The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-10 00:00:00

THE DUBLIN GREAT EXHIBITION.

THE Irish Crystal Palace will be opened on Thursday,
by the Lord-Lieutenant, surrounded by all the fashion,
grandeur, and nobility of Ireland. The London and
Northwestern and the Chester and Holyhead Railway
Companies have given to the committee of the Exhibition
a special express train for the 11th instant, to convey, free
of charge, from London to Kingstown, the distinguished
persons who shall have accepted invitations to be present
at the inauguration. Among the invited guests are the
Mayors of Liverpool, Manchester, &c. The Dublin
Evening Post of Friday says :—" In every department of
the Great Exhibition the approach towards completion
becomes every hour more and more manifest. This mag-
nificent temple, when all the materials of art, manufac-
ture, and vertu shall be arranged and displayed to the best
advantage, will present the most interesting and imposing
array ever before exhibited in Europe, or, perhaps, in the
world, excepting, of course, the Exhibition at Hyde-park,
in 1851, and even in some respects it will be more imposing
than that, too." Tourists are expected to go in thousands
to Ireland this spring and summer.
The principal buildings for the Great Exhibition occupy
the entire lawn at the back of the Royal Dublin Society
House, which faces and bounds the west side of Merrion-
square. There is one large principal aisle about 450 feet
long, 100 feet wide, and the same height, with two aisles
on each side ; thus dividing the entire area into five aisles,
separated from each other only by the iron pillars which
support the roofs. The general design of the erections is
the same in all, the roof being semicircular, with hemis-
pherical ends. The roofs are of wood, supported by
light but strong trussed arches resting upon pillars 36
feet high, cast in one length ; and all is painted a light blue,
with the braces and ribs picked out with red and buff.
Light is admitted through a spacious skylight extending
the whole length of the apex o' each roof. The din of
2,000 workmen fills the mighty vault of the central dome.
As in the Crystal Palace of '5l, the foreigners are amongst
the most forward and active. A magnificent iron canopy,
from the Colebrookdale works, stands perfect in the
centre of the nave; and there will be fountains of both
English and Irish manufacture. The unique museum of
the Royal Irish Academy is a prominent feature. The
" machinery in motion " is represented as being in a very
backward state. The great Oxford organ, built by Tel-
ford, of Dublin, occupies a gallery built expressly for it at
the west end of the great hall. Berrington, of London,
is erecting another noble instrument at the opposite end.
A third organ is likewise nearly completed. The accom-
paniment to the one thousand voices on the opening day
will, however, devolve entirely upon Telford's noble in-
strument. Rehearsals are being frequently held, and Dr.
Stewart is getting his hand in upon the key:banks, to the
delight of the numerous visitors. The Irish Exhibition
will contain the most extensive and magnificent collection
of paintings, ancient and modern, that ever were brought
together under one roof within the British dominions.
The value of the pictures has been estimated by the se-
cretary, Hogan, the sculptor, at £500,000. There is one
piece of sculpture from the hand of Raphael the divine.
Among the most interesting miscellaneous articles there
is a solid piece of silver extracted from the lead raised at
the Luganure Mines, in the county of %\ icklow, by the
Mining Company of Ireland. This valuable production
of Irish wealth weighs 1,600 oz., about one cwt. avoir-
dupois, and is of the value of ss. 6d. an ounce, and, in
purity, several pennyweights above the standard value of
silver. Seven thousand season tickets had been sold up
to the date of the latest accounts from Dublin. There is
an enormous amount of furbishing, painting, &c., pro-
ceeding in Dublin. Everybody is putting the best face
possible on his premises, and the hotels anticipate a good
harvest this season from visitors. There is, however,
ample accommodation in hotels and lodgings for a vast
influx of strangers ; and there is, therefore, not the same
probability of being fleeced as occurred in London in 1851.

A WIDE-AWAKE IDEA.—The Bedouins, says Mr.
Layard, are acquainted with few medicines. The desert
yields some valuable simples, which are, however, rarely
used. Dr. Sandwith, hearing from Suttun that the Arabs
had no opiates, asked what they did with a person that
could not sleep. " Doe (answered the Sheikh), we make
use of him—we set himvto watch the camels,"

GENERAL NEWS.

AT East Farleigh, Kent, on Sunday afternoon, a lady
attended divine service in full Bloomer costume.

PUBLIC MEETINGS are being held in Birmingham, in
furtherance of the movement for a weekly half holiday.

A LAPLAND GIANTESS, measuring seven feet two
inches, and weighing twenty-four stone fourteen pounds,
is being exhibited at Aberdeen.
THE ELECTION FOR TAUNTON took place last week,
when Sir Jas. Ramsden, a Liberal, was returned, having
a majority of seven over Mr. Badcock, a Conservative.
SHERIDAN KNOWLES i 5 at present enjoying the
pleasures of fly-fishing on the beautiful banks of Loch
Ard, North Britain.

THE CARPENTERS OF OXFORD have struck for an
advance of wages-3s. per week, perambulating the city
in a body. It is supposed that the masters will be com-
pelled to accede.
THE Nottingham Journal states two hundred mer-
chants of that town have already expressed their desire to
become members of an Exchange, which it is proposed to
establish in the midland metropolis.
THE authoress of Uacle Tom's Cabin intends visiting
Paris, and apartments have, it is said, been obtained for
her in the Quartier Montmartre. She is afterwards to
visit Italy.

YELF, the late actuary of the Isle of Wight ' Savings'
Bank, who defrauded the bank of upwards of £BOOO, has
been committed for trial on three distinct cases of
forgery, and for stealing £2O, the moneys of the trustees.
THE CITIZENS OF GLASGOW are proposing to estab-
lish a national library and museum of inventions: for this
purpose a deputation waited on Prince Albert on Saturday
morning.

NAUTICAL ALMANAC.—The superintending of the
Nautical Almanac, long so ably executed by Lieut. Strat-
ford, has, we believe, been offered to and accepted by the
star finder, Mr, Hind.
RATHER FREE WITH HIS FIRZ-ARMS.--Some spar-
row-catchers having gone to a farm-house near Nlaid-
stone, the farmer be!ng aroused, mistook them for bur-
glars, fired at, and shot one of them, inflicting a rather
dangerous wound.

ELECTIONEERING ABROAD.—By accounts recently re-
ceived in this country from Texas it appears that Capt.
Grant, formerly of t tourbridge, in Worcestershire, was
assassinated at Houston, on the 28th of December last, in
an electioneering brawl.
INSPECTOR OF WEIGHTS AND ME ASURES.—The Court
of Queen's Bench decided on Wednesday, that an inspec-
tor of weights and measures has no power to seize weigh-
ing machines. He can seize both false weights and
measures.

VERY OBLIGING.—The Tuscan Government has de-
clared to the British Cabinet, that Mr. Craufurd may
stay as long as le pleases in Tuscany, provided Govern-
ment certify that he is in her Majesty's service, and not
an agent of Mazzini.
THE LAUNCH of the Peninsular and Oriental Co.'s
monster screw steam-ship Himalaya, of 3600 tons bur-
then, is to take place at l3lackwall in the course of this
month; and she will be ready for sea in November or
December nest.

SVDMARINE TELEGRAPH TO HOLLAND.—The work
of laying down the electric telegraph from Ipswich tc Or-
fordness, to be connected with the submarine communica-
tion thence to Holland, was commenced on Monday week.
The brow of the first hill on the Woodbridge road vas•
selected as the starting point of operations.
A TRADESMAN residing near Nottingham, having.
lately bought a dozen of Cochin-China hen eggs, at a
cost of 12.1. 6d., boiled one for his wife's breakfast, when,
lo and behold, the inviting tint changed to common
white. They were Irish eggs, which had been steeped in
a solution of raw amber.

MEE+SRS. SAMUEL. AND MONTAGU, of London, dealers
in foreign exchange, have discovered that attempts at
fraud are being made by altering Dutch coupons so as to
cause them to represent a sum beyond their actual
amount. The original figures are erased, false ones being
printed in their place, and in this condition they are
offered for sale.

THE SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH
COMPANIES have laid down their wires from. the Central-
hall of the House of Commons into several of the clubs in
Pall-mall, securing to each of these establishments a dis-
tinct and private communication with the Houses of Par-
liament, as well as the additional facility of a direct com-
munication with the Continent.

TEE WOOLLEN MILL, belonging to Mr. William Lock-
wood, of Spring-lane, near Holmfirth, was burned to the
ground at an early hour on Wednesday morning. The
building is the largest in the neighbourhood, and with
one exception is the only mill that escaped the awful flood
on the ever-to-be-remembered morning of the sth of
February, 1852. From .ClO,OOO to X 122,000 is the esti-
mated loss, and 240 hands have been thrown out of em-
ployment.
A Poott OLD FEMALE, named Sarah Hawle, living in
the neighbourhood of Barbican, stung by the ingratitude
of a foster son, who had turned her out of her own house
and taken possession of the property, committed suicide
on Friday night week at a coffee-house in King's Cross,
London. Oxalic acid was found in her bedroom. The
ungrateful scoundrel, it appears, who owed all he had in
the world to the worthy old woman, had got married.

THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT AND AUSTRIA.—Very
recently the following appeared in a Frankfort paper :-;-
" It is now confirmee that the Prussiau police were most
efficiently assisted in the late political arrests at Berlin and
elsewhere by repeated communications from the police of
London, without which many of their discoveries might
not have been made. In this we see a proof of the good
faith of the British Government, when, through Lord
'Westmorland, it assured the cabinet of Vienna that it
would watch over the conduct of the refugees. We learn
from other sources that the London police has for some
time kept lists of all the fugitives residing there, and
watches over their communications with the continent."
RAILWAY MILEAGE, ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.—From
July 1, to December 31, 1852, on the railways in Great
Britain and Ireland, 21 passengers were killed, 316 injured
from causes beyond their own control, and 3 injured
owing to their own misconduct or want of caution ; 71
servants of companies or of contractors killed, 42 injured
from causes beyond their own control, 17 injured owing
to their own misconduct or want of caution ; 41 trespas-
sers and other persons, neither passengers nor servants of
the company, killed ; and 9 injured by crossing or walking
on the railway. Total, 133 killed and 387 injured. The
number of passengers conveyed during the half-year
amounted to 49,886,124 ; the length of railway opened on
the 30th June, 1852, was 7076; and the length of railway
open on the 31st December, 1852, was 7336. The in-
crease of mileage during the half-year was 260.
MR. BRIGHT'S OPINION OF THE TIMES.—The Times
newspaper, he presumed they all knew, was a great power
in a mask. They did not see the hand that wrote those
articles. There was not a man in London, calling him-
self a gentleman, who durst have put his signature to that
article charging M. Kossuth. (Loud cries of " Hear,
hear.") There was a gentleman, a member of that
House—not present, he (Mr. Bright) dared say, but if
present he should say what he said now. He spoke of
one notoriously connected with that paper, who durst not
have put his name to that article (interruption) in which
those charges were brought against M. Kossuth ; and he
(Mr. Bright) could tell The Times that it was precisely
by conduct like this—by which scandalous and lying
charges were brought against honourable men—that the
press of France lost all character with the people of
France (hear, hear) ; that during the existence of the
Republic the middle classes and all the people in Paris
looked on with disregard, almost with pleasure, while the
papers, one after another, were brought under the penal-
ties of the law ; and that, finally, they looked on without
any opposition, and apparently without any discontent,
when their newspaper writers were obliged to put their
names to every article, and afterwards when three-fourths
of them were suppressed.—Speech in the House of Com.
mons, on Thursday.
A COUSINLY ACTION.—BREACH OF PROMISE OF
MARRIAGE.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Mon-
day, Miss Ann Williams, sued her cousin, Mr. Rodway,
a baker in Windmill-street, Tottenham-court-road, Lon-
don, to recover damages for a breach of promise of mar-
riage. The trial took place before Mr. Justice Talfourd
at the sittings in London after last term, and the verdict
was for the defendant. A rule, however, was obtained
for a new trial, upon the ground that the verdict was
against the evidence, and this rule came on to-day for
argument. The plaintiff was formerly maid to Lady
Erskine, but she left her situation in order to superintend
her father's house. He, however, got into difficulties,
and the plaintiff left his house and went to reside at the
defendant's for a short time. His sister had been keeping
his house, but she took that opportunity to visit some
friends in the country, and thus the plaintiff and defen-
dant were left alone. It was during this period that the
promise in question was alleged to have been made, but
no letters had, under the circumstances, passed between
the parties ; and therefore the usual evidence of the
promise was not given in this case. The plaintiff's father,
however, and her uncle Emanuel, were called to speak to
interviews and conversations with the defendant, and it
was submitted that defendant had in these conversations
admitted the promise of marriage. The jury found for
the defendant on both the points raised on the record ;
but, on the first one, Mr. Justice Talfourd intimated
that he did not agree with them in opinion. The court,
after hearing counsel, decided to grant a new trial. Rule
absolute.
A MYSTERIOUS SWINDLING COMMERCIAL MAN.—
At the Mansion-house, London, on Tuesday, a well-
dressed young man, who refused to give his name, was
brought before the Lord Mayor upon the charge of
having uttered a forged check for the sum of £B5O at the
banking-house of Barnet, Hoare, and Co.—Mr. Joseph
Tween, clerk at the bank, said : this check, which pur-
ports to be drawn by Messrs. Whitbread and Co., who
keep an account at our banking-house, was presented to
me this day at about twenty minutes to twelve o'clock at
the counter.—Mr. Base : Was the prisoner the person
who presented it ?—Witness : I believe he was.—Haydon
then took a light red wig out of a bag and proceededed to
put it on the prisoner, who saved him the trouble by
fitting it in an instant to his head. The change produced
in the appearance of the man was considerable. Haydon
was then about to put the whiskers on the prisoner, but
the witness said,—l believe I can say with certainty that
he islte person to whom I paid the amount of the check.
—The Lord Mayor : Prsoner do you wish to ask the
witness any question ?—The prisoner : No.—Haydon : I
took the wig and whiskers from the prisoner.—Mr. Base
then requested that his lordship would remand the pri-
soner upon the evidence just given.—The Lord Mayor :
Prisoner, do you persist in refusing to tell your name
Prisoner : I do.—The Lord Mayor: Have you anything
to say with reference to the application to remand you r
—The prisoner : Nothing. I don't want to say anything
at all.—The Lord Mayor : I shall remand you, and you
can, if you please, employ some solicitor to defend you.—
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attempted to obtain money from Messrs. Overend and
Co., the money dealers of Lombard-street, by means of
forged bills of exchange, and who has evidently the
greatest objection possible to recosratin,

The DERWENT has arrived from Hobart Town, with
25,300 ounces of gold, value about £101,200.
CARDINAL WISEMAN'S COACHMAN dropped down
dead in his own house, near Hanover-square, London, on
Thursday morning. The precise cause of death is un-
known.

THE Yorkshireman states that Nathaniel Howard, the
executioner of Barbour and Waddington, who was dis-
charged from his office in consequence of his neglect at
the execution of Henry Dobson, died on Friday night.
A FANATIC, at Bicker, has published a pamphlet, in
which lie describes the recent heavy rains as a visitation
of God's wrath on account of the homage paid by the
nation to the late Duke of Wellington on his death.
THE EMPRESS OF CHINA is said to be a Christian,
the daughter of a Christian, and the Emperor himself
more than half a convert. Had it not been for the
crimes of the Popish missionaries, China would probably
have been Christian 100 years ago.—Standard.
RAILWAY LAW.—The Exchequer Chamber has de-
cided that Lord Campbell's reading of the law, that rail-
way companies must make their lines in compliance with
their acts of parliament, must be reversed. The acts are
held to be permissive only, and not compulsory.
DIAMONDS to the value of £lO,OOO, which were stolen
in the day time, a short time ago, from the boudoir of
the Countess Clarz, in her residence at Vienna, have
been found in the possession of a woman employed as a
nurse in the family.
THE BITER BITTEN.—WhiIe a gentleman named Key-
worth was seated in the breakfast-room of his house in
Cottesford-place, Lincoln, on Tuesday evening week, a
sparrowhawk, which was attracted by a canary bird in a
cage that was hung in the window recess, dashed through
the glass into the room, and was caught by Mr. Keyworth.
THE GOODWIN SANDS REFUGE.—A practical scheme
for getting rid of the perils of the Goodwin Sands has
been proposed by Mr. Smith, an engineer, and has
attracted a corresponding amount of public: notice, to-
gether with a corresponding share of assistance for carry-
it into effect.
A GIPSY WOMAN has been committed for trial at
Eglinton charged with the murder of Mrs. Wilson, at
Burpead, into whose house she had gone with some
whisky and demanded some hot water. On Mrs. Wilson
refusing to supply the water or to take a "dram," the
prisoner attacked her and inflicted such serious injuries
that death ensued.

A REVOLTING CASE has been before the Lambeth
police magistrate, in which two medical men were charged
with the crime of procuring abortion. The unfortunate
girl, Eliza Morden, deposed that she was seduced by the
Rev. George Campbell Gordon, who lodged with her
mother in Ely-place, Holborn. Mr. Gordon is 55 years
old, an unmarried man, and curate of St. &ndrew's
Parish Church, Holborn, London.
THE MORTALITY OF OYSTERS during the season has
been very excessive. The proprietors of the oyster-beds
are said to be sufferers to the amount of £90,000, one-
third of which falls upon Mr. Aston, of the Chenia Rock-
beds, near Sheerness. The mortality is principally
amongst the foreign oysters ; and the cause is supposed to
be the late frost after their removal from the deep to the
shallow water.

POWER OF SLEEP'.—One morning last week, the
mistress of a public-house in Bishouwearmouth, observing:
that the bed of a young girl, who acts as servant, appeared
as if it had not been slept in, inquired the reason, and
discovered that the girl on the night previous to going to
bed had gone on her knees for the purpose of praying,
and when in that position fell sound asleep, and remained
so until the following morning, sleeping for several hours.
LETTERS FROM DR:. VOGEL, the astronomer, sent out
to join Dr. Barth in Central Africa, announce his safe ar-
rival at Tripoli. He will have to stay several weeks at that
place in order to complete his preparations for the journey..
It so happens that a relative of the Sultan of Bornu is at
preseni in Tripoli on his return from his third pilgrimage
to Mecca. He is a highly intelligent man, had formerly
traveled with Claperton, and in his company Dr. Vogel
hopes soon to reach Lake Isad, not only in safety but in
comparative ease and comfort.—Athen.,2ttm.

A DEFENCE FOR KISBING.—Last week, Mr. John G-
Illingsvorth, an innkeeper, summoned before the Wake-
field magistrates, Miss Mary Ann Serie, for an assault,
an attempt to give him a kiss in the street. In justi-
fication, Burn's couplet was quoted—
•' If a body meet a body comin'tliro'lbe rye,
If a body kiss a body, need a body' ary !"
and the bench, preferring this interpretation of the crimi-
nal law to Jervis's, dismissed the case, amidst the unsup-
pressed laughter of a crowded court.
UNFORTUNATE SPECULATIONS.—A case of suicide,
under very distressing circumstances, occurred at Bir-
mingham on Thursday. Mr. John Pugh, a gentleman
well known to the South Staffordshire iron trade, shot him-
self at the Hen and Chickens Hotel aboutllmidday. The
deceaeed was manager of the Parkfield Ironworks, near
Wolverhampton, and was little more than 35 years of age.
Depression of spirits, the result of unfortunate specula-
tions unconnected with his trade, is said to have brought
about the melancholy occurrence.

REPRESENTATION OH THE CITY.—An influential meet-
ing of the electors of the city of London was held on
Thursday, when it was unanimously resolved that Baron
Lionel Rothschild should not be called upon to resign his
seat, notwithstanding the unfavourable decision in the
House of Lords last week.. A committee was formed, to
adopt such measures as they may think it to insure the
ultimate satisfactory solution of the Jewish Disabilities
question, by placing Baron Rothschild in the seat to which
the constituency of the city of London have repeatedly
elected him-
HAINLBOLDT ON TABLE-MOVING.—The Silesian Ga-
zette publishes a letter addressed by Alexander Von Hum-
boldt to a friend, who had applied for his, opinion upon
the supposed magnetical phenomena of table-moving,
which has lately been described in several journals. The
veteran physicist remarks that it is always easier to destroy
a false theory than an inaccurately apprehended fact. He
then adverts to a long series of pseudo-scientific discove-
ries which hate been made and exploded in the course of
his 84 years'experience, and advises the table-movers " to
i,ry their chaff upon some younger bird."
A CANNIBAL IN LONDON.—At the Thames police
court, last week, an Irish hatter named Crawley was
committed for trial for biting off the nose of a labourer
named Hurley, who thus described the attack made upon
him.—" He threw me bodily down, the stairs, and then,
coming over me, began to eat my nose. Whilst he was
chewing it I began to halloa, and put up my hand to save
my nose, but he began to eat it also." Hurley exhibited
the piece of nose which had been bitten off, and which he
preserved in a bit of paper, and his wife stated that she
found half her husband's nose lying on a step of the stairs.
Loss OF Two LIVES sax FIRE.—On Wednesday
morning, shortly before three o'clock, a fire broke out in
a house in Phoenix-street, Gray's Inn-road, facing the
walls of the House of Correction. Mr. Holder, the
occupier of the second floor, finding escape by the stair-
case impossible, at once threw the bed and mattress on to
the pavement, and by that means lie and his family
escaped. Two children of another lodger, a Mr. Brown,
were sleeping in a back room on the first floor. All at-
tempts to save them were fruitless, and their bodies were
afterwards found, dreadfully charred. Their ages were
five and eight.
SHEEP FOR AMERICA.—During the last week, Charles
Phellis, Esq., of Rosedale, Madison, Ohio, United
States, along with two other gentlemen, were in this
town and the neighbourhood, for the purpose of selecting
and purchasing sheep for exportation to America. Having
visited several villages in the vicinity of Doncaster, they
at length made their selection from the flocks of Mr.
Brooke, of Awkley, and Mr. Wood, of Hayfield, con.
sidering their animals to be the most suitable for their
purposes. We understand that they purchased from Mr.
Brooke eighty tup and four gimmer hogs, and three of
each from Mr Wood, and that the animals have since
been sent on their voyage to their destination in the
United States.—Doncaster Gazette.

SKIP FIRE-ENGINE.—At the recent trial of Merrywea-
tiler's ship fire-engine, "The Prince of Wales," the result
was highly satisfactory, a continuous stream of water being
thrown between 80 and 90 feet in a horizontal, and 70
feet in a vertical direction. The engine was worked by a
Portion of the fire brigade, under the superintendence of
Mr. Hewitt, who expressed s favourable opinion of its
qualities as applied to ships, and even to mansions where
a good supply of water could be procured. Mr. Ander-
son, of the Norwich Union, and several members of other
fire brigades, spoke in terms of admiration of its great
power. One of its chief recommendations is, that in
case of need it can be taken into a boat, and worked from
a distance. It has already done essential service in the
preservation of ships from fire.
AN AFFLICTED FAMILY.—On Friday, before the
Lords Justices, in re Arnold, a lunatic, a petition was
presented, on the part of the brother and children of the
lunatic, for payment to the committee of the lunatic of
certain interests and dividends on stock standing to the
credit of the lunatic in this court, and the interest of a
sum of £lO,OOO, to which he was entitled under the mar-
riage settlement of his father and mother. The case is
one of a very peculiar nature. The lunatic had been deaf
and dumb from his birth ; his wife was also deaf and
dumb, the brother was also deaf and dumb, and the
father and mother of the lunatic had also been deaf and
dumb from birth. Their Lordships made the order in
the terms of the prayer of the petition, with a reference to
the Master to ascertain what sum the lunatic was entitled
to under the settlement.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.—The usual quar-
terly return of births, marriages, and deaths,in England
and Wales, has just been issued. The last fifteen months
have witnessed more weddings than were ever before
known to have taken place in the same time. In the
quarter ending March 31, 1853, there were registered
161,598 births. The proportion of births has been lin
28. In the last quarter of 1852, the number of marriages
is 94,416. There were 158,439 marriages in the year
1852, whilst only 153,740 in 1851. ; and ten years ago,
1842, only 118,825. The proportion of marriages last
quarter was lin 48. The increase is greatest in London,
where 7,101 marriages took place in the quarter. Taking
the number of births for the winter quarter at 161,598,
and the number of deaths at 118,241, we have an increase
of births over deaths to the number of 43,357. The re-
port mentions that the public health is injured by the
high prices of potatoes, and such other esculent vege-
tables, as scurvy to some extent is induced.

THE CHINESE MANDARIN, who figured at the opening
of the Great Exhibition, created another sensation on
Tuesday, when he appeared in the London Court of Bank-
ruptcy as a claimant of £3B, arrear of wages alleged to be
due him by Barber, a grocer and tea-dealer in Bishops-
gate-street. He gave his name Chun-Ahmen, and was
attended by a countryman of his own, who acted as inter-
preter. He had been about two years in the service of the
bankrupt. He expected to be paid in full ; but on its
being explained to him that ho could only receive three
months' wages in full, and must prove and take a dividend
for the remainder, he fell into a violent passion, and ulti-
mately rushed out of court, threatening to hang himself if
his claim were not at once discharged in full. After a
short absence, he again marched into the. court, and
created some alarm by his wild gesticulations. He ad-
dressed himself to the solicitor under the bankruptcy in a
menacing manner ; be was again offered the three months'
salary in full, but persisted in !ejecting it, and ultimately
left the court, making pantomimic motions. with his hand
across his throat to indicate his determination,

AIRS. STONE has published a letter in the Glasgow
Citizen, of Saturday, advocating marriage with a deceased
wife's sister.

PASSENGERS by the Clyde steamers will learn with
pleasure that within the last few days a post-office receiv-
ing-box has been placel on the steam-boat quay at
Greenock.

ON Thursday night, when the Briton steamer was sail-
ing from Ayr to Stranraer, John 'Watkins, a young wag
belonging to the latter place, jumped overboard and WS
drowned. He had only been married a fortnight.
A JEW CHITRCHWARDEN.—The parishioners of St'
George's, Botolph-lane, London, having elected a Jewl
Mr. Henry Levy Keeling, of the firm of Keeling and
Hunt, for their churchwarden.

RAILWAY EXTENSION.—The opening of the Oxford,
Worcester,:and Wolverhampton Railway, between Eve"
sham and Wolverhampton, about fifty miles in lengLL"
took place on Saturday.

LUDWIG TIECK, one of the few survivors of a past age
of German literature, died at Berlin on the morning of the
28th ult. He was born at Berlin on the 31st of MO,
1773, so that a few days only were wanting to complete
his full measure of fourscore years.

STANFIELD'S chief picture in the Royal Academy
year is, we understand, the second of a series of coal'
missions given by Mr. Peto, M.P., to the principal Esg,'
lisp artists for works illustrative of leading incidents 15
British history.

HENRY FRANCIS HOWARD, ESQ., late Secretary Of
Legation at Berlin, is appointed her Majesty's Enc°l,
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court
of Brazil, in the room of Henry Southern, Esq., C.D''
deceased.

EDITORIAL ADVANTAGES.—The New York Churck
man says :—`4 It may not be gentrally known that editor:
get one important item of subsistence at a low price : the.;
get bored for nothing."—lt may be satisfactory to o,w,
Transatlantic brother to know that this sort of hospitallu
is as rife on our side of the Ocean as, on his.

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT has pre'
sented to the United Service Institution a work of extrevae
interest at the present moment. It is the "Engtte't
Parliamentaire sm.. la Situation et Organization de
Services de la Marine Militaire." This inquiry ire/
completed immediately before the coup d'etat, but W'
published nor even printed.—United Service Gazette.
.-T
RAILWAY REaUTREMENTShe Railway y, nit!
contains some elaborate statistics compiled from the
official parliamentary estimates, showing that the totP
amount of capital re:ruired for new railway works by the
railway companies before parliament this session an3ount6
to £2-1,121,648. There were several other money bill,
for new railway works, representing about anotbet
£6,000,000, but they have been withdrawn since 09
ession commenced.

A KENDAL PAPER relates that a few nights since 5
thief stole a hive of bees-from a cottage between
head and Sawrey, but neglected to secure the mouth°
the hive. Before he had' proceeded far with his bootD
the disturbed bees swarmei out of the hive, which tli6
thief instantly dropped ; and the occupant of the cottage'
who chanced to look out of the window at the time, geb
by moonlight the unlucky plunderer running away sc"
the bees buzzing about his head._

DETERMINED ATTEMPT Al, SUICIDE.—On MondaY,,:
woman named Elizabeth Groom, aged 44 years, residing
t
in Perrin's-street, Chelsea, made a desperate attempt °i
self-destruction, by swallowing a strong solution °,ll
American potash, which is used' by laundresses in tbei,
business, and is a most destructive alkali. ,
As she ie
fe kni
that it was not acting rapidly enough, she seized a
ai
and cut her throat. On being discovered, she 0:',1
removed to St. George's Hospital. She is a martie
woman, and although her husband and friends accouy
panied her to the hospital, they. declined giving 01)
particulars, and the cause of her rashness is unknown,2
SUGAR REFINING.—A joint deputation, on the suit
of refining sugar in bond, had an interview with the f'"
of Aberdeen, on Friday, at his official residence in D 0,,:
ing-street. The deputation consisted of Mr. Mattw
Provost of Greenock ; Mr. Wrede,. of Greenock;
Richardson and Mr. M`Ewan, of *lasgow ; Nest,''
Crum, Russell, C. Marryat, S. Cave, and Macgregg':
and was accompanied by Mr. John. Macgregor, 31.,;
Sir James Anderson, M.P., Mr. Alexander Hastie,:ki.g
Sir Jas. Matheson, Bart., M.P., Colonel Blair, 7.q..`,i;
Mr. Cowan, M.P., Mr. James Baird, M.P., Mr. MotTB'
M.P., and Mr. Forbes, M.P.

INTEMPERAX•OE IN THE SCOTCH MURAL DISTRICT'(
The leading cities of Scotland were lately contending
the palm of sobriety. We are now threatened with,
similar contest between town and country. In the GI;
gow papers a brief letter is published from the Rev. 11:10
Johnstone, of Maryhill, a village some three or four 10,1
out of Glasgow, relative to the drunkenness of the Ono
districts, and descriptive of a Sunday evening indoor seed
in his neigbourbood, which he says "beggared et,ef
known in the Cowgate of Edinburgh, or the Saltroat'
of Glasgow !"
HORRIBLE OCCURRENCE AT PORrSMOUTH•
Friday this neighbourhood was thrown into an unus,,,s
state of excitement by the report that a child had reg
killed by a bear belonging to the 38th regiment. The,siicl,
was kept in a yard, in Nicholas-street, anti the eP bit
George Martin Curley, aged five years, was in the bet ig
iof feeding him with bits of bun and such matters. ea
supposed he was teazing the bear, when the beast soot
him by the back of the neck anti broke his windpiPe
Mr. White, surgeon, stated he must have died insteAceO
The officers immediately ordered some poison to be "
to the bear, and he died in twenty minutes. post'
MONEY ORDERS FOR THE COLONIAS.--Tke ni be.
master-General is establishing a money-order to
tween this countny and the colonies. So far as Teti"..-1
to
the receipt and payment of money in the colonies, an
h•!
its transmission to and from the United Kingdom, P,I,
Lordship intends :to avail himself of the agency of eto'i
Binary banks, except in any case where the colonial 13°54.De
arrangements are not under his direction,. and where L,
authorities of the colony may prefer to undertake this D:0
siness themselves. The receipt and payment of moneYdelt
the mother-country will form a branch of the money-1:0,w
system already existing. Advertisements-will shortlY 'ref
pear, inviting tenders from bankers for the performance
the duties referred to.
How TO. KEEP EGGS FRESH FOR Sex MONTIP:Ij'
It is not generally known that the only plan of preset eel
eggs perfectly fresh for any length of time, is to sterree
them over, the day they are laid, with lard or butter, 'will
from salt. A small piece of the size of a walnut 00
suffice for a dozen eggs. Take them one by one ina
palm of the hand, and two or three turns will effect9;of
close up the pores ; then place them in an open has!" of
basket, loose, on the pantry shelf. At the expiratieekot
Six months they will be found as sweet as the daY 145,
were laid, if the above directions have been strictly co
plied with.
IRON SHIPBUILDING ON THE CLYDE'.—"We learn to
the Glasgow Citizen that on Friday there was launerfe
from the building yard of Messrs. Scott and Co., t's-0
dyke, Greenock, the first of three screw steamers tp,
being constructed for Messrs. Patrick Henderson and co-'
Glasgow, on account of Messrs. Horace Bouchet and ott
Marseilles, and intended for the trade between that Pio,
and the coast of Italy. The vessel was named the Netel
This makes the eighth launch of iron vessels from 03,
building yards on the Clyde during the past week, fotot,
ing a fleet of upwards of 8000 tons register measurenleot,
with machinery for steamers of about 1700 horse-Pet De
the value of which, when complete for sea, will no
under £220,000. .17
AN ANIOROUS TRADESMAN.—A singular ontor ir,'
submitted a few days ago to the criminal court of Zl,l e,5
A Bavarian tradesman established in that city comPlotl
that two men named Orni had swindled him out of 4:,,0
on the promise of making him marry a wealthy hel',oo6
who they said had fallen in love with him, and a
girl in the village was accused of being their accornf.,
by personating the heiress. The gullible tradesniv„'S
appeared, not only paid his money freely, but had frece,
interviews with the girl, and took her to the the%ii°
whilst she on her part carried imprudence so far as tLepss,,
the wedding contract in the name of the heiress. Tu'ilV,
position was discovered on the worthy man sending or
presents to the residence of the young lady. Tbe.f.,llo;
condemned the two men to two and three years' 'l-
- and the young woman to nine months of
same punishment.
ONE
home by the Magdelena, from the West Indies, rec,,J/
and Mexico, amounted to nearly three millions
quarter dollars in value. About half a million cle'vet/
value of .it was in gold ; the rest was in silver. A
large portion of this specie was from Mexico. It too ‘,l
hours to transfer the specie from the Mexican packete
of
the one for Southampton at St. Thomas. The whol
w
the specie was despatched to London from the Southebose
ton docks on the 6th Instant : it weighed nearly 100 fleet
and occupied nearly 20 specie waggons. The Mag.°oo:
m
pd
ttlstaihapi broughtsileelltee:Rweid pdeeeooi
decision
tkstonrTi,l
roui
eAeannaNnrt
of largest
mayrßr
ocg:4otimesi
aotiotiotslnseobEatrew.n.
hniaod:
was brought
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gslvihat
having
luaebav boiynlvegtehrcealgß oeve performedri
r:.:;:t
The West India Company will nett by her cargo and '
sengers' fares about £lO,OOO. The Magdalena Paw
days. offf
theptoor recoverSa importance
et h
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en
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non
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oitcop.
ment under a new clause in the County Courts' Ae.,"'eri.'t
house property but to mortgagees. It appeared tiii!ty''
rev. gentleman held several tenements in the vicinlefo
Rotherhithe, and a few years ago he granted a le°s4
ninety-nine years of one to the defendant for a certainose,
sideration. A short timeago the defendant, wanting It/1,6'
applied to the plaintiff for assistance, and ultimatelY,
gaged the tenement to him. The defendant 100556;;
then broken the covenants of the mortgage and the 'ef
1
consequently the plaintiff was entitled to possession 140
property, and therefore brought the present aetionitle„li
Honour said the defendant had not only lost all
the tenement by the lease, but by the mortgage
lie had not adhered to ; therefore, he must give ju"
for the plaintiff, with immediate possession.
13bd
A BEGGING BISHOP.--" Thomas Joseph, n
the Grace of God, and favour of the Apostolic See, J'ol,o
of Newport and Menevia," has made a stringent aPPrOof
his " diocese," with direetions for collections to bteer,;of
on Sunday week last, the fourth Sunday after E 35 lief 0
" the education of ecclesiastical students—the Vrep9o
needy missioners—the erection, improvement, ani./,es!tst,
of churches, chapels, presbyteries, and school-hoot ' e
education of poor children,—and," last not least,.
4, rchao
t 0,
own maintenance." On this last point the -Ace e
makes the following statement : —" We ought to boi
delicacy in making known to you, that for seveirorn 010/
past, even before the withdrawal of North Wales ,ere lot
spiritual jurisdiction, our absolute requirements °,l-Abl)t
adequately provided' for by our beloved childrederser
our receipts have almost yearly been cons( o'lo
diminished, through causes which many n'eY 10010
stand, but of which we make no cotnplaint—that,rlies e"
there remain, our firm supporters, a few fan' betel
look for their reward not to our commendatiouy,et
Him whom they seek to honour in our Pereen'eigesll'a
obo
it not for our personal friends and benefactors_
soul or
whom may God abundantly recompense, we elves, 150
quite unable to maintain, creditably to your the ,j
year,p°3t on. t
whole may,lVeo
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to no more than £157, made ql3. in n° uP°
casual donations; and that 102 canAOti way
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