The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-04 00:00:00

THE MINISTRY

To THE LANDOWNERS AND LABOURING PEOPLE OF
ENGLAND, AND TO ALL CLASSES OF THE OPERA-
TIVE TRADES PEOFLE WHO ARE DESIROUS OF PRO-
TECTING THEIR PRESENT RATES OF WAGES, AND
DEFENDING THEMSELVES FROM THE FURTHER
INVASION OP THEIR RIGHTS AS A BODY, AS IN-
DIVIDUALS, AND AS A NATION.

MY FRIENDS,—There is no time to be lost in coming to
a final conclusion on the great and important point now
under discussion in the Commons, and which is introduced
for the destruction of your joint and separate interests as a
people, as a class or classes, and finally as a nation ; but the
power avert to the ruin which is to attend these proceedings
lies in your own hands. We have two contending parties,
the Conservatives and the Destructives. For th 3 Conserva-
tives I will say as little as I possibly can ; a comparison of
the two parties will show directly who are the protectors of
the people's rights and who are the assailants. If the O'Con-
nell party ever intended any thing for our general good, why
would they at first setting out provide, on such an extensive
scale, workhouses for the people, such a plan of relief amongst
a then independent, Protestant population ? They must have
premeditated a general ruin, which would be a cause for the
existence of such prisons; they must have intended a certain
line of policy which would have the effect of a general de-
crease of our business and our prosperity. The falling state
of the country is a proof of it. And as for the general bene-
fits which we were promised from a Whig-Radical and
O'Connell alministration, we see the nature of these benefits
clearer when we come to compare them with the Conserva-
tive administration ; we see the Conservatives have done
their duty to their country, whilst the Radicals have played
the game so well, that we find a great national deficiency
which we must all contribute to, until made good. Now, as
there are two sects of people, independent of Papists, who
have power to remedy these evils and prevent this sort of
O'Connell sport, I would request the attention of both to
those two parties, the Conservatives of England and the
Radicals. These two sorts are people who want political
qualification in a member of parliament without any refer-
ence to religious principles; even such a man as this cannot
find any thing in the Whig-Radical to merit his support, but
directly the reverse; and the man who would require both
these virtues amongst the Whig-Radical party, they are
found to be enemies to the country and enemies to our
church ; and no one can give en instance of any thing under
colour of our good proposed by them until the end of many
years ruin on the country when they are called to resign, and
then they will give us cheap bread and cheap sugar. The
cheap bread being accompanied with the destruction of the
highest interests of Englishmen, and if this system should
operate for the reduction of rents of land and houses, and
the reduction of employment, how does Lord Melbourne
intend to meet another and a new kind of deficiency which
must take place in the financial department by means of the
said reduction of the value of property in general ? This must
be considered as another great evil arising out of the great
evil of corn-law repeal, as the poor-law dungeons are a great
evil, made necessary to remedy the evil of the ruin which
was anticipated previous to the building of the workhouses
for the people, and all these evils spring from the same
source, Whig-Radical administiation. But the Radical
O'Connell party cannot be for the good of Englishmen—
quite impossible. See his words to the inhabitants of Dublin
several years ago : We will have no police here ; we will raise
the Irish volunteers, who will do the duty of the national

guards; we will have no English fellows to govern us—we
will govern our own country, and defend it against the com-
mon enemy. Will you not all be volunteers? Voices : "we
will, we will." We will drive the Sasenach (the Englishman
or Protestant) from our land ; we will not have it defiled by
such reptiles ! These are every one identical words used by
O'Connell himself to the people of Dublin. And he was
as good as his word ; he did raise an Irish volunteer move-
ment, to the amount of some hundreds of thousands, whose
operations made it dangerous to the lives of Protestants to
remain in the country, and it required no small degree of
power, on the part of the English government, to suppress
them. But does he come over to Englishmen with such
language? No; he uses very different weapons in his war-
fare from those used against us at Wexford in 1798, at Derry,
or at the Boyne. He finds it won't do here, and therefore
he comes to you with sweet words, "cheap bread and sugar."

If O'Connell thinks cheap bread a good thing, let the Irish
have cheap bread for a trial, but without any benefit from our
English markets, except as usual. Let the Irish have foreign
corn cheap until their ports are full, and see how they will
take it; and if it is not for their benefit, it cannot be for
yours. But I will advocate cheap bread if it is all English
or Irish produce, giving the reward for labour to our own
men, and keeping the workhouses empty. And any man
that wants further proof of Whig-Radical treachery, let him
look at the system of religion they advocate—popery, tran-
substantiation, purgatory, idolatry and cheap remission of
sins, paid for according to our means, their priests professing
to absolve all sinners without any ceremony but the cash.
As to transubstantiation, our Saviour has said, " Verily I
ray unto you, ye shall not see me hence," &c. They say we
can see him and handle him every day. The other absurdi-
ties of their church will appear on comparison with the
Scriptures. And because we are protesters against these
innovations on God's church, we lose the name of Catholic,
which Rome retains. The name of Catholic is strong enough
to keep the unlearned man stedfast in their superstitious
belief. Look at their i .stitutions, the nunneries. No man
of principle would vote for the Whigs, who extort an income
from our pocket to support such places, whose burden on
the people could not be endured in a popish country, Spain,
as appears by the revolt which scattered the popish inquisi-
tion courts. In fact, the world may laugh at Englishmen if
they reject their own friends, and vote for those who are

bound in allegiance to a foreign enemy, the Pope, whose war
is carried into our very camp. Therefore, the Whig-Radical
ministry being found to betray the interests of every man,
both as regards politics and religion, and both separately and
conjointly, and the English Conservatives found the friends
of the people, and of the nation generally ; and as regards
both politics and religion, any man who will not reject the
former and support the latter, must be declared an enemy
to his country, to himself, his family, and above all, to his
God.—l remain, dear Sir,

A DEFENDER OF THE CHURCH AND
THRONE OF ENGLAND.
Prescot, 31st May, 1841.

The Cheshire Cavalry, GOO strong, under the command of
Colonel Egerton, are expected to arrive in this town to-
morrow, for permanent duty,
GRAND WRESTLING MATCH AT TOXTETII.PARK.—we
are obliged to postpone our account of these interesting sports
until Tuesday.

COVZNT-GARDEN MARKET, SATURDAY.—Every week
adds to the profuseness of the supply of every description of
summer fruits and vegetables,which are also much improved
in quality, from the continuance of fine and genial weather.
Trade has also been brisk during the week, and prices have
been moderate. Every description of forced fruit is of very
good quality—Providence, Emrille, and Queen pine apples
being from 6s. to 10s. per lb ; hot-house grapes 4s. to 8. En-
glish melons ss. to 10s. each ; and peachettes and nectarines
20s. to 30s. per dozen; strawberries continue abundant, and
there have been some in the market during the week grown
in the open air. Cherries are plentiful at ss. to 12s.
per lb., and are now to be seen in many of the shops.
Green gooseberries were in abundant supply, at 4s. per
sieve, although this fruit has been very much affected by
the blight ; green currant, were 3s. per half sieve ; and apri-
cots 6d. per quart. Peas from Kent, were plentiful and of
good quality, at 4s. to ss. per currant sieve, and shelled 3s.
per quart. The supply this season promises to be very
abundant. There was a continued good supply of asparagus
at 3a. to ss. per bundle ; and cauliflowers were very good at
2s. to 6s. per dozen. Forced French beans were 2s. per
hundred ; and new frame potatoes, 6d. to Is. per lb. ; tur-
nips were 4s. to 6s. per dozen bunches ; cos lettuces, 9d. to
Is. 6d. per score; onions, ss. per sieve; spinach, 9d per
sieve ; cabbages, 9d. to Is. per dozen ; and new carrots, Bd.
per bunch. The great variety of flowers now makes the
garden a rich and pleasing parade, and amongst the most in-
teresting new plants were some kalmais azalias, dianthuses,
acacias saponarias,

MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday
last, Charles Foster, Esq., fourth son of Baron Foster, was
to have accompanied the baron and family from their resi-
dence, Rathescar, in the county Louth, to Dublin, but as he
was to proceed on horseback, and the day being extremely
wet, he deferred his journey till the following Monday. In
the course of the morning of that day, he and Mr. Arthur
Foster, went out in a small boat, on the lake of Collon, in
the domain of Lord Ferrard. They had been but a short
time on the water when, owing, it is supposed, to some in-
advertence in rowing, the boat upset, and both parties were
precipitated in twenty feet of water. A gamekeeper of
Lord Ferrard's, with Mr. Delapp, son-in-law of that noble-
man, happened to be on the bank of the lake at the time, and
witnessed the melancholy accident. Mr. Delapp, an excel-
lent s-vimmer, instantly plunged into the water, and quickly
reached the fatal spot, where he caught a glimpse of Mr.
Arthur Foster in the act of disappearing beneath the surface
after R short but severs struggle for life. He succeeded in
catching hold of him, and rescuing him, in a state of the ut-
most exhaustion, and almost total insensibility, from his
perilous situation, but his ill-fated companion had sunk into
a watery tomb. Mr. Delapp dived repeatedly, to try at least
to recover the body, but without success ; and although
ivory possible exertion was made for dm same purpose down
to Area o'oloek in ties aftornemiat, Ike remains woes not elis-
eoronwl.—OuSan Stakewien.

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office, half-past Linen o' Clock

CHINA, INDIA, AND EGYPT

(From a Second Edition of the London Times of
Yesterday, half-yast One o'clock, p.m.)

We have received, by extraordinary exprese, the details of
the intelligence of which we were enabled to lay the princi-
pal points before the public in an early second edition o•
Tuesday last.

Our despatches are dated from China, April 1; from Bom-
bay, May I ; from Alexandria, May 22 ; from Malta, May
26.
Our express from China and India brings most important
intelligence. The last dates are, from Macao the Ist of
April, Singapore, the 10th, and Calcutta the 22d ; Bombay
the Ist of May, and Alexandria the 22d.
The negotiations between the British and Chinese Com-
missioners had been broken off a few days after the date of
the last despatch (February 13,) and hostilities had recom-
menced which ended in the capture of all the Bogue Forts
(30 in number, mounting 800 guns), the destruction of all
the defences and batteries up to the walls of Canton, " tak-
ing, sinking, burning, or dispersing the enemy's flotilla," in
the words of Commodore Sir J. J. Gordon Bremer, who
conducted the operations, and on the 18th March " hoisted
the Union Jack on the walls of the British Factory."

This intelligence was contained in two despatches from
Macao to Calcutta, the first by the Waterwitch on the 28th
of February, containing the explanation of these extraordi-
nary and eventful proceedings. Keshen, the Imperial Corn-
missioner, had delayed the execution of the treaty concluded
with Captain Elliot to obtain the Emperor's confirmation.
Instead of approving, the Emperor has rejected the treaty,
and issued four edicts breathing scorn and defiance of the
English, delivering Keshen over to the Board of Punishment
(though without depriving him of his command), divesting
the Admiral Kwan Teenpie of his button, sending flying
orders for the march of 8,000 of his best troops to defend
Canton, " to subdue and recover the places on the coast,"
" to exterminate and drive out the English," " for it is ab-
solutely necessary that the rebellious foreigners must give
up their heads, which, with the prisoners, are to be sent to
Pekin in cages to undergo the last penalty of the law." The

fourth edict clearly betrays the deceptive policy pursued by
the Chinese : viz., " To-day, the 11th of February, Keshen
has reported that the English foreigners have usurped pos-
session of the batteries, and it is difficult to defend and keep
the province. He further reports in a supplementary docu-
ment, in which he with intense eartnestness begs that favour
may he bestowed on the English," &c. "On looking at
the report, I am altogether filled with indignation and grief.
The said great minister, because of the importance of the
city of Canton and its granaries of rice, and also because
the inhabitants are exceedingly numerous, because appre-
hensive that commotion' would ensue, has made this a cause
for temporary expedients, and deceptively acceded to the
requests (of the English), and for the present they have
not been surrounded or exterminated." This Imperial
Edict continues—" Hasten, then, your consultations and
schemes, attack and exterminate," &c.

Before these hostile edicts had appeared, Captain Elliot,
confiding in the good faith of Keeshan, had sent orders to
General Burrell to restore the island of Chusan to the Chi-
nese, and to return with the Bengal Volunteers to Calcutta.
This order had been promptly obeyed. Chusan had been
evacuated on the 25th of February. Three vessels, with the
volunteers on board, had reached Singapore on the 16th of
March, but it was expected they would be ordered back to
I►lacao. The others had fortunately put into Hong-Kong
for water, and were detained there. Of the 1,700 European
troops belonging to the 26th and 49th regiments which landed
in Chusan in high health in July last, 190 only were left fit
for duty. The British imprisoned by the Chinese at Ningp•
had been liberated upon the evacuation of Chusan. An ar-
rangement had been made by the friends of Col. Anstruther
to facilitate his escape, but he refused to avail himself of it,
as he might thereby have exposed his friends in captivity to
greater hardships. Captain Elliott, in !pursuance of an ar-
rangement with Keshen. sent on the 14th of February the
iron steamer Nemesis up the river with a draught of a treaty
respecting the " details which remained matter for negotia-
tion," under orders to wait till the 18th. The Nemesis
found the river obstructed by barriers, large batteries erect-
ing on shore and on the central island, and herself fired on
by the Bogue forts while yet two leagues off. She therefore
returned at once to Macao, where Capt. Elliot, at length com-
prehending Keshen's duplicity and the Emperor's inveterate
hostility, prepared to recommence hostilities. He set sail on
20th February up the river ; on the 24th Commodore Bremer
attacked and destroyed the fieldworks, disabling 80 guns they
mounted ; on the 25th and 26th he attacked and captured
three adjoining Bogue forts without losing a single man,
killing about 260 Chinese, and taking 1,300 prisoners, who
were subsequently liberated at the opposite side of the river.
The whole British force was on the 28th of February pro-
ceeding to attack Canton, at which date the \Vaterwitch was
despatched from Macao express with the news to Calcutta.
Vessels had also been sent to atop the passing transports
from Chusan, and recall those arrived at Singapore. The
supreme Government of India was making every exertion to
send more troops to China. The above intelligence was de-
spatched from Calcutta by express overland to Bombe), but
only arrived three hours after the departure of the steamer
for Suez on the Ist of April. It was therefore necessarily
detained at Bombay till the 27th of April, when the steamer
sailed for Suez with Sir James Carnac. The primary
error and cause of delay in the transmission of this
and the previous Chinese despatches has been attributed
to the opinion expressed by Captain Elliot when, on the
27th January, he despatched the Enterprise steamer to Cal-
cutta, " that she might stop there, as all was settled in
China" ! He had at the same time ordered his family to
join him, in the conviction that he had re-established peace.
By the arrival of the Queen steamer at Calcutta, on the
20th April, with Commodore Bremer himself on board, we
learn the continued successful result of the operations of the
British squadron while ascending the Canton river, subse-
quent to the 28th of February, capturing forts, destroying
barriers, and blowing up junks, till the final success at Can-
ton on the 18th of March. The reports of Commodore
Bremer to Lord Auckland contain ample details of the daily
and almost hourly operations of the British squadron. The
casualties on its side are stated to be inconsiderable ; 25
men and 1 lieutenant killed, and 26 men wounded. All the
factories at Canton were occupied by the British troops.
Captain Elliott had, on the 20th of March, issued a " cir-
cular to her Majesty's subjects," announcing that a suspen-
sion of hostilities had been agreed on between the Imperial
Commissioner Yang and himself, " that the trade of the
port of Canton is open, and that British and other foreign
merchants who may see fit to proceed there for the purpose
of lawful commerce shall be duly protected. No bond will
be required by the provincial governor, but there will be no
objection on the part of the British authorities to the like
liabilities for the introduction of prohibited merchandise, or
for smuggling duly proved, which would follow such offences
in England, detention of person, or penal consequences of
all kinds excepted." The circular winds up thus :—" No-
tice is hereby given, that British and foreign merchant
vessels have permission to proceed to Whampoa ; all conse-
quences arising from the possible and sudden resumption of
hostilities of course remaining at the risk of the parties."
Subsequently another violent proclamation had been issued

by the Emperor. The notices posted by the Canton autho-
rities on the walls to announce the re-opening of trade had

been torn down, all communication with the English or-
dered to be cut off, and Keshin had been sent a prisoner to
Pekin by order of the Emperor.
The Bengal Hurkuru says, " We have heard upon good
author ity that the Bengal Volunteers, who had been detained
at Singapore, have declared their unwillingness to return to
China, and threatened a general mutiny if an attempt were

made to compel them."
The 55th European Regiment bad been embarked at Cal-

cutta as a reinforcement for the troops at Canton. The
island of Hongkong had been evacuated by orders of Captain
Elliott, on his discovery that Keshin's treaty was merely a

deception

The Auckland steamer left Bombay on the 27th April with
Sir J. R. Carnac, Bart. and family on board, en route for
Egypt and England Sir James has resigned the governor-
ship of that presidency on account of his health, being
threatened with paralysis. His departure had elicited feel-
ings of regret and sympathy amongst the natives of Bombay,
and a subscription of 36,000 rupees had already been made
for the purpose of presenting him with a piece of plate—of
having a scholarship established in his name in the medical
college—and of having his bust taken after his arrival in
London. He landed with his lady and family at Suez on the
15th of May, and proceeded thence by Cairo to Alexandria,
where they arrived on the 21st ult., and set sail in the Orien-
tal on the 22d. Captain Harris, of the Engineers, also sailed
in the Auckland steamer from Bombay, and was landed at
Aden, to proceed on a mission into Abyssinia.
The Berenice, which left Bombay on the Ist of May, con-
veyed the important despatch of the arrival of the victorious
British squadron at Canton, and all its successes since Feb.
28. This mail arrived at Alexandria at midnight on the 21st
of May, and the Oriental sailed therewith next morning.

An university at Madras has been opened by Lord Elphin-
stone, who continues to retain the government of that Pre-

sidency three years longer.

The Supreme Government had opened a new loan at rt per
cent., a circumstance which had caused much speculation
throughout India. The old loans of .I per cent. have become
depreciated, and would evidently have not been adequate to
an emergency such as was contemplated in reference to new
operaticns at Herat. The Bombay army is marching to-
wards Quetta and Candahar. Major Todd had arrived
safely at Gorisk. Generals Brooks and Nott, each at the
head of 6000 men, were waiting for further orders. The
rumoured advance of the Persians on Herat is now found to
he somewhat premature. All was quiet in Nepaul and
Scinde.
The Punjaub confirmed in a very disturbed state. The
murder of Colonel Montoro,:.Captain, Fowkes and Pay-
mastcr Ford, by their own sheik troops, pear Pieba-

war, had been confirmed. The sains mutinoup
of soldiers have also murdered 119 of their owe native
officers. General Lumley, with his troops, were pre-
pared to cross the Sutledge at Feaoropore as soon as it
might be necessary ; but it appeared that no decisive course
had been taken. British interference had not yet been en-

tered on within the Punjaub, meanwhile it had become a
prey to the ravages:of Jawless;troops amounting to 80,000
men.

The Hill tribes in the Cutchee were :threatening to
avenge their recent defeats.
Nusseer Khan had been induced by Colonel Stacey, to
enter into arrangements, and to proceed with him to Quetta,
to meet :Slr. Bell, and ratify the treaty.
Dost Mahommed was at Meerut on the 28th of March,
and left it for Calcutta next day.
Calcutta and Cuttack had 'been suffering severely from
cholera; the deaths were for some days up to the 9th of
April, 50 in the former city alone, not counting its populous
suburbs. The Rev. Mr. Backhouse, chaplain of Agra, had
been carried off by it. The 32d Regiment of Native In-
fantry was attacked by it on the Bth of March, between
Dacca and Dinapore, and 100 sepoys, about an equal number
of boatmen and followers carried off in 11 days.

The great discussion in Bombay respecting the contempt
of the Supreme Court, committed by two sets of merchants,
has ended by the judges allowing the rules to be discharged
against those proprietors. A great sensation was caused
thereby, and a subscription of £3OO collected to present a
piece of plate to the barrister who had pleaded on their be-
half. The whole of the bar has condemned his conduct, and
the public has allowed the matter to drop into oblivion.

The punsters say that as ministers find. court plaster will
not make them stick in their places any longer, they are
now going to try Corn plaster.
HEREFORD CATHEDRAL.—In carrying on the improve-
ments and restoration, which have been some time on foot in
Hereford Cathedral, the architect has just discovered that
the tower, with its immense superincumbent weight, is in
imminent danger of falling, and crushing the mighty fabric in
one general ruin. Large fissures in the masonry, in some
places two feet deep and across the solid stones themselves,
are apparent ; and it is a most providential circumstance that
the discovery has been made previously to any further pres-
sure upon the failing parts by the alterations in progress,
which, it is said, must have occasioned the total destruction
of the magnificent tower, together with the choir, the tran-
septa, and the eastern portion of the nave. When, or under
what circumstances, so awful a catastrophe would have oc-
curred, of course not even those best acquainted with the
subject could pretend to decide.
THE ORIGIN OF SUNDAY SCHOOLS.—Whatever be the
issue of the question, so far as Mr. Stock and Mr. Baikal'
are concerned, there is a town which can slow that a Sunday
school was established in it full fourteen years prior to the
formation of the shoo' or schools at Gloucester. In the year
1769 a Sunday school was commenced by Miss Ball, at High
Wycombe. She was a lady of great piety, and of rather nn-
common earnestness in doing good. Her custom was to
assemble as many as thirty or forty children on Sunday
morning, to hear them read the scriptures and repeat the
catechism and the collect, preparatory to going to church.
A place is still pointed out in the remarkably fine church of
High Wycombe, as having been occupied by the Sunday
scholars of Miss Ball. An old servant, who when young
was my nurse, was one of those scholars, and still lives, in
conjunction with sundry individuals, to bear testimony to
the facts which I have stated. In a " Memoir of Miss
Hannah Bali," recently " revised by John Parker, Gent.,

and published by Mason, 14, City-road," it is further stated
that " Miss Ball continued this school for many years; and
also met the children every Mon Jay, to instruct therm in the
principles of Christianity.—Rer. TV. H. Havergal, Rector
of Astley.

THE WAY TO GET ON IN THE WORLD.—TO get on in
this world, you must be content to be always stopping where
you are ; to advance, you must be stationary ; to get up, yen
must keep down ; following riches is like following wild
geese, and you must crawl after both on your belly, the mi-
nute you pop up your head, off they go whistling down the
wind, and you see no more of them ; if you have not the art
of sticking by nature, Toll must acquire it by art; put a cou-
ple of pounds of birdlime upon your office stool, and alt
upon it ; get a chain round your 1-g, and tie yourself to your
counter like a pair of shop scissors ; nail yourself up against
the wall of your place of business, like a weasel on a barn-
door, or the sign of the spread eagle ; or what will do beat
of all, marry an honest poor girl without a penny, and my
life for yours, if you do n't do business I Never mind what
your relations say about genius, talent, learning, pushing,
enterprise, and such stuff, when they come advising you for
your good, stick up to them for the loan of a sovereign, and
if ever you see them on your side of the street again, skiver
me and welcome ; but to do any good, I tall you over and
over again, you must be a sticker. You may get fat upon a
rock, if you never quit your hold of it !—Blackwood.
FATE OE THE APOSTLES.—St. Matthew is aepposed to
have suffered martyrdom, or to have been slain with a sword,
at a city in Ethiopia. St. Mark was dragged through the
streets of Alexandria, in Egypt, until he expired. St Luke
was hanged upon an olive tree, in Greece. St. John was put
into a cauldron of boiling oil, at Rome, and escaped death.
He afterwards died a natural death at Ephesus, in Asia. St.
Peter was crucified at Rome with his head downwards, at kit
own request, thinking himself unworthy to die in the Lame
posture as his beloved Master. St. James the Great was
beheaded at Jerusalem. St James the Less was throw*
from a pinnacle or wing of the Temple, and then beaten to
death with a fuller's club. St. Philip was hanged up against
a pillar at Hierapolis, a city of Phrygia. St. Bartholomew
was flayed alive by the command of a barbarous king. St.
Andrew was bound to a cross, whence he preached to the
people until he expired. St. Thomas was run through the
body with a lance, at Coromandel, in the East 'lndies. St.
Jude was shot to death with arrows. St. Simon was cruci-
fied in Persia. St. Matthias was first stoned, and then be-
headed. St. Barnabas was stoned to death by the Jews at
Solonis. St. Paul was beheaded at Rome, by the tyrant
Nero.

HORRIBLE DEATH.—Pierre Bigot and Genevieve Pa,
the former a locksmith and the latter a washerwoman, had
cohabited together for the last two years, and lived in har-
mony, arising, alas ! from a certain congeniality of taste for
idleness and strong liquors. Last Sunday, according to cus-
tom, they had spent the day at the different wine shops at La
Caistille, and returned in the evening to their domicile in a
state of intoxication. Soon after their entering their room,
their neighbours heard loud talking and quarrelling between
them, and soon after, on looking in at their window, ob-
served the woman lying motionless on the floor, and the
man sitting beside her on a chair lighting his pipe. About
half an hour afterwards, a strong smell and a quantity of
smoke proceeded from the room, which was soen afterward•
enveloped in flames. A message was immediately despatched
to the nearest station for assistance, and the firemen, arriv-
ing promptly, broke open the door, when the first thing
which presented itself was the body of the unfortunate
woman, her clothes in a blaze, and a blue flame also proceed-
ing from her mouth and nostrils. Pigot was sitting tilers
an unconcerned spectator of what was going on, and when
interrogated as to the cause of the accident, confessed that
he had intentionally set her clothes on fire, to cure her of
her propensity to drunkenness ! The flames from her mouth
and nose proceeded from her breath, which was so strongly
impregnated with alcohol as to immediately become in a
state of combustion. The heartless ruffian was immediately
taken into custody. and committed to prison, to take his
trial for the murder. The death of the woman must hays
been instantaneous, as suffocation must have instantly en-
sued on the flame reaching her face.—Peris paper.

SMOKELESS COMBUSTION OF COAL.—An invention rank-
ing wtih the most scientific and useful discoveries of the day,
has lately been perfected by Charles Wye Williams, Esq., ef
Liverpool, a principal director of the City of Dublin Stearn
Packet Company, and the justly celebrated improver of the
Shannon. Mr. Williams is the author of a work, "On the
Combustion of Coals chemically considered," in which he
has satisfactorily demonstrated the possibility of so com-
pletely consuming that fuel as to render the combustion
smokeless. Everybody is convinced that smoke is a eerions
evil in more ways than one, but few are aware that is also a
waste of material. Smoke, in the main, is composed of un-
consumed particles dislodged from the body of the fire, for
want of a correct adjustment of the supply of common air,
the presence of which, in exactly required quantities, and of
a proper temperature and quality, is necessary in order to
secure perfect, that is totsl, combustion. Unless this cons-
bustion is perfect—that is to say, unless all the particles of
fuel from which heat can be generated are consumed, some
must escape, and what escapes is wasted in the shape of
smoke. Although we are of opinion that no plan of warming
rooms in houses is half so good (with some rare and very pe-
culiar exceptions) as that of the open fire-place in general use,
there can be no doubt that for manufacturing and other pur-
poses, where the object sought is the produetion of the greatest
possible amount of heat from a given quantity of coal, it is the
worst. The means employed to heat water in boilers, and for
similar purposes, are all open, more or less, to the objection of
defective construction on this plan. Until the appearance of
the "patent improved furnace" invented by Mr. Williams,
science had done but little towards the establishment of prac-
tical means for economising coal to its utmost limit, by
pointing out the way in which its combustion should be so
effected on true chemical principles that the nuisance arising
from smoke should be abolished, and the smoke itself turned
to account. We have authority for stating that both these
ends are secured by Mr. Williams' plan of furnace. In this
furnace (we make use of the inventor's own words) the com-
plete combustion of coal, without the production of smoke,
is effected by the peculiar mode in which atmospheric air is
introduced to the combustible gases evolved from the coals,
in strict conformity with the conditions required for the
chemical union of these gases with the oxygen of the air.
The great defect in ordinary furnaces consist in the admission
of too much hair, and its introduction in an injudicious
manner and in the wrong place. In effecting the combus-
tion of coal, with the view of producing the greatest heat,
the conditions which demand attention are—The quantity of
air required for the combustion of the gas ; the quantity
required for the combustion of the carbon, or coked part of
the coal, after the gas has been expelled ; the quality of the
air so employed, particularly as regards the combustion of
the gas ; the incorporation of the air and gas, and the time
required for effecting the same; the mode in which the
mixing or incorporation of the air and the gas may be
best effected; and the place where the air may with
the greatest effect be introduced. The mode in which
the above objects and principles are reduced to practice in
this patent furnace consist :-Ist. In separating the required
supply of air into two distinct portions ; the one for the win-
bustion of the solid or carbonaceous matter resting on the
bars : the other for the combustion of the gases or volatile
portion at or beyond the bridge, 2d. Introducing the supply
intended for the solid part of the coal, through the ash-pit,
by such meads, or jets, as will distribute it uniformly along
the entire under surface of the bars. 3d. Introducing the
supply intended for the gases, by means of numerous small
jets, so that each otom of air shall be enabled, immediately
on its admission, to come into contact and be mingled with
the due saturating portion of gas with which it can combine
and enter into chemical union and combustion, thus avoiding
the common mistake of allowing the required volume of air
to enter through large apertures, by which the temperature is
reduced before the admixture or diffusion ef the gases eau
take place. 4th. Distributing such jets of air along the flame-
bed or flue, and diffusing the heat uniformly over a larger
surface, experience having proved, that, where the ad-
mission of air is confined to any one place, a severe and
unequal action of the flame is produced at such place, and the
adjoining plates are apt to be overheated and bulged. sth.
Introducing the air for the above two purposes througl
chemically
tarate entrances and adjusting the quantities
re-
quired for each, by suitable regulating doors, instead
Ii
ordinary, injudicious system of dampers
nnwhich
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proof of the correct chemical principles
bastion of coal is effectedaisb
highly flattering furnished to the in.
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this nature may be eonsidered
authority
yy Prolegsstecor.rraonnile, Dr. lire, and Dr. Brett, whose
question
nerience unbounded satiafaetien in giv-
ingmeritorious inventions, when their object
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on the present occasion, to be able to refer our readers for
the practical working of his furnace to A large water
ta fish/Bent Liverpool, as well as to the Eh's. foftii,
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Messrs. Brooklelgurvt, Arekit, Wri Xehtail &flint
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ce you, and answered—" Oh. no !
:ighbour ! I pray you, don't go ;
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fren, for they must be fed."
and you look very grave,

tdapples we'll baiei

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neither apple nor pear,

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what a pity to injure him so!
I would save him his fruit if I could,
g behind will do him no good.

If the matte

epended alone apon me,
les might hang till they dropp'd from the tree;
But, since they will take them, I think I'll go too,
lie will lose none by me, though I get a few."

c'd, Tom felt more at ease,
uades the apples to seize;

:1 joiii'd in the plan—

.itied the man

ANNOUNCEMINIV

or honest acts from those

now, were vain

imp trial paritantrat.

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