The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-17 00:00:00

THE MURDERER.

NEW GEOLOGICAL THEORY RE- -
SPECTING BASALTIC COLUMNS.
Within the last two years, Captain Morton has
written and published, in the Jamaica Times, several
essays, with the view of proving that in the magnifi-
cent columns of the Giant's Causeway, and those of
Staffa, we behold the splendid relics of the stupendous
bamboos of a far distant age ! ! In support of this
novel hypothesis, he alludes to the fact of the sepa-
rate joints, both in bamboos and basaltic columns,
being articulated with semispherical tenons, and cor-
responding sockets or mortises ; the tenon or the
mortise being, in both productions, sometimes in the
upper and sometimes in the lower end of the joint :
as particularly remarkable in the columns of the
Giant's Causeway. In reference to the established
theory of basaltic columns being crystalised from tor-
rents of molten lava, he shows that it is opposed to the
general laws of crystalisation ; and remarks upon the
utter impossibility of the separate joints, blocks, or crys-
tals, of which the columns are composed, selecting (if
thus formed) their fellow-joints of similar diameter,
with corresponding sockets or mortises, and arranging
themselves so closely and exactly one above another, till
stupendous columns were raised. many hundred feet in
height, the length of the joints, and diameter of contigu-
ous columns, exhibiting all the relative variety of dimen-
sions which marks a field of sugar-canes or a forest of
bamboos. Some of the basaltic columns of the Giant's
Causeway consist of distinct groups bending towards
one another at the tops, so as to resemble gigantic pillars
and arches of Gothic architecture, which appearance,.
Captain Morton observes, is one of the beautiful charac-
teristics of the graceful bamboo.
He also shows that bamboos, even in the present day,
secrete silex or flint, the chief component part of Basaltic
Columns; and that the well-known material called vege-
table ivory, now substituted for animal ivory in many
articles of ordinary use, is the production of an existing
order of palm trees.
Instead of admitting that volcanoes are the generators
of Basaltic Columns, he regards them as the destroyers
of these vegetable productions of a far anterior period
and thus accounts for the fact of volcanoes being some-
times found in the neighbourhood of Basaltic Columns,
and the similarity in chemical composition between lava
and basalt. To show that there is nothing more preposte-
rous in the supposition that trees should have been con-
verted into stone columns, than that these columns should
have beenvomited forth by volcanoes, he alludes to the fact
of there being now in the Texas a forest of stony trees ;
and to the hard and ponderous nature of many of the
massive timbers of the day (containing earths and
metals), as also to the fact of their having, like the
flinty shell of the cocoa nut, and the stones of our fruit,
been secreted from a fluid sap, while the bones of the
most gigantic animals, and the ivory tusks of the ele-
phant, &c., were once equally fluid, being, in like man
ner, eliminated from the blood derived from vegetable
food !
There is not, says Captain Morton, such disparity in
size between the most colossal of the columns of the
Giant's Causeway, and the bamboos of the present day,
as between the monstrous antedeluvian lizard, the igua-
nodon, and our diminutive reptiles of similar tribes. The
iguanodon was many thousand times a$ big as our
lizards ; but bamboos merely five or six times as lofty
as some of the present day, would suffice to give us a
mountain range equal in height to the most lofty and
precipitous basaltic mountain in Scotland.
Where the lowest coal bed is now found, there, the
above-mentioned writer remarks, the surface of the earth
most assuredly once was; that however deep, in what-
ever stratum, the remains of antediluvian animals are
embedded, there too, though no longer evincing a vege-
table structure, must be the remains of the luxuriant
reeds, ferns, and grasses on which they fed, of the mon-
strous trees forming the primitive forests they inhabited.
In the Isle of Arran we find coal overlying Basalt,
in one place, and Basalt reposing upon coal in another.
In Mount Meissner, in Hess, Basalt is found based
upon a substratum of fosssil wood, one hundred feet
deep! and this mountain towers over an area of forty
miles of surrounding country; the inference is obvious.
It is universally admitted that coal and wood were once
vegetable productions growing upon the surface of the
earth ; consequently the superior strata must, generally
speaking, consist of the debris of subsequent animal and
vegetable kingdoms, the chemical laboratories employed
by the Almighty Architect of the Universe in fixing the
vapour of the atmoshere of the ocean, and adding them
in solid strata to our expanding globe. Hence, the ex-
cess of the equatorial over the polar diameter, from the
great luxuriance of the animal and vegetable kingdoms
within the tropics, and consequent accumulations of
matter around the equatorial regions.: while the remains
of the elephant and the nalm tree, the crocodile and the
bamboo, are still found at the polar surface, where, count-
less ages past, they perished, the diminished temperature
permitting no subsequent vegetation of sufficient luxuri-
ance to cover their remains with succeeding strata.
The Isle of Staffa stands forward as an instructive
monument of the prominent part the vegetable kingdom
has performed in the structure of our globe, in those re-
mote ages when Scotia, through the greater obliquity of
the ecliptic, glowed beneath the verdure of a tropical
sun ! The striking characteristics of the bamboo are
too strongly manifested in its numerous small pillars,
" bending and diverging in all directions," to admit of
further mistake. The mystery which has so long hung
over these, and the magnificent columns of the Giant's
Causeway must, according to Captain Morton, be thus
for ever dispelled. The volcanic theory of their origin,
though supported "by all living geologists," must yield
to the simple principles of nature, which not only ren-
ders basaltic columns, but many other apparently mys-
terious phenorrena, susceptible of easy solution. Those
persons may possibly be thunderstruck at the announce-
ment, that trees have been converted into stone columns,
who, in accordance with high authorities, have been ac-
customed to believe them to have been vomited forth
by volcanoes ; but the fact, that the hardest and
most brilliant of the mineral productions of the earth,
the diamond, consists of carbon, the chief component
part of the vegetable kingdom, of wood, coal, and
charcoal, is certainly no less extraordinary.

Considerable consternation prevailed in the neighbour-
hood of Blanket-row at an early hour on Wednesday morn-
ing,
in consequence of a rumour that Thomas Green, a
mariner, had murdered his wife. Policeman Gordon entered
Green's apartment, which is on the second floor of a house in
Hatter's-square, Martin's-alley, where be found Green seated
in a chair, with a handkerchief before his face, and apparently
very melancholy. A short distance from him his wife was
laid a corpse on the floor, beingcoveredwith a blanket. Gor
don immediately sent for Inspector Dorsey, who was on duty
at the Blanket-row station, and, on Green being asked if his
wife was dead, he answered in the affirmative, and, without any
further interrogatories being put, entered into a statement of the
circumstances connected with the dreadful tragedy. It seems
that his wife was an habitual drunkard, and on that account
they frequently quarrelled. On Tuesday evening his brother
called at his house, and invited him to accompany him to
Drypool feast, to which he consented, but, previous to leaving
home, he placed in the hands of his wife about 50s. He
returned home about two o'clock next morning, and, in
ascending the staircase, he stumbled over his wife, who was
laid drunk, and unable to proceed any further. Perceiving
the state she was in he took the door-key from her pocket,
and, having obtained admission to the room, he returned to
the unfortunate woman, and then commenced a succession of
acts of violence which produced death. The first inquiry of
the husband was with respect to the money, but his wife was
unable to answer him, from the combined effects of the drink
she had partaken of, and the injury she had sustained, about
two hours before the arrival of Green; by falling heavily down
stairs. Her husband became enraged ; he dashed her head
several times against the stairs, and then, seizing her by the
hair of the head, dragged her into the room, where he searched
for his money, but did not succeed in finding it. He then
left hold of her, and she fell on the floor. Whilst in that
position the husband got into bed alongside his two sons, the
eldest of whom is not more than 12 years of age ; but after
being there about half an hour, he darted out of bed, and
again attacked his unfortunate victim, by jumping upon her
body. He likewise struck and kicked her, and eventually
knocked her head-foremost down stairs, where she lay
moaning for a length of time, when the husband carried her
up stairs, laid her on the floor, and then retired to rest. On
rising shortly before six o'clock he was horror-struck on
finding that his brutality had ended in the death of his wife,
and his eldest boy called in a neighbour. He was soon after-
wards taken into custody.
An inquest was subsequently held, and the jury returned a
verdict of " Wilful Murder against Thomas Green."

LATEST PRICES OF SHARES,
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PANIES' STOCK.

From tie Official List,
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING

LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14.
30INT-STOCK. UANKS.

Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
-- -- -
£ s. d. A s. d.
Australasia ...... •• • • 6/. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 20%
Brash North American 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 43%
Commercial of London Si. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 24%
Colonial. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 16
Londn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 27%
London Joint-Stock .• • 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14%
Metropolitan ......... - 25 0 0 7 10 0
Provincial of Ireland • • 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 483.
Ditto, New...... •• • 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 19
National of Ireland .. Si. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 21
Nat. Provncial of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 35
Ditto, New... ... • - 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0
Union of Australia.. - 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 26
Union cf Loudon. •• • • 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 11%
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Anr dM. Share.
A s. d. A s. d.
Albion .........• •• • • 31.105 500 0 0 50 0 0 74
Alliance Brit. and. For. G per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 19%
Ditto Marine.• ••• • • 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 5 0 0 5%
Atlas
British Commercial .. 75. per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 7 %
Clericl,Med.&Gen.Life ' 51. per cent. 100 0 0 210 0 6%
31. 100 0 0 , 10 0 0
Cr own ........ ••• • .. 10s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 -
Eagle • •
Eng.& Scot. Law •• •• 5/. per cent. 50 00 I 20 0 2%
European Life ••• • • • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20
Freemasons' .•• • • .... 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0
Globe ••.•• • • • • ...... 6/. per cent. Stock. - 135
Guardian .... -•.. . . . 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 48
Imperial Fire .. ••• . . • 6/. and bonus 500 0 0 50 0 0 240
Imperial Life •••• • • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 16%
Indemnity Marine •• • . U. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 29
Law Life ..... ...... . 11.55. 100 0 0 10 0 0 52
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 6%
London Fire .. ••• • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 14%
London Ship
Marine .. .•. • • ...... 51. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 10%
Med. Invlid & Gen. Life 4341. per ct. 50 0 0 2 0 0 3
National Lean Fund- 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2%
National Life.. •••• . • • 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 3%
Palladium Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2/. Os.
Phoenix .. .. . ....... - - 205
Protector Life •• • • •• • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1/. 3s.
Provident Life.. •• • •
Rock Life •.•••• • • • • • • 4s. 5 0 0 010 0 4%
Royal Exchange 5/. per cent. Stock. - 198
Sun Fire • • ••. • • •• • • • 61. 10s. - - 210
Ditto Life .• • • - - 49
Universal Life
CANALS.
./ Dividend Names of
P ~,,s; Dividend
Companies. per 1 -
Names of .•
Companies.
.a Annum.
per Price.
x Annum., rice.
cn
---- -..
Ix 1 X
i
Ashtn& 0161h1 97'5/.55. pc, 70 Monmouthsh 100 81. 160
Ashby-d-la-ZIII3 4/. 70 Mntgomush 100 51. 98
Barnsley.... ;160, 121. 180 Macclesfield. 100 - 38
Basingstoke..lloo, - - Neath lOO 171. 340
Brknk&Abrg!lso; 51. 85 Nottingham l5O 121. -
Cromford.... 1001 141. 150 Peak Forest 7B 31. 40
Dudley 100; 4/. - Regent's .. • • 33 1/. ss. 25
Derby .. •. •
Ellsmre&Chs 133 4/. 55 Shropshire • • 125 81. -
Erewash .• • 100, 321. 300 Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. 130
Forth & Clyd 100, 4/. - Do.LkFd St 12 61. p. c. 11
GrandJunctn 100 71. 95% Stffrd &Wore 140 281. 295
Grand Union 100! U. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. 125 151. 230
Glamorgnsh .472: 13%1. 210 Stourbridge.. 145 20/. 315
Glstr & Brkly' 1001 - - Strtfrd on Av 99 a los. -
Grantham • • 1501
--12/. 100 Severn and
Huddersfield. 571 - Wye Rail. 26 1/. Bs. 32
Kennt & Avu 39' Ts. Gd. 934 Trnt & Mr- 50 301.
Lancaster 47 1/. 10s. - sey, % sh.
Leeds& Lrerp 100 341. 520 Thams &Med 19 - -
Leicester ,140, 101. 105 Worcstr &/ ..
/8 21. 44
Leicstr &Nth 83' 4/. , 60 Birming.
Loughboroghl42 70/. 1 850 Wilts & Brks 67 11. I 1
DOCKS.
....
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
--
A s. d. A s. d.
Commercial - 80
East and West India - 141
East Country - 21
Landon 51. pr cent. ; Stock. - 114
St. Katharine .... •• . . 5 per cent. I Stock. - 101%
Southampton ••-• • .. 4/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 27%

SINGULAR MARRIAGE AT
SMETLIWICK.

One of the most novel and remarkable freaks which
has ever occurred in this or any other part of the coun-
try, has been discovered at Smethwick, in the course of
the week. About two years ago a rollicking fellow,
named Charles Wilkins, came to the town, where for
some time he was employed in an ironfoundry. This,
however; was too hard work for him, and he betook
himself to that of a " navigator." His gallantry and
devotion to the sex was always very conspicuous, and a
romp with the servant girls one of his favourite amuse-
ments. Shortly after he took up his residence in the
town, he became acquainted with an illustrious female,
named Sarah Deakin, to whom he paid the most assi-
duous attention. After some time passed in agree-
able courtship, fortune smiled ou his suit, every prepa-
ration was made for the happy day, and the ceremony
was performed amidst all the usual joyous demonstra,
tions. The happy couple took up their residence in
the house of Mr. John Badger, near the Swan Inn, and
for a year lived in the apparent enjoyment of every
felicity. Wilkins got a situation in the packing room of
W. Chance, Esq., at the Plate Glass Works, and was
with his wife installed as one of the lodge keepers at
Spon-lane. Months passed. Rumour, with her hundred
tongues, was busy ; even his wife partook of the
general suspicion that her husband was not what he
ought to be, and poor Wilkins became a marked man.
Since his marriage he had become a most exemplary
husband, he had ceased to crack his jokes with the girls
as they passed, and had even forsaken his accustomed
pipe and cup at the Swan of an evening ; but notwith-
standing all this, he was looked upon with suspicion.
Even the hearty good-natured equanimity of Wilkins
was not proof against such conduct; his house had
become uncomfortable ; no young " olive plants" sur-
rounded his hearthstone, and his " better-half" be-
came, from one of the most amiable creatures in the
world, one of the greatest shrews. Life was becoming
unbearable; so, determined no longer.

_ .
"In the mind to suffer
The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune,"

but to take " arms against a sea of trouble," he became
a woman! Charles Wilkins doffed the male attire he
had worn for ten long years, and undergoing a meta-
morphosis not much less extraordinary than that of a
caterpillar, became humble, pale-faced Mary Curzon !
The astonishment of the wife may be conceived ; tem-
pered with regret, because Wilkins had always been a
kind, though most eccentric husband. She is by no
means unprepossessing in person, although from her
short-cut hair and semi-male attire, she presents a
rather singular appearance. She is scarcely thirty years
of age, about the average height of females, with regular
though not very feminine features. In short, she was
rather a stout, good-looking fellow ; and, although her
voice was shrill for a man, yet her sex was never sus
pected. It appears that she had been married about
ten years ago to a man in another part of the cDuntry,
but he behaved to her in such an improper manner that
she was compelled to leave him. It was then she adopted
male attire, in which she could travel without exciting
attention; and, having once become accustomed to its use.
she adopted it altogether. Before coming to Smethwick
she had been employed in breaking stones on the road
side, and other out-door labour. From her feminine
voice, the workmen used to call her "Suke." On a re-
cent occasion, when seized with illness, for which she was
bled" by Mr. Davis, surgeon, who remarked on the sin-
gular smallness of her arm, not the slightest suspicion of
her sex was entertained. In addition to her marriage,
her conduct generally favoured the deception, for she
could smoke, drink, tell her story, and sing her song with
any of the workmen, who looked upon her as a capital
boon companion, but regarded with a degree of jealousy
her conquests among the " fair sex." The wife appears
to feel somewhat ashamed of the whole affair, and Cur-
zon is not by any means communicative on the subject.
H
Her motives in the deception are not very clear, and it
does not appear that she can give any very satisfactory
account of them herself.— Wolverhampton Chronicle.

WATER-WORKS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. . per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share. '
- -
.£ s. d.
East London-- • EL 100 0 0 - 204
Grand Junction ••• • • • 3/. 10s. 41 13 4 - 90
Kent ••.••••• • • • • • • • • 2/. 10s. 100 0 0 - 70
Vauxhall - .... ••• . • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 - 57
West Middlesex ••.. . • 51. ss. pr cut. 63 12 9 - 130
LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES'PRICES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
-- ----
.£ s. d. X s. d
Bank of Scotland
Royal Bank of Scotland G/. per cent. - 100 0 0 158
British Linen Company 81. per cent. - 100 0 0 224
Commercial Bank •• • • 6/. per cent. - 100 0 0 165
National Bank • ..... • • 6/. per cent. -'" 10 0 0 14%
Union Bank of Scotland 73¢1. pr cent. - 50 0 0 92%
50 0 0 85
Western Bank --- • • 6/. per cent. - 50 0 71,
North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - ~.
Clydesdale Bank ••• • • • 61. per cent. - 10 0 0 131 i
10 0 0 11
Eastern Bank.. ••- • • 5/. per cent. -
Caledonian Bank ••. • • 7341. pr cent. - 210 0 4%
Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per test. - 5 0 0 714
City of Glasgow Bank . 5/. per cent. - 10 0 0 13%
Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 249.9 d
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 149
[near. Co. of Scetlnd 5l. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 9%
North -British Maur.. • 5341. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 28
10 0 0 22
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent.lloo 0
Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 18 !",
Edin. & Glasg. Railway 1/.los. per c. 50 0 0 50 0 0 74%
Ditto, % Shares.... 73. fid. n.. 12 10 0 All paid. 1834
Ellin., Leith, & Grantn •• ' 20 0 0 '-i0 0 0 IN _
GI asgw & Ayrshlr Rail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 75
Glasc,rw & Greenck Rail. 2/. per cent, 25 0 0 All paid. 1614
Glsgw&Ganikirk Rail. Si. per cent. 25 0 0
All paid. 40%
Dundee & Arbroth Bail. 6!. per cent. 25 0 0
All paid. 37
Standard LifeAssurrice.l 5/. per cent. 50 00f2 10 0 9

THE Moons.—No shooting season could begin under
more favourable auspices than that of 1846. The fogs which
enveloped and shut out the distant landscapes have been
dispelled by the thunder of Saturday, and now the bracing
atmosphere invites the young sportsman, inclined for an
early shot, to roll himself in his plaid and listen for the first
crow of the old cocks, as, on fluttering wings, they rouse the
young broods—many of them destined, ere evening, to fall,
at the sound of the gun, on their native heather. We have
often wondered, on looking at maps which give the lines of
railways, that no enterprising publisher ever thought of a
sporting map, where, in a similar way, shootings might be
outlined and described—noting down deer corries—the bold
peaks where ptarmigan are found—the heath-covered up-
lands, where dwell innumerable broods of grouse—and the
fantastic old birch clumps, sloping to mountain streamlets,
which are the choice habitations of black game. Our paper
goes to press on the eve of the eventful 12th of August,
which prevents our giving this week any accounts of the
well-filled panniers which, we hope, sportsmen will bring
from the hills.—lnverness Courier.

THE HArtvEsT.—Reaping has commenced pretty
generally in the counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland.
The quality of the corn is good, and the quantity above an
average. Sheavers' wages are unusually high, the men re-
ceiving twenty shillings a week, with victuals and lodging,
and the reapers by the day are getting 4s. ed., without
victuals. On Tuesday and Wednesday last great numbers
of " navies," especially the Irish, employed on the Lancaster
and Carlisle Railway, left the line and hired to go to the
harvest, and on some parts of the line very few men are left.
The accounts from the wine countries are Very fa-
vourable. It is stated that the grapes are.in the finest con-
dition, and that in quantity as well as quality the harvest
will be good.
The celebrated Danish painter, Holm, died suddenly
at Rome at the commencement of the month. He resided in
the Holy City during the last two years.

THE INSURRECTION at COLOGNE. ' is but one opinion on the subject in all parts of the
The following extract from a private letter, which has country, viz., that the conduct of the military was
been kindly handed to us for publication, gives a vivid shameful in the extreme, and that the citizens of Co-
account of a very serious outbreak at Cologne : logne have behaved most nobly in doing their best to
COLOGNE, AUG. 16. preserve the peace of the city, and in having left the
My dear —, I received your kind letter on Tuesday laws of the land to punish the offenders. Two or three
last, for which many thanks, and reply to it in haste, travelling Englishmen got beaten by the military, being
sooner than I intended, fearing you might all be alarmed accidentally in the crowd. I forgot to say there were
and anxious by the newspaper reports of the dis- also some disturbances on Thursday, the 3d, which gave
turbances in Cologne. We have indeed very narrowly rise to the scenes of Tuesday. We have also had a
escaped a serious revolution, and although very great shock of an earthquake here, but very slight. We
excitement still exists, still I trust, by the Government did not know it. It seems that this year is to be an
not having recourse to violent measures, that all will eventful one. Business is still very bad, and no wonder,
end well. I must now give you some account of the af- with the hot weather and this state of confusion. Adieu.
fair. It all arose from one of the kirmess's, or Saint's-
day-feasts, and had no pofitical grounds whatever. Last
Sunday was St. Martin's kirmess, which is held in that
part of the town, near the Rhine, and where the market-
place is. On the 3d day of the kirmess (Tuesday), some
boys wanted to let off some fireworks, which is not al-
lowed here. The police interfered, and the people, who
were already much displeased by finding that pi-
quets of soldiers had been placed about the market,
began to murmur. The soldiers were ordered to
clear the market-place. This was, of course, re-
sisted, as no cause had been given for such a pro-
ceeding, and in the fray a gendarme cut down and
killed a man, literally hacking him to death. This was the
signal for battle. I have heard from an eyewitness that
it was something quite awful to witness the dead still-
ness that prevailed, while the priest administered the
last sacrament to the poor dying creature. Hundreds
stood silent there, with faces white with passion and
clenched fists. The battle then began between the
soldiery and the people. The former behaved most
shamefully, using their bayonets and swords upon every
one they could reach. At last the people began to throw
down stones from the tops of the houses. At eleven
o'clock the Dragoons came over from Deutz, dashing
in amongst the people, and cutting them down without
discrimination, shouting out, " Cut the Cologne canaille
down," "Down with the dogs," &c. Tbis shameful con-
duct enraged the townspeople still more, but the military
being too strong for them, they dispersed, and the streets
were quiet by two in the morning, but not, I am sorry
to say, without bloodshed. Six were mortally wounded
(four are since dead) and a very great number
wounded more or less. Amongst the latter were seve-
ral of the principal townspeople, who were returning
home quietly from the Casino, &c., and knew nothing of
the riot until they were attacked and cut down by par-
ties of soldiery, who came dashing up the streets as if
they were mad. Clergymen, bankers, merchants, all
shared the same fate. They made 22 prisoners, mostly
people who had nothing to do with the affair. You may
imagine the excitement that prevailed the next day.
The heads of the town called on the Burgomaster to
call a meeting. This he did, at which all the first citi-
zens were present, thus making it no longer an affair of
the rabble, to assert their rights as citizens of Cologne.
The presence of the commanding general, Von de Lundt,
was required (I forgot to say it was by his orders that
the troops fell on the people); and a severe remonstrance
was made to him and the president of the town. The
prisoners were required to be set at liberty, and
also a promise demanded that the troops should
all be consigned to their barracks, that neither
the police nor the soldiery should patrol the
town, and that citizens, the heads of the town, should be
permitted to form a guard of themselves to patrol the
streets, in which case they would ensure the peace of
the town. But they told the military authorities in
plain terms, that if this was refused and the military or
police acted, they would not answer for the conse-
quences. You have seen enough of Cologne to know
that the people must be in a dreadful state of excite-
ment to dare to ask so much. There was no use in
striving with the people, so at three in the afternoon
the answer was returned from Benin by telegraph that
the terms were to be conceded. -Upon this 600 of the
chief citizens formed themselves into companies, and
the town remained quiet, although thousands assembled
at the market ; yet by means of a few well•titned re-
marks and gentle persuasion, the peace was not again
broken. It is impossible to describe the anxiety that
prevailed until the favourable answer was given, and
well it was for us all that the Government was wise
enough to give way ; had it been otherwise, Heaven
knows what might have happened.
It has since been ascertained that the working classes
had taken their measures secretly, to act in a most de-
cided manner in case the citizens were not allowed to
take charge of the town. All the workmen and boat-
men at the Rhine had provided themselves with long
knives, and intended to cut off the bridge and send it
floating down the river, so as to prevent the Dragoons
from coming near. The common market people had
provided themselves with sithes. Other workmen, armed
with their working tools, were to attack and storm the
arsenals, so as to provide themselves with arms and
ammunition; another party were to attack and burn the
barracks, drive the military out, and take possession of
the town ; in short, a most fearful revolution was
planned, and would have been executed most surely, it'
the Government had not given way. The citizen guard
were unarmed, and yet they kept the rabble quiet by
telling them they must not now commit any excesses, for
the honour of the town. So much for Wednesday.
On Thursday, the cooper, the man who was first
killed, was buried, and the citizens determined to follow
him to the grave, not so much on account of the man,
as for the purpose of making a demonstration to the
Government of the real feelings of the people. I never
saw such a sight. Hot as it was (95 deg. in the shade,
East Indian heat), everybody was in the streets. Every
window on the line of road was filled with women.
The procession was more than half an hour passing the
house I was in. Generally, the processions here are
headed by the police to clear the way, but this time
there was nothing of the kind. Not a ghost of a police
officer, soldier, or officer was to be seen in the town.
The way was cleared by the church vergers, then fol-
lowed two fine bands of music (not military), then one
of the singing societies, then a great number of
priests, with candles, crosses, &c., then the hearse,
decorated with festoons of evergreens, and wreaths
of immortelles, then another cross. The hearse
was immediately followed by the friends and
fellow workmen. After them came the " Man-
ner Gesang-verein," singing as they only can sing,
and they were followed by at least 5,000 citizens of
Cologne, in a triple line, with uncovered heads, and in
perfect silence, among whom 3,000 were of the most
respectable class of the people, as no great house was
unrepresented either by the principal himself or some
one for him. Those who formed the citizen guard wore
a white riband in the button-hole. You may judge
what this guard is, when I tell you that Engel, the first
merchant here, is one of them, besides bankers, &c.
Not a word was spoken amongst the dense crowds of
people while the funeral passed, every head was un-
covered, and you might have heard a pin drop. After it
was over, they all returned quietly to their homes. But in
the evening there had very nearly been an uproar again,
through the folly of the commandant, who had ordered
the guard to be doubled at the chief guard-house. The
people found this out and began to assemble in great
numbers, threatened-to storm it, and getting stones to-
gether for that purpose, but the citizen guard came and
persuaded them to disperse, which they promised to do if
they would let them sing one song. This they were
obliged to do, so they sang a sort of revolutionary song
and went off. I should tell you that the mayor and citi-
zens sent to the commandant, and remonstrated with him
for having doubled the guard, thereby exciting the peo-
ple to riot. After much ado he was obliged to withdraw
it, and all went off quietly. Friday night everything
was quiet. ,Knots of people met here and there, but no-
thing further.
Yesterday (Saturday), the citizens held a meeting
(which by the by they had done every day), for the
purpose of receiving the reports of all those who were
attacked by the military. The Chief Justice, a sort of
little Lord Chancellor here, is as eager as any of them
in the cause, although he is a Government officer. We
were all put in a fright again yesterday, in consequence
of a proclamation from the Government having been
sent to bo inserted in the paper for to-day, in which
the guard of citizens were ordered to dissolve, and the
military were to keep the streets clear. It contained
also observations on the Tuesday's massacre, tending
to rekindle the anger of the people. The editor of the
paper laid it before the committee of the citizens, and it
was immediately resolved to protest against this proclama-
tion. A deputation waited on the President and General
Van de Lundt, and told them what they thought, advis-
ing the withdrawal of the obnoxious proclamation, and
offering to give up their Sunday's pleasure (a great thing
for a Colognois to do), provided they would give them a
promise in writing that neither police or military should
interfere with the people to-day (Sunday), but leave the
citizen guard to keep order and quiet. If they were
refused, and the military allowed to act, then they said
the Government must be answerable for any excesses com-
[flitted by the people, as to day there is what they call
an after-kirmess in the same parish. After obstinately
refusing for some time, the heads of the Government at
continuel ast gave
tway,heir thef
functions
neti permissionons
vw a
sforgtrhaentgeuda,crida4cittaen;too.
palisosnoff withdrawn,ciuietiy,ths:ugi thi s.
entertain some still latt o. to-nighwill t
lest the lower orders, in their cups, which they always
indulge in at these kirmisses, should forget themselves.
I shall not close my letter till to-morrow, in case there
should be anything to communicate.
Monday, August 10.—Thank God, the night has
passed over quietly. The streets were of course full of
people, excited enough, but more with joy at having for
the second time got the mastery than anything else, and
I trust now that everything will subside into its usual
quiet. We are now all pondering what the King will say
and do. At present he is as still as a mouse, possibly
waiting till the flame has burned out. The principal
citizens are drawing up a protocol which is to be pre-
sented to the King in person, by a deputation of the
first people in the town, giving a fair state-
ment of the affair, and also it is said they
v
intend complaining of the excessive dearness of
ry
thing here, begging for a diminution of the
with
which Cologne is burdened, on account of its
being a fortress. I hope and trust that all will
end well, for though an absolute monarch, he has
certainly shown himself to be a good King, and it is to
be hoped that he will show his moderation now. Next
Sunday is kirmess in our own parish, and I assure you
we look forward to it with some anxiety, as the St.
Giles of Cologne is situated in our parish, and if any
disturbance was to break out, it would be no joke in
such a low neighbourhood ; but there is yet a whole
week to that, and in that time the excitement will doubt-
less have subsided. The officers are in sad disgrace.
There is a talk of sending them all to Coventry, and
turning them out of the Casino. When I think what
might have been the consequences, if the Government
had not given way, it makes one shudder. In England
such a thing would cause a few broken heads, and be
done with, but here every man has been a soldier,
and still belong to the militia to a certain age, so
that they well know how not only to defend,
but to organise themselves, and these Cologne
people when their blood is up are perfect furies. There

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
MANCHESTER, AUGUST 15.
STOCK EICHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Nottingham, &C.,
5-16 dis.—Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham, 34 dis.—Eastern
Counties, York Extension, 1,4 p.—East Lancashire, B>ly p.—Great
Grimsby and Sheffield, 13l c. dis.—Huddersfield and Manchester Rail-
way and Canal, 1% p. —Leeds and Thirsk, 3% dis.—Leeds, Dews'
bury, and Manchester, s%—Leicester and Bedford, 34 dis.—Liver-
pool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 334 p.—Liverpool, Preston, Man-
chester, and Southport, 17s. 'c. dis.—Manchester and Birmingham,Quarter Shares (B), 10% p.—Ditto, ditto (C), 9% p.—London and
York, 96 dis.—Manchester and Southampton, 7-16 dis.—North East"
ern, 1% dis.—North Staffordshire, 3% p.—Oldham, Birkenhead, &C.:
1 efs.—Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, % dis.—Sheffield an.
Manchester, Quarters, No. 1, 4 p.—Shropshire Union, %dis
South-Eastern and Dover, No.), p.—West Riding Union, 334

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LEEDS, AniliTST 15.
STocit. EXCHANGE.—The purchases of stock in the early part of
the account, made under strong apprehensions of continued advancing
prices, were very considerable, and most of that having been throes
on the market for re-sale, prices receded for the account. This bag
been observable in all the markets. In Leeds the settlement is pass"
ing over satisfactorily, and prices are improving again with a pro'
bability of steadiness, and a more healthy trade. Our London cor-
respondent writes, that " when the stock which has been bought on
speculation has been cleared off, we may expect some further im-
provement ;" and the same feeling exists in Liverpool and Manches-
ter, though not quite so strongly in the former as in the latter place.
The over-speculation having so speedily proved its own corrective,
ought to prevent speculators dealing too largely, and no doubt for a
time will have that effect. London and Birrninghams are recovering
from the effect of their chairman's speech, and the Great Western
meeting having passed off very satisfactorily, those shares have ad'
vanced. Eastern Counties are steady, Lancaster and Carlisles lower,
as also are Brightons, Dovers, Manchester and Leeds, and Midlands,
In Midlands the fall has been excessive within the last few weeks•
they having declined since the meeting, to the extent of about flfteen
pounds per share ; surely they have seen their worst for the present.
In local stocks, Huddersfield and Manchesters, and Dewsbury% el
in most demand ; East Lancashires, and Ormskirks, are considered
safe for purchase at quotations. In foreign shares the variations are
trifling, and the business passing limited in extent. It is but among
a comparative small number of capitalists that other than English
shares meet with much attention. The sales are—Blackburn and
Preston, 9 p.—Eastern Counties, York Extension, 395. p. —East Lan-
cashire, 9% p.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 1 dis.—Ditto, Exten-
sions, 12s. Gd. dis.—Huddersfleld and Manchester, 2% p.
Extensions, 10s. p.—Huddersfleld arid Sheffield, 8 p.—Leeds and
Bradford, 43 c. p.—Leeds and Dewsbury, 5 p.—Ditto, Extensions,
Is. p.—Leeds and Thirsk, 3 dis. —Ditto, New, 3—Manchester and
Leeds, Extensions, 2/. 18s. p.—North British, Carlisle Branch, 2,t
s. p.—York and North Midland, East and Wert Riding, 12% P`
Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 15s. dis.—Clitheroe Junction,
16s. dis.—Grand Union, 13s. 6d. dis.—Lancashire and North York'
shire, 10s. dis.—Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North-Eastern, 24!"‘
dis.— Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 17s. dis.—Leicester and Bea'
ford, 10s. dis.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3% p.—London
and York, 6s. 6d. dis.—illalton and Driffield Junction, 9s. Gd.
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 21s. s. p.—North Star-
fordshire, 3% p.—North Western, 7s. p.—Oxford, Witney, and C11...e1.
tenham, 18s. dis. —South Midland, 15s. p.—Welsh Midlands, 335. bn•
dis.—West Riding Union,; Si. 2s.—Yorkshire and Glasgow Union'
1 % die.

. _
SHEFFIELD, ATICIIIST 15.
Sroca EXCLIANGE.—The sales are—Midland, 141—Grimsby and
Sheffield, Extension, I ls. dis.—Ditto, Quarter Shares, Bs. 6d. Ills;
—Huddersfield and Sheffield, 8% p.—Bostorsy Newark, and Sheffiew,
dis.—Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 17s. dis.—Manchester, She:
field, and Midland Junction, 21.195. dis.—NorthWestern, 7s. —Shelleh'
and Lincolnshire, Is. dis.—South Yorkshire Coal Railway, lls.

HULL, AUGUST 15.
STOCK EICIIANGE.-11C sales are—North British, 39%—D_ _Ufa'
Carlisle, 4/. 3s. Gd.—Blackhurn, Darwen, and Bolton, B—East Mo.
colnshire, 15s.—Leeds and Dewsbury, 23s.—Leicester and Tamworth,
345. 6d.—Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 235. p.—North Western,'
Bs. 6d.—North Staffordshire, 334—Grand Union, 15s.—Liyerp004
Ormskirk, and Preston, 3 p.—South Midlands, 14s. p.

YORK, AUGUST 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are--Ambergate, Nottingham, and
Boston, 2—Eastern Counties, York Extension, 2%—Grand Ull.l°A
(Nottingham and Lynn), .34—Ipswich and Bury 9 —London and
York, 21. 4s. 6d.—Newcastle and Darlington, New, 11% —North B
tish, Carlisle Extension, 31. 19s. 6d.—North western, 11. 123....-
West Riding Union, 5%.

NEWCASTLE-lIPON-TYNE, AUGUST 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Great North of England, 301•
Shares, 35% p.--Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction.
61. dis.—London and York, Gs. dis• —Manchester, Buxton, and gal.
lock, 20s. 9d. p.—Newcastlc and Berwick (North Shields),

EDINBURGH, AUGUST 14.
STocS EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 81. 17s. 6d.-AbeZ..
deen, Banff, and Elgin, 11.-Airdrie and Bathgate, 3/. 155.--o',i
broath and Forfar, 281.-Ditto, Half Shares, 151. IN.-Armagh
...,3111
Pbfttrush, 145.-Ayr and Galloway, 11. N.-Banffshire, 165.-;11:
fast and County Down, 12s. 6d.-British and Irish Union, 21_,•
6d.-Caledonian, 161.-Ditto, New, 11. Bs.-Caledonian Extension,
1/. 13i.-Caledonian and Dumbarton, 11. 25.-Caledonian and Nord;
ern Direct, 2/. 25.-Clydesdale Junction, 231.- Cornwall and Pelt.
Central, 1/. 11 s.-Deeside Railway, 2/. 10s.-Direct Northern,
13s. 6d.-Dublin and Enniskillen, 31. 155.-Dundee and Arbroaf;
371.-Ditto, New, 211. 55.-Dundee and Perth, 24/. 2s. 6e1.-E!',7.
Indian Railway, 15s. 6d.-East of Fife, 1/. 35.-Edinburgh and Da,ilif
gate, 21. 18s.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 74/. 10s.-Ditto,
D
Shares, 187. 21. 6d.- Ditto, Quarters, 181. 17s. 6d.- Ditto, al' lON
New, 18/. 10s.-Edinburgh, Leit h, and tlra,iton, 17/. 155.-
Preference, 21/. IN.-Edinburgh mil Northern, 9/. 95.-Dit to
port, 155.-Edinburgh and Perth, 2/. 155.-Forth and CIPle":0.
tion, 1/. 165.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 751.-Ditto, New Stook,
17s. &1.-Ditto, Quarter Shares, 18/. 10s.-Glasgow and nein,
Union, 2/. 75.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 11. 17s. 6cl.-G'''
• °l4
gow and Dundee Junction, 1/. 125.-Glasgow and Garnkirk 40/• loh
-Glasgow General Terminus, 8/. 10s-Glasgow and Greenock,
,10.
10s.-Ditto, New Stock, 8/. 155.-Ditto, Preference, 11. 159.-431,0,
gow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, I/. 14s.- Glasgow, StrathaV.,_
and Lesmahagow, 2/. 195.-Granton Junction, lOs -Great Counud
Down, 1/. 155.-Great North of Scotland, IN'. 6d.-• Inve,rLier and
Elgin, 1/. 25.-Lanark and Lothians, 21. 55.-Larne,
Ballymena, 95.-London, Bristol, and South Wales, I! -31idland
London and York, 2/. N.-Ditto, Half Shares, 1/. 10'„cy.-4siortit
and Eastern Counties, 155.-Newcastle and Berwick, te, Car-
British, 381.-Ditto, Halves, 13/. 17s. Gd. -Ditto, Extrnsli gs 6d.
lisle, 3/. 165.-Ditto, Fifths, 71. 10s.- North Staffordshire'
rth d 111"
-North Wales Mineral, 161. 155.-Ditto, New, 10 68."'
verness, 1/. its. 6d.-Scottish Central, 19/.-Ditto, -046‘" Grand
Scottish Central and Caledonian Junction, 1/. 10x.-Scottish
Junction, 12s.- Scottish Midland, 71.-Scottish •sonthern, U.
Shrewsbury and Hereford, 95.-Shrewsbury, OsivestrY. and Cheste
11.
5/. 55.-South Midland, 2/. 15s. 6d.-Stlrling and Dunfermline
Bs. 3d.-Stirling and Midland, 2/. 165.-Strathern Junction* 21. E
Wishaw and Coltness, 471. 10s.

GLASGOW, AUGUST 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Caledonian Extension, 334'
Ga.—Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Extension, 225. 6d.—East co•,
Fife, 21s. —East Indian Railway, 14s.—Edinburgh and Glasgovg•
181.—Glasgow General Terminus, —Glasgow and Belfast Union,
475. 6d.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 751.—Glasgow, Kilmarnocto
and Ardrossan, 31s. 6d.—Great North of India, ss. 9d.—lnverneo
and Elgin, 22s.—Larne, Belfast, and Ballymena, 10s.—ManchesLer
and Southampton, 31 s. 6d.—North British, Extension to Carlisle, 71""
—Scottish Central, —South Midland, 565.

INTREPID CONDUCT.—On Thursday evening
about half-past seven, as a Mr. Mitchell, a gentleman lnto
committee clerks' office of the House of Commons,yi
rowing up to Putney, he saw a boy about eight or
Dears of age fall from the towing path in front of.r • ;
uke's Head public-house, Putney, into the river, _,,,
1 a sh t;
depth of at least 12 feet water. Although the tide nu",
running very strong at the time, Mr. Mitchell, without, nia
dressing himself, instantly plunged in and succeedede
bringing the bey, who sunk the second time, above,
water. When they came up, the boy's arms were rig n• ,
clasped round Mr. Mitchell's neck, and it required enjoi
siderable exertion before he could disengage himself' wo
relieving himself from the boy's grasp, Mr. Mitchell, in
is an expert swimmer, succeeded with great difflealtioe-
bringing the boy to the towing path, which was, ill ben
quence of the high tide, three or four feet under water, bled,
he was pulled out by a number of persons who had aseellbis
at the spot. Mr. Mitchell was all but exhausted frelh 500 i
exertions, and his watch very much injured. Mr. Wrig7 eU
the landlord of the Duke's Head, accommodated Mr. lui.era
with a change of clothes, but he suffered considerabli to
the effects of his gallant and successful exertions to eaVpeer at
life of a fellow creature. The boy's father, a greengr,eLeat-
Putney, of the name of Nicholls, on hearing of the "Lire/
stance, waited on the preserver of his son's life, and tlwgr.
him for his invaluable services. This is the second ti,n,3:oor,
Mitchell has risked his own life to save that of tber
having, about seven months back, saved the life of 9"°,ller, a
boy under somewhat similar circumstances, off CIO'
Pier, Millbank.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON CITIZEN " A" STEA:3I'/3°,10e14
On Saturday morning between seven and eight
John Davis, mate on board the Citizen "A," met 'Nit' IV
death under singular and melancholy circumstances',,inanY
boat was lying with others belonging to the same e°"l. 'Bat"
at their moorings off Tarver's (the ship-breaker), ,I.l' deer,
tersea. Deceased, who was assisting in cleaning tueled in
was rinsing a mop in the river, when it became entalig pre'
the chain which is fixed to the hull of the boat for the
servation of life; and in endeavouring to disengage swera
ceased lost his balance and fell overboard. Lines
thrown out to the deceased, but none of the crew of tnisst.
the other boats were courageous enough to jump in °siht
tempt to save the deceased, who is said to have been in _Ai
nearly five minutes. It was half an hour before a ellerea
boat was procured, and then all efforts to recover poSSetiri
of the body was useless. The deceased was forty-five P-
oi' age, and has left a wife and eight children. T.
HORRIBLE ACCIDENT ON CITIZEN " D" STEAM"-eiotir,
—On Saturday afternoon, between twelve and one e'e-tlta,
the following dreadful accident, attended with fatal,re"that
occurred on board the Citizen ",D" steam-boat, wit'ibtr the
vessel was holding on to the Nitie Elms Pier, weld %
suited,
train. Richard Lewis, the engine-driver, had, as ietelded into
unknown to those in command of the vessel,o(irg, they eari
the larboard paddle-box, for the purpose LI, in the et °
ings of the wheel ; he had done this, anu "
captain gave the
getting out of the paddle-box when the ceP otion by the
order to "go on." The engines were set in in .volution,
a s, - 00
stoker, and, before the wheels had completed , .11
an obstruction to the way of the boat was felt 7: 'To
board, and several asserted that they heard a shrie _ then
dreadful fact that the engineer was in the paddle-bo7._,w.
flashed upon the crew, and the boat was stopped insttuftd.
Upon looking into the paddle-box a horrible sight preseu,
he
itself. There was no sign of the engine driver, but b: bt,
"
had been instantaneously killed there could not be any A
all as the top and sides of the paddle-box were splashed a
en
with his brains. His body had afterwards dropped betweur,
the floats into the river, from whence it had not, up to Sat
day evening, been recovered.
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BIRTHS.
g
On the 9th inst., at Belle Vue, Urlin ford, Kilkenr*
wife of the Rev. Nesbett Lodge, of a daughter.
On the 10th inst., at South-street-terrace, Rye-lane, ...Peck.
ham, the wife of Charles Rolls, Esq., of a daughter.
the wife
On the 11th inst., at Prestbury, near Cheltenham,
of G. R. Stevenson, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 12th inst., at Marston Rectory, the Hon. 0*
Richard oyle, of a auhr.
On theß 13th inst.,d gat the te
Bury, Chesham, Bucking/01111-
shire, the lady of W. Lowndes, Esq., of a son. k the
la the 13th inst., at Cambridge -square, Ilyde-Par
lady
O of
th A. Sal E., of a son.
On e 13th o
inst.,mons, sq
at Maize-hill, Greenwich, the lady °f
Kent, Esq., of a son.
On the 14th inst., the wife of the Rev. John llorner, of
daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 19th of May, at Hyderabad, Sinde, Cap Catherine'
Cat"rine,
Horwood, 14th Regiment, Bombay N. 1., to Jane
eldest daughter of Captain C. T. Hall, Maida hill.

DIED.
of
On the Ilth inst., •at Calais, Gertrude Hendrika, wife
Geoe e Mottos, aged 55.
Orgn th De
12th inst., at Ipswich, Mr. T. Shorten, aged V.
4'o,
On the 13th inst., in New Basinghall-street, George 14211-
staff, Esq. art,
On the 13th inst., Anne, second daughter of T. Sol
Esq., of Hackney, agd 34. tit
On the 14th inst , John Taylor, Esq., of Stratford•gree
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Min the
17, 1846.

CONTRACT Far; WEL§II COALS FOR HAULROWLINE.
-uEPARTDIENT of the STOREKEEPER GENERAL of the NAVY,
PIOMERSET-PLACE.

THE August 13th, 1846.
CeAr:missioners for executing the Office of
and 111igh Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
at do hereby give notice, that on THURSDAY, the 27th inst.,
ID
U o'e Jock, they will he ready to treat with such Persons as
sat* mAg to CONTRACT r SUPPLYING and delivering into
at Ler Majesty's Naval Yard at Haulbowline,
for
1,000 TONS of HANDPICKED WELSH COILS,
2ie service Of her Majesty's steam-vessels.
verg ".4 *conditions of the Contract and a form of the Tender may be
Ist the said office. No Tender will be received after one o'clock,
0; t.ke day of treaty, nor any noticed, unless the party attends,
• an agent for him duly authorised in writing.
Every Tender must bo addressed to thn Secretary of the Admiralty,
'end bear in the left hand corner the words " Tender for Coals for
Ilaulbowline," and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, ac-
companied by a letter signed by a responsible person, engaging to
become bound with the person tendering, in the sum of 3001. for
The due performance of time Contract.

No. 16,820.

COBDEN TESTIMONIAL.
SAMUEL 'JONES LOYD, Esq., Chairman.
WM. A. WILKINSON, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
WM. GEORGE PRESCOTT, Esq , Treasurer.
Subscriptions received at 34, Cernhill ; Messrs. Prescott, Grote and
Co., ti 2, Threadneedle-street; Messrs. Ransom and Co., 1, Pall Mall
East; and the Commercial Bank of London, 6, Henrietta-street,
Covent-garden.
All . communications to be addressed to the Secretaries, Messrs.
Sidney. Smith and A. L. Saul.
Amount already advertised - - - - £10,754 211
Stone and Kemp 100 0 0
•
John Gully Esq. 100 0 0
W. Lobb, Esq., M.D,
A. Heisham, Esq , 31.1)-.. - - - - • - - 1 1 0
John Hensleigh Allen, Esq. - - - - - 5 0 0
John Snowden, Esq.
B. Seward, Fsq. 2 2 0
"A. Trojan, of Dorset," per Robert Marsden - - 1 0 0
J. W. Barr, Esq 0 10 0
J. A. Yates, Esq. - - - - - - - 25 0 0
Thomas Prout, Esq.
Rey. Charles Langton - - - - - - 5 0 0
James Walters, Esq. 2 0 0
Frederick Monro, Esq. 1 0 0
Robert Frostings, Esq. 0 10 0
.Edmund Brown, Esq. 2 0 0
Charles Fotherby, Esq. 1 0 0
Richard Rouse, Esq.
D. Dewar, Son, and Co.
J. and W. Nicholson and Sons - - - - - 21 0 0
Thomas King. Esq. 1 1 0
Samuel Wimbusli, Esq. - - - - - 50 0
John Epps, Esq. M.D. 1 1 0
Charles Hill. Esq. 10 10 0
Henry Crowley, Esq. - - - - .. 25 0 0
J. E. Walker, Esq. - - - - - .. . 2 2 0
John Kenyon, Esq. - - - - - - - 5 5 0
Charles Wright, Esq.
J. Sinclair, Esq.
Joseph Dodson, Esq. - - - - - - - 5 5 0
Robert French, Esq.
White and Greenwell 31 10 0
J. B
Chas. Brown, Esq. ----- - - 5 5 0
John Procter, Esq. 25 0 0
Arthur Anderson, Esq. 10 0 0
Geo. Kitcat, Esq. 0 10 0
Henry Crompton, Esq. 2 0 0
Chas. Horsley, Esq.
J. Murdock, Esq. 1 0 0
Benjamin Ridge, Esq. 1 1 0
Thomas B. Sowerby, Esq.
Edward Clark, Esq.
D. Dubois, Esq.
James Jacquier, Esq. - 1 1 0
Richard Acutt, Esq
William Elkin, Esq.
J. Holland, Esq.
W.
Mr. Crockford - - -
Joseph Hammersley and Friends - - - - 07 6
Mr. Moss - - ------ - 0 10 6
J. A. Path, Esq.
Mr. Jeffries 0 10 0
Mr. Meek - - - -
Mr. Youle - - - -
Mr. Prince ----- - - - - 0 10 0
Mr. Jackson , - - - - - - - - 010 0
Gilbert Weave, Esq. - -
Edward Hennel, Esq. - - - - - - 1 1 0
William Crossby, Esq. - - - - - - 1 1 0
J. Gawthorpe, Esq. - - - - - - - 1 1 0
Fisher, Son, and Co. - - - - - - - 5 5 0
Hugh Willams, Sen., Esq. Machynleth - - -
Hugh Williams, jun., Kidwelly - - - - 100 0 0
John Williams, Esq., Verulam Buildings, London -
David Ewart, Esq. - -
J. C. Dexter, Esq. 1 1 0
Professor Graham 1 1 0
G. C. Lewis, Esq. - - - - ' - - 1 0 0
S. Henderson, Esq.
Wm. Hoof, Esq.
Isaac Atkinson, Esq.
John Bracket, Esq. ----- ~ - 1 0 0
Messrs. Firc'Leod 1 1 0
Robert S. Dikon, Esq. 0 10 0
James & Thos. Rolls
R. S. Johnson, Esq.
John Fabric, Esq. 10 0 0
C. T. Cheffens, Esq.
John Lart, Esq. - _ .. - - 5 5 0
Chas. Wordsworth, Esq.
J. Liddon & Sons 1 1 0
The Workmen of ditto 0 9 0
H. Kent, Esq.
John Fowles, Esq. 1 1 0
Wm. Rand, Esq., Bradford, Yorkshire - - - 50 0 0
The Right Hon. Earl Fitzwilliam - - - - 10 0 0
W. & R. Titford 2 2 0
W. Leavers, Esq. 5 0 0
Eetwd. Gregory, Esq.
•R. 0 10 0
J. Lorkin & Co. 5 5 0
Robert L. Holt, Esq.
A citizen of the world - - - - - - 2 12 6
Wm. Wing, Esq. 2 2 0
Chas. Scott, Esq. 1 1 0
Thos. Bosher, Esq.

GREAT OPEN AIR MEETING,

CREMORNE GARDENS.----THIS DAY the
NASSAU BALLOON at Half-past Six o'clock. See the
Bills of the Day for the enormous Attractions of tlds Evening.
There never was, in the memory of the oldest pleasure seeker so
many entertainments offered to the public for Ono Shilling. Children
only Sixpence.

CONTRACTS FOR SALT BEEF AND PORK.
1)r-kitTAIENT of the COMPTROLLER for VICTUALLING and
TRANSPORT SERVICES, Somerset-place, Aug. 3, 1845.
r•0r,,1 HE Commissioners for executing the Office of
Sa d Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of r‘reat Britain
Ireland, do hereby give notice, that on T..t,46DAY, the 24th
tember next, at One o'clock, they will be yeuy
"'el,ti Persons as may be willing to CONTRACT to treat with
the supply of a
qtlanty of for

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION,
A CHEMICAL LECTURE, by Dr. Ryan, daily, and on
the Evening's of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Professor
Bachholyncr's LECTURES on NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, with
brilliant experiments, daily. MACINTOSH'S REVOLVING EN-
GINE. COLEMAN'S PATENT LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE for as-
cending and descending Inclined Planes. FARRELL'S ARCH--
MEDIAN RAILWAY. The ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY, all in
action. HALLETTE'S ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY VALVE.
The OPAQUE MICROSCOPE. The OXY-HYDROGEN MICROS-
COPE, exhibiting a tine Collection of Living Objects. A beautiful
Picture of the CHAPEL in the CONVENT of St. CATHERINE,
near Jerusalem, by Mr. Charles Smith, is one of the Series of DIS-
SOLVING VIEWS.

SALT MEAT,
tf the cure of the ;United Kingdom, equ.:, to 12,000 Navy tierces of
Ileeri and 18,000 Navy tierces of Pot-, kir, separate tenders), all to be
cared in the ensuing season, th6o:, Lovfenips reserving to themselves
the Power, when the ttn.lr-,•5 are Opened, of contracting either for
the whole, or for such. i.••
r- _A thereof only, as they may deem fit, or of
nut contracting for '4* y part.
dernoder
wo-thirds of co', Beef to be delivered in tierces, and the remain-
-thirds
barrels, av"..l a quantity of Pork equal to 250 tierces (and for
towli h separate
,s, tenders are to be made), to be delivered in casks,
fol. staining.,?`" jib: each, and of the remaining quantity of Pork three-
barrel ") ' ,e delivered in tierces, and the remaining one-fourth in
•.
rcouti.-' .nto her- Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, Ports.
titre ~._'• Plymouth, and Haulbowline, in such proportions as shall
''''‘er be directed, and within the following periods :
BEEF, Two-thirds 31st March
One-third ...n or 31st May
ti before the 1847
PORK, One-third 31st March
d Two-thirds 31st May
Period of delivery, for any quantities beyond those specified.
The conditions of the contract may be seen at this office, or by
7 aPPlyirAg to the Agent for the Victualling at Cork, orCollectors
her Majesty!s Customs at Limerick, Belfast; 'Waterford, and
ivry, or to the Secretary of the Postnaaster
10 t:oe Resident Agent for Transports at Leif',
-P.."etieral at Dublin, or
No tender for a less quantity than shtP, be equal to 300 tierces of
Beef, of to 300 tierces of Pork
casks containing 1001 b. each), (exceptw ;or the Pork, to be delivered in
No tender will be received a oe admitted.
?aoraany noticed sinless ,P'..er One o'clock on the day of treaty,
tte party attends, or some person on his
beh lf, duly authorised 3.n writing ; and it Is to be expressly under-
the tender's that the tender's must contain a separate price for the Beef, and
viselmjate price tivr the Pork ; and that every tender must also ape-
),-Y tile Prices br th in figures and words at length, or the tenders will
""2.....eiected,
-rien, ,
17.„,, , tetteler must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,.,
~:‘,l3r,T in the left-hand corner of the envelope the words Tender
d'cl,,',.a it Meat," and " Comptroller for Victualling," and must also be
b..",` er.cd at Somerset-place, and be accompanied by a letter signed
ai;••Wo responsible persons, engaged to become bound with the per-
, jodendering, in a sum equal to 251. per cent, on the amount of the
"raet, for the due performance of the same.
....,
IVWP 0R T, ABERGAVENNY, and HERE,
), The Dir FORD RAILWAY.
—°lders tb ect°Ts have much pleasure in anriouncing to the Share-
/us roc at the Act authorising the Construction of this Railway,
Arre,. eived the Royal Assent.
when 'ngetnents are now in progress with other Companies, which,
the w c°4lPieted, will secure a great accession of influence, both in
aY uf capital and local support.
As
give ton 8" as these arrangements are completed notice thereof will be
registration a Shareholer and au early day appointed for the due of the Scrip, and for convening the first General Meet-
C tinder the Act.

Admission, Is.; Sc cols, Half-price,

FORGERY IN SCRIP.—GEORGE and
ALEXANDER FALKNER, Engravers, Manchester, In-
ventors of the Lithotype Process, for the Prevention and Detection
of Forgery in Monetary Documents, announce, that they ere now ex-
tensively employing this discovery in printing the CERTIFICATES
of Railway Companies, which are thereby invested with all the Secu-
rity of the Bank of England Issues.

FLINT and STEEL, 311, HIGH HOLBORN,
corner of Chancery-lane, importers and manufacturers, have
consigned to them monthly from Gerville's, and other celebrated
manufacturers in Paris and Brussels, the best WELLINGTON
BOOTS, of the finest Bordeaux Calf, which they offer at 1/: ls. per
pair ; the price of the same quality at Gerville's is 2t francs, and
there are houses in London, both French and English, selling the
same quality at It. 10s. per pair. French Weillagten Boots, of the
best patent leather, It. Bs. per pair. Best French Polish, Is. and
23. 6d. the bottle.

FLINT and STEEL, importers and manufactu-
rers, have a large STOCK of BOOTS for SPORTSMEN, con-
sisting of stout enamelled leather and cow-hide, which approach as
near to waterproof as any that can he made. Also, Hunting Boots,
Antigropelos, and stout Drab Cloth Boots, lined throughout with
leather.-311, HIGH HOLBORN, corner of Chancery-lane.

PUBLICATIONS.

011 the 27th inst.,

CHAMBERS'S MISCELLANY OF USEFUL
TRACTS, Vol. XII. Price One Shilling, In an elegant
Arabesque cover.

CONTENTS of Peter the Great—Story of La Tude—The
Moors In Spain—The Montyon Prizes—Curiosities of Architecture—
Persecutions in Scotland—Three Ways of Living—The Child of Elle,
and other Ballads.

W. and It. Chambers, Edinburgh; Wm. S. Orr and Co., London;
and sold by all Booksellers and Newsvenders.

By order of the Board,
THOMAS DAY, Secretary
pERTH AND INVERNESS RAILWAY.
coon Notice Is hereby given that ou the 22d inst. the office of this
hohlopranY will be rPinoved to Inverness, previous to which the
thue s of
.scrip arr, particularly requested to apply for the 30s. per
alter "collrse of payment, as delay must arise in payment
and the office 'la removed to Inverness, the funds of the Company
to be e acting
n_,. , trustees being in London. The scrip must be sent in
kid ticteda'n" ded, accompanied with a note of the holder's full name
A.tte,L4f..9, and of the descriptive numbers of the shares.
sane for receipt of scrip daily from 12 neon to 3 P.M.
Co; PETER ANDERSON, Secretary.
:°nude Hotel, Haymarket, Aug. 15, 1846.
d-teNGHAMSHIRE RAILWAY.
RUCKINGHAM and BRACKLEY, and OXFORD and
O„,,,''''CIILEY JUNCTION RAILWAYS.
-•.anteed Four per Cent., and Waif Surplu! Profits, by the London

MURRAY'S HOME AND COLONIAL LIBRARY. •
On August Ist, Post Bvo., 2s. 6d.,
LETTERS from MADRAS ; or, FIRST IM-
PRESSIONS of a RESIDENCE in INDIA. By a LADY.
On September Ist.
The WILD SPORTS and NATURAL HISTORY of the HIGH-
LANDS. By CHARLES ST. JOHN, Esq.
John Murray, Albemarle-street.

and North Western Rallwiy Company. --
NOTICE TO SCRIPROLDERS.
,44/Asteorunsequence of Acts of Parliament having been obtained for the
nude of of part only of the lines deposited, the capital of this
Illa:Ekinil has been reduced to 45,428 shares of 171. 10s. each,
"1 a total capital of 795,000 d , divided as under :
Buckinghamshire and Brackley ........ £200,000
Oxford and Rletch!ey . ................ 595,000

£95
bery These shares will be appropriated to the scripholde7rs,,ooo in the pro-
eri s'in of one share or 171. 10s. for every two shares of 201. sub-
bed for, the full deposit being returned on fractional allotments.
,17/.rjtsoill be given for a payment of 41. 4s. on account of each
be bst",,%are, and interest at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum will
from the
itotn the Ist of July, 1846, on this deposit, and on future
Rze sh time of payment.
eery kn the Buckingham and Brackley line will be allotted to
Pa three ehares in the Oxford and Bletchley line.
REGISTRATION OF SCRIP.
eelpisofs claiming to be registered, or holding scrip or bankers' re.
Niles this Company, are required to transmit the same for reps-
ues. •to the Secretary, at the office, 29, Great George-street, West-
acc,;•er, on or before Monday, the 15th day of September next,
l'.lll,sstris'lP.,anied by an application to be registered of the proper form,
49,,-o,,_lBtnnexed, and of which copies can be obtained at the office,
141k,„'''‘ George-street, Westminster ; from Mr. Ashworth, 13, Nor-
gnu street, Manchester ; Mr. S. Wood, 3, India-buildiags, Liverpool;
r
sha„,,, Waterloo-street, ngham.
1801 in respect of which scrip is not received on or before the
tereq atZf SePtember will (at the option of the
,Directors) be regis-
Per tii,"° mune of the original allottees.
!"13 r ske of security parties are recommended to send their
=or ist.
—red 1 tters writing across each certificate " Sent in
tar, the e
°I the with date and address, and informing the Secre-
,o,—ecellit .ebers of the scrip so sent by a separate post letter.
ttares the scrip will be acknowledged, and certificates of
40Iders .Incler completion he Company, will be issued to the share-
By order of the Board of Directors,

£11,446 2 9

AT a very numerous and influential MEETING
of the DRUGGISTS and CHEMISTS of LONDON, held at
the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, on Saturday,
the 15th day of August, 1846, pursuant to public advertisement,
JAMES DREW, Esq., in the Chair;

It was moved by Mr. MOWBRAY, seconded by Mr. Darr, and
resolved unanimously—

That this meeting, having maturely considered the Bill lately in-
troduced into Parliament by her Majesty's Government, entitled "A
Bill to prevent the use of stills in the rbanufacture or spirit mixtures
by unlicensed persons, and to regulate the sale thereof, sal of spirits
If wine, by persons licensed under this Act ;" and having considered
the provisions of the same, is of opinion that the proposed measure
is objectionable in the highest degree, and totally uncalled for by any
existing circumstances.

Moved by Mr. TormE, seconded by Mr. ROPER, and resolved

unanimously—

HARRY VERNEY, Chairman.
O(NA 'WYNDHAM HARDING, Secretary.
Z 9, Great George-street, Westminster, Aug. 10, 1846. At (V' APPLICATION TO BE REGISTERED TO ACCOM-
PT SC
SICINGHAMSHIRE RAILANWAYSR.I-PDXFORD AND BLETCII-
Aity
RAILWAY.
AND BUCKINGHAM AND BRACKLEY JUNCTION
AILIVAY.
or'io,herebY request to be registered as the proprietor of such number
vp,„qtires in the above undertaking as I am entitled to in accordance
~;La the S ter
rms of the advertisement of the 10th August, in respect
eri
201. shares, viz.:—

4erir, for Share .
Five Shares .
•• Ten Shares .. .
„ Fifty Shares .

TO ADVERTISERS AND PARTIES REQUIRINGIAGENTS FOR

THE CHANNEL ISLANDS.
THE "GUERNSEY SUN," published Weekly,
contains the latest English and Local News. Terms—Single
Number, IMd.; per Quarter, Is. 6d.; per Annum, 55.: payable in
advance.

The large circulation of this journal in England, in addition
to the local sale, and advertisements being free from duty, renders it
a very adantageous and cheap medium for advertising. Agencies of
all kinds for the Channel Islands undertaken. Post-office orders
payable to Chapman and Co., Sun-office, Guernsey, where all com-
munications addressed to the Editor may be made.
This paper may be sent through the post to any part of the United
Kingdom free of charge.

Just published, price 55.,
FRANKS on URINO-GENITAL DISEASES.
Part I. On Gonorrima and Meet, exemplifying the influence
of a Scrofulous or Scorbutic state of system In producing those Morbid
Secretions, and showing that the true nature of their diseased action
Is Irritative, not Inflammatory.

Published by the Author, 90, Blackfriars-road, Landon; and may
be had of Johnston, 68, Cornhill; Starkie, 4, Strand; Sanger, 150,
Oxford street ; and by order of all booksellers.

The Third Edition, just published, price as.,
APRACTICAL TREATISE on STRICTURE
of the URETHRA ; its Causes, Varieties, and Cure ; by AN
IMPROVED METHOD of TREATMENT, of such efficacy, that
by its adoption Urethral Contractions that had resisted for periods
varying from ten to twenty years, all the ordinary means of cure,
have been in a few weeks completely and permanently removed.
The mode of cure is illustrated by numerous cases, showing every
peculiarity incidental to each variety of stricture to which the
Urethra is liable, and the modifications in the treatment consequent
thereon. By F. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.L.
Published and Sold by 11. Bailliere, Medical Bookseller, 219, Regent-
street, London; Messrs. Maclachlan, Stewart, and Co., Edinburgh;
W. Strong, Bristol; Hedges and Smith, and Famin and Co., Dublin ;
Simms and Denham, Manchester ; W. Grape!, Liverpool; and all
Booksellers in town and country.

WORKS by ROBERT J. CULVERWELL, M.D. M.R.C.S.
One Shilling each, by post One and Sixpence.

ON SINGLE and MARRIED LIFE:
(An Original Medical History.)

CONTENTS

Analysis of the Affections—Early Conventional Restraint—Mis-
direction—Marital Anticipations and Realities—Laws ef Paternity—

Denoting Numbers.
From I To

ralso iekii7Wti to issue to me sealed certificates. in which do-
me as me as follows

Christian name In full
Surname ........... .......
Description • • • • • •
Voltithteue". _ ray hand this Address.. •• • .......
day of 1846.
°ecretary of the Buckinghamshire Railway.

MOULTING SEASON.
(A LESSON FRO SI NATURE.)
The Autumn season is not far remote,
When ev'ry bird must change his plumy coat.
The robin now will very soon be drest
In all the beauty of his new red vest.
The blackbird, too, a new black suit will get,
As if to vie with MOSES' wool-dyed jet.
And as the summer months begin to fail,
The wagtail thinks of altering his tail.
reader, in the autumn do we find
4t. les'.>on suitable for all mankind.
to the moulting birds do we require
"t, seasonable change of our attire.
And Messrs. MOSES, for this very reason,
-".ave made their preparations for the season.
Their autumn overcoats are really such
ja" "erY gentleman will value much.
VI admirable fashion they display—
x fashion that is sure to bear the sway.
nIOSES and SON request of one and all,
To favour their Emporium with a call,
Where each will find that he has ev'ry reason
IT To imitate the birds at " moulting season."
roi„,;-.ons entitled " Past, Present, and Future," with Hill
for nelf-measurement, may be had on application, or
444' " Post Free."

That the regulations proposed to be sanctioned by the Bill would,
if passed into a law, have the effect of rendering chemists and
druggists in general, both wholesale and retail, and a numerous class
of persons not makers of spirits, or otherwise at present subject to
the jurisdiction of the Excise, but who may happen to employ spirits
of wine in any of their processes, or deal in articles into which spirit
enters as a principal ingredient, and who cannot amount to fewer
than 30,000 persons at the least, amenable to the Excis , regulations ;
and to the provisions of the Bill, which are in many respects highly
inquisitorial, vexatious, arbitrary, and unjust, beyond the ordinary
laws and regulations of Excise.
Moved by Mr. WHITE, seconded by Mr. ParsToN, and resolved
unanimously—

That such an extension of the jurisdiction of the excise is uncon-
stitutional and most objectionable and obnoxious, and in the opinion
of this meeting, no existing state of circumstances could justify the
introduction into Parliament of a measure of so important and ob-
jectionable a character at any moment, and still less so at this late
period of the session.

TO BE LET, THE WOOLPACIC INN,
the oldest established Commercial House in Doncaster.
...

To be Let, in consequence of the death of the late occupier, with
immediate possession, and before the ensuing Races, at a considerably
reduced rental,
All that well accustomed and old-established Commercial Inn and
Market House, situated in Doncaster, near the Theatre, the Corn
Exchange, and the New Markets, and the nearest Commercial House
to the proposed Station of the London and York Railway, with good
Cellarage, extensive Stabling, Loose Boxes, good Lock-up Carriage
House, Corn Chambers, Srx., two entire yards, and other suitable
conveniences. As a Commercial and Market House, it is one of the
best and most respectable in the town, and in connexion therewith a
lucrative Wholesale Business in Wine and Spirits has been carried on
for many years to a considerable extent. The Furniture and certain
Fixtures to be taken at a valuation, and the whole, or any part of
the Wine and Spirits.

Application to be made to Mrs. IViglesworth on the premises.
Doncaster, August 12, 1846,

tvr X s. d.
Cheted
rraßlloni from 0 7 6
aumtn,,r std and Codrington Taglioais ................ 0 18 6
th% ~,'Oats in every description and make, including
nloo.ses igi"trw Coat •••••••••• • • • • • • " 1 2 Sni.
pat = • ealid erY materialfrom 0 2 3
Patten,
•,4'
_lranere Summer Vests 0 2 3
Fl,--',.ack and Fancy"s3lan ditto, in endless variety • ..... 0 4 6
'" '4lcY Trousers ..Latin' ditto dlack, ditto.. ,•• • • • ..... . .
bre, Coats •• • „ „ ........ •• 0 9 6
Frock ditto ......... ... • • 1 0 0
Von; of MADE .;0•31. •E•A•8•0:11•16. • • • • • • • • *
every" material adapted fort e season, in any
qt.i.•tliety of style and fashion, to 0rder.......... from 0 16 0
Vesta, Gs. 6d. each, or three for 0 19 0
'''..llllere ditto, in every variety of pattern 0 8 6
Ditto,
ditto, plain and fancy ••.• •• •• •• •• 014 6
Cloth or Casimere ditto ...... •• • • .... •• •• 0 8 0
Ditto, Black Single-milled ditto ........ • • .......... 0 13 6
BtPling Trousers, in every pattern. ...... •..... ...... 10 6
gle nd -milled a Albert Victoria ditto • • ...... •• • •• 0 19 0
Zest Black Dress ditto .......... ..
br.,_612 C0at5..............
ls•-"`"N beat manufactured ......................2 15 0
block •••••••••• . Coats
14. best manufactured • . ...... .. ....... 33 0
A„ Mourning, to any extent, at five minutes notice.
a,rticle purchased or made to measure, if Rot approved of,
,01,2:rvIlroldi•tljsexchaifelo mooney4:oo.tiyennetraperg,
,7itig,eelothiera,Hat.
Outfitters,E and general Warehousemen, regret to be
th., at ',.luto guard the public against imposition, but, having learned
4"a antradosmanii-
ktn,• or it ke falsehood of being connected with
--'s the same concern, has been resorted to in many in-
-11 and for obvious reasons, they have no connexion with
A, hex
-sucl th in or out of London.
eahooi„°se who desire genuine Cheap Clothing should, to prevent
--'slldoo 'talent, call at or send to the Miaories, and Aldgate, City,
t, •
444 kosts
oo— and SON, Tailors, Woollen Drapers, Hatters, Hosiers,
wirl Lutters, Nos, 154, 155, 156, 157, Minories. and 83, 84, 85,
4 N I.,orie;kidgate, City, London.
at en ante to the Bespoke Department is at 84.
FrNo -,„
ev„„,'" transacted at this Establishrse.nt from sunset on
"veh. --ang till sunset on Saturday evening, when It is resumed
e o'clock

LIST OF PRICES.
BEADY MADE.

Maternal Influence—Phenomena of Gestation—On Infelicitous and
Infertile Unions—lncongruous Alliances —Late Marriages—Love
Matches—Curiosities of Twenty-three Years' Medical Experience,
&c. &c. 2.
On CHASTITY and its INFRINGEMENTS
(An Essay for 1846.)
"Of human ills and frailties I discourse,
Those taught by nature, and by art acquir'd.
Of griefs conceal'd, and disappointments keen,
Which young and gentle, the matured and sage,
The lonely and the mated—all sustain.
In kindly spirit, herein counsel's giv'n,
How health, how hope, how happiness to gain."
3.
WHAT to EAT, DRINK, and AVOID
With Diet Tables forall Complaints.

Contents :—How to ensure perfect digestion, tranquil eelings, a
good night's rest, a clear head, and a contented mind. By an ob-
servance of the instructions herein contained .the feeble, the ner-
vously delicate, even to the most shattered constitution, may acquire
the greatest amount of physical happiness, and reach in health the
full period of life allotted to man.

-"
How we should live—what eat, what drink, what shun,
To reach in health full threescore years and ten."
_ _

These interesting little volumes, although bearing tii)on subjects of
very delicate import, as their titles imply, will be found of immea-
surable and general utility, for they tell of matters everyliving crea-
ture able to understand ought to know, but which information in
these enlightened times, except that quality promulgated through
questionable channels, is at a very terrible discount.
In the exposition hereby offered of the till now hidden truths of
nature, of human disappointments and their ways of relief, it is not
contended that every reader shall become his or her own physician
any more than their own lawyer, but it is insisted upon that we
should know the simple principles of our own organization, the laws
whereby our existence and the issue thereof in their several healthy
states depend, the duties that are expected of us in our individual
capacities in the family circle, and the terms on which the health and
happiness of the present and future race of mankind have to rely.
, . . .

such knoiviedge, and which is herein faithfully imparted,
health will be found to be in our own keeping, and happiness
within the attainment of all ; by the availment hereof in fulfilling
our duty to eurselves, we secure the liXe advantages OR our offspring
to follow, and finally by the cultivation )f our faculties, which is in-
consistent with degenerate health, the mind as well as the body may
be exalted to the summit of perfection, as best becomes the highest
of God's creations.

ADDLESTONE, SURREY.

The author's justification for this seeming eulogy of his own writ-
ings, and the avowal of their integrity of purpose, must be measured
by their perusal—his accredited qualifications guarantee that the
topics broached involve his legitimate study and pursuit.
To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row; Carvalha, 147,
Fleet-street ; Hannay, 63, Oxford- street ; Mann, 39, CornhW ; or
direct from the Author, 10, Argyle-place, Regent-street (leading to
Great Marlborough-street), who may be advised personally on these
matters daily till Three, and in the Evenings from Seven till Nine.

of a LETTER from WILLIAM

--
COURTNEY, Esq.
To Mr. Thomas Pawn, 229, Strand, London.
Church Farm, Barton Stacey, near Andover Railway
Station, Hants, October 26, 1544.
4erinne'Tinot help expressing my astonishment in the effect I have
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CONTENTS OF THE TREATISE.

HAPTER 1. On the Philosophy of Marriage, with its Hindrances
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—CHAPTER 3. On Solitary Habits; their various effects on the
Animal Economy ; the concealed cause of Debility of the functions
of the Stomach, Lungs, and Brain, and general weakness of the
Mental Faculties. CHAPTER 4. On the Secret Disorders of Youth
and Maturity, and the Treatment of Nervous and Local Weakness,
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the Disorders arising from indiscriminate Excess, Gonuorho3a,
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PARAGUAY.---TARIFF CHANGES.—The President of

the Republic, having found by experience that the dis-
position of the Customs' regulation of 1842, and of the
decree of 1845, have not corresponded to the objects
contemplated by the Government for promoting, by all
the means in its power, the progress of industry, has
thought it right to decree as follows :
Art. 1. All machines and instruments of agriculture,
industry, navigation, arts and science, which are not
fabricated, or in general use, in the republic, as well as
silver and gold coined, or native, are free of duty. Art.
2. The different species of duties on imports are
abolished. The goods designated in table No. 1 shall
pay 25 per cent. ; and all the rest 20 per cent. only.
Art. 3. The duties on exportation of the goods which
figure in Table 2 shall be 6 per cent. Art. 4. The ex-
port cf gold and silver, in coin or native, shall be per-
mitted on payment of 10 per cent. daty, like all other
commodities whatsoever. In case of evasion of the
duties, in addition to the value sought surreptitiously to
be withdrawn, a fine of 50 per cent. shall be paid. The
rates of warehousing, transhipment, &c., are to continue
as before.

MURDER AT THE GUILDHALL

COFFEE-HOUSE.

On Saturday, while the Lord Mayor was engaged in
the routine business of the Mansion House, Inspector
Woodruffe, of the City police, informed his Lordship
that the cook at the Guildhall Coffee-house, had just
cut the throat of the kitchen-maid, and that she was
dead.
Soon after, John Smith, the person accused of the
murder, was brought in to the justice-room and placed
at the bar. He is about thirty years of age. He seemed
to be in a state of excessive mental agony.
The following witnesses were then called :
William Rozin stated as follows : I am boots at the
Guildhall Coffee-house. The prisoner was cook in the
same service, and the deceased, whom we called Susan,
was acting as kitchenmaid. About half-past twelve
o'clock this day I was cleaning one of the windows
of the folding doors of the front entrance of the
coffee-house, in Gresham-street, when I saw the
kitchenmaid come screaming from the kitchen up
to the corner of the stairs, with the blood run-
ning from ber throat. s I ran towards her, and she
fell before I got to her. She had a knife in her
hand. She said nothing, and died almost instantly.
There is a back entrance to the kitchen, as well as the
one from which she came. I had not been in the kitchen
for an hour before. At that time the prisoner was in
the kitchen, dressed in a brown jacket and apron (his
cuok's dress), and the deceased and two other persons,
namely, the scullerymaid and a little girl who assists in
the kitchen. Immediately upon the deceased falling, I
went into the kitchen, leaving her upon the ground, and
there I saw the prisoner alone. He walked from the
table (upon which I observed the cook's dress, and also
a knife covered with blood, lying) to mee4. me, and I
said, "Dear me, what is the matter ?" He said to me,
" I have done it, and I wish you to give me in charge."
He looked very pale and ghastly.
The LORD MAYOR—Did you hear whether there had
been any quarrel between the prisoner and the deceased?
Witness—l heard that there had been a previous quarrel
between them, but I heard nothing of it myself.
The LORD MAYOR—Did you hear that there
had been a quarrel between them recently ?
Witness—l heard that there was quarrelling between
them on the previous night. I have heard them quar-
relling together. Sometimes they were on good terms
together, and sometimes the reverse. The prisoner is
a married man, and I am not aware of any intimacy be
tween the prisoner and the deceased. The prisoner has
been in his situation several years, and had served his
apprenticeship to Mr. Walters, the proprietor of the
Guildhall Coffee-house. The deceased was in Mr.
Walters's service about twelve months. I have heard

that the deceased was some relative to the prisoner's
wife. When I saw her come along, I called out as loud
as I could for Mr. Walters, our master, and some of the
servants came down. Before the prisoner came up to
where the deceased was lying, he said. " I was drove to
do it." A policeman came in immediately afterwards,
and the prisoner gave himself into custody in the pas-
sage, near the spot on which the deceased was lying.
The prisoner said to the policeman, " I have done it—l
have done it," and he was then taken into custody. The
deceased was not touched till the doctor came.

Table 1., referred to above as subject to the 25 per
cent. import duty. Silk raw or twisted. Silk and
woollen fabrics, or of silk and wool mixed, gauze linen
cambrics, damasks, ribbons, lace, &c. Watches and
clocks, furniture, mirrors, volantes, and saddlery.
Ready-made clothing, shoes, ponchos, wines, liquors,
brandy, vinegar, beer, cider, black tobaooo, aalt, butter,
perfumes.
Table 11., as subject to the 6 per cent, export duty.
Indigo, black tobacco, rappee, or snuff. Oils, wheat or
Indian corn flour, wine, brandy, vinegar, and every kind
of liquor manufactured in the country. Sugar, rice,
ham, corn in grain, white wax, and honey.—Jan. 2, 1846.
(Signed) CARLOS ANTIONIO LOPEZ,
President.

On the same day the President issued another decree
to the following purport:—Considering that it is neces-
sary to prevent evasion of the duties in the navigation
of the rivers, and the embarkation and landing of goods
by contraband, it is decreed: that vessels, as well na-
tional as foreign, on ascending the Paraguay shall re-
ceive a guard on board at the isle of Atajo, who shall
remain until arrival at the destined custom-house. The
vessels which shall ascend by the Parana will receive a
guard at the Paso do la Petrie. When arrived at the

destined custom-house, the guards will be relieved by
others, so that one shall always remain on board until
complete discharge of cargo. The goods landed shall
be conveyed to the customs' warehouses, but in case of
want of room, the custom-house officers are authorised
to hire private warehouses for them. When vessels de-
part and descend the river, they shall carry on board
guards to the same points of Atajo and Paso de la
Patria.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LANCASTER AND CARLISLE
RAILWAY.— On Wednesday afternoon, one of those melan-
choly accidents which have been of such frequent occurrence
on these works, took place at Fiddler's Gill Viaduct, about
four miles from Kendal. It appears that from forty to fifty
men were on the viaduct waiting for some material to corn.
mence their work, but nothing had as yet been moved, when
an awful crash took place, the timbers supporting the
machines with which the viaduct had been constructed
giving way, and taking down with them 10 or more of the
men, one of whom, Mr. Bainbridge, was nearly crushed to
atoms, six were sadly injured, and but faint hopes are
entertained of the recomy of any of them. The height
which the machines fell is 55 feet, but the unfortunate
fellow who was killed was at a height of 70 feet from
the ground, which he never reached alive, as he was
caught amongst the falling timbers, and taken down after-
wards by his fellow-labourers, dead, and in a dreadfully
mutilated state. Expresses were immediately dispatched to
Kendal for surgeons, and three—Messrs. Gough, Longmore,
and Brumwell—arrived on the spot without the loss of a
moment. At that time the lives of three of the men were
despaired of, but after great attention and skill from the sur-
geons some hopes are now held out. The beams which have
caused this sad affair have supported two heavy iron ma-
chines ever since the work commented, and lifted all the
immense stones which have been employed in building it ;
and as no work was going on at the time the acci-
dent occurred it surpasses the comprehension of the man-
ager of the works how it happened ; and at !the same
time it is considered almost miraculous that 30 or 40 men
did not perish; but numbers succeeded in saving themselves
by clinging to the broken timber around them. The in•
spector and.conductor of the works had fortunately just left
the place. _ _

The Lord MAYOR—Prisoner, do you wish to ask the
witness any questions ?—The prisoner heaved a deep
sigh, and said, " No."

Inspector Woodruffe said I am an inspector of the
City of London police. This day, about half-past
twelve o'clock, the prisoner was brought to the station-
house at Bow-lane on a charge of murder, in the custody
of John Dillon, No. 433. The prisoner said to me,
" Mr. Woodrufe, you know me very well," (at that time
I knew the nature of the charge against the prisoner).
I said it was a bad job ' and he replied, " I did it." I
asked him in what way ? He said, "I cut her throat
with a knife." I asked him whether they had been
quarrelling ? He said, " Yes, we had." I asked him
where the knife was ? He said, "I have left it in the
kitchen." I then went to the Guildhall Coffee-house,
where I found 'the deceased lying on her back at the
bottom of the staircase, near the front entrance. I then
went into the kitchen, and the constable (Gellatly)gave me
the black-handled knife I produce, which was then quite
wet, and covered with blood. I then left the kitchen,
and went to the deceased, and from her right hand
took a knife (a white-handled blunt knife), which she
had firmly grasped. At that time sbe was dead. The
doctor was then present.
The prisoner, upon being asked whether he had any
question to ask of Mr. Woodruffe, replied, shaking his
head, " None."

John Dillon; I am a city of London constable (433).
About twenty minutes past twelve this day I was called
into the Guildhall Coffee-house, and I saw the deceased
lying at the bottom of the staircase in the passage.
Prisoner, who was standing close by, said, " I have done
it, and I give myself in charge." I then took him to
Bow-lane station-house. In going to the station-house
I asked him the question, how he came to do it ? He
said, "I was drove to do it." She h.,-1 hn.n eallino me
all the rogues she could think of all the morning. I have
a wife and four children, and was afraid I should lose my
place at night from what she had said." When I got him
to the station-house I heard him address the inspector.
He said " You know me, Mr. Woodruff° ; I halo done
it." I then returned to the Guildhall Coffee-house,
where Gellatly (policeman) was.
Thomas Gellatly (city policeman, 137) said, about
twenty minutes past twelve o'clock to-day I was called
to the Guildhall Coffee-house, and on entering the house
I saw the deceased lying at.the bottom of the stairs,
with her throat cut. I then went into the kitchen with
Rozin (the boots) and saw the black-handled knife lying
on the table covered with wet blood. Blood had spirted
over the table, and there was a track of blood from the
table to the place in which the deceased was lying.
There were some French beans lying on the table in a
heap. There did not appear to be any confusion in the
furniture of the kitchen, or in anything about. I ob-
served the cook's dress, consisting of two aprons,
marked "J. P. 5.," a jacket and a cap, spotted with
blood, lying on the table, and I took possession of them
I showed them to Inspector Woodruffe when he came
in. I gave him the knife, and I took the clothes.
Here Rozin (the boots) stated that when he saw the
prisoner before the deceased was killed he did not ap-
pear to be excited.
Mr. Coulson, the eminent surgeon, was next ex-
amined. He said—This day, about a quarter-past
twelve o'clock, I was sent for to the Guildhall Coffee-
house. I went thither without a moment's delay, and
upon entering the house I saw, at the foot of the main
staircase, a woman lying on her back, with her clothes
all covered with blood, and a towel put across her neck
to staunch the blood, and in her right hand a dessert
knife. She was quite dead. On removing the towel I
found a large and deep gash across the throat, beginning
from the extreme right, and extending across the neck.
The carotid artery and jugular vein were divided, which
would have caused almost instantaneous death. It was
too deep a gash, I should think, to have been inflicted
by the deceased herself. There was a smaller wound
under the wound I have described, but that did not
divide any important vessel. Two wounds had, it was
quite evident, been inflicted. The black-handled knife
which had been produced would have caused such
wounds. The white-handled knife (that found in the
hand of the deceased) I should think would be much less
likely to cause them. I applied some brandy and other
things, but she was quite dead.
Thomas Phillips, waiter at the Guildhall Coffee-house,
said—l was in the kitchen about five minutes before the
catastrophe occurred. At that time there were in the
kitchen the prisoner, a little girl who occasionally as-
sists, and the deceased, who was sitting on a stool at the
table, preparing some vegetables. The deceased was
cutting French beans. I was there but about a minute,
and I did not hear anything unpleasant between the pri-
soner and the deceased. The prisoner had some ducks,
but I did not observe any knife in his hand, and he had
his cook's dress on at the time. I left the kitchen, and
the little girl was then in the kitchen with the prisoner
and the deceased. _

THE DAGENHAM MURDER.—On Saturday Dennis
Flinn and John Hennessey, two labourers, and a female,
named Ellen Rankin, were again examined at the Magis-
trates Court, at Ilford, on suspicion of being concerned in
the murder of George Clark, the police constable, at Dagen-
ham, Essex, when they produced witnesses to prove that
Flinn was at work for Curtis and Co. builders, at Stratford,
at Loughton Church, at the time of" the murder, and that
Ellen Rankin was lodging with him at Loughton, which is
fourteen miles from Dagenham ; and it was positively sworn
that they slept together there on the night of the murder.
Hennessey also called his father-in-law, who swore that
Hennessey was at work with him, on the 29th of June, at
Mortlake, and that he got up at half-past four o'clock on the
following morning. It was likewise proved that a pair of
white gloves found on the prisoner Rankin, which were sup-
posed to have belonged to the deceased policeman, had been
given her by a woman, named Margaret Driscol, at Ocking-
ton, in Kent, to prevent her hands being injured by the
thistles while cutting the corn. The bench having consulted
together, the chairman said the accused had clearly proved
an alibi, and were entitled to their discharge.
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The LORD MAYOR—Did you hear any quarrelling be-
meen them ? -Witness—l did not.

The LORD MAYOR—Have you heard that there ex-
isted a bad feeling between them ? Witness—l have,
but I never saw anything of it myself. About five minutes
afterwards I was coming along the passage, and saw the
deceased running out of the kitchen. 1 ran up to her,
and as she fell I laid her on the mat, and placed my
towel on her neck, to staunch the bleeding. About ten
minutes afterwards I saw the prisoner standing in the
passage, and I heard him say to the policeman, " I have
done it, and I give myself into your charge," and he was
taken away by the policeman.
The LORD MAYOR : Did you hear of the cause of
any dispute or quarrel between them ?—Witness The
deceased told me before the prisoner came this morning,
that she had bought a pound of tea for her mother, and
she believed that John (meaning the prisoner) had
taken it the night before.
The LORD MAYOR : Do you remember anything else
that she said ? Witness : She told me that she would
tax him with it when he came.
The LORD MAYOR : Did you hear anything of the
kind between them ?—Witness : I did not.
The LORD MAYOR : Nor any quarrel between them ?
—Witness : I did not.
The LORD MAYOR : Prisoner, have you any questions
to put to this witness ?—The prisoner, without raising
his head, replied that he had no question at all to ask.
Emma Green, barmaid at the Guildhall Coffee-house,
said—A little after twelve o'clock, the little girl who
assists in the kitchen came to me at the bar directly
after Phillips went into the coffee-room, and she stood
at the bar waiting for some eggs and milk about three
or four minutes. Directly after I gave them to her, she
went towards the kitchen, and as she was going, she
screamed out, and I directly afterwards saw the deceased,
Susan Tolloday, rushing towards the passage, bleeding,
and lifting up her hands. She merely said, " Oh," and
I was so alarmed that I ran back into the bar. I have
never heard the deceased and the prisoner quarrelling
but once.
Th© LORD MAYOR —Was it this day you heard them
quarrelling? Witness—Oh, dear ! no.
Inspector Woodruffe said the little girl who had been
spoken of as having been present in the kitchen for
some time during the morning had been taken home ill
from the coffee-room ; she had fainted, and would not,
in all probability, be ab!e to give evidence during the

day.
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hear the evidence of the little girl, who is now unable
to attend, I shall not commit you this evening. I shall
remand you till Tuesday next, and I advise you, in the
meantime, to get legal assistance, for the charge against
you, as you must be aware, is one of the most serious
nature.

The prisoner, who seemed during the examination,
which was very long, to know no remission of mental
suffering, was then conveyed to the Compter.

THE CORONER'S INQUEST.
On Saturday night an inquest was held on the body
of the deceased, in the Guildhall Coffee-house, before
Mr. Payne, the City coroner. One of the witnesses, a
young girl, had not been examined at the Mansion
House. Her evidenece,- as will be seen, was very im-
portant. The evidnenc of Ithe other witnesses, with one
exception, was the same in substance as that which was
given at the Mansion House, and therefore it is unneces-
sary to repeat it here. _ _

Fanny trettenal, a girl of twelve years of age, ex-
amined—Resides in Half Moon-alley, Whitecross-street.
Came here to help deceased. Was in the kitchen about
five minutes before. She saw deceased with her throat
cut. She was cutting beans. The prisoner was trussing
ducks. They were quarrelling at the time. There was
no one in the kitchen but witness. They were quar-
relling, about a Mrs. Riley, rho had been here some
time before. The prisoner said to Mrs. Riley that
she had not paid him the amount of some things
she had bought from him, and that he would
take them away. She said she had paid for the things.
Deceased told the cook he was not acting like a man in
talking to the poor woman in that manner, and he would
find it out, perhaps, before many months were over his
head. He said, " She would, perhaps, before many days
were over her head." Witness went for some lard by
prisoner's directions, and the lady at the bar told witness
to tell him to come for it himself. Prisoner then told
witness to go out for some milk and eggs. Had been
gone a few minutes, and on her return saw deceased
running from the kitchen, bleeding very much from the
throat, and she fell at the foot of the stairs. Deceased
was sitting down when cutting the beans, and prisoner
was standing at the table, about a yard and a half from
her.
William Rozin—Lives at Mrs. Allmore's, 15, King-
street, Cheapside. Is 21 years of age. Is boots. Knew
the deceased ; she was his cousin. Thinks she was
about 22 years of arre. Her father is a mason, and lives
at Cambridge. Deceased' was single. Prisoner had
married the deceased's aunt.

The CORONER then briefly laid down the law of the
case, and the jury at once returned a verdict of " Wilful
murder against John Smith."

THE POTATO DISEASE.

TOTAL FAILURE OF THE POTATO CROP IN

WARWICKSHIRE.

BIRMINGHAM, FRIDAY.—" The potato crop has failed,
totally failed. Three months hence we doubt much if there
will be a good potato in England." Such was the startling
statement made to us yesterday by a gentleman most ex-
tensively engaged in the corn trade, and intimately ac-
quainted with the state of the crops in every part of
England. In as far as regarded the condition of his own
crop he said, " I have tried them, and found that two
out of every three were gone."
Such a startling announcement has been confirmed
to-day by several of our most extensive potato-growers ;
and the high and increasing, price of potatoes in our
market affords another proof that it is but too well
founded.

In almost every case the destruction has been rapid
and general. Wo have examined several large fields in
the district and found the roots in most cases reduced to
a pulpy mass. Previous to the late rains the stems and
branches were luxuriant and promising—now they are
lying dead on the ground and appear as if they had been
killed, not so much from any taint from a poisonous atmo-
sphere as from the effects of some cankerous disease at
the roots. The smell emitted from the fields, in several
instances, is most offensive, and sufficient in low-lying
marshy grounds to produce a pestilence. This was more
particularly observable to-day, when there was strong
sunshine and heat, the action of which on the ground,
saturated as it has been with rain, produced a species of
fermentation among the diseased roots, and a kind of
smoke which rose from the surface like a thick ground
mist.

The only potatoes in this neighbourhood we have yet
seen that have entirely escaped the disease are growing
in a field in South Staffordshire, from seed which lay in
the ground all winter. The farmer in this case did not
lift his last years' crop at all. A good many of the po-
tatoes were then diseased, and he thought that if he
left the whole in the ground, those that might withstand
the frost in winter would be free from disease, and grow
up in the spring. The field in May was covered with
early plants. These he carefully cleaned and hoed up ;
they now promise an abundant crop, and should the
experiment succeed, it may prove highly useful.
Concurrent with the progress of the disease in this
quarter has been a growing increase of English cholera
amongst the population, not in the town merely, but in
the country around. The impression now is, that the
bad quality of the potatoes in use occasions English
cholera. This is a difficult point, and should be care-
fully considered. One thing is clear, there has not been
so much English cholera in Birmingham for many years
as at the present time.
BERKS, HANTS, &e.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER, DATED AUGUST 13.
After leaving Basingstoke I came to a thickly-popu-
lated village, about two miles and a half from Newbury,
named

SHERBOURNE, abounding with poor, where information
was given me of a very fatal fever raging in and around
there, thirty-four deaths having taken place within the
last few weeks, out of a population of less than 500
souls. The disease among the potatoes was observable
there much earlier than in other parts of the country,
there scarcely being a sound one now to be found. The
poor ate them from the first, not knowing the poisonous
nature of such food. First the aged and infirm became
alarmingly ill, several deaths following each other in
quick succession, then healthy women snd children sick-
ened and died, and lastly the men became so ill that
many had to leave the harvest field, and are yet suffer-
ing, till at length one of -the faculty unhesitatingly de-
clared it as his opinion that the eating of diseased po-
tatoes is the primary cause of the fatal illness there,
they (the potatoes) acting on the human frame as a slow
poison, which eventually destroys life. Every family
around there is strictly requested not to use potatoes, if
the least diseased, as food for themselves or families.

At PAMBEIt and TADLEY every garden and plot of
ground, high or low, wet or dry, planted with early or
late potatoes, has this pestilential disease.
At WINCLIFIELD HOUSE (Lord Beauclerk's) the gar-
dener declares it is with the greatest difficulty he could
dig sound potatoes in sufficient quantities to supply even
his lordship's table ; and should the disease progress as
rapidly during the next fortnight as it has done during
the last fourteen days, they will not have a good potato
left.

At ITAnTLEv-now there are many acres of potatoes
planted, and everywhere are to be seen the scorched
leaves and black haums ; the stench is intolerable, and
nowhere is there to be found a single garden without
this fatal malady.
At IfEeKrIELD, in the Right Hon. Shaw Lefevre's
garden, both the early and late potatoes are all rotting
—in frames and on the natural ground.
At STRATIIFIELDSAYE, his Grace the Duke of Wel-
lington's gardens have not escaped the disease, and how
to prevent its spreading the gardeners know not ; every
scheme, " scientific and chemical," has been resorted to,
and yet the infection spreads, and that so quickly as to
level to the ground in the short space of twenty-four
hours the most green and healthy-looking tops, like a
nipping frost destroying, or lightning burning them up.
At SWALLOWEIELD, and other hamlets on to Reading,
the same melancholy facts were observable. The poor
have been requested by the medical gentlemen not to cat
the diseased potatoes ; even if but slightly touched
they are poisonous, and their opinion is, the prevailing
English cholera is mainly attributable to eating them.
At WHITE KNIGHTS, near Reading, the principal
gardener showed the various kinds of potatoes planted
there, both early and late ; all appear to be infected,
some to the extent of oae-half and others two-thirds
are rotten.

At CAYERSHAN (one mile from Reading), the disease
is increased, not one garden has escaped.
In READING every greengrocer or retailer of vege-
tables has potatoes standing at his door for sale, but on
the slightest inspection they are found to be more than
half' touched with the disease, though assorted daily,
still they cannot keep them free.
Proceeding on to NEWBURY, through Gieenham and
several other villages, the disease, if possible, is still
more virulent ; acre after a:re planted there is one
mass of putrefaction, infecting the air in every direction
causing sickness, fever, and death to those breathing
the pestilential atmosphere. This being market day at
Newbury, the country people had some potatoes for
sale, all more or less diseased ; they were willing to
sell them at any price—one person offering them at
Is. 6d. per sack, rather than have to take them home
again.

Lady Brougham arrived at Brougham-hall on Tues-
day last. Her Ladyship had not been in the north for some
years.
A MONEY -LOVING Pin.—A most curious and laugh-
able, but at the same time a pitiable circumstance, took place
in this city, Armagh, on Saturday last—a poor man had
purchased a pig, and while in the act of paying for it, pulled
two pound notes and ten shillings, silver, out of the pocket
of his inexpressibles ; when, le, and behold! the notes, which
were rolled in a lump, fell by accident to the ground; when
the pig, who stood at the feet of his buyer, a ;dent spectator,
rushed at the notes, gobbled them up, and swallowed them
in an instant, to the horror and consternation of the poor
owner, who, of course, looked woe-begone and unutterable
things. He lost no time in hieing him to the branch of the
Provincial Bank of Ireland, to ask advice how he should act
under the distressing circumstances ; but here there might be
much sympathy but no help for his misfortune, as he neither
knew the number of the notes, nor the bank from whence
they had been issued. The poor fellow is greatly to be pitied,
as we believe the above sum was the greater portion of his
little all. Some advised the killing of poor grunty, and to
have a post-mortem search after the notes: while a wag
standing by, remarked, " faith I don't blame the poor animal
for looking for the dearest food he can get, to mortify him-
self against the loss of his usual supply of good haurphys."--
, Ulster Gazette,