The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-11-07 00:00:00

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE

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_....e. OF A BREVET.—It appears from a parliame.
tary paper, just printed, that theexpense of the Brevet
in June last will be £17,712. 13s. 4d. a-year- "'-
charges of the promotions amounted to £29,128 Os. 10d., e from which the half-pay to be deducted amounts to ds same cot,
for
Pounds, £11,415 7s. 6d., leaving the expense X 17,712 13s. 4d.
et been decides
BETTY NA,
POOR REMOVAL.—A parliamentary return recently -v p
issued states that in the year ending March 25, 1854,
there were 1,693 paupers removed to Ireland from the
metropolitan parishes and unions. This is a considerable
increase on the numbers removed during the three pre-
vious years. During the same period the nu-tuber removed
to Ireland from Liverpool, was 4,545 ; from Bristol, 78 ;
from Newport, 34 ; from Cardiff, 42; and from Swansea, 8.
..,
GREAT GuNs.—The large iron works at Low Moor are i ; tint. Eac,
fully employed. Last week an order !left government
was received for 100 guns of immense calibre, we believe
Lancaster's oval guns, which will throw a ball weighing
911bs. Besides this, the company have another large order
for cannon, which they are executing at the rate of 18 erne
guns per week..—Halifax Courier. ;o sat
ap THE FRENCH BAND OF GUIDES.—The Court Circular ly
t says Her Majesty the Queen has been pleased, through onsr
Lord Alfred Paget, to transmit to the Baron de Verdiere, ae sit(
~ Captain in the Imperial Regiment of Guides, the sum of t mod'a• bulb 100 guineas for the baud, as a mark of Royal satisfaction
men.
at their brilliant performance at Windsor.
eats of
THE Trieste Observer state* from Constantinople that
es are
the Russian war steamer, which sometime ago destroyed report some Turkish trading vessels, has again made her appear- March
ance in the Black Sea under British colours, and burnt, oft' reoer.--1
Kilia, a Turkish vessel laden with coals. ;iation w
IT IS RU3IOURED, says the Morning Herald, that a vine, win
captain of noble birth, commanding one of the Baltic s and jolt
screw line-of-battle-ships, is likely to appear before a court- resisting
martial, when some curious disclosures may take place . The i
touching the proceedings of the Baltic fleet.
to the fol
APPARATUS FOR BLOWING-UP SHIPS SUNK AT SEBA.S. never eat
TOPOL.—A firm at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, patentees of the e a delicice
hydraulic crane, are employed executing an order from the ar meeting
Admirality for the construction of apparatus for blowing has been t
up the Russian ships of war which obstruct the entrance tined by tl
of the harbour of Sebastopol. They are 25 in number-13 ;y.—Leicesi
large and 12 smaller—and each consists of three water-
LBUSE.A ]
tight cylinders, of different sizes, placed one within the !ways has sin other, so as to form three distinct compartments. The in- , daily travel nermost cylinder will be filled with fine gunpowder: the undergradun
space between it and the next with ordinary blasting
,nail
y, w
powder, and the outer one left vacant. A wire will be in- ly in a rage,
serted in the innermost cylinder to communicate with a ,
onkey." Thr
galvanic battery. The larger apparatus will weigh three ; a annoyed at A CRINGE which interests travellers between England
tons each, and when charged four tons. The order will be , bidden door at _ and Ireland has taken place, in the intercourse between
completed some time this week, and it is said that prior to ; swer to which 1
_., ~ as bet- Kingstown and Holyhead. During the winter season,
their being shipped off to Sebastopol the effect of one of i 1 than he was. _. eince that the old gentle- the express steamer will leave Kingstown at 8.30, a.m.,
them will be tried upon a sunken wreck at Tynemouth. man, on arriving at the terminus, used to point out the Dublin time, instead of 9, a.m., as hitherto, and the train
THE QUEEN AN EARLY RISER.—The occasion of the'
Queen's visit to Hull (says the Hull Packet) formed no policeman to the passengers as "
"the doctor of divinity," from Holyhead will start at 2.10, p.m., English time
the " Cambridge undergraduate, &c. The magistrate arriving at London at 10.40, p.m.
exception to Her Majesty's habit of early rising. Her fined him 10S. COLONIAL POSTAGE.—The first reduction of -
Majesty,Australia, rid Southampton and Singapore, toot place on
the Prince Consort, and all the Royal children
THE POLICE OUTWITTED.—It was stated some time
Friday. All letters for South Australia, Victoria New
had breakfasted, and the table 'was cleared before seven
South. Wales, and Van Diemen's Land, sent by this mail,
o'clock had struck. By half-past six the pages of her egcetltata comedian
inflict
to the theatre at Nantes
household were executing the Royal commands in the had determined to personal chastisement on a
will now be charged fid. the half-ounce only, instead of ls.
shops of our most stirring tradesmen. The cost of the journalist of the place, for some criticism passed on his
wife, and that before meeting with the real offender he as heretofore. Newspapers will go free. All letters, how-
late gala on the occasion of the Queen's visit is estimated
ever, sent by the route of Marseilles, the mail for which is
had 'assault d a banker of the place, • taking him for the
at about £65,000, including the travelling expenses of
maderup on the evening of the 9th inst., will be liable, in
visitors for that special occasion. It is stated that one journalist._e. After this lie met the real offender, and
addition to the above, to Od. for every quarter of an ounce,
Frenchs postage, and newspapers to a charge of 2d. The
man received £BOO for the use of variegated lamps, which assaulted him. A warrant having been issued for is ar-
po rage must be paid in advance.. The above
.regulation
he let out at 4d. a-piece. rest, he took refuge, says a Nantes journal, at the theatre,
THE RUSSIAN EMPlRE.—Russia is the greatest un- and was actually beneath the table at which the commis-
is not at present extended to West Australia or New
broken empire for extent that ever existed—occupying
aftersary of police, who had come in search of him, sat down
vast regions of Europe and Asia, and nearly one-sixth of Ithe house without success, to draw up a
POOR MADAME SO t. from a private let-
examining.
the habitable globe. It is forty-one times the size of ' Zealand.
ter :—" Vera Cruz, Oct. 4th. One great subject of con-
proceg verbal. A trap door beneath the table enabled
France, and one hundred and thirty-eight times that of
versation here for the last week has been Madame Sontag.
the actor to get down under the stage, but the house being
England. Yet it was too small for the ambition of the
Her husband departed from Mexico immediately after her
Emperor Alexander, who is reported to have said—" Ibyplace himself in trunk of his -1
ni e, who was
surrounded sergeants de ville, he was obliged, in order
death, leaving the remains behind. The coffin containing
insist upon having the Baltic to skate upon, the Caspian preparing to start „
to get out,tto
tartf(rparis
anedin
nwhiehhe
got clear off.
them has been brought to this place by one of the ordinary
for a bathing-place, the Black Sea as a wash-hand basin,
carriers' carts, like any common baggage, having been
and the North Pacific Ocean as a fish-pond." He " en-BIT.— On Sunday week two men, well- valued in the carrier's invoice at 200 dollars. On its arrival
—TGrfaElign
BITERanz .
croached on Tartary for a pasture, on Georgia and Persia dressed (teetotallers, we understand), went to a public- here it was first placed in the church of St. Augustine ;
for a vineyard, on Turkey for a garden, on Poland for a house near the east end of the town, and after stating that but being found offensive it was taken without ceremony,
farm, on Finland and Lapland as a hunting-ground, and they, were travellers, going away upon a journey, asked religious or other, to a deserted church outside the town,
took part of North America as a place of banishment for for ' half a mutchin" in a bottle. We are not sure to wait the consent of some ship's captain to convey it to
offenders." if they put the name "whisky" to it or not, but they said Europe ; as yet none has been found who would admit it
A NEWSPAPER AT CHURCH.--On more than one occa- "Give us the best." Away trudged the travellers, chuck- into his vessel. Assuredly if this poor lady did not anti-
sion lately the pulpit has assumed the function of the ling at their success. Had the publican been seen inside cipate in her childhood that she should become one day
newspaper in publishing news of victory, but from the his domicile he would have been observed chuckling also. une grande dame of world-wide celebrity, she can have
other side of the globe we learn that a newspaper has By and by another knock comes to the door, and our twoi dreamt still less of the indignities her remains have been
actually made its appearance in the reading desk to assist travellers again make their appearance, but this time they subjected to, such as the poorest peasant would sacrifice
in the service of the Church. The appointment of a day are accompanied by a police-officer, who directly accused everything to spare any member of his family."
of humiliation and prayer for the war in which this king- him (the publican) of having sold whisky to the travellers e.
i ATAGONIAIT MISSION.—SAILING OF THE "ALLEN
dom is engaged having become known tcethe colonists in on Sunday morning. The bottle at this time had not been Gennexna."—On the 24th ult., at an early hour, the
Australia, the inhabitants of a place in the neighbourhood opened, and the publican denied the charge. It was there- " Allen Gardiner " left Cumberland Basin, Bristol.
of the Burraburra copper mines were minded to observe a fore found necessary to draw the cork, when, lo and Several clergymen, Lieut. Justice, R.N., and other gentle-
day in a like manner, and no other copy of the services ap- behold ! the contents were found to be " pure Monikie." men of the committee, and a party of ladies, were on
pointed for the occasion having been provided, the clergy- Down fell the under-jaws of the travellers, and a demand board, and accompanied the mission party down the
man read the special services in the Church from a number was made for the restitution of the shilling, which the beautiful river Avon as far as King's-road, when a fare-
of the Leeds Intelligencer which contained them. wily publican refused to give, upon the plea. that he had well service was performed, the whole crew joining
LECTURES IN RURAL DISTRICTS.—Ou Tuesday (says supplied them with "half a mutchkin of the best," ac- most heartily in the hymn, which was one composed by
the Nottingham Journal), the rector of Hawksworth de- cording to order.—Dundee Courier. the late devoted servant of Christ, Allen Gardiner. The
livered a lecture in the school-room, on the "causes and SINGULAR EFFECTS OF A THUNDERSTORM. —A storm friends of the mission then disembarked. Three cheers
history of the present war." The sum of ld. was charged of thunder and lightning passed over the counties of from the deck and two reports from her guns told them
for admission, and the room was filled to overflowing by Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester on Monday. It was of that the Allen Gardiner was gone—not on a voyage of
an audience who listened most attentively for upwards of short duration, and was preceded and followed by sharp commerce, nor on one of discovery, nor to te scenes f
two hours. At the conclusion of the lecture, the rev, frosts. At Pinvin, near Pershore, Worcestershire, a Mr. war and bloodshed; but in obedience to the grehat Captain
gentleman offered to summon his parishioners together. Stinton, a farmer, was ploughing with a team of four who said, "Go ye into all the world and preach the
from time to time, and relate to them matters .of interest horses, when he observed two black clouds pass, one on Gospel to every creature." Her destination is the land of
and importance in connection with the recent struggle, on each side of him, the intervening space in the heavens West Frankland, in which colony the British Govern-
condition that they should pay one penny each for admis- being clear. In a moment, without warning:, he found merit has granted 10,000 acres for the use of the mission
sion, and that the sum thus collected should be sent to the himself thrown violently forward upon his plough, a fear- party, whose immediate object, under the direction of a
fund for the widows and orphans of those soldiers who fall ful peal of thunder and vivid flash of lightning appear- clergyman of the Church of England, is to bring over,
by the pestilence or the sword. This proposal met with ing simultaneously. On rising, he found his team of maintain, and teach as many natives of Terra del Fuego
an unanimous and hearty approval. horses lying prostrate and dead before him. Each horse and Patagonia as can be induced to come. When once
To BE LEFT TILL CALLED Foß.—About some three fell with his head between his fore legs; the first horse their language (of which the Hon. Secretary already pos-
years ago a labouring man in this town was consuming on its near side, the second on its oft; the third on its senses a dictionary and grammar) is learned, and friendly
two half-ounces of tobacco daily, and sometimes more, near, and the fourth also on the off side—all in a straight and frequent communications with the mainland opened,
paying 11d. for the half-ounce. On going into the shop line, as when in the act of drawing the plough. The boy stations will be taken up in various parts of the country.
of Mr. T. P., draper and grocer, as was his practice, and who was walking by the side of the horses was unhurt, The Captain of the Allen Gardiner is the author of a most
learning that the price of tobacco had been raised to 2d. and Mr. Stinton only received a shaking. The animals' interesting work on the Arctic Expedition. He acted as
the half-ounce, he laid down his pipe and tobacco-box on bodies bore but slight marks of injury externally, their second in. command on board the Prince Albert, Lady
the counter, requesting Mr. P. would take charge of them coats appearing as if singed in one or two places. They Franklin's vessel, fitted out by her to search for her
until he called for them. From that day forward he de- were valued at £l3O, but Mr. Stinton had insured his unfortunate husband. It is encouraging to the friends of
posited a fourpenny piece (being the sum that it usually stock from lightning as well as fire. the mission to have such a commander to navigate the
cost him for tobacco) daily in a hoe, and, on opening it last THE EPIDEMIC CLIOLERA.—The following is a com- Allen Gardiner between-the Falklands and South America,
Saturday, he had the gratification of beholding upwards plete return of the number of deaths from cholera and as it is also to have had her built under the able superin-
of £2O accumulated in 4d. pieces. He then very judi- from diarrhcea in England and Wales, for the months of tendence of Captain Sulivan, R.N., (now on board H.M.S.
ciously counted out £2O worth and placed them in the July, August, and September. The deaths in the districts Wellington), who for a long period was surveyor of those
savings' bank, leaving the remainder as nest-eggs to that have suffered most are separately returned ; and the coasts.
invite further deposits.—Carmarthen Journal. deaths from cholera and from diarrhcea in the weeks of THE WEAR SITIPWRIGEITS.—The unfortunate and ill-
NEW WINE.—The scarcity of the vintage in France September are also distinguished. The returns have been judged strike of the shipwrights on the 'Wear still conti-
this year will, it is thought, be nearly compensated by its made from their register books by the registrars, under nues. A large meeting of the men was held last week in
quality. A Bordeaux paper tells us—. The grapes of a instructions from the registrar-general. The deaths by the Athenaeum, Sunderland, when it appeared that some
sugary quality are generally perfectly ripe. The vintage, cholera in the three months were 15,587, by diarrhcea, disinterested gentlemen of the town had interposed, with
moreover, has been favoured by splendid weeather. We 11,135 '• or 26,722 by the two forms of disease. The epi- the endeavour to have the matter arranged by constitutin
may consequently obtain an excellent wine, which will dernic Its exhibited less intensity than it did in 1849, and an arbitration court—a species of tribunal, which has beeng long remain unequalled. It is already compared to that although diarrhcea has been apparently as prevalent, or at before resorted to at this port for the settlement of dis-
of the famous comet year (1811). Offers have begun to be least as fatal, the deaths by cholera have been fewer by putes between the operatives and master shipbuilders. The
made for it. In the canton of Courg an offer of 525 f, the 28,231 than the deaths by the same disease in the three men, it was stated, were willing to adopt this course, but
cask has been made for an ordinary quality, but refused, summer months of that year. The mortality from cholera the masters would not allow that wages could be a subject
Most of the owners appear resolved to wait." and diarrhcea is less by one-half than it was in 1849. The for arbitration. Up to this time the strike had not ex-
ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTS.—The following extracts districts in what was called the London Cholera Field have tended to every building-yard, a few employers, who had
suffered most severely; and there it is known that though contracts to complete, or were otherwise placed in posi-
from a letter received from New York, will be read with•
some sanitary improvements have been projected they tions of emergency carrying on their business as usual
interest :—" We have recently learned that telegraphic in • • " ' tending •
have only, a few instances, been carried out. Liverpool This the men looked upon as to prolong the strike,
experiments have been made at Portsmouth, England, ,
and with perfect success, by which, with an operating .has been attacked by the epidenlic, but the deaths by and they resolved that all hands should knock off and the
cholera in that town and its suburbs. (the districts of Liver- strike be made universal. Some of the speakers coin-
battery on one side of a milldam, 500 feet across, and the
nool and West Derby), have hitherto been 953; whereas plained of the masters of this place being alone in their
corresponding dial on the 'other side, telegraphic messages - deathsby cholera in the
the
a corresponding period of 1849,. attempt to reduce the wages of the workmen thus placing
were conveyed through the water without the aid of con-
were 4,545. Liverpool_ has health officer, and certain them in a disadvantageous as well as difficult position with
nesting wires ; and it is contended that in the same
sanitary measures have been carried into effect. The regard to the neighbouring ports. We e believe, however,
manner a telegraphic message may be sent across the
anthorities of the town deserve credit for their sum' essful that as regards the Tyne, at least,' the master shipbuilders
British Channel without continuous cables of wire. The
first impression of everybody, after
is new. It is properr reading this state- efforts in the improvement of the health of Liverpool. are now giving notice that the wages of the men will be
meat, would be that the experiment
Deaths by the epidemic cholera have, during the three reduced from 6s. to ss. a day, the same as at Sunderland:
hundred and six years ago
to correct the mistake. months, occurred in every county except Herefordshire, The meeting was conducted in an orderly manner, and
Dr. Franklin, the 0 e
Rutlandshire, and Westmoreland ; but many districts the speakers advised the men to refrain from all improper
experiment on a larger sea , and with the same success. AmeH
have escaped hitherto, and a few, such as Merthyr Tydfil, conduct.
And nine years ago Professor Morse made successful ex-
hilosopher, made the same
have suffered or are still suffering severely. The diarrhoea SCENE IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.—A correspondent periments across the Susquehanna river, and expended a which is so fatal in Birmingham, Manchester, and other gives an amusing account of a scene which occurred lately
districts, where few deaths are referred to cholera, requires in a railway carriage on the South-eastern line, as he was
good deal of time and money with the hope of being able .
the majority of up from Dover to London. At Reigate three well-
ultimately to transmit intelligence in the same way across investigation ; it is. undoubtedl in • • coming
undoubtedly,:
1
Instances a modification of choleraic sease.—Regestrar- dressed persons got in, and entered into conversation with
the Atlantic. In 1748, Dr. Franklin invited his philo-
General's' Report. the other passengers. Presently one' of them proposed a
sophical friends to what he termed an electrical feast, on
the shore of the Schuylkill, near PhiladelphiaTHE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—There are many per- quiet rubber, another offered to take a hand; but, not be
-
he where
tried' bis'eiciibiliinson, of London, he uses the following hents. lii describingt ern' `to his sons •to whom' the name of the—Electric Telegraph is ing able to make up the game, one of the " gentlemen"
friend, Peter
familiar, who have not the most remote idea as to the proposed to show them a
curious little game that has
Coll
manner in which it works. We have known some indulge been very fashionable with the allied armies in the camp
language :—" Chagrined a little that we have hitherto
in the idea that the insulating posts by the side of the rail at the Crimea?' The " curious little game" is very com-
been able to produce nothing in this way of use to man-
are
.benefit. domestic comfort. railway mon at the race-courses, and the ot p
for the and
her assengers were
kind, and the hot weather coming on when electrical ex-
officials and policemen, and that the wires are stretched preparing to stake, which, as may be supposed, would have
periments are not so agreeable, it is proposed to put an end
for them to hang their clothes on after washing; others, been to lose their money, when the whole party were
to them for this season, somewhat humorously, in a party
having a nearer approach to its true character of connect- thrown into confusion by the correspondent threatening
of pleasure on the banks of the Schuylkill. Spirits at the .
no. town to town b instant communication, exaggerate to give them into custodyas soon they arrived at Lon-
sidesame time are to be fired by a spark sent from side to e
its capabilities, and suppose it a new-fangled mode of con- don Bridge. For the rest of the'oasurney nothing could be
through the river without any other conductor than
veyance, as well for parcels as for messages. The man more comical than their " silent journey nothing could be
veyance, as well for parcels as for messages. The man more comical than their silent uneasiness with regard
the water; an experiment which we sometime since per-
who applied to have his milk and butter sent up every to their future." The letter-writer, however, was good-
formed to the amazement of many. A turkey is to be
killed for our dinner, by the electric shock, and roasted morning fresh from the country by Electric Telegraph, natured, and let them go, when they vanished, he says,
represents a large class of persons equally as ignorant of " like fire-works from the yard ;" and he adds :—" I be-
by the electric jack before a fire kindled by the electrified
the true nature, character, and capabilities of the Electric lieve this business has reached an alarming height on the
bottle, when the health of all the famous electricians of
Telegraph. We do not intend here to enter upon a scientific railways. At the Stafford assizes, a week ago, a traveller
England, Holland, France, and Germany are to be drunk
in electrified bumpers, under a discharge of guns from the investigation or explanation of the, discovery, or working from Manchester swore that he had lost to these ruffians a
electrical battery.
of the Electric Telegraph; our readers may, in the last ring and watch, over £5O in value; and one of the barris-
DISASTER AT SBA.—The Cork Examiner of Wedges- number of the Quarterly Review, find a most admirable ters on the trial showed the trick to the jury, which, au
and interesting article upon the subject, that will well re- reste, is, explained in any sixpenny conjuring book."
day contains the following account of a vain endeavour to pay perusal : but we rather call attention to it, in order DREADFUL DEATH.-At Middlesborough-on-Tees, on
gain tidings of a missing steam-vessel : Yesterday, the to give additional publicity to a recent arrangement of the Sunday week, some working-men went down the river in
Powerful, steam-tug,sent out in charge of Captain Stirling, Electric Telegraph Company, wher6by increased facilities a boat for the purpose of gathering cockles, On arriving
of Queenstown, returned.into the harbour after a fruitless are afforded to the public, to forward messages by it at a at the large tract of sand about three miles down, bare at
expedition in search of the Cecilia, screw-steamer. This more moderate cost than before. The arrangement is as low water, five of them got out of the boat and left the
splendid vessel, belonging- to the Mediterranean Steani folfows follows:—The company have, and are appointing agents sixth man in charge of it while they proceeded in search.
Company, 1,100 tons register, was on her voyage home,
laden with a most valuable cargo of shumac and madder in every town in connection by rail with the telegraph, The wind was blowing strong from the N.W., and the man
roots, when, having encountered heavy weather, in which who are supplied with franked message stamps of different in charge of the boat alleges that it was blown away and
she suffered severely, she was found to be leaky. Shortly
value, and also indicated by being printed on different drifted to the opposite shore. After employing themselves
coloured papers, with which the public can supply them- in filling their bags with cockles, the five men came to
after it was discovered that her centre compartment had selves as they do receipt or postage stamps, and by simply where they had left the boat, and found it and the man
filled, the engines, of course, choked and incapable of work- writing the message on the stamped coloured paper, and gone. Their position became alarming in the extreme, as
ing, and the result was, that she was abandoned by the forwarding it to the Electric Telegraph Office, at' the the tide began to flow around them on every side, and the
crew on the 19th of October, in lat. 49 deg. 51 min., and
long. 8 deg. 31 min. The crew were picked up by a vessel
bound for Falmouth, and landed there. On the 24th of the place desired. The franked blank message sheets to men became frantic with fear ; they tore their clothes off
nearest railway station, it will be at once transmitted to nearest laud was a quarter of a mile distant. Two of the
convey twenty words are printed on pink paper for any and ran up and down the sand rending the air with their
October, the Messrs. Scott, of Queenstown, received
station within a circuit of fifty miles, and are sold at one cries. The tide had by this time come up to their feet,
despatches directing them to have search made for the lost shilling each; beyond fifty miles and within a circuit of when a steamer passed on, which they recognized to be the
vessel, and accordingly the Powerful was sent out for that one hundred miles, on blue paper, at 2s. 6d. each. Be- Victoria. They shouted and shrieked, but those on board
purpose, laden with a large quantity of coals. The or the
yend a circuit of one hundred miles, on white paper, at ss. did not hear them and the vessel ran by them. The tide
all directions about the quarter to which she was likely to
however, proved quite fruitless, though the tug cruised in each. Men engaged in commercial pursuits, or professional still rose higher and reached their knees, and death seemed
have drifted, for six days, and actually came upon the men, to whom instant communication with distant places inevitable, for the wind was bringing the tide in rapidly,
is often important, can now, having a few of these stamped . when another vessel was seen running into the estuary.
track. It is supposed, nay almost certain, that in her message, papers in their office, address their message, and They ran up to their necks in water and shouted with the
crippled condition, and deserted as she was, she must have forward it to the Telegraph Office at the nearest station, cry of drowning men, but she passed on her course and left
foundered in the late tremendous gale - and. without further trouble or payment can ensure the them to despair. About this time, however, the Comm°.
master of the latter, Mr. Duncan, thought he observed five
A GREAT "DUCK AND DRAKE" CASE has been Settled. delivery of their order or message at the desired point. dare
steamer was towing up the brig Recovery, when the
buoys bobbing in the water, and, knowing that no buoys
Lord St. Leonards has a farm on the Thames—Boyle Of course if the message exceeds twenty wo.rds, a_ propor-
Farm —and in front of it, in the centre of theeriver, is a. tionate additional charge or franked paper is used, equi-
small ait, also his property. On this ait, which the noble lent to it. The Electric Telegraph Companyfdo not make
made out the objects to be men. He immediately ordered
were placed in that part of the river, he used his glass and.
ex-Chancellor appears to have kept in beautiful lefts, any charge for the names and addresses o sendervr s
divers ducks and drakes belonging to poor neighbours receiver. The Electric Telegraph Company, whose the anchor of the brig to be dreraen --- •• ••
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were wont to trespass, as long back as February, 1852. are in communication with above
.seven hundredstationsle
His lordship more than once bought up the trespassers at in this country and on the Continent, was incorporated
t
a large price; but the poor neighbours finding him a good in the year 1846. It was only during t
at a premium. ' His lordship, therefore, finding this would I -re merged and incorporated into one. Tn,
customer, used to buy fresh birds, in hopes of selling them I et the " International Telegraph. Company"___. and yeart
hl
not do, seized upon five ducks and a drake errant on his
alt, and has kept them in pound for . two years. Last
Friday, Mr. Wyatt, poulterer, the. owner of the ducks,
brought an action in the Kingston County-courb for
damage sustained by the seizure and detention of the
ducks, " whereby the plaintiff lost the use of the ducks,
their eggs, and possible progeny." The jury found a ver- ,
diet— ,That the plaintiff had sustained' 30s. damages:;
that the ducks were doing damage to the. ait at the time
of their seizure, and that there was no evidence what had
become of the eggs laid by the ducks-during. the time of
their imprisonment." Not very de sire,

against the Midland

n• I engin
es not

against
lne

the above d

ecision, an action has be,

pany, for penalties

postage to

The mate, Is;

and a seaman named

Thomas Purvis, manned the boa
it within four hundred yards of
pulled hard against a head wind

aer towed

Oe place. The seamen
nd approached near. to

led' much t

poor ere

where immersed in t

management ; and when -we add, that even with the very
partial use yet made of telegraphic communication, and
-with the enormous outlay necessary in laying down the

ine two who were naked rushed to meet the boat, but
where overwhelmed by a wave and droWned, and when the
boat got to the sand they only found one man floating.

wire and forming telegraphic circles east, west, north,
and south of Europe, the company have been enabled at
their last meeting to pay a, dividend of seven per cent. to
the shareholders, we have said enough to satisfy the most
doubtful that the system is sound and successful,.and t}jat
the more it is developed the better and cheaper-it wiril be
for the public, and more satisfactory to all connoete4 with
ito—Bridgwater

boat's side,
TheyWhimlariherojat7e)nel.7 i',l::e -sesameii-then herd
the legs of his comrade, who went headforemost over the
two more up and placing them beside the other man at
and by this means they succeeded in getting

the 1
able. to

ey were

Atom of the boat, and after a hard pull tut,
get back to the steamer, which immediately con-
veyed the three apparently drowned men on to Middles-
borough. By careful and prompt attention they were
recovered.