The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-02-20 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

THE CALIFORNIAN GOLD AND THE
BULLIONISTS.

(FROM THE SUN.)

The accounts from California, respecting the gold dis-
coveries, and the enormous quantities of the precious me-
tal that may literally be picked up by all who choose to
do so, which at first were looked upon as gross exaggera-
tions, receive additional confirmation day by day. Every
new mail brings further intelligence, proving clearly and
satisfactorily that the wonderful rumours that were circu-
iated were fully justified by the facts—that the produce of
the diggings more than justify Um most sanguine expec-
tations that had been entertained by the treasure-seekers.
The letter from Rear-Admiral Phipps Hornby, the flag-
officer in command on the Pacific station, however, fur-
nishes additional evidence, which cannot be controverted
or denied. When we find a British officer, of undoubted
character, who has risen to the hig:iest rank in the service
of his country, and who has been selected to fiill the situa-
tion of admiral in command on a very important station,
offering his unsolicited and gratuitous testimony on a point
in which he can have no personal interest, we can no lon-
ger refuse the most implicit credence to his assertions,
more particularly when those assertions are fully borne
out by the further evidence of a distinguished post-captain
in the British navy. Tne paper, the truth of which is
more than confirmed by Capt. Courtenay, of the Constance,
just arrived from California, " states that, at the lower
mines, the miners count the success of the day in dollars,
at the upper mine, near the mill, in ounces, and here in
pounds.' And it also speaks of a piece being found
" weighing 13 tbs. !" and of five loads of earth " which
yielded after washings 16,000-B'," and that " instances have
occurred where men have carried the earth on their backs,
and collected from 800 to 1,500 dollars a day ! !" If such
extraordinary results can be obtained by unskilled labour.
aided, perhaps, only by " a butcher's knife, for which 40
dollars was refused," or " a pick, spoon, or shovel," by

year in university buSiness ; fd-ur months, a the very
least, he generally has it in his power to expatiate where
he will, from May Fair to Mesopotamia; he has no
household ties to detain him, and if he does not shake
off the lexographic rust, and the mathematical mouldi-
ness, which he may have contracted during his labours
of the term, he must be possessed of a local attachment
almost vegetable : some few instances of which secluded
existence still linger in quiet nooks of our halls and col-
leges, but which are no more the types of their class than
Parson Trulliber is a representative of the country clergy,
or the stage Diggory of the English yeoman. But the
self-complacency of Cockneyism is the most unshaken
thing in this revolutionary age. It is perfectly ready to
lecture the person on the teaching of Greek, or the York-
shire farmer on the fattening of7bullocks. All the dis-
tributive machinery in the world does not diminish, it
would seem, the absorption of intelligence by the Ward
of Cheap.

eriirral zfflisrellanv.

The subscription for the widows and orphans of the
persons who lost their lives in the Darley Main 'pit now
reaches near £l3OO.

Madlle. Alboni left Covent-garden mainly on a differ-
ence of terms. She demanded £6,000, and the manage-
ment would only offer £4,000.
Her Majesty has commuted the sentence of death
passed upon John Thompson, for attempting to assassi-
nate the town clerk of Greenock, into transportation for
life.

London was visited by a dense fog on Monday, during
which a policeman at the Euston-square station of the
North-Western Railway was run over by an engine and
crushed to death.

merely subjecting the auriferous soil to repeated washings
in plain water, what may be expected when extensive ma-
chinery, and all the improved appliances of modern art,
are introduced ? Quicksilver, too, the most important
agent in separating and purifying the gold may be obtained
in the greatest abundance, and in the very localities where
it will be required. There is no drawback whatsoever, no
lack of space to restrict the operations of the gold seekers.
The metal is scattered over a vast extent of territory, and
on the very surface of the earth, " admitting of simulta-
neous labour being applied to an almost indefinite extent,
and labourers ready to proceed thither at their own ex-

. .
therefore, impossible to assign any fixed limits or to offer
more than a mere conjecture as to the amount that may
ultimately be obtained. Of this only we may be assured,
that its value will be very great, and far beyond anything
that has hertofore been known. Even the fabled splen-
dours of El Dorado scarcely exceed the magnificent
reality.

The large building in Threadneedle-street, built a few
years ago by Mr. Moxhay, the biscuit-maker, and known
as the " Hall of Commerce," has been closed, after re-
maining open to the public for six years. The undertak-
ing of the projector has turned out a hopeless failure.
The sale of the Stowe Library, after having extended
over twenty-four days, was brought to a close on Satur-
day. The total amount realised was £10,355 is. 6d.
The important and celebrated collection of manuscripts
will be sold in the course of the ensuing month.
The Metropolitan Sewage Company have already laid
down their apparatus for irrigating nearly 1,000 acres of
land, and a memorial was lately presented to the Corn-
- their favour, signed by the holders

Under such circumstances it is by no means surprising
that multitudes should hasten to the land of promise to
gather the glittering treasure. Thousands are already
busily engaged, and tens of thousands are proceeding
thither with all possible expedition. Emigrant vessels are
starting from almost every port, crowded with eager ex-
pectants, and probably within the present year one hun-
dred thousand adventurers will be fully occupied. If each
of these persons collect but half an ounce a day (a quan-
tity far short of the lowest estimate that has been formed)
we shall find that gold to thevalue of more than £70,000,000
sterling will be extracted from the soil, the greater por-
tion of which will be brought into active circulation.
_ _ .

On the 15th ult. we pointed out the extraordinary
results that followed the discovery of the mines of Mexico,
of Peru, and of the Brazils in the latter end of the 15th
century, and the consequent alteration in the value of the
precious metals. We also considered the probable con-
consequences of an increase of gold to the value of eight
or ten millions of pounds per annum. We showed that
a similar depreciation to that which was witnessed in the
16th century, when the average price of wheat, the most
important article of food for the people, had increased
fivefold within little more than forty years, must again
take place. What an extraordinary revolution in society
will occur if 'even £50,000,000 sterling be ob:dned. How
soon will the relative value of things be changed. We
shall not hear of a Legislator asking triumphantly,
" What is a Pound ?" and conceiving that every moral
obligation will be fulfilled by paying to the national credi-
tor, to the landed proprietor, to the annuitant, 5 dvits 3gs.
of gold, then a comparatively worthless metal, for every
pound sterling which he is entitled to demand. The word
of promise, indeed, may be kept, " to the ear, but it will
be broken to the hope." The gold will be there, but the
" purchasing power," that which alone constitutes its
utility, will be absolutely wanting. What melancholy
and heartrending statements may be made to the then
Chancellor of the Exchequer of blighted prospects and
melancholy reverses ! Helpless widows and orphans may
be stripped of the inheritance provided for them by the
providence of the husband and the father. Each sove-
reign in which the dividends would be paid or the jointure
satisfied would undoubtedly be of full weight, and of the
illidard fineness. No complaint could be made on that
score
;
but there would lie its exchangeable value ?
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The Rev. John Andrew, incumbent, Worsbro', has
received a cheque from the Queen Dowager for £25, and
one from the Archbishop of York. for £2O, in aid of the
subscription for the relatives of the persons killed by the
late colliery explosion.

It is said, that an association of gentlemen will be
speedily formed in London, for the purpose of returning
the visit of the French national guards, and that in less
than a month several thousand Englishmen will proceed
in a body to Paris and remain there for a week.
Mr. W. Page Wood, the member for Oxford, has made
donations of £5OO stock to the Magdalen Asylum, and
2,000 guineas to the Infirmary at Gloucester. He is re-
lated to the late wealthy and eccentric banker of that
city, from whom he acquired a considerable sum.
It is said to be in contemplation to open some coal
fields in the neighbourhood of Bristol, well known tho
contain immense beds of superior coal, and which, as it
can be conveyed into tha port by water, will, no doubt,
be in demand for export.
JENNY LlND.—This most charming vocalist appeared
in Huddersfield on Tuesday last, and sang at a concert in
the Philosophical-hall. The hall was tastefully fitted up
for the occasion—and never was seen within four walls in
the town such a galaxy of beauty.
The man who so dexterously escaped a week or two
since from Wakefield prison has sent a letter, stating that
he is thankful for the loan of the prison dress, and that
he is now on the wide ocean, where the authorities may
catch him, if they can.

The sale of the library of the late Princess Sophia was
commenced on Wednesday by Messrs. Christie and Man-
son. The sale will occupy four days, and the catalogue
contains a list of 1,147 lots of books, 24 lots of prints
bound, and 22 lots of drawings—making in the whole
1,193 lots.

vould be the command over the necessaries and
comforts of life that was conveyed by the possession of a
sovereign, or even of the much condemned one-pound
note, in the average of transactions in which it was em-
ployed ? " Echo may, indeed, answer where ?" The
unfortuate fundholder would speedily discover to his cost
how fULile the expectations he had formerly cherished,
how delusive the theories of the bullionists ! He gladly
listened to their voice, when there was a scarcity of gold,
and a great appreciation of the value of money, when
from want of a circulating medium—a currency adequate
to the wants and exigencies of the country, induqry

the working classes were reduced to the utmost extremity
of distress, owing to an over-strict adherence to the theo-
they could

ries of the currency mongers

Then, inc

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of the contract being to pay a certain of gold of
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White hares are increasing immensely in the Grampian
Hills. It is no uncommon occurrence to see five or six
hundred of them during a single day's sport. A gentle-
man who was shooting on the Marquis of Airlie's pro-
perty in two hours shot twenty-eight, and, if inclined
might have easily trebled the number.

tile requisite sranaara ana nneness—_ —/er, although
twice the amount of labour might be required, and that
gold, or rather, we should say, the currency was of double
the value that it had been at the time the obligation was
contracted. The full pound of flesh should be returned ;
less would be accepted. Now, indeed, circum-

nothin

he spirit anc

stances will altogether be a
sense of the agreement will be considered—the intrinsic
value, the purchasing power is all that which will be de-
sired. And we would give it. Ground down as we have
been, overwhelmed with the burden that was so ruth-
lessly cast upon us, we would still, as Englishmen, desire
to deal fairly with all; to satisfy the claims, the just and
equitable claims, that the public creditor undoubtedly
possesses ; but let him be wise in due season—let him,
while there is yet time, be satisfied with an equitable set-
tlement. Let a currency be introduced that will not be

A deputation from the Quakers had an interview last
week with Mr. Macaulay, upon the subject of his notice
of William Penn, thinking that justice was not done to
him. After a long conversation the deputation failed in
proving any of Mr. Macauley's statements to be incor-
rect.

subject to those violent alternations that have led to such

A nationa

hirty years

by the Liverpool Currency Reform Association—will do
justice to all; and to that we must come at last. It may
as well be done speedily, and with a good grace.

*" Reflections on the manner in which property in Great
Britain may be affected by a large influx of Gold from Califor-
nia, and Suggestions as to the means by which such effects

may be neutralised, and any material disturbance in the Cur-
rency prevented." By a Merchant. London : Effingham
Wilson.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES

(From Blackwood's Magazine.)

during the

asting commotions in

Europe, the attention cf the public should have been so
much occupied by the condition of our English universi-
ties. Still more curious is it, perhaps, that so large a

portion of the attention thus directed should have assunied
an objurgatory tone, as if Oxford and Cambridge were
not duly performing their functions, as if they were of a
character suited only to bygone ages, as if, in short, they
were doing nothing. True enough, in one sense, they
" doing nothing." There was no academical legion
ed—none at least that we heard of—in C'

meadows or Trinity walks

aris, aurcu
no body of sympathising stu-

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SHERlFFS.—Cumberland—Andrew Fleming Hudleston,
Esq., of Hutton-John. Cheshire—Thomas William Tat-
ton, Esq., of Withenshaw, (son-in-law of R. Townley
Parker, Esq., of Cuerden Hall.) Derbyshire—Jedediah
Strutt, Esq., of Belper. Yorkshire—OctaviuS Vernon
Harcourt, Esq.. of Swinton-park.
ESCAPE OF A CRIMINAL LUNATIC.—At the latter end
of last month, Thomas Cross, who was fifteen months
since tried at the Derby assizes on a charge of having
murdered two females, and acquitted on the ground of
insanity, and who had since been confined in Camberwell-
house Lunatic Asylum, effected his escape from that esta-
blishment, and has not as yet been traced.
The Home Secretary has addressed a letter to the Lord-
Lieutenants of the different counties, intimating that it is
not intended to place any of the yeomanry cavalry on
permanent dut

or caus;., them to be inspected, during
the present year ; but such corps as may wish to be
trained and exercised according to the provisions of the
Volunteer Act will be allowed to assemble, subject to cer-
tain regulations as to their remuneration.

A furious warfare has sprung up between Gilfillan and
Charles Dickens. The latter had declined, in somewhat
disparaging terms, to cubaciibc fin a monument, w coo,-
per, which provoked the other to tomahawk and scalp
him in this ferocious manner :—" The ` Task' will outlive
the ` Haunted Man.' Dickens is- but a ` Cricket on the
Hearth.' Cowper was an eagle of God ; and his memory
shall be cherished, and his poems read, after the `

wick Papers' are forgotten

At Inverness, the effects of the flood upon the poorer
class of people have been very calamitous. Forced to
forsake their homes in the low-lying parts of the town by
water, they have taken refuge in churches and empty
buildings, in a destitute condition.. It is feared that in-
fectious diseases may spring up among them. The local
authorities have done all they could to relieve the dis-
tress of the poor people • and the Provost has applied
for aid from the Highlan Destitution Fund and to the
Government.

AN EAGLE AND CROW FIGHT.—A b;rci of an enormous
size was observed by several ladies and gentlemen, on
Wednesday, soaring majestically over the village of
Carlton, accompanied by two crows, by which it was
alternately attacked. Their attention was first directed
by the peculiar croaking of the crows, and their strange
manoeuvring threw no little interest over the scene. The
rara avis flew steadily on, without seeming to heed their
)ver the Scaw's Plantation, and Lons-

dale's Beacon, when the wood prevented any further view
—Carlisle Journal.

A case of felony of a novel character has been preferred
at Sheffield against a bull-terrier dog and his owner,
George Stacey. A man observed Stacey and his dog near
a shoe-shop on Sheffield Moor, and soon afterwards he

saw master " Pompey" walk carefully into the shop, and
emerge thence with a pair of shoes in his mouth, which
the dog's master put into his pocket, and ran away with. A
policeman having been informed of the affair pursued and
captured both thief and receiver. The biped was com-
mitted for trial, and the quadruped was sentenced to death
without further trial.

EXTRAORDINARY INCIDENT.—On Thursday, as a man
named Smith was walking along a ditch, Le saw a rat
swimming along the side of it. Happening to have a
stick i❑ his hand, armed with a spike at the point, he
launched it at the rat, and succeeded, by a fortunate aim,
in transfixing the animal to the bank. This was rare
sport ; but the best of it is to come. On withdrawing
the stick, the body of the rat was turned over, and Smith
was surprised to see something glittering among its en-
trails, which, on taking it out, proved to be a Queen
Anne's sixpence.— Canzbridge Advertiser.

A. SAG

sous DOG.-011 Saturday as Mr. Ezra Flet-
through Dark Cliff, on his way home from

cher was goin

Barnsley to goyland; he heard some persons making to-
wards him, who, he thought, intended to rob him, and
having only a few pence and his watch on his person, he
took the latter out of his fob, and gave it to a little dog he
had with him, which had been taught to carry articles
home when it was told to do so. He had no sooner done
this than he was pounced upon by some highwaymen,
who beat him very ill, and took the few pence from him.
On his arrival at home, his faithful little dog and his
watch were there all right.—Leeds Mercury.
A very extraordinary degree of excitement has been
occasioned at Epsom during the past week, owing to the
apprehension of a gentleman practising as a solicitor in
that place, on the charge of committing a criminal assault
in
on a young lady holding the situation of companion to
press the ey portions
lead nr.,l - I his wife. The complainant's name is Maria .o'Grady,
daughter of Lieutenant O'Grady, who was shot in a duel
about twelve years since by Captain Smith, brother of the
Princess of Canna. The alleged offender is a married
man, who received Miss O'Grady into his house from
motives of kindness, and the assault is said to have oc-
curred in November last, after which the complainant
was sent away to Liverpool. The accused has been ad-
mitted to bail, and the further hearing postponed for a
week.
A PERILOUS LEAP.—A few nights since a respectably
dressed woman having booked herself at Nottingham to
keeping alive ancient prejudices," cleaving pertinaciously go to Langley Mill, when she got to the Lenton-gate
to obsolete forms," following a monastic rule," forget- fancied she had got into the wrong train, and, under that
in
the world outside their college walls,' and multifarious impression, opened the door, and jumped out while the
twaddle of this sort, till the Pope fled from Rome, or train was proceeding at full speed. A gentleman in the
some other little revolution occurred to withdraw the at- next compartment observed the act, but was unable to
tention of the public from this set of phrases to another, communicate with the guard till the train arrived at Long
no doubt no less forcible than original. Others, again, Eaton. The engine was then detached, and ran gently
took a friendly tone and spoke apolegetically : it was a down the line, and at a short distance from Lenton the
woman was found walking towards Nottingham, not hav-
great thing to get any move whatever from the university : .
those who the lead in her management were not men mg sustained any injury. She refused to alter her deter-
who mixed with the world at large, and allowance must mination, saying she had been going to the wrong place.
be made if they did not altogether march with the times. After walking on the line to Nottingham, she took a cab
h
The world at large' is an expression of very doubtful to er residence.—Notts Mercury.
import ' all think their little set mankind : but when AN EFFECTUAL CURE OF A SEVERE COUGH AND
the resident Fellows of colleges are charged with not duly ASTHMA BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—Mr. John Davies. of
mixing with the world at large, we cannot help thinking Lion•street, Milford, was afflicted for more than seven
that those who use the phrase are ignoring the existence years with a most inveterate asthmatical cough, which
of the Didcot Junction and Eastern Counties Railway, several eminent surgeons, under whose care he had been
and borrowing their ideas from the time when Hobson at various times, could not eradicate; he then resolved
travelled betwixt Cambridge and the Bull.' As far as upon trying Holloway's Pills, and fortunately he did, for
our observation goes, we should say that there is no class this superior medicine has effected a perfect cure. The
of persons who have better opportunities of taking an cough has ceased, the asthma is removed, and his respire-
extended view of different places of social being, who are tion is as free as that of the healthiest person. Old
more disposed to take advantage of those opportunities. coughs, recent cold, wheezings on the chest, and short-
A Fellow of a college is not engaged more than half the ness of the breath, may also be cared by Holloway's Pills.

At the sale of the Stow library by Messrs. Sotheby,
last week, the first three volumes of " Prynne's Records,"
a very Scarce work, sold for £l4O. The fourth volume of
the same book, supposed to be unique, having been the
only one that escaped the great fire of London, brought
£335 ; it was bought for the library of Lincoln's Inn.
which possesses Prynne's own copy of the other volumes.
JENNY LIND.—The Weekly Dispatch states that Jenny
Lind's determination to retire, hot merely from the stage,
but from public performance altogether, after the comple
tion of her existing engagement to Mr. Lumley, has been
instigated by a daughter of the Bishop of Norwich, who
has great influence over the fair syren. It is added that
a Mr. - has still greater influence, and will shortly
marry her. The name of the future husband, as confi-
dently given by other papers, is Harris. The gentleman
is said to be an officer in the Madras army, and son of a
London Banker.

IMPORTANT TO CALICO PRINTERS.—NEW INVENTION.
A very great improvement in calico and delaine printing
has just been effected by Mr. Berry, a very ingenious
operative in this town. We have seen specimens of work
in both produced by the inventor, Mr. Berry, who has
carried the principle out so far that any number of colours
can be printed by blocks at one and the same time, with
less cost, greater neatness, and more exact fitting than by
the present method. We doubt not but as this invention
becomes understood, it will vastly facilitate and increase
block printing, on account of the advantages it possesses
of increasing quantity and quality. The system is such
that one, two, three, or more colours are so arranged,
that they can be separately or collectively worked together
as the design may require.--Glasgow Post.
LADY FRANKLIN AND THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—
This most estimable lady, with all the fervour of a de-
voted wife, is at present engaged in a pious pilgrimage to
the ports whence the whale-ships are likely to proceed to
Davis's Straits, with a view to plead her anxieties and
distresses, and to animate the daring and generous com-
manders of these ships in her cause. Lady Franklin has
already visited Hull, and here we believe that her lady-
ship has been received with much enthusiasm, and that
the strongest desire has been manifested by the masters

and others connected with the whale-ships; not only to
carry out any instructions or wishes that may be con-
veyed to them from Government, but are also themselves
disposed to undertake certain measures in connection
with the usual objects of their voyage, for affording suc-
cour or gaining information respecting the missing ships.
ATTACKS BY HIGHWAYMEN IN BUCKS.-011 Saturday
evening, when returning home from Buckingham market,
Mr. Lines, of Water Stratford, was pulled from his horse
by three men, and robbed of his watch, about £7 in gold
and silver, and a cheque for £5O on the London and
County Bank at Buckingham. On pulling Mr. Lines to
the ground, the thieves forced mud into his mouth. He
resisted, and knocked down one of the men twice ; but by
the combined strength and aid of bludgeons, they com-
pletely overpowered him.—Mr. Treadwell, miller and
farmer, of Westbury, was, on the same evening (when on
his way home from the above market), stopped near the
turn to Shalestone, by two men, who, fortunately, did
not succeed in pulling him from his horse. After striking
one of the fellows a violent blow across the face with his
stick, Mr. Treadwell rode off with the loss of his hat and
stick only, which were subsequently found in the road.
STOCKTON-UPON-TEES.—Some genius or other, want-
ing something to do, has—it is supposed by way of joke—
performed the following feat :—Letters professing to come
from Mr. Emerson, of Stokesley, were received here on
Saturday last, by several influential inhabitants, amongst
which were a lawyer, doctor,:auctioneer, and several trades-
men, summoning them on business at Stokesley; the
landlord of the Vane Arms Inn had an order for his best
carriage and four greys and postilions, and at another town
a hearse and mourning coaches were ordered for the same
place, so that Stokesley was crowded with visitors and
men of business from all parts, to experience, when they
arrived, the mortification of finding that they were duped
by some mischievous person or other. Any one guilty of
such an action would be quite capable of sending false
statements, as we sometimes read of, to newspapers. We
understand a reward will be offered for the perpetration
of this mischievous act.

DEATH OF MR. DROTJET.—At a meeting of the St.
Pancras Vestry, on Wednesday, a question was put to
the chairman, as to the reported death of Mr. Drouet,
the proprietor of the now celebrated establishment at
Tooting. The chairman said he had no doubt, from what
he had heard from Mr. Howell, a vestryman, that such a
deplorable event had taken place. He had understood
that Mr. Drouet bad for some years been subject to an
affection of the heart, and the excitement produced by
the late lamentable occurrence in his establishment, and
the severe verdicts of the coroners' juries, and attacks of
the public press upon him, had so increased the disease
as to place the unfortunate man's life in imminent dan-
ger. Mr. Morris said the poor man lost his wife but a
few months back, and that tended greatly to destroy the
order and regulation which had previously prevailed in
his establishment.—[This turns out incorrect. Mr.

Drouet has been extremely ill, but it is still living.]
PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.—SOIIIe
months ago public attention was drawn to a series of ex-
periments on the floating properties of shredded cork.
when used for the stuffing of seamen's beds, bolsters, and
every other kind of squab or cushion in ordinary use on
board ship, and applied as a means of preserving life in
cases of shipwreck or sudden casualty. The extended
application of this most important invention has, how-
ever, been retarded by practical difficulties of a mecha-
nical nature, which prevented the fibre from being pro-
duced in marketable quantities, and in sufficient abun-
dance to meet the orders received by the patentees. It
appears, however, that these mechanical difficulties have
now been entirely overcome, and that machinery has been
constructed so as to•mannfucture any quantity of the fibre

that may be required

The applicaien of the buoya

principle of cork to purposes of saving• life in shipwreck
is no novelty, but the bulk of the material has hitherto
been fatal to the hope of bringing it out for general use.
But by converting the cork into fibre stuffing, and using
it for beds on board ship, a ready means is offered to
passengers and crew of saving life in sudden emergency.

THE FAMILY 14 RIEND 11. A.
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literature now flowing from the press, it required more
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tions which are devoted to Gardening, Natural History,
Domestic Economy, &c., are of real value. Mrs. Warren,
the celebrated artist in fancy work, has undertaken her

appropriate department, and will henceforth be the
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numbers, for January, February, and March, are now
ready, and furnish together ninety-six pages of close mat-
ter for six-pence! The readers of the Liverpool Standard
should order those numbers immediately of any book-
seller. Published by Houlston and Stoneman, Pater-
noster-row, London.

THE ASSASSINATIONS AT STANFIELD-HALL. The
late housekeeper of the accused murderer Rush, who is
known as the widow James, but whose real name is Emily
Sandford, a single woman, was on Thursday night con-
fined of a female child in the bridewell prison of Wymond-
ham, where she has been kept since the committal of
Rush, to ensure her attendance at the trial. In the event
of her recovery Rush's trial will in all probability take
place at the latter end of next month, at the ensuing
assizes. Rush occasions considerable uneasiness amongst
the authorities at Norwich Castle by his restless conduct
and the singular requests he is constantly making. He
has instructed a solicitor to retain a leading counsel of
the Norfolk Circuit to assist him in points of law that
may arise in the course of his trial, but it is understood
that he has been unable to obtain one on the conditions
imposed, Rush intending to conduct his own case through-
out the trial, which, on account of the number of the
witnesses, is likely to extend over two or three days.
The prosecution will be conducted by Mr. Sergeant Byles
and Mr. Prendergast. We regret to state that Mrs. Jermy
has not yet recovered from her wounds. Portions of the
elbow bone have been found to have been shot away
She continues at Stanfield-hall.
EMIGRATION FROM DORSETSHIRI

a very large
sided, was 1

—On Tuesday last
hich the • High Sheriff pre-
e, for the

ion, a

The Riv.C.-Binghain pro-

posed a resolution (after some observations on the inade-
quacy of the labourers' wages for their support) in sup-
port of the plan of emigration about to be adopted, which
was seconded in a speech of considerable length by the
Hon. and Rev. S. G. Osborne, in explanation of the ge-
neral principle of colonization, and the benefits likely to
accrue from it to many in the south of England, who
were in a most pitiable condition. The hon. and rev.
gentleman having concluded amidst great applause, the
Hon. and Rev. Mr. Scott, the Rev. H. F. Yeatman, and

other gentlemen, addressed the meeting. The resolution
having been carried, the High Sheriff announced himself
a convert to the principle of emigration. It was intimated
that the Lord-Lieutenant of the county had that day
given his countenance to the local society. The Govern-
ment agent was busily engaged during the evening with
applicants for free passages.
ASYLUM Iron INVALID GENTLEWOMEN.—It is proposed
to make an appeal to the benevolence of the public for the
establishment of an asylum •for a class of persons for
whose wants no public hospitals, as such places are at pre-
sent constituted, aro adapted.. This class consists of gen-
tlewomen of moderate means, or who are dependent for
support on their own exertions, and more especially of
those in the country who find it necessary to visit the Me-
tropolis for medical treatment. Such persons are, unfor-
tunately, too frequently unable to bear the expense of me-'
dical advice, or even of such comforts as invalids cannot
do without. The proposition for this asylum is at present
in its infancy, and it is therefere unnecessary to enter into a
detail of the plan. It will be necessary to raise a sum of
money to enable the proposers of it to carry out their
very praiseworthy object, and for this purpose the sympa-
thies of the philanthropicand affluent must be awakened.
When the expenses necessary for obtaining proper pre-
mises and for furnishit, them are defrayed, it may be
hoped and expected that the institution will become to a
great degree a self-supporting one. The first step has
been taken, and a temporary committee of ladies has been
formed, amongst whom are Ladies Ashley, Canning, Erle,
and Rolfe, Lady Caroline Stirling, and several others of
rank and fashion. The names of several very influential
supporters of public institutions have also been subscribed
as a committee for managing the affairs of the institution,
and as far as the design has hitherto progressed there is a
prospect of a favourable result. Such an institution has
been long wanted, and in these days, when public provi-
sion is made for almost every kind of want, it would be
strange if an institution of this character could not be
founded, and rendered most admirable in affording relief
and ameliorating misery.— Timee.

FREE TRADERS THE OREATESf MONOPOLISTS.—A
nice quarrel between two free traders, al to a snug bit of
monopoly, has lately occupied the' attention of the Poor-
law Board, as to whether Messrg. Shaw and Sons, of
Fetter-lane, printers and booksellers, who have for years
supplied union workhouses and union schools with maps,
books, and stationery, shall continue to do so any
longer,
under the sanction of the Poor-law Board ; whether
Mr. Charles Knight, a double-distilled free trader,
shall
be endowed with the monopoly from Somerset-hous,l of
supplying the unions under the exclusive patronage of th. 9
board, it having decided to transfer the monopoly from
Messrs. Shaw and Sons to Mr. Charles Knight. Upon
this determination, the former gentlemen have issued a
remonstrance—" that it is a return to the exploded job-
bery of ancient days, and to that system they enter their
solemn protest." What a sorry piece of humbug is the
profession of " free trade" ! Messrs. Shaw and Sons, up
to the present moment, prided themselves in the title of
free traders, an the word monopoly was as odious to
their free-trade sensitiveness as it was to Mr. Knight
before he was the sole agent to the Board of Commis-
sioners ; but now that their positions are altered, and
they have changed opinions, the public will judge between
them.

SAGACITY OF THE RAVEN.-Mr. R. Ball communi-
cates the following anecdote of this species :—When a
boy at school, a tame raven was very attentive in watching
our cribs or bird traps; and when a bird was taken, he
endeavoured to catch it by turning up the crib ; but in
so doing the bird always escaped, as the raven could not
let go the crib in time to seize it. After several vain
attempts of this kind, the raven, seeing another bird
caught, instead of going at once to the crib, went to
another tame raven, and induced it to accompany him,
when the one lifted up the crib, and the other bore
the poor captive off in triumph. It was a common prac-
tice, in a spacious yard in Belfast, to lay trains of corn for
sparrows, and to shoot them from a window, which
was only so far open as to afford room for the muzzle of
the gun ; neither the instrument of destruction nor the
shooter being visible from the outside, A tame raven,
which was a nestling when brought to the yard, and pro-
bably never saw a shot fired, afforded evidence that it
understood the whole affair. When any one appeared
carrying a gun across the yard towards the house from
from which the sparrows were fired at, the raven exhibited
the utmost alarm, by hurrying off with all possible speed,
but in a ludicrously awkward gait, to hide itself, scream-
ing loudly the while. Though alarmed for its own safety,
this bird always concealed itself near to and within view
of the field of action ; the shot was hardly fired, when it
dashed out from its retreat, and seizing one of the dead
or wounded sparrows, hurried back to its hiding place. I
have repeatedly witnessed the whole scene. —Thompson's
Irish Birds.

TERRIFIC LEAP.--The absence of fear on the part of
the British sailor was never perhaps more fully exempli-
fied than on Saturday, whilst the third-class train was
proceeding from London to Bristol. It appears that on
arriving between the Wallingford road and Didcot sta-
tions, and whilst the train was at the speed of about 30
miles an hour, the cap of the sailor alluded to, whose
head was protruding through one of the carriage windows,
suddenly flew off. On the instant Jack was perceived to
vault through the aperture, with all the skill of a harle-
quin, to the great consternation of his brother passengers
and the guards, who observed him rolling down the em-
bankment with the utmost velocity, and who imagined
that he was killed outright. Our hero was presently
espied crawling up the embankment, and hastening
towards the train, which he knew would stop at Didcot, a
distance of three miles, for the purpose of enabling the
express train to pass on the same line, and which he soon
heard coming towards him at a fearful rate ; he, however,
fortunately got on to another line in time, and thus again
escaped instant death. On the arrival of the express train
at Didcot, where it stopped a minute or two, Lord War.
rington, who is a director of the line, and was one of the
passengers, on being informed of the particulars of the
particulars of the circumstance, smiled at the temerity of
the sailor, and gave some kind directions respecting him.
Jack now made his appearance, but minus his cap and
stick, and his face so disfigured that he was scarcely re-
cognised; add to this his arm was severely injured.—
Bath Chronicle.

EMIGRATION OF WELSH MORMONITES TO CALIFOR-
NIA.—There was quite a sensation created in Swansea, on
Tuesday, by the arrival of a large number of laden wag-
gons and carts, accompanied by two or three hundred
country people, who came to Swansea, for the purpose of
embarking by the Troubadour steamer for Liverpool.
From that port they purpose sailing for New Orleans,

. .
thence to the regions of California. From New Orleans;
their route is to St. Louis, on the Missouri, thence to
Council Bluffs, a Mormonite settlement, and thence to
Salt Lake, in California. They do not go in quest of gold,
but for the purpose of cultivating the land. This extra-
ordinary expedition formed the general topic of discussion
'and conversation amongst all classes during the whole
day. These people were all auherents of the sect called
"Latter-day Saints," or" Monmonites," whose doctrines
caused so much religious excitement, and, eventually,
bloodshed, in the United States, some time since. Their
tenets have made rapid progress within the last year or
two, among the peasantry of this and the adjoining Welsh
counties, especially in parts of Carmarthenshire and Car-
diganshire. Nearly all are monoglot Welsh, there being
but very few with whom we have conversed that can speak
English with any degree of facility. Indeed, the majority
can hardly speak a word. Like alt the Welsh peasantry,
they are exceedingly simple and artless, and the feeling
excited in the minds of most people, in witnessing them,
was that of pity. Many of them were substantial farmers,
whohad sold all their possessions ; one or two were deemed

of thirty c
scheme as

emselyes. We heard of one
or forty of the needy. Th

aring the pas

look upon their

positively disclaim being fortune-seekers, or that they are
in the slightest degree influenced by the intelligence of
the unprecedented wealth of this modern El Dorao. It
is expected that an immense number of the " saints" from
North Wales and other districts, will meet them at Liver-
pool. One of their body, known as " Captain Jones," an

'• .mong them, appears to be the manager of the
expedition from this district. This individual delivered a
kind of valedictory discourso to his disciples, at theTrades'
Hall, on Tuesday evening.—Swansea Herald.

THE SISTERS 01, MERCY.—During the last six months
some ladies, hearing of the spiritual destitution which pre-
vailed at Devonport, came from a distance and established
the nucleus of an Orphans' Home there. This establish-,
ment was patronised by the Queen Dowager, and sup-
ported by the Bishop of Exeter and several of the local
clergy. The ladies, who style themselves Sisters of Mercy,
possess ample private funds, which have been considera-
bly increased by voluntary contributions from all parts,
and they were soon enabled to clothe, feed, and educate
several orphans, some of whom were selected from the
Devonport workhouse. It was very soon rumoured
abroad that the religious practices of the ladies tended
more to Romanism than to Protestantism, and hereupon
a religious conflict ensued, the most exaggerated reports
being industriously promulgated, both by the supporters
and opponents of the-establishment. The subject
length brought under the notice of the Queen Dowager,
when her Majesty sent the Hon. W. Ashley to Devonport
to make inquires. That gentleman, accompanied by Mr.
Briggs, chaplain of the dock-yard church, visited the Or-
phans' Home, and made such representations as induced
the Queen Dowager to withdraw her patronage. This
significant fact was followed on Saturday morning by the
appearance in the Devonport Telegraph of the alleged vo-
Intary statements of three of the girls who had.been in-
If the Orpi P TT

was at

mates o. -rphan's riome. _aese pigs say that a cross
has been erected, that the ladies bow to it, and wish the
inmates to do the same ; that a picture of 'thi.
Mary and infant Jesus is held in reverence; t
many other observances usual in Roman Catholic soc
ties are practised in the Orphans' Home. In consequent
of this publication the Lord Bishop of the diocese hat
written to Mr. St. Aubyn, the vicar of the parish, stating

Virgin

zd that

his intention to be in Devonport on Thursday to make -a
public inquiry into the important subject. The inquiry
was crowded to excess on the occasion. TI

examined were three girls, named Sarah Ann Clark, Mary
Pochetty, and Selina Jones, who bad resided in the
Orphans' Home, and detailed the nature of the religious

observance

which they had

evidence on some points was denied, but
the "Orphans' Home" contained an c

proved that

'as an altar, ornamented with a cross, flowersnd paint-
igs of the Virgin and Child, and of Christ blessing little
1 that Dr. Pusev, who visited the

They st

Sisters of Mercy, -was called " father" by tl
one of them, named Miss Sellon, was called the Lady
Superior ; and that they all bowed on entering or leaving
the oratory. Miss Sellon gave evidence as to the character
of the institution which she and her sisters intended to
found. They did not wish it to be similar to the convents
or nunneries of Roman Catholic countries, but to resem-
ble Protestant societies bearing similar titles which existed
in some of the. cantons of Switzerland. Miss Sellon. after

al ; tha

her oral examination, read a very long piper in defence 01
herself and the other Sisters of Mercy, and which waE
listened to with much attention. The witnesses were
interrogated not only by the bishop and the clergy in his
diocese who support his views, but by the Rev. J.
Hatchard and others. The following little sample of the
style in which the inquiry was conducted is instructive

Mr. Elworthy—ls there a Complete History of the Fathers
of the Church in Miss Sellon's library ? Miss Sellon—
There is. The Bishop—l rejoice to hear it, and I hope
the clergy of this neighbourhood will avail themselves of
these books. In' pronouncing judgment on the result of
his investigation, the right reverend prelate said, " I came
here with a feeling as impartial as it was possible for a
man to feel; I do not say that T came absolutely impar-
tial,—l should blame myself if I had ; I came with a
feeling of veneration for the young ladies. Igo from this
meeting feeling I know not how to express the admiration
which I have for their conduct. I know I may be con-
demned for expressing that opinion,—as a Papist, a
favourer of Papists, encouraging Popery. in my diocese,
because I stand forward ; and while I am blessed by,
God's mercies to preside over this diocese, never shall I.
cease to express my regard for the conduct of that wise
and virtuous—l had almost said that angelic woman.
(Cheers, hisses, and laughter.) I wish that some things
had never occurred ; I wish that the crosses and flowers
had never been placed there. (" Oh! oh !" and cheers.)
But I won't treat that as a subject of censure. 1 venture
to hope that they will be removed, and that they will no'c
be allowed to remain there after the scandal that has beenraised by it. (Miss Sellon here bowed acquiescence.)
F
or one, I rejoice that in England there is establv,hed a
Sisterhood of Mercy. I hope they will not give up that
of Sig-
'
title, however it may be attempted either by tb'e press or
taenrys otherefme
rpeoyw. e r
Miss hope tnhv
re yinwol
frreetma retain
h thei title
sroom not as a
Sister of Mercy, but as a Martyr of Mercy ;. 'she rises before
us—she makes us feel what poor Inisera),le things we are
compared with that lady who sits tb'ere. Misses and
laughter.) I consider it an honour tr, have the reproach
of those who can express reproach. on my attempting to
do justice to that esselleut ladz‘7,