The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-04-18 00:00:00

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The second steamer forming the " Ocean Line" is to
sail from Southampton on the 20th instant.
The execution of Bates and Mawdsley, for the Adlington
murder, is to take place on Saturday.
On Monday a fire broke out in the premises belonging
to Mr. J. R. Kendall, coffee-shop-keeper. 33, Goswell-
street, Clerkenwell, and eight houses were destroyed.
Lady Morgan has written a very flattering letter to the
Pope, begging of him to release her " Italy" from the
list of prohibited works.
On Monday two three-story houses, recently erected
at Bond-street, Chelsea, fell with an immense crash bury-
ing two men in the ruins, who were got out sadly bruised.
Two printers in Glasgow have been arrested and held
to bail for printing and posting a seditious placard, headed
" Threatened revolution in London."
Last week the Chartists held meetings in most of the
large towns on various days, but they have dwindled into
insignificance at last.
At the Woodbury Petty Sessions on Monday, Lady
Susan Bergaum was appointed one of the overseers for
the parish of Lympstone.
A few days ago the copyright of the People's Journal
was sold by auction to Mr. Willoughby, the publisher,
for £l3O.

The convict, Win. Dowson, who was under sentence of
~.death in Durham Gaol, along with Thompson for the mur-
der of Shirley, at Raby Castle, received a reprieve, and is
to be transported for life.
Monday was a day of disasters to Mr. Feargus O'Con-
nor, the British Lamartine. Besides his public disgrace,
his pocket was picked upon the hustings by some Chartist
leader. _ _

A very serious fire took place at Coalbrookdale Iron-
works, on the 6th inst. The warehouses and pattern-
shops suffered most, and damage to the extent of £3,000
was done,
At Warwick, on Friday, Matthew,,Davies was executed
for the murder of his wife. He took a farewell of his
children the day before. He was of weak intellect and of
intemperate habits.
An accident of a melancholy nature, occurred on Wed-
nesday week, at the Monkland Forge, whereby a man lost
his life almost instantaneously by falling below the ham-
men—Glasgow Chronicle.
At the London Common Council on Thursday, it was
resolved that £2OO should be subscribed out of the city's
cash towards the relief of the British workmen and their
families compelled to leave France.
Lord Redesdale, in the House of Lords, on Thursday
night, drew attention to the question of? Jesuits being
tolerated in this country, and quoted the Tablet news-
paper, a s evidence of their nefarious practices and designs.
The police of Bradford a few days since arrested a man
for an assault, and whilst effecting his capture found him
in his house manufacturing pike heads, a number of which
were seized and taken to the police-office.
A special Court of Common Council was held on Thurs-
day at the Guildhall, London, when the freedom of the
city, enclosed in a gold box of! the value of 100 guineas,
was presented to Lord Hardinge.
ROYAL ARTILLERY.—An order has just been issued
reducing the height at which young men will be enlisted
for the artillery service from 5 feet 9 inches to 5 feet 8
inches, their age being between 18 and 22.
Five boys were last week sailing a boat on the Town
Weir, Northwich, and not knowing how to guide it, they
were drifted to the river head, when the boat upset, and
they were all plunged into the water : two were drowned,
but the others were rescued.

It is affirmed that M. Guizot, who had at first expressed
the intention of giving public lectures on history in Lon-
don, has renounced that project, at the request of the
Princess de Lieven ; who, it is added, is to adopt M.
Guizot's children, and marry him.
Another individual who was shot during the late unfor-
tunate riot. in Bridgeton, Glasgow, died at his own resi-
dence, in Tradeston, within the last few days, from the
effects of the wounds he received from the fire of the out-
pensioners, making the fifth victim.
AN AGED WOMAN MURDERED BY HER SON.—A man
named William Harris has been committed to Guildford
gaol charged with the wilful murder of his mother, whom
he threw down and kicked because she would not go home
when he told her to do so.
GAINS lIY RACE-lIORSES.—The four most successful
horses in 1847, with respect of the amount won by their
descendants, stand thus :—Venison, about £20,000 ;
Touchstone, about £17,400; Lanercost, about .£15,500
Hetman Platoff, about £lO.OOO. Total, £63,000.
PRINCE METTERNICH.—The arrival of this distinguish-
ed diplomatist is confidently expected within the next few
days. Apartments have already been engaged for the
Prince and his family at the Brunswick Hotel, Hanover-
square.
A large piece of silver, weighing about-Sixty' ounces
(called by the Portlanders, Duckey Stone), was found, a
few days since, on the Portland beach, by a poor man. A
number of these lumps of silver have been found there at
various times; it is thought that there are a great many still
left, the remains of a wreck many years since.
On Wednesday week, a man in the employment 'of Mr.
White, of Toghill Farm, in the parish of Doynton, while
occupied in cutting hay, was precipitated to the ground,
and falling upon the hay-knife he was using, the instru-
ment passed completely through his body. His death was
instantaneous.—Bally Journal.

'I he postman Bradley, who was so savagely attacked in
Mitre-court, Wood-street, London, whilst delivering his
letters, has been informed that the Lords of her Majesty's
Treasury-, at the instance of the Postmaster-General, have
allowed him (Bradley) to retire from the service on a su-
perannuation allowance of £lOO per annum.
011 Monday, sixteen other young men, whose ages
ranged from 16 to 25, were convicted of robberies com-
mitted during the Chartist demonstration on the 13th of
March. They were sentenced to various terms of punish-
ment, varying from 12 months' imprisonment to 14 years'
transportation;
POROUS BRICKS AND STONES.—Let the brick-work
become perfectly dry in summer, and give it one3or two
coats of boiled oil. No wet will ever go through it again.
E. Horne, Surveyor's office, Christ's Hospital. A-
nother correspondent advises a facing of mathematical or
ornamental tiles.—Bteilder. • _ _

Trade of every. description at Sunderland is beginning
to experience the effects of general depression, and work
is daily becoming more difficult to procure. The iron
and glass trades are almost as stagnant as shipbuilding,
and theshipping interest is in a most discouraging condition.
Foreign freights are scarce and unremunerative, and the
coal trade freights were never worse at any time.
COINCIDENCE.-Mr. John Dails, commission agent,
Goole, who bonded the first goods deposited in warehouse
and ist,the timber pond there. after the opening of that
parties. foreign trade in 1828, happened also to be the first .
party to send goods by the Wakefield, Pontefract, and
Goole Railway, having forwarded eleven calls of wine..
wider bond to Liverpool by the first goods tra*.adesp.atched.
Coin:Goole after the opening of that line..

Mr. Feargus O'Connor's Land Allotment Society now
numbers one hundred thousand heads of families. Out
of all this number some one hundred and sixty have
found a refuge on the O'Connor estates in four or five
years. Query,—how long will it take to " locate " the
remaining 99.840 ? And will O'Connor's carriage and
four expedite the process ?
Hundreds of boys at Glasgow have lately signed peti-
tions in favour of a repeal of the union with Ireland ; and
the tables on which these petitions are exposed for signa-
ture at the corners of the streets are purposely made very
low, in order to suit the stature of these schoolboy re.
peelers, many of whom have signed fifteen or twenty
different petitions with the same prayer.
A very singular death, under a surgical operation, oc-
curred in London last week. Dr. Willis was inserting a
seton for inflammation of the windpipe, when death re-
sulted from the inflammation excited by the entrance of
air into a vein divided by the seton needle. The air dis-
tended the right side of the heart, and thus arrested the
circulation.
The port of Newcastle-upon-Tyne has been dismem-
bered, and a new port created—the port of Shields. This
measure has been the occasion. of considerable local
excitement, and the town council of Newcastle, which
body has resolutely opposed the division of the port into
two. resolved on Thursday to lay the whole case before
parliament in the form of a petition.
A few days ago, a two-year old ewe, the property of a
farmer, at Sproatly, Yorkshire, produced a lamb, or rather
twin lambs, preternaturally united at the thorax. This
strange animal had one head, four distinct ears, and two
eyes, but neither mouth nor nostrils. From a sort of du-
plex thorax diverged two separate carcasses, forming, with
the exception of the fore-legs, which resembled the four
hinder, two distinct and natural lambs.
SALMON FISHING IN THE SEVERN.—AS an angler
was plying his craft at Diglis, fishing for ignoble chub
with a lob worm, his bait was seized by an unexpected
prey, and after a hard struggle he succeeded in landing a
newly-run salmon, in good condition, and weighing 121 b.
The fish, at the present market price, would be worth a
guinea—a good morning's work for the successful angler,
who, we understand, was a labouring man out of work,
and probably fishing for his dinner.—Worcester Journal.
A few days since, a farmer at Lismore, in Argyleshire,
observed a desperate combat between two eagles, which
at first attacked each other in the air, but ultimately
alighted on the ground to finish their quarrel, which was
terminated by the farmer, who killed both birds by a sin-
gle discharge of a gun loaded with shot. One of the
eagles measured seven feet three inches, and the other
half an inch more, fro-e tip to tip of the wings ; and each
weighed upwards of 161 b.
At the Central Criminal Court, on Saturday, fifteen
prisoners were tried for breaking open the house of Mr.
Gray, pawnbroker at Camberwell, on the occasion of the
first Chartist meeting on Kennington Green ; four were
acquitted, and the rest found guilty (eight were under
eighteen years of age, and none above twenty-five), and
sentenced to seven years' transportion, with the exception
of the two oldest, who, having been previously convicted,
were each transported for fourteen years.
INTERESTING MEETING.—A man named Hughes, re-
siding on the Clee Hills, Worcestershire, who has three
sons and five daughters, all married and having children,
has been in the habit of assembling them all at his house
on Midlent Sunday, for some years, and entertaining them
with a substantial dinner. The family springing from
him has rapidly increased, and last Sunday the whole
assembled, and all his children and grandchildren amount-
ed to 68!
How WE DO THINGS IN ENGLAND.—On Monday a
butcher's lad was accosted by a Frenchman in Trafalgar-
square, the latter saying—" Let me show you de vay in
vhich ye vight in France, and how ye make de barricade ;"
upon which the loyal butcher replied, " I'll show you how
we fight in England," and thereupon, suiting the action
to the word, turned to and gave mounseer a good sound
hiding. We understand the Duke of Norfolk has pre-
sented the lad with a five-pound note.
At the Somerset Assizes, on Tuesday week, a Mrs.
Williams, of Bath, brought an action against Mr. Edwd.
Jay, solicitor, of that city, to recover a sum of upwards
of £2OO, the amount of loss which the plaintiff averred
she had sustained by the negligent conduct of the defen-
dant, in his character as a solicitor, in effecting a mort-
gage on the house No. 6, Walcot-parade. The jury, after
consulting for a few minutes, returned a verdict for the
plaintiff—damages £207 13s. Id., and interest thereon
until paid.
CASTLE CLIFF, BARNARD CASTLE.—An immense mass
of rock, estimated to weigh several tons, became disen-
gaged on Sunday week from the cliff upon which stand
the ruins of the once powerful and magnificent castle of
Barnard, and fell on the Tees' side from an immense
height. The cause of the sudden precipitation of this
frightful mass of stone is unknown, but some attribute it
to the effects of a violent storm of thunder and lightning
with which the town of Barnard Castle was visited that day.
POPERY AT HOME : EDUCATION OF THE POOR.—At a
recent meeting of the Romanists of the Yorkshire district,
one of the speakers estimated the amount of the share in
the Parliamentary Education Grant to be claimed by the
Roman Catholics of England at £50,000. He also stated,
that according to a return which had been made to him
the uneducated Roman Catholic children of England
amount to something above 40,000, and those who are
educated only to something like 45,000, so that there is
' very nearly a proportion of one in two of Roman Catholic
children destitute of education.
MURDER OF A COTTAGER.—CharIes Manfield, aged
16, was charged at Somerset assizes with the wilful murder
of John Wall, in the parish of Backwell, on the 17th De-
cember.—We have already given the particulars of this
•Cruel murder. The deceased was sitting by his cottage
fire, his wife having gone out for a short time, when the
prisoner, protruding a gun through the window and firing,
inflicted a wound of which the cottager died some time
afterwards. The object of the crime doubtless was, to
obtain possession of five pounds which the deceased had
received for some pigs.—The prisoner was found guilty
and received sentence of death without hope of mercy. SHOCKING CIRCUMSTANCE.—Mr. George Lomas, of , 1
the Red Lion Inn, Hazel Grove, Stockport, had for some
time baen confined to his bed from sickness. On Thurs-
day night, he manifested visible symptoms of a rapid de-
cline, so much so that his medical attendant thought it
right to prepare his relations for the worst. His brother
then thought it his duty to go down stairs and apprize
Mrs. Lomas of the sudden change which had taken place
in her husband's 'condition. The information had such
effect upon her that she was seized with apoplexy, and
died in an hour afterwards. Her husband died in ten
minutes after this melancholy event.

SELF-DOMESTICATED ROBlNS.—During the past winter,
two robins were in the habit of roosting on the bow of a
fishing net in the gunroom at Chillington Hall, and leav-
ing through the window in the morning. Within the last
few weeks, they have built a nest in the keeper's bedroom.
which adjoins the gunroom. They first commenced build-
ing their nest at the top of the bed, but, being disturbed,
they changed their quarters, and built another at the top
of a boot tree close to the bed. They are now sitting al-
ternately on five eggs, and go in and out of the window
through an opening which has been made by the keeper
by the removal of a pane. The keeper has been in the
habit of feeding them during the winter, and the birds are
now remarkably tame.—Wolverhampton Chronicle.
THE IRON TRADE.—At the quarterly meeting of iron-
masters at Birmingham on Thursday, it was resolved that
the value of iron should be fixed at the prices which ruled
the trade during the last three months; viz., bars, £8 per
ton ; rods, £8 to £8 10s. ; hoops, £8 10s. ; and sheet,
£9 10s. ' • other descriptions of iron to bear proportionate
prices. it is understood that a proposition was made for
a reduction of £1 per ton, but as it was thought that this
would have a ruinous effect upon some of the smaller
makers it was abandoned. The tone of the iron trade,
it was satisfactory to observe, was decidedly improved :
and, although, as compared with this time last year, the
transactions were limited, confidence appears to be pretty
generally restored. Considerable contracts were taken
to-day for hoops and bars.
ABDUCTION.—At the Marylebone Police-office, London,
on Wednesday, Mr. Thomas Buxton Barnes, a surgeon in
extensive practice at Thaxted, Essex, was charged " with
having, on the Ist of April instant, unlawfully taken an
unmarried girl, Marian Frances Jane Harvey, under the
age of 16 years, out of the possession of and against the
will of the Rev. Thomas Harvey, her father." The de-
fendant had been the medical adviser of the family, and
after their removal to Bayswater had induced the young
lady to elope with and marry him. Her father found her
at his house in bed, with a loaded pistol under her pillow,
and was opposed in his entrance by the prisoner with
annther loaded pistol_ The partioz bud boon rnurriod at
St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, and the prisoner
had sworn that the young lady was above the age of 18,
though she was only 15, and that the alliance was with
the full and entire consent of her parents. He was com-
mitted, but allowed to put in bail.
DEVONSHIRE SILVER.—On Thursday, Mr. Ellis, jun.,
of Exeter, had the honour of submitting for the approval
of the Queen at Osborne-house a basket of silver net-
work, made of the silver extracted from the lead mines in
Devonshire, manufactured at the establishment of the
firm with which he is connected by order of her majesty.
The besket is an elegant specimen of what can be done
by English workmen and with English silver, and .is very
creditable to national talent and enterprise, and is, more-
over, a good specimen of what can be produced by work.
men in the provincial cities of the empire, showing that
good taste and elaborate execution are not confined to the
metropolis. The basket is meant to hold music or straws
to be used in elegant plaitings or devices. It is sur-
mounted with scrolls, &c., exhibiting in its construction
the lightness and delicacy of Oriental workmanship, with
the good taste of modern design. Her majesty was pleased
to express her entire approbation of the design and work-
manship. Some elegant brooches were also submitted to
her inspection, with which she expressed her satisfaction.
A WILL FORGERY.—At the Taunton assizes, John
Ford, Daniel Davids Ford, John. Lewis, and Frances
Garland, were indicted for feloniously forging a codicil,
purporting to be the codicil of the will of Mr. Slack, at
Bath, with intent to defraud different persons. It ap-
peared that the will and codicil purported to be those of
Mr. W. Slack, who died in Bath on the 2nd of July, 1815.
He was a gentleman of advanced years, having retired
from business, in which he had been engaged with his
brother, who died in 1840, and Mr. W. Slack became pos-
sessed f upwards of £60,000; he was unmarried, but an
intimacy existed between him and Mrs. Garland, who bad
been his housekeeper, and still resided with him. She
was a woman of no education, of a bad temper, and she
and Mr. Slack frequently disagreed, and were often on
the eve of parting. The will produced after his death was
a forgery, perpetrated as alleged by the prisoners.—The
jury returned a verdict of guilty against the two Fords and.
Lewis, and acquitted Mrs. Garland ; and the learned
judge then sentenced Daniel Davids Ford to 20 years'
transportation ; John Ford to 15 years, and John Lewis
to 10 years. The case commenced about two o'clock on
Monday, and was not, finished till Wednesday afternoon.
Mr.. Cockburn bad 100. guineas with his brief. The in•
dictment was 32 yards Li length, and them-were 45.ygt-
news.

CONVERTS TO ROME.—On Saturday, the Rev. J. B.
Morris, late of Exeter College, and the Rev. Daniel W.
Haigh, late of Leeds, were ordained priests of the Rotnish
Church, by Dr. Wareing, Bishop of Ariopolis, and Vicar
Apostolic of the Eastern District. Mr. Newman and his
confreres of the Oratorian Order are now, it seems, en-
gaged in delivering Lenten lectures at the various Roman
.
Catholic Chapels in this metropolis. The Rev. Mr. Fa-
ber, with his associates of the proposed order of St. Wil-
fred. late of Cotton-hall, Staffordshire, have united them-
selves to the Oratorian Order, under Mr. Newman, as
" Father Superior," and have taken up their abode with
him at Old Oscott College, now called " Mary Vale."—
Oxford Herald.

THE RERORDER GP I-TULL AND MR. DEARSLEY.—At
the opening of the Hull quarter sessiens, on Friday, Mr..
Dearsley tendered his bumble apology to the recorder, T.
C. Granger, Esq., M.P., for the language which he had
used towards him at the last sessions, and declared how
deeply he deplored the occurrences in the Hull court, of
which an account was given at the time in the Standard.
When labouring under excitement, said Mr. Dearsley, he
had been led into expressions which could not, ought not,
and should not be justified by him, and he wished fully to
retract an expression that had fallen from him which
might tend to convey the opinion that there was a partial
administration t.f justice in that court. No language
could convey the regret he felt that he should have used
such an expression, and the circumstance should be a
warning to him for the future. Mr. Dearsley's apology
was accepted by the recorder, who declared that he was
quite ready to forget all that had passed.
THE OAK FARM IRON WORKS.—Tuesday last was the
day appointed for the final examination, in the Court of
Bankruptcy, of Messrs.:Paterson, Walker, Boydell, and
Roper, of the Oak Farm Works, near Dudley. Proofs
of debt to a large amount were tendered and admitted,
including a proof from Sir John Gladstone for £10,323
ss. Id. It was rumoured that the creditors aghinst the
new firm, consisting of the four bankrupts, would receive
dividends to the full amount of their debts; but that the
creditors against the old firm of Boydell and Roper, who
carried on business as the " Oak Farm Iron Company,"
would be less fortunate. The conduct of the bankrupts
appears to give unqualified satisfaction to the great body
of the creditors. It seems to be generally regretted that
the concern was forced into bankruptcy. It will be recol-
lected that an offer of 9s. was made, secured by Sir Ste-
phen Glyn, Lord Lyttleton, and the Right Hon. W. E.
Gladstone. The odds are now, according to common.
surmise, that there will not be a dividend to the amount
of 2s. 6d. in the pound.
THE INDIAN MAIL.—The cessation of the hi-monthly
mail, yid Southampton, after next month, will be of con-
siderable importance to the public. Letters and news-
papers from India and the Mediterranean, after that period
cannot be forwarded by the beginning of the month mail
except through Marseilles, which will subject them to a
heavy postage. The postage on every newspaper for India.
via' Marseilles is 3d., while vid Southampton it is free..
The postage on every letter weighing no more than half
an ounce, via Southampton, is Is. ; while vid Marseilles
it is 2s. Bd., nearly three times as much. " For all ordi-
nary purposes, therefore," says a correspondent, " the
communication between the United Kingdom and India
is reduced from twice a month to once. Independently
of the expense of postage, however, by the Marseilles
route, no one, at present, at least, would think of sending
valuable enclosures through France, unless absolutely
compelled to do so, while that country is in a disturbed
state.

Loss OF AN EAST INDIAMAN.—A report has reached
St. Helier's, Jersey, giving an indistinct account of the
loss of an East Indiaman, on Thursday morning, the
13th instant. She is represented to have struck on the
Ecrehon Rocks, which lie in the centre of the Dirouilles
Sandbank, between the north-east end of Jersey and the
coast of France. The ship was from Calcutta, laden with
sngar and rum. She was called the Nabob Rajah, or
same other eastern title ; had a crew of 24 persons, 11 of
whwn are saved, and 13 lost, or 13 saved and 11 lost ; in
all probaiaility she was bound to London. The wind at
the time was strong to the westward, and the weather
thick, and the supposition is that by an error in her log
she was 30 or 40 miles south of her reckoning, and when
her crew calculated her to be coming up channel, she went
ashore on the Ecrehon Rocks. A light on the north coast
of Jersey has long been required by mariners, and had one
existed there now, the present loss of life and property
might not have taken place.
DISSENTING CHURCHES:—The ugly buildin called
meeting-houses Will § Z.. .9911 ..tist only in history. Tgs h e rage
is now for Dissenting churches. The Independents are
building a magnificent Gothic church in Kentish-town,
and another one is in progress at Manchester, which latter
will have a lofty spire. The Wesleyans are erecting seve-
ral Gothic churches in various parts of the kingdom. The
Baptists have just completed a beautiful Lombardo-
Norman edifice, in Bloomsbury-street, London, with two
lofty spires. But all these architectural attempts are
cast into the shade by the church now in the course of
erection by the Unitarians of Gee Cross, Lancashire. In
plan and errangement it resembles a church of the olden
time. The style is the decorated Gothic, and even Pugin
himself has never designed a more imposing structure.
The windows are filled with stained glass representations
of the Saviour and Apostles, &c. ; and over the west front
is a lofty tower and spire, the belfry of which is to con-
tain a peal of eight bells. The arrangements of the inte-
rior are strictly ecclesiastical ; and the organ is to be
placed on an oak screen, and most elaborately carved.
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—At Gloucester,
last week, an action was brought by Miss Philips, sister
to a merchant at Cardigan, against Mr. Charles, an attor-
ney of that town. Plaintiff's age was forty-three, and
defendants forty-six. They had known each other for
nearly twenty years. What was remarkable in the case
was, that after the wedding dresses, cards, and cakes had
been prepared, the breakfast ordered, the day fixed, and
a wedding party invited, the defendant, without any pre-
vious intimation of his change of intention, married Miss
Williams, an invalid old woman of seventy, just two days
before the day fixed for his marriage with the plaintiff.
He had given the plaintiff fifty pounds to buy wedding
favours, and the money had been so expended. The
clergyman of the parish remonstrated with him when he
went for the license to marry Miss Williams, but without
effect. He had lodged at the old lady's house for twenty
years, and she had been like a mother to him. She was
brought into the church to be married in a sedan chair up
to the steps of the communion table. She cannot walk
in her own room without crutches. She has been for
years an invalid. The jury, after a few moments' delibe-
ration, returned a verdict for the plaintiff—damaged, one
thousand pounds.
SANITARY REFORM. MEETING OF CLERGY.—OIt
Friday, a meeting was held in the parish vestry-room of
Christ Church, Snitalfiels, for the promotion of sanitary
improvement, and was numerously attended by the clergy
of the large and populous parishes of Bethnal-green, Bow,
Bromley, St. George's-in-the-East, Limehouse, St. Luke,
Popiar, Shadwell, Shoreditch, Spitalfields, Stepney, Wap-
ping, and Whitechapel. In the absence of Sir Henry N.
Buxton, who was unexpectedly called away by more
pressing parliamentary duties, the Rev. W. Stone, rector
of Spitalfields, was placed in the chair. The numerous
clergy assembled, from their experience in some of the
most populous and necessitous parishes in the metropolis,
concurred in deploring the extreme inadequacy of all ex-
isting legislation of a sanitary kind, and in urging the
necessity of one more likely to be effective, by giving
greater powers to local administrative bodies, and making
those bodies immediately responsible for the exercise of
those powers to the Legislature. They expressed regret
that either public bodies or individuals should think
of opposing the sanitary measures now submitted to par-
liament by the government, and passed several resolutions
by which they appointed a Central Sanitary Committee
for the east of London, composed of the incumbents and
one layman of each of the 13 parishes above-namecl, and
er.gaged to promote the formation of sanitary committees
and sub-committees in each parish and district, which
should personally inspect their sanitary condition under
heads of inquiry prepared for the purpose, and report
upon it at periodical meetings of the committees, commu-
nicate upon it, as might from time to time seem desirable,
to the Sanitary Commission, or the new Consolidated
Commission of Metropolitan Sewers, and promote peti-
tions in favour of the measures contemplated by govern-
ment among all their parishioners, and, not least, among
the labouring classes of them. An earnest hope Was felt
by all present that this meeting of clergy would be follow-
ed by others elsewhere, and would lead to the systematic
organization of a similar machinery for bringing sanitary
improvement to every district and every home throughout
the kingdom.
A TAIVAI. SCENE.—At mott of tho thorttros opportun;
ties have been taken to demonstrate the loyalty of the
audiences by singing the national anthem, which in gene-
ral has been called for ; but the following scene at Covent
Garden Opera on Saturday night, as described in the
glowing language of a writer in•the Times, exceeds them
all :—" After the opera of " Semiramide" a remarkable
display of loyalty and patriotism was evidenced on the
part of the audience, one of the most brilliant and crowded
of the season. As soon as The curtain had fallen upon
the last act, and the customary honours had been paid to
Grisi, Alboni, and Tamburini, the band, at a signal from
M. Costa's baton, struck up the national anthem. The
whole audience simultaneously rose, responding with a
burst of applause and cheers. After the air had been
played once through, the curtain went up again and
showed the entire stage covered, from the foot-lights to
the furthest extremity, with the principals, choralists.
dancers, corybhees, and subordinates, forming the im-
mense company of the Royal Italian Opera, mingled with
visitors who had found their way from the boxes to the
coulisses ; Grisi, Alboni. and Tamburini standing in-front,
like generals to marshal their troops in order. The first
verse, sung with great enthusiasm by Grisi, elicited thun-
ders,
sentiments
of applause; but when the pealing tones of Albont'S
involvedpowerful in
voicethe
ngeax7—m,
.uss musical
Scatter
her expression
enemies.
their politics," " Frustrate their knavish tricks"—the
words of which were uttered by the singer with a force
and intensity of meaning that seemed instructive, the
audience could restrain themselves no longer, but
answered each line with a shout that made the roof of
the building reverberate with a thousand echoes, and at
the end the whole pit, boxes, amphitheatre, and gallery,
became a waving sea of hats and handkerchiefs, in which
the " white cambric's" of the ladies were not the least
conspicuous objects. No sooner had the last note of the
anthem been played, than the• conductors and members
of the orchestra, together with the entire company upon
the stage, from the first singers to the call-boys, joined
the audience in their demonstrations, the whole present-
ing a coup d'epil the most exciting and magnificent ever
witnessed. A more unanimous expression of feeling was
never given vent to in a public assembly, and tie sud-
denness of its exhibition electrified every individual
present; it seemed as though an impulse that arose in the
bosom of each singly found immediate sympathy in the
breasts of all present. But no—the impulse was sponta-
neous—unanimous; its expression enthusiastic beyond
the possibility of description. Every soul in, the house,
not excepting the ladies, would willingly have been sworn
in "special constables" at that moment.

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