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London, England, 1846-11-10 00:00:00

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supplies of provisions to be forwarded, as has been the
case in Ireland. The ship Belvidera, it is said, is now
at Deptford, taking in a large supply of provisions for
the coast of Scotland. The views of Government on
this subject may be gathered from the following state-
ment, made by Lord John Russell, in his letter to the
Duke of Leinster—" All that we have undertaken, with
regard to food, is to endeavour to create a provision
trade at fair mercantile prices, where no provision trade
has hitherto existed, and where, without assistance, none
might be willing to undertake a new and unpopular oc-
cupation."
We understand that, on the 14th ultimo, Glengarry
shipped, for the use of his people in Knoydart, 108 bolls
of oatmeal; 100 bolls of Indian corn meal; 48 cwt. of
rice; and 5 cwt. of biscuit.
A Ross-shire correspondent writes to us as follows:
" We are now in the first week of winter, and I fear
much that, notwithstanding the attention of some of our
Highland proprietors to the condition of the small
tenants upon their estates, the increased activity of the
Board of Supervision, and the quiet and patient de-
meanour of the people themselves, many families
and individuals in the north are already, and that
in a very short time many more will be, sub-
jected to the severest privations in regard to the
ordinary necessaries of life. In Caithness, a committee
of gentlemen of the county have been appointed to
ascertain the amount of the destitution, with a view to
the application of a corresponding relief.' The Duke of
Sutherland has personally directed and superintended a
similar investigation, and made arrangements, to receive
corn in due time, well calculated to avert suffering from
the poorer classes' on his extensive estates. You re-
corded last week the measures adopted by some of the
proprietors of Inverness-shire for the same end ; but
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of notice and elicited general approbation, yet I have
not heard that they have been carried out to any con-
siderable extent. There is, on the contrary, reason to
apprehend that the landed proprietors of this county
have, with a few honourable exceptions, made little or
no provision for the impending calamity. It would
afford me pleasure to find that this apprehension is not
well founded. You cannot press the matter too fre-
quently and strongly upon the attention of the labouring
man, the low rate of wages and the high price of
food make it almost impossible for him to procure
the scantiest means of living ; and as to the pau-
pers, who have a legal right to sustenance, the
allowances made to them in this part of Scotland
by the local boards, are so small that it need not
astonish you any day to hear of cases of starvation.
There never was a time when the circumstances of the
people demanded so imperatively the exercise of active
charity, and yet never a time when charity was less
practised. One feels curious to see upon what grounds
the Board of Supervision will attempt, in their forth-
coming report to Parliament, to justify the niggardly
pittances awarded to the claimants upon the poor's funds.
If the masses are permitted to continue in so wretched
a state, the effect must be to deteriorate and degrade the
national character. It is idle to think of educating and
elevating our countrymen while their physical wants
are so inadequately supplied. A mind constantly occu-
pied about the wants of the body is incapable of making
much progress in intellectual or moral improvement ;
but this is a subject which deserves a fuller and more
careful discussion than it can receive in a hurried letter.

Our Skye correspondent supplies additional informa-
tion:—" The people in this quarter are beginning to
grind their corn now, which is much earlier than in
former years, when they had abundance of potatoes ;
but, contrary to the observations in the letter from the
Home-office to Mr. Baillie, M.P., the grain is not in
general of superior quality, but otherwise, and will not
serve the people long. What will then become of many
who have no person to go south and work for them, a
kind Providence, who tempers the wind to the shorn
lamb,' only knows. Already some are putting them-
selves upon two meals a-day, and this will, I have no
doubt, come in time to one meal only. Such of them as
have a little corn crop, will, of course, consume it all
before they suffer much real want ; and how they will
be able to procure seed corn in spring, is a question
which, although somewhat distant, will be a difficulty.
It is not a great many years since Highlanders would
rear pigs or eat pork, having a great preju-
dice against that kind of food ; and when they
had beef and mutton, or gcat flesh, and occa-
sionally venison, this was not, perhaps, surprising ;
but since the country has been let out in large sheep
walks, and the people generally unable to keep stock,
and potatoes becoming so abundant, the feeding of pigs
has been quite general. Pork came to be generally
relished, and many a family who could get neither beef
nor mutton were not a little indebted to grumphy for

many a savoury meal, during the time of spring labour.
The failure of the potatoes has now, however, for a time,
put an end to this species of domestic purveying, and the
poor people arc killing their pigs half-fattened, and to be
eaten long before the spring work can be done through
the help afforded by their means. Although Cobbett
was no admirer or lover of potatoes, yet I think, on ac-
count of the bacon produced by their means, he might
have wished for their continuance. It is to be hoped
that seine substitute will be found here for pts also,
seeing that they served an important purpose, especially
to the poor people. Cabbages grow here to a very large
size, and would so far assist as a substitute in the present
case, but lam sorry to say that this vegetable also is
affected in several, nay in many instances, in this quarter,
so as to cause it to decay in a rapid and unusual manner,
threatening to deprive us of even this partial aid in our
present emergency."

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston entertained
the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis and Marchioness
of Clanricarde, the Earl and Countess Grey, Lord and
Lady John Russell, his Excellency the American Mi
nister and Mrs. Bancroft, the Right Honourable Sir
George and Lady Grey, the Right Hon. E. Stanley, the
Hon. W. Cowper, and a select party to dinner, on Satur-
day last, at their mansion oa Carlton House-terrace.
Her Ladyship received a select circle after dinner, when
among her Ladyship's visitors were, his Excellency
Prince Callimachi, his Excellency Baron de Cetto, his
Excellency Baron Brunnow, the French Charge d'Affaires
and the Countess Jarnac, the Countess of Tankerville,
the Earl of Auckland, the Hon. Misses Eden (two),
Viscount Ebrington, Lord and Lady Ashley, Lord Dud-
ley Stuart, Sir John C. Hobhouse, Hon. Mrs. D. Damer,
Hon. F. Charteris, Viscount Anson, the Attorney-Ge-
neral, the Solicitor-General, Mr. Rich, Mr. Harcourt,
Mr. F. Byng, Lady Theresa Lewis, Hon. Mrs. Villiers,
Lady Emily De Burgh, &c.
HERRING TRADE.—Mr. J. Robinson, of Banff,
and others interested in the herring trade, having me.,
mon alise,d Government on the subject of the Belgic
duties on British cured herrings, the reply was, that
this country not having a treaty of commerce with Bel-
gium, Government could not remedy the matter com-
plained of. It was added, however, that the at-
tention of Government would be directed to the subject.
THE MODEL LODGING-HOUSE, ST. GILES'S.—This
erection, situate in George-street, St. Giles's, is proceed-
ing very rapidly towards completion, the building having
already attained the third story, and it is expected will
be opened for the accommodation of the poor at the com-
mencement of the ensuing year.
AN EXPERIMENT.—It is stated that the Marquis
of Exeter intends to allow his potato crops to remain in
the ground through the winter, a covering of manure
being laid over them to exclude frost.

DREADFUL ACClDENT.—Yesterday a report was
very generally circulated through the town that several
persons had been killed at the coalpits belonging to the
Messrs. Kenworthy and Brothers, Mossley-road, Ashton.
This rumour following that of the late boiler explosion,
appeared to create much sensation in the neighbourhood.
On making inquiry on the spot we found that there were
two men, named William Charlesworth, aged 40 years,
and Francis Charlesworth, his brother, aged 43, who
had met with an almost instantaneous death early in the
morning whilst working in the shaft of one of the pits,
which is 240 yards deep. So far as we have been able
to ascertain, the unfortunate men, who are both car-
penters, and have been on the works for some years,
were employed, in repairing one of the " chairs," in
which the waggons ascend and descend the pit, when a
link of the chain which supported the other chair on
which the men stood to work broke, and they were pre-
cipitated several yards to the bottom of the pit, the rope
above, which was about 1,700 cwt., falling upon them.
Several of the men who were at work at the time hearing
a crash, immediately ran to the mouth of the pit, when
they saw the heavy rope descending and taking with it
everything that was in its way. The teen sent for Mr.
S. Ashton, the head book-keeper, and he was speedily
upon the spot, together with a number of the police,
giving directions for the recovery of the poor fellows
who were down below. Several persons at once de-
scended, and on arriving at the bottom found them lying
in a pool of blood. The body of William Charlesworth
was most shockingly mangled, his legs and arms being
broken, and his head dreadfully mutilated. The latody
of Francis was not so much injured as that of his brother,
but the wounds which he received on the head with the
rope were quite sufficient to account for death. The
chain that was attached to the rope which supported the
" chair," on which the men stood, was supposed to be
capable of bearing six or seven tons; and it appears to
the workmen most extraordinary that it should have
broken with so small a weight. Francis has left a wife
and four small children, and William, his brother, has
left a wife and five children, only one of which is ca-
pable of working. The distress occasioned to these poor
families may be better felt than described.—Manchester
Guardian of Friday.
WINE CELLARs.—lnstead of being placed so as to
insure a regular and somewhat warm temperature
throughout the year, the coldest part of the houses
seems to be set apart for wine. On expressing my ob-
jection to a builder, and a very intelligent one, he seemed
quite astonished, having an opinion that the cellar was
a nice cool place. Now, any one who knows anything
about wines knows that a temperature never below 55
degrees is essential to their preservation and improve-
ment. The best vaults in the docks are those which
preserve this temperature throughout the year. Some
wines are despatched to the East and West Indies for
improvement under higher temperature, but carefully
guarded against a lower than above stated. As the
cellars arc usually on the same floor as the kitchens,
they should be placed so as to admit of a ready commu-
nication with the boiler of the kitchen-range, by means
of a small pipe, so that by the circulation of hot water
night and day, the needful temperature might not only
be secured, but increased to any amount that might be
desired for special wines. This advantage might be ob-
tained at a very trifling cost, if the wine cellar were con-
tiguous to the kitchen-range.--Builder.

FRANCE AND ENGLAND.
The Allgemeine Preussische Zeitung (the organ of the
Court of Berlin), has the following article in the file
which we have just received from Germany :
" Nothing can more strongly characterise the triviality
1 and the ignorance with which the French are wont to
handle.. the affairs of their neighbours, than the opinion
seriously expressed by the press, and (it is said) enter-
tamed in higher circles, that the overthrow which Eng-
lish diplomacy has recently received in Spain will lead
to a change of Ministry in England. Never was public
opi▪
nionin England, amongst all parties, more unani-
mous upon a matter than upon this, viz.—that for the
cessation of the entente cordiale, the French Government
is solely responsible. M. Guizot, it is said,
plumes upon
his being able to prove that Lord Palmerston is the
true cause of the misunderstanding in reference to the
Spanish marriages ; and the French Minister here relies
(perhaps
i too strongly) on the general opinion which
prevails n Europe respecting the antithesis of his own
character to that of his English rival. But in this case
we believe that it will soon be seen that M. Guizot has
avai▪ led himself of his assurances of peace and the credit
of his name for the purpose of concealing views which
even a more warlike and more inconsiderate Minister
would hardly have professed. And this takes place
whilst Viscount Palmerston, striving to regain for•his
policy the character of moderation, and to maintain the
friendly relations with France which his excellent prede-
cessor in office has bequeathed him, displays somewhat
less of his accustomed watchfulness and resolution.
" The pretext of a change of the English Ministry,
and the actual presence of so peculiar a Minister in the
Foreign-office, form but a lame excuse for the resump-
tion of a policy which tends to nothing less than the
annihilation of British irfluence in the Peninsula, and
the full dependence of Spain upon France. We have
even heard that an influential French statesman, who
stands high in the confidence of the prevailing possessors
of power, has declared that the Spanish Crown shall be
as closely united to the Crown of France as the ancient
kingdom of Scotland now is to that of England ; and
although it is well known that a direct union is impos-
sible, still the Court of Madrid is already looked upon
in certain circles as a sort of vassal to the Tuile-
ries. The present weakness of Spain has, in reality, ren-
dered the union of the two Powers far less formidable
than it was last century ; but on that very account
the dependence of the weaker on the stronger power has
only become still more complete. In Spain such a state
of things cannot be of long duration, and England will
never recognise any claims of this kind on the part of
France. Perhaps the late coup d'etat in Portugal is
calculated to make this breach still wider, for even in that
country French influence has been busily occupied in
overthrowing the Liberal party, and even there England
is bound by existing treaties to defend the independence
of the Government. The relations of England to Por-
tugal have become unusually cool during the last year.
The Methuen treaty is abolished on both sides, and no
other commercial connexions have since been formed be-
tween these two old allies. The slave-trade treaties have
excited the ill-will of Portugal, and their evasion the ill-
humour of England. The latter Power now feels less
interest in Portugal than at any former period. But
now, a 3 before, Portugal is the door through which
British influence maintains its position in the Peninsula.
The route of Torres Vedras has its political and his-
torical importance, as well as its military renown.
France will probably seek to insure her preponderance
in the Peninsula by threatening the ind?pendence of
Portugal, and even leading the military power of Spain
against her neighbour ; but if any such plan of politics
should be pursued, the breach with England could easily
break out into open hostilities. The Parisian journalists
are in the wrong when they imagine that the pros-
pect of a war would lead, in England, to the fall
of a Cabinet or the dissolution of a party. By
means of her political unity and her resources, England
is at present as well prepared for war as any other Eu-
ropean power. For the last three years the Govern-
ment has been very zealously occupied in providing for
the defence of the coasts, and increasing the strength of
the navy. The finances of the state aro in a brilliant
condition, the relations to other powers peaceful and
secure, and, in a just cause, the English nation would
i
rather go to war at once than submit to the slightest n-
fringement of her rights, or, at least, the most remote
attempt upon her honour. In 1840 France threatened
Europe with a war, when that power was unprepared
for it. In the year 1846 England has not threatened
a war, but she is morally and physically prepared to
strike out the path which coming events or her own
policy will prescribe for her adoption."

I FSHEEP.—Every part of the globe, from the regions
of the torrid zone to the cold frigid climate of Iceland,
is inhabited by the sheep ; and the varieties of form and
clothing necessary to fit it for such variety of climate
are of court• numerous.—The Plough.
HONOUR TO THE FAIR SEX !—At the risk of vex-
ing some who would not have their good deeds brought
too prominently forward, we cannot avoid making
honourable mention of the remarkable perseverance and
devotion of the daughters of General Simcoe, who dis-
tinguished himself in the American war. These ladies,
on the ruins of the old abbey of Dunkswell, near Honi-
ton, have erected a church, for which they worked all
the stone with their own hands. A large drawing-
room, commenced by the General, and not finished,
served for the atelier. We have a worthy companion
for then" ladies, whose names we mention with all due
respect. in Miss Rickards, of Stow Langtoft, Bury, who
has, with her own hands, as we hear, glazed all the
winlows in her father's church with stained glass,
painted and burnt by herself !—The Builder.
PALL IN THE PRICE or POTATOES.—Many of our
readers will, we have no doubt, rejoice to hear that in
our market, en Wednesday last, there was a considerable
reduction in the price of this now costly esculent. A
week or two ago, in our market, potatoes were selling as
high as 2s. per peck. On Wednesday morning last they
were selling at ls. Bd. per peck ; but, in the afternoon,
they were freely offered at Is. 4d. per peck, which in-
deed was the general selling price. We have heard that,

in some parts of the country, potatoes turn out better
than was generally expected. We trust that this cause
may have produced the decline of price in the Hereford
market on Wednesday, and that it may be lasting ; for
the high price of this useful vegetable makes a most ma-
terial difference in the household expenditure of the poor
man who has a large family to support. Hereford
Times.

AN AGED BEGGAR.—There wanders about the
northern counties a venerable gaberlunzie, an old soldier
whose grey hairs are worthy of shelter. This veteran,
Robert Scarlett, is a native of Caithness, being born at
Bower, on the 12th February, 1750. He went to sea on
board a merchant vessel at 11 years of age, was pressed
in Leith Roads early in the year 1794 ; was sent
aboard the Ajax, 74, Captain Cochran, and fought
under Admiral Howe, on Ist June, 1794 ; was removed
to the Meditar, 74, Captain Keith, and fought under
Admiral Duncan at Camperdown, and under Lord Nel
son at the battle of the Nile ; was one of 800 sailors
and marines who were landed from the Meditar in
Aboukir Bay, to assist the land forces commanded by
Sir Ralph Abercromby. He was present under that
commander in three different engagements, fought on
the Btb, 13th, and 21st March, 1801. After his return
from Egypt he was discharged from the naval service, and
immediately thereafter he enlisted in the 23d regiment ;
was sent to America, then to the West Indies, and was
present at the taking of Martinique. He was sent to
Spain in 1810, was with Wellington at the taking of
Cuidad Rodrigo and Badajos, and fought at Albuera,
Salamanca, and Toulouse, and was discharged at the end
of the war in 1814. When he came to Scotland, he
states that he found himself a lone man, not knowing a
single individual in the world with whom he could claim
kindred. He had married at 17 years of age, and his
wife brought him two sons and a daughter. The mother
and daughter died when he was abroad, and his two
sons, who had enlisted in the 79th regiment, both fell
side by side at Salamanca. He was 64 years of age when
he was discharged from the army, and supported himself
while his strength eontinued, by working as a labourer.
But when his strength failed he could no longer find em-
ployment, and then, as he himself expressed it, he was
obliged to travel (that is, to beg), and although now up-
wards of 96 years of age, he states that he would not yet
like to travel if he could get work.—lnverness Courier.
ELIHII BuiturrT's BOYHOOD.—Being the youngest
of the five sons, it was the privilege of our Elihu to
remain at home with his parents, and contribute to the
support and comfort of their old age. Among the
pleasantest reminiscences of his early life are the exer-
tions he made for this purpose. At sixteen he had
arrived at the full stature and strength of a man. He
now united himself with the Congregational church in
New Britain, under the pastoral charge of the Rev.
Henry Jones; and is at the present time a member in
regular standing of the same church, whose articles of
faith are the same as those of the Independents in Eng-
land. At this time his father's first and last illness
commenced, which lasted for almost a year. During
the .whole of this time, this excellent son laboured
through the day in the field or the forest, and then
watched through half the night at the bedside of his
father, that his mother might be enabled to take neces-
sary rest. After his father's death he apprenticed him-
self to a blacksmith of the town, the only school educa-
tion he bad as yet received being three months at a
district-school during the winter, before he was fifteen.
Of far greater importance, however, than the scanty
tuition was the keen appetite for reading which kept his
mind awake, and which was, doubtless, stimulated by
the difficulty he had in procuring books. This intense
passion for reading he attributes in the first place, less
to the innate force of his own mind than to a mere
adventitious circumstance in his early youth. At that
time the old revolutionary soldiers abounded in every
neighbourhood of New England. It was a pleasure to
them, and they deemed it a duty of the first magnitude
also, to gather round such hearths as were open to their
reception, and to rehearse to the rising generation all
their strange stories about the wars. A knot of these
garrulous old pensioners were regular visitors at his
father's house; and it fell to Elihu's share to draw the
cider for them, from which they derived a certain degree
of inspiration. The graphic manner
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earnest old men related, embellished,
perhaps, the fictions or facts of their revolutionary ex-
perience, excited the mind of the boy to n
the highest.
degree.
lle had the keen( st relish for their atoes, or
for any such as resembled them. It was not long, there-
fore, before he made the delightful discovery that tales
of a similar character might bo found them, as interest-
ing as those told by the old grandfathers of the village.
It was this love of narrative which made the bible such
a fascinating book to him : it had all the charms to him
which the novel-reader finds in the last new romance.

It was the first book which he read after getting through
the spelling-book, and he used to steal away with it
under his arm, and devour its wonderful histories and
its personal narratives with a zest which his good mother
fondly mistook for religious impressions. Often has he
heard her telling her neighbours with pride of this cha-
racteristic of the boy, and how she bu;lt upon it a hope
of his becoming a useful and eminent Christian.—The
People's Journal.

QUALITIES OF 111t-A-f.-
Every country is famous more or less for some pro. .
duce, so is every county; for instance, for Me-best beef
we are indebted principally to Sciotlandi- the Highland
• ox, which, if bred in Scotland, kept there maid four
months old, and fed twelve months 1n Norfolk, cannot be
surpassed; those also that are kilIW in Scotland are
likewise very commendable, but the ilnoi.s.seur would
give the preference by far to those thaVinidathdergone a
change of atmosphere and pasturage. Norfolk also pro-
duces excellent beef, as likewise does Herefordshire,
which three sorts are ranked as best by the best judges.
The Brighton downs are noted for producing sheep of
the first quality, next to which may be ranked thous of
the Norfolk downs; they are rather larger, more fleshy,
and the meat sometimes a darker colour. Herefordshire
also produces some very excellent. The Scotch mutton
is also very good, and deservedly of very high repute,
but I rarely ever use it, as it is killed in Scotland, and
hurriedly packed, which causes it not to look so well,
and frequently very much bruises it; but that of Leices-
tershire is, in my opinion, quite the contrary, being
coarse meat and very fat; I consider it unworthy of
making its appearance on the table of a man of wealth.
When residing at Melton Mowbray I tried several
haunches, even after hanging a month in winter, and
then roasted to perfection; I could not find in them any
savour worthy of the taste of an epicure; I consider it
more as a useful nourishment than a delicate moat The
best Welsh mutton is direct from its native mountains;
the heath upon which it feeds gives a very rich flavour
to the meat, which is very dark and without much fat;
many are fel in the English counties; they are very
excellent and much fatter; but do not posseis the same
wild flavour. The best veal to be obtained iu the spring
time of year comes from the west of England, being
rather small and very white; but there is a ready supply
of good veal from Surrey and Essex throughout the
year. Although very fine veal may be obtained in this
country, it is not to be compared to the quality we obtain
in France; the veal of P3ntoise, a little town six miles
from Paris, outrivals any; I would venture to say that
one pound of that veal would make a better stock than
double the quantity of the veal procured here; no one
can account for it, but such is the actual case; although
there the quality of any other description of animal
food is deficient, we have to boast of the excellent fla-
vour, succulecce, and the exeessive whiteness of our veal.

House lamb may be obtained throughout the whole year,
but there is no great demand for it before February.
Grass lamb makes its appearance now much earlier than
formerly; the quality much depends upon the winter
season; if a mild winter they may really be fed upon
grass; but if the contrary, they must be fed with pre-
pared food, which increases their size but diminishes
their quality. Pork for roasting is best when about six
months old, Berkshire and Hampshire producing the
best. The size of a leg of pork should not exceed seven
pounds, nor much less than six. Ido not know why
but of late years pork has lost in a great measure its
popularity, and but` seldom appears on a nobleman s
table; it is in season from October to about March.—
Soyer's Cookery.

ROBBERIES IN MINES IN CORNWALL.-At the
Cornwall General Quarter Sessions, held at Bodmin last
week, a series of cases were tried, which exposed a
complete organised system of plundering mines. The
prisoners were chiefly convicted through the agency of
a man named Moyle, who was admitted an approver.
It appeared that four or five months ago several valuable
mining implements, composed chiefly of brass, were
missing from various mines in the western parts of the
county, and, in consequence of some suspicions, this
man's house was searched, and a large quantity of the
articles found concealed in a cavity up the chimney.
Moyle is a dealer in marine stores, and lives at Red-
ruth ; on being taken before the magistrates, he con-
sented to 'confess, and become an approver, on condition
of receiving a pardon. He then acknowledged him-
self an extensive receiver and buyer of brass and
other metal from different miners, and in consequence
of that information several parties were taken
up and convicted. The depredations appear to have
been carried on to a considerable extent. William

Prince and Joseph Prince, two miners, were convicted
of stealing at Wheal Unity Wood Mine, in the parish of
Knwyn, a brass air pump-bucket, 1,000 lbs. weight of
brass, and 50 pieces of brass. The prisoners, on the night
of the 24th July last, broke open the door of the engine-
house in which these articles were kept, and removed
them into a lane near the mine. They then went and

informed Moyle they had some brass to sell, and the
prisoners, in company with Moyle, and another
dealer in marine stores, named Hooper, went with
a cart and brought the brass home to Moyle's
house, and kindled a strong fire under it, and
broke it in pieces to avoid detection. Several
other cases of a similar character from the Wheal Jowell
and other mines were heard, the prisoners being sen-
tenced, according to the aggravation of their cases, either

to transportation or imprisonment with hard labour.
UNCONSECRATED GROUND.—As a proof of the
growing indifference of the people to interment in con-
secrated ground, we mention a fact of recent occurrence.
A child of a labouring couple, living in St. Sidwell's,
Exeter, died. The mother waited upon the Rev. Francs
Courtenay, and asked him if he would bury the child on
Sunday last, at four o'clock in the afternoon, in the
cemetery. He replied that he could not attend, having,
we:presnme, other duties. She replied that as Sunday after-
noon was the only time that the father and bearers could
attend, the child must be buried then, and that if he would
not attend, the child should be buried in the dissenters'
ground by a dissenter. He was greatly shocked at the
unscrupulous manner in which the mother was prepared
tq consign the remains of her child to unconsecrated
earth. She gave him the opportunity, however, of pre-
venting it, by performing the ceremony at the time
named, but he still refined. Having thus shown the
reverend gentlemal that he had himself, by his indis-
position to accommodate her as to time, shown very
little desire to ay.-rt the dreaded event, she " crossed the
ditch," and the child wai buried in unconsecrated ground,
the funeral service being performed by a member of the
‘Vesleyan Church, a church which has proved itself on
this, as on other occasions, worthy of the title of the
poor man's church.— Western Times.
FOREICN POTATOES.—At the latter portion of the
past week some arrivals of potatoes had taken place,
from foreign countries, and which seemed more es-
pecially to require particular mention. Some have
since taken place which, in some instances from their
extent, and others from their partial or entire novelty,
would appear equally entitled to remark, and
the notice of which will not be at all uninteresting
at the present time, when the scarcity, and in many
cases-disease, of this esteemed vegetable is so much com-
mented upon. The steam-ship Rainbow, from Rotter-
dam, brought 66 bags, the produce of Holland; the Mi-
nerva, from Borregaard, three barrels of the article, of
Norwegian produce; the Alkmaar, from Amsterdam, two
bags of Dutch produce; the Emerald steamer, from Bou-
logne, 12 sacks the growth of France ; the Countess
of Lonsdale, from Hamburgh, 6 baskets ; the Oxford,
from New York, 18 barrels, of American produce ; the
Perseverance, from Dunkirk, a cargo comprising 30 tons
weight of the article, the growth of Normandy; and the
William and Matthew, from Dunkirk, also, the very
large quantity of 115 tons weight, the produce of the
same place; and again the Ypres from the same port,
an entire cargo, comprising 50 tons weight of this
vegetable, also the growth of Normandy. —The
Giraffe, from Rotterdam, brought thirteen baskets
of Dutch produce; the Caledonia, from Hambnrgh,
11 bags, of Hanseatic produce ; the Albion, from Dun-
kirk, a cargo consisting of 49 tons weight, again the
produce of Normandy ; and, finally, the Ocean, at the
port of Liverpool;from Havre, 104 bags of the artiele,:the
produce of France. Of these arrivals it will be scarcely
necessary for us to allude, even in the most succinct
manner to the extensive importations which have taken
place this week from Dunkirk, the produce of Nor-
mandy. They form quite a feature, and have evidently
taken place to an extent unprecedented from that or any
of the other continental States, and will be read with
exceeding interest, as they form a subject of very great
commercial importance.
THE NEW PLANET.—The present distance of the
new planet, expressed in common measure, is about
3,200,000,000 English miles from the sun, and about
3,100,000,000 from the Earth. Its distance from Uranus
—whose motion it disturbs—is about 150,000,000 of
miles. It diameter is estimated sit 50,000 miles. That
of Uranus is about 35,000 ; of Jupiter, 86,000 ; of
Saturn, 79,000 ; of the Earth, 8,000. Its cubic bulk is
to that of the earth as 250 to 1. The new planet is the
largest in our system except Jupiter and Saturn ; and
since these two planets as well as Uranus, are each at-
tended by a train of Satellites, it is extremely probable
that the new planet will have a similar accompaniment.
We had the pleasure of seeing the planet on Thursday
night from the Calton Hill. It comes to the meridian
a few minutes before nine, and is within a short distance
of Saturn. With a power under 200 it is not distin•
guishable from a fixed star.—Scotsman.

DISCOVERY OF AN ILLICIT DISTILLERY UNDER
THE WATERLOO•ROAD.—One of the most extraordinary
seizures ever brought under the notice of the public, was
made on Friday by the officers of Excise. For a consi-
derable time past, indeed for years suspicion had existed
in the minds of the officers of the district,h respecting
Waterloo-
road,
road, but no clue could be obtained toan
l thgem. The
con-
traband nature being withincarried9n
some premises in the neighbourhood of. the Wofataerloo
under and ex-
tendingpremises are situated immediately
t e
Diseasesrl o o - r o a
od
f,
known as the Royal Hospital by a great number of
Children. Although daily visited
of any person existed in the mind
beyond the building
persons, no idea nginforth•etheVa
con-
nected immediately below. On Friday, how-
ever,was carried on
from a strong impression that all was not right, or
with it, or otherwise, of the extensive. trade that
. .
officers of the Excise, made their way to the rear of the
from information received, Messrs. Bay ford and Lewing
premises, which are approached by a narrow passage,
running parallel with the Waterloo-road, near to Stare-
ford-street. Large gates inclosed the entrance to what
were known as vaults for the depositary of old ales and
publican's fittings in trade. On gaining an entrance
they made their way to a vault, approached by a very
narrow passage, sad totally excluded from a ray of
light, where they discovered two large stills fitted up,
both set in brickwork, and under one of which a fire had
been recently lighted. A qUantity of illicit spirits were
also found in the place. On pursuing their search in the
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used for this purpose, as it emits no strong odour, as is
the case with wash produced by molasses in the
ourse
of fermentation. No molasses wash whatever was found
on the premises. The worm tubs were supplied with
water from vessels below the ordinary supply in the
dwelling-houses iu the Waterloo-road, and the waste
water was discharged by pipes downwards from the stills
into the common sewer, so that not the slightest clue to
any premises could be obtained from this circumstance.