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21st April 1854

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MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. It appears that the Admiralty, without sanctioning any new expedition to st-areli for Sir John Franklin, have deter- mined that such orders shall be issued to Sir E. Belcher as will empower him to continue the search for the missing ex- pedition for another year. The Austrian Government has just forbidden the emigration of persons who have not the means sufficient to give the chance of succeeding. The agriculturists in the north of France are uneasy at the manifestations of symptoms of a disease in the beetroot plant. A Polish physician is said to have made a curious and im- portant discovery of a species of camera, or optical telegraph by which a perfect reconnoissance can be affected at an in- credible distance. It can be used on horseback, and the Turks huve as many as 400 persons employed in this way about them. The Glasgow Commonwealth complains that some ticket-of- leave men have been allowed to return to Glasgow without any notification to the police; and intimates that these men are engaged in their old practices, which they are enabled to pursue with great safety because the policemen are not aware of their presence in Glasgow. An electric telegraph is immediately to be established between Hango Point, between Helsingsfores and Albo, aind St. Petersburg. This is a distance of nearly 60 Swedish miles. Much inconvenience has been felt among the fleet of transports lying at Deptford, by an extensive. desertion of men into the navy. Boats from the several naval rendezvous in the river are nightly cruising round the ships, inducing the men to leave. Mr. Dunbar, the owner of some of the ships, is taking steps to obtain redress from the Govern- ment. The editor of the Deseret Netps, Mormon paper, thus ad- dresses his readers If the readers of the News would continue to read the News, they must hand over some tallow and lard, by the light of which we must write vand some wood to keep our fingers warm. No mistake on this subject; and we wish our agents to look to it." A letter from Copenhagen, says that Count Sparre's in- vention, by which he can at pleasure, in a few moments, manufacture bank notes of any kind,has been again and again acknowledged by the Bank authorities to be absolutely per- fect. he is going to visit England and France to offer his counter-discovery. A committee is sitting on his offer to the Swedish banks. In respect to the prayer in the time of war, no pastoral or order is required from the bishops. The clergy are bound and expected to use the prayer, on their own knowledge and sense of the fact. This is a time of war, and the clergy do not want their bishops to announce it. Upon knowledge of the fact, the Prayer-book requires the clergy to use the prayer and this, we are informed, is what the bishops expect the clergy tounderstand,-lIforning Chron- icle. At the Mechanics' Institution, Manchester, on Tuesday evening last, an oratorio was performed in aid of the fund for the relief of the families of soldiers ordered upon active service to the East. Last year, in Great Britain, the consumption of wine was 6,227,022 gallons, and in Ireland 586,809 gallons whilst in the preceding year the consnmptioii was, in Great Britain 5,822,833 gallons, and in Ireland 523,228 gallons. The Spanish government is driven to such extremities for cash that they are actually owing the prizes in the last lottery that was drawn. A manuscript mass, in the handwriting of Hadyn, has been discovered in the royal library at Stockholm, and performed with great success. Stolen property to the amount of £10,000, the proceeds of many burglaries, has just been discovered on the premises of Moses Moses, a general dealer, iu Hounsditch, London. Some experiments have been recently made at Brest with the new missiles called" bóulets asphixians." A building containing a number of cats, dogs, and other animals, was fired at, and on inspection all of them were found to be dead from asphyxio but it happened that the shots were fired against the wind, and, although the distance was great the poisonous vapour was rolled back with such effect that several of the artillerymen were nearly choked, and some of them fainted. SWEDEN.—The Stockhohn Gazette of the 5th publishes a decree, permitting the free importation of corn and flour until the end of July, after which the former duties will be imposed. THE CUR'S PROPERTY IN LIMERICK., — The Limerick Chronicle states "that the property of the Emperor of Russia at the upper end of William-street, in this city, consists of stores and houses which net a yearly rental of £ 400." WHITE SNAILS.—A curious branch of commerce is every year acquiring an increased importance in Paris. It is the trade in white snails, the consumption of which amounts now to some hundreds of thousands of these animals in the year. THE RE(;rSTRATIOv AcT.-By a return just issued, it ap- pears that in one year the expenses to the parishes of Fug. land and Wales, on account of the Registration Act-viz., fees to clergymen and registrars, outlay for registrars' offices, books, and forms-amounted to £ 58,959. 'I he pro- portion in the pound on the total poor-rate expended was twopence. IN-MAINTENANCE AND OUTDOOR RELIEF.- According to a Parliamentary return just published, the in-maintenance of paupers in one year amounted to E736,399, or 2s. 4jd. in the pound out of the poor-rate and the out-door relief, £ 2,809,609, or 8s. 2fd. in the pound on the total poor-rate expended. THE NEW BREAD-MAKING PnOCFSS.-Tslr. Pepper, one of the chemical lecturers at the Polytechnic institution, has devoted some time and trouble to ascertain the secret of the process by which a greater weight of bread is produced from a given quantity of flour than is now commonly ob- tained, as shown in the recent experiments at the Marvlebone workhouse. It would result from this report of Mr. Pepper, that while the increased weight of the bread made from a sack of flour by the new process is admitted-though not to the same extent as claimed by the persons possessing the secret the increased weight is almost demonstratively proved to be produced by the use of substances possessing a capacity for absorbing and retaining moisture and that the difference, therefore, is simplv the addition of so much water—nothing more.—Morning Chronicle. NEW ACT TO COMPEL THE ATTENDANCE OP WITNESSES. -On Saturday a bill in the Commons was printed, by which it is proposed to compel the attendance of witnesses residing out of the jurisdiction of the superior courts, if they are within the United Kingdom. It is alleged that at present inconvenience arises. A special order of a court or judge is necessary.. Nothing is said in the act about the compen- sation or expenses to be given to the parties. THE GREEK INSURRECTION.-It is currently reported in respectable circles in Manchester that the Greek mercantile houses there, and in London and Liverpool, have subscribed largely to promote the insurrection in Turkey. The Man- chester fund alone i. said to have reached £ 10.000. THE SOI-DISANT BARONBT SMYTHE.-The bonafide holder of the title so impudently and fradolently claimed by Mr. Tom Provis, now a. convict, has presented Mr. Field, late of the detective force, with a most munificent present, for the ability he displayed in unmasking the barefaced impos- ture. THE CONVICT BAILPY.Tames Bailey, who was convict- ed last Somerset assizes of the murder of a young girl named Eliza Coles, has been reprieved, with a view to a commutation of the capital sentence to penal servitude for life. The intellect of the wretched criminal is of the lowest possible order and he had been so greatly neglected by his parents, as to have grown up to manhood in a state of the darkest ignorance. He is, in short, scarcely removed from the condition of an animal, and under all the circum- stances of his case it was not thought necessary that the extreme penalty of the law should be carried into elect.- Observer. The trial of Dr. Smith for the murder of William M'Do- nald, at Burnside, in Aberdeenshire, has resulted in the ac- quittal of the prisoner. The circumstances of this case, which appears to have created an extraordinary intereat in the locality, are probably still fresh in the. recollection of our readers. On the night of Saturday, the 19th of November, in last year, M'Donald left home, saying that he had to go to the cartwright's for some implements that he wanted, and that he had a tryst' with Dr. Smith about six o'clock. He never returned, and on the Sunday morning Robert M'Do- nald went out to search for him. Within about three mi- nutes' walk of Dr. STOP'S house he found his brother's body lying in a ditch, with r pistol wound on the right cheek. From the position in which the body lay, it is quite possible that the deceased might have met his death either from sui- cide or accident, although the evidence of two surgeons was emphatically against such a supposition. Who, then, was likely to have committed the murder ? Here it was estab- lished beyond a doubt that Dr. Smith would gain consider- able benefits from M'Donald's death. It was shown that Smith bad effected a. temporary insurance on M'Donald's life to the amount of £ 2,000, which expired on the 24th of Now., —that is exactly five days after M'Donald's death. Strong motives therefore existed, and it only remained to beahown whether the facts given in evidence were sufficient to justify the supposition that Smith was the murderer. It was showB that Smith had purchased a pistol of the same kind with that found near the body of the deceased that there was sufficient time, unaccounted for, for the commission of th: murder; that the accused had endeavoured to "cook the evidence of the only man who had heard the shot, and of a woman into whose house he had gone soon after the time that the murder probably occurred. Had no motive existed for the act, it is possible that suspicion might never have rested upon Smith; but we are strongly inclined to concur in the general belief of the neighbourhood that the decision of the jury, even if warranted by the forms of legal tech- nicality, is a real perversion of justice. Gloie. WOOLEYS' PECTORAL CANDY is at once the most elegant and, efficacious remedy that can be employed for the removal of coughs, asthma, and sore throat. It alike unclogs the air cells of the luugs and imparts lasting ease and comfort to the chest; and its value is still more apparent in the bracing and invigorating influence which it exercises on the whole of the respiratory organs, rendering them strong and healthy, so that they can resist the effootslof thoselconstant changes in the atmpsphere to which Englishmen are everywhere exposed. Wooley's Pectoral Candy" is celebrated throughout the empire, and all respectable chemists sell it in boxes at 13!d. and 2s. 9d. aach. BLAUÚGOUT AND RREUMATIC PILIA.- Extract of a letter, written by John Molard Wheeler, Esq., Collector of Customs, Jamaica, having been handed by his brother, at Swindon, to Mr. Prout, for publication. I know you have never had occasion to take Blair's Pills, but let me empha- tically tell you, in mercy to any friend who may suffer from gout, rheumatic gout, lumbago, sciatica, rheumatism, or any branch of that widely-allied family, to recommend their using them. In this country they are of wonderiul efficacy not only am I personally aware of their powers, but I-see my friends and acquaintances receiving unfailing benefit from their use. I would not be without them on any account. If taken in the early stage of disease they dissipate it altoge- ther; if in a later, they alleviate pain, and effect a much speedier cure than by any other means within my know- ledge;" Sold by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand. London: and I CHARGE OF MURDER AGAINST 'THE CAPTAIN OF AN ENGLISH SHIP.-WM. Henderson Horner, T. Chuddertod, And John Barth, the captain and first and second males of barque Manngerstem, of London, were charged on Monday before the Liverpool magistrates with the murder of three sailors on the homeward voyage fioin Alanilia. Tiie (le- ceased sailors were repeatedly flogged, principally by the captain, with a large stick of leak, in which knotted cords were inserted. They died on the 4th, 23d, and 2LHh March respectivelv. MURDER IN ST. GILEs,-On Tuesday morning, the most intense excitement was occasioned by a report in St. Giles and vicinity, that a female had been murdered by her para- mour, which on inquiry proved to be, unfortunately, a melancholy fact. From what can be gleaned, it seems that the deceased's name is Barbara Mitchell, ;¡ged :J9 years, and resided at No. 15, Little White-lion-street, ^even-dials, St. Giles, and cohabited with a man of the name of William Busey, who has for some length of time brutally ill-used her. The repeated cries of murder proccedi-tig from the house had caused Mr. Radden, hairdresser, opposite the house, to take no notice of it, as he had repeatedly interfered and got offence for his trouble. The deceased came home tipsy, when Busey commenced kicking her with allliis force, and knocked her down, when cries of murder were heard, but no no notice was taken for the reason stated. She was found lying on the floor, quite dead, by the side of the bed every part of her person exhibiting marks of violence, which had evidently been occasioned by heavy blows and kicks. The face and head were shockingly swollen and disfigured. Mr. i. Iline, the snmmoning officer instantly repaired to the house, and had the body removed to St. Giles's Workhouse, feusey has for the present escaped the vigilance of the detec- tive officers. LORD HARROWBY'S CHURCH DEMOLITION BILL.—We understand that the only ameliorations which the select committee have introduced into this bill, are limiting its operation to continguous parishes, and inserting a clause that when a church is pulled down the Church Building Commissioners shall have power to re-arrange the seats and pews in the church of the united benefice, and shall make $ot less than a third of them free. The bill will be Reprinted by the time the House of Lords meets again, nd be discussed in committee of the whole house shortly after Easter. REPRESENTATION OF FLINTSHIRE.—Ths elevation of the Hon. Edward Mostyn, the late member for the county of flint, to the peerage, having occasioned a vacancy in the re- presentation, Mr. Thomas Edward Lloyd Mostyn, his lord- ship's eldest son, has issued an address to the electors, solicit- mg their suffrages. Mr. Mostyn is the only candidate at present in the field, but some opposition is spoken of. TIN A RIVAL TO GOLD.-Tin is supposed by some persons as likely to become only second in importance to gold in Australian mining. In a recent number of the Sydney Herald there is a communication from the Rev. W. B. Clarke, writ- ing of the subject in a sanguine manner, and mentioning places where tin has been already found. Mr. Clarke was first led to anticipate the presence of tin by observing rocks of tourmaline granite, the stone which yields tin in Cornwall. THE IRON TRADE.—The quarterly meetings of the past week have been most numerously attended, and of a highly satisfactory character throughout. The export demand, es- pecially through the Liverpool houses, appears to continue unabated, and the home trade exhibited symptoms of extra- ordinary impulse. Accounts in every department were un- exceptionably met, and," notwithstanding a total absence of speculation and the exercise of an unusual caution, al most amounting to timidity, on the part of both buyers and sellers, a large amount of business was done at fully sustained prices. Indeed it is generally acknowledged that an advance might easilv have been established had the attempt been made; but our leading houses have wisely abstained from such a step, till the probable course of financial, matters becomes better developed. The contracts offered were restricted to the mere hand-to-mouth requirements of customers, and these were undertaken with hesitation, order books in most cases being previously as full as the circumstances of the times appear to justify. While the nominal prices of manufactured iron re- main as at present, with the existing difficulties in obtaining supplies of metal and fuel, there is little inducement to Ile- gotiate for future deliveries. The prices may now be fairly quoted as follows :-TIar iron 410 per ton, hoops ;Cl I, sllctts aind plates tl2, nail rods X,10 10s., cold air pig iron £ 6, hot mine iron £5 5s., cinder pig Y,4 10s. ROYAL NAVAL SCHOOL, NEW CROSS.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert have evinced the interest they feel in the gal- lant defenders of the country by a well-timed and unsolicited act of munificence. Colonel the Hon. C. B Phipps has for- warded to Mr. Alfred Eames, the secretary of the Royal Naval School at New Cross, £.500, to constitute the Prince of Wales a life governor, which confers upon his Royal Highness during his life the privilege of a lways having one pupil in the school for gratuitous board and education such pupils being, necessarily, the sons of naval or marine officers. LIMITED LIABILITY IN AMERICA.—Great facilities arc afforded in many of the States for the formation of mann- facturing companies. The liabilities of partners not actively engaged in the management are limited to the proportion of the capital subscribed by each, and its amount is published in the official statements of the company. In the case of the introduction tif a new invention or a new manufacture the principle of limited liability produces most beneficial re- sults. Persons who from their connexions or occupations are likely to be interested in or profited by, the new inven- tion or manufacture readily associate together and subscribe capital to give the new proposal a fair trial, when they are assured that their risk will not extend beyond the amount which they may choose to contribute. The cost of obtain- ing an act of incorporation is very trifling; in one case wjhere the capital of the company amounted to 000,000 dol- lars ( £ 120,000) the total cost of obtaining the act of incor- poration was 60c. (2s. Id) JKEMEDY FOR THE BITE OF A MAD DOG.-As the cry of a inad dog has been raised, the following may be worthy a re-perusal: A Saxon forester, named Gastell, now of ilio venerable age of 82, unwilling to take to the grave with him a secret of so much import, has made public in the Leipsio Journal the means which he had used for fifty years, and wherewith he affirms he has rescued many human beings and cattle from the fearful death of hydrophobia. Take imme- diately warm vinegar or Trepid Water, wash the wound clean therewith, and then dry it; pour then upon the wound a few drops of muriatic acid, because mineral acids destroy the poison of the saliva, by which means the evil effcct of the later is neutralized." NEW LITERARY ASSOCIATION.—A literary association of a peculiar and somewhat novel character is inviting public notice, under the name of the Neophyte Writers' Society." The prospectus sets forth the objects and plan of the insti- tution. It is designed as academy of literary art, in which the genius, talent, and taste of our more advanced neophyte literati might be fostered and matured." The society, which is composed generally of student artists in literature, may include aspirants after professional literary status, as well as scholars who cultivate literature as an auxiliary power in the performance of social or individual duties." The conditions of fellowship are to be decided literary taste, and sufficient literary ability, of which the ordinary council must first be satisfied, either by perusal of trial papers, or from the recommendation of reliable judges, be- fore candidates for fellowship can be admitted.—Literary Gazette. RECORDS IN DUBLIN.—We are glad to learn from Dublin that some attempt is to be made to put the national records there preserved, in order. We say preverved-btit this is almost an abuse of terms. As our Enghsh Records lie, some of them above the powder magazines of the Tower, others in the damp an d dirt of Westminster, so the most precious vouchers of Irish history arc trampled under foot on the floor of the dome of the Four Courts, lie beneath the level of the Liffey in the Custom-House, or stand in heaps amid dust and damp in the old Prison Tower of Dublin Castle." No one knows the contents of these papers it is only known that they are national in interest, character, and importance. Imperfect "Lists" have been made of them, or some of them, by Sir W. Betham, and by order of the late Record Commission but of their contents no man can pretend to have any knowledge. Some change is, however, to take place. Colonel Larcom, present Under-Secretary for Ireland, has cast an eye on these literary treasures and with the zeal of an antiquary, he has given instructions to the Ulster King-at-Arms to direct the cleansing and super- intend-the examination of this vast mass of historical docu- ments.—Athenceum. THE PiPE-DRAIN CONTROVERSY. While the question is being agitated in the metropolis, the surveyors of our large provincial towns are judiciously adopting the pipe system to a large extent, to the advantage of the inhabitants, both on the score of efficiency and economy and were it not that contend- ing parties are striving to gain the ascendancy in the metro- polis, the question would soon be settled by all practical men. It must not be forgotten in this discussion, that on its deci- sion hangs the alternative of drainage or no drainage for many towns not blessed with large resources, and that if the system lately sanctioned by the commissioners had been recog- nised as the proper one, such places at Tottenham, Rugby, and many others, would have been without sewerage to this day. a BM??-. The blessings derived by inumerable thousands of persons of all ranks in society from DU BARRY'S llENALENTA ARABICA FOOD, are of too palpable and well-founded a character to permit of a moment's rational doubt; for the his- tory of the world records nothing so unanimous and universal as the testimonies which have been received of the auspicious effects of this diet; and when FIFTY THOUSAND known individuals have given their personal evidence to the same purport, nothing but prejudice and stupidity could withhold concurrence from this general verdict. In the list of disorders completely cured, after having afflicted the respective patients for periods ranging from a few months to sixty years, are dyspepsia (indigestion), constipation, functional irregularity, obstruction, acidity, cramp, spasms, fits, heartburn, diarrhoea, nervousness, biliousness, affections of the liver and kidneys, pains between the shoulders, and in almost every part of the body, chronic inflamation & ulceration of the stomach, eruption on the skin, fever, scrofula, impurities, poverty of blood, con- sumption (if not beyond human aid), dropsy, rheumatism gout. influenza, grippe, nausea and vomiting after eating or at sea, low spirits, spleen, general debility, paralysis, cough, asthma, tightness across the chest, phlegm, inquietndc, sleep- lessness, involuntary blushing, tremors, dislike to society, unfitness for study, delusions, loss of memory, vertigo, blood to the head, exhaustion, groundless fear, indecision, wretched- ness, thoughts of self-destruction, &c. Besides its curati ve efficacy in cases of morbid affections, this delicious Food has been found, by experience, to form the most healthful and nutritious diet for invalids, infants, females whoso peculiar condition requires more than usually careful treatment, &c. Take one instance, furnished by Mr. Woodhouse, of Bromley, Middlesex. It was that of a lady, who was "six months suffering severely from indigestion and constipation, throwing up her meals FIwrtly after eating them, having a great deal of heartburn, and being constantly obliged to resort to physic, or the enema, and sometimes to both." The use of the food produced immediate relief; and Mr. Woodhouse proceeds:—■ "She has had a much better I time' than formerly. Not satisfied with any thanks that I can give you, she begs that I will express to you HER gratitude for this favourable change which entirely attributes to the Revalenta, and to following strictly the advice you have been so very kind as to give her from time to time. "From such an immense mass of testimon- ials, the work of selection is a perplexing one. Suffice it to say, that they breath one general tone of grateful acknow- ledgment. and that Messrs. Du Barry invite any one who wishes to test the truth of the representations made, by apply- ing to the writers themselves. This is at once, satisfactory, anti rnnvmnin<r "EVi*