The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-15 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TTTESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1853.

TAE MAYOR has issued an instruction prohibiting the
sale of wines and spirits in the Town-hall at public balls.
THE FOUNDATION STONE of the Salford Athenaeum
and Temperance Hall was laid on Monday morning.
DR. DUNCAN, the Medical-officer of Health, informed
the Committee, on Thursday, that the birth of children
was not at all dependent upon the state of the atmosphere.
MARGARET LEDWITCH, a married woman, residing at
No. 8 Court, Pall-mall, died suddenly on Saturday night,
from the effects of a drinking bout.

EDWARD JONES, a poor man, was killed accidentally
on Wednesday last at the Wapping Railway Station, in
consequence of being jammed between two wagons.
THE UNITED STATES MAIL STEAMER PACIFIC, Capt.
Nye, sailed hence on Wednesday, for New York, with 40
passengers and a full cargo of fine goods.
THE NOTTINGHAM FACTORY GIRL,• whose story was
recently given in the Standard, has been made a countess
by the Emperor Napoleon. Miss (or as she is now called
Mrs.) Howard is now the Countess of Beauregard, and
has got a village which cost £lO,OOO.
A CORRESPONDENT of a contemporary draws attention
to the fact that women-catchers are employed busily at
this time in entrapping young females who are returning
alone and unprotected from public school and other tea-
parties of a like character.
THE Manchester Guardian tells of two beautiful pic-
tures, by Ary Scheffer, having been purchased, at the
Orleans Gallery sale, by Mr. Agnew, of that town.
They illustrate passages in the " Faust" of Goethe, and
are valued at 500 guineas the pair.
THE SHIPWRECKED FISHERMEN AND MARINERS'
ROYAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY have presented medals to
Captain Nye and the crew of the United States mail
steam-ship Pacific, which recently saved the men from
the wreck of the Jessie, of St. John's.
THE LIVERPOOL RAGGED SCHOOLS.—The annual
meeting is announced to take place at the Theatre Royal
this day, and is likely to be a highly influential and in-
teresting one ; the Rev. Dr. M'Neile, the Rev. Dr.
Guthrie, of Edinburgh, and Mr. Mansfield, our stipen-
diary magistrate, having promised to attend.
THE FORTNIGHTLY meeting of the Liverpool Chemists'

Association was held on Friday week, at the Royal Insti-
tution—the president, Mr. Sumner, in the chair. Dr. D.
P. Thomson delivered a most instructive lecture on the
diffusion of vapour in the atmosphere.
A TESTIMONIAL, provided by 4646 females of Oldham,
was presented at a tea-party held in honor of Mr. W. J.
Fox, M.P., on Friday week. The present was a velvet
purse, with 112 sovereigns in it. On the following even-
ing a silver inkstand was presented to Mr. Fox by the
non-electors.

STATE OF THE CFFANI,EIOL:-At the last meeting of the
Architectural Society, the secretary, Mr. Joseph Botilt,
stated that the channel was returning to its former pre-
carious condition, when the Dublin mail used to be de-
tained many hours from the want of water, and that
some precautionary measures should be adopted.
INTEMPERANCE has seized another victim in Liverpool.

James Wilson, a fireman on board the Pacific steamer,
left the Atlantic Hotel late on Saturday night week in a
state of intoxication. Next morning, he was found in
the Huskisson Dockicsensible. He died in the Northern
Hospital on Tuesday.

THE SCRUTINEERS appointed at the annual meeting
of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce presented their
report on Tuesday, by which it appeared that Charles
Robertson, Esq., Uoseph Hubback, Esq.. W. J. Tomlin-
son, Esq., Edward "Higgin, Esq., and F. A.'Clint, Esq.,
were chosen directors by ballot. Messrs. A. H. Coglie.
J. E. Naylor, and tß.`Sheil, had each the same number of
votes. The committee have elected Mr. Sheil.

THE LIFE-NOWT ACCIDENT AT RHYL.--The inquiry
was closed on Monday evening. The jury found, " That
the deceased men ,were accidentally drowned by the up-
setting of the Rhyi lifeboat ; at the same time, thejury
are of opinion that this boat is not suitable for this sta-
tion ; and with-respect to the life-belts, they consider that
they were wholly inefficient for the intenfied purpose."
MEETINGS of the carrying interest have been held
during the last week at Liverpool, Birmingham, Lan-
caster, and Preston, to consider and concert measures for
attaining a snore equitable treatment of carriers by rail-
ways, and with the view of applying to parliament for the
introduction of protective and controlling clauses into
any measure 'for the amalgamation of the great railway
interests.

THE MEP/MBEs OF THE ROYAL ALBERT LODGE, NO.
10, of the Loyal Orange Institution of'Greet Britain, held
a *curie on Monday evening, in St. -Silai's School-room,
Pembroke-place. The chair was occupied by Mr. J. C.
Eyton, the deputy grand master of the order. The meet-
ing was addressed by the Rev. W. T. Taylor, Rev. S.
Minton, tRev.'W:H. Duck, and other speakers.

MOStl'Alti Man as .Livirapooi..During the last week
the deaths in the borough amounted -te 200, 139 in the
parish, and 431 in the extra-paroohial•wards. This shows
a decrease of'l6 as compared with tbeweek preceding, and
of 36 as compared with the average. The decrease has
been chiefly in chronic diseases. A girl eight years old,
died from small pox, never having been vaccinated. A
" gentleman'," aged 34, died from •detirium tremens.

ADORESSING LETTERS TO THEJUIWE OF THE COUNTY
Cocltr.--In the course of Wednesday's sitting his honour
severely commented on the extraordinary conduct of a
person who signed himself John Quayle, M.D., who had
forwarded to• him a letter in reference to a case of his
which had been tried in this court. ilf Mr. Quayle had
any application to make to him, it must be in public and
on oath.

EMIGRATION IN 1852.—The number of emigrants who
sailed from theWnited Kingdom in the year 1852 is com-
puted by the commissioners of emigration to have been—
From English ports, 306,279; from Scotch ports, 19,955 ;
from Irish p0rt5)414441 ; making a grand total of 367,675,
or 1004 a day. ,*Upwards of 66 per cent went to the
United :States; and to Australia 86,901 souls. 229,099
of the emigrants sailed from Liverpool.

Ara ACCIDENT happened on the Chester and Crewe
branch of the zLondon and North-western Railway, on
Saturday morning week. One of the rails was displaced,
and was jerked through the bottom of a first-class car-
riage. Providentially one of the gentlemen in the car-
riage had changed. from the seat through which the bar
of iron was forced, oor .he would have been-killed. The iron
bar passed between another of the gentlemen's legs.
Tree Greenock Advertiser states that a meeting of the
sugar refiners of Scotland was held at Greenock on Satur-
day, Mr. Robert Made in the chair, when it was agreed
by a majority to submit to government a plan for refining
sugar under bond, by which it was proposed that all colo-
nial sugar and molasses should be taken -into refinery
without payment of any-duty ; that all foreign sugar and
molasses should pay to the custom-house the differential
duty, exigible for the time being, until the duties on all
sugars be equalized ; that the differential duty on foreign
sugar, &c., having been paid, the whole of the sugars in
the refinery are thereby reduced to the same level as colo-
nial ; and that the produce of the refinery, when intended
for home consumption, to he charged the duties payable
on colonial sugars.

HEALTH COMHITTEC.—At the meeting of this com-
mittee, on Thursday, Mr. Alderman Langsdaie was in
the chair. The •Chairman said that a wait had been
taken out against Mr. Freme. in respect to the claim
against him for the paving of Oil-street.—A letter from
Mr. John Atkinson was read:: it complained of injury
which his property, at the corner of Hurst-street and
Carpenter's-row, had sustained in consequence ..of the
late dispute between the Dock and Health Committees
respecting the street levels at'War.,ping. The letter was
referred to the sub-committee of works of the Dock Com-
mittee.—A resolution was passed for continuing, for a
month longer, the temporary arrangement with Mr. Rose
for the emptying of ashpits.
Docx. COMMITTEE.--- At the weekly meeting, on
Thursday, Mr. Turner, presided. The Harbour-
masters' Sub-committee recommended that in future
vessels requiring to go into the graving-docks be allowed
to remain ten weeks on the list instead of six. After
some conversation, the matter was ,referred back to the
Harbour-masters' Committee, it being thought by some
members of the Dock Committee that the proposed
change would not work. The chairman said that the
Finance Committee had had .a meeting with the Audit
Commissioners, on the subjectef a more effic:ent audit of
the dock accounts, and after the meeting the Commis-
sioners proposed to consult and consider what steps they
would adopt. They had held a special meeting, at which
it had been agreed to recommend to the Dock Commit-
tee, in consideration of the increase of the dock accounts
and the additional labour necessary to an efficient audit,
that the salary of the special auditor appointed by the
Commissioners should be increased from 4150 to £3OO
a-year. They also requested that rooms should be appro.
priatedto their use and that of the special auditors, and
that arrou.ements should be made by which, at all times,
they could have access to the books and papers. The Fi-
-

nance Committee recommended that the proposition of
the Audit ,Commissioners, as to the auditor, should he
carried out so far as it could legally be done, and that the

survyor and secretary should see whether any rooms could
be found in the dock office for the accommodation of the
commissioners and auditors. The chairman said there

were two auditors, one appointed by the Dock Commit•
tee, and the other by the commissioners themselves. It
had always been desirable that the special auditors should
have access to the different checks in the Custom-hone.
The Dock Committee appointed Mr. Bezer, of the cus-
toms, who could only give them his time after the Cus-
tom-house closed at four o'clock. The auditor appointed
by the commissioners themselves was Mr. Moore, and
each of those gentlemen, by act of parliament, had £l5O
a-year, which was paid by the Dock Committee. The
commissioners pressed very strongly upon the Finance
Committee that they (the commissioners) ought to have
the continuous services of one person to check the ac-
counts efficiently, and they thought that, for the conti-
nuous services of a proper person, £3OO a-year would not
be too much. They wished to have the continuous ser-
vices of Mr. Moore, or of any other gentleman who might
be appointed, and recommended that that should be the
salary. Mr. Bezer would continue to have £l5O a-year,
inasmuch as he could only give a part of his services.
It was ultimately resolved to refer the matter back
to the Finance Committee, with instructions to inquire
what the commissioners proposed to do, and whom they
proposed to appoint. The secretary read a communica-
tion from Mr. North, the dock solicitor, as to the powers
of consolidating the debt of the dock trustees, stating that
the powers were comprised in the 29th and nine following
sections of the 11th Victoria, and that difficulties, more
perhaps of a financial than a legal character, seemed to
present themselves at every step. He could not see how
a debt, always fluctuating and changing in amount, pay-
able at various dates, and with interest at different rates,
could be consolidated. The idea of consolidation seemed
to him to be applicable only to a certain fixed and perma-
nent amount of capital of the nature of stock, bearing an
unvarying rate of interest, and payable at the same time.
And it this difficulty could be got over, there was another
which seemed to him to be fatal, for no change could be
made in the general character of the debt, or the securi-
ties for the same, without the consent of every bond cre-
ditor, which, for obvious reasons, it would be impossible
to obtain. He was reluctantly compelled to advise that
the proposed change, however desirable it might be in
itself, was not capable of being carried into effect under
the present powers and circumstances of the trustees.
After some conversation the subject dropped, and the
financial Induce: was proceeded

THE REV. W. F. TAYLOR will deliver the second
leeture of his Anti-papal Series, t his evening in St. Johns
Church, subject " The Man of Sin, and Son of perdition."
A HOUSE in Trwell-place, Strangeways, Manchester,
fell into the river Irwell, on Wednesday night, and its
inmates had a narrow escape of their lives.

THE POST-OFFICE AUTHORITIES advertised on Thurs-
day that ship mails for Melbourne would be made up, to
be sent by the steamer Iron Prince, which leaves Liver-
pool on the 22nd instant.

A GIRL, NAMED ELLEN CONDRON, who had been prac-
tising similar tricks in Liverpool, was, on Tuesday, sent
to trial by the Dublin magistrates for perjury, in making
most strange accusations of robbery against different
innocent parties.

ON TUESDAY a large number of workmen commenced
operations for laying down the telegraph from the central
station, at Lothbury, direct to Manchester, the wires to
extend under the turnpike roads.
IT IS SAID the owners of the Marco Polo, for Australia,
intend giving £2OO to the medical officer, and passage
back if desired. Generally the shipowners and emigration
agents pay nothing to the doctors employed.
A NUMBER OF INSTANCES have lately occurred of able
seamen paying their passages to Australia, for the sole
purpose of engaging at the high rate of wages now offered
by many vessels to navigate them home or to foreign ports.
BunoLARY.—On Wednesday night the premises of
Mr. James Chesney, grocer, Commutation-row, were
entered by thieves. Eighteen sovereigns and a canister
of tea were carried off.

WILLIAM PICKLES was committed for trial by the Miln-
thorpe magistrates on Wednesday, for attempting to upset
a train on the Lancaster and Carlisle railway, by placing
a pickaxe on the rails.
THOMAS LOWTHIAN, butcher, was convicted at the
police-office, on Thursday, of offering for sale, at his shop,
St. John's Market, two cows' sweetbreads as calves'
sweetbreads, the value of the former being about Id. each,
and of the latter 2s. each. He was ordered to pay a fine
of ss. and costs.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Friday morning the Lon-
don mail train, due at Liverpool about four o'clock, did
not arrive until after eight. The delay was occasioned
by an accident at the Stretton station, on the Trent Val-
ley line. A goods train, consisting of 14 or 15 waggons,
ran off the line, and blocked up both lines for several
hours. No person received the slightest injury, neither
was any serious damage done to the engine or waggons.
AN OBLIGING LANBLORD.—A person occupied a house
in Pitt-street for three years, but paid no rent for three
quarters. The owner, Mr. J. Blackleg, Park-road, not
only forgave him the rent, but gave him three sovereigns
to get rid of him. The tenant left the house, and when
Mr. Blackley went with his men to clean the house, he
found the floors of four of the rooms besmeared with
coal-tar, twenty-four panes of glass broken, the cellar
stairs destroyed, and other damage done.

THE NEW CLIPPER•SHIP STAR OF THE EAST was
launched from the building-yard of Messrs. W. and R.
Wright, on Monday. Length of keel, 206 feet; length
aloft, 221 feet; extreme length from figure-head to taff.
rail. 237 feet breadth of beam, 40 feet 10 inches; depth
of hold, 22 feet ; and register tonnage, 1,21 V tons. The
quantity of canvas will be over 5,500 yards. We pro-
nounce the Star the most splendid ship ever built in this
harbour.—St. John (N. 8.) agurier.—[This ship is now
on her way to this port.]
AT Tire COUNTY COURT, en Tuesday, his honour gave
an important decision, in the case of Dutton v. Young.
The plaintiff, a tailor and draper, sued Mr. W. M.
Young, book-agent, for £3. 10s. 6d., for goods supplied.
The defendant pleaded as a set-off ie sum of £2 Is., of
which the plaintiff admitted 155., but objected to £1 65.,
the price of a copy of the History of Liverpool, for
which the plaintiff had subscribed. The subscription-
book having been produced, in which the plaintiff had
signed his name, the judge decided that any person sub-
scribing for a book, was bound to receive and pay for it
when delivered.
THE ARABIAN.—SAITTAGE.—This was an action at the,
Admiralty Court, on Monday, brought by the screw-
steamer Phoebe against the Arabian, also a screw-steamer,
to obtain remuneration for .salvage services rendered to
'her from the 24th to the 26th of June last. Both vessels
were homeward -boundlrom (Constantinople to Liverpool,
with general cargoes. The Arabian,,on the morning of
the 24th, accidentally broke her intermediate shaft, and,
'having been taken in tow,.was conducted back to Malta—
a -distance of 250 miles. The principal point in contest
'between the parties was the danger to which the Arabian
,was exposed. The 'value •of the property salved was
-£'44,000, and the action was entered for £7,000. The
learned judge awarded £950, with costs.

ARCHITECTURAL -*ND ARCHIEOLOGICAL
'The tenth meetingof the session was held at the Royal
!Institution, on Wednesday evening. Mr. Perelst, presi-
dent, was in the chair. Mr. R. Jones. jun., was admitted
an associate member, and Mr. John Ramsden a student
•member. In the course of the interesting proceedings, the
'chairman made some observations on the students' designs
for the Duke of Wellington's mausoleum, which is to coat
Bouit invited attention to Mr. ,Rennie's
project for a breakwater •at the mouth of the 3 tersey.—
/4r. Piston expressed his opinion that the proposed break-
water would not remove the obstructions in the.channel.
Mr. T. S. Scott then •read a paper, entitled " Loose
.Architectural Notes made in France and ItalyrinlBso."
MUSIC AND EMI:MATTO:V.—Next week Mr. Henry
;-Russell, the celebrated vocalist, will give five of his pic-
torial and vocal entertainments at the Concert Lord
'Nelson-street, and each evening a transferable ticket for
passage to Australia will be drawn for by the audience.
At a cost of more than a hundred pounds passages .have
been secured in the packet-ship Falcon, or other first-class
vessel, to sail in April:next, belonging to Gibbs, Bright,
and• Co., of this port. We understand that each person
on entering the hall will receive a ticket, and duplicates of
all the tickets will be placed in a hat or basket. A person
from the audience will then be selected to draw the tickets,
and the seventh number drawn will be the prize. The
price of admission has 'been fixed at a uniform rate, so
that all may have an equal chance.

BIGAMY AT LIVERPO3L.—On Tuesday last, William
Costello was charged at the Police-court with having
been married to Catherine Flood, at the Register-office,
Brownlow-hill, on the 10th January, his first .wife being
stilt alive. The second wife did not appear. Mr. Sayle,
detective officer, produced a copy from the register of the
first marriage, which was solemnized at St. Peter's Roman
Catholic Chapel, Great Crosby, on the 2d July, 1840.
William Turner, bricklayer, swore that he was present at
the marriage, when he signed the register. The prisoner
and his wife lived together for twelve years, and carried
on business in a provision-shop in Vauxhall.road and
Byrom-street. The prisoner had taken a passage for him-
self, second wife, and one of her cousins, in the Prances,
about to proceed to Australia. lie is said to be worth
£1,200, -which was acquired by the industry of the first
wife.—He has been committed for trial.

WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—The weekly meeting was
held on Wednesday, Mr. Harrison in the chair.—Mr.
Bennett was appointed to succeed Mr. Tomkins, as re-
lieving officer at Toxteth.—The clerk read a letter from
Messrs. Holt and Rowe, solicitors, on behalf of Mr.
M'Govern, whose contract for supplying bread to the
paupers had, on several occasions, been a subject of dis-
cussion at the hoard. It was to the effect that the atten-
tion of Mr. M+Covern had been called to the report of a
speech delivered by Mr. Kirkus, reflecting very strongly
on the character of Mr. M'Govern, and imputing to him
fraud and robbery. Before taking notice of the proceed-
ing, he wished to give Mr. Kirkus an opportunity of with-
drawing such charges.—The clerk said that, so far from
Mr. Kirkus withdrawing, or making any concessions, he
(the clerk) was prepared to reiterate ail that Mr. Kirkus
had said. The proceedings concluded with an application
from the able-bodied paupers, who stated that, if they were
not better compensated .for their industry., either in the
shape of rations or wages, they would strike and leave their
work. The announcement created much amusement.
MERCANTILE USAGE.--In the Liverpool Court of
Passage, on Tuesday, a case of considerable importance
was heard. A custom has obtained in Liverpool that on
all ordinary bills of lading, no matter what their wording
is, even the words " freight paid on delivery" being in-
troduced, the amount is paid less three months' discount,
except where a specific clause is put in, making the
freight payable on delivery less discount. A short time
ago the Zodiac, from Alexandria, arrived at this port,
and her bills of lading being indorsed to Messrs. William
Rathbone and Co., they obtained the portion of the cargo
consigned to them, the freight upon which was £44G Gs.
Messrs. Rathbone tendered the captain £441 Os. lid.,
being the full amount of freight less discount for three
months, which was refused. This amount, however, was
subsequently received without prejudice, and it was
agreed that the decision of a competent tribunal should
be taken on the legality of the custom. The bill of lading
stated the freight was to be paid at a certain rate, but no
time for payment was specified ; and on this a sum of
£5 ss. Id. was sought to be recovered. A verdict was re-
turned for the defendants, Messrs. Rathbone and CO.
THE ASSIZES.—The next assizes at Lancaster will
commence on Thursday, 17th February, and at Liverpool
of Tuesday 22(1 March. The records in causes to be tried
at Lancaster, and at issue on or before Wednesday, the
21 of February, should be ordered forthwith ; and in those
to be tried at Liverpocl, and at issue on or before Mon-
day, the 7th of March, should be ordered on that day.
The last day for making up issues in time for trial at the
next assizes at Liverpool, will be Saturday, the 12th of
March, on which day the records must be ordered. Rule
day after the assizes, Thursday, the 24th of March. The
causes to be tried at Liverpool will be entered in the fol-
lowing order : Ist list, Salford hundred. 2d list, West
Derby hundred or elsewhere. The entry of causes at
Lancaster will close at nine o'clock on Friday morning,
the 18th of February, and at Liverpool at twelve o'clock
at noon on Wednesday, the 23d of March. The causes in
the second list will not be called on for trial before Fri-
day, the 25th of March. The Chancery Court will be
held at St. George's-hall, Liverpool, on Thursday, the
24th of March, at ten o'clock in the forenoon.

MR. LEA AND THE LAMP POSTS.-At the Health
Committee on Thursday, Mr. Hughes, the deputy town-
clerk, read a long communication from Mr. Lea. He
stated that his purpose was to introduce the system by
using only those lamps established in business thorough-
fares. After faithfully performing a variety of gratuitous
public services, the remainder of the boards or banners
will be devoted to the uses of the local trading commu.
nity, each individual of whom will be permitted to record
simply his or her name, address, and occupation, without
ever admitting, for any consideration, the slightest expres-
sion of an empirical or "puffing" character. A letter
was read from Mr. John Reay, secretary of the Guardian
Society. The committee of the Guardian Society were of
opinion that the adoption of Mr. Lea's plan would be
highly objectionable and inexpedient, and ought nottothbee
sanctioned. The committee suggest the desirableness of
having extended throughout the borough the plan now
only partially adopted of naming the streets upon
lamps in the form now used, with the addition, where
practicable, of stating upon the lamp, say at the bottom
of Bold-street, " Bold-street, leading to Slater-street."
This they apprehend was within the province of the
Health Committee, and need not be interfered with by a
private individual. The consideration of the subject was
deferred to Thursday next; whatever decision the coin.
mittee came to it woUI4 t)P WOO QTer t 9 the Watch
Committee,

A NAUTICAL SCHOOL, as will be seen by advertise-
ment, is to be opened at the Sailors' Home.
A LARGE Doc, in a state of madness, was shot, on
Monday week, at Speke ; but not until it had bitten a
number of dogs, a cow, and a sheep.
THE BRITISH AND NORTH AMERICAN MAIL STEAM.
SHIP ARABIA, Judkins, commander, took her departure
hence on Saturdoy, at noon, with about sixty passengers
and a large cargo, besides the usual mails.
MISS EMMA JACKSON'S FIRST GRAND CONCERT Will
take place to-morrow (Wednesday) evening, in the pre-
sence of the Mayor. The list of vocalists is respectable,
and the programme is selected with taste.
COTTON FROM TRINIDAD.—We have had submitted to
us a very beautiful sample of cotton, grown in the island
of Trinidad. This island presents one of the finest cotton
fields in the world.—Manchester Examiner.
JOHN WATSON, aged forty-four years, fell into the hold
of the ship Loodianah, while lying in the Canning Graving.
dock, on Tuesday, and received injuries which caused his
death on Friday.
Two MEN, HALL and POWELL, charged on Saturday,
at the Borough Sessions, with stealing wool from bales.
the property of Mr. Henry Brownett, were convicted and
sentenced, the former to fifteen, and the latter to twelve
months' imprisonment, with hard labour.
THE DEAD:BODY of a full-grown female child was found
on the waste ground in Canning-street about eight o'clock
on Saturday morning. An inquest was held on Monday
(yesterday) before the Borough Coroner, when a verdict
was returned in accordance with the facts.
HIS WORSHIP THE MAYOR, on Thursday evening last,
invited a select party of gentlemen to meet Colonel and
Major Burns, who are here on a visit to James Aikin,
Eq. Mr. George Holden's glee company sang appro-
priate glees from the Scottish bard.
JOHN MITCHELL, fireman on board the tug steamer
Athens, was found dead in the engine-room on Saturday
morning. It is supposed that he had been accidentally
struck by a portion of the machinery. An inquest was
held yesterday, when a verdict was returned "accidentally
killed."

REEL CARRIAGE.—Mr. Hewitt, superintendant of the
fire-police, has just invented a hose-reel carriage of great
beauty and utility. It will in most eases render the taking
of engines to a fire unnecessary. He is sending models to
the New York and Dublin exhibitions.
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN was SO satisfied with the
services of her last Welsh wet nurse, that she is desirous
of engaging another for her approaching confinement.
and, if possible, from the vicinity of Bangor.—North
Wales Chronicle.

THE AMPHITHEATRE.—The grand somersault contest
of England against the United States terminated on Sa-
turday in favour of the Englishman, Mr. Barnes having
thrown on that night 76 somersaults, which made a total
of 393 ; while Mr. Franklin, who on that night only threw
58, completed altogether but 313 somersaults.
THE NUMBER OF EMIGRANTS who left this port dur-
ing the month of January was 5,137, a fewer number than
in any month since 1847. From the Government Emi-
gration Depot, Birkenhead, the Derry Castle sailed on
Monday, having 360 souls on board, of whom 250 were
single women, chiefly 'lrish ; and the Sea on Thursday,
with 310 soils on board. The Empire of the West will
sail thence to-morrow, the John Fielden next week,
besides foar or'five others in the course of the month.
COLLISION.—On Thursday, Mr. Palgrave, attorney,
appeared on behalf of Capt. Thos. Barber, of the schooner
Undaunted, to claim £4B fromlOwen Jones, the pilot in
charge of the 'Spanish brig Justitia, caused by the neglect
of the defendant. On Tuesday they were about to pro-
ceed into the George's gut, when the Justitia was struck
by the steam-tug Independence, which was backing out
from the pier, and driven into the Undaunted. Mr.
Mansfield said there was no blame to be attached to the
pilot. He should, therefore, dismiss the case.
FRAUDS 'BY 'OMNIBUS CONDUCTORS. At the Bo-
rough Sessions, the other day, six of Messrs. Busby and
Company's omnibus conductors were tried, upon separate
indictments, for embezzling money belonging to their
employers, which they had received as fares whilst in the
conduct,of the company's omnibuses. James Davidson
was sentenced to six months, Henry Holden to two
months, and Thomas Butler, William Corless, and Jas.
Wright, to four months' imprisonment each, all to hard
labour. A systematic process of plunder has been going
on for alength of time.
A PUB= DINNER was given, 'at the Lion Hotel,
'Warrington, on Wednesday last, to Gilbert Greenall,
Esq., M.P. for Warrington, by the Tory portion of
his constituents. The number present was about 160.
John 'Clare, Esq., of Grappenhall, presided, supported
on his right by the guest of the evening, Gilbert
Greenall, 'Esq., M.P.. the Hon. and Rev. Horace
Powys, rector of Warrington ; and on his left by J.
'Perrin, Esq., Mayor of Warrington. The chairman, in
proposing Mr. Greenall's health, referred to the contem-
plated opposition to his re-election, and expressed his
hope that they would return him as their member until he
was as grey as a badger. (Loud laughter.)
SINGUDAR CHARGE OF FORGERY.—Richard Woosey.
known as a cad" or " jackal!" to low attorneys, and
who was one of the informers against the Messrs. Busby's
omnibus conductors, was on Friday taken into custody,
on the charge of forgery. under the following circum.
stances a case " M'Nulty a'. Rees," in the Court of
Passage, the plaintiff was nonsuited on his own evidence.
On the brief being placed on the table, Woosey took it
up and altered the figure of 1 in the barrister's fee to that
of 2, thus making it appear that two guineas, and not
one, had been paid to the advocate. A learned barrister
gave intimation to the judge, and Woosey was subse-
quently apprehended and lodged in bridewell.
NEW SHERl7FS.—Cumberland, Francis B. Atkinson,
of Rampsbeck Lodge, Esq. ; Cheshire, John Hurleston
Leche, of Carden Park, Esq. ; Derbyshire, Sir John
Harpur Crewe, of Calke Abbey, Bart. ; Lancashire, John
Talbot Clifton, of Lytham Hall, Esq. ; Shropshire. A. C.
H. Percy, of Hodnet Hall, Esq. ; Staffordshire, Edward
Buller, of Dilhorne Hall, Esq. ; Warwickshire, Sir W.
Edmund Cradock Hartopp, of Four Oaks Hall, Sutton
Coldfield, Bart. ; Westmoreland, John Wakefield, of
Sedgwick, Kendal, Esq.: Yorkshire, Andrew Montagu,
of Melton Park, Doncaster, Esq. ; Anglesey, Wales,
Richard Williams Prichard, of Erianell, Esq. ; Carnarvon,
Robert V. Wynne Williams, of Llandudno, Esq. ; Den-
bigh, P. Wynne Yorke, of Dyffryn Aled, Esq.: Flint, W.
Dod, of Llanerch, Esq. ; Radnor, Jonathan Field, of
Esgardrainllwyn, Esq.
TN A CASE at the County Court, on Thursday last, in
which Edward Pulford, flour-dealer, Prussia-street, sued
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defendant's solicitor pleaded that he was not liable, as no
want of skill had been proved, and plaintiff had not taken
proper means to cure his horse when the lameness showed
itself. He cited a case in point, where a man having a
sore-eye had gone to a horse-doctor to get cured. (Laugh.
ter.) The " surge6n" applied the remedies he made use
of for his ordinary patients, and the result was that the
man lost the sight of that •eye. He brought an action for
damages against the " doctor ;" but the jury nonsuited
him, and a very learned authority designated him as "an
ass!" (Laughter.) His Honour nonsuited the plaintiff.
THE ROYAL INSTITUTION.—The annual meeting of the
proprietors was held on Friday:: Mr. W. R. Sandbach
presided. Present we observed the Rev. Rector Campbell,
the Rev. Dr. Raffles, the Rev. J. H. Thom, Mr. R.
141`Andrew, Mr. Drinkwater, Mr. Theodore W. Rath-
bone, and Mr. Harmood Banner.—The Chairman read a
review for the year of the state and progress of the insti-
tution. Some fruitless negotiations had taken place,
with the view,of adding Mr. Mayer's 'collection of Egyp-
tian antiquities to the museum. The museum continued
to be visited by the public in large numbers on the free
days of admission. 21,230 had been admitted in the
course of the year. The chairman referred, in very com-
plimentary terms, to Mr. D. Turner, the principal, who
has just brought kut a second edition of his Notes on
Herodotus. The total receipts of the year bad been £689,
and the expenditureV636. Mr. Drinkwater said he was
the first individual to set that institution a-going ; and it
grieved him to the heart, a short time ago, to think that
they were going to part with it ; but there was ix• occa-
sion to evoke old grievances. The committee were re-
elected, with the addition of Mr. J. Bramley-Moore and
Mr. Mayer.

THE GREAT ToY ROBBERY. At the Borough
Sessions, on Saturday, before Mr. Recorder Henderson,
Thomas Hall, Elizabeth Hall, and Wm. Henry Brooks,
of Wolverhampton, were charged with receiving a large
quantity of toys, the property of Mr. Eastee, of St.
George's-cresent, knowing them to have been stolen.
Mr. Tindal Atkinson defended Thomas Hall ; Mr.
WOubrey defended the female prisoner. Brooks was
undefended. The circumstances of the case will be fresh
in the recollection of our readers. Mr. Atkinson, on
behalf of his client, contended that none of the property
had been traced to his possession ; that he had born can
exemplary character for seventeen years ; and that Mrs.
Hall, who was his second wife, stole goods unknown to
him. The lad Brooks stated, in his own defence, that
he had received the few articles which had beer. traced to
his pozs.ession from his father (the principal in the case,
who is not in custody,) in liquidation of some money
that was owing to him ; and that he had not the remotest
idea that they were stolen. The jury acquitted Thomas
Hall ; but convicted the old woman and young Brooks.
The former was sentenced to two years' imprisonment,
and the latter to six months, with hard labour. Before
leaving the dock, " he thanked his honour for the lenity
he had exercised towards him, and expressed a hope that
he should never have the pleasure (the lad meant mis-
fortune) of seeing him again."

GRAVE CHARGE AGAINST A LIVERPOOL ATTORNEY.
—Strange disclosures were made lately in the Insolvent
Debtors' Court, at Lancaster, reflecting gravely upon the
character of a solicitor in considerable practice in this
town, and who lately occupied a more prominent public
position. A widower. with large pretensions to religion,
who resided within a few miles of this town, lately found
it unpleasant or inconvenient to discharge debts to the
amount of £7OO, which, although possessed of £3,000, he
was unwilling to meet. He sought the advice of the
solicitor in question, who put him up to a " dodge," by
which he would be saved from paying a shilling. This
was to get a wife, and settle all his means upon her. An
advertisement, in the following terms, shortly afterwards
appeared in a London paper :—" Wanted a Wife.—A
respectable, middle-aged, active, healthy, and religious
man is desirous of entering upon the holy state of matri-
mony with a lady of religious character, not more than
thirty years of age. Property is not a consideration with
the advertiser, although it would not be considered a dis-
advantage. His chief if not only anxiety is to seeure a
wife of good properties in herself, and whose sole desire
would be to make her home happy, and her husband and
family, should they be blessed with any, content and
comfortable. if by means of this advertisement the
writer should be so fortunate as to make the acquaintance
of a lady likely to be a helpmate to him in passing through
this world of trouble and care, he is prepared to make a
marriage settlement of £B,OOO upon her, and would desire
immediately to make a marriage contract." A lady from
the Isle of Wight was caught, after the first bite had
escaped the hook. Shortly after the marriage the bride-
groom was torn from the side of his bride, and carried off
to a debtor's prison. The commissioner, in sending Mr.
Snig back to gaol for twelve calendar months, expressed
his great regret that he had not also Mr, Hook within his
Jur4c.licti9l4

GENERAL NEWS.

THE NAVY.—It is rumoured that the Admiralty in-
tend commissioning six first-class steamers immediately.
THE North British Mail states that gold has been
found upon the Duke of Hamilton's property, at Arran.

FOR the first time these two years, snow fell in South-
ampton on Wednesday.

MURPHY DONOVAN, aged six months, died the other
day at Ratcliffe from the deleterious effects of a composi-
tion ornament sold at the shop of a confectioner.
HADDOCKS.—Great complaints are made by fishermen
of the growing scarcity of haddocks, and that the supply
of that fish is not one-half of what it used to be a few
years since.

TROUT FISHING.—On Saturday week a lady captured,
in Windermere, a trout weighing upwards of a pound and
a half, while it was endeavouring to swallow a perch half
as large as itself.

A VERY PLEASANT PAPER on the life and writings of
Oliver Goldsmith, was read last week, by G. E. H.
Vernon, Esq. to the members of the Newark
Mechanics' Institute. Mr. Vernon is a relative of his
Grace the Duke of Newcastle.
THE NEW GRINNEL ARCTIC EXPEDITION, which is
shortly to proceed from New York in search of Sir John
Franklin, is to be commanded by Dr. Kane, who believes
that Sir John still exists and can be rescued
ROWING MATCH.—A match in four-oared gigs has
been made between the Perth, Leven, and Glasgow pullers,
to come off on the Gareloch, in the end of June, for a
sweepstakes of £lOO, for the championship of Scotland.—
Glasgow Herald.
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.—A lady was economically in-
clined, and, in cutting out some shirts for her husband,
resolved that they should not descend much lower than
his hips. She wound up her arguments by observing that
linen was a very expensive article, and that she could not
see what on earth was the reason that people should stuff
so much capital into their pantaloons.
THE LARGEST MERCHANT STEAMER in the world,
the screw steamer Himalaya, of 3,600 tons measurement,
designed and built at Mr. Mare's establishment, at Black-
wall, for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company, will be complete for launching next month.
She is to be propelled by screw machinery of 700-horse
power.

FIRE IN SKIPS.—To extinguish fire in the hold of a
ship, nothing more is required than a cask of common

chalk in the bottom of the hold, connected with the deck
by a small pipe, and a three-gallon bottle of sulphuric
acid, which, on the alarm of fire, being poured down the
pipe, will generate a sufficient quantity of dense smoke
(in which flame cannot exist) to extinguish any fire, how-
ever large. Flame cannot exist in carbonic acid gas.
THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—A declaration of insol-
vency was filed in London at five minutes to 11 o'clock.
The fact was communicated by electric telegraph to a legal
firm in Bristol, by whom application was made in the
matter to the Court of Bankruptcy in this city, which was
heard and disposed of by Mr. Shum Tuckett, the Regis-
trar, and the solicitor left the Court at ten minutes before
twelve at noon.—Bristol Gazette.

HUNTING ACCIDENTS.—The Hon. Henry Pepys, son
of the late Lord Chancellor Cottenhano, met with rather a
severe accident, while hunting near Aylesbury on Saturday.
Mr. Pepys' horse fell, and the young gentleman dislocated
his collar bone and fractured his wrist. Mr. E. B. Farn-
ham, M.P., was hunting a few days ago with Sir R. Sut-
ton's hounds. when an old bridge gave way as he was pass-
ing over it. The back of the horse Mr. Farnham was
riding was broken, but he himself escaped unhurt.
A SHIP ON FlRE.—On,Tuesday morning, off Dungeness,
a fine schooner, called the Zelinia, Viand, master, bound
to London from Nantes, with wine and a general cargo of
merchandise, took fire. She at length took the ground
between N 0.3. and No. 4 stations, some four miles to the
westward of the Ness. The fire had obtained, however,
too powerful a hold to admit of her preservation. The
flames continued to extend over the vessel until at length
she was burnt to the water's edge. The crew and all who
assisted in endeavouring to stay the conflagration, succeeded
in reaching the shore in safety, not a life being lost.
A MURDER was committed on Tuesday morning on the
high road between London and Romford. Mr. Toiler, a
commission agent, living at the latter place, was met by an
ill-looking tramper who, felled him to the ground with a
stick, and his cries bringing assistance, the murderer took
out a clasp-knife, and cutting his victim's throat from ear
to ear, made off, but not till he had been recognized by a
labourer and his wife in a neighbouring field, who gave
immediate information to the police. Losing his way, he
returned to within three hundred yards of the spot of the
murder, and was at once captured and placed in gaol. His
name is Saunders, a native of Mortlake, in Surrey ; and
it is supposed his object was to have robbed the deceased.
SALT WATER JUSTICE.—On Saturday a waterman
named Hamly undertook to convey a sailor's wife, with
her husband's clothes, on board the Magicienne steam
vessel in the Sound, for 2s. In going through Plymouth
Sound he carried away his mast, when he threatened the
woman that, unless she paid him for the damage, he
would take her to sea. In passing the Vulture, steam
vessel, the woman gave an alarm. Pursuit was given, and
the boat was soon brought alongside, and the waterman
taken on the quarterdeck, made to refund the 25., and
threatened, if he did not speedily make his exit, he should
undergo summary punishment from the crew. His next
appearance was at the stern of a rigger's launch, having
prevailed on the crew to take him in tow. As soon as this
was perceived from the Vulture, a boat rowed after her and
told the tale. The fellow was immediately cut adrift, and
when last seen by them he was adrift in Cawsand Bay.
HOMES AND THEIR ESSENTIALS.—If homes are your
province, whatever is allowed to be done by law, or for
the want of proper laws to prevent it being done, for mak-
ing dwellings truly homes, is in your province: if dwell-
ings should be a home of enjoyment, the essentials for
happiness should be there. The first is, the health of the
individual. The health of the people is the first require-
ment of the law of mutual interests. The first essential
for health is pure air : no one should be denied it. Next
necessary is pure water for consumption, and plenty of it
for cleanliness. No man or body of men should have a
monopoly in its supply. Good sewerage and facility for
clearing away all animal and vegetable refuse. Have we
these necessaries ? and why have we not them ? Not be-
cause there is not sufficient intelligence or ability in the
people to provide them ? No. It is because there are
vested interests in existence incompatible with the com-
fort of the people, i. e. those who have but a common in-
terest : those who have a separate interest are not the
people, but from the people holders of invested interest ;
because those who have vested interest have the power of
making the laws affecting the lives and property of all;
while the great bulk of those who have but a common in-
terest in mutual justice have no voice in making these
laws, though they are subjected to them. If homes are
your province, then ethics and politics must be your pro-
vince, while right morals and right laws are necessary to
make dwellings homes.—The Builder.

FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETIES AND OLD COACHING
TOWNS. —No place in England suffered more severely by
the introduction of the railway system than the town of
Hounslow, so well known to every traveller on the great
western highway in the good old times of " the road."
Nearly three hundred coaches were driven off the road by
the monopolist locomotive, and Hounslow, the liveliest,
became one of the dullest towns in the kingdom. Pro-
perty in the town, which in the busy coaching times rea-
dily realized from £4 to £5 per foot frontage, has been
depreciated at least one-third, and the good folks, of
course, for a long time fervently blessed the railway. But
having in the interval taken to economical studies, in their
meditations on the past, they begin to hail the destroyer
as the probable restorer of business to the place. With
a healthy situation, a convenient distance from town, a
good line, as railways go in this quarter of the globe,—a
station to match, and very numerous inquiries. after build-
ing lots, the good people find that they are not quite ruined
yet. They have left off sighing, and begin to hope for
better times coming. This hope has been considerably
raised of late, in consequence of the agitations by, and
purchases of land on behalf of, Freehold Land Societies.
The right hand of welcome has been held out to the pro-
moters of these societies, and there is every prospect of
the movement being mutually advantageous. The Con-
servative Land Society have purchased a valuable estate
adjoining the railway station, which, in the course of a
very few months, will add a little town of elegant first-
class houses to Hounslow. A public meeting, presided
over by Mr. Farrell, of Isleworth, was held on Friday
evening, when Colonel Dickson, Mr. C. E. Lewis, the
solicitor, Mr. Gruneiser, the secretary, and Mr. Morgan,
the surveyor, attended as a deputation to explain the
principles and plan of the society. After a very full ex-
planation, resolutions approving of the principles, and
pledging the warm support of the meeting in favour of the
society, were passed, and a considerable number of addi-
tional shares were at once subscribed for. In the course
of the proceedings it was significantly remarked that
" Hounslow must not now look any more to the High-
street, but to the Railway Station and the Freehold Land
Societies, to recover her ancient prosperity."

SHOCKING MURDER IN DEVONSHIRE.—A murder was
committed on Sunday last week at Ciayhidon, Devon, on
the Black down Hills, about five miles from Wellington,
in Somerset. Mr. William Blackmore, who lived at
Clayhidon Mills, near the village, was a land surveyor and
tax collector. He was 53 years of age, was married, and
had one son. He had been out collecting tithes on the
Saturday, and in the evening went into the White Horse
public-house, where he drank rather freely in company
with three labourers, named George Sparks, Edmund
Sparks, and James Hitchcock. They left the public-
house together about one o'clock on Sunday morning,
and at four o'clock the body of Mr. Blackmore was found
by his son and a servant-man lying across the road in a
dreadfully mangled state, and his purse, with two £5
notes in it, lying by his side. The head was severely
fractured, and there were other injuries on the body.
Suspicion at once fell upon the three men with whom he
had been drinking, and the police proceeded to arrest
them. George Sparks lodged with his brother about half
a mile from the deceased's residence, and when the con-
stable went to him he was in bed. He at first denied any
knowledge of the crime. The officer then requested him
to put on the same clothes as ho wore that morning, and
on the wristcoat there were spots of blood. On searching
the house, the policeman found ten sovereigns and a half,
wrapped up in a piece of rag. While searching the house
several persons came in and began to talk to the prisoner
about the murder. At last he said, " It's no use to care
or to think any more about it; for I would as soon tell the
whole of it as not." The prisoner then got up fromhis seat
and took up a pair of fire tongs, saying, " This is theway
did it. I struck him backhanded, and
him the first blow, but I struck him twicethai/A l killed
fter that."
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He further said, he struck the deceased with portion of
a pair of fire-tongs, which be brought away with him
from the White Horse, and which. was subsequently
found in a river near the spot at which the murder was
committed. He subsequently exonerated the other pri.
soners from any participation in the crime. The only
suspicious circumstances against Hitchcock were these :
on his great coat were spots, which some said were blood,
but others said they did not think they were. Near to
where the body was found were footmarks also, which cor-
responded with Hitchcock's boots. The jury returned a
verdict of " Wilful murder" against George Sparks and
James Hitchcock, and they were at once committed for
trial at the assizes,

DEVONSHIRE WHEAT.—The farmers attending the
Exeter market have agreed to sell their wheat by a uni-
form standard of 601bs. per bushel, net weight.
CARDINAL WISEMAN has been presiding, " in his
scarlet robe and cap," at a soiree of the Leeds " Roman
Catholic Literary Society." A very prominent part of his
discourse consisted of an apology for the persecution of
Galileo by the Roman Inquisition.
THE GERMAN FLEET.—The war-schooner, which it
was intended to build by subscription, and which cost
11,000 rix dollars, was sold by auction on the stocks at
Stettin, for 3,005 rix dollars, a few days since, being less
than the value of the timber.

A PARALYTIC MAN, 103 years of age, who lived by
begging, at Portsmouth, was committed, last week, to
gaol for twenty-one days' labour. During the ride to
Winchester a d.rink of water was refused him; and, at
his journey's end, the police tumbled him out of the
railway carriage in a way so ruthless that he fell dead on
the platform.

THE HoN. W. L. BUTLER, who was a candidate in
June last for the representation of Hull, has taken an
action for slander and libel against a Mr. Oliviera, who,
for the purpose of assisting his political friends, by lessen-
ing the character of the plaintiff, had made certain charges
against him. Mr. Oliviera has been( mulct in damages
to the amount of £lOO.

THE BOARD OF TRADE.—On Wednesday an official
notice was served upon the functionaries of the above
establishment requiring a correct return of the number of
clerks, messengers, and other employes attached to that
branch of the public service, together with an accurate
account of the items of expenditure attendant thereon.
It is rumoured that the present course of inquiry will not
be confined to the department of the Board of Trade.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday, last week, while
Captain Nathaniel Middleton, of Tredegar-square, Mile-
end, for many years one of (the surveyors to Lloyd's
Register Society, was engaged in a survey of a ship in
Lavender Dock, owing to the careless manner in which a
stage had been put up on the outside of the ship on which
he was standing, it suddenly gave way, and precipitated
him into the dock, a depth of about 20 feet. One of his
legs was broken in two places, and the other most
seriously injured. He died on Wednesday.
SPEARING AND VOTING.—Mr. Cardwell, in his canvas
for the City of Oxford, denounced as " fooleries" certain
ceremonies practised in the churches there, and next day
made common cause with the ministers of those churches
to elect for the University the great lay champion of the
" fooleries" he had just denounced. A fact like this does
not require a word of comment : it illustrates so neatly
the harmony that is likely to prevail in the " happy
family" that we may leave it with a bare mention.—Cam-
bridge Chronicle.

THE PLYMOUTH BREAKWATER.—The smack Ocean,
of Boston, Gostellow, master, was wrecked on Plymouth
breakwater on Wednesday night. The master, who was
also principal owner, being a stranger to the port, thought
the lighthouse was on the eastern end of the breakwater,
instead of the western end, and ran the vessel right end
on the breakwater. The night was very dark, and there
was a strong swell at the time. The vessel became a
total wreck, but the master and crew, two men and a
boy, were saved, having been taken off by the crew of
the Tavy, the yacht of Mr. Thompson, the Queen's
harbour-master at Plymouth.
A CARGO FOR THE DIGGINGS.—The Screw Company's
steamer Harbinger left Southampton on Friday for
Australia. She took out sixty passengers, specie (prin-
cipally gold) to the value of £240,000; jewellery, valued
at £20,000, and a miscellaneous cargo besides, amongst
which was a wooden house, and a large quantity of spades
and pickaxes for the gold diggings. Her cargo is valued
at nearly half a million sterling. The Harbinger took out
ship letter mails for the Cape of Good Hope, Adelaide,
Melbourne, Van Diemen's Land, and New South Wales.
These mails contained nearly 10,000 letters and news-
papers.

THE COAST DEFENCES.—We have every reason to
believe that in the course of the present spring measures
will be taken to place the western coast of England in a
state of efficient defence; and we also believe the newly-
appointed Commander-in. Chief of the Western District,
Major-General Sir Harry Smith, G.C.8., will be engaged
in the survey of the headlands, with a view to the recom-
mendation of the several points from which the object
can be best obtained. To assist in this duty we have
heard a steam-ship-of-war is to be placed at the gallant
officer's disposal. The garrison of Plymouth is to be
very materially strengthened in artillery as well as in-
fantry, and it is not improbable, if stabling can be found
(the old cavalry barracks having been recently taken down
to clear the site for the new buildings for the accommoda-
tion of the troops at Devonport) that the local force will
also include a regiment of dragoons.—Morning Herald.
DISGUSTING SCENE.—A few days ago the bodyof Eliza-
beth Green, aged 56, spinster, of Spitalfields, was found
lying naked on a heap of rags and shavings in her room.
There were seven live cats close to the dead body, and a
carcase of a dead cat in the corner of the room, in a state
of putrefaction. There were also two live fowls roasting
on the back of an old chair. In one corner of the place
was a heap of bones, which the deceased had saved for
years past, and the floor of the room was covered from one
end to the other with at least two inches of the dirt of cats
and fowls. There were the remains of an old piano-forte,
and all the glass in the windows was broken. The bodies
of four dead cats were afterwards found in the cellar, in a
state of putrefaction. She never admitted any one into
the room. Her family connexions are described as being
highly respectable.
BATHS AND WASH•HOUSES.—A report of the Com-
mittee of Public Baths and Wash houses in the metro-
polis, states that there has been an aggregate of upwards
of 3,000,000 washers and bathers during the last five
years. In 1848—the first year of the period in question
—only one establishment, that of Goulston-square,
Whitechapel, had been opened to the public, and for
bathers alone. The number under this head was 48,637.
In 1849 there were two establishments, which have re-
turned for that year 297,831 bathers, 9,070 washers. In
1850 there were three establishments, which gave acco-
modation to 509,200 bathers, and 60,154 washers. The
increase under the last head is not a little remarkable.
In 1851 there were five establishments-647,242 bathers,
and 132,251 washers. Finally, in the year 1852, with
seven establishments at work, the returns are swelled to
800,163 bathers, and 187,580 washers. The receipts for
the last year, in the metropolis alone, have amounted to
the very considerable sum of £13,413 7s. 2J.—a sum
quite large enough, we believe, to meet all the expenses
incurred.

LYNCH LAW ON THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.—
On Friday, immediately after business commenced, con-
siderable excitement was created in the neighbourhood of
Capel Court by a mob of boys and idlers following and
hooting a person, originally, no doubt, of gentlemanly
appearance, but all bespattered with flour and rotten eggs.
It appeared that the members of the Stock Exchange had
been " Lynching" a defaulting speculator, who had been
defrauding a respectable broker to the extent of .£1,000„
It was further stated that he had been carrying on his
game for some time past, that he prefixes " Rev." to his
name, and resided in one of the old-fashioned mansions
between the Foundling Hospital and the British Museum.
On making his appearance at a broker's office in the
morning, he was invited to visit the exchange, when he
rather hesitatingly refused ; but, after some parleying,
was persuaded to go. his reception had been previously
arranged, and, as soon a 9 he made his appearance, a.
signal was given, when he was most unceremoniously
rolled in the sawdust, and afterwards literally covered
with flour and rotten eggs. Being in that condition
kicked into the street, his appearance very soon at-
tracted a questionable retinue of followers, who, learning
the nature of the case, evinced but little sympathy for his
misfortunes, hounding him on until with great difficulty
he gave them the slip, and managed to get clear away.
We understand he was in the habit of employing one
house to buy and another to sell the same stock ; and
that in some instances lie had recommended himself to
brokers by stating to them, that having attended the
dying moments of dear friends of theirs, who described
theta as persons on whose activity every reliance could be
placed, he was determined to employ them in laying out
a few thousands he had by him to advantage.