The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-01 00:00:00

STOUT

KERSEYS, DOESKINS, TWEEDS, and

PLAIDS,
Best BATH and CLOTH BLANKETS, &a., &c.
CHARLES COLE returns his warmest acknowledg-
ments to hia Friends and the Public for their increased con-
fidence, and begs to assure them that the above goods (being
his THIRD SUPPLY THIS SEASON) will be sold at the
same small profits as the former, so that they cannot be ex-
celled in quality and cheapness.
Constantly on hand a LARGE STOCK of SU-
PERFINE CLOTHS and CASSIMERES, a splendid
variety of SILK and WOOLLEN VESTINGS, MOLE-
SKINS in every shade and quality, Welsh and English
FLANNELS, Twill'd and Plain, and every other Article
connected with the Trade.

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Being purchased for Cash, Wholesale Buyers will find the
above worthy their attention.
BRITANNIA CLOTH HALL, 8, PITT-STREET.

SINGULAR OCCURRENCE AT HAMMERSMITH.

During the last few days, much conversation has been
occasioned throughout the neighbourhood of Hammersmith
by an occurrence of a singular and extraordinary nature.
From the inquiries made by our reporter on the spot, it ap-
pears that the friends of a lady most highly connected, and
about thirty years of age, finding, some considerable period
since, that, although not labouring under any distinct form
of insanity so as to require restraint, her mind was exceed-
ingly weak, by the advice of Dr. --, an eminent physi-
cian, placed her under the care of Dr. —, a medical
man residing at Fulham, who, although not keeping a private
lunatic asylum, professed to take the charge of persons so
circumstanced. The lady in question accordingly remained
at Fulham until about four months since, when—it reaching
the ears of her friends that she had formed an intimacy of
rather too close a nature with a son of the medical man at
whose house she had been placed, who, although six feet and
a span in height, has not yet numbered twenty years' expe-
rience—it was determined to remove her to a more suitable
situation ; and she was immediately conveyed to the residence
of another surgeon, in the neighbourhood of Brook green,
Hammersmith, where shell remained until Monday last.
About ten days since, the friends of the lady received infor-
mation, that, notwithstanding her removal from the care of
the father of the young man above alluded to, they had con-
trived to continue their correspondence, and had, in fact,
been married by bans at the parish church of Rotherhithe in
the early part of September last, but that no attempt had,
up to that time, been made by the alleged husband to claim
the society of his wife. In the course of the forenoon of
Monday last, the young gentleman, accompanied by his
father, brother, and other relatives and friends, went to the
house of the medical gentleman under whose care the lady
then was, and demanded to see her, which application was,
of course, refused ; but she, becoming acquainted with the
presence of her alleged husband, opened a front window on
the first floor, and, stepping out on the balcony, threw into
the street nine or ten sovereigns, which were immediately
picked up by the claimant to her hand. After several vain
endeavours to obtain an interview with her, they left the
spot, but returned in the afternoon ; and, loitering about the
house, were observed about four o'clock by the lady, who.
having secured the door of her room on the inside, imme-
diately presented herself on the balcony, and was addressed
from below by her alleged husband, who asked her, " Mary,
am I not your husband ?" to which she instantly responded,
" Yes, you are," and appeared in a state of great excitement
and trouble of mind. The strange colloquy attracted the
attention of the numerous persons passing along the high
road, and in a short time a considerable crowd bad collected,
to whom the alleged husband showed his certificate of mar-
riage, and who, from their want of knowledge of the real
circumstances of the case, commended his exertions to ob-
tain possession of his supposed bride, and he then told he r
to put her bonnet on, and come out on the balcony, and he
would rescue her. She accordingly retired into, the room
and presently afterwards came out on the balcony dressed
for her departure. She then, by the direction of the party
below, got a chair out of the drawing-room, and placing it
at the east end of the balcony, mounted the top of the rails,
and then holding the top rail, slid herself down with her
back to the rails until her feet found a resting place on the
edge of the balcony, and she stood for some minutes in a
position the most frightful to be conceived, with certain death
staring her in the face should she let go her hold, the per-
sons assembled outside cheering her, and calling to her to
hold tight. By that time some members of her family, ac-
companied by a solicitor, &c., had arrived from town, and
with the proprietor of the house, procured a pair of high
steps, and raised them to the balcony, while at the same time
the alleged husband, with the assistance of his friends,
mounted the wall dividing the front garden from the adjoin-
ing one, when from his great height lie was able to assist the
lady to turn round, and before any of her friends could
ascend the steps, she lowered herself into his arms, and
reached the ground in safety, he was immediately surrounded
by his party, who conveyed the lady to a neighbouring public
house, followed by his friends and the assembled crowd.
Finding all efforts to regain possession of the lady at that
moment would be futile, her friends were determined to
watch where she would be removed to, but notwithstanding,
they showed themselves able tacticians, they were foiled
by the other party, and it is understood that the lady was
unobservedly introduced into a garden adjoining the pub-.
lie-house from which there is an entrance into a by lane,
leading towards Fulham, where a fly was in attendance, into
which she was placed, and driven off, no one knows where.
Her friends, being then unaware of the circumstance of her
having been carried off, remained watching the public-house,
which was still surrounded by a large crowd, until about
seven o'clock in the evening, when a fly drove up to the door,
and two or three persons, muffled up in cloaks, instantly got
in, and the vehicle was driven off at great speed, in the di-
rection of Turnham-green. An offer was immediately made
of five guineas to any person tracing the destination of the
fly, and some persons in a cab instantly followed it to Turn-
ham-green, when the fly turned round, and retraced its way
back to Hammersmith Broadway, the cab following in its
wake. At Hammersmith Broadway the fly turned up Brook-
green-lane, in the direction of Shepherd's-bush, but before
reachinc, that place, it pulled up in a dark part of the road,
allowed the cab to pass by, and again went back to Hammer-
smith Broadway, and thence down the Bridge-road, towards
the Suspension-bridge. The persons in the cab soon disco-
vered they were on the wrong scent, and, returning to the
Broadway, were enabled to overtake the fly before it could
cross the bridge, and after a lengthened chase through all
the by-roads in the neighbourhood, the fly finally pulled up
in King-street, Hammersmith, when it was found that the
whole had been a ruse to deceive the lady's friends, the per-
sons in the fly being only the son of the landlord of the pub-
lic-house, and other persons unconnected with the case.
We have abstained from inserting the names of the indi-
c"7
viduals connected with the above sir gular occurrence, as we
understand that the family of the lady intend to institute
proceedings in the Ecclesiastical and other courts against
all the parties concerned in the affair, when the matter will
be more fully brought under the notice of the public.—Times.

At a party the other day some discussion arose as to the
highest mountain in the world :—" I don't know which is,"
said B—, "but Nicholas Suisse is certainly the deepest
valet."—American paper.
CAMBRIDGE FRESHMEN.—The number of admissions
this term amounts to 426, the chief portion of which were as
usual at Trinity and St. John's—the former having 134, and
the latter 111. Clare Hall had but 2, and King's 1. On the
whole, the admissions have been more numerous than those
of last year, which were an increase on thoge of the previous

one.
STRANGE PRESENT TO HER MAJESTY.—A splendid
hind-quarter of wild cattle beef arrived at the Castle on Fri-
day, as a present to her Majesty from Mr. Leigh, of Lyme-
park, Cheshire. This extraordinary breed of cattle is pecu-
liar to the estate of Mr. Leigh, and is considered a great
luxury from the extreme richness and delicate flavour of the
meat. The carcasses are very small, with a large proportion
of fat, and are very similar to Christmas prize meat without
its coarseness. The hind-quarter presented.; to her-Majesty
weighed 1461 b. rid ;t5 bil:
TARIFF PORK (so CALLED\ —We are informed that ad-
vantage has been taken of the admission of American pork,
which can be retailed of an excellent quality at a very rea-
sonable price, to get rid of a large quantity of old ship's pro-
visions; pork condemned as unserviceable for sea use : arid
that this half-perished, dry, and unwholesome stuff is offered
for sale as the commodity we are for the future to be sup-
plied with from the United States. There is, of course, so
palpable a difference between the latter and the article which
is substituted as its representative, that, once seen together,
one cannot be mistaken for the other ; but),as the imposition
should not be allowed to be successfal,,pud'as unsound is
generally believed to be productive of "Misuse, "we would cau-
tion poor people against the, use of it. Good American pork
is not discoloured,,that is, rusty, stale@ bkkarance, or des-
titute of brine, which are the characteiiities of condemned
naval stores.—Shipping Ga-ette.
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CLARA NOVELLO.—The negotiations with Clara Novell°
are still going on,.but nothing is definitely settled ; she can-
not by any possibility appear in London until February or
March, and then only for a short season ; she has engage-
ments abroad until 1846. She. is, what is technically called,
" up" in twenty-one operas;
THE ARSON CASE.—On Wednesday, at two o'clock,
Thomas Henry, was again brought up before Mr. Rushton
and Mr. Heywortb, when Mr. Dowling applied for some ex-
planation regarding a statement made in evidence by Proc-
ter, Mr. Henry's shopman, relative to the quantity of stock
the prisoner had on band at the time the fire took place.
Mr. Henry, in the list for indemnification submitted to the
insurance office, having claimed £4O, whereas there could
not have been a greater amount than £l3 worth on hand at
that period; one parcel having been sent to Mr. Hodgson
for public sale. Procter stated that there must have been a
mistake regarding this, and accounted for it by saying that
one of the parcels had not been unpacked. After which the
evidence of Mr. William Plyne Helby was taken. He de-
posed that he was a stay manufacturer at Portsea, and that
he had supplied Mr. Henry with stays. The first order was
sent off on the 22d of September last. He had been to Mr.
Hodgson's room to examine the stays sent there by the pri-
soner. They were part of those the prisoner had received
from the witness. The bill amounted to £37 14s. 6d. He
sent another parcel on the Sth instant. This bill amounted
to £l3 15s. He sent them by way of London. He re-
ceived a bill and acknowledgments for both parcels from Mr.
Henry, but the bill would not be due till January next. The
letters were put in and Procter called, who admitted having
written the two letters according to instructions received by
him from Mr. Henry. Mr. Helby thought it a large order
for stays. Procter was again recalled, who stated that the
first parcel of stays had been sent to the auction-room. He
was not aware of the amount of the last order. Mr. Daven-
port submitted that the stays must either be on the road or
burnt. Mr. Dowling inquired of Procter what relation Mr.
Shannon was to the prisoner, when Procter answered that
Mrs. Shannon was the prisoner's sister. After some other
questions were put to Mr. Shannon, the case for the prose-
cution closed, when Mr. Rushton observed that although the
case was wholly circumstantial, yet there was sufficient in
his opinion, to enable him to take the responsibiliiy of send-
ing the prisoner to trial. The whole of the depositions,
which were very lengthy, were then read over, when the pri-
soner was asked, after being cautioned, if he had any state.
ment to make, but he declined saying anything. Mr.
Davenport then applied to have the prisoner liberated on
bail, as Mr. Rushton had been, kind enough to grant a
si 8 lar application on a former case. Mr. Rushton would
not refuse the application, but would take it into his con-
sideration. The prisoner wan then removed from the bar.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

LATEST FROM AMERICA.

The packet-ship Rochester, Captain Woodhouse, arrived
in the river on Thursday night, from New York. We have
papers to the 4th instant inclusive, three days later than the
previous advices. The New York Herald of the 4th gives
the following account of the state of trade :—" There is a
little movement in trade, not such as should be expected at
this season. The business at Philadelphia is described as
follows :—There has been but a moderate amount of business
transacted this week, the farmers and dealers in the interior
being engaged in seeding and cropping their corn. It is ex-
pected that after next week, business, until the closing of all
the canals, will become more active. The late foreign ad-
vicei have produced no effect upon our market—the prices
of wheat and flour being too low in England to admit of any
shipment from this country." There has been no material
alteration in the money market or cotton trade since the last
advices.
On the night of the 25th ultimo, a range of new and sub-
stantial buildings, comprising five stores, and known as the
Preoleau's Block, in Charleston, were destroyed by fire. The
damage is estimated at upwards of 100,000 dollars ; but the
greater part is covered by insurance.
The intelligence from Canada is to the 26th ult., but it is
not of much importance. In the House of Assembly Mr
Dunscomb moved an address approving of the recent junc-
tion of parties, and expressing confidence in the new minis-
try. The following additional appointments have been made :
T. C. Aylwin to be Solicitor-General for Canada East, and
Small, Esq., Solicitor-General for Canada West.
The accounts from Yucatan, via New Orlean, confirm the
surrender of Laguna to the Mexicans without opposition.
The latter were waiting for reinforcements from Vera Cruz,
and would then proceed against Campeachy, where vigorous
preparations were making for their reception. It is stated
that the yellow fever bad broken out amongst the Mexicans.
According to accounts from Brazil, by a recent law passed
by the Provincial Assembly of Pernambuco, the president of
that province is authorised to contract with any persons,
natives or foreigners, for the improvement of the manufac-
ture of sugar cane. These persons are to receive a salary
not exceeding four contos de reis, or 2,300 dollars per an-
num.
Extract of a letter dated Nassau, (N.P.) Sept. 17, 1842 :
" Since my last we have received most disastrous news from
the out islands. Most of the plantation houses and the salt
crop at Rum Key, have been nearly destroyed, and the same
at Green Key at Watling's Islands. Harbour Island has also
suffered severely. Several of the droughing vessels were lost
with most of their crews. The schooner Franklin was lost
off Cat Island, with all on board but the captain—among the
number'a passenger by the name of Sanky, the performer, a
late resident of the States, with several hundred dollars worth
of property on board."

The British and North American royal mail steamer the
Columbia, Captain Miller, arrived on Saturday night at this
port from Boston and Halifax. She sailed from the former
city on the afternoon of the 16th, and from the latter port
(where she stopped eleven hours) on that of the 18th instant ;
and has made the passage in a few hours above thirteen days.
.She has brought thirty-three passengers.
We have received by the Columbia New York papers of
the 15th and Boston of the 16th instant. The Hilifax jour-
nals are of the 18th.
The Boston papers bring the news of the death of the Rev.
Dr. Charming. He expired at Bennington, Vermont, on the
evening of Sunday, the 2d instant. His disease was, it is
stated, typhus fever. He was in the sixty-second year of his
age. He had long been in a feeble state of health, which had-
compelled him to relinquish active pastoral duties.
No material alteration had taken place in the money, stock,
or produce markets of New York. The stock market had
been extremely dull ; and the advices from England by the
Columbia had not had any effect on cotton or flour. The
exchange on London was from 1071 to 1081, and on France
from sf. 311 to sf. 30. The transactions had been to a very
limited amount. . .

The Phcenix Bank of Charlestown, in the vicinity o
Boston, had failed. The whole of the capital of the bank had,
it appears, been loaned to two firms, without adequate se-
curity, the paper being so arranged, at the time of examina-
tion by the Bank Commissioners, as to elude the most careful
scrutiny. A dividend of profits, of three per cent, had been
declared payable on the very day that the bank stopped pay-
ment! William Wyman, ex-prcsident, and Thomas Brown,
jun., ex-cashier of the bank, and W. H. Skinner, of the firm
of tanley, Reed, and Co., had been arrested, and held to
bail in the sum of 100,000 dollars each, for their appearance
for examination before Mr. Justice Buttrick, at Charlestown.
The complaints charged that Wyman and Brown had em-
bezzled the sum of 300,000 dollars from the Phoenix Bank,
and also that Mr. Skinner bad conspired with them to per-
petrate the fraud, which is made larceny by the Revised
Statutes.
The Canadian news contained in the New York papers is
interesting. The acceptance of office by several of the mem-
bers of the new cabinet having caused the vacation of their
seats in the Legislature, the re-election of Mr. Baldwin and
Mr. Lafontaine had been opposed by the Conservatives.
Mr. Baldwin's opponent was Mr. Murney, who carried the
election for the county of Hastings by a majority of forty-
one. Serious riots had marked the course of the election,
the poll having on one occasion been closed. All the blame
of the riots is thrown on the Government party. Two com-
panies of the 23rd Regiment had been stationed in the polling
place for the suppression of the riots. Mr. Lafontaine's
opponent was Mr. Roe, who, at the close of the second day's
poll, was thirty-five votes a-head. At the final close. how-
ever, Mr. Lafontaine was in the ascendant, and was re-
elected.
The Parliament was prorogued, on the 12th instant, by Sir
Charles Bagot, with a short speech, simply thanking the les
gislature for the zeal and assiduity with which they had con-
sidered and perfected the measures of the session, as well as
for the supplies they had voted, and exhorting the members
to use their perional influence, in the several districts, to
promote the harmony and good feeling which it had been his
endeavour to establish.
The Governor-General had promulgated a letter from Lord
Stanley, Secretary for the Colonies, declaring that the Queen
had refused to grant :the prayer of certain petitioners, who
had asked the crown to make Toronto and Quebec alternate
seats of the provincial government. Kingston is to remain
the civil metropolis.
The head-quarters and six companies of the second bat-
talion of Coldstream Guards erul:Parked at Quebec for Eng-
land, on the sth instant, on board the troop-ship Calcutta.
Two companies of this battalion and two of the Grenadier
Guards remained at QUebec, waiting the arrival of the frigate
Pique. The 7th Hussars were also waiting the arrival of
transports.
The West India mail steam-ship the Medway had arrived
at the Balize from Vera Cruz, which she left on the 15th ult.
Mr. Carson, bearer of despatches from General Thompson,
the United States Minister in Mexico, came passenger by
her, and immediately set off for 'Washington, which he
reached in the short space of twenty-three days from the
city of Mexico. It was understood, that the bad feeling
which had existed between the Government of Mexico and
that of the United States would be removed, and the dispute
between the two republics amicably arranged. General Al-
monte, Ambassador Extraordinary to the Government of
Washington, was on his voyage to the United States. He
was intrusted with plenary powers for the settlement of the
questions at issue between the two Governments.
An expedition, it is stated, was fitting out at Vera Cruz,
the destination of which was Galverston, Texas. Troops
were collecting in the neighbourhood to form the military
Dart of the expedition. The iron war steamer the Guada-
loupe was at Vera Cruz, preparing to sail for Galveston, for
the purpose of reconnoitering the island, and capturing any
Texan vessels she might fall in with, previous to the sailing
of the expedition for the invasion of Texas by sea. Mean-
while, a Mexican force of' 1300 men, under the command of
General Wall, had invaded Texas by land. On the 11th ult.
they completely surprised San Antonio, the frontier town.
Fifty-three of the principal citizens were taken prisoners.
The Circuit Court was in session, and the judges and officers
of the court were made prisoners also. The proclamation of
the President, headed " The Enemy Again," ordered the
marching forthwith of the militia of Brazoria, Austin, Fort
Bend, Colorado, Victoria, Gonzales, Jackson, and Monta-
gorde countries against San Antonio ; the counties of the
upper Brazos and Colorado to march to Austin ; and the ci-
tizens of the other counties to hold themselves in instant
readiness. The orders of the Executive were direct, that, in
the event of the evacuation of San Antonio by the Mexicans,
hey were to be pursued beyond the Rio Grande and chas-
tised as " their audacity deserves." In the event of a formal
invasion, the western counties were to hold the invaders in
check, until the rest of the republic could rally to the rescue.
The President of Texas had revoked the blockade of the
ports of Mexico, in order to allow a more favourable oppor-
tunity for the mediation of England and the United States.
The Columbia made the passage from this port to Boston
in 13 days and 12 hours. The Britannia, which sailed hence
on the 4th ultimo, arrived at Halifax on the 16th, in a few
hours less than 12 days. She would reach Boston on the
18th.
The Belgian steam-ship British Queen, Lieutenant Eyk-
holt• sailed on the 7th inst. from New York for Portsmouth
and Antwerp. The packet-ship George Washington, which
sailed, on the next day for this port, arrived on Sunday.
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rcdi THE OVERLAND ROUTE TO INDIA.
The following extract of a letter from an officer in the
Madras service, who proceeded to Alexandria via South-
ampton, the Ist of June, 18-12, by the Great Liverpool
steamer, on the way to Bombay, may prove interesting:—
" We reached Alexandria on the 17th, and the same even-
ing I proceeded with my luggage to the canal, where I found
two large boats, one for passengers, and the other for luggage.
I got into the former after seeing my luggage carefully stowed
away in the latter. At about ten p.m., all the passengers
were on board, and we were soon off, being towed along by
horses. We had no bed that night, but we arrived at Atfeh
on the Nile the next day, and embarked on board a small
steamer called the Lotus, which left at four p.m. the next day.
We reached Grand Cairo at three p.m. the 19th of June, and
after visiting the city and dining at Hill's hotel, started in
the evening to cross the Desert, in vans drawn by four horses.
1 shared one with three fellow travellers. It is eighty-four
miles from Cairo to Suez. We changed horses seven times,
but it is trying work for the wretched animals, and the camels
too, to judge by the hundreds of their skeletons we passed on
the sands. The vans not being on springs, jolted us awfully,
as the road is in places very rough and stony. It is cruel
work, the cattle employed being horribly chafed and galled,
so much so, that it is with difficulty the drivers can persuade
them to start, and they are frequently stopping. I had to
get out with another passenger and push the carriage on 16
times during the night, to make the horses move. We arrived
at Suez a six p.m. the 21st of June.
" I lost no time in searching a cabin on board the hon.
company's steam-ship Victoria. There were many passengers
of the May mail waiting here for the India steamer to take
them to Madras and Calcutta, but they were disappointed
owing to some accident, so they determined on going to Bom-
bay in the Victoria. We left Suez on the 22(1 of June, with
sixty passengers (about double the usual number), which was
any thing but pleasant, as the servants on board were not
sufficient to wait on so many. It was with difficulty one
could get a cup of tea, a second was out of the question, and
we had repeatedly to pray for water before we could get a
drink, and the Suez and Aden waters are both very salt, but
this is by no means the most disagreeable part of it, as the
vessel swarmed with rats and cockroaches.
" We arrived at Aden on the 29th of June, and took in
coals, which nearly smothered us, and covered every hole and
corner of the vessel with minute particles of black dust. It
was altogether a disagreeable passage. From some accident
the pumps were out of order, and the deck in consequence
always floating with foul bilge water. The crew was partly
English and partly Africans. We experienced very hot
weather in the Red Sea, the thermometer 94 degrees in the
shade. As we approached Bombay, we came in for the
monsoon rain and wind continually. We arrived at Bombay
the Bth of July.
" The deck passengers had a very uncomfortable night, as
it rained hard, and they were wet, as well by the rain as by
the sea, which constantly washed over them. I landed with
my luggage at two p.m., and shall proceed to join my regi
ment aout the 20th instant."

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A rich mine of yellow amber, of a hardness equal to rock
crystal, has just been discovered in the neighbourhood of the
town of Zehderich, near Potsdam. This discovery is the
more remarkable, as up to the present time yellow amber has
only been found in the Baltic, or on the shores of that sea.
The Pacha of Egypt has forwarded to Sir C. Napier a
medal, splendidly enriched with diamonds, and a sword, the
hilt and scabbard of which are nearly all composed of solid
gold. These presents are of good workmanship, but which
will not bear a comparison with that of this country.

HYDROPATHY, OR THE COLD WATER CURE.

(From the Kentish Observer.)

On Friday evening last a very interesting lecture on Hy-
dropathy, or the Cold Water Cure, was delivered at the
Royal Oak Assembly Rooms, Dover, by Captain Claridge,
who is the author of a work on the subject. After a few
general remarks, the captain related to the audience his own
experience of the benefits to be derived from the system.
He was suffering severely from rheumatism, headache, and
weakness of the eyes, for which he had consulted many
physicians, and tried various remedies without effect, when
he was advised to try the effect of this method. For this
purpose he proceeded, with Ns family, to Grafenberg, in
Silesia, the residence of Mr. Priessnitz, the originator of the
system: Mr. Priessnitz was a peasant, without education ;
and his skill in curing diseases originated in accident. He
was severely injured by a kick from a horse, which broke
two or three of his ribs. The surgeon whom he consulted
said he would be disabled for life. He, however, determined
to attempt a cure, which he effected by cold water and spare
diet alone. He afterwards performed several cures on men
and animals. Grafenberg is situated about half way up one
of the mountains of the Sudates. The establishment of Mr.
Priessnitz is a very irregular structure, having been built at
different periods ; but it has one noble room, which is used for
meals and assemblies. The accommodations are very coarse,
and in consequence Captain Claridge took up his quarters in
the neighbouring town of Freiwaldau. He had not been long
here before he was visited by two Englishmen, whom he had
persuaded to apply. to Mr. Priessnitz. They assured him
they should owe him an eternal debt of gratitude, for their
restoration to health. They then invited him to dine at the
public table, where they sat down about 300 persons, and the
captain took occasion to remark the extraordinary flow of
spirits which seemed to pervade the company, so different
from what any one would expect in invalids. His friends
then pointed out to him some extraordinary cures effected
by hydropathy. One was a young lady, who went there with
scrofula in her face and neck, so bad as to render her quite
an object; in nine months she was so completely recovered
as to be considered the beauty of the room. Another case
was that of an officer who, in consequence of a wound, had
his leg so withered that it was not thicker than his wrist. He
shortly had the limb perfectly restored. Many others they
pointed out.
The table is spread with plain food, and no restriction is
placed upon the patients, except in forbidding the use of wine,
beer, mustard, pepper, &c.
The course prescribed by Mr. Priessnitz, for Captain Cla-
ridge, was the following :—At about four o'clock in the
morning his servant brought a large coarse blanket, in which
he was enveloped, and which was tightly fastened round his
neck, and at his feet ; then, as many blankets as be could
conveniently bear were heaped upon him, and on these a bed,
so as effectually to exclude the external air ; in this state he
remained till six o'clock. In about an hour, perspiration
took place, when the doors and windows were opened, and
he was instructed to drink about a pint of cold water, by
means of a pipe. At six o'clock the coverings were removed,
and he bad his face, chest, and shins washed with cold water,
to prevent his taking cold. He then descended to the bath
in a pair of straw shoes. In the bath he remained three
minutes; dressed, with the windows open, and walked,
drinking cold water at various places (to the amount of about
eight glasses,) until he arrived at the establishment to break-
fast, which was composed of milk, butter, and brown bread,
with wild strawberries, for five months in the year. Then he
descended the mountain by another path, and on his way
took a douche bath, in which the stream flowing from the
mountain is collected in a pipe. This is suffered to flow first
on one part of the body, then on another, and lastly on the
part affected. From this he proceeded home, took a sitz bath
—a tub with about six or nine inches of water, in which he
sat for fifteen minutes ; he then took a foot-bath for the same
length of time, the servant rubbing his feet while they were
in the water. For the weakness of his sight he lay on the
floor upon his back, and placed the back of his head in a
basin of water for five minutes. He dined at one o'clock ;
at three repeated the same process, and walked until nine.
For supper be ate the same as at breakfast. His daughter,
who was supposed to be consumptive, but who Mr. Priessnitz
pronounced had merely outgrown her strength, being, as he
expressed it, too tall for her breath, underwent a similar pro-
cess, except that, to produce perspiration she was enveloped
in a wet sheet, instead of a blanket, and at night she wore a
wet cloth upon her chest, and another round her body. In
less than three months she was perfectly recovered.
The Captain remarked that he could see no reason why
man should not live to 200 years of age. The inferior
animals, it is calculated, live eight times as long as it takes
them to arrive at maturity, and why not man ? He then ad-
duced several examples of longevity.
He gave an extract from a work by Dr. Rausse, to the
following effect :—" It is impossible for any man to die of
any acute disease, while the patient has sufficient strength
left, to allow of water producing its re-action in him," He
said that people never died at Grafenberg of any aeute dis-
order. He states that there are now a hundred establish-
ments on the same plan in Germany, and gave an account
of the number of patients who have consulted Mr. Priess-
nitz in each year, from 1829, its commencement, to 1841.
The total amount is 7,000.

TERRIFIC AFFRAY BETWEEN GAMEKEEPERS
AND POACHERS.-MURDER OF A KEEPER:

(From the Chester Chronicle of Friday.)

We regret to have to record a most sanguinary combat
which took place on Saturday evening last between the keepers
of John Tollemache, Esq., of Tilston Lodge, M.P., and Ed-
win Corbett, Esq., of Darnhall, and a party of poachers, and
which resulted in the defeat of the former, one of whom,
named Richard Chesters, died in a few hours afterwards from
the injuries he received in the conflict. The following are
the facts as near as we have been able to collect them :
It appeared that, from some information that had been ob-
tained by Robert Bostock, keeper to Mr. Corbett, he had
reason to apprehend that a poaching party would be out on
the night in question. He called that morning on Daniel
Bebbington, who was engaged by Mr. Tollemache to look
after the game at Wettenhall, and told him that he expected
there would be some poachers in Wettenhall-wood that
night ; and they arranged to meet at the Wettenhall side of i
the wood at eleven o'clock. About nine o'clock on that
evening Bostock called upon John Noden, waggoner to
Mr. Corbett, and John Bebbington, under-keeper to the
same gentleman. They went to Wettenhall-wood as watch,
and found Daniel Bebbington and. Thomas Bebbington,
his grandson, a young boy, who had heard the report of
fire-arms a few minutes previous, and were awaiting the
arrival of the remainder of the keepers and their party. It
was a moonlight night. They went some distance by the
side of that part of the wood called Boffey's Pipe, and
crossed a field of John Boffey's, gtvhich adjoined the Pipe,
where they saw four or five men, who, as soon as they saw
them (the keepers), called to them to stand off. Three of
the men had guns, one of them was identified by Bostock as
Jos. Baker, and one of them had a bludgeon. Those who
had guns pointed them towards the keepers. As the keepers
advanced the poachers retreated slowly backwards, and
Baker cried out, " their eyes, don't let us go back, let us
stand !" Daniel Bebbington said, "My lads, we are five as
well as ye," counting his grandson as one. When they came
to close quarters, John Bebbington seized hold of one of the
men, and seized his gun by the muzzle, and threw him down.
In-the struggle the gun went off, as the poacher had hold of
the lock. This man was dressed in dark clothing. Daniel
Bebbington came up during the struggle, and threw himself
upon -the man, and John Bebbington left him in order to
pursue the other poachers, and immediately another of the
gang came up, dressed in a short darkish coloured slop, and
struck Daniel Bebbington over the head and arms, and en-
abled the other men to escape. Robert Bostock seized the
man who had the bludgeon, and was beaten 'severely by
him ; the second blow knocked him down, and stunned him,
and his gun was taken from him and discharged. When John
Bebbington left Daniel Bebbington in charge of the poacher
he bad prostrated, he pursued John Baker who had run
alongside of the wood for a short distance, and had during
the pursuit got over the hedge into the wood, John Bebbing-
ton being close to him, and in fact was with him as he got
over the hedge, Baker's gun being under him. They had a
struggle, when Richard Chesters, another of the keepers
(and who afterwards died of the injuries he received,)
came up, and the two secured Baker. John Bebbington
said to his prisoner, " I know thee." He called him Duke
Baker; and he answered, " Well, thou knows me, let
me go." In about five minutes, wjiilst still in the wood,
the keepers heard some men who were coming up the side
of the wood, calling out—" Now my lads, how are you
coming on ?" and John Bebbington, who supposed they were
the remainder of the keepers, said "We are here." They
then came up, there being three of them, and stood on the
hedge top, when Bebbington saw that they were the com-
panions of his prisoner Baker. He said to Cheaters, " Shoot
the first man that comes over." Chesters then took up his
(Bebbington's) gun, lying by his side, but held it in his hand,
and did not present it. The men then came over the hedge,
when Bebbington then let Baker go. One of the poachers,
tde man in the slop, struck Bebbington on the head and
stunned him, and he received several other blows, which in-
duced him to keep calling upon Chesters to shoot. The men
then left Bebbington, and attacked Chesters. What took
place then Bebbington is unable to say, as be was !stunned
by the blows be had received, and when he came to himself
he was in the brook close by. Bostock, after the conflict he
had been engaged in was ended, and he had recovered from
the blows- he had received, went towards the place where
Bebbington had had the struggle with Baker, but he did not
find him. as he had gone away ' but he saw the body; of
Chesters lying there. He saw four men just out of the
wood,' and one of them looking through the hedge, but he
could not recognise any of them. He went acress the wood
towards Wettenhall, and in the field next to the wood he met
Bebbington, who was at that time bleeding very much from
a bad cut across his head. They went to the'public-house at
Wettenhall for assistance, and having obtained it, they went
for Chesters, whom they found lying on the ground, where
Bebbington had last seen him before he was attacked by the
poachers; and they carried him to the Boot and Slipper
public-house.
Whilst the above conflicts were going on John Noden had
a struggle with the poacher armed with the bludgeon, and
managed to fight him for a considerable time with his stick,
and ultimately wrenched the bludgeon from him. They then
got into the hedge and had a severe struggle, when the
poacher got uppermost, and jumped with his feet upon Noden's
belly, and then set off into the wood. Noden was so much
injured as not to be able to get up for some time ; and when
he did get up the men bad all gone away.
When Richard Chesters was taken to the Boot and Slipper
public-house he was in a state of insensibility, and the atten-
dance of Mr. Job Harrison, of Tarporley, surgeon, was ob-
tained as soon as possible. He got there about 12 o'clock.
The moment he bad examined the wounds, which were chiefly
about the head, there being a severe fracture of the skull over
the right eye, he considered the case as hopeless. He, how-
ever, immediately bled him, and used such remedial means
as the case required. He continued with him until five
o'clock ; his head was much swollen, caused by the contusions
and effusions of blood under the scalp ; there being also con-
siderable hemorrhage from the right ear. He saw him again
at half-past nine o'clock, when he was much worse. He died
about half-past 12 o'clock on that day.
On Wednesday, an inquest was held before the Cheshire
coroner, when a verdict of " Wilful murder against Charles
Hitchen, William Warburton, Samuel Cousins, Joseph Ba-
ker, and Richard Evans," and the four prisoners in custody
were immediately committed on his warrant to Chester Cas-
tle, to take their trial at the next assizes for that offence ; and
were conveyed there the next morning by Mr. Baker and his
assistants.

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It is expected that Baker will not be able long to evade the
search making for him.

It is rumoured in legal circles that, in consequence of the
declining state of bis health, the veteran Lord Lyndhurst
will shortly retire from the woolsack, which his brilliant
talents have so pre-eminently adorned, and that he will he
succeeded pro tern. by Lord Abinger, now Lord Chief Baron,
who will shortly afterwards retire in favour of Sir William
Follett. These changes will involve the elevation of the
present Attorney-General to the dignity of Chief Baron, and
in all probability the promotion of Mr. Fitzroy Kelly and
Mr. Justice Cresswell.—Herald.

CURIOUS COINCIDENCE.—LAW !—A proof of the " glo-
rious uncertainty of the law" was shown at the last quarter
sessions for the county of Dorset. Two men were indicted
jointly for a felony : upon being called on to plead guilty or
not guilty, one of them pleaded " guilty," and the other
" not guilty." At that moment an attorney stepped up to the
prisoner who pleaded guilty, and told him he was employed
to defend him : the prisoner then withdrew his plea of
guilty, and pleaded not guilty. The trial proceeded, and at
the. close the jury acquitted the one who had at first pleaded
guilty, and convicted the other who had pleaded not guilty.
—Sherborne Journal.

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.

THE LAST WEEK OF THE PRESENT SEASON.

PHIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the Ist instant,
the Comedy of
TOWN AND COUNTRY.
After which, the Farce of
YOUTH, LOVE, AND FOLLY.
To conclude with
THE IRISH TUTOR.

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.
LAST NIGHT OF THE PRESENT SEASON.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF
MISS H. GARDNER,

BY DESIRE, AND UNDER THE IMMEDIATE PATRONAGE OF,
THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF SEFTON,
(AN FRIDAY next, the 4th instant, will be performed
Shakspeare's
MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.
Oberon, King of the Fairies.
To conclude with the Fairy Extravaganza of
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.
Beauty
Tickets to be had of Miss H. GARDNER, No. 6, Clayton-
square, and of Mr. COOKE, at the Box-office of the Theatre,
where places may be taken at the usual hours.