The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-15 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1853.

THE POOR-RATE FOR THE PARISH, this year, will be
2e. in the pound.
THE SCREW STEAMER CLEOPATRA, hourly expected
at Valparaiso on the 14th of January, would sail a few
days after its arrival there for Liverpool, via Brazil.
THE UNITED STATES MAIL STEAM-SHIP ATLANTIC,
Captain West, sailed for New York on Wednesday, with
a fair complement of passengers.
MR. GEORGE WESTLAKE, principal coast officer at
Sheerness, has, by order of the Board of Customs, been
promoted to serve as tide-surveyor at Liverpool.

A VALIIABLE CIGAR CASE was lost on Friday by
gentleman between the Exchange and the landing stage
the case contained £5O in Bank of England notes.
MESSRS. ROE AND JACOB are executing a very elabo-
rately engraved silver snuff-box, which will shortly be
presented to Mr. Thomas Eccleston, late surgeon-super-
intendent of the Lancaster County Asylum.
THE MARINERS' FREEMASON LODGE, at their monthly
meeting on Thursday, resolved that testimonials should
he presented to Br. Mark Marks, P.M., and Br. Samuel
Lewis Caffe, P.J.W., on their leaving for Australia.

THE REV. W. POI.LOCK is announced to deliver a lec-
ture to-night to the members of the Church of England
Institution, exposing the audacious assumption that
Popery is a promoter of Arts and Sciences.
A NOTORIOUS POACHER.—Thomas Ball, of Chorley,
has been committed for trial at the Liverpool Assizes,
charged with shooting at Richard Toots!, with intent to
do him bodily harm.
CLITHEROE ELECTION.—There are two candidates in
the field. viz., Mr. S. T. W. Aspinall, of Standen-hall,
o❑ the Conservative interest, and Mr. R. Fort, of Rend-
hall, who is a Liberal of the Manchester school.
MR. H. Bywrtt, of Brazenose College, Oxford, and
Iliff scholar of the Royal Institution School, was, yester-
day week, elected to a Hulme exhibition by the trustees
of the Hulme estate.

MR. JAMES FLETCHER, of this town, formed one of a
deputation of tobacco manufacturers that had an inter-
view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday
week.

A LIVERPOOL DRUGGIST, Mr. Pugh, has found among
some old books purchased the other day, in the country, a
life of the ill-fated Mary Queen of Scots, by her confessor,
printed in 1624, and a work on medicine, said to be writ-
ten by the medical adviser of Henry VIII.

REMARKABLE, RESEMBLANCE TO ROYALTY.—It is
said that a young lady at present performing at the Theatre
Royal is extremely like our gracious Queen. In the
opera of the " Crown Diamonds," and in reading, the
similarity of face, figure, and voice is very striking.
SHOP ROBBERY.—On Friday night, three watches were
stolen from the shop of Mr. Lambie, watchmaker, Red-
cross-street. The thief had cut a hole in one of the win-
dow panes with a diamond, and by introducing a wire with
a hooked head effected his purpose.
LIVERPOOL BANIMUTTCY COURT.—On Thursday, Mr.
R. P. Stephens, one of the partners in the Liverpool and
Dublin Screw Steam-ship Company, was refused a certi-
ficate without protecticra. The investigation lasted several
hours, and the chief oppositio❑ was from the Union Bank
of Scotland.

A KNOCK-DOWN `ROBBERY was perpetrated on Thmrs-
day, in Maguire-street, by Thomas Cunningham, who
felled a man named Macquinnes to the gssorand, cut his
pocket out, and .ran away. The pocket contained 17s.
The villain was apprehended, and sentenced at the police-
court to two months' imprisonment.
SERIOUS "OtTARGE AGAINST A CArTronc.--A charge
against CaptaintGrebow, late master of the Pemberton,
for drunkenness while in the command ,of that vessel, was
heard before'the Liverpool Marine Board on Wednesday:;
the charge was preferred by Mr. Celburn, one of the
owners. Mr. 'Gray, who resided at ?Bombay, in 18511,
was the leading witness against the captain. The case
was adjourned till the Bth of April.
THE Nn\7 STEAMER MONA'S QUEEN 'arrived at 'Liver-
pool from Douglas on Thursday, having made the passage
in four boars. On Friday she went'onan Admiralty,trial
trip, with 'Mr. Waterman, draughtsman, and Mr. Hughes,
engineer,lrom Somerset-house, on board of her. N. ot-
withstanding the adverse current, t heaccomplished from
14 to 143- miles an hour each way. The surveyors ex-
pressedlheir entire satisfaction at. her performances.
THE !PASSENGERS OF THE STEAMER AITSTRY,MIAN
have sent two protests to the directors of the Australian
Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company, remonstrating
against the vessel having been sett to sea without,under-
going a thorough repair in hull and machinery. Three
times tas she left Plymouth, acid 'three times .put back
leaky and disabled.

THE 'WEATHER AND HEAUTH.—The .very ic;urious
influence of the recent severev.-eather is-Shown by the
progressive increase of mortality during the last five
weeks, in which the deaths were, respectively, tlc6, 219,
247,:253, and 272. Should the present mild weather
continue, a considerable decrease in the mortality may be
expected.

DR. SHORT, Bishop of .Et. Asaph, having ibeen the
diocesan of Sodor and Man, previously to his translation
to 1143 present see, was appealed to to aid the funds being
collected for behoof of the soKerers by the blowing-up of
the Lily, at the Isle of Man, aen.d transmitted the noble sum
of •0/10 THOUSAND POUNDS: 'Such munificent:liberality
ought not to pass unnoticed, and we have the most
,unfeigned pleasure in recording that one at least of the
bench of bishops is not " given to filthy lucre'.'
JI7ERPOOL TOWN Missso4:-.—The twenty-forth an-
niversary was held in the Concert-hall, on \Wednesday
evening, the Rev. Dr. Raffles' in the chair. 'The number
of vißits paid by the missionaries during the year was
90;8S1. They had distributed in that time 14€,849 re-
ligious tracts, and lent 57,444:8 other religious books.
There was a balance to the credit of the institution of
£50.145. sd, which included an extraordinary (donation
from the late William Lassen, Esq., of £l,OOO.
Maa. SHANNON, nurse at the Liverpool Weskhouse,
was committed for trial on a charge of "manslaughter"
on Wednesday last. On the -Sunday previous •the had
received a poisonous embrocation from Dr. Gee, to rub
on the back of Mary Wainwri;lit, a pauper woman aged
'SO years. She straightway administered the eirthrGcat ion
in a •gellipot, and the patient had no sooner swallowed it
than she became sick. She Vga3 seized with convulsions,
and died about midnight.
IikViOATANT DISLILLERT CASE.—At the policescourt,
on Friday, Mr. Edward Benn, distiller, Vauxhall-road,
was convicted by Mr. Smith andlir. William Earle:in the
mitigated sum of one-fourth of, the penalty on eacLalle-
gation for three important infringements of the license
laws, namely, for removing -spirits of a less ,pinan-
tity than eighty gallons, whercay he had incurred a
penally. of £200; second, for removing spirits without a
license,--which rendered him liable to the same penalty.;
and, third, for removing spirits47ithout having paidrthe
duty, for which he had forfeited. to her Majesty £lOO.
FIUSIV,ND AND WIFE.—At the Police-office, °torsi_
day, an old man, Michael M'Kenca, charged Hannah
Hepburn-with stealing from him a quantity of bedding
and wearing apparel. The prisoner,-on being asked what
she had to say to the charge, acclaimed energetical!.,,
" Sure, sir, he's my lawful husband,but I'm not married
to him':" daughter).—M`Kenna-2 -" Not at all, your
honour; -she's only my housekeeper."—Prisoner, ad-
dressing the magistrates : " Oh, thew! hear that, now,
yer banner, and him told me we age:-e to be married in
the inside of a month" (roars of laughter). The magis.
trate evidentl7 considered that the title of " husband" in
such a case was somewhat questionable, and ordered the
prisoner to ,pay 18s. 2d., the amount for which the
articles had 'been pawned, and a penalty of £l, or one
month's imprisonment.

A MENtORIAL from this port has been e.dressed to the
Admiralty by different merchants, shipowners, proprie-
tors, and others connected with and trading to the West
Indies, British ii.;',7uiana, Venezuela, New.*2 renada, Mexico,
west coast of South America, and California,,complaining
that, notwithstanding the repeated assurance of improve-
ment, the mails subsequently brought by 'the steamers
continue almost invariably to arrive after the stipulated
day, and to be anticipated by the duplicates brought by a
route indirect, and under the further disathantage of
having frequently to wait some days in New York for
conveyance forward to England. That the Memorialists
have reason to believe that other responsible parties
would contract with the government for the performance
of this service. not only with efficiency, but with a con-
siderable saving in time., and for a much less sumpthan is
now paid by the government to the Royal Mail Coirkpany,
as well as less charge for freight on treasure and for con-
veyance of passengers. The memorialists, therefore,arge
the Admiralty either to snake the Royal Mail Cosupany
fulfil their contract, or throw the service open to the cacn-
petition of others.

THE POLICE AND THE MFAdFIERS OF COUNCIL.-4CI
Monday a meeting of magistrates was held to consider a
charge, preferred by Mr. Cloug-li, against Messrs. Moss
and Bradley, the representatives of Vauxhall ward, the
former, it being alleged, having held out a threat to the
officer in regard to the transference of a marine-store
license from a person named Doran to his son-in-law
Gribbon.. The magistrates passed a resolution that there
had been an improper interference, but adjourned the
matter till Thursday. On Wednesday Mr. Moss explained
in the Council that he had gone only for information,
that he certainly did not mean to hold out any threat, and
that he bad spoken to Mr. Bradley only as he was acci-
dentally passing at the time. On Thursday, at a meeting
of magistrates, Mr. Inspector Kehoe requested to be re.
moved from the office of having to report respecting the
keepers of the marine stores, " as it so often brought him
into collision with the local authorities and the rate-
payers." On being examined, Mr. Kehoe said he did not
wish to mention names, as it would make him enemies.
He, however, stated that members of the Town Council
had interfered with him. Or. the suggestion of the Mayor,
a sub-committee was appointed to receive Mr. Kehoe'a
statements, and report to the general body.

DISPATCH AND COMFORT.—Who has not wasted much
time at the toilet attempting to put to rights a collar of
inferior finish, the laundress having been careless of her
selection of that most important article, starch ? And
who has not been teazed by this or that article of dress
not being finished to taste ? And how uncomfortable
when such articles do not please the wearer ! To prevent
this, direct the laundress to secure such starch as pos-
sesses the greatest elasticity, strength, and transparency.
These combined qualities are possessed to a very eminent
degree by the Glenfield Patent Starch, manufactured by
Mr. Wotherspoon from the finest quality of East India
sago. The laundress of her most gracious majesty Queen
Victoria has issued a testimonial proving the inherent
excellences of the Glenfield Patent Starch, and further
stating, " that it is the best she has ever used, and that
she intends to use no other." Our readers would do well
to ask for the " Glenfield Patent Starch," and see that
the name of R. Wotherspoon, 40, Dunlop-street, Glas-
gow, is on each package (none other is genuine), as cer-
tain parties, seeing its wide-spread celebrity, have so
very closely imitated the outside appearance of the original
and genuine article, that casual observers might be im.
posed on if they did not take the precaution to see that
the maker's name, R. Wotherspoon, is on each package.
We observe that the Glenfield Patent Starch is sold by
most of the shopkeepers in town and country. \%e would
now close this short notice, with expressing the hope that
our readers, interested in this article, will confer an ob-
ligation on thelmeivee, by adopting in their laundries
this maul auxiliary.

STRIKE AT THE DOCKS.—The extra labourers at the
Albert Docks have struck for an advance of sixpence per
day in their wages. The subject was to have been
brought before the committee yesterday.
THE Manchester Examiner states that there will shortly
be exhibited in Manchester models of a new mode of
screw-propulsion, calculated to sail at a very high speed,
and a new description of boat for the preservation of life
in cases of shipwreck or fire. The inventor is a Manchester
manufacturer.

THE PUPILS OF MR. FLEMING'S SCHOOL, Bootle,
have presented Monsieur J. Loth, author of the Elemen-
tary Speaking French Grammar, with a valuable gold
pencil case, as a token of esteem and of their high consi-
deration for his pleasing and successful method of teach-
ing languages and drawing.

MAN DROWNED AT THE BRAMLEY-MOORE DOCK.—
On Thursday last, George Bentley, a blockmaker, in the
employment of Mrs. Garner, Hurst-street, aged about
26 years, fell from the ship Hemisphere into the Bramley-
Moore Dock, and was drowned. His body was not re-
covered till Saturday. Yesterday an inquest was held on
the body, before Mr. Coroner Curry, when a verdict of
"Accidentally drowned" was returned.
PLEASURE TRAIN.—A meeting was held, on Friday
evening, at Mr. Lovelady's, Derby-street, to form a com-
mittee for the purpose of assisting Mr. Ewing in arranging
a grand railway trip from Liverpool on Whit-Monday next.
Full particulars of the excursion will shortly appear in our
columns, and the names of the committee will form a
sufficient guarantee for the proper management and suc-
cess of the trip. .
AT THE COUNTY COURT, yesterday, held before Joseph
Pollock, Esq., judge, the cases were few and uninterest-
ing. The principal case was that of Mullins v. Kirkpa-
trick. The plaintiff, Mr. James Mullins, Mill-street,
sought to recover from Mr. Andrew Kirkpatrick, grocer,
Vauxhall-road, the sum of £2O 10s. 9d., the balance of
an account for groceries. Mr. Himc appeared for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Daly for the defence. The question
was purely one of account, and ultimately the Judge gave
a verdict for the payment of £lB Os. 7d., including a
small sum of money paid into court. The court rose at
a few minutes past four o'clock till to-day.
DR. FISHER'S EXHIBITION.—This evening, the above
exhibition of dissolving views will be given in the Corn-
wallis-street school, at seven o'clock. It is seldom the
public have an opportunity of seeing such rich and varied
views of renowned places at home and abroad as Dr.
Fisher's diagrams present. The Duke of Wellington's
funeral car. the interior of Walrner Castle, as it appeared
with the Duke in it the Sunday before his death, are
among the views to be exhibited. We consider this to
be the most interesting and instructive way of spending
an evening, especially for the young, at the same time
those attending contribute to a religious object.

SOSVICIOUS DEATH OF AN ILLEGITIMATE CHILD.—
An inquest will be held to-day on the body of Emily
Davis, aged two months, the illegitimate child of Eliza-
beth Davis, and the circumstances connected with whose
death are of a rather suspicious complexion. It appears
that the infant had been put out to nurse with a woman
named Mary Ray. It became poorly some time ago, and
'continued to grow worse, but no doctor was called in.
At length, on Saturday evening, the child died in convul-
sions, no inclination having been exhibited by the nurse
to obtain the assistance of a medical man.
THE LADY EGLINTON. one of the new screw steamers
being built in the Clyde, by the British and Irish Steam
Packet Company, for their London, Plymouth and Liver-
pool line, made her trial trip on Thursday last, and was
eminently successful. Her average speed, in the run
from the Cloch Lighthouse to the Cumbrae and back
again, was fifteen geographical miles per hour. The
Lady Eglinton is a fine, clipper looking vessel, of nearly
800 tons, carpenter's measurement, and engines of 150
horse power. Both engines and hull were built by Mr.
Robert Napier, Lanceteld Works. She will immediately
take her station on the Liverpool line, in conjunction with
the Nile, just purchased from the Mediterranean line.

REFUSAL OF SAULOR'S TO PROCEED TO SEA.— OR
Friday last the crew engaged in the Pytho, bound for
Africa, twenty in tranrber, were brought before Mr.
Mansfield, at the Liverpool Police-court, charged with
refusing to proceed •to sea. The defence was that there
was not sufEcieit accommodation, and the case was ad-
journed until Saturday, in order that Lloyd's surveyor
might inspect the vessel and report. On that day he
reported that the accommodation was in every way suffi-
cient. Seven of 'the crew agreed to go in the vessel, but
the remainder '(thirteen) were committed for trial. The
crew had received each as wages in advance.

JUVENTLE ;RFTYORMATION.--SCHOGL-SHIP IN THE
MERSEy.—Ve have pleasure in intimating that the Lords
of the Admiralty 'have acceeded to the wishes of the com-
mittee of the 'Soho. street'Ragged Schools, in this town,
and will-place a Tessgl at their disposal, to be moored in
the river for the reception of boys, who are to be trained
for sailors. Those who feel an interest in the subject, or
desire to further the objectin view,•by donations or other-
wise, Should place themselves in communication with Mr.
Joseph Ilubback, the honorary secretary of the schools,
who will' be most ready to afford them every information
in hispawer.
Fran.—OnTriday.night, about eleven o'clock, a fire
broke out in thonorthern extremity of rthe sugar-refinery
of Messrs. Macfie and-Sons, •Batchelor-street. It origi.
nated in the largewingrecently erected iriTithebarn-street,
which-was devoted to the boilers •and stoves, used for the
purpaso of drying. Theilames shot out alarmingly ; but
as Messrs. Macfies•men were abundantly supplied with
hose and water, they took possession of the portion not
yet :quite built up, and not only prevented the fire from
extending, but quickly checked it. In this work they
were promptly assiste&by Mr. Hewitt and the fire-police,
and in a quarter of an hour all apprehension of further
danger was removed. The loss was trifling, owing to the
nature of the building, and is amply covered by insurance.
ROT. AL NORTH LA.NONASTIIII.E.A.GRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
—A reacting of the council of this society was held on
Wednesday, when it -was arranged to ,hold the show
meeting at Blackburn,' ir. August. !Lord de Tabley is the
president for the current year. The sum of £286 was
agreed to be offered in premiums for liorses, cattle,
sheep, pigs, poultry, said dairy produce. 'The premiums
Offered for competition amongst tenant.farmers only, are
considerably increased, and to effect this object £l5 was
subscribed by members of the council at the meeting.
The council have cancellei, all the restrictions as to male
animals having to remain within the society's limits for
statediperiods after the award of the prizes. The sum of
-41100w:ll be offered for improved implements. £64 was
also voted to the local agricultural societies within North
Lancashire, to be offered lay them in addition to their pre-
miums 'for crops. Charles 'Towneley, Esq.; M.P., has
offered,two premiums of £l6 for the best male and female
animils,respectively in all the-short-horn classes, hut de-
barring ,the Towneley herd +from competitions—Preston

ENDICEGIT BALLAD Musk:-- Mr. George 'Harker, of
'London, ,delivered his second :lecture at the Collegiate
Institution, on Friday evening last. The audience was
-somewhat larger than that of the,previous Friday evening ;
but the, numerous attendance of boys connected .with the
-schools -was a source of great annoyance both'to the audi-
ence and. the lecturer. These littce. posted themselves in
groups :in different parts of the tneatre, and kept:-up an
incessant, commotion, which was,vey ungraceful and not
at all creditable to their sense of:propriety. We should
:not.have alluded to this matter,, but for the fact that no
-steps have apparently been taken :to .stop the disorderly
.proceedings ,which have prevailed at every lecture since
-the:course:began. Mr. Barker's second lecture was de-
Atoted to :melodies of Moore and 4o'haltspere, and the
,vocal illustrations were rendered with the greatest delicacy
and ,taste. The entertainment concluded with TopseY'-e
song, " 4-specs as I never was born," at the request of a
pvimber of ladies who had heard it on the previous even-
ing, and were 'desirous of hearing it :repeated. This
song, we believe, is the production of Mr,. (Clifford Crau-
ford., a'Scotch gentleman in London, whose ,brother, one
of the ablest lawyers in Scotland, was sometime ago ap-
pointed sheriff of Perthshire.

Scalmv-BTEAIAINO is daily becoming a more prominent
feature of our local lines. The efforts of builders are pro-
ducing their legitimate results in the formation of new
steam companies. tWe have witnessed the succeas of the
Andes and the Alps, belonging to the Cunard Company.;
the Liverpool and ;Philadelphia line ; the steady ,progress
of the various Mediterranean companies ; and the large
increase of the traffic to Lisbon, Rotterdam, and other
places, by means of screw-steamers. Then we see that
the African Mail Company have announced a bi- monthly
branch from Leverpool:; and the successsul performances
of their first boats, the 7orerunner and Faith, promise
well for the future efficiency of the company. Another
company, to the Brazils aad River Plate, start in June
next with their new line, the departures to be from Bir-
kenhead on the 24th of each month. Their first vessels,
the Braziliera, Lusitania, and Olinda, are to be com-
manded respectively by Captains Daniel Green, James
Brown, and George H. Hamm. When open, the new
line will offer a monthly communication between this
part and the Brazils and River Plate, and we shall have a
return mail from Buenos Ayres and Monte Video in 72
days. With such a fleet of steamers sailing from our
part, we should suppose that the advantages to our own
immediate locality, and the manufacturing districts of
England generally, must be immense.

EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERIES AT MANCIIESTER.—In
last week's Standard we gave a few particulars of a dar-
ing robbery committed in Manchester on the afternoon of
Monday week. Miss Howard, a girl eighteen years of
age, having been left in charge of her father's shop, at the
corner of Market-street and Corporation-street, was as-
sailed by a gentlemanly person, who got behind the coun-
ter and gagged her mouth, while another villain entered
from the street and cleared the window of jewellery to the
value of £3OO. Having effected this, the man holding
Miss Howard threw her down, and left the shop with his
companion, who had the booty in his pockets. They
hailed a cab as soon as they got into the street, and were
soon on their way to London. Mr. Howard was so much
affected when he heard the news (this being the second time
within twelve months that he has been robbed), that he
was obliged to be placed in the hands of a medical man.
Although there were a number of persons standing close
by the shop, from whose statements the above facts were
elicited, no one seems to have suspected that a robbery was
being committed until the men had departed. The man who
was on guard outside the door ordered awayseveral persons
who stopped to look in at the window,as though he had been
legitimately stationed there to prevent a crowd collecting.
A public subscription has been set on foot on behalf
of Mr. Howard. Manchester will get unpleasantly famous
for its dexterous robberies. On Wednesday morning
some thieves entered the establishment of Messrs. 011i-
vant, St. Anne's-street, and stole a vast amount of valu-
able property ; including 81 gold watches, maker's name,
" °lnvents," and other property, amounting to the
value of about £2,500. This robbery, following that of
Mr. Howard's in less than forty hours, led some of the
authorities to see the desirableness of making a sweeping
capture amongst the haunts and resorts of known thieves;
and on Friday morning a score of thieves were accordingly
apprehended. A man named Henry Maxwell, with his
brother-in-law James Stronach, and Lucy Maxwell, the
wife of the latter, have been apprehended at Newton.
Maxwell, who was formerly employed at 011ivant's, has
the appearance of " a man about town ;" Stronach looks
like an ordinary mechanic. The stolen property has been
found in boxes belonging to the prisoners. On Thursday,
Stronach was discharged from custody, but Maxwell and
his sister were remanded till Thursday next.

GENERAL NEWS.

Mn. Boattows, the master of the Cottesmore hounds,
has sold two hunters, Guardsman and Evergreen, to Na-
poleon 111., for £4OO.

DINNERS.—It appears from an official report that the
directors of the East India Company have spent £53,000
in house dinners during the last eighteen years.
CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.—The sixth purchase
of the society was made on Tuesday in Hertfordshire,
between the towns of Ware and Hertford.

COMPULSORY VACCINATION.—There is a bill in the
House of Lords, by which it is proposed that vaccination
of children shall be compulsory.
THE ESTATE OF FAIRGIRTH, Stewartry of Kircud-
bright, has been purchased by private bargain, by W.
Hilton, Esq., Manchester, for £22,000.
MR. WILLIAM JACKSON, M.P., it is said, is about
proceeding to Canada with 15,000 labourers, to carry on
the railway undertakings in progress and projected there.
STRIKES.—The yachtsmen at Cowes have struck for
higher wages. A large number of agricultural labourers
in the neighbourhood of Andover, Hants, have just
struck for higher wages.
Ix CONSEQUENCE of a strike amongst the workmen in
the smiths'-shop of the factory of the Great Western
Railway Company at New Swindon, their wages have
been advanced.
The claim of Lord KENSINGTON to be admitted to vote
at the election of Irish representative peers, has been ad.
mitted by the house of Lords, on the unanimous recom-
mendation of the Committee of Privileges.
SIR JOHN CAMPBELL, Bart., late Lieut.-Governor of
St. Vincent, died on the 18th January, after a short illness
of two or three days, of confirmed yellow fever, aged
forty-four years.
THE BOWYER BIBLE, which has been the subject of
two lotteries, and was valued at £3,000, has been disposed
of by auction, for £405, to Mr. Willis, bookseller, of
Covent-garden, London.
A SHARK, nearly eleven feet in 'length,' was recently
caught off the East Neuk of Fife. The shark had swat.
lowed a codfish, which was hooked, and became so entan-
gled among the tackle as to be secured by the fishermen.

THE SUBSCRIPTION for a monument to Thomas Hood
having reached £4OO, has been closed, and a bronze bust
of the poet, on a granite pedestal, embellished in relief
from his writings, resolved upon. The subscription for a
monument to Thomas Moore has nearly reached .£3OO.

THE HEIGHT OF IMPUDENCE.—On Sunday last, says
the Nottingham Journal, a lad walked up to a lady in the
market-place of that town, snatched the veil from her
bonnet, and, notwithstanding an instant pursuit, escaped
with his booty.

MR. JAMES HOPE, the well-known parliamentary bar-
rister, has just added Scott to his name, in compliance with
the provision in the entail of the estate of Abbotsford, to
which estate his wife lately succeeded, upon the death of
her only brother.
A RETURN TO THE HOUSE OF COMMON'S, recently pub-
lished, shows that the expenditure for the relief of the
poor in Ireland, for the year ended the 29th September
last, had decreased £280,700, compared with the preceding
year, when the total sum disbursed was £1,166,954.
THERE IS A MAN IN BLOOMFIELD, Ontario County,
who in April next will, if he lives until that time, have
seen his 112th birth-day. His name is James Knight,
and he was born in Queen's county, Ireland, in April,
1741. He resides with his son, who is 72 years old.
IT Is STATED that in the Dead Letter Office, in
Washington, five millions of misdirected letters arc
annually opened and burnt. All letters containing money
are retained and filed. The amount recovered last year
exceeded $40,000.
THE KOH-I-NOOK diamond has now—after an expen-
diture of £2,000 in bringing it to light—been set in an
exquisite circle of small diamonds, and made the " Moun-
tain of Light" on a most graceful tiara of diamonds for
the brow of Queen Victoria.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Friday, the materials of an old
building called the Mint, in Soho, Birmingham, which
had been sold for the purpose of pulling down, were being
removed, when a brick wall fell in and buried several of
the labourers in the ruins, killing two, and seriously, if
not fatally, injuring three others.

GEORGE WELLBORN, the driver of a goods train on the
Stockton and Darlington Railway, has been found guilty of
inattention to the signals, by which a collision took place
on the Clarence and Leeds Railway with a passenger
train, and Mr. Grainger, an engineer of eminence at
Edinburgh, was killed, and was sentenced to six months'
imprisonment for the manslaughter.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.—The village of Framlingham,
Suffolk, was thrown into excitement on Saturday by the
discovery that William Goodwyn, a man in comfort-
able circumstances, had, in a state of insanity, murdered
his daughter, a girl of four years old, and then cut his
own throat. His wife gave the alarm, rushing out of the
house too horror-stricken to articulate.
RESTORATION OF THE JEWS.—It is said that a remark-
able change is in progress among the Jews in every
country, owing to a MS. being extensively circulated by
an influential rabbi proving from Scripture that the time
has come when the Jews must set about making prepara-
tions for returning to the land of their fathers. The
manuscript has been printed in Hebrew and English, and
a society has been formed to further the movement pro-
posed by the learned rabbi.

AWFUL SUICIDE.—On Thursday afternoon, a man,
named Tennant, the keeper of a low beershop, in Abbey-
street, Barnwell, Cambridge, fell out with his wife, and
finally left the house, saying that he and she would never
have words more. He then proceeded to divers public-
houses, and having drank deeply, went on to the Eastern
Union Railway, and deliberately laid himself down before
an approaching train, with his neck on the rails, so that it
completely severed his head from his body.
THE NEW YORK YACHT CLUB has offered a prize of
500 dollars, to be seiled for on the 13th of October next,
open to yachts of all nations. The course to be from
Robins' Reef Light, in the harbour of New York, around
a vessel to be anchored 12 miles from the beacon on Sandy
Hook, passing to the southward and westward of the
South-west Spit, and to the eastward of the buoy on the
west bank, going and returning. The entries to close on
the 22d of September.

DEATHS or Two CENTENARIANS.—On the 15th Feb.,
at the workhouse, Chelsea, an army pensioner died of
"natural decay" at the age (as stated) of 102 years. Mr.
Lerner, registrar, mentions that " this was a man of co•
lour, who had been for many years cymbal player in one
of the regimental bands." At 24, Duke-street, Aldgate,
London, on 19th Feb., the widow of a fruiterer died from
" decay of nature" at the great age of 104 years. She
came from Mentz in Germany to England in 1770, at the
age of 21 years. She retained her faculties till the last,
and never had medical advice previous to her last illness.
A COURT-MARTIAL at Devonport has passed an extra-
ordinary sentence on Francis Stapleton, boatswain's mate
on Her Majesty's ship Vulture, for disobeying the orders
of his lieutenant, and knocking down a sentry, charges
to which he pleaded guilty. The court have adjudged him
to be disrated to the rank of able seaman ; that he receive
thirty-six lashes from the cat-'o-nine-tails on his back,
on board the Vulture, at such times, and in such piopor-
lions, as the commander-in-chief at the port shall direct ;
that he be imprisoned in the Devon County Gaol for
twelve months ; and, finally, he be dismissed from her
Majesty's service with disgrace.
CONFESSION or Al URD E.H.—On Friday a respectable
looking young man entered the central police-office, Glas-
gow, stating that he wished to deliver himself up to justice
as he could get no peace in his mind from having recently
committed a murder. Some eight months ago, while at
ILongbank, about fifteen miles from London, an illegiti-
mate child was born to him, and he killed it by holding
ita head under water, and then tossing the body into the
-stream. He came to work at Barrbead, near Glasgow, as
a calico printer, some ten weeks ago, but remorse would
not let him rest, and he resolved to surrender himself. 1

A£-SIZE NEWS.—At Lincoln, John King, aged forty-
three, subject to epileptic fits, and who had been obliged
to have a man to watch him for some time past, was
tried for the murder of his mother. He was considered
better, and his keeper left him, when he knocked his
mother clown. and beat her till she was dead, calling it
" a spree." He was acquitted on the ground of insanity.
At Nottingham, Mary Ann Parr, aged 25, a miserable-
looking creature, halt idiotic, was found guilty of suffo-
cating her child by pressing it against her bosom till its
breath was out of the body, whilst in Bingham work-
house. She was sentenced to death, but the judge pro-
mised to forward a recommendation of mercy to the
proper quarter. At the same assizes, Mary Antliff, aged
25, was indicted for the murder of her husband's child, a
boy only two-and-a-half years old, whom, having been
married to its father only nine weeks, she kicked, beat,
and starved to death. The body was in a very bruised
and wretched state, and some special injuries on the head
were stated by the surgeon to have been the immediate
cause of the child's decease; but there was no evidence
how they were occasioned. The jury returned a verdict
of " Manslaughter," and she was sentenced to be tran-
sported for life.

STATISTICS OF EMIGRATION.—A parliamentary paper
has been published of all vessels belonging to the United
Kingdom cleared outward with passengers at the custom-
houses of Great Britain and Ireland, from the 16th of
June to the 31st of December, 1852, under the inspection
of emigration officers. The totals are given for the year
1852. From London, in the course of last year, the
registered tonnage of the emigrant chips was 124,856;
the officers numbered 762 ; the cooks, carpenters, and
stewards, 825; able seamen, 2,669; ordinary seamen,
638; landsmen. 251 ; boys, 661 ; the total number 4 the
crew was 6.006 ; of the emigrants from Londol, there
were 15,257 men, 7,964 women, and 8,026 children,
making 31,247. From Liverpool, in the year, the
registered tonnage of the ships was 368,294; the crews
numbered 11,954 ; and the emigrants—men, women, and
children, 137,331. From Plymouth the registered tonnage
of the ships was 50,957; the crews, 335; and the emigrants
numbered 8,443. From Glasgow and Greenock the
registered tonnage of the ships that sailed in the year was
27,850 the crews, 1,278; the emigrants, 11,542. From
Belfast 1,560 emigrants sailed ; from Dublin, 4,101 ;
from Galway, 774 ; from Limerick, 7,007 ; from London-
derry, 4,662; from Queenstown, 7,468; from Sligo and
outports the number of emigrants was 1,816; and from
Waterford and New Ross, 5,135. The total number of
emigrants last year from Great Britain and Ireland, under
the inspection of emigration officers, was 221,086.

FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH.—"For upwards of
nine years, (writes Mr. Thomas Province, of Winchmore
Hill, Middlesex), I have experienced the efficacy of this
excellent Medicine. I had long previously been afflicted
with headache and indigestion ; but a friend having in.
duced me to make a trial of Frampton's Pills, I now in-
form you that a few doses gave me great relief ; and dur-
ing that long period of time, I have taken them in pre-
ference to any other medicine ; and I have the happiness
of saying that I never had a better state of health, 7filinAs Is
attribute to Frampton 's Pills. I beg further to
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this medicine is in general use by my family add, that
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be universally adopted. allile7d
medicine vendors.
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gp, strand, London," on the ' Thomas Prout,
government stamp.

PROTESTANTISM iS said to be rapidly on the increase
in Florence, notwithstanding the efforts of the Jesuits to
check it.

COLONIAL CIVILIZATION.—An immense order for
handcuffs and leg-irons is now in course of execution in
Birmingham. A large quantity has already been shipped
for Melbourne.

MR. HERD, a farmer at Lincoln, has had to pay £2O
damages to the friends of a boy, eleven years of age,
whose leg had been bitten by a dog belonging to the de-
fendant, which, according to the indictment, supported
by evidence, he kept, knowing that " it was accustomed
to bite mankind."

IRON CHURCH FOR AUSTRALIA.-At the monthly
meeting of the Society for Promoting Christian Know-
ledge, the committee gave notice that at the next meeting
they would propose that £1,300 be granted towards send-
ing out aniron church and parsonage house to the gold
fields in Australia.

CHANCERY REFORM.—There will be numerous appoint-
ments under the new Suitors in Chancery Relief Act,
ranging from junior class, £lOO per annum, to senior class,
£BOO per annum ; pension, if disabled after fifteen years'
service, one half—the whole after fifty years' service; the
appointments will be in the gift of the Lord Chancellor.

EAST INDIA CHARTER.—It is said that Government
is contemplating the renewal of the charter for ten years
instead of twenty, and that the requirements of the in-
terval are to be satisfied by investing the Court of Direc-
tors with the privilege of electing a third of their own
number and expanding in some degree the Legislative
Councils of India.

COUNTY COURTJUSTICE.—CAUTION TO SURVEYORS.—
At the Lambeth County Court, a few days since, a house-
agent was plaintiff against a surveyor for payment of an
account for work done to a house, put into his hands to
let, and which he had taken upon himself to do, not only
without any authority whatever, but in defiance of
written directions he was not to do it, which document
was produced in court, and although it was dated the
21st February, 1852, and the man's account, for drain
cleaning and a few other similar works, consisted of items
dated from the 27th February to the Bth March, the
judge (if it is not a libel upon the title) actually gave
judgment for the plaintiff'.
THE FIRE AT DONCASTER CHURCH.—The coroner's
inquiry into this calamity was resumed on Friday week,
and the evidence seems conclusive that the fire had its
origin with the flues connected with the heating apparatus.
On Monday a meeting of clergy and inhabitants was held
at the Guildhall, for the purpose of considering the best
measures for the restoration of the parish church, when it
was resolved to adopt immediate measures for rebuilding.
The Doncaster Chronicle states that at a meeting of the
Town Council on Thursday, that body " set a very muni-
ficent example by heading the subscription list with the
sum of £5,000." It is estimated that the restoration will
involve an outlay of £35,000, and as the townspeople,
through their representatives, have by this noble grant
shown such cheerful willingness to help themselves out of
the disaster in which they have been involved, public libe-
rality will be promptly applied to make up the residue.

CANADA CLERGY RESERVES.—The Society for the Pro-
pagation of the Gospel has had one or two rather stormy
discussions at its meetings on the subject of the Canada
Cergy Reserves. It was very forcibly argued; and, in spite of
the threats of at least one bishop, a petition against the
Government measureempowering the Colonial Legislature
to deal with them, and, if it likes confiscate them, was
adopted by a large majority, and was ordered to be taken
to Lambeth to have the corporate seal affixed to it, of
which the Archbishop of Canterbury is the keeper. It is
not above once or twice in a century that the Society
adopts the course of petitioning the Legislature; and
it has always been very chary in showing any opposition
to measures of Government. So that this Clergy Reserves
Bill of our present Ministers must be deemed very ob-
jectionable to have produced such a movement on the
present occasion.

BLOWING UP OF Two STEAMERS.—On Saturday in-
formation was received of two very serious disasters off
the north coast. The George Bolton, belonging to Great
Grimsby. left the Doggerbank on Wednesday, with a full
cargo of cod fish, from the numerous craft engaged in
those fisheries, for Grimsby, to discharge her cargo. On
Friday morning, about seven o'clock she was steaming
past the New Sand, near the entrance of the Humber,
when her boilers exploded with terrifi-e force, tearing up
her decks, and nearly splitting the vessel in two. The
chief engineer, Christopher Jewitt, was blown up high on
to the deck, and fell near the mainmast. And another man,
named James Smith, was similarly hurt. In a few
minutes it was discovered that the vessel was fast sinking.
Her boat was immediately lowered, and the master and
five of the crew, carrying with them the two sufferers,
got into it, and abandoned her just in time to avoid being
drawn down by the schooner which foundered in deep water.
In the excitement which prevailed, two men were lost.
The other mishap befel a new steamer, called the
Engineer, which had been recently built on the Tyne..
She made an experimental and first trip on Friday, to
test the capabilities of her engines. As usual on such oc-
casions, a number of persons were on board who had been
attracted to witness her success. When soma miles out
to sea, off Tynemouth, her boilers exploded, and eight
or nine persons are reported to have been scalded. The
accounts add that it is feared some aro fatally injured.
The steamer became disabled, but two steam-tugs got
hold of her, and, after some difficulty, she was towed
back to the Tyne.

CURIOSITIES Or ELECTION BRIBERY.—The earliest
recorded instance of bribery at elections is that noticed by
Blackstone in his Commentaries, when, referring to 1571,
13th of Elizabeth, one Thomas Longe (being a simple man
and of small capacity to serve in Parliament) acknowledged
he had given the returning officer and others of the borough
of Westbury £4 to be returned member, and was for that
premium elected ; but for this offence the borough WS.
amerced, the member was removed, and the officer fined
and imprisoned. In one of Queen Anne's Parliaments, a
gentleman of large property, on becoming a candidate for
a borough, ordered a small alehouse in the town to. be•
opened in his interest. Boniface, thinking thia nvery
proper time to make his fortune, when forwarding his bill
charged the ale that was drunk at £3OO. The candidate
remonstrated and refused to pay, alleging, as a reason, it
was impossible his house could hold that quantity, but, at
the same time, to render him ample justice, proffered to.
pay for as much beer as the house would hold. This was
agreed to, and a surveyor employed, but after measuring
every corner of the house the surveyor reported its capa-
bilities at no more than £44 103. In the Shoreham
bribery case before the House of Corn mons, inJanuary,l77l;
it appeared the elections were there conducted by persons
who called themselves the " Christian Club," and who
met under the pretence of debating about religion, but in
reality to settle the business of electing a member for their
borough. Every person belonging to this club was sworn
to secresy under a penalty of £5OO ; and whenever a
member of Parliament was to be chosen two of the club
were deputed to treat with the candidate, and he who bid
most was always sure to be brought in ; but, immediately
on this being intimated on the inquiry, the papers of the
club were burnt to prevent further mischief.

, FATAL RAILWAY COLLISION.—Oa Wednesday a
dreadful accident occurred on the Bristol and Birmingham
branch of the Midland Railway, near the Mangotsfield
station, about five miles from the Bristol terminus, and
which resulted in the loss of two lives and severe injuries
to several other persons. The morning down mail train
from Birmingham and the north, which is due at Bristol
at three, a.m., had proceeded in safety till it approached
the Mangotsfield station, and was within only about five
miles of its destination, when, owing to some derange-
ment of the machinery or boiler tubes, it gave symptoms
of coming to a stand still. The engineer and stoker both
got off and endeavoured to ascertain the cause of the
stoppage, and also to repair the damage. For this pur-
pose the train was entirely stopped. At this time an
engine, which the previous evening bad gone up the line
for the purpose of assisting a heavy luggage train up the
steep incline, was iu the act of returning to the engine-
house at the Bristol station. The driver of this engine,
being wholly unaware of any stoppage on the line, and
the morning being very foggy, did not see the disabled
train till just as he was turning a sharp curve near the
Mangotsfield station, and had arrived within a very short
distance of it. He applied the breaks, and did all in his
power to stop the engine and avert a collision, but in
vain, for it ran into the train with alarming violence,
completely smashing the two last carriages all to pieces.
Of course, the most disastrous consequences ensued.
Subjoined is the list of casualities :—Mr. Thomas Jones,
Gloucester, killed ; Mr. William Ilantell, Gloucester,
killed; Mr. James Moreton, severe contusions and in-
juries of head and person ; Mr. S. Chas, a foreigner,
injuries of the ancle ; Bennett (the mail guard) wounds
and contusions of the face and head ; Mr. Henry Thomp-
son, fractured arm. In addition to this several other
passengers were severely bruised.

MARY GRAHAM'S BUSTLE.—At the Penrith session 3
an assault case was tried, of a more than ordinary laugh-
able character. The complainant and defendant are both
of one name, and live in that quiet nook of the world
called Mattersdale. The complainant is a buxom young
damsel—a domestic servant,—and the defendant a vene-
rable and highly respected old lady who has seen nearly 70
summers. It appeared that Mary Graham the younger
had, for some cause, which did not transpire, slept two or
three nights at the house of her namesake. She left be-
hind her her bustle ; on discovering the loss of which she
went to Mrs. Graham's house and asked for it. Mrs.
Graham, however, looked upon the bustle with horror :
regarding it as an insufferable innovation on ancient
usages in the article of female attire, and rated the girl
severely for her impudence in even attempting to use so un-
chaste a piece of bodily furniture. Mrs. Graham didn't
know what the world wad cum tul. When she was a
young lass theare was nea bussels, nor fine fal lals, bit
theare was far better times, far better wives, en far finer
lasses, at' went tet' kurk on a Sunday wie blue peticwoats•
and clean bedgowns than owt to be met with now a-days.
It was cum te' summet when bits o' servant lasses mud
try te' mak theirsells leek eirt
to fw
demand
l wieart ci theiriler bustle. bussels en
At
their ket aestead o' buyin a shift or twa to their backs,
The girl, notwithstanding these gratuitous rebukes, con-
tinued to call on Mrs. Graham
last, Mrs. Graham began to think that her mistress could
not have proper notions respecting the vice of bustle
wearing, otherwise she would correct her girl ; hence, on
the girl's last visit, Mrs. Graham followed her home, and
took with her the bustle, with which, in the presence of
her mistress, she gave her a thorough cuffing over the
head and ears—told her she was a saucy slut—that no
prudent woman would wear such a thing, and, that if she
did not know better herself, her mistress ought to have
taught her that bustles were an outrage upon common
decency. The consequence was, that the girl summoned
Mrs. Graham for an assault. Complainant stated her case
in substance, what we have given above, and called a
witness, her mistress's brother, to swear to the facts of
the assault. The young man said he saw Mrs. Graham
beat Mary with the bustle, and he also heard her chastise
his sister for allowing the girl to wear it. Mrs. Graham at
once admitted the charge; she thought it only right that
a young girl ought to be taken through hands when sha
so far lost a sense of proper modesty and decorum as to
wear a bustle. She magistrates could not take it upon
themselves to adjudicate upon the propriety or impropriety
of wearing bustles. Moreover, it was evident that Mrs.
Graham was actuated by the best of motives; that the
welfare of the girl was the sole object she had in view ;
but as she had committed an assault, they were under the
necessity of inflicting upon her a penalty of 2s. 6d.— Wed-
morland Gazette.