The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-27 00:00:00

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VENGEANCE. AND DISCIPLINE.—A letter from Vienna,
the 12th instant, states, that, at Weis, near Lintz, during

iorne recent milita

manoeuvres

of Hussars having fallen in a charge, were obligedioTemaii;
behind. One of them, however, who was less injured than
his companion, joined his corps shortly afterwards, but, being
unable from pain to perform his duty, the chief of squadron,
the Chevalier de timed him to receive 25 lashes.
When the 10,- 3ne the penalty, he went up to
nk him, according to military
- The officer drew his

ism- had under
it were to a

that off

e, and struck him in
sword and killed him on t

ensued ; six people were hit.- and five ws._
following account of this dreadful affair contains Tull pa
ticulars:—

It appears that twelve prisoners bad manufactured a boat
by means of which they succeeded in gaining Philip Island
i and captured.

'ere pur

A. plan was laid by the boat's crew employed in unloadin

the Governor

was knoct

wounded by a belayin,
and the other saved by a nris

;hour provisions and w

ssarily expose them

opportunity to
cabin skylight,

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the inter!
would ha

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.nd watched for an opportunit

of shoo

The guard and crew consisted of twenty-eight men, ex-
clusive of officers ; and it certainly says little for their vigi.
lance or prowess that such an attempt could have been made
with any chance of success by a handful of unarmed men.
The -amber of killed and wounded are— -

total
one drowned and two wounded ; seamen, one wounded ;
prisoners, five killed and two severely wounded.

ning mutineers WE

take their trial for inur'de

I piracy

"ully committ

While the authorities of the island were occupied with the
duties resulting from this scene of blood, some of the pri-
soners on shore entered one of the chapels and stole the
'plate. It was supposed to have been conveyed on board the
Governor Philip, and strict search had been made for it, but
without success.

Several attempts bad been made previous to this affair to
take the boats belonging to the island, which had been con-
sidered in a state of insecurity for some time; many boats
had also been secretly manufactured in the bush. One man,
named Stephen Brennan, had been committed for murder,
and another, named Dalton, for an unnatural crime. Another
occurrent

had taken place, awfully illustrative of the in-
corrigible character of some of those wretches, and of their
contaminating influence, but which we cannot further advert
to. Indeed, from all we can learn, Captain Maconochie's
philanthropic effort is destined to terminate in a manner very
different from that which every good man must have wished.
Another party had been more successful in an act of
piracy, having made their escape in a canvas boat to Philip
Island, whither a party bad been sent in pursuit. The
settlement is represented on the whole as being in a dreadful
state of excitement and disorganisation. A murder had a
short time before been committed and another attempted.

On Tuesday week, at Newnham, a boy who was shooting
birds in an orchard, accidentally killed another boy, named
Smith, who was unfortunately within range of the gun.

SERIOUS CHARGE OF ARSON.—On Friday a young man
named Joseph Johnson, who had been remanded from Wed-
nesday, was again brought up before Mr. Maude, charged
with an attempt to set fire to the warehouse of Mr. Dew-
burst, 15, George-street. Mr. Dewhurst was sworn, and
sthted that he had known the prisoner for three or four
years, during the most of which time he was in the employ
of Mr. Samuel Walker, agent, of Cross-street, who, in con-
sequence of ill-health, was giving up business, and that he
(Mr. Dewhurst) was winding up his concerns. Witness had
promised to find Johnson another situation; but owing to
some misconduct he had on Monday last given him a month's
notice to leave. On examining Mr. Walker's cellar, in Cross-
street, there appeared a quantity of cotton strewed :bout the
flo )r, which was covered with dust. There was also some
in a skip in the same condition, and upon Mr. Beswick ex-
amining it he found that a quantity of cotton had recently
been removed from it. This was one of the suspicious cir-
cumstances against the prisoner. Mr. Thomas Smith,
cotton merchant, said he had examined the cotton that was
found burning in the cellar, and compared it with some taken
from the skips in Mr. Walker's cellar, and could say that
both parcels were of the same description. Mr. Maude
thought the did not go far enough, and discharged
the prisoner, telling him that the case was of great suspicion,
and further inquiries would be made into the affair.—Mats-
chester Chronicle.

ERRONEOUS CHARGE AGAINST A LADY.—A case some-
what similar to one which has recently been a subject of
investigation in this town was, on Wednesday last, heard at
the. Guildhall, London. Amelia Christie, a young woman of
respectable appearance, was charged before Sir C. Marshall
with having purloined a card of twelve yards of thread edging,
value 9s. 9d., from the shop of Messrs. Hall and Allen, St.
Paul's Churchyard. Mr. James, who attended on behalf of
the prisoner, applied for a private hearing, on two grounds •
first, that it would turn out the young lady wz. •
and, secondly, that a young lady, who was in her company,
and who was to give evidence in her behalf was of so nervous
-Qment that sbe could not be able to give her testimony
The request was complied with ; the
Ong took place in private, all but reporters being excluded.
• the two young ladies entered the shop, and

in a crowde

It appeared

innocent

soner was a regular customer, but her friend, who was the
buyer on the occasion, was a stranger. There was a box of
lace about a yard and a half behind the prisoner, on the
counter. While the person who attended to them was mak-
ing the account, he saw a card of lace lying on the prisoner's
muff, in an inclined position, nearly falling. He saw it
shaken off into the lady's lap, and then mentioned the cir-
cumstance to Mr. Allen. The ladies went out, when, seeing

males, and, addressing the prisoner, told her he had seen a
card of lace on her muff, which had fallen into some part of
her dress, perhaps by accident. They returned, and when
in the shop the card fell from the young lady's person. She
exclaimed. " linty einortilar► "

in tho of dealing at the shop; she was trusted, when
the amount of her purchases exceeded the contents of her
purse. A piece of lace had been forced from the hand of the
shopman who served her, and it fell on the floor. Mr. James
thought it probable that another piece had been forced from
the assistant's hand at the same time, and had rested on the
muff, and afterwards between the muff and the dress, with-
out her knowledge. The magistrate took this view of the
case, and the young lady was discharged.

AWFUL SUICIDE AT COALBROOHDALE.—An inquest was
held on the 16th instant, at the Rodney Inn, before J. Hin-
ton, Esq., and a highly respectable jury, upon the body of
W. Meaberrv, aged 19. It appeared that about ten o'clock
on the Wednesday night previous the deceased had been
drinking at the Coalbrookdale forge with his father, brother,
and two other workmen, named Salisbury and Williams, at

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which time he exhibited several syruptomirof a diseased state
of mind, and a few minutes before he committed the unheard
of and rash act, be went to the house of Mr. William Cook-

son, and asked the loan of a cup to take to the forge;I;;-
ing, " we have had a dress of drink given us at the forge for
some work we have done," afterwards asked the servant for

a kiss, saying, " it may be the last," which she indignantly
refused, shortly after Mr. Cookson was surprised, as was un-
usual at that late hour, by hearing strike six or eight blows
from the hammer, and almost instantly afterwards Williams
came to Mr. C. begging him to come to the forge, where he
found the deceased lying on his back, with his head literally
crushed to atoms, and blood profusely flowing, and his
brother over him, exclaiming, " Oh ! my brother, Will !"
Previous to this melancholy affair, without any apparent
cause, he suddenly bit the nose of his companion, who was
sitting near him—followed his brother out of the forge, and
pinched him so severely as nearly to induce faiuting, with
other insane actions. Upon his father censuring him for
such conduct, he sat down and wept bitterly for several
minutes—then jumped up, rushed to the forge hammer,
lifted up the water-gate which sets the machinery in motion,
knelt down and placed his neck upon the anvil, as for deca-
pitation, when before any one could rush to his assistance
the hammer fell with a force amounting to a fall of several
tons ; his neck was broken, the upper part of the spinal hone
severely crushed, and of course instant death ensued. The
jury returned a verdict " that the deceased destroyed himself
in a fit of temporary insanity." At the request of the coro-
ner and jury, the Rev. Wm. Yate, their foreman, admini-
stered a severe reproof to the father of the

IVI ap-
pearing before them in a state nearly approaching to intoxi-
cation, and for the careless and disgraceful manner in which
he gave his evidence.—Shrewsbury paper.

A FATAL EXPERIMENT.—On Tuesday evening last the
quiet and peaceable village of Eckington, in this county,
was thrown into a state of great excitement by a report that
a boy about ten years of age, the son of a labouring man
named Thomas Jeynes, bad hung himself, and on inquiry
the rP”--- f- '

port was round to be but too true. For some time past
3ed had been in the employ of Mr. Sheppard, of
above town, as carter's boy, and on the evening in
question, upon Haynes, the carter, going into the stable be-
tween five and six o'clock, he discovered him lying at full
length upon the ground, with a cord, one end of which was
attached to a beam, drawn tightly round his neck, by which
his head was raised about a quarter of a yard from the
ground. It was conceived almost impossible that strangu-

the demo

talon could have taken place while he was in this position,
as he had the free use of all his limbs, and he could easily
have extricated himself from his situation ; but it was sup-
posed that be had balanced himself upon something while be
fastened the cord to the beam, having done which he lost his
hold and fell, and continued struggling until he got into the
position in which he was discovered, but was then too weak
to make any efforts to save himself. Immediately he was
taken into Mr. Sheppard's house, and a person living in the
village, who is occasionally called in in cases of necessity,
was sent for to bleed him ; but when he arrived life was quite
extinct, and the blood refused to flow. Various rumours
were speedily afloat as to the cause of this melancholy event,
some of which were calculated, if true, to connect with it
John Haynes, Mr. Sheppard's carter. It was said that he

was continually ill-treating tt
hint that he had actually hun;

e boy, anr. ..c ventured to
' On Friday an inquest
' -,nn. before Mr.

after d

__gently
- • •
and carefully investigating the case, the jury returned a ver-
dict that the deceased died from strangulation; and unani-
mously acquitted Haynes, the carter, of all blame whatever.
In the course of the inquiry it was stated that while the de-
ceased was talking with two other boys, about his own age,
the night before his death, about the murder at Rouse
Lend), upon one of his companions remarking that the pri-
soner Archer would be hung, he observed " that he should
not mind about being hung." The general opinion now is,
that he had no intention of committing suicide, but was
merely trying what sensation hanging would produce, when
he lost his hold, fell, and could not recover himself.—Ten
Towns Messenger.

TTEMPT OF CONVICTS TO ESCAPE
ROM NORFOLK ISLAND.

The annals

captured and confined on board the Coquette.
of colonial history furnish no parallel to the horrible scent
which followed. The prisoners mutinied and attempted to
seize the vessel ; they were resisted, and a dreadful conflict
killed wounded. The

was defeated, and the parties were imprisoned on board.
On the morning of the 21st of June, at seven o'clock, the
boat's crew were let out of the prison for the purpose of
stowing the cargo of the launch, which was hanging to the
stern of the brig. On reaching the deck, and seeing only
two soldiers and the sergeant there, the crew took advantage
of the absence of the other ten, of which the guard consisted,

ME CREDULITY OP UNBELIEF

The desperation of the coward merge

ssumes the

the (di

,uixotic

- •• - ---•-•jLuc. uiLLCI maw:limy.
The proverb applies alike to the ultra-manifestation of each
sentiment of
.the mind ;,and thus it is that among those who
s upon incredulity vie sometimes meet with

pride them(
th

cost childlike simplicity of unquestioning belief
it meeting of the Royal Medical and Chirur

;en bing

Societ

putation

It was fiunished

of the thigh during a mesmeric trance.
by two gentlemen, Mr. W. Topham, a barrister of the
Middle Temple, and Mr. W. Squire Ward, M.R.C.S., for-
merly House Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, to
—The patient, a labouring man, forty-
' suffered for nearly five

the following effect

_ years from
a painful affection of the knee : when, on the 21st June last,
he was admitted into the district hospital at Wellow, Notts.
During three weeks preceeding the 9th September be had not
slept more than two hours in seventy ; and at this time the
attempt to induce the mesmeric state was made by Mr. Top-
ham. It was repeated successfully every day until the 24th,
when sleep was produced in four minutes and a half. "In
this si •F-

_.eep ms arms were violently pinched, as well as the
dis-
eased leg itself, without his exhibiting any sensation; yet
this limb was so sensitive in its natural state that he could
not bear even the lightest covering to rest upon it." On the
Ist October it was resolved that amputation should be per-
formed during the mesmeric trance. Throughout the ope-
ration, the placid look of the patient's countenance never
changed ; his whole frame rested in perfect stillness ; not a
muscle or nerve was seen to twitch. Afterwards he gradually
awoke ; and upon collecting himself, he exclaimed, " I bless
the Lord to find it's all over," He denied having felt the
slightest pain ; and two days afterwards, the first dressing of
the wound was applied under similar conditions.
The supposition that mesmeric manipulation can produce
the state thus described is one of great improbability ; but
the unbelief of the members of the society overleapt itself,
and induced them almost unanimously to jump to a conclu-
sion which unfortunately requires for its unhesitating recep-
tion almost a larger amount of credulity than would be
necessary for the phenomenon of which it is presented as the
The opinion thus readily adopted was simply that
ne patient had experienced all the pains usually attendant
upon a capital operation, but that he had thought fit to feign
insensibility, and with this the subject was dismissed. Now,
that two gentlemen of, we persume, professional respectability,
should out of mere wantonness plan a short-lived hoax, which
the man who was at the wheel, and liy a well-directed shot must, if discovered, lead to their explusion from society,
he at length succeeded and killed him on the spot. On the is of itself no slight improbability ; but that a timid
fall of the two master spirits, the others told the seamen on Patient, worn down with pain, and doomed to a dread-
deck that the ship was theirs again. The hatch was taken ful operation, upon which his existence depended, should
off, and the ship's crew and the military rushed on deck • originate or lend himself to the motiveless joke, and
the latter fired on the surviving mutineers; killed three and perform his part to admiration, is an assumption of a
wounded two mortally. The sergeant of the guard shot the still more astounding kind. Under any view, the case
in the scuffle, mistaking him for one of the prisoners. is surrounded by improbabilities, and inquire, to what-
ies of the killed presented a dreadful spectacle : one ever it might lead, could not fail to be instructive. If
;ad was covered with blood and brains, and but for the patient be an impostor, he can hardly have arrived
position of Captain Boyle, the whole of the prisoners at the age of forty-two without having already, by the de-
velopment of his genius, acquired in his own neighbourhood
a pretty distinct reputation : if, on the other hand, he has
hitherto maintained a character for integrity, we do not see
that the fact of his being an agricultural labourer entitles any
society to brand him as an imppstor for making a statement
which, if it proceeded flow one of their own station, would
be received at all events with respect, and which, as it relates
to personal consciousness, they are unable to disprove. The
case is caleulated to interest every humane person. We fear
that it may turn out a delusion ; but at present, those who
have attacked,it have merely substituted one improbability for
another. The most direct evidence of which it is susceptible
has been produced; and this can now only be strengthened
or weakened by testimony relating to the character of the
principal witness. It is possible that Messrs. Topham and
Ward were prepared to furnish some information on the
point: if not. it was easily procurable from other sources.
But this, in the eagerness of incredulity, was lost sight of ;
and the members appear to have departed thoroughly satis-
fied ; and although it is impossible to swallow a dromedary, a
camel may be taken whole with very little inconvenience.

on the two sentries and threw them overboard;
ant immediately shot one of them named Kelly,
.ed down by the others and severely
Din. One of the soldiers was drowned,
loner named Wolfe. The sea-
__ ucrea into the launch, excepting two, who
were told to remain on deck, and one of them was placed at
the wheel, with a prisoner of the name of Moss, to assume
the command. The captain, with his officers, happened to
be below, and before they could proceed on deck the com-
panion hatch was put on, the fore and main hatches were
also battened down on the rest of the guard and crew, and
the mutineers were thus in complete possession of the vessel,
but without any arms, except the pistols and cutlasses taken
from the two sentries.

Shortly after they had taken the vessel, one of the party
proposed to Captain Boy!e to furnish them with provisions,
arms, &c., on obtaining which they would give up the vessel
to him and proceed to sea in the " island ' launch ; but he
refused to comply with their proposals, as he knew that the
vessel must ultimately fall into his hands again, the

solution

r, to obtain which they
selves to the fire of the crew
military, who were well armed, and only waiting for an
Captain Boyle then broke the

VERY COOL.—The inhabitants of Barcelona, during the
bombardment, were determined to take matters very coolly.
The Impartial and the Vonstitucional journals of that town
apologise to their readers for appearing only in half sheets,
"as the bombardment had prevented the compositors from
setting up the type." In the former paper, however, the
theatrical bill appears as usual. The pieces were Angelo,
the Tyrant of Padua ; " and the ballet of " The Lover with-
out a Mistress !"

MORMONISM.—One of the proselytes to this new faith,
feeling some reluctance to leave the certainties of a temporal
nature, which he enjoyed in Old England, engaged one of
his friends who left the neighbourhood of Burslem, a short
time ago, to write to him a true statement of their situation
in their New Jerusalem in America, promising to join him
if his representation was satisfactory. A few days ago, the
expected communication arrived in a very brief epistle, in
which he very shortly refers him to the 4th chapter of the Ist
Corinthians, 11th, 12th, and 13th verses, as a correct des-
cription of their situation—observing, if he wrote a letter as
large as a newspaper, he could not say more to him. No
very flattering prospects for the poor dupes who have left
their native country to follow this Jack O'Lantern in the
new land of promise !—Staffardshire Mercury. '
DESPERATE ASSAULT--THIJRLES, DEC. 19.—1 regret
to inform you that on Friday, the 16th instant., this hitherto
peaceable district was the scene of an outrage of a most
wanton and a barbarous cnaracter. The particulars, as far
as I can learn, are as follow :—An old man, named Cormack,
residing on the lands of Caldfields, part of the property of
Lord Miltown, was directed by Mr. Ellis, under-agent to
the above-named nobleman, to inform the tenants on those
lands that he (Mr. E.) would require them to meet him in
Thurles, on a certain day, to settle their. rents. Cormack,
who is a particularly quiet and inoffensive man, upon obey-
ing the orders he received, was attacked by five ruffians, who
beat him to such a degree that no hopes whatever are enter-
tained of his recovery. lam happy to add, that through the
praisworthy exertions of `the police of this and the adjoining
stations the offenders are in custody, having been fully
identified by Cormack.—Tipperary Constitution.
Between nine and ten o'clock on Tuesday night, while the
shopmen of a mercer, in the rue Saint Antoine, were busy
in shutting up, a man entered, and, unseen, walked away
with a large bale*which he taw on the counter, and being
joined by two other men in the street, they formed a carriage
for it by joining their three pairs of arms together, in a man-
ner so singular that it attracted thenotice of a person passing
by, who made observation upon it to the young men of the
shop, who, being thus put on the alert, followed the rogues,
and seized them and their burden. They pretended they
had no intention to commit a robbery, but that wanting
some articles to make presents of the season, they were
tempted by the beautiful things they saw in the warehouse,
but meant only to make a selection, and then return the
rest, paying for what they kept ! On this the shopmen ob-
served that they must have very peculiar tastes, for the
goods they had taken were nothing more than a bale of wad-
ding. "Then, indeed," replied the rogues, "we were truly
mistaken, for we believed them to be cashmeres, or at least
India silk handkerchiefs." There was no mistake, how-
ever, when the commissary of police sent them to the pre-
fecture.

DREADFUL AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.—Soon after six
o'clock on Sunday evening Mr. Thomas Humphreys, one of
Sir Watkins's keepers, in the charge of the extensive woods
at Llanforda, near this town, came across a most determined
set' of ruffians, five or six in number. He followed up, and
laid hold of one of them, who had a gun, whereupon the rest
set upon and beat him with bludgeons about the face and
head-in the most dreadful manner. It would appear, from
the statement of police-constable Luke Edwards, that the
quantity of blood lost by Humphreys was almost incredible
his shirt and wearing apparel were completely saturated
Dreading the Villains would take his 1; H

Kt _.‘e .umphreys drew
..p..teuly exclaiming he would fire in his
own defence if they did not desist • but this had no effect ;
one fellow followed up and lifted a bludgeon with both hands,
as if to complete the mischief, when the keeper fired, but
whether or not the ball took effect he could not tell, as he
immediately fell from loss of blood. Some of the men very
fortunately came up soon after, and he was got home. In-
telligence was soon conveyed to the police, and they were
shortly on the look-out. One man was brought before tie
magistrates on Monday, on suspicion, but he proved an alibi,
and was discharged. They are likely to be had in a day or
two.— Salovian Journal.

SWINDLING OPERATIONS IN YORK.—Last week York
was visited by a numerous body of swindlers, who appear to
have been very successful in many of their performances.
On Saturday last, an elderly farmer named Thos. Jefferson,
residing at Haxby, a village a few miles from York, was
robbed of £95 by two fellows who invited him into a public-
house ; and while there one of them pulled out a number of
flash notes which he folded up carefully, and spoke of the
necessity of caution. Mr. Jefferson very politely permitted
the scoundrel to fold his money up, and as might be ex-
pected, when be afterwards came to look at it, he fonnd that
his money was gone, and in its place he had some old dirty
paper. On Monday last, a servant of the Rev. Mr. Merest,
of Staindrop, near Darlington, was cheated out of a valuable
carriage horse, with which his master had entrusted him for
sale. While riding it out, the servant was accosted by a per-
son in a light coloured top coat, who commenced bargaining
for the horse. The price, however, which he offered was
such as the other could not take. Ultimately he induced
him to exchange his horse for another which he stated would
suit him a great deal better, and for which he would willingly
give the price demanded by the servant. The later foolishly
consented to do so, and as soon as the exchange was effected,
the fellow to whom the other horse belonged, rode off as fast
as he could ; and when the servant came back to look for the
man who was to purchase the horse, he found he had de-
camped. The horse whioh he obtained by the exchange was
not worth above 505., while the one out of which be had
been defrauded was worth 40 guineas. We have also heard
of another person_ wlx had a good horse rode away with by
a scoundrel who pretenaed to try its merits; but neither he
nor the horse have since been heard of. Some parties supposed
to be concerned in the affair are in custody.—Leeds Mercury.

THE LATE PRIZE- FIGHT.—The fight between Charles
Freeman, the American giant, and William Perry, the Tip-
ton Slasher, which had been interrupted on the 15th instant
by the interference of the magisterial authorities, was renewed
on Tuesday, on the Kentish coast, about six miles below
Gravesend, to which place the combatants and about 400

persons were conveyed in the "Father iilaMes''sieriMer:
The ring having been formed, the men entered it and stripped,
when Freeman proved to be at the least an 181 stone man,
while his opponent appeared to be even thinner and paler than
when they previously met. The fight consisted of 37 rounds,
and lasted 39 minutes : but it was evident from the outset
that the towering height and great bulk of Freeman must pre-
vail, though it was at last brought to a sudden and somewhat
unexpected close by the Slasher going down without a blow, a
circumstance which he afterwards insisted to have been the
effect of accident and not of design. In the earlier rounds the
Slasher failed in reaching his man, and the blows of the giant
passed over his antagonist ; they soon, however,came to a bet-
ter understanding, and the Slasher showed first blood in the 4th
round, from a blow on the nose, and in the 6th received a blow
on the ear ; as a return for these he gave the giant so severe a
knock on the mouth in the 10th round that the effect quickly
became visible, but at the same time he cut his own finger se-
verely against the man's teeth. This blow was repeated both in
the 14th and 15th rounds, and the Giant retorted in each case
by planting his heavy blows on the ears of the Slasher. In the
20th round the latter seemed to be losing his wind, and he
led off wildly, and danced laughingly round his opponent,
without being able to get in a blow; the Giant, who wore a
serious aspect, lunged out repeatedly, and some of tis blows
told, though many of them were wide, and some even far
from effective. In this manner the fight proceeded to its
termination, the contest during the whole time being an
unsatisfactory one, as the difference in the size of the men
left no room for speculation on the issue; the Giant, not-
withstanding, fought badly, and missed many well-intentioned
but ill directed blows; the Slasher, moreover, proving to a
demonstration that a well-scienced man must beat him,
though he would doubtless have shown to more advantage
with a man of his own size. No serious injuries were in-
flicted on either of the men, who remained to witness a sub-
sequent fight between J. M`Ginty, the Scotch Champion,
and Bungaree, the Australian. This contest was what the
" fancy" call a far more interesting affair; it consisted of 83
rounds, lasted an hour and 47 minutes, and terminated in
favour of the Scotchtnan, who showed too much quickness
and determination for his opponent, was always at work with
his right and left, and had been well taught the use of his
legs. Bungaree, though blind of one eye, and nearly so of
the other, fought with much courage for five rounds, at the
instigation of his seconds, after his backer had given in for
him.— Observer. a

POPERY AT NE'WCASTLE.UPON-TYNE

Newcastle Journal.)
It is usual, as our readers are aware, for the individual in-
responsibility of the chief
orate town to celebrate his

(From the

agistracy in•on

accession to th

friends to a ..... uy 1111.1.1116 111 Z
public •
entertainment, now and for long known
as "The Mayor's Dinner." This event in the mayoralty
of Mr. Thomas Dunn has been signalised by circumstances
which, however inclined we may be to deal leniently with the
failings, or even with the religious principles and feelings of
that gentleman, as conscientiously entertained by him, though
opposed, as we conscientiously believe they are, in truth, to
the doctrines of Christianity, and incompatible with the hap-
piness of the people and the security of the state, we consider
we ought not to pass over without especial notice. These
circumstances we shall develope in due course and order, re-
serving our observations thereon till the facts themselves are
in the possession of the reader.
The annual entertainment to which we refer was given, on
Tuesday evening last, at the Assembly Rooms, in this town,
and the guests numbered between ninety and a hundred.
The worshipful the mayor. Thomas Dunn, Esq. presided, of
course, and the vice-chairs were occupied by the sheriff,
Joseph Hawks, Esq., and Sir John Fife.
After the company had become seated, Mr. Riddell, the
popish minister, who had been honoured with one of the
chief seats at table, being second from the Worshipful the
Mayor, on the right, was requested by his worship to say
grace, which he did in the presence of two clergymen of the
Church of England, one of whom was the Vicar of New-
castle, the accredited head of the church of this town. The
repast over, it was thought by many that the worthy vicar,
whose feelings had been so insultingly disregarded in the first
instance, would be, at least, called upon by his worship to
return thanks ; but this part of the ceremony appears to have
been studiously avoided, for reasons not difficult to discover,
since the sentiments of the company in respect to the former
part of this exhibition could hardly have been mistaken or
misconstrued.
Then followed the toasts, as according to list prepared and
approved no doubt by the spiritual advisers of the popish dig-
nitary, who thus dispensed the hospitality and munificence of
the town, and it is understood that not even the vice-chair-
men were made acquainted with their order. " The Queen"
was the first toast given, and was responded to with enthu-
siastic acclamations; but, it is said, that the pre-determined
order of the toasts was not strictly observed in this respect,
as in others, for that " His Holiness the Pope" stood to be
given in precedence of her Majesty, and immediately after
the ablution of the digits in holy water!
This latter ceremony requires more than a mere notice en
passant; and, therefore, it may be well to state that the am-
brosial liquid was introduced and circulated in the silver ewer
and basin, which, on the motion of the ex-Mayor, Mr. Al-
derman Hodgson, in the Town-council, on Wednesday week,
were, with other relics of the old corporation, transferred
from the Town-clerk's strong room, where they had been de-
posited
ever since the demolition and dispersion of the Man-
sion House regalia, to the custody of the Mayor for the time
being. The introduction of the silver ewer and basin on this
occasion excited considerable attention, from the recollection
of byegone scenes renewed and re-awakened, and, perhaps,
the antiquity of the vessels drew, in some degree, attention
from their contents, which to the uninitiated was repre-
sented as aqua rosa merely, and as such presented before
them. There was something discreet, no doubt, in this, for
had the holy liquid been represented, as it was no doubt in-
tended to be, it would have aroused the feelings of the com-
pany, Protestant for the most part, against such absurdities.
To the health of " The Queen" succeeded that of " Prince
Albert," and then'the Chairman gave " The Prince of Wales
and the rest of the Royal Family," avoiding more direct al-
lusion to the other members of that family," distinguished
no less by their virtues and talents than by their devoted at-
tachment to the civil and religious institutions of the coun-
try, with which they are identified by the high position they
alike dignify and adorn. " Iler Majesty's Ministers" were
given in fair terms, and then " The Members for the
County," " The Members for the Town," and " The Lord
Lieutenant of the County ;" but not one word was said
about " The Bishop of Duthasn and the Clergy of the
Diocese," a toast hitherto invariably given on such occa-
sions ; nor was the health of the Vicar proposed individually,
and though, as we have said, the head of the church in this
town, he was permitted to depart without compliment and
without notice. Thus was the measure of popish intolerance
completed. The company, which did not sit down to dinner
till about half-past seven o'clock, rose before ten, and in
less than ten minutes after that hour, contrary to usual cus-
tom, the civic entertainment was completely deserted. In-
deed, it was evident that the extraordinary proceedings to
which we have referred had a marked effect upon the feelings
of the company, though any expression of those feelings was
prevented by various considerationsiby the irregular order
of the toasts, and by the early retirement of the Reverend
the Vicar.

Such is a brief narrative of the extraordinary circumstances
attending the first civic entertainment of the first Popish
Mayor of Newcastle, since the passing of the Municipal
Reform Bill, and, we venture to prophecy, the last for
many years to come. It must be admitted that a more pre-
meditated and marked insult to the vicar, to the clergy, and
the inhabitants of Newcastle, could not have been offered
than was done on this occasion by Mr. Thos. Dunn. That
be did not propose the health of the Pope and Mr. Riddell
is true, because had he done so, there was spirit and inde-
pendence enough, we opine, in the company to have at once
resented the insult ; but he did call on the representative of
the Pepe to perform the mutilated religious ceremonies of
the occasion, and he studiously withheld that due respect to
the constituted authorities in religious matters which, as
representing the feelings of the majority of the inhabitants
of the town, and of the members of the council in especial,
in his official capacity be was bound to render.
We have spoken of this indecent proceeding as a pre-
meditated and marked insult to the Vicar, to the Clergy,
and the inhabitants of Newcastle, and we have done so ad-
visedly; for the fact is, the Vicar and his friencli, who were
as twenty to one on the occasion, were invited, and went to
the civic feast under the impression that, at least, no de-
parture from established custom would be attempted ; and
we have been informed that it was not until within a very
few minutes of dinner being announced that the Vicar was
made aware that he was to be superseded in the discharge of
those duties which have time out mind been performed by
the individual holding the high office he does. It was only
when assembled to partake of the entertainment, to enjoy the
hospitality of the Corporation, that the insulting procedure
was avowed and enacted.
Now, we have purposely abstained from referring to some
other scarcely reprehensible circumstances that have tran-
spired since the commencement-of the existing mayoralty,
with the view of avoiding suspicion of partiality or prejudice,
which many would have been but too ready to cast upon us ;
but it is rather hard that our forbearanee, and that of the
inhabitants of Newcastle and their representatives in the
Council, should be abused, and insult offered.

HOME.—We are born at home, we live at home; and we
must die at home : so that the comfort and economy of home
are of more deep, heartfelt, and personal interest to us than
the public affairs of all the nations in the world.
How TO WRITE ABOUT AMERICA.—NOW, to compare
small things with great, when we first heard it breathed that
he was going to America, we thought within ourselves thus:
If we had the admirable talent for observation and descrip-
tion, and the great reputation (to give universal currency to
our "Notes") of Boz—a man who has amused for several
years a greater number and more various classes of his fellow
creatures than any one we have for some years known, heard,
or read of—and had intended to break up new ground in
America, we should have imitated the aforesaid cat, in all
except her bloody designs and doings. In plain English, we
should have resolved to take—good naturedly brother
Jonathan off bis guard; and transmuting Mr. Charles Dickens
into Mr. John Johnson, or Mr. Benjamin Brown, gone away
without allowing a hint of our visit to transpire either at
home or abroad. We should thus have entered America,
and made all our most important observations, under a strict
incognito. A month before quitting it, however, we might,
perhaps, have resumed our character of " Charles Dickens,
Esquire," and presenting the best letters of introduction with
which we had come provided, mixed in the best society in our
own proper person. Thus we should have seen Jonathan
asleep, en dishabile ; and also wide awake, and in his best
clothes, and his best manners.—Blackwood.
BEAUTIES OF THE AMERICAN PRESS.—A " broken-
hearted woman," as she calls herself, Mrs. Laura Hunt, of
Broadalbin, Montgomery County, New York, notifies the
public through the Amsterdam Intelligences, that her dear
husband, Josiah Hunt, has left her bed and board, and
strayed to parts unknown ; and she forbids all girls, old
maids, and widows, to meddle with or marry him, under the
penalty of the law. She earnestly entreats all editors
throughout the world," to lay the foregoing information be-
fore their readers. " Mrs. Hunt will please to perceive that
we have complied with her request."—Courier and Inquirer.
" And we (too), two. New York Transcript. " And
we, three."— Cincinati Mirror. " And we, four."—Stan-
dard. " And we, five."—Western Methodist. " And we,
six."—Zion's Herald. " And we, seven."—Maine Free
Press. " And we, eight."—Mobile Free Press. " And we,
nine."—Woodstock Whig. " Leave her bed and board,
the villain! and we, ten."—National Eagle. " And strayed
to parts unknown, the vagabond ! and we, eleven."—Al-
bang Daily Advertiser. " And we make up the dozen."—
New York Commercial Advertiser. "He left her bed ! 0 !
the vagrum ! And we a baker's dozen."—Pittsman States-
man. " And we start him again."—Miner's Journal.
" Keep him moving. Salt river is too good for him."—
Jackson's Courier. " May he have corns on his toes and
pains in his ribs all the days of his life. Leave a woman's
bed and board, the graceless knave! We'll give him the
sixteenth kick."—Carlisle Republican, " Oh, the vaga-
bond ! he deserves an additional kick, and we will give him
the seventeenth."—Cleveland Herald. " Break a woman's
heart, the fiend ! Take that, too !"—Painsville Telegraph.
" We underwrite the eighteenth endorser."—Courier and
Enquirer. " And we give the scoundrel the nineteenth
shove."—Boston Argus. "Go a-head, and hunt him,
Laura. And here goes the twentieth."—American Senti-
nel. " And we repeat her wrongs and his shame to our
20,000 readers."—Saturday Courier. " Pass him round ;
start him again, the scoundrel ! And here goes the twenty-
first kick."—Utica Daily News.

THE SATISTICAL SOCIETY.-TiliS useful body met last
week, when Professor Sillyphellow read a very interesting
paper on the " Moral and Physical Condition of Omnibus
Cads," in the appendix to which there were some curious
tables. It would appear from these that 99 cads and ith out
of 104 and 2-16ths, pronounce the word "city" as if it were
spelled " cty," without an "s, which would seem to show
that they are of Welsh extraction. and have probably ob-
tained the name of cad by descent from the Cad-walladers.
The society has also prepared some curious statistical records
from a recent survey. In a parish containing 1,500 houses,
there are no less than 700 children in arms giving the enor-
mous average of nearly half a baby to each house ; and in
calculating the number of street door-bells, a still larger result
is arrived at. Of 742 knockers, there are 620 out of the
reach of a child, 89 want fresh painting, 32 are in tolerable
repair, and the remaining 1 has been wrenched off since the
.ociety's last survey. Out of 7 families occupying 9 rooms,
4 had paid their rent, 2 had some idea of doing so, and re-
maining 1 had made a point of always running away with the
goods, in anticipation of any harsh proceeding on the part of
the landlord. Among 14,000 children, 11,000 could sing Jim
Crow, 2,986 could whistle it, while the remaining 14 had
beard it, and knew it when played, but could not execute a
note of it. There were 224 blankets to 116 beds ; and giving
an average of three persons to each mattress, there would be
19-16ths of a pillow tip every father of a family of 12 children,
leaving the mother the pillow-case. In 16,attics, 24 people
were employed in washing, 8 were occupied in ironing, 3 had
cone out to pawn trifling articles, and 1 was frying sausages.
' The same curious deductions have been made from the spread
of Art Unions ; for it would seem, that 762 rooms are orna-
mented with pictures. 640 of them containing portraits of
popular performers, 89 of which were decorated with tinfoil,
and 17 were entirely plain. In a collectionmf 300 spelling-
books, it was found that 3-4 tbs of them were Mayor's, the
1-16th were Dilworth's, and the remainder miscellaneous. 1
leaf in 2 were dog's-eared, 3 in 8 were soiled, 00-15ths in
226.334ths were torn, and 108-COths were without any covers.
Of 250,000 families, there were 249,999 that regularly pur-
chased Punch, and the remaining family regularly borrowed
it. Out of 16 adults, who bad all taken degrees at Oxford,
4 were clergymen of the established church, 6 were at the
bar, 3 were gentlemen of independent property, and the re-
maining I was lying drunk at the station-house. In a series
of 26 milk-jugs, 1 had no handle, 14 were without spouts, 9
had been riveted, while 2 were perfect. Of 20 pieces of
orange-peal, lying in 1 street, 17 were from 3 oranges pur-
chased at the stall at the corner,
i , 2 were left there by persons
casually passing, and the remaining 1, the society, after se-
veral hours' tedious investigation, found no means of ac-
counting for.—Punch.