The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-02 00:00:00

enteral fftisrellanv.

An abundance of ripe strawberries were exhibited in
Edinburgh market last week.

The distress in Leeds is so great that one in ten of the
population is maintained by the parish funds.
The Earl of Yarborough has given £lOOO to found a
"Yarborough Scholarship" at the Royal Naval School,
New Cross, Lincoln.
The foundation-stone of the monument to celebrate the
landing of Prince Albert, at Ramsey, in the Isle of Man,
was laid with some pomp on Monday.
In the Court of Chancery, on Wednesday, Lord
Brougham introduced Prince Metternich. They both sat
for some time beside the Lord Chancellor.

At several parish and district meetings in the metropo-
lis, more particularly on Easter Monday, oppo-tunity has
been taken to express undiminished loyalty and gratitude
to the active guardians of order on the 10th.
The Commissioners of Customs have decided against
the appeal made by the Duc de Stackpole, and that no-
bleman's splendid schooner yacht, the Gipsy Queen, has
been declared forfeited to the Crown for smuggling.
The Countess of Mornington, in Thursday's Times,
again appeals to the public for alms : her husband, the
Earl of Mornington (the " Long Tilney Wellesley Long
Pole Long," of Fitzgerald) having left her destitute.
The citizens of York were hoaxed on Good Friday by
a public announcement that a man would ride in a bucket,
drawn by three beautiful white swans, down the river
Ouse. Multitudes attended, to be disappointed.
On Wednesday, a prize fight for £2OO took place be-
tween James Massey, of Manchester, and Jas. Edwards,
of Cheltenham. The locale was near Newmarket. After
53 rounds, Edwards came off victor.

The Loid Chief Baron of the Exchequer decided, on
Saturday, that a creditor cannot split a debt, which is
above £2O, for the purpose of enabling him to recover his
claim by several suits, brought in the new County Courts.
It is said that Mademoiselle Jenny Lind will make her
first appearance for the season, at the Italian Opera, on
Thursday next, as Amina in "La Sonnambula "—the
best of her characters. This will be the anniversary of
her brilliant debut last year.

The York 4Jourant was published for the last time on

Thursday. It first appeared under that name in 1719,
being a continuation of the York Mercury (said to be the
first newspaper established in the county). It is now to
be incorporated with the York Herald.

FRENCH CONTRACT FOR HORSES.—The Provisional
Government having issued a decree that they intend to
enter into contracts for 28,000 cavalry horses, several
French contractors are at present inthe north of England,
making purchases_

On Monday, a fearful explosion of fire-damp took place
the deep pit at Victoria Iron Works, Monmouthshire,

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by which five men lost their lives instantly. Two others
were seriously injured—one so much so that his recovery
is despaired of.

ESCAPE FROM GAOL. —On Sunday morning, John
Bryant and Edward Edwards, two prisoners in the convict
gaol, at Springfield, who were awaiting their trial at the
ensuing assizes, effected their escape. They have not
been heard of since.

Two hours before the artillery in St. James's-park,
London. announced to the Cockneys the birth of a prin-
cess at their doors, the bells were ringing in honour of the
event at Berwick-upon-Tweed--the intelligence having
been received at the latter place by electric telegraph.
CIRCULATION OF THE BIBLE.—The following has been

the circulation of the Scriptures through the British and
Foreign Bible Society during the last three years in the
following large towns :—London, 126,391 ; Liverpool,
81,342 ; Manchester, 129,241 ; Leeds, 49,975 ; Bristol,
54,955.—T0ta1, 441,905 copies.
On Wednesday the entire of the valuable timber, prin-
cipally oak, standing in the woods at Stowe, Foscott,
Thornborough, Finmore, Hillesden, Falcutt, and Ashwell,
the property of the Duke of Buckingham, was sold by
public auction at Buckingham. The sale produced up-
wards of £22,000.

At the Dempster's Court, in the Isle of Man, the other
day, the judge, barristers, and litigants, were not a little
amused at the appearance of a new candidate for forensic
honours, in the shape of a monkey, which, seated in the
lawyers' seats and looking at the bench, chattered away
until rudely expelled by a servant girl, who came to look
after the runaway pet of her mistress.

Mr. T. Campbell Foster, formerly " The Times Com-
missioner" in Ireland, now a barrister on the Northern
circuit, has promptly and emphatically denied that he
ever made an overture to write articles from Ireland for
the Northern Star, or any other newspaper than the
Times. This denial has been occasioned by a statement
made in the House of Commons by Mr. F. O'Connor.

One of the clerks at the General Post Office lias been
dismissed for refusing to be sworn a special constable
during the Chartist demonstration. Of course he is, in
his own eyes, "an injured Englishman." Reasonable
people, however, will hold that if a man refuses to protect
the property on which he is employed, it would be only
natural to refuse him the custody of it any longer.

Charles Dickens and other amateurs will shortly per-
form " The Merry Wives of Windsor" and " Every Man
in his Humour," in aid of the purchase and preservation
of Shakspere's house, and of an endowment for some
worthy dramatist whose means may not be equal to his
merits, and to whom the custody of the property at Strat-
ford may be confided.
The returns of the Registrar-General record the death
of a child, aged two years, " from inflammation of the
stomach and smaller intestines, combined with fluid black
blood in the right side and large veins of the heart, sup-
posed to be caused by mephitic vapour from a cesspool
opened, of which the contents were carried through the
house." Two days elapsed between the date of the latter
occurrence and the death.

NECESSARY EVILS.—A gentleman was constantly in
the habit of calling his servants, before their faces, " ne-
cessary evils." He quarrelled with one of them, who
left him in a rage, said he was sick of service, and vowed
that he would never enter it again. A few days after his
old master meeting him in livery, said, " Poh, you are
gone into service again after all." " Ah, sir, I have found
that masters are ' necessary evils'."

A correspondent of the Gardeners' Chronicle mentions
that a robin is now rearing her young in a sawpit, where
the sawyers work every day, and could at any time lay
their hands on the young or the parent bird, which dis-
plays no fear, but comes when the men are at dinner to
pick up the crumbs. A wren had followed the example,
and had built her nest under the same shed ; but the
jealous robin would not allow the wren to lay her eggs,
and at last succeeded in driving her away.

On Tuesday, Mr. Thomas Steele was brought before
Mr. Jardine. at Bow-street, for an attempt to commit sui-
cide by throwing himself over Waterloo-bridge. Mr.
Steele, having solemnly pledged his word not to attempt
the crime again was dismissed,.,havig been bound over in

Lord Brougham has sent £5 to Peels Coffee_
as his contribution to a fund raising to relieve Mr.
)ecuniary difficulties. _ _

•om his

FALSE GOLD COIN OF COLUMBIA

)n Saturday, at th

was examined on a charge ofbeing concerned in a con-
spiracy to commit an extensive fraud, by imitating the
current coin of the Republic of Columbia. The spurious
_4_l ea +i C;7. llf 71 1..-.10

THE BREAD-FRUIT TREE.—There is at this time in
the conservatory of Alfred Orrell, Esq., of The Grove,
Cheadle, a fine specimen of this extraordinary plant; the
tree, which is of noble dimensions, being laden with fruit
of a rich and delicious flavour.

After a Chartist meeting at Greenock, on Saturday week,
a portion of the mob came in contact with a large body
of police and specials, stationed in one of the streets to
stop the way. The mob made a bold rush against the
police and constables, who made a vigorous use of their
batons, and attacked them with such violence that a num-
ber of very serious wounds were inflicted.
" REBECCA " REDIVIVUS.—The agrarian disturbances
which characterised the southern portion of the princi-
pality. of Wales in the years 1843 and 1844 have again
manifested themselves in precisely a similar manner. The
new county roads board does not operate in the way it
was intended to do. A new toll-house was finished on a
cross road near Llandilo on the 19th ult., and during the
night of the 21st ult, the toll-house was completely demo-
lished by the Rebeccaites, who literally left not one stone
standing on another.
A FAIR CONFESSION.—Our attention has been arrested
by a sentence of the Economist of Saturday, a paper abun-
dantly infected with the current liberalism of the age, and
little given to mark the superintending hand of Divine
Providence. The effect of present events on the mind of
the editor, is set forth in the following words :—" The
government of society has long been held up as the high-
est work of human genius ; we begin to doubt, since indi-
viduals and the multitude have alike failed, whether the
task be not beyond the faculties of man."

A SERIES OF ACCIDENTS.--On Monday se'nnight, as a
refractory cow was being driven by Mr. Home to the house
of Mr. Allen, butcher, Brettell-lane, Brierley-hill. the
animal became infuriated, and attacked everything in her
course. A gentleman was thrown out of his phaeton, and
the pony drawing the latter tossed in the air. Her driver
was subsequently thrown into a ditch, and another man
was forced through a shop window, and seriousli hurt. At
last, after an attack upon other persons, finding it impossible
to drive the cow to her destination, she was shot in the
road.—Ten Towns Messenger.

EASTER MONDAY.—ANOTHER BESPOKE LONDON
Row !—Mr. Cochrane's second day in London, as the
Don Quixote of the poor, was only fit to be recorded by
Punch. The very genius of a row, he specially enjoined
peace It was a failure extraordinary,—with Easter
Monday into the bargain. It was Mr. Cochrane "
trated, ' instead of the Poor Law. There were pictures
of the poor—dying !—sleeping on the stone floors !—men
and women in separate cages—&c. The police prevented
any great assemblage : Sir George Grey was " not at
home," nor Mr. Cochrane I for his affair was all abroad.

EVASION OF AN OATH.—A revolting case of subordi-
nation for perjury has been disclosed in the Deemster's
Court, Isle of Man. A farmer, who had been summonei
for non-payment of £47 rent, suborned two men to swear
that they had seen him pay the landlord. He had met
them on Douglas quay, and took them to a public-house.
The witnesses sat down. and while drinking their glasses,
the defendant took out of his pocket a piece of chalk,
with which he drew the figure of a man upon the table,
and wrote the plaintiff's name across. He laid down £47,
and the witnesses then agreed to swear that they had seen
the money paid to plaintiff.
THE CHARTISTS IN EDINBURGH.—The Chartist de-
monstration held on the Calton Hill on Monday evening
proved a total failure. There might have been 600 or 700
persons on the hill ; but, owing to the unfavourable wea-
ther, the meeting adjourned to the hall in Adam-square,
where, after the assemblage had been kept waiting a con-
siderable time for the committee, a memorial to the
Queen, praying her Majesty to dissolve the present Par-
liament, was ultimately adopted. Delegates were then
appointed to represent the Scotch Chartists hi the great
" National Assembly," to be held in the metropolis on
the Ist of May.

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND ROBBERY.-011 Monday,
between two and three o'clock, as a watchman named
Brassett, sixty-four years of age, was on duty at the Leith
and• Glasgow wharf, London, he was suddenly attacked by
three men, who came on shore in a boat. They struck
the poor old man on the head, as he believed with a life
preserver or some other blunt and heavy instrument,
which soon rendered him insensible. Believing, it is pre-
sumed, that life was extinct, they thrust him into a cellar,
and fastened the door on the outside. They then pro-
ceeded to ransack the place, breaking open an iron safe,
which they rifled of its contents. The poor watchman
lies in a very precarious condition.
EVASION OF THE LAW.—We have heard of many
modes of evading the law, but Thomas Turk, a man who
was deprived of his license to sell beer at our police-court
last week, has adopted a plan somewhat new in the annals
of beer selling in Newport. Having a " good run" of
custom, and being, moreover, possessed of a pretty good
" plant" at the Tyrant's Castle, in Pillgwenlly, Thomas
Turk resolved he would not retire from business so quietly
as some people might expect ; and he now evades the law,
and carries on " a roaring trade," by selling nuts at three
half-pence each, and giving away a glass of sparkling
beer to the nut-buyer ! This system is carried on an ex-
sensive scale nightly.—Monmouth Merlin.

At the Thames Police-office, on Monday, James Bolton
was sentenced:to eight days' imprisonment, for practising
the following novel cheat at Stepney fair. About three
pennyworth of coppers were placed on small pegs, which
were to be thrown at with a small bar, when, if all the
half-pence were dislodged, the thrower, who paid a penny,
pocketed them; The prisoner, who was the proprietor,
was ready to take the chance either as a staker or a thrower,
but always took care that he should win, in each capacity,
except when be occasionally lost on purpose to give an
appearance of fairness to the game. When he tnrew
himself the halfpence were lodged lightly on the pegs,
but when others threw, the lo wer half-penny was made to
adhere by means of some composition.
PENURY OF LOUIS PRILIPPE.—The Count de Neuilly
lives at Claremont in a state of almost penury, denying
himself those small luxuries which had become all but
necessaries from long use to a man of his time of life.—
Even with the most rigid economy, however, it is said that
his income is still insufficient for his inaintenance, and that
in a year or two, if he survives so long, he will be com-
pletely destitute. It can, however, scarcely be the inten-
tion of the French Government to, sequestrate the private
property, not only of the ex-King, but of his whole family.
The doWers of his sons' wives are said to be almost entirely
invested either in French funds, or in land in France, and
whatever claim the nation may have upon the Royal
estates, it can by no prOcess, that we are aware of, be ex-
tended to property thus acquired--Times. _ •

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DESECRATION AND ROBBERY.—The minister of a
pretty church, which rises almost in the shadow of an
embattled " fortress of the fen," not 100 miles from Con-
nigsby, was called upon by a party of "navvies" on Sun-
day week, to christen a child. While engaged in his duty,
another of these sons of clay and iron, evidently a mate
of the christening party, entered the church, and, acting
on the principle of " exchange no robbery," took the rev.
gentleman's new hat, and left in its place his own—one
of those bettered coverings which we see on the heads of
" Emeralders" during the harvest season—brimless,
almost crownless, and wofully " wanting a nap." We
are told that the trick is an old one ; and that the same
child has been christened on, a former occasion at a sacri-
fice to a worthy parish clerk of a great coat.—Stamford
Mercury.
ROYAL, COLLEGE OF CUEMISTRY.—Dr. Sheridan Mus-
pratt delivered an interesting lecture, on Wednesday
evening, at the monthly meeting of the subscribers and
students of the college, at Hanover-square, on the manu-
facture of the carbonate of soda, sulphuric acid, and hy-
drochloric acid ; and in a series of successful experiments,
showed how the deleterious gases evolved in the process,
and which were so destructive of vegetation, as to have
caused an action for-damages to have been brought against
the Messrs. Muspratt, proprietors of chemical works in
Liverpool, upon that ground, might be condensed, and
their unhealthy action thereby greatly diminished, if not
altogether prevented. Scattere through the rooms were
many specimens of daguerreotype portraits and landscapes,
of Talbotypes, and o silver and copper electrotypes, all
of which were greatly and deservedly admired.
DAMAGE BY. RIOTOUS OR TUMULTUOUS ASSEMBLIES.
—Sir W. Clay's bill, for amending the law relative to re-
medies against the hundred in England, only contains
two provisions.. By the law, as it now stands, compen-
sation can only be obtained against the inhabitants of a
hundred for damage done, where the offence amounts to
felony; and it is considered expedient that such inhabit-
ants should be made liable to yield compensation in like
manner to parties damnified by the acts of persons, riot-

ously and tumultuously assembled, which may not amount
to felony. For this object, it is provided by the bill, that
in every case where any building whatever, or any part
thereof, shall be destroyed, or shall be in any manner
damaged, or where any commodities whatever therein
shall be destroyed, taken away, or damaged by any riot-.
ous or tumultuous assembly of persons, the inhabitants of
the hundred shall be liable to yield full compensation in
damages to the person or persons injured.
A PLAGIARISM.—The Tablet (Popish paper,.,
menting upon Lord Brougham's attempt to 'become a

in com-

naturalized Frenchman, while he retained the privileges
of a British subject, says :—" One thing disappoints us in
this affair : the notion is not original. Lord Brougham

professors of that religion Shave redUced to practice an
analogous theory. When they travel abroad they frequent
the catholic churches, arid are very devout at mass, sing

vespers, and ask bishops for their blessing. They are ex-
tremely catholic. But when they return to this country,
they never enter a catholic chapel, and spyay slightingiy

of the mass. They change on their passage :
catholics abroad—protestants at home. Lord Brougham
did but borrow their theory and apply it to civil politics—

A per;on, describing himself as the Rev. B. C. D. F.
Fairfax, has been victimising the parishioners of Raw-
marsh, near Sheffield, where he had been officiating sonic
months on behalf of the rector, who had been spending
the winter in Ireland. He obtained the curacy by an-
swering an advertisement in the Ecclesiastical Gazette,
and showing ample testimonials ; but_ having obtained

Hay 1848.

POST-OFFICE DELINQUENCY.—AB inquiry has take;
place during the past week, relative to a packet of We
addressed to Mr. James Boodle, solicitor, Cheltenham',b' _
Mr. Coppock, of London, the parliamentary agent for the
petitioners against the return of Sir W. Jones. Mr, Cop-
pock sealed the packet and posted it ; on its arrival3l
Cheltenham Mr. Boodle discovered that the packet hat
been opened. The parcel containing some itai:‘,
documents relative to the pending election, an ulcirl
the
was set on foot, when it was discovered that one of t.
clerks, a partisan opposed in politics to the liberal nar,Z
had had an hour's access to the packet by himself.
statement of the clerk was, that he found the packet 01,!:
in the bag, that he took out the bundle of papers from tu,',
envelope, untied the tape with which they were tied, an
read " only the endorsements." f the
CHARTIST INTELLIGENCE.— At a meeting,. 0
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Chartists, of Newcastle, held on Friday, a Mr. Watla
delivered a long address, in the course of which he 5,11,,
they had determined to agitate peaceably till the ruin',"
classes were brought round to their views, and that
gave his vote in the Convention that there should u
synonym.country
Tmh es e ti o g
observation
held
ted Friday
ofal
loavuegrb ttile
when one of the more learned of the Chartists, asharuthe
at such a display of ignorance, pulled the speaker by
31r.
coat, and whispered " simultaneous meetings," and „,t
Watson, on resuming his discourse, attempted to cerr.-,
himself by repeating the substance of his last observat'fb'g
and introducing the term spontaneous meetings. In
blundering style the Chartist delegate proceeded for Rea!'
ming
half an hour, till, at length, he concluded by
a resolution which he was unable to read.
DEATH FROM FRIGHT.—Two mischievous boys, rola-
ing in Simon's-square, Nicolson-street, for the purP°s';
amusement, seized a little fellow about eight years of ag;
who was also resident in that locality and was known. ~,
them, and entrging him with some trifling depredatlna
from his aunt bound his arms with a piece of cord,
proceeded with him to the police-office at St. Leona(' '
Before they reached that station, however, a passunger
attracted by the distressed condition of the boy, relearn
him from the grasp of his bullying companions, and se„l,
him away home in a very agitated state. The little te'cl
low was put to bed, but he became rapidly worse, at,
during some periods of nervous excitement cried out t"
mad° cut the cord and let him off. Every exertion was
in his behalf, but the unfortunate child expired on vv
•A`f
nesday from the effects of the fright he had received'
The boys, who had acted in so thoughtless a manner, Or:
taken into custody, and the case is at present under .1.
vestigation.—Edinburgh Register.
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PROPULSION OF STEAM-VESSELS.—Mr. W. A re
Kingston-upon-Hull, has taken out a patent for any
chinery for propelling vessels, consisting of a shaft, el;
nected with the engine, projecting through the sides _
usual ; this shaft carries two double-ended cranks,.
levers, at right angles to each other. To the crank-Pills;
upon the ends of the crank-levers, are attached bars, °I,
rods,. being attached to pins upon cranks, or levers, 1114 e
two similar shafts, one of which is situated before i',„A
driving-shaft attached to the engine; the other situaZ
behind that shaft—the centres of the three being in
same horizontal line. Upon these horizontal bars
placed floats, which act as the propellers, and are alvit'i
in a vertical position, whether in entering the water,
during their passage through, or leaving it ; or they In'di
t
be so arranged, that during their backward movemelin
they may present their edges to the direction of teuti77
which may be done by means of eccentrics upn,n,ll
crank arms, and forming the floats themselves, similar
Venetian blinds.
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An old woman, named Hannah Williams, nearly
years of age, was found dead in her bed at Gloucester lash
week, in a state of the most apparent destitution : rho h_
been living for some time past on Is. a week, with a
from the union, and the charity of her neighbours.
her death, however, was found a hoard of money le„';'„ r;
ous places, amounting to £ll4 2s. 2d., including Xiu jej
silver and £2: in copper ; and, although the poor af,,,,e
creature had been shivering with cold throughout all
inclement weather of the winter and spring, there tr";
found on the premises a large stock of coal (more tbaL
ton and a half in weight) the accumulation of many cur'
ritable gifts ; whilst, in various parts of the house, we.
found stored away. the remnants of unconsumed food, uc/t;
dently the relics of what she lied received from time,,,
time from the workhouse, and in gifts from friends wilcic
believed she was in excessive need. There were 111°u,,
pieces of bread, numberless pieces of bacon grown "rusty
from long keeping, bits of cheese, remnants of per-I,h
&c., some of very recent acquisition, and others 01 9
age as to have become long since unfit for eating,. was
LAMENTABLE OCCUR'RENCE.—Great sensation, 04
created on Tuesday morning last, in the neighbouretsif
of Minster yard, by the discovery of the u.rs
of Mrs. Cookson (widow of the late Dr. Cookson), Olio
well, at the top of the garden belonging to the house real
which she resided. The unfortunate lay retired to r
about nine o'clock on Monday, being before her used
time. On the following morning the servant was alarmaya
on finding her mistress's bed-room door partly open, on
on looking into the bed, perceived she had quitted it. be.,
proceeding to the garden she found that the l)ucicut the
longing to the well had been removed. Knowing that
to,
deceased was subject to fits of aberration, she at once silo
pected that she had destroyed herself. A person gut The
the bucket, descended; and soon found the b0dy..„,„0,
deceased had complained very much of her bead on Inuot,
"Temporaryhe
insanidtr's/
day,cause, You
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replying that
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did not, why should she," the deceased rejoined,
STRANGE ATTACK.—Last week ,Ti. Lhoski, an A ustriii::„.
was charged, at the Marlborough Police-office, svitb„doWS
ing annoyed Prince Metternich, and broken soroeV;tson,
at the Brunswick Hotel, in Princes-street. and
manager of the hotel, said thet Prince Mettu,,r-,,a colon
suite were now stopping there. The prisoner "; who
is
to the hotel, and requested to see Baron Huge" used
attached to the suite of the prince. The prisone,. la
very energetic language, and at last he left the het" net,tr
a minute or two some stones were thrown from the s ~
The jury returned a verdict
which broke two of the windows. The
to Mr. Watson : Do you know that you harbour a rPri;
in your house ? Do you know that Prince Metternic!.6,4
a traitor to his country, and that he has been arraigie
before the Hungarian Diet, and dare not show his„ big
there ? Do you know that he has not only imbrttellp
hands, but his arms up to his armpits, in blood ? ,
Hardwick asked the prisoner what he was ? Prison t:
prisoner now
01
am a doctor of philosophy. I have received monel,r- eh re
the Austrian goverment, £3O and £5O at a time.
is £5O coming to me to which lam entitled. Mr. "Iry
wick asked the prisoner how he obtained a living ?
prisoner said he had written several works, and lad fine('
contributed to the quarterly reviews. Mr. Hardwi fid
the prisoner 6s. for the damage,. and required him to
bail for his good behaviour.

MR. COCHRANE'S PAUPER DEMONSTRATION.--i" nt
been impertinently and falsely stated in an Advertiseme,
that Sir George Gray would not interfere to prevenali;
numerous procession of the inmates of workhouse for
others through the public streets to the Horne-ofee'ces
the purpose of laying a host of " bastile" grievau p.
before the Government, but the hon. bart. took 6..,114.00f
portnnity, in his place in the House of Conita°"-ci by
removing any impression that might have been cause to.
such unfounded assertion. Mr. Cochran.", however
peared in a
,Trafalgar-square on Monday, and enterighe
cab with van behind containing " Illustrations" ° ,
b
" Bastiles" and the Poor-law., advanced with a Efl,.,
aleS
1500 persons to Whitehall. A body of police-cons': the
appeared, and they fled immediately. The man
ded
van finding his progress effectually stopped, deninroS
payment for his services of Mr. Cochrane, wki,,„%tra'
immediately satisfied, and the bearer of the " go
tions" quietly retired. Mr. Cochrane was allowed love
on in his cab, his " tail" having been cut off as 84 his
stated, and went to the Home-office, where he le,'„,'"ot
petition, the hon. baronet presiding over that departA-ndea
not being visible to such an undesired guest. Thus e`:red
the affair, the only casualty being a broken head reeelio
by one of the crowd, more, however, from accident t
design. the.
RELICS OF A WANDERING JEWELLER.—Daring wed'
month of December last a wandering jeweller, 11.3,9i:t
Daniel Stewart, a native of Ireland, died at his lodetTy in,
Keptie-street, Arbroath. Stewart had been frequene
the habit of visiting Arbroath with the two small b°-",030
jewellery with which he travelled ; but his appeara6e'ehr
apparel, as well as his penurious habits, led to the ev;ces'e
skin that he was far from being in affluent circurnst%o o,
After his death, his landlady, accompanied by 6 I/3 ood'
business and a magistrate, had his effects sealed uPle
to their very great surprise, found that, instead of the 1-016
trumpery articles which they naturally supposenectiol:
formed his stock in trade, there was a very large
of valuable gold and silver watches, diamond frog in die'
and pins, not a few of the rings enamelled and s° Ise':
monds, besides other articles of great value. Therfor tb
at the same time found two deposit bank receipts bavi"
sums of £2OO and £26, respectively. No relations be de'
appeared, and in the absence of any settlement by ticrfort
ceased, Mr. Robertson, the Sheriff-substitute of t
and Mr. Forsyth, the Procurator-Fiscal, arrived tit' tbB'
breath, on Wednesday last, and took possession of
The entirne
x6ov. we,
less than bro ,
.1. s wearing apparel was valued yesterday by Aujolvic
and curiously enough, as if to mark the contrast wi• b th,
stock in trade exhibited to the meanness of. his gf.04'.6'1.
latter was found to be worth the enormous sum °A "

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A CHILD STARVED BY ITS MOTHERk—nn- Ge.,-
last, an inquest was held at Birmingham, °II fio':fe

lrbroath Guide.

Nheatcroft, a little boy eight years old, the sou i;i9
named Wheatcroft, and a woman who passed as Can Call 0
and who had been residing for some time in Neva Wed
street, and whose death was alleged to, have a pCar
M
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starvation and ill-treatment by hits parents. ioas ot
from the evidence of several persons th..t susloc.drea
been excited that the deceased and two other chit awl tb
the same parents were treated with great crueltt'gd 0'.10%
examination it was found that they were mariof Were
wales on their backs, and that they coraplaine then va
' no in the house, while their father and or decelog.
' left without food for two days. T"eatteil rritet
penditure, on the time approaching Tor nun to resign ins had a large cut on his forehead, such asap o.
trust the creditors became pressing, and suddenly he was would make ; all three were perfect skeleton 00,010
missed from the parish, and has not since been heard of. father had been seen beating them with a ctrifiliel
The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign '3lst of March, the door of the place in releo3o;
Parts and other religious societies are also sufferers. Being . confined was broken open, and the childr,.% chit one
a young, unmarried man, " tall, slender, of dark com- The mother was also in the habit of beating `'`' °Droa'
plexion, with large expressive eyes, and jetty hair ;" being, she had been seen to. put them in a cellar, and is cc-ifer
moreover, supposed to be nobly barn and rich, he attracted occasion to throw a sheet over their bodies, aht a I`,l eaa,
great notice from the ladies : not only so ; his zeal for the pany with another woman, named Cleaver, lie, Os
church, kindness to the poor and those who did not attend match, and stick the prongs of a fork
his ministry, made him one universal favourite with the and tell her it was the dvil. Notwithstaaloireajestli
villagers. The tradesmen supplied him with goods to any medical care bestowed on the deceased lie that that ear
amount, and he,was surrounded wiih all the comforts and Sunday last. The medical evidence show. no bic the
elegancies of life. By and bye there came down to the had resulted from water on the brain, occc.l° Lion of re'
clerical residence two persons, one of them a " page," and tinual irritation of the stomach, the coAtilhe jorleroo
the other a relative, whom he called " Johnny Deer," or stomach being occasioned by want of fwd. 4. 'the Pi. 00
" dear," a term of endearment somewhat applicable; turned a verdict of " Manslaughter agailltd, that
,since there are shrewd suspicions that although in male calling herself Sarah Wheatcroft," and "u-eahle.,
attire the wearer is of the feminine sender, 'olatu
Panaikred Gecne Wheat-croft wgts.aANin tlickg
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