The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-08-14 00:00:00

IRISH BOGS.

Our readers will not fail to have noticed in the last
Parliamentary Reports the statement made by Mr.
O'Gorman Mahon relative to the value of the Irish bogs.
The following documents have since been published. They
detract somewhat from the extravagant representations
that were at first held out :
" A statement was made in the House of Commons, sanc-
tioned and supported by Lord Ashley, which, if not ea:ly con-
tradicted, may lead many into error. What he supports by his
authority is, that the peat bog of Ireland, 100 tons, at a cost of
labour, Ste., about £l6, will realize to the fortunate speculators
the enormous sum of £9l odd, and lie calls this a second Cali-
fornia. _ _ _

" Now, three years since a company was formed here among
the merchants and tradesmen, under six able directors ; they
leased the government premises on Dartmoor which were for-
merly occupied as and termed the French prisons, they erected
steam engines and laid out every apparatus considered neces-
sary, with train railways running across Dartmoor to the dif-
ferent bogs, where this peat could be had in the greatest per-
fection ; they produced from it naptha, ammonia, grease for
railways, or candles, gas, &c. It was burnt and used, and the
profits were held out as being equal to the Ashley statement,
for his products are correct. But, some how or other, it is a
failure. £20,000 and upwards have been expended ; my bro-
ther tradesmen, right and left,have suffered. Your correspont
dent here, or I, will furnish you, if worth your attention, with
all particulars in figures, and the cause of failure.
,4 I am, sir, your obedient servant,
" HENRY SEAM-4N.
" Bold-street, Plymouth, July 28."
Taking notice of this communication, Lord Ashley
writes :
" I did not in the statement express my own knowledge or
opinion of the value of Irish peat. I simply bore testimony to
the high character and respectability of the individual on whose
authority the statement was made.-1 am, sir, your very obe-
dient servant, " ASHLEY.

" August 2."
Mr. Owen, on whose experiments most of these asser-
tions were made, thus writes :
" With reference to the report in your paper of Saturday last
of a statement made in the House of Commons on theprevious
evening on the subject of Mr. Reece's patent for obtaining va-
rious products from Irish peat, I request permission to make
one or two corrections, in order that the public may be under
no misapprehension as to the facts. The two chief errors in
the statement, and which I am anxious to set right are—first,
that I had invested a large capital in the undertaking—had
already had a profitable return ; secondly, as to the quantity of
tons of peat which had been applied to the purpose during the
last twelve months.
" The fact, however, is, that experiments have hitherto been
made on only a small scale; one is now in progress in the
neighbourhood of London, for the satisfaction of the gentlemen
who have associated themselves with me for the purpose of
carrying on the undertaking ; the whole has not hitherto ex-
ceeded twenty-five tons ; no profitable return has been at pre-
; sent received ; and the whole money which has been ut present
expended does not exceed £lOOO.
" I am, sir, your very obedient servan t.
" W. D. OWEN.
" 44, Great Corans-stred, dKguat s."

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MUT:

NY ON BOARD THE AMELIA,
OF GLASGOW.

(From the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette.)

We have received the following account of a daring
mutiny on board this vessel, which resulted in the loss of
seven lives. The schooner Amelia was on her passage
from the coast of Mexico to Hong Kong, having on board
specie in gold and silver amounting to about £60,000, and
which led to the sanguinary occurrences that took place.
The Amelia was commanded by Mr. Robert L. Macnally,
a Scotchman ; besides whom a Spaniard, Don Ramon
Alva, acted as supercargo and principal master. The
crew consisted of nineteen persons, only two of whom,
lads about 18, were British subjects, namely, Thomas
Gannon and Charles M'Donald; the remainder were
Dutchmen, Norwegians, French, Spanish, Portuguese,
and Mexicans. There were besides, as passengers, a Mr.
and Mrs. Sarah Selina Cooke and her female servant.
The mutiny broke out about two o'clock on the morning
of the 3rd of October last year, and appears to have been
wholly confined to three of the crew, Jose Torres, Andres
Baldibiza, and Jose Calero. The second mate, Gaetano
Gomez, who had charge of the watch, was attacked and
murdered by these ruffians, when Mr. Alva came upon
deck, followed by Mr. Cooke, the passenger. The former
was immediately stabbed in several places; he managed,
however, to get down into the cabin to arm himself and
to alarm Mr. Macnally, but when endeavouring to force
his way upon deck, sword in hand, he was mortally
stabbed when he had reached the top of the companion
ladder. Mr. Cooke, the passenger, was their next victim ;
he was stabbed and thrown overboard. The mutineers
then went forward, called the larboard watch, and, show-
ing their bloody knives, told them they had murdered
every one aft except Mr. Macnally, Mrs. Cooke, and her
servant, Mary Hudson ; that they, the mutineers, were in
command of the vessel, and if one of them refused to obey
their orders he would be instantly murdered. The re-
mainder of the crew, having no arms to defend themselves,
had no alternative but to submit ' • large stones and pieces
of lead were then handed upon deck for the purpose of
destroying Mr. Macnally, who was still confined to the
cabin. At eight o'clock in the morning it was communi-
cated to him, that if he would lay down his arms and sub-
mit quietly, they would not take his life ; these terms he
refused, but said if they would allow him and the two
women the gig, with the necessaries he required, he would
give them no further trouble, and would direct the course
to steer. After a consultation this was promised, and
having got from him the course for Malabrigo, orders
were given to prepare the boat ; the vessel was at this
time ing to. Trusting to their faith, he went on deck
unarmed, when he was seized and thrown overboard with
weights ; the schooner then filled, and made all sail. The
next proceedings of these ruffians were what might be ex-
pected of them ' • they dressed themselves in the clothes of
those they had murdered ; took all the gold and distri-
buted it amongst the crew destroyed all papers and
writings which they considered offensive, with many valu-
ables, which were thrown overboard, and finally got at
the wine, and became more or less intoxicated. The fol-
lowing day, the 4th, J. Smit, a Dutchman ; W. Peter, a
Norwegian ; Frank Geering, of St. Michael's ; Jean Be-
renger, of Bordeaux ; and Joze de Averasturi, a Spaniard,
of Bilboa, proposed a plan to recover the vessel that
night, which they communicated to the rest of the crew,
four excepted, whom they were afraid to trust. Having
prepared for their enterprise an adze, the pump breaks,
some boarding pikes, &c., at 11 o'clock Jan Smit de-
spatched Torres and Baldibiza, who were sleeping upon
deck, and then fell upon Calero, whom he overcame after
a sharp btruggle. The bodies of these ruffians were then
thrown overboard, and Jan Smit took the command with
the consent of the crew, the lad Gannon being engaged
to navigate the vessel. Their first intention was to have
returned to Mazatlan, but the state of the weather, which
came on to blow, prevented this, and the course was
shaped for the Sandwich Islands, where, after a tempestu-
ous passage, she arrived safely at Honoluhu, on the 12th
of October, 1848.
The preceding part of this narrative has been of a me-
lancholy character: what folows is more pleasing. After
the mutineers had been got rid of, the money which had
been distributed among the crew was all brought aft and
deposited in the cabin—a meritorious instance of good
faith and honesty among so many men of different
countries. Through the judicious arrangement of Mr.
Miller, her Majesty's Consul-General for the Pacific
Islands, residing at Honoluhu, specie, amounting to
287,684 dollars was safely landed and taken charge of by
him ; a list was likewise taken of the effects of those who
had been murdered ; and, in fact, every thing in the vessel
was safely secured through the exertions of Mr. Miller, to '
whom much praise is due. It may be useful to mention
that among the papers found on board the Amelia were
three bills of lading, with corresponding letters of advice
and instructions from Jecker, Torre, and Co., of Mazat-
lan; one for 150,000 dols., consigned to Messrs. Turner
and Co., of Hong Kong, but for account and risk of
Messrs. Finlay, Hodgson, and Co., of London ; another
for 120,000 dols. to Messrs. Turner and Co., of Hong
Kong, in payment for a cargo previously ordered for ship-
ment in the Amelia on her arrival in China. The third
bill of lading was for 1,379 dols„ in favour of Mr. J. A.
Duran, of Macao ; 16.304 dols. were landed, for which
no bills of lading or other document could be found. We
nave now the gratification to state that Jane Smit, of
Rotterdam, whose conduct on this occasion is above all
praise, has been presented with £l,lOO by several of the
insurance companies; and also with a valuable sextant, by
Ashdown, otPinch-lane.

A " ragged church" has been in existence in Aberdeen
for the last eighteen months, and promises to produce
very beneficial effects.
The proprietors of John Knox's house. at Edinburgh,
have appealed to the Court of Session, against the decree
of the Dean of Guild Court, for its demolition.
On Sunday week, Mr. James Bird, master of the Free-
school of Codenham, was seized with a fit of apoplexy
whilst singing one of the psalms, and died in two hours.
A magnificent parhelion, or double sun, was observed
by the inhabitants of Weymouth, about six o'clock in the
evening of the nd ult., and continued visible about an
hour.

CONFIDENCE OF Rusu.—A correspondent states to us
that he has in his possession a letter written by Rush, in
Norwich Castle, previous to his trial. It is addressed to
a respectable female ; and the purport of it is that as, after
his acquittal, Miss Sandford would no longer reside with
him, he offers the situation of housekeeper to the person
to whom the letter is addressed. It is a singular fact that
Rush and Thurtell were bedfellows at the same school.
FATALITY FROM CH.OLERA.—A man named Craven
died at Leeds last week of cholera, and immediately after
his wife was carried off: During the holding of the in-
quest on Wednesday information was received that a
daughter of Craven's died that morning of the same dis-
ease, and on Friday Mrs. Tempest, a sister of Mr. Craven,
and who gave evidence relative to her brother's death,
also died from an attack of cholera.

THE PRESIDENT STEAMER.—OR Saturday, July 21, a
bottle was washed on shore at Queenbarough, Kent,
It contained a slip of paper, evidently hastily torn off a
serial publication, written with lead pencil, and related to
that ill-fated steamship the President. It stated that the
immediate destruction of the vessel and passengers was
inevitable. The slip of paper is in the possession of the
landlord of the first public-house northside Queen-
borough.—Maidstone Journal.
SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—OR Tuesday week, as the
coal train on the Swannington line was proceeding to
Leicester, and when near Glenfield, the engine driver
suddenly perceived a fine bullock appear on the line, and
turn to meet the train, head to head with the engine.
The animal ran directly up to its fiery antagonist, and by
the contact was killed on the spot. There was no time to
stop the train before the infuriated beast came up.—Lei-
ceder Journal.

MURDERS.—At the Devizes assizes, on Thursday, Re-
becca Smith was convicted of the murder of Richard
Smith, her son, by administering poison to him. The
prisoner had been the parent of eleven children, all of
whom except the eldest had died in extreme infancy. The
jury recommended her to mercy. Mr. Justice Creswell':
On what ground, gentlemen. Foreman : That she may
have time to repent, His lordship, without further re-
mark condemned the prisoner to death in very solemn.
terms.

ELOPEMENT.—A rich heiress of seventeen, named
Kealing, whose guardians reside in London, has eloped
with a young gentleman, named Boynton, the son of an
eminent Yorkshire baronet, and an officer in Prince
Albert's regiment, the 11th Hussars. He. too, is under
age. The young lady's stepfather obtained the assistance
of two policemen to regain possession of her, but it ap-
pears that their services were not required, a preliminary
treaty being agreed to on amicable terms.
FATALITIES FROM CHOLERA.—Major Moore, of the
82d regiment, died on Friday of cholera, at his quarters
at Devonport. The people at Merthyr are flying in all
directions, as fast as their circumstances will enable them,
and in consequence sufficient coals cannot be obtained for
the furnaces of the Dowlais iron-works, and they have
been obliged to be worked half time for some days. It is
feared they will have to be abandoned altogether, and the
effects would be fearful. At Merthyr 673 deaths have
taken place, at Dowlais 355, and at Aoerdare 51.
THE CHOLERA.—The deaths in the metropolis last
week from cholera were 926, being a great increase on
previous weeks. From the 13th July to August 6th, the
deaths in England and Scotland were 5358. In conse-
quence of the prevalence of cholera in the metropolis, Dr.
Wiseman, the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Metropo-
litan District, has caused a notice to be issued, under the
authority of the Pope, permitting the consumption of
animal food on the days set apart in each week for absti-
nence.
DEATH OF A SOMNAMBULIST.—A German in London
took up his lodgings at a German lodging-house in St.
George's in the East. and he slept in a room with ten
other emigrants, in bunks or hammocks, which were
fastened against the wall. On Thursday night he went
to bed in the usual manner, and about one o'clock the
following morning he was seen to leave his bunk and
crawl towards the window. Deceased appeared fast
asleep, and, before he could be prevented, he opened the
window, which was only four feet from the floor, then put
his feet out, and he fell to the ground. a distance of abcut
30 feet. He was immediately picked up, and his head
was found to be fractured in a most shocking manner.
He was removed to the hospital, where he died shortly
afterwards.

AN ANTIDOTE TO SEDITION.—The Earl of Carlisle,
at the Agricultural Meeting at Leeds last week, with his
wonted good humour, turned to practical account in
another direction a hint thrown out by Mr. Legard on
subduing the unruly dispositions of cattle, in the admi-
nistration of their daily meal of oil-cake. He said—lt is
a lesson, I think, which you might all apply to your muni-
cipalities—(laughter)--to your parishes, to your labourers,
to your servants'-halls, aye, even to your drawing-rooms.
(Laughter.) If you want to prevent people being contu-
macious—if you want to prevent them from growing
rusty—from kicking—in short. the best way is to give them
a good dinner. (Renewed laughter.)
THUNDER-STORM AT BANGOR.—A gentleman, writing
from Bangor, on Thursday, says :—" This place was
visited early this morning, between the hours of one and
two, by a most terrifie thunder-storm, accompanied by
very heavy rain. The house of Captain Atkins was
struck on the chimney by the electric fluid, which de-
scended into the bed-room underneath, killing and dread-
fully mutilating a lady of the name of Hobery, from
Birmingham, who was on a visit there, her husband
escaping without the least injury. The electric fluid
traversed the whole rooms in the underneath stories, de-
molishing every pane of glass in the windows. The
appearance of the interior of the rooms in the house
through which the fluid passed appear as if blazed by
gunpowder, the whole of the plastering being completely
scaled off the ceiling. A highly-respectable widow lady,
Airs. Ellis, of Penralt, has died also this morning of
fright, occasioned by the effects of the terrific thunder
and lightning. Several horses and cattle have also been
killed."

DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.—On Friday, Mr. John Lil-
lington Badcock, of Lymington, accompanied by his two
sons, his brother. Mr. Thomas Badcock, and Mr. Alfred
Clayton, both of that place, went in a boat to the fishing
ground off Boulner, Isle of Wight; where Captain Mac-
kinnon, in his yacht, hearing that Mr. Badcock's party
was short of bait, very obligingly offered them a supply
to obtain which Mr. Badcock brought his boat alongside
the yacht ; at this moment a gust of wind caused the
yacht's boom to jibe, which carried away the cleat of the
main sheet; the boom thereby struck the boat's mast and
spreet of her mainsail (which was dewed up), and in an
instant the boat filled rind sunk. Mr. Thomas Badcock
was dragged on hoard of the yacht by Captain Mackinnon ;
his crew, with all possible alacrity, jumped into the yacht's
boat and succeeded in saving Mr. Clayton and Mr. J. L.
Badcock, but the two sons of the latter, aged respectively
12 and 10 years, were drowned. Mr. Badcock was in the
water nearly twenty minutes before he was rescued ; be
saw one of his sons sink near him without a possibility of
reaching him.
EMIGRATION TO NATAL.—On Tuesday the Dread-
nought sailed from Gravesend with 120 cabin, intermedi-
ate, and steerage passengers for Port Natal, being the
third vessel despatched this season for that rising colony,
by Mr. J. C. Byrne, since he obtained those concessions
from the Emigration Commissioners that have enabled
him to confer land in the ratio of passage money, a steer-
age passenger acquiring 20 acres for £lO, priority of choice
being secured according to the date of entrance on each
ship's books. Originally Mr. Byrne was restricted by
government to the location of 500 settlers ; but the man-
ner in which he sent out his first two ships. the respecta-
bility, intelligence, and comparative affluence of the
passengers, and their general eligibility for the colony, so
favourably impressed the commissioners, that they have
extended the concession so as to embrace 200 adults.
Previous to sailing, Mr. Byrne, according to the excellent
custom he has adopted, entertained his passengers at
Pallister's Falcon Hotel, Gravesend, and gave them
a resume of the latest information from Natal, in-
cluding the actual condition of the emigrants.
EXTRAORDINARY AND FATAL ACCIDENT.— One of
the most singular catastrophes of which we have ever
heard occurred off the coast of Kincardineshire, on
Tuesday week. A large herring boat, which had been
engaged in conveying railway sleepers from Aberdeen to
Stonehaven, had discharged her cargo at the latter port,
and was returning to Aberdeen, when she was caught in
a sudden and violent whirlwind, which laid her on her
beam ends instantaneously, amidst a boiling vortex of
broken water. The crew were, of course, thrown out,
but they all succeeded in clinging to the capsized boat
except one man, who was observed to be floating about
stiffly, and with a peculiar and unnatural buoyancy. Mr.
Thom, of the mill of Muchals, with several fishermen,
having witnessed the catastrophe, put off to the assist-
ance of the crew, and succeeded in rescuing them, after
severe and highly praiseworthy exertions. The coast
guard were, also, promptly afloat and at the scene of dis-
aster. It was found that the man who had been observed
floating about so strangely had been killed by a flash of
lightning, which was observed, by parties on shore, to.
break over the boat at the very moment of the accident.
BAPTISM OF THE NON AND REV. BAPTIST ;NOEL.—
It having transpired that the Hon. and Rev. Baptist
Noel, who lately seceded from the Church of England,
and who has embraced the views of the Baptists, was to
be publicly baptized in John-street chapel, Mecklenburgh -
square, London, in the immediate vicinity of the chapel
in which the hon. and rev. gentleman had preached as a
minister of the Church of England for twenty-two years,
the chapel was crowded in every part long before the time
appointed for the commencement of the services. The
number. present must have been from 2,000 to 2,500,
while almost as great a number must have gone away
unable to obtain admission. The services of the evening,
after the usual preliminaries, were commenced by the
Rev. Mr. Shepherd, assistant to the Rev. Mr. Evans,
minister of the chapel, delivering a short sermon, chiefly
bearing upon the subject of adult baptism. Mr. Noel
himself then ascended the pulpit, and delivered the ad-
dress usual among gaptists before the administration of
the ordinance. The hon. and rev. gentleman spoke at
considerable length on the nature and obligation of adult
baptism, the whole of which period he was listened to
with the deepest attention. After some intervening de-
otional services the hon. and rev. gentleman descended
into the font, which is situated in the body of the chapel,
and was immersed by the Rev. Mr. Shepherd. Several
other persons were also baptised in succession. The
ceremony was witnessed with the deepest interest by the
vast crowd assembled on the occasion.
THE CHOLERA AND THE PLAGUE.—The latter fearful
visitation occurred in 1664, and, supposing the population
of London at 400,000• souls, we shall then be able to illus-
trate the actual ravages of a great plague. The victims of
the present epidemic have never yet, even by the highest
reports, reached in the metropolis a daily amount of. 150;
that is to say, not 1 in 10,000 of the population has been
carried off in any single day, while the highest weekly
return yet declared has been 926. Now, in the year 1664,
from August 22 to September 26, the bills of mortality,
incorrect and incomplete as they were, gave the following
specification of the numbers who had died of the plague
in five successive weeks, viz., 7,496, 8,252, 7,690, 8,297,
6,460, making a total of 38,195, so that almost one-tenth
of the entire population perished in little more than a
month ! Indeed, it was subsequently calculated by those
of the survivors, who nad the best means of judging, that
at this particular period of the visitation fully 10,000 a
week died from the plague alone, while the seven-day bills
of general mortality were swollen to a total of nearly
11,000 from an ordinary average of about 260. so that the
deaths of the season were actually multiplied fortyfold!
and even when the plague was considered to have been
stayed, and all was thankfulness and joy, the weekly mor-
tality amongst this decimated community of some 350,000
souls was more than treble that among our own popula-
tion of 2,000,000. at the height of an epidemic. The weekly
average of deaths in London at this season is 1,008. Un-
der a mortality like that of the great plague we should
have seen it returned last week at about 41,000, wheress
it reached but 1,967.
CAUSES OF CHOLERA.—On the 9th, there were four
cases registered of death from cholera in Church-lane,
London. In Kennedy's-court, which contains only five
houses, there have been eight deaths from cholera. The
epidemic broke out in every house, and in one there were
as many as five cases. On Friday, some of these horrid
dens were closed, but there were others still open, and in
one apartment, not more than twelve feet by seven in
size, in disgusting proximity to a closed-up privy, four-
teen human beings had slept on the preceding night.
Yet the inmates, who it is unnecessary almost to say
were Irish, called this sink of filth their " parlour," and
seemed rather proud of it than otherwise. In 3, Church-
lane, there have been six cases of cholera, which have all
proved fatal. In 84, Dudley-street, which is in the
immediate neighbourhood, there are six rooms, in all of
which the disease has shown itself. Many of the cases
which have occurred have been, removed to the work-
house, and have been attended to there, but many prefer
to be left to die in a manner with which the fate of the
beasts that perish can stand no comparison. Take, for
instance, the case of Mrs. Conolly, the wife of John
Conolly, living at 18, Church-lane—a woman 22 years of
age, with a child at the breast. She was seized with
cholera about one o'clock on Tuesday last, and was dead
at eight. When Dr. Lightfoot and Mr. Simpson visited
her, shortly before she expired, they found her laid upon
a mattress placed outside the doorway of the room in
which she lodged. The stench from privies in the yard
was almost insupportable. The poor dying creature had
about fifty or sixty people crowded around her, and at an
adjoining window, looking composedly on the scene, was
a man in a perfect state of nudity. The woman would
have received no medical aid whatever if Dr. Lightfoot
and Mr. Simpson had not come to her assistance.
A WIFE, A WIDOW, AND A WIFE, IN A WEEK.—The
delectable neighbourhood of North Corner, in Devonport,
was yesterday in an extasy of enjoyment and hilarity (not-
withstanding the pestilence, which has been doing more
than ordinary duty there lately.) Some ten days ago
there was a black waterman who plied at Devonport,
named Jack Clyne, who was married to a white woman.
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For a time (short of course) Jack's wife was inconsolable •,
but there was another black man serving the office of
captain's cook, on board her Majesty's ship Queen, who
came to sympathise with the charming widow Clyne, and
he thought that the best way of doing this effectually was
by marrying her himself. Being probably afraid of the
practical jokes of his messmates, it was arranged that the
wedding should be by licence, and yesterday it positively
came off at Stoke Church, when the happy twain were
made one, within a week of the original blackie being put
under the turf. The cook's comrades had, however, got
scent of the affair, and yesterday eight of them came ashore
in a boat, with their trousers turned up to their knees,
their arms and heads hare, and their legs, arms, and faces
all blackened. In their hair they had fastened bows of
red bunting—they also carried a red flag, and one of them
had a biddock, while the rest carried shovels, with which
they said they were going to dig Jack Clyne up again to
see his old sweetheart. In this trim these merry tars par-
aded up and down Cornwall-street, and all round that
neighbourhood. They then dressed up an effigy as nearly
as possible like the bride, even to her cap and flowers,
and this they sent to their comrades on board the ship to
be hoisted up to the mast-head. We were informed that
the effigy was so honoured, much to the amusement of all
who saw the affair, who looked upon it as a good practical
joke against both parties. Plymouth Journal.

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Fissuarn FOR THIEVES.—At the Mansion-hoe-. cot
don, on Monday, a woman, named Emma Hatntiiicis(
brought up and committed for trial on a charge er_Prorel
pockets ; having been detected by means of a rataoe
contrivance. The complainant, a German proles-
he had lost some silk pocket-handkerchiefs in th.e.heelti,
bourhood of Lombard-street, in consequence 05 1,...ed to
genuity of the London thieves, and he bad detenna jber
lose no more. In order to secure himself from ;01
plunder of the kind, he had fastened a strong P!_bich
black silk thread to the corner of a Handkerchief band,
he put into his pocket, and he hild the thread in I.'lattig
in order to check the next thief who should mat,,ared
at his property. Down Lombard-street he went, Pr`tely be
to do justice to himself and society, but unfortue° upped
did not catch a proper hold of the thread, and out P, 'sod
his handkerchief once more without his knowleag`;inat
off went the thief with complete impunity. Dabancl.
to catch somebody, he armed himself with an mote'
kerchief, and into the same locality he walked 0151 aion3
In his last attempt he succeeded. As he PasaSk 03
Lombard-street, with the hand to which the 74ent
attached in his trousers pocket, he suddenly felt
bite, and starting round he pounced upon the r_7 into
who was endeavouring to put the fatal handkercaps PO,
her bosom, and was soon placed in the custody' °I
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THE CRIMINAL LAW COMMISSION._Tbe egooP,;'
of her Majesty's commissioners for revising and ea
dating the criminal law has been laid before Paneport
and since ordered to be printed. The preseadsre
contains the revision of the digest of the law of r7i-Jers'
in respect of indictable offences, referred to the e!9,11-01, the
tion of the commission, and the draught of a_nis!flas Pre:A
purpose of consolidating into one statute the v'''forit,'"
visions of such digest. The commissioner's halects til„ef
some important alterations of the law as re3fdsnre ,""
drawing of indictments, with a view to the so,. alto to
those flaws which have afforded so great a seaa`olsl3_,l°
administration of criminal justice in this country, repose"
to the curtailment of prolixity. They have also tetini
considerable alterations in the law as regards theSce
of warrants by. justices of the peace, the agents- 05'
examination of an accused person's witness bete tarried
tice of the peace, the binding over of infants andd Pry
women to prosecute, &c., grand juries, juries, 1,-utica''
process, pleas of autrefois acquit, costs of Pr°s; 053:
and other matters of less general consequentala a"
hluanygeeaelbsoe pursoedpoasseda thatm udceo coroners' efurrs ianiqeuhisairteioen, sansectub.sttrol,
power at present possessed by a coroner of comm....fie "'
trial any person against whom a verdict of m"',,„01t1b6,,
manslaughter shall have been found before him s.'„d au,
abolished, and that henceforth the coroner sh°"ftskia*
have authority to issue a warrant for the purnea.e Thel
such a person before a magistrate for examinatrou•buop
have also suggested the abrogation of the law °f orar
cry," as a primitive course of proceeding unsuited 5
dern habits.
PROTEST OF ITALIAN RESIDENTS IN (jell
AGAINST POPERY.—On Friday, a meeting of
resident in the metropolis, was held at the Wester° •to of
rary Institution, Leicester-square, " for the discus :10 of
the religious questions involved in the present stonger
Italy, and urging the Italian people to protest nfropetl
against the Pope merely, but against the system of to Oa
itself. The proceedings were conducted accordinrl,,et of
rules of public meetings in Italy, and were threo,r',`::,,
dai
ereumeeari ren
markable cllitaalriaacuteira.o
sTuaiigeespeakerslalrosledlyttbblieesadi:
large number were present, took an active part 0, „tom
cussion of the questions brought under constaeLper:
many of them rising to make observations on the ssa
tive addresses. Signor G. V. Vignati took the cla°4loor
the meeting was addressed by the Cavalier Fenai, 100
Raffaello, di Roma, Professor Gabriele Rosati, Siwnor
Boccalossi, Signor Susinni, and other gentlemen' $e the
Mappei thought it was no longer of any use to oPPabe be.
Pope as an individual or as a temporal prince, tbr odd
lieved that the whole system of Roman Catholicism their
to degrade the people, and obstru t th progress of
C e • f ttere-
political independence. They wished to be un e bar
their acknowledgment of " one faith, one Lord, 00e, oli.
tism." In fact they wished to get rid of the wh°'egriP'
trial machinery of the Church of Rome. Signer oar
pei enlarged upon these topics amidst constant ir,lif,e po'
tions. So great indeed was the disturbance. that s%dr
lice were frequently called in to quell it. Several ge Pte.
men (zealous Roman Catholics and advocates of Oaf tbs
sent system) were forcibly expelled. In the midst3Thag
confusion the following resolution was adopted 000
this meeting, highly condemning as tyrannical, fma play
anti evangelical, and impious, the conduct of pope re'
IX., invites all the Italian patriots to follow the tr ors,
ligion of Jesus Christ, as followed by their anefnirinit
throwing aside their Papal Church, which is e°°„l-Irs 5°
against the liberties of the people."—A vote of tha-taaill
not one oTfhtehsetalgenaastutsiwgnaitfierrasnateeofbghienull
the chairman closed the proceedings. This is art- the
sgigit'os be
turbW ed.
ESLXYAN CONFERENCE.—EXPULSION 017,111 a'_ha
JAMES EVERETT.—The Wesleyan 'limes of 315)°„lia,l.riv.e*
tWheedbnoedsyeiayas,
Eginygeslisandmeesncr,iption of the manner '"Drotrr
correctly reported. "On th
the proceedings against Messrs. Everett, Burdsall, 01
ley, &c., has been conducted, but which for the ere beet'
longing to the York district being successively called, to
in answer to the question, ' Are there any objeetVrictlf
John Burdsail or James Everett ?" None' was des Hope
and emphatically announced by the chairman : that's," to
in reference to ministerial ability—none in refereT4 is
moral and religious character—none as to a berdisci;
Wesleyan doctrine—none as to the observance °` awes'
wee
nameswould olifoptkeetsinfisotteoo,!;,
pline." On Mr. Everett's appearing at the bar, 57,ter.
preliminary questions were put, after which he 'vas t°
rogated respecting the fly sheets. Mr. E. is rePer*:;sn:
have said :—" If authorship is your object I leave, n"
swer to give to your question, yea or nay add'ults i°
know the feeling that has been excited, and nower the
this Conference against me—a feeling that disquali the
brethren from judging." * * "That," aidf
tbo
Doctor (Hannah, we believe), affects the motives ° or
brethren, and you have no right to impute improllert
tives to them."l * * Mr. Eyerett— Wu! who
terpretation am I to put upon the motives of raeitbe°
fill the public mind with prejudice against me, an sites'
with a view to get me to criminate myself, turn th?, ore
leyan Conference into an Inquisition ? You shroill'
no answer to the question from me, at the risk 01 eif yOtS
sion from the Connexion. My, mind is made uP• niy
ac
have any charge to prefer against me, show mein-e
sCeUlSfert So—mleterthememapucTehtheeiwr eevsildeyeannce,Tainniedl eslteaut:ieetlir;
Mr. Everett's remarks were received with derisive $OO
that his accusers and their evidence were withhei",n'atee,
that three of his accusers were placed on the ce'r7glol
appointed to consider his case. We should be cerLeeo7l
to be able to contradict these statements, but we deed
it just to Mr. Everett—(who has long been coos, ~*)..413
ptonenuebrli
publish
hd theethuel
omgg
irue gnl reatest ornamentsßAlera.uvueur
et
passedo fan d thata
observationhcoi
gnhn e
an wisepPoi:
made as to the injustice of expelling a member on sr
cion. On the motion of the Rev. Samuel JacloStae,3
conded by the Rev. John Rattenbury, the Wtt. SS,'
Everett was expelled. On the motion of the i
Naylor, seconded by Dr. Newton, the Rev. John Jan'
5
sail was to be censured from the chair. The Rev left'
Bromley's case was not finished when the reeer;'thefe
We have no sympathy with the flysheets ; we thin -t
is no excuse for anonymous slander ; but, we m,iThse
that if the above report be substantially correct, 5-f Or
ceedings have been un-English, and unworthy °
Wesleyan body. a dread
FATAL THUNDER STORM.—On Wednesday bo,
storm of thunder and rain visited this locality. fi,„lig.a';
in the Dog Bank, in Newcastle, was struck by '7001.°1
ing, which shivered a strong jamb in a partition tor;
a portion of the side of an upstairs apartment, °rroo"
by a person named Young. Descending int,°, "neni:f
below, where its course is marked by two sma" eroort"
in the brick-work, on each side the fire-place, 00,1, art
being driven out, it struck the inmate, a Mrs. Scot °weal,
was cleaning the hearthstone at the time. Fora "' 130 t,,
she was stunned, but quickly recovered her sensea'Ang
her legs and arms were burned ; and her wedding' it Ito
discoloured and distorted, that it appeared as OP-d
been thrown into a fire. One of her children '7 o°,',
severely and another slightly burned. All three a•,;
recovering. At the same time some pictures hangSbP:s
the fire-place were destroyed, and a large
was
°Li-to t"
ter, which stood upon the mantel-shelf, was hurleu Jul
opposite side of the room. The roof of ISfrrit,
Mather's house, in St. Mary's-terrace, was stra- 1-,
injured,owmfaostvheselmdruTacwhheing
room lightning
athen
struckenteredthrough
of the drawing room and struck a ahog3O
,:eiyb 1 eil!keti..e.i
that a part of it has hadl°,, cent'
which Mr. and Mrs. Mather were sitting•
both stunned by the suddenness of the occurre° of
slluasrtadieanesdnen,ofivueurry-emluatthermiaaluinujfuareytu.
reTe,hßeigpgrefnmiasreb,tsort,A
the Central
dEaxmeahgaeug;
eanwdaspasrttruoefko, naenuof:hpeortio:tobll't
thrown against the widow of Mr. Wilson, draPer'the
half-past two o'clock the electric fluid entered • lioti
chimney of the house of Mrs. Hall, publ,ls'ry,ll;
Benton, and caused the instantaneous death 05 The "'IO
a
daughter, and severely injured the servant girl. ,a were
ceased and servant were together in the passage' sne
thrown down. The deceased was much burnt. „na „4
a steel busk, which appeared to have attracio-, *7,
lightning. A picture frame, in the upper redeplasteio
shattered to pieces, and a quantity of bricks an fluidto
ing thrown down the chimney. The electric estaof
entered the roofs of two cottages on Mr. Wils°l4icles it
at Forest Hall, and broke and injured various article'
"0,
furniture : fortunately the occupants were from ibigtefot
the time. At Shankhonse Colliery, near Crha:neY.tai
six men had gone into the bottom of a large °"" " 0
shelter, when the lightning came down the chiPTlig $ gds
struck them. One man was in the act of Peint,}he otli
at a wild duck, and he was killed on the spot. 13e°° ot
are expected to recover. At a shrubbery, Dear thetr%,
by the second mile stone, a tree was struck, al ur t-
god of
split down. The storm did not extend bevon
mediate neighbourhood. In the neigfibourA gas%
Bishop-Auckland the storm was very severe:
named John Stephenson, was proceeding nlpena!,
from Byers' Green, along the railway to NeTr, slolLnu;
ibneoinogr,twakheenn huep,wwasasstarulcikfelbeyss teuherpeslee-ctricArrfiw.°loiera'aro astiorti
about the same time, who had come from, Green,
her husband, while in a house in Byers' nbe nit
struck down, and many articles of furniture 111_,1000
were thrown about and broken. The woman '"
a very precarious state,—Newcastle Cotoraill•

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