The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-28 00:00:00

HEALTH FOR A SHILLING'!

f_TOLLOWAY'S PILLS.
EXTRAORDINARY CURE OF LOSS OF HEALTH,
DISORDERED STOMACH, INDIGESTION AND DETER-

MINATION OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD

Copy of a Letter from Mr. John Lloyd, of Erze-teen, near
- Harlech,Merionethshire, dated 6th June, 1852.

To Professor Holloway,—Sir,—For a very long period I was
afflicted with a dangerous giddiness and frequent swimmings
in the head, attended by loss of appetite, disordered stomach,
and generally impaired health. Every means had failed to give
me any permanent relief, and at length it became so alarming
that I was really afraid of going about without an attendant.
In this melancholy condition I waited personally upon Mr.
Hughes, Chemist, Harlech, for the purpose of consulting, him
as to what I had better do ' • be kindly recommended your
Pills, I tried them without delay, and after taking them for a
short time I am happy to bear testimony to their wonderful
efficacy. lam now restored to perfect health, and enabled to
resume my usual duties. JOHN LLOYD.
MIRACULOUS CURE OF DROPSY.

Extract of a Letter from Edward Rowley, Esq., of India
Walk, Tobago, dated April 81h, 1852.
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To Professor Hollowai,-:Sir,—l deem it a duty I owe to you
and the public at large to inform you of a most miraculous re-
covery from that dreadful disease, Dropsy, and which, under
God, was affected by your invaluable Pills. I was tapped five
times within eight months, and skilfully treated by two medical
practitioners, but could not get cured, until I had recourse to
your remedy, and notwithstanding all I had undergone, this
miraculous medicine cured me in the course of six weeks.
EDWARD ROWLEY.
INFALLIBLE CURE OF A STOMA( H COMPLAINT,
WITH INDIGESTION AND VIOLENT HEAD-ACHES.
Extract of a Letter from Mr. S. Gowelx„Chemist, of Clifton,

Rea/ Itriatoi.Atated,J,tely_liih. 1852.

To ribfessoTcfmi ow ff;°-:Bear T=3l:7-7-f- am a requOsted by a
lady named Thomas, just arrived from the West Indies, to
acquaint you that for a period of eight years herself and family
suffered from continual bad health, arising from disorders of
the Liver and Stomach, Indigestion, Loss of Appetite, violent
Head-aches, pains in the side, weakness and general debility,
for which she consulted the most eminent men in the colony,
but without any beneficial result; at last, she had recourse to
your invaluable Pills, which in a very short time effected so
great a change for the better, that she continued theM, and the
whole family were restored to health and strength. S. GOWEN.
A DANGEROUS LIVER COMPLAINT AND SPASMS IN
THE STOMACH EFFECTUALLY CURED.
Copy of a Letter from Mr. Bostock, Druggist, of Ashton-
under-Lyne, dated July 31, 1852.
To Professor Holloway,—Dear Sir,—A person in this neigh-
bourhood with whom I am well acquainted was afflicted for a
long time with violent spasmodic pains in the stomach and
liver, arising from frequent colds, smells of paint, and the ef-
fects of a stooping position which he was obliged to assume in
his business. At length he heard of your invaluable Pills, and
gave them a trial. The first dose gave him considerable re-
lief, and by following them up in accordance with your direc-
tions, they have acted so wonderfully in cleansing the liver and
stomach, and strengthening the digestive organs, that he has
been restored to the enjoyment of good health. W. BOSTOCK.
These celebrated Pills are wonderfully efficacious in the follow-
in; complaints :
Ague Erysipelas Rheumatism
Asthma Female Complaints Scrofula, or King's
Bilious Complaints Fevers of all kinds Evil
Blotches on the Skin Fits Sore Throats
Bowel Complaints Gout Stone and Gravel
Colics _ Head-ache Tic-Douloureux

Constipation of the Indigestion Tumours
Bowels Inflammation Ulcers
Consumption Jaundice Worms of all kinds
Debility Liver complaints Weakness, from
Dropsy Lumbago whatever cause,
Dysentery Piles &c. &c.
Sold at the Establishment of Professor HOLLOWAY, 244,
Strand, (near Temple Bar,) London, and by all respecta-
ble Druggists and Dealers in Medicines throughout the civi-
lised World, at the following prices—is. lid., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d.,
Ils., 225., and 335. each Box. There is a considerable saving
by taking the larger sizes.
N.B.—Directions for the guidance of Patients in every dis-
order are affixed to each Box.

DR. TOWNSEND'S AMERICAN FAMILY ME-
DICINES.—These medicines have long been in use, and
have innumerable testimonials in their favour. They are made
up wholly of Vegetable Substances, contain no mineral of any
kind, and are perfectly safe and certain in their action on all
persons, young or old.
DR. TOWNSEND'S AMERICAN SARSAPARILLA is the
great purifyer of the blood and the most efficient alterative
probably that is known. It eradicates all acrid humours, dis-
eased particles, and morbid substances from the blood, flesh,
and bones—its assimilation to the gastric juice of the stomach
causes it to pass rapidly into and unite with the vital current,
thus creating new, pure, and rich blood. Hence its wonderful
efficacy in Scrofula, Mercurial Taint, Scald Head, Erysipelas,
Rheumatism, Gout, Cutaneous Eruptions, Chronic Sore Eyes,
and all other maladies arising from a bad state of the blood
—hence, too, its value as a tonic, in cases of languor, great
debility, and lassitude, nervous prostration, weakness, and
tremulousness from any cause. It is inestimable in Female
Complaints, in disease of the Lungs, Liver, Stomach, Me-
sentery, Kidneys, &c. Ladies of delicate constitutions, suf-
fering from any disorganization, with pale, emaciated coun-
tenances, feeble and weak, nervous and irritable, would do
well to use the Sarsaparilla. This invaluable medicine pro-
duces the most salutary influence upon the nervous system, the
circulation, the organs of nutrition and secretion, and being
taken into the system by absorption and digestion, is conveyed
into every minute part of the body by the circulating current,
thus diffused everywhere—made omnipresent—exercising a
healthful efficacy on every nerve and Hood vessel—on the
brain, the heart, lungs, stomach, liver, kidneys, and spleen,
the skin, membranes, lands, and lymphatics—the bones, ten-
dons, and muscles—the blood, bile, gastric juice, lymph,
chyle, &c., eradicating every morbid agent, every poison—
invigorating all weak organs, enriching impoverished fluids,
and affecting an entire renovation of the whole system. Half-
pints, 2s. 6d.; Pints, 45.; Small Quarts,4s. Gd.; Large Quarts,
7s. 6d. ' • Mammoth Bottles, holding near two large quarts, Ils.
THE ELIXIR OF HEALTH, like the Sarsaparilla, has met
with great and deserved success in the cure of Female Corn-
plaints—both are peculiarly adapted to the constitution and
ailments of females and almost never fail in those diseases pe-
cular to the sex. The Elixir is excellent in Colds, Coughs,
Bronchitis, and other diseases of the Lungs and Chest, Pleurisy,
Palpitation of the Heart, &c. It is a splendid remedy for Liver
Complaints, Disease of the Kidneys, Dyspepsia, Sour Stomach,
General Eruptions, Nervous Diseases, Sick Headache, Dropsy,
Salt Rheum, and all Bilious Disorders. It cleanses out the
whole system of acid, slime, worms, bile, &c., and like the
Sarsaparilla, when used in the spring and fall, effectually puri-
fies the blood and secretions of bilious and other morbid mat-
ter, and thus prevents a host of other acute and chronic
diseases. Half-pints, 2s. 9d. ; Pints, 4s. Gd.
DR. TOWNSEND'S VEGETABLE PILLS hold a prominent
place among his family medicines, and are greatly esteemed by
all who have used them. As an aperient medicine, as a
cleanser of all the foul and viscid humours of the stomach, as a
regulator of the bowels and general secretions, and as a great
an gentle preventive of the numerous complaints of the in-
testines and labouring organs of the body, these Pills cannot
be excelled. Most of the Pills which are offered to the public
are merely of a purgative or drastic character, and hence their
limited usefulness, and often injurious results. They, more-
over, operate on parts or portions of the larger or smaller
intestines, which is a proof of inefficiency not only, but of po-
sitive ii-jury, whereas Dr. Townsend's Pills produce an equal
and steady movement throughout the entire alimentary or
ira.estinal canal, diminishing. the quantity of the circulating
mass, equalizing the circulation, and reestablishing a healthy
state of the biliary organs, stomach, and intestines. Wher-
ever these Pills have been introduced into a family, no others
are permitted to come—the difference is too great, too glaring,
too palpable. Good medicine will always displace that which
is worthless, and it is right that it should be so.—Boxes Is. lid.,
2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d.

DR..TOWNSEND'S INDIAN PANACEA, a preparation
strictly confined to one class of complaints, viz.: " Diseases of
the Intestines or Bowels." The success of this medicine in
curing Cholera, Cholera Infantum, Diarrhea, Dysentery,
Bloody Flux, Cramps, Spasms, or any complaints of the
Dowels, surpasses anything that maybe said of Dr. Townsend's
other Preparations. It is a special remedy, and does its work
in a special manner. We feel that we are justified in saying,
from the proof it has given, that it is INFALLIBLE, that it
never fails to cure if used in the incipient stages of the attacks.
It has been administered in thousands of cases, and we have
never known it to fail in a single instance, and we therefore
believe it will not do so now. Where a person can speak of
a medicine in so positive and decided a manner, and with the
most solemn regard to truth, the public will have some confi-
dence in these declarations.—Bottles 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d.
Principal Office, 373, Strand, (joining Exeter Hall, London.)
Foisßov, teovaEws, and Co., liole Proprittom

FOREIGN NEWS.

FRANCE.—The funeral of Monsignore Garibaldi, the
Pope's Nuncio, took place on Tuesday, at Notre Dame.
Lord Cowley acted as chief mourner, having on his right
Mgr. Vecchiotti, now Charge d'Affaires of the Holy See,
and on his left the Abbe Meglia, secretary. The Emperor
was represented by several of his household. [Jt must
have been a gratifying sight to witness the representative
of Queen Victoria, as the first to do honour to the obse-
quies of a Papal Nuncio.]
The greatest activity prevails in the dockyard at Cher-
bourg, where the Austerlitz, mixed line of battle ship of
100 guns, and the Alceste, 52 gun frigate, are being got
ready for sea.
On Thursday a telegraphic message was received at
Calais, from Paris, to secure every sailor under forty years
of age, and who had not already served four years in the
French navy. The men were ordered to be sent to Brest
immediately. Several fishing-boats, having been deprived
of their crews, have been dragged on shore.

PRUSSIA.—It is believed that Prussia will evade com-
mitting herself to either side of the Turkish question.
She does not lose her claim to position among the greater
Powers by saying nothing on the subject ; but her note to
London and St. Petersburgh is very inconclusive, for
while she by no means holds out that she sides with France
and England, she, at the same time, does not approve
Russia's measures, and declines to become a party to an
alliance of Russia, Austria, and Prussia, in the matter in
question.
SPAIN.—The streets of Madrid are thronged by my-
riads of the poor peasantry, who are pouring into the
capital by thousands, from the famine-stricken province
of Galicia. The government has voted 4,000,000 reals for
their immediate relief ; but this is insufficient for the sup-
ply of their immediate wants even, and their distress is
absolutely appalling. Hundreds have died from starvation
and exposure to the inclemency of the weather.

TURKEY.—An important document, signed by "Count
Nesselrode," has been transmitted to the representatives
of Russia at each foreign court. The following is the sub-
stance of it : —" Count Nesselrode expressly declares that
Prince Menschikoff's mission had no other object than the
arrangement of the disputes relative to the Holy Places ;
that the blame and responsibility of the present ferment
must be attributed to the claims put forth by France, and
the concessions obtained by her ambassador, to the detri-
ment of those ss ho profess the Greek faith and to the ad-
vantage of those who profess the Roman Catholic faith ;
that the Sultan, on being remonstrated with, solemnly
promised to guarantee all the rights hitherto enjoyed by
the Greek church ; and that, moreover, the Sultan for-
warded an autograph Hatti-scheriff, with a firman to that
effect ; that the Czar accepted this promise, but soon
found reason to regret having misplaced his confidence,
owing to the duplicity and tergiversation of the Ottoman
Cabinet, when called upon to put the firmer. into execu-
tion ; that the Turkish authorities at Jerusalem first denied
any knowledge of the existence of such a document, but
when constrained to promulgate it by the Russian Consul,
they accompanied its promulgation by insults to the Greek
Church ' • the firman, the solemn promise, was flagrantly
violated by the bestowal of the key of the Church of Beth-
lehem upon the Latin or Papist Patriarch, and the Sultan
thus acknowledged the supremacy of another Church
than that which included the majority of his Christian
subjects. This shameless, faithless conduct was ag-
gravated by the insulting tone of decision assumed by
the Turkish cabinet; and the Czar, wounded in his reli-
gious feelings, felt bound to demand signal satisfaction."
In conclusion, it says :—" if the rejection of the last
means of conciliation we propose to solve the difficulties
raised against us in the affair of the Holy Places should
lead to complications which may break the peace, it is not
on our shoulders that the responsibility for such events
would rest,"

The English and French fleets are in Besika Bay. The
Porte is making great efforts to place itself in a state of
defence. The entrance of the Bosphorus is protected by
the presence of the whole of the Ottoman fleet. The
forts, which command the passage, are armed, and it was
in contemplation to establish two camps, one on the
heights of the village of Buyukdere, and the other, to be
composed of the regiments of the guard, in the plain of
Haidar-Pacha, near Scutari, in Asia.
The Porte has declined the offers of services received
from Hungarian, Italian, and Polish refugees in the event
of a war with Russia, having decided on receiving assist-
ance only from English or French soldiers who have re-
ceived permission from their respective governments.
The events at Constantinople have produced a profound
sensation throughout Arabia. The numbers of pilgrims
that are assembled at Mecca and all the native tribes wait
but for the signal to commence the war. Religious fana-
ticism has reached the highest point.
By a telegraphic despatch from Constantinople, of the
16th inst., we learn that the ultimatum of Russia has been
finally rejected by the Porte. The note which informed
the Russian government of this determination was com-
municated by Redachid Pacha to M. Balabine, secretary
to the Russian Embassy, and only remaining representa-
tive of Russia at Constantinople. The note, which is in
great part a recapitulation of the previous notes of the
Turkish government, re-states the reasons of the Sultan
for refusing his consent to any formal act, whether treaty,
convention, or " capitulations," which would sacrifice his
independence, by binding him to engagements, not in
favour of foreign residents, but of Turkish subjects ; and
by according to another power the right of interference
between him and his people. At the same time, whilst
firmly rejecting the ultimatum of Russia, the Porte ex-
presses its conviction that the Emperor's motives cannot
be otherwise than loyal ; and to prove the high estimation
in which she holds the character of the Czar Nicholas,
and the truth of her belief in the sincerity of his friend-
ship, she offers to send a special envoy to St. Petersburgh,
who shall open fresh negotiations.

RUSSIA.—On the 12th the Emperor again visited the
harbour of Cronstadt, to inspect the Baltic fleet there con-
centrated. Owing to the extensive purchases of grain for
the supply of the Russian fleet and army, the prices have
risen considerably. .

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From Vienna, under date June 19, we learn that the
Russian troops have not yet crossed the Pruth, but that
the delay is owing to the insurmountable obstacles thrown
in their way, by the overflowing of the Lower Danube,
and all other rivers in those parts. The plains are trans-
formed into lakes, and the mouths of the rivers are so
encumbered with sand, that the commander of the flotilla
has declared, that the passage would be attended with the
greatest dangers. -

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE ARABIA.

By the British and North American Royal Mail steam-
ship Arabia, Commodore Judkins, which arrived here on
Saturday forenoon, we have advices from New York to
the 15th instant. _ _

By this voyage, which is the fastest ever made across
the Atlantic, the palm of superiority now rests with the
Cunard line. The Arabia sailed from New York at 0 35
p.m. on the 15th, and at 5 55 p.m. passed the royal mail
steam-ship Asia, hence for New York. On the 25th, at
9 55 p.m., she passed the Bell Buoy ; at 10 34 a.m. saluted
the Rock Light, and at 10 42 a.m. passed the Landing-
stage, having made the run in 9 days 17 hours and 11
minutes. The quickest previous run was by the United
States mail steam-ship Arctic. She sailed from New
York at noon on the 7th February, 1852, and passed the
Landing-stage at 10 22 a.m. on the 17th, having made the
run in 9 days 17 hours and 26 minutes mean time,—thus
showing a difference in favour of the Arabia of fifteen
minutes over the fastest passage ever previously made.
This passage is also 3 hours and 39 minutes faster than
the best run of the Pacific ; 8 hours and 24 minutes faster
than the best run of the Baltic ; and 8 hours and 4
minutes faster than the best run of the Atlantic. It is
also 1 hour and 45 minutes quicker than the best westerly
run ever made.
The Arabia brought 165 passengers, and $518,914 in
specie.
The United States mail steam-ship Pacific, Capt. Nye,
which sailed hence on the Ist, arrived at New York at 2
p.m. on the 12th instant.
The screw-steamer City of Manchester sailed from Phi-
ladelphia for this port on the 11th, with 160 passengers
and £20,000 in specie.
The steamer Texas had arrived at New Orleans from
Vera Cruz with £126,000 in specie.
The steamer Illinois had arrived at New York from San
Francisco with $1,111,300 in gold dust.
The latest accounts from Washington state that Mr.
Buchanan was expected to leave for London next month.
Mr. groom had signified to the President his acceptance
of the mission to Prussia.

One hundred and thirty-nine of the rescued passengers
from the William and Mary had arrived at New Orleans
in a destitute condition. A fire had occurred at New
York, on the 12th, in the vicinity of the Atlantic Dock,
involving a loss of $300,000. The trial of Captain Ma-
loney, of the ship Roscius, for the murder of a seaman
on the high seas, had terminated in a verdict of acquittal.
It is stated that the Navy Department at Washington de-
sign to institute a professorship of dancing in the Naval
Academy, at Washington, that accomplishment being
looked upon abroad as essential to the interchange of
civilities. The celebrated. Californian ship Sovereign of
the Seas was on the berth for this port, and would sail as
soon as hands could be got to man her.
The Gavazzi excitement still contiuued at Montreal.
On the 12th a mob demolished all the windows of St.
Stephen's Church, situate in the suburbs. Three more
of those who were wounded at the time of the attack had
died. It was reported that Gavazzi was to return on the
15th. and conclude his lectures.
Accounts from the city of Mexico to the 4th instant re-
present that country in a deplorable state. Conflicts were
daily taking place between the soldiers of the garrisons,
police-agents, and citizens. A body of sixty robbers had
entered the town of Lagos, liberated the prisoners, 250 in
number, and carried away property to the value of $30,000
or $40,000. The inhabitants, numbering 8,000, made no
resistance. Sixty deaths by vomit° were reported at Vera
Cruz on the ith. The new tariff of Santa Anna was said
to be higher than that of Isls, and was expected to prove
very unsatisfactory. Cotton goods are in future to pay G
cents per yard. The tobacco monopoly was to he taken
from private hand, and administered by the government.
Havana advises of the Bth instant state that heavy rains
had occurred, and the yellow fever was very prevalent.
Smallpox had made its appearance at Matanzas. Sugar
firm, and shipping scarce, which retarded business. The
stock of sugar amounted to 200,000 boxes. Exchange on
London 10,1 to lef premium.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
New York, June 13

MOXEY.—Adecided tendency towards greater ease is ap-
parent. The supply of floating capital increases, and 6 per
cent. is now the outside rate for loans "on call." Leading
paper discounts readily at seven per cent. Notwithstand-
ing this favourable feature, the stock market continues,
generally, quite inanimate. Foreign exchanges are rather
dull. The closing quotations are :—Bills on London, W,
to 9 per cent. prem ; Paris, &c., f. 5.121 to f.5.13i1, GO
days, and f. 5.10 to f. 5.14-, short sight ; tlamburgh, 36k
to 36,1-.
(From the Neu; York Shipping List, of June 15.)
COTTON.—The market has been very dull for the past
three days, the aspect of the political affairs abroad having
produced a pause in operations. Some sales have been
made at k to a cent. decline, but holders generally are dis-
posed to want further developments, aun 14tf.r v,i.iices are
190ked for with 3(241Q Pllcittideq

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

THE TOBACCO PLANT, in the United States, has been
badly injured by the fly, and is very scarce.
NEGROES are pouring out of Tennessee to New York,
there to embark for Liberia, in the charge of Presby-
terian and Methodist parsons.

MR. BRADAN, a printer, of Zanesville, Ohio, died lately
in consequence of the habit of putting type into his mouth
while working at case.
WIT D JEWS.—A German traveller has discovered a race
of negroes near the kingdom of Bambara, that are Jews in
their religious rites and observances.

MADAME SONTAG, it is said, will retire to private life
after the completion of her American tour, having realized
about =8'60,000 in the United States, and, during the
same time, distributed ,8`6,000 in private charities.
A BOMBAY PAPER says that three European children,
who are supposed to be the survivors of the crew of some
wrecked ship, have been seen at the Nicobar Islands by
the crew of the ship Colonel Burney.
RuovrstoNs IN GERMANY.—Letters from all parts
complain of the high price of provisions, which they at-
tribute to the large and increasing demand for the English
markets.

Two STALKS GF Corrox, twelve feet high, and one
of them producing 403 bolls, were picked up the other
day in Madison county, Miss., U.S. They are to be
shown at the World's Fair, as the New York exhibition
that is to be is called.

As AMERICAN BAPTIST PREACHER, Washington
Carroway, fifty years old, in a city of Hyde County, U.S.,
has shot a man named Lassiter, who had interfered to
prevent Carroway's wife being murdered by her infuriated
husband a few days previously.

HUMAN BODIES have been found in certain caves in the
state of Tennessee, U.S.. with the lower limbs dislocated
at the knee joints. In Kentucky similar remains were
found 40 years ago. It is supposed to have been the
general practice of the people in bygone ages, whoever
they were.

A NEW GOLD FIELD.—A new gold field is about to be
made known. The Mercurio of Valparaiso, of the 19th
April, contains an interesting article on recent gold dis-
coveries in the Peruvian territory. The territory is in the
hands of the Chuncho Indians. It is considered that these
regions will surpass in wealth the gold fields of Australia
and California.
A " MEDIUM" IN AMERICA.—it is related that Mrs.
Sarah Tamlin, of Auburn, U.S., was an excellent
" medium" for a couple of years ; but, after her accouche-
ment, she ceased to hear the sounds ! But they attended
and followed her infant. A Professor Miller called when
the child was C, months old, and it is said got an inter.
view, through the baby, with La Place, and thus solved
several mathematical problems. Bah
HIRAM SANDERS, of Ashippum, Dodge County, Wis-
consin, U.S., is supposed to have murdered in cold blood
a youth named Edwin Banda, from Oswego, who, against
his will, was courting the daughter of Sanders. Sanders
is in gaol, awaiting his trial. Poor Bunda went to invite
his lover to a ball, and he was never seen to return from
the house, nor has he been seen since.
THEBLASPIIEMY which hangs upon the tongue of many
American speakers is truly horrible. At the Abolition
Convention, in Boston, some days ago, Mr. Henry C.
Wright said he was " An atheist in anything which sanc-
tioned slavery." " I would put my heel," he continued,
" upon any government which sanctioned slavery. If God
sanctioned slavery I would put my heel upon him. Yes,
I would refuse to obey such a God. IF would put such a
God upon the auction block, and sell him like a beast."
ANTI-SLAVERY IN FRANCE.—A Paris correspondent
states that as Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe was driving out
the other day with her host, (the well-known advocate,
Jules Favre,) and hostess, the gentleman was suddenly
arrested by the police, and all persons subsequently com-
ing to see him at his house are watched and taken into
custody. The protestant journal, the Lien, also an-
nounces that Uncle Tom's Cabin has been placed in the
index of forbidden books.

FIRE IN THE WOODS.—An extensive fire has been
raging in the woods on the Ottawa River, north of By-
town, Canada. A district sixty miles in length and forty
broad has been desolated, and fences, bridges, houses,
and mills been consumed, and cattle and flocks, and even
human lives, been destroyed. Very many sawmills and
gristmills have been burnt, and about two hundred fami-
lies have been rendered houseless. A heavy rain stopped
the fire.

A DREADFUL FIRE occurred on Thursday at Batig.
nolles, at the entrepdt of the Rouen Railway. So rapid
was its progress, that out of forty-seven horses in the
stables, thirty-eight perished in the flames, and the
shrieks of agony and struggles of the poor fettered animals
are said to have been almost as afflicting as though they
had been human beings. Twelve hundred pipes of wine
and a prodigious quantity of brandy and other merchan-
dise, were consumed by this occurrence.
INDIAN POSTAGE.—A secret worth knowing 1 How to
avail yourselves of the cheap book postage in India. If
you send a half-pound book from Calcutta to Lahore by
" dawk banghy," under the most liberal Indian rules it
will cost you in the conveyance 13 annas. If money is a
greater object with you than time, send your book to a
friend in England, Scotland, or Ireland, at the charge of
four annas, and let him re-direct it to Lahore, whither it
will go for four annas more. Thus the book is carried
some 12,000 miles for eight annas, and you save five
annas by the process.—Hurkaru.

CLERICAL LONGEVITY. The Hampshire (Man.)
Gazette gives the following instances of clerical and
family longevity :—Rev. Solomon Williams, father of
Hon. Eliphalet Williams, of Northampton, preached his
half century sermon in Northampton ; Hon. Eliphalet
Williams' grandfather preached his half century sermon
in East Hartford, Conn. ; Rev. Solomon Williams, great-
grandfather, preached his half century sermon in Leba-
non, Conn.; and Rev. William Williams, great-great-
grandfather, preached his half century sermon in Hat-
field, Mass.
ACQUISITION OF AN INDIAN COTTON DISTRICT.—The
Nizain has decided upon ceding to the British Govern-
ment the territory which it demanded of him in lieu of his
debt and stipulated annual payment to the contingent.
The terms of the agreement are certainly favourable to
his highness. In consideration of a revenue of a 6. lacs of
rupees (£360,000,.) being given up, the English govern-
ment foregoes the entire debt due by the Nizam, and re.
mits an annual payment of 4.0 lacs (£400,000). The newly-
ceded district (Berar) is a continuation of the valley of
Kandeish ; it immediately adjoins the company's collect-
orates of Kandeish and Ahmednugger, ,mod is the richest
cotton district in India.
UNCLE TOMITEDES.—So far, says the Albany Even-
ing Paper, as the condition of American slaves and the
hopes of American emancipation are concerned, nothing
could be more unfortunate and ill-timed than Mrs.
Stowe.'s visit to England. Her book was quietly but
surely working out a mighty moral and social change on
the slavery question all over the world. But the Euro-
pean visit will create and stimulate counteracting in-
fluences. The English nobility, press, and people will
utter and publish so much that is arrogant and offensive,
that an American sentiment against British interference
will be aroused and united. We may not like slavery,
and our course in respect to slavery may be wrong ; but
England has no right either to lecture or reproach us.
Our slavery is an inheritance. We received it from
England. We have struggled hard for emancipation.
One-half of the states of the Union are free. But if we
are to hope for anything more, Englishmen must let us
alone. Our people, however ill we use the red and the
black races, will not brook reproof from a nation that intro-
duced slavery here, and has deluged, and is deluging a
large portion of the world in blood to subject Todia to a
bondage worn thut ov.r emery:

THE WONDERS OF

TABLE MOVING.

A son of Professor Carus, private physician to the King
of Saxony, has recently instituted a course of experiments
in relation to the movement of tables by animal electricity
—or by whatever power it may be—some notice of which
has appeared in the journals of Germany, accompanied
by a certificate to the facts allesed from the pen
of tne
elder Carus. The experiments of the younger Carus
have led him to construct a table in this manner:—The
table is round, of common soft wood, about three feet is
diameter, and has an opening in the centre of the unclear
side, which enables it to rest upon a pillar of glass, sore, _
21 feet high, and turn upon it freely. This glass pillar?!
sustained by a heavy block into which it is inserted. Tll
experiment with this apparatus is performed by several
persons, three, four or five sitting round, laying
hands upon the table, so that the little fingers of ear
person shall be upon or beneath those of his neighbour °,".
either side. Now on moving all the little fingers simu:
taneously for a space of three to five minutes, the tablet
begins to turn on its pedestal, as upon an axis. A most
curious fact in this experiment is, that the motion 1_
either to the right or to the left, according as the right_.?,!
left fingers are shove or below. In this manner, says "el
Carus, the experiment comes into the circle Of The
science, and is a worthy subject for investigation. I',
elder Carus shows the evident relation existing betwee'
this new discovery and certain experiments in moving
copper wheels and plates, which are familiar to the stn'
dents of electro-magnetism.
In Prussia divers singular experiments have been wade'
At Heidelberg the whole ,t faculty of jurists" operated!
and in eight minutes set a nut wood table on the twirl!
and this b 0 rapidly that the gentlemen of the bar becaol'
giddy in their efforts to follow the movement. At Viel
" the fluid" communicated itself to other articles
furniture, which all twisted and turned as if moved 07
hand. The Times' correspondent says :—" Being some
what sceptical, I last night assisted at an experiment a
the house of an eminent scientific man. The party COW
sisted of some twelve or fourteen persons. Six of these,
three of either sex, seated themselves round a slight's
mahogany table, standing upon a tripod leg, with castors'
The chain was formed by the hands of all being Placed
flat on the table, and the little fingers of both hands being
croseed over those of the persons sitting right and left!:
Those outside the ring, having marked the bearings of t"
room, as well as the original position of the table legs'
with chalk, carefully watched the operation. In less than
eleven minutes, a jerking, oscillating movement was Peer:
the
left then a cessation—then a few more jerks to '
left and right—then commenced a slow rotatory 9,11",
somewhat progressive motion to the right and northwards'
this in a few seconds was followed by more rapid motion'
which obliged " the chain" to stand up and follow the
movement, until at last the table spun round in the same
double direction, with such velocity as compelled the
chain to relax their hold, when the table, after hall,te
dozen turns, remained stationary. It must be ()built
that the experimenters sought by pressure to impede the
rotatory motion, and this so forcibly that not only 01
casters indented grooves in the floor, but the flat slab 0
the table unscrewed and would have fallen from the stall
had it not been supported by two of the party. A seceo"
trial was made a few minutes later .with the same resultfj
but with this difference, that the effect was not produce
until the expiration of 31 minutes."
In Paris the table-moving question, more than a Ili°
days' wonder, has at length forced itself on the attentil
of the Academy of Sciences. Amongst the vast mass
ene
letters and reports detailing experiments, which 11/1'
been sent to the Academy, the presiding authorities se
lected one of M. Seguin, senior, a distinguished 8001:
to be read at its last public sitting. The statements made
this document were of the most extraordinary kind
ee
one of them being, that a table when acted on was Ma""
to more to the notes of a piano. M. Arago was so
astounded at them—and, it must be added, so increcl:
lous with respect to them—that, before he would all°"t
the paper to be read, he sent to M. Seguin, to entrli
him to reflect seriously on the responsibility he w°u,,,,
incur, in the presence of the scientific world, in letti,":?.
them go forth to the public under the sanction of
name. But M. Seguin, who, from being a stubborn
sceptic, has become a devout believer in the table S;
answered that he was ready to endorse a good deal ret)rn
than he had said, and so his paper was read. M. Arag'
after the reading, intimated, in brief but vague terns'
that his belief is, that the movement of the tables
caused by muscular action. This, however, he allege.
is no novelty, as " Mr. Elliot, a watchmaker, relates l 0
ac
the Philosophical Transactions' of some years ago tb t,
two cocks having been hung to the wall, a foot apart
i r
one of which was going and the other standing, the lat,e
le
after a while began going too, being set in motion by tee
imperceptible vibrations transmitted from the otbe
through the solid body between them—and it even con-
tinued going after the first one was stopped."
But the wonders of table-moving are witnessed ne°
o
home. A citizen of Chester says :—" Being a sceptic
_.,
the point, I had not cared either to try the experienegtir°;
to see it tried ; hut, returning home one day, I "nt and
household putting it to the test. One of RV ties h the
largest tables was in the very act of passing to
parlour door into the hall. The legs were, strange
say, a little raised above the floor. You can better con'_
which COO
ceive than I can describe the sort of feeling. es. ell
over me. I was at once a believer, notwithstanding
my obstinate doubts. The " tables were turned," and:
could only gaze and wonder. On recovering my first sucr_
prise, I had presence of mind enough to scrutinize throng
cause, having so undeniable an experiment for the Purimo
pose. I found, on questioning two of my domestics, w°_
had evidently been the successful operators, that it W?,
done entirely by the application of their fingers in the
manner usually prescribed. All they could distinctly tf,4,;*
tify to, ho.-Gyci, wog, titer, they had perceived a tel3sl',
of the nerves in the arm, and a deadening effect on We
palms of the hands,—in consequence of the exertion 0f
their simple will, on touching the table in obedience to
which (by mutual agreement) the table made for the d°°'e;
Whether electricity, or galvanism, or magnetic influel;
were the connecting link, of course they could not say
The Preston Guardian says :—Yesterday, we forine,,
one of a party at Mr. G. Cartwright's, optician, wherl
common deal table, upon a centre pillar, was used suc-
cessfully. After experimenting in table moving, fn,bur
e
parties placed their hands (in the usual way) uPon
table, which stood upon a flagged floor, One of the fo_,
said, "Tell us how many letters there are in -- se
name?" One of the three feet of the table fell and toss
fourteen times, thus giving fourteen letters, which vv,o
correct. Another question was—How many articles %j
contained in hands, no one in the room bee
y.
informed on the subject but the person who had Posn'py
s
sion of the articles, which consisted of a ring with spa
keys. The table gave a sudden circular movement, Clio
then the feet rose and fell six times. Other E11134y,
questions were answered, the majority of them eorree,'so
but some few decidedly incorrectly. The pre'onhig
day Mr. Dearden was much more successful, 5t
own house, where a party, whose address includes be
letters, was correctly informed as to the number', 11,
the rising and falling of the foot of the table, each 'no(
of course, making a rap upon the floor. The number -o
dogs kept in the establishment of a person present was
ea,
told, and a vast number of other questions were answero
by similar indications. On 'Wednesday evening od.
formed one of a party at Mr.JosephGillow's, Free cLI
street, being the first experiment we had seen. is'i,„°ell
with four others, we sat with our hands. upon a smut
oe
mahogany table connected in the usual way by joining e%t
own thumbs and touching the little fingers of our owe
companions. In less than a quarter of an hour, the trB4i,
began to move rapidly, and at the desire of the exP;011
menters, travelled from one room to another. A or
mahogany stand was next tried, with still greater slice di,
as it marched towards any one it was.wished, or in alliefr,
rection. One of the experimenters. was a daughter of 'ere
Gillow, aged 12 years, who desired all the others to re'o'llt
from the table, which she immediately got to march
of the room into the lobby,. and then, step by step, urge
very numerous flight of stairs, along the landing ae cot
top, and finally into the drawing-room. This experiTeeti
she has repeated several times this week. We wa'''-tie
her movements very narrowly, as the table was taltenber
the stairs, and noticed that she only touched it with
thumbs and little fingers.

PREMATURE BALDNES&—Mr. J. Sergeant, book
selleori
of Linton, Cambridge, has made public a curious case,,ir
a young man named Haylock, of Ashdon, whose °J
came off entire from some very unaccountable cause, aecl
left him in a state of premature baldness. He purchaSeb
from Mr. Sero-eant several popular preparations, vl4,
he applied, Cut without any effect whatever. At
however, he made trial of the Macassar Oil of Itfes-.11,;,.
Rowlands, of London, and exhibited to the most 11,
credulous the proof of its efficacy in a thick crop of hfilo
Mr. Sergeant permits a direct reference to him on t
very interesting fact.—The Oliserver.
_„„otY
OUR CANADIAN COLONSES.—In the course of bu---,
years—from 1783.t0 the present—Upper Canada bartijo
vanced from little beyond a wilderness—the }wing °idiot
red men—to that of owning a population er:2,e„,;00
1,000,000 persons ; Lower Canada possesses a poßn`"lo'
of 900,000, having, in point of numerical strength' 100
creased 100 per cent., since 1828. Upper Canada a'
still more rapidly progressed, as the number of /01;00
tants there, in the year last mentioned, was.enlY 11,„
185,000, thus giving an advance of 450 per cent., Vott,
course of the past quarter of a century. la'ritish
America :—Acreable extent, 218,340,000 acres; P°Pitat.°
tion, 2,500,000,_. trade with all nations, 70,2)0,000d° la°
1-IDRRII3LE MURDER IN AN AMERWAN LL. ea/
ASYLUM.—On Wednesday, May 25, a singular sr 11x99
occurred at the Insane Hospital at Somerville- 00:
Strong, of 'Vermont, an aged and very feeble person' ten
missing. The alarm was immediately given, and u„ of
instituted for her in all directions. In the COur.,„'"eso9
few minutes she was found in the room of Mrs. Jade of
another lunatic, lying on the bed, in the sttir",clo`,7t
prayer, and looking directly down upon the }Jodi' OP,'
was covered by a sheet. There was apparcut lithros
bruise near the right temple, and, another ea tba,eta-ce,o
but no indication of a struggle having occurred t'j
the two women, and there was no discoloratione-tor
face of Mrs. Strong, whose body, when found, 1,1,0 /era
much of the natural warmth of life, except tlint fiver
were cold. Immediate and. active restorative nicyswesl,
used, but without effect—she was dead. Mrs' rotPTil
was asked how Mrs. Strong happened to be in her At%i
and what had taken place to occasion her death' otorog
many evidences of entire delusion, she yet gave 8 f,,SV
and consistent account :—" I heard Mrs. Strong ~; to rao
for light—this waa her constant habit—it occurru_''nd
that the Lord had delivered her into my hands, 3,, ,bot,P,t,
if there was any more light in the other world, sh:tb,
see it. She had been plaguing me for many va,°`,:i,g goo
this inquiry, and now, one of the attendants
out and the other preparing dinner, I deterrunroto too
rid of the annoyance. I accordingly slipped onShe c9ott
gallery and invited Mrs. S. into my room.k tbanisV
with me willingly, she had on two caps, too 10, eR
and tied them round her neck, the strings hrus, 133
stood still, close to me, making no resistance, t ]lanai
the Lord had given her to me. I then put
bar deloK
sod too ...rig
on the floor softly, so as to make no noise, r purluji
around her throat and choked her. I then lto,
one of my stockings, and put it around ho n ew,3,-11.elog
it as hard as I could—but it was no use__ :0e syss catty be
dead. I felt her pulse, and I knee,- it. u
Lora tb trtlso'
this I said my prayers, and thanked the„._,The
had permitted me to thus glorify he rnatter.are re,
tees of the institution are investigating
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deceased, Mrs. Strong, and also Mrs. Jbacees',,ol.
hoYe
spectably connected, but for some timQ
lessly insane,

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