The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-07-06 00:00:00

ACCOMMODATING JOSEPH HUME.

Cunning Joseph Hume has been attempting to play a double
game between Leeds and Dundee. Having hastily engaged
with the former without due investigation, he seems to have
had a lurking suspicion that all was not right. The following
letter is a curiosity in its way :
" Bryanstone-square. 7 morning, June 21, 1841.

" Mr. Alexander Low, Secretary, &c, Dundee.
" Sir,—On the eve of leaving London to go to Leads, I
have received your letter of the 10th.
" It would have delighted me to have represented Dundee,
but I was prevented from looking forwards to it by Sir H.
Parnell being in possession.
" If you can make arrangements so as to wait the result
of the Leeds Election (where the teries threaten to beat us)
—which you can easily do—and in case of defeat at Leeds, I
might be elected for Dundee—or, if you make an election,
even if I were chosen for both places, you would then have
time to select a proper man.
" The really active free-trade members arc engaged, ex-
cept Mr. Ewart, the late M. P. for Liverpool, and now for
Wigan, who is trying the Dumfries Burghs. If he should
fail I would recommend him to your notice as one of the
most steady and fearless reformers, a free,trade man, and
also a strong advocate of civil and religious liberty. He would
do you credit, and the cause of the people good service ; and
I should be pleased to see him the representative for Dundee.
" If I could retire from Leeds without doing harm I
should with pleasure have gone to Dundee; but the fate of
the West Riding of Yorkshire depends on the success in
Leeds, and there must I stand.

" I shall be in Leeds until after the election, and pleased
to hear from you.—l remain, &c. &c.,
" JOSEPH HUME."
Joseph's letter is chiefly valuable on account of what it
developes with regard to the West Riding. In spite of the
ridiculous brag of the Leeds Mercury, and the cads of the
Orange party, it now appears, the committee were fearful
that the '• Tories" would beat them ; and, then, the election
for the West Riding depends upon Whig success at Leeds.
Well, Leeds has vindicated its independence, and wiped off
the mark fixed on itsfroi
thei NesttinlB37itiidtifnogllwov%il'lsa,
catcc:irthdiilgtoJoseph the Prophet, that
simi-
lar spirit. Tlie prediction will be verified to the letter.
Lord Morpeth is destined to share the fate of his Master's
late member for Kilkenny, and Lord Milton will necessarily
follow in Lord Morpeth's wake, since lie has no will or opi-
nion but what he takes at second hand from The noble secre-
tary.

CAPTURE OF SEVENTY GAMBLERS, NEAR KEIGHLEY.—
In one of those lonely and sequestered places where the
foot of regular passengers scarely treads, situate between the
borders of the west riding of this county, and on the verge of
Lancashire, is a common or moor ; not a vestige of green herb
nor a cultivated piece of land lies within some miles of the
place, where hunbreds of those reckless sons of folly and of
crime meet on the Sabbath day to exchange virtue for vice.
Those marauders carried their power in the neighbourhood
to that alarming extent that the farmers and owners
unlawful
exercise. pro-
perty scarcely durst speak to them or thwart their
exercise. The police of the different townships have used
their endeavours to make a breach
effect, except by our indefatigable and active
and reward arcs
due deputy-consta-
ble,Mr. John Sugden, to whom praisegreattfeat
he has done. On
for the hazardous and dangerousinto the gang, but without
were
as one of their own party ,
led nearly 100 of
the gang, Mr. Sugden went disguised
Sunday fortnight, when there ii
' Jim Crow" hat, and a pipe
dressed in an old smock frock,. eassemb
equipped he entered the arena of
stuck in his mouth ; thus equipp
of their money, when the
some
the gamesters and secured
party, perceiving thatthere was a friend in disguise, took to
their heels and fled; one,
one,
however, be secured, after a des-
perate struggle, and brought him down tothe lock-up of this
town. He wae
d a declaration of their doings, and the
fthem have been known to win, On
f money some o nown
amount o
seventy-one were convicted in the mitigated
Saturday
last d before Frederick Green penalty of I4s. 3 ~ wood and Joseph
Greenwood, Esqrs., and in default of payment one months'
. ,
~
imprisonment, wh. lc_ _am I,v4s paid by the convicted ones.
We hope and trust that this will have a salutary effect upon
the remainder of the gang, which numbers upwards of seven
hundred members from different parts of the surrounding
eoutitim—Leai. Intelligezicer.

A DOLEFUL L.4.NIEFF F,9R A DI6COMFITED

" Oh, Mis

KNIGUT

Bailey ! unfortunate Miss Bailey

Who dealt in corn and flour, sirs,

Imagined once that he possessed

.e a pourer, sirs

And thinking that a private life

Was not his proper station,

Ambitious was to figure in

The counciis of the nation

Oh, Sir Joshua! talented Sir Joshua

Better stick to sang

and to Brunswick-street, Sir Joshua

Twas but the year before he forced

The whigs to make a mayor of him,

Though numbers of his party vowed

It wasn't very fair of him

To push before so many of

llis elders and his betters,

Who'd been reformers good, whilst HE

—Was teaching boys their letters

Oh, Sir Joshua

far, Sir Joshua!

Many people think you very impudent, Sir Joshua

A popgun at the Queen—

•and missed

On which the mayor was sent to say

How shocked the Whigs had been—and kissed

The royal hand, by which in turn

The little mayor was made a knight;

But the potboy ever since has been

A miserable Bedtwilit,

Sir Joshua! lucky man, Sir Joshua!

ghthood yours most quickly won, and easily, Sir Joshua !

And yet this lucky knight

Wasn't satisfied at all, sirs,

.till he fancied he had got

To parliament a call, sirs ;

Ills eloquence in Liverpool

He couldn't find a scope for.
For all the listeners he had there
He'd got to thank the Pope for !
Sir Joshua! great man. Sir Joshua!

hat a 'nation itch have you to speechify, Sir Joshua 1

He sent his cads about the town

To trumpet forth his praise, sits,

For such a senator as I

A hue and cry to raise

a, to gratify

The little knight's ambition,

ik they managed

To get up a requisition

Sir Joshua! crafty man, Sir Joshua!

red up at last into a candidate, Sir Joshua!

And then he issued an address,

In type both great and small, sirs,

settled, one and all, sirs

granny Mercury put on

Her spectacles, and swore, sirs,

She never read a riddle

So wonderful before, sirs

Sir Joshua! rare man, Sir Joshua

at a clever legislator you will make, Sir Joshua!

But many great reformers,

At Sir Joshua's pretensions,

Turned up their saucy noses,

And in consequence dissensions

Most sad arose amongst the ranks,

And some declared outright, sirs,

They wouldn't march through Coventry

With this obscure knight, sirs,

Oh, Sir Joshua! upstart, Sir Joshua !

Yours is not the corn for them—'tis only chaff, Sir Joshua!

The knight, however, shewed soon

He was a man judgematical,

And knew the nature well

Of the Whig aristocratical;

United with a high-up PAL.

As sick folks take a bolus

Wrapped up in jam,) they'd take him,
Though they wouldn't take him so/u.
Oh, Sir Joshua I shrewd chap, Sir Joshua!

You know how to sweeten for whig appetites, Sir Joshua

But candidates were scarce

Of that particular description

Though guaranteed from cost

qi.ficent subscription ;

So when the little knight found out

He eouldn't get a real one,

He got his dupes persuaded

To put up with an ideal one !

Oh, Sir Joshua ! cunning man, Sir Joshua!
How you gammoned all the whigs with Palmerston, Sir Joshua !

The day of nomination came

And then the day of fight, sirs ;

The phantom stalked into.the ring,

And then the bantam knight, sirs;
Where little Billy Earle

Did the honours for the phantom,
Whilst a venerable colonel

Shewed, in white ducks, for the bantam.
Oh, Sir Joshua! well crowed, Sir Joshua!

You're the cock to make a noise, at any rate, Sir Joshua !

But blustering and crowing loud

Is not the way to win a tight;

And Cresswell and Lord Sandon

'Twas not easy to put in a fright
Though brickbats and shillelaghs

And popish howls were rife, sirs,

They stood up to their colours fast.

And thrashed away for life, sirs,

Oh, Sir Joshua rash man, Sir Joshua!

To trust your precious person in so mad a fight, Sir Joshua!

And matters very soon began

To look tarnation blue, sirs,

And radical physogs were

Elongated not a few, sus;

For, after eight hours' fighting,
Cresswell Cresswell and Lord Sandon

Had left the little knight and PAL

With not a leg to stand on

Oh, Sir Joshua ! unfortunate Sir Joshua I
Beaten till you 're red and blue and all colours, Sir Joshua !

And now, alas ! this anti-corn-law

Oracle is mute, sirs ;

The trumps are all played out, and he

Has none of that same suit. sirs

The phantom 's " vanished in thin air,"
'Midst many a hearty laugh, sirs ;
And Joshua's foreign corn is thrashed,
And nothing left but chaff, sirs.
Oh, Sir Joshua ! unfortunate Sir Joshua !

Watery eyes there must be in Wavertree, Sir Joshua!

They say, indeed, the knight will be

A member, after all, sirs

For animals with long ears

Can always find a stall, sirs,

Provided they are willing

To pay down the ready penny

But, alas ! that game is up too,
For Daniel wants Kilkenny !

Oh, Sir Joshua! unfortunate Sir Joshua!
Oh, Sir Joshua! unfortunate Sir Joshua!

ELECTIONS IN SCOTLAND.
GLORIOUS CONSERVATIVE TRIUMPHS !!

(From the Scottish Standard)

The spirit of reaction, so nobly exemplified in London and
so many English towns, has extended in good earnest to the
burghs of Scotland. We have now to record what must be
regarded as, perhaps, the two most signal triumphs con-
servatism has yet achieved in the United Kingdom. The
Haddington and Falkirk burghs have been wrested from the
degrading and hateful thraldom in which they have so long
been held by the whigs and radicals. Mr. Balfour and Mr.
Baird, the two conservative candidates, have been returned,
and the two former whig-radical members, Messrs. Steuart
and Gillon, rejected. This is a gain of four votes to the
conservative party, and affords a glorious example to the
Other constituencies of Scotland.
Mid-Lothian, Argyllshire, Dumbartonshire, will be with-
out a struggle ! Ten additional votes to Sir Robert Peel from
Scotland !—and the elections scarcely commenced !! Rox-
burghsbire, it appears, is to be contested—a most despicable
and disgraceful attempt, which will, of course, end in the
utter failure of its contrivers. This will make twelve votes;
and with equal confidence, we reckon upon Stirlingshire to
make fourteen votes !
In Edinburgh, Leith, Dundee, Perth, Stirling, and St.
Andrews, the whigs, it must be confessed, have done wonders
—they have kept their ground! Mr. Aytoun, however, all-
but beat a whig lord of the Admiralty, Lord Dalmeny's
majority being only nine! This is a sorry triumph. In
Dundee, too, the anti-corn-law league, the main authors of
all this agitation, have sustained a most ignominious defeat
in the rejection of their president, a canting millowner,
namad J. B. Smith ; a plain merchant of the place, Mr.
Duncan, who is a tory at heart, as everybody knows, having
been carried by a large majority. We make the whig minis-
ters heartily welcome to this triumph also.
Of the other elections to come, we can speak with the ut-
most hope. The examples already set to the constituencies,
will not be without their just and natural effect. In Glas-
gow, the conservatives will make a noble fight, and we ex-
pect will succeed in returning Provost Campbell, who is the
only conservative candidate. Kirkcudbright, Banffshire, the
Elgin, and Wigton burghs, previously possessed by the whigs,
also promise to add to the list of conservative triumphs.
From Aberdeen we have the most cheering accounts of Mr.
Robertson's proc,ress and prospects. Renfrewshire, Wigton-
shire, and Caithriesshire, hitherto held by conservatives, are
contested ; but though the struggle may be keen, no fear is
entertainep that the whigs will be successful in any of these
districts.

Mr. Pitt never dined but once vith King George the Third,
and that was at Weymouth;
pro-
pensities of Lord Melbournel what a contrast with the
MYSTERIOUS OCCU RRENCE AT CR w eic
--.—Considerable
excitement has been created in Chiswick"
by the following
extraordinary occurrence. It appear
wokorrn who keeps
James Brown, aged 19, the son of a po(t,rat a youth named
as'niswick-lane,
a sort of chandler's shop near the corner
with
has for some time past been in the habit of
at card pnegncling
several abandoned characters in the neighbourhsataltis
his mother'sgeneralv
whole days and nights with them playing
variably losing money which he purloined from
till. A low pubic-house near the water-side was
the rendezvous of this gang of profligates, who, when ex-
pelled from there, usually adjourned to one or other of their
respective homes, where they contrived to gain admission
without disturbing any of the inmates. On Sunday morning
the youth Brown was found in his bed a corpse,
hi pro
left pped up
in a sitting posture, with a pillow, &c., while in s han
he still held a number of cards. The rest of the pack were
lying about on the bed, which bore the impression of some
one having been seated at the foot. Deceased's companions
declared that, on the morning in question, he went home by
'llloltself about four o'clock. There does not appeor to be the
—ease lib; of his baying died a natural death.

FOREIGN iNTELLIOENCE

UNITED STATES

The Great Western steamer arrived in Kingroad, Bristol,
on Saturday evening at half-past eight o'clock, after 14 days'
passage, for nine of which she encountered a continuance of
easterly gales, with dense fogs. She has brought with her
American papers to the 19th of June. and eighty-four pas-
sengers. She brings also the Governor-General Lord Sy-
denham's speech to the newly assembled Parliament of the
now united Canadas, which had been received by express at
New York on the morning of her sailing, for a copy of which
we are indebted to the kindness of Captain Ilosken (it not
having been published in the papers at the time of the ves-
sels sailing). The arrest and detention of AP Leod is thus
referred to : _ _ .

- .
" A subject of her majesty, an inhabitant of this province,
has been forcibly detained in the neighbouring States, charged
with a pretended crime. No time was lost by the executive
of this province in remonstrating against this proceeding, and
provision was made for ensuring to the individual the means
of defence, pending the further action of her majesty's govern-
ment. The Queen's representative at Washington has since
been instructed to demand his release. Of the result of that
demand I am not yet apprised, but .T. have the Queen's com-
mands to assure her faithful subjects in Canada of her ma-
jesty's fixed determination to protect them with the whole
weight of her power."
Among the subjects to which the attention of parliament
is especially directed, is the adoption of measures for devel-
oping the resources of the province, by well-considered and
extensive public works. The Governor recommends the
improvement of the navigation from the shores of Lake Erie
and Lake Huron to the ocean—the establishment of new in-
ternal communications in the inland districts—works requi-
ring a great outlay, but promisinz commensurate returns.
A loan of £1,500,000 sterling for these and other purposes
will be negotiated under a guarantee of the Imperial Trea-
surv, should the British Parliament agree to the proposition
of Ministers to that effect.
The Governor recommends a large appropriation for miii-
tary defences, and states he has her Majesty's command to
say that " liar North American possessions shall be main-
tained at all hazards as part of her empire."
Nothing, we regret to say, was known of the President in
the United States.
. . .

Congress had been in a very disunited state ; its organiza-
tion had, however, been at length effected. A very lengthy
and angry debate, occupying two sittings, had taken place on
the release of Colonel M`Leod, which terminated in the
adoption of a motion to refer the matter to a committee on
foreign affairs, who now have it under their consideration.
Some of the speakers took a very warlike view of the matter ;
the majority of the members, however, deprecated such lan-
guage. Congress was also much occupied with discussions
on their financial deficit.
Of the bank project the Commercial Advertiser of the
16th says—" The bill for the establishment of a fiscal agent
of the government of the United States, intended substan-
tially to answer all the essential purposes of a national bank,
comes not in the form that we could most desire, and before
it shall become a law, it may be modified in some of its fea-
tures. But there are difficulties in the way, which those at
a distance can neither discern nor appreciate. It is our
opinion reluctantly formed, that a charter for such a
bank as the great mass of the commercial and busi-
ness men of the country most desire, cannot now be
obtained. And in regard to the plan before us, although
doubts are entertained by some as to the wisdom and practi-
cability of some of its provisions, yet we do know that there
are those among the ablest and clearest heads who believe
that it will work well and answer every purpose. For our-
selves we certainly hope that the bill may be so amended as
to leave no question as to the opinions of those who pass
upon it, that a national bank, in the broadest sense of the
term, with power to establish branches wherever they may
be deemed necessary, is a perfectly constitutional measure.
Such is the established adjudicated law of the land; and the
contrary principle, or even a doubt upon the question, ought
not to be conceded."

WEST INDIES.
We have just been favoured with the perusal of a private
letter from Berbice, dated 11th May, of which we subjoin the
following extract. We hail this event as the prelude to a
more auspicious period in the history of the West Indies, and
the first approach to a rational system of treatment of the un-
happy victims of the slave trade captured by our cruisers :
" Arrived this morning, the Portuguese brig Second of
February, captured off Rio by H. M. Sch. Fawn. She sailed
from Africa with 510 slaves, 135 of whom died in the passage
of only 13 days. At Rio they were removed to different ves-
sels, and the captured slaver, after being thoroughly fumi-
gated, was despatched to the nearest British colony, Berbice,
with 180 of them. Of these 20 died on the passage, which
was very tedious-53 days. Of those that arrived, the sick
were sent to the hospital, and the rest to Plantation Over-
winning. With the exception of 10 or 12 they are all young
people, a fair proportion of both sexes, the eldest not exceed-
ing 20, and the youngest 10 years, and were pretty healthy
considering their confinement. If you had only heard, their
joyful songs when they were told they were free and would
be protected, you would never forget the scene.
" It is said that the remainder of this cargo, and from 500
to SOO others, captured shortly before, are only waiting a
conveyance for this colony to be sent on, and that the Vene-
zuela steamer and this captured brig are to be sent for them
immediately. . .

" Even under the comparatively kind treatment of a
British officer, and with four times their original space, they
were not one whit better off than the cargoes of swine you
and I have often seen arrive from Ireland. What mnst have
been their condition when the small-pox and scurvy were
raging, in all their horrors, on board!"

litlitßlßLE mummy: NEAR KNARESDRO%

One of the most deliberate and cold-blooded murders that
has ever- been committed -within the recollection of man,
took place last Saturday morning, between the hours of
twelve and one, at the above place. Three young men, two
under the age of twenty, the other twenty-three, were the
perpetrators. The victim of their prey was a poor, inoffen-
sive, harmless, good-natured old man of the name of Joseph
Cocker, who kept the White. Hart, a small public-house in
the market-place be lost his wife in November last, and
since that time has lived alone. It appeared by their own
confession at the coroner's inquest, .that they had intended
committing the horrid murder the previous night, but a
neighbour happening to come in, their blaek deed was frus-
trated until the following night, when, at about eleven, having
watched the company out of the house, the three went in and
had five pints of ale. It was then getting late. They wanted
more, which the old man refused them, saying it was after
twelve, and time to go to bed. The oldest lad made no
more to do, but without any hesitation took a hammer out
of his pocket, with which they had provided themselves, and
struck him violently on the head, which knocked him on his
knees, when he cried out, " Don't kill me, lads ; and the
blows being quickly repeated, he fell, groaning awfully. The
blows and the groaning were heard by a Mrs. Snow, whose
back premises adjoin, .who was up, and who went into the
yard and looked through the window, and saw three men
standing over him. She tried the door, and cried, " What
are they doing with you, Cocker ?" Fortunately the door
was fast, or there is no doubt she would have shared the
same fate. She then went to call her husband up. The vil-
lains went out when the door was tried, and consulted in the
street for two minutes, when they thought they had not
killed him, so they all agreed, and returned, according to
their own words, to kill him out. By that time the husband
of Mrs. Snow had got down, when he saw the murderers.
They, hearing him, blew out the candle, and ran away about
a mile from the town, but one of them proposed that they
should return, which they did. In the mean time the police
and constables made the most active search, and much to
the credit of their activity they succeeded in taking the whole
of them by three o'clock, one by the water side, another in
another part of the town, and the murderer himself lurking
about the house with the intention of robbing it. The de-
ceased's pockets were turned out, but only some 3s. 6d. was
taken from him ; every other step of the stairs was marked
with a footstep of blood ; there was £6 or £7 up stairs, which
the villains had not time to get. The house had the appear-
ance of a slaughter-house. Never was beheld such a sight for
a jury to view. The men went through the inquiry with the
greatest calmness, stating here and there additional facts.
They likewise stated that they thought he had saved a little
money, and it was not malice or revenge, for, as we have be-
fore stated, he was certainly the most harmless man in the
town—but plunder was their entire object. It is said, that
had they succeeded, there were four or five others marked
out for the same fate. Never has Knaresbro'been the scene

of such a horrid tragedy ; that one of Daniel Clark by Eugene
Aram was not near so daring, as this is in the middle of the
town, in a narrow space entirely surrounded by houses. The
names of the prisoners are—Burliston (the oldest), who struck
the fatal blow ; Nuttal, the former one's accomplice the pre-
vious night; and Charles Gill (the youngest), a lad not more
than 17 or 18. The first is committed to York Castle for
wilful murder; and the others for being present as aiders and
abettors.—Leeds Intelligencer.

DESCRIPTION OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIP

TRAFALGAR

She is a perfect man of war; has good space between her
ports on every deck, clear of hanging chocks to the beams
against the side, having no projections or obstructions in the
way of fighting the guns ; has great space on her orlop deck,
the beams being continued all fore and aft, with a good flush
three-inch flat, presenting at her sides a strong trussed figure,
beautifully arranged with wood and iron, each standing in a
different direction, the materials being so distributed as to
give the greatest strength to the fabric ; and, having no wing
pillars nor officers' store-rooms, as formerly, gives a spacious
acommodation for taking troops in time of war, or an oppor-
tunity of messing her crew, keeping her guns on the lower
deck clear and ready for action. This deck can be lighted by
tube scuttles through the side between the beams of the gun
deck, giving ventilation for the benefit of the health of the
crew, in addition to light, similar to a frigate's lower deck.
The trussed figure is continued below in the hold throughout
with strengthening pieces on the floor-heads, the size of the
keelson, in the same direction, all fore and aft, instead of the
old cross or thwart-ship riders formerly used in the ceiling,
and the diagonal trussing being better distributed, not only
adds considerable strength to the vessel, but greatly increases
her stowage. The wings, which were formerly on the orlop,
are now in the hold at the sides, which affords an opportu-
nity of stopping a hole seven feet lower under water, and
causes a circulation of air around the ship's side in the hold
which was never obtained before. Her main powder maga-
zine is designed in midships, with platform in the hold for
store-rooms, and a grating platform in midships for the
hempen cables and a third tier of thanks, which keeps them
in a position to allow of every one being nsed without re-
moving any from their places, as well as increasing the
stowage of water. The shot lockers are taken away from
the well, and shot-racks are fitted at the sides of the
ship, by which the shot are placed single all round on both
sides, keeping them free from corrosion, and always
ready when required for action, and that immense weight
removed from pressing down the vessel at the main-
mast. She is fitted with safety keels, which add much
to the strength of the ship as well as her preservation
from shipwreck, should she get on shore ; the keels may
be carried away and the safety of the ship not endan-
gered. She is built with a strong internal round stern,
well adapted for fighting her guns, and externally a square
stern, presenting a perfect and pleasing appearance, al-
though unadorned with carving work, preserving the form and
beauty of the ship withcut depriving her of the advantage
of fighting her guns. The top sides are clear of any protec-
tion, no trunks being required to carry off the water over
the sides from the several decks as formerly, each deck being
delivered of its water by pipes leading into the common
gun-deck scupper, by which the water is passed overboard,
preserving the side from decay and preventing the necessity
of cutting scupper-holes in each deck. The head may be
fitted with a copper pipe at the side of the stem, instead of
the disagreeable appearance of wooden trunks, as usually
fitted in men-of-war, which will keep the head perfectly
clean, and the pipe so fitted cannot be displaced by any
accident. The rudder is fitted very securely, and so re-
markably safe, that it could not be easily carried away as
formerly ; even if all the pintles were broken off, the rudder
would keep in its place and work on the braces (an instance
of this occurred to the Flamer when in the West Indies.)
The Trafalgar has an iron flange on the rudder-head, with
three holes to receive an iron powl-pin, by which the rudder
can be secured in midships or on either quarter, and the ship
laid to in case of accident to the tiller. She has pipes in her
quarter galleries, conducting the water from every stool by
one hole only. The dead lights in the stern are made to
slide behind the blank sash, so as to be always ready for
closing in an instant if required, saving the difficulty of
hanging them over the stern, as usually done in square stern
ships. Tube scuttles are designed to be fitted in the ship's
sides on the lower deck for light and air, over the seamen's
mess-tables, when the guns are housed and ports closed in
bad weather. Her sides are more substantial than usual, in
consequence of there being no chocks under the beams ; the
inside stuff is thicker and more capable of resisting an ene-
my's shot than the old sides were, and the chocks being
taken away, the danger of splinters is removed. We have
no time to give a further description at present, but will state
her dimensions as follows :

Length on gun deck
Length of keel for tonnage ..
Breadth, extreme
Breadth for tonnage
Breadth, moulded
Depth in hold
Burden in tons, 2721 20-94

ft. in.
205 6
170 5
55 71
54 9i
53 111
23 2

In conclusion, we have to add, this noble and splendid man-
of-war has been built wholly on the improved principle of
Mr. Oliver Lang, the builder, whose experience during the
late war, and since the time of peace, has given him the
opportunity of performing for his country what has not been
equalled in any kingdom.

SINGULAR SUICIDE AT STAPLEFORD ABBOTT.

A case of suicide occurred last week in the parish of Sta-
pleford Abbott, in this county, under circumstances of a
very romantic character. A labourer, named James Ram-
sey, about 20 years of age, having visited Jane Hills, a re-
spectable young woman in the service of Mr. James Dixon,
for many years as a suitor, in consequence of her refusal to
marry him, quitted his house, and enlisted on the 9th ult.
He, however, became dejected and miserable, and five days
afterwards was found lifeless, suspended from a tree in Mr.
Dixon's garden, at four o'clock in the morning, close to the
window of the bed-room in which the object of his attach-
ment slept. An inquest was held on Tuesday, before C. C.
Lewis, Esq. coroner, when it appeared from evidence that
he was considered to be in his right mind, but that be was
habitually sad. He had been connected with the girl Jane
Hills for about two months, and was disappointed at her re-
fusal or backwardness to marry him. A sheet of foolscap
was found in the deceased's hat, under the tree on which he
hung, and unon it was written in pencil as follows ;-
0 My Dearest as God gives me leaf to write
these few words to yow what I do tell you it
certainly is trew for what I done you caused me
to do so what i tell you bear easy in your mind
for i love thee so well i cant leave thee behind
So my dearest Jane ive come again
as you may find he here
no tongue can tell I know it well
i have been so sewere
but when to the tomb its there fore to remain
I hope you will not lay to heart
so heavy a load of pain
for its when that i do go
i hope its kind you will behave
as i loved you and you loved me
you will follow me to the grave
so its now to all my friends
and my relations far and near
i hope unto these lines
you will lend an eare
so its now fore to conclude
and finish all my rjme
i think within my own
mind i am jest in my prim
so now my dearest Jane
i hope its kind you
will behave
and its when that
homewards i do go
you will follow
me to the grave
Whoever finds this pray read it to my dearest beloved Jane hills
God bless you my dearest Jane
for my dearest beloved Jane hills pray read it to her for my sake
The jury returned a verdict of " temporary derangement."
—Abridged from the Essex Herald.

It is confidently stated in the city that Lord John Russell
will allowed to enjoy
of Commonsoyhisseat,butbtohthataagapientaittiohniawviel-
twill
be presented
ntd
to the H
that of Sir M. Wood. The conservatives affirm
ethoantaetqhne:nty a scrutiny beforeigshaN'epolledan an umbeerloeeftihoand votes, and
willthat
have the
ineffoecntofunne aboveseating both. Tohoednat isjoritvofLord
John confidently
expected that the latter gentleman will be declared 'duly
elected.
CLIMATE OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—Much has been writ-
ten against the climate of Australia—chiefly by persons
whose brief residence could ill entitle them to form an
opinion—although of the healthy character of the climate
we do not presume a doubt remains. The purity of the air,
indeed, and the continual mild temperature of the districts
beyond the ranges, and during nine months of the year,
from February to November, in the Adelaide:country, have
been found, in asthmatical complaints particularly, an abso-
lute specific. Numerous instances could be given of indivi-
e
duals who, in.thismtroesataitn'agvoduirseeadsec,oubnuttiews
who
.avnegla
martyrs to thisnd: completely were
ophthalmia have been
cured. In all pulmonary affections—in those especially
where the disease is not far advanced or deeply seated—the
mild pure air of South Australia has been found of signal
heard of for the last two years, and such cases were almost
thereadvantage.
none. DiseasesFe w ipeculiarnstaneetao
of
the p
invariably confined to those emigrants who, arriving during
the warm summer months at the now almost disused landing
night air after havin out in the are an
places, were occasionally exposed to the influence of the
day.—South Australg ianbeen
(Adelaide) Almgl
anack.d heat of the

TltkDr; WITH IvIONTE vinr,o

Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade,
Whitehall, June 26, 1811.

Sir,—l am directed by the Lords' of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade to inform you, that her Majesty's
government has received a despatch from the minister at
Buenos Ayres, stating that the Monte Videan government
has given orders to the commanders of all vessels of war
belonging to the republic of Uruguay not to interrupt the
lighters and boats employed in carrying cargoes to and from
British vessels in the Roads of Buenos Ayres, and not to
molest the pilot-boats off Point Indio. And I am to request
that you will communicate the same to the committee at
Lloyd's, for the information of the gentlemen interested in
the trade with Monte Video.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
J. M‘GREGOR

To the Secretary at Lloyd's

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Port Philip, New South Wales.
Harbour Master's Office, William's-town, Sept. 18, 1840.
Sir,—Captain Marryat's code of signals having been or-
dered by her majesty's government to be brought into use
in this port, it is requested that all ships or vessels approach-
in William's-town will henceforth show their number, in
order that it may be notified to Melbourne from the signal
station on Gillebrand Point.
C. M. LEWIS, Harbour-master, Port Philip.
To the Secretary for Lloyd's.