The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-07-16 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL PHCENIX BANK.

THE Annual General MEETING of the.A7treholders of
the LIVERPOOL PH(ENIX BANK will be held at
the CLARENDON ROOMS, South John-street, on FRIDAY,
the 26th instant, at One o'clock ; and the Directors hereby
give Notice, that a DIVIDEND, at Four per Cent. on tha
business of the last Half Year, will be paid at the Bank, on
and after the 15th of AUGUST next.

The Transfer-Books will be closed from the 10th until
he 16th proximo.
By order of the Board of Directors,
S. H. WALSH, Manager.

Liverpool, 11th July, 1839.

GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.

EXTRA DAY TRAIN. FROM LIVERPOOL, MAN-
CHESTER, HE S TER, AND BIRMINGHAM.
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rrHE Public are informed that, on and after the 17th
1 instant, and until further Notice, an EXTRA TRAIN,
consisting of Six-inside Coaches only, will be despatched on
every day, Sundays excepted.
From Liverpool and Manchester, at 12 15 r.v.
From Birmingham, at / 215 P.M.
The Despatch from Birmingham bOng ordered for the
purpose of relieving the Day Mail from Birmingham, and
fulfilling the requisition of the Postoffice,
Notice is Hereby Given,
that, on and after the 17th instant, no Gentlemen's Carriages
or Horses can be conveyed by the Day Mail Train, at 2 45
from Birmingham, or from any other Station, but that all
such Carriages and Horses must be sent by the Extra Train
which will leave Birmingham at 2 15 r.m.

BY ORDER OF THE DIRECTORS.
Liverpool, July 15, 1839.

We have accounts from Guadaloupe to the 3d ult. Freights
have fallen to 7 deniers, in consequence of a decree of the
governor authorising the direct exportation of sugars for all
countries and under all flags. The sugar crop, 'which, at the
commencement of the season, promised to be a good ont,
had been much reduced in consequence of the bad weather
for some months, and was not estimated at more than 66,000
to 67,0001b5.

The great father of reform, Earl Grey, although in town,
and in good health, declined to give his vote in favor of mini-
sters, on the occasion of the trial of strength yesterday week
in the House of Lords, on the national education question.
The simple truth of the affair is, that the venerable earl disap-
proves of the iniquitous scheme. Lord Durham also witheld
his support from the Melbourne ministty on the occasion,
but for a different reason.

THE BOROUGH OF MARYLEBONE.—A ministerial paper
announces that the "Liberals" of this borough intend to
bring forward the-Hon. Edward Bouverie, second son of the
Earl of Radnor, as a candidate, in the event of a dissolution
of parliament. They have, it should be observed, been a
long time in finding a gentleman who is willing to spend his
cash "in the cause." The hon. gentleman had better em-
ploy the member for Kilkenny to look after the disburse..
ments, in which it will be found that the reformers of the
borough are very liberal indeed. The Hon. Mr. Bouveris
will discover there is a large number of influential patriots
most desirous of laying his money out " to the hest advan-
tage." The radicals of St. Pancras, who stand aloof from
the whig party, by whom they have so frequently been de-
luded, have determined upon starting an ex-member of
Marylebone vestry, ycleped Democratic Dodd, a tee-totaller,
a "whole hog" politician, whose lively gesticulations at the
vestry board gained for him the sobriquet of " Dancing
Dodd."—Correspondent of the Herald.

AN ARMED POLICE.—It is time now for all who really
value the ancient free institutions of England—those insti-
tutions which mainly contributed to the formation of the na-
tional character, when that character was respected or feared
throughout the globe—to stand forward and resist the avowed
design of the Whig ministry to establish a gendarmerie in
England on the continental plan, and :bow the spirit of En-
glishmen under the yoke of Gallic centralisation. Lord John
Russell's announcement of the intended organisation of a.
body of moveable
,police—that is, a body of police collected
in the metropolis to be disposable for country purposes—
ought to excite alarm for the liberties of England from one
end of the kingdom to the other. We warned the people of
England of the intentions of the Whigs to subject the whole
country to the alien and despotic !sway of the Home office
gendarmerie years ago. We were aware that they felt such
a force was necessary for the purpose of putting down all op-
position to their iniquitous new poor law. The one tyran-
nical scheme is a necessary consequence of the other. The
extensive discontent which that oppressive law has produced,
the bitter feeling between the poor and rich which it has en-
gendered, the desperate courses on which it has driven masses
of people, now treated as outcasts in their fatherland, make
it seem necessary to the eyes of the Whigs that the trun-
cheoned police of the metropolis should form the nucleus of
a eutlassed gendarmerie. Thus the wrongs inflicted on the
poor are followed up by new attempts upon the public liberty.
Tyranny from abroad is introduced to prop up scandalous
injustice at home. Because the poor have been defrauded
the people are to be enslaved.—Herald.
THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER THAT IS TO B.
is perfectly well-known that Mr. Spring Riee, thoughby
no means having attained that age whioh would justify him
in deserting the public service, has mnde up his mind for a
peerage. See the difference in the ambition of two men. Sir
Robert Peel, after his short premiership, " was offered" a
peerage. as a matter ofcourse. Like Mr. Pitt, he refused it,
because he thought he could be of more service in the com-
mons. Mr. Spring Rice does nothing of the kind. Vir-
tually he says this :—" The penny postage will take from me
almost one million and a half a year, and how to fill
the hole up I don't know, I begin to think that I have been
penny wise and pound foolish." This comes of attempting to
buy popularity by the pennyworth. A man, like Sir it, Peel,
or the duke, or anybody who has already earned a character,
will not buy fame and place so expensively. They say this
without any concealment :—`• You require of us a reduction
of expenditure in a particular way. Is the country (or will
any particular class upon whom the new impost may fall qui-
etly submit to make themselves) ready for that impost? "
Mr. Spring Rice says :—Before parliament meets again I shall
be Lord Limerick. The tones will be in, and Goulburn may
find the million and a half as he can. If! by any accident we
should keep in office, Thomson will be in my place, and I
shall be out of it." But will Mr. Thomson, the president of
the board of trade, be endured for two days as the ' chancellor
of the exchequer that is to be ? " He told such a tale in the
House of Commons on Tuesday night, that it has set every
common carpenter in a great guffaw at his ignorance. And,
to make worse of it, Mr. Thomson professed to have been
studying the subject all the yeari he has been in office. It
was this—Mr. Villiers brought forward his annual motion on
the timber duties ; Mr. Thomson opposed it for the very rea-
son (if he knows a plank from a plain table) that he ought
not to have done. The reason he gave was that Canada
timber was good material for window sashes and the inside
work in London ! This is precisely the work that Canada
timber is not fit for. The whole of the houses in Regent's
Park have been ruinedby having been wainscoted with Canada
deal. For out-of-doors work it is excellent, or under water;
and the reason is that the worming bug, which makes Canada
timber so cellular, is killed by both air and water. But what
a fine " chancellor of the exchequer that is to be we shall
have in a man who has been studying such a subject for years,
and does not know so much about it as the veriest hedge
carpenter!--Correepondent of ihe 3farsing Hensid

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HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY.
Their lordships sat as usual, for the purpose of hearing
appeals, till about one o'clock, at which time the house
began to fill with peers who attended for the purpose of pro-
ceeding in state to Buckingham Palace, with the address
aveed to on the motion of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
There were about 80 peers present at half-past one o'clock,
the majority of whom were in uniform.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, in his robes of state, took his
seat on the woolsack at half-past one o'clock, when the
names of the peers present were called over by the Yeoman
Usher of the Black Rod, according to their seniority, in.
which order their lordships proceeded in state to the palace.
The Highway Act Amendment Bill was read a third time.
-The Brick Duties Bill, the Paper Duties Bill, and the Glass
Duties Bill, severally went through committee, and were
r'ported without amendments. The Ecclesiastical Districts
Bill was read a third time.
HER MAJESTY'S ANSWER TO THE ADDRESS.
The LORD CHANCELLOR had to inform their lordships,
that the house had that day waited upon her Majesty at
Buckingham Palace, and had presented an address, to which
her Majesty had been pleased to return the following gra-
cious answer :
" I duly appreciate your zeal for the interests of religion,
and your care for the Established Church.
" I am ever ready to receive the advice and assistance of
the House of Lords, and to give to their recommendations
the attention which their authority justly deserves.
"At the same time I cannot help expressing my regret that
you should have thought it necessary to take such a step on
the present occasion.
" Yon may be assured that, deeply sensible of the duties
imposed upon me, and more especially of that which binds me
to the support of the Established Church, I shall always use
the powers vested in me by the constitution for the fulfilment
of that sacred obligation.
" It is with a deep sense of that duty that I have thought
it right to appoint a committee of my privy council to su-
perintend the distribution of the grants voted by the House
of Commons for public education. Of the proceedings of
this committee annual reports will be laid before parliament,
so that the House of Lords will be enabled to exercise its judg-
ment upon them ; and I trust that the funds placed at my
disposal will be found to have been strictly applied to the ob-
jects for which they were granted, with due respect to the
rights of conscience, and with a faithful attention to the se-
curity of the Established Church."
The answer was then ordered to be printed.
NEW POOR LAW.
Earl STANHOPE brought forward one or two alleged cases
of hardship to paupers in the Worksop union, the discussion
upon and contradiction of which occupied much of their
lordships time.
The Duke of RICHMOND said, it appeared to him that his
noble friend always, at the end of the session, brought for-
ward a number of cases, and yet, upon examination, not one
of them was found to hold water. (A laugh.)
Earl STANHOPE said, that notwithstanding all the pains
and industry of the noble duke to confute him when he
thought his opinions were mistaken, and all his endeavours
to embarrass and confound witnesses who were examined
before the committee, with a most pettifogging and quibbling
kind of inquiry—(" hear," and a laugh),—yet the cases he
had brought forward had been most fully and clearly sub-
stantiated (hear) ; and, if he had time and place, he was ready
to discuss them with the noble duke.
The Duke of RICHMOND rose to explain. His noble friend
had, most contrary to the orders of this or the other house
of parliament, charged him with conduct which, if he had
been guilty of it, would have been unbecoming the character
of any peer or gentleman of this house. (Hear.) He did
not think his noble friend had any intention to do so ; but
on every occasion the poor laws were mentioned, his noble
friend appeared to become almost wild, and in this instance
• had been more so thin usual. (" Hear," and a laugh.)
He hoped the noble lord would remember, when he was
charging a peer of this house with such conduct, that it was
not the same as attacking the guardians, which indeed he
was ever ready to do, who were not there to defend them-
selves; but he (the Duke of Richmond) would be always pre-
pared to defend them, and would allow no man in this coun-
try to impute to him motives which would be a disgrace to a
gentleman and a peer of this house. (Hear.)
Earl STANHOPE said it was not his intention to say any-
thing personally offensive to the noble duke. (Hear, hear.)
He had said the noble duke had only pursued the same course
of inquiry and examination which was always pursued in that
committee—(" hear," and a laugh)—and that when any wit-
ness was brought forward, a number of questions were put to
him to refute him, and to confound the opinions he had given
—(hear) ; but he never said the noble duke wished to elicit
from any witness anything that he did not believe to be true.
(Hear.)
Lord WHARNCLIFFE said that witnesses must expect to
be exposed to a severe cross-examination; and if he went
into a committee, he must examine them closely—(hear,
hear) ; but he denied that, at any time during the sitting of
the committee, on the part of the noble duke on the cross-
benches, there had been any such conduct as that spoken of
by the noble earl It was true that most of the witnesses who
had gone to speak of the facts stated by the noble earl, when
when they were examined, could not bear them out.—(Hear.)
BEER BILL.
The Marquis of WESTMINSTER wished to ask the noble
and learned lord near him (Lord Brougham), what was the
nature of the resolution he intended to move to-morrow.
Lord BROUGHAM said, the resolution would be a general
one, and to this effect :—That it would be highly expedient,
that beer-shops should be henceforth placed on the same foot-
ing with the houses of licensed victuallers, as to the sale of
beer, both with respect of those hitherto licensed, and those
that might be licensed hereafter, He considered that the
most safe, and, upon the whole, the most prudent course to
ask their lordships to take.
PRISONS BILL.
After a short discussion on the second reading of this bill,
in the course of which Lord DUNCANNON said, he was at
present in treaty for a piece of ground for a site for a model
prison, and that it was the intention of her majesty's govern-
ment to proceed with the building with as little delay as pos-
sible, the bill was read a second time, and ordered to be
committed for Thursday.—The house adjourned at a quarter
to eight o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY.
CARLOW ELECTION.

Mr. Gaora reported from the Carlow election committee,
that the committee had determined that F. Bruen, Esq. was
not duly elected a burgess to serve in parliament for the
borough of Carlow at the last election ; that Thomas Gis-
borne, Esq. was duly elected, and ought to have been re-
turned; and that the petition against the return, nor the
opposition to that petition, were either frivolous or vexatious.
The Clerk of the Crown was ordered to attend on Friday to
amend the return.

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THE NATIONAL PETITION.

For the motion
Against it
Majority
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For the original motion ....
For the amendment
Majority
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HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY.
Mr. Gisborne took the oaths and his seat for the borough
of Carlow.

Lord J. RUSSELL, in answer to Colonel Wood, said that
he proposed to proceed with the Collection of Rates Bill, to
introduce some alterations, and to afford full opportunity for
fair discussion. With respect to the Town Councils Bill (he
added, in reply to Sir J. Graham,) his lordship said he did
not intend to press it this session. He also said, in answer
to Mr. Packington, that he could not fix a day for the further
proceedings on the Sale of Beer Bill.

Mr. LABOUCHERE said, in answer to Mr. Gladstone, that
directions had been given to the Governor of Newfoundland
to report on the memorial of complaints from that place.

Mr. T. Arrwoon then brought forward his motion that
the house resolve into a committee on the petition, called
the " national petition," presented by him on the 14th ult. ;
and in doing so he thanked the house for the patience with
which he was heard when. he presented the petition, and for
giving his present motion precedence of the orders of the day.
Lord J. RUSSELL said that he was not at all surprised at
the immense number of signatures the petition had received,
looking to the great pains that had been taken to gain that
purpose, and to the supposition by those who signed it that
it would obtain some benefit to the people ; but he denied
that the petition represented the opinions of the people at
large, and believed that the great majority would be alarmed
if its prayer were granted, and that the establishing by enact-
ment of the provisions of that petition would create confu-
sion and terror in the country, not only among the aristo-
cracy, but among the labouring classes more especially.
A long debate ensued, after which the house divided. The
numbers were :

. 46
. 235
. -189

On bringing up the report of the whole house upon the
Post-office acts,
Mr. GOULBURN moved, according to notice, several reso-
lutions, to the effect that it was the opinion of the house,
with a deficiency of revenue, that it was not expedient to
adopt a penny-postage system at the present period of the
session, when it could not command the deliberate attention
it should receive from parliament.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER opposed the reso-
lutions, but required that a pledge should be given by parlia.,
ment to make up any deficiency that might occur from the
adoption of a penny postage.
After some discussion, in which Sir R. Peel, Mr. P.
Thomson, Mr. Warburton, and Lord Sandon took part.
The house divided. The numbers were—

For the original motion
For the amendment
Majority —loo
Sir R. PEEL then proposed to leave out of the resolution
all words pledging the house to make good any deficiency
that might result, from the adoption of the plan.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that if the
house agreed to the right hon. baronet's amendment, he
should proceed no further in the measure.
After some conversation the house again divided, when
the cumbers were—

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CARLOW ELECTION PETITION.

CLOSE OF THE INQUIRY.

This unprecedented and protracted inquiry was brought to
a conclusion on Thursday last.
Mr. Wrangham having been heard in support of the objec-
tion to the vote of Patrick Barry, the room was cleared.

On the re-admission of strangeii, shortly before two o'clock,
The Chairman said the committee had decided that the vote
of Patrick Barry was a good vote, and ordered it to be re-
tained on Mr. Gisbome's poll.
. This decision having placed Mr. Gisbome in a majority of
one,

Mr. Austin said he believed the only remaining duty of the
committee was to declare that Francis Bruen, Esq., was not
duly elected, and that Thomas Gisborne, Esq., was duly
elected.

Mr. Wrangham begged to say a few words before the
committee separated. After the decision they had just come
to it would be of no use to attempt to reduce Mr. Gisborne's
majority, but there still remained charges and allegations of
bribery and corruption on both sides, and the charges made
by Mr. Bruen had been made advisedly. He did not, how-
ever, intend to offer any proof on the subject ; but he had
an appplication of a grave and serious nature to make against
an individual who would have been a principal witness bad
he not absented himself. He alluded to Doctor White, who
was in the committee-room on the first day of the meeting,
but who subsequently had avoided the Speaker's warrant
being served upon him, and all attempts to find out where
he had concealed himself were unavailing. His (Mr. Wrang-
ham's) application, therefore, to- the committee was, that
they would make a special report to the house, stating the
fact of Dr. White absenting himself, in 'order that steps
might be taken which would teach other witnesses that they
could not with impunity evade the Speaker's warrant.
Mr. Austin having been heard against the application,

The room was cleared. On the strangers,
The Chairman said the committee were of opinion that
sufficient ground had not been shown to induce them to
make any special report to the house relating to the absence
of Dr. White.

The committee then resolved that Francis Bruen, Esq.
was not duly elected to serve in this present parliament for
the borough of Carlow, and ought not to have been returned;
that the petition and the opposition to it were neither frivo-
lous nor vexatious.
The committee then separated.

THE APPROACHING REGISTRATION.

(From the Bristol £tandard.)

As the period of Registration approaches, we beg most
earnestly to remind our readers, that upon the result of the
next Revision the fate of the country, in all human probabi-
lity, depends. A general election, if it do not take place on
the present Register, is inevitable in the course of the ensuing
year, and it will be useless to defend the citadel then, if the
enemy shall have already carried the outposts in the Regis-
tration Courts. We hold the Conservative who neglects to
perfect or defend his franchise, to be equally an apostate to
the cause with him who records his vote for a Radical can-
didate.

That our Conservative friends may not lose their franchise
through ignorance of the somewhat complicated provisions of
the Reform Act, we subjoin some plain instructions for their
guidance.

CITIES AND BOROUGHS.
FREEHOLDERS

Cannot be placed upon the Register unless they have been in
possession of a freehold, of the yearly value of 405., from the
30th of July, 1838, and unless they have resided within the
city, or within seven statute miles from the Guildhall, for six
months previous to the 30th of July, 1839. Freehold ground
rents confer the like qualification with freehold buildings or
land.

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MASTERS OF ARTS.

ECCLESIASTICAL AND UNIVERSITY INTELLI-

MISCELLANEOUS.

(From the Oxford Herald.)
At a meeting of the Graduates in Divinity, holden on
Saturday last, the Rev. Godfrey Faussett, D.D., and for-
merly Fellow of Magdalen College, was unanimously
re-elected Professor of Divinity on the foundation of the
Lady Margaret, Countess of Richmond, mother of King
Henry the Seventh.

Ina Convocation, holden the same day, the Rev. Henry
Richardson, M.A. of Trinity College, was admitted ad
eundcm.

At the same time the following Degrees were conferred :

Thos. A. Whitter, Brazenose College, grand compounder.
Rev. Samuel Frederick Dickson, Brasenose College.
Rev. Samuel Arnot Fyler, Trinity College.
Rev. Joseph Walker, Fellow of Wadham College.
BACHELOR OF ARTS.
George Augustus Frederick Fitz-Wygram, Ch. Ch.
_ BACHELOR IN MUSIC.

George French Flowers, Lincoln College. '
On Monday se'nnight, the Rev. John Roberts Oldham,
M.A., of Oriel College, was admitted ad eundem of the
University of Cambridge.
The Rev. Lockhart William Jeffray, M.A., of Balliol
College, has been appointed the Incumbent of St. Thomas's
New Church at Preston.

The Rev. W. Cowley, M. A., of Christ Church, has been
presented to the Vicarage of Rushall, Staffordshire, vacant
by the resignation of the Rev. T. Whalley ; patrons, the
sons and daughters of the late Rev. E. Mellish, Dean of
Hereford.

The Rev. William Henry Carwithen, M. A., of Worces-
ter LCollege, has resigned the Chaplaincy of the Union
Workhouse, St. Thomas's, Devonshire, in consequence of
his having been presented to the Rectory of Challacombe,
in that county, by Earl Fortescue.
The Rev. John Walter Moore, M.A, of Exeter College,
Curate of Alderley, Cheshire, has been presented to the
Rectory of Hordley, Salop, vacant by the death of Sir Edw.
Kynaston, Bart.; patron, T. Parr, Esq. of Lythwood Hall.

It is now said that parliament will not be prorogued till the
beginning of August.
The damage caused by the late storms in France is esti-
mated at 100,000,000 francs (£4,000,000).
On Saturday last the keeper of James Hopton' Esq.,
killed a very fine woodcock at Dulas.—HerefordCounty
Press.

A schoolmaster at Ashton, named Wood, was last week
sentenced to be imprisoned seven days, for giving false school
vouchers to factory children.
Lord Frederick and Lady Fitzclarence have been residing
at Buxton Wells for some time past for the benefit of his
lordship's health.
A large flock of sheep belonging to Mr. J. Stanley, of
Wesham, were attacked during the night by a dog, and 26 of
them worried to death.—Worcester Journal.

Count d'Orsay appeared in the park yesterday in the old
costume of hessians and tights. This surely is too unbecom-
ing to become the fashion, although many think otherwise.
—Post.

A LONG NOSE AND NO MISTAKE.—Within a few miles
of Wilsontown there lives a merry cobbler, whose nose is so
very long that when he takes snuff he is obliged to walk for-
ward three paces to reach its point.
The Bristol and Gloucester Railway .bill has passed the
third reading in the Lords, and awaits the royal assent. It
contains a clause empowering the directors immediately to
pay interest on the paid-up calls.

A VERY LITTLE DAD.—There is a certain gentleman,
within ten miles of Lanark, father of a large family, who is
so very short and dwarfish, that to enable him to look out of
his windows he actually requires to stand upon his own
shoulders.

The Hon. Mr. Justice Ball attended divine service in the
Roman Catholic chapel of this town on Sunday. This is the
first time since the Reformation that such a circumstance has
occurred in this part of the country.—Roscommon Journal.
The seaman of H.M. steamer Medea, who had his leg shot
off a short time since in the accidental encounter of that
vessel with a French corvette on the coast of Mexico, has
been awarded a pension of £55 per annum by the French
government.

The English agricultural society will hold its first annual
congress at Oxford, on the 17th inst. ; the sittings will occupy
congress three days. The Earl Spencer, the president, will
take the chair : the Duke of Richmond is the president elect
for the next year.

A shop in the Strand, nearly opposite Agar-street, has a
paper
athsoertwniznendr
of with the fsoilltawruinrgsesworiTyyeniQthzeoenac:h—.
Beeds warrented reel get 15s. 9d. Watches only £3. war-
ranted to go corecly.

The Tasmanian, of Feb. 22, mentions the total wreck of
the barque Children, on the night of the 15th of January, on
the coast of New Holland, abouegeventy miles to the east-
ward of Portland Bay, sixteen persona, including the master,
Captain Browne, having perished.
A GOOD SHOT AND GOOD GUN.--A well-known sporting
baronet of the upper ward, who is an excellent shot, last
autumn, with a single charge of his matchless gun, brought
down three brace of game • but what is still more wonderful,
the shadow alone of this deadly shot in one instant killed his
dog " Nimrod."
The parishioners of Heswell, in the county of Chester,
have presented the Rev. E. Bowman, with a handsome salver,
bearing the following inscription :—" Presented to the Rev.
Edward Bowman, from the parishioners of Heswall, as a
testimony of his private worth and faithful ministry in the
parish."-- Chester Chronicle.
Letters from Bagdad announce an overflow of the Tigris
which had laid the whole city nearly under water. It was
stated that already more than 1000 houses had been destroyed,
and that the whole population, without reference to age,
rank, or sex, were employed in attempting to check the
ravages of this inundation.
SALFORD CATTLE MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—The show of
stock was good to day, and the demand also was good ; nearly
everything was sold, and at the full rates of last week. Num-
ber of cattle at market :-722 beasts, at sd. to bid. per lb. ;
2171 sheep, at 6d. to 7d. ; 3430 lambs, at 61d. to 7d. ; 53
calves, at 6d. to 7d.

A shocking affair occurred at Trowbridge on Wednesday
night. A man of the name of Napper, a mason, went home,
and, not finding his wife there, went to seek her, and disco-
vered that she had been drinking with a tramp, whom he
overtook in Back-street, and with a pair of tongs struck him
a blow on the head, which produced instant death.—Wilts
Independent.
REPRESENTATION OF SOUTHWARK.—Mr. Harvey will
shortly retire from the representation of Southwark. His
election to the commissionership of police by the city authori-
ties is all but certain. A requisition has already received the
signatures of nearly 1000 electors, calling upon Mr. Walter,
late member for Berkshire, to come forward at the next elec-
tion, and pledging themselves to secure his return.
COMMUTATION OF TITHES.—IMPORTANT TO LAND
OWNERS AND FARMERS.—The tithe commissioners have de-
termined that any party refusing a surveyor to go over his
estate, or not giving the necessary information, such as the
quantity of cattle kept, &c., so as to render an adjournment
necessary to ascertain these particulars, will be saddled with
all the costs of the meeting.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Monday evening last, Wm.
Spencer, a man employed at Messrs. Blundell's new pit, fell
out of the basket whilst ascending. He was found dead at
the bottom of the pit, with his heels uppermost, his head
being immersed in the water, and both arms dreadfully frac-
tured.—Wigan Gazette.

HONESTY REWARDED.--GREAT LIBERALITY. --On
Thursday morning last a boy, in the office of Mr. John Whit-
worth, solicitor, Manchester, in passing through St. Ann's-
square, picked up two £2O notes on the footpath. The lad
had not proceeded 100 yards ere he met a gentleman who it
appeared had lost them ; and on their being restored to him,
he presented the lad with a shilling, but never thanked him I
An accident.that had been nearly attended with a serious
loss of life occurred at a pit, belonging to R. B. H. B. Blun-
dell, Esq., of Pemberton, called the " Adventure Pit," on
last Monday afternoon. An explosion of fire-damp took
place, and although a great number of men were employed,
only two received any injury, and that so slight that they will
be enabled to resume their work in a few days.—Wigan
Gazette.

ADVANTAGE OF A CHARTER.—The Manchester commis-
sioners of police, on Wednesday, laid the usual rate, under
their act of parliament, the expenses of watching, &c., being
included in the estimates. The mayor and corporation claim
the right of attending to this department, and laying a rate
under their charter, which the commissioners contend to
be illegal. The inhabitants will have, therefore, the felicity
of being called upon for two rates for the same purpose, in-
stead of one, as heretofore, and no little money will be ex-
pended on their behalf in contesting the legality of the charter.
It is rather singular that so many of our dukes' fair ones,
and those who must succeed to the rank of duchess, should
previously have enjoyed no rank whatever, rather only the
appellation of Miss. The present and future Duchess of
Somerset, Miss Stewart and Miss Sheridan ; the Duchess of
Montrose, Miss Beresford ; the Duchess of Roxburghe, Miss
Dalbiac ; the Duchess of St. Albans, Miss Gubbins ; the fu-
ture Duchess of Norfolk, Miss Lyons ; the Duchess of Beau-
fort, Miss Smith ; the Duchess of Hamilton, Miss Beckford ;
the Duchess of Cleveland, Miss Russell.
EMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES.—An extraordi-
nary and favourable opportunity is at this moment presented
to those who in early life have had their brighter prospects
frustrated by unfortunate events, and over which human fore-
sight could not have interposed to prevent the dispensation,
to overcome all difficulties, and see the setting sun reflect on
and encourage their later struggle for good fortune. Mr. Geo.
Robins announces the sale of 50,000 acres of land in Virginia,
on the 23d inst, in lots that will enable a man possessed of
even two hundred pounds to embark in a purchase free from
risk, and just enough to secure him a comfortable indepen-
dence. The lands are in the commonwealth of Virginia, one
of the fairest agricultural portions of the globe, and in a cli-
mate most invigorating and salubrious. Railways and canals
pass directly through the estate, and, last not least, it may be
observed, there is almost a total absence of taxes. We
ask where can be found a parallel case to induce the indus-
trious with moderate means to emigrate ?—Sun.
THE SHANNON Jos.—This commission has cost the
country £9OOO. The Sun says :—" We are well-wishers to
the improvement of Ireland, but we dislike jobs of all kinds,
and we, therefore, as impartial journalists, feel it our duty to
call attention to Mr. Rice's effrontery in palming this Li-
merick affair on the country, to the injury of the administra-
tion of which he, unfortunately for the liberal cause, has too
long formed a part. The affair appears to us the more glar-
ing, when we consider that it is not many days since Mr.
Rice had the assurance to persist in his opposition to a se-
cond resolution of the House of Commons in favour of the
shipping class of Danish claimants, who had a just debt
against the treasury, into whose coffers the money for their
indemnification had been thirty-two years ago. The minute
on the subject of these claims has, we understand, just passed
the treasury, and will, no doubt, judging from the private in-
structions which Mr. Rice acknowledged having given to the
commissioners on a former occasion, turn out another at-
tempt to shuffle the claimants out of their just rights. If the
House of Commons will tamely submit to the passing of such
jobs, on the one hand, and such contempt for the privileges
of parliament on the other, it is high time that a reform should
take place, and the people have representatives who would
see justice more impartially and effectually administered."
DEPARTURE OF THE BRITISH QUEEN STEAMER.—On
Wednesday morning, at 10 minutes before 12 o'clock, this
vessel left Blackwall amidst great cheering from the multi-
tude of persons who had assembled. The directors of the
spirited company to which she belongs were on board, in
order to witness her capabilities, and to make all necessary
arrangements for the comfort and convenience of the pas-
sengers. At five minutes past one she was abreast of Erith,
and at Gravesend precisely at two o'clock. She reached the
" Lower Hope" at about half-past two, and anchored. Dur-
ing her progress down the river she was saluted continually
by cannon, and when off Woolwich a regular fire was kept
from various vessels, as well as from the shore. Although
the distance from Blackwall to the place of anchorage was
accomplished in a very short space of time, yet it cannot be
regarded as a fair criterion of her speed—on account of •the
various difficulties which attend a river trip. We were much
pleased with the readiness and ease of her steering, which
equalled anything we have ever seen, and her whole perform-
ance, since put afloat, has proved most satisfactory. She
was about to raise her anchor for Portsmouth when we left,
and is expected thence to New York this evening. The re-
turn from New York will excite much interest, as the British
Queen will leave on the Ist of August, being the same day
as the great Western.—Standard.

RIOT AT RAMSGATE.—This usually quiet and fashionable
watering place, has for several days been a scene of excite-
ment and turbulence, in consequence of an attempt on the
part of the commissioners under the local improvement act to
enforce a clause prohibiting the hawking of fish in the streets.
Several offenders were fined, and in fault of payment com-
mitted for a short period; but the fishermen assembled and
rescued them from the constables, and demolished the win-
dows and window frames of the houses of the commissioners,
who have since succumbed to mob law, and directed their
officers to lay no more informations.

HONESTY OF THE LIBERALS.—The London Standard
remarks, in reference to the penny postage question,—
" Though the change is desirable on every account, it can-
not be safely or honestly made, without at the same time
providing for the deficiency which it will cause in the revenue.
The Morning Chronicle truly says that by omitting to make
this provision, while he at the same time acknowledged the
necessity for it, Mr. Rice has done his utmost to insure the
defeat of the measure ; and yet we find that at Ipswich Sir
Robert Peel is represented as hostile to the penny postage,
because he has merely repeated in parliament the complaint
of the most zealous and constant supporter of the measure
among all the public journals."
THE MELBOURNE ADMINISTRATION.—In treating of the
policy of the Melbourne Ministry, it is essential to bear in
mind that they hold office without the consent of the country.
They have of their own free will confessed that they do not
possess the confidence of the people, which, to speak out,
means nothing more nor less than that they defy the popular
will. How then can they hope to govern the country
efficiently? How can they expect acceptance for their mea-
sures when it is so palpable, that there is more than apatriot's
aim in their forcible retention of office ? This circumstance
deprives their political conduct of its salt, and leaves it rank,
putrid, and festering. It justifies the most strenuous op-
position to all their proceedings, and entitles them to the
execration of all honest men.—West of Bngland Con-
aervative,

HALIFAX CONSERVATIVES.—The conservatives at Halifax
are making arrangements to have a public dinner shortly in
that town.

One of the ministerial organs asserts that Sir John Con-
roy has a pension of £3OO a year from her Majesty's private
bounty, in addition to hia, baronetcy. The pension, it is
said, was granted on the day of her Majesty's accession to
the throne,

From a parliamentary paper it appears that the railway
companies iu existence under act of parliament up to the
6th of April, 1839, are authorised to have a capital in joint
stock of £11,610,814, and to raise by loan £16,177,630.
EXPEDITION.—On Tuesday morning, a horse express
worked by Mr. Whitworth, performed the distance between
Manchester and Leeds, by Huddersfield, in two hours and
40 minutes, being a distance of nearly forty miles.—Leeds
Intelligencer.

THE Rai GELEY MURDER.—WC are happy to hear that
Messrs. Pickford, the carriers, have liberally promised to
give £3O towards the expense of prosecuting the men ac-
cused of the murder of Christina Collins, at the next
assizes.—Staffordshire Gazette.
Within the last eighteen months, the agriculturists near
Arundel, have been using nitre as a dressing to their land,
and which is found to suit the soil well. It is sown in the
proportion of a cwt. to the acre, and is bought at from £2O
to £3O per ton. •

The patrons of the vicarage of Bradford, in Yorkshire,
have presented to that important living the Rev. Dr.
Scoresby, of Exeter, a gentleman not less distinguished for
his scientific attainments than for his personal piety and ac-
five discharge of ministerial duties.—Birmingham Herald.
NATIONAL GALLERY.—The Chancellor of the Exchequer
has purchased for the National Gallery a painting of Velas-
quez. It was exhibited last year at the British Institution,
and represents the arena of a bull-fight. It was bought from
Lord Cowley ; and £4,000 is, we understand, the sum that
has been paid for it.
CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—In the garden of J. Vero,
Esq., at Craig Owen, near the Menai Bridge, a pair of snipes
have formed their nest in a strawberry bed, about four feet
from the walk, and about twelve yards from the front door.
The nest contains four eggs.—Carnarvon Herald.
Prince George of Cambridge arrived at Constantinople on
the 18th ult., in one of the Austrian Lloyd's steamers. As
the Prince preserved his incognito, he was not to be formally
presented to the Sultan. His Royal Highness was treated
with the greatest distinction, and has received a firman from
the Sultan authorising him to visit the mosques.—Galignani.
MILITARY MOVEMENTS.—Last week several companies
of the 77th regiment arrived at Carlisle, and still remain
billeted here awaiting further orders. This (Friday) morn-
ing a company of the 95th regiment marched from the Castle
foa Wigton and Cockermouth, from which it is inferred that
some disturbance is anticipated in those places.—Carlisle
Patriot.

DIABOLICAL OUTRAGE.—We are grieved to record one
of the most diabolical attempts at assassination in this neigh-
bourhood which has perhaps ever occurred in a civilised com-
munity. On Tuesday, at midnight, two bullets were fired
through the window of a collier, residing at Hope Green,
near Poynton, passing through the door of another bedroom,
for the evident purpose of destroying the life of some one.
The room through which the bullet passed was occupied by
the man's mother, and the room into which the bullets after-
wards entered he was sleeping in, the wall of which was
struck with such force as to flatten them completely. This
outrage, we much fear, has its existence in the present turn-
out of the Poynton colliers, as the man's house which was
fired into is, occupied by one of the few at present at work.
The turn-out, which has now lasted ten weeks, appears as
likely to be compromised as on the first day.—Stockport
Advertise.

INTENDED DUEL.—We learn from a correspondent that
a fearful recontre, not with mutton fists, after the old Eng-
lish fashion, or with shilelahs, but with pistol and ball, was
to have " come off". at Windsford last week. The antago-
nists who were to have entered the battle field are named
Albert and Reade, and the seconds appointed were Mr Cross
and Mr. Ray. The hour of mortal combat was appointed—
it arrived, but the antagonists did not meet. One of them
not relishing the idea of a bullet entering his thorax, and the
other being disgusted with the thought of one being extracted
from his small gut." Reflection, happily, had its proper
effect upon these would-be heroes during the hours of separa-
tion ; their imaginations mustered up pistols, balls, the fatal
shot—the surgeon, the operating knife—death—the devil,
&c. Under reflections of this kind, the combatants, like
Bob Acres, found their courage " oozing out at their finger
ends," and at the appointed hour the seconds were unable
to find either of the pot-valiant heroes.—Chester Gazette.

LISTON, THE COMEDIAN.—The king of English comedy
has abdicated his throne. In the following letter sent by
him to Mr. Webster of the Hay-market, he writes—" As I
shall have no further occasion for them, you will be pleased
to accept from an old brother any six wigs you may think
proper to select from my stock, in the possession of Mr.
Wilson, 277, Strand.
On Saturday week the Duke of Buckingham gave a grand
party at Blackwall • he hired a steamer and took his guests
with him to eat whitebait. Among the number were Lord
Shaftsbury, Lord Ingestre, Mr. Baring, Sir T. Troubridge,
Lord Lyndhurst, and Lord Brougham ! The last was the
life of the party, and scarcely ceased abusing ministers the
whole time.

HULL MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.—During the present week,
there have been two elections to supply vacancies in the Town
Council occasioned by death. In each, the place of a Whig
has been supplied by a Conservative. Thos. Ward, Esq. was
elected for Lowgate Ward on Tuesday, by a majority of
nearly 30 over Mr. Thos. Meggit ; and on Wednesday, Mr.
John Wilkinson defeated Thos. Newmarch, Esq. the first
sheriff of the borough under the new system.—Leeds
Intel-
ligencer.

Miss Clara Novello has just returned to town from visiting
Berlin, St. Petersburgh, &c., after having completed some
very lucrative engagements. At St. Petersburgh, this talented
young lady's reception was most flattering, and she had the
honour to perform several times before the Empress at the
Imperial Palace. Miss Novello is engaged for the forthcom-
ing musical festival at Worcester.

CHESTER AND CREW RAILWAY.—On Thursday last, John
Uniacke, Esq., and Chairman of the C.C.R.C., George Ste-
phenson, Esq. consulting engineer, Murray Gladstone, Esq.
resident engineer, and a large party proceeded along the line,
and inspected the works in progress. Every thing is proceed-
ing satisfactorily. There exists no doubt but the line will be
open and in operation early in the spring.
MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY.—Thus far the traffic on
this railway has far exceeded the most sanguine expectations
of its promoters. From its opening, on the 4th of June, to
the 6th instant, the average number of passengers has gra-
dually increased from 360 to 900 daily. This week, being the
feast at Beeston, the number has been very great ; on one
day upwards of 3600 were carried, and one train conveyed
upwards of 600. The number calculated to travel upon this
portion of the railway, before the parliamentary committee,
was 240 per day.—Manchester Guardian.
THE BOLTON CHARTISTS.—During this week, the char-
tists of Bolton have held meetings nightly for the purpose of
expressing their grievances. The spot selected has been an
open space of ground on Bolton. Moor; and, notwithstand-
ing the rain, which fell in torrents upon them, their ardour
did not appear to be the least damped. They boast that they
have gained a considerable accession to the number of their
members ; and several blacksmiths in the town are said to
have been engaged during the week in making pikes for
them.—Manchester Guardian.

SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—Some time since, a spaniel
bitch, the property a party at Bangor, Flintshire, had a litter
of pups drowned. Yearning after her offspring, she scoured
the fields in quest of them ; but disappointed in her object she
found a nest of young leverets, which she brought to her
kennel, and suckled them for nearly five weeks, when they
died. She then displayed the most remarkable affection.
This instance is one of the most curious on record, and may
be relied on as true.—Carnarvon Herald.

Colonel Pasley, of the royal engineers, whose abilities are
so well known, has received orders to remove the wreck of
the Royal George, by the same means so effectually employed
in the Thames, in clearing that river. It is little creditable
to former governments, that this impediment, in the principal
anchorage of the empire, should have been allowed so long
to exist ; and their apathy is more surprising from the ex-
ample shown by the French, who have long since got up all
the wrecks left at Toulon, by Lord Hood and Sir Sydney
Smith, at the evacuation of that port in 1793 ; and we hope
that this will be applied to other similar inconveniences.—
Hampshire Telegraph.
THE Hor-BINE.—A correspondent remarks that the in-
creased demand for bark, and consequent advance in price,
will probably direct attention to the feasibility of employing
the hop-bine in the process of tanning. The tanning pro-
perties of the bine are very strong, and its adaption to the
purpose mentioned has been tested. It is therefore much to
be wished' that some one in this neighbourhood would make a
further trial upon a small scale by the way of further proof.
Should it be found to answer, one beneficial consequence
would be, an extension of the culture of the hop-plant.—
Worcester Journal.

A SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—A goose belonging to Mr.
Stephen Wardell, Kilham, after having enjoyed the company
of another goose during a considerable portion of her incu-
bation, deserted her eggs, in consequence of the other hav-
ing preceded her in 'ushering into the world her young and
tender family. Mrs. Wardell, not being disposed to lose the
goslings expected from the forsaken eggs, took them, and,
after having folded them up in blankets, and kept them
moderately warm for three days, three issued from them the
six goslings ; and they are now affectionately nursed by a
springer dog and a cat, who have voluntary taken upon them-
selves the office of matron, which they discharge in a most
efficient manner.—Hull Times.

BEES.—A hive of bees, the property of William Stoddart,
of Skinburness, has cast no less than five times in the course
of twelve days. The first cast took place on the 17th of June,
and the whole of the swarms, which have been safely hived,
are strong and healthy.—On Friday last, one of the bedroom
windows, at Mr. Wm. Little's, of Lowfield, near Wigton,
being open, a very fine swarm of bees entered and took pos-
session of an empty basket, lying in the room, in which some
old honeyoomb had been left. The bees were afterwards
claimed by a person in the neighbourhood, to whom they
were restored. In the course of the afternoon they had
made a considerable quantity of honey in their new abode.—
Carlisle Patriot.

WHIG COMMISSIONERSHIPS.—In glancing over the
finance accounts everything would appear to be managed by
commissioners. There are commissioners to administer the
poor laws ; commissioners for digesting the several statutes
relating to criminal and other law ; commissioners for inqui-
ring into public charities ; ecclesiastical commissioners ; and
commissioners for preventing the slave trade. There are,
moreover, inspectors of factories—inspectors of prisons--
and revising barristers ; all of whom may be regarded as a
kind of commissioners. There are, besides, Irish railway
commissioners, and commissioners for inquiring into the
state of the unemployed handloom weavers.—Herald.

THE " SHABBIES."—How strikingly does the experience
of every day establish the unfitness of the present race of
ministers to direct the affairs of this country. To say that
they rule the empire, would be a bitter mockery. Whenever
firmness, prudence, knowledge are required, they leave the
empire to shift for itself. They are never active excepting in
the work of jobbing. They are never successful excepting
in some wretched intrigue. But for the gallantry and skill
of Sir John Colborne, and of his brave companions in arms—
but for the heroic sacrifices made by the British Cana-
dians—our North American provinces would ere now have
formed part of the United States. The perils which they
have so narrowly escaped, produce, however, no salutary
effects on our wretched ministers. A new rebellion in
Canada—a new and more formadahle invasion by marauders
from the United States—would find the whig occupants of
Downing-street as helplessly unprepared to vindicate the
honour and interests of England, as they were a year and a
half ago !—Herald.

GLASGOW, PAISLEY, AND GREENOCK RAILWAY.—The
Greenock Advertiser, refering to the recently published re-
ports of the Directors and Engineer of this railway, remarks—
' They are of the most gratifying description, and leave no
room for doubting that the line will be in active operation in
about twelve months—being only two years from the time
the works were commenced. The total recepts from the sale
of shares up to this date amounted to £162,055, 175., and
the expenditure to £162,614 15. sd. ; and it is thought that
when another call of £2 per share, due in August, shall have
been paid, the rest of the money necessary to finish the line
may be borrowed. Should that be the case, the major part
of the proprietors will get off with paying £l3 per share.
We congratulate our readers on the promising aspect of this
most important undertaking,"

ONE OF JOHATHAN'S LATEST AND NOT WORST.—An in-
habitant of the vicinity of the Hudson, by way of proving
how severe the last winter had been, said, "Why I had a cow
on my lot upon the river, and last winter she got in amongst
the ice, and was carried down the miles before we could get
her out again. The consequence has been that she has milked
nothing but ice-creams ever since."

ARBROATH AND FORFAR RAILWAY.—One of the after-
noon trains yesterday brought from Forfar, with a single
engine, no less than forty-three waggons, loaded with timber
and pavement, and two carriages, containing forty passengers.
The gross weight of the • goods' train amounted to two hun-
dred and thirty-two tons. This is an achievement to which
no parallel can be found in the annals of railways.—Arbroath
Herald.

The weather, during the past week, has been very unsettled,
heavy showers of rain, with occasional thunder and lightning,
having repeatedly alternated with warm sunny'weather. The
hay harvest in this neighbourhood has commenced, but owing
to the weather it is far from general, most of the farmers pre-
ferring to take the benefit of the present rapid growth, and
the chance of fine weather hereafter, to the risk of a hurried
and probably prejudicial harvest at present.—Leeds Intelli-
gencer.

A simple minded old dame, residing near the Water of
Leith village, was attentively listening, the other evening, to
her grandson reading a statistical account of the proportion
of females to males in various countries of the world. She
easily comprehended how that, in Britain, the women ex-
ceeded the men by six in a hundred, and Spain by one in a
thousand ; but when it was stated that in Sweden the females
exceed the males by seven and a half in every hundred, she
exclaimed, " Goodness hae a care o' me ! hae they half
women in Sweden ?"

THE NEW POOR LAW.—On the monstrous iniquity and
folly of the new poor law, we have often enlarged :—the in-
creasing expenses of the system bid fair to bring it into dis-
repute, in quarters where its cruelty might pass unquestioned.
We are sure that the cost of the new poor law will be found,
if fairly stated, to exceed the cost of the old system. The
commissioners, at all events, would seem to spare no pains
to produce such a result. The expense which these interest-
ing functionaries entail on the country is increasing at a rate
absolutely astounding. In 1837 their " expenses" amounted
to £12,582 9s. 2d., whilst in 1838 their " expenses" are set
doivn at £41,250 !—Herald.

HYDROPHOBIA.—A dreadful case of Hydrophobia has oc-
curred in Haverfordwest. A servant of the name of Thomas
Jenkins, residing with Mr. Thomas Harris, of Market-street,
was bit about six weeks ago, by a little dog, then in a rabid
state. The symptoms developed themselves in the poor man
on Saturday last. He grew worse, and although blessed* with
the exercise of his mental faculties, and possessing a perfect
consciousness of his approaching end, to which he was per-
fectly resigned, he continued to linger in great agony until
Sunday afternoon, when he died. The above case having-oc-
curred, the Magistrates of Haverfordwest have, under the
provision. of tho Local Act, cautioned owners of dogs to keep
them confined, and have ordered the constables to destroy
them if found at large after 12 hours from giving public notice
to confine them.—Carmarthen Journal.
THE JOURNEYMEN SHOEMAKERS OF STAFFORD AND
THEIR MASTERS.—There has arisen, this week, a strong
disagreement between the journeymen shoemakers of this
town, and their employers. To so great an extent was it
carried, that many of the operatives refused to work unless
they were allowed an increase of wages. The masters re-
fusing to comply, several left the town, and those remaining
refuse to work at the old rate of remuneration, having a fund
of £lOO to fall back upon. Apprehensions being entertained
of a disturbance, on Wednesday and Thursday a large body
of the respectable inhabitants were sworn in as special con-
stables, but beyond large masses of men assembling in the
streets, nothing particular ensued. We trust that on both
sides some concessions will be made, and that the matter may
be amicably settled.—Staffordshire Gazette.

ARUNDEL.—EXTRAORDINARY SHOWER OF ICE.—The
western coast of Sussex was visited on Sunday evening with
thunder and lightning, remarkable for its awful grandeur, but
happily unattended with any , accident from its immediate
agency. At about half-past nine, however, it was accom-
panied by a shower of hail, or rather ice, of short duration,
which did considerable damage. At the castle conservatories,
&c. nearly 5,000 panes of glass were broken, and the glass of
every skylight, green-house, &c. of the town and neighbour-
hood was demolished. The pieces of ice, which were of the
most irregular shape, measured from four inches to five
inches over, and in general incased a hailstone of large size,
which, unlike the ice, were of course not transparent. The
fruit treets and, all kinds of vegetation have suffered. Fortu-
nately there was no wind, or the destruction to windows and
other property must have been immense.—Brighton Gazette.
NEW ROAD OVER STANDEDGE.—The new line of road
over the hills between Yorkshire and Lancashire, from Mars-
den to the top of Standedge (on the road from Huddersfield
to Manchester,) is now on the point of completion ; and, we
understand, it is expected to be opened in about a fortnight.
This new road has been about five years in course of execu-
tion. Its length is three miles and a quarter, being half a
mile longer than the present road ; but, instead of the steep
hill from Manchester to the toll-bar, which is dangerous in
the descent and painful in the ascent, there will he a uniform
and easy inclination all the way from the top of the hill to
the bottom, so that coach-horses may trot all the distance in
the ascent, and we believe it will not be necessary to lock the
wheel in descending. By a deep cutting at the summit, also,
a fonsiderable saving will be effected. Coaches will traverse
the new road as soon as it is opened. The formation of the
road has been much more laborious and expensive than was
anticipated, and has occupied three or four times as long as
was contracted for.—Manchester Guardian.
ASCENT AND DESCENT OF THE NASSAU BALLOON.—Mr.
Green, in reference to the last aerial voyage, says, that the
balloon quitted the earth at nearly half-past six o'clock with
the wind blowing strongly from the south-west. The object
of the gentlemen who were his companions on the occasion
being more particularly to obtain a view of the metropolis
and the country over which they might pass, he regulated
his elevation as to afford them an opportunity of gratifying
their wishes. On going over London, therefore, they were
at such a height as enabled them distinctly to discover any
point they might desire. After crossing the Thames, they
commenced their passage over the city, between the Mid-
dlesex end of the Southwark-bridge and the bottom of Queen-
street, Cheapside. At this period the balloon was not more
than 1200 feet from the earth. They continued their onward
course, passing about a mile to the eastward of Fairlop fair,
every booth of which they were able to see. In this direction
they went on until they arrived over Chigwell-row, when an
alteration took place in the wind, by which the balloon was
propelled, the current carrying it somewhat more to the east-
ward. On going past Chelmsford the balloon was to the
north-west of that town. Their course after this varied two
or three times from north-east to north-east by east. Shortly
after Chelmsford had been cleared; Mr. Green allowed the
balloon to ascend until they attained an elevation of 6190 feet,
or one mile and 110 feet from terra firma. At this period
one of the passengers sang a song, remarking that he had
never sang so high before. After a most delightful trip, the
balloon, at ten minutes past eight o'clock, was brought to an
anchor in a frllaw field, the property of a Mrs. Sherrard, in
the parish of Toypesfield, 14 miles below Braintree, in Essex,
a distance of 54 miles from the metropolis. The party were
handsomely regaled and offered every assistance by Mr. J.
Clay, of Hoses-farm, Toppesfield. Mr. Green's companions,
we have understood, expressed themselves in terms of the
warmest approbation, not merely at the able manner in which
he had managed the balloon, but at the great gratification
they had derived from their voyage. The barometer, which
at the starting was at 29.70, at the highest elevation stood at
23.50.—Standard.

AWFUL FIRE IN COLLUMPTON-132 HOUSES BURNT.—
The town of Collumpton was visited on Monday last by a
frightful occurrence. At nearly one o'clock in the morning
flames were observed issuing from the roof of a thatched tene-
ment on the western side of the principal street in the lower
part of the town, which communicated with desolating acti-
vity to the contiguous habitations, most of which being also
thatched, were, owing to the influence of a brisk westerly
wind, consumed with fearful rapidity. The fire then ex-
tended across the principal street, where it occasioned the
destruction of a great number of shops and dwellings—the
inmates of which were glad to escape without being able to
save, in many instances, even the least portion of their goods
or property. The flames then reverted to the opposite side
of the street, and soon reduced to ashes a long line of cottages
and houses, many of the latter being occupied by respectable
individuals. Great exertion was used to stem the progress
of the devouring element ; the parish engine was, as usually
is found to be the case in provincial stations, quite inadequate
for useful service ; but one from the neighbouring village of
Bradnineh, aided,by the arrival of the engines from Tiverton
assisted in combating the destructive course of the flames.
The scene of distress attendant on this occasion baffles des-
cription, but may in some degree be imagined, when we state
that one hundred and thirty two houses and cottages, many
of them occupied by respectable tradesmen, have been re-
duced to ashes ! The authorities of the town exerted them-
selves with laudable solicitude in rescuing the property, and
providing for the unfortunate sufferers. The bank is unin-
jured, although the contiguous flames spread fearfully around
it. The whole of New-street is destroyed, and a melancholy
chasm now presents itself where a few days ago were to be
found the comfortable abodes of a multitude of individuals,
many of whom have by this calamity been made to recognise
no canopy beneath which to find a shelter but that of heaven,
and no resource but in the hearts of the charitable. One life
only has been lost on this sad occasion, and that by the sud-
den prostration of a wall. A large portion of the property
destroyed is not insured.—Taunton Courier.
THE POST HORSE DUTY.—The opening of so many rail-
ways leading into the metropolis has drawn a good deal of
public attention to the claim put forward by the postmasters
and innkeepers for some relief from their present grievous
burdens. Their case is one that really appears only to re-
quire being plainly stated to convince everybody that they
have a most equitable right to the relief they seek for. It
will be short-sighted for the government to say, " the tax
produces so and so, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer
can't spare it," because whether he can spare it or not he is
not likely to get it much longer ; and while there is a chance
that, by reducing the tax one-half, something may be got, it
is almost certain that keeping it at its present rate will be a
total extinguisher. One party directly interested, we imagined,
in this matter, was the public, and that fully as much so as
the coach proprietors—but it seems we were in error. A de-
putation of the -trade who waited on Mr. Spring Rice the
other day, was coolly told by him " that it was impossible to
legislate for any particular interest." We suspect this is
only the case where the legislation touches the exchequer,
and that the statute book could prove most effectually that
there is no such impossibility.— Worcester Herald.
THE BOTTLING OF VOTERS.—It may be in the recollection
of our readers that several respectable individuals were put
to the expense of defending themselves at the Preston Quar-
ter Sessions in April, on an alleged charge of conveying away
one of Mr. Ewart's voters—a man named Blomerly—and
that the jury, after a full investgation of the matter, declared
by their verdict that there was no foundation for the charge.
Amongst the number included in the indictment, was an in-
dividual named James Halliwell, a plasterer, who could not
be tried at the April sessions. Yesterday -week, however,
Halliwell again appeared to answer any charge Mr. Bromerly,
the modern Don Quixote, might prefer against him, but on
his name being called, no prosecutor appeared. Whether
the Don's Rosinante had played some trick with him, or
whether some untoward event had happened, we have no
means of ascertaining. Certain it is Mr. Blomerly did not
appear, and Halliwell was declared not guilty. What must
our readers think of Mr. Ewart, who made this case a ground
of complaint in his celebrated bottling petition, but whose
friends had not the hardihood to come forward and substan-
tiate the charge before a jury of twelve honest Englishmen.
Of course, it would have been mighty convenient for Mr.
Ewart to have heard the case before a select committee of
the House of Commons, where the witnesses are not on oath,
but to substantiate the charge in a court of justice on oath is
quite a different affair.—Wigan Gazette.
EXTRAORDINARY STATEMENT.—AS a commercial tra-
veller was passing from Wragby to Lincoln on Tuesday last,
when about a mile west of the former place he came up with
a party who were bearing to Wragby a female apparently in
the last stage of exhaustion : on enquiry, he was told that she
had been found in a hole in a haystack. The poor creature
was scarcely able to articulate answers to his interrogatories,.
but at length explained that some trifling misbehaviour had
induced her to run away from her situation three weeks ago ;
that she had hid herself in the stack, where she had remained
ever since, coming out only at nights to satiate her extreme
hunger, and that she had fed on the grass of an adjacent field :
eventually her strength failed her, and for several days she
had been unable to move from her hiding place. She was
scented out by a dog, whose owner being attracted to the spot
by the animal's barking and whining, discovered the girl in
her deplorable state. She is 18 years of age, and states as a
reason for her singular conduct that she feared Wog segt to
the Union.—Lincoros paper,