The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-15 00:00:00

SPAIN

The Madrid journals and correspondence of the 30th
ult. state, that the Duke of Baylen assumed, on the 30th,
the functions of guardian of the Queen and the Princess
her sister. M. Arguelles had expressed a desire to be
allowed to deliver up himself his august wards to his suc-
cessor, but that course was considered contrary to eti-
quette, and the instalment of the Duke of Baylen accord-
ingly took place in the presence of the Minister for Foreign
Affairs, the Count de Santa Colonna, and the Duke of
Hijar.
Private letters from Paris, dated Monday last, say that
the greatest activity prevails at the hotel of Queen Chris-
tina; that messengers are despatched almost daily to
Spain ; and that a constant communication is kept up
between the ex-Regent and General Narvaez and other
heads of the Christina party at Madrid.
The Journal des Debals states, that General Seoane,
who was arrested and detained at Burgos, notwithstanding
the passport which had been granted to him by the Madrid
government, still remains a prisoner on his parole. In
answer to his remonstrance on the subject, he was told
that he would be held as a hostage for the safety of such
patriots as might fall into the hands of Espartero and Van
Haien.

Letters from Barcelona of the 2d instant appear to
promise further contests between the Moderados and
Exaltados. Saragossa was perfectly quiet on the 3d, the
best understanding subsisting between the civil authorities
and Brigadier Ametller.
The Madrid Gazette of the 2d contains a circular of
the Minister of the Interior, ordering that in each pro-
vince only one superior junta shall remain, and dissolving
all the others. The juntas thus maintained are to act as
auxiliaries to the government, and their duties will be to
" procure resources of which the treasury has so much
need, and shall discharge provisionally the functions of
the provincial deputations wherever these are wanting."
A strong protest against the usurpation by the provisional
government of the authority of the provincial juntas had
.seen received from Gallicia. That document so seriously
alarmed the government, that General Serrano instantly
gave an order for twenty battalions and four batteries of
artillery to march against that province. Three battalions
left Madrid for that destination on the 2d. The Mar-
chioness de Santa Cruz had been appointed governess to
the Queen.
The Constitutional of Barcelona of the 3d instant an-
nounces that the province of Lerida had elected two com-
missioners to the central junta.

It appears that there are upwards of 500 journals in
China consecrated exclusively to the musical art, and that
almost all the considerable capitals contain two or three
theatres for operas.
A baker, at Boraas, in Sweden, has received the gold
medal, " for civic merit," for his invention of a process
to bake perfectly sweet and wholesome bread of corn, or
flour, damaged by sea-water or dampness : the process
will shortly be made known for general use.
When Narvaez and Concha left France for Spain, they
were furnished with letters of credit on the different bank-
ers of Valencia, Barcelona, and Madrid, to the amount of
£240,000. The parties whose names appear to the said
letters of credit are Messrs. De Rothschild and Messrs.
Ardouin, both of Paris.—Globe.
The Lisbon correspondent of the Times, in speaking of
the Queen of Portugal's daughter, says—" The new-born
princess is a beautiful infant ; and, in high circles here,
it is held to be more than probable that she is destined,
if she survives, to become the future Queen of the French.
The Count of Paris, heir apparent to the French throne,
is now three years old ; and the alliance, therefore, in
point of age, will be very suitable."

WALES.

STRIKE OF THE SWANSEA COPPER-MEN

(From the Swansea Journal.)
About 12 o'clock on Saturday last, it was known
throughout the town, [Swansea] that a large body of the
copper-men, in number about 4,000, who had struck work
on the previous day in consequence of the reduction of
wages, were advancing through the High-street, with the
intention of parading the town.
The worthy Mayor having met the procession at the
end of High-street, was proceeding to address them, when
Mr. Vivian and Mr. Benson came up. These gentlemen
pointed out to them the inconvenience of their parading
the streets, and proposed that they should adjourn to the
bank above Hafod Works. The procession immediately
faced to the right-about, and followed these gentlemen,
who rode forward to the above-named rendezvous. Mr.
Vivian then addressed them on the proposed reduction,
and entered into a comparative statement of the wages
ohtained by copper .men, and by the best hands in the
iron and other trades, expresting his desire to hear any
parties in reply. Many of the men in turn spoke as to
the amount of wages, and we gathered from their state-
ments, that the average wages hitherto obtained by the
lowest class, or ore furnace-men, was 255. per week ; the
proposed abatement of 121 per cent. will theretofore re-
duce this to about to 225.

Mr. Benson stated his assent to all that had been said
by Mr. Vivian, and Dr. Bird, the Mayor, then addressed
them, expressing his approval of their orderly conduct in
leaving the town, and after some further conversation
among the men, the meeting quietly dispersed.
The copper men still express their determination " to
hold out to the last ;" but we suspect, from the system of
surveillance pursued towards some of their number, espe-
cially among the Forest men, that there already exists a
great difference of oninion between them. They held
another meeting on Tuesday, in the neighbourhood of
Llansamlet Church, but it was not so numerously attended
as the one held on Saturday last, not more than 11 or
1200 men being present. Resolutions were passed, con-
demnatory of the proposed reduction of wages, and pledg-
ing the members of the meeting not to accept and work
at the reduced scale. We joined several groups succes-
sively, from whom we obtained the following information:
The workmen are all out, except a few employed at the
Middle Bank Works ; and upon whom the men had called
and exacted a promise that they would leave work on Wed-
nesday. All expressed themselves to be resolutely deter-
mined to continue the " strike," and seem well aware of
the importance of union amongst themselves. Our own
impression, however, is, that they are far from being con-
fident that all the workmen will adhere to the resolutions
agreed upon.
The men all complain of the impossibility of living on
the reduced wages. The reductions are stated to be as
follows :—Slagmen, from 30s. to 225. 6d. ; metal smelters,
from 30s. to 265. 3d. ; ore smelters, from 265. to 225. 6d. ;
roasters, from 31s. 6d. to 275. 6d. ; metal calciner, from
£2 4s. to £2 2s. per watch of 12 hours ; ore calciner, from
£2 2s. to £2 per watch of 12 hours.
It is, we are sorry to say, now currently reported that
Messrs. Williams, Foster and Co. intend to embrace this
opportunity of ceasing to smelt ore at the Rose and Lan-
dore Works ; if this report is true, and we much fear it is,
there will be 500 men, who, with their families, will be
thrown out of employment.

TURNPIKE TRUSTS IN WALES.—We glean the fol-
lowing facts from a recent parliamentary return :—There
was only one turnpike trust in Wales that had no bonded
debt, in 1840. There were in that year four trusts,
whose revenue was insufficient to pay £5 per cent. on their
bonded debt ; their segregate tolls being £473, and their
bonded debt £13,977. There were five Welsh trusts
unable to pay £5 her cent. on their bonded debt and ar-
rears of interest accruing within six years. Their aggre-
gate tolls in 1840 were £693, their bonded debt £17,580;
arrears of interest within six years, £3,658 ; total,
£21,238. There were seven Welsh trusts, whose revenues
were insufficient to pay £5 per cent. on their bonded debt
and total arrears of interest. Their aggregate tolls in
1840 were £1,015 ; bonded debt £20,968, arrears of in-
terest, £B,BBl •, total, £29,849. In 1840, there were 41
Welsh trusts, having arrears of interest not exceeding six
years, amounting in the aggregate to £24,334 ;—and six
other trusts, with arrears of interest, exceeding six years,
amounting in the aggregate to £25,576. There are 17
Welsh trusts that can discharge their debts within 30
years, viz.—one within five years ; two within 10 years;
six within 15 years ; three within 20 years; three within
25 years, and two within 30 years. Since 1836 there has
been borrowed the sum of £19,470 on the Anglesey,
Caernarvon, Caermarthen, Flint, Glamorgan. Merioneth,
Mongomery, and Radnor trusts, whilst in 1840 the aggre-
gate toll income was £31,739. It thus appears that the
sum in these few trusts is equal to two-t-hirds of their
annual income from tolls. But this amount borrowed
does not include arrears of interest, &c. Altogether the
return, is one which c
state of the Welsh tuairlinploikuedltyrfuosrtsle,
easslaetxihveibiintteedrieblentcheis.

THE LIVERPO

IRE LAND.

Tuesday was Mr. O'Connell's sixty-eighth birth-day

A DEXTEROUS SWORDSMAN.—On Thursday, the 3d
of July, Serjeant Corey, of the 3d Regiment, at Dundalk,
cut a leg of mutton suspended by a cord through with one
cut , for a wager of 63 guineas.—Drogheda Argus.
We understand it is Lord de Grey's intention to leave
Ireland about the end of this month, in order that he may
have the-benefit of a few weeks residence at Buxton, pre-
vious to the meeting of his Regiment of Yorkshire Hus-
sars at York, on the sth of October.

INCENDIARISM.—A few nights since a workshop and
dying concern was maliciously set on fire at Abbyfeale,
and totally consumed. A dwelling-house in the same vi .
cinity was also destroyed in a similar manner.—Limerick
paper.

RIOT.—A desperate riot took place, the week before
last, at Turloughmore fair, near Galway. It arose out of
one of the usual local disputes between rival factions.
One man was shot dead, and two others have since died
of their wounds. Sixteen others were also seriously in-
jured.
THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION IN ENNISCORTHY.
—A letter of August 4, dated from Wexford, says :
" Poor W. D. Fayle is still living, but no hope of reco-
very. He is wonderfully collected, and has given a dis-
tinct account of all that happened the night he was shot.
There is a ball lodged in his head, but the doctors cannot
tell exactly where."

ANNIVERSARY OF THE RELIEF OF LONDONDERRY.—
Preparations are being made by the Apprentice Boys, for
celebrating this ever-memorable day, (which brought re-
lief to the heroic defenders of Derry, when hope had al-
most forsaken them,) in the usual manner, viz., by the
hoisting of the crimson banner and No Surrender flags,
on the Testimonial, and the Cathedral—the firing of can-
non, and the ringing of the joy bells, &c.

The Cork Examiner gives the following report of the
Kerry assizes :—The criminal business of the assizes com-
menced on Friday morning at ten o'clock, and at three
o'clock Mr. Bennett addressed Baron Richards--" We
have nothing more to do, my Lord." Baron Richards—
" That is very extraordinary, indeed; it is, I am sure,
without a parallel—this is, in truth, matter for sincere
congratulation." There was not a single indictment for
a capital offence, and only seven trials altogether.
INTRODUCTION OF A YANKEE EDITOR AT THE CORN
EXCHANGE.—We have the following in the Times report
of the proceedings at the Corn Exchange :—" The procee-
dings were here interrupted for a moment by the intro-
duction of Mr. James Gordon Bennett, whose card Tom
Steele handed to Mr. O'Connell, intimating that its ow-
ner (who then stood beside Mr. O'Connell) was the pro-
prietor of the New York Herald. Mr. O'Connell.—l
wish he would stay where he came from ; it is a much
fitter place for him than this. We don't want him here.
[Mr. Bennett, a gentleman about 50 years of age, sud-
denly retreated, as he entered, across the table.] He is
one of the conductors of one of the vilest gazettes ever
published by infamous publishers. (Laughter and a par-
tial disposition to hisses, which were suppressed by the
chair and persons around it.)"

REPEAL IN WICKLOW.—On Sunday last the "grand
and overwhelming" demonstration in favour of repeal
took place on the very verge of Carlow county, near the
town of Baltinglass ; and if the absence of all the edu-
cated classes and of the gentry to a man may be taken as
evidence of failure, never had Mr. O'Connell more sub-
stantial cause for bitter disappointment. Wicklow county,
as will be seen by a reference to the Dublin di rectory,
can boast of seventy-nine magistrates, all of them, with
very few exceptions, residents on their estates; and of
these how many were present, at the commencement of
the present week, to sanction the repeal movement, or
welcome the patriotic liberator? Why, not a single man.
Not even could his own son-in-law, Mr. Christopher
Fitzsimon, though a native of the county, and holding a
commission of the peace, be prevailed upon to lend any
countenance to the atrocious imposture. Of the utter
worthlessness of Sunday's display, as an exponent of
public opinion in Wicklow, we can desire no better proof
than is afforded by the fact, that the persons who officiated
as chairmen, both before and after dinner, were two
farmers and a Roman catholic priest.—Dublin Packet.
BIBLE BURNING.—A correspondent of the Cork Con-
stitution, who gives his name, makes the following de-
plorable statement with reference to a priest in that neigh-
bourhood :—" His reverence visited 1..e1y one of the
houses of his parishioners, and entered into conversation
with a girl of about 14 years of age, inquired about her
attendance at school, and desired her to leave her uncle's
school and go to his, which she of course refused. He
then asked her to read a lesson to him. She replied she
had no book. Some one present remarked she had her
bible. ' 0 that will do,' said he, bring the bible.' She
brought it, and he took the sacred volume from her hands,
and looking into it he exclaimed, ' it is only fit to be
burned ;' and rising up he proceeded towards the fire.
The poor girl, struck with grief and horror, ran to him
and used her utmost efforts to prevent his accomplishing
his diabolical purpose : but he seized her by the arm and
threw the bible into the fire ; and thinking that it did not
burn fast enough, he took the tongs, opened it out and
held it in the blaze, and when he saw it nearly comsumed
be went to the door and said to some persons who were
there, ' come in and warm yourselves at the blaze of the
Protestant bible.' "--[Truly popery is unchanged and un-
changeable.]
GROSS OUTRAGE.—On Monday Mr. Gypson ascended
in his balloon from Portobello Gardens, and succeeded in
making a safe descent in a field not far distant. Imme-
diately the balloon was seized by a mob, who demanded
money from the aeronaut, which he refused to give. A
great struggle then ensued between some few respectable
persons, who took Mr. Gypson's part, and the majority
of the crowd, as to the disposal of the balloon, when the
latter cried out, " Let it go." Some endeavoured to drag
it over the wall enclosing the field, and others cut the net,
while Mr. Gypson's friends attempted to defeat their pur-
pose, but in vain, for the mob cut the net to such an ex-
tent that the balloon turned literally upside down and
escaped out of the netting. Mr. Gypaon haring gut out
of the car with great difficulty, seeing the riot, and hear-
ing the cry of " Let it go," thought to seize the valve-
rope, when a huge coal-porter, as if acquainted with its
effect, tied up the bottom of the balloon, and the people
tore off the car with the utmost violence. Mr. Gypson
was thrown down and seriously injured. The balloon
went off towards Howth in a slanting direction, the neck
tending upwards, and the netting hanging down, which
those at a distance supposed to be the car. So soon as it
was seen that it was fairly out of reach, a horrid yell of
delight escaped from the mob. Two of the ringleaders
were taken into custody. Mr. Gypson estimates his loss
at £soo.—Dublin News Letter.—[This is a sad exempli-
fication of the want of civilization amongst the lower or-
ders in Ireland. The loss to Mr. Gypson will be made
good by the county, but the disgrace to the country is in-
delible, and casts a slur upon the perpetrators of the out-
rage degrading to those in the most savage state.]

A SCENE AT THE CORN EXCHANGE.—At the usual
weekly repeal meeting, on Tuesday, Mr. O'Connell re-
plied to a letter which appeared in the Quotidienne of the
28th of July, signed by " Savory, Duke of Rovigo."
This man attacked him and his family in their private re-
lations, and now he would reply to him in similar terms.
That man was, he understood, the son of the man who
shot the Due D'Enghein for Bonaparte (sensation), but
now he said he took a deep interest in Ireland, being an
Irish proprietor. He (Mr. O'C.) denied that ; the fact
was, he got married to a Miss Stamer, of Clare, who had
some landed property, but when her friends found out she
was going to be married to a " foreign adventurer," they
secured her property by making it over to trustees for
her sole and separate use. This foreign adventurer had
not a foot of land in Ireland. He reminded him (Mr.
O'C.,) of a glazier that married a member of the family
of M'Carthy More, and whenever he got drunk—which
was very often—he refused to work, and would exclaim,
" I am a gentleman born in right of my wife." (Laughter.)
It was so with Savory, Duke of Rovigo. (Continued
laughter.) Mr. Steele : The scamp has the run of her
kitchen and the parlour. (Great laughter.) Mr. O'Con-
nell proceeded to reply to various charges contained in
the duke's letter. He designated as gross lies the allega-
tions that he (Mr. O'C.) was a middleman and a bad
landlord ; that his two sons had £2,000 a year each for
collecting the repeal rent ; that the College of Maynooth
exhibited liberality on the part of the British government
towards the catholics of Ireland, and various other alle-
gations ; and lie concluded by moving that the letter he
inserted in the minutes. Carried. Mr. Steele then moved
that Mr. O'Conneil's reply to this " lying and fortune-
hunting adventurer" be placed upon the minutes ; which
was also carried.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—On Monday the usual weekly
meeting took place, in the Corn Exchange-rooms. Mr.
O'Connell opened the proceedings by calling on the
radical ratepayers of Dublin to pay their municipal taxes,
as the tories were making the greatest preparations with
a view to effect that object amongst their party. If this
call were not responded to, they would lose their repeal
corporation, and consequently a very essential ingredient
in their means of obtaining the restoration of their parlia-
ment. (Hear.) Mr. O'Connell then gave a description
of his reception at Baltinglass, where he said that not
less than 12,000 young men alone, from 18 to 50 years of
age—that being what was called in Ireland " the fighting
age," although it might begin four years sooner—had
greeted him with their heartiest cheers. The hon. and
learned gentleman introduced to the meeting Dr. Eager,
of Manchester, who handed in, amidst loud cheers, £125
from the repealers of that town and Salford. Amongst
the subscribers of that sum was the Rev. A. Macartney,
who, Mr. J. O'Connell stated, belonged to an Orange
family, had himself been an Orangeman, and was now a
Roman Catholic priest. The meeting was then adjourned
to Tuesday, when at two o'clock the lord mayor elect was
cailed to the chair. Mr. Ray then proceeded to read
letters containing remittances; after which Mr. O'Con-
nell handed in £1 from a native of the county of Wicklow,
who did not wish his name to be known ; he also handed
in £1 from Edward Coffey, a protestant, in the neigh-
bourhood of Navan, who had become a repealer from a
conviction that nothing else but repeal could serve Ire-
land. Mr. O'Connell said he had received a letter asking
a share of the funds of the association for the Newry
Examiner newspaper, but it was a favour he could by no
means grant. The learned gentleman also announced the
receipt of 25 francs from Paris, being the subscription of
some French ladies and gentlemen, forwarded by a Mr.
M•Carthy, who requested that the senders might be made
members of the association. The amount of rent for the
week was announced to be £1354 lls. 4d.

A desperate conflict between a gamekeeper and eon-
stable and a gang of poachers took place on Friday
morning, in the grounds near Apedale Hall, the residence
of R. E. Heathcote, Esq. James Beech, one of the consta-
bles of Audley, lost his life in the rencontre, and John
Vaughan, the gamekeeper, was dreadfully, it is feared
mortally, wounded.

L STANDARD

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

The Rev. Dr. Pusey embarked at Dover for the Con-
tinent last week.—Morning paper.

The treasurer of the association for completing the
Cathedral at Cologne has absconded, carrying with him
the subscriptions received during the past year.
On Saturday week, a little boy, at Huddersfield, was
killed through drinking a quantity of oil of vitriol from a
bottle which he imagined contained ginger beer.
Messrs. Adams and Fox, the extensive engineers at
Ford, Bow, have, it is said, taken the contract for building
the aerial machine.

On Wednesday Mr. Brunner was unanimously elected
coroner for the county of Oxford in the room of the late
Mr. Cecil.

James Williams, the man who first established savings
banks in Westminster, died in the Bridewell there on
Wednesday se'nnight.
Swift passenger boats now travel on the canal between
Wolverhampton and Birmingham, accomplishing the dis-
tance in two hours.

D. W. Herschell has discovered that the mixing of
nitrate of silver with hyposuiphate of soda, both remark-
ably bitter substances, produces the sweetest substance
known.

Some of the nankeen masters of Wigan gave notice, last
week, of a reduction of their weavers' wages, on some
fabrics of cloth, of five shillings in the pound.

The report is spread in the German States, that Queen
Victoria of England intends paying a visit to her relations
in Germany.—Frankfort paper.
Both the patent theatres are let, it appears. Mr. Bunn
is to be the lessee of Drury Lane, backed, it is said, by
two capitalists ; and Mr. Henry Wallack has taken Covent
Garden, which is announced to open in September.
It is expected that £4OOO will be raised for the family
of the late Mr. Elton. Benefits have already taken place
at most of the London Theatres. At the Haymarket as
much as £2BO was raised.

The standard height of the recruits for the Royal
Marines has been altered by direction of the Lords Com-
missioners of the Admiralty. It is to be five feet seven
inches until further orders.

A hive of bees, despatched by railway from London on
Friday evening last, to Mrs. Joseph Pease, sen., Darling-
ton, arrived safe at the latter place on the following morn-
ing, and " as busy as bees" need be.
A model of a fireproof magazine, about nine feet square,
and containing gunpowder, was on Wednesday, at West-
minster, submitted to a heat of 100 degrees Fahrenheit,
without being at all injured.
On Monday evening, the House of Commons voted
£5OOO to defray the expenses of the commission appointed
to inquire into the best mode of preserving the public
health.

Hereford Musical Festival is advertised to take place on
the sth, 6th, and 7th, of September next, the morning
performances in All Saints Church, the evening perform-
ances in the Shirehall.
HAIL STORM AT SELBY.—The breakage of glass after
the late storm at Selby was immense. Mr. R. Richard-
son, plumber and glazier, of Hull, replaced no less a
quantity than 5515 broken squares in about ten days.
The Wesleyan Chronicle states, that of the Wesleyans
in Durham who possess the franchise, 21 voted for Mr.
Bright, including eight local preachers and stewards,
while only two voted against him. A few also are said to
have remained neuter.

THE ASSURANCE OFFICES.—We understand that an
arrangement has been made by a considerable majority of
the agents of assurance companies in Manchester, by
which their respective offices will, in future, be closed on
the afternoon of Friday in each week.
Government intend to erect forthwith, in Ireland, four
provincial asylums for incurable insane cases, idiots, and
epileptics. The buildings are to be on an enlarged scale,
and will afford room for all those cases now in existing
asylums.
The Coroners' Inquests' Expenses Bill was rejected on
Monday week, in the House of Lords, on the ground that
coroners were at present sufficiently paid, and to increase
their allowance would be to increase the charge upon the
county rates.

It is expected that Parliament will be prorogued either
on Saturday next, the 19th instant, or on Tuesday, the
22d; but it must be obvious that where so much depends
upon accident, it is impossible to fix upon any particular
day as certain.

It is stated that Messrs. Cookson and Co. have resolved
to close their extensive alkali works at Jarrow at the end
of the present week, in consequence of the numerous pro-
secutions for damage to which they have been subjected.
They employ many hundred men.
On Friday week, Mr. William Raywood, gardener,
Thorne, whilst plucking red currants from a tree in his
own garden, gathered a single bunch containing upwards
of 60 berries, and which weighed three quarters of an
ounce.

MUTATION OF FORTUNE.—C. Comte de Misles, who
had 12,000 men under his command in the army of Na-
poleon, and who was at one time commander-in-chief of
the garrison of the ciry of Rome, is now in Nashville,
Tennessee, teaching a school.

During the past week much excitement has been occa-
sioned in the village and neighbourhood of Chiswick by
no less than three different attempts at murder having oc-
curred within that locality, two of which attempts have
been made by parents on the lives of their own offspring.
The Messrs. Gurney, of Norwich, and other leading
bankers in the east of England, have come to a resolution,
in consequence of the want of employment for money,
which has existed now for twelve months past, to lower
the rates of interest on deposits to per cent.
In the House of Commons on Monday night Mr. Robt.
Scott obtained leave to bring in a bill to declare that every
detached part of a county in England and Wales, entirely
sulioundea by one other county_, shall form part of tho
county by which it is surrounded.
The interesting ceremony connected with laying the
first stone of a new Hebrew National School took place
in Birmingham on Wednesday, and attracted a large num-
ber of strangers of the Hebrew persuasion from the me-
tropolis and various parts of the country.

HINT TO GROUSE SHOOTERS.—Two dogs of the Italian
greyhound species were yesterday forwarded to Dublin,
through the Chichester-street post office. The address
of the forwarder and the receiver lies at this office; and
the postage to Scotland is not more expensive than to
Dublin.—Belfast Chronicle.
On the lith of last month (July) the " Old Man," the
highest peak in Coniston Fell, was partially covered with
snow. This is a very rare occurrence so far advanced in
summer. Though the weather this year has not, on the
whole, been favourable, the number of visitors to the lake
districts has been greater than for some years past.

In consequence of the greatly depressed state of the
shipping interest, shipowners have in numerous instances
been reluctantly necessitated to reduce the hard and haz-
ardous won earnings of their seamen. There are now at
the port of London several hundreds of able-bodied sea-
men unable to obtain engagements.
SINGULAR ROBBERY.—Last week, an elderly man of
respectable appearance, who gave his name James Cullen,
residing near Kensington Square, but who was stated to
be a naval officer on on pension, and son of a late Dean
of York, was committed to Newgate for trial at the Cen-
tral Criminal Court, charged with having stolen a loin of
pork in a butcher's shop in High-street, Kensington.

Four-and-twenty donkeys were entered for exportation
by the Emerald Isle for Rotterdam, from Hull on Wed-
nesday. They were of all sizes and sexes. It appears the
demand at Rotterdam increases, The trade was new a
fortnight ago, when it was opened with a lot of ten follow-
ed by an equal number last week; so that in a fortnight
the exports have more than doubled.—Hull Herald.

MANSLAUGHTER.—On Saturday week a young man,
named William Spencer, a plumber and glazier, of Salford,
died. in consequence of injuries received in an affray
which took place on Thursday, the 29th June last, in the
tap-room of the Egerton Arms public-house, Gore-street,
iR that town. The jury, at the inquest, returned a ver-
dict of manslaughter against the landlord of the house
and another man implicated in the affair.

AN OLD SOLDIER.—John Fisher, believed to be the
last surviving soldier in Scotland engaged iu the first Ame-
rican war, died at Leslie on Friday, the 18th ult., at the
age of 92 years. In the year 1776 he enlisted into the
Ist, or Royal Regiment of Foot, of which Lord Adam
Gordon was Colonel, but which was at that time com-
manded by Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Fraser.—Caledo-
nian Mercury.
MANSLAUGHTER AT LANCASTER.-011 Monday last
`William Green, shoemaker, was committed to the Castle
to take his trial at the ensuing assizes, charged with killing
his wife, whom he struck on the head with a stick during
a quarrel, on Saturday night last. Both parties were
much addicted to habits of intemperance, and both lived
together very unhappily.
CHESTER REGATTA.--ThiS regatta took place on
Thursday. The Trial Stakes, value five guineas, for four
oared gigs rowed by boys, was won by the Deva ; the
Dee Cup, value fifteen guineas, by the Echo ; the City
Cup, value thirteen guineas, by the Royal Chester Row-
ing Club ; and a Piece of Plate, value five guineas, by the
Gazelle, of Liverpool.
BRITISH IRON COMPANY.—A meeting of the proprie-
tors was held on Wednesday, at which it was resolved to
form a new company, with a capital of £400,000, whereof
£200,000 would go to pay off the old shareholders, and
the rest to be reserved to carry on the works. It is pro-
posed that there shall be 20,000 shares of £2O each ; 6,380,
it is stated, being already subscribed for, notwithstanding
the depressed condition of the trade.

The lovers of Flora will be delighted to learn that a
splendid double pansey has at last been grown. This
elegant flower is to be seen growing luxuriantly in the
garden of Mr. David Rattry, shoemaker, Grange, by
Errol. It possesses about forty petals, is well built, and
the colours distinct. Altogether it is a most magnificent
flower, and, we should think, the only one of its kind in
Britain.—. Dundee Warder.

EXTRAORDINARY VEGETABLE ANTIQIJITY..—In Un-
rolling an Egyptian mummy, in the Thebaid, in 1838,
which was ascertained to be 3,000 years old, several heads
of wheat were discovered. A portion of this mummy
wheat came into the hands of the Earl of Haddington,
and, on the Ist of November last year, his lordship's
gardener, Mr. Ford, sowed four seeds of it in the garden
at Tyninghame. The produce is at present nearly 100
stalks, about six feet high, and the ears have from 45 to
55 grains each. The ears have beards or hands not un-
like those of barley, and the leaves on the stalks are long,
and nearly an inch broad.—Caledonian Mercury.

bound from Greetlock for North America, and immedi-
ately sinking i❑ deep water. The crew had a most mirac-

DEATH OF A RAVEN.—Died, a few days ago, at Ramp-
ton, near Retford, a raven belonging to Mr. John Binge,
in the 28th year of his age. This singular bird was bred
in Grove Park, and could talk as plainly as any man, so
far as his knowledge extended. In point of imitation he
was inimitable, and could mimic anything he ever heard.
Like many others of his tribe, he was often exceedingly
mischievous, but generally amusing. But his masterpiece
was his correct repetition of the Lord's prayer, which,
for emphasis and distinct enunciation, would have done
no discredit to many a village schoolmaster.—Leeds In-
telligencer.
FALMOUTH, AUGUST 6.—We regret much to have to

announce the loss of her Majesty's steam-vessel Lizard,
which was run down off Carthagena, by the French man
of war steamer Veloce, between the hours of twelve and
one on the night of the 23d-24th instant. Providentially
there has been no loss of life. Every exertion was made
by Lieutenant Postle to save the Lizard, which he was i❑
hopes of being able to run on shore; but the rapidity
with which she filled rendered the attempt impracticable,
and scarcely had the last of the crew left her when she
went down. Lieut. Postle and his officers and crew have
returned to Gibraltar in the Veloce.

FOREIGN FRUIT, &.—Nearly twelve hundred baskets
of fine fruit. including melons, pears, plums, apples, and
currents, arrived at Hull, on Sunday night, by the Emer-
ald Isle steamer from Rotterdam, and were landed next
morning in excellent condition. The following were the
quantities of the respective fruits, viz., 85 baskets apples,
4 of melons, 452 of currants, 73 of plums, and 566 of
pears ; total 1180 baskets ; besides which the same vessel
brought 50 baskets potatoes, 17 ditto yeast, 190 Gouda
cheeses, with wine, madder, &c. After the quick passages
which this vessel makes, the fruit which she brings usually
appears in Hull market amongst the largest and the fresh-
est of that is shewn.
INTERESTING TO WATCHMAKERS.—By a certain
clause in the Customs' Amendment Bill, now before par-
liament, it was originally proposed to do away with all
restrictions on the importation of clocks and watches, ex-
cept that they should be prohibited from bearing any
mark representing any British assay mark. It appears,
however, from what took place in the house of commons,
on Saturday last, that the clause relating to these articles
has been expunged, At present the duty on foreign
clocks imported into Great Britain is 20 per cent; on
watches, 10 per cent. Previous to the enactment of the
late tariff, the duty on both was 25 per cent.
Two LIVES LOST.—On Saturday last, a female men-
dicant, accompanied by her son, a little boy, happened to
be going her rounds in Kirkmahoe, and determined to
shorten her journey homewards, by crossing to the parish
of Holywood. She was then nearly opposite to Ellis-
land—the farm at one time occupied by the poet Burns—
and entered the Nith at a point where the water is very
shallow on the one bank, but deeper for a short distance
on the other. The poor boy followed, and both bad got
as far as the pool in question, when they were carried off
their feet by the strength of the current, and, after a brief
struggle, unfortunately drowned.—Glasgow paper.

FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE.—On Friday last the fol-
lowing lamentable circumstance took place here. Mrs.
Haining, wife of Edward Haining, tailor here, drowned
two of her children along with herself. She left home
with her two sons, one of them three and the other five
years of age, the previous morning, and had been observed
passing the New Quay, in the forenoon. In the after-
noon, some fishermen found a bonnet, handkerchief, and
basket, on the bank of the river, below the New Quay,
which were identified as the property of Mrs. Haining.
Search was immediately made and the bodies were found
near the spot where the articles were found.—Dumfries
Standard.

THE PEGASUS.—A party of divers are now at work, at
the wreck of the Pegasus, and have succeeded in raising a
great many packages, and also the bodies of two of the
sufferers. Several other bodies have been floating near
the wreck. One body, which has been identified as that
of the Rev. Mr. M`Kenzie, was found floating about a
mile from the scene of the wreck. Another body, that of
a female, was picked up by the Vesta last week, and
landed at Holy Island ; and the body of another lady has
since been picked up at Craster It is understood that the
directors of the London and Glasgow Shipping Company
have given notice that the masters of their steam-ships
are instructed that on no account are they to take their
vessels through the inner passage of the Fern Islands,
either in the day or night time.
DREADFUL ExrLosioN.—On Friday, an explosion,
arising from foul air in the sewer, took place at Rosoman-
street, Clerkenwell. The pavement was torn up, eight or
ten flag stones having been removed, while a large iron
patent grating, weighing about two cwt., and which is
placed over a sewer for ventilation and allowing the work-
men to enter, had been blown about six feet from its
original position. A number of persons were drinking at
the Spa public-house, corner of Rosoman-street, some of
whom were knocked down by the explosion. A woman,
also who keeps an apple-stall a few feet from the spot was
sitting in her chair, and with it was raised in the air three
or four feet. The most extensive damage has been sus-
tained by the occupiers of the houses in the immediate
vicinity, from the breaking of glass and other injuries
done to their premises.
`'""WILLIAMS THE CHARTIST.—We alluded last week to
suspicions attached to the man Williams. The jury on
the inquest returned a verdict of " murdered by some
person or persons unknown ;" but Williams has since
made a voluntary confession to the chief-constable, Mr.
Newman. He stated that he was tired of his life, and
had determined, on the morning that he absconded, to
murder the first man he met. He came upon Harkness,
and wished him to let him kill a kid ; the old man refused,
and shortly after Williams struck him over the left eye
with the handle of a pick-axe ; he fell from the effect of
the blow, which Williams repeated untill he considered
him dead. Williams conducted Mr. Newman to the spot
where he had concealed the pick-axe handle, which was
found accordingly. He will no doubt be fully committed
for trial, and sent to this place.—Launceston Courier.—
[A letter received in Swansea, from Port Phillip, dated
in March last, says--" Zephaniah Williams, the Newport
chartist, for killing an old man, has been hanged."]-2'he
Cambrian.

THE CHESHIRE MURDER.—On Friday last two bro-
thers, named John and Samuel Maddocks, were brought
up at the Police-office, at Norley, on the borders of Del-
amere Forest, on a charge of having murdered Mathias
Bailey, gamekeeper to George Wilbraham, Esq., of Del-
aniere-house, on the morning of the 28th ult., in the bar-
barous manner heretofore described. There were thir-
teen witnesses examined and their evidence was to the
effect that, on the night preceding the murder, the pri-
soners, one of whom was armed with a gun, were seen to
walk in the direction of Crowton, where the deed was
committed.
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heard Bailey exclaim, " Eh, John? I know thee." In
about an hour after that time some persons who happened
to be in the neighbourhood saw both the prisoners coming
from the scene of the murder, and observed that one of
them was armed with a gun, and that the other was, ap-
parently, in a wet, dirty condition. When the prisoners
were apprehended, John denied that he had borrowed a
gun, although it was distinctly proved that be had, while
Samuel denied that he had been near the forest prior to
six o'clock on the morning of the occurrence, although
it was as distinctly proved that he was two hours before.
It appeared that both the prisoners, who are elderly men,
and well-known poachers in the neighbournood, had long
been on terms of disagreement with the deceased, in con-
sequence of his having detected them in the act of poach-
ing on some occasions. After an examination which
lasted upwards of four hours, both the prisoners were
committed to Chester Castle to take their trials on the
capital charge at the next assizes.

EXECUTION.—BEDFORD, SAT URD Ay.—This day being
appointed for the execution of Sarah Dazely, convicted,
at the late Bedford assizes, of the murder of her hus-
band, by administering a quantity of arsenic to him. The
town from an early hour presented a scene of great ex-
citement, hundreds having come from various parts of the
county. The unhappy woman had had a favourable
night's rest, and on rising this morning gave vent to some
paroxysm of grief. She was soon-visited by the chaplain,
who remained with her in earnest prayer. At a quarter
before twelve, the calvacade moved to the fatal spot, the
prison bell tolling all the time. She appeared in a dread-
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AWFUL THUNDER STORMS

Loss OF THE SCHOONER, HARRIETT. --- On Thurs-
day information of the total loss of the schooner Harriett,
Thomas, master, was received. It occurred on the 26th ROCHESTER, August Io.—Last night, about ten o'clock,
of last month, while on her passage from Caernarvon for a tremendous thunder storm approached this city from
Liverpool, through coming in collision with the North- the westward, accompanied by vivid flashes of sheet
umberland, a barque of about 400 tons burden, of Alloa, lightning, which for hours kept up one continued glare of

light. About midnight the storm raged with the greatest
fury ; it was terrific ; one continued roar of thunder, the
ulous escape. i perpetual flashing of the lightning, occasionally intermixed
DURHAM CITY ELECTION.—In the House of COM- I with thunderbolts, which appeared like large masses of
mons on Thursday night, a petition was presented to Mr. fire hurled to the earth, succeeded immediately by a fear-
Hamilton, the member for Dublin University, against the I ful noise, resembling the report of dischargesof the largest
late return of Mr. John Bright, the Quaker, for the city artillery, whilst the roaring sound of the rain and hail, or
of Durham. We understand that the petition alleges rather shower of ice, falling at the time, almost equalled
bribery and treating against the sitting member and his the noise of the thunder itself. A stack of hay an Chat-
agents. Of course the merits of the petition will not be ham Line was set fire to by the lightning. The damage
determined till towards the end of the second month of done by the hail is incalculable. The skylights in the
the next Session of Parliament. Dockyard and public buildings have been demolished, and
the loss in every direction to individuals must be very

BEES SWARMING IN LANCASTER CASTLE.—AboUt I We'ai:l‘l;:6-. Masters, nurseryman, estimates his loss
twelve months ago, a swarm of bees voluntarily took up at between £4OO and £5OO. The skylights over the Corn
their residence on the debtors' side of the castle yard, Market at the City Repository are entirely destroyed ;
where they are now snugly located ; and, though inmates several green-houses in the neighbourhood have hundreds
of a gaol, present a daily example to the most industrious. of panes broken, and scarcely a house in the neighbour-
These little busy creatures are encased by huge wills, 30 hood has wholly escaped.
feet high, over which they have to mount a hundred times CHELTENHAM.—One of the most awful thunder storms
in the course of the day to cull their sweets, yet do they that we ever remember to have witnessed spent its fury
never cease their labours from early dawn till long after over this town and neighbourhood on Wednesday morn-
the setting of the sun.—J. Hall's Lancaster Castle. ing. After a quarter of an hour's steady rain, the war of
AWFUL DEATH.—On Tuesday last, as Wm. Benbow the elements commenced—flash succeeded flash of the
was at work in a quarry at Burton, he met with his death most vivid lightning—the thunder reverberated peal upon
in the following shocking manner. Some powder had been peal, and after each succeeding discharge, it appeared as
put in a hole for the purpose of blowing up a piece of the though the floodgates above were opened, the rain poured
rock, and Benbow was ramming in some rubbish pre- down in such unceasing torrents. During its continuance
viously to igniting it. The friction caused by the ramming the High-street was nearly impassable from the torrents
ignited the charge, and an immediate explosion took place, of water pouring down the carriage way. We have not
by which the hammer was driven through the deceased's heard of any injury having been sustained by person or
head, passing under his right eye, and coming out at the property ; but the heavy rain must have inflicted consi-
back part of the head. Death, of course, took place in a deraole damage on the corn.—Cheltenham paper.
short time. . STAMFORD.At three o'clock on Wednesday a most
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vivid flash of lightning, followed immediately by a terrific
clap of thunder, was experienced in this town. The
electric fluid, in effecting its passage from the cloud to the
earth, was received by the chimney of a lofty building,
situate in the centre of the town ; the chimney, so far as
it projected above the ridge, was entirely destroyed, frag-
ments being driven with great force into the neighbouring
windows. The roof of the house has received considera-
ble damage. The current of electricity, after passing
down the spars of the roof, was conducted to the earth
by a zinc spout running direct from the eave of the build-
ing to the pavement. The room, the roof of which was
displaced, had the appearance of being filled by a " blaze
of fire."

CAMBRIDGE, Wednesday.—One of the most destruc-
tive hail and thunder storms ever remembered occurred
here yesterday evening. By six o'clock in the evening
every shop was closed. Thestorm commenced about four
o'clock, with repeated flashes of lightning and heavy peals
of thunder. Hail fell in great quantities for about three
quarters of an hour. The hailstones, without exaggera-
tion, were as large as pullets' eggs, or about three inches
in circumference. Scarcely a pane of glass was left whole
in the town. A great portion of the glass in the Gothic
Tower, as well as in other parts of the building, and that
covering the whole of the machine department, have been
totally destroyed. Most of the houses facing a northerly
direction have met with serious damage. The Town Hall
bore the appearance of having been demolished by stones.
Trinity Church has also suffered severely. The colleges
have, fortunately, sustained little damage, except King's
College Hall, and the painted window at the north end of
Trinity Hall.
WORCESTER.—On Tuesday morning the city and
neighbourhood of Worcester was visited with a most vio-
lent thunder storm. It continued with but little inter-
mission for more than six hours. The lightning was ex-
ceedingly vivid, and the thunder deafening, causing the
houses and the very ground on which they stood to vibrate
as though they had been shaken by an earthquake. It
was soon discovered that the lightning had struck two
houses in the Shambles. It appears to have passed down
the chimney of one house, then along the roof, out at the
garret window, and then down the front of the house to
the ground, displacing several bricks i❑ its passage. A
great portion of the chimney, roof, and garret window
was violently dashed to the ground, and strewed about the
street. Its track down the front of the other dwelling is
very perceptible, the roof being much damaged, the lead
in the upper window melted, and many panes of glass
shattered. Many credible persons who were standing in
the market-house declare they were sensibly moved from
their places by the shock, and one person, named Brad-
ford, was knocked down, but most provir'.entially no life
was lost. The house of Mr. Lane, Pump-street, was also
struck by the electric fluid, which passed down the chim-
ney, knocking the top of the chimney to atoms, and then
descended the tube, displacing a few bricks about the
fire-place, and slightly scorching the hand and cheek of a
little boy who was standing beside it. From a cottage at
Rainbow-hill was heard to issue a cry of " Murder" just
as one of the heaviest peals of thunder had ceased, and it
was ascertained that the brickwork had been driven down
the chimney, and that a quantity of linen and articles in
the house had been set on fire. Although several children
were in the room at the time, fortunately not one sustained
any personal injury. The chimney of the house of Mr.
Holmes, was struck by the electric fluid, and the kitchen
boiler, saucepan, &c. were dashed into the middle of the
room. Mr. Holmes describes the noise occasioned by
the descent of the fluid down the wall being like the boil-
ing of water. Mr. Cobley, of this city, lost three horses,
which were killed in a stable at Broadway ; two others
were injured. Six sheep were killed under a tree near the
same neighbourhood.