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

enteral Alga'lnv.

There is not at present a case of cholera at Hull.
Mr. William Henderson, one of the most popular gen-
tlemen in Durham has been elected mayor of that city.
A fleet of 26 French ships arrived in Gloucester basin
last week, laden with corn.
Sir William Stanley was declared an outlaw, on Thurs-
day, at the London Sheriffs' Court.
Mr. (or the Rev. Mr.) Barker, the Chartist, has been
returned as a member of the Leeds Town Council.

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

Trade is at present pretty brisk in Birmingham, owing,
in a great measure, to the re-opening to commerce of the
River Plate.
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Mr. Charles Wood, proprietor of the railway foundry,
Millsands, Sheffield, was on Monday last thrown from his
gig and killed.
The Hull solicitors have agreed to close their offices at
one o'clock on Saturday, in order that the clerks may
enjoy a half-holiday once a week.
Several associations of tradesmen have been formed in
London, for the purpose of endeavouring to abolish the
custom of giving Christmas boxes.
A conger eel, measuring seven feet in length, and 20
inches in girth, and weighing between five and six stones,
was caught last week in the Solway Frith.
A live toad was discovered in the heart of an old oak
at St. Wenn, in Cornwall, last week. It had probably
been entombed 200 years without either food or air.
The sloop " Eagle," Richards, of Aberystwith, from
Porthcawl to Aberdovey, in working out of Mumbles
Roads, ou the 28th ult., struck on Mumbles Point, and
went down immediately. Crew saved.

In consequence of the late flood in the fens, several ves-
sels, laden with apples and vegetables, were delayed above
three weeks in,the Brayford and Witham, and their car-
goes were either wholly spoiled or great ly deteriorated.
A bruising match for £lOO, took place near Andover,
between Gill, of Coventry, and Maley, of London, on
Tuesday last. It lasted two hours and thirty-nine
minutes. Gill was the conqueror.
A Town Councillor of Bradford was arrested, a few
days since, for illegal drilling, but discharged in conse-
quence of the witness against him being one of the parties
drilled, and therefore not impartial.
The vestry of St. Pancras has agreed to let certain
rooms and ground to Dr. Wiseman, for a Roman Catholic
grammar school. but the Duke of Bedford, the owner of
the land, has objected to the carrying out of the bargain.
The Orangemen of Bradford, Sheffield, &c., met in
their respective lodge-rooms on the 4th November, to
celebrate the discovery of the gunpowder plot and the
accession of King William.
The extensive hand-loom weaving factory of Mr. Robt.
Kerr, in Seedhills, Paisley, has been destroyed by fire,
The damage is said to be £lO,OOO, and the prsmises are
insured for 1:8,000.
The Whigs and Tories of Sunderland, this week, agreed
to a compromise on the question " Who is to be Mayor ?"
A gentleman, who has, in his time, belonged to both par-
ties, was appointed !
CHURCH RATES.—The magistrates of Hull have deci-
ded that persons living in that portion of a parish awarded
to the district church are not liable to a rate for the mother
church. _ _ _ _ _

There was a transit of the planet Mercury over the
sun's disc on Thursday. The transit commenced about
eleven o'clock ; and the last contact was about twenty-
five minutes past four.
The office of Mayor went begging at Oxford on Thursday
After seven or eight aldermen and councillors had been
nominated and elected, a volunteer (Ald. Thorp) kindly
stepped in, and got rid of the difficulty.
PERSONATION AT THE BRADFORD MUNICIPAL ELEC-
TION.—Edward Hill, a stonemason, was on Monday last
committed for trial for having personated a John Ed-
mondson, of Manningham Ward, at the recent election of
town councillors. _ _ _

RAGGED SCHOOLS.—The Queen. Dowager, in addition
to her former donation of £lOO for the general purposes
of the Metropolis Schools Fund, has given a donation of
£5O, for the special purpose of assisting the fund for the
establishment of ragged schools in the metropolis.
Cases of cholera continue to occur in the metropolis,
but not in such numbers as to excite any alarm. Invari-
ably, we believe, the cases have been produced by damp
houses. filth. insufficiency of food and clothing, or intem-
perance.
A PARSON WITHOUT A SERMON.—On Sunday week,
the minister at one of the Independent Chapels, at Brad-
ford, upon presenting himself before his congregation,
made a public apology for not being prepared with a
sermon !
The cask of dollars which was lately lost overboard from
the Brazilian packet Penguin, has at length been reco-
vered by a diver, who had made several descents in vain,
but at length succeeded in discovering the cask, which
contained about three thousand dollars.
The result of the British Davis's Straits whale fishery
this season, so far as it is at present known, is that four-
teen ships, belonging to Hull, five ; Dundee, four ;
Kirkaldy, two ; and Newcastle, Boiness, Peterhead, and
Aberdeen; one each ; have captured fifty-eight fish, with
712 tuns of oil.
6INGULAR 4TH.--A woman Vas, a few days since,
killed at Moorcroft, near Loxley, by the fall of part of
the floor of a house ; it threw her into an old coal-pit
over which the building had been erected ; and she
perished, not from the fall, but from the foul air in the
pit.
The Queen has presented to two brothers, named
Thomas and Francis Bullock, working men, at Cheadle,
Staffordshire, a sum of £lO, to enable them to publish a
work which they have jointly written, and which they
have entitled " Popular Education : an antidote to juve-
nile delinquency, and a great security of national virtue."
IMPROVED STEEL PENS.—In the use of the best steel
pens the nibs are continually undergoing oxidation, wear
to a fine point, and in a short time become useless. Drs.
Babbington and Spurgin have taken out a patent for the
application of a piece of zinc to the nib, whereby a gal-
vanic action takes place, and the zinc alone being de-
stroyed, the nib of the pen is worn only to the extent of
the friction occasioned in writing.
A WINTER ASSIZE.—The Government have at present
under consideration the propriety of issuing a special
commission for holding a winter assize for a part at least
of the home circuit, the cases of the Coggleshall gang,
the poisoning at Ramsay, and the other crimes of a seri-
ous nature, for which prisoners have been committed for
trial, appearing to render such a measure, as regards this
county in particular, advisable.—Chelmsford Chronicle,
SUICIDE OF M'DONOUGH.—On Tuesday a most de-
termined act of self-destruction was committed in Green's
Shooting Gallery, Leicester-square, by M'Donough, the
celebrated steeplechase rider. The deceased entered Mr.
Green's gallery and called for some duelling pistols, and
he fired several shots at the target : he loaded the pistols
himself, and was seen to approach the target. He then
deliberately placed the muzzle of one of the pistols to his
forehead and immediately fired it off.
A MAN CAUGHT INSTEAD OF A SALMON.—Some
poachers, who were fishing in the Wye, near Monmouth,
a few evenings since, heard a splash, and immediately cast
a net, as they fancied the noise was caused by a salmon.
With some difficulty they succeeded in hauling their net
ashore, and then discovered that instead of a fish they had
caught a drunken man, who had mistaken his road and
walked into the river, where he would have inevitably
been drowned, if he had not been thus singularly rescued.
SNOW STORM.—We have had a second visitation of
winter, since our last, Friday and Saturday being days of
very sharp frost, with occasional snow showers from the
north. The ice on the pools was fully one inch in thick-
ness, and on the Inch pond boys were enjoying their
winter amusements all day. In the Highlands the storm
was very severe, particularly in Aberdeensh're and Inver-
ness-shire ; and on Saturday the north mail was nearly
three hours behind time, the snow having drifted several
feet deep along Drummaichdar and Slockmuich the usual
places of interruption. On Sunday a mild change set in.
—Perthshire Courier. _

Lord Mayor's day seems to have gone off very bril-
liantly this year. The new Lord Mayor is Sir Jas. Duke,
M.P. At the banquet at the Mansion-house, the Mar-
quis of Lansdowne, in the absence of •Lord...l"olin Russell,
occasioned by indisposition, returned thanks when the
toast of the government was proposed. He congratulated
the country that peace had been maintained in Great
Britain by the exercise of the civil power only. The French
minister, M. Gustave de Beaumont, spoke very strongly
in favour of peace, and highly complimented England,
which he emphatically styled " the land of liberty." He
was much cheered.
RAGGED SCHOOLS.—From inquiries which I4ve been
made into fifteen of the ragged schools of the metropolis,
it appears that there were 2345 children attending these
schools, that the average attendance was 1600, and of
those 162 had confessed that they had been several times
in prison, 116 had deserted their homes, 170 slept in lodg-
ing-houses of the lowest description, 253 lived by begging,
263 had neither shoes nor stockings, 280 had no covering,
21 had never slept in a bed, 68 were the children of con-
victs, and 306 had lost either one or both of their parents.
In London alone there were 80,000 prostitutes, by far
the greater number of them were under 20 years of ago ;
many of them were under nine or ten years of age !
ADVERTISEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.—The celebrity of
the Times as the repertory of remarkable advertisements
is well known ; but we think the following, which we
copy from Saturday's Times, one of the richest gems in
its way that it has been our lot to peruse :—" A married
gentleman, having made every effort to rescue his fair
partner from the frightful malady of drunkenness, now
proposes to others similarly situated to take a house and
grounds, wherein the ladies will find every amusement,
but no drink, except by order of the medical man. A
liberal table will be kept. Each married couple to pay
£l4O a-year, to include eve] ything. Single ladies £BO.
The advertiser will take all responsibility. Address,
Y.R., &c."
MURDER OF A FEMALE AT WESTPORT.—It appears
that the fair held at Westport last week exhibited more
than the usual amount of drunkenness and dissspation,
and in one instance was marked by a most brutal and
murderous attack. The victim is represented to have
been a fine young woman, named Scannell, who went to
purchase a pair of scissors from a dealer named Scott.
His price was 11d. ; she offered Id., and refused giving
more, when the savage plunged it into her ear, and in two
days afterwards she breathed her last, leaving her death
(to use her own words) on Scott. Mr. Walsh, the officer
of police, had upwards of forty men under his command
in search of Scott, and on Sunday morning he succeeded
in arresting him in the suburbs of the town, in a pig-
house.

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

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

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

Our readers will probably recollect an event which
occurred at Lochee, near Dundee, in which a man shot at
three persons who were stealing potatoes in a garden, and
killed one of them, a female. At the recent Perth Circuit
Court he pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to fourteen
years' transportation.
A woman of enormous corpulence, who had been an in-
mate of the Yarmouth workhouse during the lest three
years, died on Tuesday week; and a post mortem exami-
nation showed that the immense quantity of fat around
her heart, and in other parts of her body, was the imme-
diate cause of her death, as it had increased to such an
extent as to produce suffocation.
On Monday, a fire, involving the destruction of a large
amount of property, broke out on the premises of Mr.
John Elisha, at a place called Spencer's Wood, in the pa-
rish of Shinfield, about four miles from Reading. The
property destroyed is estimated at not far short of £l,OOO.
The fire is generally believed to have been the act of an
incendiary.
At a meeting of the Ashmolean Society, held at Oxford,
on Monday last, Dr. Buckland mentioned that he had re-
ceived from Sir R. Peel a letter, describing an extraordi-
nary large bull trout, weighing 211bs. which had been
taken at Tamworth, and which had probably been enabled,
by the late floods, to cross the weirs on its way to that
place.
The Aberdeen Journal states, that at a recent sale of
farming stock, a calf three months old was sold for one
penny, and was purchased by two farmers, who each paid
a halfpenny, on condition that the one was to keep the
animal through the winter, while the other was to feed it
next summer, and that it should then be sold, and the
proceeds be equally divided between the speculators.
A. M'Kenzie, trading under the firm of Durand and
M'Kenzie, of Milk-street, Cheapside, London, merchants,
is charged with forging an acceptance for £3,000 upon
Mr. F. Phillips, of London-street, provision merchant.
The case has been adjourned for a few days, the Lord
Mayor having accepted bail for M'Kenzie's next appear-
ance, himsel in £2,000, and two sureties of £l,OOO each.
On Thursday week the Training College at Carmarthen
for Welsh schoolmasters was opened. It has been erected
under the superintendence of the Welsh Committee of
Education at a cost of £9,000, thus obtained—£3,ooo
from the Committee of the Privy Council, £2,500 from
contributions, and £1,500 from the fund of the National
Society. A further sum of £2,000 will be required to
discharge the whole of the liabilities.
A DIFFERENCE.—Now that the proprietor of the Shef-
field Times has bought the sheet containing the names of
the subscribers to the late Sheffield Mercury, handbills
have been issued from his office, stating that the list of
subscribers was, for forty years, the most respectable of
any of the Sheffield papers. About a year ago an article
appeared in the Times, in which it is stated, "as for the
Mercury, nobody reads it."
On Wednesday evening, a woman living in London,
who was holding in one hand a lighted candle, and in the
other a lamp, which she was filling with naptha, poured
the naptha until it overflowed on her dress, with which
the candle came in contact, and she was immediately en-
veloped in flames. She ran into the street, when two men
who were passing rolled her on the pavement, and suc-
ceeded in extinguishing the flames, though not before she
had been severely scorched.
SINGULAR FATALITY.—On Friday an inquest was held
on the body of Thomas Hutchinson, who died at the
Leeds Infirmary on Wednesday. The deceased, who was
only 23 years of age. followed the occupation of a shep-
herd; and on the 23d of September, in dressing the feet
of a sheep, he had occasion to use a knife, and during the
operation the animal made a start, and came in such vio-
lent contact with the instrument that the blade was
plunged into the left thigh, penetrating the femoral ar-
tery.
TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF A SHIP BY FIRE.—From
intelligence which has been received from Annotto Bay,
Jamaica, we learn that the barque Captain Ross, William-
son, loading at Port Maria, for Greenock, was totally
destroyed by fire on the night of the 22d of Sept., and one
man and a lad seriously injured. The crow have all (ex.
cept those two) saved their clothing. The master has not
saved a stitch of any thing ; his chronometers, maps, a
large amount in money, and some very valuable papers,
are all gone.
At the Central Criminal Court, on Tuesday, Shea and
his wife, an Irish couple, were convicted of a most savage
attack on Mary Cox, their landlady, whom they beat on
the head with hammers and otherwise maltreated ; ser-
ving the woman's husband in the same way, and kicking
him, when he came to his wife's assistance. Shea nailed
up the door that he might not be stopped in his mur-
derous pastime, and when an entrance was forced, the
room " looked like a slaughter-house." The gentle pair
were surprised to find that they were to be severely dealt
with ; Shea to be transported for ten years, and his wife
to be kept to bard labour in prison for two.

A " PRINCE "IN COVENTRY.--A person representing
himself as Prince Christophe, brother of the King of
Hayti, and who has completed a term of two months'
imprisonment, as a rogue and vagabond, was brought up
at the Mansion-house, London, on Tuesday week, on a
charge of swindling a hotel-keeper, by contracting hotel
debts, without any means of paying them. He had re-
ferred the proprietor to a banker, who said he was a great
blackguard. For some time past he has been going about
London, hiring apartments at the various hotels, and
living (himself and family) in a sumptuous manner. The
Magistrate said he should remand the prisoner, for the
purpose of giving an opportunity to others of coming
forward and identifying him.
NEWS OF THE EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN
FRANKLIN.—The following is a copy of a letter picked up
by the barque Prince of Wales, which arrived here this
morning, in lat. 68.10 N. and lon. 64.30 W. on October
2d, 1848:—" Her Majesty's ships Investigator and Enter-
prise cleared the main pack, in Mejville's Bay, on the 20th
August, and after examining Pond's Bay, on the 23d,
passed on to the northward, in search of the expedition
under Capt. Sir John Franklin. The cask which contains
this paper was thrown from H.M. ship Investigator, on
the 28th of August, 1848, in lat. 73.50 N. and lon. 78.6.30
W. ; all well. Enterprise in company. Whoever may
find this paper is requested to forward it to the secretary
of the Admiralty, London, with a note of the date, lati-
tude, and longitude, in which it was found. EDWD. BIRD,
Captain."—Hull Packet.
ABUNDANCE OF MONEY IN LONDON.—The old collo-
quial proverb, that " all is not gold that glitters," was
never more strongly verified than at the present moment,
for never was the country, as a trading community, in a
poorer state, and never was there .a larger accumulation
of gold, silver, and money of all denominations, in the
various banking-houses of the capital. Like Midas in the
ancient Greek poets, we are starving amongst the gold
heaps lying at our feet ; and experience, a'much more
intelligible master than any system whatever of political
economy, has at length taught us the hard but salutary
lesson, that it is not gold and silver, but active and pros-
perous industry, always in motion, but always changing
its shape, going forth in one form and returning in ano-
ther—it is this, we say, that makes a nation rich and a
people happy.—Bell's Messenger.
THE MARQUIS OF WESTMEATH.—A few days ago the
Marquis of Westmeath was a passenger on board one of
the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company's packets.
While on her voyage from Kingstown to Holyhead, and
when approaching her destination, his lordship called the
attention of the crew to an object at some distance in the
water, which he thought resembled a human form. The
captain at once ordered the coxswain to steer in tha direc-
tion indicated, when it was discovered that a sailor, nearly
exhausted with cold and fatigue, was still clinging to a
spar. A boat was lowered from the steamer, and the man
was saved. The poor fellow had been washed overboard
from an inward bound brig, the master of which must
have supposed him lost. A tolerably round sum of
money was subscribed for the sailor, so fortunately saved
from a watery grave.
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION AND SUICIDE.—An in-
vestigation has taken place before the magistrates of Ross,
Hereford, elucidating the following facts :—A discharged
servant, named Samuel Garras, occasionally lodged in the
Full Moon public-house, which he had been forced to
leave by the landlady, Mrs. Phillips, who conceived a
dislike to him on account of his leaving his wife and two
children in distressed circumstances a few miles from the
town. He subsequently, however, went there and de-
manded a pint of beer on credit, which was refused. On
the last occasion she told him he was drunk, and that he
only came there to annoy her, upon which he pulled a
pistol from his pocket, and fired it at her. She fell to the
ground, and it was thought she was wounded; but, how-
ever, the ball had missed her. He then discharged a
second pistol in his mouth. The ball passed horizontally
along the roof of the mouth, and lodged in the back of
the neck. He was removed, under the care of the police,
and the latest accounts announce him to be still living.
BOWEL AND LIVER COMPLAINTS CURED BY HOL-
LOWAY'S PILLS.—A person of the name of J-4
-Butter,
of Uckfield, Sussex. belonging to her y's service,
was four years in Barbadoes, whe 'suffered severely
with a disordered state of the bo 6; ending in dysentery ;
at last his liver and stoma ecame much disordered,
and his health was alto er very bad. He received
every attention from e military medical gentlemen in
Barbadoes ; but y e continued so ill, that his recovery
was considered ry doubtful. Failing to get relief from
the usual t meat, he commenced taking Holloway's
Pills, wh' completely cured the liver complaint, and
induce perfect action of the bowels.

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

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

VAGARIES OF Drtuerse.nris.—On Saturday night three
labourers, of the parish of Fordham, who had been drink-
ing at a public-house in Great Tey, were met by police-
man Butcher on quite a contrary road to that leading to
their homes, and were by him directed aright. Very soon,
however, they again lost their path •, and on the return of
the same officer at three o'clock the following morning,
one was discovered fast asleep in a ditch, and at a short
distance was a second standing up to his knees in a pool
of water, and also in a heavy slumber. The third could
not be found for a considerable time ; and as his clothes
were discovered on the farm of Mr. Pettitt, at Aldham,
fears began to be entertained that he was drowned, and
one or two ponds were dragged accordingly ' • but lie was
at length discovered on the Fordham road, safe and
sound, but quike naked, with the exception of his shirt,
having, as he afterwards stated, undressed himself with
the idea that he was at home and going to bed, but which
he found to consist only of a ditch of water ! Although
they were all lucky enough to escape accident or injury,
it is hoped they sustained sufficient inconvenience to deter
them from intoxication in future.—. Essex Standard.
LORD BROUGHAM AT BROUGH.—Lord Brougham and
Vaux, who, during his forensic career, has extricated
himself from many a difficulty, and emerged unscathed
from many a thorny labyrinth, was fairly in a " fix" a
short time ago, at Brough. The noble lord, wishing to
proceed from Brougham Hall to Raby Castle, and know-
ing that the coach from Penrith only ran as far as Brough,
had ordered a note to be dispatched to the "head inn" at
that place, to order a chaise and pair to be ready on his
arrival to convey him forward. The note was delivered
to the Castle inn, but the officials at that place, elated
with their distinguished visitor in prospectu, had spread
the news through all the village, and coming to the ears
of the landlord of the White Swan, he was deter Mined to
contend for the honour of receiving the noble guest. A.
short time previous to the arrival of the coach, the
inhabitants of Brough watched with some degree of inte-
rest the preparations made by the two inns. Each
I brought out its chaise, and the domestics belonging to
I each bustled about with great agility. No sooner had the
coach stopped than a landlord flanked each side, and both
endeavoured, by persuasive eloquence, to induce his lord-
ship to visit their respective inns, and place his person in
the conveyances they had prepared for him. His lordship
was almost transfixed to his seat by this unexpected at-
tack, and was heard to mutter something like `• Whatever
must I do between these two men !" At last, Mr.
Magee, of the Swan, put a period to the conflict by re-
ferring to a point which affected the loyal feelings of his
lordship. " You know, my lord, ours is the queen's
inn." Then, most assuredly, yours is the head inn,"
and Lord Brougham bolted into the parlour of the Swan,
leaving the discomfited opponent of Mr. Magee in the
street.—Correspondent of Kendal Advertiser.
Scnooe GARDENS.—In the Midland Florist for Oc.
is an account of an admirable plan for promoting the love
of industry in boys, which we should likd to aee adopted
in this and every other town. "In the immediate neigh-
bourhood of Nottingham are an immense number of small
gardens, occupied and cultivated by all grades of society ;
and, with a most laudable and praiseworthy feeling, the
friends connected with the High-pavement Chapel Boys'
Sunday School have purchased two of these inclosures,
in each of which is a commodious summer-house. One
of the gardens is cultivated by the elder boys, the other
by the juniors. Each garden is sub-divided into smaller
allotments, which are assigned to their respective tenants,
boys from ten to fourteen years' old, who cultivate and
crop them according to their own fancy, a small portion
of each being devoted to flowers, The diligence and
ability displayed by these youthful gardeners is really
astonishing. We have inspected their crops during several
past summers, and with truth can say we were highly de-
lighted with them. The onions, lettuce, celery, carrots,
potatoes, &c., were excellent, and would vie with the pro-
ductions of older and more experienced cultivators. Prize
gooseberries are also grown. In fact, these boys always
endeavour to obtain, either of seeds or plants, the best
varieties possible. In connexion with these gardens, and
to excite emulation, a vegetable and flower show is in.
stituted. This is held in the school-rooms, at Notting-.
ham, and prizes are given for the best productions in
vegetables, as well as for stands of pansies, verbenas,
collections of annual and perennial flowers and nosegays,
or bouquets as they are called by some, but we fancy our
readers will like the old English name best. These ex-
hibitions of youthful skill and industry are well attended."
Should any of our readers wish for a copy of the rules by
which these school gardens are managed, they are to be
found in the above publication.—Lancaster Guardian.

SINGULAR DISCOVERY AT WHITEHAVEN.—A short
time since. two human skeletons wergdiscovered by some
railway labourers, near Braystones, not far from the sea
shore, but they were missed again in a few hours after-
wards, which gave rise to the supposition that they had
been aolen. It appears, however, that they had been
only temporarily concealed by some workmen, about
twenty yards from the spot where they were first found.
An inquest has been duly held before Mr. W. Lamb,
coroner. The bodies were evidently those of two very
tall and powerful young men. By some it is conjectured
that the bodies were those of shipwrecked mariners cast
ashore, and covered over by the drifting of the sand.
Various circumstances, however, have transpired to render
this conjecture extremely improbable, if not impossible ;
and there is too much reason to believe the bodies had
been cast upon the beach, stripped of everything found
upon them, and purposely buried to enable the plunderers
to remain in undisturbed possession of their ill-gotten
booty. It is remembered in the neighbourhood that
about 40 years ago a large vessel was wrecked upon the
neighbouring coast, when all hands perished, and that all
the bodies were afterwards found, with the exception of
two—those of the master and mate. Announcements in
the local journals at the time speak of the wreck of the
Peggy Lawson, of Harrington, the finding of drowned
men, a vessel having gone to pieces, and the restoration
of such of the cargo as had been saved is promised to the
rightful owners. Again, the Irish Linen Company, who
had property on board of the Peggy, acknowledged their
great obligations for its restoration. These facts, coupled
with the circumstance of two bodies having been after-
wards ascertained to be missing, render it highly probable
that the bodies lately found are the two in question.
A MAN RESOLVED TO GET MARRIED.—About a month
ago the parish clerk of T—, in the neighbourhood of Dum-
fries, was aroused by a rather smart rap at the door ; and the
vistor. on being ushered into the audience chamber,
proved to be a stout young Milesian, on, as he soon an-
nounced, a matrimonial errand. With that mixture of
abruptness and courtesy natural to his countrymen, he
signified his wish to get the banns of marriage proclaimed
—the parties being himself, Lawrence —, and a nice
young woman he had courted, Kitty Martin by name.
The clerk demurred a little on the ground that the said
Kitty had no one to represent her : but the Hiberbian.
Ccelebs made short work of the difficulty :—" Isn't Kitty
dear and her sister waiting quite convament at the duce,
your worship, I'll have them here to speak for themselves
in less than no time." In a trice Larry returned with
the females, and, from their voluntary statement, it ap-
peared that the courtship of the loving pair had lasted
three weeks, and that the design of the trio was to pro-
ceed to America, after the nuptial knot was tied, and on
receipt of money from a relative of the females residing
in the Far West. The interview, which was really an
amusing one, was finished by Larry paying the fee for
" three day's call," and off the parties went. On three
successive Sabbaths the walls of the parish church echoed
'to the matrimonial announcement; and by the fourth, at
farthest, people who do not know that " the course of
true love never did run smooth," concluded that the
courtship of Larry and Kitty would be duly consum-
mated, and the blessing of the priest pronounced. So
at least anticipated the parish clerk, when, on Friday
night, after a rap fainter than the first he had given, in
walked Mr. Lawrence, evidently bent on business as
before. " Sit down, Larry; sit down ; ye'll be waiting
for the extract, no doubt, to show to the priest. I hope
Kitty and you 'ill do unco wed together." " Augh,
bother," was the abrupt-response; " the ould jade put
bad blood betwixt Kitty and me, all about the bit 'o
money from abroad ; and we're as far apart as if the deep
sea had divided us. I must think no more of her; but,
by good luck, I've fallen in with another swate little
cushla, and if your honour would obleege me, I'll pay for
another three shillings worth of calls for her !" The
worthy clerk was a good deal astonished, and still more
so when his visitor's statement was substantiated by the
silent testimony of a blushing maid, whom her amorous
swain introduced as the object of his second flame. It
was not the part of the clerk to remonstrate—he saw it
would be useless—repeated half aloud the old proverb,
" He that will to Cupar maun to Cupar"—crooned the
tune " It's gude to be off the auld luve before ye be
on wi' the new"—and having thus expressively signified
his sentiments, entered in his record the names of " the
happy pair." Whether Hymen will in this case prove
propitious remains to be seen ; but it is to be hoped that
Mammon will not, as on the former occasion, interfere
with Larry's resolutionto get married.-DumfriaStandard.

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FROM LIVERPOOL.
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PRINCESS ROYAL Thursday, Novem. 16, at 2 , Afternoon.
COMMODORE Saturday, Novem. 18, at 31, Afternoon.
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COMMODORE Tuesday, Novem. 28, at 12 Noon.
PRINCESS ROYAL Thursday, Novem. 30, at 1 , Afternoon.
COMMODORE Saturday, Decem. 2, at 2 , Afternoon.
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JOHN MUNN .... Fri , November 17, at 2, P.m
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