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

HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF PRUSSIA.—We learn from
a source on which unquestionable reliance can be placed,
that the arrival of his Majesty the King of Prussia may not
be expected before the 20th instant, and as that potentate is
the especial guest of her Majesty, Buckingham Palace and
Windsor Castle will be the abodes of that Sovereign during
his Majesty's visit in this country. On his Majesty landing
at Woolwich he will be escorted by a troop of the royal horse
guards to Buckingham Palace, where apartments are already
ordered fur the reception of his Majesty and suite. His Ex-
cellency Chevalier Bunsen has, in consequence of his royal
master's visit, taken the elegant mansion of Lord Stuart de
Rothesay on Carlton House-terrace the same which Count
Stroganoff, the ambassador extraordinary from Russia, en-
gaged during the coronation of her Majesty in 1838. His
excellency intends giving a series of sumptuous entertain-
ments in honour of the King of Prussia's visit.---Herald
THE NIGER EXPEDITION.—We have been favoured with
the sight of a letter which gives further accounts of the Niger
expedition. Thus we learn " that the Albert alone remains
in the river : that she has but twelve white men remaining,
besides Captain Trotter, the surgeon, Dr. Ma William, and
three or four other officers." Two of the twelve men spoken
of by the writer were taken ill before his letter was closed,
and an early departure from the coast was anxiously looked
for. In confirmation of the facts contained in the letter be-
fore us, another correspondent writes that—" intelligence
has been received that the Niger expedition has become dis-
spirited, and that the whole of the steamers would rendezvous
at Ascension on the Ist of January. The Wilberforce, which
steamer was intended to remain in the Niger until the next
season, had already arrived at Ascension. The expedition
was reported to have left colonies up the river ; but what will
be their fate without any establishment to communicate with
outside, it is, perhaps, not difficult to foretell."—Shipping
Gazette.
The Bombay papers contain a statistical account of the
quantities of tea exported to Great Britain from China since
the opening of the trade in 1834 to the present time, and
also of the quantities of tea exported to the United States
from China from the Ist of July, 1833, to June, 18-11. The
tea exported to Great Britain from the 31st of March, 1834,
to the 30th of September of the same year, amounted to
3,388,2631 b. ; in the season 1834-35, it had increased to
47,690,9281 b. ; in the season 1835-36, it declined to
45,860,1931 b.; in the season 1836-37, it further declined to
37,828,7941 b. ; in the season 1837-38, it increased to
42,545,9511 b.; in the season 1838-39, it decreased again to
32,697:3701b.; in the season 1839-40, it further decreased to
29,116,1401 b. ; but in the season 18-10-41, increased again to
30,280,21816. The quantity of tea exported to the United
States in 1833-3-1 was 18,854,40316.; in 1134-35, it was
14,122,9061 b. ; in 1835-36, 17,511,9121 b. ; in 1836-37,
16,581,4641 b. ; in 1837-38, 16,615,7291 b. ; in 1838-39,
15,184,0661 b.; in 1839-40, 19,333,597 lb. ; and in 1840-41,
9.079,4241 b. The great falling off observable in the last
three seasons, of course, is attributable to the restricted
state of trade consequent upon our conflicting relations with
China.

BENGAL.—There is a general complaint in the markets
here of a great scarcity of cash, and but little demands for
every description of goods. This has been the case for some
months. The godowns of the European and native mer-
chants are filled with goods of every description, but they
cannot find purchasers. Should this lull continue much
longer, the consequence will be, that the security of some
mercantile houses for some time on the wane will fail; and
if we credit the gups in the bazaar, the crisis is rapidly ap-
proaching. No demand for commodities already in the
markets, and the great losses sustained by the opium specu-
lators is the main cause of the lull. All eyes are, therefore,
directed as it were towards China, the termination of the
war, the payment of indemnification bonds for opium, and
the opening of the trade upon a peaceable and secure footing.
If the opium bonds of Captain Elliot are not paid within
another year, it will be no difficult thing to calculate with
some degree of certainty the mercantile houses which, to use
a stock-market phrase, must go. The non-arrival of intel-
lence from China since the 24th of August continues to de-
press the minds of hundreds who have speculated to some
extent in opium, and who wait and watch with much anxiety
for China news.—Bengal Gazelle.

ANOTHER DARING BURGLARY.—Between two and three
o'clock on Tuesday morning, the house of Mr. George Gum,
of the tithing of Seend, was broken into by three thieves, and
robbed of property amounting to between 30 and £4O, Mr.
Gum is advanced in years, and lives with his sister, in a lone
house a short distance from the turnpike road between De-
vizes and Melksham. The thieves first endeavoured to effect
an entrance at the back part of the house, by making a hole
in the wall, but here they were unsuccessful, and the noise
they made having disturbed Mr. Gum, he got up. They
then went round to the front door, which they burst open,
and entered the house, after au ineffectual resistance by Mr.
Gum. One of the thieves was armed with a gun, another
with an iron bar, and the third with a large stick. Mr. Gum
also had a gun in the house, which one of the thieves per-
ceiving, said, " if your gun is ready mine is"—and then pre-
tending to load it, continued--" now do what you like, for
we have plenty of assistance." Mr. Gum's gun was unfor-
tunately out of repair. They then told him, that if he did
not give them what he had, they would destroy both him and
his sister; and commenced ransacking the house. They
broke the locks of four different boxes, and took every thing
of value, among which were a number of old guineas, which
Mr. Gum had kept by him from his youth, some silver, and
nine silver spoons marked " G." Not content with this,
they then collared Mr. Gum, and asked him for his money
papers.—lle replied that he had nothing of the kind but two
bad £5 notes, which, they said, they did not want. They
still insisted that he had more money ; he assured them that
he had but 18d. in his pocket, and this they took ; but upon
his saying that was all he had, they returned it to him. They
then left the house, after being there more than an hour.
Although the fellows said they had plenty of assistance, Mr.
Gum is assured that they were but three in nurnber,ashe

afterwards traced their steps across the fields towards Melk-
sham, when they very coolly turned round, and wished him
" Good morning !" The stick with which one of the fellows
was armed, was afterwards found near the house. The face
of each was blackened.—Bristo Journal.

THE POLITICAL STATE OF THE JEws.—The prophecies i
relating to the Jews declare, as clearly as language can, that
they shall return to Judea, and be at last permaneniy re-estab- '
lished in the land of their fathers. The uniform experience
of the literal truth of every prediction respecting their past
history may suffice to give assurance of the certainty of their
predicted restoration. Amidst many signs that the times of
the Gentiles are drawing toward their fulfilment, many con-
curring circumstances seem also to be preparing the way of
the children of Israel. Scattered as they have been for so
many ages through the world, and maintaining still their dis-
tinctive character, their whole history forbids the thought
that they will ever mingle among the nations, or cease to be,
what they have ever been, a peculiar people. But while their
history as a nation gave, for the apace of many generations,
unequivocal attestations of an overruling rROVIDENCE, sus-
taining the theocracy of the commonwealth of Israel ; and •
while, during a period of still greater duration, they have been
" a people scattered and peeled ; " yet after the lapse of so
many ages, they are still reserved for illustrating the truth,
the mercy, and the glory of the God of Israel. They now
begin, centuries of persecution and spoilation having passed
away, to participate in cases too numerous to be specified, of
benefits arising from the altered spirit of the times, and pos-
sessed, as in an unexamped degree they are, of silver and
gold, and of large portions of the public funds of various
kingdoms, they may be said even now, in some measure, to
" inherit the riches of the Gentiles ; " commanding too, as
in a great measure they do, the rate of exchange throughout
Europe, they are entitled, from the present influence of money
on the security of Governments, and on the arts and results
of war, to high political consideration, and the time may not
thus be remote when they shall " be raised up as an ensign
among the nations." Not naturalised to the isles of the
Gentiles, either by law or affection, nor bound to any soil by
the possession of fixed property, which would be of no easy
transference ; but ever looking with undiminished love to the
land of their fathers (even after an expatriation uninterrupted
for nearly 18 centuries, (they are ready, whenever the time
shall be fulfilled, to fly " thither like a cloud, and like doves
to their windows." But to what a degree, and in what man-
ner the present convulsions of the Turkish empire, combined
with the peculiar, and in many instances novel condition of
the Jews throughout Europe and America, shall be the means
of facilitating their eventual restoration to Palestine (which
is ravaged by Arabs, and yeilds but a scanty revenue to the
Turks )no mortal can determine. It is enough for Christi-
ans to know that two thousand years (through nearly which
period it has been dormant ) can neither render extinct the
title, nor prescribe th 3 heaven-chartered right of the seed of
Abraham, to the final and permanent possession of the land
of Canaan ; that God will remember the land, and gather
together unto it his antient people, and that his word concern-
ing Zion, which he hath neither forgotten nor forsaken is,
I have graven thee upon the palms of mine hands ; thy
walls are continually before me. Thy children shall make
haste ; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go
forth of thee," &c. "Can a woman forget her sucking child,
that she should not have compassion upon the son of her
womb ? Yea, they may forget ; yet will 1 nut forget thee."
(i. e. Zion.) Isaiah, xlix., 16, 17, 15, &c. And is it not a
miracle, which hath nothing parallel to it in the phenomena
of nature, that through all the changes which have happened
in the kingdoms of the earth, from the days of Moses to the
present time (which is more then 3,200 years), nothing should
have happened to have prevented the possibility of the accom-
plishment of these prophecies ; but, on the contrary, that the
state of the Jewish and Christian nations at this day should be
such as renders them capable, not only of a fi9uralive, but
even of a literal, completion, if the will of God be so?— Dr.
Keith's Evidences of Prophecy.

USES OF A SCARLET CLOAK.—At the memorable time
when the French ships appeared outside Bantry Bay, there
was, of course, a great alarm caused by their approach. The
country people struck out a plan to intimidate the enemy,
and an effective one it proved. The costume of the women
in those parts comprises, as an indispensable essential, a
scarlet cloak;—and the proposition was, to assemble all the
damsels that could be collected together, and marshal them
on the heights around the bay. It was done, and the French
soldiers beheld with dismay this formidable array of scarlet,
the wearers whereof (how much we sometimes gain by being
seen at a distance 1) appeared to them " good men and true."
What this supposed body of soldiery may have done towards
scaring away the foe I know not ; but I am always glad to
circulate any story in favour of a scarlet cloak, one of the
most picturesque adjuncts to a landscape, either in nature or
on canvass.—Letters from the Coast of Clare.
PUBLIC CREDIT IN AMERICA.-1 he Courrier Francais,
observing on the speech of the President of the United
States, says—" Washington would have died of grief and
shame if in his time he had seen private individuals, banks,
and even states, committing acts of bankruptcy towards their
European creditors. But President Tyler looks on at such
proceedings with extraordinary indifference, which might be
mistaken for a want of moral feeling. If one of the states,'
said he, `did not honour their engagements, that circum-
stance would not in the least injure the credit of the other
states.' We are of a diametrically contrary opinion, for we
consider that in a country where certain local authorities do
not consider themselves bound to pay the debts contracted
by the state, this example cannot fail to find imitators."
LONDON DOCK COMPANY.--On Tuesday the half-yearly
general meeting of this company was held at the Dock-house,
Prince's-street, Bank. The report stated that the number
of loaded ships that had entered the docks from foreign parts
in the six months ending on the 30th of November last was
602, of the aggregate burden of 131,893 tons. In the corre-
sponding period of 1840, there had entered the docks 581
ships, of the tonnage of 124,627 tonnage, showing an increase
in the last half-year of 7,266 tons. The amount of the earn-
ings of the docks in the half-year ending in Novembea last
was £168,878 15s. 6d., or £lll lie. ld. more than had been
received in the corresponding period of 1840. The income
of the company in the last six months had exceeded the ex-
penditure by £81,589 17s. 10d. The directors, in conse-
quence of the prosperous state of the affairs of the company,
recommended that the half-yearly dividend upon the stock
should be raised to £1 15s. per cent. After paying of inte-
rest, and providing for the liquidation of the debt incurred
for new works, there would remain a very large surplus to
the,credit of the company. The report was adopted, as well
as the proposal for the augmented dividend.
NEW BARRACKS.—POPISH RAPACITY.—The neigh-
bourhood of Brindle Lodge having been mentioned as one
of the sites which the Board of Ordnance intended to select
from, for the erection of the new barracks for the northern
district, Mr. and Mrs. Eastwood, the proprietors of the
lodge, have memorialised the secretary of state on the sub-
ject, alleging that having a reversionary interest in the above
mansion, it would be materially injured by barracks being
erected in that immediate neighbourhood. They also state
that " owing to the defective slate of the laws in this coun-
try, which provide no security against the rapacity of catho-
lic priests, who carry off the property of their penitents, to
the great injury of families, your memorialists have been re-
duced to the necessity of advertising the above mansion and
lands for a tenant, having no power to dispose of them
otherwise," the very small " property left to your memori-
alists and their numerous family of nine children, which
has escaped from the hands of the confessor of their late
uncle, would he reduced in value were barracks to be erected
near Brindle Lodge."—Preston Pilot.--[ln our columns of
to-day will be found a letter from Mr. Eastwood, exposing
the avarice of popish priests, the perusal of which will
serve to throw light on the above paragraph.]—Ed. L. S.
Amidst all his violence of temper, coarseness of taste, and
boisterous spirits, Frederick William inculcated maxims of
piety on the minds of his children, though not in a way to
win the heart of a youth so evidently sensitive as Frederick
the Great. The old King had a strong sense of religion, al-
though he expressed it at times with a vehemence truly
comic. We must make room for one characteristic anec-
dote. Being too unwell one evening to read the usual family
prayers himself, his daily practice, he desired his valet de
chambre to read them to him. His attendant thinking it
disrespectful to thou a King, on coming to the words " The
Lord bless thee," changed the expression into " The Lord
bless you." " It is not so, read it again," cried the exas-
perated King, at the same time throwing something at the
reader's head. The poor fellow could not imagine what
blunder he had made, and again read" The Lord bless you."
The King was furious, and having nothing else conveni-
ently at hand he pulled off his night-cap and flung it in the
attendant's face, crying out, " It is not so 1 tell you, read it
again." The frightened valet again gasped forth in scarcely
audible accents, " The Lord bless you." " Bless thee,
rogue," at last roared the monarch, losing all patience and
self-control, " bless thee. Don't you know, fellow, that in
the sight of God I am only a miserable rascal like yourself?"
—Campbell's Frederick the Great.
FIDELITY OF A DOG.—A fortnight ago we announced the
melancholy and fatal death by drowning, of a passenger on
board the Helen Macgregor steam-boat, while lying at Oban,
on her passage from Glasgow. No one on board knew him,
nor did any of the villagers ; but his funeral rites were per-
formed by a Christian people, and the cause of misfortune
aroused their sympathies. They spread the mort cloth over
the bier; but the tassels hung loosely—unclaimed—and told
he was far from his kinsmen. No fond relative was there to
mourn the loss of a friend—no aged parent to regret his un-
timely fate—no orphan boy to weep for the loss of a father ;
but he went not to the grave unmourned ; in addition to the
general sympathy, he was followed by an unfeigned mourner
—the companion of his toils—his faithful shepherd dog, who,
though unaccountably absent at the fatal moment, has given
evident signs of extreme attachment to his master. He
howled piteously as they bore him away, arid on lowering
him into the grave, he could scarcely be restrained from being
buried along with him. As the funeral partly moved slowly
away, the faithful animal remained alone—the mourning
image of fidelity and attachment. Nor has the cold blasts
of gloomy December forced him from his post; there he
still remains; and his fidelity has enlisted the commisera-
tion of the villagers, who give him the necessary food ; and
though the common green mound alone marks the grave of
the deceased, this faithful animal has supplied him with
mourners, and a monumental effigy more interesting than
the most grave or pompous eulogium.—lnverness Courier.
A SINGULAR JURY.—Rather an unusual circumstance
occurred at the Hertfordshire Quarter Sessions on Monday
last. A man named Thomas Godfrey was charged with
stealing a quantity of wheat, the property of his mistress, a
widow, and convicted on the clearest evidence. The deputy
clerk of the peace had, however, scarcely recorded the verdict
when Mr. Pryor, the counsel for the prisoner, rose to move
an arrest of judgment, on the ground that an improper af-
firmation had been administered to one of the jurors, a
Quaker, or rather that this juror had made no affirmation at
all. The affirmation repeated to him by the clerk began with,
" You being one of the people called Quakers do solemnly
affirm," and elided with "So help you, God." In addition
to this singular informality, the clerk of the peace had neg-
lected to require the Quaker juror to repeat the words of the
affirmation after him. The Court, after a short consultation,
admitted the objection of the learned counsel, and ordered
the prisoner to be discharged. Shortly after this occurrence
the jury returned a verdict (in the case of a young girl charged
with shoplifting) of " Guilty of stealing, but without a felo-
nious intention." Mr. Wordsworth, counsel for the pri-
soner, submitted that such a verdict was a verdict of acquittal.
The Court also admitted the objection, and ordered the pri-
soner to be discharged.
SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.—On Friday night last a woman
named Mary Digney, the wife of a small farmer residing at
Drumlough, near Rathfriland, while labouring under a fit of
insanity, took advantage of her husband's absence to attempt
the destruction of her own life, and the lives also of her two
children. Having, it appears, previously provided herself
with a quantity of arsenic, she administered some of it to
the younger child, aged about seven years, at the same time
swallowing herself a large portion of the same deadly drug.
The elder child, aged ten years, obstinately refused the prof-
fered draught ; upon which she was laid hold of by her
wretched parent, and violently strangled. Shortly afterwards
the husband arrived, and was, by his wife, informed of all
her proceedings. He instantly alarmed his neighbours, and
sent for a doctor. In the mean time, the dose having, it is
probable, been larger than ordinary, both the mother and the
child, who had taken the arsenic, discharged the contents of
their stomachs, and was thereby preserved. The other child
was discovered entirely bereft of life. On the day following
an inquest was held upon the body, and a verdict of " wilful
murder" recorded. The unhappy woman has been commit-
ted to the county gaol. Her insanity—of which, in our opi-
nion, there cannot exist a doubt—is said to have originated
in the following circumstance, as stated by a correspondent :
—" Some time back the poor woman (Mary Digney,) who
was a strict member of the Romish church, being engaged in
sacred communion according to its practice, happened to
close her teeth upon the consecrated wafer. For this she was
strongly reprimanded by the priest, and told that, as she had
' divided her God, she need not entertain any hope of salva-
tion ! The awful denunciation so prayed upon her mind as
to lead to disorderment of intellect ; and hence the frightful
tragedy which we have now to deplore."—Newry Telegraph.
TRICKS OF TIIE LEAGUERS, AND WELL-MERITED RE-
BUFF.—The Anti-Corn Law Leaguers, reduced to their
last shifts, are now having recourse to the petticoats. A
batch of these petticoat politicians have been perambulating
Huddersfield, calling from house to house, cajoling silly
women with promises of cheap bread to sign a petition
against "the corn-laws. A pair of those female worthies
called a few days since at the residence of Mrs. L., an elderly
lady, in South Parade, and being admitted to the parlour,
stated their object to be to obtain signatures of females to a
petition to the Queen for a total repeal of the corn-laws.
The lady, in reply, stated, that she had in her former resi-
dence in Huddersfield, paid thousands of pounds for corn,
that she never recollected corn being much if at all cheaper
than it is now, that it is cheaper now than before the intro-
duction of the corn-laws, and therefore she would sign
nothing for their repeal, at the same time remarking with
some severity on the impropriety of women's intermeddling
with politics, which are exclusively in the men's department,
and that they would do far better and be more useful in their
proper sphere, by minding their own domestic affairs and
leaving petitions and politics to the men. At this unlooked-
for reproof, the lady petitioners were covered with confusion,
but recovering themselves, actually had the effrontery to ask
Mr. L. to allow them to go below to her kitchen, that her
female servants might have the opportunity of signing it.
Airs. L. however, indignantly refused them, saying her
servants were in all probability more ignorant of the subject
than herself ; they then retired much crest fallen, and pro-
ceeded to the house of Mrs. T., in the same street, here
they met with no better reception, but they were told that
they had better stay at home, look after their families, and
mind their own affairs, and they might be gone as soon as
they pleased, and not give themselves the trouble to open the
petition in her house, as she would not have anything to do
with it. The prospects of the League must be miserable in-
deeed to be obliged to resort to such unworthy means for
signatures to sustain their PARTY PROJECTS, and suffer their
wives and sisters to be subject to such indignant rebuffs,
which we must own appear to us to be well merited.—Leeds
Intelligencer.

SINGULAR ESCAPE.—An escape, well-nigh bordering or
the miraculous, occurred at the colliery belonging to Messrs
Blundell and Sons, Wigan, under the following extraordinar3
circumstances :—Three of the work-people wishing to de•
scend the shaft in order to pursue their avocations, were le
down by the usual means in the basket, and arrived safely
at the bottom ; but strange to say, the rope broke as the
empty basket ascended.
HINTS FROM THE TAVERN WAITER'S READY RECK-
ONER.—" Waiter."—" Yes, Sir."—" What have Ito pa ?"
" Pay, Sir ; what have you had, Sir ?"—" Chops."--
" Yes, Sir ; chops, one shilling, Sir • anything else, Sir ?"
" Potatoes."—" Taters 2d. ; that's fourteen pence, Sir ; and
fourteen pence is one and four, Sir; any bread, Sir ?"
" Yes."—" Bread a penny, Sir, and one and four is sixteen
pence, and one is seventeen, and seventeen pence is one an.l
ssevenpence, Sir : how many goes of brandy, Sir ?"—" Two.
" Two, Sir, that's fourteen pence. One and four, Sir,
and one and seven ; one and one is two, four and seven is
eleven ; that's two, and one is three and a penny ; anything
else, Sir?"—" No; there are four shillings."—" Four shil-
lings, Sir, thank you, Sir."—" Coming directly, Sir."—
, Punch's Almanack.
THE IRON TRADE.—The state of the iron trade, as was
expected, came under the consideration of the ironmasters'
meeting at Dudley, on Thursday last, when, we are happy
to state, it was determined to continue paying the men at
their present rate of wages. No reduction consequently will,
in the present state of affairs, take place. Thus, as hands
have not been discharged, (nor are any that we know of
under warning,) and the rate of wages remains the same, the
discontinuance of the working of the furnaces (for there will
not be a fourth of those recently at work blown out) will not
prove so calamitous as apprehended. The surplus stock of
iron is understood to be chiefly pig iron, and it would appear
from the circumstances above stated, that employment has
been found for the furnace-men, and others immediately
connected with that manufacture, in other departments of
the business. The price of pig iron in London, we see by
the quotations, receded ss. per ton, last week ; other sorts
remain the same.—Staffordshire Gazette.
A widow, at Cambrai, named Thezin, had agreed to ac-
cept for a second husband, Dujardin, a gendarme. The
contract was signed, the banns published, and the day fixed;
but as this happened to be the first anniversary of the death
of the first husband, his relations remonstrated so severely
with the widow on the indecency of this proceeding, that
she not only consented to postpone the ceremony, but broke
off the match. A few days since Dujardin went to visit the
widow, and, after a long interview, during which, no doubt,
he had vainly endeavoured to bring her back to his wishes,
two reports of fire-arms were heard, and the neighbours,
rushing into the house, found the widow dead on the floor,
with a wound in her side from a pistol. A brace of pistols
were lying on the floor, with the second of which Dujardin
had attempted to destroy himself. He was, however, found
alive in another room, with his face terribly disfigured by the
shot, and was carried senseless to the military hospital,
where he remains in imminent danger. Previous to these
desperate acts, he had written to his lieutenant, informing
him that he and his intended bride had determined to die to-
gether, and recommending to the care of his officer his
two children, meaning those of the widow, one of whom is
eight and the other only five years old.
LIBERALITY IN ITS TRUE SIGNIFICATION.—It is a
perversion of the term liberality to apply it to those whose
opinions and principles sit loose upon them, or, as is not un-
frequently done, to those who have no religious principles at
all. True liberality consists, if I know anything of the
force or meaning of words, in bearing with those who differ
from us, in using them kindly, gently, and respectfully; not
in sinking the difference that subsists between us upon
matters of high importance ; not in explaining it away, and
pretending to treat it lightly ; not in surrendering sacred
truths, in order to catch temporary applause or popularity.
How can that be called candour, or even honesty, which
tends to confirm men in error, to separate them from the
true church, and thus to hazard their future salvation. If I
were asked for a model of true liberality in religious matters,
I would refer to the beautiful apostrophe of one who had
been himself reviled, insulted, and persecuted even to death,
with the utmost rage and violence, by the very people of
whom he thus speaks :—" Brethren, my heart's desire and
prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For
I bear them record that they have a zeal for God, but not
according to knowledge."—Bishop Coppleston.
SENSATIONS OF BEING CRUSHED.—The late dreadful
accidents on the Great Western and other railways give much
interest and curiosity to the following remarkable statement
(from a recent American paper) made by one who almost mi-
raculously escaped with life from a similar accident, though
not till he had been horribly crushed :—" John Dougherty,
who was so dreadfully injured some time since, by being
crushed between a car and the side wall of the ticket office,
at the railroad depot, has so far recovered as to be enabled
to leave this city for his home at Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
The case of Mr. Dougherty is a remarkable instance of es-
cape from the very jaws of death. His recollection of the
sensations experienced during the accident is distinct and
fearful indeed. His first expectation was, that the car would
be stopped ; but it continued to advance, and thus increased
the pressure, those parts of his body which were the most
prominent being the first to feel the effects of the crash. In
a moment or two he felt his ribs giving way; and to this suc-
ceeded the terrible sensation connected with the violent in.
jection of the blood from the body to the head, which felt to
him like a flame passing from the latter to the former. At
this moment he became senseless, and the car was immedi-
ately thereafter stopped, and removed backward for his re-
lease, the body falling to the ground as that of a dead man.
His return to reanimation he describedas though he was un-
der the effect of an unpleasant dream, from which he felt
conscious he would be relieved when lie awoke. To those
who saw him after the accident, it appeared impossible that
he could survive ; and yet, through a kind providence, and
the skill and unwearied attention of Dr. Dunbar, his prin-
cipal physician, he has been restored to life."—Baltimore
American.
MUTINY IN THE SOUTH PRISON.—Since the adoption
of the new regulations promulgated by the Prisons Board in
reference to the management of the debtors' department of
the South Prison of this city, considerable dissatisfaction
has existed among the debtors, who have felt much annoyed
at the stringency of the new rules. Under the old regime
the prison was shut at nine o'clock, but the inmates in each
flat, though shut off from communication with the other two
flats, were allowed to communicate with each other, only the
outer door of each flat being locked. By the new law, how-
ever, each prisoner was shut up in his separate cell or apart-
ment at ten o'clock. The opposition to this system of disci-
pline was so great that a relaxation was made, by which the
shutting up was delayed till eleven o'clock. This did not
yet satisfy the parties ; and the result was, that numerous
panes of glass in the cell windows were broken night after
night, as if in retaliation. On Tuesday night week, the mu-
tiny was brought to a crisis. When the turnkeys, at eleven
o'clock, went to lock up the prisoners as usual, the parties in
the upper flat rebelled, and refused to turn in to their ham-
mocks. They would not, they said, submit to be treated
like felons ; and so high did matters rise, that the deputy
governor had to send for the aid of a posse of police. At
the sight of this formidable party, the spokesman of the
debtors announced their intention to submit for the present
night to the locking up, but declared their determination to
continue their resistance, unless such an overwhelming force
was nightly brought against them.—Glasgow Mail.
IMPORTANT MERCANTILE CASE.—An action of Some
consequence to the mercantile community, has recently been
decided in the Court of Common Pleas. The plaintiff was
one of the shareholders in the London and Dublin Joint
Stock Banking Company, and brought the action to recover
From the defendant (one of the directors) the sum of £7 16s.
From the statement of the plaintiff's counsel, it appeared
that in the month of January, 1839, the above company, at
a meeting of the directors, shareholders, and others, agreed
to commence business as a banking establishment under the
above title, in Skinner-street, Snowhill, London. Upon
that occasion the defendant acted as one of the directors.
The proposals of the establishment were exceedingly ad-
vantageous to the public. The capital was to be £lOO,OOO
sterling, divided into 100,000 shares, at per share. At
the meeting applications for six thousand shares were re-
ceived, but only thirteen hundred were actually issued.
The company, however, proceeded to establish branch banks
throughout the country, and amongst the places so honoured
was Dorking, but which branch was afterwards removed to
Gracechurch-street. At this period the plaintiff, who is a
gentleman of fortune, deposited £2OOO in the concern, but
afterwards drew it all out with the exception of £7 16s. In
August last, in consequence of various causes, the establish-
ment, which previously bad changed its name, failed, and at
which time the defendant was one of its directors. For the
defence, it was alleged that the defendant was not a bona
fide director of the company. No evidence was called to
support this defence, and the jury found a verdict for the
plaintiff for the sum claimed.
MYSTERIOUS FINDING OF MONEY.—The following sin-
gular story appears amongst the " Anecdotes by (the late)
James Petit Andrews F.A.S."—Extract from a memoran-
dum-book in the hand-writing of Paul Bowes, Esq., son of
Sir Thomas Bowes, of London, and of Bromley Hall, Essex,
Knight, dated 1673 :—" About the year 1658, after I had
been some years settled in the Middle Temple, in a chamber
in Elm-court, up three pair of stairs, one night as I came
into my chamber, in the dark, 1 went into my study, to lay
down my gloves upon the table in my study, for I then,
being my own man, placed my things in their certain places,
that I could go to them in the dark ; and as I laid my gloves
down, I felt under my hand a piece of money, which I then
supposed, by feeling, to be a shilling, but when 1 had light,
1 found it a 20s. piece of gold. 1 did a little reflect how it
might come there, yet could not satisfy my own thoughts,
for I had n then, o client it being several years before I was
called to the bar, and I had few visitors that might design-
edly lay it there as a bate to encourage me at my study ; and
although I was the master of some gold, yet I had so few
pieces, I well knew it was none of my number but, how-
ever, this being the first time I found gold, I supposed it left
there by some means which I could not guess at. About
three weeks after, coming again into my chamber in the dark,
and laying my gloves in the same place in my study, I felt
under my hand a piece of money, which also proved a 20s.
piece of gold ; this moved me to further consideration ; but,
after all my thoughtfulness, I could not imagine any proba-
ble way how the gold could come there, and thereupon I was
tempted to feel often:imes in the dark, in that place, for more
gold there, but I don't remember that I ever found any when
I went with these expectations and desires. About a month
after the second time, coming into my chamber in the dark,
and laying down my gloves upon the same place on the table
in my study, as I used to do, I felt two pieces of money
under my hand, which, after I had lighted my candle, I
found to be two 20s. pieces ; and about the distance of six
weeks after, in the same place, and in the dark, I found
another piece of gold, and this, about the distance of a
month, or fine or six weeks. I several times after, at the
same place, and always in the dark, found 20s. pieces of gold.
At length, being with my cousin Langton, grandmother to
my cousin Susan Skipvvorth, lately married to Sir John
Williams, I told her the story, and I don't remember that I
ever found any gold there after, although I kept that cham-
ber above two years longer, oefore I sold it to Mr. Anthony
Weldon, who now hath It (this being 23d Sept. 1673.) Thus
I have, to the best of my remembrance, truly stated this
fact, but could never know, or have any probable conjecture
how that gold was laid there." Anecdote:, by James Petit
Andrews, F.A.S. 1790. Sao, London.