The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-29 00:00:00

(Enteral lifttsrellattp.

A honeycomb, filled withl)ees, was lately found in the
door-lock of an outhouse near Derby.

A Durham paper says that two black eggs were laid by
a black duck last week, near Sunderland.

The population of Leeds just exceeds 100,000. The
increase in ten years is 12,000.

Mr. Richard Oastler's penny publication, The Home,
will commence on Saturday next.
No fewer than eighteen ships laden with ice have
arrived in the port of London within the last week.

A Sailors' Home was opened, amidst great rejoicings,
at Portsmouth, on Wednesday last.
The Tablet complains that little has been done at
present for the conversion of England ns a whole.

Last week, a hen's egg was found at Perth, weighing
four ounces and a half.

'What animal has the greatest quantity of brains ? The
hop, of course, for he has a hogshead full.
Why is a lover like a knocker? Because he is bound
to adore (a door.)

Venus can at present be seen in the day time a little to
the right of the sun.

On Thursday, the starch and gum of Messrs. Matthews,
at Leeds, was almost destroyed by fire.

A number of gentlemen, at Carnarvon, have resolved
to invite Mr. It. Stephenson to a public dinner.
On Saturday week, a fine eallle was captured in a plan-
tation near Rainford. It attacked its captor with deter-
mined courage. It is now located in Knowsley aviary.
Grievous destitution is again experienced among the
inhabitants of the Highlands of Scotland. It is stated
that two persons have djed from want in Mull.
Many tons of guanoliave been found in a sequestered
spot, scarcely approachable but by sea, on the Isle of
Man.

A meeting was held at Leeds, on Wednesday, linder
the presidency of the Mayor, to establish a Chamber of
Commerce in that town.

Bran is now selling at ss. 3d. per cwt., which would be
disposed of at 2s. if flour were largely manufactured at
home.

A prisoner for debt in the Shropshire county gaol,
named Thomas Menlove, died yesterday week from the
effects of inhaling gas during his sleep.
Wm. Edwd. Webster, butler, is in custody charged
with stealing money, the property of his master, Mr.
Cardwell, M.P.
A pleasure party of eight persons were upset in a boat
on the river Aire, near Leeds, on Tuesday, and two were
unfortunately drowned.
The confinement of convicts in hulks is to be abandoned,
and a convict prison, capable of accommodating 1,000
persons, is to be erected at Portsmouth.
The convictions for perjury committed in the county
courts have been very numerous in almost every county
during the present assizes.
Mr. Todd, a barrister, while cruising in a yacht on
Sunday last, near the Nore, was thrown overboard by the
boom suddenly jibbing, and was unfortunately drowned.
In England there are two millions of draught and
pleasure horses, and one hundred thousand agricultural
horses.

The greater portion of the timber standing in Hainanit,
Epping, and Waltham Forests, will be cut down during
the ensuing year, and the land will be enclosed.
A waggon of coals fell into a smack lying at the harbour
terminus, Glasgow, last week, knocked a hole in the
bottom, and sunk the vessel, leaving the crew floundering
in the water.
QUACKERY.—The love of quackery by the British
government is strongly proved by the fact, that a box of
life pills has to pay less duty than the maid of-all-work's
advertisement for a place.—Punch.
STRANGE COINCIDENCE.—The editor of the Bangor
Mercury says that he knows two individuals who are
cousins, have the sane name, whose fathers were brothers,
whose mothers were sisters, and whose wives are sisters.
The foundation stone of a blind asylum, upon an ex-

ensive and magnificent
minghain, on Wednesday
the institution.

vas laid at Edgbaston, Bir-
.l Howe is the president of

The population of Hull, has in the last 10 years increa-
sed 15, 407, dwelling houses in the same period have in-
creased 4532. The population in 1841 was 67,C95 ; in
1851, 82,502.

Cardinal 'Wiseman went to Claremont last week, to pay
a visit to the ex-Queen of the French and tic other mem-
bers of the ex-royal family of France, domiciled at that
place.

A gentleman of South Shields, being in gin g - street on
the morning of Easter Monday, saw, in the course of half
- '--q than four drapers' parcels pass unbroken
'-or.e the goods had beeu purchased to .a

r, no 1

from the shops

pawnshop,

MACHINERY V. HAND LABOUR.—The substitution of
the new roundabout frames for the old-fashioned loom is
expected temporarily to throw 30,000 people out of em,
ployment in Nottineham, Leicester, and Derby.
There is now residing at Waterford, in 'Hertfordshire,
the wife of a respectable licensed victualler, not more
than 43 years of age, who was safely delivered, on Monday
week, of her thirtieth child.
THY MONSTER TABLE-CLOTH FOR Soy syk's BYMPO=
SlUM.—This extraordinary specimen of English manufac-
ture was despatched from Barnsley on Monday last. ItS
length isi:3o7 feet, breadth 8 feet, weight 2 cwt., and cost
upwards of £5O.

On Thursday week, in consequence of some previous
misunderstanding, a fight took place between the members
of two Irish families of labourers living in York, when an
old man •named Flannedy had his skull fractured by a
blow of a stone, and died soon afterwards.
The bullion in both departments of the Bank ;.has
decreased .from £13,589,539 to £13,342,391, being a
difference of £247,138. The paper in actual circulation
has increased from £21,039,574 to £20,905,412, being a
difference of £134,162.

The Ipstach Express says that in consequence of a
statement that no hangman could be obtained to execute
Maria Clarke on the appointed day, no fewer than ten
written applications for the office of hangman were sent
to the Suffolk gaol.

The provincis are pouring in regiments of the light-fing-
ered gentry to the metropolis. The police are on the alert,
and all the ".suspicious ones", on recognition, on being
before the magistrates, will be locked up, to keep them
out of " harm's way" till after the Exhibition. .
A beautiful speckled snake, about five feet. long, way
found last week on board the Barlow, by the lumpers
employed in unloading the cargo of timber which she had
brought to Sunderland from Moulmein in the East
Indies.

LEGACY TO "FEARGUS O'CONNOR, M.P.—A man
named Haigh, who was found dead in his bed at Tiling-
worth, near Halifax, on last Wednesday morning, has
bequeathed all the•-savings of a long and laborious life,
amounting to about £2,000 to the " Hon. Member for
Nottingham."

Several silk handkerchiefs, supposed to have been
stolen, were found sewn up in the bustle of a woman. the
wife of a railway porter at Wolverhampton, who has been
committed for trial on a charge of stealing goods from
-packages sent to the Wolverhampton station for convey-
ance to Chester.

Sir Claudius Stephen Ounter, Bart., died on Sunday
last at Mortimer Hill, Berks, in the 77th year of his age.
A vacant seat is thus caused in the London Court of
Aldermen, of which Sir Claudius was the father. He
was elected Alderman of the ward of Bridge Within in
1804, a period of nearly half a century since.
There have been several tourist visitors to Keswick
during the last few days, and some have even ventured to
ascend the mighty Skiddaw, although several patches of
snow were scattered here and there. On reaching the
summit, which they determined to do, they found the
cold so intense that they could only remain a few minutes.

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EXTRAORDINARY INCREASR IN THE POPULATION OF
BRADFORD.—The returns disclose an aggregate increase
in the population of the borough amounting to 37,064
over and above *he number of its inhabitants at the last
computation. In 1841 the total population was 66,718 ;
now it is 103,782.

" CATCHING A WEASEL ASLEEP."—A mole catcher,
near Bradley, on visiting one of the traps one morning
last week, was almost petrified at finding it occunied. not
by a mole but by a weasel. How it got there was of course
a mystery, —it must have been " asleep."— Halifax
Guardian.

DREADFUL DEATH.—Last Week, William Davis, a
chimney sweeper at. Minehead, near Bristol, aged 23, lost
his life by sleeping at a limekiln. It is 'upposed that,
feeling himself cold, he sat on the edge of the kiln, pl

his feet in it and hanging his head over, when he got stu-
pified by the gas and fell in. When discovered he was
quite dead and much burnt.

- A TRUNDERBOLT.—About seven o'clock on Thursday
evening, during a hail storm at Wellington, Shropshire, a
thunderbolt struck a large tree near the new cutting for
the goods' warehouse, and completely stripped it of the
bark, splitting the tree in various places, and scattering
the bark for more than l 5 yards around. The hailstones
were as big as a large sized bean.

On the Afternoon of Easter Sunday an overflowing con-
gregation assembled in the Reformed Baptist E
Using Chapel, Bradford, for the purpose of hearing,
according to announcement, " the public recantation, by
le I a Romanist, of the delusive doctrines and ^f the

vange-

uoctrin. ... usages of
Papal Church." The name of the convert, who is a
labouring man, is Francis Read.
The walls of Brougham Castle have been thoroughly
propped and repaired ; and there is now every probability
of the remnants of this ancient fortress standing for three
or four succeeding centuries. It was from this castle, in
the reign of Henry VII., that Thomas Lord Dacre, of
Gilsland, carried off in the night-time Elizabeth, sole
heiress and Baroness of Greystoke.

At a recent inquest held in Taunton, the coroner was
understood to remark, that since the introduction of free
trade it had devolved upon him to hold inquests upon no
less than five respectable farmers, who had committed
suicide under circumstances which led one to suppose
they were influenced in the sad act from a depressed
state of their finance•.

The Lord Mayor of London gave the customary Easter
banquet on Monday at the Mansion-house, and on this
occasion about 350 ladies and gentlemen partook of the
chief civic magistrate's hospitality. The speeches are
unreported, as the representatives of the press had seats
given them where they could hear nothing ; and, on com-
plaining, were invited to a side table, to which " no gen-
tleman could consent," and which was of course declined.
A considerable degree of excitement was caused in the
City on Tuesday by a rumour that a forgery had been
effected on the Bank of England, by means of which stock
to the extent of £lO,OOO had been transferred, in conse-
quence of the production of a power of attorney which has
proved to be a counterfeit document. The party implicated
held a highly-respectable position in society at Windsor,
and has absconded.

A'• liberal" contemporary at the mouth of the Tyne,
who has hitherto been a noisy advocate for free trade in
corn, coals, shipping, and everything else, proclaims it, at
last, as '• a lamentable fact" that in the recent case of the
voyage of the Mary C. Fitzroy from Shields to London
and back with a cargo of 274 tons and 8 cwt. of coals, the
loss upon the voyage to the owner was £5 14s. ld., the
total charges being £BB Os. 5d.--the receipts £B2 6s. 4d.
PARRICIDE AT WESTMINSTER.—Richard Judd, the
presumed victim of a son's atrocious violence, expired at
one o'clock on Saturday morning, in the Westminster
Hospital, where he has lingered in an insensible state,
from the effects of the injuries he received, for the last fort-
night, without the least chance of recovery. The deceased
was a very respectable man, and the wounds inflicted on
him by his son were of a desperate character. The son
has given himself up to the police.
FATAL ACCIDENT TO MR. TOMLIN, TAE BARRISTER,
OF PAPER-BUILDINGS.—About eleven o'clock on Thurs-
day night, this gentleman, after having returned to his
chambers from his club, where he had been dining, un-
fortunately fell from a window on the second landing of
the staircase, and was so much injured that he expired
next morning. What renders this accident extraordinary
is, that the deceased gentleman, at the time he fell from
the window, was not in the least intoxicated, as people
might infer.
A BALLOON BURNT.—At Bradford, on Monday last,
a young gentleman announced his intention of ascending
from the cricket ground in a fire balloon. A very large
one was prepared, and 30,000 people assembled to see
it. The process of inflation went on slowly, and when
the crowd grew impatient the balloon took fire, and was
utterly destroyed—purposely no doubt. The multitude
considering themselves hoaxed, commenced the grossest
excesses ; but the police, under Superintendent Leverett,
restored order, and won the approbation of every body.
At the Middlesex sessions on Tuesday, John Thomas
Cox, bookseller, 4, Holywell-street, Strand, was con-
victed of unlawfully publishing and having for sale a num-
ber of obscene and indecent prints and publications. He
was sentenced by Sergeant Adams, who expressed his
great sorrow at not having the power to award hard
labour, to be imprisoned in the House of Correction for
two years, and that he afterwards should enter into his
own recognizance of £5O, with two sureties of £25 each,
to be of good behaviour for one year, and be imprisoned
until such recognizance and sureties be entered into.
CALIFORNIAN GOLD—MAGNIFICENT SPECIMEN...--At
Professor Tennant's last lecture upon mineralogy, at
King's College, he exhibited, by permission of the go-
vernors of the Bank of England, the largest lump of
Californian gold yet brought to this country. It was dug
out of an alluvial bank at Carson's Creek, on the Stanis-
laus river, in August, 1850, by an Irishman, named John
Hughes, of Ardtlass, near Downpatrick. It is a water-
worn specimen, and weighs 18 lbs. 3 ozs. 8 grs. ; and its
value as a specimen is about £lOOO. It is the property of
the Bank of England.

MURDER OF A YOUNG WOMAN.—A painful sensation
has prevailed in the immediate neighbourhood of King-
street. Norwich, in consequence of a brutal murder com-
mitted by a man named James Flood, who resides in Ber-
street. The forehead of the woman had a cut an inch
and a half deep, the lip was also cut through, and the
nose was broken, and she vomited blood. Mr. Day, a
surgeon, attended, but deceased died soon after. Caro-
line Collins said, she heard Food say to deceased, " You
—, I'll kill you ;" when he struck her on the head.—
The inquiry was adjourned for a post mortem examination
o be made.

TESTIMONIAL. TO MR. JERDAN.—A meeting was held
on Monday, in the rooms of the Royal Society of Litera-
ture, London, Mr. B. B. Cabbell, M.P., in the chair, to
consider the best means of testifying public respect to
Mr. W. Jerdan, for the constant and great services he
has rendered to the literature, science, and art of this
country, as editor of the Literary Gazette during the long
period from its establishment in 1817 to the close of last
year. The meeting was well attended by gentlemen
connected with literature and science, who all entered
warmly into the objects for which they were assembled.
It was determined to raise a subscription, to form a fund
for the purpose of rendering Mr. Jerdan's declining years
as comfortable as possible ; and a committee was formed
for carrying this object into effect, containing most of
the leading names of the literature of the day.
EXTRAORDINARY FEAT.—Mr. James Duncan Wright,
otherwise called " Steeple Jack," has been engaged at
the Bristol Alkali-works for a few days, making arrange-
ments for repairing the tall chimney outside without
stopping the works for a moment. At twenty minutes
past two on Thursday, seeing that the wind would suit
him, he flew his kite, and by twenty-five minutes past
three he had a chain over the top, with proper tackle
attached for ascending. In another half hour lie took his
seat on a bit of board, 18 by 9 inches, and one inch thick,
and went to the top (200 feet) in half a minute ! In three
minutes he had placed the chain in a secure position,
exactly across the top, (which it was not before,) and in
another halt minute was shaking hands with his friends
below. This is
.only one of the many feats for which
Steeple Jack" is celebrated.—Bristol Gazelle.

TIIF LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SHAXSPEARE DISFIGURED, AND HAYNAU AVENGED

—The Daily News foreign correspondent writes :—" You
know that after the great battle and defeat of Marshall
'Haynau at Bankside, a correspondence took place between
'Prince Scharzenburg and Lord Palmerston, and that the
Austrian minister threatened the English with reprisals.
The Austrians have now in fact taken reprisals, and dit it
on the most illustrious Englishman, on Shakspeare.
Some weeks ago " Hamlet" was performed at the Court
Theatre, and as several parts, which bear political allu-
sions, were highly cheered, they were all cut out at the
next. performance."
The Rev. G. S. Osborne, the Dorsetshire clergyman,
has, in the Times, drawn public attention on the notorious

' Kilrush Union. The quarrel has reached a crisis. A
report from the Poor-law Inspector, Mr. Lucas, presents
a very painful picture. The doors of " the house" were
besieged by a thousand applicanti a-week. The crowds
whom it was necessary to admit were half-dead with

disease and hunger: they were packed into places which
no ventilation could keep sweet, and fed on bread and
" artificial milk." Mr. Lucas says the bread is good—
Mr. Osborne that it is bad, and sends a loaf, by way of
sample, to Printing-house Square.
A gentleman of London called at the Postoffice the

other day for a letter which he had requested an accoun-
tant at Margate to address to " A. B.", Postoffice, Lon-
don: it so happened that another gentleman of London
had received a threatening letter, demanding £5, to pre-
vent an alleged exposure, and advising that a note to that
amount should be sent, addressed to A. 8., at the Post-
office. The gentleman first alluded to received the letter
containing the money, and was forthwith taken into cus-
tody by a police-officer, who was on the watch. An ex-
planation before the magistrates cleared up the mystery,
and the gentleman was discharged.
'POST-OFFICE ABUSES.—A petition, with the view of
obtaining a parliamentary committee of inquiry relative to
the abuses in the General Postoffice. will be laid before
-parliament shortly after the recess, from the late post-
master of Berwick-on-Tweed, containing statements as to
the-malversations in that office alone for a given period—
authenticated by official vouchers—in which the defalca-
tions during nine months of 1849 are alleged to amount to
£414 19a. 4d. lost in transit, and to £2,294 139. in bills.
The public have just cause of complaint of the irregulari-
ties in the postal department, and no doubt such evidence
will be adduced as to induce the interference of govern-
ment.

MI7RDER OF A FARMER BY A STEP-Mg.—On Monday
last an inquest was held at Silverwell. in the parish of
Kenwyn, Cornwall, on the body of William Kendall, a
small farmer of that place, who died on Sunday. His
death was alleged to have been the consequence of a kick
received from a horse on Saturday evening ; but the
result of the coroner's inquest was that the jury returned
a verdict of wilful murder against a young man named
Elijah Teague, aged about 17 years, son-in-law of the
deceased. The inquest occupied the attention of the
coroner and jury the whole of Monday and Tuesday, in
consequence of the evidence being merely circumstantial,
and of the necessity for a careful inspection of the locali-
ties.

NEW ORANGE Lonr;E.—On Monday. a new lodge of
Loyal Orangemen. in connexion with the Grand Pro-
testant Association of Great Britain. was opened at Ken-
dal, when a deputation from Bradford, Yorkshire, con-
sisting of Mr. Councillor Squire Auty and Mr. John
Pickard, attended to explain the objects and principles of
the Orange Institute, and to open the new lodge. Mr.
Auty. in a very able manner, explained the principles and
combatted all the charges that have been made against
the Institute. After the address, the lodge was formally
opened, and named the "Kendal Castle Lodge;" a large
number were initiated into the order of the brotherhood ;
officers were appointed ; and the other business of the
evening was transacted. On Tuesday evening the depu-
tation again attended, and a number more were received
into the brotherhood.

DR. JOHNSON.—The churchwardens of St. Clement
Danes, having satisfactorily ascertained that a seat in the
pew numbered 18, in the north gallery of that church,
was regularly occupied for many years by the great moral-
ist, have caused a neat brass tablet recording the fact to
be affixed in a conspicuous position to the pillar against
which the doctor must often have reclined. The inscrip-
tion on the tablet is from the pen of Dr. Croly, rector of
St. Stephen's, Walbrook, and is as follows :—" In this
pew, and beside this pillar, for many years attended
divine service the celebrated Dr. Samuel .Johnson, the
philosopher, the poet, the great lexicographer, the pro-
found moralist, and chief writer of his time. Born,
1709; died, 1784. In the remembrance and honour of
noble faculties, nobly employed, some inabitants of the
parish of St. Clement Danes have placed this slight
memorial, A.D. 1851."

A ROMISH BISHOP'S OPINION OF NATIONAL PROS-
rERITY.—Dr. Walsh, who styles himself Bishop of Hali-
fax, has just issued a pastoral of unusual length. Of
course we cannot transcribe it into our columns, but we
may give the following as a sample of this priest's opini-
ons. Speaking of England's fall, from what he calls
" Catholicity," he writes :—" Oh ! if she could but win
back again the precious pearl which she has lost ! If she
could only recover that saving faith which she so unhap-
pily surrendered ! If, after three centuries of spiritual
degradation and chastisement—and we look upon her
temporal prosperity and her mere worldly wisdom as her
greatest scourges—she could only obtain pardon of her
great national crime—we do believe, from the many noble
and estimable natural qualities of her people, that Eng-
land would speedily become one of the fairest portions
of the Church of Christ, and perhaps eclipse her ancient
glories."

STATE OF THE AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS.—At the
Linton union workhouse, Cambridgeshire, on the 19th of
March, 1851, 97 orders were issued from the work-house
to the unemployed labourers ; on the 26th of March 132
orders were issued from the workhouse—which is about
five times the average of former years. At the Risbridge
union, Suffolk, they have a workhouse capable of holding
300 persons, which is now full ; and on the 21st of March,
in consequence of the house being full, the guardians were
compelled to give out-door relief to 163 persons as special
cases who could get no employment; on the 28th of March,
the number of unemployed applicants who could not ob-
tain any employment, and who had to be relieved out of
the house as special cases, was 337 ; the total number of
persons relieved out of the house, including the above
special cases, was, on March 21, 516 persons, and on the
28th, 705. The average number of persons relieved in
this union in the winter months amounted to only 150.

EXECUTION.—On Wednesday, at Taunton, John Wiles
and John Smith were executed, for the murder of W.
Wilkins, an old shopkeeper, at Newport, South Wales.
At nine o'clock the younger prisoner, Smith, was placed
under the drop, and, after an interval of a few minutes,
the other prisoner, Wiles, followed, and was placed by
the side of his fellow culprit. Both the culprits evinced
remarkable firmness, and mounted the ladder of the drop
without support. The chaplain again engaged in prayer
with them, and proceeded to read the service for the
burial of the dead. At the conclusion of the service he
shook hands with the prisoners, and withdrew ; the bolts
of the drop were withdrawn, and the prisoner Wiles ex-
pired without a struggle. Smith writhed convulsively for
a few seconds, but his sufferings soon terminated. The
whole of the prisoners under sentence of transportation,
and also those who had been convicted of felony, were
brought out to witness the execution under the orders of
the governor. Both men confessed their guilt.
MURDER IN JERSEY.—On Friday afternoon week, at
Jersey, a dentist, named Fonquet, discharged a pistol at a
shoemaker, named Derbyshire, and the unfortunate man
soon after died from the effects of the wound. It seems
that Derbyshire and his wife, not having lived on very
amicable terms, a short time since separated, when the
wife betook herself to the care of Fonquet, to whonc she
acted as housekeeper. Three months since, Derbyshire
went to the lodging of Fonquet, and, after some words of
rather an unpleasant nature, the dentist made an attempt
on Derbyshire's life by firing at him through the door;
the ball, however, missed him. On Friday, Derbyshire
repeated his visit, and demanded some articles which his
wife had taken with her. Fonquet was at that moment
absent, but, on his return, remonstrated with him for
entering his apartments, and seizing a loaded pistol,
which he kept by him, discharged it at Derbyshire, the
ball passing through the unfortunate man's body. Being
fully sensible, and retaining all his presence of mind,
Derbyshire has been able to make a full statement of the
facts, which he signed before his death.
ADULTERATION OF BREAD.—The last investigations
of the Lancet, on the subject of adulterations, have been
directed to flour and bread. Out of 44 samples of wheat
flour (including several of French and American) pur-
chased in all quarters of the metropolis, not a single in-
stance was detected of admixture with any other farina,
or of the presence of spurious matters of any kind. It is
admitted, therefore, that millers and corn dealers are
somewhat maligned. As respects bread, however, the
results were not so favourable. Although its adultera-
tion with alum is an offence liable to a penalty of £2O,
this material was found in every one of the samples ex-
amined, the objects for which it is used being to give bad
flour the white appearance of the best, and to enable the
bread made from it to retain a larger proportion of water,
so as to gain in weight. The number of samples was 24,
and in ten of these the quantity was very considerable,
-chile in all cases it was such as to be injurious to health,
the operation of the drug being to interfere with the acti-
vity of the digestive functions. At the same time, an
examination of the weight of bread as delivered at houses
shows that upon an average there is a deficiency of from
2!loz. to 3oz. in every quartern loaf.
SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.—The tercentenary celebration
of the foundation of this place of public education took
place on Thursday last, at the Music-hall, Shrewsbury,
when upwards of three hundred gentlemen sat down to
an excellent dinner. Mr. Chandos Wren Hoskyns pre-
sided. There were present among the guests the Bishop
of Lichfield, Lord Hill, Lord Powis, Archdeacons Allen
and Powis, Mr. Slaney, M.P., Mr. Corbet, &c. After
the usual loyal and national toasts had been drunk with
the accustomed honours, the chairman proposed the
" health of the Bishop of Lichfield," which was re-
ceived with great applause, and his lordship returned
thanks in an appropriate speech, in which he took the
opportunity, as visitor of the school, of expressing his
satisfaction with the mode of education pursued in the
establishment. Ile had himself been educated at Eton,
but he recognized the similarity of imparting knowledge
at Shrewsbury. Of such establishments he might say
the resemblance was such as tile Roman poet had said :
Facies - non omnibus una,
" Nec diversa tamen, qualis decet esse sororum."
His lordship passed an elegant compliment on the late
Dr. Butler, and spoke in terms of eulogy of the late Dr.
Arnold, with whom he had tile pleasure of being ac-
quainted. He was, though not a young man, no unquali-
fied admirer of past times ; no—

"Lamlator temporis acti ;"
but fully appreciated the improvements of modern times.
Many other appropriate toasts having been drunk with
the usual honours, the company broke up shortly before
twelve o'clock.

Why is Prince Albert like a stag in the royal park
Because be is the Queen's own deer (dear.)

purities.

GRAND PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION OF LOYAL
ORANGEMEN.—The anniversary festival of one of the
lodges of this patriotic association was held on Wednes-
day, at Warwiek-place, Bedford-row, London. In the
absence of the Right Hun. the Earl of Enniskillen, who
was expected to take the chair, Mr. J. Peyton, sen..
presided, supported by Colonel Sir William Verner,
Bart., M.P. At the conclusion of an excellent repast,
I o which about 40 gentlemen sat down, grace having been
said, and the cloth drawn, the usual loyal and patriotic
toasts were given. and enthu iastically honoured. The
Chairman then rose, and briefly gave the toast of the
evening—" The elorions, pious, and immortal memory of
the great and good King William 111., the maintainer of
the Protestant religion." Sir William Verner was
among the speakers. The Secretary had received letters
from Rear-Admiral Vernon Harcourt, the Earl of
Roden, Lord Mountcashell, the Earl of Bradford, the
Marquis of Cholmondeley, Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart., M.P.,
Mr. Masterman, M.P., and several other noble and in-
fluential gentlemen, expressing their regret at not being
able to be present on so gratifying an occasion, and their
devotion to the good cause.
THE FRIMLEY GANG.—On Tuesday, James Hamilton
(one of the parties in custody at Lewes), made a full con-
fession of all the burglaries which he and the gang have
been engaged in during the last twelve months. The do-
cument is of a very extraordinary character, and shews
the immense amount of daring possessed by those men.
He has also made some revelations to the police officers
engaged in the case, by which they have been enabled to
discover the receivers of the stolen property. It is be-
lieved that some portion of the great amount of valuable
property which has been stolen may yet be restored to
the owners. Hamilton, in the commencement of his con-
fession, states that the gang consisted of himself, Levi
Harwood, and Samuel Jones (hung for the murder of
Mr. Holiest), Samuel Harwood, John and Edward
Isaacs, William Brooks. Joseph Carter, John and James
Hones, alias Smith, Hiram Smith, Thomas Toot, alias
Morgan, William Hillyer, John Brooks, Mary Crowder,
Sarah White, and James Jones. John Isaacs was duly
elected captain, and all the others acted under his direc-
tions. They were sworn to obey the orders of the cap-
tain, and if any one attempted to back out, or refused to
take part in any robbery or murder, if necessary, he or
she was to be instantly shot, and if any one left the gang
without the consent of the captain, he or she was to be
followed and shot.
TEE BRITISH Moseum.—The new west wing of the
Museum, with its painted ceilings and walls, was, of
course, an object of attraction. This gallery is built
according to th,' design originally prepared by Sir Robert
Smirke; the northern end of it was erected by him about
twenty years since; the southern end has just been
erected under the superintendence of Mr. Sy,:ney Smirke,
under whom, too, the whole of the wing is now being
decorated. The general width of the gallery is 41 feet,
widening at the centre to 50 feet, and at the sonth end to
80 feet. The clear height is 31 feet. The length is 282
feet, of which the portion recently built measures 196
feet. The whole of this gallery will be occupied by Egyp-
tian and Assyrian antiquities ; but the permanent arrange-
ment of the sculpture cannot be made until the side gal-
lery now in coarse of erection is completed, which will
not be the case till next year. Since our last visit, the
walls in part have been painted red, with a black Etruscan
border around each space, and look very well. West-
macott's sculpture for the tympanum of the portico will
probably not be completed by the Ist of May, but very
soon after. They were hoisting "Mathematics" when
we were there,—a sitting figure of seven or eight tons
weight. The central statue, standing, is "Astronomy,"
and is about 12 feet high. These are all of Portland
stone, and are boldly and effectively sculptured. The
enclosure in Great Russell-street, which seems to be of
ponderous character (the central piers in particular are
immense), will be finished, is is expected, about Midsum-
mer next.—The Builder.

Loss OF THE JENNY LIND, EAST INDIA TRADER.—
This fine East India trader, a new ship, nearly 500 tons
burthen, with passengers for London from Singapore,
has been wrecked on a reef of coral rocks in the Southern
Pacific Ocean, 400 miles off the Australian coast, where
the passengers and crew endured the utmost suffering and
privation for a period of 35 days. The ship left Singapore
on the 3d of August, for Melbourne and London, under
the command of Captain Joseph Taylor, with a crew of
16 seamen and apprentices, and several passengers. On
the morning of the 21st the vessel struck on a coral reef
twice, and as she would inevitably break up, she was
abandoned. After great difficulty the jollyboat was
launched, and two hands being placed in her, she was
taken to a rock a short distance inside the reef, which
proved to be the Keen's-reef, in lat. 21-15.13 S., lon.
159 49 E., some 400 miles north of Moreton Bay. The
whole of the passengers were got out of the vessel, and
landed on the islet, which was about 150 yards by 40.
Provisions were fetched from the ship, which with great
management were made to sustain the party. Mr. Beal,
a surgeon, who was on board, contrived an apparatus for
distilling water for consumption from that of the sea,
while a party were employed in constructing a boat in '
which at length they embarked on the ocean. They
made for Moreton Bay, but the wind eventually in the
course of five days drove the boats towards the entrance
of the Brisbane river, and reached the town in safety, I
where they met with every kindness and attention from
its inhabitants, all of them, including the women and
children, comparatively well—a circumstance almost in-
credible, after having been exposed for thirty-seven days
and nights on a desolate cold bank in the Pacific.
THE IRON TRADE.—No movement has taken place in
this trade, nor is any expected until the novelty and ex-
citement of the all-absorbing object of attention, the
Great Exhibition, has begun in some degree to lose its
intensity. Till that is over merchants and dealers, both
in London and elsewhere, seem altogether disinclined to
attend to business, or to give out any contracts further
than the absolute supplying of urgent demands. In con-
sequence,
the general complement of orders for the sea-
son
is falling alarmingly short. The trade remains ex-
cessively dull, and stocks of manufactured iron are accu-
mulating. Under these circumstances the Easter holi-
days have proved a more than usual boon to the masters,
and the growing desire among the working classes to avail
themselves of extended periods of relaxation upon such
opportunities, have met witano discouragement. Much
anxiety begins to be felt as CO the possibility of continu-
ing to struggle against the low-priced competition of
other districts, with such a failing demand ; and fears are
entertained whether the summer months can be got
through without declaring a still lower scale of prices for
Staffordshire iron ; a step which would necessarily in-
volve a general reduction of wages, and would, doubtless,
be attended with much difficulty and dissatisfaction. It
is, however, argued by some, thrt after the interruption
of the Exhibition a large impulse may be expected, con-
sequent upon the accumulation of requirements unat-
tended to during its continuance, and from the accession
of foreign demand which it is anticipated will be its re-
sult ; and that if an effort is made in the meantime,
prices will then not only be supported, but an improve-
ment easily obtained. Whether there is any ground for 1
these expectations time will shortly prove. Notwith-
standing the present acknowledged unremunerating state
of the trade, a new blast furnace is in progress of erec-
tion by the Messrs. Bermitt, near Oldbury, and an ar-
rangement is stated to have been made by B. Gibbons,
Esq., for again working the Ketley furnaces, lately in the
occupation of Messrs. Jones and Oaks, near Kingswin-
ford,
and it is said that they are now being put into blast.
In each case the objects seem to be the consumption of
the produce of considerable tracts of mine lately opened,
both ironstone and coal being with difficulty disposed of,
even at reduced prices.—Binningham Gazelle, of yester-
day.
THE ELEPHANT CALF AT THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
—The female elephant, which was first exhibited by the
Zoological Society, on Saturday, was taken by the natives
who captured her to the fair at Cawnpore, at the end of
August, 1850; she was then heavy with young, and was
purchased by Mr. Wallace, a Calcutta horsedealer, who
for several years has frequented the native fairs of Bengal
in the prosecution of business. During the journey
towards Calcutta Mr. Wallace made a halt of three weeks
in the month of September, and the elephant then gave
birth to the healthy little calf which is now at her side.
Within a very few minutes after that event the calf,
which is said then to have weighed about half-a-hundred
weight, stood up and began to suck. This operation is
performed in a ve,y singular manner. The udder of the
elephant is situated between the fore legs, and the calf
assists himself with his trunk in placing the teat in his
lips at the side of his mouth. He sucked several times a
day during the journey down to Calcutta, the keeper
generally halting twice or three times in the course of
each morning's march, for the purpose of permitting him
to take nourishment. At that time the calf was not able
to walk more than a mile in each morning's march, and
was therefore carried in a cart. The mother came close
behind it, and generally caressed her offspring with her
trunk, as they moved along, as if to assure herself of his
safety. The fatigue of the march probably diminished
the mother's supply, and the keeper found it necessary to
add to the nourishment of the calf by a certain quantity
of zebu milk, which he readily took, and which agreed
with him perfectly. Arrived at Calcutta, the elephants
were sold, and shipped immediately on board the Wel-
lesley, Captain Parish, where the calf drew rapidly, not-
withstanding the inconveniences to which live stock of
such magnitude are necessarily subjected at sea. The
mother suffered considerably in condition in consequence
of the fatigue which she has undergone, but is now
improving, under more succulent diet, and will probably,
in a few weeks, be as sleek and well furnished with flesh
as if she had never left the jungle. The natives who saw
the calf on the march to Calcutta regarded it with great
interest, as there is no recent instance, if any, of these
animals breeding in domestication ; and, consequently,
a sucking elephant is almost as rare a sight in the neigh-
bourhood of Calcutta as the hippopotamus was at Alex-

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A CURE OF A , EVERIZ SKIN DISEASE BY HOLLOWAY'S
OINTMENT AND PlLLS.—James Jenkins, an agricultural
labourer, residing in a farm near NeWtown, suffered
dreadfully from a most fearful disease of the skin, which
broke out in blotches in various parts of his body ; the
complaint was gradually impairing his constitution, he
had become low spiriteardnd nervous. He had tried to
obtain relief by medjdbe, from two or three medical men
but their remedie- roved useless. He then commenced
taking Hollow s Pills, and rubbing the Ointment well
into the aff ed parts, and by these means he is now re-
stored t erfect health, and his skin freed from all im-