The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-25 00:00:00

SPECIAL COMMISSION.

SENTENCE OF DEATH ON T. B. *MANUS,
P. O'DONOHUE, AND T. F.MEAOHER.

•
CLONWEL, 00r. 23.
The Lord Chief Judos Btackburne, Lord Chist Justice
Doheriy, and Mr. Janke Moon took their seats on the
bench at half-past 10 o'clock this
The BoUsiter.Generai, Mr. doott, Q.C., Yea. Samos, and
Yr. Lynch appeared or mussel for the crown.
Mr. Blatt, Q C., Sir C. O'Legbien, Mr. O'Callaghan, and
Mr. P. Meagher, were in attandanos es counsel for the 'M-
somas who bad bees thud and convicted.
The Ilellelleodeemeel mewl to the court that James
Orate* Demi 'ryas, l'atrkk O'Donnell should be
brought te har pleat to es indictment for high
wows. TM Omen were Wee& forward accordingly.
The CIA Mite Chews having read over tits indictment,
omit of the rims= piesied " Net Guilty."
Mr. O leoiwei the 11•1111 pins or In the caw of
the Nom Oen= with regoit to the Ng el witnewes , We.
art bora. lova tilitreled to me to liege hies trtal, in
air to witsliisit rule NOW is ewe et shako enneedings.
The pine iambs ben nesivol, the prima, were resteved,
Si mother beeit pissed at the Ism Those consisted of
wafts Pear% Theme Naos% J. Brennan, T. Stack,
sad J. Preines. Nosh *Mei *Met Guilty." They were
removed ea soon es Isar -Yea had bees handed in en be-
half deer of thew

Tin Bolintorffieneral.—l have now to apply to your
Weld* that T. B. MlLeas, Patrick O'Dotoeltne, aud
Tb Prawn Meagher may be brought to the bar to re-
mite the judgment efthe oat.
Ls the larval which slapped before the prkatere sp-
Per;Slutt said that he might, perhaps, be permitted to ink
the end whether their thips wad reserve the points
raked for Mr. Meagher in the cane of his trial ?
Lord Chief -Judos Blaekburne.—We have, Mr. Batt, to
than plate give. the beet emanation in oar power, and,
me at meat advised, we saw not disposed to *Lk them of
raffinate ammo, to *due as to reserve them. Bat they
are still under ow consideration, and we shall further aw-
fully wan them, and, if any doubt arises it oar minds,
we will raw them.
Mr. Butt.—Then, my lards, may I ask you to look at
cue authority. Ido not mean to argue an gum
tim, I beg MT to rider to a note of Solemn
Hawkins. hearing on the point as to the necessity of nanag
th• peate.mtaijal in than iadietntent whore the treason charged
. It is under the tide Accessory," 2nd Haw-
Wu. p. 224.
q The judges took a note of the pump in the authority in
uesta.
The throe primal admired to the treat el the dock;
they were Wesel with evident attention to their appearance.
Each of them @imported himself with a resolute air.
WNW= eased as selloimposed as he was ow his trial.
O'Dinegbneime Lela pale, hut ealleated, while Meagher en
hibitedhene • Itlele messistime ages, in hie aMtude.
• TWO** ell omen trintegmamer the *diewas,
sells the tea numner reed the reeled d the antigemett,
the plow of the Damen and their coavietions, inked each
of them what he hod to my why senteate of death Weld
act he pea upon him.
The iiret Intoner what he addressed was Mr.
Clerk of the Crown—Terence Bellew M'llanna, what
have you to say why sentence of death should not be pawed
uPyou!
;in M. WManus said—My lords, I trust lam enough of a
*tarn and enough of a man, to tuderauuld the awful
tameability of the (pinion that has be.. pput to me. My
lords, standing on this my native soil e in an Irish
court of Janne, and before the Irish nation—l have much
to say why menteme of death or the senteuee of the law
should not be pawl upon me • bat, my lords, on entering
this mart, I pitied my lifer—and, what is of much more its-
poem* to me, say honour—in the hands of two advocates ,•
and, my lords, if I had ten thawed liveda ten thousand
honours I would be *mama to picas them wider the watch-
ful and glorious genius of the one, and the high ability
of the other. My lords, lam mutant in that regarA I have
something to my which no advocate, however maw, cat
utter for me. I have this to my, my lords, that whatever
part I may ban taken through any straggle far my coun-
try's *domains,— atheism, part I may have acedis
that short eareer—l stand Wpm yaw lun aeon wish a
free heart and with a light owiiiner, reedy
_to
abide the issue of yaw eintwo. Lad sew my kW,
perhaps this Is the Atha time
ttta.....t Isnot: put eae
sentiment on record, and it is as I do
between the dock and the sealleld—it may be now or to-
morrow, or it may be never; but whatever the result may
be, I haw Ode senamet to pet es wee* that in any
part I have taken, I have net bees andel by =husky to
England, for I have spot sae of the baggiest and most
=PrWays of my Nee Mere, and in_me pert of my career
Lam weletied by 'salty to Imphines, however
wok I may have Ilk the Wake el Mega& rule in this
idea. Ely lords, I have sedum mere* say. It is not
he having WM Botha la but for having loved Ireland
mere that I stand new Mare you.
Oiwk of the Crews-111W have you to say, Patrick
O'Denehne, why senteme of death shall not be plea upon

yea.
Mr. OTtomtinte said—MLlzrds, I have written out s few
',marks, which, with your ' permission, I will read.
The Court having cemented, r. O'Dostobus rid.—My
lords, I beg to say that the Attorney and Solidter-Onterel
hem coaducted the Gees against me itirly but strictly, end
I dad no built with them nor with the sadism given against
am, so tar as it was sated ea by the jury. My lords, Ido
vonplein that la such a county the jurors eummased totry
me, a stranger, kr • political offence, wore exclusively politt•
cal opposents, aad with such • pastel, I regret, that your
lordship did not, es my counsel relegated, allow say jury
to have been celled fro, thorn who had not served, or bom

rejected, on a former trial. My Uri, thus
ere toted, could not be 'apposed to sweimene all
bias, and I believe they fund a most aibtaken verdict.
Mr. Justioe Moore in his direetlea told the jury that if I
assisted Mr. O'Brien whilst wooed in a treaeoptie dedp,
I was guilty of troupe, mithaSok I might not Mew of kb
intent, and from their neemmemdalles it appose that they
found me galley ea that &Mies. To me ashamed in
the law, and sapposiag that hums depends em blander,
it moms contrary to common sense that I mouertielple Is
a tressouble deign of the existence of I as Igor
rant. I do an, however, presume to dispute the law
your lordship has stated it, but no earthly judge
is infallible ; and as the doctrine is to sterilise, sad one
"tempi with the authority of Mr. Moon's high euelles.
Soul charade' woul4 Lora a precedent dangers= to the
lives sad liberties of the best as.., I humbly • year
lordship to reserve the point for the wasibe ism of the
judge.. If year lordship be in error that enee might to be
counted—if mot, it will be a mammies to every
one to know that the law so bid apes hr been
confirmed. It I. not fit on this maims semi= to
defied my °plains or conduct—l wit lhadms 'sly
say that those opinions have always bees sets...,
sincere, and oonsittem. I am grateful to elessui,
Mr. Batt, for his eloquent and truly able Mesa, the men
so because that defence was genstusly given without he or
reward, and given, too, to hk antagonist. I cannot
'sprees my admintion for the ingenuity and great talent
shown by my junior counsel, Mr. Francis Meagher, and his
seal in my defence. I also beg to thank my masher, Mr.
Lafian for the ability with which he otaidaated ay
ips Lid thegeneral author made by hien on my
behalf.
The Clerk of the Crown thee asked Mr. Mwker what
he had to mmrhy the seatence of the law not be
Mr. 111:Magker.—My lords, it is my intonate to y a few
words only._ desire that the Imo set of a preosedirg whisk
has so oath tine shield be at short Souks ; ass
hays I indelicate wish to (PM the dressy amitmeay of •
Nate promotion with a vain display of words. Did I fear
that hereafter, when I shall be no moss, the I
have tried to serve would think iB of me, I might lnLod
avail myself of this solemn moment to vindicate toy esti-
mute and my conduct ; bat I have no sock her. The
countyledge of those SIMgI3II6P and that conduct
in a light far different from that in which the jury
by which I have been tried and convicted have is
coned them, and by the moony the essueee which you,
my lords, are about to pronounce will be remem-
bered only as the severs and solemn attestatioa of my recd.
mu and truth. Whatever be the language in whi& my
sentence be spoken I know that my her will wet with
=7 sad that my memory will be honoured. In
the. seam me not, ay lords, of an indecorous
prcumptioa. To the efforts I have made in the jut and
noble cause I ascribe no vain importance, nor do I claim for
thou efforts say high reward; but it so happens and it will
ever happen so, that they who have tried to serve their
country, no matter how weak their elate may have been,
are we to receive the thanks mad biembp of its people.
With my countrymen I leave aty osimm, my sentiments,
my cots,—proudly feeling that they regelee no vindbation
from me this day. A joy of ay aseneyain it is tree,
have fund me guilty of the alms of whisk I stood billeted.
For this I Dm sot the belied asimalty or numbest
awash them baseball as *ay sea have been by the
charge of the Lard Chia Arise, pays they wad have
found me other meat. But,
_what of this charge Any
strong obisreatisse spa it. I dal ibeirely, would ill befit the
solemnity of this but I weal emensetly beseech of you,
amnydl!6--oon,witeprisliisathathemek,—whan the parlous
of this hoar 'hall have pared away, that
you SE appeal to your own ouselonse, and ask if it were a
charge as h ought to have been, impartial and indifferent
between the sableet end the mown. My lards, you may
deem this language uabsombe Is ais, and perhaps it may
seal my fate, but I am hoe to spook the troth, whatever
it may cost. I am here to repot mithing I have ever done
—to rand lathing I have /MW opeirso—l am here to eras
with no lying lips the lih I merman to the liberty of my
country. Far from it. Even here, when the thief, the
libertine, and the murderer have left their footprints in the
dust—here, on this spot, wher_e the shadows of death our-
sound me, mad
opened
ItoseerleneLearly grave
ea in en
nnoaasenMd
engirded by those tenon, the hope which beckoned me en
to sabot upon the perilous sea upon which I
have bees baba ethl enrolee, eabsesee, enraptures
sie. Me, I de pot despair of my poor ld "mtg.
do sot despair of her pato, her liberty, her glosy. For
that emery I san do so isms than bid Ira hope. To lift
ap bit ide ; to mska her a loadester to busanity, ba-
shed of bobs what cke is—the assaasa begat in the *odd
its ratan for begat similitudes and her native powers—
this has boo sty imbibes, and this eabition 'labia my
erase. Judea meths law of lagbat I knew Oa dik
crime entails on peaky of bail bathe kiefaiT
Ireland implaue this alma eadjaidlise It. Jelpi by that
history I ue no 'risible' ; you (tonne sad sabossisi Mr.
Dl'Maine) are no criminal. Yu (UMW soils, to Mr.
O'Dea*** are so 'deka j sal we deems as
mat. Indeed by that likitary. be hewn a whisk=
convicted lasi all guilt,liss been sasedied ass=
and will he anmehiel as a iseribie. With than
I await the essleace of the wart. Ravine dime what I
conceive to be duty—having spoken mew, se I did on
every cierasion ay short career, what I fal to he the
tenth,—l now MI to the soilatry of bp Milk
of ay pram, and if say bath; the seranta whose air
forams Moe busked rep spapiiss, awe beim I
have siosht a pad, wham bleed Ikon romdisiteldif
sires, wham heeds= km bow my Mal beam. To that
I sow odor so • plane a the love I awe bee, ad
as a• prat of the ithmeity- with whisk I dual*. Ille=
and stresabi Si her fresdan, the lib of •
with bailie all =the besotte, ths=sithisb of
Isi•
s, ie sentsuanse the law diresb;and I shall la pips Proewaee Ns., %
to bate it—l trust I shad he prepared to visa 149 oneselism.
I haps I bid he able, with • light heart sad a dear sea-
ebb% to swear before • higher tribunal—a tabbed where
'Mr of blade paistheis well ea of lataitsperbe will

preside, and when, my lords, many, many of the judgeatote
of this world will he rs!neee•
iftry were limed by lit: rriemer's words to teas.
Lori Chief Jut% Doh.* pour leheteteld the met !Fe'
one criminals. rri-
band aim, to past asepses epos •'cum Patrick
men st the bar,—Teresa Bellew Mu.
O'Dosegkee, sad Thome Francis Member, ate: den con-
siderstion be ore main into this court it was tai ham
ties, in the perform s. of the very painful ditty whin
devalue upon ma, sot to have peciessed your Say
at that bar by asy keg* of observation. You, en.:
sash al you. wear there haying bees convicted by
the verdict of three 1118111111/iTO juries of the crime of
high stenos—a crime of the greatest enormity sum to
oar laws. I feel baud to say this, that it is the deliberate,
din...sate, mad as% easies st the court that the Yee
diets whin were Mod by those juries, and the verdict
which was Quad by a fromerjery, could not have been other
than they were. That so heasst, fair, impartial, and con-
..l—timejents, atteadiag @Maly to their oaths, and listen.
fag to the unarm that was produced in this court in the
aeons at these anunally protracted aisle, could have come
to say other omission than that which they have done.
eTthihats peesseesed you, am and all, guilty of the crime
Massa That aims consists in having levied war
la county within and during the last week of the
math of July--of having levied war for treasonable put-
pens-and that yes, and each of you, more or less partici-
pated in, suited to, and prepared for, and were yourselves
come of you men, some lest, actively engaged is the further-
sem of that project. In order to constitute the crime of
high treama-by- the levying of war, it is no ingredient that
the mass should be proportioned to the end sought to be
assomplined, or that there should be a rational prospect of
masa The parties who engage in such transactions be-
WY sespassihls if they have arrayed, assembled, collected,
drilled, sad prepared who, by force, endeavoured
le &oscura% eitject—the common object that was
I view. It is Dot, I am sorry to say, to any forbearance
so your part that that rebellion for such I may
teem it—whisk bre% eat in that week, was brought
to a Ite.assensi em. It is not due to you ; it is,
seder ataibstable to the fidelity and to the bravery of
the psi% Whim I rasa on what might have been
the sesecamose U that pain fores, either seduced by pro.
seism or letialiateiley thesis the which were made use .4
trod adiertellas Mame that were made to them, it they
had bus easeriadessil by the emanated numbers that
sommilel MI Mass* their diatomite' or if they had
Mal is dimomber Mat beads of rebels who assembled
sosoad them is as bilk,—l think there is no fair man who,
Inking at GM matetuplating what the state of this country
might have been, will not see how rapidly a temporary
messes might have added to the ambers of the insurgents,
sod how soon this country might have been deluged in
blood, and given over to all the !mon of a civil war.
It is from that we have escaped by the fidelity and by the
bravery of the police force. I am very for, God knows,
from wishing to my one word at this moment that an raise
or 'Manse the %tinge which some of you may endure.
But I outset, in Woking to what was the state of the coun-
try is the month of May last, avoid adverting (without
eateries into particulars of it) to that authentic speech
which was given in evidence upon the last trial. Eloquent
so doubt it bi--but who out avoid seeing, in the perusal of
that speech, delivered by you, Mr. Meagher, on the en of
June, a terrible picture of what was at that time the state
of this country, and the Mush% white were impending
and meditated, and km which, by God's assistance, we
have caned. I have told you that it was my wish to
Aetna treat enlarging or giving may details, and I shall not
do es. ehallmerely add this observation, that from the corn-
isimemnt to the cionelosios of this commission, which has
sea eMesded to the fifth wish, there has been a perfect
adosiimes in the views of every member of this WM as to
the Imr ; and if the observation of the %tinned judge
who pessidte here did seem to you (sod I out make every
simosse to their doing so) to press sad beer severely upon
you. rasps, in a alma moms; who you come
to alba upon it, you will ace that it was fact the very
Man et the transactions themselves that Mee comments
leadmaly arose which appeared to you to prom with une:ne
sender upon yen. Perhaps, when you am to reflect dis-
passionately, you will me this in the same light, and I true:
that yea may be mon reconelled than you appear at present
to the Met% of the unhappy fete which awaits you, and
whisk there is not ea %%Ilia with a kart to feel who mu:
sot deeply deplore. WM now sot detain you Mar. I have
=tray to exhort each ayes to relied ea the awful situation
in whin each of you at this moment Mods, and to prepere
for the dreadful fate that %pads ever you. We have not
f ailed to wad, as was our day, to the Len Lieutenant, the
recommendations with which the Juke in your respective
eases have accommied the verdicts that have been found
against you. But you must to well aware that it is with
the executive government, and the executive government
alone, that the fate of those recommendations rests. And
we, in the discharge of our most anxious end painful duty,
have now only to proceed to pm upon you and upon each
of you, the awful sentence of the law, which is, that you
Terence Bellew li'Menus, you Patrick O'Donoghas, and you
Thomas Francis Meagher, bit taken hence to the plus
wham you came, and be them drawn ca a hurdle to the
place of execution, and that each of you be there hanged by
the neck until you be dead, and that afterwards the head of
each of you shall be mend from his body and the body of
each divided into four quarters, to be disposed of as her
majesty shall thick fit—aad may the Almighty God have
mercy upon your goals.
His lordship, who Men up his hands to heaven as he
pronounced the last words of the sentence. left the bench
immediately, followed by the Lord Chief Justice Blackburn.
and Mr. Justice Moore.

The governor of the gaol and his assistant removed the
prisoners, who bowed to the Court as they retired down the
stops of the dock, and shook hands with their friends.
CM the return albs judges, in about half an hour,
The SolioitorGeneral said that, in oonsequence of the
lengthened aiming of the eonantimice, and the painful and
onerous duties which had been imposed on all concerned in
it, and frcm the protracted wtendance of the jams, os
mature consideration it was not his intention to ask the
court to proceed with any further trials at the present sittiag,
but be would request their lordships to adjourn the proceed-
ings commis ion to Tuesday, December 6.
Chief Justice Bisekburne.—Then let the court be
adjourned to Tuesday, December 6.
Before proclamation was made,
Kr. F. Maher' addressing Mr. Justice Moore, said,
that his lordship in his charge to the jury, in the case of Mr.
O'Donogbus, had laid down a proposition which melted
some surprise at the time. That proposition he rested on
Lord Chief Justice Hales jud t in reference to the
ease of Ind Southampton and the Earl of &sax. He
did not know whether his lordship had the observations of
Sir M. Hale before him at the time, but on looking to the
report in the Slats Trials he (Kr. Meagher) observed that
it had been charged against Lord Southampton that be
was aware of Lord Fawn s original intent.
Mr. Justice idoore said ha had read the note in the very
words of Sir M. Hale.
. _ _ . .

The Lord Chia[ Jwitice.—The mate doctrine has been
laid down by Lord Mansfield and Mr. Julia Heylsy.
Mr. Justice Moore.—l will meantime examine this case
melt carefully, and the court will islet so to see if the case
doss not bear the intimpretation to which you objected.
Mr. Maher thanked his lordship, and said it was only what
was to be expected has his wall-known character for kind-
ness. _ _

Mr. Butt observed that Foster appeared to doubt the au-
thority of Bale in his note on this cane.
Mr. Justice Moore said he did not think the parer in
"Foster " appeared to contradict " Hale," but still it was
possible the latter had drawn a wrong conclusion in the ease
of Lord fiouthanapteo.—The judges thin retired.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
DAY.)
Detre Mr. Ju 2.7. de end Kr. lastioe Mittman.
NMIDZIL—Absot 71 ohms, 48, • spinster, was indicted
for the wilful reorder of Aloe Trinham, her Infant child, by
*rit into the Theme.
e. tryland and Mr. Leant appeared for the prosecution.
The prisoner was defended by Yr. Clarkson.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner had lived
in very respectable service, and her character was hitherto
irreproachable. Oa the 18th of September, ghost dark, she
went on board one of the river steamers, having • female
latent in her arms, and when the boat was about halfway
between Saddam, and Bonthwerk bridges, she was seen
to go towards the peddle-box on the larboard side, and take
up the rail. The callboy t the rail down again, and
walked forward, bat after •ay of A woman
everboad „was raised, and the engines were instantly re-
vises& • letter-artier, named Intitoomb, was on board,
miss seen as the boat was stopped, he jumped on to a barge
and saw • woman on the tartan of the water. A scalier
mimed Bryce, hearing the captain of the steamer call out,
rowed to the not as rapidly as he could, and laid hold of the
"fable of the woman Iter face was under the water, end
when be lifted her above the water he saw she had a child
clasped in her arms. The child fell into the water and sunk.
Another *culler rowed up, and by his aid the woman, who
was then insensible, was got into the boat. The prisoner
was the person. As soon as the revived, she asked
what had become of the ehad, and on being told,
she wept bitterly, and said she wished she had
gone with it. She said that site was in greet trouble.
The body of the child wig afterwards found lying in the mud,
at low-water. Several witnesses said the psisonar was a
kind, humane pontos, and treated the child In • meet idea
Senate manner. At this time she was pressed for money,
and left her situation about four months. The last situation
she held was that of cook to General White.
Clarkson, fa addradag the jury for the prisoner, con-
tended that the widows was not such as to load to the con-
clusion that she deliberately threw her child into the wan-
k, the purpose of murdering it. That she bad fallen into the
water by accident was the only reasonable conclusion that
weld be drawn, and he confidently asked kir an acquittal.
Mr. Junks, Mauls summed up the ease in favour of the
prisoner, and the jury returned • verdict or aortuittaL
A second edition of the Calendar was blued. 34 primates
have been added, making a total 61264.

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OE ENGLAND.—
The last someting of the cowsefi, previous to the nom, woe
held yesterslaisseaj the owiety's house, Haltom-
square; Mr. MOM is the chair. Several new
members were sad the meet of the Flame* Com-
mittee, which slowed the soeleWs slinks to be in a very
prosperous state, was reosived cad adepts& Yr. P. Pussy,
ICE, &aims* at the Jeweler Verreittos, nuesaeold that
the prins to be osaipststi the flelrmt year led
bees rattlek ma a empties at et desa mead be leady far
d=beffers the sort mutual isosiog of the 'Nabors la
. Aossaget then are bar sos sf SOL each for
the best sows er osperte pas the flersebs el har Bap&
eosattes, la Whim be thoses already sistalasd. Ma aco&
lave mama be ham that the hags sera set apart I. order
ts pours foe saw hes sat boss
lair=
grapnel vas that sl proterleg mend gnostical
apse mottos se wry rest tespertsace. The
for these primes were required to demi% the title
of soil , the blames of climate, sad the various nodes of
I farming pawed is the respective localities. These mays,

being subseptently published is the society.' journal, ars
widety diffused amongst the agricultural body, who are *kw
eneblid to judge hew :or the modes of laradog pursued in
their own districts may be susceptible of improvrrnent, and
' to what extent agricultural opersti.ms may be prawcuted by
chemical or other scientific agency. There are at i resent
upwards of 6,500 members on the boolis, including lifer
governors, goverzon, annual subscribers, and honorary mem-
hers.

117RALE AND COD FISHERY.—The Seaftower,
Captain Smith, of this port, arrived here on Saturday last,
,"roes the Davis's Straits cod fishery, with the very fair cargo
of 12,200 cod, 3 toss of halibut, and about 4 tens of cod
liver oil. She brings the following repot from Csptain
Alexander Stewart, of the Joseph Green, of Peterhead, who
was spoken with on the 18th July : Joseph Green, 4 fish,
67 tons; Lord Gambler, 2; Truelove, 4, 60; Abram, 1;
Prince of Wales, 3; Lady Jaws, 4, 50; Jane, 2, 35; Horn,
4, 60; Prisms Charlotte, 4, 50; Alexander, 3; Chieftain, 2;
Regalia, 2 ; Pacific, 2 ; and the American ship. 8. Captain
William 'season, of the American ship M'Lellan, of New
London, who was aloe spoken on the 18th July by Captain
Smith, and gives a somewhat better repot, as follows:
Abram, 1 fish, 10 tonal; Lord Gambier, 2, 300; Print* of
Wales, of Hull, 3, 30*; Truelove, 4, 65; Lady Jane, of
Newcastle 4, 60; Chieftain, of Kirke*, 2, 28 ; Regalia, 3,
34*; Jane, of Boner, 2, 28; Advice, 3, 40•; Alexander,
3, 40 ; Morn, of Dundee, 4, 60•; Princess Charlotte,
3, 44 ; Pacific, of Aberdeen, 2, 30 ; Joseph Green, of Peter-
head, 3, 46; MeLeUan' of New London, 3, 40. " Most of
the whales," observes Captain Jackson, " were caught at
the S.W., early in May. We got two in April, before the
other ships made the ice. We had rough weather. The
discovery ships passed Lively on the god July, all well, and
left their letters there with the Danish governor, to be sent
home with one of their vessels. We saw two of their brigs
going to the northward, and another was at anchor in the
harbour. Some of the British whalers had been at Operas-
wick five or six weeks, and were stopped by the ice. Saves
of the British came south along with us, the other seven
remained there, with a bad prospect of getting to the north-
ward until late. Three marked • are to the north 18th July,
off Holstein Berg. We have had very fine weather since we
came north. The ice has not broken up to the north.—Sell
Pante.
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A ifILVIR QUM= is to be presented to Mir. Hors-
fall, the wife of the mayor et Liverpool, on Saturday neat.
Thin," soya the Liverpool Standard, " will revive a very
ancient civic custom, while it win express the high sense
which the donors entertain of his worship."
UNNECESSARY EXPOSURE OF PURSIS.—A corre-
spondent of the Manchester Ezonsitwr calls attention to a
practice which be says is much too common is town, of
ladies laying down their purses on shop counters, and even
on open fruit and fish•stalls, and this while they continue to
have their attention so thoroughly engrossed with their par.
chisel as to be utterly forgetful of so trifling an article
of property. A day or two ago, it seems, a lady called at a
respectable establishment In King-srreet, and chiming in
with the prevailing ostentatious tuition, placed her purse,
containing some sax or eight sovereigns, upon the counter.
Having made her purchases she returned for her purse, but
was astonished to discover that in some strange way it had
disappeared. Acting on the impulse of the moment she
charged the shopwontan with whom she had been engaged
with the theft. This charge, however, was most indignantly
and truthful) y denied. The more likely supposition is that
some " artful dodger " had seen the purer lying on the
counter, and had taken the opportunity of ,filching it when
he saw the lady's attention directed from it.
Durnmsnos re Am eeicA.—lt is estimated that
the present number of distilleries in the United States is
10,600 ,• the number of gallons of distilled liquors distilled
annually is 41,502,707, which, if sold at twenty cents per
gallon, would produce 80,000,000,000,000 of quarrels, half a
million of assaults and batteries, one hundred thousand
thefts, eight hundred suicides, and about one hundred mut..
ders—.Bostas Chronotype.