The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-10-14 00:00:00

SPORTING NEWS.

POLICE COURT, YESTERDAY.

A Mr. John Williams. a respectably-dressed man, was fined
los for attempting to smuggle a quart of whiskey from a Dublin
steamer.

NOT THE SWEET Arleta PAGE."—A woman bearing the
name of one of the immortal Avon's best characters, but
lacking all her characteristics and beauties, was brought up on
the charge of having smashed a haberdasher's window in St.
James's-street, the expense of which was, as minutely recounted,
£2 3s. 61d.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FaIDAY, SEPT. 10.
The following were the onlYbets accepted ut the subscription
room this day:—
Cesare:click Stakes.-100 to 10 agst Hippolytus—taken ; 120
to 10 agst Darkie—taken ; 140 to 10 agst Goldfinder—taken ;
200 to 10 agst Backbiter—taken. Offers to take 30 to 1 about
Westow, 25 to I about Trickstress, and 30 to 1 about Champion.
Cambridgeshire-6 to 1 agst Newminster-7 to 1 taken.
Nothing else named.

AN ADJOURNED CASE.—JamesJoyce,Patrick Flannalagher,
and Patrick Arlntyre, were brought before the court on the
charge of being parties who took a prominent part in a faction
fight in Addison-street, and also with assaulting the police-
officer. It appeared, from the evidence adduced, that there
were at least 200 persons enraged in the fight, and that they
called into requisition all kinds of available weapons. The
police-officer knocked for assistance, upon which,—like the
"compact come to in the siege of Anriers.— the besieged replied,
Let us beat the aggressive loe, and fight the battle after."
Hereupon both parties with an admirable disdain for
all obstacles demolished a brick wall. The prisoners were
identified as some of the parties who had been engaged in the
disturbances.—Mr. Mansfield, addressing them, said, that
there was no doubt they had engaged in one of those savage
fights which were a perfect disgrace to any civilized country.
It was too often the case that Irishmen met together intoxi-
cated, they quarrelled, and got to fight, more like wolves than
human beings. This must be put an end to; and, therefore,
he (Mr. Mansfield) should inflict a penalty of 40s. and costs, or
a month's imprisonment.
CHARGE AGAINST AND DISMISSAL OF POLICE-OFFICERS.—
' The three police-officers, Robin (16), Craine (302), and Board-
man (291), who had been suspended on the previons Friday
week, and in whose ease a magisterial investigation had taken
place, were again brought up. Air. Mansfield, in addressing TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
them said, that on the previous Fridly week it had been his Sir,—l did not think, when I addressed you last week, that
duty to suspend three police-officers, one of whom had been I should again have had occasion, until I had seen my predic-
guilty of giving way to the impetuosity of his temper and ill- tions fully realized : but since then, a prominent, though un-
feeling. Upon that occasion, notwithstanding the good foreseen incident has happened to my then contemplated easy
character which the officer had previously received, he deemed winner—Grand Duke. I cannot, therefore, allow the circum-
it his duty-to suspend him, although he (the officer) had been stance of his having gone e.x. to pass unnoticed, although lam
reinstated on the following day. No doubt the police officers gratified to find that I shall only have to give place to my se-
were exposed to a great degree of irritation and annoyance. cond, &c. to make my first, &c. as you will see.
They held an office of great responsibility, and it was essential Having therefore deemed this necessary, I may at the same
that the opinion in the town of their good conduct and impar- time just refer my readers back to what I said respecting
tiality should be high, otherwise they would become Decease- " Mokanna "; and I will also endeavour to satisfy them by one
rily indifferent. The cases of the two other men (302 and 291) or two remarks, with regard to "Goldfinder " and " Back-
were of a far more grave character. It transpired that they biter," which two have come into favour within the last week,
went into a beer-house after it should have been closed, and having had the effect of weakening" Trickstress" and " Cham-
partook of beer. Going into a public-house was another pion," their stable companions.
offence. It would have been their duty to have informed Regarding " Goldfinder " and "Trickstress,"—"Monkeys "
against the publican ; but, very improperly and inconsistently, have been laid at evens between them, whilst the difference in
they had not done so. They both committed an offence, and their the odds have been good four points in favour of the former.
conduct had been most disreputable and improper. They had Alany may not conceive how this is, but 1 suspect lam in the
been now suspended for ten days, and it was his (Mr. Mans- secret.
field's) intention to have restored them ; but his attention had Regarding also " Backbiter" and " Champion," the differ-
been drawn to the distinction between the cases of 302 and that ence in the odds between which are good ten points, I shall
of 291. 302 had been guilty of telling a falsehood in that court, still hold out that the latter.will prove "the stable representa-
when he was on his oath, he having denied having been in the five," as will also '• Trickstrees."
beer-house at all. This had been, to the magistrates, a subject Al y former predictiou was "Grand Duke" first, " Hippo-
of deep and anxious consideration; and upon mature delibera- lytus " next, and either " Champion " or" Tricktress " third.
Lion they found that they bad no alternative but to dismiss 302 Owing to the former having gone dead amiss, I leave the race
. . from the force. As to 291. lie was a von... ma. 0r.,1

TATTERSALL'S—THURSDAY.
Darkie, Hippolytus, Goldfinder, and Backbiter were in strong
favour, but from the dulness of business were not backed for
much money. Mokanna, whose price did not Transpire, may
be fairly returned as "friendless." A disposition was also
shown to lay against Trickstress, Terpsichore, and Windisch-
gratz, but nothing said or done to justify our making a quota-
tion : very liberal odds might have been got about either.
Cesarewitch Stakes.-10 to 1 agst Darkie—taken • 10 to 1
agst Hippolytus—taken and afterwards offered; 12 to 1 agst
Goldfinder; 20 to I .agst Backbiter—taken; 25 to 1 agst Offi-
cious; 25 to 1 agst Westow ; 30 to 1 agst Champior.; 33 to 1 agst
Terpsichore ; 40 to 1 agst Candlewick.

eambridgshire.—iTo 1 agst New. minster - taken ; 20 to 1
agst Darkie—taken ; 30 to 1 agst Curl.

6 to 1 was taken to .e3oo abaft Newminster early in the after-
noon, and 7to 1 offered towards the close. Darkie was very
strong in the market.

Cane was struck out of the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire
on Wednesday.

Derby.-1066 to 60 was laid agst Augur, and 2000 to 60 and
4000 to 100 agst Maidstone.

ranging places huwever with " Cham
'' and my prophecy stands thus :

- ..ux, ---- ---•-• --- --...--.•, 'v.. y.., ~.au, Sou not go to the remaining nags, c.
guilty as the other and the older officer.—Mr. Wm. Rathbone, pion" and "Trickstress,"
the accompanying magistrate with Mr. Mansfield, observed Hippolytus ..
that. whilst it was the anxious wish of the magistrates to pro- Trickstress
tect the police, it was also their duty to protect the public from Champion a
any invasion, and especially against any attempt of doing My Cambridgeshire remarks remain unchanged.
wrong on the part of publicans, whom the police were bound to Liverpool. 11th Oct. 1851. Yours, &c., BEESWING
keep in order.
MISCELLANEOUS.

GENERAL NEWS.

THE " BLOOMER."—The new female fashion in the Ou Monday the Hon. A. Duncombe was elected member
United States has been re-named. and is now called the for the West Riding of Yorkshire, without opposition.
" Camilla." From a Montreal paper we learn that the The scavengers of Bristol have struck for wages, and
" Camilla" is being introduced into that city. the contractors have been obliged to recruit their forces
SUDDEN DEATH OF COUNT REVENTLOW.—His Excel- from London.
lency Count Reventlow, the Danish Ambassador at St. The members of the Stock Exchange have subscribed
James's, expired suddenly on Monday morning, about nearly £l,OOO for the widow and family of the unfortunate
three o'clock, in the Star Hotel, Glasgow. Count Re- Mr. Ingle Rudge.
ventlow has been for a considerable time the Danish By a decision of Mr. Fraser Macqueen, the revising
Ambassador at the British Court. barrister for Finsbury, the whole of the eighty brethren of
THE AMERICAN REAPING NTACHINE.—A trial has the Charterhouse foundation have been invested with the
taken place before the Cleveland Agricultural Society of Parliamentary franchise, as £lO householders.
the respective merits of M'Cormack's and Hussey's The judge of the Brentford County Court has decided
American reapin.v machines, and the report of the jury of that cricket is a legal game, so as to render the stake-
practical men, appointed by the consent of both parties, holder liable in an action for the recovery of the stakes,
to decide the question, is favourable to the latter in a case where one of the parties had refused to pay.
implement. Mr. William Rickford Collet, formerly M.P. for Lin-
AMERICAN YACHIS.—The Lords Commissioners of her coleshire, has been declared a bankrupt. Since he left
Majesty's Treasury have directed Mr. Cornewall Lewis, parliament, Mr. Collett has been engaged in several specu-
one of the secretaries, to acquaint the Commissioners of lations, some of them in Ireland, which have turned out
Customs that their lordships are pledsed to authorise unsuccessful.
them to extend to American yachts the privileges which Mrs. Robertson, of Ednam.bouse, has presented to the
have been already granted to members of the Russian inhabitants of Kelso ten acres of ground, to be turned
yacht clubs. into a public park, and also promised £5OO towards corrl-
M.Louts KOSSUTH'SEXPECTED ARRIVAL Is LONDON. pleting the approaches, lay►ng out walks, and otherwise
—We hear that the celebrated Ex• Governor of Hungary, adorning the ground.
accompanied by Lord Dudley Stuart, is expected to arrive Thedeath of Mrs. Sherwood, the authoress, is announced
in Eaton-square to-day from Marseilles, a gentleman of as having taken place at Yelverton-place, Twickenham, at
fortune in that fashionable locality (Mr. Massingberd) the advanced age of 77. Dr. Baron, an eminent physi-
having given up his house for a fortnight to him, which, cian, at Cheltenham, and intimate friend of Dr. Jenner's,
it is understood, will be the period of his sojourn in the also died on Thursday, at an advanced age.
metropolis.—Morning Herald of yesterday. On Thursday evening last, Mr. Alfred Hanson, a fine,
REDUCTION IN OFFICIAL SALARIES.—On Saturday tall young man, about nineteen years of age, had just
the first reduction in official salaries commenced when a concluded "a schottische dance" at a ball at the Albion
portion of the new Chancery act took effect. The Lord Hotel, Leeds, when, as he was taking his seat, he reeled
Chancellor will now receive £lO,OOO instead of £14,000, and fell backwards on the floor quite dead.
the additional £4,000 being allowed to his Lordship as Mr. Evans, bookseller, of Snow-hill, charged with
Speaker of the House of Lords. The Master of the Rolls sending " Vesta lights" among a parcel of books, by the
has hitherto been paid £7,000, and he will now receive the Great Western Railway, without giving notice of the
reduced salary of £6,000. The two reductions will save dangerous contents, has been fined £5. A porter disco-
£s,ooo a-year. vered the circumstance by noticing smoke issuing from
DEATH OF MR. ALEXANDER LEE.—This well-known the parcel.
and popular ballad composer, we regret to state, died on The decline of pauperism has been a stock argument
Thursday morning. He was in his career connected, as in favour of free trade ; but it is shown by a parliamentary
musical director, with the leading London theatres, and return of rates levied in the London parishes, that ;here
at one period was the lessee of Drury-lame Theatre in was an increase in 1850, a 3 compared with 1840, of 5 per
conjunction with Captain Polhill ; he never recovered the cent., while, if the difference in the cost of provisions be
shock of his wife's death, the late Mrs. Waylett, some allowed for, the increase is felt 25 per cent.
months back, and we regret to announce that he died in At Tolingen, famous for its sword blades, an old blade,
the reverse of affluent circumstances. that is a manufacturer of them, 95 years old, with a wife

SINGULAR CHARACTER.—Mr. Thomas Hale, farmer,
of Greet, near Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, died lately
in his 78th year. The deceased was formerly in poor
circumstances, but a considerable sum having been left to
him by some maiden ladies, his prospects underwent a
change for the better, and by industrious and careful
habits he managed to accumulate a large fortune, dying
worth more than £lOO,OOO. He was unable to read and
write, and such was his love for the shining metal, that he
was unhappy when in possession of bank notes, until he
turned them into gold, and at his death between £lO,OOO
and £20,000 in money was in his house. —Bath Chronicle.
THE LATE MR. DYCE SOMBRE.—Notwithstanding the
large amount which the gentlemen of the long robe and
the solicitors pocketed out of the estate of this unfortu-
nate man during his life-time, it appears that they are
not quite satisfied. for they have now thrown the estate
again into the " confines of the law." The case will
come on early in December, before Sir Herbert Jenner
Fust, the judge of the Prerogative Court at Doctors'-
commons, and the opening is likely to last for several
weeks, as the whole of the voluminous evidence as to the

gentleman's insanity before the lunacy commissioners, all
the documents used in the protracted Chancery proceed-
ings, and many others, will form part of the present case.
—Sunday Times
MR. MILNER GIBBON.—Can anybody inform us what
are at this moment the political opinions of the Right
Hon. Thomas Milner Gibson, M.P. for Manchester ?
Time was when he was a red-hot Tory ; then he became
a Whig ; then a ramping Radical ;—what is he now ?
Has he cut Cobden and Co. ? We really can't tell ; but

some people do say that he is returning to his early love,
and that we shall have the benefit of his advocacy on the
side of Protection. His vote was objected to in Middlesex
last week ; the Conservative agent declined to support the
objection on the ground that the " right hon. gentleman
had changed his politics, and become a Protectionist."
We tell the tale as it was told to us in the columns of the
daily journals ; the reader may place upon it what value
he chooses.—Cambridge Chronicle.
THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN AUSTRALIA.—At the
forthcoming Cabinet Council the recent discovery of gold
in Australia will form one of the chief topics of discussion,
with a view to send out by the next mail instructions to
the governor as to the course ho shall adopt with respect
to the gold fields there. The last packet from Australia
brought dispatches for the government from the governor,
detailing the particulars of the discovery of gold, and the
steps which he (the governor) had adopted to secure to
the Crown the right of the gold, and also to prevent the
people of Australia from going to Bathurst. He also
states in his dispatches that he has not sufficient force at
his command to enable him to carry his orders into effect.
It is stated in circles likely to be well informed on the
matter that Lord Grey (the Colonial Secretary) entirely
agrees with the Governor of Australia in the propriety of
securing the proceeds of this El Dorado to the Crown, and
that he will bring the:matter before his colleagues at the
next Cabinet Council.—Sunday Times.
TRAFFIC RETURNS.—The traffic returns for the week
ending the sth instant, on the undermentioned English
lines of railway, are as follows :

London and North Western

Midland
Lancashire and Yorkshire,

£61,749 .. £48,126
25,321 .. 24,698
16,027 .. 14,487
15,649 .. 11,682
14,772 .. 13,870
26,236 .. 17,720
19,824 .. 15,362
9,563 .. 9,316

93, have just celebrated what is called in Germany "the
marriage of the diamond," the ceremony being again gone
over in the church when a couple have completed their
75th marriage anniversary. Thirty-two descendants at-
tended the hale and hearty old couple.
John Calow, an old pensioner of Sheffield, was found
one morning with his throat cut ; his married sister,
Elizabeth Walton, having raised the alarm. The wound
was expected to be fatal. After a time Calow accused his
sister of having inflicted the wound. She protested her
innocence. Some time since, in a drunken fit, Calow said
he would cut his throat and charge his sister with the deed.
Mr. Charles Dixon, of Stansted, Sussex, has invested
£20,000 in the public stocks, for the purpose of estab-
lishing and endowing a college for six decayed merchants
of the city of London, having no resources of their own,
or an income not exceeding £2O a-year, being widowers
or bachelors of good character, and Protestants, about
60 years of age. The inrcates of the building, which is
now in course of erection at Rowland's Castle, Hamp-
shire, are to have £4O a-year, with a monthly allowance
of £6 for a common table.

London and South Western

London and Brighton

Great Western..
South Eastern .......
York and North Midland

Manchester,Sheffield,and Lincoln-
shire
Bristol and Exeter
York, Newcastle, and Berwick 15,703 .. 16,504
Shrewsbury and Chester
Shrewsbury and Birmingham 607 .. 714
Eastern Counties and Norfolk ... • 17,524 .. 14,399
Great Northern
Chester and Holyhead
North Staffordshire
Leeds Northern
South Wales 1,553 .. 1,230
South Devon
The total receipts on the above line being £262,681,
against £217,995 in the corresponding week of last year,
the increase is shown to be £44,686. The number of
miles open was, in 1851, 4,059, and in 1850, 3,838; ;
showing an increase of 220,1 miles. The average return
per mile per week was, in 1851, £64 Ils. 10d., and in
1850, £.56 15s. 111 d., being £7 15s. 104-d. per mile per
week in favour of *le present year. The returns of the
London and North-Western, Great Western, South-
Western, South-Eastern, Eastern Counties, and Great
Northern still continue very good. The mileage return
of the London and North-Western Company is about
£25 more than last year, whilst the Great Western is £32
per mile more. The Eastern Counties shows £lO a mile
more, owing, in a great measure, to the Newmarket
meetings. The Brighton does not exhibit sn large an in-
crease as was anticipated, but, upon a pleasure line,
unfavourable weather has always a tendency to keep down
traffic.

YA NKKR- Do op .—An American paper remarks, since
the late triumphs of the Yankees in steaming, sailing,
&c , "Yankee-Doodle-do," should he changed in Eng-
}laid to " Y‘atket.-ilo4mile -di d Builder.

MURDER AND ►SUICIDE IN BERMONDSEY.—On Friday
afternoon a horrible occurrence took place in George-
street, Bermondsey. A woman named Mary Newman,
who, with her husband and child, a girl about six years
old, lodged at No. 23, in that street, in a paroxysm of in-
sanity inflicted fatal wounds upon herself and her child
with a knife. The persons in the immediate neighbour-
hood were attracted to the spot by the screams of the
little girl, whom they found in a dying state, the mother
being quite dead.
_ .

Two young ruffians have attempted to enter a cottage at
Addlestone during the night, to rob Mrs. Willis, an old
lady, of a quarter's annuity which she had just received.
They were repulsed by the old :lady : when they endea-
voured to cut through a shutter with a knife, she held an
iron candlestick to keep back the knife, and threatened
them with a sword-stick when they tried to enter by
another way. On her recognising one of them as a neigh-
bour they both fled ; but a policeman had watched them,
and they have been sent to prison.
At Lambeth, James Bell, living in great style, at No.l,
Holland- place, Camberwell New-road, in a house elegantly
furnished, with bottles in the window, to give it the ap-
pearance of an apothecary's, has been remanded on a
charge of defrauding the public under pretence of telling
fortunes, by casting of nativities and advertising himself
as a professor of astrology. Sergeant Quinnear and
another policeman visited the house in plain clothes, and,
laying traps, caught,the man out in a series of lies, telling
the former that be had a son who would not live long, the
man being childless. Bell is said to carry on an immense
traffic, to an incredible extent, in fortune-making.
On Thursday last Mr. Frederick Bolton, an excise
officer, connected with the inland revenue, died from
tasting, by mistake, some tincture of aconite, known as
woolfsbane. A witness in the office with Mr. Bolton
asked him his opinion as to the nature of the liquid.
Deceased said he believed it was a bitter, and took the
bottle out of witness's hand, and afterwards returned it.
Witness then conveyed the bottle to Mr. Brain, the prin-
cipal officer of that department, who directly tore off the

paper covering, when witness saw it was labelled " Flem-
ing's Tincture of Aconite—Poison," in large letters. Mr.
Bolton said he had taken a tea spoonful, a dose large
enough, it appears, to kill five persons. All remedies
were unavailing, and he died in a few hours.
The wife of a man named Baker, whilst sitting mending
a flannel shirt of her husband's, who was reading to her
at the time, on Friday night, in their lone cottage, in the
parish of Gayton-le-Marsh, Lincolnshire, was shot dead
by some miscreant, some of the shots also lodging in her
husband's head, whom from the direction it was intended
should have been murdered also. At first the man him-
self was accused of the murder, and his friends consider it
a providential circumstance that he did not escape un-
injured, as in that case he might have had some difficulty
in proving his innocence of the toul and dastardly murder.
Baker does not hesitate to express his suspicion of the
" friends" of his wife, who, according to his account, want
to get possession of the place—the cottage, and three or
four acres of land neer it, being her property.
BEVERLEY.—HYDROPHOBIA. A dreadful and fatal
case of this fearful malady has just occurred in this town.
A man of the name of Joseph Wardell, lately in the
employ of Mr. Chatterson, farmer, about 38 years of age,
on Saturday morning last, began to feel unwell, com-
plaining of a numbness in the left arm, and supposing it
to be an attack of rheumatism, went for relief to Mr.
Brereton, surgeon, who prescribed suitable remedies ;
towards evening the patient became worn, exhibit-
ing symptoms of spasm in the throat and chest.
On Sunday he was attended by Mr. Brereston, Mr.
Boulton, and Dr. Sandwith, when it was found to be
a decided case of hydrophobia; the usual horror at the
sight of water, and the dreadful paroxysms peculiar to that
disease following in rapid succession, confirming that opi-
nion. The poor man continued in that state till half-past
twelve on Monday morning, when death put a period to
his sufferings. It appears that some four or five months
ago a dog had worried a cat belonging to deceased, and
that he (deceased) caught the dog, and having put a
string to it. was taking it to the tannery where he worked
to destroy it, when the animal leapt up and bit his hand.
He immediately destroyed the , dog, and was a day or two
off work on account of the wound, whiah, howsver, soon
bealed, and nothing more us 4 felt from it till last Saturday.

HE GREAT EXHIBITION,

MONDAY.-107.815 people entered the building to-aaft
and the sum of £5,175 16s. was taken at the doors. That
nearly 108.000 people should within one day and under
one roof have enjoyed the grandest spectacle that ttle
.
world has ever witnessed, is of itself a sufficient marvel!
but that they should have done so without a single known
casualty to life and property, is almost incredible. When
the crowd assembled within the building was at its culmi-.
meting point, it was suddenly discovered that the Duke of
Wellington was present. Instantly the manifestations 0!
public admiration arose. Hats were taken off, and loud
cheers burst forth, which were prolonged with immense
energy. Those who were at a distance, surprised by all-
unwonted agitation which they could not understands,
fancied that there was something wrong, and rushed
towards the doors. The Duke also felt the awkwardness
of his position, and beat a retreat. His great age does
not now permit him to execute such movements with the
precision and firmness which in former days were his
characteristics, but he made his way nevertheless to the
south entrance of the transept with surprising alacrity,
followed as he went by the most vigorous demonstrations
of popular regard.
TUESDAY.-109,915 persons entered the building, while.
the sum of £5,231 10s. was taken in shillings at the doors,
Even the Bank begins to feel the flow of silver to its
coffers from the glutted exchequer of the Royal Commis-
sioners. It was found necessary to have two cabs to convey
to Threadneedle-street the accumulation of the previous
day, and the weight of specie amounted to no less than
fifteen hundred-weight.
WEDNESDAY.'109.760 persons visited the building,
and the sum of £5,283 3s. was taken at the doors.
THURSDAY. —The number of visitors fell to 90,813,
and the receipts to £4,344 7s. 6d. A more disagreeable
day has not occurred since the opening, and the only
wonder is that so many people were present. Weather
which would have effectually smothered the most rampant
revolutionary spirit only partially affected the attractive-
ness of the Crystal Palace, and it was quite curious to see
how visitors from the country, disdaining rain, pressed
forward to the great centre of interest on the exposed
"knife-boards" of omnibuses and through seas of mud.
Many of them presented a sufficiently pitiful aspect,
draggled tails and clothes spattered with mud being the
fate of all the pedestrians along the route. The occasion
appeared an appropaiate one for disseminating the doc-
trines of Bloomerism, and accordingly a lady wearing that
costume presented herself during the day, and created an
immense sensation.
FRIDAY.-46,913 persons visited the building, and
£4,914 Is. 6d. was taken at the doors.
SATURDAY.—TiIe number of visitors was 53,061 ; re-
ceipts, £4,845 139. 6d.
THE CLOSING SCENE.

The Great Exhibition was finally closed to the public,
and, like many of the unfulfilled expectations that have
been entertained of it during its history, the numbers
were by no means so large as was anticipated. The doors
were opened at nine o'clock, instead of twelve, but there
was no crowd or crush beyond what one sees upon an or-
dinary shilling day. There was a good deal more excite-
ment than one ordinarily sees evinced by the spectators,
a hurrying to and fro, and an evident eagernessand anxiety
to grasp the whole of the details, if possible, in the course
of a singlevisit, and indelibly impress them in the memory.
in the midst of the b usy scene Lord John Russell was endea-
vouring to do the honours to a parry of ladies, but it was
a task which he soon gave up as impracticable, and nar-
rowly escaped the honours of an ovation by his retire-
ment. The fr oce of the current of visitors to-day mar
be estimated from the following table of the arrivals in
each hour:— At ten o'clock, 4,790 persons had entered;
at eleven o'ciock, 11,707 persons; at twelve, 19,207 ; at
one, 27,311; at two. 34,841; at three, 42,870 ; and up to
the final close, 53,061.

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The transept and those portions of the nave imme-
diately contiguous thereto were thronged during the day
with crowds of well-dressed persons, among whom specu-
lation was rife as to whether there would be any kind of
demonstration at the close. As the afternoon advanced,
and the season-ticket holders began to pour in, this por-
tion of the building became almost impassable; and about
three o'clock, it having been circulated that the National
Anthem would he performed upon the organs, many fa-
shionably-attired ladies were seen taking up their posi-
tions wherever they could find posts or places against
which they might lean, sitting was out of the question,
until five o'clock, in order to be near the music.
The galleries were thronged three and four deep in
every part; the transept was no. onger passable,
the visitors being forced into a compact mass. The
heat at this time was very great, and many ladies-
were heard to exclaim they wished it was five o'clock,
not because they were anxious for the close of the
Exhibition, wilier' was universally deplored, but, as we
imagine, because they were fearful that they would be
unaole to withstand the fatigue of being crushed up for
so long a period without a change of position. Many
were the anxious glances thrown upon the clock at the
south side ; still all boldly kept their places, determined
to witness the " closing scene." At length the hour
struck, there was a cry of " hats off," which, it is almost
needless to observe, was instantly obeyed, the organs
pealed forth our beautiful National Anthem, which was
immediately taken up by the choristers, and almost as
quickly by the majority of the visitors. The last verse of
the anthem was encored by universal acclamation, and
was given with redoubled spirit; and this over, a thorough
English round of cheering, three times three and one cheer
more, resounded through the building. The gongs and
bells were then set to work to announce that the time had
arrived to depart; but so loth was every one to move
away for the last time, that it was some minutes before
the discordant sounds had any perceptible effect upon
them. At length they slowly began to depart. Many,
however, remained till past six o'c!ock, and attempted to
get up renewed cheers, but, as the attempts were not by
any means unanimous, they were quite unsuccessful.
At the west end of the building a similar scene was
enacted. As the clock struck five. Mr. Best commenced
the national anthem npon Willis's great organ ; a vast
number of persons in the gallery immediately joined in
with their voices, and " God Save the Queen" was sung
with heart and voice by all who were within hearing of
the organ. Then followed a burst of cheering, which was
rendered more effective from its complete unanimity.
The national anthem was subsequently encored, and was
this time sung with redoubled vigour. The cheers and
waving of hats were prolonged for a considerable period,
until interrupted by the clang of gongs and bells an-
nouncing the period for closing the building. All seemed
to regret most sincerely that the final close had at length
arrived, and all lingered upon the scene which had caused
them so much real amusement, instruction, and grati-
fication.

It was twenty minutes past five when the b, Hs began to
ring, to warn the company it was time to depart. From
this momenta most extraordinary scene ensued. There
was continual cheering from every quarter for Prince
Albert, for Lord Granville, for Mr. Paxton, for the Royal
Commissioners, &c. ; while those of the company who-
were not so amusing themselves were rushing about,-
looking after some particular article, such as the Austrian
sculpture, the Koh.i.Noor, Hunt and Roskell's case, the-
Parian statues, the crown of shells, or other attractions,.
to take "a last fond look" upon what had most excited
their attention. At a quarter to six the bell was again
rung, but still nobody appeared to be taking any notice of
it. The police now began to endeavour to induce the-
visitors to leave the building, which they were only at last
enabled to effect by forming themselves, in conjunction
with the Sappers and Miners, into parties, and, blocking
up certain portions, gradually moving every person towards
the egress doors, from which they were not allowed to
return. Thus, the Exhibition was at last closed, thong b
it was not until long past seven that the whole of th e
lingering company was got out of the building. The,
private carriages continued taking up the company till
past eight o'clock.

The company consisted in great part of the more re-
spectable classes of London society, the private carriages
being nearly as numerous as upon any occasion siuce the
opening of the Exhibition.—Observer.

STATISTICS OF THE EXHIBITION.
The following return shows the number of visitors
during the time the Exhibition remained open to the
public :—ln the month of May the number of visitors was
734,782 ; in June, 1,133,116 ; in July, 1,314,176 ; in Au-
gust, 1,023,435 ; in September, 1,1.55,240 ; in October,
up to the 11th instant, 841,107. Grand total, 6,201,856;
The liabilities incurred, so far as they have been at present
ascertained, are as follow :—To Messrs. Fox and Hender-
son, for the building, £79,800; to Messrs. MundaY for
rescinding of contract, £5,000; extra galleries, counters,
and fittings, £35.000; management, including printing,
&c., up to the Ist May, £20,943; police force, £lo,ouu;
prize fund, £20,000 ; management during the exhibition!
—Total, £170,743. The income', of: the establishinelbe
is as follows up to the close of the exhibition
subscriptions, £64,344 ; privilege of printing, £3,'
privilege of supplying refreshments, £5,500 ; amount re-
ceived for seasn pertickets up to Ist of May, £40,0004
royalty of 2d. copy on catalogues,—Total funds, at
hand on the Ist of May, £113,044. Amount receive'
the doors up to August 30, £252,141 9s. 6d. ; ditto yr.,'
to the end of September, £62,007 125.; ditto up to total,
day, the 11th of October, £41,922 lls. 6d. Grand tots
£469,115 13s. nai4
According to the Royal warrant and deed of cole7 •
relating to the Great Exhibition, which are printed ,I_!,,
month. t
Parliamentary paper, the buildin a r could have been *o,
open until the end of the present The words of
"shall be closed and concluded on or before the
tu
November." All the buildings and erections and. „I
ItoY
materials and contents are, in pursuance of the by
warrant, to be "completely removed and carried togay or
before the Ist of June, 1852, and that, on
and at the sole expense of the said commissioners, ""
said Ist of June, 1852, the said commissioners for„ogra',
Exhibition of 1851 shall, to the satisfaction of the t.l' the
nriissioners of Woods, restore the soil and surface of
said
park to its form before any part was enclosed by tn°_,d to
commissioners, ready for sowing with grass seed, an was
sow the same." The vote of the House of Coron2"n ot
merely the building should not be removed before the
of May next year.
or before t. 12:

A BAD LEG OF A VERY DANGERO S NATURg
BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND r - • for
pole,
of No. 2, Mermaid-court, Borougbefiad suffered ffied
very long period with a dreadfuksbre leg. which 1/I.;cei
the skill of the most eminen rgeons in privat_ _
boo°
as well as in the hospital nd dispensaries, under if te4
treatment she had be
least
none of whom, after tePelk.,,.
trials, could effect e least good. The use of liollow_l7o%
Pills and Oin nt alone has been the means of cgr.ns
this extraordegary bad leg, to the wonder and astonislol3;a,
of all wko'have seen it, as Mrs. Poole is a Fero"
van .11411 years.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

FRANCE.
PARIS, SUNDAY.—A Cabinet Council is called for
Taesday, at which the President of the Republic will
May
his determination regarding the electoral law of
aleY 31. Should he decide on proposing its repeal, Minis-
ters will resign.
The Party of Order has obtained a decided advantage
at Gignac. near Montpellier, on the election of five mem-
bers of the municipal council of that canton.
The Unione Bretonne announces the discovery of a con-
aPirecy in the Cher, and the arrest of several persons.
The Republican papers contain strong articles against
file Government for refusing Kossuth and his family
!Passage through France. The organs of the so-called
Party of Order are either silent or approve of the conduct
...tne Government.
The Liberti, of Lille, states that the n'ght of Monday
last was a very riotous one in that city. The guard at the
Grosse Tour arrested several persons, who cried out that
they only waited for 1852 to demolish the line. The
sentinel at the Arsenal was obliged to call out the guard
M order to prevent the post being invaded by a party of
deanken men ; and the soldiers on duty at the Dunkirk
Gate were sent for to arrest a man who had entered a
a Private house and began destroying the furnitui
While they were marching their prisoner to the guard-
house, they were followed by a band of 100 men singing
the Marseillaise, and an attempt was made at a rescue.
man who attempted to wrest a musket from a soldier
Was arrested.
The Vats National of Metz states that the Archbishops
of Bordeaux and Tours are to have the cardinals' hats at
the disposal of the Pope by the deaths of the Archbishop
of Toulouse and Bishop of Arras.
A funeral service was performed, on Monday, at the
Parish church of Rneil, in commemoration of Queen Hor-
tense, the mother of the President of the Republic. Prince
Louis Napoleon was present.
The on:e powerful and celebra'ed Don Manuel Godoy,
Prince of Peace, died at his lodgings in the Rue Mieho-
die'e, Boulevards Italiens, on Saturday se'nnight, in the
nth year of his age. He had been residing in the same
house for the last thirty years.
be The widow of Lopez is at present in Paris She has
en Separated from him for a long time. She. belongs to
a wealthy family of Cuba.
M Montheulin, of Paris, lately deceased, has left a
Legacy of £4OO to any person who shall invent the means
of guiding balloons in a straight line.
THE VINE MALADY IN FRANCE.—Experiments have
been made in various parts of France, where the vine
malady has made its appearance, to ascertain whether the
grapes which have escaped destruction, but are more or
less affected by the malady, are injurious as food. Both
the grapes and the leaves have been given to rabbits and
other animals for several days successively, without pro.
clueing any bad effect. It appears that in some districts
the entire crop of grapes has been destroyed by the
Malady ; in others the effect has only been partial, while
the greater portion of the vines of the south have escaped
entirely. As the wood of the vine where the disease has
.appeared is affected by it, some fears are entertained for
the next season ; but many of the growers hope to prevent .
further injury by washing the wood with a strong solution
Maudme or with gas tar, which has in many cases been
a complete remedy for vegetable disease.

SPAIN.
His Excellency Lord Howden, in his capacity as a
Loriner member of the Spanish army, has subscribed 5,000
teals in favour of the soldiers wounded during the attack
Of the pirates on the island of Cuba.
00
lth is
Ist expe
ofcted
November at Madrid that the Cortes will be opened
e .
The Queen has published a decree, authorising the pur-
te,nase of two steam-boats of the force of 120 horses, for
the defence of the island of Cuba.

ITALY.
Letters from Leghorn, of the 30th ult., state that two
puns were shot in that town on that day by virtue of
the sentence of an Austrian court-martial.
Accounts from Rome state that the old regulations
eamst the Israelites in the Papal States had been revived.
beY cannot travel without a permission from the Inqui-
tLon, nor stop in any town without a fresh permission.
The Roman government had guaranteed 6 per cent. on
1,1, capital of 20 millions of Roman scudi for the construe-
'''on of a railroad from Rome to Ancona.
Lord Cowley, the British Ambassador, has been very
diligentlet
in distributing copies of Mr. Gladstone's pamph-
e' on Naples among the members of the Diet, with the
express sanction of Lord Palmerston. It is said that the
various Ambassadors to the Diet are disposed to repudiate
n's interference of a foreign power in the domestic affairs
°fanother kingdom.

PRUSSIA.
A. MAN ATTENDING AID OWN FUNERAL.—In cense-
qtlence of information of fraud on some insurance offices
having
reached the police at Berlin, they proceeded, on
the 29th of September, to open a grave in the Catholic
~,Clittreh of that city, in which it was given out that, on the
"th of November, 1848, a certain Franz Thomatscheck,
ra master tailor, was buried. The coffin was found in good
es, ervation, and when opened, an old board, a wisp of
eif rotten straw, and some stones were all that was
ble. The coffin had been interred with all religious
rtftwulty amid a circle of weeping friends and relations
the supposed defunct. The registry of the burial had
Veen regularly made, and no one connected with the
I,Orch had any doubt but that a real interment had taken
r ace. The police arrested several persons in the city,
among them the medical man who had attended the sup-
posed deceased in his last illness, and had written the
certificate of death on the faith of which the funeral rites
had been performed. The ground of the deception was
an extensive fraud on two life assurance offices—one in
London, the other in Copenhagen—two distant establish-
toents having been chosen, to render the cheat more
Practicable. The parties to it were Anton Thomatscheck,
also a tailor, who, in 1848, resided in a house on the Lin-
den, and his brother Franz, who in that year had returned
ttnin Copenhagen, and lived with him. They were both
to needy circumstances, and to procure money they formed
th
e Plan which was so successfully carried out and so long
Meencealed. Anton insured the life of Franz in a London
ee for 9000 thalers, and in another at Copenhagen for
Cu More. Shortly afterwards Franz was reported to be
vrkerously ill, was attended by a surgeon, and duly died.
iine surgeon, for a bribe of 100 thalers, (or £l5) drew up
signed the certificate of the death, on which the pre-
p were paid to the surviving brother. The coffin,
vi:ePared as described, was committed to the earth with all
the
ceremonies, and, impelled by a strange curiosity,
koenz, who shortly before his death had left the house of
tkilitning in disguise, watched his own burial at a dis-
Lsee and heard the funeral service read over himself.
I.,nediately afterwards he fled from Berlin and fixed his
orae,ence in a small town in Bohemia, where, by the aid
seethe telegraph and the Austrian Government, he has
di;e arrested before he could receive information of the
vph?efisery of the fraud. Anton was paid the insurances,
trik„en he divided with his brother ; when this part of the
fir,"eaction was arranged, the disconsolate widow of the
Nile double sense) departed man also left Berlin, and
yea_ed him in his Bohemian retreat. After nearly four
tae he crime is discovered, and all the parties to it are
Stit ",e hands of justice. The " dead alive" will have to
lkilq„at the bar, together with the doctor who killed him,
tei,Lee
int proceerestinss, it is anticipated, will be in the highest
g.

he 4 RUSSIA.
twfrightfui accident has occurred on the line of railrad
l'eyi,.!el St. Petersburg and Moscow. A long train, coon-
ets"g back to the former city a part of the soldiers, offi-
NI Mand privates, who had attended the coronation fete
oscow, came into collision with a train on its way
?tilt St. Petersburg. Many persons were killed, and a
Rteater number wounded ; but the exact loss of life
titlii.tlot been published. Some civilians, who had ob-
-144:4 Permission to go by the military train, are among
who have perished.

AMERICA.
4itle American steam-ship Pacific, Nye, reached this
tiaeo Tuesday evening last, bringing seventy-nine pas.
lies and £120,000 in specie. She sailed from New
tIVIat twelve o'clock at noon, on the 27th ult, and was
Thead on Tuesday morning at nine.
age th4t consternation prevailed in New York, owing to
iote,i‘tpoured instability of the banks—more than half a
1it1,4 thsad been named as weak, and two of the People's
wtteti the s,Commercial have already failed. The influence
till 1p , rock-market of the pressure of money was se-
tZoth'elt. Government stocks had suffered less than
lil.el'• The Courier and Euquirer says :—" For se-
tt...l'4ll;3's Past the condition of financial matters has been
to4e worse, and, should there be no diminution of the
costs„,excitement in regard to private credits, we fear
kralllt'ot will be disastrous to many houses who are be-
Wiiv:S. seriously embarrassed in their negotiations for
!le, th 9everal failures have occurred within the past
If of ae influence of which has not only created some-
d, to „Panic in the discount market, but has extended
44tat 4,u.rne of the banks. Money on call has been in
1. r stge,_lncreased rates of interest, and none but the most
teti'cikrg,zsecurities would bring money upon any terms."
hiehttisottatil:E FIRE AT. BUFFALO.--The New York He-
siiitb s the following account of the dismtrous fire
t,iroke .
ow% out in the city of Buffalo on the 26th of
klNs .00t A.'s"' A very destructive fire broke out in this
isf the' o'clock this morning. The whole of the sec-
t! paths eity known as the Hooks,. together with seve-
Oke, forth, between the Niagara Falls railroad and
kitlis fat tile 111 ashes. A strong south. east wind was
L es d e time, and the buildings all being of wood
iahqk 11' the
n r 1115 ' . fire spread with fearful rapidity, and in
Vitcoel_rninutes the entire block of buildings in Rock
4ie5,1144 streets, from the ship-canal and Erie-street
Nreet ;eft, were in flames. The fire ther! crossed
Ott .k tnd aeized upon the large planing mill of the
k;11 Owe, 11- It then crossed the canal and Erie-street
twig stt,_N the en. everything on the opposite side of the
t; 0,..,a0e 'thence down the Terrace to Mecha-
V 1111 he-" ooth' sides of the canal. At this point,
0, t7a4 v_tall,greatest exertion, the flames were checked.
11,silOatit of buildings destroyed is over 500. It is
tk,'N.' bed tuber of persons have been burned to death.
kNiIV, saitY has been taken from the ruins. The loss
t 4 erne coated at about 4r500 000. The number of
bale
11 out of house and 'home by this disaster is
tkt b`lt b reload conception, the most of the houses
Atsrelyelllg occupied by 'poor families many of
te!it,ol.!!caPed with their lives, so fearfully rapid
tliZatZ 147,71 of the flames."
qiinlii ot its 13_,1eA BRIDESMAID.—Jenny Lind has been
INgal
the f_o smaid to the servant-maid who had
ls 'Ttr.is she occupied at the Clifton-house,
It IS said that the beauty, affability, and

fidelity of the girl attracted the attention of the Swedish
Nightingale, who, on hearing of her intended marriage,
immediately purchased for her a becoming and beautiful
trousseau—earrings. gloves, bonnets, &c.—and with her
own hands attended to her toilet on the morning of the
ceremony. This done she took her in her own carriage,
having first read to her and her future. husband beautiful
and affecting passages applicable to the occasion, conveyed
her to church, and there officiated as Margaret Atkinson's
bridesmaid.