The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-20 00:00:00

THE tiMIPOOL STANDARD.

TONNAGE AND SHIPPING RETURNS

TO KEEP AWAY TIIE MOTH.—Before folding up and
putting away your winter blankets, furs, and other arti-
cles, sprinkle them. or smear them over with a few drops
of oil of turpentine, either alone or mixed with an equal
bulk of spirits of wine. No stain will be left ; and if
spirits of wine be used, the odour is not disagreeable.—
Sharpe's London Magazine.
GREEDINESS OF PRAlSE.—Authors, artists, and public
performers are rarely satisfied with the most favourable
notice which they receive from the press ; and they some-
times think fit to remonstrate and complain when they
have every reason to be more than pleased. The habit,
however, of expressing discontent is more prevalent in
France than among us. "We are overwhelmed" says
the• Gazette Musicale, " with letters, sometimes proud
and haughty, sometimes modest and suppliant. We have
a voluminous collection of these epistles, among which,
not the least curious is one (for the authenticity of which
we vouch) beginning thus lam much obliged to you
for the little notice which you have had the goodness to
insert your journal : only I regret that you have called
me a distinguished artist, while, for these three years
past, you have always called me a celebrated artist ! ' "
PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY IN CENTRAL AFRICA.—
While more than one state Government is blundering
away at measures of proved uselessness to mitigate the
horrors of barbarity on the seaboard of Western Africa, a
Liverpool merchant and a sea captain have penetrated to
the interior, and have surveyed the highway not only to
that inner region but to the civilization of Africa. Mr.
Robert Jamieson, of Liverpool, has collected the means
and planned the enterprise, with a disinterested perseve-
rance and zeal for discovery far above the mere trading
spirit of the time. Mr. Becroft has immortalized himself
as one of the most daring, most discreet, and most intel-
ligent of English discoverers. In spite of the obstacles
aggravated rather than removed by the proceedings of the
English government—in spite of the most disastrous mis-
chances, Mr. Becroft has succeeded in establishing the
fact that the interior is accessible for navigation and trade ;
he has thrown light on the interior navigation up to Tim-
buctoo, insomuch that only 40 miles of the river remains
to be explored—the part between Lever, his highest point,
and Boussah, Park's lowest ; the great waterway being
the key to several regions of beautiful and fertile country,
peopled by divers races, and affording opportunities for
legitimate commerce of indefinite extension. The lower
Niger and its branches permeate an immense delta, con-
taining thousands of miles of richly fertile and wooded
country. The unhealthy climate extends only fora limited
space inwards ; and as you ascend the river the healthi-
ness becomes equal to that of the tropics generally

A return " Relating to Tonnage and Shipping," has
just been published, from the Statistical Department of
the Board of Trade, under date of 30th June, from which
we give a few data. The tonnage of shipping which be-
longed to the United Kingdom in 1821 was 2,355,853 ;
Colonial 204,350 ; total 2,560,253. The tonnage in 1846
was, 8riti5h.3,199,785; Colonial 617,327; total 3,817,112.
The increase is probably greater than it appears, owing to
the fact that a new Registry Act came into operation in
1827, which compelled owners of ships to register anew.
Many vessels which had been previously lost, but no evi-
dence of their loss produced, continued to swell the returns
up to that time.
The shipping built in 1821 was, British 59,482 tons ;
Colonial 15,365 ; total 74,847. In 1846 it was, British
127,498 ; Colonial 86,133 ; total 213,631. The greatest
amount built during the period was in 1840, when the
total was 360,237 tons. In 1825 it nearly equalled the
quantity built last year, being 205,640 tons. The entries
inwards and outwards in each of the years 1814, 1824, and
1846, were as follows :—ln 1814, British 2,562,200 tons ;
Foreign 1,202,228; total 3,764,428 tons. In 1824, British
3,454,853 tons ; Foreign 1,506,148 ; total 4,961,001 tons.
In 1846, British 8,688,148 tons ; Foreign 3,727,438 ; total
12,415,586 tons. The increase from 1814 to 1824 is thus in
British 892,653 tons, or 34.83 per cent. The increase same
period in Foreign is 303,920 tons, or 25.27 per cent. From
1824 to 1846 the increase was, British 5,233,295 tons, or
148.84 per cent. •, Foreign 2,221,290 tons, or 151.47 per
cent. From 1814 to 1846 .the increase was, British,
6,125,954 tons, or 239 per cent. ; Foreign 2,525210 tons,
or 210.04 per cent. _ „

Table No. 4 contains a statement of " the tonnage of
British ships which have entered the ports of the United
Kingdom, in each of the two years 1824 and 1846 ' • dis-
tinguishing the tonnage employed in the trade with Bri-
tish possessions, and which is protected by the Navigation
Laws from the tonnage employed in the trade with foreign
countries, and which is unprotected from competition
with foreign ships." We give only the general results.
The tonnage of British vessels employed in the trade to
our colonies in 1814 was 893,097, against 1,735,924 tons
in 1846, showing an increase of 842,827 tons, or 94.37 per
cent. The tonnage employed in foreign trade in 1824
was 904,223 tons, against 2,558,809 in 1846, showing an
increase of 1,654,586 tons, or 182.98 per cent.

ROBBERY AT LORD TEMPLEMORE'S.—The police have
received information of a robbery committed at the resi-
dence of Lord Templemore, No. 45, Upper Grosvenor-
street, when a number of valuable snuff-boxes and other
property were carried off. The robbery was committed
by two sweeps, who went to the house to sweep the chim-
neys at four o'clock, and were admitted by a footman,
who let them out at five o'clock. - _ _ _

BEE-SWARMING EXTRAORDINARY.--Mr. Thomas
Moore, farmer, of Broomhouse, Hatfield, has this year
obtained four swarms of bees from one hive, as follows :
he got from the old hive one swarm on the 27th May, and
another about a fortnight afterwards ; the first young one
swarmed in three weeks, and again on Sunday last, so
that he has obtained six virgin swarms, which is a very
rare occurrence. _ _

- In consequence of an application to the Board of Cus-
toms, by a party who had removed some bonded sugar
from the West India docks to the Isle of Man, to dis-
charge his bond by payment of the insular duty only on
a deficiency that had arisen, the board ruled that in all
cases of deficiency of bonded goods occurring in removal
to ports, where a rate of duty different from that at the
port of removal is chargeable, such deficiency should be
charged with the higher rate of duty.
AN EARLY HARVEST.—On Thursday men were em-
ployed in cutting a field of rye, the property of Mr. Bir-
nall, Low Hall Farm, Walthamstow. On Monday Mr.
Delamean, who has a farm in the parish of Tottenham,
near Marsh-lane, commenced cutting a field of barley,
which promised to produce a bountiful crop. Mr. Talbot,
of Tottenham, has also a field of rye being gathered. The
effects of the extraordinary heat of the weathitT during the
last few days has given a yellowish hue to the wheat, and
should it continue, the cutting of it will be commenced in
ten days.

From another table we find that whereas, in 1820 the
centesimal proportions of British vessels enf ered and
cleared from British ports was 78.50 British against 21.50
Foreign, a change against us had been gradually taking
nlace, until in 1846 the proportions were 69.27 British to

POISONING BY A WIFE.---At the Chelmsford assizes, on
Tuesday, Elizabeth Hume was indicted for attempting to
poison her husband, Thomas Hume. Her husband, it
appeared, was labouring under a liver complaint, and she
made two large pills of sugar of lead (sufficient to cause
death), which-she put in a box with other pills he had been
instructed to take. He fortunately refused, against her
entreaties, to take them, owing. to their unusual size and
taste. She had made two or three previous attempts to
poison hint. She was found guilty and sentenced to trans-
portation for life.
THEFTS ow LEAD ORE IN MOLD.—Through the acti-
vity of John 'Williams, the police-officer of Buckley, an
ektensive and systematic plundering of lead ore has been
detected. It appears that the officer met a man with a
cart load of ore, and suspecting all was not right, entered
into conversation with the driver, and eventually appre-
hended him; and having got a further-clue, captured five
more, who were' all committed for trial. For several
months scores of tons of ore have been missed from the
works near Mold, and remained undetected until now,
though there is a Derbyshire police.
SELLING A CHILD.—The Doncaster Gazette publishes
a long account of a hostess of a public-house there selling,
in a sort of a joke, her infant child to a sailor, who hap-
pened to call, and who asked the price of the babe. She,
it is said, replied, " one shilling," and Jack paid the
money and went off tb-a neighbouring sea-port to hand it
to his ` Black-eyed Susan." The mother pursued him,
and, as he refused to return it, had him, it is said, brought
before a magistrate, who persuaded him to restore it, on
the woman paying back the shilling, and paying also the
cost of the proceeding!' This is the first time that we
have heard of human beings being saleable in England,
and we presume the storyis altogether a romance of some

30.03 Foreign. Similar tables, affecting the centesimal
proportions of the tonnage of France and America, as
compared with British and Foreign tonnage, show a result
unfavourable to these countries. The concluding table
shows that, whereas the proportion of British tonnage
entering the ports of the United States to other tonnage
not under the national flag was, in 1821, 64.98 per cent..
it had increased in 1846 to 83.61 per cent. The propor-
tion of British to American was in 1821 as 52,976 tons to
765,098 tons, or, in round numbers, about one-fourteenth.
In 1844 the proportion was as 766,747 tons to 1,977,438
tons, or upwards of a third.

destitute of civilization, and eager for trade. On the mid-
dle Niger, above Iddah, the inhabitants assume more of
the Arab aspect, are more civilized, congregate in towns
so large that one is mentioned which is computed to con-
tain 20,000 inhabitants, but the people are less eager for
trade. They are prejudiced against strangers from the
West by the Arab dealers who come to them in caravans
across the continent, and strive to exclude rivals from the
market. This prejudice, however, does not seem to be
very powerful ;- and the trade which can repay the toilsome
transit across the continent by land is sure to remunerate
traders who come by the comparatively short and easy
path of the river. The requisites for a successful trade
with the inhabitants of the Niger are now well ascer-
tained by the experiences of Mr. Becroft and his fellow
voyagers in the Ethiope steamer. First, you want iron
steamers of less draught and greater engine power ; for
by such vessels not only the Niger but its Tshaddah
branch might be navigated at almost all seasons of the wag.
year. You want officers like Mr. Becroft, of hardy con- MURDER AND SUICIDE.---On Tuesday afternoon last,
stitutions, inured to the climate, of brave spirit, discreet, a man named Henry Parker, aged 21, murdered a young
and shrewd. You want trading managers capable of ac- girl, aged 19, named Matilda Griffin, and afterwards de-
commodating their manners to the wayward dealings of a stroyed himself in an upper room of her father's house,
rude people, and able to estimate the value of produce No. 6, Hickman's-folly, Bermondsey, London. They
little known. You want crews mostly of African blood, had been engaged for some time past, but during the last
and at all events of snfficient stamina to bear the climate. few days Parker had accused the deceased of loving some
It is obvious that efficiency of navigation, the power to one else, and threatened that' he would lay violent hands
move rapidly, and tact in dealing with the natives, are on her. The poor girl laughed' at his threats, and only
requisites far more important than mere armed force. a short time before, a neighbourinquiring after her health,
Ivory, vegetable tallow, peppers, indigo, cotton wool, palm she replied, " she was quite well, only going to have her'
oil, a sort of caravances or haricot beans, dye woods, throat cut ;" and was heard singing, as she went up into
timber woods, skin's, and a great variety of produce that the room where the deed was committed, " There is na
is but slightly known, invite the trader. - The sole desi- luck about the house, there is na luck at a'."—Guardian,
deratum is thorough efficiency in the means of navigating [lt is to be hoped, for the sake of humanity, that the
the river; and it is evident that a commerce of indefinite , man laboured under temporary insanity.]
extension will repay any sums laid out in thoroughly es- ISLE OF MAN.—The Mona's Herald states that various
tablishing that efficiency of navigation. Of course the reforms are at length to be effected in the island. 1. The
free blacks educated in the West India trade will become criminal code is to be amended, and punishment by death
useful workmen in penetrating the native land of their race. abolished, except in cases of murder and treason.
We must depend, at least for generations to come, on the 2. Improvements are to be made in the market towns.
black race to supply the bulk of the crew. It is, how- 3. The system of keeping and auditing the highway ac-
ever, doubtful how far these legitimate trading measures counts is to be wholly changed, so that the clerk of the
can be carried on conjointly with the armed measures on rolls and the highway committee shall: be mutual checks
the coast. The cruising system nct only keeps up the upon each other. 4. The system of. highway rates is to
jealousy and shyness of the native tribes, but fosters all be altered, so that the tenants at a rent of less than £5
sorts of jealousy among the rival cruisers. Mr. Becroft shallnot be required to do but one day's work in a year
encountered some impediments to his exploration of the upon the highways: 5. The Tynwald Court are to
Gaboon River from a French commandant, who suspected transfer their power over the cases of Insolvents to the
him of territorial objects, and had been making " treaties " Chancery Court, and a new system to obtain discharges is
with the native chiefs conferring some kind of territorial to be adopted. 6. A batch of obsolete and foolish laws
right on the French. All this is very idle. The natives is to be wiped from the statute book.
are too rude to make treaties worth any European con- A COMMISSION OF LUNACY was held on Saturday, at
sideration ; but they have a productive country, and per- Kennington, on Miss Ann Harum, aged 56, of No. 2,
feet freedom of commerce would soon instil ideas into York-row, Kennington-road. Her property was stated
their minds which they can never derive from treaty- to consist of houses, which were in a dilapidated state, and
making mummeries or forcible interference with their of Government stock, to the amount of £10,000; three of
free trade in slaves.—Spectator. the houses had not been tenanted for eight years. Her
PITCAIRN'S ISLAND.—Her Majesty's brig Spy arrived &mai figisrtilailP. delusions were that her hands were not human, but the
off this island on the 26th of February, about ten o'clock ___-_-...--- claws oleagles ; that it was not her tongue that spoke but
in the morning, and was boarded by George Adams and Kimpton and Hickson, for perjury in the Dagenham magic ;:andthather heartwas being torn to pieces. She said
some more natives shortly after she hove to. George murder case, have been transported for seven years. she could not see, and that she was stone blind. She was
Adams is the son of the celebrated John Adams, the father The Washington steamer sailed on Thursday morning, constantly grinding her teeth. The servant who attended
of the colony. Went ashore in cutter, piloted by George from Southampton, for New York. her for many years had become impaired in mind by wait-
Adams. Landing-place a very small sandy beach with A field of oats, near Sutton, in Cheshire, was housed on ing on her, and died in liethlem Hospital. The jury had
many rocks, and in the least breeze impracticable. We Thursday in good condition. an interview with the lunatic lady in ker house, and they
were met on the beach by some of the natives, who cor- The Countess of Mornington has advertised in the pa- were quite satisfied of her insanity. They found her on
dially welcomed us to Pitcairn's Island, and showed us the pers for asistance to prevent her from going to the work- the, bed to which she had been confined for years, and she
way to the market-place up a steep and rugged path, wind- house. gave full proof of her delusions by heranswers to the ques-
ing along the cliff, and through a beautiful variety of all On Wednesday last, the gun cotton mills at Pavers- tions put to her. The jury returned a verdict dating her
kinds of tropical flowers and shrubs. The scene when we ham, Kent, exploded, and killed between forty and fifty unsoundness of mind from March, 1841:
arrived at the summit was picturesque in the extreme. persons. GALLANT CONDUCT OF A CLERGYMAN.—A wonderful
The whole of• the natives, men, women, and children, Sir William Symonds, K.C.8., who has enjoyed the instance of providential escape from drowning, through
headed by Mr. Nopps, the schoolmaster, had assembled in office of Surveyor to the Navy for so many years, has re- the gallant conduct of a Clergyman, occurred on Monday
a space of about half an acre square, carpeted with thick signed his appointment. week. About six o'clock on the morning of that day',
soft grass, and canopied overhead by the spreading branch- At the Central Criminal Court, some days ago, a wit- William Patey, a labourer, residing, in the parish of
es of cocoa-nut trees, to meet the strangers, all of them ness described himself as a " penman ;" but on being Southpool, Devon, went down to the. Salcombe river to
being dressed in their gayest. Their welcome was warm, asked in what species of "penmanship" he was employed, get a beat, which was moored out into the tide, beyond
all of them advancing and shaking us by the band, and he replied that he " penned" sheep in Smithfield market. his reach. He stripped himself, but not being able to
addressing us in perfectly good English. We were ex- EXTRAORDINARY HOP PLANT.—There may now be swim, he collected two or three oars, a spar, and a gang
tremely pleased by their quiet and decorous behaviour. seen at Mr. Ashby's, ironmonger, Gold-street, in this hoard, which he placed under his chest, without lashing
As soon as we had made acquaintance with them all, we town, a single hop plant, thebine which has grown more them together ; then paddling them with his hands, en-
were led through gently winding paths to the principal than 2,000 feet in fifteen weeks.—Northampton Herald._ deavoured to reach the boat. The moment, however, he
village, where the court-house and church stands, as there The Journal du Havre: gives a laughable account of a got out into the run of the tide, out of his depth, the
were one or two slight disagreements about land, which train being stopped a quarter of an hour to find the night- timbers parted company, and he was at once left to his own
they wished to be brought before Lieutenant Wooldridge, cap of M. de Rothschild, who was afraid of travelling resources. For a moment or two he continued above
commander of the Spy, and who very speedily disposed of without it. They are evidently more accommodating water, but, just as he was sinking for the second time, the
them without their having evinced, either during the inves- there than in England. Rev. B. L. Davies, of Holwell House, near Kingsbridge,
tigation or afterwards, the least feeling of discontent or Two colliers were tried at the Durham Sessions last who had arrived at the spot, plunged into the water with
displeasure. The church is a neat building, well arranged, week charged with having stolen a duck, the property of a his clothes on, but before he could reach him the drowning
with a pulpit and benches, and is used as well for a court- blacksmith. In defence they said "it was a lark." They man had disappeared. Mr. Davies then took one of the
house as a church. Mr. Nopps, the schoolmaster, performs were found guilty, however, and sentenced to a week's oars, which was floating, and pushed it down upon the
the various offices. We were shown the old gun belong- imprisonment. man, whom lie could see moving to and fro •, the poor
ing to the Bounty, that had been under water for fifty-six A commission de lunatico inquirendo held in Carlisle, fellow grasped it and rose to the surface • sufficiout life
years, and which was now lying near the Court-house. on Friday week, adjudged that Sir E. Marmaduke Vava- was left him to enable him to keep,his hold Mr. Davies
We visited old Adams's house and grave, the last of which sour, Bart., of Haslewood Castle, Yorkshire, aged thirty- gained' the shore, which he did by towing the man after
is situated in a beautiful spot, next to his wife's grave, years, was of unsound mind ; being a furious lunatic, and him West Briton.
and kept in trim order. After rambling about and visit- fancying himself Julius Caesar, and other delusions. DREADFUL EXPLOSION.—The Messrs. Hall, a Paver-
ing one or two of the inhabitants who were not well (one The typhus still continues to ctrry off its victims in sham, have for some time been engaged in extensive pre-
of whom had wounded himself with his gun while out Leeds. The Rev. Mr. Monks, a young clergyman con- parations for the manufacture of gun cotton, in which a
shooting goats, a short time bef .re we arrived, but was netted with Leeds parish church, died of the fever yester- number of men, women, and boys were employed. About
doing well), we returned to dinner, which had been pre- day week : he also received the contagion whilst attending three minutes past 11 o'clock, on Wednesday, a most
pared for us at M'Coy's house, and consisted of pork, to the spiritual necessities of the afflicted. terrific 'report alarmed the inhabitants, and in less than
yams, and sweet potatoes. Each family on the island M. Jullien signed last week a lease for three years for half a minute, a second report equally loud, occurred.
take it in turn to entertain strangers when they arrive, and Drury Lane Theatre. The house is to be splendidly de- A few seconds more, and the rising of a dense body of
never accept any reward. Their food is principally vege- corated, and the present intention is to give promenade smoke convinced those who. knew the position f the
tables, of which they have almost every kind, and twice concerts, the legitimate drama, and English operas, with different departments that it was in that part in wil:4l the
a-week either meat or fish ; but there is difficulty in get- a first-rate band and chorus.—Morning Post. tiorowmn
tine the latter, as the .A.hinff-eround is bad, and water The parish-clerk of Winkleigh has a salary of a guinea the great number of persons employe , .
.eallndki
'-'- "hurch clock 'ally. _To earn that there must be much loss of life. _ A great number of
" cotton" was prepared for explosivedpuirtpweasessw,

very deep. The animals on the island are goats, which a year for winding up the c_ ..att,, .
...... „.__
are wild, pigs, and fowls. Their houses are the perfection this sum he has to travel 102 miles, ascend and descend
of cleanliness and good order, and each person has his plot 29,000 steps, and haul up eighteen tons weight 26,000
of ground to cultivate. Their form of government is yards ! Verily this is not an ecclesiastical sinecure. more or less injured, were removed, most of them to their
personscat e
ti r:unffienr setras n. t lin tao
sterptltaicmee,
, andab out twenty
proceededenty to
persons,extr i -
simple. They elect a magistrate every 12 months, upon The number of vessels with cargoes from foreign ports homes, and surgical attendance ordered. By two o'clock,
which occasion every man and woman above 18 is entitled arrived in London during the six months to the sth inst.,. ten lifeless bodies had been removed—some of them with
to a vote, and, if married before that age, they are allowed was 4,284, and the tonnage 794,268 tons, against 3,296 scarcely awound, and others somutilated as not to be recog-,
~ an ships, and 660,567 tons, in 1846, the increase arising nised. As it was known that seven or eightmore were miss-
j again chiefly from the imports of corn and provisions. ing, the search was continued, and abouteight o'clock two
another, who acts as a sort or cneca, win,. J., indeed, THE MIREIELD MURDERS.--The grand jury at York more bodies were found. It was feared, from the number
little wanted—for there is no place in the world where have returned three true bills against Patrick Reid for of detached limbs, Svc., found, that the remainder of the
such perfect unanimity and good feeling exist as in the Mirfield murders. M`Cabe has been admitted to give missing were blown to pieces. Some very remarkable
this happy island. The number of inhabitants is 134, but evidence on the part of the prosecution. Mr. Serjeant escapes occurred. One boy was carried out of the build-
the island can support many more, and they increase Wilkins has been retained for the prisoner. The trial ing with only a slight mark on his face; a man was nm-
but slowly. The island itself is only four miles and a was to take place yesterday (Monday). ning about in a state of nudity, he being but very little if
half in circumference. We heard with pleasure that THE CHESTERFIELD MURDER.—Mr. Robt. Statham, at all hurt. Mr.. W. Hall, one of the partners, was con-
though several whalers touch there, yet, in no instance, a respectable master butcher, of the Market-place, Cites- I versing with Mr, Day, one of the superintendents of the
had any impropriety keen committed. 46 whalers, mostly terfield, has been committed to take his trial, charged with i factory, on his-way to the office, and was but a short dis-
American had called during the year 1846. They all ap- being an accessory before the fact in the murder ota man tauce from the place when the explosion happened, Mr.
peared to talk of Adams with the greatest respect, and named George Collis, for which crime a butcher named Monk, the general superintendent of the Messrs. Halls'
seemed to have a strong feeling of the crime that their Platts was convicted and executed as a principal. works, was also on his way, and in three or four-minutes
ancestors committed in mutinying. They talked in the Much alarm was excited on Monday, at Darley,, by the Mr. Hall and the other two would have been in the office
most affectionate loyal way of " our Queen," and ap- appearance of an extraordinary monster, striped and with Mr. Toppin, (another of the superintendents,) who
peared exceedingly proud of being English—but com- spotted, like a leopard or panther, and several men, is amongst the killed. On Satarday,nineteeri of the un-
plained that they were so neglected, the Spy having been armed with swords, pitchforks, and old muskets, assem- fortunate sufferers were buried.in the churchyard of Da-
the first man-of-war which had visited them for more bled to attack it. It was discovered, however, that the venham.
than three years. They, however, were quite satisfied monster was a painted pig, turned loose by some wag, to ' THE POTATO ROT.—An amusing paper appeared on
when told that the exigencies of the service had lately hoax his neighbours. Saturday in the Manchester Examiner, entitled " The
prevented their being visited so often. They begged A few days since, at Greenock, a highland lad peeped Curiosities of the Potatoe Rot," from the pen of the gifted
earnestly for a visit by a man-of-war as often as she through a hole in Wombwell's menagerie, in order to writer, " One who has Whistled at the Plough." Seve-
could be spared from other duties ; but, as George obtain a gratuitous view of the encaged wild beasts ; but f ral of the popular notions of the superstitious peasantry
Adams remarked, they " could not complain, as the Go- he paid dearly for his curiosity, as one of the leopards and others, both in England and Ireland, as to the occult
-ernment had already been kinder to them than they de- struck him with his paw on the face, and would probably cause of the rot, are touched off with great felicity and ef-
• _ __.,., ~..smn.fiftpr us have torn out his eye, if the hole had been an inch or , fect, but we have room only for the concluding passage of

a vote in consequence

The magistral

assistant, and the remainc

Jerved." Betore our leaving, the women came-aster us ua v a., &v., .. ~.... --- -, ,
with little presents and keepsakes, such as locks of hair, two larger. the communication, which is of a serious character, and
whales' teeth, and other little curiosities , refusing to be The Journal des. Debats has published a letter from well worthy, we think, of perusal, as conveying gratifying
rewarded in any way. We took some of their names Cannes, which states that Lord Brougham and Mr, facts, apart from all theories, relative to the yet myste-
down, as they struck us as being as pretty as the fair Leader have reaped magnificent crops of wheat on their rious disease of the crop in question :—" Whatever the
owners themselves—Marian, Louisa, Emily, were among property in that neighbourhood, and the letter goes or; cause of the potato rot may be, it is, universal in its opera-
the prettiest. Marian Christian was a beautiful girl, with to say that the example of these English agriculturalists, don ; and it is old. Any person who. has been in the habit
quite a Grecian cast of countenance, and very kindly al- will be of great advantage to the French farmers in Use of watching the potato plants. over long periods of time,
lowed her likeness to be taken by one of our party. Their best mode of cultivation. knows that the symptoms of last- year have appeared-every
way of dressing the hair is odd, it being rolled up in a We sincerely regret to have the melancholy duty of year in a milder or a more aggravated form. It would he
conical fashion at the back of the head. Their dress, recording the:death of Mrs. Quillinan, wife of Edward well to ascertain every fact which human power can
when they do not wear the European one, is simple, con- Quillinan, Esq., and only daughter of the venerable Poet reach, of this, and of all diseases affecting either vegetable
sisting of only a sort of skirt of some dark colour, with Laureate, Wordsworth. She expired at Rydal Mount, or animal health, and each experimenter and inquirer is
an upper short petticoat of white stuff, and a handker- the poet's residence at one o'clock on Friday morning, doing a public duty by trying to reach the facts. But at
chief tied loosely round the neck. At last, having loaded after many weeks' suffering from pulmonary consul/Ip_ the same time they are doing each and all a 'public mis-
the cutter with eatables, which was. obliged to lie off on don. chief when they publish their supposed discoveries with-
, .- m-.... LT-- cr........ —A correspondent of the mit nrothicinff evidence of their truth. The mischief is all

account of the increasing surf, and it being nearly sunset, IDE nousa ur 0u.......... ---- . ,
we were obliged to tear ourselves very unwillingly from 1 Times says :—" On the 29th of June last tne small, and the greater in a time of extreme depression, in a time of
this enchanted island, though all came round to beg us , now dilpidated house in which Schiller lived at Weimar, commercial nervousness, if we may so speak, when sha-
llot to go, but to stop one night—only one—with them, was purchased at a public auction, by the corporation of dows have more terror in them than the sternest realities
and, finding they could not succeed, accompanied us that town, for 5,025 dollars, being nearly double the.
have at other times. If the potatoes should be again lost,
down to the beach, where we embarked in canoes to amount of its actual value. May we not hope. that there
it will be time enough to mourn over them when that is
take us off through the rollers to the cutter. They then will be found as much patriotism among the inhabitants the case. They are not lost yet, nor is there yet any sha-
enihraced us all most affectionately, beseeching us to lof Stratford-upon-Avon ? „.., `loo_ of such a future event. But if they should perish ut-
writ9 and remember them to their friends in England, , AWFUL AND DES ...... Prr.rminVll-STATLM- -- lin al- ~ 1,..nn a,aal.l ha vaanh lirrhtpr this vear than it wa`'
particularly to Cantiy, iinnt. formerly of the Basilisk, Thurso

-whom the; seern—ec

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embarkation in t e cutter was accomplished safely, and thunder-storms known in Cornwall for many years. ; ;
•sities can be grappled with ana overcome, .i.u.,.... --.-
we gave them three hearty cheers, and, accompanied by Happily we are spared the pain of recording any loss of
George Adams and Christian, we got on board the Spy ; human life, though there were some very narrow escapes. to this time we have everything good to hope for, nothingau
arise, sooner this year than they could be last year. Up
and after their remaining a short time with us, and being The loss of life and dead farm stock, and of other private .
very much delighted with a couple of rockets that were property, is very considerable ; and a heavy expense has. such glorious weather to mature it and heap plentl, upolt
fired, they bade us good-bye, when we filled and made sail laeen thrown on the county by the destruction of several our heads, and give gladness to our hearts, were hardly
evil to fear. Such abundant vegetation on the earth, d
for Valparaiso.—Naval and Military Gazette, f county bridges.—Cornwall Ga.:elle, ever before known in ccubinatiou,"

STEAM-BOAT COLLISION.--A fearful collision occurred
Olt Tuesday in the Thames, near Northfleet, between the
Satellite and the Eclipse. Both boats were crowded, and
were steaming at full speed when they were seen coming
into immediate contact. The crash was dreadful. The
bowsprit of the one ran into the near bow of the other;
all were in the deepest consternation. One of the passen-
gers, a young person, who was near the bow, had his leg
and thigh smashed by the violent stroke of the up boat.
'Only a few inches nearer, bow to bow, and all in both
boats might have perished. The vessels, however, with
the exception of the bowsprits, paddle-box, &c., escaped
unhurt. At Gravesend the poor sufferer was got on shore,
where every attention was paid him by the master of the
poorhouse, and also by Mr. Grimshaw, surgeon, who, as
soon as possible, amputated the limb near the thigh.—

Correspondent of the Times.
EXTRAORDINARY SURRENDER. Yesterday week,
Lieut. Munro, who shot Colonel Fawcett in a duel three
years ago, gave himself up at the Marylebone police-office.
The three gentlemen who were tried as accessories, it will
be remembered, were acquitted. After' some little hesi-
tation on the part of the magistrate, who was evidently
unprepared for such a proceeding, the clerk took down
from the lips of Lieut. Munro, who throughout the pro-
ceedings seemed much dejected, the following brief state-
ment :—" I am here to give myself up to the laws of my
country. having understood that a warrant is out against
me for killing Colonel Fawcett in a duel, and I have come
forward voluntarily from Dresden to surrender and take
my trial. The duel was fought on the Ist of July, 1843."
Lieut. Munro, having affixed his signature to the above
admission, as taken down by Mr. Phillips, was conveyed,
accompanied by the usher, in a cab to Newgate.
BRANDING DESERTERS.—The following circular, in
reference to the mode of branding deserters to be adopted
in future, has been issued from the Horse Guards
" Horse Guards, June 25, 1847.—Circular memorandum..
—The mode of marking deserters by means of an instru--
ment, prescribed by the circular letter of the sth of May,
1842, having'been found ineffectual and easily erased, the'
Commander-in-Chief has, on, the recommendation of a
board of influential medical officers to whom the subject
has been referred, been pleased to direct that the use of
the said instrument may be discontinued, and the method
of marking with needles be reverted to throughout the
service. His Grace the Commander-in-Chief further de-
sires that the Operation of marking deserters may hence-
forth always take place in the hospital; under the superin-
tendence of a medical officer, who will be held responsible
that it is effectually performed, and that the letter "D"
shall be indelibly impressed on the skin.. By command of
Field-Marshal the Commander-in-Chief•''

A GRENADIER CUCUMBER.—There is now growing in
the garden of Miss Penruddocke, at Fifiela House, near
Pewsey, a cucumber of the extraordinary length of six
feet eight inches ; and three inches and a half in circum-
ference !—Devizes Gazette.

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MAGNETIC MAGIC MritßOß.-A new discovery made
by the Baron Dupotet, the great Paris magnetizer, has
given an immense shock to the scientific world. It con-
sists in the composition of a toy, which he designates as
the magic mirror, and which he supposes to be the same
that was used amongst the professors of the black art in
former times. It is a small instrument, made of 'a sub-
stance resembling talc, or any kind of dull white' metal.
The baron explains its effect as being produced by the
transmission of the maWre animante of his own body into
the metal. The seance of last Sunday was exceedingly
curious—many people who were pronounced to be im-
pressionable having been thrown into convulsions by: the
bare approach of the mirror, while others declared, amid
the transports of grief or the stupefaction of surprise, that
they beheld'reflected on its surface various scenes of their
past lives, or saw themselves engaged in acts which they
remembered not, and therefore supposed that they must
be anticipations of the future. One lady beheld herself in
prison, conversing with the gaoler, whose face, at first
turned from the light, she knew not, but, presently turn-
ing slowly round, discovered the features of the gaoler of
a maison centrale in a country town which she had been
to visit some time before. Baron Dupotet declares that
this discovery is an immense step made in the science of
magnetism, and that it will lead to many more of greater
value still. It is but just, however, for the sake of the in-
credulous (who 'do not deserve this attention, by the bye),
to add that there were many present upon whom the mir-
ror produced! no effect whatever, and who were conse-
quently dismissed as unworthy, cold, and use-impression-
able, and, I regret to add, that your humble servant was
among the number.—Pnris Correspondent of the Atlas.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,

LIVERPOOL JULY MEETING

WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1847

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Mr. Mostyn's Sagacity, 3 yrs.
Mr. A. Johnston's Rowena, 6 yrs
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