The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-01-16 00:00:00

Onterai Ilitgrellanv.

A youth from Nottingham was found in the streets of
Plymouth, a few days ago, asking the road to Australia.
A WHITE SPARROW.—Last week, a fine specimen of
the common sparrow, nearly white, was shot near the
railway bridge, Durham.

Mr. G. G. White states in a letter to the Lancet, that
the rumbling sound perceived on stopping the ears with
the fingers, proceeds from the circulation of the blood.

The wale of the library at Stowe is now proceeding, and
will last 24 days. The average produce of each day is
about £3OO.

The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge has
granted the sum of £lOOO towards the erection of the
buildings of the Training College at Carmarthen.

SUGAR CANES.—An importation of a considerable quan-
tity of sugar canes has recently taken place by one of the
steamers arrived at the port of Southampton.
The cholera has appeared in Deny. Its progress at
Glasgow continues frightful-866 new cases, and 291
deaths are reported ; in other parts, both in Scotland and
England, the disease is stagnant.

At Upleatham Hall, the Earl of Zetland's seat, there
have been laid down 900 feet of glass water pipes, form-
ing the longest line of glass tubes that has yet been placed
in England.
A child, son of a collier, was found dead last week in
the bed, being smothered from overlaying by one of his
bedfellows, consisting of father, mother, and six children
in the same bed.

The Newcastle courant, of the 15th ultimo, contains
advertisements of forty-five farms to be let, containing
upwards of 11,000 acres, to be entered on at Lady-day
next.

Derwentwater was completely frozen over during the
late severe weather, and many hundreds of persons daily
amused themselves by skating on the ice that covered the
lake.

During the last fortnight, the Dundee fishermen have
caught great numbers of herrings in the day, off the en-
trance to the harbour, where such shoals of the fish have
not been seen for nearly thirty years.
At the Gainsborough market on Tuesday very fine sam-
ples of wheat fetched no more than 465. per quarter, and
large quantities of excellent wheat were sold at 425. per
quarter.

As Mr. Robinson, a tailor, of Gateshead, was passing
alotig the High-street of that place, lately, a sheep
bounded against him with such violence that he was
thrown backwards on the pavement, and his skull frac-
tured. He died next day.

The mayor of Hull has expressed a determination to
abolish the practice of cabs standing for hire on Sunday ;
his worship has been recently reminded that in York no
such thing is to be seen as a cab on a stand on the Sab-
bath.

An inquest upon the body of Mr. Stevenson, the cele-
brated portrait painter, terminated on Monday. It ap-
peared that the lamented gentleman, who was 37 years old,
expired on Saturday week upon the Windsor stage coach,
after running for some distance to come up with it.

On Monday three brothers went to shoot small birds
in Chinford Marshes, Essex, and, while crossing a ditch,
one of them imprudently held his gun with the muzzle
towards himself, when a twig pulled the trigger, and a
charge of shot was driven through his heart.
On Sunday morning a fire broke out in a building at
No. 2, New-square, Lincolns'-inn, occupied by a number
of barristers and solicitors. The building was about 60 feet
by 50 feet, and was quite destroyed. No doubt there were
documents in the various offices of very great value.

The newly erected water works at Hampstead, were
destroyed by fire on Sunday morning. The total loss in
machinery and buildings is estimated at £B,OOO, and the
whole was uninsured. The premises had not been finished
many weeks, having been erected for raising a purer water
from a depth of 350 feet.
NATIONAL SOCIETY.—EXHAUSTED STATE OF THE
Fuxns.—Owing to the exhausted state of the Society's
finances, the committee have been unable to make any
fresh grants during the last month. The society's present
liabilities under this head amount to the large sum of
£27,908.

MELANCHOLY.—A. short time since, a young won- al
was sitting by the side of a farmer, at Catcoat, Durham,
discussing arrangements for their marriage on the follow-
ing niorning, when she was suddenly seized with a fit of
coughing, and in a few minutes died. An inquest was
held next day upon her body, at the very hour when the
marriage ceremony was to have taken place.
A fatal accident occurred on the night of Tuesday last,
on the Menai Straits, near the town of Carnarvon,
whereby four men met a watery grave, the ferry-boat, in
which they had embarked, having been totally lost in a
tremendous gale of wind. It appears that the vessel plied
between Carnarvonshire and Anglesey, running from a
point about half a mile from Carnarvon.
A Swansea paper mentions that a few days since, a man,
who was unloading a waggon laden with hot cinders, from
the Ystalyferd Ironworks, at a place where the cinders
are usually shot, seated himself on the heap in order to
warm himself, but was suffocated by the mephitic exhala-
tions, and was found quite dead, with his clothes and body
scorched by the heat.

The cholera, in its malignant form, has made its ap-
pearance at Margate, in the Pauper Establishment of
Messrs. Perry and Co. Forty-five children from Drouett's
Pauper Establishment at Tooting were conveyed by rail-
way to that place on Saturday week, since which time all
have had diarrhoea, and seven well-marked cases of cholera
have occurred, one which has proved fatal.

JOgEPH ADV.— On Saturday, this notorious personage
was ordered by the Lord Mayor to pay £lO 125., due to
peacock, Rpte-r6reatignantiiiAt
that the defendant asserted in his letters that one of the
judges had recovered £lO,OOO through his correspondence,
but there was not a word of truth in it.

On Saturday, three parties were remanded at the
Southwark police-office on a charge of conspiring to ex-
tort money from the North-Western Railway Company,
by pretending that they had received injuries on the above
line at Leighton Buzzard, on the sth of September, when,
in fact, they were far from the place, and quite well. The
company's surgeon called on them in October, and they
were in bed, feigning illness.
On New Year's day, a pilot yawl, which had been
cruising off the Suffolk coast, made for the shore in order
to escape a rising storm ; but at the moment when she
neared the beach, she was swamped by a wave, and four
of the seven men who formed her crew were drowned in
spite of the efforts of the neighbouring boatmen, who
fastened ropes round their waists and rushed into the
breakers. in the hope of saving the drowning men.
THE TOOTING DISORDER.—The prevailing opinion of
the medical profession appears now to be that, instead of
Asiatic cholera having broken out in Mr. Drouett's esta-
blishment, it was nothing more than bilious fever, accom-
panied by severe diarrhoea. This supposition is, in a
great measure, strengthened from the fact of so many
children having recovered so rapidly since they have been
placed on more substantial diet.
EXECUTION.—On Saturday, the lad Malkin, 17 years
old, who, apparently under religious feelings, (both being
Wesleyan Methodists), had courted Esther Inman, but
towards whom he afterwards cherished feelings of hatred,
and basely shot in her father's garden near Leeds, whilst
pretending to speak to her, was hanged at York. He
conducted himself with much propriety, and prayed ear-
nestly for forgiveness. There were about 12,000 persons
present.
The important office of priest of Hymen at the cele-
brated Temple of Lamberton Toll, has this week become
vacant by the somewhat sudden demise of Mr. Henry
Collins, who has officiated in that respectable capacity for
a period of nearly twenty years. The duties of the situa-
tion are by no means of a light description, there having
been, it is said, during the last year, 330 marriages cele-
brated after this fashion, and the usual average of years is
upwards of 300. The fees realized from these must have
amounted to something considerable.

IRON TRADE.—The principal quarterly meeting of the
irontnasters of the Midland districts was held at Birming-
ham, on Thursday. The trade was reported to be im-
proving, and prices remained firm at last quarter's quota-
tions. The orders for pigs were unusually brisk ; the
make for two months in advance being already purchased.
The demand for coals is brisk at existing prices.
A paragraph having appeared in The Times of Sa-
turday last, mentioning the failure of the house of Mr.
Robert M'Clelland, extensively engaged in the linen trade
in the north of Ireland, we have been requested to state
that the establishment is not that of Robert M'Clelland
and Co., of Dungannon, who are also in the linen and
flax-spinning business.—Times.
Two decided cases of Asiatic cholera have occurred at
the Holborn Union workhouse, London, and have both
terminated fatally. The first case was a man, aged 57,
taken ill on Saturday morning, and died at eleven o'clock
on Saturday night. He had not been in the slightest de-
gree in connexion with the children or any of the persons
at the. Royal Free Hospital. The other was a man, aged
29. He was taken ill on Saturday afternoon, and died on
Sunday.

THE GOLD MANIA.—The London Times of Friday
says,—A glance at The Times advertisements will show
that the public appetite for California is likely to be
promptly met. The burden of the various vessels an-
nounced as ready for immediate departure amounts, even
in to-day's impression, to about 5,000 tons, distributed
in ships ranging from 190 to 700 tons, to say nothing of
the West India mail steamer which leaves on the 17th,
carrying goods and passengers to Chagres, or of a " short
and pleasant passage" advertised to Galveston, in Texas,
as aeheap route to the Pacific.

WHICH WAY OUT ?—The Principality mentions that
some time back, an assistant Poor Law Commissioner was
at a meeting of the Board at Pwlheli and insisted on some
measure distasteful to the guardians, who immediately
began to converse one with another in Welsh. At length
the commissioner asked the clerk what they were talking
about.—Clerk : Oh, sir, it is merely a little chat among
themselves ; nothing of consequence.—Commissioner
(After a little time had elapsed, the discussion becoming
animated): Why, clerk? I do not understand what their
discussion is about. I ought to understand it; and I in-
sist upon your explaining it instantly ?—Clerk: Well, sir,
if you must know, they are discussing whether you are to
be thrown out through the window, or to be kicked out
through the door.

THE MUTINY AT THE NORE.—At Rochester, on the
4th instant, died Mr. W. Bardo, aged 80 years, 64 of
which he spent in the public service. The late Rear-Ad-
miral Cunningham thus speaks of the services of deceased:
" William Bardo, mate of the Chetham Yacht in the year
1797, during the mutiny on board the ships at the Nore,
was taken out of that vessel to conduct H.M.S. Clyde,
then under my command, into the harbour at Sheerness
(the regular pilot having, through fear, refused to take
charge of the ship) ; and having so done, and the ship
being placed in safety, he was put into one of her boats,
and sent by me to the St. Fiorenzo, at the Great Nore, he
having previously concerted the plan for getting our ship
away from the mutiny with her commander, Sir Harry
Burrard Neale. He succeeded, and that ship was de-
tached from the mutinous fleet anti conducted to the
Downs by Bardo. In this service, also, he displayed
great judgment and courage."
ELECTRICITY V. STEAM.--Since the discovery by
Mrsted of the magnetic power imparted to bars of iron
by an electric current traversing copper wire coiled around
them, numerous attempts have been made, with various
degrees of success, to move machinery by the enormous
force which we have thus at cur command. The most re-
markable experiments are those of Professor Jacobi, who,
in 1838 and 1839, succeeded in propelling a boat upon the
Neva at the rate of four miles an hour. At this time an
engine is in process of construction in London, under the
direction of Mr. Hjorth, a countryman of the great dis-
coverer of electro magnetism, which the patentee supposes
will give a power equal to five horses. We have seen the
model, which certainly embraces many new features that
promise to render the application of the power more ef-
fective than it has been hitherto. One of the electro-
magnets made for the large engine, in a recent trial, sup-
ported nearly 50001 b., and its attractive force at one-eighth
of an inch was equal to nearly 15001 b. As this force can
be multiplied without limits, the question is reduced en-
tirely to one of economy and convenience.

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THE MAIL ROBBERIES.—The prisoners charged with
having, on new year's night, broken into the Post-office
tender, while the train was in motion, between Bristol
and Bridgewater, were brought up on Monday. The
Chairman and Secretaries of the Great Western, South
Devon, and Bristol, and Exeter Railways were among
those present. Christopher Arden, Esq., the Mayor,
presided. The prisoners, on being placed at the bar,
looked anxiously round, but betrayed no further signs of
emotion. One of the late guards said his name was Henry
Poole ; the other refused to state who he was, and up to
this time has not been identified. Several witnesses were
examined to prove the due transmission of the mail bags
from the Post-office. The guard of the mail stated, as
formerly mentioned, that he had found bags broken open.
He had ascertained, by trying it, that persons sitting
where the prisoners were in the railway, might reach the
mail tender by climbing along and over the carriages.
He had done it when the train was in motion. Poole
and the other man were fully identified by various parties.
There is no. doubt that the up-mail was robbed by the
same persons as the down-mail, though the prisoners are
only at present accused of the latter.
AN' APPARITION ON THE RAIL.—The Gateshead Ob-
server states that one night in the past week a butcher of
Tynemouth was a candidate for a legitimate ride from
Newcastle by the north train ; but, finding that he should
not arrive from Shields in time, he took his stand upon
the line, and made an audacious leap for the buffer as the
train flew past. Clinging with a fearful affection to the
hold which he had gained, and not daring, for some time,
to move, he shook tremulously for mile after mile. Gra-
dually he ventured to better his position, until he gained
the footboard of the carriage, and, rearing himself up, his
white panic-stricken countenance presented itself, in con-
trast to the blackness of the night, against the glass of
the. door. The guard started to his legs, thinking of
" Spring-heeled Jack," and exclaimed at the top of his
voice, ' Where did you drop from ?" Like the mariner
in " Joe Miller," to whom, when he fell from the mast-
head off Cape St. Vincent, the same question was put by
the skipper, our hero answered, " From North Shields !"
" A long fall." muttered the guard, as he assisted his un-
expected passenger into the carriage, where a further ex-
planation took place; and the butcher having paid his
fare he was safely deposited at Morpeth.
THE DRAMA.—During the last few days, a determined
opposition has been offered by the Rev. F. Close, and
others of the Cheltenham clergy, to the projected amateur
performance, at the Assembly-rooms, for the benefit of
the Cheltenham Hospital. The project has been openly
condemned from the pulpit ; and the rev. gentleman
named has declared before the governors of the hospital,
that if they sanction the proceedings, or accept the pro-
ceeds of the performance, he will entirely withdraw from
the institution, and will never again preach in aid of the
hospital funds. This has, of course, created a sensation
in the town. In the meantime, all the arrangements have i
been perfected, and the performance comes off on Thurs-
day
evening. The pieces selected are " Love hla Mode." '
" Going to the Derby," and " Did you ever send your
wife to Camberwell ? " The whole of the tickets, 800 in
number, have been sold at 7s. 6d. each, and every possible
interest is manifested in the entertainment. The com-
mittee for promoting the ; uncdc rtaking includes the
names of upwards of 60 of our principal resident and
visiting gentry, including a clergyman. our most active
magistrates, and the member for tile borough, &c. How
these gentlemen will reconcile themselves to the Rev. F.
Close it is impossible to say.—Gloucester Journal.
SINGULAR CANINE PREDILECTION.—A dog of the
bull-terrier breed, belonging to Mr. Tibbey, of Blackmer-
stone, some time ago evinced a strong partiality to the
various members of our police-force, and at the com-
mencement of their night duties at nine o'clock was regu-
larly in attendance at the station-house, to accompany
some one of the officers upon whom his choice for the
night might have fallen. Upon one occasion the officer,
wishing to get rid of his canine attendant, somewhat
roughly threw him over the Wyebridge into the river, but
in a few minutes the dog was again at his heels. At the
departure of the old year on Sunday fortnight, the prac•
tice of burning the mistletoe-bough was observed at a
respectable inn at the vicinity of Widemarsh-street, the
glare of light arising from which was so strong as to cause
the alarm of fire to be raised; some of the police sprang
their rattles, and a hasty retreat was made to the engine-
station. Among other persons who were alarmed, and
who observed the light above alluded to, was Master
Merrett, son of Mr. Merrett, confectioner, High Town ;
upon proceeding with others In the direction of thc,bitinii-
house, when near St. Peter's Church he encountered the
inllithlitVTllPEssEilifilairottUdiglacrollielOrnfairias
1 speedily afforded, he sustained such severs injuries that
surgical assistance was rendered necessary, It is evident
that this dog possessed a power, whether instinct or a low
degree of reason, of no ordinary kind ; and it is conjec-
tured that he must have " imagined," from the temporary
excitement which prevailed, that an attack was being
made on the police-officers, and that he must render them
his assistance. The owner appeared before the magistrates
on Thursday, and the dog was ordered to be destroyed.—
Hereford Journal.
STATISTICS OF POOR-RATES, &C.—The gross total
annual value of the real property rated to the poor-rates
for the year ended 25th of March, 1847, in England and
Wales, amounted to £67,320,587, the expenditure
for the relief and maintenance of the poor during the
said year amounted to £5,298,785, equivalent to a rate on
the annual value of ls. 7d. in the pound; that is to say,
of Is. 61d. in England, and ls. 74-d. in Wales. The
highest rate levied was in the county of Buckingham
(2s. 41d.), and the lowest in the county of Derby (Is. Old.)
In Middlesex the rate was ls. 42d. on a real property of
£7,584,668. The total number of unions in England and
Wales amounted, in 1847, to 592 ; the estimated popula-
tion of those unions to 14,997,581; the number of pau-
pers relieved in those unions (exclusive of vagrants and
paupers not belonging to any parish of the union in which
they were relieved), during the quarter ended 25th of
March, 1847, to 1,322,120; the proportion per cent. of
the paupers relieved to the estimated population, in 1847,
to 8.8 ; the total number of paupers relieved in unions
(inclusive of vagrants, &c.), during the quarter ended
25th of March, 1847, to 1,471,133; and the proportion
per cent. of the total number of paupers relieved on the
estimated population, in 1847, to 9.8 ; the estimated
population of the counties of England and Wales, in 1847,
to 17,325,123 ; the annual value of the real property
assessed to the property and income-tax in 1843 to
£85,802,735 ; the proportion per cent. of the poor-rate
assessment to the income-tax assessment of real property
to 78.6; the expenditure for the relief and maintenance of
the poor during the year ended March 25, 1847, to
£sf 298/ 785 1 • the rate in the pound for the relief of the
" poor on the annual value assessed to the poor rates to
Is. 7d. (viz., Is. Gid. in England, and ls. 70. in Wales),
and the rate per head of the expenditure for the relief of
the poor on the estimated population of 1847 to 6s. ltd.

Janda, 1549,,

DRURY LANE THEATRE.—M. Dejean has
handsome manner invited the boys of the Green',
Hospital schools, 800 in number, to a juvenile fete, 001
given on Wednesday evening next at this house, and
provided a bill of fare of the most attractive charanter..;
his youthful visitors.
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EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—At Northwich, a .-into
man of the name of Green, late in the employ oor
Andert on Carrying Company, and who had, it was
posed, nearly recovered from a mental affection, Pn',
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end to his existence in an extraordinary manner.
Wednesday evening last, he rose, and was about to 01;1
for the purpose of attending a party. His wife bsr.,l
left the room-for a short time, he started off, nth:lnstil,
state of nudity, direct to a rock salt mine in the nel.o
bourhood, and precipitated himself down the shaft. ,
men had just before descended the shaft, and WA
.down about forty yards,lwhen the unfortunate man le,
upon them. One of them was severely hurt, and
Green was so severely injured that he died in a few
NIGHTLY SCENES AT A LONDON WORKHOUSE'
correspondent, instigated by the most commendable!';',
ings, invites public attention to the painful exhibit ej
which may be nightly witnessed at the workhouse-4010
St. Andrew's parish, Holborn—" From 30 to 50 P
creatures may be seen sitting at the doorsteps, having ,4
home, and the parish refusing them a night's lodging,.:o
even pouring on the pavement pails of water to prey a
them sitting down. If the workhouse is too small,
.74
rates will pay for more accommodation, but the 105
part is taken up with rooms for officials very little u.
Will anything excuse us allowing our fellow.ereature,sero
remain in the open air all night, in a Christian land." to
so much is paid for taxes ? Ought not the rateWeLs 0
demand the cause of this inhuman conduct, and in=P:ten
one man on its being altered, when they are paying
heavy rates ?"—John Bull.
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DEATH FROM TIIE BITE OF A DOG.—On ,a.s a,
Day, at the house of Henry Casson, Esq., Beverley-o,s
Hull, an inquest was held upon the son of that gentle'nn
Master Henry Casson. aged ten years, when it apPe'?i
that on that day week the deceased went to his fate
tan yard, between four and five o'clock in the afterne°_,A
when he was seized by a large dog of the St.
breed, which was there chained. The deceased used 0
stroke it and give it biscuits, and it was never knosOb/
bite any one before •, and although he called the dog;
its name, " Lion, Lion," it is supposed that in coll'ol
quence of deceased having fresh clothes on he did 01,
know him. The dog held so firmly that one of the o'o
men was unable to release his hold, and it was not 1114 e
two men choked the animal off that he let go. be
deceased was attended by the usual medical adviser oft
family, but on Saturday mortification of the right 615
(where the bite was) took place, and terminated his lifo'd
ANOTHER LOLA MONTES.—Some of our readers Ili;
remember that, in the course of last spring, we comma
nicated the details of a most romantic passage in the
and adventures of a young nobleman lately connected ni
this university, who formed a connection with the -ter of an obscure tradesman in this town, who cultil
the mystery of St. Crispin, and was actually on the I°A
of leading her to the hymeneal altar, when certain frienj
of his lordship rushed down from London, and arrO
just in time to prevent the solemnisation of the marril
ceremony. The marriage so long contemplated, and o 5
so suddenly broken off, was actually solemnised in V.tv
don about three weeks ago. It appears that the hero
of this romantic history continued to associate with 08
handsome young stockbroker, who had managed to
plant his lordship in her affections • and the noble
could endure no longer to be baulked and baffled, in
point nearest his heart, by a rival so infinitely his inferii
in rank and fortune. Hence the rash act, which is 11°
irretrievable. The plot so deeply contrived, and condgcli
ted with such consummate skill, has been complete
successful. It is greatly to be feared that a marrisl"
contracted under the influence of the motives that app,
to have operated in this case, will not be a happy one'
Cambridge Advertiser.

THE STANFIELD-HALL MURDERS.—On Tuesday, .1$1;!
Blomfield Rush underwent another examination. At
various previous examinations of the prisoner, he evinell
throughout Emily Sandford's presence, the most bit
and vindictive feeling towards her, as also to the rnaes
trates. On this occasion, however, his conduct was 010
the reverse, and although her testimony was quite nes'.s
him, and certainly more conclusive as regarded his f°
than he had as yet heard, he omitted all that vijlem,
cross-examination!and blasphemous expression which)
greatly afflicted his unhappy victim, and created so mull'
indignation amongst the magistrates ; indeed, his vi`
meanour, in this instance, to the poor woman was
caltn and friendly as it was boisterous before. Her e 0;
mination in chief being closed, he abstained from puttilN
any questions to her, and she having duly signed her 0,4,!
ditional deposition, was conveyed back to the Wymoo4/
ham Bridewell. Rush's behaviour in the gaol exhibli
almost the same coolness as he displayed when first
cused of being concerned in perpetrating the murdeP4
He is constantly engaged in writing, getting up his on
defence, and is frequently visited by his eldest daughter';
a fine, young woman about 18 or 20 years of age. 31!
Jermy and the maid, Eliza Chestney, are progreo
most favourably. As soon as practicable it is the inters
tion to remove Mrs. Jermy to London.
DREADFUL STORM AT THE NORTH OF SOOTLAN.'ef
crewO n Monday
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Mansfield,shore among the rocks at Brotherton, totally wrecker,/
of Stonehaven, with almost hairbreadth escapes. Au",
nine in the morning, the Union, of and for Stonehaf;:,
from Newcastle, was blown northward, and when, ttl';',4
to get shelter in Aberdeen, when at the entrances
7e'
washed upon the pier and almost immediately fell to „
side and sunk. The crew were extricated from theirlll
rilous situation with difficulty. The sea continued to
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to a great height until Tuesday morning, but ere the nigh,
the storm again arose with renewed fierceness, and cont'
nue with little abatement. On Wednesday after,
rej
noon, about four o'clock, several vessels were discove ,
in the distance struggling very hard ; one showed sign
distress, and appeared to be making for the land. 1C.,",
hours after, the Isabella of Dundee, with a cargo of
seed, came ashore on the sands. The lifeboat was irne\;
diatelyopfutthoe crut, aenw. d those This
coantabstoraorpdhe was
fhaesr
shortlyeffect of
succeeded" rescue
succeeded by another of a similar nature, but attend;
with lamentable results to some of the crews. The f',;
zabeth, of Aberdeen, with timber, which now came ashore
a good way northward of the Isabella, had lost her or
tain, mate, and man. They had been swept off the cer
sel befoie she struck the beach. Two boys, who still re'
mained on board, were saved by pilots. On Thursday
another vessel, the Dahlia, of Newcastle, was also straw',
alongon our beach ; crew saved. An individual, named
a flesher, had ventured to go the north pier, and u"i
fortunately a wave came suddenly upon him and saver
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him into the sea. Two vessels have been washed ashore re
Peterhead, supposed to be the Katherine of this port a,eo
the Hero of Fraserburgh. One of the crew of the IPA
alonsdt.al?
hnatnhdes sdaimsaeppdeaayr,,towiro vßeusesehlasnwneeress,saevt,,if
crew near Boddam. Several men who happened to be A
isatonsofatoihudenrd)veerbs,esel
a brig, is reported to have sunk withbo's
he p'er w( r swept by! -ive in'o the sea ; some of the
did not appear again.—Edinburgh Post.
MATRIMONIAL HOAX.—Not a hundred mies from tbi
p"faithful city,"rom romantic
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village, b ank of
whichhe
cSevern,
formerlyis s situated
abteodsi
of being the residence of one of England's noble race,s,/
aristocracy ; and in this village is an institution where Vti,
rising generation-receive the rudiments of a popular elgi:
cation. A few weeks back, and after the toils of the dad
were over, the worthy preceptor of this school was cu'eji
ning over a newspaper, and saw an advertisement heauj
" Matrimony," purporting to come from some fair darD7
in want of a partner to join her in the social happiness;,
connubial bliss, and requesting some honourable ners°oll
age of the masculine gender, bearing the denomination 0
Bachelor," to apply by letter to the address given. if
Cambridge. Our hero having a strong inclination .„/
become a" Benedick," brought his mind to the sticking
point, and answered the advertis ment. A reply ,p
soon forwarded, written in a beautiful feminine hatredstating the wish of the writer to enter into the marrhie
state; that she possessed a good fortune and innumersvoi
etceteras, and in conclusion, from the very open styleoi
the correspondence, she felt perfectly satisfied, uponj,
interview, everything would be satisfactorily arran!„4
Upon the strength of this communication, new furnit`r"r
was bought, a piano, carpets, and, in fact, everything to
quisite to add to the comfort of his " bride" that Nc3so,
be. A sovereign was given to the ringers to hold tbfAil
selves in readiness to give the wedding pair a 11:0
" merrie welcome" upon their arrival. Leave of abse';e,
was obtained, and, notwithstanding the caution of 5,c11
spectable friend, of the folly of uniting himself in 54,;
baste to,.the `` beaqif,l4 milravint,';iihnzalt,deatbN77,o
bridge. He soon found the required house, and
speedily introduced to his intended partner in life, too
ai
ther with one or two friends of the lady. A few days
spent in delightful anticipations of future enjoymenr,,bl
they were eventually married at her residence, bounuaol
holy vow for better and for worse. A letter was cep
home by our hero, requesting an entertainment to
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prepared for their reception. The evening at last c 3;/,
for their arrival, the good things of this life were in Po
paration, the ringers stood with bell-ropes in their han.4
all in fact were on the tiptoe of expectation, and listen''i
each minute for the rumbling of the wheels of the ve4i:e
as the signal for commencing all manner of festivyto
The evening wore away, the viands were spoiled, and
tbli
ringers impatient, until all hopes of their arrival
night were vanished ; the next evening, and for se'veoo
others, the same preparation was made, and all to #
purpose. Nothing was heard of
.the happy pair until ,4,
morning a letter arrived, and alas ! instead of the wisi'd
for news, a simple request was made that money sb4/,,
be forwarded to effect our hero's release, he baying 'OO
placed in uncomfortable durance for debt. It s'°o4 sett
becoming that the " ladies " finding that his pockets At
becoming exhausted, obtained some layman to persoetts!,
a clergyman, and it is unnecessary further to explaillor
character of the ladies, or the house, the " precePl,o
had fallen in with ; without doubt the marriage. Fatcomplete "do." The victim's pockets were cleaned .0
and by some strange turn in Fortune's wheel he got Ised.
the hands of the dread " bum." He has been rele3
and has returned home, but without his bride"
still he hopes—too confiding man !—that she will 6,r/
cheer his solitary dwelling by her " bright presence.
Worcester
How s Journal.
seldom do we feel, perceive, or think of the 50
beginnings of disease which surroun. operate *
us in our enjoyments and interco - with the world. ~
" The young disease, which must a a due at length, ,„tp,
Grows with our growth, and engthens with our straili 0,1
An improper regimen a g upon.a particular killo4,
constitution, late hour- • oth of retiring to rest and riiir
in the morning, lay , a foundation of intestinal as welfil.
skin diseases. T. : 1 such we would recommend,,i4r!l
a change of sys , and, secondly, as a powerful assisidr
for the recove of health, that efficacious Family /111
cine, Frani on's Pill of Health, which has procure
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approba ' = of persons in every station in society.

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