows no trrrooling : Ctesar spake like Cm•ar when, in the storm, he bade the mariners fear no thing, for they carried him and his fortunes. The g'utton is tne lowest-souled of all animals : the butcher's boy is to him an atlas bearing heaven on his shoulders. A draper who recently invited the inhabitants of Lin coln to view his goons, said, in his circular. "all pecu liarities of material mill be explained by the coadjutors in attendance " " Miss Brown, I have been to learn how to tell for tunes." said a young fellow to a brisk brunette; "just let me have your hand, if you please." " La! Mr. White, bow sudden you are. Go and ask my fattier." Lord and Lady are words of Saxon origin. Lord is from Laf-ord (loaf-giver), and he was so called from his maintaining at his own expense a number of retainers or dependants. Lady is called Laf-dian (loaf-server), be cause she cut and served round the bread to the guests. Mr. Tomlinson, the barrister, requested a wi'iness the other day, in the Nisi Prius Court, to give the ipsissima rerba used by the defendant. '• You're a d—d thief," was Le witness's quick reply, one which convulsed the court and jury with laughter. A certain eminent man lately offered a publisher, in Paternoster-row, a "Treatise on the Hand," which the worthy bookseller declined with a shake of the head, say ` ing. " ti 9 y dear sir, we have too many treatises on our •hands already." On Thursday, an Irishman was asked in the Nisi Prins Court whetner Mr. Mendock had ever seen oats returned ? " Yes, your honour," was the reply, " Ott what vround," asked the h,riister. " did he refuse ?" "In the back yard was the laughable reply. At this time of year (says a correspondent of the Cam bridge Advertiser), when, tram atmospheric influences, animal food is likely to become tainted, it cannot be too generally known that a bit of charred stick boiled with beef or mutton thus affected will take away all taint or disagreeable taste. ANSWER TO A CHALLENGE.—Through some mistake, • a gentleman in the sou'h of Ireland led off the dance at a Country ball out of his turn. Tne person appointed to the post of honour challenged the intruder, and received the following reply :—" Sir, I cannot understand why, be cause I opened a ball at night, a ball should open me in the morning. —Yours, &c." GRASS UNDER TREES.—By sowing nitrate of soda in small quantities in showery weather under trees a most beautiful verdure will he obtained. I have used it under the beach trees in my grounds, and the rass always looks green. Having succeeded so well on a smell scale, I have now sown nitrate of soda amongst the long grass in the plantations, which the cattle never could eat. I now find that the herbage is preferred to the other parts of the field.—Gardener's Chronic;e. THE HATERS OF ENGLAND.—There is one character abominable in America ; you not unfrequently meet with an emigrant from the old country. who hates the land which gave him birth ; usually hunted out of it for crime, he detests the laws he has outraged ; from his former fears of their just punishment, he reviles them and his country men. If ever you observe a more than ordinary length of hair, nasal twang, and offensive speech and manner, the chances are ten to one that you have met with an outcast Englisbrnan.—England in the New World. " Cousi❑ William," said a merry mischievous young girl, " what do you think I heard a pretty young lady say of you?" " I don't know—soniefting good, I hope. Who was it coz ?" Shan't tell you ! but it's the truth : a very pretty girl did say something about you." " Well, tell me what it was." " I shan't unless you will give me that Annual that I wanted." " Well agreed—you shall have it—now tell me?" "Well now—dont blush so-- she said you wtre the wiliest looking man she ever laid her eyes o n ." THE FROZEN DEAD AT THE HOSPICE OF THE GRAND ST. BERNARD —The scene of the greatest interest at the Hospice —a solemn, extraordimiry interest indeed—is that of the Morgne, or building where the dead bodies of lost travellers are deposited. There they are, some of them as when the breath of life departed, and the Death Angel, with his instruments of frost and snow, stiffened and em balmed them for ages. The floor is thick with nameless skulls, and bones, and human dust, heaped in confusion. But around the walls are groups of poor sufferers in the very position in which they were found, as rigid as mar ble, and in this air, by the preserving element of an eter .ll.l f r ost, almost as uncrumbling. There is the mother and a child, a most affecting image of suffering and love. The face of the little one remains to the mother's bosom, only the back part of the skull being visible, the body enfolded in her careful arms, careful in vain, affectionate in vain, to shield her offsoring from the elemen►al wrath of the tempest. The snow fell fast and thick, and the hurricane wound them up in one white shroud, and bu ried them. There is also a tall, strong man, standing alone, the face dried and black, but the white unbroken teeth firmly set and closed, grinning from the fleshless jaws—it is a most awful spectacle. The face seems to look at you from the recesses of the sepulchre, as if it would tell you the story of a fearful death-struggle in the storm. There are other groups more indistinct, but these two are never to be forgotten ; and the whole of those dried and frozen remnant, of humanity are a terrific de moostration of the fearfulness of this mountain pass, when the elements, let loose in fury, encounter the un happy traveller. You look at all this through the grated window ; there is just light enough to make it solemnly and distinctly visible, and to read in it a powerful record of mental and physical agony, and of maternal love in death. The little child, biding its face in its mother's bosom, and both frozen to death—one can never forget the group, nor the memento mori, nor the token of death less love.—Dr. Cheever's Wanderings. THE WORLD'S TEETOTAL CONVENTION. — Upon the subject of a woodcut, prote,sing to represent the most prominent parties at this humbug affair, the London Guardian remarks :—" If we inquire who the heroes of this scene are, and what constitutes the official greatness of the day, we discover, among other claims to public at tention and admiration, one very remarkable one put for ward. The chief claim which some of these public gen tlemen have for occupying their di-tinguished position be fore a large and respectable assembly, is the fact, that they were once enormous drinkers, the wonder andvbsto nishment of their respective neighbourhoods for the speed with which they empti e d cans o f a l e , and swigged glasses of spirits. They severally nearly ruined their respective families. They beat their wives and starved their chil dren ; they brought their households to death's door ; a famine stared them in the face. That is their claim to public attention They do not profess to be any better 1 than the rest of the world ; they were only once much worse. They glory in that distinction. They revel in descriptions of that aboriginal period of their existence. They refer to it in the same rich and glowing strain, with which poets refer to the heroic ages of the world. The world was in th se old days magnificently drunk ; it has now attained a civilised sobriety. In the same way, Mr. Thompkins was once a reeling sot, hut is now a respecta ble shoemaker. He will dwell on all the details of his prior state of life. He will describe the swimming of the brain, the fever, and the madness ; the floods of drink which went down his throat, the horrible thirst which succeeded. the tug at the pump which followed next. Ile informs the audience that he was once a beast, and .now a man, and exhibits himself as a wonderful moral phenomenon. The audience stares at him with some thing of the same ihtereA that it would on a Chickawaw chief, or an Indian conjurer." * * " Without pro fessing any indifference to the decrease of drunkenness in the world. we must beg to state that we would rather see one man reformed from drinking. and really humbled and abased at the recollection of his sin, than twenty of these paraded gentlemen, in satin waistcoats and cravats, who stand forward with soriirlvng taces, and rhetorical flou rishes, and inform " gentlemen and ladies" that they have been disgiisting sots and disgraces to humanity : as if they were proud of it. There would be more real amount of g ood in one penitent, humble-minded Chris tian case of reformation, than in twenty such cases as these, where the vice is reformed, and man is not. Ge nuine reformation chances the whole man : adulterated and quack reformation systems do not make the man, but the individual vice their scope. So long as that is re moved, they are content. And the teetotal penitent shows but too clearly the inferior basis of his reformation by the exhibition he makes. GENERAL MISCELLANY. • The Cobden Testimonial has reached 162,000. The import duty on wheat is now 9.. per quarter. Sir W. (late Colonel) Verner bas been restored to the —commission of the peace. • -. Twenty houses are to be pulled down in order to en large Smithfield market. No less than 84 800 cheese were brought in one vessel, which arrived in the Thames from El olland on Friday. Six million dollars, collected from the different ports in South America, arrived at Gosport, last week, by her Majesty's ship America With the exception of one estate, the county of Suther land, with 24.000 inhabitants, entirely belongs to the Duke Of Sutherlwid. • Lords Stanhope, Love!, Holland, Gage, and Denman have signed a protest against the second reading of the Sugar Dutics Bill. The Duke of Marlborough has contradicted " the absurd statements in the public journals," relative to his being ,danger .usly ill. Great want of re/Wettih:a been felt both in England and Scotland. Irish re aper s threeave got from 3s. W. to ss. Gd. per day; and in addition pints of ale each. The failure of the apple ' crop a great increase in the price i e n o perefordshire has led to der, wbich, the presen t seasoc, is expect c e y d . the supply of of be very limited. T H E BRITISH QUEEN .—T he hulkt his unfortunate ship, we learn from the Brussels journal s, was recently towed to Tamese, prepa rator y to bein g broken u p Mr. Newman is about to pay a long visit to Rome, with the view of completing his preparation for the priest hood. A. man, named Parker, died on Monday in London Hospital, and several other persons are seriously i 1, from eating pies made of poisonous berries, sold by country men in the streets as bilberries. _ One mas was killed last week, and several others seri ously injured, bp the falling of a temporary wooden frame work on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, at the via duct near Randal. OLD PORT.—The submarine adventurers employed on the wreck of the Ahergavenny, off Weymouth, brought up, the other day, a bottle• of port wine in tine preserva tion. It has lain at the bottom of the sea forty-one years. FALL OF THREE HOUSES.-00 Wednesday, three small hou,es in tine Mint, Southwark, which have been built upwards of three hunched years, tumbled down in one mass of ruin. Fortunately no lives were lost. Envelopes should not be used for letters acknowledging the receipt of money. An entire sheet of paper should be used, as the postmark must be on to constitute a legal proof of payment. PERVERSION OF A WITOLE FAMILY.—Dr. Duke, of Hasti gs, with his lady, and all the rnemb rs of his fa mily, has, during the last few days, conformed to the Homan Catholic Church. On Thursday, in the metropolis, there was a general rise in the price of bread to the amount of one haltpcnny in the qintritern loaf ' • the highest price is now, conse quently, 9 1., and the lovre , t 6d. At the present time there is so much foreign flour, duty paid, in the port of London. as o.ay most abundantly supply the inhabitants of the metropolis with bread luring the next six months, without the assistance cif one quar ter of Br fish wheat, or otie sack of British-made flour. It has been proposed that an Eng ish nobleman shou l d reside at Rome, in the recognised quality of ambassador, and tht , r, on the part of his Holiness, a nuncio should be accredited to London. The negotiations with Rome are, at present, it is said, conducted by a Catholic priest. Mrs. La Fontrieg, of Wirnpole-street, Cavendish-square, had a reticule cut from her arm, between Temple- bar arid St. Clement's church-yard, on Wednesday atteroootr, con taining £307, which she had just received in Fleet-street for the rent of houses. POTATOES FROM VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.—A ship ar rived in the London Docks from Hobart Town, called the North Briton, has brought 4228 bags of wheat. 243 bags of flour, and, among a variety of other articles, 20 baskets of potatoes, the production of that distant colony. It was announced in the Commons, on Monday week, that the great statue of the Duke is, after all, to be put on the arch, but only for three weeks on trial. If it looks well it is to stay; but if her Majesty's government, "ad vised by competent persons," are displeased with the general eff , ct, it will come down. Hannah Barker, aged 21 years, was on Thursday last sentenced from the Central Criminal Court Sessions to be transported for ten years, having been found guilty on an indictment charging her with administering a quantity of oxalic acid to her husband, with intent to murder him. At public dinner given in Durham on Tuesday to Mr. Bright, M.P. for that city, that gentleman declined to stand again as a candidate for the representation of the borough. It is said that the Manchester people will in vite him to become a candidate for that town in conjunc tion with Mr. Cobden. TH E DAGENHAM MURDER. — The three persons ar rested on suspicion of being c..,ncerned in the murder of the policeman at Dagenham were liberated on Saturday, no case whatever havdag, been shown against them ; and it appearing that all the statements made by the boy \Velch were totally unfounded. On Thursday week, some reapers working on the farm of Mr. John Bloomfield, of Little Stonhani, entered upon a wager as to the quantity of work they could perform, but such was the extreme heat that three of them fell down from exhaustion. two of whom died on the spot, and a third lies, it is said, without hopes of recovery. In the House of Lords, on Friday, the Contagious Diseases Prevention Bill passed through committee, the Marquis of Lansdowne stating that th- bill was not intro duced to provide especially against cholera, but generally against all disorders connected with want of proper clean liness and similar causes of disease. DEATH BY FLY-WATER.—Mrs. Barfoot, of Westham, Essex, incautiously lett some `' fly-water," a composition for killine flies, within the reach of her infant daughter. The liquid was sweet, and,the child moistened with it some bead she was eating. She soon sickened, and died within twelve hours. The n other was ignorant of the poisonous nature of the mixture. ANDOVER UNION COMMITTEE.—CLOSE OF THE IN QUIRY.—TiIiS committee, whose inquiries have been pro tracted for so long a period, on Monday evening brought their labours (as tar as the reception of evidence is con cerned) to a close. They have since reported to the house, and the purport of the report will ne found else where. DEPOSITORS IN SAVINGS-BANKS.—II is shown by a return just issued, that on the 20th of November last, there were in number 1,062.930 depositors, and in amount £30,718.868, in savings -banks. Of the number, 1,041,194 were individual depositors, and the amount £29,814,455. The remainder of the money was deposited by charitable institutions and friendly societies. A new claimant as heir.at-law to " Jemmy Wood," the celebrated Gloucester banktr, having appeared, the case was tried on Saturday week at Gloucester, and ter minated by the jury stopping the pioceedings, they being unanimously of opinion that the claimant had not made out his pedigree, and recorded the verdict for the defen dant. A city case on the same point was tried the same day, and with a similar result. Tnm SCREW versus PADDLES.—The Rattler and Alec to were lashed tom:oer. ancl_qaclt _tried to ..ao a-head at the bighetit pressure the engines could with satiety be worked at, when the superiority of the screw was proved in towing the paddle-wheel steamer backward. The Rat tler and the Polyphemus are to be tried in a similar man. ner ; and, from the above experiment, it is believed that the result will be the same. MELANCHOLY FACT.—An insane woman was brought before the magistrates on Wednesday, when the Mayor, in the course of some observations, remarked that there was not a single vacant place in any of the asylums at York, Lincoln, Hull, or Hessle. It seems therefore that this dreadful malady is rapidly increasing, the acco modations for the insane having until a very recent pe riod been amply sufficient.—Hull Packet. INGENIOUS FRAUDS.—An elderly man, named James Wright, was committed for trial from Worship-street Po lice-court, on Monday, charged with having obtained se veral parcels, at the different metropolitan railway sta tion., by means of forging orders. These orders pur ported to be signed by persons to whom goods were con signed ; and the part of the case that ptqzles the police is bow Wright could have obtained the extensive and varied information on which his operations were based. THE PENNY- A-M ILE SYSTEM.—Amongst the new projects of the day is one of an omnibus company to com pete with the penny boats. &c., on the river. It is pro posed to raise 10,000 shares of £2 each ; 100 omnibuses to be put. on the roads. The company has been duly regis tered. and amongst the startling statistics.of the road it is stated that the net profit on one omnibus is, if half full, £175 3s. 6d ; two-thirds full, £375 3s. 6d.; full £721 3s. 6d per cent. per annum. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON ON DRUNKENNESS. — When the Duke of Wellington was examined before the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the subject of military punishments, he gave the following pithy answer to a question on military drunkenness. Lord Wharn cliffe inquired, "Is drunkenness the great parent crime in the British army, in your opinion?" The answer of the great captain was given in a single word ; it was, " INVARIABLY." Comment i. here superfluous. The two bills to abolish deodands and compensate the families of persons killed by accidents, which were re- I ferred to a select committee. have just been issued as amended. Deodands and the forfeiture of chattels are to cease on the 12th of September next. There are seven clauses in the second bill, by which it is proposed that an action may be maintainable against any person causing eeath through neglect. &c., notwithstanding the death of the person injured. The act is to have immediate opera tion. and not to extend to Scotland. UNFOUNDED REPORT OF VAN AMBURGH'S DEATH. —By letters received by M r.Wallett, the clown at Astley's, from Boston. United States, it appears that there is not the slightest foundation for the report that Van Amburgh, the famous brute tamer, had been destroyed by a tigress at Voonsuckett, Rhode Island, while endeavouring at the request of a young lady to take away some meat which the beast was about to devour. The story is a pure fabri cation, invented to bring a newspaper into notoriety. Van Amburgh was reported to be in good health, and making a very successful tour.—Sun of Saturdoy. John Davies. the mate on board the Citizen " A' steam boat, on the Thames, whilst trying to disengage a mop from a hain at the hull of the boat, on Saturday week, lost his balance, fell overboard, and was drowned. de was 45 years of age, and has left a wife and eight children. On the same day, Richard Lewis, the• engine driver of the Citizen " D" steam boat, was engaged, unknown to the master, in one of the paddle.boxes, when the order to " go on" was given, and the poor fellow's brains were in stantly dashed out, and his lifeless body fell into the Th mes. Mr. Cobden bas lived to sup with royalty. We learn (says the Manchester Guardian) that Mr. Cobden, on his way to Paris, received an invitation to dine with the King at the Chateau d'Eu : and he accordingly joined the fa mily dinner party at the chateau, where he was most gra ciously and cordially received by the King, the Queen, and Madame Adelaide. We understand, the same autho rity continues, that his Majesty (who speaks English per fectly well) showed an intimate knowledge of the pro ceedings of the Anti-Corn-Law League, and of the re cent struggle for the repeal of the corn-laws. CtrußT•mArcrtAL.—Her Majesty's pleasure has been announced respecting the court-martial on gunner and driver Richard Gilbertson, at Woolwich. The sentence of the court finding him guilty of the several charges has been confirmed, and a- a general bad character be has been sentenced to undergo an imprisonment of 365 days, eighty-four of which are to be solitary, divided into six periods of fourteen days each, arid the remainder with hard labour, and furthermore that he be placed under stoppages not exceeding two-thirds of his daily pay to the amount of 4d., the value of one round of carbine ball ammunition. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—An accident of a frightful na ture occurred at Navenby, on the 23d ultimo, to a boy about ten years of age, nephew to Mr. J. Rollitt. By some mischance, he was precipitated from a loft of bay, and in falling was caught by one of the prongs of a com mon hay-fork, which entered the back and lower part of the head, and came out at the top completely transfixing and suspending him. The fork was with considerable difficulty extracted by two men in the field, who took home the poor youth to all appearances dead. In a short time reaction took place. The boy is now fast getting bet ter, after using the means which surgical aid suggested, and though he has lost a considerable portion of his brains, exhibits no proof that his intellect is at all impaired,-.. Stamford and Lincoln Mercury, MURDER IN WAILWICKSHIRE.—WiIIiaIII Cave, a far mer, of Hornton, in Warwickshire, has been committed to take his trial for the murder of Hannah Tredwell. The prisoner is a married man, with a wife and family. He had carried on an illicit intercourse with deceased, who was about forty years old, and had had several children by him. She frequently importuned him for money, and waited for him with that intent on the morning of the murder. A quarrel ensued between them, and he shot her in the neck with his gun. Her body was found lying in an unfrequented pathway which is cut between two hills. _ _ _ STRANGE ACCIDENT.—The wife of Mr. Strutt, the sexton of St. Peter's parish, Colchester, had a narrow escape from death on Sunday week, by accidentally swal lowing a wasp with some beer which she was drinking. The insect in passing down her throat stung it severely, without, however, leaving its sting in the wound; fortu nately the windpipe escaped uninjured, or death must have ensued, but it renewed its attacks upon the stomach, occasioning great pain; medical tii was soon procured, and a powerful emetic providentially effected speedy dis lodgment of the wasp, though it was alive and vigorous when ejected from the stomach.—Essex Standard. PAUPER BURIALS.—Our readers will remember the great sensation caused throughout the country by an in structional letter to churchwardens from the Poor-law Commissioners, (acting upon the opinion of Mr. Coode), that the "excessive" charge for tolling the bell at the funeral of paupers could not be allowed : it is right now to state that, from evidence given before the committee of the House of Commons, it appears that Sir T. F. Lewis, one of the commissioners, was no party to any such pro ceeding. He said—" My objection was to the horribly offensive regulation, that the poor pauper was not to have the bell tolled at his funeral. I was not aware that Mr. Coode had been consulted on the subject. But I think Mr. Chadwick (the Secretary) deliberately and intention ally withheld those regulations from me, and had them submitted in my absence." At the Appleby Assizes, last week, a most atrocious case, which excited a great sensation in the neighbourhood at the time of its occurrence, came on for trial. The ac cused were four young men, the eldest being only twenty one, railway " navies." The victims of the outrage were two young ladies, Miss Jane Dover and Miss Elizabeth Dover, the sisters of a gentleman who occupies a farm at Scarside, near Shap ; they reside there with their widowed mother. On the 19th April last, the ladies had been to visit a married sister, and were returning in the evening, while it was yet light, along a bridle-path, leading from the Shap-road to their borne. At about a quarter of a mile from the house they were accosted and assaulted by the prisoners, and detained for hours the victims of re peated violences. The charge was fully established ; the jury immediately returned a verdict of guilty, and the criminals were sentenced to be transported fog life. EGG LAW.—A scmewhat ludicrous exhibition of this mode of procedure was witnessed in Stamford butter market, on Friday last, and which was inflicted upon a female vendor of eggs—one of those who visit this market evidently with the intention of defrauding the public. This honest woman, it appears, had stood in the market that day with a basket of putrid eggs, part of which she succeeded in palming off at the usual market price, hoping, no doubt, to get clear off before the purchasers fuund out their mistake; but she bad good reason to la ment her dishonesty ; for before she could make her exit her enraged customers returned, and, possessing them selves of the remainder of her ware. pelted her with them so lustily that she was obliged to retreat into a trades man's shop close by to avoid a further infliction of this not very agreeable punishment, which has doubtless taught her that, after all, honesty is the best policy."—Lineoln shire Chronicle. SINGULAR DEATH.—On Wednesday, a retired sailor, 71 years of age named Adam Kinghorn, was drowned un der circumstances of a novel and extraordinary kind. It appears that the deceased went into a reser/air in connex ion with a mill at Cowden, Dalkeith, for the twofold pur pose of bathing and of displaying to a number of boys some aquatic feats. After going through a variety of dextrous evolutions, I,e put his feet to the ground, where they sunk into the clay, soil, or mud, and were held fast, the water being S 9 deep as to reach about an inch above the crown of his head. The boys stood on the margin of the pool gazing with undivided attention, thinking that this was a preparatory attitude to the performance of another feat. They continued to stare' for fully half an hour, till some persons of more advanced age were at tracted to the spot, whose suspicions were awakened, and by whom the poor man was dragged on shore a corpse.— Scotsman. WITNESSES' EXPENSES.—At the Bristol assizes, last week, an amusing incident occurred, exhibiting the right of witnesses to demand their expenses before giving evi dence. In the course of a trial, an old woman, named Bowles, was called upon to give evidence. The moment she entered the box she desired to know who was to pay her for her trouble? Mr. Justice Erle said the woman must look to the attorney who subpoenaed her; and she had a perfect right to the money if she chose to demand it. The witness replied that she had been in attendance six days, and her claim was 2s. 6d. a-day, and she would rather be paid before she gave evidence. His lordship smiled, and said, " Well, you have a right to say so. ' The attorney gave her a sovereign, upon which she deli berately took her purse from her pocket and delivered to him 55., the amount of the change. The coolness and presence of mind displayed by the old lady excited a great do al of laughter. THE SALT TRADE TO INDIA.—At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the White Salt Trade, at North wich, on the 13th inst., this resolution was passed :—" It being highly desirable for the interests of the salt trade of this country, that the Indian markets, (whose annual con emeartiew-ie- at least 2M1,000 to 890.000 tone,) should be fairly opened for the admission of British manufactured salt, which can be supplied of a far purer qual ty, and at lower rates, than that produced under the East India Company's system,—resolved : that each salt manufactu rer, in Cheshire and Worcestershire, be requested to use his interest to abolish amonopoly so injurious:to the in terests of the salt trade of England." It was also resolved : "That as the admission of British salt into India inti mately affects not only the price, but also the supply, of Bengal sugars, the various merchants and associated bodies should be corresponded with upon the subject."— A general meeting of the salt trade of England is to be held at Northwich, on the 31st instant. A BLIND MAN FRANTIC.—At the Leeds Court House, on Monday week, a blind mendicant, named Thomas Philips, was charged by police officer Best with various acts of violence of an aggravated nature. On Sunday af ternoon while under the excitement of intoxication, he seized hold of an aged woman, in Marsh•lane, and ac tually bit a piece out of her arm. He also drew out a knife, and several parties very narrowly escaped being stabbed by him. His conduct attracted a large number of persons, who, however, dreaded to approach him ; but at length he was boldly seized by a young man present, and given into custody. It was not without difficulty that he was conducted to the police-office ; and in doing so, the policeman's coat was literally torn to pieces. The magistrates fined him £5 and costs, and in default of pay ment he was committed to Wakefield House of Correction for two months. On hearing the punishment be would have to undergo, he prayed loudly for mercy, and evinced great agony of feeling at the condition in which he was placed. POISONOUS BERRIES.—John Hollands, an old Cam bridge man, an herb gatherer, was charged last week, at the Thames Police-court, with causing the deaths of Thomas Parker and Samuel Jones, by selling the berries of deadly nightshade as " nettle berries," which the de ceased eating, died. Several persons came forward and deposed that they had also bought berries from the pri soner, and were dangerously ill after eating them. T, e prisoner, who said he bought the berries of a man near the Elephant and Castle, and was not aware of their danger, ous properties, was remanded for a week. The magistrate remarked that one of ordinary acuteness, who was in the habit of collecting herbs, and partidularly a countryman, ought to know the dangerous properties of berries of the deadly nightshade. He directed the police to ascertain whether the prisoner was in the , practice of supplying herbs to the herbalists and others, and whether he had been in the habit of selling the deadly nightshade as nightshade. If he had done so the case might assume a new aspect. DEATH OF SIR CHARLES WETHERELL.—We regret to announce the decease of the above venerable and dis tinguished lawyer. Sir Charles expired on Monday evening, at five o'clock, at Preston Hall, near Maidstone, whither, it will be recollected, he was conveyed imme diately after the accident, which has resulted in his death. Sir Charles was the son of the late Dr. Wetherell, Master of University College, Oxford, and was born in .1770. Having undergone the necessary tuition, under the gui dance of his father and other able men, he became a dewy of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he pursued his stu dies with unceasing ardour and perseverance, and pro ceeded to the degree of B.A. about 1790. On leaving the University he came to London, and entered himself a student of the Inner Temple, of which society he has for many years past been a bencber. He studied the equity branch of his profession, and after having kept his terms was called to the bar about 1794. His practice was at first inconsiderable, but he suffered no pecuniary inconvenience from this circumstance, in consequence of receiving a handsome paternal allowance. On the death of his fa ther he came into a very large fortune, but, nevertheless, continued his attendance at court, and exerted himself very earnestly in the prosecution of his profession. His first employment of importance was in the year 1818, when Preston, Thistlewood. Hooper, and others were indicted for high treason. The counsel for the prisoners were Wetherell. Copley, and Holt, and upon this occasion the deceased distinguished himself by the delivery of a speech of great force and eloquence, in which he so se verely censured the conduct of government in employing spies, that the Earl of Liverpool. who was present, i- - ;.,said to have been visibly incensed. The talent and boldness, however, displayed by Mr. Wetherell were alone remem bered, and on the promotion of Sir John Copley to the Attorney-Generalship, the former was appointed Solicitor- General. About this time be received the honour of knighthood and came into parliament, where be took every opportunity of putting himself forward as a debater and supporter of the government. At this time the tar diness of the Court of Chancery was constantly the sub ject of remark, and whenever the name of Lord Chancellor Eldon was brought forward in debate, Sir Charles wa s immediately upon his lees as his ardent defender. On Sir John Copley being appointed Master of the Rolls, Sir Charles became Attorney-General, which office he resigned on the formation of a ministry by Mr. Canning. H e was, however, reinstated by the Duke of Wellington, but was subsequently dismissed on account of his refusal to sup. port, or even to draw the bill for the relief of the catholics, to whose claims he was a vehement opponent. Sir Charles has invariably maintained tory principles, and at Bristol, of which city he has for many years been the recorder, about the period of the passing of the reform bill, his po litical tenets had well nigh been fatal to his personal safety. The riots in that city, and narrow escape of th e • learned knight from the fury of a licentious mob, must still be fresh in tbe recollectlon of our readers. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE HALIVAX AND BOSTON MAILS..".-The following ' is from the report of the select committee of the House of Commons upon this subject :—" That your committee have inquired into the circumstances connected with the granting of the present contract for the conveyance of mails from England. to Halifax and Boston, as well as other matters referred to them, and are of opinion that the arrangement has been concluded on terms advantage ous to the public service, and have been most efficiently performed by Mr. Cunard. But your committee do not wish to express any opinion whether a more advantageous one might not have been entered into had the tender been thrown open to public competition. Your committee, however, cannot but regret that the above arrangements involve consequences injurious to the Great Western Steam-ship Company ; and considering the meritorious character of the services rendered by the latter company, and its priority of establishment on the Near York line, will be glad if, on any future extension of the royal mail service, it receives the favourable consideration of the government." FRACAS BETWEEN THE HON. MR. SUTTON AND MR. CHRISTIE.—Towards the close of the inquiry on Tues day, before the Andover Committee, a scene of great excitement took place. in which the above-named gentle men were the principal actors. It appears that a question was put to Mr. Parker (then under examination) by Mr. Christie. Before the answer was given, the Hon. Mr. Sutton, in a state of excitement, ordered the room to be cleared, and, as we are given to understand, charged Mr. Christie with putting the question with an improper pur pose. This charge was strongly resented by Mr. Chris tie ; and Mr. Sutton, making use of an expression which left an impression upon the minds of those present that he intended to send a hostile message to Mr. Christie, rushed out of the room, and left the house. With a view to prevent this object, immediate application was made to the sitting magistrate at Westminster Police-court for a warrant against the honourable gentleman, and it was expected that he would have been brought up the follow ing day for the purpose of being bound over to keep the peace. Owing, however, to the intervention of some prudent friends on both sides, we believe we may say that the affair has been so far settled as to render judicial interference unnecessary. THE LATE MURDERS AT BARNARD CASTLE.—A further investigation into this tragical affair took place at Greta-bridge, near Barnard Castle, on Tuesday. Fifteen witnesses were examined, including the girl Humphrey, whose disclosures will be yet fresh in the recollection of those who perused them three weeks ago. A young man, named Harrison, deposed that about a week before Yates (the young man murdered) was missing, George Barker, who then slept with him, asked him (Hartison) to go with him and assist to beat Yates, which he declined to do. He also stated, that on the night of the murder he well remembers it was past two o'clock when Barker came into the house at which they were living as fellow-servants. He slept with him, and he started much in his sleep. The person who laid out Yatps after the body was found, stated that he bled very much from his head. Only two of the persons charged were present at the examination. viz., Barker and Raine, the Home Secretary having re fused to order the removal of Breckin from Durham gaol, where be is now under sentence. Barker wept much as the witnesses gave their evidence, but Raine was unmoved, and, when they bad to retire, left the room with a smile. The magistrates committed them to York Castle, to take their trial at the next Yorkshire assizes, on a charge of wilful murder. A RAILWAY ADVENTVRE.—A few days ago two ladies entered the railway station at York, and took tickets for Derby. Their next care was to seat themselves in the train. One of the ladies bad made the trip before; the other had not. It devolved, therefore, on the former to undertake the proud task of making her companion as wise as herself. Not a town or station, castle or church, was passed, but the name was told. Daylight was dying just as they shot by Chesterfield church ; and when the petticoated veteran pointed it out to the travelling tyro, it was barely visible in the twilight. Another hour brought them to the terminus, and they alighted at the station in glad anticipation of a welcome from awaiting friends. But no ! not one familiar face presented itself—no hand was extended to greet them on their arrival. Uneasy suspicions began to arise in their minds, and were strengthened when, emerging from the station, they found themselves on high ground, and dimly perceived, in the valley below, a rolling river, separating two towns, and crowded with shipping. Could this be Derby? " Derby!" exclaimed a by-stander ; "no, ladies, this is Gateshead, and von is Newcastle!" The fair travellers had "taken the wrong turn" at York ; and the massive towers of Durham cathedral had been mistaken for the corkscrew steeple of Chesterfield church !—Galeshead Observer. HORRIBLE Al TIRDF R.—A horriblecrirnewascommitted, on Saturday week, at the Guildhall Coffee-house, London. John Smith, the cook at that hotel, cut the throat of Su san Rosin, the kitchen-maid. No person was present when the wound was inflicted, but the poor girl was seen by several persons to run from the kitchen with a fright ful gash in her throat, from which the blood was pouring in torrents. She fell at the foot of the stairs, and died almost immediately; The prisoner was examined at the Mansion-house, on Saturday afternoon, and the same evening an inquest was held, when a verdict of " wilful murder " was returned. It appears that the deceased and the prisoner were heard disputing about some unkindness on his part towards a Mrs. Reilley ; she told him he had not acted like a man, and he would find it out before many months were over. He replied that she would per haps find it out before many days were over. Tne de ceased was sitting preparing some vegetables for the pot, and at this period the girl who overheard the above re marks was sent by Smith to the bar for some lard. She returned immediately and met the deceased rushing from the kitchen with her throat out. The surgeon deposed that he found two gashes, one of which was of great depth. The larger vessels on one side being all divided. The prisoner is a married man. He seemed to suffer great mental agony during his examina , ion before the Lord Mayor. He was committed to take his trial for murder. At the Central Criminal Court, on Saturday, he was sentenced to death without any hope of mercy. THE POTATO CROPS. TLe evil which last year was proclaimed through our streets without any just reason, is this year really come upon us. Almost universally through the country the late potato crops have been attacked by the disease, and in many places the second early kinds, and even the early ones, have not escaped. A month at least earlier than its ravages commenced in 1845, it is now really alarming, as the main crops, upon which so many of the working po pulation of Britain chiefly depend for their winter food, are irretrievably damaged. Last year, at least to this country, and this generation, the disease was, with slight local exceptions, entirely new. We knew nothing of its nature, or its cause, beyond what chemical investiga►ion or theory could supply. The pota to being afflicted with a superabundance of moisture, and the season having been very unusually wet, it was natural to suppose that the drenching rains, the superabundant moisture with which the earth had been visited, was the cause of the disease. The only other theory which exten sively prevailed was, that the root was worn out ; though we must acknowledge that some few individuals, in differ ent quarters, made much nearer " guesses at the truth" than either of these. This year, if it has done nothing else, has shown us that these two theories must be exploded as idle dreams. The spring was unusually dry—yet the disease has visited us earlier, and is more virulent than before; and that the disorder does not proceed from the plant being worn out is evidenced by the fact, that potatoes raised newly from seed, and from tubers imported from abroad, have suffered in common with the rest. Nor will the Buckland' theory of the impregnation of the earth with the spawn of fungi from the last year's ctops account for this, as our own ex periments will sbew. And now, having thus far dealt in generals, we will come to particulars ; and as all the experiments we detail have been made by ourselves, or those with whom we are intimately acquainted, we will vouch for their accuracy. Our readers are aware that we all along combatted the idea, pretty generally prevalent, that the potatoe root was worn out. In order, however, to try every plan, we last year procured tubers imported from Russia, others im ported from America, others, of a very sound description, from Oxfordshire, others equally sound from another part of Warwickshire, and, in addition to these, saved some of our own growth, drying the second earlies and "pieing" the late ones. The dried tubers of the second early varie ties which we had saved for seed being all touched with the disease we planted in autumn, the rest we planted in spring; and an acquaintance of ours planted at the same time potatoes raised from the seed produced by the balls of 1844, Till Thursday week all these appeared to flourish luxuriantly, save that here and there among the late crops from our own seed a rather suspicious-looking top ap peared. Being called on business into Westmoreland, we left them on that day without the slightest idea that any thing was materially wrong; but seeing, as we passed through Lancashire, the unmistakeable evidences of the last year's disease in the decayed tops, we enquired how long they had been in that state, and were answered— " Very lately, and in many instances it came all in one night." This, of course, made us fear for our own, and at our return we found the same evidences in the tops there, which we immediately ordered to be cut down. The results, then, of our experience and observation are as follow :—None of the potatoes we planted have en tirely escaped, save those which were got up before the Ist of this month ; of the rest the late sorts appeared by the tops to have suffered most, the American and Russian ones equally with the rest. The only patch in which we have found no tuber touched with the disease is that grown from our own diseased sets, well dried and planted in autumn ; and the new variety planted by our neighbour from seed of 1844 is the worst diseased of any a e have seen—utterly worthless. One more fact we may mention. Some ,of the Russian and American tubers, as well as some of our ow r. , planted in land certainly not im pregnated with the spawn of fungi from former crops, is no potatoes had ever been grown in it, since it was, some years since, dug in from the turf. The plain result of these facts is, that the cause of the disease must be looked for in a t'ifferent quarter to those where we have looked for it hitherto. It is doubtless ....-.- ------. ATMOSPHERIC, whether or not connected with the light ning which has been so prevalent during the last two years we cannot say, but of this we are certain, IT IS AT MOSPHERIC-a direct infliction of an inscrutible Provi dence. Respecting the preservation of this year's crops much bas been said, but most of it has been founded on the idea that the disease arose in the potato, and not in the top,— was generic not atmospheric. Experiment however has proved, that if it cannot be cured it can at least he allevi ated. Mr. Jasper Rogers, of Dublin, has proved that either strewn among the crops when stored, or planted with the seed, carbon, either in the shape of woodashes, soot, or peat charcoal, has a beneficial tendency. We planted our first crop of . kidneys this year in soot, to keep out wire worms, and never bad a finer crop. The carbon absorbs the moisture of the potatoe, and tends to top the progress of decay. A simpler mode however has proved efficacious. It is to mow down the tops and leave the potatoes in the ground till they are wanted for con sumption. They spoil less there than when exposed to the atmosphere. Of course if they last till frost comes, as many of them are near the surface, it will be safer to cover them over with rubbish or litter. And now for the future. This useful plant must not be lost or given up in despair as worthless, because for two years successively heaven has visited us with a miasma or some other infliction that has partially destroyed it. The duty of man is to use the means, and, even against hope, still hope for a blessing. It is not the first time this root has been afflicted ; some thirty years ago a somewhat similar visitation came upon it, and, though not so general in its operations, lasted two or three years. We would enjoin the horticulturists still to persevere in attempts to preserve and raise it, notwithstanding their two years' losses. Let some of the soundest small pota toes be selected from those usually given to the pigs, and laid in the sun to green and harden for next year's seed ; and let them be supplied with carbon of some kind when planted, and with heaven's blessing we may not only save the early varieties, which are this year little affected, but also the later and more productive sorts, which keep so much longer. Above all, let all who have opportunity continue to raise new varieties from seed, and persevere, in spite of repeated failures, in their endeavours thus to secure a national as well as an individual good. Since writing the above we have seen a letter from Mr. Balkw• 1, chemist, of Kingsbridge, to the Secretary of the Roy ricultural Society, in which he attributes the disea o a green bug, about the size of a common house fly. He says he observed these insects in many cases when the tops were deceased, but never when they were perfectly healthy •, and seeing one of them void a greenish fluid, he smeared it on a healthy leaf, which soon after showed signs of the disease. This idea we saw some weeks ago in an American paper, where it was stated that the " poison fly," which had so injured the potatoes last year, had again commenced its ravages. We fancy, how ever, that though this fly may, in some cases, accompany the disease, it is not the cause of it. Through the state ment alluded to, we watched ours minutely, but saw no such flies or any other kind of blight. Besides, what a quantity of such bugs would it have required to infect a whole field in a night, and a whole kingdom in a few days. They must, like the locusts of Egypt, have been so plen tiful, as to be observed everywhere. [We copy the preceding article from the Birmingham Advertiser. Mr. J. Prideaux, in a letter to the editor of the Exeter Flying Post, recommends the cutting off of the stem of the growing crop on the first symptoms of dis ease being apparent, as noticed by us last week—a plan which we observe has been adopted in several gardens in this locality. A correspondent of the Times, writing from the neighbourhood of London, affirms that the disease be gins in the leaf of the plant, next attacks the:stem, and gra dually goes down into the tubers, which seem to receive the infection from the small fibres which attach them to the stem. He suggests, therefore, that if the plants were pulled up, and the roots allowed to remain on the ground, a separation would be made between the diseased and sound parts, and thus a certain amount of food preserved. Every field, he says, should he carefully watched, and, on the very first symptom of disease in the potato the plant should be pulled up, which can be best done by the per son placing a foot on each side of the drill and lifting it out. In the earlier crops this may be done immediately, as the potatoes are full sized, and if not ripe, nearly so. The object of delay in regard to the others is, that the growth may not be checked sooner than necessary, and the risk of springing in the ground at the end of the year diminished ; as he thinks they ought to remain there till he usual time of diggin-_:. Oi , T THE SANITARY STATE OF SOME PARTS OF LIVERPOOL. "The nuisance, whether public or private. which is in defiance of sanitary principles, has a threefold character. For such must be suicidal on the part of the author, immoral towards the neighbourhood, and impious against the Creator." TO THE E OITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. LETTER XV. Ma. EDITOR,—The raising of the Sailors' Home is a most necessary and praise-worthy institution, and for Prince Albert to have laid the foundation-stone is a mat ter of congratulation between its founders and the town. But, after all the hustle, where has it been laid ? upon what site have the Corporation and the Committee eosen to uprear a building, the estimated cost of which is to be £24,000 ? Why, in a puddle hole, cheek by jowl with the ugly Custom-house. Is not such a locality very question able for residence by day and night? The ground, al though, of course, rock at the bottom of all, yet is nothing but the oh! wash of the tide, and made-ground ; hence it becomes a likely malarious bed, unhealthy for people to live in. The Custom-house stands objectionably, for these reasons, even though it be chiefly occupied by hu man beings :luring the day time only, and that for short hours; but when a large building is to be located in the same unfavourable district, the numerous occupants of which will have to pass night as well as day there, the full force of the objection tells against it. There is no doubt the architect will have something in his power, through the resources of art, towards preventing the mis chief; and tbese aids, no doubt, he will zealously call in to operation for the purpose : but it is questionable whe ther he can sufficiently forestall the evil to be complained of. Time will show, since the experiment is committed for trial. It is a pity that, in all Liverpool, a spot could not have been pitched upon presenting less obnoxious foundations than the lowest level of Liverpool Proper. It may be thought that it is late in the day to aver these things ; still, if they have validity, it must be replied, " better late than never." It is a pity that such a pos sible source of prejudice to the health of the inmates has not been mere maturely weighed. If the Woodside people were to locate an institution, for day and night abode, upon the site of the middle of Wallasey-pool, when the tide will be shut out, would they be considered as do ing a wise thing ? Yet Ihe cases would be parallel, excepting in the particular of the period of time, as so much greater which has elapsed between the tidal wash of Paradise-street and its present state. Yet even this hardly weakens the parallel;: I question if it do not strengthen it. These remarks are not the first notice of the peculiar unhealthiness of the site of Paradise-street. It has been a matter of general notoriety all along, and no longer since than May 22, of the present year, a talented letter from Dr. Briggs, formerly a practitioner in Liverpool, called the attention of the public, and of the authorities especially, through the columns of the Liverpool Journal, to the errors of planting the Custom-house where it is, and the inhabiting of such quarters as Paradise-street. Now, what would he say to the project of a Sailors' Home on the same unhealthy site ! I shall quote from the doc tor's letter, in the hope that good may come of the exa n3ination of the question, although it is an unpleasing task to deliberate over a deed past, and all but irrevocable; also in the light of a medical protest against the unsuit able selection, lest otherwise the profession of Liverpool should be reproached hereafter, and elsewhere, for having taeitly approved of mal-sanitary arrangements, one after another, in a town where their advice might have been very properly supposed to have weight ; a very reasonable supposition for French, German, Austrian, and other na tions to make, but rather a mistake when the English na tion are the party supposed guilty of taking medical advice into their public councils. John Bull likes to have his own an-enquiring way in matters of this and nearly all other kinds. I need offer no apology for ample quotation. The sub ject demands it, and the author will not object to the tres pass on his statements. The impression of strangers must be, that Liverpool is a town of blut.ders ; and though, as a resident, I may re gret that such should be the case, yet the next best thing, after learning a bitter truth as to facts, is to remedy mat ters if possible, and, as far as possible, to mend tlat past, to have a care for the future, and to steer through the pre sent, by the light of experience shining on the " compass." Dr. B. observes (1 quote from a slip copy of the Jour nal, dated 22d May, 1846) : " Is it a fact that the present system of dockage is based on a correct principle? or, rather, is it not now a growing persua sion that it is radically. bad ? and if so, does it not follow, that whatever is built upon it rests on a rotten foundation ?. " All who know anything of the early history of Liverpool must needs has e beard. or read, that before the Old Dock was called into existence there was a stream, or pool, riot very un like what Wallasey Pool was till the other day. Where it had its origin I c t nnot say ; but, even in my time, it was to be seen as a perennial rill, in the open space between Great Nel son street North and Beau-street. from whence it descended, in some way. by what is now Whitechapel and Paradise-street, till it joined the rim. • '1 here was living, until a very few years ago, a well-known respected gentleman, who has often said that his own father i e membered w hen the ground on which King-street, and several of the confined streets north cf it, now stand,was a cow pasture, down to the pool, and which for years afterwards remained open, so that there was a ferry across it from Lord-street to what is now Church-sheet. No clidibt there still exist num bers in Liverpool that have conversed with elderly persons who had themselves crossed this same ferry. But from that time there has been nothing but a succession of steps in the wrong direction. The first great error, and that to which ail else may be traced, was that ever the old Corpora tion of Liverpool w• s allowed to have any sort of influence or control in the rearing of a new formation which was destined to attain such gigantic magnitude and importance. Now, for spirits and intellects of such an order, it was quite in keeping to conclude that their town, having got its one deck could never require a second ;. and that, therefore, if the pool was arched over, and a street built on its two sides, it would be so much clear gain to themselves; all which was done; and to perpetua e their own sense of the happiness of their exploit, they gave it the name of Paradise-sti ea!! " And now, without dwelling on the several intermediate steps, let us proceed at once to the grand cansummation—the filing up of the Old Dock, and the planting o f that huge pile of public buildi gs on its si e. " Unhappily the mischief is of a far more serious abidi ng character. The fixed laws of the phys ical world,—which are, indeed. God's own laws.—are not,. any Tole than his moral l terrible retribution is sure to follow, sooner or lat. T. I know not whether the cell-ars in this earthly Paradise be still inhabited by human beings or nut. In my day, few , except such of the during s s f dtoce balei usetn Pteee, rnas rssoodlari extentt orbdhyteeaawrthd l " fa eao r d o a r a t a o bc h u t . hlegiofidune weat h er wh lappearance.tle occupants . e '(a h habitually actstveewhimoltoll,etanjas,egreer.violated fare e ' o f i l tdal ttramahwfrnrsrf characte ra r o ' a wyvt o c i nm s l aeihhi being recollect. c l it a nP o nt lc e lguta) I s e El :e d it 'eaten:: nuisance nY r i : e d t ei ;Yt vi h a e isap s s t an d i W ho ian l tv an, r t;eaei tedesi whereas Irish hell atw n ; hth o no o seaie tf yf r r h si en t id W i i eethodsaelxtesfeeebhscadl back apartment rih:cohmal e During one of my . late evening visits! heard a pump at work in the • r m t. t g t wm a a y b t t a s b c C i e u a k p l i n k cj e l t apartment these was a well, in which the kill water that was constantly oozing in from the street was collected, a, d that it was necessary to empty the well every night ; nor have I yet forgotten the nausea produced by the sight at d smell of a pial ful of this abominable fluid, all of which must needs be bro ght through the front cellar, to be poured out into the kennel. I remember, too, a still more affecting scene, in the case of a fine Irish sailor boy, who died in a cellar on the other side of the street. in hot, damp weather, and who, in addition to all else, was obliged to have his face constantly covered with a net, to protect the swarms of fiesh.flies and other doleiul creatures with 'which all such places are infested. But I have since heard, though on t o certain authority, that the cellars in Para. dise-street are no longer inhabited by human beings, and if this be a fact so much the better; but is it equally a fact that the constant exhalation of deleterious miasm has ceased? Just the contrary. I advert to the published fact. that Liverpool has the bad pre•einineuce of being one Of the utost onheiklthi Aug. 25, 1R46. of towns. And is it always to be so ? Most assuredly yes, so long as the original sin remains ; and, in fact, every additional step taken on the same vicious principle does bnt the More in crease the generation of the malaria. In every case of • epar ture from the right line, whether bf individuals or committees, the only way for them to escape is, to measure back their steps to the point from which they have deviated. Be the elfurt ever so difficult or painful, there is nothing else for it. Never, ' , ever, till this fools' paradise and the excrescence which has taken the place of the Old Dock be swept away, caa the foul, hidden rottenness, be reached and cured." The extent of cellar living to which Dr. B. alludes has been partially remedied by act of parliament ; btt defini tions of heights and depths of windows and door-sills can not extinguish malarious exhalations co readily as ima gined by some. It is in past evidence, that a cellar vad cated is not, th:refore, a cellar purged of clanger, the im mediate subj.xts of prejudiced health are removed, but the malaria may go on developing at even an increasing rate. unless such places are actually filled tap. In the parts of the town above high water mark, filling up cel lars may cure the evil, possibly; but in parts of the town like this spot, which Dr. 13. sarcastically denominates "fool's paradise," the case is very different, for, snless I have been misinformed, the cellarage and kitchen range, empty or filled up, of numerous houses on this le vel, suffer at times insupportably from the fluid retained in the sub-soil around, which is forced upwards in all di rections by the flow of the tide; the sewers regurgitate from the same cause owing to the hydrostatic pressure of th, tide, and the stench of such refluent fluids is neither tolerable nor healthy. It' it had been the mere oozing of tidal sal,: water, the thing would be endurable compara tively, although attended with inconvenience and expenses manifold, but when the stinking fluids are constantly bathing the foundation walls of houses so situated, even a fish.wornan can pronounce a true and wise opinion. Roman cerneating has proved fruitless,—against the agency of such immffise periodical !pressure nothing can answer perfectly. This district, reclaimed at so costly a price of health as well as money, had better have been even up again to the domain of Neptune, in the shape of dockage, as Dr.. Briggs points out. The foundation stone of the Sailors' Home now lies in water, and they had to go through a bed of watery slush in order to clear a bedding for the stone, which speaks pretty plainly. By the way, it is a pity Prince Albert did not postpone his visit a week or two later, for he would have had the novel pleasure of laying the stone under water, with a few diving feats : or the whole arena which was covered with planks for the Mayor and allied powers, might have been converted into a truly Venetian scene of the Doge and the bridal waves —a travestie of the Lord Mayor of London going in his state wherry —or a naumachia of the Romans revived for the gratification of the Prince. Of course there will be a small hospital and staff of attendants planned in the Sai lors' Home, if people are brought there to run risks of sickness from malaria. RIGHT OF ROAD OVER A PIG-STYE. Windsor District. Back Corlet-street to Linden street, which latter is chiefly, if not entirely composed of new houses, presents a connecting pathway to and from these streets, which leads over a very extensive piggery, with all its appurtenances. The pathway is on a plane more elevated now than formerly, by means of a bridge of three planks, whereby the feet of the passers over are carried above the heads of the useful animals below. It is needless to say in the warm weather how pungent the sa lute to your nostrils must be. The road then leads round a large heap of muck from a shippon ; and around you on all sides are the varied tenements inhabited by cows, horses, pigs, Sc.c. The whole forms a group such as must surely be rare and incredible to the uninitiated in mal-sanitary prospects. It was desirable to have the road closed, in order to put matters into a more profitable shape ; but the blessed " privilege" of right of road has proved an untoward obstacle. Lindon-street is. built upon what used to be an open pond. Vested rights here then, though presenting an ideal property in the volatile and disgusting air of a pigstye, are, however, worthless, nay, prejudicial,—yet tenable by law, and cannot be Inter fered with! THE CLEANLY AND TIDY PEOPLE NOT ONLY PARTAKERS IN COMMON CHANCES WITH THEIR FILTHY NEIGH BOURS, BUT ACTUALLY MADE TO CLEAR AWAY THEIR NEIGHBOURS' FILTH. Harding -street is badly scavenged, and has always been, from this cause and its crowded court and cellar popula tion, a complete hot-bed of fever of the common and eruptive forms, and of other diseases. Scarletina used to be very prevalent in this district. It is impossible that a street in so wretched a plight as it has been all along, can he healthy. Two or three weeks back my notes were made upon personal inspection, along with Mr. Greatres, the surgeon to the district. (Since that time, of course, lam bound to admit a possible improvement in matters, owing to the possible increased vigilance of the authorities.) Inquiry showed that scavengers' carts very seldom visited the street. The people stated that sometimes stray country carts did pass along the street, and that they prevailed upon them at times to cart away from the street heaps of offal. The street has no proper drain. The inhabitants, poor and ill-conditioned, cannot help themselves. The state of the entire street for years past has always called forth my strongest reprehension when I had to visit parochially the sick arid nuisance-struck 1 Now, suppose a poor, hard-working woman, with a keen sense of cleanliness, and with a desire to secure her own health and comparative comfort, does actually take the pains and go to the expense of getting a cart to remove away the accumulated street filth lying opposite her own house—because if the authoritie s d o n or dg she in self-defence must—is not this a hardship ? Bat what if the upshot of such a sacrifice to cleanliness ' l. health-seeking on her part only brings down upon her the contributions of her neighbours' offal and sweepings, wh o ale too idle, or indi-posed at least, to put themselves tO an expense which by unfairness they can impose upon the shoulders of an exemplary neighbour. Is not this hardest of all ? It is a fact that such is the case in this street. Does not the apathy of authorities in this case leave a poor woman struggling to be clean and orderly in her place an actual prey to the wanton and barefaced impu dence of her idle and worthless neighbours ?—The " canna be lashed"' outwitting the virtuous. So society works; and yet the rich feel no jar ! In the court in Duckinfield-street from which the case I mentioned in my last,, of. dysentery was obliged to be removed to the hospital, a case of cholera in an infant, is a house opposite, has proved fatal. NOXIOUS• RESULTS- FROM ASH-PITS OVERFLOWING. At Windsor, in the notoriously bad scavengeQHard ing-street, a cout t was visited by us, the health o f th e resi dents in which was jeopardised by an overflowing ashpit. The door was open because it could not be closed, the contents of the place spreading themselves over the yard. It had, been in this condition for a month past. One party was ill and complained loudly of the nuisance, to which he attributed his illness—be said the rent collectors had promised to see to it. The court was peculiarly dis advantaged inasmuch as it presented a double cul de sac form, whereby ventilation for the dilution of the noxious gases was rendered impossible. The entrance was through one of the usual cramped archways—the length of.,tbe court yard was seven yards—it contained four houses. It was flagged. Many of the retraces and courts in this street have their ashpits full to excess, and in numerous instances the cellars adjoining are more or less flooded thereby. One deserted cellar was said to have its floor overflowed, where some time back an illicit w hiskey still had been found out. Tenants have to empty these cellars to preserve them in anything like utility. In one cellar, eight or ten months ago, which was damp from ash pit overflow, three children living over the. cellar had been taken ill at once, and one died. We happened to meet a landlord of about twenty houses at one end of the street, of the name of Ward. He vo lunteered a statement to us that he was ready to do, all he could for the well-being and comfort of his tenants—be had done what he could—he was ready to meet the au thorities half way in any improvements, and would gladly, for that end, enter into any bond or agreement. This is highly creditable to him, and it were to be wished.that so proper a feeling were responded to more generally. Another landlord in Barton-lane had adopted some im provements on behalf of his tenants, which is praise.- worthy, and I quote these instances with great pleasure. as lights amongst the gloomy shadows of landlordism- Yet in Barton-lane some ashpits are evidently obnoxiouts. to undue accumulation, and from the escape into them of other ashpits in the rear of Harding -street. A general system of draining is greatly wanted for Harding-street, Barton-lane, &c. and unless the authori ties turn their attention to it in eavnest, the occurrence of preventible sickness and its mortality per centage. will continue to disgrace this unhappy suburb proper of badly pre-eminent Liverpool.—Yours, Bedford-Oreet. G. C. WATSON. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER.—There Is no alteration to be meted in the pr ces c t our staple here since our report of last week, al though business has been more general and steady. and a very. fair amount done, printing cloths having the call, . It is, in deed, expected that these fabrics will go higher than they are at present ranging. The diminution of production which the resolutions of the Blackburn, Stockport. and other spinners, to work short time, will cause, will have its effect in creating this result. The Yarn market is without change, An.error, whose very magnitude was its own correction, occurred in our last week's publication, where, ny a typcgraplaieal mistake, we were made to say Yarns had fallen in price ‘• is sd to Is 4d per lb," instead of •• id to id per lb." For prices, we refer to our last week's quotations RoctinALE.—We have had some little improvement iu the demand for Flannels to-, ay, but no change in prices. The Wool market is much the same as that of the previous week. LEEDS - The Woollen trade continues pretty brisk, and stocks are low. A fair average business has been done this week, and the general tone of trade ti ans.ctions is good,. prices remaining steady, with a f it demand for goods, both for the home and foreign market. BARNSLEY.—The Linen trade continues fiat, but the (ant? drill houses are just beginning to give out more work, and we understand that a good season is anticipated. BRAnroavOnr trade has exhibited no features of chant's this week. The demand for both the raw material and maow factored g ods is better than it was a few weeks ago. The stocks of piece goods are diminishing, and a good winter trade is anticipated. Worsted Xarns are in good demand, both for the home arid the foreign trade; and notice of a speedy advance of prices has been given to those power. loom houses who buy fur monthly delivery. Wools sell freely, at firm prices. HUDDERSFIBLD.—We bad only an indifferent market, for which we cannot account, unless it is that the autumn trace i° setting in later than it does generally. New styles in fancy goods, however, continue to be bought up as freely as ever• There is also a fair demand for kerseys and heavy goe d9 generally. LiticasrEtt.—There is no alteration worthy of notice sill last week in the st a t e o f th e d eman d . Th ere is a fa i r amo ur, of business doing in the warehouses. The alteration, or ratite; lowering of the American tariff, is likely to lead to extend trade in that quarter. The Wool market is firm, and prices sr! fu ly support e d. W et h er s ki n W oo l s , s h ort W ools, and ft"' tegg Wools are most in demand. Normonmo.—The condition of the cotton hosiery tra d ? which had seemed for a moment to, rally, has again given W%i and we hear little e se in the town than compl ain t s o f want employment. The cut-up hose branch is, if anything, in rath er _ a better condition. The cotton glove trade h as me t w ith a 0 14 siderable re-reverse. and many of the hand s are once more sbo of employment. It is quite painful to advert to the silk riov e . branch, which seems to be in a most lamentable conditt_l d i The fancy bobbin net trade is still in a very l ow conditioth,"' the depresStoda 1148 at length reached France.