The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-20 00:00:00

WHITBY

DA COSTA V

An undefended action, brought by Mr. Antonio Julio Da
Costa against Mr. Whitby, of Roscoe-lane, to recover £l4
10s., the value of certain rice dust and bags supplied to him.
Verdict for the plaintiff.

ACTION AGAINST AN EXECUTOR.-GUEST AND OTHERS
V. MACINTOSH AND ANOTHER.
The plaintiffs are Messrs. Guest, Ross, and Poole, wine
Xi
merchants ; and the defendants are Messrs. acintosh and
Bowskill, executors under the will of a publican, deceased,
named Macintosh, who resided in Circus-street. The action
was brought to recover £45, the value of goods sold and de-
livered, to taondthe
lotestthaatotrm. Thei Jhelivhd ea acted as executor ;rY of the goods was
against the other defendant no acting was proved. The jury
returned a verdict for the plaintiffs against Macintosh, da-
mages £45; and a verdict in favour of the defendant Bow-
skill. LONGSDEN lY . lIINDLE.
An undefendedplaacintitlffn ttoortehcoevdeerfetnhdeavnte
supplied by the °f
Verdictcer certain
ifornlattlilles
plaintiff £3 ls. 2d.
The court adjourned at a quarter to five o'clock, till nine
o'clock this morning.

CORRESPONDEATCB.

FLEETWOOD DOCK DUES

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD:
Six,—ln addition to the error pointed out by you in the
Standard of this day in the comparative charges on a ship
of 500 tons, from America, at Fleetwood and this port, I
beg to notice another inaccuracy. under the head of Light-
house Dues. 124 d. per ton is said to be the rate at Liver-
pool, and a less sum is put down for Fleetwood. whilst the
fact is, that the charge made here amounts to 124-d. per ton
for an American voyage, and 121 d. is the claim for the port
of Fleetwood.—l am, &c., PHAROS.

Liverpool, May 171 h. 1842,

THE LIVERPOOL TIMES AND THE CORN LAW

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR,—In the Liverpool Times of Tuesday last I noticed
an article on the corn laws, in which it is stated that since
the new law came into operation there has not been enough
of corn released to supply Liverpool alone with a single
breakfast. Now, sir, upon reference to the Customs Bill of
Entry for this town, you will find that the following was
released the first week that the new law came into operation,
viz.:—

...._ .
7,289 sacks of flour, weighing
31,843 barrels „ ,;
100 „ oatmeal, ~
A quantity of flour direct from the ship, the
number and description of packages not 4,731 „
given, weighing . ..... . ...... .......
11,398 quarters of wheat
20 „ oats 1 weighing about .. • • 48,000 „
25 „ peas

Total weigh

133,665 cwt

Now, sir, taking the population at 295,000, your contem-
porary being one, he must have a very capacious stomach to
swallow half a hundredweight of flour at a breakfast, which
would be his share ; but I hope, sir, that if he has so rave-
nous an appetite, you will at least vindicate the remainder
from so gloss a calumny. Only fancy the people of Liver-
pool eating one hundred and thirty-three thousand six hun-
dred and sixty-five hundredweight of flour to breakfast !
What a gluttonous idea !—I am, sir, yours, &c.,
Liverpool, 18th May, 1842. MODESTY.

LORD ASHBURTON'S DINNER AT WASHINGTON

(From the New York Herald.)
Lord Ashburton's first official dinner came off April 25,
at six p.m. This functionary is a very plain, gentlemanly-
man, with a face somewhat careworn, and a complexion
which belongs to those who have lived long and well. His
suite are fine young men, generally bald, but with intellectual
heads, though not very remarkable countenances. The pri-
vate secretary of his lordship is said to be the cleverest of the
legation. In manners they are all self-possessed, somewhat
stiff in the movements of their bodies, and few or no gestures
escape them while speaking. How different from the others
of the foreign ministers here ! Why, a lively Frenchman
will gesticulate more in one minute with the phalanges of his
dexter hand than Mr. Mildmay could in the whole course of
his natural life.

The dinner was served up soon after the hour of dining ar-
rived.
Late hours are, of course, in fashion everywhere
among the diplomatic givers and eaters of dinners, and this
one was to take place at six. The table was one of the lon-
gitudinal character, and there were present about 16 guests.
Among them were the foreign ministers generally, the heads
of departments, and some of our leading men in Congress.
There was no ceremony in entering the dining-room. The
guests " stood not upon th,e order of their going, but went
at once." Lord Ashburton took the centre of the table. On
his right was John Quincy Adams ; on his left, John C.
Calhoun; opposite him sat General Scott.
Mr. Fox was not present ! It has been rumoured that Mr.
F. feels a little sore at this mission extraordinary. He per-
haps supposes the business might have been better entrusted
to him. But while we think very well of Mr. Fox's abilities,
we imagine that the length of time he has been in public life
has somewhat case-hardened him—that he takes no interest
in public affairs beyond what his instructions require of him ;
in short that he has more hand than heart, and that a nego-
tiation, controlling the destinies of two great nations, affect-
ing every cottage in remote England, and every log hut be-
yond our mountains, is no more to Mr. Fox than any other
negotiation, and that he would conduct it on the same cold,
F. kilful, and gentlemanly manner which he would a game of
ecartl, and in no other way.

Lord Ashburton is rather a man of the people—is identi-
fied with the prosperity of the commercial classes—would
be unhappy, truly unhappy, to see mother and daughter at
variance, and he would rather sacrifice the 25 townships he
owns in the state of Maine, but to which he has scarcely
given a thought for many years, and that of which now, for
the first time, he learns the real value, than involve us in a
war—the scourge of nations and the desolation of mankind.

The table was beautifully laid out; but as all his lordship's
plate has not arrived, there was no plateau in the centre, and
no vases, elaborate in art, and perfuming the saloon with
the choicest cullings of the conservatory. But it was still
very elegant, and displayed the skill of an accomplished
major domo. There are 21 servants in the house, and the
reader may well imagine what a god-send a score of beef-
eaters must be to the cattle-graziers in this city. Indeed,
the out-go of his lordship's establishment will be so large,
and the profits so immense to the retailers here, that we
should not be surprised if they proposed, in the course of a
few months, to purchase the claim of England to the dis-
puted territory, and present it, as a mark of their gratitude,
to the people of Maine, for being so much the cause of the
present mission. _ _ .

As his lordship has three cooks of the utmost talent, artists
whom Tide himself would not have blushed to take by the
hand, the dinner was not•only superb but magnificent. The
meats were all nicely carved, and handed round, as is now
the fashion; and the game, of which there was a great va-
riety, was all cut up and divided by the cooks before it was
served up; then reinstated in form and figure, ready to drop
apart at the touch of the first fork. Cours
succeeded, delicious to the palate and agre
the wines were rich and soft and h

after course
_ Me to the eye ;
h flavoured, having the

v and strenzth which belc

g to the English cellar

Champagne was passe,. round, but no other wines
of France, and none from the Rhineland met our eyes. If
diplomacy expresses its feelings at the dinner table by its
preferences for meats and drinks, when we say to Germany
and France, England likes not the Zoll Verein, nor the back-
ing out from the quintuple treaty for the right of search.
No ! no ! hard cider and Monongahela which stoutly repre-
sent the apples and the cornstalks of Brother Jonathan,
shall find favour on the festive board of John Bull, when
Chateau Margeaux and Vin de Grave shall be forgotten.
The conversation it would be improper to divulge. We do
not believe it right, though it may be fashionable, to retail
conversations and steal correspondences. 'We will only say,
that the remarks were all of a friendly spirit, now and then
approaching the confines of rigid propriety, when they related
to the quality of our steam-ships and the differences of our
discipline.
The dessert, among other things, exhibited a large number
of the choicest fruits of England, beautifully preserved, fair
to the eye and delightful to the taste. They were much ad-
mired by the guests, and produced a round of encomiums
on the garden from which they were brought.
In due time coffee succeeded, and then the guests departed,
much pleased with this first of a series of entertainments with
which the new envoy commences his mission. For some
years the " meteor flag" of England has not floated very
gaily in Washington. Mr, Fox is a man of retired habits,
somewhat peculiar, and does not care for popularity "with
the natives." The boundary line is to be adjusted on the
dinner table in streams of sherry, the right of visitation is to
be exercised in diplomatic hospitalities, and the loss of the
Creole is to be made up in black and white.
In taking our leave, we did not forget that the 14 servants
in livery—blue coats, black velvet shorts, and striped waist-
coats—had done their best to fill our plates with the dainties
of his lordship's table.

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EXTRAORDINARY CREDULITY

The following case was tried at the Chelmsford Quarter
Sessions on Tuesday last, before Mr. Disney, chairman :
Louisa Dalton, aged 30, wife of Frederick, was charged
with having obtained from Hannah Guiver, by false pre-
tences, two sovereigns, three half-sovereigns, 15 half-crowns,
40 shillings, and 5 sixpences, with intent to cheat and de-
fraud her, at Ugley. Prisoner was one of the Gipsy race,
and not the most lovely specimen of the tribe.
Mr. Rodwell appeared for the prosecution, and, in opening
the case, told the jury that the circumstances were such as
they would hardly believe, if they were not clearly proved by
the evidence. The principal witness, Hannah Guiver, was a
young woman who had been in an ill state of health, the
cause of which he could not precisely state, but he believed
that it arose from unrequited love. Prisoner, who travelled
the country, got access to her, and induced her to believe that
she was spell-bound, and proposed, on the payment of a cer-
tain sum of money, to perform certain magical ceremonies,
by means of which she would be relieved from that spell.
The learned gentleman then detailed the facts of the case as
stated in the evidence.
Hannah Guiver, rather a good-looking girl, was then exa-
mined.—l live with my mother at Ugley Green. She keeps a
shop there. On the 26th of March prisoner came into the
shop. She told me that she would tell me a few words that
would be a benefit to me. I was not in a good state of health.
I gave her Is. She had a book with her, and looked into it.
She said by the book I must give her another shilling, which
I did. She said I was poorly, and that I was under a spell;
if I would give her a half-sovereign, she could and would
break the spell in nine days. She gave me a piece of fools-
cap paper. It was folded up, and there were two pins stuck
in it. across, and I was to burn it at the end of nine days.
On the Ist April--(laughter)—l saw her again. She said she
had been working the things beautiful for me. I said—
" Well." I saw her again on the 4th April. She took a bag
from her pocket and asked for a handful of salt. I was in
the shop, and she asked to speak to me privately. I took
her into the keeping-room. 1 put the salt in the bag. She
asked for as much gold as I had to put in the bag. I was not
willing to do this, but she said she did not want to take it out
of the house. I fetched down two sovereigns and three half-
sovereigns. They were my mother's. She said that was not
enough, and I could make up £7 or £8 if I liked. I then
brought her down 15 half-crowns, 40 shillings, and 5 six-
pences. I put them into the bag. She said she must have
it till II o'clock next day, and then the spell would be broken.
If she did not bring the bag and the money by half-past 11,
or a few minutes after, I was to have a very sharp knife, and
when I saw her again to cut her throat. (Laughter.) I did
not see her again till the 20th of April. She was then in the
station-house at Newport. She was to have taken the money
to a neighbour's, Susan Smith. The condition on which
I parted with my money was that she should return it, or
that I should cut her throat. Of course I thought I should
have that knife. I should not have cut her throat. 1 can't
tell what she meant by working things beautiful for me. I
had been ill some time, but there was not a bit of love in the
question. She said it was a spell, and that I should be
obliged to sip sorrow by spoonsful if it was not taken off. It
is immaterial to any one here whether there was any love in
the case; but there was a young man I had a regard for. 1
was under mental anxiety. lam 21 years of age. I attend
the shop for my mother. I gave the prisoner the money with
the idea of getting better.
Mr. Dowling addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner.
He said this was a case in which the party had no right to
complain of the consequence of their own folly. If people
chose to go and buy advice, such as it might be, they could
have no right to turn round in this manner on the person of
whom they bad bought it.
The jury, without hesitation, found her guilty.
The Chairman, in passing sentence, observed that the law
must protect the weak in mind as well as the weak in body,
or it would be no law at all ; and he sentenced the prisoner to
10 year's transportation.

On Thursday there were no less than six vessels lying at
Greenock, with full complements of passengers for various
ports in America.
THIBETIAN THEORY OF EARTIICLUAKES.—Mr. Bell, fir
eminent traveller, who accompanied an embassy to 14:ulatil:ii
the emperor of the Thibetian empire, being in con
with the Lama, the latter inquired of Mr. Bell tch
of the learned in Europe relative to the subie;
what attributed
quakes. The traveller replied they were nire: seP al nr
ti hw I-
to subterraneous fires, and asked in retursge
:ountrymen. The
traordinary results were attributed by hi : such ea-
to
informed Lamas
Lama answered, " that some of the
had written that the Almighty, after be
bheasd formed.. the earth,
placed it on a golden frog; and whenever this prodigious
frog had occasion to scratch his head, or stretch out his foot,
that part of the earth immediately above was shaken."

BIRKENHEAD POLICE COMM...YESTERDAY

(Before the Hon. Sir E. CUST, J. D. CASE, and
-- MADDOCK, Esqs.
ALLEGED OUTRAGE BY A POLICE-OFFICER.

An information was laid against Groves, one of the Police-
officers, for having assaulted, used violent language, and
taken into custody three persons named William Johnson,
Elizabeth Adams, and Mary Kelley, at Rock Ferry, on Sun-
day afternoon, the Bth instant.
Mr. Clay, of the firm of Clay and Swift, solicitors, of Li-
verpool, attended on behalf of the complainants.
From the evidence of Mr. Duarte, merchant of Liverpool,
and the complainants, it appeared that on the day in ques-
tion, about three o'clock in the afternoon, the defend-
ants knocked at the door of Mr. Frozar, who was
then lying dead in the house, and on its being opened
by Adams, he asked if she was the housekeeper. Being
answered in the affirmative, he then enquired who was
in the house, and was told that another servant was there
and Mr. Duarte's warehouseman. He then said he was
sent there by Mr. Duarte, took Adams into custody, and
said she must go with him to bridewell immediately. She
then called the warehouseman and her fellow-servant, and
on the former appearing, Groves took him by the shoulders
into the parlour, said he was his prisoner, and attempted to
convey Kelly to the same place. He enquired what property
had been removed from the house, and was told none, on
which he swore and used very abusive language to the com-
plainants. Adams ran out of the house to call in assistance,
and during her absence Groves went away.--Mr. Duarte de-
posed to being left executor by the late Mr. Frozar, that he
died on the 6th instant, on which day he had taken an in-
ventory of all in the house, and had placed the property in
the care of the female complainants, who were old servants
of the deceased and legatees under his will. He had given
orders to his warehouseman to sleep there at night. Since
the matter happened the property had been compared with
the inventory and found correct. It appeared that on the
Saturday the desk of the deceased had been sent over to Li-
verpool by order of Mr. Duarte, as it contained the de-
ceased's private papers, and that on the day in question the
knife-tray had been given to the milkman to clean the knives,
but he had returned it the same day.
The defendant said as he was on his rounds on Sunday, he
was called into the house of a gentleman who lives opposite
that of the deceased, and was told that several bundles had
been removed from the house in the course of the day, and
as there were no friends of the deceased iu the house, there
was a suspicion that all was not right. On this he went to
the door, knocked, and, after some time, was answered by
Adams, from whom he civily enquired whether any goods
had been removed from the house, informing her that be
was a police-office, on which she behaved very impudently,
and called the other servants who were also abusive to him.
After telling them they deserved to be taken to bridewell he
left, but he solemnly declared he did not lay bands on any
of them. _ _

Mr. Parkinson was called by Groves, and he swore that
the defendant behaved very civil, and did not take any of
them into custody, or go into any room, though the com-
plainants were very saucy..

Mr. CLAY having replied to the evidence for the defence,
the magistrates, after a short consultation, reprimanded the
defendant for his conduct, and cautioned him to be mote
careful for the future.

THE HOP QUESTION

From the Kentish Gazette.)

The hop question is assuming a very formidable position.
The growers of Kent are not inclined to rely upon the groun-
less assertion of political empirics, that Ministers were only
courting populaaity by delaying to announce their intention
with regard to the amount of the rumoured decrease in the
importation duty of foreign hops, and that they purposed to
make no diminution at all. A numerous meeting of parties
interested in the matter has been heid at Maidstone, at
which any interference with_ the existing protective imposts
was deprecated. The interview of a deputation from this
meeting has been followed by the proposition of the Minister
to reduce the payment upon the foreign article to the customs
from £8 Ils. to £4 10s., a proposition which, however much
it may be disliked by the planters, is certainly a boon to them
when looked at in comparison with the wholesale abolition of
prohibitory imposts upon other articles of foreign produc-
tion.

We cannot remove from our minds the impression that
the hop-grower, in the late discussions and agitation upon
this question, has directed his attention almost exclusively
to the least injurious branch of the tariff as affecting him-
self. It is well known to practical and inquiring men that
a severe dearth of hops has scarcely in any season in the
memory of man been limited to one country alone. When-
ever the crops (taken as a whole) have sufferad from blight
or any other destructive visitation in England, the foreign
plantations have not passed the ordeal scatheless. They
have been equally, and in some instances, the greatest
sufferers ; and this is incontrovertibly proved by the fact
that, whilst in many years we have largely exported our
native growth to the foreign market, the duty upon the im-
ports has bee❑ only a few hundred pounds. Besides, there
is scarcely a plantatio❑ abroad that produces so good an ar-
ticle as the Sussex rank hop, which would be a drug in the
hands of the English factor, whilst a good sample was to be
procured.
We repeat our opinion that the grower is losing sight, in
the alarm which he feels for the salvation of his hop-grounds,
of what will prove the greatest detriment to his interests.
Experience teaches us that when our own crops are short,
little alarm need be entertained of an overwelming supply
from across the water, and the price which the foreigner is
now giving at Dunkirk affords ample testimony of his ina-
bility to export to a large extent even in good average seasons.
Hops at Dunkirk are realising at this moment £4 ss. per
cwt. Let our reader add to this amount the expense of
carriage, the £4 10s. proposed duty, and the charges and
risks incidental to the transit of such an article as hops, and
he will at once be convinced that no man in his senses would
attempt to deluge a country with rt description of produce
which was to be obtained at a far cheaper rate and of a very
far superior quality of its own growth at home.
No, the evil is not in the reduction upon the main article ;
it is the opening presented for the easy ingress of quassia
wood, which will ultimately affect the grower. limit the de-
mand for hops, and reduce the profits upon the cultivation :
the value of his produce will not be lowered by the introduc-
tion of foreign hops, or by the high price the consumer may
have to give in times of scarcity, but the universal substitu-
tion of the deleterious drug, no longer a prohibited article in
the breweries of the metropolis and the country, will really
work the end which the planters fear from a reduction on the
import of hops.
A county meeting is convened by the High Sheriff of Kent
for Thursday week, on Penenden-heath, to determine upon
an address to Parliament on the subject. We hope that in
the interim the question, in all its ramifications, will be fully
discussed by the leaders of this public demonstration, in or-
der that when the representation is made to Parliament of
the injuries certain parts of the tariff will entail upon the
cultivator of the hop-ground, the real grievance may be
pointed out, and a remedy sought where a remedy is vitally
and alone demanded.

A. Neapolitan journal states that some severs shocks of
earthquake were felt, on the 11th and 12th ultimo, at Cotrona,
in Calabria. They had been preceded some days previously
by shocks of a less violent nature.

An old lady. named Dosson, is now living in Bridgewater,
who is in her hundredth year. She has all her faculties
about her. and can see to read and sew without the aid of
spectacles.— Western Luminary.
A few mornings ago about 300 tons of rock on the south
side of the river Wear, above the bridge, fell down into the
river, and now assumes a very dangerous appearance. Pro-
videntially no injnrious effects resulted to life or property,
as no vessels of any kind were near the place at the time.:—
Newcastle Journal.

" WANTED A GOVERNESS."--It has recently come with-
in our knowledge that nearly. 100 applications have been
received, in of two mstances, by gentlemen in this
neighbourhood, in reply to single advertisements, announcing
the want of governesses in their families.—Sherborne Jour-
nal.

BARIC.—We understand that the price of bark for the eur-
rent year is fixed at £4 15s. per ton, being the same price as
last season.—Worcester Journal.

THE BISHOP OF LICHFIELD.—We are truly sorry to state
that no improvement has taken place in the state of this ami-
able prelate's health, and that but faint hopes are entertained
of his recovery. We understand that prayers have been daily
offered up in his lordship's behalf in the cathedral church of
Lichfield for the last three weeks.—StafordshireAdvertiser.
ULSTER CANAL.—We are informed, upon authority, that
the Ulster Canal was, on Thursday last, fully opened into
Lough Erne ; and that, therefore, the means of communica-
tion between Belfast, Newry, and that lake is now complete
for the purposes of trade.—Northern Standard.

- -
The weather is cold and uncomfortable, but refreshing
rains have fallen just at the time needed to nourish the crops
and assist the grass lands.—Enniskillen paper.

The Sheik of the Druses has left Mivart's Hotel for Wool-
wich, in order to be instructed in the artillery practice ob-
served in the British service.
LONDONDERRY ELECTION.—The election for this county
is fixed for Thursday week.
-

Her Majesty will. give a grand concert, for which upwards
of 300 invitations have been issued, this evening, at Buck..
ingham Palace.
A similar calamity to the fire at Hamburgh is announced
to have befallen the Austrian town of Steijer, not far from
Lintz, where 400 houses were consumed and three. fourths of
the inhabitants, who were celebrated for their iron anu.
factures, were left rn
without shelter.

Rumours are afloat in Well-informed circles that the
French Cabinet has at length
received proofs that General
Cass, the American ministerin Paris, in protesting against
the ratification of the slave-trade treaty, was only an instru-
ment in the hands of De Tillers and the opposition. The
evidence is said to be so irresistible as to have induced the
French government to forward a statement thereof to the
Washington cabinet. The greatest indignation, it is added,
has been expressed at the circumstance in the highest quar-
ters.

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in his house in Kentisborw, due and end at St. Mit/
last past. I say received by—Fol. 71 L. Rob. Harri!n
in
Collector." In the original the words
writing, the rest in print. It appears that in thorn their.p. i
they were obliged to pay a tax for lighting a fire
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was baptized in one of the apartments Pitti Palace, the
of the
ceremony being perfby the Archbishop of Florence.
The Prince received treednames of Ranieri, Salvatore, Maria,
Stefano, Guise G.
Pe, Giovanni, Filippo, Giacomo, Antonini,
Zanobi, Luigi, Gon
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bishop Ranieri,
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was sponsor to the ronyalninfant. He was represented by his
Imperial Highness the Archduke Stephen. In the evening
the cupola of the cathedral was illuminated. The royal in-
fent
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can be wished.

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which flee so fast,

hat pencil's touch !

t hourly look

1 to his allotted nook,
and

a as Lakes that sleep,
moonlight glistening ;
stain Rivers, where they creep
channel smooth and deep,
it own far-off murmurs listening.
WORDSWORTH

LITERARY NOTICES

i in Me Nineteenth Century. London : How and

Parsons

IHIRE. Part sof the Northern Division has come
nd is, we think, much more interesting than its
)asmuch as it treats exclusively of the more
nd beautiful portions of the county, including
leroe, and Stonyhurst, and their neighbour-

The literary department exhibits much classical

d much unwearied research, and the reader is carried
agreeable and commingled stream of the descrip-
ie historical, and the traditional. The account of

ey Park, with its noble and very ancient mansion, 15
:eresting. The beauties of Whalley, with its churcl
ned abbey, are well depicted. " Clitheroe

'—to use

" reminds us of the Norman
d the days of chivalry : Stonyhurst, of new Roman
m ; and the Abbey, of the old." All the remains

age of the author—

city, and all the interesting objects in the surround-
ry, are vividly sketched. The account of Wadding-
, in which that feeblest of monarchs, Henry VI.,

Leiter, but was soon after captured, is interesting.
auties and attractions of Mitton next claim attention,
ally Stonyhurst, " princely Stonyhurst," the descrip-
which occupies a considerable portion of the number.

!I engraving for the part it was found impossible to
in time, owing to the pressing engagements of the

; but it will be given with the next number. The il-
live woodcuts are numerous and well executed, and,
e whole, the number will be found to be highly enter-

4 as well as instructive

,iption of the Iron Skew Bridge across the Regent's
nal, on the Eastern Counties Railway. By Edward
bson, Assoc. Inst. C.E.

his bridge is built with a direct span of 54 feet, at an
of 79° with the centre line of the canal. The level of

the rails is 14 feet 6 inches above the water, and it is con-
structed to have a water-way of 44 feet with a clear headway
of 10 feet above the towing path. The dimensions of the

several parts of the bridge, and the mode of putting them
together, with the masonry and the cost of the construction,
are described in detail and illustrated by an elaborate work-
ing drawing. As an appendix to this paper a description is
given of a bridge over the same canal, on the line of the Lon-
don and Birmingham Railway, on account of the similarity
of its construction. The span of this latter bridge is 50 feet,
but being made for two double lines of rails it was thought
expedient to have three main ribs instead of two, as in the
former. The details of construction of this bridge are also
with a drawing of one of the main ribs and its tie-bar.

given,