The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-15 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

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The last four Gazettes have contained the names of
only ten bankrupts.
Three men were killed on Saturday by an explosion at
Coed Poeth colliery, near Wrexham.
It is said that Sir Charles Grey, governor of Jamaica,
is about to be transferred to the rule of the Canadas.

A strong effort is making to have the Westmoreland
assizes removed from Appleby to Kendal.
Sheriff M'Neel, of Stranraer, was thrown out of his
gig on Saturday, and killed.

Mr. Stewart, of Anachabat, has succeeded in producing
spirits from the mountain heather.—Edinburgh Witness.
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[Mountain dew n

- A youth, named Morris, was committed for trial at
Methley, Yorkshire, on Monday week, for having pulled
out the tongue of a horse which he was employed to drive.
The Rev. J. C. Egginton, of Cheltenham, while riding
on horseback, on Saturday week, was thrown off, and
received such injuries that he died shortly after.
LORD BROUGHAM'S FlSHlNG.—Armstrong, one of
Lord Brougham's natty in his late piscatorial exploit, has
been fined £5 for illegal fishing.

The Bristol Free Port Association, having accomplished
its object of freeing the port from certain duties, has
voluntarily given up its existence.
A man was apprehended recently at Hallatrow, Somer-
setshire, whose house contained a large cart load of agri-
cultural implements that he had stolen.
As an indication of an early approach of winter, the
hills surrounding Holmfirth were on Saturday last slightly
covered with snow.

It is expected that the revenue returns will be so satis-
factory for the year that £900,000 will go towards the
reduction of the national debt.

An apple-tree belonging to Mr. George Lamb, of Pres-
ton, near North Shields, blossomed without leaves last
spring. It is now fully leaved, and again in blossom.
During the high wind, on Monday, four or five yards
of the steeple of Horbury Church, near Wakefield, were
blown down, and fell through the roof, injuring the organ
very much.

Mr. Shadlock, of Bolsover, is preparing an heraldic
chair of carved oak for the Exhibition of 1851, comprising
the coats of arms of the sovereigns of England from the
Conquest to the present time.

Oti Saturday the Great Central Gas Company of Lon-
don opened all their pipes, charged with pure gas, in about
thirteen different parts of the city : all the pipes have been
laid and charged without a single accident.
At the Town-hall, Dorchester, on the 30th ult., Wm.
Dowling, a private of the Bth Hussars, was charged with
an attempt to. poison Corporal Michael Riley, of the
same regiment. The prisoner was remanded.

Mr. Trotter, of Bishop Middleham has sold his prize
bull, " Sussex," to an agent of Baron Rothschild, at a
great price. The bull left Ferryhill Station yesterday
week, en route for Germany.

On Thursday a terrible accident happened on hoard the
screw beat, the Erin's Queen, lying off Cotton's wharf,
London-bridge, by which the head engineer was instan-
taneously killed, and the lives of three others greatly
jeopardised. Deceased has left a widow and two children.
It is understood that since the Whittle Dean Water
Company commenced pumping water from the Tyne,
there has been a great diminution of the sand banks in
the river, in the vicinity of the place whence their supply
is obtained.—Newcastle Journal.

The bullion in both departments of the Bank of England
has decreased from £16,707,224 to £16,452,159, being a
difference of £255,065: The paper in actual circulation
has increased from £20,280,784 to £20,614,011, being a
difference of £333,227.

The importat ons of poultry of all kinds from Belgium
are unusually large for the season of the year. The
steamers from Ostend have brought in each instance con-
siderably more than TOO packages of every description of
poultry, the production of Belgium.
Mr. Hume has received a Bank of England note for X 5,
collected amongst the English working men in St. Peters-
burgh, at one silver rouble each, towards erecting a work-
ing man's memorial to the late Sir R. Peel. The sub-
scription was exclusively confined to English workmen.
The accounts of the sea serpent which have appeared
in the Irish papers are now classed with the lowest nar-
ratives of fiction. The signatures appended to the letters
are as false as the details which those signatures professed
to authenticate.

The inquest in reference to the murder of James Smith,
the toll-bar-keeper at Hebden-bridge, has resulted in a
verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons
unknown. Green, the party suspected, is, however, still
retained in custody.

On Saturday, a woman named Prothero, at Langharne,
Carmarthen, destroyed herself and child, aged eighteen
months, in a mill pond. She was a married woman, and
livedlhappily with her husband, but was subject to fits of
despondency.
The editor of the Plymouth Journal, who is opposed
to Puseyism, was refused a ticket of admission, last week,
into a Tractarian church about to be consecrated ; but he
appeared personally and insisted on his right to enter the
church when opened for worship. He ultimately suc-
ceeded.

MODEL LODGING-HOUSES.—Lord Ashley presided at
the annual meeting of the Glasgow Model Lodging-house,
held on the 25th ult. It appeared from the report that
the scheme will already pay six-and-a-quarter per cent.
on the capital expended. The moral, religious, and sani-
tary results of the experiment were stated to be very satis-
factory.-

Thj letters in the Morning Chronicle, on " Labour and
the Poor," are to take a most extensive range. The
special correspondents are to traverse the principal nations
of Continental Europe, and even the United States, re-
porting, as heretofore, on the state of the labouring popu-
lations. It is announced that the foreign series will be
commenced with France.

A boy four years old, the son of Mr. Andsley, a leather
dresser, near Leeds, fell into one of his father's tanpits,
on Saturday week. He was speedily rescued by his fa-
ther, but not until he had swallowed a quantity of the
liquid with which the tanpit was filled ; and from the
poisonous effects of this liquid he died in a few hours
afterwards.

The man now in custody for the robbery of Mr. Cure-
toh was on Wednesday brought before Alderman Gibbs,
and remanded for another week. He was identified in
court as one of the men who about a month before at-
tempted to rob a gentleman by suffocatine him with the
same sort of instrument that had so nearly proved fatal
to Mr. Cureton.

On Sunday week, a party of eleven persons left Bristol
for an excursion to the Bristol Channel in a sloop-rigged
boat. Owing to mismanagement, while on the return
voyage, the boat shipped a large quantity of water, and
eventually went down stern foremost, immersing all the
passengers in the river. Seven of them were rescued by
the customs' boat, which was providentially at hand ; the
other four met a watery grave. One of them has left a
widow and three children, and another two children to
deplore their loss.
REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCE.—In the year 1795, a
female, who was cook to Mrs. Metcalfe, a widow lady,
residing at the Porch House, (opposite the church,) at
Northallerton, in cutting a turnip found in the heart of it
a gold ring, and immediately made her mistress acquainted
with so extraordinary a circumstance. The lady sent for
Mrs. Wood, the gardener's wife. It turned out that- the
ring found was Mrs. Wood's wedding ring, which she had
lost, when weeding in the garden, ten or twelve years
before.

PRICES OF WHEAT.—The imperial weekly average
price of wheat has, during the last six weeks, varied from
435. 6d. to 425. Bd. per quarter. The aggregate average
during this period having been 435. per quarter. The
aggregate average for the Michaelmas quarter has been
declared by the Comptroller of Corn Returns at 425. 10d.
The comparative averages from the Gazette of last Friday
was 425. Bd. against 425. 4d. for the corresponding week of
last year. The variations in prices, it thus appears, have
been very trifling, and it is probable that this state of
things may continue for some time longer.

BELL-RINGING AT ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPELS.—At
the Marylebone Police-court, on Thursday, a gentleman
residing in the neighbourhood of the Roman Catholic
Chapel of the Spanish Ambassador, complained that the
inhabitants of the district in which the chapel was situated
were much annoyed of late by the incessant din kept up
at different periods of the day by the ringing of a bell at
this chapel. This bell-ringing now took place at all the
daily services. He had understood it was not legal to
ring bells at Roman Catholic chapels. Mr. Hardwick
would look into the matter, and give an answer at a future
day.

On Sunday morning, at an early hour, a female som-
nambulist, in the state in which she had risen from her
bed, was discovered in the New-road, London, parading,
dancing, and acting in the most extraordinary manner.
The police-constable by whom she was round had some
difficulty in awakening her. On her return to conscious-
ness, he wrapped his great coat round her, and escorted
her home. She burst into a fit of crying which lasted
several hours. The somnambulist is a respectable young
woman named Evans, who is subject to similar fits, but
her rambles had always previously been confined to her
own chamber, or dwelling-house.
PROGRESS OF ROMANISM.—Extract from a letter,
dated Rome, 3rd October.—" The hierarchy is restored
to England, and twelve bishops created. Cardinal Wise-
man, archbishop of Westminster, with the administra-
tion of Southwark ; Dr. Waring, Bishop of Clifton, with
the administration of Northampton ; Dr. Ullathorne,
Bishop of Birmingham, with the administration of Not-
tingham ; Dr, T. J. Brown, Bishop of Shrewsbury, with
the administration of St. David's ; Dr. George Brown,
Bishop of Liverpool, with the administration of Salford ;
Dr. Braggs, Bishop of Beverley ; Dr. Hogarth, Bishop
of Hexharn ; Dr. Hendred, Bishop of Plymouth, &c.
Last week John Campbell, a seaman, aged twenty-
three, was brought up at the Thames Police Court,
charged with stealing a quantity of wearing apparel and
other things the property of Philip Rumball, another
seaman, residing at 33, Crown-street, Aldgate. The pri-
soner had been apprehended on the information of a young
woman named Mackenzie, who was the principal witness
against him. In the course of her evidence, however, she
clearly inculpated herself, sobbing aloud. " I am guilty
of the robbery ; I made the man do it !" She was im-
mediately placed in the dock with the tale prisoner. She
appeared to be influenced by affection, the man being her
lover. They were committed.

THE NEW STAMPS ACT.—The stampers at Somerset-
house have been engaged for the last three weeks from 9
a.m. to 9 p.m. (Sundays excepted), in preparing for the
new act which came
.into operation on Friday, reducing
the stamp duties on mortgages, leases, conveyances,
agreements, &c. The quantity of parchment sent in to
be stamped has been so great that they have been obliged
to have a special locality for the purpose, divided into
departments for London and thelcountry districts. Dur-
ing the present week no less than 250,000 to 300,000
stamps, under the new act, have already been delivered
to the parties, so as to enable them to have a portion to
commence with it. It will be at least a month or six
weeks before the present demands can be completed.

THE GREAT BULL FROM NINEvEH.--=On Friday this
valuable relic of antiquity was safely deposited in the
British Museum. It is, considering the great lapse of
time, in an extraordinary good state of preservation. It
stands nearly 12 feet in height, and weighs upwards of 6
tons. The other antiquities from Nineveh were all safely
delivered.

INCREASE OF POOR-RATE.—The next poor-rate for
this town will be increased to not less than 16d. in the
pound. The last two or three rates have been collected
with considerable difficulty, the tradesmen especially com-
plaining of the scarcity of money. Low-priced corn and
high poor rates. equally the consequence of free trade,
will soon have a marked effect upon towns like Doncaster.
—Doncaster Chronicle.

GREAT CHESS MATCH.—Arrangements are in progress
for a great chess match, to be played by amateurs of all
nations," during the Exhibition of 1851. The idea origi-
nated with Mr. Staunton, the first known player in the
world; and the first to respond to it was a player at Cal-
cutta, who has forwarded a handsome subscription. It
is proposed to have a number of " chess 'tournaments,"
the entries to be £5 each, and the first prize £5OO. Ano-
ther suggestion is, that the English chess clubs shall each
send a champion player, with a moderate sum as entrance
money, and the winner of the match to receive the prize,
in the form of a handsome trophy in silver. _ .

MURDER AT FRIMLEY.—ICissaid that a token, which
might be mistaken for a penny, has been found on one of
the men now in custody, and that Mrs. Holiest can iden-
tify it, having received it the day before from the village
schoolmistress. The police superintendent had mea-
sured some footprints (of naked feet) which he had found
on the gravel walk of Mr. Hollest's house. He found
that one of them was 91 inches long by 31 inches wide,
and the other 91. inches long by 31 inches wide. He had
since measured the feet of two of the prisoners, Harwood
and Trower, and found the dimensions to agree as nearly
as possible. He had also picked up in the garden what
seemed to be part of a stocking, and he found that the
great toe of Harwood's right foot was much cut, as if by
a flint. He also produced some burned paper, apparently
the wadding of the fatal pistol, which had been found,
together with an exploded cap, in the bedroom which was
the scene of the murder.
EXTRAORDINARY PEDESTRIAN FEAT.—A remarkable

pedestrian feat has just been accomplished by Robert
Pugh, one of the mountain guides at Dolgelly, in Merio-
nethshire, who performed the task of walking from that
town to the top of Cader Tdris and back four times in 134
hours. The distance to the summit of the mountain is
six miles, and the road is very steep and craggy, and,
perhaps, one of the roughest and most toilsome in North
Wales. Pugh started at 5 o'clock in the morning, and
concluded his task at half-past 6 in the evening, having
thus accomplished the four journeys 2i hours within the
stipulated time, the wager, which was for the sum of £lO,
being that he could not walk the distance in 16 hours.
The weather was very wet and stormy, yet notwithstand-
ing this drawback, and the arduous toil of the four as-
cents, the guide did not appear in the least fatigued. The
completion of the task was announced by a peal of bells.
SHORTENING THE PERIOD OF CREDIT.—No person
seems to suffer so Much from long credit as the trades-

man. Farmers only give a fortnight's credit ; landlords
only six months; clergymen get their incomes half-
yearly; all merchants and wholesale houses only give
from two to six months' credit ; and why, in these times
of reduced profit and competition, shopkeepers ALONE
are to give twelve or eighteen months', and sometimes
two years' credit, is most mysterious, and a thing that
ought never to be expected. A move has recently been
made in the right direction at Gainsborough, and also a
preliminary meeting held at Retford on the subject; and
it is to be hoped that the tradesmen of other towns will
follow their example, and at once take the matter up.
The generality of customers worth having only require a
moment's thought about the thing to see at once the
reasonableness of the change, and many persons, no
doubt, would prefer paying half-yearly if they could have
their accounts presented.

WEST INDIA MAIL CONTRACT.—The particulars of
the mail contract recently entered into between the
Admiralty and the West India Steam-packet Company
have just been printed. The West India and the Bra-
zilian form one contract, which is to commence on the
Ist of January next, and to last eleven years. The com-
pany are to provide fifteen wooden steam vessels—ten of
them are to be of 400, four of 250, and one of 60-horse
power. They are to provide also a sailing vessel of 100
tons burthen. The company are to receive £270,000 a-
year from Government ; and the penalties to which they
are liable are £50,000 for non-performance of the con-
tract, £5OO for not starting from Southampton at the
proper time, and £2OO for not starting from any other
port. In case of war they are to be.paid extra—that is,
in the ev.mt of increase of rate of insurance, and of the
freight of coals. But the extra pay is not to exceed, in
one year, £75,000

SUNDAY EXCURSION TRAINS.—On Tuesday a public
meeting was held at Bath, Mr. William Hunt, magis-
trate of the county in the chair. Several clergymen ad-
dressed the meeting, and resolutions were unanimously
adopted condemning Sunday excursion trains : the effects
of which in disturbing the quietude of the inhabitants,
and demoralising the public, were graphically set forth by
the various speakers. The Rev. E. To tenham thus de-
scribed a scene at Salisbury :—" Salisbury was turned
into a bear garden, and ransacked, and every species of
vehicle and place of entertainment filled. During the
afternoon service many people forced their way into the
nave of the cathedral—many of them in a most beastly
state of intoxication, and every sort of revelry and vio-
lence took place in the walls of the sacred building, so
much so that the bishop of the diocese, seated in his
proper place at the choir, while service was going on, was
actually obliged to expostulate with the persons who
crowded the cathedral, and who caused the indecency and
tumult. (Cries of shame, shame.)"

THE BOARD OF INLAND REVENUE VERSUS THE
NEWSPAPER PRESS. —We learn from the Wakefield
Examiner, that a short time back the proprietor of that
paper having been requested to throw off 2,000 copies, in
the form of a hand-bill, of a report which they had given
of a trial in the Consistory Court of Richmond, they ac-
cordingly did so, and the copies were delivered to the
parties who had given the order, with the exception of
100, which were given to a stranger who had earnestly
entreated to have them. This party turns out to have
been either an informer or the agent of one, for in the
course of a few days after, the proprietor of the journal
was apprised by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue
that he had incurred the penalty of £40,000, for evasion
of the newspaper stamp duty, by printing an article of
intelligence on unstamped paper. Ample explanations
of the circumstance having been transmitted to the Com-
missioners, they said they should mitigate the penalty to
£lO ; and on being asked to reconsider the hardship of
the case, they ruled that if the £lO were not remitted
within a week they would proceed for the whole amount.
IRON SHIPS OF WAR.—An important experiment
took place on Wednesday at Portsmouth, under the
direction of the Lords of the Admiralty, and the
immediate superintendence of Captain Chads, to test the
efficiency of the Kamptulicon, as a lining for iron ships
of war. Four 321 b. shots were fired from the battery of
the Excellent, with a charge of 10Ibs. of powder, and a
range of about 500 yards, against a large target lined
with Kamptulicon ; the shots struck the target with
nearly the same results as those described to have taken
place at Woolwich in 1846, in which instance the shots
were fired from the Ordnance guns. The previous experi-
ments at Portsmouth were to test the efficiency of tim-
ber as a lining between the angle irons, when it was
found that the effect of shot was to add wooden splints,
rather than to diminish those of iron. From the proper-
ties of the Kamptulicon it cannot splinter, and the pieces
of it which are blown out by the force of the shot are
pronounced to be harmless, whilst the greater portion of
the iron splinters were retained. The views of Mr.
Walter, at whose instance the experiment was tried, are
not confined to iron ships. He says that the composition
being a non-conductor, would remove the difficulty ex-
isting with regard to the frequent derangement of the
compass. The question of its adoption of course rests
with the Admiralty.
DR. WISEMAN.—This leader of the Roman Catholics
has been appointed a cardinal, and elevated to a new
archiepiscopal throne in this realm, under the style and
title of Archbishop of Westminster. This we learn
through the:public papers, and it is worth while to read
the rigmarole account given by "a Roman Catholic cor-
respondent in the Times, of all the ceremonies attendant
upon the nomination of the new cardinals by the Pope,—
such a puppet-show as was never seen, except at the pan-
tomime season, in a London theatre ; or as could only
be fully represented by Madame Tussaud's wax-work nut
in motion. All the correspondents" in Christendom
may strive to commend this obsolete trash and antiquated
mummery to the sterling common sense and religious
convictions of the people of England. But "it won't do."
The organs of raflectian and reasoning are too greatly de-
veloped in the Anglo-Saxon brain; and, besides this,
there is a large veneration," which will keep us eter-
nally and invincibly repugnant to those " who make void
the law of God by their traditions." As to the estab-
lishment of an Archbishopric of Westminster, by the
Papal authority, in subordination to itself,—we can only
say that its insolence equals its illegality, and that it is
quite time for the Queen's Attorney-General to interfere.
It is fortunate for us, and for her Majesty, that there is
no Pretender in existence,—or we doubt not that he would
be set up, by the same authority that has fabricated a
pseudo-archbishop of Westminster ; and we are quite,
sure that such an impostor would find numerous adherents
among those who avow themselves anxious to destroy the
supremacy of the throne.
WRECK OF THE SHIP MARY FLORENCE.—This event
was lately chronicled in the Standard. The vessel sailed
from Shields for Aden. The name of her commander
was Short, and he had his wife along with him, a lady from
Blyth, Northumberland. The vessel was wrecked on
Cape Guardafui on the 3rd of June, and several of the
crew and Captain Short's wife perished through the base
conduct of the native Arabs. The owners of the Mary
Florence (Messrs. H. and C. Toulmin, London) have
learned the names of those who perished with the Cap-
tain's wife—namely, Mr. Wishart, the second officer ;
Samuel Williams and Thomas Jones, seamen. Those
taken on board the Columbia were the chief mate, Junius
Perkins ; steward, David Roberts, and John M'Kinnon.
It is now ascertained that poor Mrs. Short, with the
other sufferers, met their sad fate on the evening of the
same day that they landed from the wreck. The natives
stripped Mrs. Short of her rings, ear-rings, and other
jewellery, and also took from her 120 sovereigns. She
managed afterwards to free herself from them, and rushed
down to the beach, where a portion of the crew were as-
sembled. They managed to get to the boat, and, although
there were oars in it, at the earnest entreaties of Mrs.
Short it, was determined to make an attempt to regain the
ship. The boat was got off, but was swamped by the
heavy surf, and the seamen who accompanied her met witli
a watery grave. The spot where the ship was wrecked
is on the same coast where the East India Company's
steamer Memnon was lost some few years since. The
Mary Florence was nearly 600 tons burden, and cost
£12,000. She was partially insured at Lloyd's,

DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT.--At the board of guardians in
Marylebone Workhouse, on Friday, Mr. Churchwarden
Bridgeman asked whether the report that a pauper dressed
in a surplice officiated as clergyman during the chaplain's
absence was true ? Langrage, a pauper, and clerk to the
chaplain, having been sent for, gave the following version
of the affair : " During the absence of the chaplain, the
gentleman appointed to act in his place absented himself
on a Wednesday, when he should have performed Divine
service for the paupers. After waiting some time, and the
congregation betraying unequivocal symptoms of impa-
tience, I went to the master, and asked him if I should
discharge the congregation. He replied, No,' and de-
sired me to put on the surplice and read prayers.
(Laughter.) I accordingly put on the surplice (immense
laughter), and proceeded to the chapel, mounted the
desk, and read prayers. The congregation tittered while
I was reading prayers." Mr. Bridgeman moved the in-
sertion of the occurrence on the minutes. (Hear, hear.)
The motion was carried, and the guardians separated.
TERRIBLE STORM AT NOTTINGHAM.—On Monday
Nottingham was visited by a fearful storm of wind, which
continued blowing upwards of sixteen hours. Shortly
before one o'clock in the afternoon, whilst a number of
people were standing in the market-place, looking at the
exterior of Wombwell's menagerie, a tall chimney at the
top of the house occupied by Messrs. Hopkinson and
Welsh, grocers, was thrown down, and in falling carried
along with it the greater portion of the roof, the front
cornice, and a large quantity of lead, altogether weighing
from two to three tons, which, with scarcely a moment's
warning, fell heavily upon the pavement, knocking several
people down, burying two persons, a youth and a young
woman, among the debris. They proved to be William
Morrell, aged 10 years, dead, having been crushed by a
large sheet of lead falling upon him ; and a woman named
Ellis. aged about 34, whose head is so severely lacerated
that it is considered impossible she can recover. She
is, moreover, suffering from concussion of the brain.

The poor lad, Morrell, had hold of his father's hand at
the time he was killed : and an elder brother stood on the
other side of him. Both of them had their clothes and
boots torn, and were bruised severely on various parts of
the body. Numbers of other persons have been similarly
hurt.

ESCAPE OF Two CONVICTS FROM THE LEEDS Bo-
ROUGH GAOL.—On Saturday last, it was discovered that
two government convicts had escaped from the Leeds
Borough Gaol. One is Richard Harrison, a man who
was convicted of felony at the Yorkshire assizes last year,
and sentenced to seven years' transportation ; and the
other is Robert Shenton, aged 27, who was convicted of
felony at the Stafford assizes, and sentenced to ten years'
transportation. The former is 33 years of age, sft. 6in.
high, with red hair and fresh complexion ; the latter is
27 years of age, sft. 9in. high, with hair inclined to be
sandy, and is a native of Cheadle, near Manchester.
The escape in both instances was effected by pulling out
the windows of their cells, and cutting away the stone-
work into which the iron bars outside were secured. Both
cells are in the upper story of the building, from which
the prisoners lowered themselves down by means of ropes.
The stone was cut away by a sort of needle used in mat
making, which is thick as a small chisel, with a sharp
point at the end ; and the ropes used were a part of what
they employed in making up into matting. A very active
search has baen made by the governor and his assistants
all round the country, and a reward of £2O has
been offered for the recapture of the runaways, but up to
Monday afternoon nothing had been heard of them.
Both these convicts escaped in their prison dress.
FORTUNATE CAPTURR OF A BURGLAR.—A young man
named Samuel Jones, describing himself as an engineer,
was charged at the Birmingham Police Court, on Tuesday
last, with breaking into the house of Mr. T. Hopps, the
Malt Shovel, Coventry-street. From the evidence of Mr.
Hopps and Police-constable, Smith (366), it appeared
that about ;our o'clock on Tuesday morning, as the latter
was on duty in Coventry-street, he turned into the back
part of the prosecutor's premises, for the purpose of in-
specting whether all was right. He had no sooner turned
on the light from his lantern than he saw a man jump off
some coal where he was perched near the pantry window,
and make a precipitate escape over a wall. The constable
would have followed him, but perceiving with a hawk's
eye that better game was in view, he mounted guard over
the pantry, in which the prisoner was caged, and had evi-
dently only just begun his work of plunder, for a ham
thrown out of the window was the only spoil. Near it
were dep,slted some of his clothes, of which he had
divested himself in order more readily to enter through
such a small aperture into the house. The occupants
were alarmed, and the policeman being admitted the pri-
soner was secured. He begged pardon, and pleaded hun-
ger as an excuse. Mr. Hopps having spoken to the-fact
of the house having been left quite safe when the family
retired to rest, the prisoner was committed to the assizes.
—Birmingham Journal.

STRANGE ACCIDENT TO LORD GIFFORD.—The report
of a fatal accident having happened to this young noble-
man, while hunting, turns out to be a mere idle rumour,
though the noble lord met with a singular adventure, for
an account of which we are indebted to the Hereford
Times :—" On Tuesday the Herefordshire hounds (Lord
Gifford's) met at Trebandy, for the purpose of cub hunt-
ing. Directly they were thrown into cover a leash of
foxes were on foot. After twenty minutes run they
settled to one fox, and raced him a pretty burst over a
country to ground in an earth pit overhanging a brook,
Lord Gifford and his first whip being the only two up at
the time. When his Lordship jumped off his horse to
look at the earth and cheer his hounds, in a moment he
was assailed by some hundreds of hornets which the
hounds had disturbed from their nests in an old ash pol-
lard, attracted by his red coat. He was quickly obliged
to rush up the opposite bank. Upon throwing down his
cap, was immediately covered with hundreds of hornets.
His lordship in the meantime had called off his hounds,
and had desired the first whipper-in to gallop away with
the horses for fear of their being stung, but not before he
had got several bad stings on the back of his head, also
his hands and back of his neck. After mounting his
horse again the pain became so intense that it caused him
to faint away, but after the "stings were extracted, and by
the kindness of the gentlemen and farmers who were out
he soon recovered, and was enabled to find another fox
at Trebandy, and, after an hour's running, to kill him."
FASHIONS FOR OCTOBER.—Morning Dress : Lavender
bloom grog d'Automne robe. The corsage, very long
waisted and tight to the shape, is open from the point of
the shoulder to the bottom of the waist, displaying a
cambric chemisette of a new form, half high in front, and
bordered with a festooned trimming of the same material
standing up ; a short basquine, cleft on the hips, termi-
nates the corsage in a manner very advantageous to the
shape ; the oasquine and the sides of the corsage are
trimmed with puffed ribbon, and the opening in front is
ornamented with lozenges of the same. The sleeves a
three-quarter length, are a la Louis Quatorze, square and
moderately wide at the bottom, easy but not tight at the
upper part • they are finished with a row of puffed ribbon,
and a single deep fall of Valenciennes lace. • A tablier
of puffed ribbon disposed in the form of a broken cone
completes the garniture of the dress. Capote of deep
blue taffeta, a round open shape, the interior is trimmed
with blue flowers and blue brides, the exterior with loops
partly of taffeta and partly of velvet.—Public Promenade
Dress: Claret-coloured gross d'hiver robe ; the corsage
high at the back, opens in a long Von the bosom, and
descends in a rounded point ; it is trimmed down the
fronts with a row of black lace, disposed en revers.
Sleeves a half-length, moderately wide, and loose.
Cambric under sleeve, decorated with three lace vo-
lants. Cambric chemisette, made with a square collar
bordered with lace, and the front trimmed with lace
volants placed bias. Lemon-coloured satin chapeau,
an oval shape ; the exterior trimmed with ribbon broche
in lemon colour and black ; and a bouquet of plumes.
Black lace shawl, square and of a large size.—Evening
Dress: Fawn-coloured mousseline de soie robe; the cor-
sage tight to the shape, is low, square, and moderately
pointed •, it is decorated with white dentelle de Cambray,
disposed in a novel style, and intermixed with puffed rib-
bon between the rows of lace, and knots on the shoulders.
A single fall covers the short sleeve; the front of the
skirt is decorated en suite. Head dress of hair ala Marie
Stuart ; the centre ornamented with a star of fancy jew-
ellery.—New Monthly. Belle Assemble'e.
TOTAL WRECK OF THREE EAST INDIAMEN.—By the
arrival of the overland mail the underwriters at Lloyd's
were put in possession of information relative to the
melancholy loss of three first-class ships employed in the
East India trade, namely. the Manchester, 600 tons,
bound for London ; the Ariadne, of Greenock, bound for
Liverpool ; and the Nereid, 700 tons, of London. That
of the Ariadne created the greatest regret, the intelligence
of her loss leaving very little doubt that all hands, together
with some passengers, had met with a watery grave. The
unfortunate ship sailed from Calcutta for England in the
latter part of July, with a valuable freight. About three
weeks afterwards some vessel bound to Calcutta, in pas-
sing near Palmyras Point, on the Indian coast, discovered
a wreck, which, on examination, proved to be that of the
Ariadne. No living creature was seen to be on the wreck,
or any other place near it, and she was fast breaking up.
Immediately on the news reaching Calcutta, the authori-
ties despatched a government steamer to the spot, with
instructions to search along the coast, to ascertain, if
possible, the fate of the unhappy crew. A few hours
before the mail started for England, the steamer re-
turned to Calcutta, with intelligence confirming the
loss of the ship and cargo, and that grave doubts existed
regarding the fate of those belonging to the ship. The
chief mate of the Ariadne was picked up by the steamer
off the coast forty miles southward where the ship
was lost, where he had been carried on a spar. The poor
fellow was in a shocking state of exhaustion. He had
been twelve days exposed, subsisting entirely on some
berries. As far as could be gleaned from him it appeared
that the master and crew had been carried out to sea on a
raft in a gale of wind. The steamer went in search, and
after several days cruising about were unable to gain the
slightest tidings, and returned to Calcutta. It is reported
there were from thirty to forty persons on the raft, and
from the violent state of the weather when it was driven
out to sea, it is doubtful if she weathered it. Still hopes
The Manchester (Indianian) was wrecked on the Sanger
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falling of her mainmast after the ship struck, but all hands
were fortunate enough to escape in the boats before the
vessel broke up. She was the property of Messrs. Wade
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tion they were got to a vessel—the Emperor, from Cal-
cutta' the master of which had hove to and remained by
from the previous night. They were taken on board, and
received every kindness. The Nereid belonged to Messrs.
Phillips and Co., of London. The loss of the three-ships
is calculated to exceed 410%000.