The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-14 00:00:00

I to the-I
es of two I

OIN Li ULAK -
came to his death in a strange manner, on Sunday week,
at East Grimstead, Sussex. He had been drinking
a day or two before, rnd from the position in which he

', named

don the findin

v y uvi e sue grain crops con,
cerning which so many fears were entertained, a few
months ago, are most abundant, and the potato is found,
on the whole, to be as healthy and sweet as in any year
preceding the late infection. The grain harvest is fast
drawing to a close : there are only patches left her" nd
there and few stooks standing in the fields, All

, komoil. (,Nell 1.0 .1 us ~.....,
coin, four of which he had got rid of, and had transferred
the last two to his mouth, when the sergeant struck him
sharp blow under the jaw, which compelled him to drop
,—,e them into the road. With the assistance of the other offi-
dead, it appears that he had endeavoured to find the cer, the prisoner was then handcuffed and conveyed to the
gate, which opened into a little court in front of his cot- station-house, when, upon being searched, nine other 1
tage, but without success ; by some means his head drop: spurious half-crawns and five-shilling pieces were found I
ped over the pailings, and became fixed between two in his possession.—The prisoner was remanded for the at- r,
upright pieces, and from this situation he was unable to tenclance of the Mint authorities. B
extricate himself. DRAINAGE OF LAND.—The first and grand object in Po _
THE LOTHIANS.—Harvest in the Lothians may be said the pursuit of agriculture is the efficient drainage of the cape was lying about 406 yards from them, as if the wind the husbandman have been
to be finished. There is, indeed, grain still uncut in the land, which had for years been to a great extent neg- had blown it there. The night was very stormy—very Whiteliaven Herald.
higher grounds, but in extent it is comparatively trivial; lected, and is but yet beginning to be duly appreciated. much so--wind and rain in great abundance, probably the DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—On Thursday, broke a fire bke out
and the general account of the yield is highly favourable. Mr. Simon Hutchinson, of Mant.horpe Lodge, Grantham, most stormy night we have had this year. A medical cer- at midnight at Cottenham, the place so celebrated for its
Wheat is truly an abundant crop, and fine in quality. has done the country great service by the publication of tificate expressed the opinion that death was caused by ex- cheese, being the largest dairy in the kingdom. The fire
Most of it has been secured in the barn yard without a his experiences in the art in a pamphlet entitled " Prac- haustion and cold, from the deceased having fallen asleep spread rapidly, consuming a number of farm-houses and
drop of rain. Barley is also In excellent crop, and finer tical Instructions on the Drainage of Land," has alrealy on the mountain on that boisterous night. The two gen- homestalls, which were stored with grain of all sorts. To
quality has not been grown in this part of the island for reached a fourth edition. The author recommended air tlemen were strangers to each other, and had journeyed give an idea of the extent of the fire it may be as well to
many years ; and even oats turn out in many instances drains, in addition to the usual parallel drains—a system together accidentally. Each had left his home for the pur- observe that the village of Cottenham is one mile in length,
much better than was at one time anticipated. Beans then new to the public • and experience has fully proved pose of enjoying a pleasure excursion through the romantic and the fire extended full one-third of that distance. We
and peas stook well, and promise a good return. The the accuracy of his deductions. The experiment has scenery of Scotland, and they had been seen on the pre- understood the damage done amounts to between £15,00
greater portion of this crop is yet in the field.—Scotsman. been tried on a large scale, at Marnham, this year, and ceding night laughing with a milk girl, at no great distance and £20,000, but mboelsotnogfinigt
tios
Ainfsru je.divi
THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN INSTITUTE. —At a has fully succeeded, the air-drained portion of a large field from the spot on which their corpses were found. Mr. Union, Royal Farmers', and Royal Exchange
meeting of the shareholders on Monday last, the accounts of turnips, having produced a finer crop of turnips than Stericker had written home on the 31st of August, to in- The following is the property destroyed -12 dwellings-hFreihreiNcheoffir9l
of this unsuccessful concern were audited, when it ap- the other portions of the land, from, it appears the form his friends that he felt perfect happiness in the en- houses, 26 barns, nearly 50 stocks of corn, hay,
&c., an,
peared that there remained a small balance (between draught of air constantly passing underground, and es- joyment of the most romantic country in the world. more than a dozen cottages. It is a singular fact,t ,b, ,8"
£2OO and .£300) due to the shareholders, after meeting taping by the outlets, added to a " steamy evaporation," THE NAVIGATION LAWS.—We are glad to find. an ad- the old farmhouse,
all liabilities. But the spirited and indefatigable secre- frequently visible, arising from the drains. He has con- vocate for the maintenance of the much-reviled Navigation stood a large fire that happened in the sameteaee ao'.'ll,
tary, Mr. Buckingham, has, in the course of the five sequently arrived at the conclusion, " that drains two Laws, in a quarter where we little expected such Anti- twenty years ago, was again proof against
years during which the institute existed, relinquished or feet deep, with air-drains to facilitate evaporation, &c., Free-Trade opinions, Douglas Jerrold's Magazine. The element, although, as it were, nearly in the emidstdevouring
1;1
expended from his own private resources the sum of are equal to drains two feet six inches deep, without such passage to which we allude occurs in a notice of Coin- This house, which is a very large One, stood a abl'rrile
£1350, besides having given his services without salary or auxiliaries. The plan is simple and cheap, and we re- mander Smith's Treatise on the "Navigation Laws, and between the flames and the produce of nearly 1,000 acres,
remuneration, beyond the occupation of apartments on commend Mr. Hutchinson's little, but valuable work, to runs thus :—"The author of this pamphlet has brought which must inevitably have been destroyed if the house
the society's premises. A testimonial is to be presented all practical agriculturists. much practical knowledge to his task. As might be ex- had caught fire.
to him, for which £7OO have been contributed, satisfac- NOVEL MODE OF SWINDLING.—Perhaps one of the petted from the noble profession to which he belongs, he PNEUMATIC PROCESS FOR SINKING PILES, SO.—This
tory as a compliment, but inadequate as a recompense. most singular cases of swindling ever heard of was perpe- firmly insists on all measures that tend to uphold the ma- process, for which Dr. Potts some time back obtained pa-
SAGACITY OF THE CROW.—A few days ago, the atten- trated at. Birmingham a day or two ago. A fellow, calling ritime ascendancy of Great Britain; and, in support of his tents and also the patronage of the Lords of the Admiralty
tion of several persons was excited at St. Ives by the un- himself M. Halbert, took apartments at Mrs. Anderson's general views, he cites the authority of Mr. Huskisson, and the Trinity Board, is of such importance in all cases
usual noise made by a crow which had built her nest and in New street, in that town, a short time since ; having where that statesman remarked, `Whenever the interests where submarine foundations are to be formed, that every
hatched her young in the chimney of an uninhabited fairly installed himself, he paid a visit to Mr. Perkins, a of commerce and navigation cannot be reconciled, the in- body interested in scientific pursuits, and the success of
house near the Wesleyan Chapel, in that town. On ex- jeweller, in Caroline-street, and after representing himself terests of commerce ought to give way, and those of navi- those who have devoted their talents and labours to useful
amination, it appeared that a cat had discovered the young as the agent of a Hamburg house, made selections of gation to have the preference.' Commander Smith has improvements, will be desirous of knowing something of
birds, and was trying to dislodge them • but every time jewels to the value of £4O ; Mr. Perkins himself shortly not approached this subject without preparation: he has the principle and manner of the invention. It is simply
puss put her head into the chimney the crow pounced afterwards conveyed the jewels to his customer's apart- consulted the evidence given before the Committee of the the application of the pneumatic process to the sinking of
upon her hinder parts, and then flew off to a neighbouring ments, and after a little chat, Halbert begged the jeweller House of Commons, and quoted from the testimony of tubular iron piles. A hollow iron pile is placed upon the
chimney. The crow perceiving that she was unabl to make out a duplicate invoice of the goods, at the same those who are favourable to a repeal of our Navigation surface through which it is required to be sunk ;by means
singly to put the enemy to flight, flew to the tower of a time he deposited the jewels in a closet within the apart- Laws; certainly the abolitionists, so far as the extracts of an air-pump it is rendered a vacuum. This being ef-
church, and brought seven others, which proceeded to meat in which tney were Sitting ; after this he begged give us a notion of their ideas, lie little above the mental fected, the sand, shingle, soil, water, &c., rush into it
assail the cat in the way before described, until she was that Mr. Perkins would stay and take a glass of wine with standard of pedlars and bagmen: they appear to dwell on from the bottom, and as they rush in the pile descends by
so severely wounded as to be obliged to retreat, minus him, and he left the wine in order to procure it ; not re- nothing but monied cheapness, and that in the spirit of its own weight into the cavity left by their ascent. The
pretty much of her fur, and bleeding profusely.—West turning within a reasonable time, the jeweller rang the very minor huckstering. F
or instance, they think a penny sand, shingle, soil, and water are then discharged from the
Briton. bell, and made inquiry after his host ; the answer was a pound, for freight of wool, stowing included, is too high pile by an apparatus for pumping ; a fresh vacuum is
It is stated in the St. James' Chronicle, the Church and that he had left the house some time. This gave rise to a figure for conveying the article fifteen thousand miles ; formed, and the pile sinks further and further. A series
State Gazette, and several other papers, that the authoress suspicions which were soon discovered to be too well how much would be reduced to the consumer if they VW- of these piles are sunk, which may be filled with chalk,
of ~ oxford to Rome" is a Miss Harris, of Wallingford, grounded ; the closet which Halbert had deposited the ceeded in taking off the eighth of a penny ? However, wood, or concrete, as the case may be, and tied together
sister to Dr. Harris, author of " Mammon" and other jewels had also a door which opened from without the the subject of the Navigation Laws cannot be discussed in by bolts and nuts and some similar contrivance, and the
prize essays, and now theological tutor of Lady Hunting- apartment in which they had been sitting ; of this cur- this department of our journal; but those interested in it fboeuenndtartiieodn
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don's college at Cheshunt, Herts. She is stated to have cumstance the swindler had taken advantage. After will not find an hour mis-spent in looking over the facts pier, or breakwater, effectually formed. The process has
been formerly a member of Mr. Oakley's congregation; leaving the room, he by this means possessed himself of and arguments of Commander Smith."
and the latter gentleman is accused of having drawn up the jewels and quietly decamped. He has not since been AN INTELLIGENT ELECTOR.—At the late election for alliireisv7ga?rdi7emioraiondbveleynn.troiTlneh.we
irtahpitlitywweiigthhtweahilleehdththeep,il,esare
the northern division of this county, an old man present- sunk is very surprising. More is done in an hour by the
her recantation, which was addressed to the Guardian, heard of.
and appeared in a late number. A correspondent of the DEATH FROM STARVATION AT NOTTINGHAM.—On ed himself at No. 2 polling-booth, Dunchurch, Warwick
,e-e, afoiri-rap. uimlwp
ayasndanad
bhrioldlogweiss,ieragonund,tuibnedetehda,nineaanlibpelapeeersfowrmheerde
above papers, under the initials "H. W. L.," states that Tuesday last an inquest, which disclosed circumstances of shire, to record his vote. Returning Officer : For whom in a day, or even in a week, by the common method of
he has proofs that the act on the part of the ady was com- a very distressing nature, was held by the coroner, Mr. do you poll ? Elector : Fortmyseelrf.to,(llsamuthtemrv.)
int-.
ersisted a most cold-blooded murder was committed at the DOn
mon-
pulsory, and that, if necessary, he is ready to give his Brown. Harriet Atkins, aged 52 (the deceased), the wife turning Officern;AoYm unndoventoe
,und s
name. This he ought to have done at first—and till he of James Atkins, of Coalpit-lane, had been separated I ask you fo,rc,
d oured in vain to exlain the meaning of the ques- MURDER NEAR DONC 0 S
in the union-workhouse. During the last 11 months she en eav
does, his statement is worth only so much waste paper— from her husband six years, five of which had been passed for myself. Increased laughter.) The returning officer wwoaosdentuhieleesmaprleoyreoqfuimredr..
although appearances may warrant his conclusions. Ifand independent'Ele'
tion. The ree cetloeret:orWsetillll,
ASTER.— nSaturday evening,
Bark
lf d M OP
i n gentleman,A
Derbyshire.
esresdinwceit,hwadsiffibeinttletny.l.:ynaevizeisr_, h,
oaado_hlived
owri, t
Brook-street, r
oCohka rsltorteteet
,Swimhes;ewsliifee tried to heSrimlivs: that he came to vote for himse ;an r. ver, who Pottery, at
'of the Hon. W. H
H. Swinton station, Mexborough, between Doncaster and the
aHefewrecdoavy
had s 6d. a-week and a quartern loaf from the Leigh, insisted that the vote should be recorded as stated.unfortunate • on the North Midland Railway. The
sloughed, is frequently, as in do. She. . victim is
the skin has been recently
took the viper for the harmless snake. The viper, when ing by sewing,but latterly she had not anything at all to attended as scrutineer on the part
He looked in Caleb
a man named Barker, who
the case above related, mistaken for the common .
snake, parish, which is all she had to live upon for the last two This put the returning officer to a nonplus.• of the
distinguishing mark which is infallible, months. - She paid ls. .
6d. a week for a furnished room, in vain for a column to enter Barker the proprietor
under
. a vote given in so honest a Don Pottery,
but there is one
that the harmless reptile invariably a broad, so that the quartern loaf constituted her whole support. spirit. The act made no provision for such an emergency as warehouseman. The circumstances
namely, ' which the unfortunate very
d yellow or orange-coloured ring round the She has been confined to her bed three weeks. No ap- as a candidate presenting himself upon " free and ind - mysterious. man has met his death are
well-defined
throat, and in the viper this is wanting. The latter plication was made to the parish for extra relief; and on pendent principles "at the polling -booth, e On Saturday night, the deceased went from
and the officer his home, which is very near the public h USB
named reptile is seldom seen more than eighteen or twenty her husband being asked to do something for her, he said, was, consequently, about to reject the vote, when a soli- pottery, to a o
• '- -.. long, while the common snake will attain the "he could not do anything, but when she died he would tutor who attended the
ince--
.as representative of Messrs. New- he asked his wife for a shilling, whichshe him, and
feet, and is of a beautifully bury
length of tout al even five her." Last week she bought a half-quartern loaf degate and Spooner suggested that the names of the re- the time
' -4- It may beadded during he was at the public house he drank two
tapering form througnoe.: , that the for 4c1., a halfpennyworth of butter, a halfpennyworth of spective candidates should be called over, and then leave pints of ale. He left the public house half -past
between .
viper is most commonly met wit. ..._,
in elevated and dry , tea, a halfpennyworth of sugar, a halfpennyworth, of rai- it to the elector to decide for whom he would record his nine and ten o'clock in the •
evening, and was not seen again
situations, while the snake generally chooses ~..7 marshy sins, and a penny farthingworth of tobacco, towards which vote. The returning officer accordingly proceeded to act by any of his friends until hewas discovered (lying n
partly 0
ground sear the water. Mrs. Sims gave her halfpenny. This was all she had upon his suggestion, but he had no sooner called over the the footpath with his head in a ditch) b an
• y a fellow-workman
BEES.—Mr. George Sanderson, of Richmond, who is during-
the week. She objected to go into the workhouse. names of Messrs. Newdegate and Spooner, than the old named Gower. This man was going from Swinton in the
a bee fancier, took a hive last week, which was placed in Mr. Hugoe, sm:,-;eon to the union, went to see her on man, raising his stick, cried out with considerable energy, direction of the deceased's house when he found him in
a garden about 200 yards from his house. In order to Saturday ; he fon-nd her i;:—
, dying_sstate ; and in about " Them are the men as I've come to vote for ; why didn't that condition ; he lifted up deceased, and, finding hire
Mrs. Sims going up ye tell me their names afore, and not give me all this
preserve his bees a fumigation from dried fungus was an hour after she fell out of bed. u;.. __insensible, Gower called to two other men who were fol-
used, which threw the whole of the inhabitants of the stairs she found her on the floor, quite dean. verdict,— bother ? " After which he retired amidst the renewed lowing him, and, with their assistance, the deceased WaS
laughiter of the spectators, the vote being recorded for
hive into a state of insensibility, and when in that state " Died for the want of the common necessaries of life.' taken to his own home, which is within a 100 yards of
„mete and Spooner, in opposition to an objection
the hive, which weighed nearly six stones, was removed, COMMERCIAL FAILURES, &c.—The London Times New.the place where he was found. On searching the spot 9
and a new one was placed over them. The bees when gives, amongst the recent failures, that of Sanders, We- made by Mr. e.7r, who contended that it ought to have great quantity of blood was found where the deceased's
-^n.—Warwick impel .
restored to animation, finding their treasure gone, took therill and Co., of Stockton-on-Tees. The liabilities of been recorded as first gm._
M GAOL. head had lain, and a little way off his hat and a pitcher,
flight in search of it : they were seen to visit many places the firm are stated to be between £20,000 and £40,000. ESCAPE OF FOUR PRISONERS 1,..,2M ONMOUTH in which he was carrying home some ale from the public
in the neighbourhood, and at last, to the great surprise of The default of Thomas Burnill and Co., previously re- —On Wednesday morning a desparate att,l'.."t was made house, were found. Medical aid was procured as soon as
their owner, the whole swarm entered his shop. They ported, did not apply to their general transactions, but to by four prisoners to escape from Monmouth gaol. The
Barker was taken home, he being alive, but quite insensi-
were supplied during the night with part of their lost certain acceptances of foreign draughts, which, it is stated, names of the prisoners were Mayow, Albert, Hayes, and Me, aid everything was done to save his life, but he died
treasure, and in the morning, being found bound together, are covered by securities. The ordinary obligations of Murphy. The three first named were convicted at the the following morning about five o'clock. At present the
they were placed in their new habitation, and now seem the firm will, it is stated, continue to be duly met.—On late Monmouth assizes of extensive burglaries at Usk, whole affair is enveiuped in mystery. Information has
content to settle there. the opening of business in the Corn Market, London, and were sentenced to long periods of transportation. been sent to the Secretary of State, in the hope that ti
A MAN WORRIED BY A BEAR.—On Friday week, aon Wednesday, the failure of an old and respectable firm Murphy was also under sentence of transportation. He reward will be offered.
man, named Rawson, was attending a tea-garden at New- ' (Richard Harris and Son) was reported ; but it was after- had been convicted of a burglary with violence, and sen- THE PRASLIN MURDER.—We should not have tr ans-
town, near Carlisle, where a North American bear was wards ascertained that arrangements made would enable tence of death was recorded against him, which was, how- ferred to our columns—even had the great length of the
kept chained to a tree in an unenclosed space- Rawson them to meet all their obligations.—The failure of D. and ever, commuted to 20 years transportation. Mayow papers not interposed a barrier—the voluminous doCW
held out some crumbs of bread to the bear, which it took A. Denny, corn-merchants, of Glasgow, was also an- would appear to have been the ringleader in the matter. merits on this history with which the daily journals hale
quietly from his hand. He then offered his hand without flounced. The liabilities are about £400,000, and the He had broken one of the legs from the iron bedstead on ,been crowded. They, especially the letters of the unfor-
bread, when the bear, with both its fore-Paws, suddenly assets will not realize more than 6s. 9d. in the pound. A which he slept, with which he worked out the panel of the tunate Duchess de Praslin, overflow with inflated theorY;
seized him by the arm, and dragged him within its circle, hear-y- portion of the loss will fall on the Scotch banks door of his cell. In order to prevent the light from ap- mischievous sentimentalism. and that exaggerated and
throwing him down, and instantly commencing to worry and London discount houses.—ocele and and Co., steam- peering through the aperture which lie had made, he romantic tone of feeling and expression by which Frenee.
him. An old man courageously seized the infuriated mill proprietors, of Venice, have failed, with liabilities to hung his bedcloths in front of it. He then wrenched off novels and plays are too generally pervaded, and which,
animal byte collar, and Mrs. Cowen (Mr. C. being the amount of £30,000, and A. and C. Custo, of Genoa, the locks from the doors of the other Prisoners' cells, and we grieve to say, have been, to an alarming extent, intro-
from home) of hold of its chain ; but both their efforts whose liabilities are £Bo,ooo.—The Bank of England re- they secreted themselves in a vacant 'cell, and awtaritetnd the duced into the " light literature" of our own country'
proved ineffectual to relieve the unfortunate sufferer. ceived a government remittance on Wednesday, from appearance of the turnkeys. At about a_ quarter e
to ix
both by the cheap issues of translations of some of thS
Two men speedily arrived with pitch-forks, and succeeded Russia', of £60,000, and a further sum of £30,000 is ex- o'clock a turnkey, named Alpass, whose,dut it was
y obtained in-the most demoralising of the French works of fiction, an
in forcing off the bear, and dragging the man from within pected.—On Saturday week the public in Glasgow were spect the prisoners in the morning, having obtained the original productions of English authors imbued %ma
the cell of
its reach. It made no attempt to turn upon its assailants, surprised by a rumour of the failure of the highly respect- keys from the governor (Mr. Barrett), entered the same spirit, and seeking popularity by the sat,
Rawson was found to be dreadfully lacerated. He lin- aisle firm of Gemmell, Brothers and Co., and of William a prisoner. He had scarcely unlockedthedoor
himwhen
andstruck a which we could name, and of many of the most success;;
shot. Kong. One cause of the failure was the non-arrival of deadly blow on the side of thehead, which knocked him, ful dramatic pieces, is to familiarise with crime ;to bre".
EDUCATION WITHOUT RELIGION.—There is one as- the china mail ; but it is hoped that ultimately the loss 1 senseless and bleeding, to,thr.groued Mayow, then se- down the land-marks which separate truth from erroq.
pect presented to us in the recent horrible murder in Paris may not be great to any party. The house of Gemmell I cured the keys, and lecke' J"Passillen witfl the prisoner, vice from virtue ;—and to invest the foulest criminals vc.ril,
which Englishmen ought not, at the present time, to pass and Co., of Valparaiso and Lima, a branch of the same 1 telling the latter to finish him.
unnoticed. We have in the Duke de Praslin the best house, with separate partners, are not affected by the to the other prisoners whominie helobbyhad
escaped near the front door. novel-readers and play-goers, exalt culprits into herti
until the
pion. The mournfully interesting letters of the Duchess, ness as formerly. The Glasgow courier also states that I.Here they again waited . turnkey came to open and heroines, who are rather to be sympathised with for
which have been published by the French government, a rumour had obtained of another eminent house having 1 the door. They armedwer.e.with the large padlocks and their misfortunes than condemned and denounced i
show that here lies the foundation of her domestic discom- failed, with liabilities to the amount of from £400,000 to 1 ponderous kel,natnitney rushed upon him and struck their wickedness. The Praslin papers are dethdedlY, Is
fort, and ultimately of her dreadful death. "Alas," she £500,000.—0n Friday the failure of Messrs. T. Usborne I him several violent
blows,
from which he bled profusely. our judgment, of this character ; and, therefore, althollt4
exclaims in one of her impassioned letters, written four or and on and of Messrs. Hastie and Hutchinson was an- They then unlocked the outer door, and escaped. They we have felt ourselves laid under a necessity, as chronic Svc
five years ago, " Alas ! why are you "longer religious ?" flounced. The liabilities of the former firm are under i threw, thet keeg away, and ran towards Backholt-wood. of passing occurrences, to insert more than we could init's
And though this question would appear to imply rather a £lOO,OOO, and the assets will nearly pay 20s. in the pound. 1 By thist
nly relmcovered rstot turnkey who was attacked had suffi- desired on the revolting subject, we have felt it both
declension from religious feeling than an original want of The suspension is caused by the stoppage of Lesley, Alex- ' cie
for into tte to alarm the governor, and help was duty and a privilege to exclude from our columns ale
it ; she seems afterwards to have awaked to a true know- ander and Co. The liabilities of Messrs. Hastie and sent
sallied forthand town. A large body of the inhabitants share of details published by our contemporaries. .00,
ledge of the fact, and she records that " his want of firm Hutchinson are supposed to be about £50,000. The , scoured the country in the direction the hope that now the case will be suffered to fall into oblol-
- of morality and religion, and his idleness of house has only been in the corn trade about eighteen prisoo,nercskwere seen to take. They were all taken before except in so far as the lessons which it is fitted to io
it),,
mind, have caused him to succumb to sensual passions." months, the senior partner having previously realized a 1 10
1 road too' and again safely lodged in the gaol. On the sate, respecting the depth to which human depra/ha-
It is this, we are persuaded, and this only which is mak- good fortune as a Scotch factor. It is now said that the
them that the gaol they confessed to the parties who secured unrestrained by heavenly grace, may sink, and the
ions
ing French society a reproach to itselte and a byword firm of Lesley, Alexander and Co., who at first vcSsre .at it was their intention to rob several houses in , portance of strivin
g to "elevate the moral and relig,,o
amongst nations. And in the absence of any general or stated to be able to pay 20s. in the pound, and then 8., the neighbourhood. The injuries which the turnkeys state of so-called r-
•.,hristian society, throughout F-a,fP.
national inculcation of the principles of religion., good will not now pay even a third of the latter sum. The have received are very great, but they are sufficiently well generally, and es- eciall in France, may be renaernov'-
must ever be a difficulty, and often en unPes, entire circumstances connected with this failure form ct Ito attend to their duties. The magistrates met at the or salutary kw, t" . Y
government 1 a practical purposes.—TlTatchm an.
sibility.—Halfax Guai:dian, ,subject of most unfavourable cerngleilt, i gaol at z.n early hour, to make inquiries into the inMter. I '' '
. i

men, William Sterick

reet, London, and William Henry Whitburn,
r, of Esher, Surrey, who had been found dead by the
de, two miles from Kinlochbez. There was not the

?a-ranee gave the impresSion that, having sat down to
;st, they became benumbed with the cold, and expired.
oth were dressed as if travellers, each with a small whisky

be grail

that has hitherto been housed has been placed Uncle.
cover in exellent condition, for the harvest has by no
means (as was at one time prognosticated) been a late one,

ours of

so abundantly rewarded.--