The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-07-23 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL

Ist Innings. 2d Innings.
Miller c. C. Garnett 6 b. R. Garnett ..
A. Todd c. J. Potter
Burgoyne stump Hampson.. 17 c. Fairweather
Lt. Broughton b. J. Potter.. 0 c. John Cooke
Captain Shewell s. Hampson.2l b. R. Garnett
G. Thompson b. J. Potter .. 0 b. Hampson l4
C. Cameron b. R. Garnett .. 19 b. J. Potter
Morgan b. do. 14 not out
T. Todd b. J. P0tter........ 0 c. C. Garnett 10
Ellis s. Hampson .......... 8 c. John Cooke 8
Lyon not out .............. 0 b. Hampson

89 150
The Earl Talbot, the lion. R. Clive, and the lion.
Spencer Montague, are on a visit to our townsman, Mr.
Richard Earle ; and Sir Charles Leman, Bart., and the
Rev. Dr. Buckland, are staying with Mr. Samuel Turner.

APPREHENSION OF COlNERS.—lnformation having been
received by the police that a gang of coiners were in the
habit of assembling at No. 9, Plump tre-court Shoe-lane,
for the purpose of manufacturing base coin, o, n Saturday
afternoon Inspector Penny, Fink, 17, Farrar, 200, and Hum-
phries, 74, G division, proceeded thither for the purpose
of making a capture of the parties. On their arrival they
found that the house was the residence of a sweep, and that
it was fastened. They instantly made a forcible entry, and
going to the second floor they found that also barricadoed,
so as to prevent their immediate entrance, on which they
forced• the dour, when they found -a man standing before
a large fire with his shirt off, in the act of melting, together
with moulds and implements for manufacturing base coin.
A large quantity of newly manufactured counterfeit sixpences
were lying upon a table in the apartment, and a female in
the further part of the room washing. On seeing the officers,
the man instantly threw down the moulds, and jumping upon
them smashed them to pieces, but the officers collected the
fragments and seized the whole of the implements, together
with spoons and other articles of Queen's metal, &c., used
in their illicit trade. When about to take the pgrty into
custody, they made a desperate resistance, the man placing
himself in an attitude of self-defence, and swearing that they
should not take him. He was at length overpowered and
handcuffed, when a hackney-coach being procured both pri-
soners were conveyed to Rosomond-street station-house, fol-
lowed by an immense mob of persons hooting and pelting.
In the course of the day the prisoners were taken before the
magistrates at Hatton-garden, where they gave their names
William Beswick and Ann Coates. The offence and appre-
hension, however, having taken place in the city, the case
was referred to the city authorities, and the prisoners were
again taken to the station-house, and ultimately before an al-
derman, who remanded the prisoners for the purpose of se-
curing the attendance of the authorities of the Mint.—Times.
DEPRESSION OF TRADE AT GLOVCESTER.—Upon no oc-
casion scarcely since our city has become a port has there
been such a general depression of trade as that which has
existed here for the last six weeks. Business of all descrip-
tions seems literally suspended, and there is now, in the
midst of summer, a far larger number of persons out of em-
ployment than there were during the intense frost of last
winter.

SHOCKING MURDER ATJ3ARNARD CASTLE.—Within the
last few days, the inhabitants of Barnard Castle have been
thrown into a state of considerable excitement by the disco-
very of a murder committed under circumstances of great
atrocity. The name of the deceased was Anthony Chapelow,
aged 57 years, a farm-servant, residing at Startforth, and in
the employment of Mr. Hunter, of Pecknal, near Barnard
Castle. He was at the house of Mr. T. Straker, in a state of
intoxication, on Sunday evening last, which house he left
about eleven o'clock, in company with a man named Dent,
who had been drinking with him. He proceeded along
Bridgegate, on his road home, but had not gone above 200
yards when some person or persons committed the atrocious
aced. He was found in a yard about twenty minutes after
he had left the house. He had received several kicks on his
body, apparently by the shoe-heel of a man, and was sadly
bruised, but life was not extinct. A cart was proctired, and
he was conveyed to his own house, where he lingered in a
state of insensibility until Monday morning, when he died,
without being able to give any clue to the perpetrators of the
deed. Dent and two other men are at present in custody,
suspected of being concerned in the affair.--Gateshead Ob-
server. •

MISCELLANEOUS.

. The Archbishop of Canterbury is making a tour of confir-
mation in Kent.

1,200 Egyptian invalided soldiers, who were sent back
from Constantinople, were retained at Alexandria, in hopes
that when recovered they might still serve.
The tower of St. Saviour's Church, Southwark, one of the
finest specimens of English architecture of the twelfth and
and thirteenth centuries now entire in the metropolis, is said
to be in an unsafe state, and the fine peal of bells so well
known in London, are to be rung in order to test the sta-
bility of the tower, when a report will issue from the vestry
on the subject. Mr. Rose, the architect, insists that there
is no danger in the experiment of ringing the bells, and is to
watch the effect during the performance of the ringing.
RAILW:IY RECEIPTS.—The following are the receipts of
the principal railways in operation for the last week—that is
to say up to the date at which the respective returns are
made :—London and Birmingham, £17,435 ; Greenwich,
£926 17s fid ; Birmingham and Derby, £1,257 17s 3d •
South Western, £6,307 5s 5d ; Northern and Eastern, £906
13s Sd ; Birmingham and Gloucester, £1,909; Midiand Coun-
ties, £2,930; North Midland, £1,406 9s 10d; Hull and
Selby, £BlO 13s ld ; Manchester and Birmingham, £323 ;
Great North of England, £1,422 lis 6d ; and London and
Blackwall, £1,004 7s 10d. It is to be remarked that no
public return is made [by the Great Western railway com-
pany.

THE BANK OF MANCHESTER.—The bauk of Manches-
ter, which for some time past has been the only joint-stock
bank of issue in the county of Lancashire, has come to a
resolution to withdraw its notes payable to bearer on demand,
and to cease any further issues from this day. This bank
was established in the year 1828, and commenced its issues
shortly afterwards, and having given the principle a fair trial,
and finding that a circulation of local notes is objectionable
in that county, its directors have at length prudently decided
to discontinue their issues, and to use hereafter the notes of
the ffink of England only.

MARRIAGE OF SIR ROBERT PEEL'S DAUGHTER.—On
Wednesday, at St. George's Chapel, Hanover-square, Lon-
don, Viscount Villiers, M. P., eldest son of the Earl and
Countess of Jersey, to Miss Peel, eldest daughter of the
right honourable Sir R. Peel, Bart., M. P., and Lady Peel.
The Lord Bishop of Oxford officiated at the ceremony, in the
presence of a numerous family circle.—Their Royal High-
nesses Prince George, and Princess Augusta of Cambridge,
attended by Baron Knesebeck and Lady Augusta of Somer-
set, were present at the solemnization. At the conclusion of
the ceremony the wedding party repaired to the family resi-
dence of the right honourable baronet, in Whitehall Gardens,
where a sumptuous entertainment was given to a highly dis-
tinguished assemblage. The bridemaids were Lady Frances
Vane, Ladies Clementina and Adeliza Villiers, and Miss
Eliza Peel. The company began to arrive at half-past twelve
o'clock, and were conducted through the spacious vestibule
up the grand staircase, adorned by the magnificent full-
length portrait of John Kemble, as " Rolla," by Sir Thomas
Lawrence, to the drawing-room, the landing leading thereto
being ornamented by a profusion of fragrant plants, where
was suspended the superb production of the late talented Sir
David Wilkie, so well known to the visitors of the Royal
Academy exhibition, as the preaching of John Knox. In the
drawing-room, which was appropriated for the the reception
of the visitors, where the portraits of the Duke of Welling-
ton, (the celebrated full length,) the late Earl of Eldon, the
late Lord Stowel, the late right hon. George Canning, the
late Earl of Liverpool, the Earl of Aberdeen, and Miss Peel,
(now Viscountess Villiers,) all by Sir T. Lawrence. It is not
generally known that the right honourable baronet is in the
possession of a larger collection of the original productions
of that eminent painter than any other individual in this
country. The dejuner was laid on an extended table, ar-
ranged along the centre of the gallery. It was served up in
a style of princely splendour, the viands being of the most
recherche " cuisine. Shortly after two o'clock the company
sat down to the elegant wedding breakfast ; and soon after-
wards the happy bride and bridegroom started for Middleton-
park, Oxon, (the seat of the Jersey family,) to pass the
honeymoon. Their Royal Highnesses Prince George and
Princess Augusta of Cambridge, with their attendants, re-
tired at three o'clock, and the nuptial party shortly afterwards
broke up.
There is a vacancy in the representation of the North
Riding of Yorkshire, occasioned by the death of Lord Fever-
sham, whose eldest son, the Hon. William Duncombe, re-
presented that division of the county in the last parliament,
and was re-elected a few days since ; he is now, consequently,
Lord Feversham. The late baron was in his seventy-seventh
year, and married Lady Charlotte Legge, aunt of the Earl of
Dartmouth. The present peer is in his forty-sixth year, and
married in December, 1823, Lady Louisa Stewart, daughter
of the Earl of Galloway, by whom he has a large family, his
eldest son and heir being now in his sixteenth year.
THE " POPULAR" MINISTRY.—The popular ministry are
at some loss to account for their defeats in London, West-
minster, Dublin, Liverpool, Leeds, Hull, and in other large
constituencies, which they were formerly enabled to com-
mand. There is no re-action they assert, the advantage hav-
ing been obtained by a long and careful attention to the re-
gistry ; as if that long and careful attention to the best and
most legitimate means of defeating them afforded no proof of
re-action! This care arid attention has not however been
confined to the conservatives, but has keen exercised in an
equal degree by the antagonist party ; but bricks are not to
be made without straw ; and although there has been no re-
laxation of exertion on the part of the liberals in regard to
the registry, there has been a sad falling off in the number of
dupes disposed to register for the purpose of voting for the
liberal candidates. The fact is, that in the course of the late
elections, thousands of persons who had originally registered
with the intention of supporting liberal principles have been
found voting for conservative candidates. If this be not re-
action, we know not what is.—United Service Gazette.
THE SPEAKLRSHIP.—The first question to be decided on
the meeting of the newly elected House of Commons will, of
course, be the choice of a Speaker. Mr. Shaw Lefevre will,
no doubt, be set aside in favour of a gentleman of sound
conservative principles. Mr. Henry Goulburn, and Mr.
C. W. W. Wynn, M.P. for Montgomeryshire, are mentioned
as candidates for the vacant chair of the House of Commons
—the latter appears the most likely to be selected. Mr.
Gonlburn, it will be remembered, contested the Speakership
in May, 1839, with the late Speaker, Mr. Shaw Lefevre, and
was only defeated by a majority of 18 votes, the numbers
being 317 and 299. Mr. C. W. W. Wynn contested it in
the year 1817 with Mr. C. Manners Sutton, and was defeated
by a majority of 160 votes ; the numbers being 312 and 152.
The late Speaker, Mr. S. Lefevre, has only held office about
two years, but his predecessor, the right honourable James
Abercromby (now Lord Dunfermline) remained Speaker
nearly four years and a half, having served in two consecutive
parliaments. He was first elected in February, 1835, in the
Peel parliament, by a majority of 10 votes over Mr. C. M.
Sutton, who was afterwards elevated to the peerage by the
title of Viscount Canterbury. Mr. Abercromby was re-
elected in 1837, and he continued to occupy the honourable
post of speaker to the House of Commons until May, 1839,
when he resigned, just two days before the temporary resig-
nation of the late Melbourne ministry, after their defeat upon
the Jamaica question. Mr. S. Lefevre was then proposed as
the new Speaker by the resuscitated whig government, and
was elected, as we have already stated, by a majority of 18,
in a house of 620 members (including tiro tellers.) It is un-
certain whether there will be any opposition made to the
choice of a conservative Speaker, the chief question being as
to the individual member of that party most likely to be
fixed on.

BRUTAL ASSAULT.—As a clergyman of this diocese, ac-
companied by two ladies, was returning home from the
neighbourhood of Enniscorthy on Saturday night last, they
were furiously assailed, while passing through Taghmon, by
a mob, which, it is understood, had been chairing Mr. Hawk-
Shaw. The elder lady was struck on the head and neck by
several stones, and is now suffering from concussion of the
brain. The young lady received a blow on the hip, which is
considerably bruized. The driver was struck severely on the
side. This blow was doubtless intended for the clergyman,
as the man who threw it was seen to pick a large stone and
deliberately hurl it at that gentleman's head. Two of the
mob having vainly endeavoured to seize the horse's head,
one of them caught the elder lady's foot, and attempted to
drag her from the car ;
,the rapid speed, however, at which
the horse was then moving, combined with her own resistance,
contributed to defeat the design.—Wexford Conservative.
AN AMERICAN JUDGE.—J. H. Carr, judge of Monroe
county, Missouri, died suddenly in a drunken frolic , at tha
place, a few days since. He was a man of property and dis-
tinction.—New York paper.
MOST AFFLICTING OCCURRENCE.—OR Saturday, the
10th instant, the neighbourhood of Downhill was cast into
gloom by a sad disaster which happened a company of fishers
belonging to that place. They had gone out (five in num-
ber) in a small skiff to lift their lines, but before they suc-
ceeded in doing so, the wind and sea became boisterous.
For some time the storm continued to increase in fury, and
though the poor fellows battled nobly with the fiercer ele-
ments, they were finally overpowered, and sunk beneath
the wave, no more to live till awakened by the trump of
God. The boat floated to the shore, all severed in pieces,
but none of the bodies have yet been found. Four of, these
men have left wives and families unprovided for. The case
of the fifth is very mournful: he had a brother drowned be-
fore he was born, and for that brother his parents named
him, and now he too has meta similar fate.—Derry Sentinel.

POPULARITY OF THE CONSERVATIVES.—The constitu-
encies of England and Wales in which the Conservatives
have gained during the late election, number—
In the cities and boroughs* 78,676
In the counties .
The constituencies in which the Whig-
__

-223,713

Radicals have gained number—
In
the cities and boroughs 48,776
In the counties..

-51,637

Difference in favour of the Conservatives 172,07 G
* Cardigan and Thetford are not included.
The accuracy of this statement cannot be questioned.—
Standard.

It is pretty clear that ministers, in dissolving the old par-
liament, calculated confidently on being supported by the
new ; or else why the choppings and changes they made among
their own body previous to the dissolution ? This could only
have been done to prevent the necessity of the parties vaca-
ting their seats, if appointed after the election. Mr. Stanley,
however, the new paymaster of the forces, takes nothing by
his motion ; but, on the contrary, loses seat, place, and pay.
Unhappy whipper-in !
THE TEa TRADE, LONDON, JULy 19.—There has not
been so firm a market for tea since our last report, and we
quote a fluctuation of about Ad to Id per pound, taking the
extreme rates of last week for company's congou—viz., 2s
43d to 2s 3d per pound cash. We have public sales again
to-morrow of about 12,000 packages, and this has to-day
checked any extensive business. The deliveries of tea last
week in London increased by 90,000 pounds over those of the
week preceding, many parties having laid in extra stock,
even private consumers probably, in anticipation of a further
rise in prices. About 522,000 pounds paid duty. The ave-
rage price of company's congou to-day was about 2s 4d per
pound cash.

LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT—FOUR MEN DROWNED.—I
have just received intelligence of a most painful occurrence
that took place in the channel between•the island of Rathlin
and the main land, on Tuesday, the Gth inst. A fishing boat
had put off from the above island to put shell-fish on board
one of the Derry steamers, and after having done so the boat
put into port Morn, on of the small watering places on the
coast. When returning to Rathlin, the sea, that had been
very calm, got quite tempestuous ; the boat lived for some
time, but was at last overpowered by the waves, and the four
poor fellows who manned her met a watery grave : the boat
and some of the tackle drifted ashore, but by the latest ac-
counts none of the bodies have been recovered. One of the
men has left a wife and seven children to bemoan his fate, and
I have heard that the others have also left families unpro-
vided for.—Derry Sentinel.
On Friday last a very singular accident occurred in the
family of Mr. Aylward, of the King's Head Inn, Billing-
hurst, Sussex. It appears that the barn being infested with
rats, a ratcatcher was employed to ferret them out. After
some time, the family were alarmed by the shrieks of the
nurse, who had charge of an infant nine months old. She
had left the babe sleeping in an upper room, and on her
return, was dreadfully alarmed by seeing a ferret, which had
fixed itself on one of the child's temples, and was sucking
the blood. The nurse instantly seized the animal, and with
great difficulty forced it to relinquish its hold ; it, however,
bit her several times severely before assistance arrived, and
struggled to get back to the infant, who would, no doubt,
have been killed but for the providential arrival of the nurse.
—Morning Herald.

SUICIDE FROM DREAD OF A WORKHOUSE.— A co-
roner's inquest was held on Friday afternoon, before Mr.
Wakley, M.P., at the Orange Tree, Orange-street, Blooms-
bury, on view of the body of Joseph Rous, aged seventy -five
years, who hung himself, under the distressing circumstances
detailed in the subjoined evidence : —Mr. John Cheetham, of
10, Kingsgate-street, Holborn, harness-maker, stated that
he had known the deceased between six and seven years.
He was an organ builder, and occupied a small, room on
the second floor in witness's house. On his (witness's) re-
turn home at eight o'clock on Tuesday evening, his wife
gave him a note, which she had found about five o'clock on
the stairs. It was in the deceased's hand-writing, and con-
tained the following words :—" Mr. Chectham, Mr. Rous
will be much obliged to you if you will open his door," but,
as he could only partially open it, and thinking that the
deceased had put a box against it, he pushed it violently,
when it flew open, and the deceased who was hanging to it
by a rope, swung round, and came in contact with his face.
Witness, being very much teritied, had not sufficient pre-
sence of mind to cut him down. He ran into the street and
called two men, and they took him down. He was dead
but not quite cold, and a handkerchief was tied over his
eyes. By the Coroner : The deceased bad been for nearly
three years without any employment. He had pawned and
sold all his tools, and nearly all his clothes, and had latterly
been without any means of subsistence. Witness had fre-
quently advised him to apply for parochial relief, but he
had always said he never would, and that he would rather
hang himself than go into the union workhouse. Mr. W.
Tylcot, of Bagnigge-wells-road, stated that the deceased
had been for the last twelve months in the greatest distress.
He had frequently been without food the whole of the day,
and in the evening he would go to the Queen's Head, a
public house nearly opposite his lodgings, to borrow a few
halfpence of some of his acquaintances who frequented the
parlour, " to get himself," as he used to say " a morsel of
bread." Witness, and the other friends of the deceased,
had frequently advised him to apply to the parish, and
offered, if he went into the workhouse, to subscribe a small
sum weekly to furnish him with pocket-money. The de-
ceased always shuddered at the idea, and said he would
rather destroy himself than " be confined in a union bastile."
Witness saw- him last alive at the Queen's Head late on
Monday night, when, after much persuasion, he said he
would apply the next morning to the parish for outdoor
relief. The Coroner said that this was far from being an
isolated case. The generality of persons who had formerly
been in 'easy circumstances were extremely unwilling to ap-
ply for parochial relief, for fear of being sent to the work-
house. The jury, after having deliberated three quartets
of an hour, returned a verdict of Temporary insanity."

RAPID CONVEYANCE.—On Wednesday morning week-a
train of 52 goods' waggons, containing upwards of 180 tons
of goods—the gross weight with the waggons being actually
more than 300 tons—was brought down from Selby to this
place, by the company's engine Liverpool, in the short space
of one hour and fifty minutes, a distance of thirty-one miles.
—Hull Tacket.

A Lancashire agriculturist, near Manchester, in a letter to
the editor of the Mark Lane Express, says : I have a cow in
my stock which has had about five calves, two of which she
has dropped since she came into my possession. She is now
giving not less than twenty-six quarts of milk daily ; and this
appearing of a superior richness, induced me to .try what
weight of butter her milk for seven days would yield. The
trial was completed yesterday, and the butter weighed 221 b.
31oz. We make up our butter into printed lumps of Boz.
each ; and to the half-pound weight a halfpenny of the new
coinage is added. I had a cow ten years ago, which gave
20Ib. 6oz. in the week. Do you think the prize dairy cow at
the Liverpool meeting will have such solid pretensions to dis-
tinction as either of these animals ?

The dowry of the eldest daughter of Sir Robert Peel, who
was married last week to Lord Villiers, the eldest son of the
Earl of Jersey, is stated to be 150,0001.
DERIVATION OF " PENNSVLVANIA."—The origin of the
name is thus explained. It was a proposition of King Charles,
that the province should be called Penn : or that this name
should form part of any appellation that might be fixed on.
This was resisted by Penn, lest it should be imputed to him
as vanity. He himself proposed to. call it New Wales, but
this was for some reason disapproved. Penn next suggested
Sylvania, as the province was so beautifully diversified with
wood, to which the king insisted on prefixing the name of
Penn in honour of the admiral, whose memory he revered.
Buckingham's America.

STATE OF TRADE.—The failure of the eminent banking-
house of Geymuller and Co. of Vienna, intelligence of whic
reached this town by the Hamburgh mail on Monday even-
ing, produced a decidedly unfavourable effect upon our yarn
market yesterday ; the German buyers generally suspending
their operations until the effect of this unexpected and ex-
tensive failure is better ascertained. The amount of busi-
ness done was consequently very small ; and rather low
prices were, in many instances. submitted to: The demand
for manufactured goods were also extremely limited, and the
iusiness done in printing cloth was generally at rather lower
tes. We think it right to state, in the reference by the en-
gements of the banking house of Daintry, Ryle, and Co.
which appeared in the Guardian of Wednesday last, that
there was an inaccuracy of expression which was calculated
to mislead the reader. The liabilities of the Manchester
firm arc upwards of half a million (in fact about £600,000),
but a large portion of these is owing to the London bankers ;
and the amount which will eventually fall upon Manchester
and its neighbourhood is comparatively small.—Manchester
Guardian.

HALIFAX, JULY I.—The number of emigrants who had
landed this year at Quebec, to the sth June, was 12,426; the
New York paper states that, in the month of June, 4800
passengers had landed there.

ROPE-MAKING IN AMERICA.—The rope-walk of the
Navy-yard is one of the finest I ever remember to have
seen. It is nearly half a mile in length, and two stories in
height ; it is built entirely of the same beautiful granite as
that used in the construction of the dry-dock, and is roofed
with iron and slate. The window-shutters are all cased with
iron, and the whole is rendered fireproof. Some very recent
and excellent improvements have been introduced into the
machinery here, by a native American engineer, Mr. Tread-
well, by which a steam-engine at one end of the building is
made to furnish the requisite power for performing all the
operations for rope-making, with very little aid from the la-
bour of men, from the first combining of the hemp, and
spinning it into threads, to the tarring and twisting the yarn,
and the winding of the whole into the hawser or the cable
required. I had seen some of the best rope-walks in Eng-
land, both in the royal dock-yards and in the private esta-
blishments of London and other ports; but I remember no-
thing equal to this of Boston, either in the beauty and per-
fection of the building and the machinery, or the admirable
uniformity of strain in every strand and every fibre in. the
rope produced ; or the finished roundness, smoothness, and
flexibility of the largest hawsers and cables, of which several
were submitted to our examination, both in progress and
completed.—Buckinyhanz's America.

THREE LIVES LOST.—Yesterday evening, shout six
o'clock, a most distressing and fatal accident occurred at the
Surrey side of Westminster-bridge. It appeared that seven
persons had hired a boat at Hungerford-market to proceed
up the river, and upon their return (the tide running down
very fast(, and they not being able to manage the boat, they
struck against the fourth pier of the bridge, and the whole
party was immersed in the water. A loud scream almost
immediately brought four boats to their assistance, and they
succeeded in saving four of them, the other three having met
a watery grave, notwithstanding the exertions of the Thames
Police boat and several men from the establishment of Mr.
Lyons, the boat builder, who used the drags for a considera-
ble time, but without success. The boat itself was towed
ashore, and, after a considerable interval, was taken back to
Hungerford-market.—Morning Herald.
LETTER ENVELOPES.—These, in the manner in which
they are now used, are of modern contrivance ; and amongst
ladies and gentlemen who like to see how prettily they can
fold up a letter and exhibit the devices on their seals in the
most ornamental position, have now become extremely fa-
shionable. They are also supposed to conceal their contents
from the inspection of the impertinent and curious through
whose hands they may pass, more effectually than the former
and now vulgar method of folding the paper. But this is
quite a mistake. The paste used in attaching the three under-
most corners of the envelope has so tender a hold, that it is
the easiest thing possible to withdraw either of the ends, slip
out the letter, read every word of its contents, and then re-
store it to the place of its fancied security, without having
broken or in any way defaced the pretty wax ornament which
has been so tastefully laid on the upper corner. To make an
envelope of any use, the wax should be applied to each of the
ends, so as to hold all of them together ; but this would re-
quire such a load of wax that it would mar the beauty of the
invention, and the sooner the old method is resorted to the
better.

THE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES.—The par-
ticulars of the population of the United States, as exhibited
in the return made to Congress under the last census, was
received by the late arrival
.from New York. It appears
to comprise 14,181,5/5 whites, 386,069 free coloured,
and 2,483,536 oth-rs, making a grand total population of
17,031,180. The number of seamen in the service of the
United States is estimated at 6,100, but is not included in
the above return.

Her majesty's ship Vestal arrived on Saturday, June 19,
from Vera Cruz, Tampico, and Havannah, by way of Ber-
muda. She had specie to the amount of 700,000 dollars. She
is to sail for Quebec in a few days. The London Journal of
Science states, that under the old system of packets to Hali-
fax in North America, the expense to government was
£40,000 a year ; but under the new system £20,000 is real-
ised, making a saving of £60,000 per annum.—Halifax
paper.

AFFECTING INCIDENT.—The Texas papers state, that at
the meeting of the committee in Cincinnati to agree upon
suitable measures to express the public feeling on the melan-
choly occasion of General Harrison's death, a motion was
made, and unanimously adopted, that Judge Burnet be re-
quested to deliver the eulogy upon the late President. The
Judge was present, being chairman of the committee. He
declined the request, and " never," says the Cincinnati Re-
publican, " did we witness deeper feeling or listen to truer
eloquence than in the remarks he made. I cannot accept,'
said he ; I couldinot speak. I knew Harrison 46 years ago ;
he was a brother to me then ; we have been brothers ever
since. Our hearts were knit together, and I should choke
were Ito speak of him. He is the last of the little band who
started this city. lam alone now, all alone, and I cannot
talk of my friend. I cannot.' And the manly tears fell
down his cheeks, and the sobs which were heard coming alike
from the aged and the young of both parties told the deep
sympathy which all felt. The scene was touching. It over-
came all who witnessed it."

OPERATIONS AGAINST THE BOYNE.—Mr. Abbinet has
been for some time past successfully engaged in removing
the wreck of this ship. On the Bth instant two charges of
1001bs and 601bs of powder were lowered into the after-part
of the ship, and fired with considerable effect by Daniell's
battery, The diver visited the spot on the following day,
and the workmen were then engaged in removing what they
could by means of a machine constructed for the purpose ;
it is a powerful and weil-constructed scoop. By means of
this instrument a great deal of mud was removed, and con-
siderable quantities of timber and iron work were brought
up. But the most curious thing recovered on this occasion,
brought up in the scoop, was a beautifully ornamented brass
field-piece 34- inches calibre and 4 feet in extreme length. It
has the following inscription in Swedish, translated by Mr.
Vanderburgh, of this town :—" With GOD'S help, by King
Charles XII., taken at the battle of Clitzow, 9th July,
1702." This battle was fought between Augustus, King of
Poland, and Charles, on the plains between Cracow and
Warsaw, the former having about 24,000 men, and the latter
little more than half that number, yet Charles gained a com-
plete victory, and took possession of the enemy's camp,
baggage, cannon, &c., of which the one now recovered was
one. It seems somewhat curious that this gun was raised
from the deep on the anniversary of the day Charles took it
from the Poles. In addition to the above inscription, this
gun has also the following:—" F.A.H.Z.5.1.C.8." and
under this, ."E.U.W.C.H.U.R.F.;" crossed under this
again there is a shield. having on it two swords crossed.
The operations are still proceeding. The gun here men-
tioned was doubtless brought from Guadeloupe, as the
Boyne' had in her many trophies from that island, when
she was burnt.—Hampshire Telegraph.
In consequence of the melancholy loss of their son, who
was on board of the ill-fated President steamer, the Duke
and Duchess of Richmond do not come to Scotland with
their family this season, but mean to remain in seclusion at
Goodwood, in Sussex. The splendid apartments at Gordon
Castle will, therefore, be still and silent in the absence of the
noble fanaily.--Aberdeen Paper.