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London, England, 1852-10-05 00:00:00

MAINE.

Whig. Dem.
Vote for Governor (two Dem. candidates) 27,990 59,603
27,999

amocratio majority
VERMONT.

Whig. Dem. Free Soil,
Vote for Governor 22,487 14,028 2,137
14,028

Tutal Democratic and Freesoil vote 23,165
22,417

Majority against Whig candidates 678
Whig Majority over Democrat ... 8,459"
' Advices from Tampico to the 12th ult., via New
Orleans, state that " the City Council opposes Car-
denas, though the Legislature clothes him with ad-
ditional powers." A telegraphic communication from
New Orleans says—
" Matamoras dates to the 4th inst. have been received,
at which date the excitement regarding Cardenas's
usurpation continued. The National Guard have de-
clared in favour of Prieto, and encamped on the Ameri-
can side of the Rio Grande. General Avalos has issued
a proclamation, which seems to be in favour of Car-
denas. The principal cities of Tamaulipas are opposed
to Cardenas.
" Governor Letcher, the late Minister to Mexico, left
this morning for Washington."
Intelligence had been received at New York from
Para (Brazil) to the 29th August. At that date the
yellow fever prevailed to some extent among the
shipping. A French war steamer had arrived from
Cayenne in search of provisions, the inhabitants of
that colony being in a starving condition.
Telegraphic advices from Quebec of the 21st ult.
say—
" The Assembly have placed in the hands of the Go-
vernor-General the address to the Queen, requesting
power to pass a Bill for the distribution of the clergy
reserves. 'This address, after beingdebated for four days,
was finally adopted, by 52 to 22. Mr. Young, the Com-
missioner of the Board of Public Works, has resigned,
in consequence of the Government having resolved to
put on American vessels passing the Welland Canal the
same tolls as are paid by British vessels passing both the
Welland and St. Lawrence Canals, and to restore the
differential duties against direct American trade, by
placing higher duties on goods coming that way than en
those coming by the St. Lawrence. Mr. Ilincks, in be-
half of the remaining members of the Cabinet, ex-
plained to the Assembly that the object of the new
policy was to induce the United States to grant reci-
procity."
The fishing schooner Charles Knight had been
seized by the British cruisers, and taken into Char-
lotte-town.

We have llavannah dates to the 14th ult. A
court-martial had sentenced the persons connected
with the Voice of the People to death.
The Spanish war-steamer Pizarro had been totally
lost on the bar of Marie'. At the time she struck
she was in pursuit of a suspicious-looking American
barque. The barque afterwards turned out to be a
merchantman. There were very few ships in the
harbour.

Since the departure of the last steamer there has
been a steady, uniform demand, for Government
stocks and other leading securities. The demand for
those funds, for the purpose of forming banking capi-
tal, was so great that all offering were readily taken.
Railroad bonds were in good request, and large sales
bad been made on European account.
There was a more buoyant feeling exhibited in the
money-market; the supply, however, was fully equal
to the demand. Foreign exchange was in good de-
mand. Bills on London, 110 to 110. ; Paris, 5.12 f
to 5.15 ; Amsterdam, 408 to 408 ; Frankfort, 401 to
41 ; Bremen, 79 to 798 ; Hamburgh, 368 to 36g.
The cotton-market was in a very inactive state; the
stocks in port are very light, but still the little offer-
ing was too much for the demand, and parcels were
obtainable at fully ie. per lb. reduction.
The wheat and flour markets were a little firmer.
Provisions were unaltered.

Freights to London, ls. 101 to 2s. per barrel for
flour; bid. to 6kd. per bushel for wheat and Indian
corn.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Arrivals out iit New York—The Pacific and Africa
steamers, Great Western, Montezuma, Clermont, E. C.
Scranton, and Samuel Lawrence, from Liverpool; Lady
Knight, from Newcastle; Victoria, from London, Isabella
from Glasgow, Penelope from Bordeaux, Kosmo from
Bremen, Aore from Havre, James Reddin from
Glasgow.
Arrived at Boston—The Robert, from Liverpool.
Arrived at Baltimore—The Mary Hale, from Liver-
pool; Chesapeake, Adler, and Mississippi from Boston.
Arrived at Quebec—The Glasgow, from Bristol, St.
John from Hull, Aurora from Sunderland, Eromanga
from Glasgow.

Arrived at Charleston—The John Routledge and
Etiwan from Liverpool.
Arrived at Montreal—The Niagara from Liverpool.
Arrived at Philadelphia—The Mary I'leasants from
Liverpool, Superior from Londonderry, Emblem from
Shields, Douglas from Newcastle.
Arrived at Providence—The Zero from Glasgow.
Arrived at Wilmington—The Muskingum from Liver-
pool.

EVIDENCE IN THE COURT Or CHANCERY.—The
new rules and orders in Chancery will regulate the admis-
sion of evidence, both oral and documentary, in proceedings
under the new acts, which acts will affect some consider-
able alterations with respect to evidence in the court. The
evidence on both sides, whether taken orally or upon affi-
davit, is to be closed within nine weeks after issue joined.
The Court has power to enlarge the time, but after the
period fixed no further evidence is to be given without the
special leave of the Court. Any witness who has made an
affidavit is to be subject to oral cross-examination within
one month atter the expiration of the nine weeks stated, by
or before an examiner, in the same manner as if the evidence
given by him in his affidavit had been given by him orally.
Any party in any cause or matter may, by subpcons, require
the attendance of any witness to be examined before an
examiner, and may use his evidence upon any claim, mo-
tion, petition, or other proceeding, before the Court, in like
manner as such witness would be bound to attend and be
examined with the view to the hearing of a cause. Under
the new law something like expedition will be attained in
obtaining evidence.

PEDESTRIANISM EXTRAORDINARY.—A young gen-
tleman of Glasgow started on Sunday morning last, at a
quarter past one o'clock, on a pedestrian tour to Dundee, a
distance of fully 84 miles, and that notwithstanding the dis-
suasions of apprehensive friends, who insisted that his slight-
built frame would prove unequal to the task. Stirling was
reached between seven and eight o'clock, where the amateur
pedestrian breakfasted; and on resuming his journey at the
latter hour he was joined by two of his acquaintances,
whom, however, he was compelled to leave behind at the
fifteenth mile•stone, arriving at Perth at ten minutes past
six in the evening. At this stage a halt was made of three-
quarters of an hour, when, after dinner, the dauntless youth
was again on the road, and successfully completed his ardu-
ous task in little more than 23 boars, having reached
Dundee at 15 minutes past twelve o'clock on Monday morn-
ing. The triumphant accomplishment of this difficult.
un-
dertaking is all the more extraordinary when we consider
that the pedestrian busily drives the quill in the office2years of
of one
1
of our leading storekeepers daily, and is not yet .
age. We may add that the rain fell heavily
thed roads,
the last
four miles, so that, from the sloppy state
r retarded. We believeshis
ettahart he will
progress must have been considerably
that he is prepared to lay an even bet
accom-
plish 90 miles within the 24 hours—the match to come off
three weeks after the posting of the money.— Glasgow Paper.
A LUCKY SrEcuLATon,---Shortly before the dis-
covery of gold in Australia, there happened to be living in
B—day an: formerly a resident in Liver-
pool. auction-room, he entered it,
Mel Melbourne
as a
Passing
Captain
one
though without intending to buy anything. However,
some large tracts of land being disposed of at very moderate
prices, he was indu,,ced to become a purchaser. He bought
2 5000 acres, at Gd. an acre ! Scarcely had he done so
when a person in the room offered him 101. if he would
transfer the purchase. The offer was accepted, and it was
arranged that the money should be paid the following day.
But it was not— therefore the land remained in Captain S.'b
possession. It is now of considerable value, being in the
centre of the gold regions.—Liverpool Mercury.
A CUR'S TOILETTE.—An amusing circumstance
occurs every morning in Bridge-street-row, Chester, close by
the entrance to the Chronicle office. When the servant is
employed polishing the external brasses of Mr. Davis's (tha
chemist) shop, the spaniel belonging to the latter makes a
point of taking up his station on the stall to watch the ope-
ration, and as soon as it is finished offers his neck to the man
for the purpose of having his brass collar furbished up in a
manner suitable to a dog of his pretensions. Sometimes the
servant pretends to forget this mark of attention, when Don
takes care to remind him of his neglect by a very significant
bark. The process of adornment invariably concludes by
the presentation of his paw, as an acknowledgment to his
valet do chien,— Chester Chronicle.

1852.

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LOSS OF TILE MOBILE.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 4.—We have made further inquiries
as to the loss of the Mobile, Captain Tarbox (not Far-
ber), and ascertained from Messrs. James Browne and
Co., the consignees of the ship, that she sailed from this
port on Tuesday morning last, with between fifty-five
and sixty passengers, and not forty, as before stated.
Being favoured with a fair wind she pursued her course
at a rapid rate, and at midnight the captain went below,
leaving the second mate in charge, with strict iejunc-
lions to steer west-southwest, and to see that he (the
captain) was called at two o'clock, or sooner, if the
weather assumed a more threatening aspect. The wind
at the time the captain went below was blowing a fresh
breeze from the east-north-east, with a heavy sea, which
increased to a violent gale; he was, however, not called
until two o'clock. On coming on deck, the captain in-
quired whether the ship had been steered as he ordered,
and then found that the second mate had misunderstood
the orders given him, and had ordered her to be kept on
a west-north-west course, which had carried her directly
on a lee shore, from which it was found impossible to
extricate her, although every human effort was made.
We saw two of the men who were saved, and from them
we learnt that she had eighteen men before the mast, a
cook, and a steward, who, together with the captain and
first and second mates, made a total of twenty-three
hands. The steward's wife was also on board the ship.
From the above it will be seen that the loss of life will
be upwards of seventy souls, instead of sixty as pre-
viously reported.
DUNDALK, OCT. I.—The schooner Mary Elizabeth,
Richards, of Nevin, North Wales, about 11 A.M., on the
30th September, Tara Hill, off Arklow, bearing N.W.,
distant 20 miles, saw part of a wreck with a number of
people on it; bore down on her—got out the boat, and
proceeded to the wreck, which turned out to be the ship
Mobile, Tarbox, of Bath (United States), from Liver-
pool for New Orleans, with passengers. After a great
deal of risk and exertion on the part of Captain
Richards and his crew, they succeeded in saving the last
four of the crew on board of the wreck, who report that
five others were saved previously by a schooner bound
to Glasgow; and also report that the fifty passengers
(with one exception) were lost, as also the captain,
mate, steward, and twelve of the crew. Capt. Richards
treated the four men with the greatest kindness (one
of them being nearly exhausted), and has landed
them safely at this port. Two of the crew saved by
Captain Richards are Swedes. The ship struck on
Arklow Banks at three o'clock Aim on Wednesday,
having sailed from Liverpool on Tuesday, at twelve noon.
DUNDALK, OCT. 2.—The American Consul was down
here yesterday from Dublin, to look after the crew of
the unfortunate ship Mobile. He started at night to
Arklow, to look after the wreck. A collection was made
to-day by the Harbour Master and Swedish Vice-
Consul to provide little comforts for the poor fellows
saved by the crew of the Mary Elizabeth. The Steam-
packet Company, with the greatest kindness, provided
them with a passage, per the Pride of Erin, this evening,
for Liverpool, where they will be taken care of by the
Swedish and United States Consuls, for whom they have
letters from the Vice-Consul here and the American
Consul at Dublin. Captain Richards and his crew de-
serve the greatest praise for their meritorious conduct
and charitable sympathy for their suffering fellow-crea-
tures.

The following is the testimony of the four men landed
at Dundalk by the Mary Elizabeth:—
" We, the undersigned, being part of the crew of the
unfortunate ship Mobile, wrecked on the 29th ult. off
Arklow Banks, beg to bear testimony to the kindness
we received from Captain John Richards and the crew
of the schooner Mary and ElizAbeth, of Nevin, who not
only risked their lives in taking us off the wreck, but
also supplied us with food, clothing, and warmth until
we arrived at the port of Dundalk, end provided them
with suitable lodging and board. 'Riley must also' bear
testimony to the kindness they received from the Swe-
dish consul here, the harbour-master, and the American
consul, who posted at once from Dublin to render them
assistance. They wish to tender their obligations for ali
the kindness they have received.

" C. WYATT.
" JOHN DOLSTREDI—X, his mark.
" JOHN BROWNE—XI hia mark.
" JOHN BISBURN—X, his mark.
" Dundalk, Oct. 2, 1852.';

UPSETTING OF ANOTHER OF BEECH-
-ING'S PRIZE LIFE-BOATS.

Intelligence has been received of the upsetting of
another of Beeching's prive life-boats, which was nigh
being attended by as disastrous a loss of life as the
trial trip of a similar boat, at Lytham, near Liverpool.
As already known, Beeching obtained the Duke of
Northumberland's prize of 1001. for constructing the
most efficient life-boat, and different points of the
coast have been supplied with craft of the above per-
son's build. One of them, intended to be stationed
at Port Madoc, arrived at Carnarvon on Thursday
evening, and on tl?e following (Friday) morning
Mr. Jackson, the surveyor of the Port of Carnarvon,
accompanied by several beachmen from Port Madoc,
proceeded to try her in the Menai Straits. They
pushed off opposite the town, and when about three
quarters of the distance over the Channel, a squall
caught the boat, which carried at the time a large
lugsail, and she was thrown on her beamends. Tae
wind was blowing very. fresh from the south-west,
and a strong ebb tide running. All efforts to right
the boat failed, and she eventually turned keel up-
wards. The occurrence being witnessed from the pier
and shore, assistance was speedily dispatched to the
crew of the overturned boat,,who were hanging to
her side. The ferry steamer and the life-boats of the
port, with other craft, made all haste to the rescue,
and eventually succeeded in preserving the poor fel-
lows, who had suffered much from fear and immer-
sion. One of them, a man named Richards, when
taken off was completely exhausted, but proper resto-
ratives being applied, he soon recovered. But for the
prompt help rendered them, however, they would all
have perished. The boat, after some difficulty, was
towed ashore, and it was stated, with what truth we
cannot state. that when righted the two end air. boxes
had water in them. The mishap with such a boat
has created much excitement.

THE LATE HIG-RGAI E BURGLARY.
Charles Johnson was again placed at the bar before
Mr. Chester, at the Highgate Petty Sessions, yesterday,
on the charge of burglary and assaulting a policeman
while in the execution of his duty. Henry Donkin,
233 S , stated that he was on duty on Saturday night,
the 25th ult., at about half-past eleven o'clock, and
while passing near St. James's Church, and coming
towards .Highgate, he perceived the prisoner carrying
a blue bag and a gun. He questioned prisoner,
when he immediately aimed a blow at him. A struggle
then ensued, during which witness's staff and rattle
were wrested from his hand and flung away, and
witness was compelled to use his cutlass before the
capture of the prisoner could be effected. The pri-
soner during the struggle inflicted several wounds
upon the face of witness, and had endeavoured to
gouge out his eyes. Peter Thwaites, gardener,
identified the articles as the property of his master and
himself. Thomas Blanch stated that on the night in
question he was aroused by cries of " murder, and
on proceeding to the Muswell-hill-road, be perceived
'the prisoner lying on the ground, being held down by
Mr. Robinson. The politeman, who was bleeding
from the eyes and face, was picking up the stolen ar-
ticles. Both policeman and prisoner were in an ex-
hausted state. The prisoner stated in defence that he
did not intend to injure the policeman, vih;.ch the
throwing away the staff and rattle plainly showed,
but that having committed an offence he was anxious
to escape. The prisoner was then Tully committed

THE WAIMENSIIIP OF THE CINQUE PORTS.—We
understand there is no foundation for the statement which
has appeard in the papers, that the Earl of Derby Las re-
ceived the Wardenship of the Cinque Porte. We have, on
the contrary, reason to believe that his LorJship has advised
her Majesty to offer it to the acceptance of Lord Dalhousie,
whose absence in India may for some time prevent the actual
appointment from taking place. Iu the mean time, how-
cver, the duties of that office will be temporarily discharged
by the Earl of Derby.—
_Herald.

Loan Joan RUSSELL.—Lord and Lady John
Russell arrived at Stirling on Wednesday last, en route to
Cart House from Tulliallan Castle, where they hed been on
a visit to Lady Keith. His Lordship and family leave their
summer quarters for the south on the 12th inst... Edinburgh
Courant,

DEATH OF MR. THOMAS THOMSON. r THE LATE AIR. WILLIAM, FINDEN.
We regret to have to announce the death of this It was only last week that we spoke of Mr. W.
gentlemen, which took place at Edinburgh on the 21 Finden as one cf the seven or eight eminent historical
jest. Mr. Thomson was a very remarkable man. He engravers whose Haines were attached to a petition to
was a coadjutor of Jeffery, Sydney Smith, and Lord her Majesty for the recognition of the claim of en-
Brougham in the establishment of the Edinburgh gravers to the lull honours of the Royal Academy,
Review, and was a prominent member of the Liberal 1 and we have now to announce that the affixing of his
party at the Scotch bar. He had an incomparably r signature to that petition was one of the last acts of
better knowledge of the history and antiquities of Mr. Finden's life. He caught cold on his return
Scotland than any one of his contemporaries. He from a meeting of his fellow engravers—the cold
held for many years the office of deputy clerk register, aggravated an old complaint, disease of the heart—
and in that capacity rendered the most valuable ser- and on the 20th of September he was no more. He
vices to the public, by collecting the national records, I died a widower, in the 65th year of his age. Mr.
and making them available. For these services he I William Finden was the elder brother of Mr. Ed-
was very ill-rewarded. And it is, perhaps, to be ward Finden, in conjunction with whose name his
regretted that he did not employ the time spent own is honourably menticned, and will be
in arranging and elucidating the muniments and remembered hereafter in the history of art
archives of Scotland in writing its history. For this in this country. He was, we believe, a pupil of
task he was admirably qualified, as well by his pecu- the late Mr. Charles Warren, known to collectors
liar attainments as an antiquary as by his refined taste by his exquisite engraving after " The Broken Jar"
and the purity and ease of his style. But a certain by Wilkie. From Warren he learnt much, but he
constitutional indolence rendered him averse from was under more secret and really greater obligations
grappling with any great or continuous labour; and in his art to Mr. James Heath (father of the late
he contented himself with preparing those materials Mr. Charles Heath) than he was to Mr. Warren—
for others which he could have used better than any many of his early works done for embellishing books
one e'se. For several years past Mr. Thompson published by Sharpe, Suttaby, and others,
bearing
officiated as one of the principle clerks of session. unmistakable evidences how carefully he had given
Instead, however, of having bad to Write out the his days and nights to the study of Mr. Heath's en-
judgments of others, he should himself have been gravings. In this style some of his early plates for
judge. But that perfect, knowledge of the law, and smirke s "Don Quixote," are excellent examples of
the possession of the other qualities that fit a man to his art. Mr. vinden'sigreat works—works great in point
adorn the bench, do not always raise him to that of size—are not numerous. His largest and best is his
elevation. And superficial mediocrity, if assisted by full-length portrait of George the Fourth seated cn a
a lucky combination of circumstances, has little diffi- sofa, from the original picture painted by Sir Thomas
culty in Edinburgh, as elsewhere, in rising onyngham
above the Lawrence for the Marchioness of C.
best sense and the most solid acquirements, if desti- The work is a true translation of the picture tute of such aid. Mr. Thompson was endeared to all rendered with the feeling of an artist.
Tbe
who knew him in private life by the gentleness of his price for the George the Fourth was large. Mr.
manners, the warmth of his affection, and the variety Finden received 1,500 gunieas for engraving it—the
and extent of his information. Though he had at- highest price, we believe, ever paid for engraving a
tained to a very advanced age, his cheerfulness never portrait. After the sofa King George, Mr. Finden's
forsook him ' • and he preserved to the last the full next important large works in point of size and merit
possession of his faculties. are his " Highlander's return" (the Wilkie still an
ornament at Cassiobury) ; " The Village Festival,"
after the well-known picture by the same artist,
painted for Mr. Angerstein, and now in the National
Gallery; and "The Naughty Boy," a boy standing,
with dogged look, close to his broken slate—after the
original by Sir Edwin Landseer in Mr. Sheepshanks's
collection. For "The Highlander's Return' he re-
ceived GOO gunieas ; and for " The Naughty Boy"
150 guineas. What he received for " The Village
Festival" we do not remember to have heard. He
was never happier than in this engaving after
Wilkie. Working for the booksellers as Mr. Finden
and his brother worked, gave them both a taste for
work on their own account. It was not long, there-
fore, before they became publishers—not ostensibly,
but really publishers, as sbariug in the profits and
loss of their new undertakings. Their great work,
in this branch of their profession, was "The Byron
Illustrations"—a really beautiful work—conceived and
executed with great spirit, taste, and success. Except
in the remarkable instance of " The Byron
Illustrations," Mr. Finden and his brother were
unsuccessful publishers. Buoyed up by the Byron
success, Mr. William Finden launched into other
expensive undertakings, and of which the most
important, and perhaps the most costly, was " The
Gallery of British Art." In this venture he wrecked
his Byron savings, and he became a poor man. The
last great work on which Mr. Finden was employed
was an engraving for the Art Union of London, after
Hilton's large picture of " The Crucifixion." Mr.
Finden lies buried in the General Cemetery at
Highgate.—Athenaeum.

TESTIMONIAL TO MR. WALLACE.
Mr. Wallace, well known as the late member for
Greenock, and the zealous advocate of cheap postage,
having ;fallen on evil times in his old age, a committee
was formed in Greenock in 1850, with the laudable pur-
pose of raising a fund to make permanent provision for
the honourable gentleman's declining years. The com-
mittee have succeeded in raising a fund which will se-
cure an annuity at the rate of 5001. per annum. The
ceremony of presenting this handsome testimonial, in
addition to a bust of Mr. Wallace, executed by Mr. P.
Park, took place on Thursday last, in Blackball-street
Church, Grenock, in the presence of the Provost and
the principal people of the town and surrounding
country. Mr. Wallace, on making his appearance, was
loudly cheered. A report of the proceedings of the
committee was read by Mr. A. Dennisioun, the details
being closed by the following paragraph:—" Your com-
mittee have the satisfaction of reporting, that while they
cannot state that their efforts have met with the success
which they believed they deserved, they have secured
to Mr. Wallace a testimonial worthy, at least, of his
acceptance. The subscriptions under the charge of Oh
committee, along with the contributions to the private
fend already referred to, would together be represented
by an annuity of 5001. per annum; and as the commit-
tee were desirous of providing some permanent and
more public testimonial of the labours of Mr. Wallace,
they engaged the service of that eminent sculptor, Mr.
P. Park, of Edinburgh, who ha: produced the bust now
on your table, which the committee propose to present
to Mr. Wallace this evening, and they recommend that
the Town Council of Greenock should be respectfully
requested to procure a copy of the bust in marble, to be
placed in the Town-hell, in commemoration of the great
public services of Mr. Wallace, the first representative
of Greenock, during the four Parliaments of thirteen
years he represented the burgh." Mr. J. F. Macfarkn,
Edinburgh, proposed the adoption of the report, which
w,:s seconded by Baillie Campbell, of Greenock, and
unattimonely agreed to. Mr. T. llatzlio, the convener of
the committee, then presented r,he testimonial. Mr.
Wallace belinowledgEd the testimonial in a speech of
gr.:at length, in which he gave en intere.iting review of
his whole public life; after which the proceedings
terminated.