The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-10 00:00:00

etittral lifttortllany.

No other cases of cholera have occurred in Hull.
The tonnage of Bristol has increased during the last
six months 12,651 tons. _ _

The Queen of the Belgians arrived at Dover on Monday
morning, en route to London and Claremont.
The receipts at the Edinburgh Theatre, on the first
night of Jenny Lind's appearance, amounted to £1,200.

A vein of iron ore has 'been dis Covered on the estate of
Mr. John Shepherd, High Brow, Miliom, Ulverstone.
The total income of the boroughs of England during
the year 1846-7. amounted to £1,346,184.
The munificent Dr. Warneford has just given another
donation of £l,OOO to the Queen's College, Birmingham.
Jenny Lind has consented to sing at a concert in Man-
chester, and to give the proceeds for the erection of ano-
ther wing to the Infirmary of that town.
A public banquet, on an unusual scale of magnificence,
was given on Friday night, at Cheltenham, to the
" Conqueror of the Scinde."
A verdict of manslaughter has been returned, at Dinton
Devizes, against a man named Ford, for killing another
man in a fight.
The steam-ship Washington arrived at Southampton
on Thursday, from New York, which she left on the 20th
ult. The news by her is very meagre.
The members of the Edinburgh town council have una-
nimously resolved not to allow written speeches to be read
at the meetings of their body.
Mr. Salt, farmer, of Woolton, near Ashbourn, was kil-
led on Monday through the upsetting of his gig in which
he was riding.
An old gentleman named Purling, living at Brighton,
has been killed by an overdose of opium, which he had
long been in the habit of taking.
The pork for naval use, this year, ►ill be made up en-
tirely in Ireland. No American will be taken into con-
sumption. . . .

During the past week two parish meetings have been
held in London, to adopt precautionary measures against
the cholera and other epidemic diseases.
I MILE IN LESS THAN FIVE MINUTES !—On Satur-
day, Captain Robertson, 31st Regiment, ran on Leith
Walk, Edinburgh, one mile in 4 minutes and 50 seconds.

On Sunday week, a streetsweeper of Wisbeach, who was
sifting the dust, &c., which she had swept from the mar-
ket place, was rewarded for his trouble by discovering five
sovereigns among the garbage.
The schooner Caroline, from Newport for London,
struck on some rocks near Scilly, on the 28th ultimo, and
went down instanter. The master and crew (seven in
number) were all lost, except the mate.

That immense wilderness, Alnwick Moor or Aydon

Forest, containing upwards' of three thousand acres of
land, a large portion of which is capable of cultivation, is
now in a likely way of being reclaimed.
The John 0' Groat Journal calculates that in the pre-
sent season there have been 92,862 trans of herrings cap-
tured. Supposing that each crau holds 70 dozen, we have
6,487,740 dozen, or 77,852,800 herrings !
A few days since a living tortoise, packed in a box
pierced with air holes, was sent through the Postoffice
from London to Axminster, where it arrived without suf-
fering any injury from its journey in the mail bags.
Three senior cadets of the East India Company's Col-
lege, at Adcliscombe, have been expelled, for attempting
to " fag" Mr. Douglas Reid, who refused to submit to the
usual drudgery imposed upon new comers.
Several immense masses of ice are now drifting in the
Atlantic Ocean, in the direct course of the shipping be-
tween England and America. One of them was noticed
600 feet high, and a mile in length.
The celebrated Mrs. Armitage, " the fat lady," died
suddenly, on Friday, at Birmingham. She was seized with
a shivering fit, and expired before her medical attendant
arrived.

The revenue received from tolls on turnpike roads, in
England and Wales, during the year 1846, amounted to
£1,384,498 ; and the total expenditure, in the same
period, upon the same roads, amounted to £1,378,352.

- On Saturday no less than four postmen were charged at
Bow-street with abstracting money from letters entrusted
to them for delivery. Our friends should beware of mak-
ing remittances in cash, or in bank-notes except by
halves.

On Wednesday week, at York, two children narrowly
escaped being poisoned, by reason of one of them having
had left within his reach a plate or saucer of what is com-
monly called " fly poison," which in fact was a solution
of arsenic.

The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Liverpool Road,
Islington, London, was destroyed by fire on Monday.
The loss is £3OOO, but the premises were insured in the
Sun Office. The books and documents of the chapel
were saved.

Sir Charles Grey, the governor of Jamaica, who met
with such a serious accident through falling from a mule,
was formerly M.P. for Tynemouth. The hon. bart.'s
spine was so much injured that his life is in imminent
danger.

The Fifeshire Journal relates that a woman lately sold
some ducklings to a hawker, and was surprised on the
following morning by finding that they had managed to
return to her poultry-yard, though they must have tra-
versed by land a distance of more than a mile and a half.
AMERICAN TURTLES.—By the Washington steamer
from New York, a parcel of live turtles has been received,
which is a navel importation from that quarter. and has
become subject to a tuty of ss, per cwt., being a dis-
tinction made by the new tariff from turtles of British
taking, which are admitted duty free.

PRISON DISCIPLINE.—A controversy has been going
on in the London papers between Sir Peter Laurie and
Ald. Sidney, on the subject of prison discipline, chiefly as
to whether the separate system has not produced a large
number of cases of insanity. Mr. Sidney ably defends
the system.

THE CHARTIST LEADERS.—DowIing was an obscure
and unknown soi-disant artist ; Cuffey, a mulatto jour-
neyman tailor, born, bred, and fed in one of her Majes-
ty's dockyards, which makes the ingratitude of his trea-
son the greater; Fay, a journeyman shoemaker; Lacey,
another disciple of St. Crispin ; and Richie, a bricklayer.
CITY RUMOUR. There is a rumour, which we give as
received, that the bank has quietly, and without the know-
ledge of any one but its very immediate circle, contrived to
obtain a loan of two millions for the Minister. This, it is
supposed, explains the great amount of money transactions
which have lately occurred.—Herapath.
ADVERTISEMENT DUTY ON PARAGRAPHS.--A circular
has been issued at the office of stamps and taxes, announc-
ing that, on and after the Ist of August last, all paragraphs
referring to advertisements published in the same news-
paper shall be charged with duty, the same is separate
advertisements.

A most beautiful and unique gold teapot was forwarded
from York to the Swedish Nightingale, while in New-
castle, by one of her enraptured admirers. The present
originally was part of the valuable collection of the late
Duke of Sussex. Other parties have also sent similar
but less costly tokens of their admiration.
Last week the Norwich mail was forced into a hedge,
and the driver, Francis Wicks thrown under the horses and
killed, in consequence of David Bond, when riding in his
tart half asleep, coming in contact with the vehicle by
turning into the road instead of to the side. The Coro-
ner's jury have returned a verdict of manslaughter against
him.

MATERIALS FOR A ROMANCE.—On Saturday, infor-
mation was received by the police that a female infant,
about one month old, had been found abandoned on the
step of the door, No. 91, Guildford-street, Brunswick-
square, London, inclosed in a reticule basket. There was
also a complete change of clothing of a superior kind, a
packet of rose powder, and a note, written in an elegant
female hand, stating the child's name to be Rose Walton,
that its parents were persons of distinction, that eventu-
ally it would be claimed,, and those who, protected it
amply rewarded.

COURT MARTIAL.— On Thursday, at Portsmouth,
First Lieutenant Daniel was dismissed from her Majesty's
ship Powerful, for inducing the young naval cadets to en-
dorse a check on a bank at Portsmouth where the de-
fendant had no funds.

A poor woman, last week, in the metropolis, suddenly
ran into a tobacconist's shop, fell on the floor, and was
shortly afterwards delivered of a fine female child. The
tobacconist and his wife have allowed her to remain until
she is fit to be removed; and it appears that the husband
of the poor woman is out of employment, and with her
had been endeavouring to procure some necessaries at the
time she was taken ill.

THE BEAUTIeS OF INTEMPERANCE.—The Leicester
Mercury records an anecdote of a joiner at Matlock who
recently returned home one night steeped in inebriating
liquors, and when reducing his thirsty frame to a state of
nudity like to the condition of the " untutored savage,"
threw his clothes, as he believed, on a chair. The morn-
ing discovered in the grate a large quantity of tinder. and
a small quantity of molten silver. The latter had been a
watch.

GOOD AND BAD FARMING.—A gentleman possessing
land at Charlton, which he formerly let at £2 the acre,
and the tenant of which gave it up, as being unprofitable,
has since taken it into his own hands, and by improved
culture has this year got sixty bushels of wheat to the
acre. He has just carried from part of the same land
barley which has strolled out from seventy to eighty stalks
each root.—Bristol Chronicle.

The Exeter Chronicle states that the wife of a Cornish
bankrupt, who was recently examined in the Exeter Dis-
trict Court of Bankruptcy, was supposed to have concealed
about her person money and other property of value be-
longing to her husband's estate. She was searched a few
days ago by two women, by direction of the officer from
the court, and in her " bustle," which was unusually
bulky, were found watches and articles of jewellery of the
value of £lOO.

STARVING A JURY.—At Douglas, Isle of Man, on
Sunday, a jury on a coroner's inquest, who had been
incarcerated for three nights, and had had nothing to eat
for four-and-twenty hours, brought in a verdict of man-
slaughter, but appended to it the following :—" This
unanimity has been obtained from the painful gnawings
of hunger, and not from the conviction in the minds of
all the jurors that it is in accordance with the principles
of law as laid down by the Deemster."
THE NEWCASTLE SAVINGS BANK MURDER.—It has
always been suspected that the murderer of Millie had
made abominable overtures to his victim, and that, being
repulsed withvirtuous indignation—probably, also, threat-
ened with exposure—he took the life of the man whom he
had only befriended with a view to his moral ruin. This
explanation of the mystery is now corroborated by a letter
of the 4th of April last, recently received in Newcastle
from Launceston, Van Dieman's Land. He has been
since committed to Norfolk Island for that offence.
ANEXPERIMENTAL VESSEL.--There it? now loading
in the North. Docks, Sunderland, an experimental vessel,
named the Mary Caroline, built by Mr. Siddon, of Ro-
chester, who is also the owner. She has no keel, but is
fiat-bottomed and built in the barge style. Neither is
she caulked : the seams are lined with felt. She is 224
tons register, and carries 4000 yards of canvass when in
full sail • and when lull laden with 29
keels of coals, she
draws Only 94 feet of water. She is intended for the
French trade. On the run down, with a N.N.W. wind,
she outstripped forty colliers.
MADLLE. JENNY LIND IN GLASGOW.—This accom-
plished singer and actress made her first appearance on
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within a few minutes of the hour of commencement.
With the exception of tie gallery, the tickets were all
numbered, so that the holders of them were quite at ease
as to their obtaining their allotted places. At the hour
nearly every seat was filled, and the greater part of the
assembly was in full dress. The elegant house, when
lighted up, had a most brilliant appearance.
CURIOUS FATALITY.—A melancholy casualty occurred
at Kimblethment House, last week. On Wednesday, a
young man of the name of Gray, one of the grooms, while
daffin' with a fellow female servant, who was engaged
sewing at the moment, seized her unexpectedly by her
left arm, which was inflamed, and thereupon she instinc-
tively thrust him off with the other, in the hand of which
were a pair of sharp-pointed scissors, which unfortunately
perforated his breast, and, reaching a vital part, caused
his death on Saturday. The poor fellow, with his dying
breath, acquitted the girl of all blame ; but she is in a
dreadful state of mental suffering.—Montrose Review.
EMIGRATION.—Three very large vessels sailed last week
from Plymouth with emigrants for Australia. The vessels
have been sent out by the Colonial and Land Emigration
Commissioners, who have appointed six more vessels to
sail during the present month.—On Wednesday, the nu-
merous artificers employed at the Great Western Railway
locomotive works, at Swindon, held a meeting at which
two gentlemen deputed by the commissioners attended by
invitation from the men, and pointed out the great advan-
tages of colonisation. The meeting was held in conse-
quence of a great number of the men having received no-
tice to quit the company's service, owing to a cessation of
operations on branch lines.

THE RIVER NILE.—A very interesting journey has
been undertaken by the Rev. Dr. Bialloblotsky, under
the joint management of himself and Dr. C. T. Beke.
The object of the journey is to trace the true sources and
branches of the River Nile, in reference to which scientific
gentlemen have differed much. The map of Ptolemy is
said to vary greatly with the proper bearings of the river.

Another object is to ascertain.the state of slavery and that
trade on the African coast. The expense of this expe-
dition is defrayed by subscriptions from scientific and
other gentlemen interested, but we believe the list of
subscribers are not too numerous. The East India
Company have granted a free passage in their steamer.
The result of these researches, it is expected, will add
much useful information to the members of the Geo-
graphical Society and others.
DISSENSION IN DISSENT.—A correspondent has fur-
nished us with some dissenting movements at Reading,
farther exemplifying the charity which warms and impels
the dissenting heart. It appears that the Independent
meeting-house in Reading has for its minister a respect-
able, inoffensive, and clever individual, named Legg ! !
Mr. Legg, however, in spite of his merits, talent, and
long service, has given unpardonable scandal to a very
independent portion of his Independent congregation by
reading some part of his discourse instead of delivering
the whole ex tempore. If there be other cause of offence,
we do not believe it to have been of graver kind than
what we have above named. So outraged, however, have
some of the congregation been pleased to feel themselves,
that they have actually seceded, and are now building an

independent Independent meeting-house, The Berkshire

wits have, of coarse, named this meeting-house " The
Left-Leg meeting-house !"—Churchand State Gazette.

POISONING ItY ARSENIC,—The inquest on the two

young girls Fanny and Sarah Anne Kent, was resumed
on Wednesday evening at Glocester. The medical gentle-
men came to the conclusion that the deaths of both the
children had been occasioned by that poison. On the
second examination the father of the children requested
the coroner to send a constable with him to Cheltenham
to visit the druggists' shops, a rumour having been circu-
lated that he, the father, had recently purchased the
arsenic in that town. The coroner accordingly commu-
nicated with the inspector of police in Cheltenham, and
the result of the inquiry was, that no arsenic had been
sold to Kent or any otber stranger. A trace of arsenic
was very distinct in the remainder of the farinaceous food
left after making the pudding. The jury returned, " That
the children died from the effects of arsenic taken in
farinaceous food, but how it became mixed with the food
there was no evidence to show."

A DISEASED KNEE.—A WONDERFUL CURE BY HOL-
LOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.—John Weir, aged 19,
of Kinnegs, parish of Longhall, near Armagh, was seized
with a pain in his knee which lasted for three months,
and then commenced to swell ; six months afterwards it
broke out into a dreadful wound and discharged for twelve
months, though every remedy was used that medical men
could devise, both at the county infirmary and local dis-
pensary, yet no appearance of healing presented itself
until his father purchased some of Holloway's pills and
ointment, which soon effected a sound cure. No wounds,
sores, or ulcers, however long standing, can resist the
proper use of these fine medicines.

- FIRE AND Loss OF TWO LIVES.—On Tuesday evening
a fire broke out in a cottage at Lushbrook, Ship-lake, near
Henley, by which two lives were destroyed. The cottage,
which was thatched, was occupied by a man named Mills,
a widow named Creaswell, with whom he cohabited, and a
family of five children, the-youngest being the child of
Mills. Mills returned home from his work and was eat-
ing his supper, when the eldest of the children, a boy of
nine years old, went up stairs to put his younger brother
to bed, and on descending unfortunately set fire to a heap
of corn stowed in a recess. The staircase was almost im-
mediately in a blaze. Mills rushed up to the room in
which the child slept to rescue it, but was unable to do so
from the intensity of the heat, and both he and child were
burnt. The cottage was totally destroyed. The husband
of the woman was killed some time back by falling from a
waggon, and about three years ago another of her chil-
dren was burnt to death.

SINGULAR INSTANCE OF CONJUGAL AFFECTION.—
FOLLOWED TO THE GRAVE BY Two DISCONSOLATE
WIDOWS.—On Sunday week, in a parish in the neigh-
bourhood of Tiverton, a man was buried, who, with the
reigning wife, lately came from Tiverton to reside in the
parish above alluded to, where, after a few days illness,
he died, and was followed to the grave as abovmentioned,
by two widows. The singular history is this :—His first
wife was by mutual consent, handed over to his own bro-
ther, who married her. Thus freed, he betook himself to
anotherl wife, but a little lurking affection induced the
discarded lady, on hearing the melancholy tidings of the
death of the first object of her plighted love, to pay the
last respect to his lamented obsequies. It appears that
the hero of this tale expressed a wish to be taken back
to Tiverton to be buried, but the wife in possession thought
this too great an expense. The first possessor of his love
on hearing this, said, had she but known it, she would
have spent her last shilling to have gratified his wishes.
After the funeral the two disconsolates retired, and spent
a very amicable evening together.--Sherbourne Journal.

As IN LONDON.—A perusal of the following letter
sent this week to Messrs. J. and T. Waterhouse, grocers,
at their recently-opened handsome shop, will show that
we of South Australia are not a whit behind our contem-
poraries in England in specimens of the march of intel-
lect; and although the erudition may be wanting in many
skulls at the antipodes, they nevertheless possess veins of
genuine humour and untutored raciness :
Sir,—Having bean to See yore nue shop wich is a verry good
un and onely wonts wun thing wich is too men in the Winder
a Noddin all Day jest like wun Off the Shops in London i no
Too chaps as would be glad of the job for ss. a day and there
grub So that you wos Not too and upon us and am your umbel
Servant JOHN TOMKINS.
N. B. wood turn A smal pepper Mil now and then but wood
rayther Excuse the coffy.
Mr, Warterhouse Groser Hinely-street.
—Adelaide Obeerver,, March 25.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT FROM• DISSECTION.-Dr. Wills, of
Greenock, Ayrshire, while amputating a man's leg in an
advanced state of gangrene, unfortunately scratched his
thumb, and thus inoculated himself withthe animal poison,
which speedily caused his thumb• to swell, and has pro-
duced such an effect on his system, that a large tumour
has appeared, and serious apprehensions are felt for
his life. •
_

LADIES BUSTLES.—A few evenings since, a very de-
cently-attired female, about thirty years of age, stopped
at a hardware stall in one of our markets, where she was
engaged inspecting and pricing the various articles ex-
posed for sale. She, however, suddenly turned pale and
uttered a slight exclamation. Several females imagined
that she had been taken ill ; one, however, nearer to her
stooped down and picked up the cause of illness,—her
bustle, which, in her exertions to reach the articles on
the stall, had burst the ligatures which confined it, and it
fell down, and in its fall some of the stuffing was scat-
tered on the pavement. The unfortunate fair one snatched
her treasure and darted off at railway speed through a
narrow passage, but not till curiosity had ascertained the
nature of the ornament, and its contents, which proved to
have been a small bag, stuffed with several pounds of
good farina. For what particular purpose such an ap-
pendage had been placed in such a situation, deponent
sayeth not.—Halifax Guardian.
REMARKABLE FACT.—In 1843 a young man named
Reuben Brinkworth was, whilst at Bermuda, deprived of
both hearing and speech during a thunder-storm. He
returned to England, the effect of this sad occurrence
remaining, and resided at Stroud, his native place. He
next went to Newport, Monmouthshire, where he lived
with Mr. Nash, basket-maker, Market-street, who is
connected with the Mormonites. These persons induced
the young man to be baptized, and the ceremony accord-
ingly took place late on Friday night. He was taken to
the canal and baptized in the name of our Saviour ; and
immediately on coming up out of the water, he cried out,
" Thank the Lord, I can speak and hear again, as well as
any of you !" The fact was even so—he has quite reco-
vered ; and whether the reader looks upon the cure as the
immediate agency of Providence, or the result of electri-
city as the secondary cause (thunder-storms had prevailed
a day or two before), we have only done our duty in re-
cording the circumstance as it occurred.—Hereford
SWINDLING.—A rather ingenious piece of fraud was
perpetrated in the neighbourhood of Brechin a short time
ago. A watch and clock maker, in that town, had sold an
eight-day clock to a farmer in the Braes of Menmuir, and
sent it:home with a man to put it up, and a discharged re-
ceipt for the price. The farmer having been absent on the
occasion' the money was not obtained, and the receipt was
brought back. In a few days, the farmer called on the
watchmaker and remarked, en passant, that he hoped he
had got his cash all right. The watchmaker, surprised,
observed that he had got no cash, but that his receipt had
been returned by the man to whom he had entrusted it.
The farmer laid before him a receipt for the amount, an
exact copy of the original, but in a different hand. It
appears that, not being acquainted with the watchmaker's
caligraphy, he had given the money to a man who called
on him, and, presenting the receipt, stated that he bad
been sent far it; to whom he paid the cash. It is strongly
suspected that the watchmaker's servant had, after leaving
the farmer's house, forgathered with a kindred spirit, who
had copied the receipt, and, being made acquainted with
the circumstances, had called and got the money.—Edin-
burgh Paper.
ROMAN CATHOLIC ENDOWMENT.— On Wednesday
night a numerous meeting of persons opposed to the en-
dowment of the Roman Catholic Religion, and Religious
establishments generally, was held at the Finsbury Chapel.
Mr. E. Miall was called to the chair. The Rev. J. Gor-
don proposed the following resolution :—" That this meet-
ing, having the profoundest conviction of the evils result-
ing from legislating by the civil government in matters of
religion, rejoice in the evident tendency of public events
both in this country and the Continent to hasten the down-
fall of ecclesiastical establishments." The Rev. Dr. Massey
seconded the resolution." Mr. R. Taylor said there was a
large portion of the population who he feared possessed
very little of the religious sentiment. He thought that
for their sakes the entire abolition of those religious esta-
blishments which had been founded by the piety of their
ancestors, would be an evil. He could not believe it
wrong that the state should contribute to the support of
religion. So far he dissented from the resolution. The
resolution was then put and carried. The Rey. J. Burnet
moved a resolution pledging the meeting to oppose the
endowment of the Roman Catholic priesthood. The
Rev. Reid seconded the resolution, which was carried. A.
vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, and the meet-
ing saparated.
MR. BUNN ON DRAMATIC ARTISTES. —Mr. Alfred
Bunn, manager of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, has
addressed a letter to the editor of the London Standard,
in reply to some remarks in that journal in reference to
his not introducing in his programme the names of soi-
disant professors of the " legitimate drama." He states
that though he is warranted in declining engagements with
such artistes, he had ever manifested a desire to introduce
them in his arrangements. He offered Miss Helen Faw-
cett £25 a week, but that lady demanded £l5 a night, or
£9O a week. He offered Mrs. Nisbett the same sum, but
she stated that she had recently received £6O, and would
not act in after pieces. He offered Mr. Anderson £2O per
week, but he wanted £lO per night, with certain other
considerations. With allusion to former actresses and
actors who were content with the offers he made, he con-
cluded by saying—" I am old-fashioned enough to think
that the histrionic talent we possess is by no means equal
to what we have lost ; that English performers neither
improve nor attract by emigrating to America—that the
public are not to be blamed for confining their patronage
to first-rate instead of second-rate artistes, and that a
director cannot justly be condemned for refusing to give
' . the tatter about three times the salaries, on an average,
than were given to the former.
PROPOSED ALTERATION IN THE MODE OF KEEPING
TIME.—In a letter to the editor of the Nottingham
Journal, Mr. J. A. Novello, of Dean-street, Soho, Lon-
don, suggests—" That it would be very convenient to
number the hours of the day from one to twenty-four,
beginning at midnight, as the additional words 'morning,'
' afternoon," evening.' 'a.m.,' 'p.m.' at present essential
to specify the time, might be dispensed with, and we should
then have a distinct name for each hour of the day. Mr.
Novello considers that this is becoming more necessary to
the proper understanding of railway time-bills, especially
for the long lines. The proposed numbering would take
no extra room in any tables, as four figures are already
required for the hours and their fractions. No difficulty
would occur even with the clocks, which could easily have
the additional figures placed in an outer or inner circle on
the face." " In England," he adds, " I think this change
would find universal adoption, if two establishments were
to adopt it—l mean the post office and the railways. The
announcement—' The packet sails Sept. 16, at fourteen
o'clock,' would completely explain the time, instead of
saying two o'clock in the afternoon." " We," says the
editor of the Nottingham Journal," so thoroughly approve
of the above excellent suggestion, that we intend to act
upon it."
SALE OF A WIFE.—A young man of Edwinstowe,
named Freeman. having resolved to withdraw himself
from the Eden of wedlock, brought his wife to Mansfield
market, and offered her for sale. In the midst of the
corn-market, close to the town-hall, the fellow with his
unloved and unloving spouse took up his position to carry
his resolution into effect. There she stood, a comely
country-looking girl, of some 18 years or so, with her
waist engirdled by a new halter, bought expressly for the
occasion. The husband, attired in the habiliments of an
agricultural labourer, announced his intention, and
speedily disposed of his " angel love," halter included,
for the astounding sum of ls. 6d. The purchaser dis-
posed of the halter for 3d., and thus eventually obtained
the precious allotment for ls. 3d. After the sale, Free-
man demanded of the woman the wedding-ring he sup-
posed her to have on her finger. Ihe wily woman,
having surmised that such a circumstance might probably
occur, had provided herself with a penny brass ring,
which she presented to him instead of the gold one, and
which the unblushing salesman, with much apparent com-
placency, deposited carefully in his pocket. Nature hav-
ing infused no large amount of bashfulness into their
composition, there was no diffidence displayed on either
side, nor were the parties in the least disconcerted by the
laughs and jeers of the crowd of idlers that witnessed the
novel spectacle.—Nottingham Review.
AFFECTING OCCURRENCE.—A working man at Mer-
thyr, named Longfellow, last week sent a letter to his
wife then staying at Newport, saying he was much dis-
tressed in mind, as he had had a dream for two or three
nights, in which he saw himself surrounded by some great
trouble, which was occasioned either by injury to her or
their only child, a very interesting boy of five years old.
He therefore begged her to come to Merthyr, that he
might be relieved of his foreboding; and he particularly
cautioned her to avoid all danger by the way. Anxious
to free her husband's mind from its distress, and to show
him that herself and his darling boy were well and happy,
she on Wednesday morning settled her affairs in Newport,
packed up her goods, and placed them all ready for her
departure ; but before she went, she bade her neighbours
good bye. While at the house of one, taking some re-
freshment, to which she went accompanied by her little
boy, she was talking of her journey, and did not perceive
the absence of the child for a few minutes. In the inte-
rim he had stolen out, and with his bread and cheese in
hand, was talking to a woman, saying he was going away
presently, for his mother had washed and dressed him for
the journey ; and then the little merry-hearted fellow ran
off, saying he was " going to say good bye to Johnny," who
had been his playmate. Nothing more was heard or seen
of him alive. He was afterwards taken quite dead out of
the canal, into which, in his eager haste, he had fallen.
PERILOUS ADVENTURE.—A gentleman wished to have
in his possession a living specimen of the cough or Cor-
nish crow, a bird now becoming rare, and which always
builds in the precipitous sides of the cliffs. Two brothers
engaged to furnish him with young birds from the nest.
They accordingly provided themselves with a rope, and
proceeded to a place where they knew to be frequented by
these birds. One of them tied an end of the rope round
his waist, and his brother lowered him over the edge of
the cliff, holding the rope in his hand. When he had
arrived opposite the nests he found that they were built
under an overhanging rock, so as to be beyond his reach.
Nothing daunted, he set the rope a swinging, until he was
carried into the hollow, when he held fast by the rock ;
but finding the rope too short to allow him to gain the
nest, he untied it from his waist, climbed into the cavity,
and secured his prize, which he stored away in his bosom.
Meanwhile, the rope had swung back to the perpendicular,
and was resting motionless. Without hesitation he called
to his brother above, " Stand by the rope ! I'm going to
leap to it !" He did so ; but the rope, as might have
been expected, slipped through his hands and he fell into
the sea. The brother felt the jerk, and looking over the
edge of the cliff, saw him neither dashed to pieces nor
drowned, but rubbing the water from his face, and exclaim-
ing, " Carry my shoes round to the cove, John ; I'll be
round as soon as the west !" And so he was, and more-
over bringing his birds safe with him. This perilous
adventure is said to have happened in the parish of Breage.
—Glasgow Mail.

THE CHOLERA.—Two cases of cholera were admitted
into Bartholomew Hospital on Wednesday ; one a la-
bourer, and the other his daughter, a girl of seven years.
The father died the same day : the daughter recovered.
Cholera has likewise been fatal in the vicinity of the Lon-
don Docks, and M the east end of the metropolis.
THE CHOLERA.—Mr. Grainger, accompanied by Dr.
Ayre, proceedtd to Hamburgh on Saturday. Dr. Suther-
land remained in. Hull throughout Saturday and Monday.
On the latter day he expressed his entire conviction that
there was not any cholera in the town. On Tuesday
morning he proceeded to Sunderland, but is expected
very shortly to return here and to follow his colleague,
Mr. Grainger, to Hamburgh.—Hell Packet.
THE CHOLERA AT WOOLWICH.—The cholera has made
its appearance here, and three fatal cases have occurred
on board the convict ship moored opposite the royal
arsenal, the whole of the sufferers being convicts. The
first case took place on Friday, and the convict died after
about seven hours' illness. Of the cases on Saturday two
died—one after about seven hours' illness, and the other.
in about two hours after he had gone to the ship, having
been taken ill when at work in the royal 'arsenal. Two
cases were reported as having occurred on Sunday; but,
up to the afternoon, they had fortunately not proved fatal.
THE CHOLERA.—A notification has been received from
Edinburgh, announcing the appearance there of malig-
nant cholera in five cases, three in one part of the city,
and two in another. Three of the cases had proved fatal
within twenty-four hours. The College of Surgeons had
advised the formation of a local Board of Health. Dr.
Sutherland, who had been investigating two cases of cho-
lera occurring at Sunderland on board a vessel from Ham-
burgh, had, on Thursday, been directed by the General
Board of Health to proceed to Edinburgh and take steps
in aid of the organization of a local Board of Health, and
measures of prevention or alleviation.—The Edinburgh
Post of Saturday says—" We have the satisfaction, how-
ever, of being enabled to state, on the authority of medical
gentlemen who have professionally attended some of these
cases, that there is not that great cause for alarm which
the statements given out at the Parochial Board yesterday
are likely to occasion. The cases which have occurred
partake more of the character of British than Asiatic
cholera, and the parties who have been seized are persons
whose habits of life have not been of the most temperate
description."
DISCORD AMONG THE WESLEYANS.—A correspondent
of the Watchman attributes the " want of prosperity" of
the connexion mainly to the following cause. "There are
the says) a few brethren, who, during the last and the
preceding conference, have manifested such a spirit of
animosity against other brethren, and have seized every
opportunity so vigilantly of showing that spirit, that
attendance upon the conference, which I used to bail with
such great satisfaction and pleasure, has become to me a
matter of great repugnance and regret. Whatever may
be my own determination as to the future, I know at least
one venerable minister, held in consideration by the whole
conference, who has said that, if the same spirit is to con-
tinue unchecked, he shall think it to be his duty to cease
to attend the conference."
THE SAMPHIRE GATHERERS.—We consider the fol-
lowing fact worthy of record, in order to show how minute
and extended are the ramifications of the convulsions of
the continent. A poor man, who collects the sea side
herb called samphire, much used for pickling, called, as
he has done for some years past, on a tradesman to know
how much samphire he would require this year,— the
tradesman being in the habit of sending annually a large
quantity of it to a wholesale house in London. He accor-
dingly wrote to enquire what they should want, when the
answer returned was, that, from the disturbed state of the
continent, their business was so much interrupted, that
they should not require any this year. Thus, even the
poor samphire collector is intimately interested in the
restoration of order and preservation of peace.
DIABOLICAL OUTRAGE.—A girl of the name of Daven-
port, who had absented herself from her work in the cot-
ton-mill, called on Mr. M'Farlan, superintendent, at his
house in Ann-street, and in a very noisy manner asked
the wages due to her. He refused then to give them, and
she went away. Shortly after a little boy knocked at Mr.
M'Farlan's door, and said that a woman wished to speak
with him. Mr. M'Farlan, who suspected who wanted
him, did not choose to attend her call, and was in the act
of shutting the door, when in an instant, the woman,
mother of the girl referred to, ran forward and threw a
cupful of vitriol in Mr. M'Farlan's face, burning him
severely. His wife, with her child in her arms, was stand-
ing immediately behind Mr. M'Farlan, and she and the
child, especially the latter, were also much burned about
the face. Mrs. Davenport was speedily apprehended.—
Greenock Advertiser.

SCAN-MAG.—A singular affair has lately happened near
Ashton. A young lady, an orphan, having a fortune of
£l,OOO when she came to age last month, was wooed in
vain by a young man of the village, and who a short time
since was thrown into despair by his fair mistress marry-
ing a Manchester bagman, who had been on a visit in the
village. The affair was kept secret, till some one inform-
ing the young lady's guardian of the fact, he proceeded to
administer personal correction to the young lady. She
resented the insult by quitting the house next day with the
intention of going to Bristol. On the road she met the
cavalier who had once wooed her. Her old partiality for
him returned. He proposed—she hesitated—and was lost.
Like riches, they " took unto themselves wings, and fled
away," carrying with them the £l,OOO, and the husband
doesn't know where to find either. We believe the alliance
the young lady so clandestinely contracted is displeasing
to her friends, and they will not, therefore, assist her liege
lord and master in endeavouring to discover her where-
abouts.—Bristol Journal.

A GENTLEMAN MATCHSELLER!—A well-dressed young
man, with lavender-coloured gloves on his hands, has been
tramping the streets of this town for the last few days,
offering lucifer matches for sale, giving out that he is the
unfortunate lover who is condemned to sell a certain num-
ber.of boxes before the hard-hearted father of his " ladye
love" will allow him to marry her, of which we gave a
notice some weeks since ; and of which story this " gen-
tleman" has been cunning enough to take advantage.
He is vastly too delicate to carry his own goods about,
only burdening himself with a box or two at a time, being
attended by a man with a number of boxes stuck round
his hat, and carrying a good supply in a carpet-bag !We
hope he may meet with the success he deserves, and that
the poor little children who try to get a living by selling
their boxes of matches, will not find their trade much
injured by the genteel match-men.—(Leicester Mercury.)
We find from the Derby Reporter that this man and his
" servant" were taken on Monday by the police before
the Derby magistrates, for obstructing the thoroughfares,
and were discharged on promising to leave the town.
THE FLOODS.--The Valley of the Severn may now be
aptly styled the Severn sea, being flooded to a consider-
able extent. Owing to the continuous and heavy rain
which prevailed in the later part of last week, the river
continued to rise for several days afterwards, until over-
leaping its banks it has covered the meadows on either
side with an extraordinarily wide expanse of super-
abundant waters. The Valley of the Severn now pre-
sents a very curious appearance : the river forcing its
rapid and troubled course through a sheet of placid
waters, which becomes all the more remarkable, streaked
as it is by the partially submerged hedge-rows, and dotted
by trees. We are not aware that any material damage
has been done by the flood in this locality, and it is now
subsiding. On Monday, a young man, named Cooke,
was drowned near Miusemore-bridge, by falling into the
current while trying to get ashore with a cable from a
long-boat, which had broken adrift at the Upper Parting,
At Tewkesbury, the Warwickshire Avon, which unites
the Severn at Tewkesbury, rose much more rapidly, and
to a greater height than has been experienced for very
many years; and if the waters of the Severn had run
down with equal force with those of the Avon, the flood
would indeed have been a most extraordinary one. The
whole of the medows in the neighbourhood of Tewkes-
bury were entirely covered with water to a considerable
depth ; and three out of the four principal roads 'which
lead into the borough were rendered quite impassable ;
but no material loss, except the carrying away a quantity
of timber, and removing some fencing, occurred in the
immediate vicinity of the town. At Evesham, very many
have experienced great losses. Mr. Holtom, of Cleeve,
it is said, has had seventy sheep washed away, and Mr.
Hopkins, of Offenhani, twenty ; the latter has also lost
a cart colt.—Gluucester Chronicle.
WOMBWELL'S MENAGERIE.—Such a series of disasters
has seldom occurred on the transition of a collection of
beasts as happened between Seaton and Lyme Regis on
Simday week. Soon after the carriages began to be re-
moved from Seaton the rain fell in torrents, literally
soaking them, and continued the whole of the way. On
coming up Bossell-hill, the van which contained the lions
and tigers fell over, and with great difficulty was again
put in an upright position, to proceed on its journey. On
the arrival of the van containing the elephant by High
Cliffe House, where the road is very steep, the shaft of
the van touched the legs of one of the horses, which com-
n.enced plunging and kicking furiously, and frightening
the other horses drawing the van, upon which the whole
of them set off at a gallop down the hill, nearly coming
into collision with the landau of R. B. Wrey, Esq., of
Wier Cliffe, in which was Mrs. Wrey; returning from
church. Her life was in imminent danger, as the van
threatened to crush her carriage to pieces; the horses,
however, reached the bottom of the hill without further
damage, but immediately on entering the field of exhibi-
tion the wheel of this ponderous van gave way beneath
its weight, breaking into several pieces, and bringing the
carriage down on its axle-tree. " These disasters were of
a more serious nature than all which had happened to the
menagerie during the whole year previous," said one of the
company, and these, be it remembered, befel it on a Sun-
day. Its misfortunes, however, did not terminate here,
for on drawing the beasts from the town on Tuesday, the
van containing the zebra was turned over, and in order to
set it right again, it had to be disencumbered of its bur-
den, which, for a time, was allowed to be at large in the
field.—Exeter Post.

THE QUARTER'S REVENUE.—The quarter's revenue
will be made up on Tuesday evening next, up to which
time all receipts will included. It is impossible, there-
fore, for us to give an exact statement to-day. We are
glad, however, to learn that the receipts of the present
quarter will bear a most favaurable comparison with the
corresponding quarter of last year. The total amount
will exceed the receipts of the October quarter of 1847 by
more than £500,000. The chief gain will be in the Ex-
cise, which would in itself have exhibited an improve-
ment in the full extent of what we have announced, had
it not been counteracted by a decrease of more than
£200,000, which is transferred in collection from the
Stamps and Taxes to the Excise. Independendent of
this sum, however, it is matter of sincere congratulation
to find that the Excise returns themselves, which show
the increased consumption of excisable articles, prove by
their increase that the people have resumed, with the
activity of the trade, and the renewal of employment, the
power of purchasing and of consuming those articles still
subject to Excise duties. The Customs, too, will exhibit
an increase, and thus give further proof of the revival of
our foreign trade, and the soundness of our commercial
code. From the Post-office, we regret to say that no
further addition of any consequence is to be expected, in

consequence of the increased expenses of that establish-
ment in providing further extensions to the public ac-
commodation. The property and income-tax exhibits
generally little variation, and cannot be expected to make
more than a very slight addition to the increase of our
resources. The Stamps and Taxes will exhibit a serious
decrease, owing to the reason we have stated above, of
the transference of the carriage duties from this depart-
ment to the Excise. Upon the whole, there is much
reason for congratulation. The state of the public in-
come is sound, and the prospects of the country cheering.
We have obviously begun to retrace our steps upwards
from our late depression.—Observer.

THE WHITTLE DEAN "WATER COMPANY.—The in-
habitants in many parts of this town have for some weeks
past been supplied with water from the reservoirs at
Whittle Dean, which is acknowledged to be greatly supe-
rior to that obtained from the Tyne and filtered at Els-
wick. The company are at present engaged in laying
down a ten feet main in Blackett-street, and in a short
time pipes of capacious bore will be extended to all parts
of the town. A most exaggerated statement, relating to
the bursting of a pipe near to Scotswood, was published
a few days ago, in one of the Liverpool papers, which, it
may be presumed, was intended to produce a local effect,
as water-works have been projected there on a plan
similar to that of the "Whittle Dean, but, having the
reservoir at a much higher elevation. It is calculated
that if the reservoir can be filled once a year, it will sup-
ply the wants of the population, and if to this we add the
company's other resources it is clear that water is amply
provided for every purpose. In round numbers, say the
distance between us and North America is 190,000,000
inches of length ; thus, it appears, that we possess a
resource, of pure element, amounting in gallons to only
one-sixth less than this nurn'aer of inches. It would
take about five hundred and twenty such ships as the last
built in the Tyne by Messrs. Smith, of 1500 tons burthen
each, to transport this across the broad Atlantic. The
weight of this accumulation of water is 775,629 tons, and
allow that the most powerful locomotives can draw 300
upon an average, it would take 2586 of those to draw this
quantity of water, the cost of which would be at least near
six millions of pounds sterling.—Newcastle Journal.

Etstrut t3t1115.

Farnworth fair, near Warrington, for the sale of cattle,
sheep, pigs, &c., will take place on Tuesday next.
A young woman named Elizabeth Cooke has been com-
mitted for trial, on a charge of breaking into a public-
house at Manchester.

The Manchester Town Council having memorialised the
Postmaster-General that he order their Post-office to be
closed on a Sunday altogether, his Lordship has declined
acceding to the request, beyond closing it after 10 a.m.
On Taesday, a poor woman looking for work stepped
over the spindle of a thrashing-instrument, then at work,
at Spelce. Her clothes caught, and she was drawn into
the machine and killed.

A LONG WALK.—Several children living at the top of
Turvin, near Blackstone Edge, and who are short
timers" at Copley Mills, have a daily walk of 10 miles to
and from their work.:

The Rev. J. R. Stephens, formerly " a great gun"
amongst the Chartists, refused to preach in his chapel, at
Ashton-under-Lyne, on Sunday, because a policeman
and a reporter were present to take notes of his sermon.
The street-sweeping machines have been entirely aban-
doned in Manchester, and the old practice of cleansing
the streets resorted to. The machines have not been
found to answer.

The creditors of Scott, Alison, and Co., Manchester,
warehousemen, have agreed to wind up the affairs of the
house, the liabilities being much smaller than expected,
under £20,000, and the assets equal to about 10s. in the
pound.
The Chartists of Manchester have now for some time
confined their public demonstrations to weekly meetings,
on Sunday evenings, in the People's Institution, Hey-
rod-street. These are very thinly attended, and the pro-
ceedings are of a very tame description.
The Oddfellows in the Prescot district had a gala day
on Monday at the village of Rainhill. In the course of
the proceedings, the Rev. J. B. Ingham had a handsome
coffee urn, manufactured by our townsman, Mr. Mayer,
presented to him.
The Lancaster Guardian mentions a man in that neigh-
bourhood, formerly a red-hot stickler for the " points" and
physical force, but now of very moderate opinions, who,
being asked the other day whether he was not a Chartist,
said, " I was one, sir, but I have lately built two cottages."
A young man, named John Ashmore, aged twenty-one
years, who had been at work at a factory at Manchester,
with a young girl named Isabella Hudson, for three years,
committed suicide last week by taking arsenic, because
the young woman refused to renew an engagement which
had been broken off between them after a quarrel.
FIRE AT MANCHESTER.—A serious fire broke out on
Saturday afternoon, at the mill of Messrs, English & Co.,
in Angel Meadow, by which it was totally destroyed. The
fire was occasioned by one of the boiler plates having given
way, and the force of the steam driving the fire and ashes
from underneath the boiler through the windows of the
warehouse opposite. With the exception of a few bruises
in one instance, no other casualty has occurred, although
250 of the persons employed in the mill jumped from the
windows into the street. The loss is estimated at from
seven to eight thousand pounds,
Edward Corbett has been committed by the borough
magistrates at Manchester to take his trial for stabbing
his mother and a man named Plumb, with whom she was
living in adultery and in a state of almost continued drun-
kenness. It appears that the prisoner had been taunted
by his shopmates with his mother's guilty life, on Sunday,
the 11th ult., when he rushed to their dwelling, and, on
being admitted, stabbed both of them several times with
a knife. The man Plumb has recovered sufficiently to
give evidence in the police-court, but the wretched woman
lies in a hopeless state in the infirmary.
ALL SAINTS CHURCH, PRESTON.—This church WaS
opened with sermons by the Rev. Dr. M`Neile and the
Rev. W. Pollock, under circumstances peculiarly gratify-
ing. The Rev. Mr. Walling, who had a curacy in the
town, was some time ago about to leave the neighbour-
hood. to the great sorrow of the poorer classes of the
town in which he had officiated, when, singular to relate,
these worthy people conceived the notion of retaining
their pastor, by building a church for him. With their
own hands many of them contributed to the holy work,
and by interesting their wealthier neighbours, they have
actually succeeded in the accomplishment of their pious
purpose. The church is a neat and commodious build-
ing.

EMPLOYMENT IN MANCHESTER.—The government
returns of the number of persons employed in the manu-
facturing districts are now to be discontinued. The fol-
lowing is the last return :—One cotton mill formerly stop-
ped altogether is now working short time ; while another,
previously working full time, but with only a portion of
the hands employed, is now working full time with the
whole of the hands. Of the hands employed in the cot-
ton mills, 90 more are working short time, and 372 fewer
full time. Of the total works included in the table, one
previously stopped is now working short time, and three
previously working full time with a part only of the hands,
are now working full time with the whole of their hands.
Of the total hands included in the table, there is an in-
crease of 359 working short time, and a decrease of 616
working full time. The return is, therefore rather of an
unfavourable character.

MURDER.—Near Tongfold, in the neighbourhood of
Bolton, on Saturday night, a man named Joseph Schol-
field was found murdered. Schofield was a labourer at a
cotton mill, situate at Under-the-Shore. About five
o'clock on Sunday morning, a man, named Robert Bar-
low, a collier, was at Tootel Bridge, about a mile from
Bolton, and near Under-the-Shore, when he heard a noise
as of some one moaning, which, on examination, he found
to proceed from the foot of the bridge. On going thither
he discovered Scholfield lying near the water's edge, in an
almost insensible state. When taken home he said that,
when on the bridge the night before, he was met by two
men, one of whom was a tall person, and they asked him
to deliver his money, which he refusing to do, they threw
him over the battlement, a height of fourteen yards. He
continued unwell up to a quarter-past twelve on Sunday
at noon, when he expired.
EXPERIMENT BY THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COM-
PANY.—An experiment was made at Manchester, on
Wednesday, by Mr. Cox. superintendent of the Electric
Telegraph Company, and assistants, as to the practica-
bility of passing electric currents along covered wires
under water. The wire was that ordinarily used, of cop-
per, wrapped with cotton, and then passed through shell
lac and coated outside with India rubber (cold naptha
being used to cement the latter). One end of the wire
was in communication with the Telegraph Company's in-
struments at the office near the Exchange, and the other
end with an instrument at Mr. Wm. Gaskell's mill, on the
Salford side of the river, at about five hundred yards' dis-
tance. A portion of the wire, including a coil of about
half a mile in length, was submerged in the river Irwell.
Communications were passed along the wire with the or.
dinary facility.

DESERVED COMPLIMENT.—A very spirited effort has
been set on foot by the inhabitants of Congleton and its
neighbourhood, headed by the Mayor, to celebrate the
fiftieth anniversary of the occupation of the office of high
steward of that borough by Randle Wilbraham, Esq., of
Rode-hall. A fund already amounting to more than £3OO
is in progress of contribution, to be chiefly invested for
the foundation of three free scholarships at the Grammar
School of Congleton, to be in the nomination of Mr.
Wilbraham and his heirs for ever. The deed of endow-
ment is to be presented in a handsome silver box, bearing
a suitable inscription, at a public dejeuner, which will
take place at noon, on Wednesday, the 18th instant, when
a distinguished assemblage will be gathered in the Congle-
ton Assembly-room, to join the inhabitants in their testi-
monial of regard and respect to the venerable object of the
presentation. A gold medal is preparing by Mr. Wyon,
R.A., which will bear suitable emblems and inscription,
and will be presented along with the other portion of the
testimonial.
Two FEMALES KILLED.—On Tuesday a valuable young
mare was being yoked, at Stockport, to a waggon with
two other horses, for the purpose of being broken in for
carriage use, when the drag chain falling on her heels, she
took fright, and galloped out of the yard towards Brinks-.
way Bridge, where three women were returning. The
animal attacked them with great ferocity with its forefeet,
beating them violently to the ground, and then trampling
upon them with continuous fury. It then stopped quietly
upon the bridge, without inflicting any further mischief,
and was conducted back to the mill. The females, being
seriously injured—two of them fatally so—were carried to
the Woolpack Inn, Brinksway. Ann Faulkner was
wounded about the head and body in a frightful manner,
so much so, that she died the same night ; whilst the other
(Ann Sherrock) had sustained such severe fractures be-
hind the right ear from the hoof of the animal, that no
surgical aid could prevent her death, which occurred the
next day. The carter was instantly dismissed from his
situation, and the noble-looking animal, worth 120
guineas, was destroyed next day, by the direction of the
owner.