The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-08-21 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

GENERAL • INTELLIGENCE.

THE Journal des Debats announces the death of M. Ma-
riani, one of the triumvirs of the late Roman republic, with
Garibaldi and Mazzini.
THE WYD steam-ship is now fitting at Portsmouth, under
the superintendence of Mr. Grant, the controller of the victu-
alling department, for the purpose of supplying the army in
the Crimea with distilled water. At a late trial, 1,400 gallons
of pure water were produced in ninety minutes.
A PARTY, consisting of a young Englishman named Ramsay
and six guides, has just effected the ascent of Mont Blanc from
Cormayem, on the Italian side. For more than fifty years
attempts have been made to ascend from the southern side of
the mountain, but, till now, without success.
THE MELBOURNE PAPERS notice the production of a vine-
yard, the property of Mr. Belperrond, which this season pro-
duced twelve tons of grapes and five thousand gallons of colo-
nial or white wine, which is extremely pleasant, and, without
containing the heat of sherry, is something of the lemon
flavour, and of a light character.
ADVICES from Madeira tell a lamentable tale. The disease
in the vine threatens to utterly exterminate the plants. No
wine has been made for three years, and there will be none
this. Attempts are in progress to introduce the sugar-cane;
but it is feared that they will meet at best with only a partial
success.

Two POLICEMEN went to the Great Western Railway
works at New Swindon last week, to serve a summons on an
operative named Smith, whom they found attending to a
steam-engine. No sooner was Smith aware of their intention
than, raising the safety valve, the place was instantly en-
veloped in impenetrable mist; when the vapour had cleared
away Smith had vanished also.
THE WIFE or A BRICKLAYER, of Grimstone, Norfolk, was
proceeding to church with her little boy, three years and a
half old, on Sunday se'nnight, along a road lined with trees,
when a storm came on, and she took him up in her arms and
went along with an umbrella over her head. Suddenly, when
near a tree, the lightning struck her at the feet, and she felt
her strength instantaneously gone, and became unconscious.
The electric fluid passed down the tree, which it tore as it
passed along the ground to the woman's feet, tearing open
her boots, then up her body as far as her breast, into the
child which was held there, and killed it.
GEORGE HENRY SMITH, formerly postmaster of Jersey,
who shot his wife at Rochester a year ago, and was sent to a
madhouse, has been brought up for trial at the Maidstone
assizes. Evidence showed that he had always, up to the time
of destroying her, treated his wife with extravagant kindness ;
that he had been considered insane for a long time, and only
released from an asylum because his friends had not money to
maintain him. The jury acquitted him, and the usual order
was made for his confinement during her Majesty's pleasure.
MESSRS. STRAHAN, PAIJL, AND BATES appeared at Bow-
street on Wednesday, and further evidence was taken respett-
ing the Dutch bonds, which had only been partially traced at
the-last examination, when the prisoners were remanded. -It
was understood that no further 'evidence would be brought
forward before September. Mr. Bates was liberated on bail,
the names being Mr. Anderton, Bridge-street, Blaekfriars,
and Mr. W. Bates, father of the prisoner, (a Liverpool *mer-
chant, residing in London.)
THE case of Maurice Aaronson, a Jew insolvent, was to
-come on on the 13th Sept., -in the Insolvent Court; but on
Monday an application was made to delay the hearing on the
ground that " the 13th and-14th of that month were'the com-
mencement of the new year, and the season of prayers would
not he concluded before the 22nd of the month, when the
White Fastwoild take place? The Chief Commissioner, re-
marking that he never heard of an insolvent Jew objecting to
be discharged during the period, appointed the-11th as the day
for hearing.
THE WX.SEMAN CASE. —On the calling ontf the thirdtrial
of the case Boyle v. Wiseman, at the Croydon aasizes, on Mon-
day last, a consultation took place, and it was presently
announcedethat an arrangement had been made, and the action
abandoned. •The-Daily-News tells us—" It transpired after-
wards that the terms were, that the defendant is to pay £lOO
towards the costs of theabortive trial at Guildford, and the
whole of the taxed- costs of the trial at Kingston, and the pre-
sent action; and it was arranged between the -counsel, that en
apology, or retractation, should be demanded -or given. The
costs to be paid, it was said, would amount to nearly £1,200."
SERIOVS Aeon :men—There was a fete. at Cremorne Gar-
dens on Monday last, intended to represent the "At-
tack on the Mamelon Vert, and Capture of the Rifle-pits;"
the proceeds to be-:given in aid of the Wellington College.
Five hundred real soldiers were allowed to be present to take
their part in the representation. Just -as the Mamelon was
supposed to be captured, the stage erected for the advance
gave way beneath the weight of the soldiery, many of whom
were precipitated-to the ground, a distance of twelve or fifteen
feet, and in the fall sesergeant of the Grenadiers sustained a
compound fracture of the leg ; another man was taken up in-
sensible from internal injury; a third -had a bayonet run
through his cheek ; and about twenty-free had to he conveyed
to the military hospital in Rochester-row, Westminster. No
case isnhowever, likely to end fatally.
THE ZUYDER ZEE,—Within the last few months Holland
has become possessed, of another province, rescued from the
waters.; the last allotment of the ground over which the Sea
of Haarlem recently washed was sold a few days ago. The
groundihus saved to -the country will form excellent arable
and pasture land. English engines and .English engineers
were •employed to drain this territory, which contains nearly
20,000 acres of land, and, in its present uncultivated state, has
fetched nearly 8,000,000 florins. Serious thoughts are now
being entertained as to the drainage of the Zuyder Zee. But
there are difficulties attending this undertaking which were
unknown in draining- the Sea of Haarlem. The Zusder Zee
is fed by five communications with the North Sea. It would
not be altogether beyond the reach -of engineering skill to
meet these difficulties, but they would be- attended with im-
mense expense. The money, nevertheless, could be found, but
it is doubted whether the ground, when drained, would be
anythir.nbut sand.
THE NATIONAL DEFENCES.—WGrks for-the defence of the
south-west coast of the Isle of Wight have been commenced.
at Freshwater. A trench, thirty feet wide and deep, now
cuts off a portion of Freshwater Cliff from the main land:;
01l dinefietnedd.
the south and east sides- of the separated. cliff face. the sea.
tAh eb trencharra a Loiermfotrhaetelaid
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eight heavy_ guns, three of which will command Freshwater
.diffr rifilevraillenbwe
Bay, three •others will be
_;pointed seaward,. and two swivels
will command the east and west end portions of the works.
The neighbouring hills will be sloped to enable the guns to
command Watcomb Bay. The parade ground, which leads
to the guns and to the trench barrack, the western end of the
cliff, and both-sides of the trench, will be protected by earthern
embankments, after the Russian plan at Sebastopol. The
,caves at the bottom of Freshwater Cliff, which have • been
visited by thousands of tourits, will all be moiled :up. In order
to effectually guard the entrance to the Solent Sea an attempt
;has been made to fortify the outer Needles rock, at the south-
western point of the Isle of Wight, but 't has-been found
impracticable..
insllE EAST LANCASHIRE RATT.WAY.—On Wednesday, the
half-yearly meeting of the East Lancashire Railway Company
was held at Bury, under the presidency of Mr. Dugdale, the
chairman. After reading the report, the chairman -said the
capital account for the half-year amounted to 1,27,2P5,.and he
thought that the steady maintenance of the passenger traffic
and the increase in the goods traffic.afforded reason for addi-
tional-confidence in the future value of the line. Of the2,ooo
ti per cent. preference shares, representing a• capital of
£lOO,OOO, which at their last meeting were authorised to be
raised,. 14,830 shares, representing £74,180, had been issued,
and the remainder were an the hands of the company. The
loans had been increased :by £20,348 95.96 d. He expressed his
regret at the competition with the Lancashire and Yorkshire
Company as to the Southport traffic, and *aid that the direct-
ors were unanimously of opinion that the company should not
become joint, owners of the Liverpool dock branch, the cost of
which would not be much less than £400,000. The share-
holders would be glad to learn-that the traffic of the half-year
;bad been carried on without a single accidentto any passenger.
The report was ,unanimously adopted, as was also a motion
declaring a dividend at the rate •of six per cent. per annum on
the six per cent.. capital ; of six per .cent. on the amount called
up on the preference fifths shares.; of four-and-a-half per cent.
on •the ,mount called up ou the four-and-a-half per cent.
,pre-
ference shares, and of three-and-a-half per cent.. on the ordi-
narystock of the company.—The proceedings terminated with
the usual compliment to the chairman.

DWETaINGS FOR Tg.T.3 POOL—Last week, the chairman and
committee of the Society for Improving-the Condition of the
LabouringClasses invited theirfriends andsupporters to inspect
Wild-eourt, Drury-lane, London. This property was pur-
chased by the society in November last, and was then in a
condition of Filth baffling description. Since December last,
however, sixteen cesspools have been cleared out from Wild-
court, and from 140 to 150 loads of night-soil carted away ;
and 330 to 350 loads of accumulated filth, animal and vegetable
matter, carried out of the basements. The vermin and filth
between and under the floors and in the cellars were so over-
powering that the men engaged in removing it on one ocea-
zion struck. All the ,houses are now supplied with a water-
closet, water, and a dust-bin or box (which communicates with
a shaft that carries everything to the basement receptacle) on
every floor. The rooms were found, on inspection, in admir-
able ,order, and in a state of perfect cleanliness ; and the Earl
of Shaftesbury states that he visits these people occasionally
without giving them any notice, and that he finds the same
cleanliness and order prevailing. There are at present eighty-
three families occupying ninety-two rooms, The arrears of

rent up to the 6th instant were only 13s. sd. The society are
now about to "attack" a horrible place in Gray's-inn-lane,
called Tyndale's-building% where one house has sent twenty
eases to the fever hospital. After slightly reducing the rents,
the society calculate on an interest of 12 per cent, on the out-
lay in Wild-court.
LONDON AND NORTS-WESTERN RAILWAY.—The half-
yearly meeting of this company was herd on Wednesday, in the
Euston-square station, the Marquis of Chandos in the chair.
From the report, which was read by Mr. Booth, the secretary,
it appeared that tie receipts from passengers, parcels, and mails
for the half year amounted to 2680,678, against £710,072 iu
the corresponding half year of 1854, showing a decrease on this
source of revenue of £29,394. The receipts from merchandise
were £670,255—(being an increase of £86,413 over the receipts
of the corresponding half year of 1854), making a total of
£1,350,933. The working expenses were £563,473. The
falling off in the passenger traffic might be attributed in part
to the effect of the increased taxation in consequence of the war,
but principally to the opening throughout of the Great West-
ern Company's extensions to the north. The report stated that
the company had a disposable balance in hand of £542,815 2s. Bd.
out of which the directors recommended a dividend of £2 7s. ed..
per cent. for the lastsix month s,leavinga balance of £6,95015. 6d.
to be carried to the next half year's accounts.—The chairman,
in moving the adoption of the report, regretted the falling off
of the passenger traffic which had taken place,. even at the
stations near London, where they had no competition. They
must, however, look to the opening of some new lines compet-
ing with them. The amalgamations entered into last year
had been, as the directors said they would be, injurious to this
company's interests, as the traffic was thereby diluted, and,
singular enough, the traffic taken from one line was not always
realised on the other lines. After an allusion to the increase
of traffic, and the necessity of the reduction of the working ex-
penses, he expressed his regret at the loss of the North Stafford-
shire amalgamation bill.—After considerable discussion on the
subject of the debenture debt, the running of excursion trains,
to the injury of the regular Ones, &c., a motion, proposed by
Mr. Hadfield, M.P., was agreed to, appointing a committee of
shareholders to consult withthe directors.— Several shareholders
contended that the fares ought to be increased, and one gentle-
man suggested that the fare of 30s. to Liverpool should be in-
^reased to 40s.—On the motion of Mr. Batson, seconded by.
_M.P., t,ile Marquis of Chandos was appointed perma-
f the company, a
nent chairmen t a salary of £2,000 per
annum. The 1)141304 of the meeting then terminated,

.Dingenes, one of the most successful rivals to Punch, has
ceased to exist.

A RAILWAY is to be made from the Danube to the Austrian
frontiers in the Buckowina.
A RABBIT'S leg was found in the stomach of a ling which
was caught, a few days ago, by a Caithnesshire fishing-boat.
POSTAGE LABELS of the value of 10d. will no longer be issued.
The following are the labels now in use :—Penny labels, two-
penny ditto, fourpenny ditto, sixpenny ditto, and shilling ditto.
One in every six of the men, women, and children of New-
castle is a pauper, and the total number of paupers in the town
exceeds 16,000.
THERE has been a serious affray at Reading between the
Royal Bucks Militia, quartered in that town, and the police.
One of the police has received two or three bayonet wounds,
and several others are seriously injured.
MR. RICHARD COTTALL, an American gentleman of inde-
pendent fortune, aged 30, died in London on Wednesday from
the effects of an overdose of acetate of morphia. A coroner's
jury found that there was no evidence to prove whether de-
ceased had committed suicide or not.
The East India Company want tenders, on Wednesday, for
the transport of 110 tons of dead weight, and 130 tons of
measurable goods, to Madras; also, for about twenty marine
boys to Bombay, to embark between the 15th and 29th of
September.
LADIES of different classes of society in St. Petersburg bare
formed themselves into a society for the succour of widows and
orphans of officers and soldiers employed in the defence of the
capital and the shores of the Baltic.
Ax ACT, which received the royal assent on Tuesday, alters
the property qualification for officers of militia. The qualifica-
tions now are :—Colonel, £6OO a-year ; lieut.-colonel, £4OO ;
major, £3OO ; and captain, £2OO. The qualifications are not
to apply to the city of London nor to the city of Edinburgh
militia.

NCCIDENV TO A SOLDIER.—On Thursday morning, a fright-
ful accident occurred to William Harding, aged 26 years, be-
, longing to the Royals, lying at Winchester, who had leave of
absence to come to London. It appears that the man had some
blank cartridges in one of his pockets, and while he was smok-
ing his pipe in Battersea-fields, some fire fell from it, and an
explosion took place, injuring him severely. He remains in a
precarious state.
A MIN ENGULPHED iN A QUICKSAND.—On Friday last,
several persons went from Sunderland over to the sands at the
entrance of Jarrow Slake, to dredge for shrimps. Among
them was a man named Bartram. He was dredging on the
sands at some distance from The rest when he was suddenly
'heard to exclaim, "Lord Jesus, save us," and the next moment
he was engulphed in a dangerous quicksand.—His body has
not been found.—Sunderland Times.
SINGULAR CASE OE STINGING TO DEATH.-011 Thursday
-week as Mr. W. Ledson, miller, of Fylingdales, was going his
usual round, he had occasion to leave his ass and pony for a
short time fastened "to a gate, near one of the farm houses.
On his return he'found the two animals so severely stung by
bees from the hives in a garden close by, that the ass died on
the following morning, and great fears were entertained for the
recovery of the pony. It is now, however, going on favourably.
—Yorkshite Gazette.
Mass MITEORD.—A few gentlemen have proposed 'to erect
to the memory of Mary Russell Mitford, authoress 'of " Our
Village," some memorial which shall testify to the respect
entertained by• many, not only in England but in America,
for her literary talents and private virtues. It is loped that
funds may be provided for erecting a plain monument over her
grave in the churchyard of that village which she has made
famous by her presence and her writings ; and for building, if
possible, a. school in the sameparish, to be dedicated by name
to her memory.
ROMAN DUCKS AND GRESIL—The Paris correspondent of
the Morning Post says I observe the Papal journals of.
Italy are continually spreading false reports about the Sardi-
nian forces in the Crimea. Sometimes they are beaten by the
Russians, and at others decimated by cholera. Such falsehoods
indicate the spirit of Papal priestcraft, which of necessity
sympathises even with orthodox Russia, rather than with con-
stitutional freedom." The Pope is always complaining of
annoyances which " grieve his paternal heart." One of them,
perhaps, is the habit indulged in by his children upon the
Italian press, of telling lies in his interest. It seems that
Papal canards are not confined to Loretto flying-houses and
Rimini winking statues. Of course, -these " canards," or
ducks of Popery, find some geese who believe them.—Punch.

EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT.—On "Wednesday afternoon,
els some men employed on the works at Westminster-bridge
were raising a heavy weight with one of the travelling pur-
chases, the pinion of the machine broke, and the weight being
thrown suddenly on the cogs broke them in succession, carry-
ing round the wheel with fearful rapidity. One of the frag-
ments, about a quarter of a pound in weight, powerfully pro-
jected by centrifugal force, struck a passer-by and drove in
his chest. He was taken bleeding to Westminster Hospital,
'but as soon as his body was deposited there the surgeons pro-
'Bounced life extinct.
RAILWAY MANAGERS.—At the great meeting at Sheffield
on Administrative Reform, one of 'the leaders, a friend of Sir
'Charles Napier, paid a tribute to railway men. He said : " I
believe that if-such practical men as our railway managers had
been employed—mch experienced heads as Braithwaite Poole,
of Liverpool; Watkin, of the Manchester and Lincoln; Ad-
cock, of Worcester ; Ibery, of the Southern and Western ;
Nash, the ferreter of depredations and bubbles—we should not
have had the horrid history that we have had. If the talent
of the country had fair play, we-should not have seen such
' mistakes' as we have had admitted on all hands. •No person
can go into a government depot, and not observe the difference
from private establishments."
REWSSITRY AND HERESORD.—The half-yearly meeting
was held at Shrewsbury, on Wednesday, Mr. W. Ormsby Gore
presiding. The directors recommended an application to par-
Remelt for power to raise the capital to lay down a double
line of rails, in order as soon as the traffic should require this
-additional •accommodation the -shareholders and the leesee
might be in a position to sanction the necessary outlay.
Dividend warrants, after the rate of four per cent. per annum,
less income-tax, would be issued-to the shareholders, payable
em September -Ist. The accounts stated the capital authorised
to be raised by the company at £600,000, and up to the 804-h
of June last-252,9,292 had been received on shares and dc.
bentures. 7;830 -shares remained on hand. The motion •for
the adoption of.the report was carried nem. die.
HEREFORD'Music MEETING.—The festival of the- three
,choirs of Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester, which takea
place at Hereford this week, is being looked forward to aith
unusual interest and anxiety. The arrangements in the CO,
-thedral and concert-room are nearly completed. The concerts
will be held at the Shire Hall, which is being appropriately
fitted up for the purpose. The musical portion of the festival
will be brought tes close on Friday morning, as usual, with
.11andel's "Messiah," and for the first time at Hereford, a
grand ball will be: given on. Friday night, under the patron-
age of the nobility,and gentry of the county. Railway arrange-
ments have been ,entered into with the Shrewsbury and
Hereford, Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford, Hereford,
Ross, and Gloucester, and Midland railways.
THE NEW BEER Acs'.—The .new Beer Act (18 and 19 Vie.,
e. 118), which received the royal assent on Tuesday, came into
asopideraamtioenndonthSeuldetayo.flt is entitled An
A
the
her present Majesty, for further regulating the sale of beer
seveebteeanndAe
and other liquors on the Lord's-day, and to substitute other
igethteteerneptheal, years alter,o
provisions in lieu thereof." It contains five clauses, and de-
clares that the recited act has been found to be attended with
inconvenience to the public, the said act is repealed, and the
hours for public-houses to be open are now, on Sunday, Christ-
mas-day, Good Friday, or any fast or thanksgiving day, from
one to three, and from five to eleven. The houses are not to be
opened before four o'clock on the morning following 'the days
mentioned, except to a traveller or lodger therein. Houses
for public-resort are prohibited in the same manner from being
opened for the sale of liquors. Constables are empowered to
enter public-houses. A penalty not exceeding £5 may be
levied for every offence against the act, and every separate
eale to be deemed an offence. The expression" bona fide tra-
:Teller" has been left out of the new law.
THE MOR3LONS AND TUB LocusTs.—The Mormons have
had a suocession of beautiful crops. They have-multiplied by
immigration and reproduction beyond all preeedeut; they
have established 'flourishing branches of the parent colony in
all the cases of -the great desert basin' over an immense area.
Yet they are isolated by dreary wastes and frightful and deso,
late• mountains 1,080 miles from the frontier white settlements
on the east, and from 500 to 800 miles :from the whites of Cali-
fornia, while on the north and on the south they are flanked
by an illimitable wilderness of volcanic mountains and sandy
deserts. Thus cut off and inaccessible to outside relief, there
can be no other alternative to the Mormons, with the destruc-
tion of their crops for a-single season, than a large emigration
in search of bread, or starvation if they refused to move.
There is no security against the return of crickets and grass-
hoppers in still larger swarms next year ; and, in the event •of
such a calamity the second time, the extinguishment of MQr-
mondom must inevitably follow. Neither the government
nor private charity in the States can subsist for a single winter
.a community of 50,000 people, removed from (300 to 1,000
miles from any extraneous supplies, and any available means
of transportation.—New York Herald.

THE FAME or HANGING.—The populace of Worcester, it
seems, amused themselves last week by hunting the hangman,
or rather persons whom they successively thought were to ex-
ecute the unhappy man Meadows. First of all it was be-
lieved that he had been discovered in the disguise of an old
gentleman from Dudley, who took up his abode near the gaol,
and took a walk there every morning. Afterwards common
consent fixed upon a respectable farmer from Ledbury, who,
as he walked through the streets in drab tights and white
woollen stockings, was everywhere pointed out as Calcraft, and
once getting by chance into one of the purlieus of the city,
was actually mobbed by the women and children. The real
Simon Pure, Calcraft, did not arrive until Friday night, and
took his departure on Saturday morning, accompanied to the
railway station by an immense crowd, curiosity being stimu-
lated by the belief that he is a man of large possessions, and
is bringing up his daughter in the first style of modern edu-
cation—with music, dancing, drawing, and so forth. These
proceedings remind us of an anecdote told of Dr. Horne, who,
if use are not mistaken, was Bishop of Gloucester. His ar-
rival at Norwich, to the bishopric of which he was translated,
collected a large crowd, and the 'good doctor, standing on the
steps of the episcopal palace, exclaimed, "Dear, dear, what a
multitude "Ay, but is not half so many as come to see the
man hung on Fridiy," responded a worthy citizen, anxious,
it may be supposed, for the dignity of the Norwich crowds.—
Gloucestthitire Chronicle.

AN INTERESTING Rzcßulr.—A sergeant belonging to the
89th
Regiment appeared before the Rochester magistrates OR
Tuesday, for the purpose of having a lad sworn in as a drum-
mer. The magistrate, Major Boys, struck with the boy's
appearance and manner, asked him his name, and how old he
was ? Upon his answering that he was 14, Major Boys said
he could not swear him in, 16 being the minimum age. The
magistrate was then informed by the sergeant that the recruit
was ordered to be sworn in by special authority, upon hear-
ing which, Mkjor Boys put several questions to the lad, who
stated that his father, recently dead, was a brigadier-general,
and formerly colonel of the 86th Regiment. His uncle, who
was still living, was a rear-admiral. The lad also stated that,
owing to his being left without father or mother, he was
induced to obtain permission to be allowed to enter his
father's old regiment, in the hope that by good conduct,
coupled with his father's former service in India and dying
brigadier-general, he might be thought worthy the notice of
the authorities, as being the son of an officer who had died in
the discharge of his duty. The sergeant stated that the
whole of the lad's statement was corrrect. He was then
sworn in. The youth; who is well grown and with good
manners, is now with the depot of the 86th at Chatham
barracks. He is in the receipt of £32 a-year from the Chari-
table Benevolent Fund, the special
grant of her Majesty.
South-Eastern Gazette.

THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SociETT.7Th..e twenty-second

purchase of land, for allotment amongst the meral;ers,Was
just been made in the centre of the town of Guildford, West

Surrey.
A MAN has been killed on the Calcutta railway, the first
accident that has happened ; though on the Bombay line, which
has been opened two years and a half, no accident occasioning
injury to any has ever occurred at all.
AREA OF OCEANS AND SEAR.--Atlantic, 25,000,000 square
miles ; Antarctic, 30,000,000 ditto ; Arctic, 8,400 ditto ; Pacific,
60,000,000 ditto ; Indian, 17,000,000; Mediterranean Sea,
1,006,900 ditto; Caspian, 10,000 ditto; Euxine or Black Sea
(in which our fleets are now engaged), 950,000 ditto ; Baltic,
176,000 ditto.

THE Earl and Countess of Derby arrived at Douglas's Hotel,
Edinburgh, on Thursday night, from the north of England,
where they had been visiting Lord Ravensworth. On Friday
they drove to Roslin. They were to remain in Edinburgh till
yesterday, when they would proceed to the seat of the Duke of
Athole, visiting afterwards the Duke of Richmond, the Duke
of Buccleuch, and the Earl of Eglinton.
Two GIPSIES were brought up at the Hereford Assizes last
week, charged with a highway robbery committed eleven
years ago. Chief Baron Pollock inquired who was the at-
torney for the prosecution, and, being told it was the magis-
trates' clerk, said—" That accounts for it. Nobody but a
magistrates' clerk would think of sending people to trial on
such a charge as this, after the lapse of eleven years. To be
obliged to live in obscurity for eleven years is as much punish-
ment as being transported. I cannot recommend the jury to
rely upon evidence of identity in a case that occurred so far
back. If the prisoners, after the lapse of eleven years, exactly
resemble the people who robbed the prosecutor, the presump-
tion is, that they are not the persons who committed that
robbery. This extensive industry on the part of magistrates
clerks ought to be checked." The prisoners were discharged,

THE FETE OP THE EMPEROR OP THE FRENCH.-011 Wed-
nesday an official dinner was given at Albert Gate House by
the French Ambassador, on the occasion of the fête of the
Emperor of the French. The company consisted of Viscount
Palmerston, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of 'Cla-
rendon, Viscount Hardinge, the Count de Flahalt, Sir Charles
Wood, and Sir George Cornwall Lewis; and of the leading
members of' the corps diplomatique. During the dessert, Lord
Palmerston proposed " The health of his Majesty the Emperor
of the French, and may his reign be long and glorious." The
Ambassador then gave " Her Majesty the Queen of Great
Britain and Ireland, and the enthusiastic reception which she
'would experience on her approaching visit to France." Sub-
se9aently, his Excellency proposed " The health of the sove-
reigns connected by friendship and alliance with France and
England."

AN ARMY or RREERVE rnom INnre.—The Bengal Hur-
karu says :—" The news of the intended despatch of an army
of reserve from India to Cairo has reached the Punjaub, and
rumours were afloat as to what regiments of her Majesty's ser-
vice would form a portion of the force. The 60th Rifles, the
10th, 62nd, and 70th were spoken of as the regiments most
likely to go, since, from being stationed so near the Sutlej,
their transport to Kurrachee would be a matter of comparative
ease. If all the royal regiments spoken of as destined to join
the army of reserve be really going, and its entire strength is
only to be 15,000 men, then the native infantry portion of it
will be very small, or, possibly, no sepoy corps will be sent at
all, and the force will consist of British infantry only, with
company's artillery and irregular cavalry, and possibly some
regulars, and the 14th Light Dragoons. We suppose that we
may shortly expect to receive some intelligence of a somewhat
more definite nature relating to the assembling of this army
of reserve at Cairo, and the despatch of an expedition to the
Persian Gulf, if one really be destined to proceed to the latter
locality." The 64th, which is upwards of 1,000 strong, is also
spoken of for the same service, and will immediately leave for
Cairo.

THE DUKE OF SOMERSET, 8.G., died on Wednesday, at
the family mansion, in Park-lane, London. He had for the last
two years been in declining health, but the occasional attacks
by which he was seized yielded to medical treatment, until
advanced age and increasing infirmity prevailed over a natu-
Tally strong constitution. He was the eldest son of Webb,
11th duke, by his Duchess Anna Maria, only daughter and
heiress of John Bonnell, of Stanton Harcourt, Oxon. He
was born the 24th of February, 1775, and was, consequently,
in his 81st year. The late duke was twice married, first, the
24th of June, 1800, to Lady Charlotte Hamilton, daughter of
Archibald, 9th Duke of Hamilton, who died the 10th of June,
1827; and secondly, the 28th of July, 1836, to Margaret,
eldest daughter of the late Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, Bart.
By his first marriage he leaves three sons and four daughters.
He is succeeded in the peerage by his eldest son, Lord Sey-
mour, M.P., born in 1804. He married, the 10th of June,
1830, Jane Georgians, youngest daughter of Mr. Thomas
Sheridan, and granddaughter of the Right Hon. Richard
Brinsley Sheridan, by Whom he has a numerous family.
THE DUKE OF MANCHESTER died on Saturday forenoon,
after a painful and protracted illness. The deceased, George
Montagu, Duke and Earl of Manchester, Viscount Mandeville,
and Baron Montagu of Kimbolton, in the peerage of Great
Britain, was eldest son of William, fifth duke, by Lady Susan
Gordon, third daughter of Alexander, fourth Duke of Gor-
don. He was born on the 9th of July, 1799, so that his grace
had just completed his 50th year. The late duke was twice
married : first, Bth of October, 1822, to Millicent, only
daughter and heiress of the late General Robert Barnard
Sparrow and Lady Olivia Sparrow, by whom he leaves issue
two sons and a daughter, namely—Viscount Mandeville, M.P.
foi Nottinghamshire ; Lord Robert Montagu, and Lady
Olivia, married to Lord Ossulston, M.P. ; and secondly, in
1850, to Miss Dobbs, daughter of Mr. Conway R. Dobbs, of
Castle-Dobbs, county of Armagh, by whom he has a son and
daughter. The late duke succeeded to the family honours on
the death of his father, the 18th of March, 1843, and is now
succeeded by his eldest son, Viscount Mandeville, M.P., born
the 15th of October, 1823, and married in 1852 to the
Countess Louise D'Alten.
DEATH OF MRS. LAWRENCE.—The horticultural world
has sustained a loss of no ordinary character in the death of
this accomplished and energetic lady, which took place very
suddenly, at her seat, Ealing-park, Middlesex. The deceased
lady was the wife of Mr. William Lawrence, the eminent sur-
geon, of Whitehall-place. The celebrity of Mrs. Lawrence as
a horticulturist was perhaps ;Treater than that which any
other amateur cultivator of this interesting study has attained
in our own times. Mrs. Lawrence lived at Drayton-green
until about the year 1840, when Mr. Lawrence purchased, we
believe, the estate, of Ealing Park; and the more extended
sphere which then presented itself to the taste and energy of
the deceased lady was probably the chief cause of the celebrity
to which she afterwards attained. It was no unusual occur-
rence for Her Majesty and the Prince to honour the gardens
of Ealing with their presence ; and during the administration
of Sir Robert Peel, the whole of the ministers were received by
Mrs. Lawrence at a fête given in honour of their visit. The
deceased lady is understood to have died from a complaint, of
the heart.

ATTB3IPT TO MußDEß.—Colyton was, on Sunday morning,
thrown into consternation by a report that the Rev. George
Tucker, the rector of Musbury, a village a mile and a half
distant from Colyton, had been shot, whilst proceeding to
church, by a man known as Captain Harvey, a resident in the
-village. About half-past ten o'clock, the reverend gentleman,
accompanied by his son and daughter, a young lady of about
22, was proceeding to his church, and when passing the house
in which Harvey lived, they were both deliberately shot at
from a double-barelled gun. Mr. Tucker was a few feet in
advance of his daughter when the first shot was fired, and on
turning quickly round, he observed Harvey standing in the
passage of his house, and on the same instant received a por-
tion ,of the contents of the second barrel in the shoulder and
side.of the face, which have been frightfully mutilated ; but
the bulk of the charge struck against the wall on the opposite
side. of the lane. Miss Tucker's escape amounts almost to a
miracle, as the assassin must have fired point blank at her
head. The charge entered the poll of her bonnet, making a
hole about the size of an orange, carried away the comb in
her hair, and lodged in the wall on the opposite side, yet not a
shot touched her. Both were immediately conveyed to the
vicarage. It was feared on Sunday night, from the great loss
of blood sustained by Mr. Tucker, that he would not rally.
We learn, however, that hopes are entertained of his recovery.
No cause can be assigned for this horrible outrage. Harvey
has been at Musbury about six months ; previous to this he
had resided at Seaton, where his conduct was of the grossest
character. He is a most powerful man, and has a wife who
lives apart from him. After the occurrence he locked and
barricaded the front and back doors of his house, and they
had to be broken open before he could be arrested. He was
ultimately taken into custody and committed for trial.—
Sherborne Journal.