The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-11-13 00:00:00

~,is in coal mines in this country. In 1847 anu
more than 12,000 lives were thus lost, and in 1849 upwan
of 700.

A Staffordshire paper mentions that a cook, who was
lately breaking some ducks' eggs, found that the first twc
contained three yolks each, while the third had no fewm
than five yolks.

A. dish of red and white raspberries was gathered a f
ys ago, by Mrs. Spencer's gardener, at Heinaingtonfil
ar Bishop-Auckland. Durham.

Mr. Beckwith, late Secretary to the Leeds Infirmary,
has been sentenced to seven years' transportation, for
embezzling upwards of £l,OOO from the funds of that

institution

The Leices'er Journal tells a marvellous tale of a mau
who bought, in London, a eog which he believed to be a
Skye terrier, but found, on his return borne, that the dog
was a mongrel to which a false skin bad been attached;
the deception being exposed by a fight between the pur-
chaser's other dogs and the supposed terrier.
A melancholy event occurred lately in New York. Mr.
J. Brady, a police officer, having been wounded in a
scuffle, was carried home on a settee, and_ his wife was so

much shocked at the spectacle, that she fell and died in.
stantly.

An American church has published the following reso-
lution :--`• Resolved, by the Presbyterian Church in
Morris-town, that we will give no encouragement to any
minister of the Gospel in reading sermons in our pulpit,
and that we will in future give no pecuniary aid for any
such service."

The Duke of Wellington has addressed to Lord Cath-
cart a letter on the military riots at Nottingham, in which
he censures_ Colonel
_Arthur for confining the

regiment to barracks for the neglect of a few', but-declares
that the insubordinate must be punished.
THE MODERN HOUSEWIFE. (Second Edition.) Lon-
don : Simpkin and Marshall.—Mons. Alexis Soyer, the
author of the " Gastronomic Regenerator," has favoured
the world with another excellent work on the culinary art,
under the title of " the Modern Housewife," which he
has dedicated "to the fair daughters of Albion" ; and if

Lai
we may judge from the fact Of the first eciFtiok‘roja)
being sold in one day, we may predict for it a place in
every kitchen. The popularity of Soyer as the conductor
of the first cuisine in England—that of the Reform Club—
might generate a belief that this work would be princi-
pally devoted to those recherche dishes which, from ex-
cessive cost. are generally excluded from the tables of
those in middling circumstances, but such is riot the fact.
It gives, in a series of letters, nearly 1,000 receipts—plain,
simple, and economical—and exhibits how easily our
ordinary dishes may be made savory, and that without
increased expense ; indeed, to illustrate the comprehen..
siveness of the directions, we subjoin one receipt, and
having practically tried it we can vouch for its excellence.
To make Coffee : Put 2 ounces of ground coffee into a
stewpan. which set on the fire, stirring the powder round
with a spoon till quite hot ; pour over boiling water
cover over closely for live minutes ; pass through a cloth ;
warm again and serve.

_ -
NOVEL THEFT.—On Saturday night a farmer, at Dist.
ington, Cumberland, had eight sheep denuded of their
fleeces whilst grazing in a field._

CHLOROFORM IN DELIRIUM TREMENS.—A man named
Mitchell, an omnibus driver in Leeds, who had been
addicted to habits of intemperance, died of delirium tre-
mens on the 25th ult., and had been hurried for morn
than a week, when the body was disinterred and subjected
to a post mortem examination, and an inquest was held,
a rumour having gone abroad that he had died from the
,ncautious application of chloroform by his medical man.
It appeared, however, from the opinion of the medical
examiners, that though it was doubtful whether, as in this

case, chloroform should be applied in delirium trees
that Mr. Tealc, the medical attendant, had been g
the patient the last chance of recovery, and the ve

quitted
GREAT CALIFORNIA MOVEMENT.
.o.
elite REVOLUTION.—The whole of the immense ti._
which we now witness with California, has sprung ur
ix taittetleyd reformation him
assignedoftaotl
010
k b
al ap
fl m
ar eec.
ee
within a single year; and in that time cur commerce will
that distant part of our territory, the bustling of passers.
gers, and the nu mber of letters carried by mail, are at
great as they are in the trade with Liverpool, which ha:
been the growth of three centuries. In fact, California
has produced, iri the brief space of one year, a greater
revolution in commercial affairs than a century in past
times has created. The result of this movement will be
an entire change in the course trade between Europe and
China. The openings that are being formed across the
Isthmus of Panama, and the projects enterrained for rail-
roads across the continent, will hasten the time when the
whole commerce of Europe with the East will pass 1-
way of San Francisco, Panama or Nicarag,--
York, across the Atlantic to London and Liverpool, last three centuries the idea of such a route bet.
England and India has occupied men's minds; but it
reserved to the American people, in the first year of the.
po.session of California, to start the movement, which
will, in a short time, realize tl-e dreams and predictions
of three centuries concerning this change in the course of
commerce.—New York Herald.
EFFECTIVENESS OF TRANSPORTATION IN PRODUCING
REFORM OF CRIMINALS.—It has been proved, by ex•
perience, on the very largest scale, not only that tht
reformation of offenders, when transported to a colony it
a distant part of the world, takes place, if they are per
served in a due proportion of numerical inferiority /
the untainted population, to an extent unparalleled
any other situation ; but that, when so regulated, f
constitute the greatest possible addition to the strer
progress, and riches of a colony. From official p
laid before parliament, before the unhappy crowdiri
convicts in New South Wales began, and the gang-systen
was introduced, it appears that between the years /800
and 1817—that is, in seventeen years—out of 17,000'
convicts transported to New South Wales, no less than
six thousand had, at the close of the period, obtained
their freedom from their good conduct, and had earned
among them, by their free labour, property to the amount
of £1,500,000 ! It may be safely affirmed that the
history of the world does not afford so astonishing and
when 17,000 convicts were
gratifying an instance of the moral reformation of
offenders, or one pointing so clearly to the true system to
be pursued regarding them. It will be recollected that
colonist, by whom he was
transported in seventeen years—that is, on an average,
1000 a year only—and when the gang.system was un-
known, and the convict on arriving at Sidney was im-
forthwith marched up the country into a remote situation,
and employed under his master's direction in rural labour
or occupations.
CREDULITY OF UNBELIEF.--" HOF, oan I believe (said
it.
nh ei
d
a politician of leading eminence in the last century to the
late Mr, 'Wilberforce when he opened his mind in the
privacy of domestic converse) that the Almighty Creator
of all things should have become a wailing infant and
submitted to the weakness of our nature ? Surely it is
utterly impossible." " I should be ready to enter into
your feeling (was the reply) if I viewed this truth in the
abstract way that you do, and did not consider wb.,- "
culties there are in disbelieving it. Arnow
difficulties must be ranked, in the first place, the c
stances of our Lord's human character, the prey
which had marked Him out as the pattern man,
events in His life by which that character is indica,-
How was it that a Jewish peasant, untaught even in the
simple lore of Syrian literature, should have conceived
those truths which have enlarged the sphere of man's
knowledge and made the one grand revolution in the
history of his race ? How could His designs have been
developed with a power which shook the mightiest king.
doms, overthrew all preceding forms of faith or philo-
sophy, and finally have cast into a mould the most dis-
tant countries and generations of the earth ? How was it
that one who spoke no language, save a dialect of the
barbarous East, could triumph over the pride of the Porch
and the subtlety of the Academy ?"—Wilberforce on the
Incarnation.

au , ar

Lration
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6 'THE LIYERI)O
THIRD EDITION. FOURTH EDITION. FIFTH EDITION.
..,
Standard-office, Ten o'clock, a.m. Standard Office, Half-past Twelve, pm. Standard-office, Two o'clock, p.m.
..-0.--
ARRIVAL 01-6--- THE NIAGARA. EXECUTION OF THE lIIANNINGS, GAS EXPERIMENT AT SOUTHPORT.
•
LATER FROM AMERICA. THIS MORNING. We inserted a paragraph in our first edition respecting
the new hydro-carbon gas, about to be tried at South-
port. We are happy to learn this morning, from our own
The British and North American Royal Mail Steam-'
correspondent, that the experiment was made last night
ship Niagara, Capt. Ryrie, arrived unexpectedly in the [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] (being the first on a large scale) with perfect success.
river this morning about eight o'clock, after a very excel-
The final scene in this world of one of the most revolt-The gas at
first was dim, but as soon as the air had issued
from lent passage, when the accident to her machinery is con- the pipes it burnt with unclouded brilliancy. We
ing tragedies which ever occurred in this country, coin- sincerely congratulate Mr. White on this happy consum-
sidered. The Niagara left New York on the 31st ult., .
mated in concert, by parties possessed of any intelligence, mation, the result of his arduous labours, great outlay,
and Halifax on the 2d inst. She has brouelit £35,000 in and anxiety, undertaken amidst so much opposition and
and who had been accustomed to move amongst society
specie, and 21 passengers. She met the Hibernia on the ridicule. We hope in a future number to give some
2d instant. off Sandaway Head. at all removed from the utterly debased, took place this account of the process by which this economical and clean
Sterling exchange was in active demand, and there was morning before a large concourse of spectators. We have I gas is produced. We hear Belfast is about to be lighted
a moderate supply of hills on the market. Drawers were just received the report through the electric telegraph ; on the same process ; the authorities only waiting the
firm at the highest quotations, 110 to 1101. Domestic result of this trial.
exchange remained the same. but, prior to placing it before our readers, we shall offer a —__...-
The steam-ship Crescent City arrived at New York on few explanations, and such additional particulars, as have
the 27th ultimo, having left Cbagres on the 17th, but she transpired since the publication of our second edition. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.-TH is DAY.
brought no later news from California. The arrival of The Share market is quiet this morning, without material
the steamer from San Francisco was however anxiously On Sunday and yesterday vast numbers of idlers were change in prices. The jobbers are busy preparing for the
looked for, and the next arrival from America will there- seen lounging about, passing running commentaries on approaching settlement. Business has been done at the quo-
tations following --Chester and Birkenhead, 13; Do. .E22's,
fore be important. the future conduct of the criminals, their remarks-in some 10 d; Gt. Norther.n, 13 d; Leeds £32's, 6i d ; London stock,
For flour, of common and ordinary state and western instances . .
being of the most revolting description. The He e; Do. e's, ep; Sheffield No. 1,13 A. d; Midland .i'so's,
brands, the quotations were heavy. Corn was in fair de-21,1 f, d; Dover No. 4, 6 6/3; Fire and Life, old 12 p, new 21p.
mend, and prices steady. opening of public-houses at one o'clock on Sunday tended Our London advice reports also a steady market there, with a
The Steam-ship Sarah Sands arrived at New York on to relieve the monotony of the scene, a general rush
sconsiderable number of buying orders, slightly below the pre-
t rices. This is considered a symptom of returning confi-
theSev 28th ult., having
occurred in made the paQuebec ssage in nine days. immediately taking place into them, the proprietors of dencepteen
one on the part of the public.
eral riots ave . On occa-
sion the windows of Mr. Cauchon, M.P., an anti-annexa- which must have reaped a plentiful harvest, for with —+____.
tionist, were broken. At Montreal the party supporting several additional hands they were kept fully employed. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET-THIS DAY.
separation from this country were very enthusiastic. As the afternoon advanced the numbers so far increased Illlins• further arrivals since our statement of Friday, the
Two guests at Barnum's Hotel, at St. Louis, were mur-
dered by two insane Frenchmen, who deliberately shot that, by four o'ncuclock, Horsemoneer-lane presented one entries into this port during the week ending yesterday, com-
prise a fair accession of Grain, Flour and Oatmeal, coastwise
them. The landlord was also dangerously wounded, and dense mass of people, several of them being most respect- and from Ireland; the imports from the American States and
the assassins are stated to be Parisians of great wealth. ably dressed, who amused themselves by gazing alternately Europe forming a good supply of Wheat,with a moderate (plan-
Affairs were still very unsettled at Venezuela. Gen. tity of Indian Corn and Flour thence and Canada.
at the top of the prison and at the front gate, with various At our market to-day we experienced a slow trade for Wheat
Paez and his officers have all been captured.
speculations. of all descriptions, at the rates of Friday last; and Flour of all
kinds was in moderate request only, on the terms last noted.
LIST OF PASSFIWERs.-From New York to Liverpool: To those of our readers who are not well acquainted Malting Barley and Malt were extremely difficult of sale, at
Messrs. John Sykes, Dill, Archd. M'Eachran, Olievira, with the metropolis a brief description of the locality of a decline of 2s. per qr. each; and Grioding was rather cheaper.
E. Smith, W. A. Whellock, W. Wild, George Dobbing, the prison, in front of which the wretched criminals suf- inßvaealunes. and Pease, upon a moderate demand, remain steady
Jose Marino Castello, Jose Marino Castello Sanchez, W.
fered, may not be altogether uninteresting The Fine new heavy mealine Oats were in tolerable demand, and
Gibbons. Drament, John M'lVade, Walsh, Mrs. Stewart. - '' New the turn dearer, all other kinds remaining unvaried. Oat Meal
-From Halifax to Liverpool: Mr. Winsloe.-From House of Correction for Surrey (so called, although erected was also unaltered in value.
New York to Halifax : Capt. Wynn, Capt. Hare, Mr. some years ago,) is situated in Horsemonger-lane, a street Indian Corn was rather more saleable to-day, white heing 6d.
G. Nobles, Mr. A. G. Jones, Miss Tobin. dearer, and yellow 6d. cheaper, than on this day se'nnight.
leading from Newington-causeway, easterly in the direc-
THE COTTON TRADE. tion of Bermondsey, and is surrounded now by small pro- t:1 I r' z °.
C>" 1 4 '...e '1 4 N 141
k ""tt nntr ei7
NEW YORK, OCTOBER 31. pert), of a respectable description-two-story houses, with "'3 '0 - l5 0 a o= a g 2 seo
The market is about the same as yesterday •; a good demand,
..1 t 7 1 'A . % -
..1 1 - 1 0
gp. 6 pp cn Po ty
freely met by holders. Sales of 2500 bales. Quotations re- ornamental gardens in front, and rented at from £2O to ,R, asol .3 0 a(2 1 ca: .3
ss y ''`a' Z:---.'' faS.^:,
main unchanged, viz.:- £3O per annum. The front of the prison is in the wide ';'' 04 1•'1 '.l:--' W. ri I c:•.' 6- Wo P i si
LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATION. N. Orleans, .. ..., A, 0 A, .-,:.- -
'G .›
:49, ''= g'Ol - DJ.: = Mobile 6- portion of Horsemonger-lane itself, and is a little removed S.-. ris e es. 2. ?4•,5.5-, erp e z ••2 1,50 '8
Uplands. Florida. Texas. back from the line of teighboteing houses. It is au- ° ''' 'T T =',4 `sf's 22. " ; r
Inferior - -to - -to 91 cri t-, o e (~ e „., e , ssss
• o '-4 era o - =
-
to 91 proachable from the various streets around, which' run up '.csj 0 ET 8 0z , cup' ...i 3 o e
Ordinary -to 93- -to 91.... a
Good Ordinary -to 9i -to 10 -to 10 near to the walls. '.i%' e °' i'l aa. OCD ~.) P
0
Middling - to toi - to lo} 102 to -
11 to - For some distance in front of the gaol the occupants .4 ' E.g
'":4
ce e.
Good Middling - to 101 - to 11. - --re
~..;:,>.
'b''
Middling Fair - nd owners of the houses, which have long gardens in sees re-; a. >
ce a
Fair - nssl ,-...-s. P(f" CS o ai
Fully fair -to Ili None. None. rout, had been for days before occupied in erecting tern- 00, se 4 '''' I i F 7.4.
Good fair -to lli None. None. porary stages, places upon which were let at very high 2, '• ge-2 (". : s ;41 g• e
Fine - None. -to - prices, in some instances as high as three guineas for a iz'g Li : se:
e • -.
I a
The movements in this staple in this country, up to the single seat; and even the roofs of the surrounding property, - ' o e
latest dates, in each of the past three years, have been as an- from which a view could be obtained, were eagerly bid for. ce it •-o- ss e. • 5 ...s me • se ,;c
nexed. CT CO ,-,••• Co Go • co , •-• •••• .P. • •••• Cr
The danger arising from the gathering a dense crowd in 2es ee es ss • se -se. ei • es ~ ri. te MOVEMENTS OF COTTON IN THE UNITED STATES.
- ~.. 4. 0 0 o,z, c...m.7• ea t.,,mt.,. • 00 . F.., x
BaTet. so confined a locality, having so many approaches on l'-'
Receipts at Ports since September 1, 1845 167,074 every side, was early seen by the authorities, who took g
Corresponding dates last year 233,555 measures to barricade strongly those points of access, :: : : .-^' te, tg :::li:::: h' .. .? a' til „ , year before -
Exports from United States since Sept. 1, 1849
Corresponding dates last year 137,57, 6
„ , year before
404 ''''
Exports to Great Britain since Sept,'l, 1849 28,719 hour of execution not a vacant spot of ground in the : : : : : : : • • • 0 •• • ' 0' ee a
• e• • • ..e • • • • ..-• e. .
Corresponding dates last Tsar . 96,544 neighbourhood was to be had. • ce• • es •• • • ce ce .ie a
„ „ year before . , 60,912 Some of the side and back streets even, from which no- . N
Stock in Shipping Ports of Receipt - 15 m
169,044192827 0 si
Corresponding dates last year
were satisfied even to listen for the ea acted thrill of : : e, et) 00 ss 5: : a 8: : : Ctil F," E'' si
• cra Ca • • • bP ~., ~.,
„ year before
The receipts at this port, since' the Ist instant, have been horror or the cry of execration from the more fortu- 4,. 0 . o
27,000 bales. Exports 13,090. Taken by sainners 12,000. nate (?) spectators, when the drop fell.
1
Taken on speculation 20,000. Stock in city 43,000. Amount on The gaol itself is an irregularly formed building, with : : : : ,- -. ee 2, :: : : :: : : : : fc :),.,;:: -.,,,
sale 10,000. , a flat roof, and raised lanterns or sky-lights, and sur- : : : : esee :: : : :: : : : . ~. g ,_,
..
(From Mr. T. J. Stewart's circular, of the above date.) rounded by an outer wall ; and the general expectation e .3
"The continuation of two weeks more of fine ripening wea- was that the execution would take place upon this roof, ss Is, i W
ther for the crop, which I have now to record, confirms me in which accounts for some of the platforms having been : 5 : : -." `°'.° e, : 5 :0: : .-• se ,-4 ? 2
my previous ideas on the subject of the probable yield, from .places from which view whatever b r" : : '' '3
5 8`;': LI : V': : `7B F?'
erectedin -
the peculiar position of the plant, and only shows the futility
is
of all early estimates of a short crop, founded on partial Ink'. tained. The scaffold, however, was erected upon the
C.. 4 NI
ries, at various points of the growing season. What the western end of the low flat tower, which surmounts the : : •-•-• 014 • • 't
. : .: : 7 :
..c, 2 g
amount of that yield will be, is of course subject to great un- Entrance Lodge, in the north or London side. The 55,...e. : o seer 2: : cti, :: : : ~: .w a
certainty, as much must depend.on the range of prices anti thea suspension beam was rather lofty, and afforded ample - CT . ,.
weather hereafter for picking out, and it would require Rich
opportunity of the whole proceedings being seen from the se--, s- Fe
combination of circumstances to make it alarge one, that I feel . o Is
houses on that side, and the platforms erected in the :-: :
.: '-• : : es se: llt : Z.-- eel : : • ,S?F's - warranted in saying a large crop-one-equal to the average of
the two last-cannot be made. gardens of a row of houses called Winter Terrace, which .s • • 0 • ' '-'4'• ' • ...4 ••• ••
" Z
"Itis my opinion, which I give with due diffidence, that we runs parallel with the prison wall. These platforms were •
re-. F a
have now had ample growing season to make at least 2,100,000. not, like those erected in the immediate front of -the . ti,., rs
The range of the thermometer, and the absence front storms Prison, the of the tenants themselves ; but ' ' ' 0•• : • : :: : : : : =• e,
. . . ~ : : se . : . .. . . . . a ~, es.
this next month, must determine the addition to• it sip to the . speculations .
were chiefly erected by costermongers, prize-fighters, &c., Ps. r
date of a killing frost, in the heart of the cotton region ; and.--s-,
after that date even we must be governed by the weather we who gave sums varying from £7 to £2O, according to the
as--, tec
may be favoured with for picking out up to the Ist of January, extent of the superficies, for the hire of the ground. The : : : sesl: : :: : so :: : se oes
which is considered to close the matter up sufficiently to ens- two public-houses at each extremity of the area also :-• : : fe. : : :: : es se: ::Esse p.
ble estimates to be made within a range of 100,030 bales, al- reaped an excellent harvest from the view which they c' se-,. s.'
though instances are numerous where plantations have been _
afforded. A portion of the area next to the prison wall
picked every season with great success.up to period for preps-
.rn
was barricaded off for the accommodation of the police, of ..• • :. • :• :• :• •• . • se • --. • • ..., ,
ring the ground for the new crop, in February and March."
• - s whom a large body were in attendance from an early hour • • • • • • • • .ee• •• es •• ss •• •• e, - re:
- -. N oTicts: last night, under the impression that otherwise great de- . _ o
0
• . : - struction of trees and property in the locality would take 'e"
- - es -1
E c..., • • a 0 • • e• e. ••esca • • P.
place, and probably the houses and platforms be forcibly „,e •• •• 4- • ' -.' "-' •'-ce • • ' Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Associa-,
invaded by the mob. In the course of the day the .g• ----IZ,I : : r'..tr- : : ,`P- =I ts' 'Pa : : 'clg Zs' : : 'ls
lion of Liverpool during the Thirty-seventh Session,
t t s endeavoured. to remove some of the scaffoldrnsa. andis-
London : John_ W.
_Parker, West Strand ; Liverpool :
nria,,,,L.. , ...._, . ..... _
see se htnli moan nnnolrin...A .....,....e., . 1....1. ... 1 ..- . .

Deighton and LaughtOn

THE volume before us, which is No. 5-of the published
proceedings of this important society, is very highly cre-
ditable to the intelligence and learning brought to bear
by its members upon questions of science and taste.
Many of the papers which it contains, and one of whit's
is delivered at every monthly meeting, are very clever ;
and throughout we find nothing of a mediocre character.
Amongst the most interesting is " A Sketch of that
Branch of Literature called Books of Emblems, as it
flourished during the 16th and 17th centuries, by Joseph.
B. Yates, Esq.," in which the author has displayed very
great research and classical taste. Another is a paper,
"Sir Hugh of Lincoln," contributed by Dr. Hume,
which we have already spoken of with high favour as pub-
lished a few months ago in a separate form. Mr. C.
Barber has also a very interesting paper on the character-_

istics of the English schools of painting, a perusal of
which would benefit many of those who visit our own
exhibition. We have given an extract or two from it
amongst our selections. Mr. J. P. G. Smith has a
valuable paper on "The Reefs of Pernambuco," of which
he gives a description, illustrated`by plates ; Mr.Huggins's
on street architecture, is full of fine appreciation of the
beautiful, and contains some excellent hints for our local
builders. The naturalist will peruse with interest, Mr.
Byerley's curious description of the Trachinus Draco, or
sting fish. We should much like to see this society ex
tend its operations, or rather the number of its sub-
scribers. To the studious youth of our town, its meetings
and the able papers read at them, would be useful in
giving direction to their scientific or literary pursuits ;
me time, they would be found to be as
are useful boil in their

and it the

generally interest _
matter and tendency. The terms of subscription, we
observe, are within the reach of most of our middle
classes. By the bye, why might not an admission for a
year be a fi

Dur leading schsoOls ?

perior proficiency in some of

VARIETIES

THE FIRST POLITICAL HOAX.—When it was known in
1715 that the best families in the north of England had
assembled in arms, to change the dynasty, no pains were
spared by the jobbers to procure correct and disseminate
false intelligence : and it was with mingled f'elings of
alarm and pity that the inhabitants of a small town be-
tween Perth and the seaport of Montrose—where James
ed after his unhappy expedition—saw a carriage-
travelling with all the rapidity which the road
would allow. It was known that the rebel army was dis-

embark
and-six

persed ; its Chiefs were scattered ; and that the unfortu-
nate Stuart was wandering through the country, with life
and liberty alike endangered. It excited, therefore. no
surrounded,
tation

the villag

and the apparent prize conN
towards London. Letter

d with great oste

platforms, which were considered unsafe ; but could only
succeed where they extended over the carriage way.
In the early part of the morning a portion of the
crowd, principally consisting of juveniles of both sexes,
amused themselves with bandying rough jokes, jostling,
and other similar pastimes of a London mob ; but as the
hour drew near for the fatal scene, a perceptible feeling of
intense excitement stole over the mass, interrupted only
by occasional ebullitions of bQdily buffering, as some un-
fortunate being became oppressed beyond endurance by
the prolonged crushing of the densely packed assemblage.
And when at length the preparations commenced for the
work of death, the picture presented by the upturned
faces of the spectators, bloodless and pallid with awe, as
seen in the dull morning light, and many begrimed with
perspiration from their long hours' struggle to maintain
their places, was a truly awful one.
The symptoms of penitence which Mrs. Manning
evinced during the preaching of the condemned sermon
on Sunday proved only transient, and yesterday she re-
turned to that state of obduracy which has marked her
conduct since her first arrest. Up to a late hour last
night she still persisted in refusing to hold any interview
with Manning. and declared that the mob should not be
gratified by seeing her face when brought upon the drop,
as she would cover it with her handkerchief. The account
given in our second edition of her attempt at self-destruc-
ion on Sunday morning, is fully confirmed. There was
no change yesterday in the conduct of the male prisoner,
who continued resigned to his fate. It is said that his
written confession, the substance of which we gave in our
first edition, occupies twenty-five pages of foolscap paper,
but was not to be published until after his death.
Shortly after nine o'clock, Manning and his wife ap-
peared on the scaffold, attended by the sheriff, the chap-
ain, and the officers of the gaol. At this ofomeat the ex-
citement amongst the crowd was tremendous, and some
confusion occurred from the eagerness of the parties
stretching forward in the endeavour to catch a glimpse of
the unhappy criminals.
There was an immense assemblage congregated in front
and around the gaol, to x,itness the closing scenes of the
unhappy career of these great criminals. There were no
accidents of magditude, but many persons, chiefly women
and children, were trodden under foot and otherwise
bruised. It was calculated that there could not have been
fewer than 150,000 people present.

It is true that so great a concourse could not get to
witness the deplorable spectacle ; but every street, lane,
and avenue, leading to the place of execution, was densely
crowded; and every window and housetop in the vicinity
of Horsemonger-lane was filled and crowded with well
dressed people, male and female, as was also every avail-
able spot upon which a platform could be erected.
Upan the appearance of the criminals at the front of
the scaffold, the crowd gave vent to their feelings by yells
and hooting, long, loud, and deep. These manifestations
of disgust on the part of the populace lasted for several
minutes, and seemed much to grieve Manning, whilst his
unhappy partier seemed to care but little for what might
be thought of her in the world she was then about to
leave.

The mournful procession having reached the drop, the
few moments that were occupied in preparing for the final
scene having elapsed, the bolt was withdrawn and both
the unhappy beings were launched into eternity at the
same moment. The struggles of the male prisoner were

very violent, and his contortions produced a most painful
feeling amongst the spectators. Those of Mrs. Manning
were of very short duration, as she appeared to cease to
exist on the drop falling.
Rnth of tho unfortunate beirursannonroa

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dressing the immense assemblage of` their fellow creatures
below them, and they made a few observations, which
were nor audible beyond a few yards from the gallows,
their words being lost amidst the yells of the crowd and
the confusion inseparable from such a vast congregation of
human beings. Both were, however, understood to ad-
here to their often-expressed and vehement protestations
of innocence.

—.....—..—.
After having hung the usual time—one hour—the exe-
cutioner (the well-known Calcraft) again presented him-
self at the platform to cut down the bodies. On his ap-
pearance). a slight manifestation of applause ran through
the immense multitude assembled. The bodies were
then cut down, and deposited within the precincts of the
gaol.
Thus closed a scene upon which none can have gazed
without being appalled ; and thus were ushered into eter-
nity two wretched beings whose deed will be recorded in
the annals of crime'as the most striking approach to that
which our great dramatist has immortalized in his tragedy
of Macbeth. For, mark how singular is the similarity
between the circumstances of the two. The man O'Con-
nor, like the king Duncan, was murdered beneath the
roof which he had entered as a guest. In both cases the
victim had conferred obligations upon his murderers. In
Shakespeare's drama, the Thane of Cawdor was unequal
to the deed, until impelled to it by the contemptuous
goadings of his more determined wife. We can imagine
Maria Manning, as well as Lady Macbeth, exclaiming to
her lord— _ _

" Infirm of purpose t
Give me the dagger."
Here, however, the similitude ends. The strong mind of
Shakspeare's heroine broke down beneath the weight of
guilty consciousness ; whilst that of the wretched woman,
who has just expiated her crime on earth, was, it is too
much to be feared, deadened to the last by all feeling
save bitter disappointment at the failure of her schemes,
and the uselessness of her deed of blood.

A MCDEST EDITOR.—Great men must always be
talked about, abused, lied about, vilified. praised, hated,
slandered, and puffed. So are we.—Weekly Herald
(New York).
LINIMENT FOR RHEUMATISM.— Spirits of wine, two
ounces; camphor, half an ounce; oil of origanum, one
drachm ; spirits of red lavender, ditto ; opodeldoc, one
ounce. Let the bottle be well shaken, and the liniment
rubbed on the affected part before a hot fire.

CRIME OF LIVING IN A " FREE" COUNTRY WITH-
OUT A LICENSE.—Nine free negroes wererecently brought
before the St. Louis court, charged with having resided in
the state without license. Five were sentenced tc rece;ve
each twenty lashes on the bare back ; three to ten lashes,
and the ninth had his case considered. " Free negroes,"
in many states, means people whom every body is at
liberty to make free with. Hail Columbia.—Boston
Emancipator.
HISTORICAL COINCIDENCES.—The Observateur Belge
shows that since the year 1789 all the revolutions in France
have been effected under Popes bearing the name of Pius.
Louis XVI. was dethroned and decapitated under Pius
VI., the Directory was overthrown under Pius VI. ; Na-
poleon fell under Pius VII. ; Charles X. was dethroned
and driven into hopeless exile under Pius VIII. ; and,
finally, Louis Philippe I. was deposed and banished under
Pius IX. Some may suppose that the world will come to
an end under Pius X.

A. PORTRAIT OF THE WHIGS.—Mr. Baillie Cochrane,
M.P., in his recently published novel of "Ernest Vane,"
thus sketches the political lineaments of Whiggery :
" The old Whig is never tired of talking about the people,
and imagining himself liberal. He had long been a mem-
ber of that party who, possessing the strongest aristocratic
tendencies, march in cloth of gold, with ' The people' in-
scribed on their banners. The thorough aristocratic
Whig; the party of hereditary principles of freedom, both
in trade and institutions ; the class that would do every-
thing for the people, and nothing by the people—at once
haughty and condescending,—universal and exclusive,—
who would desire to see every poor man's table well sup-
plied, but take equal care that he should never trespass

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above the salt; who bow very low, extend forefingers, to
the middle-class—shake hands with the people, but always
with their gloves on ; who will tell you that the middle-
class, the bourgeoisie, is essential to the well-being of the
country, but draw themselves up very high if the middle-
class ever assert the smallest position in their presence ; a
party composed in general of men of high illustration, and
of unblemished race, who view their so:lety with the same
reverence as the Jews were wont to regard the inner circle
of the Temple ; who have an undeviating attachment to
the tales of family interests and family claims, and the
traditions of their history, as written by their own party,
with whom it is a faith to worship the memory of the
traitors William Lord Russell, and Algernon Sydney, and
to repudiate Dalrymple's Memoirs; who practise in reli-
gion a universal toleration ; who, in rare instances, are
willing to admit a select few of the middle-class into their
society, but would at the same time keep back the crowd
which is treading on their heels, who speak of commerce
and manufactures with all reverence, and honour those
who have attained pre-eminence in it through their own
industry, but who would be greatly astonished if any one
of those persons approached them with familiarity, and
did not apply to their manners such terms as' condescend-
ing ' and affable.'"
THE DAILY LIFE OF HowAßD.—Howard ate no flesh
—drank not wine or spirits—bathed in cold water daily—
ate little, and that at fixed intervals—retired to bed early
—rose early. Such was the programme of his personal
course. This regimen enabled him to penetrate, fearlessly,
dungeons into which gaolers, and physicians even, dared
not follow him. From his youth upward, the lesson of
abstinence had no doubt been learnt in his father's puri-
tanical household ; his diet had always been of the
simplest kind ; and, as he advanced in years, the habit of
temperance grew stronger and stronger. Some details of
his way of living while at Warrington have been preserved,
which, as they were of a kind with his usual habits, are not
unworthy of record in this history. Every morning,
though it was then in the depth of a severe winter,
be rose at two o'clock precisely, washed, performed his
orisons, and then worked at his papers until seven, when
he breakfasted and dressed for the day. Punctually at
eight he repaired to the printing office to inspect the pro-
gress of his sheets through the press. There he remained
until one, when the compositors went to dinner. While
they were absent, he would walk to his lodgings, and put-
ting some bread and dried fruit into his pocket, sally out
for his customary exercise, generally a stroll into the town,
eating as he trudged along his hermit fare, and drinkingl
therewith a glass of cold water, begged at some cottager 's
door. This was his only dinner. By the time that the
printers returned to the office, he had usually, but not
always, wandered back. Sometimes he would call upon
a friend on his way, and spend an hour or two in pleasant
chat—a recreation he rather liked ; for though anything
but a gossip, he had all the social instincts largely deve-
loped in his nature. At the press he remained until the
men left off their day's toil, and then either retired to his
modest lodgings, took a simple dish of tea or coffee, per-
formed his household religious services—a sacred duty,
which he never under any circumstances, whether at
home or abroad, suffered himself to omit, and retires to
rest at an early hour ; or repaired to the residence of the
Aikins, to consult with the future doctor upon any cor-
rections or alterations which migat have occurred to him
during the day ; in which case also he retired at his regu-
lar hour.—Howard and the PriBon World of Europe.

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RAVAGES OF THE CHOLERA.

(From the Times.)

We gather the klowing melancholy details from the
Registrar-General's quarterly report of mortality :
In the quarter ending September 30 the deaths in Eng-
land and Wales exceeded the births by 164, and taking
ihto account the known drain by emigration, this part of
the United Kingdom must now contain fewer souls by
several thousands than it did on the 30th of last June.
There have been 60,000 more deaths than in the corre-
sponding quarter of 1845 ; and 53 per cent. more than
the average. In the metropolitan districts there have
been ten thousand more deaths than births, the disparity
being usually the other way. In the first week of Sep-
tember the mortality was three times the average; and
for the whole thirteen weeks included• in the quarter, it
was twice the average. Such are the figures and propor-
tions of a devastation unparalleled in this country for
nearly two centuries. We see with how much reason we
may now offer mutual congratulations and solemn thanks-
givings. The total mortality of London for last week was
only 837, which is 325 less than the average, and only
about a quarter of the mortality in the first week of Sep-
tember. Only 11 deaths from cholera were registered
during the week. So low a rate of mortality is unexam-
pled in the metropolis.
The Thames, the Mersey, the Humber, the Trent, the
Severn, the Tyne, the Tamar, the Irwell—indeed, we
might go through the whole list of rivers—have been the
channels of invasion. Every town, and almost every vil-
lage, on the line of the Thames, or even near its waters,
from the North Foreland to Oxford, has had its propor-
tion of victims. At Gravesend and in the metropolis the
mortality has been more than doubled • at Brentford it
has been tripled ; and doubled even in the rural vicinity
of Great Marlow. At Liverpool and the adjacent popu.
lous districts the mortality has been more severe than in
the metropolis ; so also at Hull and at Gainsborough.
At these two last places it was for the three months at
the annual rate of 12 per cent. on the whole population.
In Portsea island, including Portsmouth, and at South-
amaton, the mortality was tripled; so also at Plymouth
and the adjoining districts. Bristol, Newcastle, North
Shields, Sunderland, Yarmouth, Ipswich, exhibit rather
less serious results. In Cornwall, at St. Germain on the
Tamar, and some other ports, the mortality was five times
the average ; twice the average at Liskeard ; whilst at one
village 93 perished out of 789. Thus did the pestilence
fringe all our shores with death, and enter with every tide
into the heart of this isle.
The cholera seems to have ascended the upward surface
of the country everywhere with a diminished force. The
mortality of Manchester was only half that of Liverpool ;
and in the high ground beyond the valley of the Ribble,
including Skipton, Settle, Ripon, Knaresborough,
Keighley, Todmorden, Halifax, and even Huddersfield,
where there were some deaths from cholera, the mortality
was less than the average. Of the eleven divisions into
which England is divided, two—the North Midland and
the South Midland—exhibit a less than average mortality
for the quarter. Birmingham, again, has not only been
free from the cholera, but has been more than usually
healthy. Derby and Nottingham have escaped. That
the heaths and moors of the North Riding and of Cum-
berland, as well as the South Downs and Salisbury Plain,
should almost entirely escape is intelligible enough. So
also is the fact that Farnham was unusually healthy, and
at Leatherhead, with a population of 2,000, there were
positively no deaths in the quarter, except those of two
seven-months children. But the area and list of fortu-
nate exemptions are very soon exhausted. Unfavourable
localities, and still more unfavourable social conditions,
have harboured the cholera everywhere in the island.
Salisbury, which receives in its gardens and streets all the
waters of Wiltshire, dammed up almost to a level with
the threshbolds of its houses, as well as Wilton and Alder-
bury, in the same valley, have suffered five times their
usual mortality. Elsewhere the miserable condition of
the people, the presence of unmitigated nuisances, the
injurious influences of the employment, or other remov-
able causes, have done all the mischief, and will bear wit-
ness against our prayers and oblations if we suffer them to
remain. While Sheffield, owing to strenuous sanitary
measures, has escaped a second visit of the cholera,
Bradford, Hunslet, Dewsbury, Wakefield, Pontefract,
and Leeds, under much the same physical circumstances,
have suffered considerably. At Wolverhampton the
mortality has been tripled; and at Bilston, which was
devastated in 1832, the deaths have been 700 out of 20,000.
At Newcastle-under-Lyne the town sewer, miscalled a
river, being dammed up by a mill, expands into a basin of
filth in the hollow of the town, the mortality of which has
been consequently doubled. Merthyr Tydfil, on a dry
soil, and in a lofty and open situation, is a mere collec-
lection of filthy hovels, without drains, without domestic
conveniences, with scarcely a pretence of paving or gut-
ters, without water, and with hardly ona social institution
except its accumulations of dirt. It has been swept by
the cholera. The like relation of cause and effect prevails
everywhere else. Even under the healthiest natural con-
dition, where the people live in cellars, where one room
is used for all the purposes of life, or where half a dozen
or more sleep in one close chamber, there the cholera riots
uncontrolled, and levies its lawful forfeit from the negli-
gence of man. Unless we steadily set to work to mend
this state of things, then—the truth must be spoken—our
prayers will only be vain repetitions, and we shall offer
what is "an abomination to the Lord," viz., " the sacri-
fice of fools."

General 111i5trilanv.

Charlotte Harris, under sentence of death for poison-
ing-her husband, has been reprieved,

There is at present to be seen in the village of Coniston
the rare sight of a woman nursing her great-great-grand-
child.

More than 700 fires which have consumed property
estimated to be worth about £150,000, have happened in
London since the beginning of this year.
A respite during her Majesty's pleasure has been re-
ceived for the convict Alfred Stephen Jordan, alias Davv-

land, capitally convicted of attempting to murder a woman
with whom he had cohabited, in Dulwich Wood.
The cholera has broken out in Taunton ; on Saturday,
eighteen inmates of the Union-house died, and twenty-
four were ill of it. A fresh outbreak of the disease also
in Gloucester bas excited much alarm.

Sir Thomas Freemantle, Bart., President of the General
Board of Custom 9, is at present in Hull, making certain
inquiries into the nature and extent of the trade of the
port, and the relative duties of the staff of officers.
STRIKE OF AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS IN WILT.
SHIRE.—On Monday morning last the peaceful villages of
South Newton, Stoford, and Wisford, presented an un-
usual feature, owing to the farmers having reduced the
wages of the agricultural labourers, upon the ground of
the low prices of produce. The labourers suspended work
in consequence, and went in procession to the house of
one of the chief proprietors, to petition against the reduc-
tion, which makes their wages now only 6s. or 7s. a week.
They received a promise of consideration, and quietly re-
turned home.

On Tuesday week, an apprentice with Mr. Davison,
gunmaker, Newcastle, was " striking a light" with a gun
and gunpowder and a piece of tow with one hand, holding
in the other a powder canister. The whole of the powder
exploded, scorching the youth and a young woman, and
shattering the shop.
While a man was passing through a dark close in
Glasgow, on Monday evening, he was suddenly seized by
three ruffians, who were proceeding to strip him of his
boots and clothes, when they were interrupted by two
constables, who alarmed by the victim's half-stifled cries,
succeeded in apprehending one of the thieves.
PROPERTY IN SERMONS.—It has been decided by the
Sheriff Substitute of Paisley, in Scotland, that sermons
delivered in public are public property, and consequently
that Mr. Wilson, editor of the Renfrewshire Advertiser,
who had taken down a discourse by the Rev. Mr. Mac-
Naughten, with a view to publication, was justified in so

CLERICAL GRATITUDE.—It iS said that a Free Church
congregation of a neighbouring parish were so highly de-
lighted with the excellent qualities of their pastor that
they not only subscribed a sum of money to purchase a
gig, but afterwards presented him with 20 guineas to take
a summer's jaunt for the recruiting of his health. The
use he made of gig and money was to drive to a distance
and preach as candidate for another charge. The trial
sermon procured a call for him. Of course his present
congregation is not at all annoyed. Is there any possi-
bility of this case giving rise to another clamour of " Send
back the money."—Aberdeen Herald.
ANOTHER VICTIM TO THE DELUSION OF THE MOR-
MONITES.—On Saturday night, a person of the name of
Ann Griffiths, of Castle Foregate, was about to be
initiated into the society of this deluded sect; for which
purpose she was taken down to the river to be baptised.
One of the " elders," named Thomas Lloyd, took the
female into the river to immerse her, and after he had
completed the ceremony, and was about returning with
her to the shore, his foot slipped, and they were both
plunged into about six feet of water. One of the per-
sons on the bank, named James Bishop, succeeded in
rescuing the female, but the man was drowned.—Shrews-
bury Journal.
A ROOKERY IN THE CITY OF LONDON.—SOITIe of our
readers may probably have noticed the rooks which build
in the trees in the south churchyard of St. Dunstan's.
The rookery, before the last church was removed, con-
sisted of upwards of 20 nests ; and they were annually
supplied with osier twigs and other materials for building.
The colony migrated to the Tower of London, when dis-
turbed for the pulling down of the church, in 1817, and
built in the White Tower, but returned afterwards, as
soon as the noise of axes and hammers had ceased. At
this day their little building materials are hospitably pro-
vided for them by Mr. Crutchley, the assistant overseer.
—Builder. .

MAMMOTH PIIMPKIN.—The extraordinary size to which
the pumpkin attains under favourable culture is scarcely
credible. A remarkably fine specimen of this vegetable
production may now be seen at Mr. Jolly's fruit ware-
house, in Farringdon-street, London. It measures 60
inches in circumference, and weighs nearly 100 lb. It was
grown at a private garden at West Drayton.
A QUIXOTIC ACCIDENT.—A curious accident hap-
pened last week in the neighbourhood of Chichester. In
order to avoid a picket, a private of the Coldstream Guards
lying in our barracks, took refuge in the Portfield Wind-
mill, and on leaving by the opposite door he was struck
by one of the sweeps and carried a considerable distance
into the field. He was conveyed to the infirmary in a
state of insensibility.—Brighton Gazelle.
The Carmarthen Journal states that on Wednesday the
schooner Constance, of Nantes, Barbeau, master, which
arrived here last week, with a cargo of wheat and flour,
dropped down the river with the intention of proceeding
to sea by the next tide. When the vessel got nearly
opposite Towy Castle she grounded on a ledge of rock,
and all efforts of the crew to get her from this awkward
position were unavailing, but she afterwards floated off.
INCENDIARISM.—A number of fires are reported in
Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, said to have been
wilful. A farm which was partly consumed in March last
has been entirely ruined by a second fire; seven valuable
horses were burnt to death in a stable. A fire took place
on the farm of Mr. Golding, Dalham, Suffolk, last week,
when the barns, supposed to be the finest in the four
counties, being seventy-four yards long, with four thrash-
ing floors, several stacks, and other buildings, were
destroyed.

STRANGE PREMIUMS FOR LADIES.—An eccentric old
bachelor, who lately died at Madras, has left a sum of
£lOOO, the interest of which is to be divided annually into
five portions, to be distributed at the discretion of the
minister of St. Cyrus, Kincardineshire. One portion to
be given to the tallest woman that has been married in
the parish during the year, and one to the shortest. A
third portion goes to the eldest woman married during
the year, and the fourth to the youngest. Will any lady
remain unmarried in St. Cyrus after this ? The stranee
old bachelor showed that his intentions were kind, for he
directed the fifth sum to be distributed in groceries
amongst the poor.
THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER IN EXETER.—From an
early hour bells were ringing, flags flying, Guys of all
descriptions parading the streets, bonfires blazing in vari-
ous parts of the town, accompanied by rockets, squibs, &c.
The grand attraction, however, was in the yard of the
cathedral, where a monster bonfire was lighted, the coals
being heaped up as high as the second floor windows of
the houses. Around it were numbers of persons in fancy
dresses, presenting a sort of masquerade, the characters
ever and anon letting off fireworks on a grand scale.
Parties were blistered by the sparks, or had their clothes
burnt into holes. Enormous Guys were paraded about,
preceded by drums, fifes, horns, and other noisy instru-
ments. In the evening there was a monster procession,
with effigies of Guy ; the Scarlet Lady; and—(rnirabile
dictu !)—of the murderess, Mrs. Manning ! At eleven
o'clock the effigies were consigned to the flames. Hun-
dreds of pounds were expended in rockets, and the excite-
ment and enthusiasm were intense.

Mr:Baptist Noel has proceeded to Rome with the view
of operating with greater effect for the release of Dr.
Achilli. We also learn that Mr. Noel is by no means
secure in his new position in Doughty-street Chapel.
This, we believe, is the property of Mr. Henry and Lady
Harriet Drummond ; and it is understood that upon the
demise of Mr. Evans, the use of the chapel will not be
continued to Mr. Noel. Something far more allied in
appearance and in essence to Popery is likely, we should
think, to secure-a holding there.
CONGREGATION OF BIRDS.—On the 20th ult., between
2,000 and 3,000 swallows and martins assembled near the
Plymouth station of the South Devon Railway, and
pitched on the upper wire of the electric telegraph. It
being necessary to send a message up the, the station
clerk touched the electric wire, and suddenly dissolved
the meeting. The birds jostled and tumbled against each
other, and fluttered off their mysterious resting-place,
shortly resumed something like order, and quickly flew
out of sight.
ANOTHER, GUN ACCIDENT.—On Sunday week, Mr.
Harris, of St. John's Green, Writtle, left home, leaving
their younger son and another lad, 18 years of age, to
take care of the house. Soon after they bad left, Sach,
and two other youths called on young Harris, and seeing a
patent walking-stick gun hung up about six feet from the
floor, took it down from the ceiling to examine it. Whilst
so doing, the contents exploded, and the charge was lodged
in the right side of Sach. A surgeon promptly attended,
but life was found to be extinct. _ _ _ _ .

SCENE IN CHELTENHAM PARISH CHURCH.—A corre-
spondent of the Cheltenham Examiner writes :—" I was
present at the parish church on Sunday evening, and
witnessed the following scene, which took place during
the performance of divine worship :—The Churchwarden
(walking up to a large pew which was only half filled, and
the door of which was firmly held by a gentleman inside)
—Mr. —, you have no right to keep that pew while
there are parishioners who cannot obtain seats. Mr. —:
It is my pew, and I shall admit whom I please. Church-
warden : You have no right to admit strangers while there
are parishioners who cannot get seats. Mr. —: This
pew is my property. Churchwarden : If you do not open
the door, sir, I shall order the beadle to force it open.
Mr. —: You have no right to do so; you may as well
order a man to break open my house. Churchwarden :
It is not your pew, and I shall insist upon its being
opened. Mr. : This is not the place to settle that
question. Churchwarden : I will have it settled here;
Russell, I order you to break open the door. Pew-
opener : Very well, sir ; Mr. —, I insist upon the door
being opened. The door was burst open, and the pew
immediately filled by the parties standing outside."
THE NATIONAL SOCIETY.—On Thursday a private
meeting of the Committee of the National Society was
held at the Central School-rooms, Broad Sanctuary, for
the purpose of taking into consideration a communication
received by the Committee of Council on Education.
The meeting was numerously attended by bishops, noble-
men, and membersof parliament interested in the question.
The Earl of Harrowby filled the chair in the absence of
the two Archbishops, and the Rev. J. G. Lonsdale, Sec-
retary to the Society, read the communication from the
Committee of Council on account of which the meeting
had been convened. It explained at some length the
operation of the law and the views of their lordships on
the terms of trust deeds in certain proposed cases, as
where the managers of schools are required to be commu-
nicants of the Church of England, where a bish )13 or arbi-
trators are empowered to declare a teacher unfit for his
office, or where a committee of management, in violation
of the terms of the trust deed, neglect or refuse to dismiss
a teacher in pursuance of the decision of the bishop op the
award of the arbitrators. The document further conveyed
the expression of their lordship's disinclination to admit
of any further modifications than those already conceded
on the subject of an appeal on questions not relating to
religious instructions. A lengthened discussion took
place with reference to this communication, in which the
Bishops of Oxford, Salisbury, and Bangor, the Earl of
Harrowby, Archdeacon Sinclair, Mr. G. C. Talbot, M.P.,
Mr. Colquhoun, and others, joined. At the close of the
proceedings, which lasted nearly four hours, a Committee
was appointed to draw up a letter to the Committee of
Council on the subject which had been under considera-
tion.

INSTINCT OF A CARRIER PIGEON.-Mr. Vizard, butler
to the Right Hon. and Rev. Lord Say and Sele. has now
in his possession an Antwerp carrier pigeon, which was
hatched in London, in February, 1847. In the early part
of the year 1847, the pigeon, with its mate and others, was
sent to Addlestrop, near Moreton-in-the-Marsh, which is
about 100 miles distance from London. In January, 1849,
the bird of which we are more particularly writing was
taken to Broughton Castle, in Oxfordshire. One day in
the past month, Mr. Vizard wrote to a friend at the castle,
from London, telling him to liberate the pigeon at a cer-
tain hour. Mr. Vizard's friend wrote to tell him the time
at which he released the pigeon, and in three-quarters of
an hour after the time stated, the bird arrived at its old
quarters, at his lordship's residence in London, alter an
absence of two years !—Gloucaster journal.

A MELANCHOLY LOVE AFFAIR.—An inquest was held
on Tuesday last, before Mr. Russell, coroner for the
northern division of Northumberland, at Earsdon, in the
parish of Bothal, on view of the body of Eleanor Aynsley,
a fine girl about twenty-three years of age, whose parents
are honest industrious people. The deceased had been in
the service of Mrs. Hume, of Mitlington Broom, for four
years and a half, and was a faithful and diligent servant.
Mrs. Hume had been from home on Sunday, and on her
return in the evening observed the deceased to be much
depressed in spirits. On the following morning the de-
ceased was called at four o'clock, having to be engaged in
washing ; half an hour afterwards she left the house, and,
not returning, her mistress became alarmed, and immedi-
ately sent servants in search of her. Her body was found
about 8 o'clock the same morning, in Earsdon Burn, lying
in about two feet depth of water, and on being taken out,
in the presence of her mother, she was found to be
quite dead. Her bonnet was lying on the bank of the
stream, inside of which was found a letter, addressed to
her parents, of which the following is a copy :—" Dear
father and mother, I bid farewell to you all, for my heart
is broken, and I must die, and William Atkinson is the
case (cause) of it; but, give my kind love to him, and I
hope he will sometimes think of me, and I hope God will
forgive me for all my wicked sins.—Ellen Aynsley." • It
appeared in evidence, that a young man, named William
Atkinson, belonging to the village of Earsdon, had been
for some time previously paying his addresses to her, but
recently had attended several rural merry makings in the
neighbourhood, and rumour said, that in her absence he
had, on those occasions, paid particular attentions to
another young girl. Reports of this bad reached her
ears, and had so excited her jealousy, as to cause the un-
fortunate girl to take away her own existence. Verdict—
" Temporary Mental Derangement."
THE THANKSGIVING DAY.—We are gratified by ob-
serving that a Royal Proclamation has been issued-,
appointing Thursday next, the 15th inst., to be " reve-
rently and devoutly observed as a day of Thanksgiving to
Almighty God for his late mercies, in having abated the
grievous disease with which many places in this Kingdom
have been visited." This concession to the religious feel-
ing of the country is creditable to the government, who
could scarcely give a stronger proof of their sense of the
error they committed in August last, or the damage which
their religious character sustained by their weak and un-
worthy remissness on that occasion. We have copied
elsewhere a great portion of an article from the Times,
chiefly because it affords a condensed review of the pro-
gress of the disease with which we have been recently
visited. One great object of the article is, to put away
the very thought of a Divine visitation ; to treat the cho-
lera as produced by rivers and bad drainage ; and to educe
from the whole, as the one practical lesson, " improve
your sewerage." If this view be a just one, then the
government did quite right in ordering no fast day ; but
the same government must be playing the hypocrite now.
The writer tells us of " the social and natural circum-
stances which have directed and aggravated its operation."
He assures us, that nothing is more open and intelligible
than the paths it has trod, and the seasons of its compara-
tive ravages." And, after oddly particularising a variety
of cases which set all general rules at defiance, he con-
cludes that " the like relation of cause and effect prevail
everywhere." In other words, that the disease acts by
known rules, and is amenable to known remedies—than
which there cannot be a greater fiction. All the re-
corded facts disprove such a theory. It is quite impos-
sible to reconcile the mortality of the different places and
districts with any one rational hypothesis. The Times
spends a column in showing that low and watered places
suffer, and higher lands escape. But what are we to say
to the fearful mortality which visited Salisbury, compared
with the comparative freedom of Oxford and Cambridge,
both lying in the midst of streams ? By what law of
mortality came Southampton to suffer so fearfully ? Hull
and Yarmouth are alike in most points—why was Hull
" swept by the pestilence," while Yarmouth almost
entirely escaped ? Who ever dreamt that New Bridge-
street, Salisbury-square, and the parish of St. Bride,
London, were unwholesome or wretched neighbour-
hoods ? By what theory can the fact be accounted for,
that Saffron-hill, Field-lane, and St. Giles's suffered far
less severely—in fact, scarcely suffered at all, compared
with Ludgate-hill and the district adjoining the Times
printing-office ?