The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-21 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY.

The prisoner was again brought up on 'Wednesday for
further examination. Mr. James, the barrister, appeared
on his behalf, as well as Mr. Davenport. Mr. Dowling
prayed for a further remand in the case, as certain evidence
had come within the knowledge of the police since the pre-
ceding day, and that it would be necessary to have that evi-
dence fully examined into before it was adduced in court.
After some little conversation, the further investigation of
the case was adjourned to one o'clock to-morrow (Saturday).

There are not more than thirty clergymen included in the
publication of the game lists for Essex this year; the number
was, within a few years, more than double.—Globe.
SOUTHAMPTON, OCTOBER 16.—The British Queen, which
sailed from Cowes last month for New York, encountered a,
most terrific tempest on the 19th ult., which lasted for ten
hours. Numbers on beard, who had crossed the Atlantic,
declared that they never experienced a more dreadful or
dangerous storm. Every one on board exp.ected death. The
British Queen is now on her voyage to this country, and is
expected at Southampton about the 15th.

CORRESPORDENCP.

DOCK WAREHOUSES-SECURITY AGAINST

FIRE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Sin,—The late disastrous fire has naturally called forth
various schemes for the prevention of future similar calami-
ties. Without going into the details of the numerous sug-
gestions now before the public, two main points must strike
every one as being of most essential importance in the con-
struction of new ‘sarehouses, viz. that there should be no
exterior wood-work, and that every warehouse should
be separate from any adjoining one, so that there should be
an intervening space of a few inches, which would allow a
current of air to pass between the two buildings, and thus
prevent the danger which at present arises from contact. To
these precautions should be added a plentiful supply of
water, as proposed by several parties who have published
their plans. Warehouses thus built, and with a plentiful
supply of water always at command, would probably escape
the danger of future fires ; or if one warehouse should take
fire, it would probably not communicate to others. The
premium of insurance would naturally fall, and the owners
of such built warehouses would thus receive some compensa-
tion for the greater expense incurred in their erection.
It seems, however, that advantage is to be taken of this
late calamity, to revive the scheme of dock warehouses :
there is a writer in the Albion who is afflicted with mono-
monis on this subject. The London warehouses are to be
our pattern • and if we will only adopt the same plan here,
we are to be free for ever from the possibility of fire, and
our own premiums are to fall to 6 per cent. These are great
desiderata certainly, but are they attainable? We are told
that because there has not been any fire yet in the London
docks, there never will be one : rather a hasty conclusion.
They might have made the same assertion a few years ago,
respecting the government warehouses at Dublin; and yet it
would have been rather premature, because they happened
to be burnt down one night, although a dock warehouseman
might have asserted on the previous day that such an event
was impossible. It is a little presumptuous to say that there
cannot be a fire in any buildings, however constructed, in
which any great number of men is employed. Many in-
stances have been known of porters thrusting their lighted
pipes into a cotton bag, to avoid detection. when they heard
the warehouseman coming ; and what vigilance can prevent
a man from taking a lucifer match in his pocket, and light-
ing a pipe on the premises ? Should he hear the overseer
approach, the very danger of discovery will induce him to
put his pipe instantly somewhere out of sight, should it be
into a bag of cotton, or amongst loose cotton, or any other
ignitable matter, the chances are that the sparks will pro-
duce combustion, and that it will burst into flame, unless
discovered in time. The utmost vigilance cannot prevent
occurrences of this nature. Besides, are there no such
events ever heard of as fires arising from incendiarism? has
the perfectability of human nature progressed so far that
malice is no longer inherent in man ? is the spirit of revenge
extinct in the heart of a workman who fancies himself ill-
used, slighted, or insulted? Are the labourers of Liverpool,
when employed in the dock warehouses, to become totally
divested of those motives of action and feelings which
prompted their agricultural brethren some ten years ago to
set fire to hay ricks and corn ricks and barns ? Let us not,
then, be deluded by thinking that a fire in these warehouses
is impossible. So much, then, as for the value of the asser-
tion, that a fire in dock warehouses is impossible.
Now, as to the consequences of a fire, admitting its possi-
bility, in warehouses built on the martin of the docks. As
the London warehouses are proposed for our imitation, we
should naturally expect that those warehouses are of course
built on the verge of the docks ; but your readers will per-
haps be surprised to hear that they are not so built, and that
none of the docks, except St. Katharine's, have the ware-
houses built close up to the quay; and even at St. Katha-
rine's, this mode of construction was adopted from necessity
and not from choice, the ground not admitting any other
plan of building. We see, then, that, instead of adopting
the London plan, they do not adopt it : they propose a plan
totally dissimilar to that of the London dock warehouses.
So much for consistency on this one main point—this essen-
tial principle—in their proposed plan for Liverpool.
Now, as for another instance of their conformity to the
London plan : these London warehouses are built by a body
of individuals, at their own risk and expense; but the Liver-
pool plan proposes (and, so far as the Salthouse Dock ware-
houses are in question, not only proposes, but is adopted)
to take the public money for the purpose of building these
warehouses ; thus exempting every individual from incur-
ring any risk or expense. Thus the two systems of London '
and Liverpool are diametrically opposite : in London every
dock proprietor hazards his own money—in Liverpool the
public money is taken, and whether the scheme succeed or
fail, no loss is to be sustained by any Liverpool individual.
I trust, therefore, that we shall hear no more of these
warehouses being the patterns for our imitation, when the
proposers violate the two most essential principles of that
similarity. Let the system of open quays and individual
responsibility be introduced into the Liverpool plans, in
precisely the same manner as it is London, and, I doubt
not, the Liverpool warehouse proprietors will not oppose the
introduction of such a system.
On the scheme of the warehouses being built on the verge
of the docks, it is quite clear to every reasonable man that
the danger would be alarming. It is evident that a fire
taking place in warehouses quite close to the docks, would,
in all human probability, extend to the shipping, for which,
in case of low water, there would be no escape. The loss
would be immense : it might amount to millions. And shall
such a dreadful hazard be run, for the fanciful advantage of
savinga little cartage? Mercantile men will surely reflect
well before they consent to a scheme so pregnant with incal-
culable mischief.

The subject is of such importance, and branches into so
many ramifications, that it would occupy too much of your
space to extent the present communication to a few more
points which are connected with the present subject. In
Some of your future numbers I may possibly resume the
discussion. Meantime, perhaps you will inform your readers
whether it is true that the London fire-insurance offices have
refused to insure these new Liverpool dock warehouses if
they should be built on the verge of the docks.
B. D.
[We cannot answer our correspondents concluding query.
The letter from Sir J. Hall which was read at the Dock
Committee yesterday, is not to be made public.)

THE BOY JONES AGAIN.

(Prom Yesterday's Times.)

The boy Jones, who, on several occasions, obtained such
an extraordinary entrance into Buckingham Palace. has again
made his appearance in London. It was stated, some time
since, that this adventurous youth had been sent out by the
zovernment, with his own consent, to South Australia ; such,
however, it now seems, was not the fact. After his last exa-
mination at the Home-office, the boy was sent to Portsmouth,
where, we understand, he was apprenticed, or, at all events,
he was sent on board the Warspite man-of-war, which ship
carried out Lord Ashburton to the United States. Our hero
was in the same vessel with his lordship when crossing the
Atlantic, both going and returning, and behaved in the most
exemplary manner; his conduct was orderly and regular.
On the return of the Warspite to Portsmouth, about three
weeks since, Jones, who then wore the sailor's dress, was
allowed occasionally to go on shore, and he punctually re-
turned to the ship at the hour he had instructions so to do.
He was mizentopn3ast-man on board the Warspite, and, as
before stated, performed his duties to the satisfaction of all.
His wages were 19s. a month; but in what manner he dis-
posed of them is not known ; as, when he left Portsmouth,
on Wednesday night, he sold his sailor's coat (as he says)
for 45., and walked to London without one. On being ap-
prehended yesterday, he had on an old black coat, very
shabby.

Notice of the poisoner being in custody was sent to the
police-offices, and in the course of the afternoon a govern-
ment order was received directing that the boy should be at
once taken back to Portsmouth, as it was not considered
necessary any inquiry should be instituted in town. Accord-
ingly, Jones was conveyed, in the custody of a police officer
of the A division, by the South-Western Railroad to Ports-
mout. Whilst at the station-house he appeared quite indif-
ferent as to what course might be taken respecting him. He
amused himself by reading a newspaper, occasionally making
a remark. He is much improved in personal appearance—is
growing quite corpulent—and says he has been treated very
kindly ou board the Warspite. On being asked if he dis-
liked a seafaring life, he replied, " No, he had no objection
to it." He was then asked what could induce him to leave
the ship and walk to London ; his reply was, that it had
been ascertained by the seamen that he was the " Boy
Jones," who had obtained an entrance on several occasions
into Buckingham-palace. He did not dislike the seafaring
life, but he was quite indifferent what was done with him ;
he did not, however, expect that the police wuuld have look-
ed after him. Jones called on Mr. James, landlord of the
Bell, Bell-yard, yesterday morning, before he was appre-
hended, but it has not transpired whether he had any object
in so doing. Mr. James, it will be recollected, is the gentle-
man who took the boy on board the steamer at Gravesend,
after he had made one of his extraordinary entrances into
Buckingham-palace. The boy was arrested at his father's,
and brought to the station-house in a cab, where he re-
mained until a government order was received for his re-
moval to Portsmouth. On being told that he was to be sent
back to Portsmouth, he said that he was quite willing. No
inquiry into the circumstances of the boy's return took place
in town.
Jones's father called at the Home-office during the day,
and wished to know what it was intended to do with regard
to his son ; he appeared much excited. There was -no in-
quiry at the Home-office, consequently no answer could be
given. We have heard that the instructions to the police-
officer were to take the boy back to Portsmouth, and leave it
to the officers of the ship to take such steps as they might
consider necessary under the circumstances.

RATHER OstiNons.—A shark was caught in Cthearslkeisotoonf
CfroofnltheancoemmnaPol;
(S.C.) harbour. It was eight feet in length.
and There
h was
faomunadreisnhitesadst.ziamcheraielnrtpaopfear.man'sedshobuiarrrti
re ußmuastsiica oil,lea twhehriceeirsiveebst:irl
epdefcruelmiartho
or white Birch tree, Betula alba, and
which the Russians
employ in tanning.
THEFT AND F A S T I N G . A benevolent
coosion was
tpoeasmsaintetrwyittoh othhe-,
ng,
gentleman, accus-
tomed to perambulate amongst the Irish
i arguing with a
serve their habits, on one o
farmer's wife on the folly and
hypocrisy of fasting, and
quoted the text from Isaiah about fast
fist of wickedness, C. itAah
exclaimed, struck with the force, truth, your honour," she
what they do; they have of the truth, " that'siast
stolen my fat hen, and though
they would not eat her," because this is Friday, they would
sell her, the villains.
This anecdote is authentic.
STATISTICS OF C
; hi
RIME IN FRANCE.—The follow.nge e
given from an official statistical return of the convicts at
r was
6,908, on the Ist
6,908, of whom of January, 1842 :—The total numbe
156 be-
-271 were invalids. Their ages were,
tween 16
31 , and 20. 1,861 between 21 and 30; 2,204 between
0 and 40 ; 1,663 between 41 and 50 ; 732 between 51 and 60;
-85 between 61 and 69. There were 4,139 bachelors, 515
married men without children, 534 with onechild, 1,351 with
several children, 117 widowers withoutchildren, 77 with only
one child, and 175 with several children. 4,128 could neither
read no write, 2,012 could read and write imperfectly, 650
could read and write well, and 114 had received superior
primary education. The crimes of which they were con-
victed were, attempts to commit murder, 175 ; conspiracy,
1 72 ; fraudulent bankruptcy, 11 ; bigamy, 5 ; cutting and
maiming, 109 ; rnalversation by public officers, 24 ; political,
3 ; desertion after pardon, 4 ; poisoning, 68 ; extortion of
money by acts of violence, 15 ; forgery, 192 ; coining, 116 ;
perjury, 6; arson, 139 ; resistance with violence to legal
authorities, 13 ; obtaining money by threats, 3; murder, 867;
parricide, 18 ; plunder in bands, 13 ; rebellion, 9 ; selling
military accoutrements, 3 ; rapes, 314 ; robbeties, '6 :
4 54
accumulation of crimes, 183; duration of putits • h meat under-
5 years, 22 ; from 5 to 10 years, 3,097 ; from 11 to 20 years,
1,268 ; from 21 to 30 years, 570 ; from 31 to
from 41 to 50 years, 26 ; from 51 to 60 4O years, 58 ;
Yea
1,861. Among the various stations in life filled 6 ; for life,
con-
victs previous to their condemnations, 12 by the
were
physicians, or surgeons, 50 veterinary anatomists,
surgeons
30 hotel or innkeepers and masters or farriers,
jewellers and goldsmiths, 26 makers of lodging-houses, 32
of
9 coffeehouse-keepers, 15 chaser lace and embroideries,
s a
22 restaurateurs, sc., 220 domesticnd engravers, 1 comedian,
herbalists, 5 ecclesiastics. 6 public servants, 7 druggists and
and mathematical functionaries, 12 opticians
instrument
men of law, 27 schoolmastersmakers, 2 men of letters, 5
watch-
makers and m s
echanician and professors, 37
merchants, 7 notaries, , 105 military men, 7 musicians, 9
pendent property.-- all(' 39
proprietaires or men of inde-
eligitani's Messenger.

Vottrp.

LINES
ON THE LAST PARTING OF A POOR BUT VIRTUOUS
CHRISTIAN AND HIS FAMILY•

(For the Liverpool Standard.)
The clay has yielded up its breath ;
Its vital spark bath fled ;
Why weep you round the bed of death ?
Why mourn you for the dead?
He is not here, but he has gone ;
You saw his end was peace ;•--•
Angels, from Heaven's all-gracious throne,
Brought down his soul's release.
Dry up the fountains of your eyes,
Ye kindred now forlorn ;
And hail God's message from the skies,
Which bids you cease to mourn.
No more he feels the cold—the blight
That kept his spirit chained :
His faith is lost in perfect sight,
His highest hope obtained!
The swift-winged seraphs watched this clay
Throughout the noon of night,
And, with the earliest dawn of day,
Unveiled the world of light ;
And when the eyeballs ceased to roam
O'er those he.loved and blest,
They took the pilgrim to his home,
The weary to his rest.

He sleeps—no cares his slumbers bring,
No dreams his rest annoy :
He'll wake—when morning stars shall sing,
And angels shout for joy !
Be not dejected, sad, and low,
But raise your spirits higher;
The Lord will be your father now,
The living God your sire.

Wayfarer!! count each fleeting hour ;
Scan all thy works with care :
This dying bed displayed the power
Of penitence and prayer !
Liuerpool, 15th October, 1842.

ENGLAND AS SHE WAS.

(From Oasfler's Fled Papers.)

She was the cradle and the castle of well-poised liberty ;
on her bosom peace and plenty were wont to crown her val-
leys and her plains : then the world looked to England as an
example. Her powerful arm forced the oppressor to tremble;
for it was wielded by her happy, brave, and athletic sons.
Her shield was the protection of injured innocence, for it was
sustained by righteousness. To her the fugitives from foreign
tyranny resorted, and found a safe and peaceful domicile.
The nation's church was revered by her people : her clergy
were then their shepherds—her nobles as their fathers. Her
merchants were honoured throughout the world, as well for
their integrity as for their wealth : they were once famed for
honour and honesty ; now for cant and fraud. The husband-
man pursued his healthful career with whistling cheerfulness,
for his reward was plenty ; the sound of the shuttle, mingling
with the national anthems of the old and young, gave token,
in our northern cottages, of healthfulness and peace • and a
plentiful reward was certain. No jealous ranklings then dis-
turbed the peace of the labourer if the farmer prospered ; he
sighed not at the splendour of the noble. No heart-burnings
disturbed the watchings of the artizan when his employer
obtained profitable returns : he envied not the wealth of
the merchant. Then labour was pleasant, because it was
the sure precursor of plenty and of health. In those days—
and they are within my memory—the noble, the farmer, and
the peasant—the merchant—the manufacturer and the ar-
tisan, bad but one interest—their own, the nation's weal.
The dull monotonous tramp of a policeman's foot was then
unknown in England—that poisonous " reptile" is not indi-
genous. One single constable was sufficient for a town like
Leeds. There was then more awe inspired by the clerical
hat of the priest, than by a regiment of Dragoons—it was the
debt of reverence for the office and the wearer. At his ap-
proach, vice was abashed, and virtue smiled. There were
few factories in those days—the artisans then performed their
ingenious evolutions at their homes, hence our manufacturing
population were not corrupted, their bodies were hale and
healthy, their minds were cheerful. The families were not
then supported by the mill-labour of the mothers and chil-
dren—the matrons remained at home to nurse and train the

younger ones, and manage household work. As the children
grew older, the father taught the boys his arts and labour—
the girls were placed as servants with the more opulent neigh-
bours ; there they were prepared for matrimony, to become
faithful and thrifty wives. The streets of our manufacturing
towns were then neither disgraced by police nor prostitutes.
The church was well frequented, but the churchyards were
not crowded with the untimely dead—sent, by the factories,
long before,nature called for them.
We had no large crowded prisons then, containing hun-
dreds—one small lock-up was all that Leeds required ; and
it was oftener without a tenant than occupied. Our hospi-
tals and workhouses were not then crowded with factory
cripples.
There was then no WANT for INDUSTRY—pIenty crowned
her board. If casual misfortune visited, the w►lling band of
Christian benevolence was ready to relieve and remedy—if
its stay was lengthened and cureless, the workhouse received
the houseless and the " dateless." But the inmates of that
last home of the destitute were not exiled—their friends
could visit them, and administer comfort and relief. Nay,
from that house, how often have I seen them welcome visi-
tors at the abodes of the wealthy, their former friends and
neighbours. England was England then ! But now, alas,
how changed !

CLARA NOVELLO.-ENGLISH TALENT.

Among the English artists who have been highly appreci-
ated in Italy, after a lengthened and assiduous study of the
method of that musical country, Miss Clara Novello incon-
testibly carries away the palm. One connoisseur observes,
she has learnt, with surprising facility, all that it is requisite
a cantatrice should know, and, harder still, unlearnt the an-
ticlassical style she had so laboriously acquired during ber
own erroneous education. The following extract may serve
to show the opinion now entertained of her. The editor of
the Teatri Arti e Letteratura, in his 971st number, states,
that an intimate friend—a passionate admirer of the musical
art, a connoisseur of instinctive perception and unerring taste
for all that is sublime and genuine in music—has for several
evenings been present at the performances of " Saffo" and
of " Beatrice di Tenda" in the splendid theatre of Fermo,
and adds these short, but animated, lines on Signora No-
vello
My friend, I can only repeat what I have said before—
La Novello is that accomplished cantatrice predestined to
distinguish herself among those who are and will ever be the
first artists in Europe ; her extraordinary voice strikes direct
to the heart, and excites the most pleasing emotions, which
are sure of producing a magical effect on those who are en-
dowed with any heart at all. The city of Fermo is proud of
her ; in these latter days she has peopled it with strangers,
who called her ' the gifted one,' and hail her with enthusiasm.
That part of the public justly considered the superior and
cultivated class, which alone can pronounce with judgment
on the merit of an artist, has dignified her as all-accomplished
in the surprising management of her voice, formed at the
school of the great Pesarese. These dilettanti have been
unanimous and constant in their applause, and on the night
of her benefit were willing to testify their admiration of her
in no ordinary way. The entrance money did not amount to
less than three hundred scudi, besides a quantity of presents,
and a lithograph of her of her rare beauty is shortly to ap-
pear, designed by the first artist, Palmardi. She sung on
this memorable occasion the cavatina in ' Norma," Casta
Diva,' in which not an intonation but proved her unattainable
excellence. It would require a long letter to detail all the
sublimity and inspiration with which this sweet child of
Italian creation ennobled her song, and how many and how
great the difficulties were, which she sought not to avoid, but
surprisingly overcame. The inhabitants of Fermo will long
cherish her delightful souvenir, and many are desirous of
transmitting her teatures to posterity, and this will be effected
by those generous, honourable individuals who know how to
appreciate and extol her extraordinary merit, the loftiness of
her genius, and her rare and singular virtues. But all Italy
knows her; every capital is eager to hear and admire ber,
and two of them at present are in open contention to de-
termine which of them shall enjoy this distinction first.—
Allow me to," &c.
It is a novel and gratifying task to submit to the English
reader such forced testimonies to native talent, which prove,
moreover, that there is no reluctance in this pre-eminent
land of harmony to acknowledge the merit of foreign artists
where it really exists. This fearless justice of the Italian
dilettanti, so independent of all national jealousy, which vo-
luntarily lavished such ardent encouragement on the syren
of Covent-garden, during her residence among them, should,
we think, guarantee their tribunal against the suspicion of
any unworthy prejudices, when they do not feel themselves
disposed to bestow a palm, which they cannot acknowledge
to be merited.—Era.

DREADFUL DISASTER AT SEA.—lntelligence of the fol-
lowing disaster, attended, there is some reason to fear, with
the lOss of the crew of the vessel run down, with the exeep-
tion of one man, the writer of the subjoined statement,
reached this city on Saturday. It appears that the brit;
Dundonald, of Troon, D. M`Nicol, master, which sailed
from this port on Tuesday evening for Troon, laden with bal-
last, came, shortly after her departure, in contact with the
schooner Kirby, laden with slates from Dudden, a small
seaport on the borders of Lancashire and Cumberland. The
only particulars that we have yet learned are contained in the
letter at foot, written by one of the crew of the Kirby, which
letter he handed to the pilot authorities at Passage of Water-
ford, when he arrived in the Maid of Mostyn; it is to be re-
marked that the letter is not signed with the writer's name.
The Dundonald took her departure from hook Tower at
eight o'clock on Tuesday evening, and her collision with the
Kirby occurred about three hours after, and about 16 miles
from the hook. We learn that the night was rather cloudy,
hot that the sea was smooth, with a light breeze. While we
anxiously await some further intelligence, and in particular
the version of the oc urcrence to be given by the Dundonald,
we should think that it appears at least somewhat probable,
from the following letter, that the Kirby and the remainder
of the crew went down: ' This is to certify that the schooner
Kirby, of Dudden, was bound on her passage from Dudden
and on Tnesday, the 11th
to Youghal, with a cargolooufrsslaotfl6
of October, betwixt the I
got
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tanbzri
ed witho)e southwardsc
Dun-
donald, of Troon, and
mile
said schoanondelr2
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schooner
the
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one another about a
Light-ship, when the master
imiletothoef
out to
' the brig, You will run us down ?' they said,Put your
helm down,' and immediately the vessels struck, when our
master called out,
, she is going down—run, save yourselves
if you can." With that I left* the helm, and ran forward, and
go
but myself. There was
got hold of the brig's bobstay along with my shipmate, hut 1
do not know whether he went
.
overboard or not. There
were none got on board of the brig
one of the brig's crew assisted me gin getting over the bows.
When I got on deck I heard my master say, Oh ! dear cap_
tain stand by us,' and he gave him no answe,r, but was giving
orders to his men about his jibboom, for it was carried away.
I kept looking towards the schooner, and as near as I can
calculate I saw her about twenty minutes, and the last words
I went to
I heard my captain say were ' Oh, my dear w ifs.'
the captain of the brig, and said, You w
towards her,' and he said, What good canould better stand
I do ? Let us
get our jibboom in.' I wanted him to put me on
lightship, but he would not do it, and I remained board the
on board
of her till Thursday, the 13th, when I saw a schooner stand-
ing in for the Tuskar light. I asked the captain if he would
allow his men to pull me aboard of the schooner, and he said
it was a day's work, she was so far off, and two of the men
said they would go, and he said Very well, call the hands
up.' So we lowered the boat and pulled towards the schooner
and made signal to her, and she hove to until we came up to
her, which we found to be the the Maid of Mostyn, Captain
Edwards, bound to Ross, and I asked a passage from him,
and he told me to come on board. It was 3 p.m. then. She
was about seven miles to the E.N.E. of Tuskar light." We
have not learned the name of the writer of this statement. It
appears that he was a north of England man, and has gone
on to Youghal, in the expectation of finding the schooner
was able to prosecute her voyage. We trust that the expec-
tation will be realised. Her crew consisted of the master
and three men, and it appears that the master's wife was on
board.—Waterford Mirror.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Upwards of £12,000 is paid into the bank for building a
Roman Catholic cathedral at Kilkenny.

There are 800 puncheons of whiskey now in store in Lime-
rick.

Sheridan Knowles (whose wife died some time since) has
married Miss Elphinstone.—Canada Paper.
The gross total of the sailing and steam-vessels registered
in Great Britain and Ireland on the 31st December, 1841,
was 23,591 vessels, and their tonnage 3,760,315 tons.
The wheat crop of France in 18.12 has almost doubled du-
ring the last thirty years, and that of potatoes increased to
almost five-fold during the same period.
PEACE BETWEEN PERU AND BOLIVIA.—A treaty of peace
was concluded between Bolivia and Peru, at Puno, on the
7th of June, under the auspices of the government of Chili.
On some of the estates in Ireland, more particularly
Drogheda, the rents, which were some time ago 15s. per
acre, are now from 365. to 50s. per acre.
The Bank of England has received light sovereigns to the
amount of £6,500,000 sterling since the proclamation, and
the average amount of new sovereigns struck at the Mint has
been £300,000 per week.
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The leading mercantile firms in London have adopted the
resolution of going on 'Change at three o'clock, and leaving
at four o'clock, instead of the present custom of four o'clock
until five.

During the week, from the 7th to the 13th instant exclu-
sively, the number of passengers between France and Eng-
land who embarked and landed at Boulonge, was 1,239. At
Calais, the number during the same period was 537.

WINTER ASSIZES.-It was stated on good authority dur-
ing the late special commission at Stafford, that it is intended
by government to have a general winter assizes throughout
the kingdom, to commence in the early part of December.

TASTE OF THE AGE.—In one of the New York papers
we found an advertisement of a new almanac, entitled the
Tragic Almanac, which was to give details of all the most
horrible murders, accidents, fires, and explosions, which
had taken place during the past two years.

LEITH.—TIAIBER DUTIES.—On Monday last the new
tariff came into operation, and American timber, which for-
merly paid 10s. per load, is now cleared at Is. In conse-
quence of this reduction, so important to the timber trade,
large quantities have, within these last few days, been taken
from bond at the low rate.—Caledonian Mercury.
LEAPING UPON TRAINS.—On the North Midland Rail-
way, last week, Frederick Richardson, a " point man," lost
a foot, and an inspector of workmen on the same line,
named Utterly, had his head taken off, by the wheels of the
train passing over him, each accident being occasioned by
slipping when attempting to get upon trains in motion—a
feat to which Utterly was quite accustomed. He has left a
widow and four children.— Yorkshireman.

METALLIC CORPSES.—A paper was read at the late meet-
ing of the Paris Academy of Sciences, containing the extra-
ordinary proposition of a M. Carnay. to employ the galvano-
plastic process, after embalmment, for the preservation of the
human body after death ! The idea, however extravagant it
may appear, is said not to be new, and that beautiful speci-
mens are to be seen of small animals, birds, insects, &c.,
which have been thus preserved.
The melancholy effects of intemperate habits were mani-
fested in an awful manner in Limerick on Thursday morning.
The wife of a pensioner from the 93d, named M'Cov, was
found dead at her residence in the Englishtown ; and on the
inquisition made before the mayor it appeared that the hus-
band had drawn his quarter's pension the previous day, and
that both bad retired to bed deeply intoxicated ; there were
several marks on the deceased, supposed to be the effects of
a fall—the jury found accordingly.
GALLANT CONDUCT.—During the passage of the Princess
Royal, Captain Brock, from Madras to Calcutta, on the 22d
of July, the carpenter, who was working on a stage over the
side of the ship, by accident fell into the sea ; Mr. Burgess,
a cadet, who was on the poop, instantly threw a rope to him,
but unfortunately the carpenter did not see it and sank. Mr.
Burgess then took hold of the rope and jumped overboard,
and succeeded in reaching the man (who was quite insensible),
and snpported him until the boat took them both up in a very
exhausted state.

SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—A bull, the property of
Mrs. Middleton, of Hemingford-grey, Cambridgeshire, was
missed the Ist of last month. Seventeen days after the
animal was discovered alive in a ditch, fastened by the nose
to the ground, in a dreadful state of emaciation. It appears,
the bull having got into the ditch, had trod on the chain ap-
pended to the ring in its nose, and the ditch being of stiff
clay the chain had become strongly embedded in the soil ;
the cartillage of the nose being particularly tender, he bad
not been able to extricate the chain. The animal is now re-
covered.

THE OVERLAND MAIL FROM INDIA.-It iS DOW con-
fidently stated that the arrangements which have been pend-
ing for some time between the Right Hon. Lord Lowther
the postmaster. general, and the Austrian Director-General,
for the transmission of the overland mail from India via Suez
and Alexandria, by the way of Trieste. Vienna, Hamburg,
and Ostend, have been concluded. This new arrangement
with regard to receiving the overland mail will, in some
manner, affect the present treaty of sending via Marseilles
to Malta, Egypt, and India, on the 4th of each month, and
by the French mail packets leaving that port on the Ist, 11th,
and 25th of the month.

THE WEATHER.—The fine weather we may safely say has
passed away ; for some mornings psst fogs on a small scale
have been threatening, and occasionally made themselves
manifest in the vicinity of the Thames. But yesterday morn-
ing, about nine o'clock, a fog, which bad been gradually
growing in intensity, settled down on the Strand, and, we
suppose, other localities of London, particularly those ad-
jacent to the river, which, with now some years' experience
of London fogs, was fully a match in pitchy darkness for any
of them. The gas-lamps were obliged to be lighted, and the
morning seemed converted into night.—London Times of
Wednesday.
AWFUL EFFECTS OF INTOXICATION.—On Thursday last,
an iron-lifter at Dundyvan, of the name of John Black, un-
dertook, for a trifling wager, to swallow a mutchkin of
whisky without taking it from his head. A previous allow-
ance had quickened his appetite for the undertaking, and all
things being ready, John swallowed the mortal dose—and
one glass more I—when he hied his way home from Coat-
bridge to Dundyvan, in a state of utter stupefaction; and
though one of the most hardy and powerful men at the work,
the poisonous potation wrought so rapidly on his constitu-
tion, that in less than four hours from swallowing the draught
he was found a lifeless corpse, leaving a hapless wife and nu-
merous family to lament his intemperate and murderous
folly.—Glasgow Constitutional.

HINTS FOR SHAVING.-1. Get one case-hardened steel
razor: if a good one more not required. Try by No. 2.--
2. No edge is good which will not cut a hair held between
the finger and thumb. 3. Wash your face well with soap and
water before you begin : the oily secretion of the skin is ruin
to a razor. For which reason don't pass over the palm of the
hand : for this reason lather long and well. 4. Don't strop
much—once or twice gently, not with pressure so as to fur-
row or indent the surface of the strop, which turns the edges.
5. A steel will set a razor. If you get a razor hone don't
use oil, use soap; use soap, not oil to your strop. 6. Shave
as mowers mow, by an up-and-down sweep, and not by a
straight-forward scrape. You may thus use cold water,
which saves trouble ; and you need only go over once, which
saves time. Avoid oil in every shape. Joiners use oil to
their tools, but Joiners do wrong.

THE BISHOP OF JERUSALEM.—We extract the following
from his Lordship's letter of August 1, 1842:—" Although
I feel very unequal to much writing, I am unwilling to let
the mail leave without adding a few lines to the full reports
which are forwarded by this post from the different mem-
bers of the mission, particularly from Mr. Nicolayson. 1
feel sure you will all sympathise with us, when you hear of
the sick house we have had during the last month. Every
one of my household, excepting only the native servants,
has had an attack of fever more or less severe. The children
and the English servants have quite recovered, but Mrs.
Alexander and myself are but slowly gaining strength, this
having been my second attack. This is the trying season.
We are obliged to leave our houses for change of air, but
the only abode we can find during that time is an old con-
vent, about two miles from Jerusalem ; we hope to go there
to-morrow. We cannot be sufficiently thankful for having
all got through it so well ; and we may hope that it will bet-
ter prepare us for standing the climate in future."

THE WINDSOR STABLES.—The new stables at Windsor,
commenced under the direction of the late Sir Jeffrey Wyat-
v!lle, and now completed under the management of his as-
sistant and successor, Mr. Henry Ashton, are about to be
handed over to their new occupants, both human and eques-
trian ; for the benefitting accommodation of the attendants
on the horses, both married and single, has been duly cared
for, at the cost of a considerable portion of the outlay. All
absence of show, consistent with good keeping, is most re-
markable throughout this indispensable appendage to a royal
residence, which has not been provided, in substitution, be-
fore it was required, since the preceding straggling buildings
would hardly be acknowledged by a decent London inn-
keeper. Those now prepared are calculated for 120 horses
and their managers, at an expense of about £70,000, the
architect, rather unusually, keeping closely to his estimate,
and yet so attending to substantiality throughout, that they
may last, for ought it appears, a century without repair, and
remain a coeval monument of the good taste and sense of
those who planned and executed the erection both of those
and the extensive addition to the princely castle.—Observer.
A pleasing illustration of the respect in which the clergy
are held by their flocks occurred at Ripple, in this county,
on Wednesday last. The Rev. G. Hill Clifton, the Rector
of that parish, returned with his lady, to whom he has been
lately united, from a continental tour, after an absence of a
few weeks, on the evening of that day, and was met at the
entrance of the grounds belonging to the Rectory by a large
body of his parishioners with hearty acclamations, and evi-
dent tokens of joy at his return. The road to the Rectory
had been decorated with triumphal arches, and garlands of
choice flowers, intermingled with a bite favours ; and young
ladies dressed in white presented elegant bouquets to the
worthy Rector and his lady. The music of the tine peal of
bells from the old tower, and the merry faces of the villagers,
made it quite a scene of mirthful hilarity ; and the numerous
persons present were plentifully regaled with cider at the ex-
pense of the Rector. On Friday aftern'oon, Mr. Clifton and
his amiable lady invited the wives and daughters of the cot-
tagers to tea, which was given on the lawn of the Rectory,
and upwards of 200 females, with 100 children belonging to
the Sunday schools, partook of the beverage, with an abum
dant supply of bread and butter and plum cake, and departed
highly delighted. On Sunday last the choir of the beautiful
parish church, accompanied by their excellent organ lately
erected, chaunted the service of the day, and performed
several choice anthems, on the occasion of the appearance of
the bride and bridegroom within the walls of that fabric.—
Worcester Journal.

MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT.-011 Saturday
evening last, Mr. Charteris, farmer, Williefield, having, like
many others during this remarkable dry season, run short of
water, sent two of his servants to procure a supply from the
neighbouring stream of the Cairn. The servants' names
were Thomas Jackson and Janet Carson; and accompanied
by a little girl, a daughter of Mr. Charteris, they proceeded,
about six o'clock, with a cart drawn by a fine mule to a pool
in the Cairn, about a mile off, a little above Gribton Ford,
and nearly opposite Irongray Church. Having left the little
girl on the hank the man drove his cart some yards up the
stream • •
he , and it would appear that from some motive or other
indi-
viduals w
badroo endeavoured
stol to turn the cart round to go down again,
but
lostn uckily drove into deep water, where the mule
forthwithits footing. Whether the unfortunate indi-
etethrown from the cart into the water, or got into
the pool while endeavouring to extricate themselves, is not
see
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gavae the nybeailtalgrunLearl vho
could render the least
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ly afterwards people
leelay ensued romsailed over beforeWilliefield and other places,
a boat and ropes were
procured.b ut con s considerable era
Theb boatd the pool several times before
anything was discovered, but after a torch had been lighted
the mule and cart were found in the pool, completely covered
the cart,
right above them.
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of
of raormt
hadit its
beenwith water, the boat having, in fact,
When drawn out it was evident that bone
posi-
tion, had not been overturned, thoughit
much broken, probably from the struggles
the drowning
animal. The can, intended for lifting the water, was lying
in the bottom of the cart, while the barrels had,from
nthelir
lightness, been floated away. It was, we understand, nearly
nine o'clock before the bodies of the unfortunate individualsry
were found, who have met with so mournful a fate, both cut
off in the prime of life, and full of health and strength.—
Dumfries Courier.