The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-14 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SUDDEN DEATH OF LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
TINDAL.

it is with feelings of the most unmitigated regret we
have to announce the melancholy fact of the sudden de-
mise of that excellent and universally-csteemed lawyer,
Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal, Knt., many years Lord
Chief Jus'ice of the Common Pleas, which event took
place at Folkstone, on Tuesday night, at half-past seven
o'clock, in the presence of his son, Captain Tindal, seve-
ral members of his family, and his medical attendant, Dr.
Pennington. _ .

By this event the new Whig government have had
placed at their disposal an important piece of_ patronage ;

and Sir Thomas Wilde has, on the very eve of his seeking
to be re-elected for the borough of Worc;!stt!r, been placed
in the vacant Chief-Jusiiceship. The following particu-
lars of the career of the deceased may interest our
readers :

Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal was in the 70th year of
his age, having been born in 1776. It is also generally
supposed that he was a native of Buckint.,hanishire; but of
this there can be no doubt, that he is descended from an
old Essex family, and that his father, Robert Tindal, who
was a solicitor, resided for many years, if not the whole of
his life, at Chelmsford, in Essex. Alter the usual course
of school education, he entered at Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, in the year 1795, and within four years of that pe-
riod—in 1799—he took the degree of A.B , and that of
A.M. in 1802. In the former year he was eighth wran-
gler and senior Chancellor's -nedal-list. In the month of
October, 1801, he was elected a fellow of his college, and
held the fellowship for eight years. Immediately after
taking his master's degree, he became a student of Lin-
coln's-inn, by which society he was eventually called to
the bar. His connexion wii h Lincoln's-inn probably gave
rise to the common error that he nad been a Chancery
barrister ; but, on the contrary, his practice was limited
to the common law courts. Shortly after his admission to
Lincoln's-inn, he entered upon practice with very consi-
derable success as a special pleader, and Lord Brougham
was among the number of his pupils. There can be no
question that a young law student could hardly have cho-
sen a safer guide, for a man more thoroughly learned
than Mr. Tindal even then was, in every department of
the law, could scarcely be found within the range of
the profession ; and he was especially celebrated for
what is called " black letter learning." His high re-
putation brought him so many clients that at a very
early age he thought it safe to go to the bar, and accord-
ingly we find that he was called in Trinity Term, 1809.
In the same year he married the youngest daughter of the
late Captain Thomas Symonds, R.N., and, of course, re-
signed his fellowship. A numerous family were the issue
of this marriage. but the wife of Sir Nicholas died many
years ago. In the Court of King's Bench, and on the
Northern Circuit, every year brought Mr. Tindal addi-
tional reputation as a lawyer, but very little fame as an
advocate. He was never at a loss for a case; he could
always expound a principle; he could give the history of
any statute, and with great perspicuity set forth its pro-
visions; he could argue any point, however apparently
hopeless, and impeach the validity of any legal document.
however apparently sound ; but a knavish witness could
elude his examination, and an apathetic jury were never
warmed by his eloquence : yet he had what the profession
calls a " capital business ;" and a large income rewarded
his learning, his industry, and his high reasoning faculties.
The natural process by which lawyers seek advancement
in their profession is to get into parliament. Mr. Tindal,
however, enjoyed a distinguished opportunity of appearing
before one house of parliament long before his election as
a member of the other. A bill of pains and penalt'es
was preferred against the Queen and George IV., aml
in one of the most extraordinary proceedii gs that our
history records Mr. Tindal was called upon to bear his
part. He, conjointly with several others, was counsel for
the Queen. How far his astuteness and knowledge ren-
dered him an efficient assistant to Her Majesty's Attorney-
General was a matter not very apparent at that period.
That he was capable of giving valuable hints to his more
showy brethren, Lords Brougham and Denman, there
can be no doubt; but his oratory was not of the order to
neutralize the dazzling ingenuity of Copley, or to cope
with the wily manoeuvres of a cloud of Italian witnesses.
Hence, though he enjoyed the honour of bring a Queen's
advocate, he obtained with the public little additional re-
putation from his share in this extraordinary inquiry. We
now follow him to the House of Commons, to which as-
,emhly, in the year 1824, he was returned by the Wigton
district of burghs; and here also we can say but little for
h's qualifications as a public speaker. His manner was
cold, dry, and unimpressive; his political and historical
knowledge displayed itself to small advantage ; it bore upon
few questions, and not even upon tho'e with much power
One would have expected that his talents and learning as
a lawyer must have often entitled him to enlighten the

House on legal difficulties, yet he had not a popular mode
of discussing even questions of law. Nevertheless, a better
man for the office of Solicitor-General could not be found

amongst the Tory lawyers in the month of Septembe•.
1846, when Sir C. Wetherell became Attorney-General, in
consequence of the elevation of Sir John Copley, after-
wards Lord Lyndhurst, to the Nlaste,ship of the Rolls.

At that time Mr. Tindal became Sir Nicholas, but he still
'emained without any very material increase of profes-
sional fame, nor was he called upon during the tenure of
office to assist in any important prosecution on behalf of
the Crown. Sir J. Copley, who had represented the
University of Cambridge, became Lord Chancellor in the
year 1827, during the Canning Administration ; thereupon

a vacancy occurred in the represetvation of that constitu-
ency, and Sir Nicholas Tindal solicited its suffrages. Mr.
William John Bankes, though also a Tory, went down to
Cambridge to oppose him ; the result of the polling was
479 for Sir Nicholas Tindal, and 378 for Mr. Bankes. He
had been chosen for Harwich at the general election in
1826, but of course readily withdrew from th3thorour-b-
--ra carry -tine -nonour representing'-his atom mater.
Eventually, however, he became perfectly satisfied with
two years' possession of this much envied distinction.
Gout, irritability, and Sir Thomas Wilde, combined their

united virulence to drive poor Lord Wynford almost b;,-

side himself. The chief seat in the Common Pleas there-
fore became vacant, and a prize within the grasp of the
Solicitor-General. Sir Robert Peel represented Oxford,
Sir Nicholas Tindal, Cambridge; the one was leading
Minister in the lower house, and the other second law
officer of the Crown ; the one proposed Catholic emanci-
pation, the other supported it; the one retained his place
in the Cabinet and lost his seat for Oxford ; the member
for Cambridge gave up his seat for that university, but
obtained a seat upon the bench ; and in the month of
June, 1829, became Chief Justice of the Common Pleas,
which position he occupied during the long period of 17
years; although, under the 6th of George IV., cap. 83, he
might, at the end of 15 years, have claimed exoneration
from the toils of that high station. Death, however, has
at length deprived him of its honours and relieved him of
its labours.

Ibrahim Pasha has offered to place a steam boat at the
disposal of Mr. Cobden, to convey him up the Nile,
should Mr. Cobden determine to winter in Thebes. Mr.
Bright has ria intention of spending some months in visit-
ing the United States.
THE FIRE AT NEWFOUNDLAND.—The losses sustained
by the principal London assurance offices, particularly
the Phoenix, London, Imperial, Royal Exchange, and
Sun, by the recent fearful conflagration at Newfoundland,
exceed, it is stated, £loo,ooo.—Morning Post.

A vessel called the Friden, which has arrived in the
London Docks from Odessa, in addition to a cargn of
Russian tallow, had 1,250 bomb-shells on board. The
importation of so singular an artic:e of warfare is some-
what remarkable.

The fhods in Perthshire last week did considerable
damage. The rivers were much swollen; bridges, cattle,
and timber were carried away, and the roads broken up.
In Atholl the damage done is estimated at several thou-
sand pounds.
The late Mr. Chubb, the celebrated lock and key ma-
ufacturer, who di d on the 18th of May, has left persona
to the amount of £16,000. Of the ten thou-

propert

;and locks made by this most ingenious inventor, there
are not two to be found that will take the same key.

On Wednesday and Thursday nearly 4000 children,
connected with the Birmingham Sunday School Union,
enjoyed a ple isure trip from Birmingham to Cheltenham,
under the guidance of their teachers. The charge was 6d.
each for the children.

It is in contemplation to reduce the postage to India, to
afford greater accommodation to passengers, to shorten
the quarantine at Marseilles, and not to stop at Malta ;
the passage at Alexandria and Marseilles is to be effected
in seven or eight days.
THE InoN TRADE.—At a meeting of the iron masters,
adjourned from Wolverhampton, held in Birmingham, on
Thursday evening, it was understood that the prices of
last quarter-day—namely £3O per ton for bar iron, £l2
for hoop, and from £4 10s. to £4 15s. for pig iron were
to he maintained.

GREENLAND SEAL FISIIING.—The Mary, Captain
Dring, arrived at Aberdeen from the Greenland seal fishing
on Monday, with 1,000 seals, about 12 tuns of oil, and
gives account of twenty two other vessels being at the
fishery, between April 28th and June 7th, with upwards
of 25,000 seals. _ _ _

On Tuesday, Mr. Norris, gamekeeper of Lord Ward,
in Staffordshire, was deliberately shot by an under-keeper
named Hull, who had been blamed by the former for
taking dogs into the preserves. Hull immediately gave
himself op and confessed the crime. The victim lies in a
hopeless state.
AN EXTRAORDINARY CHARACTER.—Mr. William
Mansfield, of Bainton, Bucks, farmer, died on Saturday
week, in the 82d year of his age; and it is believed was
worth at the time of his death from £lO,OOO to £50,000,
but the whole of his personal expenses have not exceeded
£5O per year. In accordance with his wish, he was taken
to the grave in one of his own waggons.
In consequence of an impostor who is going abou►
Ross-shire predicting a horrible storm, with a dreadful
loss of life, which, he says, will take place at Wick,
during the ensuing fishing season, none of the Ross-shire
fishermen can be induced, " for love or money," to
proceed towards Wick, and they are all consequently
going southward.
AN OPPORTUNE REQUEST.—During the discussion at
the Monmouthshire Sessions on the proposed new Luna-
tic Asylum, eighteen gentlemen were speaking at one
time, and Mr. W. A. Williams at the same period politely
intimated to the reporters " the ne2essity of taking a cor-
rect account of the proceedings, and hoped they would
do so."

A Portuguese slave dealer, named Gil Thomas Dos
Santos, on the occasion ,sf a mutiny of slaves on board his
ship lately, threw down a quantity of unslacked lime on
the turbulent negroes, and then closed the hatches on
them. This "capital plan of quieting savages," as he
hoastingly termed it, had the desired effect, though it was
attended with the loss of a few slaves. _

On the 26'h ult. the commodore c,mmanding the expe-

dr/lei-oat squadron made a signal for a boat from each
ship, and a memorandum was issued to the captains,
greeting them to inform their officers that a gertleman

who had communicated to the Tinos newspaper certain
accounts of the last cruize had been removed from the
service, by order of the Admiralty; such proceeding being
contrary to an article of the printed instructions.
The next annual Conference of the Wesleyan Ministry
will be holden in Bristol, on Wednesday, the 29th inst.,
on which day the business of the assembly will commence
by appointing a President and Secretary. It is reported
that the Rev. Thomas Jackson, D D , Theological Tutor
of the Southern branch of the Wesleyan Institution at
Richmond, Surrey, will be elected to the office of Pre-
sident.

EXTRAORDINARY LEAP OF A CAT.—A short time
since, while a cat, belonging to a person residing in Salter-
gate, Chesterfield, was sitting in an open window three
stories high, puss observed a sparrow flying into its nest,
u ,der the eaves of the roof. The mouser suddenly made
a spring from the window, caught the bird, dropped upon
her legs on the pavement of the street uninjured, and im-
mediately ran off with the prize.—Derby Mercury.
On Friday week, a pan, employed in the manufacture of
salt at Droltwich salt-works, burst with such terrific
force, that one-half of it was driven through the wall of
the building; and a horse and cart standing near were
precipitated into the river Salwarpe. Two men loading
the cart, and also the driver, were dreadfully scalded, and
one of the former, named James Carter, subsequently
died.

In the vicinity of Wrexham a gentleman has annually,
on his natal day, for several years, been in the habit of
walking the boundaries of his native parish ; and, on
Wednesday week, (the completion of his sixtieth ear
passing en route through 27 townships. 7 parishes, 3
counties, 3 hundreds, 2 provinces, 2 dioceses, and a part
of England and Wales.
NEW CURRY-POWDER JOKE.—Perhaps the following
joke may have sprung up simultaneously, in a thousand
shapes, in a thousand quarters, but we warrant it as ori-
ginal in the case of the party from whom it came to us.
Mr. B. C. being told that the Duke of Norfolk was made

Master of the Horse, in the new ministry, observed at

once, " I do not know whether his grace knows much of
horses, but he will, at all events, understand how to curry

them."

AFFECTING ACCIDENT.—On Sunday week John White
labourer, aged 15, was looking down a new pit sinking in
the neighbourhood of Armby Moor Side, near Leeds,
about 20 yards deep, and whilst thus engaged his hat flew
off. In stretching forward to catch it his foot slipped, and
he fell into the pit. A man named Stevenson, who saw,'
the accident, having got assistance, descended the pit.
which being unfortunately filled at the time with "black
damp," be was suffocated.
CLAIMING A HUSBAND.—At Brighton, the other day.
a young woman named Denning claimed Captain Mercer,
a half-pay naval officer, sixty years of age, for her hus-
band. She asserted that be had married her on the Ist
of October, and annoying him by her intrusions, the case
was brought before the magistrates, when the captain was
able satisfactorily to prove an alibi, and the counsel for
the girl admitted that she must have been mistaken as to
his identity.
We direct the attention of our readers to an advertise-
ment in another column, announcing the publication of
the fourth volume of Messrs. Oliver and Boyd's cheap
edition of D'Aubigne's History of the Reformation.
This edition possess a merit peculiar to itself, and is
highly deserving public attention. It has been carefully
revised by the author, who himself in the pref re declares
it to be " the only faithful expression of his thoughts in
the English language."
The Times printing-office was honoured on Monday last
by a visit from Ibrahim Paella. His highness arrived at
about four o'clock, and minutely inspected the various
departments. His highness manifested extreme intelli-
gence and a ready appreciation of the ingenious and pow-
erful machinery by which The Times is printed. and was
particularly struck at the emir. me rapidity of the process,
upwards of a hundred copies in a minute being struck off.
After spending nearly an hour in Printing-house-square,
his highness departed expressing extreme satisfaction at
all he had seen.

A REMARKABLE CHARACTER.—On the 30th of June
died, at the age of 88 years, Ikl r. John Cheetham, of Hole-
bottom, Conyston, farmer and weaver. He had used the
same set of looms for nearly eighry years, to such a degree
as to impress the lathe with the marks of the constant ap-
plication of the arm to one particular part of it. He was
remarkable for being the father of s'x sons and seven
daughters, and grandfather and great grandfather to the
large number of 148 individuals. He was interred on
Sunday hat at Holy Trinity Chapel. Shaw, and the funeral
was attended by a procession of 107 relatives and others.

IGNITION BY TM,: HEAT OF TILE SUN.—On Sunday
morning last, about 10 or 11 o'clock, a tarp:iuline was
lying spread abroad in a meadow at Willsley, in the
occupation of Mr. John Wt ston, in readiness for covering
a hay-rick should it be wanted, when it was observed to
have caught fire, from the heat of the sun, in several
pl.accs. Incredible as this may appear, it 's a fact. The

rpt,tiline is rendered utterly useless, being huint nearly

. .
all over. It was thrown into a pond, and the fire thus
put out. It is supposed the ignition was caused by
something in the oil with which the tarpauline had been
dressed.—Moidstone Jou, nal.

SIMPLE FILTERING VESSEL.—On a small scale, an
efficient filtering vessel may be formed of a common gar-
den-pot, well burnt, and with holes in the bottom; the
lower part to be filled with round pebbles, then some
smaller pebbles, then some coarse sand, and finally a
stratum of pounded charcoal, three or four inches thick;
the use, in large filters of broken shells interspersed be-
tween the gravel and sand, is a great improvement, inas-
much as the fragments being flat overlap each other, and
counteract the tendency of the sand to settle amongst the
gravel, thus preserving a free percolation through the
lower strata.

DEPLORABLE CONDITION OF LODGING-HOUSES.—At
an inquest in Bolton, last week, on the body of an infant,
the mother, in the course of her statement as to the cause
of the child's death (convulsions), said there were three
beds in the room where she slept, two of them being occu-
pied by men, and she, in the absence of her busband,
sleeping in the same room. The coroner seemed some-
what startled on hearing this, and no less so, when Mr.
Finnegan. the police officer, assured him it was a mere
trifle, for he knew one lodging-house in which there were
fourteen beds in one room ! men and women sleeping in
them as circumstances might justify.
FALL us b AlN.—Tbe following is stated in The
Build r to he tl e annual fall of lain at different places in
Great Britain ai.d elsewhere : _ _

Inches.

Bombay
Calcutta

Inches.
Liverpool 34-119
Chatsworth 27.664
Edinburgh 24-5
London..
Glasgow .• • .
Paris
Petersburg l7-5
Uleaborg ....

Vera C: it
Plymouth

Lancaster
Rome ...

39.714

Dover 37-52
Dumfries 36.919
Manchester 36-140

NOVEL QUALIFICATION FOR A SCHOOLMASTER.—The
Guardians of the Bedminster Union adverdse in the
Bristol Gazette of Wednesday, for an instructor of youth,
and state that preference will be given, not to a person ac-
customed to tuition, but to a tailor! The successful can-
didate for the office must, it seem, know how to turn his
cane into a yard ; be equally learned in breeches and
books ; able to mend pens and pinafores ; rectify rents in
grammar and garments ; and patch up, at the same time,
coats and copybooks. That the tutor tailor may never be
out at elbows, the guardians proffer him, as a reward for
the manifold services above-meutioned, the munificent
sum of £2O a-year.

SUSPECTED MURDER IN SUNDERLAND.—On Sunday
morning last, the body of a young woman named Cather-
ine HiAmarsh, was found near the tunnel on the Lambton
coal railway. She had left her home on an errand about
twelve o'clock on Saturday night. How she had got in
such a lonely place as that in which she was discovered,
is unknown ; but it is supposed, from a variety of,eircum-
stances which have been ascertained, that she had been
drawn there by a worthless seducer, who, after destroy-
ing her virtue, had, to escape detection and punishment,
thrown her over the bank and destroyed her life. The
most diligent inquiries are being made into the affair.
She was alive when found, but unable to speak, and died
the same afternoon. The inquest terminated on Saturday
with a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or
persons unknown."
LONGEVITY EXTRAORDINARY.—There is now residing
in the parish of Beguildy, adjoining to the borough of
Knuckles, Radnorshire, a person of the name of William
Matthews, whose lengthened age seldom finds a parallel.
He is now in his 118th year, and retains the full power of
his natural faculties, being competent to recount, with the
most scrupulous exactness, tran,actions which otherwise
the long space of a century would have buried in oblivion.
His bodily strength, considering his many years, is almost
incredible. He walks at the rate of three miles an hour,
and commonly performs journies of 20 miles in the day.
He is strongly tinctured with the enthusiasm and folly of
the times of the junior days—a strong and prtjudiced
belief in wizardism and witchcraft.—Hereford Journal.
PRENCH ()PINION OF ENGLISH ARTISTS.—Le 01),er-
valeur Francais says ;—" The death of Robert Haydon
is naturally drawing attention to the precarious position
of artists in England. Isolated, for the most part, one
from the other, neglected by a public, who, in general,
can but little judge of or appreciate their efforts, aban-
doned to themselves by a government which does not pro-
tect or encourage the ornamental arts. the English artists
have no other exercise for their talent than the patronage
of some great lords, patronage but often slight, and
which almost always, does injury to the art which it re-
due's to its own level. Those who, use Robert liaydon,
despise to bend their pencil to the caprices of fashion, and
aspire to the more sublime flights of fancy, may termi-
nate, as he did, their hard career in misery, despair, and
sometimes even by suicide."
A CHINESE WITNESS.—In a divorce case in the

House of LOI ds on Friday, a female Chinese, whose name
is Kowhan, was called in, and Lord Brougham desired
the interpreter to tell her " that now she had been sworn,"
(this was done the day before with the formality of breaking
the saucer,) " if she does not speak the truth, her gods
will punish her." The interpreter then made her ac-
quainted with the Noble and Learned Lord's remark.—
Lord Brougham : now ask her " who are her gods ?" In
reply she said, through the interpreter, that the chef
was Buddha —Lord Brougham : tell her that Buddha
will punish her most severely if she does not speak the
truth ; and that she will also be punished in this world if
she ooes not speak the truth. This being explained, she
replied in Chinese. e• I will speak the truth."
The inquiry into the origin of the incendiary fires at
Soham has resulted in the apprehension of Cornelius Har-
vey, a man of independent property, and his nephew,
James Harvey. a grocer and draper. The premises of the
younger Harvey were burned, the charge preferred against
them was, the ignition of the house at Mr. Peachy, with
a view to consume that of the younger prisoner. The
stook and premises of young Harvey were, it is alleged,
over-insured, and he was indebted to his uncle £3OO. The
prisoners wt re examined before the magistrates, and it
appeared that, although nearly :he whole of the younger

prisoner's stork was saved, he had claimed from the office
for its total loss. Such evidence was adduced as warranted
the remanding the p.isoners, and they were conveyed to
the county gaol at Cambridge.
The Heroine, 6, Commander Edmunds, arrived at As-
cension in 13 days from the Bight of Benin, with tidings
of the Flying Fish, 12, having, aft r a long chase, run a
Spanish slave felucca ashore; and that on Lieutenant
Robins (who was in command of her) proceeding to board
her, the boat in which he was, capsized, and unhappily,

he and four of the crew were drlw ned in the surf

Simpson, midshipman, together with another man, suc-
ceeded in reaching the shore, but were knocked down by
some of the slaves whose release from bondage they were
endeavouring to effect, and Mr. Simpson had one of his
fingers cut off by them for the purpose of obtaining a ring
which he wore. The Wasp, 16, commander S. H. Usher,

had taken three slavers, one a schooner, atter a hard fight,
in which 13 men of the schooner were killed. The prizes
were taken to St. Helena by Lieutenant Elliott, of the

AN EXPENSIVE PAUPER.—About a week since a fe-
male pauper, named Piecraft, died in our union-house, at
the advanced age of 97. There are some very singular
circumstances in connexion with this old lady's history.
She was found in the churchwarden's garden, and as no
clue could be obtained of her parents, she was taken to
the workhouse, and she has remained, with the exception
of three months, an inmate of the parish workhouse from
the day of her birth to the day of her death. This three
months of independence was, however, a very eventful
-MeWife fc7l.lWe'll;;;l'hAe Wvas.:l;;;nl;74;in
that description of furlough known as " French leave "
when he won her affections, which he was very soon glad
to rid himself of. She then returned to the workhouse,
where she lived until her decease. She has cost this
parish something like £9oo.—Local paper.

FLIGHT OF CARRIER PIGEONS.—About one hundred
persons assembled near the Humber Dock gates, on Sa-
turday morning, at seven o'clock, to witness the ascent,
from the deck of the Monarch steam-ship, of eighty-seven
choice carrier pigeons, selected by the members of a
society of amateur pigeon fanciers at Antwerp, and sent
over in the above vessel, in the care of a trustworthy
keeper, in order to decide a bet or bets made concerning
them. Every bird bore on one of its wings its own pecu-
liar mark. They arrived here, on Thursday, in four
hampers, and all appeared in excellent condition. They
rose simuttane.usly and almost perpendicularly into the
air, and immediately took a course south-eastward. They
were expected to reach Antwerp, distant 200 miles, at
half-past two o'clock that afternoon. If so, they would
travel, under a blazing hot sun, at the rate of about 33
miles an hour. The steamer left this port for Antwerp in
the evening.—Hill Herald.
MURDER IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.—OH Saturday night
week, a carrier, named Robinson, was murdered on the
road be wecn Nottingham and Mansfield. He :vas ac-
companied by a man named Shepherd, whom he requested
to drive his waggon for a short time while he stopped at a
public-house. Shepherd did so; but arrived at Mans-
field without having been overtaken by Robinson, and
immediately communicated the fact to the latter's family,
when a search was instituted, and deceased's body was
found at a short distance from the road with several
wounds upon the head and trunk. Some money was
found in his pockets, but it is supposed that he must
hare been possessed of a larger sum when murdered.
No clue has been found by which the murderers can be
traced ; though at the inquest, spots of blood had been
found on Shepherd's jacket and smockfrock, a circum-
stance for which he accounted by saying that he had fought
a fellow-servant on Thursday. He entered into recogni-
zances to apnea' when called upon, and the inquiry was
then adjourned.
A REAL Du EL.—A. contemporary thus describes what

he calls " an affair of honour," and which he st ars came
off near this city last week Some altercation took
place between two gentlemen at Plymouth, on Monday,

the 15th of June. -The rumour which has reached our
ears is to this effect :—That over a glass of wine some al-
lusion was made by one of the parties, which was taken as
a personal affront, and resented on the instant by a glass
of wine being thrown in the face of the offender. This led
to a hostile message, and it was arranged that a meeting
should take place at Exeter on the succeeding (last) Tues-
day. .Accordingly, the parties met, each attended by his
friend. Being placed on the ground, the first fire was de-
ci3ed by a toss, and won by the party giving the offence,
who had previously offered to apologise. The party who
had thrown the wine having received his opponent's fi.e,
discharged his pistol into the air. The business was ulti-
mately amicably settled at a dinner wh:ch followed this

ting any names." [No doubt the murder will out.]—
Woolmer's Exeter Gazette.
MURDER AT KIN ETON, WARWICKSHIRE.—An atro-
cious murder has been committed near Kineton, a market
town half.way between Banbury and Stratford-upon-
Avon. The deceased, William Chater, was a blacksmith
and machine-makeilrving at a village called Combrooke,
and doing well in- Me world, being possessed of about a
dozen cottages, all tenanted. He is represented, how-
ever, to have been a man of very quarrelsome and litigious
disposition, often engaged in disputes before the local
magistrates with his workmen and others, some of whom
have been known to threaten him, and it has been con-
jectured that to some such cause his death may be attri-
buted. It appears that on Wednesday se'nnight he went
to the town of Kineton, about two miles from which he
resided, and that he left in the evening for the purpose of
returning, being somewhat in liquor. About midnight,
however, his body was found by the roadside, with seve-
ral desperate wounds on his head, and the traces of a
hard struggle about the spot where he lay. An inquest
has been held, and the jury have found a verdict of
" Wilful murder against some person or persons un-
known."
EAST INDIA TRADE.—From the statements just pub-
lished by the London East India and China Association
of the outward and inward tonnage to and from India, for
the first six months of this year, as compared with the
tonnagecorrespondinga s
increasedperiod 90
0f,11854t50,nws e
being findn tthhat
differencethe
outwardbe
_
tween
entrieslB4,3 from
7lton s in 1815 London an
in 18
d2o3.34Bsweretons6 04,2
1846.
against 149,291 tons in 1846; from Liverpool, 57,586 tons
nle
outward
s,
in 1845, against 60,219 tons in 1846; and from all the
other ports, 32 5C9 tons in 1845, against 33,876 in 1846.
The inward tonnage has increased this year 6 952 tons,
being the difference between 202.032 tons in 1815, and
208.984 tons in 1846. Of these amounts London absorbs
nearly three-fourths, her entries inwards in 1815 amount-
ing to 147,663 tons, against 148,926 tons in 1846; the
entries in Liverpool were 47,417 tons in 1845. and
50,338 tons in 1846; and in all the other ports were 6,952
tons in 1845, against 9,720 tons in 1846. The following
are the ports and places comprised in the returns : namely,
Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, China, Ceylon, Singapore,
Penang, Phillipine Nands, Siam, Java, Sumatra, Arabia,
New South Wales, New Zealand, Mauritius, Cape of Good
Hope, and the South Seas.

July 14, 1846.

THE DUKE IN A WHIG CABINET.—II is said that the
very queer position of the Duke of Wellington, as mem-
ber of the Whig administration, is attributable to a be-
nevolent wish, on the part of her Majesty, not to interfere
with the private hobbies of her distinguished subject.
Out of office, the Duke would be unable to complete the
admirable series of letters, of which so many are now in
the hands of autograph hunters, stating that "the Duke
of Wellington is Commander-in-Chief of the Army.
The Duke makes it a point never to interfere in matters
over which he has no control." Besides, deprived of the
office of Commander-in Chief, or of office altogether, and
the stereotyped excuse for non-interference, who can say
what knotty points the well known sagacity of the con-
queror of Napoleon might have been called upon to solve.
PRESENTATION OF A PRINTING MACHINE.—OH
Monday last, the ceremony of presenting ;, stean, printing
press to Mr. Joseph Barker, a well-known Unitarian
lecturer, took place at New Wortley. The press was
valued at £4OO, and had been raised by the subscriptions
of those who admired the principles which he advocated
in the several periodical publications which he had issued,
from a hand press, which had been given to him by his
religious friends some years ago. The sheet for the first
impression of the new press was laid on by Dr. Bowring,
M.P., and was taken off by Dr. Bateman, of the Excise
Office, London, in the presence of a large number of
friends; after which about 200 ladies and gentlemen sat
down to luncheon, under the presidency of Dr. F. R.
Lees, a teetotal lecturer. In the evening of the same day,
about 500 persons, of both sexes, took tea together, in the
saloon of the Music-hall, in Leeds, at which Dr. Bow-
ring, M.P., Dr. Bateman, and other gentlemen attended.

A PRETENDER EXPOSED.—A most extraordinary
scene occurred on Thursday evening at the City of Lon-
don Literary and Scientific Institution. A gentleman
(Mr. O'G,) who styled himself " B.A. M.D.' was en-
gaged by the managers to deliver two lectures on the
" Use and Study of History." He delivered the first of
these lectures on Wednesday the 24th ult., and as many
of the members discovered " a marvellous coincidence
between that and the introductory lectures of Mr. Mc
Cullagh on the same subject, two of the committee, with
the secretary of the institution were induced to bring
down Mr. McCullagh's work last evening, to ascertain
the correctness of their surmises. They then found that
the lecture he was delivering was a literal transcript from
one contained in the work before mentioned. At its con-
clusion he was charged by the secretary with the servile
plagiarism he had endeavoured to impose on the mem-
bers, This be faintly denied. and immediately made his
exit, pursued by forty or fifty of his audience, till be was
of
lost in the
recommended
precinctsb y til e
committee
of sHe:B e had a been
Hall,
al
w hheirgehhl ye
had delivered the same lecture some time previously.
The officers of the institution can verify these facts.
MURDER OF A POLICEMAN.—George Clarke, one of
the metropolitan police, a division of which has lately
been extended into the royal districts of Ess x, was mur-
dered on the morning of Tuesday we: while on his beat
—a desolute and unfrequented road near Dagenham. He
was met by the inspector at one o'clock that morning,
but was reported absent at three, and his continued dis-
appearance excited considerable alarm. Search was
made, and late on Friday evening his body was found ly-
ing in a ditch about a quarter of a mile from the road, in
a potato field, where be could have no business except in
the pursuit of some person. A policeman's staff was first
found, and then his cutlass sticking in the hedge. His
throat was cut in several places, and there was a deep cut
at the back of his neck, extending t, the spine. The
forefinger of his left hand was also cut through. The
struggle with the deceased must have been of a desperate
nature, the corn being trodden down ten or twelve yards
round where the body lay, and wl en it was disc )vered a
large quantity of wheat was found grasped in the right
hand. The deceased had not been robbed, and his money
and watch were safe. He is said to have been a quiet and
inoffensive man, and had not lung been in the neighbour-
hoed. An inquest was held upon the body on Saturday
afternoon, when such evidence was offered as is expected
to lead to the apprehension of the murderers, but the par-
ticulars are not published lest the ends of justice might
be frustrated. It is supposed that he aas mistaken for
another officer, who had made himself obnoxious, by his
vigilance, to the low characters of the neighbourhood.
On Saturday, another of the officers of the same division
was killed as he was returning on horseback from Fairlop
fair.

THE WAGES OF AGITATION.—WiIIiam Wilberforce
began life as a country gentleman, with an income of
£12,000 a year. He toilrd through more than thirty
sears of Parliamentary strife, payi,ll largely, year by
year, the expenses of his warfare with slavery; and died
at last, having just witnessed the triumph of the cause to
which he had sacrificed his life and fortune, and having
just sold his last acre! An offer was made to him, at the
close of his career, to purchase for him, by a private sub-
scription, a new estate, as the gift of the grateful British
.13( ople. The offer was thankfully but firmly declined;
though he who refused it had to take shelter under the
roof of his son's parsonage. John Howard spent his
life and fortune in endeavouring to improve the condition
of the most degraded portion uf Europe's denizens—the
inhabitants of prisons. John Owen gave up the best
portion of his days in forming and establishing upon a
broad foundation of society, whose benefits will extend
unto—yea, through—" age of ages"—the British and
Foreign Bible Society. Josiah Pratt spent his life and
bis strength in rearing an institution which has caused,
and will cause to a far greater extent, " the wilderness to
blossom as the rose," and the heathen to " stretch forth
their hands unto God"—the highly successful Church
Missionary Society. Michael Thomas Saddler en-
gaged, as a life's work, in the cause of the oppressed
en-
deavouring to obtain, and in some degree did obtain, a
relaxationantl e in
of thee)
sslEa viiiis.l,:eihsny:saLtsei.tin:loefna_tnodLi
l were ground down ; and to turn to the E4shas on whoa
and
" Honest John Fieldett," are carrying on, con amore,
that work of true b.nevolence. These all toiled, or are
toiling, without fee or reward of a pecuniary character
and without expectation of any return for their labours,
beyond that glorious and indestructible satisfaction which
must inevitably result from doing good. How different
is it with the agitation of the Lt•azuers! They have
toiled for the benefit of their own class—the millocrats
and moneyed capitalists—a class who are able to pay
largely for success ; and now, as a specimen of the wages
of agitation, Mr. George Wilson is to receive, as a "testi-
monial," ten thousand pounds, and Mr. Richard Cobden
one hundred thousand ! !—Herald.