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THE HOMEWARD AND THE OUTWARD…
THE HOMEWARD AND THE OUTWARD BOUND. THE flush of day had passed away, The sun had sunk to sleep, And the quiet of the twilight hour Lay brooding on the deep; And the silver plorv of the moon As yet was faint and far, And through the fading crimson Shone one solitary star. The silver calory brighter grew, The crimson passed away, And one by one each lister star Came with her golden ray, Till the full-orbed beauty of the moon In perfect beauty shone, And all the glittering host of heaven Were gathered round her throne. Upon that purple, twilight sea, Two stately vessels met; The breeze was light, the sky was calm, And every sail was set; With snow-whit. heads that touched the sky, With streamers long and gay— Two lonely things they meet and pass, Each on her lonely way. They come, with bright and outspread wings, With gliding steps and slow, And the parted ocean wakes and sings Before each sable prow; And the tiny billows rise and play Against each swelling side. Then foam and break on the shining wake That tracks the backward tide. The Homeward and the Outward bound— From distant points they come One seeks some radiant foreign shore, And one is steering home And from each there soundeth a voice of joy, A voice of joy and pride, As they meet, and greet, and pass away, On that blue and glassy tide. We sail for merry England, For our happy English land— Another week of sea and sky, And we shall touch the strand Thro' storms and clouds, thro' wind and calm, A thousand miles we come: We sail for happy England— For our own beloved home We go to a lard of sun and song, A land of scent and bloom, Where the fountains leap like lights along Through groves of faint perfume Where the nightingale her mournful lay Is murmuring sad and low, And golden blossoms stoop to kiss The silvery waves below. "Thera. 'mid dark rocks, the pearl-drop lies, The coral blushes red With shells that mock the rainbow's hues The yellow beach is spread, And birds most beautiful and strange, Flit through the balmy air, And silver lakes reflect a sky For ever calm and fair." But we sail for merry England, For our happy English shore— Her white cliffs soon wiJI greet our eyes, Her welcome breakers roar. Land of the mighty and the good Land of the brave and free IVe sail for happy England— Oh who would choose with ye ?" ELIZA SKELTOX,
GATHER YE ROSEBUDS WHILE YE…
GATHER YE ROSEBUDS WHILE YE MAY. GATJIRR ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven—the sun, The higher he is getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse and worst Times still succeed the former. Then he not coy, but use your time, And, while you may, go mttrry For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. HERRICK.
iJorit a Beauty.
iJorit a Beauty. <♦ ANCELDIA LUXMORE was born and bred a beauty Every one understand* what it is to be bJrn a beaufy although some weeks (nay, months) mu,t elxpse, before e.eD to the fondest eye and most sanguine heart, the lutle wizen "wee thing," red-faced, bald-headed, flat-nosed, and old-looking, can give any great pro- mise of the chirms that are to enchant the world. Still, undis cerned and undiscernible, the aerm is there. The most fatal and fascinating of gifts is enclosed ia that little bud. It will expand into a matchless flower, if born a beauty —if not, it may be to outward view an unsightly weed but whatever its outward form, to it belong a heart, a mind, a aouL and therefore, however nurtes may triumph, parents rejoice, and friends congratulate, we pronounce it to be a fearful thing to be born a beauty, if, as is too generally the case, that circumitance leads to being bred a beauty too What is it, then, to be bied a beauty ? Is it not to be set apart from the cradle as a priestess of vanity ? To be taught betimes to dwell and ponder on those charm* all female education should induce their poslleuor to forget 1 Are not the advantages of a face and form ofaurpatting loveliness frequently —by the folly of thoie around, ruined by those sad and repelling drawbacks-frivolity, egotism, and telf-worship ? Alas! alas among the host of single women whom the coarse world so very harshly terms "old maids," how many owe their joylell fale to that great, but unsuspected, enemy—their beauty Ii She must have been a great beauty—what a wonder she never got a hus- band !» ID that common remark, cause and effect go h«nd in hand. She was a belluty-she knew it-how could she but know What she had heard from he. cradle-what was repeated a ae™. ei0in5 'he words—repeated with many h. ,tt £ "ire,U C,^eS,' bv the Prou'J aDd • mn,her» ec>'°ed by the sillier father, broadly asserted by the nurse-maid, with everv new bit of finery, insinuated into the little head with the irst plume stuck into the white beaver hat, and conveyed to the little heart with the first gaudy sash aod glittering necklace. Yes, tb it "ad. subdued, and disappointed old maid," with what the trench to graphically call "de si beaux restes," with such fine features, such an air of command, and yel such a look of desola- tion, but for her once brilliant beauty, she might now be a fond and cherished wife, living her own youth over again in that of her children, glorying ID her daughter's modest charms and her son's manly vlllun and attainment*. There is nothing so unlovely as selfishness, and nothing, generally speakiog, so selfish as a wom*n hred a beauty. No homage suffices-no conquest con- ten's her. She cannot love and those who cannot love, caDoot long be loved they may enthral the senses for a time, but the heart they have so easily won, they as easily lost.—Lift of a Beauty.
ORIGIN OF THE AFFGHAN WAR.
ORIGIN OF THE AFFGHAN WAR. A gentleman who had taken up his quarters at the house of the Navab Jabhar Khln, won the heart of the favourite lady of his neighbour, NKZlr All M&hommed, and she, crossing the wall by the rcof, came to him. The Nazir waited upon me, and I re- ported the circumstance to Sir Alexander Burnes, while the de. fendant was breakfasting with him. Hf. of course, defied ever having seen the lady, on which the Nazir was dismissed, and I myself was always disliked from that day by the gentleman for reporting that fact. The Nazir then complained to the minister of the king, and he sent us a note demaoding the restoration of the fair one. 1 he constable saw her in the house, and gave his testimony to this as a witness; hot Sir Alexander Burnes took the part of his countryman, and gave no justice. One night the very same gentleman was coming from the Bala Ilisar, and he abused the constable for challenging him. and next day stated to Sir Aluander Hurou th.t he was very ill used, on which Sir Alexander Burnes got the man dismissed by the king. The lady was openly sheltered at the house of the same gentleman after some time, and came 10 Iodia under protection of his relatives. Nazir Ali Mahommed and the constable never forgot these Set* of injustice ot Sir Alexander Hurnes. and thus they were stlmu. lated to join with Abdullah Khan Ackabz*i, and to strike the first blow iu revenging themselves on that ofncer. A rich mer. chant 01 Nanchi, near the city, had two year* previously fallen in love with a lady 1\1 Hirat, nod aftur great pains and exhorbi- Mnt expense he married her, and placed her under the protection of his relations, while he went on to Bokhara to transact his commercial business. In the absence of the husband, a European suhoidinate 10 the staff officer contrived her escape to his resi. dence in the csntonment. The wretched man on hearing this catastrophe, left all his merchandise unsold, aod hastened back lo Kabul and there were no bounds to his tears and melancholy He complained to all the authorities, ami offered a very lar^e sum to the king to have bis fair wife restored to him but she was not given up. He at last sat at the door of Sir William ftlc'Xaghten, an I declared th..t he had resolved to put an end to his own life by starvation. When that authority appeared partly determined to order the lady to ba given to her lawful husband she was secretly removed to a house in the city. Hereupon, the envoy appointed two of his orderly men to enter the house and to (five her into the charge of the plaintifT; but now the very officer Who had offended Nazir Ali Mahommed and thecoostable came to Sir Alexander, and begged him to pacify the eowy: which he agreed to do. On this, a sum of four hundred or five hundred rupees wa9 offered to the husband, if he would give up his cla'm to his wile; and Sir Alexander B,rnes employed Nayab S>haril and Hayat Quaflahbashi to persuade the poor hus ban ) of the lady to accept ihese terms, stating that otherwise he would incur the displeasure of that authority. The poor man had no remedy but to fly to Turkittan. without taking the above mentioned sum. When her paramour was killed during the retreat of our forces from K,1 ul, .he was also muidered by the (J'mu, wi.h the remnaot of our soldiers who had succeeded m making their way forcibly as far as Gaadumakh.—-AMua Lat.
T H E CXfTT R S .
T H E CXfTT R S A colonist once told me that the Caffirs did not often take unbroken horses, the labour of taming their refractory spirit neither suiting their inclination nor then powers of horseman- ship, but thai they discovered those broken in by the following ingenious plan. A rope is fastened breast high across an interval between some bushes, into which the horses are gently dnvt n the young and unbroken horses, feeling this impedi- ment in their path, become restive, and escape, either by going back, or leaping the obstacle, but the rest stand and permit themselves to be caught. Violent and bloody conflicts often ensue when the colonists overtake the thiefs, for the Catfirs are courageous as well as active; they are reported, in their warfare, never to give or ask lor quarter, and to be very cruel to their prisoners. The gun is now coming into general use amongst them, and will prove a formidable addition to the spear or assegai, their chief weapon in theiastwar. They reminded me very much of the North American Indians, as described by Cooper; their warriors are in general, models of symmetry tall, of graceful carriage, elastic step, and independent air, so that no one can help admiring them, but Ilunc tu Romane cavetto. 1 heir thefts are neither so bad nor so sanguinary as were those ot the borderers in Scottish and English history, and there is more to atfeseu) excuse of their conduct. Every Cafnr must purchase his bride by so many head of cattle, and what stronger inducement could be held out to a poor man, young, and of a dauntless spirit, to take part in a border foray —considered honourable among his tribe—than the hope of winning, bv its means, the object of his attachment1 What exploits did not the kuights of chivalry perform, instigated by a similar motive It is true, the tender passion may not be accompanied in the savage by the same fine sentiment, but it affords as strong and wiidan impulse to action. Of the extent of their depredations some ootions may be hy a state- ment, which I have heard many farmers make, that, though horses now abound in Catfir land, there are few cases on record of their ever purchasing one, and the anImal was formerly un- known there. They rode and still ride oxen, on which they occasionally race foi their amusement. To the Fingoe herdsmen they bear a deep-rooted hatred. These persons were their slaves till released in the late Caffir wai, and taken under British pro- tection, from which they have resided in the colony and, from the leciprocal aversion between them and the Cailirs, are the more vigilant and faithful in protecting the flocks committed to their care. In aspect they much resemble the Caffir, but cliflier slightly in language. The management ot matters on the frontier is very difficult; the old law went no farther than to earOfCp compensation, or it restoration of the prop..rty, where it could be traced into Cafhr land. The farmer having thus pur- sued his stolen cattle, was obliged to stop and appeal to Govern- ment, when the chief, into whose territory the thieves had retreated, was compelled to make the loss good. The chiefs could al. aya restrain their subjects if they choose, and, there- fore, deserve to be made responsible. By the new law they must surrender the offenders up to justice-an excellent altera- tion of the old system. It is not possible to conceive a line of country more eminently adapted to the vagabond and predatory fife of the Caffir, than that which prevails along the frontier. The interminable Fish river and Cowie bushes afford him an unfailing, and nearly impregnable shelter, from which, in the late war, our troops had the utmost difficulty in dislodging the enemy beside these, there are other extensive jungles, and the ground is very irregular, with innumerable small hills, woody valleys, and ravines. Many ruined and deserted houses still bear testimony to the disastrous incidents of the last war, which was commenced simultaneously by the Caffirs along the eastern frontier on the eve of Christmas day. It should be stated, as creditable to them, that they spared the woman and chtldien, and sent many of them unharmed to Graham's Town. This place was so crammed with fugitives, that even the church was filled. Hundreds lost their all, and the price of cattle was raised so materially, that even after a nine years* peace, it is not as low as it was before the war began. The Caffirs are a more temperate, and far superior race to the Hottentots; they rarely drink to intoxication, but are in the habit of smoking that pernicious weed, called decca, a kind of wild hemp, which stupifies them, and is said to produce consumption. The Bechuanas also smoke this weed, and one of their modes of doing so is singular enough two holes, the size of the bowl of a tobacco pipe, are made in the ground, about a foot apart; between these a small stick is placed, and clay moulded over it; the stIck is then withdrawn, leaving a passage connecting the two holes, into one of which the requisite material and a light is introduced; and the smoking commences by the mem- beis of the party, each in torn, lying on his face on the ground, inhaling a deep whif, and then drinking some water, apparently to drive the fumes downward. During this process their eyes water, and grow inflamed, they cough, bark. and resemble maniacs. Their pipe may confidently be pronounced as econo- mical a one as any yet invented.— Methuen.
INCREASE OF THE POPULATION.
INCREASE OF THE POPULATION. The increase of the population of the United Kingdom in ten years is 10 79 per cent. which is at the late of '01030, or 1 030 per cCJnl. uDnually. Speaking in round numbers, the population increased 11 per eent. in Ih. ten yeau, 1831-41, which is very nearly at the rate of 1 per cent, annually at this rate the populalion will douhle in sixty-eight yesrs. 1 he increase of males was 1033, females, 1'028 per cent. annually-a difference exceedingly slight. At the same rate of increase, the population will be 30,000,000 in January, 1852. The increase was 2,639.817 in the tea years, June 1831-41, or on an average 263 932 annually. About :!91 ,000 people will be added to the population in the year from Midsummer, 1845 to 1846. The statement, so often repealed, that the population of the United Kingdom increases at the rate of 1,000 a-day, is an error which has arisen probably from using the annual rate of increase in England (1 J per cent) instead of the lower rate of increase (l per cent.) for the United Kingdom. At the present time it is probable that 800 persons are added to the population daily. The births exceed the deaths by about 1,056 daily, but emigration from the United Kingdom keeps down the increase.
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THE BITER BIT.—One day last week an elderly Jew wanted to speak to Mr. Rawlinson, at the Atarytebone police office, who asked him what he desired.—Applicant Pleash youi wotship, about ah hour ago, as I was a coming by a Mews not far from here, a shentlemao's coachman caHedtome. Says he I got some capital shilver lace to dispose of, and you shaH have it all a pargain and I looked at il. and shays to him shays I, How mush 1" Tea shillin," shays he. You sail have it," shays I, IUtl I paid him de monish down on de nail. 1 took avay my pargaio, and presently meets with a friend vat vas a dealing for old cloash. Ah, myoId boy says he have you had any luck t'is morDing j" IDd vith dot I pulls out de lace, and held it up in my hand, ven he look at it for a moment, and den he said, Tiih not vorth more nor9d.; tish nothing but trumpery trash." As I found I vaah taken in, I vent back to de Mews, and I ask de money back again, ven he laughed, and he ask me didn't I vish I might get it ?—Mr. Rawlinson How did you allow your- self to be taken in this wIly 1-Applicant: Vy, I don't know, your worship. I've not been long io London, and 1 really did think the lace yas shilver.— Mr. Rawlinson You no doubt con. sidered at the time that you had made a very excellent bargain, but it appears that in this case the biter has been bitten. I can do nothing for you. CalMs AND ITS PENALTY.—A man of the name of Bright, living in North Carolina, lately shot a negro, wounding him so severely, that the poor fellow died shortly after. Bright was arrested, hied, found guilty, nnd Mentenced-to be hung bv the neck until he was dead 1 No but instead, to pay a fine of five dollars! The same penalty that the law provides in Massa- chusetts, for the destruction of the little iobins that hop about our gardens.—Chri,ti<m Cititen ( American), edited by Elthu Burritt. SULINC A MINISTER.—The free-coloured people of Wash- ington have recently held a fair for the purpose of raising money sufficient to buy their minister, who. it seems, i. owned by some- body in that city, and who values him at least, at three hundred dollars. The fair was held on the 4th of July, and what a cie. graded and degrading picture does it present of our boasted free. dom, our" glorIous land of libeity." While thousands and lent of thousands of Fourth of-July orators were cracking on about our free country, a society of negroes were, within sight of the Capitol and White House, bringing their small oblations of merchandise to purchase thciewith the freedom of a minister of God !—lhid. WOMAN'S TRUE MISSION.—Elihu Burritt, in his last Of iv, Leaf. io allusion to the peace addresses sent from each side of the Atlantic, says:—"The while glove of peace, thus thrown across the ocean by sixteen hundred Englishwomen, at a time when stormy thoughta were gathering blackness, is now passing from river to mountain, from valley to valley, and from prairie, over the American Union and woman is everywhere entering the lists, sexed with all her attributes, for a crusade apainst the fell spirit of war. In the town of Worcester, Massachusetts, containing about ten thousand inhabitants, one thousand, eighty- six women responded to their English sisters, in an address re- cently presented to the women of Old Kngland's Worcester, together with a responsive address from more than eight hundred of the vofers of the former, to the inhabitants of the latter place. We understand that the atmospheric tube is hid down on the South Devon Railway, and completed as far as Teignmouth, and the arrangements in geueral are in so forward a state, that it is fully expected the atmo«pheric principle will be in action before the year expires. The first experiment will be made from Exeter to Star C'rots, 81 miles. The country, from Exeter through Star Cross and Dawlish, is of the most beautiful character, and the railway running within sight of the waves of the Atlantic, and protected from their fury hy a massive sea wall, impresses the traveller with feelings of the most profound admiraiion at the grandeur of the surrounding scenes, while dashing along at the rata of 40 miles an hour. It is with regret we annoance the death of Mr. Coles, cletk of the peace for tbe county of Someisal, whidl event took place on Ihursday morning last, from an attack of English cholera. Mr. Colas had held this lucrative office for many yeais, and was greatly and deservedly respected. We have heard the name of 1\lr. Lovell, solicitor, of Wells, mentioned as the deceased gen- tleman's probable successor.
FOREIGN ISTELLIGMCB.
FOREIGN ISTELLIGMCB. AMERICA. ARRIVAL Or THE GREAT BRITAIN.—The Great Britain ar- rived in the Mersey at an early hour on Saturday morning last from New YOlk, whence she has made a remarkable run of 13 day. eight hours, including a detention of 18 hours to repair driving chain. A large number of passengers arrived in the Great Britain.—The advices fiom New York, by the arrival, are one day later than those before given, and contain but few features of interest. The Tariff Bill had been signed by the President on the 31st ulr., aod will, therefore, come into operation on the 1st December next. Iron of ali descriptions will then pay 30 per cent. lId valorem, in liru of the hitherto heavy scale of duties. Attention appears direcled in America to the advantages to be derived from the construction of the railways now in contempla- tion, and in progress, that willrpoder reciprocally beneficial the intercourse between the Canadas "nd the United States. A A curious report was made to Congress on the 31at ult., lelative to the absurd project of a person named W hit- ney, to construct a r.ilrortd from the Atlantic Ihore, across the Rocky Mountains, to Oregon. It will scarcely be believed, yet it is nfverhetest true, that the Senate Committee of Public Lands gravely recommended that a grant of laod be made for that purpose, 60 miles in breadth along the whole lengili of the line—a strip of land lome 2000 miles long by 60 wide! and, notwithstanding an exposure of the jobbery by Mr. Benton, the Senate ordered that the report be printed !—No further intelli- gence has reached UI from the army of invasion on the Rio del Norte, from the blockading squadron, or from the Californian expedition, by this arrival.—From Mexico we have no later advices. An Anti-Slavery lecturer, named David Officer, was killed on the5th ult., while lecturing in Shnnesville, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, by David M. Mains. The latter was drunk, and had been put out of the meeting he returned in a short time with a brickbat in his hand, and tlnew it with such violence against the head of Officer that his skull was completely shattered, and he survived but a short time. INDIA. By the India Mail, the report has been received from the en- gineers appointed to make a survey upon the practicability of introducing railways into India, and upon 8n eligible hne to coo- nect Calcutta with Mirzapore and the North West Provinces. In this report, a railway from Calcutta to the North-West Provinces is traced of 900 miles in length, with branches of about 200 miles to diverge therefrom, to give the most suitable accommodation to the country at luge-and to relieve the traffic of the Ganges, proceeding to Calcutta, from its great drawback duriug at least eight months of the year. An extension of the line from Mirzapore 10 Delhi is likewise suggested, which io length will be about the same as that of the line above described -Milupore Leing about midway between Calcutta and Delhi; I and from this upper portion of the main line from Calcutta to the Noith-West, four important branches (the last extending to Agia) are recommended, of together about 250 miles. The en- gineers that furnish this repottthink the hne from Calcutta 10 Delhi should be granted to one company, who would then have a great length of line for a reasonable average outlay-the lower half from Calcutta to Mirzapore, costing considerably above the avenge, and tbe upper part, from Miizapore to Delhi, much be low it. The Lieut. Governor of the North-Western Provinces suggests that a suitable line of country might heieafter be found for the construction of a railway from Agra to Bombay, to join the main trunk line between Allahabad and Catcuttii and by these two lines the North Western Provinces would be effectually supplied with communication, not only with the seat of the Su- preme Government at Calcutta, but with the great sea. ports of th., two opposite coasts of the continent of India.
MURDER AT THE GUILDHALL COITLE-…
MURDER AT THE GUILDHALL COITLE- ) HOUSE. On Saturday, while the Lord Mayor was Piica.'P'l in the routine business of the Mansion ¡lolI,e, IIISjWCIOI \Vood- ruffe, of the City police, informed lus Lordship that the cook at the Guildhall ('offee-house, had just cut the throat of of the kitchen-ma.'il, and thatshe was dead. Soon after, John Smith, tht" person accused of the murder, was brought into the justice room and placed at tlie bar. lie is about thirty years of age. He seemed to be in a siaie of exces- sive mental ayony, William Rozsn, sworn, stated as fol- lows: I am boots at the Guildhall Coffee-house. The prisoner was cook in ihe same seivice. and the deceased, whom we called Susan, was acting as kitchenmaid. About half-past twelve o'clock this day I was cleaning one of the I windows of the folding doors of thefront entrance of the coflee-house, in Greshaoi-street, when I saw the kilclnn- maid come screaming from the kitchen up to the corner ol the stairs, with the btoodtunning from her throat; I ran towards ht-r, and she fell bsfoie I got to her. She had a knife in her hand. She said noilnrig, and died almost in- stantly. There is a back entrance to the kitchen, as well as the one from which she came. I had not been in the kitchen toran hour before. At that time the prisoner was in the kitchen, dressed in a brown jacket and apron (his cook's dress), the deceased and two other persons, namely, the scullerymatd and a little girl who assists in the kitchen. Immediately upon the deceased falling, I went into the kitchen, leaving her upon the ground, and Ihere I saw the prisoner alone. He walked from the table (upon which 1 observed the cook's dress, and also a knife covered with blood Iymg) to meet me, and I said," Dear me, what is the matter ? lie said to me I hav", done it, and I wish you to give me in charge." He looked very pale and ghasily. — Other witnesses were examined, who proved that the pri- soner had been quarrelling with the deceased, in consequence of htr blaming him for speaking harshly and improperly to a female to whom he had been selling some tilings.—At the inquest held on the body of the deceased, the jury at once returned a verdict of "wilful muider" against John Smith.—The prisoner has exhibited no excitement, or any material change. Outwaidly his deportment has been calm but with an apparent internal struggling. lie has expressed a strong desire to see Ins children, but has objected to see his wife why, cannot be ascertained, but it is inferred from the circumstance that the unfortunate deceased was a niece ot the prisoner's wife. The body of the ill-fated girl was, after the inquest on Saiurday night, conveyed to the vaults beneath the church of St. Lawrence, Gresham-street, and her afflicted mother, who only arrived from Cambridge on Sunday, believing then that her daughter was seriously in- disposed, was not undeceived until she arrived at Mr. Walters's on Sunday evening, when the dreadful truth was revealed to her.
BRUTAL MURDER AT HULL.
BRUTAL MURDER AT HULL. Considerable consternation prevailed in the neighbour- hood of Blanket-row, Hull, at an early hour on Wednesday morning, in consequence of a rumour that Thos. Green, a mariner, had murdered his wife. Policeman Gordon entered Green's apartment, which ii on the first Hoor of a house in Hatter's-square, Martin's-alley, where he found Green seated in a chair, with a handkerchief before his face,and appar- ently very melancholy. A short distance from him his wife was laid a corpse on the floor, being covered with a blanket. Gordon immediately sent for Inspector Dorsey, who was on duty at the Blanket-row Itation,alld, on Green being asken if his wife was dead, he answered in the atiirmative, and without any further interrogatories being put, entered into a statement of the circumstances connected with the dread- ful tragedy. It seems that his wife was an habitual drunk- ard, and on that account they frequently quarrelled. On Tuesday evening his brolher called at his house, and invited him to accompany" him to Drypool feast, to which he con- sented, but previous to leaving home, he placed in the hands of his wife about 50s. lie returned home about two o'clock next morning, and in ascending tne staircase, he stumbled over his wife, who was laid drunk, and unable to I ptocpedanyturther. Perceiving the sta'e she was in he took the door-key from her pocket, and having obtained admis- sion to the room, he returned to the uforiunale woman, and then commenced a succession of acts of violence which produced death. The first inquiry of the husband was with respect to the money, but Ins wife was unable to answer him, from the combined effects of the drink she had par- taken of, and the injury she had sustained, about two hours before the arrival of Green, by falling heavily down stairs, Her husband became enraged he dashed her head several timn against the stairs, and then seizing her by the hair of the head, dragged her into the room, where he searched for his money, but did not succeed in findinll it. He then laid hold of her, and she fell on the floor. Whilst in that posi- tion the husband got into bed alongside his two sons, the eldest of whom is not more than 12 years of aue; but after being there about half an hour, he darted out of bed, and again attacked his unfortunate victim, by jumping upon her body. He likewise stluck and kicked her, and eventually knocked her head-formost down stairs, where she lay moaning for a length of tune, when the husband carried her up stairs, laid her on the floor, and then retired to rest. On rising shortly before six o'clock he was horror-struck on findmg that his brutality had ended in the death of his wife, and his eldest boy called in a neighbour. He was soon afterwards taken into custody.—An inquest was subse- quently held, and the jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against Thomas Green."
THE DAGENHAM MURDER.
THE DAGENHAM MURDER. On Saturday Dennis Flinn aud John Hennessey, two labourers, and a female, named Ellen ltankin, were IIgain examined at the Magistrates Court, at Hford, on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of George Clark, the po. lice constable, at Dagenham, Essex, when they produced witnesses to prove that Flinn was at work for Curtis and Co., builders, at Stratford, at Loughton Church, at the time of the murder, and that Ellen Rankin was lodging with him at Loughton, which is fourteen miles from Dagenham; and it was positively sworn that they slept together there on the night of the murder Hennessey also called his father- in-ttw, who swore that Hennessey was at work with him.on the 29th of June, at Mortlake, and that he got up at hall- past four o'clock on the following morning. It was like- wise proved that a pair of white gloves found on the prisoner Rankin, which were supposed to have belonged to the deceased policeman, had been given her by a woman, named Margaret Dmcnl, at Ockington, in Kent, to prevent her hands been injured by the thistles whiiecuuins; the corn. The bench having consulted together, the chairman said the accused had clearly proved an alibi, and were entitled to their discharge.—Since the foregoing was in type, we learn that five of the unfortunate man's brother policemen have been suspected of the murder, but it turned out, on strict investigation, that though there were many suspicious cir- cumstances connected with them, there was nothing direct enough to fix the awful charge of murder upon other.
CHILD MURDER.
CHILD MURDER. Eliza Cross, a respectable-looking young woman, was charged at the Gloucester Assizes, with having, on the 17ih of May, at Wesibury-upon-Trym, wilfully muidered her newly born female child. Elizabeth Cook said she was in the employ of Mrs. Rowles, a laundress, at Westbury.upon Trym, with the prisoner; witness, from the appearance of the prisoner, had for some time suspected her 10 be in the family-way; they slept toaether; on the morning of the 17th May, she appeared restless. She dressed herself and went down stairs, saying she was gou;>> 10 the garden* she returned in about ten minutes, and laid down upon the bed again, with her clothes on she soon after went down again, and the witness commenced dressing to follow her, but be- fore she had lully dressed, the prisoner called out to know if she was coming down. The body of a child was alter- wards found tied up in pari of an old gown under the bed; the head was very much bruised. The surgeon, from an examination ?of the|ch11cJ, believed itjhad been born alive, and that death was caused from the bruises on the head. Mr. Skinner conducted the prosecution Mr. Symonds the defence. She was acquitted of the murder, butfound guilty of concealing the birth, and sentenced to three months' hard labour. »—
MOST HORRIBLE MURDER.
MOST HORRIBLE MURDER. William Walsh was charged at the Tipperary Assizes- with the wilful murder of Daniel Birecray of Toureenhawn, on the 10th of March last, and Ellen Birecray was indicted for being an accessory after the fact to the murder of her hus- band. Ellen Birecray: lam the daughter of the deceased on the 10th of March went to bed early; my three sisters were in the house that night, and my brothers slept in the same room with my father and mother, and my three sixers also; my brothers usually slept on the loft; the prisoner Walsh had b^en sleeping in the house since July, 1845; he used to help to dig potatoes—he was a first cousin of my mother; my lather possessed land and stock; the prisoner used to sleep with my father and mother sometimes, and on the loft. I was awakened )n (ha night by my mother bawl ing.and saying my father was kiHfd there was, at that time, a candle lighted on a table near the bed; my mother was standing between my lather's bed, and the table in her nUht clothes; I leaped up in the bed, and saw the prisoner Walsh turning from my father's bed and goof 10 the room door with a hatchet in his hand I heard Walsh say take that;" the bed wal a short distance from the door. I looked to my father and he was full of blood, not able to speak to me; he was lying in his own bed; Iwasroanngand bawling heard my mother say that it was black boys killed my father; I think Walsh went for the police, and they came in a few minutes after; Watshcame In a few minutes after them; my brother tolri them it was black boys entered the house made a search for the hatchet, and found it under (he dresser in the kitchen there was blood on it quite fresh • WaLh was sitting at the kitchen fire; he was apprehended that night. Have known Walsh to sleep in the bed with my mother while my father was away (identified the prisoner Walsh.) Heard talk in the house that the Terries would pay my father a visit, and there was a threatening notice served on him for intending to put away a tenant;—A Juror: Is the female prisoner your mother or step-n>0t!iei ? — Witness: My mother.—Prisoner: Yes, and I am sorry I reared you—The brothers and sisters of the last witness, as well as the hind, corroborated her evidence. Two police- men proved that they were called [0 the house by Walsh, who said the "Ternet" had entered the house, and killed Dan Birecray, Both prisoneis were found guilty, but the sentence was deferred.
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THE MURDER AT AINTREE RACES.—Robert Farms has been fully committed for trial at the approaching assizes, on the charge of having caused the death of Elizabeth Bateson, by strangulation, on the last night of Ainfree races. Liverpool Timet.
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11 o II S E OF LORDS. FIUDAY, 14. Kail Giey moved the second reading ol a bill for improving the regulaiions lespteiint; 'lie allotment of waste lands in Aus- tralia, the details of whirl) he emeted into 't considerable length. After some obsf-ivfti oiis f,om Lord Biotigham and Lend Lyûel- tan. the bill was read 1\ sfcotid time. The hills tin the table wen: stverally forwarded a 8toge, and their iordshijo adjourned. MONDAY, AUGUST 17. Lord Redefdale complained of the inefficient way in whi' h the commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of the col- lege at Mayoooth had performed their dllty, and recommended that strps should he taken to obtain a more accurate ,-epor!. The SagH Duties Hill, and several other bills were then read a third tin.e and passed. TUESDAY, AUG. 18. The royal assent was given to the Sugur Dutie;' Bill, and 29 other IJI113. Several oiher bills were also forwarded a stage, and the house adjourned.
IIOUSE O r* COMMONS.
IIOUSE O r* COMMONS. FHIDAY, AUGUST 14. On the motion for the houise resolving itself into committee of supply, Mr. Hume moved a resolution to the following effect :— Tbat wttb the view of lessening the temptations to drunken- ntss und imnioiality, and of promoting thereby the welfare of the working classes especially, and al..o 01 soeiely generally, it is the duty of a Chris'iau legislature to open the Btitish Ma seum, the National Gallaiy, and all similar public places, calcu- lated to afford innocent and instructive rei reation, for there- ception of visitors on SunthYII and 00 holidays, at Buch bours Ilfter morning service 8S gln.shop,( nnd public-houses aie open." Lord J. Russell was quite willing to promote the object which the hon sjentlemsn had in view, irl opening úur national insti- tutions freely to the public, and he believed no one had done more than he had to advance that object. The gardens ought 10 he opened on Snudays, hut the opening of ihe museum, on that day, should be left in the handa of the trustees. Mr. Williams supported the motion. Mr. Shaw thought that, as a Christian community, they should oppose the opening of such ioslilurions 00 Sundays. Dr. Bowring said, in his opioion, the object which Mr. Hume had in view was one of the best ways of consecraiing the Sabbath. Mr. Hume was so far satisfied with what had Ijllen from Lord J. Rusvell that I&e would not jJleS3 his motion 10 a division. The motion was consequently withdrawn, and the house went into committee of supply. The Chanrel/or of the Exchequer having moved the older of the day for the commillee of supply, Mr. Ilitidley directed the attention of the Chancellor to the present duties on glas?. The aliesation of the tariff had by IID riieans diminished the monopoly enjoyed by the glassmakeis in this country. He held in his hand two specimens ot ylass—one was ordinni v glass. and WIIS worth 3d. and the duty on it was l^d., or 50 per cent.; the other was worth (id. a-foot, am) the duty on it was Is., or 200 percent. It was obvious that tins discrepancy should be altered, and the late stoim, which had occasioned a loss of many thousands of pounds to the market oardeneia, showed the necessity of cheapening this kind of ^lass fo them. The Chancellor of the Exchequer promised the hon. gentleman that tn the course of the recess the subject should be considered. In reply to a question from i\lr. Williams, The Chancellor of the Exchequer intimated that, owing to the failuie of the potaioe crop, he would, on Monday, propose a further grant for the relief ol the people of Ireland. A discussion arose on the vote of a sum for altering and im- proving Buckingham Palace, but it was carried by a majority of 56 to 6. Various other yotes were agreed to, after which the house reo sumed, and several bills on the paper were foiwarded a stage. Mr. Villiers moved that the house should resolve itself in:o a cOOlmiltee of the whole house, to consider the laws that regulate the duties on the importation of iye, beans, and peas. Loid George Bentinck opposed the moiion. 1\11. Vdlicn having counted the house twice. and finding only thirty-seven members present, saiJ there would be no use ill tll. vidiug. He therefore wtthdrew his moiion. SATURDAY, AUGUST 15. Af'er a considerable amount of mere routine business had been transacted, the order of the day was read for the third read- ing of the British Possessions Bill. On the molion that the bill lie read a third lime, Mr. G. Bentinck objected to the bill as a measure destroying the monopoly of the British manufacturers and producers in the British colonies, and 8S overturning Ihe whole splem on which those colonies had hit her :o been managed. As this bill would ultimately abolish the navigation laws, he fell it to be his duty to move that it be lead a tilird time that day three months. Lord J. Russell defended the bill, contending that we ought not to expose the colonies to the disadvantages, when we took from them al! the advantages of protection. Alter some discussion the house divided, when there appeared —For the amendment, 8; against it, 47; majority against it, 39. The bill was then read a third time xnd passed. The house then disposed of the other orders of the day, and adjourned. MONDAY, AUGUST 17. The following bills were read a third time and passed :— Booth's Charities Estate Bill, Duke of Cleveland's ( Bathwich and Wringion) Estate Bill, Duice of Cleveland's (Hardwick lidrl) Estate Bill, Jesus Hospital (Newcastle) Estate Bill, Lord Kenyon's (Congreve's) Estate Bill, Scott's Estdte Bill. Dr. Bowring gave notice of his intention in the next session to move certain resolutions with respect to the public accounts, and aUo the reductiou of the tobacco duties. Sir II. Doughs presented a petition from Liverpool in favour of the Small Djbts Bill. Mr. Godson presented a petition from Bury against the Spirit Licenses Bill. Mr. Wakley also presented several petitions against the bill. The hon. member then presented petitious from London, and almost every town in the kingdom in favourof the Medical Prac- titioners' Bill. ♦ A vast number of petitions were presented against the Spirit Licenses Bill by Mr. Estcourt, Mr. Protheroe, Mr. Cra"eo Berkeley, and other members. Sir De Lacy Evans wished to know whether anything had been done towards the erection of a monument to General Sale, and if not, what was the cause of the delay? Lord v.orpeth said that the matter was under consideration. Sir De Lacy Evans wished also to ask the First Loid of the Treasury what provision had been, or is intended to be made for the widow and family of the late General Sir R. Sale? Lord John Russell said it was the intention of her Majesty's government to recommend to her Majasty to grant a pension of £1,500. a year. Mr. Waiburton, seeing the President of the Board of Controul in his place, wished to read a statement in the Stamjord Mercury. It was a letter said to be received from private John Latin, by his father, in Staffordshire, and professed to give an account of the battles in Iodia. Afier 'escribing the engagement of Ihe 20th December, he givet an account of the proceedings of the army on tbe subsequent d»ys. In doing so,thill passage occuts —" Oa the following morning early we commenced slaying and shooting the prisoners, which kept us the who'e of the day. On the 22rid, we lecornmenced our much." Now this was a state ment so utterly dIsgraceful to the Biitish arms, that, if true, the delinquents ought to be punished with the utmost severity, and, if false, the report ought 10 be met by the most public and une- quivocal contiadiction. Sir John Cam Hobhouse quite agreed with the hon. member thai this asseition ought to have every explanation, and he was huppy to say that there was not a single word ot truth in the statement from beginning to end. Immediately after the engage- ment the whole of the British suryeons had devoted all their ener- gies to the relief of the wounded Slukhs as well as to their British comrades, very much to tht: surprise of the former, by whom such cooduct wasattogethar unexpected. Lord John Russell sa d—Sir, iu rising to move the order of the day for lhe committal of the Public Works (Ireland) Bill, 1 must observe that there ;s another measure before the house which has excited considerable attention, and on which the hon. gentleman near me has introduced a motion. It may be conve- nient to the house thai I should 8t*te the intentions of her Ma- jesty's government on that bill. The bit) t alludeto is the Arms (Ireland) Bill, which stands the second on the list. Oocon- sulting my nuble fneoll the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who is as well acquainted as any man with the usual course of proceed- ing in Ireland, and the various wants of Ireland, he was of opinion that it was far better to dispense with the bill altogether t'1,tn to continue it as a principle with any modification—(cheers) —therefuie, 011 further consideration, it is the inien'ion ol the government to drop the-bill. I shall conclude by moving the o der of tne day for which I have given notice—the committal of the Public IVoiks in Ireland Bill. (Cheers.) Mr. Hume approved of the proceeding of her Majesty's go. vernment, and hoped that England and Belaud would in future be governed by the same tnw. Lord J. Russell, in reply to questions put by Dr. Bowring, said that Ihe noble duke the Commander-in-Chief had stated, in anoiher place what were his intentions n-garding the punishment of flogging in the army in future. The intention was to restrict the number of lashes to fifty, and there was no doubt there was every intention that the instruments to be employed would be of a uniform chaiacte* andreguinted by Hie mtdlcal authoiities. Respecting whether, when the medical attendant certified there would be danger in continuing the punishment, the unapplied ponion would he given on a second oœulOn, he wonld observe that there wa* every probability that the reserved portion of the punishment would not be inflicted. With lespect to the native troops, they were regulated by articles of war of their own, and iheie was no doubt, when the intentions of the lIoble duke in relation to the British uoops were known nut )he)f, that a similar arrangement would take plaie. He (Lord John Russt-ll) had no objection to the annual returns of the cases of Hogging which weie also sought by the IhO. member. After some remarks from other hon. members, the subject dropped. TUESDAY, AUG. 18. Mr. Mo'rison moved that the house confirm the resolutions reported fiom the select committee on railways. A legislative measure was necessary whIch would glVt Ihe government a moie dnect controul over the proceedings of railway companies, and it was with that view thai he brought the subject under the at. tentlon of the honse. Mr. II ume seconded the motion. I 811 G. Grey said, he livid no objection to the first resolution, but, all the others, with the excepllon of the 9th, weie more of less objectionable. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said, it was necessary that a separate and distinct, board should be established for supeiintend- ing the railway and canal business for the country. Air. Bjrnal said, the expenses of carrying ratKvay bills at present tiirough parliament were monstrous, and in some cases ruinous. He trusted, therefore, the government would, in the bththcyimendedto introduce, insert some clause which would alter, or, at any rate, check the present most extravagant system of proceedings befure committees. I Mr. Estcourt said he was opposed 10 a" resolutiong ejtCept the first, and he considered it was too laIc a period of the ses- sion to legislate with satisfaction on such an important subject. The firat resolution was agreed 10, and the others were withdrawn, ]
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It is expected that the Ashton, Stalevbridge, and Liverpool Junction Railway will be opened during the next week. ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY IN IMIANCI;-—A caigo of enormous cast-iron tubes has arrived at the t^uai des Ce estines. They have been made at the forges of Vandeuvre (Aube), #n(j ítrö ( destined for the atmospheric railway of St. Germain. )
DOMESTIC NEWS. \.j
DOMESTIC NEWS. j -+-- Tin* Hampshire h.ilepciukiii says, the Queen will shoitly visit W in hosier. Monday was ilia annivrrsary of the birih of her royal high- ness the Duchess of K«. nt, who completed her GO h year; and the Queen Dowagey completed her 54th year on Thursday last. The Marine at Biighton is to be sold, and the proceeds applied towards the expenses of an enlargement of Buckingham Palace, rendered (.ecessary by tha increase in her Majesty's do- mestic clrde. The Great Biitain rpa.-hed Sandy Hook at twelve, midnight of the 20th nil., nuking the passage in 13 days 8 hours, running time, and deducting about 16 hours for stoppage^, leaves 12 dr.:s 1 I hours, the be*t passage on icc^n! to New York the Gieat Western'*) shortest being 12 davs 18 hours, running time. The Rev. M. A. Galhercole has failed in getting a penny chinch-rate at Cha:iens, by a majority of 2fj9 to 104. We regret to announce the decease of that noble and gallant officer Lord Bionmlieid, G.C.B., G .C.l [. lIis lordship expired ou Saiuiday last at hisresideuce in Portman-square. Game, of all descriptions, especially partridges and pheasants, is more pleotifullhii year in the toyal domains at Windsor than III any former period. The illuminated missal of Margaret of Anjou was sold at Messrs. Sotheby's rooms for £ 115. There are in the Couit of Chancery, six manors, the property of the late Miles Standish, Esq., worth £ 60,000. a.year. waiting for a claimant.— Plymouth Journal, There was a great destrociion ot game, especially leverets and young pnrtiidges, during the reeent storms. A Parliamentary Committee has declared, that vagrancy has greatly increased since the issuing of the Poor-law commis- sioners' circulars to check it.— Might it not be an effectual hind- rance to vagrancy, were the commissioners to strive to encou- rage it 1 Mr. M'Lane, the American minister, leaves London, on his return to the United States, this month. At the Plioenis-paik races a young lad was found picking the pocket of a detective policeman. The failure of the apple crop in Hertforsniie, has led to a great increase in the price of cider. There is scarcely a single grave-yaid, vault, or receptacle for the deall in London that is not oveicharged.—Awful A reform of the low of inheritance nnd of wills is likely soon to het perfected in Jersey.—The little island sefs us a good ex- ample. A Davon farmpr, writing to the DlIily News, attributes the disease in the potatoes to the use of giuno.—Nonsense Mr. It, Stephenson stated to a committee of the House of Common*, ihat he had known the cost of railways increased from £ 500. to £ 1.000. per mile, for parliamentary expenses alone. The Pope has paid from his private purse the debts of all the prisoneis in the Capitol (tbe prison (or debt). L'jrd Ranelagh is said to be fitting out an expedition to ex- plore some rivers in South Americe. A director of the French Post office has come to this country to obtain information respecting the penny postage. The celebiated Danish painter, Holm, died suddenly at Rome at Ihe commencemcnt of Ihe munth. lie Icsided in the Holy Citv during the last two years. A man named Milford, one of the servants employed on the Bristol Exeter R.tilway was crushed to death on Saiurday last, at Taunton station, between the buffeis of two of the trucks of the coal tiain. The Rev. Mr. Simpson, vicar of Mitcham, after having pre- viously resigned his living, has been received into the Romish Catholic Church. TheMayorot Liverpool has declined the honour of knight- hood. proilered him oy the Queen. On Sunday evening, at) Battle, in Sussex, a womun having quarrelled with her husband, suddenly went out and drowned herself and child in a pond. The Exeter and Crediton railway rapidly approaches comple- tion. It is expected that it will be opened to file public about the first week in November. The recent hot weather destroyed 300 gold and silver fish in the basin of the quadrangle of the University press at Oxford. Mr. Cobden has declined the invitation to stand for Man- chester at the next election. The Court of Common Council has voted £ 1,000. for building six nal J'anal school. houses in the city EIOO towards ihe Wag horn testimonial and £2UO. towards the Elizabeth Fry Refuge. About 2,500 barrels of American flour, taken out of bond at I' almouth last «tek, by Mesrss. Fox and Co., of that port, at the reduced duty, were ail disposed ofin a few days. at 30s. 61. per haire!, in lou of not less than fifty barrels. This is equal lo 43s. 91. per sack. The presentation of colours to the 13th light infantry, by his royal hIghness Prince Alberr, took place OD Thursday, on South- sea Common, near Portsmouth. Sir Robert Sale was colonel of this regiment at the time of his death. Lord John Russell announced, in the House of Commons, on Monday, that it was the intention of ihe government to withdraw the Irish Arms Kill. A man, named John Nichol, has been committed for trial at Liverpool, on a charge of stealing 337 barrels of American flour, worth upwards of £ 460., the property of Messrs. Baring, Bro- thers. The prisoner had been placed in charge of the barrels, which he had sold lo vaiious parties in Liveipool and elsewhere. From 1700 to 1844 there are on record 101 shocks of earth- quake in England, 138 in Scotland, and 17 in Wales. In the Prerogative Court, on Thursday, Sir H. Jenner FUil was just nine hours in delivering his decision on a will case, Frere v. Peacock. The property involved in the tiecision uf Ihe court was about £ 20,000., and the cost on both sides were ordered to be paid out of the estate. A new tovention has been exhibited of a self-discharging gun to protect newly-sown fields. It can be wound up to discharge itsell every hour. A man, named Pye, in Preston, having been deputed by the Temperance Excursion Committee of that plare to collect the money for tickets for a cheap train to Liverpool, during Prince Albert's visit, received upwaids of £ 180., with which lie de- camped, and has not since been heard of. The poor working men who compose the committee, have paid the whole sum to the railway company. There are 400 vaiieties of copyhold qualifications 976 of free- hold 250 leasehold qualificatIOns; and 50 from occupying tenantry in all, 1276 modes in which a good county vote may he acquired. The population returns from Great Britain give, upon a rough estimate, one clergyman to every 1,390 souls. The iron trade of South Staffaidsliire is now in a more flou- rishing condition than it has been for some time. Orders have been pouring in from all quai ters for railway iron. A contract has just been made by several of our large iron masters for 8,000 tons of iron for the great Menai Stiaits Bridge, in connexion with the Chester and Holyhead Railway. The weaving trade in Scotland has sensibly improved since the passing of the corn bill. Fiom many of the weaving towns and villages the reports are favourable, the weavers being both more plentifully supplied with work and at better piices, The Rev. Mr. Gibson has admitted thai he now believes he was mistaken in affirming Captain Mercer to be the gentleman lie married to Sophia Dilling, under the name of Mr. Edwatd Greville Ilalford, in consequence of having been shown a Da- guerieotype likeness of a person named Beaton, who desei ted his wife at that time, and is now said lo be on his way to Persia. Last year the Irish potatoe crop failed this year it i'.cne uni. versal blank. [I ii aonihilaled. The root is liteially dead, and the best inloimed correspondents write that there will not be a sound potatoe in Ireland on the 1st of October. The state of the crop in Kngland fearfully corroborates this fuel in Ireland. SCOTTISH TAKTANS—The Grand Duke Alexander of Russia ha* sent an extensive oider to a mercantile house in Inverness for tartans. It is calculated that (in licenses, taxes, and duties on spirits sold by them,) the licensed victuallers contribute £ 11,000,000. sterling to the revenue. Grouse shooting commenced on the Ayrshire Moors, on the 12ili instant. Accounts represent the birds to be strong and wild. Sir James Boswell killed upwards of twenty brace on the moors of Boghead, parish of Auchinleck. We have heard of lateral other cases in which considerably fewer were shot, and from all acounts it appe ns that the game is lather scarce. We notice accounts of the failure of the crop of potatoes in all the provincial papers in England and Ireland, and we regret to learo, by private letters from Canada, that the disease is beome prevalent in that country. A letter from Rome gnyi A picture of Michael Angelo and another of Raphael, have just been discovered here the first repiesenting the placing of Christ in Ihe tomb, and the other the portrait of the celebi ated Cardinal del Monte, similar to the fiesco in the Vitecan. Both works were purchased Rmongst a number of old valuable pictures. One by Mr. i\l'Cal:, a young Scotch painter; and the other by Air. Cdrdeni, a broker." MIIIACI.ES oy SCUTNCE.— At a recent meeting of the British and Foreign Institute, a model was shown in action oflha new electric telegraph, by which a person writing, by the pressure of ivory keys, exactly like those of a piaooloite, each representing a letter or a figure, can transmit, by means of a single extended wire. to any distance, 500 miles or 5000, an almost instantane- ous message, in words that shall be printed, by 11 corresponding machine, at the other end of the line, as fast as the sentence is spoken or performed at this. lonj Prince Napoleon Louis Buonaparte left the Brunswick hole), Jerinyn-slreet, on Monday, for Bath, where his Highness In- ttnds lemaining a few weeks for the restoration of his health. Another survivor of the Royal George is found, named James Ingram. He keeps the Fox public-house, at Woodford, near Berkeley, Gloucestershire. POISONING.— CAUTION.— On Saturday last several families in London purchased some berrits closely resembling sloes, which were convened into pies, puddings, &c., snd the consequence wa-, that during the same day, one or two died, and some dozen or more peisons were seized with alarming illness, in conse- quence while two or three went raving mad I It is feared tlut more cases of a similar nature will yet be recorded. In the House of Commons, on the moiion of Mr. Berkeley, M.P. for Gloucester, a clause has been inserted in the Birming- ham and Bristol and Midland Amalgamation Bill, which will compel the running of trains on Sundays on the Bristol line, having been framed w,th that express object Di ATII OF SIR CHARI.ES WEHIEIIEI.L.—We exceedingly re- gret to announce that the venetahle Sir Charles Wetherell ex- pired on Monday niuht, at five o'clock, at Preston II all, near Maidenhead. Mr. N. Wetherell, and the deceased's cleik and valet, were in the room at the moment of his dissolution, but the learned gentleman was not a-are of their presence. A Belgian steamer has brought, among other desciiptions of fruit, 382 baskets of walnuts, the produce of Belgium. Signor Gabussi expired on Saturday morning, after short ill- ness of 31 hours, having long laboured under a diseased livsr. He was a native of Bologna, and was in his 46th year. Information has been recoived, from high authority, that the government depaitment, for arranging the commencement of the stivers I ba/bours of refuge and break aiersdesigried to be carried into effect, have fully examined the peculiar merits and claims of Weyu.outli and Portland, and, being impressed with the deep importance of this point, intend, as soon as possible, to order the woik to be put in progress. At the late Wesleyan Conference, held at Bristol, it was Ie. solved that the school at Kingswood should be superseded by a new building, on a more extended scale, to be erected near Bath lor which purpose a piece of ground, five acres in extent, has been puichased in the vicinity of Lansdown tower. The Con- ference closed its sittings on Thursday, 1 he 13th instant. We learn that Mr. Cobden, on his way to Pins- received an invitation Iodine with the King at the Chateau d'ivi and he accoidinglv joined the family diniur-party at the chateau, "here he was most graciously and cordially received by the 1.log. the Queen, and Madame Adelaide. We understand that his Ma. jesly (who speaks English perfectly well,) showed an intimate knowledge of the proceedings of the Anti Corn-lnw League, and of the recent struggle for tbe repeal of Ihe corn-laws. THE COUDKN TIIUIUTK.— I he total amount now subscribed by Manchester and the surrounding district to the Cobden national tribute fund is £ 43,563. 17s. 3d. The aggiegate of the sub- scription throughout the country already reaches £ 62 000.— j Alunchenter Mitch excitement hag been caused by the condemnation of obett Williams, at the Somerset Assizes, for the murder of horttas Wiggins, and who, we believe, it to be executed on Wednesday, the 26th instant. We hear, that on ariiving at the gaol door on Sat urday last, on some one asking who it was, Wil- liams replied that lie was going to have a look at another world if he could »ee it \Ve bear also thai he has been a most despe- rate character, and has been in prison five or six firr<es for stab. bing and other offences. No words ot penitence have yet es- caped his lips since he has in the condemned cell. He understand that a memorial has been sent to the learned jtifjge who sentenced him, recommending ilie condemned criminal to mercy—n will nlierwards he forwardetl In the Sccielary of State for thf Home Department, and very many hope It will be suc- cessful in saving lift—even if the poor wretch is banished for ever from his native land. MOM B I.ANC, — It will be gratifying to those of our readers who have visited the ;1.Ip., to learn that Mr. Wolluv, of Nottingham, and Mr. Hurt, of Deiby, wiih seven guides, ascended to the summit of Mont Blanc, ere the 6"11 instant. The day was clear, and their piogress towards the height of their ambition was ob- served all the way by many anxious eyes through telescopes, from the village of Chamounix. The only inconvenience felt by these successful climbers, was that the tifin was lie'.ached from their faces, iirid that their ai;hl was for some time afterwards affected by the continued whiteness and dazzling reliction of their snowy path. On Friday week last, a powerful engine, constructed at the South Wales Ironworks, Mcsssrs. Messrs. Grylls, and Co. Llanelly, the first built for exportation in the principality, was tried with a view to test its working before being shipped. The engine, called the Victoria, a very large and powerful one of its class, and well calculated for heavy haulage and great speed, was much admired by those who witnessed its performance. Four years ago, locomotive engines were sent fiom ilie noith of Eng- land to Llanelly, which is now exporting those of its own manu- facture. FA) r. OF AN IRON RAILWAY BRIDGE IN IRELAND.-In pre- paration for the great catile show at Limerick, tlie dlleclorR of the Waterford and Limerick Railway had, with a laudable desire of facilitating the egressto the exhibition, lemporaiily erected an iron bridge, intended for the railway for the convenience of pas- sengers. It appears to have been on a new principle, as regards its adoption in this country, though folly tested in Ainenca—the principal weight being supported by the bank on either side, and !lie centre receiving in proportion but tittle pressure. Up to ten o'clock on Wednesday morning numeious persons, carts, &e., had passed it and shoitly after, at a lime when about fifty per- sons and one hoise and cart were on it, it was suddenly seen to oscillate, and in a few minutes was a perfect ruin, ilie greatest portion falling into the chasm over which it litid been erected. We are happy to add,that every individual escaped but the poor horse was killed, and the cart shattered to atom>. It ap- pears there is no mistiust of the principle, or the quality of the Hitsttll; but iis hnviog been eiected in haste. and dutiug ilit night is supposed to be the cause of the accident. LIFL ASSONANCE.—At the Warwick Assizes, the Imperial Office was, for the third time, defeated in an attempt to resist the payment of a policy foi £ 2,000., insured on the life of a person named Scoit. The action was brought by the assignees of the deceased, who had become a bankrupt, and a verdict was returned for the full amount of the policy. The costs of tins* trials have been enormous on this occasion Mr. Hill, Q.C., had, it is said, a specialletalner of 300 guineas, besides 100 guineas, with his brief. RAILWAYS IN GHEAT BRITAIN AND IRLLAND.—The follow- ing is a summary of the Acts passed up to yasierday in this pre- sent session, with the length of lines amount of capital, stock, money authorised to be borrowed, and parliamentary depniiit :— Capital stock authoiised by the above Acts. £ 98,814,298 Amount authorised to be borrowed beyond the capital 41,383.462 Total amount authorised to be raised £ 140,197 760 Amount of Pailianientary deposits released from the Accountant General's hands.. 4,460,641 Length ollines. 3951 miles Number of Acta 257
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OUlt OMNIBUS. -+- We may certainly conclude that God would uot remove good men out of this world, were this the hitppitst place.—Slterlock. Nature has scattered around us, un every Ilde. IInd lor every sense, an inexhaustible profusion ol beauty and sweetness, it we will but perceive it. The pleasures we derive from musical sounds, and the forms oftfecs, are suiely not given its in vain and if we are constantly alive to these, we can never be in want of subjects of agreeable contemplation, and must be habitually cheeriu'. — Ihnil Hall. A place lit court, like a place in heaven, is only to be got by beiriu mudl on one's kneei.— Lord Halifax. 11 foitune snatch from us our wealth, or it injustice deprive us of it, so long as our reputation is unsullied, our honour may in some decree console us lor the loss of our property. The man who will live above his present circumstances is 10 danger of living in a little time much beneath them, or as the Italian proverb runs, The man who lives by hope will die by huoyrr." Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It IS a brave act of valour to contemn dealh; but, where life is more terrible than death, it is then the fruehl valour to dare tc)iwp- and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtiu*, Sca;vola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.—Sir Thomas Brown. It is it fine and Ilua saying of BAcon, that reading makrs a full man, talking a ready man, and wnting an exact man. A COMPLIMENT TO IHK MILITIA.—Duiing the wartime, a member of the House of Commons proposed that the militia should not be ordered out of the kingdom. Mr. Pitt immediately arose, and with a sarcastic smile said, "except in case of in. vasion." LI'ICUHES.—In one of the recent engagements at the Cape the waggon wi!li medical supplies was captured by the Kaflirs They rifled it of its contents, carrying away a good deal of the physic, and actually eating, as it is positively affirmed, a con- sideiable quantity of blister salve A good deal of laudanum was also taken, and, it is said, drunk. De Qutncy, the English opium-eater, acquired the power of taking a quantity of opium equivalent to 8000 drops of laudanum. A tallow-chandler was asked at the Bankruptcy Court what composition he thought he could give, and how much in the pound. Why, there's Palmer's candles," he said, quite inno. cently, that's the besi composition, and they're never less tliau six in the pound." The overseert; of the paiiii of F, Lancashire, made the following elaborately wlillen return, which is well worthy a niche in the British Aluseuin We the Overseers of E- hove seen and now that Jonathan R- is Left a widow with for children the ouldest oof seven yeer ould the forth son drives Plaw at a nenbering farm and wen at work recave 9d. per Doy." Ei-Ficr OF RAILWAYS "PON CANAl. PROPERTY. -The Grand Junction Canal shares which, a few years since, were selling at £ 340 per share, have fallen to £94 per share, and the dividend, which was then £ 13, is now f6 per share. As there are 11,500 shares, the proprietors have lost £ 2,289,000 upon their capital, and their annual income is reduced to £ 80,500 in this under- laki'it: alone. I ilk, WIFE,— How sweet to the soul of man, says Hierocles, is the society of a beloved wife. IVIiett A-eatted and broken Iown with the labouts of the day. her endearments soolhe and her tender care restores him The solicitude and the anxieties, and the heaviest misfortunes of life, are hardly to he borne by him who has the weight of business and domestic cares at the same time 10 contend with. But how ruucii lighter do they seein, when his necessary avocations being over, he returns to his home, and finds there a partner of griefs and troubles, who takes for his sake a share of domestic labour upon her, and soothes the anguish of his anticipation. A wife is not, as she is falsely represented and esteemed by some, a burden or a sorrow to a man. N". she shares his burdens and alleviates his sorrows for there is no difficulty so heavy or insupportable in life, but it may be sur- mounted by the mutual labouis and the affectionate concord of that holy paitnership. A SAVAOK'S AFFECTION,—I witnessed in Ihe family of a na- tive, named Alligator, an instance of affection for a departed child, which, though it exhibited in this peculiar manner, was extremely touching. The wife had tieasured up the bones of the little one, and constantly carried them about wiih her, not as a memento mori, but as an object whereon to expend her tenderest emoiions, whenever they swelled within her breast. At such times she would put together these bones with a rapidity that supposed a wonderlul knowledge of osteology, and set them up tli it she may weep over them. Perhaps in her imagination, as she performed this melancholy rite, the ghastly frame wotk before her became imbued with the comely form of infancy blight eyes once more spaikled in those hollow cells, and a smile of ineffable delight huug where in reality was nought but the hideous ^nool death. Ca/itabi Utoke s Account of the Beagle's Discoveries in A ustralia. AN UNHAPPY EDITOR.—Neatly bereft of all patience with the atrocious scribbling of cenniu of his coirespondents, the editor of the Manx Liberal hoists a flag of distress. In a touching appeal to the strideis of notices of births, mariiages, and deaths," he implores tnem to write intelligibly "for."tayshe."outedu cation was somewhat neglected in the matter of Egyptian hiero glyphics. Neither have we an over and above cleai knowledge of the language of birds, as conveyed by the graphir. mode of dip- ping their feet in ink, and then making them walk over a sheet ul white paper." An American clergyman, in a sermon, exclaimed to his hearers :—Eternity It is for ever and ever, and five or six ever- lastings u-top of that. Why, my friends, alter millions and tril- lions of years have rolled away in eternity, it will be a hundred thousand years to breakfast time." The punishment of robbery, in therein of the Saxon Edgar, was very.severe the offender was first deprived of his eyes^—his hands, feet, ears, and nose were then cut off, and he ""81 fioully scalped, and in this condition lie was exposed in the fields to the mercy of beasts and birds until he died. This severity shows the prevalence of robbery and deeds of violence under the Saxons. A JEW'S DE MOT.-Somebody asked the Baron lloth child to take venison. No," said the Baron, I never eatsh wein-han tdonttinkitishoocootasntutton." c. Oh," said the Haron's friend, I wonder at your saying Po if venison is not better than mutton, why does venison cost so much more?" Vy," leplted the Barn, I vill tell you vy in dis valid de people always prefersh vat is deer to vat is sheep." Less than two pounds weight in a single mass of one certain substance (diamond !) would pay more than our national debt A FAHMER'S NOTION OF THE ELECTRIC TEI.ECRAPII. A worthy old farmer, who resides near the line of the York and Midland Railwav, having been told, a few days ago, that a com- munication had been made from York in two or three minutes, said, Dang it, lad, it fair do-.<ncai>s me how t'feller rides upon them there wires when he carries t'news 1" ANSWER TO A CHALLENGE.— Through some mistake, a gen- ilenian in the South of Ireland led off the dance at a country ball out of his turn. The person appointed to the post of honour challenged the intiuder, and received the following reply :— "Sir, I cannot understand why, because I opened a ball at night, a ball should open me in the morning. Yours's, &c." An able fanner, about the time the temperance cause was be. ginning lo exert a henlthful inlfuence in the country, said to his newly.hired man, "Jonathan (did not mention to you, when I hired you, that I think of having my work done this year with- out rum. How much more must I give you to do without?'' "Oh," giid Jonathan, I don't caie much about it; you may give me what you please." Well," says the farmer, I will give you a sheep in the fall, if you will do without." "Agreed," said Jonathan. The elelest son then said," Falhér, will you give me a shtep if I will do witlwut. rum 1" Yes, Maishall, you shall have a sheep if you will do without." The youngst son, a stripling, then tftid," Father, will you fcive me a sheep if I will do without, too?" Yes, Chandler, you shall have a sheep if you will do without rum." Presently Chandler speaks again, — Father, hadn't you better take a sheep too!" '1 his was a poser. lie had hardly thought he could give it up yet but the appeal was from a source not to be disregarded. The result was, the denton was thenceforth banished from the premises, to tbe great joy and filial happiness of all concerned. < I TilE CHAETIST Co OPERATIVE LANO SoctFTY.—ThittOOety, which has already accumulated has purchased Her- ringsgale Farm, near Rickermsnsworth, Ileris, which it has divided into 35 small fauns of two, three, and four acres each, and on which are built cottages, each occupant receiving an ad- vaDce of 1'30. to assist him in his new mode of life. The place is now named O'ConnerviHe.aod is called the people's fiiit estate."—Globe. t ADDRESS OF THE CHARTISTS OF ENGLAND TO HIE IRISH PEOPLE—The English Chartists have issued an »ddreis eshoit- ing the Irish people fo aid them in their efforts, and distinctly repudiating ilia unfounded as>etlion» of Mr. Daniel O'Con- ittil, that violence and anarchy are component pdTls of the Char- tist character." The objects are thus detailed :—The Charli.ts believe that ihe litli and ihe poor, bein^ of ihe same species, are under the same laws of nature, and being alike-capable of benefit or injury from their legisl ;tois, necessanly have, in the election of these legislators, the same right; but that the rich, in defence of their rights and property, have every advantage, which wealth and the purchased powers of others afford them, while the poor,' destitute of these have no secuiity but in the purity of legislalion, nor any means of self-defence, but in the possession ol their share of the elective power. They hold then, that the poor have an equal right, but with more need than the rich, to elect repre- sentatives and that it is, therefore, right and just, that every male inhabitant of Great Britain and Ireland (infants, insane per- sons and criminals only excepted,) shall fully, fairly, and freely enjoy the elective franchise, that ia to say—.Universal Suffrage; „ !in'n K°rnei' 'k T1!8," poor "g«inst tyranny, the o g shall be by ballot; th*t the parliaments shall be annual ;i that the property qualification sball be abolished thatthe whole empire shall be divided into equal electoral districts: and that! the representatives of the people shall be paid. II TRAIN UP A CiiiLn," See.—We see that Grammar Schools dre to be erected on different railways. The pupils will certainly get perfect in their uccidents.-PulIch.
LONDON MARKETS.
LONDON MARKETS. I CORN EXCHANGE, MAKlv-LANE, MONDAY, AUG. 17.1 The wheat trade was very firm this morning, and the moderate supply of English was cleared off, at an advance of 2s to 3s. per qv on tbe prices of this day week. Foreign free wheat was also a better sale, and Is. to 2s. per qr. dearer. There were several buyers for France m the market, and several sales of 44T to 45s per J"" at in,Proved P,lces- F'ne Baltic ied, There was a better sale for flour, at full prices, and foreign barrel flour obtained advance of is. per barrel. Fine malting barley scarce, a few samples of new obtained J8s. per qr. Good conditioned grinding qualities are in better demand, and puces fully suppoited. We have very small supplies of beans and peas, and both articles were more in demand, and Is. per qi. dearer. The supply of oats from Ireland and abroad is large, but the dealers hold very small stocks. The sales of this day week are at lully better prices since this day week. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE j W11 EAT,Essex ik Kent, new red 44 55 White *50 56 P Old red 48 52 DUto' 48 m! RYE, old ;J4 New BARLEY, grinding,2426malting 27 28 ChevaVierI'29 — Irish 22 24 Beie .22 24 MALT, Suffolk and Norfolk 58 63 Brown" 56 60 Kingstone and Ware 60 — Chevalier"if>5 OAIS, Yoiksh & Lincolnsh, feed 24 25 Potatof i.25 26 Youghall &. Cork, black. 21 22 Cork, whItV.24 25 Dublin 23 24 Westpprt ..26 27 Waterford, white 22 23 Black .21 2Z Newry. 26 27 Galway 17 lij Scotch, feed 25 26 Potato .28 30 Donme). 24 25 Limerick 27 28 Londondeiry 26 — Sligo. 26 27 BRANS, lick, new 34 37 Old, small.42 44 M 40 Maple .36 3B White. 34 38 -Boilers .40 42 FLOUR I own-n,ade.45 47 ;Suffolk38 per sack ol 2801b. Stockton ft Norfolk 38 40 Irish ..41 Foreign, 25 28 per brl. SEED MARKET. Canaryseed met with very little attention to-day, and its value remained precisely is before. Rapeseed was in improved re- quest, and £ 1. per last deaier. White Mustardseed was less* plentiful than on this day week, and could not be secured at tbef terms then current. In other articles not much passim? r SEED, Rape £ 21. £ 24. Irish £ — £ i,er last » Onto, new. £ 25.4;—. per last. F Linseed, Baltic..40 41 Odessa 44 4-5 I LINSEED, Baltic and Russia, 31 40, finer sorts 43 45 i Mustard, white 10 11 brown — — l»er bush Linseed Cakes, English ..— £ i(). 10s. to £ 11 0s* twr lonn Linseed, English, .owing 50 60 crushing 43 45 per qr. La"iway 42 44 new. 42 44 per cwt. t A IA .00L MARKETS. t A IA WOOL MARKETS. of English combine or cloth3* "°l be,en ,any v;'riation in the sales of or clothing wooll during the present week, and pi-ices firm, at last quolations. T, I'ONDON, MONDAY, AUG. 17. ind -M^h1!18vveek f«,om X|el<>nd were 9,881 firkins butter, and.,4/8 bales bacon, and Irom foreign ports 7,503 casks butter We experienced an improved demand during tbe past week for lush butter, and a fair amount of business was transacted in all descriptions, at improving rates; the finer sorts being most in demand, for which an advance of 2s. per cwt. was realized-, foreign, ot good quality, being in short supply, an advance of 6s. to 8s. per cwt. was obtained at the close of the week We continue to have a steady demand for bacon, and for prime fresh paicels of meat a further advance of 2s. to 3s oer cwt. was realized. F bladdeied demand at 2s* t0 3s* Per cnU for prime Stocks and deliveries for the week ending August 15 •— JILL I TKR. I 3ACON. Mock. Delivery. Stock. Deliver* 1844 23,530 6,740 8,020 2 250 1845 28.600 7,650 17,600 3*560 1816 22,070 5,480 9^530 3^ BUTTER, BACON, CHEESE, AND HAMS. IHISH BUTTER (new)s g. CRIET-sE, pei cwt.' s. s. per cwt. nominal — Double Gloucester 62 64 Lai low, new, 011 brd 88 90 Single ditto 48 5J Shgo 80 — Cheshire 56 76 Cork. 1st 88 HAMi. ENUIIISII BimEn. Irish 1 64 70 Dorset, per fit kin 48 — Westmoreland C 70 — FOIIEIGN. York "T 7X nft PIIIII, Friesland, ct 94 9G • BACON new" Lh Ditto,Kiel 90 —| Middles — — ••••ft? SM11IIHELI3 CATILK MARKET, MONDAY, AUG, 17. Ihe arrivals of beasts fresh up to-day were moderately exten- sive, but of very middling quality compared with the stock The arrivals of beasts fresh up to-day were moderately exten- sive, but of very middling quality compared with the stock is exhibited on many previous market days. The attendance of buyers being numerous, the beet trade ruled steady, at an ad- vance on last week's quotations of 2d. per 81bs.. and at which a good clearance was effected u-lwn'cna Although the numbers of sheep were large, the mutton trade was active, and the quotations advanced 2d. per SIbs., the primesl old Downs selling at 4s. 6d. per 8lbs. The supply ot lambs was good, while the lamb trade was heavy, at a depression in value of 2d. per 81bs., and a clear- ance was, with difficulty, effected. il In calves, only a moderate business was doing, Jet prices j were well r ces -uppot-ted. Pigs moved off heavily, at late rates. rer BIDS., to sink the offal. s. d. ». d. Coarse and Inferior Pr;m„ s* 8 • u,~ o u o m rr'me coarse wool- 8 2 10 led Sheen d (h d 1 Second quality do.3 0 3 4 Prune South U0" 042 Prime large Oxen.3 6 3 8 ditto 4446 I'nme Scots, &c..3 10 4 0 Large coarse CalvVsS 6 4 '0 Coarse and Inferior Prime small ditto 4246 Sheep .3 4 3 8 Barge Hogs .3 8 4 t> Second quality do.3 10 4 0 Neat small Porke'rV 4 h d ID Sheep .3 4 3 8 Barge Hogs .3 8 4 6 Second quality do.3 10 4 0 Neat stiiall Porkers.4 h 4 10 Lambs, 4s. Gd.to5s.6d. Suckling Calves, 18s. to 29s.; and quarter-old Store Pies 16. to 19s. each. Beasts, 3,342; Sheep, 33,070; Calves 216, Pics, 150. LATEST CURRENT PRICES OF METALS. LONDON, AUGUST 14,1846. I. 's. d. I IION—Har a Wales ton 810 0 London 9 10 0 NaiUods 10 C) o lloops (Staf.) ii )o 0 » 13 0 0 » 11 0 0 Rails 9 15 0 Welsh cold blast foundry pig 5 C) 0 i Scoich pig b Clyde 315 l) I Russian c CCND. 000 £ S1 16 0 0 k°u,r,efi 14 10 0 1 Archangel .» 10 0k Swedish d, lor arriv 0 0 O | on the spot. 11 in n I steei, fagt 15 5 0 [ keK»« 14 0 0 i< COPPFR-TiJe f. 92 0 O. Tough cake 9311 O | Best selected 96 0 0 C Ordinary sheets Q 010i f bottoms 0 Oil* ft TIN—Com. blocks 4 12 0 [ p b!)ts 4 1J 6 Penned 4 15 0 E Straits h 4 11 ft ( Harica. 4 14 0 T TIN PI.ATES—Ch., 1C. i box 1 11 0 N IX 1 17 0 [ Coke, IC 15 0" IX 1 n 0 LF.AO—Sheet & 19 10 0 Pig, icfaned 21 0 0 3 common. 18 10 0 « Spanish, in bd 0 0 a „ /f^Jne"cau i* 17 10 0 SI-KFTFR—(Cake) 19 O N ZINC—(Sheet) m export 1 28 0 0 QUICKS".vr.n n 0 4 e IU FINED iMtTAi 5 o 0 it a discount per cent. b Net cash. cfDiscount perceut. d Ditto, e In kegs J and J inch. Piscount 3 percent, g Ditto pei cent, h Net cash, in bond, i Dis- count 3 per cent, k Ditto 2i per cent, I Net cash bond »» Discount li per cent. it discount IJ per cent. For home use it is jg32. per ton. REMARKS. I nON.- W clsh and Staffordshire remain without change. In Scotch pig several large sales have been made within the last two days, owing to the change in the American taiiff, al 72s. 6d for mixed numbers, and 75s. for No. l-whieh piices must stll be considered to rule, although some holders ask 2s. 6d. moie. Some contracts for railway bars have been entered into this week, at our quotations. In Swedish iron and steel nothing doing. TI V PF.Ar FS are in very good demand, and many large sales have been made duiing the week. iSpti.TEK remains nominally, at quotations, but there are no buyers. In other metals no change to report since last week. PRESENT PRICE OF TIN PLATES. NEWPORT, AUG. 15. £ s. d. £ 8 d No. IC. per box. 1 11 0 Wasters.o 2 0 less No. IX. per box 1 17 0 0 30 No. 1X X. pei box. 2 3 0 Q 3 o BRISTOL HAY MARKET, AUG. it, Haypel tOil Old. 2 5 0 to 3 10 0 Ditto New 2 10 010 3 0 0 Straw per Dozen 0 1 010 0 1 2 Newport, Saturday, August 22, 184G. Printed and Published for the Proprietor, EDWARD DOWLING, 01 Sto-v Hill, if, lie Parish of St. Woolos, in the MKKIIN (jenertlr Tinting Office, situate in Corn-street, in the Borough of Newport,by WILLIAM CHRISTOPHERS, of No. I, Chailes-stieet.m the said Borough London Agents Messrs. Newton and Co., Warwick-square, Mr. It, Barker, JJ, Fleet-streeti Mi. (j, Reynell, 43. Cban- cery-lane, Mr. S. Deacon, Coffee-house, No. 3, Walbrook. near the Mansion Houte, where this paper is regularly tiled,