The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-28 00:00:00

?RE LIVERPOOL STANDAR&

SCHEME FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE

EPISCOPATE.

The Church and State Gazette of Friday contains a
scheme of this description, which, without grants of
gooney, or interference with existing episcopal funds,
provides one bishop and one archdeacon for every county
in England and Wales, except the lesser counties of Rut-
land, Radnor, and Flint ; four for YorKshire; two for
the larger counties of Lincoln and Devon; three for the
metropolis ; one for the Isle of Man ; and one for the
Channel Islands—in all sixty bishops and sixty arch.
deacons. This may be accomplished by the annexation
of thirty livings in public patronage, and the use of the
funds actually applied to the present archdeaconries,
The following is a summary of the scheme :
In England, forty-eight bishops, with a minimum in-
come of £l,OOO a-year.
In Wales ten ; Isle of Man one; and Channel Isles
one : with a minimum income of £750 a-year.

To each bishop one archdeacon, with an allowance of
£lOO a-year.

Sums required for such bishops ....
sixty archdeacons

A-YEAR.
£ 4.965
6,000

£10,965

Towards which, the returned incomes of
fifty-nine archdeaconries
Stalls annexed
{ln Canterbury 1 l,OOO
to ditto
~Durham 2 l.lOB
„ Oxford. 1 l,OOO-10,215
Unreturned incomes of eleven arch- 1
deaconries.

Balance,

Balance required, £750 a-year; but against this are
the proceeds of the eleven archdeaconries not returned,
also the notorious excess of the real above the returned
values : nothing, therefore, can be actually required, but
rather a surplus may be expected.
In the gift of the Crown 8
Livings pro- If • Lord Chancellor
posed to be Governor of Jersey. 1
annexed, are /9 Bishops
ft Deans and Chapters 5

Incomes realized would be, to
7 Sees
12 „

X 750
1,000
1,000 to 2,000
2,000 and upwards

31

Total.. 60

EMIGRATION TO BRITISH NORTH AMERICA

With regard to the increase of population in the above
colonies, some very interesting statistics may be gleaned
from the recently-published annual report of the " Soci-
ety for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts."
It appears that East and West Canada has a million and
a half of residents, among whom 154 of the society's
missionaries are distributed : while in Nova Scotia, Cape
Breton, and Prince Edward's Island, there are 47 labour-
ing among a population of 246,160. New Brunswick,
Newfoundland, and the Bermudas comprise an aggregate
population of 313,601, and also missionaries belonging to
the society to the number of 75. The entire cost of these
ministers during the last year amounted to £29,125. The
report, urging a further increase of clergy in these dis-
tricts, continues to the effect that, during 1847, no less
than 109,680 persons emigrated to the colonies, besides
142,154 who landed in the United States. This is the
largest emigration on record, but it is anticipated that
about 130,000 will be found to have left during the course
of the present year. In reference to the important colo-
nies of Australia, Van Diemen's Land, New Zealand,
and the Cape, the population is estimated at a little over
half a million, the extent of space about as many square
miles, and the number of missionaries from the society
no more than 55. The population of Port Philip has
increased by emigration, in the course of the last three
years, from 15,000 to nearly 50,000. After a summary of
the society's extensive operations in India and the West
Indies, the report concludes (in reference to emigration)
by urging the most strenuous exertions on behalf of tie
objects of the association, for these reasons :—" While
the government, parishes, stipendiary agents, are all re-
commending emigration as at once a remedy for the in-
creasing poverty of this country, and the best means of
augmenting the industry and wealth of the colonies, none
of these parties undertake to supply the emigrant with
the ministration of religion for himself, or the means of
educating his children. The religious department, so to
speak, though necessary to the permanent success of any
scheme of colonization, is passed over by its leading ad-
vocates, and left entirely to the Society for the Propaga-
I tiGn of the Gospel."

rious state,

remanded

ing-towork

(general fiftioullann.

One day last week £l5OO of duties was received at the
Custom House of Leith for brandy alone.
The Rev. Mr. Roberts, incumbent of the Episcopal
Church at Dalkeith, was received into the Roman Catho-
lic Church, by the Rev. Mr. Brownbill, a few days ago.
A barrister is lecturing in London to prove that none
of the great poets ever existed, and that their works were
written by monks!
The Hereford Journal alludes to an elopement from a
school at Clifton. The fair fugitive is said to be the
daughter of a baronet.
Dr. Arnctt, of Brighton, says that a solution of salt of
a very low temperature, by acting on the exposed nerve,
might at once and permanently remove toothache.
Two Latter-Day-Saints have been fined at Chard, for
holding assemblies in private houses without a certificate
from the bishop.

--The new Mayor (a Dissenter) and Sheriff of Norwich
have returned to the practice of attending the cathedral
in their robes and other insignia of office.
Last week, a Mrs. Moody, of Ramsey, died bf the
pricking of her tongue by an eel-bone, while at dinner,
which caused mortification.
The receipts of the London baths and wash-houses have
been £4,975 9s. 10. ; the expenditure exclusive of the
original cost, of course, £2,245 9s. Bd.
A Scotch schooner was destroyed by fire off Sunder-
land on Wednesday, in consequence of her cargo, which
consisted of lime, having become wet in a gale and ignited.
JENNY LIND AT OXFORD.—The Vice-Chancellor of
Oxford has granted Mr. Lumley the use of the theatre of
the University for a concert, at which Mademoiselle Lind
and the artists in her suite will immediately appear.

Sir John Barrow, Bart., who was for forty Yeras secre-
tary to the admiralty, but who retired from his official ap-
pointment in January, 1845, died at his residence in New-
street, Spring-gardens, London, on Thursday.
The Queen Dowager has contributed £5O towards the
fund for the support of a Farm School for Juvenile Offend-
ers. Lord Howe has contributed £25 towards the same
philanthropic object.
Within the last fortnight no less than two hundred and
twenty-four London insolvent cases, including prison and
protection petitions, have been disposed of by the Com-
missioners in Portugal-street.—London paper.
Money having for some time been getting more plenti-
ful, the banks in Edinburgh have reduced the rate of in-
terest to three per cent. on d ;posits, and two-and-a-half
on current accounts.

Joseph Phillips, a farmer's son at Henbury, the other
day presented a gun, not knowing that it was loaded, at
one of his father's labourers, who was thrashing in the
barn, pulled the trigger, and shot him dead.
The carcase of a house in Hawley-street, Southwark,
fell down with a tremendous crash, on Tuesday evening
last. Fortunately the men had left off their work, and
the only party injured is the builder, and that in his
pocket.
A gentleman, who was robbed by footpads, near Glas-
gow, in November last, had a pawn ticket for his watch
sent to him by post, the other day, the sum of £3 having
been advanced upon the watch, which he has since re-
leased.

The provincial tour of Jenny Lind will terminate on the
31st inst. She will remain in England, and devote the
month of December to singing gratuitously for several in-
stitutions and charities in London, Manchester, Birming-
ham, &c.

A fine orange tree in the greenhouse of Mr. Edwin
Hirst, of The Grove, Ripon, has produced this season six
large oranges, the finest of which is near ten inches in
circumference, and, more remarkable, they have attained
this unusual size without the aid of any artificial heat.
Earl Cardigan has been induced to tender an apology
to Captain Gerard Noel, of the 11th Hussars, for the
insulting expressions he addressed to that officer, and
upon this apology, the last affair in that regiment has been
arranged.
From recent trials made at Woolwich, it appears that
the guns cast at the Low Moor Foundry, Yorkshire,
bear the heaviest charges when fired ; and it is consequently
expected that the largest government orders will be given
to that establishment.
Mr. Charles Heath, whose name has been so long
familiar to the public as an artist of no common genius,
died on Saturday last, after an illness of some duration.
He was the son of Mr. James Heath, a celebrated en-
graver of his day.
WINDOW CLEANING.—We have seen a very clever mo-
del of a machine, invented by Mr. Lovell of Westmor-
land-place, City-road, for enabling persons to clean win-
dows, and make all the neeessary repairs to them in per-
fect safety. The machine is simple in construction and
1 application.
IMMENSE CASTING.—On Wednesday one of the largest

castings in the world, was completed at Haigh foundry.
It is a cylinder intended for a lift of water, and is 100
inches in diameter, and 200 inches in length. It is for the
Hon. Mr. Mostyn, of Wales. The mould has been in the

hands of the wo-rkinen for six weeks.
A few days since, the Suffolk police apprehended a
bridegroom and his father-in-law while they were eating
the wedding dinner, which was composed of the mutton
of a shearling ewe that they had stolen from a field, be-
longing to a farmer at Lidgate; and both have since been
committed to take their trial. _ _

On Monday last, a lady residing in London, who was
labouring under pulmonary disease, sat down after break-
fast to play the piano. After she had played during se-
veral hours, she suddenly burst a bloodvessel in her chest,
in consequence of her exertions in playing ; and she
pired almost immediately in the arms of her servapf
THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS.—To the great dis
the Tablet, Mr. Newman has announced to Mr
(his " brother in our Lady and St. Phillip,") that

gust of
. Faber

Precious biographies are to be discontinued. - They were
published to convert Protestants, and it is found that
Protestants will not read them.

- It is stated, says the Newcastle Journal, that eleven
children, belonging to five parishes in that town, have cost
the borough no less than £378 17s. 7d. for their mainten-
ance in prison, having been committed, some of them,
nearly twenty times. _ The money would have been more

wisely expended on the schoolmaster than on the gaoler.
The chimpanzee that was exhibited lately at Wombwell's
mennerie we understand is dead, owing to the climate of

g so much colC

of Which it was a native.

rer than that of Sierra L,
ia nnw in tlia nr

sion of Mr. Waterton, of Walton Hall, and is about to be
added to the splendid museum of that gentleman.
Prince ➢Zetternich, who is residing with his family in
Brighton, on hearing of the wreck of the two German
emigrant ships on the Goodwin Sands, immediately de-
spatched his son, Prince Richard M -

tternich, and B aron
Hugel, from Brighton, with a sum of money for the re-
lief of the sufferers.
At Warnell Fell, in Cumberland, where the Earl of
Lonsdale is effecting great improvements_ a petrifying

spring has been disciivired, with upwards of a cartload of
petrified moss. At Bowness Flow, in the same neigh-
bourhood, a pair of ancient shoes, supposed to be of Saxon
origin, have been found at about seven feet below the
surface of the ground.
ATTEMPTED MURDER AT SUNDERLAND.—On Tuesday
afternoon a diabolical attempt was made to shoot Thomas
Greenwood, the foreman of the Railway Wharf, by a sea-
man on board a French vesse
The shot took effect on po

penetrated the skull

Lying a.

He is now lying in a very pr

Last week a dog was walking on the East Lincolnshire
line, near Boston, when a down-train came up, and he
started forward at full speed, but was presently met by

an up-train ; he then turned round, but the up-train soon
overtook him, and he cowered down between the rails,
whilst the train rapidly passed over him, and he thus
escaped uninjured.
PORTUGUESE EGGS.—A large parcel of this article has

in que

baying robl

he react

been received from Vigo. The parcel in question being
chargeable, by the new tariff, with a duty of 10d. upon
every 120 eggs, was cleared at Southampton, to admit of
their being sent up by railway, to save the channel voy-
age, by which deterioration of so perishable an article is
prevented.
FORGERY.—On Wednesday, at Wakefield, Thomas
Place, formerly a publican in that, town, was charged with
forging the name of Mr. John Walker, of Solcoates, to a
letter sent to Mr. Carver, of Liverpool, whereby the sum
of £5 was obtained from Mr. Carver. There appeared to
be

some doubt as to whether the name had. not been
ied by Mr. Walker's authority, but the prisoner was

Messrs. Lord, general merchants, of Birmingham have
stopped payment. The liabilities are estimated at about
£44,000, a considerable portion of which, it is said, has
been lost in foreign continental railway speculations, and
the loss of of a vessel heavily laden with uninsured goods.
The creditors are satisfied with the conduct of Messrs.

Birmingham.
• LocK JAW.—This hitherto fatal disease in animals has
recently been cured by a new operation, whereby the
animal obtains instant relief. The muscles, which were
considered to be extensors, are now found to be flexors.
This important discovery was mads by a person named
Webb, of Balsham, Cambridgeshire, who has been opera-
ting upon a mare, of Linton, which is now well, and go-

On Saturday week, Frederick Willingham, aged twenty-
ree years, son of 4 farmer in the garish of Leyton

Nottingham, shot himself with a pistol
had been very low and melancholy for th
a night or two previous to his death he
account of the suicide of the Rev. W. Browne, who shot
himself at Nottingham, upon which he made some re-
marks, and appeared much struck with the way in which
it was done.
The " North Bri
from Quebec to Pl 3
the 18th of October
land. in which she became waterlogged, and while the
captain and unhappy crew, eighteen in number, were in
momentary fear of going down, the barque " Dominica,"
of Cork, hove in sight, and Capt. D. Murphy, perceiving
the perilous situation of the " North Briton,' had her
master and crew conveyed on board his vessel.
SIR JOHN TYRELL AND THE "MORNING POST."—A
curious correspondence appears in the Morning Post of
Saturday. It appears that Sir John Tyrell is stated by
the Essex Standard, to have spoken of the Morning
Post as a " Catholic" paper, after a public dinner, and
the editor of that paper wrote to Sir John, to ascertain if
such was the fact, and whether ROMAN Catholic was in-
tended. No answer having been returned to his letter,
the editor again wrote, but only obtained the following :
—" Boreham House, Nov. 1, 1848.—Sir J. Tyrell not
having the pleasure of the acquaintance of the editor of
the Morning Post, is unable to comply with his request.
.15 J.T.
Sir has neither time or inclination to enter upon a
487024. discussion of the character proposed." On receipt of this
1822 note, the editor again endeavoured to procure a categorical
739 answer to his inquiry, but not having succeeded, he came
to the determination of publishing the correspondence, for
the purpose of shewing the " authorof the calumny," and
attributes its origin to " convivial recklessness."

HORSE STEALING BY A DISSENTING PREACHER.—A
man named George Buck, a dissenting preacher from
Louth, has been committed for trial on two charges of
horse stealing—a black mare, the property of Mr. Blyth.
of Weasenham, Norfolk, and a horse, the property of T.
C. Oldham, Esq., of Louth Park. He was taken into
custody at Ipswich. In his possession were found various
papers and correspondence, most of which were of a re-
ligious character. On the day on which he was appre-
hended at Ipswich he had been three times at chapel.
A NOVELTY,—The Lord Mayor's procession this year
presented a striking novelty, as compared with previous
spectacles on the 9th of Nov. Sir James Duke at an
early period of his life, served in the royal navy, and was
present at the memorable battle of Algiers, under the
command of Lord Exmouth. As being probably the
first naval Lord Mayor, it was decided to grace the other
glories of the procession by the introduction of a ship
fully rigged and manned' on a car drawn by six horses.
THE BARONESS ST. MART.—This lady was again
brought up at Marylebone police office, on Tuesday, for a
further hearing on a charge of having stolen two diamond
rings the property of Sir John Hare. Two other witnesses
were heard in support of the charge, and at the conclusion,
Mr. Broughton, the presiding magistrate, determined to
send the case to a jury, and the Baroness St. Mart was
accordingly committed for trial at the Central Criminal
Court ; she was, however, admitted to bail.
POVERTY !—At the Bromyard Petty Sessions last
week, a poor woman was cited, for pulling up and steal-
ing a quantity of turnips. Williams admitted the charge,
and pleaded as an excuse that she had had sixteen child-
ren, and eight of that number were now at home, and
were without bread. The charge not being further pres-
sed, the defendant was convicted in the expenses only,
amounting to 35., and the money being given her in court,
she paid the amount, was admonished, and discharged.

ROBBERY OF GOLD DUST.—The solicitor to the trea-
sury has received instructions from Sir George Grey, her
Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department,
to prosecute three men charged with stealing nearly 2000
ounces of gold dust from the British ship Lemuel, whilst
lying off the African Gold Coast. It appears by the de-
spatches from the Governor of •Cape Coast Castle, that
two of the prisoners and the whole of the gold dust are
to be forwarded to London by the vessel Viscountess
Canning, the arrival of which is daily expected.
HYDROPHOBIA IN ABERDEENSHIRE.—A case of this
dreadful malady occurred in the parish of Edzell, to an
old woman, named Ann Milne, wife of John Balfour, re-
siding at Latch. On the 17th of August, she was severely
bitten by a rabid dog, of the Newfoundland breed. The
wounds, which were mostly on the arms, healed well in
the course of a month. On the Ist of November, she
evinced several symptoms of incipient hydrophobia, and
became gradually worse till the 3rd, when she died, being
ten weeks after she was bitten.—Aberdeen Journal.

THE POLICY OF HONESTY, AND THE HONESTY OF
POLICY.—One day last week, a commercial traveller of
Bristol accidentally left at an eating-house, in Duke-street,
a pocket-book, containing twelve £5 notes and some pa-
pers of value. The servant who found the book took the
greatest care of it until the owner was seen, when on pre-
senting it to him she was rewarded with the prodigious
sum of sd. Honesty is always the best polity, but
the policy which rewards it is not always the best promoter
of honesty.—Devenport Independent.
THE CAT AND THE HAWK.—One day lately, as a hawk
was soaring in the neighbourhood of Balgrurnmo Cotton,
hrouvh the window of a cot-

tage there, to seize
In the absence of the occupiers of the cottage, a cat, which
had been left sole guardian of the premises, nobly acted
the part of a police constable, rescued the poor song-
ster from the clutches of the feathered burglar, executed
summary punishment on the intruder, by killing him on
the spot, and left his body lying on a table, as
to all other delinquents.—North British Mail,
A NOVEL MAYOR'S DINNER.-Mr. George William
Harrison, the newly-elected Mayor of Wakefield, gave
his inauguration dinner on Wednesday week, to the
members of the corporation, at which twenty-six of the
number attended. The dinner is said to have been a
sumptuous one, but we reckon the after proceedings
would be rather of a flat character, the usual accompani-
ment (immemorially considered indispensable on such an
occasion) of wine was not introduced, his worship. being

arning

raspberry brandy-, ginger beer, le
kind of such stuff at a Mayor's feast
MANSLAUGHTER BY A Boy.—A Hereford paper states
that, on Friday evening last, an inquest was held on the
body of a little boy named James Bishop (between four

any othei

p.nd:five years of age), who had been t

en out 01 an a
.

joining canal on the previous afternoon. _..c parents
who are poor, had left the deceased in a miserable hovel,
under the care of a woman named Williams. A report
got out that deceased had been pushed into the canal by a
boy named Rock. The latter was brought up, and said in
reply to a question, that he was ten years old. The jury,
however, thought that he was at least thirteen or four-
teen. He is most unprepossessing in appearance, and the
opinion, so far, is that he pushed the deceased into the
canal. The case has not yet been decided.
DREADFUL MURDER NEAR BRECON.—A brutal murder
was committed at a farm-house called Cwmgwdy, near
Brecon, upon one of the farm-servants there, a
most inoffensive man, named Thomas Edwards, aged
about thirty-two, a single man. The murder was com-
mitted by a fellow-servant of the name of Thos. Williams,
who was but recently come upon the farm to reside. On
the morning of Friday last. the body of poor Edwards
was found, presenting a ghastly spectacle. The brains

was found cla

.al places by an axe; the fatal in
by, covered with blood. 'Will

bed the murt

man o

very mu

- -
apparel and a silver watch.
MALLEABLE IRON LEVER BRIDGE.—On Wednesday,
Mr. T. M. Gladstone, C.E., read an essay on iron bridge

able iron lever bridge, to the members of the Society of
Arts. His modus operandi was to erect stone piers, and
having obtained the necessary elevation, to project from
each a number of malleable iron bars, grooved together,
and decreasing in number till the arms met in the centre.
The weight would thus be distributed and diminished as
they approached. It was, in fact, a compound lever, and

superiority of malleable iron for his purp
from its intrinsic properties. It possessed, in a far gr(
degree, the attraction of cohesion—cast-iron, as comp
to it, being 17 to 56. He rontenCed that, by his plan, a
bridge could be constructed, in whose materials the ex-
tension and contraction would be the same throughout,
in which the lateral expansion would be prevented? and

was evident

whose resistance wouidbe greater than its tension

CANINE SAGACITY,—WniIe strolling along the quay at
the Gloucester Basin, the other afternoon, we observed a

fine large bull dog suddenly come to a 'stand-

tretching his i.ead upwards
bark. There was something so ma
action of the animal, while his bark reseml
much as the postman's " rap tap," that our attention
was struck, and we waited to see what might come next.
Presently, the head popped over the taffrail of a large brig,
the Lord Ravensworth, which was lying, unladen, stern
le wharf. I on the quay, and the sailor, for such the " look out "

of-fact in th
led nothing si

the quay, the d
ascend. Tha _ animal mounted tidmimbly
placing his hind legs on the bars, he held on by his fore
paws to those on a level with his chest; and thus

)g. began delibeiat
gaciou

our surprise, exclaiming, wit
see a dog do the likes of that a

THE NATIONAI

,OCIETY

—A leadin

" Did you ever
ucester Journal.

confirms our suspicions and im

hich strongly

'3ns about Mr.

Shuttletvorth. The article is 'too long for publication,
but we must just edge in a fragment or two. It seems

although he has " conformed" to the Church, " his 'mind
was originally tinctured, and remains indelibly imbued
with very opposite associations." He is, the Horning
Chronicle emphatically states, a decided friend to "that
purely secular system of education, unalloyed by any ad-
mixture of religion, the beneficial effects of which have
been so signally illustrated by late events upon the Con-

temporary, "is tLe Mate; Dr. Kay Shuttleworth is the
Committee of Privy Council ; Dr. Kay Shuttleworth is
the sole and irresponsible Minister of Public Education."
What a broad light does this graphic description throw
upon the bulky correspondence which has lately been
given to the world ! We shall add a great fact, which has
hitherto been overlooked in considering the question of
State Aid—TIIE HOUSE OF LORDS IS PRECLUDED FROM

INTERFERING

WRECK OF THE SHIP SARAH CRISP. BY FIR
THIRTEEN LIVES LOST.—he late arrivals from (
announce the distressing loss of the English shi

Crisp, by fire, with the
of her unhappy crew.

and 400 tonsburthen

sacrifice of no fewer than thirteen
The ship, which was between 300

ze from

to Hong Kong, with a cargo of teak timber' when, in lat.
16 30 N., ion 114 30 E., on the 16th of August last, by
some means unexplained, a fire broke out in the after
part of the ship ; she burnt fiercely for many hours, when
The deceased I a gale sprung up, and she was capsised, thirteen seamen

of extinguishing the flames, and the remainder of tfi,
crew clung to the wreck for twenty-five days and night
with scarcely any provisions and very little rain water
and their sufferings were of a most shocking description
file on a voyage I They were eventually rescued by the schooner Ernm
Cilzwro f frnm Swim River_ vvliieh onnves,cirl 4.h.rn ett CA

is not mentioned

SHIPWRECK AND Loss OF LIFE.—On Tuesday intelli-
gence reached Lloyd's of the total loss of the ship Prince
Charlie, of London, together with several lives. It ap-
pears from the statement of the master of the vessel,
Captain J. Thomas, that she left Honduras on the 9th of
September, bound for London, with a cargo of mahogany
and cochineal. On the 25th of September they cleared
the Gulf of Florida, when it commenced blowing a furious
hurricane ; the ship broached to whilst wearing, falling on
her beam ends on the port side ; the masts were cut away,
and she partly righted, when three heavy seas struck her
successively, washing nine of the crew overboard ; seven,
however, regained the vessel. The crew remained. lashed
to the main rigging until morning ; heavy seas continually
breaking over the ship washed the poop away, and com-
pletely gutted the cuddy. The captain's wife and child
here perished. The crew remained in this state, the ves-
sel being waterlogged, until the Ist of October, subsisting
on cocoa-nuts which occasionally floated up from the
wreck, when they were taken off by the Norwegian ship
Oceana, Captain Jacobs, under whose kind treatment
they were restored, and landed at Ramsgate on Monday.
The poor fellows, who have lost all they possessed, speak
in the highest terms of the Norwegian captain.

DEATH FROM HYDROPROBIA.—OR Wednesday, Mr.
George Cummings, innkeeper and grocer, residing at
Sherburn-hill, Durham, died in the greatest agony from
the effects of hydrophobia. About nine weeks ago, the
deceased had what is called a " wife's feast" at his house,
and during the course of the evening, two dogs which
were in the house began to fight under a table, and on
the deceased endeavouring to separate them, one of the
dogs flew at him and bit him slightly upon the nose.
Not much notice was at first taken of the matter, al-
though some time after it took place the deceased com-
plained of shooting pains from the wound up to his head.
On Monday, however, unmistakeable symptoms of the
dreadful malady exhibited themselves, and they increased
in violence up to Wednesday.
A STRANGE COMBAT.—A short time since, as John
Searle and Joseph Walt,T, belonging to East Looe, were
returning to that port from a vessel in the roadstead, they
saw a fierce combat between a sea-bird and a fish. On
rowing to the place of action, they found the engagement
'to be between a cormorant and a conger. It appeared
that the cormorant, during his submarine hunting excur-
sion, got on scent of the conger, and no doubt intended it
for his breakfast. The conger was caught, but did not
choose to yield its life as easily as its adversary could wish.
The bird, of course intent on breakfast, endervoured to
conquer by boring holes in the body of his prey. He suc-
ceeded in boring behind the head, and got in the beak.
The conger twisted and twined ; the bird used the pro-
pelling force until he had so far inserted his neck that his
beak become visible through the mouth of the conger,
which immediately. closed it jaws, entwined its body
twice around the bird, and in that position they were ea-
sily captured by the men in the boat—brought ashore
alive—and presented to Mr. Jackson, the naturalist, who
intends to preserve them in the manner they were cap-
tured.—Exeter Gazette.

THE BESETTING SlN.—The Right Rev. Dr. —,
Bishop of , was examining the children at a school
in —, the other day, and, after the usual routine of
questions fixed upon had been regularly pot and answered,
the following colloquy took place between his lordship
and a sharp-looking chap, who was particularly prompt in
his responses to all interrogatories :—Bishop : " Sow,
my boy, you have answered every question with great
acuteness ; now look at me, rook at me in the face, don't
be afraid, and answer me this question : What is my
besetting sin ?' "—Boy, tafter locking attentively, as de-
sired, in the face of his episcopal interrogator: " Drun-
kenness, sir."—Bishop " Oh dear me, no ! No, no, my
boy, you are wrong, quite wrong. lam a great man, I
am a bishop. Drunkenness is not my beietting sin. Oh,
dear me, no. My besetting sin is vanity ; remember that,
my boy ; my besetting sin is vanity."—Boy, (with a scrape
of the foot and a tug at the forelock :) " Thank you. sir,
I will always be sure to remember that you are a bishop,
and that your besetting sin is vanity."—Carnarvon He-
rald.

LORD ASHLEY AMONGST LONDON THIEVES.—The
Weekly Chronicle says :—" We have seen Lord Ashley in
many situations—in the House of Commons, on public
platforms, in churches and committee rooms, and a variety
of places—but big last appearance transcends them all;--
he has ma4c a (Wed among the felons of the metropolis.

A Mr. Jackson having heard from one or two penitent
thieves a desire to emigrate and reform, thought a number
of the fraternity might in like manner be acted upoa. and
at last, with the concurrence of a body who had sent for
him to the Blue Anchor Court, he summoned a meeting
of them in the Irish Free School, to meet Lord Ashley.
He expected to gather 100 thieves who might listen to

what his lordship had to say. But his expectations were
more than fulfilled. On July the 27th, his lordship went,
when no less than 207 professed thieves were assembled,
-11 of whom expressed his earnest desire to renounce his
-st course if it were possible. Some five or six gen-
z-sent with Lord Ashley, and ' it was such a
meeting.' says one of them, that no one could forget it to
the day of his death.' Several of the best and most ex-
perienced thieves were placed at the door, to prevent the
admission of any but thieves. Some four or five individu-
als, who were not at first known, were subjected to ex-
amination, and only allowed to remain on stating who they
were, and being recognised as members of the dishonest
fraternity. His lordship addressed the meeting at consi-
derable length, and his discourse appeared to produce a

tlemen were p

jeep impression.'
SINGULAR DE

was found dead i❑ his

•
ceased had occupied a room adjoining the foundry where
he was employed, and separated therefrom by a wall built
partly of stone and partly of brick, and apparently sub-
stantial and sound. lie had been employed -at the

On Friday morning, as he did not make his appearance
at the works, his door was forced open, and he was found
dead in his bed; and as the bed clothes were not dis-

turbed, it is supposed that he died in his sleep. The per-
sons who found him dead perceived on entering the room
a strong smell of gas. This circumstance induced inquiry,
the result of which was, that there could be no doubt the
deceased died from the effects of sulphuretted and ear-
buretted hydrogen gasses, which were generated by some
large casting made the evening before, and which must
have penetrated through the wall into his sleeping room.
It appeared that an old man, who formerly occupied the
room in which the deceased died, was also found dead in
his bed about two years ago, under similar circumstances ;
but it was then supposed that he died from some natural
cause. There had been in that case, as in the present, a
large casting in the adjoininc, foundry the evening
before the death of the party ; and now there is no doubt
entertained that he also was suffocated by gasses entering

vered the other evening, at Crosby-hall, by Mr. Pepper,
on the properties and phenomena of magnetism and elec-
_

produced and regulated, was introduced. The hritliancy
of the light is almost beyond what can be conceived of
the powers of artificial light--that is of light produced by
scientific means from simple natural causes. It was so
vivid as to make the numerous gaslights by which the

hall was illuminated completely indiective. Its intensity
to those close to it was almost painful. and it was impos-
sible, when the shade or paper screen by which it was
surrounded was removed, to look upon it. It is a white
or sun light ; there is no yellow tinge, no vapour or
smoke, and none of the attendants of lights which par-
take of combustion. The exhibition of •

his certainly ex-
traordinary light was witnessed by a very crowded corn-

o expressed their satisfaction in a
marked manner on its merits. The apparatus by 'which
its power is produced and sustained can scarcely be de-
scribed ; it is a piece of mechanism of comparatively sim-
ple construction, by which pieces of chsrcoal,
supplied and adPpteti • it can only be understood by be-'
ing seen and inspeetc‘l. If the generating and regulating
powers of this invention can be sustained, and the expen-
ses attendant upon them kept within reasonable bounds,
as the patentees assert they can be, this light will at some

vans of visitors, v

period supersede all others; and as a statistical account
affirms that upwards of £25,000,000 is annually expended
in England and Wales for lighting, an important saving
will accrue to the public, and a benefit be conferred,
which all will be able to appreciate.
THE SEA SERPENT ONCE MORI

—Captain M`Qubae-,

late of her Majesty's ship Dredahis, has addressed to thit
editor of the Times tl•e following reply to the animadver-

Hie 6th of August last :—" Professor Owen correctly-
states that I ' evidently saw a large creature moving ra-
____ pidly through the water, very different from anything I
hand had before witnessed, neither a whale, a grampus, a great
until shark, an alligator, nor any other of the larger surface-

swimming crea
I now assert—neither was it a common seal nor a sesele-
pliant ; its great length, and its totally-differing physiog-
nomy, precluded the possibility of its being a ' phoca' of
any species. The bead was flat, and not a ' capacious

unary voyages

east bititto.

Positively the first vessel, and any engagement to that effect
will be given, and to sail not later than Saturday next, the
2nd December.

For CALCUTTA,
*- The splendid Greenock-built Ship
CRESS! DA,
JOHN 111‘FiE, Commander;
(Who has had great experience in the trade;)
A I for twelve years; 501 tons ,• newly coppered ; well known
for her quick passages, and delivering her cargoes without
damage.—For terms, &c., apply on board, in Prince's Dock ;
to Messrs. THOMPSON, ANDERSON & CO., or to
W. & J. TYRER.
The fine A 1 twelve years Ship INGLEWOOD will succeed.

Ulest

E11131P5.

To sail within ten days.
,r 4; For DEMERARA,
Apt AM;
The first-class Ship LUCKNOW, 440 tons,
Captain JOHN FAUSET.
Possesses very roomy and superior accommodation
for passengers.—For freight or passage apply to
GEO. BOOKER and Co.. I, Rumford-place.

Rintrfra.

LINE of PACKETS for PERNAMBUCO
Cleared, and waiting a wind,
The beautiful Liverpool-built ship
SERAPHINA,
Captain RICHARD GOBLE :
Loading in Salthouse Dock.—Apply to
COTESWOItTH, WYNNE, and LYNE.