The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-05-11 00:00:00

DEATH OF MRS. JENNER

This unhappy lady, who, with her youngest son, was shot
on the morning of Tuesday, the 27th of April, by her hus-
band, Mr. William Jenner, at their house in Portland-place,
Everton, expired, from the effects of the wound, on Friday
night last. The next day, Saturday, a jury was impannelled,
to inquire the cause of death; and, after viewing the body,
the inquest was adjourned till Monday ,at twelve o'clock, in
order that in the mean time a poet mortem examination
might take place.
Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, the jury assembled at the
coroner's office, in Lord-street. The inquiry, however, did
not commence for upwards of an hour afterwards, in conse-
quence of Mr. Curry, who had been out of town, having
been detained for a period of two hours, by a slight accident
to the engine of one of the trains on the Grand Junction
Railway.

The evidence of the facts was the same as that given at
the inquest upon the body, and as we have already published
it, there is no necessity for its repetition.
Mr. Richard Yates Ackerley, surgeon, said he continued
to attend the deceased from the morning the wound was in-
flicted till her death, on Friday night. He had since made a
post mortem examination of the body, and had found the
ball, which was in two pieces. He found a wound through
the scalp and the occipital bone. The scalp was removed,
and about an inch from the wound, in a posterior direction,
he found a ball in the right lateral s,nus of the brain. There
were two abscesses in the brain, one in the cerebrum, and
the other in the cerebellum, which had discharged their con-
tents through the passage made by the ball. He had no
doubt that the injuries the deceased received from the ball
were the cause of her death.

The Coroner then called the attention of the jury to the
principal facts of the case, and explained the requisites ne-
cessary to constitute the crime of murder.

The jury immediately returned a verdict of " Wilful
Murder" against William Jenner. Mr. Jenner, who we
understand is very ill, was not present during the inquiry.

NAPIERISING.—The recent speech of a gallant officer at
Liverpool has given birth to a new word, which is already
becoming general in the London clubs ; any one ostentati-
ously standing forward as his own trumpeter, and blowing
his instrument a leetle too loudly, is said to be " Napier-
ising ! "—Brighton Gazette.

THE MURRAIN AMONG CATTLE.—IMPORTANT Disco-
VERY.--A Mr. Ferguson, veterinary surgeon, delivered a
lecture lately in the Dublin Society House, relative to the
present distemper among cattle, in which he announces the
important fact, ascertained by repeated experiments, that the
distemper may be greatly mitigated—nay, rendered perfectly
innocuous—by inoculation.

ADDITIONAL CRUILCHLS.—We are rejoiced to find that
by further subscriptions since our last, the amountsubscribed
for this purpose has been increased to £4,240 3s. 10d., and
also that sites for the churches have been gratuitously offered
by the Rev. Robert Jarratt, and James Alderson, Esq., M.D.,
—an example, it is hoped, that may induce other landed pro-
prietors to come forward with similar offers.—Hull Times.

and it is

REPRESENTATION OF EDINEURGH.—We underst
very improbable that Sir John Campbell will again present
himself for the snffrages of the electors of this city. The
party who supported him on former occasions have resolved
to support Mr. Gibson-Craig, who, we are told, will not
again stand for Mid-Lothian, as the conservatives in this
county indisputably possess a great majority. We hear,
however, there is no doubt Mr. Macauley will again appear
as a candidate for the city, in the event of a dissolution. It
is expected by some of the whigs that similar measures will
be adopted on the occasion of a parliamentary election to those
which resulted in the election of Sir James Forrest to the
Lord Provostship, and of Mr. Drysdale as treasurer, by the
joint aid of conservatives and whig churchmen.—Scottish
Standard.

SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.—An occurrence of an exceed-
ingly distressing nature, took place in Cambridge on Thurs-
day last. John Newitt, a respectable and well-conducted
labouring man, lately under porter at Addenbrooke's Hos-
pital, and who lived with his wife and children in the Falcon
yard, Pettycury, almost severed from its body the head of
his own son, an infant seven weeks old, on Thursday even-
ing, and then gave himself up to the police, stating that he
was led to commit the horrid deed through dread of the
Union Workhouse. The unhappy man had, on the morning
of the same day, attempted his own life by taking a quantity
of laudanum. A coroner's inquest was held on the follow-
ing day, when a verdict of " Wilful murder" was returned
against the father.

RN-ORGANISATION OF THE CHARTISTS IN GLOUCES-
TERSHIRE AND MONMOUTHSHIRE.—OD Friday evening
last, the notorious Henry Vincent, who has recently
leased from prison after a long imprisonment for se,
appeared in the city of Gloucester, and convene
placard a meeting of his friends and supporters in a yai
the vicinity of Alvin-street. A tolerably large assembly tt
place. Having given a particular detail of his sufferings
prison, he valourously proclairried it as his intention " t.
stand by the people," though it should lead him to the scaf-
fold:! He described thewhigs as the most vacillating body of
statesmen which ever held the reins of Government, and an-
nounced that he was deputed by the national association of
chartists to re-organise the working men of the counties of
Gloucester and Monmouth, on a more formidable and consul -
coons basis than ever they had seen before. The chartists, he
knew, had not sufficient power in an electoral borough in
England to return a candidate of their own, but they could
make their power felt by throning all their influence and
votes into the scale of the tories, with a view to defeat the
dastardly whigs. This might seem objectionable to some,
but he could tell his friends that unquestionably had as the
tories were, they were infinitely better than the whigs.
They might coerce the people, but they never coerced them
in the name of liberty ! Nay, in the palmiest days of Castle-
reagh and the spy system, the tories had never exercised so
despotic and cruel a system of espionage and treachery as
the whigs had manifested recently in their determination to
crush the friends of the charter.—Devises Gazette.
Among the persons arrested with Prince Louis Napoleon,
at Boulogne, was one in a sailor's jacket and trousers, whs
appeared to be a youth, and who gave the name of Boucher,
and the age of 22, declaring that he was servant to the
prince. The capture being made known to Louis Nat- '
he informed the magistrates that the prisoner in q
was a female, and his entreaties for her discharge were
plied with. She contrived to come to Paris, hoping tt,
protected by an English family with whom she had previou:
lived, or else to be supported by the generosity of the princt
The family' however, were not in Paris, and the prince was
too closely guarded or her to get access to him. She ob-
tained board and lodging in the house of a woman who let
out rooms, by pretending that money would be remitted to
her through M. Lafitte. Time passed, but no money came,
and at length some articles in the house disappeared. Sus-
picion naturally fell upon the poor girl ; her room and perF-
were searched ; an umbrella and handkerchief were fo,-
one, and a chemise belonging to the landlady upon the on
She was denounced and committed to prison. " -
fore yesterday she made her appearance at the Cm.
Tribunal, but denied any intention of stealing the um,
and handkerchief, and protested that she only wore
chemise while her own, the only one she had left, was be
washed. The court dealt leniently with her, acquitted h
of the theft of the two former articl6, but as the appropria
tion of the other was too positive, she was convicted. The
penalty, however, was only three day's imprisonment.
NOVEL PORTRAIT PAINTING.—At twenty years of age,
Mdlle, Guimard had her portrait painted by an eminent artist,
and by the aid of this picture she was enabled, if 1 may so
express myself, to annalyse her complexion ; that is to say,
she made herseif accurately acquainted with all the different
tints of which it was composed in the blooming days of her
youth. With these colours duly prepared, she seated herself
at her toilet, as an artist would place himself before his easel,
and there, with the portrait beside her, she every morning re-
produced its perfect fac-simile. By this ingenious stratagem,
Guimard, at fifty, frequently passed for twenty.—Theodore
Hook's French Sta' e.

PLANTING TREES.—He who plants trees upon his pater-
nal estate repays a debt to his posterity which he owes to his
ancestors. A gentleman, whose lands were more extensive
than fertile, used to plant 1,000 trees on the birth of every
daughter, upon his waste grounds, which were, on an ave-
rage, worth £1 each on her coming of age ; thus enaliling
him to give her a fortune of £lOOO without any extraordi-
nary economy on his part—the regular thinning of the trees
at proper seasons, with barking, &c., paying off all the cur-
rent expenses, besides yielding him a small rent for the land.
In the year 1758, 92 fir trees were planted upon a piece of
ground, about three-quarters of an acre in extent. The lani,
was waste and poor; no extra expense was incurred,
and no further attention was paid to the young trees. In
1813 they were cut down, yielding 90 tons
ofof tin:l6hoe ,wi:ich
worth £4 per ton, giving a round
wssas
years. Can
tocaao reantmoofre £o6oes,l,
a fortune
the facility with which a man eebe interveningsi, or
indeed,
extend his family hopes much
9inscidnugesiunpmgrosoatfhr
but who is there that does not
for his grandchildren? It is, deedmang
Yorkshire, very recently; 5,000
beyond that period ?
In
ielded the sum of £lOO,OOO
to look forward:
oaks were cut down, which Yielded
an offer of £50,000. Even in
the timber of an estate of
d not worth 30s. per acre for agri-
piece of grouann
and, as aaserreecsewntasly irnerSaosemderr_seet h
Scotland, a 1 ted with sycamore, and at the end
cultural purposes,
d 'eg that period. There are ways, however,
acre per annum
: patently good for nothing else but plant_of sixty years the trwreinessP fetched such a sum as paid £l4 per
of making land, p
ing, yield even an immediate profit, by a very simple process;
ascertained that a pound of turnip seed sown
upon an acre of light, sandy, gravelly land,
after harvest,
by over
had been worn out ploughing, and ploughed
which
, after two months' growth, leaves, roots, &e., had as fer-
tilising it has been as
tTlising an effect as could have been produced by twenty-five
loads of manure upon that quantity of land. The practice
has not been uncommon in some parts of Surrey.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCI

BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.—The contracts for
the completion of the railway to Taunton are all taken and
to be completed by Midsummer, 1842. Taunton will then
• .

be within six hours of the metropolis
BIRMINGHAM AND GLOUCESTE

rising an increas

sday, resolutions
ipital to the atm

10,000 scrip certificates of £l7
reported as increasing favourably

GLASGOW, i

RAILWAY

At the

01. £375,000 in

The traffic was

NOCK RAILWAY

as held on NI

ay week, for the purpose of
Aise £lOO,OOO in 8000 half shares
he chairman congratulated the meeting

authorising the directors to r
of £l2 10s. ea

on the auspicious prospects of a

..—On Tuesday a
Id of this company to consider the bill now
ent. and to authorise the directors to raise

MISCELLANEOUS

Admiral Elliot has reached England from China, in the

Volage

OVERLAND MAILS TWICE A MONTH.,--We have just
learned that the Government of India have resolved to apply
to the Court of Directors for the despatch of overland mail
packets twice a month. This, if permitted, will prove a most
important and beneficial change.—Bombay paper.
RATHER DOUBTFUL !—At the in at Greta bridge, kept by

Mr. Atkinson, may be seen, pendant from a hat peg. the
identical wooden bowl and spoon used at Dotheboys Hall,
for the purpose of containing and doling out the treacle-and-
brimstone to the young tyros, as described by the inimitable
" Boz" in his Nickolas Nickleby.

THE ORCHARDS.—Herefordshire has now assumed its
most beautiful appearance. The " blow" in the orchards is
very abundant, and sheets of blossom every where meet the
eye, giving that delightful aspect to the landscape which is
nowhere else to be met with ; if but one half of the blossom
stands, the crops will be very abundant.— Worcester Journal.
THE MINISTRY.—A gentleman, meeting the Duke of
Wellington after the late disgraceful discomfiture experienced
by the ministers, accosted him thus :—Well, your grace, the
ministers will surely go out after this division;" to which
the duke promptly rejoined, " Not at all ; they will never go
out till driven out by a division of police."

By the Alert packet the advices from Rio Janeiro come to
the 14th of March. In the Journal do Commercio, of the
Bth of that month, there are some interesting returns of the
public revenue. They show that the import duties of Rio
had considerably increased. In the year 1836 they amounted
to 4,200 contos of reis, and in 1840 reached upwards of 6,930
contos, thus showing an increase of 63 per cent. The export
duties amounted in 1836 to 1,255 contos of reis, and in 1840
to 1,900 contos, showing an increase of 52 per cent.
CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—On Tuesday the an-
nual meeting of this society took place in Exeter Hall, Lon-
don, at which the Right Hon. the Earl of Chichester pre-
sided. Amongst the noblemen and gentlemen on the plat-
form were—Lord Viscount Sandon, Lord Glenelg, the Bishop
of Winchester, the Bishop of Chester, Mr. Plumptre. M.P.,
Sir G. Rose, and a large number of clergymen. The hall was
completely filled. At six o'clock in the evening another
large meeting of this zociety was held at the above-mentioned
place, on which occasion the Marquis of Cholmondeley was
voted to the chair, when numerous speeches were made in
support of other resolutions, and the proceedings did not ter-
minate till nearly 10 o'clock.

THREE BROTHERS AND A SISTER DROWNED.—WICK,
APRIL 30.—We have seen a letter dated Lochinver, Suther-
land, 27th instant, addressed to a gentleman of this place
(Wick), from which the following is an extract :—" A boat
loaded with sea weed, on board of which there were three
brothers and their sister, of the name of McKenzie, as also a
young man named Matheson, was upset on the evening of
Saturday last, the 21th inst., when crossing from the south
to the north side of Lochinver. a distance of not more than a
mile. The accident was seen from the shore, and a crew im-

mediately put off in order to render them assistance, but un-
fortunately, before they arrived at the scene of the sad catas-
trophe, the boat and those in her had sunk. None of the
bodies have as yet been found."—Wick paper.

THE GREAT BEGGAR OF THE AGE.—Of all men under
the sun, Daniel O'Connell is the person who ought to make
his allusions to mendicity the most delicate. Is he not the
leading mendicant of Britain—the prince of beggarmen,
whose wallets are open to all accessions, from a potato to a
pound sterling—who lives by begging, speaks for begging,
agitates for begging, bullies, blarneys, and blasphemes for
begging—to whom begginc, is air eloquence, life, hope—all ?
Does this man accommodate his mouth to mention spoils,
and peculation and plunder, presumed to be perpetrated by
tones ? Daniel O'Connell, and none else, could have mus-
tered impudence to do so. This, in fact, is one striking cha-
racteristic of a depraved and ruined character—that such can
steal, and yet preach homilies against theft ; murder, and
harangue, about the Rathcormic slaughter ; rob the poor,
and weep over their oppressions ; cry, " Liberty for ever !"
and the meanwhile add another rivet.—Fraser's Magazine.
DREADFUL FIRE IN LONDON—TWO LIVES LOST."
On Tuesday morning, at about ten minutes after twelve
o'clock, the inhabitants of the eastern part of London were
thrown into the most painful excitement iu consequence of a
fire of a terrible description, and involving a lamentable sa-
crifice of human life, breaking out in Church-lane, White-
chapel,. adjacent to the church. The circumstances con-
nected with the unfortunate calamity are most deplorable,
and occasioned throughout the whole day the deepest interest
in the neighbourhood. The premises in which the fire com-
menced were situate on the west side of Church-lane, and
comprised a brick building three stories high, containing a
shop at the basement, and five rooms above. They were
occupied by Mr. Abraham Berlyn, slipper-maker and dealer
in marine stores, who let a portion of the first and second
floor to a middle-aged female named Wheller, whose chil-
Idren (two boys, one 16 years of age, and the other 8) perished
in the flames.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN LONDON.—OR Friday night, a

few minutes before nine o'clock, a fire broke out iii.the lower
part of the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street. The in-
mates had barely time to escape from the premises ere the
flames gained a great ascendancy, and, extending to the rear,
caught to the house in Dover-stret, which formed a part of
the hotel. In a short time, several engines belonging to the
first brigade establishment were on the spot, and, there being
. . .

a plentiful supply of water, they were immediately put into
requisition. About ten o'clock the roofs of both houses fell
in with a loud crash, and then, the flames having flee vent,
the sky was illumined for miles round. Happily the fire was
confined to the hotel, and at eleven o'clock the flames were
so far got under as to allay all fear of other houses being in-
cluded in the conflagragation. Thousands of persons as-
sembled to witness the scene, amongst the most active of
whom were the light-fingered gentry, many of whom, how-
ever, were taken into custody. The house was furnished in the
most costly style, and property to the amount of some thou-
sands of pounds has been destroyed. It is supposed that the
fire originated in the kitchen; but in what way, of course,
in the confusion and alarm that ensued, it has been impossi-
ble to ascertain. Mr. Stewart, the proprietor of the hotel,
is insured. The loss of property occasioned by this dreadful
occurrence may be estimated at about £lO,OOO.
A YOUTH SHOT BY HIS FATHER!—For a long time past
depredations of an extensive nature have been committed in
the gardens of Mr. Cooke, of Weston, near Bath, to the
perpetrators of which no clue could be obtained. On Mon-
day night, Mr. C. was alarmed on hearing some one on his
premises, and he accordingly got up, and, armed with a
loaded gun, proceeded to scour the gardens in search of the
untimely intruders. After a brief search he observed some
one making off from the cucumber frames. He shouted
" Stop," but the trespasser did not heed the cry, and Mr.
Cooke accordingly levelled. his gun and fired. The object
immediately dropped, and on Mr. Cooke seizing him, he was
shocked at beholding his own son ! It is necessary to state
that this unfortunate youth is one of the worst description of
characters, having been more than once placed at the bar for
offences of a very serious nature ; and there is too much rea-
son to fear that through him the robberies in his father's gar-
den have been effected. It is a melancholy circumstance,
but the youth has become so utterly incorrigible as to repel
all sympathy in his behalf. On examining his person at the
tation-house, the charge of the gun was found to have struck
his neck and shoulders, though not to any dangerous extent.
He was taken before the magistrates, at Chandos-house, on
the following day, but the unhappy ather declining to appear
against him, he was discharged with a severe admonition.

BURGLARY WITH VIOLENCE.—A daring outrage was per-
petrated on Monday last at the residence of a farmer, named
Bayman, residing near Tring, on the borders of Herts, in the
county of Bucks. Mr. Bayman and his family retired to
rest at their usual hour, and about one o'clock on the Tues-
day morning they were alarmed by a noise as of some person
being in the house, and immediately afterwards three men,
with their faces blackened, rushed into Mr. Bayman's bed-
room. He jumped out of bed, when the first man, who had
a candle in one hand and a pistol in the other, pointed the
pistol at him, and threatened to blow his brains out if he did
not be quiet and give up his money. They then forced him
on the bed, and, with the most dreadful oaths, declared they
would murder him if he did not give them money. Mr.
Bayman, finding resistance to be hopeless, gave the villains
ten sovereigns and some silver; and one of them then stood
guard over him, while the two others proceeded to the bed-
room of Miss Bayman, the daughter of Mr. Bayman, of
whom they demanded money, and, upon her telling them she
had not got any, they used most horrible imprecations, and
broke open every box and drawer in the room in the expec-
tation of finding some money. The ruffians then proceeded
to the lower part of the premises, and for nearly two hours
they were employed in ransacking the house, and when they
had packed up a quantity of valuable property, consisting of
wearing apparel, silver spoons, watches, &c., they again
went to the bed-room of Mr. Bayman, and one of the men
produced his gun,'and loaded it in his presence, and told him
that they would fire it off as a signal when they had left the
premises ; and they told him that if he went down stairs, or
gave any alarm before the morning, they would return and
murder him. The villains then decamped. Three men
were afterwards taken into custody for the robbery—and
gfter a long investigation were committed for trial.

TREMENDOUS HURRICANE.—On Saturday morning last
it blew a dreadful hurricane from about six o'clock. At one
o'clock it was at its height, and slates, chimneys, &c. were
falling in all directions. A great part of the beautiful new
church of this town, the walls of which were nearly finished,
was blown down. For some minutes before the building
gave way, it struggled with the storm, to the admiration and
astonishment of many persons who witnessed it ' • at length
the side-wall came down with a tremendous crash, in a solid
piece. Never was a liner piece of mason-work seen ; it was
ornamental, and would be permanent had it got time to take
bond. The building would have been roofed in the course
of the ensuing month. Several large trees were blown down
throughout the county ; many cabins were razed to the
ground, and larger houses unroofed. We have not beard of
any loss of life. At six o'clock in the evening the hurricane
having wasted its fury, the weather moderated, and has since
become mild and warm.—Ballyshannon Herald.

DISTRESSING ACCIDENT AT GREENOCK.—?Monday noon.
—A most distressing accident, attended with loss of life, has
just occurred here, at the large cotton-mill on the Shaws
water. As Mr. Ludovic Grant, the excellent manager of
the work, was showing the great wheel, and interior of the
the wheel-house, to Mr. Muir, of the saw-mill, Glasgow.
they observed two small pieces of stone falling from the
upper part of the wall, and while stooping to lift them, the
whole eastern side wall of the wheel-house gave way, and
buried the party, together with about half a dozen of the
workmen, in the ruins. At first it was believed that the
whole would have been killed, but \Mr. Muir escaped in a
most miraculous manner, as did several of the workmen,
leaving Mr. Grant and two masons covered with the rubbish.
After the lapse of an hour or more, the lifeless corpse of Mr.
Grant, together with one of the workmen, were dug out
dreadfully disfigured. The third was taken out all but dead,
and three of the others were severely injured, but not dan-
gerously. The event, which has not yet been properly ac-
counted for, has thrown a deep gloom been
e whole com-
munity, as all were interested in the welfare and prosperity
of the work. Mr. Grant and his friends had not been five
minutes in the wheel-house when the accident happened.

RUIN FOR IRELANp.—REPEAL OF THE CORN LAWS.
It was announced by Lord John Russell, on Friday night,
that it was his intention to repeal the corn laws, and establish
a fixed duty on foreign importation, in place of the price be-
ing regulated, as heretofore, by a scale depending upon ave-
rages. The country will be stunned to hear it. Ireland, in
particular, may start on hearing the news, as a merchant,
whose all is embarked in a single ship, might start to see her
suddenly arrested in the course of a prosperous voyage, and
drifting broadside on towards the rockiest promontory that
breaks the wave of the Atlantic. Every penny we are worth
is at stake. If that protection be withdrawn from us, which
has hitherto given us a market for our agricultural produce—
our only produce—allue have in the world to depend upon
—if that protection be withdrawn, and ministers now openly
declare themselves prepared to deprive us of it, Ireland will
be left as utterly and as irremediably beggared as ever was
the uninsured merchant, whose all was embarked in the one
ship, and that ship gone to the bottom. Our whole worldly
means—all that we possess under the canopy of heaven—do
not amount to forty-five millions a-year, and of that more
than forty consist in agricultural produce. If ministers re-
duce the price of that sort of produce twenty-five per cent.,
it would be ten millions a-year gone to us and our posterity
for ever ! They might as well take five-and-twenty per cent.
off the income of a day labourer at sixpence a-day. As com-
pared with the rest of the United Kingdom, we are little bet-
ter off than such a labourer, compared with one who regu-
larly
carlyeiaFf
oust
; musta pound a-week. They may be able to bear it ;
we We
STARVE, inus tbr
if ministerseak,thebes succeedtofu ins—many,very
many stripping
us of the protection of the corn law.—Dublin Evening Mail.

Lord 'Warsley, one of the members for the county of Lir►.
coin, is understood to have withdrawn his support from
ministers in consequence of their determination to attempt a
repeal of the present corn-laws.
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It is generally expected that the division on Lord Saudon's
motion, will not take place until Tuesday night, or rather
Wednesday morning. The report gains ground that minis-
ters will resign if beaten. An extraordinary degree of bustle
and activity prevails at all the public offices.—Standard.
A MOST AUDACIOUS BURGLARY.-011 Sunday afternoon

last, when the family were at church, the parsonage at New-
ton Heath, the residence of the Rev. W. Hutchinson, was
entered, at the kitchen window, by one or more depredators,
and in the short space of about one hour, the whole of the
dwelling, from top to bottom, was ransacked by thieves. As
many as ten rooms were closely examined, every box and
drawer, secured by lock, was broken open ; even the ser-
vants' attic was plundered of two half-crowns, found in a
purse. The thieves decamped with booty to the amount of
upwards of £4O, consisting of silver plate only, together
with a piece of cold roast beef. Several suspicious charac-
ters were seen lurking about during the day, and some of the
rev. gentleman's parishioners have expressed their ability to
identify the parties, should they prove to be implicated in
the robbery.—Manchester Courier.

MRS. FRY.—Her Majesty the Queen some time since sent
for Mrs. Fry, and intimated her intention to patronise the
exertions of that lady and her benevolent colleagues in their
laudable endeavours to reclaim and restore to society unfor-
tunate females, who by destitution and want have been driven
to the commission of crime, and by penitence in prison given
evidence of a sincere desire to return to the pursuits of in-
dustry and honesty. The Marquis of Normanby sivnitied
his readiness to preside at a dinner of the gentlemen who
second the efforts of the ladies' committee conducting Manor
Hall Asylum, and the sth of May at the Loudon Coffee
House is selected for that purpose, upon which occasion a
large party will assemble of gentlemen of wealth and influ-
ence, without distinction of party, sect, or denomination.
Nottingham is not a strange and outlandish place, afford-
ing no clue to the feelings of the people of England. Will
any man be so weak as to suppose, that the power which has
broken in that borough a yoke which had been quietly borne
for more than 30 years—will any man imagine that the same
spell would be powerless in Halifax, in Bradford, hi Leices-
ter, in Sheffield—in fact, in an hundred other places that
might be named ? And is not this a point worth considering ;
nay, is it not a point that must be considered ? Is not a dis-
solution, in the present state of affairs, at all times just• in
sight ? Think of this, gentlemen representatives, whether on
the one side of the house or on the other; and turn your
thoughts, while there is yet time, to the removal of the de-
formities of this detested law.—Times.

THE PRINTER.—" I pity the printer," said my uncle Toby
" He's a poor creature," rejoined Trim. " How so ?" said
my uncle. " Because, in the first place," continued the
Corporal, looking full upon my uncle, " because he must en-
deavour to please everybody. In the negligence of a mo-
ment, perhaps a small paragraph pops upon him; be hastily
throws it to the compositor, it is inserted, and he is ruined
to all intents and purposes." "Too much the case, Trim,"
said my uncle, with a deep sigh ; g, too—much—the—case."
" An' please your honour," continued Trim, elevating his
voice, and striking into an imploring attitude, "an' please
your honour, this is not the whole." "Go on, Trim," said
my uncle feelingly. " The printer, sometimes." pursued the
Corporal, " hits upon a piece that pleases him mightily, and
he thinks it cannot but go down with his subscribers ; but,
alas ! who can calculate the human mind ? He inserts it
and it is all over with him. They forgive others, but they
cannot forgive a printer. He has a host to print for, and
every one sets up for a critic. The pretty miss exclaims,
`Why don't he give us more poetry, marriages, and bon
mots ?—away with these stale pieces.' The politician claps
his specs on his nose, and runs it over in search of a violent
invective : he finds none; he takes his specs off, folds them,
sticks them in his pocket, declaring the paper good fornothing
but to burn. So it goes. Every one thinks it ought to be
printed expresily for himself, as he is a subscriber ; and yet,
after all this complaining, would you believe it, sir," said the
honest Corporal, clapping his hands beseechingly, " would
you believe it, sir, there are some subscribers who do not
hesitate to cheat the printer out of his pay ! Our army swore
terribly in Flanders, but they never did anything so bad as
that !" " Never !" said my uncle Toby, emphatically.
On Thursday a most melancholy and fatal accident took
place at the new Cotton Mill on the Shows Water. The
public spirited managing partner, of the establishment, Mr.
Grant, had been showinc, the immense wheel to the Messrs.
Muir, of the Saw-mill, Glasgow, and they were just about
leaving the wheel-house when two stones fell from near the
top of the eastern wall. Mr. Grant ran forward to get the
stones out of the way of the wheel, when nearly the whole
wall fell, mostly outside, but a portion of it fell inwards, and
a large stone struck Mr. Grant on the head with such force
that he was killed instantaneously. That part of the wall
that fell outside, alighted ou the roof of a cotton store, which
it forced in, and killed a mason named M`Leod, and injured
two or three others.—Glasgow Mail.

OPENING OF ST. THOMAS'S CHURCH.—DINNER TO MR.
GLADSTONE.—On Thursday, the Church of St. Thomas,
Leith, erected and endowed by Mr. Gladstone of Fasque,
was opened for public worship, when Mr. M`Letchie, late of
Gartsherrie, Presbytery of Hamilton, was inducted into the
parochial charge,—the Rev. Mr. Wood of New Greyfriars'
preaching and presiding. The church was crowded during
the service with a most respectable and attentive audience,
and the deepest interest appeared to be manifested in the
prosperity of the new church. In the evening, a dinner was
given in the Exchange Hotel to Mr. Gladstone, by the citi-
zens of Leith, as a mark of their respect for this instance of
his munificence to his native town.—Glasgow Mail.
ORIGIN OF SUNDAY ScHooLs.—The vexed question
" Stock v. Raikes" has been revived in a correspondence
that has taken place in the Midland Counties Herald. The
Rev. H. Wintle, of this city, in a letter to that paper, spoke
of the late Rev. Thomas Stock, rector of St. John's, as the
originator of the system ;—this has produced a long letter
from Mr. Thomas Clark, of Birmingham, in which the
claims of Mr. Raikes are set forth. The dispute has since
called forth an advocate for the pretensions of a new claimant
—the Rev.lW.:H.:Havergalgtector of Astley—who states, it
will be seen in the following letter, that a Miss Ball, of High
Wycombe, was the first person who established a Sunday
school :—" Whatever," he says, " be the issue of the ques-
tion, so far as Mr. Stock and Mr. Raikes are concerned,
there is a town which can show that a Sunday school was es-
tablished in it full fourteen years prior to the formation of
the school or schools at Gloucester. In the year 1769 a
Sunday school was commenced by Miss Ball, at High Wy-
combe. She was a lady of great piety, and of rather uncom-
mon earnestness in doing good. Her custom was to assem-
ble as many as thirty or forty children on Sunday morning,
to hear them read the Scriptures, and repeat the catechism
and the collect, preparatory to going to church. A place is
still pointed out in the remarkably fine church of High Wy-
combe, as having been occupied by the Sunday scholars of
Miss Ball. An old servant, who when young was my nurse,
was one of those scholars, and still lives, in conjunction with
sundry individuals, to bear testimony to the facts which I
have stated. In a Memoir of Miss Hannah Ball,' recently
' revised by John Parker, gent., and published by Mason,
15, City-road,' it is further stated that Miss Ball continued
this school for many years ; and also met the children every
Monday to instruct them in the principles of Christianity.' "

GIPSIES.—CONFESSION OF MITCHELL THE MUR-
DERER.—MitcheII who was convicted of the murder of
Mr. George Blackburn, at the last York assizes, has written
an account of his life, from which we give the following ex-
tracts :—" lam seventeen years of age. On the day before
I was twelve years old, 1 met with a man who was a gipsy.
I went with him to a public-house, where I got so drunk,
that the gipsy had to take me away. I fell fast asleep, and
found myself in bed next morning under a camp in a lane.
After describing the various means to which gipsies have re-
course in order to plunder the public, Mitchell states that he
spent two years with them, picking pockets and stealing
everything he could lay his hands upon ' • killing fowls, and
in short committing plunder in any way that opportunity of-
fered. All that he received for this was his actual support
among them, and according to his activity and service. As
to clothing, he was fitted out just like all the rest and upon
the same terms, with the cloth that they used to steal from
the cloth hawkers in country towns. So it was with their
blankets, and everything else in the way of clothing or cover-
ing. In the summer time the men will stop at a public-
house or at a most respectable inn in a town, for they were
well dressed, and would pass for respectable footmen, ser-
vants, chaise boys out of place, or various other businesses,
which made the people not suspect them. These houses
they invariably robbed of everything they could lay their
hands upon, and if met by the inmates next day they never
would know him. In the winter we all camped together,
and the men and myself went out prowling about night long.
These gipsies used to make the sale of pots and glasses a pre-
text for picking pockets, and it was no uncommon thing for
one of the women to be engaged in telling a young lady or
gentleman their fortune, while myself or some of the men
who were dressed up stood by waiting to have ours told, but
we were picking the pockets of the young people. I mean
to say that there is not in the world such desperate people as
a gang of gipsies. I am sure they think nothing of killing any
man, or stealing any gentleman's child. Servant girls should
be cautioned against them, as from them we used to learn all
the ways of the houses in the neighbourhood. Some of
those robberies, particularly those which I assisted the gip-
sies in committing, were accompanied with the greatest vio-
lence. I don't know for a positive fact that death followed
in any case, although we have frequently left our victims
dreadfully stabbed, beaten, and abused, and as we thought
dead on the road of a winter's night and never heard of them
again.

KORRIBLE ATROCITY.—" About twelve years ago," says
the Nouvelllste des Ardennes, " the daughter of a farmer
in the arrondissement of Mezieres, was married to a young
man of a neighbouring village. After a few months, the wife
was attacked with symptoms of mental alienation, which in
a little time assumed all the character of confirmed madness.
The husband took her back to her father, conceiving that in
his hands there would be a greater chance of her recovery.
The father received her, but soon finding the charge too
onerous, contrived the following means of disposing of her :
He privately constructed a species of case formed of four
planks, between seven and eight feet long, leaving one of the
extremities open, and fixed it upright in his stable. Having
enticed the poor creature to place herself in it, he closed the
case up, and there left her standing, utterly precluded from
escape. He daily supplied her with food, letting it down
from the top, she having just room enough in the angles of
ber narrow prison to raise her hand and carry it to her
mouth. Of course she was kept constantly standing on her
legs, without the possibility of changing her position. Thus
was she confined for a period of nearly twelve years, till a
short time ago, when she was discovered and released. When
taken out she had lost full a foot in her height, and her ap-
pearance was more that of some nondescript animal than of
a woman. She had no speech, but uttered inarticulate sounds
borrowed from the cattle whose voices alone she had beard
during the whole period. A judicial inquiry is making into
the case." The details of the case are so strange and unna-
tural that we cannot suppose them to be true.

The following unusual incident occurred in the Court of
Assizes for the Aril6ge, at Foix, on the 29th ult. Two men
were upon their trial for an act of incendiarism, and a wit-
ness gave evidence that weighed heavily against one of them.
The president read over his testimony, and called upon him
to declare whether what he had deposed was true and correct.
The witness replied, `• I have told the truth, and nothing but
the truth ;" and then related that, on the preceding evening,
after the first day's trial, this being the second, he was sc.!
costed by a person the unknown to him, and urged to soften
the evidence he was to give, as the prisoner whom it con-
cerned, was not only young and excuseable, but had a wife
and child, who would be left destitute if the man was con-
victed. This person added, that such forbearance would
give pleasure to the jury, of whom he was one. The
witness had replied to this overture, that it was the duty
of every man to speak the truth—that he, the witness,
would be sworn to tell the whole truth—and, therefore, could
not conceal any part of it. In conclusion, he turned to the
jury-box, and pointed out a juryman as the person who]had
made the attempt to induce him to suppress the strong part
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of his testimony. The uryman thus indicated made gestures
as if to some other person in the court, but gave no denial to
the charge against him. The judges retired to deliberate on
this unprecedented occurrence, and during their absence the
audience was greatly agitated. When the judges resumed
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requisition upon it. This officer of the
crown moved that the proceedings should be quashed, and
the trial postponed till next assizes. The counsel for the
prisoners having raised no objection, the court delivered its
judgment, in conformity with the motion of
the procareur
du roi, andirected e'esy deposition,orderedhis and then registrar to make full minutes
called on the procnreur
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d the registrar to give act of the judgment,
upon which might be founded proceedings against the delin-
quent juryman for the costs occasioned by the postponement.