The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-19 00:00:00

(general Aliatllanv.

The total number of labourers employed in the dock.
yards and arsenals at home and abroad, is 3,977.
A boy at Widcombe has died from eating the berries of
the yew tree.
The Bradford chartists were all committed for trial on
Saturday, at the Court-house, Bradford.
The Worcester Festival has realised £l,OOO for the
charities, besides the £5O sent by Jenny Lind.
A man named Davison has been committed at Sunder.
land for killing a man named M'Clen in a fight.
The sale on Friday, at Stowe, (when the best paintings
were sold,) realised nearly £lO,OOO.
The first anniversary meeting of the Cambrian Institu-
tion for the Deaf and Dumb was held at Aberystwith, on
Monday, the Earl of Lisburne presiding.
A young lady, named Stephens, from Bristol, fell from
Dover Cliff last week, a height of 200 feet. She was
killed.

The extensive woollen manufactory of Richard Caunter,
at Ashburton, known as the Bedford Mills, was destroyed
by fire on Wednesday last.
The sale at Stowe has, so for, rwtauced £65,441. It
has occupied twenty-five days, and will continue for. ten
days longer.

At Burford, Oxfordshire, last week, a boy playing with
an elderwood popgun, got some of the pith in his throat,
which occasioned suffocation and death.

On Saturday, the coachman of Col. Sykes, at Hyde
Park Mews, was literally worried and trodden to death by
a horse.

A London magistrate has decided that policemen have
no right to interrupt the public thoroughfares by walking
in rank.

In the next issue of camp equipage to the army the
tents will be made waterproof, as the present canvas is no
protection against a heavy fall of rain.
Two gold rings exhibiting beautiful miniatures of
George 111. and Queen Charlotte, sold at the Bucking-
ham auction for £6 2s. 6d.

The Bryn-y-pys estate, at Flint, the property of F. R.
Price, Esq., was sold by auction on Wednesday for
£150,000.

So plentiful was the take of herrings at Sunderland last
week, that they were selling at the rate of fourteen shil-
lings per thousand.
An estate, lying in the parishes of Erlistock and Ban-
gor, comprising 1684 acres, and producing a rental of
£3566 per annum, was sold last week for £130,000.
RichardWootten, Esq., draper and banker, the "Jemmy
Wood" of Oxford, died on Saturday, in his 85th year,
leaving a fortune of £500,000.
The celebrated Chandos portrait of Shakspeare was
sold at Stowe on Thursday to the Earl of Ellesmere for
355 guineas.
Upwards of 8,230 packages of foreign fruit, chiefly
plums, have been landed at Hull from the continental
steamers during the past week.

CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE, NEAR BRlSTOL.—Up-
wards of X 40,000 have already been suspended upon this
undertaking, and no more money being forthcoming, the
works are now at a stand-still.

On Tuesday, as the workmen were engaged building a
Presbyterian Chapel at Bradford, a large stone fell and
killed three men instantaneously, and seriously injured a
fourth.

Typhus fever has broken out in Greenwich Hospital
Schools. There are upwards of 40 boys in the sick ward ;
one death ; the friends of the other boys have been advised
of the complaint prevailing.
TRAMPS.—By an Act passed on the 4th instant, from
and after the 30th instant until the 30th September, 1849,
tramps are to be relieved from the common fund of poor-
law unions, and:not at the cost of the parish, where the
union house is situated.
As a proof of the honest and peaceful habits of the peo-
ple of Westmoreland, a Kendal paper mentions that for
the last three months no case has been brought before the
magistrates at the monthly petty sessions held at Kirkby
Stephen.

Most of the bakers at the west end of the metropolis
made a reduction in the price of their bread. on Monday
of from a halfpenny to a penny in the four pound loaf.
The low-priced bakers are selling from a penny to three
halfpence cheaper.
AN ACTRESS PREACHER !—Mrs. Darley, long and fa-
vourably known on the Shields, Sunderland, and Stock-
ton circuit, as an actress, preached in the Wesleyan cha-
pel, Cotherston, twice, on Sunday last. At night the
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ALTERING THE NAME OF A TOWN.—By command of
the Postmaster-General, Lane End, near Stoke-on-Trent,
Staffordshire, is in future to be designated Longton, for
all purposes of postal communication, and instructions
have accordingly been forwarded to all postmasters.
A few mornings since, at an early hour, a fox suddenly
appeared in Queen Square, Bristol, and was immediately
sheyizhedisbyeaapntile u,nluthcakty bypasser,he
ewasforced
to release the animal, who was so severely bitten
which then triumphantly retreated into a drain leading
from a neighbouring public house.
FATAL FIRE.—On Saturday, a fire broke out in the
premises of Mr. A. F. Watkinson, stay maker, White-
chapel, London, which completely destroyed the build-
ings. A child, named Pitt, was burnt to death, and Mrs.
Pitt and her daughter. aged nine years, were so seriously
injured that the girl has since died.
builder of the cathedral of Old Sarum,
The new Roman Catholic chapel, Salisbury, was on
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aonpde ed with great pomp. It is dedicated
the celebrated Saint Osmund, who accompanied his uncle,
William the Conqueror, to England as a warrior and after
the Norman conquest was consecrated Bishop of Sarum.
EXTRAORDINARY SHOT.—As Clarence Hooper, Esq.,
of Green-park, Bath, and Captain Frederick Johnson,
were shooting upon the estate of H. M. Williams, Esq.,
at Eastcott, on Tuesday, the sth of September, four par-
tridges rose, the whole of which fell to one barrel fired by
Mr. Hooper, at a distance of forty yards.
A gentleman, who has farmed extensively in the southern
division of this county for the last twenty years, and who
has this year grown 600 acres of wheat, 600 of barley, 600
of oats, and 800 acres of turnips, states that, taking the
crops generally or as a whole, he has never, during his
experience, known a more propitious harvest than the
present.—Derizes Gazette.
Lord George Bentinck's visit to Doncaster has been
far more profitable than his contemplated trip to Ireland
could have turned out. It was stated that, in the event
of Surplice carrying off the St. Leger, the Protectionist
chief stood to win £BO,OOO, a portion of a bet made at the
time Surplice was foaled. We know the result of the
race, and the upshot of the long odds taken by Lord G.
Bentinck against the crack horse winning both the Leger
and the Derby, a feat unperformed since the year 1800.

SINGULAR CHANGE.—The New synagogue in King-
street, Canterbury, is being erected on the site of the
ancient house of the redoubted " Knights Templars,"
once the unrelenting foes of persecuted Israelites, but
now themselves swept from the face of the earth, together
ofith their house, which has thus given place in the lapse
w ages to so singular a revolution.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—Captain Miller, Royal En-
gineers. who arrived on Monday in the Devestation, at
Portsmouth, has come home from the Cape on account of
a deplorable accident, which unfortunately deprived him of
the sight of both eyes. Captain Miller was using some gun-
cotton, when it accidentally exploded, and caused the
calamity.
The lock of hair of Queen Mary, who married the Duke
of Suffolk, taken from her corpse at St. Mary's Church,
Bury, in 1784, was sold at Stowe for £7 10s. This relic
was contained in a glass case, and, since its purchaie at
the sale of the Duchess-Dowager of Portland's effects in
1786 by the Duke of Chandos, has been deposited in the
manuscript library at Stowe.
NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP.—The ceremonial of
consecrating a Roman Catholic Bishop of the Western
District, in the room of Dr. Ullathorne, translated to the
See of the Midland Provinces, took place at St. Mary's
Chapel, Bristol, on Sunday last, when the Rev. Joseph
Wm. Henderson, D.D., was duly installed to the vacant
episcopate. The Hon. Mr. Clifford, son of Lord Clifford,
and a student at Prior Park, preparatory to his taking holy
orders. officiated as master of the ceremonies.

On the evening of Monday week, Mr. Brown, a farmer,
living at Nether Place, Dumfriesshire, went into a field to
fetch home his bull, which had been fighting during the
day with a neighbour's bull, and which had become so fu-
rious that the herd-boy was afraid to drive him. The
animal at first seemed to obey his master, but suddenly
turned round, attacked Mr. Brown, threw him on the
ground, and gored him so severely that he died two hours
afterwards.

SCHOOLMASTERS IN THE COLONlES.—Government
has just dispatched several members of the scholastic
profession, male and female (principally men and their
wives,) to establish primary schools in the Mauritius.
Before starting they received £l2O to provide the neces-
sary outfit, and on landing in the colony they are to have
£25 to defray immediate expences. Their salary com-
mencing at £BO, is to gradually increase to £2OO per
annum.

The Quadrant Colonnade, in Regent-street, London,
that exquisite specimen of what a prince regent can do
when he takes to architecture, was pulled down on Mon-
day week, and the removal of the materials has been going
on since. They have been purchased for railway purposes.
The cast-iron pillars, 145 in number, realised £2900. The
total cost of this alteration is estimated at £3900, to be
defrayed by the sale of the old materials, and by a rate on
the inhabitants.

APPREHENSION OF " WAT TYLER," NEAR BRADFORD.
—This notable personage, Isaac Jeferson, the chartist
blacksmith, so famous in the annals of Bradford chartism,
was apprehended early on Wednesday morning, at a
lonely place called Swilliag, on the borders of the
parishes of Halifax and Bradford. He was pounced upon
whilst sleeping, and, seeing himself overpowered, without
friends in this moment of need, and without a chance of
escape, he quietly yielded himself.
On Tuesday week, the family of a man named Law-
rence, living at Eastry, Kent. were treated to some sloes,
which had been preserved in sugar since last autumn, and
of which Lawrence himself, his wife, and his wife's sister
and brother partook, all of whom, shortly afterwards, be-
came very sick. vomited much, and were violently purged,
in which state they continued some time, totally incapa-
pable of assisting one another, and it ended in the death
of one of the children, which took place the following
day.
EMIGRATION OF POOR PERSONS.—By an act which
passed on the 4th inst. it is provided by the sth section (11
and 12 Vic., cap. 110) that the guardians of any union or
parish may, with the order of the Poor Law Board, and in
conformity with the regulations they make respecting the
emigration of poor persons. render assistance in the emi-
gration of poor parsons irremoveable and chargeable, and
charge the cost upon the common fund of the union or
parish where there is no union.
NOVEL CRICKET MATCH.—On Monday a cricket
match for a purse of sovereigns, between eleven one-armed
and eleven one-legged pensioners, belonging to Greenwich
Hospital, took place in a field at the back of the Priory,
Lewisham, Kenl . The novelty of the match attracted a
great many spectators. The result of the play was
slightly in favour of the one legs, whose facilities for
bowling and batting overbalanced the running capabilities
of their opponents.
A CHEMICAL MODE OF EJECTMENT.—At Bow-street,
on Saturday, J. Dolby, chemist, of 280, Strand, appeared
to answer a complaint preferred against him by Mr. E.
Wild, a wood engraver, residing in the same house, for
having exposed a chemical preparation close to his room
at the top of the house, by which the health of his wife
and children was dangerously affected. The plan was
resorted to in order to get rid of a troublesome tenant.
The prisoner was fined for the offence.

At.the Clerkenwell police-office, the other day, Edwin
Fox was charged with an attempt to steal a watch from the
shop of Mr. King, Goswell-street. The rogue was caught
in a trap. In consequence of previous sittempts at rob-
bery. Mr. King's shop door had been made to fasten with
a spring when any person entered. Fox pretended he
wanted to buy a watch, and got it into his hand ; he then
attempted to open the door to make off with it, but the
spring baffled him, and though he threw snuff into Mr.
King's eyes, he was captured and committed for trial.
FIRST APPLICATION TO GOVERNMENT UNDER THE
NEW PUBLIC HEALTH ACT.—The mortality at the port
of Whitehaven, being at the rate of 42 in every 1,000
(taking eho pnnulation at 11,840. census
of 1841), the inhabitants determined last week to present
a memorial to Lord Morpeth, calling for the interposition
of the commissioners appointed to give effect to the provi-
sions to the new sanitary act. The inhabitants are look-
ing forward with interest to the anticipated official visit of
the government inspector.
Jenny Lind performed, on Thursday, at the Theatre
Royal, Hull, in the opera of Sonnambula. Yesterday
she appeared at York, in a concert ; on Wednesday,
the 20th instant, at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle, in the
opera of Sonnambula ; on Saturday, the 23d, in a morn-
ing concert at Edinburgh, and on the following Monday
in the opera of Sonnambula. She will then perform at
Glasgow, in the two operas of Sonnambula and the Figlia
del .Reggimento ; and on the 11th of October will appear
at Dublin. After performing there four nights, she will
return to England.
A poor woman, named Anderton, met with her death
on Monday, at Stitchford, a few miles south of Birming-
ham. It appears that she and her son were about to pro-
ceed by the up train to London, and for that purpose she
took her place at the station in question. The noise of a
train approaching caused her to run out of the station-
room and cross the line, supposing it to be the train by
which she was about to proceed to town. Unhappily it
proved to be the express down train, by which, on at-
tempting to cross the line she was instantly knocked down
and killed on the spot.
THE HERRING FISHERY.—The " takes" within the
past week have bean unprecedented for the last twenty
years at least, both as respects the profusion and the
quality of the fish. Our fishery this year will be worth
£60,000 at the lowest estimate, and by moderate calcula-
tion not less than £6OOO has this week been netted from
the deep. The bustle and animation in the harbour and
on our quays, has been quite enlivening, and both the
Fleetwood and Liverpool packets have taken heavy car-
goes each trip for the English fishmongers and curers.
The current price to the curers and fresh buyers was ss. a
raease, and to small purchasers ls. 3d. per hundred of six
score. Manx Liberal.
GUTTA PERCHA ON THE MONUMENT.—This novel
material, so famed for its utility, has lately risen to an
extraordinary elevation in the metropolis, having reached
even to the top of the Monument, from whence the visitor
to that noted column may look upon a gutta percha tube
one hundred and ninety feet in length, three inches in
diameter, and one quarter of an inch thick. This tube
passes up the centre of the Monument from its base to the
gallery, at which point it is upheld by a flange also made
of gutta percha. It is intended for the conveyance of
water, and is, we understand, highly approved by the
civic authorities, being light in weight and economic in
price.
Continued fine weather has enabled the farmers to
cut nearly all the wheat in this district, and on the best
lands there is not a stock left in the fields, the whole hav-
ing been secured in fine condition. Oats and beans are
rather late in some places, but, the oat crop is being
rapidly cut, and will in another week or ten days be all
safe, should the weather continue fine. Further enqui-
ries confirm the opinion already expressed that the bulk
is large, the yield good, and the sample fully an average
one. About one-half of the wheat exhibited in our mar-
ket on Saturday. was of the new crop. and it was remarked
that a finer sample, or one in better condition, was never
seen for the first of the season. Many of the samples
weighed 631bs. and some as high as 661bs. per bushel.—
Newcastle Journal.

-"THE LEIGH PEERAGE.—At Warwick, on Monday, Mr.
W. P. Roberts, solicitor, of Manchester, applied to Geo.
Cattell Greenway, Esq., one of the Coroners of the coun-
ty, to appoint a day to hear evidence, in order to induce
him to grant a warrant for search after the bodies alleged
at the county petty sessions in May last to have been bu-
ried under the new bridge, in Stoneleigh Park, upwards
of 30 years ago. The Coroner said in case the body was
known to have been buried, any coroner would be justi-
fied in having it exhumei, if suspicious circumstances
arose, in order that the cause of death might be satisfac-
torily ascertained ; but he did not think the duties of a
coroner extended to a search after bodies, whose inter-
ment rested merely on suspicion ; the application was,
therefore, refused. An application had previously been
made to Mr. Seymour, a coroner, acting in another divi-
sion of the county, but he refused to interfere, Stoneleigh
Abbey being out of his district. This was represented, to
be merely a preliminary step to further proceedings.
One of the new wrought iron bowstring bridges, con-
structed for the Blackwall extension line, has been tested
at the works of Fox, Henderson, and Co., at Smethwick,
near Birmingham, in the presence of Mr. Muntz, M.P.,
Captain Simmons, and other railway officers. The bridge,
as erected on an open space near the London works, pre-
sented a clear space of 120 feet between the bearings. It
is constructed entirely of wrought iron, and consists of an
arch of boiler plates and angle iron, tied across at the
ends by'horizontal bars, the tie being cemented with the
arch by vertical standards, and by a double system of di-
agonals, which have the effect of distributing over the
whole curve of the arch the action of weights placed on or
passing over any part of the bridge. The ribs are adapted
for large spans in cases where either headway is of im-
portance, or where sufficient abutment cannot be obtained
without a great outlay. The ribs are supported in such a
manner as to allow not only for expansion and contrac-
tion, but also for motion under a heavy weight. On this
occasion the bridge was loaded with 240 tons of rails and
bars, double the load which the bridge can under any
circumstances be required to bear. The trial gave satis-
faction to all concerned.

MAN VERSUS STEAM.—On Tuesday evening a comical
adventure was witnessed near Bedwas Church—a race
between Mr. John Jones and the locomotive called
" Bute"—distance three hundred yards, for a sovereign
a side. It was won by the former, by about twenty
yards.
FASHIONABLE LUCIFER MATCH DEALERS.—There
are numerous revivals of a well-known ruse for getting
money, and mysterious noblemen are scouring the country
by dozens selling lucifer matches. A country correspon-
dent of the Cambriege Chronicle states that the place
from whence he writes was lately visited by a " walking
gentleman," well dressed, and with his hair neatly curled,
who dispensed with kid gloves a box of lucifers to all who
were disposed to buy at the small charge of one penny.
He was the unknown nobleman who has undertaken to
sell some millions of boxes of lucifers before he eats his
Christmas dinner.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL.—The Premier arrived at Glas-
gow from Greenock, on Wednesday, accompanied by Lady
Russell. His lordship drove to the Star Hotel, where he
was visited by Mr. Hastie, M.P., the Lord Provost of
the City. Lord John saw no other visitors, and, indeed,
very few persons were aware of his arrival. A committee
of the unemployed were anxious to have an interview
with his lordship, in order to present a memorial for re-
lief, by an advance for emigration, or otherwise ; but
they failed to discover where he was temporarily lodged.
His lordship and family departed in a compartment of a
first-class railway-carriage for Perth by the half-past one
o'clock afternoon train.

M. Louis Blanc has published a letter in the Times, in
reply to an article in which the little gentleman's princi-
ples were pretty freely commented on. M. Louis Blanc's
defence is divided into two sections—one of which is devo-
ted to the refutation of a particular charge respecting his
responsibility for the ateliers nationaux; and the other
to the exculpation of his general doctrines from the liabi-
lities with which they have been visited. Under the first
of these heads he alleges that the ateliers nationaux re-
cently suppressed were in no sense of his creation ; that
M. Marie established, and M. Emile Thomas directed
them ; and that, in point of fact, they were employed to
counterbalance an embodiment of his own influence in
another quarter.
OTTER HUNT EXTRAORDINARY.—Last week, James
Lomax, Esq., of Allsprings, near Blackburn, took (by
the kind invitation of the Earl of Harewood) his cele-
brated pack of Otter hounds to Harewood House. They
flung off on Wednesday, at Harewood-bridge, and a
short distance up the river Wharfe they got on to the
" drag" of an otter, which they presently found, and swam
him for eight hours that day without securing their game,
and had to be called off. On Thursday morning, they
threw off at the bridge again, and found the otter at
Arthington Mill. They swam him again for eight hours
and a half, and at last killed him in the moonlight, after
one of the severest hunts that ever was seen. The otter
weighed 24i pounds.
PRICE OF PAINTINGS.—At the sale of paintings at
Stowe, on Friday, " Sybilla Persica," from the Orleans
gallery, by Domenechino, fetched 690 guineas. A burgo-
master, in a black dress, by Rembrandt, sold for 810
guineas. The finding of Moses, by Salvator Rosa, (six
feet seven inches by four feet,) was sold for 1,000 guineas.
Philip baptising the eunuch, by Cuyp, was sold for 1,470
guineas. The great feature of the day, however, was
"The unmerciful servant brought before his Lord," by
Rembr ndt. The size of the picture was seven feet by
five feet ten inches. The first bidding was 1,000 guineas.
On this the next advance was 50 guineas; from 1,600
guineas it went. at one bidding, to 2,000 guineas ; and,
after a somewhat languid competition, was ultimately
knocked down to Mr. Mawson at 2,200 guineas.

USEFUL HINT ABOUT CHOLERA.—A writer in a weekly
medical journal, who saw much of the cholera in 1832 and
1834, suggests a very simple, and, as he asserts, a very
valuable prevention against the susceptibility of the disease.
The weakened state of the stomach, he says, which pre-
disposes to cholera, is so decidedly obviated by eating
freely of common salt to our meals, that it is believed that
three-fourths of the cases which would otherwise occur
may be prevented by this simple addition to our food.
The writer recommends for an adult the ninth of an ounce
(about a small teaspoonful) three times a day, at break-
fast, dinner, tea, or supper. It may be eaten with fish,
animal food, poultry, game, bread, toast, or bread and
butter. The same beneficial result is not obtained with
salt meats, broths, soups, &c., in which salt is dissolved ;
because, by the action of the heat, or long admixture of
the salt with other matter, a change is produced in its pro-
perties and the preventive power, with reference to this
particular use of it, destroyed.

BRIDGEWATER HOUSE, GREEN PARK.—The new
residence for the Earl of Ellesmere was long talked of:
the carcase is now completed ; the chimneys are being
capped, the carving cleaned off. The situation is one of
the finest in the metropolis,—the view from the state
rooms of the new house, over the park and towards Buck-
ingham Palace, is perfectly beautiful. The plan approaches
a square • the south front is 142 feet 6 inches, from east to
west ; and the west front, 122 feet, from north to south :
and there are two small courts within the mass to aid in
lighting the various apartments. The south elevation
differs from the west in having no projections of the front
wall. Vases surmount the dies of the balustrade. The
entrance-porch, not yet built, will be in the centre, and
be surmounted at the angles by similar vases. The whole
of these fronts, and part of each of the other fronts, are
faced with Portland stone. In examining the interior of
the building, when finished, one point will particularly
force itself on the attention, and that is the care which
has been taken so to plan it, that the freedom of access to
his fine gallery of pictures, which Lord Ellesmere pro-
poses to grant the public, may not be interfered with by
the private requirements of the liberal owner.—The
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AHE SMOKE NUISANCE AND SMOKE CONSUMERS AT
HALIFAX.— Messrs. Crossley, of Dean Clough, to pre-
vent the nuisance of smoke, have adopted "Samuel Hall's
self-fuel-supplying and smoke consuming furnace," which
principally consists in an inclined fire-grate, composed of
a large namber of distinct parallel bars, moved at the up-
per end by a series of eccentrics turned by a revolving
shaft. The longest motion of these eccentrics is given
alternately to bundles of about twelve bars ; but during
this motion every third bar also traverses an inch more or
less than the two adjacent to it ; thus affording an addi-
tional preventative against the formation of clinkers. But
as these hindrances to complete smoke-prevention can
never be entirely avoided, provision is made for their fall-
inf into a chamber at the lower end of the furnace, a fire-
brick shelf being interposed, with an inclination the re-
verse of that of the fire-grate, so as effectually to burn
anything that will burn, before it is finally cast amongst
the useless scorite of the clinker-chamber. The regular
motion and inclination of the fire-grate affords a means of
self-feeding, without the aid of any extra wheels or cylin-
ders ' • and the front of the furnace is formed of three up.
right plates, with spaces for the admission of air between
them. which not only keep the front of the furnace cool,
but also afford an easy method of regulating the admis-
sion of air. The patentee sets forth eight advantages of
this furnace, many of which are also claimed by other pa-
tents. Its peculiar advantages, however, seem to us to be,
first, that as there are no joints to work in the heated
part of the bars, and no friction except at the ends, the
fire-grate is likely to be more durable ; secondly, that
there is little or no waste of power in giving motion to
the furnace ; and thirdly, that the supply of coals, of air,
and of speed, is very easily regulated.—Halifax Guardian.
THE POISONINGS.—The cases of poisoning in Essex
are still under investigation. The case to which the au-
thorities are now directing their attention is that of a per-
son named Nathaniel Button, formerly a resident in the
parish of Ramsey, who died on the 30th of September,
1846, a few days after the death of Mary May's first hus.
band, about whom also some suspicion exists. The
authorities, not having the power of exhuming the body,
have transmitted to the coroner a quantity of evidence,
in order that he may take the necessary steps for investi-
gating the matter. The next case is relative to a person
named Palmer' resident in Ramsey, who died shortly
after Button. Almost immediately after his death Mrs.
Palmer left Ramsey, accompanied by a man with whom
she had long been intimate. The town of Great Holland
in the Tendering Union has also, it is suspected, been the
scene of one, if not more, of these dreadful poisonings.
From tqe investigation which has taken place, it appears
that a man named Brudger died suddenly some time since
in great agony, having been well and at his work until
within a few hours of his death. Two other cases are un-
der consideration—one in the parish of Tendering, and
another in the parish of Bradfield. In the former the
keeper of a beer-shop, named Brown, is the subject of in-
quiry, and in the latter the body of a person named Gop,
who there is little doubt was poisoned, is to be exhumed.
In the investigation of these cases it has been ascertained
that most, if not all, owe their origin to the existence of
what are in this part of the country called " Death Clubs."
A person (man or woman) enters one of these clubs,
azreeilf to nay a sum_of Wicier _Quarter. at the sametipae
m m appog a nominee, a whose death the subscribing
party receives £lO or £B, according to the number of per-
sons enrolled. In addition to this subscription each
member pays 6d. extra on the death of any nominee.
Mrs. Southgate was a member of one of these clubs.
Mrs. Button was also a member, and received £B, on the
death of her husband.

MANUFACTURE OF GAS FROM WATER.—We were
much pleased with a descriptive lecture at the Polytechnic
Institution, accompanied by a working model of a new
hydro-carbon gas apparatus, patented by Mr. Stephen
White, for the manufacture of gas from water and com-
mon tar, or resin, &c. The apparatus consists of three
retorts placed in a stove, two of which are filled with char-
coal and thin pieces of iron, and the other with iron chains,
hanging from a centre bar. The first two retorts are for
the decomposition of water, which is regularly supplied
by means of a syphon pipe, through and into the centre of
the retort ; the water, in passing through the heated ma-
terial, becomes converted into pure hydrogen and proxide
of carbon. It then passes into the third retort, to receive
its dose of bi-carbur?t of hydrogen, which is prepared
from common tar, resin, or similar substances, passing,
or dropping, on the red hot chain, from a syphon tube,
which regulates its supply. This causes the tar, or melted
resin, to throw off an abundance of bi-carburet of hydro-
gen gas. The gasses being mixed in this manner, are im-
mediately conveyed into the gasometer for use, without
any purifying vessels whatever, none being required. The
great advantages arising from this invention appear to be
the small, simple, and cheap apparatus required, and the
beautiful, clear and bright light produced, surpassing the
ordinary coal gas ; also, its perfect purity, being free from
any nuisance in its manufacture, and, above all, so pure
and innoxious, that it may be burnt in any private room,
without the least ill effects or smoke resulting from it.
The apparatus may be used, and the gas made, in any
private mansions, churches, or manufactories, and on any
scale, from 5 to 1,000 lights or more, as well as for cities
and towns. This gas can be made and surplied at a price
considerably less than that of coal gas. Thus we see ac-
complished the foretelling of that eminent chemist and
philosopher, the late Sir Humphrey Davy, " that at some
future time gas would be generated from water for general
purposes, surpassing coal gas in brilliancy and purity."
—Mining Journal.

gept. 19, 114$.

SENTENCE FOR HIGH TREASON.—The sentence nog
is, that the person convicted be drawn on a hurdle W.!
place of execution, and be there hanged by the neck new
dead, and that then the head be severed and the body cut
into quarters, and be left at the king's disposal. The
consequences of the sentence are, corruption of blood, by
which the convict can neither inherit nor transmit land to
his heirs, the loss of dower to his wife, and forfeiture to
thp crown of his lands, goods and chattels. These Wu'
culars may possibly prove interesting to the reader.
AN HONEST CODFISH.—A sloop, belonging to Rothe:
say, was recently lying in Lochbroom, the skipper of
which, when fishing over the side, lost the keys of his
lockers, &c., from his pocket, into ten fathoms of water.
Attached to the bunch was a small piece of parchment, on
which his name and that of the vessel were written. /1 e
of course gave up all hopes of ever seeing the keys again,
and gazed on their rapid descent into the watery deposi-
tory with deep regret. Six weeks afterwards the skipper
cast anchor off the island of Rassay, about 100 miles front
Lochbroom, and again resumed his piscatory employment.
Among the result of his labours was a large codfish, which
was speedily unhooked and thrown on the deck; and, to
the utter amazement of the skipper, the poor cod, whenhl
the last agonies of death, vomited up his bunch of keys• •
The parchment, being partly preserved, proved his Pre"
perty beyond a doubt. At the same time, as if conscience
stricken, it disgorged a penknife belonging to a brother
skipper, on which his initials were engraved. It is a re:
markable circumstance that this fish, in its migratory
course, should arrive at the same spot where the sloop
was, sacrificing its life, and with its last breath discharging
an act of honesty that would have honoured a higher
grade or species of animals.— Greenock Advertiser.
EFFECT OF PROSPERITY ON MARRIAGES.—In 1841,
according to the census of the Registrar General, the num'
ber of women living between the ages of 15 and 45 vro
3,812,651, of whom it was estimated about 2,000.000 WI
unmarried. Allowing for a proportionate increase and
diminution by marriage during each of the successive
years 1842-6, we find that on this number of 2,000,000,0
affected, the returns of marriage give the following
sults :-1842 237,650, 1843 247,636, 1844 264,498, 1845
287,486, 1846 291,328. The Registrar-General take!
" the disposition to marry " as one of the tests of the
prosperity or supposed prosperity of the country. Th'
in 1844-5, years of great abundance and ease, the mar:
riages were far above the average ; so, too, in the first -
half of the year 1846. Then came an actual decrease in
the number of marriages, and an increase in the number
of deaths. We have not as yet got the returns for the
year 1847, but they will, we fear, give strong evidence of
the heavy suffering resulting from our commercial and
other calamities during that 'year. In 1845, when corn
was cheap and commerce prosperous, 50,000 more persons
were married than in 1842. In 184 the variation wait ne
doubt, be the other way.
CHARGE OF ARSON.—On Monday, at BOW-Straett
Emily Beaumont, keeper of a coffee shop in Long-acre,
Mary Fitzgerald, her servant, and James Fry, were Pie-
ced at the bar, the two first-named prisoners being char'
ged as principals, and the male prisoner as being accessory
after the fact, in setting fire to No. 52, Long-acre. Mr.
Storr, the assessor to the Fire-office, said that on the 3.10
of August, the prisoner Beaumont called on him, laying
claim to £272 165., among which was a quantity of wear-
ing apparel, which was found pledged previous to the
25th of August, when the fire took place. On Mondeft
the 4th inst., the prisoner Fitzgerald came to his house,
when she made a statement respecting the fire, without
any threat or promise being made to her, which he redu-
ced to writing in the presence of Sergeant Thompson, the
officer.—The effect of the statement was, that the priso-
ner Beaumont had repeatedly urged various parties to
set fire to the house, under a promise of a considerable
pecuniary reward—that one of the parties thus instigated,
received the sum of £5 as a portion of the promised re-
ward, but decamped with the money without taking _
had
part in the crime, and that the prisoner Beaumont hs°
been sending her property out of the house for some,
time before the fire which actually occurred in it, urging'
the deponent Fitzgerald, also by the hopes of pecuniart
gain, to keep her secret.—The prisoners were remanded.
CHEAP AND VICIOUS LITERATURE.—The inquiry into
the bankruptcy of George William M'Arthur Reynold*
author of the " Mysteries of London," and other cheap
publications, has elicited some interesting evidence on the
subject of the demand for cheap and vicious literature.
The bankrupt himself gave evidence. He was the author of
the " Mysteries of London," " Pickwick Abroad," " Mes,,
ter Timothy's Bookcase," " Wallace," " The Parricide,
" Gretna Green," besides several translations from the
French and German. He was also the editor of the
" London Journal," and is now connected with a nose'
paper, to divulge the name of which would, he said, cause.
his immediate dismissal. One of the most recent, if 01'
the latest of his publications, was " Reynolds's Misee'l
lany," which has had a large circulation. The bankruft
being examined regarding it, deposed that he had never
received one penny out of it, even when its circulationM
20,000. The price of it was only one penny, and F,
it would not pay at a circulation of less than 26,Uw• ioted
added that when those cheap serial works were coto._P„:t
they were not worth one farthing, and only sold 191" to
progress. He declared that a circulation of from loovu,l
7000 would pay him better at lid. than 22,000 at ld..
that he had been losing by the Miscellany
week. He was now employed by others, and his
etearephe-
averaged £lO a-week. ' The penny works were
quifor a few
meral. They had, perhaps, an extraordinary sale
weeks, and then as rapidly went down.—Ffirttereating
STATISTICS OF MARRIAGE.—The following
General Report
statement is contained in the Registrar
Gt
total number of
just published In the year 1846 the o
the
marriages celebrated according to the rites of ,
£8 or £lll.ols
estab-
lished church was 130,509; the number not accord.iiii_ct
_the rites of the established_ church, WAS 15.155- iu
first-named, 14 were by special license, 17,135 were by
license, 92,995 by bans, 1,862 by Superintendent Regis'
trar's certificate, and 18,503 "not stated by which of the
foregoing forms." Of the marriages not according to the
established church, there were in registered places of wor-
ship, 10,693 (of which, 3,027 were in Roman Catholic
chapels, and 7,669 in the chapels of other denominations);
4,167 in Superintendent Registrar's office, 68 Quakers,
and 224 Jews. In 1846 the number of men married who
were not of age was 6,313 ;of women, 20,001. The
widowers who re-married were 18,343 ; the widows, 12,128:
The men who, being unable to write their own names,
signed with marks, were 47,488, the women not less than
70,145. The age at which the greatest number of mar-
riages takes place, both of men and women, is from 20 to
25 years. Then 20,519 bachelors married the same unit
ber of spinsters ; 871 bachelors married widows ; 1,970
widowers married spinsters ; 996 widowers married
widows. Three women were led to the altar betwean
the mature age of 75 and 80; two between 70 and
4
(whereof one found a partner of a less age than 30), an
five between 65 and 70. Of the men 20 were married
between 65 and 70 ; seven between 70 and 75 (one oi•,
whom married a woman of a less age than 25) ; and four
between 75 and 80 years of age.
Two CHILDREN KILLED BY AN INSANE WOMAN
On Wednesday, the inhabitants of Willenhall, a large
manufacturing parish, three miles from Wolverhampton'
were alarmed by a report that a woman named Maria
'
Jones, wife of Enoch Jones, whimseyman at a pit, 10'""
killed her own child, Edwin, a boy 18 months old,
also a niece 12 years of age, by cutting their throats. ,;"
seemed that Mrs. Jones had been attacked with a religv
ous monomania, and it was deemed necessary to place her
in the lunatic ward of the Wolverhampton workhouse.
She was removed thence on Wednesday morning last, at
the instance of two female relatives, apparently better.
According to a statement which she made, the morning'
after the occurrence, to Abbott, the governor of the
workhouse, she sent her niece with the baby to bed be-
fore eight o'clock, and retired to rest herself shore/
after, but could not sleep, and the thought came into her
head that she must kill her child, as it would be damned,
owing to its having been christened by a Roman Catholic
clergyman. She then got up and sought for a razor ; hut•
not finding one, took a black-handled knife, sharpened it
on a steel, proceeded up stairs, cut the girl's throat from
ear to ear, and afterwards completely severed the child!
head from its body. She then raised an alarm that sh'
had murdered the children, and endeavoured to cut her
own throat, but only inflicted a slight wound. Although
at times she seems tolerably composed, yet at other elti
ments she bitterly reproaches herself, and has endeavon7,
to strangle herself, and threatened to kill the pers„"-
watching her. She and her husband were in very CO
fortable circumstances, and religious frenzy alone see`""
to have prompted her.
A BATTLE WITH THE WHALES.—WO have this -eelc
to perform the duty of the ancient scalds, and 0 rein
(but in sober prose) the gallant deeds that were done las
Cromarty Firth last week, when an invasion of whales
courageously encountered by the hardy fishermen, and,
after a bloody fight, the shoal was dispersed, we may the
" with great loss," for many of the largest and best °f
shoal were a trfintif4l, 'and he,arne prizes to the Ng/.
querors. The shoal of bottlenoses was discovered off
Thetheir near Invergordon, on Monday, having betraTe
their presence by the noisy nature of their gambols. T
village fishermen were soon ready after the alarm we,,
given, and went out in boats, armed with hatchet 103_`;
spear, musket, pitchfork, grape, and spade. A scene to
y:
the most amusing character ensued. Dashing right i
the middle of the shoal, the fishermen laid about tor;
great good will, and many a deadly wound was given 1;;
the fray. The terrified whales dashed about liendlong„;,,
the wildest confusion, lashing the water in fury, perileS,';
the safety of the men and the boats, and, what with
'1
shouts of the fishermen, the struggles of the bottlenosaeg,;
and the excitement of male and female, old and Yeuiest
gathered on the shore, the scene was about then o!s_ of
and wildest that can well be imagined. In the naidciieugb
the hubbub, the mail coach from Inverness drove thr ° as,
the village, the road running close to the sea, and theSght
sengers, several of whom were strangers, enjoyed a
9030
which they may not see again should they travel theee_eral
road for 50 years. Late in the evening, after s;ed in
hours of shouting and fighting, the fishermen suceefa3 lg
driving 45 of the sea-monsters on shore, some of t'selt-
feet in length. Little sleep was taken that night 4 from
burn ; everybody was busy in cutting the bliiheo.o ceji_
the prizes ; and on Tuesday forenoon the opera. off 11
tinned—the carcases, divested of fat, being carried 60 large
the farmers as manure. With the blubber about, dories ;
casks were filled to be shipped off to the oil rnaPil'a return'
and will. no doubt, yield a good golaenone, sac-
The great body of the shoal, which was a large goten
ceeded in making their way out to sea, but severe
were left
tangled in the bay of Nigg, where seven of their ht sevel!
aground by the receding tide. On Tuesday °lnstead ofti
more were captured, having made their way up
down the Firth • and having grounded on
ticapturea is
Fowlis Point. On Wednesday 12 more were a
_mg e=on!
the little haven to the west of Ardullie Point, y
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11 to 16 feet, the fight having been a tough ou
y diviau
whole number captured exceeds 70, pretty equal)_fthe Firth,a
amongst the fishermen on the north side 0. ,
none of the whales having ventured in the neienuu
Occasi°l3llo
of Cromarty, where bottlenose whales are
up far
seen. Shoals seldom, if ever, find their way
did the one which was so signally encountered Ali"
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