The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-03 00:00:00

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SAM ARIA.—On entering this interesting town, notwith-
standing I was in the oriental cosume, which I appre-
hended would afford a sufficient disguise, yet I was recog-
nised as a Chrivian, followed by a crowd, receiving nume-
rous marks of insult; was spit upon, hooted at, and used
despitefully by many of them, who " wagged the r heads"
and gnashed their teeth in rage—marks of great indig-
nity in the east ; but, aware that any resistance was in
vain, I endured these insults with all possible patience.—
Rae Wilson's Journey in Judea, Samaria, and Galilee.
WARREN HASTINGS' FEELINGS OF CONTENTMENT
UNDER W RUNG.—The writer of these reflections is him-
self one who is content with the state in which it has
pleased God to place him ; he would not exchange it, with
idt4 Wle PC. 'TS&giyirLt g 1111'147rd vf2 run ftt t'afe 104 s ctl aWI
pilgrimage." He has experienced troubles, cares, vexa-
tions, and disappointments, sickness and affliction. He
has known what it is to extend his sensibility to external
attachments, to suffer for the sufferings of those who
were dear to him, and to feel the stroke of death, that cut
off "his fairest hopes of sublunary bliss." He has toiled
for the means of temporal enjoyments, which, when at-
tained, have faded into indifference, and has been visited
by griefs which use has accommodated to his -nature.
And in tliis review of his destiny he believes that be sees
the general allotment of all the human race.—Fraser's
Magazine.

IRISH SOLDIERS IN THE LEGION.—There are no
where to be found more amusing fellows than Irish sol-
diers, full as they all are of quaint humour and smart re-
partee. " I have heard many droll traits and stories of
the Irish soldiery under Evans. On the 16th of March,
'37, when the Queen's troops were in full retreat, my
squadron was formed up on the road Hernani, occasion-
ally charging down when the opportunity presented itself,
in order to cover the retreat. Up came an Irish infantry,
who, although following the example pretty generally
giuen him, and retreating, still seemed to do it a contre-
contr. and kept up a sort of running fight on his own ac-
count, perfec'ly independent of anybody else in the world.
The fellow • steaming from what-appeared to be a mix-
ture of ne it and fury, and his face was as red as Dan
O'Connell's after a few hour's speech to the finest ifisen-
thry. His lips am i cheeks were black with biting car-
tridges. 'Be said he, thumping his musket-butt
down to the ground, and wiping his face with a rag he
took out of his shako, Be —! and they call John Car-
los a pretendher! What a devil of a fellow he'd be if be
was in airnest.' "—New Monthly Magazine.
DRINIC.—There is no axiom of health more just than
that " men never have a true appetite till they can eat
with relish any ordinary food." It is told of John Bailes,
who lived to the age of 128, that his food for the most
part consisted of brown bread and cheese, and his drink
water and milk. He had buried the whole town of North-
ampton twenty times over, excepting three or four, and
said strong drink killed them all. Water manifestly is the
natural beverage of all animals ; whole nations, as the
Mahometans and Hindoos, use it alone as beverage, and,
unlike other drink, it does not sate the appetite, but the
contrary ; indeed, it was observed by Hippocrates, above
two thousand years 820, that water drinkers have gene-
rally keen appetites. It is a fluid that requires no diges-
tion, for it is not necessary that he should undergo any
dirges ; it is the natural menstruum which holds in so-
lution both what is essential for the nutrition and healthy
functions of the body, and what has become refuse after
haling served its destined office and intention in
the animal economy. What, therefore, from its con-
genial qualities can never much disturb the system ;
and when it does, it is speedily expelled by its natural
outlets, the skin arid kidneys. It is told of Lord
Heathfield, so well known for his hardy habits of mili-
tary discipline and watchfulness, that
i " his food was ve-
getables and his drink water, never n
indulging himself in
animal food or wine ;" and Sir John Sinclair, in his work
on longevity, says, in his account of Mary Campbell, then
aged 105, that " she prefers pure water to any other
drink." The great captain of the age is remarkable for
his temperats and regular habits, his early rising, the
strength and clearness of his intellect, and his good health,
notwithstanding his advanced age.—Dr. Hume Weather-
head.

A STRIKING MOMENT.—And that was a striking mo-
ment, too, in the life of our gracicus and graceful Sove-
reign, when, casting her eyes back on the placid waters,
on which were to be seen the St. Vincent, the Caledonia,
the Camperdown, the Formidable, the Warspite, the
Grecian, the Cyclops, the Tartarus, and the Prometheus,
she cook. point the Kiog of the French to the " wooden
walls of old England," but, at the same time throw her-
self, her consort, and her retinue, into the arms of the
French monarch, of his admirable family, and of his
courteous and admirable people; and with the lightness
and freshness of youth and of hope, tread with delight the
shores of that Normandy, endeared to all lovers of his-
tory by so many glorious and interesting recollections.
" God save the Queen !"—Yes !—" God save the Queen !"
were the first notes which greeted her as she landed in
France. These notes she knew right well. Often had
they been played and sung in her hearing ! Often had
they called forth in her presence expressions of the most
devoted loyalty ! But it was a happy thought—it was a
joyous mode of welcome—to greet her in a stranger land
with the first song of her childhood, the old national an-
them of her native shores. Oh ! how her young heart
must have beat with joy when, calling to recollection the
bistory of past days, and remembering the long and san-
guinary wars of other times between the French and the
British empires, she now beheld the rival flags no longer
rivals, floating in peace and friendship in the same breeze,
and herself the bearer of a macician's wand, for she car-
ried with her the emblems of respect,
.confidence, and
amity. These, wee are the fairy seer in the wid,
world's history They are brief
but their results t 'end to

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rival nations ceased to suspect and to hate, where wise
•An took their stand for truth and

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nature from the oft too merited char

arid want of sympathy with fellow-met]

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The utter contempt with which the whole affair is looke
upon might have allowed the failure to have passed o‘t
with a laugh, had it not been for the most exaggerate
lies put forth by the Morning Chronicle. The report i
the Chronicle is healed " Another Glorious Triumph
the League." The writer then goes on to charge di

lan Ilordss of Cheshire with intimidating their tenants to
prevent them from attending the meeting, and then ob-

" Instead of the failure which had been predicted, one
of the largest assernhages ever ..een in this part of the
country had collected before eleven o'clock." _ _

Now if this be um, one thing is quite clear, that the
leaguers are making but little progress "in this part of
the country," as will he seen from the following extract
from the Manchester Guardian, a paper whi h, though
under the influence of the league, has still some little
regard for truth lei The Guardian says :

The hour previously fixed for the meeting was ten
o'clock, but owin,-, to the difficulty of reachiC KilUtSfOld
from the railway by that hour, it was af- r ei, a o'clock
before the proceedings commenced. Though the morn-
ing had been fine, the clouds by that time had began to
lower and threaten rain, and it was obvious that a hea ,y
ld fall ere long. Notwithstanding this, a
concourse of upwards of 1,100 persons, including many
farmers, but not nearly so many as might have been ex-
pected, for reasons hinted at by the speakers, and a con-
siderable number ,f farm labourers and respectable in-
habitants of the district, assembled on the race-course."
Well, if this meeting of " 1,100 persons" be " one of
the largest assemblages ever seen in this part of the
country," surely Sir James Graham has nothing to fear
from the excitement in the north, which is got up by
Messrs. Cobden and Bright, the chief itinerant lecturers
of the league. The Chronicle then gives a list of the
names of several " extensive lanlowners" who appeared
on the hustings. This statement is utterly without foun7
dation, there having been not a single landowner in the
county who took any part whatever in the proceedings,
with the single exception of the chairman. 'This fact is
proved by the chairman himself, who in the course of
his opening speech said, " I see no one present of the
same class as myself, and doubtless I shall be considered
by some a very weak and foolish man for advocating the
doctrine I do." Mr. Bright also observed, "If the land-
lords had truth and justice on their side, and if they were
desirous only to see truth and justice prevail, would they
not have invited discussion ? Would they not have urged
their tenants to attend this meeting and hear the state-
ments that were to be made ? The farmers, however,
might have been kept away; but there was the means of
reading, and the speeches would be taken down and a
copy would be sent to every farmer's house within the
next ten days." These and many similar observations
dropped during the meeting, which must convince the
reader that the meeting was a complete failure, as all
such meetings must ever be where the true character of
the men and their objects are fully understood.

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A similar " detno;stration" took place on the previ-
ous Saturday at Lancaster, but, accrrding to the advices
we have rereived, it was, if possible, more contemptible
than the Knutsford affair.

THE GOVERNMENT AND AGRICULTUR E

Sir Robert Peel's speech at the annual meeting of the
Lichfield Agricultural Association, affords an index to
the feelings with which it may fairly be supposed he will
introduce the attempt promised on the part of Govern-
ment to amend the law between the Irish landlord and
tenant, and, whilst it gives a valuable illustration of the
character of the eminent individual himself, practically
enforces a most important point, which, to the utmost of
our ability, we have recommended to the attention of the
landowners of the sister country ; we quote that part of
the right hon. baronet's address to which we more par-
ticularly refer :

" Politics, gentlemen—that is to say, politics that in
any way partake of a party character— are wisely ex-
cluded from our proceedings ; but it would be absurd to
exclude that great and comprehensive policy which must
see in the success of British agriculture one of the great
foundations of national strength and national prosperity
—(hear); and again I repe,.t, that neither this country
nor any other can present a more gratifying sight to the
true patriot—to him who is interested in the maintenance
of the national greatness and the honour of England—
than a well- 2ultivated rura, district, in which harmony
subsists bets, een the landlord, the tenant, and the farm
labourer. (Hear.) Now it is supposed by some that it
is necessary to complete success in agriculture that the
occupying tenant should have a more permanent interest
in the, land than that which he can have where the du-
ration of tenancy is only from year to year. If that be
so, I must say that I think it would be of the greatest
importance to the landed proprietor fully to consider the
_e vy. orrn.lnonf i0n42.42 an.i on f
facilitate and promote the better cultivation of the soil.'
Whatever may be the custom of the particular part of the
country the landlord's property may be in it is his interest
to give the tenant that more p •rmanent interest, if by so
doing he would promote the better cultivation of his estate.
Upon that view of the subject, looking beyond the mere
nirrow view of his own immediate interest, and looking
to the interest of his children and his remote posterity—
unless, in fact, he were to take the most selfish view of
his position, it must obvionQly be the interest of the
t that more permanent tenancy. (Hear,
hear.} Much depends upon the custom of the country.
In the north of Ireland, and in some parts of Scotland,
no tenant can be fonnd who would expend his capital on
a farm unless he had the benefit of a lease. That prac-
tice does not prevail in this part of the country ; but I
hope that a feeling of reciprocal confidence between the
landlord and tenant has more the effect of giving the
same feeling of security to the latter than the leasing
system gives in Scotland. (Hear, hear.) I believe, in
fact, that where the practice of tenancy at will exists,
there exists also an almost universal feeling of re-
ciprocal confidence between landlord and tenant. But
at the same time I do not hesitate to say, though I
have not a single lease on my estate, because it is not the
custom there, that if any tenant qf mine did say to me
that he would feel his rharaeer exalted by having a
greater permanen,u of tenure, that it would induce in
him a greater disposition to embark his capital in cultiva-
tion, or that It would be snore agreeable to him to have
that permanency of tenure which a lease would give, I
should hesitate very long before I declined to accede to
his proposition—(cheers): and, therefore, I state pub-
licly, that if any tenant of mine signes to me that he
wants that guarantee of his full enjoyment of the benefits
that may arise from the employment of his capital, which
a lease would give in preference to tenancy from year to
year, on that representation being made to me I should be
very much disposed to accede to his wishes. (Cheers.)
At the same time, from the course which is generally
pursued in this part of the country—from the feeling of

security which the farmer has, that advantage will not
be taken by his landlord of the expenditure of his capi-
tal—for these reasons I do not think it likely that any
such application would be made—(hear); and I need
not say that I should rejoice to find that such a feeling
of confidence existed ; but, on the other hand, I should
be perfectly ready to accede to the application if it were
made. (Hear, hear.) Of this, however, lam confi-
dent, that unless there be that feeling of reliance on
the part of the tenant, either by a lease, or by a
full confidence in the generosity of the landlord, a
full assurance in some way or other, either legally or
morally, that advantage will not be taken of his improve-
ments, that neither political dyferences nor any other
cause will be Wowed to disentitle him to the benefits de-
rivable from the capital he may expend—l am certain, I
say, that unless this condition be complied with, agricul-
ture will not make that progress which I consider to be
essential to the best interests of the country." (Cheers.)
The humane, thoughtful, and prudent speaker might
have added, and, doubtless, would but for the wise ex-
clusion of politics from our agricultural meetings, that
it was not only impossible that agriculture should make
the desired progress, hut impossible that those portions
of the United Kingdom should enjoy ease and quiet,
and be undisturbed by agrarian outrage, so long as the
occupiers of the soil shall remain, or shall believe them-
selves to remain, without that just protection for their
labour and enterprise which the law ought to secure
to every man. This plain speaking of the Premier will,
we trust, be the signal to the Earl of Roden, the Marquis
of Londonderry, and the patriotic noblemen and gentle-
men who have anticipated him by their admirable mani-
festo—for so it may be called—on the same subject, to
renewed efforts to bring to a common agreement and
understanding the whole body of the Protestant land-
owners of Ireland.

SERIOUS RIOT.—A most disgraceful riot took place at
Rosskeen Church on Tuesday, the day fixed by the pres-
bytery for the settlement of the Rev. J. Mackenzie in the
pariah of Roskeen. The members of the presbytery were
proceeding to the church, when on arriving at the bridge
they found a large mob of people, to the number of be-
tween two and three hundred, armed with bludgeons, who
assailed them with the most gross expressions, and as
they advanced towards the church, the crowd closed upon
them, menacing them with personal violence if they at-
tempted to enter the church-yard. The vociferation and
uproar of the mob was most alarming. The men bran-
dished their sticks, and several women with shearing
hooks, while all uttered the most ruffianly language and
abuse. Air. Mackenzie endeavoured rn appease the cla-
morous mob, but they got more tut( 'Pawns. and finding
all remonstrance unavailing, he and iv, friends proceeded
kt this time they were as-

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GENERAL MISCELLANY

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Burford Hall, Cobham

NATIONAL SOCIETY'S FUND.—This fund lois now
reached £11)5,479 is. Bd.. b,ing contributed by 1188 donors
of £5O and upwards, and 4357 of sums under £5O.
THE TEA TRADE, SEPT. 25.—The non-arrival of the
overland mail causes the mareet to rule very quiet. The
deliveries last week fell off rather, being 410.7501 b.
A quantity of the caoatchouc floor-cloth has been sup-
plied to the royal yacht, to deaden the sound on the decks
over her Majesty's head.

Amongst the list of persons against whom proclama-
tion of outlawry was made at Red Lion-square, Load )11,
on Thursday, we find the name of Thomas Steele.
ADVANCS OF WAGES.—We understand that Mr. J.
Lord, David-street, has advanced the wages of his weavers
this week twelve per cent.—Manchester Guardian.
There are at this time apple trees in full bloom in the
gardens of Mr. James Dalzell and Mr. S. Donaldson, of
Ulverston.

HON. A/LULU:IVY COMPANY.—The Court of Assist-
ants of this ancient regiment has received a new warrant
with her Majesty's sign manual, appointing his loyal
Highness Prince Albert Captain-General and Colonel.
At Mold, Wm. Askew, an old man, aged sixty-four
years, has been held to bail for an attempt to commit a
rape on a child only nine years of age. The prisoner ab-
bconded to Liverpool about three months ago.
We have been informed that a declaration twainst the
Repeal agitation is in progress of signature among a por.
turn of the Roman Catholic population in this island.—
Achill Herald.

Sir Thomas Wilde's name has been expunged from the
registration list of the city of London, the place of resi-
dence of the hon. member not having ')een satisfactorily
proved.
The London Morning Chronicle, a radical paper, an-
nounces that trade has continued to improve rapidly since
the end of the first year of Sir R. Peel's accession to
office.

SIGN OF THE TIMES.—The Gazette of Tuesday last
contains the names of six bankrupts, five of whom are
linen drapers and tailors, and the sixth a licensed victual-
ler.

The Gaulle of Friday contains the official notice of
a vacancy in the representation for the city of London,
having occurred by the death of Sir M. Wood. The writ
is to be issued on the 12th October.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The number of
deaths in the metropolis during the week ending the 23d
instant amounted to 983. which is 135 above the weekly
average of the last five summers.

PROGRESS OF POPERY.—The number of priests in the
London district, in the year 1836, was 91 ; the number in
1843 is 135; giving an increase in seven years of 44.
Tablet.

CAUTION TO BROKERS AND °TREAS.-011 Thursday
last, Misses Agnes and Betty Jacks, brokers, Brechin,
were fined £l5 10s. for purchasing part of the dress of a
deserter from the 92d Regiment.

The Napoleon, French screw steamer (one of those
which accompanied her Majesty to Brighton), has a three-
thread screw, and has made as much as thirteen knots per
hour, and succeeds well.

COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.—This Theatre opened
on the 2d of October, at the following reduced prices of
admission :—Dress boxes, ss. ; second and third tiers,
3s. 6d.; pit, 2s. 6d. ; and gallery, ls.
Last week. as one of the clerks in the Huddersfield
post-office was stamping the letters for delivery, one of
the letters, containing a quantity of lucifer matches, ex-
ploded, and set the letter on fire.

STREET SWFEPING MACHlNE.—AlTangeßlentd are
now completed by the city auti critics in London, by
which the streets and principal thorughfares of the city
will be cleaned in future by this expeditious and effective
process.

John Briton, alias Barton, who for many years past
has carried on an extensive bus'ne,s as a horse dealer, at
Langton, Leicestershire, has been arrested on a ell, rge
of highway robbery, committed sixteen years :ago, for
which one of his alleged companions was executed.
THE MISSING OVERLAND MAIL.—The Standard of
Tuesday says—We learn from Alexandria, that nothing
has' been heard of the overland mail from India, and that
grave apprehensions are entertained for the safety of the
steamer which c, nveyed it.

HIGH WAGES.—It is stated that so far did the demand
for labour in southern Lincolnshire exceed the supply
during the harvest, that the reapers in some instances
demanded and obtained the enormous price of 7s. 6d. a
day each.--Leeds Mercury.
Arrangements are now in active progress for holding a
grand meeting of the archers of Great Britain, at York,
in August next; when it is proposed that a gold cup,
value one hundred guineas, and several other prises of
proportional value, shall be shot for.
A company is established for conveying persons from
London to Paris and back, for twenty guineas, which will
include travelling expenses, board and lodging at first-
rate hotels, amusements, fifteen visits to the theatres,
trips by railroad to Versailles, St. Germain, &c.
A DROPPED NOTE.—Lately the boots at the Royal
Hotel, Chester, was entrusted with a £5O note to get
changed. In assisting a female to get off a coach he
dropped it and did not discover the loss for some minntes.
slplz ; fee. ti Ucyl
cellor Kaikes at the time, who returned it to the loser.

WARNING TO DRUNKEN PARENTS.—OR Sabbath
morning last a tailor named Helmsley, and his wife, resi.
ding in St. Mary's Wynd, London, while in a state of
intoxication, struck or let fell upon the head a fine child,
about six months old, by which means it was deprived of
life.

A number of Shetland ponies were landed at Sunder-
land lately, Mr. Robert French being the importer. The
ponies are very fine animals, and it is understood are
principally to be employed in collieries, to supersede the
heavy labour of young boys in conveying the corve► along
the tram ways In low workings.
It has been given in evidence before a committee of the
house of commons, that no less a sum than one thousand
millions annually, is exchanged by twenty-eight of the
principal London bankers, at the clearing room ; and that
all the gold and silver required to effect this enormous
exchange, is about £2O a day.

Princes Leon and Basle Kotschoubey arrived at Mi-
vart's Hotel, on Monday evening, from Paris. The
object the princes have in visiting this country is, the col-
lection of the most improved agricultural implements in
general use in this country, to be exported for the im-
provement of their extensive estates in Russia.
Two paupers, bearing, strange to say, the illustrious
names of John Milton and Walter Scott, were brought
up from the Strand Union Workhouse, charged with re-
fusing to perform the allotted quantity of work required
of them. The offence being proved, they were sent to
prison for fourteen days.—What's in a name ?
The shareholders in the Newcastle and Shields Steam-
packet Company, which was formed in 1838, with a capital
of £6900 in 690 ten pound shares, have recently been
called upon, after the total loss of their capital, for the
further sum of £1 3s. per share, to meet the remaining
liabilities of the company !
The rapacious Anti-Corn-law League announced, at
their meeting in Drury-lane, last week, their demand of
£lOO,OOO, and promise that that sum shall stop their
mouths for the future. The £50,000 already abstracted
from their dupes has been expended, and how, may be
seen from a paragraph elsewhere.
RUNAWAY HUSBANDS.—Within the last fortnight the
board of guardians of St. Marylebone parish have pub-
licly offered a reward of two guineas each for the appre-
hension of no fewer than seventeen fathers of families
who have deserted their wives and children. More than
one hundred individuals have thus become chargeable to
Marylebone parish.—London paper.

THE YIELD OF WHEAT.—We continue to hear com-
plaints of the yield of wheat this season. In one case a
party bought a quantity of standing wheat for £39. and
after he had been at the expense of cutting. carrying,
threshing &c., he obtained 32 bags, for which he will
probably get something under £3O, thus losing £9 in cash,
and all his labour by the bargain.— Wm enter paper,
SHIPMENT OF HORSES.—On Tuesday last, the very
handsome and valuable thorough-bred horse " Mundig "
was shipped on board the Leeds steam-ship for Hamburg,
being intended for the King of Prussia. The above horse
won the Derby stakes in 1834, and is half-brother to
Cotherstone, the second horse at the, last .Doncaster St.
Leger.
NUMBER Or FIRES IN THE METROPOLIS DURING
THE Vb.-KER.—From three o'clock on Sunday week to the
same hour on Sunday last, inclusive, the number of fires
in the metropolis have been as follows :—Sunday, 2 ;
Monday, 2 ; Tuesday, 2 ; Wednesday, 4 ; Thursday, 2 ;
Friday, 3 ; Saturday, 6 ; Sunday, I—total, 22. Being a
decrease of 13 on the week preceding.
POINT OF ETIQUETTE.—WHAT IS AN ESQUIRE ?
On Saturday the magistrates in petty sessions at Ken-
sington decided that gentlemen acting as commissioners
of land-tax did not hold offices of trust under the Crown,
and were not entitled to rank as esquires, or to sit on
special juries. They gave the same judgement with regard
to captains of volunteer regiments.
The great difference which sometimes occurs in con-
tractors' estimates for particular works has been strongly
illustrated in those sent in for improving the Caledonian
Canal. The tenders were four in number, namely,
£134.000, £136,000, £223,000, and £230,000. The
£136,000 tender was accepted. The engineer's estimate
was £137,000.

CRANSORNE CHASE.—The nuts are in great abun-
dance here this season, and prove a golden harvest for
the poor, who assemble in search of them daily in hun-
dreds ; parties of them come from great distances, and
are known to tent here for days. There are also large
pic-nic parties in the Chase, in consequence of the conti-
nued fine weather.—Dorselshire Paper.
Three are three Candidates for the office of Lord Mayor
of London : Ald. Thos. Wood, who was passed by last
year, Ald. Magnay, and Ald. Gibbs. It is generally ex-
pected that the cboice will fall upon Ald. Mngnay, and
indeed there seems little doubt of it, as that gentleman is
considerably a-head on the poll, and the voting is only
continued proforma' in compliance with the act.

THE ALOERMANIC GOWN OF CRIPPLEGATE.—SeveraI
gentlemen are talked of for the aldermanic gown of the
❑nited wards of Cripplegate Withmit and Within, vacant
by the lamented death of Sir M. Wood, Bait. Among
the most prominent of these are Mr. John Dillon. of the
firm of Morrison, Dillon, and Co,; and Mr, Thomas
Challis.

Mr. W. Martin, the natural philosopher, to whom the
public are almost weekly indebted for some wonderful dis-
covery, has just added to his stock of inventions a new
life-boat ; an ingenious model of which he has constructed
for the purpose of submitting it to inspection. The pecu.
liarities of Mr. Martin's boats are-Ist, it has two rud-
ders; 2d, it is much broader than other boats; 3d, it is
rowed by paddles instead of oars ; and, 4th, the water
cannot lodge in it so as to diminish its buoyancy.—New-
castle Cots, ant.

We beg to inform Mr. O'Connell, that though we have
not been such blockheads as to " buy his book," we have
examined his reference to the tbird page of Fyne, Mory-
pudent fraud. There is nut a word about Mullaghmast,
or any thine like Mullaghmast in that or any other page
of Fyues Moryson's History. Thus much for the day;
but we have not done with the subject.—Standard.

MULLET TAKEN WITH THE FLY.—Wbile Robert
Miller, fly-dresser, High-street, was fishing with white
fly, last night, foa lithe, off the South-quay, he hooked
and handed a fine mullet about 31b. weight. The inci-
dent is, we believe, unprecedented, at least in the expe-
rience of anglers in this quarter, who have never known
the fish to rise either to fly or bait, or to be otherwise
killed than by the gun or with nets.—Ayr Advertiser.

SERIOUS DEFALCATION BY A CASHIER.—On Wed-
nesday, Richard Powell, cashier to Mt. Etkanah Armi-
tage, absconded from his employ, and soon after a defal-
cation in his accounts, to the serious amount of £1,500,
was discovered. It is supposed that he went to Liver-
pool, taking his wife with him. The police have ob-
tained some clue to his hiding place, but we believe he
has not yet been apprehended.—Manchester Courier.

A WHOLE CREW SAVED BY MR. CARTE'S LIFE
Buoy.—The be ig Victoria sailed from Dundee on the 26th
Pugust, and was wrecked in the Cattegat on the 4th inst.
The crew were saved by means of the life boy. The ow-
ner of this vessel was rather reluctant to incur the ex-
pense of this simple instrument of safety, but has since
declared that no ship that he has any connexion with
shall sail without one.

REPRESENTATION OF LONDON.—The city Whig-radi-
cals, for reasons not stated, appear to have suddenly given
up the idea of starting Lord Morpeth, and now speak of
bringing forward Mr. Pattison, who has already filled the
post of city member. The requisition to Mr. Baring we
understand is likely to be influentially and very numerously
signed ; and of course no time will be lost in presenting it.
Much depends upon being early in the field.

A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE OF OPINION.—Mr. O'Connor
recommends Dr. M'Douall as a fit and proper person to
be a member of parliament, while the Rev. Mr. Hill says
that Mr. O'Connor's embryo M.P. should hang himself
on the first tree that presents itself, as be is an idle good-
for-notbing demagogue, who by his firebrand speeches
puts into a halter the necks of his dupes, while he keeps
himself out of danger.
In the market for metals prices do not materially ad-
vance, nor is there much real improvement in the iron
districts of South Wales, where bar iron is only saleable
on a limited scale at £4 12s. Gd. to £4 15s. per ton. In
the Clyde pig iron is at the low price of 455., and in
Wales at 70s. to 755. per ton. British copper is dull at
£7B to £79 per ton ; and English tin at 595., and Banca
at 58s. per cwt.—Birmingham Herald.

The commissioners of excise have issued an order that
the officers in each particular division and ride do call
upon the respective surgeons, apothecaries, chemists and
druggists, and inform them that the retailing of spirits of
wine in small quantities, without license, subjects each of
them to £5O penalties, and that if any cases be discovered
where such practises are continued after this caution, they
are to be stated to the board for prosecution.

AN OLD PAIR OF STOCKINGS.—A gentleman who
dined last week in the county hall, Hamilton, on occa-
sion of the festivities in honour of the Marquis of Douglas
and Clydesdale and his young bride the Princess Marie of
Baden, wore the identical pair of white silk stockings
throughout the day, in which he danced some three dozen
years ago, at a party given by the then factor of his grace,
in celebration of the marriage of the present Duke and
Duchess of Hamilton.
SEIZURE UNDER THE INCONIE-TAX.---MT. Thomas
Fielden, brother of the M.P. of that name, has allowed
his goods to be sold rather than pay the amount claimed
by the commissioners. It appears the three years fixed
upon were most diastrous to the firm in which Mr. Fiel-
den is a partner; and, although such was stated and
sworn to, the commissioner assessed him in such a sum
that was refused to be paid. Some bay and a horse were
sold.— Observer.

A corporal of the 59th Regiment, named Henry Donelly,
was accidentally shot in BrJmpton Barracks on Saturday
while at dinner, by another corporal, named Thomas
Lawrie. The deceased had, on his return from Maid-
stone gaol with a prisoner, forgotten to draw the charge
in his musket, and on Lawrie entering the barrack •room,
he took it up, not thinking it was loaded, when it went off
and shot him. The two corporals were intimate friends.
—Globe.

BEES AND HONEY.--After all the abundance with
which the country has been blessed, we find that, owing
to the long continuance of wet weather and the absence
of sunshine in the early part of the summer, the natural
industry of the bee has been retarded, and great com-
plaints are made by poor cottagers, who depend on the
productions of this industrious little insect for the pay-
ment of their rent. The quantity of honey this year is
not one-half so much as last.

APPROACH OF REBECCA TO THE NORTH.--OH Tues-
day evening last, whilst a number of the Rev. M r. Clarke's
allotment tenants, between thit ty and forty, were regaling
themselves with punch and a little music, after their
annual rent supper, Rebecca, with a number of her
daughters in her train, all attired in fantastic dresses,
partly male and partly female, to the great merriment of
the company, entered the room, and performed a peculiar
sort of dance expresoive of their vocation..—• Purharn
Advertiser,

RFPRESENTATION OF LONDON.—At the last election
for the city of London each of the eieht candidates pulled
upwards of 6000 votes, the highest number, for Mr. Master-
man, being 6339, and the lowest, for Mr. Alderman Pirie,
being 6017. So closely contested an election for the city
never before occurred, and most probably will never take
place again. At that election the registered voters
amounted to 19,061, viz., free liverymen, 4500, and £lO
householders 14,564. The votes were recorded for the
several candidates as follows :—Mr. John Masterman,
6339; Sir Matthew Wood, Bart., 6315; Mr. George
Lyall, 6.290 ; Lord John Russell, 6,221 ; Mr. Wolverley
Attwood, 6,212; Mr. James Pattison, 6,070; Mr. Wm.
Crawford, 6,065 ; and Mr. Alderman Pirie. 6,017.
FRACAS ON THE MANCH ESTER 'CHANGE.—A personal
collision occurred on Tuesday on 'Change, at Manchester,
which. from the publicity of the place, and the crowded
state of the room at the time, being during the hour of
" high change," etcited considerrble attention. The
origin of the fracas was a dispute about a horse-cloth.
One gentleman having sold another a horse, complains
that the buyer never returned the cloth sent with the
animal to the buyer's stable. The buyer has been for
some weeks on the continent, and we believe the parties
now met for the first time since his return. After some
words had passed between them on the subject in dispute,
the seller is said to have applied some personally offensive
epithet to the buyer, who immediately retorted by striking
him several blows, which, we believe, were not returned ;
and there the matter ended.

MARVELLOUS CHANGE TN FORTUNE.—Tins ANGELL
ESTATES.—The celebrated claim to these immense estates
which has occupied the attention of the legal profession
and the public for so many years past in various parts of
the kingdom, was decided in this ejectment case, before
Lord Chief Justice Tindal and a special jury at Croyden
assizes on the 16th ult., after a trial of two days continu-
ance, by a verdict for the plaintiff William Angell ; thus
establishing the heirship and claim of this once poor man
to the estates in Sus.ex, Surrey, and Kent. formerly of
Wm. Angell, the first purchaser of Crowhurst, in Surrey,
of the value of upwards of a million of money. Some
lighthouses, part of the property, were lately sold to the
Trinity House, for about £23o.ooo.—The plaintiff some
few years past worked as a labourer in husbandry at Mr.
Cornock's, of Blanehworth, Berkeley, in the county of
Gloucester.

EARL GREY.—We deeply regret to learn from a private
source on which we are inclined to place the most im-
plicit reliance, that the health of the venerable Earl Grey
is such as to cause the most anxious uneasiness to his
family. The noble sufferer, we understand, does not
labour under any active disease, but lingers in such a state
of exhaustion and natural decay that no one need to be
surprised to hear of his lordship's dissolution, for that
melancholy event is now looked for by the noble lord's
family, most of whom, if not the whole, are at present
assembled at Howick. Earl Grey is in his eightieth year,
having been born on the 13th of March, 1764.—Sunder-
land Times.—The Durham Advertiser of Friday states
that the state of the venerable earl gives no cause for im-
mediate alarm, and the Newcastle Journal of Saturday
remarks that, though Earl Grey is said to be fast sinking
under age and infirmity, it cannot be said there is anything
immediately alarming in his condition.
THE LEAGUE FUND.—The following statement oflac-
count was read at the meeting of the League in London
last week •—Total amount of subscriptions received,
£50.290 14s. The heads of expenditure are as follows :
Printing 9,026,000 tracts and stamped publications, and
distributing the same ; lecturers' salaries, and expenses of
hiring rooms, printing, &c. for 651 lectures; expenses of
deputations to 156 meetings in counties and boroughs ;
expenses of agricultural meetings, including printing,
placarding, and distributing reports, &c. ; expenses of
deputations to boroughs on parliamentary registration ;
expenses of weekly meetings of the league and metropo-
litan meetings; rent, taxes, gas, and office expenses, in
London and Manchester ; advertising, including 426,000
tracts in magazines; wages, stamps, postages, and inci-
dental expenses ; local expenses in collecting the league
fund. Total expenditure, £47,814 3s. 9d. Balance of
cash in band, Sept. 9, 1843, £2,476 109. 3d.

His Grace the Duke of Sutherland has offered a reward
of £25 for the conviction of the individuals who, on or
before the morning of Sabbath, the 27th of August last,
tied up the tongue of the bell of the church of Farr, and
nailed the rope to the wall ; who feloniously forced their
way into the church, and hung up the putrid carcase of a
dog from one of the galleries of the same ; who smeared
the seat of one of the elders, from end to end with coal
tar; who treated the precentor's de•k in the same manner;
and who scrawled words and sentences on the pulpit inju-
rious to the preacher for the day ; also a reward of £l5
for such information as may lead to the conviction of the
individuals who, betwixt the evening of Saturday, the 12th
and the morning of Sunday, the 13th of August last, cut
and carried off the lower portion of the bell-rope of the
church of Tongue. and who filled up the keyholes of all
the doors of said church with small stones or gravel.
GREAT FOOT MATCH AT SHREWSBURY.--This match,
came off Monday week, over the Shrewsbury race course.
The weather was peculiary fine and bracing. The contest
was between James Openshaw, of Lancashire, and the
Welsh Bantam, a three-mile match for £6O aside. Open-
share is reported to be a man of little bard, figure, of
great promise, and has had considerable practice in the
sport, and much, in consequence, was expected from
him. The Bantam, as the successful competitor in more
than one race, was a favourite; and, notwithstanding his
defeat on the present occasion, continues so still. The
Bantam had the start of his competitor of about ten
yards. which he kept for about a quarter of a mile,
closely followed, however, by Openshaw, who thought it
high time to make play, he accordingly put forth his
pvirvvin, ttlitl civseu wiletne Damara, aria continued to in-
crease the distance which he threw between them for the
first time round, until be made it 100 yards. That dis-
tance in the second was increased to 200 yards, which
ultimately secured the victory to Openshaw. The dis-
tance was run by Openshaw in somewhat less than 164
minutes ; and by the Bantam, in 17 minutes. Much
confidence is still felt in the Bantam for his speed and
bottom.
JUSTICE V. THE HORSE GUARDS.—The authorities
at the Horse Guards seem to regard themselves as above,
or below, public opinion. Notwithstanding the appeal
made to them at the last session of the Central Criminal
Court, when Lieut. Cuddy and Mr. Gulliver surrendered
themselves for trial on the charge for aiding and abetting
in the duel by which Lieut. Col. Fawcett lost his life,
they still refuse to take the necessary steps to cotnpel
Lieut. Monro and his second, Lieut. Grant, to meet the
serious charge which is preferred against them. Another
of the Central Criminal Courts has closed, and nothing
has been heard of Lieutenants Monro and Grant. Their
names are still in the Army List. Lieut. Monro was with
his regiment up to the morning when he engaged in the
duel in which he unhappily killed his relative, and for
whic't, both by the verdict of a coroner's inquest and the
finding of a grand jury, he stands charged with the crime
of " wilful murder." Lieut. Grant, involved in the same
serious charge, though on half-pay, is subject to the mili-
tary authorities. Yet in neither case has the Commander.
in Chief deemed it within the compass of his duty to his
country to require that these officers, thus amenable to
public justice, should be required to place themselves
within its reach !—Globe.

STRANGE BUT TRUE ACCOUNT Or THE CURRENCY
or NORTH AMERICA. —A tradesman, about eighteen
months ago, left Paisley to visit some relatives who had
emigrated to Brookville, near Montreal. These, with
their connections, he found in possession of the greater
number of farms in that neighbourhood. They had
abundance of everything that constitutes the good things
of this life, but no money, not even to the amount of five
pounds, amongst the whole. His sister, who accompanied
him, began business as a straw-bonnet maker, and having
finished one for the wife of a druggist, received payment
in sticking-plaster. She had previously ordered from a
blockmaker a block for a new shape of bonnet, and, on
asking the price, was told that it was sixpence, but cheap-
ened it down to fivepence. She then presented in pay-
ment five pennyworth of the sticking-plaster, which was
accepted, after much grumbling, and an intimation that
he had given her the penny down, expecting to be paid in
cash. The person previously alluded to taught drawing,
and he was obliged, in the ab'ence of money-fees, to board
with the parents of each scholar, to take cords of &wood
from one, bacon hams from another, maple sugar from a
third, ashes from a fourth, &c. This did not exactly
suit, however, and he was glad to return home again to his
native place.
A Luscious BATH.—PERTH,—On Friday afternoon,
as several porters were engaged roping two puncheons of
molasses at the shore, on a cart, one of them was sub-
jected to an inundation of the contents of one of the
casks, that for a while created apprehensions in the minds
of those about him as to whether he really would not lose
his life. He was standing, or rather bending his body,
fastening an end of a rope at the back of the cart, when
the puncheon suddenly burst, and the whole of the lus-
cious contents, in a mass, descended upon him, with a
violence which laid him prostrate, " buried in sweets."
He remained some time entirely invisible, buried beneath
the treacle, which, from its nature, be could not shake
off, while those about him, disliking the idea of getting
themselves similarly besmeared, made no effort to assist
him. The liquid at length gradually rolled off, and the
deplorable subject of the immersion endeavoured to rise,
but he dropped again. This he did so often, that his
companions at length, fearing that he might be suffocated,
went to his assistance. On being raised to his feet he
was very much exhausted, and from his exhaustion, as
well as the sticky state of his clothes, he was unable to
walk until he had got a drop to revive him. His appear-
ance, one may imagine, was ludicrous enough as he took
his way home to get his clothes cleaned.

For some time past a kind of secretfexpedition has been
fitting out at this port, and the vessels that have already
sailed are under sealed orders, which are not to be opened
until the ships have received a given latitude and longi-
tude across the line. In spite of the secrecy that has been
observed, it is now becoming well known that the expe-
dition has sailed for an island said to be somewhere to the
east of the Cape of Good Elope, and the speculation is
likely to be not only a lucrative one to those engaged in
it, but will be of immense benefit to the agriculturist, as
well as to the shipping and commercial interests of the
country. It is said that the island in question contains
guano of a richer description than any hitherto known
here. Several vessels have already sailed from this port
with implements of every description, and boats con-
structed for the purpose of carrying the cargo from the
shore to the ships, viz.,—lrishmen, barrows, shovels,
pickaxes, &c. A number of other ships, all of large
burthen, are about to follow. In London and Liverpool
vessels are fitting out for the same destination, but the
Clyde shippers have had the start, and we trust will benefit
by it. As the price of guano is at present about £l4 per
ton, the speculators bid fait to make an excellent thing of
it, as they will have the cargo for the taking. We under-
stand the speculators are two mercantile firms in Glasgow,
who have chartered the vessels.—Cnrrespondent of the
Greenock Observer.