The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-07 00:00:00

STANDARD, TUESDAY, RUNE 7, 1853.

canvass I wrote circulars, having been ordered to do so by
Jonas Gleave. 1 had nothing else to do. This was done
in the room up stairs. I kept the book till the election
was over. It was open in the rooms for any one to look
at. I know a room, No. 26, North John-street. I only
went once to that room for canvass books, when we were
short. T was sent by Mr. Jonas Gleave. He told me to
go to Mr. Buckmaster's office. I went and saw one of
the clerks, telling him that I wanted canvass books for the
Lime-street Ward Committee, and also a burgess list, as
ours lied been destroyed. I said Jonas Gleave had sent
me. That was the only time I went. I believe I did
take one note to the secretary. I had instructions to
leave it for Mr. Buckmaster. I don't recollect the name
of any one I saw there. There was a placard with the
names of Turner and Mackenzie at our room. There
was no placard at the central office, in North John-
street that I know of,—at least with the candidates'
names upon it. At the ward committee office the rooms
were on the first floor. There was a small room, to
which the gentlemen occasionally retired. You had to
cross the landing. We had not the second room for
more than a few days that I know of. We had not a
third room that I am aware of. I never saw Messrs.
Mackenzie and Turner at Jonas Gleave's house. I have
seen them at the committee-room, where we procured
the canvass books. Jonas Gleave was present on several
occasions of the kind. I believe the candidates always
came together. They spoke about nothing but the canvass
and its progress. The canvassers usually attended the
candidates when they visited the ward-room. I saw Mr.
Thomas Bold in the room once. I did not see Mr. Hors-
fall there. It was a few days previous to the election
when Mr. Bold came. I don't know Mr. Buckley Jones.
I saw Mr. Lloyd there probably twice. I saw the members
in St. John's-market once. Jonas Gleave was walking
with them. I had nothing to do with money accounts,
and I saw none. I never was at Mr. Buck Lloyd's
office before the election, that I remember. I do recollect
troing there before the election, a few days. I left a note
for him. I did not see him. I saw Mr. William's, the clerk.
On the first occasion I left a note with one of the clerks.
I never took notes during the election to any of the
others. I only received my wages from Jonas Gleave—
that was all the money I got. I did not see money paid
to any one. I never paid any money myself, nor was I
ever present when money was paid. I have never seen
Jonas Gleave or his wife pay money in connexion with
election business. I did not transmit any money at all.
No money, except my wages, passed into my hands. I
have no knowledge of rosettes having been made up there.
I did not give my wife any secret mark to put upon a
rosette. I never saw what was called an 1.0. U. I heard
talk about one in the committee-room. I heard there
were such things. Numbers of persons were in the room
at the time—sixty or seventy. It might have been some
of the committee who spoke, but I know not. The com-
mittee did not talk about it. I did not hear the committee
talk of it. The talk in the public room was a few days
before the election. I heard it twice or thrice spoken
about. I did not join in the conversation. People were
going backwards and forwards, and so was I. It was not
addressed to any of the committee.

By the CHAIRMAN: I never heard it spoken of by the
committee as a committee.

Examination resumed : I never saw a private card, de-
noting that the bearer was to receive money. I never put
a private mark upon a card to communicate to my vife
the amount of money which was to be given to a voter.
I never did pass any communication whatever to my wife,
by any way whatever, for such a purpose. I never sent a
card or paper to any other person with a mark upon it ; I
am certain I did not. I saw men carrying colours on the
day of the election. I was not present when they were
engaged, hut I was informed that they were engaged by
Jonas Gleave. I saw a great number with a small stick
and a ribbon attached to it. I saw them in various parts
of the town. To the best of my recollection I have always
given the same account•of these transactions. I knew a
person named Vincent, and I swear that I never told him
that I was in receipt of £5OO from Mr. Puck Lloyd's
office, through Mr. Edward Williams, his clerk. I believe
I never told him I was to receive any sum of money. I
never received any money, and I never did say that I re-
ceived it. I never told him or any one that I had gone
twice to Mr. Lloyd's, and that I received from his clerk.,
Mr. Williams, atlfirst £4OO and then £lOO. I never said
that money had been passed through a hole in the wall.
I have never said to any one that I had received money at
Musket's, •nor at a hotel in Finch-street, or that I had
paid the money to them. I never said anything to a per-
son named Dixon., that, as my wife had assisted me as a
draper, her knowledge of the private mails facilitated the
payment of money at the election. I remember going to
Staleybrifige with Dixon, and speaking to him about the
Liverpool election, and not about the•bribery and corrup-
tion. I never told him that my wife got the private
mark, and that•she put the money up for the voters. I
'told him that a heard of such things, but I never saw
them.

Cross-examined by Mr. Sntrrx-: There has always
-been a committee-room for election purposes in the ward,
Mr. Buck Lloyd being a member of the committee. Jonas
Cleave had been secretary for some years of the com-
mittee, II believe. Any voters of the ward, or of any other
ward,_could walk in and out of the•room. It was open to
anybody. 'Speeches were made, and it became full occa-
-sionally, -so that all business was -stopped. I saw the
candidates in St. Johns Market, attended by about forty
or fifty,people, and among them I-saw Mr. Jonas Gleave.
tl saw that-they were canvassing. sllnow George Turner,
and I have heard him say that he would " do that long
fellow, JonasGleave, and show him up when he got to
Condon, tis'he owed him a grudge:" I heard him say
that in Lime-street. It was after the election. I told
Jonas Gleave of it, and he told me -to make a memoran-
dum of it.

.By the.CHAIMAN : It was known during the day of
-the evening on which the candidates:visited the committee
,room that they were to come. at was always known a
'few hours before they came, that they were to visit the
committee.

By Mr:BALL:: The committee acted both hi municipal
and parliamentary elections, end was composed, I believe,
cf the same members and secretary. ;I have been engaged
lefore.

Mr. MAC AULAY Was the committee forthat ward for
municipal purposes com posed of a joint I:ody, Conservatives
and Whigs-?
'Witness : Yes.
Mary, wife of Thomas Swetenham, examined by Mr.
NI,L.cAuLAy, said-: .T recollect my husband being engaged
in the election. My husband was formerly a draper. I
did not know the trade electors. "I vas living at Liver-
pool during the time of the election. Ido not recollect
any.gentleman presenting a card to me with a paper or
card, except a voting paper for my father. Never received
from my husband and sum of money to,pay to any person.
1 did not make any rosettes. I did not oee any made up.
I did,not pay to any person any sum of money during the
election.

The evidence of thisx:itness—which pro Ted to be so com-
pletely opposed to the hopes of the petitioners—was re-
ceived with much laughter.
Thomas Park Tudor, examined by Mi. BODKIN, de-
posed.: fi am a freeman of Liverpool, and voted at the last
election for Turner. ;I saw Jonas Gleave at his own
house previous to the election ; he asked meto vote for Tur-
ner andUacketizie. I said es. This was on the nomination
day. I had been in before at Gleave's. Jt was on the
Friday before the election Li. first went in. Ca that occa-
sion I promised to vote for Mackenzie and Turner. I
was drunk. went again on the Monday and on Tuesday.
The latter .was the nomination day. Iwas drunk, although
I was sober at .first. .I first went about seven or eight
o'clock. I.asked,Gleave to let me carry a colour, and he
said yes ; he is a decent man is Gleave, and I cannot give
him a bad character. (Laughter). I got my ss. for
carrying the colour—(laughter;—but that was not bribery.
(Renewed laughter). Gleave paid me the money at his
back yard. I .don't know what sort of a colour.it was I
carried—whether it was the .Union Jack or what, it was.
All the other ,colotar-bearers were paid by Gleave at the
same time—one after the other. It was Gleave himself
who paid us. :Some of the men who were paid were
voters. Most of ,us were voters. I have seen a man
named Scretenhara. I don't recollect if I saw him.that
day, as I was tipsy. 1-The witness here renewed the racist
unequivocal symptomS of being in his ordinary condition.]
On the nomination morning ;I saw a man give Gleave
some gold in the parlour. The man who brought the
,gold had a red book. I saw .Gleave write in the book. ;I
don't know what he wrote. I'm no " sehollard." After
.e.-riting in the book, he gave it back to the man. There
were more than one or two sovereigns. I heard them
talking, but did not hear the subject of their conversation.
ne man might be there for a quarter of an hour. I
don't know the man's name, and I have not seen him
since. I went back to the Derby Arms after the nomi-
nation, and staid there all night. I happened to be at
the Ewan after the election. I walked•there. I went to
have a look at it. This was after the election. Three
days after it. I went into an up-at,a4s room, for the pur-
pose of .aeeing it. (Laughter). I did not-find any per-
son in the room—only myself. I had some ale. I did
not notice any hole in the panel of the door. I never saw
any one get anything any time, either down stairs or up
stairs. I saw no band put through the panel with a rib-
bon containing money wrapt up in it.

Mr. BODK .t Did you not swear to theatidicitors for the
petitioners that, when you went into the room, a hand
was put through the panel of the door, and erery time it
appeared one of the colour-bearers went up, and took the
rosette from it, iu which rosette there was a sovereign ?
Witness : I did say that;. but I did not swear it.

Mr. BODKIN: It waa false ? it was a lie %—But I did
not swear to it.

Hon. Mr. MAXWELL:: Do you mean to state that what
you said on a former occasion was not the fact ?

Witness : It was a lie

Mr. Booms : Was that statement not put down in
writing, and signed by you with your mark ?

Witnesa : I did put my mark to it. That was in a
house where they took me; and, as I wanted to get plenty
of drink out of them, I carried them on ; but what I told
them was all lies. They made me quite drunk then.
(Laughter.)

The CHAIRMAN : Then, do you mean to say you Were
sunk when you made the false statement ?
Witness : To be sure; I was quite drunk.

Mr. BODKIN : Were you sober when you began to tell
the story ?

Witness: No; I bad been drinking for three weeks
before that. (Laughter.)

Mr. BODKIN : How did you get drunk so long ? where
did the money come from ?

Witness : 0, I worked, and got drunk too. (Laughter.)
Mr. Booms : You say you got ss. for carrying the
colours on the nomination day ; is that true or false ?

'Witness : Oh ! that is quite true. At least they gave
another person the cash to give me, as they said it would
be bribery to give it to me. Now, I have no more to add,
for if I said any more it would be nothing but a parcel of
lies. (Laughter.)

Mr. BODKIN : You have said you told these lies to get
drunk. Have you not been examined since the first time
by a gentleman in London on the part of the petitioners,
when you were quite sober, and when, being quite sober,
you swore to the truth of all that you had previously
stated ?

WitACSS (after A long pause) ; I know the gentleman

whom I saw. He is present, and that is him whom you
point out.
The individual alluded to was a clerk in the service of
the solicitors for the petitioners.
Mr. BODKIN : Did you not tell that gentleman last
Friday, on oath, that what you have previously said was
true ?
Witness : I don't recollect.
Mr. BODKIN : Where was it you saw him ?
Witness : At the house where I am living, the Feathers,
in the Waterloo-road.
Mr. BODKIN ; Did he not read a paper to you ?
Witness : I can't exactly say. (Laughter.)
Mr. BODKIN repeated the question, and received the
same, or a very similar reply.
Mr. BODKIN : Do you remember that gentleman
(pointing to the clerk) coming to the house you are stay-
ing at last Friday ?
Witness : I partly remember.
Mr. BALL : Did that gentleman read a paper to you ?
Witness : Not that I remember.
Mr. BODKIN : You only came to town on Friday, I am
told. Then, did that gentleman call upon you on Satur-
day ?
Witness : On Saturday I was drunk, and I don't re-
member. (Laughter.)
Mr. BODKIN : Have you ever seen that gentleman be.
fore ; and if so, when ?
Witness : I have seen him in London, and I have seen
him at Liverpool when I gave my evidence.
Mr. BODKIN : Did he not, since you came to London,
speak to you of the evidence you gave at Liverpool ; and
did not you, therefore, tell him that what you had said
was quite true ?
Witness : I am on my oath, and I will not tell a lie for
any man living. (Laughter.)
Mr. BODKIN : You have already given me a very good
specimen of your antipathy to lying. Did you not, I
again ask, tell him that what you had previously affirmed
was true ?

Witness : I don't recollect it. I have been drunk every
day since I came to London—(laughter): ay, and every
night, too. (Continued laughter.)
Mr. BODKIN : What time of the day was it when you
saw the gentleman in London ?
Witness : It was at night ; the night before last, I
think.
Mr. BODKIN : Did he then say anything to you ?
Witness : No.
Mr. BODKIN : Have you seen Jonas Gleave since you
came to London ?
Witness : Yes, I have.
Mr. BODKIN : Did Jonas speak to you of what you
would have to say here ?

Witness : No ; we merely asked for each other, and
how we were enjoying ourselves. (Laughter.)
The CHAIRMAN : Has not Mr. Jonas Gleave spoken
to you as to what evidence you were to give before this
committee ?
Witness : No.

Mr. BODKIN repeated the question with the same re-
sult precisely ; the witness, after a long hesitation, giving
a decided negative.
The witness was here confronted with the clerk.
The CHAIRMAN : Look at that gentleman. Do you
know him by sight ?
Witness : Yes, I have seen him at Liverpool, and when
be called on me here I asked him for 55., which he gave me.
The CHAIRMAN : Do you recollect him asking you
about the evidence you had previously given ?
Witness : No.

Mr. FRESHVIELD: You are not asked, remember,
whether the evidence you gave at Liverpool is true or not,
but you are asked, is it true that you told that gentleman
that what you had said at Liverpool was perfectly correct ?
No reply.
Mr. BALL : You told a storyto certain people at Liver-
pool, for drink. you say ?
itness : Yes.
Mr. BALL : That story was not true ?
Witness: No, it was not.
Mr. BALL: Do you recollect that gentleman asking you
'whether it was true or not?
Witness: No, I do not recollect.
Mr.WILLtAms : What did you say to him, or he to you ?
Witness : I asked him if he'd give me ss. to go some-
where, and he gave it me.

Mr. SMITH : They took you to a place where you told
this false story ?
Witness : Yes.
Mr. SMITH ; They gave you drink. Did they pay for it ?
Witness : Yes.
Mr. SMITH : How long did you sit at that place ?
Witness : Oh, for two or three hours.
Mr. SMITH : What have you had since you came to
'London ?

Witness : Ob, only that 55.; but we have as much to
drink at our house as ever we like to call for—in reason,
of course.
Mr. SMITH : Enough to make:you drunk ?
Witness : Oh, yes. (Laughter.)
11r. SMITH : You have been drunk ever since you came
there ?

`Witness : Yes, on Sunday and all. (Laughter.)
Mr. SMITH : Where do you-stay-1

Witness : With some of the others at the Feathers Inn,
on the other side of the bridge.

Mr. MACAULAY : Do you mean to say that you are
made drunk at that house every day at the expense of
those who brought you ?
'Witness : Yes. (Continued laughter.)
Mr. MacAtTLAy : Do you mean to swear that you have
not been round the corner to the whiskey shop, where
you buy liquor yourself ?
'Witness : Only once ; and 1 only bought a single two-
penny worth. (Laughter.)
.11. r. Mac/krt....1- : How would it be necessary for you
to go.round the corner and buy .your own whiskey, if you
could get it in the house for nothing.?

Witness: Oh, because I was in the street.
Mr. MACAULAY : But was the •lace far off ?
Witness: No ; a very short distance.

The Cl-:t.tamAN : Did you get, free of expense, so
much drink that it intoxicated you?
Witness:: Yes, and could have had more.
The witness was then told to leave the room.
The-ripyie.:y was adjourned at three o'clock till noon on
Monday.
The attendance during the day was not great, although
towardsthe close of the proceedings the :interest seemed
to heighten.

The following is the supplemental Bet of persons al-
leged to have -been bribed, and by whom alleged to have
been bribed ,r

BY WHOM.
Jonas Gleave, Edward Smith,
John Buck Lloyd, Edward
Williams, Solomon W. May,
Wm. Musket, Thoa. Riding,
Thos. Swettenham, Wm. Law-
ton, William Smith, George
Sandford Russell, Jas. A. ther-
ton, and Johu Benny ,Francis
Curchod.
Postlethwaite, Robert
Birtles, Joseph
Booth, John The same
Chatterton, Henry The same
Coulson, Henry, jun
Dickenson, Peter The same
Fletcher, Edwd. Pemberton The same
Foy, Thomas The same
Gladding, Edward The same
Horrocks, William The same
Lyon, Edmund The same
Washington, William
Orme, Samuel The same
Daniel, Thomas The same
Davies, Thomas The same
:Scott, George „.... The same
Smalley, Joseph The same
,Williams, Robert The same

Abraham, Themes

FASHIONS FOR JUNE.

The taste for pelisses becomes more decided, and they
will doubtless be much worn this season. The pelisse
Venetienne, of taffetas, closes in front in a straight line
It is simple in make, being composed of a large neck-
piece, with a broad breadth joined on, which descends to
the hands, when hanging down. The trimming is, ac-
cording to taste, either of broad lace, deep fringe, guipure,
or bands of taffetas pinked at the edge, and put on full,
and concealing the opening for the arm. The mixture of
passementerie and stamped velvet has a very good and
graceful effect. Sometimes a paletot front is added, in
which case the piece forming the skirt, and enveloping the
bust and arms, is smaller than the pattern described
above, not reaching below the bend of the arm. The
colours preferred are black, chesnut, or golden brown.
The Talmas d'ete have a false hood, with a bow of ribbon
and floating ends. They are very full, in order to form
sleeves when the arms are extended. These garments
are small, and, to impart a seal of distinction, the trim-
ming is rather rich—of passementerie, ruches a la vieille,
or bands of stamped or cut velvet.
The echarpe-mantelet comes next, which is sufficiently
low on the shoulders to show the top of the dress. The
form in general resembles a cape behind, and descends in
square ends in front; a deep frill of taffetas or lace is
placed on the mantle, so as to reach the waist. Certain
mantillas produced in tall: tas are entirely covered with
deep lace. Flounces are more worn than ever.
The chapeau-Eugenie is made of bouillonnes of tulle,
with lozenges of taffetas or satin from the crown to the
front edge. The crown is trimmed with blonde, edged
with a pompadour ribbon, which falls on the right side
in long floating ends over the shoulder. A bonnet of
the same description has the crown composed of ribbon,
which gives a less dressy appearance. The colour pre-
ferred is pale green, and the flowers are white daisies of
crape. A light graceful bonnet of tulle, embroidered with
Italian straw. An elegant bonnet of tulle, and blown
with bunches of small bows of white gauze ribbon. For
neglige bonnets fancy straws are worn. They are made
with alternate bands of satin or velvet ribbon, the same
width as the straw: the ribbon is embroidered with gold-
coloured silk. Ears of corn and narrow velvet ribbons
inside. The bonnets without crowns are among the
novelties of the season. They have three great qualities
—light as a feather, transparent as gauze, and hanging on
the head like a Neapolitan plateau. This bonnet is an
assemblage of flowers, ribbon, and lace.
Bareges, grenadines, gazes de Chambers, and foulards
are all appearing again. The designs are new, and partake
of an entirely different character from those of any former
season. The bareges and grenadines are all in patterns ;
for example, a barege with black ground has a wreath of
daisy buds and leaves, made at the edge of the flounce.
Mantelets are in general very small, falling low on the
shoulders, making it more necessary than ever to have the
dress fitting well at the neck. For those ladies who prefer
wrapping themselves more closely there are some most
beautiful shawls of very thick silk, with a border of deep
embroidery of stamped black velvet. The Eugenie man-
telet or violet taffetas is very full, and rather long behind.

The robes-de-ehambre are now made so stylish and
pretty that they might almost be permitted to be worn the
whole morning,
Alpacas, Valencias, and Scotch plaids are worn for
neglige costume. The bodies are made with basques.
Yung ladies' evening dresses have the bodies cut square,
fulled into a narrow band at the top, and gathered at the
waist, so as to form a kind of fan over the chest. A velvet
ribbon is buckled round the waist, or is left with floating
ends. The short sleeves are slightly bouffantes, and ga-
thered into a band to match the top of the body ; a narrow
coloured ribbon is passed under this insertion, and forms
a rosette with long ends on the middle of the body and on
the sleeves.

AUCTIONEER'S MOTTO.—Come when you are bid, and
bid when you are come.
HOPE.—A sentiment exhibited in the wag of a dog's
tail, when he's waiting for a bone.

" Capital punishment," as the boy said when the
school-mistress seated him with the girls.
Win' is the letter S an excellent travelling companion ?
—Because it can turn any number of miles into smiles.
TALKING of the importance of individuals to them-
selves, Douglas mentioned a letter from a servant maid,
i❑ which she says, " I hear it is all over London that I
am about to leave my place."
A HUMOROUS OLD GENTLEMAN having handed a few
coppers to an itinerant music-grinder, has entered his dis-
bursements in his petty expenses book as " organic
change!"
AN ACCIDENT.—" What makes the milk so warm ?"
said Betty to the milkman when be brought his pail to the
door one morning-. " Please mum, the handle's broke,
and missus took the water from the biler."

MATRIMONY AND FRIENDSHIP.—The natur of matri-
mony is one thing and the natur of friendship is another.
A tall man likes a short wife; a great talker likes a silent
woman, for both can't talk at once. A gay man likes a
domestic gal', for he can leave her at home to nuss
children and make pap, while he is enjoyin' of himself to
parties. A man that haute any music in him likes it in
his spouse, and so on. It chimes beautiful, for they aint
in each other's way. Now friendship is the other way;
you must like the same things to like each other and be
friends. A similarity of tastes, studies, pursuits, and re-
creations (what they call congenial souls); a toper for a
toper, a smoker for a smoker, a horse-racer for a horse-
racer, a prize-fighter for a prize-fighter, and so on.
Matrimony likes contrasts ; friendship seeks its own
counterpart.—Sam Slick's Wise Saws.

PROGRESS OF EDUCATION.—A parliamentary paper
contains a return of the number of scholars in day and
Sunday schools in England and Wales, in the years 1818,
1833, and 1851. It appears from this return that in
1818. when the population of the kingdom amounted to
11,642,683. there were in England 19.230 day schools,
with 674,883 scholars ; and 5,463 Sunday schools, with
477,225 scholars. In 1833 the population was estimated
at 14,386,415 ; number of day schools 38,971, with
1,276,947 scholars ; and 16,828 Sunday school.. with
1,548,890 scholars. In 1851 the population was 17,927,609;
there were 46,114 day schools, with 2,14 i,372 scholars ;
and 23,498 Sunday schools, with 2.407.409 scholars. The
proportion of day scholars to the population in the years
mentioned was as follows :—ln 1818, one in 17.25 ; in
1833, one in 11.27 ; and in 1851, one in 8.36. The pro-
portion of Sunday scholars to the population was—in
1818, one in 24.46; in 1833, one in 9.20 ; and in 1851,
one in 7 45.

A NEW STYPTIC.—A pharmacien at Rome, Signor
Pagliare, has recently succeeded in discovering a liquid
possessing so extraordinary a power of coagulating blood,
that if to a lagge basin containing this fluid one drop of
the styptic be added, complete solidification ensues, so
that the basin may be inverted without causing any blood
to be lost. The practical advantages of this styptic are
consequently very great, inasmuch as by its timely appli-
cation the bleeding from large and dangerous wounds may
be immediately staunched. In addition to the other
valuable qualities of the liquid, it is totally devoid of poi-
sonous agency, and easily prepared, as follows :—Take 8
ounces of gum Benzoin, 1 pound of alum, and ten pints
of water. Boil all together for the space of eight hours in
an earthenware glazed vessel, frequently stirring the mass,
and adding water sufficient to make up the original
quantity of that lost by ebullition, taking care, however,
to add the water so gradually that boiling may not be sus-
pended. The liquid portion of the compound is now to
be strained off, and preserved in well-corked bottles. It
is limpid, like champagne as to colour, possessing a
slightly styptic taste, and an agreeable odour.
CAVALRY WEAPONS.—A. valued correspondent,alluding
to a letter in our last, complaining that the infantry were
to be equipped for the year 1854 as of old, and that no
improvements were likely to be introduced, says :
" Your correspondent makes useful su2gestions regarding
that arm. But the cavalry branch of the service likewise
needs improvements. Let us look at the Light Dragoons.
At the battle of Moodkee the 3d Light Dragoons com-
plained that their leather reins were cut in two in the first
onslaught with a Sikh trooper ; that their carbines, in the
charge, jumped and jerked about, striking their right hips
and right elbows' thereby impeding them ; that their
sword knots and buff leather straps cut their wrists, and
when twisted tight round the wrist, which of course they
were obliged to be, going into action, stopped the circula-
tion, and cramped their fingers ; and that their swords
were not sharp. After the battle, and preparatory to the
action of Ferozeshur, the 3d mann(actured a sort of chain-
bridle out of their picketting chains. Many of them, not
being able to hit upon a plan of better fastening their
carbines, left them in camp, as being of more detriment
than use. In place of using the buff leather sword knots,
they substituted silk handkerchiefs, and twisted them
round their sword-hilts and wrists. Their swords were
sharpened, but one word on that ; they found the edge
soon became blunted from shaking about in a steel scab-
bard. Why not have the scabbard lined either with wood,
or, what is better, leather ? The Sikhs had their scab-
bards lined with wood."—United Service Gazette.

LIFE ANJ SHIP'S BOAT.—This invention, which pro-
poses to supply what has been so frequently sought for, a
compact and easily-managed boat for saving life in case
of shipwreck, especially adapted as a ship's boat, has been
recently specified under the new patent law, in the follow-
ing terms :—" This invention, which is applicable to the
construction of vessels generally, is thus carried into effect.,
namely, instead of the bottom of the vessel being formed
in the ordinary manner, the same is to have the form of
a hollow conic cavity, or an inverted trough (that is, a
trough having its opening at the bottom, and towards tile
water,) such trough being most suitable when made to
decrease in width amidships to the stem and stern. The
conic cavity to have its base more or less open to the
water, and its top should be situated near the middle of
the vessel or thereabouts; several conic cavities, or
inverted troughs, may to adopted, instead of one for each
vessel; and any suitable and known means of exhausting
and compressing the air contained in the conic cavity, or
inverted trough, when on the water, may be adopted in
connection with the invention. By the above arrange-
ments, the vessel will be rendered a much more safe means
of transit, more especially as regards the preservation
of human life. In constructing a boat or vessel accord-
ing to the said invention, the conic cavity, or inverted
trough, may be formed either of metal or a double-
planking of wood, clamped together transversely or dia-
gonally, with an interlining of waterproof felt, india-
wruabtberer,tigohrtg.uttAa
iptehrotait sothaes
etooneincsueraeviitty, its boeirngioavireratriedd
trough, is usually closed at top, we might in some cases
place a valve of any known and suitable construction con-
nectedts with an air-exhausting or pneumatic aupephareaonuie,
doiffbetareinnt.ashgarpeeacti
whereby to exhaust air from the interiorio of
1
might make use of
such valves as aforesaid to apply the co
utmost hold upon the water. Or we
connected pneumatic
apparatus to compress the air in such coniccted
cavity, or inverted trough, the object bbeoatgotrosvceasusseel
thethe
water to rise up therein, and give the
cavity, or in.
cavity, or inverted trough, provided it is open to the
verted trough,
water at its base, or differently placed or arranged in the
vessel ; or we might rise two or more conic Cavities, or
igtlhite aalasmo auswe ilal
or we
inverted troughs, placed in suitable positions ;
buoyant power. w hwerree bmy
we o f
trust less specific
the
might place one cavity, or inverted trough, within the
This invention,i relating as it
other, the space between each being closed in at bottom,
anddoes
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gravityto a
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pa-
tentees will enable us to place fully before our readers,
with the aid of diagrams.--Nining journal.

I_

FOREIGN MISCELLANY

FEMALE TYPOES.—In Boston hundreds of women are
employed in setting type, and the example is likely to
become general.

SLAVERY.—A lad, or a girl of 15 years of age, may be
bought in the interior of Africa for four yards of Man-
chester cotton, value 6d.
M. MADIAI and his wife passed through Pont-du-var
a few days ago on their way from Hyeres to Nice, from
whence they were to proceed to take up their residence at
Geneva.

SHIPWRECK.—On the 14th of last month an English
vessel called the Columbo, chartered to convey Coolies
from Ceylon to Tutacoren, was overtaken by a hurricane
shortly after leaving port. There were 150 passen-
gers on board, but only 23 persons, including the master
and many of the crew, were saved. Upwards of £l,BOO
had been recovered, and eighty bodies.
THE BOUNDARY LINE between the United States and
Mexico is nearly settled. The country through which the
line runs is a perfect wilderness. The animals and birds
are described as being perfectly new to naturalists. There
are twenty-five tribes of Indians speaking twenty•five
different languages.

THE CALORIC SHIP ERICSSON.—This ship is now
lying at her dock in Williamsburgh. Important al-
terations are going on in her machinery, which the
owners are confident will considerably increase her speed.
She is to be ready to sail for London. Captain Ericsson
will go out in her to Europe.—New York Paper.

TABLE-MOVING is now all the rage in Rome: from the
Vatican and Quirinal to the cafe and osteria, the mystic
circle of hands is formed with universal success. The
Pope himself has seen and verified the fact, and Cardinal
Antonelli had the experiment performed at his palace with
such power that an abate was struck to the ground by the
force of the accumulated electric fluid. The Jesuits have
decided that the influence actually exists, but they have
hitherto offered no solution of its inodus operandi.
THE TOMB OF NAPOLEON.—We learn from Paris,
that crowds daily throng round the Hotel des Invalides,
to visit the tomb of the Emperor Napoleon, which is now
open to the public. A number of objects which had be-
longed to the deceased are placed near it, and in particular
the sword which he wore at the battle of Austerlitz, his
hat and his decorations. There are also:to be seen 54 hats
taken at the same battle from the Russian and Austrian
Guard.

AN AWFUL TRAGEDY has occurred at Veigotti, a small
Italian town, near Genoa. Mendaco, syndic of the town,
a married man, had formed an unlawful connection with
Maria Giusto, a handsome young woman of the same
place, and the two resolved to get rid of Mendaco's wife.
On the night of the murder Mendaco gave a small party,
on pretence of being about to take a journey ; at which
he took care to treat his wife with marked affection. She
retired, and the remainder of the company being com-
pletely stupified with liquor, Mendaco and his mistress
proceeded to strangle his wife (who in the agony gave
birth to a child), and carried her corpse into a neighbour's
garden. Mendaco then roused his guests, and set off
with them ; but, before he had gone far, returned, and
called out to his wife to throw his purse from her window.
His paramour, who was hidden in the chamber for the
purpose, threw out the purse ; and, on the first inquiries,
his friends naturally, from this, declared that Mendaco's
wife was alive when they left the house. Two of the
murderer's children had, however, overheard the cries of
their mother, and bore witness against the criminals,
who, on being arrested, confessed, accused each other,
and were executed under circumstances of the greatest
horror.

AN INDIAN INCIDENT.—By a private letter from Fort
Belknap, Texas, we learn that a party of NA itchitaw
Indians recently stole a number of horses from Fcrt
Croghan, and made good their escape. They were pursued
by Major Sibley, who went into the Indian agency, situated
about 35 miles from Fort Belknap. where he found a party
of Camanches and Witchitaws holding a talk with the
agent. With the approbation of the Camanches Major
Sibley made prisoners of eight of the principal warriors of
the Witchitaws, who were immediately disarmed. He
then made arrangements to send two of the prisoners back
to their village for the stolen horses, and with this under-
standing, in which the Witchitaws apparently acquiesced,
the whole party went to sleep. About twelve o'clock at
night the principal chief of the accused Indians sprang up,
drew a pistol, which he had concealed, and shot one of the
sentinels through the heart, and was himself immediately
shot by another sentinel. As the chief fell he repeatedly
stabbed the man he had shot, and then buried the knife
in his own breast. During the confusion which ensued
the other Witchitaw prisoners made their escape. Upon
examining the tent occupied by the chief who had thus
put an end to his own existence, it was found that, pre-
vious to killing the sentinel, he had with his own hand put
to death his wife and child—a boy about eight years of
age,—evidently expecting that he would be killed, and
preferring to be the murderer of his wife and child rather
than let them fall into the hands of the whites. It was
oft. a ins s
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thought, too, by the officers that he made the self-sacrifice
in order to aid the escape of his companions. This cir-
lc
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is stranger than fiction.

AN INCIDENT IN AUSTRALIA.—A young fellow of
high connections, educated at Sandhurst, and having
subsequently got his commission in one of the " crack"
cavalry regiments (Lancers or Hussars. we decline to say
which), became rapidly inaugurated in all the ways of
fashionable London life. He centered in the parks,
lounged about the clubs ; the opera and Almack's were
his, with their songs and dances, and winning smiles.
He hunted, he shot, he raced, he gamed, he drank, and
" all that," until one morning his father sent for him.
He had been allowed £5OO a-year, besides his pay, and
he had been living at the rate of £s,ooo—as near as it
could be calculated. What his father said was to this
effect :—" Arthur, you're going to the devil, and I must
stop you. Sell out directly, sir, and leave the country for
three years. I'll pay your debts here, and allow you just
enough to live. Learn to do something for yourself ;
and c ,me back in your right senses." So, the young
cornet sold his commission and sailed for Australia.
* * * * One morning, about daybreak, being fast
asleep and having had a hard night's work in ridintz after
stragglers, Cornet Arthur was rather disturb-d by a
strange voice calling out, " I say, young man I" The
place where they were was a shed near a hut belonging
to a sheep station, and the cornet being far more com-
fortable than usual, declined to notice the overture ; but
the fellow persisted, till the sleeper opened his eyes and
fawned at him with no very grateful gesture. This fellow
was a butcher, on horseback, carrying a long riding whip
with a hook at one end. " I say, young man," said he,
" where's your master?" Our cornet dr( ws.ly remarked
that he was pretty well his own master out there, and he
fancied those bullocks belonged to him. " Now, you be
blowed," said the butcher. Cornet told him he could not
be blowed (and wouldn't if he could, as he saw no reason
for it), and turning his back addressed himself again to
sleep. " This won't suit me, young man," shouted the
butcher, " I tell you I want to bid for some o' they
beasts. I want that wide hoop-horn'd 'un—they three
red staggy horns—the strawberry snail-horn, and the
dirt•-black big 'un a-lying down. Get up, can't yon ?
Don't lay there like a precious nacked hope, but be
smart !" So saying the butcher dismounted, and began
to molest the sleeper in a rude and ridiculous way with
the hook end of his whip, using very rough language;
whereupon our cornet arose, and " polished him off" in
first-rate style, being a fair boxer. The butcher, after a
few rounds, deliberately remounted his horse, sat on his
saddle looking at his " young man"—then said, " Well.
I'm blowed l" and rode away.

A TRIPLE CRIMINAL.—The Court of Assizes of the
Creuse, in a recent sitting, tried a man named Daguet, of
the village of Petit-Couret, for parricide, fratricide, and
murder. He lived with his father, his mother-in-law, and
his sister. He was of a gloomy character and great
susceptibility, and was noted for his extreme avarice. At
the commencement of 1852 he demanded from his father
payment of what was due to him in the inheritance of his
mother, but the father, for some reason, refused, and a
quarrel ensued. He thought of bringing an action against
his father, but the fear that he might make a will leaving
all his little property to his sister deterred him. His sister
was sought in marriage by several young men of the vil-
lage, but he received them very badly, evidently fearing to
see any portion of his father's property pass to the hands
of a stranger. On February 12th his stepmother was occu-
pied in household affairs, whenrhe entered, and, without
saying a word, struck her a violent blow from behind with
an axe. She fell, and he repeated his blows until she
died. He then took his gun and advanced to the door.
At that moment his father was approaching, and, without
saying a word, ho discharged the gun right into his breast.
The old man fell, bathed in blood. He then reloaded his
gun, and at that moment his sister came up. Seeing her
father on the ground, in a pool of blood, she cried,
" Brother, what have you done?" but instead of replying,
he fired at her and inflicted a mortal wound. He then
seized his axe and beat in the skulls both of her and her
father. A young man, one of the suitors of the girl,
hearing the reports of the gun, hastened to see what was
the matter; but the accused endeavoured to strike him
with his axe, and he had to take to flight. After com-
mitting these crimes he made no attempt to escape, and
said to his uncle, who reproached him, " The thing is
done, and you may do with me what you will ; I will do
no more -harm to any one." He was requested to go to
the mayor's, and he consented. On the way he repeatedly
asked if any one had been charged to watch ovgephruttthhoeinmdheeaindr
bodies. "Do you feel no remorse ?" said sasioetiamrdtheeednohnothaetd:abtenileio'inslt
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BIRKENHEAD ELECTION

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The polling for Commissioners to fill up the eight
vacancies in the Board takes place this day (Tuesday), in
the Town-hall. The following are the candidates as
brought forward by the respective parties :

THE BLUE LIST
Mr. J. H. GREENE,
~ HENRY CURRY,
EDWARD MILLS,
J. J. WHITTINGHA'A

ROBERT HUGHES,

E. G. WILLOUGHBY

THOMAS GILABHTS(

THOMAS BRADLEY,

THE RED LIST.
JOHN HARBOUR,
~ JOHN CARMICHAEL,
~ HENRY COLE,
„ B. DARBYSHIRE,
THOS. B. GOLBORNE
,f H. D. ScuoLFIELD,
,1 THOMAS TYLER,
~ Joxx S, Dz WOLF,