The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-09-11 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

THE EARL of ELLESMERE will be the Lord Lieutenant of
Lancashire, in the room of the late Earl of Sefton.
THE United States mail steamer Baltic sailed on Saturday
for New York, with 190 passengers, besides the mails and a
large cargo of goods. The list of passengers includes the
name of his Excellency Alfonso Escalenta, Ambassador Ex-
traordinary from Madrid to the Court of Washington.
MR. C. E. SMITH, sculptor, whose bust of the late Rev.
W. W. Ewbank recently claimed public attention, has just
completed a companion bust of the Rev. J. Macnaught, which
is esteemed an admirable likeness.
THERE have been several sudden deaths in Marseilles.
Among others, Mr. -Leigh, from Liverpool, who died after a
very few hours' indisposition, though assisted by the best
medical advice. His remains were interred in the Protestant
cemetery.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—About two O'clock on Thursday
morning, an aged woman, named Margaret Magee, fell from
her bedroom window, in No. 5 Court, Combermere-street,
Toxteth-park, and was found insensible a short time after-
wards by her son, who lives in the same court. She died at
half-past six o'clock.
NEW ACT ON COUNTY PALATINE OF LANCASTER
TRIALS.—An act was passed in the late session further to
assimilate the practice in the County Palatine of Lancaster to
that of other counties with respect to the trial of issues from
the superior courts at Westminster. Her Majesty is now em-
powtr3d to issue comm 'B ions, authorising the judges-to take
the assizes, juries, and•other matters, in the same manner as
in other countries.
THE WRECK OF THE REGULTJS.—Two flats and a sloop
were towed into the Mersey on Monday, laden with cargo
recovered from the Regulus, recently wrecked and still on
shore at the Skerries. The goods recovered comprise all the
bale case goods, besides a large quantity of weightier articles.
According to a notice posted in the underwriters' room, there
still remains 80 tons of cargO on board ; prompt measures,
however, were being taken to get this away.
THE MODEL OF SEBASTOPOL is still on view in the Queen's
Hall, Bold-street, and, considering the importance of the in-
telligence just received from the Crimea, its varied interest to
the spectator must be still further enhanced. This will be
obvious when it is remembered that Mr. Hough, immediately
on the arrival of important news, takes measures to adapt the
model to the existing state of affairs, so as to keep the specta-
tor au courant with the course of events.
The Daily News of Friday says :—" Mr. Scott Russell's
new steamer, now being built at Blackwall, is making great
progress. The frame is completed, and the work will be
finished within the next twelve months. When ready for sea
she will go to Liverpool, and sail regularly from that port, and
not, as stated, from Milford Haven ; for, although she cannot
enter any one of the Liverpool docks, she can, like the Collins
boats, anchor in the river."
POCHET-PICIZING.—Ann Phillips, a woman, and two boys
named Patrick Duffy and Robert Aland, were, on Saturday, at
the Police-court, charged with picking pockets. On Friday
afternoon one of the officials at the Tithebarn-street railway-
station observed the prisoners go up to a lady on the platform,
and while the woman engaged her attention, one of the boys
picked her pocket of a purse containing £1 Is. 6d. He im-
mediately took them in charge, and on searching the boy he
found the purse. They were committed for trial.
BURGLARY.—WiIIiam Prendergast, Peter Cameron, and
Patrick Ullathorne, were, on Saturday, charged with breaking
into the shop of Mr. Bacon, Dublin-street, and stealing three
diamond pins, a large quantity of copper nails, and a coat. On
Friday night the three prisoners were seen loitering near the
shop, where they were noticed at various periods during the
evening by a polite-officer, who ultimately went towards them,
when they took to their heels. He succeeded in capturing
Cameron and Ullathorne ; and Prendergast was apprehended
the same night with the nails and diamonds in his possession.
Nothing was found on the other prisoners. It appeared that
the shop door had been forced open by means of an iron bar.
Prendergast was committed for trial; the other prisoners were
remanded for a week

LECTURE AT ST. MARY'S SCHOOL, KIRKDA.LE..-011 Fri-
day, Gregory M. Wortabet, Esq., delivered a most interesting
and eloquent lecture on the Influence of the Bible, in St.
Mary's School, Kirkdale, which was listened to with the
greatest attention and delight, and at the close of it the au-
dience expressed their satisfaction by a very warm response and
a vote of thanks. The same gentleman has very handsomely
offered to lecture again, in the same place, on Friday next, at.
half-past 7 o'clock, in aid of liquidating the debt for the repairs
of the church, when it is hoped that the lecturer will have as
numerous an assemblage as his eloquence and earnestness in
the cause of truth so richly deserves. The chair was takert by
the Rev. T. Major Lester, incumbent, and•on the platform %fere
the Rev. V. Sheldon, incumbent of St. Matthias', Rev. J. Gil-
mour, minister of Christ Church, and Rev. W. A. Tattersall,
curate of Walton, all of whom took part in the proceedings.
SAILING OP THE GREAT BRITAIN.—On Tuesday, Messrs.
Gibbs, Bright, and Co.'s screw steam-ship the Great Britain,
Lieut. Chapman Wise, R.N., Admiralty agent, in charge, left
her moorings in the Sloyne, and proceeded to , sea. This
"leviathan" of the deep has on board a very precious freight—
upwards of 1,000 souls. She has taken out 600 tons of pro-
jectiles-5,803 shells—besides 35 huts, 22 horses, 44 officers,
and 881 rank and file, made up from detachments of the 4tia,
sth, and 6th Dragoon Guards ; the .Bth and 11th Hussars ;
2nd Dragoons, 4th and 13th Light Dragoons ; 17th Lancers 3
Grenadier Guards, 9th, 17th, 79th, 92nd, and 94th regiments
of the line. Captain Bruce, of the 94th regiment, is the com-
manding officer. The Great Britain will call at Gibraltar to
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IMPORTS OP PALM OLL.—The difference of opinion which
has been noticed in our columns on the subject of palm oil has
induced us to procure an official account of the quantity im-
ported into Liverpool. We have to state, in consequence, that
we have been informed by authority that the quantity of palm
oil imported into Liverpool from the 6th of January to the 31st
of July, inclusive, was .290,353 cwts., or 14,017 tons. The
Liverpool Brokers' Circular, to which we referred on the •18th
instant, stated the quantity imported between the Ist of
January and the 31st of July at 18,580 tons— a difference of
4,063 tons ; but some allowance is to be made for the longer
period of five days' importations included in the circular. Our
correspondent stated the quantity imported to the same period
at 18,900 tons, and neither is in accordance with the official
account. The discrepancy deserves notice as a convincing
proof that either, the merchants' and brokers' statemeats, or
the official accounts, are incorrect. We cann believe in the
inaccuracy of the latter, and the discrepancy; Therefore, serves
to throw discredit on many mercantile statements.—
Economist.
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Mn. OLIVER'S AFFAIRS.—A hearing took place on Wed-
nesday, before Mr. Commissioner Stevenson, in regard to the
adjudication of bankruptcy in this .case.—Mr. Lowndes, solici-
tor for the bankrupt, was examined as attorney for the trus-
tees, and produced duplicates of the deed of assignment, one
signed and sealed, the other signed merely, the latter being
called an instrument, executed by Mr. Oliver on the .7th
October, and by the trustees on the 16th. He could not tell
the number of signatures to•the deeds, but he said they had
been signed by 6-7ths of the•creditors. Notice was given of
the day on which the deed would be signed by advertisement
in the London Gazette, and a month after its execution it
had also been advertised in the Times and in the Liverpool
Mercury. As far as the witness knew, the schedule of the
creditors comprised all the debts of Mr. Oliver. The judge at
the recent assize ruled that the deed was good, but reserved
the point for Mr. Watson. In reply to Mr. Aspinall, who
supported the petition, Mr. Lowndes said he did not know

whether. any of the signatures had been put to the docu-
ments since the certificate. He believed about eighteen
creditors had signed both documents.; but he could give no
idea as to how many signatures there were to each of
the deeds. William Jones, clerk to Mr. Evans, said he
bad counted the signatures.; there were 161 to the
deed, and only 153 to the instrument. He had also

counted the list of creditor€ of Mr. Oliver, appended
to•the certificate, from £lO and upwards, and found there

were 222 above £lO, and 400 at £lO. The petition for setting
aside the adjudication, presented on the 12th October by Mr.
Samson, was then read, under an objection from Mr. Quaine,
who.opposed the adjudication. Edward Wynn, clerk to Mr.
Oliver, was next examined, chiefly with respect to the signa-
tures to the deed. He describedthem all as genuine, and went
through them seriatim. They included amongst others the
names of R. W. Preston and Co. ; Orerend, Gurney, and Co. ;
Royal British Banking Co.;• Northern Bank ; Kirk and Fur-
ness ; J. ,de Wolff and Co. ; Cunard, Munn, and Co.; Penile
Brothers:; James Baines and C 0...; Henry Moore and

littledale and Bardswell ; iand Garnett, Bibby,

and Co. The hearing was adjourned at this point until
Thursday., On Thursday,Mr. Bardswell, who represented the
bankrupt, stated that so conflicting and contradictory were
the statements which had been published with :regard to the
proceedings of the previous day, and so opposite to the real
facts of the ease, that he felt it to be his duty to his client to
apply for a private examination.—His honour observed that
the sittings were at first private, but there was so much of
public interest and importance attached to the ease, that the
courts were afterwards opened. Mr. Bardswell, however,
having made an application for a private hearing, it should be
granted.—[We understand that the point in dispute is settled.
The petition is withdrawn, and Mr. Oliver is not a bankrupt.;

AN ETPLICIT ADDRESS.—One day last week a letter
passed the Hereford post-office with the following singular
address :—" For that girl I don't no her name they cals `the
galoper' and lives somewhere in Bowsey-lane Hereford Here-
fordshire. Shurs don't give this to any girl but that girl."
The letter reached its destination, the fair one for whom it was
intended:being known by this soubriquet to the police.
ON Monday, after an existence of many centuries, the once
renowned fair of St. Bartholomew expired. No proclamation
took place, nor was the ancient court of pied poudre for the
hearing and determining disputes arising in the fair held; the
"Saints' Bell," in Old St. Bartholomew's Church, which has
for time immemorial sounded only on the proclamation of the
fair, was silent, and its occupation is now gone.
CURIOSITIES OF LIFE ASSURANCE.—A correspondent of
a contemporary says :—We have a company professing so
high an idea of homoeopathic principles, that it stipulates, pro-
vided the assured be treated homoeopathically, that fine per
cent. be deducted from the premiums. There is Jso a com-
pany where parties attending to assure their liv have the
advantage of a reading room and refreshments—an excellent
arrangement, for after sandwiches and sherry one feels less
inclined to dispute the rate of premium, even if it be a little
high.
MR. BETTS, of the firm of Peto, Brassy, and Betts, states
respecting the Crimea, that since the formation of the line it
has been doubled, and is now being effectually drained and
ballasted for the winter work. General Simpson, in reply to
Lord Panmure's inquiries as to the condition of the line on
the 19th ult., states':—" The present railway is 'on the best
site that can be obtained, and when effectually drained and
ballasted. which is being done, will be quite free from floods."
Lord Panmure has sent out 150 more carriages, to replace
those which have-been in constant work, as they require it
from time to time.
RAILWAY CAPITAL.—It appears from a return recently
issued that the 103 bills promoted by railway companies in the
late session of Parliament were for raising £21,605,796, in-
chiding £5,048,288 on loan; but only 77 of them received the
Royal Assent, authorising the raising of £15,851,486, of which
£4,504,938 is to be raised on loan. In the session of 1854 it
was proposed to raise £28,919,551 for railway purposes, but
Parliament granted powers to raise £14,096,234, including
£3,320,159 on loan. In the session of 1863, powers were
sought to raise £38,493,119 by various railway bills, but only
£19,131,674 of that amount was authorised to be raised, in-
chiding £4,223,398 on loan ; and in the session of 1852 powers
were sought by railway companies to raise £14,714,635, but
only £8,471,687 of that amount was authorised to be raised.
Powers were sought by railway companies in the four sessions
above mentioned to raise in the aggregate £101,733,081, but
of this amount £57,551,081 was authorised to be raised, being
not much more than half the amount for which powers were
sought.
STATISTICS OP IcE.—lt is just fifty years since the idea of
dispensing ice to the southern latitudes entered the brain of a
Boston merchant, Mr. Tudor. It was a thoroughly worthy
notion of a solid man of that city of notions. For twenty
years considerable disappointment, with various success, at-
tended his efforts, but ultimately his persistency and activity
furnished the southern States and the West Indies with the
frozen delicacy, and a lucrative business opened up. In 1834
the East Indies and Brazil became his business clients. Other
large hOnses engaged in the ice farming in Massachusetts and
New York, and at present the value of the ice farms of these
States-fully equals, if it does not exceed, the value of the rice
crop of Georgia. Boston chiefly supplies the southern parts
with ice, and in its ice-horse there were 300,000 tons stored
last year. In New York nearly the entire crop of ice is used I.
at home. In Boston there are between 2,000 and 3,000 per-
sons employed in the business season. In New York the
amount is less, as the exportation is little. About 9,000 per-
sons are employed in the entire States by ice, and it is com-
puted that a_capital of over $6,000,000 is invested in it.—
New York Daily Times.
FARMERS AND THEIR SERVANTS.—A case of some im-
portance to agriculturists and others engaging servants was
tried at the Bridport and Beaminster Division Petty Sessions,
held at Beaminster on Monday last week. The party sum-
moned in this case was Frederick Clarke, charged with leaving
the service of Mr. Richard Garland, of Hyde Farm, near Brid-
port. The defendant was a hardy lad, apparently about 16
years old, and had worked for the plaintiff some years. On
the 11th of August he left the service of Mr. Garland, without
notice, and on the following Monday was engaged by another
farmer. Being in the midst of harvest, the lad's service was
valuable, and he therefore summoned him. Mr. Garland
admitted that when he engaged him he took him as a weekly
servant, and agreed to pay him so much a week ; he had not
considered it necessary to tell him that he should expect a
week's notice on his leaving, as he thought that both master
and man were legally compelled to give and receive a week's
notice. The bench, however, decided that the lad completed
his contract every Saturday night, and his employer could not
compel him to return on the Monday. On the other hand,
the farmer may summarily dismiss the man on the Monday
morning without notice, and without there being any claim on
him for compensation. If, however, there be a boniifide agree-
ment to give and receive a week's notice, that is a contract of
another nature. The case, therefore, was dismissed.
THE NEW GOVERNOR or ADELAIDE.—The most interest-
ing event that has lately transpired in this colony during the
last three weeks has been the arrival of his Excellency Sir
Richard Graves M`Donnell, our newly-appointed governor.
We announced in our last summary that Mr. Beresford, his
excellency's private secretary, had arrived, with his family, in
the John Banks, direct from England, and that Sir Richard
had reached Melbourne in the mail packet Blue Jacket, and
was daily expected in Adelaide. His Excellency, embarked
for Port Adelaide on board the screw steamer Burra Burra,
on the 19th of May. The unusually long time that elapsed
without any tidings of this vessel tended to create considerable
uneasiness as to its safety, the more so as it was known that
gales, equal if not greater in violence than any ever known
before on the coast, had been blowing continuously for several
days. On Thursday, June 7, however, the signal for a steamer
in sight was hoisted at the signal station, and great was the
general joy in the city when, in a short time, the vessel was
eiearly made out to be the Burra Burra. She reached the
port about sunset, and came to anchor amid the cheers and
rejoicings of the inhabitants there. Her long passage had
been owing, as was expected, to the boisterous weather en-
countered, especially on the South Australian coast. On the
25th of May she was off the sea mouth of the Murray, when,
a slight accident happening to her machinery, and being short
of fuel, she bore up under canvass for Portland, which port
was reached on the 2d of June. A fresh supply of coals was
laid in there, and she left on the 4th of June, reaching Port
Adelaide, as before stated, on the 7th of June. Sir Richard
M`Donnell remained on board all night. On the following
morning he landed, when he met with a hearty reception,
and was afterwards installed in due form.—South Australian
Register of June 23.
AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.—The select committee of the
Lords, to inquire into the best mode of obtaining accurate
agricultural statistics from all parts of the kingdom, have re-
ported that, in consequence of the want of these statistics,
great inconvenience and injury has been sustained by all
.classes, because we have never known what quantity of foreign
grain we should annually require for home consumption.
France, Holland, Belgium, and the United States, had more
or less perfectly organised systems for obtaining this informa-
tion; and, from time to time, such statistics had been col-
lected from some of the English counties, successfully, by the
inspectors of the Poor-law Board. As regards England and
Wales, the committee recommended that the officers of the
various unions should be employed, once a year, to deliver and
collect schedules, in which should be enumerated the average
under each description of crop, an accurate return of stock
(cattle), and an approximate estimate of the produce of the
harvest. The schedules having been collected, it is proposed
that they should be classified by each union, and returned to
the Poor-law Board, for a national table to be compiled from
them. With regard to Scotland, it is proposed to leave the
matter entirely in the hands of the Highland Society, as here-
tofore; and, in Ireland, the existing machinery of the con-
stabulary, under the superintendence of the Irish Registrar-
General, is recommended to remain in force. A bill to em-
power these recommendations to be carried out is proposed to
be introduced into parliament during the ensuing session.
THE TICHBORNE DOLE.—The family of Tiehborne date
their possession of the present patrimony, the manor of Tich-
borne, so far back as 200 years before the Conquest. When
the Lady Mabella, worn out with age and infirmity, was lying
on her deathbed, she besought her loving husband, as her last
request, that he would grant her the means of leaving behind
her a charitable bequest, in a dole of bread to be distributed
to all who should apply for it annually on the Feast of the
Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Sir Roger, her
husband, readily acceded to the request, by promising the pro-
duce of as much land as she could go over in the vicinity of
the park while a certain brand or billet was burning, sup-
posing that, from her long infirmity (for she had been bed-
ridden some years), she would be able to go round a sma`

portion only of his'Property. The venerable dame, however,
ordered her attendants to convey her to the corner of the park,
where, being deposited on the ground, she seemed to receive a
renovation of strength, and, to the surprise of her anxious and
admiring lord, who began to wonder where this pilgrimage
might end, she crawled round several rich and goodly acres.
The field which was the scene of Lady Mabella's extra-
ordinary feat retains the name-of "Crawls" to this day.
It is situated near the entrance of the park, and contains
an area of 23 acres. Her task being completed, she was
reconveyed to her chamber, and, summoning her family
to her bedside, predicted its prosperity while the annual dole
existed, and left her malediction on any of her descendants

who sh-ould ever be so mean or covetous as to discontinue or

divert it, prophesying that when such should happen the old
house would fall and the family name would become extinct
from the failure of heirs male, and that this would be foretold
by a generation of seven sons being followed immediately
after by a generation of seven daughters and no son. The
custom thus founded in the reign of Henry 11., continued to
be observed for centuries; and the 25th of March became the
annual festive day of the family. It was not until the middle
of the last century that the custom was abused ; when, under
pretence of attending Tichborne Dole, vagabonds, gipsies, and
idlers of every description assembled from all quarters, pilfer-
ing throughout the neighbourhood ; and, at last, the gentry
and magistrates complaining, it was discontinued in 1796.
Singularly enough, the baronet of the day had seven sons ;
and, when he was succeeded by the eldest, there appeared a
generation of seven daughters, and the apparent fulfiment of
the prophecy was completed by the change of the name of the
late baronet to Doughty, under the will of his kinswoman.—

Winchester Observer. - •
SIR JAMEI GBAJIAM.-Sir James Graham is neither more
nor less than a political infidel. The apostle of inconsistency,
he wants the only quality which can redeem that creed. Un-
like Canning or Peel—who although inconsistent were yet
great—it is impossible to detect in the long career of Graham
that element of real consistency which characterises a true
statesman. No man can fail to discern the noble sympathies
of Canning, even when he was following the chariot-wheels of
Eldon, or to recognise Peel's principles of free-trade in his
very measures to secure protection. Without the dignity of
character or the scope of mind to originate a policy, Sir James
Graham has been by turns everything, according to the
humour of the chief whom for the moment he was content to
follow. His is not the mind to be possessed by a great idea,
the wisdom of which, if he could only see it realised, he would
willingly consent that the future should vindicate. No; Sir
James Graham is a statesman without a policy, and, like the
shallow stock jobber in Capel-court, his judgment is ruled by
the rumour of the hour. With a base passion for power,
heightened by a singular talent for administration (for all
men delighb to do that which they do well), conjoined with a
mischievous indiscretion in the exercise of power more worthy
of a schoolboy than a statesman, he is continually bringing
unpopularity on himself and confusion on his colleagues.
With a fixed determination to defend every act of his ad-
ministration, and to crush, if possible, any individual who
attempts to question it, he indulges in a boldness of assertion,
which, though it would be admirable on the stage, becomes
loathsome in the House of Commons. Let not Sir James
suppose that his assertions as to the blockade of the Black
Sea and the death pf Captain Christie are yet forgoten.-.
Pally News.

Two unlicensed stockbrokers at Paris have been sentenced
to two years' imprisonment for swindling and betting upon
the public funds.
NEW ACT ON WEDDING RINGS.—Among the acts of the
late session was one to except gold wedding rings from the
operation of the former act relating to the standard and silver
wares, and from the exemptions contained in the acts relating.
to gold wares. Wedding rings are now required to be assayed
and marked.
THE VINE DISEASE.—From Oporto, under date of the
30th ult., we learn that the vine disease has made rapid pro-
gress, and in the Douro it was becoming as destructive as last
year. It is expected that about the same quantity of wine
will be made ; but, as the vintage will be a very late one, the
quality will depend upon the state of the weather.
A HALE CENTENARIAN.--George Stephenson has just died
at Romaldkirk, near Barnard Castle, aged 105 years. He was
an agricultural labourer, and famed as an early riser. He
used, it is said, frequently to reprove his daughter and her
husband, both of whom are upwards of 70 years, for indulging
in bed so long in the mornings, though they invariably rose
before 6 o'clock, telling them, if they would not work when
young, what-would they do when old !
ONE of the minor curiosities of Paris is the enormous vine
which ornaments the court of a house in the Rue des Marais
St. Germain. It is said to have been planted by Racine; and,
supposing that he did it in bhe last year of his life, the vine
must now be not less than 156 years of age, as that celebrated
writer died in 1699. It is this year in an unusually flourishing
condition, and covered with fine fruit.
A NUMEROUS GANG of the London swell mob have made
their appearance in Constantinople. They came from London,
and finding an open field for their exploits, set to in earnest,
robbing and swindling officers and sailors indiscriminately.
Twelve vagabonds have been taken up, thanks to the active
exertions of Major Hackett; and the rest, supposed to be 70
in all, have dispersed, or are concealed. The culprits in
custody are in irons, and will be sent to Multa for trial.
SUICIDE IN A RAILWAY TRAIN.—On Thursday morning,
a son of Dr. Payne, of Nottingham, committed' suicide in a
railway carriage, between Nottingham and Derby. He had
taken a black silk handkerchief from his neck, and suspended
himself from the ventilator at the top of the carriage-door.
He had also taken off his shoes, and turned his trousers up
to the knees. He was immediately cut down, and although
life was apparently not extinct, he was beyond hope of
recovery.
WEANING BY ELECTRICITY.—An invention that promises
to create a revolution in the manufacture of silks, linens,
cottons--in fact of all woven articles—has just been perfected
here, and a specimen is now on its way to the Paris exhibition.
This is the electric loom, invented by Cavaliere Bonelli, in-
spector of telegraphs in the Sardinian States. Some time
since I noticed to you his application of electricity to the
jacquard loom, whereby he was enabled to dispense with cards,
and much of the manipulation necessary for the old system of
weaving; but in the more perfected specimen now about to be
exhibited, the inventor has added steam power to supersede
manual labour, so that one intelligent workman may attend to
many machines at the same time, and the operation of making
all kinds of patterns will be as easy, cheap, and expeditious, as
printing and knitting in different patterns is also performed
with similar instruments.— Turin correspondent of the
Times.
THE ABORIGNIES OF AUSTRALIA.—The last report of the
Protector of the Aborignies has recently been published, but
beyond testifying to the rapidly diminishing numbers of the
native tribes, it claims little of an interesting character. The
Adelaide tribe have returned to their winter quarters in and
about town, occupying themselves by day in begging food and
clothing, and by night in holding corobbories by their wurley
fires. Archdeacon Hale, with unwearied perseverance, con-
tinues his efforts at Port Lincoln, and speaks hopefully of the
indications of some of his pupils. But the steady diappear-
ance of the natives is what every report on their condition
most uniformly points to, although everything is done that
could promise to alleviate the discomforts of their condition.
—Adelaide Register.
TICKET OF LEAVE CoNvrcrs.—On Saturday a Return
was issued which states that the Secretary of State is not in
possession of any sufficient information to enable him to state
the number of convicts with tickets of leave who are known
to be now in employment or conducting themselves properly.
It may, however, be stated that of 960 convicts released during
the year ended 30th June last, 690 have made application at
the end of the stipulated interval of three months after their
discharge for the balance of the gratuity returned on their
release, in accordance with the regulations, and that 684 of
the number produced satisfactory testimonials of their goad
conduct. Of the 270 who have not applied, the greater
portion have not been at large the regulated period. Ninety-
seven convicts who have received tickets of leave have been
re-convicted of various crimes.
EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE.— On Mondaya singular circum-
stance happened to Thomas Malkin, while travelling by the
7 a.m. train from Hull to Sheffield. As the train was proceed-
ing at a rapid rate between Kiveton-park and Woodhouse
Junction, near to Aston colliery, Malkin, while leaning over
the carriage door, found it giving way. He grasped the door,
in his effort to save himself, but it swung open, and he was
thrown with great force upon the opposite embankment.
When the train arrived at the Victoria station information of
the accident was given to Mr. Ward, the manager, and he
immediately proceeded with a carriage and engine to the spot.
On arriving at the Woodhouse viaduct he met the man walk-
ing along the line. He was taken into the carriage, and it
was found that he had sustained no injury beyond a severe
shock and a few slight bruises on his hands, back, and head.—
Sheffield Iris.
COLLISION AT SEA.—On Sunday morning the schooner
Snowdrop, of Sunderland, Captain Adamson, while on her
voyage down to Sunderland, timber laden, came into collision
with the Charles of Lyme, three miles off Whitby. The
Charles was seen at some distance by the crew of the Snow-
drop, the wind blowing fresh at the time, and every effort
was made to avoid her, but all their endeavours failed to
avoid a collision. The vessels soon cleared each other, but
for some time the Snowdrop was unmanageable, in conse-
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which the schooner's boat was instantly put out, and exer-
tions made to save the crew, but only one man was found
above water, the remainder of the hands, five in number,
having perished. The Snowdrop has since arrived in Sunder-
land, with the solitary survivor of the ill-fated Charles on
board.
PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.—On Thurs-
day, a meeting of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
was held at its offices, John-street, Adelphi, London, Captain
Lambert Perrott in the chair. Mr. Lewis, the secretary,
having read the minutes of the previous meeting, the silver
medal of the institution was voted respectively to Mrs. Gil-
braith and to Mr. William Rae, in testimony of their humane
and gallant services to one out of three persons who were
upset in a small punt near Whitburn, on the Durham coast, on
the 6th ult. Rae was in the boat with the three men when
the accident happened, and had almost succeeded in swimming
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to the crew of the sloop Ann Susannah, of Bangor, which became
also a total wreck near the same dangerous locality. As in the
previous instance, the wreck's crew of four men had succeeded
in landing before the arrival of the lifeboat. A reward of
£1 12s. was voted to the boat's crew for rescuing four persons
from a boat which had capsized in Redwharf Bay, on the
Anglesea coast. The crew of the upset boat were seen
clinging to her in an exhausted state when rescued from a
watery grave. One of them had lost his hold, and was being
drawn away with the tide, when help was given him. Two
poor Irishmen, who, with the promptitude and humanity
which always characterise this class of the Irish people,
put off in their curraghs to the rescue of the master of a
smack thrown out of his vessel near Foy Island, on the coast
of Donegal, received £2. A reward of £9 was voted
to a smack's crew for saving two of the crew of
the emigrant ship John Bright, who had been capsized
from a boat when that vessel struck on Arklow Banks,
on the 24th ult. A communication was read from
Count Walewski, stating that the attention of the French go-
vernment would be directed to the various models of lifeboats,
&c., exhibited by the institution at the Paris Exhibition.
Captain Robertson, R.N., of the Board of Trade, has recently
visited some of the lifeboats of the institution, and has re-
ported very favourably of their efficiency. It appeared that
the society has now a class of lifeboat—after Mr. Peake's de-
sign—that admirably answers every purpose for which a life-
boat can be required. A strong appeal was made for pecu-
niary aid to enable the institution to increase the number of
of its lifeboats on dangerous points of the coast. The pro-
ceedings then closed.

HORRIBLE OCCURRENCE NEAR BA T yr.—ATTEMPTED PAR-
llolft the an opulent
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a view to his murder, by his only son, Thomas Fulton, a young
man of between 24 and 26 years of age. Mr. Fulton did not
reside upon his business premises at Bath, but occupied a
country residence called Lambridge. His family consisted of
his wife, some daughters, and the son, Mr. Thomas Fulton.
The latter was a young man of extravagant and somewhat
dissolute habits, but he was indulgently treated by his father
and all the family. Little doubt, therefore, is entertained that
his object was to destroy his father's life in order to possess
himself of the property wherewith to sustain his extravagant
habits. For some weeks past, Mr. Fulton, sen., had been
attacked at intervals with violent pains, which symptoms came
on generally after meals. Medical aid was from time to time
procured, and the malady succumbed to the treatment em-
ployed, but the symptoms, nevertheless, caused great uneasi-
ness to be felt by all the members of the family. On Sunday,
the 19th ult., Mr. Fulton had a very violent attack, which, it
is now remembered, came on shortly after his drinking a glass
of beer, which was handed to him by his son. Mr. Harris,
surgeon, was sent for, and prescribed for the symptoms which
he found, and under his treatment the unfortunate gentleman
got better, and was sufficiently recovered by the 27th to be
able to go into Bath to his place of business. Upon going
home again in the evening he felt weak and exhausted, and
fanciful as regarded his appetite, and he requested that he
might have some fried potatoes and a thin rasher or two of
bacon prepared for him. The meat was served up, and Mr.
Fulton, after eating a portion of it, complained of tasting in
his mouth the same metallic coppery taste which he had ob-
served on former occasions. This was at first ascribed to
fancy, but in a few minutes he was seized with pains as be-
fore. Mr. Harris was again called in, and his suspicions be-
coming excited, inquiries were instituted, and it was dis-
covered that when the fried potatoes were being prepared,
Mr. Thomas Fulton entered the kitchen, and under pretence
of being anxious to prevent delay, volunteered to cut up some
of the potatoes ; that after his father's sickness came on, he
took the plate of potatoes which remained into the garden,
where he must have contrived to throw them away, as the
empty plate was afterwards found on a table in the study, and
that he was observed a'so to pour water into the frying Tan,
which he placed over the fire to boil, and afterwards emptied
the water away. The circumstances increasing the sus-
picion against him, and leaving little doubt that he had con-
trived to mix some poisonous substance with the potatoes, a
portion of the contents, of the stomach, and subsequently the
frying-pan, were sent to Mr. Herapath, the well-known ana-
lytical chemist, of Bristol, who succeeded in producing arsenic
from both. Finding that his diabolical attempt at parricide
had been detected, young Fulton fled from his home,
and has
not since been heard of. A warrant has, however, been issued
for his arrest, and a description of his person telegraphed to
diifereptthe police-stations,

THE New York Herald estimates 168,600,000 bushels Of
wheat as the total yield of the present season in America,
which is 68,000 bushels over that of 1864.
A FLOCK or SHEEP, of precisely the same kind as those in
the park of Windsor, has just been placed in the upper part of
the park of St. Cloud.
AT a recent sale of the Marquis of Exeter's stud, Lord
Londesborough purchased Stockwell, the winner of the St.
Leger, for 3,100 guineas ; at the same sale Nutwith was sold
for 1,600 guineas, and Ambrose for 790 guineas.
THE thrashing-machines are already merrily at work
amongst the new wheat. It may be easily accounted for. A
man of money may want straw or a man of straw.may want
money, while some, wanting neither one nor the other, may
deem it prudent, without exactly anticipating a fall in the
market, yet withal to realise at the present tempting prices.
TEE Moons AND FORESTS.—The moors continue to yield
fair sport. Blackgame have been less plentiful than could
have been wished, but several of these fine birds have been
struck down during the week. The weather has been in gen-
eral most propitious. The distinguished party at the Duke of
Richmond's shootings on the Blackwater were out during four
days. On Wednesday last, the Earl of March and the Earl of
Derby, after one, p.m., bagged eighteen and a half brace
of grouse, six blackcock, and two plover. The same two noble-
men bagged, on the following day, twenty-five and a half brace
of grouse and three hares. The party on the Carr-bridge
moors have had good sport since the season opened. Up to the
night of Thursday last, after only nine days' regular shooting.,
it was found that the party, comprising five guns, had brought
down no fewer than 2,077 brace of grouse, besides blackgame,
snipes, hares, &c. In a season when grouse have been more
than usually scarce, this amount of success is quite extraordi-
nary, and we suspect is unequatled on any other moor in Scot-
land this year. From the Ross-shire moors we have very
favourable reports. Our correspondent says :—" The weather
in this country is still of the most favourable character for
grouse shooting. On Tuesday last, N. E. Vaughan, Esq., and
party, knocked over five roe-deer. On the following day the
same party had thirty-five brace of grouse, two and half of
blackgame, besides several hares. On the South Garve moor,
during the week, J. Edwards, Esq., killed ninety head of
game, comprising grouse, blackgame, hares, rabbits, &c*
Mr. Pryor and party still continue to get excellent sport.
On the Strathvaugh grounds the party had in one day
lately upwards of forty brace. In Strathconnon Forest
J. La Touche, Esq., is still bringing down some excellent
stags. Among those killed by that gentleman lately
are two antlered monsters, whose huge dimensions out-
strip any we have heard of this season. One of these had
fifteen points, and weighed nineteen imperial stone ! The
other had thirteen points, and weighed fifteen stone! Edward
Clough Tay/or and friends are bagging from twenty-five to
fifty brace a day in Glen Orrin and Glendordie."—Banifshire
Journal.
HUTS FOR THE CRIMEA.—Some of the huts contracted for
by Messrs. Lucas, Brothers, Lowestoft, are now in course of
shipment for the Crimea, by the bark Barretto Junior, of
London. The huts for he soldiers, of which Messrs. Lucas
have provided 53, are designed to accommodate 22 men each,
and are 32 feet by 16 feet. The first operation in erecting
them will be to lay down cast-iron shoes, of which each hut
will require 14. Upon these shoes the sleepers which will re-
ceive the floor will be placed. The floor of each hut consists of
24 panels, 5 feet 4 inches by 4 feet each ; and the ends of five
panels each, with the door in the centre. The gables are two
panels in each, with a ventilator to each panel. The sides and
ends are bolted together with strong three-quarter inch
bolts. The roof is similarly constructed, and is in two thick-
nesses of three-quarter-inch parallel boarding, the outer being
of weather-board, with a layer of felt between. Each roof is
provided with two ventilators, and the windows, four in
number, are hung upon centres, and will also be available for
ventilation. The huts are so light that a man on each side
of one of them would be able to move it readily, and they will
be easily and rapidly erected, as a side panel will fit any part
of the side. The same is also the case with the floor, ends,
and roof ; but, to prevent the least confusion or mistake, every
panel, &c., is marked with initials referring to the purpose for
which it is intended. Messrs. Lucas have also constructed 12
portable huts for hospitals, each of them being designed to
accommodate 50 men. They have floors similar to the huts
&ready described, but the walls as well as the roofs are in two
thicknesses, with felt between, for the purpose of increasing
the warmth of the interiors. The walls consist of sills and
heads, with post-frames, forming bays and panels. In addi-
tion to these hospital huts the enterprising contractors have
also been engaged upon 30 officers' huts, 72 feet by 20 feet, and
designed to accommodate 16 persons each. The arrangements
of these huts are of course on a more extensive scale. Each
of them contains eight rooms, two transverse passages, with
several cross partitions running from end to end. Six com-
missariat storehouses, each 76 feet by 20 feet, and 12 others,
40 feet by 20 feet, have also been constructed. These huts
required 32,000 bolts, and some idea may be formed of the
large quantity of material cut up, and the expedition with
which the work has proceeded, when it is stated that 53,000
superficial feet of deal have been daily " worked up."