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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1853.

ercised towards the inhabitants of the provinces occupied
by the Russian troops ; and argues at great length that the
refusal of the Porte is a virtual annulling of all its obliga-
tions previously recognised as to its conduct towards its
subjects of the Greek religion. The idea of a political
Protectorate on the part of Russia is altogether disclaimed
as a misapprehension, and the assertion is repeated that
Russia desires nothing more than the recognition de novo
of the ancient Status of the Greek Churches in Turkey.

TURKEY.—A great Mussulman movement is going
on among the masses. The price of arms in the Bezestan
has risen enormously, and the military preparations on
the part of Turkey have far exceeded all anticipation. It
seems as if the huge slumbering empire was about to
shake off her rusty shackles, and make a gigantic effort
to resist foreign invasion. As time presses, this warlike
Mussulman feeling grows in intensity, and as fresh offers
of assistance in men, arms, and money, come pouring in
from remote corners of the empire, it becomes more and
more doubtful how far the peaceful counsels of foreign
ambassadors will influence the Turkish Cabinet. At
Caesarea, where 20,000 students for the office of the
priesthood are assembled, war is preached from every
mosque. and the students parade the streets with banners,
crying, " War with the Russians ! and death to the
Giaour !" and the reports of the different Consuls in the
interior speak of the same zeal and enthusiasm for the
cause of Islam.

A private telegraphic despatch from Marseilles of the
16th gives us Constantinople news of the sth instant.
A certain degree of apprehension prevailed at Con-
stantinople. Excited as the Turks and the Greeks are
by the late political events, it was feared lest the two
parties might commit deplorable excesses.

The news of the passage of the Pruth had just reached
the capital.
The Russian army in Wallachia and Moldavia is stated
to muster 50,000 men.

The ambassadors of France and England have pre-
vailed upon the government of Greece to put a stop to
their naval armaments.
The fleets of Great Britain and France arc still in the
Bay of Besika.

A letter, dated Jassy, 4th July, says :—" It will take
the Russian troops eight days to cross the Pruth. The
majority of those troops are proceeding by forced marches
to the Danube. At this date there are 30,000 Russians
actually in Moldavia."
By the recent accounts from Constantinople, it appears
that Lord Redcliffe had ordered Colonel Neale, and M.
Delacour had ordered Messrs. Barthelemy and Longue-
ville, to repair to Turnova, in the neighbourhood of the
Russians. French officers are prohibited from leaving
their ships, as orders to enter the Dardanelles might be
expected every moment.

Lord Carlisle had arrived, but we do not bear that his
visit was at all connected with any diplomatic mission.
The preparations for war continue to be prosecuted with
the same vigour as ever, and conferences are taking place
between the representatives of the four great Powers.
The Porte has publicly notified that no foreign trading
ships shall be allowed to enter the Bosphorus during the
night, the object being to avoid anything like surprise.
The following account of the state of the Danube, learnt
from Sulina' and published in the Trieste Zeitung, is
important. It begins by stating that more than 500 ves-
sels are waithig to get out at sea :—" The condition of the
mouth of the river becomes worse and worse, as number-
less fragments of wrecks aro lying under water. In cases
of shipwreck the authorities are extremely negligent, and
there would be much greater loss of life if it were not for
the exertions of humane private persons."
Accounts from Bucharest state that Omer Pacha con-
tinued for more than two hours in his cabinet with the
Turkish General, Nieeokoitschiski, sent by Prince Gorts-
chikoff to the Turkish quartier-general at Schumla. Two
hundred of Omer Paella's staff were present at the inter-
view. At its termination the Turkish commander sent off
two Tartars to Constantinople with despatches. General
Niepokoitschiaki left the same day under a Turkish
escort.

SMYRNA.—Great excitement has been occasioned at
Smyrna by the fatal result of disturbances, arising from
the conduct of the Austrian consul there. A certain
Captain Costa, who had accompanied the Hungarian
demagogue Kossuth to America, recently returned to
Smyrna unknown to the governor of the province, Ali
Pasha. On the 22d, whilst enjoying himself in the cafe
" British and Smyrna Club," on the Marina, M. Costa
was suddenly set upon by a dozen boatmen, and hurried
off to the Austrian brig-of-war Hussar, lying in the
roads. The arrest was ordered by the Austrian Consul,
and roused not only indignation among the inhabitants,
but on the part of the Turkish Governor, who acted with
considerable energy on the occasion. On the 23d the
American corvette St. Louis arrived from Athens, and, as
Costa had been in the United States, her commander,
accompanied by the United States Consul, repaired on
board, hoping to claim Costa as a naturalised American ;
but, in an interview, he, with some firmness, proclaimed
himself a Hungarian. On the 23d three officers from the
Hussar, one a midshipman, the Baron Hackelberg, landed
at the club, and almost immediately were set upon by
some 15 refugees ; resistance was impossible. One of the
officers succeeded in making his escape ; a second was
grossly ill-treated ; while the young Baron received a
severe stab with a stiletto, and immediately, in the hope
of escaping, plunged into the sea. He, however, sunk—
whether from loss of blood or some other cause can never
be known, for his corpse was, after several hours,
rPcoverLd from the water. The excitement produced by
this second event was even greater than that occasioned
by the arrest of Martin Costa, and it will be seen s
mutual case of offence has occurred. The affair haa,
however, been satisfactorily arranged. The new governor
of Smyrna has been displaced by the Porte, and the re-
fugees delivered up to justice. Meanwhile Austria dis-
i claims the conduct of her Consul, who is re-called.

THE WEST INDIES.—By the Royal Mail steam-ship
Orinoco, which arrived at Southampton, on Sunday night,
we have intelligence from Jamaica to the 27th ultimo.
Affairs up to the departure of the packet remained in the
same unsettled state. No steps towards reconciliation
had been taken by the Council or the Assembly; all
public business had been brought to a standstill, and the
treasury continued closed against all claimants. In con-
sequence of the want of immediate funds to meet the
expenses of the Penitentiary, a considerable number of
convicts had been discharged ! The yellow fever had not
abated its ravages among the shipping at Kingston, and
some fatal cases had occurred on shore. The subject of
copper mining continued to attract great attention, and
confidence is felt, that the mineral wealth of the island will
ultimately justify very high expectations.
The differences between Peru and Bolivia have reached
such a point as to bid fair for actual war. The question
between France and Ecuador has been settled.
Chili is going on quietly and prosperously.
Barbadoes on the 28th of Juno was healthy throughout

—the young crop more luxuriant than had been seen for
many years. 36,000 hogsheads of sugar had been shipped,
2,000 or 3,000 more ready to be shipped, and about 1,000
to be made. Ships were wanted to take away the
molasses and sugar. _ _ _ _

During the last month refreshing rains have fallen in
British Guiana, and the cane cultivation has quite re-
covered the late severe drought. Trade is very dull, and
provisions scarce and dear.

WESTERN AFRICA.—By the African Steam Navi-
gation Company's mail-packet Hope, Captain Bowen,
which reached Plymouth on Wednesday, we have advices
from Fernando Po to the 31st of May ; Lagos, 4th of
June ; Accra, 6th ; Cape Coast Castle, 7th ; Monrovia,
11th ; Sierra Leone, 15th ; Bathurst and Goree, on the
19th ; Teneriffe, 4th of July ; and Madeira, 6th of July.
At Old Calabar there had been an alarm of an outbreak
at Lagos, but the alarm was over when the Hope left.
Trade was very much improved, and it is averred that this
old slave station will become, if properly watched, a place
of considerable export.
No pilots were to be obtained at Bonny and Old Calabar,
and the Hope was compelled to send in her boats.
At Cape Coast Castle, the excitement consequent on
the late Ashantee invasion having quite subsided, the na-
tives under British protection had resumed their usual
occupations, being generally engaged in preparing and
planting their farms. Twenty-six Asbantees had arr►ved,
and 600 others, all traders, were reported en route, so that
the fear of further hostilities with this warlike people may
be considered at rest for the present, nor is it likely, after
the check they have received, that another act of fumes-
sion will be attempted for some time to come. An officer
and party of men from the Gold Coast corps are stationed
at the interior frontier for the purpose of protecting the
Ashantee traders, and presenting any collision between
those people and the allied British tribes.
The present year has been unusually unhealthy ; the wet
seasonset in early in May,and mach rain has already fallen.
Governor Hill, having suffered from repeatea attache or
fever and from his late exertions, returned in the Hopo to
Europe for the recovery of his health.
The palm oil trade throughout the coast was brisk.
It was a most fortunate circumstance that the palaver
with the Ashantee3 was arranged in time to permit the
people attending to their plantations, otherwise a famine
during the coming year must have been the consequence.
As it is, there is every reason to be thanfiful for the peace-
able termination of an untoward squabble which threat-
ened the settlements with the horrors of war and famine.
The Rev. William Cornewall, the colonial chaplain of
the Gold Coast, expired on board the Hope on the 27th of
June, seven days before reaching Teneriffe. The rev.
gentleman was an invalid when he embarked.

Freights nominal. Exchange closed firm at 291., discounts
8 to 10 per cent.

the Ist of September last, ascompared_Nvith the previous three

Receipts at the ports 3,172,000 2,963,000 2,274,000 1,998,000
Exports to Great Britain 1,617,000 1,577,000 1,294,000 925,000
~ France
„ other for. ports 329,000 330,000 240,000 159,000
Total exports 2,339,060 2,319,000 1,826,000 1,344.000
Stock on hand
Of which during the past week, included in the above :
1833 1852 1851 1850
Receipts at the ports
Exports to Great Britain 22,000 17,000 20,000 28,000

France
„ other for. ports 4,000 5,000 5,000 2,000
Total exports 30,000 23,000 25,000 30,000
From which it will be seen that the excess in receipts
now amounts to 209,000 bales. The increase in exports
to Great Britain is 40,000; decrease to France, 1,000;
other foreign ports, 1,000. Total increase in exports,
40,000 bales.
BKEADSTUFFS.—The flour market exhibited much firm-
ness during the greater part of last week, and full prices
were obtained. On. Saturday, however, there was some
anxiety to press sales, the 4th being a close holiday, and
the quotations reported on the 23th ult. could not be
readily obtained. Prime qualities of wheat are scarce and
in demand, whilst inferior sorts are comparatively neg-
lected. Indian corn is firm and in good demand.
PKOVISIONS.—Pork is without alteration ; mess S'ls 50e.,
and prime -B'l2 75c. The sales of beef have been moerate.
Canada butter is dull, at 10c. to 14c. ; Ohio, 10c. to 15c. ;
New York, 14c. to 18c. ; Orange county is in demand, at
20c. to 2211.

IRON.—The market for iron has a heavy aspect. 50
tons of Scotch pig have been sold at $27 to $29 50c., six
months.

FREIGHTS.—To Liverpool the current rates are—for
cotton, 5-32 d. per lb. ; flour, is. 7Ad. to ls. 9d. per barrel,
the lower rate only at the close. Grain in bulk sd. per
bushel. To London—flour, ls. 101 d. to 2s. per barrel.
To Havre—cotton, Sc. per lb.
HAVANA, JUNE 29.—Our market continues dull. Sugar
is very abundant, and shipping is still scarce. Prices are
almost nominal. It is the general opinion that sales will
not be made at the present rates, and that only the abun-
dance of produce and want of tonnage cause the present
stagnation. Freights are £3 to £3 lls. Gd. for Cowes and
North Sea ; Baltic, £3 to £3 ss. ; Mediterranean, £3 to
£3 10s. ; Great Britain, £3 to £3 10s. ; Hamburg, £3 to
£3 10s. Exchange is dull. London, 10 tom premium;
Paris, 2 to 21 discount.
NEW ORLEANS, JULY I.—Sales of cotton to-day have been
2,000 bales at firm prices ; middling, 10ic. per lb. Sales for
the week, 15,000 bales; stock on hand, 70,000 bales. The
increased receipts at this port, 219,000 bales, and at all the
southern ports, 209,000 bales.
MonmE, JULY 2.—The sales of cotton for the week have
been 16,000 bales. Receipts, 300 bales; exports, 100; stock on
hand, 22,000 bales. Middling, 10c. per lb.
CHARLESTON, JULY 2.—Sales of the week of cotton, 2,962
hales, at Sic. to 11ic. Freights :—The two vessels loading for
Liverpool have completed their cargoes at id. for square bags
cotton. There is nothing up for Havre.
SAVANNAH, JULY 2.—Sales of cotton of the week only 603
bales ; market so languid and unsettled that it is impossible
to obtain accurate quotations ; we, however, set down middling
fair at 10ic. to 11c. Sales 225 bales Sea Ireland at 35c. to 45c.
In foreign freights no demand.

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

THE KING OF BAVARIA, during his visit to Rome, re-
ceived from the Pope a rare relic, declared to be a small
piece of the robe of the Virgin Mary, set in a valuable
gold frame.

THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO.—The 38th anniversary
was celebrated, on the 18th ult., at Amsterdam, by a
parade and display of flags on the public buildings. In
England it passed nearly unnoticed.
THE JESUITS.—The election of the general of the
Jesuits took place at Rome on the 2d of July. The new
general is Father Becks, provincial of the province of
Austria, and a Belgian by birth.
A ROMISH CONVICT.—An American correspondent of
the Tablet mentions, " that the notorious Leahy, soi
disant monk of La Trappe, who has for some years past
been gulling the Protestant public as an ' anti-Popery'
lecturer, has been convicted of murder in Wisconsin, and
sentenced to the penitentiary for life."
AUSTRIA.—The prospects of an average good harvest
are daily confirmed by advices from all parts of the em-
pire, but especially from Hungary, where the crops pro-
mise great abundance. Fruit is also very plentiful this
summer in Austria. The weather has been exceedingly
hot for some days past. The late inundations in several
parts of the empire have fortunately done no great harm.
The waters in the rivers have returned to their usual level.
FEMALE REBELS.—The court-martial at Pesth has
sentenced the Countess Blanche Tekely to ten years', and
Miss Clara Lovei, a governess, to fifteen years' imprison.
ment. The thirteen months during which a certain Eliza
Bernvallner, a chambermaid, was under examination, is
considered a sufficient punishment for her. The crime of
which these three women, " and others whose trials are
still pending," were accused, is "an attempt to cause
the violent separation of Hungary from the Empire, to
secure its independence, and to bring about and further a
new revolution."

ANOTHER ROMISH CONVERT.—Dr. Achilli appears
likely to gain further notoriety in America, by the founda-
tion of a new sect, or rather as the reviver of the errors
and extravagances of Swedenborg. Our authority for
this statement, the Record, remarks :—" It is a melan-
choly conclusion to his career, that a priest who professes
to hare come out of the Church of Rome, as a Protestant,
should take up a belief in the doctrines of a madman who
fancied himself a prophet, and declared that he had him-
self seen Luther amongst the lost spirits condemned to
darkness for having taught the doctrine of justification by
faith."
,SPENDING MONEY IN MES.JsUUENE.—ia compliance
with the custom, an affianced couple went into a draper's
stores, the lady to receive a present at the hands of the
gentleman. lie selected a shawl, such as could be sold
in London at four guineas, for which was asked £5. The
fair one hinted that she would like a better ; upon which
the draper showed one worth about five guineas, but he
named £25 as its price. The trick succeeded—the gen-
tleman handed him a £5O note to receive change ; when
the draper, adroitly comprehending the character of his
customer, easily prevailed upon him to take another £25
shawl instead of money I
A MUSICAL BRIGAND.—A man named Marino Gam-
betia, an accomplice of the bandit, Pietro Spina, now in
prison at Nice, has just been arrested. He was formerly
a gondolier at Venice, but soon rose to be a singer at the
theatre of the Fenice, owing to his fine voice. He com-
mitted several petty thefts there, left the situation, got
acquainted with a band of thieves, and ultimately joined
the band of Pietro Spina. At length his fine voice be-
trayed him, and he was arrested by the police at Cueno
while serenading his mistress, whose treacherous maid
was in the pay of the authorities.
THE MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES.—A complete revo-
lution is about to take place in the manufacture of gloves.
Two inhabitants of Grenoble invented, about the same
time, a machine for sewing gloves ; but, instead of com-
peting with each other, they agreed to unite the advan-
tages of each invention. One found means to sew me-
chanically the fingers of gloves ; while the other, after
sewing the remainder of the glove, was compelled to em-
ploy operatives to sew the fingers. The inventors, by
combining the two machines, have produced one which
sews gloves perfectly. This discovery has produced a
great sensation at Grenoble, where the manufacturers
were not able to supply the demand for want of a suffi-
cient number of operatives.
DEATH OF AN AMERICAN RAPPER.—The Massachu-
setts Gazette states that Miss Nancy Sherman, who died
on the 15th May, starved herself to death. She belonged
to the American Rappers, and had beers what is called a
" medium," for pretended spiritual communications,
until she became quite insane. About a month before her
death she attempted to hang herself, but was prevented.
She then announced that the spirits had forbidden her
eating any more, and for three weeks she studiously ab-
stained from partaking of any food, living on water alone,
although at times so tortured by the pangs of hunger as to
writhe in agony. The last week was passed in fearful
alternations from convulsions to momentary consciousness,
with constant relapses, until death finally put an end to
her sufferings.

HOW LITERARY MEN ARE PATRONISED BY THE
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT.—Theodore S. Fay, Minister
resident in Switzerland, is a native of the City of New
York. He became early connected with literary pursuits,
and was associated with Morris and Willis in the old New
York Mirror, a waekly paper. He was secretary of Le-
gation to Prussia, under the late Henry Wheaton, and
has been continued under his successors at the Court of
Berlin. He married a daughter of the late Barent Garde-
nier, a di,tinguished federal lawyer. member of Congress,
and ?cutoi iu hib tiwe, some forty years since. To please
the literary class still further, the President has appointed
to consulships two other authors, viz : Hawthorne of Mas-
sachusetts (General Pierce's biographer,) and Donald G.
Mitchell, formerly of Norwich, Connecticut, but for soma
years a resident in New York—better known as Ik Marvel.
He is said to be writing, or contemplating, a work on
Italy, and goes to Venice, where there is not much official
business for a consul. Mitchell is thirty-one years of age,
and is but little, if at all known in politics.—New York
Herald.

LORD ELLESMERE IN AMERICA.-In the New York
Herald, under the heading " The English Nobility on the
Wing," we find the following letter, dated " Bagg's
Hotel, Utica, June 21" :—" The Earl of Ellesmere and
suite arrived at this house last evening, at 8 o'clock, in
the express train, for New York. The noble Lord looked
fatigued and ill ; he wore his left arm in a sling, and
appeared to be suffering from his late attack of the gout.
The Countess appeared well, and her beautiful daughters
attracted much attention, but they seemed not to relish
this specimen of an hotel. It does not certainly compare
favourably with their country inns in Old England.
A side from the usual excitement of new-comers, the
arrival of the noble party created no attention whatever.
The people seemed as if live Lords were around' in these
diggins' every day. One of the boys from the Leander
attracted more notice among the other boys, by the gold
lace and crown on his cap, than all the rest of the party
put together. I was amused with a specimen of Yankee-
dom in the railway station when the train came in. He
was a plain countryman, about 40 years of age. He was
sitting on a pile of three or four trunks, with his back
against a post, and his straw hat in his lap. I thought
him a good subject to astonish, and said—' Do you see
that party coming along ?" Wal,' said he what of 'em ?'
' That is the Earl of Ellesmere, just arrived to attend the
Crystal Palace Exhibition.' The what ?' he inquired.
Lord Ellesmere, a British nobleman.' Then, he's an
Englishman,' he replied, very quietly ; he's got a good
deal to see 'afore he gits home again ;' and in a moment
he added, ' Guess he'll put up at Bagg's Hotel, over night.
Wal, that's the way these places live.' It was amusing
to see how unconcerned the presence of a live lord found
and left him. The arriving and departing trains kept up
an eternal clatter at this house throughout the night.
When there were no buligines (as Burton says) to bellow
forth, the cats wawled, and the gay larks of the early
morning hours sang their jovial songs,. which were not
subdued by the open windows. Oh ! for a quiet night once
more ! I have not had three hours' consecutive sleep in
a week ! Trenton Falls is rapidly filling up. Lord
Ellesmere's party go over there this morning, and expect
to reach Niagara on Friday. From the brief conversation
held with his Lordship some days ago, he appeared to be
a remarkably sensible, moderate man, and one who can
see through the peculiarities of the people—whatever real
goccitherq is in our institutions and our Ofiracru."

IRELAND.

THE GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENT of Mr. John Robt.
Godley to the important office of Chief Commissioner for
the Collection of the Irish Income-tax is regarded as the
best that could be made.

AT THE MONAGHAN ASSIZES, the jury in the case of the
murder of Mr. Bateson have been discharged, unable to
agree to a verdict, after forty-one hours' confinement,
during which they were allowed nothing but fire, light,
and water.

REPRESENTATION OF CORK (ClTY).—There will pro-
bably be a hot contest for the seat vacated by the ap-
pointment of Mr. Serjeant Murphy to the commissioner-
ship of the London Insolvent Court. Col. Chatterton
will, no doubt, be a candidate.
SERGEANT MURPHY'S LAST.—Procuring himself a
Commissionership of Insolvency. The wags say the
Coalition have thus introduced the " potato disease" into
the Courts of Law. Gilbert A Beckett must now feel that
his own joke is capped, and that his only resource is to
turn beadle or Baptist minister.—The Press.
MODERN PATRIOTISM.—The Marquis of Hertford has
taken a house, now building in the Boulevard des Italiens,
Paris, for a railway club, at the rent of £1,140 per
annum. The Marquis, who draws £BO,OOO per annum
out of Ulster, is said never to have been in Ireland but
once in the course of his life.
HARVEST PROSPERITY.—Our accounts are still more
satisfactory, as regards the crops of all kinds, and we are
passing through the critical time, without any cause for
alarm respecting the potato, which is described in almost
all the reports as sound and vigorous in growth.—Dublin
Evening Post.
SUICIDE OF A CONVICT.—On Thursday, at the Lime-
rick Assizes, on Baron Greene calling on the prisoner
John Mulligan, convicted the day before of the murder
of his illegitimate child, the gaoler stated that the pri-
soner had just committed suicide by hanging himself
with a handkerchief.
SUICIDE OF MRS. BOYER.—An inquest was held on
Friday on the body of a woman who had made a charge of
murdering her husband against the convict Kirwan, now
under the mitigated sentence of transportation for the
murder of his own wife. It appeared that the body of
Mrs Boyer had been found in a quarry hole, but, as no
evidence was adduced to satisfy the jury she committed
suicide, they brought in a verdict that the body was found
in a quarry hole on the 7th inst.
ENCAMPMENT.—In consequence of its not being possi-
ble to bring together with convenience a sufficient num-
ber of regiments to form another division to succeed the
one now being encamped at Chobham Common, it is
probable that troops will be concentrated in Ireland, and
the Curragh of Kildare has been mentioned as the place
likely to be selected for the third encampment for this year.
THE DARGAN TESTIMONIAL.—At a meeting of noble-
men and gentlemen held in Dublin, on Thursday, it was
determined to present a testimonial to Mr. Dargan for
the great benefits conferred by him on the industrial
population of Ireland, not only for the vast amount of
employment he has given, but also in the lesson he has
so successfully taught. The first two subscribers are Mr.
Fairbairn, of Manchester, and Dr. Hayden, of Dublin,
each for the respectable sum of £lOO.
SCARCITY OF LABOURERS.-0 wing to the large num-
ber of Trish labourers who have proceeded to England
within the last month, fears are beginning to be expressed
that there will not be a sufficiency of hands to gather in
the harvest in this country. The Roscommon Journal
says :—Not less than £lOO per day is paid at the post-
office in this town, in small sums, seat by our labourers
who went to England, in order to take over their wives
and children. Heretofore, our poor people went for the
harvest time, and returned when the season was over;
but the scarcity of labourers in England, caused by emi-
gration, compels the manufacturers, not only to employ
Irishwomen, but their children likewise. These will
never return to Ireland.

THE Exonus.—The flight from the west shows no sign
of abatement. The Galway Packet says,—" Thinned
and exhausted as the population has been for some months
past, the rush of emigration seems still unabated. The
twelve o'clock train on Monday bore away a crowd of
emigrants. A number of their female friends and relatives
occupied an eminence above the railway, and their plain-
tive cries resounded like the wail of a monster funeral.
Day after day similar scenes are repeated, so that they
now seem to be matters of course." The same authority
further adds, " For some weeks past a large proportion of
our labouring population have been led by the inducement
of higher wages to emigrate to England. They are, of
course, too willing to exchange the shilling or 14d. a-day
which is generally paid here, for the prospect of 4s. or ss.
a-day in England. Their departure is not a temporary
one, like that of labourers in former years, who proceeded
for a few weeks to cut down the harvest and returned
with savings sufficient to pay the rent of the cabin or
conacre ; but they will probably remain as much ex-
patriated from this country as the more opulent of their
class who emigrate to America."

EXTRAORDINARY ABDUCTION TRIAL.—At the Lime-
rick assizes, Jeremiah Hodges Mulcahy, about 45 years
of age, was indicted for having allured and carried away
Christiana Jackson, a young lady under 17 years of age,
contrary to the wishes of her guardian. It appeared that
the traverser, who is a widower, was drawing-master at a
seminary for young ladies in Limerick, up to March last,
when the mistress gave up business; and it was whilst
attending that establishment that he became acquainted
with Miss Jackson, who was a boarder at the school, and
youngest child of the late Mr. Francis Jackson, who died
in 1847, and under whose will she was entitled to £2,500.
Toward. the end of March Miss Jackson went to reside
at Mr. Jones's house, and it was intended that she should
remain there until arrangements were made to send her to
a finishing school in England, where she was to reside for

a couple of years. During this time Miss Jackson was in
the habit of coming into Limerick almost daily with Mr.
Jones in his carriage, for the ostensible purpose of getting
new clothes made to take with her to England, where it
was intended she should go on the 18th of April however,
on the 15th, having come into town about three o'clock,
she appointed to meet Mr. Jones at his office at four
o'clock to return home with him, but instead of doing so
she went to the traverser's residence, and left with him
for Dublin by train, and subsequently proceeded via
Glasgow to Gretna Green, where they were married on
the 20th. They arrived in Limerick about the Ist of May,
and, shortly after, the traverser wrote to Mr. G.Jackson,
and told him he was married to his sister, and required
that ho should at once pay him £5OO, stating that if he did
so he would consent that the balance of his wife's fortune
(£2,000) should be settled upon her. Mr. Jackson,
however, commenced proceedings against him. Mrs.
Mulcahy, a very pretty young woman, was called as a
witness. She deposed that sh 3 was but sixteen years Of
age last Christmas-day. She said that she went with the
traverser of her own free will, and so far from his inducing
her to elope with him she was the person who first sug-
gested it, and proposed matrimony, when she found she
was about to be sent to England for two or three years
against Ler wish.—The jury were locked up, hut being
unable to agree, they were discharged without giving a
verdict.

ALBONI.—It is stated that the Italian Count Pepoli
was married in Paris, a few days since, to Mdlle. Alboni,
the vocalist, who has just returned from the United States.
THE PACIFIC.—Report has added another candidate
for the chief command in the Pacific, about to be re-
linquished by Rear-Admiral Moresby, C.B. It is said
that Rear-Admiral Price is now the favourite.—Morning
Herald.

THE BAKERE.—Though the best wheat in London at
present is three per cent. cheaper than it is in Paris,
and though the first flour is three per cent. cheaper, the
best 41b. loaf in London is 23 per cent. dearer than in Paris.
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Parliamentary papers should be supplied to literary and
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mechanics' institutions. They recommend a supply on a
PAPERS.
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moderate scale at first.
SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. A
meeting of shareholders was held on Friday, in London,
when a resolution was passed condemning the policy of
the directors, and earnestly recommending the share-
holders to entrust their proxies to the committee ap-
pointed to watch the interests of the railway.
AN AMERICAN HUSBAND.—Mrs. Sophia Dodge, of
Lafayette, Indiana, thus cautions the public against her
faithless spouse:—" He is a villain, having stolen near
two hundred dollars from me when he left. He is a brute,
having been repeatedly proved unfaithful to his wife. He
is too lazy to work, too vulgar to be decent, too much
addicted to stealing to be honest. Said Dr. Loran Dodge
was at last accounts in Indianapolis, and expected soon
to leave for Cincinnatti, where he u ill attempt to pass off
for a gentleman Dv long as the money lie has stolen from
me lasts."
DRINKING A PINT AND A HALF OF BRANDT.—OD
Thursday evening, a man named Luke Lettall got into
the bar of the Horton Arms public-house, Failsworth,
and when discovered was in a state of perfect insensibilty,
but holding in his hand a bottle, out of which he had
drank nearly a pint and a half of brandy. The beast was
not restored to anything like consciousness for several
hours ; it being at first thought that he would lose his
life. He was handed over to the police ; and on Friday
morning, on being brought up at the New Bailey, he
was committed to hard labour for a month.—Manchester'
Guardian.

SHOCKING MURDER OF TWO CHILDREN IN BIRMING-
HAM, AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF THE MURDERESS.
—A murder, under peculiarly shocking circumstances, was
perpetrated in this town on Thursday night, or early on
Friday morning last. About ten weeks ago, a woman
named Ann Brookes, with two children, male twins about
two years old, took lodgings in the house of Thomas Ro-
berts, Eyre-street, near the Reservoir. From her remarks
it was rscertained that she had been cohabiting with a
hawker in Leicestershire, the father of the two children,
but that some time ago he deserted her, and she was re-
duced to beggary. On Thursday evening the children had
some milk given them by the mother, and were put to rest,
she herself retiring at the usual time. During the night
Roberts heard her moving about the room, and about six
o'clock she came down stairs and left the house, proceed-
ing first to a neighbour's house to assist in washing, and
then absenting herself in some place at present unknown.
Ten o'clock having arrived without the mother returning,
Mrs. Roberts went up stairs to look at the children, whom
she found apparently in a deep sleep. She therefore re-
turned, but mentioning to some of the neighbours that
their feet were quite cold, suspicion was excited ; the chil-
dren were again examined, when it was found that they
were dead. In the course of a short time Brookes returned,
intoxicated, and taking no notice of the persons in the
house she sat down, but soon fell from the chair to the
floor. On the death of the children being mentioned, the
unhappy woman started up, and ran in the direction of
the neighbouring canal, but was overtaken, and brought
back. Medical assistance was obtained, and it being evi-
dent that Brookes was labouring under the influence of
poison, the stomach pump was successfully applied. She
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ALLEGED MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS.

Captain John Wright Chapman, of the ship Cleopatra,
appeared at the Liverpool Police-court, on Friday, to
answer a charge of having caused the death of Joseph
White, on the 21 Oct. last. Sir George Stephen, bar-
rister, instructed by Mr. Oven, appeared for the pro-
secution ; and Mr. Aspinall, instructed by Mr. Forshapr,
for the defence. To give some idea of the case, Sit
George Stephen might state that the crew were obliged
to put the captain in irons, and divert the vessel from
her course under charge of the first mate. They reached
Barbadoes, where the captain was enabled to turn the
tables upon the crew, and charged them before the autho-
rities with mutiny, and several of them were punished.
He discharged them all, and shipped a fresh crew, and
then proceeded on to Bonny, his previous destination.
While at Bonny, the alleged manslaughter and aggra-
vated assault was committed. Mr. Mansfield accepted
bail for Captain Chapman's appearance on Saturday,
himself in £2OO, and two sureties of £lOO each.
On Saturday the investigation was resumed, when it
appeared from the evidence of William Duncan, the
carpenter of the Cleopatra, that the vessel sailed from
Liverpool for Bonny Rivr on the 16th of August, 1952'
with a crew of twenty-one men, including the master
(the defendant) and the mate. On the Ist of October,
in lat. 13 N. lon. 20 W., the Cleopatra fell in with a
vessel, commanded by Captain Harrison, called the Vicar,
of Bray. The two captains visited each other severs°
times, a boy named White being engaged in rowing the
boat of the Cleopatra from ship to ship. On the night
of the 2nd October, when it was very dark and squall
Y 1
the boat, in which White was placed, was 'wale..
close up to the Cleopatra, in a most dangerous
position. It was capsized once, but righted again'
and White still continued in it. This was pointed out
to the defendant : but, with an oath, he refused to make
the rope holding the boat slacker, or to let any one el
interfere with it. The result was, that the boat capsize,
once more, and the boy White was drowned, no effort
being made to find his body. Shortly after this the
crew seized the captain, kept him in irons in his ovio
cabin every night, and, under the direction of the first
mate, navigated the vessel to Barbadoes. Here the caP'
tain, by means of a doctor who boarded the Cleopatra,
communicated with the authorities on shore, and the
whole of the crew were taken into custody. They sh'
with the exception of the complainant, were tried for
piracy and mutiny, and sentenced to terms of imprisma•
meat varying from one to three years. No definite charge,
was here made against the captain, and he was not trio
or taken into custody for the alleged murder of white.
At Barbadoes he shipped another crew, and sailed agai°
for Bonny River, the complainant going with him. 00
reaching the coast of Africa the captain and the corn'
plainant quarrelled, the latter stating that he was Or
fined by the defendant on a marsh on shore, in irons, for
a fortnight, and only allowed half a pound of yam and
some palm oil per day. He returned to England i°
another vessel, first signing a document on board the
Cleopatra forfeiting his wages if the defendant would re'
lease him. After being here a fortnight, he communi'
cated with the police, by whom the captain was taken
into custody.

At the end of this witness's examination, a discuseil
arose between the opposing counsel and Mr. Mansfield
as to whether the latter could entertain the charge. gr'
Mansfield finally stated that, as the question appeared t°
have been fully investigated by the highest court in liar'
badoes, he was not justified in interfering in it. The
captain was then discharged, and left the room, but bel
was immediately arrested on a charge of manslaughter;
which, after a further discussion, it was arranged shout°
be investigated yesterday morning. #lO
The charge of manslaughter against the captain of
Cleopatra was investigated yesterday, before Mr. Mang'
field. Sir George Stephen appeared for the prosecuticnig
and Mr. Aspinall for the prisoner, both the learned gelli
tlemen being instructed respectively by Mr. Owen, an
Mr. Forshaw, solicitors, as in the charge of murder.

The first witness examined was—
William Cuddy said he was mate on board the Cleo'
patra. On the 18th of November last, he shipped him'
self at Barbadoes, and arrived at Bonny on the Ist (.1
February last. Knew a man on board named David
Armstrong. He was steward. Recollected the 10th,°
May last, when they were under the lee of St. Thomas e'
On that day Armstrong was flogged with a rope sent °,.;
Captain Chapman. Did not know why he was flogge°
a
but witness heard the captain tell him to stand up, a.°
he was unable. He endeavoured to stand, but fell age?'
Armstrong had complained to the crew that dept
of illness, but witness did not know before the
that he was ill. On Armstrong falling, the captain or"
dered the carpenter to heave a bottle of water on hi°3.;
and that was repeated, after which he was sent to ill'
berth. Witness saw Armstrong at night in his berth'
He was then sick. Armstrong soiled his bedding;
and it was found in a filthy state next morning. 5a.,,,°
after that he was turned out of his berth. Did not see Ik::1
strong for the next two days. That was on the 12tnd,
May, when he was brought up out of the forecastle• The
was helped up by two men, who lifted him out. tst,
forecastle is a small hatchway just before the fore_m;as
When he was brought up out of the forecastle, medical
laid on deck. Could not say whether he had aed ny ra
untilatt n dhaen cdied,e duringwhich the
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he was brought up. Whilst he was on deck. t t ly
d imme e
poured spirits down his throat, and he die
v Armstrong'
afterwards. Once before the 10th of --a-
was punished on deck for capsizing
then struck with the fist. He had before been struck
with the fist. On one occasion saw him struck on the
upper lip. Never heard him make any complaint of the
conduct of the captain. uanrteerreoni
By Mr. MANSFIELD.—Armstrong was a coloured man•
By Mr. ASPINALL—I' do not know whether Armstrong
was beaten for trading with the natives. He was a dirty
man. I believe he was turned out of the forecastle, be'
cause the crew would not have him he was so dirty. A
some paint. He Naas
Andrew Moody called.—l am a sailmaker. I shiePe'
on board the Cleopatra on the 15th of November at net;
badoes, and proceeded with her to Bonny. I knew am°,
on
adictci;
named David Armstrong. I recollect the 18th of Ablif
when we were under the lee of St. Thomas. The cap
asked the mate where he was. The mate replied that
was sick, on which the captain said " Go, and bring blt,°'a
Armstrong was sent aft to the captain. The e2otain ask
him what was to do with him. Arnast,ong's trowse'"
were down, and the captain asked hire co draw them tel;
or he would make him. Armstrong said he was not e°,,
to draw them up he was so weak. The captain then too'
a bit of line and struck him. Armstrong then fell dosc'i
on the captain, and the captain then went on the pooP of
called for the carpenter, and told him to bring a bucket
water and throw over that man. Subsequently the eaPt„.Bo%
told the carpenter to go and repeat it. Armstr,"
remained on the deck until late in the everum.'"
when a man named M'Quillam carried him into the f°r'ia
castle. He remained there until next morning, Wile,, dman named Tom Gracie went into the forecastle,:s
found that Armstrong had soiled his bed. Gracie, to
pe
him to come up and shift himself. Armstrong saw,,y9
was so weak that he could not. During the two t"'"
WI I
between the 10th and the 12th, Armstrong had food,
he could not eat it. On the morning of the 11th Gt°ol
took Armstrong up to the door of the forecastle, °,1,8
complained to the captain that he was a nuisance to 1;51
forecastle. The Captain said if he was a nuisance be tio 04
not go into the forecastle any more. Armstrong WO
asked the captain where he was to go. The OP" 0
told him to go into a cask. Armstrong remained ntil
deck all day. I saw nothing more of Armstrong °ial
the 12th, when the mate told us to get some canvass "tip,
sew him up. Armstrong was then dead. I sewed hit°,oo
and he was thrown overboard. On former occast'",o
Armstrong was often struck by the captain. I saw tbe
flog him in the hold on many occasions. 00
Cross-examined by Mr. ASPINALL : Armstrong bd
not a dirty man until after he was ill. i always the*lf6
him
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am not skulking, lam sick." I believe he was VI
sick, from what I saw myself. because, in a convell° go
with him on the 10th, he said to me, " When Y°° ~b 0
home remember me to my friends, for I am afraid I

never live to see my friends again."
Sir GEORGE STEPHEN said this was the case. be
Mr. ASPINALL then addressed the magistrates 013
half of the prisoner, contending that no case of °AO
slaughter had been made out. With regard to the be 00
of water being thrown on the deceased, it seemed tbe,,,,ls if
captain thought the deceased was skulking, but in t"00
appeared he was mistaken. When the deceased ,00
found to be really ill, the captain took the course wo
any other man would have done, and this was 911° OP
spirits haying been given to the deceased. The fa tto
the tl
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did not answer, and the man died ; but there was 11,i° ef'
andon ILI-00+1
offered, of .
Sir GEORGE STEPHEN again commencing to
the court, if
Mr. ASPINALL said that he had no right of ref",i'oierso
Sir GEORGE STEPHEN contended that his learnel". bt
rig af
was wrong. He (Mr. Aspinall) had, in fact, 00 j
appear there at all, and could only be regarded aste,se
present by courtesy, as the present step was ex Par 0.4e1
the magistrates had no alternative but to send thiel, 0
upon the evidence adduced, for the decision of a ln.r,
Some conversation having taken place betv/e"
magistrates and the learned counsel,
oAd dt'
Sir GEORGE STEPHEN was allowed to proc—je 0-0
urged that a case for committal had been fully 10 Del °lO
If the spirits had been administered even two daltt 13000
the deceased died, Mr. Aspinall's statement 0,,i4 010
amounted to something, but it was not done um': 05
the moment of death, when the deceased, in foe"
articulo mortis. , Arc • 0
Mr. MANSFIELD, in giving the magistrates :detl.o,
said the truth of the witnesses' statements was
and therefore the magistrates must take it upon I;eetteiof,
After remarking that the captain had evidently ilk,,ej
taken in supposing that the deceased was oOt Betts reo
Mansfield said it appeared that after he became ,elll,t
that he was ill he took the same course that a‘e'i tin
man would have done ; and although it would sf,t p
he acted with some degree of harshness, he dig,' Cooro
there was sufficient evidence of the captain 'tberely
having caused the deceased's death. He must
be discharged.

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LENT REMEDY FOR ABSCESSES AND OLD .i: docla",4l
Thomas Edwards, a labourer in Portsmouth ears be
received a severe hurt in his thigh, about four Y. foul I,
by a piece of timber falling on him. An the
.t elo.j
rao. c
in consequence of the injury, which defied tbe
Pell'ron°llP'
nent surgeons to heal,and hewas consequentlY P y, a b
incurable, and put on the superannuation list Tiezies! 0
sion. Being now at liberty to try other e,,'.;15, lialtil,
commenced using Holloway's Ointment .na A.-_,:‘, liesP
have so effectually cured him that he enjO.yav'—
iitikl ii 83 Well able to work as any man.