The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-12-18 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

GAROTTE ROBBERY.—P. Irvine and George M`Dowall
were charged, at the Police-court, on Saturday, with a garotte
robbery :—Thomas Anderson, a lamplighter, stated that he Two SPHINXBiTef white marble, of large proportions, the
was going along St. Andrew-street, about three o'clock in the first trophies_of Sebastopol, have just arrived for the Louvre.
morning, when the prisoners suddenly seized hold of him, and They have been temporarily placed in the Assyrian Museum,
while one of them held him by the throat, the other rifled his facing the Rue de Rivoli.
pockets of a tobacco-box,a knife, and sixpence worth of copper.
The prisoners, who attempted to prove an alibi, were remanded A BOOT-CLEANING saloon, to which are attached public laVa-'
for seven days. .
tones and dressing-rooms, has just been opened in Brydges-
LIVERPOOL SESSIONS.—At the opening of the adjourned is ld
Court of Quarter Sessions, on Friday, the Recorder, Gilbert
THE Madrid papers say that in some excavations which
Henderson, Esq., in charging the grand jury, said—" After a
were recently made on the site of what was formerly the
short lapse of time, I find the names of fifty-nine prisoners street., Covent-garden, London. The admission to the former
committed for trial. This number is moderate, and may be cemetery of the Nuns of Santa Clara, in that city, a dead body
considered as satisfactory, as far as it goes, as the calendar was found, which there is reason to believe was that of the
alone is no criterion of 'the general state of crime in the famous painter, Velasquez.
borough. But, for reasons which Ido not intend now to WOLVES have been showing themselves in numbers, and
enter into, I am well aware that is not the case ; and we with great boldness, near Troyes. A woman of Fresnoy is
cannot infer, because the calendar is light, that the amount of reported to have been attacked by one whilst going to an out-
crime in the borough is small." The trial of prisoners was office. The neighbours, alarmed by her cries, attacked the
then proceeded with, animal, and at last one of them killed it with a bayonet
LADIES' SOCIETY FOR CLOTHING THE SCOTTISH POOR.—
thrust.
The annual sale of clothing in connection with this admirable j A MAN named Johnson, employed to attend to the electric
society took place on Friday, in the Assembly Rooms, Great ' light which is burnt at the top of the Lyceum Theatre in
George-street. The object of the society is to supply the poor , Wellington-street, London, fell from the top on Saturday, on
with work, more especially during the inclemency of the win- to a row of iron spikes, two of which entered his thigh and
ter season. Such au object deserves every support ; and it is broke off in the flesh, and from the ehevaux de frise the un-
not without regret that we add that the very unfavourable fortunate fellow came down on his head, which was cut in a
state of the weather on Friday prevented the sale being as dreadful manner. He is, however, now out of danger.
successful as it has been in previous years. A number of tARON ANSELX MEYER Rothschun, the eldest of the
articles are on hand ; and those who are desirous of aiding so brothers at the head of the renowned family of that name, died
deserving a society may be pleased to know that the articles at Frankfort on the 6th inst., of Catarrhal fever. He was born
on hand will be offered for sale on each Monday, in the vestry in 1783, and was consequently about seventy-three years of
of St. George's Presbyterian Church, Myrtle-street. age. Professors Pfeuffer and Hesse, of. Munich, and Chelins,
THE LICENSED VrcrtrattEus.—A meeting. of delegates of Heidelberg, were summoned by telegraph to attend him in
from several towns was held in Derby on Wednesday, for the i his illness, but were too late.
purpose of forming a "Licensed Victnalleers' Defence League." i ROBERT HANCOCK, the labourer who murdered his wife
Mr. Foster, of London, and Mr. Luce, of Hampton. Court, Philippa, at Northam, bevonshire, by cutting her throat and
thought that as the objects of the meeting appeared to be ' crushing her head with a hammer, and afterwards wandered
identical with those of the Licensed Victuallers' Defence away from home, but came back and made a u-ild confession
League recently formed in London, it was not quite clear why to her brother, has been acquitted as a nionomaniae; the Rev:
that meeting had 'been called. Mr. Foster spoke at consider- Mr. Gossett, clergyman of the parish, and other witnesses,
able length on the necessity of having the executive, and also deposing that he had long been subject to strange delusions as
the central offices, in London—more particularly on account of to the fidelity Of his Wife.
the parliamentaiT business to be .transacted. If there were ,
two leagues, the interest would be divided. After consider Two bankrupts obtained first-class certificates a few days
since—the first was Masters, late of the Crystal Palace Hotel ;
able discussion, the London and Liverpool deputation left the
room ; but the resolution was carried by a majority of thin the other William Batley, engineer and boiler-maker, North-
by the c rape-
teen to 'two. ampton, 4-hose bankruptcy was caused ruinous o
; tition Of oter hoses, th defau of a firm their
NOVEL 'STYLE OP ROBBERY.—At the Police-court, ma bills, Stesh u the negligence e andlt dishonestyin meeting
of his servants,
Saturday; James Hammer, who said hrik
e was a woolcomber, and the explosion of two boilers.
from 'Bradford, was charged with entering the house of Mr.
3. B. Palmer, innkeeper, Waterloo-road, under the following The Tagblatt of Berne was in the habit of copying tele-
extraordinary circumstances :—Mr. Palmer said that, about -graphic despatches from the Berner. Zeitung, without acknow-
iiine o'clock on Friday night, he was told by a neighbour that ledgment. So the editors of the Berner Zeitunp took the
somebody had broken into the 'house by the bedroom windows. liberty, at the time that the Emperor of Russia Was in the
'On going up stairs he fotind his wife and another female is Crimea, of printing in the one copy of their paper which was
'the bedroom, and the 'prisoner 'concealed behind the head of ,to be supplied to the Tagblatt the following startling tele-
,the bed, crying out for mercy. 'The prisoner, in his defbnce, ' -graphic intelligence :—" The Emperor of Russia and Prince
'said that he had been doing-nothing for nine days, and at last I ‘Gortschakoff have been taken prisoners by the allies ;" all
he determined to steal some lead from the roof of proseciitor's which was religiously copied into the whole impression of the
house, and to sent. White .on the roof he felt himself fall- Tagblatt, to the great amusement of its readers.

GENE,RAL INTELLIGENCE.

. - ing, so he caught heel of ',the spout and sassonF himself into' THE Commissioners of Inquiry into the revenues, &c., of
Mr. Palmer's bedroom, through the window. 'lt was not," the Inns of Law report- 'that the Inner Temple has a gross
said the prisoner., with amusing earnestness, " a question of income, in• round numbers, of £21,000; the Middle Temple, of
liberty, but of life anddtath, and all men-fear death."- The £10,000; Lincoln's-inn, of £18,000; and Grey's-inn, of
prisoner was 'remanded, 'in order that farther inquiries Might £B,OOO, all exelutive of fees. But eneh is the system of ex
be made respecting his antecedents. travagant expendittrre in these establishments, that the Inner
NEW COI'DE 6F.SE'-A. SIGNALS.—The necessity for !a new
Temple only shows a surplus revenue of £5,000, and the
set of maritime signaislas occasioned the appointment,-under Lincoln's4nn of a trifle under £4,500. The surplus: of the
the auspices of government, of a committee whose function it Middle Temple amounts to £1 -is. 100., while Gray's-inn
is to investigate the comparative merits of any plan that shall , shows an actual -deficit of £320.
be at once simple and efficient-qualities which •can hardly be I Tun SuNDAC BEER ACT.-M-r. Whiteburst, late solicitor
said to betheschltsoteristics of the celebrated code of Captain ' to the Licensed Victuallers' Defence Association, under Whose
Merryat, 'Which -is 'not only limited in its 'capacities, but superintendence the proteedings before Mr. Berkeley's com-
unavailable when there is little wind, or the- wind nriveain a mittee were conducted, has written a letter to the secretary of
line with the-eye. . The use of :hanging flags, which are the United Kingdom Alliance, in which he states that his
always more or lees subject te these vicissitudes, ie. therefore a : opinions onthesubjeet haveaindergone a total change.; that
disadvetotege. ' 414-fr. Alfred Waleson, of London, has
-devised. he believes the Sunday Beer Act of 1854 was a step in the
a, series ofsreetaPic plates er tAlets by which -those, incon - right, 4irection ; ,that it was an error to repeal it .; .and-thOt
venierrees ere giX., over. Psinteetin party distributions of red, he 'regrets deeply the part he took in forwarding the Sunday
byre and White,?the five plates am . capable of vsl almost end- Beer Bill of last session.
less, nurtiber•Of combimoions, 'the symbolical principles of '-'Voinho,bitant of the. parish. of B. ishepsteignton having
.for
which -are' 'Of'-'the easiest aceerea.ernent, and 'the application ::setee' e iirn'e‘ been at variance with his neighbours and reje'eting.
suiaable -to ally emergency. :Fates of this kind hoisted in a
frame at any,part of shi•und at any angle, appear to be a ,
vast es upon anyehing that has yetiteen suggested; `the attempt of a mutual friend to bring about a'reconciha-tion,
besides whah, it is obvious- they .can' be ! tructeeat the Otherlfereter Gazette relates that,-" Between the conclusion of
'the-prayers and the administration: of the Holy Communion,.
most trifling cost.-211nriiing Herald. I'' 'cn aSanday morning last, this gentleman rose from his seat,
~itrid,with evident emotion, which extended' to the -spectators,
,
' TEE S*.IKE IN LaNakslnEE.—TWenty mechanics; each - went end offered his hand to each of his offended neighbours,
of whom acts as a chaiernan for his fellow-workmen; have eexpmssing himself at the same time as, hicarne a Christian.
published a letter, setting forth the good ffects of an associa- ' 'Phe tender was readily accepted, and, as soon arthe excite-
tion whiea has been imelistence far 1' :years in the carpet mut was appeased; the reconciled friends' united in-the parti-
trade; its operation extending 'from the -north of Scotland to !•eipation of that sacred rite which is a pledge of a higher and
the. Midland Counties eef England.. otos annual meeting is I .holier reconciliation:'
cilia
1. helili 'in some central' town, to which th -e workmen of each • •
" THE MlSSlNYRGYMAN."—TilOVlOucetterillireChro-
'. manufactory send a, .dek,gate,- so that ,any grievance existing '
•iiiefe. states that the explanation of this affair, which has un-
in aheotrade may be-known at once to -anther-nesters and.all
,1 themen. Suffickast notice is given that the annual meeting fortunately attracted so much public notice, is as follows :-It
tis said that some expression fell from-the lips of' the intended
4will'take place; the:whole of the masters generally attend,
rimide, during the lett interview, which was Misconstrued by
and a delegate te -lent by the weavers of each firth. The
5_,..,. ,-the gentleman intossomething like a -regret at the step she was
`res.& of the Plan its that far the last fifteen "`-' !I,,lbent to take, and that, Without even seeking-an.
explanation,
'-i,lie delegates have- - early once mired with dissatisfaction, •he pondered over the words, which preyed upon' his mind, as
..
;sand upon that occasion they prayed the masters to reconsider ihe walked into Gloucester, and got worked up into such a state
their verdict, 'Theraresters immediatelylteld another meeting, 1
tof distraction, that nothing could satisfy him Short-of flight.
and arranged the!disputed point to Al se satisfaction of both now writes ('from erica), in the deepest agony of
I- parties. " Permit ets, therefore," claim the. intelligent
1. ' •
mechamcs referred to, "to urge -upon 'fee masters and work- 1 •
tae now
regretting'themfes.iit min he • has caused- to all parties con-
of reference similar to that we have describe and not to lower
men of that aunty ,(Lancashire)ut urea to adopt some board.L.,cerned•e'c se,on 1 cooler reflection., that -he had put a
themselves its thew
of all Christendom by persevering 'in a 1i-wrong interpretatvea, upon the wog 'then utteredeend taking
'contest in which •esie side insanely-cntemplates. the ruin of .a_ 11 the blame uponliimself.
! theireniplOyerseaud the other side, purposes the starvation of A CASE or DIETMESS.-Mr. Joseph Guy; the author of the
lEnglish Schodl Grammar, and of more than. 20 other school-'
the employed?' .-. - books, has, at the ago of 72, no resource for his maintenance
STocKBreoICiNGTRANSACYLOMS.—C-MEAvEs- V. NEILsoN.— , Ihheanimirphraests,titen'§tyhlor
litehhyaol
,t,ldieopntehtlhice‘smtaleaffsoormdehecimm.icUen”dheyr
:his efforts, however humble, to smooth the path of -knowledge
In the Court ofarancery, last week, this case came -before
• the lords justices. The bill was filed:against Messrs. Neilson.
sharebrokers, at Liverpool, by one :of their customers. It to the rising:genera-don, he sent in -a petition• to- the Earl of
I sought an :account of various stockbroking transactions,. and Aberdeen, when prime minister, in' the hope of participating
j involved questions amounting, if Aeon' aintiff 's contention was in the fund-set-apart by the nation- forthe benefit of distressed
right, to £ll,OOO. The defendants.had answered the bill, and
:authors; bet no answer was returned. He has recently peti-
i on produdngthebooks had availed.themselves of the privilege ..-tioned Lord' Palmerston to lay his ,case before her majesty.
1 of covering ,up,.,-,arious parts -of themeas not relating to the • His lordship, however, gives him no hope, owing to the num.-
1 matters in -question. The plaintiff, .however, had applied te- 1-ber of candidates for pensions and the limited amount of. the
the Master of the Rolls for an inspection, on the grounds that fund at his disposaL An answer :more favourable might
the partsseovered up ought to have been disclosed. His nave been anticipated, considering Mn Guy's age, his necessi-
Honour bavingrrefased to make -an order, the plaintiff now ap- ',:ties, and his literary labours for the ',benefit -of ,the youth of
pealed. Mr. R. Palmer and Mr. Cairnsefor the plaintiff, endea- '. these king,dereseandut may be addedeof our colonies also. ,
voured to show that the discovery -sought was necessary for t Ihe f A Heariiiners :14V6IDE1 T.—The hot tids of his ( ace the
purpose -of -obtaining a decree. The • Solicitor-General, with tltuke of Bucciench -met lately at Springwood-parki-when the
whom was Mr. Eddis, appeared -for- the defendants. Their 1-Allowing humorous incident- took, place. Shortly:after the
lordships -were of opinion that it was , not necessary to Zspose i hounds had thrown .eff, a full-grown fez broke cover, and as,
of the motion: at present, and that,in. place of the order made .the view halloo ,wassgiven' a. donkey belonging to John Arm-
by the Master of the Rolls, the -application should be ordered !strong, labourer,!Spronston, but .better: known -by the cogno-
to stand-over-until the hearing of the twee. • ',men of "Jock 41Boon;' and which- was; engaged' in sa'rawing
Branatnatram POULTRY Srow.-At the greet' atrezal ,ethe branches of trees- out of the plantation,, -prickedeup her
show ofpoultry at Birmingham,whieh Closed ou Friday, there ' -eatis, and beingsleterniined- to boa drawer of wood nalonger,
were several etiaibitors from Liverpool, including Mr. Worrell, I -for -that day at least, started offaeanee ceremonie triter the
of Knotty,Aoh, who exhibited twenty, pens, embracing .gold i qua, at a rattling pace, in the direction-of Sunlaws. -From
and silverilarnhurgs, game fowl, :Rouen and Aylesbury ducks, :',thence she proceeded ,:to Crailitag-ball, and came down by
geese, &tee Air. Thomas Stretch, sof Marehdane, Bootle; Mr l' 'Wooden-bill, a distance of nearly ten, .nlilea, and woultik have
Thomas Himisen, of Barton-house, Breck-rood, Everton; Mr_ ! been in at the death -hod not• her owner-made his appearance
Gilbert W. Mesa, of Otterspool; Mr. Jonathan Williamson, I :and secured her. Itii,s-said her ladyship-was among thelore-
Whitfield-house, Walton-on-the-Mil; Ofroee. MONicoll, Birk- s,most in the chase, triking her fences with:as much- zest. and
enhead ; MreChorles•Jones, Birkenhead, &c. . Ile. Worrell care .dexterily as the fwd. ihmrters. on the grourld. In the runehe
ried away ,prizes far golden pencilledllambuyes in two classes -; had thrown two shows, .aed appeared as much fatigued as her
and the Cochin Chinas, Spanish, „and, bAtams exhibited '. "sturdy owner, who. had,. asith a sorrowful' -heart, pursussilaier
respeetivethy_Mr. Thomas Stretch, Kr. Jones, ancillr. G. W.. rforseveral hours. 'The .-meeting betwixt the pair -was melt
Moss, were ,esaarised "highly tommended " eby the judges. , :affeetionxte. Instead -of ;giving her a-sound cudgelling i(as
Mr. W. C. Worrell, of Knotty,Ash,..obtainedie7, 7s. for the Ihenerenduct merited), John entertained herto a biscuit-anda
gold pencilled' ilenaburgs which took the first prize. For a ; ;glass.ofs spirits-a reCr.eshment, she seemed eery much .!to-
partridgeoferrthered Cochin China eoek and- three hens, exhi- • :relish-and similarly regaling himself, they-afterwards quietly
bated by Mr.loseph Hindson, of Brearroad, Ever ton, £6. 6s. I -repaired to.their humble' dorecile in the barony of Sprons° ..
-. A golden pencilled Hamburg and three pallets, seven months -Ke4sosPerter.
old, the property. of Mr. W. C. 'Worrell, fetched,,A. 12s. Bd. 1 ..,
xr.TRA,HAN, PAUL, AND CO ,!•13 BANKRUPTCY.=—iThe adjourned'
Amongst tile fat: the Early of Derby exhibited one of ! .
examination ma' the bankruptcy of Straiten, Peal, and Co. took
place on Tuesday. The prisoners were in attendeace, but were
• his celebrated Brehmin heifers, which, although.not obtaining
~;
a prize, was highly-commended. , I not brouelet -into court, -wad the. presentation of a report on
CHARGE Aff-AINqV A CLERGYMAN 'O7 Swinpf2gm.-On !
i Wednesday, :an elderly gentleman, respectablydressed, calling i the state's:if their affairs; tope r with a balances* sheet- pre-
yball, Preston, on a charge of obtaining money ,underfees e pre- 1---'pa
himself the Rev. Michael Crotty, was brought up at the Town- I -
red ,by the aocountant, -constituted the principal proceed-
stenc,es. The court ,waa crowded by inrsoagiee
interestingetiAoeosrdieig Aeo • this document, which commences wi th
many ef the. and I - the origin of the ibank, the
inhabitants of the town, who represented themselves to have members of the .firm, may b considered to have
libeen swindled by thellefendant. According to the statements been perfectly_ solvent as recently as four years bask. 'At that
period, timely,- December, 1851, the books show -an admitted
for the prosecution, itoaspeared that the prisoner was formerl deficiencief 035-e, which Was increased to £13.0 00 by an
!. a Romish priest, but,haying been converted •some twelveyearYs . advance on-the Mostyu colliery, but unencumbered property
of England, anctwas
John Paul orth,£-,30,
ndellslteow'ma.
was possessed by Mr Strahan worn- £lOO 000 ' • „ and toy Sir
smnest until 1852 that their
iiinstituted to the elaureheof St. Brandon, Parsonstowe, ifi4g's
1,4g0, he became a minister of the Church
ken-linty. He was there; icensed, but the license was mime- connexion wWith the: G o
equently withdrawn, (On the withdrawal ,of the licencts.
'i' made-to those people- to--carry (int theirmid the advances,
;railway and drainage
the prisoner came -to :England, and began . collecting schemes in F'a tee i t .and .. „I taly were , undertaken for no othei
money for " enlarging and. .endowing his church" in ,Parsons- profit than a half percent. commission on all payments made,
town, representing at the same time that his eonsin .William ' f '-* • • - '
ti, and the expectation o ,reco‘e.mg a deed of £l,BOO, whido
Crotty, acted as his curate in,Treland. Lately he ' 1
Preston and collected a goo -deal of money; - hut se°p4icleO- had been considered, bad. They were rapidly, however, drawn
having been excited, the rector, ef Birr, in. Ireland, teas written ;into the common and fatal:course of inere.asing their leans in
to, who replied that the chapel, for which' the prisoner :pre- (order to avoid the necessity of facing the lose.already incurred,
;tended-to be collecting moneyeiwassliut up, and that prisoner's :until after their credit had :been pledged :-in every possible.
-wife and-family resided at Birr,lr2 received constant-supplies ;:try, t
heir private property sold, and their :easterners plan-
-of meneyfrom the prisoner. Defendant's cousin, it wao added, :.aerelli. they found to amount to have increased to nearly half
was ,a Presbyterian minister in :Galway, and had not been,in :,attlmums;3terling. The actual-deficiency of the. 'hank is stated,
2 , and of this sum 5f4183,000 -is :involved in the
Parsonstowu for twenty years. Thepolice were communicated ,transactions with the Ganclells 41 the M an e ogee' collieries.
with, band !tite prisoner was arrested at the railway Station The .estimated ,
1 ',Lae .estunatea assets are placed at £127,67Q; and if these
faeing on the point of leaving Preston. .He was remanded, Min ' • shouldbe realized, a distribution may be hoped of nearly 4s.
in default of bail was removed in .cu.stcdy, loudly protesting •
aultbelpound. After the reading ,of the report an adjourn-
against the persecution" to whieh he -was subjected.
:ment,torsk place to the 11th of Marls.
Exxszcsion ,os., LIVERPOOL—The Rev. W. Badnall pre- ,
eided, on Thursday, at a meeting df the guardians of the ißeAropir ron PRESENT Mail ;P& ES.—Amidst all the
, West Derby hoend, and of persons officially engaged in the adverse,views of our future, as to the price of bread, there is '
several out-tawnaltips which it is contemplated to add to the *me -channel by which we may hope to ;have it sold ata mo-
borough attended. After some introcluetore remarks from Berate if amt a low price, and that* Jsy the use of Indian ,
the Chairman, who raid he stood before there erot only as the corn when .ground and dressed. By the ,blessing of Awl-
representative of his own township, but as the chairman of dance ;this •ye,v's, crop of Indian corn :in America is super-
• the local board of health at Wavertree, he said as their abundant, the :various estimates putting it -down at from WO
representative he would state that they felt it theie dirty con- to 1,000 ;millions of bushels,, and it must be apparent that
scientiously to oppose this measure. Mr. Ledger -proposed- our present 'high prices and the fear of their -coatinuance will
" That this meeting is of opinion that the contemplated ex- cause the people -of Great Britain to turn their attention to
tension of the borough of X=, erpool, in respect of which such the use of this valuable article of food. More then half the
notice has been given, will he prejudicial to the interests of population of the United States live upon it, and the follow-
the several townships comprised in the West Derby Union, as ing may be relied upon by those of our fellow,couittrymen
mentioned in such notice; and that it is desirable that the who have never known what Indian corn flour is. It is -
several official bodies and persons ,connected with those tows- ground in the same -way as wheat, the stones being kept
ships ehould, as early as possible, ascertain the precise nature wider apart than for wheat, and driven more slowly; and as I
of the bill to be brought into parliamen with reference the stones used in the United States are made in England,
thereto." Mr. Ledger having argued that the proposed there will be no difficulty in procuring them. It is also
scheme would saddle the township with heavy rate's, without ground into grits, called " floteiny," by large hand steel-
any corresponding advantage, Mr. Edwards seconded the mills, similar in construction to those used for grinding
resolution.-Mr. Alpass rose to move a direct negative, In coffee.. Hominy is eaten by the rich and the poor in America,
• three townships, the necessity of the measure had been and the man can work more, longer, and have better health
already admitted by the ratepayers themselvee, The town- (inasmuch as it is an 'antagonist to indigestion) than with
ship of Wavertree was the first to adopt the Public Health any other food, animal not excepted; and it has one great
Act ; Garston followed ; and now the rural district of Tox- advantage that it can be eaten hot or cold. It is used in
teth-park was about to follow the example. He would admit water, milk, or broth, as oatmeal is with us, four pounds,
that they would hare to pay more if they were amalgamated, weight being enough for ten persons ; it, is also made into
but the advantages they would derive in many respects would stirabout ; and although American wheat is amongst the
be incalcalable. He concluded by moving that the word finest in the world, Indian corn flour is more nutritious.
"beneficial" be substituted for "prejudicial" in Mr. Ledger's When broken in a fiteel mill, it is put to soak all night in
motion.-Mr. J. Harrison seconded the amendment and warm water, and with bacon or milk twelve pounds will last
described the want of sanitary regulations in the various out- one man a whole week. In another form it is called " Samp,"
townships.-The amendment was ultimately put and lost, the skin is scalded off, and used as peas porridge with pork.
only four hands being held up for it.-Mr. Shaw moved- Wheaten flour, !when mixed with one-third of Indian-corn
That a committee be now formed, composed of a repre- flour, is preferred to bread made altogether from wheat. It
sentative from each of the twelve townships ; that such corn- is also used as pudding, blended with milk, eggs, and treacle.
mittee be requested to obtain a copy of the intended bill, as The French Canadians burn the skin off, and boil,it in Milk
soon as it is introduced- into Parliament ; and if they were for breakfast ; in fact it can be mixed with or adapted to
of opinion that such bill, if pessed into law, would be preju- anything. The nonnse of it in England arises from its not
dicial, they should adopt such measures to oppose the passing having been tried, and the climate of the south and east parts
of such bill as they may deem desirable."-Mr. J. Harrison of England will be found favourable for its growth. One.
:
seconded the resolution, which was unanimously agreed to.-
pound of this meal put into a quart of water, with three
It was then moved and seconded, " That it be recommended parts of water added at intervals whilst boiling, will weigh
that meetings be called in the townships for the purpose of
four pounds and-a-half when
Per-
nominating a member of the said committee ; and that a meet-
tugal, Spain, and Italy, it is ,served up iu a dish. In
he principal food of the people,
ing of such committee be held in this room on the 10th of
and it is now extensively used in Ireland. It improves on
January next." It was alio agreed that Mr. William Cleaver, acquaintance, as wherever it has been introduced the sale
clerk of the West Derby Union, he requested to act as hono-
rapidly increases. Indian-corn flour, therefore, if adopted in
Great Britain, will tend to reduce the price of wheat flour
rary secretary to the committee, A vote of thanks to the
materially, Mark-lane Eapress,
chairman closed the proceedings.

THE QUEEN has conferred the appointment of Military
Knight of Windsor upon Captain Loggan, late of the 7th

Fusiliers.

ALL the Austrian Army is about to be provided with new
Mini 6 rifles of different sizes, according to the different

branches of the service,

THE bakers at Oxford, on Thursday, reduced the price of
bread id. per loaf; the best bread is now selling there at 81d.
per loaf, and seconds at Bd.
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WE believe the Hon. Mr. Byng has this week been ap-
pointed the chairman of the board of directors of the South-
eastern Railway.—Herapath's Journal.
ME. LABOUCHERE has appointed Lord Sandon to be his
private secretary. Mr. W. F. Higgins, (of the Colonial-office),
who has acted since Sir W. Molesworth's death, will resume
his duties as private secretary to Mr. Ball.
HER MAJESTY has commissioned Mr. E. M. Ward, R.A.,
to paint a cartoon (the exact size of which is not yet fixed)
representing the installation of the Emperor Napoleon as a
knight of the order of the garter. The scene is, of course, at
Windsor Castle, and the picture will include portraits of the
Queen, the Empress, the -Princess Royal, Viscountess
Canning, and other ladies of the court, besides those of the
Emperor, Prince Albert, and several knights and officers of
the order.

The Aberdeen Herald states that a few days ago a young
man, with a horse and gig, while turning, at a part of the
road which overhangs at the height of full forty feet the
water of Catterline, slipped over the precipice, horse, gig, and
man throwing a somersault in the air, and then falling crash
to the bottom of the gulf. The horse was killed ; but, strange
to say, the young man escaped without a scratch, On being
asked what he thought of when going over, he said, "I shut
my eyes and held fast."
RAJAH BROOICE.—The Times publishes a Foreign Office
document which, as will be seen by the following extract,
completely exonerates Sir James Brooke from the charges
brought-against him :—" The inquiry, which has ended in the
exculpation of Sir J. Brooke from the charges made against
him, has, at the same time, brought to light abundant evidence
of the beneficial results of his administration of the affairs of
Sarawak, which are exhibited by the establishment of confi-
dence and the increase of trade, and are such as to deserve
the approbation of her Majesty's Government." _

AN iron staam-vessel called the Florence Nightiugale was
launched at Hartlepool on Tuesday.

MDLLE. JULIE, whose clothes caught fire during the per-
fcrmances at the Plymouth Theatre, on the 20th ult., died on
Sunday, aged nineteen years.
COINING BY AIR POWER.-It is not generally known
that the whole of the gold and silver coins of England are
struck by atmospheric pressure, or, in other words, that the
air we breathe coins our money.
MRssßs. NEWILL and Co., of Gateshead, the wire-rope
manufacturers, are engaged in making a telegraphic line of
upwards of 800 miles in length, which will unite Constanti-

nople and Alexandria.
A. WELL-SINKER, who had a quantity of powder in his
pocket for blasting purposes, went into a smithy at Shrews-
bury, and while there a piece of hot iron flew into his pocket
and ignited the powder. He was much:burnt, though not

seriously.
AT the Gloucester assizes, on Thursday, Elizabeth Ken-
nedy, aged 30, described as a market woman, was charged
with the wilful murder of her husband, by throwing a stone
at him which struck him on the head, and caused concussion
of the brain. She was found guilty of manslaughter, and
sentenced to two years' hard labour.
Cnowx PROPERTY.—We are informed, from good authority
that there is Crown property in the county of Durham worth
£lOO,OOO, from which the government do not, and never have,
received a farthing revenue. How such a state of things
exists seems to be a fit subject for a searching inquiry.—
Durham County Advertiser.
RIISSIA.I4I RECRUITING.—The general levy is now going
on iu Poland, and the peasants are driven as is game at
a battue. Poland is one great theatre of misery ; but the
peasants have begun to display the energy of despair, and
refuse to work for the proprietors gratuitously. The same
insubordination is said to prevail in several Russian provinces.
SOME English sailors encountered a party of Chinese sea-
men in Shadwell, a few days ago, and commenced pulling them
about. One of them cut off the tail of one of the Chinese,
which so exasperated his messmates that they drew their
knives and attacked their'ass6ilants. The Chinese, however,
got rather the worst of it. One was killed, and. an English
sailor was severely wounded in the breast.
ANOTHEE MISSING CLERGYMAN.—Considerable anxiety
has, we believe, been occasioned in certain circles in Edin-
burgh by the unaccountable disappearance of the incumbent
I of an Episcopalian chapel in this city. The rev. gentleman,
who became settled here at a comparatively recent period, left
his residence about the middle of last month, and has never
since been heard of.— Scottish Press.
AT the Court of Queen's Bench, on Wednesday, by the
consent of the parties, an action was tried and decided by the
judge alone. By a recent statute it is provided that in cases
where both the plaintiff and defendant should consent to
have the cause decided by the judge alone, the judge should
have the power to dispense with a jury and try the cause him-
self.
THE Montreal Gazette states that the Hudson's Bay Com-
pany have guaranteed to the Russian authorities the unmo-
lested possession of the Russian territory upon the American
continent while the war shall last, upon conditions that the
posts and trading operations of the former in the neighbour-
hood of that territory shall continue during the same period
to be free from attack by the latter.

MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—Mrs. Buller, of Downes,
near Crediton, wife of J. W. Buller, Esq., chairman of the
Bristol and Exeter Railway, was on Wednesday at the Exeter
station, about to return to Downes by the 3.30 p.m. train, and
was awaiting the departure of the train, when she broke a
blood-vessel. Dr. Miller was immediately sent for, and on
his arrival he found Mrs. Buller in too dangerous a condition
to be removed. She consequently remained in the waiting-
room, which was fitted up for her accommodation, until Satur-
day, when she expired. It is said that this is the second time
the same vessel has given way, which increased the anxiety
felt by the numerous and distinguished relatives and friends
of this amiable lady.
.I'ln EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND Mn.-STAFFORD.—The
Emperor Napoleon has addressed a letter to Mr. Angustus
Stafford, M.P., for his attention to the French soldiers sick on
board the Etna, on her voyage to the East. The Emperor
says .:—" They testify the most enlightened solicitude on your
part, and I thank you for it. But your incessant care for our
soldiers, attacked as they were by cholera during the whole
passage, your self-denial, your courage, the perilous forgetful-
ness of yourself in presence of the epidemic—everything in
your conduct, presents a rare example of devotedness to your
'fellow-creatures. Already you have obtained the most pleasing
recompense in those letters in which the officers and soldiers
I of the different corps express to you their adMiration and
their gratitude. And lam happy to add to it the expression
of my own gratitude, and of my sentiments of high esteem for
Iron."
MEMORIAL WINDOWS.—The following, on a brass tablet,
is about to be put up on the east wall'of St. Michael's Church,
•Coventry :—" The three easternmost windows of this apse
have been filled with stained glass, to the glory of Almighty
God and in memory of Adelaide, Queen-Dowager, widow of
His Majesty King William IV. The centre window was the
gift of the Right Hon. E. Ellice, M.P., as a memorial of his
long connexion with the city of Coventry as one of its repre-
sentatives." A memorial window in St. Michael's Church is
also decided on as a mark of respect to the late lamented and
• much respected Colonel Hood, who fell in the cause- of his
country in the trenches before Sebastopol. Of all, testimonials,
a memorial window is known to be most in accordance with
the wishes of the family and the views of the late colonel, who
had a great objection to disfiguring churches by ugly monu-
ments. The late Colonel Hood was a regular and devout
worshipper at St. Michael's, his parish church.—Coventry
Standard.
INTELLIGENT SAVAGES. —At the last meeting of the
Asiatic Society, the Secretary, on behalf of the council, sub-
mitted to the meeting the name of the chief king of Siam, and
that of his brother and subordinate prince, for election as
honorary members of the society. The claim of these royal
personages consisted in their protection of the interests of
science, and in their own personal attainments. The head
king was a proficient in the Pali and Sanscrit languages, and
had' acquired a" considerable acquaintance with Latin and
English. The second king is stated by Sir John Bowring to
speak and write English with ease and correctness. Both are
astronomers, able to take an observation and work an eclipse ;
and the second king is also a chemist and mechanician. Both
have written letters to the Queen in English which are credi-
table performances. The head king has entered into a treaty
of amity and commerce with this country, which gives Eng-
lishmen a Tight to hold land and to be governed by their own
laws in Siam, and grants other valuable privileges—thus
opening up to our enterprise a country which has hardly been
less shut to us than China itself. Their majesties were unani-
mously elected.
TLIE PEACEMAKER.—For some time the mechanical in-
genuity of Mr. Robert Sandiford, of Woolfold, near Bury, has
been taxed to invent a machine, possessing such power of
destructiveness that it might be used in the field of battle with
great effect. It was to be capable of firing with great pre-
cision a considerable number of shots per minute, and to be so
constructed that it could be recharged in a moment and pre-
pared for another volley. It was to be so portable that it
could be moved at pleasure, and conveyed from one point of
attack to another with great celerity. He named it the
"Peaceinaker" from an impression that- its use would be
attended with such death-producing consequences that war
would become a game which neither kings nor subjects would
like to play at. Having made a model and satisfied himself
that the machine would answer the purpose intended, he went
to the'foundry to order the requisite castings;'but while there
began to consider whether it would be consistent with
Christian duty to invent a machine the object of which was to
destroy human life. The result was, he left the foundry with-
out ordering the castings, and has since abandoned, from con-
scientious motives, the project altogether.

A ziEW and very ingenious mode of " sweating" sovereigns
has come into vogue. Instead of being clipped or filed, they
are put under a stamping machine, which cuts off the edges
and leaves a new milling quite perfect. About three shillings'
worth of gold is thus taken from a sovereign at the first
operation. The smallness of the size is the only mode of
detecting the defaced coin.
THE LATE SIR RICHARD SUTTON, No:folk, has left
£lO,OOO a-year to his second son, Mr. Richard Sutton, of
Skeffington-hall ; £lO,OOO to each of his younger sons, and
£30,000 to each of his surviving daughters. All the rest of
his immense property goes to his eldest son. It is said that
the property in the parish of St. James's, Westminster, alone,
amounted to £40,000 a-year.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE Icz.—Many persons ventured
upon the ice in St. James's-park on Thursday, although it was
in a dangerous condition. In the afternoon, while numbers
of persons, chiefly boys, were skating or sliding near Buck-
ingham-gate, the ice gave way, and several persons were im-
mersed in the water. They were, however, all recovered,
except one lad, with whom the methods used to restore life
were unsuccessful. The body was taken to St. Margaret's
workhouse.

A DRUNKARD DECLARED LUNATIC.— Mr. Gerard is a
gentleman of independent fortune in Elgin. He is in the
habit of getting drunk. Though _ perfectly rational when
sober, he is very violent when drunk,arming himself with a
gun and' three pistols, and threatening to shoot those who
come near him. Besides this, lie accuses his wife of wishing
to poison him, and gets up plots in order to make his servants
be suspected of theft. Upon the evidence of such facts as
these, and on a medical certificate of his state of mind, the
sheriff-substitute of Elgin directed the committal of Gerard
to a lunatic asylum as a furious person, dangerous to the
lieges, under the 4th and sth of Victoria, chap. 60, secs. 3 and
5 ; and he is now in Morningtide Asylum. On this he applied
to the High Court of Justiciary to set aside the order of the
sheriff-substitute. Of the five judges present at the hearing
of the case on Saturday last, two were in favour of setting
aside the order of the sheriff-substitute, and three in favour
of sustaining it. The order is, therefore, sustain ed.—Sao tsma n.
TIIE FIRST AUSTRALIAN MAN-01,WAR.—On Saturday, a
strange craft was seen _ steaming rapidly up Southampton-
Wafer. She was a man-of-war screw-sloop, of a most beautiful
model. She had on board three 63-pounders, weighing 56 cwt.
each, and was pierced for eight guns. The smartness of her
officers and crew, and the order and cleanliness on board, re-
sembled what is seen on board a British man-of-war. The
uniform of the officers was precisely like that of the officers of
the Royal Navy, only the bands, buttons, and lace were of sil-
ver, instead of fold. She proved to be a Victoria (Australia)
man-of-war, being- the pioneer of the Victoria navy. She is
quite new, having been built by Young, Son, and Magnay, of
London. She is mahogany built, on the diagonal principle.
Her tonnage is 580, and her engines (which were manufactured
by Rennie) are o f 150 horse-power. She is commanded by
Captain Norman, late Commander of the Screw Company's-
steamer Queen of the South, a most efficient officer: Her speed
is about thirteen knots. She called at Southampton on her•
way to Australia, to take in two cows, for Sir Charles Hotham,
the Governor of Victoria.
MELANCHOLY COINCIDENCE.—It may be in the recollec-
tion of our readers that the wife of Dr. Blackwell, of Cran-
- brook, Kent, died in the present year, a few months after
making a claim for one of the Dunmow flitches that were
presented in July last by W. H. Ainsworth, Esq. There
seems to be a fatality attending the claim, as the secretary to
the committee has received a communication from a claimant,
residing at Greenwich, and who, if life had been spared to
his wife, and they had received the flitch in 1856, had.
promised to supply a similar prize to any other party who
might be entitled on some future occasion. The communica-
tion is as follows :—" Greenwich, December 7, 1855.. Dear
Sir, It is my painful duty to inform you of the decease of my.
beloved wife ; the claim will therefore be open to others.
How true it is the fairest flowers are first culled. She
was a beautiful creature in person, mind, and dispoSition.
Had she been spared till next July, Dunmow would have had
a visit from us. With best thanks for your prompt and
courteous replies to my letters, I am, &c., P. RICE." Thus,
in the short space of one year, death has deprived two loving
husbands of their partners, and we may fairly ask, what lady
will now be bold enough to claim the flitch, when death
stands ready to claim:the claimant
SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE-SHOW.—This annual exhibi-
tion was opened on Tuesday, in Baker-street, London. Better
animals than those which won the principal prizes, whether in
cattle, sheep, or pigs, were never seen, but there was an almost
total absence of competition. The falling off iu the exhibi-
tion numerically may in some measure be accounted for by
the fact of the Birmingham club holding its annual show this
year on the same days. Amongst the cattle the Herefords
obtained the highest commendation. In the department of
Devons, Prince Albert was the winner of not less than three
prizes, two of £lO for steers, and one of £2O for 'cows. The
first prizes for Herefords were won by Mr. Isaac Niblett, of
Filton, near Bristol; Mr. W. Heath of Ludhani-hall, near
Norwich ; Mr. Joseph Phillips, of Ardlington, near \Vantage;
and Mr. J. H. Gurney, of Catton-hall, near Norwich. Here
again, however, Prince Albert was a successful exhibitor, his
three years and eleven months Hereford ox taking a prize of
£lO. An ox, the property of the Marquis of Exeter, to which
was adjudged the gold medal, a prize of £25, and a silver
medal, was a splendid animal, of symmetrical proportions.
In the Welsh class of cattle there was a decided improvement,
so much so as to give reason to suppose that-this description
of stock will eventually become as useful as the Scotch. The
Leicester sheep also showed an improvement, while the South
Downs were considered as good as breeders may ever hope to
see. There were a few good pens of pigs. The Prince Con-
sort was a successful exhibitor of these animals, and carried
off two £lO prizes. The other exhibitors included the Earl
of Radnor, Sir John Cathcart, Mr. S. Druce, Mr. Stewart
Marjoribanks, Sir J. B. Mill, and 31r. George Turpin, One
characteristic of the show of pigs was, that there were fewer
instances of excessive feeding than usual. There was one fat
monster, however, the property of Mr. John Scott, of White-
wall, Malton, Yorkshire, which was computed to weigh about 66
stone, or upwards of Bcwt. The annual dinner was held on
Wednesday, when a testimonial was presented to Mr. Brand-
reth Gibbs, the honorary secretary, consisting of three pieces
of ornamental plate, weighing 536 ounces, and of £360
value.

A FEMALE JACK SHEPPARD.—A young woman has just
been committed for trial at Walsall, whose proceedings show
her to be skilled in the tricks of imposture, and manifest that
she has attained considerable efficiency in the " science" for
which Jack Sheppard was notorious. Arrested about two
months ago on a charge of felony, she counterfeited sickness
so successfully that, under the impression that she was suffer-
ing from fits, she was sent from the police-station to the work-
. house,-where, in the sick ward, she remained: for some time
-attended by the unsuspecting surgeon of the Union. On the
morning, however, when she was to appear before the magis-
trates on her first hearing, he left her bed atan early hour,
tore up one of the sheets into shreds, and made a linen rope by
uniting the ends of each shred. One end of the rope thus
made she fa.stenedto the baluster of the stairs, threw the other
end out of the window, and, dressed only in a blanket and a
pair of slippers, she descended by the torn sheet into the yard,
when she escaped from the premises over a refuse pit and
through a hole in the boundary wall near to it. A vigilant
search proved ineffectual to her recovery ; and she was heard
,no more of until, about a month since, the superintendent of
.:.the Walsall Police saw her-at the Stafford Railway Station in
..,the custody of a policeman, who was conveying her to the
county gaol, for a month's imprisonment for vagrancy in the
.P,otteries. Upon her liberation she was again brought to
.Walsall. In the lock-up there, at seven o'clock on Sunday
evening, she was seen by the warden safe in her cell. Imme-
diately after he left her she commenced pulling out the fire
from the grate, and, to prevent herself from being burnt, un-
dressed and placed her clothing -where the fire had just been.
Sbethen removed a portion of the masonry of the gate, made
atiothdr rope by tearing her shawl to pieces, and then, uniting
the lengths together, she commenced ascending the chimney
.in a-state of nudity. She had ascended about twelve feet when
-she. round her further progress prevented by an iron bar which
ran.aeress the flue. Having at her command no instrument
with whith she could remove this obstacle, she was compelled
to return to her cell, where, in about another hour, she was
found sitting sullenly wrapped in a blanket. She resolutely
,refused-to-re-dress, and by command of the superintendent
.passed thelest of the night upon the stretcher. The offence
for .which-she was committed was the common one of stealing
.wearing apparel. Before the magistrates she said nothing in
.her defence.

Work
CLERGYMAN ',on FORGERY. At the
Tork assizes,before Mr. Baron Martin, the Rev. Wm. Beres-
ford, aged.s6,.was indicted for having, on the 4th of Novem-
ber, 1848, at Bradford, uttered a forged indorsement of a bill
for MO, with ;intent to defraud Samuel Laycock. At the
end of October, :IS4B, the prisoner called at the bank of the
Bradford Banking, ompany, at Bradford, and said he was the
Rev, Nir, Beresford. He, then tendered a bill for £lOO to be
discounted. Mr. Layeock, the manager, told the prisoner that
he was a perfect stranger to the bank, and that before the bill
could be discounted, ,some name should be introduced whom
.the bank knew. The prisoner mentioned Mr. Kaye, of Man-
ningham-lodge, and Mr. J. C: Kaye, of Fairfield-hall, his son,
and Mr. Layeock replied that the introduction of Mr. Kaye,
or his indorsement, would be satisfactory. In a few days
afterwards the prisoner again called at the bank to inquire if
a letter was lying there for him, and as there was not he went
-away, and called again a third time. In the meantime a letter
lad arrived, out of which the prisoner took the alleged forged
bill, and presented it to be discounted, which was done; the
prisoner had been on a visit to Mr. 'Kaye's, and also at his
son's, the latter of whom he had asked to discount the bill in
question for him for £l.OO, but Mr. Kaye refused, and never
gave authority for his name to be inserted on the bill. In
April last Mr. J. C. Kaye met the prisoner in Regent-street,
- London, • and said,- -" -Mr. Beresford ?" The - prisoner re-
plied, " Yes, " and Mr. Kaye then said, " I am afraid I
shall have to place you in the hands of the police." The
prisoner inquired Mr. Kaye's name, and on being told it
lie immediately said, " Have mercy upon me," and added
that if Mr. Kaye would go with him to a Mr. Moss that
the money should be paid to the bank, but Mr. Kaye de-
clined to accompany him. It appeared that after Mr. Kaye's
name had been mentioned at the bank, the prisoner wrote to
Mr. Kaye thanking him for his hospitality, and inquiring
whether he (the prisoner) had left a letter at his house.' He
required an answer by return of post, and it was suggested on
the part of the prosecution that he had done this in order to
imitate more effectually the handwriting of Mr. Kaye. When
the bill was presented to Mr. Layeock, that gentleman was
scrutinising the signature of Mr. Kaye, when the prisoner
stated that he was ill, and had written the indorsement in
bed, which would probably account for the signature not re-
sembling very exactly his usual handwriting. The prisoner
then received £99 6s. in cash, Mr. Laycock retaining 14s. for
discount. It was stated during the trial that the prisoner is
brother to General Beresford, now Adjutant-general in India,
and cousin to Lord Decies and next heir to that title, and
holds• a living in Cork. The jury found the prisoner guilty.
Mr. Baron Martin, in passing sentence, said the prisoner had
been most properly convicted, on the most clear and satisfac-
tory evidence that could be well adduced, of having uttered
the endorsement of Mr. Kaye, knowing it to be forged. The
prisoner best knew whether or not this was the first forgery
be had uttered.. The sentence of the court was that be be
transported for the period of his natural life. The prisoner,
who appeared surprised at the extent of the sentence, had to
be assisted from the dock.

A GOLD EXPLORING EXPEDITION IN SPAIN.—In a letter
just received from Madrid we find the following interesting
narrative :—" An English engineer, representing a company
of English capitalists, has just returned here from an expedi-
tion to the Sierra Nevada. He has been chipping away with
his hammer among the rocky heights of the Mulahacen, and
the diadem of snow which decks the brows of El Picacho de
la Veleta, the watch point. Both of these mountains rise
to nearly 12,000 feet above the level of the sea, and have long
been supposed to hutch in their loins mineral wealth. It was
from them that the Moors extracted the iron with which they
forged those blades at Toledo which kept the Spaniards at bay
for eight centuries ; it was, possibly, from the same sources,
that they procured the gold with which they adorned the
mosques at Granada, and the fairy-like tracery of the Court
of Lions at the Alhambra, in which the ruffian plunderer
stabled the steeds of his remorseless dragoons, where his name
is still held in the same execration as Murat's at Madrid, and
Bonaparte's at the Kremlin. Great difficulties were expe-
rienced in traversing the inaccessible regions, which are clad
in eternal snow. The Neveros, or men who go up during the
night for snow, wherewith to cool the parched palates of the
luxurious Granada folks—as \Witham lake >does for your
luxurious Londoners—these men have worn a path with their
mules as far as el Cortigo del Riche ; but after that the engi-
neer had to explore the way on foot. The report which has
been brought back is full of promise ; these mountains do
assuredly contain mineral wealth to an enormous extent,
which may be extracted at a small cost, where labour is
cheap, and capital unknown. I know of no scenery more
noble than these Alpine regions of Spain. From the Pichaco
you look down the yawning precipice, and "there you see the
blue Mediterranean coiling in crystalline foldcso,lwd
sublimityitlAfrica in
f
the background. As Mr. Ford says, `The
these silent eternal snows is fully felt on the pinnacle'of the
Alps, which stands out in friendless state, isolated like a
despot. On this barren windblown height vegelatTirn7and life
have ceased—even the least lichen and pale violet, which
wastes its sweetness wherever a stone offers shelter from the
snow. Thousands of winged insects lie shrouded on that
wreath, eaelein its little cell, having thawed itself a grave
with its last warmth of life. In the scarped and soil-divided
heights the eagle builds—she must have mountains for her
eyrie—here she remains unmolested on her stony throne.' But
the bird of Jove is now likely to be molested by the Auri
sacra fames, which drives those who are afflicted with it into
the bowels of the harmless earth, and to the pinnacles of
Alpine solitudes."

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