The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-29 00:00:00

T lIE LIV ;RPOOL STANDARD.

TIIE FOOD CROPS IN THE UNITED STATES
AND CANADA.

From a long and apparently a carefully-written article,
in the New • York Morning Herald of the 15th instant,
arrived per Hibernia yesterday, we have gathered the fol-
lowing information with respect to the prospects of the
grain crops in that country. Speaking of them generally,
our-contemporary says :
We have watched closely, and published impartially, accounts
of the crops from the first appearance of their vernal life till the
present time, when we begin to hear of the husbandman's re
turn for his agricultural labors. There has been all along an
undue amount of croaking, either brought out -by the fears of
the over-anxious, or induced by the traffickers in breadstuffs,
in order that their own selfish interests might be the more
speedily advanced. It would, to be sure, be as unwise as un-
true to say that there are no blighted spots in our wide terri-
torial fields. The drought which prevailed in the early part of
the season, was in some sections prolonged until the hopes of
the farmer, in respect to his wheat, were cut off; but in many
of these sections, as in Maryland for instance, American enter-
prise brought the hoe where the harrow had already been, and
in pace of sickly and stunted wheat and kindred grains, a vi-
gorous growth of maize was soon sending its promised shoots
upward, as if in derision of the demon blight who seemed thus
foiled in the attempt to cut short the hopes of the tiller of the
soil. We have, of late, had a most delightful alternation of
rain and sunshine; and except from confirmed grumblers, we
have good accounts of the effect whiclihas been produced upon
the fields of growing grain. One other fact is worthy to be
mentioned here—that in many tobacco growing regions, the
early season being unfavourable, no pain's were taken to nou-
rish that " weed," and two-thirds of the room heretofore
allotted to its growth (in some sections of Maryland for in-
stance) is now occupied by spring wheat, rye, oats, and Indian
corn.

-From the Eastern States the accounts are stated to be
most cheering ; and it is predicted that the coming har-
vest will yield a greater quantity of bread stuffs than that
section has ever before produced in one season. New
Jersey and Delaware will always do much towards sup-
plying the wants of Europe. As a proof of the activity
of the farmers there, our contemporary says :
One man who usually plants five acres of potatoes has put in
sixteen : another has doubled his usual quantity of wheat, and
a third has improved four or five times the usual quantity of
corn ground. Indeed, we find a statement to the effect, that
the surface of ground in New Jersey, planted this year with
corn, exceeds that of last year by one hundred thousand acres,
which, at a low estimate, ought to yield four millions of bushels,
more than equal to one-fifteenth of the whole deficiency of the
potato crop in Ireland,! for 1846. This, as an exoess over last
year will he an important item, especially when it is considered
that, at the opening of navigation this year, New Jersey, a!-
though so near to our market, had an immense surplus of
wheat on hand.

Pennsylvania, it is said, will yield more than an average
crop; but from Ohio the accounts are contradictory.
Michigan, which exported 1,000,000 barrels of flour last
year, it is expected can spare at least half that quantity
this year. In Northern Illinois, the wheat crop partially
failed, but the land was planted in lime with Indian Corn.
From Winsconsin we learn that :

The number of acres sown with wheat greatly exceeds that
of last year. The blight reached the southern portion of Ra-
cine and Walworth counties, but all through the northern,
middle, and western sections, the standing grain presents a
luxuriant appearance • and it is confidently expected that the
surplus for export will greatly exceed that of any former year.
Last year's export from the territory was something over half
a million of bushels. The Wisconsin Sentinel says --" There
can be little doubt that the export of wheat and flour from
Wisconsin for the present year will reach a million bushels."

In Maryland the drought was against the wheat in the
early part of the season; but the plant has improved in
some parts of the State, and elsewhere corn has been
substituted. Many of the tobacco fields are set with
wheat. Virginia and North Carolina are doubtful as to
ability to supply us ; but in South Carolina an abundant
harvest is expected. Some of the wheat is already got
in and sent to market. Georgia is not expected to be
an average ; but there is time yet for improvement.

"The corn and cane in Alabama and Texas, is represented
as suffering for want of rain, but as we have accounts of
saving showers in Louisiana, we can but hope that they have
reached those States also, and that there is no longer reason
for comp!aints, but that both the maize and sugar cane are
now ,growing finely.
" We hear no complaints in relation to the grain craps in
Tennessee, and hence we conclude that there is no reason why
the Tennesseans should complain. Tennesse raises the most
corn of any state in the Union. Her last years crop amounted
to 67,738,447 bushels. Kentucky is another great corn grow-
ing State, and we hear no complaints of any importance from
her. _ _ _

"The wheat fields throughout the provinces of Canada look
encouraging."

Our contemporary concludes by saying—
"We have thus endeavoured to present a faithful summary of
the prospects of the coming crop, throughout the great wheat
and maize growing districts of the country. We have, in most
instance,,, merely recorded the statements and reports which
prevailed in reference to the subject. Throughout most parts
of the country the fate of wheat for the present year, so far as
its growth is concerned, is fixed, and the farmers have no new
evil but lust to fear. In relation to the corn crop the case is
quite different. It requires a peculiar climate to perfect it, and
a warm June and July sun is no less requisite than a forbear-
ing October, for an early frost will materially injure the kernel.
Of this grain, then, it would be idle to predict whether we are
to have a large or small yield. But from what we are able to
present, we certainly can see no reason why consumers of
breadstuffs in our own country should be subject to the enorm-
ous tax which the greatest prospective scarcity ought only to
subject them to."

ibentral I+llsrOany.

Prince Albert has given X 25 for the caxtbn memotial.
A. CONTRAST.—Green peas are selling at is. per peck,
and old potatoes, three parts rotten, at 2s. per peck.
The patients belonging to the ship Swatara are now in
a state of convalescence.

The Queen has conferred on Father Mathew a pension
of £3OO a year.

A large Roman Catholic Chapel is now being built at
Guernsey, with money supplied, it is said, from France.
On Saturday last, Miss Woodford performed her tight-
rope dancing on a rope stretched across the river Ouze,
near the Waits, St. Ives.
Some individual, with a curiously constituted mind, has
sent a £5OO note to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to
be devdted to the service of the country.
Gibson's statue of the Queen arrived at London, from
Rome, on Wednesday, and has been removed to Buck-
ingham Palace.
A correspondent of the Builder recommends that side-
boards, tables, and other articles of furniture, should be
made of glass.
THE FAMINE.—A, medical officer of one of the Cor-
nish parishes has appealed to the Board of Guardians for
an increase of his salary, on the ground that the poor of
his district take the medicine with the greatest avidity.
The British and Foreign Institute, founded in London,
by Mr. J. S. Buckingham, has been closed for want of
funds, a want which was partly caused by the circumstance
that several members neglected to pay their subscriptions.
DEATH BY LIGHTNING.—Two persons, a man and
woman, who sought refuge in a barn along with a crowd
of persons in Tamworth, on Tuesday last, during a thun-
der-storm, were struck dead by the electric fluid.
THE LATE THOMAS Hoon.=Lord John Russell has
announced her Majesty's gracious intention of conferring
a pension of £lOO a year upon the children of this highly
gifted, but unfortunate author.
Yesterday week, the foundation-stone of a.building de-
voted to the purposes of vocal music, under the superin-
tendence of Mr. Hullah, was laid by Viscount•Morpeth, in
Charles-street, Long Acre, London.
A singular and fatal accident occurred a few days since,
at Ticehurst, in. Sussex. Some men were amusing them-
selves by throwing a heavy skittle ball, which struck a
young blacksmith on the head with such violence that he
died within a few hours.

The Hon. Mr. Hardinge, son of Lord Hardinge, has
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ing the late campaign on the Sutlej, and portraits of the
leading Sikh officers and ministers.
THE VALUE OF LANDED PROPERTY.—On Tuesday the
freehold estate, called South Ockendon-hall, situate at a
distance of about eight miles from Romford, Essex, was
disposed of by auction, at the auction mart. It comprised,
besides the residence, above 668 acres, and- it realized a
rental of about £1,170 per annum. It fetched £24,620.
RIOT AT WINDSOR.—A" riot took placest Windsor, on
Tuesday, in consequence of an attempt to dig a well in a
field called " Bachelors' Acre," which the bachelors of
Windsor have a right to frequent at all times. The well
was stopped up, and the police driven off by a mob of bache-
lors, armed with clods and stones.
'EATING FULLER'S EARTH.—The Medical Times gives
an account of a young woman, employed as a glass polisher,
who had acquired such a morbid habit of eating the ma-
terial used by her, that she swallowed in one year and a
half, no less than twelve hundred ounces of aluminous, or
Fuller's earth.

Lord Robert Grosvenor and Mr..Spooner attended 011
Tuesday at the Home Office, with Sir George Grey, to
present a memorial to the Queenfrom the women of Eng-
lafld, signed by one• hundred thousand, praying that the
bill for preventing trading in seduction may pass into a
law.

FATAL COLLIEWr EXPLOSION--On Tuesday,' a dread-
ful explosion took- place at the Felling. Colliery, the pro-
perty of Messrs. f!arr and Co., by which four men, two
boys, eighteen horses, and two ponies were killed. The
colliery is situated near to the Newcastle and York Rail-
way, on the north side, about, half a mile from Gateshead.
THE LATE TREED.—The Nassau Observer says, that
two Harbour bland vessels arrived at that place with be-
tween two and three hundred jugs of quicksilver, saved
from the wreck of the British steamer Tweed. They
would have saved much more had they not been driven
off by Spanish men of war, after having worked bid one
day.
A reward of £5O has been offered for the apprehension
of William Parsons, police sergeant, and Isaac Hickton,
police constable, lately, in the K division, charged with,
conspiracy and perjury at the inquest held at Dagenham,
in the county of Essex, upon the body. of George Clark,
a police constable, who was brutally murdered on the 29th
June, 1846.
The correspondent of the Daily News. at Rome, who is
no other than Mr. Mahony (the celebrated Father Prout
• of the Magazines), writes that Lord Ward had an interview
with Pope Pius IX., a few days ago. His HolineSs
wil-
lingtobeaffahle, but somewhat at a loss howto compliment
his visitor, felicitated his lordship on " his easy circum-
stances."
On Thursday week, at the Central Criminal Court,
there were two trials for murder, in both of which the
were verdict was for manslaughter only. M`Donald, a carpen-
ter, having got drunk with his wife, killed the woman by
"throwing her down stairs. Thomson, a labourer, also
wwhhielelidvrued with hirnlc,d. the
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criminals Anne
Ford,re sentenced a woman
to be transported for life.
A LARGE FAIR.—Brampton-hill fair, Westmoreland,
one of the most extensive fairs in the north, commenced
for sheep, on Tuesday last, and upon no previous occasion
was there such a show as on the present. In some hands
there were not less than from three to four thousand in a
drove ; and persons capable of forming an estimate, stated
that there were not less than from thirty to, forty thousand
head of sheep exposed for sate.

The senior admiral on the list, the Hon. Sir Robert
Stopford, G.C.8., G.C.M.G., and Knight of the order of
the First Class Red Eagle of Prussia, Vice Admiral of the
United Kingdom, and Governor of Greenwich Hospital,
expired at Richmond on Friday morning, at two o'clock,
in the 80th year of his age.
ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—An
accident of a very extensive nature occurred upon this
railway last Saturday morning, and attended with great
loss of life, not, we are happy to state, to any human be-
ing, but to a great number (about 90) of sheep and calves.
The guards of the train, however, experienced a very nar-
row escape. The accident resulted entirely from the repre-
hensible practice of having an engine behind the train to
assist in propelling it.
In the course of the week, May 24 to 31, the price of
home-grown grain fell off on the average about 12s. per
quarter. Prices had previously experienzed a decline of
4s. from the highest point. From the 31st of May to the
7th of June, there was a rally in prices to the extent of Bs.
per quarter; and from the 7th to the 14th of June there
was again a reduction to about the same amount, owing
principally to news of large arrivals being expected from
America. The funds are rising as the price of grain falls.
An old man, 81 years of age, was brought up last week
at Leeds, for being drunk, and fined ss. He travelled
about the country with a cart load of watches, trinkets,
and £282 in gold. Whilst tipsy he boasted of the wealth
he possessed, which of course soon spread through the
neighbourhood, and on the following day, whilst he was
drinking in a public-house, some thieves robbed the cart
of the 282 sovereigns and all the watches, which the old
man had been thirty years in collecting.
Mr. Duncan, the African traveller, has reached this
country, after escaping all the vicissitudes of a compara-
tively unknown country in South Western Africa. He
has had several attacks of fever, and escaped death under
several guises. He has, however, reaped a rich ethnologi-
cal collection, which he intends immediately to lay before
the Ethnological Society. He has minutely studied the
distinctions of the various tribes of negroes of the south
present, compared with the uncivilized men of the north
of Western Africa.

IMPROVEMENT OF IRELAND.-On Monday, the annual
meeting of the Bristol and Clifton Association for the
Moral and Religious Improvement of Ireland was held.
The Chairman said that the society aimed at improving
Ireland through the operations of the Irish Society, the
Scripture Readers' Society, and the Sunday School So-
ciety. The Dean of Ardagh spoke as a deputation from
the Irish Sunday School Society, and said he felt as if he
had some plea for doing so, inasmuch as he had for more
than 50 years, since the time he was a boy, been a Sunday
school teacher. The Rev. T. Nolan, of this town, also
delivered a very able speech on the occasion.
RYE BREAD.—The Guild of Bakers at St. Petersburgh
have, with the sanction of his Imperial Majesty the Em-
peror, at their own expense, sent over to this country
ten master bakers, with instructions to offer their services
gratis, to bakers in this country, for showing their pro-
cess of baking down bread from coarse ground rye meal
without, as well as with, the admixture of other bread
stuffs, even of potatoes. Rye bread prepared in the Rus-
sian way is said to be savoury, nutritious, and wholesome,
and constitutes a favourite article of food, not only of the
lowest, but also of the middle classes in Russia as well as
in Germany.
THE " TABLET" AND THE TRACTARIANS.—Aunrcy-
LAR CONFESSION, &c.—The above Roman Catholic jour-
nal states that the chapel at Magdalene College, Cam-
bridge, is being " purified from the desecrations of the
last three centuries." It also says that a disclosure has
been made by Mr. Faber (the pervert), to the effect that
one of the results of the furtively introduced practice of
auricular confession, in the English Church, has been that
things which have been revealed in confession have been
talked of in society. This is attributed by the Tablet to
the persons receiving such confessions (the number is va-
riously estimated at from six to twenty), being some of
them married men!— Church and State Gazette.
THE GENTLEMEN OF KENT AND THE GENTLEMEN OF
ENGLAND.—This interesting rivalry, which occupied the
attention of the cricketing world, at Lord's, on Monday,
Tuesday, and Wednesday, was brought to a close on the
last-named day. On the first day England had scored
181 against 183 of Kent. On Tuesday the match was
resumed before an increased assemblage, England going
in for a second hands, and when " time" was called, had
scored 201, with two wickets to go down. Wednesday
opened with England adding 24 to its score, as will be
seen by the subjoined state of the numbers at the " close
of the poll." England—First inning, 181 ; second, 225.
Kent—First innings, 183 ; second, 67. England, there-
fore, won by 156 runs.

The gross revenue of the Post Office, arising from
every source, for the year ended sth January, 1847, was
£2,004,007 15s. ld. The total number of letters to and
from all places beyond seas, taken at London, Liverpool,
Hull, Dover, Southampton, and Portsmouth, for the
year 1846, is estimated at 1,640,456; the total number of
newspapers, ditto, at 2,698,376 ; and the total amount of
postage for the same is estimated at £624,788 12s: 3d.
The costs incurred and the sums paid to railway companies,
mail and stage coaches, horse posts, and foot runners and
messengers, within the United Kingdom, were £379,888
6s. Old, including £23,961 7s. 3Ad. paid for tolls. The
costs incurred for the distribution of letters in the metro-
polis and other large towns of the United Kingdom, was
£76,654 6s. 4d. The gross revenue derived from postage
and all letters from parts beyond seas. was £301.640 13s.
CHEAP BREAD AT EIGIITPENCE THE FULL QUARTERIsT
LOAF.—We have received a printed statement from Bir-
mingham, with the above title, which is in the following
terms :—" Two pounds of flour (best seconds or thirds),
6d.: two pounds of cold cooked hominy, ad. ; harm, salt,
and water, id. ; charge of baking, 4d.-Bd. ; bake it ex-
actly as usual.—To cook hominy, weigh a quantity, wash
it, and let it soke all night in soft water ; next morning
strain it, and to every pound of hominy, add five pints of
soft water, and let it boil briskly for one hour or a little
more, till quite soft. If the water be hard, add a piece of
carbonate of soda, the size of a pea.—Cold cooked 'ho-
miny can be prepared in various ways,—either warmed up
plain, and eaten with salt, ,or sugar, or treacle ; or fried in
dripping ; or in bread, cakes, soups, fritters, puddings ;
or as a stew, with bones, fish, meat, or vegetables.—lndian
meal (which is hominy flour) makes excellent bread also,
and is prepared exactly in the 'same way.—lf every body
used but two pounds of flour in each quartern loaf, and
made up the rest with hominy, meal, or rice, the little
supply of flour which remains in England would go twice
as far. The rich eat hominy and other•mixed breads, and
why should not all classes do the same.

BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF
SCIENCE.—This society commenced its annual meetings
on Wednesday, at Oxford. The first meeting of the ge-
neral committee was held in the Town-hall. The chair
was taken by Sir R. Murchison. A proposition was made
to re-unite the mechanical with the mathematical section,
but, after some discussion, the mechanical section was
permitted to have existence for at least the present ses-
sion. From a conversation which took place, it is ex-
pected that the next meeting will take place at Swansea,
as a Royal Institution for South Wales had lately been
established in that town. An introductory general meet-
ing was held in the theatre, in the afternoon, Sir R. J.
Murchison, F.R.S., in the chair. He was supported by
the Marquis of Northampton, the President of the Royal
Society ; the Prussian and American Ministers ; Sir T.
Dyke Acland, Bart, M.P. ; the Earl of Enniskillen, Sir
J. Herschell, Bart. ; Sir John Richardson, Sir James
Ross, Dr. Faraday, Professor Owen, and many other of
the leading members. The preliminary address was deli-
vered by Sir R. H. Inglis. He alluded to the progress
made in various branches of scientific inquiry since their
last meeting, at the head of which was an important as-
tronomical discovery, in which human intellect had
tracked a path in the highways of the universe, which had
been arranged millions of years before by the great
Creator. He also alluded to several important discoveries
in chemistry and electricity. At the close of the meet-
ing, it was announced that Baron Humbolt was restored
to a state of convalescence.

The most remarkable feature of the corn market of,
this country is the enormous extent to which we have de-
pended upon foreign supplies for the last three months
for our immediate consumption, and the great falling off
in the quantities of home-grown grain coming forward
from the farmers. In the week ending the 9th instant,
the official accounts show that the imports into the United'
Kingdom had been :
Wheat and flour 80,564 quarters.
Barley 10,002
Oats 18,962
Peas 1,371
Beans
Indian corn, 111,370
And the aggregate imports in each week for the last two
months have, averaged upwards of 200,000 quarters. On
the other hand, the quantities of grain received from the
farmers are smaller than were ever known at any former
period sinca the law of 1828 was passed. The following
is a comparison of these quantities between the last week
and the corresponding week in the two last years :
Grain returned as sold in the 290 Markets by which the average
price is regulated.

Same week Same week
Last week. in 1846. in 1845.
Wheat
Barley
Oats.
Rye
Beans
Peas
The contrast thus shown is very striking.—Morning
CAr.onicle.

DESTRUCTION OF A PACKET-SHIP BY AN ICEBERG.—
The packet-ship Eulalia, belonging to St. Sebastian,
while on her passage from Havannalx to Galway, was over-
whelmed by an iceberg. She had 37 passengers (a great
many of whom were, women) on board, with a crew of 14,
including the master. She was a fine looking vessel, barque
rigged, 300 tons bßrthen, and was laden with a cargo of
miscellaneous articles. Her voyage was favourable till
she made latitude 42. 15. north, longitude 52. west, when
she met with a heavy field of ice. This ocurred on the
morning of Friday, the 21st of May. The master, observ-
ing the perilous state of the ice, bore the ship round, and
attempted to clear it, but this was found impossible, and
about nine o'clock a tremendous iceberg struck the ship
amidships, cutting her down to the water's edge. The
shock was fearful, and the terror and dismay of the pas-
sengers were painfully great. Not a moment was lost in
lowering the boats, and placing the passengers in them;
for, on the pumps being sounded, the ship was found to
be fast filling. The crew lingered on board at the pumps
in the hopes of keeping her afloat, but were compelled to
make a hasty retreat, the ship reeling over on her beam
ends and instantly sinking. Two boats, containing the
captain, 14 of the crew, and 14 passengers, succeeded in
getting dear of the wreck, but the third, with 20 persons
in it, most of whom were women, was drawn down with
the vessel, and every soul perished. The boat, it appeared,
was fastened to the wreck by a rope, which the crew, in
their fright, fearing the ship was sinking, had forgotten to
unship, and it was impossible to cut it, the passengers
having no proper implement. On the following day, at
five o'clock in the evening, the remaining boats were
picked up by the schooner Newport. The loss of the
Eulalia and cargo is estimated at 45,1100,

THE CROPS IN SCOTLAND.—A few days ago I was in-
formed by an experienced farmer, that he had recently
travelled from Gatehouse to Creetown, and he does not
remember to have seen more promising crops of barley,
oats, potatoes, rye-grass, and turnips. The arable land
is in a high state of cultivation, and it produces as fine
barley as there is to be found in any part of the stewartry.
We recently saw some splendid fields of oats on the farm
of Longlands, in Twynholm ; and, thus far, in the vici-
nity of Kircudbright, the potatoes are very promising.—
Correspondent of the Dumfries Courier.
DUCAL EMBARRASSMENTS.—There has been so much
erroneous gossip circulated in clubs and newspapers rela-
tive to the private affairs of a nobleman of the highest rank,
character and influence, that it may be as well, without
affecting to enter into details, to state a few facts which
will put the matter in a more just light than seems hitherto
to have been the object of those who have handled it. The
circumstances, for the greater part the result of the mag-
nificent establishments and lavish expenditure of a former
head of the family, are, unquestionably, large; but it is
absurd to suppose that the patrimonial estates in Buck-
inghamshire, Hampshire, Ireland, and the West Indies
are not more than sufficient to meet the difficulty were it
doubled, or even quadrupled. The perfectly good under-
standing, too, between the duke and his heir will mainly
facilitate this desirable consummation. The latter, to
whom the sole management of the entire property has
been consigned, has already taken prompt and decisive
measures. We believe we may add, that the sale of the
Irish property (a large nominal rental, but under present
circumstances, singularly unproductive) has been decided
on; and that this step will probably supersede the necessity_
of any further sacrifice. There is no truth, we understand,
in the rumour that Arington was to be brought to the
hammer.—Britannia.

JOSEPH ADY DEFEATED AT LAST.—A summons was
heard on the 18th instant, before Mr. Serjeant Manning,
the Judge of the New Court, at Whitechapel, in which
the notorious Joseph Ady was the defendant, on the plaint
of Mr. G. R. Dodd, a solicitor, of New Broad-street,
city. It appeared from the statement of Mr. Rhodes,
the clerk to the plaintiff, that the latter, some time back,
received from Ady one of his circulars, promising, as
usual, some valuable information on the receipt of a fee
of XI, which was afterwards paid to him on his giving a
receipt in writing, coupled with an undertaking to re-
turn the money in case the Premised information proved
erroneous or useless. In return for his fee Joseph sent
the plaintiff a number of papers, consisting chiefly of un-
claimed dividends and reports of cases in which he had
figured as defendant before the magistrates, and, as he
asserted, proved his innocence of the fraud imputed to
him, together with some absurd cautions against joining
certain public companies, all of which were utterly use-
less to the plaintiff, who, in consequence, demanded the
return of his money, according to the condition upon
which he had paid it. This being refused by Ady, the
summons was taken out against him, and the Judge, after
hearing Ady's solicitor, who made the best of his bad
case, decided that the money should be repaid to the
plaintiff, with all expenses, within a week from the hear-
ing of the summons.

A COACH ADVENTURE.—On Saturday night last,
whilst Macquire, the driver of the coach which arrives in
Huntingdon about half-past ten, after setting down a
passenger about that time at the house of Mrs. Eady,
opposite• St. Mary's church, was again mounting the box,
the horses started on before he had obtained a secure
footing, and he was thrown down and slightly injured, at
the same time losing hold of the reins. There was now
only one passenger remaining, and he was inside ; and
the horses finding themselves at liberty, set off at a gallop
through the town, passing the George, where they ought
to have stopped. and proceeding in full career up St.
Peter's-lane towards Ripton. The gentleman inside,
who had now become Conscious that the horses were with-
out a driver, and not knowing whether they were ap-
proaching a river or a precipice, took the resolution of
jumping out of the coach, and we are glad to say that he
accomplished this dangerous feat with little or no injury,
although a little stunned at first with the fall. Several
parties were immediately in pursuit, and all who knew
the road and its various turnings expected that in the
darkness of the night the whole would have been found
upset in a ditch; but, strange to say, the horses pursued
their way through King's Ripton; by the narrow roads to
Wistow mill, and thence into the village of Wistow,
where they were found standing quietly and uninjured
near to the church. On examining the harness, it was
found that only one of the traces was broken, the reins,
which had been hanging about the horses heels all the
time, being uninjured, and the coachman's great coat and
whip precisely in the places he left them. The box was
now mounted by Gailer, one of the George establish-
ment, who first came up, and the coach was driven back
to Huntingdon, where it arrived about three o'clock on
Sunday morning. The distance run by the horses islittle
short of seven miles.

CAPTAIN WARNER'S INVENTIONS.—III the House of
Commons, on Friday, Sir H. Douglas said that "he ad-
hered to the opinion that there never was a greater impo-
sition practised on the credulity of the people than this
long range : and the noble lord had given strength to the
imposition by applying, in describing it, the scientific
terms of " range," " bombardment," and " projectile"
to what he knew was neither snore nor less than a balloon.
(Hear, hear.) The fact was, that the whole world was
laughing at our gullibility. (Hear, hear.) Then as to
the absurdity of the invention. To carry up these pro-
jectiles of 8001bs. weight balloons of 33 feet diameter
would be necessary, the silk for which alone would cost
£3OO. The large balloon would cost £450. But Mr.
Warner proposed to let off flights of these balloons of
such size that the cost of each would be £3,000. (Hear,
and laughter.) Could anything exceed the absurdity of
such a scheme ? The honourable and gallant member
proceeded at some length to'read several calculations and
certificates from military officers, all tending to prove that.
Capt. Warner's experiments at the Fair-oak tree had been
total failures. It had been said, "It is true the experi-
ment has failed on shore, but at sea, with a steamer able
to sail in the wind's eye,. the result would be quite diffe-
rent." Now the dome of St. Paul's, was only 100 feet
in diameter, and that of the Pantheon 130, and seeing
that some of these balloons must be 80 feet in diameter,
he should think that a steamer going in a stiff breeze,
with two or thiee of diem triced up to her masts, would
find it rather awkward navigation. (Laughter.) He
would engage to riddle them with spherical shells at one
thousand five hundred yards. Then, if these balloons-
were lost the bombardment would prove rather expensive.
But, he forgot, that was not part of Captain Warner's
scheme ; he had a plan to save his balloons. They were
to be projected, discharge their shells, and to be drawn
back by a line. Now, seeing that the range was to be four
or five miles, he would leave the house to judge what
length of line would be necessary, and, besides, it should,
be a considerable strength, quite a young hawser. (Hear.)
What would the noble lord think of commanding a
squadron armed with these enormous balloons ? (Hear.)
With respect to the invisible shell, he had no more faith
in it than the long range. He believed it to be a trick,
and that it achieved nothing which could not be done with
gunpowder. He had thought so when he witnessed the
experiment with a punt, and this opinion was only con-
firmed by the explosion of the John O'Gaunt. In that
case Captain Warner had distinctly promised Mr. Sornes
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pressed when he first read the astounding statements of
Captain Warner, namely, that if the man believed them
he must be mad, and. if he did not, an impostor. He
inclined to the more charitable conclusion, and believed.
that the propounder of such a scheme must be labouring
under some extraordinary mental hallucination."