The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-17 00:00:00

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

TKE whole of-the property and effects of Sir J. D. Paul is to
be brought to the hammer on the 23rd of the present month.
GOVERNMENT has resolved on forming an encampment at
Stirling for four or five regiments of militia. Dundee
Advertiser.

Ix accordance with a new arrangement, a messenger is to
leave London for the seat of war every Saturday instead of
Friday..
Tuz SUNDAY 'BEER BILL.—The Select Committee on the
Sunday Beer Bill •met on Tuesday, when ,several London
magistrates were examined, all of whom objected to the bill
in its present shape, and advised important alterations.
Teas ease of Strahan, Paul, and Bates was again heard at
Bow-street Police-offiee, on Wednesday, when the prisoners
were further remanded for another week. Application for
bail was made, but refused.

DECIMAL COlNAGE.—Government, says the Times, are
stated to have resolved upon appointing a commission to in-
quire into the subject of decimal coinage, to be,ccmposed of
Lord Monteagle, hfr. -Hubbard, and Mr. Norman.

Mr. RIISSE'LL -GURNEY and Mr. O'Malley have given their
opinion that under the act 52 Geo. 111. cap. 166, =embers of
the Church of England, as well as dissenters, may protect
themselves from penalties by registering their housos as places
of religious worship, in compliance with the terms of -the act.
MRS. ISABELLA SPRAINGER, wife of Mr. M. Sprainger, of
Ramsey, Isle of Man, and who had been residing for some
time past with her sister at Laxey, committed suicide, on
Monday last, by suspending herself from a beam in the bed-
room.

EDIT TUE STAFFORDSHIRE SESSIONS, last week, a man and
woman were charged with stealing £7O from a horse dealer
at a fair at Leek. The man, who was acquitted, had been in
gaol sixteen times within ten years ; and the woman, who
was sentenced to fourteen years' penal servitude, had been in
prison eight times.
A COLLISION occurred on Tuesday evening, near the Rose-
grave station of the East Lancashire Railway, and a short
distance from Burnley, occasioned by a passenger train from
Accrington to Colne running into a goods train. The van of
the luggage train and a waggon, loaded with iron, were smashed
to pieces, but no serious personal injury was sustained.
FATAL QUARREL IN AN AaIEBICAN SHIP AT BALACLAVA.
—From a letter received from Balaclava, on the 26th ult., we
learn that a tragedy, attended with fatal results, occurred on
board the American ship Arlington. One of the men, in an
altercation with the mate, struck him, when the latter armed
himself: ith a pistol, and discharged its contents into the
chest of the unfortunate man. This wanton abuse of power
occurred at an anchorage where there were upwards of fifty
sail to render assistance in case of mutiny.
FEARFUL THUNDERSTORM.—On Tuesday afternoon Not-
tingham and the immediate neighbourhood were visited by a
terrible thunderstorm, which lasted for nearly three hours,
raging during that time with remarkable violence. The rain
fell in torrents, accompanied by hailstones of a very large
size. The storm commenced about three o'clock, and con-
tinued, with very little intermission, until six. In Bilbie-
street, and in other parts of the town walls were washed down,
and considerable damage done. A great amount of damage
has been sustained in the fields contiguous to the river Trent,
by the loss of stock, &c. There has not been so great a fall
of rain for some time past.
ORDER OF AFFILIATION ON A ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST.
—The County Justices in Quarter Sessions were on Wednes-
day occupied at Durham in hearing an appeal made by the
Rev. Richard Singleton, a Roman Catholic priest, against an
order made against him by the borough magistrates of that
town for the support of an illegitimate child. The mother is
Miss Beatrice Jane Jones, the daughter of a Church of Eng.
land clergyman residing at Douglas, Isle of Man. Various
proceedings have taken place in the case, but the result of the
investigation on Wednesday was that the county magistrates
confirmed the previous order, directing Mr. Singleton to pay
2s. ed. per week during 13 years for the maintenance of the
child.
A STATEMENT has been issued by Mr. James Low, from
which it appears that the shipments of specie from England
to India, China, Egypt, and Malta for the half year just
ended have been £2,614,006, of which, £396,847 consisted of
gold, and £2,117,169 of silver. As compared with the cor-
responding half of 1864, this shows an increase of £140,992,
although the total export was then unusually large. The
proportion of gold, however, is smaller in the present return.
The sum inclUded in the aggregate total as having been sent
to China this half year is £833,466, of which all but £140,524
was silver. In the first six months of 1864 the total sent to
China was £1,289,548. The recent augmentation in the ship-
ments to the East, has, therefore, been caused exclusively by
the Indian demand.
NEWSPAPERS FOR THE BRITISH COLONIES AND FOREIGN
COUNTRIES.—The following notice has been issued from the
General Post-office :—" Many newspapers for British colonies
and foreign countries having been posted unpaid,. contrary to
the Printed Instructions, No. 45,1855, recently issued upon
the subject, the Postmaster-General thinks it necessary to
repeat the intimation that a postage (the amount of which
can be ascertained by an inspection of the notice No. 45, at
any post-office) is now required to be pre-paid, in addition to
the newspaper stamp, upon all newspapers sent to the British
Colonies, and upon those sent to all foreign countries except
the following, namely,—France or Algeria, Belgium Prussia
rid Belgium, and any foreign country (except Turkey) rid
Belgium and Prussia, New Granada, Peru. Any newspapers
which may be posted without the requisite pre-payment, can-
not be forwarded to their destination,"

,OL STANDARD.

PINNOCIC, who murdered the old man at Rothwell, last
week, has been tried and convicted at Northampton, and sen-
tenced to death.
ONE hundred and two walking sticks were last week sold,
among the miscellaneous effects or a gentleman, recently de-
ceased, at Lancaster.
GRAIN TRADE IN THE DANUBE.—Letters from Constanti-
nople to the 28th of June report the arrival there, during the
preceding five days, from Brailow and Galatz of as many as
91 cargoes of grain, and the departure for those and other
Danubian ports, to load similar cargoes, of 'no less than 53
other vessels. !V
EVESHAM ELECTION: AUNIVERSAL REPRESENTATIVE.—
The nomination took place on Wednesday at the Town-hall ;
Mr. Holland was the only candidate, the two others having
previouslyretired. Mr. Holland was declared duly elected. In
returning
.thanks he said he was for a vigorous prosecution of
the war, and not only of the war, but of everything right and
just, whether at home or abroad. He was not a member for
any particular class of politicians, but for every class, for every
elector, and every non-elector,
DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE.—Two young ladies, the daugh-
ters of J. H. Rees, Esq., of Carmarthen, were bathing, on
Saturday, on the shore, near their father's house, when, having
ventured too far, they sank in a pool about ten feet in depth.
Their governess, who was with them, rushed to their rescue,
and, failing to save, died with them. Mr. Rees was hastily
summoned from a meeting which he was attending at the
church, and on coining out, the first objects which met his
gaze were the lifelessbodies of his children and governess, which
were being borne along to his house.
REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY'.—We understand that a
movement is now being made, with the view of gettieg up a
requisition, calling on Lord John Russell and Baron Rothschild
to resign their seats for the city. The, ground on which Lord
John is to be called on to resign is, that he grossly misrepre-
sents the sentiments of his constituents on the question of the
war ; while the reason which is to be urged for the resignation
of the Baron, is, that he does not represent them at. all.
There is, we are assured, a large and influential party
,in the
city, who are determined that it shall be hereafter efficiently
represented in the House of Commons.—Advertiser.
EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE OF THE CREW OF A STEAIiTUG
AT SHIELDS.—The Welsh, a tug steamer belonging to Sun-
derland, brought a foreign schooner into Shields from sea on
Tuesday, and after seeing her moored, the master of the
steamer went on board the schooner to get his towage. He
had not been on board the schooner above a minute, and the
other two men belonging to her were standing forward in the
steamer, when her boiler exploded with fearful violence.
In an instant it blew everything in the cabin to pieces, and
forced out the stern and after deck. The boat immediately
sank, but, strange to say, the two men were rescued without
having sustained the least injury. The steamer has since been
raised, and it is found that her engine is all twisted and de-
stroyed.__
THOSE who have implicit faith in the universal " honour
of the English Tradesman," and a fortiori of " the British
Banker," may be surprised to hear a story which is current in
'commercial circles, and is as well authenticated as it is gene-
rally believed. A highly-respected London banker, on his
death-bed, called his.children round him, and asked them if
they believed in his reputed wealth ? They answered that
they shared the general opinion as to his large fortune, and
he then surprised them by the assurance that he had been
insolvent for the last thirty years. He, however, entreated
them not to be depressed by the intelligence; but recom-
mended them to go to Doctor's Commons immediately after
his decease and swear his property under half a million. The
advice was taken. The customers of the house were agreeably
edified on hearing of the enormous wealth of the late partner,
and the bank was firmer than ever, in the opinion of those
who trusted their money to its keeping.
THE STOLEN £5OO -NOTE.—A communication has been
received from one of the jury who were supposed to.have given
a verdict for the plaintiff in the Court of Common Pleas, at
Guildhall, on Tuesday last, in an action brought on behalf of
M. St. Paul, a moneychanger in Paris, against the- Bank -of
England, to recover a £5OO bank note, forming one of those
stolen from Messrs. Brown; Shipley, and Co., to the effect that
the jury-.did not intend to express, and had by no means arrived
at a conclusion favourable to the right of the plaintiff. The
feelingof a large portion of them, at least, is stated to have
been that M. St. Paul, having received notice of the robbery,
and liming wilfully disregarded it, or, at all events, having
adopted no steps to give effect to it, could not be considered to
have-taken the-note-hostel fide. The question is one of so much
moment as to make it important that the law should not be
settled on a misunderstanding of the intention of the jury,
and 'hence it is deemed -essential that their views Should be
ascertained on the point more clearly than appears to have
been possible in the hurried manner in which their verdict
was taken.— Timer.

POLICY OF PnrssrA.—According to the Berlin correspond-
ent of the Times, the opinion prevalent in that capital is
"that the Prussian Royal Family and the Court are bound
hand and foot, and sold body and soul to Russia." He adds :
" The before-mentioned view is based on the fact of a Prussian
Princess being the consort of the Emperor of Russia who was
reigning at the time of this conflict being brought about by
him, on the very strong presumption of there being a power-
ful party at Court here imbued with Russian sympathies, and
the patent factthat Prussia has not openly and actively joined
ua in the struggle against Russia. The three facts are cor-
rect, but the_imputed cause of Prussia's policy is incorrect;
there are so many perfectly valid reasons, military, financial,
political, and economical, to withhold Prussia from taking a
forward part in the war, however convinced King, Ministers,
and people may be of the necessity of profiting.by the present
opportunity of •asserting the independence of the country; that
we have no need to suppose feelings of brotherly affection on
the part of the King, or political sympathies for Russia on the
part of certain members of the Court, to have been more than
subordinate accessories in determining the course that Prussia
"has hitherto:taken."
ANECDOTE or THE QUEEN.—A few days ago, in the
beautiful little cemetery of Rose Bank, our attention was
directed to a handsome monument of Aberdeen granite,
having the following inscription in letters of geld:—" Sacred
to tno memory of Miss Ida Deno.uorai, tine foltlAful
esteemed dresser of Queen Victoria, who departed this life
October 15, 1804, in the thirty-seventh year, of her age, be-
loved and respected by all who knew her. This stone has
been placed' by Queen Victoria as a mark of her regard." On
inquiry we found that one day, whether in the autumn of
1.-864 or at a former period we were not told, when Miss Be-
nanomi was accompanying Queen Victoria in her morning
walk on Arthur's Seat, she called her Majesty's attention to
the beautiful cemetery in the distant valley, and expressed a
wish that when she died she might be buried there. Last
year, when her Majesty was going north, Miss Benanomi,
who, as usual, was attending her royal mistress, became in-
disposed in Holyrood Palace, and was unable to proceed fur-
ther. By order of Her Majesty, Miss Benanomi was attended
by an eminent physician, but she never recovered, and died
in Holyrood Palace. Her Majesty was deeply affected by the
death, and, remembering the wish of Miss Benanomi, ordered
the remains to be buried in Rose Bank Cemetery, and the
monument with the inscription quoted to be erected to her
Memory.—Caledonian Mercury.—[Rose Bank Cemetery is
in a suburb immediately to the south of Edinburgh.]
A REMARKABLE MAN.—This city is now the home of one
of the most remarkable men of the age—a man who has tra-
versed the civilized globe, and established in almost every
country which he has visited the sale of his medicines for the
relief of human suffering, and which are a certain cure for
disease in all its forms. We allude to Professor Thomas
Holloway, of London. It is now several years since this
benefactor of the human race first proclaimed to the world,
through the British press, that he had, after deep research, pre-
pared a remedy that was sure to eradicate disease. Years of
patient investigation into the laws of human physiology which
control our bodies in health and when diseased, led to the in-
vention and preparation of the world-renowned Holloway's
Pills and Ointment. Nearly, if not quite, one half of the
haman race have taken his medicines ! His name is as uni-
versally known over the globe as that of Alexander, Napoleon,
or Washington, when in the height of their ambitious career.
If they conquered nations on the field of battle, Professor
Holloway has, with no weapon but that of science, conquered
disease in all its forms. His meritorious career is bounded
by no imaginary lines of latitude and longitude short of those
marking the confines of civilization itself. No isolated country
or nation was sufficiently extensive for the operation of his
enterprising and gigantic intellect. Wherever disease has a
residence, there he has penetrated with his medicines, and left
an enviable and enduring reputation. After enlightening
Europe, his fame spread over Asia, and the civilized portions
of Africa, and finally appeared in America. He has translated
the cures he has performed, and the virtues of his medicines,
into as many languages as the missionaries have the Bible.
GOvernments, otherwise the most despotic, have been forced
by the great value of his medicines, and their popularity with
the people, to remove antiquated and time-honored restrictions
upon the introduction of foreign medicines, and open their
custom houses to a free introduction to the Pills and Oint-
ment, of this distuingished man. Empires and kingdoms
removed the barriers of ages against the introduction and sale
of proprietary or patent medicines, and freely permitted Hollo-
way's medicines to become the physician of the masses.—New
York Dispatch.
TRIAL ROR MOBBING AND RIOTING.—At the High Court of
Justiciary, Edinburgh, on Monday last, four young men were
placed at the bar charged with mobbing and rioting, and with
assault and injury to property, at Greenock, on the of April
last, on which occasion a large mob assembled in front of the
Roman Catholic Chapel there, beat in the doors with a large
beam. broke the windows with Avn., anti couunlited other
damage to the chapel, as well as to the school and the adjoin-
ing dwelling-houses of the priest and teacher. In sum-
ming up the evidence, the Lord Justice-General laid down
the law as to participating in or giving countenance to
riotous acts. He said,—" All those who were in- the
mob and who took an active part in it were guilty of
the whole proceedings of that mob generally. The jury
returned a verdict of guilty of mobbing and rioting against
the prisoners, but not of participating in the acts of
assault and injury libelled, The Lord Justice-General, after
stating that the Court were disposed, from extenuating
circumstances in each case, to treat the prisoners with leniency,
said,—" You must not suppose that you are punished because
of the particular object you had in view, as being connected
with any following out of the religious opinions which you
yourselves entertain in opposition to those of the persons
whose property was to be sacrificed by these proceedings. It
is not because you entertain particular opinions, or because
with zeal,
that we are going to
ris it because of any
yproounmonanincetaian
sentence
opuipnoinyoin it
particular favour to the religious opinions of those whose
property has been assailed. In this country all parties, all
subjects of the Queen, all who are residing within the range
of the laws, are amenable to the laws, and entitled to the
protection which they afford. We know no distinction
of religious parties in any question of this kind. In
this country all persons are entitled not only to enter-
tain what religious opinions they please, but to profess
those opinions, and to worship according to their own
faith, whatever it may be. Be they Jews or Gentiles,
Pagans or Christians, Papists or Protestants, Episcopalians or
Presbyterians, it is all the same. The law says that they have
a right to worship after their own fashion, and that law will
protect them in the exercise of this right. Therefore you must
'not suppose, and no persons must suppose, that we enter into
the religious question here ; but while we hear rumours of
persecutions for religious opinions in other countries, and are
inclined to sympathize with the sufferers, and to feel indigna-
tion at the conduct of the oppressors, it would be very wrong
indeed if in this country which boasts of being a land of liberty,
where persons are entitled to freedom of conscience without
any restraint, except that which conscience itself imposes, any
proceeding which involves violence against parties on account
of their religious opinions should be permitted to go unpunished.
While the law permits them to have liberty, those who
administer the law must take care that that liberty is pre-
served to them, and not abused by the strong. It is because
you have violated that law, and for no other reason, that we
now pronoun& sentence of imprisonment upon you." His
Lordship then sentenced three of the rioters to six, and one to ,
three months' imprisonment,

MR. BERKELEY has been returned for Cheltenham by a
majority of 682 over Mr. Ridler.
ON Friday evening a lomotive engine, employed on the
North London • Railway, exploded; but though it destroyed
some property, no persons were injured.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARYSHIP.—Tnn Advertiser says
Sir William Molesworth and Sir George Grey are spoken of
for the colonial vacancy. The Herald says Mr. Vernon Smith,
Sir Wm. Molesworth, and Lord Harrowby are mentioned.
THE QUEEN, accompanied by Prince Albert, the King of
tha Belgians, the Count de Flanders, the Prince of Wales, and
Prince Alfred, attended by their suite, left Buckingham
Palace on Tuesday, for Osborne.
DURING a debate in the House of Lords last week, no little
sensation was caused by the entry into the house of Sir- Au-
gustus Clifford, bearing on his arm the celebrated Miss
O'Neill, now Lady Wrixon Becher.
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THE Advertiser states that a meeting of Conservative
members of the House of Commons took place on Saturday,
at Mr Disraeli's. The attendance was very numerous, and
never was the feeling of the party more cordial and unani-
mous as to the course to be pursued by it.
THE SPECIE' arrivals during theweek have been moderate,
and do not amount to £185,000. The exports of which we
have any notification are little more than £60,000, but the
shipments to the Continent by the bullion merchants have
been considerable.

ON Tuesday morning the corning-house at Messrs. Curtis
and Harvey's Clyde Gunpowder Mills, Glenlean,' about five
miles from Dunoon, blew up with a fearful explosion, by
which casualty the lives of not fewer than four men have
been lost.

COLONEL FLEURY, the colonel of the French Guides, has
married Mad'lle Calais St. Paul, a daughter of a rich homme
d'affaires of Paris. On this occasion the Emperor made the
colonel the munificent present of 500,000 franks from his
private purse, and also settled a pension of 12,000 franks
a-year, to make things pleasant, to a lady who went down on
her knees to supplicate his Majesty to prevent the marriage.
MILITARY DISTURBANCE.—The town of Chatham, on
Thursday evening, exhibited a scene of military riot, between
the marines and sailors against the 27th regiment. Several
of the soldiers were wounded in the affray, and one man was
so severely injured that he was taken to the hospital, having
received three bayonet wounds.
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SCA.ELATINA. IN THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD AT OSBORNE.—
Their Royal Highnesses Princess Louisa and Prince Arthur
have been attacked with scarlatina. Their Royal Highnesses
are going on very favourably. The same disease has declared
itself in his Royal Highness Prince Leopold, who was left at
Buckingham Palace in consequence of a slight accident.

THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES.—The work
for the next Presidental election has seriously commenced.
The political events have sharply defined the three great par-
ties of the campaign, and the champion of each for the suc-
cession. These three parties are—the American party, the
Seward anti-slavery coalition party, and the Democratic party ;
and the candidate of each, as broadly foreshadowed by these
late events, is, of the American party, George Law, of New
York; of the Seward coalition party, W. H. Seward, of New
York; of the Democratic party, Henry A. Wise, of Virginia.

THE GRIND STAND AT. AINTREE RACE-COURSE - was,
during the late meeting, entrusted to the care of Mr. Morrish,
of the Merchants' Dining Roams, Lancaster-buildings, Tithe-
barn-street. The care and judicious attention bestowed on
the cuisine and the cellar were such as called forth the warmest
encomiums from the numerous visitors ; while the orderly and
ready service bestowed on the guests reflected the highest
credit on the skill and assiduity of Mr. Morrish as a caterer
for even the most refined tastes. Every delicacy was to be
'et with in ready profusion, and the more substantial elements
of good cheer were served with equal alacrity and abundance.
The wines and liquors of all kinds were excellent, and met
general approval.
THE DANUBE.-A letter from Bucharest of the 3d, in the
German Journal of Frankfort, says :—" The Ottoman troops
are still advancing into the Dobrudscha. From 1,200 to 1,500
Turks from Silistria have passed the Danube in boats, and
landed at Kalarasch. Although the Turkish corps now in the
-Dobrudscha are sufficiently provided .with bridge equipage,
and is supported by a flotilla, and, although the coast of Bes-
sarabia is only defended by about 10,000 Russians, yet it is
not expected that the Muchir Ismail Pasha has any present
intention of attacking the Russians. He appears inclined to
wait for the fall of Sebastopol, in which case he would doubt-
less be supported by some allied troops. The greatest com-
mercial activity prevails on the Lower Danube. It is calculated
that, since the opening of the navigation, more than 500
vessels, of which 200 were Austrian, have taken on board
cargoes at Ibrail and at Galatz."
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flit LATE CAPTAIN Lroxs.—The enclosed extract from a
letter from one of the officers of the Miranda may be interest-
ing to our readers:—" Tlaerapia, June 25.—Our brave Captain
is no more. His wound was mortal, and he died on Saturday
night. C— was with him the whole time, and S--=-= says
his death was worthy of his life. He forgot nothing, sending
messages to each of us individually, and arranging for the
smallest trifles. He said to C--, ' I die '.s a captain of a
man-of-war ought to die.' The navy has lost its greatest
ornament ; and we have lost one who, to us, was more than a
friend. He was so brave, so great,' so good,'and so amiable,
that we all loved him much snore than we knew. We buried
him on Monday evening, the 26th of June, with all naval
honours. Crowds of people of high rank attended Isis funeral.
The head of our figurehead, Miranda, was shot away almost at
the same moment. that our dear captain received his death
wound.

FIRE AT ILITECIERFORD-MARKET.—On Sunday evening
considerable alarm was caused in the vicinity of Hungerford-
market, London, in consequence of a fire breaking out on the
wharf of the market, occasioned by some boys accidentally
emptying their pipes on a waggon laden with straw. On the
sudden outbrezk messengers were despatched for the Chandos-
street, Watling-street, West of England, and various other
engines, which promptly arrived, and speedily got to work,
with a good supply of water from the mains of the New River.
The wind blowing strongly, the flames spread with amazing
rapidity, and five carts and one waggon belonging to Mr. Mil-
igan, hay and strawdealer opposite the booking-office, on the
wharf, as well .e Mr. T. kiendersua'3 cavts; speedily ignited.
The firemen worked most strenuously, and by dint of great
perseverance the flames were subdued, but not until the straw
and carts were nearly destroyed.

LORD Jorm Rus-sr.r.L.—Lord John Russell is no longer a
member of the Administration. In consequence of repre-
sentations from some of the members of the Government in
the House of Commons as to the difficulty under which they
laboured with regard to the motion of Sir E. B. Lytton, his
lordship came to the resolution of removing their embarrass-
ment by retiring from the Ministry. Accordingly, at his re-
quest, Lord Palmerston yesterday acquainted the Queen with
the resolution to which Lord John had come, and her Majesty
was pleased to accept his resignation. No successor to Lord
John Russell as Secretary of State for the Colonies has been
appointed, but it is not improbable that one will be desig-
nated for her Majesty's approval at the Cabinet Council to be
held this afternoon. We cannot, of course, speak with cer-
tainty upon the subject, but we believe it is not unlikely that
the new Colonial Secretary will be taken from amongst the
present members of the Cabinet, and we apprehend that his
fitness for the post will be at once recognized by the country
and the colonies.—Globe, of Saturday.
THUNDERSTORM ON SATURDAY.—ShortIy after 6 o'clock
on Saturday morning, the metropolis was visited by a violent
thunderstorm, which continued for nearly an hour. The
lightning was of a vivid character. The rain fell in torrents,
and many of the small streets at the east end of London were
flooded for several hours. The market gardeners' grounds
were also inundated, and considerable damage was done by
the great fall of rain. At Bristol the storm took place an
hour or two previously. It commenced about half-past three
o'clock, and exceeded in violence anything of the kind that
has occurred in that city for the last 30 years. The thunder
was very violent, and the lightning so vivid that the Captains
of African and Indian ships in the port describe it as being
the nearest approach to a tropical tornado that they ever
witnessed in this country. Considerable damage was done by
the hail, which beat the wheat down in all the surrounding
country, and broke thousands of panes of glass; and at St.
George's,Gloucestershire,the electric fluid struck a house near
the Don John's-cross, destroyed the chimneys, and split the
house from the roof to the basement story.

SUNDAY DISTITEBANCES IN LONDON. HYDE-RAIZ/K.—
The Sunday demonstrations in this park are unmistakably dying
out, and in another week or two there will be no trace left of
the commotion. On Sunday the number of people assembled
showed a decided falling off, and the more respectable classes
held themselves carefully apart from the crowds of urchins
and thieves who had collected. Of course, they did all in their
power to get up a disturbance, rushing hither and thither,
making as much noise as possible, and scurrying away as
soon as they came in collision with the police. Beyond a con-
siderable amount of pocket-picking very little mischief was
done, and the number of offenders taken into custody tended
powerfully to check the disposition to riot. The police did not
show in the park itself, but at the different outlets and in the
neighbourhood they were mustered- in ample force, while
a mounted patrol kept up with the quick movements of the
mob, and prevented any serious injury to property being at-
tempted. No carriages appeared in the drive, so that no fa-
cilities existed for getting up a disturbance, and we may fairly
hope that next Sunday afternoon the park will present its
usual peaceable aspect. Two attempts were made by the
rabble to penetrate into Belgravia from Albert-gate, but both
were promptly repulsed by the police, and the ringleaders ar-
rested.

STATE OP THE MORMON COMMUNITY.—The Cambridge
0h.•.,,,;,1. Rives a letter from Salt Lake City by a woman who
bad embraced tile ‘l.lmign. and left that neiolbour-
hood. The expose speaks for itseir
and Mormonism in the old country are two entirely distinct
systems. You know not whom to trust; in fact, you are sus-
picious of everybody, and everybody suspects you. Human
life is of no value here ; cutting throats is as carelessly talked
of from the stand as clipping your finger-nails ; indeed, if they
consider you becoming at all disaffected to their principles, it
is considered doing you a kindness to kill you, that your soul
may be saved. It is heresy to think of leaving the, society ;
and should any make the attempt, every obstacle is thrown in
their way. Scandal and lies the people fatten on. I would
defy the smallest village in the world to propagate the same
with more avidity than this people. A woman's character is
taken away by the slightest breadth ; you are at everybody's
mercy, no matter how low, mean, or contemptible the party
may be ; and woe to you should your husband be on a mission!
They set husband' against wife : try to get the husband into
'plurality; and women's hearts are as ruthlessly broken as a
piece of straw by bending. Divorces can be readily obtained,
for from five to terrdollars ; and there exists not, I verily be-
lieve, as I believe in a God, a more miserable, broken-hearted,
canwor
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corn, irrigate the land, raise babies (one in twenty-seven
months is the allotted time), besides attending to the no less
essential points in a house, viz., washing, scrubbing, and cook-
ing; the latter item is by no means an unimportant one in a
Yankee household, as Yankee Doodle must have tea three
times a day, and hot bread at each meal. The United States
sent out a detachment of men in the fall, ostensibly en route
to California, but really to investigate the many crying atroci-
ties in this horrible place. There has been a slight intermix-
ture with the officers and our people in society; but I think
Brigham was afraid of their influence, and at once, without any
preliminiaries, they were denounced from the stand in the
most bitter terms ; and so general was the insult that the
commanding officers ordered the United States flag to be taken
down. Happy as 'I should be to save others from the degrada-
tion and misery of this evil place, I dare not have my name
known, or my head would pay the forfeit ; and they would
think they were doing God and me service. Although I have
lost all desire for life, I should dread falling into their hands;
for verily the tortures of the Inquisition were nothing to those
they inflict here, and in the end I should be consigned to a
horrible decapitation."

ECCLESIASTICAL IXT:ELLIG-ENCE.

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.

Rev. W. S. Beever, M.A., to the Curacy of Cavendisii, Suffolk.
Rev. C. B. Bowden, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Teath, Cornwall.
Rev. C. Bridges, to the Rectory of Hinton Martell, Dorset
Rev. W. Buller, to the Rectory of Remington, with Har.iington,
Somerset.
Rev. J. M. Collyns, M.A., Student of Christ Church, to the
Perpetual Curacy of Drayton, near Wallinford.
Rev. J. D. M. Crofts, M.A., Curate of Southover and AU Saints;
Lewes, to be Resident Classical Master of the Royal School, Ar-
magh.

Rev. J. Gabbett, Ourate of Effin, to the Perpetual Curacy of
Particles, diocese of Limerick.
Rev. J. S. Gale, late Curate of Harrow, to the Rcctory of St.
John the Baptist, Bristol.
Rev. R. J. Hayne, M.A., to the Vicarage of Buckland Mona-
chorurn, Devon.

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Rev. S. Hopkins, 8.A., to the Curacy of Runcton and Bede,
Norfolk.

Rev. H. Howell, 13. A., to the Rectory of Drayton. Norfolk.
Rev. W. Marrable, to the Incumbency of St. -John's,
Dublin.
Rev. T. Sale, M.A., Vicar of Sheffield, to an Honorary Canonry
in York Cathedral.
Rev. G. Stallard, to the Incumbency of East Grafton, Wilts.
Rev. W. A. Tattersall, to the Stipendiary Curacy of Walton-on-
the Hill, Lancashire.
Rev. R. J. F. Thomas, to the Vicarage of Yeovil-cunt-Preston.
Rev. R. Tottenham, to the Curacy of Trinity Church, Limerick.
Rev. W. N. Vickers to the Living of Kilternan.