The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-05-01 00:00:00

TIIE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

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To-day is the eightieth anniversary of the Duke of Wel-
lington's birth-day.
Mr. Thornton, of Stapleton, near Darlington, had sent
to him, by the King of the Belgians, a gold medal, in re-
turn for a present of a shorn ox.
SARAH HARRIET THOMAS.—The mother and sisters
of this wretched girl were present among the crowd as-
sembled to witness her execution.
It is intended to erect, at Edinburgh, a monument to
the memory of the late Sir Andrew Agnew, similar to that
to Dr. Chalmers.
Prince Albert has arranged to lay the first stone of the
Additional Pauper Lunatic Asylum for the county of
Middlesex, at Colney Hatch, on Tuesday, the Bth of May.
On Tuesday, a prisoner confined in the house of correc-
tion at Southwell, Notts, slipped while descending from
the treadwheel, and his' head was so dreadfully crushed
under the wheel that he expired immediately.
Five men were drowned at South Shields, last week,

by the upsetting of a boat. The calamity was mainly
caused by the men " larking" with the seamen on board
a ship which they were

The county of Cambridge has, at a public meeting, de-
clared against the free-trade system. An amendment for
vote by ballot, Mr. Hume's plan for reducing the expen-
diture, &c., met with only twenty supporters.
FIRE AT GREENOCK.—On Sunday morning a fire broke
out in the extensive sugar-house in the Glebe there, the
property of Messrs. Ebenezer Connall and Co., which
destroyed property to the amount of £20,000.

On Thuisdity, a number of boys were gathering shell
fish on a ledge of rocks, near Leith, when the tide sur-
rounded them, and, though several boats were put off to
their relief, eight or nine were drowned.

An osprey, -which measured five feet three inches from
tip to tip of the wings, was lately taken at Windlestone,
Durham, in a trap set by Sir William Eden's gamekeeper,
who had seen the bird catch and devour several of the fish
n his master's fish ponds.
The inhabitants of Durham are about to erect in that
city, at an expense of £2OOO, a new town-hall and market
piazzas. The mayor (W. Henderson, Esq.) has contri-
buted the munificent sum of one hundred guineas for the
object, and the bishop and dean the same amount.
A man and his wife were, a few days since, crushed to
death at Torquay, by the sudden fall of a wall which
buried them in the ruins ; the woman was engaged
in washing at the back of the house, and the husband was
reading a newspaper to her.
A SENSIBLE RECANTATION.—Tf there is an incident in
the conducting of this paper, to which we look back with
strong dissatisfaction, it is that we should have been per-
suaded against our own taste and our own inclination to
admit a wood-cut print of any criminal into these columns.
—Bristol Times.

The Queen Dowager has caused twelve neat cottages to
be built at Penge, for the residence of the widows of three
commanders, three lieutenants, three masters, and three
Paymasters and pursers of the Royal Navy. It is also
said that each residence is to have an endowment of £3O
per annum.
Mr. Mitchel, the Irish convict, is to be removed, with
about 300 other convicts, from Bermuda to the Cape of
Good Hope, in the Neptune, convict ship. His health
has been suffering a good deal. They are to be allowed
tickets of leave on arrival at the Cape.
On Thursday, a female, aged 29, while dancing with a
young man in a public dancing-room, suddenly fell down
and died. A surgeon said that he found the vessels of
the brain much congested, and the heart extensively dis-
eased, which were quite sufficient to cause death. He had
no doubt death had been accelerated by the excitement of

dancing.
HEAVY FAILURE IN THE SALT TRADE.—In the Gazette
of Tuesday night appears an announcement of the bank-
ruptcy of Mr. G. Ellins, salt manufacturer, of Droitwich,
and a magistrate of the county. The liabilities of the
estate, it is said, will fall little short of £lOO,OOO, and the
affair, it is feared, will turn out very badly for the unse-
cured creditors.

Martha Price, an old woman of 93, died suddenly on
Thursday, at Maddresfield, Worcestershire, under strong
suspicion of baying been murdered by Thomas Price, her
own son, a labourer, who resided with her, and who is
said to have administered arsenic to her in a cup of tea.
The old woman had £l7O in the bank, to which the son
became entitled on her death.

A SINGULAR VIOLET.—A singularly-grown violet was
plucked a few days since near Truro. Its stems, instead
of being of the usual forms, were flattened and winged ;
its flowers were suspended on a kind of tendril ; while one
of the flowers appeared, as it were, in a state of transition
between a leaf and a corolla, and was illustrative of the
botanic theory that flowers are but further developed
leaves.

A woman, named Geering, of Hastings, is in custody
at that place, it being suspected that her husband and a
young men, her son; both of whom recently died sud-
denly, were poisoned by her, and that a second son, who
is ill, has also had poison administered to him by her. In
each case of death she received £5 from a benefit society
for burial money.

James Burdett, aged fifty-three, a labourer, was tried
at Aberdeen, on Wednesday, for having poisoned his wife
with arsenic, which he administered to her in lieu of
powder sent by the medical attendant. He was found
guilty, and sentenced to be hanged on Tuesday, the 22d
instant. It is nearly twenty years since an execution
took place at Aberdeen. The last was that of a woman
for having poisoned her husband. _ _

A CHILD DROWNED IN FLOUR.—On Tuesday morn-
ing, the 10th ultimo, as a little boy, aged four years and
a half, was playing on some sacks in the Wainford Mills,
Norfolk, where his father was at work, it is supposed he
fell into the hopper, and was suffocated, as his father, on
emptying the hopper, was horrified at discovering his
child literally drowned in flour, grasping a sack in one of
his hands.

On Friday, as a female with her child in her arms got
out of a buss in Parliament-street, London, another
woman coming suddenly out of a baker's shop ran vio-
lently against her, forcing the child against its mother's
breast. The latter took no notice however till she got
home, when she found the child was dead. On a post
mortem examination a surgeon attributed its death to a
shock of the nervous system.

TERRIFIC BOILER EXPLOSION,—On Tuesday morning,
a terrific explosion of a steam-boiler took place in the saw
mills of Mr. Keys, Back Church-lane, Whitechapel, Lon-
don, by which the roof and walls of the saw mills and
some of the surrounding houses were blown up, and a
great number of the houses in the neighbourhood materi-
ally injured. Immense pieces of the boiler were blown
into the air to a considerable height, and in their fall they
broke everything before them.
The drawing for the prizes of the Art Union took place
on Tuesday, at Drury-lane Theatre, with the usual cere-
monies. A clergyman, the Rev. Mr. Blathwaite, ad-
dressed the meeting amidst loud cheering, asserting that
the falling off of subscriptions to the society had arisen
soltly from the badness of the engravings, which he con-
sidered so utterly disreputable, that he tore them up and
burnt them lest they should contaminate the taste of his
children. The Chairman acknowledged the fact, and
promised amendment for the future.
Five men were drowned at South Shields, on Saturday
morning, by the upsetting of a boat in which they were
returning, after dinner, to a vessel in which they were at
work with ten of their fellow-workmen. On nearing the
ship some one on board commenced, in sport, to fling
chips of wood at the boat, which, causing some of the
party to swerve to one side, the boat upset, and the men
were precipitated into the water. Every assistance was
rendered as speedily as possible, and by dint of great ex-
ertion ten of the party, including the scullerman, were
rescued, but the other five were drowned.
The embankment of a reservoir at Cowling, near Keigh-
ley, suddenly gave way on the night of Sunday week, and
a vast body of water rushed down to a lower level, sweep.
ing before it large stones, trees, gravel, earth, and a
bridge. Fortunately no life was lost. At the village of
Ickornshaw, a widow and two children were in peril ; the
water filled the basement of a cottage to the depth of five
feet. and the people were struggling in it for some time,
till they could be drawn into an upper room by a hole
broken in the flcor. Acres of land have been covered
with silt.
LADIES' SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE EARLY
EDUCATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE CHILDREN
OF NEGROES AND OF PEOPLE OF COLOUR IN THE
BRITISH WEST INDIES.—A public meeting of the friends
of this institution was held on Friday, at Willis's Rooms,
which was very numerously and fashionably attended.
The' Marquis of Cholmondeley was in the chair ; and
amongst the distinguished persons on the platform were
the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Oxford, the' 'Rev.
Chancellor Raikes, of Chester ; the Rev. Hugh Stowell,
Charles Buxton, Esq., the Hon. Captain Joseph Denman,
R.N., C. Rochfort Clarke, and Gurney Hoare, Esqrs.

The Gateshead Observer states that a skipper of a vessel
adopted the followfng method of evading the heavy im-
port duty on lead into the United States. He had the
metal cast into so many statues of Lord Brougham, and
then passed them duty free. The custom-house officers
were lost in wonder at the sight of so many giants turning
up their noses at Brother Jonathan, and inquired what
the monster-importation meant. " Statues of Lord
Brougham," replied the skipper : " one for every city in
the Union, being the gift of his lordship's English ad-
mirers to the American republic." This the officer could
not gainsay, and, once past the customs, Lord Brougham's
representatives were soon returned into pigs—of lead.

DIABOLICAL OCCURRENCE.—Between the hours of
five and six o'clock on Sunday evening week, a malicious
attempt was made, apparently to destroy human life, by
the firing of twenty composition bullets through the win-
dows of a dwelling-house situated at No. 75, Argyle-
street, Glasgow, occupied by a gentleman named Fer-
guson. Three of the balls, which are marked C. C. C.,
supposed to be the initials of a defunct club, were fired
into the kitchen, and the greater portion of the remaining
number through the staircase window. There were two
other shots ; and by the latter an elderly lady passing
along a lobby in a line with the window in the staircase,
narrowly escaped being wounded. The instrument of
projection is supposed to have been an air-gun, as no
sound was heard.

MURDER AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.—The only
offence for which the penalty of death is now inflicted is
that of wilful murder, and thanks to the wholesome fear
produced by a just law, that dreadful crime has diminished,
whilst other crimes have incresed. In the ten years end-
ing in the year 1836, the total number of murders com-
mitted was 672 ; in the ten years preceding 1846, it was
only 644. There is thus a decrease of 28 cases, notwith-
standing an addition of two or three millions to the popu-
lation, in wilful murder, the only offence in which the
punishment of death has been retained ; whilst in those
offences in which it has been abolished, there is an in-
crease in the number of offences at the rate of one hun-
dred per cent. in cases of burglary ; of thirty-six per cent.
in cases of arson ; of more than one hundred per cent. in
cases of forgery; and of upwards, of eighty per cent. in
outrage,s. on females..

SKINNING CATS ALIVE.—A basket containing six or
seven cats divested of their skins, and yet alive, was
found a few evenings since at the rear of the Freemasons'
Tavern. The poor animals set forth the most piteous
moans, writhing in the greatest agony, till some labourers
who were passing despatched them from their torture.
The object of this cruelty is to preserve the glossy appear-
ance on the skins of the animals, which would, it is said,
be otherwise valueless to the furriers.
A paragraph has been going the round of the papers, to
the effect that the Duke of Wellington, having entered
the 33rd regiment as ensign on the 17th of March, 1787,
was the oldest officer in her Majesty's service. A corres-
pondent, however, informs us that this is a mistake, as
there are about thirty general officers, now living, whose
ensigncies are dated previously to that time. Some of
these are veterans of great distinction, as, for instance,
Sir James Kemp, who was master-general of the ord-
nance, and took a memorable part at Waterloo, and
whose ensigncy was dated four years prior to that of the
Duke of Wellington.
POISONING BY A WIPE.—The week before last Henry
Merchant, a labouring man at Bath, was taken ill after
having drunk some tea administered by his wife. He
lingered a few days and expired. Three days after his
decease his young widow married an old man of independ-

ent fortune named Harris, who had buried two wives
within the past twelve months. A post-mortem exami-
nation was ordered by the coroner, and the stomach was
delivered for analystaion to Mr. Herapath, chemist. The

coroner received a communication from Mr. Herapath,
on Thursday, which induced him to issue his warrant for
the apprehension of Harris and his wife. They were
taken into custody at their own house, at twelve o'clock
on Thursday night.
Miss CATHERINE HA.YES.—Miss Hayes appeared at
the Royal Opera on Thursday, in the character of Lucia,

one of the parts on which her reputation was chiefly
founded in Italy and Germany. It was a very fine per-
formance, and was completely successful. Her reading
of the character differs much from Jenny Lind's. She
has more softness and less passion ; and in the final scene

her madness does not rise to that terrible violence that
terminates in death. Her manner of singing the air in
that scene, " Alfin son tua," was exquisitely beautiful.
Mario performed the part of Edgard°, for the first time

we believe—and, we confess, disappointed us. He was
cold, and in the famous scene of the malediction, he was
tamer than any other great performer we have ever seen
in the character.—Daily News.
SPANNING THE GLOBE.—An American merchant
bound for Canton left New York on the 4th inst. in the
Canada mail steamer, and arrived in Liverpool and Lon-
don, he arrived at Southampton by the day mail train on
the 20th, and immediately embarked on board the Ripon
steamer, which was preparing to start for Alexandria with
the Indian mail. This gentleman will reach his destina-
tion on the 15th of June. Thus he will have travelled
from the United Sates to China, a distance of nearly
15,000 miles, in 72 days. In a little more than two
months he will have traversed the Atlantic and Indian
oceans, and the Mediterranean, Red, and China seas,
called at England, Gibraltar, and Malta, in Europe;
Alexandria and Suez, in Africa; and at Aden, Ceylon,
Penang, Singapore, and Hong-kong, in Asia. With the
exception of passing through England and Egypt, the
whole of his journey will have been performed by water
in British ships. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's
servants never recollect a passenger for China who had
been so recently in America, and it will probably be, for
length and rapidity, the most extraordinary voyage ever
performed.
EXTRAORDINARY Loss OF A VESSEL.—About half-
past eleven o'clock on the night of Monday last, the sloop
` George and Mary," George Johnson, master and part
owner, was lost in a most extraordinary manner. The
vessel was, at the time of the occurrence, between Scarbro'

and Robin Hood's Bay, about twelve miles from the land;
it being very thick, with no wind, and a small mizzling
rain. About the time we have mentioned, according to
the statement of the master, a fire ball, or something
similar to lighting, descended on to the vessel, entered the
cabin and set fire to it instantly. So rapidly did the de-
structive element progress, that in about half an hour the
whole stern of the vessel was in flames. Every endeavour
was made to extinguish the fire, but to no avail, and seeing
that all chance of saving the sloop was gone, the crew en-
deavoured to save their clothes, but in this likewise they
were unsuccessful. The master, besides his clothes had
£l2 or £l4 in money, which he lost. They then all took
to the boat, and abandoned the vessel, and in three quar-
ters of an hour after leaving her she went down. No
lightning or anything of the kind was seen previous to the
unfortunate accident, but afterwards two or three flashes

,osed, in a

were seen. The crew landed, as may be sup,
very destitute condition.—Hull Packet.
JENNY LIND AT HER MAJESTY'S TREATRE.—The
scene presented in the Haymarket, on the opening of the
Opera doors, was fully equal to that on the 4th of May,
1847, when Mademoiselle Jenny Lind first made her debut
in London. Anxious groups were similarly placed about
the Colonnade watching the arrival of the long string of
carriages, and the visit of Her Majesty to the theatre
increased, if possible, the general excitement. Immedi-
ately the doors were opened the pit and gallery were
crammed to suffocation. The stalls and boxes were more
gradually, but not less steadity, filled, and before the
curtain rose the whole theatre was occupied. The recep-
tion of Mademoiselle Jenny Lind, the shouts of applause
which arose on every side, and the waving of handker-

chiefs, were an indication that the enthusiasm which has
held the public for two seasons is still in full force. The
belief that Mademoiselle Lind had retired from the stage,
and intended to sing in concerts only, which, after all,
are but a frigid recreation as far as the habituerB of the
opera are concerned, gave the significance of a debut to
the reappearance last night. There was something like
the delight which is felt at the recovery of a lost child in
the greeting with which the public received Mademoiselle

Lind.
ENTERTAINMENT TO HER MAJESTY'S MINISTERS.—
On Wednesday a grand entertainment was given by the
Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress to her Majesty's
ministers, their ladies, and a distinguished company, in-
vited to meet them at the Mansion-house. The decora-
tions of the Egyptian-hall, where the banquet was served,
were tasteful and elegant. Immediately behind the Lord
Mayor, overshadowed by the canopy of state, stood a lofty
sideboard, on which was displayed a most superb collec-
tion of gold and silver salvers, chalices, cups, and goblets.
In the centre of the chief table was placed a magnificent
golden plateau, and on all the tables was a rich profusion
of silver plate and other costly ornaments. All the mem-
bers of the Government and the corps diplomatique ap-
peared in their official uniforms, and all the other dis-
tinguished guests being either in court dress or profes-
sional costume, gave to the assemblage—graced by the
presence of so many ladies of rank and beauty—an aspect
of rare magnificence and splendour. The dinner, with
all its adjuncts, was tasteful and luxurious. The after-
dinner proceedings were of the usual complimentary cha-
racter and presented no novelty, not even the speech of
the Prime Minister, which contained more than the usual
amount of generalities. . _ _ _ _

DEATH OF A MISER.—An inquest was held on Monday
afternoon, at Bristol, on the body of Mrs. Parsons, an
elderly lady, who was found dead in her bed on the pre-
vious Saturday morning, when some facts were detailed
of a rather extraordinary character. It appears that at
the latter end of last July her husband, Samuel Parsons,
who was a master mason, was accidentally killed by a
stone falling on him from the top of a quarry in which he
was engaged at work. The deceased administered to the
property, and in her account stated that there was only
6s. in money in the house. She has since continued to
live in the most penurious way, denying herself even the
very necessaries of life, and has been even known to
assist in making and carrying the mortar for the men to
use, and she was frequently in the habit of collecting
the offal from the public roads. As some rumours, how-
ever, had got afloat that the old lady had a zood deal of
money, on the information relative to her death being
circulated a whole tribe of her relations, first and second
cousins, entered the house, with a view of seeing what
they could get. In ransacking an old chest of drawers
they pulled open one which seemed rather weighty. There
was a large sheet of paper on the top, on removing which
they found underneath a whole layer of sovereigns, and so
on till they amounted altogether to over £l,OOO, with 80
old spade guineas, and 30 half-guineas. We are also in-
formed that the deceased has left behind her a consider-
able property, consisting chiefly of houses.

. .
CELEBRATION OF SHXKSPERE'S BIRTHDAY AT STRAT-
FORD-ON-AVON.—On Monday, the members of the Royal
Shaksperian Club held their annual meeting at Strat-
ford-on-Avon, it being the anniversary of the birth
of Shakspere ; Dr. Thompson, the president of the
club, occupying the chair. The report stated that the
completion of the purchase of Shakspere's house and
premises was the first point in importance in the pro-
ceedings of the past year ; the committee, in connection
therewith, having to express their regret that they had
been obliged to obtain a temporary loan on the deed of
the property from the Stratford Bank for £470, and until
that sum was repaid no steps could be taken as to the ul-
timate conservation of the property. The committee felt
confident that when the discreditable position in which
" a relic so essentially national" was placed became
known, the small amount required to release it and place
it under the care of government, would speedily be sup-
plied. For the satisfaction of contributors, the report
stated that a trustworthy person was placed in the birth-
place of the bard, which was open to all visitors, free of
charge ; but a subscription-book being kept in the room,
and there being rents derivable from adjoining property,
it was hoped from these sources the interest upon the
money advanced by the bank would be defrayed. A go-
vernment grant of £2OO was acknowledged, and the fund
raised by Mr. Dickens and his friends, by their amateur
theatrical performances, for the purpose of endowing a
custodiership of the house, which amounted to £1,500,
had been invested in the funds in the names of Charles
Dickens and John Forster, Esqrs. The club accounts
showed a deficit of £25. A handsome mulberry tree cup
had been presented to the members by the widow of the
late Rev. Elias Webb, in conformity with the wish of the
latter. The report concluded by a congratulatory para-
graph on the success of the last year's anniversary.
THE GOVERNESSES INSTITUTION AND JENNY LIND.
—The anniversary dinner of the London Benevolent In-
stitution for Governesses was held on Wednesday, the
Earl of Harrowby presided, supported by Earls Talbot and
Kintore, Lord Saye and Sele, &c. The noble chairman,
in proposing " Prosperity to the Institution," said "it
was difficult to find terms in which to plead the cause of

those who frequently, by their position, superseded the
mother's care. He proceeded to allude to the cases of
those young gentlewomen, who having been the objects
of the most affectionate solicitude, were, by circum-

stances, compelled to seek their own livelihood, and who,
having become elderly persons, " were cast aside as
forgotton things." It was painful to reflect on the man-
ner in which those to whom so much was due, were too
frequently treated. In many instances the daughters of
decayed clergymen and others were looked up to as the
mainstay and sheet-anchor of a family. Little indeed

did the mass of society know of the severe sufferings and

trials of these estimable young women, who first im-
planted into the breasts of the rising generation the first
seeds of virtue and religion." Mr. S. C. Hall, in pro-
posing a vote of thanks to the female friends of the in-
stitution, concluded by handing to the treasurer a cheque
for £2OO from Miss Jenny Lind.—(Loud cheers.) He
was proud, indeed, to be made the mouthpiece of so dis-
tinguished and excellent a lady, who, in the course of her
career, had had to struggle with the changes and chances
of this world. That lady had known adversity- she had
known the sweets of prosperity—she had fought the great
battle of life. He begged to present the cheque of Jenny
Lind for £2OO. (Great cheers.) It was, he hoped, but
an earnest of future assistance to this charity. Her heart
was much interested in this cause. He need not tell that
company that Jenny Lind had not passed through the
struggles of life without knowing how much governesses
stood in need of aid. He believed that this donation was
but a moiety of the assistance which this lady would give.
He was proud in being her mouthpiece, and to present
her best wishes for the success of this institution, for
which she entertained the greatest sympathy.

HOW HER MAJESTY'S CHAPLAINS AR
PROVIDED.

aspect, can yet find dupes, and not only dupes, but money.
The report of what took place at Bow-street, on Tuesday,
is an apt illustration of the sal ' ' •
rience, like the stern-lights of
path we hare

of Color

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that expe-
mines the

ous angler for sirn-

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The first bait flung by the anony
pletons was a taking one. He profes
chaplain " whose duties would lead to corium
the highest personages of t

pn with

there deemed to be indefinite visions of patronage, of-a
bishopric, nay perhaps (breathlessly allowed) of Lambeth
itself ! However this may be, the Rev. C. Griffin, vicar of
Haselor, was soon found nibbling the bait held by " Beta."
The latter personage came out of his incogn to
a natural enquiry, and in propria
assumption of " P. Hay," intimated that th
was a royal one, involving the slight dui--
certain number of Sundays in tbr.

) answer
Icier the

ersonii, or u

year in

of the

Chapels Royal

1, commencing at

" some £6O per annum," was to reach a cu
point at the satisfactory figure of £6OO yearly.

thought it was unnecessary to expatiate on the advantages
of this " appointment in the gift of the Crown," which ' I
need not add is a permanent one;" but Mr. Griffin asked
a few more questions, and the good Samaritan, now of
Cannon's-row, hastened to reply to them—of course in
confidence.

The power of nomination to the appointment, said the
dodger to the dupe, was in the hands of Lord John Hay !
" Doubtless (thought Cornelius), my correspondent Peter
is a cousin of the gallant Lord of the Admiralty." He
appears to have entertained no surprise at a naval captain
nominating to chaplaincies in the gift of the crown; and
when £6OO sterling was asked as the price to be paid into
the hands of the benevolent Peter, Mr. Griffin prepared
to get together an instalment of it ! Was he disarmed by
the polite assurance of my lord's cousin that the money
was only to be paid after her would-be Majesty's chaplain
had been introduced to her Majesty's ecclesiastical agent,
who is a post captain in her Majesty's service ? The ga-
zetting was to follow as a matter of course. The whole
matter was strictly legal, but no questions were to be
asked. Peter Hay just inquired for the usual t
als, " as I must necessarily lay them before my "

moni-

and Cornelius Griffin actually transmitted them by post!
What his feelings were at hearing that the testimonials
were " entirely satisfactory " we can hardly tell. Suffice
it to say that, after some fencing on the part of the
" Crown Colonies-office !"—it was ultimately arranged
that the ambitious Vicar of Haselor should be duly intro-
duced to that one of " the sea-lords, as they are called;
Lord John is one of them," whose mission it was, for the
consideration of £6OO, to find chaplains, not for the royal
navy, but for her Majesty's own edification ! Well, poor
Mr. Griffin believed it all ! A little uneasy about the le-
gality of the proceeding, but in no uneasiness at all about
the rationality of it, he took leave of his vicarage—felt,
perhaps, that a future Archbishop of Canterbury was oc-
cupying the second-class carriage that brought him to
town—rushed to Cannon's-row—and, under shadow of the
abbey, of whose episcopal greatness he might yet be a
part, and within view of a palace whose archiepiscopal
occupant is neither youthful nor immortal, Mr. Griffin,
soothed by Mr. Addam's opinion that the transaction was
perfectly legal, actually paid down £lOO (by order upon
St. Clement's Savings' Bank), and gave eager assurance,
with proof thereof, that he would find security for the re-
mainder ! Did midsummer madness ever rise to such a
pitch as this ?
_ _ _

Mr. Hay took the money, and left his victim to "en-
tertain himself" with the Times, while he repaired to
Lord John. In half an hour he returned—reported my
lord as being in a pet at the smallness of the sum paid
down—and stated that until his lordship was in better
humour the gazetting must be deferred, and the vicar's
introduction also. The vicar, good easy man, nothing
suspicious, did call again. He did not find access to the
naval provider of chaplains for her Majesty; but he was
assured that that personage had " given his sanction for
the appointment." Oh, happy Cornelius Griffin !—in an
ecstacy he pays what he can—resolves to sell his property
at Portsea, Hants, to provide for his future liability—is
not startled at a demand made for "it may be £7 or £lO,
which Dr. Wesley, the sub-dean of the Chapels Royal,
says will have to be paid to different officials connected
with the establishment," and unhesitatingly writes a
cheque for £23 10s. in favour of Hay, to provide for the
usual fees of the Gazette, office! The step towards being
metropolitan was purchased as " cheap as dirt"—so
thought the unsuspecting Cornelius, and he :paid his
money with both hands and a heart and a-half !

The dream of coming greatness endured but a very
brief period. The Gazette appeared, but it made no
mention of the Rev. C. Griffin. He wrote and wrote
again, but he received no reply. He concluded that,
having been robbed, his despoilers had done with him.
By no means. So dull a fish was likely to nibble again,
and Peter Hay tested the probability.

The scene i; at Stratford-on-Avon, and Mr. Griffin was
meditating upon the lines of a poet whose bones lie in the
church there, and who has written something, too trite
to quote, upon the bladder-like consistency of foolish
ambition. Upon his meditation broke a soi-disant detec-
tive policeman who denounced Hay as a swindler—who
suggested methods for recovering the documents which
Mr. Griffin had surrendered—and who, by citing the case
of an alleged fellow-victim, endeavoured to skew that the
exposure of the affair, in preventing his future prefer-
ment, would be more serious to him than the loss of his
money. For the first time, Mr. Griffin appears to have
been aroused to suspicion, and forthwith he hurried up to
Bow-street to ask the advice of that exemplary magis-
trate, Mr. Jardine.

Now, it so happened that on the previous night Peter
Hay got both drunk and proud upon Mr. Griffin's
money, without, we are afraid, growing more honest than
was his wont. He rode in a cab, refused to pay his fare,
became disorderly, and being intoxicated was locked up
in what Oliver Goldsmith's country squire called " a con-
catenation accordingly." In the morning, this " relation"
of the " sea-lord" was brought up before the magistrate,
but he could not be discharged after rebuke until he had
paid certain fees. There was retribution in the very
word. To enable him to effect this necessary preliminary,
he sent a messenger to an honest gentleman named Alves ;
and the latter hastened to release his friend from durance
vile. It has been often said that truth is stranger than
fiction, and so it seemed here ; for, in spite of the tre-
mendous odds against such an accident, these three per-
sonages came most unexpectedly face to face in the
presence of the magistrate ! There was a general tableau
of the principle characters, and the Pose Plastique was
only broken up by the sudden recognition, on the part of
Mr. Griffin, of Alves as the member of the detective
police-office who had repaired to Stratford-on-Avon in
furtherance of Justice !

Risunt teneatis We confess that we can not; and we
laugh at the idea that there are more offenders caught in
Mr. Jardine's presence than Mr. Griffin would be willing
to allow. How the law will deal with them all remains
to be seen.

Btstrtrt flu

On the night of Monday last, or early the following
morning, the shop of Mr. T. Dandy, grocer, Rufford,
was broken into and upwards of £l4 stolen therefrom.
A neat mural tablet has been erected in St. Philip's
Church, Salford, to the memory of Sir Thos. Arbuthnot,
K.C.8., who died at Manchester, in command of the
Northern and Midland district.
The Leeds Intelligencer states that a young man, clerk
at Messrs. Holdforth's silk mill, Leeds, has obtained the
prize of property at the Borough Buildings, Manchester,
which have been disposed of by ticket. The value of the
prize, we hear, is £B,OOO. •
THE PRESTON INSTITUTION BAZAAR was held the
whole of last week. It has added upwards of £l5OO to the
funds. The Committee of Management of the New
Building will now be extricated out of all their difficulties,
and the noble edifice at Avenham will at last be com-
pleted.
WAREHOUSE ROBBERY.—At the Borough Court, Man-
chester, on Tuesday, two young men, named Lear and
Smith, were committed for trial at the sessions, charged
with breaking into the warehouse of Messrs. Joseph
Eller and Co. merchants, Back George-street, and steal-
ing three bills of exchange, for the respective sums of
£9OO, £ll6 12s. Bd., and £6O.
COUNTY RATES AND EXPENDITURE.—An official state-
ment for the year ending June, 1848, has just been pub-
lished. The total expenditure is 176,983. The two new
lunatic asylums have cost £24,127 ; but the two great
items in the account are the ordinary annual expenditure
for the county police and the county gaols. The police
cost £35,198; the four gaols, £32,496. This is exclusive
of £28,175 extraordinary expenditure for new buildings at
the Preston and Kirkdale gaols, and at the lockups. The
rapid increase of population and property should certainly
be borne in mind. In 1801, the population of Lancashire
was only 672,565 ;in 1841, 1,667,054. In 1815, the valu-
ation was £3,106,009 ; in 1841, £6,192,067.
THE FIRST CATTLE FAIR AT CREWE. On Wed-
nesday last, the first great central cattle fair was held at
Crewe. The day being very fine, the attendance of both
buyers and sellers far exceeded the expectations of the
committee, whose exertions have been unwearied in the car-
carrying out of the fair. The stocks were prime and the
prizes well contested for. The confident belief of all is,
that the fairs at this place will take the lead of any in the
neighbourhood. Mr. Peover, of Sandbach, took the first
three prizes for cows ; the fourth was taken by John
Woolf, Esq., of Haslington-hall, for the exhibition
of the best bull ; the fifth was taken by Mr. Kempt, of
Doddcott, for the best horse ; the sixth by Mr. Panton,
of Chorlton, for fat sheep ; the seventh by by Mr. Owen,
of Stapeley, for store sheep ; the eighth by Mr. Cliffe of
Crewe gates, for sow and pigs. There wiil be su ip
fairs held both for cattle and cheese.
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