The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-02 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Rom aNism.—The ceremony of laying the foundation-
stone of a new Catholic Chapel took place in the retired
village of Blackbrook, near St. Helen', on Monday last.
Much curiosity was excited at the west-end during the
last week by the commencement of the laying down of the
Indiarubber pavement in the court. yard of the Admiralty,
"Whitehall.
The Ebbw Vale and Sirhowy Works, which were adver-
tised to be sold on the 18th of April next, have been dis-
posed of by private contract, to the Coalbrook Dale Iron
Company, for £216,000.
The CARTOONS OF RAPHAEL.—There is at present an
artist busily occupied, by order of the King of Prussia, at
Hampton Court, copying, in the most elaborate manner,
these wonders of art.
Richard Dadd, the unfortunate artist, who murdered
his father, some time ago, is not likely to be brought to
trial. He will, probably, not long survive, as, according
to the Kentish Observer," his brain is wanting."
It is said that the postmaster-general, now Earl of
Lonsdale, intends to relinquish his office as soon as ar-
rangements can be made for the appointment of his suc-
cessor.—lforning Post.
By the death of the venerable and estimable Earl of
Lonsdale, a Blue Ribbon and Lord-Lieutenancies of the
counties of Westmoreland and Cumberland have become
at the disposal of the premier.
THE MARQUIS OF WESTMINSTER.—We regretto learn
that this nobleman continues seriously indisposed. Lord
Robert Grosvenor arrived at Eaton Hall on Wednesday
last.—Chester Chronicle.
THE FANCY FAIR IN THE THAMES TUNNEL.—A
"Fancy Fair" in the Thames Tunnel commenced on
Monday, and has been continued during the week, vast
numbers of persons having passed through the tunnel to
mix in the gay scene.
CHRISTCHURCH ELECTION: DEFEAT OF THE LEAGUE.
—At four, on Thursday, the numbers were—Hon. Capt.
Harris (conservative), 180 ; Tice (leaguer), 84. • The con-
stituency consists of 330 voters. At two a hand-bill was
issued, " The League are gone on a water excursion."
THE SEASON.—Covent-garden market, last week, was
supplied with green peas, French beans, cucumbers, straw-
berries, hot-house grapes, asparagus, rhubarb, sea-kale,
good cauliflower and brucoli, (abundant and cheap,) roses,
geraniums, camellias, lilacs, heaths, epacrises, and other
flowers, in rich and luxuriant bloom.
At Huntingdon assizes, on Wednesday week, Gifford
White, aged 18, pleaded guilty to a charge of sending a
letter to one Isaac Ilett, threatening to burn him and
other farmers in their beds, and alsa to destroy their pro-
perty. Lord Abinger sentenced him to be transported
for life.

COUNTY OF Bucxs.—lt is stated that Mr. Murray,
who has embraced the Roman Catholic doitrines, will
hold his seat for Buckinghamshire until September, when
the Marquis of Chandos will attain his majority and offer
himself a candidate for the representation of Buchingham-
shire in the room of Mr. Murray.
MURDER OF LORD GRANTLEY'S GAMEKEEPER.—
At the Kingston assizes, on Wednesday, James Elsley was
indicted for the wilful murder of James Edwards, a game-
keeper of Lord Grantley. The jury found the prisoner
guilty of manslaughter, and he was sentenced to trans-
portation for life.
SOUTHAMPTON, March 23.—1 t is generally reported
here, and I believe with accuracy, that the Oriental and
Peninsular Company have just purchased the Great
Western steam-ship, to ply between this port and Alex-
andria, thus showing that the company are not only not
unmindful of their own interest, but anxious to afford the
numerous passengers home and out to India the very best
possible accommodation.
THE FACTORY BlLL.—Memorials praying her Majesty
to dismiss Sir James Graham from her councils, have
been sent up from eighteen towns in Lancashire during
the last few days ; three from Manchester and one from
the following :—Preston, Blackburn, Burnley, Bury, Bol-
ton, Chorley, Chowbent, Bedford, Hindley, Wigan,
Warrington, Stockport, Hyde, Ashton, Oldham, Lees,
and Waterhead Mill.

PROTECTION OF AGRICULTURE.—The subscription to
the Yorkshire Protection Society now amounts to £8055;
the subscriptions to the Doncaster Local Society amount
to £525 2s. 6d. ; the subscriptions to the League Fund

from Doncaster and the neighbourhood is £5B Bs. ; a
sufficient evidence of the feeling of the town and neigh-
bourhood on the question of the corn laws.—Doncaster
Chronicle.

TRAGIC AL OCCURRENCE.—OR Tuesday, Mr. Baker
held an inquest at the New Globe Tavern, Mile-end-road,
London, on the body of George Furley, aged 18 months,
who was drowned by his mother, Mary Furley, in the
attempt to commit a double suicide by drowning herself
and child on Sunday night, in the Regent's canal, near
the Mile.end-bridge. The jury returned a verdict of
"wilful murder" against Mary Furley, who was com-
mitted to Newgate.
THE MANCHESTER GAS WORKS.—The Manchester
Gas Works are, no doubt, at the present time, the most
extensive in the kingdom ; but large as they are, a very
considerable addition is about being made to them by the
construction of another gasometer, which will contain
200,000 cubic feet. Whe this is completed, which no
doubt it will be during the coming autumn, the Manches-
ter Gas Works will contain gasholders for 1,300,000 cubic
feet of gas !
AMPUTATION DURING MESMERIC SLEEP.—The Wol-
verhampton Chronicle records a case of amputation of the
arm being performed on an inhabitant of that town, named
Morrison, aged 45, while the patient was in a mermeric
sleep. ur contemporary says, "In one minute Mr.
Dunne performed the operation very neatly ; the cutting
the flaps and the dividing the bone by the nippers was
watched with breathless scrutiny by all present, but not
a muscle quivered, nor did a sigh escape."

WILFUL Loss OF A VESSEL.—On Friday last William
Read, shipowner, of Ipswich, and William Simpson, com-
mander of the brig Colina, which was lost off the coast of
holland, was finally examined, at the Mansion-house, on
the charge of having conspired to sink that vessel for the
purpose of defrauding the Marine Assurance Company.
The case against them appears to be very strong. The
witnesses were bound over to appear and give evidence at
the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court, at which
the prisoners are to take their trial.

BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY COMPANY.—
The half-yearly meeting of the above company was held
on Wednesday, at Bristol. The total receipts were
£599,611 17s. 4d. Expenditure to June, 1843,£307,372
3s. 9d. ; ditto for the last half year, £115,855 6s. 9d. ;
making a total of £423,227 10s. 6d., and leaving a balance
in the hands of the bankers and in securities of £176,385
6s. 9d. A dividend of £2 10s. per cent. for the half year
ending June, 1843, amounting to £1,125, was declared,
leaving a balance available for a dividend for the half year
ending 30th December, 1843, of £1,155 13s. 3d.

DEPRECIATION OF MINING PROPERTY.-The Cwm
Celyn and Blaina iron works, Monmouthshire, were on
Wednesday last brought to the hammer by Messrs. Fair-
brother and Co., at Garraway's. The above valuable pro-
perty cost the company above £400,000; the biddings
commenced at 40,000 guineas, and the property was, after
some spirited bidding, ultimately knocked down at 50,000
guineas. The freehold land situate at Cwm Celyn,
abounding with minerals, comprising 101 a. lr. 3p., with
the coals and minerals under 14a. 2r. 9p.—£7,ooo.—Bath
Journal.

MOST MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—An inquest was held
in the Town-hall, Preston, on Monday, on the body of a
roan named Joseph Ainsworth, a steam-loom weaver, who
had become a patient in the House of Recovery, and had
on Saturday night week, while labouring under insanity,
and during the temporary absence of an attendant, got up
from his hed, and forced himself up the chimney, a fire
being in the grate at the time, by which he got so shock-
ingly burnt, as to cause his death, in about three minutes
after he had been extricated from the alarming situation
in which he had placed himself.
THE INFERNAL MACHINE AGAIN !—About half-past
one o'clock, on Saturday morning, some murderous ras-
cal threw a tin case loaded with gunpowder, into the bed-
room window of Mr. George Gillott, file grinder, residing
at 197, Granville-street, Sheffield. Mr. and Mrs. Gillott,
with an infant, were at the time in bed ; but on jumping
out, Mr. Gillott saw the fuse burning, and very wisely
got his wife and child down stairs as quickly as possible.
They had scarcely, however, crossed the lower room to-
wards the door, when the explosion 'took place—shaking
down part of the ceiling of the bedroom, and breaking
every pane in the window, with a part of the sash also.
A COSTLY WlNDOW.—Messrs. Kendall, Milne, and
Faulkner, the eminent haberdashers, at the Bazaar,
Deansgate and Police-street, Manchester, have just had
completed one of the most, if not the most, expensive and
gorgeous windows in the kingdom, at all events out of
London. The window is 42 feet in width by 12 feet in
height, and contains, with the glass in the doors, &c.,
upwards of 650 superficial feet of plate glass, and is said
to have cost between £5OO and £6OO. It is a decided
treat, and of no common order, to view this splendid
work of art. Mr. Frank Bellhouse has the merit, it is
said, of the design. It is, though plain and substantial,
still most gorgeous withal.
ECONOMY AT COURT.—The royal establishment at
Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace are undergoing
a total revision and arrangement, to come into operation
on and after the 30th inst. The rota of " the waits of the
lords and ladies of the bedchambers, maids of honour,
grooms, equerries, &c., is to be more strictly observed
than has hitherto been the case, Both the state pages
are placed on the retired list ; four or five of the other
pages have been discharged, and the duty of the remain-
der rendered permanent, instead of having alternate
months of close waiting. The number of the gentlemen
porters has been reduced, and many of the male and fe-
male domestics of the royal household discharged.
CONFERENCE OF OPERATIVE MINER'S ASSOCIATION.
—A conference of about 100 delegates from the mining
• districts of England, Scotland, and Ireland, has been
sitting last week in the Mechanics' Hall, Trongate, Glas-
gow to petition Parliament against the bill in reference to
masters and servants, and for the more effectual recovery
of wages before justices. It appeared from some subse-
quent proceedings, that the delegates present represent
44,000 members of the Miner's Association, chiefly in
England. The question of a general strike of colliers,
was discussed on Tuesday. The votes of the delegates,
as representing their respective constituencies, were
given as under :
For a strike
Against it 28,042
For a partial strike
Showing a clear majority of 3157 against any strike. On
Wednesday the delegates had under consideration the
propriety of a strike in Northumberland and Durham,
and it was agreed that the miners in those districts should
be allowed to drop work on the sth of April, when their

The Times states that Lord Brougham is seeking the
Lieutenancy of the County of Westmorland, and Sir
James Graham, Bart., that of the County of Cumberland,
both vacant by the decease of the late Earl of Lonsdale.
The Journalist recommends that both offices should be
conferred upon the present Earl of Lonsdale, as both the
Noble ex-Chancellors and the Home Secretary have been
rejec•ed by the parliamentary constituencies of the respec-
tive counties.
"A GREAT FACT."—A Preston correspondent of the
Morning Herald, alluding to the subscribers in that town
to the League Fund, states that the relative respectability
and influence of the firms may in some degree be esti-
mated by the horse-power used in the manufactories.
The power used by the Leaguers (exclusive of Messrs.
Horrocks, Miller, and Co., the firm of which are divided
in opinion) is 160 horses; the power of the Anti-Leaguers
(also exclusive of Messrs. Horrocks, Miser, and C 0.,) is
1306 horses. The above facts speak for themselves.
A CUTTING DUT DESERVED IiEDUKE.—At the Lewes
Assizes last week, on the special jury cause of Putland v.
Troup being called on, one of the jurors, on his taking the
book, to be sworn, said he wished to now, being, as a
Roman catholic, deprived of his civil rights in other
respects, whether be was eligible to serve the office of a
juror. Mr. Baron tklderson looked up to the gentleman
and said, " How can you be so foolish? I cannot think
how a man can make such a goose of himself. Don't be
such a goose."
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—About four o'clock on Satur-
day afternoon, a young woman, dressed as a servant, was
observed to mount the parapit at the middle recess of the
Blackfriars Bridge, and would no doubt have precipitated
herself into the river but for a gentleman who was pas-
sing seizing her by a portion of her gown. Being thus
foiled in her rash attempt, she broke away from those who
held her and ran with the fleetness of a deer down the
steps of the bridge, closely followed however, by police
constable 368, who succeeded in arresting her further
progress within a few steps of the bottom. A desperate
struggle however now took place between her and the
constable, during which her clothes were much torn before
she was properly secured.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT MANCHESTER.—A calamitous
accident occurred on Wednesday last at Manchester.
The New Bailey bridge is now re-building, to effect which
a temporary railway had to be thrown across the river,
whose only supports were two beams on which the rails
were laid, and on which also a moveable crane was made
to traverse. Whilst five or six men were in the act of
raising one of the wood centres for the principal ash, esti-
mated to weigh nine tons, one of the beams suddenly
snapped asunder, by which the men, centre, crane, and
beams, were precipitated into the river. One of the men
was killed, three others very severely maimed, (legs and
arms broken,) the rest of the men slightly wounded. It

is marvellous that none of the men were drowned.

The HOUSE OF SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN.--In Fri-
day-street, Cheapside, a short time ago stood the house
which was in the occupation of Sir Christopher Wren,
the eminent architect, during the erection of St. Paul's
Cathedral, and which adjoined the church of St. Mat-

thew, Friday-street. In the course of pulling down the
building, which was sold a few weeks ago, and which is
now nearly level with the ground, several silver and cop-
per coins were found in the joists of the flooring by some
of the workmen. The silver coins were of the reign of
Queen Elizabeth, some being in good preservation. The
copper coins were of an earlier period. The foundation
walls were of extraordinary thickness, a portion of which
formed part of the Saracen's Head, which is also taken
down.

SERIOUS PRACTICAL JOKE.—On Wednesday five men,
without invitation, took possession of the cabin of the
Robert and Elizabeth, a small craft lying at the Marsh
End, Preston, and with the utmost sang frond, seated
themselvei around the fire, to await the abatement of a
snow storm, then passing over. The sailors, not relish-
ing the company of the new comers, advised them to de-
part, but this request being unheeded, the Jacks coolly
fastened down the scuttle, and threw a quantity of sul-
phur down the chimney pipe, blocking up the orifice with
a wet sack. After a short time had elapsed, and Jack had
enjoyed his joke sufficiently, the cabin was re-opened, and
it was then found that the inmates (a lot of carters) were
in a state of insensibility. One suffered a great loss of
blood from the nose and ears ; and it was riot till after
great exertions that all were properly restored.
A SERMON TWICE PREACHED.—On Sunday even-
ing a somewhat novel scene took place in Islington
Church. It having been announced that the Rev. Stephen
Bridge, M.A., who for the last foal. years has been the
evening lecturer, and whose talents have deservedly gained
for him great popularity, would preach a " farewell ser-
mon," long before the time appointed for opening the
doors of the sacred edifice, immense crowds had assem-
bled round the church in their anxiety ter gain admission.
The church having been, during the performance of divine
service and the delivery of a most eloquent and affection-
ate discourse, crowded to excess, it was announced to the
preacher that the multitudes without the walls exceeded
that within, when the rev. gentleman, in compliance with
the often-repeated wish, although much exhausted, kindly
consented to return to the pulpit, and there,. to a fresh
congregation, delivered his sermon a second time. It was
past ten o'clock before the service concluded.
FATAL FIGHT.—On Wednesday last an inquest was
held at the Town-hall, Derby, over the body of William
Baker, aged 24. On the previous clay, deceased and ano-
ther individual named Lee, who is only 19 years of age,
quarrelled about their respective right to a shilling which
had been given to one of them, and they went into a field
on the Uttoxeter road to fight, by way of settling the
difference. When they got into the field they stripped,
and a young man named George Hollis acted as-second
for Baker, and another, named Gervase Fletcher, acted as
Lee's friend. They fought four rounds, and then the
deceased fell, having previously received several severe
blows About the heart from John Lee. When he was
down he exclaimed "Oh I dear." These were the only
words he uttered. The jury returned a verdict of "man-
slaughter " against John Lee, Gervase Fletcher, and
George Hollis; and Lee and Fletcher were committed for
trial, under the coroner's warrant, at the present assizes.
Hollis has absconded.—Derby Reporter.
MAD DOGS.—DESTRUCTION OF CATTLE.—The neigh-
bourhood of Kirkwhelpington and Birtley, Northumber-
land, has at various times, within the last three months,
been subjected to much alarm by the visits of dogs-in a
rabid state. No fewer than seven of these animals have
been killed—all strangers, and principally of the mixed
breed between the terrier and bull or mastiff. The injury
they have done is excessive. On their first appearance
the inhabitants, with praiseworthy care, raised the hue
and cry, and pursued them to the death. All dogs bitten
were at once destroyed ; which, in itself, although impe-
ratively necessary, is a severe injury in a district where
the services of that valuable animal cannot be di pensed
with. Amongst the farm stock bitten, and which have
died of hydrophobia, may he enumerated thirteen sheep
and four head of cattle at Westharle ; a number of sheep
at Sweethope, Birtley. and Cornsacre ; a horse at Gun-
nerton, and likewise a sow in that neighbourhood.—
Gateshead Observer.
THE COLLECTIVE' WISDOM.—Never was there a more
extraordinary spectacle than the House of Commons pre-
sents at this moment as recards the factory bill. The
genius of inextricable confusion pervades it. Na Whig
knows where to look for a brother Whig—no Tory for a
brother Tory. The opponents of the government sit on
the treasury benches, and not a few of their supporters on
ik , that bl k, inhospitable side of the house where "loaves
and fi " are phenomena often heard of, but seldom met
with. e effect produced on the spectator by this strange
confounding of parties is the most startling and grotesque
it is possible to conceive. He sees a member jest rise be-
hind Sir James Graham, and within a couple of inches of
the Premier's coat skirts, for the express purpose of de-
nouncing the conduct of these two unhappy baronets;
and 10, before he has time to recover his astoni-hment tir
his open act of mutiny, he sees another member rise from
the opposition side and defend the government with spite
and earnestness beautifully inconsistent with his locality.
—Sun. _ . .

A GLOUCESTER JURYMAN.—At the Gloucestershire
adjourned sessions last week, a girl named Adams was
tried for stealing a pint of brandy, a bottle, and other arti-
cles, the property of her master, M:. Thomas, and was
acquitted. After the verdict was given, the prosecutor
began collecting his property together, and missed the
bottle of brandy ; search was made for it round the table,
when some one present said he saw one of the jurymen
with it in his hand drinking the bra y. Mr. Carter,
counsel for the prosecution, then state hat fact publicly
to the ceairman, and applied to have it restored to the
prosecution. The chairman said to the jury "Is that true,
gentlemen ? I hope you are not guilty of such conduct as
that ; " notwithstanding which, another of the jury in-
stantly put the bottle to his mouth, and swallowed the
remainder of the brandy, nearly a quarter of a pint. The
Chairman and Mr. Carter remonstrated, and said such
conduct was extremely disgraceful, particularly sitting as
he did in a public court of justice, and exercising the office
of an English juryman.—Gloucester Chronicle.

INVESTITURE OF MR. O'CONNELL WITH THE ORDER
OF ST. JOSEPH AND MARY.—On Sunday evening Mr.
O'Connell was " solemnly admitted into the guild
ceremony
of the
holy order of St. Joseph and Mary. " T
was performed by the Rev. Messrs. Vloore andnmer at
y
Virginia Chapel, Ratcliffe-highway, London. About
-half-past three in the afternoon, Mr. O'Connell made his
appearance, and was greeted with rapturous applause by
some thousands of the lower orders of his fellow country-
men. Having dined with the priests and some other per-
sons connected with the chapel, at seven o'clock the usull
service began. Vespers being ended, Father Moore ad-
dressed the members of the guild, and alluded to Mr.
O'Connell as the most illustrious layman of the Roman
Catholic Church. These, he said, were the words of the
Pope. Mr. O'Connell was then habited iu a green silk
cloak, lined with white silk and trimmed with ermine,
having on its front a cross of solid gold. A cap of Guano
velvet was placed on his head. Some other religious ex-
ercises were performed, and the congregation dispersed.
NOVEL SYSTEM OF FRAUD•--SeVeral tradesmen, prin-
cipally woollen drapers residing at the west-end, have, in
a very novel and artful manner, been " victimised" to a
considerable extent. It appears that some months ago a
parcel, containing the halves of Bank of England and
provincial notes to a large amount. was forwarded from
Leicestershire to London, and that the said parcel was by
some means or other stolen. Within the last two or three
weeks no fewer than six drapers have received letters pur-
porting to come from Brighton and Dover, and in which
they were requested to send immediately ten yards of
superfine black cloth, at £1 per yard, in paymentr whieh
two halves of stolen " f
fives' were inclosed, with an
mation that the other halves would, upon the
The receipt of
the goods, transmitted by the earliest post. c
was sent, as per order, to the new ready-money customer,
and, as the first halves were not perfected by the other
promised remittance, inquiries were, of course, instituted,
when it was discovered that the bird had floc, n frrm
Brighton and Dover, at which places he had occupied
apartments for a tew days, and then decamped.

REBECCA RIOTERS.—A number of cases of Rebeccaism
I were tried at the Carwarhen Assizes the week before last.
The following were the results :—John Harris, David
Thomas, David Williams, Job Evans, Isaac Charles, and
John Lewis, who had been found guilty of the riot at the
Carmarthen workhouse, were sentenced—John Harris to
one year's imprisonment, with hard labour, and the rest
to eight months' imprisonment. Thomas Hughes, John
Jones, and Benjamin Jones, for demolishing the Pontar-
Benham toll-gate, were sentenced to one year's hard labour.
David Lewis, Jonathan Jones, Howell Lewis, Jonathan
Lewis, and David Davies, convicted of a riot at Talog,
were sentenced to eight months' hard labour each. David
Thomas, John Jones, Evan Davis, John Thomas, Thomas
Thomas, John Thomas, and David Evans, for the bur-
glary at Pantyfen, were sentenced—David Thomas to
transportation for 20 years, and the whole of the others
to transportation for 10 years. After the passing of this
sentence a most heart-rending scene took place in court.
The families of the unhappy transports threw themselves
into a perfect frenzy of grief. Sobs and cries were heard
on all sides, and there was scarcely a dry eye in the court.
EXPORT OF VALUABLE HORSES.—The season for the
exportation of horses has set in in good earnest, the steam-
ship Queen of Scotland, having, on Saturday last, taken
out for Hamburg a fine collection of twenty-three excel-
lent horses and mares, including one thorough-bred entire
horse, one thorough-bred mare, ten mares, and geldings
of superior quality. On Tuesday she was followed by the
Leeds, which steamer took out a smaller number, but
very valuable stud. They inclUded twelve steeple-chasers
and race horses. Mr. Bonsell has also in his stables the
celebrated Brocklesby steeple-chaser, Newcastle Tommy,
a fine grey mare, lately rode by Mr. Owston, of Brigg;
Rocket, and several other superior Lincolnshire hunters,
purchased by Mr. Nevins, and destined for Vienna. Mr.
Bamberger and Mr. Fanstenburg, both of Berlin, have
been for some days in the neighbourhood, and the latter
gentleman, we learn, ships this day froth the Paragon Inn
stables an entire horse by Little John, and a prime string
of twenty-one superior mares and geldings ; whilst Mr.
Bamberger, we understand, is preparing for shipment, in
the course of the week, about forty other horses, the
greater part of which have already arrived in the town.—
Hull Herald cif Thursday.
DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF THE TURN-OUT COL-
LIERS.—On Monday, two of Messrs. Field, Cooper, and
Co.'s men, John Oldfield and John Bateman, were com-
mitted by the sitting magistrates, Barnsley, to Wakefield
House of Correction, for trial at Pontefract Sessions, for
a most violent assault upon one of Messrs. Field and Co.'s
men, on the night of Friday last. He was returning from
his work, and was seizes by the two men named, and with
the assistance of a number of women, who are a disgrace
to their sex, he was stripped naked, pelted with stones,
dirt, and anything that was near at hand, and was com-
pelled to walk home in a state of nudity, for a distance of
half a mile, surrounded by a mob of upwards of 100 per-
sons; and when he got home they surrounded his house,
and sung the Union Hymn, and threatened him in the most
violent manner, adding they would make him as he could
not work. There are huncreds f colliers in this neigh-
bourhood who are willing to work, but dare not for the
unionists, and are thereby actually starving. This is said
to be a Chartist movement, and it will be well for the au-
thorities to be on the look out. From what we can hear
of the eight hours system which the colliers are about to
turn-out for, many men will not be able to earn a liveli-
hood.—Doncaster Gazette.

ACCIDENT FROM AN AVALANCHE.-012 Monday last,
the 18th instant, as a party of shepherds were out on
Longdale Fells—situate betwixt Orton and the Yorkshire
mountains—they had to encounter most formidable drifts
of snow, in order to rescue the sheep from their ley pri-
sons. Edward Wilson, yeoman, of Long Gills, was un-
der the necessity of walking on a very steep acclivity,
when the snow suddenly began to move in an immense
volume from under his feet, with such velocity that the
young man was unable to keep his body in an upright po-
sition ; the rapid progress of the avalanche—for such it
really was—making him excessively giddy. He managed,
however, to sit as long as he could, till, having descended
to a rocky precipice, where, about 50 years ago, a person
of the name of James Atkinson was unfortunately killed
under similar circumstances, he, the shepherd in question,
was dreadfully injured by the concussion occasioned by
the stoppage. He nevertheless had presence of mind
enough to tie his handkerchief or neckcloth round his
head; to which probably he owed his preservation, as
although he bled considerably, he did not lose conscious-
ness, and, on the whole, was much lese injured than might
have been anticipated under the circumstances, and in a
place so dangerous. On reaching home, Mr. Noble, sur-
geon, of Orton, was promptly in attendance ; and we have
much pleasure in stating that he is now in a fair way to
recover.—Kendal Mercury.
MELANCHOLY SUICIDE BY A YOUNG LADY.--"On'
Friday an inquest was held, at the Globe, Moorgate, on
Miss Martha Sale, aged V, living with her parents at No.
47, Finsbury-circus, her father being clerk to Mr. Ross,
leather dresser, in Bermondsey. On Wednesday evening
she was in an unusual flow of spirits, and passed the even-
ing at her sister's in Calthorp-place, Gray's lnn-road,
where her manner was volatile and excited. On arriving
at home in the evening, she amused her parents with a
spirited detail of what had taken place at the small tea-
party at her sister's, and retired to rest still in high spirits.
At seven o'clock the ensuing morning she was found dead,
suspended by the neck from her bedroll by a handker-
chief, and this note to her sister left on the dressing table :
—" My dearsister, I hardly know what I am doing, but
I have finished the lace cap I have been at work at, and
trimmed the handkerchief, which I' enclose. God bless
you, my beloved sister. All I bevels for you. M. Sale,
March 20." For the past six weeks it appeared she had
been alternately depressed and exbilirated in her manner.
Her depression was thought to proceed. from the fact that
her mother was in bad health,. and that she herself was
becoming thin and weak. Half-sb-down phials tbat bad
contained laudernutOrwete found 'ln-her roosnolftiriWgittc
doubt that her excitement was caused on recent occasions
by her partaking of it. The surgeon considered that hang-
ing was the immediate cause of death, and the 'taking
opium prior to it was the remote cause; the reasoning
faculties would be ultimately depressed by partaking of
the drug, so as to border on insanity. Verdict,—" Tem-
porary Insanity.
ANONYMOUS- LETTER WRIT?NG.—A well-conducted
female servant,. who had been dismissed from her servi-
tude in a highly respectable family in Hereford, for tell-
ing a falsehood by denying she had a " follower,"
drowned herself- in the Wye about nine days since, her
body being picked up on Friday sen'night, about a mile
from the house 6f a relation with whom she had found
an asylum. There is too much reason to believe that this
unhappy and ill-fated girl was the victim of the heartless
calumnies of one of her own sex !' An anonymous-letter
in a feminine hand, was addressed to the mistress of the
deceased, cautioning the lady of the equivocal character
and something worse of the maid-servant, and broadly
hinting at acts of profligacy upon the part of the girl,
which, if true, would have seriously affected her reputa-
tion. The contents of the letter were communicated to
the accused and the rest of the household, and its pur-
port, as a consequence, was also soon known to some of
the other servants residing in the neighbourhood. The
deceased, in the innocence of her nature, detailed the
slanderous imputations to hen lover, to whom she was
going to be married, and for whose reception, upon the
prospect of a happy union taking place, a house had been
furnished. The infamous insinuation preyed so much on
her sensitive and outraged feelings, that notwithstanding
her betrothed scouted the charge with scorn, yet life be-
came intolerable to the poor girl, and the destruction of
her own existence becarr e (in a moment when.relson was
overpowered by despair) the only apparent means of es-
cape from the fangs of her secret persecutors.—Glouces-
ter Journal. _ _

A GHOST STORY.—OH Tuesday morning, a rumour
prevail. din the town of Ramsey, Huntingdonshire, that a
man and his wife of the name of Inger& n, had been visited
the previous night by a ghost, in the shape of a woman
dressed in white. Ingerson stands upwards of six feet,
and is proportionately stout, and lives in p.trt of a house
which communicates internately with the other part. He
went to bed coyly the preceding night with his wife ; and
about twelve o'clock they heard their bedroom door open
-and shut, and, on lookic g up, werehorrtfied at beholding
the object alluded to. Ingerson, with great awe and fear,
muttered, " in the name of .he Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Ghost, what dost thou here x " To
wh"ch he received no reply. but was seized by it, and near-
ly dragged out of bed ; thus showing that if not an able-
bodied, it was a powerful ghost, to move the body of In-
gerson against his will. The gho-t then slammed the door
to, as if in anger. probably at not being able to make away
to of her regions the inanimate Ingerson. At four o'clock,
it repeated the vi-it, and paid the same attention to Inger-
soll, leavirlit in the like unceremonious manner. On the
following night, to test this relation, a primitive preacher,
named Poole, slept with Ingerson, when they were again
visited ; but what further occurred neither Mr. Poole nor
Ingerson deign to tell, and further resolve never to relate
to mortal. This last inter% iew has been so fir satisfactory,
that the ehost is never to appear again, either to Ingerson
or his wife, or any otht r person ; Pot le having completely
subdued" the wandering spirit, " and "hurried it to its
confines." Such is the true version of ,this marvellotts
tale, a great portion of the inhabitants entirely believing
it,e shuddering with
and thertwdrea attheaw
courage,fup a
l ognd powersexperi e
n c-
d by Ingerson, of
Poole.—Cambridge paper.

AFFECTING CAsa.—ln the London Insolvent Debtors'
Court last week, Morris Humphreys was opposed by Mr.
T. B. Hughes for Richard Wiliam's, a groom, residing in
William-street, Lisson-grove. In this ciie a melancholy
picture presented itself. The insolvent was a decrepid
old man, and his hair, white with age, hung in clusters
about his venerable face. He had been thrown into pri-
son by his son-in-law for a small debt incurred for the ne-
cessaries of I:fe, and there he remained a long time
neglected and forgotten by all the world except his daugh-
ter (the wife of the creditor,) who clung to her helpless
parent with filial tenderness, and found the means to
enable him to apply to the laws of his country for that
mercy which was denied him by his relative. His daugh-
ter's career was remarkable. She began life in the capa-
city of a servant in a family of respectability named East-
hope, and her virtues gained her the heart of her master s
son, who married her ; but three days after the wedding
her husband was cut off by an accident. The family with
which she had thus become connected generously settled
upon her an annuity of £lOO per annum, upon which she
immediately made a moiety of her allowance to her pa-
rents. Subsequently she married again ; but, after nine
weeks, a separation took place. Her husband (Williams)
then sued her father for a debt of about £5 or £6 for
I oa d, by which means the old man's debt was augmented
to£lo, and this was the total amount of the Habilitates
in
his schedule. The appearance of the old man and his
fruilltul daughter, who was tffectionately tending him,
Harris, on learning the facts, inquired
ex-
cited a general feeling of St mpathv. The learned Com-
missioner
the opppegmg
in the affirmative,whether
creditor was pre-ent, and on being answered
he had any
Alt to be discharglede
shame in him ? The court directed the basal-tiontatbiz:trlh:v 'asked the man wheiber