The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-06-04 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

Limns.—The demand for balk goods in both cloth-halls
was more extensive on Tuesday, as well as on Saturday,
than it has been for some weeks, and in consequence a good
deal of business has been done. This gratifying change has
taken place somewhat earlier than was anticipated, as the
winter trade can scarcely be said to have commenced ; there
is, however, little reason to doubt that the improvement will
continue for some time. Most of the mills are running full
time.

BRADFORD MARKET.—There was a tolerably brisk de-
mand here, on Thursday, for Saxony cloths and figured stuff
goods, but in most other descriptions very little business was
done. The prices realized for most goods are considered
low, considering the state of the yarn and woollen markets.
In the yarn market there was comparatively little business
done, scarcely an average amount. The wool market was
very dull, and we have scarcely any remark to make upon it.
There was a good supply of the staple article in the market.
and the slackness in the demand caused a very trifling ad-
vance in the prices of some sorts.
BARNSLEY LINEN TRADE.—We are sorry to state that
the linen trade of this place continues to grow worse. There
is little or nothing doing, either for foreign or home con-
sumption. The manufacturers continue to reduce the num-
bers of their weavers.
YORK WOOL MARKET, Thursday, May 20.—Prices may
be quoted as last week. There was very little wool in, and
few sales were effected.
SADDLEWORTH WOOLLEN CLOTH TRADE.—Since our
last report respecting the woollen cloth trade, we have had
more cheering prospects from America. There is rather
more business doing than there was a month since, both for
home consumption and exportation, yet the woollen trade
is not very brisk, some of the hands being only partially em-
ployed ; but on the whole, considering the high prices of
wool, it is in a moderate, healthy state, and operativeS gene-
rally appear in good circumstances:.
SILK TRADE.—The silk trade has not been so brisk in the
neighbouring towns for twelve miles round Manchester for
many years past. Manufacturers are seeking silk weavers of
tine satins, fancy checked and striped goods, and very fine
plain sarsenets.

STATE OF AMERICAN THEATRICALS.—AII the principal
actors in the country are wending their way north to spend
the summer. Celeste has left New Orleans, where she has
reaped a rich harvest, and is on her way o New York via
Louisville. Caradori Allan is at St. Louis, delighting the
trappers, for traders, and wild mensof the west. Forrest
has played to good houses up the Mississipi and Ohio. Ellen
Tree is at Cincinnati, but too ill to appear on the stage. Booth
is on his way back to Baltimore, to attend to his farm ; he
has made 10,000 dollars by his southern and western tour.—
Finn and a few adventurous Yankees have started a theatre
in Texas, and are making money by the operation. Pedrotti
and Pantanelli talk of leaving the Havana and coming north
this summer, where they will be well received. Little Miss
Davenport has met with great success in the south ; at Louis-
ville she was more attractive than any one who preceeded her.
Abbott and Jones are trying to rival each other at Richmond
and Charleston. Bads have drawn good houses at Balti-
more. Sloman and his wife are playing at Philadelphia to
houses two-thirds full. Sinclair and Mrs. Gibbs have not
done a good business at the Park this last two weeks ; but
the attractions of Miss Sheriff, Wilson, Seguin, and the.
pretty Mrs: Baily continue undiminishe4l. We must have
more novelty from England, however, for the next campaign.
THE RIVER SEVERN.—It is painful to look on the low
state of our river, the navigation being almost wholly im-
peded, more particularly when we reflect on the efforts which
have been made to have it irnproved, and which efforts were
defeated by an unjust, selfish, and disgraceful opposition.
The scene daily of vessels being aground on nearly all the
fords, when with scarcely a third of their estimated cargoes,
will, we hope, arouse the dormant energies of the friends of
this national improvement. On Saturday last five vessels
were aground for several hours on Diglis Ford ; and we are
informed there is only a flow of eighteen inches of water over
Deerhurst, and scarcely so much at the Red Stone Roels.--
Worcater Journal.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Mr. Ridsdale has refused £4,000 for his celebrated horse
Bloomsbury.

Fanny Dawson, the dam of celebrated Harkaway, pro.
clticecl a fine colt foal, by Economist (the sire of Harkaway:
List week.

The Queen is understood to possess a talent of mimicry
equal to the celebrated Charles Mathews.

A TALL MAN.—They have a man " out south," so tall,
that he hires himself out, at camp meetings, for a steeple.—
American paper.
The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury have
approved of Dundee as a warehouseing port for East India
goods.

The Earl of Wilton is to have the management of the
hounds next season at Melton, in the place of Lord Suffield.
• The accounts received from most parts of England, re-
specting the growing crops, continue, generally speaking,
favourable.

An auricula, with 148 full-blown flowers, was,- a few days
ago, cut in the garden of Mr.• William Campleman, of Hull.
The stem was 41- inches long, and 24 in circumference.

The Duke of St. Alban's was married on Wednesday, a
the seat of the lady's family in Leicestershire, to Miss Gub
bins, daughter of General Gubbins.

So many of the " tip-toppers" were taken in by the result
of the Derby, that, by way of revenge, some of them declare
that Bloomsbury won for the benefit of St. Giles's.
The Salisbury Herald states that the Bishop of Salisbury
s about to be married to a lady connected with some of the
oldest and most influential families of Dorsetshire.

It has been said of the Duke of Wellington that, during
the congress at Vienna, he completely misled the most subtle
diplomatists, by always stating exactly what he thought.
The splendour of the present season is likely to be consi-
derably diminished by the closure of the ducal mansions of
the Devonshire, Sutherland, and Northumberland families.

There is now to be seen at Kenchester, a bird's nest con-
taining 13 eggs, and which is built in a pump in daily use;
the rod of the piston works through the nest.—Hereford

Times:

A whit editor says—" We intend to get a new head for our
paper." He had better get anew conscience for himself, for
his present one appears to be prettj, much worn out.—Boston
Post.

There is now within a hundred yards of the farm house of
Mr. James Inskin, of Caldecot, near Baldock, a partridge
nest in which a fowl deposits her eggs with the partridge.—
Northampton Mercury.
A Bordeaux paper relates, as an extraordinary instance of
unnatural brutality, that a young soldier quarrelled with his
father in that town a few days since, and in his rage cut off
one of his fingers and eat it !
The Rev. Dr. Wolff is now giving a series of lectures on
the Divinity of Christ and the Atonement proved from
Jewish and Heathen writers, in the Parish Church at Hud-
dersfield, at the request of the vicar.
A decree of outlawry has been issued from the Court of
Exchequer against Sir Henry Mainwaring, Bart., late of
Over Peover, in the county of Chester, and a writ of dis-
tringas executed on his propery. Sir Henry is abroad.
A person lately deceased in Bradford, bequeathed £5OO to
his widow, but on the condition that she should marry again
within six months after his decease. She is very good looking,
and will have no difficulty in complying with his injunction.
The Hereditary Grand Duke of Russia has subscribed
£3OO for the monument which is about to be erected in
honour of the Duke of Wellington, whose glory, his Imperial
Highness says, belongs to England, but whose servicesbelong
to all Europe.
Much consternation prevails in •one of the highest families
in the county Mayo, the head of which is told that his estates
are held without any title, and that Mr. C. will come in for
£30,000 a year. Legal proceedings are about to commence.
—Limerick Chronicle.
TWEED SALMON FISHERY.—Since the commencement of
the favourable weather which is now experienced, the take of
salmon in the Tweed has been generally satisfactory, though
the produce of the fishing has not as yet been greater than is
usually the case at this period of the season.—Scottish
Guardian.
We think it will be agreed that there is no lack of magis-
trates in Lancashire, when we state that there are at present
in the commission of the county no less than 284. In Salford
Hundred alone, from January, 1835, to April in the present
year, 50 have qualified.
MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY.—The following is the
engineer's return of the quantity of earth-work executed, and
the number of men, horses, and engines, employed on the
works yet to be completed of the Midland Counties Railway,
from the 20th April to the 18th May, 1839 :—Earth-work ex-
ecuted, 297,960 cubic yards ; number of men, 5,138 ; number
of horses, 513 ; engines, three locomotives and two stationary.
ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday the temporary suspension bridge
at Kirkstall malt kiln, over which a railway passes, gave way
just at the moment that six waggons, drawn by three horses,
were crossing it. Horses and waggons were all precipitated
into the valley below, a depth of 50 feet. Two of the horses
were killed, the other much injured, and the waggons almost
entirely demolished. Providentially no human being hap-
pened to be on the bridge.—Bradford Observer.
EMIGRATION.—On Tuesday morning, one hundred and
forty persons embarked in the Lower Shannon, on board the
ship, Wellington, for Canada, sent out under the directions
of the committee in this country, under Colonel Wyndham.
Some of the emigrants went away in good spirits. Three or
four who left the vessel to take a parting glass, were left be-
hind, one of these lovers of the dram, has a wife and several
children on board the vessel.—Clrae Journal.
A LITERAL ANSWER.—Rather a laughable circumstance
occurred in our justiciary court on Monday week. In a case
of house-breaking, a female, among other witnesses was cal-
led, who keeps an humble lodging-house in Gatehouse. Af-
ter administering the usual oath, the judge, (Lord Mackensie)
inquired in common form whether she had received, or been
proposed, any thing for her evidence. To this question the
woman answered " Yes !" and when the wondering judge
inquired what, she answered with the greatest naivette--` a
summons." This curt and simple reply set the court in a
roar, in which the judge good-naturedly joined, at least for
a moment.--Dumfries Courier.
A few days since the commanding-officar at the Hone
ram, and perceiving that a raised platform, which was used
by the soldiers on duty as a bed, had become decayed, he de-
sired its removal, and a new one
,to be substituted. Accor-
dingly, while in the act of removing it, and the rubbish that
had accumulated underneath, a number of gold, silver and
copper coins, of the reigns of Queen Anne, George I. and 11.
were found. The soldiers who were at work, considering
them as their perquisites, pocketed the money, and afterwards
disposed of them. A few, however, were delivered up to the
adjutant.

DISCOVERY OF A NEW MEDICINE.—A medical practi-
oner at Andover, who attends a friendly . society at Chute,
Wilts, for a low salary, gave one of the members a box of
pills for some illness with which he was afflicted. By some
chance or other, when about to take one he thought it felt ra-
ther hard, and was tempted by curiosity to divide it in halves,
when he' discovered, to his astonishment, that his pills were
peas. To be fully convinced of the fact, they were, after
being weighed and deprived of the magnesia with whieh they
were enveloped, planted in earth, and are now actually grow-
ing This statement was made by one of the stewards of the
society.—London Paper.
FARMING STOCK.—MOSt of the sales of farming stock in
this quarter are over, and, in general, higher prices have been
realized than we had for many years. Young mulch cows
readily brought from £lO to £l5, with a brisk demand ; good
draught horses, from £25 to £39 ; three-year-old cattle, of
the Galloway breed, from £9 to £l4 14s. ; two-year-olds,
;
from £6 to £lO 10s. stirks, from £4 to £5 15s. with plenty
of purchasers ; and hog sheep, from £1 15. to £1 19s.—
Though the prices of wool are not yet fixed, there is evidently
a brisk demand ; as many of the usual purchasers have been
on the alert for some time past, bespeaking the superior clips.
Dumfries Courier.

PRIVATE AND JOINT-STOCK BANKS.—The following pri-
vate Banks, in Yorkshire alone, [have within a short period,
merged in joint-stock companies. At this rate, it may be
predicted that, ere many years elapse, private banking in the
country will become extinct :—Rawsons and Co. Halifax and
Huddersfield; Briggs and Sons, Halifax ; ;Hagues and Co.
Dewsbury ; Perfects and Co. Leeds and Pontefract ; Bywater
and Co. Leeds ; Smith and Son, Leeds ; Fletcher and Co.
Borobridge ; Coates and Co. Knaresborough ; Farrers and
Co. Ripon ; Dressers and Co. Thirsk ; Buckleys and Co.
Saddleworth ; Huttcn, Other and Co. Richmond and Ley-
burn ; Walkers and Stanley, Sheffield and Rotherham ;
Skinners and Co. Gainsborough ; Wilson, Sons and Co.,
Huddersfield.

On Friday last a dreadful homicide was committed in Lynn,
under feelings of excitement and ungovernable passion. It
appears that two persons, named Adams and Horsley, in the
employ of Mr. Watts, wheelwright, in Norfolk-street, had had
an altercation in the shoppit nd in consequence ofsome aggra-
vating conduct on the pazrof Adams, the other was led to
strike him a blow, whereupon Adams seizing a piece of wood
that was within his reach, struck Horsley with such violence
upon the skull as brought him to the floor, and after linger-
ing for a few minutes in a helpless state he expired. At the
coroner's inquest, held at the Hanging Chains public-house,
on view of the body, the jury returned a verdict of manslaugh-
ter against Adams. He is
,not more than 16 or 17 years of
age, and is the son of respectable parents in this town, who,
in consequence of this melancholy affair, are thrown into the
greatest grief and anxiety. Horsley, the deceased, was a
married man, without family. He had lately come from the
neighbourhood of Favenham.—Bury Post.

THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER.—From a recently-printed
parliamentary paper, entitled " An act of the gross and net
revenue of the duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster, for the
year ending Michaelmas, 1838 ; showing the amount of
revenue which became due, the monies received and paid
within the year, and the arrears and balances at the close of
the preceding and current years ;" we take the following
items and particulars. In the appendix relating to income—
showingthe "amount of fee-farm and unimprovable rents
and leasehold rents, including rents in lieu of land-tax re-
deemed," we find that the Duke of Devonshire pays for the
hundred, manor, bailiwick, &c. of High Peake, and manor
of Castleton, £10; the courts of the same, £1 ; the castle
and precincts, and the Devil's Hole, £5 ; the game, and
offices of the master of the game and master forester, £1;
the millstone and other quarries, £1 ; the osier beds, &c. £1 ;
the fisheries, £1; the chief and other dry rents, £25. Bs. sd.
and for the wastes, £1 ; altogether, £46. Bs. sd.—Sir Oswald
Mosley, Bart. for part of the Dove fishery, due Lady-day,
£2. 10s, and £l.los.—ln the counties palatine of Lancaster
and Chester, we find the following items of income :—The
Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Duchy, for the profits of
the seals within the county palatine of Lancaster, £7 ; the
trustees of W. F. Brockholes, Esq. for Myerscongh Park,
rents, £6OO ; land tax redeemed, £l9. ss. 10d ; John Fitz-
gerald, Esq. for the Pendleton collieries, one year's sleeping
rent to Midsummer 1838, £5OO ; for (the surface) land and
messuages, farm, buildings and cottages thereon, same period,
£285 ; George Jones, Esq. for building ground at Pendleton,
same period, £l7B. 75. 9d; the proprietors of the Manches-
ter, Bolton, and Bury Canal, for land in Pendleton, taken
for the purposes of the canal, £6. lOs ' • the comptroller of
the barrack department for a piece of land at Salford, 5s ;
the trustees for the site of the Royal Salford and Pendleton
Dispensary at Salford, £29. 105.—The boroughreeve, con-
stables, and burgesses of the town of Salford, for the tolls of
the markets and fairs, one year to Midsummer, £5 ; and
there are various other items chiefly under £l, for gardens,
&c. in Bank Parade, Oldfield Lane, Cross Lane, and Regent
Road, Salford. By a recapitulation it would appear, that the
total amount of rents received during the period specified, in
respect of the Duchy of Lancaster, was £22,935. 2s. 84d;
land tax redeemed, £440. 9s. 71d ; together, £23,375.125. 3d ;
In the appendix, No. 4, (Expenditure) we find the following
items :—Her majesty's donation of 100 tons of coal to the
poor of Hanley and Shelton, Staffordshire, January and Feb-
ruary 1838, £37. lOs ; her majesty's plate of 100 guineas,
given to be run for at Lancaster races, 1838, £lO5 ; the Rev.
Joshua Thomas Horton, incumbent at Ormskirk, £2l ;
the Revs. Jonathan Brooks and Augustus Campbell, incum-
bents at Liverpool, £4. Iss. 5d ; the Rev. Robinson Elsdale,
schoolmaster at Manchester, £4. ls. 9d. In appendix N 0.7,
which appears to be of a still more miscellaneous character,
we find the cost of the new seals of the duchy and county
palatine, made on the accession of her majesty Queen Vic-
to,ia, with the silver and cases for the same, £432. Os. 3d ;
and of the velvet bags used on the occasion of the said seals
being submitted to her majesty, Ils. 6d ; and for frames for
the county palatine seal, cast in iron, £2. 6s. 9d ; and, lastly,
for illuminating the duchy office oil the occasion of the coro-
nation of her majesty, £5, 10s,

It is rumoured that, among the approaching changes, Sir
Hesketh Fleetwood, M. P, for Preston, is likely to have an
appointment in the colonial department.
It is stated to be the intention of a body of the electors of
Newcastle-under-Lyne, in the event of a dissolution of par-
liament, to invite Sir Robert William Horton to offer him-
self as a candidate. Sir Robert represented this borough
previously to his appointment to the governorship of Ceylon.
—Wolverhampton Chronicle.
CIRCUITS OF THE JUDGES.—The judges met on Thursday
morning in the Exchequer Chamber, when the ensuing
circuits were chosen as under :

Home.—Lord Denman and Lord Chief Justice Tindal.
Midland.—Lord Abinger and Mr. Justice Littledale.
Norfolk.—Mr. Justice Vaughan and Mr. Justice Bosanquct.
Oxford.—Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Justice Williams.
Wales.—Mr. Justice Pattison and Mr. Baron Gurney.
Western.—Mr. Justice Coleridge and Mr. Justice Erskine.
Northern.—Mr. Justice Coltman and Mr. Baron Maule.
Mr. Baron Parke to be the judge in town.
THE EDINBURGH, LEITH, AND NEWHAVEN RAILWAY.
—The amended bill, with several very important and useful
clauses, has just passed the House of Commons, and is now
in progress through the House of Lords. By the alterations
in the levels this company will save upwards of .Z 36,000, un-
der the able management of Mr. Macneill, the celebrated
civil engineer, and the eminent Scotch contractor, Mr.
Gibbs. This railway and the Trinity Harbour will now be
completed, which will be of the greatest possible advantage
to all the Scotch railways, as the intercourse with the Frith
of Forth will advance the traffic on all the projected railway
communications throughout Scotland, and tend to revive the
commercial prosperity of that portion of the British empire.
The scribe who acts the part of " Clown in the ring" to
our mountebank ministers, attempted last Sunday, while
chalking his master's feet, to cut a joke of his own, instead of
borrowing one, which is more usual with him. Master
Merryman compared Sir R. Peel to the Boots, who is called
upon to take a turn in the saddle when all the regular
postilions of the establishment are engaged, adding—" there
is, however, this peculiarity about the humour of our Boots,
that he insists upon being lifted into the saddle by the cham-
bermaids." Clumsy clown ! Where is Lord Palmerston,
the Mr. Widdicombe of the Ministerial " ring," with his
long whip ? Why, it is Lord ,Melbourne, not Sir R. Peel,
who appears as Boots—and his humour is not only to insist
upon being lifted into the saddle by the chambermaids, but
to depend exclusively on the chambermaids for the safety of
his seat and security against a tumble.—Times.
WINES. AND SPlRlTS.—Comparing the consumption of
.

wines during the present year with that in the same period
of the last year, there appears an increase in the consump-
tion of Cape wines of 2,180 gallons ; an increase in the con-
sumption of French wines of 7,589 gallons ; in Madeira there
has been an increased consumption of 3,144 gallons ; of Fort
wine the increase of consumption during the above parallel
periods is 75,753 gallons. There has been also a large in-
crease in the consumption of Sherry and other Spanish wines
of 63,809 gallons. On the contrary, in brandy there has
been a decrease in the consumption of 2,802 gallons. In
Geneva or Hollands, the consumption,has been about the
same, there being only the trifling increase of thirty-three
gallons ; in rum the decrease of consumption is remarkable,
being 25,926 gallons.

DREADFUL STEAM-BOILER EXPLOSION.—On Wednesday
a steam-boiler at one of the cotton mills belonging to Messrs.
Milne Travis, and Milne, Shaw, Crompton, Oldham, burst
with a tremendous noise. The hopper of the boiler and the
steam were 'propelled at a distance of fourteen yards into a
cottage occupied by the engineer ; the door, the adjacent wall,
and the windows, as well as the furniture in the house,. were
all destroyed. A child, about two years of age, was so much
injured that it died soon after. The wife of the engineer was
also dreadfully injured, and is in a precarious state. A man
of the name of James France, who was passing betwixt the
mill and the cottage, was driven with great violence against
a wall, and his head was severely hurt. The windows of five
houses were also nearly all demolished by the explosion, the
cause of which is not yet ascertained. This mill seems ill
fated, for not long ago a young man was killed by falling from
one of the upper stories ; and a few years since the mill itself
was burnt down.

SINGULAR PHENOMENON.—A cow belonging to Mr.
Scott, of Blackhall Wood, calved, on Wednesday morning, a
calf having two distinct heads, four ears, four eyes, and two
necks, which united together to the body at the shoulder. It
had also two distinct spines or back-bones, which were united
at the rump, but the tails branched off and were distinct, ten
or twelve inches in length. It had four legs, which were all
perfect—the belly and entrails were single, with one liver,
and single lungs or lights, one gall and kidneys, as in a per-
fect animal, but what is singular it had two stomachs and
two hearts, proving that it must have had a double circula-
tion. The calf was alive, but Mr. Graham, of Blackhall
Wood, who extracted it with great skill, found it necessary
to destroy its life to save that of the cow, and she is doing
well. The skin of this singular lusus naturte is being stuffed
by Mr. Graham, and the skeleton wtll also be preserved.—
Carlisle Patriot.
OPENING OF THE YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND RAIL-
WAY.—On Thursday, this important national and commer-
cial undertaking was opened from the terminus at York, to
the junction at the Leeds and Selby Railway, near South
Milford, which forms an uninterrupted railway communica-
tion between York and Leeds, and York and Selby, and the
several intermediate places. The preparations were on the
most liberal scale. A large party of ladies and gentlemen were
invited to breakfast, in the Guildhall, York, at eleven o'clock;
and at half-past twelve a procession was formed to the station,
preceded by a band of music. The train started at one
o'clock, and proceeded to the junction ; and on its return,
the procession re-formed, and walked, attended by the music,
to the Guildhall. At four o'clock, a grand dinner was served
up at the Guildhall. The city presented an animated appear-
ance throughout the whole day, a great number of visitors
from the country having arrived to witness this interesting
scene. Not the slightest accident occurred on the trip.
JUVENILE TASTE FOR EQUESTRIANISM.—A boy named
Brown, 13 years of age, has been apprehended for horse steal-
ing. The performances at Cook's circus had excited his de-
sire to become an equestrian. Having learnt that the com-
pany on leaving Lincoln, had gone to Wakefield, he deter-
mined to follow them. He then purloined the stable door
key of Mr. Mansford, butcher, and stole the horse of that
person On the evening of the day he decamped, he arrived
at a village in the neighbourhood of Rotherham, and offered
the horse for sale. The publican at whose house hp put up,
pimp9stiin his timiamr, hidilitp £lO. l Ihe jsa bon a beery
considerably below the worth of the animal, the man became
confirmed in his suspicion that it had been stolen ; and to
make assurance doubly sure, he offered the boy £l, saying,
he was convinced the horse had been stolen, and that he had
better take the sum and be off. The boy consented. The
publican then delivered him into the custody of a policeman.
He was examined on Tuesday, and committed for trial.—
Lincoln Mercury. .
CHESHIRE MARLE.—CAUTION TO ENGINEERS.—In an
excellent work recently published under the title of " Life
of Thomas Telford, written by himself," that celebrated
engineer, in speaking of the difficulties which had to be en-
countered in the formation of the Liverpool and Birming-
ham Junction Canal, thus expresses himself:—" It now
became necessary to carry the Junction Canal in the shortest
possible direction between the Birmingham Canal, near
Wolverhampton, and the Ellesmere and Chester Canal at
Northwich, although this led to crossing the numerous ine-
qualities of ground between the before-mentioned places,
whereby this canal encountered cutting, and embankings of
unusual magnitude, and proportionably expensive. In pass-
ing through Cheshire, the canal was in this respect peculiarly
unfortunate ; for the heavy soil of which the surface of that
rich country chiefly consists, when used for embankments,
slips and bulges in great masses, and rapidly dissolves when
exposed to the atmosphere. From an unaccommodating
disposition in some of the landowners, in persisting to pro-
hibit the proper line of canal, these evils were experienced
to an enormous and unprecedented extent; and I am bound
to state, for the benefit of engineers who may be engaged in
similar works, that to the height of ten or twelve feet, it was
found by experience, Cheshire mark retains its shape suffi-
ciently well ; but when the height required amounts to 50,
60, or 70 feet, no estimate can safely be made, and the enter-
prise ought not to be hazarded."
ENGLAND AS SHE WAS AND AS SHE Is !—There was
a time when England' was indeed a power—a power of the
first magnitude ; nay, she was once the highest power on
earth. But now how changed—let Russia, France, and
America declare. Our flag, which was once the terror of
the world, is now a mere laughing-stock for juvenile adven-
turers in any foreign navy. Our cannon, which once could
awe a world in arms, now only serves to kindle the resent-
ment of a semi-barbarous province ; our manifestoes and
protocols—but no, I will not write the melancholy ditty, the
disgrace of my native land. But what is England now at
home ? She has a mere shadow, acknowledged by itself to
be so, for its government. Her army is tramping from
town to town, and county to county, to enforce a law which
they and the people abhor. The soldiers are insulted at
every post by the presence of the London police ; and from
the field-marshal to the private, they are either deriding or
cursing the sham government which thus degrades them.
Her nobles are engaged in consulting with commissioners as
to how many ounces of bread and spoonfuls of skilly will
keep a labourer's soul and body together ; and then superin-
tending the matrons of our bastiles to see that weight and
measure are not exceeded. Her lord-lieutenants are entirely
superseded by assistant-commissioners. Her magistrates
are insulted by the presence on the bench of justice of mere
government tools and spies. The Queen's palace is the seat
of the vilest intrigues ; the labourer's cottages are the habi-
tations of wretchedness, misery, and complaint. The whole
social system is on the brink of ruin, and Ireland is worse
than in a state of rebellion.—Oastler's Letter to the Nobility,
Clergy, Farmers, and Shopkeepers of the county of Not-
tingham.

- DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.—As the rumours of a
dissolution become more rife, so are the motives assigned
for such an extraordinary procedure more numerous. One
party has it, that the Queen, to avoid the tories being forced
upon her, and to gather round her person a more sycophantic
clique of flatterers, will try the dissolution in the hope that
the Radicals may prove themselves sufficiently strong to
enable her Majesty to make Lord Normanby prime minister
—the Marchioness (Mrs Masham) being at the head of what
the Standard most appropriately designates the Chamber-
plot Administration. Another section asserts, that Lord
Melbourne, assured of the weakness of the radicals amongst
the body of electors, will dissolve for the purpose of extin-
guishing them as a party, thus marring the projects of the
conspirators who are plotting to intrigue him out of the cabi-
net ; while a third contend that a dissolution is the only
measure that, by defeating the object of the Committee of the
Lords, can save the ministry from such an exposure of their
Irish policy, as must cover them with shame and disgrace.
and preserve Lord Normanby from impeachment—perhaps
from corporal punishment. We will not deny that there is
some semblance of truth in each of the motives_assigned, as
a reason for dissolution ; but should it be carried into effect
with a view of defeating the publication of the evidence taken
before the committee now sitting, we tell the readers of the
Evening Mail that it will be abortive. More we are not
permitted to say for the present.—Dublin Evening Mail.
DREADFUL COAL-PIT ACCIDENT, WITH LOSS'OF ELEVEN
LIVES.-BRISTOL, MAY 28.—An accident of a most ap-
palling description took place yesterday afternoon in the col-
liery of Messrs. Braine and Co., at Kingswood, near this city,
by which 11 unfortunate men and boys have been hurned
into eternity, their dependent families deprived of their means
of subsistence, and the whole village thrown into a state of
consternation and sorrow. The circumstances leading to and
connected with the accident, as stated to me, are nearly as
follows :—When a vein of coal upon which the pitmen have
been employed becomes exhausted, it is usual for them to
make a cutting of some eight or ten fathoms, at the extremity
of which another vein of the mineral is most commonly found.
In the present instance the men had been employed in cutting
from an explored vein, and had got to some distance, when,
having unfortunately selected the direction of a vein which
had been exhausted upwards of 50 years ago, they, about noon
yesterday, cut through what is called the pillar of the old
vein ; the consequence of which was, that the water, which
had supplied the place of the mineral, and which is called
" the land water,' broke in upon them with terrific violence.
At this time there were 36 human beings at work in the pit,
and, as may be readily imagined, the utmost terror and con-
sternation prevailed amongst them. Such as were possessed
of greater presence of mind than the others, or whose posi-
tion in the pit enabled them the more readily to do so, escaped
with promptitude to the mouth of the pit, and the signal of
their danger having been given to those whose duty it was to
look out from the above, they were raised by means of the
machinery which is usually employed for this purpose, and
rescued from their perilous situation. Twenty-five were thus
saved from impending death, but the number before stated, 1
the greater part of whom had been employed in a lower part
of the work, perished. ' •