The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-25 00:00:00

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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

safety On Tuesday, the Queen and Prince Albert, with the
y, thench,
Royal children, visited the Exhibition, in Hyde Park,
mg.', when the zalleries were tested in every way by bodies of

counter-marching over them,
mg upon them in every way, and more than double
,ht conc7ntrated upon them that can possibly be
e after the stalls arz put up, and the arrange-
complete for the admission of the public. A great
scientific gentlemen were present, and expressed
impletesatisfaction at the success of the experi-

king anc

At no time, under the severest pressure, was any
urflection observable greater than would be the case with
the floor of a London house at an ordinary evening party.
The TimeB gives an interesting account of the proceedings
the interior of the building on Tuesday :—" As the
eons containing the packages arrive within the build-
are driven to the centre of the transept, and
—se unloaded and marked by a Custom-house officer.
From the transept relays of Sappers convey the packages
n trucks to the compartment of the foreign country
hence they come. Deposited in this compartment ano-
er band of custom-house officers are there to receive
m, and a fresh party of Sappers, with chisels and other
lements, rapidly break open lids or other coverings,
„iitary determination sweep everything before
them until the goods lie revealed. Yesterday the Zolve-
reign compartment was the principal one to which goods
,ned, though arrivals also took place for the
and Canadian collections. Entering within the
,oarding, where Sappers were vigorously engaged break-
ng open great boxes, one might have almost fancied that
some scene of plunder was in progress. The variety of
articles that the different packages presented was also cu-
rious, and even the custom-house people themselves,
hardened as they must be against that species of excite-

nd with m

were const

went, appeared interested in the miscellaneous character
of their occupation. One box contained a set of trays,
another earthenware images, another silk handkerchiefs
or gloves, another parasol handles, another a machine for
knitting, articles of general merchandise alternated with
works of art, and specimens of skilful handicraft. And,
we may observe, that even at this early stage in the arri-
val of foreign goods there are signs that the palm of cheap
production and the merit of an industrial system, founded
ou the principle of utility, are not to he resigned us with-
out a contest by the States of the Zolvereign. Within
the space allotted for our native contributions few arri-
vals have taken place, and beyond the apportionment of
ground hardly anything has as yet been done. The floor-
ing is marked off with red paint or chalk, and one sees
scrolled on the boards the familiar names of our different
manufacturing communities. In the division of machi-
nery, Oldham has taken the lead by commencing the
foundations of the complicated and splendid display of
cotton machines which are to be exhibited from there. It
is singular that, as a milliner was the first contributor to
the stock of the exhibition, the small Scotch town of Dun-
fermline should have its stall soonest completed."
Great progress has been made within the last few days
in the arrangement of the space in the building for the
various classes of goods, and in the allocation of the space
to be occupied by individual exhibitors in the respective
classes. The arrangements for cotton machines to be
shewn in motion were finally completed yesterday. The
space to be occupied by this very important section will
be in the form a parallellogram of 240 feet, by 72 feet in
breadth, situated on the north-west portion of the build-
ing. Sites have already been marked for almost every
variety of machine, from the first stage of the preparation
of the cotton up to its final manufacture in the loom.
The space allotted to flax and the linen manufactures is
divided into compartments, bearing the names of Belfast,
Leeds, Barnsley, and other towns which will contribute
to this class. The arrangement of the space to individual
exhibitors will devolve upon the local committees of the
respective towns. The gallery flooring also bears the
names of many firms of high repute and standing in the
higher branches of our manufactures, to whom space has
been allotted. In the woollen section, also, the marking
out of the space has been completed, and several of the
Scotch towns have made considerable progress in their
fittings. Several agricultural implements have already
arrived, and the foundations for several pieces of heavy
machinery are being proceeded -vith. In the space de-
voted to colonial productions, the sappers and custom-
house officers are busily engaged in unpacking and regis-
tering a large quantity of Canadian productions, many of
which will not tail to prove exceedingly attractive. Some
most remarkably fine specimens of white pine," and
other varieties of timber, in slabs and logs, are in-
cluded in the articles which have arrived from Canada.
There is also an exceedingly valuable collection of furs ;
and the stuffed aquatic and other birds may be considered
as highly creditable specimens of the art of taxidermy in
the colony. Of the productions of foreign countries, the
largest amount which has yet arrived has been from the
Zoilverein ; among which manufactures, textile and
otherwise, appear to occupy a very large proportion.
Some few packages have also arrived from Switzerland.
Great progress has been made in the fitting up of the
space allotted to North Germany ; and several otner coun-
tries have also commenced these preliminary proceedings.
•The first cargo of French articles, consisting of 1200
packages, for the Hyde-park Exhibition, left Paris on
Tuesday. _ _ _

The Sloanes are to be confined in Newgate. because
they were not sentenced to bard labour. Mrs. Sloane is

in the ho.pital. Mr. Sloane prefers being in solitary
confinement—to avoid the society of the prison.
The Dublin papers announce the death of Mrs. Xaveria
Wiseman, mother of Cardinal Wiseman. She died on

the 7th instant, at the house of jier daughter, the Coun-

tess of Gabrielli, at Fano, in Italy, after -a
short illness,

At Shields. Sunderland, ScarbOrough, Liverpool, and
other ports, Mr. Labouchere has been burnt in effigy by
large bodies of sailors, through feelings of indignation
towards him for passing the Mercantile Marino Act.

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On Sunday week it was discovered that some thief had
stolen the black cloth with which the pulpit and reading
desk of Markham Clinton Church, Notts, had been hung

on the occasion of the funeral of the Duke of Newcastle

A successor to the corpulent Mrs. Armytage appears in
the person of a Mrs. Farmer, who is now exhibiting in

the Strand

The weight of the good lady in question is

reported to be 3561 b

On Monday the area of St: Paul's Churchyard, London,

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was thrown open to the public, so that persons can now
pass to and from the western entrance on the top of Lud-
gate-hill to the north and south sides.

A very destructive fire broke out on Wednesday in

Duke-street, London, near London-bridge, at Wigan
and White's, hop-merchants. The whole of their large
warehouses are destroyed, besides several houses.

The average price of wheat for the week ending on
Saturday last has fallen to 375. Bd. per quarter, the mar-
kets ruling dull throughout the country, and immense
supplies coming in almost daily from abroad, duty free.

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THE PARTRIDGE DALE gum:int.—John Firth was
committed on Thursday to York Castle, charged with the
murder of his brother. It is strongly suspected that the
deceased was shot in cool blood, and in a deliberate
manner.

The Rev. William Holme Milner, vicar of Penrith, was
presented the other day, by his parishioners, with a
splendid tea-urn, of the value of a hundred guineas, as a
mark of their unqualified approbation of his ministrations
among them.
Mr. Skelton, a miller, at Worksop, Notts, lately received
a letter enclosing 2s, 6d., wbich the writer said was to
compensate Mr. Skelton for a peck of beans, which the
writer and another girl stole from one of his fields twelve
or thirteen years since. _ _ _

While a fruit dealer was leaving his dwelling in Derby,
on Wednesday week, his little daughter ran after him to
give him a kiss; but be did not stop, and the child began
to cry, suddenly threw her head back, and immediately
died.

MORE WORKHOUSE RIOTING.—On Monday, a num-
ber of the able-bodied young men in the workhouse at
Yarmouth, made an attempt to get possession of the
stores and provisions, which was, however, frustrated by
the interference of the police, but not before they had
smashed a number of windows, benches, &c.
On Friday week a public meeting was convened in
Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, for the purpose of present-
ing the Rev. E. Pughe, late vicar of the parish, with two
pieces of plate—one from the opulent, the other from the
working classes--on the occasion of his leaving Llanidloes
for the junior vicarage of Bangor Cathedral.
The wife of a journeyman shoemaker, at Northampton,
having absconded with a man, the husband procured a
pistol, followed, and found the fugitives, and, having
caused his wife to be called out of a public-house where
she was, he shot her, and she now lies in a dangerous
state. He has been committed for trial.

Mr. Knowles, the Commissary General, aged s], com-
mitted suicide, on Sunday night week, by swallowing
prussic acid. His mind had been recently troubled by
the death of a beloved daughter, and again by the depar-
ture of his son for Sierra Leone, where another son died
about five weeks ago.
The Wolverhampton Chronicle mentions that yester-
day week a quantity of gunpowder, used for blasting,
exploded in Messrs. Homfray and Brettell's pits near
Rowley, and so severely injured a miner named Kitson,
that it is feared he will lose his sight, even if he should
survive.

George Barrett, who keeps a general shop at Newport
Pagnel, is in custody on a charge of being concerned, with
his brother Enoch Barrett and William Evans, in stealing,
at:different times, from the stations and carriages belong-
ing to the South-Eastern Railway Company property of
all descriptions, amounting in value to over £2OOO.
While a young man named Kennedy, employed in a
thread manufactory, near Cockermouth, was " larking"
with two or three others on Monday evening week, he
accidentally fell into a large vat which catches the boiling
water from the engine, and so frightfully was he scalded
that he died the same night.
SUDDEN DEATH OF A CLERGTMAN.—The Rev. J.
Gresswell Vicar of Creech St. Michael, while reading at
the table in his study, was suddenly attrcked with wheez-
ing, and a slight cough, when he began to froth at the
meuth, turned black in the face, and died before he could
be removed. The deceased was abort 58 years of age,
and was much respected.
A man named Gurnett, the principal gamekeeper to
E. J. Esdaile, Esq., of Cothelston, near Taunton, was
attacked on Saturday se'nnight, in Mr. Esdaile's preserves.
Gurnett was very much beaten by his assailants, who,
after depositing his body in a ditch, left him for dead.
He afterwards revived sufficiently to relate the circum-
stances, but he is not out of danger.
At Guildhall, on Wednesday, an action was tried at the
instance of Wilks, a turnkey at Marlborough-street
police-
office, against the Times newspaper, for a libel imputing
to the plaintiff that he had been bribed to permit the
escape of one Hacket. a notorious offender, and another
named Mackenzie. The jury found a verdict for the
plaintiff with one farthing damages.
A Kendal paper mentions that at a private ball at Am-
bleside, a few evenings since, a young lady's dress came

in contact with the-flame of a lamp, and immediately

caught fire. The dress burned rapidly, and before the
flames could be extinguished the young lady was severely
scorched ; but fortunately her injuries were not of a dan-
gerous character.
On Tuesday evening, as the Parliamentary train from
London to Manchester came near Alderley, at about six
o'clock, an accident, the immediate cause of which is at
present involved in mystery, occurred, by which the en-
gineer was killed on the spot, and many of the passen-
gers were more or less injured. Five of the carriages
were. dashed to pieces.
On Friday morning, a young lady, the daughter of a
gentleman of great wealth, and who has considerable
property in her own right, was missed from her home in
Cheltenham. Inquiries were instituted, and it was ascer-
tained that she had eloped with a " dashing young car-
penter," and that the couple had been safely united in
Hymen's bonds, in a neighbouring town.
A very numerously attended meeting was held on Wed—
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nesday, at the Hall of Commerce, London, the Lord
Mayor presiding, supported by several members of Parlia-
ment and leading merchants of the City, at which a series
of resolutions were
_proposed and unanimously carried,

recommending the adoption of measures favourable to the
establishment of tribunals of commerce in Great Britain.

On Friday morning, a man named Fradd, a shoemaker, :
of 58, Richmond-street, Plymouth, attempted suicide by
cutting his throat. His wife was in the room at the time, i
and attempted to wrest the knife from him, on which he
turned upon her and inflicted several wounds on her neck, 1
hands, and arms. She succeeded in getting the knife 1
from him, but he was so severely injured that he is not 1
likely to recover. 1
RELIEF TO THE WIND-BOUND MERCHANTMEN.—The
Admiralty have ordered the 60-gun screw line-of-battle
ship Hogue to proceed from Cork to the Chops of the
Channel, for the relief, with water and provisions, of the
homeward-bound trading vessels ; and the Admiralty
have further ordered that in future the Hogue is to cruise
in the Chops of the Channel at all times when the wind
has been blowing from the eastward for 24 hours.
The Emperor of Russia has transmitted a silver medal,
with the riband of St. Anne attached, to Mr. Joseph
Thompson, engineer, son of Mr. Robt. Thompson, of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, butcher. Mr. Thompson served
his apprenticeship with Messrs. Robert Stephenson and
Co., after which he superintended the construction of the
bridge across the Neva, which in Russia is designated
" the Blagovenshensxoy Bridge in St. Petersburgh."
On Friday last, Emma, the daughter of Mr. Job Dibs-
dell, Salisbury, was sitting at her father's house, in com-
pany with a few friends, when suddenly she was seized
with excruciating agony. Medical aid was soon in at-
tendance, but she expired the next morning. Her be-
reaved parents permitted her body to be opened, when it
was ascertained that an orange kernel had worked an
unusual course to her heart, and caused death.
' A 100-GUN SCREW LINE-OF-BATTLE SHIP.—A new
ship of the line, by name St. Jean d'Acre, has been on
the " Navy List" for some years, but has not been laid
down. The Admiralty have now determined that instead
of a 90-gun ship, like the Albion, she shall be a powerful
two-decker, to carry 100 guns, and to be propelled by
screw machinery of 650-horse power. She is ordered to
be built at Devonport.—United Service Gazette.
MUNIFICENT DONATION IN SUPPORT OF ROMAN CA-
THOLICISM.—Th inhabitants of the village of Oldcoates,
near Blytho, and also of the surrounding neighbourhood,
have been astounded by Edward Chaloner, Esq., of Gold-
thorpe, giving upwards of an acre and a half of ground
in a field south of Oldcoates, whereon to erect a Roman
Catholic church, a house for the priest, a school, and a
burial-ground. That gentleman has also, we hear, in-
vested £4OOO towards its completion.—Noilinghatn
Guardian.
The baby monkey, at the Bristol Zoological Gardens,
is now beginning to leave its mother's neck. Its first
lessons in climbing are exceedingly interesting to witness.
Sometimes the mother will get into the tree, leaving the
young one below, for the purpose, it would seem, of
tempting it to climb up to her ; the outstretched hand,
however, shows bow narrowly those attempts are watched,
and should there appear the slightest danger of its falling,
it is instantly clasped to her breast, and hugged in a
manner which is most amusing.
Binstead-house, the seat of General Lord Downes, 1
near Ryde, Isle of Wight, was totally destroyed by fire
on Monday afternoon. £30,000 of jewels was stated to
be lost. His Lordship and family were crossing from
Portsmouth, and saw the conflagration from the deck of
the steamer ; they were coming to Binstead for a short
time, the house having been prepared for their reception.
The cause of the fire was the careless way in which a
' stove had been set in the study. The wall between this
room and the drawing-room was but half a brick thick ;
this had been knocked away and the stove thrust against
the battening, which was canvassed.
THE LATE WORKHOUSE RIOT IN SUFFOLK.—It ap-
pears that at the time of the riot there were 120 able-
bodied men picking oakum in the Barham Union. A pe-
tition has been drawn up for presentation to both Houses
of Parliament, from the guardians of the Hoxne Union,
in the same county, which states that the union is " not
sufficiently large to contain half the applicants for relief,
as there are in the house 130 able-bodied men, and out of
the house 127 receiving relief under the out-door test—
i2s7 . and that, taking a single week, ending in January,
1850, and the corresponding week in 1851, the number in
the former is 73, in the latter 249, showing an increase of
more than 300 per cent."

HORRIBLE CIRCUMSTANCE.—In the parish of. Llanfi-
hangel, near Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, a young ser-
vant girl, near her confinement, horrible to relate, opened
her side with a pair of scissors, and thus delivered herself
of a full-grown infant. She was detected in the act of
stitching up the wound thus so unnaturally inflicted on
her person. Medical aid was immediately procured, but
she died at the house of her parents in a few days from
mortification.—Chester Chronicle.
INcEspiAILY FlRE.—About eleven o'clock on Monday
night, another destructive fire occurred in Wimbish,
near Saffron Walden, on the premises At Pinckneyst held
off-hand by Mr. E. Emson, and caused the destruction of
three barns, stables, cow-sheds, piggeries, and cart-sheds ;
about 300 quarters of wheat, beans, barley, and oats ; one
cart-horse, eleven pigs, five sheep, ten lambs, a quantity
of straw, two waggons, five rollers, and the whole of the
cart harness. The damage is estimated at £3OOO.

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AN UNCOUTH SHOPMAN.—On Tuesday evening last,
after dark, a pair of oxen ran unceremoniously into the
shop of Mr. J. Chapman, grocer, Hartlepool, one of which
fell head foremost through a hatchway into the cellar be-

low, and was got out with considerable difficulty ; the
other ensconced himself behind the counter, to the no
small terror of the displaced shopman, and much to the
amusement of the crowd which soon gathered around the
door. The services of the new corner, however, were as
speedily as possible dispensed with, and but little injury
was done.

A POACHING TRICK.—A gentleman while walking the
other day in the grounds of a noble family in this neigh-
bourhood observed a pheasant pecking on the ground,
and, watching the bird for a minute or two, he saw it tum-
ble over as if shot. The observer walked to the spot, and
found the bird dead ; there was a sprinkling of peas on
the ground of a rather suspicious appearance. He picked
one up, and to his surprise discovered that it was threaded
with bristles, cut short, but still long enough and sharp
enough to stick in any bird's throat that tried to swallow
the bait, and so choke it.—Worcestershire Chronicle.

DISGRACEFUL PROCEEDINGS AT THE FALKIRK ELEC-
TION.—This election was characterized by such scenes of
drunkenness and disorder as have seldom been witnessed
on a similar occasion. Drunken men and women are
described as having been lying about the streets in all
directions in a state of perfect insensibility, while others,
who were able to stagger upright, were engaged in conti-
nuous fights and brawls. After the poll had closed, the
rioting became so serious, the hotel where Mr. Baird's
committee sat having been assailed with showers of stones,
and every window in it smashed, that the aid of the mili-
tary at Glasgow had to be called in.
A WOMAN KILLED BY HER HUSBAND.—On Tuesday
night, about eight o'clock, Joseph Clarke, a carpenter,
the husband of an unfortunate woman, a notorious drun-
kard, on his return home, at Bath, from work, found his
wife in a state of intoxication. He began to quarrel with
her, and lastly took a stick, from two to three feet long
and one inch thick, and severely beat her about the head
and other parts of her body. In the course of a short
time she died. A policeman who was called in charged
the prisoner with killing his wife, and he said, " I am the
canse of her death." He said he knocked her down with
a stick which was then lying on the floor broken in seve-
ral pieces, about one of which was a quantity of human
hair. Where the deceased was lying there was a large
pool of blood.
A BARN OF GLASS.—Mr. N. Tuckett intends to cover
a large barn, 110 feet long, and 28 feet wide, on his farm
at Heavitree, with a glass roof, after the model of the pa-
lace of glass. The expense will not be above two-thirds
of the cost of slate, and he anticipates several advantages
&ern the novel roof ; among others it may be applied to
the drying corn during a catching harvest. The corn can
be placed in the barn immediately upon being reaped,
where it will have the benefit of the sun when it shines,
be protected from the showers, and also dried by artificial
heat, if required, and then stacked in ricks under a co-
vered stackyard. This will enable the land to be imme-
diately ploughed up, and sowed with turnips or rape,
which will prepare the land for another cereal crop the
following year, so that he anticipates three crops in two
years.— Western Times. . .

ALLEGED POISONING BY A HUSBAND.—An inquest
is now proceeding at Chipping Sodbury, near Bristol, on
the body of a married woman named Hathway, whom her
husband is suspected of having poisoned. He, and a girl
with] whom he cohabited, are in custody. Hathway, it
is stated, was a man of somewhat irregular habits, which
caused great uneasiness to his wife. They were both
young people, and on their marriage he received a consi-
derable sum of money with her, which, however, was
soon dissipated, and it is alleged that he was in the habit
of receiving at the house, in the presence of his wife,
girls of ill fame. On Friday night last, Mrs. Hathway
was taken very ill, between seven and eight o'clock. She
had a violent sickness and retching, which continued
throughout the night, and on Saturday morning early she
died. In consequence of a rumour of ill play having got
abroad it was determined that an inquest should be
holden.

BURGLARY AND ATTEMPT TO MURDER AT WINDSOR.
—On Wednesday morning, at half-past one o'clock, the
house of Mr. Tucker, the verger of St. George's Chapel,
Windsor Castle, who resides at No. 4, Clarence Road,
was broken into by two men, who first ransacked the low-
er rooms of the house, and then proceeded upstairs with
lighted candles to the sleeping apartments of Mr. Tucker
and an elderly lady. named Whittaker. Mrs. Whittaker
was awoke by the light and noise, and uttered an excla-
mation, upon which one of the ruffians struck her on the
head with an iron instrument, inflicting two severe wounds
and another blow broke her arm, which she held up to
protect herself. Mr, Tucker, on hearing Mrs. Whitta-
kes's screams, jumped out of bed and ran to her assistance,
but was knocked down several times, and received four
severe wounds on the head. Mrs. Whittaker's screams
alarmed the villains, and they made off before the police
arrived. Mr. Tucker is upwards of 90 years of age, and
both he and Mrs. Whittaker are in a most dangerous
state. _ _

MONEY MARKET.—The return of the movement of the
Bank of England for the week ending on the 15th inst.,
gives the following changes compared with the week end-
ing Bth instant :—ln the department of issue the notes in
circulation had increased £120,000, which had been pro-
duced by an increase of £120,000 in the gold coin or bul-
lion, the silver bullion remaining unaltered. On the debit
side of the banking department the rest had increased
£87,424, the public deposits had increased £440,568, the
private deposits had increased £63,401, and the seven-day
and other post hills had decreased £77,182, making the
total of the liabilities £35,597,233. On the credit side
the government securities remained unaltered ; the other
securities had increased £54,114, the notes had increased
£384,760, and the gold and silver coin had increased
£75,337, which equalized the account. The bullion in
both departments of the Bank had increased from
£14,278,164 to £14,473,501,being a difference of £341,942.
The paper in actual circulation had decreased from
£20,381,557 to £20,039,615, being a difference of
£341,942.
THE ARMOURY AT THE TOWER.—Great preparations
are being made at the Tower for the approaching crowds,
who are expected to visit the metropolis this year. A
new room and staircase is being constructed at the end
of the White Tower, in order that the visitors may not
have to return by the same way at which they enter the
horse armoury, as heretofore. This is a very great im-
provement. All the magnificent suits of armour are
being reburnished ; also the various ancient weapons
which form the devices on the walls and ceilings of this
splendid receptacle of England's chivalry of the olden
time. It is quite amusing to pass through the gallery at
the present time. The Black Prince has an old blanket
thrown over him for protection against an Irish labourer
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squires and horses appear terrified at these preparations.
One would almost imagine that Sir Francis Head, or
some other of the present alarmists, had been delivering
a course of lectures to them.—United Service Gazette.
THE SEAMEN IN THE NORTH.—Two foreigners were
" tarred and feathered" at North Shields on Saturday
week. They had come across from Sunderland to a
foreign vessel in the Tyne, and had been overhauled by a
company of " watchers," who are kept on the look-out
by the men on strike. The foreigners, being unable to
give a good account of themselves, were followed without
the borough. One of them was caught near some coal
staiths at Hayhole, besmeared with coal tar, and after-
wards dusted with chaff from an old bed-tick. The other
man, after a chase, was caught in the village of Howdon,
and met a similar fate, amid the yells and derision of
a mob of women. On Sunday week, about three
o'clock, a melancholy accident happened to one of the
watchers, who went off with five others to overhaul a
vessel that was goinc to sea. The vessel was towing
down, and going rapidly through the water. In attempt-
ing to hook the ship's boat the watcher's boat upset, and
one of them, a young man, named Mark Armstrong, was
drowned. His body was picked up on Sunday afternoon.
Twenty-five policemen have been sent down from New-
castle to assist the authorities to keep the peace, and a
number of special constables were sworn in at South
Shields. It has since been announced that the seamen in
the North have resolved to terminate the strike and return
to their duty.
DISCOVERIES IN AFRICA.—A meeting of the Royal
Geographical Society took place on Monday, the 10th
instant; the president, Captain W. H. Smyth, R.N.,
K.S.F., D.C.L., F.R.S., in the chair. Two communica-
tions upon African geography, just received, preceded the
papers of the evening. In the first, mention was made of
the successful ascent of the cataract of the White Nile,
which had stopped the further progress of D'Arnaud.
The expedition, consisting of the missionaries (Dr. Knob-
licher (vicar), Don Angelo Binco, and Don Emanuel
Pedemonte, started with seven vessels from Khartum, on
November 13, 1849. On the 14th January, 1850, the
great cataract was for the first time luckily ascended, tin_
der the guidance of their bold pilot Suleiman Abu Zaid,
favoured by a strong north wind. Immediately above the
cataract the navigation of the river was rendered ex.
tremely difficult by sand banks, and higher up by rocks.
At the village of Tokiman, the surprise of the natives at
the sight of the vessels and of the white men, was amusing.
The party arrived at Logwek on the 16th of January,
where Dr. Knoblicher ascended a lofty granite hill, from
the top of which the White Nile could be seen stretching
away to the south-west, and in the distant horizon the
summits of a range of lofty mountain could be distinctly
traced. At the 4th deg. lat. the Nile was 200 yards
broad, and from two to three deep. In the second African
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paper, the Rev. D. Livingston communicated through the
London Missionary Society, an account of another large
lake, 150 to 200 miles to the northward of Lake Ngami,
the discovery
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munication with the Portuguese settlements upon the
coast. Mr. Livingston intended. proceeding again shortly
to the north upon a visit te, the chief*

Feb. 25, 1851.

EXTENSIVE PLCIIDEB. BY A LODGING HOUSE-KEEPER.
—Mary And Turner, a very rtipectaNy-;Wircd W 91111477
about 30 years of are, residing at 57, Beaumont-street:
Marylebone, was charged at Marylebone Police court,
London, on Monday, with having stolen bank notes,
jewellery, &c. to a large amount, the property of Mr.
Thomas Hillman, chief clerk to the Accidental Death In-
surance Company, Lothbury. It appeared that the prose-
cutor and his family lodged with the prisoner, and on his
returning home about 6 o'clock a few evenings back, the
prisoner expressed her fear that a robbery had been com-
mitted, and that the thief was then probably up stairs.
While he was waiting at the door to endeavour to get the
assistance of the police the prisoner's sister ran down
stairs with dishevelled hair, and said there was a man
under one of the beds. A policeman having then arrived
they all went up stairs, when no man was to be seen, but
Mrs. Hillman's cloak was found in an unoccupied room,
and the drawer of her dressing case, which contained one
or two £5. notes, and about £BO. or £9O. worth of jewell-
ery, was gone. It was subsequently ascertained that the
prisoner bad paid one of the notes, whose numbers had
been stopped, at Shoolbred and Cook's in Tottenham-
court-road, when she was taken into custody. The pris-
oner now denied that she was the person who had changed
the note, and was remanded.

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE.—On Wednesday the Earl
of Stamford and Warrington was summoned before Mr.
Bingham at Marlborough-street Police-office, London,
for refusing to maintain an illegitimate child of which he
was alleged to be the father,'by Mary Ann Parkes. The
applicant, who said she was the daughter of a spade and
iron implement manufacturer, at Hyde, about two miles
from the hall where Lord Stamford lived, gave a circum-
stantial account of her alleged interview with the Earl,
and swore positively that he was the father of the child,
and the only person who had been familiar with her. he
was supported in her testimony by a female friend named
Ann Lewis. On the other hand it was proved that Mary
Ann Parkes had lived at Wolverhampton and London
with a man named Sheridan, and passed for his wife, and
that the witness Jane Lewis, who swore to the contrary,
resided in the same house with them. After this contra-
dictory evidence had been given, the attorney who
appeared for the complainant abandoned the case at once.
He had no hesitation in saying that the parties ought to
be indicted for conspiracy. If the Earl of Stamford took
further proceedings he would do all in his po arer to assist
his lordship.—A gentleman in court, on behalf of Lord
Stamford, said he was authorised to say his lordship would
certainly assist towards attaining the ends of justice. An
application was then made for a warrant against the man
Sheridan for conspiracy, and the two women were re-
manded on a charge of perjury and conspiracy.
THE GREAT SWINDLE OF THE DAY.—That Hydro-
pathy, Homcepathy, and Mesmerism, those offsprings of
deceit and humbug, should have found, not only believers,
but enthusiastic supporters in the nineteenth century,
will ever be a cause of wonder and regret to the sensible
and unbiassed portion of the community. The blind and
arrogant vanity of the fosterers of these systems, where
madness is balanced by dishonesty, is the mainspring of
the zeal they display with so much pride; and though
the fallacies which they profess were clearly proved to
be untenable, and fraught with incalculable mischief,
pride, vigorously backed by ignorance, would still hold
out, and fasten upon the wild notions which were im-
bibed by the love of singularity. That the mischief re-
sulting from the lies and deceptions of mesmerism is
frightful, has been proved repeatedly ; we were, there-
fore, not surprised at the vile accusations made the other
day in Paris by a mesmeric impostor. The wretched
creature, who, with so many other rogues, daily panders
in mesmeric sleep to the stupid love of the wonderful in.
the Parisian gulls, destroyed, by his calumnious insinua-
tions, the peace of two families, in the most wicked and
heartless manner; and so high did the indignation run,
that even the authorities, so watchful of political delin-
quents, and so supine towards the herds of ignorant pre-
tenders who daily figure in public advertisements, insti-
tuted inquiries regarding this disgusting transaction.
The whole business will be brought before a court of
justice, and though we have but very little faith in the
support of government in such matters, we trust that the
guilty parties will meet their full deserts.—Lancet.

WHITTLE DEAN WATER COMPANY.—The directors
of the Whittle Dean Water Company have submitted to
the shareholders the capital and revenue accounts for the
past year, with an accompanying report which brings their
lead•ng features under review. The report we subjoin;
the detailed accounts those particularly interested may
consult by reference to the official circular. With respect
to the quality of the water supplied to the inhabitants,
there are still serious complaints; indeed, it would seem
that the present company, with all their boasted resources,
and large amount of subscribed capital injudiciously ex-
pended, are not capable of meeting the requirements of
the public. There is one grand fault their reservoirs
have, which must for ever be a great drawback on their
ability to supply the town—they won't hold water. Taking
this important fact into consideration, no one can reason-
ably feel surprised that, commencing with an eight
months' store, their tanks should soon run dry ;. for they
were tapped at two points, that at which the water passes
through the company's pipes into the houses of consu-
mers, the other being the strata of the dene through
which the water percolates into the ravine below, and
thence into the river Tyne. We shall take an early
opportunity of returning to the subject. Our recent
silence has been in expectation that the company would
carry out works sufficient to meet the wants of the com-
munity in water, both with respect to quantity and quality;
and as we are willing to give them credit for good inten-
tions, so we shall not prejudge the measures they may
adopt. But, at the same time, it is only proper to remark,
as already done, that the water continues to be extremely
bad, discoloured, and full of infusorai. Newcastle
Journal.

MARKING A POACHER.—Some time since Daniel Gee,
a young man who resides on the seacoast, near Hoibeach,
and gets his living by fishing, but who, it appears, occa-
sionally varies his legitimate occupation by a little illegal
sport amongst land animals, went with his gun on
the lands of Mr. Woolley, in pursuit of a hare, which he
found and killed. Before he could pick it up Mr. Elliff,
an opulent young farmer, who was in an adjoining field,
rushed upon him, and pointing at him a double-barrelled
gun, declared that he would mark him, and atter abusing
him with very disgusting language, snapped both locks,
but the caps exploded without discharging the pierP.
He re-capped his gun, and, as Gee continued to more cif,
he fired, but the shot struck the ground near the fugitive's
foot. " Surely," said the latter, " you do not mean to
shoot me in this lonely place." Elliff replied, "I do
mean to shoot you ;" and after following him about a
quarter of a mile he again took aim, fired, and shattered
the poor fellow's hand and arm in a shocking manner.
"Now I can leave you," said he, " I shall know you
again, and now I shall go back and look for the hare."
Gee crawled as well as he could to Holbcach, where he
was taken into custody by a constable, on the evidence of
Elliff. The constable, seeing the agony he was in, took
him to a surgeon, and the next day he was committed by
a magistrate for a month on Elliff's evidence. Gee, at
the expiration of his imprisonment, by the advice of
parties who commiserated his sufferings, and who saw
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the magistrates was excessively exaggerated, he declaring
that Gee shot at him first. His subsequent statement
was, that he wanted to mark the man, and had fired for
that purpose. It appeared also that the plaintiff was not
at all on Mr. Elliff's land. There was a great sensation
in the court against the defendant. The judge gave his
decision in favour of the plaintiff, and awarded him £33
damages.

THE IRON TRADE.—The dissatisfaction among the
miners and colliers in various localities, adverted to in our
last notice of this trade, has now subsided, and labour
appears to be everywhere going on again, under a quiet
continuation of the rates that were previously given. We
then stated that the circumstances of the trade, whether
considered with regard to demand or prices, were such as
to render any advance in wages utterly impracticable,
and hitherto no improvement has taken place ; but, un-
fortunately, there appears a little more flatness creeping
on. and a tendency in the market to become more quiet.
The current prices are easil, obtained for light orders of
best qualities, but in naii-rods and common bars some
difficulty is experienced. It is true that this is locked
upon as a temporary cloud that will soon pass over, and
at present we have not heard of any underselling ; bet a
contrary tendency would have been much more satisfac-
tory, and much more consonant with the repeated predic-
tions and continued assurances of the supporters of the
policy of the day. The orders now on hand, joined with
the demand that may reasonably be expected to arise
from the more favourable position of railway property,
and the additional construction of lines to be carried out
this summer, would, under ordinary circumstances, have
been deemed a sufficient ground for calculating upon an
early advance; but the consumption of the enormous bulk
ofiron daily produced is become too entirely dependent
upon the variations of foreign markets, and the home
demand has been too effectually crippled to warrant any
speculation. In the United States also—by far the most
important outlet for our exports—we are still threatened
with the adoption of a hostile tariff almost equal, to a
prohibition ; hence there appears little probability of any
upward movement beyond existing rates. In one or two
instances furnaces and works that have for a long time
been standing have again been put into operation, but it
would seem not so much on account of any pressure of
orders, since others less fortunately situated have in the
meanwhile been compelled to reduce their make, as with a
view to make up:for remunerative prices by pushing a more
extensive trade, a practice most inimical to all permanent
improvement. In Wales and Scotland orders are said to
remain plentiful, but the prices at which they are taken
are a shade lower. Pig iron is stationary—manufacturers
are pretty well supplied, and very little is changing hands.
Both coals and iron-stone can be procured on a little
easier terms. The demand for the former by country
dealers has considerably fallen off, on account of the
introduction of coals from other districts by the railways,
which has, to some extent, interfered with the sale of
Staffordshire.—Birmingham Gazette.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

THE LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING Comes off to-mor-
row, under the distinguished stewardship of the Earl of
Sefton, the Marquis of Waterford, and George Payne,
Esq. ; and the promise held out by the programme is
extremely gratifying, racing of every description, of an
unexceptionable character, being provided. The grand
feature, as a matter of course, is the Grand National
Steeple Chase Handicap, for which 34 horses have ac.
cepted. A great influx of visitors is anticipated, and the
meeting is expected to, be oae of the greatest which has
yet takea placSk