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superior accommodations, apply to Captain NOAKS, on board,
in the Prince's Dock, or to
CHARLES HORSFALL and SON. OMME

Sir D. Wilkie, the royal academician, will shortly take his
departure on a professional tour to the east as far as Jerusalem.
Commission signed by the lord-lieutenant of the county
palatine of Chester.—King's Regiment of Cheshire Yeomanry
Cavalry, Macclesfield troop.—lienry Wright, gent., to be
cornet, rice Dodd promoted.
The spinners in Wigan still refuse to accept the offered
reduction in wages, and at present we hear of no likelihood
of the employers and the employed coming to an understand-
ing.—Wigan Gazette.
The Hants Independent states, that in future the British
Queen will land and embark passengers at Southampton,
instead of Portsmouth, as at present the railroad to London
is the probable inducement for this change.
Certain holders of the endorsements of the Commercial
Bank have given notice to some of the shareholders, that if
the bills thus held are not honoured in twenty-one days, that
a commission ,will be opened against them under the new
bankrupt law.—Bolton Chronicle.
Captain Beaver, of the Niagara Militia, was possessed of a
duck so much attached to him, that the poor animal actually
plucked and roasted herself for his dinner, having previously
eaten a quantity of sage and onions.—Kentucky paper.
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some horses which had been stolen fronLintn.—
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HEARTS RESOLVED AND HANDS PREPARED, THE BLESSINGS THEY ENJOY TO GUARD.-SMOLLET.

To sail immediately.
thif-',4- For DEMERARA,
4 Y, The Ship JOHNSTONE,
T. T. SPENCE, Master.
For freight apply to
SANDBACH, TINNE, and Co.

No. 794. j

TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1840.

[PRICE FIYEPENCE.

To follow the ANNE AND JANE, which vessel is cleared out,
and is intended to sail This Day.
" • For BERBICE,
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ARV The A 1 Brig JAM ES HUNT,
JOHN COCKS, Master.
For freight or passage apply to ROBERT SEMPLE and Co., or
ROBERT NEILSON, Ship Broker.

Ottani Dabigation.

Aairs by Rurtion.

NOTICE.
TO ALL THE CUSTOMERS

MISCELLANEOUS.

VALTIABLE FREEHOLD LAND AND PREMISES,
FLEET-STREET:
By Messrs. THOS. WINSTANLEY and SONS,
On THURSDAY next, the Gth of August, at the Clarendon-
rooms, South John-street, at One o'clock precisely, in one
or more lots, as may be agreed upon at the time of sa.e,
and subject to such conditions then be be produced,
APLOT of FREEHOLD LAND, desirably situate on
the East side of Fleet-street, having a front thereto of
88 feet, and extending in depth on the south side 69 feet, on
the north side 55 feet 8 inches, and being at the back, in an
irregular line, 88 feet, containing in the whole GOO square
yards, or thereabouts; with Three MESSUAGES or DWEL-
LING-HOUSES thereon erected, and a part occupied as a
Cooperage, with a commodious WAREHOUSE over the
same.

WHO HAVE
HITHERTO BOUGHT THEIR TEA AND COFFEE
AT SEEGESON'S, GOLDEN C'ANISTER,
29, GREAT GEORGE'S-PLACE.
A. TATE respectfully informs his Friends, and the
V • Consumers of Tea and Coffee generally, that he is now
making extensive alterations at this GROCERY and PRO-
VISION ESTABLISHMENT, No. 17, EIGHT DOORS
higher up, so that his attention will hereafter be confined
exclusively to the sale of genuine TEA, COFFEE, SUGARS,
and SPICES, selected carefully from the best markets.
C. A. TATE ventures to hope, that the numerous customers
who have hitherto so liberally. patronised Mrs. Tate for eleven
years at No. 29, will continue to bestow the same kind en-
couragement upon her at No. 17, where the great improve-
ments now being made will render the concern second to
none in Liverpool.
N.B.—No. 17 will be OPENED on THURSDAY next, the
6th instant.

The Bishop of London has confirmed; in town and coup•
try', this year, nearly 21,000 persons.
The Marquis of Hertford has forwarded the donation 01
£l,OOO, and also the site, for building a new church at Lis.
burn.

We have occasion to know that Lord Durham entertained
no hopes of his recovery from the time he was in Dover.—
Morning Chronicle.

The Siege of Lichfield'

by the Rev. W. Greiley--1840.

A notice has been issued by the Post-office, cautioning the
public not to trust the conveyance of sovereigns and half-
sovereigns in letters.

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HUDDERSFIELD BANKING COMPANY.--On Wednesday
the annual meeting of the shareholders of the Huddersfield
Banking Company was held at the Court House; Hudders-
field ; Joseph Brook, Esq. of Greenhead, in the chair. Mr.
Kinnear, the manager, read the report, which recommended
a dividend of 14 per cent. to be payable on the 14th of
August, and the remainder of the profits to be added to the
surplus fund, to which the shareholders unanimously agreed.
The reserved surplus fund now amounts to £40,503. 6s. Bd.
—Leeds Intelligencer.
MAKING SMALL RAPID WATERS CARRY WEIGHTS
AGAINST THEIR STREAMS.—M. Fouard has proposed to the
French Academy of Science a plan to make certain narrow
and rapid currents of Water drive weights upwards towards
their source. lie proposes to have rails laid on each side of
the canal or stream, and the axle of a carriage (striding we
suppose the canal) to be the axle of a water-wheel having
curved paddles like those proposed by M. Poncelet, which
the water acting on will drive backwards, and of course force
the carriage and its load forward. •
THE WEATHER.—Since our last publication there has
been a most gratifying change in the weather which has con-
tinued up to this moment uninterruptedly fine. The conse-
quence has been that the hay crop is now generally saved
throughout this country, and the farmers are getting amongst
the turnips and potatoes.• In some places the wheat is par-
tially injured by mildew, the result •of the long continued
rains-; but this -is compensated by-the unusual luxuriance of
the corn crops of every descrtption.—Carlisle Patriot.
The Duke of Devonshire's grand picture gallery. at Chats-
worth, which was commenced, under the superintendence of
the late Sir Jeffry Wyatville, has been just completed.
Most of the gems of art from Chiswick and Devonshire
Hous© are to be transferred to this gallery. The new con-
servatory and adjacent offices, now building at Chatsworth,
cover half an acre of ground.

RAILROAD IMPOSTS.—No less than 140 known thieves
arrived at Southampton by one of the luggage trains, on the
day previous to the late races.
One of the vacant escutcheons in St. George's-hall (Wind-
sor) has just been emblazoned with the armorial ensigns of
Prince Albert, as one of the knights of the most noble order
of the garter.
Mr. O'Connell's present attempt to get up a repeal of the
union outcry in Ireland is meeting with little or no support
from the public. As yet no persons of rank or influence,
with perhaps a solitary exception, have joined the hon. gen-
tleman.— Government Paper.

The Premises are admirably calculated for the Brewing
Business, or for any Manufactory requiring extent of space,
and might be converted at a light expense.
For further particulars apply to Mr. JOHN ROBINSON, on
the Premises, or to Messrs. T. WINSTANLEY and SONS,
Church-street, where a Plan may be seen,

On SALE, an excellent Double SHOP FRONT, with
Cornice, &c. complete. Price moderate. Apply as above.

ARCHERY.
el L. RICHARDSON & CO., late T. RicHaunsos,
ki • Sen., No. 36, Lord-street, begs to inform their
Friends and the Public that they have now on hand a beauti-
ful Assortment of ARCHERY of every description, on the
most reasonable terms.
Repairs of every description executed with despatch.

It is reported that ministers are making great overtures to
the Duke of Beaufort, to induce his grace to desert his party,
and join the whigs. A garter for himself, and a place at
court for the duchess, are said to be at the duke's command.
The Marquis of Douglas, the only son of the Duke of
Hamilton, is the young nobleman alluded to as having suc-
ceeded in winning the affections of the wealthiest heiress in
the empire.
For several years no less than 1,000,000 lbs. of cheese have
been made at Roquefort. This season the produce has
amounted to 1,600,000 lbs., and_the making is not yet at an
end. All the produce is farmed bra M. Rigal, of Mont-
pellier, who employs 92 persons, 80 of whom are women.
STATE OF TRADE.—It is With great pleasure we perceive
that, whilst most other places are suffering from a depression
of trade, there appears to be a revival in Bristol. Scarcely a
week now passes without the exportation of a large quantity
of goods manufactured in this city.—Stockport Advertiser.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.—It is stated that Messrs. Hawes
and D'Eyncourt, the present representatives'for the bormigh
of Lambeth, have received a notice from a considerable num-
ber of their most influential supporters that after the present
parliament their services will be no longer required.
LEEDS TOWN COUNCIL.—It is, perhaps, worthy of remark,
that of the sixteen councillors first elected, and who went out
of office in November, 1836, not one now remains a council-
lor; Messrs. Hubbard and Gaunt having been pitchforked,
as aldermen, after rejection by their previous constituents !
DESTRUCTION 01, INSECTS BY CAMOMILE.—In the Irish
Gardener's Magazine it is stated, that not only decoctions of
the leaves of the Camomile will destroy insects but that no-
thing contributes so much to the health of a garden as a num-
ber of Camomile plants dispersed through it.

AVANTED, a SITUATION as COOK and HOUSE-
V V KEEPER to a single Gentleman, by a respectable and
experienced Woman, who can have an undeniable character.
Applications to M. 8., at E. DANsoN's, No. 35, Lime-
street, will be duly attended to.

STAFFORD, July 30.—Her Majesty the Queen Dowager
arrived at Stafford to-day, at half-past one o'clock, by
railway, from the north. Her Majesty was met at the station
by the mayor and corporation of Stafford, and a detachment
of the Staffordshire Yeomanry, and passed through the town,
amid the acclamations of numerous spectators, on her way
to Alton Towers, the seat of Lord Shrewsbury.
ROMAN CATHOLIC REPRINTS.—A correspondent com-
plains of the alterations made in the Roman catholic books
reprinted for the use of papists in protestant countries. As
a sample of the rest, he gives us a specimen from Dr. Crolly's
bible (Belfast, 1835), professing to be a reprint of the Donay"
edition (1609), in which the following part of a note is
omitted :—(Deut. xvii. 8.) " And punishing with death such
as proudly refused to obey their decisions. —Birmingham
Advertiser.

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A person called upon a comb-maker, who was then at
work, to let him know that he was drawn for the militia.
" I don't care," answered the comb-maker, " I'm too young
for the service." " Too young, and about thirty ! what do
you mean ?" "No matter for that," rejoined the comb-
maker, " I can prove that lam cutting my teeth." •
An erroneous impression exists that the plague continues
its virulence in Egypt ; but we have authority for stating that
the 24th of June last was kept as a day of rejoicing and glad-
ness in Egypt, on account of its almost total disappearance.
Since that date it is, no doubt, completely extinct, and tra-
vellers in Egypt need apprehend no interruption to the jour-
neys which they may have had in view.
SPORTING EXTRAORDINARY.—A match of cricket was
played at Ballinasloe, on Wednesday, between the teetotal-
lers and the whisky drinkers, which caused considerable
amusement. The temperance men mustered strong, and
were baCked by Lord Clancarthy and Admiral Trench. After
a well-contested game, the patrons of the Mountain dew won
the match by 35, and celebrated their victory in the evening
by illuminating their houses, making bonfires, &c., much to
the discomfiture of the Mathewites, who fought a hard battle.
—lrish paper.
THE QUEEN AND WENTWORTH HOUSE.—There is no
truth which the 'papers have been indulging in, that great
preparations are making at Wentworth House, previous to
the visit of the Queen and Prince Albert at that place, which
is to be shortly. Its true that the kitchen and the butler's
pantry have had a dab with the brush, and a few other touches
of annual cleaning has taken place. The fad is the good
Queen Dowager happened to be in the neighbourhood at the
time this Sheffield paragraph was hatched to turn the public
attention to another quarter.—Leeds Intelligencer.
A gentleman was lately swallow shooting in the neighbour-
hood of Aberystwith, when he observed a kite high in the
air, with something in her talons, from which she seemed to
be endeavouring to disengage herself. The bird was far be-
yond the range of the fowling-piece, so he contented himself
with watching her movements. Presently she rapidly de-
scended, when he fired and brought her down. On going up
to the bird, he was surprised to find that he had killed a
weasal as well as a kite. The kite, it seems, in her voraci-
ous search' for prey, had snatched up the weasal, which,
however, instantly seized the kite by the breast; and whilst
in the air had kept its grasp so furiously, as is well known
this little animal will do, that it had eaten a hole' into the
body of the kite, which must have been fatal, if she had not
been hit by the shot from the gun. Hereford Times.
Np‘u
--
tection of houses, gardens,and game preserves has beenin-
vented by Isaac Naylor, of Wentworth, near Barnsley. It
is called " an alarm gun," though partaking nothing of the
form or use of the gun, and can be attached, without being
seen, to a window or tree, or gate, for the defence of a house,
garden, and park or field. The apparatus is only a few
inches in length, and to a weight is attached a long fine cord,
which, being forced by the intruder, draws the weight off a
peg, and a number of barrels, according to size, explode at,
half-minute time, loud enough to alarm a whole neighbour-
hood. No fear need be entertained to the apparatus being
exposed to the rain, as it is perfectly water-tight, and from
our own observation of it, we have no hesitation in saying
that it is calculated to answer all the purposes intended by
the ingenious inventor.

A strawberry of extraordinary size was gathered during the
present week in the nursery gardens of Mr. John Coudrey,
of Edgbaston. The fruit measured eight and a half inches
in circumference, and weighed thirty-six pennyweights and
twelve grains. It was gathered before being fully ripe, in
consequence of having sustained some injury from the damp
state of the ground. The strawberry is a seedling variety
raised by Mr. Coudrey.—Birmingham Herald.
NOTICE OF ELECTIONS.—A bill has been introduced into
the House of Commons, to remove an ambiguity as to the
length of notice to be given, by sheriffs and returning officers,
of elections for members of parliament. It was doubtful
whether the four days' notice required to be given of an
election included or excluded the day of election and the day
of proclamation ; the bill declares that there must be four
clear days' notice, exclusive both of the days of proclamation
and election.

SOCIALISM AS IT Is. The community at Queenwood,
near Tytherly, are already falling into " the sear and yellow
leaf." The public of the surrounding towns and villages
have ceased to be excited by the blasphemous and seditious
lectures, which only a few months since attracted hundreds
on every Sabbath day, to this sink of, sin and wickedness.
Such is the apathy at the present time that these worthies
have been compelled for a time to abandon their Sunday lec-
turing for want olvisitors, and such is their domestic social-
ity, that their great man and head farmer, Mr. Aldam, has
actually quitted through a general quarrel ! So much for
the vaunted system where all is peace, love, and harmony.—
Salisbury Herald.
ACCIDENT FROM LIGHTNING.—The parishes of Keighley
and Bingley were, on Saturday last, visited with a tremendous
thunderstorm. At Micklethwaite, in the latter parish, as a
woman of the name of Midgley was occupied in her house
near the tire, she was struck down by the electric fluid, and
for some time was rendered nearly insensible ; one side of her
face was much scorched, and her tongue so much contracted
as to deprive her of the power of speech ; she is, however,
gradually recovering. Another woman in an adjoining house
partially suffered from the same cause. At East Morton the
lightning perforated the roof of a cottage, but fortunately the
residents were absent from home 'at the tinie.—Leeds In-

TESTIMONY OF RESPECT TO THE REVEREND THEODORE
DURY, LATE RECTOR OF KEIGHLEY.—A beautiful tea ser-
vice of silver plate, is now exhibiting in the window of Mr.
111Eit iTaleif6rthWiteade,TtrelYdtid Miry: The teachers
and scholars of the Church Sunday School were the first to
commence this testimonial of respect, and their contributions
realised the purchase of a large silver tea caddy, with this in-
scription—" Presented to the Rev. Theodore Dury, A. M.,
by the teachers and scholars of the Church Sunday School of
Keighley, as a token of respect and gratitude for his un-
wearied labour amongst them.-27th July, 1840." After-
wards the parishioners commenced a contribution, and a rich
salver with basin, tongs, and tea pots of massy silver, were
added to the present, each vessel bearing the following in-
scription :—" Presented to the Rev. Theodore Dury, A.M.,
by his attached parishioners, in testimony of their esteem and
respect for the faithful discharge of his pastoral duties over
them for upwards of 26 years, while Rector of Keighley, in
Yorkshire.-27th July, 1840."
THE GOODWOOD SHIELD.—The shield run for at Good-
wood this meeting is from a design by Bozzoni, and is manu-
factured by Messrs. Storr and Mortimer, of Bond-street.
The weight of it is 500 ounces, and at a moderate estimate of
the workmanship it is worth £5OO. It may be truly said
Materiam superabat opus."
The diameter of this splendid piece of plate is 32 inches.
On it are represented in basso relievo the races described in
the 23d book of Homer, amongst the games instituted by
Achilles at the funeral f Patroclus. The figure of Achilles
is seated. The figures of Agamemnon, Nestor, Idomeneus,
Ajax, &c., are all introdUced, and above them are the figures
Apollo, Minerva, Victory, &c. The prizes for racers are in
the foreground, and consist in strict accordance with the
Homerio description of an unbroken mare, a vase and talents,
a female slave, a tripod, &c. The whole is executed in a very
pure taste, and is full of classic simplicity and vigorous con-
ception. The details of the workmanship are peculiarly
elaborate, and show to what great perfection the art of em-
bossing, chasing, and working in the precious metals is
brought.

We understand that the new clothing of Prince Albert's
Hussars is to I as follows :—Blue dress jacket ; pelisse, also
blue with fur cuffs and collars ; trowsers crimson with yellow
stripes ; undress jacket, blue : the burby or fur cap of seal
skin; the horse to be covered with a crimson labraque, orna-
mented with German silver. The clothing for four troops is
complete; and the contractor has engaged to complete his
contract by the 15th of next month. About 25 men are em-
ployed at our barracks, and the remainder in London, to
complete the order. As we have before stated, there is no
doubt that Prince Albert will review the regiment here, im-
mediately after the soldiers are equipped in their new regi-
mentals. His Royal Highness has only seen as yet one squad-
ron of the regiment, which escorted him from Canterbury to
Sittingbourne, on his arrival in England. It is said that from
the circumstance of this being the first regiment which re-
ceived him on the English shores, and of his Royal Highness
being struck with their fine appearance, Prince Albert se-
Jetted it as his "Own."—Brighton Gazette.
Tux ART OF FINE WRITING DISPLAYED.—The Chroni-
cle, in an article (longer by actual measurement than any or-
dinary man's arm) upon the inestimable blessings of a whig
administration, instead of giving a dry catalogue of them,
runs through them with a variety of phrase, which the best
puffers of the day might study with advantage. " What has
become of chartism ?" and " look again at Canada !" and
" look at the question of national education !" and " is it
nothing" to have done this ? and " nothing at all" to have
done [!tall This is the true Ciceronian style of keeping alive
the reader's attention by rapid and abrupt changes in the form
of expression, and pleasing his eye by a judicious confusion
of notes of admiration and interrogation. There are some
readers who might be got through an immense length of
this sort of stuff, and really believe that they had pro-
fitted by it, if they only forgot one thing, and that
this, to ask themselves what it was all about. By-the-
bye, though, the magniloquent allusion to Canada and
ehartism is Master Thomas Thumb's old trick over again :
for if the whigs did subdue the giant monsters of sedition,
privy conspiracy, and rebellion, they certainly made them
first. However, our business is with the manner, not the
matter of this cunning composition ; and mark how grace-
fully the writer drops down from his highest flight of inter-
jection and apostrophe, to a mere Lord Burleigh shake of the
head, to intimate that much more had been kept back than
let out. "We say nothing of Ireland—we say nothing of
our foreign relations—we say nothing of these, and of a
thousand other topics on which we might enlarge." How
beautifully the noisy overture dies away in a plaintive piano.
But the greatest beauty in this fine touch of art is its discre-
tion. Ireland, our foreign affa'rs, and a thousand other
topics," are maters which a whig partisan is wise in saying
nothing about !—Morning Herald.
EXPEDITION TO TIIE NIGER.—The expedition to the
,Niger, which has been contemplated for some time, has now
been finally decided upon, and will leave England for Africa
when a sufficient complement of men is obtained, and the
stores required for this service is completed. The expedi-
tion will be under the command of Captain Dundas Trotter,
of the Royal Navy ; and three of her Majesty's steam-ves-
sels will shortly be commissioned by the gallant officer in
command, and Commanders William Allen and Bird Allen.
Printed notices are in course of preparation, and will be im-
mediately issued, requiring petty officers, including artificers
of all kinds, well qualified engineers of the Ist and 2d class,
and engine drivers or stokers, and the risen who apply will in
the mean time be entered in the following vessels, which have
been ordered to be prepared for their reception :—The Bri-
tannia, at Portsmouth; the Impregnable, at Plymouth; the
William and Mary, at Woolwich; and the Redwing, at Li-
verpool. As an inducement to join this expedition, double
pay will be allowed on leaving England.—Standard.
HAIL STORM.—On the afternoon of Friday week, an un-
usually heavy fall of hail took place near Crailing. 'ln a field
immediately to the westward of the farm offices at Crailing
Tofts, the hail-stones accumulated to a great depth, and after
they began to melt, the water rushed down the declivity with
the violence of a torrent, carrying along with it a considerable
quantity of the soil across the turnpike-road into a field of
barley on the opposite side, whereby a considerable portion
of the grain was pressed down and covered with clay to a
considerable depth. For some time great difficulty was ex-
perienced by foot-passengers passing the place, from the ac-
cumulation of hail-stones, which covered the road at one
part to the depth of at least a foot and a half.—Keslo Mail.
MEDICAL TREATMENT OF CROLERA.--That destructive
scourge, the cholera, was prevailing to a considerable extent
in India by the last accounts ; but we rejoice to find that a
medical officer in Bombay has discovered a plan of treatment
which has proved successful in fourteen cases out offifteen !
The cure is effected thus :—After administering an emetic
and copious potations of hot water, the following pills are
given, one every quarter of an hour or twenty minutes, or
half an hour, according to the urgency of the case :—Aloes,
250 grains ; colocynth-scammony, gamboge, of each 75 grains ;
'.opium, 121 grains ; calomel, 125 grains : these are to be pow-
tiered fine, and thoroughly mixed, and beaten up with 12i
grains of hard soap, adding mucilage sufficient to form a hard
mass; add equal quantities of oil of cloves and cajeput, suf-
ficient to soften the mass, which divide into fifty pills, to be
kept for use in close phials. These pills, it must be remem-
bered, are intended for adults ; for younger persons they are
divided, and for children smaller quantities are given, ground
down in honey or syrup. The following, from a Calcutta
journal, in reference to a discovery of a somewhat similar
nature and efficacy to the above may not be irrelevant :
" The successful use of the tincture of hemp, for the intro-
duction of which we are indebted to the skill and research of
Dr. . O'Shaugnessy. is a subject worthy of notice. Every
discovery of this kind is a new weapon wherewith to strike
down the monster disease, and entitles the fabricator to the
gratitude of a community at all times exposed to the fierce-
ness of its assaults."

A TEETOTAL LECTURER IN TROUBLE.--Or, Tuesday last,
a person of the name of Thonias Gooldie, one of Father Ma-
thew's followers, was taken before the magistrates at Hali-
fax, charged by Rawson, a police-officer, with stealing vari-
ous articles from the Temperance Hotel at Skipton, amongst
which was an umbrella, a square, and a quantity of such
tapes as are used by tailors. The fficer stated, from infor-
mation he had received from Skipton, that the prisoner was
a person going about from town to town, lecturing on teeto-
talism, and also occasionally preaching at dissenting chapels :
that he had been nine days boarding, and lodging at the Tem-
perance Hotel, Skipton, and had decamped, forgetting to
discharge his bill of fare, and taking with him the articles
before alluded to. The officer requested the magistrate to
remand the man until it could be ascertained whether the
hotel-keeper at Skipton would prosecute. The prisoner was
accordingly remanded for a few days. We understand that
since leaving Skipton he had been gulling same of the teeto-
tal natives at Keighley and Halifax, and from the various
charges against him, an officer from Halifax proceeded to
Huddersfield, where he apprehended him, just as he was
about commencing a lecture upon total abstinence. The
umbrella was found upon him, and he acknowledged to have
disposed of the tailor's tapes and square at Halifax.
REPRESENTATION OF BR ADFORD. —A repart is abroad
that Mr. Cunlitfe Lister does not intend again to contest the
representation of the borough of Bradford. We have no
present means of testing the accuracy of the rumour ; but
we should not be surprised to find it correct, remembering,
as we do, the very ludicrous effect produced by Mr. Lister's
last luminous oration in public—that delivered from the win-
dow•of the Bowling Green Inn, at Bradford, in May last
year, when the Melbourne Ministry had resigned ; and re-
membering also Mr. Lister's great liberality in the Man-
ningham spade husbandry business some two years ago. It
is said that in case the statement should prove to be well
founded, the radicals intend to set up for themselves, and to
insist upon the privilege of nominating one candidate for the
joint support of whigs and radicals, as the condition of radical
support to the Whig nominee. A. meeting- of the radical
leaders is to be held at the Hope arid Anchor Inn, next
Monday, with this view. Colonel Perronet Thompson is
spoken of as a fit radical candidate.—Leeds Intelligences.
THE REGATTA AT HAVRE-DE-GRACF.—ThiS regatta,
on Monday and Tuesday (open to all the world), terminated
in favour of the English crew, who so splendidly carried off
the chief prizes at Liverpool and Henley-on-Thames. There
were boats of all sorts and sizes in the contest, which was
for 1000 francs, and the London crew, consisting of R.
Coombe, R. C. Doubledee, J. B. Doubledee, Robert Newell,
and Jem Coombes, were opposed to six and eight-oared cut-
ters. They lowed round their adversaries, and won easily.
THE THAMES TUNNEL.—The whole of the wharfs, build-
ings, dwelling-houses, sheds, and two public-houses, in
High-street, Wapping, which covered an area of about 200
feet, by 73 in depth, purchased for the formation of the foot-
way descent into the tunnel, have been entirely removed, and
preparations for sinking the shaft on the north shore upon
the site of the buildings has already commenced. The wharf
will be extended about 24 feet into the river, and workmen
have been for some time employed in pile drawing and form-
ing an embankment, on a portion of which the shaft will be
formed. The works below are proceeding with great acti-
vity, and that part of the tunnel already completed is in a
very sound state. There is no fear of any further irruptions,
as the excavators have approached so near the north shore
that the most dangerous portion of their labours can be car-
ried on when the tide has receded, and there is no water over
them. The Thames tunnel will be opened for foot-passengers
early next spring.
LOVE AND SUICIDE.—An inquest was held at Hinckley on
Tuesday week, on the body of Catherine Cotton, who was
found drowned in the canal. It appeared that the deceased
lived in the service of Mr. Grarnshaw, surgeon, of Hinckley,
and had formed a strong attachment to a yout, man named
John Checklend, whose attention towards her had ceased, he
having deserted her, and paid his addresses to another female.
About three weeks ago the unfortunate young girl sent her
faithless lover a letter, upbraiding him with his conduct, and
threatening self-destruction unless he returned to her. This
letter Checklend subsequently returned to the deceased, and
paid no regard to its contents ; Consequently, this circum-
stance produced such a melancholy effect on her mind, that
she resolved upon destroying herself, and on Sunday night
last she went into the Hinckley wharf-yard, where it is sup-
posed she threw herself into the canal, and terminated her
existence.- Her shawl, bonnet, and umbrella, were found by
the side of the water, about four o'clock on Monday morning,
and soon after the body was discovered in the canal quite
cold.—Verdict, " found drowned."—Leicester Journal.