The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-14 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE

Her Majesty's steam-packet Widgeon, Capt. Hamilton, is
ordered round from Dover to Ramsgate, to take on board
their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, Count
d'Arschot, General Goblet, M. Van Praet, and the rest of
the royal suite. The King and Queen will make a short so-
journ at Ostend ere they return to Brussels.
PRINCE GEORGE OF CAMBRIDGE.—IiiS Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge has purchased Coombe Wood, near
Kingston,-the beautiful seat of the late Earl of Liverpool, as
a residence for the Prince George. Lands in the neigh-
bourhood of the. seat have also been bought for the royal
duke, who, it is stated, intends the prince to have an estab-
lishment of his own in the course of the autumn.
The marriage between Lady Anne Wentworth Fitzwilliam
and Mr. Mackenzie is to be solemnised about the middle of
next month, at Wentworth House, the seat of the Earl Fitz-
william, in Yorkshire. There will not be any festivities in
honour of Viscount Milton, 111. P., as stated.
The rumoured marriage of Miss Philips with Viscount
Duncan, M.P., will not take place until early next season.
We are sorry to bear that unfavourable accounts of the
slate of Lord Deethurst were received yesterday. His lord-
ship is at his seat Burton-on-the-Hill, Worcestershire, sur-
rounded by his lady, daughter of the late Sir Charles
Cockerel', and his nearest relatives.—Morning Herald.

Tee grand tournament intended to be given by the Earl
of Eglintoun, at Eglintoun Castle, his seat in Scotland, in
the ensuing spring, is deferred until the following year, in
.consequence, it is said, of the vast preparations.
ACCIDENT TO LORD ROLLE.—On Tuesday last, Lord
Rolle had attended the sessions at Woodbury, and was re-
turning to Bicton, driving himself in a four-wheel phaeton ;
when about half way home the carriage broke, the fore part
dislodgint, itself from the hind part, so that the horse was
separated from the carriage—the body of the carriage over-
turning and falling on Lord Rolle, by which his lordship
dislocated his shoulder, and was otherwise bruised. A mes-
senger was immediately despatched to Bicton for the carriage
(his lordship sitting on the bank the while) when he pro-
ceeded home, and the dislocation was reduced. We may
add that the servant, who was sitting on the dickey, was
thrown a considerable distance. We are glad to be enabled
to state that up
to last night the noble lord was doing par-
ticularly well, without any fever or dangerous symptoms
whatever.—Western Times of Friday.
WALMER CASTLE, MONDAY.--The Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Salisbury, Lord and Lady Fitzroy Somerset and
Miss Somerset, and the Right Hon. Charles Arbuthnot have
arrived on a visit to the Duke of Wellington. Lieut.-Col.
Gurwood, editor of the published despatches of the illustrious
duke, is expected to join the party to-morrow. General Lord
Comberinere and Lord and Lady Mahon are also expected at
Widmer ere the close of the season; 1.1. e latter ale detained at
their town residence, in Grosvenor-place, by the approaching
accouchement of her ladyship. His grace has directed that his
magnificent mansion at Hyde-park corner shall be thoroughly
embellished during his absence. His grace and distinguished
visitors avail themselves of the present delightful weather to
take daily sides to Dover, Deal, and Walmer.—Morn. Het'.
TUNBRIDGE WEL r.s.—Arrivals last week at the Mount
Ephraim Hotel—the Marquis of Conyngham, the Earl of
Onslow, Lord Cranley, Lady Augusta Cranley, General Sir
M. Peacock, Hon. W. Ashley, Major-Gen. Cope, Mrs. Cope,
John Gurney, Esq. and family, Lynch Lynch. Esq., &c.
RAMSGATE continues exceedingly full of visitors, and the
town has never been more lively and prosperous than during
the present season. The Princess Sophia takes her usual
drives and walks upon the pier, which is also visited by the
families of Lord Winchester and Lord Scarborough. The
Right Hon. IL C. Fergusson, M.P., and Sir H. Parnell,
M.P., have also paid visits to Ramsgate. Capt. Boldero,
M.P., and family, remain, as do Gen. and Mrs. Newberry,
Sir C. and Lady Coote, Sir J. Lambert, and Col. Cameron.

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland are entertaining a
party of friends at their seat Lilleshall, Staffordshire.

Mr. Beaumont's (M.P.) new and magnificent pleasure
yacht was brought into Scarborough od Saturday. This is
the most superb vessel of its kind ever sent to sea, and cost
£20,000.

It is with sincere regret we state that the hopes entertain-
ed of Lord Deerhurst's recovery are not well founded. His
lordship is now lying in the greatest danger.— Worcester
Journal.

On Saturday week a fisherman at Parkgate, on hauling in
his net, found in it a live turtle. It measured five inches
wide, fourteen inches long, and weighed I3lbs.

SIB JOSIAH GUEST.—It is rumoured that Sir Josiah John
Guest, Bart, M.P., is likely to become the purchaser of the
large landed estates of Lord Moyston, in Montgomeryshire,
which are shortly to be sold.—Monmouth Beacon.
Lady Noel Byron has arrived at Havre from Rotterdam.

The Duke of Wellington, it is confidently stated, intends
being present at the approaching Gloucester music meeting.
—Hereford Journal.

REGISTRATION.—We understand that the Registration
Court for the county of Aberdeen has now closed its sittings,
and that the results are highly favourable to the conserva-
tive interest.—Aberdeen Journal.

The registrations throughout Scotland, we are rejoiced to
state, are almost without exception largely in favour of the
conservatives. We shall state the results in a future num-
ber.—Edinburgh Evening Poet.
Steam navigation was first introduced on the Danube not
more than eight years ago, and there are at present thirteen
steamers, whose united force amounts to 1,082 horse power,
plying on that river as far as the Black Sea.

The monument in the burying-ground of Laecken, near
Brussels, to the memory of Madame Malibran, is now
finished; it consists of a small circular chapel, in which is to
be placed the statue, by Geefs, of this lamented cantatrice.
The design is said to be remarkably elegant.

ROCHDALE LITERARY SOCIETY.—At a meeting of the
members of this society on Thursday last, Mr. John Roby
was unanimously elected an honorary member thereof. This
gentleman has signified his intention to give a number of
lectures at some future period to the society, on the physi-
ology of plants.

A Belgian journal states. that in consequence of the com-
pletion of the railroads in that country, 21 undertakings of
public conveyance have been given up, 19 of which were on
the same lines as the railroads; but that, on the other hand,
54 new undertakings, communicating principally with the
termini of the railroads have been set a going.
EPISCOPALIAN ADULT BAPTISM.—On Wednesday even-
ing a young lady was publicly baptised by total immersion
in a large tub, at St. Martin's Church, Leicester. The bap-
tism was performed in the tub in which was baptised the late
Mr. Butler. It is not generally known that persons of full
age can demand this description of baptism.—Leicester
Herald.

In consequence of an Irishman, who was smoking his pipe
in the farm yard of Warrington Lodge, on Monday morn-
ing, letting fall some fire near a stack of old oats, six value-
able stacks of corn and clover were totally consumed, and it
was with great difficulty that the house and outhouses were
saved.—Morniny Herald.

NOVEL PROJECT.—A large assembly of French and Eng-
lish capitalists is about to meet at M. Lafitte's, to discuss cer-
tain projects for turning to advantage the Philippine Islands
and other colonies belonging to Spain. This may give rise
to a new kind of India Company, with a new flag, sheltered
from the chances of war.—Journal de Paris.

Four men in the employ of Mr. Wheeler, at Brom Park,
near Cleoburv, a few days since, while at harvest work, were
taken ill with inflammation of the bowels, it is supposed from
taking cold drinks too freely while heated with their work.
Two of the four are since dead, and the others have been
seriously Rt.—Worcester Paper.
A LARGE TROUT.—A fresh-water trout was exposed for
sale at the fish-stall of Mr. Clark, on Tuesday morning week,
which weighed 71 lbs., and measured from tip of snout to end
of tail 261-inches; in girth,' 151 inches, and was remarkably
plump and well-grown. It was caught at Low Wood, near
Ulverstone, on the preceding evening, and weighed, when
taken out of the water, 71 lbs.
On Sunday last, the people belonging to the brig Enter-
prise, Capt. Fletcher, caught six sharks, not more than a
mile from our West Pier. The bait which led to the capture
of these monsters was a tempting one—pork steeped in-
brandy. Bathers along shore had better keep a sharp look-
out after this notice, lest they come out of the water minus a
foot, after indulging in a dip.— Whilehaven Herald.
Mr. Manners, of Rtissell-street, had missed specimens of
rare articles from his room repeatedly, and discovered that
they vanished when he let ',jib:, window open. Determined
to discover the: thief, he openead his window and secreted
himself, when he obserrcl a ma „e ie, the property of a neigh-
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GREAT BANKRUP:94,IIIiII die Bankruptcy Court, on Tues-
day week, General*Palmer's affairs were the subject of in-
vestigation. It was stated that the liabilities of the estate
were £150,000, while not a shilling in the shape of assets has
been received. The official assignee said he had no means
of scrutinizing any of the claims made, as General Palmer
had never kept books or accounts of his transactions as a
wine merchant.

An immense berring was caught on the Skinburness coast
on Saturday morning last, by John Beattie. It was of the
extraordinary length of 16 inches, 81 inches in girth, and
weighed 191 ounces. The fish was presented to Mr. William
Armstrong, nialtster, Cockermouth, and the measurement
and weight were taken after it had been broughtto that town,
in the evening of the day on which it was captured, when it
may be supposed to have wasted considerably.
LIABILITY OF GENTLEMEN'S PARKS TO BE RATED.—III,
reply to the question—Are gentlemen's parks, where they
feed their deer, liable to the poor rate ? the poor law com-
missioners have stated, " that under the terms of the paro-
chial assessment act, all messuages, lands, and other heredi-
taments described in the 43.1 Eliz. are still subject to the
rate, and that there is no authority nor reason, that the com-
missioners are aware of, for the exemption of gentlemen's
parks from that liability."
AFFECTING SDICIDE.-Thomas Williams; of Pencoyd, an
old man, upwards of 80 years of age, committed suicide on
Sunday, the 26th ult., under the following circumstances !
The unfortunate man had, by great frugality, saved nearly
.£7O, on which he was subsisting, when some miscreant broke
into his cottage, and robbed him of every farthing he pos-
sessed in the world. On applying to, the guardians for re-
lief, he was offered the workhouse, which he refused, and
went home and hung himself.—Hereford Paper.
DARING AND INGENIOUS ItOBBEI:Y.—A .most daring
robbery was committed towards the middle of last month in
a diligence on the road from,Vienna to Milan. The trunks
and boxes containing the stolen articles, which consisted of
jewellery, plate, Cachemere shawls; uniforms, &c. addressed
to different persons in Milan, and which are valued at about
£16,000, had been placed on the imperial of the diligence,
the interior of which was occupied. by a family of most re-
spectable appearance, consisting of an elderly gentleman,
who was styled "the baron," two 'young men of most pre-
possessing exterior, an attractive young female, who appear-
ed to be about six months gone in the family-way, and a
femme-de-chambre. On arriving within a few miles of Milan,
the young lady complained of illness, declared herself unable
to proceed further; and the whole party accordingly alighted,
and sought accommodation in one of the villages bordering
the road to Chiavenna, having first taken their baggage from
the rotande, in which it had been placed at their express de-
sire. As soon as the diligence stopped at Milan, the im-
perial was inspected, and the trunks and boxes were found in
their places, but emptied of their precious contents On
further examination it was found that the interesting travel-
lers, who had so suddenly quitted the interior, had sawed the
roof of the vehicle, and, through the aperture thus effected,
had been enabled to rifle the valuable packages placed over
their heads.—Galignani's Messenger.

THE PORTUGUESE. SLAVE TRADE --The Jamaica Watch-
man contains au article relative to unheard-of atrocities com-
mitted on board one of the slavers, of which the capture war
some time ago announced by her majesty's ship Snake, off
the coast of that island. The narrative was obtained from
two young negro girls of 12 or 13 years of age, forming part
of the cargo of 250 Africans. According to their account,
the blacks were at first " taken tolerable care of on board
the slaver, but provisions became short, and then the flesh of
negroes who had died was corned and boiled for them; that
subsequently live negros were killed for the purpose on deck,
part of their flesh being dressed, and part being corned for
use; that more than one or two people were killed for that
special purpose; that the elder negroes, and not the young
people, were taken ; that when selected, those who were to be
killed were kept on deck, the others were sent below • upon
which the white :people (the crew) felled them to the deck
with sticks (their sereams were heard by all), and then cut
their throats, when, of course, the work of pickling and pre-
paration for food commenced ; that the•slaves did not at first
understand that they were eating human flesh, but afterwards
when they did so, they revolted at it, and much was thrown
overboard." Such were the horrible and disgusting atroci-
ties deposed to by these unhappy victims of a Portuguese
slaver, who, with other of the survivors, were landed from the
captured vessel at Montego Bay, and had been allotted as
apprentices to the benevolent person who, by dint of repeat-
ed inquiries, had drawn from them these dreadful details.
It was stated that he had, moreover, forwarded a relation of
all the circumstances to the secretary for the colonies.

TERNIINUS TO THE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM I? AlL-
greatness of dimensions constitutes beauty of form,
the entrance to the Birmingham railway, Euston-square,
possesses this quality. When we stand at the foot of one of
the columns, there appears a certain degree of vastness which
astonishes and overawes us; but seen from a distance, this is
not the case, for the whole effect is then poor and meagre. A
mere screen Of -Colurrni, Without much depth, is almost sure
to produce a poor effect, for the want of a background, which
a building of greater depth gives. 'r his building may be
called a screen of double Doric columns in antis' surmounted
with a triglyphed entablature and pediment. On each side
are two plain square buildings (used as offices), with coupled
pilasters at the angles; and between these buildings are
elaborately ornamented gates. On theapex of the pediment
of the centre is acrolerium; and the cymatia of the sides are
ornamented with lions' heads, surmounted with antefixia.
The roof is covered with stone, io imitation of the Greek
temples; the columns are about 50 feet high. Such is the
Colossian entrance to the Birmingham rail Way. The stone
of which it is erected is Yorkshire Bramley Fall.—Architec-
tural Magazine.
WILL OF THE LATE PETER HOLFORD, ESQ.—The will
of the late Peter Holford, Esq., a barrister, and late of the
Isle of Wight, had just passed under the Prerogative Court
of the Archbishop of Canterbury. It is in the hand-writing
of the testator, who bequeaths the whole of his immense and
princely fortune (with the exception of £5OO which is left to
the executor), amounting to upwards of £1,000,000, exclusive
of the freehold, leasehold, and copyhold estates of great value
(including the magnificent mansion at the Isle of Night), in
different counties, to his nephew, Mr. Holford. The stamp
on the probate was £15,000, and the further duty will be
about £30,000 more, making-a total payment to the govern-
ment of a sum of £45,000 out of a single estate. It is an
extraordinary fact that the will is contained (a striking con-
trast with the will of the late Lord Eldon, which occupied
48 close-written skins of parchment) on one side of a.sheet
of letter paper. With the exception of the late Mr. Roths-
child and Mr. Rundell (of the well-known firm of Rundell,
Bridge, and Rundell, goldsmiths, of Ludgate-hill), the stamp
duty upon the upper value (a million) is seldom called into
operation, £15,000 being the highest probate duty.
THE BITER BIT.—On SundaY morning a railroad man
named Jim, went into the inn at West Haddon, and leaving
his basket in the kitchen, went into the tap to drink a pint of
beer. The landlord, being tempted by curiosity, opened the
basket, in which be found a leveret, and doubting Jim's either
being licensed or allowed to shoot, he thought he ran no risk
of being publicly complained of it' he rung the changes upon
his guest. which he did by abstracting the bare and putting a
dead cat in its place. On getting home, Jim soon discovered
the fraud practised upon him, and returning with his basket
to the inn he found mine host had gone to church, and it
being past II the servant refused to draw him any ale. After
much persuasion he induced her to leave the kitchen to get
him some spring water, and in her absence he opened a large
pot on the fire, in which was a fine leg of mutton, and very
ingeniously exchanged the tabby for it, carrying home the
prize. Jim sent his brother there after church time, making
him fully acquainted with the facts, and the landlord, wanting
some broth, ordered a basin out of the pot; not liking either
colour or flavour, be caused an examination, and instantly
detected the cause and its author, on witnessing the cats mor-
tal remains. " Oh," said Jim's brother, " I daers for-to say
that there cat first eat the mutton, 'and -then committed sui-
cide to avoid detection." -Northampton Herald.

Messrs. Dean, ironfounders, of Bolton, are manufacturing
an iron gate, twenty-seven feet high, for the grand seraglio
of the Pacha of Egypt.

SPREAD OF RomANtsm.--Three Roman Catholic chapels
have recently been opened—one dedicated to St. John, at
Warwick • the second at Banbury; and the third in the
neighbourhood of Wellington, Salop.

CIGAR SMOKING.—Two persons of very moderate age have
died within a short period of each other, at Cheltenham, of
internal ulcers, brought on, in the opinion of an eminent
medical practitioner, by the excessive use of cigars.

Last week a green-grocer at Manchester received no less
than four tons of plums from Worcestershire by the railroad.
Considering the alleged unwholesomeness of this fruit, this
must be good news for the doctors.

There is generally a precedent found for everything, and
in proof of it some of the apologists of the premier, in excuse
for his becoming a constant resident with his royal mistress,
state that, in the time of Queen Ar.ne, Lord Treasurer Har-
ley, according to Swift, did the same.—Morning Herald.
HYDROPHOBIA.—A physician has discovered that a few
drops of any mineral acid, applied to a wound occasioned by
the bite of any rabid animal, will prevent hydrophobia in the
patient. The acid will decompose the poisonous saliva, and
consequently no bad effects will follow.—American Paper.
BIRMINGHAM, Sept. B.—During the last few days iron has
slightly advanced. All the works in the neighbourhood are
fully employed, and some orders have been refused at present
prices. A greater advance is talked of; and should the de-
mand continue good, as for the last few weeks, it will pro-
bably take place.
At the last Oswestry fair a farmer intrusted a mare in the
hands of a man of that town to sell, with instructions to " get
a bank-note for her if he could, and sell her." The man,
thinking one-pound notes were in circulation, asked a sove-
reign for the mare, and had a customer the first offer, and
returned with the cash to the astonished farmer.
ANOTHER WEALTHY CONVICT.—The late Mr. William
Field of Launceston, the Sam Terry of Van Dieinen's Land,
has left property to the amount of £300,000. The widow
receives £5OO per annum for life. The remainder is to be
equally divided amongst the four sons of the legatee.

LEA RNlNG.—Learning, if rightly applied, makes a young
man thinking, attentive, and industrious, confident, and wary;
an old man cheerful and reserved. 'Tis an ornament in pros-
perity, a refuge in adversity, an entertainment at all times;
it cheers in solitude, and moderates upon a throne.

THE TOLERATION OF BLASPHEMOUS IDOLATRY.—In ad-
dition to the usual atrocities of the Churruck Ponjah, which
government allow to be openly exhibited in the metropolis
of India, a new outrage ou.public morals had been perpe-
trated during April. A portNble stage was formed, on which
one native personated a missionary, while others represented
a group of native Christians listening to his discourse, ishich
was filled with the most blasphemous allusions to our Divine
Saviour. This exhibition was ostentatiously paraded through
the streets of Calcutta, amidst the scoffs of its vagabond and
meretricious population. The police appear to have taken
no means to correct the nuisance; and no effort has since
been made, as far as we can learn, to trace the authors of
this transaction, and to prevent a repetition of it. It will,
therefore, be established in the belief of the Bengalee Baboos,
who get up the Churruck Poojah, and of the dissolute var-
lets who assist in it, that the Christian religion is henceforth
to be considered as a legitimate subject oU ridicule, upon
every recurrence of this annual saturnalia.—Parbury's
entat Herald.
CURRENT OF THE ATLANTIC.—A bottle was fonnd on the
2d instant, at Iratnore, near Dunfanaghy, county Donegal,
which contained the following note, after traversing the At-
lantic from the banks of Newfoundland :—" On board the ship
Hercules, Thomas Warth, of Chetteris, Cambridgeshire, and
James Hatterpen, of Kingston, of Cambridgeshire, England,
from London for New York, are on the banks of Newfound-
land. We have 198 passengers on board—they are all well.
If this paper be
.found on any shore, by publishing it will
oblige.—May 21, 1837." Thus after a voyage of 466 days,
it crossed the Atlantic in safety ; and although it is to be
hoped that the friends of the two individuals mentioned above
have received tidings of them through some other channel,
yet this brittle voyager is not without its use, as it shews that
the prevailing current of the Western Ocean runs in a north-
easterly direction.

A SINGULAR CO-PARTNERY.—A few weeks ago a servant
of Mr. Gibson, of Gilchristland, on going over his master's
farm, discovered a pheasant's nest, and, by accident, having
approached too near, the hen shred and fled. On looking
into the nest, he was not a little astonished to observe, that
the contents consisted of eleven partridge and five pheasant
eggs. After the lapse of a few days, he had again occasion to
pass the same spot, and, his curiosity being somewhat ex-
cited, he stole a cautious peep at the nest, and there observed
a hen partridge upon the eggs. On his next visit, he found
the pheasant occupying her former situation. On several
subsequent visits he found the same alternate changes. He
communicated this fact to Mr. Wright, gamekeeper, who
studiously watched this procedure to the issue, and who was
himself an eye-witness of the singular co-partnery, during
four or five visits that he made to this respectable firm. After
the term of incubation had passed, each brood took off its
"several way"—the pheasant having only three liVe stock at
her foot, the partridge eight. It would appear, however, that
they have not made a decisive dissolution of partnership, as
they have been seen frequently in each other's society since.
—Dumfries Times.
PREVENTION Or SMOKE FRONI STEAM-SHIPS.—In our last
pnblication we took occasion to bring under the notice of the
public the " Prevention of Smoke from Steam Engines, and
Saving of Fuel," as now happily accomplished by means of
an apparatus invented by Mr. lvisou of the Castle Silk Mills,
and For which he has obtained a patent. Since the notice al-
luded to, the apparatus is now being applied to the Furnaces
of the Royal Adelaide steam-ship, preparatory to her sailing
to-day for London. The enterprising proprietors of this ves-
sel, the London, Leith, Edinburgh, and Glasgow Shipping
Co., deserve great credit for having been the first to introduce
this improvement to steam-ships, and the result of its appli-
cation on this voyage will be looked forward to with consider-
able interest, not only as to its effects in entirely consuming
the smoke, but in the more important one to the proprietors
—the economising of fuel. During the last ten days, great
numbers of engineers, manufacturers, and men of science,
from different parts of the country, have visited the Silk M ills
to witness the apparatus in full operation, and one and all of
them have expressed themselves highly pleased with its effi-
eiency.—Edinburyh Evening Post.
DUEL EXTRAORDINARY.—A few days two grisettes of the
Quartier Latin, after exchanging blows for an inconstant
student, who might have sung with Illachealh, " Flow happy
could I be with either," decided upon an appeal to the laws
of honour. The fair belligerents fought with pistols, and
were attended to the ground, in the neighbourhood of the
Quarries of Montrouge, by two dress-makers. After the ex-
change of two shots, happily without effect, the seconds de-
clared that honour was fully satisfied; but the feminine com-
batants, though obliged to submit to the fiat, quitted the
ground unreconciled. Our informant assures us that the
pistols were loaded with ball !—Paris Paper.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE—JUVENILE I'ASSION FOR TOBACCO.
—On Wednesday last, a lad of the name of W. Downds, 12
years old, having asked his fattier for a smoke, was refused,
in consequence of his father having, as he said, but a heel in
the pipe; the boy got sulky at the refusal, and thought to
persist in his request, but was again refused, and then swore
he would finish himself. He rushed from his father's house,
at Salt-hill, to the strand, and plunged into the tide, and but
for the alarm given on the strand, and the prompt interfer-
ference of Mr. Michael Burke, of the hotel, he would have
met with a watery grave.—Galway Advertiser.
CRUEL DECEPTION.—On Tuesday morning a villainous
deception was practised upon a confiding fair one, by the
man on whom she was willing to bestow both her hand and
her heart. Not content with these gifts, the scoundrel per-
suaded his intended to let him take charge of her watch and
some other valuables; and just before the hour fixed for the
marriage ceremony, begged the loan of her mother's ring,
that he might get one of the same size for his bride. It was
agreed that he should purchase this himself and bring it to
the church, where the party would await his coming. A
considerable time having been wasted in fruitless expectation
of his arrival, it was at length discovered that the fellow had
decamped, leaving his hapless bride-elect her heart and
hand, but taking as a substitute, the property entrusted to his
keeping. It has been since found out that the offender is a
married man.—Cheltenham Chronicle.

MOTHERS, LOOK TO YOUR CHILDREN !—A number Of the
New York Medical Examiner contains the following, which
may not be without its benefit's on this side of the Atlantic:
—A lady, with whom we are acquainted, gave birth lately to
her first child. The little one was about a fortnight old,
when we asked a lady how it and the young mother were.
The mother issrloing well." she answered; " but the child
is very cross: and, indeed, it is not to be wondered at; for
they are all so pleased, they seem hardly to know what they
are about. The mother feeds it, and then the sister feeds it;
and then the grandmother feeds it, and then the nurse feeds
it: and thus they make the child ill." Our friend was right.
We should like to have shown the young lady the stomach of
a new-born infant now in our museum. It would not hold
more than three tablespoonful; and they were trying to cram
food down the little innocent's throat by teacupsful.
In a course of botanical lectures recently delivered, the
attention of the audience was particularly directed to a new
kind of live fence, which had been contrived by a Mr. Breese,
and which the lecturer considered to be one of the greatest
improvement of late in the science of gardening. It consists
of natural livinj fence, formed by causing trees of ash, &c.
(prepared and planted for the purpose), to grow and unite to-
gether so as to form openings of any size of a lozenge or other
shape.

According to a letter from Berlin, a strict investigation of
the circumstances relating to the burning of the Russian
steamer Nicholas, which occured just before the coronation
of the Queen of England, has beep entered into. It is well
known that she had a considerable sum in specie on board;
and it is said that one of the barrels has been found, and on
being opened was discovered to be filled with lead. This has
created a suspicion that the vessel-was set on fire wilfully, in
execution of a plot concerted at St. Petersburg.
NEW POOR LAW IN HUDDERSFIELD.—The effects of the
firmness of the Huddersfield board of guardians, in refusing
to act until their just commands had been complied with, has
bad the effect of inducing the commissioners, through As-
sistant Commissioner Mott, virtually to repeal the act with
respect to this union. First, they have given permission for
the guardians to form their own diet table, without regard to
those promulgated from Somerset House; secondly, to give
out-door relief at their discretion ; and, lastly, to continue to
employ the assistant overseers instead of appointing relieving
officers.—Sliejfield Iris.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, SEPT. lit—
The market has been rather flat to-day, and fewer goods
have been sold than on the previous Monday. The manu-
facturers are asking higher prices for their goods, but have
not as yet succeeded. t lannels have not risen in proportion
to the late advance in the price of wool. There has not been
much doing in the wool market; low and middling priced
wools remain firm at last week's quotation, but fine wool is
rather giving way.—Manchester Guardian.

DREA DFUL EvENT.—Hannah Howorth, a servant girl at
at Braithwaite, near Doncaster, was dreadfully injured the
other morning, by injudiciously resorting (being at the time
without matches) to a powder flask, some of the contents of
which she was pouring on ignited tinder, when an explosion
took place, by which her left eve was blown out, her jaw-
bone and teeth broken, the upper lip torn off, as well as her
nose; the thumb and one finger of her right hand were also
blown off, and her left hand dreadfully shattered. She has
since been removed to her own home at Asksev, where she
lies in a state of great suffering.—Leeds Mercury.
A gentlemen, near Halifax, recently engaged, as a tem-
porary servant, a man who was to act in the capacity of a.
footman ; but who was so far from being initiated in the
practices of his vocation, as to bring decanters, &c. in his
hand, and place them upon the table. His master gave him
directions to bring everything he wanted upon a tray, and
shortly afterwards made an inquiry for a favourite dog, and
and ordered the man to fetch it. nearing a tremendous row
in the house, caused by the " unmusical jargons" of the dog
and the biped, he ran out of the room to ascertain the cause,
and was surprised to see the animal endeavouring to escape
from the grasp of his dutiful servant, who, obedient to orders,
was hauling the animal along upon a large handboard !
Halifax Express.

NORTH UNION HAILWAY.--It gives us great pleasure to
report the progress of this undertaking. On Saturday even-
ing., last week, the fifth arch of the Ribble bridge had the
quoin keys inserted. The single line of road is likewise com-
pleted all through the Ribble contract, extending as far as
Farington, with the exception of a short distance at the north
and south sides of the Ribble viaduct. With the assistance
of a second engine which has arrived from Wigan, the second
line of road will be shortly "ballasted." This engine, draw-
ing a long train of empty waggons, came at a rapid rate on
Wednesday along the entire line to Tardy Gate; and we are
assured, that the contractors are using every. effort to hasten
the completion of the entire work.—Preston Chronicle.

THE REGISTRATION IN SCOTLAND.—The result of the re-
vision of the register lists in Dumbartonshire is a conserva-
tive majority of 28; in Lanarkshire, 63; and in Aberdeen,
12.5.

" DEMOCRACY, AND NO MISTAKE."—Such is the declara-
tion made in large placards posted about the metropolis by
the democracy. Illustrating this declaration is the figure of
the Birmingham giant in the character of Hercules, armed
with a tremendous sledge hammer, with which he is beating
out the brains of monarchy, aristocracy, established church,
and all such "corrupt and insignificant" portions of the
constitution.

GLASS CLOTH.--A new and curious fabric has been manu-
factured by Mr. Richard Baker, of Ossett, near Dewesbury;
it is a web of glass cloth, which has a very splendid appear-
ance. The ingenious manufacturer has so far succeeded in
annealing this very brittle substance as to admit of its being
wove like cloth. It is deposited for inspection in the North
of England Society of Arts, together with a slipper made of
the same material.

MR. VAN AMBURGH AND HIS WILD BEASTS.—We copied
from a Sunday paper a flaming account of a deadly struggle
between Mr. Van Amburgh and one of his tigers on Wed-
nesday last at a rehearsal; but we hear that nothing more
took place on the occasion than usual, and that neither Mr.
Van Amburgh nor the tiger sustained any injury. The per-
formance has proceeded as usual every night.—Morning
Heral'l.

IMPORTANT TO INSOLVENTS.—(7th George IV. chap. 57.)
—The following notice has just been issued by the Court:—
" All persons who are desirous of availing themselves of the
benefit of this act must be in actual custody, and have their
petitions lodged the 27th of September, so that the same
may be with the provisional assignee, on or before Thursday,
signed and filed on the following Saturday, before the new
act conies into operation."
TEMPORA MUTANTUR.—In former times ministers used to
possess villas near London. Messrs. Pitt and Dundas at
'Wimbledon; Mr. Fox, at St. Ann's Hill; others at Sheen,
Richmond, &c.; from which, even after the prorogation of
parliament, they could daily come to town to attend to the
business of their offices. In our days of reform, however, the
thing is quite altered; and no sooner are the members of the
cabinet released from parliamentary attendance, than they
one and all start off to distant places, absenting themselves
from their offices for weeks, if not months together, while the
most important foreign interests, and the lives of individuals
at home, are left to the chance of some otlice messenger find-
ing out the minister in whose department the matter may
rest.—Morning Herald.
THE GOLD COINAGE IN AMERICA.—We have the satisfac-
tion to inform the public, and especially all the friends of the
gold currency, that the golden eagle is about to make its ap-
pearance again in our land. Directions have been given by
the treasury department to the director of the Mint at Phila-
delphia to have the dies prepared for this superb coin, and the
stamping of it commenced with all convenient dispatch. It
is now 31 years since any of this coin was struck at our Mint.
The coinage of the cage ceased in 180-1, because the errone.
ous standard of our gold caused it to be exported almost as
fast as struck. The exhibits of the Mint show that upwards
of 1,300,000 dollars of this coin were struck.—New York Globe.

A MERMAID, AND NO MISTAKE.—A very general disbelief
in the existence of the mermaid is likely to receive a severe
shock from the truth of the following statement :—A creature
in every respect answering the usual description of the "sea
woman" was caught yesterday in the salmon nets at Hunne-
raw Point, near Fahan, county Donegol. She is at present
under the protection of a gentleman of that neighbourhood,
who has kindly permitted the country people, who are flock-
ing in hundreds about the place, to "see andbelieve." The
members of the Londonderry Natural History Society, we
understand, are to proceed to-day, at 12 o'clock, to investigate
this extraordinary phenomenon, for the purpose of sending
an immediate report of their observations to the British As-
sociation, now sitting at Newcastle. We understand that, if
the novel monster should survive the sudden change in her
situation, she will be sent to Viscount Melbourne as a present
to the Queen—if not, the body will be preserved in spirits,
and will grace the now-forming museum of our local society.
A minute description shall be given in our next.—Derry
paper.

THE NE w MARRIAGE ACT.—In the large town of Leicesters
with a population of upwards of 50,000 souls, only 15 marriage
under the new act have taken place, the inhabitants prefer
ring the ceremonies of the church to the vaulting levity of the
broomstick. All right-minded dissenting men, and all modest
dissenting women, eschew the vile thing as they would a pes-
tilence, and the registrars are consequently left "alone in
their glory." In St. Margaret's church on Sunday morning
last no less than 27 couple were asked by banns, besides a
great number who can afford and do prefer a license. The
act, in a very few years, will become completely obsolete.—
Leicester Herald.

THE ComE.T.—Mr. Arago has announced that M. Walsh
has, within these few days, indistinctly perceived 'the comet
which makes its return every three years, and is to be visible
in the course of the present month. The director of the ob-
servatory at Breslau was, however, enabled, as early as the
18th of August, to make some observations respecting this
luminary. M. Arago suggests that it would be interesting to
inquire at this opportunity into the truth of the opinion of M.
Walsh, that the diameters of comets diminish in proportion
to their proximity to the sun.

A BROTH OF A Boy.--A Scotch paper annouces the death
at Brawlin, in Sutherland, of one Donold M`Kay, of Corn-
brach, "at the patriarchal age of 101," who, it prooeeds to.
say, "served in the lieay militia as far back as the year 1745,
the memorable one of the rebellion, and was one of those en-
gaged in the capture of the money which had been forwarded
from the continent forthe use of the unfortunate Prince Charles
Stuart." At the period stated the doughty Donald must have
been just eight years of age, a mere "infant in arms." No
wonder that the cause of the young chevalier so disastrously
sped when he had such formidable infantry to contend against.

DISCOVERY OF THE REMAINS OF THE DUKE OF BUCK-
INGHAM, BEHEADED AT SALISBUR Y.—A correspondent of
the Salisbury Journal has furnished that paper with a most
interesting account of the recent discovery of the mutilated
remains of the celebrated Henry Stafford, Duke of Bucking-
ham, who was beheaded in that cit,, in 118.3. History re-
cords, that Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, the " cousin
of Buckingham" of Shakspear's iminoital page, having
failed in his plan of insurrection against Richard 111, took
refuge in the house of his servant Bannister, near Shrews-
bury; that he was "by that wretch betrayed" into the hands
of the king, then at Salisbury, and suffered death at that city.
without form of trial, according to the summary method of
that age, by decollation and amputation of the right arm.
Tradition assigns the court-yard of the Blue Boar Inn as the
scene of this bloody tragedy. During the alterations and im-
movements which are still in progress at the Saracen's Head
Inn, (which there can be no doubt formed part of the prem-
ises originally attached to the Blue Boar,) it became necessary
to remove the brick flooring of one of the rooms, and dig to
some depth. In the course of this operation, about eight
inches below the surface of the soil, they came to a human
skeleton. The place here indicated can only be a few yards,
possibly feet, from the very spot where Buckingham suffered
decapitation. The remains so discovered were evidently
those of a human being, and the skeleton was complete, save
that it wanted the head and right arm. The first impression
on the mind of the landlord, Nr. Shuker, was that the re-
mains thus discovered were those of some travelling pedlar,
who had been murdered in the house, and for secrecy buried
on the spot. The absence of the arm, it seems, suggested
the idea that such might possibly have been the vocation of
the deceased, and they accounted for the non-appearence of
the head by supposing that it had been cut off by the murder-
ers, on finding that the grave they had excavated was too
small to contain the body. With this impression the land-
lord himself took up one of the ribs, and measured it by his
own, averred that the deceased must have been of large di-
mensions. The servant maid had laid irreverent hands on
the neck-bone, little suspecting that those same miserable
relics had once been adorned with a jewelled collar, with the
"George" thereto appended; and one " rude knave" actually
seized the " reeky shanks" of the honoured left leg, once
encompassed with the glittering insignia of the most noble
order of the garter. The spinal column appeared completely
imbedded in the clay; and on handling or taking up some
of the detached verterbrw, they crumbled into dust in their
hands. As may be supposed, the whole remains were in a
like friable condition ; and acting on the uncomplimentary
impression that what was once the most high and puissant
Prince Henry-of Buckingham, was no other than a mur-
dered pedlar, they actually, with their g dirty shovels,"
knocked about his " noble dust," and in a few minutes com-
pounded it with the clay " whereto 'twas kin !" Those who
would view the spot where lie the undoubted remains •of the
once "high reaching" Buckingham, the tyrant Richard's tool
and victim, must e'en visit the Saracen's Head, Salisbury.
In the bar of that inn they may moralise•over his unhonoured
clay; and there, like Anacreon, mingling wisdom with their
wine, and imbibing philosophy with their potations, with
peculiar and significant emphasis ejaculate—" So much for
Buckingham !"—Salopian Journal.

THE ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG CONVICT.—At the late
sessions, William Hurley, otherwise Beesley, a young man
fashionably attired, aged 25, pleaded guilty to two separate
indictments, charging him with stealing apparel and a va-
riety of other articles, belonging to gentlemen of the names
of Gardner and Moore. The indictment also stated that he
had before been convicted of felony. The acumen which the
prisoner displstyed, when called upon to plead, evinced that
he was well versed in the knowledge of the punishments
meted out by " the laws he had broken." Hence he in-
quired whether, if he pleaded guilty to the first charge, they
would call upon him to answer the other ? As the difference
may not be known to the generality to the "fraternity" of
which be was a member, between a sentence of fourteen
years' transportation and twice seven years, we give them the
information, and they may rely upon its correctness. When
a convict is transported for fourteen years, supposing he be-
haves well during six probationary years of privation and
severe labour, the governor is permitted to' grant them a
" ticket of leave," the effect of which is, not that they are to
depart the colony, but that they may be allowed to follow
their avocations for their own benefit, subject to certalti re-
gulations, one of which is that a portion of their earnings
shall be lodged in the Colonial Bank, which, with the interest,
is paid to them at the expiration of their term of exile, or
whenever they may obtain manumission. Supposing a pri-
soner is convicted upon two indictments, to which the law in-
flicts seven years' banishment, the form of the sentence is,
that they be transported to hard labour for seven years, and
that at the expiration of that term they commence de novo,
and remain transported for another seven years. Four years
of this latter period must be served without any relaxation of
severity, so that they have actually eleven years' suffeting,
which is nearly double the term of a fourteen years' convict,
and three years more than those who, in Botany Bay, are
termed " lifers." But, without a further discussion, let us
give a short sketch of W. Hurley. He is a native of L
a county town, about eighty miles from London, where he
received a decent education, and in due course was appren-
ticed to a hair-dresser. Fortune, in one of her vagaries, un-
luckily dropped him £4OO when he reached his majority, and
he " cut" the shop, and the " knight of the curling irons"
became in a twinkling a man of fashion. During his appren-
ticeship he used to act as tonsor in the family of a clergyman
in the vicinity, and, while acting professionally on one of the
daughters of the divine, he whispered tales of love in her
ears; and how could an artless maid refrain from listening to
a well-favoured youth who was to have £4OO at the age of
twenty-one? It could not be expected that a clergyman
would bestow his daughter's hand upon a barber. The re-
sult was, that abduction followed, and the youthful pair found
refuge in the metropolis, and in the giddy whirl of pleasure
soon dissipated the ill-fated legacy. When poverty aroused
the erring maid to a sense other degradation, she turned her
thoughts to the parental vicarage-house, but although she rut
the resolution of the prodigal into practice she did not meet
with his reception. The father was inexorable—the sins of
her youth were deemed unpardonable—she was refused ad-
mittance into her natal abode, and became a sorrowing out.
cost. Fortunately for the young penitent, she was saved
from further disgrace; she was taken by the hand by an
aged lady of wealth and distinction, whose constant com-
passion she now is, or lately was, at a populous town on the
other side of the channel. Hurley, being " out at elbows,"
was obliged once more to become " an operator on chins,"
and soon committed an unpardonable act of villainy. He
ingratiated himself into the good graces of a young Barba-
7ossa, who for his sake broke the marriage vow, by leaving
her lawful spouse to live with Hurley, carrying away with
her property worth £l2O. This sum being exhausted, the
convict had recourse to a theft for a precarious subsistence,
and abandoned the wife of his former friend. She sought
forgiveness, but she found it not; and, as a dernier ressort,
she applied to the parochial authorities, and the consequence
was that the ill-fated husband is obliged to pay weekly the
suns of eight shillings to his faithless rib. What misery has
this youth, in four short years, brought into two respectable
families beyond his own; and his 'personal suffering in a
foreign land will cause him to know the startling truth of the
proverb, "The way of transgressors is hard." We think
this little narrative is well calculated to " point a moral" for
the consideration of youth, and teach them to keep a steady
eye upon the path of rectitude,—Sunday Ti pies.