The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-01 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

GENERAL MISCELLANY

Lord Polwarth was elected the new Scotch representa-
tive peer on Wednesday. There was no other candidate.
At Hutingdonshire Assizes there were only four prison-
ers for trial, and not a single law cause.

It is now generally stated, says The Globe, echoed by
The Times, that the Houses of Parliament will not be
prorogued until the last week in August.

On Thursday last, a poor woman was safely delivered
of a stillborn child whilst passing along Chiswell-street,
London.

The sect called Latter Day Saints or Mormonites, of
Stockport, have taken the chapel in High street, recently
occupied by the Unitarians.
It is stated that at the close of the poll at Durham,
several carrier pigeons were let loose, two of which were
to convey the news to Rochdale and Manchester.

A piece of solid gold was found a few days since by some
labourers upon Little Baddow Hall Fara), Essex, weigh-
ing nearly an ounce.

On Sunday week, Thomas Hart, beerseller, Halliwell,
had his 29th child christened at Bolton parish church ;
and what is quite as singular, 25 of them are alive.
In the year 1815 no less than 166 persons lost their
lives by coal-pit explosions, within a circuit of four miles,
in the counties of Durham and Northumberland.

The capabilities of a new iron steamer on the Thames,
called " The Prince of Wales," are said to be seventeen
miles an hour.

It is said that Mr. Bunn, backed by two enterprising
capitalists, is to resume the management of Drury-lane
Theatre.—Brighton Gazette.
THE INFLUENZA.—This epidemic, which visited our
cities so severely, has now generally disappeared. It is
now prevailing all over Canada.

DEPUTY LIEUTENANCY.—The lord lieutenant of this
county has been pleased to appoint Henry Hawarden Fa-
zakerly, of Gillib rand-hall, Esq., deputy lieutenant.
THE LATE DUEL.—The Times says, " We understand
there is very little doubt that Lieutenant Munro, with
Lieutenants Cuddy and Grant, will surrender to take their
trials with Mr. Gulliver."

The special train on Thursday evening, with the party
of his Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe Coburg, per-
formed the journey, 77 miles, in one hour and thirty-nine
minutes, from Southampton to Vauxhall.
A diver of the name of John Clegg, stated by the
Carlisle Journal to belong to this town, unfortuna'ely
perished last week, whilst engaged with the wreck of the
Hibernia, wrecked off Whitehaven harbour.

RARE OCCURRENCE.—There is at present in the green-
house of Mrs. Lawrence of Studley Park, the holy palm
(Cycus revolula), above 100 years old, now in flower.
This beautiful plant only flowers once in a century.
At the Hertford Assizes, a servant girl, who had put a
quantity of oxalic acid in her mistress's teapot, was found
" guilty of administering the poison, but NOT with intent
to murder!"

Two prisoners escaped yesterday se'nnight from the
new house of correction at Usk ; built npon an improved
model for security, invented in the good days of Whig
Administration.

Mr. Wilson, the celebrated singer, has been compelled,
by a severe domestic calamity—the death of his youngest
son, a fine boy, eight years of age—to postpone for a time
his musical entertainments.

On the 12th nit. two churches, a convent of nuns, com-
posed of seventeen different buildings, and thirty-seven
private houses, were destroyed at Orzel, in Russia, by a
conflagration.

Lady Byron, widow of the poet, has recently taken up
her residence at Market Bosworth for a short time. We
regret to hear that her lddyship has been labouring under
indisposition for some time past.
The standard height of the recruits for the Royal
Marines has been altered by direction of the Lords Com-
missioners of the Admiralty. It is to be five feet seven
inches, until further orders.—United Service Gazette.

In the Sheriff's Court a verdict [for the Crown, for
£3,954 Is. 2d., was obtained against Messrs. Candy and
Dean, silk importers, for duties unpaid. The affair is
one of the Custom•house frauds.

A considerable quantity of fresh butter was seized in
Cardiff market on Saturday week for deficiency in weight,
and confiscated. It was distributed, by order of the
mayor, to several poor persons.
The captain, mate and crew of the Drusillar. from Bos-
ton to St. Domingo, which was destroyed by fire on the
6th July, arrived at this port in the Sheffield, by which
they had been taken from the Cape whale-ship Harry.

THE EXPLOSION ON BOARD THE CAMPERDOWN.—
We stated in our last that one of the sufferers by this me-
lancholy occurrence had expired. Since then the gun-
ner's mate, James Duke, Miss Barton, and Miss Yarker
have also been released from their sufferings by death.
Early on Thursday morning the steam-packet Bataviar,
Captain Dunlop, arrived off St. Katharine's Steam-packet
wharf, from Rotterdam. Part of her cargo consisted of
450 baskets of potatoes and 500 baskets of currants, which
were consigned to two salesmen in Spitalfields-market.
We are glad to hear that Mr. Robert :Story, author of
"The Isles are Awake," any many other loyal and pa-
triotic lyrics, most of which have appeared in our columns,
has received an appointment under government, and is
now a resident in town.—Standard.

Lain company established to carry out Mr. Ingold's in-
vention for the manufacture of wheels and pinions of clocks
and watches intend to proceed, with a capital of £250,000
in shares of £25 each, under an exclusive license from the
trustees.

An insurance was effected at Lloyd's, last week, by
Mefsrs. Cavan, Brothers, on behalf of the colony of
Demerara, on 24,783 dollars, being the savings during
five years of 230 Hill Coolies, who are on their return
from Guiana to Calcutta.

Damage, to the extent of several hundred pounds, was
sustained on Monday afternoon week, by the two o'clock
mixed train of carriages, on the Dundee and Arbroath
railway line taking fire. The fire originated in some of
the ashes from the engine being blown among a quantity
of flax and miscellaneous goods immediately behind the
engine.

On Sunday last, the Rev. J. Moore, catholic priest
read to his congregation, in the Mass-house, in Bath-
street, Birmingham, the sermon, for preaching which Dr.
Pusey has been suspended; and, commenting on the said
sermon, described it as a pure exposition of catholic
doctrine.

The fishermen employed at the fishery called Tweed-
mouth Steil, a little above the Carr Rock, near Berwick,
last week caught in their salmon net a sturgeon which
measured seven feet five incbes in extreme length, by two
feet eleven in circumference, and weighed ten stone four
pounds.
Ma. ConnEN.—Tbis gentleman's father was a farmer,
and, after a whole life of industry and self-denial, left his
children £4,500. His children, in ten years' manufac-
turing, raise it to £400,000 ; and yet complain of undue
advantages given to the farmer! Was ever anything more
preposterous!
The Birmingham Journal announces, on behalf of
Thomas Attwoud, a new scheme of agitation, which is to
combine " all the various classes of men, who are now
seeking different objects by different means, in England,
Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, in one greatlegal confeder-
ation," against Peel's currency bill.
BILLS or EXCHANGE EXEMPTION BILL.—The act for
exempting certain bills of exchange and promissory notes
from the operation of the laws relating to usury, which
would otherwise expire on the Ist of January next, is to
be continued in force, by a bill just introduced for that
purpose, until the Ist of January, 1846.
The unlicensed pilots of the port of Sunderland have
held sundry meetings during the past week, and have ul-
timately resolved to form themselves into a society for
protection against the prosecutions of the Trinity House,
Newcastle, and to use means to effect a discontinuance of
that corporation's interference with them.

About two hundred unemployed working men of South
Shields have thrown themselves on the parish, and are
now employed in breaking stones, and covering the church
yard with gravel, at one shilling per day, whilst others
have gone into the workhouse, where they receive the food
of the house and lodgings.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager is expected to arrive
at Whitley Court, at the close of this week, from Bushy
Park, for the autumn. Earl Howe and his family will re-
main at Gopsall-hall, with occasional visits to Whitley,
during her Majesty's sojourn in Worcestershire.
EXPENSE OP THE EXPEDITION TO CHINA.—A par-
liamentary return, just published, shows that the sums
paid, or to be paid on account of the war with China
amount to £2,872,873, of which sum £804,964 are re-
quired to be voted, in 1834-44, as balance due to the East
India Company.

On the landing of the 92d Highlanders at Trinidad, in
May last, the negroes, who had never seen the Highland
costume before, did not know what to make of it. The
washerwomen were outrageous, exclaiming, " Dem High-
landmen no good, dem too poor, dem hab no money to
buy trousers.
Gnonsx SHOOTING. - Active preparations for the
moors have already commenced, and the attendance of
sportsmen on the heather-clad hills of Caledonia, on the
morning of the 12th of August, is expected to be this
year greater than usual. The steam ships which sailed
on Saturday for Scotland were crowded with passengers,
many of them for their shooting quarters in the High-
lands. A large number of dogs accompanied their
owners. The sport promises to be excellent.
CHINA OPIUM.—A return, published on Wednesday,
states tbdt £1,281,211 13s. sd. will be required to make
good to certain holders of opium surrendered in China in
March, 1839, the amount of compensation due to them
under Art. 3of the treaty of peace. The above amount,
however, includes a sum of £29,289 lls. 9d., as a claim
by the Parsee firms of Heerjeebhoy liustomjee and A.
and D. Furdonjee, the settlement of which depends on
further explanation.

VALUE OF AGRICULTURE OVER MAFUFACTURES.•—
At the first meeting of the Broomsgrove Farmers' Club,
an introductory lecture was delivered by Mr. H. F. Far-
don, " On the advantages of associations for the improve-
ment of agriculture." In proof of the national impor-
tance of agriculture, the lecturer stated, on the authority
of Spackman's Statistics of the British Empire, that in
1831 there were 5,812,276 males above the age cf 20
years in the United Kingdom, and that of these 2,170,111
were employed in agriculture. It was further stated, on
the authority of the s.,me work, that the entire popula-
tion of the United Kingdom may he thus divided_—

Dependent on Agriculture..
Manufactures

5,971,146

QUAKER M.P.'s.—There are only two instances'', of
quakers having been returned to parliament; and it is re-
markable that one was fur the county and the other the
city of Durham. Joseph Pease, of Darlington, repre-
sented the southern division of the county after the pas-
sing of the Reform Bill; and John Bright, of Rochdale
has now been returned for the city.

LERWICK (ZETLAND), JULY 17.—CAPTURE OF FOUR I
HUNDRED AND FORTY-THREE WHALES.—Duting the
past week, the coast has presented a somewhat novel and
certainly unusual appearance. Two shoals of young
whales have been driven on shore, viz., one consisting of
280, at Hillswick ; and the second, consisting of 163, at
Stand. They were all captured and killed.
THEATRICALS.—The benefit of Mr. Benedict, the com-
poser, on Monday night, at Covent-garden Theatre,
produced near £4OO. The St. James's Theatre closed
last ni ht for the regular season. Three thousand pounds
and upwards were received at the Italian Opera on Thurs-
day night, on the occasion of her Majesty's first state visit
to that theatre.—Britannia.

JOINT STOCK BANKING,—Of nine joint stock banks,
established in Manchester within a space of about 14
years, only three survive in a flourishing condition, viz.
the " District," the " Union," and the " Manchester
and Salford " Banks; of those in process of winding up,
two only are at all likely to realise any approach to the
capital originally subscribed by the shareholders.
DISSENTING FALSEHOOD,--The Leeds Mercury in
some tabular statements as to the schools belonging to
the church in the various towns of Lancastlire, states that
there are in Preston 265 teachers and 3,126 scholars.
Some trouble has been taken to ascertain how far this is
correct, and it turns out that there are 313 teachers and
4,642 pupils in schools in connection with the church.—
Preston Pilot.

FOUNDI,RING OF A VESSEL WITH ALL HANDS.—
Within the last three or four days, the melancholy intel-
ligence of the total shipwreck of the brig Falcon, of Lon-
don, with the loss of all her orew, excepting one seaman,
has been received. She is stated to have been a fine
vessel, of about 150 tons burthen, and the number who
have so unfortunately perished amount to fourteen, in-
cluding the master, Captain Cairns.

TIIE LEAGUE PETITION FORGERIES.—At the close of
the proceedings in the House of Commons, on Friday
night, Mr. Christopher brought forward the subject of
the petition from Epworth, which a committee had de-
clared to be forg-d, and moved that " Samuel Potts be
taken into the custody of the sergeant-at-arms*" Orders
were forthwith given by the Speaker that a warrant should
be issued for his apprehension.
STRANGE AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—John Ralph, shoe-
maker. Nairn, 26 years of age, while working at his busi-
ness, about a fortnight ago, touched the point of one of
his fingers with the shoe-rasp which he was handling, and
ruffled the skin a little. He took no further notice of the
circumstance for some days, but the pain increased to an
intolerable degree, and his arm swelled and became in-
flamed. It immediately affected his body, and ended in
mortification and death.
THE ARCHIMEDEAN SCREW.—On Thursday the Vice-
Chancellor granted an injunction, on behalf of the Ship
Propeller Company, to restrain the Messrs. Rennie, the
well known engineers, from infringing a patent obtained
by Mr. F. P. Smith for the application of the screw pro-
peller, commonly called the Archimedean Screw, as a
means of propelling vessels. The patent had been as-
signed by Mr. Smith to the Propeller Company.
THE LATEST SECESSION.—For some years past the
spinning mill at the Horse Cross has been terribly in-
fested with rats. About five days ago the workers were
surprised to find that these troublesome neighbours had
entirely disappeared. On making a little enquiry, it was
discovered that, to a rat, the whole had gone out and
located themselves about the foundations of the Rev. Mr.
Gray's Free Kirk—all as merry and frisky as it is natural
for non-intrusion rats to be.—Perth Constitutional.

TIDAL PHENOMENA.—A very strange phenomenon has
occurred along the coast this week ; the sea one night
having leaped forward twenty feet or so, and then imme-
diately retiring.—Tyne Mercury.—The same phenome-
non was observed on Friday week, at Leith. At the time
of low water the tide suddenly rose about six inches,
rushing into the harbour, and in a few minutes it again
receded with equal velocity. Similar phenomena occurred
in various parts of this country during the great earth-
quake at Lisbon.
A WONDERFUL SHOWER.—We have read of showers
of fish, showers of eels, and showers of codfish, and in
fact of almost every extraordinary nature; but Charleston,
S. C., has been visited by one certainly unparalleled in
the records of showers. During a tremendous thunder
storm on the 2d ult., an alligator, about two feet long,
fell at the corner of Wentworth and Anson streets. The
Charleston Mercury, in recording the phenomenon, says :
—" the beast had a look of wonder and bewilderment
about him, that showed plainly enough, he must have
gone through a remarkable experience."

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—FOUR LIVES LOST.--011
Sunday last, about half-past eleven o'clock, a party of
four persons entered a pleasure boat, lying at Inverness,
and proceeded down the Firth as far as Kilmuir. When
returning, and within about two hundred yards of the
Longman Point, a sudden squall caught them before they
had time to shorten sail, and the boat filling, instantly
swamped. The accident was seen at Kilmuir, and boats
put out to render assistance, but before they could reach
the spot, the whole had disappeared amidst the stormy
currents that prevail in this part of the Firth.—Edinburgh
Paper.
THE WRESTLINGWORTH MURDER.—At the Bedford
Assizes, on Saturday week, Sarah Darley, aged 22, was
indicted for the murder of her husband by poisoning him.
The jury found her guilty, and Baron Alderson passed the
last sentence of the law upon her, leaving her no hope of
mercy. It may perhaps be remembered, that this woman
had also been found guilty, by the coroner's jury, of mur-
dering her infant child, which, by the coroner's warrant,
had been disinterred: and the body of a former husband
was also taken up, but in the latter case the body was too
much decomposed to say by what means he died.—[This
creature almost equals in atrocity Betty Eccles, recently
executed at Kirkdale.]
ARRIVAL OF ONE OF THE PRISONERS FROM CABOOL.
—Amongst the passengers landed from the ship Windsor,
which arrived on the 22nd instant from Calcutta, with a
detachment of the 49th regt., is the lady of Lieut. Eyre,
Bengal artillery, and late commissary of ordnance at
Cabool, whose able narrative of the events that occurred
there, and of the aisasters which befel our ill-fated army
has made so much noise in the world. This is the first
arrival in England of those ladies who displayed such
heroic conduct under the unprecedented hardships, priva-
tions, and terrific scenes which they witnessed during a
siege and captivity which lasted for eleven months.

JOHN BRIGHT'S ELECTION EIPENSES.—At adinner
given in Manchester, on Friday last, to celebrate the
triumph of this eminent leaguer, one of the speakers—a
Mr. Hibbert—remarked that he was at Rochdale on
Monday, and in Rochdale and Manchester be succeeded
in obtaining £3so—not to bribe, but to pay the necessary
expenses at Durham; for at Durham, as at Nottingham,
they were just emerging from the meshes of corruption to
the purity of election. Three hundred and fifty pounds
for the " necessary expenses ;" pray what are necessary
expenses? Three hundred and fifty pounds is rather a
large sum for a pure election to cost amongst a limited
constituency such as that of Durham.
Loss OF £5OO, AND REMARKABLE RESTORATION.—
On Tuesday, the 11th instant, a gentleman who had come
that morning from York, having with him the sum of
£5OO, principally in cash, which be carried in a silk pocket
handkerchief, on arriving at the Loughborough Station,
with singular absence of mind got out of the carriage and
went towards the town, leaving the money on the seat!
He soon discovered the loss, went to Leicester by the
next train, gave information there, and went to Rugby,
where the property was delivered to him by the station
master, Mr. Pigon, in whose hands it had been placed,
that it might be restored to its owner, by a lady fellow
passenger, who was going on to London! This noble
conduct commands admiration, and the agreeable surprise
of the gentleman, on the restoration of his property, may
be easily imagined.—Derby Reporter.
THE LATE DURHAM ELECTION.—Lord Dungannon
thus explains his share in the " head-money" business :
" Previous to the election I did put the sum mentioned
into the hands of Mr. Wilkinson. It was a bill received
just before from Ireland. 1 requested Mr. Wilkinson to
defray every legitimate expense, to do in proper time
what was just and liberal regarding the service of every
individual, and then to deliver to mea debtor and creditor
account. I, at the same time, strictly charged him
to be most cautious in avoiding any act whatever, direct
or indirect, that could by possibility be construed into
such a meaning as that of treating or bribery. I called
his attention to the Nottingham and other cases, and
adding how much a candidate must rely on the discretion
of his agents, again strongly urged him to be most careful
against offending on that score, according to any act
previously existing or passed since 1841, when I ceased
to be a member of the house."
Two Lions.—We understand that the Hon. and Rev.
George Spencer, the brother of Earl Spencer, who is, as
most of our readers are aware, a catholic priest, being in
Manchester for a few days, called, on Wednesday evening
last, at the house of the Rev. Hugh Stowell, who, how-
ever, was not at home at the time. The rev. gentleman
saw Mrs. Stowell, to whom he announced himself, and
expressed a desire to see the rev. incumbent of Christ
Church. The lady said that the best time to see her hus-
band was about breakfast time, and she invited the hon.
and rev. gentleman to breakfast the following morning.
Accordingly, on Thnrsday morning, Mr. Spencer pre-
sented himself at the residence of Mr. Stowell, who re-
ceived him with due politeness, and over breakfast, we
believe, the two gentlemen discussed various matters con-
nected with the great controversy between their respective
creeds and churches.—Manchester Guardian.—[M r.
Spencer preached two sermons at Bury on Sunday, and
on the following day paid a visit to the vicar.]

WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.—On Wednesday last the
sittings of the Wesleyan Methodist Society commenced
at Carver-street chapel, Sheffield. The first business was
the election of a President. There were four candidates,
and upon the votes being taken the numbers stood as
follow : Scott, 150; Stanley, 16; S. Jackson, 15 ; R.
Wood, 7. The Rev. John Scott was therefore declared
to be duly elected. The Rev. R. Newton was again elec-
ted Secretary ; the votes for this important office were—
Newton, 158 ; S. Jackson, 15 ; J. Farrar. 5 ; A. E. Far-
rar, 4. On Tuesday, at a Special Missionary Committee
Meeting, it was stated that there had been a falling off
in the receipts during the last six months, as compared
with the corresponding six months in 1842, of about
£2OOO. At the meeting of the General Committee of
Education a highly interesting report was read, in which
the Committee epress their conviction that the time is

now come when the Wesleyan Methodists ought to have
a comprehensive and vended system of Infant and week
day, as well as Sunday Schools.

In the Court of Bankruptcy, on Saturday, in the matter
of Wr4,,ht and Biddulph's bankruptcy, an application was
made by a gentleman on the part of the governor and state
of Illinois, North America, to parcipitate in the dividend
now in the course 9f payment out of the estate in the sum
of £19,756 5s Bd, on account of bonds which the bankrupts
held'at the time of their failure. This was opposed by the
assignees on the ground that some part of the debt was
bad, the bonds having been at the time they obtained them
in a state of insolvency, and on Able to pay its own divi-
dend. The application was granted.
ARRIA.GE LICENCES.-It is important to parties re•
quiring these documents to know, that they are not, as
heretofore, obtained immediately on application to the
Surrogates. In accordance with the interpretation put
upon the Marriage Act by some of the ablest civilians,
the surrogates are now required, previously to delivering
licences to the parties, to ascertain from the Registrar
that no caveat has been entered with him, A necessary
delay, therefore, of some days occurs between the period
of application to the surrogate and the receipt of the
1 licence.

MANCHESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL IN SEPTEMBER.—
We understand the arrangements for this great musical
treat are now nearly completed ; the tickets will com-
mence issuing on Saturday next, and for the purpose of
preventing confusion in the sale, an office has been taken
for the purpose in Ducie-place. The number issued will
be confined to the number of seats, by which means the
building will not be unpleasantly crowded ; we should
advise our friends therefore to ma►te early application, for
certainly so great a musical treat has not been offered to
the people of Manchester since the festival of 1836, and
question if, at so reasonable a price, it can ever be afforded
again. With the talent of Miss Clara Novello, Miss
Rainforth, Mrs. Alfred Shaw, Mr. Braham, Mr. James
Bennett, and Mr. H. Phillips, we feel satisfied the Mes-
siah will be given in a style not to be surpassed, indeed
they are the elite-of our English vocalists. The miscella-
neous night is crowded with gems such as we might ex-
pect from the taste and judgment of the highly gifted con-
ductor, Sir Henry Bishop.

SUICIDE BY HANGING.—On Thursd, y an inquest was
held before Mr. Chapman, coroner for the Borough of
Manchester, on view of the body of Joseph Beeston,
joiner, of Bank-street, Hulme, 40 years of age. It ap-
peared that the deceased had been addicted to intoxica-
tion, and was sometimes drunk for days together. He
came home to his lodgings very drunk about three o'clock
on Tuesday morning; he lay in bed all that day, and part
of the next, and on Wednesday afternoon was found in a
kneeling posture, suspended by a rope from one of the
bed-posts. It was stated by his sister-in-law, with whom
he lodged, that when he was in liquor he appeared wild,
and as though he was insane. His wife had left him about
thirteen months ago on account of his habits, and this
was supposed to have preyed upon his mind. On the
board, at the head of the bed, he had writted the follow-
ing with chalk ;

" Farewell my wife and daughter dear
My brother and sister toow
You will find me drowned I mile from here
In the Duke's canal within."
The cord with which he had hung himself he had taken
from a clock which was placed in his bed-room.—Verdict'
" Insanity, brought on by intoxication."

THE DURHAM ELECTION.—The cathedral city of
Durham has been disgraced by returning to parliament,
as its representative, an obscure blaspheming Quaker—
hight John Bright, of Rochdale, notorious in his birth-
place as the " raw head and bloody bones" of anti-church-
rate martyrs and corn-law repeaters, but principally in
our remembrance, and in the re-called disgust of every
decent person in this neighbourhood, as the mountebank
post-prandial retailer of blasphemous rhymes. It is al-
most too much for one's patience to find one of the
strongholds of English Christianity rejecting an advocate
of sound church and constitutional principles, for a person
who, ir. characterizing those who happened to differ from
him in opinion, must take a figure from an impious scrib-
bler of " butter woman's " couplets on corn—one Ebe-
nezer Elliot—and describe them as acting as though they
were to

" Shake their clench'd lists in the Almighty's face,
And cry—Thou fool ! "
The retailer of soul-destroying and perilous stuff such as
this has been returned to represent the cathedral town of
Durham in parliament! Faugh! And yet we are told
that the place owes this foul blot upon its character to
the caprice and jealousy of a conservative nobleman ! It
is said that Mr. Purvis has lost the race because he did
not touch his cap to the Marquis of Londonderry and
ride in his colours. The marquis, it seems, could, byla
word, have influenced at least eighty of the electors.
That word he withheld because Mr. Purvis presumed to
take the field without consulting him, and the conse-
quence has been that Mr. Purvis has polled nearly one
hundred votes less than the conservative candidate at the
last election, whilst Bright has polled 83 more than he did
on the last occasion. How thy- Marquis of Londonderry
will be able to atone to his party for this shameful aban-
donment of it, we are totally at a loss to conceive. He
has brought disgrace upon Durham, but double disgrace
upon himself.—Blanchester Courier.

THE LATE MR. EDWARD WILLIAM ELTON.—This
admirable actor, whose melancholy and most unexpected
death is recorded as having happened through the wreck
of the Pegasus steamer, was born in the year 1794, and
educated with a view to follow the profession of a solicitor,
and for considerable time he was in the office of Mr.
Springhall, of Verulam-buildings ; but having imbibed a
passion for theatrical representations, he became a mem-
ber of the well-known private theatre in Wilson-street,
Gray's-inn-lane, conducted by Mr. Pym, a place cele-
brated for having given the first rudiments of the art to
several eminent actors, among them the late John Reeve.
In 1823, after having tried for a short time some of the
small provincial towns, he obtained an engagement at the
Olympic Theatre, where the late Tyrone Power was then
engaged. Mr. Elton remained only a short time, and at
the Christmas of that year he engaged himself at the Li-
verpool Amphitheatre; and, not being satisfied with his
situation there, be joined the company of Mr. Bunn, then
manager of the Birmingham Theatre. On the following
Christmas, his services were retained by the Liverpool
manager to personate the character of Napoleon in the
" Battle of Waterloo," which spectacle was acted for
three months in succession. Shortly after the manager of
the Theatre Royal, Liverpool, proposed an engagement ;
and Mr. Elton, already very popular in the town, pre-
sented himself on the boards of the legitimate arena as
Cominius, in " Coriolanus ." here he became most popular;
but Mr. Vandenhoff being so long established as the lead-
ing actor, Mr. Elton could only obtain a first part oc-
casionally. From Liverpool he went to Chester Shrews-
bury, Worcester. and Manchester, where he attracted the
notice of Mr. Charles Young, then playing for a few
nights there. That gentleman expressed himself highly
in favour of Mr. Elton's talent, and predicted his speedy
removal to the metropolis. He afterwards acted for a
season at Norwich and Cambridge, and in the year 1831
made his bow to the Garrick audience in Whitechapel as
Richard the Third. His success was prodigious; the
Eastenders hailed him as a modern Garrick; the managers,
Conquest and Wyman, liberally advanced his salary, and
their treasury was greatly benefited. The Surrey was his
next remove, where, after a few months' sojourn. the late
David Morris engaged him for the Haymarket Theatre,
where he appeared in 1833. He remained one season ;
and after various engagements at the London minors, he
appeared at Covent Garden, under the management of
Mr. Osbaldiston, in the season 1837, January 19, as
Waller Tyrrell, in the drama of that name. His claim
to the rank of an admirable actor was at once recognised.
From that period till his lamented death, he continued a
member of the theatres royal.

MODERN Rossissi MIRACLES.—The Univers publishes
the following extraordinary relation on the authority of a
letter from Rome, and states that the same information
has reached it from various sources :—" For the last week
nothing has been talked of at Rome but miracles. On St.
Peter's-day, a journeyman mason, whose legs had been
broken in several places by a fall from a scaffold, and who
for some time past had dragged himself from Madonna to
Madonna on his crutches, to implore a cure, stopped be.
fore the image of the Virgin, which is placed under a sort
of shed serving as a passage, not far from the Jews' quar-
ter. He prayed before it with his usual fervour. At length,
rising, he said, ' This is enough. Madonna, I have been
addressing to you on all sides my prayers long enough ;
take my crutches, I will have no more of them ; I leave
them to you ; you cannot be hard-hearted enough to aban-
don me in the middle of my road ; you are too good not
to assist me and furnish me with strength to return home.'
Hardly had he thrown his crutches at the feet of the Vir-
gin, when he felt a commotion in all his limbs, and was in
an instant cured, as well and as sound as before his acci-
dent. He began immediately to shout Miracle!' and
the people who were acquainted with his previous infirmity
and his daily prayers, carried him to his house in triumph.
The news of this prodigy spread rapidly, and all the lame,
blind, and infirm rushed to the compassionating Madonna.
In a few moments the adjoining streets were thronged,
and it was who should pray most fervently. In order to
thank the good Madonna, and conciliate her, the more
carpets and hangings were brought, and an altar was set
up with wax candles, magnificent decorations, and splendid
transparencies, with the cypher of Mary. It is said that
new miracles were operated on the following days. On
Tuesday there were so many wax candles burning at the
foot of the Madonna that the drapery of the altar was set
on fire. The consternation was now general. The people,
dreading, lest the Madonna should be burnt, put up prayers
for her safety in accents of despair. Happily they suc.
ceeded in extinguishing the fire. To prevent new accidents.
and the tumult which the collection of such crowds would
occasion, orders were given to remove the venerated image
to the neighbouring church. A priest was charged with
this task, and although the removal took place at two in
the morning, escorted by a detachment of dragoons, it
was effected with great difficulty, the people being opposed
to the removal. Since Wednesday the image is in the
church of Santa-Maria-del- Pianto. Tie crowd remains
the same but order has been established, and troops are
stationed in the neighbourhood. The infirm, large and
small, are ranged in front of the sanctuary before the
crowd, which only gives way to allow the sick, who are
brought from time to time, to pass." Another letter of
the 3d, in the same journal, says :—" I write to you under
the impression of an event sufficiently striking for me to
communicate. Yesterday evening I was with Monseigneur
and Mademoiselle, when Dorothea entered. in great agi-
tation, exclaiming, ' A great miracle has just been per-
formed by the Madonna, who, four days ago, cured the
lame mason ; the little girl of a washerwoman, who lives
below, has walked.' You must have remarked this child
always before the palace, resting on two crutches; she
was born without the use of her feet, the bones of which
like those of the legs were as soft as a rag, and would not
support her ; whilst sitting on the staircase the servant
said to her, ' Go and bray to the Madonna who cured the
mason.' She went slowly on her crutches, and arriving
before the Madonna, begun to ilray. liardly had she

finished, when a voice said to her, `Leave your crutches
end go home ;' she then walked for the first time. This
she has herself related to us."