The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-26 00:00:00

(E:riirral 4115rtilaiiv.

Several incendiary fires have taken place lately at
Nottingham.
Several manuscript lectures have been presented by
Lord Wougham, to the Northern Union Mechanics' In-
stitutions of Northumbr,rland, Durham, and Cumberland.
At the Norwich Musical Festival, £lOOO was the sur-
plus devoted to the charities on behalf of which it was
held.

Can WeJnesday preparations commenced within the
Tower of London for the erection of a granite statue of
the Duke of Wellinaton.

Orders have been given to suspend the enlistment of
seamen for the royal nary, as no more are required at
present. •

On nursday the Ocean arrived in the Thames, from
Harnbureh, with 8.000 baskets of black grapes, the pro-
duce of the vineyards in the vicinity of that town.
There were no fewer than 110 candidates for the ap-
pointment of clerk to the Wellington Board of Guardians.
The salary is £lOO a year.
More than one person in Guildford has lost some
valuable pigs from giving them diseased potatoes. On
their being opened, the intestines were found to be
►mortified.

On Sunday, a child fell from the gallery of Holy Trinity
Church, Paddington; on the head of a lady who sat in the
body of the church ; but luckily neither the child nor the
lany sustained any serious injury.
NOVELTY IN FIRE Arats.A pistol has recently been
registered under the act for the protection of articles of
utility, which is so ingeniously contrived that it primes and
loads itself by the most simple and unerring operation.
It is calculated that the London pleasure-goers spend
on Sundays through the year in the adjacent villages the
enormous sum of one million three hundred thousand
pounds.
A few weeks ago, the Rev.. Harry Baber, curate of St.
Mark's, Chelsea, published his own banns of marriage in
that church ; and what adds to the singularity of the
circumstance is, that his bride-elect was one of the con-
are; ttion then assembled.
A young woman, named Shields, is in custody in Lon-
don. charged with killing her mother, an old woman of
sixty. The mother and daughter were drunk and fighting
together, when the former WI backwards and fractured
her skull.

Mr. Pierrepoint, of Worcester, has obtained leave to
put up, on trial, at convenient places in the city, twelve
patent lamps, which he promised should give a better
light at sixty yards distance than the common one does
at ten yards.

The new docks at Leith are progressing rapidly, and be-
fore winter sets in, Mr. Barry, the contractor, expects to
have the whole space inclosed with the outer wall, so
that operations may be carried on inside during the
winter.

Crnikshank's splendid plates on the Bottle and Drun-
kard's Children will soon be familiar as " household
words." The Sunderland Pottery Co. has purchased the
right, and has brought out copies of these plates in splen-
did style upon articles of earthenware.
On Wednesday se'nnight, as the Rev. G. F. J. Marsham
rector of Maidstone, and the Rev. J. J. Marsham, were
out shooting together, the former fired at a partridge,
which he killed. Unfortunately several of the shots also
hit his brother, and one of them entering the ball of his
eye, deprived him immediately of sight.

. ,
dlock•and watchmaking, one of the principal branches
of induStry in the canton of Neufchatel, in Switzerland,
is entirely paralysed. Upwards of 1,500 journeymen
watch and cloak-makers have -just emigrated from Neuf-
ch ttel to the United States, and a still greater number
are making preparations to follow them.
From 'a tree in the garden of Mr John Lupton, Brom-
ley, were gathered, on the 9th September, the amazing
nutither.of 3311 apples. Upwards of 103 which were not
fu:, to pluck remain on the tree. Added to these there
have been, as near as can be ascertained, some 400
ga:h3r,d and blown off previou,ly.
:•_I4OCR.NG ACCIDENT.-011 Wednesday a boy living at
Coombe Morey, Salop, was sent home with a gun, which
on the road ho used to pull down a cluster of nuts. The
gun being loaded (unknown to hint) went off, and dischar-
ged its contents into his body. He left the gun hanging
to the branches, and went as far as Coombe Tower, where
he expired.
A London paper states that early next year a variety of
new regulations will be adopted in reference to the bar-
rack accommodation afforded fo the troops in Ireland,
and also in parts of England. It appears that Lord Har-
dinge, during his stay in Ireland, gave it as his opinion
that sufficient accommodation was not - affarded—tcr—thc
troops, nor sufficient attention paid to thcir comforts. 1
On Iriday, as W. Adams, Esq., of Mitchel Troy, was •
in the pursuit of game, he diet a vtry fine hare. The
animal was picked up by Mr. Henry Staphens, who, on
perceiving her to be with young, immediately cut her
open, and took therefrom five remarkably strong and
healthy-looking young ones, (thus showing that three, as
gLnerally supposed, is not the greatest number produced
at a birth.)
The new park at Battersea, which has been for some
time in abeyance, will be commenced without delay. - The
pa:k will extend the whole distance between Battersea-
bridge and Nine-elms, and from the bank of the river to
the public road across Battersea.fields, making the length
of the Park about two miles and a quarter, and its width
a little more than a mile. A carriage-drive forty feet in
breadth will be formed along the bank of the Thames.
POPERY AGAIN.—A member of Parliament writing to
the Morning Herald. says, " I have just had put into my
hands, a letter addressed by one governess to another,
who was advertising for a situation, in which the writer
coolly propogcs to her friend—both being Roman Cathe-
lics—to go into a Protestant family named by her, in the
character of a Protestant; for the purpose of effecting
the conversion of the three children, whose mother was
dead, to popery !"
The money order department of the Post-office hither-
to, so far from yielding any revenue, has not even de-
frayed its own expenses. Under these circumstances one
of two courses appears absolutely necessary, viz., either
to reduce the expenses or to increase the poundage
charged to the public. The letter alternative is obviously
a very utudesire!:le one; and it may be Loped, therAerc,
ie. will be found possible to introduce such economy into
the department as shall obviate the necessity of adopting
it.
AN E`7OILMOUS BLAST.—At the quarry belonging to
'
T. Gill, Esq., at 741111 bay, Devonshire, there have of late
b: en several blasts of large masses of limestone rock, for
the weal..; .;t,: Great We: ;lern Docks. One of tleee:
took place on Saturday, in the presence of a large con-
course of spectators. The hole for blasting .was bored
with a four-inch bit, and it occupied the men four dry
and four nights to make the rock tit to receive • the gun-
powder. The quantity of powder used WilS 1351 b., and
the weight of rock separated was about 3000 tons. The
largest et was 14 feet lung, 11 feet wide, and 9 thick.

ROYAL RIVALS.-THE QUEEN AND PRINCE ALBERT.
_ _ . __.

—During the sale at Stowe, a beautiful statue of " Venus
rising from the sea," which stood in an alcove built on
purpose for its reception, was hotly bid for by two rival
agents, until it was knocked down at a considerable higher
price than its value. The report is that the agents repre-
sented the Cluecn and Prince Albert, who each wanted it
to present to the other. Prince Albert was the pur-
chaser.—?he Builder.

A public meeting of the inhahitaots of Southampton
was held at the Town-hall on Thursday afternoon, for
the purpose of affordine, an opportunity or laying before
the public the views and plans of the London Society for
the Promotion of Colonisation. The Hon. Francis Scott,
M.P., Mark Boyd, Ezq., Arthur Mills, Esq., E. Lennox
Boyd, Esq., and C. D. Logan, Esq., attended as a depu-
tation from the London committee. The meeting was
numerously attended.
Mr. Bailey. poulterer, in Mount-street, details the large
sums paid annually by London salesmen for poultry. He
states that one salesman alone sold every year £lOO,OOO
worth !—that he had himself paid £Bl,OOO in the course
of the last year, and that £15,000 was received annually
at Aylesbury for young ducklings; but to this last item
he adds the humiliating fact, "that, in Bucks, the wives
are in the habit of driving the children from the hearth
that the ducklings might get the benefit of the fire."
_ _

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A ROBBER SHOT.—Mr. a farmer, of Darton,
near Barnsley, was roused at midnight by a noise on his
premises, and, on looking from the window, he saw two
men on a roof, taking off the slates. while a third stood

below. The farmer fired at the depredators, and one of
them was wounded ; his companions, however, carried
him off. One the following morning the wounded man,
One Gledhill, was found in a stable : a bullet had entered
between his thigh and his body, and his case wis consi-
der4?d to be hopeless.
MusrcAL ENTHINIASM.—As an instance of the enthu-
siasm which Jenny Lind has created amongst ,those who
heard her at York, we may state, that Mr. Bell, silver-
smith, of that town, has supplied a most beautiful and
unione gold tea pot, which has been forwarded express to
the Swedish Nightingale, at Newcastle, by one of her en-
raptured admirers. Other parties have also sent similar
but less costly tokens of their admiration, such as gold
and diaMOnd bracelets, brooches, gold-thimbles, &c. &e.;
indeed, no lady ever created such a fever of delight as
Jenny Lind appears to have excited by her recent visit to
York.

DESTITUTE IRISH IN KENT.—Kent has been deluged
by Irish, who have poured into the country, at the kw-
picking season, in numbers far beyond those required for
the work. Swarms of starving creatures have besieged
the workhouses at Coxheath! Union. On Saturday night
week from 500 to 800 collected, and threatened a distur-
bance. A messenger was sent to Maidstone to desire
that troops might be in readiness. Attacks have been
made on individuals and property plundered. Special
constables were sworn in at Maidstone on Monday, to
act in the surrounding parishes.

The Rev. W. Sinclair, incumbent of St. George's
Church, Leeds. had a narrow escape from drowning, at
Redcar, a few days ago. The rev. gentleman had waded
and swam too far from his bathing machine, and in trying
to return, was overpowered by the strong reflux of the
tide. A coble was brought with all speed across the sands
from high water mark, and rapidly rowed to hi 3 assistance;
but by the time the boat could reach him, a gallant
gentleman, Mr. Ray, of Stokesley, solicitor, having
thrown off only his coat and waistcoat, had already suc-
ceeded in swimming to Mr. Sinclair's side, and, in the
absence of other assistance, would doubtless have had all
the honour of a rescue. Mr. Sinclair was quickly brought
to shore, and soon recovered.

DEATH FROM GRIEF.—Mr. Mills, one of the metro-
politan coroners, held an inquest on Wednesday week,
upon Emma Styles, a bonnet-maker, aged 21. Deceased
was much attached to a man to whom she was to have
been married, and who was arrested last week but one
for some crime, but was subsequently discharged, there
having been no evidence adduced again -t him. His arrest
had such an effect upon the deceased that she became ill,
and continued so for some days, until she was found dead
in her lodgings. Mr. Poppin, surgeon, opened the bode,
and found that death resulted from disease of the heart.
He had no doubt that the shock she sustained from the
imprisonment of her intended husband accelerated her
death.

A SANITARY EXPERIMENT.—On Thursday, a shaft,
six eet by three, was sunk from the centre of the Black-
friars-road, at te point of junction of the main sewer,
from the Kent-road, Friar-street, and Webber-street; at
the mouth of this opening into the sewers an iron grating
was bricked in ; above it, and about three feet below the
surface, a furnace, composed of sheet iron, was erected.
A space about twenty feet square was enclosed around
the shaft, for the deposit of coal, &c., and on Monday the
furnace will be ignited to test the practicability of
thus destroying the foul air generated in the sewers,
which in this locality penetrates the dwellings of the in-
habitants, rendering them unfit to dwell in. Should the
experiment be attended with success, similar shafts are to
be sunk at stated distances, with,architeetural coltunns or
obelisks to carry off the smoke.—Morning Chronicle.
FUNERAL OF THE REV. ARTHUR TItOLLOPE. On
Monday afternoon a considerable portion of Cheapside,
and the streets leading into it, presented a somewhat un-
usual appearance. With scarcely an exception the shops
were partially closed, during the funeral of the Rev.
Arthur Trollope, the late respected and much lamented
curate of St. Mary-le-Bow, and the united parishes. Thi,
gentleman, the son of Dr. Trollope, formerly Hewitt-last, r
of Christ's Hospital, had been for 21 years curate'; had
never flinched from his duty, was always ready to help
others in the discharge of their parochial duties, but would
never accept aid himself, except in extreme cases. He
was an upright, conscientious, and hard working man, ar.d
not only one of the most exemplary clergymen, but also
one of the most learned theologians in the metropolis.
He never sought preferment. He was modest, manly, and
independent. The proceeds of his curacy and lectureship,
all he ever hsd in the church, amounted to £l4O a year.
Neither the late Archbishop, to whose peculiar jurisdic-
tion Bow Church belonged, nor the Bishop of London, in
whose diocese and jurisdiction are the united parishes,
ever offered Mr. Trollope any preferment, or, we believe,
took the slightest notice of him.—Times.
GENEROgITY OF JENNY LlND.—There is at Hull a
German Lutheran congregation who are endeavouring to
provide funds for erecting a place of worship. The Queen
Dowager has given £2O, and the chairman of the com-
mittee, Mr. Hehnsing, merchant, addressed a letter to
Mille. Lind, who is a Lutheran, soliciting a contribution.
This was directed to her in London, but it appears that
on its arrival there she had left, and it was forwarded to
her in Manchester. No answer being received, it was
thought by the committee that the matter had ended.
Last Thursday morning, however, at his office in High-
street, Mr. Helmsing heard a rap at the door, .and in re-
ply to the loud " Come in," there stepped in a very
modest looking young lady, who asked for Mr: Helmsing.
"My name is Helmsing," was the reply, " and mine is
Jenny Lind," was the response. I have come to apolo-
aise for not answering your letter, which folloWed me
down to Manchester, where I had not time to attend to
it, but I shall be most happy to promote your object, and
if to-morrow morning you will send to my hotel a list of
the subscriptions, I will tell you what I will do." On the
following morning, Mr. Helmsing waited upon Mdlle.
Lind, Oho at once presented to him £2O, stating that
that was as much as the nature of her contract would at

rr.sent permit her to do, hut, she added, if she should
again have the pleasure of visiting Hull, which she hoped
she m'ght he able to de before her eepartnre for the con-
tinent, it would afford her much pleasure to do something
more, and, in a most delicate manner, hinted that any
future expression of her good will towards the object
would in all probability be made through the medium of
a concert.
SHOCKING A CETDENT.—On Thursday week at Castle
Bents, near Bradfield, John Hawksvvorth and his wife,
farm servants, were busy in the field, and had left their
children, two boys, aged 12 and 11, and two girls, aged 9
and 2 years, at home. The children left the house and
went into the barn, where there was a quantity of corn in
the straw, to play. They got up a ladder, and mounted
upon a beam that ran across the building. While there,
the elder boy very foolishly lighted a inciter match, which
he let fall among the corn. As soon as it began to burn,
the boys, instead of helping their sisters down from the
beam, ran away to the field to fetch their parents. The
elder girl called to the boys to assist her little sister and
herself down the ladder, but they disregarded her cries,
and as she could not descend the ladder with the child,
she remained with it. The fire was seen by some neigh-
bours, who ran to the spot, but though they heard the
children cry, the smoke was so dense that a considerable
time ela:;sed before they could find them. Two mer, at
the hazard of their lives, groped about, and one of them
felt a leg of one of the hildren hanging from the beam.
-11e---Trultud, dud they fell together. They were got out
' alive, but in a state most dreadfully burned. As the
barn adjoined the house, which it was feared would take
fire, the furniture had been turned out, and it was neces-
sary to send the children to the poorhouse. The elder
girl was still sensible, and stated, that when they found
themselves deserted by the boys, she claspe.l her little sis-
ter in her arms, and in that state they remained until they.
were found. They both died on the Thursday night fol-
lowing. The fire in the barn was extinguished with great
exertions, and the farm buildings were consequently saves.
BRUTAL TREATMENT OF CHILDREN.—At the Clerk-
enwell police dike; on Tuesday last, a man named Wor-
rall, and a woman, C. W. Chandler, were charged with
cruelty to four little children belonging fo the former
prisoner. The poor sufferers were covered with marks of
violence all over, some of which bad festered. Their
heads also were covered with sores. A constable said that
on the previous day, while he was passing City Row, St.
Luke's, he saw a large crowd, and on going up was in-
formed that a woman in a house was strangling some
children. He knocked, but could net obtain admittance.
A ladder was procured, and he got up to the first floor
window, when the male prisoner, who had a piece of
wood in his hand, threatened to kill any one who entered,
and afterwards threatened to blow out his own brains
with a pistol. Another constable came up, and they en-
tered, and found the four children in the room in a dread-
ful state, one of them appearing to he dead. They were
taken to the workhouse ; and the prisoners sent to bride-
well. One of them, Henrietta, nine years old, had two
black eyes, which she said were caused by her father beat-
ing her, for stealing heifer-nee. They all complained of
being sometimes very hungry. There was a good bed in
the room in which the prisoners slept, but the children
had to lie on the floor without any covering, and when
taken to the workhouse they were covered with sores and
b:uises, and much exl.atited, from filth and want of food.
The male prisoner, it appeared, was supported by the fe-
male, who led an abandoned life. The former attempted
a defence for his beaim the children, but it only aggra-
vated the matter. The magistrates remanded the pri-
soners for a week, and had the children sent back to the
workhouse. The feeling of the people in the court was
so strong against the prisoners that they were obliged to
take refuge in the waiting room, afraid of their lives. It
was SlatNl the prisoner I.Vori•all was formerly a clerk in
I Liverpool.

Sept. 26, 1848.

Per
COACH ACCIDENT AT BAWTRY.—On Friday, 41
p
ham, on its route for Lincoln, left the Angel Inn, -bil'w,tb
tvuerheidcl.e wva
os
at a quarter past six in the afternoon, with not mote' ;
sixteen passengers. In making the second turn onlo
Gainsborough road, one of the horses stumbled•
unfortunate circumstance caused the coach to swettiele
and, bringing it in contact with the kerb.ston:,_,A,
hut not seriou!ly. The greatest injury was sustained
Mrs. Kirk and her daughter, who were on th&ir way ,
Lincoln, for Spalding. Each had her collar bone frac
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nucpassette.r
GUanzheinte. u females were

A SKILFUL AND COURAGEOUS COLLIER.--"•-o,
Burn, of Grange Pit, near Belmont, who, a tont b
Le 10
hewed 42 corves in seven hours, beating a comrade !08,1
corves, has since performed a meritorious feat. A (or
was wedged in by a fail of coal, and the deputy 5,'"/ his
Burn to "hew him out." "At, the imminent risa.°l to
own life," says the Durham Chronicle, and lovielcor
lie on his side while he worked, he succeeded
pushing his object. Those who are acquainted wa"f
liery workings will best understand the danger
expOPEloit, and merit of its execution." The Pi:
NING OF A ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL.--
man Catholic Chapel, at Clifton, dedicated to the The
Apostles, was opened with great pomp, on ThursdaY•l:oo
building was filed with a large number of person,' she
of the Roman Catholic persuasion and of other: ~s 4
attended to witness the ceremony, which COlllinent.!.):l'et,
procession through the chapel, headed by the cross- 700
the Rev. Mr. henry following, supported by ach°lY`neCo'
each side, then 14 choristers, a number of the Ronia-theit
tholic clergy, Bishops Ullathorne aed Hendren. in vet
robes, &e. High mass was then performed by 9,''',l,oroe
thorne. Mass being sung by a select choir, Dr..til°'
deTHElivered the sermo
CHARTISTS. n.
—The government trials of the chili,
ists commenced at the Central Criminal Court 011 Frog
before Justices Erle and Williams, when nearly tog
013
nee
d
jftoohrietecli principally
eu theeen
prisoners were placed at the bar but the trial of 0" Yoro
was proceeded with. The charge against the priqlaile
andC
prisonerh : ri
establish
„,itstia:tidbnbleimosdhday(ddi
eneatfplosuverte)ceuxiiidoesint(ya; Of n Lowhouse
in
dente made out clearly a conspiracy to levy war leg
a 0
0
helt`'
to be burnt. The trial was proceeded with on Sat".ere4
but had not finished that night. Mr. KeneallY °l'Perieg
speech, oe
sitation in admitting that Powell was paid
frequently called to order by tile learned judge; i"rilebe'
torney-general stated during the trial that he oil(' -I°eJ
xl per
for his subsistence by the government.
EVENING COSTUME.—At the Westminster g
Feeentr!
Court, on Wednesday, an action was brought ;lee-
Bell, an architect, aeainst Mr. Edward Delafied, oer, of
prietor of the Royal Italian Opera, to recover the slired
10s. 6d., the value of as orchestra stall ticket, !lur:toll
219. Plaintiff, on the 23rd of August, purchse-e'll;.
ticket for the orchestra, but on presenting hires"' lista
he was refused admission, on the ground that lles7ge
-
in evening costume, he being dressed in a frock
demanded the return of his money, but it was
The Judge said the proprietors had a right to trT. se tit
gulations with respect to dress, but no right to 11'0..40
lic
ry
return money when the party presenting one of the eroo'ele
tvnioLieoltiltdon, w
was not admitted. An order was made for the I.
of the money with costs forthwith.
HONOURABLE CONDUCT IN 'TUMBLE nar-eirpollll
meeting of the parochial hoard of this parish, on ";eotel
day last, says the Elgin Courant, the inspector ja.,l'e-ittru
that an aged widow residing in town. who was au,'-eoieg
on the roll of paupers on the new poor-law Bet le:
into operation, informed him last year that she yelinio.
ceived a remittance from a son in America, and %v°6 jiee'
therefore require farther parochial relief in the recall:oe,
inept
and she has lately applied to the inspector for a sea-
a' ee
sooner furnished than the amount (.-E4 165.) was foie'
occurrence,instance o honourable no
considerationr bl e feelingf
;lief thoet
parochial board unanimously agreed to return the
the above sum to the widow.. e‘
BANK OF ENGLAND.—At the half-yearly Ineet4rr°'
the proprietors of bank stock on Thursday the director-cot'
posed a dividend at the rate of 31 per cent., or 7 Pert, the
per annum. To this an amendment was moved tilabolf'
dividend should continue to be 41 Der cent. for then for
year. The governor alleged, as the principal reasee, pro'
integrity
teuwersglnireainvttmiyns el
r(oiefwnrgabasrai
ledo accordinglyreceived
eived f
ro m struck
th
eo ffh
hoard,
ahred roll
the court of directors not having in the first inetancier the
posed a dividend of 41 per cent., that their protitl former
half-year would not admit of a larger one. A, a''.d
bank meetings for the same purpose, very e°,7,t'Leepi; all
discussion took place as to the propriety of collie reit'
the profits beyond the three millions set apart ae., ;be era'
Afterwards the amendment, as far as regartleus carod
priety of declaring a dividend of 4-.); per cent. ueetioa
THE ELEPHANT AT WOMBWELL'S.-011 , ;lee
by a majority of the proprietors pre-sent ; but the q
will be settled by an appeal to the ballot. e„
elephant atWombw, 11's gave awhoh s nne lesson to reietti
disposed to play tricks with this gigantic and Fa4uror
animal. Two Fly drivers and an Omnibus
having paid a visit to the Menagerie, began to nlave_e.. at
with he large elephant, offering him nut shells, N..24i;
length one of them drew the elepharit's attention tent,
s:de pocket, inducing the animal to suppose that it ear
tamed cakes or sweetmeats. The elephant at oneet,r.ra
reeded to search the pocket, hut, finding nothing i‘
enraged a' beiog laughed at, dealt the offending I:.t.t
side of the n°,.
tremen `ems blow with big trunk on the fei,
him if shot from a cannon, for several io
which. hurled asas
and no doubt served him as a wholesome lesson no t,,a4sioj
to play tricks with so stupendous an opponent. -1' •
Journal. ntai
iroe
THE COPYING TELEGRAPH.—S9veraI ee,-Prig, yen,
trials have recently been made of Mr. Baltewel'`'st-L; the
electric telegraph, with a view to ascertain wlle'"eot* the
amount of electric power, transmitted by the wiree'the
Electric Telegraphs Company, is sufficient to wo", veer'
pying instruments. The experiments were made of in
the Electric Telegraph Company's branch sten,oev
at
London and Slough, that being the onlY atjoFre,'
which the wires could be spared for experimental porPssiee
The results proved most satisfactorily, that the nit, '5
power which is requisite to work the needle telegraricrie
a curse/los
amply sufficient for the copying process. Messagegoeer,i
ten in London were received at Slough, copied °I) ter'
and in the form of the original writing, the charaeiale
which might be readily recognised. Speed of tr"lierits
sion was not attempted with the small model inettatree':
etnp.ny, d; but the messages were, neverthelees,
0/111,
untied, with a single wire, with double the rael,litY,..ill erg
needle telegraph. We understand that Mr. Bak,e‘,, 1';
pects to be able, with instruments constructed
working scale, to transmit fac simile copies of toCoite,'
400 lett( rs of the alphabet per minute with a sing'"eiilih
and, by using two wires, as now practised, the rag
would he doubled. s,itlr
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Two CHILDREN KILLED BY POISON.—E ,ry 0.- dile
day morning last, a man named John Kent, IV tr,4
currier, living in a court in Hare-lane, Gloucesto'•: (41.1(
and went to his work. Saon afterwards two of hijijoi,re:
dren, a boy named Frederick, aged 12 years, and
aged 10 years, also came down stairs, and the forn:;ii
hungry, took from the cupboard a pa ier hag en'hcr, ``,,el
white powder, and carrying it upstairs to his grt-os
caked in bed, ked her if he might make
with it. The mother granted his request, she
the bag contained "farinaceous food," and the e et "Tl
cordingly boiled it with a little water. The tast.ot,,)
eco
gruel created 'a burning sensation in the boy's tl',.`eelleel
was oth-rwise unpleasant, and therefore he eat °;:he
spoonsful, and went out into the streets, leaving ' tve);et
on the table. In about halt an hour the bur boe'l
sick, upon which he returned home and found al 00
with two younger children, Fanny and Sarah', Oho'
kitchen, the basin containing the gruel beim,: .eot "alet
had left it. The boy having told his mother, '01; et
happened, went upstairs to bed as he was verb
afterwards permitted the little girls to partake of i 1:‘11;14,
and in consequence they became violently sieh'elet°lo4
died the same evening, and Sarah the following de.
Post-mortem examinations of the bodies were,Teetat'ee
the result was, that death bail resulted from
arising from ehaxinecidei sitsihiave(ei
mbveooetnth: iestriat
vitglea,(di etu
iatis,isifen.t(uoi
biiioteo iii
ilititi
ever, was not traceable. No mineral poison 01,0
t
the bodies, but on analysing a small portion of 'to' collect
arsenic. The food had been found in the street bag eel`
coonsthe ch foodi
re children,
A RAILWAY SLEEP-WALKER.—One ,blO
an accident occurred here, whii•li must
•be 'webs'',
extremely ludicrous, although far from being .nealieeiti4
matter to the subject of it. While the nigil.'sitertai,,
on the beat in the neighbourhood of the rend del°°,e'l
was perambulating his round, at nearly twevi'verso,"7 1,1
was accosted by a rather respectably-dressed • a:illece °
o' ge
the masculine gender, whose appearance al etb-
to the belief that lie was somewhat under the 01 41 froi3
an extra glass. Whether this was the eas;°' i are"''
the appearances which led to such a susPic,,),lp‘ift',)j Oeig
what the following colloquy will explain' t
both canoes, we meet leave ►
the reader to .ittu,el;.'oaa
my good policeman, would you show me baoolll
Castle-hill ? Sometimes my head turns, an 0,•c14 t• ;
culty in finding my way. I get bewildered,oeegilace
but was never so dead beat in my life as t 0 let a -eved
have been a mortal hour at least scratobling,c'3,'endot tip!
among bricks, palings, slates: wooden b n- legs, Jre.e.,„
' conceivable obstruction—have peeled toYeent en) ,at'`,,
hands, and, if some of my ribs are not bro,%.otee!'.ol;
fully bruised. and bleeding like a sheep. (I,.lblit the' eilo,
man, with his lantern, satisfied hirnself]ernent..)o,oll,,
really not much exaggeration in the stl%.` gi'oderii,
put me
dram a street to get home, tod aetlY eAc-h of
hearty .My house is, I think, Tto eleeij
Here the unfortunate supplicant pointed eitist tli 11.
which was standing out in bold relief ag tee t.e.1,3110,
moonlight sky. " What was the na,r:1,,,°,0 Catr•t' id to
you say ? " asked the policeman.
ei:sa:cleet:(tlailllo:
" That is Craigie-hill." " '
stranger (for so be turned out to be), "' „.er llrif
I nee' d. l9
Crap
fourteen years in Stirling, cc" ." Stirstai
eCxrcaliagiinne-eldliltlbbeeipnoglitchemeraeno,riannpyrwollonge:._ver,
100
00
Perth." " Perth !" ejaculated the fir, t &too t," Oil
. put tun cryse. f
mayed at the announcement ; nog 0100
saving the hour consumed in nearly in?! / went
,9titno,
these bricks and tiles, it is not two sine
thetrain to Glasgow." It was some ti'r°,,is neing,toe 3for
citizen could credit the possibility "
°:trated to If:." lene:01
but it was soon ton palpably- dernorr a't !flit!)
tp!o
akniidid lfyrofniontei(7lli;t rneastiiloeteltabl: feurrredCr
It,erro sPena "
that inoruing left Stirling for Glasgeittie tbe.l d tp
some companions, where getting a 'train, WIC'
01 °,,,1.31°tee
he had left with the last returii.a.:e
_no list
seal
asleep ill the carriage, not to asw;.l,,, "the
Perth. He Was of course, off _OO
next morning. was,
the fonoea
uss';rertaiii 1 'lO e•fnit to
managed with a Stirling ticket
practically
_de ,Ige.
at Perth without being practi • Itur.le"in
- . t.
had landed there.—Perthshire
_ouro:reran pare
The Mortality of Children of
to ;it...,
ria, taking the period from bae.iren.
true, we have not been able t 0
get net,,
greater than that of English chi cl

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