The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-14 00:00:00

ABD-EL-KADER.

The Tribune of the Gironde gives the following inte-
resting particulars of Abd-el-Kader and his family :
" Thanks to the friendly interference of the officer who
has wholly devoted himself to the noble mission of alle-
viating the exile of this great fallen one, we obtained the
favour of a private audience. We found the Emir seated
on his bed ; on our entrance he immediately rose and
squeezed our hand with warmth and dignity. His stature
is above the average ; his white woollen clothes exhibit in
fine relief his superb face, which is adorned with a long
black beard ; his white hands are perfectly shaped, and his
feet seem surprised to feel the softness of carpets, after
having been so long accustomed to tread the sand.
' Since I have confided myself to the honour of the
French,' remarked the Emir, I have not had occasion
to repent it a single moment, and I can well understand
that weighty reasons at present prevent the realisation of
my dearest wish—to live and die at Mecca. I will wait.'
Here his fine black eyes, the expression of which is at
once melancholy and proud, became suddenly animated,
and darted lightning—one word had electrified him, and
that word was uttered by a female voice. Abd-el-Kader
really looked sublime. He'soon, however, recovered his
habitual expression of gravity, and only spoke to us of the
fatigues of his journey and the uncertainty of his present
position. The women forming the family of the Emir are
lodged in a suite of three rooms joining his own apart-
ment. His mother inhabits the most distant ; she is a
woman of 70 years of age, with a sad and dejected mien,
but her eyes sparkle occasionally like those of her son.
She was indisposed when we visited her, and was reclin-
ing on a mattress, before an immense brazier, surrounded
by young black and white female attendants, who ap-
peared to serve her with great zeal and attachment. In
the second room were the three coloured wives of Abd-ei.
Kader on their mattrasses, with their children in their
arms ; the faces of the latter are very pretty ; their hands
are entirely shaved ; they say bon four ! and shake hands
very willingly. The women are all habited in white stuffs,
a sort of long gown, and double tunics of muslin or cloth,
fastened at the breast by chains of silver ; on their naked
feet they wear rings of the same metal. Their head-dress
conceals their hair entirely • their ears are pierced for im-
mense earrings which reach as low as their shoulders.
Some of the women in this room were tatooed on the face
and arms, in the most curious manner ; they appeared
resigned to their fate, but much astonished at the scenes
of the surrounding world. The third room is the most
curious of all. It is a large saloon, darkened by the par-
tial closing of the shutters, the faint light that obtains
ingress being increased by that of an enormous fire. Here
we found the white wife of the Emir, on a sofa, watching
over her children at play. She is about forty years old,
and her face is handsome, and though the expression be
somewhat severe, it is by no means bad. Her white gar-
ments are finer and neater than those of the black con-
cubines. Her sad glance seemed to ask Heaven what
would be the future fate of her unhappy family. Of the
two daughters of the Emir one is a suberb beauty. Her
face is one of those ideal ones that haunt the imaginations
of painters, and her eyes are such as when once seen can
never he forgotten. Her bare arms, perfectly shaped, are
encircled with very simple bracelets; her hair is adorned
with very simple bracelets; her hair is adorned with a
large riband, and some flowers, which announce that the
women of the desert are as vain and fond of borrowing the
foreign aid of ornament' as their more civilised, and
therefore less excusable sisters of Europe."

YOUNG GERMANY.—The Germans used to shave, at
least they kept their chins reasonably clean, and if they
cultivated any extra capillary growth, reserved their care
for their moustache. Now every one of them has a
beard like a Rabbi, and to use razors is considered a sure
and infallible sign of a loyalist and an aristocrat. At
Juliers I had the pleasure of encountering the first speci-
men of Young Germany that crossed my path, and a
precious object he was. I had been sitting for some time
vis-a-vis with a little punchy fellow from Vienna, with a
beard as red as that which the old masters have assigned
toßarabbas ; and as he spoke little, but smoked a great
deal, I was inclined to think him rather a companionable
sort of individual than otherwise. But, at the station, in
stepped a youth apparelled precisely after the fashion of an
assassin in a melo-drama. His broad beaver hat, with a
conical crown, was looped up on one side, garnished with
an immense cockade of red, black, and gold, and sur-
mounted by a couple of dingy ostrich feathers. I lament
for the sake of our home manufacturers, to state that he
exhibited no symptoms of shirt collar, nor, so far as I
could observe, had he invested any portion of his capital
in the purchase of interior linen. Over his bare neck
there descended a Maximilian beard. A green blouse,
curiously puckered and slashed in the sleeves, was secured
round his person by a glazed black belt and buckle, and
his legs were cased in a pair of rusty hessians. In short,
be needed but a dagger and a pair of pistols to render
him theatrically complete, and had Fitzball been in the
carriage, the heart of hat amiable dramatist would
have yearned within him, at the sight of this living per-
sonification of his own most romantic conceptions. I
had forgotten to state that the patriot had slung by his
side a wallet, of the sort which is familiar to the students
of Retzsch, in which he carried his tobacco. To my
amazement, nobody, not even the gees-tit armes on the
platform, appeared to be the least surprised at this formid-
able apparition, who commenced filling his pipe with the
calmness of as ordinary Christian. For my own part, I
could not take my eyes off -him, but sat speechlessly
staring at this splendid specimen of the empire.—Black-
wood.

Otittral 015rtilany.

There is not at present a case of cholera at Hull.

Mr. William Henderson, one of the most popular gen-
tlemen in Durham has been elected mayor of that city.
A fleet of 26 French ships arrived in Gloucester basin
last week, laden with corn.
Sir William Stanley was declared an outlaw, on Thurs-
day, at the London Sheriffs' Court.
Mr. (or the Rev. Mr.) Barker, the Chartist, has been
returned as a member of the Leeds Town Council.

George Bradley, charged with stealing, at Wolverhamp-
ton, 500 sovereigns from a trunk belonging to his sister-
in-law, Sarah Stanley, has been committed for trial.
A Roman Catholic monk, converted to Protestantism,
is shortly to be. ordained to the pastoral charge of the
Independent church at Crediton, Devonshire.
The Earl of Ripon is about to erect six almhouses for
poor persons, in order to commemorate the circumstance
of his eldest son's attaining his majority.
A poor German musician hung himself, last week, in
the neighbournood of Sheffield, from a disappointment in
love.

Trade is at present pretty brisk in Birmingham, owing,
in a great measure, to the re-opening to commerce of the
River Plate.
__ _

Mr. Charles Wood, proprietor of the railway foundry,
Mil'sands, Sheffield, was on Nlonday last thrown from his
gig and killed.
The Hull solic'tors have agreed to close their offices at
one o'clock on •Saturday, in order that the clerks may
enjoy a half-holiday once a week.
Several associations of tradesmen have been formed in
London, for the purpose of endeavouring to abolish the
custom of giving Christmas boxes.
A conger eel, measuring seven feet in length, and 20
inches in girth, and weighing between five and six stones,
was caught last week in the Solway Frith.
A live toad was discovered in the heart of an old oak
at St. Wenn, in Cornwall, last week. It had probably
been entombed 200 years without either food or air.

The sloop " Eagle," Richards. of Aberystwith, from
Porthcawl to Aberdovey, in working out of Mumbles
Roads, on the 28th ult., struck on Mumbles Point, and
went down immediately. Crew saved.
In consequence of the late flood in the fens, several ves-
sels, laden with apples and vegetables, were delayed above
three weeks in the Brayford and Witham, and .their car-
goes were either wholly spoiled or greatly deteriorated.
A bruising match for £lOO, took place near Andover,
between Gill, of Coventry, and Maley, of London, on
Tuesday last. It lasted two hours and thirty-nine
minutes. Gill was the conqueror.
A Town Councillor of Bradford was arrested, a few
days since, for illegal drilling, but discharged in conse-
quence of the witness against him being one of the parties
drilled, and therefore not impartial.
The vestry of St. Pancras has agreed to let certain
rooms and ground to Dr. Wiseman, fora Roman Catholic
grammar school. but the Duke of Bedford, the owner of
the land, has objected to the carrying out of the bargain.
The Orangemen of Bradford, Sheffield, &c., met in
their respective lodge-rooms on the 4th November, to
celebrate the discovery of the gunpowder plot and the
accession of King William.
The extensive hand-loom weaving factory of Mr. Robt.
Kerr, in Seedhills, Paisley, has been destroyed by fire,
The damage is said to be £lO,OOO, and the prsmises are
insured for £B,OOO. _ _ _

The Whigs and Tories of Sunderland, this week, agreed
to a compromise on the question " Who is to be Mayor ?"
A gentleman, who has, in his time, belonged to both par-
ties, was appointed !
CHIIRCH RATES.—The magistrates of Hull have deci-
ded that persons living in that portion of a parish awarded
to the district church are not liajle to a rate for the mother
church.
There was a transit of the planet Mercury over the
sun's disc on Thursday. The transit commenced about
eleven o'clock ; and the last contact was about twenty-
five minutes past four.
The office of Mayor went begging at Oxford on Thursday
After seven or eight aldermen and councillors had been
nominated and elected, a volunteer (Ald. Thorp) kindly
stepped in. and got rid of the difficulty.
PERSONATION AT THE BRADFORD MUNICIPAL ELEC-
TION.—Edward Hill, a stonemason, was on Monday last
committed for trial for having personated a John Ed-
mondson, of Manningham Ward, at the recent election of
town councillors. _ _ _

RAGGED SCHOOLS.—The Queen Dowager, in addition
to her former donation of £lOO for the general purposes
of the Metrouolis Schools Fund, has given a donation of
£5O, for the special purpose of assisting the fund for the
establishment of ragged schools in the metropolis.
Cases of cholera continue to occur in the metropolis,
but not in such numbers as to excite any alarm. Invari-
ably, we believe, the cases have been produced by damp
houses, filth. insufficiency of food and clothing, or intem-
perance.
A PARSON WITHOUT A SERMON.—On Sunday week,
the minister at one of the Independent Chapels, at Brad-
ford, upon presenting himself before his congregation,
made a public apology for not being prepared with a
sermon !
The cask of dollars which was lately lost overboard from
the Brazilian packet Penguin, has at length been reco-
vered by a diver, who had made several descents in vain,
but at length succeeded in discovering the cask, which
contained about three thousand dollars.
The result of the British Davis's Straits whale fishery
this season, so far as it is at present known, is that four-
teen ships, belonging to Hull, five ; Dundee, four ;
Kirkaldy, two ; and Newcastle, Boiness, Peterhead, and
Aberdeen; one each ; have captured fifty-eight fish, with
712 tuns of oil. _ _ _

SINGULAR DEATH.—A woman was, a few days since,
killed at Mooreroft, near Loxlev, by the fall of part of
the floor of a house •, it threw her into an old coal-pit
over which the building had been erected ; and she
perished, not from the fall, but from the foul air in the
pit.
The Queen has presented to two brothers, named
Thomas and Francis Bullock, working men, at Cheadle,
Staffordshire, a sum of £lO, to enable them to publish a
work which they have jointly written, and which they
have entitled " Popular Education : an antidote to juve-
nile delinquency, and a great security of national virtue."
IMPROVED STEEL PENS.—In the use of the best steel
pens the nibs are continually undergoing oxidation, wear
to a fine point, and in a short time become useless. Drs.
Babbington and Spurgin have taken out a patent for the
application of a piece of zinc to the nib,• whereby a gal-
vanic action takes place, and the zinc alone being de-
stroyed, the nib of the pen is worn only to the extent of
the friction occasioned in writing.
A WINTER ASSIZE.—The Government have at present
under consideration the propriety of issuing a special
commission for holding a winter assize for a part at least
of the home circuit, the cases of the Coggleshall gang,
the poisoning at Ramsay, and the other crimes of a seri-
ous nature, for which prisoners have been committed for
trial, appearing to render such a measure, as regards this
county in particular, advisable.—Chelmsford Chronicle,
SUICIDE OF M'DoNouGH.—On Tuesday a most de-
termined act of self-destruction was committed in Green's
Shooting Gallery, Leicester-square, by M'Donough, the
celebrated steeplechase rider. The deceased entered Mr.
Green's gallery and called for some duelling pistols, and
he fired several shots at the target : he loaded the pistols
himself, and was seen to approach the target. He then
deliberately placed the muzzle of one of the pistols to his
forehead and immediately fired it off.
A MAN CAUGHT INSTEAD OF A SALMON.—SOILD
poachers, who were fishing in the Wye, near Monmouth,
a few evenings since, heard a splash, and immediately cast
a net, as they fancied the noise was caused by a salmon.
With some difficulty they succeeded in hauling their net
ashore, and then discovered that instead of a fish they had
caught a drunken man, who had mistaken his road and
walked into the river, where he would have inevitably
been drowned, if he had not been thus singularly rescued.
SNOW STORM.—We have had a second visitation of
winter, since our last, Friday and Saturday being days of
very sharp frost, with occasional snow showers from the
north. The ice on the pools was fully one inch in thick-
ness, and on the Inch pond boys were enjoying their
winter amusements all day. In the Highlands the storm
was very severe, particularly in Aberdeensh're and Inver-
ness-shire ; and on Saturday the north mail was nearly
three hours behind time, the snow having drifted several
feet deep along Drummaichdar and Slockmuich the usual
places of interruption. On Sunday a mild change set in.
—Perthshire Courier.

Lord Mayor's day seems to have gone off very bril-
liantly this year. The new Lord Mayor is Sir Jas. Duke,
M.P. At the banquet at the Mansion-house, the Mar-
quis of Lansdowne, in the absence of Lord John Russell,
occasioned by indisposition, returned thanks when the
toast of the government was proposed. Ho congratulated
the country that peace had been maintained in Great
Britain by the exercise of the civil power only. The French
minister, M. Gustave de Beaumont, spoke very strongly
in favour of peace, and highly complimented England,
which he emphatically styled `• the land of liberty." He
was much cheered. _ _ _ _ _ _ _

RAGGED SCHOOLS.—From inquiries which have been
made into fifteen of the ragged schools of the metropolis,
it appears that there were 2345 children attending these
schools, that the average attendance was 1600, and of
those 162 had confessed that they had been several times
in prison, 116 had deserted their homes, 170 slept in lodg-
ing-houses of the lowest description, 253 lived by begging,
263 had neither shoes nor stockings, 280 had no covering,
21 had never slept in a bed, 68 were the children of con-
victs, and 306 had lost either one or both of their parents.
In London alone there were 80,000 prostitutes, by far
the greater number of them were under 20 years of age ;
many of them were under nine or ten years of age !
ADVERTISEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.—The celebrity of
the Times as the repertory of remarkable advertisements
is well known ; but we think the following, which we
copy from Saturday's Times, one of the richest gems in
its way that it has been our lot to peruse :—" A married
gentleman, having made every effort to rescue his fair
partner from the frightful malady of drunkenness, now
proposes to others similarly situated to take a house and
grounds, wherein the ladies will find every amusement,
but no drink, except by order of the medical man. A
liberal table will be kept. Each married couple to pay
£l4O a-year, to include everything. Single ladies £BO.
The advertiser will take all responsibility. Address,
Y.R., &c."
MURDER OF A FEMALE AT WESTPORT.—It appears
that the fair held at Westport last week exhibited more
than the usual amount of drunkenness and dissspation,
and in one instance was marked by a most brutal and
murderous attack. The victim is represented to have
been a fine young woman, named Scannell, who went to
purchase a pair of scissors from a dealer named Scott.
His price was lid. ; she offered ld., and refused giving
more, when the savage plunged it into her ear, and in two
days afterwards she breathed her last, leaving her death
(to use her own words) on Scott. Mr. Walsh, the officer
of police, had upwards of forty men under his command
in search of Scott, and on Sunday morning he succeeded
in arresting him in the suburbs of the town, in a pig-
house.

James Whiteside, Esq., the eminent Queen's counsel,
who has so eminently distinguished himself on the Irish
state trials, is now on a visit to Scarborough. Mr. White-
side is the brother of the Vicar of Scarborough.

The subscription for the purchase of the Chandos testi-
monial is now complete, and the members of the com-
mittee are about to meet and decide on the best mode of
presenting it to the Duke of Buckingham.
HULL DOCK COMPANY.—At a special general meeting
on Wednesday, it was resolved to go to Parliament for a
short bill to enable the company to raise the sum of
£150,000 on loan, in addition to the £400,000 which they
are, by their existing acts, authorised to borrow for the
completion of their works.
A SIGN or THE TIMES.—On Sunday, the fifth of
November, a Popish processional cross was, for the first
time since the Reformation, carried through the streets
of Halifax, accompanied by a Romanist priest and his
clerks. Not there fault that there was no breach of the
peace.
A man employed on the Aberdeen Railway, at the
bridge of Dun station, has been killed in a singular way :
in chaining two carriages together, he was so incautious
as to put his head between two buffers ; the engine moved
and his head was crushed.

The Norfolk Chronicle states that the combined ages of
a Mrs. Gilbert and a Mr. Holmes, residing near Ely,
amount to 212 years, the lady being 102, the gentleman
110, and either can walk a mile better than many persons
half a century behind them.
A young lady named Miss Harriet. Wilkinson Tricket
was yesterday week found dead on the beach, about two
miles to the westward of Cowes, Isle of Wight. She had
left home owing to a quarrel with her sisters, and it is
supposed she drowned herself, or was drowned by acci-
dent.

Our readers will probably recollect an event which
occurred at Lochee, near Dundee. in which a man shot at
three persons who were stealing potatoes in a garden, and
killed one of them, a female. At the recent Perth Circuit
Court he pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to fourteen
years' transportation.
A woman of enormous corpulence, who had been an in-
mate of the Yarmouth workhouse during the lest three
years, died on Tuesday week; and a post mortem exami-
nation showed that the immense quantity of fat around
her heart, and in other parts of her body, was the imme-
diate cause of her death, as it had increased to such an
extant as to produce suffocation.
On Monday, a fire, involving the destruction of a large
amount of property, broke out on the premises of Mr.
John Elisha, at a place called Spencer's Wood, in the pa-
rish of Shinfield, about four miles from Reading. The
property destroyed is estimated at not far short of £l,OOO.
The fire is generally believed to have been the act of an
incendiary.
At a meeting cf the Ashmolean Society, held at Oxford,
on Monday last, Dr. Buckland mentioned that he had re-
ceived from Sir R. Peel a letter, describing an extraordi-
nary large bull trout, weighing 211bs. which had been
taken at 'famworth, and which had probably been enabled,
by the late floods, to cross the weirs on its way to that
place.
The Aberdeen Journal states, that at a recent sale of
farming stock, a calf three months old was sold for one
penny, and was purchased by two farmers, who each paid
a halfpenny, on condition that the one was to keep the
animal through the winter, while the other was to feed it
next summer, and that it should then be sold, and the
proceeds be equally divided between the speculators.
A. M'Kenzie, trading under the firm of Durand and
M'Kenzie, of Milk-street, Cheapside, London, merchants,
is charged with forging an acceptance for £3,000 upon
Mr. F. Phillips, of London-street, provision merchant.
The case has been adjourned for a few days, the Lord
Mayor having accepted bail for M'Kenzie's next appear-
ance, himsel in £2,000, and two sureties of £l,OOO each.
On Thursday ;reek the Training College at Carmarthen
for Welsh schoolmasters was opened. It has been erected
under the superintendence of the Welsh Committee of
Education at a cost of £9,000, thus obtained—£3,ooo
from the Committee of the Privy Council, £2,500 from
contributions, and £1,500 from the fund of the National
Society. A further sum of £2,000 will be required to
discharge the whole of the liabilities.
A DIFFERENCE.—NOW that the proprietor of the Shef-
field Times has bought the sheet containing the names of
the subscribers to the late Sheffield Mercury. handbills
have been issued from his office, stating that the list of
subscribers was, for forty years, the most respectable of
any of the Sheffield papers. About a year ago an article
appeared in the Times, in which it is stated, "as for the
Mercury, nobody reads it."
On Wednesday evening, a woman living in London,
who was holding in one hand a lighted candle, and in the
other a lamp, which she was filling with naptha, poured
the naptha until it overflowed on her dress, with which
the candle came in contact, and she was immediately en-
veloped in flames. She ran into the street, when two men
who were passing rolled her on the pavement, and suc-
ceeded in extinguishing the flames, though not before she
had been severely scorched.
SINGULAR FATALITY.—On Friday an inquest was held
on the body of Thomas Hutchinson, who died at the
Leeds Infirmary on Wednesday. The deceased, who was
only 23 years of age, followed the occupation of a shep-
herd; and on the 23d of September, in dressing the feet
of a sheep, he had occasion to use a knife, and during the
operation the animal made a start, and came in such vio-
lent contact with the instrument that the blade was
plunged into the left thigh, penetrating the femoral ar-
tery.

TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF A SHIP BY FIRE.—From
intelligence which has been received from Annotto Bay,
Jamaica, we learn that the barque Captain Ross, William-
son, loading at Port Maria, for Greenock, was totally
destroyed by fire on the night of the 22d of Sept., and one
man and a lad seriously injured. The crew have all (ex-
cept those two) saved their clothing. The master has not
saved a stitch of any thing ; his chronometers, maps, a
large anaouut in money, and some very valuable papers,
are all gone.

At the Central Criminal Court, on Tuesday, Shea and
his wife, an Irish couple, were convicted of a most savage
attack on Mary Cox, their landlady, whom they beat on
the head with hammers and otherwise maltreated; ser-
ving the woman's husband in the same way, and kicking
him, when he came to his wife's assistance. Shea nailed
up the door that he might not be stopped in his mur-
derous pastime, and when an entrance was forced, the
room " looked like a slaughter-house." The gentle pair
were surprised to find that they were to be severely dealt
with ; Shea to be transported for ten years, and his wife
to be kept to hard labour in prison for two.
A " PRINCE " IN COVENTRY.—A person representing
himself as Prince Christophe, brother of the King of
Hayti, and who has completed a term of two months'
imprisonment, as a rogue and vagabond, was brought up
at the Mansion-house, London, on Tuesday week, on a
charge of swindling a hotel-keeper, by contracting hotel
debts, without any means of paying them. He had re-
ferred the proprietor to a banker, who said he was a great
blackguard. For some time past he has been going about
London, hiring apartments at the various hotels, and
living (himself and family) in a sumptuous manner. The
Magistrate said he should remand the prisoner, for the
purpose of giving an opportunity to others of coming
forward and identifying him.
NEWS OF THE EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN
FRANKLIN.—The following is a copy of a letter picked up
by the barque Prince of Wales, which arrived here this
morning, in lat. 68.10 N. and lon. 64.30 W. on October
2d, 1848 :—" Her Majesty's ships Investigator and Enter-
prise cleared the main pack, in Melville's Bay, on the 20th
August, and after examining Pond's Bay, on the 23d,
passed on to the northward, in search of the expedition
under Capt. Sir John Franklin. The cask which contains
' this paper was thrown from H.M. ship Investigator, on
the 28th of August, 1848, in lat. 73.50 N. and lon. 78.6.30
W. ; all well. Enterprise in company. Whoever may
find this paper is requested to forward it to the secretary
of the Admiralty, London, with a note of the date, lati-
tude, and longitude, in which it was found. EDWD. BIRD,
Ca p tai n."—Hull Packet.
ABUNDANCE OF MONEY IN LONDON.—The old collo-,
quial proverb, that " all is not gold that glitters," was
never more strongly verified than at the present moment,
for never was the country, as a trading community, in a
poorer state, and never was there a larger accumulation
of gold, silver, and money of all denominations, in the
various banking-houses of the capital. Like Midas in the
ancient Greek poets, we are starving amongst the gold
heaps lying at our feet ; and experience, a much more
intelligible master than any system whatever of political
economy, has at length taught us the hard but salutary
lesson, that it is not gold and silver, but active and pros-
perous industry, always in motion, but always changing
its shape, going forth in one form and returning in ano-
ther—it is this, we say, that makes a nation rich and a
people happy.—Bell's Messenger.
THE MARQUIS OF WESTMEATH.—A few days ago the
Marquis of Westmeath was a passenger on board one of
the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company's packets.
While on her voyage from Kingstown to Holyhead, and
when approaching her destination, his lordship called the
attention of the crew to an object at some distance in the
water, which he thought resembled a human form. The
captain at once ordered the coxswain to steer in tho direc-
tion indicated, when it was discovered that a sailor, nearly
exhausted with cold and fatigue, was still clinging to a
spar. A boat was lowered from the steamer, and the man
was saved. The poor fellow had been washed overboard
from an inward bound brig, the master of which must
have supposed him lost. A tolerably round sum of
money was subscribed for the sailor, so fortunately saved
from a watery grave.
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION AND SUICIDE.—An in-
vestigation has taken place before the magistrates of Ross,
Hereford, elucidating the following facts :—A discharged
servant, named Samuel Garras, occasionally lodged in the
Full Moon public-house, which he had been forced to
leave by the landlady, Mrs. Phillips, who conceived a
dislike to him on account of his leaving his wife and two
children in distressed circumstances a few miles from the
town. He subsequently, however, went there and de-
manded a pint of beer on credit, which was refused. On
the last occasion she told him he was drunk, and that he
only came there to annoy her, upon which he pulled a
pistol from his pocket, and fired it at her. She fell to the
ground, and it was thought she was wounded; but, how-
ever, the ball had missed her. He then discharged a
second pistol in his mouth. The ball passed horizontally
along the roof of the mouth, and lodged in the back of
the neck. He was removed, under the care of the police,
and the latest accounts announce him to be still living.
BOWEL AND LIVER COMPLAINTS CURED BY HOL-
LOWAY'S PILI.s.—A person of the name of H. J. Butler,
of Uckfield, Sussex. belonging to her Majesty's service,
was four years in Barbadoes, where he suffered severely
with a disordered state of the bowels, ending in dysentery ;
at last his liver and stomach became much disordered,
and his health was altogether very bad. He received
every attention from the military medical gentlemen in
Barbadoes; but yet he continued so ill, that his recovery
was considered very doubtful. Failing to get relief from
the usual treatment, he commenced taking Holloway's
Pills, which completely cured the liver complaint, and
induced perfect action of the bowels.

THE POOR LAW.—Mr. Charles Buller, chairman of
the Poor Law Board, has addressed a circular to boards
of guardians and others, on the great increase of casual
paupers and tramps, and by way of a check (! ! !) on im-
position, recommends the issue of a certificate, specifying
that so and so, with a wife and so many children, as the
case may be, are deserving characters, reduced by such
and such a calamity, the production of such a certificate
entitling the holder to the best quarters in the workhouse.
and the best cheer the larder affords ! Is the Honourable
Gentleman aware that the forgery of certificates of this
nature is a regular trade, and that thousands of impostors
are traversing the country with them in all directions ?
Louis PHILIPPE. AND HIS FAMILY.—The Assemble-e
Nationale has a letter from London, stating that some
days ago the members of the ex-Royal family of France
narrowly escaped being poisoned. All of them were si-
multaneously attacked after dinner with acute pains, and
the ex-Duke de NPritt-mrs having drunk nothing but a
glass of water, the few drops that remained were analysed.
and found to contain a strong dose of very virulent poison,
produced by the deemnposition of the copper of the con-
duit-pipes
ei s
Thed. reservoirstrbcs:atllei!cith oCf laDreri.noCnita-rtusseooins
neutralized the effects of the poison, and restored the
sufferers to health.

BUILDING HOUSES FOR BURNING.—On examining
into the causes of the rapidity of the spread of the flames
in London houses when on fire, it will almost invariably
be found that, whatever may have occasioned the fire to
break out, the rapidity of its progress has been in pro-
portion to the greater or less extent of the lath and
plaster partitions, the hollow wooden floors, and the
wooden staircases. 'Were the occupiers of houses suffi-
ciently aware of the danger from lath and plaster parti-
tions, especially when they enclose staircases, they would
never occupy such houses, or, if they did, they would not
give such rents for them as they would for houses with
brick nogging partitions. Again and again we protest
against the absurdity of constructing buildings as if for
the express purpose of readily burning, and urge, on the
other hand, the importance of adopting every practicable
precaution to render them fire-proof, and the sin against
society which the neglect of these precautions involves.—
The Builder.

VAGARIES OF DRUNKARDS.—On Saturday night three
labourers, of the parish of Fordham, who had been drink-
ing at a public-house in Great Tey, were met by police-
man Butcher on quite a contrary road to that leading to
their homes, and were by him directed aright. Very soon,
however, they again lost their path ; and on the return of
the same officer at three o'clock the following morning,
one was discovered fast asleep in a ditch, and at a short
distance was a second standing up to his knees in a pool
of water, and also in a heavy slumber. The third could
not be found for a considerable time; and as his clothes
were discovered on the farm of Mr. Pettit t, at Aldham,
fears began to be entertained that he was drowned, and
one or two ponds were dragged accordingly; but he was
at length discovered on the Fordham road, safe and
sound, but quike naked, with the exception of his shirt,
having, as he afterwards stated, undressed himself with
the idea that he was at home and going to bed, but which
he found to consist only of a ditch of water ! Although
they were all lucky enough to escape accident or injury,
it is hoped they sustained sufficient inc mvenience to deter
them from intoxication in future.—Essex Standard.
LORD BROUGHAM AT 13RouGEL—Lord Brougham and
• Vaux, who,' during his forensic career, has extricated
himself from many a difficulty, and emerged unscathed
from many a thorny labyrinth, was fairly in a " fix" a
short time ago, at Brough. The noble lord, wishing to
proceed from Brougham Hall to Raby Castle, and know-
ing that the coach from Penrith only ran as far as Brough,
had ordered a note to be dispatched to the "head inn" at
that place, to order a chaise and pair to be ready on his
arrival to convey him forward. The note was delivered
to the Castle inn, but the officials at that place, elated
with their distinguished visitor in prospectu, had spread
the news through all the village, and coming to the ears
of the landlord of the White Swan, he was determined to
contend for the honour of receiving the noble guest. A
short time previous to the arrival of the coach, the
inhabitants of Brough watched with some degree of inte-
-1 rest the preparations made by the two inns. Each
I brought out its chaise, and the domestics belonging to
! each bustled about with great agility. No sooner had the
coach stopped than a landlord flanked each side, and both
endeavoured, by persuasive eloquence, to induce his lord-
ship to visit their respective inns, and place his person in
the conveyances they had prepared for him. His lordship
was almost transfixed to his seat by this unexpected at-
tack, and was heard to mutter something like '• Whatever
must I do between these two men !" At last, Mr.
Magee, of the Swan, put a period to the conflict by re-
ferring to a point which affected the loyal feelings of his
lordship. " You know, my lord, ours is the queen's
inn." " Then, most assuredly, yours is the head inn,"
and Lord Brougham bolted into the parlour of the Swan,
leaving the discomfited opponent of Mr. Magee in the
street.—Correspondent of Kendal Advertiser.
SCHOOL GARDENS.—in the Midland Florist for Oc.
is an account of an admirable plan for promoting the love
of industry in boys, which we should likd to aee adopted
in this and every other town. " In the immediate neigh-
bourhood of Nottingham are an immense number of small
gardens, occupied and cultivated by all grades of society ;
and, with a most laudable and praiseworthy feeling, the
friends connected with the High-pavement Chapel Boys'
Sunday School have purchased two of these inclosures,
in each of which is a commodious summer-house. One
of the gardens is cultivated by the elder boys, the other
by the juniors. Each garden is sub-divided into smaller
allotments, which are assigned to their respective tenants,
boys from ten to fourteen years' old, who cultivate and
crop them according to their own fancy, a small portion
of each being devoted to flowers, The diligence and
ability displayed by these youthful gardeners is really
astonishing. We have inspected their crops during several,
past summers, and with truth can say we were highly de-
lighted with them. The onions, lettuce, celery, carrots,
potatoes, &c., were excellent, and would vie with the pro-
ductions of older and more experienced cultivators. Prize
'gooseberries are also grown. In fact, these boys always
endeavour to obtain, either of seeds or plants, the best
varieties possible. In connexion with these gardens, and
to excite emulation, a vegetable and flower show is in-
stituted. This is held in the school-rooms, at Notting-
ham, and prizes are given for the best productions in
vegetables, as well as for stands of pansies, verbenas,
collections of annual and perennial flowers and nosegays,
or bouquets as they are called by some, but we fancy our
readers will like the old English name best. These ex-
hibitions of youthful skill and industry are well attended."
Should any of our readers wish for a copy of the rules by
which these school gardens are managed, they are to be
found in the above publication.—Lancaster Guardian.
SINGULAR DISCOVERY AT WHITEHAVEN.—A short
time since, two human skeletons werg-discovered by some
railway labourers, near Braystones, not far from the sea
shore, but they were missed again in a few hours after-
wards, which gave rise to the supposition that they had
been stolen. It appears, however, that they had been
only temporarily concealed by some workmen, about
twenty yards from the spot where they were first found.
An inquest has been duly held before Mr. W. Lamb,
coroner. The bodies were evidently those of two very
tall and powerful young men. By some it is conjectured
that the bodies were those of shipwrecked mariners cast
ashore, and covered over by the drifting of the sand.
Various circumstances, however, have transpired to render
this conjecture extremely improbable, if not impossible ;
•and there is boo much reason to believe the bodies had
been cast upon the beach, stripped of everything found
upon them, and purposely buried to enable the plunderers
to remain in undisturbed possession of their ill-gotten
booty. It is remembered in the neighbourhood that
about 40 years ago a large vessel was wrecked upon the
neighbouring coast, when all hands perished, and that all
the bodies were afterwards found, with the exception of
two—those of the master and mate. Announcements in
the local journals at the time speak of the wreck of the
Peggy Lawson, of Harrington, the finding of drowned
men, a vessel having gone to pieces, and the restoration
of such of the cargo as had been saved is promised to the
rightful owners. Again, the Irish Linen Company, who
had property on board of the Peggy, acknowledged their
great obligations for its restoration. These facts, coupled
with the circumstance of two bodies having been after-
wards ascertained to be missing, render it highly probable
that the bodies lately found are the two in question.
A MAN RESOLVED TO GET MARRIED.—About a month
ago the parish clerk of T—, in the neighbourhood of Dum-
fries, was aroused by a rather smart rap at the door ; and the
vistor. on being ushered into the audience chamber,
proved to be a stout young Milesian, on, as he soon an-
nounced, a matrimonial errand. With that mixture of
abruptness and courtesy natural to his countrymen, he
signified his wish to get the banns of marriage proclaimed
—the parties being himself, Lawrence —, and a nice
Young woman he had courted, Kitty Martin by name.
The clerk demurred a little on the ground that the said
Kitty had no one to represent her : but the Hiberbian
Ccelebs made short work of the difficulty :—" Isn't Kitty
dear and her sister waiting quite convanient at the dure,
your worship, I'll have them here to speak for themselves
in less than no time." In a trice Larry returned with
the females, and, from their voluntary statement, it ap-
peared that the courtship of the loving pair had lasted
three weeks, and that the design of the trio was to pro-
ceed to America, after the nuptial knot was tied, and on
receipt of money from a relative of the females residing
in the Far West. The interview, which was really an
amusing one, was finished by Larry paying the fee for
three day's call," and off the parties went. On three
successive Sabbaths the walls of the parish church echoed
to the matrimonial announcement ; and by the fourth, at
farthest, people who do not know that " the course of
true love never did run smooth," concluded that the
courtship of Larry and Kitty would be duly consum-
mated, and the blessing of the priest pronounced. So
at least anticipated the parish clerk, when, on Friday
walked
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Larry
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down
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waiting
ing
for the extract, no doubt, to show to the priest. I hope
Kitty and you 'ill do unco weel together." " Audi,
bother," was the abrupt response; " the ould jade put
bad blood betwixt Kitty and me, all about the bit 'o
money from abroad ; and we're as far apart as if the deep
sea had divided us. I must think no more of her; but,
by good luck, I've fallen in with another swate little
cushla, and if your honour would obleege me, I'll pay for
another three shillings worth of calls for her !" The
worthy clerk was a good deal astonished, and still more
so when his visitor's statement was substantiated by the
silent testimony of a blushing maid, whom her amorous
swain introduced as the object of his second flame. It
was not the part of the clerk to remonstrate—he saw it
would be useless—repeated half aloud the old proverb,
" He that will to Cupar maun to Cupar"—crooned the
tune " It's gude to be off wi' the auld luve before ye be
on wi' the new"—and having thus expressively signified
his sentiments, entered in his record the names of " the
happy pair." Whether Hymen will in this case prove
propitious remains to be seen ; but it is to be hoped that
Mammon will not, as on the former occasion, interfere
with Larry 's resolution to get married. -.DunifriesStandard.

GLASGOW AND LIVERPOOL
STEAM-PACKETS.
•
The respective Steain-packet Companies' Ves•
- sels are intended to sail (with or without
Pilots) as under :
FROM LIVERPOOL.
COMMODORE This Day, Novem. 14, at 1 , Afternoon.
PRINCESS ROYAL Thursday, Novem. 16, at 2 , Afternoon
COMMODORE Saturday, Novem. 18, at 3i, Afternoon.
PRINCESS ROYAL „Tuesday, Novem. 21, at 64, Evening.
COMMODORE Thursday, Novem. 23, at 941, Morning.
PRINCESS ROYAL Saturday, Novem. 25, at 10 , Morning.
COMMODORE Tuesday, Novem. 28, at 12 , Noon.
PRINCESS ROYAL Thursday, Novem. 30, at 1 , Afternoon
COMMODORE Saturday, Decem. 2, at 2 , Afternoon
*..* Goods intended for shipment must be alongside the ves•
ael at least One Hours before the time of sailing.

FARES :—Cabin,lss. ; Steward's Fee, 2s. Steerage, ss.

Agents for the ORION :
T. MARTIN and BURNS and Co.,
7, Water-street, Liverpool.
Agents for the ADMIRAL and COMMO
ACIVEDORE
DAVID MR and Co.,
14, 'Water-street, Liverpool.
Agent for the PRINCESSROB ROYAL
ERT LAMONT,
33, Water-street, Liverpool.

A SINGLE TOOTH FOR FIVE SHILLINGS.
MESSRS. COOPER and Co., SURGEON DENTISTS,
10, Slater-street, (on the right hand,) Liverpool, beg to
inform the inhabitants of Liverpool and vicinity, that they are
at length enabled to MAKE TEETH AVAILABLE TO ALL
CLASSES ; their price for a Single Tooth being 55.,. whatever
quantity may be required. This, they assure their Friends
and the Public, is the full price of their best Teeth; and the
price can only be increased- by expensive mountings.
The mechanical department is filled by first-rate workmen
from London and Paris; and it is only the immense quantity
manufactured that enables them to fix their prices so low. All
operations of the Teeth equally moderate. Filling decayed
Teeth with the Mineral Mamoratum, 2s. 6d. Artificial Teeth
repaired, remodelled, and brought to their former shape and
appearance.
They also fasten loose Teeth, particularly of aged persons,
whether arising from neglect, the use of calomel, disease of the
gums, or any other cause.
SCURVY IN THE Gums EFFECTUALLY PREVENTED.
Among the various disorders of the mouth, there are none
more destructive than Scurvy, which, on first entering the
gums, causes them to bleed on the most trifling occasions. A
soft substance invariably accumulates around the necks of the
teeth, penetrating into the gums, which gradually waste away,
and the Teeth then become loose and drop out of their sockets,
and it is well known that the loss of Teeth arises more from
this cause than any other; in short, Scurvy in the Gums affects
individuals of all ages and constitutions, and if not speedily
removed, will be the primary cause of too h-ache and decay.
Messrs. COOPER ane Co. are happy to state that they have
discovered acertain remedy for the removal of this distressing
malady, which, if used in conjunction with their VEGETABLE
ANOYDONE TINCTURE, will entirely extirpate the complaint.—
Price ss.
OBSERVE—COOPER AND CO.,
10, Slater-street, (on the right '_and,) next Door to .the Bible
Depository.

IMPORTANT TO THE PUBLIC.
THE BEST MEDICINE IN THE WORLD,

DARR'S LIFE PILLS.
A mild, safe, and most effectual cure of Indigestion,
Bilious, Liver, and Stomach Complaints, Sick Head-ache, Cos-
tiveness, &c. &c. Their composition is truly excellent ; they
are compounded entirely of vegetable products, freed from all
irritating and deleterious matters, which render their opera-
tion mild and agreeable: they do not require the least confine-
ment or alteration of diet, anti may be taken by the invalid
with perfect safety; as an occasional dose in all nervous and
debilitated cases, recoveries fi ona protracted diseases, &c.,
they will be found highly valuable, imparting vigour and tone
to the system when emaciated by disease.
First—They increase the strength, whilst most other medi-
cines have a weakening effect upon the system. Let any one
take from three to four or six pills every twenty-four hours,
and, instead of having weakened, they will he found to have
revived the animal spirits, and to have imparted a lasting
strength to the body.
Secondly—ln their operation they go direct to the disease.
After you have taken six or twelve pills you will experience
their effect ; the disease rpon you will become less and less by
every dose you take ; and if yon will persevere in regularly
taking from three to six pills every day, your disease will
speedily be entirely removed from the system.
Thirdly—They are found, after giving them a fair trial for a
few weeks, to possess the most astonishing and invigorating
properties, and they will overcome all obstinate complaints,
and restore sound health; there is a return of good appetite
shortly from the beginning of their use ; whilst their mildness
as a purgative is a ,tesideratum greatly required by. the weak
and delicate, particularly where violent purging is acknow-
ledged to be injurious instead of beneficial.
TO PERSONS GOING ABROAD.

These Pills are particularly recommended to all persons
going abroad, cind subjecting themselves to great change of
climate. OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY, MISSIONA-
RIES, EMIGRANTS, &C., will find them an invaluable appen-
dage to their medicine chests, as a preventive of the attacks of
those diseases so prevalent in our Colonies, especially in the
West Indies, where a small box recently sold for 10s. In Ame-
rica also the fame is getting known, and its virtues duly appre-
ciated, causing an immense demand for it ; and there is no
country or port in the world where it will not speedily become
an article of extensive traffic and general utility, as it may be
had recourse to in all cases of sickness, with confidence in its
simplicity, and in its power to produce relief.
TO LADIES.
_ _

PARR'S LIFE PILLS are especially efficacious in all the va-
riety of ailments incident to the Fair Sex. Ladies even of the
most delicate constitutions will find them particularly benefi-
cial, both before and after confinement ; and for general use in
schools, they cannot be too strongly recommended. They
mildly and speedily remove all Skin Eruptions, Sallowness of
Complexion, Nervous Irritability, Sick Head-ache and Depres-
sion of Spirits, Irregularity, or general derangement of the
system.
CAUTION.

Noneare genuine, unless the words " PARR'S LIFE PILLS"
are in WHITE LETTERS on a RED GROUND, on the Govern-
ment Stamp, paste' round each box ; also a fac-simile of the
signature of the Proprietors, " T. ROBERTS and Co., Crane-
court, Fleet-street, London," on the Directions.
Sold in boxes at Is. lid., 2s. 94., and family packets at lls.
each, by all respectable medicine vendors throughout the
world. Full directions.ars, given with each box.

MODERN FURNITURE, &c., BOOTLE.
By Messrs. TROTTER and KIRBY,
On FRIDAY next, the 17th instant, at Eleven o'clock precisely,
on the Premises, No. 6, Portland-place, opposite the Baptist

Chapel, Bootle,
HE whole of the modern- and genteel useful
T
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE and Effects, the Property
of a Gentleman declining housekeeping.
The BED-ROOMS contain Sets Mahogany and Painted French
Bedsteads, with Damask Hangings, Paillasses, prime seasoned
Goose Feather Beds, with appropriate Bedding; Mahogany
Marble-top Dressing 'Tables and Washstands, Swing Dressing
Glasses, Chests Drawers, Mahogany Wardrobe, &c.
In the SITTING-ROOMS will be found a handsome Set of
Mahogany Dining Tables, twelve feet long, Set of Twelve Maho-
gany Chairs, covered in Morocco, Ditto Couch to Match,
Pedestal Sideboard, Rosewood, Loo, and Card Tables, Set Six
Rosewood Chairs, covered in Damask, Four Conversation
Chairs, China Glass, Plated Articles, Crimson and Damask
Hangings, &c.
The useful Kitchen Requisites.
May be viewed on the Morning of Sale, and descriptive Cata-
logues had on the Premises, or from the AUCTIONER., 8,
Whitechapel, Liverpool.

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FROM THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAIL-
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prompt, at his Rooms. 40, Whitechapel, the uncleared lots of
Goods, comprising Hat Boxes, Hats, Coats, Trunks, Mac-
intoshes, Watches, Jewellery, Revits, Nails, Blocks and Ropes,
Window Blinds, Plane Irons, Punches; also an assortment of
useful Household Furniture, under execution.
Catalogues may be had on the Morning of Sale, on applica-
tion.at the Rooms, 40, WhitechapeL