The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-12 00:00:00

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The executors named by the will of Lord Melbourne
are Lord Brougham and Mr. Edward Ellice.
Jenny Lind has promised to sing gratultougyat a con-
cert at Birmingham for the Queen's Hospital.
On Sunday night week, during the heavy gale,. a stone
fell from one of the houses in Edinburgh on the head of a
young woman, who was killed instantly.
Richard Harris, Esq., M.P. for Leicester, was origi-
nally " P.D." in Sir R. Phillip's printing-office, in the
town which Mr. Harris now represents.
The Master of the Rolls has continued the injunction'
to prevent any buildings being erected on the open space
in Leicester-square, London.
A sale of property in Monmouthshire, beloneing to the
Duke of Beaufort, took place on Tuesday and Wednesday
last, and realised £45,000.
The increase of vagrancy in the metropolis has aroused
the attention of the civic authorities. Combined action of
all the unions is proposed to check the evil.
HOMICIDE.—A quarrel took place at Newport, on
Thursday, between John Collins, a hauler on the tram-
road, and an Irishman, named Richardson, which resulted
in the death of the latter.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has received from
" R. K." half notes for £3O on "account of income-tax."
He has also received from "an African slave-catcher" £57,
which will be paid into the Exchequer.
A meeting of the Oxford and Cambridge University
Club has been summoned for the 15th instant, to deter-
mine whether William Smith O'Brien, Esq., M.P., has
merited expulsion or not.
On Saturday week the steam-ship Glenalbyn came into
collision at the mouth of the Humber with the brig Fate,
when the latter instantly sunk. The crew were saved by
leaping on board the steamer.
Nearly three million pairs of gloves have been imported
into this country in the first ten months of the present
year, the glove makers here being meanwhile in an appal-
ling state of destitution from want of employment.
The postmaster has issued a notice that, on and after
the Ist of January next, the transaction of money order
business on the Sunday will be entirely discontinued
throughout England and Wales.
A. poulterer at Spalding, Lincolnshire, is preparing to
supply the London markets with Christmas fare, by fat-
iening upwards of 3000 geese, which daily eat 21 sacks

of oats.
On Tuesday week, Sheffield fair day, upwards of 800 of
the licensed victuallers and their friends, of Birmingham,
paid a visit, by special train, according to previous ap-
pointment, to their brother bonifaces of Sheffield, by
whom they were hospitably received and entertained.
THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE TOWN-
CLERK OF GREENOCK.—The trial of John Thompson, for
the attempted assassination of Mr. Grey came on on
Monday, in the High Court of Justiciary, and ended in
the conviction and sentence of death on the prisoner.
Forged £5 notes (which chiefly purport to be of the
Newcastle Branch Bank of England) are in extensive cir-
culation ; and it is stated that an immense number of
counterfeit fourpenny pieces are in circulation in different
parts of the country.
Lieutenant W. H. Rushbroke, of her Majesty's ship
St. Vincent, at Portsmouth, has been bequeathed the
magnificent fortune of £lO,OOO per annum, and a large
sum in cash, most unexpectedly, by the late Lord Mid-
dleton. . . .

Jenny Lind will sing, gratuitously, at a magnificent
concert at Exeter Hall, on Friday, under the patronage of
the Queen and Queen Dowager, for the foundation of
Mendelsohn scholarships. The concert will consist of
500 performers.
An elegant marble monument, with a suitable inscrip-
tion, has been lately erected by the heritors and parish-
ioners in the church of Lunan, to the memory of Walter
Mill, the last Scottish 'martyr, who, under Popery, suf-
fered for his adherence to the Protestant faith.
Mr. Smith O'Brien has a son in the college for the deaf
and dumb at Rugby. Master O'Brien is between 9 and 10
years of age, very intelligent looking, and remarkably
quick at comprehending anything communicated to him
by the usual signs.
On Sunday morning week, an old woman named Hol-
man, living at Crediton, was found dead in her house,
with a box placed on her chest and other articles of fur-
niture piled upon her. Her premises had been robbed
and everything portable was carried away.
STEAM NAVIGATION.—A contract will shortly be
entered into between the Admiralty and the Indian and
Australia Steam Packet Company, for the conveyance of
the mails between Singapore and Sydney for a period of
seven years.
A very numerous meeting was held at Bristol, on Mon-
day, in favour of the early closing movement. The
mayor was called to the chair. The Bishop of the Diocese
wrote to regret his inability to attend. Lord Teignmouth,
several clergymen, and other gentlemen, delivered ex-
cellent speeches.
A meeting of the Society for the " Protection of Agri-
culture" was held on Thursday last, at the society's
offices, in Bond-street, London, the Duke of Richmond
in the chair. The proceedings consisted principally of a
vote of 100 guineas to a monument to the late Lord G.
Borttinek. _

Mr. George Bennett, the well-Known tragic aut., 11,ia
written a play, called "The Justiza ; a Tale of Arragon,"
which is to be produced at Birmingham. The heroine is
to be performed by Miss Cushman ; and it is said that
the part is well fitted, in both situation and writing, to
the capabilities of that accomplished actress.
The traffic on the Caledonian Canal is daily increasing.
On Wednesday there were no less than 13 schooners, one
brig, and five sloops, in the basin and Muirton Locks,
besides the fine barque Mersey, of Liverpool, which ar-
rived the preceding evening. This large vessel measures
364 tons register, but carries upwards of 600.
A WOMAN KILLED BY A LAMB.-011 Sunday morn-
ing as a female named Hannah Dawson, of Methley,
Yorkshire, 81 years old, was crossing a field in the occu-
pation of Mr. Farrer, of the Rose and Crown lnn, at
that place, she was attacked by a tup-lamb, and so much
injured that she died on the following Tuesday.
A perfectly white rat was caught at the Sheffield work-
house last week. It was then confined in a squirrel cage,
and turned the wiry drum as naturally as a squirrel; but
it died on Monday last. Since the capture of the animal,
two other rats have been seen, one of which is perfectly

black, and the other black and white.
A meeting has been held at Hereford to establish a
c)unty school farm, in which as many boys and girls, the
children of agricultural labourers, should be instructed in
agricultural pursuits as the quantity of land would em-
ploy and subsist. The high sheriff presided, and a com-
mittee was appointed to carry out the suggestion.

There has been a marked decrease in the number of
cholera cases daily during the past week, both in the me-
tropolis and in Scotland. The number of fresh attacks
reported in London on Thursday was only one, in the
provinces also one, and in Edinburgh, Leith, and other
Scotch towns, 14, being the smallest return since the dis-
ease attained its height.
SUNDAY SHAVING.—The curate of Upton-on-Severn
has laid informations against the local barbers for follow-
ing their calling after the hour of half-past ten o'clock
on Sunday morning. The informations are laid under
the 29th Charles 1., and a case came on for hearing a few
days ago. The defendants were discharged with a cau-
tion.
DISTRESSING SUICIDE OF A SOLICITOR.—On Monday
se'nnight, John Langley, Esq., attorney, of Harrington-
place, Bath, committed suicide in his private office by
firing a loaded pistol into his mouth. The unfortunate
gentleman, who was advanced in years, was in no pecu-
niary difficulties, and no cause beyond that of nervous
despondency can be assigned for the dreadful act.
As a means of reform, a member of the Town Council
of Durham, at a meeting last week, said he would keep
down the increase of the nefarious, low, filthy, and dirty
public houses. In Durham, he said, they had 120 or 130
public-houses open already for the reception of guests,
and every means was used to induce young men of the
lower and middle orders of life to go to these places.
On Sunday week, Nehemiah Smith, son of the late
King of the Gipsies, died in his tent by the side of the
road leading from Kislingbury to Gayton, in which neigh-
bourhood he was well known. He had been ill sometime,
but, although advised by a medical gentleman to go to a
more comfortable abode, he refused to be removed. On
Wednesday week he was buried in Kislingbury church-
yard.
A REALLY INDEPENDENT LABOURER.—At a recent
meeting of the Guardians of the Cleobury Mortimer
Union, Henry Tudor, a resident in the parish of Wheat-
hill, voluntarily came and paid £1 ls. 6d., the amount of
relief advanced to him while unable to work from the dis-
location of his arm. The Guardians present immediately
subscribed the amount, and returned it to Tudor, and ex-
pressed their admiration of his sterling honesty.
A cornfactor at Thirsk, of the name of Cariss, was on
Monday committed for trial on a charge of uttering seve-
ral forged bills of exchange to the -Yorkshire Banking
Company. One was for £36 18s., another for £l9B, and
a third for £157. During the signing of the depositions,
the prisoner was left in charge of the doorkeeper, whom
he induced to accompany him to his lodgings, and whilst
there the prisoner went up stairs and escaped by a room-
window, and has not since been heard of.
MR. JOHN MUSTERS.—This gentleman, so well known
in the literary world as having married Lord Byron's
" Mary," is, we regret to hear, in a state which precludes
all hope of his ultimate recovery. As a first-rate sports-
man, he many years kept a pack of hounds and hunted in
the adjoining county of Nottinghamshire, and for two
years hunted the North Wold hounds. His gentlemanly
manners in the field, and his hospitality at his mansion,
gained him innumerable friends as `• Handsome Jack."
FIFTY MILES IN FOUR HOURS.—A trotting match
took place, on Thursday last, at Hatfield, in which a
horse, the property of Mr. Richley, was backed to trot
fifty miles in four hours and a half ! The horse had been
running for a lone time in one of Mr. Richley's omni-
buses, between London and Waltham Cross. When the
match was made, the horse was taken from the omnibus
and put to rest. He performed the task (resting for five
minutes at the end of every ten miles) in four hours and
thirteen minutes.
MURDER IN A LUNATIC ASYLUM.—A melancholy oc-
currence took place on Monday morning, in the private
lunatic asylum kept by Dr. Brigstock at Derby. One of
the inmates, a youth of respectable connexions, and who
was considered rather as a harmless idiot than a madman,
was allowed to sleep with another inmate named Tomlin-
son without any keeper in the room. On Monday morn-
ing Tomlinson was discovered murdered by his companion,
who had inflicted several dreadful wounds on him with a
board taken from the bed. A verdict of wilful murder
was returned at the inquest.

Two sermonswere preached on Sunday, in Birmingham,
"'On the merciful' and kind treatment of all dumb animals,
but more especially that of the horse," by the appoint-
ment of the governors of the Free Grammar School of King
Edward VI., in Birmingham, of trustees under the will of
the late Thomas Ingram, Esq.
A Pot,PricAL EYE TO BUSINESS.—When Mr. Denison
was speaking at Barnsley, a worthy knight of the " three
balls rose up, and began to ask the honourable gentleman
several questions. A cheerful-faced linen-weaver, who
was standing at the edge of the crowd, bearing him, called
out—" Don't yo pledge yersen, Mestur Denison, to that
pop-shop chap, watever yo do." This excited consider-
able laughter.
THE BAIRN BEWITCHED.—About a fortnight ago, a
South Shields matron, having a child whose growth was
stopped by the witches, resorted to a charm to release her
offspring from their spite. A sheep's heart was procured,
and stuck full of " bran new " pins, while a darning nee-
dle was thrust through the centre. It was then put down
to the fire at the witching hour of midnight, and the child
was held at a little distance, and its mother read the Bible
until it (the heart, not the " babby " or the Bible) was
burnt to a cinder. The charm so far has had no percep-
tible effect ; but the good woman says she is not surprised,
for she fell asleep while she was reading the Song of
Solomon !—Newcastle Journal.
MURDER.—A shocking murder was committed on
Tuesday, at the village of Broughton. near Pershore,
Worcestershire. A young girl, named Mary Ann Staight
was sent by her aunt, Mrs. Richards, to a huckster's shop
to purchase a few articles. Having bought what she
wanted she left the shop about five o'clock in the evening,
and proceeded homewards, having to pass along an un-
frequented road. She never arrived home, and nothing
was heard of her until the next evening, when a little
boy, named Turvey, discovered her lying dead in a ditch,
with her basket of groceries lying near her. On lifting
up the body it was found that the girl's bonnet was cut
through, and her skull fractured by a blow from some
heavy instrument. Suspicion has fallen upon a man
named Robert Pulley. _ _ _

STARTLING INTRUSION.—The Perthshire Advertiser
states that a publican and farmer were, on Saturday
week, gravely conversing in a stable, at Newburgh, on
the probability of the house being haunted by evil spirits,
when an ox, which had been startled by a horse, and had
run madly through the town, sprang from an elevation on
to the roof of the building, which instantly gave way be-
neath his weight, and his hinder quarters fell through,
scaring the poor fellows below nearly out of their wits ;
for they believed that one of the demons of which they
were conversing had arrived bodily, to resent their intru-
sion on his chosen domicile. The ox hung by his fore-
quarters, his fore legs projecting over the eaves, bellowing
loudly, and cut a most ridiculous appearance. A couple
of butchers, having secured him with ropes, contrived to
release him from his elevation, and, as he was still much
infuriated, they slaughtered him on the spot.
THE COLLINGWOOD ESTATE.—The noble estate of
Collingwood, situate in the parishes of Whittingham and
Alnham, Northumberland, was put up for sale at London
yesterday week. It was chiefly tithe-free, and the land-
tax redeemed. It comprised 1960 acres of arable, mea-
dow, and pasture land, the rental being about £2045 per
annum. It was purchased by the Hon. Henry Thomas
Liddell, of Eslington House, for £60,000, being at thirty
years' purchase on the rental. The next property was a
tithe rent-charge of £261 is. 4d. per annum, in lieu of
tithes, secured upon the estates of the Duke of Northum-
berland, Ralph Carr. Esq., the Hon. H. T. Liddell, and
Thomas Clennell, Esq., situated in fie pa: of Alnham.
It was knocked down for £6450. The last property was
an estate called Blakehope, being a part of Cheviot Hill,
and containing about 1300 acres of sheep walk, being
tithe-free. The estate is bounded by the Breamish river,
and is let at £llO per annum. It produced £3250.
The Monmouthshire Merlin relates an attempt to de-
fraud a publican by some pretending prophets at New-
port. Two men left a third, their companion, at the pub-
lic-house for the night. In the morning the lodger was
found by the landlady stretched upon his bed apparently
lifeless. Shortly afterwards his two friends made their
appearance and said,—" You have a dead man in the
house !" The woman said it was so, and asked how they
knew it ? " Oh, it has been revealed unto us by the
Angel of the Lord !" said the prophets. The husband,
who appears to have been more wide awake than the wife,
and who had been quietly listening to this, then said,
" Oh, I see, T see !" and fetching a moderate sized walk-
ing-stick, he ran up to the corpse, to which he applied his
stick so effectually that the corpse sprang out of bed with
one bound, huddled on its clothes with as little delibera-
tion, and darting down stairs, joined his brother prophets,
and the three decamped with the least possible delay.
OLD AFFECTIONS REVIVED.—An old townsman of
Brighton, reduced in circumstances, has recently become
a man of wealth. In his youthful days he formed an
attachment with a lady, who, owing to circumstances not
within our knowledge, became the wife of an American
emigrant. They prospered in worldly puisaits, and lie
many years afterwards died, leaving her in possession of
his property. Meanwhile the swain of Brighton became
successively the husband of two ladies, both of whom died.
The fact of his being a widower reaching the ears of his
Transatlantic first-love, she commissioned a friend coming
to England to deliver him a letter, stating her circum-
stances, and expressing a desire that he should a third time
be hound in the chains of matrimony. The widower replied
to the letter, and by return of packet, received from the
widow a check to defray the expenses of a voyage to
America, whither lie at once departed •, and his son, now
living in Brighton, has just received a letter, stating that
the widower and widow have just become husband and
wite.
GALVANISM.—The following is extracted from the
Court Journal of January 29.—" It is now about four
years since that we informed our readers, it was to be
regretted galvanism was not more extens' y used as a
remedial agent. We have every reas to believe that
our advice was attended to; for, in comparatively short
time, Mr. Halse's residence was wded with the elite of
fashion and their less fortunat ellow-sufferers ; and we
feel confident, judging fro the astonishing remedial
effects it has produced ourselves, after all kinds of
medicines and hydropa y had failed to impart any benefit,
that the public will lank us for our recommendation.
We were delights o notice, a short time since, that Mr.
liaise was patro sed by the Lord Bishop of London and
Sir Charles C , his lordship's physician. Mr. Halse's
great reformein the galvanic apparatus, and his improved
method gfiapplication, justly entitle him to rank at the
head of is profession. We again recommend our readers
to give galvanism a fair trial. Mr. Halse's residence is at
22, Brunswick-square, London.—See advt.
THE CITY OF DURHAM.—The present popular Mayor
of Durham, 'William Henderson, Esq., the clergy,
the magistrates, and many of the influential inhabitants
of that town, are anxious to introduce the Sanatory Act
into that place, with a view to the conservation of the
public health. Some of the citizens are opposed to such
a step, which they conceive will entail upon them an ad-
ditional tax in the shape of rates. The cost of the con-
templated improvements in sewerage, &c., is stated at
from £5300. Some, however, propose to collect all the
contents of the sewers for manure, which in one year
would cover in value the highest sum stated for the new
sewers. The Commissioners propose to lay on an addi-
tional 4d. in the pound upon all houses rated at more
than £5. The Dean of Durham has very liberally offered
a donation of £2OO, which is calculated will cover the
expense of introducing the provisions of the Health of
Towns Act. There are few towns in the kingdom which
are more in need than Durham of the benefits of the act
in question, and none certainly where an extensive sys-
tem of sewerage could be more efficiently carried out.
SCREW VERSUS PADDLE-WHEEL.—TiIe accounts given
of the Sampson's performance, both under canvas and
steam are truly wonderful, and must be highly gratifying
both to her constructor and engine maker. It must, how-
ever, be remembered that this vessel is nearly 1300 tons,
with engines of 467 horse power, and yet she carries a
battery of eight guns ! Paddle steamers can never be
made available for broadside fighting ; but here is an enor-
mous disproportion between the size and armament. Our
mechanical ingenuity must now be directed to the im-
provement of the screw propeller, and its adaptation to
vessels of war, for that is obviously the only form of pro-
pulsion by steam which can be properly applied to men of
war. The Plumper and Reynard, screw-propelled steam-
vessels, the tonnage of both together not exceeding 1,000,
carry between them 20 broadside and four pivot guns,
while their united power of engines is only 120. It is true
they will not steam so fast, but they will sail as well or
better. It is, therefore, a serious consideration whether
we can afford to keep up such expensive vessels as the
Sampson, in preference to such comparatively cheap ones
as the Reynard and Plumper, who, at one-third the ex-
pense, carry three times the number of guns. and can.
moreover, fight in close action, which the Sampson cannot.
—Hampshire Guardian.
IMPROVEMENTS IN GUNS AND PISTOLS.—We have
inspected some new inventions and improvements in fire-
arms, patented by Mr. J. C. Smith, of Birmingham, and
which have been submitted to his royal highness, Prince
Albert, to the authorities of the Horse Guards, Admiralty,
Ordnance Office, &c., as well as to many distinguished
naval and military officers, and have received their gene-
ral and in most cases their unreserved approbation. The
guns are so constructed as to be capable of priming them-
selves at each discharge, and with such facility and regu-
larity as to insure such a constant, rapid, and efficient
supply of the means of exploding the charge in the barrel,
as to give it an immense superiority over the common gun.
Instead of a " nipple," which is the conductor to the
charge, there is a "touch-hole" nearer the centre of the
barrel, by about two-thirds, the communication being
immediately at the back of the charge. Appended to this
touch-hole, at the side, where the pan would be in a flint-
lock musket, but only much more compact, is a small
wheel or revolver, and this is connected with the hammer
or cock of the gua by a slight lever ; this lever then acts
upon a tube or magazine running back from the touch-
hole towards the butt-end of the gun, the magazine con-
taining the caps or detonating boxes with which the gun
is primed. These being forced along by a spiral spring of
German silver, the action of the cock, on being drawn
back to the full, places the detonating box on the touch-
hole, and discharges it, and consequently the contents of
the gun, by the action of the trigger. As there is no
nipple, the cock or hammer, instead of being hollow, has
a spill or striker, and it is by this spill, striking the deto-
nating box on the touch-hole, that the gun is fired. The
whole thing is most simple and perfect, although difficult
to describe. The caps, which explode by the striking of
the hammer, are altogether a new and most ingenious in-
vention. They are about one-fifth the size of the cap
usually manufactured, of precisely the same material, but
so altered in form and concentrated in power, as well as
smaller in size, that thousands could be kept in the same
space in which hundreds of the old caps are now placed;
they are of an oval shape, and, as we have before said, are
drawn singly by the action of the cock to the touch-hole
by full-cocking the gun. When the gun is half-cocked,
the touch-hole is entirely protected, as also when the gun,
is full-cocked ; and when the hammer or striker is down,
the spill also protects the touch-hole from the dirt and
wet.

ANOTHRR ATTEMPT AT MURDER AT CARDIFF.—On
Tuesday, the town of Cardiff was again the scene of
another diabolical attempt at murder. The victim on
this occasion was an Irish woman. It appears that she
had been fetching sand down by the wharfs, rnd whilst
returning with it about three o'clock p.m. some one sud-
denly pounced upon her from behind and stabbed her
under the right arm with some sharp instrument—proba-
bly a knife. The poor thing is considered out of danger.
No clue can be had of the villain.
A CONFESSION.—On Friday much amusement was
caused in the Westminster County Court by the candid
confession of a lawyer's clerk that he had told a lie. It
appeared that when the summons was left at the office of
the defendant in John-street, Adclphi, the clerk told the
officer that his master was in Paris, and had been there
for six weeks. The plaintiff swore positively that on the
morning the summons was served he saw the defendant go
into his office.—The Judge (to the clerk) : Then you told
the officer who served the summons an untruth. when you
told him your master was in Paris ? Clerk (with great
sang froid) : Yes, it is not an unusual thing to tell an un-
truth in an attorney's office.—Judge : Then your master
will have to pay the money on the let of January.
DEGRADING FEAT OF MILITARY OFFICERS.—At the
magistrates' office, Bristol, on the 25th ult., John Need
and Charles Churchill, two officers of the Rifles, were
charged with willfully breaking a marble slab from the
door of Mrs. Phillippart, Portland-square, and with
breaking down a portion of the iron railings from oppo-
site a void house in Cave-street. John Need was also
charged with stealing a brass knocker from the house of
Mr. M'Dowall, Queen-square. The evidence on this
nightly frolic having been gone through, the mayor said
it was a case which the magistrates felt bound to send
before a jury ; they would, however, take bail; the de-
fendant's own in £lOO, and two sureties in £5O each.
Mr. M'Dowall expressed great reluctance to prosecute,
but the magistrates said he must.
INGENIOUS FRAUD.—Another specimen of ingenious
fraud has been discovered at the Bank of England. A.
few days ago a note for £lOOO was presented for payment.
The inspector examined it, found it genuine, looked to
the numbers of the stopped notes, and seeing that the
note presented was not among them, two £5OO notes
were given in exchange, for which gold was procured
almost immediately. On the following day it was dis-
covered that the leading figure of the number had been
dexterously changed, and that 94825 was altered to 04825.
It required the eye of a chymist to detect the change ;
and as no blame can be attached to the inspector, we
presume the "rest" will be reduced by the amount paid
in error. The note thus sent in formed one of a series
of which a bank clerk was defrauded a few years ago.
FALSE LIGHTS.—The Times of Monday has a trium-
phant article upon some supposed recovery in the cotton
trade, as proved by an increase in the exports of cotton
goods. We are not aware of the amount of this increase,
or of the description of the goods exported,—a matter of
some importance, for, if the increase is principally in
cotton twist, and not in cotton cloth, it is the reverse of
a favourable symptom, because it proves that the weaving
of cotton, which employs men, is on the increase in the
countries to which the twist, which employs little human
labour, is exported. The exportation of twist is but the
next step to the exportation of the raw material (cotton
wool), which would scarcely prove an advance in our
manufacturing industry. Be this, however, as it may, a
month's improvement proves little against the evidence
of years of depression. The receding tide always sends
back a wave or two, which seems to belie its retreat.
CONCESSION TO ROMANISM.—The Rev. Dr. Drew,
_ in
a published letter, calls the attention of the Poor Law
Commissioners to an invidious and unreasonable conces-
sion made to the wishes of the Romish prelates. The
rev. Doctor says, "Those prelates have claimed, and had
their claims allowed, ' that Roman Catholic paupers, in-
mates of workhouses, should be privileged to abstain front
work upon eleven holy days in the year !' As these
amount in number to nine holy days more than are
claimed by Protestants, it must follow that during nine
days in the year Protestants must work while Roman
Catholics enjoy the Irish luxury of idleness. I may ob-
serve that a Roman Catholic prelate once admitted to me,
that the non-working holy days did not amount annually
to six in his church—still six is, confessedly, too many.
Suppose the able-bodied male paupers amount to 100,000
in number, and that their daily labour might be averaged
at is. each, for the benefit of the workhouses, here, on
these nine days, annually, the large sum of £45,000 is
lost to the country !"
EXTRAORDINARY PARSIMONY.—On Saturday Inspec-
tor Hepworth. of the Leeds police, was called to remove
to the workhouse an old man, blind, lame, and in a state
of mental derangement, named James Brown, who has
for a long time subsisted by selling nuts, and by occa-
sional relief out of the poor-rates. His dwelling was in
Wheeler-street, Bank, and he had contracted the notion
that his neighbours intended to rob him. Brooding over
this idea, his conduct became very violent, and when the
police inspector found him he was at a shop in the neigh-
bourhood of his house. He desired to be taken to the
Mendicity Office, and was anxious that a small bag which
he carried in his coat pocket should be left with the shop-
keeper. Upon the bag being opened it was found to
contain £2B 7s. 6d. in crowns and half-crowns, most of
them quite black on the surface ; having evidently been
hoarded for a considerable period of time. His house, in
which he lived alone, was in a most filthy condition and
it is said that he never suffered any person to go in to
clean it. Up stairs, at the foot of his bed, two sacks were
discovered, containing 10 stone of copper coin.
GENERAL THANKSGIVING.—A correspondent of the
Times makes a suggestion (which we should be glad to
see followed up) that a day should be set aside fur a
national acknowledgment of the freedom from revolu-
tionary violence which, through the mercy of Providence,
this country has enjoyed. The following is an extract
from the letter :—" May I venture to ask, would it not
be an act highly worthy of our Sovereign, and calculated
to promote the best interests of this country, to appoint a
day of general thanksgiving, and on it to go herself to St.
Paul's Cathedral, or Westminster Abbey, and join ' the
great congregation' in offering praise to ' the King of
Kings' for his unspeakable mercies to our land ? And if
on that day only a tenth of what such a revolution in
England as has happened in France would have cost us
all were given as a thanks-offering to Almighty God, and
expended in feeding the hungry and clothing the naked,
what joy and gladness would, in the midst of a trying
winter, be diffused among the poor and needy throughout
the length and breadth of the land, and ' God, even our
own God, would give us His blessing,' in the times of

trouble and danger which lie before us."
DREADFUL FLOODS IN SCOTLAND—DESTRUCTION OF
PROPERTY. —On Saturday and Sunday week heavy snow and

rain fell in the southern districts of Scotland, and all the ri-
vers and streams became swollen to a terrific extent. At
Lamington, on the Caledonian line of railway, about 36
miles on this side of Glasgow, the wooden railway-bridge
which there crosses the Clyde has been washed away, the
embankment on each side having been carried away by the
river. At Crawford, about nine miles further, on the same
line, another wooden bridge across the Clyde has been
carried away in a similar manner. The passengers to and
from the trains have of course to leave the train at the re-
spective places, and get across the country in the best way
they can. The district for miles was one sheet of water,
and such an extensive or destructive flood is not remem-
bered. At Carstairs, the junction station of the Caledo-
nian and Glasgow Railway, the station-house was so fear-
fully inundated that the officials with difficulty escaped,
while in the luggage warehouse scores of bags of corn and
other articles were washed out and greatly damaged. The
loss will be most serious. On the line near Carstairs em-
bankments, bridges and about four miles of the railway
were swept away, and three trains which were on the fine
at the time were of necessity stopped, the engines and car-
riages of which were obliged to be dragged to a distance by
horses, &c. No accidents happened to the passengers.
AWFUL APPARITION.—On Tuesday, as a matron, in
Huxter Row, was stirring up a goodly potful of kale, she
was surprised to find her chimney take to smoking in an
unusual manner, to the great detriment of the flavour of
her soup. The nuisance continued to become worse and
worse, till she began to conjecture that the wind had
surely taken to blowing perpendicularly. While she stood
on the middle of her floor, gazing at the fire-place, amazed
and anxious, down came a mass of soot, and another, and
another—some sweep had evidently mistaken the chimney
which he had been employed to clean. She screeched out
at the top of her lungs, but the soot continued to pour
down continuously, and she was about to run from the
house, when down came something which she instantly
recognised to be a living creature. Oh, horror ! it was
hairy, had sharp eyes which winked incessantly, and was
black all over, except where it showed a set of teeth,
which grinned savagely at the terror-stricken lady. It
sat on the lid of the kale-pot, amidst a mound of soot,
in a posture which resembled that which a human being
might be supposed likely to adopt in similar circum-
stances. The old lady bolted, leaving the apparition to
preside over her dinner, and when she disappeared the
visitor jumped from his resting-place and sprung among
the shelves, where, in graceful order, the old dame's
crockery had been arranged, and which he knocked dawn
and smashed in a manner which would have done Hugh
Fraser's heart good to behold. The dame soon returned
with assistance, when it was discovered that the intruder
was a monkey, which had escaped from the attic window
of an adjoining house, clambered along the roof, and
slipped down the chimney.—Aberdeen Herald.
FLOODS IN THE NORTH.—During the last six or seven
days in the northern counties of Cumberland and West-
moreland, heavy rains, sleet, and snow, have fallen almost
incessantly, both day and night, and in consequence, on
Monday, the lakes, rivers, and streams were but once or
twice before known to be so flooded and swollen, having
overflowed their banks and covered the adjacent low
grounds to a fearful extent and depth. On account of the
flood rising so gradually, time was allowed for the exer-
cise of precautionary measures for the safety of live
stock and other property. Still, it is to be feared that in
mountainous districts there will be a very serious loss
amongst the flocks of sheep, for several at various places
were seen hurried away by the flood, and the quantity of
large trees and other wreck which came down the rivers
was, indeed, immense. In several localities large breadths
of soil have been washed away, and the encroachments
made by the flood on many estates are of a very serious
nature, and will require large sums of money for making
embankments, &c. All the millers, whose mills are
stopped from grinding, several of the weirs having been
washed down, and others living en the margins of the
rivers, were obliged to flee to the upper apartments of
their dwellings and to sit up all night. About 1 o'clock
on Monday morning the flood rose to such a terrible pitch
that live stock were obliged to be driven away more
inland for safety. Fortunately no account has yet come
to band of the loss of human life. Fears were entertained
for the stability of the bridges on the rivers Eamont,
Lowther, Eden, Calden, and other streams. About mid-
night on Monday the storm again arose with double fury,
the wind blowing from the east a perfect hurricane, and
the rain at the same time falling in torrents, so that the
flood was terrifically increased, and additional damage
done to a great extent. On Tuesday the storm and flooda
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For BOMBAY,
The fine Ship JOHN MOORE,
WILLIAM H. WITIIYCO IRE, Commander.
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sailer: and has always vered her cargoes in first-rate con-
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modations, ap o the Owners, Messrs. HENRY MOORE and
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