The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-02 00:00:00

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The mighty Punch is considered of sufficient impor-
tance to be prohibited entrance into Prussia.
Gas has been introduced to heat a greenhouse, near
Inverness, with perfectly good results.
The Apothecaries Company of London have voted the
sum of £5O to the exhibition of 1851. •
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A bird's nest containing five eggs, nearly hatched, was
lately found in a waggon laden with cinders, at Keightley,
On Wednesday, forty-six Polish refugees embarked at
Southampton for America.
On Saturday, at Sunderland, a fine brig, 251 tons, was
launched ; and on Wednesday a barque, 663 tons, A 1,
13 years, named the " Hempsyke."
A tomtit's nest was lately found in the hat surmount-
ing a scarecrow placed in a garden near Driffield, York-
shire.

On Monday a young man died at Sheffield, by having
incautiously inhaled chloroform for the mitigation of pain
in his face.

On Tuesday a cab-driver was fined 2s. 6d. and costs, at
Guildhall Police-court, for refusing to take an eightpenny
fare.

Miss A. Williams was lately married to Alfred Price,
Esq., of Gloucester, a gentleman of large property and
influence.

A beautiful and extensive conservatory is now being
erected in the gardens of Raby Castle, Durham, by the
Duke of Cleveland.

' Last week a horse ran away at Perth, and, meeting a
cart eprang into, whilst attempting to clear, it. Much
difficulty ensued in inducing him to leave it.
James, the novelist, embarked at Southampton for New
York, on Thursday, with his family, on a mission to esta-
blish a copyright system wif h the United States.
The Town Council of Wisbeach have voted twenty-
five guineas to the funds raising for carrying into effect
the proposed Industrial Congress.
On Sunday morning, a young gentleman named Bil-
lowin, the son of a planter in Trinidad, was drowned
while bathing in the Serpentine.
The Times is using its power to induce the Royal Com-
missioners to change the site of the Exhibition of 1851
from Hyde Park to Battersea Fields.

Another English fishing-smack, the Richard Cobden,
has been seized by the French cruizers for fishing out of
her limits, and brought into Havre.
Pence Albert has promised to lay the foundation stone
of the new National Gallery at Edinburgh. The day has
not yet been fixed.
On Tuesday, a corn warehouse at Lincoln fell from the
floors, being over-laden. Several men had narrow
The hay harvest has tommenced in many parts of Nor.
thumberland and Durham. Except on very poor lands
the crop is expected to prove a fair average one.
WAGBs.—An eminent farmer in Pembrokeshire stated
the_ether day that labourers in hundreds were willing to
work in that county at threepence a day and their provi-
sions !
The only counties in England which show an increase
in the amount of poor-law relief for the half year ending
at Lady-day last, as compared with the corresponding half
year of 1849, are those of Northumberland and Durham.
A prisoner in Edinhureh Castle, whilst endeavouring to
escape, on Tuesday, fell from a high wall, on the public
road, and received such injuries that he died almost
immediately.

On Thursday week, at Mansfield, Notts, a man under-
took to walk backwards five miles in an hour, and suc-
ceeded in accomplishing his task, with several minutes to
spare. _ _ .

A shipment of £280,000 in silver took place from
London, on Thursday, to St. Petersburg, for the Russian
government. It is the last remittance to be made on
account of the loan.

Last week, at Aldborough, near Richmond, the wife of
George Alderson, labourer, was brought to bed of three
children. Two are living, and, with the mother, are doing
well.

.......
Only two fiats have been issued during the' last two
months, from that division of the Bankruptcy Court at
Birmingham, which takes in the counties of Lincoln,
Leicester. Derby, Nottingham, and. Rutland.
The Carmarthen Journal says that a mastiff bitch,
belonging to a farmer near Cardigan, has regularly
suckled and tended four young pigs, in the stead of her
own puppies, which had been drowned.
Or. Sunday the 9th of June, after the second lesson at
evening prayer, twenty three individuals were publicly
hantiz d in the presence of an immense congregation.—
Cambridge Chronicle.
AN EMPTY JAIL. —Tiverton Jail is at this Moment
empty, for the first time during the last seventeen: years,
so that out of a population of 12,000 inhabitants there is
now a single felon in custody.
A youth, named Cavanah, a shoemaker, at Glossop,
died on Thursday week, in consequence of drinking a
small portion of beer from a match box which had been
used for holding.oxelic acid.
The Builder proposes terracotta tombstones, im-
pressed with inscriptions by moveable types before the
clay as baked, as enabling the poor to erect cheap and
elegant monuments to the memory of their deceased
friends.

There was a very severe thunder storm in London
about one o'clock on Thursday morning, accompa?icd by
torrents of rain. A lucifer match manufactory, irr Kent-
street in the Borough, was struck by lightning, • and a
consi,lerable quantity of property destroyed.
A few days since. at Llanrhaiadr, Denbighshire, a farm
servant named Robert itdwards 'was' shot through the
right jaw and brain, whilst he was hastily snatching at
the muzzle of a loaded eun, which he had cohcealed
amongst some sacks in a hovel.

Lady Castlereakh has become a Roman Catholic. Her
ladyship is daughter to Lord Roden, and wife to the eldest
son of the Marquis of Londonderry. Her conversion is
at present creating some sensation, as it is rumoured Lord
Castlereagh is about following her example.
On Thursday, a young man named Barnett having gone
on board one of the halfpenny steamers on the Thames,
got entangled in a coil of rope, by which his right foot was
severed from the leg, which was subsequently obliged to
be amputated at the knee.
A young man, named Adam Jackson, fell from the
third story of a new house in Nelson-street, Gateshead.
In his fall his head came in contact with the window_
head of the ground floor, and although he fell upwards
of 30 feet. he is exnected to recover.
_ _

Last w• ek a William Jones, labourer in the employ of
Messrs. Whitebread and Co., the brewers, met with
instant death by incautiously descending into a large vat
containing a quantity of foul air generated by some grains
at the bottom.

In January last, there were only 336,R95 quarters of
grain imported, the price of wheat. being 40s. Id. The
price has been uniformly lower ever since, and vet the im-
ports of grain have risen to 800,000 to 1,000,000 of quar-
ters per month

On Tuesday the children of Mr. Lewen, a visitor to
Brighton. were taken to the beach to bathe, and one of
them—a little girl nine years old—began to play with the
wheel of the machine, which being suddenly set in mo-
tion, passed over the child's head and killed it on the spot.
UNEXPECTED GOOD FORTUNE.—On Monday, as the
inventory of the late E. Fulcher's furniture, &c., was
beine taken, a box was found, among some old wearing
apparel, which contained £530 in notes and; gold.—
Norfolk Chronicle.
The bullion in both departments of the Rank of Eng-
land has increased from £16.912,277 to £16,966,823, being
a difference of £24,564. The paper in actual circulation
had decreased from £20,637,875 to £20,034,140, being a
difference of £603,735.

One of the most valuable iron mines in England has
been discovered near Whitehaven. The vein is thirteen
and twentyfive feet in thickness, and contains sixty-five
per cent of iron. The greater part of the produce is ex-
pected to come down the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway.
A GENEROUS LANDLORD.—TheVenerable H. C.Jones,
Archdeacon of Essex, and of Br'eneisteddfod, Denbigh-
shire, made to his tenants at his late audit, at Llansant-
fraid-Clan-Conway, the munificent return of 50 per cent.
on the last half-year's rent.
On Friday, the Lord Mayor gave a splendid entertain-
ment to the masters and principal officers of the Freema-
sons of En2land. The guests appeared in masonic cos-
tume, and the scene in the Egyptian Hall was cxtremelv
splendid. The novelty of the occasion attracted crowds
round the doors of the Mansion-house.

It is said that Louis Philippe's fortune is divided by his
will among his children and his grand-children, in eight
equal parts, and that the share of each will be 500,000 f.
£20,000 per annum ; so that Louis Philippe's private
fortune, notwithstanding the great depreciation within
the last two years, amounts to £160,000 sterling a year.
On Wednesday morning last, about two o'clock, a
storm of thunder and lightning passed over Walshford,
near Wetherby, and killed a sheep belonging to Mr.
John Whincup. In the same field the electric fluid split
a very large tree in a hundred pieces. There were up-
wards of seventy sheen in the field.
The Victoria Dock at hull is to be opened to-morrow,
on which occasion the directors of the dock company and
numbers of the merAants and others of the port are to
dine together. The mayor has suggested that, on an oc-
casion of so much importance to the town, the day should
be generally observed as a holiday.
Early on Monday morning a prize-fight took place at
Long Eaton, a village not far from Nottingham, between
two young men named Hall and Brown. After an hour
and a quarter's fighting, Brown fell quite exhausted, and
lay vomiting blood. He died soon after, when Hall in-
stantly decamped.
THE FIRE IN DARLEY MAIN COLLIERY.—The fire
continues in this pit, and men are employed in using
means to extinguish it, and in doing so they find the black
or choke damp so strong that it is much feared some lives
will be lost in the hazardous undertaking. Not less than
five men were drawn out of the pit on Wednesday morning
in a senseless state, and from the effects of the black damp
which they had imbibed they had to be conveyed to their
homes in carts. _

A little boy named Swinbank, six or seven years old,
living near Kendal, went yesterday week to count some
lambs, and in so doing thrust his head through the bars
of a gate, which was not on hinges, but was loose, and
leaned against the gateposts. The gate fell down, carry-
ing the boy with it, one bar being beneath his chin, and
another behind his head ; and his sister, who was alarmed
by his screams, found him thus pinned to the earth, with
the skin as completely stripped from the crown of his
head, as if he had been scalped by an American Indian.
The movement against the new Post-office Sunday
regulations has already been commenced. On Thursday
the London newspaper proprietors met, with the view
of in 'ucing parliament to retrace their steps as regards
the alterations which have just been made in the trans-
mission of letters and newspapers through the Post-office
on Sunday. Resolutions were passed; and the meeting
also resolved that the ministry had shrunk from their
duty in stopping the use of the post for the weekly news-
papers, in an address moved by only 95 members of the
House of Commons.

A respectable young man, named Toogood, who re-
cently attended a lecture on electricity at Wookey, near
Wells, submitted to be electrified, and received so vio-
lent a shock in his left arm that it has been rendered quite
useless. It appears to be questionable whether the limb
'still ever regain its former powers.
A young gentleman of studious habits, named Hind,
died in London,. yesterday week, from the effects of a
dose of turpentine and quicksilver, which he had taken
from a prescription in a pamphlet entitled, " Every man
his own Physician," as he laboured under a hallucination
that he had a tapeworm, which gnawed at his liver.
A correspondent of the Cambrian says that while a col-
lier named Williams, who acts as a baptist minister, was
baptising a woman by immersion in the river Twrch, on
Sunday week, both he and the woman sank in a pool, and
would probably have been drowned if a man named Davies
had not leaped into the water and rescued them.
The gossips of a town not far from Edinburgh have had
ample scope for scandal for the last few days, in a most
distressing event which has occurred in the family of a
reverend gentleman, whose wife has abandoned home,
husband, and family for a foreigner, with whom she has
eloped.
ILLEGALITY OF HEAPED MEASURIL—The magistrates
of the borough of Leeds have fined several parties sum-
moned before them by the Inspector of Weights and
Measures for that borough, for selling green gooseberries
by measures heaped above the brim; heaped measure
being abolished by the sth and 6th William IV., c. 63.
On Monday the celebrated charger belonging to Lord
Gough which bore his lordship throughout all the Indian
campaigns was being landed in the East India Docks,
when the box broke from the slings and the animal was
killed. Lord Gough, who highly prized the animal, had
it conveyed from India at a great expense.
The straw in a carrier's van, which was proceeding from
Staplehurst to Cranbrook, Kent, on Friday week, was
fired by some ashes from the driver's pipe; and before
the flames could be extinguished, a valuable parcel of
books was destroyed, and some cheese completely
toasted.

The Mormonites are endeavouring to make proselytes
in Cheltenham, for which purpose they hold meetings in
the Town-hall. Crowds are gathered together by idle
curiosity, and on Sunday week a serious disturbance was
created in the hall by the determination of some of the
auditory to eject the leaders of the sect.
The Literary Gazette of Saturday says, " Mr.tibson,
of Rome, now in England, has received an order for a
colossal group, in marble, of figures of her Majesty, sup-
ported on either side by justice and clemency. The figure
of the Queen will be, we believe, ten feet in height, the
side figures eight feet. This group will occupy a place in
the new Houses of Parliament."

Mrs. Breece, housekeeper to G. Davies, Esq., surgeon.
of Machynlleth, feeling indisposed, entered her master's
surgery, and took thence a packet, which she imagined
to be Epsom salts, but which contained oxalic acid. This
she took, and immediately became very ill. Although
assistance was promptly rendered she died in less than an
hour. •
EVENING CLASSES FOR YOUNG MEN INLONDON AND
THE SUBURBS.—On Tuesday a meeting of the promoters
of this excellent movement was held at the London
Tavern, the Right Hon. the Earl of Harrowby in the
chair. The occasion was celebrated by a supper, and a
number of clergymen attended. The year's trial of the
system has been most successful.
A boy, seven years old, the son of a farmer named
Moorhouse, living at Doncaster, died last week from te-
tanus caused, in the opinion of his medical attendants, by
inflimmation of the membranes and spine, arising from a
cold which he had caught by wading in ditches, while
playing truant from school, and then concealing from his
parents that his feet were wet.
PARLOUR BEES.—On Wednesday week a swarm of
bees took their flight from Mr. Robert Poole's brick yard,
about half a mile from Bridgewater, and took up their
abode inside the parlour window of Mr. Glencross, tea-
dealer, Castle street. Not the least orisinal part of the
matter is, that they effected an entrance through the
aperture made for the pullies on which the sash cord
runs.

Mr. Thomas Smithson, tobacco and snuff manufacturer,
of Micklecote, York, was condemned on Monday to pay
£5OO to the Queen, a commuted penalty for extensive
adulterations of tobacco and snuff at his warehouses in
the above city. The Times in reporting the case says
that "the adulterations in some cases amounted to 29.3
per cent. of the entire article, and that nothing on the
premises had escaped the hand of the adulterer!"
The proposed site of a new park in London comprises
the open fields between Highbury and Holloway, bounded
by the Great Northern Railway, and the reservoirs of the
New River Company in the Green-lanes. The western,
eastern, and southern districts of the metropolis have
already been provided with parks at the public expense;
the norther,. is the only district for which no such provi-
sion has been made.

A MOTHER'S LovE.—A child aged two years, son of
Mrs. James, of Bradwell Wharf, fell into a well near her
residence, and would probably have been drowned but for
the heroic conduct of its mother who, on hearing from the
servant that her offspring was in the well, jumped in. took
the boy up, and supported him and herself by clinging to
the wall till a ladder was procured, when both were brought
from their perilous position.—O.zford Chronicle.
The late Mr. Youatt, in one of his orations to the
members of the Veterinary College, observes. that " by
the improvements in modern chernistr medical pro-
fession are enabled successf seat diseases which
were Previously suppos not within the reach of medi-
cine." This trut been manifested for many years,
but in no insta of greater importance to mankind than
by the di. ry of Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills.

A gentleman connected with the Bank of England re-
lates that he sent seven pipes of brandy to California, in
charge of a person who was proceeding thither. He has
received in return an account sales, showing that he is
entitled, as the gross proceeds, to one dollar and fifty
cents. The brandy sold, according to this account, for
530 dollars. The charges amounted to 528 dollars fifty
cents., including 329 dollars 50 cents. for duty, at the
alleged rate of 100 per cent.
Last week a sailing yacht, built of gutta percha, was
exhibited on the Serpentine in Hyde-park, which, it was
said, could neither be sunk nor overturned. Various ex-
periments were tried, all with success. The boat sailed
equally well full of water or empty 1 An attempt made to
capsize her failed. We must add that she was built on
the life-boat principle, and was provided with air cells,
which enab!rd her to float and make fair way even when
full of water, and carrying her cargo besides.
THE REV. DR. BUCKLAND.—We quote the following
sad announcement from the Era :—" It is indeed a
melancholy fact, although we are the first to notice it.
Dr. Buckland, the Dean of Westminster—the eloquent,
the witty, and the learned writer of the remarkable
' Bridgewater Treatise,' is bereft of reason, and is now
an inmate of an asylum near Oxford. We cannot tell
whether the study of geology has driven the learned doc-
tar mad, or what phase his lunacy puts on."
A young man named Watkins, assistant to a chemist in
Broadley-terrace, London, was found dead in his bedroom
on Wednesday morning week, wi.li his head envt loped in
the bedclothes, and his I. od in a kneeling posture et the
foot of his bed, as if he had been praying. The surgeon
who made a post-mortem examination of his body, stated
that the deceased had been smothered by his head being
closely covered with the bedclothes; and it is believed
that Watkins had no intention of committing suicide, but
accidentally stifled himself.
On Monday, the consecration of the church of St.
Stephen the Martyr, at Westminster, erected by Miss
Burdett Coutts, at an expense of £30.000, as a memorial
to her father, took place by the Bishop of London. The
plan includes not only the erection of a church and incum-
bent's residence, but also of a school-house, or rather two
school-houses, capable together of accommodating upwards
of 500 children, with apartments for the masters, and all
the necessary conveniences. The Duke of Wellington. the
Earl of Carlisle, Viscount Castlereagh, the Duchess of
Sutherland, the Marchioness of Kildare, the Countess
Grey, and a long list of fashionables swelled the crowded
congregation. Some of the stained glass windows are by
Wailes, of Newcastle.
RIOT AT DUNFERMLINE.—On Saturday evening week,
about 11 o'clock, a band of " navvies," armed with blud-
geons and knives, made a savage attack on some of thein-
habitants of Dunfermline, several of whom were severely
injured—one, it is feared, fatally, from a stab in the neck
and fracture of the skull. Ultimately the navvies were
overpowered, and eleven of them lodged in gaol. Again,
on Sunday evening, two men were attacked and stabbed
in the suburbs of Baldridgeburn. The feeling of the
townspeople had now become much exasperated, and a
certain class resolved on summary retaliation. Accord-
ingly, about ten o'clock next morning, a mob of 400 to
500, principally very young men and boys, paraded the
streets, vowing to send all the Irish out of the town, and,
proceeding to the Irishmen's lodgings, turned them sum-
marily out of doors, giving them time only to take their
clothes with them. Only one man, we believe, resisted,
having struck at one of the townsmen with an axe, and
cut open his arm, for which he was severely punished by a
dreadful blow from a bludgeon, which laid his scalp open.
The military, assisted by the police, succeeded at last in
quelling the riot.
WOODEN AND IRON STEAMERS.—A lecture on the
comparative merits of wood and iron as materials for the
building of ships and steam-vessels was, on Monday, de-
livered by Mr. John Bowene, at the United Service In-
stitution, before a large audience of officers and gentlemen.
The advantages claimed for iron ships were, he said,
greater strength and stiffness, no liability to rot, or to be
damaged by rats, white ants, or other vermin, increased
stowage, less weight, greater tightness of the bottom and
less bilge water, no caulking or coppering, and fexer re-
pairs (against which, however, has to be set the more
frequent necessity of docking and painting), more ready
applicability of water-tight bulkheads, less detriment
from grounding or striking upon bars or rocks, and, for
an equal number of vessels, less first cost. Iron vessels,
he remarked, have heretofore been always made with
wooden decks, but it would be much more desirable to
make the main decks of iron. There appeared, he thought,
no doubt that, by a proper distribution of the material,
iron vessels might be made a good deal stronger than
wooden ones ; and, therefore, from all these considera-
tions, he concluded that, for the construction of river
steamers, coasting steamers, screw vessels and smacks,
which are perpetually entering tidal harbours, and often
getting aground, and, indeed, for " domestic" naviga-
tion of every description the superiority of iron over wood
was indisputable. Wooden ships, properly coppered, he
considered by far the most appropriate for vessels sailing
and for men-of-war. The best
mtoetthroodp
iocaflobeviiiamtainteAhe dangers incidental to the splint-
ering of iron vessels that he had yet heard of was the ap-
plication" of a layer of kamptulicon to the inside of the
vessel. This was so elastic that, when a ball passed
through it, it at once collapsed, and so effectually closed
the hole just made. It also retained the splinters of the
iron imbedded in it, so that the two most prominent evils
of a ragged:hole, impossible to be plugged, and a large
scattering of splinters, appear to be, in a great measure,
remediable by the employment of this substance.

SINGULAR. DEATH Or A CHILD.—A child, eight
months old, lost its life on Monday in a singular manner
in North Jonn-street, Lisson-grove, London. It was left
in the care of a woman by its parents, who went out for
the day. In the evening she put the child on a bed, and
left it asleep. In about an hour after she entered the
room to see if it was still sleeping, when, to her horror,
she found that it had fallen off the bed into a pail of
water, with its feet projecting, outwards, and was quite
dead.
Mr. Charles Whitney, who has been for some time
amusing the English and Scotch public by imitations of
celebrated speakers, American and English. and curicus
specimens of American orators, is a son of General Whit-
ney, of the United States, who left property to the
amount of 160,000 dollars. The will of the general was'
disputed ; but, after much litigation, the matter has been
ultimately decided, and Mr. Charles Whitney's share of
the property will be about 30,000 dollars. He will shortly
return to his n'itive country.
BANK ROBBERY.--A paragraph has appeared in several
papers apparently extracted from the New York Sun,
announcing the arrest of two individuals who had arrived
in the United States from Liverpool, on the 31st of May
last, by the Yorkshire, and who are stated to have been
clerks in a bank in Ireland, who had absconded with
£25,000, which was found in a carpet bag. The facts are
that but one of the parties was a clerk in a bank in Ire-
land. who bad absconded with £6OO only, that he was
arrested at New York upon papers sent out by Messrs.
Bush and Mullens, the solicitors, of London, and that,
about £4OO has been recovered from him.— Times.
ATTEMPT BY A LADY TO COMMIT SUICIDE.—At Bow-
street, on Tuesday, a lady named Catherine Williams, the
widow of an officer, was charged with an attempt to drown
herself at the pier near Waterloo-bridge. It appeared,
that while coming by one of the Citizen boats from London-
bridge, her purse, containing seven pounds and some silver,
had been stolen from her. She did not discover her loss
until she came to an advertising office, in Catherine-street,
where she went for the purpose of advertising for the situa-
tion of a governess, and finding herself robbed of the only
money which she possessed, she attempted suicide under
feelings of excitement and desperation. She was re-
manded. _ _ _

EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.-011 Tuesday week a
portion of a coal-mine at Bilston, Staffordshire, sunk just
beneath an arm of the Birmingham canal. The water
rushed into the cavity yob h extreme violence. A tempo-
rary lock of planks was immediately thrown over the
canal, and cart-loads of straw, earth, &c., were thrown
into the gap, but, these, and even trees an bushes, were
swallowed up, and it was long before the hole was C3lll-
- choked. The upper part of the arm was com-
pletely emptied of water. Several boats which were load-
ing were nearly sucked into the vortex, but by the rapid
ahallowing of the water they were safely embedded in the
mud.

SINGULAR WILL.—The late Miss Margaret Creak, of
St. Andrew's London, has left a very singular will, and
property to the value of £20,000. She had left Is. each
to such of her relations as chaose to prove themselves so ;
a legacy of £2O to one neighbour, £lO to another, and a
few trifling legacies of £2 each. She had left £5O each
.to 'every houseless person in the country above 68 years
of age; and all her real estate to found an hospital for
aged persons, the hospital to be built, and the inmates to
he habited as directed. She then gives all her personal
property to a neighbour, who is appointed executor. It
is evident the terms of the will cannot be carried out, the
property being insufficient.
TRAVELS OF A CAT.—At Whitsuntide, two years ago,
Mr. John Pearson, of Ullsmoor House, Shap, removed
from thence to Lanchester, in the county of Durham,
taking along with him his parrot, bantam hen, and torn
cat, his only live stock. Poll and Mrs. Bantam soon
settled down, and evidently seemed pleased with their
new residence. Not so, however, with Toni, who ap-
peared restless and ill at ease, and a few days after his
arrival bade a final adieu to Coalpike Hall. On the
seventh day after his setting out, Toni put in an appear-
ance at his old quarters, Ullsmoor, but finding the house
tenanted with strange faces, he again set out on his
travels, and eventually took up his abode at the house of
the Rev. Mr. Rowlandson, where he still remains.—
Westmorland Gazette.

A NEW SPECIES OF FOOD.—A lace-maker of Lenton,
who keeps dogs for rat-ct telling, was at a house in Not-
tingham, in which he chanced to go on Sunday week,
when, through bravado, he worried a rat. He seized it
with his teeth while yet alive, and skinned it; he then
with much gusto devoured the whole animal, reserving
the entrails for a last choice morsel ; and he even gnawed
the fat from the skin. He afterwards worried two other
rats, one of which he also entirely devoured, and declared
that he was ready to serve a dog in the same way. He
was not encouraged by a single voice in this beastly exhi-
bition, but every body around him evinced unmitigated
disgust and abhorrence. We are also informed that the
stocking-making inhabitants of a village a few miles
south-east of Nottingham periodically aid the farmers in
killing the rats which infest their stacks, and then, having
skinned them, have them made into pies, which they eat
with apparent relish. Indeed, it is no uncommon thing
for a stranger, when pass'ng through the village, to meet
men with pieces of bread in their hands and portions of
some animal thereon, apparently young rabbits, but
which, on inquiry, he will find to be neither more nor less
than roasted rats.—Nottinghamshire Guardian.
NEW METHOD OF SILVERING GLASS.—We attended
an exhibition of a new species of art manufacture, by
which glass, intended for either ornaments or useful pur-
poses, is silvered. Two exceedingly beautiful vases, the
work of Lsunez, which gained the prize at the last expo-
sition in Paris under the reign of Louis Phillippc, were sub-
mitted for our examination. Some forest scenes, in which
wild horses are introduced, were engraved upon them in
the first style of art, and, by the application of this new
process, Mr. Hale Thompson has succeeded in giving to
the indented portions of the figures the full effect of work
in basso reliero. The figures are executed on a thick
glass shield, and are exquisitely finished, the artist not
having availed himself of the assistance of hydrofluoric
acid, but confined himself solely to the use of the graver,
which is a more laborious and hhzardous, but at the same
time a more perfect process. We also examined specimens
of goblets, salt cellars, ink bottles, mirrors, jugs, and
candlesticks, all of which were extremely elegant, and,
although apparently frail, unquestionably durable. The
colouring fluid is inserted between a double coat of glass
hermetically sealed, by which means it is kept free fro m
oxidation. The silver is produced by some of the nitrates
or chlorides of silver, to which a stream of electricity has
been applied for the purpose of depositing on the, glass the
reduced metal, or else by an amalgamtion of mercury and
silver, when the former mineral being driven off by ex-
posure to a very high temperature. the silver adheres to
the inner surface of the glass. The colour of gold must
undoubtedly have been obtained from a chloride of that
metal, and the brilliant hues of a ruby, sapphire, and
emerald, from the well known salts of chromium and co-
balt. —Times.

POPERY SPEAKING OUT.—The following impudent
statement is copied from a Roman Catholic paper pub-
lished in London on Saturday last. We have not altered
the italicising :—" The Bishop of Winchester, so called
by the law of the land, has just pretended to consecrate
(contrary to the doctrine of the Reformers) a material
building. This being in the immediate vicinity of St.
George's [Romish] Cathedral, has been constitnied into
a parish church, with a particular district and resident
incumbent. There has long been one uniform custom of
running up these sham churches wherever a True one
exists. The same is being done at the present moment
at Stratford, in Essex. And we may also instance the
edifice constructed in the immediate vicinage of the
[Roman] Catholic Church, Chelsea. Birmingham also,
and Leeds, and the waste places, hitherto deserted, and
the wide and spacious wilderness of the colonies, come all
in for a due share of attention so soon as a [Roman]
Catholic Church appears. The new place that has been
thus desecrated, with the Anglican ceremony of fraud end
imposture, was formerly known as the premises of the
Philanthropic Society. The " Bishop of Winchester" is
a brother to the Arch-resident of Lambeth, who. we pre-
sume, is beginning to fear for his kingdom. The only
thing for these gentlemen, if they persist in annoying the
Church, will be to carry the war into their own camp.
Let them look to their cithedral closes, and cosy cathedral
palaces, and take care that the enemy does not appear in
those quarters. Not that much is to be thought of this
new Philanthropic—of that as little need be said as of its
neighbour, the Bedlam opposite. The only difference
between them is, that one is presided over by governors
who are themselves in a state of sanity, while the Philan-
thropic will go mad, both in its crowd of worshippers. but
specially in the Delphic genius who is to preside over these
poor people, and possess them with his inflated oracles."
A BRITISH VETERAN.—It used to be said that a Rus-
sian soldier was maintained at a less cost than any other
specimen of European humanity, but we beg to match the
phenomenon with a British veteran and his wife who have
been introduced to the public by the benevolent instru-
mentality of Sir William Napier. Richard O"den served
in the 43rd Regiment of Foot for fourteen years and ten
months, and as his services have been acknowledged by a
war medal and nine clasps, we need hardly specify from
what particular period of the present century these four-
teen years were taken. It is evident that he, in his humble
capacity, fought through the hardest battles of the most
famous wars in which England was ever engaged. Of his
behaviour, he modestly says himself, in his appeal to his
old commander—" You have seen me, sir, a different man
when I was under your command." Sir William Napier
briefly substantiates the claim thus conveyed by describ-
ing him as "an old and excellent soldier." This " old
and excellent soldier," then, approved through a period
of service which comprised more than the trials of an ordi-
nary life, is now remunerated by his country at the rata
of sd. per diem, being 2s. ltd. per week, for the clothing
and sustenance, lodging and taxes, of himself and his wife.
As he is sixty. seven years of age, and probably not over-
hearty in constitution, after his Peninsular experience, he
can get no employment, and his parish holds itself ex-
empted from any contribution to his support by the cir-
cumstance of the pension above-named. In these straits,
with a dead son, a sick wife, and scanty rations, poor
Richard Ogden appealed to his old commander in a letter,
which Sir William forwarded to the Times, and which was
yesterday submitted to public consideration. It is no slight
credit to both soldier and colonel that the ties of service
should be thus felt and acknowledged at the distance of
forty years. If a trifle less than the keep of a Newfound-
land dog is presumed to be sufficient for the maintenance
of a decorated veteran and his wife, it is certainly time that
44 public salaries" were measured by a new standard.
During the time that Richard Ogden, with such personal
merits as he is acknowledged to possess, might have been
readily securing a provision for his old age, he was fight-
ing the battle of his country between Cadiz and Bayone,
and it is on this ground that he claims the fair considera-
tion of those whom he served. That after this statement
of his position there will be no lack of private charity to
relieve his wants is probable enough, but it is not to such
voluntary offerings that claims like his should be left for
their recompense. He fulfilled every duty of a soldier in
a soldier's hardest days, and the duty of his employers
should now be discharged in turn.

AN Bbrron IN BAD COMPANY.—The editor of Bell's
Life in London was referee in a recent pugilistic contest
for what is called " The Championship." Bendigo and
Paddock were the combatants, and the former receiving
a foul blow was declared the winner. Immediately a
party of fellows, with bludgeons, attacked the unfortunate
editor, who had some difficulty in making his escape. He
has declared in his paper, that, as every vestige of re-
spectability has departed from " the ring," he will no
longer support it or record its proceedings. The people
of Nottingham, who supported Paddock, burned publicly
every copy of Bell's Life they could purchase. The
editor, it appears, by his own account. has frequently
been insulted, assaulted and robbed. Now that he has
resolved to keep out of bad company he will probably
escape further injury.

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AMATEUR HANGING.—On Sunday week two fisher-
men belonging to Stourport performed a very remarkable
feat. They were drinking at the Cross public-house,
when one Levi Rowley, a man thirty years of age, inti-
mated to the other, Josiah Burton, who is much his
junior, that he was tired of the troubles of the world and
would hang himself. Burton at once offered to be his
executioner, and accordingly they procured a piece of
rope, and adjourned to a neighbouring spot, where a tree,
well calculated for a gallows, was standing. Rowley got
up upon a block of wood, and Burton soon had the rope
fixed to bough and neck, then, kicking the wood away.
he started his friend upon his journey to another world.
He then returned to the public-house, and told his other
companions what he had so cleverly performed, but
nobody believed that he was telling the truth, so nobody
moved. Burton presently went out again alone, and
found that the features of his friend had undergone con-
siderable change, so he thought he had better cut him
down, and ascertain if he still was serious in his determi-
nation to bid farewell to mortal things. This cutting
down was, however, a work of difficulty, as his knife was
dull, but at last he succeeded, and laid his companion
upon the turf; but believing that the insensibility which
the hanging man exhibited to be all sham, he again stag-
gered into the house and left him to his fate. The other
people in the house, thinking at last that something seri-
ous might really have occurred, went out and found Row-
ley apparently dead. They immediately got him in doors,
and after using the proper means for recovering him, they
at last had the satisfaction to see their efforts successful.
It is said that he has had enough of hanging, and is now
resigned to life.

ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM GLOUCESTER GAOL.—One
day last week, a novel and daring attempt was made by a
female prisoner, named Jones, to escape from the county
gaol at Gloucester. To facilitate the alterations going on
at the prison, a gateway has been made in the boundary
wall facing the river Severn, and, as a necessary precau-
tion, an officer is stationed here while the workmen are
about the premises. On this occasion the officer was
rather startled by observing a tall person approaching the
gate from the interior of the gaol; the individual was
dressed in male attire of very curious fashion, resembl-
ing most that of a Greek sailor. The officer immediately
asked what business she—for it was a woman—.bad within
the gates, when she replied that she was looking for the
foreman to ask for a job of work. " Vet), well." said the
officer, who suspected a ruse, " come with me ; I will
take you to the foreman," and led her back towards the
interior of the prison. Having thus allured her into safe
Keeping, he hinted his suspicions by saying, "the-shoes
you wear were not made out of the prison ;" upon which
the woman, believing that she was discovered, threw her-
self into a fighting attitude, and threatened to punish her
captor. The disturbance which ensued brought several
able keepers to the spot, and she was secured, but not
until she had made a desperate resistance. Her dress
consisted of a blue frock and trowsers, belonging to one
of the workmen, which she had by some means contrived
to obtain, and a cap, which she had made in her cell.
Her female garments were tucked in under this disguise,
and, of course, gave her a singular appearance. It is
supposed that she had accurately surveyed the ground
through the waved glass of the female prison, which over-
looks the spot Jones is under a sentence of ten years'
transportation.—Hereford Journal.

A CHAPTER OF MBA OVENTURES.—The North British
Mail states that, a fortnight ago a foreign gentleman
arrived in Glasgow by the half-past one, a.m., Caledonian
train from the south. On arriving at the station in
Buchanan-street, he called a cab, and ordered the driver
to take him to a lodging-house. Accordingly, along with
his luggage, consisting of two boxes, a carpet bag, and a
writing desk, containing money and bills, he was driven
as directed. In the morning the unfortunate stranger
left his lodgings to take a walk through the town ; but, in
endeavouring to find his way back, he lost all knowledge
of the whereabouts -of the house at which he had slept.
After a fruitless search he enterea a cab about one, p.m.,
and ordered the driver to drive him to a respectable. hotel.
He was accordingly taken to the London Hotel, Mr.
Clark's, where he made known his sorry plight. An ad-
vertisement was instantly sent to one of the newspapers
for the discovery of his property, but almost immediately
after his taking up his abode at Mr. Clark's, the unfor-
tunate gentleman was struck with palsy, an•l was linable
to give further intelligence of his movements on the eve-
ning of his arrival. He expired in his hotel on 'Thursday
evening, but not before his lost luggage, containing a
small sum of money, and documents relating to property.
&c-, of the highest import"nce, was discovered. The
police, in the interim, it seems, had used every effort to
obtain some trace of it, but, for a while, without success,
till on Thursday last, the cabman, to whom it had origi-
nally been entrusted, appeared, and explained that it had
been left at an hotel in Paisley, and there the articles were
found, safe and sound. The cabman had been prevented,
it appears, from making the necessary explanation at an
earlier period, by having himself encountered a misadven-
ture as singular as any other section of the "strange
eventful history." He had gone to the Bromielaw to take
leave of a friend on board a coasting-vessel. and while the
two were carousing over a bottle the ship sailed, and he
awakened from his potations to find himself far out at sea.
However, on being landed, and ascertaining the circum-
stance, he, as soon as possible, wound up this " chapter
of misadventures" by offering a solution of the others
and detailing his own.

How THE II ISH ARE BROUGHT OVER.—On Tuesday,
at the Southwark Police-court, three Irish boys, the eldest
not fifteen years of age, in tattered garments, and in a
perfectly destitute condition, were brought before-Mr.
A'Beckett, having been found lying down on the steps of
a house in the parish of St. Olave, s, Southwark.—A Po-
liceman stated, that while on duty in the neighbourhood
of Tooley-street, between one and two o'clock that morn-
ing he saw the three boys lying asleep together on the
steps of a door, and on awaking tnern he put some ques-
tions to them, to which they answered by informing him
that they had recently come over from Ireland in quest of
work, but not succeeding in obtaining any there were
reduced to starvation. He added that they also assured
him that it was not of their own accord that they came
to this• country, but that they were placed on board a
vessel at Cork by the parochial officers of the town where
they lived, who paid their passage to London, but did not
furnish them with the means of support when they landed,
telling them that as soon as they arrived they would ob-
tain employment and beenabled to live cornfortably.—The
three ..loys, who were without shoes or stockings, and
ragged and filthy in appearance, were brought into court.
The poor little fellows seemed almost untp quainted with
the English language, but the magistrate selected the most
intelligent lad of the three, to whom he put several ques-
tions as to the reason he and his companions left Ireland,
and the answers will evince the scandalous system adopted
by the parochial authorities of some towns in that country
in sending over paupers here and paying a trifle for their
passage, so as to ge rid of the burden of their support.—
Mr. A'Beckett (to the eldest boy): Where have you come
from ? From the county of Cork.--What place? Dun.
manway. I was in the workhouse there.—Mr.A'Beckett :
Why did you leave that place ?—Boy : Because Mr. Ha-
milton, one of the gentlemen there, said that I would get
plenty of work and victuals if I left the workhouse and
came over to England.—Mr. A'Beckett: Who paid for
your passage ?—Boy : Mr. Hamilton, I believe, paid the
money.—Mr. A'Beckett : Were there any more boys sent
away f om the workhouse with you ?—Boy : Yes, sir ;
there were twenty-one boys picked out, and we were all
put on board the ship.and brought over here as deck pas-
sengers.—Mr. ekett : Did they supply you with food
while on board ?—Boy : Yes, sir, we had some bread given
to us, but nothing else besides water.—Mr. A'Beckett :
Where have you been living since you came to London ?
Boy : In no house, sir. We tried to get work, but could
not find any one to employ us, and so we have been wan-
dering about the town sleeping sometimes under the arches
of the raile ay and at other times on the steps of houses
near the water side.—Mr. A'Beckett said, he had heard
quite enough to convince him of the injurious zffects of
sending over from Ireland a number of these poor desti-
tute creatures—the parochial authorities of some places in
that country being only desirous of getting rid of them,
careless as to what privations they were subjected to after-
wards. The magistrate then directed that the boys should
be taken to the workhouse of the, parish in which they
were found destitute, in order that they might be relieved
and sassed over to Ireland.

To THE LADIES.—At this period, when the beauty of
the season invites to out-door enjoyment, the fair sex are
of necessity exposed to those influences which are peculi-
arly prejudicial to personal comfort and attraction. The
solar heat produces on the delicate skin the permanent
stain of tan, the disfigurement of freckle, and not unfre-
quently a discoloration and swelling, which gradually
assume one of the multitudinous ,forms of eruption.
During the ride, promenade, aquatic excursion, or
while otherwise exposed to the scorching rays of the
sun, ladies will find ''ROWLANDS' KALYDOR" a most
refreshing preparation for the complexion, dispelling the
cloud of languor and relaxation, allaying all heat and irri-
tability, a.;l immediately affording the pleasing sensation
attending restored elasticity, and healthful state of the
skin. Composed essentially of choice exotics of balsamic
nature, utterly free front all mineral admixture, and
pleasing and delightful inAts effects, Rowlands' Kalydor
tends to neutralize the action of the atmosphere upon the
skin, and to promote thAt healthy action of the microsco-
pic/
vessels, by which i general well-being and the beauty
of its appearance are o essentially promoted.. Freckles,
sunburn, tan, spots, imples, flushes and discolouratioos
are eradicated by it application, and gi.ve. place to a deli-
cately soft, clew, a d fair skin. Its purifying and refresh-
ing properties have obtained its exclusive selection by Her
Majesty the Queen, the Court, and the Royal Family of
Great Britain, and the several Courts of Europe, together
with the elite of the aristocracy, from the sultry climes of
India to the troZen realms of the Czar. The high reputa-
tion it bears iinduces unprincipled shopkeepers to offer
their spurious Kalydors for sale, .containing mineral
astringents utterly ruinous to the complexion,. and by their
repellant action endangering health. It is therefore im-
perative on purchasers to see that the words " Rowlands'
Kalydor" are on the wrapper, and " A. Rowland & Sons,
20, Hatton Garden," also engraved on the Government
Stamp affixed on each bottle. Price 4s. 6d. and Bs. fsit
Sold by the proprietors, and by aU respectable chemists.
and perfumers.