The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-19 00:00:00

260 barrels of New Jersey were mad
The sales reached about 6000 bushels, in I

a small lot of 800 bushels at

market. Rye Floi_.
Barley—Sales of 3000
cargo were made at 34 to 35(

ales of 100 barrels were made at
steels were made at G4c. Oats—

lusbels corn were

at 70. A vessel was chartered for Belfast,-tri load with corn
at 9d. in bulk, and flour at 2s. Ed. To Liverpool, 6,000 bbls,
-flour were engaged in a transient vessel at 25., and corn, it
bags and bulk, at 2s. A vessel was chartered for Cork and
-market, to load in Baltimore with corn, at 9s. in hulk ; 10,00(
bushels corn were P,---- -

_ c, c engaged for Glasgow, in bulk, at Bd.
COTTON MARKET.—The tendency of prices to favour the
seller have been as uninterruptedly uniform since the 14th inst.
as they were the preceding fortnight to favour the buyer. The
sales to-day arc reported at 500 bales. Prices not quite so stiff,
although no actual decline has been announced. Closing quo-
tations :

LIVERPCOL CLASSIFICATION

Uplands

N. Orleans, Ma
Florida. bile& Texas.
none none

Inferior
Ordinary
Middling
Good middling
Riddling fair

6 a 61
6i a 6i

Fully fair

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 25, 1848.
--sales of 2,000 bls. Sales

The cotton market continues
of the week reach 22.000 bales.

zi 75; the sales are 3,000 bbls.; corn is dull
and prices less firm; sales of 15,C00 bushels at 48c. for mixed,
and 53c. for yellow; mess pork has advanced, and now com-
mands $lO5O. Of lard there were sales of 120 kegs at Oc.
Sales of 310 Ws. molasses at 20c. In freights and sterling ex-
hange we have no change to notice.

, Nov. 28.
FLoun.—The general operations have beenBOSTON
to meet the usual
trade demand, Genesee .s 5 75 to $5 87, and Michigan and simi-
lar descriptions, 45 62 to 45 75 per bbl.
GRAIN.—The sales indicate less firmness in prices. with rP..

All I,CO, te
ceipts greater than the demand. Yellow flat Corn, new, 63c
and old 67c, white 63c to 64c per bu; other grains the same a
previously reported.

ALBANY, Nov. 27, 1848.
Receipts by canal since Saturday—Flcu: 28,000 bbls. ; wheat,
2,600 bushels ; corn, 3,500 do. ; barley, I'l,ooo do. 'I he flour
market is dull, while quotations remain about the same; sales
of 2,500 bushels of rye at 60c. Of barley there were sales of
9,000 bushels at 61 a 66c., according to quality. In oats we
notice sales of 6,000 bushels at 33 a 34c. A lot of 100 Mils.

ken at private bargain

There were alarming riots at Memel on the 4th inst.,
the town being completely in the hands of the populace
during four or five hours. Great excesses were committed.
The French brig.of-war Pandour was wrecked in the
River Plate during the month of Septenct---
mearly all her crew unhappily perished.
Prince Louis Napoleon is to ;- I

Last, ark

the Presidency by a general amnesty, from which will be,
excepted, however, the prisoners at Vincennes, who are to
be tried.

No less than four hundred and five members of the
National Assembly have been to inscribe their names at
the residence of the new President of the Republic.
People worship the rising sun in France as well as else-

The Portuguese war steamer Mindelho, was despatched
on the 10th inst. for Naples in search of the Pope, to
offer him an asylum in Portugal, should he think fit to
accept it. The Queen's Chamberlain, Count de Penafiel,
is charged with the mission. Maffra is being prepared for
his reception.

AUSTRIA.—The accounts from various parts of the
Austrian dominions testify the general approval of the
people at the abdication of Ferdinand and the accession
of Francis Joseph. The latter, it appears, wishes to act
with much independence. The^ young Emperor always

appears in public- in military uniform, and also Cvl;en—lie
gives audiences to deputations.

Some Ruisian saints in the catacombs at Kiev, with
their own hands built themselves into the niches of a

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death, they one by one expired in the conviction probably
that by this meritorious sacrifice they had entitled them-
selves to a place in heaven.

Letters from Rome of the 4th inst. announce that on
the 3d inst., one of the Cardinals

remaining in Rot

having received

•i• • • v... um, vpc, uuuuuiug am
the acts of the new Ministry, and commanding the dis-
solution of the Chambers, be communicated it to the
Chamber of Deputies, who convoked an extraordinary
meeting of that Assembly. The House met at midnight,
and, after a discussion which lasted until morning, it was
determined that the rescript of his Holiness should be
iegarded as of no value, as it was not signed by any re.
sponsible Minister. The Assembly resolved further, that

His Holiness to pray him to return to Rome.
A GALLANT YOUNG WOMAN.—A letter, dated Madras,
18th October, has been addressed to the editor of the
Madras Spectator; by Captain Biden, detailing the in-
trepid conduct of a Miss Arnold. It appears that the
Rainbow, from Southampton to Aden, arrived there on
the 16th ult., Captain Arnold had died ten days before,
and the chief mate was incapacitated from drunkenness.
The Captain's daughter, about 16 years of age, was on
board. After her father's death the second mate made
an attempt to entice the young lady to run away with
the ship. She indignantly repelled his attempts, and
though in deep grief for her bereavement she rushed on
the quarter deck and made a public appeal to the crew as
-British seamen—throwing herself upon their protection.
They all, but two who had been led away by the second
mate, said they would protect her, and intimated to the
rest of the crew that if any one injured her they would
throw him overboard. She then suggested as a further
-means of safety that all the spirits should be thrown over.
board, and they instantly did so. The young lady after
wards slept and remained constantly on the quarter 0-
guarded by three faithful tars, and attended by P'" -
female. She represented the ^^—
ship, and the second mate and
arrested and put in prison. Mist.
educated and amiable young lady
guest at Aden of C.- 'tamp ""

e arrive

Arnold, w•ho is a Wjll
r, became the weleomi

omas. 'The reains ber
father, which at her request . had been preserved in aof
cask
of spirits, were buried at Aden the day after the ship's ar-
rival. She bad always kept his accounts; the second
mate navigated the ship, hut several of the crew knew the
coarse to Aden, and watched his proceedings.
' American editor thus logically nudges his delinquent
subscribers—We don't want money desperately bad,
but our creditors do, and no doubt they owe you:, If
you pay us, we'll pay them, and they'll PaY•YOU."

. .
Mr. Catlin states that one of the most violent causes
of the Indian's hatred of white men is, that nearly every
Indian crave is peened by them on the frontier. ,for their

or for the and trinkets

him
from ti

day

name of

preserve I

taining

of the S 0(
THE (

chant the

IRELAND.

--.--

The William Penn, steamer, arrived at Waterfcrd from
Liverpool on Thursday. with fifty persons who had emi-
grated some short time since.
Six human beings were last week found in a hut at
Cross, Tipperary, who had subsisted for three days on
tainted horie flesh.

The grand jury of the city of Dublin have returned true
bills against Mr. Duffy, for felonious articles in the Nation,
and for the letter to Smith O'Brien, urging him to
rebellion.

The Dublin Freeman's Journal of Tuesday is in a
towering rage, becausa Mr. Connellan, one of the Castle
Secretaries, writing to the Very Rev. Dr. Spratt, ad-
dressed him simply as "Sir."
A SIGNIFICANT HINT.—A human skull was deposited
at the hall-door of Mr. Kemmis, the crown solicitor, in
Kildare-street, on Friday night or Saturday morning, as
a premonitory caution against " jury packing."—Dublin
Herald.

PRAYERS FOR THE POPE.---The Dublin Freeman's
Journal says :—" We understand prayers are being of-
fered up, throughout the entire of Catholic Ireland, for
the speedy deliverance of his Holiness Pope Pius IX.
from all his enemies." Who are they ?

PAUPERISM.—On Tuesday there were in the Cork Union
Workhouse no fewer than 5,057 paupers, and those in a
union the workhouse of which was originally built to con-

There are now

.....khouse, two
other large and convenient auxiliary houses provided for
the paupers.

iruay night a man named
John Hagarty, under driver in the Ballinrobe Union, on
Lord Sligo's property, was brutally murdered within a
short distance of the town of Hollymount. The deceased
sold some oats in Hollymount, and was returning home
when the barbarous attack was made upon him.
There are already 1,500 applications for the professor-
ships of the new colleges in Ireland, and singularly enough
there is not now living a single man who had taken a
scholarship in Trinity College, Dublin, for the last fifteen
years, save a few who have succeeded in their professions,
who are not among the candidates.
On the 16th November, William Allice, living near
Clonmel. was going home when he was assailed near the
village by four men, one of then, armed with a
r-- with which their unfortunate victim was struck on the

head ; he was then taken into a public-house not far off,
but he expired on the 3d instant.

The following melancholy narrative may well be classed
among the dreary annals or the poor. A cottier tenant of
five acres of land owes £2 odd poor
_rates—his two cows

are seized for the amount; he begs that one only may be
taken—his manner is not very composed, and the bailiffs,
believing there is mischief in his look, fall upon and kill
• Such is the substance of the report, which is taken
' e Roscommon Messenger.

ENGLAND'S CRUELTY TO IRELAND.—The rates actually
collected at Westport in Ireland have been at the rate of
5(1. in the pound, per annum, on the estimated rental of
the union, amounting to an aggregate of 2s. 4d. in the
pound for the whole five years and a half; while, in the
period of two years only, the sums brought in aid of the
resources of the union by the British lecislature and

British benevolence have amounted to upwards of 68s. in
the pound on the valuation. Is not that enough to knock
a man down?

Three men, accused of a murder committed eight
months since, have been arrested in the Duharrow mnun-

3appy victim in this affair was a man named

and, being overtaken _ by rain

he directed 1

neighbouring house for shelter. This house was,' it ap-
pears, at the moment in the hands of a' party which had
attacked it. Their sentinels warned him not to approach,
but Devitt, not heeding the warning, went on, and was
ahot dead as he entered the house.

IN RE CONCILIATION-HALL, BANKRUPT.—The Cork
Examiner, most probably itself a creditor of the wretched
swindle on Burgh-quay, Dublin, has the following pathetic
announcement :—" Conciliation Hall has offered that por-
r• . . . . _

ps the provincial press fares worse than the
but these are the terms offered, and per-
the provincial proprietors." " How are

mighty fallen !"

iNenan, itchy, uabbons, and Corporal Mills, left
the Ranalagh Harbour, near Athlone, about dusk, in a
small boat. Unfortunately they had not proceeded far
when the boat struck against an embankment made across
the river by the contractors under the Shannon Commis-
sioners, in carrying on the navigation improvement, over-

however, was saved, having clung to
ssistance reached from the shore. The
remaining party were drowned.

nt Gibbons
iat until

iELANCHOLY DEATH OF Two CHILDREN.—On Fri-

iron, a

t two chi

Irath, he being 14

rather and sister of the
and she 16 years of age,
were returning, between nine and ten o'clock at night,
from Dergbridge market ; their way, for two miles, lay
across the bleak mountains of Tiernan, where there was
neither road nor dwelling. There, it seems, the storm
and cold of that tempestuous night became too much for
their physical powers. In the morning they were found
dead by each other's side. The girl, on leaving home,
1 ad a shawl and small woollen handkerchief ; one of these
was found wrapped round the brother's feet and legs, and
the other round his head and neck, while his two hands
were folded in her bosom ; she, it seems, was trying to

Dublin Freeman's Journal.

GOVERNMENT EMIGRANTS.—I saw at the North-wall
a number of pauper female orphans from Cavan Union,
nn 14..6 vsdravr 1.. —1- a •

,
vernment for Australia, and I was surprised at the neat,
healthy, handsome, nay elegant appearance of these poor
girls. The relieving officer and the matron informed me
that the ages of the girls average from fifteen to eighteen
years—that they can all read, and all write but two, some
of them superiorly, both as to style and penmanship,
and that in general they do most kinds of needlework.
The impression left on my mind is, that they are quite
accomplished young women ; and I must add that, enter-

itherto

law, Imust confess that it has some redeeming features.
The girls, with others from Boyle, Loughrea, &c., in all
above 100, sailed by the Duke of Cornwall at one o'clock
on Saturday.—Correspondent of Saunder's News Letter.
EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.--At the Kilkee petty ses-
sions, whilst the magistrates were delivering their judg-
ment in a case of Curtin v. O'Donnell, Mr. Studdert, one

conduct relative to the case, when aVoThe;;;g;;;;;7,7
Vandeleur, caught up the remark and said, " Do you
mean to say that I acted unhandsomely, as you insinuated
on former occasions ? If you do, 1 say your conduct is
unhandsome and ungentlemanlike." He then rose from
the bench. and rushed at Mr Stmlfi.v4-

collared. A
parted by M

uggle ensued, until the belligerents were
Little, by the chief of notice. and other

They then add

_ct each other in violent
language, which is not reported. Colonel Vandeleur left
the ronrt hilt tone 'on" mse 1.- T

..••••-•••T UULII aus uruiuer JUSLICCS ior trielr
undignified conduct. Both gentlemen seemed to feel the
force of this reproof ; and, after an explanation on the
part of each, shook hands and parted apparently onfriendly

PROTESTANT AND ROMAN CATHOLIC JURORS.—The
complainers about the rejection of Roman Catholic jurors
from the state trials in Ireland, have ignored such particu-
lars as did not suit their end quite as freely as they pre-
tend the officials have shut out Roman Catholic jurors.
They have totally omitted all allusion to the setting aside
of Protestants, w

that a foreigner-

hether by the Crown or the accused, so
and these documents are fabricated with

I view to foreigne

—might naturally imagine that
this practice of challenging was an instrument of tyranny
in the hands of the Crown, and not a constitutional gua-
rantee of fairness open to the accused, and used by him
as freely as by the prosecutor. Much less have they allu-
ded to the fact that the Crown set aside very nearly twice
as many Protestants as Roman Catholics, viz , of the for-
mer 71, and of the latter 37. On Mitchel's trial 42 ner-

On O'Doherty's

the Crown, of whom 3 were
.holies. On his second trial,

1 3 Ro

Roman Catholics. On his third trial, 22
by the Crown, of whom 16 were Protestants

aside by the Crown, of whom 14 were Protestants and 6
Roman Catholics. Thus, on all the five trials, including
the two which did not lead to conviction, there were, as
we have said, 71 Protestants set aside and only 37 Roman
Catholics. The memorialists have industriously suppres-
sed this fact; not because the Lord-Lieutenant knows it,
but because others possibly do not. Such unfairness
would be scandalous if it WPM not

UNIVERSITY

4ND CLERICAL NEWS

The Rev. Robert Brickel, 8.A., formerly perpetual
curate of Shireshead, in this county, has been instituted,
by the Lord Bishop of Manchester, to the Rectory of
Hoole, near Preston, vacant by the decease of the Rev.
Miles Barton.

On Sunday week, whilst the Rev. Canon Parkinson
was preaching in the Manchester Cathedral he was seized
with an affction of the throat, and though water slightly
relieved him, he was only able to pronounce the bene-
diction and dismiss the congregation.
There has been a good deal of agitation at Plymouth in
consequence of the mode in which-the Rev. G. R. Prynne,
the minister of the new district church of St. Peter's,
Eldad, performed the service. A letter has been made
public from the Bishop of Exeter to the Rev. G. R.
Pryr.ne, permitting his concessions to his parishioners re-

specting the surplice and the chanting of the Litany, but
refusing to advise him to take their " dictation" on the
subject of a short prayer before the sermon,_.

lONARY hoc

-enn, for t

the Chtirch

Missionary society. The subsei
church door 3 amounted to £5O 16:
hpi Mnia:tv avid Priv 16014

In addition to this

of XlOO. In the evening a meeting of the friends of the
ociety took place at the house of Lord Wriothesley Rus-
sell, one of the canons of Windsor, at which resolutions
'e adopted for the effectual promotion of the interest
at Windsor and Eton
HDRAL AT BRISTOI

—Considerable •exeite-

ment was created at Bristol on Sunday, owing to the fol-
lowing circumstances :—lt appears that the Dean .and
Chapter had recently come to a resolution to give up

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stood that Sunday was the day when the new practice was
to be attempted, and as-it was also intimated that one of

identiary canon

Ltion to

J, . considering it his duty, ,there

was a strong muster of the inhabitants determined to sup.
port him by chanting the responses. The cathedral was
crowded, but it appears that some compromise had been
entered into. The Rev. Canon Sartis read the service
without chanting, but the choristers appeared in their
gowns and chanted the responses as usual. The inhabi-
tants generally are very averse to having this old custom
abolished.

EMIGRATION AS A CHURCH MOVEMENT.-Why
should not the Church of England, which ought to be
united in the holy cause of propagating the Gospel in
every corner of the British empire, organise an association
for assisting, wholly or in part, under rule and regulation,
poor Church people of good character, to remove from a
precarious competition for subsistence, which rages in
many of our overpeopled districts and villages, to those
more genial latitudes where industrious habits will not
fail to ensure to themselves and their offspring, at no dis-
tant period, an honest and easy independence ? As it is,
Churchmen do combine with members of other commu-
nions for the promotion of emigration. We see Lord
Ashley and his friends urging on our Christian sympathy
the claims of the " ragged." In another direction Lord
Harrowby is at the head of a Society of kindred spirit;
while the City Mission and its agent, Mr. Jackson, are at
work among the convicted law-breakers. In all this,
however, where is the poor Churchman and his children ?
Who is considering the distressed of the "household of
faith ?"

THE REV. BAPTIST NOEL'S FAMILY.—Mr. Noel's
grandfather was made First Lord of the Admiralty on the
impeachment of Lord Melville in 1805, being then an
aged man. We have been informed by an intimate friend
of the family, that on accepting office, he stipulated that
he should not be expected to attend any Sunday Cabinet
dinner, or in any way to violate the Sabbath. He was
created Lord Barham, and as he had only a daughter, the
succession was extended to the female line, a favour which
Lord Collingwood, who was similarly circumstanced, so-
licited in vain. His only daughter and successor, the
Baroness Barham, was married to Sir Gerard Noel, for
very many years M.P. for Rutlandshire, by whom she had
several children, the present peer, created Earl of Gains-
borough by the Whigs, being the eldest. The marriage
was not happy, Sir Gerard Noel being, according to the
assertions of his lady's friends, a gay and even dissipated
whilp Lady Barham qua a weak and fanatical zealot.
They separated, and white Sir Gerard remained in Rut-
landshire, Lily Barham went to reside at Fairy Hill
near Swansea. The childrei

we believe without excep-
tion, took part with their mother, and were educated by
her and under her eye and direction. In Wales, Lady
Barham occupied herself in buildinz and directing small

meeting-houses in the several villages of Gower, a district
west of Swansea. Her doctrine was that of the Calvinis-

tic Methodists, and her chief friends and advisers were
ministers of that persuasion. She associated little, if at
all, with the neighbouring country families. She com-
mitted the general management of her affairs to a person
whom she advanced from being her footman to be the
chief of her preachers, and the superintendent of all the
rest. He built himself a handsome villa, and lived in af-
fluence. Her family had much reason to believe that this
person was not worthy of her confidence, and they saw
occasion to institute an unpleasant inquiry after her death.
The dissenting education which Lady Barham's children
received produced its effects. Her eldest son, the present
Eat'', was once fined, under the Conventicle Act, for hold-
ing meetings for public worship at his mansion, we think,
in Essex, a Dissenting preacher officiating. Mr. Baptist
Noel's irregularities may be referred to the same course.
—Cornwall Gazelle.

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

riking a

@metal :I+ltsrtlianv.

-AS
EAST INDIA WHEAT.—An arrival of 30 casks and 227
bags of wheat has taken place from Bombay.
A Glasgow inventor has obtained a patent fora machine
for cutting hides or leather into thongs, in such a manner
that each hide may be converted into one continuous strip.
Mr. J. Williams, M. P. for Macclesfield, has given
£5OO towards supplying baths and wash-houses for the
poor of that town.

A female died a few days ago of cholera, at Hudders-
field. The place in which she lived was little better than
a cesspool.

A fishing boat, belonging to Portskerra, in Sutherland-
shire, was lost in a storm, on Tuesday week, and the eight
men who formed her crew were all drowned.
The electric light has egain beeu exhibited by Mr.
Staite in London upon several occasions. A company is
in formation for introducing the light into general use.
As Mr. Wood, of Clayton-in-the-Clay, was on his way
to Barnsley in a gig, to record his vote in favour of Mr.
Denison. on Wednesday last, he had a fit and expired.
Mr. Wood was between 70 and 80 years of are.
Ayrshire was visited by a severe hail and thunder storm
on Saturday last. A flock of crows sitting on a hedge
were struck by the electric fluid, and sixty-two of them
were killed.

Sir E. K. Kerrison, says the Suffolk Chronicle, has
this week sent to a friend in Eye a hare, a brace of
pheasants, and a leash of birds, all packed within a turnip,
which measures fifty-one inches in circumference. '
The news from Dumfries is sad indeed. Provost
Chrighton, one or two of the medical gentlemen, and
many of the principal inhabitants, have fallen by cholera
spasmodica, in addition to others already reported.
The report that Sir Charles Napier's squadron has been
ordered to Tangier to call to account the Emperor of Mo-
rocco for the numerous acts of piracy perpetrated by his
subjects has been contradicted.

The infant child of two " latter-day saints " recently
died of an abscess at Northampton, through the obstinate
fanaticism of its parents, who refused to obtain medical
attendance for their infant, on the ground that human aid
in cases of sickness is not only useless but sinful.
A few days since, a labourer. who was working in a
field at Adwalton, Yorkshire, was gladdened by finding a
purse containing 388 sixpences; but upon a closer exami-
nation of his treasure, his joy was damped by the dis-
sovery that all the coins were base.

On Sunday morning week an affray took place in Kent
between some poachers and keepers, when one of the. for-

keeper _ with

As gun, was

s oreaking and exploding_ _.
entered the poacher's body, and he fell lifeless_
The Droitwitch salt trade is at present in a state of
great activity. The stock on hand three months ago of
manufactured salt was about ten thousand tons, the whole
of which has been cleared off, and all the works are em-
ployed in production to the full extent of their power.

Fie contents

- While an old gentleman named Nottage was at meeting
on Sur.day morning last, at Saffron Walden, in Essex,
some impudent thieves entered his house and stole £l7O.
On retiring with their booty, they had the assurance to
writein chalk, on the door, " Watch while you pray."
The floods in the Trent have lately been so strong that
the low lands bordering on the river have been over-
flowed in many places; and on Sunday a sloop laden with
coal was sunk by the rising of the waters, which drowned
a boy who was in his berth on board.

In a Darlington lodging-house there is one room con-
taining nine beds. The charge per bed is threepence,
whether it be occupied by one or two persons, or the
lodgers sleep "as thick as three in a bed." One man
pays threepence ; two pay three-halfpence, and three pay
a penny each !
The tide rose to such a height in the Thames on Tues-
day afternoon, that the Essex, Woolwich, Wandsworth,
and Battersea marshes were covered with water; and se-
veral streets in Lambeth were so deeply flooded, that it
was necessary to use boats to ferry the inhabitants to and
from their dwellings.

Mr. William Underwood, farmer and grazier, of Lut-
terworth, was attacked in his own field the other day by a
large ram of the Wiltshire breed, which knocked him
down repeatedly—though he broke a gun with beating it

about the head—and would probably have killed him, had
he not contrived to, blindfold the animal with his hand-
kerchief.

On Friday night a quarrel took place among a company
drinking in an inn at Badminton, and a fight ensued lie-
tween Elijah Hobbs, a carpenter, and James Watts, an as-
___

sistant in the stable yard. Subsequently Watts was found
dead in the yard, having received two mortal stabs on the
left side, near the heart. Hobbs has been committed to
gaol for the murder.
A Dumfries paper mentions that, on Wednesday week,
four workmen employed in blasting rock in the Drum-
lanrig railway tunnel, applied matches to four holes filled
with gunpowder, and retreated to a place of safety, where
they remained until they heard an explosion. They then
returned, but one of the " bores." which had not taken
fire with the others, suddenly exploded, mortally wounded
one of them, and severely injured the other three.
A Shrewsbury paper states that on Friday week, a ser-
vant girl, who was cleaning some kitchen utensils that
hung over the chimney-piece in her master's kitchen,
near St. Briavels, accidentally knocked a flask of gun-
powder from the peg on which it was suspended. The
flask fell into the fire, and while she was attempting to
snatch it from the flames the powder exploded, and so
severely scorched her face and arms as to disfigure her for
life, although she was not dangerously injured.
On FridP- at a

..ay morning a daring burglary took place at
farm-house, called Winfield, about seven miles from Bir-
mingham, when several men entered, and used great vio-
lence towards Mr. Thomas Sly, an old man seventy-eight
years of a -‘. and his 1---- ' the only inhabitants,
to compel t '”•ok,

~tiem to be quiet. Having broken open one or
two chests, they at last found the object of their search, a
bag with five hundred sovereigns in it, the old man's
hoardings, and made off with it. They have not since
been heard of.

BIBLE BuRNING.—The Roman Catholics of Birming-
ham have published an acknowledgment of this act, as
follows :—" We, the Catholic clergy of Birmingham,
having seen it stated in a letter from the Rev. Joshua
Greaves, that one of our body had burnt a copy of the
Protestant version of the New Testament, found in the
house of a Catholic, have no hesitation at once to admit
the fact ; but wish at the same time to add, that the act
was regretted afterwards by the clergyman by whom it
was done, and strongly disapproved of by his brother
clergy, as soon as known "—&e.
HANSARD'S PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES.-Mr. Pen-
nigton, in his auction mart, on Saturday evening, offered
for sale Hansard's Debates, but no person seemed inclined
to purchase them. " Gentlemen," said he, " I'll sell
them to you as a horse was sold the other day in England
by the pound." The offer was accepted, and the debates
were knocked down at lid. per pound. " What will they
weigh, do you think ?" said the fortunate purchaser to
the auctioneer. The reply, which created considerable
merriment was—" One ton and a half, about £l5 will pay
for them I"

ATTEMPTED ROBBERY AND MURDER.—On the morn-
ing of Sunday week some thieves entered Brickendon-
bury Hall, near Hertford, the residence of Mr. Russell
Ellis, the East India Director. Mr. Ellis and his friends
had been out shooting on the day before, and being very
successful, the larder at the hall was well stocked with
game. The groom was armed, and saw one man watch-
ing, and another carrying off the contents of the larder.
Instantly he heard a gun go off close to him, and felt the
flash upon his face. He drew back, and heard the man
say, " You disturbed us before, and we meant to give it
you this time," upon which he went off. The groom wa3
not wounded, but a bullet was found imbedded 2i- inches
deep in the door-post. Two men and two boys have been
taken into custody on suspicion.
Two CHILDREN BURNT.—On Monday, Edward and
Mary Pritchard, the former five and the latter three years
of age, children of labouring people residing in that
parish, were left, during the absence of their parents at
their daily employ, in the care of an elder sister, aged eight
years. The whole were out of doors at play, and the lit-
tle girl asked permission to go in to warm herself, which
was assented to. Shortly after, her cries were beard by
her brother, who rushed in, followed by his eldest sister,
who found her enveloped in flames. The whole, for want
of knowing better, immediately ran out of doors, and the

boy Edward, in assisting to extinguish the flames of his
poor sister, lost his life, both, we understand, lingering
for a short time only.—Herqford Journal.

A DOG'S MAJORITY.—We have often had occasion to
record pleasure parties, but we think we shall now throw
all previous accounts into the shade. A good lady, whose
favourite spaniel had attained the age of 21 years, gave
(no matter when or where) a festival in honour of the
event. She invited all the dogs of her friends and neigh-
hours to a good substantial supper, which, in chief, was
nothing less than a boiled leg of mutton. She had them
all placed on the table with a plate before each, and, if
not sensible of the event, they did justice to .her bounty,
and behaved with great decorum. We need not heighten
the absurdity by enumerating all the viands of the feast ;
but as something of a redeeming quality, she did not omit
to invite the owners of the dogs to rejoice with her on so
interesting an occasion.—Carlisle Chronicle.

LOWERING A Housz.—A clever application of mecha-
nical power was made at Angleton last week. A silk ma-
nufactory was lowered a story in a few hours. The whole
affair, which rivals the removal of houses in America, was
thus performed, In the first place the operator made two
inclined planes, with four long planks on the edge, sup-
ported by poles outside the buildings, and had waggons to
slide down the bricks, &c., the full waggons to pull the
empty ones up by means of a rope and pulley. He then
lifted with long levers, alternately, the beams which sup-
ported the roof, and supported them with small blocks of
wood, whilst he lowered the walls one course of bricks at a
time, so that the roof was gradually and imperceptibly
lowered about eight feet to the top of the third story,
without the least accident occurring, or without the break-
ing of a single tile.
WANT AND SUICIDE.—On Saturday Mrs. Emily Brown
Staples, aged 50, widow of the late Captain Charles Sta-
ples, an old Peninsular officer, committed suicide at her
lodgings in London. The deceased had become very
much reduced hi circumstances, but was excessively proud
in her poverty •, and latterly contrived to live by the ex-
ercise of her talents in drawing, painting, and millinery.
She had fallen into a few week's arrears of rent ; the cir-
cumstance evidently took a deep hold upon her mind, and
at last her intellect became so deranged that she commit-
ted suicide by swallowing the contents of two bottles of
laudanum. On a paper on the table near her bedside
were found the following heart-rending words : God
bless you all—remember me. Distress, disappointment,
wretchedness, and despair, drive me to this unhappy end,
arid are the cause of all.

The late Mr. Youatt, in one of his orations to the
members of the Veterinary Coll es—" That by
ler emistry, the m ical pro-
sfully to treat diseases which
as not within the reach of medi-