The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-28 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

THE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE

(From the Morning Herald.)

" The Anti-Corn-Law Leaguef'9 said, on Saturday, a
contemporary journal, remarkable for its rat-like pro-
pensities in forsaking what it conceives to be a falling
house, "is a great fact." Assuredly it is ; but where-
fore make it a greater fact ? Why add to its import-
ance ? Why increase its strength ? Why augment its
power ? The Anti-Corn-Law League is, in its simpli-
city, radicalism under a novel combination ; it is, in re-
ality, a new manifestation of that democratic turbulence
which seeks to accomplish a revolution once a year—it
is, to use the late Lord Sydenham's expression, " a new
flag to tight under." The success of such a confederacy
would be another step towards those great organic
changes in the main timbers of the constitution against
which even Lord John Russell hath protested ; its tri-
umph is the death-blow to " finality." And yet who
dare predicate that it will not succeed ? Nay ; who will
deny that a deep and distinct shadow of future triumph
is not now passing over the face of the land ? But are
they who believe its immediate object to be injurious,
and who are convinced that the ultimate consequences
of its successes therein must be dangerous, to he af-
frighted by its annual festival at Manchester,—or to
quail because in the place of its birth twelve thousand
pounds were alleged to have been subscribed in the
course of two hours ? Are they to precipitate the evils
of the future by yielding to the ills of the present ? The
Anti-Corn-Law League " is a great fact ;" but it is not
yet a national fact ; it is important, but it is not all-im-
portant ; it is powerful, but it is not irresistible. If its
success be inevitable, it is because they who are opposed
to it will not exert their strength ; if its triumph be cer-
tain, it is because the Conservative party has sunk into
indifference. *

But the manifest and dishonest inconsistency of that
journal [the Times] is unimportant in comparison with
the present strength and future prospects of the League.
That confederacy is powerful ; its inherent power is in-
creased by the supineness of those whose great interests
it assaults ; and its success is certain unless vigour and
unanimity be re-infused into the Conservative party.
The sincerity of its leading men is testified by their sub-
scriptions; and the determination of its moving men is
certified by their indomitable perseverance, their inces-
sant activity, and their remorseless unscrupulousness.
Flushed with triumphs at London and Kendal, the
League now assails Salisbury, threatens to invade every
vacated borough, and has a'n organised correspondence
in every town and village. It has its corps of reporters
who note down every syllable that falls from the lips of
its spouters ; it furnishes gratuitously elaborate reports
to the Whig and Radical papers of the metropolis and
the provinces ; and it gains their editorial assistance by
the community of its opposition to Government, and still
more by the lavish purchase of the papers containing the
reports of its proceedings. Two or three years ago Ac-
land and Smith were its itinerant orators ; this year
Cobden and Bright are its travelling agents ; then the
former were kicked out of agricultural towns—now the
latter address large audiences therein without interrup-
tion, end, we fear, with applause ; then the farmers were
indignant—now they are listening ; then the landlords
were, comparatively speaking, active—now they are
quite supine ; then there were few men of wealth or re-
spectability, without the circle of Manchester and its
satellite towns, subscribers to its funds—now our Jones
Lloyds and Raikes Curries contribute to its rent ; then
it raised £50,000—now it is demanding £:00,000 ; and
those who were then ashamed, are now proud of their
membership. Neither can it be denied that a change of
opinion on the subject of the Corn Law has been wrought
in the minds of many who were the warmest advocates
of protection to domestic agriculture ; men who, ten
years ago, thought the then Corn Law was insufficient,
are now content with the present reduced sliding scale ;
men who then looked on total abolition as positive ruin,
now only regard it as highly injurious ; men who then
regarded a Corn Law as excellent per se, now defend it
as necessary only because of the interests it has created.
It would he treason in us to hide or understate these
changes in the position of the League and in the state of
public opinion from the agricultural classes whose confi-
dence it has long been our pride to enjoy. To be fore-
warned is to be foreartned. If they seek to maintain
the present Corn Law, they must be up and doing ; if
they still think protection necessary to their welfare,
they must no longer remain quiescent or indifferent ; if
they are not content to let the League have an early
triumph, they must put their own shoulders to the
wheel ; if they do not think that agricultural improve-
ment and science are their best security against foreign
corn, they must extend their activity from their farms
to county meetings. But county meetings or agricul-
tural petitions against the present law must strengthen
the League ; we last year warned the farmers that by
their adoption of Earl Stanhope's excitement against
the sliding scale of 1842, they were playing into Mr.
Cobden's hands; and we now repeat the advice we
then gave them—that in union to support the present
Corn Law and the present Ministry alone is their
safety. If the present law cannot be maintained, substan-
tially all protection is abandoned ; if the present Cabinet
cannot he sustained in power, that law cannot be main-
tained. In expressing dissatisfaction with ministers, far-
mers are lessening the power of their only friends ; in
assisting to overturn the present Cabinet they are striking
away the plank beneath their own feet.

In Mr. Cobden's triumph there is ruin to the Conser-
vative party. Will not, then, the rapid progress he has
lately made recompense its differences and reunite its
ranks in earnest and cordial support of the Government ?
The League triumphant, " other alterations," said
Friend Bright lately, " will quickly follow !" -Who
doubts it? The aristocracy ? The fundholder ? The
Church ?

C. W. WILLIAM'S ARGAND FURNACE, AND
PINS FOR BOILERS.

At the Society of Arts, on Wednesday evening, a paper
was read by Mr. Whishaw (the secretary) on the above
subjects. Having alluded to the generally deleterious
effects of an atmosphere loaded with smoke, it stated that
so long since as 1661 attention was called to the nuisance,
which must have been, indeed, trifling, compared to the
present day ; yet even then it was recommended that no
manufactories should exist in or near towns, and the gold
medal of the society has been offered for the last sixty
years for the best plan for perfect combustion, and the
consequent prevention, of smoke. By the plan recom-
mended by Watt, in 1785, and persevered in by eminent
men of the present day—viz., the passing the gases over
heated fuel on the bars—they were proved to be only de-
composed, and not consumed ; to show this, it is only ne-
cessary to pass olefiant gas, or bicarburetted hydrogen,
to tubes heated to above a red heat, when half the carbon
will be deposited on the sides in the form of soot, and the
gas escaping at the end will be converted into carburetted
hydrogen; if the process be several times repeated, fur-
ther decomposition will be effected, the remainder of the
carbon deposited, and the gas escaping will be pure hy-
drogen. The paper then went on to describe the princi-
ple of Williams's Argand furnace, a full statement of
which has so often been before our readers. It is founded
on the true chemical laws of combustion, as laid down in
Mr. Williams's able work on that subject (the only one
in the English language)—viz., that as one cubic inch of
gas requires ten cubic inches of atmospheric air to supply
sufficient oxygen for its combustion, it requires a much
larger admission of air than ever takes place in the com-
mon furnace ; and, as it requires that the gases and the
oxygen should be intimately mixed, he admits the air in
films or jets. upon the same principle as the Argand bur-
ner admits the gas in jets to the atmosphere ; and, among
the various furnaces in London and the manufacturing
districts, as well as on board steam-vessels, to which it
has been applied, we believe, in every instance, it has
completely answered the purpose—viz., that of perfectly
consuming the gases as they are produced from the coal,
causing greater heat (and, consequently, increased evapo-
rative powers), a considerable saving of fuel, and the en-
tire absence of black smoke from the chimney shaft.—
Mr. Dircks (of Manchester) clearly explained the various
models and diagrams by which the paper was illustrated.
The conductor pins for boilers, also an invention of Mr.
Williams, was next explained. They are rivetted or screw-
ed, into the boiler in any numbers, projecting into the
flues, and, by presenting a greater conducting surface,
cause more rapid evaporization with less fuel ; to show
the properties of these conducting pins, water in a small
tin vessel was boiled by a spirit lamp in a few minutes,
and although, in this case, the pins were only fastened on
the outside with common solder, such is their conducting
powers of heat, that not one had melted off in numerous
experiments, and it was stated, that at the Liverpool and
Manchester Railway stationary-engine, the boiler did not
give sufficient steam for the daily performance of the
engine ; Mr. Williams was applied to, and he had inserted
120 pins, since which the boiler has supplied all the steam
the engine can require.—Several experiments, illustrative
of the correctness of Mr. Williams's principles, were
shown, and the business of the evening gave evident sa-
tisfaction.

THE DAILY PAPERS.—The proprietors of the daily
papers have it in contemplation we understand, to raise
the price of their papers from sd. to 6d. Considering the
increased size of their sheets, and the enormous expense
incurred in the procuration of intelligence from all parts
of the world—an expense which is hourly on the increase
—we are only surprised the resolution has not been adopted
sooner.—Observer.
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SOUTHAMPTON. —LOYAL PROPOSITION.—we were
not a little astonished on Thursday last, during the debate
in the Town Council, to hear a magistrate gravely propose
that the guns on the platform should be returned to the
Ordnance, in order to save the expense of firing salutes
to Royal and noble personages ! Really we scarcely know
whether we are living in a loyal town, or are surrendered
to levellers and Republicans. 11 hat next?—Hampshire
Advertiser.
The private banking-house of " Bryant and Son," New-
market, has suspended payment. Mr. William Bryant,
who is the only representative of the firm, is said to be
possessed of great landed property, and at a meeting held
at his office on the 20th, his creditors, after expressing
their high satisfaction at the honourable manner in which
he had rendered his accounts, declared their belief that he
was perfectly solvent, and would be able, after paying 20s.
in the pound with interest, to retain a considerable sur-
plus to himself. His banking business was very limited,
and the stoppage is supposed to have arisen from the cir-
cumstance that too much of his money was locked up in
landed property.

GENERAL MISCELLANY,

The Farmer's Journal says the malt tax will be repealed
in the next session of Parliament.

A. man called Westwood, has died of poison near Lich-
field, and his wife stands committed on the charge of
murdering him. _

Mr. Toplis, the surveyor to the Sun Fire Office, has
estimated the cost of restoring Luton Hoo, the seat of
the Marquis of Bute, at between £30,000 and £40,000.

Another extensive rum contract has been taken for
100,000 gallons : the price agreed upon is, we understand,
ls. fild. for proof strength, not less than one-half to be
from British possessions in America.
We are happy to state, that by a recent convention ar-
rangements between the Postoffice of England and Hol-
land have been established, which secure to both countries
a liberal reduction of postage.
THE TEA TRADE, Nov. 20.—The deliveries last week
were 468,2571 b., being rather lower. The trade has been
very dull, and prices have remained about the same.
There are public sales to-morrow.
PRESERVING EXTRAORDINARY.—On Thursday last
Lord Wenlock and five friends beat a cover about six
acres in circumference, and killed 272 head of game.—
Hull Packet.

BONDED WAREHOUSES.—On Tuesday last, the Cor-
poration of this town disposed of four plots of land on the
March for the erection of warehouses for bonding. We
believe the buildings will be commenced immediately.
Preston paper.
The adulteration of guano is said to be carried on in
this country to it dangerous and unwarrantable extent ;
One amongst the numerous methods by which the efficacy
of this valuable manure is materially impaired is the ad-
mixture of stone, ground into fine powder.
TYPHUS FEVER.—This frequently fatal disease has
become epidemical in Huddersfield, and last week the
town-crier went round denouncing the sale of apples,
turnips, and other cool country fruits and vegetables, as
being considered promoters of the malady.

Clara Novello, the celebrated vocalist, was married on
Sunday to Count Gigliucci, of Fermo, in the Roman
states. The happy couple left London for the Continent
immediately after the ceremony. It is understood that
she quits the profession of which she has so long been a
distinguished ornament.
EXTRAORDINARY PRODUCE.—On three and a quarter
acres of land on Chat Moss, near Manchester, there has
this season been dug 595 loads of potatoes, of 2591b5.
each, equal to 671 tons, and worth 455. per ton. This
land is under the superintendence of the Guardians of the
Manchester Union.

On Thursday morning a labouring man belonging to this
town left for the metropolis, to take possession, as report
says, of an immense amount of money, to which he has
proved himself heir. Report farther saith, that the sum
is £3,000,000, and that the case has been thirteeen years
pending in the Court of Chancery.—Berwick Advertiser.

THE LAST OF THE COACHES.—On Saturday last the
Golden Path coach, which was started by Messrs. Clary
and Shuttleworth, on the discontinuance of thr Old Wel-
l►ngton, from Colchester to London, ceased running,
leaving no other public conveyance between that town
and the metropolis than the railroad trains.—Norfolk
Chronicle.
THE POLISH BAIL.—The number of admission tick-
ets sold for the ball and concert given at Guildhall, on
Thursday last, in aid of the funds for the relief of the
Polish refugees, exceeded 1,500. The expenses for refresh-
ments, quadrille band, &c., amounted to about £450;
and after deducting all necessary outlay, a surplus of
£470 remains to handed over to the association.—Globe.

On Wednesday, a cotton mill at Johnston, which has
been worked only a few years, and which contains about
4200 mule spindles and nearly 1200 throstles, with an en-
gine of thirty-horse power, was sold in the Royal Exchange
here, by auction, for £3910. There was also included in
the sale a machine-shop, &c., which has been let at £9O
a-year.----Glasgow Guardian.

VAN AMBURGH AT BURY.—Singular as it may ap-
pear, it is nevertheless true, that at twelve o'clock at
noon on Friday, the petty session was adjourned for half
an hour, in order to allow the solicitors, county police-
men, overseers, and other officials, an opportunity of wit-
nessing the entrance of Van Amburgh, with his large col-
lection of wild beasts.—Blackburn Standard.

A NEW MANURE.—A cargo of seal fish was delivered
at Beauly last week to Mr. Colin Chisholm, from Shet-
land, to be used for manure. Another is said to be ordered
by Mr. H. Mackenzie, Phoineas ; and the carcases of
seals are getting into repute as well adapted, in certain
soils, for agricultural purposes. It is mixed with earth as
compost manure.—Rossthire Advertiser.

LIEUTENANT MUNRO.—The following is an extract of
a letter dated Inverness, Nov. 18 :—" Lieutenant Munro
passed through this town yesterday, on his way to visit his
venerable father in Tain, previous to surrendering to take
his trial at the forthcoming sessions of the Central Crimi-
nal Court, in reference to the late unfortunate duel with
Colonel Fawcett. He arrived at Hull by one of the
Hamburgh steamers on Friday last."
A number of shopkeepers of Sunderland, were brought
before the sitting magistrates of that borough on Saturday
last, charged with having in their possession a spurious
article used in the adulteration of pepper, and some with
having pepper in an adulterated state for sale. The par-
ties were fined in the mitigated penalty of £25. They in-
tend, however, to petition the board of excise for a reduc-
tion of the fine.

REPLIED TEA LEAVES.—On Thursday last, Mr. Jas.
Byram, of Gildersome, shopkeeper, appeared before the
sitting magistrates, at the Leeds court-house, to answer
to an information preferred against him by the excise, for
haying in his possession, and offered for sale, 401bs. of
spent tea leaves, which had been redried and coloured in
imitation of black tea. The magistrates convicted the
defendant in the highest penalty of £5 for every pound
of the composition ; the fine was, therefore, £2OO.
SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. WARREN.-0O Sabbath
evening Mr. Warren, the blacking-manufacturer in the
Strand, having been dining with Mr. Archbutt, in West-
minster-road, went to look at the fire then raging at the
spermaceti-manufactory, in Paradise-street, Lambeth.
He was in good health, but on his return home he sud-
denly fell to the ground, in Bishop's-walk, and was con-
veyed to the surgery of Mr. Cory, at the corner of Stand-
gate, where he died in a few minutes.
MURDER.—On Sunday se'nnight a shocking affair oc-
curred at a lodging-house, in Spittal-street, Oldham-road,
Manchester, where a woman, named Catherine Ripping-
ham, was so brutally treated by Nicholas Clarke, a hand-
loom weaver, with whom she had unfortunately cohabited,
that she died on the sixth day afterwards. The deceased
was about thirty years of age. An inquest was held on
the body on Thursday, when a verdict of " wilful murder"
was returned against Nicholas Clarke.
DUEL.—A hostile meeting took place on the sands,
near Haverfordwest, on Tuesday se'nnight, between Capt.
B—y, an officer who very gallantly distinguished him-
self in the wars in Affghanistan and Scinde, and a Mr. T.
J—s, in consequence of some language spoken by the
latter highly derogatory to the most illustrious personoge
in the realm, in the presence of the captain, who resented
it by a personal attack upon the disloyal subject, and a
meeting ensued, in which Mr. J—s was very severely
wounded, so much so that his life is despaired of.
EXTENSIVE SMUGGLING.—On Friday afternoon an
extensive seizure of tobacco was made at the warehouse
of a most eminent merchant in the Minories, and a more
cleverly-concerted scheme for carrying on a contraband
trade has not been concocted for many years. The weight
of the leaf seized is 4,4801b5., the duty upon which would
amount to about £1,400. All parties found upon the pre-
mises, including the head of the firm, and engaged in the
illicit trade, were taken into custody and conveyed to the
station-house, and were brought un for examination on
Saturday, at the Lambeth-street Police-office, when they
were remarried to a future day.
A. PLAGUE OF RATS.—There are, at the present time,
in and about the fens around Ely, such quantities of rats
that their number cannot be reckoned. Great efforts have
been made to exterminate the vermin ; but still they are
not sensibly lessened. Many acres of wheat must be
sown again, and this again may fall a prey to their incur-
sions. Poison is laid in large quantities, which must take
effect, as the bait has disappeared by the morning. Mr.
W. Harlock has had men employed on his farm for some
time. past to take these animals, and they have destroyed
the almost incredible number of above 2,ooo.—Bury
Post, _ _

SHOOTING EXTRAORDINARY.—On Saturday, the 11th
instant, while James Rankine, gamekeeper to William
Forbes, Esq., of Callender, M.P., was hunting on the
Denovan estate, two snipes rose—one taking the right,
the other the left direction—both of which he imme-
diately brought down. His dogs soon after made a dead
stand, when two birds rose; a hare at the same time
starting from its den ; the dexterous eye of the sportsman
catching one of the birds and the bare in a straight line,
fired, when both fell, and then wheeling on his heel,
brought the other down also.—Stirling Journal.
DESTRUCTIVE FlRE.—Yesterday week a very extensive
conflagration broke out in the premises, formerly Bra-
mah's, but now belonging to Mr. Robinson, engineer, and
situate in Eaton-lane, Pimlico. The official superintendent
reports the entire destruction of the engineering and pat-
tern shops, with their valuable contents. No. 1, Belgrave-
street South, the school of industry of St. George's parish
has the roof of its workshops burned, and has its back
part extensively injured by fire. Nos. 3,4, 6,8, 10, and
11, in Upper Ranelagh-street, have their back premises
more or less injured. The house No. I, Eaton-lane, is
also much damaged at the back. Mr. Robinson is insured.
The amount of property consumed cannot yet be correctly
calculated. Some estimate it at £15,000, others at £20,000,
and others again at double that amount. The truth lies
probably between these two estimates.
AFFRAY WITH PoAcHERS.—We regret to learn that a
serious affray, between Lord Galloway's gamekeeper and
a party of poachers, took place on the farm of Penkiln, in
Sorbie parish, on Monday night week. It appears that
on that night Mr. Wright, his lordship's head game-
keeper, while on his rounds with five assistants, fell in
with a party of eight poachers, engaged in " netting"
hares. They were armed with pitchforks and sticks, and
had a double-barrelled gun among them ; part of them
having also their coats turned, to prevent detection. The
keepers having captured one of them, his companions
made a desperate attempt at his rescue, in which they
succeeded, having, we regret to learn, struck down and
severely wounded Mr. Wright on the head and different
parts of the body. Heron, another of the keepers, was
also knocked down by the poachers, who eventually made
off, leaving a hare and four rabbits. None of the party',
owing to the late hour (it being midnight), were identified,
though there is little doubt they must speedily fall into
the hands of justice. Superintendent Clelland, of the
Wigtownshire Police, was immediately despatched by the
authorities in search of the offenders.—Galloway Register.

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A MAN DROWNED IN BED.—On Friday night a
lighterman, named David Augin, moored his barge, which
was heavily loaden, close to the Temple, and went to bed
in the cabin. Upon the tide turning, the barge having
become firmly imbedded in the mud, did not rise with the
water, which flowed into the cabin where Augin slept, and
in the morning he was discovered a corpse, having been
suffocated in his bed by the water. The lifeless body of
the deceased is now awaiting the coroner's inquest. The
poor fellow has left a wife and family.—Observer.
LANDSLIP AT BRIGHTON, WITH LOSS OP LIFE.—•
On Wednesday morning several hundred tons of earth
and chalk slipped into the sea, near Kemp Town, Brigh-
ton, and, we regret to add, carried with it two men and a
boy, one of whom was killed on the spot. The three had
gone to the top of the cliff to look at the sea. When the
immense mass separated, Holden, the man nearest the
edge was thrown forward, and immediately buried in the
falling material, while the other two were carried on the
top of the foot of the cliff. They were rescued by some
of the coast guard, but it was nearly an hour before Holden
was dug out, when he was found to be quite dead.
A WHALE IN THE DOWNS.—During the last week one
of these monsters of the deep has been visiting our coast
in search of herrings, its favourite food, and was distinctly
seen on Sunday morning in the Downs, sending up its
natural fountains. On Tuesday it was seen off Dover
from the shore, and some men who were in a boat just as
it was approaching, had a narrow escape of an upset ; but
they luckily got on board a galliot which was passing at
the time, and saved themselves from a watery grave. The
finny giant is supposed to be upwards of 60 feet in length.
The herring fishery is progressing very slowly on this part
of the coast.—Dover Telegraph.
RESTITUTION.—On Thursday morning last, Mr. J.
H. Stephenson, draper, Oldham-street, received a letter,
bearing the Hull post-mark of November 15, and dated
that day, which is in the following terms;—" Dear Sir,—
God has brought me to an awful concern for my soul.
There is a wonderful revival spreading through this town
at present. Restitution has been insisted upon. Between
five and six years ago I robbed you of two pair of black
stockings. I have been sorely distressed about my
wickedness. Accept 55." The letter enclosed a post-
office order for ss. Mr. Stephenson says he was in bu-
siness in Hull, as a draper, five or six years ago, and he
supposes the theft referred to to have been committed by
some person shoplifting ; but he has not the slighest idea
of the party.—Manchester Guardian.
WHOLESALE CATTLE STEALING.—At the Eton Petty
Sessions, Mr. Larkins, an active constable of Iver, ap-
plied to the magistrates for a warrant to apprehend a well-
known calf-jobber, upon a charge of being concerned in an
extensive robbery of cattle from the Marsh Meadows, at
Upton, near Slough, on the night of the 12th inst., when
one red and six black heifers, worth from £lO to £l2
each, the property of Mr. John Pocock. an extensive far-
mer of Burnham, were driven clear off. Four of the beasts
have been traced from the meadows over D itchet and
Staines bridges, through Hounslow, up to Smithfield
market, where they were disposed of to a butch..r from
Canterbury. Two of these heifers, which were purchased
through the agency of a salesman at Smithfield, have been
given up to the owner. The man against whom the magis-
trates issued their warrant is supposed to beim

extensive gang who have been for some time past carrying
on their vocation in the neighbourhood of Sloug and
Maidenhead. A reward of 30 guineas has been offered
for the apprehensian of the theives.
LEVEN.—EXTENSIVE SEIZURE OF TOBACCO.
the morning of Sabbath last, a great quantity of smug-
gled tobacco, amounting to some tons in weight, was dis-
covered lying on the sea beach adjoining our harbour.
Such a discovery has naturally created a good deal of ex-
citement in this place, but how or where it came from re-
mains to be proved. However, it is generally believed
that the stock had been secreted in a house in town, and
that the parties, afraid of being discovered, had got it
conveyed to the shore in order to save themselves. The
whole has been taken possession of by the Custom-house
officers, and carted to a cellar in town, where it now lies
under Her Majesty's keys. Since writing the above,
other two discoveries have been made. The first, consist-
ing of six bags of leaf tobacco, was found secreted in
the sands between this and Largo ; the other was made
this morning (Tuesday) in the houses of two individuals
residing in Leven, and, it is said, consists of about 10 cwt.
of the best Cavendish ; making the seizures already ef-
fected somewhere about 3 tons, the value of which would
amount to about £1,320. An examination of the parties
implicated is just going on before the officials of the Cus-
tom-house.—Edinburgh Witness.

THE LATE MINISTRY.-At a dinner at Bristol, a few
days since, the liberal Earl Fitzharding thus spoke of his
friends, the late whig ministers :—" Everybody recollects
when a charge was brought against the late administration,
of whom the right hon. baronet at my side (Sir John C.
Hobhouse) formed a part—(cheers)—by Mr. Stanley,
with considerable ability. He charged Mr. Littleton,
now Lord Hatherton, with shoplifting—(a laugh)—and
went on afterwards to accuse the whole government of
thimblerigging. (Cheers.) Now, no man deplores the
loss of Mr. Stanley more than I do. His high character,
his splendid talents, his descent from one of the noblest
and most patriotic families in England, made men look up
to him as a leader, and I, as well as many others, would
have been glad to serve under him as common soldiers. I
can only now say for our party that we deeply deplore his
loss. (Cheers.) What comes, therefore, from such a
quarter must be necessarily worthy of attention. Mr.
Stanley charged them with thimblerigging, and it was clear
they did not like it. Nay, I must say, Ido not think
they very well got out of it. (Cheers and laughter.)"
EXTREMES OF AFFLUENCE AND MISERY.—It appears
from a report of the proceedings of the Marlborough-street
police-office, that there is an average number of fifty hu-
man beings, of all ages, who huddle together in the parks
every night, having no shelter than what is supplied by
the trees and hollows of the embankments. Of these the
majority are young girls, who have been seduced from the
country by the soldiers, and turned loose upon the world,
in all the destitution of friendless penury, and all the
recklessness of early vice. This is truly horrible. Poor
there must be everywhere. Indigence will find Its way
and set up its hideous state in the heart of a great and
luxurious city. Amid the thousand narrow lanes and by-
streets of a populous metropolis, there must always, we
fear, be much suffering—much that offends the eye—much
that lurks unseen. But that the precincts of wealth,
gaiety, and fashion, nigh the regal grandeur of St. James's,
close on the palatial splendour of Bayswater, on the con-
fines of the old and new aristrocratic quarters, in a district
where the cautious refinement of modern design has ab-
stained from erecting one single tenement for poverty;
which seems as it were, dedicated to the exclusive enjoy-
ment of wealth—that there, want, and famine, and disease,
and vice, should stalk in all their kindred horrors, con-
suming body by body, soul by soul! It is indeed, a mon
strous state of things.—Times.
A NOBLE INSOLVENT.—At the London Insolvent
Debtors' Court, on Tuesday, the Duke of Normandy was
brought up for examination. The schedule of this insol-
vent is a most extraordinary document, from which it
appears that his aggregate debts amounted to £5200 3s. 2d.,
of which £4959 3s. 2d. were debts for which he had re-
ceived consideration, contracted since January, 1839. He
attributed his insolvency to the non-completion of a war-
like invention for the English government, and to his
property being seized by Mr. Jackson. From 1839 to
1843, he stated that he had received from friends gifts
amounting to £4OOO. He had pledged plate and jewellery
amounting to £685. For his assets, he stated, that he
gave to his creditors " all his right and interest in the
castles of St. Cloud and Ramboullet, near Paris, in the
kingdom of France, which were purchased by his mother,
Marie Antoinette, who paid 80,000,0001. for them, and
they were her property; all his right and interest in the
hands of the English government, being the value of cer-
tain ships of war which were, by the authorities of the
city of Toulon, deposited in the hands of Admiral Hood,
about the year 1794, in trust, on account and for the be-
nefit of Louis XVII., Dauphin of France ; being about
the value of £262,000 ; and all his right and interest to
the throne of France, as lawful son and heir of Louis
XVI., late King of France."

WATER-SPOUTS.—EASDALE, NOVEMBER 18.—About
two o'clock this afternoon, two large waterspouts passed
this island. The day was very boisterous ; wind south-
west, with frequent and heavy showers of sleet and hail;
thunder and lightning. They were first observed about
eight or ten miles to south-west. As they approached,
they caused a good deal of alarm for the safety of the
village, as it appeared to lie in their course. We consi-
dered the rate of their motion about double that of a
good going steamer. They both kept the same tract,
about two miles separate. Their appearance was grand
and terrific, such as no description can do justice to.
Passing about half a mile's distance, they appeared like
two inverted cones suspended from a dark cloud. To-
wards the top or broad end, they differed but little in
consistence from the cloud above ; but increasing in
density downwards, and passing into a thin tube of water,
increasing in thickness as the tube decreased in diameter,
till within a third from the point, they appeared quite
solid, and shining like a large icicle. We considered
them to be, in appearance, about 200 feet in length, and
their lowest points about 300 feet above the sea ; which
was, right below them, much agitated by a violent whirl-
wind, raising a column of spray up to each of them like
the steam blown off from an immense steam boiler. This
spray appeared to feed the waterspouts, as it disappeared
as if condensed on arriving within range of their attrac-
tion. They continued their course unbroken after pas-
sing, till they were lost to us in the distance.—Glasgow
paper.

GRAVES OF THE FORGOTTON DEAD.—Several gentle-
men assembled on Eston Nab, one of the Cleveland hills,
on Thursday, the 9th instant, and, with the permission
of the Lord of the Manor (Martin Stapylton, Esq.,) pro-
ceeded to lay open two tumuli, or sephulcral mounds. No-
thing was discovered to gratify their curiosity, but an
empty excavation. The exploration, however, was very
imperfect, the workmen being afraid, from the ticklish
position in which they were placed, to encounter the peril
of great muscular exertion, in removing a large stone
which presented itself in their way. The second tumulus
was explored with greater success. A fine Roman urn
was found under a flat stone, containing a quantity of hu-
man bones—several portions of the skull, small bones,
and teeth : the teeth were in excellent preservation, after
being embedded in the earth upwards of half an inch in
thickness, and in colour resembling a common tile: it
had a broad rim round the top, and its sides marked in a
instrument.
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