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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-02-17 00:00:00

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GAMBLING.—In a trial in the cour

f Common Plea 6

last week, v

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3 Sir Robert Gill fo

in play

The defendan

among other witn

Huntingtower was called, arid gave the following evidence
for the defendant. Sergeant Bompas.—" Had you any con-
versation with the plaintiff on the subjects of cards and
dice?" Lord Huntingtower—" Yes. In the spring of
1841 the plaintiff was with me at Penton ; and he asked me
if I had ever seen any feint cards, and if I knew what des-
patches were? I said I did not. He then asked me if I was
in wart of money? I said I was. He said, if I would
allow him, he would bring a ' fiat' to my house at Penton,
and would show me in the cards what to a moral certainty

would win money of him, and proposed to go halves."
Mr. Cockburn—" When the plaintiff made you a proposal so
dishonourable, did you not, as a man of honour, order him
to leave your house ?" Lord Huntingtower—" No." Mr.
Cockbutn—', Did you continue your intimacy with him, and
did he afterwards fit you out a yacht ?" Lord Huntingtower
—" Yes." The jury returned a verdict for the defendant.

'BIRMINGHAM Tows-}I.kLL ORGAN.—The following is a
lescription of this immense instrument:—" The height of

cue case is nrty-tour teet, and torty feet wide, and contains
about 4,000 pipes. The circumference of the CCCC metal
pipe is five feet three inches ; the largest wood pipe (the
CCCC) is twelve feet in circumference, and its interior mea-
surement is two hundred and twenty-four cubic feet. The
organ contains sixty-three real stops, six copulas, and has
four sets of keys; the fourth is the combination, or solo
organ, 'upon which (by an ingenious contrivance) can be
pliyed any stop or stops out of the swell .or choir, without
interfering with their previous arrangement. There are se-

veral stops peculiar to this organ, and which are not to be
found in any other ; amongst them is the grand ophicleide,
invented by Mr. Hill, which is distinguished by its immense
power and richness of tone. The posaune is built on a large
scale, and is by far the most powerful ever made. By coup-
ling the pedals with the keys, eighty-seven pipes are made to
speak with each pedal. The bellows contain three hundred
square feet of surface, and upwards of three tons weight upon
them is required to give the necessary pressure. The nut-
chinery of the organ is so very extensive, that the tracker ,
if placed on one line, would measure more than five miles."

INFLUENZA AMONGST CATTLE AND SHEEP.—The con-
tagious disorder which has now for nearly four years more or
less attacked the cattle and sheep brought to the London
markets, has this year returned with unabated violence. The
principal effects on the sheep are shown upon the hoof, as
inflammation, and subsequently suppuration takes place round
the coronet of the hoof, which from that cause is thrown off,
thus differing from the common foot rot, the seat of which is
between the claws. The extent of this disease is so great,
that numbers of the sheep are obliged to be brought to
market in carts, and in cases where the pens are not crowded,
the poor animals lie down, and are incapable of again rising.
There is no doubt, however, that the complaint is consider-
ably increased by the crowded state of the pens, which are
quite inadequate for their accommodation, whilst this cir-
cumstance defies the judgment of the butcher, who is thus
prevented examining them. The disease is also extremely
prevalent amongst cows and other cattle, and since Christ-
mas Mr. Rhodes, the extensive cowkeeper at Kingsland, has
lost 170 of the former. Another cowkeeper in the neigh-
bourhood of Gray's-inn--lane also has lost 42 withi❑ the last
four weeks. In these the chief seat of attack is the lungs,
and if not rallied within forty-eight hours after the attack,
their loss is certain. Their hoots, as well as those of the
sheep, are also thrown off, and the tracks from the bleeding
limbs of the animals in Smithfield market present a pitiable
picture of the sufferings which they must undergo.
MELANCHOLY DEATH.—On Monday morning the work-
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men at Dalketty quarry, in the neighbourhood of Brechi;l,
on entering their bothy for the purpose of preparing break-
fast, were alarmed to find a human body in the chimney,
witlifn two feet of the ground, quite stiff. It was completely
fixed in the vent, the legs being on each side of an iron rod,
used as a crook tree for suspending their pot; and they had
to pull down a part of the inside wall to get out the rod, so
as to relieve the body. It was discovered to be the corpse of
a young man named Mills. The poor lad had left that place
on the afternoon of Saturday, with the intention of visiting
his father, then in Brechin. The bothy is almost close upon
the road, and the top of the chimney stalk is said to be
nearly on a level with the surrounding rubbish of the quarry.
It is conjectured that he bad lost his way, and having got be-
numbed with cold, had resolved to take shelter in the bothy
until the next morning. From marks on the door, he had
evidently tried first to break it up, and being unsuccessful,
had attempted to get in by going down the chimney, which
was a very narrow one; however, he had descended, with his
Lauds upwards or over his head, until he reached the crook
od, where he had become perfectly helpless. Poor fellow !
c had struggled hard for life, as the backs of his hands and
ead were very much broken and bruised. It is supposed
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liontrose Review.

WEST INDIA MAILS.—The following notice was put up
on Wednesday morning at the General Post-office, St. Mar-
tin's.le• Grand :—" The Royal mail steam-packet Trent, for
the Wes' ' ‘.lexico mails of Wednesday next, the