The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-24 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.

LORD ASHLEY.—The Sun of Thursday, in a sanitary 1
article, very appositely alludes to Lord Ashley as " the '
(Further extracts from Mr. Shreeve's work on the above Wilberforce of the present day."
Colony, ready for the press.) Several sermons have recently been preached in the
FREETOWN. Town-hall of Kelso, by a boy only ten years of age. The
LIBERATED AFRICAN DEPARTMENT.—This depart- reason given for his thus appearing before the plabilia is,
went is situated on the edge of the harbour, near the that money may be obtained to further his education'.
watering tank at King Jemmy. It consists of two large On Monday, there were several dishes of raspberries
yards, with a residence for the assistant-superintendent, exhibited in London, at Covent-garden Market. They
and good storehouses for the service of the Africans on were not the produce of forcing, but were natural crops,
their release from the slave-hold. One yard is for the grown in the open air in a garden near Turnham Green,
males, the other for the females, with every convenience being the second supply this season.
for cooking and other comforts. On the arrival of a In consequence of the competition existing on the river
slave vessel, with a cargo of these unfortunates, the mar- Thames, the fares of nearly all the steamers have under-
she' of the Mixed Commission Courts proceeds on board, gone a very extensive reduction. Boats are now running
and, having made his inspection, forwards his repot% to netween London and Westminster Bridge, at the extra-
the Commissioners. The medical officer examines their ordinarily low fare of one halfpenny each person.
condition, and', if no disease be on board. they are imme- AN AGED BIRD.—A magpie died on the sth of this
diately landed from the crammed and pestilential slave- month, which has been in the possession of Mr. James
hold, and-placed in the yard of the department. The Hagger, of Great Chesterford, for 19 years. It was taken
emaciated and infirm are sorted out, and sent to the Co- from the nest when young, and it would call all the neigh-
lonial Hospital, at Kissey ; and in cases of contagious bours and children by their names.—Cambridge Chron.
diseases raging on board—a very common visitation, from The Town Council of Sunderland have ordered a rate
the fact of 300 or 400 being packed within a small com- of one halfpenny in the pound on the property in the bo-
pass—the vessel is sent to quarantine. The arrival of a rough, to sustain the expenses connected with the forma-
cargo of slaves is a peculiar and affecting sight. Before tion of a public museum, which is placed under the
their capture it is the policy of the dealers to impress direction of a committee of the council.
them with a terror of the English, persuading them to A HINT FOR ASTLEY'S—The directors of all the the-
believe that they are the most cruel masters, and will atres at Berlin have resolved to substitute the explosive
exercise unheard-of tyranny over them should they fall cotton for gunpowder, in their representations, because
into their hands; but how thoroughly is the illusion ells- the cotton makes little or no smoke, which is not only
pelled, when one of our cruizers carries them into port, annoying to the public, but has an injurious effect upon
where every appliance for their comfort, crowned by free- the voices of the actors.
dom, proclaims them to be men and brothers! The sea_ The Tablet (Roman Catholic paper) announces the
denness of the change is bewildering, and these children conversion to Romenism of Review.
Toogood, late editor of
of nature are obliged to refer to superstition for an expla- the Cambridge and Oxford Review. The Daily News
nation. Some are literally stupified by the transition, says that a junior fellowship has become vacant at Clare
whilst others abandon themselves to the wildest enjoy- Hall, Cambridge, in consequence of the secession of Mr.
ments—shouting, dancing, and singing, until the hills Thomas Caswell.
and shores re-echo the gratitude of their hearts for Old REAL DISTRESS.—As a convincing proof of the dreadful
England's benefactions. This celebration of freedom state of the trade in Kidderminster, we have only to men-
lasts many days. and is humanely indulged by the officers tion that during the last fortnight, no less than eighty-six
of the department. wedding rings have been purchased, chiefly from the wives
This department, and the treatment of the newly_ of weavers, by one jeweller residing in the Bull Ring in
arrived Africans, have lately undergone a material change. that town.
Under the old arrangement, after having been a due time Last week a vessel of 120 tons, named the Albion, one
in the yard, the youths were located in the village schools, of the Woodbridge traders, was run down off the Essex
where, receiving a certain amount of education, they were coast, near Wotton, by the city of London steam-ship.
apprenticed as domestic servants, or to trades. The The crew of the Albion were saved with difficulty by the
adults were sent to the villages, where they received an steamer, except a young man, the son of the master, Mr.
allotment for a farm, implements of agriculture, with Smith. who sank with the vessel.
provision and clothing for one year, all found by govern- On Friday, a meeting was held in Birmingham, convened
by the clergy for the purpose of an immediate extension of
meat, in which time it was supposed that they would be
t
able to support themselves under the guidance and ma- the infant schools in .that town. There are seven thousand
infants there for whom no means of instruction are pro-
nsgement of the managers of their respective districts.
vided. The Queen Dowager has contaibuted £5O for the
This system, however, after a long trial, with every faci-
good work.
lity given to them, was found not to have answered,—
retrogression instead of progression tieing the result. An accident of nearly a fatal nature occurred at Stony
The department is now discontinued,. managers re Stratford, on Tuesday, the 3d instant. A firework maker,
dared, and only such retained as are necessary to govern named Holloway, put some damp gunpowder into the
the district, under the new arrangement. This original oven to dry, and proceeding to work, the gunpowder was
experiment has been succeeded by emigration to the West forgotten. It very soon, however, made its owner aware
Indian colonies (an admirable plan of Lord Stanley). of its presence by exploding, and causing very great de-
The emancipated are, as heretofore, landed at the depart- struction ; hut, fortunately, no lives were lost.
went, food and clothing supplied to them, and, after a SHORT TIME MEETING.—A short time meeting was
preparatory period, the uncontrolled choice of emigration held in favour of the ten hours' bill, in the Working
in large and comfortable ships provded by government, Men's Hall, Keighley, on Wednesday evening last. A
where every attention is provided forte hm on tbe pas- dense crowd attended, and hundreds were unable to obtain
sage, and a provision upon their landing. In case they admission. Mr. W. B. Ferrand, M.P., Mr Oastler, and
do not wish to emigrate, they are at liberty, by associa- a number of other speakers. addressed the meeting, which
ting with their own countrymen, to remain in the colony seemed unanimous and enthusiastic in attachment to the
and follow their own desires. Emigration, however, is ten hours bill.
gladly accepted by many,—relying so fully upon British On Monday evening last, as the driver of a cart and
sympathy, that all destinations and propositions are two horses, belonging to Mr. Stone, of Winwick, was
faithfully trusted. Several, on the other hand, prefer returning home, his horses were frightened by the noise
entering the army, captivated by the allurements of mar- of empty milk-cans in some carts which were passing on
list pageantry, and in a very short time, from good usage, their way from Newton Railway Station to Winwick.
become perfectly contented, and look noon the freeman He ran to the head of one of his horses, was thrown
of the town with an amusing sang froid and contempt, down, and the wheel passed over his body. He died
saying, "Me no freeman; me Queenman !"—a compli- soon after. , . . ,
ment to the Majesty of England, which probably has MILITARY APPOINTMENTS.—Lueutenant-general Sir
never reached St. James's. Many grave objections and Benjamin D'Urban will, it is said, proceed to Canada as
censures have been urged against the emigration of the commander-in chief, in the room of the Earl of Cathcart,
newly-emancipated African, and the measures of govern- who held that appointment with the governor-generalship.
moot for carrying it out ; but this opposition emanates Major-general Brotherton, formerly of the 16th Dragoons,
from interested parties in the colony, especially the Wes- will receive the appointment of inspector-general of caval-
leyan missionaries, who spare neither time nor exertion ry, in the room of Lieutenant-general Lygon, lately pro-
to defeat the project, in their exclusive register the rooted.
Watchman, nominally but not really their own, it having The Morning Post revives the tale of a split in the
been established with far more liberal intentions, and for Cabinet, arising from the dislike of Earl Grey to Lord
much more general purposes, than the subscribers are Palmerston. The Spanish marriage is said to be the
allowed to enjoy. Other opposition comes from parties question at issue. The Post hints that the Earl of Cla-
in England, from a want of local knowledge ands experi- gender is also opposed to the Secretary of Foreign f-
ence, so requisite to form a correct judgment of the powers fairs, and adds that if rumour do not err, the question of
am': condition of the African upon his own soil. As to opening the ports and of Irish policy has only been de-
the question of the inalienable rights of freedom, there opens u by a division of the Council.
can be no-doubt ; nor does emigration control it. The THE WINGATE COLLIERY CLERK.—The fugitive clerk
African at home, from nature, strengthened by habit and who absconded from Wingate colliery, with nearly £6OO
example, is of an indolent disposition ; but by a change belonging to his employer, Lord Howden, and who was
to another country, where industry is the order of society, apprehended in Ghent, in Flanders, is said to be again at
liberty. Nearly the whole of the money, with the excep-
he readily devotes his energies to that which he sees adds
to the respectability and comfort of others, and gradu- tion of his "travelling expenses," and the cost of his
" gentlemanly" outfit—his gold watch and ring, wig, im-
ally, and often immediately, becomes a regenerated being,
perial, and moustaches—having been recovered, "it has
in which improved condition he is sustained by the encou-
not been considered worth while to bring him to Durham
razement and advice of superior morality, education, and
for prosecution."
experience, to any that his most ingenious inquiries can
obtain at home. " 1 PENAL DISCIPLINE OF CONVICTS.—We believe that
In Africa such advantages are more confined, a mis- 1 this interesting subject is at present under the seriouscon-
sionary or a teacher here or there, being all that is afford- sideration of the Government, with a view to relieve New
ed ; and even were they more numerous, the climate is South Wales from its redundant convict population. It is
so inimical to the exertions of the European. Whatever proposed that the transportation of males to the colonies
good may be imparted, it is comparatively moderate, nay should cease, but that the deportation of women should
be carried to its fullest extent, in order to diminish the
many who have been converted to christianity, have re-
existing disproportion between the two sexes. It is also
vetted to their former habits and belief, and exercised
under consideration to establish a convict home colony in
within the very precincts of the missionary's house, their ,
the Isle of Portland, where a proportion of the prisoners
idolatrous ceremonies. There are the Ako and Ebo, and I
, sentenced to transportation would be submitted to a com-
many other notions of the liberated, who have embraced
bined moral and physical discipline, and employed in
the false religion of the prophet, which being more con-
genial to their dispositions, from approximating more hewing and preparing stone.—Literary Gazette.
closely to their original superstitious impressions, are THE DURATION OF MARRIED LIFE.—The tables of mite
more easily comprehended, and consequently more readily the mean joint lifetime of males and females show, that been re.
believed than Christianity; and I am satisfied, Whatever in this country husbands and wives married at the age of a fatal res.
their professions may be, and notwithstanding the self- 26 live, on an average, 27 years together, the widows have been at,
flattering reports of our labourers in tbe.vineyard, that a living rather more than 10 years (10.4) after their husbands' o'clock this mo,
great number of the liberated lip-christians are heart- deaths, and the widowers nearly 9 nears. (9.3) after their to a squabble betw,
mahomedans—and no stronger argument can be possibly wives' deaths. Where the husband is 40, and the wife 30, tle-street. When the.
adduced to prove that emigration must ultimately be bone- the mean term of marr ed life is 21 years, the widows the men was stabbed in
ficial, by transporting the fanatic and superstitious child living 13 years after their husbands, and the widowers 5 diately arrested, and on te
of nature far froth scenes, connexions, and influences years after the deaths of their wives. The tables furnish pointed clasp-knife.
which it is but reasonable to expect, must have, an almost ready answers to a great number of questions of this The injured man was conveyeL
insurountable pred andthere be any chance kind, and others in which two lives are concerned.—Re- tal, where he now lies in a most e
of overcoming this, p
iton must beerance, by of more general inter- wound, from which his bowels were p.
gistrar-General's Reports.
INGENIOUS SMUGGLING.—On Monday morning, a below the navel, and about two inches _
course with total strangers of superior minds and better
customs. If Africa is to be regenerated by her own sons, seizure of an extraordinary description took place at the s Charles Wilmslow, and he resides at a o
it is only to be accomplished by themselves, their sons, St. Katherine's Dock Steam Packet Wharf, by a Custom- -^e-street, having recently arrived from
and sons' sons, becoming the chief agents in the great house weigher. A case of live geese, brought over from 'llampion, of this port.
work of salvation, both in soul and body ; one well-in- Harlingen in the Magnet steamer, had been landed from iee understand, be brought up
formed, and true native christian, would do more towards the vessel, and was being examined by the officer, when
reformation amongst his btethren, than all the missionary he thought the geese appeared unusually tall. He made ,
Doves, that ever took wing to feather their nests in the a more careful scrutiny, and ascertained that a quantity '
...POPERY IN BRISTOL.—For some time past, six sisters
colony, can accomplish. of hay, forming a false bottom, had been made, on which
of mercy, living in a small house in Pritchard-street,
ethoevegreeedsehweenreentsbtaandqinuga,ntaintyd oonf rveemryovtihnign tdheaatl,
bhoearddiss-.
St. Paul's, have exerted themselves, we are afraid, too
'These were also removed, and a quantity of cigars, weigh- successfully amongst the poor of this city. Encouraged,
--ee exposed to view. The case, geese,-28 undoubtedly, by their success, they have lately removed
Government are about to settle £l,OOO a-year on the innumber—and the cigars, were immediately seized. to. Harford-house, Dighton-street, where they have been
Duchess of Inverness. SERIOUS EFFECTS OF A " LARK. On the sth in- trebled in number by fresh arrivals from Belgium. We
Last week omnibuses commenced running between the stant a young man about 18 years of a, who had been hear also that the sisters of penance of St. Dominic,
London, and Brompton for two pence. • employed on the railway near Deal, forea spree dressed " whose labods embrace the whole works of mery, car-
L,
ewe, the property of Mr. Scott, Corncockle, parish himself as a Guy Fawkes. This he did by stuffing a ga- poral and spiritual," are about to settle in another. por-
of Leeds, dropped a fine healthy lamb on Wednesday. bardine or large jacket he had on with straw, till, for ro- tion of this city.—Bristol Journal.
Mr. Swinnerton, proprietor of the Macclesfield Courier, tundity, he resembled more a Sir John Falstaff than a YANKEE NOTIONS OF FREE TRADE WITH ENGLAND.
has been unanimously elected mayor of that borough. Guy. It was in the evening when the young man was so —The New York Journal of Commerce calculates on the
Fifty boys have been expelled from Heriot's Hospital, amusing himself. He had a great many squibs about him. United States driving the Britishers out of their own pro-
Edinburgh, for insubordination. Some of these got ignited, and in a moment be was inla vision market. It says :—" An English merchant, who
George Hudson, Esq., M. 11115 was on a visit last week, complete blaze ; and as the squibs continued to go off in is here buying bread stuffs, says that American flour bar-
we understand, to the Duke a Cleveland, at Baby Castle. all directions about him, it was impossible for any one to eels are effecting a great revolution in the trade there.
The South-Eastern and Continental Steam-Packet approach to render him any assistance. He now lies in a The practice from time immemorial, has been to sell flour
Company have put a stop to the sailing of their packets on deplorable state, with no hopes of recovery.—Dover in very large and inconvenient bags, and the trade has
the Lord's Day between Folkston and Boulogne. Chronicle. been confined to the millers and the mealmen. But the
A member of the Independent congregation at Brim- NEW COIN.—FIVE SOVEREIGN PIECES.—Some five great beauty and convenience of the American barrels has
yard, near Worcester, has been excommunicated by the sovereign pieces have lately been struck by Mr. Wyon, brought grocers to take up the business ; and lie says
church for " slandering his pastor." and though as yetbut in the hands of a few of the authori- ' that now he has orders for fifty barrels a-week from
Admiral Sir Davidge Gould, G.C.8., is appointed ties, they stand as portion of the coin of the realm ; but dealers who never before sold flour at all. The English
Vice-Admiral of England, in the place of Sir G. Martin, whether they will be called out for general use, the Go- cannot contradict this : for they have no free-splitting
made Admiral of the Fleet. vernment have not decided. This gold piece is considered ash or other timber from which to make these beautiful
The Times says that Parliament will meet on the 19th to be the most perfect of coins. In point of size it bears barrels. So we think the repeal of the English corn-
--ry, only a week beyond the time to which it is pro- resemblance to a crown piece. but otherwise it is much laws will be something to us—ves, everything to us—a
neater in detail. The obverse displays a representation of home market for the supply of 18,000,000 of barrels."
her Majesty, and the reverse the figure of her Majesty as THE HOMICIDE PARDONED.—The Home-office is pro-
Una, guarded by the lion (standard of England), and ceeding in the course of liberating convicts, and in some
holding the sceptre. It may be well, perhaps, to inform respects with injustice to the accused themselves. At the
the public, who must for some time back have noticed the
York Assizes in 1844 a man named Daniel Donovan was
absence of the figure of St. George from the new crown
found guilty of homicide in having killed a person during
pieces, that such emblem has been entirely discontinued. a riot arising out of religious differences, in the streets of
A WOMAN FOUND WlLD.—About three weeks ago, a Bradford, and was sentenced to transportation for life.
young woman, 22 years of age, and of the name of Ca- Ever since that time the friends of Donovan have ex-
tberine Stewart, living in Brown-street, in the Merkinch, erted themselves to prove an alibi,—that is, that he was
left home, and nobody knew where she had gone, until a in another place at the time of the offence, and they suc-
day or two ago she was discovered in the woods of Lea- ceeded in interesting Lord Morpeth in the cause. Nov,
ohdin, some herds having been attracted to where she lay this plea must have been established or not. It is possible,
by her shrieking or singing. She had rolled herself up in though highly improbable, that the witnesses, jury, and
moss till she had made herself as round as a ball. She judge were all mistaken, and if Lord Morpeth and Sir
bad thus lived for seventeen days, subsisting, it is sup- G. Grey were satisfied upon the point, a free pardon
posed, on nothing but moss. She was taken home imme- ought at once to have been granted ; if not, use pro-
diately, almost reduced to a skeleton. She is recovering, priety of such an excercise of the royal prerogative of
but on account of the great shake such an unexampled mercy on their part, may be doubted. What, however,
state of existence, for so long a time, must have given the is the course taken ? The• Home Secretary has sent out
constitution, the progress is naturally slow. It was never a pardon provided that the man's conduct has been good
thought she was wrong in the mind, though she was ob- since his transportation, and upon condition that he does
served duller than usual for some time back.—lnverness not return to Great Britain, thus perpetuating the sen-
Journal. . tence of banishment. The alibi, then, which would of
A BRITISH FRIGATE FIRED ON BT THE PORTUGUESE• course be a complete exoneration, is apparently made the
ground of annulling the sentence, and yet the man is
—ln the intelligence given in another column, brought
from Lisbon by the Marys, "The American frigate' is treated as a criminal ! We never remember to have read
said to have been dismasted by the batteries of Oporto. of anything so absurd and at the same time so mischievous
—it is as much as saying that a man may be half guilty
We copied the statement as we found it ; but we think
that the America, British frigate, must be meant, as she and half innocent—a proposition which, we suspect, will
had just been ordered by Admiral Parker to Corunna, receive no countenance from the law-officers of the
with instructions, as she passed Oporto, to demand satis- crown, or any lawyer in the kingdom.
faction for an insult recently offered to a Mr. Noble, a ATTEMPTED MURDER IN LONDON. —On Saturday
'British merchant! and, if our memory do not deceive us, evening, a brutal attempt was made by a man named
consular agent,. in that city. This would satisfactorily George Wilmot to murder a Mrs. Haines, residing in an
account for her attempt to enter, and for the hostile alley called Paradise-terrace, in the Liverpool-road, Is-
reception she met with. The America is a razeed 74 ;it lington. On the evening in question, Wilmot, who was
will be recollected that she recently returned from the well acquainted with Mrs. Haines and her husband,
Pacific, aid that her captain, the Hon. John Gordon, called at her house, where he found her busied in pre-
youngest brother of Lord Aberdeen, was tried by a court- paring supper. and quite alone. After some conversation,
martial for having quitted that station without permission Mrs. Haines turned towards the fire, when Wilmot
from the admiral commanding.—Britannia. availed himself of the opportunity to extinguish the can-
THREE THOUSAND POUNDS SUPPOSED LOST, AND dle burning on the table in an iron candlestick, with
FOUND.,—On Wednesday night last, a person from one which he then struck Mrs. Haines several tremendous
of our city banks was despatched to the agency in Falkirk blows on the head. A desperate struggle ensued ; bat
with a parcel containing a large sum of money, amounting, Mrs. Haines succeeded in dragging her assailant to the
it is said, to £3OOO in notes. The man, on alighting at his door, which she opened. She then uttered loud cries of
destination, found himself minus the parcel, and gave in- " Murder I" when Wilmot took to flight ; but he was
timation accordingly, to the alarm of the agent, who took subsequently apprehended, and brought before the magis-
measures to apprise the police authorities here and in trates at Clerkenwell Police Court. From inquiries
Edinburgh by the train which arrives at either end shortly which he had previously made, there can be little doubt
after midnight. ' The Glasgow superintendent of ' police that he had attacked Mrs. Haines with the view of g
taming possession of the money which he had learned
ob-
started in search on Thursday by the earliest mornin
train ; but, on his arrival at Falkirk, the cheering nevpi that she was in the habit of carrying about her person.
was communicated that the parcel had been found ID To add to the atrocity of his crime, it appears that he is
safety in the carriage which the messenger left at Falkirk, indebted to Mrs. Haines and her husband for. repeated
on its arrival at the Edinburgh terminus. It is likely services, and that they have frequently lent him money.
that the man had fallen asleep, and leftehe parcel behind Mrs. Haines is now lying in kvery dangerous state,' and
bird on the confusion of ksudden,:eteethening.— her deposition' has been taken, in case her wounds should
'pap*: .-'I.J.. <,„r-' , ..• I. .. 1 . cause her death. . Glasgow

SIERRA LEONE

Standard-office, Ten o'clock

THE STORM OF FRIDAY.-FUATIIER

PARTICKLARS.

From a letter received this morning at the Underwri-
ters'-rooms, dated Boulogne-sur-Mere, 21st November,
we learn the total loss of the American ship Helen, of
New York, Capt. Hoyt, from New York to Antwerp,
with a cargo of rye and cotton, a few miles west of that
Place. Out of a crew of seventeen, only six arc saved.
The captain and officers are of the number lost. The
vessel has gone to pieces.
The English schooner Devon, Beer, from Plymouth,
bound to London, with a cargo of lead. hemp, ore, &c.,
is also stranded near the same place. Crew saved. She
is still upright. Damage not known.
During Friday Dublin presented a most depressing
spectacle. The day being set apart for general humilia-
tion and prayer, on account of the fearful state of the
country. and the apprehended famine, the shops and offices
were for the most part closed, and the streets and thorough-
fares presented a most dreary appearance. In the sub-
urbs considerable damage has been done to property.
At Ratbgar trees were blown down, and houses com-
pletely unroofed.
At Ringsend the river Dodder was swollen to an im-
mense extent, but we are happy to say there was no loss
of life. Throughout the early part of the day several boats
were engaged in carrying provisions, &c., &c., to the oc-
cupants of those houses the lower storys of which were
completely inundated.
The Jessie Torrens, William Skead, master, went on
shore on Friday morning, near the coast-guard station at
Danny Cove, near the Galley Head, and will be a total
wreck ; 11 or 12 men are saved out of a crew of 20.
Thiq vessel was timber laden, and bound from Quebec
to Liverpool. Another vessel was seen near Clonakilty,
at the west side of the entrance to that harbour, and is
supposed to have gone down.
The Sea Lark, in putting back into Limerick, was seen
to disappear immediately off Loop-head, and is supposed
to have foundered with all hands. The Senator, in run-
ning back, was driven into Ballybunnon bay, dashed
ashore, and it is feared will become a wreck.
A large ship, with Indian corn was wrecked at Bally-
cotton on Friday morning, name as yet unknown. The
police went from Middleton to protect the wreck—crew

saved.
IMMENSE Loss OF PROPERTY ON BOARD THE AJAX
STEAMER.—This noble ship returned to Cork on Friday
morning, after experiencing the gale of Thursday night,
and suffering much from its severity. The Ajax left the
above port at four o'clock on Thursday for London, with
a very large cargo, principally consisting of live stock and
provisions. Until she had well cleared the harbour there
were no indications of its coming on to blow hard, but
about eleven o'clock at night, when she was forty miles
from the land, the storm rose with tremendous fury, and
heavy seas struck the vessel with such force as to tear
away the bowsprit and smash in the forecastle deck. The
stairs on the paddle boxes were at once carried away, and
the flooring of the deck under the mate's berth also stove
in. The vessel having a very heavy deck load of cattle,
&c., it was found necessary that she should be lightened
as much as possible, and accordingly out of 120 sheep on
deck, all but nine were thrown overboard—the pigs were
next thrown over to the number of ninety, and then as
many as could be of the bullocks and cattle ; but from
the terror and confusion of the deck passengers, of whom
there was an immense number, sufficient assistance could
not be had to throw them overboard, and the poor ani-
mals were killed or smothered. Out of 93 head of
cattle on board, only twenty this morning were landed
alive. The fury or the gale continued until day break,
and the ship behaving nobly all through, when the cap-
tain put back, and, laying too off the harbour all night, in
consequence of the number of ships in Cove and the river,
he arrived at the quays on Friday, with all on board in
a miserable plight. The violence of the storm, and the
force with which the seas struck the vessel, may be
judged from the fact that one of the chain boxes, weigh-
ing six tons, was carried off the rail it is usually moved
upon from one side of the deck to the other, and thrown
on two pigs, which were literally crushed to atoms under
its weight.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The regular meeting of this
body was held yesterday in the Conciliation Hall. There
was a most numerous attendance in every part of
the building. After a little parliamentary business, Mr.
O'Connell said he was prepared to bring up his report
upon the disunion existing amongst Repealers, and in
doing so, wished to say that no man was more anxious
than he was that the friends of Ireland should be joined
hand in hand to restore to her her parliament ; but he
believed it was impossible, for it would be seen by tie
report he was about reading that the question between
the Old and 1 oung Ireland parties was, in point of fact,
should the Association adopt the doctrine of " physical
force" or not ?—(cheers.). The learned gentleman then
proceeded to read the report, which was of great length.
and by no means interesting, and set forth the various
points at issue between the Old and Young Ireland par-
ties.—The rent was announced as .£54 18s. 9d.
Foua o'CLocn.—The Association has just adjourned.
Mr. O'Connell did not at all allude to the exhausted state
of the treasury.

FRIGHTFUL CASE OF %TABBING

We are are sorry to have to record another of those
unfortunate collisions in whit h the use of the knife has
been resorted to. with, we fear, too great a probability of
a fatal result. The particulars of the case, so far as we
have been able to learn, are as follows :—At about one
o'clock this morning the attention of the police was drawn
to a squabble between two seafaring men in South Cas-
tle-Street. When they came up it was found that one of
the men was stabbed in the belly. The other was imme-
diately arrested, and on him was found a large broad-
pointed clasp-knife.
The injured man was conveyed to the Northern Hospi-
tal, where he now lies in a most precarious state. The
wound, from which his bowels were protruding, is a little
below the navel, and about two inches long. His name
is Charles Wiroslow, and he resides at a boarding-house
in Barton-street, having recently arrived from St. John,
N. 8., in the Champion, of this port.
The prisoner will, we understand, be brought up at the
Police-court this morning.

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

rogued.
In the Police Court at Dundee, the other day, it was
decided that a tenant cropping his land with potatoes which
were an entire failure, was not liable for rent.
A correspondent of the Times, states that it is intended
to place the Wellington statue on a pedestal, in the area
opposite the Horse Guards.
Venison, imported whole from Hamburgb, was offering
in Hull shambles, on Tuesday, at 6d. per lb. for the fore
parts, and Is. for haunches.
Owing to the recent dulness in the grain markets the
bakers of Greenock have reduced the price of bread ; the
41b. fine loaf now sells at Bd., coarse 7d.
On Thursday the price of potatoes fell in our market
from 2s. 4d. to 2s. per peck (of two stones), with a pro-
spect of a further fall in the price.—Greenock Advertiser.
At Southampton, on Thursday, a fire destroyed entirely
the extensive range of workshops, being the coach reposi-
tory of Mr. Jones, extending from Above-bar-street to
the Spa-road.
Professor Schonbien has been experimenting with his
explosive cotton in mines in Wales, and it is said with
tremendous effect, one ounce of the cotton proving equal
to a pound of gunpowder.
WHEAT SOWING.—Throughout the fens of Lincoln..
shire, the seed wheat has been got in, and with few camp.
tions in a most promising manner, there never having been
known a finer seed-time.
On Monday evening a masked ball was given at Black-
heath-hill, near London, in a cavern 180 feet below the
surface. In this ball-room 1500 persous assembled, and
kept up their amusements with spirit until day-break.
The market for iron continues firm for cargoes in Wales,
extensive contracts being offered for railway companies at
home and abroad ; and in the Clyde prices are equally
firm for pig iron, for the opening, in December, of the
great markets of the United States.
A bill will be introduced in the ensuing session of par-
liament for placing the tidal harbours of the kingdom un-
der a greatly altered and uniform management, as recom-
mended in the reports of the Tidal Harbours Commisision.
Copies of the proposed measure will be early distributed.
THE LADY POACHES.—We hear that the information
for poaching against the Duchess of Marlborough has
been defeated on a technical point of law. The statute,
not looking to a violation of its provisions by females,
only introduces the masculine gender " he," and therefore
" she," the duchess, escapes its operation.
SINKING OF A SCHOONER.-011 Friday morning, a
large schooner that had arrived in the Thames offGravesed began
nd,
an
by some accident stove a hole in her bottom,
instantly to sink. The master and mate took to the boat
and made for the shore, but the schooner and her contents

sank.
AN OLD FIAT.—A case is now before Mr. Commis-
sioner Fane's court in which the fiat is dated so far back
as 1801. The bankrupts were merchants in the City.
Most of the creditors are dead, but those who survive, as
well as the representatives of, the deceased, now claim a
dividend, which has not yet been declared.