The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-08-10 00:00:00

North American Colonies.

st Indies,

other Foreign West Indian

401,382
1,123,439
TATES OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AMERICA,

lies
United St

of America,

249,065

Guaten

Columbia
Brazil ...

248,046
2,525,037
335,305
921,627
491,827

States of the Rio de la Plata
Chili
Peru

Isles of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney,

Man, &c

65,381

Total Exports

£24,668,618

Vhite or Plain Cottons

Yards.
433,114,373 7,803,772
357,517,624 8,498,448
1,265,090
118,470,2231 b. 7,101,308

ed Cottons

S•nallwares

Twist and Yarn.

£24,668,618

MR. WOOD, OF GLOUCESTER

The judges recently met to discuss some point relative to
le will of this most singular character; the extent of whose
ealth, and the contest for the possession of the same, have
ready created considerable interest in the public mind. The
lit between the alleged executors and the next of kin have
aw been carried ou for more than five years ; the possessor
this extensive property having died on the 28th of April,
336, when nearly 80 years of age. It is calculated that the
me period of time may elapse before the English laws will
low the final decision to be pronounced. Here, then, must
fine pickings for the lawyers, who doubtlessly will not
sily be weaned from the benefit of so rich and abundant
i harvest. As it may, however, afford some amusement to

readers, we give an authentic detail of the amount of the
alth which this eccentric and parsimonious old man died

ssessed of, as follows :

X. s. d.
66,221 11 0
3,000 0 0
57,500 0 0
333,098 13 6

k nnuities

East India Stock
Three per Ce

nt. Consols..
-and-a-Half per Cents

New 'Air

Bank Lon

Annuities

Three per Cents. Reduced
Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents

9 5 0
9,380 19 10
181,00 0 0
52,000 0 0

_
Bank Stock
Rents due from his freehold and copyhold
property at the time of his death
Rents of leaseholds due at the time of his death
Mortgages

4,677 15 0
710 10 9
15,632 6 1
1,391 12 9
5,408 5 10
395 19 11

Interest on ditto due at his death
Bonds, bills, and notes of hand
Interest on ditto at his death
Banking accounts due to his estate at the
same time

Debts owing to him for shop goods
Balance of cash in the hands of Sir John
Lubbock and Co
Cash found in his house . .

11,225 1 4
138 7 9

9,756 12 6
2,426 10 0
49 1 0
0 0 11
5,237 0 0
9 0 0

Silver .
Copper
Bank-❑

-guinea pieces, five two-
guinea ditto, nine one-guinea ditto, two
foreign pieces ; all which were sold f0r....
Old silver-69 pieces produced
One old gold piece
Rents of his leaseholds

Old gold

-six ii

51 16 6
5 4 0

0 2 6
711 4 0

Wearing apparel ..
Household furnitur
Plate

5 0 0
223 0 0
256 0 0
579 10 0

£781,107 10 4
kidded to this amount of personal property, the freehold
d at £200,000; so that, with the five years'
cumulated, we may reckon his property to
um of nearly £1,200,000.

estates

amount to
That me

) amass such immense wealth, by starving
themselves and all around them, should not take pains to
prevent it being wasted in litigation after their exit, appears
mysterious, as those avaricious propensities which enable a
man to scrape together such immense sums, are strong even
in death, never forsaking the miser but with life, as experi-
ence almost uniformly proves. Instead, however, of envying
the miser who suffers and inflicts all sorts of miseries in the
pursuit of his darling object, the individual who, with pru-
dence and propriety, enjoys and distributes the funds which
Providence places at his command whilst living, is much
more an object of envy to the liberal and feeling mind, and
is one who enjoys pleasures which the miser never appreci-
ated or felt.

If no more than the interest of the property in question be
wasted in litigation, it will be fortunate for the person into
whose hand this wealth is eventually destined to fall, such
interest being of no mean amount.
The Judges of the Privy Council intend to give their de-
cision on this most important and extensive property on the
16th instant, when Sir Matthew Wood and other parties
interested will know the destination of this ample fortune.

EMIGRATION OF FREE LABOURERS.—Recent accounts
from British Guiana state, that the Secretary of Legation at
Rio Janeiro had sent a Portuguese brig to Guiana in charge
of a prize-master and crew.haThe brig had been captured
with slaves on board. She
of a long passage from Rio,
namely, 53 days, and lost 20the Africans by death ;
they died of dysentery and scurvy. The long passage was
in a great measure occasioned btsl insufficient number of
the crew. 160 were landed in New
•-- an excellent public Amsterdam and Berbice ;
pitl—of these four
were recovering;the the healthy were
,s appropriated to reception of emi-
xpected soon to obtain employment on the
Superior, de-
tes. The vessel, named e
London
Demerara merchants resident
1 Sierra Leone with an account in
lf
Guiana,
irt would depend the immediate transfer of
ad enrolled their names as emi
- -,lor, of the 3rd West India for
'en appointed agent of emigration,iime
The emigration agent at Madeira
id names of persons desirous of emi-
grating thence. ese prospects had quite cheered the
planters. A fine steamer was about to be despatched to Rio
with the prize-master and crew of the Portuguese band rig,
wasand
take in coals at Para, Maranham, and Pernambuco,
expected to bring the remainder of the Africans left at Rio.
The information obtained from the prize-master promised a
supply of about 2000 labourers from Rio annually; labourers
also continued to arrive in considerable numbers from Bar-
.badoes. The combined court had amicably settled the annual
estimate of expenditure for the year, and had adjourned for
a fortnight to devise the ways and means of meeting it.—
Evening paper.

had died ; the other

located in building

ghbourin
tched by

for Africans f

200 others,'
Guiana
at S

Capt. R. 1

a Leone, had t

with a salary of .1;1(

had enrolled

thousa
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MISCELLANEOUS

Sir James Stuart has been appointed Deputy Governor of
the district formerly recognised as Lower Canada.

Twenty thousand pounds a week are the continued receipts
on the London and Birmingham railway.
Amongst the causes at the Derby assizes, was that of
Wood v. Morewood.
Some officers in Ghent have introduced umbrellas into the
army—even when in full uniform.

The conservatives of Cork have resolved to petition against
the return for that city.
Doctor Julius is on a mission from the King of Prussia to
visit the gaols of England and Ireland.

The Morning Chronicle has intimated the probability of
a " second and early dissolution."

There is now no doubt that the election of Mr. Shaw Le-
fevre to the speakership has the sanction of Sir Robert Peel.

- _
The Duke of Newcastle is expected to lay the foundation
stone of the new Protestant Hall to be erected in Dublin.
We have now sixty-two royal navy steamers in commission,
varying from 300 to 60 horse power.

The Archbishop of Paris has expressly prohibited the mar-
riages of comedians.
The royal visit to Woburn cost the Duke of Bedford, for
new hangings, &c., twelve thousand pounds.
The Newcastle Journal states that three more new Romish
chapels are in course of erection within the district of that
paper.

Several French agents have been sent to England, in order
to obtain information as to the system and management of
railroads.

The steam-boiler at Davis's factory, Mold Green, near
Huddersfield, exploded yesterday week, by which six girls
were most dreadfully scalded. Two of them have since died.

Prince Albert is very fond of the organ, and a new one of
considerable size and power is being erected for his express
use in the music room at Windsor Castle.

Mr. O'Connell publicly avowed, in a meeting of the Dub-
lin " Board of Trade " last Wednesday, that he made the
productions of Irish manufacture subsidiary to repeal.
The Port Philip Gazette speaks of the discovery of a large
inland lake in Australia Felix, which is supposed to commu-
nicate with the ocean, and forms a fine harbour.
MAYNOOTH.—The pecuniary resources of Maynooth
College are so limited that the students have retired for two
months to recruit the finances of that establishment.
It is the intention of the King of Prussia to form a Pro-
testant League, or corpus evangelicorum, against the Court
of Rome, for which object it is said M. Bunsen was sent to
London.
Dann, the Wimbledon miller, has christened his last child
Cardigan Dann ! in commemoration of Lord Cardigan's
duel ; he having had the honour of taking his lordship into
custody.

On the Ist of May her majesty's ship Fantoine captured
the Josephine, the fastest brigantine out of Havannah, with
299 slaves on board, after a chase of 24 hours and going over
257 miles.

REPRESENTATION OF BATH.—In consequence of the
continued illness of Mr. Roebuck, the radicals are looking
out for a successor, and a canvass, in a quiet way, is said to
be going on for Mr. Hume.
The Times announces the formation of a new banking in-
stitution in London, to be called the " Stock Exchange
Bank," the functions of which are described to be " for de-
posits and taking in stock and shares."

There is a very curious rumour of the intention to petition
against Lord John Russell's return for the city of London.
It is believed that the sheriff's casting up was wrong, and
that Lord John Russell will prove to be in a minority of 3
instead of a majority of 9 !
A respectable female, named Phillips, last week drowned
herself in a pond at Stapleton, near Bristol, when in a state
of mental derangement, produced by the loss which she had
sustained by the failure of the West Middlesex Insurance
Company.
The 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards are ordered from
Glasgow to Belfast, thus increasing the military force in
Ireland by the addition of a regiment of cavalry. Are the
" outgoers' eyes beginning to be opened at the eleventh
hour ?

Lord Ashley, on his tour through the manufacturing dis-
tricts of Yorkshire, met, last week, in public meetings,
numbers of masters and operatives. His lordship strongly
advocated the necessity of a ten hours' factory bill, and the
masters, it is said, have promised not to oppose the intro-
duction of such a measure during the forthcoming session.
Mr. O'Connell's property in Kerry is mortgaged to the
National Bank for £30,000, and it is said that he has not a
qualification of £6OO a-year for the county of Cork. He has
made Tom Steele a present of his old green► cap and soiled
gold lace band, which poor Tom assures the repealers he
would not part with for the Queen's diadem !

There are residing in a cottage at Welton, in the parish of
Midsomer Norton, one great-grandmother, two grand.
mothers, three mothers, three daughters, two grand-
daughters, one great granddaughter, one son, one brother,
one sister, one uncle, one great-uncle, two nieces, one widow,
and four fatherless children ; yet the whole amount to but
five persons !!!
KERRY ELECTION RIOTS.—On Saturday, Bartholomew
Quirk, Connor Griffin, and Daniel Harnett, were arrested in
Abbeyfeale, charged with stopping the mail-coach, and taking
therefrom several respectable freeholders and making them
prisoners, while passing through that town to vote for Mr.
Blennerhassett at the Kerry election.—Limerick Chronicle.
It is rumoured in the theatrical circles that Charles Young,
the eminent tragedian—who had retired into private life long
since—purposes, in compliance with the most earnest soli-
citations from the highest quarters, to resume the buskin for
a brief period at Drury-lane Theatre, when he will appear
with his friend, Macready, in the most popular of the
Shakspearian plays.
ANOTHER Jos.—Government has appointed Surgeon
White to the office of Inspector-General of Prisons, vacant
by the death of Major Woodward. This appointment has
been made in direct opposition to the recommendation of
commissioners appointed by this Government, and the country
is now saddled with the payment of one thousand a-year,
for an officer who has literally no duties to perform.
By the official returns published by the Customs, the ex-
ports of the precious metals to foreign and colonial parts for

the week ending Thursday last, were as follow :—Silver co

to Hamburg!), 64,000 oz. ; to British West Indies, 4619 oz. ;
to Rotterdam, 9000 oz. ; to Belgium, 6000 oz. ; silver bars

to Hamburgb, 9639 oz.
The port of Sunderland continues to maintain its great
importance in ship-building. At this time there are 94 ships
building on the banks of the river Wear, and 35 more have
been recently launched, and are laying in the river, fitting out
and for sale, making a total of 129, many of them of large
tonnage.—Newcastle Journal.
In the absence of Mr. Cresswell, M.P., and Mr. Alexan-
der, the principal business at the Northumberland and New-
castle assizes fell into the hands of Mr. Stuart Wortley, Mr.
Knowles, and Mr. Dundas. Mr. Baines, the son of the ex-
member for Leeds, attended here, it is said, for the first
time ; but it was observed that he did not obtain a single
brief at Nisi Prius, though admitted to be a lawyer of respect-
able talents.—Newcastle Journal.

The yearly meeting of the Society of Friends at Dublir
has published a declaration against the payment of poor rates
Speaking of this document the Dublin Statesman of Frida3
says—" We were not a little astonished to discover that thiswas actually a true bill of the assembly of the friends. Still
we have a conjecture about it, and that strengthened by some
rumours which have come to our ears : and our conjecture
is this, that the manifesto has been drawn up by a party of
extreme fanatics in the quaker body, and has met with the
indignant rejection of the more sober and rational member:,
of the society."

GROUSE SHOOTING.—The season for grouse shooting com-
mences on Thursday next. The moors give promise of ex-
cellent sport, the weather during the breeding season having
been favourable to the young grouse, which all accounts coin-
cide in describing as already remarkably strong on the wing.
Few cheepers may be expected to be heard or seen this sea-
son. Sportsmen, generally, are anticipating that if the 12th
be a fine day, they will manage to make the gentlemen who
carry their bags groan, and cry " hold, enough," long before
sunset.

THE POSTMASTER GENERAL AND THE SABBATH MAILS.
—Having this occasion to speak of the postmaster-general,
we may take the opportunity of stating what we have been
informed of on the best authority, that he has unequivocally
declared that he will not insist. on the mail being carried on
the Sabbath on any Scottish railway, the directors of which
disapprove of its being done. This is a most important fact.
No doubt we will in all probability have a new postmaster-
general, but it is not likely Lord Lichfield's successor will
have less respect than his lordship for the religious feelings
of Scotland.—Scottish Standard.
A NEW COALITION.—We copy the following paragraph
from the Dublin Evening Packet :—" The Right Honourable
Viscount Morpeth, chief secretary; Norman Macdonald,
Esq., under secretary ; Captair! Romilly, private secretary ;
and C. Connellan, Esq., late private secretary to Lord Plun-
ket, left Dublin yesterday afternoon for Glencullen, the seat
of Christopher Fitzsimon, Esq., clerk of the Hanaper Office,
and son-in-law to Mr. Daniel O'Connell, in order to meet
the last-named gentleman at dinner. We have been informed
that this Cabinet Council was held for the purpose of de-
vising the most effectual plan for carrying on the future agi-
tation against Sir R. Peel's government, and embarrassing
the Right Hon. Bart. on Irish ground, The truth of this
information can scarcely be doubted, when we take into con-
sideration the characters of the respective parties, and call to
mind the compact alliance upon terms' ratified at Lichfield
House."
JOHN TUAM V. FATHER MATHEW.—Por some reasons,
wholly inexplicable, " John Tuam," it appears, has set his
face against the Mathewite movement. At Balinrobe, a few
days ago, "his grace" denounced the teetotallers from the
altar, and spoke in no very measured terms of the " wander-
ing e‘lclesiastic" who dared to intrude within his (John
Tuam's) jurisdiction, and " create in the minds of his people
a superstitious veneration for a piece of Birmingham pewter.
He would not allow such interference, and threatened the
thunders of the church against any of the faithful who should
disregard his commands." " There is," said the haughty
titular, " a teetotal band ; let it in future be called the
chapel band, and nothing else." The consequence of all this
threatens to be a complete rupture in the unity of mother
church.

A CHAPEL RATE.—At an Old Independent Chapel, not
100 miles from Bradford, the leading members have hit upon
a more certain mode for defraying the incidental expenses of
their place of worship than they have heretofore adopted.
The collections upon the voluntary principle, of which they
so much boast, having fallen off, they have laid a Chapel
Rate ; not in the way Old Mother Church does by consulting
the public, but by a private Vestry Meeting or conclave.
The amount of this rate is three-pence a sitting per quarter ;
not on the principle of a sliding scale, but a fixed sum
charged upon the poor as well as the rich; thus selling the
religious accommodation for the poor 10 or 20 per cent.
higher than to the wealthy ! Let those liberals say no more
about Old Mother Church, which is at all times an asylum,
provided by the State, for the victims of sectarian persecution
and oppression both for the living and the dead.—Leeds In-
telligencer.
THE BISHOP OF WINCHESTER AND " CHURCH PRIN-
CIPLES."—We are sure it will afford real satisfaction to our
readers to learn that the Bishop of Winchester has taken an
open and decided step against the encroaching evils of Pusey-
ism. At the late ordination at Farnham, Dr. Keble's curate,
Mr. Young, who had been ordained deacon by the Bishop of
Winchester last year, presented himself for priest's orders,
and after a long and careful examination, was rejected. This
was not for incompetency ; 'but simply on the ground that he
carried what are denominated " Church principles" too far.
Every opportunity was given him ; the bishop conversed
with him in private for more than an hour, and the subjects
in question were again proposed to him in writing; but the
replies were so unsatisfactory, that Mr. Young was finally
t six
rejected. Oxford herself has opened her eyes, and is begin-
ning to repudiate her refractory and rebellious children.
weeks since, the Rev. W. G. Ward, Tutor of
Balliol,
was e' who has carried the Oxford views to a fearful length,
ejected from his tutorship by Dr. Jenkyns ; and still
more lately, the Rev. R. W. Church, Tutor of Oriel, was,
for a similar
living,
,isreason, deprived of his tutorship by Dr.
Hawkins. Let
tection, be fairly carried
sste
not of persecution, but of pro-
let no tutor retain his office,
and no clergyman his who opposes the doctrines of a
church which he has sworn to
m
though dishonest men will be renderedai nt a i in,comparatively
e rpyo
wa be
rl
less.—Record.

An author that Eyed somewhere has such a brilliant wit,
that he contracted to light the parish with it, and did it.
Mr. Barron has been appointed Chairman of the County
Limerick, in the room of Mr. Faloon, deceased.
The new parliament contains one coloured man—the mem-
ber for Sudbury.

The three surviving brothers of the Emperor Napoleon,
Joseph, Louis, and Jerome, are at present united at Genoa,
where the government appears to pay them every respect.

A Paris correspondent of the Prussian State Gazette says
that a reconciliation has taken place between the Queen
dowager of Spain and her sister the Duchess de Berri.
A man, named M'Donald, had judgment of death recorded
against him at the Lewes assizes last Wednesday, for a capi-
tal offence upon the person of a female 85 years old.

Mr. Ducrow, the celebrated equestrian, is in such a state
of mind that it has been found necessary to place him under
restraint.

The number of the families now at the waters of 'Wiesba-
den is said by the Frankfort Journal to be 2150 ; of whom
1652 are Germans, and 498 foreigners. The latter comprise
241 English and 77 French families.
RAILWAY TnAFric.—One week's traffic on the different
lines of railway now open, as reported in the Railway Times
of Saturday last, amount, within a few pounds, to the enor-
mous sum of £99,000 !

A Bank of England note for three hundred pounds has
been inclosed in an anonymous letter to the secretary at war,
and has been paid by him into the Bank of England, to the
account of the Paymaster General, for the service of the pub-
lic.
PRlDE.—Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great
deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing,
you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of
a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire, thau to
satisfy all that follow it.—Franklin.
WARLIKE PREPARATIONS.—An immense British fleet,
accompanied by a prodigious number of armed steam-ships,
is collecting about the shores of North America. What this
portends cannot be doubtful. A demonstration of British
force in those parts has been long demanded by the uneasy
and threatening appearances of the political horizon in that
quarter.
MEETING EXTRAORDINARY.—The right hon. Viscount
Morpeth, chief secretary ; Norman Macdonald, Esq., under
secretary ; Captain Romilly, private secretary ; and Corry
Connellan, Esq., late private secretary to Lord Plunket, left
Dublin yesterday afternoon for Glencullen, the seat of Chris.
Fitzsimon, Esq. clerk of the Hanaper-office, and son-in-law
to Mr. Daniel O'Connell, in order to meet the last named
gentleman at dinner. We have been informed that this cabi-
net council was held for the purpose of devising the most
effectual plan for carrying on the future agitation against Sir
Robert Peel's government, and embarrassing that right bon.
gentleman on Irish ground. the truth of this information
can scarcely be chinked, when we take into consideration the
characters of the respective parties, and call to mind the
" compact alliance upon terms," ratified at Lichfield House.
—Dublin Evening Pacquet.

THE AUSTRALIAN EMIGRATION SYSTEM.—A case came
on Tuesday before Mr. Duffy, at the Dublin police-office,
which was characterised by peculiar features of hardship and
severity. Twelve poor emigrants from Galway were the
complainants, and Mr. Fullam, of Talbot-street, the Dublin
agent to Mosson and Company, the Australian emigration
agents of London, appeared as defendant under the follow-
ing circumstances :—A man who acted as spokesman to the
complainants, stated that being induced by the fair promises
held out to them to emigrate to Australia, they arranged with
the agent in Galway for a free passage out, on the usual con-
ditions, and paid him lOs each on the occasion, that on ar-
riving in Dublin, whence they were to have sailed on the
28th ult., they waited immediately on Mr. Fulham, to whom
they were directed as the agent here, but to their great asto-
nishment were told by Mr. Fulham that he knew nothing
whatever about the Galway agent who sent them, and could
not recognise his engagements, at least until he ascertained
the circumstances by writing to London. He accordingly
did write, and after five days they were told that the person
who represented himself as the Galway agent was authorised
to do so, and that their passage out was secured ; but all this
time they were left depending on their own scanty means,
and Mr. Fulham refused to give them the shilling per day
which by the regulations they were entitled to receive, during
the interval from their being sent to town to the sailing of
the emigrant ship. Mr. Fulham, after some hesitation, con-
sented to pay the poor people the shilling a day each for the
time they had been waiting, and to see their passage to
Australia secured to them.

DINNER AT PORTSMOUTH TO SIR ROBERT STOPFORD.—
The entertainment to the commander-in-chief on the coast of
Syria took place on Thursday. There were present a great
number of naval and military men. The Morning Herald,
in some editorial observations, says :—" The modesty of all
really great commanders is proverbial ; and beautifully did
Sir Robert Stopford on Thursday display that fine charac-
teristic of true greatness. All the merit he claimed was that
of commanding in chief the Syrian squadron ; forgetful of
himself, he spontaneously ascribed the success of many of
the details suggested by his own sagacity to his second in
command, Sir Charles Napier, and at the same time drew
attention to the past actions of that meritorious officer's
career in Spain and Portugal. How painfully does this ge-
nerosity, this plain heroic magnitude of mind,' contrast
with the conduct of Sir C. Napier at Liverpool, where the
very name of his commander-in-chief was carefully and
deliberately avoided, and his great services passed over un-
noticed ! The gallant conduct of Sir Charles may redeem,
but it cannot justify much of what is past, which it is difficult
even now to forget. The example of his chief and of the
Marquis of Anglesey, who feelingly and nobly declared that
he owed all his honours and distinctions to the gallantry of
those brave men whom it had been his fortune to lead to the
field of battle,' and who justly added, that ' one of the mat-
ters of the first and greatest importance to all commanders,
whether by sea or land, was to place confidence in those who
are under them, and not to attempt to do everything for
themselves,' was not without its proper effect on Sir Charles ;
and he, too, for the first time, gave in his adherence to the
primary merit of Sir Robert Stopford ; he no longer claimed
the suggestion and execution of all the successes he so bravely
led on. He confessed at Portsmouth that if he had been
able to perform any services useful to his country or credita-
ble to himself, he owed it entirely to Sir Robert Stopford.'
He had ' used the whole of his zeal, exertion, and energies to
carry out the Admiral's views to the utmost extent in his
power.' This acknowledgment, though made at a period suf-
ficiently late, and strangely forgotten when it would have
most redounded to the speaker's credit, is at all events now
ample and complete."
DESTRUCTION OF AN OIL MANUFACTORY BY FIRE, AND
Loss of LIFE.—On Friday, an oil manufactory, on the banks
of the Medway, at Chatham, in the occupation of Messrs.
Chesson and Melling, was destroyed by fire, and the former
individual lost his life. On the premises were erected three
stills for the purpose of distilling oil from ingredients known
only to themselves ; and so privately was the above establish-
ment conducted that they always kept closely secured the
doors of the establishment from the ingress of any one, the
two parties themselves being the only persons who worked
and mixed the ingredients. At the time of the accident
Chesson, whose life is sacrificed, was attending to a still, No.
1, which was the refining vessel, and having furnished the
furnace with some fresh coal, he repaired to another part of the
building to close a pair of folding doors, which had been left
open in consequence of having just received a ton of rosin
from a van from London. Upon his return to the distillery
he found the place on fire, and on making his retreat he went
up into the great loft to endeavour to effect his escape, but
the smoke and flames spreading to a great extent, he got
smothered, and became consumed in the burning ruins. The
body when dug out of the burning pile presented a most
awful sight, the lower extremities, legs, and thighs, were
completely burnt to a cinder. One arm was lost. The head
and chest remained whole, but burnt completely through.
The unfortunate man has left a wife and three children, and
the wife is near her confinement. The event produced such
a shock upon her nerves that little hopes are entertained of
her recovery. The property destroyed is about £2OO, and
not insured, besides the building. At the inquest, which was
held on Saturday, it appeared in evidence that the still at
which the deceased was working was of bad construction.
The jury returned a verdict accordingly, and reprimanded
the surving partner for the neglect which had produced the
calamity.
IBANDISM.—At the Tyrone assizes five men were con-
victed of being members of the Riband society, and for using
the signs and pass-words of that treasonable body ; two of
them were sentenced in the full penalty—viz., seven years'
transportation—and the remaining three to ten months' im-
prisonment and hard labour. In stating the case for the
crown, Mr. Schoales gave the following outline of the con-
spiracy—a conspiracy, it will be borne in mind, the existence
of which has been declared by the government and their
officials to be a mere phantasmagoria to fright men's minds :
" It could be traced to the rebellion in the year 1798, but it
was only a few years since that the attention of the govern-
ment was particularly directed to it, when an act was passed,
under the operation of which, he was happy to say, the sys-
tem had considerably declined. A number of the officers of
the society had been detected and punished ; but he regretted
that the prime, mover of its proceedings had as yet remained
undiscovered. It was a system entirely confined to one
class of her Majesty's subjects—namely, the Roman Ca-
tholics ; and indeed it would appear, from the evidence he
should be enabled to produce, that no others could be ad-
mitted, as one of the objects of it was the extirpation of
heresy ; and they all knew what was meant by heresy in the
language of Roman Catholics. Now, it so appeared, that in
the neighbourhood of Fintona nearly all the population who
were Roman Catholics were connected with the system, and
it became absolutely necessary that some notice should be
taken of it. The system was held together by certain pass-
words which he would read to them, and which were changed
at certain periods, and to persons unacquainted with them
they appeared quite nonsensical. They were similar to those
we have given in former trials. There was also an obligation
of the most solemn nature, binding the members together,
by which they engaged to support one another in the most
awful and worst practices, as long as their present leaders
were in power. They engaged that they would propagate
brotherly love among the brethren, and that they would not
drink to intoxication, so as to endanger a discovery of the
secrets of the system. There was also a clause pledging the
members to deal only, or, at least, in preference, with per-
sons who were their friends. After some allusion to the so-
lemn nature of the obligation, the learned gentleman con-
cluded by reading the signature to this document, which was
in two words, viz.,—" Norrato narratuni."

GREAT FIRE IN LONDON.—On Saturday morning,
shortly before daybreak, a fire, one of the most extensive in
magnitude that has happened in the city for many years,
broke out in Upper Thames-street, near Blackfriars-bridge,
and raged with terrific violence for several hours, occasioning
utter destruction to the large bonded warehouses and stores
belonging to Messrs. Smith and Co., corn-factors, situate
near Puddle-dock, and seriously damaging much valuable
property in the neighbourhood. The warehouses were very
extensive, consisting of two massive buildings, one occupying
a frontage in Upper Thames-street, of near sixty feet, and
extending in
.depth upwards of one hundred and seventy feet,
the other facing the river Thames, seven stories high, and
equally as capacious. They were separated by a mill (a
brick building) several floors high, and adjoining the grana-
ries of Messrs. rest and Green, which it will be recollected
were destroyed. about four years ago by fire. All efforts to
save the buildings were unavailable ; the principal front fell
with a tremendous crash into the river about five o'clock in
the morning. Most of the account books were saved. Both
the warehouses were full, and contained grain to the extent
of; 12,000 quarters, consisting of wheat, oats, barley, beans,
and peas. In the report made by the fire establishment, on
Saturday, to the various fire offices, the destruction of pro-
perty is described as follows :—The whole of Messrs. Smith
and Co.'s bonded warehouses, fronting the Thames at Pud-
dle-dock, destroyed ; and greater part of another bonded
warehouse, of the same firm, consumed ; besides destruction
of the mills in the centre,
. and serious damage, by fire and
water, to a range of stores. adjoining Puddle-dock. The
mlrcphiarnetasi,uicootnhseiderffiably
buildings and contents are insured at the Sun Fire-office to
the amount of £ll,OOO. The total loss
.is reported at up-
wards of £20.000. Hutland's-wharf, adjoining, containing
of Messrs. West and Green, and the premises
bimutmnedoitatteo vainciy.nsiteyrioaures
cpoahloe-
r.o offices
damaged by fire ,
no doubt that the fire originated
ofthe Nlessr granariess
and
insured iCno the.,
from the overheating of the flue attached to the furnaces un-
der the boilers in the lower part of the mill, the machinery
rfnerpoft3e? t.o hOavtiejesrusptraeinaneisdesdaimnatglele,
extent. There appears.
in which was used for splitting horse-beans and unloading
vessels at the wharf. The fires that were under the boilers
on Friday night were unusually large, to work the machinery
harder than usual, and as the flue has been recently built, it
will corroborate the suspicion that some of the bored timbers
caught fire, and extended to the floors.

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CHESTER RAILWAY.

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4 43 „ .. 5 30 ~ 5 0 „ .. 5 30
71 15 Evening .. 715 Mixed 1 715 Evening .. 715 Mixed I
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ON SUNDAYS.
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715 Evening.. 715 Mixed 1 715 Evening.. 715 Mixed
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TO PRESTON AND WIGAN.
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TO LANCASTER.
FROM MANCHESTER
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TO BOLTON

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Fiiit Class,

FROM LIVRRFOOL. I FROM MAIVCRESTRR.
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11 0 11 15 „ ••••
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530 530 „

7 0 Morning..
5 30 Afternoon

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5 30 Afternoon .. ~
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- FROM MANCHESTER.
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