The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-06 00:00:00

246,276, in all, 1,123,935 barrels

corn was remarkable.

In 1845, the import was 37,000

quarters—in 1846, 192,000 quarters. The stock at pre-
sent in Liverpool is 34,000 barrels of flour, free and in
bond, and about 200,000 quarters of wheat, free and in

The other grain may be estimated at 100,000

bond.
quarters
DEFEND A MAN FROM HIS FRlENDS.—Nicholas
Birrell, a brawny specimen of Erin's sons, was on Thurs.

day charged at the Police court with having attempted to
disencumber the feet of James Donnelly of a pair of boots,

chasers, at prices varying from ss. 3d. to 7s. 6d. Twenty-
three lots were undisposed of, and eighteen were sold.
The Cemetery estate, which is situate at Flaybrick-hill,
is composed principally of land situated between Colches-
ter -road and Tollemache-road, and comprises, besides
fronts to these roads, two streets, called Hanmer-street
and Redesdale-street. The estate was divided into eight
lots, but only one lot found a bidder. The whole estate
was put up at 4s. 9d. the square yard, but no person of-
fering, each lot was taken separately. The first, which
contained 34.000 square yards, upset price ss. 3d. Lot 2.
13,759 square yards, upset price ss. 3d. Lot 3. 24735
2-ninths square yards, upset price ss. 3d. Lot 4. 1,608
4-ninths square yards, upset price 7a. 3d. ; purchased by
Mr. Cole for Bs. 3d. Lot 5. 27,714 square yards, upset
price 4s. 9d. Lot 6. 20,662 _square yards, upset price
4s. 9d. Lot 7. 26,365 square yards, upset price 3s. 9d.
Lot 8. 18,307 1-ninth square yards, upset price 3s. 3d.
The Forest estate, which is situated between Forest-road
and Shrewsbury-road, forming Greene-street, was divided
into eight lots. The whole was put up at ss. 3d. per
square yard, but no advance was made, and each lot was
taken separately. No bidder appeared for any of the
lots, and they were all withdrawn at the following prices :
Lot 1 contained 9,024 square yards, 4s. 9d. Lot 2. 7,656
square yards, 4s. 9d.. Lot 3. 11,320 square yards,
ss. 3d. Lot 4. 7.650 square yards ss. 3d. Lot 5. 7,540
square yards ss. 9d. Lot 6. 8,249 square yards ss. 9d.
Lot 7. 7,028 square yards ss. 3d. Lot 1. 7,443 square
yards ss. 9d. The third division of the property com-
prised land situate:between Laird-street, (being a conti-
nuation of Conway-street) and Brassey-street, and was
divided into four lots. The whole was offered for Bs. 9d.
per yard, but no purchaser appearing, each lot was taken.
Lot 1, containing 5395 square yards, at Ils. 9d. Lot 2.
9.115 square yards, 9s. 9d. Lot 3. 10,963 square yards,
10s. 3d., and sold to Mr. Richard Watson for 10s. 6d.
The fourth division comprised a piece of land situate on
the north side of Conway-street, and bounded on the
north by Beckwith-street, on the east by a street 50 feet
wide, called Livingston-street, and on the west by Prince
Edward-street, and containing in front to Conway-street
and Beckwith-street, severally, 150 feet 6 inches, and in
front to Livingston-street aforesaid, and also on the west
side of Prince Edward-street, severally, 466 feet, and con-
taining in the whole 7.792 5-9ths superficial square yards.
The upset price for this lot was 13s. 3d. per yard, but no
offer was made. The fifth division comprised land situate
immediately adjoining to the new market, with frontages
to Market-street, Hamilton-street, Oliver-street, and the
market. The upset price for the whole was £3s 3s. per
yard, but no bid was made. This completed the sale.
At the close the auctioneer announced that the whole of
the lots unsold would be sold at 4d. a yard advance upon
the upset price. Several lots of the Park land then found
purchasers by private treaty, at the price stated. Land
exceeding in value £40.000 was sold.

ANNIVERSARY OF THE NEWTON FARMERS'

SOCIETY.

On Thursday last, the anniversary of this little society,
which was established in February, 1845, "to promote
improvement in agriculture, and to reward the skill and
industry of the cottagers and farm labourers among the
tenantry of Thomas Legh, Esq.," took place at Newton-
in-the-Willows. The show was held in the timber-yard
of Mr. Legh. The exhibition, as might be supposed from
the restrictions of the rules, was not very large, but its
quality was of a very superior character.
. Four splendid bulls were shown, and the prize was
awarded to Mr. John Hatton, of Warrington.
For the dairy cows' prize there were eleven competitors,
and the prize was awarded to Mr. Thomas Boardman, of
Newton ; Mr. J. Ward, of Warrington, carried off the
second prize. For the class under three years old there
were seven competitors; and Mr. William Clarke, of the
Legh Arms, Newton, carried off the prize. Under two
years old there were nine competitors. Here Mr, Joseph
Livesley, of Goulbourne, bore away the bell, exhibiting
two very superior animals, one of which obtained the
prize, and the other was highly commended.
Two splendid stalions were shown, of a most beautiful
description, by Mr. William Johnson, and Mr. Richard
Groves, both of Haydock. The prize was awarded to the
first.
Four excellent pairs of draught horses were exhibited,
which certainly eclipsed those exhibited at Liverpool and
Manchester. Mr. Andrew Camm, of Newton, carried
away the prize.
Only two boars were shown; that of Mr. William Ox-
ley, of Warrington, received the prize. Mr. Ball, of
Newton, was the other exhibitor. Six sows for breeding
were shown, of a remarkably good kind. Mr. Thomas
Boardman, of Newton, won the prize. Mr. Job Ashton
and Mr. William Brown were the only exhibitors of fat
pigs •, the former won the prize.
The vegetables were greatly admired. Mr. Job Ashton,
of Newton, showed the best basket of vegetables ; the
cabbages of Mr. Peter Brown, who was second best, were
wonderfully large and solid. The roots, particularly the
mangel wurzels, and a new kind of turnips, were exceed-
ingly good.
In the evening a large party of farmers sat down in the
Conservative-hall, to dinner, served up by Mr. Clark,
of the Legh Arms. The prizes were distributed to the
successful competitors, as well as for the best managed
farms, for draining, for laying down grass, for fencing,
for marling, for reservoirs, and for crops. The judges,
who, we must not omit to state, gave great satisfaction
by the impartiality of their awards, were Mr. William
Bothwell, of Winwick ; Mr. Kay, of Clifton-hall ; and
Mr. Best, of Lyme-park.

THE DISASTER TO THE GREAT BRITAIN.

On Wednesday a letter was received from Captain
Hosken, in which after specifying several things required
for the purpose of getting the vessel off the bank, he says
" the weather is now moderate, but rainy. The ship
makes very little water. I hope to commence discharging
coals to-day. Captain Claxton came yesterday. Many
thanks for all your expressions of sympathy and good
feeling. I want them all, I assure you ; but my own
conscience acquits me of blame, and so does Captain
Claxton, who told me so yesterday."
Captain Claxton, a director of the Company, has pub-
lished a letter to the Times and another to his colleagues.
In the former he corrects a report which had been circu-
lated injurious to the character of the countrypeople near
Dundrum bay. He says that nothing could exceed their
desire to alleviate the misfortunes of all concerned. In
the second letter he details at considerable length the par-
ticulars of this unfortunate occurrence. Be gives the fol-
lowing extract from the log, and other particulars :
"At 12h. 50m. pm. discharged pilot. At Ih. abreast
of the Bell Buoy, speed 11 knots, wind southerly ; set
maintopsail and topgallantsail and foresail (foretopsail had
been previously set ;) course N.W. by N. At 41i., fresh
breezes and thick hazy weather. sh. 30m. saw the land
on starboard bow distinctly through the rain. 7h. 30m.
in mizen spencer. 811. 15m. observed Calf of Man Light
bearing N.N.W. half W., altered course to N. by W.
811. 30m. in first and second reef of foretopsail and single-
reefed the maintopsail. At 9h., squared the yards.
9h. 30m., in foresail, while taking it in saw land on star-
board bow ; stopped engines, put helm hard-a-port, re-
versed engines full speed ; ship came up to N.N.E., af-
terwards to N.E. and stopped ; clewed sails up." [Then
follow details of proceedings as to after occurrences, when
she was thumping and in the breakers.] The following
note appears to have been added to the log, probably when
the excitement was over :—" At 7h. the captain remarked
to me that the ship ought to be well up to the Calf of
Man lights, as the log showed she had run her distance.
He asked if the log glass was correct, which was a new
one and found correct. At Bh. the sails were trimmed
for hauling the ship up N. by E., after doing which ob-
served the light, and kept ship off again to N.W. half N. ;
squared yards. The captain said the ship bad run her
distance, but supposed the light was the Calf light, and
that one of them was obscured by the thick weather."
" On examining Captain Hosken's chart, on which are
his cross bearings of the supposed points of the Isle of
Man, of which so short and indistinct a glimpse was
caught, I find it is addressed to the Mayor and Town-
Council of Liverpool, published by John and Alexander
Walker, agents to the Admiralty, 72, Castle-street, Liver-
pool, and 9, Castle-street, London, 1846. It was bought
by Captain Hosken when going out on his previous voy-
age, in June, as the latest and most correct chart; but in
it is no mention whatever of a revolving, or intermitting
light, or any other light whatever, on St. John's Point.
There, however, the light is ; and it is now my business to
show that had the light been, as it ought to have been—
having been in use for three years (if I am correctly in-
formed)—in the chart, or had there been no light at all
on that point, the accident would not have happened. On
taking his departure from the Bell Buoy, Capt. Hosken
steered precisely the same course as the Windsor, constant
steamer to Belfast, was steered by her captain on Saturday
last, N.W. by N., and that is the correct course for the
Calf of Man ; .St. John's point also bears N.W. bt N.
from the Bell Buoy. Captain Hosken calculated his
speed to be eleven knots ; it really was more, an 1 his ship
no doubt was ahead of his calculation four or five miles.
A glimpse was caught of the Isle of Man, but the lights
on the Calf were not seen, which I account for by the fact
that it was very thick, and between sunset and dark, when
she passed probably four or five miles to the south. Had
it been quite dark, she would probably have seen them,
and had she seen them the accident could not have hap-
pened, as he would have steered away his North Channel
course after rounding them. At seven, it appears, by the
first officer's note to his log, the captain remarked she
must be well up with the Calf lights. There is no doubt
he had even then passed them, but he had a fine open
channel of more than 30 miles between them and the Irish
coast. He informed me that he then said as he could not
see them, he should alter his course at eight, shorten sail,
and go easy for the North Channel, which intention
he had begun to put in practice; and this was the right
practice, and if pursued he would have been well, as he
would soon have made the next proper light in his course
of north by east—the South Rock, to the north of Strang_
ford Lough entrance, (albeit, as be candidly admits, half
a dozen miles nearer than he expected) when this St.
John's light, of which he had never heard, and which is
not named in his chart, is all at once seen ; and that, too,
within the exact bearing of the Calf of Man lights, sup-
posing he had not seen them. The course was again
altered ; the St. John's light was treated as the Calf of
Man lights would have been, had they been seen—i. e.,
given such a birth as insured clearing the Hen and
Chickens, and then rounded ; and then, instead of being
in a deep-water channel, the ship takes the ground about
a league to the west of this, at best, deceiving light, and,
in his case, decided decoy duck.
"In hastening to get this letter off, knowing the anxiety
of my colleagues, I write under some excitement, and
under most unpleasant circumstances; due allowances
should, therefore, be made. lam quite aware of all that
may be said by nautical men. I know, from my own
thoughts, before I saw the chart in Captain Hosken's
possession, how many strong questions may be put as to
distances and speed—as to on set of lights revolving
every two minutes, St. Johns light every minute only.
To all of them- I•answer, it is easy to say the door should

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

have been locked after the horse is stolen. It was hard
to make out lights at all ; and, as to counting differences
of time, under some instances it is impossible, or next to
it. The facts are simple ;—The Captain's judgment was
right up to the time of his seeing this not laid down light;
and puzzled, as he states himself to have been, to account
for not being further a-head when he took it for the Calf,
he acted by that light, as, I verily believe, most men
would have acted under similar circumstances.
" I have only to add my meed of praise for all that has
been done by Captain Hosken since the occurrence—my
admiration of his manly bearing under circumstances that
might well have crushed a weaker mind,—and of the dis-
cipline and good conduct of the officers and men under
his command, who are working gallantly, I may say,
under circumstances of great trial and difficulty, if not of
danger.
" The compasses were perfectly correct, and the ship
herself so strong, as to defy, hitherto, shocks from rollers
and seas at high water, which, in my humble opinion,
would by the end of last week have broken up the strongest
wooden ship that ever was built.
"The ship lies in the wort position for coming off;
still, if we are favoured with tolerable weather, 1 see, at
present, no reason to doubt her being afloat by the end of
the week."
A letter from our own correspondent, dated Saturday af-
noon last, informs us that all the coals have now been got
out of the vessel, and are laid on the grassy land just
above the sands of the bay. They are sold and are being
carted away. On Saturday morning, a strenuous effort
was made to get her off. Two of the Liverpool steam-
tugs, Nos. I and 2, got alongside her larboard quarter,
and steamed away with great vigour, but without effect,
the vessel not having, apparently, started from her position
from flotation or otherwise. The water rose to nearly
the top of that part of the hull which is painted red,
which he took to be her low-water mark.

CORRttSPONDENCE.

EARLY CLOSING OF THE MARKETS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

SIR,—In consequence of the excitement caused by the
early closing of the markets, I was induced to pay a visit
to St. John's on Saturday night last, and satisfy myself
as to the cause ; but to my surprise, I found there had
been more meat and fish sold at a quarter to ten than on
any previous night during the year up to a quarter to
ten. This information I got from some of the tenants
that have been opposed to the early closing. Being an
inhabitant of the neighbourhood, 1 can vouch for the
peaceable state of the streets, compared to what they used
to be on the eve of the Sabbath. If the Council will
take the trouble to enquire who the respectable people
are at the head of the opposition, they will soon see
through the whole affair.—l am, Sir, yours, &c.,
A NEIGHBOUR OF ST. JOHN'S.
sth October, 1846.

A SLANDEROUS ACCUSATION AGAINST A
PUBLIC OFFICER IN TOXTETH-PARK.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SIR,—Having seen in the Mercury of Friday last, a
most slanderous report tending to impeach my character
as one of the Assistant Overseers of the township of
Toxteth-park, in which it is stated that I had assisted in
the service of objections on the municipal electors on the
15th of September last, at seven o'clock in the evening, I
now take this opportunity to declare most emphatically,
that the above statement is false, which will appear from
the following facts
On the evening in question, I went to the office at five
o'clock in the afternoon, and remained at my usual voca-
tion until near ten o'clock the same evening, and never
was off the premises. After I left the office at night, I
was with a few friends until near eleven o'clock; and on
my way home from Berkeley-street to Grey-street, in
which street I reside, a man from the opposite side of the
street came across, and asked me where a person named
Thompson lived. My reply was, I did not know ; why
did he ask me ? This is the whole account that consti-
tutes the above charge; and if I had been guilty, I would
have received the reproof with humility; but when my
integrity, and the ruin of my family are at stake, I feel it
my duty, as an honest man, to solicit the favour of calling
the attention of the "Vestry," to be held on Thursday
next, to sympathise with me, and grant me that clemency
which I, as an injured man, can but implore under such
circumstances.—l remain, Sir, your obedient Servant,
ROBERT AYREY,
Assistant Overseer of Toxteth-park.
Monday, October sth, 1846.

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Several locusts have been taken as far north as Helms-
dale, in Sutherlandshire.
Mr. Allen, the architect, destroyed himself last week
by shooting himself with a pistol.
On the 22d ult. a splendid Roman Catholic chapel was
opened at Skenfrith, Monmouthshire.
UNUSUAL CIRCUMSTANCE.—The London Gazette of
Tuesday contains but three notices of bankruptcy.
During the night of Wednesday not fewer than five se-
rious fires occurred in various parts of the metropolis.
On Tuesday a new Roman Catholic chapel was opened
at Eckington, near Sheffield.
A Greenock print declares, concerning a certain Perth
sculptor, that, " not a touch of his chisel but has subse-
quently touched a heart."
The Duke cf Wellington, it is said, will shortly go to
the islands of Guernsey and Jersey to inspect the fortifi-
cations of those dependencies.
The Royal Agricultural Society of Guernsey have for-
warded to her Majesty two beautiful caws, of the breed so
celebrated in that island.
John Hilliard has been sentenced to six months' im-
' prisonroent and hard labour for causing the deaths of two
children by selling them poisonous berries.
A verdict of manslaughter has been returned by the
coroner's jury, at Bath, against two boys who, in a frolic,
pushed a female down from the step of a door.
Sir Charles Wetherell's personal estate has just been
administered to by Lady Wetherell, and a stamp duty
paid on £250,000.
The aggregate amount of the Cobden testimonial is
now £75,000, of which Manchester has contributed
£28,000.
The import duty on wheat is now Bs. per quarter. As
prices are still on the advance, the duty will doubtless
fall still lower.

Abundance of mackarel have been caught lately on the
Welsh coasts. They have been sold at Bangor eighteen
for sixpence, and at Beaurnaris thirty for sixpence.
A young lady, named Pratt, aged 21, residing with her
uncle, in London, died on Saturday week, from the effects
of laudanum, which she had taken to procure sleep.
At Harefield, Middlesex, on Saturday, two canal boat-
men quarrelled and fought. One of them on attempting
to rise to renew the contest fell backwards on the grass,
and died in a few minutes.

Parliament is not to be summoned in November. The
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland strongly urged its assembling,
but the majority of the cabinet overruled his lordship's

decision

Sir Montagu John Chomeley, Bart., will be the new
candidate for Lincolnshire' and the hon Bart will be sup-
ported by the influence of the Earl of Yarborough and
the Duke of St. Alban's.
Another cabinet council was held on Friday, at the
official residence of Lord John Russell in Downing-street.
Previous to the council, several of the ministers had in-
terviews with the n,ble lord.
The London sheriff's inauguration dinner took place on
Wednesday evening. Lord John Russell was present and
made a brief speech in reference to the distress in Ireland,
and the want of general education.
On Sunday week Mr. E. Jones, tailor and draper, of
the village of Gresford, put an end to his existence by
shooting himself with a horse pistol. He bad been in a
desponding state of mind for some time.
There are now in the port of Douglas no fewer than
195 vessels ; 73 of which are of large tonnage, varying
from 500 to 50 tons, and the remaining 122 are employed
in the herring fishery.
Mr. Halliday opened his new hotel, Fort Anne,
Douglas, Isle of man, on Tuesday, with a splendid ball.
About 150 were present, among whom were, the Earl of
Orkney, Lord Ranelagh, the Hon. Miss Jones, &c.
RISE IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—On Friday the 41b
loaf of wheaten bread was raised to Bd. by the cheap
bakers, and 01d. by the best bakers throughout the me-
, tropolis. _ _

On thursday morning Mr. George Child, the superin-
tendent of the Gravesend and Rochester Railway, put a
period to his existence by hanging himself, at his resi-
dence, near the Rochester terminus.

ThiFirefly, 220 horse-power, ;Tc the Shearwater, 160
horse-power, are employed on the west coast of Scotland
in consequence of the distress now prevalent there. Ad-
ditional vessels will be granted by the Admiralty, if re-

qui rcd.
A Welsh paper states that, at Waingbrolcb, Mon-
mouthshire, a deadly warfare has been raging among the
bees and wasps, whole clouds of them, to an immense ex-
tent, contending together in the air, completely covering
the ground with killed and wounded.
Mr. Blunt, of St. Luke's, type-founder,
_one of the
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large creditors against a printer named Masson, of
Bethnal-green, who had become bankrupt, applied, last
Saturday, to be appointed assignee, but was rejected,
because he professed himself an atheist.
Lord Metcalf, it is stated, was unknown to Sir Robert
Peel when he was promoted to the Governor-Generalship
of Canada, and he met the late Premier by accident in an
ante-room at Windsor Castle, where the strangers were
respectively awaiting an audience of the Queen.
Many of the farmers of Dorsetshire and Somersetshire
have commenced the autumn planting of potatoes, in ac-
cordance with the recommendation of many agriculturists
and eminent chymists, who assert that this is the best, if
not the only method of checking the prevailing disease.
A drunken man was found in the streets of Leeds, last
week with the body of a dead women in his arms. The
deceased was a prostitute, and being in company with the
man, dropped down dead, from the effects of a disease of
the heart.
RATS.—A red herring firmly fastened by a string to any
place where rats usually make their run will make them
leave the place. It is said, to be a fact, that a toad placed
in a house cellar will have the effect of expelling those
noxious intruders.—Bangor Mercury.
RENT OF FARMS.—The Duke of Richmond has inti-
mated to his Scottish tenants that he is willing, since the
repeal of the Corn-laws, to take their leases off their
bands at Martinmas next, and to remunerate them for
improvements.
DREADFUL COAL-PIT ACCIDENT.-SIX LIVES LOST.
--On Monday morning a dreadful accident from explosion
of fire damp, whereby six lives have been lost, occurred
at a pit connected with the Clyde Iron Works, Glasgow.
About four o'clock on Monday morning five men and a
boy went down in the course of their ordinary occupations,
and immediately on the lights which they carried coming
in contact with the foul air, the explosion took place, by
which the whole have,been depriyed of life.

ing rain

Mrs. Wilson, aged 60 years, the wife of Thos. Wilson,
park-keeper, Carr-house, at Stainton, near Tick hill. was
killed by the accidental discharge of a loaded gun which
she was removing in her own house on Saturday. She

died instantly. -
At the Central Criminal Court, London, last Saturday,
a barrister at the Temple was indicted for an indecent
assault on a girl, in Hyde-park. It transpired that the
whole charge was a fabrication, having been concocted by
the mother of the girl!
The Wellington statue was on Tuesday removed from
Mr. Wyatt's studio, in the Harrow Road, to the site
selected for its reception, temporary or permanent. as the
case may be, at the triumphal arch, Hyde Park Corner.
The removal was accomplished without any accident.
The match at chess between Mr. Staunton and Mr.
Harrwitz is virtually decided. In the 19th game Mr. S.
gave the pawn and two moves, and yet won in admirable
style. Thus the English player has in point of fact car-
ried the day, having won two matches out of three.
The scullers' contest between Thomas Coombes (the
brother of the champion of the Thames) and Frederick
Lett, of Lambeth, for £5O, came off on Wednesday after-
noon, and resulted in favour of Coombes, who won by
about 250 yards.
Throughout the Isle of Man the crops may now be said
to be safely housed. Wheat and barley are said to be
average crops ; but oats are extremely deficient and light
in weight. Grass was never more abundant at this
season, and turnips are good every where. Potatoes, as
a matter of course, are very bad.
A child, named George Chapman, on. Wednesday week,
was found hanging from a beam in an out-house at Dray-
cott, Cheddar. He had wished to visit Draycott fair that
morning, but was requested by his parents first to bait
the horse. He was afterwards observed crying, and with-
in a short time was discovered hanging, and quite dead.
The harvest-home of the hop-pickers has been gene-
rally celebrated in Herefordshire, and it is a pleasing sight
to witness waggon-loads of industrious women and girls
returning from the scene of their labours with hop-poles
for flag-staffs, and handkerchiefs for colours floating in
the breeze.
A few days since, two butchers, at Cambridge, depo-
sited stakes of £l5 aside. He who could scald, dress,
and clean two 10-stone pigs in the best style, in the short-
est space of time, to be declared the winner. The pigs
were killed in fifteen minutes and ten seconds by the
gainer of the wager.
. . .

ROBBERY.—On Tuesday information was received of a
foreign gentleman having been robbed of a green leather
pocket book, containing, among other property, numerous
Dutch bank notes to the value of nearly £5OO, whilst
travelling, between eight and nine o'clock, in a second
class carriage of the London and Blackwall Railway.
PRODIGIOUS TREE.—The largest piece of oak timber
ever seen in Brecon passed through that town last week.
It contained 230 feet of timber ; two carriages broke under
its weight, and it was at length conveyed on rollers over
the pitching of the streets, by the united efforts of sixteen
horses and a number of men.
THE PHEASANT SEASON commenced on Thursday, and
the London markets, and many of the principal poulterers
exhibited pheasants for sale, although they were scarce and
insufficient for the demand. Prime young birds made
from Os. to 7s. and Ss. a brace, and small and inferior
ditto sold at ss. and 6s. a brace.
The Baron de Bode, whose -claims on the British
Government were to the amount of nearly a million ster

INTRAMURAL INTERMENTS.— From the report we
learn that in the metropolis, on spaces of ground which
do not exceed 203 acres, closely surrounded by the abodes
of the living, layer upon layer, each consisting of a popu7

Winn numerically equivalent to a large army of 20,000
adults, and nearly 30,000 youths and children, is every
year imperfectly interred ! Within the period cf existence
of the present generation, upwards of a million of dead
must have been interred in these same spaces.—Medical
Gazette.
CONFIRMED PAUPERS.—On Friday, eight able-bodied
young men, but extremely filthy, were charged at the
Southwark Police-court with creating a disturbance is
Christchurch workhouse, and refusing to work after re-
ceiving food and lodging.
The case presented the usual
circumstances; the prisoners were admitted to the
" casual ward" on the previous evening, and refused to
work in the morning. It appeared that they belonged to a
class who spent their whole lives in workhouses and
prisons. They were committed to Brixton, some for
fourteen and some for forty-two days.
GAS—We have this week had an opportunity of inspect-
ing an apparatus, for the manufacture of gas, on a small
scale, made by Mr. Sarson, brazier and gas-fitter, St.
Nicholas•street, for lighting his own premises ; and it is
of a most compact and simple construction. Air. Sarson
informs us that he can make gas at 2s. 6d. per 1000 feet ;
and as he intends supplying the surplus heat for warming
his warehouse and workshops with hot water, and at the
same time taking into consideration the circumstance of
doing the cookery, baking, roasting, &c., fcr his family
with the same fire, the cost will not exceed Is. 6d. per
1000 feet. The gas produced is of excellent quality ; and
the apparatus, which is simply and easily managed, may
be purchased at a small expense.—Leicester Journal.
CURIOUS AFFAlR.—Yesterday week an inquest was
held on the body of a man named Marsden, at Wolviston,
Durham. A post mortem examination had been made,
but nothing could be discovered to satisfy the jury as to
the immediate cause of death, but it was thought it had
been caused by something poisonous taken at the mouth
of a deleterious nature, possibly miasma. The locality
of the premises has been examined, and it seems perfectly
healthy, being open to the green in the village, and there
being nothing there likely to cause disease. The whole of
Marsden's family, six in number, have been during the
last three weeks wasting away, and reduced to perfect
skeletons. Four children, including the deceased, have
died, and the parents are now lying in a very precarious

state. All of the family bad been -sick at intervals, and.
dreadfully convulsed, and have been similarly afflicted.
FALL OF A. MANUFACTORY, AND LOSS OF LIFE.—
Between eleven and twelve o'clock on Wednesday morn-
ing the inhabitants of Burfield were alarmed by a loud
crash. followed by cries for aid, occasioned by the falling
in of a building used as a rope mat manufactory. The
building consisted of one large room on the basement,
and another immediately over it. From 10 to 15 persons
were usually employed in the upper room. In the rear of
the factory is a plot of ground, which Las been excavated
to a considerable depth for building purposes, and the
wall of the manufactory next to the excavated ground
having given way, nearly the whole building fell into the
hollow. The bodies of a man and a girl, both quite dead,
were afterwards dug out of the ruins. It has been ascer-
tained that there were eleven persons at work in the ma-
nufactory when the accident occurred—namely, four men
three women, and four children. Nine out of the num-
ber are more or less injured._ _

ling, suddenly fell and expired on Friday. The baron PARLIAMENT AND THE MINISTRY.—An impression
was in his seventieth year, and has left three sons. His is still abroad that Parliament will be summoned for the
death is supposed to have been accelerated by anxiety despatch of business early in November. Reports are
consquent on the prosecution of his claims. also afloat that Sir Robert Peel's recal to Windsor to
On the 24th ult., two men, named Lowther and Atkin- meet Lord John Russell was an attempt to patch up
son, bad a fight at Ulverstone, when the latter was shortly some kind of coalition which shall bring the late Premier
after found dead, No bruises could be found on him, back to office. " There is," says the Standard, in
and as the surgeon said that death had been caused through italics, "an intrigue in progress, by which Sir Robert
congestion of blood on the brain, by means of much ex- is, if possible, to be jerked back into office." "In this
citement and the influence of liquor, Lowther was ac- conspiracy," ad,ls the: Dublin Evening Packet, "we are
quitted. told some of the pres,nt Ministry, though not all, are
It is said that despatches from Ireland, received in Lon- implicated, and Peel's immediate friends are so confident
don on Thursday, were calculated to give great uneasiness of success, that they boast of his being Prime Minister on
to the government. There is evidently a spirit of violence the Ist March next, if not before. We give this rumour
and outrage abroad, which must be repressed in the corn- merely for what it may be worth, not setting much value
mencement, at whatever cost, or evils of the greatest upon it; but it is right to add that the Standard vouches
magnitude to the people themselves will eventually spring its accuracy in every respect." Nor do we set much
from its indulgence. value upon it, and the Afore we say nothing further
MIRACULOUS OCCURRENCE.—AS a labourer, employed about it.
_ _

at a farm called " Lloyd Jack," near Aberystwith, was "GET OFF THE GRASS !"—A MISTAKE.—On Sunday
about to carry a mow of barley, and whilst lifting it, the afternoon, during the time the private gardens and the
mow was suddenly struck by lightning, and immediately eastern terrace at Windsor were open to the public, Lord
ignited, and entirely consumed; fortunately, the man was J. Russell, one of her Majesty's guests, walked from the
uninjured by the electric fluid, but his escape was most terrace, and was proceeding across the grass in the Home_
providential. park, towards the iron gates, opposite to the Long-walk,
THE PICTON MONUMENT.—A. stranger passing by this a portion of the Royal domains from which the public are
melancholy-looking affair on the Pembroke mail, ex- excluded. His lordship bad proceeded some distance
claimed, " Well! I never saw a lime-kiln in the middle before he was noticed ky one of the Castle policemen, wh3
of a turnpike-road before!" It was not a bad guess, for seeing a stranger, as he supposed, on forbidden ground,
it looks more like that than anything else. The Mono- sang out with stentorian voice, " Halloo, you, sir! come
ment truly is like a man's character : it is easier to pull back and get off the grass ! Come back, you sir I" Lord
it to pieces than to set it right again.—Hereford Journal. John immediately got off the grass and returned back
The Daily News intimates that, in a few days, des- towards the York and Lancaster Towers. By the time
patches of letters and newspapers will be more frequent, his lordship had got to within some thirty or forty paces
and deliveries more numerous than they now are, both in of the policeman the officer found out his mistake, having
town and in the provinces, so that the letters to and from been informed that the offending party was a person in
the north of England, and those to and from Ireland and the suite of some of her Majesty's visitors. He then
Scotland, are to be accelerated. Extra post offices are calldd out to Lord John, who had evidently been taken
already appointed in many towns and villages. Fees of by surprise, " You may go on ; you are all right enough!"
all kinds are to be abolished eventually. His lordship, smiling at the by-standers, then retraced
GOVERNMENT CONTRACT.—On Friday week the his steps, and pursued his walk across the park towards
Commissioners of the Admiralty decided upon tenders the avenue of trees leading to the Waterloo-gate.
sent in for the supply of salted beef and pork for the use of THE EARL OF RIPON AND THE REV. MR. CROW.
the navy. The quantities required were unusually large THER.—The Nottingham Journal publishes an explana-
-12,000 tierces of .beef, and 18,000 tierces of pork. All tory statement of the correspondence between these par-
the latter was tat:en, but only 8,000 tierces of the former. , ties, which has been made public, and the purport of
The beef is to be delivered at ls., and the t have already given. That paper says that Mr.

which v

£7 13s. per t
BALLOON ADVENTURE.—The great Nassau Balloon,
nflated with gas, was, on Friday, fastened to a barge and
towed along the Thames, from Cremorne Gardens, where
it ascended with seven persons in the car, amid a drench-

,n about whom the caution was

given) is the principal promoter of dissent in the parish
of Dunston, and also mentions several other circumstances
by which Mr. Newton had rendered himself obnoxious to
the Earl. The "covered cart" which bis lordship offered
to Mr. Crowther, was the one used by the late Lord
Goderich, and is still used by members of the Ripon
family on their country jaunts. " But," adds our con-
temporary, " the DONKEI ? the poor animal without which
all the wit would have been lost ! The car and horses
were at the disposal of Mr. and Mrs. Crowther, at any
time: but Mrs. Crowther longed for the donkey, and it
was inaccessible. It was an ancient pensioner of Lady
Ripon's, turned out to spend its last days in quiet, having
been the faithful though unromantic servant of her Lady-
ship for nearly thirty years. It was deemed too old for
regular work, and could not be lent like the horses and
the car; but Mrs. Crowther was an invalid, and she fan-
cies best to ride on this quiet old donkey. Some enquiry
was necessary before the old pet could be thus employed :
this was granted at Mrs. Crowther's especial wish, and it
was in reply to that desire that Lord Ripon's much abused,
but really kind-hearted letter was written."

THE SPIttIT OF THE AGE

We annex, from the Britannia, an imaginary dialogue,
maintained between the present King of Prussia and
Luther, who is supposed to appear to his majesty after he
bad lain at rest for centuries. We have seldom seen the
enormities of the payacy, and the tendency of the present
age, both in England and on the Continent, towards
infidelity, depicted in more vigorous and striking lan-