The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-08 00:00:00

THE LIYIEPOOL STANPAED.

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

In the Clifton Zoological Gardens, a pointer bitch is
now suckling a young leopard.
A field of wheat was cut in the neighbourhood of Ips-
wich last week.

The price of whiskey at the several distilleries in Cork
has been fixed at ss. 9d. per gallon.
Lord J. Russell paired off with Sir H. Douglas against
the Scotch Church Bill.

THAMES TUNNEL.—Forty thousand four hundred and
fifty-nine persons passed through last week.
On Friday last a fine young woman leaped off Waterloo
Bridge into the river Thames, and sank in a few minutes.
The Government rum contract, for 100,000,000 gallons,
half East and half West India, has been taken at ls. sd.
per gallon.

Professor Lee, of Edinburgh, the greatest of modern
linguists, acquired his chief knowledge of languages whilst
working at his trade as a carpenter.
A contract has been entered into by two influential
firms—one in London, the other at Liverpool—to con-
vey 5,000 poor emigrants to Australia.
Within the last few days, between fifty and sixty lambs
have been found dead upon the Sedbergh Fells, which had
apparently been worried either by a dog or by foxes.
On Thursday evening a dinner was given to Sir B.
Brodie, at which a medal was presented to him in honour
of his resigning the surgeoncy of St. George's Hospital.
Government has made a grant of £l6O to each officer
of the Canadian proNincial forces engaged in the war of
1812.

We regret to hear that Mr. Matthew Paterson, dyer, of
Halifax, has been obliged to suspend payment. The
liabilities are stated to be above £20,000.
A lady died the other day in one of the carriages on the
Blackwall Railway, it was supposed from exertion in
mounting the stairs to obtain her ticket.
Mr. Black has retired from the editorship of the
Morning Chronicle, which he conducted for many years
with great talent, knowledge, industry, and success.

The accounts from Staffordshire are rather more favour-
able ; iron may be quoted about ten shillings per ton
better.

A reward of £lOO has been offered by Government for
the apprehension of Joseph Dobson, the murderer of his
father, at Mount Tabor, near Halifax,
The Fanny, a vessel belonging to Preston, was lost last
week. The captain was saved, but two of the crew were
lost.

On Wednesday, a porter at the Stoke Prior Station was
run over by a train on the Birmingham and Glocester
Railway, and so much injured, that his death was occa-
sioned thereby.

Last week, Mr. Cobbold, Broughton Park, Edinburgh,
received from a friend in Colchester, through the post-
office, a couple of live snakes, being the second time such
a fare has been conveyed through this medium.

The small steamer lately placed on Loch Katrine, for
the accomodation of tourists, was scuttled and sunk, a
few nights ago, by the boatmen, with whose profits it
interfered.

Between the 21st and 27th ult. there entered France
from England—at Boulogne, 1314 travellers and 5 car-
riages ; and at Calais, 634 travellers, 2 horses, and 10
carriages.

Sir C. Nightingale, Bart., who died suddenly the
other day, has left the whole of his property to his
medical attendant, Dr. Greville, to the exclusion of his
own family.
On Friday week the wheels of the mail coach which runs
between Andover and Southampton, took fire in conse-
quence of not being properly greased before starting. The
coachman refused to continue the journey.
THE OPERATIVE FRAMEWORK-KNITTERS. After
much struggling, the poor framework-knitters have ob-
tained a government pledge for an inquiry into their
alleged grievances.—Dublin Mercury.
At a petty sessions, held at Morpeth, a few days ago,
there were no less than forty shopkeepers, innkeepers,
and others, summoned and fined for having in their pos-
session imperfect weights, measures, and balances.

We understand that Mr. Banks Stanhope, of Revesby.
Lincolnshire, gave 200 guineas to Mr. Parkinson of Ley
Fields, near Newark, for his bull calf, Cramer, which won
the prize at Doncaster on Wednesday.
COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.—We understand that
Mr. H. Wallack has become the lessee of Covent-garden
Theatre, which will be opened under the new management
in the latter end of September.—Morning Chronicle.
At a special meeting of the Leeds town council, last
week, Mr. John Arthur Ikin, solicitor, was appointed
town-clerk and clerk of the council, at a salary of £650
per annum, vice Mr. Edwin Eddison, resigned.
A LIBERAL LANDLORD.—At last weeks collection of
rents upon the Perth estates, Lord Willoughby d'Eresby
granted to all his tenantry, without distinction, an abate-
ment of 221 per cent.
In the county of Cornwall there are 370,000 inhabi-
tants, 10,000 of whom are miners, and 70,000 teetotallers;
and of this large body there were but five prisoners for
trial at the last assizes Thus abstinence lessens crime
and abates misery.
We have to announce that Lord Stuart de Rothsay, the
English Ambassador at the Court of St. Petersburgh, is
about to be recalled, and his Lordship's place in that capi-
tal is to be supplied by the Duke of Beaufort.--Cour4
Jonrnal.—[This is denied in a provincial paper.]
_

A convict, in Cambridgeshire county gaol, committed
suicide on Friday week in his cell, by suspenling himself
from a bar above the door• with his braces and stockings.
He was under sentence of transportation for fifteen years
for an assault upon his wife with intent to murder her..
An insurance was effected at Lloyd's, last week. by
Messrs. Cavan, Brothers, on behalf of the colony of De-
merara, on 24,783 dollars, being the savings during five
years of 230 Hill Coolies, who are on their return from
Guiana to Calcutta.

The Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, which
numbers upwards of 1600 members of thelegally-qualified
of the medical profession in every locality of the kingdom,
held its eleventh anniversary on Wednesday and Thursday
last, at Leeds.
A SINGING MOUSE.—A mouse has been recently
caught that possesses the surprising faculty of imitating
the notes of the nightingale and various other birds with
perfect ease and fluency. It is in the possession of parties
in London.

A BAPTIST BISHOP.—A contemporary records that at
the annual meeting of the Baptist College, held on Wed-
nesday, in Westgate Chapel, Bradford, "Mr. Thomson,
Bishop of the first Baptist'Church, Hull, read the Scrip-
tures and prayed !"
A public meeting was held in Ulverstone, last week, for
the purpose of effecting a reduction in the price of milk.
The object has been accomplished, and the farmers have
agreed to charge for skim milk, Id. and new milk 2id per
quart.

Several thrifty wives, on the occasion of a recent bank
failure in Leicestershire, wished to " prove" for notes of
the broken bank, which they bad hoarded unknown to
their husbands ; but the commissioner told them they
must send their liege lords.
Mr. Escott gave notice in the House of Commons, on
Monday last, of his intention to move that it be an in-
struction to the Committee of the Turnpike Bill to ex-
empt from the payment of toll all vehicles conveying ma-
nure.

EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT.—On Thursday last, a
horse drawing a chaise in Southwark started off at full
gallop and jumped on an iron post at the corner of a
street with such force as to rip its stomach completely
open. The animal died in a few minutes.
The troop-ship Alert, belonging to the Admiralty, was
wrecked on the 4th ult. off County Harbour, near Goose
Island, about 80 miles from Halifax, whilst ou a voyage
from that port to England. She had 25 seamen, along
with 200 soldiers and 95 women and children, all of whom
were saved. The total loss is said to exceed £20,000.
The Standard, alluding to the fact of the Anti-corn law
League having been in habit of ordering thousands of
copies of their favourite newspapers, says, " this is the
way in which some of the Liberal journals have contrived
for some time past to increase their circulation : the fact,
however, has been long known in London.
PROSPECTS OF THE HARVEST.—" One who has whis-
tled at the Plough," says, in an article in the Morning
Chronicle, of Thursday last, that judging from the ap.
pearance of the crops, as seen from the line of railway
from London to Liverpool, there is a prospect of penny
loaves being bigger than ever.
A man of the name of Henry Hendery, and a young
woman named Hannah Sancto, threw themselves into the
river Medway' near Rochester, the week before last. It
appeared at the inquest dull the parties were to have been
married, but that some obstacle was raised. They were
found clasped in each others arms.
The carpet trade of Kidderminster is now, and has
been for some months past, in a most excellent state.
There is scarcely a loom unemployed, and the men are
now pressed by their masters for work, instead of, as at
this time last year, when the masters were pressed by their
men to give them work.
DEATH ON DARTMOOR.—Last Tuesday week, a far-
mer's boy went to look for some cattle on Dartmoor ; he
was overtaken with sudden rain and tempest, and the
mist was so thick that he could not find his way home.
It was not until Saturday last that he was found, and then
he was quite dead.— West of England Conservative.
It is said that the head of an eminent fancy goods' firm
in the city, recently exchequered for participation in the
custom house frauds, has absconded, after many futile
attempts to obtain a compromise from the government,
and for which he is said to have offered a very considerable
sum.—Globe.

EDUCATION.—A committee of the Wesleyan Metho-
dists' conference has been appointed to report upon the
means of diffusing " sound Scriptural and useful " know-
ledge by the establishment of additional week-day schools.
The Rev. R. Newstead, J. Dixon, C. Prest, and J. New-
ton, with Mr. T. Farmer, are among the members of the
committee. The number of children at present educated
at the day schools of the Wesleyan body is 20,804; at the
Sunday schools, 401,383; at an expense for the whole of
£24,167 7s. 2d.
FATAL COLLISION AT SEA.—At midnight, on Satur-
day week, the Concord of Teignmouth, bound from
Newport (Wales) to that place, was run down of Padstow,
in a storm of hail and rain, by the John Esdaile, 660 tons
burthen, from Quebec, bound to Bristol. Captain Reeves
of the Concord, and a seamen were below asleep at the
time, and both perished ; the remainder of the crew, five
in number, saved themselves by getting on board the
John Esdaile.

A SIGNIFICANT SIGN.—The present workhouse in
Sheffield, formerly an extensive cotton mill, is to be con-
siderably enlarged ; the estimated expense is £lO,OOO,
which will be advanced by the treasury in Exchequer
Bills at 4 per cent. The loan is to be repaid by annual
instalments.

The body of a gamekeeper, in the employ of George
Wilbraham, Esq., of Delamere House, Cheshire, was
found in a lonely road near Chester, on Friday week, in
such a mutilated condition as to leave no doubt that he
had been murdered. The name of the unfortunate man
was Matthias Bailey, and he has left a wife and four chil-
dren.

At Durham assizes Thomas Lawson was indicted for
the murder of his brother William Lawson ; it appeared
they had quarrelled about some money matters, and the
prisoner struck deceased three or four times on the back
of the head with a stone, from which he died. The jury
found the prisoner guilty of manslaughter, and Mr. Jus-
tice Wightman sentenced him to transportation for life.
An unfortunate child, at Colmar, staked himself on a
hay-hook, and died on Wednesday. For two days he re-
mained in a complete state of somnolency, till he made
one sudden turn, uttered one cry, and expired. On the
autopsy being made, it was found that the instrument had
entered his body to the length of ten inches, and that it
would have been impossbile to extract it without causing
his instant death.

An influx of water, involving the destruction of pro-
perty to the value of fifty thousand pounds, and the total
deprivation of employment to several hundreds of work-
people, took place on Tuesday evening, at the colliery of
Mr. J. Fitzgerald, situate in the township of Pendleton,
near Manchester, which supplied nearly 1,000 tons of
coal a day to the Manchester market.
WINDOW DUTY.—The following is a parliamentary
return of the duty on windows, for the year 1841, asses-
sed for the twelve towns in England paying the largest
amount ; Bath 21,898, Birmingham 11,093, Brighton
15,216, Bristol 15,056, Cheltenham 6,755, Clifton 7,850,
Leeds 7,514, Liverpool 30,790, Manchester 19,157,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 5,710, Norwich 7,141, Plymouth
11,391.
On Tuesday evening, Mr. C. Green made his 286th
ascent in his Albion Balloon, from the gardens attached
to Cremorne House, King's-road, Chelsea, accompanied
by Captain Currie, this being his 41st ascent. The
greatest elevation attained was about 7,500 feet. The
landing was accomplished about seven miles from Chelms-
ford, the distance gone over being about 37 miles.
HERRING TRADE.—The herring fishing is going on
prosperously in all quarters of the west coast, but more
especially in the sound of Kilbrannan, near Campbletown.
The fish are of a superior quality, are extremely moderate
in price, they are purchased by the curers at 2s. 6d. per
long hundred. The price per barrel at the Glasgow mar-
ket is from £2 to £2. 55., but it is expected that the price
will soon be considerably lower.—Ayr Observer.
Dennis John Blake, the late landing-waiter, who was
so deeply implicated in the late Custom-house frauds, and
whose name has been repeatedly mentioned in the legal
proceedings adopted by the Commissioners of Customs
against Messrs. Candy and Dean, and other parties, was
attached in London the other day, and is detained by the
crown for £B,OOO, the amount of which he defrauded the
government. He has a fine estate near Dublin.
WINDSOR BRIDGE TOLI.S.—The tolls of this bridge,
which cost nearly £20,000 in its erection, dividing the two
towns of Windsor and Eton, were let for several years
previously to 1841 at £BOO and £9OO a-year. In that year
they were, for the first time, put up by auction, when the
former lessee gave £l,lOO for them ; and last year the
sum obtained by the trustees of the bridge was £1,500.
On Friday they were again let by public competition,
when they were knocked down for £1,400.
A subscription is raising in London for the orphan
family of the late Mr. Elton, who was lost in the fatal
wreck of the Pegasus. Amongst the donors we observe
the Queen, £25 ; Miss Bourdett Coutts, £lO ; Mr. Mac-
ready, £2l ; Proprietors of Punch, £lO ; and Mr. Charles
Kean, £lO. A benefit is shortly to take place at Drury
Lane Theatre for the same object.

It is said that the expenses of Van Amburgh's exhi-
bition are upwards of £3OO a day. His tour in the North
has been very profitable, and he is reported to have
netted the following sums :—At Alnwick, £370 ; Belford,
£150; Kelso, £300; Coldstream, £200; Dunse, £150;
and at Berwick, £250; whilst at Blyth, Morpeth, Wooler,
and other minor places, his receipts were very satisfactory.
STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES, AUG. 2.—This evening
four colliers were killed at the Bapilan Deep Ash Pit by
what seems to be an act of great and criminal carelessness.
They were being lowered into the pit and they had nearly
reached the bottom, the action of the sawney (small en-
gine) instantaneously reversed, by which they were drawn
up again with such frightful velocity, that they were pro-
pelled a height of 40 yards into the air.
MAMMOTH ENGINE.—On Thursday week the enor-
mous cylinder of 144 inches in diameter for the great
engine designed to drain the Haarlem Lake, was cast at
the foundry of Messrs. Harvey and Co., at Hayle, Corn-
wall. It is Ly far the largest cylinder ever cast entire for
any purpose. The operation was completely successful.
More than twenty five tons of iron were melted for the
occasion !

EXTRAORDINABY GROWTH OF MUSHROOMS.-Of
the morning of Friday week, Mr. Taylor, of Golcar, went
out early.to search fot mushrooms, and to one field in
particular, but could not see the least vestige of one. On
the same evening he repaired to the field again, where to
his surprise he gathered two, each of which measured 21
inches in circumference, and must have sprung up and
attained that size in less than 12 hours.

A very destructive fire occurred at Abington, in Cam-
bridgeshire, on Thursday last, by which the fine buildings
of the very extensive farm of Thomas Mortlock, Esq.,
were entirely consumed. One part of the premises con-
sisted of a large barn, 380 feet in length, which along with
140,quarters of wheat, threshed and dressed, was destroyed.
The amount of damage is £2,000 but the property was
insured in the' un office.

On Tuesday, whilst Mr. O'Connor was addressing a
chartist meeting at Frome, about fourteen miles from Bath,
in the loft of a large warehouse, the floor suddenly gave
way and the whole assembly was precipitated to the floor
beneath. One young woman had her leg broken, and Mr.
O'Conner had his left leg ane hip inlured ; his coat was
torn from his back, his trowsers were reduced to shreds,
and the sole of his hoot was actually split in two. No life
was lost.

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—In May, 1838, the
society was formed with about 250 members. In Decem-
ber 1838, they had increased to 600, and its income to
£1,128. The following data indicate its progress since
then :—Dec. 1839, members 2,oo7—income, £2,226.;
Dec. 1840, members 4,262—income, £3,598 ' • Dec. 1841,
members s,2B2—income, £4,794; Dec. 1842, members
6,soo—income for last halfyear only, £,450. The meet-
ing for 1844 is to be held at Southampton.
EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE.—At the Marylebone
police office, London, last week, a long inquiry was gone
into before the sitting magistrate relative to a charge of
attempting to extort money from a highly respectable
gentleman, by bringing forward the most indecent charges
against his dsughters , which be threatened, unless renu-
merated, to make public in court of justice in certain pro-
ceedings which he asserted he was instituting against the
keeper of a brothel.
ALLEGED MURDER.—On Saturday afternoon, an in-
vestigation, which lasted several hours, was gone into at
Spitalfields, London, before Mr. Baker and a respectable
jury, touching tha death of Eliza Slater, aged 18 years,
who, it was alleged, had come by her death in consequence
of the brutal treatment she had received from a man
named Facey, with whom she cohabited. The coroner
said that prima facie the evidence amounted to wilful
murder, but he should adjourn the case for a post mortem
examination. The man had absconded since the morning
of her death, and has not since been heard of.

"THE LEAGUE."—We understand that one means
adopted by the league of furthering the anti-corn• law agi-
tation is this. They offer to the " liberal " journalists of
the district a report prepared by their own reporters,
agreeing, at the same time, to purchase 1000 copies of his
paper, of which number 500 are sent to the league, and
500 are left for distribution with the printer. If this
statement be true—as we believe it to be—it throws con-
siderable light on the vaunted " success "—such as it is—
which has attended Mr. Cobden's proceedings.—Cam-
bridge Chronicle.
THE MINING DISTRICTS.—The state of the mining
districts does not improve. While works are successively
thrown out of employment in South Staffnrdshire poor-
rates increase enormously : one colliery is mentioned on
which the rate is £4OO ; on a single pit it is £25 ! There
is an extensive miners association, which was originally
established at Wakefield ; Newcastle-upon-Tyne is now
its head quarters ; and it is said to number between thirty
and forty thousand enrolled members, and to extend to
extend to Scotland and Ireland. A general strike for wa-
ges is contemplated.
The Socinians have induced Sir Robert Peel and Sir
James Graham to introduce a bill into parliament for the
purpose of quieting their possession to those extensive
trust estates, of which they have so long held unrighteous
possession. The consequences of the solemn affirmation
by the House of Lords, assisted by the judges, of the
Lord Chancellor's decision in Lady Hewley's case are in-
tended to be neutralised by this monstrous enactment—an
enactment so monstrous, that we marvel that either Sir
James Graham or Sir Robert Peel could have listened to
it for a moment.

ESCAFE OF TWO PRISONERS.—Wm. Osborn, charged
with shooting at his wife with a pistol, with intent to
murder her, and Richard Petchell, charged with swindling
a farmer named Budds, of Little Clacton, in Essex, of a
valuable mare, at Colchester fair, on the sth ult., effected
their escape last week from the prison in Colchester. The
prisoners contrived to steal a chisel, with which they cut
away the window sills of the apartment where they were
confined, so that they removed the iron bars and let
themselves down into the new market-place by their bed-
clothes, leaving their hats and boots behind.

LARGE SEIZURES.—It having come to the knowledge
of the Commissioners of Excise that large quantities
of grain, purported to be high-dried malt, but which was
in fact. but " scorched barley" (having never been sub-
jected to the malting process,) were to he found upon the
market, they issued instructions to several officers to in-
vestigate the subject. The result was, that several large
tnalsters and corn-dealers had extensive stocks of grain
of this description which was seized by the officers, and
amounts to between 400 and 500 quarters. A consider-
able portion of it was brought from the neighbourhood
of Croydon, where this illegal article had been dirr3sed
of for some time. The effect of the sale of this article
was to produce beer from it havng the appearance of
real stout, without its strength or virtues, and to defraud
the Crown. The whole has been condemned nol in the
course of the week it will be thrown into the sea.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRES IN LONDON.—Within twenty-
four hours (from six on Saturday morning to six on
Sunday morning) four of the most destructive fires that
have for a long time occurred in the metropolis took
place ;—the first in Fore-street, Limehouse, destroying
property to the amount of £4OOO ; the second at Green-
bank, Wapping, which entails a loss of £12,000; a third
in New-street, causing a loss of £12,000 ; and a fourth
in Great George-street, Westminster, destroying property
amounting to £BOOO.
THE FIRST DAY OF OYSTERS.—On Friday, at six
o'clock, the sale of oysters fur the season commenced at
Billingsgate, which was crowded with vendors of shell-
fish, and, when the hatches were opened, there was a
tremendous rush to obtain the first supply. The supply
was below the average, and the demand was not so brisk
as usual. The inferior oysters, which had not been laid
on the beds to fatten, produced from Bs. to 10s. per
bushel ; the " Commons, an oyster generally vended by
the retail dealers at the stalls, 14s. per bushel • the pearls,
£1 125.; the Kelly's, 16s. ; and Scotch, £1 10s.
LORD STANHOPE TAKING THE PLEDGE.—At one of
the London meetings, held by Father Mathew, for the
purpose of administering the teetotal pledge, a semi circle
was formed, and 300 men and women knelt and received
it. Amongst the number was Earl Stanhope, who la-
boured under considerable agitation, and was directly
afterwards embraced by Father Mathew, who, in the en-
thusiasm of the moment, ,kissed his cheek. The noble
Earl smiled, and grasped Father Mathew's hands, ex-
claiming, " God bless you, Sir." The delivery of speeches
and the administering of the pledge was proceeded with
until dnsk, when Father Mathew left the ground.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—Mr. Frederick Ancona, a
draughtsman in the office of the Patent Elastic Pavement
Company, London, attended the meeting of scientific per-
sons at the w rks near Waterloo-bridge, on Thursday af-
ternoon, and on returning, in company with two gentle-
men, he observed, " I will bet you a shilling that I will
walk along the parapet wall," and immediately jumped np
in the recess of the bridge, and in getting on the wall it is
imagined he was seized with vertigo. He fell over and
was never seen after. So sudden was it, that his friends
had not moment to prevent this perilous attempt.
Loss OF THE PEGASUS.—The following is a statement
of the number of passengers and crew of the Pegasus,
according to the latest estimate in the best informed quar-
ters :

Cabin passengers ....... .
Steerage
Crew, including fireman

Total .
Saved .

Drowned . .• • • :•

The National Society appears to have abondoned its
intention of holding a public Meeting on occasion of the
defeat of the Factories Education Bill. A list of contri-
butions is being privately circulated, which already gives
a total of £32,082. Her Majesty subscribes £l,OOO. The
Queen-Dowager and Prince Albert £5OO each. The
Dukes of Northumberland and Portland, and Sir Robert
Peel, £lOOO each. The Archbishops of Canterbury and
York, the Bishop of London, the Chapter of Durham,
the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Harrowby, Lord
Francis Egerton, the Hon. Sidney Herbert, Mr. Abel
Smith, and Mr. Holford, £5OO each. There are also two
contributors of £3OO each; nine, of £250 each; twenty-
eight, of £2OO each ; and 115, of £lOO each.

EXTRAORDINARY DISSIPATION.-At the Exeter As-
sizes, on the Ist inst., an action was brought by a gentle-
man at Exeter, named Strong, against a solicitor in Tiver-
ton, to recover between £5O and £6O for money lent. It
appeared that in January, 1842, the two started for Ply-
mouth, and though they remained there but one day and
two nights spent £ll2. They had teams of four horses
cn the road, and plenty of champagne at breakfast, lun-
cheon, dinner, and supper, and tea to qualify the wine.
The bill at the hotel was £2B, and they were driven about
in flies all day. Twelve pounds were paid for the horses;
and there was a breakfast for seven people, which cost
£7. The action was brought to recover one-half of these
expenses, the plaintiff having found originally the whole
amount, and the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff
for £56.

WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.—The public and private
services at the Wesleyan Conference, held at Sheffield,
have been well attended during the week. An influential
committee has been appointed to consider the affairs and
prospects of Wesleyan Methodism in Scotland. The list
of candidates for the ministry is very conriderable ; and
the friends of missions will rejoice to hear that fourteen
of these have been raised up on the Foreign stations. In
several districts, the Conference regret to find a defalca-
tion in the New Auxiliary Fund. In an interesting con-
versation, it was stated, that the conduct of the Wesley-
ans, during the disturbances of last summer and autumn,
was, without a known exception, loyal and peaceful. To
the question—What preachers have died since the last
Conference, the names were called over, when it appeared
that thirteen have died in Great Britain, three in Ireland,
and eight upon Foreign missionary stations.
CAUTION TO EMIGRAN TS.—A short time ago a lad
named Moffat, who was anxious to emigrate to America,
made application at the office of the emigration agent in
this town, and paid four guineas as the amount of his pas-
sage money to New York. He was, in return for the
money, furnished with a ticket, purporting to be an au-
thority for securing him a berth in the ship Elizabeth
Stewart, which was to sail in one or two days from Li-
verpool to New York. Armed with the document. the
lad proceeded to Liverpool; but on his arrival there,
found it was of no value whatever—the paper was repu-
diated, and the poor fellow found, when too late that he
had been cheated out of his four guineas—his all, as it
would appear, for he was indebted to the captain of one
of the Liverpool steamers for a free passage back to Glas-
gow. The Government emigration agent in Liverpool
wrote to Glasgow on the subject, and the man who com-
mitted the fraud is now in custody.—Glasgow Paper.
HORRIBLE STORY.—One of the most dreadful and
cruel means ever heard of to destroy the life of a child,
and get the body eaten up by pigs, Las just come under
the notice of the parish authorities of Bermondsey. It
appears that on Monday night a woman was observed to
go into one of the secluded meadows in the Grange-road.
It was discovered next morning that she had left a child
about eight weeks old on the grass, and in the meadow
there were about 30 or 40 ravenous hogs turned out. How
it is they did not scent the body of the poor child is
astonishing, for if they had death must have been the
almost instantaneous result. The child, when found in
the morning, was in a dreadfully emaciated state, ap-
parently from the want of the ordinary nourishment of an
infant, and is expected to die. The parish officers have
offered a large reward for the apprehension of the woman,
as there is no doubt, if the child dies, it will be a case of
wilful murder.

REMARKABLE ESCAPE.—On Monday afternoon, as
one of the trains on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
was returning to Glasgow, a boy, the son of a gentleman
connected with this city, who had been leaning on the
door of one of the carriages, fell out—the door flying open
—and was precipitated over a steep embankment, about
two miles beyond Linlithgow, into a hayfield below, where
a number of haymakers were at work. Of course, no one
in the train who witnessed the accident had any other idea
but the boy was killed on the spot. Judge of their sur-
prise, however, on stopping at Linlithgow, and the grati-
fication of the parent,—who could scarcely be prevented
from leaping out of the carriage,—to be informed that his
son was in the hands of the haymakers, altogether unin-
jured, with the exception of a scratch on the face, caused
by rolling down the embankment. We believe that no
blame is attributable to any of the guards, as the door had
been left unfastened by a lady who had gone out at some
of the stations on this side of Ediuburgh.—Glasyow
Chronicle.

The Durham Advertiser of Friday last states that it is
"convinced against its will" that the late radical victory
in that city is to be ascribed to the unwarrantable inter-
ference of the Marquis of Londonderry. It concludes
a long article on the subject as follows. " Though 45
electors of the Marquis of Londonderry have on this oc-
casion voted for a Chartist, it was not from their own
wishes, but upon compulsion. Several were willingito go
to the poll even at the eleventh hour, :in favour of Mr.
Purvis, but as their votes could not then turn the scale,
the agents of the learned gentleman would not endanger
the loss of their employment, merely for the purpose of
diminishing Bright's majority. Many of those in the in-
fluence of Lord Londonderry.refused peremptorily to vote
for Bright, and were left unpolled. One hundred and
sixty one voters remained unpolled, either through threats
or blandishments, and had the election remained free—
had there been no bribery on the one side or intimidation
on the other, Mr. Purvis would have been returned by a
large majority."

PREMATURE INTERMENTS.—We have more than onee
called the attention of our readers to the hurried manner
in which interments are gone about in the north, amongst
the poorer and middle classes especially. The following
case which occurred a few days ago, in the church yard
of Wick, shows pretty clearly that an interment of this
kind had taken place, and that, too, while the person was
alive. On the grave-digger removing part of the lid of
a coffin, whilst digging a grave, he was struck with the
strange manner in which the bones and skull were placed,
and calling another person to look at it, they removed
gently the whole top of the coffin, the arm-bones stretched
up over the head, and the latter turned on its side near
the thigh-bones. The chips and shavings, too, which are
usually placed under or about the head, appeared to be
all pushed dow❑ towards the legs. From inquiry, it was
ascertained to be the remains of a man who was buried
about twenty years ago, and said to have died of a faint-
ing fit, and from the attendant circumstances, no doubt
is left in our mind that:he was interred while in a state of
syncope.—John o' Groat Journal.
THE SALMONID2E.—Every fact that tends to elucidate
the obscurity in which the natural history of the salmon
is involved will be read with interest, and therefore we
have great pleasure in announcing to our readers that the
extensive experiments made by the lessees of the lower
fisheries of the .den have been so far successful that a
gilse weighing about 51b. was caught at the Stainton fish-
ery on Thursday morning which had been marked when a
fry in 1842. The back tin was taken off, but as that was
a common expedient in other rivers a small portion of the
caudal fin was also cut off. In the specimen taken the
back fin is gone, but nature has evidently made an effort
to supply the portion of the tail which was cut away. A
new growth has taken place, but the mark is plain where
the granulc.tion commenced, and the side of the fin that
had been injured is less perfect in shape than the other.
This is conclusive of the fact, that the salmon tribe visit
their native rivers, but it is singular that out of nearly
5,009 that were marked so very few have been retaken.
Dining the present week the take of fish in the Solway
am' its tributaries has been enormous, and for the last
two days splendid salmon have been selling at the rate of
4d. per pound, and even at that price dealers appear to
have a great difficulty in getting rid of their supply.—Car-
lisle Patriot.