The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-03-12 00:00:00

TRACTARIANISM.

Sir,—Being anxious to see and judge for myself as.te
the proceedings in the churches under Tractarian 10
fluence, I went last Sunday to Margaret street ChaPe"
London.

It was the afternoon service that I attended, and I wall
there nearly half an hour before the time. I could not
help being struck with the prominent and imposing asPent
of the communion-table. Its elevation, the large cross.
in basso-relievo, the gorgeous display of candlesticks, an
embossed books, and sacramental service. I could 09"
have a doubt but that there was a significant meaning is
all this, and that it is intended to have a devotional in'
fluence on the worshippers. And I am much mistaken
if that prominent cross is not used as a help to devotion.
The curate, Mr. Richards, came in early ; and after
staying a few minutes in the vestry, went into a pew, ill
front of the communion-table. He was engaged in Vl'
vate prayer, on his knees for ten or fifteen minutest
during which he more than once lifted up his bead front
under his hands, and looked earnestly for a minute or two
towards the table, and then renewed his devotions.
saw others do the same. Of course I cannot say positively
what liras the fact, but certainly the impression was fully
made on my mind that the cross was gazed upon as a help
to devotion.

Then for the reading-desk. I have no wish to quarrel
with its abandonment, on the contrary, I felt thankful for
the hint that was immediately suggested of the advantage
of so simple a contrivance, especially in small churche!,
where there is often a difficulty in arranging the pulpit
and reading-desk ; and lat once saw the expediency 01,
such an arrangement in a new church with which I have
at present to do myself. But then the position of thei
desk, at right angles to the pulpit, and not facing co
congregation, the use of it only for the lessons, the entlse
turning from it during the prayers, with the clergyman 6
face to the table; and during the psalms the turning of the
minister's body round from the desk to the east, with
solemn bows during the Gloria Patri every time of it°
repetition ! What impression would all this make?
And would that 1 could end my account of Mr. OakleY.'
chapel here ; but in a sermon on Christ's temptation, In
which there was an absence of everything that was calcu-
lated to cheer and encourage, and succour those that are
tempted it was expressly stated, twice over, that peaan%
and fasting were to expiate sin. The fanciful idea i
started, that Christ fasted on the barren, cheerless desert'
and there submitted to the cravings of hunger, in circle%o_
atone for the sin of our first parents in feasting 007 d
forbidden fruit in the garden ; and the inferences °lre e
to me to be intended to ba drawn, that we
manner fast in the wilderness of the Lenten season, t 131"
we may atone for the sins of our past lives. _From a
Letter published by the Rev. W. Carus Wilson.

!EXTRAORDINARY SURGICAL OPERATION. The
Siecle, of the 3d instant, contains the following para-
graph :—" Dr. Canquoin's mode of treatment has recently
been applied by his colleague, Dr. Millardet, to M. Du-
menil, a watchmaker, Rue due Faubourg-Montmartre,
No. 32, for the cure of a cyst in the palm of the hand.
This gentleman has thus cured, without compromising the
life of his patient, an ailment that the most celebrated
surgeons feared to attack with the knife. The successful
termination of this case demonstrates, the advantage 1:4
the new method in removing a foreign body from allf
large joint." The mode of treatment referred to is, We
believe, that of applying caustic round the base of the tu-
mour, and gradually eating away, as it were, its founda-
tions. Dr. Canquoin is celebrated for his cures in cases
of cancerous affection.
RENTS AND BREAD.—Practical men have calculated
that from Bs. to 10s. is the utmost that the rent adds t°

the price of a quarter of wheat—say 10s. take the
value of the refuse of the wheat, after the flour is abstractOt
and the number of pounds of bread which the flour will
make ; and it will be found that the rent of land adds
about one farthing to the price of a pound of bread. From
this the working man may calculate what he would gain
and lose by a repeal of the Corn Laws—remembering that
the reduction of Is. a week from his wages would be equal
to the reduction in the price of 481bs. of bread; for-neces'
sity he must reckon upon a reduction of wages, if, by ail'
nihilating landowners' rentals, those who are now de-
pendent on their rents, from being customers for the pro-
ducts of labour, become themselves competitors in the
labour market. The working man may therefore easily
calculate on which side the balance will be, if he and his
family lose a shilling in wages in less time than they eat
forty-eight pounds of bread. This is a calculation which.
may be profitably and safely made in theory, but we would
not recommend its being tested by practical experiments,
lest there should be no opportunity of retracing the steps/
if it should be found that they are in a wrong direction.
STRANGE STORY.—The Rev. Fredk. Day, of CAW,
near Ashhurne, Derbyshire, has addressed to the Editor
of The Times the following account of a singular circum-
stance, which has just occurred in that village :--Ten
days ago, a person of gentlemanly appearance and con'
versation stopped at a small public-house here, being um"
able to proceed further on his intended journey, frays
illness. He was without any money, and unable or 0..0"
willing to give any satisfactory account of himself. lie
was visited by the clergyman of the parish, to whom he.,
confessed that he had run away from home for a trivial
offence, and he gave up the direction of his parent, 01
order that the clergyman might acquaint her with his sot'
row and desire to return home. His sickness increasing'
and the fear of death prevailing, he declared, after a fe/i
days. to a lady who visited him that Isis former story was
fake, and the application of a Idiot.- to the chest disclose
the fact that the pretended boy was a young woman'
She positizely refuses to give any account of the cause ,
her disguise, declaring that she will never disgrace 1;d
family by the disclosure of their name. She is proble;',
hasShee
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names of Mrs. Fitzherbert,mfoelnlotroinnegdadtti
land, and several others ; and at last, shortly before her
death, she said her mother was Mrs. Newton, who resided
near Macclesfield. The latter statement, however, it maybe presumed, was made with a view to prevent further
solicitations on that subject, or that her intellect had be;
come
impaired,for on inquiry amongst several families of
even a relative. So studiously had she concealed her
name, that it was afterwards found that the marks on her
thereth a t namedoes h residentot appear i n
the
least
linen,
which was of a superior quality had been carefullyoditerated. She expired on Monday' evening about krit
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probabilitya t neighbourhood,
of her
be
o'clock. On Wednesday a coroner's inquest was held.
was stated that she arrived at Calton on Saturday fortnight'
and passed by the name, before the discovery of her 01
of Arthur Fitzhetbert, she had letters written to several
persons of that name in Ireland, none of which have °e',l
answered. She had also a letter written to a lady iri
Devonshire, who she said had been kind to her; but 094
has not been answered. She passed several days infer,
disguise at the Green Man Inn, at Ashborne, and atse
wards at the Isaac Walton, at Dovedale, at both theG
places she paid freely for what she had, but took only t,
shillings with her toCalton Moor House. She gavend,
the landlord's daughter a new octavo prayer book, lltels
somely bound, which had the following inscription vq.',
in a female hand, on one of the blank leaves,
Friend, from one who wishes them the spiritual blessToatit
January 29th, 1844.' Her person is thus described, s°)ite.
5 feet high, dark grey eyes, dark hair, teeth very Too
anti regular, for complexion, with slight scar unde, to
lett evri)roty. Alter the cl,covt y site stated her Ondied
be twenty-two, but she appeared rather older. She
of bronchitis."

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GENERAL MISCELLANY.

•
The venerable Earl Grey will complete his 80th year
to-morrow, (Wednesday.)
A meeting of all the County Bankers in England is
summoned to meet in London to-morrow.
rs. Fawcettbecause
her husband (the lateved Lieut.-Col.i Fawcepett)ensi fell
in the duel with Licut. Munro.
POISONING BY MISTAKE. Mr. Collingwood, of
Market Kasen, was poisoned on Sunday week, by taking
a dose of muriate of morphine, in mistake for magnesia.
elect
On Wednesday night last the Earl of Zetland was
elected
Year. grand master of the freemasons for the ensuing
On Sunday week, a boy of the name of Matthew Hod-
!" bad his collar-bone broken by a snowball, whilst oc-
cupied in a snow-balling engagement in kendal.
taTREATRICALS AT BRIGHTON.—On Monday evening
boe4aaa Opened to fifteen persons in the pit, two in the
ancs, and two in the gallery ! There was no perform-
s!' and the money was returned to the audience!
1 b. 91.• Samuel Lover, the "painter, poet. and musician,"
za.s peen for some time engaged in preparing an entertain-
,nrset si:liar to those which Mr. Wilson has rendered so
popular. It is to be devoted to the elucidation and illus-
trationrish melody.
sobRsetiTaAeLoAILDIENTS.—King Otho has been very ill, in
in a dirty
erraPtonas
ebdawtaibther.he
c:oopf having eaten freely of stewed hare, cooked
per, in which virdigris had formed. The
were mild. The Duke of Cambridge is afflict.
gout in his knee, which confines him to his
tet 41T114 ere are 5870 f which there a
poor-law unions in England and Wales,
re chaplains ; and if London, Man-
_ ester, Liverpool, and one or two other places, are ex-
,,cT_Pted, it appears that the average salary enjoyed by those
tTaPlains does not exceed £37 per annum. In Liverpool,
4,„PaYment to the chaplain is £250; in Manchester,
ch 'AI; and in London, where - they have more than one
aNain, the gross payment to them all is £4OO.
aet earst indaY this
s, town
1104 GREAT PAUPER.—Preston Quarter Union Work-
at (Whitehaven), has, until within the
Tag-
stood d died on
Ire been the residence of probably one of the
intan feyat Of in her Majesty's dominions. This huge
ir
of the
Poor-house, whose name was James Tag-
Sunday last, in the 43d year of his age ; he
-0f 20 six feet nine inches in height, and weighed upwards
Is, stane !---Cumberland Pacquet.
icr.
doh BOOKBINDING.—LittIe did the immortal Dr.
seialiss," briagine, that a neat pocket edition of his " Ras-
is „. would ever be bound in a rat's skin, and yet such
te`ne fact. A youth of the name of Todd, grandson of
.70rrieSiennett,. stationer, of Sockton, killed one of these
Ft_ ons animals a few week's since, the skin of which
o;eured, and, since its metamorphosis into an ornament
seep a iltib. rarY, it has excited the admiration of all who have
C4.?„l!•kaGE or Muttnutt.—On Friday, at the Central
of h""nal Court, Sarah Dickenson was tried for the murder
lure She
children, at Deptford, on the 10th January
p_„-',.: lae cut their throats, and afterwards her own, but
lii-uvered. It was proved that the family was in a very
estitute state, and that Mrs. Dickenson had sustained a
faeevere fall some years back, after which she had often suf-
juredr acqui from Pain in the head and wandering of mind. The
tted her on the ground of insanity.
'cv.eaTkAORDINART ACCUSATION.—On Friday, Mr.a
..- ea. Read, an extensive shipbuilder, of Ipswich, andb
taeraber of the town council for that place, was taken !-
fore Sir Peter Laurie, at the Mansion-house, I.4,pnd. n, in
',l!stody of an officer, charged with having combined with
!-uarles William Simpson, the master of the Colina brig,
kerast
; away that vessel, with the view of defrauding the
properly Alliance Assurance Company of the amount of
.
for
eaauded for week she was insured. The case was re-
AN him. .
InalS, e.; is?Se OTTER.—One of these destructive
day • -gu'ng upwards of 201b5., was captured a few
mr. %ice at Beech-hill, near Reading, the residence of
btt' °mg bee
the supposition
The remains of a large jack
river,
la found near a ditch communicating with the
far Off led cto. h
supposition that an otter was located not
izint.,,ana a trap was consequently set to catch the " var-
i„ e The next morning the otter was found drowned
;11 Jiver, secured by the trap, which it had dragged
some distance into the water. '
13ectta.
friars_rn -Ale OF SOCIALISM.—The Rotunda, in Black-
by the London, which was for some years occupied
ueserted
tbcoleiecirnuea.
flu.,iev." Robert Taylor, Carlile, and their infidel
n--;:lr,naore recently by the socialists, has at last
, and is now shut up. A very hard struggle
s made,—balls, concerts, blasphemous lec-
tanirie.sa,.refreshment-rnoms, theatricals, &c., being provided.
'".l3lLoLvr_ tied, and the socialists, having packed up their traps,
ea off, just in time to avoid quarter-day, which is
close at hand.
baker, SINGING MOUSE!—Mr. John Woodward,
I.'°f St. Peter's, in the Isle of Thanet, has in his sessionpos-
dence
i. on of th e traordinary animals, which was
ca-gut no the premisesx of Dane Court Lodge, the resi-
liksi_ted by a
several times
" Mrs. -Milniesr, who had heard the little animal
Previous to its being caught. It has been
nuration. of the
greater. partt ofsbthzeointhaanbditaaldits pf qus pka ,
""0 expressed their as mu
notes of the little animal. The writer of this notice has
tso a f low
witnessed it several times : the s"
but shrill whistle, something similar ndstoittheemintose are
nightingale.—Canterbury Journal. -
--

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, left Witley
Court, Worcestershire, the residence of her Majesty the
Queen Dawager, at ten o'clock on Thursday morning,
for Droitwich, from which station her royal highness
travelled by the Gloucester and Birmingham Railway to
Birmingham, and from thence proceeded to town by the
London and Birmingham Railway. On arriving at the
Euston-square terminus, the royal duchess immediately
left for her residence, Clarence House, St. James's,
v., here her royal highness arrived at half-past six o'clock
'bast evening. Her royal highness was attended by Lady
'"ey Howard and Colonel Sir George Couper.
THE PORTENDIC CLAIMS.—Among the many instances
int.." Present government's attention to the commercial
tae Bata of the country, we are enabled to announce
.that
ritiall claims u on France, arising out of the blockade
ei."l,rah,l;°:tendic, are about to be adjusted. by a mixed
une.aotal°,4 liquidation, to sit at Berlin, with umpire
la to ed by the King of Prussia. 7 This invßest.ig,h
"—tnis Place immediately. Mr. W ard, the ritis
Pointedsn"er, and M. Englehardt, who has been ap-
")at, Co
on behalf of the French govern-
"raita,oow on their way to the Prussian capital.—
/V, "era/d.
rvivor"
xPEDITION.—Mr. John Duncan, one of the
t-uich h; h(lf the late fatal expedition to the N:ger, in
••° West: eld the post of draughtsman, is about to return
its wieldra Africa, and follow out the path of discovery
we beliet, 8. Mr. Duncan is a native of Galloway, and,.
our aisti e, well qualified for labours which so many. of
accompa_4uished countrvmen have shred. He will. be
and r. "Z.dby Mr. Moffat, from Ayrshire, a botanis ,
'the Ni •erw right, alb rated African, from the banks of
this But: • We may have an opportunity of returning to
Ject which, for want of sp , .
ace we are constrained
tphus brie.fly.—
.Dumfries Courzer.
It • nAMES TUNNEL.—On Wednesday, the annual
t tie! 'aen;ervn:egt-eto ft oti
the el
- Proprietors in this undertaking was held at
,200 Tavern. From the report it appeared that the
March, 18 opened as a public thoroughfare on the 25th of
and tip."„", and that it had been visited by her Majesty
of la, Prince Albert in July last. From the 25th
Pens had
u to the date of the report, 2,038,477 per-
aPeul d Passed through the tunnel, from whom, at a
tainj, each, an income of £8,378 2s. Bd. had been °b-
in addition to that sum,
seal had been paid by epers for permission to erect ls for the sale of
eY goods between the arches.
THEQUEEN'S VISIT TO FRANCE.—The Commerce
announces, that subsequently to the visit of the Queen of
-England to the Chateau d'En, the King commissioned
several artists to decorate a gallery, to which his Majesty
M lerygven the name of " Victoria and Prince Albert Gal-
port.i The arrival of the British fleet in the road of Tre-
sit, the landing, entry into Eu, the dinner, concerts, vi-
e to the church and forest, and the re-embarkation,
form the subjects of as many pictures, which are to figure
in the English gallery, with the busts, portraits, and sta-
tues of the principal personages who accompanied the
Young Queen.
MURDER OF AN ENGLISHMAN IN PARIS.—We read
in the Sleek :—" A horrible crime was committed on
Thursday evening, at six o'clock, in the Rue de Londres.
An Englishman residing in that Areet, No. 40, was assas-
sinated in his apartment by blows from logs of firewood
(a coup du buches.) The potter of the house had been
arrested. It is supposed that the assassins expected to
find a large sum of money which was said to have been
received during the day. On inquiry at the house as to
the truth of the above, we were informed that the main
fact is true, but that the porter had not been arrested. As
to other details, nothing positive has vet been suffered to
transpire by the police authorities, whose agents are on
the spot. The name of the victim was Ward. He occu-
pied an apartment on the first floor.—Galifinanz.
EXTRAORDINARY LONGEVITY.—We some time ago
Mentioned the fact of a female, an idiot, residing in Strath.
glass, having reached the extraordinary age of upwards of
5 century. This human link between the past and pre-
has, within the last few days, yielded to the stroke of
death. One old neighbour, aged 96, and several who have
pached 90 years, remember " Fionagal gorach," or
ilPeolish Flora," as a grown-up woman when they were
e rillren, and estimate her age at 120 years at least. She
reilkined her consciousness to the last, and was aware of
aPproachi dissolution. For many years she mi-
grated throughn
'4 the gthe country, obtaining a pittance by card-
visit 'Ol belonging to the country people whom she
b_ card-
visited, During the last ten years she had been supported
after?the
ance and sympathy of her neighbours ; and
..he;Scsiast:e became known to Lord and Lady Lovat,
tffloolish Flora wanted none of the necessaries of life.—
verness Herald,
Gat
far FOOT-RACE FOR £2oo.—The great foot-race
JoC.100„ a side, between Jenkinson, the London Stag, and
day' the Regent-street Pet, came off on Wednes-
reile' al Sutton. The distance chosen was a quarter of a
ronn'e'lad as both men have acquired great celebrity as
there re, and very heavy sums depended upon the result,
Naito was a large assemblage of sporting men present to
but eas the race. The betting opened at Gto4 on Smith,
to 24! the time of starting approached the odds increased
rao "3 1, and no takers. Preliminaries having been ar-
teard, at half-past three o'clock the men were in readi-
to and on the signal being given went off. The Stag
ok the n
for th lie lead at a great pace, his opponent lying close up
st Of each other.
a1.4,17e first 7100 yards, at the end of which the men were
tate The struggle for the lead was ea first-
M4Bheda, amidst the cheers of his friends, the Stag
*Op b„i.way from his opponent, maintained the lead, and
"Our Yards.

A few days since, Mr. L. Moses, of the firm of Moses
and Levy, in Aldgate, presented to the treasury of the
Jewish Orphan School, Leman-street, Goodman 's-fields,
a check for £2OOO, which he ordered to be appropriated
to the purchasing of a plot of ground for the purpose of
building thereon an asylum for the above institution (it
being now confined to the limits of a private house); at
the same time expressing his desire that the building
should be erected at his sole expense, and be would give
a further sum for its completion, should it be required.
This benevolent gentleman a short time since erected, at
his own expense, a number of almshouses in the Globe-
road, Mile-end, for aged and decayed tradesmen of the
Jewish persuasion, to whom he allows a certain sum of
money weekly.
THE NEW BANK CHARTER.— We understand that the
private bankers in England and Wales have opened a cor-
respondence with the deputies of the joint-stock banks re-
presenting Ireland also, in order that they may act in
concert respecting the measures which may be brought
forward by ministers for the future regulation of the cur-
rency. We believe that the more immediate inducement
of the former to open his communication with the joint-
stock banks is an idea that ministers will make some
change respecting the issues, although Sir Robert Peel
has hitherto kept his lips herm'tically sealed respecting
his intentions to all parties alike. A deputation from the
Bank of Ireland have had an interview with the Premier
to represent the interest of that institution in the event of
any change. They were most graciously received and pa.
tiently listened to; but, like all the others, left in igno-
rance of the fate that awaits them, whether for weal or
woe.—Morning Herald.
ANTI-LEAGUE MEETING IN CHESHIRE.--A meeting
of tenant farmers and labourers, of the northern division
of Cheshire, was held at Northwich on Tuesday, when all
the leading gentry of the neighbourhood were in attend-
ance. We noticed the following :—The right Hon. Lord
Delamere, the Right Hon. Lord De Tabley, Wilbraham
Egerton, Egerton, Esq., Sir Richard Brooke, Bart.,
John Tollemache, Esq., M.P., Sir Philip de Malpas Grey
Egerton, Bart., M.P., George Cornwall Legh, Esq.,
M.P., Rowland Egerton Warburton Esq., W. T. Eger-
ton, Esq., J. Tomkinson, Esq., J. Baskerville Glegg,
Esq., Egerton Legh, Esq., Thomas Langford Brooke,
Esq., Randle Wilbraham, Esq., John Hoskyns ilarper,
Esq., James Hugh Smith Barry, Esq., James Heath
Leigh, Esq., Geoffrey Joseph Shakerley, Esq., Sir Arthur
Brooke, Bart.. R. G. Leycester, Esq., J. H. Hammond,
Esq., Harry Brooke, Esq., Rev. Thomas France, Hon.
Sir Edward Cust, Bart., . Eccles, Esq.—A number of
excellent speeches were delivered, especially by tenant
farmers, in which some home thrusts were given to the
League. The subscription in the room amounted to £3OO.
EXPORTS TO BRAZIL.—The following return of the de-
clared value of British and Irish produce and manufac-
tures, exported from the United Kingdom to Brazil in the
years 1841, 1842, and 1843, has just been printed, on the
motion of Mr. Labouchere. The gross total declared value
of onr exports to the empire of Brazil was, in 1841,
£2,556,554; in 1842, £1,756,805; and in 1843, £2,140,127,
showing a decisive revival of our trade with Brazil during
the past,year. In the latter period (1843) cotton manu-
factures figured for £1,096,662 (or one-half of the total
exports) ; hardwares and cutlery, for £80,070 ; linen ma-
nufactures, for £154,323 ; iron and steel, for £54,996 ;
butter, for £64,294 ; brass and copper manufactures, for
£36,815 ; arms and ammunition, for £18,155 ; apparel,
slops, and haberdashery, for £20,282 ; coals, &c., for
£9,396 ; earthenware, for £46,461 ; glass, for £27,437 :
leather, wrought and unwrougbt, for £23,309; machine-
ry and millwork, for £17,352 ; soap and candles, for
£57,812 ; silk manufactures, for £30,404 ; tin and pew-
ter wares, &c., for £11,108; and woollen manufactures,
for £278,171. The exports of cotton manufactures in-
creased last year by £277,139.
LEGACY DUTY, &c.—Mr. Hume has moved for a re-
turn of the capital on which legacy duty has been paid,
and the amount of revenue received, in the United King-
dom, for stamp duty on legacies, in the year ending the
sth day of January, 1844, &c. It appears from this re-
turn that the total amount of capital on which the several
rates of legacy duty have been paid in Great Britain du-
ring the year 1843 was £43,393,142—viz., £23,137,110
at the rate of 1 per cent. legacy duty ; £119.962 at 2/
per cent. ; £13,482,882 at 3 per cent. ; £93,400 at 4 per
cent. ; £8,595,855 at 5 per cent. ; £210,552 at 6 per cent.;
£13'546 at 8 per cent. ; and £4,732,832 at 10 per cent.
An abstract of the total amount on which duty has been
paid since 1797 gives a sum total of £1,249,425,910. The
total amount of legacy duty received in Ireland in the
year 1843 was £39,034, and the amount of duty on pro-
bates and administrations £66,184, the amount of capital
upon which legacy duty was paid making a sum total of
£1,484,997. The gross total amount of legacy duty re-
ceived in the United Kingdom during the past year was
£1,240,803, and the gross total amount of duty received
on probates, administrations, and testamentary invento-
ries, £99,8 964. The gross total amount of legacy duty
received.% the United Kingdom since the 1797 makes a
sum total of £37,144.752, whilst the duties on probates,
&c., during the same period, amount altogether to
£29,691,206. Of the first mentioned amount (£37,144,752)
the sum of £34,392,977 was paid by England, £2,037,524
by Scotland, and £714,250 by Ireland.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—The following accident occurred
to Mr. Frizelle's coach, at the bridge, at the Union Mills,
Douglas, when the coach was proceeding to Peel, laden
within and without with rassengers, on Wednesday even-
ing last. On descending the declivity the driver had neg-
lected to use the drag, the consequence was a too rapid
descent to manage the vehicle properly upon such a nar-
row and winding road. The pole gave way, and on reach-
ing the bridge the catastrophe attained its climax, by the
coach upsetting, and pitching some three or four of the
outside passengers over the parapet of the bridge into the
water, and seriously maiming two or three by the wheels
passing over them. Miss Crane, of Pulrosc, Mrs.
M`Carty, wife of the gardener, at Northop, and Mrs.
Kelly, James-street, were assisted out of the river. Upon
the road was found the mangled body of Mr. Farger.
of Peel, whose features could scarcely be recognised, the
skin being completely excoriated off his face, the lower
jaw broken, and head much injured. The driver was also
taken up helpless, one of the wheels having passed over
his body. Miss Craine's shoulder was dislocated, and
Mrs. Kelly was much bruised, as well as several other
passengers, but the most serious cases were Fargher and
Mrs. M`Carty, the latter of whom died yesterday of the
injuries she received, and Fargher was still lying in a dan-
gerous state, unfit to be removed home. Soon as the in-
telligence reached town by express Mr. Braid sent a coach
and conyeyed the passengers, able to proceed, to their de-
stination.—Since writing the above we are pained to state
that poor Fargher died in the course of yesterday after-
noon. In the evening the coroner repaired to the Union
Mills. After hearing the evidence adduced, the jury re-
turned a verdict of " Accidental death," in both cases.—
Isle of Man paper of Salzerday.
LADY SHOPLIFTERS.—On Friday week several of the
valuable articles found upon the persons and at the resi-
dence of these expert lady thieves were, through the acti-
vity of Wardle, the police-constable, identified by the se-
veral tradesmen from whom they had been purloined. The
gold watch, valued at 30 guineas, was identified by Mr.
T. Hawley, of the firm of Hawley and Co., goldsmiths
and watchmakers, No. 75, Strand. Mr. Hawley stated
that he remembered the prisoner coming into his shop
about a fortnight since, at which time, he supposed, the
watch, which was the most valuable one on the tray. was
abstracted whilst he was engaged (at the request of his
visitors) in reaching another tray of watches of less value.
He did not, however, know that the watch had been
stolen until it was shown to him by the police constable.
Two valuable gold pencil-cases have also been identified
by their owner, a gentleman residing at No. 228, Regent.
street, who appears to have no idea as to the manner in
which they had been stolen. Four only out of a number
of gold rings, some of which have diamonds of the first
water, and one only out of six valuable gold brooches,
have as yet been identified as the property of tradesmen,
stolen from their shops. Amongst other property found,
and supposed to have been stolen, and not yet owned, is a
handsome embossed gold watch and chain. The watch is
a double bottomed lever, with gold dial ; number on the
case, 404; ditto on the movement, 7,585. The chain,
which is an exceedingly massive one, is partly link and
partly curb ; it has for the clasp a lady's hand, with eme-
rald gold ring on the fore finger. and a garnett on the
clasp of the bracelet. There are also several silver pencil
cases not yet owned. Among the mercery goods not vet
identified is a large handsome richly-worked foreign black
lace scarf, and said to be worth £2O; as also a quantity
of silks, satins, gloves, silk dresser, &c., so that the ladies
were not only exceedingly industrious, bet extremely for-
tunate in levying their contributions upon the various
metropolitan tradesmen. The eldest of the prisoners,
Ann Elizabeth Earnshaw, is stated to be a married wo-
man of property, but separated from her husband, who is
residing in the country.
SHIPWRECK AND SHOCKING INHUMANITY.—The
Iris. of Hull, the vessel which was lost on the coast of
Lincolnshire, was at the time making for and within two
hours of port, when the wind chopped round to the north-
ward,
and such a heavy sea came on, that she was 4
obliged to turn and make for " the deeps" to the south. I
Hardly had she got before the wind, when a sea " poop-
ed " her, split her mainsail, and rendered her unmanage-
able. She drove at Huttoft, and kept drifting down from
that place until she became fast on a sandbank at Mumby
Chapel, two miles below Huttoft. This was at 7 o'clock.
The crew consisted of the captain, his wife and child,
17 months old, and two men. At this hour they were
near enough the shore to be heard, and were heard ; num-
bers of people were on the shore, but none offered to
lend a saving hand—they were helping themselves to the
planks and spirits as they came ashore. A farmer being
there from Huttoft on horseback, several persons, more
humane than their fellows, begged him to ride home,
only two miles, for the life-boat there—he refused ; they
then begged him to lend his horse that one of them might
go—he would not ! The tide was coming in, the poor
fellows shrieking, until the woman and the two men were
washed off and drowned ; the captain clasped his child in
his arms until it died of cold, and was at last washed out
of his arms a corpse. He then lashed himself to the
capstain, and remained there (would humanity believe it ?)
until two o'clock—seven hours—within a stone's throw of
the, shore, seen and heard by these people. At that hour
a young farmer got down there, and seeing the apathy of
the people ashore, he waded almost up to the vessel, and
spoke to the captain, who said, " If you can come to me,
I can come ashore." And so he did ; he alone survived.
Here was means of saving them by a life-boat, with a
ready crew, within two miles to the north ; and two miles
to the south was Manby's apparatus, all ready to start;
and the farmer, of Huttoft, against whose very house was
the life-boat stationed, would neither save them nor let
them be saved. The facts of this case are given upon the
authority of a letter addressed by a clergyman of the
neighbourhood to the Times; who further states, that
the Bishop of Lincoln and other gentlemen in the county
lately provided the coast with a life-boat, at a cost of £2OO,
but that it has never been out, except to show off in fine
weather,