The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-16 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

There are seventy prisoners for trial at the York assizes.
Of these five are charged with murder.
Of the round number of barristers attending the Pres-
ton sessions, seven were fast asleep in court at the same
time, the other day.

A lady residing at Stamford, received last week through
the Post-office, a gooseberry pie, sent to her from a friend
at Cambridge.—Sianveord Mercury.

Passengers are being conveyed by the splendid steamer
on the line from Hull to Hamburg for 55., the charge for
the saloons being only 10s. _

The Wesleyan conference commences its sittings at
Birmingham on the 31st instant. The Rev. Dr. Bunting
is expected to preside.
The will of the poet, Mr. Thomas Campbell, was proved
on Saturday. by the executors, Dr. Beittie and Mr.
Moxon. The personal property i 4 sworn under £2OOO.
The will and a codicil are dated 1842.
An arri‘ al of 2,000 pine appl, s from the Bahamas is a
new feature in the fruit trade, the sale of Owe broutzlit
over last season having encouraged the importation by the
merchattti.—London paper.

A coal vein at Beaufort iron works, Abergavenny,
recently ignited, and is now on fire to the extent of three
miles! Many fatal accidents have already been the con-

sequence.
THE FISHERIES.—Large quantities of mackerel con-
tinue to be brought in daily. They have been sold aA low
as Bs. per 100, and retailed in the street 10 And 12 a
shilling. Last Friday morning upwards of 50,000 were
landed.—Brlghton Paper.

On Tuesday last, during the sale ofthe surplus proper' y
of the Northern and Eastern Hallway Company, Mr.
Ralph, a gentleman of fortune, entered the room, and was
proceeding to a seat, when he tell down and expit ed. Toe
lip ther sale was immediately postpi.ned.
Mr. John Grove, a large landowner in the neighbour-
hood of Ayle.bury, last week sent his tenant-tatmers
their half- early receipts, at the same time telling them
not to trouble themselves in sending the money, but to
keep it in their pockets.
At a meeting of " the soap trade" of Glasgow and
Paisley, last week, it was unanimously agreed to advance
the price of soap to the follow►ng rates per cwr. :—White,
53.. ; pale, 485.; second, or bright, 465.; yellow, 42s.—
Edinburgh Paper.

It is said thit a new use has been discovered in the ar-
ticle guano, which /as never antieipat'-d. Hitherto it
has been merely looked upon as applicable t' agricultural
purposes, but now the rumour g.,es Ibbt it may be em-
ployed in the manufacture of a certain colour.
Works for a new harbour at Aberdeen have been con-
tracted for by Messrs. Oldham, builders and rai'way
contractors, of Cheltenham. The sum is £99,660. When
completed, the new harbour will be one of the most com-
modious in the kingdom.

A d'scovery was made at Buckingham Palace on Thurs-
day morning, that a man employed in the upholstery de-
partment of the Lord Chamberlain's office had commit-
ted suicide in one of the store-rooms'. The deceased was
of regular and sober habits, and the cause which led to
the sad catastrophe was unknown.

GREAT DEPRECIATION.—The ingenious Model of
Venice, recen ly exhibited at Pall-mall, and very poorly
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now sold to Mr. Tyler, of the Surrey Zoological Gardens,
for thirty-one guineas!
THE IRON TRADE.—As an instance of the increasing
briskness of the above trade, we may mention that the
shipping agent at Newport of a large establishment on the
Hilts, in one day last week received, by post, advices of
charter parties for cargoes to be shipped amlunting to
3,000 tons of railway iron. The rails are chiefly for
South Carolina.— Worcester Paper.
On Wednesday morning an unusual number of letters
and newspapers arrived at the General Post-office by the
ordinary ma is from Egypt, Greece, India, the lonian
Islands, ace., vid Southampton. There were 52 boxes of
letters, containing together upwards of 12,000 single
packers, and five bags of newspapers, most of which were
iu perfect files.
DIVORCES.—The total number of divorce acts passed
by the legislature in the years 1840, 1841, 1842, and 1843,
amounted to 27 ; making an average of nearly seven per
annum. The total amount of fees was, in 1840, £605;
in 1811, £4OB ; in 1842, £768 ; and in 1843, £589 ; making
altogether, £2370. The average expense of each divorce
act amounted to £l7 16s. 10th
The House of Lords have decided against the claims of
Sir Augustus d'Este, in the Sussex peerage case. They
have decided that the marriage between the late Duke of
Sussex and Lady Augusta Murray, however valid in every
thing essential to a marriage as such, is against the pro.
visions of the Royal Marriage Act, and is therefore not
considered a marriage by the English law.
ASSIZE Towrls.—By a recent return it appears that
there are 66 assize towns in England, 34 in Ireland, and
only nine in Scotland ; total, 109. Of these towns in
England, seven of them are in the Home. Circuit; eight
in the Midland; seven in the Norfolk ; seven in the
Northern ; nine in the Oxford; nine in the Western ;
seven in the North Wales and Chester ; and seven in the
South Wales Circuit.
GLAMORGANSIIIRE ASSIZES commenced at Cardiff on
Monday last, before Baron Rolfe. At these assizes, Ann
Williams and John Rees were sentenced to transportation
for life for attempting to administer poison to Thomas
Vaughan and Mary his wife. It appeared that the female
prisoner (an illegitimate child of Mrs. Vaughan before her
marriage,) was about being married to the other prisoner,
and expected, by causing the death of the Vaughans, to
come into possession of their property.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JULY 12.—We have expe-
rienced rather more inquiry for sugars this week, and
although the transactions do not exceed 400 hhds. West
India, still there is evidently a better feeling respecting
this article, with an impression prevalent that prices have
reached the lowest point. In Bengals and Mauritius
there has been rather more business doing at steady
prices. Rum is in fair demand at the former value.
Gazetted average price of Sugar, July 9. is 335. Bd. per
cwt.

MURDER.- On Friday a sheriff-officer, named George
Murdoch, went, in the course of his duty, to leave an ar-
restment of wages against a man in the dve-works at
Govan, when, as is said, he was roughly use d. On the
following day, however, he proceeded to lift the sum which
had been so arrested, when, according to our Informa-
tion, the work-people threw the officer down into a vat,
and struck and stoned him, in consequence of which he
died on Sunday morning.—Glasgow paper.
EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.—Mr. Jeffreys, a
farmer residing at Great Bartford, on the 20th ult., while
his. neighbours were sowing barley, cut and carted a
quantity of the same grain. The barley in question was
the produce of a field that had been severely injured by
the hail-storm of last year, and the occupier had had it
ploughed up for the purpose of sowing it with wheat, but
observing a good deal of grain growing, he allowed it to
stand, and the result has been that he has obtained an ex-
cellent crop.—Bristol Journal.

CONVICTION FOR ATTEMPTING TO COMMIT SUICIDE.
—At Lewes Quarter Ses-ions, on Wednesday, James
Simmonds, of Maresfield, shoemaker, aged 75, was in-
dicted for unlawfully attempting to hang himself by the
neck to a tree. He pleaded guilty. A. Mrs. Hartfield
ran. to the spot and cut him down. He was black in the
face, and insensible for an hour. The Earl of t hichester
(oligirman) a,,ked the prisoner if he was sensible of the
enormity of his offence ! The prisoner replied that he
was. His lordship sentenced him to six months' impri-
sonment.

AN "ARTFUL DODGE."—In the Exeter Court of
Bankruptcy last week the bankrupt under examination,
an attorney, named Drake, lately in extensive practice at
Barnstaple, stated that it had been his practice to carry in
his pocketbook a blank cheque-book of each of the local
banks ; and the reason he assigned for this practice was,
that sometimes people would say, " Dear me, it I had
my cheque-book I'd pay you." "Oh ! you would,
would you ?" "Yes, certainly;" whereupon he was
down upon them with a blank cheque, and the transaction
was closed.
RIVER WEAVER.—The yearly survey of the River
Weaver took place on the 26th and 27th tilt., and the an-
nual meeting was held on Thursday 1 ist, at Northwich.
Egerton Leigh, Esq. of Jodrell Hall, retired from the
Trust, and his son, Egerton Leigh, jun. Esq. of High
Leigh, was elected in his stead. This %ear's tonnage pi o-
duced £38,308 ; miscellanies, £425. The expenditure :
general repairs, £7204 18s. 74d. ; incidents, £3629 15s. 2d.;
Weston new entrance, £4529 Os. Old. ; Winnington new
lock, £3444 14s. Bd. ; new churches, £2302 13s. 3d.—
Total, £21,114 Is. 9d.
CURIOUS LOCALITY FOR A NEST.—A small steamer,
the Clarence, lies at At,nan Waterfoot, and plies between
it and Port Carlisle, in the way of tugging vessels. A pair
of swallows built their nest last year under the sponsons
of one of the paddle-wheels, not more than three fret
above the water, and succeeded in bringing forth their
young. There they are this summer again. During neap
tides the Clarence plies every other day, and often every
day. When she leaves the Waterfoot, the birds leave her,
ana keep on the Scotch side; and then when she returns,
and is nearing Annan, the swallows invariably meet her,
and accompany her to her berth.

GRAND CHRISTENING AT BLENHEIM PALACE.—The
infant Earl of Sunderland, the first horn of the Marquis
and Marchioness of Blandford, was baptised at the palace
chapel, Blenteim, last week. The Marchioness of Lon-
donderry presented the child at the font, who was named
George Charles, the names of his paternal and maternal
grandfatheus. Besides the sponsors, there were also pre-
sent the Duchess of Marlborough and Lady Louisa Spen-
cer Churchill, Lady Caroline Stewart, Lord A. Churchill,
and Lord Seaham. The font, richly embossed silver gilt,
was presented by the Marquis of Londonderry to the in-
fant earl, his first grandson.
DISGRACEFUL ASSAULTS ON FEMALES.—On Thurs-
day, a man named William White was brought before
Mr. Maude, at the Borough Court, Manchester, charged
with an indecent assault on a lady named Cartwright, in
Great Ancoats-street. It appeared that the prisoner had
twice knocked her down without the least provocaton,
and that he and another man (not in custody) had atarked
a number of other females, lifting their clothes, throwing
them down, and assaulting those who came to their as-
sistance. The prisoner was fined £7 10s. for the two as-
saults proved, and, in default, to be committed to hard
labour for two months.

FATAL ACCIDENTIN A STONE-YARDINMANCHESTER.
—On Tuesday last, while an-tan named r was engaged
in Mr. Routledge's stone-yard, Trafford-street, Albion-
street, in turning a large block of stone, by means of crab
and chain, on a temporary railway, the stone went down
on its side with greater force than was expected, forcing
out of his hand the handle of the windlass, which struck
him violently, so that he fell amongst some other large
stones, had his skull fractured, and died instantly. The
machinery was stated to he good, and had deceased held
the windlass handle with both hands, he might have saved
himself. On the inquest the jury returned a verdict of
" Accidental death."
Foust LIVES LOST.—On Monday last very great ex-
citement was created in the neighbourhood of Beaufirt,
by a report that a great many miners had been carried
out of the " old coal " mines in a state of stiff cation,
caused by the noxious effluvia emitted by the subterra-
nean fire still burning in the jvorkings, in spite of the
efforts made to drown and smother it; but its further
progress has by these means been considerably checked.
On inquiry it was found that the whole had been reco-
vered, with the exception of four individuals, who had
been so long exposed to the deadly influence of the gas,
as to preclude all hopes of saving them.--Hereford paper.
THE BOILER EXPLOSION AT BOLTON.—The following
was the verdict returned at the inquest. "We are unani-
mously of opinion that the death of James Swift, Bridget
Hart, and James M`Donald, was caused by the explosion
of the steam boiler at Mr. Brook's mill ; that the said
boiler exploded from the pressure of the st-arn tieing too
great; and that George Branscome has caused the explo-
sion. We are also of opinion that due care has not b-en
used in the general superintendence of the steam engines
and boilers." George Branscome was therefore com-
mitted to take his trial for manslaughter. A subscrip, ion
was entered into by the jury for the relief of the families
of the deceased, arid the sum of £8 10s. was handed to
the coroner as the commencement of a subscription for
that purpose.
The boy Jones (the intere4lng chimney-sweep, who so
ingeniously contrived to secrete himself in the private
apartments of the queen at Buckioglia'n Palace), now a
first-class boy on board H. M. S. Warspire, when between
Tunis and Al;,icrs, was last month rt served, late at night,
from a watery gra,e lay the life buoy. The slip's crew
are of opinion that if it hal been a rough night Jones
would not have gone overboard at all ; they think that he
jumped overboard, fur no other purpose than io see the
lite-4,uoy ligr t huriOng, and this is in some measure con-
firmed by the fact of his bawling out when fallin4 "man
°veil) .ard," and again, when immersed, " let go the
life-buoy

Tits: 13/nose, Box —On Sunday week, three drunken
soldir is, 't'ent nu Nhat they denominated " a lark,"
stopped a eat) to I iverte 01-roatl, Mattel ester, insiated on
the oitv.-1 turoing out the individuals who were inside
and car them to the barracks, declaring their colonel
had eivtn orders that they should ride home %hen intoxi-
cated. The cabman remonstrated, the soldiers were
violent, and 'be police gathered at the spot. Suddenly
one 0, he gen, lemen inside put his hand out of toe will-
(l,w, an ordered the policemen to take
charge of the soldiers till he sent a piquet for them. It
was no other than the colonel himself. The coast: rnation
of the drunken soldiers may be conceived.
PUBLIC WALKS IN WARRINGTON.—II is currently
rumoured in the town of Wariiewon, that arrangements
are being made, by which the fields in front of Bank
Hall, the seat of John Wilson Patten, Esq.. M.P., for
North Lancashire, are to he converted into a public plea-
sure vound, for the use of the inhabitants of the town
and neighbourhood. It is sail that Mr. Patten has con-
sented to give Xl.OOO towards the object, and that about
an equal sum is to be advanced out of the government
fund available for the purpose, the remaining part of the
purchase money to be raised by private subscription.
The name of Mr. Beaumont, whose liberality on other
occasions is well known to the town and neighbourhood,
is intimately connected with the scheme.
HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.—A most heart rending and
fatal accident happened on Monday to a lime-burner em-
ployed at the Southwick lime-kilns, near Sunderland.
The poor man, whose name was Bell, went on to the top
of one of the kilns when it was burning. When stand-
ing on the stones, about the centre of the kiln, the burn-
ing mass beneath him suddenly gave way, and lie sunk up
to the shoulders in the " furnatice of fire". In this po-
sition he remained for a short time in the greatest agony,
till his limbs and body were so burned as to cause
his death. A rope having been fastened round the
upper part of his body, he was with difficulty dragged
out, when his mangled remains presented a mo-t horrible
spectacle—appalling even to contemplate. The unfor-
tunate man has left a widow and large family to mourn
his truly melancholy death.—Drrrham Advertiser.
BIRMINGHAM ELECTION.—On Friday he nomination
for the representation of Birmingham, vacant by the
death of Joshua Scholefield, Esq., took place. There were
three candidates—Richard Spooner, Esq., on the con-
servative interest; Mr. Win. Scholefield, son of the de-
ceased; and Mr. Sturge, the " Complete Suffrage" ad-
vocate. It is known that Mr. Sturge has already been
twice a candidate for that town ; and conservatism has
been so much on the increase there that the liberals well
knew Mr. Spooner (whose minority at the contest of
1811 was a very small one) would have gained an easy
victory over him. The son of the deceased was therefore
hurried into the field with something like indecent haste,
in the hope of gaining over some of Joseph's friends.
The whole of the three gentlemen were proposed, and
the show of hands were in favour of Mr. Sturge. On
Saturday the voting took place, and the state of the poll-
ing each hour we give in a leading article, where the
voting in this and previous years is compared.
Our readers will scarcely give credit to the revolting
fact which we now disclose, and which merits the strong-
est condemnation. Frequently since the establishment of
the low rates of postage it has been found that letter bags,
on being opened at the Post-office, emitted a stench
scarcely endurable, but as nothing appeared on the face
of the letters or parcels to account for this strangeamr;
cumstance, the cause remained unknown until withinadfe we
days back. The discovery took place in this y
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and we understand that measures have since been adopted
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for the purpose of dissect()
public feeling, and so gross
an abuse of the facilities of
communication afforded by the post-uffice.—Observer.
to prevent any recurrence of so di-gusting an outrage on
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THE POET BURNS.—It is intended to have a grand fes-
tival to honour of the poet Burns. It will be one of unu-

sual brilliancy, and will be patronised by la-ge numbers
or the Scottish nobility and gentry, Who have already sig.
trfied their intention of being present to pay their tribute

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of respect to the memory of Scotland's greatest poet. Ap-
plication having beer► made to Lord Eglington to preside
on the occasion, the noble lord replied that nothing would
afford him greater pleasure than to comply with the re-
quest, so that now complete arrangements have been
made. and the festival will take place in Ayrshire on
Thursday, August 1. Two days aftet war& the Highland
and Agricultural Society's Grand Show, at Glasgow, will
take place, so that both places may be easily visited.

ACCIDENT TO THE HON. MISS BOYLF..—The Hon.
Miss Caroline Boyle, niece to the Earl of Cork, and
maid or honour to the Queen Dowager, had a miraculous

escape from drooning last week, at Allarston, the noble
earl's seat near Frome. It appears that Miss Boyle was
on a pleasure excursion on the lake, and when pushing
off amongst some willows she lust her foot;tig, and fell
from the boat where the water was 16 feet deep. Miss

Boyle clung to the boughs. Miss Warburton, her com-
panion', threw her the end of an oar from the shore. Miss
Mary Boyle, who had been waiting the arrival of tl,e boat,
at the further end of the lake, alone unmoored anoth,,r

boat, and, assisted by iliss Warburton, succeeded in
dragging in the half-lifeless lady just as her strength was
giving way and her hands were relaxing their

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DEPARTURE OF BARBER AND FLETCHER.—The Agin-
court, convict-ship, with Barber and Fietcher on beard,
and upwards of three hundred other convicts. left Wool-
wich, for Norfolk Island, on Monday morning 1 tst, at
six o'clock. It will be recollectei that two declara:ions
of Barber's innocence have been made and signed by
Fletcher. Barber himself wrote, just before the vessel

sailrd, a letter declaratory of his Innocence, which was
published in the San. On Thursday last a document,
signed by William Sanders, another of the convicts, who
is on board the Lord Auckland, under sentence of trans-

portation for seven years, was received by Barber's
ait.)rney, and transmitted to Sir James Graham. It
avers solemnly that Barber is completely innocent of any
guilty knowledge whatever of the transactions. and that

he received no ;ore than the usual pofebsio nal reniuner-

ation.

A STRANGE FANCY.—The following ludicrous circum-_

stance took phce, in Falkirk, last week. The parents of
a child, about s'rt years of age, on ordering him to bed.
were not a little nonplused by his answering, " I'm, no
Gaon to my bed the night, for I dreamed the ' screen that
I was to sit on a stick arid sleep like a hen." Persuasions
and threats were all in vain. on a stick he would be; and,

willing to gratify what appeared to be a momentary no-
tion, the parents. in want of a proper bauk, proposed that
the back of a ch lir bh,uld serve for his roost during the

night. No sooner said than done, the child denuded him-
self of his clothes, hung them on the chair back, mounted
his roost, and, in a few minutes, to the surprise of all,
was fast asleep. He was allowed to remain thus for some
time, and, on being awaket ed, it was only by working on
his fears that he was ultimately induced to relinquish the
Lank for a more comfortable nest.—Edinburgh Post.
BREACH OF PROMISE.—At the Yarmouth Quarter
Sessions last week one of the cases (Spillings v. Morley)
was a writ of inquiry to asess damages for breach of
Promise of marriage. Plaintiff's counsel stated that
Miss Spillings was a highly respectable person, her father
being a proprietor of fishing boats, and defendant being
also an owner of fishing boats, and a person of pro-
perty. The case excited much laughter, as, in answer
to the recorder, it appeared, that the plaintiff's father
was a shrimpman at Gorleston, and the defendant a
shrimpman also, being possessed of a tourteenth part
of two shrimp-boat. The plaintiff's sister was called
to prove that the plait tiff took the loss of a husband
much to heart, but failed in doing so ; she said her
sister was pretty middling, for she had no doubt that she
would marry some one else. as she had taken it " pretty
tidily." The recorder. in summing up to the jury, made
some very strong remarks on such a case being brought
into court, and told the jury it was a case for the very
smallest damages. Verdict—damages one farthing; which
has the effect of plunging the defendant in about £l5 costs.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—Mary Dillon, a very young
and heautiful Irish girl, splendidly attired, and wearing a
profusion of valuable jewelry, was placed before the magis-
trate, Marlborough-street, on Tuesday list. Police-con-
stable John Cox stated that he found the defendant
sitting on the step of a door near St. James's Church.
Her head was leaning on her knees, and at first he con-
cluded that she was sleeping, but on a closer inspection
he found that she was in a state of complete stupour.
He therefore conveyed her to the station-house, but two
hours elapsed before she was restored to a state of con-
sciousness. She afterwards intimated by signs to the
inspector that she was deaf and dumb, and ultimately
wrme her name and her address at Fulham, on a slate;
but she dec fined giving any further information respecting
herself. Sergeant Burnett, said that a twelvemonth ago
she was living in a style of great splendour in Piccadilly,
under the protection of a nobleman. It also appeared
that, about twelve months ago, she was found insensible
in the street, and was locked up in a station-house for the
night. on the supposition that she was drunk. and from
that time she became deaf and dumb. Mr. Maltby hu-
manely directed Burnett to see her home to her friends.

THE INDIGO SALES.—The quarterly sale of Indigo
commenced on Tuesday. The quantity declared, includ-
ing 999 chests of goods left over from former sales,
amounted to 15.146 chests. The qualities of the Bengal
are in the proporion of two-thirds good and middling.
and one-third fine and ordinary, being in the whole 11,587
chests. The attendance from the continent vv::s more
numerous than usual, and very fair also from the manu-
facturing districts. The bidding soon became spirited at
from 3d. to 6tl. per lb. lower titan the April sale prices
for Bengal; 2d. and 3d. for Madras and Karnali, and
about the Am il prices for Onde; 875 chests passed the
sale, and of which 51 were withdrawn, and only 25 chests
bought in by the exposers. At the Indigo sale on Wed-
nesday, 1,085 chests were gone Urania), making a total
of 1,950 chests, of which 52 have been withdrawn, and
118 boulht in. Prices rul d much the same as on Tues-
day, excepting fir the better 4. alities, which were rather
lower. At the sale on Thursd,y 802 chests were gone
through at the prey'ous day's prices, making a total to
this time of 3,859 chests, of which 195 have been with-
drawn, 192 bought in, and 3,485 sold. The sales were to
be resumed again yLsttrday, and continue about a fort-
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price? being about £lO fur one, and £l5 for the other.
While looking out for a customer, a stranger came up to
him wit! said, " Oh, yol have two horses to sel, I sup-
pose ; what's the price?" Toe servant man informed him,
upon which the stranger replied that he had a very good
carriage horse to dispusP of, for which he had just been
bidden £3). but for certain reasons he did nut wish to
transact business with the bidder. lie offered, however,
to make an excha-ge with the servant min, and give him
£2 for his tronhle. Having stepped aside, anwhe.r fell ov
then came up, and asked if he was goiag to exchange his
bor::es for the one belonging to the man who had just left
him ; and tellii,g him also that if such were the case he
would give him £3O for the horse. In the cmirse of a very
short time the exchange was made, and the three pro-
ce,oled to the Shan public-house to close the sale for the
single horse. Alter they had conversed a snort time, the
sharper suldenly recollected that lie had not a rece'pt
stain in his pocket. and requested the servant man to go
out and fetch one. He accordingly did so, but. it is al-
most needle,s to say that when he returned the three
rogues were gone, leaving a poor old hack behind them
hardly worth a groat.

SHOCKING DEATH OF A CHIMNEY SWEEP.—An in-
quest was held on Friday 1 ist, before the coroner of
Herts, on the body of a‘child of tender age named James
Dyce, who was suffocated in one of the kitchen flues at
Goldings, the sent of Lord Reay, near Hertford. It ap-
peared that the father of the deceased had been cmp'oyed
to clean the flues by the machine; but having experienced
some difficulty in freeing one of the flues from the soot,
made the child go in to clean the soot from the ledges.
After the boy had been up some minutes he called out to
It's father that he could ascend no ltizher. The father
told him to go up to the top, and he would limsel go up
the great kitchen chimney and bring him down. The
poor little fellow then found that he could neither ascend
nor descend, and his piteous cries induced the servants to
send for abt ieklayer. A breach was made in the wall, at
the spot whence the sounds proceeded, but upwards of
four hours elapsed before the flue was discovered. The
child was then quite dead. The child had got into a
shaft, not intended for a flue, having no outlet, and to
which no fireplace was attached. It was presumed that
he had slipped into the aperture, and was suffocated in
the soot. The coroner told the father that he was at
first disposed to treat it as a case of manslaughter, and
undoubtedly had the child been compelled to enter the
flue by threats it would have amounted to that offence.
The father had, however, rendered himself liable to a fine
of £lO for an infringement of the act of parliament; a
punishment wholly inadequate to the offence. The jury
returned a verdict of Accidental Death.
ATTEMPTED MURDER IN A SHOOTING GALLERY.--
On Saturday week, a respectable-looking young man.
aged 22, who gave his name as the Hon. Williamll,lo_l6.
Touchet, was charged, at the Bow-street Police- lairgh
with shooting Thomas Smith, a gunsmith. at 28ared that
Holborn, with intent to murder him.
-:•„legr the latter to
of Mr. Smith's shop, where, after
the prisoner had gone into a shooting a
ua,s„iiil.; had two shots,
shoot with him at the target, nar;iaiid, and, while Mr.
he, without saying a word,
I:loetlheisblaicfke,
wounded him in the
-dwowith his back towards
Id that he was shot in the back,
him,Smi t hh
he fiasr e idoatdhien
loins. Mr. Smith
whatexclaim
be had done it for, but no answer
and asked prisoner
prisoner was taken into custody by a
was given. The
pthoaktenhetr
Smith on purpose, as he wished to be
whom he said be wasilealp
police-officer, to
muliyg,htanbde repeated
hanged,
andbathda
nad
hanged.
hadneigdn.
qt. i sultt heiVi l
lived
h repeated to another party, adding that
ed in lodgings by himself in Weymouth-
.
Thismosity to Mr. Smith.
tionshe bore no aro ,
T ford, the sitting lurimhstee°a-inNi'yas single, had enough
by Mr. Twyford, magistrate, prisoner
should be made respecting him, and, as it
of money, and had not been ill or had fever, but, for a
variety of reasons, was very unhappy. It was directed
street, Portl a n d - sgt pistolreet; another
thatt
saidthtt that
eaht atdhedownietnietssiens ohradde r s
was certified that Mr. Smith was not out of danger, he
was remanded for a week. The prisoner, it was soon
afterwards found, is a younger brother of the present
Lord Audley. In the afternoon, Lord Audley, accom-
panied by the constable who apprehended the prisoner,
arrived at the court, evidently much affected at the ac-
count he had received of his brother's conduct. He en-
tered into a long conversation with Mr. Twyford on the
bench, the part►culars of which did not transpire. Mr.
Smith is still in considerable danger, and MI. Touchet
has been further r, mantled until the unfortunate gentle-
man is able to appear.

July 16. 1841.

...METHOD OF CURING OBSTINATE tioasFA —A few
days nao, as a cwt.r prceeedm4 on toe York road,
n,-ar Doncaster, with a load of stows. his horse made 8
sudden and refused, even alter a n,ost unmerciful
whipping, to poreed. A gentleman t,ll the
h infurated
caner he must not beat him any more. " Wat I
do ?" sail the man " my h irse has stood here upwards
of at, hour ; shall I stand lure all day ? ' "Ohno ; the
horse must go. but you must not heat him any more.
was obtained, secured to the horse's tail, and then
Get me a rope twice as long as the horse." The rope
pissed
between the legs forwards, after which a slight pull Was
given. The animal was frightened, and showed strong
symptoms of kicking, but the pulling was continued.
Suddenly he started forward, and went off without anY
more heating. The gentleman s lie had seen the stole
method tried, with a similar effect. on tie most refraCtori
asses ever bred. If this fact is disputed by those who
have obstinate horses or asses, let them try the experiment.

•
DISAPPOINTED LOVE AND REV ENGE.—In the course
of the past week the imprisonment of a young, handsome,
and accompl.shed lady of 21 years of age, took place un
der the following circuorsiances, and that on the steps of
the house of one of the h ghest law officers of the crow*.
This well born and highly educated foung woman has, for
three years, exercised her musical talents for the purpose
of aiding in the means of supporting her mother and sis-
ters, whose fortunes were lost by their father's unsuccess-
ful speculations. A music seller from time to time sup-
plied her with music for her professional uses, but always
sent much more than wa; desired. The personal charms
and talent of the lady had attracted the usic seller's no-
tice, and he avowed himself, to her great a-tonishment,
her admirer ; his suit was calmly rej,cted, tile lady being
engaged to an offi,er of rank. On hearing this, the music
seller demanded instant payment. of his money, accomPs-
nying it with a writ. Exp.ts,ulaiion was used. the unne-
cessary part of 'he music sent without orders offered to be
returned, and the remainder paid Ex. During this cor-
res,iondence the scion was continued, judgment obtained,
execution against the person issued ; and the young
taken from the steps of one of the high-st law officers of
the crown, where she was about to attend her pupils, and
carrisd to a stiong'ng house in Chancery-lane, and before
the affair could be settled three days elapsed.— Times.
The new chant-•r of the Bank of England will be in full
operation in the course of a sew weeks from the present
time. The part of the bi'l which most engages the atten-
tion in moortary circles is, taat.inore han seven mil-
lions of Bank of England n rtes are to be cancelled on or
before so early a tine as the 10th d.y of October; for,
thoult notes are to be allowed to be issued in the propor-
tion of two-thirds to the amount of bullion, the amount
so issued may be very insufficient to counteract the with-
drawal of so immense a sum on the securities, as many'
circumstances may occur to diminish extensively before
that time the present amount of bullion in the bank. The
dependence on the amount of bullion for all Batik of Eng-
land notes Ind the small and entirely insufficient
amount of £1 .000,000. with the additional restraints on
the provincial bankers from issuing notes for the sun Port
of the trade of the country, and filling up the chasm in
the circulation, is viewed by many parties s full of un-
certainty in its operation, for the present excessive
amount of bullion appears to have been relied upon as ca-
pable of permanency, or that permanently £10.000,000
can be retained, the sum aimed at by Sir Robett Peel,
al-
th,ugh the public witnessed, in 1836, the withdrawal of
bullion so rapidly, and in defiance of all the exertions of
the directors, that only about one million of sovereigns
remained in the Bank. It is not duu'-tod that the effect
of such a dependence must produce great irregularities in
the price of commodities, when the bullion may vary in
amount from £16,000,000 to £1,000,000, and no perSoll
perceives any nowerin bir Robert Peel to keep the amount
stationary at £10,000,000, as he has promi-ed the HOW
of Commons within the last few days.—Midland counties
Herald.

THE NAVY.—A discussion was last week excited in
the House of Commons by the Prince de Joinville's fire-
brand pamphlet, addressed the other day to the wa,..party
in France. Sir Charles Napier, Lord Mitito, and Mr-
Shiel, roundly rated the government for maintaining an
inadequate naval force. This on the part of the whigs is
pa,sing strange and not a little impudent. The complaint
against the whig government in 1839, was, that they bad
no vessels in reserve ; and that the dock-yards were in
such a decayed and inefficient state that no addition to
the force afloat could be made in any reasonable time.
Now, however, it would appear "27 sail of the line are
actually ready for service. and independently of these 21
sail of the line, of which six are three-deckers, and three,
of 92 guts, complete for commissioning, without the sit;
of a shipwright, and irrespective of the frigates and
smaller vessels, altogether 50 sail, we have in two of our
ports no less than three 3-deckers, one 84, three 78's, and
five 72's, 13 sail of the line, four 50-gun frigates, ten 44'0,
three 26's, and a dozen sloops of war, which would only
require docking., to be coppered, and small repairs, to be
ready for sea." The complaint against the whigs Wss
not only that the aessels afloat were only half mantle('
and badly " found," and that there was no adequate pro-
vision for a reinforcement in an emergency, but it was
alleged against them, and proved too, that in no single
department were the dock-yards in an efficient state.
The staff of artificers had become incompetent through
reduction or the appl.cation of a pinching economy, which
occasioned able workmen to abandon their employment.
The store departments were reduced to such a state, that
at one time there was not sufficient timber and materials
on hand to build and fit out one ship. With regard tO
the number of ships in commission at the present time,
compared with the number in 1841, the close of mist ule,
we find that, although at peace, we have more 50-gun
ships, and more of each of the other classes of frigates,
whilst we have nearly 20 more steam-vessels of a superior
class. As, however, the comparison in the House of
Commons. on Monday, was chiefly between the British
and French forces, we may state that all the French line
of battle ships now in existence amount to but twenty.

- -
WRIT ov ERROR.—On Tuesday morning Mr. Kelly
resumed his address, which lasted till four o'clock. He
concluded by saying that their lordships would not per-
mit the provisions of an important act of pat lianient, un-
der which the jurors were chosen, who were to try a man'
it might be. for his life, to he violated, but they would re"
qu.re it to he strictly complied with. He submitted to
their lordships upon this ground, as upon all the other
grounds mentioned in the course of the argument, that the
defendants not having had that to which every British
subject was entitled, in every trial. civil or criminal—that
en
a sr da express
conversing
d h
disaonppro;
is. not having had a fair trial by law—were entitled to
el dor the benefit of the error upon the record, and to sulP
mit to their lordship, that this judgment oueht to be re-
versed. Those were the grounds upon whch they sub-
mitted that this judgment was erroneous ; and they sub-
mitted, with all confidence, to their lordships, that upon
all, or some of them, the judgment must be reversed.
(This closed the case for the traversers.) After a short
consultation httween their lordships, they adjourned-uii•
til six o'clock.—At a few minutes past six o'clock, the
were
judges having taken their seats, counsel and agents
again called in.—The Attorney-General, on the Part
the crown, addressed the court, and spoke up to the hour
at which the 'r lordships adjourned till Tuesday. ".9
Tu-sday moroing the Attorney-General continued 1)16
arguments, and concluded at two o'clock, by maintaining
that the judgment was correct and legal. The AttotneYi
General for Ireland (Mr. T. B. C. Smith) followed, ani,
spoke until a quarter-past five. An ajournment too.
place till half-past six, when the counsel for the plaintiffit's
Sir T. Wilde, Mr. M. D. Hill, and Mr. Kelly, we
heard in reply. The latter had not closed a' a cluarter•
past &even, when their lordships adjourned to Wednesdl
morning, when Mr. Fitzroy Kelly rtsurried his argamen '
and concluded his address at a quarter before three o'clockt
by stating that his clients felt sit isfied that flvir lordships
decision would be founded on justice. The Attorne9:
General said, he believed the Crown had the right of 4
final reply, but he would not press it on this occasion; D
wished, h wever, that it should not be drawn into a Pre'
cadent. The Lord Chancellor then said, that in conjelleci
Von with his learned and noble friends. he had prepares
certain questions for the opinion of the Queen's jedg;
which his lordship handed to the Lord Chief Je9",6
Tindal. Lord Ciiief Justice Tindal, on the part of t'ld
judges, asked time to consider the questions. The 'Lori'
Chancellor: "Most certainly, you must he allowed 9;8
reasonable time to consider your decision." Tue Wl—
' immediately afterwards adjiairned.
APPALLING MURDER, AND ATTEMPTED &Trove'''.
A tragical occurrent 3 took place in Saltord on Sandal
night last,—the murder of a female by a man, with wh°,o4
she had been on the point of marriage, and the attemPL•'_,
ahnteidyaec;:fomNapanntwyiinchg.hCehreosnhitrbet,i
self-destruction of the murderer. The name of the two,
fortunate victim was Alice Nolan, about thirty years.... ;
age, who supported herself by working as a reeler.
_b_!)__
was, we believe, a native of St. Helens. The ea
loan
perpetrator of the horrid deed is Thom
alternately33Stewioowecl
about 29 or 30 years of age, and has
navigator,
or exert.
the occupations of a carter
It appears,
but for some time 1:. Ilit,
abe and the deceased spent a greater
vator. He is stated to
that on Sunday nether,l in the house of a person named.
part of the day t
left between nine and ten o'clock
at night'
Shepherd, and
apparently
lodgings. The previous • L
night at the es°
way to ber
bation at the steps which Stew had taken in pubiisbil4,
the banns of marriage, and to say that he must wait he-
te
same subject. About ten o'clock the deceased was est;
by a young woman named Mary Barlow coming _lr"Lo-
Brigg's-street, into Rockliffe-street, and the young onn,o
noticed that she staggered, and had her hand placed 01-„0
her throat. She walked a few yards farther and then A
against a door, when her throat was discovered to be ea,
in a shocking manner, the bloodfl ' from the W0u..../) t
owing
An alarm was given, and several persons ran to the step
to render assistance, but she died in about ten alin"whil
without being able to speak. The young woma but *
first saw the deceased perceived no one near her ; ane,
very short time elapsed before all doubt as to the. PA ,`,li•
trator of the murder was dispelled, by the attemPteuiro.
cide of Stew, the man who had accompanied her_ ' de-
Shepherd's house. It appears that after cutting Woof
ceased's throat, he returned back to the house where, his
had spent the day ; and, on arriving at the door, 11.:Isiii
own throat, but not so as to occasion death. Surglc7a to
yw ttaeh"shremayhas sePl:i
werear de d
thoi
was procured as soon as possible, and he was conve/1,0.
the Royal Infirmary, where he now lies in a very ;dell
rious state, the chances of his recovery being . extr dated
doubtful. We understand that his windpipe is coral' .de4,
cut through, but the large blood vessel was not chw_lbott•
He has never been able to speak since, and at first '.
nod
nately refused to take food, though he afterwards elfr the
in that respect. A razor was found near the door of the
house where he cut his throat, and the razor In‘o*f
been identified as one which he borrowed on ° bior
afternoon, under pretence that he wanted to ebave_rder ;
self. He was not intoxicated at the time of the I.lTt. O.
and, from the facts which have so far come toll,v_lsoftP_
motive can be assigned for the commission of the atr_r,riltg,
bti:un see:
at
ni s
de 0 deceasednn friendly
s Sunday
n d a
acts above described, except the refusal of the deer;0000
marry him. A verdict of wilful murder was
against him at the coroner's inquest.

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RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
l'aTllhe in - wro», i
he Railway Magazine of Saturday.)
f 45 (
Way; W.. int calculation of the last weekly retus
Will. we L_73 mites in length given in our present number,,ons
rail we
4461 eve. be of Interest' :—Number of ‘88,783 .
~5.,t61. The receipts for passengers on 46 railways, .
passengers l
4118 3. ' di f £29,574; total,
' `2. Th. .or goods on 43 railways, receipts is is an average of .47
Miles wereer the
ar on 1,5 6
sf per mile per week. Tr
----------...7,455, or atcorrespond tiiii fact ye
re' of £67g per mile per w eek.
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NAME:

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gers.

Cor. wk.
Money. , last year
t 7

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dirrhin_. a • • ....
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liit:g,y.lud and Gloucesier.•
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• •'
Great IVestern . -.a-la" •. • •
Liverpool and M •
• n• • ia • • • . . . .
London and Hirn' e 11-"ter
!,01,nridon and Blael:vr4B.la4L • ••
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;I•:lanetera•" 131ralinbaw.
ic2..._t hullsid s a,141 Leeds and
.Nwa4hualia c... e,hy.., ,
........ _ 74,9,3
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.. .Uuties
...... , ... 99,7'
,I. New::le add Carliale .... .. 188:
tom mi,tiaoilli North Shields 10962 40*
p:::.th %1i0n... .............. 01-401 :F•29
.1,414! arid Orlear•t .......
• • 33514 6302
~,)-4.,•„Cnd Rouen ................ 19850 5637
mot-ril add Wyre
............. 4171 502
'lt •Southeit.a.dd Manchester .... 2(146 603
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'.lllVale'Aterd .... 17423 6019
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24204 832
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* See Midland Counties.

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18262
59183
6220
2933
13567
22286
15376
18246

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30784 i

921101
15292
13075
41003

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8424
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338
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