The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-06 00:00:00

DOMESTIC. INTELLIGENCE

Sir William Brabazon's title is extinct. "His estates
descend to his nephew, Hercules Sharpe, Esq., of Blackball,
county Dublin.—Limerick Chronicle.

The election of a member of Parliament for the county of
Carlow, in the room of the late Nicholas Alward Vigors,
Esq., is fixed for the 14th inst.

THE DOG TRADE.—A great number of dogs, chiefly
spaniels, have lately been stolen, and exported to Holland,
where they are sold for high prices.

The total sum said to be received daily for watercresses in
London amounts to £35,000 sterling, a wonderful large sum

for so simple an article of luxury

THE QUEEN.-

—We regret to ,say that rumours are preva-

lent to the effect that the anxious expectations of the people
of England, relative to her majesty's situation, are likely to
be disappointed.—Bath Chronicle.

It is Lady Fanny Elliott, the Earl and Countess of Minto's
second daughter, who is about to be married to Lord John
Russell. Her ladyship is in her 25th year, and the noble
lord is in his 49th year. The day is not fixed for their nup-
tials.

SUDBURY.—The venerable Archbishop of York is now

visiting her majesty Queen Adelaide at Sudbury Hall, the
seat of his ancestors ; and on Sunday morning last preached
in the parish church. His grace appeared to be in excellent
health, and delivered his sermon with considerable strength

of voice, and great clearness of enunciation.—Derby Reporter

THE TRACY PEERAGE.—BiIIs have been posted, and
advertisements inserted in all the local papers, offering a
reward of £5OO for the discovery of the parties who have

recently cut from the Toddington registry of burials, the
leaves containing the entries of the burials of Thomas and
Henry, the second and fourth sons of Robert, the second
Viscount Tracy.—Worcester Chronicle.
DEATH OP LADY Rossmou.E.—This noble lady expired
suddenly on Tuesday afternoon, at Wilton House, Chelten-
ham, where she had only arrived on the previous day,
accompanied by Lord Rossmore, from Dublin. Her lady-
shio was Lady Augusta Charteris, fourth daughter of Francis,
late Lord Elcho, and was married on the 3d of June, 1819,
to the present Lord Rossmore, by whom she had no issue.
On Sunday morning, as Mr. Baron Gurney was stepping
out of his carriage to attend Divine service at St. Giles's
church, he and his lady by some means slipped down' and the
venerable baron appeared to have hurt his head. His lady
was so armed at the accident that she went into strong
hysterics. They were immediately assisted into their car-
riage and returned home. We are happy, however, to state
that his lordship did not sustain the least injury. The
learned judge appeared yesterday morning on the bench of
the Central Criminal Court, in good health and spirits.
It is said that the government of Upper Canada, vacant by
the return to England of Major-General Sir George Arthur,
has been offered to Major-General Sir James Macdonnell,

commanding in Quebec, but at present absent on,a tour in

the neighbouring provinCes and the United States

Expresses

had been sent to the point where they are most likely to meet
the general, to hasten his return to Canada. In the event
of Sir James Macdonnell declining to go to Upper Canada,
the government, it is added, will be offered to Major-
General Clitherow, who now commands in the Montreal
district.

It is the Hon. Robert Campbell Scarlett, eldest son of
Lord Abinger, who has purchased the Marquis of Huntley's
romantic seat of Inverlochy Castle for £75,150. It was ori-
ginally bought by the marquis, in 1834, for £56,000.
We have received one of the gigantic productions of vege-
tation which sometimes appear to command attention and
admiration. There is now at our office a turnip, grown at
Laburnum, the seat of Mrs. Porter, actually measuring 36
inches in girth.—Wexford Conservative:
The county of Dumfries has been convened for Wednes-
day, November 18, to adopt the provisions of the " Rogue-
money act" in Scotland, passed last sessioh. Why not ex-
tend this law to Ireland ? The rogue-money collection is
now going on there to a most infamous extent. They might
then capture Dan and the priests.
MILDNESS OF THE SEASON.—There have just been
gathered, growing in the open garden of the Hon. Mrs.
Fox, the widow of the late Charles James Fox, St. Ann's
Hill, Ohertsey, several dishes of raspberries, of peculiar size
flavour. The health of the widow of this celebrated states-

man, who is fast approaching her hundredth year, is exceed-
ingly good.

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STAMP DUTIES ON CERTAIN CERTIFICATES.—Extract of
Customs' Order, dated the 26th September, 1840. It ap-
pearing to be the practice at several of the outports to consi-
der certificates of the payment of the duty on articles re-
moved from one port to another for shipment on drawback as
stores, chargeable with a stamp duty of four shillings—it is
ordered, that no stamp duty be charged in future upon such
certificates.

FATAL COACH ACCIDENT.—On the 11th instant, the Hull
and Partington mail coach having been for a moment left
standing at the door of an inn, in Ottringham, with the reins
laid on the horses' backs, they set off; and, before they
could be stopped, the coach• was overturned, and the
passengers thrown on the road : one of them, named Edward
Nicholson, was so much injured as to cause his death the
same say. The jury who sat on the body next day, returned
a verdict of " Accidental death." Mr. Pinder, of Parting-
ton, was also very much hurt, but not dangerously, and he
has since been doing well.—Eastern Counties Herald.
ANOTHER SHOCKING COACH ACCIDENT.—On Monday,
October 26th, the coach used for the purpose of conveying
passengers between Blackpool and the Poulton Railway
Station, was upset in consequence of being uncommonly
heavily loaded, carrying, at the time, nineteen outside and
five inside passengers, besides several large boxes, &c. A
man was severely injured, and a Mrs. Leveaux (who was
going from Blackpool to the Poulton station) was taken up
senseless, having been buried under the luggage. She was
conveyed back to Blackpool, seriously bruised ; although no
bones were broken, she still lies in a very precarious state.
Three children and Miss Richards (who accompanied Mrs.
Leveaux) escaped uninjured.—Manchester Guardian.
THE ROYAL CRADLE COVER.—On Monday week, a
meeting of Spitalfields' weavers took the place in the large
room attached to the National Schools, in Abbey-street,
Bethnal-green, for the purpose of taking into consideration
the report of a committee, appointed on the 21st of July,
•with a view to the production of a piece of workmanship
worthy to be presented to the Queen. The drawings pre-
pared for the intended specimen were exhibited to the meet-
ing, and excited much admiration, the dimensions of the
piece of silk on which they are to be worked being six feet
by four. The design is allegorical, and will, of course, in-
clude many figures, the minutest account of which would,
after all, convey but a very inadequate notion of an under-
taking that bids fair to be creditable to the skill, and benefi-
cial to the interests, of those engaged in the manufacture of
silk.

DISCOVERY IN ELECTRICITY. -'A Curious, and probably
a most important, discovery in this branch of natural philo-
sophy, was made about a fortnight ago, in a boiler attached
to a hauling engine, at Seghill, on the Cramlington railway,
near Newcastle. The engineman on attempting to lay hold
of the lever of the safety valve, received what he describes as
a severe blow, which nearly caused him to fall ; he, a second
time, attempted it, and received a similarblow. This having
been made known, an examination of the boiler followed,
and it was found that the steam which was escaping from a
" blower" near to the safety valve, was highly charged with
electricity. Our informant states that on himself placing
one hand in the steam, sparks upwards of half an inch in
length were emitted from the other, and this whilst he stood
upon the masonry which was surrounding the boiler ; so that
had he been upon a glass stool the effects would have been
much greater. We are glad to hear that this discovery is be-
ing followed up by experiments on other boilers ; when the
discovery was made, it was considered by many to be owing
to the quality of the water used, which was pumped from the
coal mine; subsequently, however, on trying the steam from
a locomotive engine on the Newcastle and North Shields
railway, a great quantity of electricity was obtained, and the
water used in this case was from the River Tyne. The sub-
ject is highly interesting, and we hope that the discovery may
lead to useful results; the explosion of boilers has hitherto
baffled research, and it is not improbable that electricity is
intimately connected with it.—Durham Advertiser.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 28.—A very interesting meeting was
held this day atthe Royal Hotel, to take into consideration
the subject of a railway between this place and Exeter, over-
Dartmoor. Dr. Cookworthy presided. Mr. Rendell, the
engineer, who was engaged six years since in surveying the
southern line, stated that he had been engaged during the
last two years surveying the Eastmoor line. The great diffi-
culties here were the two inclined planes (1 in 38), but these
he proposed to conquer by the aid of water power ; there
being as much water on Dartmoor, as there was steam-power
in the whole county of Lancashire. He thus proposed to
substitute stationary water power for locomotive-engine
power. The Earl of Devon, Sir Ralph Lopez, and Mr. E.
St. Aubyn stated, severally, that the lands in which they
were interested, should be granted on the most liberal and
easy terms, and Mr. Rundle, M.P., stated that the Duke of
Bedford would be equally liberal with his land. The cost of
the undertaking is estimated at £BOO,OOO, and by a resolution
of the meeting, which was numerously attended, subscription-
lists are to be forthwith opened. Mr. Collier, M.P., Mr.
Bewes, M.P., Messrs. T. Gill, T. W. Fox, W. H. Evans,
D. Derry, Alderman Johnson, and others addressed the
company, Letters of approval were received from the Earls
of Morley and Mount Edgecumbe, Lord Eliot, Sir J. Y .
Buller, and Mr. Divett, M.P., and other noblemen and gen-
tlemen, and one from J. T. Coryton Roberts, Esq., recom-
mending the atmospheric scheme for consideration.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY FRUSTRATED.--On Sabbath night,
a man and a boy, who nightly sleep on the premises of Mr.
Donaldson, watch and clockmaker, Glassford-street, Glas-
gow, on entering the shop, discovered a person concealed
beneath the counter, with not fewer than 176 watches, 138 of
which were silver and 38 gold, packed up, and ready to be
carried off, besides two dozen gold guard chains, three dozen
silver guard chains, and eight watch trays. The shop-breaker,
whose name is John M`Nee, an old offender, was conveyed
to the police-office. It appears, from MiNee's own state-
ment, that in the course of Sabbath morning, he got access
to the sunk flat by climbing over an iron gate, which is
placed at the head of the stair. By means of an iron instru-
ment, and with great labour, he then forced his way through
two brick walls, into an apartment immediately beneath the
shon, and thence found easy access to the latter by a stair.
The operation occupied him the whole day ; and, as we have
seen, he was detected before he had time to make off with
the valuable property he had collected. M`Nee is lame, and
walks with a crutch, and is the very last person who would
have been suspected by the police of a shop-breaking attended
with so much labour.—Scottish Guardian.
PREVENTION OF STEAM-PACKET COLLISIONS.—The
Trinity House Corporation has deemed it right to frame and
promulgate the following rules, " which, on communication
with the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the elder
brethren find have been already adopted in respect of steam-
vessels in her Majesty's service." Rule first—" When
steam-vessels on different courses must unavoidably or
necessarily cross so near that, by continuing their respective
courses there would be a risk of coming in •collision, each
vessel shall put her helm to port, so as always to pass on the
larboard side of each other." Rule second—" A steam-
vessel passing another in a narrow channel, must always
leave the vessel she is passing on the larboard hand." This
measure ought to have been promulgated long ago ; but it is
an old saying and a true one, " better late than never," and
it is to be hoped that the masters of steam-vessels will speedily
make themselves thoroughly acquainted with the regulations
issued by the Trinity House Corporation. Had such regula-
tions been in existence previous to the collision of the Phoenix
and Britannia steam-packets, that serious and unfortunate
catastrophe would have been averted.
EARTHQUAKE AT COMRIE.—A rather smart shock was
felt here on the evening of the 26th, at a quarter to seven
o'clock. • Reckoning the severest ever felt here, viz. the one
on the 23rd October last year (which, it will be recollected,
canvulsed Scotland almost throughout,) at 10 deg., this last
one would stand on the snme scale about 4 deg. The seis-
mometers, or earthquake markers, were on this last occasion
very sensibly effected. One of them, Mr. Miller's vertical
force one, ranged 4 deg. on its scale, which is about three-
fourths of an inch from its zero, or point of rest. Another,
the dip instrument, indicated the shock to have come upon it
at an angle of 45 deg. to the horizon, in the direction of W.
by N. So that if the hill of Cluan be, as is here generally
supposed to be the case, directly over the focus of these
a
shocks, this would give depth to it under that hill, within
the bowels of the earth, of about two miles. The barometer
and thermometer were not affected. The former stood at
29 3-8 inches, the other at 48 deg. Fakir. The night was
calm and misty—Scotch mist it might be called—for it was
accompanied with a gentle drizzle. This is now the third
shock that has been sensibly felt within the current month.—
Scotsman.

It is said that short dumpy people are more humourous than
long lank folks, on the ground that brevity is the soul of wit.
SUMMIT TUNNEL.—There are now only about seven yards
of this great undertaking to excavate.
Mr. Hasell, of Dalemain, has been unanimously elected by
his brother magistrates, chairman of the Cumberland court of

quarter sessions, in the room of the late Major Aglionby.
It is said, that Mr. W. Addams Williams, M.P. for Mon-
mouthshire, will, on the meeting of parliament, accept of the
Chiltern Hundreds on account of his indifferent health.
We are sorry to hear, says the Leeds Intelligeneer, that

our well-known and enter Prising neighbour, Charles Water-
ton, Esq., the traveller and naturalist, is labouring under in-
dispositimi-at Rome.

ENGLAND AND SPAIN.—The number of newspapers in
England is about 230, and the annual number of convictions

for-murder is 13 or 14. The number of newspapers in Spain
a few years ago was 1, and the annual number of convictions

for murder was upwai.ds of 1200

INSTALLATION OF THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND.
—The installation of the Duke of Northumberland as Chan-
cellor of the University of Cambridge took place on Saturday
at Northumberland House. The ceremonial was confined to
persons having official connection therewith, neither the pub-
lic nor the press being admitted.
The .Railway Times, in noticing the injurious effects of
accidents upon railway property, states that the receipts of
the London' and South Western (Southampton) Company
for the eight days immediately following the occurrence of
the late frightful accident upon that line were less by £7OO

(or one-seventh part of the whole amount) than the receipts
of the eight days immediately preceding it.

CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE.—This magnificent un-
dertaking is approaching to its completion. The massive
platform on the Leigh side is now surmounted with a tower,
to correspond with the one on the Clifton Rocks, and is ready
for the chains, which, after passing over the top of each of

these towers, will be sunk a great distance in the rocks, and
firmly fastened for security. When finished, we think this

noble work will form one of the greatest objects of attraction
in this picturesque neighbourhood.—Bristol Standard.

SUDDEN DEATH OF THE REV. JOHN MAGINN.—WC
regret to have to record the sudden death of the Rev. John
Maginn, rector of Castletownroche. He was on Saturday

preparing his sermon for the next day, and complained of
head-ache. Medical assistance was sent for, but be was no
more when it arrived. The rev. gentleman, who was brother
to Dr. Maginn, of London, was not long since promoted to
the living of Castletownroche, and was universally respected
both in city and county.—Cork Constitution.
SWEET POTATOES.—A. pair of mammoth sweet potatoes
was presented to us a day or two since, to which we invite
the attention of agriculturists. They are of gigantic dimen-
sions, perfect Brobdignags in comparison with anything of
the species we have ever before seen. One of them well
cooked, would fill a considerable space in the stomachs of
half a dozen children. We intend making the experiment
to-morrow, so that those disposed to see the potatoes will
call to-day, as the hungry little urchins will not suffer a
further postponement, whatever may be the state of the wea-
ther.—Charleston Courier.
CANINE FIDELITY.—A. few days since, a lady with a
poodle dog at her feet, entered a flesher's shop in town to
pay an account. The transaction over, a few small tit-bits
were thrown to the dog, but to the surprise of all, he declined
acceptance. On returning home, he laid a sixpence at the
feet of his mistress. It appeared that in paying the account,
the lady had dropped a sixpence, which the poodle picked
up, and he was too faithful to his trust to open his mouth for
scraps, and thereby run the risk of losing his mistress's
money.—Paisley Advertiser.
PETRIFIED TREE.—Some time ago, a large petrified tree
was discovered in Cowcaddens Quarry. It was unfortu-

nately broken a good deal by the workmen ; otherwise, it
might have remained a very fine specimen, sixteen or seven-
teen feet in height. It is now quarried nearly to the root ;
but betwixt two or three feet are still standing, while the
fangs are seen branching out in all directions. The tree is
about six feet in circumference, and the bark is perfectly dis-

tinct. The surrounding rock is a coarse quartzose sandstone;
and the rest of the tree is now composed of precisely the
same material, with good large white pebbles intermixed.—
Glasgow Argus.

EXTRAORDINARY LEAP.-At an inquest held on the body
of Mr. Lovesey, who was killed at Cheltenham last week, by
a fall from his horse whilst taking a leap. One of the wit-
nesses said he jumped the mare over a fence, which she
cleared, but he fell before she landed on the edge of the se-
cond ditch. The ground was level, but very hard. Some
persons who were there measured the leap in various ways ;
in a straight line it measured 22 feet, and over the hedge,
taking the sweep, it measured 24 feet. It was a tremendous
leap, and no one, in cold blood, and possessed of a common
share of prudence, would have attempted it, and very few
horses could have done it ; on the least faltering on the part
of the rider he must have come off.
THE LUDLOW TRAGEDY.—A gentleman who was staying
with his lady at the Ram Inn, Cirencester, a fortnight ago,
raised an alarm in the house at an early hour of the morning
which quickly brought up the attentive landlord, Mr. Adams,
and some of the maids in their " robes de nuit." The alarm-
ist expressed his conviction there was a man in the room, but
after a diligent search it was found not to be the case, and as
soon as the chambermaids could collect their scattered senses,
they explained that they had taken a great deal of trouble to
catch a little mouse which they had seen that morning, and
although they shut the cat up in the room all day mousy was
not to be caught, and this was the animal moving about the
room in the dark that created the disturbance !—Bristol
Standard.

A DISMAL ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE WHIGS.—At a
repeal meeting in Drogheda, the hitherto efficient supporter,
we will not say MASTER, of the whig cabinet, menaced them
with his displeasure in the following terms I have sup-
ported the whigs because they have evinced a disposition to
be useful to Ireland; but when the question of repeal and
the continuance of the whigs in power are put in competition
—I say, then, if it be necessary for the advancement of that
great cause, down with the whigs and up with repeal." On
the same occasion he repaid the services of whig journalists
by designating them " liars." To the editors of the Morn-
ing Chronicle and Examiner, be was particularly compli-
mentary in that style.
EXCHEQUER RECORDS.—Another collection of these
papers was, on Monday, the 2d inst. disposed of by auction,
by Fletcher and Wheatley, of Piccadilly. Among many do-
cuments of value were, an autograph receipt of Oliver
Cromwell to a warrant for payment of his salary as cup-
bearer to the king, and another showing him to have been in
the service of Charles I. when Prince of Wales ; two lists of
books delivered in for ye use of the prince his highnesse
(Charles IL) and the Duke of Yorke (1641). The autograph
of Nell Gwynn to a receit for £1,250, for support of herselfe
and the Duke of St. Alban's, for one quarter of a yeare
(1683), fetched LI 10s. • autograph of Sir T. Lucy, the ob-
ject of Shakspere's well-known epigram, LI is ; autograph
of Sir Isaac Newton, 17s. ; Sir C. Wren, 13s. ; Sir G.
Kneller, 13s ; Lord Rochester, the wit and poet, £1 13s. ;
Dryden, the poet, £1 9s. ; John Treton, £l.
EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.—Something more than
a fortnight ago a joiner on tramp, whose name we under-
stand to be Thompson, was relieved by a society at Preston,
and proceeded on his journey northward. Nothing more
was heard of him until his dead body was found in a small
plantation near Broughton-lane-ends, on the Garstang-road,
last Sunday. It had evidently been lying there for a consider-
able period, for the process of decomposition had commenced.
The poor fellow's bundle was by his side, and we understand
there is no reason to suppose either that he had been robbed
or had come to his death by the instrumentality of a second
party.—Blackburn Standard.
DEATH BY QUACK PILLS.—A few days ago, the body of a
man who had died in less than two day's illness, was opened
to ascertain the cause of death, when it was discovered that
the lower part of the bowels was, to a considerable extent,
preternaturally thickened, and so contracted in many places
as as scarcelly admit the little finger. Above the contraction,
the bowel was greatly distended by a collection of hardened
faeces, that had been here arrested in its downward pro-
gress, and which had resisted every means that medi-
cal skill could devise for the poor man's relief. But the
most remarkable circumstance attending this inspection, was
the discovery of a number of pills lying embedded in the
contractions of this diseased bowel, some separately, and
others matted together, affording the most incontestible evi-
dence of the cause of death. The poor deluded creature had
been in the habit of taking quack pills, having great faith in
their efficacy, and thus fell a victim to this fatal and too com-
mon delusion.—Glasgow Argus.
DEATH OF MAJOR JENKINS, 11th HUSSARS.—Major
Jenkins, of the 11 th hussars, died at Brighton, on Saturday
morning. It is said that the major, from the suddenness of
the attack (congestion of the brain) which proved fatal, has
been unable to make such arrangements as would secure to
his family the value Of his commission, about £B,OOO or
£9,000. Major Jenkins was in his 53d year, and had been
35 years in the service, 13 of which were in the Peninsula
and France. He was at the battle of Waterloo, and after-
wards served for 20 years in India, assisting at the capture of
Bhurtpore. The major was taken ill on Wednesday, and his
malady terminated in a fit of apoplexy. We was a widower,
and has left a son, aged 19, at the University of Oxford, and
four daughters of tender age, and it is feared his circum-
stances were anything but good. His remains will be buried
with military honours in Preston Church, near Brighton.
A MONSTER OF THE THAMES.—Yesterday afternoon,
one of the largest River Thames eels ever seen, was caught
in the City Canal, Limehonse, under the following circum-
stances I—The locks of the canal which open into the river
had to be opened for the purpose of letting out a large ves-
sel, when a great body of the water rushed out. A short
distance above the place where the vessel had been lying a
kind of gut or creek existed, and which was left dry by the
receding of the water. Three boys, who were on the spot,
seeing a large portion of the mud agitated, went down to
discover the cause, when, to their astonishment, they saw
what at first they took to be a snake, but which proved to be
an enormous eel, of the thickness of a man's thigh, and about
fifteen feet long. The boys instantly attempted to secure
the extraordinary prize, but for some time they
i were unsuc-
cessful, as the monarch of the eel tribe felt no inclination to
be removed to terra firms, as, upon being grappled with, he
beat the mud about with his tail, and in a short time covered
his assailants with the deposit of the river. The boys, how-
ever, were not to be beaten' and, after a long and arduous
struggle, they succeeded in drawing their captive ashore,
when some men, who had stood by, attempted to take the
monster away from his legal captors. This they resisted,
and some gentlemen who were drawn to the spot interfered,
and the boys retained possession of their prize, which they
subsequently sold for 325. to an individual who, it was said,
intended to exhibit it. As a proof of the immense size of
the monster, it was weighed, and found to exceed 631 b.—
[No doubt this is an off-shoot, from the American sea-ser-
pent.]—Morning Herald.
LORD EGREMONT'S WILTS ESTATES.-Our readers will
have perceived that his lordship is about to alienate his Wilts
property, in consequence of the large outlay he has encoun-
tered in Devonshire, and the vast additions he is making to
his large territory there. We have been favoured with some
preliminary remarks on the subject by our learned friend of
the hammer Mr. George Robins, which seem so apt, and, in
connection with the corn-laws, so entirely identified with our
oft-expressed conviction, that we are not sorry to have the
concurrence of one whose practical experience must give
great weight to his erudite conclusions The estates that
are about to be described will present an opportunity more
favourable than any antecedent one of the present season to
the capitalist and trustees who have money to employ safely ;
there are so many advantages it will be difficult to cull from
the whole without omitting many that should not be disre-
garded ; a very few, however, will be sufficient to arrest at
once the serious attention of the moneyed world, as there is
no fear that another such opportunity will present itself. The
quantity of land, the compactness of each estate, the quality
of the soil, the superiority of each and every farm abode, and
the extraordinary wealth and respectability of the little flock
that compose his lordship's Wiltshire tenantry, present a
combination in vain to seek elsewhere. Then, the Great
Western Railway station, and the contiguity of the farms to
such markets as Chippenham, Marlborough, Devizes, and
Swindon, are auxiliaries that complete a picture not a little
encouraging to all those who would wisely employ their capi-
tal on terra firma. The low rental is easily accounted for,
as, at the time of granting the leases, agricultural pursuits
were in a deplorable state. The sun has subsequently shone
upon them, and it is now so resplendent that the position of
the agriculturist will not be damaged by the folly of those
who argued for the revision of the corn-laws. Common
sense prevailed, and in a manner so authoritatively in the
House of Commons that an extinguisher is now placed upon
it. It has become a forlorn hope, even with those who were
forward to promote it. The leases or agreements are gradually
arriving 'at their termination, when at least three thousand
Pounds a-year may be safely contemplated."—Herald.