The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-09-23 00:00:00

GENERAL NEWS.

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of BNT To MR. KEELICY.—On Saturday, Mr. Keeley,
wp,'Ens Princess's Theatre, met with an accident, which
it render him incapable of performing for a few nights.
itztting upon an omnibus, his foot slipped, and the iron
'Aided a painful injury upon his leg.
HAuvEsT.—Generally in England it is an ascer-
bie.a fact been harvest, which is on the point of corn-
totrn• has not merely satisfactory, but splendid,
0: as to the weight of the crops and the quality of the
'n• It is the general opinion that there has not been
tiiiiiCtond a harvest for many years. When to this it is added
to.the potato blight is only very partial, and that the
main crop is large, we may feel assured that the first of
yeaal blessings of good food is secured for the coming

faiLAILIIRES DUNDEE.—We regret to hear that several
tido,„es, in addition to those announced last week, have
one.' Place in the mill spinning trade in Dundee. With
1:4, exception, these are not to any great extent, and arise
o;tilY from connection with the principal house which
terie down. We take notice of these commercial disas-
-I,..viiith reluctance, and only because they have been re-
tou to in other journals in terms which are calculated
lisiM,Y,e, an exaggerated iwpression of their extent. Their
itre ' '"es are Courierconfined to Dundee and Arbroath.—Perth-
ik.
tLANCHOLY DEATH.—An inquest was held on Tiles,
iZ"n London, on the body of Mr. H. Appleby, receiver-
dfetitel for the Earl of Mornington. It appeared that
It:tat the men in the employ of Messrs. Amsinck and
anews, brewers, Westminster, were engaged in taking
! into the cellar of a beer-shop in Lambeth-walk, a
la:•;_einaed on the back of one of the horses in the dray,
ati:en caused them to take fright and run away with the
tile! towards Doughty-street, when the deceased gentle-
de ", who rushed to stop them, was knocked
kitilitnd the wheels of the dray passing over his body
,CeenThir°„:
up? THROUGH SLEEPING ON A RAILWAY.—
On tj'ual. afternoon a somewhat singular accident occurred
field Station,
Midland Railway, about half a mile below Chester-
field Itetion, to John Gillard, of Dog Kennels, Chester-
tkt'i,a Plate layer in the company's employ. It seems
his 1,"6 had sat up during the previous night with one of
eft euildreu who was ill, and about three o'clock in the
sileern°°n sat down on the down line of rails and fell fast
NI?. A. train came upon him, throwing of the engine
tit him unaer the shoulder, and him between
galls, so that the whole of the carriages passed above
bob; On being taken up it was ascertained that his breast
hi
-„was broken, and that he had also sustained severe
hiLel on the head, but, though in a dangerous state,
41/8 are entertained of his recovery.—Derby Courier.
tVPETITION OF THE NORWICH ATROCITIES.-011 Sh-
obrY se'nnight, as John Ashton, letter-carrier, of Staf-
tk;,' was poceeding on his round, his dog found part of
andr foot of a human body close to a ditch in a field
Silkmore House. The leg, which had a piece of rope
tmi round it a little above the ankle, has since been ex-
it ned by several medical gentlemen, who consider that
Dtee7l, been cut off alter death, but not by a practical
Isietioner, half of the bone having been sawn through,
hee the remainder broken off. The leg appeared to have
lkee,Perfectly healthy, and to have been lately cut from
iskindY of a young 'person. Every exertion has been
by the police to obtain some clue to this mysterious
nCrt but at present without effect.—Wolverhampton
fonile.
heeI;;TISTRY, FRUGALITY, AND LONGEVITY.—We have
Ult....informed of a remarkable instance, in which these
tli-'qnalities have been exemplified in the persons of
biter brothers, all of whom have been engaged as post-
eldft'iand whose united ages amount to 255 years. The
,nss-" of these three brothers, John Hickmott, aged 87,
enstorned for 40 years to travel daily from Lamber-
Nel'. to Goudhurst, Horsmoncien, and Brenchley and
ash, he has now retired to spend the evening of his days
bish.? savings, and we hope in peace. The next in se-
NV is William Hickmott, aged 85 years, who has glso
Of ea to live on the fruits of his industry. The youngest
whc!llese patriarchs is Thomas Hickmott, aged 83 years,
hisrl'ras also given up active labour for the remainder of
fottsilet and, we believe, without fear of wanting the com-
Nof the world.—Sussex Express.
PAUL'S AND THE " SHOW MONEY."—Notwith-
Me 'lig the abolition of the " two-penny" nuisance, the
Ito -,a, of the cathedral are reaping a handsome harvest
insitene large numbers of persons who daily visit the
eeen leg- The amount of the fees to visit the whole has
fops
reduced from 4s. 4d. to 3s. 6d. Out of the moneys
fop' Collected four persons receive each a guinea a week
teee'llewing their respective departments. Two boys
is cinlve 6s. each per week, and for each visitor they can
all ;else to Pay the extra fees to view the crypt id., and for
to ..u? view the ball Id. The four vergers, who used
sh(l)'ocket the two-pences," now receive in lieu of them
elitlitlt '4lOO a year. They also publish and sell inside the
the edral each a separate Guide to St. Paul's. One of
essk back,
week or two sold 500 of his book at 6d. each,
rter"ce 3d., weekly profit about £6 at this rate. The
44, auras derived from viewing the building are divided
Ilea en twelve minor canons, six lay vicars (the singing
theand the four vergers, who have each a 22d share.
all the minor canons are not present, the twelve
Ttisvare divided between those who are.
th- SONS OF THE LATE SIR ROBERT PEEL.—Each
4ot h,,.e Sons of the late premier seems to have chalked out
d ,`Le-iself a course of action : the one prefers the gaities
~ibte'sufe_friv.o.ltties of the fashionable world, to the prompt-
'Poo ambition ; the other, studious and sedate, is bent
es it winning, honour upon the field where, but yesterday,
ed qvee, his father shone so brilliantly. He has enlist-
" 441,144 under the banner of Sir James Graham, and
10014,",iStant period he will most probably be called to tbe
01 i'"a of his sovereign. On the other hand, his brother
Itst; no party, but sits among the motley group of neu-
and though he may keep up the reputation of an
ill ,t.lish buck of the time of George the IV., it is not at
selkely that he will ever pine for the caress or sweets of
eigee. There is just as great dissimilitude in the external
etieet of the two ; for while the baronet wears a beard
Charles 1., and dresses in the first style of fashion,
ejlonourabie and youthful member for Leominster (Mr.
452) is subdued in his attire, and wears that peculiar ex-
istZnion on his countenance that denotes great study and
tVse thought. He is most constant in his attendance
Vie house but his brother is only seen there just before
tka,ll.ivision is about to be called on some great question
D's to make or undo a party.—Political Sketch Book.
ape
CF ONE OF BURNS'S HEROINES.—A Glasgow
PPorary records the death of one of the six " Mauch-
ve,leoelles,' on whom Burns confers the foie of his
Eicl Mrs. Finlay, relict of Mr. Robert Fin Thy, of the
Greenock, was one of the very few persons, sur-
ubtti to our own times, who intimately knew the peasant
!Ills„i_o the first flush of his genius and manhood, and by
4411,`"er her name and charms have been wedded to immor-
Ilince Ile. When tve consider that 65 years have elapsed
t3llt6ll,.rris wrote the lines in which this lady is noticed,
0p,,,1' the six Mauchline belles were then in the pride
t"no h`"ing womanhood, it is surprising that two of them,
itedave often listened to the living accents of the in-
llse peasant, still survive. Tile fate in life of the six
I'need was as follows :—Miss Helen Miller, the first
tleeti! became the wife of Burns's friend, Dr. Mackenzie,
pp'is cal gentleman in Mauchline, latterly in Irvine ;
itTsbb parkland we have already spoken of ; Miss Jean
ih.,Adinbaa married to Mr. Candlish, a successful teacher
rne•-"lirgh, and became the mother of the eminent
tvlitipiL_Miss Betty (Miller) became the wife of Mr.
te, er"l, in Mauchline ; and Miss Morton married Mr.
0 On, cloth merchant, in the same village. Of the
ljgb„ `l„,history of " Bonnie Jean" (Armour) we need not
OThe survivors are Mrs. Patterson and Mrs. Cand-
rilLe°flish Press.
OUTRAGE.—On Thursday morning a most
Olt pres assault was committed on the inmates of the
h7s iret Bridge toll-house. The wife of the person who
‘httlis .was confined on Wednesday, and was lying in bed
kisleatie°lll, which is level with the bridge, while her
pewas sleepin below. About one o'clock in the
g was ac ry of " gate," and the woman told
4teNtet"° who was waiting upon her to go to the door.
tytas Ini_g it a man asked her for a light, and followed
tOilotek'n,e house, when he commenced striking her on
ltitlea°,', the head, and hit her several violent blows
tttThnern weapon. As soon as the nurse appeared
,V,to oistLY helpless, he called out to another man out-
,nieSiZei,e in, and they both proceeded together to the
nbt,,lts; the toll-taker's wife was lying with her babe.
toeg"eeri:,ted to get out of bed to the window, and the
?etiltied``i, to them not to touch her, as she was but just
tik Whi'e out in spite of this, and with a degree of savage-
tl' scarcely permits of their being conceived
esp ess hey commenced a brutal attack upon the poor
11kt:1410:Nature, and reduced her to the most pitiable
Sl,‘/,as Meanwhile, the nurse roused the husband,
Itsmlta rePing below and the ruffians as soon as they
el~
nod ,oth rushed out at the door and ran off The
th,, to res about the body of the toll-keeper's wife
ore eve been inflicted with a stick. The bed-
n -te saturated with her blood, and it will he well
teeetpe:.e entirely recovers the brutal treatment which
Itik,,e,fteleinLeed. The infant could not be found for some
lkks'enig,e.rnen were gone, but was at last discovered
ttls, tAitii.`" in the bed-clothes.-- Worcester Journal.
syl?it iirk /I°ll DRINKING TOASTS.—At a meeting of the
4NPah resbYtery of Paisley, on Wednesday last, Dr.
e:1111,1-,T at eoPosed the motion of which he had given
th is.elt of Previous meeting ; to the effect, " That the
earths or toasts in connexion with religious
ditig7l" inexpedient, and as such, condemned by
thish!eootf and example of the Apostle Paul, and should
eetio„nued Within this Presbytery." He founded
reop,istille-ssotfo the drinking ofR healths upon passages 'n
and Corinthians.'
114Pro,Inelo°oweebv_er, requti)retd teo beempueregsed of this evil ;
.for
Of 'l,bl-' the to think there was not an event during
dileaPting Wirth to the death, but that the drinking of
tt,brOro quors was part of the ceremony. The rites
It.entn b and the Lord's Supper had too often been
Y see,
~,tt es h_ oes of drunkenness. Under these cir-
let
_,e.considered they ought to unite in discou-
t Ore ortok;„
r4`miom 'ecood Tr, usages among the people. Mr.
toq tot coeo.the motion. The Rev. John Thom-
soe.. Incide with the motion. He had no de-
; Ate the absurd tit at and foolish practices of drinking
te'ot eon whi ,the same time he did not consider it a
it ,ItisiOnsid,_ e.la the Presbytei y ought to legislate. He
;10 ff_the dinner was a part of the ordination
bict,etr.nt g Cre was no connexion between them, and
Iteitttlti "ad the province of the Presbytery to
Nthni toatt
er.
feet %list tb„.4l;_ot fo He moved an amendment, that
40 44, there ;in part of the Presbyterical pr-
the i NtlielY to re as no greater reason for attempting
Net the ,Iptlate the private conduct, or to in-
`lesCaste ttunlv!dual liberty of the members, in
1/411447,tery ehuen In any other particular ; and that
Wts oilld not entertain the motion. The
4404
(ooet seconded. The motion was carried,
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g.---...nuurga k,ourant.

ALLEGED AUSTRALIAN GOLD.-0a Thursday, we had
the opportunity of seeing no less than six samples of what
had been brought over from the locality of the Goulbourn
Plains as veritable gold siftings, intermixed with silver,
and which had been submitted to a celebrated essayist at
Bristol (Mr. Sutton), who certified that there was not
a particle of either of those precious metals in the packets
sent to him to be assayed.—Cambrian.
EXTENSIVE RECLAMATION OF LAND. Extensive
works for the improvement of navigation and the recla-
mation of land are in progress at King's Lynn. Messrs.
Peto and Betts are executing a contract by which a new
channel, four miles long, 30 feet deep, 265 feet in width at
bottom, and M 8 at the surface, will extend from the town
into the Wash, while3o,ooo acres of land will be reclaimed.
Since December last, 1,200 men have been employed, and
the work goes on well.
AN AGED LADY.—There is a female now residing in
Clarke County, Georgia, who is 133 years of age. She is
quite active, lively and cheerful, converses fluently, reads
well without the use of glasses. She says she does not
feel the effect of her age, except as regards her hearing—
she is slightly deaf. This, too, is partly the result of
accident. She has now living, within one mile of her
residence, grand-children to the sixth generation. So
says the Augusta Constitutionalist.
ANCIENT KEY.—Among other objects of curiosity
which have been discovered during the demolition of the
old bridge of Glasgow, not the least interesting is a key,
found in the foundation of one of the centre buttresses.
It is about a foot long ; the wards are nine in number, and
remarkably well cut ; the ring at the opposite end is per-
fect, and the whole specimen is in excellent preservation
and very little corroded. The section of the bridge under
which this key lay was the most ancient portion of the
structure, so that this venerable memorial of the builders
of Glasgow's first bridge cannot be less than 500 years old.
—Glasgow Constitutional.
A STOMACH LIKE A 110G,—A few days since some
men engaged in outside painting on the premises of a Mr.
Bennett, near Lechlade, Gloucestershire, having left work
for a short time, on their return found that, taking advan-
tage of the coast being clear, some pigs running loose had
invaded the barn in which they had occupied, and had
devoured a can-full of lead colour (a compound of white
lead, lamp black, and oil), with so apparent a relish that,
like Jack Spratt and his wife, they had made clean work
by licking the dish. Much fear was entertained that the
deleterious mixture would prove a fatal inside coating, but,
strange to say, no ill effects were apparent, except to one
of the swinish epicures, who suffered from an attack of
painter's cholic, which a drastic drench quickly removed.
DISTRESSING SUICIDE OF A CLERGYMAN.—A glom
has been cast over the neighbourhood of Louth, Lincoln-
shire, by the suicide of the Rev. J. C. Umpleby, rector
of Yarborough, near that town. The deceased left his
honse about 10 o'clock on the forenoon of the 11th inst.,
taking with him a double-barrelled gun. Not returning
for some time, and the gun being missed from the closet
in which it was usually kept, a search was instituted by
his relatives and domestics, and the rev. gentleman was
found by his groom in a shrubbery adjoining the garden,
lying quite dead, having shot himself through the head.
Deceased had been in a desponding state of mind for some
time past, but it had not been considered necessary to
watch his movements. An inquest was held on the body,
and a verdict of "Temporary Insanity" returned.
FATAL RESULT OF OMNIBUS RACING.—On Monday
afternoon, about four o'clock, two omnibuses, nearly full,
and proceeding to the west end of London, having passed
through Temple-bar, commenced racing. One of them,
a Chelsea omnibus, No. 6836, in order to get before the
other, drove at a furious rate on its wrong side to round
the cab stand. In its progress, when opposite Little's
cheesemongery warehouse, at the corner of Picket-place,
it came in contact with a poor man, a vender of lead pen-
cils, and knocked him down, both wheels passing obliquely
over his head and neck. The unfortunate man was quickly
placed in a cab and removed to King's College Hospital,
where it was ascertained that death must have been instan-
taneous, the skull being dreadfully fractured on the right
side and the vertebrae of the neck broken. The jugular
vein was also burst. The driver of the omnibus was at
once taken into custody and removed to Bow-street.
SCENE IN A CHURCH.—On Sunday evening last, at St.
Mary's Church, Chatham, just at the commencement of
the sermon, the congregation were greatly alarmed by the
flickering of the gaslights, which gradually became lower,
until the church was left in nearly perfect darkness. The
persons present being considerably alarmed, commenced
leaving the church, in the midst of which some malicious
individual raised the cry of " Fire !" The scene then be-
came one of indescribable confusion, a rush being at once
made for the doors, although the preacher, the Rev. Mr.
Dewe, and other individuals, assured those present there
was no occasion for alarm. Several ladies fainted, and
one lady in her anxiety to reach the door had her leg
nearly broken by the pressure, but was rescued by a by-
stander. After some time the gas was again lighted, and
order being restored, the service continued. Steps are
being taken which will lead to the discovery of the mis-
creant who raised the alarm of fire, and we hope condign
punishment will overtake the perpetrator of this wanton
and malicious act.—Maidstone Journal.
DISTRESSING CASE.—At the Clerkenwell Police-office,
London, on Wednesday, two young women, sisters, named
Sarah and Rebecca Sharp, applied to the presiding magis-
trate under the following circumstances :—They were ser-
vants at Thrapston, in Northamptonshire, and had come
to London, with a married sister, named Ann Smith, and
her infant, to see the Exhibition. They took lodgings at
a house in Bidborough-street, St. Pancras. In the course
of the night there was raised an alarm that the house was
on fire, and, in their anxiety to save their lives, they made
their escape, leaving behind them their money and every-
thing belonging to them. Ann Smith, who slept in a top
room, finding it impossible to make her way through the
flames, was induced by the people in the street to throw
her child from the window, and it was caught below by
the by-standers, with but little injury being done to it.
The unfortunate mother then precipitated herself through
the window, and was so severely injured that she was
instantly conveyed to an hospital, where she now lies in a
doubtful state of recovery. The poor women were left
completely destitute, and the object of their application
was to solicit some aid to enable them to return home.
An officer was sent to make inquiry into the statement,
and on his return he said it was true in every respect.
The magistrate said everything possible shonld be done to
relieve the unfortunate applicants.
POPULAR ELECTIONS.—The show of hands at an elec-
tion, made generally by people who do not enjoy the
franchise, has often been denounced as an absurd proceed-
ing. We observe that one or two provincial papers which
have lately fallen in our way recommend the abolition of
this apparently useless proceeding. Our contemporaries
are, possibly, not aware that the show of hands is a last
relic of a sort of universal suffrage, which—(probably also
unknown to our rural brethren of the press)—was once
the principle of election—that is, of county elections—in
England. In old times all who happened to be at the
county court when a knight of the shire was elected, had
a right to vote, whether they were summoned as tenants
in capite or not at all. The right became so abused, the
law so violated, and the peace broken, that restrictions
followed; and the claim to vote was only admitted upon
proof of proper qualification. The appeal to the commons
at large was, however, still maintained, and continues to
be observed. We do not desire to see it abolished—not
out of respect to the suicidal principle of universal suf-
frage—but from regard to the antiquity of its observation.
Besides, under it, every man is for the moment an elector.
All present, at borough as at county elections, are called
upon to declare the candidate of their choice ; and, this
being done, appeal is made to the qualified electors to
confirm or annul the selection adopted by those whom we
may call the " Universalists;" or, in other words, the
common people at large. We queslon whether these,
empty as the honour is, would willingly consent to be
deprived of it.—Church and Slate Gazette.
SIR WALTER SCOTT UPON POPERY.—" It iS, after all,"
says Sir Walter, when he had seen the working of the
Romish system in Ireland, "a helpless sort of supersti-
tion, which with its saints' days, and the influence of its
ignorant bigoted priesthood, destroys ambition and indus-
trious exertion." Again, in the unreserve of his journal,
speculating on the results of the Relief Bill, then pending,
he says, " I hold popery to be such a mean, depraving
superstition, that I am not sure T could have found myself
liberal enough for voting for the repeal of the penal laws
as they existed before 1780: they must, and would, in
course of time, have smothered popery ; and I confess I
should have seen the Old Lady of Babylon's mouth stop-
ped with pleasure." He then (though he had fallen in
with the Duke of Wellington's policy)adds these homely,
but sagacious, and as they now prove prophetic words—
"lt (Emancipation) is an awful risk. The world is in
fact as silly as ever, and a good competence of nonsense
will always find believers ; and why not popery ? So
hope the Duke of Wellington will keep the horned beast
well in hand, and not let her get her leg over the harrows."
Might not one well imagine that Scott's keen el e, looking
adown the stream of time, saw as by second sight those
" preparatory schools" which Puseyism has since opened
through the land for teaching a sufficient " competence
of nonsense" to qualify the students for the upper classes
of Romish theology ? and who will not read in the de-

velopment of Roinish policy, within the last nine months
in England, the fulfilment even to the letter of his homely
simile of " the horned beast getting her leg over the har-
row ?”—Correspondent of the Spectator.
A CURIOUS DISCOVERY.-It will be recollected, says a
correspondent of the Morning Herald, that in the accounts
given of the means of livelihood of the notorious Cautv,
who a few weeks ag9 was so cleverly captured while robbing
the Westminster Bank. and who was transported after-
wards for the robbery, it was stated that for a great number
of years he had lived in the most luxurious style, and must
have had a splendid income, and that be obtained his in-
come by being concerned in some way or other with all the
great robberies in the kingdom. This appears to have
been to some degree an error, and the police were evidently
at fault as to one source of Cauty's revenue. This man
used to travel often in the West India Company's steamers
to the Gulf of Mexico and the Spanish Main, and gamble,
and fleece the rich Mexican and Spanish and American
passengers on board the West India packets, who are always
found to be passionately fond of gambling, and who are
eager to indulge in it to relieve the monotony and tedium
of long voyages. Cauty's apprehension was heard of abroad
with some surprise, as although he was considered a
sharper and a scamp, it was hardly expected that he would
be caught in bare-faced, downright robbery. Cauty be-
longed to a gang of four, who used to travel in the mail
packets on a fleecing expedition. Of course they travelled
as first-class passengers, and some idea may be formed of
their gains, when it is considered that the passage money
of each out and home must have cost oftentimes above
£lOO. These worthies did not limit their operations to
the West India packets. The pigeons, however, that they
used to delight in plucking best are to be found between
Southampton and the Spanish Main, the West Indian
Islands, and the Gulf of Mexico.

THE QtricH,Esr MAIL TRANSIT EVER KNOWN TO
CHINA.—The mail of the 24th of May from London
reached Hong-Kong on the Bth of July, being only 44
days in its transit. It was conveyed from Suez to Ceylon
by ,the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship
Hindostan, and from Ceylon to Hong-Kong in their new
steamer Singapore. The mail of the 24th of June, which
would be conveyed by the Oriental and Malta steamers,
was expected to reach China in about the same time. The
time allowed in the contract with the company is 56 days.
THE " BLOOMERS" IN LONDON.—On Friday forenoon
a further attempt was made in Piccadilly to familiarise the
inhabitants of London with the appearance of the new
female costume lately introduced in America. Two young
ladies, with two companions who might have been their
mothers, alighted from a cab, in the peculiar dress so often
described of late, and proceeded towards the entrance to
Green Park. distributing in their way handbills, contain-
ing a spirited appeal to the women of England to throw off
the yoke of their unfeeling and brutal oppressors, and
adopt an attire better suited to the dignity of the equal of
man. In a short time the pressure of the crowd became
so great that the missionaries found it convenient to call
a cab, which they entered amid much laughter, mingled
with cheering.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.-041 Friday morning, shortly
before o'clock, a melancholy accident occurred in the
city to Mr. Francis Field, a cashier in the Bank of Eng-
land. The unfortunate gentleman was on his way to the
Bank, and while crossing Prince's street, towards Thread-
needle-street, he was knocked down by the horses attached
to a heavily-laden waggon, and before the driver could
stop the vehicle the near wheels passed over his right leg,
and afterwards across his loins. Several of the foot pas-
sengers who witnessed the accident ran to him and raised
him up, but he was found to be quite insensible, and most
fearfully injured. The unfortudate sufferer had sustained
a compound fracture of the right leg, and severe external
contusions. Two ribs were fractured, and there was no
doubt from the symptoms that he had received extensive,
and it is presumed, fatal injury. He was quite insensible,
and no hopes were given of his recovery.
NARROW ESCAPES.—Last week, as a person was hur-
riedly running beneath one of the arches of the Dundee
Railway viaduct, behind Marshal-place, a part of a very
heavy block of stone fell, just missing the person's head
by a few inches. Another part of the block fell the sub-
sequent day, but fortunately when no person was passing.
In the Skinnergate, part of an old house dropped from its
equilibrium on Saturday, and immediately above one of
the public walls, at which, fortunately, there happened to
be no person present at the time. Generally, throughout
the day, many are congregated about these walls, and had
the descent of the part of the building taken place at such
a juncture, the consequences might have been serious. We
think the Guildry Committee should be looking after such
dilapidated and dangerous buildings, and they will find
not a few that the public have long looked upon as insecure.
—Perthshire Courier.

THE LATE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT BIOESTER.—VER-
DICT OF THE JURY.—The jury, after deliberating an hour
and a half, gave the following verdict—" That the deceased
died from accidental causes ;" but appended special obser-
vations to the verdict, to the effect that, while they found
there was not that measure of culpability in the servants
as to warrant the finding of an adverse verdict against
them, yet they felt it due to the public safety that some
greater means of protection to life and property, that
exists, should be resorted to by the company ; and that,
in the monopoly which they have achieved, the lives of
passengers travelling in the night should not be jeopar-
dised at the shrine of interest and dividend. The jury
urged that a second line of rails be laid down, in order to
prevent the recurrence of such a dire calamity. The
coroner thought the country at large would be grateful
to the jury ; and at his recommendation they added a
suggestion, that until the line of railway be made double,
every train should stop at Bicester station.
AFFRAY BETWEEN GREEK AND AMERICAN SAILORS.
—An affray of a somewhat serious character occurred be-
tween several Greek and American sailors on Thursday
night. It appears that on Wednesday evening a fight
took place between a Greek and an American, when
Master Yankee got the worst of it. This result brought
about threats of revenge from the Yankees, who, on
Thursday night, hearing there were some Greeks in the
Steam Packet, beer house, on the Quay, proceeded thither
armed with sticks. The Yankees were fifteen or sixteen
strong, while there were only four or five Greeks. A
tremendous battle ensued, every portable article made use
of being broken over each other's heads. At length the
Greeks managed to escape with black eyes and broken
heads, not, however, without having served some of their
enemies in a similar manner. Two Americans brought
three Greeks before the magistr tes on the charge of
having assaulted them. Evidence was gone into at great
length, and it ultimately appearing that the Yankees
were the aggressors, the case was dismissed.—Bristol
Journal.

TO GET RID OF COCKROACHES.—A few years ago my
house was infested with cockroaches, and I was recom-
mended to try cucumber peelings as a rem ed y. I accordingly,
immediately before bed time, strewed the floor of those
parts of the house most infested with the vermin, with the
green peel, cut not very thin from the cucumber, and sat
up half an hour later than usual to watch the effect.
Before the expiration of that time, the floor where the
peel lay was completely covered with cockroaches, so
much so that the vegetable could not be seen, so voraci-
ously were they engaged in sucking the poisonous mois-
ture from it. I adopted the same plan the following
night, but my visitors were not nearly so numerous—l
should think not more than a fourth of the previous night.
On the third night I did not discover one ; but anxious
to ascertain whether the house was quite clear of them, I
examined the peel after I had laid it down about half an
hour, and perceived that it was covered with myriads of
minute cockroaches, about the size of fleas. I therefore
allowed the peel to lie till morning, and from that moment
I have not seen a cockroach in the house. Of course it
should be fresh cucumber peel every night.—Correspon-
dent of Manx Sun.

FATAL ACCIDENT NEAR IPSWICH.—On Saturday last,
the families of Sir Philip and Colonel Broke, of Nacton,
were thrown into a painful state of excitement by the re-
port that two of their servants had been drowned in the
river Orwell. The following detail will supply the melan-
choly facts of the case :—Joseph Hartley, a footman in
the service of Sir Philip Broke, was the owner of a stone-
boat, the captain of which had finished his week's work
by mooring her off Pin Mill. Hartley made up his mind
to go off to her, and invited the footman of Colonel Broke
to accompany him. At a little before four o'clock in the
afternoon, the two stepped into an unusually frail punt,
and pulled off towards the vessel. The tide was running
very strong and drifted them down a little, when they
turned the punt's head, and struck the smack stem on.
The main sheets were hanging down, and Hartley hastily
rose from his seat and grasped an end. The sudden
motion, however, shot the punt astern, when his com-
panion leaped from his place and hurriedly stepped for-
ward, occasioning the boat to slip from both of them,
plunging them head foremost into the water. Up to the
time at which we write, the bodies have not been found.—
Ipswich Express. _

ROMANISM IN ENGLAND.—In an abusive article upon
the great Norfolk " apostacy," the Tablet makes the
following dolorous admissicieof the decline of the Romish
movement in England :—" Until now the Church has been
gaining ground in England ; but, possibly, the tide may
turn. Acts of Parliament have been always dangerous to
the Church : from Henry ITI. to Elizabeth they have had
great and abiding influences, and we must not shut our
eyes to the danger lurking in them. The first persons to
suffer from them have been courtiers and those in high
station, from whom the poison spreads through every vein
of the body politic. Half-a-dozen peers turned the scale
against the Church under Elizabeth, and again under
Charles 11., when the Catholic peers and commons were
shut out from Parliament. The bad legislation of those
days was submitted to and daily apostacies were the result.
It may be so again : if we are now faithless in the hour of
our trial it may be that we shall be beaten, and that the
long-desired conversion of England may be put off,
perhaps, for ever. The laws of Elizabeth were not so
dangerous in themselves as the frequent apostacies; and
James I. found the most eloquent preachers in renegade
priests and cowardly Catholics."
DREADFUL SHIPWRECK.—LOSS OF THE " PASHA"
STEAM-SIIIP.—A serious calamity has befallen the Pasha
steam-ship, one of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam
Navigation Company's fleet, by coming in collision with
another of the company's vessels, the Erin. They were
built in this country, and hai not been long out in India
engaged in carrying the mails and passengers from Cal-
cutta up to China. The Pasha left Hong-kong on the
10th of July for Calcutta. touched at Singapore, and pro-
ceeded up the S,raits of Malacca. About half-past eleven
o'clock, the officer reported to Captain Miller that a
light was observed on the starboard bow, considered to
be a ship's light. He directed the helm to be put
a-starboard. The vessel seen bearing the light was the
Erin steamer, on her voyage from Calcutta to Singapore
and Hong-;tong, and last from Penang ; and it would
seem that, on her watch perceiving the lights of the Pasha,
which was about the same time as theirs were first noticed,
Captain Trouson, her commander, on learning the cir-
cumstance, ordered her helm to be put a-port—a regula-
tion as laid down by the Trinity authorities when two
steamers are approaching in a contrary direction and
such is practicable. At this period the vessels were eight
or nine miles distant from each other. It is represented
that Mr. Miller, in steering the Pasha, thought he would
run clear out of the way of the Erin. The Erin's light
for some short period woks lost sight of : it is said that it
was being trimmed, and it would seem that it was un-
known on board either vessel that the other was a steamer
until a blue light was burnt on board the Pasha. This was
answered by the Erin, and then the fact was ascertained
that they were both steamers. Both vessels steamed off,
and shortly after midnight they came to a collision with
such force that the Pasha went down within seven or
eight minutes after she was struck. The ill-fated vessel
received the shock just before the starboard paddle-box,
the stem of the Erin going almost over her. With the
exception of the watch on deck, most of those on board
were asleep beloiv. The rush on deck is described to have
been of the most frightful description : some climbed up
the Erin's bow—others threw themselves into the sea,
and were picked up by boats from the Erin—while several
.got into the quarter-boats of the Pasha. Unfortunately,
however, these could not be got clear of the davits, and,
before the unhappy creatures who had taken to them as a
means of rescue could get away from them, the Pasha
went down in twenty-five fathoms, dragging the boats
with her. Some of the poor creatures were seen strug-
gling on the surface of the water, but before aid could
reach them they disappeared. The number who perished
amounts to sixteen. The third officer of the Pasha, one
of the missing, was married only three days before the
vessel departed from Southampton ; and the feelings of
his wife, a remarkably handsome woman, on the receipt of
this intelligence, can he better imagined than described,