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London, England, 1846-07-03 00:00:00

has been recently thrown on the African question, I MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. been dull. Foreign-A good deal has been done in slave-
! grown at 2s to 3s advance in some cases : yellow Havannah,
to -elect not Marshal BIJGEAUD, but General LAMO- CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. 23s to 245; and Bahia, brown and white, 21s 6d to 25s ; for
RICIERE. • The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was steady- cargoes afloat and at auction, 1,546 bags chiefly went at 64 to
Sales,rord i7r,000 bales.
.Shares were rather q. advance;lowto good yellow, ~ sto -s , and good
The quiet-North Stet-The lifoniteur publishes the returns of the pricesis
h e were in brisk demand. mid white, 29s to 303. Rio went at 13s to 21s for brown and.
of wheat in the different markets of France during It is with pleasure we are enabled to state that the enz- yellow, and at 21s 6d to 25, 6d for low to good white.
the month of June, from which it appears that it gloves of several of the wholesale houses of the City of , COFFEE.-There has been very little done in West India
London have commenced a subscription towards the testi- samples, but Jamaica have realised rather fuller prices, low
sold, on an average, at Toulouse, Gray, Lyons, and d
, menial to Sir Robert Peel, the limit being strictly confined mid and mid, 75s to 101 s, and good and fine ord, 45s 6d to
Marseilles for 231. 65c. per hectolitre ; at Marans to one penny per head. It has been just suggested to us -60 s per cwt. Ceylon has been sold at 41s 6d to 42s for good
that it would be well if the principal parties employed in the ord, at 42s to 59s 6d for good and fine ord to fine, at 54s to
and Bordeaux, for 22f. 4c.; at St. Laurent and Le wholesale trades should meet and form a Committee irre- 58s for pea-berry. Mocha, mid greenish, has realised 51s 6d
Grand'Lemps, 23f. 73c. ; at Mulhausen and Stras- spective of the partners of the firms, and set the affair afloat. 'to 52s 6d per cwt, and Bahia has been taken in at 36s to ABs
burg, 26f. 15c.; at Bergues, Arras, Roye, Soissons, It must, however beobseFved,tbat d9' by day and hour by per cwt. Rio, fine and pale colory, brought 355. Costa
. hour, the current of public opinion is setting stronger 111 Rica has been taken in at 38s to 43s for good to f fine ord,
Paris and Rouen, 21f. 77c. ; at Saumur and Nantes, favour of the proposition. We have seen some lists this and at 52s to 57s for low mid. 2,258 bags Java were taken
20f. 34e. ; at Metz, Verdun, and Charleviile, 22f. 3c.; morning commenced in the way we have stated, numbering in at 32s to 42s for ord to fine ord.
from 50 to GO names. In order to facilitate RICE.-There has been a good deal doing in Bengal, and
and at St. Lo, Paimpol, Quimper, and Hennebon, the collection of funds, a plan has been sug- prices have ranged from 11s to 14s for mid white to good bold
201. 33c. gested which we think admirable. It is that cards Patna grain. Madras went at lls to 13s 6d and 14s per cwt
For some reason, not explained, it appears that the should .
printed, behaving on the one side the words for white, and at 10s 6d to lls for common yellowish.
p Testimonial to Sir Robert Peel," and on the other lines suf- SALTNITRE.-Bengal has been sold at very full prices.f
rise in the price of shares of the Northern Railroad ficieut to carry sixty names. A treasurer having then been Sriczs.-Pimento has been sold at 33/4d per lb; Cassia
of France in London, on Monday, had not a corre- appointed, the remittances could be easily forwarded, and if
Lignea and Pepper have been quiet.
numbered from one to ten thousand (or more, if necessary) Rum.-Proof Leewards has been sold at 2e 2% to 2s 3d
sponding effect on the Paris Bourse on WednesdaY• the various localities throughout the United Kingdom, in per gallon.
The Three per Cents. closed at 83f. 20c. ; the Five per which lists were opened, would most readily be informed TEA.-The market is dull. Common Congou is 10d, and
Cents., 121 f. • the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,256 f. 25c.; when the lists of subscribers are finally completed. It ought low to fair Twankay Is ld to is 3d per lb.
Rouen, 1,007 f: 50c. ; Havre, 720 E • Great Northern, 718 f. 75c. • to be mentioned that there is an opinion in the City that HEMP.-Clean is 31s per cwt. The delivery last month
Avignon, 872 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, '572f. 50c. ; Boulogne, 462 f. should the funds raised be more than sufficient for paying was 814 tons.
50c. ;
_Dieppe, 407 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasbourg, 48a. ; Tours the expenses of a suitable statue to Sir Robert, TOBACCO.-The market has been rather more active lately,
and Nantes, 5021. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 5261. 25c. ; Domestic that the surplus ought, in fairness, to be applied and prices have continued steady.
Debt, 31 ex. div. to the creation of a scholarship in the City of London Tasa,ow.-P.Y.C. is 42s per cwt. on the spot.
.
The following are the quotations for other lines:- school rather Ow at Oxford or Cambridge. Thanks INDIGO.-Privately 2d to 4d per lb. advance has been
Lyons and Avignon, definitives, 497 f. 50c.; Bordeaux and are certainly (Welk the correspondent of the Morning Ad- obtained, the accounts being unfavourable. The quantity
Cette, definitives, 480 f. by declared for the naxt sales is 15,199 chests, but holders are
LYONS, JuNz toertiser for having first suggested the modus operandi
29.-Marseilles and Avignon, 867 f. 50c.; which it will be proved that the middling and tlio lower expected to withdraw a good deal.
Peels and Orleans, 1,247 f. 50c. ; Rouen, I,ooBf. 75c.; Lyons, classes do appreciate the exertions of Sir Robert Peel in so
527 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 715 f. 25c. successfully carrying out his bold and grand measures. And
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE may we give a hint to the ladies? Why should not they
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 2. be "up and stirring" in so good a cause, by making purses
Boulogne and Amiens, 12%-Central of Spain, 14 -Louvain and among their relatives and connexions? thus showing that
Jemappe, % -Luxembourg, 2-Namur and Liege. 3%-Northern of they admire the measures of a man whose desire has been
France Constituted, 13% -Orleans and Bordeaux, 9)6 -Paris and
to increase the happiness of the family circle by an increased
Lyons Constituted, 6-Pa - ris and Strasbourg Constituted, 4%
Sambre and Meuse, 43-West Flanders, 3%. amount of food being given at a less cost than at present.
The monthly report of Messrs. Wilkinson and Jewesbury
,AILWAY COMMITTEES states that the demand for Colonial products
during the
R• past month for home consumption has again been exten-
.
(T HIS DAY.) sive, especially as regards sugar, coffee, and tea, in which
the Board of Trade returns exhibit for the first four months
of the present year an increase of 10 per cent., with a fair
prospect of a continued increase.
The English Stocks are steady, with a moderate business
doing; Consols, 95% %; New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents., 9G3/4 to 97 ; and the Three per Cent., 95% /.
Bank Stock has been firm at 206 to 206%. Exchequer-bills
have been quoted 11 s. to 15s. premium.
The Foreign Investments have been neglected, but they
have remained at nearly the previous rates. Spanish Three
per Cents. are now marked ex-dividend, and realise 35%
to ,(I. The Five per Cents. have been 24%. Brazil Bonds
were quoted 84% to 85. Portuguese Three per Cents. have
been at 47:%, ex dividend. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. are at 60.
Railway Shares have been dull. An improvement of a de-
cided character is expected should Government resolve
to prohibit all railway calls where the works
are not commenced within twelve months. The
shareholders of the Dublin and Galway Railway Company
appear to be confident, even now, of obtaining a reversal of
the decision against them-justly considering it, as they do,
to be of a very extraordinary character, for if the profitable
part of a line be given to one company, no other will subse-
quently come forward to execute the less promising portion,
thus destroying the entirety of a scheme which would have
paid. The Foreign Railways are quiet.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)

ARMY PRIZE-MONEY.

The Account of Unclaimed Army Prize-Money (formerly
made by the Deputy-Treasurer of the Royal Hospital at
Chelsea), from January 18, 1809, to December 31, 1845,
directed to be annually laid before the Houses of Parlia-
ment by the Act 2 M ill. IV., c. 53.
Dr.
To Cash arising from Forfeited and Un,
claimed Shares of Prize-Money,
Grants, &c. £1,081,346 11 6
To ditto arising from the Dividends, or In-
terest of Moneys invested in the Pub-
lic Funds or other Government
Securities

HOUSE 01? LORDS.
Room A.

£1,305,319 1 10

SCOTTISH CENTRAL (PERTH TERMINI).
A Select Committee on this Bill met at eleven this morn-
ing, in Room A (New Houses of Parliament); Lord Lons-
dale in the chair.
The Bill was unopposed, and after the examination of a
few witnesses pro forma, the preamble was declared proved.
The Committee, after reading and adjusting the clauses,
rose before twelve o'clock.

By Cash refunded to Claimants £671,326 2 5/
By Expense in executing Acts from Jan
18, 1809, to December 31, 1845 57,689 1 0?
By Sums paid for the Royal Hospital, in
diminution of the Annual Vote 572,331 14 51
Balance (vide Memorandum below) 3,972 3 10i

£1,305.319 1 10

GROUP C.
TRING AND DANBURY.

MEMORANDUM.—AIthough the balance upon this Account
appears to be as above stated, yet there is in the Three per
Cent. Consols, 100,000/. Stock, invested on account of Army
Prize. Money, the interest whereof is included annually in
the Parliamentary estimates, and is applicable to the pay-
ment of prize claims; and when the amount thereof, in ad-
dition to other sums received on the same account during the
year, exceeds the claims paid, the balance is taken by the
Paymaster-General as an appropriation in his accounts. The
difference between the above balance, viz., 3,9721. 3s. 10jd.
and the 100,000/. Stock in the Three per Cent. Consols,
arises from the investments in that stock having been made
when the funds were very low, and from the sales thereout,
as occasion required, having been from time to time effected
when the prices were considerably higher.
RICHARD NEAVE, Secretary.
Royal Hospital, Chelsea, June 25, 1846.

This Bill having been recommitted on the motion of the
Duke of Buckingham, several members of the Committee as-
sembled this morning, but two of the Peers being absent, a
quorum could not be formed, and an adjournment took place
until Wednesday next.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
GROUP LIII.

This Committee resumed at twelve o'clock this morning,
in Room 26, New Houses of Parliament; present, the Hon,
E. Lascelles (in the chair), the Earl of Arundel and Surrey
Captain Dalrymple, and Mr. R. Clayton.

Bank Stock .. • • • • .. .. .. .. 206%
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 95%%%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 96A % 97
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10 3-16 IA
South Sea Stock .. • • .. •• •• .-
Ditto, Old Annuities
Consols for Opening • •
Exchequer Bills.
1,0001. • • ..
Ditto, Small

933,
95%%
130. I%cl.
..•. 11 15 pm.
.... 15 pm.

PRICE OF BREAD.—Wednesday the 41b. loaf was re-
duced from Bd. to 7d, by the best bakers, and from 61Aid. to
51/2d. by the cheap bakers, in various districts of the me'
tropolis.
The Earl of Eglinton has purchased the spacious
mansion of the Earl of Lovelace, in Bt. James's-square. The
sum stated to have been given for tb!pioperty is 14,000/.

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent • • .. 84% 85
Chinon Bonds, 6 per Cent. • • .. 96
Portuguese Three per Cents. • •
Ditto, for the Account .. .. 473/ ex div
Ditto, 4 per Cent • • • 46% ex div
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. .. • •
Ditto, for the Account • • • • 24%
Ditto, Three per Cent .. .• 353 i% ex div
Ditto, for the Account • • .• 35% cx div
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 60
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 93% 94
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PEA SHARE.
Birmingham aud Oxford Junction 2 .... 3%34 .. to
Bristol and Exeter .. • • .. .. 75 .... 82 .... to
Ditto, New .. .. • • .. 5 .... 9 •• • . to
Buckinghamshire • • .. • . .. • • 425. •• • • 34 dis. to
Caledonian • • • • • . •• • • •• 15 .•934%.. to
Ditto Half Shares .. • • • • • • 2% •• • . 1 •• to
Ditto Extension • • • • 2% •• • • 1% •• • . to—
Direct Northern • • • • • • .. • • 2% •• • • 1 .. to
Eastern Counties • • • . .. 14/. 16s. 0d..... •to
Ditto, New • • • • .. 101. 16s. Od.• •• • 7% p.. to
Ditto, York Extension .• .. • • 10s. •• • • 1%54 • to
Eastern Union • • • • .. •. 30 ••• • -- •••• to
Ditto, Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 9 • • 7,4 •••• to
Edinburgh and Glasgow • • • • •• 50 ••• • ••.. to
Ditto, Quarter Shares • • .. 123 ••• • 18 .... to
Exeter, Yeovil and Dorchester • • .. 2% •• .. 1 to
Great North of England .• •.100 .. • • .... to
Ditto, New, • • • • .. 134 ••.. 18 •••. to
Great Western • • .. .. 85 ....148 .... to 147%
Ditto Half Shares • • •• • 50 • • 83 ••.. to
Ditto, Fifths • • • • .. .. 20 323,E .... to
Guildford, Fareham, and Portsmouth 5 .• .• .... to
Leeds and Bradford .. • • .. •• 26 ••.. 62 .. • to
London and Birmingham •• • • .. 100 .. 222 •• • • to
London and Croydon • • 131. 15s. 9,1. • • 221,4 .. to
London and Greenwich .. 121. 15s. 4d. • • • 9 .. • • to
London, Hounslow, and Western .. 2 .. % .... to '
London and York . • • .. .. .. to
Manchester and Leeds • • . 82 •• . • .... to
Ditto, Fifths • • .. .. 3 •• .. 11% ••.. to
Ditto, Extension • . 425. p.. to
Manehester, Buxton, and Matlock - • 425. • . p.. to % p
Midland
Ditto, New . • • • .. • . 24 .... 38 to
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby ..100 ....122%.... to
Newcastle and Darlington Junction 25 ••.. to
Ditto, New .. .. 1 .• .. 93% %.. to
Newcastle and. Berwick • • .. .. 15 .... 25 to
North British . • • • • .. • • 22 to
Ditto, Carlisle Extension • . • . 13i .. to
Ditto, Dalkeith .. • • .. • • • 25 •• • • to
Ditto, ditto • • .. • • .• 5 •• • • 6 to
North Staffordshire • • • • • • • • 425. •• .. 4 p....
to
Shrewsbury and Birmingham • • . • 2% •• • • 2% 34 .. to
South Eastern and Dover • • • • 33% .... 403% •• .. to
Ditto, New. No. 1 .• • • .. •16 ... 20 ••.. to
South Wales .. • • • • • • • • 5 •• .• 11,2 14 .. to—
West Riding Union .. .. • • 425..• 2% % pto
Wilts, Somerset, and Weym. e tit .. 5 .. .. 5 dis ••to
York and Carlisle .. • . .... 1% to
York and North Midland 50 to
Ditto, Half Shares .• • • .. .25 .... 48 ••.• to
Ditto, Scarborough Branch • . .. 25 .... 47%.... to 48
Ditto. Extension .• .• .. 15 .... 34 .. • to
Ditto East and West Riding Extension 1 .... 12 to 11%
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
-

Central of Spain .. .. 2 .... 1'.... to—
Namur and Liege .. ••_ . 6 .• .. to
Northern of France Constituted 5 • • 13% %..to
Orleans and Bordeaux .. ••.. 9 to
Paris and Lyons Constituted •• .. 5 •• .. 5% .... to
Paris and Strasbourg Constituted •• 5 • • to
Sambre and Meuse • • •• .. 8 •• • • 4%.. ••to
West Flanders •• • • .. .. • • 6 •• • • 3% •••• to
JOINT-STOCK BANKS
Australasia • • • •

:. .. .. .. 40 ... • 201 .. ~ to
MINES

Real del Monte. Unregistered .. .. .... 3% .. • • to

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JULY 3.—Wind S.W., moderate breeze, and fine.
DEAL, JULY 2.—Wind W. to W.S.W.—Arrd. Hermelin,
Cronholm, Bahia, and sailed for the Baltic ; Comet, Paraiba ;
Hercules, Madigan, New York, and both sailed for Antwerp ;
Glasgow, St. John's, New Brunswick; Heart of Oak, Stoker,
Miramichi ; Junius, Quebec ; Symmetry, Newfoundland.
Arrd. from the river and sailed, Dauntless, Putt, Ceylon;
Eclipse, Davis, Madeira; Northumberland, Griswold, New
York. Put back, Helen, for Demeraa ; Apollo, for Quebec.
OFF BRIGHTON, JULY 2.—London, Trinidad.
SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 30.--.Arrd. John Thompson, Bad-
cock, Quebec. Sid. July 1, Tweed steamer, West Indies;
Forth steamer, West Indies.
OFF FALMOUTH, JULY I.—Hermann, Baltimore.
BRISTOL, JULY I.—Arrd. China, Turnbull, Quebec.
NEWPORT, JULY 2.—Sld. Victory, Smith, Hong-Kong;
Norwegian, Stewart, St. Thomas's.
MILFORD, JULY I.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Mary Ann Henry,
Crick, Cienfuegos; Richmond, Stanbury, Quebec.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 2.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. Fairfield,
Abbott, Jamaica; St. Patrick, Proal, New York; Marmion,
Edwards, ditto sld. 14th ult. ; John,Lyken, St. Andrew's, New
Brunswick. Sld. 2, Jane Prowse, Nicholls, Hong-Kong;
Anna Henderson, Coale, Calcutta; Athole, Lang, ditto;
Blair, Moody, Bombay; Anglesea, Varian, Rio Janeiro;
Mary Queen of Scots, Kelley, Pernambuco; Swordfish,
Green, ditto ; Sisters, Vickers, Jamaica ; American, Williams,
Baltimore; Chester, Carver, New York; Constitution, Neill,
Staten Island; Looshlank, Thain, St. Andrew's, New Bruns-
' wick ; Sir Charles Napier, St. Stephens; Junior, Quebec.

LAMENTABLE DEATH OF A MEDICAL STUDENT.—
Yesterday Mr. T. Wakley, M.P., and a highly-respectable
jury, assembled at the Cock Tavern, Phoenix-street, Claren.
don-square, Somers-town, to prosecute an investigation into
the lamentable circumstances attending the death of blr•
George Francis Webb, lately residing in the above street.
The deceased gentleman, who was in his 26th year, was
medical student. Mr. G. Olive, of Soho-square, said that be
was distantly related to the deceased, and last saw him afiv/
on Monday, the 29th ult. Witness knew that he had liver'
en very unhappy terms with his wife, and had formerly 0-
hibited a very unsound state of mind. On that day he ex'
pressed to witness a wish to go abroad, in a somewhatiitdr
sponding manner, and intimated that he cared very Hs
what became of him. Witness was aware that he had been
in the habit of taking opium whenever depressed in spirit*
and also considered that he was labouring under some ape"
cies of insanity. Mr. John Wrentmore, surgeon, stated this'
on being called to attend deceased he found him lying oa
the bed; there was a bottle by his side which had contair ,
.
morphia. The usual antidotes were administered, but b:
never rallied, and, sinking gradually, he expired at abet!
half-past one on the following morning. The jury, after 7
short consultation, returned the subjoined verdict :—"1114
the deceased died from the effect of morphia, but in vfm"o
state of mind he was at the time he took it there was nv.•
sufficient evidence before the jury to enable them to decide.
Lord Alvanley is improving in health at Bath. tie
ANECDOTE OF Lours PHILLIPPE.--OR Friday, wiLL,
the King was stopping to change horses at Essonne, on 01;
way back from Fontainebleau, an elderly woman, rushlf.
through the escort at the risk of being trodden to death./
the horses, reached the door of the royal carriage, and, be
,r,
seen by his Majesty, presented to him a small piece of plri;7o
which he received. The carriage immediately afterts6/
drove on, but a very short time bad elapsed before an of.'
of
officer returned, and delivered to M. Cullion, sub-prefect r
Corbeil, who had been in waiting for the King, the 0,
woman's petition, in which were several pieces of gold, if„.tea
were immediately delivered over to her. The petition s'"
that she was a travelling pedlar, who had fallen sick at. old
public-house, and incurred a debt of Bf., which she Oa_
not pay, and as a guarantee for which the publican bad ifij,
tained her dog, who was her only companion and friel`fr,
The fact was, she owed the publican 18f.1 but she had.EL,
in her purse, and she could not, she said, deceive the Nt'ff
by asking for more than she actually wanted to pay
debt. It is gratifying to add that the sub-prefect of Cor e'..„
ascertained that the woman bore an excellent character.
G alignani.
or
THE OBSTINATE BARBER.—We mentioned. to - n
ij
readers, some weeks ago, that the whole of the, pile of e'et
buildings at the upper end of John-street and ?rinse's-srrFful
was to be immediately pulled down, and that a beauir
edifice, to be devoted to business purpose's, was to be real.,
on the site. The tenants of the respective houses ive,o
settled with, and they quitted the premises forthwith,
save one, an unflinching barber, who occupies a little AL',
at the corner of John-street. The demolition of the P.';ig
mises has gone on from day to day, but the barber reint„
fixed as his poles, for he has two of them elevated as 5";(1.,
blems of that rigidity of determination on which Cesar P' of
himself when he spoke of the north star as emblematic ot
his resolution. The houses have been tumbled to heallshis
rubbish, and four stories have been taken from above
head, but the barber has stood unmoved amidst the
of rafters, the wreck of gables, and the crash of bricPs
Though his cabin has smoked like an Esquimau lip.
from the stoppage of his chimney, though clouds of p'll,,
verised mortar have swept past his doorway, and his 913
now reduced to a hut, is scarcely, save in front,
be distinguished from the masses of ruin to which it aPPejio
tains, still the barber has not been induced to strick ba
poles. Thus, like the banners of Macbeth, which flouted
sky to the last, they project forth, as if in defiance of the tio
most havoc that bricklayers' labourers can effect. All the
' valiant resistance is worthy of a better cause. The barba
when he heard that the tenements were sold, and that 1111.4
site would be wanted, set the purchaser at defiance, held ae
shop as a fief to which he was entitled without doing hormn:
and now is determined not to quit without compengstie
An offer, we are informed, has been made to him, whic_.„l',,
refuses to accept, and, in return, he has nanisit his tni,
which are deemed so exorbitant that they; cannot be CO
plied with. The barber has held out till' not one brick its,
mains upon anothe save those which compose his own le,
What will be the next move we known not, but we 1113 V
stand that early this week he will be constrained to 9'
and change his quarters.— Live,:pool Albion. 01
ASYLUM FOR FEMALE ORPHANS, WESTMINS,.
RoAD.—Yesterday at noon a quarterly Court of the (I_,
diens of the above excellent charity was held in the )30:0
room of the institution, to receive the report for the &a
quarter; Mr. Williams in the chair. The reporthaving
601'"
presented, which showed that a bequest of 1001. bad 7101
given to the asylum by a lady of the name of Wanes. tie
5001. had been invested in the Three per Cents., a 111°501'
was submitted that a guardian giving a donation ..°lO.llO,
guineas should be entitled to the presentation of a cr` gflf
the institution during the life of the donor, exclusive Ol4aer`
other benefit. The Rev. Mr. Curling observed that be
to know whether he would be entitled to any vote? „405
Chairman said that he would not. Mr. Forrester prOrieg
an amendment that that the donor be allowed 10 °,0,1
The ChairmlaTranhgeanpisatjmot,erbirteeyiquestion, when the amendment; se°
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BAnnaDoEB.--A WHOLE FAMILY POISONED.---Thiesl,ph
children and their mother were poisoned on the erlif,
April by eating of cassava (jatropa manihos), not Preftb
prepared. The cassava had been sliced since the
__,00%
March, and dried, but the whole of the watery poison
not appear to have evaporated. On the 30th 01
some was prepared in a farinaceous state, made into cw,-,00
and eaten by the family at breakfast. At three o'clock
of the children died, and the other two in the course or op
evening. Hopes were entertained of the mother's reclifteJl
The poisonous of the cassava, if eaten raw or imprf.,perly ing
pared to man and animals ; but wAtee propar,l,'iog
pared by heat they yield a valuable article of food, feurineart
a principal article of subsistence to this Indian and Er!r"„r's
inhabitants of South America. Rut, though the jrl;cl,leig,
quick and mortal poison, the antidote is always at hand,
nothing more than clay, or common earth and water. f
THE DOG-DAYS.—We now understand the use
basins in Trafalgar-square. They were evidently 1100
meant to be ornamental, but they promise to becOron ore
tremely useful. During the late warm weather we obi, 00
several dogs standing on their hind legs drinking.ont °beeg'
basin. The dogs like to have their water like ginger- gre
"fresh from the fountain." There is no doubt the basioligt
kept as large preventives against hydrophobia, and NVe,,;eol
say, ugly as they are, we only wish there were more or „"tiv%
in the metropolis. Notices should be written u!'l,,
the canine species to Trafalgar-square, with direction,'"
avoid confusion, that "they are to sit down. with their
towards Pall- mall, and to take up with 'their tails on It,. 0/
with the lion's at the top of North
0
Punch.
:amberland kl°119"
°li
officer George Foden, being OR
DESPERATE CHASE.—On Mtnday evening, a„,l -
tC
Birkenhead, was sent for to oppose the terrors of the Jtesttr:
the half-drunken Violence of a brute, who was cruellY soo'i
ter and sister. On the officer reaching, tilencsnie,
duty at the north e,Psir
his
ing
them.,,ian turned round, struck the representative heel
3.lllJesty a violent blow, and immediately took to his. i tor
The officer, having formerly been a sort of charriniettiod
pedestrian world, immediately followed, and a sPlerto
ensued. Neither the culprit nor the officer newer' dog te
the best of it, when the former, after several artful,.snerti
turned short into Corporation-road. and made a '';ot`l Sao
attempt to escape by leaping the immense excavt
making in that street for the construction of a eniaehipe
jumped short, but fell on his feet, and speedily 5C oa
out; his pursuer was not so fortunate, for having,lno,
longest leap and cleared the drain, he was uneniebeiervat
his footing, and fell backwards. On the chase
finds
sumed, the ruffian had a few yards start; but finia.,, P:e
his pursuer was yet on his trail, he took to the w„ta, 1011
contrived to escape by going through Wallasey .rw—e, PAO
genuine moss-trooper. This was too much for the if yet/
of the policeman, who, being a raw recruit, mrnn„,
spoil his new suit, and the fellow made good ....
Liverpool Curler.