The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-13 00:00:00

TTTE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

One ohktule is removed from -the alleviation of
Irsh risteat7. of : the multiplicatiqn of useless
roads, thelabi-nir th 2 -,eople,rnay now be i:reeteci into
that afford a return for the expenditure. The
Lt.rd Lieutenant has, on his own responsibility, under-
taken to correct the imperfections of the Labour Act, and
Sessions may now present for " works of a reproductige
character and permanent utility," in the assurance that
such of them as shall be recommended by the Board of
Works his Excellency will sanction and approve. This
is a step in advance, and it taken earlier would have
saved a good deal of needless discussion and a great many
ridiculous proposals. Plans for drainage, &c., will now
be entertained, so that land may be improved while po-
verty is relieved.

The editor of the Cork Constitution was last month en-
joying himself with some friends in Lanarkshire, and in
consequence, the usual "leaders" in that paper did not
make their appearance. A day or two before the return
of the editor a mysterious statement appeared in the Ro-
mish newspaper at Cork congratulating the friends of
" Catholicity" on his conversion to the " true faith," and
announcing that he was then at the " College of Oscott,
in the midst of the Newmans, the Fabers. and the Puseys,
confirming his belief in the creed of the fathers." The
editor on his return writes an editorial notice of the cir-
cumstance in the Constitution, in which he says the cir-
cumstance "will, at all events, afford a hearty laugh to
certain kind-hearted friends with whom, while it was
making its appearance, instead of poring over the pulings
of a demented theology in the sombre cells of Oscott, we
were breathing the pure air of Heaven on the healthful
hills of Lanarkshire."

CHARGE. AGAINST AN AMERICAN CAPTAIN.—AII
investigation was held in Passage yesterday into the cir-
cumstances attending the deaths of three emigrants, on
board the American ship, the Meloka. The vessel in
question bad left Liverpool a short time since, with Irish
emigrants, bound for New York, but having suffered some
damage, after leaving port, she was obliged to put into
Passage to refit. The emigrants on landing here, alleged
that they had experienced bad treatment from Captain
M`Lareorn, the captain of the Meloka, and that his con-
duct to the individuals who had died on the voyage from
Liverpool, was cruel and neglectful. After a long exami-
nation of witnesses the decision of the bench was read to
the effect that with respect to the first charge—that the
passengers died on board from neglect of the Captain—
they acquitted him of that ; they were of opinion that the
second charge—that the provisions and water were not
served out according to law—was proved, and they there-
convicted Captain M•Laren in the mitigated penalty of
£25 sterling. They reduced the penalty on account of the
small number of hands on board (which, however, was net
the fault of the Captain), to which they attributed the
want of water complained of by the passengers, more
than to any neglect of the Captain, or want of supply.
The magistrates were unanimous in their determination,
and that if the penalty was to be paid by the owners, and
if it amounted to £5OO instead of £25, they would have
given it gainst them. The owners bad been guilty of
dreadful neglect in sending out the Meloka from Liver-
pool with not half the number of hands she would have
carried.—Mr. Walsh, counsel for the Captain, thought it
right to mention that the American Consul, came over
here in an American vessel of 1,200 tons and only 22 men.
According to the practices in the American service, such
a number of hands was considered quite sufficient.—
Cork Constitution.

FOREIGN FRUIT AND CATTLE.—The Battavier, Dutch
steam-ship, arrived on Thursday at St. Katharine's wharf
from Rotterdam, with 70 oxen, 12 calves, 50 sieves of
grapes, and a large quantity of alnuts. The Antwerpen
steamer, from Antwerp, arrived the same day, with 100
bags of walnuts.
The Essex Standard says that the potato crop in that
neighbourhood, is decidedly freer from disease this year
than last. The Nottingham Journal says that parties in
that county, who are digging their potatoes, find them
much better than anticipated, both in quality and quan-
tity. Most of the provincial papers of last week speak in
somewhat similar terms as to this useful vfgetable.
Lord Fitzbardinge and his brother, Granary Berkeley,
member for West Gloucestershire, for reasons best
known to themselves, have quarrelled, and the noble earl
has announced to the constituency that he will not sup-
port his brother at the next election. Mr. Berkeley has
published a long address, challenging his brother to at-
tend a meeting of the electors.
AN ACTRESS IN DISTRESS.—Mrs. Anna Yates, an
actress at the Pavilion Theatre, aged about forty, at-
trmpted to drown herself in the Taarnes the other day,
hut was prevented by a waterman. It appeared she had
been in want, and stated that a person to whom she owed
money had insulted her. A very high character for inte-
grity was given to her by a worthy baker, who, co: jointly
with another person, became bail for her.
AWFUL EVENT.— Last Sunday morning, Thomas
Jones, one of the young men engaged as assistant filler,
wile throwing in a basket full of cinder into the furnace,
by some means or other overbalanced himself, and fe.l
into the fuller of the heated cruMble, and in about three
minutes was ..o't rely consumed. The blast was immedi-
ately thrown off. I ut. trot a fragment of the body could be
toui.d.—MonnttulksAire Merlin.
THE CARLTON CLUB.—The whole of the Premises in
Pall Mall, situate between the Carlton Club and the Duke
of Buckingham's, have been razed, the site they occupied
being required for the enlargement of the Carlton Club-
house. It is intended to raise the building another story ;
an entirely new architectural frontage will also be built,
the estimated cost of the alterations and improvements
being 22.1100.
It is st,ited that the Marquis of Exeter intends to
allow his potato crops to remain in the ground through
the winter, a coveriog- of manure being laid over them to
exclude frost—G. Finch, Esq., of Burley-on. the-Hill,
has had his potato crops burnt, having considered them
as unfit for man or beast ! The benevolent gentleman
has made a handsome provision of rice for his labourers,
as a substitute.
An officer of artillery of high standing has been se-
lected, with the com•ent of both parties, to test the merits
of Lieutenant Warner's inventions, both of the shell-
and long range ; and that the Treasury has appropriated
the sum of 1.:1,50.3 to defray the expenses of the experi-
ments ; so that the curiosity of the public has at length
some prospect of being gratified in respect to this questio
vexata.

The official returns of the public revenue, for the year
and quarter ending the 10th of October, were made up at
a late hour last night. We call attention to the gratifying
fact that they exhibit an increase on the year and quarter,
as compared with the corresponding periods of last year,
the increase on the year being £88.264, and on the quarter
£539.064 ; and that in the Excise department there is an
increase on the year of £182,717, and on the quarter of
£226,820. The Property-tax also eAhittits an increase on
the year of £265,031, and on the quarter of £148,245.

An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great
Britain, in, the Years and Quarters ended the 10th of
October, 1845 and 18-16, showing the Increase or De-
crease thereof.

EARS ENDED OCTOBER 10

1845. I 1846. I Incr.

Excise,

18,652,552118,150,933 ....
12.069.215 12.251 932 182 712
6.961,370 6,983,129 21,75!
4,228.221 4,238,560 10,27!
5,127.126 5,332,157 205,031
688.0 •0 8t2,000 114,001
145,000 115.000 ....

501,619

THE C,,URT to FASHIONABLE WORLD.

Stamps

Her Majesty will, next week, quit Windsor Castle to pay
a visit to the Queen Dowager, at Cashiobury Park.
The Hon. Robert Boyle has been appointed a Groom
in Waiting on her Majesty.
Earl Cooper is likely to be appointed Lord Lieutenant
of K2nt, in the room of Lord Thanet.
Lord and Lady Stanley have returned to the Earl of
Derby's seat, Knowsley, from the Earl and
Counrigs of Ellesmere, at Worsley Hail, Lancashire.
It is said that Lieut.-General Sir Edwsrd Blakeney will
be promoted to the rank of general ; Prince George of
Cambridge from major-general to lieut..general, and be
appointed to the command of the forces in Ireland.
The Duchess of Gloucester has been spending last week
with toe Earl of Ellesmere, at Worsley. The Dowager
Lady Wharncbti.: bad been on a visit to the noble earl for
a few days preliously.
We regret to announce another elopement in high life,
under circumstances of an aggravated nature. Captain
Francis Lovell, of the Eat Life Guards, has been paying
his addresses to Lady Rose Somerset, fourth daughter of
the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort. The parents objected
to the marriage at present, on account of the youthful age
of the lady, being only seventeen, but admitted the Cap-
tain as a constant visitor. Advantage was taken of the
absence of the Duke and Duchess from Badminton, and
the parties eloped to the border.

TaxeS
Property Tax
Post Office
Crown Lands
Miscellaneous

30,000

Total Ord nary

Revenue.. .
Imps est &othe
Moneys ..

902,910 1,324,518 421,58 k

48,774,504 49,198,259 955,37
406,619 224,747 ....

531,619

181,872

Repayments o

Advances

1,325.760 1,172,141

153.619

Total Income.

150,506.883 150,595,1-17 1955.374
Deduct Decrease.. 867,110

Increase on the Year £88,264

ARTERS EN

Customs ...
Excise .....
Stamps
Taxes
Property Tax
Post Office .
Crown Lands
Miscellaneous

Total Ordinary
Revenue....
ImprestScother

Moneys ....
Repayments of

Advances

Total Income

4,848,363
3 955,106
1,780,175

201,279
1,8'23.883
209,000
30,000
465,102

13,312,908

24,591

473,881

113,811,3 N
t Decrease

DI;D OCTOBER 10.

1 Incr

5 310,835 462.472
4.181.926 '226,820
1,774,364 ....
209,940 8,6611
1,972,128 148,245
217,01)0 8,000
45,000 j 15,000;
403,554

14,116,717

33,815

199,882

867,110

Decr.

I

5,811

1 59,548

869,198 65,359

273,999

4,350,444) 878,4221 339,358

Deduc

339,M8

Increase on the Quarter.... £539,064

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

The personal estate, in England, of the late Lord Met- I
calfe, has been estimated for duty at £lOO,OOO.
It is stated that between seven and eight thousand jour-
neymen tailors are now out of employment in Loudon.
The Bank of England pays £30,000 per annum as in-
come-tax.
A project is on foot for placing a small steamer en Co-
niston lake by next summer.
Eliza Lawrence, the Swiss giantess, drowned herself in
the Thames, on Tuesday, in a fit of despondency, induced
by want.
Sir George Grey, Bart., Secretary of State for the
Home Department, has suffered the penalty of disfran-
chisement. The flaw in Sir George's claim was clerical.
An explosion of fire-damp took place on Monday at a
pit connected with the Clyde Iron works, by which six
persons lost their lives.
The import duty on wheat is row 7s. per quarter. It
is expected to be 4s. (the lowest it can be under the pre-
sent law) in the course of a week or two.
The French newspapers state that almost all the fish
have this year quitted the ccast of France, and betaken
themselves to that of Scotland.
PAPERING A PLACE OP WORSHIP.—A novel mor'e
of decorating a place of worship, has been displayed in
the papering of Bridge-street chapel, Bi intol.
On Monday, a riot took place between some labourers
on the Newcastle and Berwick railway, in which one of
the Irish Labourers stabbed a man, who died immedi-
y. The perretrator was secured.
The body of a man named Richard Green, of Rowley
Regis, has been found dead in a pond, under very suspi-
cious circuit stances of having been foully murdered;
but no evidence of the offender has yet been traced.
Lord Napier has written a letter to Captain Napier. in
reference to a discussion in the India House. His lord-
ship declares " his entire approval of Sir Charles Na-
pier's conduct."
FALSE PROPERTY lIETURNS.—The government are
prosecuting some parties in the neighbourhood of Not-
tingham, for having made false returns under the pro-
perty and income tax acts.
A correspondent of the Morning Chronicle is of opi-
nion that in the highlands and islands of Scotland 50,000
families have to maintain themselves on less than ss. a
week.
Last week, a baby was suffocated in London, whilst at
its mother's breast. The mother fell asleep on the sofa,
with her infant in her arms, and when she awoke, the
child was black in the face.
CURIOUS COINCIDENCE.—Out of seven men killed and
four injured at the lamentable accident at the Aberdeen
Railway, "Alexander" was the Christian name of seven
of the unfortunates.

A medley lot of " Reformers" held a preliminary meet-
ing on Friday at the Hall of Commerce, for the purpose
of establish'ng a society, under the title of "The Na-
tional Alliance," with the view of organising all political
parties to effect a reform in the House of Commons. It
is proposed to establish a fund, to be raised on the plan
of the Anti-Corn-Law League, and tracts and mission-
aries are to be disseminated all over the country, in order
to accomplish the end proposed.
The commissioners for the encouragement of the fine
arts have given notice that, with the view of selecting ar-
tists skilled in oil-painting to decorate the new houses of
parliament, three premiums of £5OO each, three pre-
miums of £3OO each, and three premiums of £2OO each,
will be given to the artists who shall furnish oil-paintings
which shall be deemed worthy of them. The paintings
are to he sent, in the course of the first week in June,
1847, for exhibition to Westminster-hall.
FOOT RACE —On Tuesday a match between J. Sher-
don and R. Monks (both of S:teffield) came off in thepre-
sence of a very large assemblage of persons. Sheldon
staked £l2O to £lOO of his opponent. The ground cho-
sen for the occasion was from the second mile post to the
first on the Doncaster and York turnpike road. The
betting was 5 to 4 on Sherdon. Manks gave up about
400 yards from home, and Sherdon went in the winner.—
Doncaster Gazelle.
A FLAW !—A rather curioas flaw, not in the indict-
ment but in the " improvement" act, which, it is said,
cost the citizens of Hereford some £l5OO, has just been
discovered. In the marginal note to one of the clauses a
penalty is prescribed against parties who wash carriages in
e public streets, whereas, on reference to the clause
itself, the fine is for making carriages in this odd work-
shop, to which it is not likely any handicraftsman would
resort. The clause is, therefore, not merely useless but
ridicu7ous.—Hereford Journal.
Miss .•!;trick fano accuses Lord Campbell of stealing from
her " Lives of the Queens of England" to fill up his
" Lives of the Chancellors," and the editor of Dolman's
?I'ragazine accuses Miss Strickland of stealing from Dr.
Liegarti's notes in his " History of England," in order to
fill up her biography of the Queens. But as the learned
doctor's notes are, all of them, stolen, or at least mere
transcipts and translations from old chronicles, we think
it will require all the editor's acquired jesuitry to bring in
,Miss Strickland guilty.
DISMISSAL OF CADETS.—Notwithstanding four gen-
tlemen cadets were expelled from the Royal Military
Academy, Woolwich. under the command of Colonel B.
Parker, C. 8., some days ago, for an outrage upon the
person of another cadet, who was compelled to go to the
hospital, yet it has been found necessary to expel four
more on charges of intoxication, &c. The gallant Lieut.-
Governor is determined not to allow the least impropriety
of conduct degrading to the service.
SELF-STARVATION.—Thomas Miller, 39 years of age,
of unsound mind, was committed to the Westminster
House of Correction, on the 10th of last month, from
Marylebone Police-court, for creating a disturbance in
the street, and in default of finding sureties. From the
moment he entered the prison he obstinately refused to
take any food, and, although a small quantity was forced
down his throat, he died on Monday morning. A coro-
ner's jury found that "he died from disease of t

brain.'

Twenty sears

SHOCKING EXEIDITION.—A few days ago, a man THE STAGE.—The theatre is declining.
named Beckett, hostler in a village in Yorkshire, died in ago, the hi'her and middle classes numbered many pro
consequence of having attempted to drink two quarts of
leased admirers and patrons of the drama. Kemble ant
ale in one draught a few days previous. Kean, Matthews and Macready, had their myriads of ad-
It is announced by a contemporary that Mr. Pugin has mirers, and the stage was a common topic of conversation
been looking at Mr. Crockford's shut-up hell, and it is in general society. Now, Covent.earden is given up to
surmised that it is to he concerted into a Roman Catho- • musical promenades, and Drury-lane to an Italian opera.
he chapel. Mr. Graham sings at taverns, Mr. C. Kemble lectures
Mr. Btaham, it is said, is about to retire from proles- and reads Shakspeare in mechanics institutes. Mr.
sional life, though previous to doing so he will make a Macready is acting at the Surrey Theatre!
tour of the provinces. The death of his daughter's bus- DEPRESSED STATE OF THE PRINTING BUSINESS.—
band, the Earl of Waldegrace, without issue, renders it The scarcity of employment which has prevailed for a
no longer necessary that ie should pursue his labours.
considerable pot tion of the present year amongst the prin-
FATA L FlRE.—stn Friday night a dreadful fire took ters of the metropolis has scarcely ever been equalled.
place at the bookseller's shop of Mr. Sharpe, Scuthwat k. During the last six months the compositors of London
have disbursed towards the relief of their brethren out of
The premises were eomp'etely destroyed, and Mr. Sharpe's
£
eldest daughter. aged 19, was unfortunately burnt to death work a sum exceeding 1200. Each person has received
during the conflagration. Os. a week, the number of recipients ranging from 160 to
230. Even at the present time, when trade in former
THE CORN A VERA GES.—It appears by the weekly re-
years has been considered good, their number amounts to
turn of the general averages of grain, that the sales of
wheat have amounted to the very large extent of 181,300
210.
quarters, and of barley to 45,447 quarters. The duty upon News have arrived of the total wreck of the ship Active,
fore'gn wheat is on the decline. of London, the property of Messrs. Wilson and Cooke,
On Tuesday week, as some workmen were putting in a reerchants, of Bermondsey, on the coast of Coramandel.
T
new window at Carlisle Cathedral, a stone weighing four the greater part of the passengers were saved, but nine
tf the crew were drowned. The vessel and her contents
cwt., fell into the choir, within a few seats occupied by
the clergyman, the precentor, and singing-boys, all of were totally lost. The wreck has exc ted considerable
whom escaped unhurt.
attention from the fact of the charts by which Captain
The poll for the election of the Lord Mayor of London
TRenant steered being incorrect to the extent of fourteen
are at
roll, 1,653 ; Wood, 1,644 ; Hooper, 324. Sir George
was closed on 'Tuesday, when the numbers were—Car-rnii. between Txh3eo,v aclotoi e
ando
of t h
xe4solimi nocia.n dThe cargois
owners computed
under-
Carroll has since been chosen Lord Mayor by the Court stood to be fully insured.
of Aldermen. IRRELIGION OF TIIE DAY.—There is nothing too
Last week, an incendiary fire took place on the pre- sacred now to escape the fate of going halo Punch. As
the Herald says, we may soon expect a Comic Prayer
miser of Mr. James Watson, of Wandlev, in the East
Riding of Yorkshire, by which fourteen stacks of wheat Book; and then Punch laughs at the Herald,—the ob-
and hay were destroyed. The value is estimated at
jest of occasional portions of its comicality, as "My
£2,000. grandmother." 'Weak people are laughed out of their
morality, their loyalty, and their religion. The regions of
On Sunday, the wall of the esplanade at Weymouth
folly are isuliejolywide enough without these invasions of
was much injured by a violent storm. The waves carriedsubject of the day offered finer materials
away a portion of the carriage road, and the spray broke ribaldry.
. ~ _ ,___,,,,,„ I for ridicule than same of the proceedings of the " British

as high as the bed-room windows of the opposite houses,
The amount of damage is estimated at £I,UOO.
191GBWAY ROBBERY BY LADS.—On Wednesday The Earl of Chesterfield, Prince George of Cambridge,
eve-
the lion. Captain Forrester. aid Captain M'Donald have, ,
during six days in Nottinghamshire, killed 186,1 head of rung, hetwen six and seven o'clock, astGeoree Leman, a
la') thirteen years of age, in the employ of Mr. Levy, the
aredy to be equalled, but not to be sur-
toll-contractor was pr,ceeding from the toil• gate in the
~state in the kinerh-,,,
Brornpton-reAd to the Kensington turnpike up the Won-
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result from leaving shot In eester-road fie was met by five or six lads Id O.-kr ttym nin-
thre medicli Gazette me.ritions self, who knocked him down and rifled his pockets, from
baying been recently poisoned one of which they took a brown parer parcel containing
r in which it was afterwards ablit t 8 in gold and silver, which he was entrusted to
to the Kensington-gate, and got clear ntT. A pAice-
yheard the cries of the boy and hastened to the spot,
t,vheartel saiter depositedila
viog carbonateguff ereodf cnemrnr
but by the timc he rcached the thiecc, 1,.„; ---- , '

an instance of a r

after Laving drank lig,
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Oct. la, 1846.

- -
citation eif tee.. UNIVERSITY 4- C I,E 1U(',11, VEIT'S. ! T457E ARR•VA L or Amenreeer Fr otia.—The New i It is stated on what we believe to be unquestionable
atien of useless , `_`ere ezel:etsship, Northumberland, re risen oil Thursday authority, that the French Government—or, in other
e .I•xeeted into THE NEW BralOP.—The Rev. John b 111, D.D, .-
ea the Lont:ein Lee:: ieitie eeeil barre% of flour, each cite: '.. his 7.i ete.sty Louis Philiape—has de e.- •- el the
canon of
teediture. The Exeter cathedral, has been named as the probe
weighing one hundred weight and three qeartee n
s, a large errender of 1) n Cat L 6 s Louis .stMerrell-reine Merr-nein by
ibilny, under- ble first bishop of Manchester.lan lis shortly expected home.
quantity of cheese, and 3,000 kegs of turpeetine. tile Fnglith Cabinet. We hear that the reply of Lord
The Bishop of New
ibour Act, and WHOLESALE POACHING.—The trains of the White. Palmerston to this monstrous requisition was the only
found
a reproductive His lordship's is to bring
haven Junction between Workington and Harrington, one a British Minister ought to make—that England was
irapt tat :werugoorryßueaeani Board
great
assurance that
ahnoi
ysfa" Rev. T. Dale in the vicarage of Sc. Bride, London. The the city churcees, has been appointed successor to the The 'Rev. Mr. Marshall, an evening lecturer in one of
sion before the Church in England. e necessities of his mix- haven
numbers of hares, which get upon the line from a tree country, and that any foreigner, no matter what
the adjoining preserves of Henry Curwen, Esq., thus might be his political opinions, was entitled to an asylum
enabling the gate-keepers to participate in the luxury of an so long as he respected our laws.—Morning Post.
r occasional dish of hare soup. Loss OF THE BRIG ' CLIFTON,' OF NEWCASTLE,
litS Caecscit"
mwwohinl while
he nosy
A cask of treacle was, in May last, delivered by mistake WITH SIX OF HER CREW, AT SEA.—It appears that
living is worth £550.
with some casks of liquid manure. The labourers min- the Clifton took on board at Buctush a cargo of timber
A representation has been made to the Bishop of Chi- with
it with compost and applied it to turnips, and a splen- for London ; and on the 9th of September proceeded on
cheater by the parishioners of New Shorei am, near Br igh-
did crop has been the result. The railway official who her intended voyage. On the 19th of the same month
ton, relative to a sermon on auricular confession recently
committed the blunder arrived just as the unctuous fluid she encountered violent gales, ranging from the S. to
the words, "
Ishire, and in delivered by the Rev. Mr. Wheeler, the vicar
Show thyself to the priest." In, founded on
the event of was running auroad in a bed of dung. N.S.W., at which pt:riod the vessel became water-lugged,
paper did not the bishop declining to interfere the circumstances will be Letters dated Trieste, 28th ult., state that on that day an and turned bottom upwards : her masts then gave way,
roerde the return
truil idee
tfihafnierti therh,nue, 18 e
y, s , brought under the notice of the Archbishop of Canterbury. estalette had arrived in that port from London, supposed and she righted. Six men were drowned!* After the
, ,„ to be from the British government, with orders to buy up survivors had spent three days and three nights in the
CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY.—At the meet• v
."8
all the Indian corn at that place and at Alexandria, loge_ main-top, they were seen by Captain Gorwin, of the
of the General Committee, on the Ist inst., fifteen new
sßan°odi. titer with all the peas, beans, and all the other lentils to be barque Secret, who took them on board, and brought them
grants,.anounting to £1262, were made; ten of these are
hail there. to Penarth Roads on Thursday.—Cardiff Paper.
ege, of Oscott, for additional curates, one is to provide an income for the
The new Mariners' Church near London Dock, the THE LATE COURT-MARTIAL.—At Hounslow barracks
incumbent of a new church and district, and four for lay-
foundation stone of which was laid by the Prince Albert on Wednesday afternoon, the finding of the late court-
a'awtshhaeyirisse2:ihte Twej'ar'es. assistants. The aggregate population under the, ministe-
lice of the cis- in the early part of the summer, is rapidly approaching martial was read with the sentence, the latter being im-
rial .care of the incumbents is 114 400, and the average
completion, and the rapidity with which the structure has prisonment for six months, including solitary confine-
amount of their incomes £l6l. Thirteen of the incum
mrty laugh to been raised has surprised every one. The tower and spire merit at various portions of that period, not exceeding
bents are wit bout rarsonage-bouses. At the same meet:
are finished. two months. Private Mathewson objects to the legality
ing, twenty-one grants for additional curates and five for
vet the palings
On Wednesday, the tide of the river Thames rose to an of the proceedings, on the ground that he was tried by
society now su
of Oscott, we .ds 311 incu eibents, lay-assistants, amounting to £1950, were renewed. The
alarming height, causing a serious destruction of pro- the name of Thomas Mathewson, while is proper name
serial the healthful having under their minis..
care 2,151,027 souls, or each an average charge of perry situate in all the low-lying cellars and warehouses is John Thomas Mathewson. Formerly that objection
6916 souls, while the average rate of their incomes is only
near the water-side. At Bankside and Lambeth the loss would have been fatal to the proceedings; but since every
,
!APTAIN.—an £199, and 156 of these incumbents are without, parson-
of property is very great. The flood is mainly attributed man entering the army has latterly had a number given
into the cis-
age-houses. The grants provide stipends for 296 clergy-
to the boisterous state of the weather. him, by which he is alone known and tried, it is con-
emigrants, on
The vessel inOn Tuesday evening week, Robert Scurfield, Esq., sidered that the objection will not stand good.
men and 68 la •assistant, calling for an expenditure nf
well known as a most extensive shipowner and very SCOTLAND.—" The Times Commissioner has been sent
£32,333 per annum,y when all the grants shall be in opera-
ce, with Irishwealthy inhabitant of Sunderland, committed suicide, by to the Highlands of Scotland. He dates the first letter
lion. 235 curates and 61 lay-assistants, are now sup-
; suffered somehanging himself. One statement assigns the fatal act to from Ardgay, Ross-shire, on the 22nd of September. The
ported by the scciety, and the actual payments of the in-
d to put into a morbid apprehension of poverty, which, notwithstanding result of his investigation thus far is, that there has been
stitution are now at the rate of £26,423 per annum.
Twenty-three applications for grants for seventeen addi-
g here, alleged his great wealth, had recently haunted his imagination. a general failure in the potato crop, and that there is con-
from Captain Urinal curates and six lay By an explosion of sulphur at the coal-pit of the late sequent scarcity and privation ; but that good employ-
sum of £1822 to provide the stipends, are now before the
that his con- -assistants, requiring a further Mr. Horton, Lytt'eton-hall,West Bromwich, on Saturday meta is abundant in the eastern islands, and that with
; voyage from Committee. Amongst the last grants was £5O towards week, three men lost their lives, and seven others were activity and self-dependence the pressure may be met.
a long exams- dreadfully burned, their bodies in some parts being lite- He extends his investigation to the general cause of po-
the payment of a curate at St. John's Church, Liverpool.
ch was read to rally roasted by the flame and blackened by the clouds of verty in tee Highlands, and discovers that they are oth-
..._.
rge—that the
THE REVENUE. vapour. nographical—the idleness and helplessness of the Celtic
the Captain— FOREIGN FRUIT AND CATTLE.—The Battavier, Dutch race. In Ireland, the descendents of the ancient Scots
einion that the steam-ship, arrived on Thursday at St. Katharine's wharf submit to filth, poverty, and helpless lack of improvement,
(From the Observer.) from Rotterdam, with 70 oxen. 12 calves, 50 sieves of because they " will not be fashed" with any necessary
ter were not 31‘.e.,t:„.ftri.alntinnas,,or.f.itnhieh p,s?h,lii,c,,,r7svz revenue,
.t.l.r. . year.. grapes. and a large quantity of Walnuts. The Antwerpen effort at improvement.
rid they there- .„

The Duke of Leeds, Mr. Grantley Berkeley, and the
editor of the Examiner, have succeeded Lord Ripon and
Mr. Crowther, as the principal group in the vublic letter-
writers of the day. The Duke refuses to allow his deer
forests to be invaded by tourists. A tourist writes a
word about this to the editor of the Examiner; Mr.
Grantley Berkeley counterchecks the tourist in a letter to
the same editor, in his individual capacity; the editor,
in his individual capacity, snubs Mr. Berkeley ; and the
Duke concludes the whole by a letter to Mr. Berkeley,
confirming (against the Examiner's correspondent) the
defence made of him by Mr. Berkeley, but apparently
rather surprised that the editor, being " your friend, and,
therefore, of course, a gentleman," should allow such
things to be.

DREADFUL TRAGEDY.—On Wednesday morning,
Sharruck Richard Bragg, a bricklayer by trade, living in
the parish of Elham, about ten miles from Folkestone,
rose at an early hour, and while his wife was in bed with
an infant by her side, he struck her violent blows on the
temple with a hammer. He then committed the like vio-
lence on a little girl fire years of age, who lay in a side
bed, and then destroyed his own li.e by cutting his throat
immediately afterwards. His wife and child also expired
the same night. The coroner's jury found " that the
deceased, Sharruck Richard Bragg, killed and slayed
Mary his wife, and Ellen his daughtrr, whilst in an un-
sound state of mind, and wnilst in that insane state, did
destroy himself by cutting his throat with a certain razor."
The wretched man was in his twenty-ninth year, and bore
a good character.

A CUittOuS APOLOGY.—Yesterday a funny looking
man named Lapitt, dress( din a red coat. was charged with
being, drunk and incapable. lie made the following de-
fence—" Heaven bless your honour, I'm as innocent as a
babe. By your leave tell you the fact, I have got a
queer leg, a most awkward leg, which sometimes shows
off all manner of antics. It reels from side to side, then
dashes into the middle of the road, halts suddenly, then
hurries rapidly along, carrying me Heaven knows where.
Presently you may see me leaping into the air, then comes
the catastrophe; the other leg, as sober and well conduc-
ted a leg as any man need wish for, is thrown off its equi-
librium and there is nothing to be dine but to fall pros-
trate, when up comes a policeman and naturally fancies I
am drunk"' He was discharged amid the laughter of the
court.— Cambridge Advertiser.

THE SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE IRON TRADE.—BIR-
MINGHAM, THURSDAY.--The fourth quarterly meeting
for the year of the ironmasters of the midland districts
was held in the Town-ball this day. The predictions of
the last few days were fully verified. Business was brisk,
and the prices previously fixed and announced at Dudley
and Wolverhampton were firmly maintained. As a mat-
ter of course, some of the smaller masters evinced a dis-
position to undersell; but the general feeling was rather
in favour of an advance than a reduction. A fear that tbe
men would demand an increase of wages alone prevent°
an advance of price. The difference of opinion which for
some time past has existed with respect :o the week ►n
which quarter days properly fall, has again occasioned
considerable inconvenience; many of the factors refusing
to settle until next week, when, as they contend, their
quarterly accounts become due. The nailers in the neigh-
bourhood of Halesoweo still remain out, the masters being
determined to resist the advance of price demanded.
Hitherto the turnouts have conductM themselves peace-
ably.

TUE NATIONAL ANTI-POOR-LAW UNION.—A preli-
minary meeting was held at St. Alban's on Thursday, to
consider a plan for eneouragirg the working classes to
save themselves from the new Poor Law system by means
of a National Anti-Poor-Law Provident and Benevolent
Union. It was understood that such a plan would be
proposed •by Mr. Cabbed, M.P., who, it will be recol-
lected, was returned to Parliament for that borough in
August last, as "an unc.onpromising opponent of the
Poor Law," and avowing that he " wool.' look espe-
cially to the interests of the poor, their education, and
their moral improvement." The meeting was held in the
court-room of the Town-hall, and was attended by a
number of the tradesmen and inhabitants of St. Alban's,
and by many working men ; at least 200 persons were
present, and listened with great interest to the proceed-
ings frJm first to last. The Mayor (Mr. Kentish) pre-
sided. There was a dinner at the Town-hall in the
evening, at which about 200 gentlemen sat down, the
Mayor again presiding, and having Mr. Cabbell on his
right. It was stated that Mr. Cabbell would start the
Anti-Poor-Law Union with a subsc:iption of 1000 guineas.
DOUBLE SUlClDE.—Considerable sensation has been
created in the vicinity of St. Mary Otters, Devon, by the
following dreadful occurrence, by which the deaths of twq
factory girls, both young women, were involved. On
Friday week the deceased Mary Ann Olderidge, aged
twenty-six, and Jane Smith, were visited by a man of in-
different character, of whom Olderidge contrived to pos-
sess herself of half-a-crown to get some l'quor with, and
never.returned, the other deceased following her. The
man subs-quently meeting with them, he threatened to-
expose them to their employer if they did not immediately
return him his half-crown. Not having sufficient to make
up the required sum ; the threat appeared to operate
,so
powerfully on their minds, that they purchased 3d. worth
of arsenic, with which they resolved to destroy themselves.
They then resumed their work at the factory, and on
leaving at night went to a public-house, where they mixed
the poison in some cider, and drank it. Olderidge died
in dreadful agony on Wednesday, and Smith followed in
twenty-four hours after. An inquest was held on the
bodies, when the jury returned a verdict of •' Felo de se."
Both were interred without Christian rites, in the burial
ground of the parish church.
AN OBIGINAL LETTER Or GRACE DARLING'S.—We
(Sherborne Journal) have been favoured with the original
of the following letter, written by the lamented Grace
Darling to Mr. S. Burton, the sailors' missionary, in re-
ply to one sent by him relating to her conduct at the
wreck of the Forfarshire. The letter is written in a neat
lently that

mdwritinz

tneek Christian spirit for which the memory of'Grace
Darling is revered as much as for her heroism and self-
devotion t--" Deer Sir,-1 recd. yours Dated the 9th
Inst., for which I begg to return my sincere thanks for
the good advice Contained in the sate. .May the
Almighty, who alone Enabled us to do what we did,
Enable me to make good use of your advice; you
needed no Apology for t our letter, for I assure you it was
very welcome i • although I am but a very weak Christian,
yet I hope to be found in that fold whose Sheapherd is
Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. I can say that I re"
jcdee in every thin.; tha I think tends to the advance.:
cent of his Kingdom. lamat a loss to explain my
better, but my parents learned me to read & wright, the
Church of England Catechism, and the General Assem-
blies Short Catechism, which 1 admire as a butiful little
Book. lam well Provided with a good Bible, and if it
Please God to open them to me, I may be enabled,
through the assistance of the Holy spirit, to gain the
pearl of great Price. I am, Dear Sir, with sincere re-

ipect and good wishes to a Minister of Jesus Christ,

Your most Obt. Servant, G. li. DARLING, Longstone
Light, March 22d, 1839. Rev. S. Burton, Post-Office,
Exeter, Devon."
FEMALE FACTORY OPPRATIVES.—On Wednesday a
meeting was held in Bradford, for the purpose of effect-
ing an improvement in the moral and social condition of
the female factory operatives. Lord Morpeth, W. Bus-
field, Esq., :VI. P., and the Rev. Dr. Scoresby were amongst
the gentlemen present. It appeared from one of the reso-
lutions that there rire not fewer than 12,000 young women
engaged in various departments of the trade of Bradford,
of which number 2000 are married, and froin 1000 to 1200
live in loth-jogs ; and the employment and situation of
these young women, especially of the married and those
not residing with their own families, lay them under great
disadvantages, and expose them to many moral dangers.
Another resolution was to the following effect :—" That
among the means of promoting the social and moral wel-
fare of this class, the following, recommended by a cool-

mittee of gent!etnen on mature

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of the spinners and tnanulacturers of

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g women