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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-30 00:00:00

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The Bishop of Chester has taken a house at Carnarvon
as a summer residence. _ _

Herrings were selling at Douglas last week at forty for
a shilling.
On Tuesday week four young men were drowned in
Poole harbour by the upsetting of a boat.
Sir Wm. Henry Feilden, Bart., of Feniscowles, has
been appointed a deputy-lieutenant for this county.
The Duke of Cleveland has given £5O towards the for-
mation of public baths in Darlington.
A salmon, weighing 381 b., was caught in the Trent, at
Holme, a few days since.
A monument is about to be erected in St. Paul's Ca-
thedral to the memory of the late George Stephenson.
A fine elephant from India, for the Surrey Zoological
Gardens, was landed at the London Docks on Thursday.
Among the arrivals at the Isle of Man, last week, were
the Marquis of Conyngham, the Earl of Roden, and Lord
Jocelyn. _ _ . . .

At the Hull regatta, or. Wednesday, the principal prize
of £3O was won by Lord Londesbro's yacht Mosquito
beating two others.
At Sheffield, on Monday, an order for two shillings a
week was made on a Roman Catholic priest, for an illegi-
timate child of which he was adjudged the father.
EARLY HARVEST.-A field of black barley was cut,
carried, and stacked, by Mr. Mills, at Langford Lodge,
during the past week.—Bath Chronicle.
The Duke of Wellington at his late audit for Strath.
fieldesaye, &c., made an abatement of 15 per cent. to his
tenantry. . . .

Messrs. Chance, of Birmingham will supply the glass
necessary for the building in Hyde Park for the Exhibi-
tion of 1851. _ _ _ _ _

A bill-poster at Halifax was, last week, fined 2s. 6d.
and expenses, for covering over a bill that had not been
posted ten days.
Last week two gentlemen, after upwards of an hour's
labour, captured a pike in Bassenthwaite Lake, which
weighed not less than 21 pounds.
Nearly every berth has been engaged in " The Jenny
Lind boat," so eager is the desire of the Americans, who
are returning home, to be her travelling companions.
Among the many visitors at Dover are the celebrated
Garribaldi of Roman notoriety, and Mrs. Jermy, widow of
the late Mr. Jermy, the victim of the murderer Rush.
Some horned cattle and sheep, the first which have been
imported from Russia, were brought by a vessel which
arrived last week at Hull, from St. Petersburg.
The Queen has presented to the Zoological Society the
enormous land tortoise recently brought from the Cape of
Good Hope in her Majesty's ship Geyser.
At Northampton a father and mother are in custody,
charged with poisoning their two children, aged three and
four years.

The crops throughout Scotland are represented as most
promising : the potatoes are generally healthy and vigo-
rous. _ _ _ _

The Leicester Board of Guardians advertised twice for
a nurse without receiving a single application, and after
advertising a third time received only two.
The estimated sum required to be voted for defraying
the expense of a national monument to the memory of the
late Sir Robert Peel is £5,250.

Grisi, it is stated will not, for a family reason, be able
to fulfil her Russian engagement,*for which she was to
receive £4,000.

Several large oak trees and hazel bushes, with nuts
upon them, in a good state of preservation, havebeen found
embedded in clay fifteen feet below the surface, in exca-
vating the new dock at West Hartlepool.
It is a curious fact which has been repeatedly noticed,
that the sea continues to encroach on the land at the east
side of the coast of England, whilst it is receding on the
west side of the island.

SMITHFIELD MARKET.—The Common Council has
terminated its discussion on the abolition of the nuisance
by a vote of eighty-nine against, thirteen for, the aboli-

tion ; majority seventy-six.
A fleet of at least 200 Cornish fishing boats sailed from
Howth harbour on Wednesday week, and steered towards
the north, in the expectation of meeting the herring
shoals.

Mr. Edward Burnett, farmer, of Ripley, had a flock of
twenty sheep killed by the electric fluid, during a terrific
thunder storm which visited that place on the evening of

Thursday week

An extensive fire broke out at the steam flour mills,
Poole, Dorsetshire, on Thursday. Several houses adjoin-
ing the mills were destroyed, together with an immense
quantity of property.
At Worcester, on Friday, Elizabeth Thew, aged 20, the

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wife of a shoemaker, was acquitted, on the ground of in-
sanity, of the murder of her infant, whom she was seen to
throw head-foremost into a coal-pit.
On Wednesday: week a flood occurred at Woodhatn
Walter, in Essex, which destroyed several cottages and
other buildings. An aged woman lost tier life, and several
other persons narrowly escaped being drowned. .
A few evenings since, some gentlemen at Fareel, Lin-
colnshire, counted 226 bats which issued from a hole
above a window, and more were supposed to remain be-
hind, as a squeaking noise was heard.
On Saturday last, Mr. James Bickerstaff, of Kirkham,
was taken ill whilst mowing in a field, caused by drinking
cold water when the body was over-heated. The poor
man lingeted until Wednesday, when death put a period
to his sufferings. Deceased was 42 years old.

While a p'aity of haymakers were proceeding in a wag-
gon to a field near .Loughborough on Friday week, the
horse took fright, and backed the waggon down a slope
into the canal; but fortunately the water was rot deep,
and the haymakers escaped with a ducking.
A new baptist chapel, in the decorated style of Gothic
rchiteeture, was opened lately at Nottingham. Same of
are of stained glass, and the seats are all
affording accommodation for 1,000 persons. The
total cost till be within £5,000.

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Hayes, of Ruddington, the best pedestrian in the three
kingdoms, last week ran against a Nottingham novice 100

yards on the Recreation walk in Nottingham Meadows,
Hayes carrying three heavy common kitchen chairs on his
arms. He won cleverly by a yard.
On Friday week some disturbances took place at Hold-
erness, near Hull, between English and Irish labourers.
Six of the latter in trying to escape from their opponents
jumped into a.he river with a view of swimming across to
the other side, but four were unfortunately drowned._
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A St. Vincent's paper received by the last West India
mail, the Royal Gazette, says that " pozzelana' " a
manure found in large quantities in that island, has been
pronounced by Enzlish chemists to be the best manure
ever discovered, and to be far preferable to guano.
At Castletown assizes, Isle of Man, on Tuesday, Thos.
Corlet, a lunatic, was acquitted on the ground of insanity
of the murder of the boy Stephen, at Ballaugh, in May.
The prisoner thrust a hay fork into the boy's head. He
will be confined for life.

Miss. Mary Bell, aged ten years, daughter of a draper
f Penrith, was drowned while bathing in the River
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Messrs. W. S. Shuttleworth and Co., of 36, Fenchurch-
trect, London, have taken a contract for supplying
),0001b. of tea for the service of her Majesty
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been thrown open to the competition of the trade. -
On the 17th July, 1849, there were no fewer than three
hundred and three paupers in the Taunton Union. This
year the return, made up to the 18th of July, showed the
number of paupers then in the house to be one hundred

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een appointed to the pro-
? of surgery in the university, vacant by the demise
of the late lamented Dr. Burns. Dr. Lawrie has for
&me time occupied a similar office in the Andersonian
University.

The pugilistic contest betweer.
id T. Griffiths, of Woolwich,

William Gill, of Coventry,
for £2OO, was decided, on

Tuesday last, in' favour of Gill, after a fight of fifty-three
rounds, the brutal display occupying one hour and forty-
five minutes.

On Monday the assize for Rutlandshire was a maiden
one, there being not one prisoner for trial. According to
custom the sheriff presented the judge with a pair of white
gloves. This is the second maiden assize for the same
county within the last two years.

NORM ANITES !-A room has been recently licensed by
r. Henry Arn Norman, H. P. Lieutenant R. N., in the

chapelry

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At the Oxford assizes, 1

an old man of seventy-

five, recovered from another old man, aged eighty-nine, a
verdict riving him possession of a few square yards of
land. The expenses of the trial, it is stated, are almost
one hundred times more than the value of the land re-

Sir John Romilly has refused to sign the application for
an injunction to stay the erection of the monster building
in Hyde-park. The necessity for his signature was merely
formal, but he has takm upon himself the functions of
the judge before whom the point should have been de-
cided. _ _

Some of the bakers of B
ening last ; the result was

istol met together on Friday
a rise in the price of bread on

oaturaay morning. in me uvening, vu paDants a UCIA.GI
shop, we overheard an aged matron, exclaim, " Poor Sir
Robert Peel ! if he was alive they would not dare to do
it."—Bristol Mercury. . .

There is a bill in tl:e House of Commons, which was
printed on Monday, for abolishing the fees paid to county
and other coroners, and for providing for the payment of
coroners by salaries. The amount of salary is to be fixed
in committee. The bill states that it would be of public
advantage to discontinue the payment of fees to coroners.
At the late Buckingham assizes a bill against James
Ridgway, for rape, was ignored, but by a mistake another
prisoner was set at liberty in his stead. The lucky culprit
bad not gone far before the error was found out ; a police-
officer was then put on his track, and he was agftin brought
back, tried, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment.
The model for the bronze figure of the Duke of Rutland,
which is to be set up in Leicester Market-place, has been
just completed by Mr. Davis. The duke is represented in
the act of receiving the address of the county deputation
on the completion of the 50th year of his Lord-Lieutenancy
of Leicestershire.

At York, on Monday, John M'Gibbon, a merchant,
residing at Hull, was indicted for having forged and at-
tered a bill of exchange for £B7, with intent to defraud
Messrs. Raikes Currie, and Co„ bankers, in London.
The prisoner was convicted on Saturday week of a similar
offence, and there were now five other indictments against
him for forging bills to the amount of £l,OOO. He was
sentenced to 15 years' transportation. A brother-in-law
of the prisoner, who had to give evidence against him, has
since committed suicide.

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STRANGE EXCUSE.--A deputation from the local short
time committee at Ctitheroe, in getting signatures to a
petition in favour of the Ten Hnurs Bill, called upon a
Wesleyan minister stationed at Clitheroe, and requested
his signature and support for so excellent and salutary a
measure for the working classes, when the rev. gentleman
said that " he never meddled with politics !"
At Lincoln, death was recorded against Catherine Cas-
terton, found guilty of attempting to poison Mrs. Goodall,
her mistress, the wife of a grazier at Market Deeping, by
Administering mercury, corrosive sublimate, and other
poisons, in her tea, when confined to her bed by influenza.
The motive appears to have been revenge for dismissal
from her place.,
On Sunday last, two excursion trains came into collision
on the South-Western Railway. The shock threw off one
of the passengers, a young man, who was imprudently
seated on the edge of an open carriage ; he fell between
the carriages and his head was run over by the wheel and
literally crushed to pieces. Another passenger sustained
trifling injury by the collision.
The four " navvies" who had created a riot at Otley in
April last, and wounded several persons with knives, one
of whom almost immediately died, were found guilty of
manslaughter at the York assizes last week, and one, who
had been severely wounded in the scuffle, was sentenced
to fifteen years' transportation, and the other three to
transportation for life.

At the Lewes assizes, on Wednesday, Elizabeth Bacon,
aged only fifteen, was convicted of setting fire to the house
of William Adams, with intent to injure him. The pri-
soner had been only a short time in the service of the
prosecutor, and she got up in the dead of the night and
set fire to the house in three separate places, having first
removed her trunk to the back door.
On the 17th of June a man named Manks commenced
for £5O the task of walking 1,000 miles in 1,000 consecu-
tive hours. Since then he has continued to walk a mile
at the commencement of every hour. The excitement is
so great that he is visited sometimes by upwards of 90,000
spectators. He walks on the grounds attached to the
Barrack Tavern, Sheffield.

An explosion of a boiler occurred at Law Grange col-
liery. about two miles from Durham, on Monday, whereby
two boys, one named Joshua Pryor, aged 15, and the
other named George Armour, aged 11, lost their lives ;
the fireman and a boy named Stubbs were • more or less
severely injured; and considerable damage was done to
the buildings.

MURDER.—In the town of Ardristhraig, in 'Argyll-
shire, a woman has been killed by her husband, Hugh
Macmillan, a mason, who struck her several heavy blows
on the head with a hammer, thereby fracturing her skull.
He had attempted to strangle her, and in the struggle had
broken several of her ribs. Both Macmillan and his
wife were addicted to drunkenness.

SINGLY LAR ERROR.—The Manchester Guardian, in
noticing the great meeting of sympathisers with the
Bishop of Exeter, held in London on Tuesday, says " the
body of the hall was crowded with clergymen and
lawyers." The paragraph had been transmitted " per
electric telegraph," and no doubt the wires had meta-
morphosed " laymen" into " lawyers."
Two BROTHERS DROWNED.—On Sunday, two bro-
thers, named Gihb, were drowned in the Dee, close by
the Inches, Aberdeen. One of the lads went in to bathe,
while the other took a stroll along the bank ; calling for
help, his brother went into the water, but in attempting
to save him, both sank to rise no more. The youngest
was eleven years of age, and the other twelve.
Mr. Grimstone, the manufacturer of the celebrated eye
snuff, came before the Bankruptcy Court, London, on
Monday last, on an application for his certificate. His
debts were about £6,000, and his credits £45. He said
that his present debts were the consequence of repeated
prosecutions by the government against him for making
and selling his snuff, which was entirely made from Bri-
tish herbs.

A HARR. KILLED BY A RAT.—A farmer living near
Kirkcudbright, while going throueh one of his fields, a
few days since, saw a rat attacking a hare, rescued the
wounded hare, carried it to a considerable distance, and
then released it. The rat seems, however, to have fol-
lowed his half-captured prey, for the clean-picked skele-
ton of a hare was found a day or two afterwards near the
spot whither the wounded hare had been carried.

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THE GREAT BULL FROM NINEVER.—The lovers of art
will be pleased to hear that the Great Bull and upwards of
100 tons of sculpture, excavated by our enterprising coun-
tryman Dr. Layard, are now on their way to England and
may be expected in the course of September. In addition
to the Elgin, Phigalian, Lycian, and Boodroora marbles,
our museum will soon be enriched with a magnificent
series of Assyrian sculptures.

A few days ago, two gentlemen of Stockton being on a
shooting excursion at the Tees Bay, had the good fortune
to meet with a cormorant. No less than two pounds of
shot from each party were fired without the effect of
destroying life, for after being captured in a distressed
state by the chase, with both eyes blown completely out,
the notorious wrestler with mortality nearly put an end to
the existence of a large cur dog.

SINGULAR RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Friday, the 12th
instant, a man named Williams, in the employ of Mr.
David Blight, of Totnes, was engaged with a cart and two
horses removing hay which had been cut by the side of the
railway. As the cart, laden with the hay, was drawn close
by the line, the fore horse turned its head, and a passing
train severed it from the body. The horse fell on the
driver and injured him considerably.

At York, William Ross, aged 19, was found guilty of
the murder of his wife, formerly a factory girl in the same
employment with her husband, at Ashton-under-Lyne.
She was in ill health, and taking medicine, in which he
took the opportunity to mix arsenic. The crime was
brought clearly home by the evidence of his wife's family.
living in the same house, and the prisoner was left for ex-
ecution. The motive would appear to be the obtaining of
some ten pounds from two burial clubs, to enable the
prisoner to emigrate to America.
A few days since, George Willis, who was stated to be
between eight and nine years of age, was charged at the
Mansion House, London, with having attempted to stab
Robert S male, aged seven years: and with having wounded
Charles Wright, aged seven years, so seriously in the eye
with a piece of a crab shell that the child will probably be
for ever deprived of the sight of it. In consequence of
Willis's tender age the sitting alderman said he should
require two good securities for his good behaviour for one
year; and the young prisoner, upon being locked up in
the cage, began to shout, scream, and curse.
MYSTERIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS.—The following sam-
ples of the spirit of the age appear in recent numbers of
the Times :—" To Non Veni, Non Vidi.—With many
thanks, Ho passato molte infeliciore."—" If R. F., of
Sunde—d, who left his home on Wednesday last, will
meet his friends at Mr. Frogley's, Half Moon, matters
will be arranged to his satisfaction."—" If the Son who
visited his father's house between one and two o'clock
this morning does not return before Wednesday next, not
only will the life of his oldest relative be endangered, and
his own be thereby rendered miserable, but his future
prospects may be utterly ruined."
FATE OF MR. O'CONNOR'S ALLOTTEES.—At Oxford,
on Monday, in the case of Doe. Dem. Weaving v. Gat-
hard and thirty others, an action of ejectment was brought
against some of the unfortunate persons who had sub-
scribed to O'Connor's land association. The action was
brought in the names of the previous owners of the land
at Minster Lovel, Mr. O'Connor never having had the
legal estate. It was stated, however, that they had no
wish to take proceedings, which had been instituted by
Mr. O'Connor's wish. It also appeared that many allot.
tees had been persuaded to give up possession. The
judge (Williams) declined to interfere with the transac-
tions between the parties, and a verdict was given for the
plaintiff. the allottees being thus ejected.

BATTLE BETWEEN A HAWK AND A WEASEL.—On
Friday week, as two gentlemen were enjoying the recrea-
tion of shooting on the Birklands, Notts, they observed a
hawk hovering above what they judged to be a mouse.
The bird suddenly made a swoop at its intended victim,
which, however, proved to be a weasel. The latter saw
his danger, and instantly seized the hawk by the head.
A severe struggle then ensued ; but at last the hawk suc-
ceeded in disengaging himself and got away. Nothing
daunted, the bird of prey returned to the conflict. Soon
afterwards the weasel was observed dragging the dead bird
into a thicket close by, when one of the gentlemen levelled
his gun, and shot the weasel, and found the hawk, as be-
fore described, quite dead, with its head bitten through
in several places.—Doncaster Gazette.

SENDINOTHREATENING LETTERS TO PRINCE ALBERT.
—At the Bow-street police-office, London, on Wednes-
day, a tall, respectable-looking person, who gave the
name of E. Bates, and described himself an artist, was
charged with sending threatening letters to Prince Albert,
for the purpose of extorting money.—Colonel Grey,
equerry to his royal highness, produced five letters which
had been addressed to His Royal Highness Prince Albert,
signed Ed yin Bates, demanding money for a subscription
waichhad been set on foot on his behalf. The first letter
was received in January last, and the other four had been
received at different periods since that time.—A portion
of the letters was read, and the purport of them was of a
threatening description.--The prisoner admitted at once
that the letters were in his handwriting.—On being called
upon for his defence, he made a long statement, in which
he accused several persons of distinction with oppression.
He hoped the magistrate would not commit him, as it
would materially interfere with the subscription that had
been raised by charitable individuals for his interest.—
Mr. Jardine ordered the prisoner to find two good sureties
in £lOO each, and himself in £2OO, to be of good behaviour
for the next twelve months.—The bail was not forth-
coming, and the prisoner was locked up.—lt was stated
that the prisoner was not right in his head occasionally.
BANKERS' ACCOUNTS .-At Worcester assizes an action
was brought by a corn merchant at Stourport against
Messrs. Farley, Turner, and Jones, bankers, Kidder-
minster. The action was one of trover, and was sought
to recover the sum of £751 25., remitted by plaintiff to
defendants, (who were his bankers,) for the purpose of
meeting an acceptance of his in favour of Messrs. Sturge,
of Birmingham, but which sum, instead of so applying,
they had impounded, as plaintiff was at the time indebted
to them in the sum of £986. It appeared that the
plaintiff had told his bankers that he could not meet the
bill, and they advised him to apply to Mr. Sturge, who
sent the money on the bill being renewed. The bill
became due on the 25th of May ; and on the previous
day plaintiff sent a messenger over to the bank at Kidder-
minster, with a parcel, containing £751 25., an advice of
the bill, and a note to Messrs. Farley, Turner, and Jones,
the purport of which was, " Gentlemen—Enclosed you
have in notes and cheques £751 25., which you will please
if place my credit ; will thank you to advise the enclosed
bill c. The messenger was desired to call again in
ten mutes at the bank; upon kis second call he was
again requested to "look in again ;" and ultimately was
dismissed with a packet delivered to Mr. Broad, which,
on being opened, was found to contain the form of advice,
and a note from Mr. Jones, stating that the bankers had
placed £751 25., to the credit of plaintiff's account which
had been so long unpaid, and begged to decline complying
with the other request as to advising the bill. The bill
was consequently returned dishonoured. The jury found
a verdict for the plaintiff.

L STANDARD.

The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng-
land has increased from £16,844,307 to £16,910,732,
being a difference of £66,425. Tne paper in actual circu-
lation has increased from £21,605,639 to- £21,879,962,
being a difference of £274,323.
Tollerton, Scholey, Farrar, and Jacques were tried at
Winchester Assizes for the murder of John Dawson, at
Utley. The prisoners were navigators. One night, when
much excited by drink, they roamed about the town, and
at length began to break windows ; several inhabitants
interfered, and one of them struck Tollerton a violent
blow on the head with a stick. Then the navigators be-
came more outrageous, assailing any one who happened
to come across them. John Dawson was stabbed as he
came out of his house, and he died in a few moments ; his
brother was also stabbed, but not fatally, and a woman
was similarly wounded. Tollerton was sentenced to be
transported for fifteen years, and the others for life.
THE ORlON.—Considerable excitement was created at
Greenock, on Thursday, by the arrival of the boats and a
portion of the materials of the ill-fated Orion, consisting
of deck-planks. gratings, hatches, &c., which were
brought by the Dunoon Castle, from Portpatrick, with the
view of being sold. Many persons visited the quay
during the day, to inspect the boats, and the expres-
sion of one and all was one of astonishment and regret,
that with such commodious and well-appointed boats, so
near the shore, and with a sea as smooth as a mill-pond,
such a lamentable loss of life should have ensued. The
hull and materials of the Orion, as she lies, were sold by
auction, at Portpatrick, on Wednesday, and were knocked
down to a gentleman in the neighbourhood for £335.
Peter Vanderhost, a Dutchman, formerly steward of
the Batavia, Rotterdam steamer, Fitzbonnes, a Ger-
man touter, Margaret Hermann, a German, and Conrad
Hermann, are in custody, in London, charged with steal-
ing gold dust and lumps of gold, lately brought from
California, to the amount of £3OOO, from a German
lodging-house. It was the property of an Italian and a
Frenchman, who arrived in London, from California, on
Tuesday. They had been successful at the " diggings,"
and brought with them gold lumps and gold dust to the
amount of £3OOO, in a carpet bag, which contained 216
ounces of gold dust and sixteen small lumps of gold,
weighing an ounce each, and a small wooden box con-
tained 301bs. of gold dust. _ _ _

A FATAL PRIZE FIGHT.—The little village of Frimley,
near Bagshot, was the scene, on WednesdLy, of a prize
fight between two men, William Gill and Thomas Grif-
fiths, the former an old professor of the science of pugi-
lism„ and the latter an aspirant for pugilistic honours. A
special train from London brought down the combatants,
the seconds, &c., besides a numerous company of profes-
sors, and amateurs of various degrees in society. The
battle money was understood to be £2OO. The contest,
which was a very severe one, was terminated iu the 53d
round by a fearful blow, which laid Griffiths insensible on
the ground. All means of procuring reanimation were
without avail, and he was conveyed to a neighbouring
public-house, where he expired in the evening. His an-
tagonist and his associates in the mean time decamped,
and have as yet eluded the police.
FOOL-CATCHING.—A very large number of letters have
lately passed through the Dead Letter-office, each con-
taining a shilling's worth of stamps, addressed to a person
who called himself a professor, and who, for some reason
or other, was non est when the letters arrived for him.
These letters were addressed to the professor in conse-
quence of his advertising that he would, for a shilling,
give plain directions to enable ladies and gentlemen to
win, by a simple but captivating and enthralling process,
the devoted affections of as many of the opposite sex as
their hearts may desire.' From the handwriting of these
letters, it was evident that they came from old, middle-
aged, and young persons of both sexes, in every rank and
station of life. Such a fact as this enables an estimate to
be formed of the almost marvellous extent of human cre-
dulity in this enlightened ege and country.—London
Times.

SUPPOSED MURDER BY A BOY.—John Bates, a boy of
10 years age, was on Friday examined before the mayor of
Nottingham, on suspicion of having committed a murder.
It appeared that he had been absent on Wednesday night
from the house of his father, a framework knitter, and had
taken with him his youngest brother, a child of 14 months
old. The father being alarmed at his absence, a search
was sei; on foot, and on Thursday evening the prisoner was
met on the Long-row, in Nottingham market-place, with-
out his brother. Being questioned by his father, he de-
clared he knew nothing of the child, nor had he taken him
out. He at length admitted that his brother was dead,
that a big boy had come up to him as he was sitting in the
meadows, and thrown the child into the river. The child
was subsequently found in the river, near Wilford-gate.
The prisoner being again questioned, said the child had
rolled into the river.
At Winchester Assizes there was rather a remarkable
trial for bigamy. Sophia Wheeler Winter, a pretty young
woman, in 1837 was married to William Winter, a Port-
sea tradesman ; they lived happily together for some years,
till her husband got an appointment abroad. During his
absence she became acquainted with Alfred Dodswell, son
of a Lieutenant in the navy ; Dodswell persuaded her that
her first marriage was illegal, as she was a minor, and she
consented to marry him in 1848. In May last Winter
returned and claimed his wife; on being assured that her
first marriage was valid she left Dodswell for Winter.
In revenge, Dodswell instituted the present prosecution.
In summing up, the judge regretted that the charge had
been instituted, but told the jury that the case had been
legally made out. The jury, however, found a verdict of
" Not guilty," and the judge refused to allow the expenses
of the prosecution.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—On Monday night a most
frightful accident occurred to one of the river steamers
plying between the Stone Bridge and the Hot-wells, Bris-
tol, by which it is feared many lives will be sacrificed.
The boiler belonging to the Red Rover steam-boat burst,
and the consequences have been dreadful in the extreme.
The steamer was taking on board her passengers for a trip
to the stone bridge at Bristol, where forty or fifty persons
had got on board, and others were in the act of doing so,
when, without anything having previously occurred to
excite the smallest apprehension, her boiler exploded with
such violence as to rend the vessel into pieces, hurling the
fragments and some of her passengers into the air, and
casting others into the water. A scene of the most ter-
rible and heart-rending kind followed ; the mutilated
bodies of some of the unfortunate voyagers were cast
with violence to the shore ; others were seen in the act of
drowning, struggling with the waters for life, while from
the persons on the shore, many of whom had friends or
connections on board, the most piteous cries proceeded.
A number of wherries put off with all possible speed, and
succeeded in rescuing many persons. Some idea of the
violence of the explosion may be gathered from the fact
that a large piece of the 'vessel, weighing more than a
hundred weight, was thrown on the roof of a boat-shed
some hundreds of feet distant from the spot where the
vessel blew up, while smaller portions were scattered to
much greater distances. Twelve persons were killed by
the accident, and at the inquest a verdict of accidental
death was returned, with an addition, that the boiler was
unfit for use.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF BIGAMY.—At the Wor-
cester assizes, on Monday, Richard Curtis, a man in la-
bourer's attire, and apparently about 40 years of age,
was charged with having intermarried with Elizabeth
Pacey during the life-time of Anna Maria Wilkins, whom
be married in the year 1835, at the parish church of Stren-
sham, in that county. The prisoner, in the year 1835,
married his first wife, with whom he lived till 1840, when
they separated, the prisoner having learnt by experience
that Auna Maria could wear the breeches; and so it
turned out, for very shortly after the separation she doffed
the petticoat, and donned the above-named unfeminine
garment. In fact, she dressed herself in male attire and
betook herself into Staffordshire, where she worked as a
day labourer. She soon obtained a situation as a servant
of a gentleman in the neighbourhood. Here she formed
an intimacy with the housemaid, and they lived together
as man and wife fora time; but the housemaid deserted
her and married another man. Sometime thereafter the
prisoner, having become tired of his solitary state, re-
solved once more upon committing matrimony. So he
fixed upon Elizabeth Pacey, asked her to wed, and was
accepted. He then, by way of doing all things in order,
waited upon the clerk of the parish of Strensham, to have
the bell tolled for his first wife, which was refused by the
incumbent, Dr. Grove, who also refused to marry the
prisoner to his new love; so he started off to Worcester,
and there was married. The intelligen2e of the second
marriage no sooner reached-the ears of Anna Maria, than
her male attire was abandoned, and she made her ap-
pearance in the flesh at Strensham ; and the prisoner was
soon made to show cause before his betters. The prisoner
was found guilty, and sentenced to three months' im-
prisonment.
MR. Mscisi's FARM.—It will interest some of our
agricultural readers to see a little of what is done at Tip-
tree ; and the narrative is given in a lively manner by the
Times :—" On Tuesday several hundred gentlemen as-
sembled at Tiptree Hall Farm to pay Mr. Mechi a visit
of inspection. They came from every part of the country,
and were in all respects fit people for such an occasion.
There were large farmers, intelligent land-agents, and
enterprising liberal proprietors. The church was worthily
represented by the presence of half-a-dozen clergymen,
and Messrs. Ransome and May, of Ipswich, and Mr.
Croskill, of Beverley, were there to see that the farm im-
plements were what they should be. With a long train
of curious and interested agriculturists, Mr. Mechi visited
every field on his farm, sometimes skirting along the
heatlands, sometimes dashing through the centre by the
help of a water furrow, and still the concourse poured on
their way and listened to the animated explanations
which their inquiries drew forth. Often amidst the tell
crops of wheat, their heads alone visible over the waving
mass, were knots formed and rapid discussions carried on
with reference to matters of practical detail. At one
moment the virtues of box manure were discussed ; then
the expediency of growing wheat oftener than by the
present systems of cropping ; then the merits of thin
sowing • then the efficacy of thorough draining on stiff
clay ; then the proper method of securing deep disinte-
gretion and a fine tilth. On all these topics the changes
of conversation rung ; and, amidst them all ran an under-
' current of commentary and calculation on the amount of
produce which each field would yield. It was confessed
on all hands that the wheat crops were splendid ones.
For the last six years Mr. Mechi has grown wheat alter-
nately with green crops every second year, and he expects
as the result of the present harvest, a return of five
quarters to the acre. His show of beans, potatoes, clover,
wurzel, and turnips was also very creditable to him. On
the second mentioned crop he took occasion to point out
its remunerative character, and the prejudices which ex-
isted against it, while, with reference to the last, he
dilated, as the result of his experience, on the virtues of
superphosphate as a manure. Mr. Mechi has a hearty
contempt for the fallowing system which prevails so ex-
tensively in Essex, and especially in the district called the
Roothings. His idea is, that the land should be deeply
stirred, kept thoroughly clean, and be maintained in con-
stant and high cultivation. He dreams as little of a bare
fallow at Tibtree Hall as in Leadenhall-s`reet. He thinks
that the one may be made to produce food and the other
razors and dressing-cases continuously."

SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—On Tuesday as Mr. Tred-
wen's shipwrights were engaged in opening the brig
Brilliant, lying in the Bute Docks, one of them had occa-
sion to " take a chip off" one of her quarter timbers, when,
to his astonishment, he saw a hole in it. After some further
examination of the part, an immense toad was taken out !
The animal, on being placed in the sun, hopped about,
apparently delighted with its liberation. The vessel is
twenty-two years old ; and the toad must have been im-
bedded in the tree whilst growing. This piece of timber
was traversed by bolts and other fastenings in almost every
direction; but, strange to say, Mons. Crapaud escaped
unhurt, although in such a dangerous locality, after no
one knows how long or how much knocking about ashore
and at sea, for more than twenty years, in various parts of
the world.—Bristol Journal.

NOVEL BALLOON.—A host of people were yesterday
week attracted to Vauxhall Gardens to behold the ascent
of Mr. Bell in a balloon constructed on a different princi-
ple and of a shape different from balloons hitherto known.
The balloon was of an oblong shape, and placed horizon-
tally in the air, and contained 15,000 feet of gas—little
more than a sixth part of the gas required by the Nassau
balloon of Mr. Green. The car was furnished with an
apparatus for working two large tans and a caudatory rud-
der, by means of which it was understood the machine
would be under the control of the aeronaut, who would be
able to sail through the air in whatever direction he thought
proper. At seven o'clock Mr. Bell ascended alone, and,
as the wind blew from the south-east, the balloon, in ac-
cordance with the precedents of seventy years, went to the
north-west. The aeronaut for a short time twirled his
wheels and flapped his tail, but his balloon, either wafted
by the winds, or having a will of its own, proceeded most
pertinaciously in its original direction, and shortly disap-
peared.
WHOM DOES THE CAP FIT ?—The following anecdote
which is current on the Banks of the Trent, in the vici-
nity of Burringham, Lincolnshire, is very unclerical, if
true, and if not true will probably receive some contra-
diction. It is not always the thing to give names, but a
curious rumour has recently reached our ears. A Right
Reverend Free Trade Liberal Rector, who has long, in
vain, been waiting for a Deanery, and even been said to
aspire to a mitre, meeting a neighbour the other day, is
reported to have thus addressed him, " Lamentable
circumstance (said this pillar of the Established Church)
Sir Robert Peel's death." To which the neighbour
replied, "if he be only gone to heaven, I am glad of it."
For that speech, rejoined the meek Minister of Peace
with great warmth, " You will go to h-11." Surely,
the Church must be in danger when a Whig government
bestows its patronage on a man so ready to commit the
souls of his neighbours to the darker regions of eternity,
instead of guiding and encouraging them (as is his duty)
to the regions of celestial light.—Doncaster Chronicle.

DREADFUL EXPLOSION OF FIRE-DAMP.—On Wednes-
day a frightful catastrophe occurred in one of the coal-pits
belonging to Mr. Sneden, situated at Commonade, in the
immediate neighbourhood of the borough of Airdrie. The
miners, to the number of twenty, descended to their work
as usual about six o'clock, when, it is said, the foreman
accompanied them, and went forward to ascertain the state
of the air in the pit. All of a sudden a terrific explosion
occurred, which instantly killed eighteen out of the twenty,
and shattered and destroyed all the implements and ma-
chinery in the pit. Only one man escaped. He was
standing near the bottom of the pit when he heard the
explosion, and suddenly threw himself down to allow the
fiery storm to pass over. On rising he found the buckets
which communicated with the surface shattered ; but
finding a piece of wood, be inserted it into one of the links
of the chain, and giving the signal, was pulled up to the
pit head. The accounts of the cause of the accident given
by this man are exceedingly imperfect, and it is not likely
that the actual circumstances connected with this calami-
tous event will ever be known. The men had not Davy
lamps.
CALIFORNIA GOLD SEIZED. At the last Custom-
house sale in Southampton, there were between forty and
fifty ounces of California gold dust sold. It appears that
a poor man applied to the captain of one of the West
India mail packets at Chagres and offered to work his
way to Southampton. The captain permitted him to do
so on account of his poverty. In a few days after the
vessel had left Chagres the man died, and the boxes were
not touched until the vessel arrived at Southampton,
when the Custom-house authorities searched them. In
the boxes they found about forty ounces of gold dust,
which they took possession of until a proper claim was
made to it. The West India Company claimed the gold,
but the Board of Customs refused to allow it. Sinaular
to say, there is every reason to believe, from inquiries
made and documents found, that the man in whose box
the gold was discovered, was an escaped convict. It is
supposed that he escaped to California from a venal set-
tlement, and was returning to England with the fruits of
his labour in the gold diggings. The gold-dust was of a
very pure quality. The Customs, we believe, have paid
the West India Company the price of a passage from
Chagres out of the proceeds of the sale.—Hampshire
Advertiser.

CONTEST WITH MONICEYS.-It would appear that Mr.
M'Bride, manager of the Bridge-of-Weir Gasworks, keeps
a pair of monkeys for his amusement. The animals are
usually kept in a large iron cage, but in the absence of
Mr. M'Bride, the other day, for a few minutes, they suc-
ceeded in effecting their:tiberation, and seemed to feel a
pleasure at the time in working all the mischief that was
possible. The desk of the office was overturned, and the
papers it contained torn and scattered about. They also
opened the crane of a gas-tar cistern, and flooded the floor
with the nauseous contents. On the manager, on his re-
turn, finding matters in this plight, he unceremoniously
commenced to inflict corporeal punishment on the first of
the monkeys he came in sight of, when the other, which
had been hiding, immediately made a rush to the assistance
of his companion. The brutes cut the leg of Mr. M'Bride
through his trousers, and one of them, leaping on his back,
cut him pretty severely on the face also. By this time,
one Stick had been broken over the back of the animal ;
and Mr. M'Bride having placed his back to the wall for
protection, and armed himself with another bludgeon, he
ultimately recaptured his assailants, but not till the leg of
one of them had been broken in the contest.—Edinburgh
Post.

MEMORIAL TO SIR ROBERT PEEL.—A general meeting
of the inhabitants of the west end of London was held at
Willis's-rooms, on Tuesday, for the purpose of promoting
a subscription for an enduring monument to the memory
of Sir Robert Peel. The Earl of Aberdeen occupied the
chair. The Duke of Wellington and a great number of
noblemen and members of the House of Commons were
present. After the chairman had delivered a warm eulogy
on the late baronet, the Duke of Wellington rose. He
said he regretted that deafness prevented his taking the
chair. He moved the first resolution, " That this meeting
desires to express a deep sense of the loss which this
country has sustained by the death of Sir Robert Peel,
and to perpetuate, by some enduring memento, the re-
membrance of his eminent talents, unremitting and
laborious exertions in the service of his country, and his
exemplary private virtues." The noble duke concluded
by declaring that he could with safety say, from the ex-
perience of a quarter of a century, that no statesman ever
devoted his talents with greater energy, integrity, and
ability, to the public service, than the late distinguished
statesman. Lord Ashley seconded the resolution, and it
was carried unanimously. Lord Hardinge moved, " That
a committee be formed to raise subscriptions, and to con-
sider the best mode of carrying the foregoing resolution
into effect • and that the Duke of Wellington, the Earl of
Aberdeen, Lord Jersey, Mr. Goulhurn, &c., do form the
committee, with power to add to their number." After
the usual vote of thanks to the chairman the meeting
broke up.

THE FOLLIES OF BRISTOL.-A stranger arriving in this
city, by way of the Avon, may cast his eyes on many
evidences of the follies of present and departed citizens.
Several years ago a worthy citizen of Bristol was induced,
by the influence of a gipsy, to build, on the extremity of
Durdham Down, a tower, which has since received the
name of Cooke's Folly. Just below this, on the edge of
the river, he may see a building which is not inappropri-
ately called the Merchant Venturers' Folly. Coming
towards Bristol he may cast his eye upwards and see
Brunel's Folly, alias the intended Suspension Bridge. on
which so many thousands have been expended, and for
which nothing else is to be seen but two immense towers
and a bar of iron across the yawning abyss below.
Arrived at Hotwells.road, he will see two more monu-
ments of skill, which we are truly sorry to class among
the list of follies, namely, the splendid ship-building
works at Lady Smyth's, now in course of demolition ;
and the almost unrivalled works erected for the building
of the Great Britain. Alas ! for Bristol artizans that it
should be so. Near this he will perceive a work going on
which we are happy to say is not a folly, namely, the new
junction of the Hotwells-road and Limekiln-lane,—a
very desirable improvement, and which has, mirabile
dicta, been carried out within a few years after its pro-
jection. The last two follies the visitor will see are the
Swing-bridge at the bottom of Clare-street, and the
Stone-bridge opposite Small-street ; the former is con-
stantly undergoing repairs, and the latter, which it has
been decided to alter, was commenced some months
since, but apparently will never be finished.—Bristol
Journal.

To THE LADIES.—At this period, when the beauty of
the season invites to out-door enjoyment, the fair sex are
of necessity exposed to those influences which are peculi-
arly prejudicial to personal comfort and attraction. The
solar heat produces on the delicate skin the permanent
stain of tan, the disfigurement of freckle, and not unfre-
quently a discoloration and swelling, which gradually
assume one of the multitudinous forms of eruption.
During the ride, promenade , aquati. excursion, or
while otherwise exposed to the sc. ching rays of the
sun, ladies will find " ROWLAND KALYDOIe a most
refreshing preparation for the c...plexion, dispelling the
cloud of languor and relaxatio •. allaying all heat and irri-
tability, aad immediately a I . rding the pleasing sensation
attending restored elasti v, and healthful state of the
skin. Composed essen .:Ily of choice exotics of balsamic
nature, utterly free rom all mineral admixture, and
pleasing and deligh lin its effects, Rowland? Kalydor
tends to neutraliz: the action of the atmosphere upon the
skin, and to pro . ote that healthy action of the microsco-
pic vessels, by • . ich its general well-being and the beauty
of its appear. ace are so essentially promoted. Freckles,
sunburn, t. , spots, pimples, flushes and discolourations
are eradic• ed by its application, and give place to a deli-
cately s. , clear, and fair skin. Its purifying and refresh-
ing pr. .erties have obtained its exclusive selection by Her
Majesty the Queen, the Court, and the Royal Family of
Great Britain, and the several Courts of Europe, together
with the elite of the aristocracy, from the sultry climes of
India to the frozen realms of the Czar. The high reputa-
tion it bears induces unprincipled shopkeepers to offer
their spurious Kalydors for sale, containing mineral
astringents utterly ruinous to the complexion, and by their
repellant action endangering health. It is therefore im-
perative on purchasers to see that the words " Rowland?
Kalydor" are on the wrapper, and " A. Rowland & Sons,
20, Hatton Garden," also engraved on the Government
Stamp affixed on each bottle. Price 4s. 6d. and Ss. 6d.
Sold by the proprietors, end by all respectable chemists
and perfumers.