The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-07-29 00:00:00

INTERVIEW WITH LORD STANLEY

The deputation then proceeded to the Colonial Office,
and were introduced to Lord Stanley. Brief statements,
showing the present depression of trade, were made by the
delegates from the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Lord Stanley wished to know how, as the exports of
woollens had increased during the past year, there could have
been so many of the operatives unemployed? Were there
no indications that trade was reviving?

_ ...... _
Mr. James Hoatson, of Halifax, begged his lordship's
pardon, but presumed that he was under a mistake as to an
increase in the exportation of woollens during the past year.
Lord Stanley thought otherwise ; and, having despatched
a messenger for the official returns, examined them, but did
not state whether he or Mr. Hoatson was in the right.

Mr. Brook, of Huddersfield, said, that conceding even
that the exports had increased, it was not beneficial to the
manufacturers. Finding themselves over-stocked with goods,
and there being no consumption at home, they were forcing
them into foreign markets at a ruinous loss.
After hearing other delegates,
Lord Stanley said, there were so many and complicated
interests involved, and such a variety of conflicting opi.tions,
and of important points to be taken into consideratien, that
the whole subject required, and was receiving the most
serious attention of her majesty's ministers. He deeply
sympathised with the distress.
Mr. Alderman Chapell assured his lordship, that the
whole question lay in a nut-shell. One gentleman had
certain goods to dispose of, and another had other articles to
offer for them ; and all they wanted was liberty to make a
fair e
Lord Stanley : Oh, oh ! So you say, b 5 lam of a different
way of thinking from many of you, and in the meantime let
every one enjoy his own ?pinion.
The deputation then withdrew.

INTERVIEW WITH LORD WHARNCLIFFE.
The deputation then proceeded to the Privy Council Office,
and were introduced to Lord Wharncliffe, the Lord Presi-
dent of the Council. Amongst the brief statements laid
before his lordship, that of Mr. Holland Hoole, the borough-
reeve of Salford, was not the least striking. After alluding
to the wide-spread distress and misery of the inhabitants of
that borough, he regretted that it was the opinion of the
working people, and it might be supposed, that be (Mr.
Hoole) had contributed to the distress, inasmuch as he had
been under the necessity (two months ago) of closing his
cotton-spinning establishment, to the throwing entirely out
of employment about 700 persons. He (Mr. Hoole) had
been in that establishment twenty-nine years, and for the last
twelve years the leading partner. He had been supported
by one of the wealthiest families in Lancashire ; and by his
representations they had been induced to allow an outlay of
more than £25,000 in the last two years in new machinery
and renovations. Notwithstanding all these circumstances,
which were greatly more favourable than those of many
others, the result was as already stated. He further men-
tioned, that his trade was chiefly with Russia, where he had
been for some years past a resident partner ; but that the
extremely low prices accepted in Manchester by distressed
spinners, and the enermous duty in Russia on cotton twist,
imported into that empire, increased by the last Russian
tariff to 7d. sterling per pound on an article not worth more
than 10d. per pound in Manchester, had rendered the trade
completely unproductive.
After listening to a few brief representations of distress,
Lord Wharncliffe said, he must be excused from further
details, as it was time to attend to his duties in parliament ;
and indeed it was unnecessary, as they were all agreed on
that subject. The only difference of opinion was as to the
remedy, which was under the consideration of the govern-
ment.

Mr. Brooks, of Manchester, said he would soon find a
remedy.

Lord Wharncliffe begged to be excused, and politely bowed
the deputation out of the room.

STATE OF TRADE

MANCHESTER? WEDNESDAY.--The remarks made in
various quarters, upon the account of the market which we
gave last Wednesday, has induced us to make very careful
inquiries on the subject in the best quarters to which we
have access; and the result of these inquiries convinces us,
that, with the exception of one trifling and incidental state-
ment (which was not made in any positive terms, and which
has already been corrected), that account was perfectly well
founded. We are quite aware, that upon this point there
are considerable, and, we believe, very honest differences of
opinion, arising probably, in a great measure, from the
extent to which men allow their judgments to be warped by
those political feelings which at the present time are brought
to bear strongly even upon questions of a merely mercantile
character, With political matters, however, we have nothing
to do here ; and we should have been undeserving of the con-
fidence which the public have placed in our weekly state-
ments on this subject, if we had permitted any extraneous
considerations whatever to interfere with the way in which
we record the state of this important market. With these
few observations, which circumstances appeared to require
at our hands, we proceed to mention the state of business
yesterday.
In the yarn market there was a fair business doing on
Russian account, and a little more demand for numbers and
qualities suitable for the East India market. The German
buyers, on the contrary, have somewhat relaxed in their ope-
rations ; and the market was not animated, though prices
continued perfectly firm. The demand for shirtings, and
other wide cloths suitable for shipping, continues without
jany material change from last week. The advance upon in-
erior shirtings, which we stated to have been then demanded
by the manufacturers, but not generally acceded to by the
buyers, may now be considered as fully established ; and, in
some cases, an advance of ld. to 11d. has also been obtained
upon the superior qualities. In domestics, however, there is
no improvement in price. For printing cloths, which have
suffered a long and most severe depression, there has been a
little more inquiry within the last few days ; and parties
willing to accept the very lowest pes that have been cur-
rent, have found no difficulty in obtaining them, especially
for 66-reed cloth, which is in rather better demand than the
superior qualities. On the whole, we may state,—and, we
believe, without incurring any danger of the contradiction
given to our statements last week,—that there is, generally
speaking, more firmness in the market, and a more general
feeling of confidence, both amongst manufacturers and
dealers, than has prevailed for a number of weeks past ; and
we are glad to find, that this feeling is not confined to the
Manchester market; but, as far as we can learn, pervades
the manufacturing and mercantile classes generally.—man.
cheater Guardian.

Lord and Lady Frances Egerton gave a petit divertise-
rnent on Tuesday, at their mansion, in Belgrave-square, to a
select party of the nobility and many of the juvenile branches.
The entertainment was representations of Blue Beard and
Alfred the Great, in which performances some of the youth.
ful aristocrates sustained parts, and nobly acquitted them-
selves. On Wednesday the noble lord and lady left town
for Oatlands, Surrey.
THE ENNIS Rtors.—A report prevailed in Ennis on
Thursday morning that Leary, one of the persons who was
wounded in the late unfortunate affair in that town, was
dead, which having been made known to his sister, caused
her to run through the streets in a distracted state with a
large knife in her hand ; she made towards the police bar-
rack, followed by a large concourse of people, and was in the
act of making at the guard, when she was laid hold of by a
butcher of the name of GriffY, who spewed great presence o
mind in coming in contact with a person in that state, and
thus prevented her from doing injury. It turned out after-
wards that Leary was not dead, but improving.—Limerick
paper.

MISCELLANEOUS,

IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN CATTLE.—" To the editor of
:he Mark-lane Express: Sir,—lf• it will allay the panic

Lmongst our cattle-breeders and feeders, you are welcome to
tate that the freight of my four. Swiss bulls by steam down

he Rhine from Basle by Rotterdam cost me -£ll lls. each,

pre-paid.—Your reader, " F. A. MACKF:NZIE."
At all the principal towns in Yorkshire, as well as at the
leading markets in the midland and western counties, wheat
has fallen at least 2s. per quarter within the last eight days.—
Mark-lane Express.

CAUTION TO RACKET PLAYERS.—A person named
M'Elhenny, was struck with a racket ball in the eye, on
Thursday last, the 14th instant, in the racket-court at Wap-
ping, in this city, when the eye was literally crushed in his
haad, a part falling out upon the pavement. The sight is,
of course gone, and he now lies dangerously ill from the in-
jury he sustained,—Derry Sentinel.
The Journal du Havre says :—The harvest is so abundant
this year in the United States, that we are informed by the
latest accounts, that, after providing for the supply of the
country, it will be possible to export six million barrels of
flour, each weighing 200 lb. This is more than double the
quantity annually exported by the United States.
SUPERSTITION.—As a woman named Charlotte Slater was
on her way from the prison to bp tried at the Hereford city
session, held last week, she placed a note, written with some-
thing having partly the appearance of red ink, in the hand
of one of her female friends. The following is a copy :
" Please to get Some Dragon's Blood and Burn it when my
Trial Comes on, and you may Say I hope Thomas Harris
and John Powell and William Bowen may never rest nor
Speak until lam Liberated. God bless you do it."
THE UNFORTUNATE CIPHER.—The Marseilles Gazette,
a few weeks ago, told a curious anecdote relating to one of
the first commercial men of the town. This gentleman
having a correspondent on the African coast, bethought him
that as some members of his family bad shown a partiality
for monkeys, he might gratify them by sending for one or
two specimens from Africa. Accordingly he wrote to his
correspondent to procure two or three of the finest and most
admired species, and transmit them to Marseilles. Chance
so ordered it, that the merchant in putting down the ou, (in
English or) between the figures 2 and 3 made the o very pro-
minent, while the u remained scarcely visible. Some months
afterwards a ship-porter came in all haste to the old mer-
chant, and announced to him that his menagerie had arrived.
" Menagerie!" cried the merchant. " Yes, a menagerie ; a
whole cargo of monkeys had arrived to his consignment !"
The merchant could scarcely credit the announcement, until
the letter of his correspondent was put into his hands. In
that epistle, the African negotiant, a man of the most un-
compromising exactitude, excused himself very earnestly for
not having been able, with all his exertions, to procure more
than 160 monkeys, in place of 203 ordered; but promised,
as soon as possible, to fulfil the entire demand.
In the frightful corruption which Mr. Roebuck's commit-
tee has unravelled, £7OOO paid for a seat at Nottingham, by
one of the plotters of the Affghan war, figure prominently.
This large amount, it moreover appears, is but a fraction of
the sums similarly expended by that public servant. Sir John
Hobhouse doubtless considered his seat in Parliament as es-
sential to the defence of the great and just—Lord Palmerston
would add the successful—" operations" which he com-
menced, and for the consolidation of that barrier which he
had erected against Russia in Central Asia. Judging the
Indian government to be liable for the expense of these
" operations" in Central Asia, may not a similar compendi-
ous mode of reasoning have convinced the ex-President of
the Board of Trade that the Indian Treasury was liable for
the expenditure:incurred in an equally patriotic spirit at Not-
tingham ? This is a point of fine casuists, and we wall not
anticipate the result at which future committees of inquiry
may arrive. Meanwhile the inquisitive mind of Mr. Roe-
buck might find employment in inquiring into the items and
objects of some hundreds of thousands sterling for secret
services in Indian politics paid in the city to the order of a
right hon. baronet.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—OR Monday afternoon, an in-
quest, adjourned from Friday last, was concluded before Mr.
Baker, at the Red House, College-street, Chelsea, on the
body of a male infant, aged three weeks, the illegitimate off-
spring of a young woman named Barritt, alias Harcourt.
The evidence was of the most prolix character, but, from the
following detail of it, the whole history of the case will be
obtained. On the Ist of July the deceased was born at No.
17, Charles-street, Chelsea, and was a very fine healthy
child. Previous to the birth of the child. an arrangement
had been entered into with the mother and a Mrs. Hunt,
the wife of a marine store-keeper, living at No. 3, Bond-
street, Chelsea, that the latter should have the child, and
pass him off as her own, to the great joy of her husband.
On hearing of the birth of the child, Mrs. Hunt was taken
with the usual pains ; and Mr. Hunt, thinking the accouche-
ment was near, called in, by the desire of his wife, not a me-
dical man, but a Mrs. Hayward, who had been let into the
secret, and was to perform the duties of midwife and nurse.
Mrs. Hunt was put to bed, and the following morning Mrs.
Hayward was sent for the child, the former making the re-
mark, " that if she did not succeed in the attempt it would
ruin her peace of mind." The grandmother of the child
came, and an arrangement was entered into that the child
should be fetched in the evening. About eight o'clock Mr.
Hunt very conveniently went out, and during his absence
the child was fetched from his mother, and on his returnwas

presented to him, and he appeared quite delighted to think
he was a father. The child was placed in bed by the side of
Mrs. Hunt, who went through all the ordeal of a regular
accouchement, with the exception of giving the child the
breast. In place of his natural food, gruel and new milk,
with stale French rolls, and tops and bottoms, were given to
him. Mrs. Hayward continued her attendance until the
Wednesday following, when she left, and one of her daugh-
ters took her place. The child appeared to get on pretty
well until the Sunday following, when, on Mrs. Hayward
visiting her patient, Mrs. Hunt, she found her bathing the
child's eyes in consequence of their being sore. Looking
also ill, Mrs. Hayward, at the request of Mrs. Hunt, took
the child to his lawful mother for the purpose of her suck-
ling it, Mr. Hunt, who really did think the child belonged
to him, telling her that if the wet nurse (meaning the child's
mother) could be removed, to bring her to his house in a
cab. The mother was unable to suckle it, but the grand-
mother, having a child of her own, gave it the breast, and
said she would undertake the charge of it that night. The
child was brought back to Mrs. Hunt's, and pined daily.
At length Mr. Stewart, a surgeon, was called in, and ordered
a wet nurse. The child, however, got worse, and died on
Sunday morning. From other witnesses it appeared that
the cause was, having no children of her own, she bad taken
the child for the purpose of bringing him up, as she expected
some money to be left to her eldest child. Two medical
gentlemen, Messrs. Warden and Stewart, who attended the
birth of the child, and subsequently at Mrs. Hunt's, were
examined at great length, and attributed the death to inani-
tion, arising from the want of proper food. On the mother
and Mrs. Hunt being called into the room, they were greeted
with the most discordant sounds by several women in the
room. After a long address from the coroner, the jury con-
sulted for some time, and then returned a verdict of " Na-
tural death, brought on by the want of the mother's milk."
THE WEATHER, THE CROPS, AND THE CORN TRADE.—
A decided change took place in the weather on Tuesday ; the
wind veered to the east, the temperature fell several degrees,
and heavy rain was experienced in some parts of the country ;
this continued until Thursday, when the barometer began to
rise again, and we have now a return of warm sunshine, The
rain which has fallen may perhaps here and there have dar-
tially laid the grain crops : but on the whole, it must have
been productive of more benefit than injury. The cutting of
wheat has within the last few days been more generally com-
menced, and should the weather remain dry, some portion
may probably be carried next week round about London :
this can only happen, however, in the most forward districts,
there being many fields of wheat within even twenty miles of
the metropolis which cannot be ready for the sickle these ten
days, and in the northern counties reaping will not, we be-
lieve, be generally commenced until about the middle of
August; that however may, as compared with the last four
years, be considered early. A good many peas and a few
early patches of oats have been cut in Essex and Kent, and
one parcel of the former article of this year's growth has
already been sold by sample in the London market. Great
efforts having lately been made by farmers to clear out their
old stocks previous to commencing harvest operations, we
are disposed to think that supplies will now fall off conside-
rably. and continue short until such time as the new corn
begins to come forward. Already a slight decrease in the
deliveries from the growers has taken place : the supplies will
nevertheless, prove more than equal to the demand, the
latter having been of the most restricted nature, This may
in some measure be accounted for by the circumstance of
millers being holders of bonded wheat to a greater or less
extent at all the principal maritime ports •, and having be-
come alarmed by the course the trade has lately taken, they
have entered rather extensively for consumption, rendering
them for a time almost independent of English supplies.
Many of the vessels wheat laden which have arrived during
the last ten days, have been a long time on the passage,
whilst others have had a remarkably quick run, the north-
easterly gales having brought the Baltic men all up together.
According to the most recent accounts from the continent, it
appears that little was then shipping; we may therefore now
expect arrivals soon to fall off. Meanwhile the trade has
under the combined influence of extraordinary fine weather
large foreign arrivals, and discouraging reports from Mark
Lane, become excessively depressed at all the leading provin-
cial markets, and prices have further receded about two
shillings per quarter all over the country. By our Scotch
letters, it appears that the weather had become very cold
there for the time of year : This was not thought unfavour-
able, however, fur the growing crops, which might, it was
maintained, had the heat continued so intense as it had pre-
viously been, have ripened prematurely, which would of course
have detracted from their productiveness.—Our Irish letters
inform us, that very heavy rain had fallen in different parts
of the island, by which the grain crops had been much•laid,
and otherwise injured : and this had had sufficient inffuence
on the minds of those engaged in the corn trade to prevent
any fall taking place in prices ; which, under other circum-
stances, the accounts from London would probably have
occasioned.—Nearly all the wheat which has recently come
to hand has been offering duty paid ; a very extensive choice
of quality has consequently been afforded. Until Friday a
steady retail demand was experienced for choice fresh quali-
ties at about the quotations of Monday last ; on that day,
however, the inquiry fell off, and though a slight abatement
would in partial instances have been submitted to, compari-
tively little business was done. Inferior granaried samples
were completely neglected, and have become almost nominal
in value.—Mark Lane .Express.
A HINT TO ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUERS.—Sir Robert
Peel, in his speech on Mr. Duncombe's motion, on Tuesday
last, administered the following gentle rebuke to " provin-
cial" speechifiers, who seem to be a class scarcely less trou-
blesome to a public minister than " provincial chancellors
of the exchequer." To whom could the right hon. baronet
be allvding? " I will now approach the arguments of the
hon. member for Manchester, but before doing so I may as
well notice what fell from him on the subject of deputations.
He complains that a deputation of shopkeepers from Man-
chester came here, and that I declined to see them. I can
assure the hon. member that it was with great regret that I
declined to see them, but at the same time it is absolutely
necessary to place some restriction upon the employment of
time. Ido attempt to devote all the time I possibly can to
the public. (A cheer from all parts of the house.) Nine
hours at least during the sitting of parliament are required
for attendance in this house. (Hear, hear.) The applica-
tions from deputations are very numerous, and, on the other
hand, there are public duties required of a minister out of
the walls of parliament, of a most onerous and important
nature. Therefore, the representatives or deputations of the
peopleeeeeto
muthset not attribute
of uteitthtoesdeiswrehsepm theyect,ortoreapnryesineedtiff, indiffer-
ence
when they seek interviews, it is utterly impossible for public
men to reconcile the performance of their duties in this
house and elsewhere with the general reception of all depu-
tations that may for
to forget
apply to them audience. I must say,
too, that in deputations there is rather a disposition
the objects with
which the interview is originally accorded,
and that, instead of confining themselves to the statement
of useful facts, they
are apt to avail themselves of those
interviews as affording opportunities for oratorical display.
(A laugh.) To simple statements of facts lam always dis-
pose. to listen with pleasure, but of mere declamation we
all hear so much in the. House of Commons—(a
laugh),--
that gentlemen must not be surprised if I sometimes amdis-
posedl speak it not in disrespect of either
to turn rather an unwilling ear to it when coming
from those ( theirowers powers
deputation, to travel from the facts of the case,
or intentions) who are somewhat disposed to abuse the pri-
vilege of aI
and to indulge in oratorical displays. I repeat, thathave
not, persontiny the least disinclination to hear gentlemen
coming to me in that capacity, but I must entreat. them to
remember that the time of a public man is public property.
(Hear, hear.)

Mr. Byng, the venerable member for Middlesex, is quite
well again.
The Lord Chancellor will be able to resume his official
duties in a day or two.

Mons. Lafontaine, after lecturing in Belfast, Londonderry,
and other large towns.,..in *eland, is at prsent on a visit to

Glasgow

DEATH OF THE DEAN OF FERNS.—The Very Rev. ,Veter
Brown, Dean of Ferns, and incumbent of Gorey for Upwards
of fifty years, died at Gorey on the 21st instant.'
FATAL RAILWAY AccinE;qT.--On Monday ~,forenoon an
accident, resulting in the death of a farmer. named John
Leak, aged 52, occurred oil the line o€ the Mitrighester and
Birmingham Railway. •
DEATH OF SIR Wlll. Wooos, K.C.-L-We have to an-
nounce the demise of Sir Wm. Woods, garter principal king
of arms, who expired on Monday last, at Laurieston Lodge,
his villa at Hampstead, after a lengthened illness. He' was
in his 56th year.

The prevalence of north-easterly winds has brought a
large fleet of vessels grain-laden from the north of Europe,
and we have again to report an immense supply of foreign
wheat—viz. 63,999 quarters ; making upwards of 100,000
quarters into this port within
.a fortnight.—Mark-lane Ex-
press.

CoLumnus.—The Hon. Edward Everett, Envoy of the
United States, at a public dinner at Bristol on. Tuesday the
12th instant, disclosed a fact relating to this great navigator,
which is not generally known, viz., that he was at one time
engaged in business in the port of Bristol, carrying on the
trade of a common pilot between Bristol and Iceland ;" which
would no doubt be at a period antecedent to his discovery of
the continent of America in 1497.

PATENT RIGHTS.—J. H. ALEXANDER, OF THE THEATRE
ROYAL, GLASGOW, V. J. H. ANDERSON.—The bill of sus-
pension and interdict, at the instance of Mr. Alexander,
against Mr. Anderson, was advised by the Judges of the
Second Division of the Court of Session, on Saturday week,
who unanimous pronounced judgment in favour of Mr. Alex-
ander, as craved by him, granting an unlimited interdict
against the performance of all entertainments on the stage,
in minor theatres, with costs.--Glasgow Mail.

EXTEMPORANEOUS PRODUCTION OF MILK.—M. Dichost,
a Russian Chemist, proposed the following plan for the pre•
servation and extemporaneous preparation of milk. He eva-
porates newly-drawn milk, at a very gentle heat, till it is all
brought to a state of fine powder. It is then put into small
glass bottles, which are completely tilled, and hermetically
sealed, with ground glass stoppers. A small quantity of
the powder thus obtained, dissolved in an appropriate quan-
tity of water. affords on the instant a milk of very good
_quality- The powder will remain good fora length of time.
Medical Gazette.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND SOUTH-
WESTERN RAILWAY.—On Monday 'morning, about two
o'clock, the luggage train from Southampton, passed over a
man who was asleep and lying across the rails on Woking
Common. The obstruction created by the body first gave
intimation to the engine driver that all was not right, and he
stopped the train within a few yards of the spot where the
accident had occurred. The guard and stokers proceeded to
search for deceased, whom they found groaning dreadfully,
and minus the right leg, which had been torn off and thrown
some distance. The poor fellow was carried to the train as
carefully as possible. He was conveyed to Nine Elms. but
soon ceased to live.

ILLNESS OF GRACE DARLING, THE HEROINE.—We re-
gret to learn that Grace Darling, the heroine of the Fern
Island, is at present in very !Sad health. Our correspondent
at Bamburg informs us that she is at present on the main
land for change of air, and, although reported to be some-
what better since she took up her residence there, she still
looks very unwell. Most heartily do we wish her a speedy
recovery.—Berwick Paper. [Grace Darling's braving a
pitiless storm, and successfully rescuing several passengers
from the wreck of the ill-fated steamer Forfarehire, must
still be fresh in the recollection of all. With our northern
contemporary we " most heartily wish her a speedy re-
covery."]

PIGEON EXPRESS.—The Society of Progress of Brusselc,
;ent, some time back, 57 pigeons to Liverpool, with orders
,o have them let loose on the 4th instant. This was done

accordingly, and the following is the result of the trial :—The
first pigeon returned on the 11th, and gained the chief prize
for M. Camille de Bast, of Ghent, a tneinber of the society ;
the second came home on the 12th, belonging to the same
gentleman; the third on the 14th, the property of M. Jolly,

of Brussels; and the fourth later on the same day, belonging
to the winner of the first and second prizes. The delay is

attributed to the contrary winds which were prevalent on
the day they were let off. Of the 57 pigeons, upwards of 30
had returned from London some time before, in another
trial, and more than 20 have come back from Orleans, Tours,
Vendome, and Lyons.

SHEEP FROZEN TO DEATH IN JUNE !—We alluded the
other day to a statement which we could hardly credit, made
to us of the death, by frost, of a number of sheep in Genne-
see and Livingston counties. The number stated as having
thus perished, was between 400 and 500. We did not give
the number, because we could not fully credit the report.
We have since been assured, from various sources. of its
truth ; and the Buffalo Commercial, in alluding to it, men-
tions the fact, that one farmer in the vicinity of that city,

lost 20 out of a flock of 200, within a few days, from cold.
We doubt whether the past furnishes a parallel to this. Five
hundred sheep frozen to death in June ! We might defy
Greenland or Siberia to beat this ! But America is a great
country.—Rochester Democrat.
THE UNCERTAINTY OF WEALTH.—We are informed
that it has been but lately discovered that a lease for a large
portion of the land which Baltimore occupies, was executed
but 99 years, and not renewable. Since the original lease,
thousands of sub-leases have been made, and improvements
to a vast amount have been erected on this property by vari-
ous persons, who all confidently believed that the original
lease was perpetual. The consequence is, that the entire
property will revert to the original owners at the expiration
of the stated term of years, unless some new arrangement
can be made with the present heirs, who, we are informed,
are about 30 in number, and of the state of Kentucky. The
property is said to be 188 acres, running from the north-east
corner of Baltimore and little Aisquith streets northerly,
embracing all the property called Gallows-hill, and the
north-easterly portion of the city, to that extent.—Boston
paper.

DISTRESS IN MANCHESTER.-We have just received a
little pamphlet, entitled " Evidence (tabular and otherwise)
of the state of the labouring classes in 1840-42 ; by Joseph
Adshead." We have neither time nor space for large ex-
tracts in our present publication; but we may give a few of
the fearful facts it exhibits. The relief fund raised by vo-
luntary subscription, in 1840, £3,732 7s. 6. was expended in
bedding and clothing, with which 10,132 families (say
45,591 persons) were relieved in 24 days, and there remained
upwards of 2,000 families unrelieved for want of funds. Of
the 45,591 individuals, 6,978 were hand-loom weavers ;
38,613 of various occupations; 25,792 were English ; and
the other 19,799 (about four-ninths) Irish. The number in-
cluded 16,900 children under, and 9,030 children above 12
years of age. Of the number, 2,040 families, comprising
9,179 persons, (upwards of one-fifth of the whole) lived in
cellars, mostly damp, and without ventilation ! Another ex-
amination of 2,000 families gave an average total income of
Is. 2cli. per head per week for 8,866 persons, or 2,000 fami-
lies at ss. nd. per week ; in whose possession were seen
22,417 pawn tickets (more than 22 in a family on an average),
the amount of articles pledged being £2,780 14s. 4d. (an
average value short of 2s. 6d. per pawn ticket). Another
examination of 2,000 families (8,136 persons), by the agents
of the town mission, gave the average earnings of ls. 61d.
per head weekly, or Gs. 34d. per family ; and the amount of
pledges (in this case the number of pawn tickets is not
given) was £2,835 10s. 10d. The relief committee redeemed
articles from pledge to the extent of £139 19s. 111d.,,at the
following average amount for each article :-606 sheets, at
ls. ld. each ; 311 blankets, at 2s. Bd. ; 208 bad quilts, at
ls. 41d. ; 51 bed ticks, at 3s. Id. ; 447 petticoats and shifts,
at 94d. ; 234 shirts, at Is. ld. ; besides other articles of ap-
parel, bedding, &c. A gentleman visited, in 1841, 258 fami-
lies (1,029 persons), mostly weavers, whose aggregate weekly
earnings were £32 55., or less than 71d. per head per week.
In 1842, 8,072 families were relieved with £3,029 15s. lid.,
" the Prince of Wales's fund." Besides this about £2,500
have been contributed to the soup charity, and from 2,000
to 3,000 persons have been daily supplied with soup for the
last three or four months. The parochial expenditure on
account of the poor, in 1838-39, was £28,301; in 2841-42,
£40,777 ; the voluntary contributions in 1839-40 were
£3,732 ; in 1841-2, £5,529-together, £9,261 ; and the
poor's rate and voluntary contributions together exhibit an
aggregate increase of relief afforded of 63a per cent. since
1839-viz., from £28,304 to £46,307. 200 provision dealers,
selling on credit, had lost £23,664 in three years; and 50
shopkeepers in Salford bad their receipts diminished from
£197,700 in 1839, to £130,100 in 1841; a difference of
£67,600, or a decreaee of £1,300 per week. This work fur-
nishes a startling contribution to the statistics of distress.-
Manchester Guardian.

TIIE EARTHQUAKE OF 1753, IN MANCHESTER, CllE-
siiinu, &c.—Haarop's Manchester Mercury of June 12,
1753, gives the following account of this convulsion :—" On
Friday night last, about forty minutes past eleven o'clock,
several parts of this town were greatly alarmed with a slight
shock of an earthquake, particularly Market-street Lane,
which lasted about the space of a minute ; whereby a great
many people were wakened by the shaking of their beds. It
was preceded, or rather accompanied by a rushing noise like
the wind; and we are assured it was felt in a great many
villages, adjacent to the town. At Radcliffe and Oldham,
the tremulous motion of the earth was more sensibly per
ceived ; their beds were lifted up by it, and the houses vio-
lently agitated. And yet we are informed, that the shock
was felt in Cheshire much about the same time, at the dis-
tance of 14 miles from hence, and also at Halifax, in York-
shire. As such an extraordinary event cannot be remem-
bered to have happened here before, those to whom the earth-
quake was most perceptible have been thrown into a great
consternation by it." The same paper of the following week
adds—" By letters from Knutsford, in Cheshire, there is an
account that the Earthquake felt in that town on Friday
se'nnight was so severe in the villages adjacent, as Mobberly,
Tatton, Poover [Peover,] Toft, &c., and the inhabitants
were so frightened, that they got out of their beds, and con-
tinued all night praying to God to avert their destruction.
Many of the country people were so whimsical as to attribute
this to anger from Heaven for our attempting to naturalise
the Jews !"

DREADFUL Loss OF LIFE NEAR CHATHAM.—On MOD-
day forenoon last, an occurrence of a most painful and dis-
tressing character took place on the River Medway, between
Chatham and Sheerness, occasioned by a man-of-war's gig
capsizing, by which, we regret to say, seven persons belong-
ing to her Majesty's surveying steamer Shearwater, met with
a watery grave. On inquiring into the circumstances, it ap-
pears that soon after eight o'clock on Monday morning,
Lieutenant Cudlip, of the steamer abovementioned, in com-
pany with Mr. T. Corral, the surgeon, left
.Sheerness in the
captain's gig, for the purpose of proceeding to Chatham
Dock-yard, for a supply of provisions and stores, and also to
witness the launches of the Goliath 80-gun ship, and the
Vigo steamer. Six of the Shearwater's crew went with them,
and it seems on their clearing Stangate-creek, about three
miles below Sheerness, a sail was hoisted, and all way made
on the boat so as to reach Chatham early. All went on
favourably until they arrived at Pincup-reach (near Gilling_
ham, about eight miles from Chatham), where a sudden
squall caught the main-sail of the lug-sail just as the boat
was rounding the point, and before there was time to bring
her to, the sail fouled round the halyards and mast, and the
boat instantly capsized, precipitating the whole of its crew
into the river. The scene that ensued is described to have
been one of the most agonizing description. There is no
doubt many of the unfortunate creatures who were swimmers
could have saved themselves, but the whole of them, Lieute-
nant Cudlip excepted, got entangled, in their efforts to escape,
with the sails and ropes. They in consequence perished by
being drawn down with the boat, she having at the same time
several hundred weight of ballast in her. Lieutenant Cudlip
was sitting along with Mr. Carrol in the stern part of the
boat, steering; and at the moment of her overturning he
contrived to throw himself out beyond reach of the sail, and
thus escaped being drawn down with the rest of his compa-
nions. Fortunately he caught hold of the back board of the
boat. which by some means had got detached, and this kept
him from sinking. He, however, was floating about for up-
wards of three quarter; of an hour before assistance came
up, when the Queen Victoria steamer, which left Chatham
at twelve o'clock, bore down and picked him up ; he was
then in a most exhausted condition, and evidently would have
expired, but for the kindness and attention of the master and
crew of the steamer. The vessel brought to for some time,
in the hope of securing some of the ()then, but none of
them appeared above the surface of the water, The Victoria
then proceeded to Sheerness, where Lieutenant Cudlip was
conveyed on board the Shearwater, which is lying off the
Royal Dockyard, where he remains in a dreadful condition.

UNITED STATES.

Although the regularity of the North American steamers

enables us to anticipate their arrival with tolerable certainty,
we scarcely expected to be able to announce in the first im-
pression of our paper to-day, the intelligence brought by the
Caledonia. Such, hOwever, is the case. That noble vessel
came up the river last night about ten o'clock, having left Bos-
ton on the 16th, and Halifax on the evening of the ISth inst.
By this conveyance we have received New York papers to
the 17th inst., and Boston and Halifax journals to the days
on which the steamer left the respective ports. She has ac-
complished the passage from Halifax to Liverpool, in about
an hour short of ten days. She has brought 57 passengers,
amongst whom is Fanny Ellsler " the divine Fanny" as she
is called by the American journalists.
The progress of the negotiation as to the boundary ques-
tion and its position, as far as it could be ascertained whets
the packet left, remained enveloped in the same state of se-
crecy. The Herald of the 13th says that " the initiation
in the negotiation was taken by Lord Ashburton ' • the first
proposition was made by him, and is understood to have been
as follows : that the line on the map designated as the line
as defined by Great Britain,' should be the boundary—no
equivalent to be given by Great Britain, in the way of terri-
tory or commercial privileges ; the expenses of surveying,
&c., to be borne by Great Britain : in other words, we were
to receive compensation for the territory between the line
claimed by Great Britaid and the St. John's River, in mo-
ney, and relinquish everything." This proposition was re-
jected; and the impression at Washington was, that a ma-
jority of the Maine commissioners had proposed to give up
all the territory claimed by the United States north of the St.
John's, in consideration of the free navigation of that river.

It was doubted whether Lord Ashburton's instructions
authorised him to yield an inch of territory north of " the
line as defined by Great Britain," as an equivalent for the
alleged concession on the part of the Maine commissioners,
and here the matter rested. Further mention is made of the
subject, in an article from the New York American, which
will be found below.

The Tariff Bill was before the House of Representatives.
O❑ the 19th inst., it was expected that the debate would be
closed, and the house would proceed to vote upon the several
amendments that might be proposed. On the 20th, the
bill, with the exception of the 20 per cent clause just as it
was, would be sent to the senate.

The Montreal Gazette of the 11th instant,•contains some
melancholy particulars of a steam-boat explosion on the
river St. Lawrence, by which 54 lives were sacrificed. In
exploding, the main body of the steam was apparently
directed to the bow of the vessel, and she went down stem
foremost, leaving the stern out of the water. How the ac-
cident occurred, no one could tell. There were 120 persons
on board, and consequently 66 were saved. The passengers
were English, Irish, and Scotch, but principally English.
Lord Morpeth was at Montreal, and Lord Ashburton at
Washington.
The intelligence from Buenos Ayres is of no particular
political importance.
Two special messengers with official despatches arrived by
the Caledonia, and departed by the train to London at three
o'clock this morning.
Another explosion had taken place on the Missouri River,
on board the Edna, by which, it is stated, 33 persons were
so dreadfully scalded, that they were not expected to survive.