The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-03 00:00:00

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companies or groups of at least three or four persons.
I know of no symptom in society more astounding than
this. It proves that, from some cause or other, life and
property are no longer considered sate. Thus, again, is the
tact established that TAE NEW POOR LAW IS A FAILURE.

CURIOES DREAM.—An editor of one cftobte,
newspapers, lately dreamt that he was_
poor fellow found out his mistake when he awoke.
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In a recent lecture on the science of entomology,
Bir-
mingham, the :lecturer computed that the fly, maggot, slug,
and inflicted
C," off the at e
turnip crop once in ten years, ,
Hi) injur yof ss. an acre on the crops. Upwards of 20 out of
100 elm trees in Hackney churchyard had been destroyed in
five years by the ravages of the scolytus destructor, and the
trees within St. Philip's churchyard, Birmingham, were suf-
fering from the attacks of insects; and unless means were
taken to prevent their ravages, the trees would speedily pe-
rish. The ravages of the hop-fly were so great, that the re-
venue of the country had been affected to the extent of up-
wards of £400,000 in the year 1825, by thedestruction of hop
pliwtations.

On Wednesday a dinner was given, at the Thatched-tiouge
Tavern, St. James's,street, London' to the above distill;
guished individual, by the Colonial Company. The Right
on
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Honourable Lord Mountcashel presided ; he was supported
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Dr. Rolph, Sir D. M`Dougall, Major
Cad ogan. Lieut-Col.
P. Taylor, the Chevalier Dillon, Dr. Ifill, Mr. M. Martin, 1
Mr. D. Urquhart, and many other gentlemen either distin-
guished for their advocacy of our colonial interests, or hav-
ing extensive possessions in the Canadas. I
Sir Allan M'Nab, on his health being proposed, spoke as
follows :—He said it was a source of great exultation, on his
first visit to this country, to receive from them such an over-
powering welcome, such a gratifying compliment as the pre-
sent, the remembrance of which, he gratefully assured them,
could never be effaced from his mind. As a Canadian, it
had always been his proudest boast to be a British subject—
(cheers)—and to receive from so large an assemblage of those
who enjoyed the same distinction, so much kindness and
cordiality, was as gratifying as it was unexpected. This eom-
pliment possessed additional value, in his estimation, as it
emanated from a society formed for the express purpose of
promoting the best interests of the colonies, by attaching
together the people inhabiting the remotest boundaries of
the empire, when meeting at the metropolis, their common
rendesvous. (Cheers.) For many years he had been a
member of a legislative body in one of the most valuable of
her majesty's colonies, and he could refer with pride to every
vote of his given in that capacity, as an earnest of the deep
affection he had ever cherished for the British crown, the
British constitution, and the British nation. (Loud cheers.)
Born, bred, and educated in Canada, he could not but
feel the deepest in her prosperity. He had witnessed its gra-
dual development—he had seen the forest yielding to the in-
dustry of its early settlers, and, as one of its inhabitants, it
was natural to rejoice in the prosperity of his native country.
But whilst he was proud to call himself a Canadian, he could
not forget that he was the son of a British soldier—(cheers)—
who died covered with scars from wounds honourably re-
ceived in defence of his sovereign and his country, and whose
remains now formed a portion of the soil of his (Sir. A.
M`Nab's) native land. (Cheers.) This was not a fitting oc-
casion to enter upon a lengthened history of the politics of
that interesting colony ; but as he felt that he owed this sig-
nal mark of their approbation to the part he lately took in
its defence, he hoped he should be excused for bringing under
their notice some of the events which occurred previously to
that period, as well as during that important crisis. In 1834,
a member of the imperial parliament, he believed for the first
time in colonial history, ventured to advise the people re-
siding in a British colony to dissever their allegiance from
the parent state. (Hear, hear.) Deriving the information
he possessed from the most corrupt sources, he stated, to the
utter astonishment of the colonists, that the crisis had arrived
which would terminate in their independence, and, as if eager
for the fulfilment of his prophecy, he accordingly advised
them to throw off the " baneful domination of the mother
country"—(loud cries of hear)—and with a view to encourage
them in this rebellion, he recommended them to keep the
conduct of the United States and the results ever in view.
Of course, language like this could not fail to produce the
most injurious effects; nevertheless, it requires not great
discernment to foresee that such were not the sentiments of
the descendants of the loyalists, and of a vast majority of the
people of Upper Canada. Astounded at this treasonable
doctrine, so audaciously recommended by a member of the
British House of Commons, he cheerfully joined his fellow-
subjects in the district of Gore publicly to repudiate these
sentiments, and they had the gratification of proceeding,
more than 1000 in number, 45 miles, to Toronto, to lay be-
fore the lieutenant-governor of the province (now Lord
Seaton), in the form of an address, their firm and solemn re-
solution to uphold the authority of Great Britain—our con-
nexion with the parent state—or perish in the attempt.
(Cheers.) The occasion was too solemn for any hasty mea-
sure—it was the stern dictate of a faithful duty. They
clearly foresaw, then, that if this treasonable advice was not
indignantly rejected by the deople of England, that the ne-
cessity would very shortly arrive for putting the sincerity of
our pledge to the test. Accordingly in 1837 this anticipa-
tion was amply fulfilled, during the absence of all military
power in Upper Canada. Mr. Mackenzie, obediently following
the advice of Mr. Hume—(hear)—and thinking the crisis he
had alluded to had arrived, boldly stepped forward, with the
dagger in one hand and Mr. Hume's letter in the other—
(hear)—determined to try by force whether he could not
throw off what Mr. Hume had termed " the baneful domi-
nation of the mother country." He knew that the lower
province was then in a most fearful condition, and that hosts
of armed American sympathisers were prepared to pour in
from the United States to make Canada a second Texas. He
knew that the province, both in front and rear, was sorely
pressed; but happily for the country its destinies were then
confided to a governor who justly appreciated the sterling
character of the people, and who, being left without a sol-
dier, threw himself for protection on the militia of the pro-
vince ; and the result of his confidence thus reposed, afforded
to the people of Great Britain a solid proof that their fellow-
subjects in Upper Canada were prepared to maintain their
connexion with them, and resist with their lives every at-
tempt made to dissolve it. (Loud cheers.) It was not his
intention to fatigue them with a narrative of events which
then occurred, nor the part which (thanks to the gallant men
that supported him) it was his good fortune to have taken
with regard to them. They secured him the approbation of
his most gracious sovereign, of her majesty's representatives
in both provinces, as well as the approval of all the legislative
bodies in British North America. (Cheers.) These he pre-
sumed were the introductions and the credentials which had
procured for him this mark of their regard, and he trusted
he estimated them as he ought on this his first visit to the
British isles. Having been during four successive parlia-
ments a member of the Commons House of Assembly—
having been elected speaker of that house with but one dis-
senting voice (the individual who gave that vote being now
an outlawed traitor,) it would not, he hoped, be considered
egotistical in him to claim the right of speaking of that pro-
vince with something like authority. He did so particularly
on this occasion, because it was in the presence of those who
had always felt a warm interest in the colonies, and a sincere
regard for their fellow-subjects residing therein. When
Upper Canada was first settled, in 1780, by the late la-
mented General Simcoe, he was accompanied to the province
by several of his gallant companions in arms, who had
fought many a hard battle in favour of the British crown
during the revolutionary contest. The names of some of
those individuals could not but be familiar to their ears, as
they had frequently been stigmatised before the world as
" the Family Compact." He must confess that, previous
to the unfortunate report of the late Lord Durham, he did
not comprehend who were the " family compact." lie re-
garded it as a common-place term, applied by the outs
against the ins ; but in that report they were particularly
described as "native-born Canadians, and those who emi-
grated to Canada previous to the last American war ;" they
were then, in fact, the decendants of those veteran soldiers
who gave up extensive and valuable possessions in the United
States rather than forfeit their allegiance to the British
crown—(hear, hear,)—and those who emigrated to that
colony previous to the year 1812. They were, in fact, those
men and their descendants who rallied round General Brock,
and accompanied him to Detroit, and captured that fort with
General Hull and his army, and, in conjunction with the
British troops and the warriors of the six tribes of native
Indians, fought the battle of Queenston, and drove the army
of Americans in the Niagara river. They were, in fact, the
men who (in a great measure) defended the province during
the last American war, when this country was occupied in a
most momentous struggle. They were the men who, in
conjunction with the king's troops, took the whole line of
frontier from the Americans, and who had ever displayed the
warmest affection to the British constitution, and who, if
they were a "family compact," it could not be denied,
were greatly attached to their parent, for whom they have
ever displayed the warmest, the fondest, and most inviolable
attachment. lf, then, this were the " family compact,"
he must here publicly declare that he gloried in being a
member of such a family. (Cheers.) But this cry against the
" family compact" was raised—by whom? Why, by Mr.
Mackenzie and other needy and greedy adventurers, who
sought to deprive the old public servants of the country of
all participation in the patronage of the crown they had de-
fended ; and so successful had been this cry, that at the pre-
sent moment, he regretted to say, but one native Canadian
was in the executive council of the province, while some
honourable gentlemen (who, under the new form of govern-
ment, introduced into the colony by the late governor-gene-
ral, now assisted in administering the government of that
province), had not been in that country half a dozen years.
(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") Lord Glenelg's dispatch
was founded on principles of justice, the Canadians required
nothing more ; but how far the faith of government pledged
to the people of Canada in that dispatch had been carried
out, reference to the dispatch, the appointments made in the
colony since, and the journals of parliament, would distinctly
show. (Loud and continued cheering.) During the admi-
nistration of the late Lord Sydenham, for the first time in
his life, he (Sir A. M'Nab) found himself in opposition to
the policy of the executive government. He did, he openly,
acknowledged, differ materially from the government on se-
veral important questions, viz., the concessions made by the
government through its officers in the house, and now re-
corded on the journals of parliament, in favour of what was
termed " responsible government," but he should offer no
remark upon this eventful concession, because as the govern-
ment had conceded the point, the people of course would now
act upon it—the awful responsibility of this mighty change in
colonial government would rest upon those who made the con-
cession, and not upon the man who, like himself, opposed it in
every stage. He also, he freely acknowledged, opposed the
district council bill in all its stages. He opposed the general
naturalisation bill, and he gave his hearty and best assistance
to investigate the grave and serious charges connected with the
freedom of election in both provinces. II is opposition to those
measures arose from an honest conviction that they were cal-
culated to weaken that connexion of the colony with the mother
country which it had ever been his desire to strengthen. With
these general observations, which, in justice to the part he
took, he had felt it requisite to make, he left this subject, and
should proceed to what was much more agreeable to his
feelings, as he thought it would prove to theirs, by showing
what the province of Canada really was, and how, in his
humble opinion, it should be estimated by the people of this
country. Their constitution was similar to that of England,
the civil and criminal code was nearly the same in England
and Western Canada. Their soil was not surpassed by any
portion of America. Their climate was certainly equal to
that of England. Their debt was about £1.300,000, not one
sovereign per head of the population. Their revenue was
chiefly derived from duties on imports, the legislature had
made ample provision for the interest, and they had the pledge
of her Majesty's government for £1,500,000 to complete their
Public improvements, which, when finished, would greatly
augment the provincial revenues. Their debt had been con-
tracted in the prosecution of public works of great utility,
and, when completed, would not be surpassed on the conti-
nent of America. Their population in Western Canada had
increased in 40 years from 60,000 to 500,000. Within the
last few years the Rideau Canal had been completed, the cost
of which had been upwards of £1,000,000 sterling; the
Welland Canal about half the amount ; the St. Lawrence
Canal was in progress, and would soon be completed ; the
Burlington Bay Canal had cost £45,000, and when the Great
Western-road, from the head of Lake Ontario to the foot of
Lake Huron, and from Burlington Bay to Port Dover, on
Lake Erie, was completed, the trade of the great western
world would be thrown into the St. Lawrence by a canal of
sixty miles. (Hear, hear.) The debt of the state of New
York, after all their improvements were completed, was four
times greater than that of Canada ; and those who examine
into the respective securities would not hesitate to prefer
making investments in a British province rather than in a

DREADFUL CASE OF INFANTICIDE.-At Everton, near
Bawtry, a
of
anew n inquest
30rn was held on the 22nd instant, on the
body
rnitehild of Mary Milnes, a servant
: l
of the Rev. Mr. Smith,
male infant child. It appeared that the
deceased was the illegitimate
Everton, in whose service she
had been about two months.
rd She being ill on the 21st
(Thurday), Dr. Hall, of Retfo
was sent for, when he at
once discovered that she had been
recently. The girl persisted at first ine 1
her
veerr ei
ndn
oocfe
nac e c, hbut
afterwards stated that she had given birth to a small child,
and she had given it to the dog. On searching, however,
Dr. Hall discovered that a full growng*child was wrapped up
the mattress and feather
in a gown, and secreted between
bed, on which she was lying. The
cut, even
stihgrhotu;ghfotrhneostpoinnely,
buthad
theth emtohnrd
cries.to
presented a most
of the child bad
t been dreadfully
been cut on each side, as if to stop its
The girl
atshe had cut her
sub-
sequently confessed her guilt, and stated th
child's t Uroat with a dessert knife, which was found on the
snk in the back kitchen, partly covered with blood.un
Ver-
dict—" who
committed murder" against Mary Milnes,committed by the coroner to take her trial at the neat aossiwzeass,
at Nottingham.

A TIGHT BOOT.—On Sunday evening last, a person named
Davenport, residing at Shaw Heath, broke his thigh by the
mere muscular effort of pulling off one of his Wellington
boots !—Halifax Guardian.
THE MATRICIDE AT MERTHYR TYDVIL.—The jury on
the coroner's inquest have returned a verdict of wilful mur-
der against the son of the murdered woman, and he has since
been apprehended.
No less than three whig chancellors, thrown entirely out
of work, are observed to sit side by side every !night in the
House of Lords, namely, Lords Brougham, Cottenham, and
Campbell.
It has beeen resolved to raise a subscription for the purpose
of raising a professorship of machinery and manufactures in
the London University, to be called the " Birkbeck Profes-
sorship," in honour of the late Dr. Birkbeck.
The Commerce says that there is no manner of doubt but
that M. Guizot has all along intended to sign the right of
search treaty, but that he will choose his own time for so
doing, and that that time has not arrived.

It appears by a parliamentary return, moved for by Sir
Philip G. Egerton, Bart., M.P., that the total :quantity of
foreign cheese imported in the year 1840 was 226,462 cwt.,
and that the total quantity imported in the year 1811 was
279,149 cwt.
METALS IMPORTED INTO PRANCE.—The Moniteur con-
tains the returns of the principal articles of merchandise im-
ported into France during the three first months of 1842 :
The quantity of coal imported was 298,094,376 kilogrammes ;
of cast-iron, 7,382,773; of copper, `2,517,837; of lead
2,573,573.

INCREASE OF ODD FELLOWS.-At a meeting of the Man-
chester Unity of Odd Fellows, held in Wakefield, last week,
Mr. Richmond stated that the accession to their numbers
during the last ten months had been about 28,000, and that
the society now possessed between 230,000 and 240,000
members.

Parliamentary and Municipal voters in Boroughs will do
well to see that their names are duly entered in the Poor
Rates now in course of collection, and where there is any
mistake to pay the rate and claim to have it corrected. A
claim to be rated without having paid or tendered all the
rates due, will not avail to remedy the mistake.
The English armies are not the first Europeans that have
appeared as invaders in Affghanistan ; more than two thou-
sand years ago Alexander the Great opened through these
lands a highway for commerce and civilization, which was
broken up by his premature death, and has ever since conti-
nued cloaed.

ASSOCIATIONS FOR THE CIRCULATION OF THE BIBLE.—
The number of associations established in Great Britain at
present for the circulation of the Scriptures is 2,228 ; in Ire-
land, 550; Continental Europe, 1,500; Asia, 83; Africa,
16 ; America, 2,800 ; Australia, 17 ; and the West Indies,
226, sixty-nine of the latter being conductediby freed negroes.
The Lord Bishop of Lichfield, being still too unwell to
transact business, has executed a commission appointing the
Lord Bishop of Hereford, the Archdeacons of Stafford,
Derby, and Salop, and the Rev. Henry Calthrop, his lord-
ship's domestic chaplain, commissioners for the administra•
tion of the diocese.

DISFRANCHISEMENT OF SUDBURY.-Mr. Redington, the
chairman of the late Sudbury Election Committee, has given
notice that on Tuesday, the 10th of May, he will move for
leave to bring in a bill to disfranchise the borough of Sudbury,
on account of the bribery which prevailed at the late election
there.

TEN HOURS' BILL.—The Manchester short time commit-
tee forwarded to Lord Ashley, on Thursday last, for presen-
tation to parliament, petitions in favour of that measure, to
which 62,773 signatures were attached, and containing the
name, residence, and occupation of every individual whose
signature it bears.
A CALLOUS CONSCIENCE.—The Mobile Mercantile Ad-
vertiser bestows a just meed of virtuous indignation upon one
of his " patrons," of whom the editor heard that he had been
seen laughing heartily over a paragraph in the paper of the
previous morning, but who had not paid his subscription for
two years. How could any man enjoy a joke with such a
weight upon his conscience ?

WINDOW DUTY.—Return of the duty on windows as-
sessed for the year ending April 5, 1811, for the twelve towns
in England which contribute the largest amount. The return
is as follows :

Towns. Amount of duty
Bath .
Birmingham
Brighton ..
Bristol 15,377
Cheltenham
Clifton
Leeds
Liverpool 30,226
Manchester 12,343
Norwich
Newcastle-on-Tyne
Plymouth . 12,348

LOVE OF BROTHER AND SISTER.—HOW beautiful the
link which binds the young members of a family together !
On the one side, confidence—on the other, guardianship with -
out authority ; on neither, selfishness. It is, perhaps, the
eerily species of affection entirely peculiar to the human race.
Parental love is a law as strong and almost more universal
with the brute creation than with us ; and animals are
capable of, nay, they are prone to, contracting friend-
ship ; but fraternal affection is unknown to them. The
nearest approach to it is possibly, the herding together of
young broods of birds ; yet that again is, in all probability,
an instinct bearing a closer relation to the common rest-
ing place, the nest, or the mother's wing, than to mutual de-
pendence or attachment.

BRISTOL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.—In reply to the
communication from John Vining, Esq., the President of
the Bristol Chamber of Commerce, Sir Robert Peel says,—
" The petition (from the directors) adopted without a dis-
senting voice, cordially approves of the general principle and
purpose of the financial and commercial measures, which it
has been my duty, on the part of her Majesty's Government,
to propose to parliament. It sets forth the necessity of
making a vigorous effort for supplying the deficiency in the
revenue, and for supporting the public credit of the country;
and it expresses the confident anticipation of the petitioners,
that should parliament sanction the measures I have pro-
posed, great advantages will result to the trading and com-
mercial interests of this country. Such testimony in favour
of those measures, and such assurances of cordial support,
are most gratifying and encouraging to her Majesty's advisers.
It was my reliance on the public spirit—of which this peti-
tion is an example—that has always induced me to entertain
the sanguine expectation of ultimate success, and the con-
fident belief that this great country would cheerfully submit
to an impost, unusual and, under ordinary circumstances,
unpopular, rather than incur the evil and disgrace of con-
tinued and increasing deficiency in the public revenue, after
25 years of general peace in Europe."
TURNPIKE ROADS.—By the new Turnpike Bill introduced
into the House of Commons by Mr. Manners Sutton and
Sir James Graham, it is proposed to continue all Turnpike
Road Acts until the Ist of October, 1883. Mortgagees are
restrained from taking possession of the tolls, or to sue for,
recover, or receive any principal sums lent by them, or any
interest, except such as directed by the bill. Mortgagees in
possession are to deliver up possession and account to the
trustees. The future applications of the tolls to be-Ist, in
payment of all interest owing on the Ist of October next, if
there be not more than six months in arrear • 2d, in payment
to the mortgagees, pari passe, half-yearly, of the yearly sum
of £3 for every £lOO owing to such mortgagees; 3d, in de-
fraing the expenses of repairing and improving the respective
turnpike roads ; and 4th, in payment of the arrears of the
said yearly sum of £5 left unpaid in any preceding half-years.
In all cases where there shall be a surplus of tolls, after
answering those purposes, it shall be divided amongst the
mortgagees rateably. All payments to the respective mort-
gagees to cease, and the respective mortgagee debts held to
be satisfied so soon as such mortgagees shall have received
out of such surplus the following amounts in successive pe-
riods of five years from the first of October, 1842.
First period—the full amount of their mortgage debts.
Second period—after the rate of £94 11 8 for every £lOO.
Third period
Fourth period 79 19 8
Fifth period 7O 4 5
Sixth period 5B 7 1
Seventh period

Or in the six years preceding the
Ist of October, 1883, after the} 26 7 0 PI
rate of
If interest be less than 4 per cent., the difference to go
towards payment of principal. Arrears of interest beyond
six months, and not exceeding six years, to be added to the
principal. Trustees to appoint Finance Committee. Clauses
in principal acts concerning annual general meetings repealed.
Half-yearly finance meetings to be held. Duties of such
defined, with other directions. Treasurer to retain moneys
for half-yearly payments to mortgagees. Other regulations
and duties of trustees, clerks, and treasurers are continued.
Roads on which Exchequer Bill Commissions have made
advances, and some under particular acts are excepted from
the operation of this measure.

POOR-LAW RIOTS AT LEICESTER.---ThC town of Leices-
ter, usually so calmly quiet, has been this week thrown into
a state of great excitement, and the preservation of the pub-
lic peace has been so greatly endangered as to render neces-
sary the presence of a body of Dragoons and the active inter-
fereuce of an extraordinary number of police. From what
we have been enabled to glean respecting the affair, it appears
that the able-bodied men who receive relief were required to
attend at the workhouse, and, as a test of their destitution,
were employed in turning the wheel at the union workhouse,
or, as it is called by everybody at Leicester, " the bastile."
This plan seems to have been very obnoxious to the above-
described recipients of parish bounty, and they have fre-
quently of late injured and broken the machinery. On
Monday last the mill was again broken, and the master of the
workhouse and the miller being able to bring home the charge
against several individuals of having committed the offence,
they were taken into custody, and conveyed to the lock-up.
A great concourse of the lower classes assembled, threat-
ening language was used, and stones were thrown; the pri-
soners, however, were safely deposited in their place of cus-
tody. During the whole day of Monday the streets were
thronged by large numbers of people, who mobbed and threw
stones at several individuals who were obnoxious from their
connebxriooknewnit(htitiloluegghri,eivtainseebseolifetvheedr
noort;inmtaenntyishonoapli-i
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wtheersee transactions; the shopkeepers at length closed their
shops, and at at ntoea,r,ltyhheohuarstailile,b,uasoindebssrowkaesosouospmehnedredo.f Tliemob next wen
body
efmthaegistrates reinforced the con-
stabularybeho d, Midland Counties Railway
wi
of the borough, and a number of special
police, the firemen
was likewise sent off to Loughbo-
rough for the troop of Dragoons
win-
dows there;
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Eleven of the leadinc,
ar-
rived in the course of the night. b
pres
quartered there, which
riot constables.ers
w ere a
these prompt means on the part of
n anarchy in the bud, the authorities crushed the r
•insiagmost disturbed state the
al-
though the town continued 1
Wednesday, when the rioters were
whole of Tuesday, and on
was feared; after a
brought before the magistrates, a rescue
were discharged, and the
long hearing, two of the prisoners _
An express
and . .
remaining nine committed for trial.
per-
sons continued to throng the streets.
until a late hour on
Large bodies of
was beginning to
unpopu-
lar individuals, but on Thursday the town .
relapse into its usual state of peaceable quietude.—Notting-
Wednesday night, hooting and groaning at different
ham Guardian.

'rho Wily of a nAiqiy,b4rn infant was- tilomml it; the
Ssverii, at Bristol, on Thumday last, and the rtiOther is
strongly suspected of having thrown it into the river.
That amiable and truly benevolent divine, the Rev. Thos.
Gisborne, M.A., Prebendary of Durham, is said to be in an
alarming state of health.
In the announcements of new inventions, is that of an elas-
tic ankle boot, which requires neither lacing, buttoning, nor
tying. The constant annoyance of laces breaking, buttons
coming off, holes wearing out, and many other imperfections
in the ordinary mode of fastening, is therefore now at an end.
FOREIGN CHEESE.—It appears, by a parliamentary re-
turn, moved for by Sir Philip G. Egerton, Bart., M.P., that
the total quantity of foreign cheese imported in the year 1840
was 226,462 cwt. and that the total quantity imported in
the year 1841 was 279,149 cwt.
A PATRIARCII.—Mr. Pocock, of Shaw, in this county, has
no less than ninety children and grandchildren ; and a more
respectable family (says a correspondent) the kingdom does
not produce, all living near Devizes. Ten of the sons oc-
cupy ten good farms.—Devizes Gazette..
HORRID TRAGEDY : MURDER OF AN ACTOR.—A most
horrid and fatal tragedy was enacted at the theatre in Mobile,
on the night of Friday, March 25. After the curtain had
dropped at the conclusion of the first act of the first piece,
a quarrel ensued behind the scenes between a Mr. Ewing,
and Miss Hamblin, both attached to the theatre, in which
the latter plunged a dagger to the heart of Mr. Ewing, which
caused almost immediate death. After the perpetration of
the awful deed, Miss Hamblin made her escape by jumping
out at the window, and at twelve o'clock that night had not
been arrested. She left in her theatrical attire, dressed as a
page.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—We regret to have to state that an
accident, attended with fatal consequences to one man, and
with severe injuries to five others, occurred on Tuesday morn-
ing last, at the new church now building in this town. It
appears that about half-past ten o'clock on the morning in
question, four masons' labourers had ascended the scaffolding
erected over the east door of the building. On their arrival
on the platform they threw down their loads of stone on the
planks, which, from some cause or other, was not equal to
the weight, and gave way. The mason who was working
there, and the labourers, were immediately precipitated to the
ground-20 feet below. On assistance being rendered, one
poor man, John Allen, an Irishman, was found dead, and
others materially injured.—Cardiff Advertiser.
THE MYSTERIOUS CASE AT DUBLIN.—The adjourned
inquest as to the manner in which William O'Brien, Esq.,
of that city, came by his death, was held on Wednesday last.
At the close of the inquiry the jury returned the following
verdict :—" That the deceased died from natural causes, and
not from poison ; and that they cannot separate without ex-
pressing their disapprobation of the conduct of Mr. William
O'Brien, the nephew of the deceased, whose grounds for
instituting the above proceedings appear to us to have been
instigated by malice, and without the slightest foundation to
justify the extraordinary and disgusting process of exhuming
a body three months buried." Mr. Walsh stated that it was
his client's intention to prosecute Mr. W. O'Brien for
perjury.
DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—We have this week
to record the almost miraculous escape from assassination of
Mr. F. Miles, of Wrington, who is well known in this part
of the country, and held in deservedly high estimation by an
extensive circle of friends. It appears that on Friday se'n-
night Mr. Miles had been on a visit to Bath, where he had
spent the day. In the evening he returned home ; he was in
his gig, and proceeded safely on his journey till near Perry-
bridge—this was between seven and eight o'clock in the
evening ; he there saw a man walking hastily over an adjoin-
ing field, with a gun in his hand. When the fellow reached
the high road he made an attempt to stop the horse, but Mr.
Miles, perceiving his intent, applied his whip pretty freely,
and the animal, being a spirited one, plunged a little, and i
thus freed itself from the grasp of the robber, and proceeded
at a rapid rate. His design being so far frustrated, the vil-
lain coolly levelled his piece at Mr. Miles, and fired, but for-
tunately without producing fatal results, though that gentle-
man was very much wounded in his head, neck, and shoul-
ders.—Bristol Journal.
DREADFUL DEPRAVITY.—Edward Ellis, wool-comber,
of Jewrywall-street, was yesterday committed for trial at the
i assizes, on a charge of having committed a rape on his own
two daughters, one of whom is 13 years of age, and the
other JO. He has been carrying on his brutal practice for
nearly three years upon the eldest child, and threatened to
murder her if she at any time exposed him. On Sunday
last, the poor little creatures were overheard by some of the
neighbours, while conversing together in the yard on the sub-
ject. The neighbours have for some time suspected the fa-
ther, and they immediately informed the mother of the cir-
cumstance. Mrs. Ellis instantly questioned her children,
when they communicated to her the whole of this horrible
and disgusting affair. Information having reached the ears
of Mr. Charters, the superintendent of police, he gave direc-
tions for the man to be apprehended, and a policeman dis-
covered him in bed at a brothel on Sunday.—Leicester paper.
PRESENTS TO THE KING OF PRUSSIA.—The Berlin cor-
respondent of the Wurtzberg Gazette writes from that city,
on the 19th instant, that Queen Victoria had sent the fol-
lowing presents to the King and Queen of Prussia :-Ist. A
cradle, with the figure of nurse holding in her arms an infant,
resembling the Prince of Wales, all of pure gold. 2d. A
pistol, which, when the trigger is pulled, opens and exhibits
a completely furnished dressing-case. 3d. A gold mosaic
snuff-box, upon which are to be seen allegorical souvenirs re-
lating to the baptism of the Prince of Wales. 4th. Four
boxes containing snuff. sth. A dozen knives and forks, of
gold, except the blades of the knives, which are of Damascus
steel, and the handles ornamented with a crown set in brilli-
ants. 6th. A stone vase, containing the rarest Indian fruits.
7th. Two extraordinary large legs of mutton.
PROPOSED DISMEMBERMENT OF THE NORTHERN
CIRCUIT.—We have just received information that it has
been decided to separate Yorkshire from the Northern Cir-
cuit, and to join it with the Midland Circuit. In our seventh
page will be found a memorial of the West-Riding magistrates
assembled in quarter sessions to the Queen in council,
against this proposed change, and we had hoped that the
very strong and decided feeling in opposition to the innova-
tion would have been respected ; but it now appears that such
is not to be the case. How the various conflicting interests
which this change will produce are to be reconciled ; and how
the great public concerns that will be affected by it are to be
saved, it passes our comprehension to conjecture. Are all
the clients, professional and extra-professional, of this vast
and wealthy county to be thrown upon a body of legal advo-
cates, personally strangers, and by practice unexperienced. in
all the local pecularities f the district, and thaotftomocwmtheras
farori rerlVllititendl-6tocitrirt T3feicno,Yunnseecle'sstahreilnyurmbller and com-
prising fewer eminent men than that body which has been
attracted to the Northern Circuit by the much more ample
field it offers for successful practice? Then, again, are the
members of the Northern Circuit Bar to be deprived of the
most lucrative portion of their practice without compensa-
tion ? Or, being at liberty to retain their Yorkshire practice
by migrating to the Midland Circuit, are they to relinquish
Lancashire, Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland, and
Westmorland, for the chances of what they may pick up as
strangers on the Midland Circuit ? These are grave questions,
involving the adjustment of extensive popular predilections,
and private interests which may fairly be regarded as vested
rights, and exciting dissatisfaction and difficulties more easily
raised than allayed. if the Northern Circuit is too large, it
has arisen out of contempt in the first instance, when its dis-
tance from the central powers caused it to be less favoured
in the visitation of legal tribunals than other parts of Eng-
land; much in the same spirit as Horace would have banished
war and pestilence from Rome to Persia and Britain --and
now that the ancient slight has produced effects which make
the Northern Circuit the most enviable for its wealth and
importance, it is too bad to attack it on the opposite side.—
Leeds Intelligencer.
COUNTY CONSTABULARY MEETING OF MAGISTRATES.—
On Thursday a meeting of the magistrates, acting within the
petty sessional division of Manchester, was held at the New
Bailey Court-house, Salford, at eleven o'clock, for the pur-
pose of carrying into effect the resolution passed at the an-
nual session at Preston, on 31st March, and for considering
what number of officers and men will in future be sufficient
for the petty sessional division of Manchester. The first re-
solution was, " That the monthly accounts for contingencies
be laid before the magistrates on the first Thursday after the
3d of each month, at the New Bailey Court-house, at twelve
o'clock." This resolution, which has simply for its object
the management of the money transactions connected with
the division, instead of leaving them to the annual sessions
at Preston, was carried without opposition. In the course
of a long conversation afterwards, as to the propriety of con-
tinuing the present expensive constabulary force, it was
moved, " That upon a careful review of the exigencies of the
district called the petty sessional division of Manchester, it
appears to this meeting, that the constabulary force cannot
with propriety be reduced below the existing number assigned
to that district, being at the rate of about one constable for
each 1700 inhabitants." To this proposition Sir Thomas
Potter moved an amendment, that the number of constables
be reduced from 58 to 50. It was urged against the amend-
ment that the saving would amount to only one-fifth of a
farthing in the assessment, and that it was a sum too insigni-
ficant to be worth carrying into effect. The original motion
was carried. The only other business connected with the
force was in relation to details, and not of public interest.
The London Morning Post in its summary of the contents
of the French papers, says,—" Sunday's Paris papers are
quite destitute of news, and as dull as are their leading arti-
cles. All the world had gone, in the afternoon, under a broil-
ing sun, to the races on the Champs de Mars, the desecration
of the Sabbath for such a purpose being thought nothing of.
A hurdle race, in addition to some good entries, had added
to the attraction of the military race course."—We have not
yet come to this in England. We may be equally indifferent
to the right observance of the Sabbath ; but we do not carry
our " Christian liberty" quite so far as to admit horse-racing
within its circle. What we may be by-and-by, when " phi-
losophised" and " continentalised" out of our Christianity,
time will tell. It would, no doubt, be delightful could we he
induced to adopt the maxims and to imitate the examples held
in admiration by such multitudes of " the wise ones of the
earth." What a number of inconvenient incumbrances and
unreasonable restraints we should get rid of, and how plea-
sant it would be to see, as in Paris, the shops open and the
theatres crowded, and to hear the chink of the trowel and
the sound of the hammer as the mason and the carpenter
progressed in their work ! Oh ! but we need not go so far ;
we don't want to abolish the Sabbath altogether. And why
not ? If you abolish three-fourths, or one-half, on what prin-
ciple is the remainder to be spared ? If you are not bound
to the observance of the whole of the day, how are you bound
to the observance of a part ? But no matter. Our philoso-
phists will have their way : but let those who are happily
furnished with a better guide, walk " in the old paths." They
will find them safer in the end than those " innocent recrea-
tions" by which the mind is insensibly initiated into indiffer-
ence and disrespect.
THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH.—During the last year
eight Methodist preachers of Bolton, Lancashire, have re-
nounced their errors, and obtained admission to the Church
of England. The Rev. James Slade, M.A., the vicar,
preached a sermon on the opening of Christ Church, (for-
merly a dissenting place of worship, and known as Ebenezer
Chapel,) from which the following interesting particulars re-
lative to the circumstance alluded to above are collected :
" The congregation at Ebenezer Chapel," said Mr. Slade,
" belonged to what is called the Methodist New Connexion.
The Rev. Thomas Berry, minister of the chapel, had long
been greatly dissatisfied with the system of dissent, a fact
which he never concealed. Last:year an opening presented
itself for the disposal of the chapel, and it appeared that his
desire to join the established church was shared by some of
the leading members of his congregation. Upon this he
communicated with me, and as his character was well known 1
to me, I directly laid the case before the bishop, who at once
consented to ordain Mr. Berry, provided that the congrega-
tion and-chapel, with all its appurtenances, were transferred
to the church. With the exception of a very small portion
of the people, this entire transfer was agreed to be made.
The bishop accepted the promise held out, and Mr. Berry
was ordained accordingly. It was now found that his coad-
jutor in the ministry of the chapel had previously formed an
intention of leaving it, and of going to the University. Six
of the local preachers also came over to the church, as did
all the trustees, who had long been, like the minister, much
dissatisfied. The greater portion of the schools connected
with the chapel, both teachers and scholars, followed the ex.
ample of Mr. Berry. The building is licensed till the con-
secration can take place, and the service is now conducted
according to the rubric of the established church." This is
very encouraging. Some converts from Romanism have
lately been received into our communion. Three Romanist
ladies, resident at Saltash, Cornwall, having abjured the
errors of the Romish Church, were admitted as recognised
members
of the Church of England by the Rev. G. H.
Pedlar, M.A., curate of that place.—Correspondent of the
Morning Post.