The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-25 00:00:00

Mr. John Henry Murchison, Office, No. 19; Eases-atrpd,
Strand, London.

?THIS Company is formed for the purpose of work
ins the Pant-draining Slate Quarry, it
Llanllechid, Carnarvonshire, the proposed n'
can be effected on terms most advm.---
The Slate from the P 0• '
enr

v. in the pariah of
—base of which

geous to the Company

at quality anti colour. 'I he Quarry hI
situate about five miles from Bango", and is a portion of an
Estate covering an area of about S 9 acres and a half. The
great Holyhead road passes through this Property, and con-
nects the Quarry with the Wharf at Garth Point, on the Menai
Straits, and also with the Chester and Holyhead Railway,
which crosses the turnpike-road at a point about three miles
distant, the proximity to which will enable the Company to
convey Slates into the Liverpool, Manchester. and Midland
markets with a punctuality and dignntrh thnt

attained through the medium of shipri
The Quarry, upon which a large sun
pended, has been opened for twenty yep
vent about EO,OOO tons of marketable Mc
the metal now uncovered.

has been already ex

.....
The Property is held for
in 1903, without any Royalt

term of

ears, which will expire

favouritblo

Taking the price of one ton of slate at a price much below
that which is obtained, and estimating the cost of getting,
making, cartage, and all expenses of management, there will
remain a nett profit equal to twenty. per cent. per annum upoat
the capital of .€O,OOO.
Parties desirous of taking the cancelled Shares may aunt

personally, till the 15th day of June next, to any of the o
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lowing Gentlemen :—ln London, to the SECRETARY, at the
Office, No. 19, Essex-street, Strand; to Messrs. RlCHAllosort,
SMITH, and SADDLER, 28, Golden-square; or to Mr. JAMES
LANE, Mining Agent, 75 Old Broad-street, City; in Myer:pool,

tJDLMY

AUG USTUS HAII
H. Comas; in Bristol, to Mr. HE
and in Exeter, to Mr. R. Thin., I
Prospectuses, with the Engine
Plans of the Quarry, may be h

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and Engraved
lion at any of

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ning Journal, 2

street, London

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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
it tt a- atii r e. Occupant of that wretched bed • and he, too, slept—no THE NEEDLE.—How. often have I blessed my needle SECOND E
more to wake on earth. He had been dead some hours; for rescuing me from the temptations which assail the
-- -- and, by his position, which a glimmer of the reviving fire other sex. Bright and innocent little implement, whether
EXPERIENCES OF A LIVERPOOL SURGEON. enabled me to ascertain, his last sigh.had been breathed plied over tasteful luxuries, or gaining the poor pittance
in the unconscious face of that victim of intemperate of a day, thou art equally the friend of her whose visions Standard
DEATH IN A COURT. excess. Even in death, previously to which reason, 1 tend to wander amid the regions of higher abstractions,
—sow—
concluded, had returned to hime lac had not ceased to love and of her whose thoughts are pinned down to the tread-
(Concluded from our last.) her, and to look over her west frailty ; for his arm, now mill of thy minute progress. Quiet rescuer from clubs ONE DAY LATER Fl
How often we are disgusted with hearing the Om- cold and nerveless, was thrown over her insensible form. and midnight revels, amid the minor blessings of woman's The Black Ball liner packet,
1.1 had. not firmness to stay and witness the miserable. lot thou shalt not be forgotten ! Still come, and let thy river Lhis morn.ing, bringing da
risaical lamentations of the wealthy and the comfortably-awakening of that unhappy woman; but, gently closing fairy wand shine on her; still lend an ambitious joy to New York, being one day later
housed and circumstanced amongst our fellow-men, over the door, I left her in that appalling contact with death, the play-things of the girl ; still move unconsciously un- the North American Mail. Sim
the wretched population of our unwholesome streets! and passed into the street. I did not go away, however, der the glittering smile of the maiden planning thy trium- ing passengers :—Mrs. Stusken
-They forget that there are causes, within their own power without communicating the fact of their father's decease phant results; still beguile the mother whose thought abel, Mr. and Mrs. N. C. 1111 LE
to his demoralised daughters, whose boisterous mirth it roves to her boy on the distant ocean, or the daughter Breese, Mr. A. J. Tobias, Mast
to remove, which are hourly hurrying that population
stilled at once; but it was not until I had addressed them watching by the sick bed of one who has heretofore toiled S. Levy, Lieut. Edward Swenta
hats intemperance. They forget too that, in other shapes, in terms of angry authority, that they retired sullenly to for her; still soothe the long dreary moments of faithful Norrie, Miss Norrie, Gordon N.
they are themselves—the most apparently temperate of their wretched borne. . I never learnt anything of the love; and though a tear sometimes falls on thy shining Norrie, Miss Van Horne, Mr.
them—guilty of excess, and resorting to stimulants for, subsequent life of either the widowed mother or those point, it shall not gather the rust of despair, since employ- children, and servant. Mrs. R.
two girls. The workhouse, or the grave, has doubtless ment is thy dower.—Mrs. Gitiner's Recollections of a Mrs. Charles Wake and servant
the relief of such excess. Is the man who gorges on received the former by this time. The latter, it is too Southern Matron, and Mrs. Andrew Moffett, and
turtle, until the physician is called in to remove the con- much to be feared, have contributed their quota to the MIXED COMMISSION COURTS OF SIERRA LEONE.—The The Massachusetts arrived at
sequences of his self-indulgences, less vile in his propen- increase of the vice which fills our prisons, and thus visits Mixed Commission Courts form a conspicuous feature in instant, bringing dates from Vei
Rides than the poor toiling wretch, who takes ardent upon us, in increased expense, the results of our sinful the history of the colony of Sierra Leone, from the cir- The following is from the corn
spirits, at first only for the removal of that lassitude and selfish neglect. Would the widowhood or the or- cumstance of its being by their fiat that thousands of of the 23d ult.:—
which over toil creates. although at length he sins in the phanage which we are called upon to support, be half negroes have obtained their freedom. They are termed There is no doubt at all but tl
quantity of his potations ? Is the man who stimulates his what it is, if we attended, as we ought to do, and as I mixed, from those nations with which England has treaties twelve to fifteen thousand mn,
appetite with curries, peppers, and pickles, when able to trust we are about to do, to the sanitary improvement of for the abolition of the slave trade having a right to send it is concluded on all sides that
enjoy a pure atmosphere and healthy exercise, although our town ? commissioners to judge in their respective cases. This whip him, he will at least kee
free from the same description of crime, which he is so ----41.--- right, however, has seldom been claimed, except in a few Scott, who left yesterday, reach
ready to charge against his poorer neighbour? He isnot. VARIETIES. late instances by Spain and Brazil. But it requires little morrow night.
The difference between them is only that which exists be- Chester is said to be the oldest city in England. Ac- penetration to perceive that they came, not for abolition, The Mexicans are playing a
tween the expensive orgies of the frequenter of the club, cording to Sir Thomas Eliot, it was built by a great grand- but to preserve vessels engaged in the illegal traffic. Spain time bolder game than is usual
or the hotel, and those of the denizen of the tavern or son of Noah ! is not to be trusted; and the Brazilian flag, like charity, they have killed no less than fif
the tap-room ; between the refined indulgences of the e Bless me !" said an old lady, throwing down a news- "covereth a multitude of sins." The expiration of the last three days on the road.
drawing-room, and the more coarse and vulgar debau- paper and wiping her spectacles; "here is John Doe and Brazilian treaty has already given a powerful impetus to Gen. Scott had issued a Procl
ehery of the hovel. Richard Roe at law again—they've had a suit reg'lar the tradc, and the harbour of Sierra Leone has become urging them in strong terms to
every year or so, for more'n thirty years, to my certain
-This poor fallen creature had not arrived at her present swarmed with vessels bearing that flag. This treaty does and no longer countenance the
state without many a hard straggle—many an hour of knowledge !" not, like that. with Spain, allow the condemned vessel to been leading them to destruction
sincere repentance and its practice, followed, alas ! withbe cut up; by it, they must be sold, hence, the same ' and army as the friends of all
CONTRADICTION.—Men resent nothing more than con-
sad, sad lapses into the indulgence of her frailty. Thevessels have been known to come in for adjudication seve- determined to protect them in a
tradiction on a point which they themseves feel uneasy
life of an excavator, or navigator, to which her husband ral times under a new name, as per example :—A sharp- rights.
about. Truth may be disputed with impunity : a sophism
had been driven by the early failure of his circumstances can only be torn from out the mind with a violence that sailing brigantine, within the year in which she was con-
To-day being packet-day the ma
as a yeoman, is not one which provides much of the corn- lacerates and embitters.—Ranthorpe. demned as a slaver, was purchased by a German house in
and transactions too small to char
fort, or even decencies, of existence for the families of
ANGLO-AFRICAN JURIES.—The grand juries are usually the colony, freighted, and sent to Hamburgh, and in a able us to fix quotations with mud
those who follow it. For four years that of this family composed of Europeans and the most respectable Africans few months returned as a prize under a new name, proving channT of importance to note. A
had been a wandering one ; and, whilst so, they—thus amalgamating intelligence and judgement w
had ith in- that she must have made a voyage to Brazil, or elsewhere, have nel no effect, the tenor of hem
known little more of settled habits than is afforded by a ferior qualifications ; hence, their deliberations are con- and was again sold to a slave-dealer. She was then a reedy anticipated. In the preser
few months' residence at a, time at some common lodging- ducted in a sober and orderly manner, and their decisions second time purchased by the same house for 1:61/0, and affected more by the amount o
no doubt will make her appearance a third time for adju-changes
._
.abroad.,... „
house, or in some cheap apartment in the town, or vi[- are generally in consonance with the evidence; but excep- .-o-rToN .cis leas active. Sates 0.
lage, nearest to the place of tlit husband's employment. tions sometimes do arise, and national prejudices or pri- dication. The "Atala" is another instance. This vessel Floes—The market is dull. At t
During the last eight years of his residence in Liverpool, vote animosities occasionally give the black juror a majo- was purchased by a Mr. Machado, a Brazilian merchant sumption, the stock here would no
whilst his employment bad been principally in sinking rity, incapable and unaccustomed as they are to listen to in the colony, and fitted out for a voyage to the Leeward the canal could arrive, which will
coast, but in a few months put back as a prize as the trade, however, buy very sparingly
foundations and in sewering, they had been located in nicer appeals of conscience comparatively with their white
"E
filthy dens, such as this in which I now found them, with brethren. This is bad enough, though purity itself in cuador."—Simmonds's Colonial Magazine. to wait a few days, when the price
say a dollar. We continue to cite
pestilence, bad example, indecency, and vice raging on juxta-position with petit and coroner's juries, the con- TAKING A TUCK OUT.—I declare it really wasn't pru- .137,623- to 87,75, and Southern at
every side, impairing the animal vigour and insensibly stitution of which must be a source of regret to all who dent to trust that Emma to do a thing, and even that little There was some Ohio Wheat on sa
debasing the minds of both to the level of those of. the honour this bulwark of British freedom ,• and to a ust lamb of a Kitty of mine was scarcely safe with a stupid, is held at 90 to 98 c. for white, and
Mass, into which they had been cast. I need not trace judge at the head of that judicial establishment a never- like her, in the house. For I recollect once, I had been raot, verlitttle off
ring.
sTiooNasrriv
the course of the unfortunate wife and mother's fall. ceasing cause of unmixed dissatisfaction, from the fre- thinking the simpleton had a great deal of spare time on sells sflC*leue?ytayn at °in: iola c. ILSUO ARCS
Perhaps it was. hurried on by the contrast, ever presenting quent accidentally erroneous, and often intentionally un-
her hands,
itself, between her present lot and that which she deemed just, verdicts. It would appear from some of their deci- as sit twiddling her finger and thumb on an evening, so I 100 lbs. FREIGHTS are unsettled.
was lost to her for ever. It is a well-known fact, that sions that they were habitually indifferent to the solemn told her that my little poppet of a Kitty was growing so tation, but it has been taken to fill
the lapse into intemperance of a mind of superior order obligation of an oath, the sworn evidence being not un- I fast that all her things were getting too short for her, and vessels reported at 2s.
is less eaeily retrievable than that of one which never frequently a matter of minor consideration, when in corn- I she really wanted a tuck out in her best frock, and would
feels sensibly that it has fallen at all. To the waking petition with the momentary impulses of their private certainly look all the better for it, so I would thank her
miseries of the one, there is superadded self-reproach feelings, particularly when they have partial or vindictive to attend to it that night, and let it be done before she THIRD El
and loathing of the contamination seen around. The purposes to indulge, the manifestations of which being went to bed. In the evening, I was in the parlour, boil-
being who has never seen any higher gratifications than expressed by bursts of passion. Of petit juries there are ing down some quince pips to make a nice fixature for my - ---
those of a debauch, or any higher comforts than those three panels entirely composed of liberated Africans, hair, and all the while I could hear that sweet little che- * Stands
afforded by a full meal in a wretched and impure dwell- who. for want of intelligence, too frequently decide, even rub of mine down stairs crying; so I said to myself what ______....,s___
ing, scarcely feels, when he has sunk into habitual squa- in cases of life and death, by a verdict that would greatly the dickens can that idiot be doing with the child in the LIVERPOOL CORN MA
lidness, that lie has fallen at all. But the most strongly astound their lordships in Westminister-hall, if not at kitchen at this time of night, when it ought to have been
inducing cause, in the present ease, I have no hesitation first impressed with the idea that it could only be meant undressed and in bed a good hour ago ? Off I trotted to Of foreign Wheat direct from 1
in affirming, was to be found, directly,as a black joke. When one of their own nation or colour see what precious bit of stupidity my lady was at now. careoe, from Ireland, we have afa
in the impure air
and the noxious gases which she had been for those eight is arraigned for any crime, no matter how deep the corn- When I reached the kitchen I thought I should have in for to-day, with ara,goodosuiply ('
years constantly inhaling, and from the effect ofwhich plexion, though proven guilty, acquittal in most follows fainted, for there sat Emma, with my little angel on her iiersrsi limn! st ;Lout
shue ia• i Gan f e
Idna're not like
she had found in ardent liquor a temporary relief.__ Aid as a matter of course: but should a white man come under knee, dressed out in its best frock, and with its dear little thence until the June shipments a
to the craving of the constitution, thus created, the effect their tender mercy, though evidently innocent, he is con- I innocent face daubed all over with treacle, just as if it lead The decline in Mark Lane,, at
of example. Consider, too, that she was placed amongst denined!—Simmondee Colonial Magazine. been tarred. " What on earth have you been doing with materially affects the sensibiitie
a population, by whom the exhilaration produced by the child, Emma?" I exclaimed. " I thought as
THE FOUNTAINS AND CHURCHES OF ROME.—Here
drinking is regarded as the only one within their reach ; as everywhere, we were pursued by the shameless, wretched you said quote a reduction to-day of is. per
rel on Flour ; 3d. per6olb. on Bari,
it was to have a tuck out in its best frock, ma'am." she
and to whom the mere change, from the dark and close- to 3s. per quarter on Indian Corn ;
pauperism that disgusts and pains one the whole time, and replied, "it could have nothing nicer than plenty of bread A moderate business has been de
smelling apartment, or the filthy court, to the gaudily- makes the ruined aspect of
decorated and well-lighted gin-palace, with its bright one cheerful compared with the abject degradation of that when I told her I fancied the child would look all the country orders will at once come 8
array of brass implements or ornaments, is of itself ca- that which God has made in his own image. Oh ! I better for having a tuck out in it's best frock, bless and
Fable of producing intoxicating effects upon the mind ; P. te
would not live among those people for anything in the save us, if the stupid oaf dijn't imagine that I wished it ss,!:s g 5: tg x
and we cease to wonder how and why she fell, or to feel e
world ; and, when I think of England and America Ito have a grand yeast in its-Sunday clothes !"Oh ! you 9, .1 ;.',..1 .. e rg'l: o
curious to trace the steps of her fall. thank God that I was born in the on and shall live in the stupid, studid thing !" I said, " and what business have 4 t-i s, ;4 " g 1.,1 -' F. x
Of the two girls, to whom I have referred, what need other. Driving home we went to the Acqua Paola, the You to go giving the darling all that mess, when the doc-
.2 .0 .---; ,9, a /Pi PI tA
I say ? With associations and examples such as those fountain in Rome where the volume of water is more se- tor has ordered me to let it have nothing but slops ?" ~,',.': •g F. .5, g, <7 ~..., n.; ,L,
amongst which they had been thrown in their spring of tisfactory. The very ornaments with which they adorn " Nothing but slops, mum !" she exclaimed, with her g..... ,:-. ~.-.„-i. ›,p; ?.., an, 9.,
I:E. _;4, ...—.l. tm;---,, h,.. Q.;.1 to enjoy any such snring. a-- --a --a ....-55„.... ssisms. .ices A.,. 1.,4-...C...”, month wide mien with astonishment. "Yes, you stupid, =.=.. 5'441 % ill g" P 2 • g'. 3• .

saw passing

check their vicious pro

They do c

asionally present
Ltesmen and Brea

he removal of early

man privileged to visit the wr
and to observe the eontaminl

Curativ

effort must be made

fortable ho

of thei

4 in vain

without, can c

To the medical

if we wish to

ns n
I most ft

eperated upon by the

his lon

patent

Common sense from reaching

character and men
himself, it will naturally be gl
afforded me no opportunity o
unfortunately be never rallied

end philosophers
Or ti

suttiOf

to the a

f malan

already said that he man

most Creditable to him

did not at all tend to rai

For the hr

bad the

cone,

I upor

The feveiish enc

iting a ver

fat a late ha
o call and as,

rs, in I

s the a

Lek, I made my way t

which struck me was the

man, one arm encircling hE
other extended as a pillow

to wake her up ; but.in yak
the sleep of intoxication 1.

I to enjo

A they were utterly
They thought they
bed, the only being

powerfully interposed to
and it is much if their
,e of a:ratification at the

1 to think that there can

1 and revolting features

themselves, however; and
,mers—tvell meaning men,

;inary causes, and devise
and other similar devices

, the medica
tched hovela of our poor
lions with which they are
at a conclusion that the

man, or any

irst afford them- com-

preserve their minds from
Lsive than the material ones

es in which ever a pig
t such an improvement

ulations are

icceed in providing a cure.
t of whose care is the body,
influences, this conclusion

e to pierce

pose to prevent truth and

he. minds of our statesmen

ital capacity of the patient
tthered that my first visit

forming a judgment ; and

,ufficiently to enable me to
never, I learnt that he had

.nd, and less

lost of his class

nd indeed a strong man;

to the atmosphere

his constitution

d this deprivation

!ssary consequence, a want
had induced considerable

,sed him for succumb-
iddition, I found that

themselves in his
the weakness of the
ithstanding, I have
_d an affectionate leniency
a mental and bodily con-

my hOpes of a favourable

the treatment pursued
I expected, with some
system would be pro-
is, under which he la-

far I succeeded that

r man now began to
ing partner to administer to
herself about the apartment,

eyes would follow.her, with
can scarcely be described;

any of those errands wt

man's househok

a gaze of mingle(
jealous question.
. The poor wo•

nsity, for which th

of these iempor

e unnatural girls eve
I in th

t of their parent's suf-

as by every

h ail to invigorate tl

from my first

bis now bopeles,

orne her up s(
;ompletely lef
_

)ereaved, or

niposed manner re
posure of settled despair. Tb
left for her to care for, or t

Ty-day tragedy was a sad one.
irgent case in the neighbour•
evening, when it occurred tc

one cheerful compared with the abject degradation of
that which God has made in his own image. Oh ! I
would not live among those people for anything in the
world ; and, when I think of England and America I
thank God that I was born in the on and shall live in the
other. Driving home we went to the Acqua Paola, the
fountain in Rome where the volume of water is more sa-
tisfactory. The very ornaments with which they adorn
them, gods and goddesses, dolphins, shells, &c., interfere
with the effect of the beautiful element itself; and though
of course, there is no comparison between the graceful
forms of the basin of the Acqua Paolu, Trevi, &c., and
the simple turf bank that surrounds the fountains in the
park at New York, the volume of water thrown to a
height of nearly sixty feet, and falling back in a cataract,

is a finer thing in itself than a whole Olympus of carved
stone divinities. From this fine fountain, by the side of
which one enjoys a noble view of Rome, we went to St.
Peter's ; and here I was only astonished at finding how
perfectly I knew it ; how absolutely like what I had
imagined it was ; so that, except that the roof was a little
higher than I expected. I felt as if I had been there a

hundred times, and in no way exceeded or differed from
my expectations. The four-post bed (the one idea those
horrid canopies over the high altars ever suggest. to me)
in the middle arrested the sweep of the eye from end to
end

condition of my poor patient.
ice to the court in which In
to find his two girls engaged.

of this majestic temple, and disfigured it painfylly to

ige, beautiful proportions—l was not prepared, and was
•oportionately thankful, for the absence of all the tawdry,
nseily, holy trumpery so perpetually hanging about the
frerent shrines in Catholic churches, making them look
ce old curiosity shops, and disfiguring both their beauti-
-1 forms and the beautiful materials they are built of.—

LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S APPROACH TO CONSERVATISM.
Meanwhile, Lord John Russell has marched as steadily
towards the p'ace of a sound Conservative as Sir Robert
HI has gone off in the direction of the movement. He

h a number o
in such locali
ever, to thei

no longer the advocate of extreme measures. The fa-
ous Irish Appropriation-clause is dead and buried, never
ri=e again. There is not a whisper about an extended
ffrage, either in Great Britain or Ireland. Corporation
form has reached its limits; and the constitution of
31. seems to be complete. At the same time his lord-
ip is not idle. He has conceded to the Church a point
hich the professed friends of the Church peremptorily

LUbCtl. OL. ttsapu retains ors utsimp, anu, uu►ess Win -
)n report belie bim, Lord John is about to sanction the

.•
licy alFo, whether sound or otherwise, is at least impar-
J. There is no attempt to elevate one party above ano-
er. The Tail has lost its influence, and its voice has
come mute, or, if heard at all, it seems to produce no

.nd a shudder at their hearties
rhich I thought it worth whit

e arrangements made to meet the exigencies of the
ish famine at the outset. We think that, considering
enius of the people, they were as ill-advised in iheory
xecution they have proved fruitful of abuse.
Lord John of seeking this

Lt we are far from

" it could have nothing nicer than plenty of bread
and treacle." And then to my horror I learnt from her,
hat when I told her I fancied the child would look all the
better for having a tuck out in it's best frock, bless and
save us, if the stupid oaf di't imagine that I wished it
to have a grand yeast in its'Eunday clothes ! "Oh ! you
stupid, studid thing !" I said, `• and what business have
you to go giving the darling all that mess, when the doc-
tor has ordered me to let it have nothing but slops ?'
" Nothing but slops, mum !" she exclaimed, with her
mouth wide open with astonishment. " Yes, you stupid,
nothing but slops," I answered ; " don't you even know
what slops are now ?" "In course I do, mum,
—augh !—oh, la !" she replied; and from the way
in which she turned up her nose, and the wry
faco she made, I could easily see that she fancied
that the dear babe was to be fed with the grouts of the

. •
when the breakfast things came down
Plague of Life.
CASE OF SomNAmnutism.--Altogether, the most in-
teresting case of somnambulism on record, is that of a
young ecclesiastic, the narrative of which, from the im-
mediate communication of an Archbishop of Bordeaux, is
given under the head of somnambulism in the French En-
cyclopedia. This young ecclesiastic, when the archbishop
was at the same seminary, used to rise every night, and
write out either sermons or pieces of music. To study his

he bed

by them, and entere
vas still, and almost i

The Greatest

condition, the archbishop betook himself several nights to
the chamber of the young man, where lie made the fol-

lowing observations. The young man used to rise, to take
paper, and to write. Before he wrote music he would take
a stick and rule the lines with it. He wrote the notes,
together with the words corresponding with them, with
perfect correctness. Or, when he had written the words
too wide, he altered them. The notes that were to be
black, he filled in after he had completed the whole
Af --1,44,7 a sermon, he it aloud from

1c au I
ning to end. If any passage displeased him, he erased it,
and wrote the amended passage clrrectly over the other ;
on one occasion he had to substitute the word "adorable"
for " divin ;" but he did not omit to alter the preceding

" ce" into " eel," by adding the letter "t" with exact
precision to the word first written. To ascertain whether
he used his eyes, the archbishop interposed a sheet of
pasteboard between the writing and his face. He took
not the least notice, but went on writing as before. The
limitation of his
.perceptions to what he was thinking
about was very curious. A bit of aniseed cake, that he
had sought for, he eat approvingly ; but when, on another
occasion, a piece of the same cake was put in his mouth,
he spit it out without observation. The following instance
of the dependence of his perceptions upon, or rather their

subordination to, his preconceived ideas is truly wonder-
ful. It is to be observed that he always knew when his
pen had ink in it. Likewise, if they adroitly changed his
papers, when he was writing, he knew it, if the sheet sub-
stituted was of different size from the former, and he ap-

peared embarassed in that case. But if the fresh sheet of
paper, which was substituted for that written on, was ex-
actly of the same size with the former, he appeared not to
be aware of the change. And he would continue to read
off his composition from the blank sheet of paper, as
fluently as when the manuscript itself lay before him ;

.ems to be, under any circumstances, impossible. In
ke manner, his Irish Poor-law is not only not a party
leasure, but if carried, as we presume that it must be, it
ill become law in defiance of a powerful party opposition.
.nd when we look elsewhere, what do we find ? Sc
ny,A 1-vowstm

trate to

nay, more, be would continue his corrections, and intro-
duce the amended passage, writing it upon exactly the
place on the blank sheet which it would have occupied on
the written page.—Blackwood'B Magazine.
'EI CANADIAN DISCOMFORTS.—The accommodations for

batever to stand upon, except t

lone enabling me t

eir presumed applica-
Consi-

here the firs

ty to the w

and wishes of the community.
what is doing in regard to National Education; to im-
ovements in the morale of our military system ; to the
Icory and practice of colonization ; to the improvement
f the criminal law. Could Peel, or Canning, or Pitt
imself, have managed these things better ? We do not
,elieve that they coud : we are confident that, under the
regime, none of them would have had the hardihood
. Where are we, then ?—we who, for fifteen
ars and more, have fought the battle of the constitution
,nder a Tory banner, and played no mean part in keeping
he Tory party together ? Exactly where we have always
wen, —the uncompromising advocates of genuine Tory
Irinciples, the friends of social improvement so long as it
be judiciously carried on, faithful to the Church
oyal to the throne, and true to the people. But as to party
tanners, leaders, cries, and so forth, we hereby lir,'
ur severance from them all.
) measures, not to men : and to

) attempt it

Fraser

Henceforth we shall loot
me of those now un•

STADA.-1

h the Gulf and I

Lawrence. and thence
terest lead him to the West) direct to Toronto, which may
be designated the capital of Upper Canada. In his c
ease the writer proceeded outward by New York, I
homeward by way of Quebec; so that he has gained
practical knowledge of both voyages. Those who
for comfort, and who prefer the economy of time to t
of money, he would recommend to visit New York
Boston. The former is a city truly worthy of noti
splendid bay, its fairy scene, and its majt F.
all objects of interests, and tend,
furnish an antidote to the unplc

nger's taste or i

the "man" were not alw-ayi of the most tempting kind.
The beds were sometimes good, but much oftener bad,
while the meals, except in the city and some few of the
towns through which I passed, were the least inviting that
could have been placed before a hungry traveller. Let
the reader imagine to himself--sour, home-made bread—
tea which resembles, in flavour, a decoction of hay, and
sweetened with what 1 never could endure, the maple
sugar of the country—a rasher of bacon or learn exceed-
ingly salt, and oftener rancid than sweet, and as thick as
a 4eef-steak ought to be, but never is in this country—
potatoes infamously cooked—eggs fried and overdone in
grease-- a saucer or two filled with preserved apples, em-
browned in the same eternal maple sugar—a few other
fruits, such as raspberries, currants, &c., spoiled in the
same manner—a couple of large plates of potted butter,
with hage particles of salt oozing from them like drops of
hoar frost from a damp wall—cheese resembling hard
prepared bees' wax, and tasteless and tough as leather—
let the stranger, I repeat, imagine. this galimatias of eat-
ables, (he must not forget to add huge slices not of crisp,
but soddened toast) and he will know what sort of a break-

fast or supper he niay expect to find in Canad

ever be induced to travel through it. Sometimes a fowl
is added to what they pertinaciously insist upon calling
"supper," if you partake of it after one o'clock in the
clay, but which you, having only breakfasted, may incline
to regard as your dinner; and this, if plainly roasted, is
passable enough, but I confess that I never saw a piece
of beef (for they have no joints) or mutton, or veal,
placed on one of those "country inn" tables that was not
smothered in grease, and altogether most uninviting in
appearance.—Eight Years in Canada, &c.

1 -lo
I • •

Cana

petition for the same
MISTAKEN MERCY

rivers,

A WORD ABOUT THE PAUPERS OF THE ETERNAL
CITY.—The quality of everything I looked at was very in•
different, the prices enormous; and the shopkeepers, with
an audacity and dishonesty inconceivable to a stranger,
invariably take half the original price they demand lb;
everything. The filth and stench of the streets give on(
an imazinary fever as one drives through them. I wonder

ill times monoton(
xcellent trans-Atlantic st(

nothing is wanting in tt

d safety of I

. -
these people don't have the plague every year in this city.
The great, wide, beautiful stairs leading up from the Piazza
di Spagna immediately to the door of our lodging are the
favourite haunt of all the painter's models—old men with
grizzled beards and hair, and lads with blue-black locks,
falling all round the Most wonderful eyes ever beheld

TIN.al, yet, a

hile the fare as to pro-
V 11; as good as that on board of the Royal Mail
But, as it has,been already stated, our finances
must (if prudence be consulted) ever rule the route to be
taken. Many respectable. families, however, prefer the
more direct way, via Quebec; and without doubt, as far
as scenery is concerned, we are at a loss to say which is
most to be admired. The banks of the noble St. Law-
rence are richly wooded, and although the villages and
clearings are neither as numerous nor as good as those on
the Hudson, yet they are not without interest ; while the
cities of Quebec and Montreal have no competitors be-
tween New York and Toronto. We cannot, in any case,
recommend to those who may be straightened in their cir-
cumstances, the passag'i to New York ; for although tra-
velling in the United States is undoubtedly cheap, yet the
distance is so great, and the changing from boat to boat
or from carriage to carriage so frequent, that the expense
becomes a matter of girave consideration. Many of the
best of our British ships are constantly sailing from every
port of note in the three kingdoms either to Quebec or
Montreal.
Some emigrants are induced to embark in the
first ships,"
expecting, as a consequence, that those
which sail first must arrive first; but this is far from be-
ing the case. It is true that they may reach St. Lawren( e
before many others which leave at a later period ; but the
probability is that they way be detained by, or damaged in
the ice—the risk is much greater than the probable ad-
vantage of an early arrival—and it is therefore recom-
mended to passengers not to embark earlier than the be-
ginning of April.—Rev. G. W. War r's Canada as it is.

girls in Zl:epicturesclueTositume of the lower orders here,
with_
_splendid heads, and
.sh(!uldre_r_s,,,,ati.slea,Dfrlehtnijra—ekhel.s;

beeLillowed to

tebates on t

1 any brew

with half-closed eyes, upon the warm stone tstepN or,
with true brotherly humanity, exploring the animated
nature of each others elf-locks—beautiful, beastly crea-
tures. With those specimens of all that is finest in form
and colour lie a rabble of hideous detormities, whose sole
occupation is to extort money from every passenger that
walks, or carriage that drives, by them. Women with
huge goitres; men, with withered arms, hump-backed,
blear-eyed, fever-smitten, halting, squinting; idiots lol-
ling out their tongues and goggling their eyes ; the blind,
the maimed ; babies in arms and old creatures on crutches,
alt swarm round the wretched wayfarer, and, with
4. vocife-
_ .

of the poor we

r husband's shoulders, and the
under his head. I stirred he
She was in a heavy sleep—
I felt the face of the other

SECOND EDITION.

Standard Office, Ten o'clock.

ONE DAY LATER FROM AMERICA,

The Black Ball liner packet, Columbia, arrived in the
river this morning, bringing dates to the Ist inst. from
New York, being one day later than those brought by
the North American Mail. She has brought the follow-
ing passengers :—Mrs. Stusken and servant, Mr. Schon-
abel, Mr. and Mrs. N. C. MiLean, Mr. and Mrs. W. G.
Breese, Mr. A. J. Tobias, Master A. H. Lessak, Mr. L.
S. Levy, Lieut. Edward Swenton, R.A., Mr. and Mrs. A.
Norrie, Miss Norrie, Gordon Norrie, Mary Norrie, Julia
Norrie, Miss Van Horne, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Ewart, 3
children, and servant. Mrs. R. Child and son, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Wake and servant, Mr. Friede Nictor, Mr.
and Mrs. Andrew Moffett, and Mr. C. Motz.
The Massachusetts arrived at New-Orleans on the 22d
instant, bringing dates from Vera Cruz to the 14th.
The following is from the correspondent of the Picayune
of the 23d ult. :
There is no doubt at all but that Santa Anna, with from
twelve to fifteen thousand m n, is between us and Jalapa.
It is concluded on all sides that if Gen. Twiggs does not
whip him, he will at least keep him in check until Gen.
Scott, who left yesterday, reaches him, which will be to-
morrow night. _ _ _ _ .

EX'rRAORDINARY Esc APE.—On Thursday night a wager
boat was run into by a steamer on the Thames, and cut
right in two. The rower, on seeing the impossibility of
clearing the steamer, had the presence of mind to jump
from the boat before the steamer struck her, and dive
completely under it. coming up on the other side unhurt.
HIGH PRICE OF WREAT.—At Reading market on Sa-
turday last, 36 quarters of wheat, the property of Mr.
Crawshay, the extensive Welsh ironmaster, and grown on
his estate at Caversham, near Reading, realized the enor-
mous and almost unprecedented price of 120 s. per quarter.
The parcel was bought on speculation.
NEW MODE OF ADVERTISING.—A large number of
penny-pieces are in circulai ion in Birmingham and the
neighbourhood, on which is stamped, in prominent cha-
racters, a recommendation to purchase a certain cheap
periodical. We would advise the perpetrators of this act
of disfigurement of the current coin to beware of the Mint
authorities.

The members of the Senior United SeYvice Club gave a
splendid entertainment at the club-house in Pall-mall, on
Tuesday, to Major-General Sir Henry Smith, to celebrate
the return of that gallant officer to his native country,
after his arduous services in the East Indies. Lieutenant
General Sir Andrew F. Barnard, G.C.B. and G.C.H.,
presided, and Earl Waldegrave occupied the vice-chair.

The Inverness Courier:of Tuesday, contains a detail of
the loss by fire of a bark at sea, and eleven lives lost,
when off the Western Isles. Several others were dread-
fully burnt, but escaped in a boat. The crew were
Americans, bound to Leith. The accident was caused by
a candle falling on some dry oakum while drawing some
rum.

The Me;deans are playing a bloody and at the same
time bolder game than is usual for them, as it is thought
they have killed no less than fifty of our men within the
last three days on the road.
Gen. Scott had issued a Proclamation to the Mexicans,
urging them in strong terms to remain at their homes,
and no longer countenance the military tyrants who had
been leading them to destruction. He proclaims himself
and army as the friends of all peaceable Mexicans, and
determined to protect them in all their civil and religious
rights.

New York, April 30th.

To-day being packet-day the markets have been very quiet,
and transactions too small to characterise the market, or en-
able us to fix quotations with much definiteness. We have no
change of importance to note. Advices by. the Sarah Sands
have had no effect, the tenor of her news having been very cor-
rectly anticipated. In the present state of things prices are
affected more by the amount of supplies, than the slight
changes abroad.

CorroN was less active. Sales of 6000 bales at previous rates.
FLou R —The market is dull. At the usual average rate of con-
sumption, the stock here would not last until the receipts from
the canal could arrive, which will be in about ten days. The
trade, however, buy very sparingly at present rates, preferring
to wait a few days, when the prices must be considerably lower,
say a dollar. We continue to quote Genesee and Western at
,57,623- to 87,75, and Southern at 57,37 to 417,53. GRAIN.—
There was some Ohio Wheat on sale, but nothing done. Corn
is held at 90 to 98 c. for white, and 94 to 95 c. for yellow, on the
spot, very little offering. To arrive, prices are firm at yester-
.

.ay's quo .cions. _
sells freely at 10 to la c. SUGARS.—We mote sales by auction
to-day of 286 hhds. prime New Orleans, at 37,06 to 57,56 per
100 lbs. FREIGHTS are unsettled. For flour. 3s. is a full quo-
tation, but it has been taken to fill up at 2s. 6d., and in British
vessels reported at 2s.

THIRD EDITION.

Standard-office, Two o'clock

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET

-THIS DAY.

Of foreign Wheat direct from Europe, and some returned
farzoe, from Ireland, we have a fair import of that Grain fresh
in for to-day, with a good supply of Indian Corn, and several
arrivals of other Grain : of American Flour, however, we have
less in than usual, and are not likely to have any large quantity
thence until the June shipments come to hand.
The decline in Mark Lane, and continued fine weather,
materially affects the sensibilities of holders, and we have to
quote a reduction to-day of Is. per 70Ib. on Wheat ; ss. per bar-
rel on Flour; 3d. per 60Ib. on Barley; Is. to 2s. on Beans.; 2s.
to 3s. per quarter on Indian Corn ; and 2s. per load on Oatmeal.
A moderate business has been done, however, and the market
closes more steadily, under the conviction that extensive
country orders will at once come forward.

.-;.til Pn...1

THE CROPS.—AII the provincial papers speak in high
terms of the growinc, crops. The following are speci-
mens :—ln the Fylde the corn looks well, and kitchen
gardens are flourishing. In Shropshire " the appearance
of the wheat and barley crops is indicative of a profuse
harvest." In Kent " the beautiful warm showers have
put a new face on the country, and all the crops pro-
mise abundance. The early potatoes look healthy."
So much foreign grain has been stored at Perth this
winter, that granary room is hardly to be bad, and im-
porters are re-shipping to other ports partly from want of
the necessaryaccomodation. Glasgow is similarly situated,
and some who had sent cargoes thither, and found no sale,
are intending to re-ship them to the Baltic, where prices
are fifty per cent higher than when originally put on
board.

Z ! W 2 o

fsrrilann.

At a public meeting in Darlington; on Tuesd
resolved to economise in the use of food.
During the past week, 95 vessels laden with
rived in London, from different European ports
The freedom of the city of London has been presented
to " the hero of Aliwal," Sir Harry George Smith. •
On Saturday a tight took place at Cramlington, near
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, between John Walton and Joseph
Simms, pitmen, when the former was unfortunately killed.
On Saturday week, Dr. Mesham, one of the physicians
to the Infirmary at. Bedford, committed suicide by taking
on. His circumstances were embarrassed.
. ' ' " -ilrough the win-

ay, it was

Some atrocious villain fired a bullet t
dow of Dr. Turley's library, at Worcester, on
The Dr. was sitting at a table at the time, and 1
narrow escape from being shot.

corn ar-

Tuesda

'iad a very

THE OAK HAS WON.—When the ash-tree opens its leaf
before the oak, a wet summer usually follows ; and when
the oak-tree opens its leaf before the ash, a dry summer
usually follows. _ The oak is first this year.

- -
DISTRESS IN BRA DFORD.—A guardian of the poor states
that one in seven of every man, woman, and child, in the
township of Bradford is receiving parochial relief. One
relieving-officer, Mr. Booth, has 1200 families on his book.

The members of vie canton utuo, auopting toe 111.11J1C
example set by our most gracious Sovereign, have directed
that, during the existing scarcity, none but the seconds
flour be used in that club.
At the recent lettings of grass lands in the neighbour

hood of Cardigan, by auction, the rentals have consider-
silly increased upon that of die previous years; the com-

)eing very great.
—A man was indicted on Wednes

day, at the Old Bailey, tor stauwng nis own moiner, .uu
endangering her life. He pleaded intoxication. and conse-
quently got off with a fortnight's imprisonment.
In a late Gazette it was announced that a dividend of
three thirty-secondths of a penny would be paid to the
creditors of a bankrupt; so that a creditor to the amount

The Chester Courant says that within three days the
House of Commons was twice counted out, that the mem-

le currency

A. CONTRAST.—In November, 1834, the price of a
bushel of flour in this city was 6s. 6d.;—on Monday,
May 17, 1847, it was seventeen shillings ! Very shortly,
we regret to add, the price will probably range between
20s. and 30s. per bushel.—As a proof of the laudable de-
sire in Hereford to economise in the smallest things, we
may notice that we have seen handbills affixed to the
walls, not with paste, but skewers.- -Hereford Journal.
The London Dock Company has lately opened another
stack of warehouses with vaults beneath, at the western
end of the docks, nearest to the city. They have been
built at a cost of about £BO,OOO, and combine light, space,

and convenience of all kinds for the transaction of busi-
ness. The arches of the vaults are supported by iron
columns, and have a light and roomy appearance, whilst
they are so far from the water side as to be effectually free
from damp.
FOREIGN CORN.—The number of vessels which arrived
at the port of London during the past week from ports
in Europe, laden with grain, was 95, the cargoes of which
were mainly wheat and oats, and were from the following
European States, viz. Holland, Denmark, Prussia, Fran re
(Marselles), Sweden, Hanover, Oldenburgh. Malta,
Meek lenb urgh . and some others, the principal of which,
however, were from the Hanoverian dominions, Denmark,
and Prussia. _ _ .

THE INDIAN WAR.—A package has arrived in the East
India Docks directed to Lord Hardinge, the Governor-
General of India, containing a bedstead and hangings,
and also a quantity of Indian armour, the former of which
is a present to His Excellency from the Maharajah Dhu-
leep Sing, and the latter has been taken in the late en-
gagement with the Sikhs; the whole of which will he de-
livered for or on account of his lordship, by the special di-
rections of the Treasury, duty free. _ _ _ _

.
THE SHIPMENT OF GOLD.—The quantity of gold taken
out on Wednesday by the American steamer was £190,000,
but it was not taken from the bank, but had been received
from Paris by an eminent continental banking firm here,
to be shipped on French account—no doubt as the most
profitable remittance which they are able to make in pay-
ment of the corn, &c. which they are receiving in such
large quanties from the United States. It is understood,
also, that the bullion in the bank is daily augmenting, anti
that it cannot now be much below £lo,ooo,ooo.—Morning
Chronicle.
ANOTHER SPECIMEN OF ONE-SIDED CONSCIENTIOUS-
ness.—In the House of Commons on Tuesday, Mr. Wil-
liams opposed the adoption of the Report of the Commit-
tee of Supply, on the ground that the amount voted for
the expenses of the Ecclesiastical Commission (X 3,450),
being for the benefit of the church, ought not to be paid
out of the public purse. The bon. member forgot to state,
that this sum became due owing to the state interfering
with the revenues of the church. But Mr. Brothertnn
reminded him, that if the public were thus paying £3,000
for the Ecclesiastical Commission, the church paid £36,000
for registering births, deaths, and marriages, a measure
adopted for the benefit of dissenters ? Nevertheless, eight
members voted with Mr. 'Williams.
DREADFUL COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT LEEDS.—SEVEN
LIVES LOST.—Yesterday morning week, a terrific explo-
sion of fire-damp occurred at a colliery belonging to
Messrs. Harding and Co., New Hall, Beeston, about
two miles from Leeds, by which seven individuals have
lost their lives, and another haS" received injuries from
which he is not expected to recover. The explosion took
place about nine o'clock. The miners in the course of
their labours broke into an old pit, from which the con-

stantaneous explosion. Six of the unfortunate persons
who were at work in the pit were killed on the spot, and
two others were got out alive and conveyed to the Leeds
Infirmary, one of whom has since died
DEATH OF A BOY FROM EXCESSIVE DRINKING.—On
Saturday week, a boy named John Hall, aged nine years
and five months, was amusing himself with other boys in
front of the office of Messrs. Ridley and Thompson, spi-
rit merchants, Newcastle, but causing some annoyance to
those in the office, they were ordered away. Unfortu-
nately, as an inducement to them to go away, a glass of
rum was given to each of them, when they departed. The
deceased, however, returned again, and asking for some
more drink, a bottle containing rum was given to him by
a traveller for the firm, and the boy applying the bottle
to.his mouth, drank nearly the whole of the contents.
After leaving the office he was overcome with the liquor
and fell down, and- was taken up quite insensible, con-
veyed home, and put to bed, where he died on Monday,
without having spoken in the interval. A verdict of
manslaughter has been returned against the traveller.
A WEALTHY PAUPER.—On the 19th instant, a labour-

ing man named John Jarmy, and his wife, were admitted
as in-door paupers at the Wangford union-house at Ship-
meadow, and, as is customary, they were taken to sepa-
rate apartments to exchange their own clothing for that
of the union. attended by the usual officials. The matron,

who was present with the woman, observing that her
pockets were very heavy, asked what they contained, to
which she replied, " Only a few rags" ' • but this not sa-
tisfying Mrs. Hammond, she examined the contents, and
found sewed up in different parcels £132 45., consisting
of 111 sovereiens, and the remainder in silver ; there
were also three savings-bank books, in which were ac-
knowledged deposits in the Norwich Savings Bank to the
amount of £l6O, making a total of £292 4s. ! There
were found also nine silver tea-spoons, a table-spoon,
and a pair of sugar-tongs.—lpswich Express.

their gold for the notes of Jenny Lind

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The attractions of Jenny
Lind continue undiminished, or rather to increase. Thus
speaks the Morning Post of Wednesday thereon, and of
her general characteristics !—" The day before yesterday
before the office doors were opened, a crow(
. _

..,
The Earl of Winchilsea, on, Monday drew the atten-
tion of the government to the alarming state of the
country, in consequence of the scarcity and high price of
food, and suggested the propriety of establishing public

assem-
bled before them, and in their effort to get first served
they broke the glass door. Not only from all parts of the
country, but from the continent, persons are constantly
arriving to witness the performances of the great vocalist ;
nor can they accomplish the object of their journey at
once, so difficult is it to obtain a seat of any kind. The
sensation the fair Swede excites is in no wise extraordinary
when we reflect that she has all the sweetness of Sontag,
with far more vocal power, and all the dramatic energy of
the great Malibran, with the advantages over the latter !hal

granaries.
ECONOMY OF BREAD.—A correspondent of the Times
_ _

she never exaggerates feeling, and that her voice, insteaa
of being a beautiful contralto forced into an unequal so-
-17

prano, Is throughout even, round, clear, and nen- toneu.
MR. COHAN'S CONCERT IN LONDON.-Mr. Cohan be-
ing well known in Liverpool, the following paragraph from
the Times, London paper, will be perused . with. interest

by many of his friends :—This entertainment attracted a
overflowing audience last night to the Hanover Room
• •

i-ng—Co—nside-r-aT3le mechanicaj, pretensions with a style and

his composition, the most remarkable of which was a pot-
pourri called The Greek Revolution, an essay combining
the fragmentary plan of the ancient Battle of Prague with
executive difficulties that RotzwAra never dreamed of.
Mr. Cohan was quite at home in these pieces, and was re-

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himself by a very able performance of one of Beethoven's
violin sonatas, in which he enjoyed the valuable co-oper-

ation of Mr. Blagrove; and also in the exposition of an
adagio and scherzo from a MS. sonata composed by him-
self, and written with a better purpose than the fantasais
of which we have spoken. A vaaiety of vocal pieces sus-
tained by the talents of Misses Birch, Dolby, and Bans-
ford, Messrs. Hart, and John Parry, completed the pro-

CONTINUED DISTURBANCES IN SOMERSETSRIRE.—
r. t. .t.tp that the food riots. which originated at

QC bread is not only more economical, but more whole-
;ome and nutritious. _ _

set. At Litastonoury sympwiii _
have manifested themselves, and though, fortunately, the
mischief was confined to stoppinc, bread carts, the occur-
rences are too ominous to be lightly regarded. The cart
of Mr. Collins, baker, of Wetton-mill, was stopped on
Tuesday while delivering bread in the High-street, and the
driver had to return home at once with his vehicle. On
the previous day, the bread cart of Mr. Puddy was stopped
at Ashcott, and the driver desired to dispose of his bread
at Bd. per quartern with which command he was obliged
to comply. At Coker,l a village a few miles distant from
Yeovil, a disorderly mob smashed in the windows of an
inoffensive baker named Podger, and here the affair be-
came so serious that a magistrate (Mr. Batten) was called
froth his bed at a late hour, and considered it necessary
to swear in a number of special constables. At Taunton
the disturbances were renewed on Monday, and the pen-,
sioners charged the mob with fixed bayonets. Three men,
named Stone, Valiance, and Brake, have been committed
to gaol for trial, the two former charged with participat-
ing in the disturbances, and the latter with obstructing
the pensioners. At Yeovil some apprehensions of dis-
turbances was felt, the more especially, as large gangs of
railway labourers are at work in the inimediate vicinity of
the town.

vV SALE OF MR. EECKFORD'S TOWER.—This unique spe-
cimen of its late owner's taste, together with an acre of
the surrounding land, was lately knocked down" by the
auctioneer's hammer, for the almost nominal price of
£lOOO. The purchaser is Mr. W. Knott, landlord of the
Freemasons' Tavern, in Bath.
EXPORTATION OF CORN FROM ENGLAND.—The French
war steamer, Gomer, passed by Dover, on Monday
se'nnight, having seven large British vessels in tow, laden
with corn, bound to Cherborough, and on Friday after-

tow, similarly laden.
In Bradford, Yorkshire, the owner of the Soke Mills
claims to grind or provide all the corn or meal consumed
within the limits of a district called " the Soke." A joint-
stock company (the vicar at the head) is to be got up in

rows outcries, persec— . --
for dogs do not repel them, nor the threatening arm and
lifted hand. They have lost all sense of shame, or of in
jury. They are triple-cased in the impervious callous
ness of the lowest degradation. The beauty of the womei
of the middle and lower class of Rome is something reall_
wonderful: the richest colouring, great purity of features opposition.
and nobility of form, particularly in the outline of the The Rev. J. C. Miller. rector of St. Martin's Birming-
head and its position on the shoulders. Their persons ham, has resolved to devote one Sunday annually to en-
are generally clumsy, however, and their feet and aneles force the claims of each of the charitable institutions of
extremely ugly, thick, and ill-shaped : their divinity the town. It occurs to us ; that the adoption of this prac-
comes no ower than their shoulders.—Mrs. Butler. tice nearer home would be productive of muck good.

listed in the same regiment
vered wa

Nay 25, Mt

CONTINENTAL COMMUNICATION.—The Directors
the South-Eastern Steam-ship Company intend to run
one of their splendid vessels between Folkstone and St.
Valery. The object in view appears to be the saving of
forty miles by diligence from Boulogne to Abbeville, the
port of St. Valery being only twelve miles from the
Abbeville railway station, and the distance by sea from
Folkstone to St. Valery, about fifty miles ; thus Paris
would be reached in less time than either by Brighton and
Dieppe or Folkstone and Boulogne ._

EXTRAORDINARY BIRTHS.—On Sunday last the wife of
a poor labouring man, named Godfrey Butterworth, of
Wike Common, was delivered of three fine girls. The
names selected were Faith, Hope, and Charity, and they
were the same day duly registered by Robert Broughton,
registrar for the district. The children are all doing well.
On the 12th February, 1846, the same woman had twins
(two fine boys), which were called Joseph and Benjamin ;
so that in little more than 15 months she has brought het
husband five children, all of them born alive, but the two
boys afterwards died.—Leeds paper.

NARROW ESCAPE OF THE ST. VINCENT.—This perfect
120 gun ship left Portsmouth harbour at eleven o'clock
on Saturday, for Spithead. She was taken in tow by the
Centaur steam-frigate ; and when off Blockhouse beach,
one of the hawsers broke, and left the St. Vincent nearly
unmanageable, but by promptly letting go an anchor she
was saved from getting on shore, although it was thought
she did touch the ground. The officers of the dockyard
and pilots did not deem it prudent, with the wind S.W.,
and a critical point of the tide, to run the risk of taking
her out ; she was anchored ahead of the Victory, and
soon after warped in safety to her former berth. If she
had hung for a very short time, the most disastrous conse-
quences must have ensued, as the ebb tide soon began to
make with great force ; and as she was between Point
Beach and Blockhouse when she touched, she must, from
her great size and draught of water, have turned over on
her side, and been damaged for ever. It is reported that
the tides will not admit of her going out of harbour for a
fortnight.
A SLIGHT MISTAKE.--THE SOOTY JENNY LIND !
The Quarry Walk, Shrewsbury, has been crowded every
night during the past week to listen to the sweet and
brilliant strains of the spirit of Jenny Lind, which it is
reported pours forth most eloquent music from the yew
tree at the skirt of the plantation under the,- residence of
Mr. Badger, on Kingsland, opposite the Quarry Centre
Walk. We (Shropshire Conservative) regret, however,
to state, that the lovers of nature's music have met with a
sore disappointment, as last night, about a quarter past
eleven o'clock, when nearly 800 persons were present
drinkinc, the luscious strains from the immortal wi;rbler,
a cough was heard, and something, in colour approaching
his Satanic majesty, seen to move ; when lo ! a little
sweep was brought forth with a Whitechapel Birdcatcher's
whi tle in his tiny fist, with which instrument he had
been for several evenings beguiling the proud Salopians
from their convivial parties, and beds. This has given a
quietus to a contemplated " Nightingale Club," which was
in the course of formation by the Choral Socipt•,
T - GUN C k--" •

,HE ,OTTON.- ..S all conjecture as to the nature
of this immensely powerful agent has now been set at rest
by the publicity of the specification of the patent, any
official facts with reference to its actual utility must prove
of interest. A course of experiments, to test its relative
strength with the very best Ordnance gunpowder, have
just taken place at the Holyhead Mountain, Anglesea;
the Holland Slate Quarries, Penrhyn ; and the result
shows that the saving by the use of the gun cotton is at
least 30 per cent. ; added to which is the great advantage,
that the miners, by its means, are enabled to obtain the
most enormous blocks, and this with little or no waste.
In an official report which appears in the Mining Jour-
nal of Saturday week, it appears that a " huge mass of 60
tons weight was gently pushed from its firmly bound bed
by the explosion of only eight ounces of cotton, and that
no splintering of the slate took place, which greatly as-
tonished the workmen." To obtain blocks of slate,
alone, of such immense size, will in itself effect a vast
amount of good; that material being in great and in-
creasing demand, even at its present price, for articles of
building, of furniture and works of luxury and the arts.
USEFUL RECIPES.—The following are recipes and in-
struction which are at the present time extensively used,
and with great advantage and economy, in the town and
neighbourhood of Carlisle, and were furnished by Mr. J.
D. Carr, of that town :—Plain boiled hominy, or Indian
corn shelled : Tie one pound of crushed hominy in a cloth,
allowing plenty of room to swell, and boil three hours.
This pudding may be eaten with sugar and melted butter
or treacle sauce. One pound of hominy will make a
pudding sufficient, as a meal, for five or six persons, at a
cost of not more than 2d., when Indian corn is selling
from 565. to 60s. per quarter.—Hominy milk : Soak half
a pound of crushed hominy in water twelve hours, and
then boil it in milk over a slow fire two hours. It must
be about the consistence of rice milk when brought to
table.—Rice hominy pudding: Mix the hominy, which
has been previously boiled, either in milk or water, with
eggs, a little sugar and nutmeg, a little suet, and with or
without currants and raisins, as preferred. Tie up in a
basin, and boil two hours. It is excellent either boiled
or baked.—To prepare hominy as a vegetable, boil whole
hominy in plenty of water four hours, and strain it
through a culander for the table. This is a beautiful
looking dish, and forms an excellent substitute for pota-
toes. Equal parts of Indian and English flour make ex-
cellent household bread and cakes.
RAGGED SCHOOL UNION.—On Tuesday a very nume-
rously attended meeting of the above society was held at
the Hanover-square Rooms, when Lord Ashley took
the
chair. Amongst the number on the platfoim. zeorewp I
Bishop of Norwich, Lord Kinnear, the Hon- "".
ABla.
Baptist
thet Noeltl:gahntd Hao
UmFl3"LerAioafuiee
clergymen. The noble
Lord briefly, but very emphatically, addressed the meet-
ing.lfon. and Itetvr!
The report stated that there were 16 schools open
daily, morning and afternoon, 33 opon on the Sabbath,

ing schools of both sexes, which are situated in the lowest
and most wretched localities of London. The total num-
b-r in these are about 5,000 children of both sexes, and
456 teachers. A special fund had been established for a
school of industry or juvenile refuge, in one of the most
wretched and low localities in Westminster, to which a
lady in the first instance subscribed £2OO, and subse-
quently £3OO, with a view under the latter donation of
receiving 50 girls. A legacy of £2OO had been bequeathed
by Mr. Strut Avery, of the University Club. The report
was adopted. The financial statement showed the re-
ceipts to be for the past year £824 6s. 10d., leaving a
balance of £172 18s. I Id. The special fund for the juve-
nile refuge fund, £857, which, after defraying all ex-
penses, and a contingent fund of £3OO, left a balance of
£2Ol 13s. 7d.

TIIE MIRFIELD MURDERS.—The local magistrates and
police officers are strenuously exerting themselves to dis-
cover the perpetrator or perpetrators of the deed of blood
which occurred there on Wednesday week, and the full par-
ticulars of which appeared in the Standard of Tuesday. At
present there are two men in custody, on suspicion of

sonsin custody are both Irishmen, hawkers of pots, re-
siding a few miles from Mirfield. One of them is
Michael M'Cabe, about forty-one years of age ; the other

seen in the neighbourhood of the house of the deceased
Mr. Wraith about the time when the murders must have
been committed, and it is said that a strong chain of cir-

coroner'scumstan t al evidence
jngue st,w willh
which
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latter part of the present week. The rerna:ns of the
deceased Mr. and Mrs Wraith were interred in one
grave, and those of their unfortunate servant maid, Caro-
line Ellis,in another on Saturday, amidst a large con-
course of spectators. It is not true, as reported in some
journals, that the mother of Ellis died suddenly in conse-
quence of the news that her daughter was murdered W-
ing been communicated to her. She, however, is very ill,
her illness arising from the shock to her nervous system by
the awful death which has befallen her child.
FIIRTFIRR NtIVELTIES iN GLASS.—Sir Robert Peel's

anticipations of the extended use of glass appear to be on
the way towards a complete fulfilment. Only the other
day a proposal was made in the Builder, to add a new
grace to the piano-forte by covering the key notes with
varicoloured glass; and other projects, such as the con-
duction of illuminative gas through pipes of glass, with
ground and closely-fitted jointings, have been suggested
through the same medium. It now appears, however,
that not only milk-pans (yielding, by the bye, an addi-
tionalflower croppo pots,
clerse,a mg said)r,aiptei.soas sgrape-glasses,
and
dcrea variousm -p o cream-pots,
otherjars,ho
arnd
cult and ti"-:

urak - floricultural utensils are already made 6
but even also such unlikely implements as rolling.-

pins, and a heterogeneous list. of other manufactures
hitherto usually wrought in wood, or clay, or metal. BO"
glasses, too, and propagating-glasses, seed protectors, &c.r

are now made of this useful arid elegant, as WE

material, which scarcely requires the estaolisnment tn-
anything like truth in a recent report of the discGyery of
a mode of renderinv it malleable. in order to constitute

ll
it a most formidable antagonist and substitute for a
kinds of manufacture. not only in metal. and wood. and

clay, but in other materials, including even silk and
worsted—for we may add, what may not be known to
some of our readers, that beautiful fabrics, even as it igf,
have been actually woven with a mixture of threads ot.
coloured glass and silk.
ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.—OIIe of the rural police ar

prehended a young Irishman on Friday, the 7th instant►
stealing some shirts from a farmhouse at Craignish, where
he had lodged the night previous. He gave his name eS
Tom 111`Lean, from near Derry ; but on his way here,
en route to Inverary, gave hints of his intention to change/
both name and sex, and actually proved to be a lady ill
tights; and, from her own statement is the same AO
M`Lean, from near Derry, who followed her " soldier
laddie" from that place to Gls- '- co"

but on her sex being-disco-
nt to the right-about; on which she took 01
work in and about Glasgow, and on the harvest-field, St"

earner, in

twice crossed the Atlantic as cook ; but on the last homy-
ward bound passage she was sent before the mast, in at'
sequence of which she left the ship, and found her waY
this quarter, and engaged herself to a countryman of b,
g
own, who is in the stoneware trade, with whom she seP'
in the threefold capacity of cartman, boatman, or basitn
man, and sharing her bed with the other boys. We3rlh...
ing of this life also, she decamped, in the absence of hot
master and mistress, taking with her a well-stored bssici,co
of glasses, which she sold at low prices through t"
'Country, till she perished the pack. She then enlisted
Inverary, where, after a night's carouse and good lodgiai;
the party found themselves minus their recruit inuhas
morning, she having managed to make her escape, b t oes
now been apprehended for the above theft. She g,s4
over her history since she adopted the tights (now twaier
months) without a blush, and with the greatest flue'?
She is rather a good-looking boy, five feet six inches hlB 4
ruddy complexion, with jet black locks, about ninety%
years of age. Irish Tom turning out a girl, has creatli;
great deal of merriment and astonishment here, Parti_. •
great deal of merriment and astonishment here, pao
larly to her old master and mistress, with whom he v 77.1
great favourite for the six weeks he lived with 0105
Edinburgh Register.