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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-17 00:00:00

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ment was almost unbounded, as sl
from one room to- another ; the kitchens sitting-rooms,
bed-rooms, larder, and dairies, each seenlei equally to

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one-roomed buildings appropriated to the same purpose it
her own country. She was attended by a travelling &malt
companion, her secretary

different out-buildinzs were also visited, and afforded as

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIA(
in the Bloomsbury County Court,
by Ann Elliott, the daughter of a laundress residing in
Hart-street, Chelsea, against a respectable solicitor of
,•
Camden Town, to recover the sum of £2O as ompensation
for a breach of promise of marriage. thn

—On Saturday

the plaintiff not'being adequate tOsthe, expense of enterin

an action in

3r. court

The defendant

afternoon, during the summer of 1835, walking throng!,
the Lowther Arcade, when he accosted the plaintiff, to
whom, after a little conversation, he made a proposal of
marriage, and offered to allow her as pin-money £25 per
annum. The plaintiff accepted the offer, but at the per-
suasion of the defendant consented, prior to the nuptials,
to yield to his embraces. Subsequently, the defendant
refused to perform his promise, and was united to another
female. His honour allowed the plaintiff the full amount
claimed, with costs, at the same time expressing regret
that a person, bred to the profession of a gentleman,
should have so far digressed as to take a mean advantage
of the plaintiff.

THE CIVIL LIST.—The Times has a lot
ply to a resolution of the " Financial Reform Aqsocia
tion," condemnatory of the expense of the Queen's civil
list. No long article, however, is necessary. The Queen's
civil list, is her property, her estate, by a derivative title
as old as any in the country, if it is not indeed the oldest,
except the title of the Church. The civil list is the equi-
valent received by the head of the Royal Family in ex-
change for the hereditary revenues enjoyed by the Royal
Family from the Norman conquest. The exchange was
effected shortly after the accession of George 111., and so
good a bargain was it for the people, and so bad a bargain
against the Royal Family, that the people have profited,
and the Crown has lost by it more millions than we like to
state without referring to the parliamentary return, but w
think that the millions amounted to about 90

g article in re-

Dine years

ago, and the sum must now be greater. The civil list
then being, by bargain, the Queen's estate, as the equi-
valent for a larger and better estate, what right has any
man to question her Majesty's mode of disposing of it
Who that is not prepared to justify robbery can talk of
diminishing it by a single shilling ?
CONTEMPT OF THE PRESS.-At the recent public ban-
quet given at Cheltenham to Sir Chas. Napier, the usual
compliment of a ticket was forwarded to the gentlemen of
the press resident in the town. To the amazement of the
latter, however, they were given to understand that
whilst the banquet was to take place at six, they were not
to be admitted till eight o'clock. Resenting, like men of
education and spirit, this species of flunkeyism, or per-

mission to enter after their betters had feasted, the resi-
dent reporters returned the tickets, and hence the ac-
counts of the banquet which appear are given by stran-
gers, who submitted to the servile conditions. Among
the anomalies of the age, nothing strikes us more forcibly
than the power and influence attributed to the press of
this country, and the little respect entertained for those
connected with it. No doubt something of this is attri-
butable to ourselves, or rather to that spirit of competition
whirls iq ripopecc,”” 'sr". 4,4 :11 fi :r

her victories no less renowned than war"—if a man may
serve his country as well or better with his brain and pen
than with a sword—if honourable men—men of education
nnrl Z.. LI
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pany for the highest, what degradation can it be to even
the warrior glittering with honours and covered with
scars, to sit down with a reporter ?
A scandal which has attracted some notice in the world
of art has been distinctly explained by the Athenceum.
In the last exhibition of the Royal Academy was a pic-
ture entitled " Shipping, &c., off Hurst Castle, Isle of
Wight," set down in the catalogue with the name of Mr.
Reinagle, R.A., as the painter. The picture was selected
by a £25 prize-holder in the Art-Union. It was recog-
nised, however, by the friends of a young artist, Mr.
i J. W. Yarnold, as his prodnction; he had painted it and
his unfor- I sold it t^ f,-.- -

E o a dealer tor a few shilling.._ fhe case' was
brought before the Royal Academy. The Academy
called on Mr. Reinagle for an explanation. He denied
the charge, and intimated that he would rather resign
than submit to inquiry. Mr. Yarnold was then invited
to substantiate his accusation by evidence. Mr. Reinagle
no A modified his denial ; he said the picture had been re-
painted by him, so as to become actually the work of his

hand. " A strict examination of the picture by the
Academicians, who had in the mean time very properly
refused to give it up to the demands of

resulted, we understand, in so unsatisfactory a comment
on this plea as to leave no doubt on their minds that the
honour of the Academy had been stained;" and they re-
ferred Mr. Reinagle, by resolution, to what he had said
about resigning. He resigned.
SINGULAR_ CASE OF SUCCESSFUL CONCEALMENT 61
SEX

..—On Saturday week there died at Macclesfield, a
woman named Sophia Locke, who had for many years
wandered about the country in male attire, professing the
trade of a tinker and scissor grinder, under the name of
John Smith ; the father, who was a gipsey-traveller, had
several children besides deceased, who was horn in a cave
near Croker Wood, Sutton. It appeared that her true
sex was known to the Biddulph Moor people, who, it is
believed, are the descendants of a gypsey tribe, but they
always kept it a profound secret. Mr. Bland, the medical
officer of the Macclesfield Union, first suspected her sex,
having received an order from the board to attend her
previous to her death, but it was not until after that event
that his suspicions were verified. About 14 years ago she
became acquainted with a woman, whom sbe persuaded I

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a promise of maintenance to live with her, which she did
till deceased died. They had travelled all over England.
Last year they were in Worcestershire picking hops.
They lived very happily together, and the deceased, who
could earn half a guinea a day sometimes, used the wo-
man very well. The body was interred on Sunday last
I Christ Church, as John Smith, and
14,w to witnp.o

attending to witness the funera
excited crnsiderable interest.

he case seemed to hay

SINGULAR AND FATAL FIRE IN LONDON.--An inquest
was held on Wednesday at Muswell Hall, Hornsey, the
residence of Mr. Walter Burdoe, on the body of hiq mn_

ther, aged 87, who was found dead in the hotise. Deceased
was in the habit of having a rushlight burning in her bed-
room all night, and was so apprehensive of thieves that
she always locked the door on the inside. On the sth
instant she retired early to bed. In the coarse of the
night Miss Burdoe (her daughter) wa

s awakened by a
smell of burning, and alarmed her father. He went to his
mother's room door ; it was locked, and be saw no light.

another candle, and, as she spoke collectedly, ho retired,
thinking all was safe. About five in the morning he was
roused by a maid servant crying that there were thieves in
the house. The noise was found to arise from the crack-
ling of the burning bedstead on which tl-- '1 lady was

The door Ras burst

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3 combust

so great that every object was. dai:kened. She had got out
of bed, and was found, sitting in her night dress behind the

flames of the curtains, &c. by putting the carpet upon the
bed, and afterwards placing it under the bed for removal
at daylight. There they had gradually smouldered, and

door to unfasten it and raise an alarm, Mrs. 13urdoe was
overpowered with the intense heat and sank down.—The
jury being assured that, at all events, the fire which caused

the death of the deceased lady was purely accidental, re-
turned a verdict to that effect.

ADVERTISING FOR. A WIFE.—An adrertisement having
appeared in one of the London journals. a week or two
ago, for a wife possessed of £5OO, it was ansvv

i years of age ; t

lat the adverti

lit have an in-

pearance and character were found to be satisfactory
£I,COO would be of no consequence. An api
was made for him to inquire at the bar of a tavern in th

ointment

The evening came—and, true as " Salisbury.clocic

came our man of metal, dressed as neat as neat could be.
He was met by a witty friend, who opened the proceed-
ings by a private interview in the bar parlour; while ano-
ther went in search of a " fair frail one" to personate the
bride in perspective, and who was to assume the name of
Jane Brown—her papa being obliged to leave town that
morning; and certainly a better actress could not be
found, with her fancy bonnet arid white veil. Jane was
introduced to our money-hunting advertiser ; his eye
quickly surveyed her as she sat in a retired part of the
room, purposely darkened to aid the bashful modesty of
Jane ; he fairly chuckled with delight as he gallantly
handed her papa's letter for recognition. To the ques-
tion, " Is that your papa's writing ? " Jane gave a bash-
ful nod of assent. The young man who played the part
of Jane's cousin, and he who was the friend of the family,
with genuine Irish wit described his respect for his old
friend Brown, and the handful Jane's mother had with
her in the measles, poor dear woman ! Oar hero now
drew forth a large bundle of letters, and said he had been
all day going orn place to place to answer them ; he
gave the address of his uncle, J—n K—, Eq., Bed-
fordshire. Things seemed going on capitally till the
waiter hinted the reckoning was 9s. 6d. for sundry glasses
of " cold without," port negus. and cigars ; the cousin
and the friend of the family of course could not be ex
pected to " tip," and our " yokel" was minus " tin."
The gas being about to be snuffed out, he came to the
bar, where as jolly a lot had assembled as " ever set the
table in a roar." One offered his sister, another actually
wished his mother so good-looking a husband, while
Jane was escorted to the corner of the next street, having
first been amply repaid for her part in this laughable
plot. Our hero now began to " smell a rat." but he was
so hemmed in he could not escape. While the waiter
was requesting of him the score, another was charring a
couple of corks, and in less than no time a change came
o'er the spirit of his dream—lie came a perfect Adonis,
and left a perfect Juba !-