The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-01 00:00:00

A BIRTHDAY SONNET. TVritten k lamp Thy death c Lit by the cl ORIGIN 0 And when And fres 1-prayer liday, lit every star SAMUE will ma he most bright HUGGINS HE WHITE ROSE BY M. C. COOKE Tows the rose , et exot A;d numbers hurried doWn to death A air a maiden drew. en'd 'neath the poise When, lust as death won And all the ner's stroke— strike the sease, death sheatYd his sword sought the tresh'ninit, air ; dst the gri 3 and flowery sward, She found relief from pain a• d car A blooming Le Bathe In all its crimson radiance drest Anil placed the )ms that cluster'd near, harmer in her breast. In pity saw the flower, her pale, Her snowy white and tingeless cheek ; Her dark eyes so .k in bloodless vales. Her thin soft lips so parch'd and weak : The roseate hues immediate fled. Whic i were but now so deep and bright, And tinged the maiden's cheek with red, But lett the rose a fleecy white. NOTICES nu a ; a Burlesque. By James Morgan e Imperial Hotel dedics Our worthy host of t kigises to that eminent actor for the liberty tai "the noblest Roman of them all," at the same ates this ken with time ex- pressing his hope that his own noble Roman may never tread on the heels of Shakspere's and Mr. Vandenhoff's ,iritable Coriolanus. We hope he won't. The produc tions of the great bird are made of sterner stuff than to be laughed out of countenance by Mr. Morgan's drolleries ; and even W. J. Hammond's delineation of the burlesque character would never out us ont of love or memory of one of the greatest efforts of Vandenhoff's histrionic genius The burlesque is very cleverly done ; and although the author, with his known modesty, hints his perfect inno- cence of any expectation that it should ever find its way to stage representation, we confidently expect that it will, ere, to " split the ears of the ground- we long, be fuuud t 7, VARIETIES Sir William Brown, the physician, said there were two tiurts of goat—freehold, and copyhold ; and one hereditary —the other where a person took it up by intemperance. A little boy, seeing a drunken man prostrate before the door of a grogery, opened the door, and putting in his head Paid to the proprietor, " See here, master, your sign has fallen down." There are in or near London, 41 Charles-streets, 29 Church-streets. 2 1 George-streets, 23 114,h-streets, `zB John-streets, 35 King-streets, 23 New-streets, and 23 Queen-sti Day an I (K) Night are both fishmongers in Knares namer is a butcher, end Winter sells pots. dist% and Weeks on certain days visits the Spring is a travelling tinker. as discovered a method for produ sing gas for illumination from water. Ile charges the hydrogen from aqueous vapour strongly with carbonaceous vapours from oil of gas-tar or any other oil, and produces town in the capacity c A French ct a brilliant white light. THE BIBLE.—The language of the authorised version is the perfection of English, and it can never be written ?gain, for the language of prose is one of the few things m which the English have really degenerated. Our tongue has lost its holiness.—Hartley Coleridge's Bio- graphic: Borealis. It is said to have been observed at Moscow, that two workmen in an advanced stage of pulmonary consumption were cured after a few months' employment in certain During this time they had been almost osed to th , l influence of vapours charged t and sal-ammoniac. constantly ex p •Tha Courier de Lyons announces an important disco very in the art of dyeing. A dyer of Vienne, resident in Lyons, has found out a process for obtaining a su yellow orange colour, by the employment of quercitron, mind with a single dip. This process dispenses with the lige of fustic, cochineal, cream of tartar, and compound of Ibib, which upon the common method are necessary. It has been calculated, that the available coat beds of Lancashire amount in weight to the enormous sum of 8,400,000 tons. The total annual consumption of this troal, it has been estimated, amounts to 3.400,120 tow. Vence it is inferred that the coal fields of Lancashire, at the presentrate of consumption, will last 2470 years.— Salt's Statistics. _ AMERICAN BAR ELOQUENCE."" May it pease the Eon Court and Gentlemen of the Jury—the defendant in Send, emerged from the wild wilderness with all the terri fic frenzy of a roaring lion. and, with his gigantic strength, De did then and there seize my inoffensive client by the collar—and tore his shirt ?"—American paper. "WHAT'S IN A NAME ?"—So wrote the poet of old ; may judge from the following, some eccentric awd if w imaividnal s seem to place great virtue therei —At Old Widcombe church. on Sunday week, an operative of Bath lad his child christened by the names of " Stephen Breekenden Cobden —." The sr.me "eccentric" has a child named " George Samuel Roebuck Frost ." NOTHING NEW. -1 compare life to a little wilderness. surrounded by a high dead wall. Within this space we walk in nnpst of the new and hannv. forgetting the insuperable limits till, with surprise , we find our- Naives stopped by the dead wall ; we turn away, and muse, and walk emir', till, en another side. we find ourselves way we tura still the same.—Fo.ster. There is ne word or action but that may be taken with two hands ; either with the right hand of charitable em otion of malice and sus hey are taken. To stet interpr construe an evil action well. is but a plea-inc and profit able deceit for myself; but to misconstrue a good thing is a terrible wrong—to myzelf, the action, and the author.— Bishop Hall. - BAD H AMTS.— —I know from experience that ha le aided by the eleMents of temptation (such as ; pleasure. &c.), induce a repetition of the most un actions. The mind is weak where it has once in one plan, e restore hake the reps thy is that, if it g been moved It is as f this mound ha whatever care has been taken to _ it)le, the probabi ay agqiu, it will be in that place.— 11 part as stron BABY PATRIOTS.—The farce of repeal, instead of COM-. g to an end, is hert up every day with renewed merri- Mr. O'Connell has elected as a nu Thomas Maher, who w Ifraiii the " hereditary Bondsmen' .eliever o )liged to call on a baby to strike the bl , een Equalls enoug bout cal in the assi distoi bane on? ltshou s Mither into the chair; c rse a fe Associa it waiting t general Roa readers ted: he is ( rather to improve t ties ; she is thus with the character q Republic, tin 3rue degre Conci ' - -Punch he Argenti s cruel as Nero and as ler ,n than to be deficient - in then ribed by a recent traveller:— _erns to partake fully of all the sanguine and vicious traits of her father. She has been known to sport with the decapitated heads of victims as they have lain upon the ground in the yard, and to look upon an g of a throat, if such can be calleg] mere pastime. Rosas, it is well known "old, after the manner of the iron-fistee wish '• This young woman execution, or the cutii of old, a couple of jnters whenever t he Dictator in e wishes of the petitioner." ress (lid not flouris`► during all its former ascendancy iv ereat changes were now THE " Lov ally not divided ; the lock," which was a c❑ Rigs, or of permi quiet, staid people fashion of a " love t side, considerably le annals of hair, of nch a commotion a mor .4ainst it by Mr. Prynne , —.eriness of Love Locks." In it lit —itions a nobleman who was dangerously ill, and vi terrified at the prospect of death, declared publicy, after _ . . A quarto volume called `•The Ur testation of hi.; " t ffenr e. fantastic love trek, which he then sensibly perceived to be but a cord of vanity, by which he had given the devil holdtast to lead him at his pleasure, and who would never resign big prey as long as he nourished this unlovely bush." He therefore ordered his barber to rut it off. It does not appear that the eloquence of Mr. Prynne had much effect except in this solitary instance, for love locks were quite the rage for some years, which is, Perhaps, the more re markable, as beards were beginning to go out of fashion. —Book of Costume by a Lady of Rank. or, as they are more ung lady THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. the suhject ROMISH WORSHIP IN PADUA.—T never saw anyth;ng I tvod to young chilar c o, the following so singular as the manner of conducting the trrvice in San idtke, Physician in ordinary to the Queen, Antonio. Not for a single moment did any one in the ws of mnst of the celebrated physicians church, except ourselves appear to be quiet: the effect Of glvin I) FOR CI opinion of Dr. C expresses the v . . —" Thers is no greater error in the management of chit - was more like a promenade Concert than a religious cere dren than that of giving them animal diet very early. By many. S :veral priests continued, without pause, to walk persevering in the use of an ov er stimulating diet, the briskly round and round the aisles and choir, hearing some digestive organs become irritated, and t'ae various secre- precious casket, covered by embroidered silk, and pre tions, immediately connected vai h, and necessary to diges- c e d e d by a b o y i n w hi te ro b es , carr ying a book, which did .... tion, are diminished, especially the biliary aecretiring ; not, however, seem to be used each of these priests and constipation of the bowels, and congestion of the ab- walked alone, and was succeeded, at an interval, by the dominal circulatiin succeed. Childron so fed become, next, and each had a triin behind him of fishermen and moreover very liable to attacks from fiver and lull:mina- peasants, male and female, dirty, ragged and unseemly in tion affecting particularly the mucous membranes ; and aspect. No one appeared to be littering prayers, either measles, and the other diseases incident to childhood, are priest or peril:oe, and all hurried alonvat a rapid pace. generally severe in their attack." In reference to this last Women in slovenly gowns and coarse shoes, or a sort of us, that in families where children lived on a simple diet, sabots without heels, with dirty white stockings, their heads covered with a flabby yellow-white veil, promenaded with the utmost indifference, some holding the arms of their husbands or friends, some their children by the hand. the little girls occasionally looking pretty in their white veils. A few decently dressed citizens and their wives in embroidered clean veils, and silk dresses, tripp-d along, and occasionally a lady and gentleman dressed with great assumption of Viennese fashion swept past ; none kept their seats long, and all bowed and crossed themselves as they passed the shrine of San Antonio, but I could not perceive that they were occupied in prayer. Some dirty Franciscans in coarse brown dresses, lounged after the rest, and several large dogs roamed about amongst the dense crowd, much to my surprise ; bat I understand these animals are of a race privileged to remain in the sanctuary. All the time of this parading the organ played vehemently, and the singers exerted themselves to the utmost, and when the priest addressed the congregation from the pulpit, there was no cessation in the promenade nor in perambulating of the priests. I could not understand the meaning of all this, for though I had heard that at Padua the priests are accustomed to address the people in different parts of the church, I was not prepared for this continuous roaming of every person within the walls. St. Anthony is grid by tradition to have compelled the evil One to follow him for ever, in the form of a pig. but whether this movement has any reference to the legend I have not ascertained.—Cos telln's Tour. _ _ without tea and colf,e, if they were seized with measles, !looping cough, and s milar diseases, he never called but once, as he knew there was no danger; but that in fami lies where an opposite course was pursued, he always expected trouble.—The Enulish Wife. MURDER OF VAZIR FATAII KHAN.—NO tragedy of modern days can be compared with that barbar.us one that endrd the lice of Vazir. He was conducted blind, and pinioned, into the presence of Mahmud Shah, whom he had elevated to the throne. The Shah asked him to write to his rebellious brothers to submit, to which he replied with fortitude, that he was a poor blind prisoner, and had no influence over his brothers. Mahmud Shah was in. censed at his obstinacy, and ordered him to be put to the sword, and the Vazir was cruelly and deliberately butch ered by the courtiers, cutting him limb from limb and joint from joint, as was reported, after his nose, ears, and fingers had been chopped off. His fortitude was so extra ordinary that he neither showed a sign of the t ain he suf fered, nor asked the perpetrators to diminish their cruel- body. Such was the shocking result of the misconduct of his brother the Sardar Dost Mohammed Khan towards the royal female in Hirst. However, the end of the Vazir Fatah Khan was the end of the Sadozei realm, and an omen for the accession of the new dynasty of the Barak zais, or his brothers. in Affghanistan.—Mohan Lars Life of Dost Mohammed Khan. SAFETY FROM LIGHTNING.—PeopIe and cattle in an open and level part of the country are very liable to be struck down, injured, or killed, during thunder storms. A few simple precautions may be the means of saving lives. A person leading an animal with a metal chain, no part of which is touching the ground, is in the most dan gerous circumstances. If one be struck, the other will rarely, perhaps ❑ever, escape. This was exemplified, near the Bridge of Dee, in the case of an old woman and her cow, some year or two ago. If part of the chain, the more the better, be touching the ground, both person arid ani mal may be struck and escape in The chain being the better conductor, the discharge would pass through the metal to the earth. In such circumstances, the best ar- A GENUINE YANKEE. — " Hallo, my good friend, can you inform me how far it is to the next house ?" Jona than started up—leaned on his hoe handle—rested one foot on the gambril of his sinister leg. and replied— " Hullo, yourself! cloyed dew ?—wall, I guess I can, Taint near as fur as it used to be afore they cut the woods away—then 't was generally reckoned four mite, but now the sun shrivels up the road: and don't take more'n fem. The fuss house von come to, though. is a barn, and the next is a haystack ; but old Hoskin's house is on beyant. You'll be sure to meet his gals long before you get there; tarnal romping critters, they plague our folks more'n a little. His sheep git into our orchards. Dad sets the dog arter the sheep, and me arter the gals— and the way he makes the wool, and I the petticoats, fly, is a sin to snakes." " I see you are inclined to be face tious, young man; pray tell me how it happens that one of your legs is shorter than the other ?" " I never 'lows any body to meddle with my grass tanglers, mister, but seem' it's you I'll tell you. I was born so at my tick erler request, so that when I hold a plough, I can go with one foot in the furrer, and t'ther on land, and not lop over : besides it is convenient when I mow round a side hill." Very good, indeed—how do your potatoes come on this year?" " They don't come at all ; I digs 'em out—and t here's an everlastin' snarl of 'em in each hill." " But they are small, I perceive." "Yee, I know it. You see, we planted some whoppin' blue. noses over in that 'ere patch there, and they flourished so all-fixedly that these here stopt growing just out of spite, 'cause they knowed they couldn't keep up." " You appear to be pretty smart, and I should think you could afford a better hat than the one you wear." " The looks aint nothin'—it's all in the behaviour. This here hat was my relisious Sunday-go-to•meetin' hat, and it's chock full of piety now. I've got a better one to to hum ; but I don't dig taters in it, no how." " You have been in these parts some time, I should guess ?" " I guess so, tew. I was born'd end got my brot'n up in that 'ere house ; but my native place is Porduock " Then ylu say it is about three and a half miles to the next house ?" " Yes, sir ; 'twas a spell ago, and I don't believe it's groomed much shorter since." " Much obliged—good bye." rangement, when danger is apprehended, would be to pass the chain over the head of the person and the hack of the animal, and drive the iron pin at the end into the ground. A person leading an animal with a rope is tolerably safe, especially if the animal be large and horned, and the rope quite dry. The chances of safety to the person would be increased by wrapping a bit of cloth of any kind (a nan• kin, for example, and silk is the best) round the part of the rope which is held in the person's hand. The two persons who were leading the bull which was killed near Rtiynie lately, must have been isol :led by a rope of some non-conducting substance. Had they been connected to the animal by any conducting metal, no part of which was struction would have been as certain as that of the old woman and the cow.—North of Scotland Gazelle. AN ENTHUSIAST.—We read in a Belgian journal,— "The sale of thi: galery of paintings of M. Van N.. of -Brussels, who died in the course of the last month, is .a,l vertised. Th's celebrated amateur not only devoted his life, but sacrificed the whole of his fortune, which origin ally produced him a revenue of 40,000 f. a year, to his pas sion for possessingthenytsterpieces of the great Flemish artists Reduced by this to the want of even the neces saries of life, he entail not be induced to part with even one of his cherished treasures. At last an old servant, who continued to serve him without wages, converted the gallery into a source for the nnain'enance of his master and himself, by applying the gratuities given him for showing the splendid collection to visitors in purchasing food for them both. A few years ago the faithful and af fectionate old servant died, and M. Van N., hopeless of finding another upon the same terms, took the office up on himself. When visitors came to view the gallery, he put on the old livery, and attended them through it, dis playing a critical acquaintance with tbe merits of each picture, that delighted all and astonished those who were able to appreciate his erudition. Sometimes the visitors, supposing him to be really the servant, would make the master the subject of sarcastic observations, some calling him an eccentric fool, and others a madman, and wonder inz that his friends did not have him declared a lunatic. All this lie listened to either with perfect indifference, or making palliating excuses as his old servant used to do, and when their curiosity was satisfied, holding out his hand for the accustomed fee." BEAUTY AND VAN FT Y.—Angelina Luamore was born and bred a beauty ! Every one understands what it is to be born a beauty ; although some weeks (nay, months) must elapse before even to the fondest eve and most san guine heart tbe little wizen " wee thing," ted-faced. bald headed, flat-nosed, and old-looking, can give any great promise of the charms which are to enchant the world, still, undiseerned and undiscernible, the germ is there. The most fatal and fascinating of gifts is enclosed in that ittle bud. It will hat' a flower, if ti expano .o a matchless .. Dorn a beauty ; if not, it may to outward view be an unsightly weed ; but whatever its outward form, to it belong a hsasv, s. ; and therefore, nowever nurses may triumph parents rejoice, and friends congratulate, we pronounce it to be a fearful thing to be born a beauty, if, as is too generally the case, that circumstance leads to tt e being bred a beauty too! What is ir, then. to be bred a beauty ? Is it pot to be set apart from the cradle as a priestess of vanity ? To be taught betimes to dwell and ponc'er on those charms all female education Aould induce their possessor to forget ? Are not the advantages of a face and form of surraising loveliness frequently, by the folly of those around, ruined by those sad and repelling s. frivolity, egotism, and self-wortlip? alas! among the boat of single women whom the coarse world so harzl.ly terms "old maids," how many owe their joyless fate to that great but unsuspected enemy, their beauty ! " She must have been a great beauty—what a wonder she never got a husband !" In that common re mark cause and effect go hand in hand. She was a beauty—she knew it—how could she but know what she had heard from her cradle—what was repeated before she knew the meaning of the words—repeated, with many a hug and exu►ting caress, by the proud and silly mother, re-echoed by the sillier father, broadly asserted by the nurse-maid with every new bit of finery, insinuated into the little head with the first plume stuck into the white beaver hat, and conveyed to the little heart with the first gaudy sash and glittering necklace. Yes, that sad. sub dued, and disappointed "old maid," with what the French so graphics beaux res, features, such an air of command, and yet such a look of desolation, but for her once brilliant beauty, she might now be a fond and cherished wife, living her own youth over again in that of her children, glorifying in her daugh ter's modest charms and her son's manly virtues and at• tainments. There is nothing so unlovely as selfishne!:o, nerally speaki ,g, so selfiTh as a woman Mr. C. Green, and his broth-A-, Mr. H. Green, who ascended from Cremorne Gardens, on Monday last, bath made safe descents—the former at Thames Ditton, and the latter a, Kingston. Mr. C. Green was ably assisted by the inhabitants. Mr. F. Green unfortunately, met Sri h a different reception, as bis machine was very roughly handled by the townspeople of Kingston, and suffered very serious damage. A few days since, a young girl, named Sarah Wenlock, went to a dance in the village of Colemore, S ilop, where some of her companions began to joke her about her sweet heart, who was gone to sea. She became greatly affected, and suddenly fill from her chair. Medical aid was called in ; but she told the doctor he " never could cure a bro ken heart," and died shortly afterwards, ejaculating to the last the name of " Edward !" Or, Pusey, whose health is very indifferent, has been with his family sojourning for some weeks at Tenby. Owing to extreme weakness he does not appear at church, or at all in public. Mr. Newman, hearing of his indispo sition, came to see him about a fortnight ago; and Dr. Pusey was so affected by the visit (it ,being the first time the two gentlemen bad met since Mr. Newman's secession) that a relapse has been the consequence. He is now somewhat b tter. A GROOM MISTAKEN FOR REBRCCA.—Edward Mach, groom to Thomas Morgan, Esq., solicitor, of Carmar then, was on Tuesday week breaking in a pony for the use of a lady. He used a side-saddle, and was attired in a habit, shawl and bonnet. He was stopped by police constable Lyon, who forced him to undress in High street, shocking the delicacy of the bystanders. The policeman stated there was an act of parliament that man must not wear woman's atiirc. The Earl of Shrewsbury, accompanied by his agent, Thos. Hogging, Esq , visited the township of Oxton, on Thursday week, to: the purpose of inspecting the nu merous buildings erected, and in course of erection, upon his estate in this rapidly improving place. His lordship appeared much pleased with the great and rapid improve ments there. His lordship has granted a site in the town ship for a Roman Catholic chapel, and it is expected will also give land for the erection of a church. On Monday afternoon a sanguinary conflict took place at the Camden Town station of the London and South- Western Railway Company, between the English and Irish labourers employed on the line. One party came down to the staion and made a most violent attack upon the other, many of whom were dreadfully cut by working tools, brickbats and stones • one or two of them, owing to the injuries inflicted, wil l probably not survive. From fifteen to twenty of the ringleaders are in custody. MAN versus ELEPHANT.—A sporting bet came off at Mr. Tuting's, Valiant Soldier, Beverley, on Wednesday. Mr. John 'fitting matched himself for two sovereigns to carry Mr. Stephenson, of liootb, farmer, weighing 12 stone 71b.., one hundred yards, sooner than an elephant could walk the same distance. The elephant was started by his keeper, Mr. Stamford, but turned sulky as soon as he had gone 20 yards, consequently Mr. Tilting came off an easy winner:by five yards. . On Pt iday, a public meeting was held at the Hanover squsre Rooms, London, when the celebrated reformer, Czerski, attended and delivered an address with refer ence to the German reformation movement. The chair man, the Hon. W. Cowper, retired strongly impressed with the fact that the communion to which Mr. Czerski belong.: is to he distinguished from the German Catholics, or M. Rouge's party, the former being decidedly ortho dox, while the latter ate degenerating into rationalism. SALE OF CELEBRATED GREYHOUNDS.—On Wednes day a large number of sporting gentlemen attended the at:cam] sale at Aldridge Repository, St. Martin's lane, where a portion of the celebrated stud of greyhounds, the property of Captain Baintree, a well-known coursing gen tleman, was put up for competition, and which realised high prices. Among the lots were a fawn dog (Probity) which sold for 50 guineas ; a bitch (Certainty) fetched 28 guineas; two puppies by the celebrated greyhound King Cob fetched 49 guineas ; a red dog 18 guineas, and the other lots made t quailv high prices. HURRICANE AT RUGBY —On Thursday the neigh . bourhood of Rugby was visited with the most tremen dous hurricane ever known in that locality. Upwards of one hundred trees, many of them exceeding two yards in cireumferenc- were snapped in two, while others were torn up by the roots, to the extent, in one line of country alone, of nearly two miles and a-half. The da mage io the neighbourhood is estimated at between £2,000 and £3,000. After lasting about three hours, the hurricane abated, apparently going in the direction of Kettering. The murder at Dagenham, in which a policeman was found killed in a most savage and cruel manner, has as sumed a new feature. Hennessey, Flynn, and Ellen Ran kin, accused by the boy Welch. have disproved the suspi cions against them. On the other band, five of the police, including Sergeant Parsons, have been suspended, from the false evidence given at the inquest. The four men ad mit they acceded to a request of Parsons to say, they saw itoa at Certain periods or the night of the murder, when they did not. They are all consistent in this, but Parsons siys they state what is not true. It is beyond a doubt that gross perjury bas been committed._ MISERABLE LODGINGS OF THE POOR.—III conse quence of the demolition of the Rookery' in St. Giles's, the close back avenues in Drury-lane, Saffe on-hill, old Westminster, and Whi echapel, are crowded to repletion by emigrants from the fallen fastnesses of Bloomsbury. It is stated by a clergyman, who is constantly amongst the poor, that, on entering houses in those neighbour hoods in the course of his sick calls. be has found a num ber amounting to seventy human beings crammed toge ther in a narrow and dilapidated tenement. The arrange ments by which miserable creatures are thus packed, are almost revolting for lodgings have become so valuable in these dens, that the poorer inmates pay for permission to, iderin nn the landing- takes and THE GREY'S•7NN ADMINISTRATION.—The late Earl Grey was caricatured with his tail of 70, having provided for that number of his family. The present administra tion under Lord John Russell, has a strong tendency to turn grey, which is a very bad sign in a Whig. One of his private secretaries is a Grey. Sir George Grey is Colonel Secretary. Mr. C. Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is Lord Grey's brctber-in-law. There is also Lord Grey, and his private secretary, Hon. Captain Grey. In fact, there are so many Greys that we wish Mr. Hume, when parliament returns from grouse shooting, would move for a list of all the Greys who are at present em ployed in pumping the engine of state. Should they ever resign in a body, they will certainly be able in apply ing for the Chiltern Hundreds, to take a Chiltern a-piece. A horrible story was circulated on Friday in the neigh bourhood of Middlesex Hospital. On Sunday week a re spectably-attired young man stepped into the shop of Mr. Just, baker, of No. 1, Nassau -street, with a large pie to be baked, bating deposized the dish on the counter, the fellow remarked that " care should be taken with that pie in baking it, as it contained a good deal of meat." He then departed. The pie was baked, but the owner omit ting to send for it, some suspicion was excited, which con tinued to increase day after day until Thursday afternoon, when Mrs. Just suggested to her husband to keep the " dish" no longer, there being a strong and cffensive efflu vium arising from its contents. Toe crust having been raised the parties were horior-s'ruck at finding the c , n tents to consist of a newly-born child. Information was immediate'y despatched to the Marylebone Court House, and the district officer has since communicated with Mr. Wakley, the coroner. The refined brutality of the affair renders it d . fficult of belief. EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.—FRENCII MEETING IN LONDON.—On Friday, a meeting of French Protestants resident in London and favourable to the objects of the above alliance, was held in the Hanover-square Rooms. It was of more than ordinary interest, since it was the first public reunion in the metropolis conducted exclusively in the French language. Attracted by the novelty of the proceeding=, several English !adies and gentlemen attended. M. le Pasteur Martin, minister of the French Protestant Church, St. Martin's-le-grand, having taken the chair, players were read, anti several foreign ministers addressed the meeting in support of the principles of the alliance, which were explained in previous mee ings reported in this paper. Much stress was laid on the fact of Protestants being so dispersed over France that the pastors of the various congregations rarely met. The differences existing between Calvinists, Lutherans, and the o'her numerous sects into which the reformed religion was diiided were so sli g ht. and the duty of union and support was so incum bent that the Evangelical alliance could not fail to call forth the good wishes of Protestants of all countries. FLIGHT OF INSECTS.—A singular phenomenon occurred at Lewes, on Sunday week. During the entire day a heavy murky atm thphere prevailed, hardly a brew h of , air being perceptible, while the close dull warmth wal trin.t oppressive. About 2 o'clock a small but thick and dark cloud was discernible, hanging, as it were, ar.,und the lion at the top of the old castle tower,—so dark, indeed, as almost to obscure the figure. On ascending the c; , stle. and going out on the leads, it was found that this thick cloud was composed of myriads of insects, which we ate not entomologists enough to describe by name, but which ap peared like large-winged ants. These insects settled on the iron rods which support the figure of the lion, while thousands clung to the walls and floor of the town r. Many thousands of them fell on the leads, where they gradually died. In an hour or two the great bulk of them had taken their departure, but large numbers were left behind them in a dying state. We picked up a handful of them. dead and dying, and when placed on a paper those which still retained Ile showed no disposition to moion. They have expansive wings, their bodies being dark and shining. Their heads are somewhat large. and they are apparently armed with powerful forceps.—Susses• Advertiser. A Hoax.—A hoax was played off on Friday last, the day of the Queen's arrival at Plymouth. A person en tered the town of Totness in great haste, made instant inquiries for the Mayor's residence, and proceeded thi ther with a letter, purporting to be a communication from one of her Majesty's atteneants, stating that it was the Queen's intention, upon going down Channel from Tor bay, to proceed up t!:, -:er Dart, and view the town of Totness and neighbourhood. Immediately upon the re ceipt of this communication, his worship proceeded to summon the town council, to adopt the necessary preli minaries for the royal reception. and to show the loyalty of the good folks of the place. The bells sent forth their merry peals; all the townspeople were soon in active bustle, and all the artillery that could be mustered soon sent forth their reports ; flags were suspended from vari ous parts, and every one emulated his neighbour to put forth their best display for the occasion. After being thus engaged for several hours, and some time being al lowed for reflection. many began to think the steamer was a very long time in coming from so shot t a distance as Torbay to the River Dart ; and upon maturer reflec tion and inquiry, it was ascertained that her Majesty's flotilla had proceeded down Channel for Plymouth, and that his worship, with the other aukhorities of Totness, had been hoaxed. Prime Boiled English Beef, preserves' in canisters of 41bs. and upwards, is advertised in our paper of to-day by Messrs. Ingleby and Cooke, at 7d. per lb., a price, consi dering its excellence, surprisingly low, for meat of a similar quality could not now be purchased uncooked at a lower rate. COURT-MARTIAL ON CAPTAIN GORDON.—AI Ports mouth, on Wednesday, a court-martial assenab!ed on board the Victory, 101, to try Capt. the lion. Joi) Por don, R.N. ; of the America, 50-gun frigate, upon the fol lowing charge:—" For that he, the said John Gordon, did, on the 26th day of April, 1816, sail with her Mrdes ty's said ship America, from Valparaiso for England, era of Rear-A , ' 1 Sir G' die,obedience of the or,z, Francis Seymour, then his superior officer. After a long trial the court found that the charge had been fully proved, and adjudged Captain Gordon to be severely re primanded. The court consisted of two flag officers and four post captains. INGENIOUS FRAUD.—A singular fraud committed upon Messrs. Coutts and Co., the bankers, was the subject of conversation in the city on Wednesday. It appears that a person having a check for £5, increased the amount to £5,009, by an obvious alteration. and succeeded in getting bank notes. This operation having been a ccomplished, - he lost no time in going to the bank of England, and changing a part at least of his newly-acquired notes for gold. As yet, we believe, there is no trace of the culprit. —Times. [Such was the impression on the first exami nation of the check. It now appears, however, that the forgery was committed, not by an addition of cyphers to the small amount originally added to the check, but by the obliteration of the writing through a chymical process, and the substitution of a larger amount. Had there been a coloured surface on the check, it would have been next to impossible to obliterate the ink without raising suspi cion by discolouring the surface also, but the checks in this particular house are unifornaly white, with the excep tion, of course, of the words in print.] _ ARTIFICIAL HATCHING.—The hatching of eggs by artificial means is now carried out on a large scale as a commercial speculation, at Heathfield, between Tunbridge Wells and Lewes. The hatching machine is de s cribed as ingenious and simple. It is carried on by means of a small fire of charcoal, by which a large tank of water is heated, which is dispersed by means of a fan over a large space, covering the eggs, which are contained in a water proof cloth. The cloth containing the hot water rests on the top of the eggs, and answers all the purposes of the breast of the hen, or, as the patent states, is " top con tact heat". " During my visit," says a correspondent of the Daily News, " I saw upwards of one hundred chickens leave their shells, and a more interesting sight can scarcely be conceived than seeing the hole pecked through the shell, and afterwards the efforts made by the chicken to liberate itself, which it does without assistance. Many of them could be distinctly heard chirping whilst within the shell. There were also half-a-dozen detached build ings, surrounded by hundreds of lively chickens. These buildings, and the ` top contact heat' of the hatching machine, form the great feature of the invention, being the places of shelter for the chickens, or artificial mothers, and consist of ingeniously-contrived means, by which a series of pipes are heated, and under which the chickens seek the warmth they r. quire. Upwards of two thousand chickens, all lively and healthy, were running about. THE BERWICK BANK ROBBERY.—RECOVERY OF THE STOLEN PROPERTY.—The magistrates of Berwick-upon- Tweed, aided by the superintendent of police from New castle, continued their inquiry on Monday into the cir cumstances attendant upon the robbery of the North of England Joint Stock Bank, in the former town. The house and premises had previously been searched by the Berwick police, with no other discovery than four parcels of silver in the yard. It was evident, however, from va rious circumstanc s, that the robbery had been effected by a party or parties well acquainted with the bank. On Monday, accordingly, the authorities procured the assist ance of a blacksmith and joiner, in order thoroughly to gut the house. This, fortunately, was not necessary, as £3OO in gold and the remaining portion of the silver were found in the kitchen, secreted under the stairs. Mean while, the other parties were examining the bed-rooms, and in that occupied by Mrs. Tnompson, the wife of the manager of the bank, the whole of the notes were re cover d. There we►e £lOOO Bank of England notes, £B3O in notes of Scotch banks of various denominatiot.s above £1; and 613 in ditto of £1 each ; and all these were discovered sewed in the bolsters and bedding of Mrs. Thompson's bed. Every farthing, therefore, amounting to very nearly £3OOO, has thus been recovered in a sur prisingly short period. Mrs. Thompson, on being ap prised of the discovery, was taken ill; she was, however, taken into custody, though allowed to remain'in the house, under the care of one of the matrons of the Berwick gaol. It is not considered probable that the proceedings will be carried further, though on this point the intentions of the bank directors remain a secret. EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.—A public meeting of the friends of the Evangelical Alliance was held on Tuesday morning, in the large room, Exeter Hall, every portion of which was completely filled. The Chevalier Bunsen, the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel, Professor Tholoch, (of the College of Ilalls,) Rev. Dr. Beecher, (of Cincinati, Uni ted States,) and numerous ministers of all denominations of Protestantism, and from various parts of Europe and the United States of America, were present. Sir Culling Eardley Smith took the chair, and opened the proceedings with a brief speech. The Rev. Mr. Bickerstetb, Rev. Dr. Beecher, and Pt ofessor Thuloch supported the prin ciple, which set forth that sight differences on minor points ought not to prevent nations from joining in the great union. Addressee to a similar purport were deli vered by the Rev. Dr. Robson, the Hon. and Rev. Bap tist Noel, and others, when the assemblage separated A second public meeting was held on Wednesday evening, at Exeter Hall, when the large room was again crowded. Mr. Justice Crampton was in the chair, and arouni him were Sir C. E. Smith, Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel, the Rev. J. Jordan. (vicar of Enston, Oxfordshire.) the Rev. Professor La Harpe, and the Rev. Adolphe Monod, (from FranceXand the Rev. Dr. Peck and the Rev. Dr. Schu ker, (from the United States ;) there were, besdes a very large nutntter of the clergy of all the sects of Pro testantiom. It was stated. in the speeches of the chair man and others, that the alliance was not to be considered an alliance of different branches of the church, but of in dividual Christians, each acting upon his own responsibi lity, and that ne compromise of the views of any member, or sanction of those of others on points of difference, was expected, all being free to advocate and maintain their religious convictions with due forbearance. DAY TICKET.--A romantic young lady, re;iding not 100 miles from Bourn, contrived, a few days ago, with the as,ietance of a little absence of mind, to make more of one of these railway indulgences, and to enjoy a greater amount of locomotion on one day's fare, than commcnly falls to any one's lot. With no luggage (hear this, liclies!) and little more cash th ,, n was just needful for " the day ticket," our heroine left Peterborough, and in due time arrived in London, where ices. and something quite new from Madame T—'s, in Regent-street, con tributed to exhaust the small resources of her purse; but " the day ticket" is all right—" I shall get comfortably to Peterborough to a late tea." The train leaves Euston square, and our heroine, charmed with the day, composes herself with a novel and a first-class carriage for Peter borough. Qn they go, and night arrives; the train, too, arrives at a station. "Is this Peterborough ?" " This is Rugby, ma'am." Alas, 'twits too true! the virtuous hero of the novel was about to commit suicide when the train divided at Wolverton, and our heroine was at Rugby ! Here, front the state of her exchequer, she was obliged to repose on the sof. in the " waiting room" till the morning. With promises from the guard that she should really be conveyed to Peterborough forth with, and that " the day ticket" should, owing to the mistake, still be the passport, our heroine starts once more ; and now, in place of the novrl hero, she meets with a must agreeable gentleman fellow-traveller—a real hero—who soon becomes more interesting than even the martyr at Wolverton the preceding day. Conversation progresses—so does the train ; till during a pause caused perhaps by the introduction of some vulgar porter's head into the carriage, the lady "fears they must be near Peterborough by this time." " Peterborough. my d madam ! I am afraid you have made a mistake," said her comoanio , . ; and in the fulness of his top4raphical information he tells her that she is tit Watford, only some 18 or 20 miles from 1 ondon, again ! Such was verily the case, and serious misgivings aro' e as t t the remaininz and oft-tried virtues of " the day ticket ;" but it still held good. and, with one more effort. Peterborough is at last reached in safety, and our heroine lives to tell the tale.—Stamford Mercury. NT VELLS "Et IJAti."—The Times givesthe fol loionm account ot the reception ot t his extraordinary com position at the Birmingham Festival on Wednesday last : "The crowds of strangers and visitors, which were great the day before, were still more numerous, the whole length of New-street being lined on each side witn a dense mass of human beings. eager to behold the visitors 'a they made their way to the budding. The tops of the every window, from garret to ground floor, crowded with spectators. In the ball houses, every corner was alive ; not a vacant spot was to be seen. suet' being the intense anxiety to hear the new oratorio of " Elijah," for the first time, under the direction of its author. The orchestra was quite filled with the elect). tants, and the immense orgen, with its thirty-two feet pipes, looking like gigantic rolls of oil-cloth, rose from be hind till its head touelictl the roof, like come .ast animal of mysterious Urtin. When Nlemieissohn, the master s:.L rit rhht was to direct this multitude, stepped into the COT)... ductor's rostrum. and gave one rapid glance at the brilliant compaov who had come to listen to his favourite work—fur " is the child of his adoption, the composition he is written—l 'or tn s of etiquette were Unanimously laid , and one loud and. universal cheer acknowledged the presence of the greatest composer of the age. But X.endelsolin, aho set ms to hold app'ause in small account, after a hrief salutation, waved his Idion to begin. lierr Stawligil, accompanied by the low, myste rious tones of the oboes and bassoons, deliver, d in a voice of thunder, the awful prediction of the prophet Eltja!), that " no rain or dew should refresh the earth for years." happily de- The ting overture, tled a masterpie c e espofti,e orfeolupglea! was writ i ng, happily played ; the band seemed animated with one magnetic sympathy, and it was as though one instrument. in- stead of one hundren I ! .u . t p o a n r ft w ie a t s o g t i h ve e n nn w u i s: l e , o ti f ,e th r e insp ired ,auepr : c e is o i ni on po a s r e id r. e l ff ' e ti c e t E . ec T on h c t last note of " Elijah" was drowne I in a long-conti• need and unanimous volley of n!andir. five, w efirnnstasni, long checked had soddenly burst Ira 111.11 filled the air with bliout of exaltation. Mendelcsohn, evidently overpowered /lowed his neknowletlpmpnt. arm quickly descended from his prattion to the conductor's rostrutn ; but he was com pelled to am ear again, amidst renewed cheers and huzzas. Never was there a more complete triumph—never a more thorough and speedy recognition of agreat work of art. " Elijah" i 3 110 t only th e chef-d g ceuvre of Mendelssohn, but altogethe r one of the most extraordinary ach i evements of human int e lli gence. T he urenteat e , e di t i s d ue t o the band and choru.7lln , p - p;o - at , h 4 ;b7e;sisMendelssohn as a conductor, unrivalled es is his exrerience of the orch,s tra and its resources, hi s woi k cou ld never have won su c h .instantaneous appreciation but for the zealous and artist like unanimity of his forces. Mendelssohn, after thanking them, exuressed his particular obligations to Mr. Sim i ,_ son, the B:rmingham professor, who had, for two months previously, so well and effectively trained the local choir. Sept. 1, 1846. SALE OF A CIIIIIICHYARD !—CIFORCIIILL'S REMAINS. —At the SbakspeAre Hotel, Dover, on Thursday last, among other lots, the old churchyard. St. Mary's parish, Wherein Churchill, the poet, lies buried, was sold by auction, by Mr. Charles Lamb. for £145! We hear that the purchaser of this precious piece of eart especially brats —precious, the cele- poet—is a respectable brickmaker, so that there is no telling to what purpose it may come at last. In this churchyard, over the grave of Churchill. there is a rude headstone, bearing the following inscription :—" 1764. Here lies the remains of the celebrated C. Churchill. Life to the last enjoyed, here Churchill lies."—Canterbury Journal. 1 HE GOVERNMENT AND THE COLONIES.—The apt+ tem upon wh i ch the present government is acting in its colonial appointments is eminently satisfactory. Instead of being given, as has hitherto been almost uniformly the practice, to the partisans of the minister, they have in every recent instance been made the rewards of efficient Public service, and in this respect partake rather the cha racter of promotions than appointments. Thus, Lord Elgin, after acting with much ability as governor of Ja maica, has been appointed to the more important post of Governor-General of Canada; Sir C. E. Grey, late Go vernor of Barbadoes, will succeed Lord Elgin in Jamaica ; while Lieutenant-Governor Colonel Reid, from B'rmnda, will replace Sir C. E. Grey ; and he himself succeeded at Bermuda by Captain Elliott. The only fresh appoint ment is, therefore, to the least important post, and the principle is established that a colonial governor, by as able and diligent discharge of his duty may rise through regular gradations to the highest honours and emolu ments of the department. —Times. THE WESTMORLAND RAPE CASE.--The four young men convicted at the recent Westmorland assizes for the atrocious rape committed upon the two unfortunate women at Knife Scar, near Shap, were removed on Tuesday last from Appleby, to the penitentiary near Milbank. Intelli gence of their approach having reached Barnard Castle, Darlington, and the intervening villages, numbers of men, women, and children, who had collected together to show their disgust at the heinous conduct of the prisoners, met them at each place and it was feared from the strung feel ing evinced against them that an attempt would be made to do them some personal injury. At Barnard Castle, says our correspondent, the yells. hisses, groans, and exe crations of the assembled crowd were so violent as to render it necessary to obtain the assistance of the police to protect the men during the stay of the coach. Another large mob had assembled about a mile north of Darlington,. and it was evident from the ferocity displayed here-on the' coach coming up that an attack on the prisoners had been meditated. The governor of the gaol, however, and his assistants were fortunately successful in resisting their efforts until they reached Darlington, when the police were immediately called to their aid. The prisoners were taken to an inn for a short time to enable the police to disperse the mob, and they were afterwards conveyed pri vately in a coach to the railway trans, happily without any fresh outbreak. No doubt whatever was entertained but that some personal violence would have been used to wards the prisoners had not effective protection been afforded t hem. EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—On Friday Colonel Chas. Walter Thornton, aged 39, of the Honourable East India Company's service, was apprehended in London, on a charge of having uttered a forged £5 not e to a wa t c h_ maker in Oxford-street. Inquiries were at the same time made, and Mrs. Harding, jeweller, of Holies-street, Cavendish-square, and Mr. Bishop. bootmaker, of Con naught-terrace, identified the prisoner as having passed £lO and £5 forged notes upon them. Two other similar ct.arges were established, and these were found to form portions of an extensive system of fraud which has been for some time in practice. On the prisoner being searched at the time be was taken into custody, a forged £5 note and two genuine £5 Bank of England notes were found upon him, and £9 in gold. At his lodgings a quantity of valuable jewellery was discovered. The notes were very bad imitations, being apparently lithographed. lie was taken to the Marylebone Station. and loc ed up. On Saturday he was found dead in his cell, having hanged himself by his silk handkerchief, which be had passed through the small bars of his cell door. On Saturday an inquest was held on the case when the widow of the deceased was examined. She said that she had been mar ried to him six years, and always understood him to be an independent, respectable gentleman. He had no rela tives living, was a very temperate man, and was always in good health and spirits. She knew nothing of his• affairs. He had recently returned from Egipt where witness had always been with him. He was at home all the preceding day up to five o'clock, when be went out, saying that he was going to play at billiards. The Jury returned a verdict " That the deceased hung him-elf, but in what state of mind there was no evidence to show." GENERAL MISCELLANY. Lord John Russell has declined to make public the number of stamps issued to each newspaper. The other woman stabbed by the infuriated man at Leeds has since died. There is not a single French merchant ship which mea sures 700 tons. Mr. and Mrs. Cobden left Paris on Thursday, for the Pyrenees THE IMPORT DUTY ON CORN is now at the maximum figure —viz., 10s. per quarter. Twenty-one operas and thirteen ballets were produced at the Italian Opera. London, during the Fist sea , on. A bathing machine has been ordered for her Maje.•ty's use at Medebole, under Osborne. A tramway is also or dered to be made for it. The proprietors of the Daily Newt have resolved to publish every evening an edition of their paper, to be called The Express. The publication willcommence to-day. The lead ore miners of Alston Moor, Allendale, and Weardale, have env.ged the services of an oculist, at the rate of sixpence per man per annum. The number of soldiers in rrceipt of pensions is above 50,000. The in-door pensioners of Chelsea Hospital are about 500. The Bank of England has reduced the rate of interest on bills not having more than thr... rn nrst to :..w, 4. three per cent.. f:•um three-and-a.helf per cent. A pal;centan was dismissed from the Birmingham fOrce last week, because he refused to go down a lane which was on his bear, where he said he had seen his uncle's ghost. LONGEVITY.—Mrs. Febys, of North Driffield, near Howden, had twenty-two children, nineteen of %horn attained tl , .?ir majority, and the united ages of eight of the survivors is 600 Nears. Mr. Matthew Pearson, the oldest inhabitant of the town of Knaresborougl►, is now in the 111th year of his age, and, wonderful to relate, notwithstand ng his great age. he continues in full possession of his faculties. THE'Mooas.—Mr. Campbell, of Monzie, on the 21st current, bagged on the hill of Monzie, 191 brace of grouse, one black cock. one snipe, one duck, one rabbit, and 24 hares ; in all 410 head of game. THE MAILS FOR BRAZIL, BUENOS AYRES, AND MONTE VIDEO, w►ll henceforth be made up in London on the evening of the 4th of every month, except when the 4th happens on Sunday, when they will be made up on the follow ng evening. The Hurdle Match for 1000 guineas, at Hereford races, betwten Capt. Neville's The Miser's Son (01liver), and Capt. Williams's L'merick (Scott), was won by the latter. 13,-ttiog . 2 to 1 on The Miser's Sun, who was defeated by a head CURIOUS RAT TRAP.—A day or two since a large rat, not being much accustomed to railways, at tempted to crow the Notingham and Lincoln line, near Burton Joyce, as a train was passing. Toe poor animal was severed cum ph-tely in two.—Nottinuhom Journal. AMSRICAN ICe.--The ;lb.:Tins, from Boston, has ar rived in the Thames, with a cargo of 900 tons of Wen ham Lake ice, to tollow the bazaar just cleared. Its market price, in consequence of the frequent importa tions, is now reduced to £8 per ton. At Southampton, en Saturday. a shopkeeper was fined Eighty Pounds for having 20,Abs of gunpowder on his premises mote than the law permits. Ti:e informer is the I indlord of the premises, who will receive half the penalty. A public meeting was held at Doncaster, on Monday, called by the mayor. for the purpose of memorialising the bred a heauiv her No homage suffices—no conquest contents She cannot love ; and those. who cannot love cannot )e loved : they way enthral the senses for a time, but - - Life of a Beauty. HAYDON'S FIRST INTRODUCTION TO FUZEI.I.—Such was the horror connected with his name, that 1 remem- _y well the day before I was to go to him, an Direc ors of the Great Northern London and Ycrk introduction having been prepared by Prince Hoare, a Railway, to establish the plant, for the manufacture of letter from my father concluded in these words:—" God engines, in the town of_ Doncaster. her perfec speed you with the terrible Fuzeli. " I never had heard I The Admiralty have just issued an order for the died• h's person described, and apprehended, with a sort of bution of the medals to the officers and men of her Ma. mysterious doubt, he w,,s at least as tall es his own Satan, je-ty'a ships who served in.the late op,rations on the coal' certainly hardly less than seven feet ! Awaking from a of China. It will be re m embered that some months since night of extraordinary dreaming, the awful morning came. the Mower of the Mint received orders from her Majesty I took my sketch-book and drawings, involch.g the pro. to prepare a di,. •_ _ tection of my good genius to bring me backalive,and sall:ed forth to meet the enchanter in his den ! After an abstracted wail( of perpetual musing, on what I should The negotiations for the future issue of Mr. Dickens's works, by his old publiishHis, Messrs. Chapman and Halt, are at an end, and he brings out his new story in monthly say, how I slionld look, and what, I should do, I found myself before his door in Berners-street,-1805. I re member taking up the knocker with a nervous energy, but so unconsciously violtnr, and beyond the usual mo tion of the hi to be called " Dealings of the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wh►►lesale, Retail, amifor ExpGrtation." CUCUMBERS FROM RUSSIA.—Among the novelties in the list of importations now taking place, may be men tioned the arrival of some parcels of cucumbers from Rus sia, which has just taken place in a vesst-1 named the Vie t); y, arrived from St. Petersburg off the St. Ka herine's' Wharf. that it absolutely stuck in the air as if I stared at witched, increasitig my mysterious fear r. as much as to say, is this i vioicnc ? when, dr servaa came to the ior as if the 'lonia was burning! I stammered out my wishes, and was 6hown into a room which did not add to niy self-possession, for it was . ftill of Finch's hideous The late Countess of Scarborough has left all her property. real and personal,—the latter arn , unting to .ZI(0,01.0,—to R. G. Lumley, Esq., of Tickhtli Castle, Yorkshire, with .t he exception of certain legacies. Of the latter, eight of £lOOO Pilch, and four of £5OO, are void d spasmodic demons! Satins rant and ugly, brewing Franc.-sea, Lady Macbeth, and the dreadful Lazar house ! with its insanities, its diseases, and its t.athos, winding up the hideous assembly. Imagine a young man of nine for want of attesting witnesses. MELANCHOLY ()CCURRENCE.—On Tuesday, as Mr. Michalowski. a Polish gentleman of high rank, and wto but teen, fresh from Devonshire a ho had reli-hed arid brooded over the works of this wild genius from eight years old ; hour after hour had he dwelled on his sublime conception of Uiiel arid Satan, as he dived to the earth in many an airy whe,l,—and now he was actually in his room, arid actually heard his footsteps! Men who are t , roultht up in London have no idea of our freshness of feeling when from the provinces we enter it for the first time, and see and talk to the celebrated men we have once held the positio►rof rnejor in the Polish atm_ has recently resided in Catlisle as a teacher of languages, was on his way to Peorith, he fell from his gig. and sus tained such seve►e injuries that he expired about five o'clock on the following morning. Sir Justinian Were Isham, t.,a resident of Chelten ham. blew his brains out on Tuesday last. The unfor tunate deceased PCPs ab•iut thirty years of age, and had but lately succeeded his father in the title and estates. He was rather eccentric in his habits and turn of mind, and it is presumed that melancholy induced him to the com mittal of 'he rash act. 3 or, an I read of, and seen of from, boys, for year At lest, whilst I was wondering what metamorphosis I Ito, the door slowly opened, and I FaW a little of it, which did not The steamer Londonderry, plying between London. derre and Glasgow. was wrecked off the Mull of Kintyre, on Thursday. The passengers, between 500 and 6UO Irish re4ers, and crew, were saved by being taken on hoard the steamer Scotia, after having been tor nearly thirteen hours on board the wreck. The Londonderry was got uff the next tide, and taken to Gr enock. On Friday, John Hilliard, the"„old country man, charged with vending berries of the atropa belia donna, or deadly nightshade, and causing the deaths of Thomas Parker, look very gigantic, or belt.. and round came a little dressed in an old fl,nriel uu. and :he bottom of Mrs. Fuzeli's wor. for a cap. I was perfectly amazed! stood the designer of Satan iu many an airy wheel plunging to the earth. and was this the painter himself? Certainly not such as I had imagined when eni.ying h e• did not know • was hie ing to a very powerful Figur ssing-gown tied by a rope, msket on his head There march, it he attempted the~auperuaturil! We tared quietly at each other, and F uze li ki n dl y under my astonishment arid inexperience, asked in the .ts t voice for my drawings. Here my evil genius ok the lead, and instead of showing him my studies rom the antique, which I had brought, and had meant shown him, I showed him my sketch-book I did ,ot mean to show him, with a sketch I had made coming +lorig, of a man ypushinght said,a sugar-casky wayof c intogrocer's e a nuuragm e sh e o n p t: Puzeli, seeing m " At least the fellow does his business with energy." Fruit' that. h o ur commenced a friendship which lasted till his death, though of course my political oppo s iti on to th e academy rendered our meetings sometimes rather stormy, and less frequent during the latter pa rt of h i s life.—Hay don's Lectures on Painting and Des i gn. late proprietor of the Veteran beershop, in the White: chapel-road, and Samuel Jone., a child aged three years, was committed at Thames police-office for trial. The prisoner said he never picked the berries at all, and was not aware they were poisonous when he sold them. SAI.MON FISH ING.—The tike continues to be mode rately good, but not so great as usual at this season, which is the harvest of the year by river as well as land. Prices have nit been so low as on the average of seasons. Salmon, 7d. ; grilse, 6d. • and trout, 5d., and a penny per pound more If cut. W e have seen them 4d. and 3d. The suc cess of the sportsman. however, has been beret this year than perhaps ever recollected. On Tuesday. M Stewart, son of one of the town-sergeants, took a splendid salmon, 32 lbs. weight, out of the Tay, after a run of upwards of an hour.—Perth paper. to have FASHIONS FOR SEPTEMBER (From the "London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.") The materials kr the present season are taffetas _Glace suit, and pekin. Plaids in every variety. Bateoes taf feta* de A checked foulard, bffetas Chine in narrow stripes or satin waves ; pros de Naples of mauve shot with violet or dark-green shot with a lighter shade. Very dark plain bares are worn by young ladies, and instead of flounces very d , ep tucks edged with fringe, and pill rine very deep behind and on the shoulders, crossing is front in the ceinture, and trimmed with folds edged with fringe. Morning dresses of lilac, green, or sky-blue, are made with flounces, headed by velvet of the same c lour. Robes of brockies silk in wide stripes are with flounces en &ale, the skirt closing in front so as to leave a spac e of three fingers between the stripes, on which is pile' en gimp trimming ; the sleeves arc long and tight, also biais. Many dresses of-pink, lilac, and even white are trimmed with flounces of black lace ; this toilette is completed by a large black lace shawl. Bonnets of crape lisse have been much in favour, of moderate size, rather close at the sides, and mite id at the top ; short at the ears, and with very full bavolet, and made not to require tying, the brides being of very wide crape or tulle, hanging as a veil. Crape and tulle bonnets of pink and white are ornamented by marron and dark-green velvet, forming a striking contrast in material and colour. Morning capotes of poulle de snit are trimmed with ribbon, without rdeufls, but have a very deep lace forming voilelle round the edge. Straw bonnets for morning wear are trimmed with velvet, to which may be added a few sprigs of mignonette, ivy. acorns, or chesnut flower. Copoles of pale green crape are ornamented with marabruts of the same colour. The tulle Payan is much used for dresses, its extreme lightness giving so much effect to the double skirt ; it is made in all colours, and in black is particularly suited for mourning. This tulle is also much approved for cannezous, with narrow ribbon of pink, blue, or lilac, introduced to show its transparency. Many little fancy articles are worn of filets de soie ; handkerchiefs in pink, blue, or cerise, some shaded, others striped, are used for the throat or head ; little scarfs of the same description are also fashionable. POLICE ESPIONAGE (From the Times.) The Central Criminal Court was occupied on Monday with the trial of a person charged with setting fire to his house with intent to defraud the Sun Fire Insurance Corn. pany. It proved, on inquiry, that the matter hail beea entirely got up by the police, and that the Insurance- Office alleged to have been the obj , ct of a contemplated fraud had distinctly declined to prosecute. On attempting to trace the prosecution to its source it was found to have originated with tie police; the evidence tendered in sup port of the accusation was chiefly that of the police ; and the depositions were handed to counsel by the officer of 'r I the court without even the in.- ''on of - -itor . a sotto. .;r. This zeal for bringing an offender to justice may be dic tated by the :nest disinterested motives ; but we confess that it would have worn a better aspect if the uffice for whose protection so much exertion was made had at least shown some sympathy in the proceedings. It ally ground of reasonable suspicion could have been shown, it is not likely that any insurance company would allow its inter ests to be neglected, or permit its b a ttl es to b e f ought by the police at the Old B a iley. If we a d m i t the ze4l evinced ottero n this occasion , ant (f ) disc, musteetionmanifested at the i n Fame b r tiinm e g condemn the accusation that does not seem to have had even the slight est fouAation. The charge.of incendiarism was unsup ported by a single spark of evidence; for the principal witness, who made an examination immediately atter the fire, declared that "he saw nothing at alsuspicious" wilful and malicious setting fire appe a r% to have beep a sort of hallucination in the minds of the police, who may possibly have_ been labouring under a temporary light- headedness. If they were not acting under some strong delus'on, it beedmes a much mote serious question, what could have induced them to get up a charge which the re sult has shown there was literally nothing to justify hen we find the police exceeding its legitimate tiuty so far as to prosecute offenders instead of being sat i,fied to place them in the hands of justice, we naturally irouire whether this trouble is takeit pu.ely for the . public good, or front hose motives of interest ? Assuming the firmer to be the case, we should be dirposed to discourage the practice, as one liable to abuse, of picion, and capable of being pery It would be possible , • •it become general, that the members of the police might-, in their anatety to enhance the value of their services, " get up" prosecutions on slight grounds, entailing great and needless exper.se, as well as subjecting innocent people very often to ut , ju.t imputations, pecuniary 10-s, and other unmerited hardships. It has been said that the promo tion of a police-officer depends in some degree on the number of convictions he has obtained, and if this is really the case, a police prosecution may be regarded with very grave suspicion. Society could not be sate unc-r the dangerous practice of offering a premium to the police for carrying criminal charges to a successful issue. The faci- lities which they have for combination—the opportunities that are in their power for organising a system of mutual support in the fabrications upon which they might agree —the ease with which they could obtain a knowledge of .o raise a superst,ticture of l capable of being converted into the most dangerous instruments of unjust accusation. We will not impute to the police the baseness or resorting to any of tee means in their power for getting up malici ous charges, but if anything would expose them to the suspicion of acting so vile a part, it would be the know ledge that a certain number of convictions is required o f them as a qualifi ca ti on f or promot i on. I f such a Jule is acted upon by the commissioners, it should be abandoned without delay, for its existence has a tendency to corrupt the police, offer a temptation to the worst characr- -to become members of the force, and to undermine the se curity of the whole communtty. The resolution in ques tion is, indeed, perfectly adapted to revive in, perhaps, a mitigated form the old and odious system of blood.monef. There are miscreants enough to make a business of getting up false charges without offering promotion in the police as an inducement to any villain who would like to enter upon the horrible trade under the wing of authority.