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London, England, 1850-11-01 00:00:00

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with the sect,nd mate and two stamen ; the rest happily
osurvived to tt it tsar rnt lAncholy tale to their salvors.
nPti'n Short, who proceeded hi
rice in the Ajdabv,
the 3d instant, went straight on to England,
will‘oit snipping to make any provision for his late
e e'. Whether he had learned the catastrophe which
had b f. 11.-12 his wife we are unable to say, but for the
credit of humanity, which does not seem to have pre-
(l°l3linvet4 on this occasion, let us hoe
that the intelli-
gence of I,rs. Short's death had reached Aden before
we he am-pack. t which conveyed him thither, and thus
aPPrisr d him of the melancholy event. A subscription
was raised in this place for his benefit and that of his
are,; it would be well if some portion of it were now to
De applied to their relief:"
I question whether the history of shipwrecks, and
even of human disasters, offers a parallel case to that
of this most unhappy deserted woman.
, Our monsoon is considered by the weather-wise
.to
6e qu:te at an end • and the concluding spectacle,
which is termed the' elephantas, is now anxiously
looked for as bringing a supplementary dose of water
to the lamtntahly deficient supply which the rain
IlissV afforded. Only forty-seven inches have fallen ;
'eaing the tanks, wells, and reservoirs almost
bare of wster. The islad, however, is healthy ;
hp,aoolfrprdtea.alittlys paper for September showing only
variouas in a population of wore than
million. The weather reports from the
collectorates under the Bombay Presidency
are vui
'MIS; some good ; others unfavourable, in so
I,r, as the crops are concerned. Rain has been par-
-11 and scarce; in some quarters abundantly ; in
,°•tu!"8, very deficient ; and, of course, I need not
_n_Sbilt upon its importance in an agricultural, and,
`l',,,,,,(quently, a financial point of view.
tioine Population ( xpect a ti-it---1 erhaps_ a visita-
,,n---froin the Bishop of Madras. Our own Bishop
k‘ll.7n9avies
ReApecting
iiintuLeondon,-or, at all events, in England.
more of a local character to add.
and Lad great men our I may state, that Lord
ratty YFalkland have left Poonah (the old M ah-
-1 capital, and the Bombay Cheltenham) for the
13 hi3 Lordship's health has been deranged of late.
r, tir good old
%,ottoti ' Commander-in-Chief, Sir Willoughby
for h.; " " biding his time" at Poonah,
jttit have already given looking out
a ..). successor. Sir Charles Napier is at Simla,
Marquis and you the whereabouts of the
Marchioness of Dalhousie. ..
of , tl.e srserts .
which jet the latest market reports, in doing
n'Gereneotify ;Ili
obf e. ac h e the uncommonly quick passaget
order n's splendid ship the Soringapfatearma,
d our harbour on the 30th ult., a
1).8,1:it-five days from the Lizard.
jhave forgotten to mention in their properhe
Bind tne courts-martial held at Cawnporeontteto_
ring : duelllitsi whose absurd doings attracted
Ensign
Razh mail or two ago. The two principal,
tasi aill and Lieutenant Litchford, and their seconds,
Nun gns White and Smith, were all found guilty, andc.
li4 ileeCi t 0 be cashiered ; which sentence Sir
taVer has
entire Confirmed in every instance save that of
Haxbanii whose wound, and perhaps whose
last oertinocence, saved him, Consequently the three
the wide ns have lost their commissions, and are on
e,xis world.
ii Afterue belhi G
a s—
-1 Gazette, of the 18th September, s y
qiliry ong and patiently watching the tardy
the
garnbC' Simla into the circumstances of
taint rig eases, we are enabled to report the cer-
theof
le °it a thorough investigation by court•martial
varin: and individual culpability attached to the
lins o_l, Patties concerned. The Commander-in-Chief
tee„Tered the court of inquiry to ie•assemble, the
184%1 witnesses having arrived at Simla, and it
the itile.ted that charges will be preferred against all
action,,, men concerned in the disgraceful trans-
(We sh„,,
-"III give a full report of the Markets in another
Edition.)

1111, tLIMIN--A.RY--SAVINGS' BANKS.
la i
beA mportant feature has lately been proposed to
sp "ded to these institutions, by Mr. Charles W.
in a
letter' ot the Huddersfield Banking Company,
Ler ad.,
tinin u,essed to the President of
Preliminary
Sav' 13'
Immely, the establishment of
the Yoreshire
k ingb, Banks. Through the kindness of Mr. Sikes,
eer°PY of his letter has already been forwarded by thed
s e
otary
to this
titian to
al
s every
nic t institute in Yorkshire, a.n
fort, Yalu' Committee would refer you for fuller
venturerin-
he plan is briefly as follows :
he" to suggest a method hitherto uhnatrii(ods;
jilial.3', that the humbler members of each Mec o
tuasihnteuti,on should be encouraged to ' transact a
within the
iNtit ''
with a Preliminary Savings' Bank m_ _
little
bet ut.ton, for which purpose some of the leading namt_
tetpnight fortn a small ' Savings' Bank Committee,'
0.
ait 'INC an evening weekly to receive their trifhng rISI: _
lehetti---1.
:thbeiiilingths_relpievninT, their sixpences, and Pen"- Plos tille:n_
us his sum reactede,ackslaypa2rit.y
25., paying
book,iug.
it
overhs d
etru.
trutienfteill
, obe repeateda,gai
ti .
Thu t . gto _um or her the new pas
umu. li
m°a'sClueviutrenmanendt S.a.vings'
}Bank of the town, in ts_ebopok.
beistiend, to
Anotherred,
nd s guinea
g altooveu until paid over to the Government Sabv;
ivtigb' B. atilt. The lit:le bookkeeping on—no interest
requisite would
erY situ If and from always being paid over when itbe
farad 1/ 21 25., the liability incurred would •
Y liteitad.
'i
`‘ list of th balances• h he ledger folio corres-
permit, , e (wit t
' ned by the trey
urer) It, with the pass-book, and s.g
ha
f.
I year, tbus
tNblie! b" suspended in the rcom each
that his money wa*
Nife.', g each depositor to see
X •
I,„,,4sptionalcases may exist where the addition of
char
84 a b atilt mig ht interfere with the efficient dis•
b re
institution. W e
this IP, tO. the other duties of an
s the clear duty of the
torn-kvie to be the case, it i .
inal objects of the
.Mittee to attend to the original institutionto any new J
ob'ect ; but we
ere of , rather than
be
such a plan could
ih,,,_
,opinion that, wherever
tend to increase
thet7rtY carried out, it must largely
of these in-
nit floral influense and social importance
' Bank exists
he ations. In many places no Savings
Savings'
13:vtr thee the next market town. The
work-
ie Ilk
is open at an hour not convenient to the _ .
FS this"
useful
estAbi. 8. Besides which,
• although these .
_.
- Ist' •11
the," rnents will take sums as low as one shilling,
.t is a •
rather
_there
n air of pretension about them which
these
ter 8 the lowest class of contributors. In all
_e_
viciPeets the Mechanics' Institute would possess adan
etteeti ;advantage. Institutions are likely to derive r .
teeelr"Lb af members where such a savings' depa
those
)vh-• 'would be efficiently carried out, because
h e.
pen() weet merely to deposit their twopence or t ree he:re would become aware of the other advantages
ert t'd to the. Moreover it has been a matter
quent and 1
friends of the
Workin t Sep regret to the sincere
bene-
E, g classes, that the associations for mutual
'1 such as Odd-fellowshi friendly societies,
sick
and fuuer 1 1 Is p,
The a c-ttes, &c., are held in the public-house.
advauctustom 1,
the
,e,, -as proved a heavy deduction from
them. all' and In tuenY cases quite counterbalanced
the Me hut in
the addition of the Savings' Bankto
ticalstepe the
Institute we recognise a great prac-
to f towards r 1
-eraerlying the evil. It will tend
1.0 ree the benefit societies of the working classes
I,t.tu.much that is useless, foolish, and even positively
It jurou,, because it will brin to these obects some-
-1,,_11,g, at least, of that moral conduct and intelligence
ik:_lch generally prevails in the management of the
17}}erehanics'
lute.lnstit We are, therefore, glad to
'me
un. that the anof Mr. Sikes has already been,
hy,Pleid in conjunction with the institutions at Wort it f 11,,e.,Ithara, and Keighley, at which latter place it.
pla%"u to succeed admirably. It is also in contemt the ill to establish Preliminary Savings' Banks
sa. We ll°•'Rley-lane
) Icirkqull, and other institutionus, ta tee
Pe it will be with such results as may enable
t.
lho. Pe
instill further at our next annual m eree-
ae,„,„_-tt cannot be too strongly impressed on the
xac..
as and conatnittees to enforce the most rigid et
trust njill punctuality in the discharge of anypecuniary
agallut the
ttlay undertake, with every
precautionthis Bpect ~'"ible loss ; as a single failure
in
n sys-
tem "light bring serious discredit on the wholeves._
re-
From nd ee
J h evq,'" " Alecha les' Institutions themselu
Union
of ice hirteenth Report of the Yorkshire n
teuttoice Institutes,pheld at Dar:ington.

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trforma;:ri 110TAL IiATMARKET.—The .as.,
I f farewe,
ayrnart-:c 8 Cif Mr. Macready, now taking place at the
tention
.atTheatre, are entitled to more than ordinary let el,erittt la a serious epoch in the drama of this country,_is
!taat ex, to all true lovers of Shakspere and
.h.s
'lest. en,rotlets to be deeply to be deplored, for thnle
tienills,7l °telt artist stands alone, the last of the bygo
__
have of our time, and in a
heamPassed from the Scene of his many triumphs, and be
few weeks he wi,lel
he am
'l.',l' hlors. Those desirous of witnessing the perfectdio
dig,,,
ostrloni.c art, whether as artists, to learn and inwardly
that Rl' a r auditors, to remember and compare with tale
°Pporte/3441e"ed, should avail themselves of the earliest and the"es presented to them, and not delay until too late
Th certain has dropped on his chance for ever.
reeitirc7 roportion of will and power is nut always
to °NZ,' A Copious measure of will is sometimes assigned
ties as rl, and contracted minds. • whilst the greatest facul-
Eih "ecte
„.,--a Coop, July evaporate in ' indolence and languor.—
Si 1. rnai.
Since th LET BURGLARY IN THE REGENT'S-PARK.—
Woundee admission of Mitchell, the burglar (wh? was tile race by the butler of Mr. liolford on the occasion of
gerwt..ht burglry at that gentleman's house in the Re-
est4t,a4k), Coat he House cf Detention, the surgeon of the
careful'uthet, Mr. Wakefield, and his assistant have made a
()in. exaMination of his wounds, and they are decidedly of
Leen'ocrilr that since the wounds were inflicted they have not
quaiiiie rsed or attended to by any person Professionally
1,4,7, to treat them, there having been no endeavour
to ascertain their nature' or extent. That the prisoner
his' i!lOt far more s!riouily hurt, indeed that he escaped with
As
lie' 18 a matter of some surprise, for he states that he
8 but fift
and , b. een or sixteen yards from Mr. Paul when he fired,
the v,-11..1s left side, from the back to the shoulder, and from
0 rst of the left arm to
shotsconiderably above the elbow, 'hill e'Rhty to a hundred holes have been detected.
4 7o are several shot holes under the jaw and about the
pistolt4; and though it is supposed that such shot fired from a
the at tile distance mentioned does not penetrate deeply,
hie Prls°fler has informed the surgeon that when he moves
8 tongue he can feel several shots, which, having entered
heath the jaw, have lodged themselves near the roo
othielle t°hgee. Some of the shots have been extracteiel,
mei "8 have dislodged themselves, as it is expected the r - aiiiiintdeeart will after a time, and though there is not the
Ile symptom of danger attending the wounds the pain
suffers is most acute.
ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENT.—Tbe Rev.
Viklke William
..: a f Pulinan, M.A., of Christ ,
Church Oxford, to the
,vler9Ctfic Thos rage Wellington, Somerset ; Ntr9l3, ths Rev. William
hla&