The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-19 00:00:00

TIE LIVERPOOL STANDIEt

VAN DIEMAN'S LAND

SINGULAR CHANGE.—The New synagogue in King-
street, Canterbury, is being erected on the site of the
We have already published a number of particulars con- ancient house of the redoubted `• Knights Templars,"
netted with the Australian colonies extracted from the once the unrelenting foes of persecuted Israelites, but
---'ience given before the Colonisation Committee of the now themselves swept from the face of the earth, together
ofith their house, which has thus given place in the lapse

House of Lords

We now

ar a revo

Van Dieman's Land

The population of this colony i
3f land having originally been an
lion of the sexes is ff reatpr than i

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—Captain Miller, Royal En-
gineers. who arrived on Monday in the Devestation, at
Portsmouth, has come home from the Cape on account of
a deplorable accident, which unfortunately deprived him of
the sight of both eyes. Captain Miller was using some gun-
cotton, when it accidentally exploded, and caused the

f the other Aus-

tralian s
140,949

ts. In 1845 the land in cultiv
In the precedine veer the n

mports

The lock of hair of Queen Mary, who married the Dul
of Suffolk, taken from her corpse at St. Ma
Bury, in 1784, was sold at Stowe for £7 1

the q

gland not hav-

the land fertil
soil on the ban

was contained in a glass case, and
the sale of the Duchess-Dowa
1786 by the Duke of Chando

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has been d

neral charae-

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manuscript library at Stowe.
NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP.—The ceremonial of
consecrating a Roman Catholic Bishop of the Western
District, in the room of Dr. Ullathorne, translated to the

.y, and,the population occupy a kind

of belt of count running from north to south, pursuing
le! ,d watercourses. Although the pro-
If is large, the colony is not likely to export
much grain to England, owing to its liability to damage
on the long voyage. The shipment in 1846 was merely
the consequence of the unexampled depreciation of all
kinds of Australian produce, the price having fallen as low
as 2s. 6d. per bushel, and a great quantity of what was
sent in that instance became damaged. The following
table will show the rate of production of the soil on a ge-
neral av,

the great valley

duciion of wheat

See of the Midland Provinces, took place at St. Mary's
Chapel, Bristol, on Sunday last, when the Rev. Joseph
Wm. Henderson, D.D., was duly installed to the vacant
episcopate. The Hon. Mr. Clifford, son of Lord Clifford,
and a student, at Prior Park, preparatory to his taking holy
orders, officiated as master of the ceremonies.
On the evening of Monday week, Mr. Brown, a farmer,
living at Nether Place, Dumfriesshire, went into a field to
fetch home his bull, which had been fighting during the
day with a neighbour's bull, and which had become so fu-
rious that the herd-boy was afraid to drive him. The
animal at first seemed to obey his master, but suddenly
turned round, attacked Mr. Brown, threw him on the
ground, and gored him so severely that he died two hours
afterwards.

Wheat, per acre.

15 bushels

Barley
Peas
Beans
Potatoes

44 tons.

Turnips

SCHOOLMASTERS IN THE COLONlES.—Government
has just dispatched several members of the scholastic
profession, male and female (principally men and their
wives,) to establish primary schools in the Mauritius.
Before starting they received £l2O to provide the neces-
sary outfit, and on landing in the colony they are to have
£25 to defray immediate expences. Their salary com-
mencing at £BO, is to gradually increase to £2OO per

' Owing to the low prices prevalent during the last few
years, many people who used to grow grain have given it
up and turned their attention to pasture land, but the im-
pression still seems to be that the prosperity of Van Die-
man's Land must depend in a great measure upon grow-
ing wheat for New South Wales, where the production of
wool is the most profitable occupation. Every increase of
emigration to New South Wales by creating a demand for
breadstuffs will therefore act beneficially upon Van Die-
. man's Land ; and as there is avast amount of agricultural
land available at low prices in the latter colony, the pros-
perity of both would advance together. In this as in all
the Australian settlements the conveyance of land between
individuals is encumbered with all the expenses and com-
plications of the English system, and this in the face of
the fact that for the Crown grants in South Australia a
very short document has been adopted, prepared by a
London conveyancer, which is held to convey in about
eight or ten lines everything that can be conveyed in fee
simple. The complaint put forward by the colonists re-
garding the inconvenience of the old system, however, is
' in opposition to the opinion of the lawyers."
In Van Diemaa's Land the number of bushels of wheat
grown per individual is 13. In South Australia it is also
13, and in New South Wales it is only six. The land in
cultivation in the three colonies averages 1 1-sth acres per
individual, and the present general total of live stock
would give, it is estimated, 40 sheep and six or seven
horned cattle for every man, woman, and child.
One principal point on which the various witnesses lay
stress in describing the urgent necessity for emigration, is
the fact that under the high wages caused by the insuffi-
cient supply of labour, it is the policy of employers to en-
courare demoralisation on the part of their servants, since
it is not merely that the present system of exorbitant wages
compels them to pass overacts of insubordination and mis-
conduct from the difficulty of replacing those whom they
might discharge, but they feel that it is not their interest
that the servant should save his earnings, and by expend-
ing them on a small farm not only withdraw his own la-
bour from the market but also become a competitor with
themselves for the labour of others. " I have heard," says
one witness, " colonial proprietors expressing their grati-
fication again and again at the fact of their shepherds or
other hired servants spending their earnings, perhaps £4O
or £5O at a time in the public-house; for they knew that
the men would in all such cases be ready to hire themselves
again on the same terms as before."

annum
The Quadrant Colonnade, in Regent-street, London,
that exquisite specimen of what a prince regent can do
when he takes to architecture, was pulled down on Mon-
day week, and the removal of the materials has been going
on since. They have been purchased for railway purposes.
The cast-iron pillars, 145 in number, realised £2900. The
total cost of this alteration is estimated at £9OO, to be
defrayed by the sale of the old materials, and by a rate on
the inhabitants.
APPREHENSION OF " WAY TYLER," NEAR BRADFORD.
—This notable personage, Isaac Jefferson, the chartist
blacksmith, so famous in the annals of Bradford chartism,
was apprehended early on Wednesday morning, at a
lonely place called Swilling, on the borders of the
parishes of Halifax and Bradford. He was pounced upon
whilst sleeping, and, seeing himself overpowered, without
friends in this moment of need, and without a chance of
escape, be quietly yielded himself.
On Tuesday week, the family of a man named Law-
rence, living at Eastry, Kent. were treated to some sloes,
which had been preserved in sugar since last autumn, and
of which Lawrence himself, his wife, and his wife's sister
and brother partook, all of whom, shortly afterwards, be-
came very sick, vomited much, and were violently purged,.
in which state they continued some time, totally incapa-
pable of assisting one another, and it ended in the death
of one of the children, which took place the following
day.

EMIGRATION OF POOR PERSONS.-By an act which
passed on the 4th inst. it is provided b3rthe sth section (11
and 12 cap. 110) that the guardians of any union or
parish may, with the order of the Poor Law Board, and in
conformity with the regulations they make respecting the
emigration of poor persons, render assistance in the emi-
gration of poor persons irremoveable and chargeable, and
charge the cost upon the common fund of the union or
parish where there is no union.

NOVEL CRICKET MATCII.-011 Monday a cricket
match for a purse of sovereigns, between eleven one-armed
and eleven one-legged pensioners, belonging to Greenwich
Hospital, took place in a field at the back of the Priory,
Lewisham, Kent. The novelty of the match attracted a
great many spectators. The result of the play was
slightly in favour of the one legs, whose facilities for
bowling and batting overbalanced the running capabilities
of their opponents.

etntral IR tsrellanv.

The total number of labourers employed in the dock-
yards and arsenals at home and abroad, is 3,977.
A boy at Widcombe has died from eating the berries of
the yew tree.

A CHEMICAL MODE OF EJECTMENT.—kt Bow-street,
on Saturday,. J. Dolby, chemist.. of 280. Strand, appeared
to answer a complaint preferred against him. by Mr. E.
Wild, a wood engraver, residing in the same house, for
having exposed a chemical preparation close to his room
at the top of the house, by which the health of his wife
and children was dangerously affected. The plan was
resorted tain order to get rid of a troublesome tenant.
The prisoner was fined for the offence.
At the Clerkenwell police-office, the other day, Edwin
Fox was charged with an attempt to steal swatch from the
shop of Mr. King, Goswell-street. The rogue was caught
in a trap. In consequence of previous attempts at rob-
bery. Mr. King's shop door had been made to fasten with
a spring when any person entered. Fox pretended he
wanted to buy a watch, and got it into his hand ; he then
attempted to open the door to make off with it, but the
sprint baffled him, and though he threw snuff into Mr.
King s eyes, he was captured and committed for trial.
FIRST APPLICATION TO GOVERNMENT UNDER THE
NEW PUHLIC HEALTH ACT.—The mortality at the port
of Whitehaven, being at the rate of 42 in every 1,000
(taking the population at 11,840, according to the census
of 1841), the inhabitants determined last week to present
a memorial to Lord Morpeth, calling for the interposition
of the commissioners appointed to give effect to the provi-
sions to the new sanitary act. The inhabitants are look-
ing forward with interest to the anticipated official visit of
the government inspector.
Jenny Lind performed,. on Thursday, at the Theatre
Royal, Hull, in the opera of Sonztambula. Yesterday
she appeared at York, in a concert ; on Wednesday,
the 20th instant, at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle, in the
opera of Sonnambula ; on Saturday, the 23d, in a morn-
ing concert at Edinburgh, and on the following Monday
in the opera of Sennambula. She will then perform at
Glasgow, in the two operas of Sennambula and the Figlia
dal Reggimento ; and on the 11th of October will appear
at Dublin. After performing there four nights, she will
return to England.
A poor woman, named Anderton, met with her death
on Monday, at Stitchford, a few miles south of Birming-
ham. It appears that she and her son were about to pro-
ceed by the up train to London, and for that purpose she
took her place at the station in question. The noise of a
train approaching caused her to run out of the station-
room and cross the line, supposing it to be the train by
which she was about to proceed to town. Unhappily it
proved to be the express down train, by which, on at-
tempting to cross the line she was instantly knocked down
and killed on the spot.
THE HERRING FISHERY.—The " takes" within the
past week have bean unprecedented for the last twenty
years at least, both as respects the profusion and the
quality of the fish. Our fishery this year will be worth
£60,000 at the lowest estimate, and by moderate calcula-
tion not less than £6OOO has this week been netted from
the deep. The bustle and animation in the harbour and
on our quays, has been quite enlivening, and both the
Fleetwood and Liverpool packets have taken heavy car-
goes each trip for the English fishmongers and curers.
The current price to the curers and fresh buyers was ss. a
mease, and to small purchasers ls. 3d. per hundred of six
-Manx Liberal.

The Bradford chartists were all committed for trial on
Saturday, at the Court-house, Bradford.
The Worcester Festival has realised £l,OOO, for the
charities, besides the £5O sent by Jenny Lind.
A man named Davison has been committed at Sunder-
land for killing a man named M'Clen in a fight.
The sale on Friday, at Stowe, (when the best paintings
were sold,) realised nearly £lO,OOO.

„ •
The first anniversary meeting of the Cambriaa Institu-
tion for the Deaf and Dumb was held at Aberystwith, on
Monday, the Earl of Lisburne presiding.
A young lady, named Stephens, from Bristol, fell from
Dover Cliff last week, a height of 200 feet. She was
killed.

The extensive woollen manufactory of Richard'Caunter,
at Ashburton, known as the Bedford Mills, was destroyed
by fire on Wednesday last.
The sale at Stowe has, so far,
has occupied twent
days longer

produced £65,441. It
-five days; and will continue for ten

At Burford, Oxfordshire, last week, a boy playing with
an elderwood popgun, got some of the pith in his throat,
which occasioned suffocation and death.

On Saturday, the coachman of Col. Sykes, at Hyde
Park Mews, was literally worried and trodden to death by
a horse.

A London magistrate has decided that policemen have
no right to interrupt the public thoroughfares by walking
in rank.

In the next issue of camp equipage to, the army the
tents will be made waterproof, as the present canvas is no
protection against a heavy fall of rain.

- Two gold- rings, exhibiting beautiful, miniatures of
George 111. and Queen Charlotte, sold at the Bucking-
ham auction for £6 2s. 6d.
The Bryn-y-pys estate, at Flint, the property of F. R.
Price, Esq., was sold by auction on Wednesday for
£150,000.

So plentiful was the take of herrings at Sunderland last
week, that they were selling at the rate of fourteen shil-
lings per thousand.

An estate, lying in the parishes of Erlistock and Ban-
gor, comprising 1684 acres, and producing a rental of
£3566 per annum, was sold last week for £130,000.
Richard Wootten, Esq ~ draper and banker, the "Jemmy
Wood" of Oxford, died on Saturday, in his 85th year,
leaving a fortune of £500,000.

The- celebrated Chandos portrait of Shakspeare was
sold at Stowe on Thursday to the Earl of Ellesmere for
355 guineas.

Upwards of 8,230 packages of foreign fruit, chiefly
plums, have been landed at Hull from the continental
steamers during the past week.
CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE, NEAR BRlSTOL.—Up-
wards of £40,000 have already been suspended upon this
undertaking, and no more money being forthcoming, the
works are now at a stand-still.

On Tuesday, as the workmen were engaged building a
Presbyterian Chapel at Bradford, a large stone fell and
killed three men instantaneously, and seriously injured a
fourth.

score.—

Typhus fever has broken out in Greenwich Hospital
Schools. There are upwards of 40 boys in the sick ward ;
one death ; the friends of the other boys have been advised
of the complaint prevailing.
TRAMPS.—By an Act passed on the 4th instant, from
and after the 30th instant until the 30th September,lB49,
tramps are to be relieved from the common fund of poor-
law unions, and;not at the cost of the parish, where the
union house is situated.

GUTTA PERCHA ON THE MONUMENT.—This novel
material, so famed for its utility, has lately risen to an
extraordinary elevation in the metropolis, having reached
even to the top of the Monument, from whence the visitor
to that noted column may look upon a gutta percha tube
one hundred and ninety feet in length, three inches in
diameter, and one quarter of an inch thick. This tube
passes up the centre of the Monument from its base to the
gallery, at which point it is upheld by a flange also made
of gutta percha. It is intended for the conveyance of
water, and is, we understand, highly approved by the
civic authorities, being light in weight and economic in
price.

As a proof of the honest and peaceful habits of the peo.
pie of Westmoreland, a Kendal paper mentions that for
the last three months no case has been brought before the
magistrates at the monthly petty sessions held at Kirkby
Stephen.

Continued fine weather has enabled the farmers to
cut nearly all the wheat in this district, and on the best
lands there is not a stock left in the fields, the whole hav-
ing been secured in fine condition. Oats and beans are
rather late in some places, but, the oat crop is being
rapidly cut, and will in another week or ten days be all
safe, should the weather continue fine. Further enqui-
ries confirm the opinion already expressed that the bulk
is large, the yield good, and the sample fully an average
one. About one-half of the wheat exhibited in our mar-
ket on Saturday, was of the new crop, and it was remarked
that a finer sample, or one in better condition, was never
seen for the first of the season. Many of the samples
weighed 631bs. and some as high as 661bs. per bushel.—
Newcastle Journal.

Most of the bakers at the west end of the metropolis
made a reduction in the price of their bread on Monday
of from a halfpenny to a penny in the four pound loaf.
od bakers are selling from a penny to three

low-pr

SS PREACHER !—Mrs. Darley, long and fa-
vourably known_ on_the_Shields. and Stock-
ton circuit, as an actress, preached in the Wesleyan cha-
pel, Cotherston, twice, on Sunday last. At night the
place was crowded.—Gateshead Observer.

- ALTERING THE NAME OF A TOWN.—By command of
the Postmaster-General, Lane End, near Stoke-on-Trent,
Staffordshire, is in future to be designated Longton, for
all purposes of postal communication, and instructions
have accordingly been forwarded to all postmasters.
A few mornings since, at an early hour, a fox suddenly
appeared in Queen Square, Bristol, and was immediately
seized by an unlucky bypasser, who was so severely bitten
by his captive that he was forced to release the animal,
which then triumphantly retreated into a drain leading
from a neighbouring public house.
FATAL FIRE.—On Saturday, a fire broke out in the
premises of Mr. A. F. Watkinson, staymaker, White-
chapel, London, which completely destroyed the build-
ings. A child, named Pitt, was burnt to death, and Mrs.
Pitt and her daughter. aged nin, s, were so seriously
injured that the girl has
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THE LEIGH PEERAGE.—At Warwick, on Monday, Mr.
W. P. Roberts, solicitor, of Manchester, applied to Geo.
Cattell Greenway, Esq., one of the Coroners of the coun-
ty, to appoint a day to hear evidence, in order to induce
him to grant a warrant for search after the bodies alleged
at the county petty sessions in May last to have been bu-
ried under the new bridge,in Stoneleigh Park, upwards
of 30 years ago. The Coroner said in case the body was
known to have been buried, any coroner would be justi-
fied in having it exhumea, if suspicious circumstances
arose, in order that the cause of death might be satisfac-
torily ascertained ; but he did not think the duties of a
coroner extended to a search after bodies, whose inter-
ment rested merely on suspicion ; the application was,
therefore, refused. An application had previously been
made to Mr. Seymour, a coroner, acting in another divi-
sion of the county, but he refused to interfere, Stoneleigh
Abbey being out of his district. This was represented, to
be merely a preliminary step to further proceedings.
One of the new wrought iron bowstring bridges, con-
structed for the Blackwall extension line, has been tested
at the works of Fox, Henderson, and Co., at Smethwick,
near Birmingham, in the presence of Mr. Muntz, M.P.,
Captain Simmons, and other railway officers. The bridge,
as erected on an open space near the London works, pre-
sented a clear space of 120 feet between the bearings. It
is constructed entirely of wrought iron, and consists of an
arch of boiler plates and angle iron, tied across at the
ends by horizontal bars, the tie being cemented with the
arch by vertical standards, and by a double system of di-
agonals, which have the effect of distributing over the
whole curve of the arch the action of weights placed on or
passing over any part of the bridge. The ribs are adapted
for large spans in cases where either headway is of im-
portance, or where sufficient abutment cannot be obtained
without a great outlay. The ribs are supported in such a
manner as to allow not only for expansion and contrac-
tion, but also for motion under a heavy weight. On this
occasion the bridge was loaded with 240 tons of rails and
bars, double the load which the bridge can under any
circumstances be required to bear. The trial gave satis-
faction to all concerned.

year
nce died.

,oman Catholic chapel, Salisbury, was on
-.tied with great pomp. It is dedicated
ler of the cathedral of Old Sarum,
.round, who accompanied his uncle,
y.aCl Ur, to England as a warrior and after
n conquest was consecrated Bishop of Sarum.
SHOT.—As Clarence Hooper, Esq.,
--A Captain Frederick Johnson,
tate of H. M. Williams, Esq.,
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tleman, who has farmed extensively in the southern
.1 of this county for the last twenty years, and who
s year grown 600 acres of wheat, 600 of barley, 600

and tJUU acres or turnips, states that, taking the
nerally or as a whole, he has never, during his
known a more propitious harvest than the

present.---Devizes Gazette,
Lord George Bentinck's visit to Doncaster has been
far more profitable than his contemplated trip to Ireland
could have turned out. It was stated that, in the event
of Surplice carrying off the St. Leger, the Protectionist
chief stood to win .00,000, a portion of a bet made at the
time Surplice was foaled. We know the result of the
race, and the upshot of the long odds taken by Lord G.
Bentinck against the crack horse winning both the Leger
and the Derby, a feat unperformed since the year 1800.

MAN VERSUS STEAM.—On Tuesday evening a comical
adventure was witnessed near Bedwas Church—a race
between Mr. John Jones and the locomotive called
" Bute"—distance three hundred yards, for a sovereign
a side. It was won by the former, by about twenty
yards.
FASHIONABLE LUCIFER 1V—

JAATCH DEALERS.—There
are numerous revivals of a well-known ruse for getting
money, and mysterious noblemen are scouring the country
by dozens selling lucifer matches. A country correspon-
dent of the Cambridge Chronicle states that the place
from whence he writes was lately visited by a "walking
gentleman," well dressed, and with his hair neatly curled,
cyinves a box of lucifers to all who
,rge of one penny.
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M.P., the Lord Provost of
lw no other visitors, and, indeed,

very few persons were aware of his arrival
of the unemployed were anxious to have an interview
with his lordship, in order to present a memorial for re-
lief, by an advance for emigration, or otherwise ; but
they failed to discover where he was temporarily lodged.
His lordship and family departed in a compartment of a
first-class railway-carriage for Perth by the half-past one
o'clock afternoon train.
M. Louis Blanc has published a letter in the Times, in
reply to an article in which the little gentleman's princi-
ples were pretty freely commented on. M. Louis Blanc's
defence is divided into two sections—one of which is devo-
ted to the refutation of a particular charge respecting his
responsibility for the ateliers nationaux ; and the other
to the exculpation of his general doctrines from the liabi-
lities with which they have been visited. Under the first
of these heads he alleges that the ateliers nationaux re-
cently suppressed were in no sense of his creation ; that
M. Marie established, and M. Emile Thomas directed
them ; and that, in point of fact, they were employed to
counterbalance an embodiment of his own influence in
another quarter.
OTTER HUNT EXTRAORDINARY.—Last week, James
Lomax, Esq., of Allsprings, near Blackburn, took (by
the kind invitation of the Earl of Harewood) his cele-
brated pack of Otter hounds to Harewood House. They
flung off on Wednesday, at Harewood-bridge, and a
short distance up the river Wharfe they got on to the
" drag" of an otter, which they presently found, and swam
him for eight hours that day without securing their game,
and had to be called off. On Thursday morning, they
threw off at the bridge again, and found the otter at
Arthington Mill. They swam him again for eight hours
and a half, and at last killed him in the moonlight, after
one of the severest hunts that ever was seen. The otter
weighed 241 pounds.
PRICE OF PAINTINGS.—At the sale of paintings at
Stowe, on Friday, " Sybilla Persica," from the Orleans
gallery, by Domenechino, fetched 690 guineas. A burgo-
master, in a black dress, by Rembrandt, sold for 810
guineas. The finding of Moses, by Salvator Rosa, (six
feet seven inches by four feet,) was sold for 1,000 guineas.
Philip baptising the eunuch, by Cuyp, was sold for 1,470
guineas. The great feature of the day, however, was
The unmerciful servant brought before his Lord," by
Rembr ndt. The size of the picture was seven feet by
five feet ten inches. The first bidding was 1,000 guineas.
On this the next advance was 50 guineas ; from 1,600
guineas it went. at one bidding, to 2,000 guineas; and,
after a somewhat languid competition, was ultimately
knocked down to Mr. Mawson at 2,200 guineas.
USEFUL HINT ABOUT CHOLERA.—A writer in a weekly
medical journal, who saw much of the cholera in 1832 and
1834, suggests a very simple, and, as he asserts, a very
valuable prevention against the susceptibility of the disease.
The weakened state of the stomach, he says, which pre-
disposes to cholera, is so decidedly obviated by eating
freely of common salt to our meals, that it is believed that
three-fourths of the cases which would otherwise occur
may be prevented by this simple addition to-our food.
The writer recommends for an adult the ninth of an ounce
(about a small teaspoonful) three times a day,. at break-
fast, dinner, tea, or supper. It may be eaten with fish,
animal food, poultry, game, bread, toast, or bread and
butter. The same beneficial result is not obtained with
salt meats, broths, soups, &c., in which salt is dissolved ;
because, by the action of the heat, or long admixture of
the salt with other matter, a change is produced in its pro-
perties, and the preventive power, with reference to this
particular use of it, destroyed..
BRIDGEWATER HOUSE, GREEN PARK.—The new
residence for the Earl of Ellesmere was long talked of:
the carcase is now completed ; the chimneys are being
capped; the carving cleaned off. The situation is one of
the finest in the metropolis,—the view from the state
rooms of the new house, over the park and towards Buck-
ingham Palace, is perfectly beautiful. The plan approaches
a square; the south front is 142 feet 6 inches, from east to
west and the west front, 122 feet, from north to south :
and there are two small courts within the mass to aid in
lighting the various apartments. The south elevation
differs from the west in having no projections of the front
wall. Vases surmount the dies of the balustrade._ The
entrance-porch, not yet built, will be in the centre, and
be surmounted at the angles by similar vases. The whole
of these fronts, and part of each of the other fronts, are
faced with Portland stone. In examining the interior of
the building, when finished, one point will particularly
force itself on the attention, and that is the care which
has been taken so to plan it, that the freedom of access to
his fine gallery of pictures, which Lord Ellesmere pro-
poses to grant the public, may not be interfered with by
the private requirements of the liberal owner.—The
Bulkier.

A committee

THE SMOKE NUISANCE AND- SMOKE CONSUMERS AT
HALIFAX.— Messrs. Crossley, of Dean Clough,. to pre-
vent the nuisance of smoke, have adopted " Samuel. Hall's
self-fuel-supplying and smoke consuming furnace,"'which
principally consists in an inclined fire-grate, composed of
a large namber of distinct parallel bars, moved at the up-
per end by a series of eccentrics turned by a revolving
shaft. The longest motion of these eccentrics is given
alternately to bundles'of about twelve bars ; but during
this motion every third bar also traverses an inch more or
less than the two adjacent to it; thus affording an addi-
tional preventative against the formation of clinkers. But
as- these hindrances to complete smoke-prevention can
never be entirely avoided, provision is made for their fall-
ing into a chamber at the lower end of the furnace, a fire-
brick shelf being interposed, with an inclination the re-
verse of that of the fire-grate, so as effectually to burn
anything that will burn, before it is finally cast amongst
the useless scoriae of the clinker-chamber. The regular
motion and inclination of the fire-grate affords a means of
self-feeding, without the aid of any extra wheels or cylin-
ders; and the front of the furnace is formed of three up-
right plates, with spaces for the admission of air between
them, which not only keep the front of the furnace cool,
but also afford an easy method of regulating the admis-
sion of air. The patentee sets forth eight advantages of
this furnace, many of which are also claimed by other pa-
tents. Its peculiar advantages, however, seem to us to be,
first, that as there are no joints to work in the heated
part of the bars, and no friction except at the ends, the
fire-grate is likely to be more durable ; secondly, that
there is little or no waste of power in giving motion to
the furnace ; and thirdly, that the supply of coals, of air,
and of speed, is very easily regulated.—Halifax Guardian.
THE POISONINGS.—The cases of poisoning in Essex
are still under investigation. The case to which the au-
thorities are now directing their attention is that of a per-
son named Nathaniel Button, formerly a resident in the
parish of Ramsey, who died on the 30th of September,
1846, a few days after the death of Mary May's first hus•
band, about whom also some suspicion exists. The
authorities, not having the power of exhuming the body,
have transmitted to the coroner a quantity of evidence,
in order that he may take the necessary steps for investi-
gating the matter. The next case is relative to a person
named Palmer' resident in Ramsey, who died shortly
after Button. Almost immediately after his death Mrs.
Palmer left Ramsey, accompanied by a man with whom
she had long been intimate. The town of Great Holland
in the Tendering Union has also, it is suspected, been the
scene of one, if not more, of these dreadful poisonings.
From tqe investigation which has taken place, it appears
that a man named Brudger died suddenly some time since
in great agony, having been well and at his work until
within a few hours of his death. Two other cases are un-
der consideration—one in the parish of Tendering, and
another in the parish of Bradfield. In the former the
keeper of a beer-shop, named Brown, is the subject of in-
quiry, and in the latter the body of a person named Gop,
who there is little doubt was poisoned, is to be exhumed.
In the investigation of these cases it has been ascertained
that most, if not all, owe their origin to the existence of
what are inthiapart of the country called " Death Clubs."
A person (man or woman) enters one of these clubs,
agreeing to pay a sum of 7d. per quarter, at the same time
appointing a nominee, at whose death the subscribing
party receives £lO or £B, according to the number of per-
sons enrolled. In addition to this subscription each
member pays 6d. extra on the death of any nominee.
Mrs. Southgate was a member of one of these clubs.
Mrs. Button was also a member, and received £B, on the
death of her husband.

MANUFACTURE OF GAS FROM WATER.—WC were
much pleased with a descriptive lecture at the Polytechnic
Institution, accompanied by a working model of a new
hydro-carbon gas apparatus, patented by Mr. Stephen
White, for the manufacture of gas from. water and com-
mon tar, or resin, &c. The apparatus consists of three
retorts placed in a stove, two of which are filled with char-
coal and thin pieces of iron, and the other with iron chains,
hanging from a centre bar. The first two retorts are for
the decomposition of water, which is regularly supplied
by means of a syphon pipe, through and into the centre of
the retort ; the water, in passing through the heated ma-
terial, becomes converted into pure hydrogen and proxide
of carbon. It then passes into the third retort, to receive
its dose of bi-carburet of hydrogen, which is prepared
from common tar, resin, or similar substances, passing,
or dropping, on the red hot chain, from a syphon tube,
which regulates its supply. This causes the tar, or melted
resin, to throw off an abundance of hi-carburet of hydro-
gen gas. The gasss being mixed in this manner, are im-
mediately conveyed into the gasometer for use, without
any purifying vessels whatever, none being required. The
great advantages arising from this invention appear to be
the small, simple, and cheap apparatus required, and the
beautiful, clear and bright light produced, surpassing the
ordinary coal gas ; also, its perfect purity, being free from
any nuisance in its manufacture, and, above all, so pure
and innoxious, that it may be burnt in any private room,
without the least ill effects or smoke resulting from it.
The apparatus may be used, and the gas made, in any
private mansions, churches, or manufactories, and on any
scale, from 5 to 1,000 lights or more, as well as for cities
and towns. This gas can be made and surplied at a price
considerably less than that of coal gas. Thus we see ac-
complished the foretelling of that eminent chemist and
philosopher, the late Sir Humphrey Davy, " that at some
future time gas would be generated from water for general
purposes, surpassing coal gas in brilliancy and purity."
—Mining Journal.