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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-29 00:00:00

s also been offered fLr their discovery

magnificent lot was sold at

Stowe on Thursday
carved and

It was described as magnificently
t, with yellow silk tabaret curtains and hang-
lgs of crimson silk, the canopy with a net-
work of gold, and rich scrolls at the angles the columns

Chandos embroidered ; with two hair =tresses, a wool
mattress, a down bolster, two down pillows, a Marseilles
quilt, and a white satin quilted cover. ' This magnificent

garuiess or cost-, on
Stowe, was bought by Mr. Walesb
after a languid bidding, for the inadequat

of Northampton,
e sum of 86

The bedstepiiold for 20 guin

EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT

—On Friday, as two ladies

_ excitement and apparent
they discovered a child ati
which was wound round its
dered the cow wa
found to b

n its approach,
tached to its tail by the hair,
y. Assistance being ren-
The child, was, however,
The body was much bruised,

ho
tired
rmitn (lend

and the head cut and battered in a dreadful manner. An
inquest was held on the body on Saturday, when it ap-
peared, from the evidence of a child five or six years old,

the deceased (whose name was Thomas Ireson, aged ten
vPnr, con of a Inhnnrer rpsidino- in the, nfiri.lll hn,l tinfl

round his

arced-off, dragging the d

Norfolk

Chronic!
At the

Lent As

held at S.disbury, in 1847, a re

aid, to

whom he would not for the whole world should know o
the crime he had been induced to commit7that, believing

afterwards made a subscription, find started him from
Fisherton gaol with a tolerable pocketful of cash. At the
Wells Assizes, last week, the same fellow, who gave his
name as Lefevre, was again brought up on a similar
charge, with similar tears in his eyes, and the same piteous
story on his bps. In this case he was sentenced to four
months' imprisonment.
INSTRUCTION OF THE BLIND

--We have received a
ion of the Embossed

A Nat containing thirteen men was upset, last week.
N, the 'ray, at Perth, and six of the poor fellows were
hown ed.
A WONDERFUL ESCAPE.—A few days ago a glass-blower
of Hunslet, whilst in a state of intoxication, trespassed on
the line of railway which forms the junction between the
Midland and Leeds and Bradford stations, in Leeds ; and
although called to by the engine-driver, was so stupified
that he was knocked down by the engine, and the whole
train passed over him. When picked up by the points-
man, he had received no further injury than the blow from
the engine.

A COUNTRYMAN PozzLED.—Two gentlemen angling
in the Thames at Newham lately, could not agree upon
the appearance of one of their favourite baits, the horse
fly, and they agreed to refer the question to a rustic whom
they saw ploughing at a little distance—" Whoy," said
Hodge, with some astonishment, " Noa, dr'at it ; I never
seed a horse fly, but I once seed a cow fall down a pre-
cipice."

RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA.—Mines are discovered in
many places, but quicksilver is to enrich California be-
yond all other mines. There is one now in operation be-
longing to Barron, Forbes, and Co., an English house in
Mexico. The workmen at this mine have only the com-
mon try-pots, a few picks and crow-bars, and for a few
days past have bottled off 300 dollars per day. I presume
the expenses are less than one quarter. The ore is sim-
ple rock, mostly of a red colour; is merely broken and
heated, producing one fourth its weight in pure metal.
By dropping a pinch of it on a hot iron, covering it with
a ter-cup two minutes, the cup is covered with the smoke.
This being rubbed carefully by the fingers, in some cases,
produced a globule of the size of a small pea. Almost
the same expense and labour employed in Pennsylvania,
in obtaining a ton of iron, will obtain a ton of quicksilver
in California. Neither you nor your readers are expected
to believe this most incredible story ; yet, such is the fact.
The quicksilver obtained at the Forbes mines, in one
week will pay for the machinery. When the expected
works from Europe reach this country, the tons of quick-
silver will show for itself. Many other valuable mineral
deposits have been discovered at San Jose de Gnadaloupe,
in the northern part of Upper California. Quicksilver,
silver, and zinc, appear to be most abundant. The quick-
silver ore yields upon an average about fourteen per cent.;
silver about fifty per cent. ; and zinc about eighty per
cent. As to gold, it is said that several mines containing
precious metal exist in these parts ; I have seen none ex-
tracted.

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