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London, England, 1847-06-24 00:00:00

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CHAPTER RATE PEVENSEY.
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CHAPTER IV.—THE BATH AT DAWN.
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STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, TUESDAY, JUNE 22.—The continued
firmness
and gradual advance in the Liverpool cotton
market, has caused spinnershere;
haveand manufacturers gene-
rally and to some extent,
particularly
in yarn,
prices
buyers accededuntr of orders in
to their
ask
de-
mands. There appears to be a fair n
the m irket for yarn for Russia, Holland, and t
Medi-
terranean; but the advance of prices prevents thee buyrs
from operating freely, and the business done is conse-
quently on a limited scale. For goods there has not
been so much inquiry as during last week, and very few
sales have been made—generally at previous rates.
ROCHDALE, MONDAY, JUNE 21.—We have had very
few buyers in the market to-day ; but though the busi-
ness d one has been very limited, there is a better feeling
inani.ested, and more inquiry about goods. The wool
trade is still slack, and there has been very little done.
Prices have undergone little change since last Monday.
HALIFAX, SATURDAY, JUNE 19.—Although there
was no increase of business in the Piece Hall to-
day, yet there was a better attendance of mer-
chants, and evidently an improved state of feeling.
The yarn market also presents a rather cheerful aspect;
though we cannot say that either the demand or prices
have decidedly improved. The stock of wool at market
is very light, and a moderate business doing, to supply
immediate wants; but prices have not been so low for
many years. here is a prospect ofthe a strong
of which
contest
between the grower and the spinner, issue
altogether depends upon the result of the harvest.
de-
HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY, JTNE 22.—We had a de-
cidedly better market to-day, with a fair attendance of
buyers,
orsinu goods.
afandaconsiderable business done in the best
UNE 22.—There was a rather
LEEDS, TUESDAY, J
better market last Saturday, and a little more has been
but
doing to-day in fancy tweeds and coatings; no de-
mand for cloths and heavier descriptions of woollens
has as yet set in, and these branches of our trade are
still in a languid state.—Manchester Guardian.

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Debility, Wit` Practical Observations on the Treatment of Nervous
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By SAMUEL LVMERT, CONSULTING SURGEON,
9, Bedford-street, Bedford-square, London;
atrietdated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Ilonorar YEOMANRY CORPS IN THE
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the Debility, and Premature Decay.—CuATTESS 5 and 6. Or
of
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"he tre xtment t
on,
he
various disorders arising front the follies an i short es that time has been, it is gratifying to state that
a very favourable change has taken place. A consider •
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able number of hands have been enaged these two days
2011, by demonstrating the consequences of excesses,
its perusal
", aa a salutary warning to youth and maturity, and by p
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:Peal, even to the most confidential friend. "
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BALLOON ASCENT IN MAN-
CHESTER.

On Saturday eveni..g, as previously announced, Mr.
G. B. Gale, an aeronaut who has made various ascents in
America, and some more recently from the Punch-re-
nowned Rosherville Gardens, Gravesend, made his first
ascent from the Pomona Gardens, Cornbrook. From 5
o'clock till 7 a continuous stream of people flocked t
wards the gardens, and it is conjectured that not fewer
than 4,000 persons were assembled within the gardens at
the time of the ascent; while the lane leading to the gar-
den-, the whole line of the Chester-road, and various other
open spaces in the neighbourhood, were thronged by
thousands of spectators. Bands of music entertained
the spectator s during the tedious process of inflation,
which on this occasion had not been commenced soon
enough (only about twelve hours being allowed, whereas
ordinurily this balloon requires eighteen or nineteen
hours), and it was also found that the specific gravity of
the gas was much too great for the purposes of aerosta-
tion. From three hundred and sixty to four hundred is
the gravity of the gas used by aeronauts; indeed, some
manufacture hydrogen gas for themselves, having a
specific gravity of not more than 200 ; but this is wholly
unfit for illuminating purposes. The balloon is a new
one, made in Spitaltields, consisting of 700 square
yards of oiled silk, and capable of containing, when
fully inflated, 35,000 cubic feet of gas. The process
of inflation commenced at six o'clock in the morning,
the gas being conveyed to the balloon by a
three-inch pipe from the street main ; but, under
the circumstances above noticed, Mr. Gale soon found
that he must abandon his original purpose of appending
a duplicate car, and taking with him two other gentle-
men who had engaged to accompany him. Half an
hour after the hour appointed for the ascent, there was
no appearance of the inflation being nearly completed,
and at length, to prevent the public disappointment,
Mr. Gale had the gaspipe disconnected, and the
balloon taken higher up the banks, where the crowd
around it was very great, and it was with difficulty
that the police could preserve a space suffi-
cient to complete the requisite arrangements. At
length, all being properly adjusted, Mr. Gale entered
the car,—a painted basket of cork and wicker-work,
about four feet deep,—and, giving the signal, the
balloon was liberated, amidst loud cheers, ten minutes
before eight o'clock. As the balloon did not rise as
buoyantly as was desirable, Mr. Gale threw out a
large quantity of ballast, which did not imme-
diately suffice, for the car passing over the lake
into the corner of the garden, there struck against
the framework within the outer pailings, and 23
it oscillated from side to side, many cries were heard of
" He's out." After clearing the palings and crossing
the road, the balloon oame in contact with a number of
poplar trees, dragging the car after it; but it soon cleared
these, and in its network were seen entangled two large
branches, which it had torn off in its up-
ward progress. Mr. Gale, who had prudently
squatted down at the bottom of the car, finding that
all danger was over, stood up and showed himself,
waving his flags, and this conclusive evidence that he
was not " out," was received with tremendous .huzzas
and cheering from the assembled thousands. The bal-
loon crossed the Chester-road, and keeping at a low
altitude, passed over the lower part of Hulme into
Manchester, by St. Peter's-square, and from thence
towards Victoria-park. After clearing the town, the
balloon rose very high, keeping a little to the eastward
of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway. The
greatest altitude reached, Mr. Gale thinks, was about a
mile and a quarter. Generally the balloon floated at
the height of about 7,000 or 8.000 feet. Mr. Gale got
a fine view of Stockport (past which he bore a little to
the east) and of the windings of the Mersey, above and
below the town, and proceeding onwards into Cheshire,
terminated his aerial voyage in a grass field beside the
village of Bredbury, about two mites beyond Stock-
port. The whole length travelled was about ten miles.
The descent of the machine was of the gentle-4 possible
kind. The grapnel being lowered, was laid hold of by
one man ; two others, farm labourers, came to his assist-
ance, and afterwards other two, and the balloon was
drawn to the ground as easily as a boy would "pull in"
his kite. The people behaved to the aeronaut with great
kindness, and a party of labourers assisted in carrying
the balloon to a public-house, where a cart was got as
far as Stockport; thence Mr. Gale came to Manchester
in a cab, and arrived about midnight. It is stated that
he will make a second ascent on Monday next, wh n,
if the balloon be (as Mr. Gale expects) amply inflated,
he will ascend with the duplicate car, and discharge
some fireworks, at a great altitude.

GLASGOW.
SHOCKING DESTITUTION.

During the last eight or ten days, a scane of Irish des-
titution has been daily and nightly presented in a vacant
space of ground at the north-west corner of Stoekwell-
bridge, which is altogether appalling. There,on the bare
cold earth, or perchance with the leapt sprinkling of straw
beneath them, exposed to all varieties of weather, are v 0 be
seen scores of shrivelled and diseased creature, chiefly ema-
ciated women and children, some of them infants at the
breast. On Saturday evening last, a gentleman informs
us that he counted no less than 67 individuals on this
spot. This morning, about one o'clock, we visited the
place; a shower of rain had fallen, and many of the poor
wretches, no doubt, had sought better shelter, as we ob-
served not a few in the recesses of stairs and shop doors.
But exposed to the rains and dews of heaven, and the
da:nps and colds of earth, there were about a dozen,
some of them huddled in groups for warmth, some
covered with a wretched mat, not a few (and these
mere youths) with nothing whatever over them. The
hollow coughs that came from that den of misery,
located in the centre of one of the wealthiest cities in the
empire, told of the ravages that exposure and disease
were making on their constitutions, leaving altogether
out of view the moral and social consequences. We
know that the authorities are perplexed with the immense
amount of misery they are called upon to relieve,
but it is a shocking thing that, in a Christian or a
civilised land, such scenes should exist. Can something not
be done in a temporary manner, say in the way of tents,
to protect them from the inclemency of the elements ;
or are there not vacant churches in the city which might
be converted into temples of charity, if nothing else can
be accomplished, until other means and better acconinao
dation be provided? Nothing can tend mere to harden
and render callous the feelings of a population than such
scenes; and the sooner these victims of neglect are pro-
perly attended to, the better for all parties.

THE VILLAGE SHOPKEEPER.
There is scarcely a village in England without a little
shop in it, where you see over the door-way, in strange
looking letters, "Licensed Dealer in Tea, Coffee, To-
bacco and Snuff, Pepper and Vinegar," where they keep
every thing well seasoned, and very little that is fresh.
You cannot mistake it, for there are generally a lot of
little children looking in, licking their lips, and seeming
to envy the very sunshine which is melting the lollipops
in the glass jars : wishing that they were small as flies
to hop about and eat up the dirty handful of sugar that
is thrown in one corner of the window ; and fairly long-
ing to have a suck of the two or three wizened oranges,
which have lain undisturbed for weeks on their little bed
of comfortable dust in the corner. There is generally a
hair broom, a mop, and a besom at the door, and an
empty tea-chest which the carrier brought, and which,
when full, contained a dozen sixpenny fire shovels, a
dozen pieces of hearthstone, ditto of Bath bricks, and the
same number of the lumps of pipeclay, with divers and
sundry packages of red ochre. They never lay in a
stock of more than a pound of tea at a time, which the
carrier brings to them in his coat-pocket ; and were
any little girl to come for a whole ounce, they would
send her back again to see if it was not a mistake, so
accustomed are they to serve out only half and quarter
ounces. They make halt-pennyworths of sugar, and
seldom give a child a pennyworth of treacle in a teacup
without a caution not to put his finger in and lick it as
he goes home ; for if he does it will be short weight
when he gets there. They are never without ginger-
bread cakes, plum buns, and biscuits ; but as they are
all mixed together in one drawer, it frequently takes
some time to find such as are wanted, and when found,
scarcely anything less than a good heavy hammer will
break them ; nor is there the remotest chance of eating
them at all, until they have had a good soaking in a basin
of water. The top row of the window is generally de-
dicated to a fest whipping and pegging tops in a net;
half. a dozen shuttlecocks, stuck in one another; a couple
of halfpenny battledores to match ; a spotted harlequin
suspended by the neck, who kicks up his legs and arms
beautifully when the string behind is pulled; a wax doll
whose nose and lips the sun has melted ; a wooden dog
that used to squeak when it was moved, before it fell
down and got broken; two or three soldiers on horse-
back lying higgledy-piggledy together, some of the men
without heads, and some of the horses without legs ; and
two or three halfpenny kites, with a beautiful cross in the
middle, marked with red ochre; with one or two other
articles, such as a sixpenny fiddle without strings, the bow
of which has long since been lost,—and these make up
what the village shopkeeper calls his toy department.
Thesecond row is dedicated to a very small show of
crockery ware; a few little packages which are either
groats, oatmeal, or lucifer matches, you cannot tell
which, unless you go close and read the labels; beside
these stand two or three bottles of patent mdicines,
those intended for the use of the villagers being the
smallest, those for the cows and horses a little larger.
Next stand a couple of pens, a box full of wafers, and a
little bottle which once contained ink. These are
matched by half a dozen pipes, very tastefully crossed
and tied together ; then a bill about something which
was stolen, lost, or strayed, you cannot tell how long
ago, for the date has slipped down. This is accompanied
by another bill, announcing " Day and Martin's Black-
ing,"—not that they ever had any, for they found it
come cheaper to make their own; but as the pane hap-
pened to be out, and it just fitted, it came in very handy,
and the glazier lived above five miles off. This com-
pletes row the second, with the exception of a written
paper, announcing "A Cotage too Lett Inkwire within."
The bottom row it is almost impossible to describe, for
it is made up of soap and soda, and stone-blue; a pair or
two of boots, ditto of shoes, a hat, and a little suit of
corduroys; parcels which are supposed to contain every-
thing, though they have very much the appearance of
bricks tied up iu brown paper; a piece of bacon, mounted
on a lump of cheese, a half-quartern loat, overhung by
half a pound of candles, on both of which the effects of
the hot sun are visible; two or three eggs which have
been kept long enough and made warm enough to contain
little chickens; three onions, one of which is wizened,
while the other two have begun to sprout; a mouse-
trap, a frying-pan, and a gridiron, with a tin saucepan
turned bottom upwards, and surmounted by a half-
bladder of dirty-looking lard. These, with a notice that
passengers and parcels are booked there for the Red
Rover coach, make up about all you can see without a
very minute examination. If you venture inside and ask
for anything, no matter what h is, they have it ; but
bless me ! wherever can it be? it must be somewhere in
one of these drawers. John John I John comes out
of the little back parlour; he also is certain it must be
somewhere—he scratches his head, and tries to remem-
ber—hers a recollection of Mrs So-and-so having a
penn'orth about six months back—knows he tied it up
and put it away carefully—must be this—no, those are
tin tacks —must be that—deary me they're thimbles !
—did'nt know they had any—and had given an order for
two dozen to come by the carrier on Saturday.—Could'nt
you look in again in about an hour, or call next day ?
they should be sure to find them then. Perhaps it is a
lead-pencil you want. They have black-lead, but they
reckon that won't do. They have pens also, but, unfor-
tunately, at that time are out of ink : the last ink they
had, a great jar tumbled off the shelf, fell on it, and
broke the ink-bottle; and it was very unfortunate, for it
happened all to run into the drawer where they kept the
moist sugar. Is there nothing else you want? a pen-
knife, or a pail, or a penny box of paints ? You shake
your head and sayand bid good by to the Village
Shopkeeper.—From Miller's Boy's Spring Book.

ROBBERIES BY ENGLISH
VANTS IN PARIS.
Two English servants, named Templeton and Macken•
zie, were on Saturday tried by the Court of Assizes o'
the Seine, for robbing the proprietress of the Hotel Vic
toria, in the Rue Chaveau-la-Garde. At the beginning
of 1846, Templeton, who was then in a state of great
distress, was kindly received by the lady of the hotel as
one of her domestics. A little. time afterwards he was
observed to be flush of money; and as this caused sus-
picions, the plate was examined, and it was found that
several forks, spoons, &c., had disappeared. On being
questioned, Templeton admitted that he was the thief,
but urged that he was in great poverty. Although this
was notoriously false, he possessing an excellent situa-
tion, his employer, touched by his appeals for pardon,
consented not to place him in the hands of justice, and
contented herself with dismissing him. He shortly
after repaid this kindness by a shameful participation in
the robbery of his benefactress. On the night of the
28th of December, a young Englishman arrived at the
Hotel Victoria with a handsome portmanteau. He re-
quested the porter to give him a bed without delay, and
to Gall him at an early hour the next day. On going to
the room the following morning, the porter was asto-
nished to find that the visitor had already departed, and
it it was evident from the disorder of the bed, that he had
laid on it without undressing. The man, fearing that a
robbery had been committed, descended to the dining-
room of the hotel, and found the windows standing
open. He also discovered that some plate, which had
been used on the previous evening had disappeared, as
also some jewellery belonging to the lady of the hotel,
which had been left in an adjoining parlour. There was
no doubt that the young English visitor was the thief,
and his handsome portmanteau, which he lett, was ac-
cordingly broken open, when it was found to contain
nothing but a large stone. A robbery on an extensive
scale had evidently been planned, and there was every
reason to believe that the portmanteau had been destirTd.
to take away the booty. Fortunately, however, the thief'
had not had time to attack the plate closet, in which the
greatest quantity of plate was kept; and, having no
doubt been alarmed whilst in the perpetration of the
theft in the dining-room, he had been compelled to make
a hasty retreat, leaving on the table a silver cruet-stand,
a silver bread basket, and several other valuable articles.
For some time no clue was obtained to the thief, but at
last Templeton fell into the hands of the police for
another robbery, and this led to his lodgings being
searched, when some articles that had been stolen from
the hotel Victoria, and pawnbrokers' duplicates for some
others, were discovered. The prisoner Mackenzie lived
with Templeton, and both passed by assumed names.
On being confronted with the domestics of the hotel,
Mackenzie was recognised as the person who had
entered the hotel with the portmanteau on the night
of the robbery, and it was also proved that he had been
concerned with
.Templeton in disposing of the stolen
articles. The jury declared Mackenzie guilty of a
robbery in an inhabited house during the night,
and Templeton guilty of a domestic robbery. The Court
condemned both to two years' imprisonment. Temple-
ton not understanding French, an interpreter had to be
employed. A professor of English was chosen but he
created immense amusement throughout the trial, from
the great deafness with which be is afflicted preventing
him fro u clearly understanding what was said and also
from his continually confounding English with French
and French with English, he talking to the Court in
English and to the prisoners. French.—Galignani.

reat George-street.
Mr. Morrison, M.P., had an interview with the Righ.
HC
anredrsSetfrunatt,ilownayTs uniesGda at the office of the
The Observer of Sunday morning gave the parti •
culars of the meeting at Dee's Hotel, Birmingham, of the
shareholders of the Birmingham and Oxford Railway Com-
oomEhm Edward
Com-
pany, nearly to the extent of one of the Observer folio
columns, and which meeting did not commence at Dee's
Hotel until after two o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday,
and appeared in the Observer published at six o'clock on
Sunday morning. The:Observer also gave an account of the
splendid Waterloo banquet, including the names of most of
the gallant surviving heroes present, with a summary ex-
ceeding one of the Observer folio columns ; nearly two folio
columns of her Majesty's Theatre and the Royal Italian
Opera; a folio column of critique on the British Institution
pictures; nearly two folio columns of the state of the funds
and prices of railways; the. horticultural meeting at Chis-
wick on Saturday—the prizes awarded, and to whom ; Fox
Club dinner at the Trafalgar Hotel, Greenwich, on Saturday;
upwards of a column and a half of births, marriages, and
deaths; five columns of miscellaneous advertisements, in-
cluding a folio column of public amusements for the coming
week. The Observer also contained twenty-six columns of
news, foreign and domestic, chiefly original. Price of the Ob-
server 6d. There is scarcely a Club-house, Institution, Library,
or News-room in all England, Scotland, Ireland, the Conti-
nent, East and \V est Indies, America, &c., in which the Ob-
serve: is not taken in, and frequently duplicate copies. Th. e
extensive publication of the Observer commences at six
and concludes at ten oclock on Sunday morning Monday
edition of the Observer, best adapted for the country and
abroad, is regularly published at four o'clock ou Monday after-
MOM

THE CORN TRADE.