The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-22 00:00:00

WIGAN.-MONDAY NIGH?

DARING ROBBERY.—A daring robbery was committed on
the night of Monday last, the 14th inst., or early on Tues-
day the 15th, from the magazine attached to Orrel Colliery.
t was perceived in the morning of Tuesday, when the men
came to work, that the place had been broken open, and, on
searching, it was found that one barrel of blasting gunpowder,
six new spades, and 5 lbs. of colliers' pit candles had been
stolen. A reward of £2 was offered for the apprehension of
the offenders, and police-officers, Smith and Radcliffe, were
led to search the premises of an old offender, named Ilenry
Highton, who lives in the Scholes. On searching the bed
room the spades were found, and the officers apprehended
Highton on the charge on Thursday last. He was brought
before John Woodcock, Esq., county magistrate, on Friday,
and committed to take his trial at the next Kirkdale Sessions.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—One of the most melancholy
occurrences ever known we have now to record, by which
one of our highly respectable townsmen has met with his
death. O❑ Friday afternoon last, Mr. Henry Latham went
to the Commercial Inn, and having occasion to go down the
yard, went out about five o'clock, in the direction of the re-
servoir supplying the flour mill of Messrs. Potter with water.
It would appear that, after passing through the Commercial
hall gates, Mr. Latham went round the enclosed area and
through a door at the corner, opening on a passage, along
which runs a stream of boiling water from the engine house
attached to the flour mill. Shortly afterwards the engineer
of the mill heard a scream and loud groans following it, but
was some time before he could ascertain from whence the
sound proceeded. Guided by the groaning he searched
along the channel of hot water, but from the steam arising
so thickly on it, he was some time ere he could find the de-
ceased, lying in the water and almost parboiled. Mr. Lathom
was taken into the Commercial Inn, and stripped of his satu-
rated garments, with which his skin came off when being un-
dressed. He was conveyed home as soon as possible, where
he lingered until Saturday night in a most agonizing state.
Mr. L. was a gentleman who bore a high character for his
integrity, and was accountant to the Wigan Saving's Bank
for a number of years' past.

A MATTER OF OPINION.—A good wife, the other day
taking up a Manchester paper, said to her loving husband—
" This is just as it should be ; the marriages are put before
the births. The Guardian always has the births first, and I
thing that very awkward." The husband gave opinion in
favour of the Guardian, as he thought " people were born
before they were married." The wife, however, persisted in
the correctness of her views of the matter, and preferred the
Manchester arrangement, as it was " a very ugly thing to
have a birth before marriage." The deaths, it would appear,
were each put in the right place, for they always came last.
Moe LAw.—A servant girl named Mary Morgan was re-
cently brought before the Cheltenham magistrates for run-
ning away from service. She had been hired at Cirencester
" mop" for a year certain on the 17th of October, and went
away two days after. Her excuse was, that she " did not
like the ways of the house." " Why ?" said the magistrate's
clerk. After some coyness, and " because I don't like such
ways," came out, " because I had to go through the man's
bedroom to my room !" Mr. Bailinger said, " this is a com-
mon thing in farm-houses," and the girl was sent to North-
leach gaoi for 14 days.— Worcester Journal.

THE WORTH OF A LIFE.—On Sunday last (says the
Prepagateur de l'Aule) two young journeymen, on arriving
at the upper gallery of the theatre of Troyes, found only one
vacant place, which they both pertinaciously claimed. A
quarrel ensued, during which the stouter gave the weaker a
push, which sent him headlong into the gallery below, whence
he rolled into the amphitheatre. The people present fully
expected to find the fallen youth with some of his limbs bro-
ken, or at least severely bruised. He, however, immediately
got up, and exclaimed, whilst fumbling in his pockets—
" Diable ! this is very unlucky! " Those around him obser-
ved that he might have been killed. "Ah bah!" replied he,
" I wish that had been the worst of it—l have lost four sous
out of my pocket."
ROYAL "BICKER."—Among the various presents made
to her Majesty during her tour in Scotland, one, and that not
the least interesting, which has remained unnoticed till now,
was a bicker or quaich, presented to her by the Eael of Mans-
field during her short sojourn at Scone Palace. The quaich
was sent to the earl by Mr. AP Robie, lapidary, George-street,
for presentation to her Majesty, who after accepting it, ex-
amined it carefully, and expressed her admiration of the in-
genious manner in which it was fashioned. It was made of
500 pieces of four different kinds of wood, of Scottish
growth, and did infinite credit to the artist who put it to-
gether, an individual, we believe, belonging to the Carse of
Gowrie. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, we understand,
partook of doch-an-disorris out of the bicker, immediately
previous to the royal carriage leaving the palace.—Perth
Courier.

A JEWISH BARRISTER.—A few days ago a gentleman of
the Jewish persuasion was called to the bar by the Honour-
able Society of the Middle Temple. The gentleman alluded
to is Mr. John Simon, LL.B. The usual forms were gone
through in the presence of a numerous body of the benchers
and banisters, with the exception that the new-made bar-
risters had to be sworn on the Old Testament, and which
sacred volume, written in the Hebrew tongue, had to be sent
for. Another difficulty arose under the following circum-
stances : It is the usual practice in the courts of law for gen-
tlemen of the Jewish persuasion to take the oaths with their
hats on ; but upon this occasion, owing to the size of the
wig with which it was necessary that the head of the honour-
able gentleman should be covered, the hat could not be put
on. In consequence the ceremony was gone through with-
out that customary observance. It is stated that Mr. Simon
is the first Jewish barrister connected with the Middle Tem-
ple.
A PARALLEL TO "THE GRAPES ARE SOUR."—A black
slave in one of the southern states of the American Union,
to whom meat was a rare blessing, one day found in his trap
a plump rabbit. He took him out alive, held him under his
arm, patted him and began to speculate on his qualities.
" Oh, how berry, fat ! De fattest I ebber did see ! Let us
see how me cook him. Me roast him ? No • he be so fat,
me lose all de grease. Me fry him ? Ah, he be so berry fat,
he fry himself. Golly, how fat he be! Den me stew him."
The thought of the savory stew made the nigger forget him-
self, and, in spreading out the feast to his imagination, his
arm relaxed, when off hopped the rabbit, and squatting at a
goodly distance, eyed his last owner with great composure.
The negro knew there was an end of the matter, so, sum-
moning all his philosophy, he thus addressed the rabbit,—
" You long-eared, white-whiskered, red-eyed rat, you not
so berry fat after all !"

NAPOLEON'S OPINION OF A WAR WITH CHINA.—The
following extract from O'Meary's "Voice from St. Helena,"
will be read with interest at this moment :—" If,' said
Napoleon, alluding to Lord Amherst's embassy to China,
I had sent an ambassador to China, I should have ordered
him to make himself acquainted with the ceremonies per-
formed before the Emperor by the first mandarins, and, if
required, to do the same himself. Now, perhaps, you will
lose the friendship of the Chinese nation and great commer-
cial advantages through this piece of nonsense.' I said,'
adds O'Meary, ' that we could easily compel the Chinese to
grant good terms by means of a few ships of war ; 'that, for
example, we could deprive them altogether of salt by a few
cruisers properly stationed.' Napoleon replied, It would
be the worst thing you have done for a number of years to
go to war with an immense empire like China, and possessing
so many resources. You would, doubtless, at first succeed ;
take what vessels they have; and destroy their trade and
cities; but you would soon teach them their own strength.
They would be compelled to adopt measures to defend them-
selves against you. They would consider, and say, We
must try to make ourselves equal to this nation. Why
should we suffer a people so far away to do as they please
with us? We must build ships, we must put guns in them,
we must render ourselves equal to them. They would,'
continued the Emperor, get artificers and shipbuilders
from France and America, and even London; they would
build a fleet, and, in the course of time, defeat you.' "
NAPOLEON'S COMPASS.—A small compass has lately been
offered for sale to the French Government, by a Chevalier
Auriol, to which a curious history is attached. This little
instrument, which is in a plain gilt case, 'and of English
manufacture, was first sent, with other astronomical instru-
ments, to Louis XVI. by a descendant of Sir Isaac Newton.
It appears that it was afterwards given by the unfortunate
Monarch to the Dauphin, who had it with him in prison, and
while there gave it a faithful dependent who had tried to as-
sist him to escape. This party had been at school at Brienne
with Napoleon, and accompanied him to Egypt. There he
happened to show the little compass to Napoleon, who ad-
mired it, and it was accordingly presented to him. Napoleon,
on returning to France, and having become Emperor, being,
as is well known, superstitious, set great value on the instru-
ment, had the letter " N " and his imperial crown engraved
on it, and made use of it in his campaigns, and never parted
with it until his captivity in St. Helena; and then, either
considering it as a useless talisman, or as the best means of
acknowledging the disinterested kindness of the party, he
presented it to Madame Auriol. Marshal Soult is now in
treaty with the Chevalier d'Auriol for the purchase of it, with
the view of placing this Royal and imperial relic among the
other objects preserved in the Hotel des Invalides, as having
been about the person of Napoleon.
SINGULAR ESCAPE.—The manager of a coal-works near
Dundonald, during last week, had occasion to keep his men
closer than usual at work in one of the pits which was under-
going some necessary repairs. Previous to leaving home
after dinner to go to the pit, he requested his wife to bring
some refreshment for himself and the men at work. Ac-
cordingly she did so, and on arriving at the pit mouth, in-
sisted on going down into the bowels of the earth to dis-
pense the good things of this life in propria persona. Her
wish was complied with, and down she went in the bucket,
and was received by her husband at the bottom, who ex-
pressed great surprise at her appearance there, and bluntly
stated his apprehensions of her reaching the upper world in
safety. The husband and wife got into the creel to ascend,
and had been drawn up the shaft about forty feet when the
rope broke, and both, along with the bucket, were precipi-
tated to the bottom. Strange to say, neither of the two were
hurt by the fall ; the only injury received was by the woman,
on whom the broken rope fell, and slightly ruffled the skin
of her neck. The bottom of the pit was boarded over, and
the bucket broke two of the planks by the force of its de-
scent. Had it gone through, the probability is great that we
would have had to record an accident of a fatal character, as,
beneath the boards there was a continuation of the shaft of
about forty fathoms, half filled with water, into which had
they fallen they would never, in all probability, have been
got out in life.—Ayr Advertiser.
THE WHOLESALE INFANTICIDE IN THE FOREST OF
DEAN.—The inquiry into this extraordinary case termi-
nated on Thursday. Several additional witnesses were ex-
amined, who gave similar testimony to that which has been
already published, and the only difficulty experienced was
the connecting the man Thomas Yapp with a knowledge of
the crime, it being a rule of law that in no case the confes-
sion of a criminal be made available against an accomplice,
unless corroborated by ether evidence. This, however, has
been supplied by the evidence of a man of the name of Wat-
kins, which shows Yapp, in addition to the circumstances of
his having cohabited with the female prisoner during the last
ten or twelve years, during which period the murders have
been committed, and finding of the bodies of five out of the
six infants buried under the kitchen floor, the spot where
the female prisoner says she buried them with Yapp's
assistance, to have had a knowledge of the situation of
the female prisoner at the time she gave birth to her
last child. Watkins states that about last Christmas,
he being acquainted with Yapp, was in the neighbour-
hood of Roardean, and having met Yapp, was invited
by him to stay and sleep that night at the house occu-
pied by him and the female prisoner ; he accepted the
invitation, and slept in the same bed with Yapp in one room
while the prisoner, Frances Bennett, slept in a bed in the
adjoining room ; that at about twelve o'clock at night, and
from that time until between two and three in the morning,
he heard a suppressed moaning. as: of a person in great pain,
in the room where the female prisoner was sleeping; that the
noise kept him awake till between two and three o'clock in
the morning, after which he dropped off to sleep, and did not
wake again until about five o'clock, when the male prisoner,
Thomas Yapp, got up and went down stairs to get a light,
where he appeared to be searching for matches, but said he
could not find any. Yapp then returned up stairs. and went
into Frances Bennett's room, but bow long he remained
there witness could not tell, as he again fell asleep and heard
no more. Witness never thought anything more of the cir-
cumstance, but happening to be in the neighbourhood on Sa-
turday last, he saw the female prisoner, Frances Bennett,
who, in conversation, asked him if he remembered sleeping
there last Christmas? He replied that he did, upon which
she added, " I deceived you nicely that night, for that was
the very time when my last child was born. This closed
the inquiry, and the jury returned a verdict of " wilful mur-
der" against both the prisoners, who were fully committed
for trial at the next assizes.

CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE WOODSIDE COMMISSIONERS,

Cum lutulentusflueret erat, quod tollere relies I "

Most worthy and worshipful Woodside commissioners,
If you e'er take a hint from your brother parishioners,
I entreat you at once, without any delays,
Set about instantaneously " mending your ways" !
For with every shower there comes such a flood,
(Like O'Connell and Home,) you " stick fast in the mud."
No sagacity 's wanting, I'm sure, to remark,
That, if bad in the day, 'tis twice worse in the dark!
A hint from a stranger I'm sure you won't blame ;
You know " those who look on " must see " most of the
game."

I-kWmuch worse (for we know that it tnight come to pass)
If some Papist again try to let off the gas!
Yes, he must be a Papist—l'm sure I am right;
For the Papists, of all, most object to the light !
I perceived their attempt, but not I:nowing a soul,
The best person to tell was, /thought, Mr. Cole!
Of course he looked black when he heard of the case,
Nor indeed was he slack to proclaim the disgrace.
See what beautiful roads He made outside the town,
And I trust that success will his energies crown.
Would you'd get him to mend—what road's worse, in repair,
Than from Trinity Church, on the left, to the Square ?
Unless for our low lands we use High-land kilts,
Or, abandoning boots, walk about upon stills,
Our lives are not safe—'tis beyond all endurance—
For our " policy " now must be one of insurance !
If we haste to the boat or back, no matter which,
We are oft on the point to fall into the ditch,
Or rather the pit, you intend for a bath!
Now all this would be saved if you made us a path.
To be "Knight o' the Bath" some might think it a bliss,
But who'd be benighted in baths such as this?
Pray take, sirs, this hint; for you know, I am sure,
That " prevention is ever far better than cure ;"
Unless you engage Mr. Pike by the year,
To dive after all who perchance fall in here!
Out of mercy he jumped into Mersey's pure stream,
But (except for a Hero) plunge here he'd ne'er dream!
The road opposite this, and with it parallel,
Is alike "ups and downs"—wants repairing, as well.
If you take my advice, you'll contract fur the whole,
And, to have it done properly, give it to Cole.
But don't wait till spring, till the wet shall have dried,
Or some wad will, I fear, call the town land Mud-side ;
Pave with kYanised timber, each pathway and street,
And then you'll have " Woodside," and Woodside complete!
TOUJOURS I'RET.

'Woodside, Nov. 21st.

TOXTETH-PARK ROADS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

I beg to call the attention of the proper authorities to the
shocking state in which the foot-walks are in Toxteth-park.
They are really so dirty that it is far preferable walking in
the middle of the road, than getting over shoe top in mud.
Representations have been frequently made, but to no pur-
pose ; and I assure you that I am only speaking the senti-
ments of all the pedestrians on that road ; and it certainly is
disgraceful to any parties who have the management of public
affairs that they have so long neglected their duty. A consi-
derable sum has been lately spent in levelling the road near
St. James's Church ; but if the foot-walks had been attended
to, which really wanted improvement, and even a single flag
laid down, which would be a great benefit, it would have
given more general satisfaction to the rate-payers ; and really
while the taxes are so great, it is only reasonable to expect
something ought to be done.

Hoping this public application may have a beneficial effect,
I remain, Sir, yours, &c.,
A RESIDENT.

THE " MERCURY" AND TUITION

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

SlR,—The Mercury of last Friday contains some remarks
about the salaries given to the masters of church schools.
The writer also states, that the teacher ought to be as well
paid for his arduous duties as the minister is for service not
more important, and much less difficult. The sentiment is
in perfect accordance with the high toned liberality and im-
partial justice so often expressed, and so loudly proclaimed
by many of the same party ; but is it in perfect accordance
with their practice ? Do they place in their own schools
men of greater talent than are to be found in ours? If so;
what salaries do they pay them ? Is there one teacher of a
free school of the Liberals (?) who gets £lOO a-year ? Or
is there any branch of education taught at any of their schools
which is not equally well taught at ours? lam not asking
what Mr. Yates SAID he " would have taught to the working
classes." lam not asking what any one said in the council,
or at ward meetings ; but I am asking what is practised ?
Where are Latin, and mathematics, and natural philosophy
taught? And I would thank the writer in the Mercury for
distinct answers to these distinct questions.
A stranger, judging from the humane and truly liberal
sentiments expressed at anti-corn-law meetings, would think
that certain gentlemen—and of honourable women not a
few—were most warm-hearted in the spread of knowledge
amongst the poor, and that the teachers of their schools were
living on the fat of the land. I find, however, that the
enthusiasm about the elevation of the working classes is fre-
quently expended in the effervescence of public meetings,
and soon subsides into a smooth milk-and-water level when
removed from the public eye; that the knowledge which
they are so anxious to disseminate is such as leads to a dis-
satisfaction with the laws and religion of the country; and
that they give themselves as little trouble about Latin,
mathematics, or natural philosophy, as those who consider
these branches useless to the working classes; that they pay
their teachers less salaries than are paid to some of our
church school masters ; and that the education given in their
schools, making some allowance for the show made for the
satisfaction of visitors, is in SIO respect better than the educa-
tion given in church schools.
We have, perhaps, erred in giving the Liberal party too
much credit " for their honest intentions," without searching
into their mode of realizing these intentions. The comparison
between what one party does and what another SAYS ought
to be done, is not a fair way to determine their respective
merits.

The frequency with which such liberalism has been forced
before the public, and the importunity with which some men
clamoured to get " a good education given to the working
classes," induced us to institute some inquiries. The result
is such as to satisfy us of the hollowness of these pyramids of
morality, and the selfishness and parsimony of these patterns
of generosity.—Yours, &c.,

INVESTIGATOR

London Road, November 21, 1842

" REMARKS UPON THE CONVERSION OF M
ALPHONSO RATISBONNE TO ROMANISM."

This title is given to an article in the last July number
of the Jewish Intelligence, where an account may be found
of the great politeness shoWn by the Pope to a rich Jew of
Strasburg, aged 28, who is described as wandering alone
through Italy towards the East. It appears that during his
sojourning at Rome this young Israelite had " felt himself
touched by a profound emotion, which he could not explain,
in the church of Ara CEeli, near the capitol ;" that he pos-
sessed certain objects of interest, such as medals, blessed by
his holiness, and ornamented with representations of the Vir-
gin Mary, as well as other matters equally worthy the adora-
tion of a thinking being; that having plied these things dili-
gently with the aid of a friend, who incessantly teazed him
with legends, and Roman sight-seeing, and supplied him with
proper prayers to the Virgin, he at last brought his efforts to
a genuine Roman crisis, and, on the night of the 19th of Ja-
nuary, to all men be it known, instead of a sleep, he had a
vision,—" a vision of the design which exists on the reverse
of his medal." The following day he had another vision,
" precisely the same as the design on the obverse of his me-
dal ;" and here the miracle was completed. We cannot fail
to commend the Israelite more or less in this matter,—the
reverse and the obverse he had passed in review,--Jews
mostly look on both sides of a coin, but we are disposed to
find some little fault with the editor of the Intelligence for
giving a serious notice of this ridiculous performance, when
we need only know the dramatis pers2nce to guess at the cha-
racter of the acting : the Pope, a wandering Jew, a quantum
sufficit of cardinals, Baron Theodore de Bussiere and com-
pany ; the scene being placed in one of the modern Roman
temples, well furnished with images of beautiful virgins,
equal to so many graces, and with the true effigies of various
saints, equal to so many Gods ; so that the stage being good,
and the actors well chosen, the thing could not fail to go off
well, as the duty as well as the pleasure of the spectators was
to attend, to believe, and admire. How, after his vision,
Ratisbonne called out " I have seen her, I have seen her,"
we need not stop to consider, but he is said to have proceeded
forthwith, in company with his• friend, to relate his short
tale before a confessor, sighing for instant baptism, and even
martyrdom. The 31st of January was a great festival in
Rome, for then Ratisbonne was baptised in the—Jesuit
Church, by his reverence the Cardinal Vicar. During the
preparatory devotions the young Israelite clasped fervently
the rosary which he held in this hand, and gazed on the me-
dal which was attached to it, as if to derive from it fortitude
to bear him through all the events of the day. After the
psalms, &c., followed the Cardinal's breathing upon him
thrice, to expel demons,•the prayers of exorcism, the tasting
of " the salt of wisdom," the prostration of the convert in the
porch, and his kissing the Cardinal's stole ; then the baptism
of water, a sermon, and mass. He was soon after presented
to the Holy Father, who received him with expressions of
the greatest kindness, and presented him with a crucifix
blessed by his own hand.

REFLECTIONS.—Many have joined the Freemasons and
other secret societies for the sake of knowing their mysteries,
or for that of knowing whether they had any, and I can easily
imagine a prying son of Abraham desiring to get behind the
sacerdotal veil of Roman performances, and to study the
moral and mental curiosities of the Eternal City, on his way
to the holy land. After all we would rather give him credit
for his sincerity, and suppose that by staring at the virgin
he became sufficiently hypnotized, and really saw both sides
of the medal, which could not fail to have a miraculous effect,
as we shall readily understand by viewing the matter philoso-
phically, and recollecting that he had his first vision when
wide awake, on the very night that he could not sleep,—that
he saw the reverse first, and afterwards the obverse of the
medal, and that plenty of time was allowed for turning the
object between the first and the second appearances. " After
the vision Ratisbonne became quite fanatical," kissed the
medal, and called out as before remarked, "I have seen her,
I have seen her," and next, in St. Peter's was overpowered
by the real presence of the sacramental wafer, and displayed
too many other items of miraculous condition to allow us to
mention them here. It is a pity that moral definitions are
not more like certain mathematical ones, that are short and
self-evident, for then, perhaps, we might be allowed a concise
illustration of this matter, in the expression, that "what is
not sense, must be nonsense," and we need not take the
trouble to examine whether or no this " miraculous conver-
sion" were in any way analagous to that of St. Paul, for this
ingenious comparison has already been instituted; which re-
minds us indeed of nothing so much as an expression of Lord
Bacon, that, amongst philosophers, some are distinguished
by an extraordinary talent for discovering resemblances in
things, whilst others are famous for detecting their dissimi-
larity ; for indeed the Romanists must belong to the former
class, who discover that the infidels who accompanied Paul
resembled the priests at Rome ; that the sight of the medal
was like the sound of the voice ; that the Strasburg merchant
was like the apostle of the Gentiles; that Gamaliel was the
prototype of the Mayor of Strasburg, whose Common Coun-
cil, no doubt, should be compared to the Sanhedrim of Je-
rusalem ; nor should it surprise us that men who hive the
power of discovering such resemblances, should not be able
to distinguish between Christianity, which we may call the
religion of Jesus, and Romanism, which might well be styled
the religion of Mary. X. Y. Z.

LOSS OF THE WATERLOO CONVICT SHIP.—II appears by
a reference to Lloyd's Register of Shipping, that the Water-
loo stands IE 1, that is, a second-rate vessel of the first class ;
she had a new deck and large repairs in 1833—had her damages
repaired in 1836—refitted, doubled, and coppered in 1839, and
sundry repairs in 1842. She was surveyed by the East India
Company's surveyor in April of the present year, and
sailed
on her ill-fated voyage in June last. By the same register it
appears that the Abercrombie Robinson, a vessel lost at the
same time and place as the Waterloo, stands on the same let-
ter with scarcely any repairs.—Globe.

GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK.

VEGETABLE GARDEN—In-door Department,

Pinery.—Where the flue runs near the tan-bed, the latter
is liable to become very dry ; where this is the case, it should
be frequently moistened with water, and the plants will also
require to be more frequently looked to than those at a dis-
tance from the flues. Ripening fruit should be set in the
hottest part of the house.

Grapery.—Houses: containing grapes will now require a
little fire-heat during the day, and, if the weather will permit,
the top lights should be opened a few inches. Remove all
decayed leaves from the vines, and cut out the rotten berries
as soon as they are observed.

Peach-house.—The trees in the late houses may be pruned
immediately the leaves have fallen, as the same reasons can-
not be given for leaving them unpruned till spring that are
given for leaving those against the open walls unpruned till
that time : the fruit-buds can be discerned as well now, by
those having any knowledge of the matter, as at any time.
Fig-house,—The temperature of the house should never
be allowed to get much below 40 deg., or the figs will receive
injury. Those in pots may be removed to any house main-
taining that degree of heat.

Prune and nail vines and other fruit trees as before recom-
mended. Brush the leaves off the peach and nectarine trees
with a new birch broom, and unnail the small shoots. Fig-
trees will, in some situations, require to be pfotepted. This
may be done in a variety of ways, but we prefer gathering
the shoots into several bundles, after being initialled, and
wrapping mats round them.

Out of doors.

Asparagus.—Another bed should be prepared the latter
end of the week if a succession is required. The frames al-
ready planted may remain covered up night and day during
very cold weather, until the heads begin to appear.
Celery.—lt is necessary to take advantage of every favour-
able opportunity to earth up all that requires it. Rather let
it remain as it is than attempt to do so while wet, as it will
afterwards rot in a very short time.
Cucumbers.—The plants require constant attention in
stopping and tying to the trellis. During very dull weather
the plants should not be excited to so great a degree by heat
and water as in clear weather ; neither should they be allowed
to swell off so many fruit at one time.

Herb Beds.—lf they are not yet cleaned and done up for
the winter, they should be attended to without delay; a
slight coat of very rotten dung should be laid on them, for
the double purpose of protecting the roots from severe frost,
and to enrich the soil.

Lettuce.—The cabbage varieties planted in frames, in-
tended for winter use, will not require much air if the soil is
light and dry ; should they require a little water, give it to
each individual plant from a watering-pot without a rose.
Never expose the plants to heavy rains.

Sea Kale.—A little leaf-mould, tan, or cinder-dust should
be laid over the crowns of the plants; pots may then be set
over a portion of the plantation, and be covered with leaves
as they are collected : if required for use in a short time,
stable-dung should be used.

Spinach.—ln gathering the leaves, the beds should he
tvodden upon as little as possible, as the growth is injured by
having the soil so consolidated about the roots ; where it is
sufficiently light and dry for the purpose, the surface of the
soil should be loosened up.

FLOWER GARDEN

Stove.—Where plants are placed on a trellis, within two or
three inches of the flue, they should be examined carefully
every day, as they often wadi water, althoughlthey appear
moist at the top. Very small pots containing plants should
never be placed in such a situation. We have before re-
verted to this subject, and we do so again, knowing that many
plants are lost by having the root at the bottom of the pot
dried up.

Greenhouse and Conservatory.—These departments should
now be gay with chrysanthemums, after which forced flowers
and autumn-sown annuals will come in. It is too often the
case that a quantity of useless plants are harboured here, to
the exclusion of those which are far more serviceable for de-
corations.

Pits and Frames.—Commence forcing roses and other
shrubs; smoke them about once a fortnight to keep them
clear of green fly ; open the frames containing plants when
the weather is favourable, hut never draw the lights off when
wet.

Beds of choice bulbs should be protected by a coating of
leaf-mould ; also cover the roots of erithrinas, alstreomerias,
and similar plants. Continue to plant, prune, and dig, as
before recommended.

LARGE CL AIM FOR COMPENSATION.--Mr. Oswald
Milne has just preferred his claim for compensation on the
corporation of Manchester, for the loss of fees, not of office,
which he alleges he has sustained, and will sustain, as clerk
to the magistrates at the New Bailey to the entire of the pa-
rish of Manchester, in consequence of the Crown having been
pleased to grant a charter of incorporation to that place.
The claim made is for £34,700, a large sum, doubtless, even
if loss of office had been sustained, but which is not the case,
as the business of twenty-three out of twenty-nine townships
is still transacted at the New Bailey.
A married man in Scotland was lately advised to rub him-
self well over with turpentine before going to bed, as a cure
for rheumatism, under which he suffered; and just as his
wife had completed the operation one evening, she let the
lighted candle fall against his person, in consequence of
which his body was instantly enveloped in a blaze. She
shrieked aloud, and a person ran to theiii, assistance, who
extinguished the flames by wrapping the man in a quilt ; but
besides suffering the loss of his hair, &c., he was some time
confined to his room, though he is now recovered.

The Northern Bee announce that a very important im-
provement has just been introduced at St. Petersburgh in
the manufacture of lamp-gas. This improvement consists
in simplifying the apparatus, by means of which this manu-
facture, which was a very complex and dangerous operation,
is rendered so simple that a man of ordinary understanding
may learn it in six hours, without being exposed to the
slightest danger. The following, according to this paper, are
the advantages of this new process, the details of which it
does not give :—" The gas having been extracted from coals,
oil, tallow, and all fat and oleaginous substances, the price of
the gas is diminished by one-half; the execution of the ap-
paratus on a large scale is very cheap. It is not necessary
to compress the gas, nor is there any steam-engine required
to manufacture it. With the old apparatus it took six hours
and a half to produce the same quantity of gas as the new
apparatus produces in half an hour. The work of four men
on the new plan is equal to that of forty on the old one;
laitly, the quantity of lime necessary to purity the gas is very
inconsiderable."

ELECTION OF LORD RECTOR OF GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.
—As we anticipated, the suffrages of the students have been
given in favour of the Hon. Fox Maule, who, by a gross ma-
jority of 82, has been returned in opposition to the Marquis
of Bute. On Monday, the usual preliminary meeting of both
parties took place in the college; when, according to the
Scottish Guardian, the conservatives found themselves in a
" decided minority ;" while the Courier, with equal certainty,
declared that " two-thirds of the meeting" were the decided
friends of the noble marquis, and that there was no doubt
whatever of his triumphant election. The meeting was an
excessively turbulent one. On Tuesday, at the election, the
numbers were as follow:

F. Maule.

Nationi Glottiani.....
„ Transforthiani
,f Loudoniani ~
„ Rothseiani....

Bute.
. 67
. 22
. 25
22

Majority for Mr. Fox Maule, 82 2lB 136
Mr. Fox Maule was thus returned by a majority of all the
nations.—Glaspow Argus.

A most calamitous event has just occurred in our harbour,
and plunged several respectable families of this town into the
deepest affliction. Mr. Gaunson, the master of a small
schooner that trades between Sydney and Broulee, being at
present in port, bad invited a few friends to take a sail within
the harbour, to see the regatta on the Queen's birthday.
The party consisted of Mrs. Francis Gaunson, of Lower
George's-street, and her four children ; Mr. J. Smith and
his eldest daughter; Miss Cook; two Misses Crawford,
nieces of the Rev. H. Gilchrist, of Campbelltown, and one
or two others. The vessel was returning to the Cove at
dusk, after cruising about during the day, and had got within
a few hundred yards of Pincbgut, when a furious squall
caught her, and capsized her instantaneously. Providentially
there was a boat in tow, in which some of the party escaped,
after being all thrown into the water ' • but we regret exceed-
ingly to state, that the two Misses Crawford, (recently ar-
rived with their widowed mother from the north of Ireland,)
Miss Cook, two of Mrs. F. Gaunson's children, (a son and
a daughter,) and Miss Smith. sank to rise no more.—Colo-
raid Observer, 24th of May.
ROBBERY AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—On Monday last,
as the son of Mr. Armitage, machine-maker, of Ramsey, was
returning home between eleven and twelve o'clock, he per-
ceived a light in a carpenter's shop adjoining his father's pre-
mises, occupied by Mr. Carter, of Bury, and feeling sur-
prised that he should work so late, crept to the door and
peeped in, and saw a man named Cowling, of Wistow, biking
down different articles in the shop for the purpose of removal.
On seeing this, young Armitage quietly left, went home, and
procured the assistance of his father. They both returned,
and on opening the shop door the light was immediately ex-
tinguished by Cowling, whom the elder Armitage proceeded
to take hold of. Cowling made a most determined resistance,
and drew a clasp-knife, with which he threatened and did ac-
tually cut Mr. Armitage on the forehead ; but the son being
close to him he took the knife from Cowling's hand. Cow-
ilng tried by kicking and other means to release himself from
the iron grasp of Mr. Armitage, but all to no purpose. Whilst
the struggle was going on the son had fetched the constable
of Bury. and the prisoner was at length taken to the Green
Dragon public-house in the village, and there handcuffed.
The constable and some other parties sat up with him all
night, and in the morning the prisoner was asked to have
some bread and cheese, to which he consented. His hand-
cuffs being removed, be appeared to sharpen his knife several
times, occasionally eating small pieces. On the landlady
turning her head, she saw the prisoner's hand at his throat,
and having uttered an exclamation the constable's attention
was drawn to the prisoner, and he suddenly seized his hand
and stayed it. As it was, a large wound was made in Cow-
ling's throat, of great length and considerable depth, but
none of the main arteries were severed. The man is likely to
recover.—Cambridge Chronicle.

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RAILWAY ENTERPRISE.—ENGLAND TO CHINA. The
to submit to the public the following statement.
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unlimited num-
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national
hallen consequence of
the extreme difficulty at
present
experienced in making
to-
gether with the voyage to China and India, to-
the delay and chances of sh* k't has been
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proposed, under the advice of an eminent engineer, to con-
struct a railway from thence to the Celestial Empire. The
plan suggested for the end in view is to penetrate the bowels
of the earth through the medium of a tunnel front London
to Canton,
obviating altogether the enormous expense usually incurred
passing through the centre of the globe, thus
in the purchase of land, and avoiding the opposition likely to
encountered from hostile nations.
the committee by Sinko Shaft, Esq.,
rom the report made to
the engineer, who has
descended some of the deepest wells and sewers in and about
the metropolis, and has sounded the earth in various places
at the outskirts, there is every reason to believe that the
centre of the globe consists of a mass of softest soil, except
where intersected by solid rocks of gold and silver, and ca-
verns of precious stones ; and that from his examination,
there is no reason whatever to believe, as some have conjec-
tured, that the earth is a mete crust, filled in the interior
at all--a state of things which would have
rweinthdenreodtht
ighneeutting of a tunnel through it an expedient of
some difficulty. As it is, however, the cutting will be ex-
ceedingly easy, except where the messes of precious metals
and jewels interpose an obstacle; but inasmuch
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and,ma
ma-
terial, when extracted, will be immensely valuable,
according to the most moderate calculations of our engineer,
will be many hundred times more than sufficient to cover the
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undertaking,istepoint.ltis intended but little fear need be ap-
pr etliieen
that the terminus
in England shall be upon the present site
entire
uponn expense
o ft
this
of St. Paul's Ca-
thedral, London, which, for the purposes of this undertaking,
is to be pulled down. It is calculates) that the journey will
be accomplished as soon as the passengers get from one ter-
minus to another. As the railway will pass immediately un-
der Mount Vesuvius, a st. •
ation will be erected there, at which
trains will stop for the purpose of taking in coals and lava,
or Cyclops, should there be any residing in those parts.—
Punch.