The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-02-12 00:00:00

ROYAL CHRISTENNCI

The Princess Royal was yesterday admitted a member of
the Christian church, and though perhaps some disappoint-
ment may have been felt that a ceremony so interesting and
important should not have been solemnised in a more public
manner, yet, as it was decided to have it performed within
the precincts of Buckingham Palace, nothing was left undone
that could at all contribute to its splendour or effect. The
ceremony was in every respect what in court parlance is
called state, that is to say, all the splendour and resources of
the royal household were put in requisition, and the same
forms and etiquette were observed as when the Queen per-
forms any public act as sovereign. The christening took
place in the throne-room, the throne being removed, and an
altar erected in its stead, covered with crimson velvet, having
the sacred insignia of the Christian faith embroidered in
gold. On it were placed the massive silver gilt communion
service of the Chapel Royal, lighted with gold candelabra.
The railing enclosing the altar was covered with crimson
velvet, trimmed with gold lace, and in front, and spread over
the richly and costly carpet of the room, was a large square
of crimson velvet, beautifully embroidered in the centre and
at the four corners in gold, and trimmed all round with gold
lace. On this was the font, and round it were assembled
the Queen, Prinee Albert, the sponsors, and the officiating
prelates and clergymen. In front of the altar stood the
Archbishop of Canterbury, having on one side the Arch-
bishop of York, and on the other the Bishop of London ; the
Bishop of Norwich and the Dean of Carlisle being a little
behind. The Queen and Prince Albert took their stations
on the left of the Archbishop. The sponsors were the
Queen Dowager, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duchess
of Kent, the King of the Belgians, the Duke of Sussex, and
the Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, who appeared by
proxy, the proxy being the Duke of Wellington. The Queen
Dowager, the King of the Belgians, the Duchess of Kent,
and the Duchess of Gloucester, were seated in front of the
Archbishop, and facing the altar ; the Duke of Sussex and
the Duke of Wellington being opposite to the Queen and
Prince Albert, and thus the whole group formed a square, of
which the font was the centre. The Duke of Cambridge,
Prince George of Cambridge, and Prince Edward of Saxe
Weimar, stood behind the Queen Dowager, and the rest of the
guests were ranged around. The Queen was dressed in white,
and looked cheerful and in excellent health. Her Majesty wore
a deep and splendid tiara of diamonds, of which the Maltese
cross and the fieur tie lis were the principal ornaments, large
diamond earrings, and a diamond stomacher, and the riband
and star of the Order of the Garter. Prince Albert wore a
Field Marshal's uniform, with the collar and star of the Or-
der of the Garter; as did the Duke of Wellington, and also
his Waterloo Medal. The Duke of Sussex appeared in the
uniform of Captain-General of the Hon. Artillery Company,
and wore the insignia of the Order of the Garter. ,The Duke
of Cambridge wore the uniform of Field Marshal, and the
Order of the Garter. Prince George wore the uniform 'of
his regiment, with the Order of the Garter. The Queen
Dowager, the Duchess of Glocester, and the Duchess of
Kent wore white satin and diamonds. Her Majesty the
Queen Dowager, who has suffered lately from the severity of
the weather, enveloped herself in a magnificent mantle of
ermine. The appearance of the Duke of Wellington excited
the greatest interest in the illustrious circle, his Grace ap-
peared to have recovered completely from his late indisposi-
tion, and looked tolerably well ; but it is useless to conceal,
that, age and infirmity have made fearful inroads upon his
constitution. Surely the compliment of selecting his Grace
from among all the subjects of Great Britain, to be the repre-
sentative of Prince Albert's father on this occasion, could not
have been better bestowed, or better deserved, and so every
one of the illustrious guests seemed to think.;-even the band
of the Coldstreams seemed influenced by the general feeling,
for though in the middle of the performance of some other
piece of music on the Duke's arrival at the Palace, they im-
mediately left off, and saluted him with " See, the conquer-
ing hero comes," until he had fairly entered the state apart-
ments.

The saloon, the most magnificent of the state apartments,
was prepared with great splendour for the christening. Au
altar had been erected within the throne alcove, the front and
sides hung with crimson velvet very richly and elegantly or-
namented with broad gold lace. The back of the altar was
fitted in the same splendid style, having the initials I.H.S. in
the centre, embroidered in gold, and enriched with deep rays.
The back was finished with a curved gilt bower, forming an
elliptic arch at the top. The gold communion plate, from
the Chapel Royal, St. James's, was arranged on the altar, a
large gold salver being placed in the middle, containing a fine
representation, in alto relievo, "The Last Supper."
The font, which was made expressly for the occasion,
showed a great deal of elegant fancy in the design, and the
most consummate skill in the execution. First, there was a
triangular plinth, on the sides of which were the arms of the
'Queen, Prince Albert, and the infant Princess, embossed,
Ihe"latter borne on a lozenge, and surmounted by a coronet.
'Orl'the -plinth were three cherubs, who united in supporting
a large water lily, which contained the water. The whole of
this was of silver gilt, and had a very beautiful effect. It was
placed on a marble table, on which were the Royal arms of
England,in Mosaic. The water in the font, and wherewith
the Royal child was christened, came from the River Jordan,
having been sent to her Majesty as a present for this especial
purpose. _

. The font was placed on a handsome circular table of mar-
ble, having the Royal arms executed in Mosaic at the top.
The table itself stood on a small raised platform placed on a
large carpet of crimson velvet extending to the seats reserved
for the illustrious sponsors and visitors. The sarpet was em-
broidered with gold at the angles, and had also a deep gold
border. Candelabra on gilt pedestals were on either side of
the altar, and within the alcove were two cut glass chande-
liers ; another chandelier of the largest size was hung in the
middle of the room, and candelabra on pedestals richly carved
and gilt lined the sides of the apartment. The seats for the
company were of crimson satin damask and gold.
Everything was in readiness, and waited only the appeal'.
ance of the Queen Dowager, who arrived at 20 minutes to
7 o'clock. The sacred rite then commenced, the archbishop .
receiving the infant princess from the hands of the nurse,
and held her during the whole of the ceremony. Whether
the ample and flowing robes of the archbishop deceived the
child, or whether the kind tenderness of manner of the ex-
cellent prelate prevented the infant from discovering any
difference, certain it is, that her royal highness reposed in the
arms of the spiritual head of the church with as much con-
tentment as though she ,had been in the arms of her own
nurse. At the appointed place the Queen Dowager named
the royal child—" Victoria, Adelaide, Mary, Louisa," and
she received the baptismal sign, _atid_what is more, the ca-
resses of her illustrious godfathers and godmothers, without
even a whimper. Her royal highness was then handed over
to the care of her nurse, and retired to her own apartments.
The ceremony being concluded, the illustrious and noble
assembly proceeded to the banquet, which was laid out in the
Picture Gallery. The King of the Belgians led in the Queen,
Prince Albert the Queen Dowager the Duke of Sussex the
Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Cambridge the Duchess
of Kent, and Prince George of Cambridge the Duchess of
Sutherland.

The number of guests who sat down to dinner were 71,
and, with the exception of a few of the Foreign Ministers,
consisted only of the Prelates who performed the ceremony,
the Cabinet Ministers, the Great Officers of State, the Here-
ditary Great Officers of State, the Officers of Her Majesty's
Household, the Commanding Officers of the Regiment of
Household Cavalry on duty, the Queen's Suite, the Queen
Dowager's Suite, Prince Albert's Suite, and the attendants
on the Royal personages present at the ceremony. The only
exceptions to this list were the Duke of Wellington and
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar ; the one, however, was a
proxy of a sponsor, and the other nephew to the Queen
Dowager. Her Majesty took her seat in the middle of the
table, and the only difference in her seat from any of the
others was a low ottoman for the feet.

There can scarce be a greater contrast than the state ban-
quets given in the Picture-gallery at Buckingham Palace
and those that were given by George IV. and William IV.
in the Banqueting-room in St. James's, considering that the
same materials are employed ; for though it must be con-
fessed from the vastness and grandeur of proportion of the
banqueting-room, a certain degree of magnificence was ob-
tained, yet from its peculiar and beautiful roof, the style of its
decoration, and, more than all, the pictorial treasures that
adorn its walls, there is a degree of elegance about the Pic-
ture-gallery, when fitted up for a state banquet, that renders
it one of the most beautiful sights that can well be witnessed.
On this occasion, the table was magnificently ornamented with
silver gilt plate, consisting of a plateau, with epergnes, cande-
labra, wine-coolers of the most exquisite designs and finished
workmanship, and of great variety. Many of them were the de-
signs of Flaxman, and the artificers in the precious metals have
succeeded admirably in many instances, in transferring all
the grace and beauty of the model of the sculptor into their
own more durable but intractable material. Some of the
wine-coolers were small copies of the Warwick vase, others
of Greek vases, having on them most beautifully executed
bas-reliefs. Here might he seen a beautiful and graceful
group of bacchanals dancing round a palm tree ; there a
group of sturdy tritons labouring at the oar ; then a Venus
floating a shell ; then a subject from the Greek mythology ;
and in all these the beauty of the design, and the skill of the
workmanship, are such, that the costliness of the material is
quite lost sight of. The table was lighted with 28 candelabra,
holding from four to six wax lights each, At each end of
the gallery an artificial screen was Lrected to shorten its
length, and on each of these were displayed, on a back ground
of crimson cloth, some of the choicest specimens of the royal
treasury—vases, censers, shields, salvers, cups, chalices, of
every size and of every description from the squat massive
tankard of days of yore, when the sovereign might have re-
freshed himself on a hunting morning with a large draught
of a homely beverage, to some of the most elegant and grace-
ful cups of the purest crystal, in the most elaborate setting of-
gold fillagree, and flashing, too, with diamonds and other
precious stones with which they were studded. Of cups,
vases, and tankards, ornamented with precious stones, there
were a great number. Some with amethysts, some with tur-
qoises, and diamonds, and sapphires, chrysophrai, and
emeralds; and some had small enamelled paintings let into
them of sacred subjects, having evidently been formerly em-
ployed in the services of the Church of Rome. The screens
on which these were displayed were lighted each with 22 can-
delabra., holdin,,,, from four to six wax lights each ; and when
to these are added three large chandeliers blazing away from
the roof, some idea may be formed of the brilliant appearance
of this apartment.

The service which the guests used at the banquet was of
silver, the ornamental pieces only being silver gilt.
In the middle of this table, and immediately before the
Queen, was the christening cake, of the most enormous di-
mensions ; round it was a wreath of flowers ; on the top of it
a rock, surmounting which Neptune, driving his hippo-
campi, and in the car a figure of Britannia, holding in her
arms the Infant Princess Royal, the whole being executed in
sugar, and being a very fair specimen of the confectioner's
skill.

Immediately after the dinner, " Health and Happiness"
was drunk to the young Princess, and duly honoured.
In the evening there was a concert in the Grand Saloon by
her Majesty's private band.

The rejoicings in Liverpool on this most interesting occa-
sion were very partial—the bells of the town rang merrily, and
colours were hoisted on the different public buildings, but no
illumination took place. Cannons were fired at the work-
house ; and, though a few individuals seemed anxious to
make a general festivity, their feelings were not largely par-
ticipated in, at least not to any practical result. The Town-
hall of Birkenhead was illuminated with gas.

COMMERCIAL POSITION Qv AUSTRALIA.—The.
difficulties which the failure of one or two rather large deal-
ers occasioned in our community, turn out, as we said they
would, to be excessively over-rated, and to have produced no
general or material effect upon the progress of the colony, or
upon the legitimate operations of the settlers. The monetary
affairs of the province are rapidly improving, and indeed we
doubt that they have ever been in a sounder or healthier state
than at the present moment. We h'ave the best authority for
stating, that in the banking establishments of Adelaide, the
number of past due bills is considerably under the average,
that the discounts are on a larger scale than heretofore, that
the circulation is increasing, and the stock of bullion larger
than it has been since the establishment of the colony. There
remains but one serious drawback to the commercial inte-
rests of the community, and that, we are glad to believe, will
soon be remedied—namely, a bankrupt and insolvent law.
There has already been great and unnecessary delay in a mat-
ters of such essential importance to commercial confidence
and security—arising, we are inclined to believe, far less from
a due sense of the importance and urgency of the subject,
than from a desire to legislate upon it circumspectly and be-
ficially. But time passes, and nothing is done : while the
fair trader and the honest man suffers, the rogue cheats his
creditors and makes his harvest with impunity. Surely it
would be better at once to transplant the English law on the
subject than to wait longer for a modification of it precisely
adapted to the circumstances of the colony. We intreat his
excellency's attention to the matter forthwith.—Bombay
Time:.

BOROUGH OP ST. ALBAN'S ELECTION

The election for a representative in parliament for this
borough, in the room of the Hon. Mr. Grimstone, who has
accepted the Children Hundreds, took place of Monday last.
Shortly•before 8 o'clock, Mr. B. •B. Cabbell, the conservative
candidate, and a large party of his friends, joined the mayor
on the hustings ; and they were followed soon after by the
Earl of Listowel, a radical and a lord of the bedchamber.
On reaching the hustings, Lord Grimstone handed to the
mayor a requisition to put the bribery oath to all the electors.
At a quarter past ten o'clock an incident occurred in the
progress of the poll unexampled, we believe, in the history of
election proceedings. In order to make the transactions and
the colloquy'which ensued upon it understood by the reader,
it is necessary to state that the Dr. Webster referred to is
not a physician, but a surgeon and apothecary in the town,
was one of the deputation to the Reform Club, and not only
brought down Lord Listowel as a candidate, but proposed
him yesterday on the hustings. An =elector of the name of
Robert Adams (an old freeman), presented himself at one of
the polling booths, and on the book being tendered to him to
take the bribery oath, handed up to the mayor a small paper
parcel. The mayor inquired what the parcel was; Adams
replied that it contained two £5 notes and two sovereigns.
Upon this the mayor broke open the parcel, and found its
contents to be as stated by Adams. The two notes were of
the bank of Mr. Muskett, the whig member for the borough.
The Mayor (to Adams).—Where did you get them from?
Adams.—Dr. Webster gave them me.
The Mayor.—Which Dr. Webster?
Adanis.—The old man (pointing out Mr. Webster, who
was standing in the crowd.) He gave them to me to make
me vote for Lord Listowel.

This conversation took place in the booth, and at its ter-
mination the bribery oath was administered to Adams, and he
polled for Mr. Cabbell.

The mayor then came forward to the front of the hustings,
and said to the electors assembled below that an extraordi-
nary fact had just come to his knowledge, and to that of those
more immediately near him, which, as it was a public fact,
he felt bound to make it fully known :—A freeman of the
name of Robert Adams had just handed him two £5 notes
and two sovereigns, and had declared he had received them
from Dr. Webster to induce him to vote for Lord Li3towel.
(Great sensation.) He (the mayor) felt it his duty to state
the fact, in order that the electors might deal with it as they
(Groans and hisses.)
Though Dr. Webster and Lord Listowell heard the state-
ment thus publicly made, neither the noble candidate, Dr.
Webster, or any other of his supporters offered the slightest
denial of the fact, nor even attempted any exphination of the
circumstance. They all, however, exhibited considerable
chagrin at the (to them) unpleasant discovery.
The mayor finally closed the poll precisely at four o'clock,
and after an absence of upwards of half an hour, he announ-
ced the numbers to be—

For the Earl of Listowel
For Mr. B. B. Cabbell

• Majority 47
and declared the election to have fallen upon the right hon.
the Earl of Listowel. The announcement was receieed with
mingled cheers and hisses.

It appears from the speech of Mr. Cabbell, that the most
unwarrantable means have been made use of to gain the elec-
tion for the whig radical candidate, and we are glad to per-
ceive that a petition will be presented against the return of
the Earl of Listowel, with every prospect of success. The
following are extracts from Mr. Cabbell's speech :
" Having had an intercourse with the greater part of the
constituency at no very great distance of time, when he can-
vassed the borough on Thursday last, he had met with the
most unexampled success. (Hear, hear.) The same result
had attended him on Friday; but on Saturday he discovered
in his course symptoms which evidenced that an undue in-
fluence had been used, to divert from their pure channels the
wishes and the intentions of the majority of the constituency
of this borough. (Cries of No, no !' followed by loud cheers
from the Blues.) He repeated, that he congratulated those
who heard him upon the result of this day. It was one of
the greatest moral victories achieved for many years. (Great
applause.) The events of to-day would transmit this bo-
rough to immortal and everlasting fame, because it had shown
that it contained within its limits 205 honourable and inde-
pendent men, who had resisted treasury gold (cheers and
clamour), brought down there to an unlimited extent. (Great
confusion and cheers.) He knew not whether it was to be
called whig gold, or chartist gold, or radical gold ; still it was
gold that came from Downing-street. (Loud cheers, follow-
ed by hisses from the Reds.) Let those who heard him be
assured that the events of to-day would not end here, for he
should feel it his duty to take that course which he was ad-
vised under the unexpected results which had attended him.
(Cheers.) He (Mr. Cabbell) had no hesitation in saying
that very shortly he should have an opportunity of appear-
ing before the constituency of St. Alban's as their represen-
tative." (Cheers.)

It is worthy of remark, that during the day the town was
graced by the presence of the Hon. Mr. Cowper, one of the
royal household, and nephew of Lord Melbourne ; Mr. Ro-
bert Stewart, late a lord of the treasury ; and Mr. Ward,
M.P. for Sheffield. Mr. Coppock, of Ludlow notoriety, was
associated with these gentlemen, and how far the'statements
contained in the speech of Mr. Cabbell, and the incident
connected with Robert Adams, are referable to their pre-
sence, it is not our duty, but that of the public, to surmise.
On the best authority, We learnt that upwards of £6OOO had
last night been expended in support of the ministerial candi-
date, who was " declared to win" at any price, and even £5O
was offered to the mayor's bailiff for his vote. The defeated
party not only have good evidence of numerous other cases
of bribery against their opponents, but are actually in posses-
sion of the identical notes paid.

DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY AT SHADWELL
STATE OF THE RIVER.

(From the Times of Wednesday.)
Yesterday morning, in consequence of the high tide and
the immense quantity of ice which floated up the river, serious
damage was done to the wharfs and craft at Shadwell, and a
great destruction of property took place. It appears that the
ice had accumulated for three days previous, and the pressure
was so great on the craft and boats moored close to the wharfs,
that a great many broke adrift and were carried up the stream,
and are still floating about. At low water on Monday night
the wharfingers, coal-merchants, ship-chandlers, and others
made fast-their barges, lighters, and craft alongside their pre-
mises, and they were secured to posts. When the tide ebbed
out the shore was covered with icebergs and piled irregularly
on each other, elevated a considerable height. The flowing
tide at an early hour yesterday morning forced up vast fields
of ice, which covered the whole surface of the river, and the
tiers moored off Ratcliff and Shadwell, unable to bear the
pressure, were driven from their moorings, the cables and
anchors were broken, and the vessels taken up the stream
or forced on the opposite shore. An indescribable scene of
confusion and alarm took place, and the colliers sustained
great damage. Several tiers brought up on the opposite shore
with loss of anchors, cables, and bowsprits, and others met
with greater injury by coming in collision with each other.
Three ships loaden with coals were overwhelmed by the ice,
and sunk near Globe-stairs, and it is feared will become total
wrecks. Two other 'colliers are aground near the same place,
and masses of ice and icebergs are piled up on each side of
them. The most extensive damage caused by the ice was at
Lower Shadwell, where a scene of wreck and devastation,
unequalled during the period of the most intense frosts of
1813-4 and -1829-30, took place. The barges, punts, and
boats made fast here were unable to resist the pressure of the
tide and the ice, and the platforms, and wharfs were carried
away, while the coal-barges, long boats, and other craft were
forced upon each other, and crushed or stove in. Charring-
ton's coal-wharf has suffered extensively, several coal-barges
were broken to pieces, others sunk and stove, and the wharf
forced in. The piles supporting the platform were crushed,
the front of the counting-house torn away, and the wharf da-
maged to a serious extent. To the east and west of Messrs.
Charrington's premises great mischief has been done. Large
masses of ice and icebergs were piled one upon another, and
broken barges, punts, and ships' boats were interspersed in
all directions, while the facings of the wharfs were forced in,
the platforms overhanging the river knocked to pieces, and
walls and counting-houses crushed by the ice and the barges
being driven against them. One of Charrington's barges
was made fast to an anchor of eight hundred pounds weight
in the five foot-way or passage of Mr. Forster's premises,
and ice dragged the barge away, sunk it, and pulled down
the gates and a great portion of the brick wall of the pre-
mises. The east end of Mr. Lumley's wharf was torn quite
away. Hutchinson's and Mr. Benson's wharfs shared a
similar fate, and the post and timbers supporting the plat-
forms on the river fronts of their premises were shivered.
One of Mr. Kent's barges, laden with thirty-five tons of
coals, had her bottom forced out, and only ten tons of coals
were recovered. A barge called the Mary Ann, belonging to
Mr. Rundall, an assistant of the Watermen's Company, was
forced against a large square pile which supported a portion
of Lumley's wharf, the barge was cut in two, and in the af-
ternoon of yesterday, when the tide again rose, was in a
slaking state, without any possibility of its ever being reco-
vered. Mr. Woolfe, whose premises are close to Shadwell
dock stairs, is a great sufferer. Nine boats, belonging to
various ships, intrusted to him to repair, were carried away
in the ice, and are lost. John Fenwick, a poor man, lost
two longboats, almost his sole fortune. Such a scene of de-
vastation was never before witnessed on the river, Messrs.
Cloves, coal merchants, at Ratcliffe, have sustained great
losses. On Sunday twenty-one of their craft, coal laden,
broke loose, and were carried by the ice up, the river. Some
of them were recovered, but at a great expense to the owners,
and were again moored. Yesterday they were again cast
away by the ice, and several destroyed. The others are
likely to drift up and down the river till a thaw takes place.
The damage incurred by Messrs. Cloves amounts at least to
the sum of £4OO. Among other sufferers by the severity of
the weather, is Mr. Charles Farrier, of Wapping. On Mon-
day he had just done discharging chain cables at Her Ma-
jesty's dock-yard at Woolwich, when the two anchors of his
barge, the Thomas and Charles, gave way, and she broke
loose from her moorings, and was driven as far as Charlton
in the ice, where Farrier employed several watermen to haul
her ashore, which they succeeded in doing, but not until the
barge had sustained great damage. About the same time
several light barges were sunk by the swell of the ice at
Woolwich. A barge, the property of Mr. Alexander Hinds,
laden with forty-nine tons of coals, consigned to Hodgson
and Abbott's ale brewery, at Bow, grounded upon a mass of
ice yesterday morning, opposite the Sun brewery, (belonging
to the same firm,) at apping, and was at least fifteen feet
from the ground. It was expected that she would sink when
the tide rose, but, a number of men having been employed,
she was hauled in close alongside the brewery. Two barge
loads of Hodgson and Abbott's pale ale, destined for an
Ecst Indiaman at Blackwell, were taken out and transferred
to waggons, which conveyed the ale to the ship in the West
India Dock, at an expense to Mr. Hodgson and Abbott of
£l5. TIIP barge containing the ale had been ice bound for
the last four days.
Yesterday evening the ice had accumulated in the lower
pool to such an extent that, for the first time since the me-
morable winter of 1813-14, persons began to pass over the ice
with the assistance of hurdles from the north to the south
shore • and the river in the neighbourhood of Shadwell was
covered from side to side, the ice in many places appearing
six and seven feet above the surface of the river. There was
a drift way from the ice above St. Katharine's-wharf, but the
tiers on both sides of the river were locked in off the Custom-
house and Tower, the field of ice extending one third across
the steamers, and people were proceeding to and from the
ships without much difficulty. There was a continuous field
of ice extending from London-bridge to Rotherhithe Church,
nearly half way across the river ; below that, at high water,
it was a:complete block. The business in the river was nearly
at a stand still, and the few barges afloat were those which
had been cast adrift by the pressure of the fields of ice, and
were doomed to be carried up and down the stream until the
arrival of fair. weather. The Albion steamer from Ipswich
landed her passengers at Blackwell on Monday night, and
came up the river next morning with the tide to the surprise
of every one, and incurring manifold danger. The Royal
Victoria steam ship for Leith left St. Katharine's yesterday
at two o'clock, with a schooner in tow, bound for the same
place. She got as far as Execution-dock, Wapping, when
she was brought to a dead stand by the ice floating upwards,
and the warps made fast to the schooner gave way, and the
vessel was carried back again. The Victoria had no sooner
got rid of her charge than she ran into a lighter navigated by
four men, who were drifting up. The men in their alarm
jumped into a boat, and were carried up amidst the masses
of ice, while the Royal Victoria went on, and we understand
cut through the ice, and was heard of at Woolwich at five
o'clock pursuing her voyage.

esuirans

Three labouring men have been found near Dumfries Who
were frozen to death during the late severe storm. The poor
fellows were discovered together in a -sitting position by the
road side. •