The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-14 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Mr. Waghorn is in Vienna making arrangements for
the conveyance of the Indian Mail by Trieste.
The Penny Magazine has closed its career, after an ex-
istence of fourteen years.

The amount of the Cobden testimonial has now reached
upwards of X 33,000.

Eng coal is to be had in every part of the civilised
world ; there are de; ers at. Rio Janeiro, at Odessa, at
Archangel, and at Constantinople.
The Town Connell of Oxford have appointee a com-
mittee to provide suitable public bathing places free of
charge.

The preservation of ancient footpaths for the enjoyment
of the public is awakening general attention in the cities
of the South and We,t. of England.

SIR ROBERT PEEL IN LEEDS.—On Sunday week Mr.
Abraham Peel, of Shet•pscrir, Leeds, had an infant son
baptised at the parish church, " Sir R4ert."
A pupil, of the vttermary school of Alfort died a few

days ago, after three weeks' intense suffering. from havir.g
in dissection caugt,t the glanders from a horse.
A watchmaker of Card,ff is said to have invented a

.p in mo-

tion tor an indefinite number of (say 1,000) years.
Barnard Gregory, formerly of the. Satirist newspaper,
has taken the Newcastle Theatre.—NorM British Adver-
tiser.

At the West Kent quarter sescions three young men
and two women were trird for robbing the dead body of
V 4 icks, the fratricide, but escaped, owing to au error in
the indictment.

QUACK ADVERTISEMENTS.—The Gazette Medicate de
11,,1is elates that Morrison expended, br.tween the years
1830 and 1844, the enormous sum of £lOB,OOO sterling
in advertising Isis nostrum.
A mine of antimony has been discovered in New Can-
nock (Scotland). It ,a the only one of the kind in Bri-
tain, and contains a great mixture of arsenic and cop-

peras.
V acipEOF LAND.—The Ford Abbey estate, consisting
of about 1.200 acres, with the park, situ4e in the Vale of
the Aye Dursetshire, was last week sold by auction for
1:52,0001
During the hearing of a case at the Mansion-house, the
Lord Mayor of London stated that in France the extra-
ordinary system had been adopted of sendiog overrdim to thisthe
country any lunatics found about the streets.
At an inquest held last week, at Leicester, on two
infants poisoned by overdoses of "Godfrey's t o
coroner threatened in the next case of the kind to direct
the jury to return a verdict of manslaughter.
The western coast of Africa can grow cotton enough
for all the world. In America the average crop is 4001bs.
per acre; while experience has proved that in Attics
BJolbs. and even 1000 lbs. per acre may easily be produced.
At a recent auction for sheep, held in Nottinghamshire,
and attend, d by agriculturists from every part of the
kingdom, forty-two guineas was bid for a sheep, and yet
this did not effect the purchase.
COLLISIONS AT SEA.— It appears from an official docu-
ment just presented to Parliament, that there were last
year 454 collisions of vessels at sea. and in the present
year, to the 12th of May last, the number was 150.
FFRCTS OF A MRRDEROUS ATTACK ON MR. LUDLOW
BRUGES' KEEPERS AT SANDRIDOs.—POiuting, the
ass,stant, died about two months since ; and. Bell has.
become insane, and the inmate of an asylum, supposed to
ati-e from blows he had on the head.
OFFICE OF PROMPTER ABOLISH ED.—We suppose that
after this date we shall hear no more of persons being
" prompted" at public mer tims or upon the stage. The
manager of the Swansea theatre now desciibes that funct-
ionary as "Repelileur."
SNOW oN xinnaw.—On Tuesday week, notwith-
standing the excessive heat which had been experienced
at Keswick for some weeks past, the summit of Skiddaw
was densely covered with snow or hail, and retained its
wintry garb for several hours.
SH'PC-OF-WAR NOW BUILDING.—It appears, from
the official list published by the admiralty, that there are
now bui!ding in the various dockyards, 27 ships of the
line, 18 frigates, 18 sloops and brigs, six steam guard.
ships, 12 steam frigates, eight steam sloops, and 13 steam
gun-vessels.._

Ibrahim Pasha has offered to place a steam boat at the
disposal of Mr. Cobden, to convey him up the Nile,
shnuld Mr. Cobden determine to winter in Thebes. Mr.
Bright has ria intention of spending some months in visit-
ing the United States.
THE FIRE AT NEWFOUNDLAND.—The losses sustained
by the principal London assurance offices, particularly
the Phoenix, London, Imperial, !loyal Exchange, and
Sun, by the recent fearful conflagration at Newfoundland,
exceed, it is stated, £lo3,ooo.—Morning Post.
. . . .

A vessel called the Friden, which has arrived in the
London Docks from Odessa, in addition to a cargo of
Russian tallow, had 1,250 bomb-shells on board. The
importation of so singular an article of warfare is some-
what remarkable.

The floods in Perthshire last week did considerable
damage. The rivers were much swollen; bridges, cattle,
and timber were carried away, and the roads broken up.
In Atboll the damage done is estimated at'several thou-
sand pounds. •
The late Mr. Chubb, the celebrated lock and key ma-
nufacturer, who di d on the 18th of May, has left personal
property to the amount of £16,000. Of the ten thou-
sand locks made by this most ingenious inventor, there
are not two to be found that will take the same key.

On Wednesday and Thursday nearly 4000 children,
connected with the Birmingham Sunday School Union,
enjoyed a pleasure trip from Birmingham to Cheltenham,
under the guidance of their teachers. The charge was 6d.
each for the children.

It is in contemplation to reduce the postage to India, to
afford greater accommodation to passengers, to shorten
the quarantine at Marseilles, and not to stop at Malta ;
the passage at Alexandria and Marseilles is to be effected
in seven or eight days.
THE IRON TaAuti.—At a meeting of the iron masters,
adjourned from Wolverhampton, held in Birmingham, on
Thursday evening, it was understood that the prices of
last quarter-day—namely £lO per ton for bar iron, £l2
for hoop, and from £4 10s. to £4 15s. for pig iron were
to he maintained.

GREENLAND SEAL FISHING.-The Mary, Captain
Dring, arrived at Aberdeen from the Greenland seal fishing
on Monday, with 1,,300 seals, about 12 tuna of oil, and
gives account of twenty two other vessels being at the
fishery, between April 28th and June 7th, with upwards
of 25,000 seals.

On Tuesday, Mr. Norris, gamekeeper of L'rd Ward,
in Staffordshire, was deliberately shot by an under-keeper
named Hull, who bad been blamed by the former for
taking dogs into the preserves. Hull immediately gave
himself up and confessed the crime. The victim lies in a
hopeless state.
AN EXTRAORDINARY CHARACTER.—Mr. William
Mansfield, of liainton, Bucks, farmer, died on Saturday
week, in the 82d year of his ate; and it is bdieved was
worth at the time of his death from .Z 40,000 to £50,000,
but the whole of his personal expenses have not exceeded
£5O per year. In accordance with his wish, he was taken
to the grave in one of his own waggons. _

In consequence of an impnstig who is going about
Ross-shire predicting a horrible storm, with a dreadful
loss of life, which, he says, will take place at Wick,
during the ensuing fishing season, none of the Ross-shire
fishermen can be induced, " for love or money," to
proceed towards Wick, and they are all consequently
going southward.
AN OPPORTUNE REQUEST.—During the discussion at
the Monmouthshire Sessions on the proposed new Luna-
tic Asylum, eighteen genjletnen were speaking at one
time, and Mr. W. A. Williams at the same period politely
intimated to the reporters "the ne:essity of taking a cor-
rect account of the proceedings, and hoped they would
do so."

A Portuguese slave dealer, named Gil Thomas Dos
Santos, on the occasion of a mutiny of slaves on board his
ship lately, threw down a quantity of unslacked lime on
the turbulent negroes, and then closed the hatches on
them. This " capital plan of quieting savages," as he
boastingly termed it, had the desired effect, though it was
attended with the loss of a few slaves.

On the 26 h ult. the commodore commanding the expe-
rimental squadron made a signal for a boat from each
ship, and a memorandum was issued to the captains,
directing them to inform their oic•ers that a gertleman
who had communicated to the Tinos newspaper certain
2ccounts of the list cruize had been removed from the
service, by order of the Admiralty ; such proceeding being
contrary to an article of the printed instructions.
The next annual Conference of the Wesleyan Ministry
will be holden in Bristol, on Wednesday, the 29,h inst.,
on which day the business of the assembly will commence
by appointing a President and Secretary. It is reported
that the Rev. Thomas Jackson, D D , Theological Tutor
of the Southern branch of the Wesleyan Institution at
Richmond, Surrey, will be elected to the office of Pre-
sident.

EXTRAORDINARY LEAP OF A CAT.—A short time
since, while a cat, belonging to a per,on residing in Salter-
gale, Chesterfield, was sitting in an oven window three
stories high, puss observed a sparrow flying into its nest,
u, der the eaves of the roof. The mouser suddenly made
a spring from the window, caught the bird, dropped upon
her legs on the pavement of the street uninjured, and im-
mediately ran off with the prize.—Derby Mercury.
On Friday week, a pan, employed in the manufacture of
salt at Droltwich salt-works. burst with such terrific
force. tb.t_one-nalf of.. it of
the building ; and a horse and cart standing near were
precipitated into the river Salvvarpe. Two men loading
the cart, and also the driver, were dreadfully scalded, and
one of the former, named James Carter, sub6equeraly
died.

In the viein:ty of Wrexham a gentleman has annually,
on his natal day, for several hppn in th,,
wanting me noundaries o bis native parish ; and, on
Wednesday week, (the completion of his sixtieth year,)
he accomplished this no small task within seven hours,
passing en route through 27 townships. 7 parishes, 3
counties, 3 hundreds, 2 provinces, 2 dioceses, and a part
of England and %Vales. _ _

NEW CURRY-POWDER JOKE.—Perhaps the following
joke may have sprung up simultaneously, in a thousand

• • *-- "nm.ind quarters, hut we warrant it as ori-
ginal in the case of the mi
•L 3 •-- hcrn it came to us.
Mr. B. C. being told that the Duke of orlolk was ...u.
Master of the Horse, in the new ministry, observed at
once, "I do not know whether his grace knows much of
horses, but he will, at all events, understand how to curry
them."

AFFECTING ACCIDENT.—On Sunday week John White
labourer, aged 15, was looking down a new pit sinking in
the neighbourhood of Armhy Moor Side, near Leeds,
about 20 yards deep, .and whilst thus engaged his hat fl,w
off. In stretching fo►ward to catch it his foot slipped, and
he fell into the pit. A man named Stevenson,' who saws
the accident, having got assistance, descended the pit,
which being unfortunately filed at the time with " black
damp." he was suffocated.
CLAIMING A HUSBAND.—At Brighton, the other day,
a young woman named Denning claimed Captain Mercer,
a half-pay naval officer, sixty years of age, for her hus-
band. She asserted that he had married her on the Ist
of October, and annoying him by her intrusions, the case
was brought before the magistrates, when the captain was
able satisfactorily to prove an alibi, and the counsel for
the girl admitted that she must have been mistaken as to
his identity.

We direct the attention of our readers to en advertise-
ment in another column, announcing the publication of
the fourth volume of Messrs. Oliver and Boyd's cheap
edition of D'Aubigne's History of the Reformat'on.
This edition possess a merit peculiar to itself, and is
highly deserving public attention. It has been carefully
revised by the author, who himself in the preface declares
it to be " the only fai'hful expression of his thoughts in
the English language."
The Times printing-office was honoured on Monday last
by a visit from Ibrahim Pacha. His highness arrived at
about four o'clock, and minutely inspected the various
departments. His highness manifested extreme intelli-
gence and a ready appreeirvion of the ingenious and pow-
erful machinery by which The Times is printed, and was
particularly struck at the extr me rapidity of the process,
upwards of a hundred eop:es in a minute being struck off.
After spending nearly an hour in Printing-housequare,
his highness departed expressing extreme satisfaction at
all he had seen.

A REMARKABLE CHARACTER.—On the 30th of June
died, at the age of 88 ) ears, Mr. John Cheetham, of Hole-
bottom, Conyston, farmer and weaver. He had used the

same set of looms for nearly eighty years, to such a degree
as to impress the lathe with the marks of the constant ap-
pl'eation of the arm to one particular part of it. He was
remarkable for bring the father of s.x sons and seven
daughters, and grandfather and grea

large num

Sunday lr.st at Holy Trinity Chapel. Shaw, and the funeral
was attended by a procession of 107 relatives and others.

. .
IGNITION Mr THE HEAT OF THE SUN.—On Sunday
morning last, about In or 11 o'clock, a tarpnuline was
lying spread abroad in a meadow at Willsley, in the
occupation of Mr. John Wt ston, in readiness for covering
a bay-rick should it be wanted, when it was observed to

have caught fire, from the heat of the sun, in several
places. Incredible as this may appear, it Is a fact. The
tarpauline is rendered utterly useless, being burnt nearly
all over. It was thrown into a pond, and the fire thus
put cut. It is supposed the ignition was caused by
something in the oil with which the tarpauline had been
dressed.—Maidstone Jou• nal.

SIMPLE FILTERING VESSEL.—On a small scale, an
efficient filtering vessel may be formed of a common gar-
denqot, well burnt, and with holes in the bottom ; the
lower part to be filled with round pebbles, then some
smaller pebbles, then some coarse sand, and finally a
stratum of pounded charcoal, three or four inches thick;
the use, in large filters of broken shells interspersed be-
tween the gravel and sand, is a great improvement, inas-
much as the fragments being flat overlap each other, and
counteract the tendency of the sand to settle amongst the

gravel, thus preserving a free percolation through the
loser strata.

DEPLORABLE CONDITION OF LODGING-HOUSES.—At
an inquest in Bolton, last week, on the body of an infant,
the mother, in the course of her statement as ►o the cause

NOVEL QUALIFICATION FOR A SCHOOLMASTER.--The
Guardians of the Bedminster Union adver ibe in the
Bristol Gazette of Wednesday. for an instructor of youth,
and state that preference will be given, not to a person ac-
customed to tuition, but to a tailor! The succebsful can-
didate for the office must, it seems, know how to turn his
cane into a yard ; be equally learned in breeches and
books; able to mend pens and pinafores ; rectify rents in
grammar and garments ; and patch up, at the same time,
coats and copybooks. That the tutor tailor may never be
out at elbows, the guardians proffer him, as a reward for
the manifold services above-mentioned, the munificent
sum of £2O a-year.

SUSPECTED, M URDER I t SIINDERLAND.—On Sunday
morning last, the body of a young woman named Cather-
ine Hindmarsh, was found near the tunnel on the Lambton
coal railway. She had left her home on an errand about
twelve o'clock on Saturday night. How she had got in
such a lonely place as that in which she was discovered,
is unknown ; but it is supposed, from a variety of circum-
'Stances which have been ascertained, that she had been
drawn there by a worthless seducer, who, after destroy-
ing her virtue, had, to escape detection and punishment,
thrown her over the bank and destroyed her life. The
most diligent inquiries are being made into the affair.
She was alive when found, but unable to speak, and died
the same afternoon. The inquest terminated on Saturday
with a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or
persons unknown." _

LONGEVITY EXTRAORDINARY.—There is now residing
in the parish of Beguildy, adjoining to the borough of
Knucklas, Radnorshire, a person of the name of William
Matthews, whose lengthened age seldom finds a parallel.
He is now in his 118th year, and retains the full power of
his natural faculties, being competent to recount, with the
most scrupulous exactness, transactions which otherwise
the lone space of a century would have buried in oblivion.
His bodily strength, considering his many years, is almost
incredible. He walks at the rate of three miles an hour,
and commonly performs journies of 20 miles in the day.
He is strongly tinctured with the enthusiasm and folly of
the times of the junior days—a strong and prejudiced
belief in wizardism and witchcraft.—Hereford Journal.
PR.ENCH OPINION OF ENGLISH ARTISTS.—Le Obser-
valeur Francais says:—" Toe death of Robert Haydon
is naturally drawing attention to the precarious position
of artists in England. Isolated, for the most part, one
from the other, neglected by a public, who, in general,
can but little judge of or appreciate their efforts, aban-
doned to themselves by a government which does not pro-
tect or encourage the ornamental arts, the English artists
have no other exercise fur their talent than the patronage
of some great lords, patronage but often slight, and
which almost always, does injury to the art which it re-
duc,?s to its own level. Those who, Hite Robert liaydon,
despise to bend their pencil to the caprices of fashion, and
aspire to the more sublime flights of fancy, may termi-
nate, as he did, their hard career in misery, despair, and
sometimes even by suicide."
A CHINESE %V ITN ESS.—In a divorce case in the
House of Loids on Friday, a female Chinese, whose name
is Kowhan, was called in, and Lord Brougham desired
the interpreter to tell her " that now she had been sworn,"
(this was done the day before with the formality of breaking
the saucer,) " if she does not speak the truth, her gods
will punish her." The interpreter then made her ac-
quainted with the Noble and Learned Lord's remark.—
Lord Brougham : now ask her " who are her gods ?" In
reply she said, through the interpreter, that the chef
was Buddha —Lord Brougham : tell her that Buddha
will punish her most severely if she does not speak the
truth ; and that she will also be punished in this world if
she does not speak the truth. This being explained, she
replied in Chinese. " I will speak the truth."
The inquiry into the origin of the incendiary fires at
Soham has resulted in the apprehension of Cornelius Har-
vey, a man of independent property. and his nephew,
James Harvey, a grocer and draper. The premises of the
younger Harvey were burned, the charge preferred against
them was, the ignition of the house of Mr. Peachy, with
a view to consume that of the younger prisoner. The
stock and premises of young Harvey were, it is alleged,
over-insured, and he was indebted to his uncle £3OO. The
prisoners were examined before the magistrates, and it
appeared that, although nearly the whole of the younger
Prisoner's stock was saved, he had claimed from the office
for its total loss. Such evidence was adduced as warranted
the remanding the prisoners, and they were conveyed to
the county gaol at Cambridge.
The Heroine, 6, Commander Edmunds, arrived at As-
cension in 13 days from the Bight of Benin, with tidings
of the Flying Fish, 12, having, aft r a long chase

Spanish slave felucca ashore; and that on Lieutenant
Robins (who was in command of her) proceeding to board
her, the boat in which he was, capsized, and unhappily,
he and four of the crew were dr,wned in the surf. Mr.
Simpson, midshipman, together with another man, suc-
ceeded in reaching the shore, but were knocked down by
some of the slaves whose release from bondage they were
endeavouring to effect, and Mr. Simpson had one of his
fingers cut off by them for the purpose of obtaining a ring
which he wore. The Wasp, 16, Commander S. H. Usher,
had taken three slavers, one a schooner. after a hard fight,
in which 13 men of the schooner were killed. The prizes
were taken to St. Helena by Lieutenant Elliott, of the
Wasp.

AN EXPENSIVE PAUPER.—About a week since a fe-
male pauper, named Piecraft, died in our union-house, at
the advanced age of 97. Thrre are some very singular
circumstances in connexion with this old lady's history.
She was found in the churchwarden's garden, and as no
clue could be obtained of her parents, she was taken to
the workhouse, and she has remained, with the exception
of three months, an inmate of the parish workhouse from
L.Z..tl. .
months of independence was, however, a very eventful
one ; she married a soldier, who deserted by turns both
his wife and his regiment, for we hear he was absent on
that description of furlough known as " French leave "
when he won her affections, which he was very soon glad
to rid himself of. She then returned to the wog khouse,
where she lived until her decease. She has cost this
parish something like £9oo.—Local paper.
. _ _

• .
FLIGHT OF CARRIER PIGEONS.-About one hundred
persons assembled near the Humber Dock gates, on Si-
doy uunuing, at seven o'clock, to witness the ascent,
from the deck of the Monarch steam-ship, of eighty-seven
choice carrier pigeons, selected by the members of a
society of amateur pigeon fanciers at Antwerp, and sent
over in the above vessel. in the care of a trustworthy
keeper, in order to decide a bet or bets made concerning
them. Every bird bore on one of its wings its own pecu-
liar mark. They arrived here, on Thursday, in four
hampers, and all appeared in excellent condition. They
rose simultaneously and almost perpendicularly into the
air, and immediately took a course south-eastward. They
were expected to reach Antwerp, distant 200 miles, at
half-past two o'clock that afternoon. If so, they would
travel, under a blazing hot sun, at the rate of about 33
miles an hour. The steamer left this port for Antwerp in
the evening.—Hull Herald.

M URDER IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.—On Saturday night
week, a carrier, named Robinson, was murdered on the
road be ween Nottingham and Mansfield. He was ac-
companied by a man named Shepherd, whom he requested
to drive his waggon for a short time while he stopped at a
putdic-house. Shepherd did so; but arrived at Mans-
field without having been overtaken by Robinson, and
immediately communicated the fact to the latter's family,
when a search was instituted, and deceased's body was
found at a short dis'ance from the road with several
wounds upon the head and trunk. Some money was
found in his pockets, but it is supposed that he must
have been possessed of a larger sum when murdered.
No clue has been found by %%Erich the murderers can be

traced ; though at the inquest, spots of blood had been
found on Shepherd's jacket and smockfrnck, a circum-
stance for which he accounted by saving that he had fought
a fellow-servant on Thursday. He entered into recogiii-
zances to appeat when called upon, and the inqu ry was
then adjourned.
A REAL DU EL.—A contemporary thus describes what
he calls "an affair of honour," and which he states came
c.ff near this city last week:—" Some altercation took
place between two gentlemen at Plt mouth, on 11onday,
- -

the 15th of June. -The rumour which has reached our
ears is to this effect :—That over a glass of wine some al-
lusion was made by one of the p trties, which was taken as
a personal affront, and resented on the instant by a glass
of wine being thrown in the face of the offender. This led

should take place at Exeter on the succeeding (last) Tues:
day. Accordingly, the parties met, each attended by his
friend. Being placed on the ground, the first fire was de-
cited by a toss, and won by the party giving the offence,
who had previously offered to apologise. The party who

had thrown the wine having received his opponent's fi e.
discharged his pistol into the air. The business was ulti-
mately amicably settled at a dinner wh;ch followed this
hazardous affair. We know the partiea, but decline sta-
ting any names." [No doubt the murder will out.]—
II:oolmer'a Exeter Gazelle.

MURDER AT KINETON, WARWICKSHTRE,—AD atro-
urder has bren committed near Kinrton, a market

town half-way between Banbury and Stratford-upon-
Avon. The deceased, William Chater, was a blacksmith
aid machine-maker, living at a village called Comhrooke,
and doing well in the world, being possessed of bbout a
dozen cottages, all tenanted. lie is represented, how-
ever, to have been a man of very quarrelsome and litig

/ten engages in aisrotea oerore the local
magistrates with his workmen and others, some of whom
have been known to threaten him, and it has been con..
lectured that to some such cause his death may be attri-
buted. It appears that on Wednesday se nnight he went
to the town of Kineton, about two miles from which he
resided, and that he left in the evening for the purpose of
in, beinghreotwuer.nceifhisbo omdyswasewht in
fonandbylitgbueorr. Aboutoadbide,wmitihdriight,
seve-
ral desperate wounds on his head, and the traces of a

sposition,

naru st. uggiu avvue "lc rr), where he lay. An inquest
has been held, and the jury have found a verdict of
WiPul murner against some person or persons un•
known•"

EAST INDIA TRADE.
lished by !he London E

—From the statements just pub-
ast India and China Association

le outwa

THE DUKE IN A WHIG CABINET.—It is said that the
very queer position of the Duke of Wellington, as mem•
ber of the Whig administration, is attributable to a be-
nevolent wish, on the part of her Majesty, not to interfere
with the private hobbies of her distinguished subject.
Out of office, the Duke would be unable to complete the
admirable series of letters, of which so many are now its
the hands of autograph hunters, stating that "the Duke
of Wellington is Commander-in-Chief of the Army.
The Duke makes it a point never to interfere in matters
over which he has no control." Besides, deprived of the
office of Commander-in Chief, or of office altogether, and
the stereotyped excuse for non-interference, who can say
what knotty points the well known sagacity of the con-
queror of Napoleon might have been called upon to solve.
PRESENTATION OF A PRINTING MACHINE.—Of
Monday last, the ceremony of presenting a steam printing
press to Mr. Joseph Barker, a well-known Unitarian
lecturer, took place at New Wortley. The press was
valued at £4OO, and bad been raised by the subscriptions
of those who admired the principles which he advocated
in the several periodical publications which he had issued,
from a hand press, which had been given to him by his
religious friends some years ago. The sheet for the first
impression of the new press was laid on by Dr. Bowring,
M.P., and was taken off by Dr. Bateman, of the Excise
Office, London, in the presence of a large number of
friends; after which about 200 ladies and gentlemen sat
down to luncheon, under the presidency of Dr. F. R.
Lees, a teetotal lecturer. In the evening of the same day,
about 500 persons, of both sexes, took tea together; in the
saloon of the Music-hall, in Leeds, at which Dr. Bow-
ring, M.P., Dr. Batsmen, and other gentlemen attended.
A PRETENDER EXPOSED.—A most extraordinary
scene occurred on Thursday evening at the City of Lon-
don Literary and Scientific Institution. A gentleman
(Mr. O'G,) who styled himself " B.A. M.D.' was en-.
gaged by the managers to deliver two lectures on the
" Use and Study of History." lie delivered the first of
these lectures on Wednesday the 24th ult., and as many
of the members discovered " a marvellous coincidence "
between that and the introductory lectures of Mr. Me
Cul:agh on the same subject, two of the committee, with
the secretary of the institution were induced to bring
down Mr. McCullagh's work last evening, to ascertain
the correctness of their surmises. They then found that
the lecture he was delivering was a literal transcript from
one contained in the work before mentioned. At its.con.
elusion he was charged by the secretary with the servile
plagiarism he had endeavoured to impose on the mem-
bers, This he faintly denied, and immediately made his
exit, pursued by forty or fifty of his audience, till be was
lost in the precincts of Islington. He bad been highly
recommended by the committee of Sussex Hall, where he
had delivered the same lecture some time previously.
The officers of the institution can verify these facts.
MURDER OF A POLICEMAN.—George Clarke, one of
the metropolitan police, a division of which has lately
been extended into the royal districts of Ess -a, was mur-
dered on the morning of Tuesday week, while on his beat
—a desolute and unfrequented road near Dagenham. He
was met by the inspector at one o'clock that morning,
but was reported absent at three, and his continued dis-
appearance excited considerable alarm. search was
made, and late on Friday evening his body was found ly-
ing in a ditch about a quarter of a mile from the road, in
a potato field, where be could have no business except in
the pursuit of some person. A policeman's staff was first
found, and then his cutlass sticking in the hedge. His
throat was cut in several places, and there was a deep cut
at the back of his neck, extending t) the spine. The
forefinger of his left hand was also cut through. The
struggle with the deceased must have been of a desperate
nature, the corn being trodden down ten or twelve yards
round where the body lay, and v.* en it was discovered a
large quantity of wheat was found grasped in the right
hand. The deceased had not been robbed, and his money
and watch were sate. He is said to have been a quiet and
inoffensive man, and had not long been in the neighbour-
hood. An inquest was held upon the body on Saturday
afternoon, when such evidence was offered as is expected
to lead to the apprehension of the murderers, but the par-
ticulars are not published lest the ends of justice might
be frustrated. It is supposed that he was mistaken for
another officer, who had made himself obnoxious, by his
vigilance, to the low characters of the neighbourhood.
On Saturday, another of the officers of the same division
was killed as be was returning on horseback from Fairlop
fair.

TEE WAGES Or AGITATION.--WillilM Wilberforce
began life as a country gentleman, with an income of
£12,000 a year. He toiled through more than thirty
years of Parliamentary strife, payi'#p largely, year by
year, the expenses of his warfare with slavery; and died
at last, having just wi'nessed the triumph of the cause to
which he had sacrificed his life and fortune, and having
just sold his last acre! An offer was made to him, at the
close of his career, to purchase for him, by a private sub-
scription. a new estate, as the gift of the grateful British
people. The offer was thankfully bat firmly declined;
though he who refused it had to take shelter under the
roof of his son's parsonage. John Howard spent his
life and fortune in endeavouring to improve the condition
of the most degraded portion cif Europe's denizens—the
inhabitants of prisons. John Owen gave up the best
portion of his days in forming and establishing uunn a
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his strength in rearing an institution which has caused,
and will c ,use to a far greater extent, " the wilderness to
blossom as the rose," and the heathen to " stretch forth
their hands unto God"—the highly successful Church
gaged,liiga -18ire'iPs tvvrork,laini"trelL -caTut‘mbe of theS "oppressed
factory operatives, and spent his life and strength in en-
deavouring to obtain, and in some degree did obtain,
relaxation in the slavish system of toil by which they
were ground down ; and to turn to the Elishas on whom
the mantle of this Elijqh has fallen—Lord Ashley, and
" Honest John Fielder)," are carrying on, con amore,
that work of true benevolence. These all toiled, or are
toiling, without fee or reward of a pecuniary character,
and without expectation of any return for their labours,
beyond that glorious and indestructible satisfaction which
must inevitably result from doing good. flow different
is it with the agitation of the Leaguers! They have
toiled for the benefit of their own class—the millocrats
and moneyed capitalists—a class who are able to NIP
largely for success ; and now, as a specimen of the wages
of agitation, Mr. George Wilson is to receive, as a "testi-
monial," ten thousand pounds, and Mr. Richard Cobden
one hundred thousand 1 !—Herald.

LAW INTELLIGENCE,

The assizes commenced at York on Friday

The London Gazette of Tuesday aronoujnces the ap-
pointment of T. J, Knowles, Etq., as a Deputy Lieu-
tenant for the county palatine of Lancaster.
In consequence of illness Mr. Justice Coleridge will
not be able to take the Midland circuit, and Mr. Serjeant
Gasp-lee has been appointed to take his place.
WINCHESTER, JULY 6.—Notice his been given that
Captain Hawkey will surrender to take his trial at these
assizes, for killing in a duel Lieutenant Seaton, at Stoke
Bay, Gosport, ahout 14 months ago.—Globe.
The late Chief Justice of the Common Pleas was to have
pronounced judgment in the case of the crown jewels of
Hanover on Monday, a case that has now been several
years pending, and that probably his death will postpone
the arrangement of for an indifinite vitae.

3den alone

Ir. Cobden had devqed a large vor:

July 14, 1846.

a liipptug utci~i:3~lt r.

ITOTICE TO MARINERS.—LIGHTS IN BANKS STRAIT,
VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.
REVOLVING LIGHT ON SWAN ISLAND.—T'IIS light, which has
been recently established for the purpose of leading through
Banks Strait. revolves once in every minute, and then Wiows a
Is :Haut blaze of 2i seconds in duration. The tower is 74 feet in
height; the upper part of it is p_inted red. and the lower 'mot
white; the lantern stands 101 feet above the level of high wa-
ter; and the light is visib:e at the distance of 15 miles. It bears
from the Black Reef N. by W. a W. tn,.gnetic miles; Cape Bar-
ren S. W. by S. 24 ; and Look-out Rock S. E. by E • 1!)..

FIXED LIGHT ON GOOSE ISLANO.—A lighthouse on the south-
ern part of this island has been completed, and the light will
shortly be exhibited. From thence the above mentioned light
on Swan Liana bears S. E. a S. magnetic, and is 30 miles dis-
tant.

TUESDAY, JULY 7,

—Wind N.W., moderate breeze

ARRlVED.—Columbus, Green, Maceio and Pernambuco, sth
June—West Indian, Patagonla—Ellen Cann, Shediac—N.S. del
Carmen, Aseuga,

Apparition, Blampied, sailed horn Vera Cruz for Laguna on
the 30th May.
Josephine. Masters, hence at Tampico.
Swallow, Stee:e, hence at Laguira, and sailed on the 2gth of
May on her return.
Lucretia. Iledbury, from London at ditto, and sailed for this
port on the 3d June.
Francis Yates. Boare. hence at Puerto Cabello. •
Comet. Sai.derson, hence at Palermo.
Cirlotta, Lag ana, sailed from ditto for this port on the lath of
June.
Celt, Baird, hence at Leghorn.
Romp, Jenkins, hence at Gibraltar, and sailed for Malaga
Robert Preston, Williamson, hence at ditto.

Calla. Stewart, and Fernandes, Cotitente, hence at Lisbon.
Blackley, Gibson, from Glasgow, at ditto, and sailed for Ma-
nilla on the 25th of June, after being supplied with provisions

and water.
-
Isabella Thompson, Powell, hence at Santa Martha.
M'Kenzie, hence at Omoa.
Patenhain, Bourne, hence at Barbadoes.
Mantura, Weeks, hence off Seville.
Ann Paley, Sister; Emma Graham, and Douro, hence at
Oporto.

Ituna. Sanderson, from Maceio and Pernambuco at Falmouth
Thomas, Vaughan, from St. John's, New Brunswick, at Wa-
terford. .

Diadem. Carr, from St. Marks ' • Lusitania, Ferrario, from
Vilna; Shaver, Buchanan, from Prince Edward's Island, at
Cove. and Monmonth. Runyard, from Cuba off ditto.
Thomas Sparks, from Caicu•ta at it. Helena
SraosmEss, July 2.—Three Sisters. from ‘A'indan for Liver-
pool; put in here cni the :loth June, water-logged, having been
on shore in the Pentland Frith, and must discharge.
OPORTO, June 30.—Essav, Lee. waich sal ed on the 23rd for
Liverpool. put back on the 23rd. leaky. and is discharging, hair-
ing struck on a ruck at the month of the rivlr.
Eliza and Ann. from Newport to Rio Grande, Wert on shore
tst June, near Olinda. and it was feared would be a wreck.
Hearts of OWc, MasseyeHarnburr,h.
Carlotte, Voss, Rostock.

WEDNESDAY, JULY B.—Wind S.S.E., light.
—Camaua, Hoodless, Calcutta—Prince Albe

ARRIVED

zatlan—Achienee, Barbadoes—Cyrnet, Heard. New Orleans—
Byron, Kew York—Cumberland. Power, Apalachicola—Wissily
Cronstadt—Adolphine, Danzic—Helena, Denmark.

Nith Graham, sailed frcm
May.

A for t:

his port on the Bth of

Cuba, Smith. from Callao, and sailed 18th April for Huasco;
H.M.S. American, (Si,) from Mszatlan, and sailed 2';th April for
Rio and England—Sarah. Day.es, for Sydney, N.S.W.; Mary
Muir, Williams, for Herradura ; Dattazaro, Webb, from Huasco,
all at Valparaiso.
Eliza, Woolley, sailed from Valparaiso 4th April for this port;
Selina, Bell, g h April, and Templeman, Prowse, 25th April.
both for Coquimbo, and Rimad, Mounsey, 28th of April, for
Huasco.

Emma. Kemp, saiie•i from Messina for Catania and Liverpool
16th Jan‘, and Triant, for Milazzo and Liverpool June 20.
Si, De Laida, hence at Cadiz.
Baree, Linnesty, and John, Armstrong, hence at St. Peters-
burgh.

S.phie, Nieman, hence at Riga.
Ginchauff, B rr, hence at Daazic.
Clemence, Nii,teman, liei.ce at Flushing',