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

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A FATHER OF A FAMILY.—Sir George Tuthill relates
a case of an Asiatic Russian, who had by his first wife six-
teen infants at four, and sixty-nine at twenty-seven births—
eighty-five children in all.

If a planter of great experience were asked which tree he
would recommend of all others for profit, he would certainly
name the larch ; for considering its rapidity and its value in
the timber market, it is unrivalled.

The following anecdote is taken from a letter written from
Ham to M. Thayer, by Prince Louis Napoleon :—" The
emperor often paid attention to the accounts of his house-
keeping. One day, without considering who was present,
he advanced towards my mother before a crowd of persons,
and cried out, ' Hortense, how much do you expend for your
kitchen and'your stables?' Sire,' replied she, I don't at
this moment remember.' Well, you are a fool ! you may
always wit h a few figures bear your expenses in mind. In
every well-regulated family only the quarter of one's revenue
should be laid out for the kitchen, and the fifth for the
stable.' Another time, laying down rules of conduct, he
remarked, ' In whatever we undertake we ought to calculate
the cost to the best of our judgment, and add half as much
more for chance expenses.' "

HILL AT VITTORIA.—The sun of the 21st of June rose
clear and cloudless. The allied columns stood to their arms,
and marched from their bivouacs on the Bavas, in the assured
hope of a day of glory. Lord Wellington disposed the army
in three corps. The right under Sir Rowland Hill.; the left
under Sir Thomas Graham ; while the centre, consisting of
four divisions, formed in two columns, received orders more
immediately from himself. In the right corps was the allied
division under Sir William Stewart, the Portuguese division
under the Conde de Amarante, and a division of Spaniards
under Murillo. In the centre were the divisions of Sir Lowry
Cole and Baron Alten, and those of Lord Dalhousie, and Sir
Thomas Picton. On the left with Sir Thomas Graham, were
the first division and General Oswald's ; also two brigades of
cavalry, and the Spanish division of Longa. The centre of
the enemy's position was so strong, and it was defended by
such enormous batteries of field artillery, and so large a force,
that any attempt to pierce it was not hopeful or prudent ;
though the immense extent of line from Abecbuca to Pu-
ebla would, with a less formidable post for the centre, have
favoured such an attack. As it was, it became necessary
to force back the enemy's flanks, and to delay any assault
on the French centre till the right or left corps of the al-
lies should have crossed the Zadorra, and be so well ad-
vanced as to give a powerful support in flank to a front at-
tack. The Spaniards of Murillo commenced the action, sup-
ported by the right companies of the second division, and the
7lst Light Infantry under the Honourable Colonel Cadogan.

The Spaniards ascended the stee

p heights of Puebla Witt

great spirit, and were soon engaged with the enemy, who
kept up a very hot fire of musketry on their advance.
Murillo behaved admirably; he was wounded, but kept the
field, and continued the combat with good countenance, till
the support of Colonel Cadogan came to his aid. The enemy
reinforced this point strongly, and a severe struggle ensued;
but they were at length driven back, though not without
having inflicted a heavy loss on the allies. The 71st regiment
lost 400 men ; and Cadogan, the heroic commander of that
gallant corps, fell mortally wounded at its head; be died
upon the field, with his eyes anxiously following its advance.
The heights of Puebla thus won, Sir Rowland Hill direeted
two brigades of the second division to carry the village and
heights of Subijana de Alava. The village was immediately
seized by the brigade of Colonel O'Callaghan, without loss ;
the defensive cannonade from the heights above being ill di-
rected. The enemy, however, soon filled the ravines among
the heights above, and a wood to the left of Subijana, with a
swarm of tirailleurs, and made repeated efforts to recover the
village; but they were stoutly opposed, and the
contested hotly. The regiment which

skirmished opposite
e fire of the French volti.
geurs, and the combat was maintained here till the head of a
column directed by Sir Rowland Hill to advance along the
lofty ridge running from the Puebla mountains, appeared

the wood suffered severe:

time, 0

bu-rth and

light divi

adorra ; the

former at t

,the latter at that of Tres

Almost as a

the column

reached its point of attack; and
on under Sir Thomas Picton, followed by the
crossed the bridge on the Mondonza
uese four divisions formed rapidly on the
4adorra, and advanced against the enemy's right
-9 immediately exposed to a
"ss of Sir Rowland Hill,

of Dalh

seventh under the earl
road h 4
left of t

.ft centre v

who no'

their retreat from Suana de Alava
With his wonted steadiness bi
and vigour. The allied columns
A- -1 • •
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ously engaged
fire; but they

They were received with a most destructive

nirable order. notwithstandin

It was not pos

ments of
gularity.

ble for the move-
ore spirit and re-

General Coi.

g on the left, led

ged, the enemy falling upon it hotly in
t not only stoutly held ground against

very superior torct
this attack, but, assailir
and, cornin
at the bayonet's point,
lage of Arinez, the enemy fought for a time v.„l. it was at last carried by the haw--
ivanced, the French
So long, however
riflery wa s terrible nst these
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and fifth division a,

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point w

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and musketry, led np his
lumns of battalions, witl
Lawson's brigade of Artil
placed two brigades of field
Abechuco ; and under cover of this fi
the German light battalions, supported by a

tuguese infantry under
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which they

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when the perfected
loosen them to.pur

3mbination of Lord Well

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vancing battle in the centre. No sootier had theallies passe
Vittoria in pursuit of the enemy's centre and left, than Sir
Thomas Graham, pushing across the river, took pc
of the road to Bayonne.—(From Military TV
Duke of Wellington.)

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* The height on which the Frencch centre stood, are by
tradition the same on which the English under Edward the
Black Prince obtained a complete victory over the army of
" Henry the Bastard, and seated don Pedro, the rightful king;
14"),,4jP an the throne.
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BRUCH HALL SCHOOL, NEAR %
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21st January, 1843, and the general business of to CH OOL
will be RESUMED on the following Monday.
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may be known on application to Mr. SKELTON, Superin-
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Bruck Hall, December 24th, 1842.

PHIS Seminary which is conducted on th Edinburgh
Sessional School Explanatory System, is s' nate at Gate-
house, one of the most beautiful and health owns in the
South of Scotland. Young Gentlemen r here liberally
Boarded and carefully instructed in Eng Reading, with
Explanation, Grammar, Geography, wit the Use of the
Globes, Writing, Arithmetic, Mathematics, Book-keeping,,
Latin, Greek, French, and every other Branch of Useful and
Polite Literature.

In this Establishment the Domestic Arrangements are
conducted with the strictest order in regularity ; the Treat-
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the several Branches of Education is simplified as much as
possible $0 the age and capacity of the Scholar, which enables
him fully
.s,:b comprehend the meaning and application of his
progressive acquirements.

Mr. Dun, late of Edinburgh, the Master of the Establish.
ment, wll give references to the Clergymen of this District,
several of the Directors of the Edinburgh Educational So-
ciety, Professor Pillans, Mr. Donaldson, Actuary to the
Savings Bank, Ulverstone, &c.
Mr. D. has had the honour of being very highly compli-
mented, as a Teacher, by Professor Pillans in his late Work
on Elementary Education.
There are at present only Two Vacancies in this Establish-
ment, for which early applications are requested to be made.
For Board and Education the Terms are TWENTY-FIVE
POUNDS per Annum, with no extra charges.
Gatehouse, Kirkcudbrightshire.

THE CORN LAWS.-MINISTERIAL INTENTIONS,

When we noticed about ten days ago, the fabrications of
the Globe respecting the intentions of the ministry on the
subject of the corn-laws, we explained the origin of these
falsehoods in the desire of the anti-corn law league, to make
it appear that agitation would have an effect upon the mi-
nistry, and that thus the subscribers to the £50,000 fund
would be encouraged to come forward in the hope that their
money would not be thrown away. We observe the Standard
takes the same view in a recent article :

" Can anything be conceived so thoroughly discreditable to
a minister and a great party as the present state of doubt
about their future intentions. No man knows whether Sir

Robert Peel means in February
to propose the total aban-
donment of all corn laws whatever, or to stand resolutely by
the act of last session. No one knows what his party will
do; bow many of them are urging him to stand by their mo-
nopolies ; or how large the proportion that are assuring him
that iu any dereliction of past principles he may count on the
basest compliance on their parts."

The paragraph above quoted is the first of a leading article
of this day's (Monday) Morning Chronicle, the concluding
paragraph of whic'

" Let our friends of the Anti-corn-Law League 1
therefore, that this is not the time for them to relax.
have made some impression on the government by the force
of their recent, pressure. They have forced them to enter-
tain the suggestion of an immediate capitulation. They hold
the future conduct of parliament in their hands : for it is
with them that the business of making up Sir R. Peel's
mind rests. He evidently cannot do it himself, and he is
open to change either way, according as one or other force
acts upon him the more strongly between this and the 2d of
February."

These two paragraphs taken in juxta-position, throw a va-
luable light upon certain late proceedings of the journals of
the League. That purpose is plainly to represent the govern-
ment, as in what Mr. Wakley would call a " squeezable"
temperament; all to encourage the leaguers to contribute
largely to the funds of those persons who are applying the
screw. But let us look a little closely to the exposure of the
trickery. It certainly would be " discreditable to a minis-
ter, and to a great party, to leave a doubt as to their future
intentions," if they were concerned in creating the doubt;
but surely they are not to blame for doubts created by the
most audacious lying on the part of their enemies. What-
ever doubt upon the subject of the corn-laws existed last
week, was the result of the most impudent fabrication urn_

as v' pro-
bably ever printed in a newspaper—the announcement of
the meditated fixed duty in the Globe of the 9th—an an-
nouncement which, as our Gloucestershire friends have re-
marked, was artfully reserved for a Friday, in order that it
might find its way into the great majority of the provincial
papers, printed on a Saturday, before it was possible to
contradict it by authority. Against such transient suspicion
as was excited by this desperate falsehood, no minister, no
party, no individual, can secure himself by the utmost care;
and the disgrace attaches not to the object. but to the author,
of the lie.

Since t
paid by I
.£5OO

morninl

the great

MONIIMEN

of our p

jesty's gover

)n, and

or rue Doper of
most dreadfull

stablished Initusa

MISCELLANEOX

One nobleman is
Zealand Company.

Dung Chinese at Rome, who are educating

d to hay

stablishment of military librar

soldiers

S penny me

A Parisian physician annoy

perfect cure for hydrophobia

amount

of vinegar in the

nd a third at sunset, to be a

our years old, at Writt

Last week a child, not quite fc
near Preston, was killed by bein
to drink four glasses of gin.

Medical Times refers to recent experiments shovvinP
,t advantage of inoculation for the r

other epidemics.

es,. and

The rule-book in the office of the Queen's Bench, Dublin
has had stamps extracted from it to the amount of £7OO
The parties arc yet undiscovered.

It appears from York papers, that the Agricultural Bank
in that city stopped payment yesterday, but no particulars as
to the cause have yet transpired.

TO GRACE DARLING.—Her Majesty the
lueen has sent £2O to the Venerable Archdeacon Thorp, in
furtherance of the above project.

. -
The Cologne Gazette states, from Vienna, that the pro
jected convention between Austria and Saxony, for tb
construction of a railroad from Prague to Dresden, has bee'
concluded.

The Rev. William Whitelegge, M.A., late curate of St
Marks', Cheetham H ill, has been appointed to the
bency of St. George's, Hulme, vice the Rev. Joshua Lin.,
deceased. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Manchester

On the 14th instant, an itinerant showman, intent upon
"astonishing the natives" at Weston Zoyland, near Bridg_
water, sent up a fire balloon, which, in its descent, set fire to
a stack of corn, which, and, three other ricks, were destroyed
Tn

kTAL FIRE IN GOODMAN'S-FIELDS.—The unfor-
tunate girl Nancy Holland, who threw herself out of the
window, with her ill-fated sister Julia, at the recent deplora-
ble fire in Little Prescott-street, London, is in a fair way of
recovery.

The woollen trade at Ashburton, Devon, still presents a
scene of activity, the factories and wool shops are all open,
and a busy throng
_are.l forking at their different employ-

ments from morn till ni

The Globe repeats the rt

The Queen's letter
pointing Dr. Daly to t
and Rev. Henry Pz
vacated by Dr. Dal
We have re
we can entire!

our, and so does inore than one
tries, tbat Lord Stanley is to be

o take t

ip Of the H

rrived in Dublin on Tbursday, ap
bishopric of Cashel, and the Hon

nery of S

ived information from a quarter on

to prof

British Queen

any alteration in the co

Dickens visited the " Mint" the
ow and

at mint, but a ver

ae Sanctuaries

other day, not tl:
wretched locality

Island;
ountin

Bay, Orkr
e proceeds,
Duted amongst the poor of the neighbourhood

IS. 8,..,.
v, for-
by two

,re during a
,y were sold

to £240, distri-

The Marquis of Anglesea is to succeed the late Lord Hill
in the Colonelcy of the Blues; and Sir Edward Kerrison,
from the 14th Light Dragoons, will succeed the noble mar-
quis in the command of the 7th Hussars.

Numerous factories have sprung up, within the last few
years, throughout the north-eastern districts of Ireland, for
the preparation of flaxen thread, and the cultivation of the
raw material has been greatly extended.

CURIOUS ASTRONOMICAL FACT.—Tbere is no new moon
in the month of February, 1843, but there are two new
moons in the month of March following.. It is new moon
on the 30th of January; again on the Ist of March, anil also
on the 30th of March.

On Tuesday last, when the one o'clock train, on the
Brandling Junction Railway, arrived at Brockley Whins sta-
tion from South Shields, by some accident one of the tubes

urst, and by its explosion the engine-man was
y scalded.—Durham Advertiser.

The Morning Chronicle says of the League, "The friends
of free trade at Hounslow seem of late to have been labour-
ing with great activity and considerable success." With
some reminiscences of what " free trade at
used to be, we are sorry to hear this. The police should by
all means look after the Chronicle's correspondents.
SIR CHARLES BAGOT.—We regret to state, that private
letters have been received in town which fully confirm the
distressing intelligence relating to the dangerous illness of

Hounslow'

ais Excellency the Governor-general of Canada. At the
date of these letters no hope whatever was entertained of his
ultimate recovery. Sir Charles for some time had not been
able to sleep until opiates had been administered.—Standard.
The life of Hannah Roberts, the convict, under sentence
of death in the prison of Flintshire, for poisoning her hus-
band, has been spared. The Home Secretary's letter an-
nouncing the fact arrived at the gaol on Saturday morning.
The miserable woman had been safely delivered of a male
child at ten o'clock the preceding night, which, with the
mother, is doing well.

NEW ZEALAND, AUG. 25.—The editor of the Nelson
Examiner, published at Auckland, New Zealand, expresses
his fear that the publication of the journal will have to be
stopped for a time, there not being at the settlement any
treacle! the principal ingredient for making the the, rollers
with which the type is inked. The editor publicly solicits
donations of this indispensable article.

So formidable, says the Tuam Herald, is the resistance
to the payment of poor-rates in that part of the Ballinasloe
union, called Sheehan, that Mr. Nolan, the collector, at-
tended at the petty sessions of Mount Belle, on Tuesday,
for the purpose of making an affidavit to ground an applica-
tion to government for a sufficient force to protect- him
ill
his duty. •

The Duke of Wellington, who arrived at the castle on
Tuesday, from Strathfieldsaye, upon a visit to her Majesty,
accompanied Prince Albert on Wednesday morning to the
royal preserves, in the Great Park, where his Royal High-
ness and his Grace shot for nearly a couple of hours. The
Prince bagged 32 pheasants, 15 hares, 1 partridge, and a
woodcock. His Grace had also excellent sport.
EXTRAORDINARY AND FATAL ACCIDENT.---OD Tuesday
last week Dr. M'Cullagh, late of the 48th Regiment, came
to his death at Maghera, county Derry, in the following
extraordinary manner:—He and Dr. Barr were about to
drink off two bottles of soda water, and as Dr. Barr was in
the act of uncorking one, the cork flew out and struck Dr.
M'Cullagh on the jugular vein, who fell down and instantly
expired.

REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF THE MILDNESS OF THE
SEASON.—A farmer at Flalworth, between Newcastle and
North Shields, after reaping a crop of barley, has actually,
from the scattered grain, a second crop at present in the ear.
There being of course, no prospect of its coming to maturity,
he is now busy ploughing the field ; the fact, however, is
remarkable, and strikingly shows the extraordinary mildness
of the season.—Durham Advertiser.

RIINNING.—At the Wakefield Sheriff's Court, on Wed-
nesday, Mr. Hill, in reproving a juryman for being behind
time in his attendance, reminded him that he was thereby
r,,nning a risk of being fined. The man very innocently
lied that to ffet ; .n.n Pnnrt nn 1.... t._
lone, " he

114/ LIM Ile !MCI .
had been running as fast as he could and was all in a perspi-
ration," a declaration which caused no little merriment,
Mr. Hill quietly observing that it was altogether a different
sort of running of which he bad been speaking.
Loss or A PILOT BOAT.—We Ere concerned to state
that four pilots were lost off Kilbaha, on Saturday, after
putting comrade Patrick Brennan on board the Suberb,
from Alexandria to Cork, which vessel ran into the Shannon
in distress. The pilot-boat was returning to shore when a
squall upset her, and the hands unhappily ppri.hpd Wk

aggravates this calamity is the loss of three of the crew of
the Superb, who were swept off the deck by a furious sea
before the pilots boarded her.—Limerick Chronicle.
FILIAL PIETY.. In the Insolvent Debtors' Court, at Cork,
last week, Andrew Coughlan, a very old and infirm man, ap-
plied for his discharge. One Michael Coughlan was sworn,
and deposed that be had arrested the insolvent and brought
him to Cork. The Commissioner :—What relation are you
to the insolvent ? Witness :—He is my father. And did you
arrest your own father? I did, when I was paid for it. The
witness retired amidst a murmur of execration. The insol-
vent was discharged.—Dublin Journal. •

A IN EN V INFERNAL MACHINE.--The Dagligt Altehanda,
.L-' - Swede, named Nobel,

pease for his

'g an enemy's vessels from

vater, oy means of anchors, petards, exploding by means of
ollision, and thus blowing up vessels coming into contact
""k Allehanda adds, that the real inventor of
named Ferdinand Tollin.

of war is a Swede

Steventon railway

question

ground

latch

continual

ear, it appears

DARING ATTEMPT OF CONVICTS TO ESCAPE
FROM NORFOLK ISLAND.

A' a
,daring attempt on the pert of some

leir escape from Norfolk Island, and
most dreadful result, has been received.

,oard the. Coquette. . The annals
history furnish no parallel to the horrible scene
wed. The prisoners mutinied and attempted to
the vessel ; they were resisted, and a dreadful conflict
ensued ; six people were killed and five wounded. The
following account of this dreadful affair contains full par-

captured and confined o
of color

a boat,

It appears that twelve prisoners had tnanufacturea
by means of which they succeeded in gaining Philip Island
whither they were pursued and captured. .

aid by the bo

s crew employed in unloading

was defeated, and the parties were imprisoned on board.
On the morning of the 21st of June, at seven o'clock, the
boat's crew were let out of the prison' for the purpose of
stowing the cargo of the launch, which was hanging to the
stern of the brig. On reaching the deck, and seeing only
two soldiers and the sergeant there, the crew took advantage
of the absence of the other ten, of which the guard consisted,
and rushed on the two sentries and threw them overboard ;
the sergeant immediately shot one of them named Kelly,
when he was knocked down by the others and severely
wounded by a belaying pin. One of the soldiers was drowned,
and the other saved by a prisoner named Wolfe. The sea-
men were then ordered into the launch, excepting two, who
were told to remain on deck, and one of them was placed at
the wheel, with a prisoner of the name of Moss, to assume
the command. The captain, with his officers, happened to
be below, and before they could proceed on deck the com-
panion hatch was put on, the fore and main hatches were
also battened down on the rest of the guard and crew, and
the mutineers were thus in complete possession of the vessel
I.ncum.- I but without

fly arms, except the pistols and cutlasses taken
from the two sentries.

portly after they had _ taken the vessel, one of the pa

i and proc
d to comr

btainin

ich they would give up the vessel
to sea in the " island " launch ; but he

with their proposals, as be knew that the
essel must ultimately fall into his hands again, the prisoners
,eing without provisions and water, to obtain which they
must necessarily expose themselves to the fire of the crew
and military, who were. well armed, and only waiting for an
opportunity to get on deck. Captain Boyle then broke the
cabin skylight, and watched for an opportunity of shooting
the man who was at the wbeel, and by a well-directed shot
he at length succeeded and killed him on the spot. On the
fall of the two master spirits, the others told the seamen on
deck that the ship was theirs again. The hatch was taken
off, and •the ship's crew and the military rushed on deck ;
the latter fired on the surviving mutineers, killed three and
wounded two mortally. The sergeant of the oner,l 'Aim the

corporal in•the scuffle, mistaking 611 for one of the prisoners.
The bodies of the killed presented a dreadful spectacle : one
man's head was covered with blood and brains, and but fur
the interposition of Captain Boyle, the whole of the prisoners
would have been killed.

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

The total number of killed and wounded are—military,
one drowned and two wounded ; seamen, one wounded ;
prisoners, five killed and two severely wounded.

The seven remaining mutineers wet
heir trial for murder and piracy.
ile the authorities of the island were occupied with the
duties resulting from this scene of blood, some of the pri-
soners on shore entered one of the chapels and stole the
plate. It was supposed to have been conveyed on board the
Governor Philip, and strict search had been made for it, but
without success.

'ully committed to

Several attempts had been made previous to this affair to
take the boats belonging to the island, which had been con-
sidered in a state of insecurity for some time; many boats
had also been secretly manufactured in the bush. One man,
named Stephen Brennan, had been committed for murder,
and another, named Dalton, for an unnatural crime. Another
occurrence had taken place, awfully illustrative of the in-
corrigible character of some of those wretches, and of their
contaminating influence, but which we.cannot further advert
to

Indeed, from all we can learn, Captain Maconocbie's
philanthropic effort is destined to terminate in a manner very
different from that which every good man must have wished.
Another party had been more successful in an act of
piracy, having made their escape in a canvas boat to Philip
Island, whither a party had been sent in pursuit. The
settlement is represented on the whole as being in a dreadful
state of excitement and disorganisation. A murder had a
short time before been committed and another attempted.

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

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

ERRONEOUS CHARGE AGAINST A LADY.—A case some-
what similar to one which has recently been a subject of
investigation in this town was, on Wednesday last, heard at
the Guildhall, London. Amelia Christie, a young woman of
respectable appearance, was charged before Sir C. Marshall
with having purloined a card of twelve yards of thread edging,
value 9s. 9d., from the shop of Messrs. Hall and Allen, St.
Paul's Churchyard. Mr. James, who attended on behalf of
the prisoner, applied fora private hearing, on two grounds :
first, that it would turn out the young lady was innocent;
and, secondly, that a young lady, who was in her company,
and who was to give evidence in her behalf was of so nervous
a temperament that she could not be able to give her testimony
in a crowded court. The request was complied with ; the
hearing took place in private, all but reporters being excluded.
It appeared that the two young ladies entered the shop, and
took seats at the counter, opposite to each other. The pri-
soner was a regular customer, but her friend, who was the
buyer on the occasion, was a stranger. There was a box of
lace about a yard and a half behind the prisoner, on the
counter. While the person who attended to them was mak-
ing the account, he saw a card of lace lying on the prisoner's
muff, in an inclined position, nearly falling. He saw it
shaken off into the lady's lap, and then mentioned the cir-
cumstance to Mr. Allen. The ladies went out, when, seeing
that the card had not fallen on the floor, he followed the
ladies, and, addressing the prisoner, told her he bad seen a
card f lace on her muff, which had fallen into some part of
her dress, perhaps by accident. They returned, and when
in the shop the card fell from the young lady's person. She
exclaimed, " How singular! The ladies were taken up
stairs, and a policeman sent for. The young lady had been
in the habit of dealing at the shop; she was trusted, when
the amount of her purchases exceeded the contents of her
purse. A piece of lace had been forced from the hand of the
shopman who served her, and it fell on the floor. Mr. James
thought it probable that another piece bad been forced from
the assistant's hand at the same time, and had rested on the
muff, and afterwards between the muff and the dress, with-
out her knowledge. The magistrate took this view of the
case, and the young lady was discharged.

AWFUL SUICIDE AT COALBROOKDALE.—An inquest was
held on the 16th instant, at the Rodney Inn, before J. Hin-
ton, Esq., and a highly respectable jury, upon the body of
W. Meaberrv, aged 19. It appeared that about ten o'clock
on the Wednesday night previous the deceased had been
drinking at the Coalbrookdale forge with his father, brother,
and two other workmen, named Salisbury and Williams, at
which time he exhibited several symptoms of a diseased state
of mind, and a few minutes before he committed the unheard
of and rash act, he went to the house of Mr. William Cook-
son, and asked the loan of a cup to take td the forge, say-
ing, " we have had a dress of drink given us at the forge for
some work we have done," afterwards asked the servant for
a kiss, saying, " it may be the last," which she indignantly
refused, shortly after Mr. Cookson was surprised, as was un-
usual at that late hour, by hearing strike six or eight blows
from the hammer, and almost instantly afterwards Williams
came to Mr. C. begging him to come to the forge, where he
found the deceased lying on his back, with his head literally
crushed to atoms, and blood profusely flowing, and his
brother over him, exclaiming, " ph ! my brother, Will !"
Previous to this melancholy affair, without any apparent
cause, he suddenly bit the nose of his companion, who was
sitting near him—followed his brother out of the forge, and
pinched him so severely as nearly to induce fainting, with
other insane actions. Upon his father censuring him for
such conduct, he sat down and wept bitterly for several
minutes—then jumped up, rushed to the forge hainmer,
lifted up the water-gate which sets the machinery in motion,
knelt down and placed his neck upon the anvil, as for deca-
pitation; when before any one could rush to his assistance
the hammer fell with a force amounting to a fall of several
tons ; his neck was broken, the upper part of the spinal hone
severely crushed, and of course instant death ensued. The
jury returned a Verdict " that the deceased destroyed himself
in a fit of temporiq insanity." At the request of the coro-
ner and jury, the Rev. Wm. Yate, their foreman, admini-
stered a severe reproof to the father of the deceased, for ap-
pearing before them in a state nearly approaching to intoxi-
cation, and for the careless and disgraceful manner in which
he gave his evidence.—Shrewsbury paper.

A FATAL EXPERIMENT.-Uri Tuesday evening last the
quiet and peaceable village of Eckington, in this county,
was thrown into a state of great excitement by a report that
a boy about ten years of age, the son of a labouring man
named Thomas Jeynes, had hung himself, and on inquiry
the report was found to be but too true. For some time past
the deceased had been in the employ of Mr. Sheppard, of
"- -; town, as carter's boy, and on the evening in
, upon Haynes, the carter, going into the stablebe-
t-ween five and six o'clock, he discovered him lying at full
length upon the ground, with a cord, one end of which w..

attached to to a beam, drawn tightly round his neck, by which
his head was raised about a quarter of a yard from the
' It was conceived almost impossible that strange-
.,., could have taken place while be was in this position,
as he had the free use of all his limbs, and he could easily
have extricated himself from his situation ; but it was sup-
posed that he had balanced himself upon something while he
fastened the cord to the beam, having done which he lost his
hold and fell, and continued struggling until he got into the
position in which he was discovered, but was then too weak
to make any efforts to save himself. Immediately he was
taken into Mr. Sheppard's house, and a person living in the
village, who is occasionally called in in cases of necessity,
was sent for to bleed him ; but when he arrived life was quite
xtinct, and the blood refused to flow. Various rumours
ere speedily afloat as to the cause of this melancholy event,
me of which were calculated, if true, to connect with it
hn Haynes, Mr. Sheppard's carter. It was said that he
ill-treating the boy, awl some ventured to
"•• bung hi 1,. On F►:' an i.•

• —udy a— inquesz,
as held on the body at the Bell Inn, Eekington, before Mr.
!Ind a highly respectable jury, when, after diligently
--.;(rating the case, the jury returned a ver-
' strangulation; and unani-

mously acquitted Haynes, the carter, of all blame whatever.
In the course of the inquiry it was stated that while the de-
ceased was talking with two other boys, about his own age,
the night before his death, about the murder at Rouse
Leneh, upon one of his companions remarking that the pri-
soner Are' -nuld be ' - ^hserved " that he should

THE CREDULITY OP UNBELIEF,

Ektremc

into the va

(From Me Spectator.)
The desperation of the coward merges
hero; the careful miser assumes the
and the Quixotic
ays the founda-

meet.
or of ti

condition of the impr

philanthropist, as fn the

The proverb applies alike-to the dtra-manifestation of each
sentiment of the mind ; and thus it is that among those who
pride themselves upon incredulity Re sometimes meet with
the most childlike simplicity of unquestioning belief. At a
recent meeting of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society
a paper was read. describing a case of painless amputation
of the thigh during a mesmeric trance. It was furnished
by two gentlemen, Mr. W.' Topham, a barrister of the
Middle Temple, and Mr. W. Squire Ward, M.R.C.S., for-
merly House Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, to
the following effect :—The patient, a labouring man, forty-
two years of age, had suffered for nearly five years from

a painful affection-of the knee : when, on the 21st June last,
he was admitted into the district hospital at Wellow, Notts.
During three weeks preceeding the 9th September he had not
slept more than two hours in seventy ; and at this time the
attempt to induce the mesmeric state was made by Mr. Top-
ham. It was repeated successfully every day until the 24th,
when sleep was produced in four minutes and a half. "In
this sleep his arms were violently pinched, as well as the dis-
eased leg itself, without his exhibiting any sensation ; yet
this limb was so sensitive in its natural state that he could
not bear even the lightest covering to rest upon it." On the
Ist October it was resolved that amputation should be per-
formed during the mesmeric trance. Throughout the ope-
ration, " the placid look of the patient's countenance never
changed ; his whole frame rested in perfect stillness ; not a
muscle or nerve was seen to twitch. Afterwards he gradually
awoke ; and upon collecting himself, he exclaimed, " I bless
the Lord to find it's all over," He denied having felt the
slightest pain ; and two days afterwards, the first dressing of
the wound was applied under similar conditions

e supposition that mesmeric manipulation can produce
the state thus described is one of great improbability ; but
the unbelief of the members of the society overleapt itself,
and induced them almost unanimously to jump to a conclu-
sion which unfortunately requires for its unhesitatilig recep-
tion almost a larger amount of credulity than would be
necessary for the phenomenon of which it is presented as the
solution. The opinion thus readily adopted was simply that
the patient had experienced all the pains usually attendant
upon a capital operation, but that he had thought fit to feign
insensibility, and with this the subject was dismissed. Now,
that two. gentlemen of, we persume, professional respectability,
should out of mere wantonness plan a short-lived hoax, which
must,. if discovered, lead to their explusion from society,
is of itself no slight improbability ; but that a timid
patient, worn down with 'pain, and doomed to a dread-
ful operation, upon which his existence depended, should
originate or lend himself to the motiveless joke, and
perform his part to admiration, is an assumption of a
mnrp ae►nnna;.,..

is surrounded by improbabilities, and inquire, to what-
ever it might lead, could not fail to be instructive. If
the patient be an impostor, he can hardly have arrived
at the age of forty-two without having already, by the de-
velopment of his genius, acquired in his own neighbourhood
a pretty distinct reputation : if, on the other hand, he has
hitherto maintained a character for integrity, we do not see
that the fact of his being an agricultural labourer entitles any
society to brand him as an impostor for making a statement
which, if it proceeded from one of their own station, would
be received at all events with respect, and which, as it relates
to personal consciousness, they are unable to disprove. The
case is caleulated to interest every humane person. We fear
that it may turn out a delusion ; but at pre'sent, those who
have attacked:it have merely substituted one improbability for
another. The most direct evidence of which it is susceptible
has been produced; and this can now only be strengthened
or weakened by testimony relating to the character of the
principal witness. It is possible that Messrs. Tophdm and
Ward were prepared to furnish some information on the
point : if not, it was easily procurable from other sources.
But this, in the eagerness of incredulity, was lost sight of ;
and the members appear to have departed thoroughly satis-
fied ; and although it is impossible to swallow a dromedary, a
camel may be taken whole with very little inconvenience.

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

MORMONISM.—One of the proselytes to this new faith,
feeling some reluctance to leave the certainties of a tcmporal
nature, which he enjoyed in Old England, engaged one of
his friends who left the neighbourhood of Burslem, a short
time ago, to write to him a true statement of their situation
in their New Jerusalem in America, promising to join him
if his representation was satisfactory. A few days ago, the
expected communication arrived in a very brief epistle, in
which he very shortly refers him to the 4th chapter of the Ist
Corinthians, 11th, 12th, and 13th verses, as a correct des-
cription of heir situation—observing, if he wrote a letter as
large as a newspaper, he could not say more to him. No
very flattering prospects for the poor dupes who have left
their native country to follow this Jack O'Lantern in the
new land of promise !--Staffordshire Mercury.

DESPERATE ASSAULT--TRURLES, DEC. 19.-1 regret
to inform you that on Friday, the 16th instant., this hitherto
peaceable district was the scene of an outrage of a most
wanton and a barbarous cnaracter. The particulars, as far
as I can learn, are as follow :—An old man, named Cormack,
residing on the lands of Caldfields, part of the property of
Lord Miltown, was directed by Mr. Ellis, under-agent to
the above-named nobleman, to inform the tenants on those
lands that he (Mr. E.) would require them to meet him in
Thurles, on a certain day, to settle their rents. Cormack,
who is a particularly quiet and inoffensive man, upon obey-
ing the orders he received, was attacked by five ruffians, who
beat him to such a degree that no hopes whatever are enter-
tained of his recovery. lam happy to add, that through the
praisworthy exertions of the police of this and the adjoining
stations the offenders are in custody, having been fully
identified by Cormack.—Tipperary Constitution.
Between nine and tent o'clock on Tuesday night, while the
shopmen of a mercer An-the rue Saint Antoine, were busy
41 shutting up, a maittentered, and, unseen, walked away
with a large bale which he saw on the counter, and being
joined by two other men in the street, they formed a carriage
for it by joining their three pairs of arms together, in a man-
ner so singular that it attracted the notice of a person passing
by, who made observation upon it to the young men of the
shop, who, being thus put on the alert, followed the rogues,
and seized them and their burden. They pretended they
had no intention to commit a robbery, but that wanting
some articles to make presents of the season, they were
tempted by the beautiful things they saw in the warehouse,
but meant only to make a selection, and then return the
rest, paying for what they kept ! On this the shopmen ob-
served that they must have very peculiar tastes, for the
goods they had taken were nothing more than a bale of wad-
ding. " Then, indeed," replied the rogues, "we were truly
mistaken, for we believed them to be cashmeres, or at least
India silk handkerchiefs." There was no mistake, how-
ever, when the commissary of police sent them to the pre-
fectu re.

DREADFUL AFFRAY WITS! POACHERS.—SOO❑ after SiX
o'clock on Sunday evening Mr. Thomas Humphreys, one of
Sir Watkins's keepers, in the charge of the extensive woods
at Llanforda, near this town, came across a most determined
set of ruffians, five or six in number. He followed up, and
laid hold of one of them, who had a gun, whereupon the rest
set upon and beat him with bludgeons about the face and
head in the most dreadful manner. It would appear, from
the statement of police-constable Luke Edwards, that the
quantity of blood lost by Humphreys was almost incredible:
his shirt and wearing apparel were completely saturated.
Dreading the villains would take his life Humphreys drew
out a small pistol, repeatedly exclaiming lie would fire in his
own defence if they did not desist ; but this had no effect ;
one fellow followed up and lifted a bludgeon with both hands,
as if to complete the mischief, when the keeper fired, but
whether or not the ball took effect he could not tell, as he
immediately fell from loss of blood. Some of the men very
fortunately came up soon after, and he was got home. In-
telligence was soon conveyed to the police, and they were
shortly on the look-out. One man was brought before tl-e
magistrates on Monday, on suspicion, but he proved an alibi,
and was discharged. They are likely to be had in a day or
two.—Salonian Journal.

SWINDLING OPERATIONS IN YORK.—Last week York
was visited by a numerous body of swindlers, who appear to
have been very successful in many of their performances.
On Saturday last, an elderly farmer named Thos. Jefferson,
residing at Haxby, a village a few miles from York, was
robbed of £95 by two fellows who invited him into a public-
house ; and while there one of them pulled out a number of
flash notes which he folded up carefully, and spoke of the
necessity of caution. Mr. Jefferson very politely permitted
the scoundrel to fold his money up, and as might be ex-
pected, when be afterwards came to look at it, he fonnd that
his money was gone, and in its place he had some old dirty
paper. On Monday last, a servant of the Rev. Mr. Merest,
of Staindrop, near Darlington, was cheated out of a valuable
carriage horse, with which his master had entrusted him for
sale. While riding it out, the servant was accosted by a per-
son in a light coloured top coat, who commenced bargaining
for the horse. The price, however, which he offered was
such as the other could not take. Ultimately he induced
him to exchange his horse for another which he stated would
suit him a great deal better, and for which he would willingly
give the price demanded by the servant. The later foolishly
consented to do so, and as soon as the exchange was effected,
the fellow to whom the other horse belonged, rode off as fast
as he could ; and when the servant came back to look for the
man who was to purchase the horse, he found he had de-
camped. The horse which he obtained by the exchange was
not worth above 505., while the one out of which he had
been defrauded was worth 40 guineas. We have also heard
of another person who had a good horse rode away with by
a scoundrel who pretended to try its merits; but neither he
nor the horse have since been heard of. Some parties supposed
to be concerned in the affair are in custody.—Leeds Merenry.
THE LATE PRIZE FIGHT.—The fight between Charles
Freeman, the American giant, and William Perry, the Tip-
ton Slasher, which had been interrupted on the 15th instant
by the interference of the magisterial authorities, was renewed
on Tuesday, on the Kentish coast, about six miles below
Gravesend, to which place the combatants and about 400
persons were conveyed in the " Father Thames" steamer.

The ring having been formed, the men entered it and stripped,
when Freeman proved to he at the least an 181 stone man,

while his opponent appeared to be even thinner and paler than
when they previously met. The fight consisted of 37 rounds,
and lasted 39 minutes : but it was evident from the outset
that the towering height and great bulk of Freeman must pre-
vail, though it was at last brought to a sudden and somewhat

unexpected close by the Slasher going down without a blow, a
circumstance which he afterwards insisted to have been the

effect of accident and not of design. In the earlier rounds the
Slasher failed in reaching his man, and the blows of the giant

passed over his antagonist ; they soon, however came to a bet-
ter understanding, and the Slasher showed first blood in the 4th

round, from a blow on the nose, and in the 6th received a blow

on the ear ; as a return for these he gave the giant so severe a
knock on the mouth in the 10th round that the effect quickly
became visible, but at th., same time he cut his own finger se-
verely against the man's teeth. This blow was repeated both in
the 14th and 15th rounds, and the Giant retorted in each case

by planting his heavy blows on the ears of the Slasher. In the
20th round the latter seemed to be losing his wind, and he
led off wildly, and danced laughingly round his opponent,
without being able to get in a blow ; the Giant, who wore a

serious aspect, lunged out repeatedly, and some of his blows
told, though many of them were wide, and some even far
from effective. In this manner the fight proceeded to its
termination, the contest during the whole time being an
unsatisfactory one, as the difference in the size of the men

left no room for speculation on the issue; the Giant, not-
withstanding, fought badly, and missed many well-intentioned
but ill directed blows ; the Slasher, moreover, proving to a
demonstration that a well-scienced man must beat him,
though he would doubtless have shown to more advantage
with a man of his own size. No serious injuries were in-
flicted on either of the men, who remained to witness a sub-

sequent fight between J. M'Ginty, the Scotch Champion,
and Bungaree, the Australian. This contest was what the
" fancy" call a far more interesting affair; it consisted of 83
rounds, lasted an hour and 47 minutes, and terminated in
favour of the Scotchman, who showed too much quickness
and determination for his opponent, was always at work with
his right and left, and had been well taught the use of his
legs. Bungaree, though blind of one eye, and nearly so of
the other, fought with much courage for five rounds, at the
instigation of his seconds, after his backer had given in for
him.--Observer.