The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-08-10 00:00:00

seven days

THE STEAM-SHIP LA PLATA. once the Arabia, but
sold to the Royal West India Mail Company, arrived in
the Mervy shortly after noon on Wednesday, after a ra-
pid run from the Clyde. Shortly after her arrival she
was taken into the Huskisson lock, to undergo an exami-
nation by the government officials. The Plata performed
a trial trip in the Clyde on Tuesday. Her engines ac-
complished 16, and sometimes even 17 revolutions per mi-
nute, with a full supply of steam blowing off. The dis-
tance between the Cloch and Cumbrae lights was per-
formed in 1 hour 4i minutes going down, and 58 minutes
coming up, with little or no assistance from the tide. The
engines of the Plata are 103 inches diameter, and 9 feet
stroke, and are fitted by Mr. Robert Napier, of Glasgow.
The boilers are likewise different to former ones, tubes
having been substituted for flues. They are placed both
before and abaft the engines, which renders it necessary
for her to have two funnels; and, instead of being fired
from the ends, as is usually the case. they are fired from
the inside. The furnaces arc, consequently, placed face
to face. She is brig-rigged, and is altogether a beautiful
specimen of naval architecture. The Plata came out of
dock at an early hour on Friday morning, and proceeded
to Southampton shortly after 2 a.m. She was telegraphed
off Holyhead at 8 a.m.

AUSTRALIAN EMIGRATION : QUALITY OF LIVERPOO

SAVAGE ASSAULT.—John Henry Higgins, a powerful-
looking man of colour, who stated he was a sailor on
board the mail steamer " Atlantic," from New York, was
charged at the Police-court, on Friday, by Benjamin Ro-
gers, a carman, with having violently assaulted him on
Wednesday night. The complainant's face exhibited
marks of violence, being greatly disfigured. It appeared
that Rogers drove 1,1.-1 and-three others in his cab, an'"

that, having been paid the regular amount, asked prisoner
to allow him a little extra for having waited a long time
"rted a tumbler and

ipon the parties, when prisoner MIL_
^nrnolainant in the face with it, knocking him in-
',trates characterised it as a most sa-
'ssault, and sentenced Higgins to

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rman cautioned the relieving-officers

at the

with reference

to investigate the charges against Mr. Whittle and Mr.
Latham made their reports. On the motion of Mr. Kir-
kus, the salary of Mr. Fitzpatrick, medical officer of West
Derby, was increased to £l3O per annum. The clerk
- letter from William Ackerley, clerk of the Wigan
~ complaining that Elizabeth Yates, an out-door
pauper of Great Crosby, but now residing in Ashton, and
who had been allowed 33. a-week by the West Derby
board three years ago, had been at various times paid
short by Mr. Shearson, one of the relieving officers, and
that a sum of money was then due to her. Mr. Shearson
acknowledged an irregularity, but said he had no intui-
tion to defraud. A committee was appointed to investi-
gate the matter.

Union

COPY or
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DR. URE'S OPINION ON THE POWER OF
VERT NG THE ADNIIXTUP E OF CHICORY WITH

COFFEE.—No problem in science is simpler or more cer-
tain than the detection of chicory, or of similar substances,
in coffee powder. Ground roasted coffee imprrts to cold
whereas, when it is

wafer mere

ya pale s'

ry colour,

adulterated with ground roasted chicory, it communicates
a brown colour, of greater or less intensity, to cold water.
If three glass tubes, set upright, be charged respectively
with a few grains' weight of—l, pure coffee; 2, of pure
coffee mixed with a little chicory; 3, of coffee mixed with
much chicory,—and if into each of these tubes a like
quantity of cold water be poured, and if, after agitation,
the tubes be set upright at rest, the solid particles will
soon fall to the bottom, and the transparent liquid in the
stems of the tubes will show, by the variable depths of

inctures, tine presence and proportion of coffee and

chicory in each of them.

GENERAL NEWS

A PERSON NAMED SEYMOUR. in Spalding, has a
daughter two months old, weighing only three pounds.
MAJOR YEOMAN. of Richmond, Yorkshire, committed
suicide on Wednesday last, after supper, by taking hydro-
cyanic acid, during the temporary absence of his wife.

A YOUTH OF SIXTEEN has been committed to the
Lincoln assizes, on a charge of manslaughter, for causing
the death of a child, six years of age, by allowing it to

drink of beer

AlEssßs. Ro

SCHILD have concluded with the Brazi-
ian Minister in London a loan for £1,000,000 sterling,
o pay off the Portuguese Five per Cent. Bonds guaran-
teed by Brazil in 1823.

AT THE PEEL BAY REGATTA on Monday, the Cormo-
rant, of Ramsey, was swamped by a squall, and two of
her crew drowned. A third was rescued by one of the
other boats by means of a life-buoy. _

MR. BENJAMIN CHANDLER, JUN., citizen and iron-
monger, was, on 'Tuesday, elected in Common-hall as
Sheriff for the City of London and Middlesex, to serve
with Alderman Carter in the room of John Hulbert, who
had declined the office.

MR. SNOWDEN, the proprietor of the dining-rooms in
Maiden-lane, London, committed suicide on Wednesday
morning by drowning himself in the cistern, which con-
tained about three feet of water, and into which he had
thrust himself head foremost.

RABID RONIANISM.—The Bedford Times states that
" some rabid Catholic has sent Mr. Chisholm Anstey
thirty pieces of silver (threepenny bits) as the Judas Is-
cariot of Catholicism, for having been the prime mover,
as he says, of the accursed committee of morttnain."
MR. GRIFFIN, PD English engineer, at present pracs-
sionally engaged on the West Coast of Scotland, has
entered an action for defamation against the parochial
minister of Stranraer, for publicly reproving him in church
for flighty behaviour. The damages are laid at £5OO.

A TERRIFIC BOILER EXPLOSION took place on the
premises of Mr. Mark John Tomkine, the proprietor of
the Green-bank sawmills, Old Gravel-lane, London, on
Monday, which resulted in the sacrifice of one life, and
serious injury to several other persons residing in the
vicinity.
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TT.ANSPORTATION OF A BANKRUPT.—At the last Dur-
ham assizes, a man named John Stark, of West Rainton,
who had been adjudicated a bankrupt, was charged and
convicted of concealing his property ; and the learned
judge, Lord Campbell, sentenced him to be transported
for ten years.

ACCELERATION OF MAILS.—The Post-office authori-
ties contemplate introducing night-work into the General
Post Office, for the purpose of accelerating the dispatch of
the morning mails and deliveries. The scheme contem-
plated is a staff of clerks working in the Inland office,
from nine p.m. to one a.m.

CAUTION TO MOTHERS AND NunsEs.—There is now
under the treatment of .1. Mayon, Esq., surgeon, Mon-
mouth, an infant child, the skin on whose back has, for
several inches each way, been raised as if it were by a
blister, by the effects of soda, with which the clothes worn
by the child next the skin had been washed.
WHIG-RADICAL. TYRANNY.—An infamous placard has
been circulated at Hastings, assailing the deeply-venerated
clergy of that town for conscientiously recording their
votes in favour of Messrs. Brisco and Robertson. For
this, they are held up by the Liberals—precious Liberals,
such fellows as these—to the execration of the mob.—
Sussex Express.

VESSELS--Captain Stanley Carr, the chairman of the
Australian Colonist Committee, in London, arrived in
Liverpool on Wednesday. on his way to Scotland, and
proceeded immediately on board the steam-ship Great
Britain. intended to leave on the 21st inst., which he
minutely inspected, accompanied by Captain Mathews,
her commander, with whom he subsequently lunched.
Captain Carr expressed to Mr. Bright, one of the owners,
and the other gentlemen present, his admiration of the
ship and the arrangements for the comfort of the passen-
gers, and his sanguine hopes for the success of their
undertaking. He subsequently visited many of the
twenty-five large ships now fitting out for the Australian
Colonies in our docks, on board of which a great number
of passengers are already embarked. To many of these
he gave some excellent and kind advice. On leaving the
John Bunyan, a large ship of 1,000 tons register, loading
by Mr. Fox, and intended to sail for Melbourne, Captain
Carr said to one of our principal merchants :—" I have
now satisfied myself that the Liverpool ships are in all
respects as well arranged, and as comfortably fitted for
the acuommodation and health of emigrants, as those
from the Thames; and, by all accounts, the Government
officers entrusted with the inspection of the emigrants and
stores put on board, fulfil their arduous duties as faith-
fully as Captain Lean, or the other naval officers at Ipswich
or Glasgow."

TRAFFIC IN ARMY CommissioNs.—An article in the
United Service Gazette shows that there are about 1,800
names always on the commander-in-chief's list of persons
applying for commissions, and attributes the appointment
of many of these to the mediation of necessitous general
officers, who have taken bribes in each case to the extent
of £3OO or £4OO.

DEATH FROM A STAB AT AN ELECTION RIOT.-At
the recent election for the eastern division of the county
of Somerset, riots unhappily took place during the polling
days at several places; at one of which (Banwell) a young
man named John Godding, about twenty years of age, was
unfortunately stabbed with a pike. He died in the Bristol
Royal Infirmary on Saturday.

MortE EMIGRATION SWINDLING.—A fellow named
Roberts has decamped from Sunderland, having received
several large sums of money as advances for passages to
Australia, to which place he pretended he had chartered
a vessel. It appears he did advance £llB as a deposit on
the purchase of a vessel ; but the shipbuilders refuse to
give this up to the parties defrauded.
A WHOLESALE PICTURE DEALER.—Collins, who has
been repeatedly brought up for examination at Westmin-
ster, charged with obtaining numerous paintings of mem-
bers of the aristocracy and others,on pretence of borrowing
them to be published in a work he was about to bring
out, and with having afterwards pawned them, was, on
Friday, fully committed for trial.
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HEALTH COMMITTEE.-At the weekly meeting, on
Thursday, the medical officer reported the numher of
deaths, for the week ending 31st July, as follows :—Parish
of Liverpool, 194 ; extra-parochial wards, 80 ; total in the
borough, 274. The number of deaths in the previous
week was 234, showing an increase this last week of 40.
A. letter was read from the chairman of the infirmary, in
Brownlow-street, calling attention to the state of drain-
age connected with that institution. The outlay for the
improvements, it was said, would amount to £220. After
some conversation, the matter was ordered to be attended
to. A conversation took place relative to repaving, flag-
ging, and making other improvements in West Derby-
street, the cost of which, according to the statement of
the-surveyor, would amount to £6OB 12s. 6d. The sub-
ject was postponed for a week, in order that the commit-
tee might inspect the street. The chairman called atten-
tion to a looseness in the way in which their business was
done. Mr. Newlands had been ordered to get some work
done at the Cornwallis-street baths, which he bad valued
at a cost of £4,300. Estimates were thus advertised for,
and the lowest tender was £7,120; and when it came
before the council, without alluding to the £4,300, it was
passed by them. A member intimated that the increased
amount arose from the introduction of salt water, which
was not specified in Mr. Newlands' valuation. Another
member suggested that the matter should not be gone
into in Mr. Newlnnds' absence, which was agreed to, and
the business terminated.

OBTAINING MONEY FROM EMIGRANTS. Thomas
Jones and William Williams were charged at the Police-
court, on Wednesday, under the following circumstances,
with obtaining money by a false pretence :—Jones and
Williams were the occupiers of an office in Cable-street,
Liverpool, and they advertised in several provincial papers
that they could provide passages to Australia, in first-
class ships, at reasonable terms, and that passengers
would secure great advantages by writing to them, and
sending a deposit prior to leaving home ; that berths of a
superior character would be secured, and much trouble
and expense avoided. This announcement appeared in
the Sheffield papers, and a resident of Sheffield, named
George Colles, wrote to Jones and Williams, to know
their terms, &c. In reply they forwarded a printed list,
and stated, if a deposit were made, they would secure a
berth in a vessel sailing on the 24th or 25th. In the
course of a few days Mr. Colles remitted them a £2O
note, and asked to be told the names of the vessel and
the captain. Receiving an answer of an evasive character,
he required to know the time of sailing, and was then in-
formed that the vessel could not leave as early as was
expected, the Government agent having condemned a
plank in the vessel, which would have to be removed.
Suspicion being excited, inquiries were made, and it was
discovered that Jones and Williams had no connexion
with any vessel intended to sail for Australia. They were
then taken into custody, when it was found they had re-
ceived a large amount of money from persons in various
parts of the country, whom they bad duped by their re-
presentations. They were semanded.
THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. The annual
meeting of the shareholders in this company was held on
Thursday, at the offices in North John-street. Mr.
Charles Turner, chairman of the board of directors, occu-
pied the chair. The report stated that in the fire depart-
ment the premiums of the year, which amount to £49,110
17s. sd, exceed those of 1850 by upwards of £5,000. The
statement in the last report, showing the premiums of
that year to have been actually 40 per cent. in excess of
the year 1848, enhances the value of the still further
increase now announced. The amount of new business
in the life branch of the year 1851 likewise contrasts
favourably with that of the preceding year, showing an
increase of the sum assured amounting to £2.0,000. The
losses accruing in this department are again unexpectedly
small, amounting to but four lives, assured for an aggre-
gate amount of but £l,Boo—a result which will be con-
sidered worthy of notice, when is is stated that they have
issued nearly 1,200 policies since the establishment of the
company. The accounts of the company for the year
under review exhibit an amount to the credit of profit and
loss of £26,463 19s. sd. rile directors are, therefore, of
opinion that a dividend of 3s. per share be declared for
the past year ; but as there will still he a sum of nearly
£13,000 remaining on the account, after this operation,
they would further recommend that on the present occa-
sion a bonus of Is. per share be likewise paid to the pro-
prietors, both free of income tax. In reply to a question,
the Chairman stated that when the dividend and bonus
were paid there would be about £B,OOO of a surplus.
The dividend recommended In the report was declared,
and the retiring directors re-elected, after the Chairman,
Mr. S. Holme, Mr. Cooper, and Mr. L. Meaeley, had
severally Addressed the meeting.

EXTENSIVE BURGLARY.—On Wednesday last the pre-
mises of Mr. Grundy, bootmaker, of St. Martin's-lane,
London, were entered by thieves, and the entire stock,
consisting of nearly 200 pairs of patent leather boots and
a quantity of leather, carried off. The robbers entered
the premises through the shop door, the lock of which
they picked, and the house being untenanted, Mr.
Grundy residing elsewhere, they were enabled to pack up
and carry off the plunder.

SCREW MEN-oF-WAR.—Two new screw-schooners
are ordered to be laid downto carry an armament of
eight guns, and to have screw-propelling machinery of 50
horse-power. One, the Swallow, is to be built at Pem-
broke, and the other, the Curlew, is to be built at Dept-
ford. The following ships on the stocks in the Royal
Dockyards are to be fitted with screw machinery :
Windsor Castle, 130 guns, at Pembroke ; Royal Albert.,
120 guns, at Woolwich ; St. Jean d'Acre, 101 guns, at
Devonport ; Algiers, 91 guns, at Devonport. It is to be
hoped that the government will never allow another line-
of-battle ship to go off the stocks without the necessary
fittings for the reception of screw machinery.
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DEATH OF A SOLITARY WAYFARER.—A singular cha-
racter died in Arundel on Sunday last, named Richard
Dixon. He did not constantly reside there, but located
in London and other places. He was formerly a riding
officer, and on that body being disbanded obtained a
moderate pension. He lived very sparingly, and has been
known to walk from London to Arundel. He returned
to Arundel about six months since, an invalid, declining
any medical attendance until the last. It was supposed
he bad money, but not much. After his decease his
papers were examined by those who knew him, when it
was discovered he had property to the amount of £5090.
No will is kflown of.

THE GREENLAND FISHERY.—Account brought by the
Dublin, of Peterhead, which left the ice at Greenland on
the 15th of July :—" Abram, of Hull, 7 fish and seals-
-120 tons; Hebo, ditto ditto, 2 fish; Flamingo, ditto ditto,
15 tons ; Dublin, of Peterhead, arrived, 4 fish and seals-
-40 tons ; Eclipse, ditto ditto, 4 fish and seals-75 tons ;
North of Scotland, 6 fish and seals-63 tons ; Resolution,
ditto ditto, 4 fish and seals-80 tons ' • Traveller, ditto
ditto, 6 fish and seals-75 tons ; Union, ditto ditto, 2i fish
and seals-25 tons ; Intrepid, ditto ditto, 71 fish and seals
—9O tons; Mazinthen, ditto ditto, 3 fish and seals-60
tons ; Queen, ditto ditto, 2 fish and seals-35 tons ; Co-
lumbia, ditto ditto-110 tons ; Spitzbergen, ditto ditto,
wrecked in June, crew saved."—Hull Packet.
THE ALLEGED ADDUCTION AT BRISTOL.—The young
lady who, it was rumoured, had been abducted from a
village near Bristol, during the absence of her husband,
is the daughter of -the Rev. Mr. Johnstone, the husband
being Capt. Money, of the East India Company's service.
Learning that, accompanied by her parents, she had pro-
ceeded to London, he followed, and succeeded in finding
her retreat, and she was given into his lawful custody.
It seems that Captain Money had been required to join
his regiment, and the young lady, perhaps, not liking the
separation from her parents, or her parents being unwil-
ling that she should be exposed to the hardships of an
Indian campaign they had taken her out of the way, in
the hope that, it is said, her husband would leave her
behind. The Rev. Mr. Johnstone has written to the
Bristol Mercury, denying the truth of the assertions,
with respect to which he states, in conclusion :—" I shall
not enter upon them further than to say, that they have,
during the past week, been fully investigated before Sir
William Erle, the judge of chambers, and that my daugh-
ter was by him, at her own urgent request, restored to
me, while Mr. Mooney and his brother, the barrister, in
London, were both bound over in the penalty of £5OO
each, with two sureties each in !the sum of £250, to
keep the peace towards the unfortunate wife of the for-
mer. This result will satisfy every one whose opinion is
of any value that what has been done by me was not
because " fathers have flinty hearts," but in order to
shield a daughter from systematic persecution from one
who, but a few weeks since, vowed at the altar to love and
to .perish

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THE SOUTHAMPTON PACKETS.—The Peninsular and MELANCHOLY DEATH WHILE BATHING.—We regret
Oriental Company's new screw steam-ship Formosa, left to say that Mrs. John Wilson, widow of the eminent
Southampton on Saturday afternoon on her first voyage Scottish vocalist, met with her death very suddenly while
to Australia, being full of passengers, and taking out bathing at Portobello on Saturday evening. It appears
specie to the amount of £lOO,OOO and a vast amount of that the deceased lady went into a bathing machine about
personal baggage and merchandise.—The Peninsular and six o'clock in the evening, along with a female companion,
Oriental Company's steam-ship Tagus, with the Penin- and threw herself boldly from the steps into the water.
solar mails, left Southampton on Saturday afternoon, As she did not immediately rise again, her companion
taking out a good number of passengers, full general cargo, became alarmed, and screamed for assistance, which was
and specie to the amount of £12,000. promptly rendered by some of the occupants of the adja-
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—One of the most extensive con- cent bathing coaches. The unfortunate lady was 4ifted
flagrations that have occurred for a considerable time past out of the water in a senseless condition, and, havi.
in the neighbourhood of Clerkenwell broke out on Thurs-
day morning in the spacious factory belonging to Messrs.
Knuth and Co. English, French, and German leather procure
and steel goods' dealers, situate at No. 7, Allen-street, quite unav
Goswell-street, London. The property destroyed must, cause of he
at a moderate calculation, reach to some thousands of PEILUVIA, _
pounds, for the whole of Messrs. Knuth's property is following extract from
reduced to ruin., and, unfortunately, the firm was in- iestv's consul-general at L
sured for only £2,400.
article o
whether; the
lit.
__ILLEGAL TITLES.—Tn the list of visitors published bys to ves_
the Buxton Advertiser, we observe the names of Cardinal
Wiseman, Archbishop of Westminster; the Right Rev. vessel,
the Lord Bishop of Shrewsbury; the Very Rev. Mon- sail from minor ports or authorised roadsteaa.s .
signore Searle, Secretary to Cardinal Wiseman ; the Very in foreign countries, taking out the proper license from
Rev. Dr. Hall, V.G., Macclesfield ; the Rev. Mr. Organ, the custom-house of the principal forts from which they
Chaplain, Errwood Hall • and the Rev. E. Macgreevy, may have previously sailed • and as Pisco, within an
Buxton. We are informed that these names and titles hour's sail of the Chincha Islands, is included among the
were given at the Advertiser-office by the Cardinal's minor ports according to law, the vessels engaged in the
eetary, so that these impudent Romanists have small guano trade will be enabled to avail themselves of this
ect for, or fear of, the provisions of the act for re- facility. The concession is also important as contributing
fining the illegal assumption of ecclesiastical titles. effectually towards the good order and economy of the
mercantile marine of all nations frequenting this coast,
THE FREIGHT brought by the West India mail-steamer and I understand that the weeps of bee. en-
Orinoco, which arrived at Southampton on Monday, was
the largest and most valuable ever landed at that port.
Independent of 109 passengers and a very large general
cargo, the value of the precious metals and precious
stones on board of her amounted to nearly 83,500,000.
The value of the gold on board was about 8450,000, the
pearls and platina above 86,000, and the silver in bars
and dollars nearly 8'3,000,000. The specie was in above
1,100 packages, and weighed about SO tons. The freight course a')
of the specie alone would amount to above £7,000. An e, to -
immense escort was required to guard through Mexico l ~aroue
the conveyance of the 8
_a el
.e 2,500,000 consigned to Messrs. . f-
Baring by the Mexican Government. w"'•
la,'
THE Economist says :—" We must notice a curious
eie '-
circumstance, of which we have heard for some time, and
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which, being mentioned, may perhaps induce some par- 15
ties to explain it. For several months, even in the period
in.,
when wheat was habitually purchased in our market and +;•
ssnt to Holland and Belgium with a profit, some wheat
has been continually imported from Holland and sold in
our markets at a loss. At first it was supposed that this
was a completion of contracts, or a mistaken speculation,
but as it continues it excites great wonder in Mark-lane.
Week after week, for many months, wheat has been
imported from Holland, and sold, according to the mar-
ket price in the two countries. at a consierable loss.
Some of our readers, acquainted with political mysteries
(for the transaction is entirely out of the course of trade)
may perhaps explain it for behoof of the uninitiated."
MARINE PROPULSION.—Being impressed with the be-
lief that the great defect of the methods at present em-
ployed is that a large amount of the motive power is ex-
hausted by levers, cranks, &e., I have endeavoured to
invent a plan by which direct action would be obtained,
and hope to do so by causing the expansive force of the
vapour employed to act between the vessel and a resisting
force in the water. This will be better understood by
supposing a floating diaphragm (submerged) to be sta-
tioned under the vessel's stern, and an elongated piston-
rod acting against it coming from horizontal cylinders,
and thus pushing the vessel forward. The resisting sur-
face would assume a horizontal position during the back-
ward movement, and thus offer no resistance, and again
become vertical during the forward movement of the
piston-rods : thus every ounce of power would be exerted.
—Correspondent of 7'he Builder.
FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE BRISTOL CHANNEL.—An
accident of a very distressing character, whereby four lives
were lost, occurred in the Bristol Channel, between Wes-
ton-super-Mare and Clevedon, on Sunday week. That
morning, the deceased young men, accompanied by one
friend who survives them, proceeded from Clevedon to
Weston-super-Mare in a small boat, and arrived at her
destination in safety. In the afternoon four of them
re-embarked, with the view of returning to Clevedon, the
fifth remaining with some friends at Weston, and express-
ing his intention of returning to Clevedon, rid the Bristol
and Exeter Railway, by an early train the following morn-
ing. At ten o'clock the same night a sail was picked up at
Clevedon, and on Monday a boat-oars and hats were also
found near Kingston, a distance of about two miles from
Clevedon. The young men not having made their appear-
ance, it was conjectured that some accident had happened
in their management of the boat, by which they bad all
met with an untimely end, and boats were despatched
from Clevedon to search for the bodies. The body of one
of the young men was washed on shore at Kingston Bay,
on Monday evening. The bodies of the other three
unfortunate young men have not yet been found.

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n the machine, was instantly conveyed to

room, where the services of a surgeon wer
but all attempts at restoring animation prove)
Apoplexy is said to have been tit

—Scot.

GUANO TRAT

--It will be seen by the
.spatch received from her Ma-
ma, dated the 27th of June,
~went have granted greater faci-
a engaged in the guano trade :—" The 17th
,ew Ru!e of Commerce provides that every
national or foreign, shall be at liberty to

that the Rravian

been somewhat n(
FATAL

IDENT ON

THE LONDON AND NORTH:

t attended with fatal

consequences to two passengers, and injury to several
others, occurred on Tuesday morning near the Hampton
Junction station, on the London and North-Western
Railway. The 9 15 a.rr. up train left Birmingham at its
usual hour, and proceeded in due course about a mile
south of the Hampton Junction, to a place called Berk-
swell Cutting, in passing through which the ashpan and
a portion of the firebox fell from the engine on the line,
and coming in contact with the framework of the break
van, separated the latter from the engine and tender, and
threw it off the up line across the down rails. At the
and before the carriages had become stationary,

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TREMENDOUS CONFLAGRATION AT TOTTENHAM.-0:1
Sunday morning, one of the most extensive fires that has
occurred near London for a considerable time past, broke
out shortly before four o'clock in the immense range of
premises in the occupancy of Mr. Edward Bell, and well
known as the Tottenham Mills, situate on an island sur-
rounded by the river Lea, near the Tottenham-station of
the Eastern Counties Railway. The property destroyed
by this disastrous event must, at a moderate calculation,
reach to many thousand pounds. The premises con-
sumed may be thus enumerated :--The oil-mills and stores
of oil, seeds, &c., totally destroyed. The flour-mill was
totally burnt down, and its contents all but consumed.
The counting-houses and offices gutted. One part of
some of the private dwellings destroyed The old malt-
house burnt out. The stabling, engine-house, and some
outbuildings are fortunately saved. Mr. Bell was par-
tially insured in the Norwich Union, Imperial, and Scot-
tish Fire-offices. The origin of the misfortune is for the
present enveloped in obscurity. At the moment this re-
port was written men were employed skimming the sur-
face of the river Lea. to collect the oil that had run upon
it. About fifty families will be thrown out of employment
by this melancholy disaster.

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detaching it from the other carriages, and creating a ter-
rible wreck. Two of the passengers in the second class
carriage were killed on the spot, and a third was very
seriously injured. Several others were more or less shaken
and hurt. The second class carriage struck by the engine
of the down train was found to be driven up the embank-
ment several feet, and within its broken timbers were
discovered the bodies of the two unfortunate passengers
quite dead, and one other seriously hurt. The remaining
passengers had escaped from the wreck and were sitting
on various parts of the line. The names of the persons
killed are Mr. Beddington, an optician of Birmingham,
and a youth named Floyd, said to be on his way to col-
lege at Oxford.

ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE
NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—We regret to announce
the occurrence of another accident on the northern division
of the London and North-western Railway, by which the
life of an engine-driver has been sacrificed, and that of
a stoker placed in jeopardy. It appears that on Thursday
a pilot engine, which had been put on at Crewe to the
9.30 express train from Liverpool, to assist it up the
Madeley Bank, having done so, went ahead of the train
to proceed to Stafford. At the Whitmore station it was
observed by the train to put up the red flag, the signal of
danger, when the express brought itself almost to a stand
still before it reached Whitmore. In the meantime the
red flag was dropped, and " all right" sounded. The
express then put on her steam, and proceeded with her
usual speed. It had only run three miles beyond Whit-
more, when on coming round a sharp curve on the line

LONDON AND

about a mile north of station, the pilot
engine was observed in the act of crossing on to the down
line at Standon coal yard. The two engines were then
only 200 yards apart. The driver of the express sounded
his whistle and shot off his steam, but before he could do
more than this a fearful collision had taken place, which
turned the engine of the express train completely round,
and both that and the pilot engine were almost totally
destroyed. Thomas Reynolds, the driver of the express,
was killed on the spot. The driver and fireman of the
pilot or second engine have sustained more or less injury,
though neither of them are seriously wounded. Tile
stoker of the express was dreadfully injured—his arm,
leg, and thigh were broken, and his shoulder dislocated.
Eight of the carriages in the train were thrown off the
rails, and the passengers of many of them were severely
shaken and hurt. The following are the chief parties
who have suffered by the collision :—At the Crewe Arms
Junction Hotel. the Hon. Judge Moor (of the Irish bench)
slight concusion of the brain ; Miss Bowers, of New
Brighton, near Liverpool, slight concussion of the brain ;
John Hamlet, stockman of the pilot engine, dislocation
of the shoulder; Mr. Joyce, of Dublin, wound on fore-
head. Judge Moore was accompanied by his daughter-
in-law, who remains with him at the Crewe Arms. Mr.
Joyce has returned to Dublin. Miss Bowers is progress-
ing very favourably, and John Hamlet is convalescent.
At the Red Lion, Cranbery—John Grace, driver of the
pilot engine, slight concussion of the brain ; Thomas
Price, fireman of the express engine, fractured leg and
arm, and dislocated shoulder. On Friday an inquest
was opened at Standon, on the body of Reynolds, when
after the examination of two witnesses, and in order to
give time to procure further evidence, so that the case
might receive the most thorough investigation, the
coroner adjourned the proceedings for a fortnight.

HUSSEY'S AMERICAN REAPING MACHINE.—SO many
successful experiments with Hussey's American reaping
machine, as improved by Mr. Cresskill, of Beverley, have
been made during the past twelve months, that few now
deny its vast superiority over the scythe and sickle. So
great is the demand for it, that Mr. Cresskill is now, we
understand, making eight reapers a day, and is about to
make ten per day, or one every hour. The great im-
provement introduced at the Berverley factory in llussey's
champion reaper is effected by increasing the speed of the
cutting knives at least one-fourth, and thus allowing the
horses to go one-fourth slower, and at the same time
adapting the reaper to cut heavy as well as light crops of
grain or beans. On many heavy craps of wheat the
original reaper could not well cut and deliver the produce
without over-working the horses, as well as the strongest
men, in delivering the cut corn in a'proper manner ; but,
Mr. Crosskill's improved reaper cuts as well or better
than the scythe, while it may be moved slow or fast to
suit both horses and crops, which, it will be admitted, is
an important advantage, when it is considered that our
horses are slower and the crops much heavier than they
are in America. The machine has been found to work
excellently in fields of wheat, beans, and oats ; but some
few agriculturists doubted its utility in cutting barley.
To remove this scepticism which existed on this point,
the machine was yesterday set to work in a barley field of
sixty acres, occupied by Mr. J. Whipp, of Etton, near
Beverley, in the presence of Mr. Cresskill, Mr. Whipp,
and several farmers, and the experiment on the whole
gave great satisfaction. In the morning the machine,
which was worked by two horses, and the usual number
of men, cut the barley clean, with ease and with few
stoppages. As the field, however, was uneven and the
barley unripe, it was thought desirable to yoke an addi-
tional horse. In the afternoon the machine was again
set to work, and cut the barley exceedingly well, though
it was occasionally " choked" and stopped, but it was
evident that this was more attributable to the quantity of
"hog grass" which was in the field, and the inexperience

SroNTANzoos Comnusnow.—On Wednesday even-
ing, considerable confusion was caused in the immediate
neighbourhood of Lincoln's-inn-fields, and Turnstile,
Holborn, London, in consequence of the following extra-
ordinary occurrence :—lt appears that one of the large
wagons belonging to Messrs. Younghusband and Co., the
railway carriers, &c., of the Old Bailey. was proceeding
through Lincoln's-inn-fields, laden with hemp ; the
horses were at the same time driven by a young man,
who was sitting on the dickey, when all of a sudden a
huge sheet of flame shot forth from the centre of the
hemp, and almost encircled the driver. He instantly
jumped off the wagon, and before he had time to stop
the horses he found the vehicle in one broad sheet of
flame. By a desperate effort he succeeded in taking the
horses out, and a number of persons soon came to his
aid. They succeeded in turning the vehicle over, and
shooting the blazing material into the carriage road,
where it burnt more furiously than before. Mr. Morris,
the engineer of the High Holborn brigade station, quickly
attended with an engine and a body of firemen, and in
the course of an hour or so the flames were entirely ex-
tinguished. The property belonged to Mr. Maggs, of
Somersetshire, and was worth from £l2O to £l5O.
ADULTERATION OF COFFEE.—Subjoined is the Trea-
sury order, which has just been issued, prohibiting the
vending of chicory under the name of coffee, but leaving
every dealer at liberty to dispose of each article under its
proper name :—" General Order. August 3rd, 1852. In
pursuance of directions from the Right Hon. the Lords
Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, dated the 29th
ult., Ordered,—That the general order of August Zl,
1840, directing ' that no objection be made, on the part
of this revenue, to dealers in and sellers of coffee mixing
chicory with coffee, or to their having the same so mixed
in their possession,' he rescinded. That in future licensed
dealers in coffee be allowed to keep and sell chicory, or
other vegetable substances prepared to resemble coffee,
provided that they be sold unmixed with coffee, in pack-
ages sealed or otherwise secured, containing respectively
not less than 20z., and having pasted thereon a printed
label, with the name or firm of the seller, the exact
weight, and true description of the article contained
therein ; and provided that no such article be kept in a
loose state, or otherwise than in such packages as afore-
said, in any room entered for the storeage or sale of coffee.
That all licensed dealers in coffee be furnished with a
copy of this order, and informed that they must abide the
consequences if, after the expiration of three months from
the date hereof, they continue to sell coffee mixed with
any ingredient contrary to law. Each officer must prepare
a scheme in his general entry book, in which he must
insert the name and residence of every dealer in coffee in
his station, and the date of furnishing him with a copy of
this order, adding therein his own signature in proof of
the delivery of the said order."
THE NEW CRYSTAL PALACE.—The first column of
the New Crystal Palace was erected on Thursday last,
under the most auspicious circumstances, and amidst the
enthusiastic plaudits of a large and highly respectable as-
semblage At half-past twelve o'clock a special train
from the London bridge Station conveyed a very large
party to Anerley, seven miles along the road to Croydon ;
and from Anerley the party walked up the hill towrrds
Norwood, turning off to the right, and entering immedi-
ately the park in which the Crystal Palace is to stand.
Other parties followed in quick succession. The Cold-
stream and Royal Artillery bands contributed to the en-
tertainment of the company; and the magnificent prospect
for which Norwood is famed, attracted the admiration of
all. It would perhaps have been impossible to have cho-
sen a better site than this picturesque and healthy spot,
protected by the trees from the taint of London smoke,
and presenting, from the nature of the ground, facilities
and opportunities of which the skilful persons who have
charge of the undertaking know how to avail themselves.
At half-past two o'clock the visiters assembled round
the spot where the first pillar of the palace was to be
planted ; and shortly afterwards a procession advanced,
preceded and marshalled by Mr. Harker, the toast-
master. Six workmen, bearing a large and handsome
banner, inscribed " Success to the Palace of the Peo;,le."
were followed by Mr. Laing, M..P. (the Chairman of tha
Crystal Palace Company), Mr. F. Fuller. and other
directors. The column was immediately raised and in-
serted in its socket, three young lads assisting in this
operation. A bottle was deposited under the pill ir, con-
taining the coins of the realm, and a paper bearing the
following inscription :—" This column, the first support
of the Crystal Palace, a building of purely English archi-
tecture, destined to the recreation and instruction of the
million, was erected on the sth day of August, 1852, in the
16th year of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, by
Samuel Laing, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Crys' al Palace
Company. The original structure, of which this column
forms a part, was built, after the design of Sir Joseph Pax-
ton, by Messrs. Fox, Henderson, and Co., and stood in
Hyde-park, where it received the contributions of all na-
tions at the World's Exhibition, in the year of cur Lord,
1851.

of some of the men, than to the machine itself. All
present expressed themselves highly satisfied. The fol-
lowing letter from Mr. Riley, of South Dalton, was
handed to our reporter while at Beverley :—" Dear Sir,—
I have this day had the reapine machine working, first
upon a field of beans, and then a field of oats. The
machine cut very clean, and the horses walked at a mode-
rate pace. One of our men used the rake, and the work
done was very satisfactory. Indeed, the reaper has
much exceeded my expectations, and I am satisfied that
when my horses and men are more used to the machine,
we shall be able to cut all our corn crops quite as well, or
better than with a scythe. Further experience will
enable me to say what saving may be effected in our
future harvest operations. Thus far lam perfectly satis-
fied.—l am, dear sir, yours truly, EDMUND RILEY.—
Hull News.

[I.Ai.DVERTISEMENTJ
TO WILLIAM (1.-111DNER, ESQ.,
COMMANDING THE SHIP EARL OF CHARLEMONT

SIR,—We, the undersigned passengers, have much ph a
sure in thus acknowledging our deep sense of your gentle-
manly courtesy at.d untiring zeal in the discharge of your
onerous and responsible duties as commander of your
splendid ship, and for your assiduou attention in at all
times promoting the happiness and comfort of all your
passengers. We feel that any words we could employ would
fall far short of conveying the frill sense of our feelings to-
wards you on this occasion, ail we are convinced that ours
is one of those honourable instances in which passengers
have been treated with considerate kindness and attention,
and which has resulted in the perfect health of all on
board after so long a voygge.
And we beg through bon to convey our warmest ac-
knowledgments to youilchief officer, Mr. James Gardner,
to your second andeAhird officers, Mr. Avery and Mr.
Case, and your crew enerally. .

And as regards yo fine ship—her long voyage under
all its incidents and ircumstances, has tested her perfect
sea-worthiness and adaptation as a first class emigrant
vessel ; arid we wo d congratulate her proprietors in pos-
sessing such a shi , commander, and officers, and feel as-
sured she will con inue to command that support which
she is so justly e itled to, and which we thus have plea-
sure in acknowle ging.
With sincere ishes for your future happiness and suc-
We remain, Sir. _

David Bell
William Artin Williams
John. Ormero

Your sincere friends
John M'Cartl
James Mont!

gomery

James M'Connell

Joseph Wiley
John Cathie umphreys
John Hump eys, jun.
Edward Hu plxreys
Robert Hu hreys
James New an
John Newm n

ah Sheaiman

I, your glass,
Will modestly discover to yourself
That of yourself which yet you know not of.'

A. Shearroall
Jane Millet
Amelia Bell
Letitia Humphreys
Ellen Humphreys
Anne Humphreys

Mr. Laing, having screwed the column into its place
amid loud cheers from the assembled company, proceeded
to address them in a speech appropriate to the occasion.
The company, to the number of 600, then proceeded to
a large and handsome tent, under which an excellent
dejcliner MO served.