The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-22 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STATiDARD.

UNIVERSITY 4. CLERICAL, NEWS.

The expenses of the Rev. Mr. Shore in resisting the
proceedings of the Bishop of Exeter in the Arches Court
and Queen's •Bench amount to £4OO. A subscription,
which already amounts to £2OO, has been entered into for
him.

On the Bth instant, Sir John Gladstone laid the first
stone of Trinity College, Glenahriond, Perthshire, in the
presence of the Bishops of Aberdeen, Moray, Glasgow,
and Brechin, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, and a
large number of gentlemen and ladies. The Rev. Chrirles
Wordsworth is warden of the College, and he and the
honourable baronet have been the greatest benefactors to
the college.
CHURCH 'EDUCATION SOCIETY FOR IRELAND.—SPr-
mons in support of the above society were preached by
the Right Rev. Robert Daly, Lord Bishop of Cashel, in
Christ Church, Salford, on Wednesday evening, and on
Sunday morning at Sr. Paul's. A sermon for the same
object was also preached on Sunday morning by the Rev.
Verschoyle, M.A., of Dublin, in the new church at
Platt. A meeting of the friends of the above object was
held in the Corn Exchange, Hanging-ditch, on Thursday
evening. The meeting was numerously attended, and on
the platform were, the Bishop of Cashel, the Rev. H.
Verschoyle, the Rev. H. Stowell, &c.
CHURCH PATRONAGE.—The Examiner publishes the
case of the parish of Austrey, the history of which gives
one an idea of the way in which Church patronage is made
use of. It appears that the chaplain of the w rkhouse had
applied to Sir R. Peel for the living, having officiated at
Drayton, and knowing something of the ex.premier. The
answer was to the effect that Sir R. l'eel never inter-
fered with the patronage of Austrey, and to refer the
applicant to the Lord Chancellor. Mr. did apply to
the Lord Chancellor, and was informed that his lordship
had already appointed a Mr. Dyott, on the nomination of
Sir R. Peel. On seeking an explanation from the right
hon. baronet, the latter defended his consistency by saying
that at the time he wrote lie never had interfered !
THE BISHOPS AND SPIRITUAL DESTITUTION.—We
are cast upon the energies of individual churchmen, or
must trust to the wisdom of the Episcopal bench to pro-
pound some general measures, and devise some new ex-
pedient for thd expansion of our ecclesiastical system.
From the latter quarter, since your Grace's views have
been known, even sanguine men are ceasing to hope for
much. Consultations at Lambeth, we fear, do not em-
brace questions on which I am touching. No rumour
reaches our ears of anything intended, or even canvassed,
beyond ihe favourite expedient of late years, begging hard
in all possible ouartersifor sufficientfunds to build churches,
with a given proportion of free sittings, which the bulk of
the nrgl, cted population in our large towns never occupy.
We would not have one church less—we should like to
Nava a thousand more. But with reference to the men
for whom I plead, those to whom Christianity has be-
come a strange thing, such an addition, as things are,
would be just as worthless as schools of philoaophy to the
grossest and most ignorant boor. The experiment has
been tried, and the failure is complete. Not one work-
ing man in ten, anywhere, speaking of our large towns,
and in many districts, not one in fifty, goes near a
church once in the month. This is the fact which
your lordship and the beads of the Church have to deal
with. May I ask, what are your remedies ? Have you
any in hand? Are you salt-fled to let ten more years
pass, or another generation go to their graves, without
some manly, energetic effort to arrest the spreading evil?
If they, who should be leaders, will not take their right-
ful place—if men, whom God has called to be rulers in
the Church, produce nothing before the country from
which it can be inferred that their eyes are open to see
what thoughtful, earnest men are deeloring as a national
calamity —at least, we might expect that they would
thankfully accept what is offered them by others,—that
the weight of their official character should not, all of it,
be thrown into the adverse scale,—that something more
might be heard from them, in times like these, than civil
acknowledgments of well-intentioned zeal, and damaging

censures of every enterprise that has the kok of novelty.—
Mr. I(4:g:cote's Letter to the Archbishop of Canter-

THE REV. DR. PARKINSON AND THE PRINCIPALSHIP
OF ST. BEES —We noticed a few weeks bacK, the appoint-
ment, by the Earl of Lonsdale, of the Rev. Canon Parkin-
s in, R.D. to the office of principal of the College of St.
Bees, Cumberland, in which institution he wes one of the
masters at the time of his election as a canon of Manches-
ter. Since his appointment, the rev. principal has had
the degree of D. D. conferred upon him by the University
of Oxford, his alma mater, and where he was H ulsea n
turer for two years. There is a benefice at St. Bees, which is
usually conferred on the principal of the college, but his
chief emoluments, besides the endowments, arise from a
sum of £2O annually, paid in respect of each student.
There have been as many as 160 students in the institu-
tion in some years, and we believe the emoluments vary
from £2,000 to £3,000 a year. The institution is one to
which the Bishop of Chester has usually recommended
candidates for orders, at a later period of life than usual,
and especially dissenting ministers, who having changed
their religious opinions, seek to obtain holy orders in the
established church. In such cases, a prescribed course
of reading at St. Bees has been held sufficient, instead of a •
longer curriculum at Oxford or Cambridge; but clergy-
men receiving ordination after havine. studied a certain
period at St. Bees, can only enter upon their ministry
within the province of York. It is extremely probable, that
the anticipated erection of the see of Manchester, will con-
siderably reduce the number of students at St. Bees. That
institution will cease to be within the see of Chester, or
in that of Manchester, and will become, what it ought to
he from geographical position, a portion of the see of
Carlisle,—consequently under other ecclesiastical jurisdic-
tion,—and it is not improbable that some seminary will
be established within the see of Manchester for the o'-jects
which have Ili herto been attained by the College or St.
Bees; which has possessed since is foundation in 1819,
by the late Bishop of Chester, a high reputation as a
place of clerical education in connection with the Church
of England.—Manchester Guardian.

THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.—The third report
on the public accounts of the Free Church of Scotland is
joist published. It is impossible to withhold respect from
the efforts and sacrifices disclosed in this remarkable do-
cument. Within the space of three years the inhabitants
of the most frugal cistrict of the British empire have volun-
tarily assessed themselves to the amount of a million ster-
ling, raised by annualcontributions of upwards of £300,000.
They have not contented themselves with subscribing for
the spiritual independence of their own burghs, hamlets,
and families ; they have not limited their payments to the
" sustentation" of ministers of discreet conformity to their
wishes. The seceding body assumed at its birth all the
functions and responsibilities of a matured tstahlishment,
and it is not wanting in some one or two, at lea,t, of the
notes of a church. Six-and-thirty months have sufficed
to form a society with all the appliances of self-support,
instruction, and proselytism. A body whose existence
dates no farther back than 1843 pays £72,000 yearly to
its appointed ministers, provides for its widows and or-
phans, expends £9,000 per annum on its home missions,
and twice as much in building churches. It has a college
with scholarships for poor students, and with professors
and tutors receiving salaries amounting to £4,000 a-year.
It has its normal and general schools, probationers, cate-
chists, and travellers. Not only does it walk alone so
sturdily, but it extends its arms to others, and pays largely
for the denunc ation of Erastianism to Caffres and Hin-
doos. It has six missions in India, and six stations in
Eastern Europe and Asia Minor for the conversion of the
Jews. It has made grants, amounting altogether to nearly
£2,000, to the Evangelical Societies of Switzerland and
Belgium, the Bihle Society of Toulouse, and the Gustavus-
Adolphus Society of Germany. It has translated the
Assembly's Catechism in the Armenian language, and has
despatched a Portuguese ca.,echist from Madeira to Bom-
bay. It provides a temporary support for Hebrew con-
verts in Hungary, and for Hindoo converts at Calcutta ;
supports missionaries with insured lives in Southern Af-
rica. and has despatched a philosophical apparatus to the
Great Fish River.

A number of London thieves are said to have proceeded
to Scotland for the purposes of plunder. On Saturday
no less than seven well-known English thieves were ap-
prehended at Glasgow.
It is said that the Roman Catholic establishment at Prior

Park, Somersetsbire, together with the colleges of St.
Peter and St. Paul, will be shortly broken up, the man-
sions and grounds having been sold, and it is added
that the colleges will be re-opened in Lancashire.
RESPECTABLE FANATICS.—" Land and Hooker, Ken
and Andrews, treble and Posey—men who, if they had
been Catholics, would perhaps have been saints and
heroes, could not rise above the level of a respectable fa-
naticism."—Tablet (Romish paper.)
At the sale of Mr. Leonard Matuns, of Collingbourne,
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Wilts, on 1 litirsdiy last, the 10th instant, 1,000 sheep
realised £3OOO, some ewes realized 50s. each, and 1,000
ewes and lambs averazed heady 40s. each ; some rams
fetched £2O, others £l5, down to £lO each.
A Treasury warrant in Frid .v night's Gazette fixes the

postage on letters between the United Kingdom and Den-
mark at a uniform rate of sixpence; newspapers, sent by
packet boat, to he free; by private ship, one penny. The

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alteration is to take effect on the Ist of October.
IMPORTANT TO BA K ERS.—I t is stated that the Great
Western Railway have agreed with the Company formed
in London, for providing a 41b. loaf for 4d.. to bring that
bread into the provincial towns on their line, at one
fa' thing per loaf.
THE NI ILlTlA.—Nothing further is to be done with the
militia till the next meeting of Parliament; vacancies are
not to be filled up at present; and everything with regard
to this force is to remain open for further consideration by
the government.
It is calculated that not fewer than forty thousand Irish
reapers have entered Scotland via Ardrossan and the
Clyde. Supposing each of these to early back 30s. of his
earnings, a sum of not less than £60.000 will thus flow
into the poorer districts of Ireland.

On Thursday, the half-yearly meeting of the proprietors
of the Bank of England was held. The affairs of the bank
were stated to be in a prosperous state, and a dividend of
three-and-a-half per cent. upon the half year, without
deducting the income tax, was declared.
In some parts of the neighbourhood of \Vhitehaven,
where the potato plants had apparently been blighted, dis-
coloured, and all appearance of vegetation completely
destroyed, the plants are beginning to throw out new
shoots. and to manifest strong vegetative powers.
CHURCH MARRIAGE WITHOUT BANNS.—It may not
be generally known that persons may, by giving notice to
the superintendent registrar of the district in which they
reside, and obtaining a certificate from him, be married at
the parish church without the publication of the banns.
INCREASE OF SUICIDES.—During the first six months
of this year the suicides, according to the return for the
western districts of Middlesex, have more than doubled
the suicides in those districts during the corresponding
period of last year.
Some mowers on a farm belonging to the Earl of
Lonsdale cut off the head of a partridge while sitting on
its nest. The eggs, fifteen in number, were wrapped in
flannel and placed near the flue of a hoiler, arid on the
following day thirteen of them produced very fine strong
birds.

The British Association, on Monday, selected the place
of mee ing for 1817. Applications were read and sup-
ported from Oxford, Swansea, Norwich, and Belfast; but
the choice ultimately fell to Oxford. The meeting was
fixed for the month of June, and the president elect is Sir
R. H. Inglis, Bart., M.P.
Sunday afternoon a s til boat, containing four persons,
was upset in Erith Reach by a sudden squall, when the
boat went down, and three persons perished—two young
gentlemen, named Tracey and Graham, andloseph Leo-
nard, a boatman and expert swimmer, who sank after
having leaped from the boat, and swam for some distance.

SUICIDE OF A YOUTH UNDER 16 YEARS OF AGE.—On

Tuesday, an inquest was held at Newmarket, on view of
the body of Charles Jarvis, second son of Mr. Jarvis, of
the Greyhound Inn, under 16 years of age, who was found
hanging in a barn the uay previous. No cause appeared
for committing the rash act.
The largest iron steamer ever built in Bristol, except
the Great Britain, will be launched from the building
y,,rd of Messrs. George Lunell and Co., on Saturday.
She is intended, by the Bristol General Steam Navigation
Company, to run between Bristol and Cork, and is to be
called the Juverna, the ancient name of Ireland.
A HOMELY PARALLEL.—An elderly lady in Stock-
port, while canvassing the reason of the representative's
(Mr. Cobden) absence from England, said the hon.
member reminded her of an itinerant fiddler, who, for
decency's sake, walked out of the dancing room while the
collection was made.

AN ANCIENT MEMBER.—The present representative
of the Radnorshire Boroughs, Richard Price, Esq., who
has now sat fur the boroughs for half a century, having
been first elected in 179 G, has intimated his intention of
retiring from public life, in consequence of the infirmities

of age

MANSLAUGHTER.—On Wednesday, a coroner's jury,
sitting at Stockport Little Moor, returned a verdict of man-
slaughter against Joel Bowden, of Hazel Grove, for having,
in a drunken quarrel with Thomas Twin, on the sth inst.,
caused such injuries as to produce death, on Tuesday last.
He was committed to Chester for trial.

A young man, of gentleman), appearance, paid eight
sovereigns to a London grocer, on Saturday last, and ob-
ta ned from him a cheque on his banker for the amount.
Putting an •• 0" to the £8 and a " y" to the eight in the
body of the cheque, he cashed it and thereby made a
profit of £72.

FOREIGN STRAW BERRIES..—A vessel, named the
Hannah, just arrived at Hull, from Memel, with a cargo
of wood goods, had on board 16 casks of strawberries, the
grosAth or Prussia. This is a novel article of importation,
and whether with reference to the place of growth, or the
very late period of the season for the supply of t

is a singular importation

1)e article,

PARTRIDGE SHOOTING.-011 Thursday, Lord Has-
tings, Anrhony Hammond, Esq., and Edwin James,
Esq., killed, at Melton Constable, in Norfolk, seven and
a half brace of birds; and on the previous Tuesday, his
lordship, the Hon. F. Ashley, and Edwin James, Esq.,
killed forty-three brace, beating only one field of turnips
and one field of clover.

The public Baths and Wash-houses in Euston-square
were opened for the first time on the 3rd of August, and
up to the 29th of the same month, not fewer than 12,315
persons have made use of the baths, showing an average
of 462 a day. During the same period 764 women have
washed 18,783 articles of wearing apparel in the wash-
houses.

In a hand-bill affixed to the Bow-lane Police Station,
London, a reward is offered for the apprehension of one
George H ummerston, absconded, and after a very parti-
cular personal description the notice concludes in the
following odd and amusing style :—" He generally goes to
a public house to smoke his pipe, and is very fond of talking
of religion and horses."
The Free Syhod of Argyle, at their meeting on the 3rd
instant, appointed Thursday, the Bth day of October next,
to be observed by all the congregations within the bounds,
as a day of humiliation, fasting, and enetesQirm ot sin, in
reference to the total and universal failure of the intato
crop, and the great and increasing distress con.:cquent
upon this visitation of Divine Providence.
On Tuesday week, as Mr. Graham, druggist, of Barnard
Castle, was taking an article from a shelf in his shop, it
slipped out of his hand, and coming in contact wi. h a
bottle, filled with vitriol, broke it, end the whole of the
contents fell on his face and clothes ; the latter were
literally burnt off his back, and his eyes and face are
shockingly burnt.
MESMERIC INFIRMARY.—An infirmary, (with the
Earl Lucie as its president) is about to be established
in the metropolis under this name. rie treatment of the
patients will be confined to the principles of mesmerism,
under the influence of which it is said surgical operations
can be performed without pain to the patient.- Subscrip-
tions have already been commenced, and from £7OO to
£l,OOO have been collected.
The weather continues to be most favourable for harvest
operations, which are now nearly, if not quite over in this
neighbourhood. A cloudless sun and a warm atmosphere
prevail throughout the northern district. In short, we
are experiencing one of the most delightful autumns ever
remembered. The latest portions of the hay and grain
harvest will be secured in the best possible condition, and
all the aftermaths are as fresh and green as the most luxu-
riant summer pastures.

" About forty years ago, a vessel laden with wine, &c.,
was lost in Lynn Deeps. Two bottles of this wine were
found in the oyster net of a fi4ling.smack, a few days
since while the men were dredging. The bottles were so
covered with shelfish, which had adhered to them with
the utmost tenacity, that the glass was hardly discernable."
[A correspondent observes, that he has often heard of
" drinking like a fish ;" but was never aware, till now,
that fishes stuck so close to the bottle !]
A brougham with silent wheels was seen in the park
last week. The tire of the wheels consists of an elastic
tubular ring, made of caoutchouc, inclosed in a leathern
case, and inflated with air to any degree of tightness
desired. The motion of the carriage is exceedingly easy.
It has now gone about a hundred miles, over roads of all
sorts, and the outer leather casing is as sound and entire
as at first, not exhibiting the slightest tendency to
rupture.—Mechanics' Magazine.
FORTITUDE OF A LAD.—A lad of about eighteen, em-
ployed on the Oxford and Rugby railway, fell down, and a
waggon passed over his arm and shattered it. On the night
of the accident the arm was amputated near the shoulder.
He walked quietly from the place to the inn, talked coolly
while the amputation was going on, arid requested the bone
might be saved, so that he might have a tobacco-stopper
made of it ! The lad had travelled from out of Dorset-
shire to near Banbury for work.

That destructive imect, the locust, continues to be
picked up, in considerable numbers, on various parts of
the coasts of Northumberland and Durham, many of
them being three and four inches long, and of propor-
tionate height. The unusual heat which has been expe-
rienced in our climate this year, is supposed to have di-
directed destructive visitors to our shores, where rigours
of the approaching winter will probably extirpate such as
escape capture in the interim by the hordes of naturalists
and others who are now daily in pursuit of them.
REPENTING AT THE ELEVENTH HOUR.—Last week,
at a village church not a hundred miles from Alstonfield.
Derbyshire, a couple presented themselves before the
priest with the intention of being united in the bonds of
wedlock, all needful preparations having bee:, made to ce—
lebrate the happy event. On the question being put,
" Wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife ?" &c.
the swain modestly rejoined, " Yes, if you please,
sir
When, however, it carne to the tore of the bu

pond to that momentous

uestion,

this man to thy wet

elect tt

—..... _
presumed, by some sudden— misgivimr. promptly rt-j9ined,
" No I I'm sure I shanna have itim !" The constei nation
of the expectant bridegroom, and the surprise ot the priest

be bet-

and assembled people, may, as the ploae runs,
ter conceived than described." Remonstrance was in
vain; the fair one was immoveable, and of course the ce•
remony could not be proceeded with.—Ten Towns' Mes-
senger.

A correspondent of Beles Weekly Messenger, in writing
on the potato question, states that, as regards the saving
of the present crop, we have no doubt that by far the
best means of saving a large portion of it will be found in
allowing the tubers to remain as late as possible in the
ground. It was found to be the only means by which the
diseased crop of 1845 was materially and profitably pre-
served in our own immediate circle of observations, in
Essex and Kent, and we have heard of many instances in
other districts proving the correctness of this conclusion.

LIBERALISW AND'POPERY.—]n Mr. Cobden's speech
at Paris, speaking of the progress of free-trade principles,
he adds, " and now the Pope of Rome has added the
sanction of his infallible testimony in favor of tree-trade."
As an instance of Libel alisin shaking hands with Despo-
tism it is not unworthy of our notice, shewing how little
Popery has to fear from the vaunted march of mind and
expansion of intellect, which is idolized in the present
day, and trusted to by many well-meaning men as all-
sufficient to stop the progress of that false and absurd
rel igion.

Tne proceedings of the British Association for the
Advancement of Science, were brought to a close on
Wednesday, at Southampton. The report of the finan-
cial accounts of the present meeting shewed that there
had been 241 tickets issued to old life members, 10 to
new life members, 39 to new annual subscribers, 67 to
old annual subscribers, 268 to associates, 19 to foreigners,
and 198 to ladies • making a total of 848. The total
receipts of the week were £7lO, in addition to which a
donation of £lOO had been received from his loyal
Highness Prince Albert, which, with the amount received
fiom the sale of books, made a total of £B2B.
LUCIFER MATCHES KINDLED BY THE SUN—A fire
of a singular description occurred last week in Norwich,
occasioned by a quantity of Lucifer matches lying in the
sun in the window of M r. Thwaites, on the Castle Meadow.
The person who waits in the shop, which is fronting the
south, was below at the time, taking his dinner, when the
heat of the sun caused them to ignite. The fire speedily
communicated with some cigar boxes, and several of these
were consumed, and the cigars burned and spoiled. The
man returned just in time to save the shop, which sustained
no injury except in the paint, which was burnt off in places.
A few minutes longer and the whole premises must have
been on fire. This fact may, perhaps, help to solve thr
mystery of some of the fires which have lattely occurred.
On Wednesday last, the labourers employed at Drayton
Manor. with their wives and children, amounting to shout
two hundred and thirty persons, partook of an excellent
dinner provided for them by Sir Robert Peel. The men
and their wives dined under a spacious tent erected at the

manor, and the children at the White Lion Inn, in the
village. After dinner they all assembled in front of the
mansion, where the afternoon was spent in dancing, font-
:Jail, bowling, and other games, which were kept up with
great spirit until the evening, when the party sat down to
supper. The entertainment was furnished in the most
liberal manner, and the party separated with feelings of
the greatest pleasure and satisfaction. Sir Robert and
Lady Peel, with two of their sons, (who joined heartily in
the sports,) were present, and seemed to take great inte-
rest in the proceedings of the day.
The magistrates of Norwich have for some days been
occupied with a curious charge of forgery brought against
a Mrs. Barber of that town, a person respectably con-
nected, but of eccentric manners, who presented to the
East of England Bank, Norwich, ten £5 notes, seeming
to be Bank of England notes, but which on examination
were found to want both the signature and the watermark
on the paper, as well as all the fives being imitations of
the same note. Several other forged notes were found in
the lady's residence, and it appeared that she had pro-
duced them by tracing the lines of a genuine £5 Bank of
England note against the window. In the absence of
parties connected with the Bank of England, the case has
been still further remanded, the impression on he minds
of the magistrates being that the accused was of unsound
mind.

THE "GLOBE" ON RELIGIOUS ENDOWMENTS.—The
success of latitudinarianism at Derby and Edinbureh is
naturally emboldening the Whig journalists. The Globe,
which may be understood to be a ministerial organ, now
unhesitatinely avows a "principle" on which it is to be
feared the Whig government, will he prepared, if need be,
next session to act. "We confess" says the editor, "we
know of no other principle on which a religion could safely
be established in any country than a regard to the belief
of the majority." And the writer does not shrink from
carrying nut his " principle" to its utmost extent, decla-
ring that " Popery, Mahometanism, Hindooism, or any
other faith or system of rel•gion, must be looked in the
face as an existing fact and dealt with accordingly." We
wish the political Dissenters joy of the fruits of their late
votes.

j TESTIMONIAL TO MISS CARNABY.—We observed to-
day, in Mr. Masson's (jeweller's) window, a very splendid
silver tea service, hearing the following inscription, viz. :
—" Presented to Miss Mary Carnaby, by a number of her
friends and pupils in Inverness, as a mark of esteem for
her exemplary life, and for her talents, z al, and intes,f ty,
in the discharge of her duties as a teacher of youth. 1816.
Nikil attigit sed ornavit." We are very happy to notice
this mark of respect by our townsfolk, towards a lady who
has taught amongst us, very successfully, for upwards of
sixteen years, and who sustained throughout a most exem-
plary character. She has left us for Liverpool with the
good wishes and esteem of many a family and friend who
regret her absence. We are glad to think that such inde-
fathfable exertions on her part for the well-being of her
pupils, have been acknowledge) so very handsomely.—
Inverness paper. _ _

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ATTEMPTED SUICIDES FRUSTRATED.—A few days age,
a person named Richard Williams went into a barber's
shop at Tenby, for the purpose of being shaved; the
shaver being engaged, he asked for a razor, and being fur-
nished with that instrument, he immediately drew it
across his throat; luckily some person present observed

it, and struck it out of his hand ; but the man still lies in
a precarhus state.—Last Sunda7 night, a woman named
Sarah Wood, belonging to Droitwich, and who travels
through the country as a hawker, was found in a brew-
house in Weaman-street, Birmingham, by Police-sergeant
Taylor. She appeared to be greatly excited, and in an
insane state ; and on being taken to the Staniforth-street
Station, she was put in a cell by herself. About five
minutes after she had been locked up, the sergeant went
to visit the cell, when he found that in his almost mo-
mentary absence, she had endeavoured to put an end to
her existence. She was found suspended by her apron.
which she had fastened round her neck, and then attached
to the bars of the aperture ab,ve the door, and getting on
the top of a stool, she had flung herself off at the very
moment the sergeant entered the cell. Fortunately, her
intention was thus frustrated.—Worcester paper.

NEW FURNITURE WOODS FROM THE-COLONIES.--
The increased use of furniture woods, consequent on the
favourable position we are now in, as regards the duty
and the introduction of many new kinds, afford grounds for
hoping that interior decoration may find new means of
exercise. The resources of art, in this respect, have barely
been examined ; the British colonies are rich in beautiful
woods, applicable to all the purposes for which mahogany
and rosewood are adapted. The Totarra wood of New
Zealand surpasses any mahogany we have seen ; it has
great variety of grain, and a beautiful mottled appearance.
Au elaborate sideboard, lately made of it for the King cf
u-sia, by Mr. J. M. Levien, has lately been exhibiting at
New Zealand House, Broad-street-buildings. We hear,
also, that Her Majesty has given orders for some articles.
In other pieces of furniture, were specimens of six or eight
kinds of wood, all of them of great beauty, and well adapted
for this purpose. The maire wood, of which a teapoy had
been made,when cut in the direction of thegrain is of a vellow
stone-colour, variegated in parts with dark brown of large
pattern. Hino, of which the specimens were cut from
the root, was of a dark brown colour. It veneers and
polishes well, and can be had for £25 a ton, which seems
to be a pretty general price. Amongst other kinds, were
the primo, also beautiful. with a large mottled pattern ;
the kattore, in all respects like ebony ; the May, rather
plain, with an appearance varying from that of satin-wood
to the lightest mahogany ; the kivverve. and specimens of
many other kinds. Names have been given by the natives
to all the different species, these included.—The Builder.

COMMITTAL OF CAPTAIN RICH ARDSON FOR.FORGERY.
—On Friday Captain William Richardson, late chairman
of the Worcester, Tenbury, and Ludlow Railway, who, it
will be remembered, was charged with forgery on the
bankinc!-house of Coutts, was brought up at the Mansion-
house, before the Lord Mayor. Mr. Ingleback, one of
the clerks at Coutts' bank, stated, that when Captain
Richardson saw the £5,000 draft he pointed to it and said
it was a forgery. Witness asked if the signature was not
his ? He said it was. Witness asked if the other signa-

tures were correct, and Le said he believed they were, but
the draft had been altered from £lO to £5,000. Witness
said he did not think the house of Coutts responsible.
He then went and informed Mr. Colthurst of this trans-
action. He afterwards returned to the prisoner, and put
the question as to the signatures, in presence of Mr. Colt-
hurst, and the prisoner replied that the signatures were
genuine. He then stated that he had filled up the three
drafts at the same time, one for £2O, one for £lOO, and
one for £lO ; the latter had been changed to £5,000. Mr.
Colthurst said it was a frightful fraud. He afterwards
told Mr. Richardson that th- banking-house declined
having anything to do with it. The prisoner said he had
paid away the £lO to a person who had rendered the
railway company some servic?. The prisoner was fully
committed, and the witnesses were bound over to prose-
cute at the first Central Criminal Court sessions, which
sit this week.

RELIGIOUS INDIFFEILENCE.—Beneath the shade of
Westminster Abbey, there is a district which every man
ought to explore for himself, who wishes to know what
the worst parts of London are, and to understand the
kind of work which is before us, if we propose to pour
the light of Christian truth into all its dwellings. To one
of the two parishes which comprise it, a Scripture-reader
has lately been sent at the request of the Incumbent—
one of the regulations of the society which employs him,
requires a weekly return to be made to the clergyman, of
the houses visited. To distinguish the religious profes-
sion of the several families who inhabit them, the reader
is furnished with a paper divided into four columns.
These are headed with the letters C, D, R, and N.—C
standing for Churchman, D for Dissenter, R for Roman
Catholic, and N for a person who owns no brother-
hood with any Christian community. Now, in the
visits made by the Reader, in five successive days, the
result is as follows :—On the first day, he visited families

one leundred had no home in the Christian Church, no
preference for any mode of Christian worship. t)n the

second day, the proportion of these persons was yet larger,
seventy being their complement to nineteen who owned a
_ _ On the

stians or anothe

third day,—by far the best, it is just half

centers, we have sixty-Iwo with the black 1. tter N,.
annevql: and the numbers on the fifth day are almost
exac'ly the same. So in the metropolis of Christian
En4land, out of five hundred and fifty persons visited and
talked with in succession, three hundred and sixty, or
two-thirds very nearly, had no such connexion with the
Church as to be assignable to any one religions body.—

I Mr. Kingscote's Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Sept. 22, 1846.

SATISFACTORY PHILOSOPHY.—We observe a gonle"
what strange statement in the papers as to the result nt
discussion on the potato disease in the British Association
at Southampton last Friday. It is said with singular Pit
Icsophical gravity and satisfaction that, "The general
opinion was, that the cause was in the existence of sante
atmospheric influence which at present defied intustiga'
lion, but which produced a remarkable effect on the chit'
racier of the potato !" Was there ever a lame and imP°'
tent conclusion like this? If it be rivalled at all, it is in
the same report of the same su ject, the discussion(/'
which we are told was concluded by the Dean of West'
minster and Doctor Lyon Playfair, declaring that tbe
conclusion of the inquiries of the government commissial,
they were actually possessed of less information
before the commencement of the inquiry !"
A correspondent informs us that there is a labourer
now employed upon the railway works at Ely who lc!!
once tried and convicted of highway robbery, and Wes,
sentenced to be hanged. The meriting arrived. for In'
execution; he was placed under the fatal beam, and 0
the clergyman commenced his melancholy office, the no°
fellow protested his innocence. Just as the executioner
was about to " launch him into eternity," a man was per'
ceived at a distance gallopping furiously, holding up
piece of parer—it was a repreive! In ten minutes the,
horse died from exhaustion. The sentence was contain!:
to transportation for life. At the expiration of ten yes"
and nine months, the erosecutor in the case being UPI
his death bed, sent for the Mayor of the town, and told
the dreadful tale that at the time when he swore be bad
been robbed of a large sum by the man in question, e
had the money in his own pocket, having been led to tb?
atrocious crime by feelings of revenge! Shortly after this
acknowledgment he died. The accused was sent for,s
free pardon granted him, and £l5 given him by Govern'
ment on his arrival at home. A person, the other dal;
asked him how he felt when he was under the gallows'
he replied, " I did'nt care so very much about it becano
I knew I was innocent."—Bury and Noru ich Post.
BE ET• ROOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR POTATOES.—Bert-ro°'
cannot be too much recommended to the notice of inalle
kind as a cheap and salubrious substitute for the now.
failing and diseased potato. Hitherto the red kind ns:
been only used in England as a pickle, or as a garnish for
salad; even the few who dress it generally boil it. n'
which process the rich sacca, ine juice is in a great measure
lost, and the root consequently rendered les. nutricions
by the quantity of water which it imbibes, as well as b 1
parting with the native syrup of which it is thus forcibif
deprived ; it is, therefore, strongly recommended to bate,
instead of boiling them, when they will be found to afford
a delicious and wholesome food. This is not an untried
novelty, for both red and white beet-root are extensively
used on the Continent; in Italy particularly, they all
carried about hot from the oven twice a-day, and sold
publicly in the streets; thus they are purchased by 0,,,P
classes of people, and give to thousands, with bread. salt'
pepper, and butter, a satisfactory meal. There are few
purposes for which baked, or even roasted, or fried beet:
root would not be found prererable to boiled. If these
roots were as universally cultivated in England for huroall
food as they are on the Continent of Europe, and bake;
and sold as cheap as they might easily be, many a fly
person would have a hearty and good meal who is 11°
often obliged to go without cue ; and now that the potato'_,
crop is again failing, the above information cannot but
of infinite service if generally knots n, for there is a en°
deal of beet in the country, although only planted Jerson°
for the use of cattle.—Carmarthen Journal.

SOMEWHAT SIAULAR.—On the 2-1 h of May, 1£412,11
lady died in her youth at Grasmere, after linger ng in c .S;
sumption for seven months, and the husband, to mark
sense of the loss he had sustained, had a monumenl.„
pedestal and urn, with suitable inscription, made
London, and this memorial duly arrived by trader s
Lancaster, but most strange to say, never got any furtW:,
From some cause or other nobody ever came forward to
e
pay the freiait and claim the property, and from that O
till within the past two or three weeks it has lain by in 6h,
corner of a warehouse on the quay. Our worthy tows',
man, Mr. Thomas Dewhurst, having, however, takenti„r
interest in the matter, things have been put into train lut
the immediate erection of the monument. Mr. Dewhoirs,
has kindly node+ taken the whole expense, and has tot,
personal interview with the rector of Grasmere, who Iwo
considerately consented to forego all charge. Mr. Dewllur
is now having the monument cleaned up, and will forth' o
with have it conveyed to Grasmere, whither he meacsm
accompany it in order to see the work completed 104
his own superintendence. The inscription on the peclesgs
is very flowery ; but no doubt justly describes the virtnre-t
of the deceased, aho, we happen to know, was a meo,r'be
of one of the first families in the west f England.
singular part of the circumstance is the length of tiocel
some three or four and thirty years—thla has elsP;‘:to
between the arrival of the monument in Lancaster anu.,
final setting up in Grasmere, and that the consurnmati o°o
,
should be brought to pass by the kindness of a stranger
Lancaster Gazette.

DISTRESS IN THE WESTERN HIGHLAND- **fr,ve
ISLANDS OF SCOTLANDS.— During the lest we. ia
(Scottish Guardian) had an oppoi tunity of witnessing '
some measu, e, the extent of the failure of the potato errs
in the Western Highlands, and the result satisfie„ is
that so far from the evil having been exaggerated,4l.o
impossible for any one who has not seen its devasta',o hat
to form adequate idea of its extent. The truth
.s
throughout the WestErn Highlands and Islands the F e
ci
tato is extinct. Some of the people are reducer to oo
on
meal a day of the coarsest tare. Others are
withl sea-
shell-fish, and ekeing out their wretched meal they
weed. Many are parting with their pigs, because
are unable to feed them ; and the pittanex they receivr
for them is all that stands between-them mad want. Pda
people are selling their cows for the same reason ; a 0 f
some are reduced to the sad alterna ive of disrosing
their boats. In some of the islands disease has alread/
appeared in the most afflictive forms, but too evidel:
resulting from inadequate or unwholesome food. In
island of Thee, this is already the case to an alol'iSs
extent ; and there is no disguising the fact, that ,n d.
something be done immediately with the view of 011,..d„rds
ing supplies of food to the inhabitants of the is"":
generally, consequences will inevitably and speedily 0,
sue which it is revolting to every human mind to cut
template. The Free Church Synod of Argyll Samos
deputation last week to the Lord advocate to urge oio
his attention, and, through him, that of her Wiesod
Government, the clamant state of the Highlands "
Islands.
rist
THE SELF ACTING WATER-RAM +hp W .—Perhaps 10t
unpretending, simple, but useful of hydraulic powers jta
raising water, is the above valuable invention. the
economy of space is also a striking recommendation's,'
ram not occupying more than three-quarters of a sq,"tbe
yard. The principle upon which it acts. comprehends,ieb
raising of water thirty times the height of the fall by `?"096
it is worked. Having seen this clever apparatus, 0030.
at Peckforton, upon the property of J. Tollemache,,, to
M. P., we shall describe its powers, vv!• ich will APP'sti
the self-acting ram in general, as patented by Anao.o
Easton, of London. Water being required for the bu", the
Peckforton Castle, which our readers will rememberd
spirited proprietor is now erecting on the summit:, of
high bill close to, and rivalling in elevation, the siin"fe
Beeston Castle. At the foot of this lull, a quartet
mile distant from the building, as the crow flies, is a u'thi#
tiful crystal spring, designated Horsley Bath. Frog' and
spring or bath a pipe conveys some of its water to a ola
reservoir about a yard square, distant one hundred( the
fifty yards. Into this reservoir is laid the month ° ird
pipe whi,h feeds the ram. The surplus water not recluthit
by the feeding pipe, wh:ch would otherwise overflow
small reservoir, is carried off by a drain to a lower 9,3,0
From this reservoir to the spot where the ram is WO
a fall of about thirty feet. The other end of the fee 00
pipe before mentioned is inserted it, the ram. SoPPoit
the ram now at work : the water from the reset ill
passing with great force down the feeding pipe, put6.oti
operation the machinery in the interior of the ram
go
the beautiful result is,—that through another pipe of lb
diameter, fixed on the other side of the ram, vratelbed
forced and delivered at the top of the hill before deser'n"4
(320 feet higher than the ram) at the rate of three gall ter
per minute. Of course the ram can be made with gre"

powers
A

PPALLING DISCOVERY !—A few days since. de,
good-looking man, well dressed, and of gentleman 000
portment, was observed, after carefully looking allejlf
him for a few moments, to throw a parcel very borr.fitelf
into the float. Curiosity was excited, a boat inrneu_lned;
obtained, the mysterious parcel secured, and nod
when, to the horror of the inspecting parties, it %rased 1)9
to contain a shirt with several holes in it, as if eau'a so'
stabs made with some sharp-pointed instrument. a, note
turated w.th blood ; rolled up inside the shirteacsted to $
written by a female, signed `• Harrier," and (I.containing
gentleman well known in this city. The poce erased'
the shirt had been directed, but the address was
The contents of the note were as follow :

" You cruel man,
" Your envy

jraloumiy, and malice 11!5nd;

prived me of the dearest object affections. I 'woo
know all; the secret is out, and the murderer cooed
longer escape justice ; the happy spirit of my IT,be
Henry disclosed to me all, and told me where to find o 4
bloody shirt which I now send you, which must wake'
shrink with horror. Prepare to meet the Police. 1,
" MR11101)00
No doubt was entertained that an atrocious onurderd to,
been commi:tea, and the parcel was at once conve.te
the police station ; the constables were speedily on -
vine, a couple hastened to the residence of Mr. ----y to
gentleman to whom the note was addressed,) and
very great consternation received the intimation lrjefi
must " come along with them," upon a charge of 0"t$11
The amiable and humane individual, who could IT 00‘'
it in his heart to crush a fly, much less to murder ale 0001
creature, informed the officers that they had made ilvepitr
take. " Oh, no ; no mistake at all," was the ;115
" Ain't you Nir. -. Esq. ?" "I am the PartY'
the answer, " then you're the genTman as murder: 014
gal's sweetheart." What could the fellows mean
firstimpulse was to kick them out of the house, 11`.
for their wearing the police uniform he would Weolf,if
so. They told him it was "no good his putting WOO 5
such a flustration, as the letter and the shirt (Pr(iiiti tvf
the bundle,) would show that they were right." ~`"rbe°,,
production of these articles, Mr. - could not i(!stfj
laughing heartily, and soon set the matter " 811 orid 11110
fully proving that no murder had been cominitt`iie„
that the whole was the trick of a very facetious F,ooii
whose ruling passion was not subjected even bylee
and who availed himself of the consequences 0f bt'o
bleeding to play a joke upon his friend. Haontsd °,
bled with leeches, he packed up the shirt which he ,fe
at the time in a parcel to Mr. ; that gentle.o,:cce,:t

cognised the handwritinz of his friend outside thee, iyi
and having been " tricked" once or twice before, *al tbreo
charPoorlif
again to be " done ;" so he erased the address, and 10.0
the parcel (without opening it) into the Mint, as "'„"ci b',4
described, little (beaming thatli note inside
with murdering some poor girl's lover, A little ! reol.l
was instituted, and it appearing that the affair a'"nriiiv
I joke, of course nothing further was done. ""

IMirror.

Sept. 22, 1846.

Earal anb probincial
...ge of Simon Yurkc,-Esq., Erthig, to Miss
Vict-o-ri";Ctst, daughter of Sir Edward Cost, Bart., was
celebrated with great rejoicing in the parish of Ruahon.

Alettls.

The hn

The return match between the two first elevens of
the Edge Hill and the Rock Ferry cricket clubs, on
Thursday, was won by the Edge Hill in a single innings.

On Friday James Drysdale, a rigger, abou-t. 45 bears of
age, fell trom the masthead of a vessel at the tirunswick
Dock, upon the deck, and died in about ten minutes after
in the Southern Hospital.
LIVERPOOL POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY.—An able paper
was read on Monday evening, before this society ; by Mr.
Britten, " on improvements in the construction of steam-
boilers, calculated to deerease the danger attendant upon
using high-pressure steam for marine and other engines."

Accin NTS.—NO fewer than seven accidents, in which
some serious, but it is hoped, in no case. fatal injuries to
Workmen at the docks, took place within the last ten days.
Most of them were conveyed to the hospital, and were on
Saturday in a fair way of recovery.
The size-house of Mr. Hibbert, in Stanley-street,
Preston, was destroyed by fire, on Friday evening. A
gentleman, of the name of Pickles, the owner of a mill
adjoining, unfortunately fell into the flames, and was burnt
to death.

The London informer against the pawnbrokers has
taken his departure. It is said that before he proceeded
to summon he pledged articles with each of the pawnbro-
kers in the town, and that against 110 pawnbrokers he
has upwards of 300 informations.

STEALING FROM GARDENS.—On Thursday night,
twenty or thirty of the gardens attached to the cottages at
Spekefield, near this town, were entered, and the whole
of the red cabbages carried away ! A similar theft took
place about the same time last year
On Saturday afternoon, a fire broke out in two houses
in Exmouth-terrace. Oxford-road, Manchester. Upwards
of two hours elapsed before the flames could be extin-
guished. It is supposed that the fire originated in the
attic of one of the houses which was kept as a cigar store.
The damage is estimated at £2,000. . -

On Saturday, the steam-loom weavers and pickers. in
the employment of Messrs. J. T. and J. Walker. bilk-
manufacturers, at Leigh, were informed that their wages
Would be forthwith reduced 65., ls., and, in some de-
scriptions. Is. 6d. per cut, in the weaving: and 6d, per
warp in the picking. The hands have turned out.
Mr. M'Cormic is the successful competitor for making
the railway tunnel from Edge-hill to the north docks.
There will be a goods' station in Hudson-street, behind
Byrom-street, but this will be the only opening in the
Whole length. The work, we understand, will commence
immediately, and the contract is said to be about £90,000.
At themeeting of the West Derby Guardians notice of
motion Was given to increase the salary of Mr. Greatres,
medical officer of West Derby, from 30 guineas to £5O.
It is proposed to give medical relief to the sick poor of
Toxtetti park by means of the surgeons of the Dispensary
but the arrangement has not yet been agreed upon.
The return match between the Seacombe Club and Li-
verpool' Olympus Club, on the Seacombe ground, was
concluded,
On Monday. in favour of the Seacombe players
by nine runs. Each club having won one game, the con-
cluding struggle for
this week. victory will be played r
il the course of

been APPLE.—A new variety of apples has this year
n Produced in a garden at Garstang, in this county.
The original stock had been grafted with an apple called
the Gabriel, a flailiple, with a little brown on the sunny
side, and coveredlirth a fine bloom like a plumb ; but this
new variety has the appeanince of a fine golden pearmain.
On Sunday the Marquis of Sligo, Earl of Lucan, and
five other noblemen and gentlemen arrived here from
Dublin, on their way to London, for the Purpose of ob-
taining an interview with the heads of the Government
relative to the potato disease in Ireland, and the most
effectual method of employing the famishing poor.
A public meeting was held on Tuesday in the Portico,
Newington, fir the purpose of forming an institution, to
have for its object " the intellectual and spiritual improve-
rnent of Sundasschool teachers," and the furnishing of
Means to aid them in their educational efforts. Upwards
of Ann
Persons were present and various resolutions were
adopted . .

Mons. Dumont, the Minister of Public Works in
.S.rance, arrived at the Adelphi Hotel, in this town, on
uesdaY• He was accompanied by six engineers. In the
;urge of tbe day he visited the docks, the Clarence
The French Consul pointed out to him the principal
?,bj. ects of interest in the town. On Friday, he left
44YerPool.

A very large meeting of the members of the Evangeli-
cal Alliance took place at the Free-trade Hall, Manchester,
on Friday. Amongst the friends of the cause who were
urn/Wined to address the meeting, were the Rev. Pro-
fessor Adolph() Monod. of•Montaubon, France; the Rev.
Yr• Cox, of New Yo:k ; the Rev. Dr. Leifchild, of Lon-
u(l4l the Rev. Dr. Vauzlian, of Manchester; and the
Revds. W. W. Ewbank, Geo. Osborne, Wm. Bevan, and
C• M• Birrell, of Liverpool.
An inquiry was commenced at Birkenhead on Saturday,
before a coroner's jury, touching the death of a journey.
roan painter, named Warburton, aged 31. He died from
gangrene in the arm, and the inquiry involved the medical
treatment to which be had been subjected by Mr. Ricketts.
The evidence of Mr. Dixon, who had made a post-mortem
examination, satisfied the jury that the treatment had been
correct, !anis verdict that the deceased had died trom
natural causes was returned.

Mr. Milner. of this town. made last week, at Leeds, a
very satisfactory public trial of the efficacy of his fire re-
sisting sires. The Mayor of Leeds and several other
gentlemen were present, and all signed a certificate ex-
pressive of their high opinion of this valuable invention.
7The trial was repeated with the tno,t perfect fairness in

the presence of the same gentlemen, when the safe was
objected to a greater heat than during the first expeti-
kent was attainable, and with equally satisfactory results.
OPEN BOAT ENTERPRISE.—A short time since, a
tarty of Young men made an excursion in an open boat
hence to Bangor, rowing all the way, and being out two
nights during the voyage. The same individuals pro-
ceeded,
a few days ago, on a similar expedition to Douglas,
again hogging
the shore as much as possible. On the
first night they passed Formby, Blackpool, and Fleetwood.
They pulled from the last-named place about ten o'clock,
t* tn., and met with a thick fog. and afterwards with a stiff
r"ze• In the morning they saw Whitehaven and the
Scotch coast, and in the evening arrived at Douglas.
01:11SSOLUTION OF THE MANCHESTER FIRE AND LIFE
e:FICE. AND FORMATION OF ANOTHER COMPANY.—
ere was a meeting of the shareholders o: this institution
eost Week, the object of which was to disolve the present
an to form another, more in consonance with
th-..°iews ofda very large proportion of the proprietors
14" Is the constitution of the present one. One of the
tti:einal things contemplated by the new company, is the
it 04"i:tient of the life deoartment, which hitherto (and
TA
"3 now had a trial of about 20 years) had been found
IA" means what may be called a beneficial department.
the Pelican Office will. it is understood, slip into the
echeater office in regard to all the life policies.
tookittAT SALE AT BIRKENHEAD.—On Tuesday, n sale
Val„ Place at the Woodside Hotel, which, from the great
terce‘ctr the property off-red, possessed considerable in-
it ° It consisted of no less than ninety-seven mansions,
hZits. shops, and•a Inge quantity of land. The sale was
. ucted by Mr. Hutchins. The property belonged to
bQt Boydell, Esq. The mansions, &c., d,cl not sell,
,°tne of the land in Dacre-street, near Rock Ferry,
Th;,"ce4 a miller spirited contest for the possession of it.
to lest lot was put up at 7s. per yard, and knocked down
by Air. Sharp at His. Lots, 2. 3, and 4, were purchased
4t ro8"• Hickman, the latter at 7s. 9d., and the two former
PA
mr TAT, ACCIDENT FROM BATHING.—On We Tnesday
be *khn Hulbert, of Bootle, went down to bathe on the
ba-tr °PPosite the Rimrose Hotel. He did not engage a,
Went machine. but stripped himself on the sands and
e Into the water. Some time afterwards his clothes
his'e discovered lying on the bank, and as he did not make
oaret4Pearance arprehensions were entertained for his
him l; search was immediately made, but no traces of
must be discovered, and it appeared certain that he
1.,4_7t have been carried away by the tide and drowned.
folle same evening the body of the unfortunate man was
sea lying on the shore oppos:te Waterloo The de-
lia.ed formerly belonged to the firm of DoWdall and
Igbert, cotton-brokers, of this town.
DISTRESSING A CCIDENT.—On Saturday, a party, con-
sisting of Mr. and Mrs. Borru. of Aigburth. two gentlemen
°f
the name of\ Brown, and Mrs. T. A. Hope, with three
children, left Hoylake in a pleasure boat, to enjoy a sail,
blit'd had been out some hours when (on returning) Mr.
r.cwn, jun , hastily seized his gun for the purpose of
"ring at a seagull. By some means the gun, whil- in the
act of being raised to the shoulder, exploded. and Mr. B.
received the charge in the left arm. Immediately on the
Party landing a messenger was despatched for Mr. Briarly,
Upton, who deemed immediate amputation necessary;
and in this opinion Mr. Biclo'rsteth, who happened to be
attending a patient in the neighbouring hotel, quite con-
curred. The operation, as well as the whole accident,

happy to hear that he has since been progressing fa

HIGHWAY ROBBERY AT BOOTLE.—On Thursdaynight,

a litleatir;nitie-Orciock, Mr. Clements, of Bootle, was
stopped by five-or six tnen between Rake-lane and Mr.
Ashcroft's; two of whom grasped him by the throat, two
pinioned his arms, and the others succeeded in cutting
away one of his trowse'rs and coat pockets. Luckily they
contained no money. and his watch escaped. During the
scuffle a shandry drove up, and they fled across the brick-
fields, taking with them a silver-mounted rattan walking
cane.
ROBBERY OR BOARD A VESSEL —Two men, of the
respective names of Ward and Fisher, were charged on
Friday, at the Police-court, with having committed a
robbery, on Thursday night, on hoard a vessel lying at
the Cobourg Dock. Inspector Walker said, that seven
bottles of sherry had been missed from the ship, besides
a quantity of sugar. He had found some sugar at Ward's
house, which corresponded with that on board the ship.
Ward was employed as quay watchman, and Foster in
the same capacity on board the vessel, he had also been
shipped on board as a seaman. A boy, who acted as
steward, deposed to having seen the men endeavouring to
remove some bottles on the night in question. Committed
to prison for two mon
SATURDAY EVENING CONCERTS.—On Saturday last,
Mr. Henry Phillips gave one of his delightful entertain.
ments at the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson•str, et, which was
well attended. The character of this gentleman's sing•
ing it is now too late in the day to remark upon critically.
As a chaste and classical singer, especially of the Old
English ballad music, he is without his equal, whilst as a
lecturer and anecdotist he is equal)), great. In this-con-
cert he introduced several American novelties, with his
experience in that land of eccenticity, which were received
with great applause, especially his racy description of
Yankee inquisitiveness. His good natured bits at some
of the peculiarities of the people of the sister island were
equally well received. Amongst the most admired of his
soup were, " Bear hunting in the United States," " Wi-
dow Machree," " Molly Bawn," " Robin Hood, and
the " Lakes of Killarney."
STABBING CASE.—A young boy, whose name we
understand to be John Clark, was brought up at the
Police-court, on Friday, charged with having stabbed
Duncan Clark, his brother, a lad several years older than
himself. From the statement of the father of the boys,
who appeared in court, it appeared that the prisoner was
getting his breakfast about five o'clock on Friday morning,
preparatory to going to work, when his elder brother,
whom the father described as an idle, worthless fellow,
took his breakfast away and began to eat it ; upon which
the young boy came to complain to him, when he desired
him to go to his sister, who would cut him some more
bread and butter. In consequence of this complaint on
the part of the little lad, his brother threatened to beat
him, and in the clearret the prisoner bad thrust the knife
at his brother. The witnesss-des6ribid the elder lad as a
pest to tbe family. In consequence of this representation
the case was -dismissed:

SEAMAN'S WAGES.—A case, which bore some features
of rather an unusual charac'er, was decided at the Police-
court on Friday. John Johnson summoned the Captain
of the Tallyho, Richard Leggett, for £7 12s. wages earned
whilst serving as a seaman under him. The complainant
shipped on board the Tallyho, on the 19 h of April, 1845,
bound for Syria and Smyrna. On the homeward passage
the vessel was run down, and the crew were taken to
France, thence they were sent to London, where they were
told by the Consul they would be paid the amount of
wages due. The whole crew, with the exception of
Johnson, observed these directions, and received theiL
pay in London. Complainant, however, made H voyage
to Africa, and now on his return demanded £7 12s , the
amount of pay due to him when he left the Tallyho. from
the Captain. Mr. Rushton directed an order to be made
on the Captain for the money, allowing him a few days to
enable him to communicate with the owners.
LAMENTABLE SUICIDE. - Considerable excitement
prevaled in the neighbourhood of London-road, on Fri-
day, in consequence of a report having spread that Mr.
William Chalton, the well-known baker, had put a period
to his existence by banging. Subsequent inquiries proved
that the rumour was too well founded. Mr. Chalton
was fifty-five years years of age ; he had latterly been
much addicted to drinking, so much so indeed that for the
last four months he had scarcely ever gone to bed sober.
In consequence of his indulgence in this dangerous habit,
the unfortunate man's mind became affected, and his
friends at times doubted whether he was really sane, so
eccentric were his ways, and so unaccountable were hi:
observations. lie went to bed about four o'clock on the
evening of Thursday, in a state of intoxication. At ten
o'clock, Mrs. Chalton also went to bed, and found her
husband asleep ; he, however, awoke at her approach, and
requested to have some drink given to him. A small
quantity of brondy was accordingly sent for, which he
drank, and they both retired to rest. Upon Mrs. Chal-

ton awaking about four o'clock on the following morning,
she perceived her husband in a kneeling position at the
foot of the bed ; she was, however, horror struck to find
that he was suspended by the neck, and quite dead; the
unfortunate man had tied a handkerchief round his neck
and atta'bed the cord of it to the bed-post near the mat •
tress. When found he had one arm clasped around the
bed post

HOUSEOWNERS' GUARDTAN SOCIRTY.—The annual
meeting took niece at the Brunswick Hotel on Wednes-
day ever ing. Mr. W. Walthew, who was in the chair, ex-
plained the advantages of the association to owners of pro-
perty, and urged the meet,ng to make endeavours to in-
crease the number of members. The report showed that
the society had done much towards a more efficient and
cheaper supply of water to the town, by giving evidence
before the Ilighffay Board. The Town Council and the
public at large had been roused on this subject, and, no
doubt, ere a cheap and abundant supply would be
obtained for all the purposes of life and health. An
attempt had been made to impose local rates on the house-

position, the measure was withdrawn from the sanitary
bill of the Council. The funds of the society were flour-
ishing. The expenditure for the year had been £ll5, and
there was a balance to the credit of the society of £6l.
Mr. Jones referred to the new movement now making
by the Council to rate owners of property to the local
rates, which he considered unjust and unconstitutional.
An inquiry had been instituted by the Council into the

profits of investments by house-owners, which had no-
thing to do witU the question, and the only argument for
such a measure was the difficulty of collecting the rates
from the tenants. It was an unjust interference between
landlord and tenant, and he moved that this new attempt
should be vigorously opposed. The resolution was se-
conded by Mr. Bradley and adopted. Other routine re-
solutions were passed, and a committee tor the ensuing
year being appointed, the meeting dispersed.

DEATH OF AN INFANT FROM THE USE OF A NAR-
COTIC.—One of those deplorable yet oft occurring cases
wherein ignorant mothers are the cause of the destruction

of their beip:ess onspring, by the improper use of nar-
cotics, and soothing cordials,' has occurred in this town
during the past week. The infant of a woman named
Latimer, residing at 31, Gerard-street, being taken ill on
Monday morning last, the mother repaired to the shop of
Mr. Parry, a druggist, in Springfield-street, for a penny-,
worth of the mixture of syrup of squills and syrup of
violets. She took a cup with her, which she handed to
Mr. Parry, at the same time, asking him for the mixture
and telling him for what purpose she required it. Mr.
Parry gave the cup to a boy, who was behind the counter,
at the same time telling him to supply the woman with
the drug. As soon as the mother reached home she ad-
ministert d a tea spoonful of the medicine to her infant,
who immedi itely fell asleep. She awoke the child at four
o'clock in the afternoon and gave it another tea spoonful,
and at ten o'clock the same night. she administered the
remainder of the mixture. The child never awoke after
this. Mr. Bradshaw, a surgeon, was called in on Tues-
day, but his efforts to arouse the infant from the lethargic
state into which it had fallen were fruitless, and on Wed-
nesday night death terminated the struggle. Mr. Brad-

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effusion on the brain catped by the use of syrup of squills,
which is an acrid narcotic poison. A verdict of chance
medley against the mother was returned. The coroner
made some appropriate remarks deprecatory of the manner
in which druggists dispense poisonous drugs to ignorant
people.
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PAPIER MACHE PICTURE FRAMES.—The following
judicial remarks, in which we cordially coincide, are con-
densed from an able paper published is the Art Union :

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•"I"hough the scope of this journal would be inadequate
to the notice of every invention in this prolific age, and
though such notices, when unconnectzd with Fine Art,
may be considered somewhat out of place, we hold it
most peculiarly our province, and to the direct advantage
of the public and Art itself, to scan closely the merits or
th-merits of works devoted, both to the common and re-
fined purposes of every day life, in which shall be in-
volved Fine Art. Thus a chair of gold or ivory, or a
vase of a precious stone, not possessed of classic or beau-
tiful form, fails in becoming an object of admiration to
those of a re-fined and cultivated taste; wealth misapplied
can command the one, and misdirected perseverance and
care produce the other; while the commonest material,.

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nest introduction to the public