The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-25 00:00:00

A TORY SONG.

(For the Liverpool Standard.)
Come, let us sing a Tory song, a song of other days,
When revolution staik'd abroad, and did the land amaze ;
When infidels, and anarchists, and all the worst of men,
Were ripe for rapine and for blood—what did the isle do then ?
To William Pitt she turn'd her eyes, and turn'd them not in

vain,
For he the laws at once enforc'd, good order to maintain,
And some met with the traitor's doom, and some in other
climes
Found the reward so well deserv'd—the punishment of
crimes.

Resplendently the talents of the mighty statesman shone,
And from destruction be preserv'd the altar and the throne ;
With matchless energy he thinn'd the baffled traitors ranks,
His sole reward, 'twas nobly earn'd—a grateful nation's

thanks.
0 ! would that we arlbther Pitt in these sad days could find !
Like him to stop that rebel course, now call'd " the march of
mind."
Where then would be O'Connell and the brawlers for repeal ?
The " Towers of Julius," doubtless, would their dastard
forms conceal.

Then where would be the traitors, and the members of the
league,
Who with disturbance fill the land by many a vile intrigue ?
Their silly, well-paid spouters too, where would the creatures
dwell ?
Long, long ago, their lodgings would have been a Newgate
cell.
Now let us hope the mantle that once cloth'd the form of
Pitt,
Will in these times of lawless acts another statesman fit ;
Then mute would be the traitor's tongue, disturbances would
cease,
And England, as of old, be bless'd with plenty and with
peace.
Everton, 24th November, 1842.

P. M.

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THE BATTLE FIELD.

BY WIC C. BRYANT.

Once this soft turf, this rivulet's sands,
Were trampled by a hurrying crowd,
And fiery hearts and armed hands
Encountered in the battle cloud.

Ab ! never shall the land forget
How gushed the life-blood of her brave—
Gushed, warmed with hope and valour yet,
Upon the soil they fought to save.

Now all is calm, and fresh, and still,
Alone the chirp of flitting bird,
And talk of children on the hill,
And bell of wandering kine, are heard.
No solemn host goes trailing by
The black-mouthed gun and staggering wain;
Men start not at the battle-cry—
Oh, be it never heard again !
Soon rested those that fought—but thou,
Who minglest in the harder strife
For truths which men receive not no
Thy warfare only ends with life.
A friendless warfare ! lingering long
Through weary day and weary year ;
" A wild and many-weaponed throng
Hang on the front and flank and rear.
Yet nerve thy spirit to the proof,
And blench not at thy chosen lot;
The timid good may stand aloof,
The sage may frown, yet faint thou not!
Nor heed the shaft too surely cast,
The hissing, stinging bolt of scorn,
For with thy side shall dwell, at last,
The victory of endurance born.

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again ;
The eternal years of God are her's ;
But Error, wounded, writhes with pain,
And dies among his worshippers.

Yea, though thou lie upon the dust,
When those who helped thee fl
Die full of hope and manly trust, 44
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Like those who fell in battle here.
Another hand thy sword shall wielder 7.6' of Jbrt'^
Another hand the standard Avave, '-414
Till from the trumpet's mouth is pealed .141.4351.
The blast of triumph o'er the grave! ved -.1,-;
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—New York paper. , ,
AN INVITATION TO DINNER.

The following, the latest production of the poet Moore,
was addressed to the Marquis of Lansdowne:—
Some think ye bards have nothing real—
That poets live among the stars, so
Their very dinners are ideal—
(And heaven knows, too oft they are so ;)
For instance, that we have, instead
Of vulgar chops, and stews, and hashes,
First course, a plicenis, at the bead,
Done in its own celestial ashes;
At foot, a cygnet, which kept singing,
All the time its neck was wringing.
Side dishes, thus Minerva's owl,
Or any such like learned fowl ;
Doves such as heaven's poulterer gets
When Cupid shoots his mother's pets.
Larks stew'd in morning's roseate breath,
Or roasted by a sunbeam's splendour;
And nightingales be—rhymed to death—
Like young pigs whipp'd to make them tender.
Such fare may snit those bards who're able
To banquet at Duke Humphrey's Table;
But as for me who've long been taught
To eat and drink like other people,
And can put up with mutton, bought
Where Bromham rears its ancient steeple ;
If Lansdowne will consent to share
M➢ humble feast, though rude the fare,
Yet, seasoned by that salt be brings
From Attica's salinest springs
'Twill turn to dainties ; while the cup,
Beneath his influence brightening up,
Like that of Bacchus, touched by Jove,
Will sparkle fit for gods above.

WELCH NAMES. The r Davies.
Harris, Jones, and Evans.rielquency of such names as
is to be accounted for by the use been often remarked, and it
beinge of the father's name in the
genitive case, the word sonunderstood ; thus David's
son became Davis, Harry's son-
and Evan's son Evans. it is a I.::ltris. John's son Jones,
forty years since, the Monmouth atid'attested fact that, about
tamed no less than thirty-sixjohnjo___lrecon militia con-
of Wales bore no hereditary- sul.,,lnne::;_E,y.en the gentry
the time of
ghth. That monareh,,tssi:pardnu
Henry the Ei
strongly recornmendedrtehat attention
to heraldic matters,
Welch families to conform to the usage tong
before
heads of
by the English, as more consistent with theit ratife adopted
pity. Some families accordingly made their
existindig_g sir.,
names stationary, while a e surnames
o
English families with whom they were allied; as thef
ances
tors of Oliver Cromwell, who thus changed Williams for
Cromwell, which thenceforward they unittirmly used._
Lower's Family Nomenclature.
PUNNING NAMES.—" Many names," say Lower, in his
amusing work on English surnames, " have been the subject,
of excellent puns, among which may be noticed the follow,
ing :—' When worthy Master Hern, fatuous for his living
preaching, and writing, lay on his death-bed (rich only in
goodness and children), his wife made womanish lamentations
what would become of her little ones. ' Peace, sweetheart,'
said he, ' that God who feedeth the ravens will not starve
the hem:;' a speech (says Fuller) censured as light by some,
observed by others as prophetical, as indeed it came to pass
they were all well disposed of.' Akin to this n ere the words
of John Huss at his burning, who, fixing his eyes stedfastly
upon the spectators, said, with a solemn voice, ' They burn
a goose, but in a hundred years a swan will arise out of the
ashes;' words which many have regarded as a prediction of
the reformer of Eisleben, the name of Huss signifying a
goose, and that of Luther a swan." [Apropos of punning.—
We
distinguished
told a few days ago a bit of pleasantry of a late
novelist who was' extremely fond of a game at
cards. Two days previous to his death while
stretched upon
his bed of sickness, his two '
daughters came to visit him.
One of them was named " Louisa"—familiarly called amongst
gst
them Lu; the other young lady had that day arrivedaotnh
er
majority. Having taken their Usual seats on ye
t! aide o f each the
couch, the medical attendant-mad his morning call, when
the wit exclaimed. " Yon see;oeted
D
old love for a quiet game. _ ,r, I cannot get over my
alt.. 1 ZU 61 •
ringt•fri.et VI the other." • . " 0 hind, 41V1

MISCELLANEOUS.

A new church was opened at Lisburn on Sunday last.
Her Majesty will leave Walmer for Brighton, according to
the present arrangement, on the 22d December.

There is a rumour abroad that the Hon. and Very Rev.
Dean Maude will be the new bishop.—Dublin Evening
Packet.

PILCHARD FISHERY.—This fishery has been very suc-
cessful this season on the Cornish coast. At St. Ives alone,
12,000 barrels have been cured.

Money-letters, containing property to the extent of more
than £BOO, have been recently abstracted from the Hudders-
field post-office.

Five thousand adventurers from Madeira in the last four
years emigrated to Demerara, where the climate has made
fearful havoc amongst them.
The remnant of the 44th, which was all but extinguished
in the deplorable retreat from Cabul, is ordered to be sent
back to England forthwith.

Sir E. L. Bulwer has a new romance in the press, entitled,
" The Last of the Barons ;" and " Boz " opens the new year
with a monthly novel. —London paper.
The Conservative, or Junior Carlton Club, now numbers
nearly 800 memeers ; and the new Club House is to be built
on the site of the Thatched House Tavern, St. James'-street.

Lady Charlotte Beauclerk has been ordered by the Court
of Chancery £10,042 maintenance, in pursuance of the will
of the late Duke of St. Albans.

The failure of Messrs. Bell, Brothers, and Co., a firm of
old and respectable standing in the Irish trade, was announced
on 'Change on Tuesday.

Another calamity has befallen the Southampton docks, no
less than the falling of three of the walls. It will cost
£25,000 to repair the damage.

YOUNG TRAVELLERS.—Ten commercial gentlemen dined
at an hotel in Lincoln last week. On a calculation it was
found that eight out of the ten were under 25 years of age.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council will assemble
on Monday, the 28th instant, to hear appeals from decisions
of the Ecclesiastical Courts.

A spacious and beautiful Corn Exchange has been erected
in Glasgow, and was opened on Wednesday. It is situated
in Hope-street.
The mail from Worcester to Ludlow, after. running for half
a century, made its last journey on Tuesday, thus leaving the
public without any official conveyance for letters between
Worcester and Tenbury.

Paris letters of Saturday's date announce that the new
Post-office treaty between France and England had been
signed, as well as a treaty for regulating the cod fisheries of
the two countries.

On the morning after the Reliance East Indianian was
wrecked on the French coast, another vessel, named the Ar-
moricain, with a cargo of wine and brandy, went to pieces
within a few miles of the same spot.

TaAmrs.—By the act of 5 and 6 Victoria, casual poor are
compelled to work six hours, if ordered so to do, in return
for the food and lodging afforded them. On refusal to do so,
they are liable to three months' hard labour.
A most extraordinary collection of Pagan deities, instru-
ments of war, and vessels for domestic purposes, has lately
arrived in this country from Alexico, as presents to Sir E.
Antrobus, Bart.

TILE UNEMPLOYED.—We grieve to say that the number
of the unemployed is still rising. Last week it was 7022, this
week it is 7372 ; showing an increase of 330.—Paisley Ad-
vertiser of Saturday.
On Friday, a man of the name of Paterson, belonging to
Paisley, committed suicide by banging himself on a tree in
suburbs of Greenock. Want of victuals was the cause of the
rash act.

The intelligence from China has caused the postponement
of a very large public sale of tea, which had been advertised,
but the opinion in Mincing Lane is, that prices may be con-
sidered to be full lid per lb lower than on Saturday afternoon.
A handsome monument to the late Thomas Dunham
Whitaker, L.L.D. late vicar of Whalley and Blackburn,
&c., &c., the excellent and lamented historian of Whalley,
has been erected by public subscription in the venerable
church of that village.
THE MARcit OF INTELLECT.—We are assured that the
following epistle was lately written from a farmer in this
neighbourhood to his friend :—" Der Jan—the Oxen ar com
to praise the Gods :"—he meant to convey that " the auc-
tioneer was come to appraise the goods."—Exeter Gazette.

The sentence of death, passed upon Milborough Trilloe,
who now lies in Hereford Gaol, for child murder, has been
commuted by her Majesty to transportation for life. The un-
fortunate woman received the intelligence with the same ap-
parent apathy which has marked her conduct since her trial.
The Courrier Francais states, that in consequence of the
threatened invasion of Texas by the Mexicans, overtures have
been made by the Cabinet of Washington to France and Great
Britain, in order to place the infant State of Texas under the
protection of the three Powers.

•
COLLIERY RIOTS.—On Wednesday night week, an out-
rage took place amongst the colliers in Ayrshire. One man
was stabbed, and ten others were severely beaten. About
sixty new hands had arrived by railwarto work at Mr. Gor-
don's, and the old hands were exasperated, and maltreated
them as we have stated.

" A few days back," says the Courrier Francais," a child
of three years of age, whose birth, from some negligence had
not been inscribed on the registers of the state, was brought
before the mayor of a village to be registered. The worthy
functionary, faithful to his customary routine, wrote down,
This day was born a child three years old !' "

Surveys have been made and the required notices given
for the construction of a branch line from the London and
Brighton Railway at Croydon, to pass from thence through
Merstham, Mitcham, Brixton, Tooting, Clapham, Lambeth,
and Battersea, terminating at the Wandsworth-road, near
the Nine Elms station of the London and Southampton
Railway.
INCOME-Tar.--Several motions and other applications
have been made during the present term to the Lord Chan-
cellor and the other Equity Judges respecting difficult legal
questions arising out of the operation of the above taxi
There appears every probability of the prediction of the Vice-
Chancellor being fulfilled, viz., that it will occupy years to
decide all the questions relative to the income-tax.
John Todd, Esq., of Tranby Park, near Hull, has purchased
of Sir J. P. Milbanke, Bart. the Halnaby and Cowton Grange
estate, in the North Riding of York, with the beautiful do-
main of upwards of 3000 acres. This handsome estate was
originally purchased, in the sixteenth century, by the cele-
brated Lady Dorothy itlilbanke, with the proceeds of her sale
of gingerbread upon the bridge at Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Riding of Yorkshire commenced, as we announced in our
last. The emoluments of the office are about £2,000 per
annum.
At the conclusion of the first day's polling the
numbers stood as follows
Mr. Lascelles726
Mr. Hodgson..
577
Mr. P. V. Fitzpatrick, Treasurer of the O'Connell tribute,
has issued circulars
that " Mr. O'ConnellP iressing the collection, and declaring
concludes with is in want of pecuniary aid," and he
tion " in futurethe important news, that it is in contempla-
annual call. and to make one
general call on a given day,
be a final one, and thus enable the nation, which will
the trustees to purchase an
estate, to keep the great Liberator from want in his declining
years."
(New South Wales) of May 21, which
we
and interesting account of the The
have Sydney
seen, Herald
a long
J
de-
parture of Dr. Selwyn, for the Diocese of e
which he is Bishop. An address, with 2,500 ealand, of
signatures, was
presented to him. The Bishop of Australia
Selwyn, recanlo-
quent and pious address, to which Bishop replied,
and when he embarked for New Zealand, the leading men of
•
Sydney saw him off.

• .
Dt 4114 FR0.:.1 Tttr ea,TT.“:III ingtlest W
held, by Mr. fi osty, on the.hody of Eleanor Varlet', at Lar-
ragazi, oho cane by her death froth several frightful wounds
inflicted on her head and }icily Fly a, raw, the property of
Patrick Walsh, which attacked her when crossing a field.
The owner of the ram havin,, undertaken to destroy him, the
jury did not impose a deodand.b The ram's head, breast, and
shoulder, were covered with the blood of the unfortuoato
woman.—Team Herald.

ADMISSION OF FREEMEN.—The Right Hon the Lord
Mayor held a Court for the first time since his election to
office, at the City Assemb!y -house, N.Villiarn-street, on Friday
last, from ten until four o'clock, for the admission of free-
men, during which time he admitted 159 claimants:-106 by
birth, 4G by marriage, and 7 by service. His lordship re-
ceived the Conservative and Radical claimants by alternate
tallies until he adjourned the Court. The folby.ving are the
numbers admitted :—Conservatives, 118 ; Radicals, 41 ; Ma-
jority for the Conservatives, 77.—Dublin Evening Mail.
THE CENTRIFUGAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—OD Satur-
day an accident happened at this exhibition in London, which,
fortunately,' did not terminate so fatally as might have been
expected. A gentleman entered the car, in the indulgence
of his curiosity to experience the peculiar motion, when, from
some unexplained cause, the car, at the moment whe❑ it had
reached the zenith of the verticle circle, was, with its occu-
pant, pitched out of the rails on the grohnd. Had the car,
which weighs 2001 b, fallen on the individual, he must inevi-
tably have been killed, but be fortunately escaped with a few
bruises. The fact of such an accident having occurred may
operate as a caution to others.

We are glad to hear that the local commissioners for the
city have relaxed the rule laid down by them, of requiring
persons assessed by them to the property tax at more than
£l5O a year to appeal in these cases where the government
officer is prepared to certify that the parties are entitled to
exemption. We hope this will allay the angry feeling mani-
fested in the city at the proceedings of the assessors, and at
once convince the public that it has not been the wish of the
Government officers to charge parties with the tax who are
not liable, or to give them the trouble of appealing to prove
their exemption.—Times.

CHALMER'S LIBRARY.—The sale of the third part of the
library of the late George Chalmers, which concluding por-
tion also occupied eight days, is terminated. To the close it
continued to excite very great interest; indeed, when the
immense bundles of manuscripts, as well as the elaborate
notes and illustrations in the several volumes, all in Mr.
Chalmer's handwriting, were contemplated, the wonder in-
creased that he could have found time, independently of his
labours at the Board of Trade, to do so much. This sale pro-
duced about £2,000; the first and second parts £4,000;
together, certainly, above £6,000.

RARE SURGICAL OPERATION.—A child, six months old,
was brought to Dr. Cotter laboring under the most distress-
ing symptoms of water on the brain, for which he subjected
him to the usual and most approved treatment in such cases
—but without success. lie therefore determined to perform
the operation of tapping the head, as the only means of saving
the child, which would have soon died from the pressure of
so much fluid on the brain, and did perform it successfully,
abstracting from 17 to 18 ounces of water, to the indescriba-
ble relief of the little suffering patient—without causing much
pain or uneasiness, and without the loss of a single drop of
blood.—Cork Constitution.

The foundation-stone of the Glasgow New City and County
Buildings was laid on Friday by' the Lord Provost. The
buildings are of the Grecian lonic order, and, as was stated
in our last, are calculated to afford chambers for the meetings
of Council, for the Burgh Court, the Town Clerks, the
Sheriff and Sheriff's Clerks, the Justice of Peace Clerk, the
Chamberlain. the Fiscals, &c. Connected with these build-
ings, although unconnected with the Court-house Commis-
sioners, is the New Merchant's hall, a very elegant building,
fronting Garthland-street, at the other end of which is the
Trades' Hall. The Merchants' Hall will be finished next
summer, and the County Buildings in 1844.

CONVOCATION.—In his recent charge to the clergy of his
diocese, the Bishop of Exeter strongly recommended that
the sittings of convocation should be resumed. The follow-
ing address has been transmitted to the Venerable J. Moore
Stevens, M.A., Archdeacon of Exeter, on the subject :
" We, the undersigned, request you to call a meeting of the
clergy of this archdeaconry, for the purpose of taking into
consideration the propriety of addressing a memorial to the
bishop on the evils under which the church is at present
lying through the want of a representative body qualified and
authorised to protect the religious interests, and thereby
to promote the well-being of the national church." (The
names of twenty clergymen follow.) In compliance with
the requisition, the archdeacon has called a meeting, to be
held at the College Hall, Exeter, on Friday next, the sth
instant.

The following is a true and correct list of the new Commis-
missioners, of their respective seniority, calls to the bar, and
the present rumoured " location."

1. Mr. J. Balguy, 14, 1805.. Birmingham.
2. Mr. Sergeant Ludlow Nov. 17, 1805.. Manchester.
3. Mr. Sergt. Goulburn June 9, 1815.. Exeter.
4. Mr. W. Skivrow, Q.C May 23, 1810.. Liverpool.
5. Mr. Sergt. Stephen..
6. Mr. Nath. Ellison
7. Mr. Martin J West June-16, 1812.. Leeds.

8. Mr. E. R. Daniel
9. Mr. W. T. Jenunett .Nov. 10; 1820.. Manchester.
10. Mr. C. Phillips .
11. Mr. M. B. Bete June 21, 1825.. Leeds.
12. Mr. Richd. Stevenson
A LARGE BULL.—This animal, four and a half years old,
the property of John Horn, Esq., of Thomanean, was killed
at Milnathurt, a few days ago. The following is the weight :
Total weight when alive, 188 stones imperial, of 2632 lbs.
The four quarters weighed 1735 lbs. leaving 896 lbs. to be ac-
counted for as follows :—Hide, 142 lbs. ; head and feet, 80
lbs. ; tallow, 158 lbs. ; lungs, heart, and including what is
generally known under the name lights, 7-1 lbs. ; blood,
100 lbs. ; stomach and intestines, with contents, 270 lbs. ;
waste, 72 lbs. This animal was a cross with the calf of a cow
belonging to Captain Barclay, of Ury, and a Teeswater cow.
One of his breed, two and a half years old, the produce of a
short-horned cow (Teeswater) promises even to exceed the
weight of the former.' Farm produce alone was employed in
the rearing.—Glasgow Mail.
PROPOSED RAILW AYS.—Surveys are now in progress, and
application to parliament is intended to be made in the en-
suing session for leave to construct a branch railway from the
Blisworth station on the London and Birmingham Railway
to Nottingham and Peterborough, and likewise for another
branch to Leamington and Warwick. Branches are also in
contemplation from the London and Dover Railway to Can.
terhury, Margate, and Ramsgate. The Eastern Counties
Company are about to make a line from their station at
Kelvedon to Bury St. Edmund's ; and the Northern and
Eastern will extend theirs from Bishop's Stortford to Cam-
bridge, terminating with a junction by the Norwich and
Yarmouth. Two branch lines from Oxford are to he con-
structed to join the Great Western at Wallingford and
Dideot ; and a third to communicate with the Aylesbury
Railway. Surveys are also in progress for a line to pass
through
Rochester,
tlle
andt
s
the Brighton and South Western railways. The above lines,
"nMaidstone of
Greenwich,
and aWoolwich, Gravesend,so for another to connect
when completed, will open a direct line of communication
from the metropolis from nearly all parts of the kingdom.
Two new stations have lately been opened on the London
and Birmingham Railway, at Sudbury and Rimer, to accom-
modate the increasing traffic.

POOR RATE.—Two MEN KlLLED.—Considerable diffi-
culty
has been for some time experienced in collecting the
poor-rate in the parish of Skibbereen. The rate for the 1
estate of Lord Carhery was fixed to be collected on Wednes-
day
week, and it was determined to do so as peaceably as
possible. A body of police accompanied the collectors, and
considerable resistance was offered to them, and an affray
took place, when two men were killed, three severely and
three slightly wounded. On Monday, an inquest was held
on the bodies, when Mr. Driscoll, of the town of Skilbereen,
was examined, and deposed that there were about sixty or
seventy police present ; when they came to Creagh there were
sixty men, women, and children following the police ; could
not say how many were to the front; does not think Mr. 1
Jones could see what occurred at the head of the police ; at
this side of Creagh Mr. Jones desired the people to fall back,
which they did; the rear-guard turned on the people, and a
mounted policeman charged in amongst them, and he at-
tempted to take a man named Collins ; Collins was arrested ;
he had no coat on him ; the people were doing nothing at
the time; he was handcuffed and carried on ; the police
then presented at the crowd that was with witness; Mr.
Jones told the people to stop back ; when they got at the
top of Creagh, witness saw Mr. Aylmer tussling with a
countryman; Brien, the deceased, was with witness at the
time, about forty yards from the rear-guard ; there was
no shouting or stone-throwing at that time ; the man
who was tussling with Mr. Aylmer was beyond the rear-
guard at the side of the road ; the police were at this
time to the west of Creagh Chapel, and witness saw stones
thrown at the head of the police and middle ; the stones were
thrown in the direction of where Mr. Aylmer and the coun-
trymen were; could not say whether any of the police were
struck ; saw none of them knocked down Or cut : when the
stones were thrown witness heard some shots; they fired
immediately after the stones were thrown; they fired one by
one; the shots were fired in the direction where the stones
were thrown from ; the police wheeled round and fired in
the rear • there was no stone thrown there or shout given ;
it was there Brien fell, near witness ; his face was turned to
the police when he was shot ; he was forty or fifty yards from
the police ; he fell ; witness did not wait to take him up, as
the people all ran as fast as they could ; after they, ran there
were forty or fifty shots fired ; witness saw a mini shot in the
back in a field as he was running away; 'the- rear.guard,-lii
thinks, primed and loaded twice; all the people with witness,
were throwing themselves down at the side of the ditches
the ground about Creagli was very rough, hilly arid full of.
rocks ; if the people were on a oain they could scarcely—,
me In witnesse's oath from the ti he left.the town with Brien
there was not a
,stone thrown; or an offence given to the
police by the people that were with deceased arid himself.
After some further evidence corroborative of this the enquiry
was adjourned.—Cork Constiluliog.

BRITISH IRON COMPANY.—The half-yearly meeting of
this company was held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-
street, on Friday last, and was numerously attended. Sir
George Larpent presided. In their report, the directors
expressed their regret that the continued fall in price during
the whole period over which the accounts extended was such
as to render inevitable a loss upon,the workings.' The prices
of iron at the beginning of the present year, when these cc-
counts commenced, ,contrasted with .what they were' at the
end of June, to which period they were.made up, were as
follows
31st December, 1841. 30th June, 1842.
£ s. d. s. d. a. d. s. d.
Newport 6 0 0 ••.. 4 15 0
London .
Liverpool
--
Corngreaves 7 0 oto 7 5 0 .... 6 10 oto 6 15 0
The operations of the company in the half-year ending on
the 30th June, 1832, and their result, may be shortly stated,
as follows, viz. !---
THE MAKE OF PIG IRON.
At Abersychan ........................ 6,666 tons.
At Dudley Wood and Netherton, con- _
6370
nected with Corngreaves
At Ruabon .
Total make of pig ir0n............ 17,823 tons.
THE MAKE OF BARS, RAILS, AND OTHER
MANUFACTURED IRON.
At Abereychan
ll
Bar iron and rails tons
Mill bars
At Corogreaves
•__

At Brierley Hill •
1,473
At Ruabor. 3,044 „
15,707 tons.
Total make of bars, rails, andl
other manufactured iron ..
The report proceeded to show that the result of these opera-
tions had been a loss of £8,784 ss. 11d. on the trading
business of the company, inclusive of the payments for fixed
rents, expenses of management, &c. Since the resolution
passed by the shareholders, in November last year, as to the
inexpediency of attempting to dispose of the company's
property in the then depressed state of the trade, the price of
iron in Wales and in London had declined about ss. per
ton, and in Staffordshire about 10s. per ton ; and the directors
were of opinion that some arrangement for bringing. the
affairs of the company to a close should be attempted early
next year.—The Chairman stated, that the amount against
the company at present was £150,000 to Mr. Attwood ; the
gross amount (including that sum) was £400,000., against
which there was the property, which produced 40,000 tons of
iron and upwards. The report was adopted after the ex-
pression of a general wish by the meeting that the affairs of
the company should be wound up as speedily as possible.

• A
.paperw'as
rest( on t 424 insthut Etelpre the 13-oYal
Medical and Chiriugical Society of London, giving an ac-
count of a case of successful amputation of the thigh during
,Ward and Tophatni ' -
the mesmeric state, by MMTgI
THE MARKETS IN larLANn.—Provisions of every sort
still rate very low. Excellent beef was sold in Mayo en
Saturday at. from 21d. to 3*d. per lb.; good mutton at the
same ; the best description of potatoes were sold on Saturday
at lid. per stone, and were bought on Wednesday or Thurs-
day at lid. Oatmeal sold on Saturday at from 7s. to 75.6 d.
a cwt., and.oats at from 3s. 6d. to 4s. Lid. Some oats of an
inferior description were purchased at 3s. We heard expe-
rienced persons say, that the growers can as well afford to
sell oats this year at 4s. as they could last at Gs. at least.
There can be no doubt but potatoes are, by one-third or
more, a better crop this year than last. According to this
calculation, the farmers would not be such losers by the low
prices as might appear at fi:st sight and as has been stated.
Butcher's meat has come down somewhat nearer than it
heretofore did, in proportion to the price of cattle.—Mayo
paper.

• Ai INGENIOUS DEVICE.—The Postmaster-General has
issued a bill all over the country, warning persons of the
danger of enclosing coin in letters that pass through the post,
and recommending the adoption of Post-office orders for the
transmission of small sums. A person who was in the habit
of sending small amounts in letters to a poor correspondent
through the post, had one stolen, and being unwilling to give
his correspondent, who was bedridden, the trouble to attend
to Post-office orders, he bought a number of buttons, such
as are bought by tailors to be covered with cloth. These
buttons were the precise size of a half-sovereign. When he
wished to send a remittance, he place a half-sovereign ou a
button, and covered it with a thin piece of cloth in the man-
ner a tailor would do it, which scarcely occupied the labour
of a minute. The button was then fastened in the letter,
and the eye of the former was made to protrude through the
latter, so as to make it appear as if a pattern button was
merely sent through the post. This ingenious device evi-
dently deceived the Post-office gentry, and secured several
half-sovereigns from the appropriation claws of postmasters
and their assistants. Every button came safe to hand.
THE PRESTON GUILD ROBBERY.—It will be recollected,
that at the late Preston Guild a gentleman of the name of
Marquise, a manufacturer in Lancashire, and who was for-
merly a foreman in the employ of the late Sir Robert Peel
(father of the Premier), was robbed of his pocket-book, con-
taining bank-notes to the amount of £2,000 and upwards.
It seems that one of the notes stolen, of the value of £3OO,
has recently been presented by Messrs Masterman and Co.
to the Bank of England for, and refused, payment, and the
Bank of England has detained the note. Messrs. Masterman
and Co.. it appears, received the note from the firm of
Rothschild and Co., who stated that their house at Paris
transmitted it to them. Information of the presentation and
detention of the note having been communicated to Mr.
Marquise, he immediately took active measures to trace the
note back to the party who paid it into the bank at Paris, and
sought and obtained an interview with the woman whom, it
will be remembered, he successfully prosecuted for being con-
cerned in the robbery. This woman disclosed where the
pocket-book which contained the note was hidden, and it was
subsequently recovered ; and that her accomplice in the rob-
bery was a man, a mechanic well known in Sheffield, where,
before the robbery, he had worked and resided for some
years; and that she believed he had left the country the day
following that of the robbery. There can be no doubt that
the man is concealed somewhere in or about Paris.

THE EARL OF SHREWSBURY'S " HOLYITIUGINS” DE-
TECTED.—The readers of the STANDARD will remember that
we last year gave an account of the Earl of Shrewsbury's
credulity, in reerence to a disgusting exhibition near Cham-
bery. a place in the vicinity of Geneva. That nobleman
published a description of his visit to a young female, whose
bands and feet bore the marks of the nails which attached
Christ to the cross ; and every morning the wounds bled
spontaneously. The young woman was described as emi-
nently pious, and with a heavenly calmness and resignation
upon her countenance ; and all the flowers of the noblman's
rhetoric and powers of description were called into play to
give an additional solemnity and effect to his account. it
now appears that the whole thing (as we denounced it to be
at the time above referred to) is a deception and a cheat.
Certain priests prevailed upon a common prostitute (Lord
Shrewsbury's patient and resigned virgin) to enact the part
of the victim ; and for some time the cheat has brought large
sums to their coffers. Another girl was also invested with
the deception, she having some symbolic marks of the same
nature about her. It appears that the police have taken
, these wretches into custody •, but the moment the neigh-
bouring inhabitants heard of the detection of the fraud, they
crowded round the house, where it had taken place, set fire
to the building, and razed it to the ground. This discovery
of the abominable fraud, which took place at the commence-
ment of the present month, has led to some extraordinary
disclosures connected with the manner in which all the mis-
creants, male and female, lived together.
DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT.—On Monday the police-office
was exceedingly crowded, even to suffocation, in consequence
of a trial that was expected to come on, in which two persons,
one of whom was understood to be in rather comfortable cir-
cumstances, were charged with having entered into a conspi-
racy, and made an attempt, to set fire to no fewer than fifteen
houses, for the purpose of defrauding the County Insurance
Office of London. The circumstances of the case are as fol-
low :—On Saturday night last, the watchman on Stephen-
street station observed fire issuing from some empty houses
in that street, and having given the alarm, the flames were
subdued. .On examining the premises, in order to discover
the cause of the fire, a quantity of carpenter's shavings and
sticks, piled, and covered with tar, were found, and amongst
these were placed several lighted candles—the entire arranged
in the most judicious manner possible for speedy combustion.
The houses were insured, and had been occupied by improper
persons, who were dispossessed at the last Quarter Sessions
of this town, and since then the premises have been unlet.
The houses intended to have been consumed, had the diabo-
lical arrangement taken effect, belong, we understand, to our
respected townsman, Hill Hamilton, Esq., from whom they
were held on lease by William M`Master. = It appeared that
the latter individual offered certain sums of money to Samuel
Boyle, his own agent, and a carpenter named Nicholl, if they
would set fire to the premises in question. Nichol had, how-
ever, After helping to set fire to the houses, and fearing an
arrest, turned informer, and was a material witness in the
case. M'Master and Boyle was committed to the assizes.—
Be(flst Times.
A waterspout was seen in this neighbourhood on the after-
noon of Tuesday, the 25th ult. The snow, which had fallen
copiously during the early part of the day, had nearly ceased,
hnt-tho max.. of dark °load woo otill o.woop;ns .11,ms
W• direction. It seemed to extend but a short distance sea-
ward, but was exceedingly dense at its western limit, where
it appeared very much agitated by eddies. Fissures were
sometimes produced, affording transient glimpses of the snow-
clad hills of Arran, bright with sunshine, in striking contrast
with the deep gloom which intervened. The commotion of
li the elements became more distinct in consequence of the
ceasing; of the snow. A part of the snow-cloud approached
the surface of the water, which then assumed a boiling aspect
—appeared as if emitting steam—and rose vertically in vari-
ous places. in one instance the phenomenon referred to was
distinctly formed. It appeared to rise from the surface of
the water in the shape of a cone, communicating at its apex
with an apparently aqueous column, ascending, perhaps, 100
feet. It expanded towards the top, forming an appearance
very much resembling an inverted cone, placed on an upright
one. The shaft presented a variety of aspects, at one time
curving slightly in the direction of the current, at another as-
suming a serpertine form. The appearance was visible for
about a minute. The direction of the wind immediately be-
yond could not be distlnctly ascertained. A vessel was seen
to the westward, hilt so obscurely as to leave the action of the
wind on it indeterminate; she seemed to be affected (At least
in anticipation), having diminished her display of canvass. A
steamer, however, which appeared at a considerable distance
to the S.W. had the wind In a direction nearly opposite to
that which prevailed on shore. Such appearances are com-
mon in the Indian Ocean.—Ayr Advertiser.
' A very curious ' statistical return has just been furnished
by Mr. E. Deas Thomson, Colonial Secretary, relative to
our Australian colonies, exhibiting the progress they have
made within the last ten years, which is in many respects
very remarkable. For instance, the total value of imports
I into New South Wales, including the district of Port Philip,
was £604,620 in 1832, and £2,527,988 in 1841 ; the value of
the exports was respectively at the same periods £381,344
and £2,023,397. These returns show the remarkable fact
of a gradual increase of trade up to the year 1840, at which
point it abruptly ceases ; the next year showing a considera-
ble decrease. In the returns which regard the district of
Port Philip separately, however, the same decrease is not
observable in the exports. The amount for which this place
figures in the total above stated for 1841 is, for imports
£335,252, and £139,155 for exports. The total value of the
imports of grain into the colony, including Port Philip, was,
in 1832, £13,365, and in 1841, £201,632: the returns in this
particular show ,the same decrease which affected the whole
trade in 1841, the article flour and bread forming the sole
exception, and, on the contrary, showing a considerable in-
crease. The return of land in cultivation throughout the
whole colony, at the close of 1841, shows the principal pro-
duce to be wheat and maize, of which the number of acres is
respectively 58,605 and 25,004, producing 832,776 bushels of
the one, and 503,803 of the other.. The number of ships
built and registered in the colony was 21 in 1832, the total
tonnage being 2,143; and in 1841 the number was 110, the
tonnage being 11,250. The revenue from the sale of crown
lands nctlie 'colony was, in 1832, £12,509 13s. 10d. ; in 1840
it was £316,626 7s. 5d., having gradually increased every
year till then, and in 1841 it fell to £90,387.
TH E SCOTCH CHURCH.—Considerable attention is at pre-
sent filed upon the convoe ition now sitting at Edinburgh, to
deliberate upon several important questions which have for
=some time agitated the Scotch Church. Nothing is as yet
known about the deliberations, but it has been rumoured,
says the Glasgota Argus, that they are by no means' 'at' one
in their views—a rumour which, we believe, had no better
foundation than its extreme probability. The Scottish
,Guar-
dean of Tuesday. which may be supposed likely to have some
channel of communication with those in the secret, says, on
the authority of a correspondent, that " their deliberations
have been characterised by the most remarbable and grati-
fying unanimity*" Another correspondent says :—" The
spirit all along, upon the whole, has been good; to-day Se-
turday) perfectly delightful. The members have been firm,
decided, calm, and all but unanimous." If these assertions
maybe trusted. we may infer that the whole body almost all
resolved upon holding the most uncompromising course, for
such was the one strongly vindicated by Dr. Candlish, in his
concluding remarks at the Commission on Wednesday.
That the result of their deliberations will be an appeal of
some sort or other to the Government and Legislature may
be regarded certain. The issue will not probably be made
known before the Convocation separates, if even immediately
then. In the mean time, it can only be guessed at from the
materials before our readers. The number of clergymen at-
tending it is stated variously. The Witness, a leading non-
intrusion journal, says 460 ; the Mercury states it at 500.
It was expected that their consultation would be brought to
a close on Wednesday or Thursday, (yesterday.)

SOUTHEND.—SHIPWRECKS AND NARROW ESCAPE.--
The 19th instant was a most beautiful day, the wind at S.W.,
when about nine o'clock in the evening it shifted. to S.E.,
and began to blow a fresh breeze. About 12 o'clock the
rain fell in torrents, and, the wind then blowing a strong
gale, boats and vessels put off on the look out. They had
not to go far to find a job, for directly off Southend lay not
fewer than nine ships driven on that dangerous and well-
known sand, the Nore. The gale at this time had increased
into a rerfect hurricane, and the destruction amongst the
shipping was most dreadful, some drawing their anchors,
running into each other, bulwarks cracking and smashing in
every direction. When the anxiously-looked for daylight
came, the water was covered with pieces of yards, masts,
boats, spirits, &c. A large brig, called the Robinson, was
seen to be in a dangerous situation, when one of the look-
out boats made to her, and remained by her but a little time,
for they were obliged to hasten into the boat, and leave her,
as she fell down on her beam ends, and became a total wreck
in a few minutes. The boats succeeded in saving the ship's
crew, eight in number, and landed them safely at Southend.
The Caroline brought in a ship's longboat, a seaman's chest,
two hammocks, &c. There was great alarm at one time, it
being feared that the men had stopped too long by the
Robinson, and had gone down with her, but we arc happy to
state not a soul was lost. The Duke of Wellington smack,
belonging to this place, succeeded in getting a schooner off
the sand, and took her to Landon. Anchors and chains are
to be found in numbers under the Nore. The yawls are
coming in with coals, &c., which have besn taken from the
ships that have been obliged to throw articles overboard.
The Dartsmack has brought in a ship's mainmast and rig-
ging, and the Southend waterrnen have not been so busy for
some time. The James and Susan yawl put her boat off to
a ship in distress but could not make her, and was blown
away for some time.—Essfx Herald.