The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-01-30 00:00:00

Till LIVICIPOOL STANDARD,

A new interest has been given to the subject of the
poisoned water at Claremont Palace. Dr. Thomson, of
Stratford-on-Avon, reports to the Medical Times that on
analysing one pint of the water from the reservoir which

supplied tbe pSlace, that quantity yielded one-tenth of a
grain of sulphuret of lead. In other respects the water is
good and pure.
On Sunday week, an extensive, fall of the chalk rock
from Shakspeare's Cliff, Dover, took place. The fall
occurred near No. 4, shaft at Shakspeare s Tunnel, on the
South Eastern Railway, and left an indentation in the
crown of this classic cliff of something like an acre. The
quantity of chalk detached may be estimated at about
100,000 tons.

Little more than fcur years ago there lived in affluence
at Marton-in-Cleveland, a gentleman, the owner of two
freehold farms and other property to the value of £lO,OOO
or £12,000. Owing to some unsuccessful business trans-
actions, he was in a short time divested of the whole of
his valuable property. He is now working as a clay
labourer!

The calculation upon which such an establishment as
that of Mr. Drouet is based cannot cease to affect us with
wonder. It appears that the sum of £l3 4s. annually is
necessary to maintain a pauper child in a Tooting cholera
house. On the other hand, the payment of £7 will trans-
port an emigrant from our shores to the Australian colo-
nies.

JENNY LIND IN NORWICH.—The two concerts at
which Mademoiselle Lind assisted during the week in this
ciry produced the sum of £1,859 Ils., and above £1,250
will remain for the charities when the expenses are paid.
This will make an aggregate of more than £12,000 contri-
bu'ecl to charitable purposes through the agency of Jenny
Lind within the last two months.

There is now growing at Seggleden. Perthshire, an oak
tree, of which the trunk is 20 feet long. from the ground
to the lowest branch, and contains 190 solid feet of tim-
ber, while the large boughs ramify in every direction to
the extent of 45 feet, thus giving its shade a circumference
of 270 feet, and covering an area of not less than 4,9C0
feet.

At the Paley Green cutting of the North-Western
Railway, in the neighbourhood of Settle, some of the la-
bourers lately found a pair of deer horns, which measured
one yard two inches in length, and had three branches
each, near the skull. These horns are conjectured by an-
tiquaries to have been buried six hundred years, and to
have belonged to an individual of a now extinct species of
deer.

AN UNSOCIAL PLACE.—The beautiful valley of Winster
is situate in Westmoreland. It is remarkable, but true,
only four marriages have been sclemnized at this chapel
under the ministry of three incumbents, a period of forty-
six years. The present incumbent, the Rev. C. B. Har-
ris, has had already three marriages within the last three
weeks (not a resident more than two years) : it seems
likely the spell is broken.
CURIOUS IF TRITE.—A curious accident has happened
at Kempsey. A boy fell off the top of a high ladder, but
alighted on his feet. He sprang up with a rebound which
carried him backwards, and he tumbled into a deep well.
He was given up for lost, but was presently heard moving
in the water : he had clung to the rough walls, and was
ultimately got out quite unhurt by either fall.

ONE OF THE ADVANTAGES OF TRAVEL.'--One of the
gentlemen of the Derby Town Council forming a depu-
tation to inquire as to the utility of a corn exchange,
when at Newark, went up to one of the dealers in grain,
and taking a small portion of corn in his hand out of one
of the samples, observed, " This seems nice wheat, what
is this worth ?" Whereupon the dealer replied, " That
'ere wheat is rye."
THE SLAVE TRADE.—Mr. Grantley Berkeley, in a
letter just published, states that—" Advices have just
reached me from the coast of Africa, that steamers of a
large size, capable of carrying from sixteen hundred to
two thousand slaves, are now driving the horrid traffic, in
spite of the efforts of our cruisers ; and that one steamer
lately succeeded in carrying off 900 slaves—there not being
slaves enough at that moment in the market to give her
full freight of two thousand souls."
The failure of two Wrexham banks was officially stated
on Monday last; and from the various accounts received
it appears great distress is likely to be created by the
event. Fortunately one of these establishments, that
conducted by Messrs. Kenrick, will, it is believed, pay 14s.
in the pound ; but the other, known as Lloyd's bank,
possesses assets which cannot yield more than 2s. in the
pound. It is asserted that the latter was the favourite
establishment, and that its liabilities amount to at least
£50,000.
ACCIDENT WITH FIRE-ARMS.—An accident which
terminated fatally occurred on the 24th inst., at Bicester,
to Master Elliott, aged 17, son of Sir Charles Elliott,
Bart. The unfortunate youth, who was a pupil under the
Rev. J. W. Watts, at the Vicarage, was out in the fields
near the town shooting, in company with Master Edward
Watts. On firing at a blackbird the gun burst, and the
breech struck him on the eye, entered the head, and
scattered his brains on and about his clothes.
DEATH FROM LIGHTNING.—On Sunday week, Rees
Jones, chief mate of the schooner Margaret and Rachel,
of Limerick, was struck dead by lightning. The deceased
was engaged in clewing up the topsail, and stood by the
chain, when a flash of lightning struck the vessel, ran
along the chain and coming in contact with the deceased,
knocked him dead upon the spot. A boy, named Evan
Jones, who was standing near the deceased, had his hand
severely burnt by the lightning.
CALIFORNIA.—We understand that a respectable seeds-
man, from near Coggeshall, Essex, who was in this town
last week, and who had just collected nearly £4OO in Lon-
don, and in addition received £45 from one firm here, not
having returned to his home, inquiries were set on foot,
and it was discovered that he had proceeded hence to
Southampton, and had there embarked in the steam-
packet which had just sailed to South America. The
intention of the poor weak-minded man was to reach Cali-
fornia.—Berkshire Chronicle.

THE MAYOR OF DURHAM'S INAUGURATION 1,/INNER.
—On Tuesday, W. Henderson, Esq., the presen Mayor
of Durham, gave one of the most splendid civic feasts in
the Assembly-rooms, which has ever taken place in that
city. About 118 gentlemen sat down to dinner. The
Mayor occupied the chair; and on his right and left were
placed H. J. Spearman, Esq., M.P., Rev. J. Raine,
(Chaplain to the Corporation,) Rev. D. Melville, (Prin-
cipal of Bishop Hatfield's Hall,) Rev. Dr. Townsend, Rev.
Dr. Gilly, W. L. Wharton, Esq., J. F. Elliot, Esq., A.
Wilkinson, Esq., W. Scruton, Esq., &c., &c.
CALIFORNIA GOLD.—We have seen a specimen of the
gold as it is found in this region, which Messrs. Sanderson
and Son, the well-known lapidaries of this city, have pro-
cured for the inspection of their friends. The gold is
encrusted round a piece of quartz, which, although no
larger than an ordinary walnut, contains the precious
metal to the value of five sovereigns. The gold is pure
and beautifully bright, and as easily discernible when
found in this rude state as when it is"ues from the mint,
so that the most ignorant and unskilful can have no diffi-
culty in gathering in the treasure wherever it appears.—
Edinburgh Mercury.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.—On Tuesday, the body of a
woman, with that of a child clasped firmly to her breast,
who had been observed begging on the previous evening,
were found lifeless in the mud at Bankside, near Barclay's
Brewery, London. They were found to be Hannah Kerry,
of Mint-street, Southwark, and her daughter. She had
been cohabiting with a young man, by whom she had had
the deceased infant, and he having forsaken her, she was
reduced to extreme distress. Nothing was found upon
her, and the general belief is, that the unfortunate crea-
ture has sacrificed herself and the life of her babe rather
than wander the streets in a starving condition.
WOLVERTON REFRESHMENT ROOMS.—It appears from
the books that the annual consumption at the Wolverton
refreshment rooms averages 182,500 Banbury cakes,
56,940 Queen's cakes ; 29,200 pates • 36,5001b5. of flour,
13,140 of butter, 2920 of coffee, 43,800 of meat, 5110 of
currants, 1277 of tea, 5840 cf loaf sugar, 5110 of moist
sugar ; 16,425 quarts of milk, 1096 of cream ; 17,520
bottles of lemonade, 35,040 of soda-water, 70,080 of stout,
35,040 of ale, 17,520 of ginger beer, 730 of port, 3650 of
sherry, and, we regret to add, 730 of gin, 731 of rum,
3660 of brandy. To the eatables are to be added, or
driven, the 85 pigs, who, after having been from their
birth most kindly treated and most luxuriously fed, are
impartially promoted, by seniority, one after another, into
an infinite number of pork pies.—Quarterly Review. ' _

THE MEN WHO WILL NOT WORK. -1- An inspired
apostle, and withal a very sensible man, tells us that such
persons ought not to live. We think so too, and only
mitigate the severity of the maxim so far as to let them
live in prison—but nowhere else, for Heaven's sake.
There is no interval between an able-bodied person re-
fusing to work for his bread and a robber. Of course we
are putting the really and destitute out of the question.
When a man cannot work, we will overlook his want of
will—not so when a man can work. The idle ruffians who
molest our streets, whether they be male or female, old or
young, well-dressed or in rags, are nothing more or less
than freebooters, whose plan is to live by lying, terrifying,
bullying, obstructing, and every other form of petty mis-
chief. They thrive like vermin by wasting the substance,
the time, and the pains of the industrious, and can only
be regarded in the light in which the English law, and all
other good good laws, have ever regarded them, viz., as
thieves.— Times.

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WELCOME THE FAMILY FRIEND.—Under the appro-
priate Title of The Family Friend, a new, cheap, and
really useful publication commenced with the present
yeay, to be continued Monthly. Nearly One Hundred
Papers have already reviewed this work, speaking of it in
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Fancy Work; the Young Men will like it, for it smacks
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Useful Household Receipts ; the Men will like it, for it
treats of Gardening and Natural History—and advises
Wives to be kind to their Husbands ; those who love
Amusement will like it, for it swarms with Conundrums ;
Everybody will like it, for it has a Corner for Everybody :
and Nobody will be afraid of finding any harm in it, for it
is Published by HOULSTON and STONEMAN." The Jan-
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The readers of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, by ordering
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the ensuing month. They will, indeed, " Welcome the
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utility which distinguish its numerous pages.

A BAD BREAST OF SEVEN YEARS' .STANDING CURED
BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OINTMENT.—Mrs. Davies,
residing near the Barracks at Cardiff, had a bad breast,
which seven years ago, (by a bruise) commenced swel-
ling, and ultimately five abscesses formed, discharging
large quantities of humour which no treatment could
cure. She was much debilitated in her health ; indeed,
her constitution seemed to be breaking up very fast. By
chance she called on a neighbour who was using Hol-
loway's Pills and Ointment, and who advised her to try
them, which she did, and the result was, that in nine
weeks her breast became as well as ever it was in. her life.
—See advt.

EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH.—TWINS A LA SIAMESE.—
Mr. John Sherwill, surgeon. of Ivy Bridge, was called on
Friday week to attend Ann Horton; wife of a labourer at
Lutton, in the parish of Cornworthy. The woman was
safely delivered of twins, two fine girls—perfectly united
from the chest to the umbilicus. The children died in the
delivery, as severe measures were adopted to save the mo-
ther's life.—The little creatures were perfect at every
point, and of pleasing countenance. —Bristol Journal.
THE STATESMAN TURNED SCHOOLMASTER.—We learn
from the Birmingham Gazette that Sir R. Peel has it in
contemplation to remodel and considerably extend the
benefits of the school established and endowed by the late
Sir R. Peel in Tamworth, so as to make it available for the
sons of tradesmen and others in the middle class of society.
The rights hon. baronet has consulted with some of the
leading inhabitants of the town, and is taking steps for
carrying out his plan, which, when completod, will enable
a large body of his constituents to secure for their sons an
education every way suitable for their condition, and at a
very moderate expense.
RESULT OF IMPROPER READING.—At the Mansion
House, London, on Thursday, a young man was charged
with seriously injuring his sweetheart by firing a pistol at
her. The prisoner wrs in deep affliction ; and after evi-
dence had been adduced to show that the prisoner was
urged to the act by jealousy. he was committed for trial.
The superintendent of the Wesleyan school in the neigh-
bourhood said that he beard of the occurrence with great
surprise, as the prisoner had been always known in the
school as a mild lad, of very kindly disposition, and there
was good reason for believing that he had been excited by
the romantic trash which filled the penny publications
abcut town.

BEGGING.—The Times of Thursday says, "The plague
of beggars is beginning to abate. It is possible now for a
middle-aged gentleman of portly form and benignant ex-
pression to walk abroad without a retinue of mendicants.
Even elderly ladies are allowed an occasional respite.
Lucifer-matches, pocket-books, bouquets, lead pencils,
penknives, and key-rings are no longer forced on the re-
luctant public. Artificial flowers and pincushions are
left to the laws of supply or demand and supply. By the
operation of the same laws we have no doubt that little
children have fallen in the market, and may be hired for
less than 9d. a day by such as are willing to brave the
policeman. Beggars' hotels, coffee-houses, and ordin-
aries cannot now be in so thriving a condition as they
were a few months since. Where the poor creatures go
we can hardly divine.—[We fancy many of them have
arrived in this town, for there is an unusual quantity of
them here at present.] . _ _

CHILD MURDER AT SHIPSTON.ON-STOUR.—A shock-
ing case of this description occurred at the house of Mr.
Baughan, a carrier, residing in Shipston-on-Stour, early
on Sunday morning week. It appeared that the servant
girl, who was suspected to be enciente, but who, when
taxed by her mistress, denied the fact, on coming down
stairs was observed to look dreadfully pale and ill, and the
inmates of the house, immediately suspecting that she
had been confined, proceeded up stairs, and saw from the
state of the room that their surmises were correct; but
on looking under the bed they were horrified to find the
body of a newly-born infant rolled up in some clothes
with its throat cat. The girl was immediately taken into
custody, and information of the distressing occurrence
forwarded to the police. An inquest was held upon the
body on Tuesday, when a verdict of " Wilful murder"
against Hesther Partington, the mother, was returned.
SHOCKING DEPRAVITY.—A writer, who signs himself
" A Magistrate," has written a letter to The Times,
which appeared in that journal on Friday, headed " Pro-
vincial Morality." The letter commences with the fol-
lowing sickening statement :—" An appalling case of in-
fanticide has just occurred in this parish. A girl of
eighteen strangled her infant, and having thrown it into a
brook which ran past the cottage, endeavoured in vain to
conceal the fact from her friends. The surgeon who at-
tended her told me, that about three months before he
had been called in to see this very girl, who at that time
lay ill of a fever. He found her sleeping in the same room
with her father and mother, and two grown-up brothers.
There was no curtain or any other division between the
beds. Who can wonder that this utter want of all possibi-
lity of decency should brutalise and degrade the mind ?"

THE MORMON IMPOSTURE IN WALES.—On December
the 31st and New Year's-day, the "Latter-day Saints"
held their half-yearly association in the Hall of the White
Lion, Merthyr. It was soon found that the hall, then
containing 1500 persons, was inadequate for many who
were outside seeking admittance, officers were therefore
sent to meet those who were not able to get in at the
Alfred's Arms Hall, George Town. The platform con-
tained from 60 to 100 " officers." The chair was taken
by Captain D. Jones, when the following particulars
relative to the society in Wales were stated :-10 confe-
rences • baptized during the last six months, 1001 ; total
baptized in the year, Id4B (very few excluded) ; 70
branches, 156 elders, 180 priests, 147 teachers, 67 deacons
—in all, 550 officers. The Swansea Herald, which re-
ports the meeting, adds :—" The thousands of Mormons
in Wales appear to have great affection for, and confidence
in, Captain D. Jones, who intends returning in February
to the Valley of the Salt Lake, in California. About 350
saints intend emigrating with him. It appears that 300
large ships could scarcely carry the hosts of saints who are
now anxiously desiring to emigrate from this island to, as
they say, their future home."
A HIGHWAYMAN SHOT.—On Friday evening, Mr.
Steel, spirit-merchant, who had collected a large sum of
money at Wakefield market, left for home, and on his
return to Ferrybridge was attacked by two men, who
tried to seize the horse, but did not succeed. He had
previously heard one of them say " He 's coming," and
put his pistol on full cock to be prepared. After gallop-
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ing to the rise of a bill, which is -near home, he agin
pulled up his horse, and proceeded leisurely up the road,
when another villain rushed upon him, and with a heavy
bludgeon struck him on the shoulder, which dismounted
him, and he fell to the ground, with the bridle rein over
his arm. When laid on his back, the villain went round
the horse to him, and was just in the act of dealing a
deadly blow over his head, when Mr. Steel pulled the
trigger of his pistol, and shot the villain in the shoulder.
The bludgeon fell, he staggered and moaned, but Mr.
Steel did not see him fall. Upon looking round, he ob-
served the former two men coming up within a few yards
of him, when he immediately jumped upon his horse, and
made the best of his way home.—Yorkshire Gazette.

BORDER MARRIAGES.—The Kelso Chronicle, in no-
ticing the death of Gollins, the celebrater of border mar-
riages for more than twenty years, says " that taking as
an average 300 marriages per annum, he had united the

goodly number of 6,00-0 couples. It then adds,—
following questions could be answered, what a curious
piece of statistical information would they furnish ! How
many of these 6,000 were married without their parents'
consent ? How many of these had never seen each other
previous to the day of marriage ? How many of these
lived happily afterwards ? To these many might be added.
For instance, how often was the " priest" drunk at the
performance of the ceremonies ? How many of the par-
ties themselves were drunk at the ceremony ? and many
others, if properly answered, which would equally interest
and startle. The fees paid for his services were generally
left to the happy couple's own discression. For a navvie
the general charge is 7s. 6d., while some runaway heir-
esses give £5, but taking as an average 103. per couple
(below the usual average)the fees realized woutd amount
to £l5O per annum. During the year 1848 the marriages
celebrated were 330.' "
BURGLARY.—On Friday night, the offices of Mr. Wil-
kinson, solicitor, Peterborough, were entered by thieves,

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trance. They appeared to have 'first forced open a drawer
of the table in Mr. Wilkinson's office, whence they ab-
stracted a few halfpence, and several keys belonginz to

and cupboards. From one cleric's' desk about ss. in
silver was taken, and a quantity of receipts belonging to
the Phcenix Fire-office, most likely mistaken for other
paper. Returning to Mr. Wilkinson's office, the thieves
ransacked the drawers, cupboards, tin boxes, and two
portable desks, the contents of which they strewed over
the floor. The chief point seems to have been a large
iron chest in Mr. Wilkinson's office; this at the time
contained a considerable amount in cash notes, gold, and
silver, which had been omitted to be paid into the bank
during the day. The chest was one of Chubb's celebrated
make; in this the burglars broke their picklocks, which
were abstracted by means of a magnet the following

Having-. failed with the lock, they next tried

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metal was too tough to break, and too solid to be
wrenched or cut, and the thieves were balked of their in-
tended prize.—Stamford Mercury.

POPULATION AND CURRENCY.L-We find in the Bristol
papers the outline of a lecture on these subjects, delivered
in that city by Mr. Robert Shaw, who discloses new and
original views. On the subject f population, he cites the
yet unexhausted resources of the earth, and the great
improvements lately discovered in agriculture, in proof
that we have not, for many generations to come, any rea-
son to fear a pressure of population upon subsistence ;
and beyond this, he observes very justly, that as that
Power, who has commanded man to " increase and mul-

tiply," can at pleasure increase the fertility of the earth,
there is no reason ever to entertain such a fear. But it is
on the currency question, that his views are most deserv-
ing of consideration. We at present suffer from being
cramped in this particular. Mr. Shaw affirms that mo-
ney, being an instrument for the exchange of goods,
ought always to bear the same proportion to the value of
the goods to be exchanged ; and the index to this value,
he says, may be always found in population, according to
the number of whom is the quantity of the goods, and
whose labour constitutes their value. Upon this princi-
ple he proposes that the currency of this country be fixed ;
and, as there are now many thousands out of employ-
ment, that notes, upon security deposited, be issued in
just proportion, to provide for their employment.
THE BITER BIT.-AN AWKWARD PREDICAMENT.—
The following ludicrous scene lately took place in the
village of Clent :—A speculative matchmaker became
enamoured of the charms of a lady residing not a hundred
miles from Adam's Hill, paid his court, and was gra-
ciously received. A day was appointed for the wedding,
and matters were arranged for tying the indissoluble knot,
which would defy the sword of Alexander to sever, when,
lo ! the lady discovered that her suitor was a married
man. The wife being sent for, came in " weeds," she
having been deceived into the belief that her husband was
dead. The gentleman, being confronted with his wife and
his intended bride, could say nothing for himself ; the
latter, like sly Airs. Page, in "The Merry Wives of
Windsor," determined to " burn him, and pinch him,
and turn him about." The ladies accordingly gave battle ;
the knight fled, but at the gate he was encountered by
o other Amazons, who did all in their power to give
him a cold bath in a pond hard by. Not succeeding in
their attempt, they flogged the wicked wight through the
village with a rope they had brought for the purpose of
drawing him through the pool. The women of the village
rose en masse, and arming themselves with brooms,
saucepans, and other feminine munitions of war, joined
in the pursuit. After a long skirmish, he escaped through
the fields, minus the skirt of his coat, one of the heroines
bearing back this trophy in triumph.—Bristol Mirror.

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PETTY SPITE.—The Manchester Courier states that a I
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Mr. G. W. Anthony, of that city has intimated his intention TITp 4., •
of no looter advertising in that paper because some criti-
cal remarks had been made in it upon some contributions
of his to the last Exhibition of Paintings at the Royal
Institution. The Editor very properly and spiritedly re-
plies. " no threats of the kind will deter us from expres-
sing an unbiassed opinion, favourable or otherwise, how-
ever pleasing, or the reverse."—Only a short time ago we
lost a subscriber, because in a list of persons present at a
public meeting, which did not at all profess to be com-
plete, his name was accidentally omitted !—Hereford
Journal,

LOSS OF THE STEAM-SHIP UNICORN.—The steam-
ship Rob Roy, Capt. Knowles, arrived at this port on
Wednesday, from Antwerp, bringing the melancholy intel.
ligence of the total loss of the steamer Unicorn, Capt.
Dickinson, belonging to Messrs. Brownlow, Pearson and
Co. The Rob Roy left Antwerp on Sunday morning, and
about eleven o'clock that evening, whin about thirty

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miles from West Cape, during a heavy gale from W.N.W.,
came into collision with the Unicorn, which in a few
m;nutes foundered. The crew was saved in the life boat
of that steamer. The Rob Roy was very much damaged,
having lost bowsprit, figure-head, cutwater, &c. The

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UnicOim was a new iron vessel, built
.E 15.000. At the time of this melancholy occurrence, she
had half a cargo on board valued at £15,000, £lO,OOO of

which was shipped by Messrs. Sanderson and Co., and
the remainder by Mr. T. B: Morley, and Messrs. Gee and
Co.—Hull Packet.

ATROCIOUS MURDER OF THE DUKE OF CLEVELAND'S
GAME WATCHER.—We regret to have to record another
atrocious murder supposed to have been committed on

Sunday morning last, at the Trundie Mire Plantations, on
Bolam Gartte's Farm, about two miles distant from West
Auckland. when George May, a game watcher in the ser-
vice of the Duke of Cleveland, fell a victim to the brutal
ferocity of some party or parties unknown. The unfor-
tunate man left his house at Raby Folly, about six o'clock
that morning, to walk over some of the grounds. Not
returning, fears began to be entertained for his safety, as
threats had been uttered by certain parties against him.
Search was made in different places, and on Tuesday af-
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ternoon, while his brother and another man were search-
ing the plantation above-mentioned, they found the body
of paor May in a thicket lying in a pool of blood, and his
head nearly blown off. His stick was lying by his side,
and a loaded pistol in his pocket. He appeared to have
been shot dead without any resistance or struggle. Marks
of shot were found in a tree opposite, and the footmarks
of the deceased were traced into the thicket, and the
footmarks of two persons were traced out of the thicket
towards Hummerbeck. The keeper of Evenwood toll-
bar had heard several shots fired in the direction of the
plantation during the Saturday night and Sunday morn-
ing. It is a rather remarkable circumstance that the
Raby fox-hounds had been ranging through the plantation
on the Monday, without any one having seen the body.—
Durham Advertiser.

SINGULAR PRESERVATION.-011 Monday last an in-
quest was held at Clydach on view of the body of John
Jenkins, collier, aged twenty-eight. It appeared that
deceased and a young lad were employed together at
the Garth Colliery, and were working in a heading
at some distance from the other colliers. On Friday a
sudden slip of coal and rubbish took place, covering both
the deceased and the lad, the latter of whom was about
two yards nearer the mouth of the heading than the for-
mer. With respect to the boy, it fortunately happened
that a large7stone fell partly on the waggon, in such a way
as to form a cave sufficiently large for the boy's body.
He said that he breathed freely, was not hurt by pressure,
but he could not move. He heard deceased ask witness
if he could get out, and whether the pressure upon him
was great. Witness said that he could not get out, but
that he was free from pressure. Deceased then said
there was great weight on his head. No further conver-
sation took place, but he heard the deceased pray. A
second fall of earth took place, subsequently to which he
did not hear the deceased's voice. Witness remained in
this position until about 4 o'clock next morning, when
Thomas Francis, the man who worked the " day turn" in
the same heading, came to his work. He, with the assis-
tance of other colliers, cleared away the rubbish and re-
leased the boy. About two yards further on they found
the deceased, who had evidently been dead for some time,
probably by suffocation, the only perceptible injury being
a slight bruise on the face.— Cambrian.
GIVING FALSE CIIARACTERS.—In reference to the
charges which have recently been established, at the
police-court in London, over which Mr. Hardwick pre-
sides, of giving false characters to parties, who have
thereby obtained places, that magistrate has received a
letter which asserts that the system is practised to a great
extent, and cautions families to be on their guard. The
writer supplies a number of cases in point. A woman
was brought before the court on Saturday week who had
been successful in deceiving numerous parties for twenty
years past by false characters. She had been living suc-
cessively in five houses, which she has filled with goods,
obtained by false characters, to the injury of tradesmen
and others ; and she has kept her door closed night and
day to secure the property from the bailiffs. She formerly
lived in a wretched cottage in St. John's Wood, from
which she emerged, and commenced by the means stated,
and a lady-like appearance, though devoid of education, a
career of wide-spread plunder. She gave false characters
to numerous parties, including even returned convicts,
who obtained situations only to rob their employers.

Her fee varied from 355. to £5 for this disgraceful service.
The writer concludes by saying : " The woman has been
very successful in supplying ladies given to change, who
are all down in her list. It is most astonishing that the
higher orders of society have been so long duped by the

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wo-man, who is uneducated, and who transacts all her own
correspondence. It is hard for a servant to lose his bread
for ozle indiscretion ; but nothing can justify the too ready
access into families of rank and wealth of felons and bad
characters by the system of giving false characters.”

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF FELONY AT BATH.—
An extraordinary degree of excitement has prevailed in
Bath for some days past, in consequence of its being
understood that Messrs. Warren and Fuller, two of the
largest, if not the largest silversmiths and goldsmiths in
the city, had been apprehended on a charge of forging the
hall-mark of the Goldsmiths' Comn.ny upon articles of

plate. The respectability and wealth of the parties char-
ged is such that bfiil for their appearance was tendered by
a leading banking firm of the city to the extent of £lO,OOO,
but the Magistrates before whom the charge was made
(at the instance of the Goldsmiths' Company, by whom

the prosecution has been undertaken) did not feel them-
selves in a position to accept it. An examination of the
prisoners took place on Monday at the Guildhall. The
charge against the accused was for having, on the 9th of
January, feloniously, and without lawful excuse, had in
their possession two silver ladles having thereon the mark
'l' Gol.l- hs' C T • • •

of the ompany, London, which marks have
been removed or transferred thereto from some other
wares of silver, they knowing the same to have been so
transferred contrary to the form of the statute. The first
witness examined was Mr. Thomas Hough, a weigher in
the essay office of the Goldsmiths' Company, who deposed
to having, on the 30th of December and 6th of January,
gone to the shop of Messrs. Warren and Fuller, in West-
gate-street, where he purchased on the first occasion
eleven, and on the second occasion 34 articles of silver
ware, none of which were stamped as required by law.
On the last occasion saw a silver soup-ladle and a great
quantity of articles which were not marked. Saw at once
that the mark on the soup-ladle and one upon a gilt ser-
vice-spoon had been transposed. Reported to the war-
dens of the Goldsmiths' Comnanv. and on the 9th Jan-

nary went armed with a warrant and seized articles

office, and found that the hall-mark On the service-spoon
had been soldered in. The loss of duty to the Govern-
ment on the soup-ladle and service spoon was LI 7s. 9d.
The mark on the soup-ladle had also been soldered in.
The witness was cross-examined at considerable length
for the prisoners, and adhered to his statements. Other
witnesses were examined, whose evidence went to sub-

stantiate the charge. On the conclusion of the evidence
the Magistrates decided upon committing both prison
for trial. Bail to the enormous amount of £20,000 v
tendered and refused.
FATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSIOI
from tha Wakefield .Inurnal_

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75 persons met with an instantaneous and untimely
death. The colliery is situated about two miles on the
Sheffield side of Barnsley, and is called the Darley Maine

ay morning, wal

stated) met " by rude but literal funeral process-inns, fol-
lowing each other in rapid succession from the pit at
Darley, surrounded by frantic widows and childless
parents, who had succeeded, not without some difficulty,
in recognising their own kindred from among the heaps
of fearfully-mangled bodies from time to time sent up
from the pit's mouth." On arriving at the works, he
found a further crowd of spectators anxiously waiting to

know the fate of missing husbands, sons, and brothers ;
and ever and anon the shrieks of the females indicated
that some fresh sufferer's fate had been made manifest by
the recognition of the body by its friends. The colliery
is about 111 yards in length, and has been regularly
worked for the last ten or twelve years—latterly by
Messrs. Jarratt and Jeffcock. It had not, however, been
worked for three weeks previous to Wednesday. On the
morning of that day the workmen went down, and all
went well till twenty minutes before noon, when a violent
explosion took place, which was distinctly heard above
ground. The alarm spread, and in about fifty minutes
the air became sufficiently purified to admit of some par-
ties going down the shaft. The mouth of the pit was
soon surroanded by numbers, some insensible, others
quite dead, and a few who still survived were fearfully
burned, and survived only a few hours. The work of
extraction was continued all Wednesday and Thursday,
but the number of persons in the pit at the time was not
precisely known. Parts of the works that were broken
down were repaired, and numbers of bodies were found
embedded amongst the materials. The
_majority of the
sufferers were fearfully mutilated, so much so that it was
totally impossible for many of the relatives to recognise
the mangled corpses, unless by some peculiarity in the
deceased's dress. Nearly all the bodies last brought out
were dreadfully mutilated, and in several instances the
head literally scalped, the hair burned off, and the viscera
obtruding from the lower portion of the body. A more
horrible scene could not possibly be conceived ; and as
cart loads one after another were taken away to surround-
ing houses, numbers of maddened and anxious parents
and wives ran after the vehicles, and threw on one side
the blankets in the dreadful anticipation of recognising
some one dear to them. The accident arose from an
explosion of fire-damp. The number of hands, of all
descriptions, in the pit at the time was about 100. Of
these twenty-seven were got out alive, three of whom
afterwards died. By the latest and apparently best ascer-
tained particulars: the number of lives lost was seventy-
five or seventy-six, probably the former, as one name
appeared in the hst to be duplicated.

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