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HUMS, STEALING BY A DISSENTING PREACHER.—A DEATH FROM HYDROPHOBIA.—On Wednesday, Mr.
man named George Buck, a dissenting preacher from George Cummings, innkeeper and grocer, residing at
Louth, has been committed for trial on two charges of Sherburn-hill, Durham, died in the greatest agony front
horse stealing -a black mare, the property of Mr. Blyth. the effects of hydrophobia. About nine weeks ago, the
of Weasenbatn, Norfolk, and a horse, the property of T. deceased had what is called a "wife's feast" at his house,
C. Oldham, Esq., of Louth Park. He was taken into and during the course of the evening, two dogs which
custody at Ipswich. In his possession were found various were in the house began to fight under a table, and on
papers and correspondence, most of which were of a re- the deceased endeavouring to separate them, one of the
ligious character. On the day on which he was appre- dogs flew at him and bit him slightly upon the nose.
hended at Ipswich he had been three times at chapel. Not much notice was at first taken of the matter, al-
A NOVELTY,—The Lord Mayor's procession this year though some time after it took place the deceased com-
presented a striking novelty, as compared with previous plained of shooting pains from the wound up to his head.
spectacles on the 9th of Nov. Sir James Duke at an On Monday, however, unmistakeable symptoms of the
early period of his life, served in the royal navy, and was dreadful malady exhibited themselves, and they increased
present at the memorable battle of Algiers, under the in violence up to Wednesday.
command of Lord Exmouth. As being probably the A STRANGE COMBAT.—A short time since, as John
first naval Lord Mayor, it was decided to grace the other Searle and Joseph Walter, belonging to East Looe, were
glories of the Procession by the introduction of a ship returning to that port from a vessel in the roadstead, they
fully rigged and manned !on a car drawn by six horses. saw a fierce combat between a sea-bird and a fish. On
THE BARONESS ST. MART.—This lady was again rowing to the place of action, they found the engagement
brought up at Marylebone police office, on Tuesday, for a to be between a cormorant and a conger. It appeared
further hearing on a charge of having stolen two diamond that the cormorant, during his submarine hunting excur-
rings the property of Sir John Hare. Two other witnesses sion, got on scent of the conger, and no doubt intended it
were heard in support of the charge, and at the conclusion, for his breakfast. The conger was caught, but did not
Mr. Broughton, the presiding magistrate, determined to choose to yield its life as easily as its adversary could wish.
send the case to a jury, and the Baroness St. Mart was The bird, of course intent on breakfast, endervoured to
accordingly committed for trial at the Central Criminal conquer by boring holes in the body of his prey. He sue-
Court ; she was, however, admitted to bail. seeded in boring behind the head, and got in the beak.
POVERTY !—At the Bromyard Petty Sessions last The conger twisted stud twined ; the bird used the pro-
week, a poor woman was cited, for pulling up and steal- gelling force until he had so far inserted his neck that his
ing a quantity of turnips. Williams admitted the charge, beak become visible through the mouth of the conger,
and pleaded as an excuse that she had had sixteen child- which immediately closed it jaws, entwined its body
ren, and eight of that number were now at home, and twice around the bird, and in that position they were ea-
were without bread. The charge not being further pres- sily captured by the men in the boat—brought ashore
sed, the defendant was convicted in the expenses only, alive—and presented to Mr. Jackson, the naturalist, who
amounting to 35., and the money being given her in court, intends to preserve them in the manner they were cap-
she paid the amount, was admonished, and discharged. tured.—Exeter Gazette.
ROBBERY OF GOLD DUST.—The solicitor to the trea- THE BESETTING SlN.—The Right Rev. Dr.
sury has received instructions from Sir George Grey, her Bishop of , was examining the children at a school'
Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department, in , the other day, and, after the usual routine of
to prosecute three men charged with stealing nearly 2000 questions fixed upon had been regularly put and answered,
ounces of gold dust from the British ship Lemuel, whilst the following colloquy took place between his lordship
lying off the African Gold Coast. It appears by the de- and a sharp-looking chap, who was particularly prompt in
spatches from the Governor of Cape Coast Castle, that his responses to all interrogatories :—Bishop sow,
two of the prisoners and the whole of the gold dust are my boy, you have answered every question with great
to be forwarded to London by the vessel Viscountess acuteness ; now look at me, look at me in the face, don't
Canning, the arrival of which is daily expected. be afraid, and answer me this question : ' What is my.
HYDROPHOBIA IN ABERDEENSHIRE.—A case of this besetting sin ?' "—Boy, tafter locking attentively, as de-
dreadful malady occurred in the parish of Edzell, to an sired, in the face of his episcopal interrogator : " Drun-
old woman, named Ann Milne, wife of John Balfour, re- kenness, sir."—Bishop : "Oh dear me, no ! No, no, my
siding at Latch. On the 17th of August, she was severely boy, you are wrong, quite wrong. lam a great man, I
bitten by a rabid dog, of the Newfoundland breed. The am a bishop. Drunkenness is not my besetting sin. Oh,
wounds, which were mostly on the arms, healed well in dear me, no. My besetting sin is vanity ; remember that,
the course of a month. On the Ist of November, she my boy ;my besetting sin is vanity."—Boy, (with a scrape
evinced several symptoms of incipient hydrophobia, and of the foot and a tug at the forelock :) " Thank you. sir,
became gradually worse till the 3rd, when she died, being I will always be sure to remember that you are a bishop,
ten weeks after she was bitten.—Aberdeen Journal. and that your besetting sin is vanity."—Carnarvon He-
THE POLICY OF HONESTY, AND THE HONESTY OF raid.
POLICY.—One day last week, a commercial traveller of LORD ASHLEY AMONGST LONDON THIEVES.—The
Bristol accidentally left at an eating-house, in Duke-street, I Weekly Chronicle says :—" We have seen Lord Ashley in
a pocket-book, containing twelve £5 notes and some pa- many situations—in the House of Commons, on public
pers of value. The servant who found the book took the platforms, in churches and committee rooms, and a variety
greatest care of it until the owner was seen, when on pre- of places—but his last appearance transcends them all ;
senting it to him she was rewarded with the prodigious he has made a de'but among the felons of the metropolis.
sum of sd. Honesty is always the best policy, but A Mr. Jackson baying heard from one or taro penitent
the policy which rewards it is not always the best promoter thieves a desire to emigrate and reform, thought a number
of honesty.—Devenport Independent. of the fraternity might in like manner be acted upon, and.
THE CAT AND THE HAWS.—One day lately, as a hawk at last, with the concurrence of a body who had sent for
was soaring in the neighbourhood of Balgrummo Cotton, him to the Blue Anchor Court, he summoned a meeting
in quest of prey, it darted through the window of a cot- of them in the Irish Free School, to meet Lord Ashley.
tage there, to seize a bird that sat perched within a cage. He expected to gather 100 thieves who might listen to
In the absence of the occupiers of the cottage, a cat, which what his lordship had to say. But his expectations were
had been left sole guardian of the premises, nobly acted more than fulfilled. On July the 27th, his lordship went,
the part of a police constable, rescued the poor song- when no less than 207 professed thieves were assembled,
ster from the clutches of the feathered burglar, executed each of whom expressed his earnest desire to renounce his
summary punishment on the intruder, by killing him on dishonest course if it were possible. Some five or six gen-
the spot, and left his body lying on a table, as a warning tlemen were present with Lord Ashley, and 'it was such a
to all other delinquents.—North British Mail. meeting,' says one of them, ' that no one could forget it to
A NOVEL MAYOR'S DINNER.—Mr. George William the day of his death.' Several of the best and most ex-
Harrison, the newly-elected Mayor of Wakefield, gave perienced thieves were placed at the door, to prevent the
his inauguration dinner on Wednesday week, to the admission of any but thieves. Some four or five individu-
members of the corporation, at which twenty-six of the als, who were not at first known, were subjected to ex-
number attended. The dinner is said to have been a amination, and only allowed to remain on stating who they
sumptuous one, but we reckon the after proceedings were, and being recognised as members of the dishonest
would be rather of a flat character, the usual accompani- fraternity. His lordship addressed the meeting at consi-
ment (immemorially considered indispensable on such an derable length, and his discourse appeared to produce a
occasion) of wine was not introduced, his worship being deep impression."
a rigid teetotaller, Fancy a party of twenty-six aldermen SINGULAR DEATTI.—On Friday at Perranarworthal,
and councillors sipping (or swilling, we care not which,) John Lobb, agel 43, was found dead in his bed. De-
raspberry brandy, ginger beer, lemonade, or any other ceased bad occupied a room adjoining the foundry where
kind of such stuff at a Mayor's feast. he was employed, and separated therefrom by a wall built
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MANSLAUGHTER BY A BOY.—A Hereford paper states
that, on Friday evening last, an inquest was held on the
body of a little boy named James Bishop (between four
and five years of age), who had been taken out of an ad-
joining canal on the previous afternoon. The parents,
who are poor, had left the deceased in a miserable hovel,
under the care of a woman named Williams. A report
got out that deceased had been pushed into the canal by a
boy named Rock. The latter was brought up, and said in
reply to a question, that he was ten years old. The jury,
however, thought that he was at least thirteen or four-
teen. He is most unprepossessing in appearance, and the
opinion, so far, is that he pushed the deceased into the
canal. The case has not yet been decided.
DREADFUL MURDER NEAR BRECON.—A brutal murder
was committed at a farm-house called Cwmgwdy, near
Brecon, upon one of the farm-servants there, a
most inoffensive man, named Thomas Edwards, aged
about thirty-two, a single man. The murder was com-
mitted by a fellow-servant of the name of Thos. Williams,
who was but recently come upon the farm to reside. On
the morning of Friday last. the body of poor Edwards
was found, presenting a ghastly spectacle. The brains
had literally been beaten out of the skull, which had been
smashed in several places by an axe; the fatal instrument
was found close by, covered with blood. Williams had
fled, and there was immediate proof discovered of his
having robbed the murdered man of very much wearing
apparel and a silver watch.
MALLEABLE IRON LEVER BRIDGE.—On Wednesday,
Mr. T. M. Gladstone, C.E., read an essay on iron bridge
building, and submitted a plan for constructing a malle-
able iron lever bridge, to the members of the Society of
Arts. His modus operandi was to erect stone piers, and
having obtained the necessary elevation, to project from
each a number of malleable iron bars, grooved together,
and decreasing in number till the arms met in the centre.
The weight would thus be distributed and diminished as
they approached. It was, in fact, a compound lever, and
the weight of the bars would be 100 lbs. to the foot. The
superiority of malleable iron for his purpose was evident
from its intrinsic properties. It possessed, in a far greater
degree, the attraction of cohesion—cast-iron, as compared
to it, being 17 to 56. He contended that, by his plan, a
bridge could be constructed, in whose materials the ex-
tension and contraction would be the same throughout,
in which the lateral expansion would be prevented, and
whose resistance would be greater than its tension.
CANINE SAGACITY,—WhiIe strolling along the quay at
the Gloucester Basin, the other afternoon, we observed a
fine large bull dog suddenly come to a stand-still, and
stretching his Lead upwards, he uttered a short distinct
bark. There was something so matter-of-fact in the
action of the animal, while his bark resembled nothing so
much as the postman's "rap tap," that our attention
was struck, and we waited to see what might come next. Presently, the head popped over the taffrail of a large brig,
the Lord Ravensworth, which was lying, unladen, stern
on the quay, and the sailor, for such the " look out"
was, fetched a ladder, and having placed the foot of it on
the quay, the dog began deliberately and gravely to
ascend. The sagacious animal mounted admirably;
placing his hind legs on the bars, he held on by his fore
paws to those on a level with his chest; and thus, " hand
over hand," to use a nautical phrase, he mounted until
he reached the deck ; the sailor, who had been amused by
our surprise, exclaiming, with a chuckle, " Did you ever
see a dog do the likes of that afore."—Gloucester Journal.
THE NATIONAL SOCIETY.—A leading article in the
Morning Chronicle—anything but a partisan of the Na-
tional Society—has come under our eves, which strongly
confirms our suspicions and impressions about Mr. Kay
Shuttleworth. The article is too long for publication,
but we must just edge in a fragment or two. It seems
that Mr. Kay Shuttleworth was once a Dissenter; and
although he has " conformed" to the Church, " his mind
was originally tinctured, and remains indelibly imbued
with very opposite associations." He is, the Morning
Chronicle emphatically states, a decided friend to " that
purely secular system of education, unalloyed by any ad-
mixture of religion, the beneficial effects of which have
been so signally illustrated by late events upon the Con-
tinqnt".... " Dr. Kay Shuttleworth," continues our con-
temporary, "is the State ; Dr. Kay Shuttleworth is the
Committee of Privy Council ; Dr. Kay Shuttleworth is
the sole and irresponsible Minister of Public Education."
What a broad light does this graphic description throw
upon the bulky correspondence which has lately been
given to the world ! We shall add a great fact, which has
hitherto been overlooked in considering the question of
State Aid—THE HOUSE OF LORDS IS PRECLUDED FROM
INTERFERIN G.

WRECK OF THE SHIP SARAH CRISP. BY FIRE.—
THIRTEEN LIVES LOST.—The late arrivals from Canton

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partly of stone and partly of brick, and apparently sub-
stantial and sound. He had been employed at the
foundry for twenty-five years, and was a valuable servant.
On Friday morning, as he did not make his appearance
at the works, his door was forced open, and he was found
dead in his bed ; and as the bed clothes were not dis-
turbed, it is supposed that he died in his sleep. The per-
sons who found him dead perceived on entering the room
a strong smell of gas. This circumstance induced inquiry,
the result of which was, that there could be no doubt the
deceased died from the effects of sulphuretted and car-
buretted hydrogen gasses, which were generated by some
large casting made the evening before, and which must
have penetrated through the wall into his sleeping room.
It appeared that an old man, who formerly occupied the
room in which the deceased died, was also found dead in
his bed about two years ago, under similar circumstances ;
but it was then supposed that he died from some natural
cause. There had been in that case, as in the present, a
large casting in the adjoining foundry the evening
before the death of the party ; and now there is no doubt
entertained that he also was suffocated by gasses entering
the room.—Cornwall Gazette.
THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.—In a lecture which was deli-
vered the other evening, at Crosby-hall, by Mr. Pepper,
on the properties and phenomena of magnetism and elec-
tricity, the electric light, and the apparatus by which it is
produced and regulated, was introduced. The brilliancy
of the light is almost beyond what can be conceived of
the powers of artificial light—that is of light produced by
scientific means from simple natural causes. It was so
vivid as to make the numerous gaslights by which the
hall was illuminated completely ineffective. Its intensity
to those close to it was almost painful, and it was impos-
sible, when the shade or paper screen by which it was
surrounded was removed, to look upon it. It is a white
or sun light ; there is no yellow tinge, no vapour or
smoke, and none of the attendants of lights which par-
take of combustion. The exhibition of this certainly ex-
traordinary light was witnessed by a very crowded com-
pany of visitors, who expressed their satisfaction in a
marked manner on its merits. The apparatus by which
its power is produced and sustained can scarcely be de-
scribed ; it is a piece of mechanism of comparatively sim-
ple construction, by which pieces of charcoal, &c., are
supplied and adapted ; it can only be understood by be-
ing seen and inspected. If the generating and regulating
powers of this invention can be sustained, and the expen-
ses attendant upon them kept within reasonable bounds,
as the patentees assert they can be, this light will at some
period supersede all others ; and as a statistical account
affirms that upwards of £25,000,000 is annually expended
in England and Wales for lighting, an important saving
will accrue to the public, and a benefit be conferred,
which all will be able to appreciate.
THE SEA SERPENT ONCE MORE.—Captain M`Quhae,
late of her Majesty's ship Daedalus, has addressed to the
editor of the Times tbe following reply to the animadver-
sions of Professor Owen on the serpent or animal seen
by him and others from her Majesty's ship Daedalus, on
the 6th of August last :—" Professor Owen correctly
states that I ' evidently saw a large creature moving ra-
pidly through the water, very different from anything I
had before witnessed, neither a whale, a grampus, a great
shark, an alligator, nor any other of the larger surface-
swimming creatures fallen in with in ordinary voyages.'
I now assert--neither was it a common seal nor a sea ele-
phant ; its great length, and its totally-differing physiog-
nomy, precluded the possibility of its being a phoca' of
any species. The head was fiat, and not a capacious
vaulted cranium' ; nor had it ' a stiff inflexible trunk'—a
conclusion to which Professor Owen has jumped, most
certainly not justified by the simple statement, that ' no
portion of the sixty feet seen by us was used in propelling
it through the water, either by vertical or horizontal un-
dulation.' It is also assumed that the calculation of its
length was made under a strong preconception of the
nature of the beast ; ' another conclusion quite the con-
trary to the fact. It was not until after the great length
was developed by its nearest approach to the ship, and
until after that most important point had been duly con-
sidered and debated, as well as such could be in the brief
space of time allowed for so doing, that it was pronounced
to be a serpent by all who saw it, and who are too well
accustomed to judge of lengths and breadths of objects in
the sea to mistake a real substance and an actual living
body, coolly and dispassionately contemplated, at so
short a distance, too, for the ' eddy caused by the action
of the deeper-immersed fins and tail of a rapidly-moving
gigantic seal, raising its head above the surface of the
as Professor Owen imagines, in quest of its lost
The creative powers of the human mind may

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be very limited. On this occasion they were not called
into requisition, my purpose and desire being, through-

announce the distressing loss of the English ship Sarah
Crisp, by fire, with the sacrifice of no fewer than thirteen
of her unhappy crew. The ship, which was between 300
and 400 tons burthen, was on a passage from Moulmein
to Hong Kong, with a cargo of teak timber, when, in lat.
16 30 N., lon 114 30 E. on the 16th of August last, by
some means unexplained, a fire broke out in the after
part of the ship ; she burnt fiercely for many hours, when
a gale sprung up, and she was capsised, thirteen seamen
being at the moment washed overboard and drowned.
The seas that subsequently broke over her had the effect
of extinguishing the flames, and the remainder of the
crew clung to the wreck for twenty-five days and nights
with scarcely any provisions and very little rain water,
and their sufferings were of a most shocking description.
They were eventually rescued by the schooner Emma
Sherratt, from Swan River, which conveyed them safely
to Canton. The ship is insured at Lloyd's ; the amount
is not mentioned.
SHIPWRECK AND Loss OF LIFE.—On Tuesday intelli-
gence reached Lloyd's of the total loss of the ship Prince
Charlie, of London, together with several lives. It ap-
pears from the statement of the master of the vessel,
Captain J. Thomas, that she left Honduras on the 9th of
September, bound for London, with a cargo of mahogany
and cochineal. On the 25th of September they cleared
the Gulf of Florida, when it commenced blowing a furious
hurricane ; the ship broached to whilst wearing, falling on
her beam ends on the port side ; the masts were cut away,
and she partly righted, when three heavy seas struck her
successively, washing nine of the crew overboard ; seven,
however, regained the vessel. The crew remained lashed
to the main rigging until morning ; heavy seas continually
breaking over the ship washed the poop away, and com-
pletely gutted the middy. The captain's wife and child
here perished. The crew remained in this state, the ves-
sel being waterlogged, until the Ist of October, subsisting
on cocoa-nuts which occasionally floated up from the
wreck, when they were taken off by the Norwegian ship
Oceana, Captain Jacobs, under whose kind treatment
they were restored, and landed at Ramsgate on Monday.
The poor fellows, who have lost all they possessed, speak
in the highest terms of the Norwegian captain.

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out, to furnish eminent naturalists, such as the learned.
• professor, with accurate facts, and not with exaggerated
representations, nor with what could by any possibility
proceed from optical illusion • and I beg to assure him,
that old Pontoppidan having clothed his sea serpent with
a mane could not have suggested the idea of ornamenting
the creature seen from the Daedalus with a similar appen-
dage, for the simple reason that I had never seen his
account, or even heard of his sea serpent, until my arrival
in London. Some other solution must, therefore, be
found for the very remarkable coincidence between us in
that particular, in order to unravel the mystery. Finally,
I deny the existence of excitement, or the possibility of
optical illusion. I adhere to the statements, as to form,
colour, and dimensions, contained in my official report to
the Admiralty ; and I leave them as data whereupon the
learned and scientific may exercise the pleasures of ima-
gination,' until some more fortunate opportunity shall
occur of making a closer acquaintance with the great
unknown,'—in the present instance most assuredly no
ghost."
GALVANISM.—The following is extracted from the
Court Journal of January 29 :—" It is now. about four
years since that we informed our readers as be
regretted galvanism was not more este • ely used as a
remedial agent. We have every reonn to believe that
our advice was attended to; for, i fi comparatively short
time, Mr. Halse's residence w crowded with the elite of
fashion and their less fortun e fellow-sufferers ; and we
feel confident, judging m the astonishing remedia
effects it has produce on ourselves, after all kinds of
medicines and hydro thy had failed to impart any benefit,
that the public w thank us for our recommendation.
We were deligh to notice, a short time since, that Mr.
Halse was pat nised by the Lord Bishop of London and
Sir Charles ark, his lordship's physician. Mr. •Halse's
great refo sin the galvanic apparatus, are his improved
method f application, justly entitled him to rank at the
head o his profession. We again recommend our readers
to give galvanism a fair trial. Mr. Halse's residence is at
22, Brunswick-square, London.—See advt.
On Sunday week, at Covington, Miss Story was marriett
to Mr. Short. This was one way to make a story short