The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-19 00:00:00

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'ST. JAIAS'S CHURCH.—On Thursday, a meeting of
the propriderrs of pews was held in the above Church, to
consider the best means of repairing the roof and venti-
lating the building. Mr. Hampton presided, and Mr.
Royden was called to the chair. The chairman pointed
out the insecurity of the roof of the church, and mentioned
several improvements that might be made in the interior,
to make it more commodious, and afford more accommo-
dation to the poor. The proposed alterations would cost
about £6OO. During the last four years £7OO had been
expended in repairing and improving the church ; only
about £lOO of which had been contributed by the seat-
owners. He suggested that a rate of one year's pew rent
be levied on the proprietors, to be collected immediately,
and that the repairs of the church be commenced without
delay. The course pointed out by the chairman was ap-
proved of by the meeting. It was stated that in case the
plan proposed did not produce a sufficiency of funds, a
subscription would be made.
PAVING AND SEWERAGE.—At the usual weekly meet-
ing of the Commissioners, on Thursday, a letter having
been received from Mr. Duncan as to some new taps and
pipes required at the water-works in Green-lane, a long
discussion ensued, several members being of opinion,
that from the present circumstances in which the Board
was placed as regarded the Corporation, it would not be
desirable to incur further expense at present. It was ul-
timately decided to wait until the law clerk's return from
London. The Chairman read a letter from Mr. Deane,
the law-clerk, as to the position of the Board in reference
to their bills in Parliament, from which it appeared that,
after a lengthened discussion with the gentlemen in charge
of the Corporation Bill, the latter, in consideration of all
opposition to the Corporation Bill being withdrawn, con-
sented to the introduction into that bill of a clause to
legalize the costs incurred by the commissioners in re-
spect to their two bills, and to authorise the same to be
deducted out of any moneys which may come into their
hands previously to the surrender of their powers to the
Corporation. The letter also stated that the committee
had announced their unanimous decision that the pream-
ble of the Corporation Bill had been proved, and that the
resolution of the committee was unanimous, which, of
course, disposes of the Toxteth-Park Bill as well as that
of the Liverpool Commissioners.
DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—James Gent was
appointed assistant at the transit sheds, at a salary of 255.
per week ; James Thom and John Harrison, as foremen
coopers at the Albert Dock, at a salary of £2 per week
each. The Harbour Masters Committee recommended
the following appointments :—Mr. M'Bride, as dock-
master, to the Albert and Salthouse Docks, at a salary of
£3OO per annum, with £4O for house rent, until he is pro-
vided with a residence; Mr. Herbert, as assistant to Mr.
M`Bride, at a salary of £l6O per annum. Jeremiah
Griffiths, one of the gatemen at George's Dock, was
ordered to he dismissed for being intoxicated while on
duty, he having been several times reported. The Parlia-
mentary Committee reported as to the present position of
the Dock Bill •, it had passed the standing orders of the
House of Lords ; and, with regard to the opposition of
the Liverpool and Bury Railway. the committee up stairs
had decided, and made good the objections taken by the
trust to the making of works on the north sides of their
northermost docks, the necessary notices not having been
complied with. The line of railway the company pro-
posed to make on the east side of those docks would stand
good, and would have to be opposed on its merits. It was
stated that several dock gatemen would be required at the
Albert Dock, and the appointments would be made on
Wednesday.
PUMPING OPERATIONS.—On the 31st July, 18-13, the
coal mines of John Fitzgerald, Esq., at Pendleton, were
stopped by a large influx of water, which stopped alto-
gether the getting of coal at Pendleton, which suppled
Manchester market with that article to the extent of
nearly a thousand tons daily. Mr. Fitzgerald having re-
solved to get rid of this water, set several pumping engines
to work, equivalent altogether to that of 260 horses. The
quantity of water pumped and otherwise raised from the
pit is calculated to have averaged from 3,000 to 3,500
gallons per minute, during about twelve months ! 180,000
gallons an hour; 4,320,000 gallons per day of twenty-four
hours ; or, in a whole year, not less than 1,576,800,000 gal-
lons of water must have been raised and got rid of at the
lower estimate of 3,000 gallons a minute. On the 24th
December last, it was found that the surface of the water
in the pit had been lowered to the level of the aperture by
which the influx from the other mines had flooded the pit
in July, 1843, at the depth of 148 yards from the surface,
and thus enabled the workmen to commence what is tech-
nically termed " tubbing." The pumping engines have
now ceased. but the level of the water is still more than
350 yards below the surface, and the coal as yet above 100
yards below water. It is expected that coal will be again
got about June or July next. The expense of these ope-
rations is not known, but it was said, at the time of the
accident, that Mr. Fitzgerald would sustain a loss of
£50,000. The total quantity of water pumped out would,
it is said, form a canal of thirty-eight miles in length,
twenty-one feet wide, and six in depth.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY IN LIVERPOOL.—On Saturday
wee. a very extensive robbery took place at the Royal
Bank, in this town. It is an old-established custom
amonest the commercial firms here, for the purpose of
securty, to send their cash, bills of exchange, railway
scrip, and other valuable documents, in tin boxes, to the
bank and other places, there to be kept in strong iron
safes until the following morning. Upon the afternoon of
Saturday week, a highly respectable firm sent their box by
one of their clerks, to be deposited, as usual, until Mon-
day morning, in the Royal Bank. The box contained at
the time it was despatched from the office, bills of ex-
change to the large amount of £22,000. Most of the
bills will become due in June, July, August, and Sep-
tember. Their particulars are known, and their payment
stopped. The box also contained the manifest of the
ship Passenger ; and scrip, estimated at £40,000 in se-
veral railways. The clerk states shat he took the box di-
rect to the Royal Bank, laid it upon the counter, and re-
turned to the office. The clerk at the bank states, upon
the other hand, that the box, if left upon the counter,
was not seen by him, and that upon looking over all the
other boxes which bad been sent in upon Saturday
evening, and missing the identical one from the number,
he reported the circumstance. Nothing further was '
heard of the matter for some hours afterwards, when the
missing box, emptied of the whole of its contents, was
found in one of the streets leading from London-road to
Islington. It was immediately conveyed by the police-
man on duty to the Central Police-station, where a re-
port of the robbery was subsequently made. Placards
have been issued, offering £2OO for the apprehension of
the thief or thieves, and other necessary steps taken, but
no tidings have yet been heard. Circumstances which
have since transpired completely exonerate both the clerk
who conveyed the box, and the clerk at the bank, from
all suspicion, if any ever attached to him.
CAUTION TO EMIGRANT AGENTS.—On Thursday,
Lieutenant Hodder, the government agent, appeared be-
fore Mr. Rushton to prefer a charge against John Keenan,
an emigrant agent in this town, for having fraudulently
obtained money from six persons who had come from Ire-
land, and had taken their passage to New York, by re-
presenting himself as J. W. Shaw, emigrant agent. It
appeared that the complainants, together with a number
of other persons, had paid a deposit of £1 each to Mr.
O'Neal, agent at Cork for Messrs. J. W. Shaw and Co.,
in order to secure berths on board the ship Mayfield, for
New York. A printed ticket, with Mr. Shaw's name in
large letters, was given to each of them by Mr. O'Neale,
to show they had taken their passage. The parties arrived
in this town on Sunday evening, by the Cork steamer, in
company with 150 other emigrants. When they landed,
they wet e met by a person in Mr. Keenan's employ, who,
upon the tickets being shown him, directed them to Mr.
Keenan's office. Vt hilst there, one of them asked for Mr.
Shaw, and lie was then shown Mr. Keenan. The man,
on coming up to hi , inquired if he was Mr. Shaw, to
which Mr. Keenan replied in the affirmative. The tickets
were presented to him, and £4 each additional was exacted
for their passage. This was paid, and another ticket
given to them for their passage in a vessel called the Ash-
burton, which would not sail for some time after. The
poor fellows not being able to detect the fraud, walked
away, and did not find out the trick which had been played
upon them until they sought a passage on board the May-
field, which left the port on Wednesday morning last, with
a number of the friends of the complainant. Mr. Rush-
ton, after carefully investigating the case, said the magis-
trates would not be doing their duty if they did not mark
the case by the utmost penalty the law could inflict. The
defendant was accordingly fined £lO, and his emigration
license revoked.

THE LIVEAPOOL STANDARii.

Mr. RIGBY (we believe), said he was now carrying
3,000 tons a-week from the district of the line—that he
was about to open three new coal-mines, and that the
whole of that traffic would fall into the line.
Mr. CooKE said the directors had no individual interest
in the line, beyond having property in the district. Their
chief object was, that the railway should open out the mi-
neral wealth of that valuable part of Wales. If formed, it
would also undoubtedly command a great traffic for plea-
sure parties, particularly on Saturdays, as they could
spend the Sunday in delightful and salubrious localities to
which it would convey them.

The scrips, which were of large amount, were then
noted and returned, and the meeting, which was marked
by the utmost unanimity, broke up.

THE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION

The annual meeting of this society was held on Wed-
nesday in the large room at Exeter-hall.
Mr. PnomPTRE, who occupied the chair, expressed his
satisfaction at once more meeting the friends of the so-
ciety in defence of the Protestant faith. He did not wish
on the present occasion to speak in terms of antipathy or
unkindness towards his Roman Catholic fellow sinners,
but as to the system of the Church of Rome, he felt
bound constantly to protest against it. He had had
many opportunities of seeing the tyranny which wa, ex-
ercised over the Roman Catholics in Popish countries.
He was sorry to say that in the Established Church of
England there were men who were propagating the prin-
ciples of Popery, but who were destitute of the honesty to
avow their connexion with the Roman sect. He looked
upon the concessions which had been made to Romtv,ism
as a heavy blow dealt at the Protestant faith. It would
therefore be their duty, henceforth, to resist such conces-
sions to the utmost, for although there might be trying
and sifting times before them, he had very little doubt
that the cause of truth would ultimately triumph.
The Secretary the❑ read the report.—The first portion
of that document was employed in denouncing the con.
duct of her Majesty's government, who under the pri.-
tence of expediency had sacrificed the institutions of the
country, and to drown the cry of justice to Ireland had
attempted the destruction of the church. The present
government had followed in the path of their predece—
sore, for the Charitable Trusts Bill, the Religious ()pini-
ons Bill, and others of a similar character brought forward
by them, were all steps in the wrong direction. The re-
port then referred to the vigorous efforts made bv the so-
ciety to oppose the progress of the Maynooth Bill—the
number of petitions then presented against it being more
than 10,000, and the signatures amounting to a million
and a quarter. The total receipts of the society for the
year were £1,157, and the expenditure £1,044, the liabi-
lities incurred being about £250. Their stock in hand
might be valued at £5OO or £6OO, but this could not at
once be made available for the society. The number of
additional subscriptions during the past year had consi-
derably increased. Several standard Protestant works
had been added to the publications of the society, and nu-
merous grants had been made for the cause at home and
abroad and in the colonies. The report expressed the
satisfaction which should be felt at the establishment of
the college at Malta, the National Club and the Evange-
lical Alliance fur the maintenance of Protestant principles.
The report concluded by stating the confidence which the
Protestant world had reason to feel in the ultimate tri-
umph of the truth.
Sir D. MACKWORTH moved the first resolution that
the report be adopted He regretted that the Romish
church met with so sad an ally in tkis country, not in
those who were at present inclining to its doctrines, but
in the general apathy and indifference of the people.
After adverting to the doctrines contained in the charge
of the Archbishop of Lyons, and the state of religious opi.
nions in France generally, he concluded by saying that he
spoke in no spirit of enmity to Roman Catholics, and that
he relied upon the distribution and reading of the bible as
the ultimate and great support of the Protestant princi-
ples.
The Rev. Mr. STOWELL said that they were there a
body of men much misunderstood, very much maligned,
but by the blessing of God they were there unshaken in
their principles, and undiminished in their confidence.
The candle which was lighted by La,imer and Ridley was
not to be put out because there were traitors in the camp.
No, it would shine out, and never be extinguished till it
was lost i❑ the blaze of eternity. The retrospect of the
past year presented to their view the most severe shock
which Protestantism bad received since the fatal year of
1829. It was not intellect that would save the Maynooth
priesthood from the blackest doctrines and blasphemies
of the dark ages. The staple of the education would not
be improved, but the amount of production would be
greatly increased, and from it would go forth to the colo-
nies, and over the country, men who would labour to
subvert the settled foundations of the Protestant faith.
There was another feature of the past year in the secessi-
ons which had taken place from the church of England

Northampton is the successful candidate for the show
of the Royal Agricultural Society in 1847.
The unfortunate man Blewitt, who was shot by a young
man in Drury-lane, expired last week.
A blacksmith at Bristol has been committed for trial
for the manslaughter of his wife.
At present, the Princeton and the Mississippi are the
only two steam-ships which bear the United States' flag.
There were no less than twenty-two bankrupts in Tues-
day's Gazette.
A fine youth named Glover, aged 17, was drowned late
week whilst bathing in the river Calder, near Halifax.
An old pair of satin shoes, once worn by Fanny Ell.,ler,
lately realized upwards of £2O in the United States !
Mr. S. O'Brien, the Irish " martyr," is seen some-
times outside the door of his cell reading a huge book. He
lives very sparingly, and puts on the air of a hermit.
Twelve corn-stacks in the farm-yard of Messrs. Green,
at Crawcrook, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, were destroyed
by fire last week. They were ignited by an incendiary.
RAILWAY DIGNITY.—King Hudson's heir apparent,
an Eton boy, has been dubbed by his schoolfellows, " The
Prince of Rails."
A petition from Hull has been presented to the House of
Commons, praying for the release of Mr. S. O'Brien
from the Tower!
The quantity of fish sent from Scarborough along the
railway to York, has averaged 80 tons per week during the
whole of the winter.
The Duke of Northumberland has consented to become
one of thirty subscribers to pay off the building aebt of the
city of Westminster Mechanics' Institution.
At the Eglington Park races, on Wednesday, the horse
on which the. Marquis of Waterford was riding, tell, and
his Lordship had one of the bones of his shoulder fractured.
The King of the French has, it is said, sent a reply,
written with his own hand, to the address of the Town
Council of Edinburgh, on his escape from assassination.
In Nottinghamshire, last week, in one wheat stack, up-
wards of two hundred and fifty rats and one hundred and
sixty mice were killed, and many, of course, escaped.
PILOTAGE.—The Admiralty have ordered that the ser-
vices of pilots are in future to be remunerated according
to the draft of water of the vessels of which they have
the charge.
ARCHITECTURAL CONGRESS.—The architects from all
parts of the world talk of holding a general congress of
architects once eyery three years, the first to take place at
Athens.
Lord Worsley, M.P., has been appointed Deputy Grand
Master of Freemasons for England. This highest office
but one, is generally considered by the craft as pointing
to a future election to the masonic throne.
ANCIENT ART.—It is a singular fact, that the pattern
now most common upon Paisley shawls, and which had
always been a favourite, was in use among the Hindoos
three or four thousand years ago.
It is a startling fact, that when the " Religious Opi-
nions Relief Bill" is passed, the Pope will have more au-
thority, and Romanists more license in this country than
in any of the Popish countries of the continent! !
FIGHT FOR £5OO.—A pugilistic encounter took place
the other day between Gill (of Coventry) and Norley (of
Manchester) for £5OO, at a place palled Withy Green, near
Oxford. After a hard fight Gill was declared the victor.
The number of fires that have taken place in the metro-
polis and its suburbs since the commencement of the year,
according to the records kept by the brigade authorities,
amounts to more than 300.
In the years 1835-39, there was 315 murders, and in the
year 1840-44, there were 347 ; being an increase of ten per
cent. ; while the increase of the population would account
for but six per cent.
The Rev. Dr. Ullathorne, of Cover'
pointed Roman Catholic vicar-apostolic
district, in the place of the late Dr. Briggs. _
thorne is a member of the Benedictine order.
On Thursday, between the hours of four, a.m. and five,
p.m., no fewer than seven fires occurred in the metropo-
lis, some of which were attended with considerable da-
mage.
Major Beniowski has discovered a simple process by
which the daily newspapers, or any book printed from
common type, may be printed so as to be read by the
blind.
Mrs. Jane Culliford, who has reached her 108th year,
walked a few days since to Taunton from Yeovil Marsh,
two miles. She appeared in good health and full of
energy.—Dorsct Chronicle.
On Sunday week a fine Dutch galliot arrived at Preston
with a cargo of oats from Holland, This is the first ves-
sel of the kind that has been up at Preston, and a great
number of persons witnessed its arrival.
At a special meeting held at the India House, on Wed-
nesday, a pension of £5OOO and £2OOO per annum, were
voted, by a large majority, to Lord Hardinge and Lord
Gough respectively.
A handsome collar has been presented by the Humane
Society to the dog " Bess," which saved a female from
drowning at Grant on Pier in November last. The collar
bears a suitable inscription engraved on silver.
The " strike" at Birmingham is at an end. The mas-
ters have withdrawn the written declaration, and the men
are. to declare verbally that they do not support any branch
of the building trades that is at present " out on strike."
STRIKE FOR WA GES.—The sbipcarpenters and sawyers
at Maryport made a general strike on Friday morning for
an advance of wages. They have hitherto had 18s. per
week and demand 20s.—Cumberland Pacquet.
SEAMEN IN LONDON.—The number of unemployed
seamen in London is less than for many years past. there
not being above 200 in the Sailors' Home, nearly the
whole of whom have but just returned from distant voyages.
Captain E. A. Somerset has consented to stand for
Monmouthshire, on protection principles, at the first
opportunity. Lord Granville Somerset is the present
member, and has displeased the electors by voting for
free trade.
Nine persons went through the ceremony of initiation
into the freedom of the borough of Alnwick, by wading
through a muddy pool, called the " Freemen's \Veil." and
perambulating the boundaries of the moor, on St. Mark's
Day.
A Naptha Company has taken a portion of the Dart-
moor prison, which was formerly inhabited by the French
prisoners, for the purpose of erecting a chemical apparatus,
and extracting naptha, ammonia, tar, &c., from the peat
with which Dartmoor abounds.
A pauper named Patrick M'Carthy, aged 68, committed
suicide by inflicting wounds on his person with a knife, in
the Newington Workhouse last week. The deceased was
sensible after the injury, and wrote on a slate, " The devil
tempted me."
FATAL FIGHT ON A SUNDAY.—A fight took place on
Sunday last, in a field near the Marley tunnel on the South
Devon Railway, between two " navies," when one of them
fell a corpse on the spot, just as be received a blow from
his antagonist.—Devonport Telegraph.
A bootmaker at Bradford, named Gudgeon, has been
committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter. The
prisoner had a pitched battle with a man named Beards-
worth, and the latter_ reeeived such injuries during the

of the western
Dr. Ulla-

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Nothing but an inspection, we can assure our readers, to the church of Rome. Now they had gone to their own affray'as.to cause his death.
will satisfy them as to the wonderful perfection which the places, to which in honesty they should have gone at the The quantity of salt sent from the United Kingdom to
French have attained in their imitation of fruits and beginning. They would mark the benumbing effect foreign countries in 1843, was 12,946,452 bushels ;in 1844
flowers. An hour spent in this delightful way, at Mrs. which Romanism exercised on the heart of every. one, 13,413,884 bushels; in 1845, 14,319,482 bushels. By far
Girvan's establishment, Upper Arcade, will satisfy them however gentlemanly, however sensible or good previ- the greater part of this quantity was exported from Liver-
that we have not hinted idly. ously. He alluded to the conduct of Mr. Newman—for pool.
KIRKDALE FLORAL AND HORTICULTURAL Snow.— no Protestant Englishman could ever have drawn the William Richardson, 49, and Anne Maria Richardson,
It is with pleasure we refer our readers to an advertise- principle of construing the articles of the church in a 22:his daughter, were tried at the Central Criminal Court,
ment in our paper of to-day, announcing the first horti- " non-natural " sense. He then alluded to the conduct on Wednesday, for the wilful murder of an incestuous Us
cultural exhibition for the season, at Kirkdale. on Tues. of Mr. Faber, who, he hesitated not to say, notwith- legitithate child, of whom they were the parents. They
day, the 26th, and not the 25th, as errononeouely stated standing the correspondence which had appeared in the were acquitted.
by a contemporary. The arrangements are such as will papers, bad kidnapped two lambs from the fold of Christ
_ FOOD FOR ENGLAND..—There have been shipped from
not only surpass those of previous years, but are entered to band them over to the ravening wolves of Rome. la e Baltimore to London, this week, over thirteen thousand
into with such spirit by Mr. New and others, that we feel should be consoled for such secession if they served as barrels of flour, besides as many bushels of corn, and a
satisfied that they will not only be an auxiliary to the beacons to the church. If the University of Oxford did great quantity of beef, pork, lard, &c.—New York He-
growing horticultural and botanical taste, but that they not proceed as she had begun: to root out heresy from her raid, April 31.
will meet public approbation. A spacious, and we may borders, she would lose the confidence of Protestant Eng- Last week, a boy fourteen years of age, living at Lam-
add elegant marquee will be erected, and every accommo- land. And if Dr. Posey, and those who thought with beth, destroyed himself by hanging whilst showing his
dation will be provided for visitors ; and, as the future him, did not soon go over, there would be a brand of dia- younger brothers " how Tapping was executed at New-
prizes depend upon the encouragement given to this show, honesty on them also. He did not hesitate to say that if gate." The deceased was continually speaking of execu-
we trust the attendance will be numerically great. Mr, Newman went over to the house of Rome, Dr. Pusey, lions, and frequently trying the effects of hanging.
EXTRAORDINARY CHEAP TRIP TO LONDON AND and those who agreed with him, ought to do so too, and EFFECTS OF TRACTARIANISM.—At Kilmore, on Sun-
BACK —A fortnight ago we gave our readers to under- if they had both gone to the verge they ought both to
day, Mr. Mussen preached to his clerk, his sexton, and
stand that a,costract had been entered into with the pro- share the dark abyss of Rotnish heresy. They must do his son. These three persons composed the congregation,
prietors of the Grand Junction Railway for a cheap excur- so unless it was intended that hereafter there should be a which last year consisted of as many hundreds.—Down-
sion train to London, to take its departure some day in bridge across the gulph which used to separate Popery Patrick Recorder.
Whitsun Week, and that the charge for the trip to and fro from Protestantism, and that one learned professor was The pupils of Mr. Hullah, as a testimonial to their in-
would he fixed at the astounding low charge of one intended to be the foundation stone on one side, and an- structor, are endeavouring to raise funds for the erection
guinea. An announcement to the same effect appears this other the foundation stone on the other. Mr. Stowel of a music hall in London. Among themselves they have
day in our advertising columns, with this addition, that then adverted to the conversions from Popery to Protes. raised £5OO, and the proceeds from the choral meetings
there will be two trains despatched from Liverpool,—one tantism in Ireland, where the true spirit of our faith had amount to about £3OO more.
on the morning of Saturday, May 30, and the other on been transported from this country, and where tractarian- The British Association for the advancement of Sci-
Monday, the let of June. The trains will consist of ism had made very little progress. The progress of the ence, has fixed the period of the next meeting to be held
second and third class carriages, the fare by the latter Reformation on the continent, in Germany, France, and at Southampton, for the week commencing Thursday,
being a guinea, and the former 30s. As the third class the Swiss Cantons, was another interesting feature of the 10th September. The president, appointed at the last
carriages will be covered in, and the journey being guaran- past year. It might be that Rouge and some of the other meeting at Cambridge, "is Sir Roderick Impey Murchison.
teed not to exceed ninehours, either conveyance offers the leaders had entered on a devious course ; but it was not Donglas Jerrold is off " Punch; and the presiding
same degree of comfort and celerity of movement. Parties likely that those who bad come out of the dark should genius of Bradbury and Evan's famous periodical is Mr.
availing themselves of this excursion, will have the option see clearly at first. But he would now turn to the future, Thackeray, the Michael Angelo Titmarsh of Fraser.
of remaining in the metropolis either seven or fourteen in which he saw fresh concessions to Rome boldly put Washington Irving has just completed a " Life of Maho-
days, at it may best suit their convenience. forward. The Roman Catholic Relief Bill was ill omened, met." The principal scenes of Dicken's new story are
CONSUMPTION.—AN EXTRAORDINARY CURE BY and the Religious Opinions Bill would so far repeal the laid in the West of England ;he is now his own publisher.
HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OINTMENT.—Mary Gilmore, oath of supremacy. And what would they get for these An inquest on the body of a young woman, that was
aged 21, the daughter of Mr. Henry Gilmore, residing in concessions ? Hollow thanks and base perfidy. There found in a privy attached to Verulam Chapel, at Bromley,
Church-street, Shoreditcb, was in the second stage of was another prospect before them, viz., either the despolia- and which has been proceeding for three years, was
consumption, and considered past recovery, when, as a tion of the revenues of the Church of Ireland, or to endow brought to a conclusion on Thursday, the jury having then
last resource, large quantities of Holloway's Ointment the Roman Catholic clergy there. He had been told, on met for the sixteenth time, and returned a verdict of
were rubbed twice a day into her chest and left side, good authority, that either one or other of these measures wilfulmurder against some person or persons unknown.
which were imbibed into the lungs, and there stop- was seriously contemplated, and if so, he did not care which, Mr. Green, the noted mronaut, ascended from Ipswich
ped the ravages of this otherwise fatal disease as for both were equally to be apprehended. We were on on Tuesday last, this being his 321st ascent. The descent
effectually as though the remedy had been applied to the eve of another election; and though he had never was in safety, but a spring car employed in carrying the
an ulcerated sore palpable to the eye. The pills were asked nor influenced a vote hitherto in Manchester, a balloon afterwards upset, and Mr. Green was thrown out,
taken as directed, and the young person was perfectly declaration had been got up and signed, binding the elec. the silk and cordage, weighing four cwt., falling upon him,
cured in three months. tors not to support any candidate who would not defend but he was not much injured.

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MOLD JUNCTION RAILWAY. the Protegfant faith' q their fathers. He exhorted those POISONING.—SeveraI r
----a around him to go an N elo likewise, that such a declaration named Ball, in Norfolk,
Oh Saturday, in pursuance of the new orders of parlia- might become general Through the country. The next cumstances which excited
ment, a meeting of the scrip-holders in tire Mold June- t parliament would make of mar England—the next paths- exhumed, and the discov
thin Railway Company was held at the Addis-hi Hotel, in 1 ment would either recover their lost ground or and them caused by arsenic. It is s
this town, for the purpose of submitting to their consider- further down the inclined plane of religious error ; but be than one person.
ation a bill now pending in parliament, entitled "1 bill it that Anti-Christ was about to prevail ; its temporal tri- - RICH ACTRESSES.-1s
for making a railway from Mold, in the county of Flint, uroph would be but the prelude of its everlasting over- Fanny Kemble, Fanny
to the Hooton station of the Chester and Birkenhead throw. Dowager Countess of Es
Railway." Mr. J. BATEMAN, in proposing the next resolution, others, have accumulated
About a dozen of the west substantial shrrebolders quoted the testimony of Sir R. Peel, to allow that the fession. We believe the
were present, including Edward Oakeley, Esq., Philip mysterious visitation of Providence, which had deprived present is Madame Celeste
Davies Cooke, Esq., John Wynne Eyton, Esq., Thomas a great portion of the poor in Ireland of food, was the On Tuesday week Eels
Jones Wilkinson, Esq., &c. punishment of Heaven for the concessions which had grinding a knife on a new
Mr. OAKELEY, Chairman of the Provisional Directors, been made last year, and for the neglect of the petition of when too much power was
presided, and made an interesting statement, shewing the 1,500,000 of our Protestant fellow-subjects. It was also stone flew to fragments, bi
prospects of the company to be highly favourable. He singular that when Sir R. Peel was last thrown out of tunate man, and forcing th
said that the hill which they had met to consider had been offiee by the late Whig government, it was by a majority died in a few minutes.
read a second time. The capital proposed to be raised was of 32, exactly the number of members which, under the GOUGING.—Mr. Bingh.
£280,000, in 5,600 shares, and one call had been made—a Roman Catholic Relief Bill, the Premier had treacherously said be was sorry to see
deposit of £2 15s. per share—which had been paid on the admitted into the House of Commons. Again, Sir R. gouging, which had been i
whole of the shares. In consequence of a few of the al. Peel had deceived his Protestant supporters, and again he rous part of the back settle
lottees not having paid their deposits, such shares had was tottering to his fall, and when he fell, be trusted that gaining ground in this co
been sold at a premium, the profit of which would go to he would " fall like Lucifer, never to rise again." mined, in every case of the
the credit of the company. The prospects of the concern The Rev. Mr. Mgt waiNE seconded the motion, and check such brutality as mu,
were, in every respect, very promising. Independent of the resolution, which was a protest against the principles The Times of yesterday
the general traffic, the contiguity of the line to the Vale of of the Maynooth grant and the public encouragement of supplement the full size o
Clwyd afforded a certainty of great returns from parties i'opery was then put and carried. tamed 1.911 advertisements
going on pleasure excursions from this and other localities. Several other gentlemen addressed the meeting. £145 lls. 6d. ; which, adde
The mineral traffic was of the best description. They 30,000 copies, the aver
could supply coal to Birkenhead and its neighbourhood, GENERAL MISCELLANY. £270 lls. 6d., as the contri
and to the steam-boats on the Mersey. They could also day week to the revenue of
supply excellent building-stone, limestone in a calcined Northampton is the successful candidate for the show THE SQUADRON OF Evo
state, bricks, &c. ; and many circumstances would give an of the Royal Agricultural Society in 1847. the experimental squadron i
advantage to the shareholders. It was gratifying to state The unfortunate man Blewitt, who was shot by a young and proceeded to sea, am
that the landowners throughout the line were almost una- man in Drury-lane, expired last week. and steamers, filled with e
nimously in favour of the undertaking, including Sir Ste- A blacksmith at Bristol has been committed for trial squall, which came on abot
phen Glynne, the lord-lieutenant and member for the for the manslaughter of his wife. latter to flight, and about
county, who would have been present, at the meeting, but At present, the Princeton and the Mississippi are the from sight.
was detained in London by his duties in Parliament. The only two steam-ships which bear the United States' flag. A verdict of " Wilful
lord-lieutenant, the high sheriff, and the grand juries of the There were no less than twenty-two bankrupts in Tues- against Eliza Clark, who th
counties of Denhigh and Flint, had petitioned in favour of day's Gazette. over Battersea Bridge. TI
the bill. He concluded by saying, that if any geotlemaii ' A fine youth named Glover, aged 17, was drowned late been found. On Friday, I
wished for further information, he would gladly supply it. week whilst bathing in the river Calder, near Halifax. the unfortunate woman v
In reply to a question put by a Scripholder, the CHAIR. An old pair of satin shoes, once worn by Fanny Elbler, ground of insanity. She
MAN said that the parliamentary and other expenses so lately realized upwards of £2O in the United States ! Majesty's pleasure.
far did not exceed 255. a share. He explained that the Mr. S. O'Brien, the Irish "martyr," is seen some- Alexander Reid, a sailor,
utmost economy had been observed by the directors, but times outside the door of his cell reading a huge book. He ley, was brought up at Bow
that the parliamentary expenses were the same for a short lives very sparingly, and puts on the air of a hermit. been caught sleeping in ato
line like theirs (of about 14 miles) as or one much longer. Twelve corn-stacks in the farm-yard of Messrs. Green, ingham Palace. He states
The expenses of the proposed Birkenhead and Llangellen at Crawcrook, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, were destroyed garden to see the Queen, a
line (which had since fallen through) were much greater. by fire last week. They were ignited by an incendiary. to lie down on her Majesty'
On the motion of Mr. WYNNE EYI ON, of Leeswood, RAILWAY DIGNITY.—King Hudson's heir apparent, mended.
seconded by Mr. JONES WILKINSON, it was then an Eton boy, has been dubbed by his schoolfellows, "The At Sunderland, on Wedm
" Resolved unanimously,—That the shareholders pre- Prince of Rails." ton, master, John Bowmake
sent having heard the statement of the Provisional A petition from Hull has been presented to the House of and Thomas Fairclough, set
Directors, do hereby fully authorise them to proceed in Commons, praying for the release of Mr. S. O'Brien an apprentice, part of the ci
their application to Parliament for a bill to construct the from the Tower! Sunderland, were committer
said railway, subject to such modifications or arrange- The quantity of fish sent from Scarborough along the of sinking the vessel by bori
ments as they (the directors) may deem expedient ; and railway to York, has averaged 80 tons per week during the on her way to the Baltic.
resolved unanimously. that the directors be empowered, whole of the winter. CARNARVON REGATTA.-
if they should deem it to the interest of the company, to The Duke of Northumberland has consented to become for the holding of this year
postpone further proceedings in parliament until the next one of thirty subscribers to pay off the building aebt of the that the contests should cot
i
session." city of Westminster Mechanics' Institution. and Friday, the 28th Aug
Mr. COOKE said he believed their traffic table would At the Eglington Park races, on Wednesday, the horse Douglas Pennant, member
exhibit most favourable features. They could carry coal, on which the Marquis of Waterford was riding, tell, and sidenr. Three superb piece
lime-stone, building-stone, brick, tiles, pottery, lead, &c. his Lordship had one of the bones of his shoulder fractured. contests of last year.
at a cheap yet advantageous rate. There would be no The King of the French has, it is said, sent a reply, Within the last ten day
tunnel on the line. One had been in contemplation, hut writ'en with his own hand, to the address of the Town water-fowl have been found
it was decided that an inferior gradient at that point was Council of Edinburgh, on his escape from assassination. mental water of St. James'
preferable. A tunnel would cost £lO,OOO, and the extra In Nottinghamshire, last week, in one wheat stack, up-
watch ; and it was found I
expense of locomotives to work the gradient would be wards of two hundred and fifty rats and one hundred and which had not long been p
about £lOOO a-year only, so that the latter was fixed sixty mice were killed, and many, of course, escaped. habit of attacking the small
sufficient to cause death.,, f
upon. PILOTAGE.—The Admiralty have ordered that the sn-

During the case of an application, last week, to Vice-
Chancellor Knight Bruce, respecting the infringement on

ber of gross that had been sold, when his Honour, after
apparently weighing some knotty point in his mind, said,
" I am ashamed to confess my ignorance, gentlemen. but
I do not know how many dozen make a gross." The diffi.
cults having been solved, the case was proceeded with.
The duty on the importation of foreign wheat last week

price of grain throughout the country, and no one can
doubt that under the influence of fine weather, which
prevailed last week, and the measure now pending in
Parliament, the price of wheat, ere the lapse of many
weeks, will be at ruinously low rates to the home pro-
ducer.

EXTRA,RDINARY THRESHING MACHINE.—On Tues-
day the trial was made of a pony threshing machine, at
Trefullock, in the parish of St. Enoder, built by Mr.
Thomas Staple, of Blue Anchor, and the result was the
threshing of a hundred sheaves of barley, quite clean, in
the very short space of seven minutes. The horses em-
ployed were a couple of ponies, walking at a steady pace.
—Falmouth Packet.

THE OREGON QUESTION.—The Times, of Thursday;
says—" The packet which will sail from Liverpool in a
few days will convey to the United States the real im-
pression produced here by the late intelligence. If the
resolution was intended as a threat or a hostile measure,
it has totally failed to have any effect whatever, except
ihat it is probable Mr. Pakenham will be at once em-
powered to bring the controversy to a prompt and final
issue. _ _ -

CURIOUS PETITION.—In the House of Lords, on
Thursrav evening, Lord Normanby presented a petition,
the prayer of which was of a singular nature. The pe.
titioner stated that he bad invented a new medicine for
diseases of the chest, and he prayed their lordships to
appoint a committee to investigate the merits of his in-
vention. The noble lord facetiously remarked, that he
supposed the petitioner desired that their lordships' com-
mittee should try the medicine themselves.
A COUNTER FACT FOR FREE TRADERS.—At a recent
land-letting by auction at Kirton, near Boston, not a sin-
gle lot was disposed of. One of the best fields was
bought in at 265. per acre rental ! This speaks whole vo-
lumes. The land thus offered for public competition com-
prised 67 acrcs of the fiaest feeding land in Lincolnshire,
and situate in the best part of the county, amidst the most
spirited and enterprising graziers, and offered on the cus-
tomary terms.
_ _

Dick,ns, Jerrold, and Mackay, and others of our popu-
lar writers, dine with the nobility every now and then.
Sir Robert Peel had Charles Dickens the other day to
dinner; so had the Marquis of Lansdowne and Lord Mor-
peth, and Lord John Russell, The Duke of Devonshire
takes them in a heap, and keeps them two or three days
at a time, enjoying their society, and leaving the " boys"
to roam at leisure over his noble grounds, on the under-
standing that they all meet at dinner time.
Wuo WANTS A CHILD ?—The Western Times contains
a letter, offering to any persons who may be desirous of
adopting a child, a little boy between three and four years
of age, " whose mental and bodily developments are of
the first order," but whom the parties in charge of him
" cannot afford to support and educate without proper
remuneration." Prompt attention will be given to any
communication addressed to the' editor of the Western
Times, who says that " his own hands are full of small
life " _

A JUVENILE LAMBERT.—There is at present in the
city of Glasgow, a boy nine years of age, standing 4 feet
61 inches. He measures round the chest 41, inches ;
round the belt 461 ; round the thigh 24 ; round the calf
161 ; and turns the beam against 14 stone! His name is
Kenneth M`Caskill ; is o native of the island of Soa, one
of our western Archipelago, between Cana and Skye, in
the direction of Spar Cave, and brought hither by his fa-
ther, who is in no affluent circumstances, for exhibi%son.
The boy's sole language is the energetic language of Os-
sian.—Scolch paper. _ _

THE WEATIIEIL IN THE MIDLAND COUNTIES.—
During the last week, there has been a most gratifying
change in the state of the weather ; the cold east wind
which prevailed during the previous fortnight having been

succeeded by fine southerly breezes and genial sunshine;
the wheat, which was looking sickly and stunted in March
has already in a great measure recovered its wonted fresh-
ness, and, except on cold hard ground, promises to yield
well. The orchards are in full blossom, and, if the nights
keep free and fresh for the next ten days, there will be
more than an average crop of fruit.
SALE OF PICTURES.—The collection of Mons. Duval, of
Geneva, was on Tuesday brought to Mr. Phillips's ham-
mer. Some of the pictures fetched great prices. A
" Karel du Jardin" brought £1,150 to a private purchaser,
who also bought a single head ( one of those wonders of
elaborate fin;sh for which Denver stands, and perhaps ever
will stand, alone) for £490. "The Pleasure Party," by
Weenix, so well known from Delauney's engraving, was
disposed of for £393 odd. A " Watteau," consisting of
several figures in theatrical costume, fell to a dealer for
£2lO, and a Rembrandt, from the Winckler collection,
was bought by another gentleman connected with the
trade, for £204.
RATHER, NEW.—A.few days ago, a lady visited one of
the most extensive shopping establishments in Glasgow,
and made purchases to the extent of £BO. On examining
the contents of her purse, she found she had only £5O,
and suggested that one of the shop-boys should just step
into the carriage along with her, and receive payment at
her mansion. Instead, however, of arriving at a fine
mansion, judge of his surprise when the officials of a
1...1.1 him fast. The lady

a warran

had, of course, specially preparea _ .or nib Gum-
mittal. Before he could procure liberation, the fair one
and goods had disappeared, and have not since been heard
of.—Glasgow Argus.
IRON.—A letter received this morning from Birming-
bnm the imnortant branch of manufacture of

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POISONING.—SeveraI members of a respectable family I _ MELANCHOLY Care.—CM Monday evening, about nine
named Ball, in Norfolk, havini recently died under cir. I o'clock, a man rung the bell at the door of Mr. Probyn.
suddenly. The announcement had such an effect on the
cumstances which excited suspicion, the bodies have been I of Lower Belgrave- street, London; and on its being opened
/ poor girls mind, that she ran up stairs and was heard to
exhumed, and the discovery made that their death was by the servant, she was told that her mother had died very
! exclaim, that " She would soon be with her mother."
FaßnnlcyHlmmediately a.loud crash was heard in the area of the
tehaaunseodnbeypaerrssoenni.c. It is said that suspicion rests on more
Kemble,ACTESFSaEnSn.—y NElriscsieKr,eamnissMseltlrplehe, Taglioni,
ns,(now
Dowager Countess of Essex) Miss Shirreff, and many house, into which she had thrown herself from the attic
others, have accumulated large fortunes by their pro- window, and fractured her arm and leg, and met with
fession. We believe the richest actress on the stage at other injuries. She was perfectly sensible, and was con-
present is Madame Celeste. veyed to St. George's Hospital.
On Tuesday week Edward Powell, of Carswell, was LOAN SOCIETIES.—We learn from a parliamentary
grinding a knife on a new stone, weighing about 10 cwt., return that last year there were no fewer than 144' loan
when too much power was applied to the wheel and the societies, of which 42 are situate in Middlesex. It would
stone flew to fragments, breaking the thigh of the unfor- i appear that these societies
. arcnot very profitable eon-
tunate man,
and forcing the knife into his lower jaw. He terns. Persons are generally induced to obtaSn a' loan,
died in a few minutes. which is spent in a few days, and they find it no very
GOUGING.—Mr. Bingham, the magistrate. recently easy matter to pay weekly sums for a period of a year.
said he was sorry to see that the horrible practice of In Middlesex last year 2 were discontinued, and l others
gouging, which had been imported from the most barba- yielded no net profits after the payment of interest and
rous part of the back settlements of America, was rapidly I the cost of management. One of the societies in Tot-
gaining ground in this country; and that he was deter- , tenliam7cotp-road had 2,395 applications in the year, of
mined, in every case of the kind that came before him, to 1 which 1,95 s were borrowers. The net profit of the con-
check such brutality as much as possible. cern amounted to £136 14s. 4d. There are 16 loan socie-
The Times of yesterday week was published with a ties in Liverpool, one of which had nearly 4,000 applicati-
supplement the full size of the principal sheet., and con- ons last year : the society granted only 1,776 applications.
tallied 1.911 advertisements, the duty on which would be I INCREASING STRENGTH OF THE BRITISH NAVY.—
£145 Ils. 6d. ; which, added to £125, the stamp duty on According to the last official returns, it appears there are
30,000 copies, the average daily circulation, gives upwards of 100 ships of war now building at our different
£270 lls. 6d., as the contribution of the Times of yester- arsenals, among which are no less than 35 steam-frigates
day week to the revenue of the country. and other war steamers; four 36. gun frigates; ten 50-gun
THE SQUADRON OF EVOLUTION.—On Wednesday last frigates ; ten ships of the line, averaging from 80 to 84
the experimental squadron got under weigh at Portsmouth guns each—viz., the Agamemnon, the Colossus, the
and proceeded to sea, accompanied by numerous yachts Irresistible, the Majestic, the Meeanee, the Brunswick,
and steamers, filled with curious spectators. A sharp the Cressy, the Lion, the Mars, and the Sans Pareil ; six
squall, which came on about two o'clock, soon put the ships of the line of 90 guns each—viz., the Aboukir, the
latter to flight, and about five o'clock the fleet was lost Exmouth, the Princess Royal, the Algiers, the Hannibal,
from sight. , and the St. Jean d'Acre; six ships of the line, first-rates.
A verdict of " Wilful Murder" has been returned . of 110 awls eachviz., the Maribor nigh, the Royal
against Eliza Clark, who threw her children into the river' Frederick, the 'Victoria, the Prince of Wales, the Royal
over Battersea Bridge. The body of the third child has I Sovereign, and the Windsor Castle; and lastly, the Royal
been found. On Friday, at the Central Criminal Court, 1 Albert, of 120 guns.
the unfortunate woman was found not guilty, on the DISGRACEFUL SCENE.—A scene of unparalleled atro-
ground of insanity. She will be confined during her city occurred at the Marley Hut Close, South Brent, So-
Majesty's pleasure. merset, on Sunday week ; two men, named Charles Pur-
Alexander Reid, a sailor, belonging to the frigate Row- nell and Robert Parsons, induced two boys to fight, and
ley, was brought up at Bow.street, on Wednesday, having after a contest of one hour, one was killed. It appears
been caught sleeping in a tent in the royal garden at Buck- that the men had taken the two boys into a "tom my" shop,
Ingham Palace. He stated that he only went into the and given them beer, and set them to fight. Even when
garden to see the Queen, and being sleepy, was tempted they saw deceased was the weaker of the two, and was
to lie down on her Majesty's sofa. The prisoner was re. nearly dead, they brutally insisted on his continuing the
manded. j contest, and defied the bystanders to interfere. At length,
At Sunderland, on Wednesday, Robert Henry Leigh- I he was taken up and carried into one of the huts, and only
ton, master, John Bowmaker, mate, and William Grozier survived a few minutes. The jury, at the inquest, re-
and Thomas Fairclough, seamen, and Thomas Wallace, turned an unanimous verdict of manslaughter against
an apprentice, part of the crew of the schooner Helen, of Hutchings, Purnell, and Parsons, all three of whom have
Sunderland, were committed to Durham gaol on a charge absconded. The coroner immediately issued his warrant
of sinking the vessel by boring holes in her bottom, while for their apprehension, and it is to be hoped that they
on her way to the Baltic. may now be brought to justice. Purnell has lost his left
CARNARVON REGATTA.—At the preliminary meeting band just above the wrist.—Bristol Mirror.
for the holding of this year's regatta, it was determined I SORROW UNTO DEATH.—It was our melancholy duty
i
that the contests should come off on Thursday, the 27th, 1 to record, n a late obituary, the death of the lovely and
and Friday, the 28th August next. The Hon. Colocel i only daughter of the late W. Duberly, Esq., of Dursley.
Douglas Pennant, member for the county, will be pre- I It is now our still more painful task to announce the
silent. Three superb pieces of plate stand over from the death of her brother, Mr. H. Duberly, a remarkably
contests of last year. handsome young man. It appeared that on Thursday,
Within the last ten days no fewer than eighty of the after the decease of his sister, to whom he was devotedly-
water-fowl have been found dead around and in the orna- I attached, he arrived at Torquay, to

:ornpany her re-

.... _ .
mental water of St. James's Park. It was determined to mains to Dursley. The melancholy task was accom-
watch ; and it was found that a pair of Egyptian geese, plished on the Monday, and on the hearse arriving at the
which had not long been placed in the park, were in the late residence of his mother (now that of Mr. G. Duberly,
habit of attacking the smaller birds, and that one bite was his brother,) he had the coffin opened, and sat by it until
sufficient to cause death. one in the morning, in overwhelming grief. Again at an
CHEESE.—It appears from a parliamentary return that early hour he resumed his sad vigils ;at the funeral,
for the year ending the sth January last, the importation which took place about noon, he evinced the strongest
into Great Britain of European cheese was 201,253 cwt. ; emotion and sorrow, and on his return became alarmingly
from the United States of America, in the year, 66,337 ill. Two surgeons were in attendance, bet medical skill
cwt. ; and from the British possessions, 234 cwt., making proved, unhappily, ineffectual—he died at four o'clock on
the aggregate of the importation of cheese in one year, Wednesday morning.—Bristol Mirro
267,824 cwt. , DIFFERENCES IN THE CABINET

—lt is stated, upon

A MALTHUSIAN VlLLAGE.—Glapwell, a village near what we believe to be unexceptionable authority, that the
Chesterfield, was thrown into a state of unusual wonder- sugar question, which is said to have had more to do with
inent and surprise last week, through a female resident the mysterious retirement of the present colonial secre-
there having given birth to one of her own species, an tary from office than theological scruples, has again cre-
event which had not occurred in the above village for the ated a serious difference in the cabinet. It is rumoured
last seventeen years, although containing twenty-two that the colonial secretary, and another cabinet minister,
families. whose connection with what is called the West India in-
Mr. Robert Patterson, the son of " Old Mortality," a terest is less direct, have refused to go the length the pre-
worthy, quiet character of the olden school, who remem- mier desires in removing West India protection; and
bered much of the early history of Galloway, and the agri- further, that they have made so large a party in the cabi-
cultural changes which have so conspicuously improved net as to defeat the minister's proposition. It certainly
the appearance of the country during the present and pre- seems rather strange that the government should protect
ceding centuries, died at his place of residence. Balmac- West India agriculture while they destroy the protection
lellan Village, on the 30th ult., at the ripe age of ninety- of English agriculture, pretending that they refuse Cuba
one years. sugar because it is slave grown, while they are importing

slave-grown sugars and stave-grown maize from America.
It is said that Sir R. Peel swallowed his defeat in prefer-
•

measure

—Britannia

A YOUNG CRIMINAL.—In the New Court, Old Bailer,
London, on Thursday, Thomas Miller, a smartly-dressed
boy, only eight years of age, pleaded guilty to stealing a
cast of a bear, value 405., the property of Thomas Beau-
champ. The boy had to be plaed on a stool that the court
might see him. The common sere
quiries respecting the prisoner, whe

.ot made some in-