The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-16 00:00:00

LIFE IN THE "BUSH" IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

Emigrants to New South Wales, and thn-fe persons having
relatives or friends resident in that colony, will be able to
gather much useful information as to the mariner of living
among the settlers in the " bush" by perusing the following
extract from a private letter :
" Sauamsingamin, Macquarie River, March, 15312.
"I have travelled from Molong to Wellington, formerly
a penal settlement for gentlemen convicts, who were there
made to work at the hoe or other laborious work, in breaking
up ground for the cultivation of Indian corn, tobacco, &c.
At present the missionary establishment is carried on there,
and there is a police office and a mounted police station.
Wellington is situated on the side of a valley, surrounded by
high mountains towering one above the other, and has a very
picturesque appearance when the country round is all green,
as it is at the present moment. There was a police magis-
trate at Wellington, but he bolted the other day for debt,
and was dismissed ; so this large district is left at the mercy
of two or three just-asses of the peace, who bungle through
the business in the usual style—granting summonses to men
against their masters, and after dragging them 50 or even SO
miles, one justice only attends' who discovers that the
business requires two, and so consigns the poor devils to
gaol for a week or a fortnight until a sagacious colleague
arrives from pleasure or business.
"The missionary society was founded some years ago by
a society in London for the conversion of the heathen in
foreign lands,' and is a most gross piece of humbug. It con-
sists of stores and stock and sheep stations, and an agricul-
tural farm. All the men employed upon these lands are
white, with the exception of one black fellow called Big
George,' who drives a bullock-team. A Mr. Porter is at
the head of secular affairs, and a Mr. Gunter, a German, takes
care of their souls—l mean the white men's—and very ill
they are taken care of. Ido not believe the mission has ever
converted a single black fellow, and, what's more, never
will. An old one has occasionally been taught to read and
write, but they always return to their savage life. It is a
good thing for Porter and Gunter, for, though their salaries
are nominally low, they have the appropriation of large sums
annually, and the sheep and other stock. Of course, if they
really wished to convert the blacks, they would begin by em-
ploying them on their farms. My own opinion is that the
blacks in this part of the country are so addicted to their
own ways of living that it is quite impossible to convert
them. As long as you give them plenty to eat and drink,
with little to do, they will stop with you, and you are
cowboune buggaree feller,' an excellent fellow ; but refuse
them one meal and you are a b— rogue," their own ex-
pression. They are very useful in fetching your horses in a
morning, and to run the track of cattle, sheep, or a white
man lost in the bush. They are perfectly harmless (with the
exception of stealing your cattle) in the districts which have
been settled by white men any length of time ; but on the
Darling, where my station is, and in many other wild parts
of the colony, if they catch you alone they will settle you.
" I had a very narrow escape a few months ago. I was
just going to sit down to dinner. There were no blacks
about the place but one, whose duty it was to look after the
horses. A number of black fellows, however, it appeared,
were fishing in a lagoon about a mile and a half from the
hut. My black fellow came in, and I gave him his dinner.
He squatted himself down on the ground behind me, close
to a large nulla-nulla, or club, which I had noticed lying in
the hut for two or three days before. I was just sitting
down to my own dinner with the stockman and hut-keeper,
when two strange black fellows, with tomahawks in their
hands, came to the door of the hut, and at the same moment
I heard a whip crack, and up gallopped two stockmen of the
neighbourhood, armed to the teeth with muskets and pistols.
Good morning,' said I, sit down, and get something to
eat.'—' Stop,' said one of them, what are the black fel-
lows doing here ?'—` I don't know, indeed,' I replied.—
' Well,' cried he, you see that black fellow there behind
you was to rush on you with his nulla-nulla, and those other
two were to rush upon the stockman and hut-keeper and sink
their tomahawks in their heads. The rest of the men were
then to come up and take the rations and the blankets (I bad
cattle-tailing at the time—that is, men to follow the cattle all
day, and put them in a stock-yard at night), take your head
of cattle, kill them, and turn the rest into the bush.' Before
he had done speaking, the black fellow in the hut addressed
the two at the door, who thereupon bolted off and scampered
away like kangaroos. I got into a tremendous rage, half mad
that the wretch whom I had been feeding should be the first to
turn against me. I seized a loaded pistol, backed him up in a
corner, and speaking to him in his own language, said,
Confess, you wretch, and tell me what you were going to
do ?' He then told me that the other black fellows had been

telling him to do it for a long time; that all the stockman
had told me was true, and that they were to have taken the
fire-arms out of the hut, and the ammunition, break them,
and throw them into the river, and, after dividing the spoil
and stripping us of our clothes, to set fire to the hut. Oh!
I was boiling with rage. I cocked the pistol, and was just
going to shoot him, when the other man pulled me back,
saying, For God's sake, sir, don't ;as sure as you shoot
that black fellow you'll be hung, for it will be given out that
there were five of us, and that you ought to have taken him
prisoner.' Getting more cool, I began to think that their
advice was not bad law, so we held a consultation and began
to think of the trouble of dragging the villain 500 miles, the
expense of prosecuting, and then what satisfaction ? The
government is all for the d-d rascals, and they get blan-
kets and tomahawks, are taught the Lord's Prayer, and re-
turn to their tribes like Tommy Borreenai, who murdered
poor Cunningham, the botanist. It is shameful, it is dis-
gusting. Our cattle are destroyed by wholesale. One set-
tler, about 50 miles from our station, has had 20 head of
prime young cattle, mostly two-year-old heifers, killed by
the blacks within the last six weeks ; men have been mur-
dered in different parts of the colony, and yet if we shoot
one of the rascals caught in the fact, we are to hang, for-
sooth, because a parcel of old fools, who know nothing about
blacks, and never saw any except the half-starved miserable
creatures who are now and then seen in the streets of Syd-
ney, are to dictate to us unfortunate devils who are living far
away in wild districts, raising up wealth for the colony and
the mother country, with no protection but our own right
hands. Let the philanthropic old women who live at home
at ease live where I have done, and catch a black fellow out,
as I did, and see then if they would be against shooting the
vagaband off-hand. God forbid the blacks should be pro-
miscuously shot ; but whenever a murder is committed or
cattle slaughtered, the settlers in the district should be al-
lowed to form a jury of six or eight, with power to shoot the
blacks if they resisted, and try them when caught, and exe-
cute or otherwise punish them on the• spot on which the
crime is committed.

" I forgot to mention that my affair was found out through
a black gin, or girl, who was living with one of the stockmen,
and she, in colonial slang, came it,' and told him just in
time to allow him arm himself and gallop over to my hut with
his mate. The poor girl was shortly afterwards murdered in
the night. I have not yet found out the black fellow who
did it; but when I do, whether legal or illegal, his death-
warrant is sealed.
" On another occasion I had a very narrow escape. I was
about 40 miles from my station, looking for cattle runs with
our stockmen and a wild black-fellow we had picked up to
show us the way. We travelled all day, and at night he de-
coyed us to sleep within half-a-quarter of a mile of his own
tribe, about 200 in number. They were encamped on the
side of a lagoon. No sooner were our horses turned out
than we heard them coming, and our black fellow did all he
could to attract their attention. We seized him, however,
and bound him, and placed one of the stockmen over him all
night with loaded firearms, whereby he was prevented from
communicating with his tribe, and we avoided the disagreeable
necessity of being murdered in cold blood, as well as of losing
our cattle.
"To return to the missionaries. They give blankets and
tomahawks to the black men once a year, and when a tribe
comes, I believe they give them a feed of beef and mutton.
They have a few black girls about the place, whom they have
taught household work, and reading and writing ; but with
the exception of very odd instances the blacks will never stay
long with a white man. In fact, the old men will not let the
young men stop long with a white man ; by young men I
means those that have no gins. As soon as a black fellow
gets a gin he must follow his tribe. Sometimes we can get a
young man to shepherd a flock of sheep for so many moons
for a ration and a suit of slop-clothing ' but as soon as he
gets the things he is almost sure to bolt, leaving your sheep
in the lurch, to get lost and scattered, and at the mercy of
native dogs.
" I have now with me in the Darling river a black fellow
whom I feed regularly and clothe, as far as an old shirt and
a pair of trowsers will go. His name is Tommy Lincoln,
and I can depend on him as well as any white man. He
tailed cattle for me for four months, and whenever he lost
any he would tell me that he would go that way again next
day and try to pick them up. If he wants to go to corrobora
(native dance,) or out in the bush with his tribe for any
time, he comes and asks my leave to stay so many nights,
and invariably returns at the time fixed. This black once
ran the trail of some cattle I had lost right through another
herd, and found them and brought them home. On another
occasion I sent him after a horse that had got away, and he
ran the track of it for 25 miles, and never stopped till he
found the horse dead at a water hole. I would trust my life
with this black fellow, and have done it scores of times, but
let him once get a gin, and I would not trust him more than
another.

" I like the country better than I did, because I have got
more used to it ; but any young man who has been brought
up as I have, gets completely disgusted. In every hut you
enter in the bush the conversation is generally on disgusting
and obscene topics. Drunkenness prevails to a dreadful extent
among all classes, for although in the bush outside the
boundaries the rum-keg only arrives once a-year, at shearing
time, yet then it is a signal for all hands to turn to and get
drunk as pigs. The women you meet in the bush are chiefly
convicts, an their manners are outrageously indecent. You
never hear a young man speak respectfully of a female ; most
men in the colony think there is no such thing as a decent
virtuous woman. The natives (that is, the children of
whites born in the colony) are as bad as thel convicts or go-
vernment women, as we call them. They are taught all
sorts of vice by these women as soon as they can walk.
The little daughters of respectable people in Sydney, when
sent out with the nurse, a prisoner, are often keeping watch
while the servants are prostituting themselves. The natives
are generally fair-haired, tall, and very handsome. The
girls are marriageable at 14, and old and ugly at 25, if they
have been married and had two or three children.
" The lower order of corn stalks (in colonial phrase) are
noted as good horsemen, horse-stealers, and card-players.
But many of them are very respectable people in their own
way, fond of money, and take honest means to get it, as far
as honesty goes in the colony ; but that is not far, for you
are at perfect liberty to take a man in as much as you please;
anything dishonourable in connexion with a bargain is not
understood. If you can get hold of a new colonist, or new
chum,' as they call them, and sell him stock at double the
current price, you are considered a keen fellow ; the act is
not considered discreditable, but, on the contrary, rather
praiseworthy,—' it only coming the new chum over him.'

" In union there is strength," as the toper said when he
poured the brandy into his water. ---Punch.
THE SUPERIORITY OF MACHINERY.
A Mechanic his labour will often discard
If the rate of his pay he dislikes ;
But a clock—and its case is uncommonly hard—
Will continue to work, though it strikes.
The following anecdote used to be related by the late Mr.
Farril, for many years apothecary at the Bath General
Hospital:—The wife of a manufacturer of fire-works, living
in Christmas-street, Bristol, some years back, one day com-
manded her servant to go up to the attic and bring some
article that was needed. The girl returned, " Where have
you left the candle?" said the mistress. " I stuck it, ma'am,
in the barrel of black seed there." " Go," rejoined the
care you "Pi coolly,
stuck": irop
no
"and bring the candle down, and take
returned unhurt grease
?—Sherburne
en
Journal.the seed." ed . " The maid had
lighted candle into a barrel of gunpowder ! She

PUNNING.—There ispautnime for all things—punning among
the number. Now, ,aand
it
aobmlemit such a solecism, perpetrated in a morning appears
avretrywuhnoseevaesronc
We
ryeoaukfraesat,ger novices in the
school-
boy, letting off his squibs after breakfast, like an ardent
and anticipating the night. W
prema-
ture exhibition produce a fit of invetetion
have known such a
,fonroetstaonl forestalling
ing titmhee
cinanntadlleres shine the most
at whom he has
person of the punster, but the
invariably be " poked his fun." PunsanAdfreaxr.d.
punsi are " penis-
nttfioduced after
brilliantly in the evening.
Tacke semblance
talic persuaders," and should
at a fish dinner at
prepense that would seemwall
the nut-crackers. As for any being bearißn
and to thrust such a heartleasss
~it is a
incon-
cwoefiicybkauebdmi
enaeanssistiyaiappormnoanbiai
iz7iee ;
into the Thames, to become live bait for white bait, mortal
should consider asjustifiable homicide.—Bentley's mis
cellany.

MISCELLANEOUS

The i;t;ger Marchioness of Cdnyingh4nl has beentne a
Baptist.

The Irish representative bishop:: for the session of Parlia-
ment of 1843, are, the Archbishop of Dublin and the Bishops
of Down, Ferns, and Cloyne.
A new work by " Boz," under the title of " American
Notes for General Circulation," in two volumes, is an-
nounced for publication in October.
It is expected, that the Special Commission for the trial of
the rioters in Staffordshire will be opened on the first of
October. It is understood that Mr. Godson is retained for
the Crown.

Miss A. Kemble is a cigar-smoker. A professional gen-
tleman of this city, on being introduced to her, was honoured
with the offer of a cigar from her case.—Western
[Mrs. Nisbett also smokes !]
THE QUEEN.—A correspondent of the Aberdeen Flerald
says—" I have not said a word as to her Majesty's personal
appearance. In fact she looked just like any other tolerably
good-looking lady that one might meet in a crowd, and pass
by with the remark--' Not a bad looking gal that.' "
On Monday afternoon her Majesty's ship Superb, of 80
guns, was launched from the Royal dock-yard at Pembroke.
Her Majesty's ship Albion, 90 guns, one of the largest two-
decked ships ever built, was launched at Devonport on Wed-
nesday. She is to carry thirty-two 68-pounders on her lower
deck, and will throw a broadside of 2,0161 b. of metal. She
is built on the principle of Capt. Sir Win. Symonds, the sur-
veyor of the navy.

The moon will be full on Monday next, the 19th inst., at
6h. 33 m. in the evening, and we believe it rarely occurs, as
bas been the case in the present season, that the corn and
pulse of every description, at least in this part of the coun-
try, have providentially been brought to maturity and housed
without the assistance of the harvest moon, which this moon
is called.—Sussex Advertiser.
LORD HUNTINGTOWER'S BANKRUPTCY.—The first meet-

ing under this bankruptcy was held in Basinghall-street,
London, on Tuesday, when several debts were admitted, but
the amount of his lordship's liabilities did not transpire.

HER MAJESTY AN ANNUAL VISITOR TO SCOTLAND.—
We are assured that her Majesty seriously contemplates mak-
ing an annual visit to Scotland, not merely for personal gra-
tification, but for the health of her children. Craigmillar
Castle is to be re-built for her accommodation, if it cannot
be repaired, and fitted up as a royal residence, in which her
Majesty and family will pass some months every season.—
Edinburgh Courant.
Bath was visited on Wednesday night with a most tremen-
dous storm, accompanied by thunder and some of the most
vivid lightning that has been known for several years. We
have not heard of any particular damage having been effec-
ted by it, either in the city or neighbourhood ; a boy, how-
ever, named William Foster, on his way home from Guinea-
land to Tyning-lane, was struck by the electric fluid, and was
rendered blind for nearly two hours. We are happy to add
that he has since recovered his sight.—Bath Herald.
The following fact may give some idea of the losses which
have been lately sustained in Leeds by the owners of cot-
tage property :—An extensive proprietor of tenements of
this description has at present 150 houses, for which he
receives no rent whatever, 46 of them being empty. His
arrears of rent now due amount to £1,500. We believe that
owners of cottage property generally have incurred heavy
losses of the some kind during the last twelve months.—
Leeds Times.

SHIP-BUILDING ON THE WEAR.-At the sale by auction,
this week, of the stock in trade of timber, ship-building
materials, and vessels on the stocks at North Hilton, the
prices realised clearly indicated better prospects for ship-
builders and the shipping interest generally, oak timber
ranging from to £9 10s. per load ; other kinds in propor-
tion. A revival in this most extensive and leading branch of
our local commerce and industry, so important to every
class " on both sides of the Wear " is exceedingly cheer-
ing.—Northern Times.

LEICESTER. EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY.— Saturday
last a robbery was committed in the house of Mr. John Tay-
lor, under the following singular circumstances :—Mr. Tay-
lor has two residences, one at Liecester and another at Bel-
grave. Having been attacked with illness, he remained at
the latter place till Saturday, leaving a girl about 17 years of
age to manage during the absence of the regular housekeeper.
In the night of Friday the girl arose, and proceeded to a room
in which her master had deposited a sum of money ; breaking
open a drawer she took 16 soverigns therefrom; and then cut
her hair close off, so as to resemble that of a man ; she af-
terwards entered a room in which two or three men servants
were sleeping, and putting on a suit of clothes belonging to
one of them, left the house. The man to whom the clothes
belonged, missing them upon rising. searched the house, and
finding a quantity of hair that the girl had cut off, and the
girl herself missing, he gave an alarm. Mr. Taylor, being
made acquainted with the circumstance, caused information
to be given to the police, who succeeded in capturing her, in
her disguise, with the principal part of the property upon her,
near Melton. She was immediately taken before a magistrate,
who at once committed her to the quarter sessions.
SUSPECTED MURDERS.—On Tuesday, the 30th of August,
an inquest was held before Richard Keogh, Esq., on the body
of a female child, at the Fenaty Police Barracks, found by the
police of that station, in a field in the neighbourhood, on the
evening previous. It appeared in evidence that a girl of the
name of Faghy was known to be pregnant. Drs. Richard
Justain and Joseph Healy proved that they had examined the
girl, and that she appeared to have been recently delivered of
a child, and that the child in question was alive when born.
The jury returned a verdict that the child had come by its
death either from want of care, or violence, and that Jane
Faghy was accessory thereto. She was committed under the
coroner's warrant to Roscommon Gaol. The same coroner
held an inquest at the church-yard of Kilgefin, barony of Bal-
lintober, on the body of Henry Naghten. The body had to
be examined, and the proceedings were adjourned from the
18th to the 27th of August, and again to the 3d of September.
After a most patient invention, and the examination of a num-
ber of witnesses, and on the testimony of Drs. James Lloyd
and Joseph Healy, who had made a post mortem examination
of the contents of the stomach, and proved to the presence of
metallic poison, the jury came to the following verdict, "That
the deceased came by his death in consequence of having taken
a quantity of poison, and that his wife, Sally Naghten had
administered the same." She was then committed to gaol
under the coroner's warrant. Bills of indictment were pre-
ferred at Roscommon against this woman for having poisoned
her sister-in-law, sister to her husband, about two years since,
but were ignored.—Athlone Sentinel.
EXPORTATION OF MACRINERY.—The following letter
on this subject has just been received at the Manchester
Chamber of Commerce :
" Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade,
Whitehall, Sept. 8, 1842.
" Sir,—ln reply to your letter of the Ist instant, ad-
dressed to Mr. WGregor, relative to the exportation of
machinery, I am directed by the Lords of the Committee
of Privy Council of Trade to inform you, that my lords
have recently recommended the Lords Commissioners of
her Majesty's Treasury to grant permission to export cer-
tain classes of machinery, to which hitherto that permission
has not been granted. Amongst the machinery for which
permission has recently thus been granted is included ma-
i chinery for the spinning of cotton and wool; and it is the
intention of my lords to recommend the adoption of the
like course as respects all machinery for spinning and ma-
nufacturing the above, as well as other substances, except-
ing those which are used in, or applicable to, the spinning
or manufacture of flax, tow, linen, or lace. I am, sir, your
obedient servant,

" JOHN GEORGE SHAW LEFEVRE.
" Thomas Boothman, jun., Esq."
MELANCHOLY DEATHS BY DROWNING.—On Friday
afternoon last, two young gentlemen, Mr. John Lloyd, se-
cond son of the Rev. John Lloyd, Rector of Aughrim Union,
in the county of Roscommon, and Mr. Robert Marshal Day,
second son of Mr. Day, the barrister, of Dublin, went out
together in a small sail boat, on an excursion in the harbour,
and a sudden squall, by which the boat was upset, having
come on when they had nearly reached the village of White-
gates, they were both precipitated into the sea, and having,
as it is thought, got entangled in the rigging, they, after a
few unavailing struggles, sunk to rise no more. On the fol-
lowing morning, their bodies were found within fifty yards
of the shore, and, in consequence of the ebb of the tide, with
not more than five feet water over them ; and on Monday
morning they were both interred in the same grave, in the
cemetery of Cove ; that as they were both called away at the
same moment, and by the same manner of death, so their
mortal remains might repose together in their parent earth.
Mr. Lloyd was a student in our university, and in his 15th
year; Mr. Day was educated for the joint professions of
engineer and architect, and had nearly finished his appren-
ticeship to Sir Richard Morrisson. He was an elegant and
accomplished architectural draughtsman, and had recently
entered his twenty-fifth year. They were both most amiable
young gentlemen, and of cultivated and engaging manners;
and the numerous sympathising assemblage of persons of all
classes who attended their remains to the grave testified how
generally and sincerely they were beloved and regretted.—
Dublin Evening Packet.

THE PROPERTY TAX ON DIVIDENDS.—By a return made
to the House of Commons, it appears the following is the
annual amount of dividends upon stock and annuities from
which the property or income tax has been stopped or de-
ducted at the Bank, for the half-year ending the sth July,
1812 :—Three per Cent. Consols, £10,709,875 13s. ' • New
'
Three-and-a-half per Cents., £1,331,113 15s. 10d. • Three
per Cents., 1726, £24,579 Is. 2d. ; New Five per Cents,.,
£21,469 16s. 10d. ; Annuities for terms of years, £808,116
15s. Bd.—The total amount of such dividends payable upon
individual or separate accounts arising from dividends of
£2 10s., and under £l5O per annum :—Three per Cent.
Consols, £3,761,519 ss. ; New Three-and-a-half per Cents.,
£2,233,2.13 Is. 10d. ; Three per Cents., 1726, £10,672 12s.
10d. ; New Five per Cents., £7,868 16s. ; Annuities for
terms of years, £106,380 7s. 2d.—Total number of such
individual accounts :—Three per Cent. Consols, 70,261 ;
New Three-and-a-half per Cents., 63,665 ; Three per Cents.
1726, 273 •, New Five per Cents., 56; Annuities for terms of
years, 2,846.

Lord John Russell appears regularly dismissed by the Ra-
dicals. He went with them as far as he could, and what are
his thanks for the past? One of the leading Radical journals
says.—" If the rumour to which we have so frequently re-
ferred of late, that Lord John Russell has already intimated
his intention of resigning the leadership of the liberals in
parliament, be not true, there is one thing abundantly clear,
namely, that it ought to be true. If we have not proved to
Lord John's own satisfaction, we have, we are sure, proved
to the satisfaction of everybody else, that he can no longer
exercise the functions of leader of the opposition with credit
to himself or advantage to the country. Nature never in-
tended the noble lord to play any prominent part on the stage
of political life. He is, at a crisis like the present, intel-
lectually, as well as physically, unfit for the leadership of a
powerful party. When the Tories were prostrate and almost
extinguished as a party by the heavy blow which the Reform
Bill, immediately on its passing, gave them, the leadership of
a person of Lord John's calibre might have been tolerated ;
but the moment that a re-action had commenced, and every
successive week saw the Tories swelling their minority of 150,
it was high time the Whig lordling should be unceremo-
niously thrown overboard, and a person chosen to succeed
him, who, in addition to moral courage, superior talents as a
debater, and enlarged views as a statesman, should possess a
strong sympathy with the people—one, moreover, who, in-
stead of lagging behind the spirit of the age, should be pre-
pared to lead the nation as well as the liberals in parliament
in the onward road to further and far more extensive re-
forms."

ANECDOTE OF GEORGE IV.'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND._
It has long been known and admitted that King George IV.
bowed with unrivalled elegance and grace. In passing l and
.
bowing to the myriads who assembled on all occasions during
his Majesty's visit to Scotland, every individual felt that
Majesty's bow was particularly This
delusion, towards him.
his
delusion, the effect of his Majesty's graceful manner, ope-
rated in a greater degree perhaps on the worthy citizens of
Dundee than on any other of his Majesty's subjects. " His
Majesty bowed to me," says one; " but I was huzzaing
"
very loudly"—" And gaping wide," said a wag. His
Majesty bowed particularly to me," saidranother ; " but I
was standing in a very conspicuous place. " Your figure,
too, must necessarily have attracted his Majesty's atten-
tion," said a by-stander. In short, every citizen of Dundee
who went to Edinburgh on this occasion had a special liow
from his Majesty. A worthy maltster had placed himself
in a crowd on a high wall fronting the road along which his
Majesty had to pass from Dalkeith to Holyrood House. In
bowing his Majesty's eye operated as a gun-shot to the
astounded maltster. " God bless me, he surely kens me,"
he ejaculated, and instantly fell backwards from the top of
the wall to the ground, a height of ten feet.

STEAM SHIP HINDOSTAN.—On Tuesday a grand enter-
tainment was given on board this vessel at Southampton.
Sir J. Campbell occupied the chair, supported on his right
by Sir E. Codrington and on his left by Sir J. Lushington.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and other eminent persons
were present, and many suitable speeches were delivered.
The unrolling of the mummy presented by the late Bishop
Butler to the Museum of this town takes place on Thursday,
and, as many ladies desirous of attending, we are requested
to state that there will be nothing in the spectacle obnoxious
to the most refined female delicacy,—We take the liberty of
suggesting, for the convenience of those who intend seeing
this very interesting process, and hearing Mr. Birch's lecture
that they purchase tickets of admission before they go to the
Shirehall to-morrow. The receipt of money at the door must
necessarily retard the free egress of the public, and probably
interrupt the proceedings.—Shrewsbury Journal.

THE HARVEST OF THE CITIZENS OF EDINBURGH.—
We understand that no less than 33,000 persons went and
came from Glasgow by the railway last week, and it will be
observed, that the receipts for passengers amounted to £7,000.
The numbers that came by the steamers from the north and
south were immense, and could never have been brought to
Edinburgh in such numbers except by this means. The
stream has been for some days flowing in an opposite direc-
tion ; the tumult has subsided, and the city, mostly drained
of its strangers, forms a contrast in its quiet streets to the
unparalleled bustle of which it was the scene last week. It
has been estimated that the visiters from all parts must have
amounted to more than 100,000 persons ; and that, estimating
the expense of each person at £l, no less a sum than
£lOO,OOO must have been added to the ordinary expenditure
in the city.—Evening Courant.
THE HERRING FISHERY.—WICK, SEPT. 9.—The her-
ring fishing has now fairly terminated for the season at this
place. A number of boats put out to sea on the evenings of
Thursday and Friday last week, but would only average half
a cran each night. A few crews persevered in making trial
for fish this week, but without success. The stranger crews
are nearly all departed for their homes, and the native boats
are being hauled up for a season. The total average for the
season is now ascertained to be about 10 trans per boat short
of that of last year, and yet there is no demand for cured
fish. Quantities are daily leaving port for various markets,
shipped on account of the curers ; and the number of barrels
in this way is diminishing fast. As to prices, it is impossi-
ble for us to quote when there are no sales made. The last
purchases which have been made were at 17s. per barrel.—
John O'Groat (Wick) Journal.
THE KING OF PRUSSIA.—It may not be generally known
that the King of Prussia has had a gold medal struck in his
own dominions for the purpose of presentation to the most
distinguished artists who may come under his special appro-
val. It is of solid gold, weighing 20 dwts, and is very taste-
ful in its arrangement. On the obverse, in a concave centre,
is an excellent likeness in relief of his Majessy,f which is sur-
rounded by a broad border in dull relief, bearing emblemati-
cal, devices of the arts. On the reverse appears the facade of
1 an elegant Grecian structure, with Apollo in his car rising
above the centre. This beautiful work bears the name of
" Pfeuffer " on the reverse, and "Jacktman " on the obverse.
One of these has been bestowed, through the hands of Che-
valier Bunsen, upon Mr. Benjamin Wyon, in testimony of
his Majesty's approval of the gold medal struck in comme-
moration of his visit to England and sponsorship of the Prince
of Wales. This is the second mark of royal approbation re-
seived by Mr. Wyon from the Prussian dominions.
STATE OF THE MANCHESTER DISTRICT.—There is little
change since our last in the state of affairs in this district,
except that the partal resumption of employment at Staley-
bridge, to which we then adverted, is now thoroughly esta-
blished, and the greater portion of the factories at Glossop,
Tintwistle, and other places to the south-eastoi Staley-bridge,
have also resumed. At Ashton, Hyde, and Stockport, little
has yet been done in this way ; and at Manchester the fac-
tories remain in precisely the same situation as on Friday
last—the spinners being steadily at work, but the weavers
generally refusing to return to their employment without an
advance. In several cases, we believe, they have offered to
come in, provided the slightest concession be made, their
leaders being anxious to save their own credit by showing
that they had gained something like a victory. In this, how-
ever, they are not very likely to succeed ; all the large mill-
owners steadily adhering to their determination not to give
any advance of wages which might have the appearance of
being extorted by the riotous proceedings of the 9th of Au-
gust, and consequently requiring that the workpeoplc shall
resume their employment before any proposal for an advance
can be even entertained.—Manchester Guardian.

TEASING AN ELEPHANT.—On Saturday evening last, se-
veral gentlemen went into a wild beast show at Sheerness,
some of whom began to tease the elephant which forms part
of the exhibition, and which is not confined otherwise than
by a short chain round one of its legs; the gentlemen
amused themselves for a while by offering the huge but do-
cile animal apples and other things, and when he extended
his proboscis to receive them, putting them into their pockets
again ; but not much relishing such sort of sport, the saga-
cious animal, taking an opportunity when several of his tor-
mentors were in a cluster near him, extended his trunk, and
with one swoop laid seven of them sprawling on the floor,
who, not knowing what the next evolution of the " perfor-
ming elephant" might be, began to call out lustily for the
keepers, but their presence was not needed, as Leviathan
seemed quite satisfied with having laid his tormentors pros-
trate at his feet, kicking about to get out of his reach, whilst
the wives and daughters of some of the party were going into
fits, and the company generally rushing towards the place of
egress. All the gentlemen who were knocked down by the
elephant escaped free from harm, except a good fright, which
they will, no doubt, remember should they ever enter ano-
ther wild beast show.—Kent Herald.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—On Friday afternoon, as three of
the workmen employed in pulling down the county jail were
engaged in demolishing portions of the east side of the House
of Correction, the iron supporters, with part of the upper
or second floor balcony, on which they were standing, gave
way, and they were precipitated among the building materials
on the ground, which was many feet from the balcony. The
crash was tremendous, and on the officers of the goal and the
workmen on the premises going to the spot, they found the
three unfortunate men buried under a mass of the fallen
building materials. They were immediately extricated ; two
of them, we regret to state, are so dreadfully bruised by the
fall, that it is feared one of them cannot recover, as he ap-
peared almost lifeless when taken up. One of his companions
has also sustained many, though it is hoped not fatal, injuries.
The third man only received prompt surgical aid. [Since
writing the above we hear that one of the sufferers named
Henry Sparks, died soon after admission into the hospital;
both his legs were dreadfully fractured. William Stevens
has sustained concussion of the brain, and is in much danger.
William Holley is suffering from injury to his legs, but not
of a serious nature.]—Berkshire Chronicle.
THE Two THOUSAND POUNDS EORBERY.—A full de-
scription of the persons suspected of committing this robbery
at Preston Guild was forwarded to the various police stations
in the metropolis. At a late hour on Saturday night a per-
son of the name of Stowell, who resides at 4. Bowling-green-
street, Kennington, informed police-constables Murray and
Winch, Nos. 119 and 140 M, that he was in Preston on the
day of the robbery, and that he had traced the suspected
person to No. 3, Hercules-buildings, Lambeth, whither the
two constables instantly repaired, and succeeded in capturing
a man and a woman. The former gave the name of Jovel,
the latter Elizabeth Bailey. The female was instantly identi-
fied as being the person supposed to have committed the
robbery ; she went with the male prisoner to an accommoda-
tion-house a few miles from Preston, where she dropped one
of the stolen notes. Both prisoners were searched ; on Jovel
was found a flash note for £5O of the " Bank of Engraving,"
but none of the stolen notes were found on either, the opinion
being that they have banked them.
THE WOMAN EASTER.—We expressed a hope in our
paper, a fortnight since, that some steps would be taken to
insure the attention of Sir James Graham to the case of this
unfortunate woman (who received sentence of execution at
our last assizes,) and that we should have no fears for the
result. Steps for this purpose, we are happy to say, were
quickly taken, and the result, there is no doubt, will be, that
in a few days the woman will be set at liberty. Mr. Starky,
one of our county magistrates, from a conviction of the wo-
man's innocence, prepared a memorial and forwarded it to
the Home Secretary. This memorial, we understand, was
signed by the high sheriff of the county, Mr. F. A. S. Locke,
and some other gentlemen. Sir James, at first, said he saw
no reason to go further than to commute the sentence of
death to that of transportation for life. Mr. Starky and the
other memorialists, feeling, however, that if the woman were
innocent she ought to be set at liberty, again communicated
with Sir James ; npon which Sir James had a conference
with Mr. Justice Wightman, the presiding judge at the trial,
and the result is as we have stated—Easter, as soon as prac-
ticable, will receive a free perdon. We will merely observe,
that Mr. Starky's conduct in this matter is beyond all praise.
—Devizes Gazette.

APPREHENSION OF ONE OF THE ENGLISH STRIKE
DELEGATES.—A few days ago, Captain Richardson, of the
Gorbals police, received a communication from London, in-
dicating the presence in Glasgow of a person named Ellis,
one of the agents through whose exertions the workmen of
Burslem, in Staffordshire, had been induced to join in the late
strike for an advance of wages. Whether Ellis intended to
pursue the same tactics with the men of Glasgow, or had
merely fled to this quarter for shelter from the effects of his
improper conduct in Burslem, it is impossible in the mean
time to determine ; certain it is some of the London authori-
ties considered his arrest of great consequence to the peace
of the country, as, in addition to the intimation received by
Captain Richardson from one of the inspectors of the London
police, an officer was despatched to Glasgow on a special
mission to discover his whereabouts. The services of this
messenger, however, were altogether unnecessary to the
apprehensiGP Pf Ellis, as Captain Richardson, on receipt of
the above letter, took such measures as to have him in cus-
tody shortly afterwards. The prisoner was discovered, em-
ployed in Annfield Pottery, at the east end of Gallogate-
street, and on Thursday was quietly banded over to one of
the English police, with whom he is now on his way to the
scene of his misconduct. It is said that Ellis, who is a man
of talent, addressed the mob immediately before the burning
of the minister's house in Staffordshire. Ellis is a tall lean
figure, six feet in height, about 33 years of age, and rather
talkative. During his employ in Annfield Pottery letters
and papers came to him in another name.—Glasgow Chronicle.
THE ASHANTEE PRlNCES.—lntelligence has come to this
country respecting these two young men, dated Coomassie,
Junce 6th. As they have now left the shores of England
more than a twelvemonth, and had been at the date of this
news, in their own country about six months, it will be in-
teresting tp our readers to learn how they are going on.
They left Cape Coast in November, in company with the
Wesleyan missionaries, being commended by the
brethren
at the Coast to the gracious protection of God.
On their
arrival at Coomassie, " the natives were astonished above
measure, for they never thought that the good white people
would allow their princes to return." The fact of our hav-
ing sent them has given to the Ashantees a very favourable
impression of the fidelity of our country and government.
Although at first distressed at the sight of the surrounding
barbarism, so that one of them burst into tears, and was
quite overcome, they express themselves as becoming happy
" in the endeavour to put in practice the good desires with
which their hearts glow." They speak of the missionaries
(with whom they live in a house apportioned by the king) as
a very great comfort and encouragement to them ; of their
sense of the benevolence of these devoted men in leaving
their country for the welfare of a distant people ; of their
acceptance with gratitude and humility of the means of
grace ; of their feeling that education is the principal thing,
and of their therefore binding their thoughts to encourage it.
They have also spoken to the king against slavery and the
slave trade, and trust that the traffic will in time be abolished.
The king says he is happy to hear that the English people
wish for his comfort and prosperity, and for that of his sub-
jects he has not used the beautiful carriage sent him by
the Wesleyans, in consequence of a distressing and melan-
choly fire at the capital, but expresses his gratitude for Bri-
tish kindness. The report of the marriage of the princes is
utterly unfounded. They have not formed any particular
connexions or friendships at all. In a letter from Captain
Trotter, R.N., they are thus spoken of
Leamington, August 15, 1842.
"My dear Sir,—ln answer to your note about your young
friends, William Quantamissah and John Ansah, I have
much pleasure in being able to assure you of their amiable,
gentlemanly, correct moral conduct during the two months
they were under my eye, on board the Albert, when taking a
passage from this country to Cape Coast Castle last year;
and I feel certain the officers have the same pleasing im-
pressions, and will bear me out in saying that they were very
intelligent and agreeable messinates. I have seldom met
with young men of their age with so much knowledge of the
Christian religion ; and now that they are fairly up the
country with the missionaries, I trust the cause of Christi-
anity may be furthered by their influence and example.,,..._.
The Friend of Africa.

imparts.

EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, Sc.

Ingleborough,l (401) J R Rea, from Calcutta, 650 bags rice, 7gg
bags saltpetre, 3300 bags sugar, 58 chests lac dye, 200 bales jute, 12g
bales hides, H and J Hornby and co-18 chests indigo, 16 bales
raw silk, G Armstrong-33 teak planks, 3 bags sugar, 1 work box,
the master-1 box Chinese fans, 1 box contents unknown, L Hey.
worth-2 do, J Overend-1 work box, 3 tea caddies, Mr. Smith—i
backgammon board, S Platt-5 bags of the above rice consumed on
the voyage—P D

Cro,:vn, (292) J Kerr, from Bombay, 282 bales cotton, 169 bales
wool, Nicol, Duckworth and co-80 bales do, Forbes, Forbes and
co-295 bales 10 hf bales cotton, order-600 bags linseed, 38 cases
gum arable, Dirom, Richmond and co-8 packager contents un-
known, \V H L Syers-1 box preserves, 4 trunks baggage, order-
-327 hales hemp, 308 bags galls, 114 bags soorajee, 193 bags galling
galls, 15 bags cajoo, 2 cases arrowroot, 1 case preserves, 1 case
sagoo rice, Nicol, Duckworth and co

James Moran, (600) D Ferguson, from Bombay, 1643 bales 42 hf
bales cotton, 96 bales 1 hf bale wool, order-500 bales do, Larkins
and co--300 bales cotton, 199 bales wool, Wilkinson, Skinner and
co-150 do, Daniell, Dickinson and co-450 do, Richmond and co-
-17 bales wool, 2i tons horns, 524 bundles goat skins, M'Donald,
Miln and co-2i tons horns, 524 bundles sheep skins, 493 bundles
hides, 1339 bags seeds, 2 cases contents unknown, order—W D
Bland, (473) 'l' Callan, from Calcutta and the Cape of Good Hope,
380 bags saltpetre, 350 bags sugar, 500 bales jute, 181 chests iudigo
5662 bags rice, 15 bales cow hides, g bales hides, 1 box dresses, 30
bags pepper, 2 cases hair seating, 79 bags 2 boxes sago, 4 packages
4 boxes contents unknown, 1 box preserves, 1 parcel pamphlets,
order—P D

Lintin. (553) J Gillmann, from Bombay, 2401 bales 72 a-bales
cotton, 5 kegs 1 a-keg pickles, 1 case apparel, 2 work boxes, I case
guns, returned, Barton, Irlam and Co—Q D
Margaret Pollock, (917) J Pye, from Bombay, 2064 bales 37 half
bales cotton, order-104 bales cotton, 6 bales wool, King Brs-20
bales cotton, C Hemery-20 do, H R Hoskins-196 do, 15 half do,
Bates, Sons and co-77 bales wool, Walkinshaw, Skinner and co-
-400 bales cotton, D Dickinson and co-61 do, Hemery Brs-116 do,
.1 Baightman and co-47 do, Forbes, Forbes and co-1021 do, 1 hf
do, 3 cases 43 pieces ivory, Dirom, Richmond and co-2052 bags
oil seeds, a quantity buffalo horns, order-5o bdls cow and Ise 760
(assorted) hides, 1900 boffalo and 2040 deer horns, Bates, Sons and
co-200 bags nux vomini, 100 bags medical nuts, Cruickshank,
Melville and co-6 soars, exportntion—W D