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

May 19, 1846. Loral anb Vrabinrial The wheelwrights and smiths at Manchester have re turned to work The expense of the parket 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 be was called to the bar. _ _ _ The splendid new packet-ship Columbia, 1100 tons bur den, and commanded by Capt. Rathbone, late of the Ox ford was to leave New York for this part on 'he 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 erect strength. STABBING.—On Wednesday, Mr. Rushton fined a seaman on board the ship Syra £5, for having stabbed the cook with a knife. The defendant said the cook had first struck him, and knocked out one of his teeth. FURIOUS DRIVING.—The following parties were sum moned before the magistrates, on 'Wednesday, and fined for the above offence, namely, John Moore, 40s. and costs; Hugh M'Cartney, 205.; and Chas. Davenport, 20s. Last Monday, Thomas Fagan, living in Portland-street, felt 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, Gay thorn, 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 Carrying Company intend, on the Ist June, to put on a first-rate steamer between Liver . pool and Preston, to convey goods and passengers. The boat is to run three times a week, and the fare for each person will be 2s. 61 A man named Brown, living at Warrington, has been committed for trial charged with the manslaughter of his father. A quarrel took plate between the two, both being intoxicated, and the son kicked and abused his father so • much that he died in about half an.hour. Great exertions are making to open the new Manchester Parks as early as possible. Several names have been sug gested as appropriate, and amongst the rest are, "The `Queen's Park," " The Peel Park," " The Philips Park," "The Heywood Park." CAUTION.—On Thursday, two young men, named George M'Cormick and William Steele, apprentices at Mr. Ogden's iron foundry, in Sefton-street, went during their dinner hour to bathe in the river, when unfortunately 'they got beyond their depth and were drowned. ARRIVAL OF AN EAST INDIAMAN AT FLEETWOOD. — The Tapley arrived on Friday, with a cargo of 10,505 gallons of rum, 1283 modes of sugar. 2436 modes of salt -petre, 1742/14 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. Los's. CHILDREN.—Under this head, Captain Willis, the chief constable, in his statistical returns of the Man chester police reports, states that, during the year 1845, the tot a l num b er of children reported to be lost amounted to 4061. Of these, 1702 were restored to their parents by the police, the remaining 2362 having been found by their parents or friends. , A Rio Janei ro j ourna l s peaks of a project for esta blishing a transatlantic communication between Liverpool and Para by means of steam ; from which latter place it Is intended that boats of less steam-power and dimen sions shall ascend the river of the Amazons, as far as Bolivia; while a railway shall cross the country to Arica, on the Southern Sea. THE "LITERARY BEACON'."—We were yesterday favoured by the agent, Mr. Connor, London-road, with the third number of this interesting periodical, which, we are happywhich a to find, bears out the indications of excellence entitled characterised the two former numbers. The article The Industrious Classes and Railroads" is admirably written, and worthy the serious consideration of our ocal legislature. A FACT FOR TEMPERANCE ADVOCATES.—The num ber of persons b rought before the Manchester justices during 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 may have been spent in bringing about this consummation, is a question we leave for Mr. Bab bage and his calculating machine. FATAL ACCIDENT IN FORDING THE DEE.—On Satur .day week, as the carriage of the Hon. Lloyd Mostvn was crossing the Dee, from Parkgate to Flint, under the charge of a coachman and a guide, the horses got out of their depth, and ,tbe 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 tutned back to Parkgate. Fortunately, no persons were inside the carriage. Lord Mostyn's carriage, which was under the pilotage of another guide, and was crossing at the same time, forded over in safety. SMUGGLING. —An Irishman, named Felix O'Neile, was, on Friday, placed at the bar of the police court, on a charge of smuggling whiskey. It appeared that the prisoner was stopped on his way from the Wexford steamer, having placed three gallons of whiskey on a spring cart. Ile 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. BUILDINGS WITHIN THE BOROUGH OF MANCHESTER. We learn from Captain Willis's police statistics, that the number of buildings, nn the 31st December, 1845, within the borough, were 50,744. He classifies them as follows: factories, 123; foundries, 48; warehouses and workshops, 3813; dwelling-houses, 41,606; shops used as dwelling houses, 471 9 ; cellar dwellings, 5385 ; places of worship, al ; public schools, 106; military barracks, 1 ; banks, 16; market s , 14 • railway stations, 4 ; gas stations, 5 ; work houses, 2 ; infirmary, hospitals, and dispensaries, 7; n ight asylum, 1 ; lock- hospital, 1; penitentiary, 1; public tn stitutions, 27. The cellar dwellings, being only portions of other dwellings, are not included in the gross total. Halton, week an inquest was held at ne ar R uncorn , on th e body of a young man named Thomas Gerrard, the son of a respectable farmer, w e i l lan t to Sir Richard Brooke, Bart., of Norton Priory, recoeihad died, it was supposed, in consequence of injuries received in his side. It appeared that he had been at a Pattie -house in Lower Walton, and had a fight with two one of whom he subsequently complained had s - "en him in the side. The evidence having been fnlly ptne into, and a post mortem examination made, the jury eed a verdict of manslaughter against William and Berwick, and they were committed to Cheater ‘Astle to take their trial at the next assizes. ilia HE STRIKE AT M A NCHESTER.—We are not aware there is anything fresh to report respecting the move _nae. nts of th e masters, one firm whose premises have been der the p ro t ec ti on of the police-officers, are so con vinced that the strike is at or near an end, that the offi cers have b een di spense d w ith by them. The meeting of the committees of Liverpool and Manchester will be held Tuesd ay , i n t hi s town, we un d ers t an d, t o cons id er an d as upon th e ru l es t o govern the ass o ci a tion. These, n we have before stated, have been preparing both at Liverpool and Manchester, and this meeting will be pre paratory to assembling the united committee.-111anches .er Courier. CHILD CHOKED BY A PEA.—On Tuesday last, a little b o• y, scarcely two years old, living near Crumpsall, not far Iforn Manchester, had a few peas given to it by its mother to Play with, when, it appears, the little thing swallowed F„'ne, and immediately exhibit e d s y mptoms o f c h o ki ng . The child was immediately taken to a surgeon, who fear ing that, from its difficulty in breathing, it would die if something was not done, made an incision into the child's throat, and inserted a flexible tube for the purpose of ena bling the little sufferer to breath, but all this was of little avail, for the child died in about an hour afterwards. Upon lxamining the region of the throat and wind pipe, on the following morning, a pea was found firmly fixed in the Icrynx. ILLEGAL APPROPRIATION.—On Friday, at the Ses sions, Henry Wm. Stevens, John Thomas Poulesland, and Henry Avery, were tried for appropriating to their own use £l4O, received from Messrs. Hornby and Co., as the Premium of an insurance in the Liverpool Fire and Life Company. 1 1 appearefilhat e the prisoners were all clerks is the compani t a office ; and that Stevens, whose duty it T hey to collect the money, or one of the others, received it. of Bailing laid in stores and were on board a vessel on the point I tiling for New York, when they were apprehended. t he court was crowded with persons, who appeared to Z`e great interest in the proceedings ; the connexions of tue lads being of the most respectable character, and their ;:, I , ld ,? c t up to this time exemplary. The prisoners were f,, -n u guilty ; and Stevens was sentenced to be imprisoned - r a , months, and his companions three months each. ; inEETING IN TOXTETR-PARK. — On Wednesday even- Zcaarable a meeti ng was called in Toxteth-park of persons fa otrable to an amalgamation of the highway trusts of that wn ship with th ose o f Li ver p oo l, un der the management 41he C orporation. The meeting was held in Toxteth :;, Mill -str eet . M r. Ri c h ar d H ar b or d, pres id e d. A laeaultory discussion took place, in which Mr. May, Mr. s u il d n bery, Mr. J. Finch, sen., Mr. Wareing, Mr. Hughes, other gentlemen took part. Mr. Paine proposed, as tl!. am endment, as foll ows :—" Th a t i t i s t h e o pi n ion of tra meeting, that an ama l gamat i on o f N ort h an d S out h thlateth Wards with the borough of Liverpool, so far as will highway trust and supplying of water are concerned, ships in highly conducive to the best interests of this town iltd3r inasmuch as it will lead to a reduction of local tax el),a, and will materially benefit the health and comfort vTe i nhabitants." The amendment was then put to the 4 ,3 7, when there appeared in favour of it, 30; against it, vlri , t 1 ALL 'S GRAND CONCERT.—We perceive that atr a _ 4 Yalls, having been unable to complete his expected coneuegeenents for the Theatre-Royal, has announced his atr eo r t to be held at the Concert Hall, in Lord Nelson tat, h• The talents of this gentleman, as a public vocal- Itu, s ve been as much and as deservedly admired as his hi and high respectability have been commended in we ho private avocations of a teacher of singing, and t oss Pe, therefore, he will be favoured with liberal en etteCrment from all our fashionable townsfolk. The arti n ..ned prima donna, Madame Albertazzi, is we find, to n "afe ; also her sister, Mdlle. Howson, Mr. 3. L. Hat- Des rs t : l ld the Belgian violinist, Vieuxtemps, who, it ap- N ` 1 : 01 33 an announcement in the Dramatic and Musi eview of last Saturdayweek, has er st i v _ _ obtained a most . ins st ; '4ll3ontment as "premier violinist to his imperial Emperor of Russia," from whose court he 4 41 Pel i3 in e l e pec . ted ; and as this is likely to be his farewell 'wing 14 !a. England, some interest will be excited visit to this neighbourhood. ,„ 'ST. JAIAS'S CHURCH.—On Thursday, a meeting of the propriderrs 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 £lOO of which had been contributed by the seat owners. He suggested that a rate of one year's pew rent be levied on the proprietors, to be collected immediately, and that the repairs of the church be commenced without delay. The course pointed out by the chairman was ap proved of by the meeting. It was stated that in case the plan proposed did not produce a sufficiency of funds, a subscription would be made. PAVING AND SEWERAGE.—At the usual weekly meet ing of the Commissioners, on Thursday, a letter having been received from Mr. Duncan as to some new taps and pipes required at the water-works in Green-lane, a long discussion ensued, several members being of opinion, that from the present circumstances in which the Board was placed as regarded the Corporation, it would not 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 he dismissed for being intoxicated while on duty, he 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.—On 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 out would, it is said, form a canal of thirty-eight miles in length, twenty-one feet wide, and six in depth. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY IN LIVERPOOL.—On Saturday wee. a very extensive robbery took place at the Royal Bank, in this town. It is an old-established custom amonest the commercial firms here, for the purpose of securty, 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 turned to the office. The clerk at the bank states, upon the other hand, that the box, if left upon the counter, was not seen by him, and that upon looking over all the other boxes which bad been sent in upon Saturday evening, and missing the identical one from the number, he reported the circumstance. Nothing further was ' heard of the matter for some hours afterwards, when the missing box, emptied of the whole of its contents, was found in one of the streets leading from London-road to Islington. It was immediately conveyed by the police man on duty to the Central Police-station, where a re port of the robbery was subsequently made. Placards have been issued, offering £2OO for the apprehension of the thief or thieves, and other necessary steps taken, but no tidings have yet been heard. Circumstances which have since transpired completely exonerate both the clerk who conveyed the box, and the clerk at the bank, from all suspicion, if any ever attached to him. CAUTION TO EMIGRANT AGENTS.—On Thursday, Lieutenant Hodder, the government agent, appeared be fore Mr. Rushton to prefer a charge against John Keenan, an emigrant agent in this town, for having fraudulently obtained money from six persons who had come from Ire land, and had taken their passage to New York, by re presenting himself as J. W. Shaw, emigrant agent. It appeared that the complainants, together with a number of other persons, had paid a deposit of £1 each to Mr. O'Neal, agent at Cork for Messrs. J. W. Shaw and Co., in order to secure berths on board the ship Mayfield, for New York. A printed ticket, with Mr. Shaw's name in large letters, was given to each of them by Mr. O'Neale, to show they had taken their passage. The parties arrived in this town on Sunday evening, by the Cork steamer, in company with 150 other emigrants. When they landed, they wet e met by a person in Mr. Keenan's employ, who, upon the tickets being shown him, directed them to Mr. Keenan's office. Vt hilst there, one of them asked for Mr. Shaw, and lie was then shown Mr. Keenan. The man, on coming up to hi , inquired if he was Mr. Shaw, to which Mr. Keenan replied in the affirmative. The tickets were presented to him, and £4 each additional was exacted for their passage. This was paid, and another ticket given to them for their passage in a vessel called the Ash burton, which would not sail for some time after. The poor fellows not being able to detect the fraud, walked away, and did not find out the trick which had been played upon them until they sought a passage on board the May field, which left the port on Wednesday morning last, with a number of the friends of the complainant. Mr. Rush ton, after carefully investigating the case, said the magis trates would not be doing their duty if they did not mark the case by the utmost penalty the law could inflict. The defendant was accordingly fined £lO, and his emigration license revoked. THE LIVEAPOOL STANDARii. 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 annual meeting of this society was held on Wed nesday in the large room at Exeter-hall. Mr. PnomPTRE, who occupied the chair, expressed his satisfaction at once more meeting the friends of the so ciety in defence of the Protestant faith. He did not wish on the present occasion to speak in terms of antipathy or unkindness towards his Roman Catholic fellow sinners, but as to the system of the Church of Rome, he felt bound constantly to protest against it. He had had many opportunities of seeing the tyranny which wa, ex ercised over the Roman Catholics in Popish countries. He was sorry to say that in the Established Church of England there were men who were propagating the prin ciples of Popery, but who were destitute of the honesty to avow their connexion with the Roman sect. H e looked upon the concessions which had been made to Romtv,ism as a heavy blow dealt at the Protestant faith. It would therefore be their duty, henceforth, to resist such conces sions to the utmost, for although there might be trying and sifting times before them, he had very little doubt that the cause of truth would ultimately triumph. The Secretary the❑ read the report.—The first portion of that document was employed in denouncing the con. duct of her Majesty's government, who under the pri.- tence of expediency had sacrificed the institutions of the country, and to drown the cry of justice to Ireland had attempted the destruction of the church. The present government had followed in the path of their predece— sore, for the Charitable Trusts Bill, the Religious ()pini ons Bill, and others of a similar character brought forward by them, were all steps in the wrong direction. The re port then referred to the vigorous efforts made bv the so ciety to oppose the progress of the Maynooth Bill—the number of petitions then presented against it being more than 10,000, and the signatures amounting to a million and a quarter. The total receipts of the society for the year were £1,157, and the expenditure £1,044, the liabi lities incurred being about £250. Their stock in hand might be valued at £5OO or £6OO, but this could not at once be made available for the society. The number of additional subscriptions during the past year had consi derably increased. Several standard Protestant works had been added to the publications of the society, and nu merous grants had been made for the cause at home and abroad and in the colonies. The report expressed the satisfaction which should be felt at the establishment of the college at Malta, the National Club and the Evange lical Alliance fur the maintenance of Protestant principles. The report concluded by stating the confidence which the Protestant world had reason to feel in the ultimate tri umph of the truth. Sir D. MACKWORTH moved the first resolution that the report be adopted He regretted that the Romish church met with so sad an ally in tkis country, not in those who were at present inclining to its doctrines, but in the general apathy and indifference of the people. After adverting to the doctrines contained in the charge of the Archbishop of Lyons, and the state of religious opi. nions in France generally, he concluded by saying that he spoke in no spirit of enmity to Roman Catholics, and that he relied upon the distribution and reading of the bible as the ultimate and great support of the Protestant princi ples. The Rev. Mr. STOWELL said that they were there a body of men much misunderstood, very much maligned, but by the blessing of God they were there unshaken in their principles, and undiminished in their confidence. The candle which was lighted by La , imer and Ridley was not to be put out because there were traitors in the camp. No, it would shine out, and never be extinguished till it was lost i❑ the blaze of eternity. The retrospect of the past year presented to their view the most severe shock which Protestantism bad received since the fatal year of 1829. It was not intellect that would save the Maynooth priesthood from the blackest doctrines and blasphemies of the dark ages. The staple of the education would not be improved, but the amount of production would be greatly increased, and from it would go forth to the colo nies, and over the country, men who would labour to subvert the settled foundations of the Protestant faith. There was another feature of the past year in the secessi ons which had taken place from the church of England Northampton is the successful candidate for the show of the Royal Agricultural Society in 1847. The unfortunate man Blewitt, who was shot by a young man in Drury-lane, expired last week. A blacksmith at Bristol has been committed for trial for the manslaughter of his wife. At present, the Princeton and the Mississippi are the only two steam-ships which bear the United States' flag. There were no less than twenty-two bankrupts in Tues day's Gazette. A fine youth named Glover, aged 17, was drowned late week whilst bathing in the river Calder, near Halifax. An old pair of satin shoes, once worn by Fanny Ell.,ler, lately realized upwards of £2O in the United States ! Mr. S. O'Brien, the Irish " martyr," is seen some times outside the door of his cell reading a huge book. He lives very sparingly, and puts on the air of a hermit. Twelve corn-stacks in the farm-yard of Messrs. Green, at Crawcrook, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, were destroyed by fire last week. They were ignited by an incendiary. RAILWAY DIGNITY.—King Hudson's heir apparent, an Eton boy, has been dubbed by his schoolfellows, " The Prince of Rails." A petition from Hull has been presented to the House of Commons, praying for the release of Mr. S. O'Brien from the Tower! The quantity of fish sent from Scarborough along the railway to York, has averaged 80 tons per week during the whole of the winter. The Duke of Northumberland has consented to become one of thirty subscribers to pay off the building aebt of the city of Westminster Mechanics' Institution. At the Eglington Park races, on Wednesday, the horse on which the. Marquis of Waterford was riding, tell, and his Lordship had one of the bones of his shoulder fractured. The King of the French has, it is said, sent a reply, written with his own hand, to the address of the Town Council of Edinburgh, on his escape from assassination. In Nottinghamshire, last week, in one wheat stack, up wards of two hundred and fifty rats and one hundred and sixty mice were killed, and many, of course, escaped. PILOTAGE.—The Admiralty have ordered that the ser vices of pilots are in future to be remunerated according to the draft of water of the vessels of which they have the charge. ARCHITECTURAL CONGRESS.—The architects from all parts of the world talk of holding a general congress of architects once eyery three years, the first to take place at Athens. Lord Worsley, M.P., has been appointed Deputy Grand Master of Freemasons for England. This highest office but one, is generally considered by the craft as pointing to a future election to the masonic throne. ANCIENT ART.—It is a singular fact, that the pattern now most common upon Paisley shawls, and which had always been a favourite, was in use among the Hindoos three or four thousand years ago. It is a startling fact, that when the " Religious Opi nions Relief Bill" is passed, the Pope will have more au thority, and Romanists more license in this country than in any of the Popish countries of the continent! ! FIGHT FOR £5OO.—A pugilistic encounter took place the other day between Gill (of Coventry) and Norley (of Manchester) for £5OO, at a place palled Withy Green, near Oxford. After a hard fight Gill was declared the victor. The number of fires that have taken place in the metro polis and its suburbs since the commencement of the year, according to the records kept by the brigade authorities, amounts to more than 300. In the years 1835-39, there was 315 murders, and in the year 1840-44, there were 347 ; being an increase of ten per cent. ; while the increase of the population would account for but six per cent. The Rev. Dr. Ullathorne, of Cover' pointed Roman Catholic vicar-apostolic district, in the place of the late Dr. Briggs. _ thorne is a member of the Benedictine order. On Thursday, between the hours of four, a.m. and five, p.m., no fewer than seven fires occurred in the metropo lis, some of which were attended with considerable da mage. Major Beniowski has discovered a simple process by which the daily newspapers, or any book printed from common type, may be printed so as to be read by the blind. Mrs. Jane Culliford, who has reached her 108th year, walked a few days since to Taunton from Yeovil Marsh, two miles. She appeared in good health and full of energy.—Dorsct Chronicle. On Sunday week a fine Dutch galliot arrived at Preston with a cargo of oats from Holland, This is the first ves sel of the kind that has been up at Preston, and a great number of persons witnessed its arrival. At a special meeting held at the India House, on Wed nesday, a pension of £5OOO and £2OOO per annum, were voted, by a large majority, to Lord Hardinge and Lord Gough respectively. A handsome collar has been presented by the Humane Society to the dog " Bess," which saved a female from drowning at Grant on Pier in November last. The collar bears a suitable inscription engraved on silver. The " strike" at Birmingham is at an end. The mas ters have withdrawn the written declaration, and the men are. to declare verbally that they do not support any branch of the building trades that is at present " out on strike." STRIKE FOR WA GES.—The sbipcarpenters and sawyers at Maryport made a general strike on Friday morning for an advance of wages. They have hitherto had 18s. per week and demand 20s.—Cumberland Pacquet. SEAMEN IN LONDON.—The number of unemployed seamen in London is less than for many years past. there not being above 200 in the Sailors' Home, nearly the whole of whom have but just returned from distant voyages. Captain E. A. Somerset has consented to stand for Monmouthshire, on protection principles, at the first opportunity. Lord Granville Somerset is the present member, and has displeased the electors by voting for free trade. Nine persons went through the ceremony of initiation into the freedom of the borough of Alnwick, by wading through a muddy pool, called the " Freemen's \Veil." and perambulating the boundaries of the moor, on St. Mark's Day. A Naptha Company has taken a portion of the Dart moor prison, which was formerly inhabited by the French prisoners, for the purpose of erecting a chemical apparatus, and extracting naptha, ammonia, tar, &c., from the peat with which Dartmoor abounds. A pauper named Patrick M'Carthy, aged 68, committed suicide by inflicting wounds on his person with a knife, in the Newington Workhouse last week. The deceased was sensible after the injury, and wrote on a slate, " The devil tempted me." FATAL FIGHT ON A SUNDAY.—A fight took place on Sunday last, in a field near the Marley tunnel on the South Devon Railway, between two " navies," when one of them fell a corpse on the spot, just as be received a blow from his antagonist.—Devonport Telegraph. A bootmaker at Bradford, named Gudgeon, has been committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter. The prisoner had a pitched battle with a man named Beards worth, and the latter_ reeeived such injuries during the of the western Dr. Ulla- . _ Nothing but an inspection, we can assure our readers, to the church of Rome. Now they had gone to their own affray'as.to cause his death. will satisfy them as to the wonderful perfection which the places, to which in honesty they should have gone at the The quantity of salt sent from the United Kingdom to French have attained in their imitation of fruits and beginning. They would mark the benumbing effect foreign countries in 1843, was 12,946,452 bushels ;in 1844 flowers. An hour spent in this delightful way, at Mrs. which Romanism exercised on the heart of every . one, 13,413,884 bushels; in 1845, 14,319,482 bushels. By far Girvan's establishment, Upper Arcade, will satisfy them however gentlemanly, however sensible or good previ- the greater part of this quantity was exported from Liver that we have not hinted idly. ously. He alluded to the conduct of Mr. Newman—for pool. KIRKDALE FLORAL AND HORTICULTURAL Snow.— no Protestant Englishman could ever have drawn the William Richardson, 49, and Anne Maria Richardson, It is with pleasure we refer our readers to an advertise- principle of construing the articles of the church in a 22:his daughter, were tried at the Central Criminal Court, ment in our paper of to-day, announcing the first horti- " non-natural " sense. He then alluded to the conduct on Wednesday, for the wilful murder of an incestuous Us cultural exhibition for the season, at Kirkdale. on Tues. of Mr. Faber, who, he hesitated not to say, notwith- legitithate child, of whom they were the parents. They day, the 26th, and not the 25th, as errononeouely stated standing the correspondence which had appeared in the were acquitted. by a contemporary. The arrangements are such as will papers, bad kidnapped two lambs from the fold of Ch rist _ FOOD FOR ENGLA ND ..—There have been shipped from not only s urpass those of previous years, but are entered to band them over to the ravening wolves of Rome. la e Baltimore to Lond on , thi s w eek, over thirteen thousand into with such spirit by Mr. New and others, that we feel should be consoled for such secession if they served as barrels of flour, besides as many bushels of corn, and a satisfied that they will not only be an auxiliary to the beacons to the church. If the University of Oxford did great quantity o f b ee f, p or k, lard, &c.—New York He growing horticultural and botanical taste, but that they not proceed as she had begun: to root out heresy from her raid, April 31. will meet public approbation. A spacious, and we may borders, she would lose the confidence of Protestant Eng- Last week, a boy fourteen years of age, living at Lam add elegant marqu e e w ill be erected, and every accommo- land. And if Dr. Posey, and those who thought with beth, de s t ro y e d hi mse lf by hanging whilst showing his dation will be provided for visitors ; and, as the future him, did not soon go over, there would be a brand of dia- younger brothers " how Tapping was executed at New prizes depend upon the encouragement given to this show, honesty on them also. He did not hesitate to say that if gate." The deceased was continually speaking of execu we trust the attendance will be numerically great. Mr, Newman went over to the house of Rome, Dr. Pusey, lions, and frequently trying the effects of hanging. EXTRAORDINARY CHEAP TRIP TO LONDON AND and those who agreed with him, ought to do so too, and EFFECTS OF TRACTARIANISM.—At Kilmore, on Sun- BACK —A fortnight ago we gave our readers to under- if they had both gone to the verge they ought both to day, Mr. Mussen preached to his clerk , his sexton, and stand that a,costract had been entered into with the pro- share the dark abyss of Rotnish heresy. They must do hi s son. These three persons composed the congregation , prietors of the Grand Junction R a ilway for a cheap excur- so unless it was intended that hereafter there should be a w hi c h l as t year cons i s ted of as many hundreds.—Down sion train to London, to take its departure some day in bridge across the gulph which used to separate Popery Patrick Recorder. Whitsun Week, and that the char g e for the trip to and fro from Protestantism, and that one learned professor was The pupils of Mr. Hullah, as a testimonial to their in would he fixed at the astounding low charge of one intended to be the foundation stone on one side, and an- structor, are endeavouring to raise funds for the erection guinea. An announcement to the same effect appears this other the foundation stone on the other. Mr. Stowel of a music hall in London. Among themselves they have day in our advertising columns, with this addition, that then adverted to the conversions from Popery to Protes. raised £5OO, and the proceeds from the choral meetings there will be two trains despatched from Liverpool,—one tantism in Ireland, where the true spirit of our faith had amount to about £3OO more. on the morning of Saturday, May 30, and the other on been transported from this country, and where tractarian- The British Association for the advancement of Sci- M on day, the let of June. The trains will consist of ism had made very little progress. The progress of the ence, h as fi xe d the period of the next meeting to be held se cond and third class carriages, the fare by the latter Reformation on the continent, in Germany, France, and a t S out h am pt o n, for the week commencing Thursday, b e i n g a guinea, and the former 30s. As the third class the Swiss Cantons, was another interesting feature of the 10th S eptem b er . The president, appointed at the last carriages will be covered in, and the journey being guaran- past year. It might be that Rouge and some of the other meeting at Cambridge, "is Sir Roderick Impey Murchison. teed not to exceed ninehours , ei ther conve yance offers the leaders had ente r e d on a devious course ; but it was not Donglas Jerrold is off " Punch; and the presiding s am e d eg ree of comfort and celerity of movement. Parties likely that those who bad come out of the dark should gen i us o f B ra db u ry and Evan's famous periodical is Mr. ava iling themselves of this excursion, will have the option see clearly at first. But he would now turn to the future, Thackeray, t h e Michael Angelo Titmarsh of Fraser. of remaining in the metropolis either seven or fourteen in which he saw fresh concessions to Rome boldly put Washington Irving has just completed a " Life of Maho days, at it may best suit their convenience. forward. The R o man C a tholic Relief Bill was ill omened, met." The principal scenes of Dicken's new story are CONSUMPTION. — AN EXTRAORDINARY CURE BY and the Religious Opinions Bill would so far re p eal t he laid in the West of England ;he is now his own publisher. HOLLOWAY'S P IL LS AND OINTMENT. — Mary Gilmore, oath of supremacy. And what would they get for these A n i nques t 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 f oun d i n a pr i v y attached to Verulam Chapel, at Bromley, Church-street, Shoreditcb, was in the second stage of was another prospect before them, viz., either the despolia- an d w hi c h h as 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 b roug ht to a co nclusion on Thursday, the jury having then last resource, large quantities of Holloway's Ointment the Roman Catholic clergy there. He had been told, on me t f or t he s ixteenth time, and returned a verdict of were rubbed twice a day into her chest and left side, good authority, that either one or other of these measures wilfulmurder a gainst 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. G reen , the noted mronaut, ascended from Ipswich ped the ravages of this otherwise fatal disease as for both were equally to be apprehended. We were on on T ues d a y last, this being his 321st ascent. The descent effectually as though the remedy had been applied to the eve of another election; and though he had never was in safety, but a spring car employed in carrying the an ulcerated sore palpable to the eye. The pills were asked nor influenced a vote hitherto in Manchester, a balloon afterwards 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, weighing four cwt., falling upon him, cured in three months. tors not to support any candidate who would not defend but he was not much injured. -..---...---.........„ MOLD JUNCTION RAILWAY. the Protegfant faith' q their fathers. He exhorted those POISONING.—SeveraI r ----a around him to go an N elo likewise, that such a declaration named Ball, in Norfolk, Oh Saturday, in pursuance of the new orders of parlia- might become general Through the country. The next cumstances which excited ment, a meeting of the scrip -holders in tire Mold June- t parliament would make of mar England—the next paths- exhumed, a n d the discov thin Railway Company was held at the Addis-hi Hotel, in 1 ment would either recover their lost ground or and them caused by arsenic. It is s this town, for the purpose of submitting to their consider- further down the inclined plane of religious error ; but be than one person. ation a bill now pending in parliament, entitled "1 bill it that Anti-Christ was about to prevail ; its temporal tri- - RICH ACTRESSES.-1s for making a railway from Mold, in the county of Flint, uroph would be but the prelude of its everlasting over- Fanny Kemble, Fanny to the Hooton station of the Chester and Birkenhead throw. Dowager Countess of Es Railway." Mr. J. BATEMAN, in proposing the next resolution, others, have accumulated About a dozen of the west substantial shrrebolders quoted the testimony of Sir R. Peel, to allow that the fession. We believe the were present, including Edward Oakeley, Esq., Ph i lip mysterious visitation of Providence, which had deprived present is Madame Celeste Davies Cooke, Esq., John Wynne Eyton, Esq., Thomas a great portion of the poor in Ireland of food, was the On Tuesday week Eels Jones Wilkinson, Esq., &c. punishment of Heaven for the concessions which had grinding a knife on a new Mr. OAKELEY, Chairman of the Provisional Directors, been made last year, and for the neglect of the petition of when too much power was pr es id e d, and made an interesting statement, shewi ng th e 1,500,000 of our Protestant fellow-subjects. It was also stone flew to fragments, bi prospects of the company to be highly favourable. He singular that when Sir R. Peel was last thrown out of tunate man, and forcing th said that the hill which they had met to consider had been offiee by the late Whig government, it was by a majority died in a few minutes. read a second time. The capital proposed to be raised was of 32, exactly the number of members which, under the GOUGING.—Mr. Bingh. £280,000, in 5,600 shares, and one call had been made—a Roman Catholic Relief Bill, the Premier had treacherously said be was sorry to see deposit of £2 15s. per share—which had been paid on the admitted into the House of Commons. Again, Sir R. gouging, which had been i whole of the shares. In consequence of a few of the al. Peel had deceived his Protestant supporters, and again he rous part of the back settle lottees not having paid their deposits, such shares had was tottering to his fall, and when he fell, be trusted that gaining ground in this co been sold at a premium, the profit of which would go to he would " fall like Lucifer, never to rise again." mined, in every case of the the credit of the company. The prospects of the concern The Rev. Mr. Mgt waiNE seconded the motion, and check such brutality as mu, were, in every respect, very promising. Independent of the resolution, which was a protest against the principles The Times of yesterday the general traffic, the contiguity of the line to the Vale of of the Maynooth grant and the public encouragement of supplement the full size o Clwyd afforded a certainty of great returns from parties i'opery was then put and carried. tamed 1.911 advertisements going on pleasure excursions from this and other localities. Several other gentlemen addressed the meeting. £145 lls. 6d. ; which, adde The mineral traffic was of the best description. They 30,000 copies, the aver could supply coal to Birkenhead and its neighbourhood, GENERAL MISCELLANY. £270 lls. 6d., as the contri and to the steam-boats on the Mersey. They could also day week to the revenue of supply excellent building-stone, limestone in a calcined Northampton is the successful candidate for the show THE SQUADRON OF Evo state, bricks, &c. ; and many circumstances would give an of the Royal Agricultural Society in 1847. the experimental squadron i advantage to the shareholders. It was gratifying to state The unfortunate man Blewitt, who was shot by a young and proceeded to sea, am that the landowners throughout the line were almost una- man in Drury-lane, expired last week. and steamers, filled with e nimously in favour of the undertaking, including Sir Ste- A blacksmith at Bristol has been committed for trial squall, which came on abot phen Glynne, the lord-lieutenant and member for the for the manslaughter of his wife. latter to flight, and about county, who would have been present, at the meeting, but At present, the Princeton and the Mississippi are the from sight. was detained in London by his duties in Parliament. Th e on l y t wo s t eam - s hi ps w hi c h b ear th e U n it e d S ta t es ' fl ag. A verdict of " Wilful lord-lieutenant, the high sheriff, and the grand juries of the There were no less than twenty-two bankrupts in Tues- against Eliza Clark, who th counties of Denhigh and Flint, had petitioned in favour of day's Gazette. over Battersea Bridge. TI the bill. He concluded by saying, that if any geotlemaii ' A fine youth named Glover, aged 17, was drowned late been found. On Friday, I wished for further information, he would gladly supply it. week whilst bathing in the river Calder, near Halifax. the unfortunate woman v In reply to a question put by a Scripholder, the CHAIR. An old pair of satin shoes, once worn by Fanny Elbler, ground of insanity. She MAN said that the parliamentary and other expenses so lately realized upwards of £2O in the United States ! Majesty's pleasure. far did not exceed 255. a share. He explained that the Mr. S. O'Brien, the Irish "martyr," is seen some- Alexander Reid, a sailor, utmost economy had been observed by the directors, but times outside the door of his cell reading a huge book. He ley, was brought up at Bow that the parliamentary expenses were the same for a short lives very sparingly, and puts on the air of a hermit. been caught sleeping in ato line like theirs (of about 14 miles) as or one much longer. Twelve corn-stacks in the farm-yard of Messrs. Green, ingham Palace. He states The expenses of the proposed Birkenhead and Llangellen at Crawcrook, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, were destroyed garden to see the Queen, a line (which had since fallen through) were much greater. by fire last week. They were ignited by an incendiary. to lie down on her Majesty' On the motion of Mr. WYNNE EYI ON, of Leeswood, RAILWAY DIGNITY.—King Hudson's heir apparent, mended. seconded by Mr. JONES WILKINSON, it was then an Eton boy, has been dubbed by his schoolfellows, "The At Sunderland, on Wedm " Resolved unanimously,—That the shareholders pre- Prince of Rails." ton, master, John Bowmake sent having heard the statement of the Provisional A petition from Hull has been presented to the House of and Thomas Fairclough, set Directors, do hereby fully authorise them to proceed in Commons, praying for the release of Mr. S. O'Brien an apprentice, part of the ci their application to Parliament for a bill to construct the from the Tower! Sunderland, were committer said railway, subject to such modifications or arrange- Th e q u an tity o f fish sent from Scarborough along the of sinking the vessel by bori ments as they (the directors) may deem expedient ; and railway to York, has averaged 80 tons per week during the on her way to the Baltic. resolved unanimously. that the directors be empowered, whole of the winter. CARNARVON REGATTA.- if they should deem it to the interest of the company, to The Duke of Northumberland has consented to become for the holding of this year postpone further proceedings in parliament until the next one of thirty subscribers to pay off the building aebt of the that the contests should cot i session." city of Westminster Mechanics' Institution. and Friday, the 28th Aug Mr. COOKE said he believed their traffic table would At the Eglington Park races, on Wednesday, the horse Douglas Pennant, member exhibit most favourable features. They could carry coal, on which the Marquis of Waterford was riding, tell, and sidenr. Three superb piece lime-stone, building-stone, brick, tiles, pottery, lead, &c. his Lordship had one of the bones of his shoulder fractured. contests of last year. at a cheap yet advantageous rate. There would be no The King of the French has, it is said, sent a reply, Within the last ten day tunnel on the line. One had been in contemplation, hut writ'en with his own hand, to the address of the Town water-fowl have been found it was decided that an inferior gradient at that point was Council of Edinburgh, on his escape from assassination. mental water of St. James' preferable. A tunnel would co st £lO,OOO, and the extra I n N ot ti ng h ams hi re , l as t wee k, i n one w h ea t s t a ck, up- watch ; and it was found I expense of locomotives to work the gradient would be wards of two hundred and fifty rats and one hundred and which had not long been p about £lOOO a-year only, so that the latter was fixed s i x ty m i ce were k i ll e d, a nd many, of course, escaped. habit of attacki n g th e sma ll sufficient to cause death. ,, f upon. PILOTAGE.—The Admiralty have ordered that the sn- During the case of an application, last week, to Vice- Chancellor Knight Bruce, respecting the infringement on 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. but 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 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. EXTRA , RDINARY THRESHING MACHINE.—On 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 ployed were a couple of ponies, walking at a steady pace. —Falmouth Packet. THE OREGON QUESTION. — The Times, of Thursday; says—" The packet which will sail from Liverpool in a few days will convey to the United States the real im pression produced here by the late intelligence. If the resolution was intended as a threat or a hostile measure, it has totally failed to have any effect whatever, except ihat it is probable Mr. Pakenham will be at once em powered to bring the controversy to a prompt and final issue. _ _ - CURIOUS PETITION. — In the House of Lords, on Thursrav evening, Lord Normanby presented a petition, the prayer of which was of a singular nature. The pe. titioner stated that he bad invented a new medicine for diseases of the chest, and he prayed their lordships to appoint a committee to investigate the merits of his in vention. The noble lord facetiously remarked, that he supposed the petitioner desired that their lordships' com mittee should try the medicine themselves. A COUNTER FACT FOR FREE TRADERS.—At a recent land-letting by auction at Kirton, near Boston, not a sin gle lot was disposed of. One of the best fields was bought in at 265. per acre rental ! This speaks whole vo lumes. The land thus offered for public competition com prised 67 acrcs of the fiaest feeding land in Lincolnshire, and situate in the best part of the county, amidst the most spirited and enterprising graziers, and offered on the cus tomary terms. _ _ Dick,ns, 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 three days at a time, enjoying their society, and leaving the " boys" to roam at leisure over his noble grounds, on the under standing that they all meet at dinner time. Wuo WANTS A CHILD ?—The Western Times contains a letter, offering to any persons who may be desirous of adopting a child, a little boy between three and four years of age, " whose mental and bodily developments are of the first order," but whom the parties in charge of him " cannot afford to support and educate without proper remuneration." Prompt attention will be given to any communication addressed to the' editor of the Western Times, who says that " his own hands are full of small life " _ A JUVENILE LAMBERT.—There is at present in the city of Glasgow, a boy nine years of age, standing 4 feet 61 inches. He measures round the chest 41, inches ; round the belt 461 ; round the thigh 24 ; round the calf 161 ; and turns the beam against 14 stone! His name is Kenneth M`Caskill ; is o native of the island of Soa, one of our western Archipelago, between Cana and Skye, in the direction of Spar Cave, and brought hither by his fa ther, who is in no affluent circumstances, for exhibi%son. The boy's sole language is the energetic language of Os sian.—Scolch paper. _ _ THE WEATIIEIL IN THE MIDLAND COUNTIES. — During the last week, there has been a most gratifying change in the state of the weather ; the cold east wind which prevailed during the previous fortnight having been succeeded by fine southerly breezes and genial sunshine; the wheat, which was looking sickly and stunted in March has already in a great measure recovered its wonted fresh ness, and, except on cold hard ground, promises to yield well. The orchards are in full blossom, and, if the nights keep free and fresh for the next ten days, there will be more than an average crop of fruit. SALE OF PICTURES.—The collection of Mons. Duval, of Geneva, was on Tuesday brought to Mr. Phillips's ham mer. Some of the pictures fetched great prices. A " Karel du Jardin" brought £1,150 to a private purchaser, who also bought a single head ( one of those wonders of elaborate fin;sh for which Denver stands, and perhaps ever will stand, alone) for £490. "The Pleasure Party," by Weenix, so well known from Delauney's engraving, was disposed of for £393 odd. A " Watteau," consisting of several figures in theatrical costume, fell to a dealer for £2lO, and a Rembrandt, from the Winckler collection, was bought by another gentleman connected with the trade, for £204. RATHER, NEW.—A.few days ago, a lady visited one of the most extensive shopping establishments in Glasgow, and made purchases to the extent of £BO. On examining the contents of her purse, she found she had only £5O, and suggested that one of the shop-boys should just step into the carriage along with her, and receive payment at her mansion. Instead, however, of arriving at a fine mansion, judge of his surprise when the officials of a 1...1.1 him fast. The lady a warran had, of course, specially preparea _ .or nib Gum mittal. Before he could procure liberation, the fair one and goods had disappeared, and have not since been heard of.—Glasgow Argus. IRON.—A letter received this morning from Birming bnm the imnortant branch of manufacture of _._~ POISONING.—SeveraI members of a respectable family I _ MELANCHOLY Care.—CM Monday evening, about nine named Ball, in Norfolk, havini recently died under cir. I o'clock, a man rung the bell at the door of Mr. Probyn. suddenly. The announcement had such an effect on the cumstances which excited suspicion, the bodies have been I of Lower Belgrave- street, London ; and on its being opened / poor girls mind, that she ran up stairs and was heard to exhumed, and the discovery made that their death was by the servant, she was told that her mother had died very ! exclaim, that " She would soon be with her mother." FaßnnlcyHlmmediately a . loud crash was heard in the area of the t e h a a u n se o d n b e y p a er r s s o en n i . c. It is said that suspicion rests on more Kemble,ACTES F S a E n S n .— y N E lr i s csie K r, ea m n iss M s el t l rp le he , Taglioni, ns,(now Dowager Countess of Essex) Miss Shirreff, and many house, into which she had thrown herself from the attic others, have accumulated large fortunes by their pro- window, and fractur e d h er arm and leg, and met with fession. We believe the richest actress on the stage at other injuries. She was perfectly sensible, and was con present is Madame Celeste. veyed to St. George's H os pi ta l. On Tuesday week Edward Powell, of Carswell, was LOAN SOCIETIES.—We learn from a parliamentary grinding a knife on a new stone, weighing about 10 cwt., return that last year there were no few er th an 144' l oan when too much power was applied to the wheel and the societies , o f which 42 are situate in Middle se x. I t wou ld stone flew to fragments, breaking the thigh of the unfor - i appear that these societies . arcnot very profitable eon tunate man, and forcing the knife into his lower jaw. He terns. Person s are generally induced to obt a S n a ' l oan, died in a few minutes. which is spent in a few days, and they fi n d i t n o very GOUGING.—Mr. Bingham, the magistrate. recently easy matter to pay weekly sums for a period of a y ear . said he was sorry to see that the horrible practice of In Middlesex last y e a r 2 were discontinued, and l others gouging, which had been imported from the most barba- yielded no net profits after the payment of interest and rous part of the back settlements of America, was rapidly I the cost of management. One of the societies in Tot gaining ground in this country; and that he was deter- , tenliam 7 cotp-road had 2,395 applications in the year, of mined, in every case of the kind that came before him, to 1 which 1,95 s were borrowers. The net profit of the con check such brutality as much as possible. cern amounted to £136 14s. 4d. There are 16 loan socie- The Times of yesterday week was published with a ties in Liverpool, one of which had nearly 4,000 applicati supplement the full size of the principal sheet., and con- ons last year : the society granted only 1,776 applications. tallied 1.911 advertisements, the duty on which would be I INCREASING STRENGTH OF THE BRITISH NAVY.— £145 Ils. 6d. ; which, added to £125, the stamp duty on According to the last official returns, it appears there are 30,000 copies, the average daily circulation, gives upwards of 100 ships of war now building at our different £270 lls. 6d., as the contribution of the Times of yester- arsenals, among which are no less than 35 steam-frigates day week to the revenue of the country. and other war steamers; four 36. gun frigates; ten 50-gun THE SQUADRON OF EVOLUTION.—On Wednesday last frigates ; ten ships of the line, averaging from 80 to 84 the experimental squadron got under weigh at Portsmouth guns each—viz., the Agamemnon, the Colo ssus , th e and proceeded to sea, accompanied by numerous yachts Irresistible, the Majestic, the Meeanee, the Brunswick, and steamers, filled with curious spectators. A sharp the Cressy, the Lion, the Mars, and the Sans Pareil ; six squall, which came on about two o'clock, soon put the ships of the line of 90 guns each—viz., the Aboukir, the latter to flight, and about five o'clock the fleet was lost Exmouth, the Princess Royal, the Algiers, the Hannibal, from sight. , and the St. Jean d'Acre; six ships of the line, first -rates. A verdict of " Wilful Murder" has been returned . of 110 awls eachviz., the Maribor nigh, the Royal against Eliza Clark, who threw her children into the river' Frederick, the 'Victoria, the Prince of Wales, the Royal over Battersea Bridge. The body of the third child has I Sovereign, and the Windsor Castle; and lastly, the Royal been found. On Friday, at the Central Criminal Court, 1 Albert, of 120 guns. the unfortunate woman was found not guilty, on the DISGRACEFUL SCENE.—A scene of unparalleled atro ground of insanity. She will be con fi ned during her city occurred at the Marley Hut Close, South Brent, So- Majesty's pleasure. merset, on Sunday week ; two men, named Charles Pur- Alexander Reid, a sailor, belonging to the frigate Row- nell and Robert Parsons, induced two boys to fight, and ley, was brought up at Bow.street, on Wednesday, having after a contest of one hour, one was killed. It appears been caught sleeping in a tent in the royal garden at Buck- that the men had taken the two boys into a "tom my" shop, Ingham Palace. He stated that he only went into the and given them beer, and set them to fight. Even when garden to see the Queen, and being sleepy, was tempted they saw deceased was the weaker of the two, and was to lie down on her Majesty's sofa. The prisoner was re. nearly dead, they brutally insisted on his continuing the manded. j contest, and defied the bystanders to interfere. At length, At Sunderland, on Wednesday, Robert Henry Leigh- I he was taken up and carried into one of the huts, and only ton, master, John Bowmaker, mate, and William Grozier survived a few minutes. The jury, at the inquest, re and Thomas Fairclough, seamen, and Thomas Wallace, turned an unanimous verdi c t o f manslaughter a g ainst an apprentice, part of the crew of the schooner Helen, of Hutchings, Purnell, and Parsons, all three of whom have Sunderland, were committed to Durham gaol on a charge absconded. The coroner immediately issued his warrant of sinking the vessel by boring holes in her bottom, while for their apprehension, and it is to be hoped that they on her way to the Baltic. may now be brought to justice. Purnell has lost his left CARNARVON REGATTA.—At the preliminary meeting band just above the wrist.—Bristol Mirror. for the holding of this year's regatta, it was determined I SORROW UNTO DEATH.—It was our melancholy duty i that the contests should come off on Thursday, the 27th, 1 to record, n a late obituary, the death of the lovely and and Friday, the 28th August next. The Hon. Colocel i only daughter of the late W. Duberly, Esq., of Dursley. Douglas Pennant, member for the county, will be pre- I It is now our still more painful task to announce the silent. Three superb pieces of plate stand over from the death of her brother, Mr. H. Duberly, a remarkably contests of last year. handsome young man. It appeared that on Thursday, Within the last ten days no fewer than eighty of the after the decease of his sister, to whom he was devotedly- water-fowl have been found dead around and in the orna- I attached, he arrived at Torquay, to :ornpany her re- .... _ . mental water of St. James's Park. It was determined to mains to Dursley. The melancholy task was accom watch ; and it was found that a pair of Egyptian geese, plished on the Monday, and on the hearse arriving at the which had not long been placed in the park, were in the late residence of his mother (now that of Mr. G. Duberly, habit of attacking the smaller birds, and that one bite was his brother,) he had the coffin opened, and sat by it until sufficient to cause death. one in the morning, in overwhelming grief. Again at an CHEESE.—It appears from a parliamentary return that early hour he resumed his sad vigils ;at the funeral, for the year ending the sth January last, the importation which took place about noon, he evinced the strongest into Great Britain of European cheese was 201,253 cwt. ; emotion and sorrow, and on his return became alarmingly from the United States of America, in the year, 66,337 ill. Two surgeons were in attendance, bet medical skill cwt. ; and from the British possessions, 234 cwt., making proved, unhappily, ineffectual—he died at four o'clock on the aggregate of the importation of cheese in one year, Wednesday morning. —Bristol Mirro 267,824 cwt. , DIFFERENCES IN THE CABINET —lt is stated, upon A MALTHUSIAN VlLLAGE.—Glapwell, a village near what we believe to be unexceptionable authority, that the Chesterfield, was thrown into a state of unusual wonder- sugar question, which is said to have had more to do with inent and surprise last week, through a female resident the mysterious retirement of the present colonial secre there having given birth to one of her own species, an tary from office than theological scruples, has again cre event which had not occurred in the above village for the ated a serious difference in the cabinet. It is rumoured last seventeen years, although containing twenty-two that the colonial secretary, and another cabinet minister, families. whose connection with what is called the West India in- Mr. Robert Patterson, the son of " Old Mortality," a terest is less direct, have refused to go the length the pre worthy, quiet character of the olden school, who remem- mier desires in removing West India protection; and bered much of the early history of Galloway, and the agri- further, that they have made so large a party in the cabi cultural changes which have so conspicuously improved net as to defeat the minister's proposition. It certainly the appearance of the country during the present and pre- seems rather strange that the government should protect ceding centuries, died at his place of residence. Balmac- West India agriculture while they destroy the protection lellan Village, on the 30th ult., at the ripe age of ninety- of English agriculture, pretending that they refuse Cuba one years. sugar because it is slave grown, while they are importing slave-grown sugars and stave-grown maize from America. It is said that Sir R. Peel swallowed his defeat in prefer • measure —Britannia A YOUNG CRIMINAL.—In the New Court, Old Bailer, London, on Thursday, Thomas Miller, a smartly-dressed boy, only eight years of age, pleaded guilty to stealing a cast of a bear, value 405., the property of Thomas Beau champ. The boy had to be plaed on a stool that the court might see him. The common sere quiries respecting the prisoner, whe .ot made some in- aishment of every one present, it was stated that he 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 n twice management. The learned Judge said it was eery diffi cult indeed to deal with such a case as this. If the prisoner was set at large there was very little hope of his reforma tion; and the beat course that could possibly be adopted was to place him at the disposal of the government, by sentencing him, nominally, to be transported for seven. years, but with a recommendation that be should be sent to the juvenile establishment in the Isle of Wight. WHAT WILL THE LORDS Do ?—According to some of our private accounts, there is a possibility that the corn bill may be defeated in the House of Lords on the second reading ; but the more general expectation is, that a clause fatal to its becoming law will be carried in com mittee. The Government is calculating upon a maiority of thirty-four on the first division ; but it is confidently asserted, that in this are included all the bishops and the names of several peers, who, either like the Duke of Cam bridge.•and the Archbishops of York and Canterbury, will not vote atall—or of others, who, although they have not made a formal declaration upon the subject, tainly vote against the bill. With great pride and cation, we announce that every one of the Irish Conser vative peers, with the exception of Lord Bandon—an ex ception that, we own, astonishes and distresses us—will vote against the destruction of the agricultural interests in Ireland : and that those who were looked upon as doubt ful, or who were said not to have made up their minds upon the subject, have decided wisely and justly, and amongst the latter Lords Erne, Clancarty, Ranfurly, &c. —Dublin Mail. The London correspondent of the Dub lin Mail of Friday adds as showing the ministerial fears on this subject—" Expresses were despatched from Lon don on Wednesday to the following Ambassadors, requir ing their immediate presence in Westminster, to take a part at the second reading of the bill, and to be present during the sittings in committee at its subsequent stages : Lord Cowley, Paris; Lord Holland, Florence; Lord. Howard de Walden, Lisbon; Lord Westmoreland, Ber lin. At the latter court there is no Secretary of Lega tion ; but so urgent is the case, even with the majority of thirty-six, (which is the majority stated by the free traders by which the Lords will pass the bill), that Mr. Hamil ton, one of the corps diplomatigue, was himself the bearer of the express, in order that he may assume the position of Charge d'Afaires, in the absence of the Ambassador. Lord Heytesbury will, of course, be ' ordered over.' " DESTITUTION AND POOR LAW RELIEF.—Mr. R. Brinsley Sheridan has written a letter to The Times, de tailing the destitute circumstances of several poor labour ers and their families in the neighbourhood of his residence in Dorsetshire, who bad asked him to step in between them and their immediate employers. In one case, a man could only raise 9s. a week, including Is. Cal. earned by his son, upon which to support himself, his wife, and a family of six young children; and in others the wages were but 7s. a week, for the support, in some instances. of families of six persons. Mr. Sheridan visited some of them at their homes. " My visit to the dwellings of these poor people," be says, "chanced to be at their dinner hour, when I found that the meal they were about to par take of consisted merely of a small quantity of horse beans and turnip tops boiled in water. I asked the wife of one of the men what she intended to prepare for her husband's .supper when be returned home from his hard day's work? and her answer was, in the most cheerful tone, ' Why, bless you, sir, horse beans and turnip tops.' ibelieve this to be the condition of the agricultural labourers generally in the west part of the county of Dorset. I know it to be ill cer ifi- so in the parish of Bettescombe andthe adjoining parishes." —Mr. Sheridan declares his conviction that such is the fixed state of the Dorsetshire labourers ;—that, be the price of wheat what it may, the average amount of wages remains always the same-7s. a week. Their distressed condition, however, has been greatly aggravated by the failure of their potato crops ; and upon this ground, in one case, that of William Soper, application was made to the Po3r Law Union for a pair of half boots; but it was re fused, and an order for the "house" granted instead. So per refused to accept the order, since it would separate t i h f eir th in e st ß ru o c a t r i d on o! s him and his family, and subject them to a sort of disci pline and restraint from which they re volted. Mr. Sheri dan wrote to the Poor Law Comm issioners, statin g the enquiring if the reply of the Commissioners not o nl y s an ctioned the hardship Guardian Guardians oi a conduct of the guardians , b ut was accom p a nied by the copy of a "prohibitory order" now in force in the several had the acted case, in accordance d enqu with Unions of England, which precludes• the guardians from exercising any discretion in the cake of " an able-bodied man," even "with a wite and seven children," who may be overtaken, as Soper has been, by severe and unexpected privation. IMPROVED SIGNALS, &c.—On Thursday, Mr. R. Rettie, civil engineer, exhibited at the Underwriters'- room, in presence of several gentlemen, some improved plans for signals of distress. steering liehts. &c.: also, a !Lut*. .T.u.ui lump. mile latter possesses consiaeraoia ingenuity, as, by a si m pl e con t r i vance , th e r ising and falling of the tide is indicated with the greatest exactness. a knowledge of which must be of incalculable advantage to vessels entering a harbour where the state of the tides, ow:11g to storm weather and other causes , cannotl::, cor rectly ascertain ed by the ordinary_tn hies. The . continuing iron as st g prOfir - -- large orders on hand, which cannot be executes tor a long lights appear to possess a grenE litiva.,..b- over those in time to come. The demand for locomotive engines is so general use. as the course of the vessel is shown with the very great, that the large makers will not engage to utmost certainty, thus preventing the possibility of colli execute fresh orders under three years. Tht agent of an sion. Mr. Rettie has also invented a new lamp, to be extensive colliery proprietor, near Dudley, a considerable order for engines, for mineral purposes; whether the vessel requiring assistance bea,sfesmerpr a lately tendered used as a signal of distress at sea, the lisiltirickclrinf but it could not be undertaken w i thin that p er io d . The sailing vessel. There are two lamps, rartingin coloax; home consumption for iron is very brisk—particularly which, together with the requisites for tritnhaing, ligliting, from the engineering department : there is, therefore, now &c., are contained in a square box. audit* arranged as to • • • ' ' no prospect of of a reduction in price.—Mining Journal render them availa ble under any circurnattuica,,ap th e g reatest certainty and fa cilit y . d with .., ... , . , :;