The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-03-18 00:00:00

THE BULLION QUESTION

(The following appeared in only a few copies of
our last publication.)
THE Manchester Guardian, after having almost
shelved the bullion question for some months,
returns to it in its publication of Wednesday last,
for the purpose of claiming for himself and his
brother free-traders a character for infallibility in
the matter. With respect to the influence of the
Californian discoveries, they have been right, and
all the world besides have been wrong ; but in his
attempt to show this, the Guardian takes a little
too much for granted. He commences :-

" It was not without good cause that we warned our
readers against putting implicit faith in the very general
assumption, that the advance which took place, during
the last six months of 1850, in the market price of silver,
was caused entirely by the influx of gold from California,
and that it denoted the measure of an actual and perma-
nent depreciation in the relative value of the latter metal.
Whether any depreciation has really taken place in the
value of gold we must wait some time to see ; but that
the entire change in the market price of silver was due to
that cause is sufficiently disproved by what has recently
taken place."

Now. it was never " generally" assumed that the
recent advance in the market price of silver was
" caused entirely by the influx of gold from
California." Other causes contributed to raise the
value of silver on the Continent; nevertheless the
increased supply of gold from California was the
great inducing cause of such rise. It was the
prospect and the actual presence of that supply
which caused France to meditate, and Holland and
Belgium to carry out, the substitution of silver in
the place of gold as the basis of their currency;
anal the depreciation of the latter would have gone
on to a greater extent but for a contrary operation
being in progress in the United States of America,
by which a quantity of the silver coinage of that
country was set free. The operations of the former
countries having been nearly completed, and France
having for the present ceased to meditate any
change at all, the price of silver has naturally
approached more nearly to its former rate. Our

conte►nporary

sums up as follows

" On this subject, the Economist of Saturday last
says,—' For silver there is no longer an active demand.
No price is offered, and a fall in its value is anticipated.'
These facts will probably induce certain writers,—who
have been exulting over what they choose to consider the
downfall of the metallic currency of England,—to doubt
the soundness of their conclusions on that head. They
may rely upon it, that Californian gold will not destroy
the value of English sovereigns."

We are not aware that any one has ever maintained
that Californian gold will "destroy" the value of
English sovereigns ; or that a temporary decrease
in the value of silver as compared with gold is
conclusive of the assertion that the new source of
the supply will exercise no effect upon the.standard
of value. On the contrary, if there is any truth
in the doctrines of political economy, and we are
not to ignore the writings of Mill, M'Cullocb, and
others, the conclusion is irresistible that such
increased supply must decrease the price of gold,
as compared with that of other commodities ; and
that such decrease will be rapid or slow according
to the rate at which the excess of supply over our
wants—and this principally for monetary purposes—

is provided

THE CORN MILLERS

D FREE TRADE

It having frequently struck us that the large imports of
foreign flour must eventually tell very materially against
the interests of this country, we have been induced more
minutely to look into the subject, and find that in 1850,
by the large quantity of flour imported, we were placed in

the followingratherunprofitabl po3itiOr

in the first place it would reqUire 4,822,898 cwts., or
1,125,343 quarters of wheat to produce 3,858.319 cwts. of
flour (the quantity imported in 1850), which, at 133. per
cwt., would amount to £2,507,906, while the wheat at
403.. would only have come to £2,250 686. leaving a profit

to the foreigner on the flour

chat he would have got for his wheat, independent of the
quantity of bran and fine bran which they would have left
• feeding cattle. &c., and second and thirds flour for
~iscuits. But had this .been imported into
this country even in wheat, our national advantage would
have stood thus :

making sea

£2,250,686

£2,507,906

56,267
33,759

64.304 c

,s., on

Profit to millers

i 157,814

£2,590,163

2,590,163

£339,477

But it would have been a national profit by including
the grinding of £480,144 on the produce of our alone.
and our benefits would not have ended here, for it would
have required 1.928,915 sacks to have held the produce
of that quantity of wheat ; but presuming that only half
that quantity of_ sacks had been requisite, which, at 2s.

per sack, would be £96,445, and would have employed
3700 persons at 10s. per week, and by taking the labour
of grinding, &c., at 2s. per quarter, which would be
£112,534, it would have employed 2885 persons at 15s.
per week, making a total of upwards of 6500 persons ;
and we think such a powerful array would make an un-
pleasant appearance at the door of some workhouse seek-
ing relief. Through the effects of free trade, indeed,
every act of the present ministry_seems to be framed for

e express purpose of encouraging the productions and
importations of foreign countries, and a fixed determine-

The last con-
'supplying the
ices of pork,
een distributed as fol-

more ample means towards its fulfilment.
tract entered into by the Government fo

ions was for 6000 tier,

Lnd 2000 tierces of beef, and has

1500 Irish, at....
3500 Hambro', at

:6 7 oto a 13 0
6 1 9to 614 6

660 Irish, at....
600 Hambro', at
800 American, at

5 8 4to 5 9 0
5 7 0
4 19 4

So that at last the Americans have got a footing even
in supplying our British navy with provisions, and there
is no doubt. under the present system, they will very
soon monopolise it ; and it cannot be expected that the
Irish will continue in a trade which the government itself

is robbing them of. What would be our position in case
of a sudden war with the provisioning country, we leave
our readers to judge for themselves.
Now, what do we gain by the American contract ?
Why, if they had supplied the whole of the beef, our go-
vernment would only have saved the paltry sum of £lOOO,
which would not above cover the taxes and other national
charges which 2000 tierces of the Irishman's beef would
have been subjected to before he could bring it to market.
How is it possible the British can pay the taxes of this
country, and at the same contend in price with the un-
taxed produce of the foreigner ?

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'e appears the follow►ng
y write.—Lightning."
Standard says that Baron Rothschild has
been converted to Christianity.
The death of the Rev. Ingram Cobbin, the well-known
commentator is announced.

The Lon

There is no truth in the report of the late Duke of
Newcastle having disinherited the present Duke.

A farmer at Paisley has entirety got rid of rats from
his grain stacks by the use of garlick.
A vessel, just arrived from Panama, has brought the
extraordinary large number of 2,104,000 pearl shells.
A large quantity of beautiful china is about to be sent
from the manufactories at Worcester to the exhibition in
Hyde-park. . .

A report is abroad that of 5,000 season tickets taken for

bition, not less ti

'wand are in

the bands of pickpockets.
A temperance lecturer, of Bradford, who is also an
" electro biologist," promises in his programme to make
his audience drunk with water.
Snch is the quantity of glass used in the building for
the Exhibition, that if the duty had not been remitted,
it would have amounted to £IO,OOO.

Some fishermen at Aberdeen, the other day, caught a
al eight feet long, and weighing no less than thirty-six

pound:

The husband of Harriet Sparing, who died from star-
vation at Bath, has been apprehended, and lodged in the
Bath gaol, to await his trial at the ensuing assizes, on a
charge of wilful murder.
The seamen's strike in the north has been settled by
yielding to their demands. The seamen of the port of
London have, however, " struck" They require a change

in existing regulations.
The family and household of a farmer at Chew Magna,
Somerset, consisting of fifteen persons, partook of pan.
cakes in which white arsenic, delivered by a baker, in-.
stead of carbonate of soda, was used. Their lives were
preserved with the greatest difficulty.
Mr. Thomas Russell, of 53, Albert-street, Mornington-
terrace, a magistrate for the county of Middlesex, was
suddenly taken ill whilst out for a walk, on Mon-
day evening, and, being taken into a house he was pass-
ing, subsequently died. Mr. Russell was a bachelor, in
his seventy-third year.
GROSS NEGLIGENCE.—On Saturday morning last the
wife of a foundry-luau in Ipswich, left her child of ten
months old in a wicker chair, within a foot of a blazing
wood fire, whilst she went out to gossip with a neighbour,
and on her return the chair was on fire, the clothes of the
infant were burnt off, Awl the little sufferer wag reduced
to a cinder,

A COMPLIMENT —At the Durham assizes, Mr. Justice
Cresswell, in sentencing Edward Harper. fora criminal
assault at Barnard Castle, observed that the prisoner was
a fair specimen of the people belonging to Barnard Castle,
which was a perfect sink of profligacy and crime.
A gang of burglars, who for some time infested the
county of Anglesea, have just been apprehended and com-
mitted for trial. One personated :a Hungarian refugee,
and another is charged with having murdered a man by
stabbing him.
The shipwrights of South Shields resumed work on
Monday, having come to an arrangement with their em-
ployers. In coming to this arrangement they have acted
independently of the shipwrights of other parts of the
Tyne and Wear, and in spite of their remonstrances.
While a maidservant, named Stirling, was cleaning a
window on the second storey of a house in Monteith-
row, Glasgow, on Saturday week, she overbalanced her-
self, fell on the pavement beneath, and was so severely
injured that she died a few hours afterwards.
At an inquest, held at Bristol, on Monday, on the body
of a young lady named Whitney, the surgeon who made
the post mortem examination stated that there was no
visible cause of death except from the compression of the
stomach and v;seera by tight lacing.
On Tuesday afternoon a young woman, seventeen years
of age, threw herself from the window of an uninhabited
room on the sixth story of a house in Canongate, Edin-
burgh, and was killed on the spot. The deceased was
addicted to drinking to excess.
The Lords of the Treasury have given directions for
the free delivery to the Bible Society of three bales of
German Testaments and Psalms ; and also three cases of
Hungarian, Bohemian, and Servian Bibles and Testa-
ments.

On Tuesday week at Okamoor, Staffordshire, while a
young man named Whiston was working at a lathe driven
by a waterwheel, the loose ends of his neckerchief were
caught upon the revolving drill, and he was strangled, as
he was unable to extricate himself or to give an alarm.
When the last stone was placed on the top of the spire
of St. James's Church, Devonport, the clergyman, archi-
tect, builders, workmen, and others, partook of luncheon
on a platform erected around the topstone, at a height of
150 feet from the ground.
An alarming fire broke out in Norwich on Sunday even-
ing at the printing-office of the Norwich Mercury.
Fortunately, the steam-engine and machinery were but
little injured, but a considerable quantity of type was
destroyed. The proprietors were insured. The supposed
damage is about £2,000. _ _ _ _

Six men were transported for life at Lewes assizes, on
Wednesday, for burglariously breaking into the house of
the Misses Farncombe, and stealing money and other
valuables amounting to 4300. A woman was sentenced
to fourteen years transportation for feloniously receiving
the same.

PAUL JONES.—The St. Lawrence, American frigate,
after landing her freight for the world's fair at South-
ampton, is to take back to the United States the mortal
remains of Commodore John Paul Jones, which are rest-
ing at Paris. They will be taken home in pursuance of
a resolution of Congress. _ _

POISONING AT SEA.—On Tuesday evening, the Isa-
bella„ from Lisbon, arrived at Jersey, with the captain,
named Hanley, dead, and the mate and men, except
Kingston, the cook, very ill. Evidence was taken on
Wednesday, that the cook had used poison in making the

peas soup.
An Irishman named O'Leary was committed for trial,
at one of the London Police-courts, on Tuesday, on a
charge of having bitten off the lip of an old man named
Sullivan, with whom he had picked a quarrel. O'Leary
kept the lip in his mouth for same time, and then spat it
into the kennel, where it was found by a constable.
The Lincolnshire papers mention that Whittlesea Mere
is now completely dry, and that the land thus reclaimed
will soon be divided into farms. Several curious relics of
antiquity, some of which are supposed to have belonged
to the ancient monks, have been found during the pro-
gress of the drainage works.
The Board of Trade has refused to entertain the com-
plaints of the seamen of the port of London. A general
strike is the consequence of this refusal, to the great in-
jury of the shipping trade and the mariners themselves.
What a pity' it is that none of the parties on whom the
Whigs shower their favours, can be made to comprehend
how greatly their condition is improved.
The United States Steam frigate St. Lawrence, arrived
off Cowes at eleven p.m. on Thursday. She has between
1,000 and 2,000 packages on board for the Exhibition,
extending to a total nearly of 3,000 tons, and belonging
to about 5,000 exhibitors. Owing to the largeness of the
freight, all the armaments of the St. Lawrence, save the
guns on the upper deck, had to be taken out.
An instance of real and permanent conjugal affection
was produced at the Somerset sessions, which has hardly,
perhaps, been paralleled in the annals of matrimony. In

an appeal cause, a woman, who was there as a witness,
had never lost sight of her husband for
".er, at any one time, either day or
night, during a period of fifty years_
Three men have been committed for trial at Norfolk for
having in the night entered the house of an aged couple
named Cadge, dragged them from bed, and beaten them
violently about the head and body, till the old man was
held for dead. A servant got out of a window and gave
an alarm, when the fellows made off without having
secured any booty.
The -f Shelf 1, 4 dt

Jurgesses o. —dela nave declined to establish a
public library and museum under Mr. Ewart's Act. They
were polled on the question, when out of 10,986 voters on
the burgess roll, only 298 took the trouble to express an

opinion: For the measure to he carried two-thirds of the
votes must be in its favour ; that not being the case in
this instance, the question is set at rest for a period of two

A contribution from Queen Pdmare to the great exhi-
bition has recently arrived at the West India Docks, in
the ship Pearl, consigned to the building in Hyde Park.
The nature of this contribution has not transpired, nor,
indeed, has space for it been demanded or allotted ; but
it is probable that the royal commissioners will endeavour
to find room for an object arriving from so distant a
place.
The fruits of the purchase of the bloodhound by the
Lincoln Association arc, that whilst several sheep were
slaughtered in the neighbourhood of the city of Lincoln
during the first two months of last year, not_ six have

been slaughtered during the fist two past months of the
present year. The dog is• kept in good training, and
several persons have joined the association for the purpose
of enabling them to avail themselves of its services• in
case of need.

A very singular accident happened to a child two years,
of age, belonging to a labouring man named Shaw, resi-
ding on the New-road, Chatham. It appears that the
mother was in the act of taking the dinner out of the pot
on Sunday, when the child said—" Mamma, I will have a
ride," at the same time jumping on the mother's back,
who, to free herself from the child, gave herself a shake,
when the child fell headforemost into the pot of boiling
liquid, and instantly expired.
EXTRAORDINARY PIGEON FLYING MATCH BY.NIGHT.
—Mr. Rawlings, of Bermondsey, New-road, a well-known
fancier of the feathered tribe, has backed his pigeon to
fly, at dark, from the fifth mile stone, on the Brixton-
hill, to his residence, and afterwards from Shoreditch
Church, with the same bird, which has also to travel to
Mr. Rawlings' house, as above stated. The pigeon has
been in training for some time. The bird is tube marked
by disinterested parties, and, according to the articles
drawn up, must be thrown at both points. A: great num-
ber of bets are depending on the result, as many of the
young fanciers do not believe that pigeons, can fly any
distance in the dark.—Sun.
RAT STATISTICS.—In twenty-one weeks, Joseph
Pooley, a celebrated rat-catcher, of Witnesham, brought
to one public-house in the town no less than 11,465 rats,
which lie sold at 2s. 6d. per dozen ! This man took away
from the town in this short period the sum.of £254 Os. 11d.
He declares that another year of this sort of work would
have made his fortune, and expresses his conviction that
when the authorities stopped " rat pitting" they struck a
severe blow at the prosperity of Ipswich •!' Pooley is cele-
brated as a trainer of rats, that is to say, he will make
them go through sundry manoeuvres, such as picking up
cards, drinking out of glasses, &c. He has in his posses-
sion ten rats, each of which weighs four pounds.—

Ipswich Express.
ALLEGED MURDER.—At Brixton, near Plymouth, a
young man, named John Bunker, I 7; years of age, servant
to Mr. Henry Rowe, a farmer, was found hung up in
a tree in his master's orchard, quite dead, a few days ago ;
but it appears that he had not committed suicide, but had
been forcibly strangled, and strong suspicions exist that
his death had been caused by Mr. Wm. Rowe, the son of

Henry Row

om Hunker had made a charge,
tion, of having committed

seemingly not without found

4:7 •I
an abominable offence. The coroner's jury, after a long
investigation and remaining in deliberation for two hours,
returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person
or persons unknown." Wm. Rowe remains in custody,
charged with offences of an abominable character.

THE SALE OF ARSENIC.—On Wednesday Lord Car
lisle's bill to regulate the sale of arsenic, now in the
House of Lords, was printed. it declares that the unre-
stricted sale of arsenic facilitates the commission of crime.
The bill provides that on every sale particulars of the sale
shall be entered by the seller in a book before the de-
livery of the arsenic,. and every such entry is to he signed

Any person selling arse-
, this bill, and every person giv-
to obtain arsenic, are to be sum-
.. before magistrates, and to he liable to a
exceeding £2O. The bill is not to prevent
-enic in medicine under a medical pre-
A recent case caused the introduction of the

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penalty not

the sale of ar

scription

bill:
TUE SCREW Si

R TO THE CAM—The perform-

ances of the Bosphorus, in completing her first voyage to
and from the Cape, appear to have given satisfaction. On
her outward passage she was 40 days, but the delays at
the different ports touched at occupied upwards of two
days, while the deviations from the direct course conse-
quent upon these calls is estimated at more than four
days. Sierra Leone was reached in less time than by any
other steamer, and the rate of speed up to that point was
210 miles a-day ; but, subsequently, owing to an un-
looked for, and as it is believed an exceptional, state of
the trade wind, it did not exceed an average of 177 miles.
The return passage occupied 38 days (the contract time
both ways being 35 days). but the excess in this case was
caused by the want of Warlich's fuel at Sierra Leone,
and the bad quality of the coal which was taken in in lieu
of it. An error is also stated to have been ascertained in
the contract distance from the Cape to Sierra Leone. By
the contract it is 2,684 miles instead of 3,160, the differ-
ence being equal to 21 days' run. This, added to three
days lost at Sierra Leone, makes five days to he deducted
from the total of 38. The new propeller with which the
vessel is fitted is said to have acted admirably. It is con-
structed so that the blades may be placed in a position to
offer no resistance whatever to the progress of the ship
when under sail alone, There were several opportunities
of testing it, and " both by night as well as by day, and
in all weathers, the position was changed in a few
auto."

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

THE CONDEMNED CRIMINALS AT CHELMSFORD.—The
hope which bore up Drory through the trial (for till the
delivery of the verdict he seems to have been confident of
escape), forsook him on reaching the gaol after his con-
demnation. He was so much exhausted that he was
obliged to be assisted to his cell by two of the officials,
and on reaching it he flung himself upon his bed and lay
sobbing violently for nearly an hour. Mrs. Chesham, on
the contrary, exhibits no difference in her behaviour, but
goes through the usual routine which the discipline of the
gaol imposes on her with perfect callousness, and appears
altogether devoid of remorse. The execution of both
criminals is fixed for the 25th inst.

EFFECT OF JEALOUSY.—At Northampton, on Tuesday
week, William Hurst was charged with shooting at his
wife with intent to murder her. The man and his wife
have resided at Northampton several years, the husband
maintaining the reputable character as a shoemaker. His
marriage took place about twelve months ago, and for a
short time they lived together comfortably. At length
the wife's conduct betrayed the fact that he had been de-
ceived by her. She robbed him of his property, and ab-
sconded with another married man. It appeared that
they had resided at Turvey, in Bedfordshire, and after-
wards at Kettering, Northamptonshire, to which latter
place the husband traced them. He was willing to pardon
her, and entreated her to return home ; but she coldly
refused. On Saturday, the Bth February, having learned
that the guilty parties were at Daventry, he proceeded
thither, and perpetrated the crime for which he was ar-
raigned. Sentence of death was recorded.
A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.—The brig Gipsy, Captain
M'Gregor, which sailed from this port for Newfoundland
on the 7th of December last, put back on Sunday, after
having been three months at three. On the third of
January she encountered a severe gale, and shipped a very
heavy sea, which carried away the band of the fores'ay,
top-mast stay, and strap of the jibboom, damaging the
boats, and rendering them useless : and washing away
the cookhouse and utensils, and carrying the cook, James
M'Neil, belonging to Greenock, overboard. About the
Ist ult. the Gipsy fell in with a great quantity of ice,
when she was about fifteen miles west of her destined
port, and on the 14th, finding it too heavy, and getting
short of provisions, put about for Greenock. On
the 20th she carried away the forevard. and on the 23d,
blowing heavily from the S.W. to N.W., the ship, run-
ning under double-reefed maintopsail, pooped a heavy
sea, which carried away bulwarks, roundhouse, wheel and
compasses, and disabled the captain and John Fulton,
seaman.—Greenock Advertiser.
LAMENTABLE OCCURRENCE.— A simpleton named
James Monteith, has for more than thirty years been em-
ployed about Ardock House, in running errands and work-
ing in the kitchen. He was of the most obliging and in-
offensive disposition, and specially careful of any thing en-
trusted to him. As it was known that he would sooner
surrender his life than part with the letter-bag or any par-
cel under his charge, he was seldom or never annoyed
when thus employed. Indeed he was a general favourite.
On Saturday week one of the maid-servants in a frolic
took the letter-bag from his arm, and made off with it.
As the hour of post was at hand, and James thought his
honour at stake, he became excited, and pursued her into
another room, when she became alarmed for her own
safety, and it is said struck him with a poker on the fore-
head, which caused a fracture of the skull, of which he
died next day. The poor man before he died entreated
that nothing should be done to her on his account, and
the unhappy girl, who is from Banffshire, is almost
distracted. She has been, in the meantime, committed
to Dunblane jail.—Perth Courier.
On Tuesday the strength of the galleries in the Crystal
Palace was put in practice, and the result, as far as it
went, proved highly satisfactory. Mr. Field, of the firm
of Mawdslay and Field, the well-known and eminent
engineers, recommended that a number of strong square
frames should be made, in the interstices of which 68-
pound shot should be placed, and that these, jointed
together, and forming any weight which might be con-
sidered sufficient for the object in view, should be dragged
along the galleries. Accordingly seven frames were made,
each capable of holding 36 cannonballs. of the size just
mentioned. In this way a pressure of 74 tons was readily
obtained, and, as it was ascertained by Mr. Brunel, that
the greatest weight which could be obtained by packing
men as closely as possible on any given space was 951 b.
to the square foot, such a test, representing 1001 b. to the
square foot, was considered amply sufficient to establish
the strength and security of the galleries. As in their
wooden frames they were rolled along by the united
strength of a large party of Sappers the pillars and girders
betrayed no signs of weakness, and the flooring of the
gallery did not vibrate nearly as much as that of a drawing
room daring a ball.
LEEDS.—EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES OF C LOTH.—CHARGE
AGAINST A MANUFACTURER.—SeveraI cloth mills, dye-
houses, and warehouses in the neighbourhood of Wortley,
Bramley, and Pudsey have lately been robbed of cloth to
a considerable extent; and up to within tho'last few days
all efforts to discover the guilty parties had failed. In the
course of Sunday week, Allan Brig Mill was broken open,
and three ends of cloth were stolen. From circumstances
which came to the knowledge of the police, suspicion fell
upon George Oddy, cloth manufacturer, of Wortley Moor,
a man who has hitherto been considered highly respecta-
ble, and whose connexions are much esteemed in that
locality. His house was placed under the surveillance of
the constables of Pudsey, who, after watching from Sun-
day night till Monday afternoon, saw Oddy leave his
house, with two ends of blue cloth on his shoulder, fol-
lowed by his wife, who carried a third end of the same
material. The cloth was seized, and Oddy arrested. On
the police searching his house, they discovered a large
quantity of cloth and other property, which has since
been identified as the proceeds of robberies. Oddy was
removed to the Leeds lock-up. He was examined before
the magistrates on Thursday, when he was committed for

EXTENSIVE FRAUD.—lnformation reached the police
authorities here on Wednesday, from Edinburgh, that a
cattle-dealer, named Scoon, had absconded from that city
after swindling various parties to a large amount. It
appears that on Saturday last, Scoon bought several large
lots of sheep and cattle from the farmers and graziers in
and around Edinburgh with whom he had previously
transacted business, and that he had paid for the stock in
bank cheques, whieh were payable in different establish-
ments. The cheques were accepted in good faith by the
sellers ; but, at the commencement of,the present week,
when one of them was presented for payment at a bank
in Edinburgh, the reply was, "No fundsr and the same
answer was given in all the other banks on which cheques
had been drawn. The police were immediately sent after
Scoon ; but, on inquiry being made at his residence, he
was not to be found ; and it was subsequently discovered
that the whole of the stock he had purchased was for-
warded to Liverpool by the Caledonian Railway on Sun-
day, and sold the following day in the Liverpool market.
At the same time it was ascertained that his wife had
secured a large amount of property, by means of counter.
feit cheques, and, after turning it into cash, had disap-
peared alone with her husband. It is supposed that the
two together have swindled parties to the amount of £6,000
—but the precise sum cannot as yet be stated. The police
are exerting themselves to the utmost to trace out the
fugitives and bring them to justice. A description of their
persons has been sent to the principal towns awl seaports
in the kingdom, and it is not likely they will long escape
detection.— Glasgow •Constitution.
SHREWSBURY ORANGE LODGE.—A new lodge, No.
55, making the fourth in two months, was opened on
Tuesday evening last, when the officers were appointed
and several new members were initiated. The article we
published last week, an exhortation to members of the
Orange Institution has been read with deep interest by
many who were not previously aware of the nature of the
order; that article points out the duties of Orangemen,
and we challenge any man, who believes in his Bible, to
lay a finger upon one word of an objectionable character.
In Shrewsbury we are progressing daily, and there can be
but little doubt, that in less than three months, we shalt
be 300 strong. We invite all Protestant loyal men to
join us. Those only are eligible who will resolve to main.
tain the principles of the Reformation, Protestant Ascen-
dancy, the Church of England, which is the guardian of
religious liberty. and the Constitution which protects our
civil rights. We are only political so far as the constitu-
tion of the country, Queen, Lords, and Commons, is con-
cerned; and we are political, because we are sworn to de-
fend that glorious constitution against the designs. of
Chartists,. Republicans,, and Demagogues. If all men
would act up to the obligations of an Orangeman, party
strife would cease, and society would benefit by the change.
Those who will endeavour to act up to the precepts in-
culcated by the order must become better men, and con-
sequently, more valuable members of the communit
A

)rangernan cares not who knows the obligations of
his order, but he has as much right to signs.and pass-
words as the fieemasons, odd-fellows, or any other society
of a similar character, where men are associated together
for their mutual happiness or interests.—Shrewsbury
Conservative.

AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR.—Some nights since, as a
member of a gentleman's family residing in the country, a
few miles from Bristol, was crossing the hall, he heard a
tap at the door opening on the lawn. He opened it, and
a man sprang in, leaping on and collaring him with vio-
lence. There was something in the manner in which the
act was done to induce him to believe that the matt was
mad ; so, preserving his presence of mind, ho walked
hack, and, quietly drawing the intruder with him, not a
little to the surprise of the family, suddenly introduced
the strange visitor to the dining-room. On meeting the
lights his eyes flashed wildly. His clothes shewed that lie
had crossed over some considerable tract of country, and,
though still a gentleman in his manner and appearance,
he was not at all the visitor a country gentleman's family
would choose for a quiet evening. He called for pens,
ink, and paper, to write to distinguished people, with
which he was at once furnished, and he was otherwise
humoured in his hallucinations, until the coachman was
dispatched on horseback to a private asylum some miles
distant. from which it was suspected he had made his way.
Thus, for some hours, the family enjoyed his strange com-
panionship—every time he shewed a disposition to leave,
tempting him, by some new entertainment, to remain,
lest, getting abroad again, he might meet with some acci-
dent. The maniac himself appeared so pleased with the
family that,before the coachman, with the keepers, had re-
turned, he had promised uncounted thousands, not only
to the master and his family, but to the servants, and his
imaginary largcsses were only interrupted by the entrance
of Dr. and a couple of keepers. He saw clearly
enough that he was outwitted, hut he very quietly con-
sented to return, declaring that the asylum was a very
comfortable place, and that Dr. was very kind, but
added that he neither required doctor nor asylum ; an as-
surance which was far from convincing those who had en-
joyed his company. It appeared that, as conjectured, the
poor gentleman, by some of those exceedingly adroit
, had crossed
his
escape, and, without any definite point o
s‘vicew
de-
vices which insane people often resortf to, had made
the country for miles, climbing walls,
'
house, his instincts for
cold, and seeing lights in the
"until he got
into this gentleman's demesne, when, probably feeling
household comfort returned to him, and he tappcd, as be.
fore related at the door.—Bath Chronicle,