The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-04 00:00:00

STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

The Limerick Chronicle of yesterday contains, under this
head, an array of criminality not a little startling. The as-
malt on Michael M'Mahon, clerk to Mr. F. J. O'Neill, of
Limerick, is likely to prove fatal. He was, it appeam, struck
near his own door, and the ruffian who beat hint with the
loaded stick was seen to have pistols in his p,cliet. A re-
markable circumstance is stated of M'Mahon—namely, that
when a few years since a gunpowder txplosion occurred
there, which threw down several houses, M•Malion's father,
mother, brother, and cousin were killed. On Thursday
night an attack was made upon the house of a farmer near
Croagh, ten miles front Limerick, and the owner, a man
named Hannan. so badly beaten as to leave little hopes of his
recovery. On Wednesday night, within two nn.es front
Limerick, a servant of Mr. Darby O'Grady, returning
to his master's with meal, and laaviug a gun, was at-
tacked, and both provisions and arms taken from him.
Ou the name night five sheep were slaughtered, the property
of a widow in good circumstances. The carcases were re-
moved. The same night, in another pars of the county, an
armed party attacked the houses of several farmers, and
levied contributions from them. But worst of all—let us
hope it may be either untrue or exaggerated—the tlronide
states, but without detailing circumstance or probable
motive, that a man named Browne bad been murdered be-
tween Thurlea and Cashel, on Friday. A house was attacked
and robbed of fire-arms in one of the proclaimed baronies of
Clare on Christmas-day. The same pap inform us that
horrible destitution prevails in the west of Clare.
The people tear up every root they can find.
A man named Winslow, bailiff to Mr. John Boyd, of Red.
hills, county Cavan, was fired at on the evening of the 27th
instant, as he was returning home in company with five
I other persons. He was openly attacked and wounded in toe
thigh.
INVISTIGATION.—The attention of the magi-
strates of Westport has been occupied recently by a ass
not a little characteristic of those western regions. The

corn ricks of • man named Joyce, re.ident iv Mir:neon% were
burned at night. The night was calm, and the stacks, when
he awoke and saw them on fire, were equally burned.
There facts of course showed the fire to be malicious.
He maw some neighbours of his named Gregory in
the enclosure fully dressed, though it was a very late
hour. Hence be judged them to be the incendiaries.
However, he did not ray so at first, as he allrgcs, because
' that would prevent him from obtaining the value of his cern
from the county. Meantime government offered a reward for
the incendiaries, and Joyce came forward ; but before he
heard of the reward he had stated his suspicion of the Ura-
-1 gories. The peculiar features of the case are these . The
Gregory family were Roman catholics ; but shortly alter
the confirmed prevalence of destitution went to the
protestant church, and have attended constantly
there since. The children have ales gone to a
school managed by the protestant clergyman. The RAMS*
catholic clergyman had spoken from the altar of the
Gregories, fsr having abandoned his Rick, and for kavivg
sent their children to "a proselytiaing school." Their
neighbours in consequence ceased to speak to thorn. It was
suggested on the one aide at the inquiry, that the (harries
had set fire to their neighbour's corn in revenge for their
being tabooed ; and on the other side it was suggested that the
charge against the Gregori. a was one suggested by secteri in
animosity. This latter view the magistrates were incl.niol
to take, but as the accused were unable to account for their
presence fully dressed in the enclosure at the period of the
burning, informations were taken against Alice Gregory,
wife of James Gregory, and her two daughters. James was
allowed to go free, as he was said to have been an invalid.
Mr. Barter.—The polias of Waterford have arrested, on
board an emigrant ship in the harbour there, a man, named
earthy, charged with the attempt to assassinate Mr. Bayley,
which bad nearly proved successful.

SCOTLAND.
EDINBURGH, J•N. 1.
An "unfortunate shareholder" of the National
Exchange Company has addressed a letter to the
Glasgow newspapers on the affairs of that concern.
As before intimated, the company is about to wind up
with a heavy loos. But according to the "share-
holder" it was only on the 16th September that the
directors, at the annual meeting, set forth in their
report that " the net profits made by the company
during the year amounted to 22,5101. 16e. 5d., from
which they proposed to pay a dividend of 8 per cent.,
and which required the sum of 16,9931. 17e. 4d., leav-
ing &balance of 5,5261. 19s. Id., to be carried to the
credit of the reserve account, which would then
amount to 21,1261. 1,5 e. 3d." Where, ho then perti-
nently asks, is this reserveaceountof 21,126/. 15.. 3d.,
and where is the capital ? If lam correctly informed
no bad debts have been made since, and if so, was the
report a correct one ? If it was not a correct one,
surely there is liability somewhere. Are the directors
liable? If so, they should make up the
loss. They are quite responsible. The " shareholder "
suggests that each of the directors should, in the mean-
time subscribe 20,0001. each, in order th►t necessi-
tous shareholders should receive their usual dividends,
and hints rather explicitly that legal steps should be
taken to throw the whole loss on the directors if this
or some similar course should not bo adopted by them.

The Scottish Educational Institute has announoed
the opening of classes for the instruction of teachers
in the classics, mathematics, French, and history, and
the leading fellows are also to give ten lectures on dif-
ferent educational topics. The parish schools have
been attacked in a letter addressed to the Lord Advo-
cate, which contains some home thrusts. The points
complained of are—l, Patronage (which resides in
the heritors, and oftener in their law-agents and fac-
tors) ; 2, the kind of instruction (defective on the
average) ; 3, the superintendence (vested in church
presbyteries and performed perfunctorily) ; 9, loca-
tion (unsuited to the altered geography
caused by new villages) ; 5, testa, which com-
pel the masters to belong to the established church.
The foes of the parish schools are as apt to depre-
ciate as their friends are to overrate them. Their
chief merit consists in having secured a minimum
rate of tuition in a country destitute of superior na-
tural resources. A church and a school in every
parish for more than two centuries have been great
moral fulcrums for raising the standard of intelligence
and conduct. But, of course, as population, dissent,
and knowledge, all advance, the stream of in-
struction supplied by the united efforts of church
and state becomes in process of time too nar-
row, and in some places too muddy, and hence
complaint, remonstrance, and threatened reformation.
the parish schools are neither better nor worse than
any other institutions possessing corporation privi-
leges for a like time ; that they are susceptible of
great improvement no one who sees clearly and im-
partially will for a moment doubt.
Mr. J. S. Lefevre's report respecting the differences
between the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal

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Institution is expected noon. It is said that it will
have the rare merit of pleasing both parties.
Scotland, like Belfast, baa always excelled in
almanac manufacture, and this year it is to have two
large new law almanacs. The parliament house can
at farthest support only oce. so that life will 11K
awarded to the strongest.

RRNOVAL OF JEWISH DISAMLITIES.—A few weeks ago
an attempt was made in Elgin to get up a petitioit against
the adrniasion of Baron Rothschild to parliament. We un-
derstand the petition began by words to the following effect:
" We, the undo reigned, being not merely nominal, hut real
Christiana," Re. If we are to judge from the number of
signatures recived there am very few of these "real"
Christians in this town. To the credit of nor citizen,
only a mere fraction of them adhihited their names to this
extraordinary document of the Oxford school of theology.—
Elgin Curvier.
DIPPICULTIRS or RAOORD SCITOOT.S.—Many of the
children at the E liohurgh schools having neither bed nor
bed.clothee, are forced to sleep at night on the bare floor in
the same rags thee wear by day, which, consequently,
become offensive) filthy ; while, it fever happens to exist in
their wretched lodging, they are in a condition calculated to
carry the contagion with them to the sehnol, to the immi-
nent danger of each other, as well as of the schoolmasters
and mistremea. The evil eonaequenees of this state of things
have been already experienced to so alarming an extent (two
valuable teachers being at present dangerously ill of the
fever) ae to compel the enmmittee to resort to extraordinary
meanies in order to meet, and in some measure, it is hoped,
to disarm, this evil. It is proposed that the whole of the
children shall every morning undergo thorough ablution,
and that they shall be furnished with drew to be worn while
at tier school only, returning home at night in their own
clother, which have in the mean time been well fumigated.
Unfortunatsly the necessity for such measures as three was
nos cont. inplated whew subscriptions were first solicited from
the public in the general rules of management adopted by
the subscriber..
Fan tonv INterrrwrtoNs.— A plan has been recently
adopt. ti at the large factories on the D. near Aberdeen,
employing from 2,000 to 3,000 people, of supplying them
wan tiresefest and dinner on the premises, and it is fouls!
to answer remarkably well, both as regards the workpre.ple
• and their employers. The plan, as carried out at Mews.
Leys, Mason, and Co.'s, at Orandkolm, is as follows, and
the arrangements at the other factories are almost precisely
similar In the cooking department, to which a supply
of spring water is led in by pipes, there is for coup a boiler
of 120 gallons, and for coffee one of 70 gallon+, and her.
• table • and ettachei to the kitchen are six rooms fitted up
with table;
and fireplaces in each, affording accomenotha-
lion for above 400 persons when taking their meals. The
breakfast consists of a roll of bread, 64 ounces in weight, of
mixed or whole flou r of the best quality, and • meuure of coffee,
of one-tenth part of en imperial gallon. For one Felton of
coffee there is appropriated ai or. of coffee, 3 gallons of milk,
10 tx. of golden syrup ; and to every 30 gallons of coffee,
one-half ounce of ground cosi* is added, which gives the
coffee an agreeable flavour. Dinner e maiats of barley bryth
and bread, or pence-soup and bead; either one sixth of an
imperial gallon of barley broth, with • roll of breed weighing
6 cm. and three quarters, or one-sixth of an imp,vial eallan of
• pease-soon, and a roll of bread weighing 6 and one.fourth
ounce. For 50 gallons of bark, broth there arc appropriated
431 be good butcher's meat, 2ftlhe. barley, 511 e. pease; vege-
tables—turnips, carrots, leeks, to the value of 2s. or 2.5. (id.
For 53 gallons of peasedioup. 221hs. pease, 12lb. butcher's
meat, with the reserved bones from the barley broth, together
with vegetables—say carrots, turnips, relery, thyme. and an
ounce of ground" cauia. After the soup Is boiled, there
is added, to improve its consistency, two or three quer-
tern loaves, cat up into slices and browned. Break-
fast end dinner, including brad, charge lid. each. The
meals are served in exchange for printed tickets, of which
there are two sets—one tor betokened and the other for din-
mr. Bach department in the work has a number of these
ticket& appropriated, having the number of the department
on each. Returns of the number of persons in each depart-
ment who order breakfast and dinnt r for the following day
are given in to the superintendent of the kitchen every day
at twelve o'clock, in order to the preparation of the quantity
necessary to supple them. Any surplus there may be is
inquired after, and bought for domestic use by any persons
who may wish it. The overseers of the respective denatt-
ments, haying a list of the names of those who have been
supplied with meals during the week, render accour.ts at the
end thereof to the superintendent of the kitchen. The
cooking part of the kitchen is railed off, leaving a pas-
sage for those receiving meal% who enter at one
door, and, on beicg served, paw out at another door, or
go into the sitting rooms. There are two cooks, a man and
a woman, iu constant attendance; and besides these
there are tee t of the overseers of the works who assist by
rotation during the time of the serving out the meal,. Four
hundred persons can be served in twenty minutes. The
provisions are all of good quality, bought at wholesale prices.
The inati.ution is a self-supporting one. Messrs. Leys,
Mason, and Co., much to their credit, supply the furl retie,
as wadies the house, tuna ure, and cooking apperatue. The
above plan, which has been found to answer so admirably
in practice, originated in the hardships which were expe-
rienced by workers who bad to travel to the factories from
distance of un • or more miles, and who, of course, had to
bring their provisions with them, consisting very often of
nothing else than a piece of shy oat-take. Having no house
to go to, and no means of getting a more nourishing diet,
the poor people subjected to this state of matters suffered
muzh in bodily health and strength, being oft, n quite ea-
t gusted before the labours of the dsy were over. These con-
segue ces, so injurious alike to the employer and employed,
have been, to a mat extent, obviated by the plan which has
thus been hap•dly fallen upon."
How TO CATC3 PIORONS. —A boy in Perth, who had
lost a favourias pigeon by its absconding from his dove•
cot, happened to observe it with some other, upon the street.
He immediately got hold of a pretty sizeable stone, about
which he fastened the end tel a piece of small cord,
three yards long, and to the other end a common horse-
bean. He went as near to the pigeons as he could-
with his apparatus without making them fly off, laid it dew*
on the street. and sc.atte-ing some mouldy crumbs of bread
around the bean, retired. The pigeons were immediately at
the crumbs, and one of them, and it happened to he the
boy's, observing the bean, made a gobble at it anal swal-
lowed it. The b v mode a rush ; his favourite essayed to
fly, but be was as safe as a trout on a kook. The bean
though down would not come up, and not being able to
carry tiff the stone the prisoner was soon secured by the boy,
who cut the cord close to the bill, and carried him off in
triumph.

PROVINCIAL.
LANCASHIRE-
THE CONVICTS LEFT FOR EXECUTION.—The Lirer-
pool Albion of yesterday Faye. As the period approaches
within which Pilkington and Speed, the two unfortunate
men convicted of murder at the late swims, must be executed
if they be not reprieved, considerable interest begins to he
manifested in the event, if not sympathy on their behalf. A
contemporary. several days ego, inserted a letter, which we
now copy, said to have been sent from the Home of to
Air. Bredlev, of this town, announcing that the eentence on
Speed has been commuted to transportstion for life
'Wider:eat, c. 27, 11117.—Mr,—Secretary Sr George Grey boring
carefuly considered your application In behalf afJoseph speed, I have
the mtisfectlon to acquaint you that, tinder all the circumstances of
the Mt, he has felt warranted in adviaing her Majesty to commute
the prism, r'a sentence to transportation for life —I am, Sm., S. M.
Pall.l.lr...—Mr. Edward Bradley, FaLkocr..quare, Liverpool.
We have no reamn to dispute the correctness of tine letter
but it is somewhat singnlsr that Mr. Gibbs, the governor of
the gaol, has not received the slightest communication urn
the tubject, and, of course, has not felt justified in acquaint.
ing Speed with the statement. Beth prison( re, we under-
stand, aim peaceable and resigned, apparently prepared for
the sad fate to which they have been condemned, and anti-
cipating nothing but the worst. The only official despatch
which the governor has received announces that the pri-
soners are temporarily respited during her Majesty's plea-
sure. No day has yet been fixed for the execution of either
of the condemned. A peripatetic stationer last week peram-
bulated Liverpool, industriously selling an announcement
that the execution was to take idace on Saturday lest. An
immense crowd accordingly bents g
way to Kiikdale
and Scotland road at one time apnearcd aa thronged es on a
race day. About twelve, or shortly afterwards, not less than
4,000 or 6,000 persons were congregated around the prison.
The usual ribaldry nas manifested, and in the aft. noon
the mob returned, disappointed of the sad epectacle on
which they had meant to feast their eyt.s.
YORKSHIRE.
CinurnaAs TEMPERANCE FESTIVAL.—The annual
festive gathering of the Leeds Temperance Society was cele-
brated on Christmas-day, in the Mueic hall. The tables
were provided gratuitously by a number of ladies, and they
were well supplied with an abundance of rich and exc. Bent
provisions. About 1100 took tea, a& et which the tables were
removed to make incensed accommodation. P. Carbutt,
Bro., the mayor, was called to the chair. The mayor com-
menced his adders* by wishing a inppy Christmas to all his
tecteal friends. During the year it h -41 been his lot to take
pact in meetings of cations kinds —home political, some edu-
cational, some scientific, and some tenetolent and religious ;
and now, the last, he had the honour of presiding
over that meeting, which was second to none of
them in importance. The cultivation of the intel-
lect and of the moral feelings was highly impor-
tant, hut to be efficiently carried or. the temperarce cause
must go along with it. Other calls(' would suffer most
materially if the temperance reformation were not to ad-
vance. 'The intempi ranee of the land seriously impairs the
uaefulnens of all benevolent efforts. The cause they were
met to promote is especially the cause of the working man.
By intemperance the rich suffer in mind, body, and es
so tat
the
e,
but not so much in their pecuniai y circumstances
BUM of the people ; they have to earn their bread by the.
sweat of their brow. This is a olesend dispoteation, hut
there are few that have more than a sufficiency of the
necessaries of life ; and if the working man, carried away
by evil custom, spends a largo portion of his earnings
in groin; drink, it must exert a baneful influence upon
himself and hie family. So long as intemperate habi:s
prevailed they must often neutralise and thwart our
efforts at improvement. If we redress an evil in one
direction another will start up in its place. He compared
intemperance to the hydra-headed monster of ancient fable,
which Hercules destroyed. Let the tee total principle be the
Hercules to destroy that monstrous evil which bas so long
ravaged this and other lands, and then would there be a
prospect of all dames rising to that height of bodily welfare
and happiness which it was their privilege to enjoy, and
which it was the wish of the Almighty that they should pos.
sess.—Mr. Smithies, secretary of the York Temperance So-
ciety, refined to the obstacles which intemperance (resented
to the success of Bible societies, Missionary societies, and
Sabbath schools. He lately vLited York Castle and found
that 13 out of 14 criminals had been Sunday scholars,
and had been more or less addicted to drinking.—Mr. W. A.
Pallister was neat called upon, and commenced
"Illtlefeiffiring: lhe *pi tefffiltnielnared hold. ip thoS

which was connected with several amusing incidents. Were
the people to obtain all thee° eights sad privileges which
they were seeling, they would bo worse than useless MO long
as intemperance prevailed. Every great and benevolent
movement was bound up with the temperance reformation.
—Mr. Wolff here proposed the thanks of the meeting to
the ladies, fur their zealous efforts in making the a rrangemen te
for the festival and providing the tables gratuitously.—The
motion was unanimously adopted.—Mr. E. I'. Hood ob-
served that teetotalism was a matter of knowledge, of fact,
and of evidence. It was not a matter of opinion that the
world moves, and in this ease they were not left to any
other appeal than in thole where matters of fact were
concerned. They smerted that man can do without in-
toxicating liquor. This is a matter of demonstration.
Estimating the population of the world at one thousand
millions, there were at least tight hundred millions who ab-
staM from intoxicating drinks. On their side they Ted the
tallest, the strong's- the fairest, arid the longest livers.
They did not speak of' abetinenee from strong drink merely,
but they viewed it as a principle destined to affect man's
physical condition—to pioneer other great truths In the
march of improvement—as calculated to cleanse many
of the Augean stables rat vies and iniquity—as rising
to the highest and stooping to the humblest—as pointing
to the true tendencies of the age, and throwing down
a mighty harrier to man's elevation. Associate it with
all the great facts of man's history, and let it occupy
its right poeition. Never was there an evil that
prevailed, but God, at the right time, sent down a fret
or a principle that shattered the evil and erected the good.
lie adapts men to the age in which they flourish, and an
age to men. The temperance reformation comes forth as
one of the moral measures to improve our age. The truths
in which it deals have been wanting, and it may be com-
pered to a flake of snow gaihe ring size and fore: as it is
'nosed along. They did not know half the good thinge that
would grow out of it. Mr. It. referred to the nect mity of a
Temperance-hall, in Leeds, and urged the friends of the
cause to put forth eeltdenjiug efforts to effect this desirable
object.
ANOTHER AFFRAY WITII I'OACTIERS.—Oh Wed-
nesday, S. Ball, W. Walton, and 0. Etchells, were charged,
at the Stockport Court-home. with having, in company with
three other men, been out on the night of Chriatmee-day,
on the estate of T. Legh, Esq., of Lyme, for the purpose
of destroying game. It appeared from the evidence of
W. R. King, the head keeper, that about twelve o'clock on
Christmas night, he and six ethers were watching over
the lands of John deckeon, called the Corn Field Farm,
a tenant of Mr. Legh'e. About a quarter past twelve he
heard the hark of a deg, and the footsteps of several men ;
he sent four of his men to the lower end of Widow Bayley's
term, about a quarter of a mile, to ascertain who the p
were; and in ten minutes six men came up, having four
hereto with them on a click. Ile mid to them, "Goal morn-
ing,-1 think yen have been very busy ;" upon which they
stood still far a few momenta. He then desired one of his
assistants, John Swindells, to take the hares from them.
Swindells attempted to do an, when one of the party knocked
him down with something he held in hie hand. The poachers
were separated (rem the keepers by a stone wall. One of
them arid, " Hand me the hares ai.d come over here ;" the
p-oachers did so. Withers then whietlesl f r hie men to
come up, and the next mom. nt the poachers attacked them
with sticks and atones. Witness raid, " Come, come,
I know vou all well,: leig have no lighting ; go off quietly."
George 'Bradley (not apprehended) said to his companions,
' Now, lisle, at 'em, kill 'ern ;" and Wm. Mellor, who is
'also at laser, y, threw a stone and struck witness on the
head, and knocked Wm down ; he put up his arm to pro-''
test his head, when another stone struck him on the bade
of his bend, injuring him so much, that he hail not been
able to leave his bed until Weelneeday morning. The keepers
had a dog with them, but it was muzzled, rod they never
set it at any perso.i.—Creedexemini d for the defendants :
When WitZIC.I went to Jackson's farm it was a little before
12 o'clock. The dole. muzzle was troken, and knocked off,
Ty the atones; held it by a slip; the stabile' was of the
mastiff breed; it got loose somehow and escaped from him.
The poachers had bludgeons of a formidable character, like
that produced in court; supposed they carried them for tne
purpose of heating the people on the head. Etchel a, one of
the prisoners in the duck, spoke to him ; they were within
ayard of each other. " Sampson " was the dog's name.
D:d not nay " At 'em, Sampson." Was knock. tl senseless to
the ground, and lost a considerable quantity of bleed. Wit-
ness does not Know what took place afterwards.—By the
bench : Knew Etchells well, as a notorious poacher. The
ptieenent were eventually committed to Chester Assizes for
trial.—Ball was refused.

LINCOLNSUIRE.
EDWIN LANDSKER, the celebrated painter, has it
it said, commi.,ioned a friend to purchste the dog
whose faithfulness a,d affection were sr touchingly d, ye-
loped in the recent melancholy occurrence—the inur•
der of a farmer, its muster, near Kirton. That the
afflicted Mends of the deceived will be induced to pert with
the animal is not prnhahle' hat there is no doubt that every
facility will be afforded to Mr. lAndseer for the accomplish-
ment of the wish which dictated the desire to possess the
dug, end that he will, ere long, hare an accurate liken. be of
the faithful animal, which has furnished one of the most
affecting ineidtnta to be found in the records of canine saga-
city and sincerity.—Stamford Mercury.
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officer found 2011 w. more of tobseco in the possession of
another seaman, who has absconded.—Mr. Yardley sen-
tenced the prisoner to pay a fine of 1001., and in default
committed him to the:lleum of Cerrection for six faunal,.
STEIKING, A MOTHEIL-6eorge was charged
with striking and otherwise ill-using his awn mother, Eliza-
beth Fielder. For some years the defendant, who lived
with her, had been constantly in the habit of grossly
ill.using her, and he had even been brought oefore
this court on two occasions, and and over to keep
the peace. On Wednesday last he knocked her down several
times, and on Friday evening he struck her a violent blow
in the fare, which almost stunned her. 11, also kicked her
sever, ly, and she was still suffering severely from the inju-
ries she had received.—Mr. Yardley raid his conduct was of
a most gross and disgusting nature in striking a woman, and
that woman his own mother. He should punish him with
some severity, and ordered him to pity a fine of 51., or be
imprisoned for six weeks.—He was locked up in default.
WANDSWORTH.— ONE WAY TO CURE DRYNEENNESS.
—Police-COEStable 118 V, accompenie d by a woman named
Burchell and her daughter, solicited the advice of Mr.
Beadon under the following cireutmeances: —LILA Friday
fortnight, Charles Borchelt, son of the female applicant,
with his sister Emma, the y ung woman present, and
Thomas Clifford, a fellow-workman of Borchelt's, were
drinking together at several public-houses, and they last
went into the Chelsea Pensioners. where Emma Borchelt
became very ill. Clifford undertook to make her well, and
procured whet is believed to have been ammonia, of the use
of which drug he told the druggist he had perfect know-
ledge, as ho hod male tons of it. Tile druggist cautioned
him that he most not administer more than 20 drops in a
diluted state. Clifford used the liquid in its genuine state,
forced some of it up the girl's nostrils, and dropped some
into her mouth and throat, cawing an intense burning sen-
sation and a feeling of etrangulet;,m, the blood flowing
copiously from the nose. Clifferd still wished to administer
more of the drug, but was prevented, and the girl was taken
home, where she continued in strong fits upwards of three
hours. Clifford said she was overcool° by drink, and wanted
to imply some more of the stuff, hut the mother would not
let him. Clifford then said he would go and fetch Charles
Borchelt, whom he had left in the Swan, Battersea-bridge.
It appeared that Clifford purchased some more Ammonia in
the Bridge-road, and administered three or four doses to
Burchell, whom he found asleep. He forced Burehell's
head back, and poured some of the liquid into his : moils
and into his throat. The young man appeared to suffer great
pain, and foamed at the mouth. Clifford was remonatrated
with by all parties present, but he said he knew what he
was about, and he would cure him. Burchell, it seemed,
staggered home and went to bad, but could not sleep,
and after being very restless for two or three days, he re-
turned on the next Wednesday from a quarter of a day's
work in an evidently deranged Mete of mind. Mr. Show,
a medical man, was sent for, and soon afterwards the man
became raving mad, and he was removed, by Mr. Shaw's
d.rections, to Mr. Tow's private lunatic asylum, where he
at present remains a hopeless maniac.—Mr. Beadon said
the circumotanetA detailed w•re most lamentable as re-
garded Borchelt, hut there appear el to hr au absence of any
criminal intent on the part of ClitTerd. Wiiateaer he had
done WAS with an upparently gone! motive, and it was not
feasible to presume that he eculd have sought to take
another mna.'s life in the presence of ro many people.—
Inspector Bucain sui.sequently hal a lengthened private
interview with the magistreete, the result of which was
understood to be, that if Burchell died Clifford was to be
apprehended; or, if the surgeon's certificate declared the
symptoms of a fatal character, a warrant might be ap-
plied for.

sian were done at 107 4, and may be ren,ted
gradually improving. Li
We have the report of n failure of impartial, is
Paris to-day, but no names MI ',timed. It is stated
by parties well acquainted and connected with the
locality, that the govelnmt nt of the Grad Datil
Baden would come to the Resistance of
house of Von Haber and Co., of Carlsruhe and Feat
fort, great cotton spinners as well. As at salt 2,(loo
operatives would be thrown out of employ the
stoppage of the cotton spinning works, stsb urt,.
fenhce of the government, upon the *lbibit of prop,
security for credits lent, would seem tecommittledoa
the grounds both of policy and humanity.
The American papers last receivid betray set,
alarm lest, from the continued drain of sp- vie for thi,
country, occompanit d with an increase or !heir laaai,
circulation, and deposits, the position of the batik;
those of New York more especially, slte:Ad come
to be endangered. The following compare:ire retail,
for three periods, in round numbers, wuu,d seem to
indicate that such apprehensions were not siithoet
foundation :

Jan. I, 1837, Jan. I, P 43. No, 7. 1:47.
Inn . 83,37 Li 00 08,377,010 ,4401.6audaar1
Circulation 21,194,000 .. 118.1.,000 f:8.117 010
Depnqui 34.883,000 20,218.0 34,1,!#1,404
'the coin in hand stood thus for the writhiJoailit.
3
dates :
--•-- - -

1437. 1541. 1011.
6,357,000 ... 8,35h,000 9,17 ,40)
The aggregate capital of the banks had, however,
been increased from 37,101,000 to 4:5,279,000 dollars
within the same pet iod. Nine milliorrt of ,:ppcie
face the demands upon 163 millions of losus,eireea,
tion, and deposits, appear certainly to he a now
slender basis to re :t upon.
MN GLUM FUN DS.
India 11.1,, tinder C1.10.1.p.,7
0011wiA 'Of A. 01.1. (C,;.
Ya+h.
16
t. Oi, 11 14 I:i pm.
131 W. 141141, 1.:13o.
FUND.
3 pee Cent. I.ll.lthiAll
11 tier Ct. Iteleinn Itote6, c%,
/mac.. en
2). ferret. Dutch Etch. 12
ex. .11v.
4 per Vt. Dutch C..11..en,,,84.:

Bank Mock, la 7
3 i.er It. Red. A,.t.. AS 41
3 per err& Co.. Ann, (Ant),
Nes. 33 per rent Ain... !I;
Long Amu, I t.frth Jan., la4rO, a,
Loll:. Lund., ELWO,S

PORMON
5 t Ct. Mellow Art.. Jan. 17.171
4 per Ct. P. nutt.tumt 9.18.,:t11 4
I.ltto,Ac I 'A. 4
Ditto P.8:511, 24
5 pet et, 1155.955 EW.. 1822. /St.
1571

6 ;;;‘eo.t. SioniA &Aria, Awl.
Jut. 1:, 161

COMMERCIA L AND MARKET&

PRODUC E.—MIN CIMO- L:c Jae. 3. Tin re ias Met
bat a email amount of business done by priwite contract to.
day, and no afu ra. ion hao taken /lice in prie.s ; .on the,
appnars to be more vain tutu .1 aotief y about toe tone din
will prevail at the opening of the rtnri:ll no.r. ow (Twn.
nay) fur the new year.—Tallow, 4is. 31. on 'he pint;
town, 49, 6rl. ; rough fst, 2*. 811. Anion ,urine lan
week, 10,091 rank, ; deli,. red, 2,304 ; prmeir ots k,17,89
casks ; at the same period List yrer it was 21.3'11 c
olt—
Prad•ions Th • large &minds of buqtr it.se out affected
prices, which are steady, and the demand be. Boon
has di clired Is., and but • mall amount of business hr
been &me. A limited demand has exist. d for new,
but old remains neglected. Lard o tine qu,lim hos bees
in fair &mai-A.—Oils steady. Si, fl, psle, ; raw, 271.,
281. ; brown and yellow, 251. 261 ; Sp. nil, 301., b2l.
Hondiontt.r, 821, 831 ; Cud, 10 . ; m: 'a S. a, 26/,
321.; Olive, Cisll.poB, 441., 451.; S nit 421.,
431.; Palm. 291, 301. lhs. ; Conneaut, , 831.; Seed rope,
pate, 3s!. 10.., 391.: Lose. J, 231. 10.., 'l3l. hi,
. .

LONDON AV ELK Ll" Iv
..042K DNS. Dot. •
1 .2D1.-red. I l'r. IW.
80,1 i. W. ludla.ovJul . 1.719 ;
Maurttlus
Ikn,alG>:alm, Ico 14.4'4! ! 6.4 !
Foram . bawl 1,01 I 3,11419 ; 1 h..
Corms, B. ::.
etri.o
Mocha bah.' I 10.
RUM. W. .0446 SbT4

10.117
5..X1 4,151
3....;4 1.431

COTTON.—Ltvi
steely. end the math
sumption.

'IMPOPL, JAN. 3.- Thl
Iri to-dry were .5,000

mtrktt continues
bahs, all fur coz•

SHIPPING INTELLIGIINCE.—%IAIIA
OCR. NM. 1101..A11111. 01.11. ARIL
initatu .• .. 0 0 ;Ara, o 0.. Joey, Yrs 0
4 Waterford .. OS Elaral.:m 0
2 Ihma,lotee . 0.4 FMK, .01 1,,0..1441.....int,0 i.-v F.A.
1 tirrov..k.lerk WO Lishou.. Jew- S 0 •Let•ii •: 1 We.la .6.0 12
Ilarnhure.... ISO 110.1derraer.. k Halifax Jen. 16 .. Feb :a
GI;AVI A.:NU, JAN. 3.--A:rived Lody ol the Isle% St Blamer;
Speedwell, Sevulle • Ideal, Tereeiro Barth. Pa erne.; time, Glom;
Wetherell, Cephalmea; Jane, Guernsey; Town./ lani le, Wei;
Commodore, Guernsey ; Fox, St. Michael's; Heas-sAm , Wykari;
Ilev"‘Mr. SMUT; Fawn, Seville; St. Mark. Terrors; CIItOMO‘
Bedtime Cleopatra, Demerara; Anterpe. Quebec; nor LSO,
Nor.,, sooty,; Japaru, lkoury,; John King, Mauritius: Lois, New-
foundland ; Venn), Prince E,..ward's I-land; lo.viu Luekne, ijrr,
dord. ; taroline, Hogs ; Lihkon. St. John's • Salon, Cha-
rente ; Elindwth, Ann Ileac/dl, (Meow; Neptune, Ikvordan,
Alexander.; Er/en-Ohio, Purl rod; William and 11,i u, 3loaina ;
Bangalore, Batavia; Fame, Dire rnsey; Newry Ellen. tabor; Band,
Riga; Mountaineer, lirehilmeto • British Queen, Winslow;
u.tkare; •Bigrem, Ceylon; Soho, Antwerp; Tea or, .0L MrrLael'nt
-.salad Argo, St. John's; Wharripoa, Deem lard ; Flowar of
Yarrow, St. llielmers.
Liver:rook, JAN. 3.—Arrived °wee, St. Michael's ; Mary Hughes,
Newport ; Thistle, Lilarcrow • la rd Nekton, Bonny : Charlotte, Sh.
ills ; Middleton. Callao ; ll‘ginson,Charkwton .Ferr.go, Gr.1110oli;
larrui,,n Maria, Ghcr.t ; Archer. Laguna Hornet s tirade, New
Orleans.—Soiled G. A. Hanley, New York; 31er-ey, Jowpka,
Char:erton • Thomas Spark, caleutte ; Tepee, Oahu ; Ostend;
Spray, NeiCtoundland ; Adelaide, lrenremra ; Agt.e', No 'era, N.P.;
Empire (jewel), Beaton ; I marl Dobbin, tirarleatnn ; (Bleak
Barbadoes ; Fidelkk New York ; Bella Limegua, KM Jrneiro Beim
Uamlltmk, ; Auckland, Jong o; aol rirt, Hamburg ;
Joseph, Ghent : John It. Skiddy, New York ; Leo, 110500._4ff
relita, I raven' ; Amor, New Orleans ; Clutha. Charleston; Eu, —;
Belvidere, ; Antwerp ; Iltrkby, London.

ROM B AY. —AilltlVA La.— N or. 24, Lady M. d Wood (A.),
lit ng.-Kong.SS, Pantaloon, Cukutta. 26, Anna Eliza, China. 29,
Queen (it.-f.), from Men.
Duramerus.-ICov. 13, gernutr. (et.-f.), Aden. 19. Pettis (el.),
Ceylon and liens-K‘or. 24, lathe! Wahab, Mourn iu.. 23, Ileum-nes,
Liverpool 27, Clive {ohm', cd war), Persian Gulf; Eliry Calcutta.
CALCUTTA.—AktIvALs. —Nov. 7, Veto', , 1,,,nd0n ;
Urgent, London; John Bull, Liverpool; John flepburne, Bassoon
6, Victoria. Siogap re; Geelong, lA:A-ow. 9, Orleona, and Mary
Intrie, Liverpool; Myth, Lraol. n; Erma'', and Jul atu,
Mauritius. IS, Aurora, London. 11, siren, Borde Sir Henry
Pottinger, Liverpool; Visouint Straton. lamrboa. I.loht, Ant,
Bourbon; Sidney, Singapore. 12. Paßcialef, Chas; Conaojee Family,
Masan; Ayrshire, Katoroan ; Nitta, New“ le; Napoleon, Bourbon.
13, Southampton, Landon; Defiance, Mauritius. 11, .31batrota, Bow
ton. 17, Augtota Jes.e, Mauritius; Amelia, Singapore.
Dresan UAW].—Nov. 'I, Emperor of o hiss, London; Anne 31.27,
Mauritius ; Scotia, and Scribed Puldord, Liverpool; Briton's times,
Cape. 6, George Coder, Bourbon. A, .Drricolo, London,
LiVerpool. 10, Barbara, Bri*tol; Precurour, sues. 11, Frederick
Waldo, Boston; Glauanis Ca* le, Liverpool; Einerald. Colombo;
Fire Queen, Arrovan ; .trratoon, .tpra Durham, or •cupore; Vit-
toria, Liverpool; John Farnworth, L9nd-n. 12, Akbor, and Rua.
blur, Boston. 13, Robert Small, London; Nlyaram alas;
Jacob Perkins, Barton; EdmOnabury, London. 17, S.,lireen, Van
Dieman'a Land ; Chu hum. Ilauritiuw
NIADkAS.—AItRivALs —Nov 12, Period -or, Calcutta;
Pr redo Helen, Liuerpoul Isabella Manua., MAUI 27, Hoboes
swot, Calcutta.
Darmixual.—Noe. IS, Precurror (at.`. once.

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