The Welshman

I MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. I The Court will visit Balmoral about the 15th September next, and remain there about three weeks, when it will re- turn to Windsor for the winter. We stated last week that the Session would probably be brought to a termination on the 15th inst. The course of public business since then has enabled Ministers to antici- pate the period originally fixed upon the prorogation will therefore take place on Saturday, the 12th instant. The Countess de Neuilly has taken a mansion at Torquay for the summer season. The King of Greece, according to the Presse, receives re- gular remittances from Russia, quite in the pensioner style. A Greek house in Paris manages the business. With this money wholesale corruption is carried on. Dr. Smith, who so recently escaped the clutches of the hangman, has -sailed for Australia. The result of the ballot at Lloyd's on the question of closing at two in the afternoon on Saturdays was 260 in fa- vour of the alteration, and 25 against it. The 12th inst. is the date from which the new regulation will take effect. Accounts from New York state that the cashier of Bel- mont, Rothschild's agent at New York, had abstracted about £ 3,000 in bank notes from that gentleman's banking-house. A Parisian leech-collector having observed that previous to a change in the atmosphere or a storm, the leeches become very agitated, has invented a tube to which he has attached a simple mechanism, by which the leeches in their agitated movements ring a small bell, so that any one, even when asleep, may be warned of an approaching storm. The Railway calls for the month of August amount to £ 448,500. of which the proportion called by foreign compa- nies is E162,000. In the corresponding period of last year they were £ 384,761. The total for the first eight months of 1854 now amounts to £ 9,196,163 against E7,215,282 in the like period of 1853. An immense gun has been forwarded from Woolwich to the Baltic, for Rear-Admiral Chads. This gun will com- mand a range of no less than 7,600 yards, or something over four miles and a quarter-rather calculated to disturb the fancied security" of the Russians. The English Government has given and divided amongst four Leicester manufacturers an order for 10,000 dozen of shirts, and 7,000 dozens of half-hoze, for the use of the army and navy. A bed-ridden old man, named William Ronald, once a ploughboy to Robert Burns, may be seen and talked with at Maulside, near Beith, in Ayrshire. He knew much of the poet's character, but being a very modest man, escaped the notice of almost all the inquirers after Burns. Some twenty persons have been made seriously ill at Hull by eating potted meat. They were all violently sick and purged, with cramps, while some appeared to be going fast into collapse. The mayor held an inquiry into the matter and the conclusion come to was that it was dangerous to eat potted meat in hot weather, as it is extremely difficult to tell whether it be sound or not. The maker was advised not to make any more for the present, and promised to comply. Omer Pacha has expressed his deep sorrow at the loss of Capt. Butler, who died on the very day of the retreat of the Russians. The Turkish general has decided that a py- ramid shall be erected in the middle of the fort in honour of the soldiers who have died in its defence, and that the mortal remains of Captain Butler shall be carried to the same place. A special monument is to be erected to im- mortalise the devotion of that valiant officer. PRINCE ALBERT INVITED TO FRANCE. We read in the Union —The French Government has, it is said, sent Prince Albert an invitation to be present next month at the manoeu- vres at the camp at Boulogne. The King of the Belgians is said to have promised to proceed there at the same time with the young King of Portugal. THE BALLOT,-The Hon. A. Gordon, the recently-elected member for Beverley, and son of the Premier, is a convert to the ballot. His conversion was sudden, owing perhaps to the requests addressed to him by the electors, and a move- ment made by the Ballot Society. DEATH OF THE DEAN OF ARDAGH.-The Dublin Sentinel announces the deeease of the very Reverend Richard Mur- ray, D.D., Dean of Ardagh, and Vicar-General of his dio. cese. CHARM FOR A WART.—The Devonshire charm for a wart is to steal a piece of meat from a butcher's shop, rub it over the wart in secret, and throw it over a wall over your left shoulder.-Not,es and Queries. PEDE.STRIANISM.-On Saturday last, (Jpates, the well-known pedestrian, commenced his last match on the Tavistcck-road. He has undertaken to walk 1,000 quarter miles in 1,000 suc- cessive quarter hours. THE AGE AT WHICH 'WE MtnR y*-The mean age at which marriages are first contracted in England and Wales is 25.8 years for males, and 24.6 years for females; while 54 in every 100 brides, and 54 in every 100 bridegrooms, are 20 and un- der 25..[& of age. TOTAL DEPRAVITY.—A wealthy gentleman from Western New York died recently at Albany. An only son-and the only relative present at his decease-while the corpse was warm, offered to sell the boots of the deceased to the porter of the hotel at which they were stopping. A LAZY l\IA'8 LUXURY.—A patent was in September last issued to David Freed, of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania for an "improvement in toilet furniture. The invention in attaching to a piece of furniture an apparatus bv means of which pantaloons may .be drawn off without stoop- ing or sitting down." Lr,AsFs.-There is no sound technical or legal reason why leases are granted for 99 years, or 999 years, rather than for 100 or 1,000 years. The estate would be of the same nature if the terms were for 100 and 1,000 years respectively, as 99 or 999. It is a custom to have the odd number, which has arisen from some old notion that 1,000 years was equal to a freehold, and that 1UO years was too long for a building- lease.-Notes and Queries. » GOOD FORTUNE.—A labouring man of the name of Mitchell, who was working in a hedge-bottom, near Gains- borough, the other day, was called from his employment by a gentleman from near Burgh, who conveyed to him the in- teresting information that a relative of his (Mr. Sutton, of Thorpe,) had left him personal and other property to the value of something like £ 20,000. Mitchell had only seen his benefactor once or twice in his life, and had not the slightest intimation of the good fortune that awaited him. He is a married man with a large family.-Berksltire Chronicle. BISHOP OP MAURITIUS.—It is announced that the Queen has been pleased to sanction the immediate ereetion of the Mauritius and its dependencies into a bishopric. The So- ciety for the Propagation of the Gospel has appropriated the sum of £ 3,000 towards the endowment, and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge has voted a grant of £ 2,000. The Rev. Vincent W. Ryan, B.A., Principal of the Metro- politan Training Institution (Highbury College), and for- merly of the Liverpool Collegiate Institution, is, it is said, to be consecrated the first bishop. Mr. Ryan has laboured in the ministry in the Channel Islands, acquiring thereby a facility of preaching in French, which will be very valuable n a diocese where that language holds the ascendant. COST OF REGISTRATION OP ELECTORS.—According to a return just made, the sum paid by the Treasury for the ser- vices of the revising barristers in 1853 was £ 17,640. Each of these gentlemen receives JE210. This year the amount will be increased to £ 17,850, another barrister being added to the list, making 15 in all. There is no account of the number of days they are occupied with the revision. A fur- ther sum of nearly £8,000 is paid to the clerks of the peace out of the county rates for the expenses of registration. A considerable sum is also paid out of the poor-rates (L30,991 last year), in respect of Parliamentary and municipcl regis- tration and cost of jury lists; but there are no means of ascertaining how much of it is for Parliamentary registra- tion. AN ITEM IN THE COST OF CRIME-The new arrange- ment for voting annually a number of charges which have hitherto been paid without vote out of the Consolidated Fund has produced a number of estimates not heretofore furnished to Parliament. Among the latest is the expense of the metropolitan police courts, £ 44,426. Above half this sum— £ 23,2000—is for; the salaries of the 23 police magistrates. These are stilt to be paid out of the Consoli- dated Fund, along with the other judioial salaries of the country, but a vote will be taken for the remainder,— £ 21,226,—which is required to pay clerks, ushers, and inci- dental expenses of the police courts. ANTIMONY SHOT.—We onderstand that extensive experi- ments are now being made, by order of Government, to test the effect of shot made from antimony upon wooden as weH as iron surfaces. As far as they have been tested, the de- structive effects of these balls are more apparent than those arising from iron ones; for as soon as the surface is struck, the metal, owing to its great brittleness, breaks, and the various particles, consequently, become widely spread. The authorities seem to be much pleased with the success which has attended these experiments and we are informed that an immediate supply of antimony balls will be despatched to our fleets in the Baltic and Black Seas. The use of this new missile will create a demand for Cornish antimony, which is now in considerable request. TESTIMONIAL TO A CLERGYMAN.-On Wednesday last, the Rev. John Howell, Dangerfield, was presented with a hand- some silver inkstand, on his quitting the curacy of St. Peter's, Thanet. This gratifying proof of the estimation in which he is held by all classes in the parish, notwithstanding his labors extended to only two years, originated entirely with the cottage inhabitants. The presentation took place in the boys' school room, in the presence of the Vicar, (the Rev. John Hodgson) many influential parishioners, and a large number of the school children. Mr. Trew in a short and feeling address, presented the testimonial, which the Rev. gentleman received and acknowledged in a speech full of gratitude and affectiou for those from whom he was about to separate, and after some very appropriate observations from the Vicar, the meeting broke up. TESTIMONIAL TO MR. HumE. On Saturday, at one o'clock, a number of friends and admirers of Mr. Hume, including four Cabinet Ministers, assembled at his residence, Bryanstone-square, to witness the presentation of his portrait by Lord John Russell, on behalf of the subscribers, as an acknowlegment of his long public services, and a testimony of respect for his personal character. Fifty years indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervous- ness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sick. ness at the stomach, and vomitings, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Revalenta Arabica Food. Wortham Ling, near Diss, Norfolk. MARIA JOLLY. Cure No. 3906.-Thirteen years cough, indigestion, and feneral debility have been removed by Eu Barry's excellent Revalenta Arabica Food. Athol-street, Perth. James Porter. Cure No. 81.—Twenty years liver complaint, with disor- ders of the stomach, bowels, and nerves, has been perfectly cured by Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica. Haddington, East Lothian. Andrew Fraser. We have not room for further quotations.from Me^&rs. Du Barry's interesting Report of many thousa. nI d cures without medicine, but refer the reader to their advertiae- MARRIAGE IN THE ARMY AND NAVY.—The proportions in the service who are returned as married in every 100 of each class are 2.5 officers and 15 men in the army; 30 officers in the navy, and 24 seamen; while two offioers in 100 and one man in 100 are widowers in the army, and one officer and one man in the navy. The proportion of bachelors in civil life is 31 in every 100 persona of the age of 20 and upwards. Among the officers of the age of 20 and upwards serving in the army, 71 iu ?! among the men, 82 in 100 among the ? ?-' the Poyal Navy, 60 in 100; among the seamen, 60 in 100 are returned as bachelors.-Cemm JB?rf. AFECTlNG I-JCIDMT.-WMIe the 46th regiment were in „ in the barrack sqwMeat Windsor, prior to marching out f £ Ve?an J. ?South<uapton, en r.? to Constantinople, a motrless child, six years old, clung to his father's legs. ip^r y or(lered to send it away, but M?u?' Tn?t:" IJeutewmt Hutton, touched with the scene, took the child and placed five ten pound notes in its hand, with the hope that ?me one woid befriend it. Ibis, however, proved unnec?ary, for having dterwards m^e^18°wrn mother (who is staying at Windsor) acquainted with the c°i- rcumstance? she adoped the little fellow, ?n time to give the father an assurance that he should be well cared for. A FORTUNATE MEETING.—A gentleman residing in our neighbourhood was on the platform at the station the other day, accompanied by a friend from London who had latelv I arrived on « few days' visit. The «p-trnin stopped as they were standing conversing, and the attention of the Boston j gentleman was quickly attracted by perceiving a young female of prepossessing appearance, with whose parents he -as acquainted, seated in a first-class carriage. He ap- proached the-window and enten?<t into oenversatioij. with her somewhat surprised at the expensive mode of travelling which she had chosen, as her father is in humble, though respectable, circumstances. A few moments explained all. She had answered an advertisement which appeared in a Hull newspaper, offering a comfortable home in a respect- able family for a nursery governess. The elderly lady, so richly dressed, who was with her in the carriage, had come from London expressly to have a personal interview with her, and was so well satisfied with the result of the inquiries she bad made, that the engagement had been concluded, and Miss — was then on her way to town with her newly found friend. The gentleman having tendered his congra- tulations to both ladies turned from the carriage, and was immediately addressed by his London friend, You are certainly very courageous in the country in acknowledging your acquaintances." "How so?" "The young lady is a straner to me, though evidently an old friend of yours," stranger to me, as for the other woman What of was the reply; as for the other woman —" What of her ? I declare I don't know her ?" You don't? She is Mrs. (naming an infamous procuress) of Gower-street." There was not a moment to lose. The whistle was sounding and Mr. Waghorn had already given the signal for starting, but fortunately a few moments were sufficient to explain to Miss the imminent danger which threatened her. She left the carriage without any opposition on the part of her companion, who spoke not a single word, and evidently fear- ed the result of the discovery which she saw had taken place. The gratitude of the young lady and her friends may be well imagined. By a mere accident the former has been rescued from a life of misery, and we trust that the fact above nar- rated, a truth as strange as fiction, may act as a caution to all young females who are compelled to seek situations by answering the advertisements which appear in the public prints.-Boston Guardian. The commissioners who last year conducted the long and painful inquiry into the Birmingham Borough Prison, Mr. Welsby, Captain Williams, and Dr. Baly, have made their report. They observe that at common law a gaoler has no authority to punish a prisoner at all; but by statute he may punish by close confinement, upon bread and water, for a term not exceeding three days. In the Birmingham prison, Captain Maconochie, who was governor until 1851, introduced other and illegal punishments, depriving the prisoners of their bed and of their gas, keeping them from exercise and from chapel, and from seeing their friends, and compelling them to stand with their faces to the wall for all the working hours of the day. in some instances for several successive days. After 1851, Lieutenant Austin retained nearly all these, and introduced also the punishment jacket," which the commissioners describe as an "engine of positive torture." In one case the commissioners distinctly state that a prisoner was driven to commit suicide from the punishment he under- went. While Lieutenant Austin was governor, three prison- ers committed suicide, but the number of attempts at self- destruction could not be ascertained; the surgeon made the number of such attempts, and the frequent sudden demand for his services in consequence, the reason for declining to undertake a friend's practice during his absence.. The iu. firmary was very little used; two men known to be ill with moital diseases were left to die, and did die, in their Separate cells, with no human being present. The conduct of Lieut. Austin in his office the commissioners pronounce deserving of the most severe censure and of Mr. Blount, the surgeon, they feel compelled to speak of his conduct generally in terms of strong condemnation. Government have determined on taking legal proceedings against the governor and the surgeon. THE DIVISIONS OF LiFE.The popular English divisions of life are expressed in the language by several characteristic words,auch as babe, suckling, infant, child, boy, girl, lad, lass, yftuth, maiden, and young, middle-aged, old*—man, woman. Theae terms are not used with so much precision as they might easily acquire; and some of them, derived from different sources, are used synonymously, while the latter terms often include the period which the earlier words designate. But (using a little force to make them express consecutive ages) it may be said that Great Britain in 1851 contained, babes and sucklings (under one year.) 578,743 infants (1-5 years) 2.186.4.56 children (.5-10 ve?rs )'2,456 066 ? boys (10-L5 years), 1,141,933; ?ir?.s (10 1' years), 1,114,?2? youths (15-20 years), 1,051,630; maidens (15-20 years), 1,048,104; young men (20-30 years), 1,830,588; young women (20-30 years), 1,959,906 men of middle-age (30.50 years), 2,376,904; women of middle-age (30-50 years,) 2,482,382.—Census of Great Britain. MELANCHOLY DEATH.—Iver has been awfully startled by the following truly appalling occurrence. For some time past the Rev. Ebenezer Robert Cowie resided at Love-green, and an execution for L60 having been obtained against him, the warrant for his apprehension was placed in the hands of Mr. Reader, the Sheriff's officer, who, with Mr. Leakey, clerk to the plaintiff s solicitor, proceeded to Mr. Cowie's residence to effect his capture. Upon arriving there they were in- formed that he had gone to Uxbridge, and thereupon Mr. Leakey remained in the house, when Mr. Reader proceeded towards Uxbridge. Soon afterwards Mr. Cowie returned, when Mr. Leakey, placing his hand upon the reverend gentleman's. shoulder, told him that he was his prisoner. The Rev. Mr. Cowie replied that he had a little money, a clerical wardrobe worth eighteen guineas, and some articles of vertu, which he would lodge as security if he got time for payment. Mr. Leakey expressed his willingness to grant a fortnight's grace on that condition, when Mr. Cowie left to get some note paper, followed by Mr. Leaky, who, seeing him in conversation with his wife, retraced his steps and left them alone, after having obtained Mr. Cowie's assurance, as a gentleman and a clergyman, that he would not leave the premises. But, as he did not make his appearance Mr. Leakey inqnired after him, when he ascertained he had left the house. Leakey instantly commenced a hot pursuit, and seeing Mr. Cowie cross some fields, cried, Stop- thief!" of which no notice was taken by some labourers that were at work there. Still the pursuit was kept up until Mr. Cowie got inside of Mr. Wilson's gate, which he closed, and then rushed into the house, followed by his pursuer, who coming up with the Rev. Mr. Cowie in Mr. Wilson's drawing-room, Mr. Cowie begged of him to make no noise, saying, Mr. Wilson is my most particular friend, and will settle the matter." Mr. Leakey was in the act of ringing the bell, to send for Reader, when the Rev. Mr. Cowie fell to the ground, the blood rushing to his face, and gushing out of his mouth, nose, and ears, accompanied by a gurgling in his throat. Mr. Atkinson, surgeon, was instantly called in, but before his arrival Mr. Cowie ceased to exist, from, as the post mor- tem examination subsequently proved, a rupture of a vessel of the heart, produced by over exertion and excitement. The unfortunate gentleman's fate is deeply deplored by a large circle of friends, by whom he was much respected for his many amiable and excellent qualities. THB CFLTs.-The Celtic race, ages ago, must have been in possession of the region which is now the theatre of war in the East, as is manifest from the names of. places, some of which are pure Irish. Thus we have Kilcooli," near Scutari; Kalafat, 11 Caliah-radi," Longford; Varna, "Bar- na," a narrow pass, breach or gap as in Liednon-Varna. *nd- OatH-poli mefcnS in Greek, Craulstown, that is, the town oftheGauttofr Celts. Indeed, every country in the south of Europe, from the mouth of the Danube to the mouth of the Rhine, bears in the names of its rivers, mountains, and great natural features, evidence of its having been in possession of the Celtic race anterior to the earliest date of authentic hi.torf.Limwick Examiner. RUSSIAN EMPERORS (Vol. ix., p. 222).-An old merchant- captain, long in the Baltic trade, assured me that it was a general belief among those of his own class, that by the laws of Russia the Emperor was far the twenty-five years of his reign subject t6 a certain degree of control from his nobles, but that at the end of that time all control ceased, and the government came an unmitigated despotism, to avoid which the nobles generally managed quietly to remove the occupant of the throne before the time had expired. The death of Alexander just as he was about to complete the fated period was one of the instances he adduced in support of this notion. I must leave it to others better versed in the matter to say whether there is, or ever has been, any founda- tion for the above belief.-J. S. W ARDBN .-From "Note, and Queries." RIOT AT AIRDRIE. Airdrie races, which begun on Thursday and terminated on Friday night, have been attend- ed by a serious riot,; which resulted in the loss of life, aad the infliction of permanent injuries on various individuals. The riot began at three 0 1clock on Friday morning, the opposing parties being Orangemen and Ribbonmen. Not content with the warfare of aticks and stones, pistols were brought into requisition. Information of the outbreak having been brought to Glasgow, a detachment of fifty sol- diers proceeded to Airdrie and secured the peace, which had been thus violently outraged. Seventeen of the rioters have been apprehended in a public-house at Rawyards.-Gimgow Commonwealth. THE FORTIFICATIONS OF SAN FRANCISCO.—The work of fortifying the harbour of San Francisco is rapidly progressing. The constructions are to consist of two lines of batteries. Fort Point, the principal fortification on the outer line, will mount, when completed, a battery of 115 guns, of 8 and 10 inch calibre. The guns will be arranged in four tiers, the wall of the fort rising directly from the water at an angle of about 75 degrees, and castellated at the top. The works at Fort Point are being prosecuted with vigour. On the side of the channel directly opposite Fort Point, a battery will be erected of nearly equal size, and capable of mounting about 100 guns. The battery on Alcatraz Island, on the inner line of fortifica- tion, will comprise 50 guns. It may be completed in twelve months' time. The stone of which the walls of the fortresses are built is granite of a very superior quality, brought from Mounteroy and Puerta de 108 Reyes The estimated cost of the works at Fort Point is 750,000 dollars: and it is thought that the whole work of fortifying the harbour will cost at least 2,000,000.-Sati Francisco Paper. &c. 4t pears, from a CIRCULATION OF BANK NoTB8. &c.-? tppeare, from a Parliamentary return, that the niü of promissory notes payable to bearer on demand in ci'flation in the United Kingdom, on the 8th of July last, wn-^tt7,370^00 of this suB? JMO,99?eOO was issued by the u k of England, £3,62168 private banks, and £ 2,930,419 by 'oint stock banks. In Scotland, ?,020,561. In Ireland, f?,98?,lS?by the Bank of Ireland, and £ 2,812,212 by private and joint atnek Juudt- ft.? k-it.- ?— CHALLENGING TJIB JUITY. -A case occurred at the Wisbech sessioits on Wednesday last, of great novelty and considerable importance. A prisoner was charged with steal- ing a copper tea-kettle. and the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. He was afterwards charged by the same jury with stealing a cloth cap; in this case also the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. The court being of opinion that the verdicts in both cases were against the evidence, dismissed tllejurf. The prisoner WM then charged upon a thirJ ia- dictment, for stealing some tallow, and under the direct ion of his counsel, Mr. Naylor, he exercised the privijege of what is technically termed peremptorily challrngiag," or objecting to every new juryman on his n r-- to be sworn; the list of jurymen was thus exhausted; .considerable diseossitm and argument between euanse! D" to the course to be purau the prisoner was committed again to prison, to abide his tnal at the next Cambridge assizes.— Cambridge Chronicle. THE Mtrsic OF THB POLTTICAL SPHERES.—On the pro- position of Sir Fitzroy Kelly, a clause has tx»en ins< rti ■ in the bribery bill to prevent the employment of binds of music at elections. This arrangement will be raiht r hard on all the trumpeta, trombones, and other brazen enaim-s whose rude throats" have hitherto been employed in provid- ing a sort of nominal harmony at a contested election. We think that all the Green Baize Bands in the kingdom are entitled to ask for compensation for the loss they will sustain by this rather harsh enactment. A band was a most useful appendage at a contested election, for even the most short- winded of brven instruments was preferable to the loug- winded and equally brazen of those who are in the habit of making themselves the instruments of rival candidates. A bad polka is always better than a bad speech, and we would rather hear even Mendelssohn murdered on the ophiclcide than Lmdiley Murray murdered on the hustings. As the Bribery Bill is intended to prevent candidates from paying, as they have formerly done, to a pretty tune, it is perhaps thought that by doing away with bands, a stop will be put to the practice of paying to any tune whatever.— Punch. ADVANTAGE OF WEEDING.—1. Seven acres of light gra- velly laud were fallowed and sown broadcast; one acre was measured, and not a weed was pulled out of it; the other six were carefully weeded. The unweeded acre produced 18 bushels, and six weeded acres averaged 224 bushels per acre —a gain of 25 per cent. 2. A six-acre field was sown with barley in fine tilth, and well manured. This weeding, owing to a great abundance of charlock, cost 12s. per acre. The produce of an unweeded acre was 13 bushels; of the weeded, 28 bushels-difference in favour of weeding, 15 bushels per acre, besides the land being so much cleaner for the succeed- ing crop. 3. Of six acres sown with oats, one acre, p)oughed but once and unmanured, produced only 18 bushels per acre. Of this increase, at least 10 bushels may be attributed to the weeding and eight to the manure.—Journal of the Bath and West of England Society. EARTHQUAKE IN THE PYRENEES—A letter dated Bag- neres de Bigorre, July 30," says that the shock of an earth- quake has been felt at iniervals for no less than ton days, -and has occasioned the greatest alarm to the inhabitants and visitors. On Thursday week last so great was the terror, that the greater part of the peopk rushed out of their beds into the streets in their ni«ht dresses, shrieking loudly, and crowded into the diligences and other can: strts which were quickly assembled in the public place. It has been pretty generally felt all over the Pyrenees, but seems to have been most severe at Cauterets, Bagnerc's de Bigorre, and Luz. The scene at Cauterets very muc'i resembled that at this town the visitors deserting it in a mass, so thr.t only one family is now remaining there. About an hour ng ) we ex- perienced a slight shock, which threw me from my chair on my legs into the middle of the room. Its general ejects on the person is a feeling of sickness and quivering of the nerves. I have just learnt that the shock I have mentioned stopped the service in the church, the clergyman bunll inca- paciated by it from preaching. A French officer who has passed a long time in Africa, declares that he tic-rercxpe- rienced there such severe shocks, nor has there been so severe an earthquake here (although siight ond; are expe- rienced annually) for 104 years, when half the t,wn was de- stroyed by one. A strange biennial custom exists at Oid Calabar, that of purifying the town from all evil spit its who, in the opinion of the authorities, have during the past year taken posses- sion of it. At a certain time a number of figures, styLd nabikems," are placed indiscriminately through the town. These are made of sticks and banitioo matting, and moulded into different shapes. Some of them have an attampt at body, with legs and arms to resemble the. human figure. Imaginative artists sometimes furnish these specimens with, an old straw hat, a pipe in the mouth, and a stick fisiened to the end of the arm, as if about to undertake a journey. The evil spirits are supposed, after three weeks or a month, to take up their residence in them. When the night arrives for their general expulsion, the whole town feast and drink, and sallv out in parties, jelling most fearfully, and beating empty corners as if they contained tangible objects to hunt. Shots are fired, the nabikems" are torn up with violence, set fire to and thrown into the river. The orgies continue till daylight dawns; and the town is considered clear of evil influence for two years more. I Loss OF THE Sair GULNARE OF LivERPoOL.-On Sa- turday the loss of this vessel, with the fate of the captain aud mate, who perished in attempting to eave the gold from the ship, was made known at Lloyd's «through a letter for- warded by their mgent at Cape. Coast, dated June 19. The Gulnare went ashore on the beach, about 60 miles west- ward of the Cape, on the morning of the 26th of May last. Capt. Spencer, the master, and the mate, with 15 hands, got into one boat, and the second mate, with the rest of the crew, got into another, and made for the land. A heavy surf rolling in on the beach capsized both boats, (lid the captain and mate were drowned owin^- to their having loaded themselves with gold, which-immediately sunk them, and neither was seen to rise after, du the wreck being dis- covered by the natiyps, they congregated ia large numbers on th'e beach, robbing the survivors, and seized every thing thiug that came from tbe-wreek. They subsequently found the bodies of the enptain and mate, and stripped them of -everything. When found they were completely naked. They were afterwards buried by the Governor at Alum Fort. The ship became a total loss. The second mate and eight of the crew received the utmost kindness and hospi- tality from the Governor, with whom they remain. The Gulnare ha.d a considerable amount of specie on board. She was only partiy insured. THE TRADE OUTRAGE AT SHEFFIELD.—On Wednesday night a box was thrown at the window of a man named Wass's which struck against the lower part of the frame at first, and fell back into the street. The noise partially awoke Wass, and in a few moments he was thoroughly aroused by a loud crash at the window, the breaking of glass, and the noise of some object falling on a box underneath the window. At the same time he saw a vivid light shed throughout the apartment, heard a pecu- liarly hissing sound, and observed a strong smell of sulphur and gunpowder. To spring out of bed and rush to the win- dow was the work of an instant, and there he saw upon his wife's dress, on the box, a tin case, attached to which was a burning fusee. With great presence of mind Wass im.ne. diately seized the case, threw open the window, and dashed it into the road. Scarcely had it fallen to the ground before a load explosion was heard, and the street for some distance was illuminated with great brilliancy, the fthmes shooting up nearly to a level with the second storey windows on the spot where the combustible fell. Many of the neighbours were awakened by the noise, and a general alarm was felt in the locality. On examining the road outside, the remains of the case, consisting of the bottom and sides, were fuund but the top was completely blown away, and the part which was left was much battered by the explosion. It appeared to have been an ordinary breakfast tin, capable of holding a pint of liquid, which had been filled with combustible mate- rials, a fusee having probably been placed in the mouth. From the appearances presented it would seem that the combustibles were not confined to gunpowder, but must have been somewhat similar to the materials contained in a bomb- shell. The case was prevented from reaching the centre of the apartment in consequence of its striking against a blind inside the window, but a small hole was burnt in the blind by its coming in contact with the lighted fusee. Several pieces of partially melted gutta percha were found on the dress upon the box and in the street outside, and these ap- pear to have been part of an outer covering of gutta percha used for the protection of the fusee. There were two watch- men at no great distance from Wass's house when the out- rage was committed. One of these saw three men opposite the house, and observed one of them throw something three times up at the window. After throwing the third time the men decamped, and, on the watchman reaching the spot, thnf had idisappeare& Another watchman coming along Leicester-street observed the ipen just as the case was thrown in at the window. The fellows, seeing him, ran along Beet- street, in which direction he pursued them, but they effected their escape.—Sheffield Times. RECAPTURE OF A CONVICT.—A few days since, a desper- ate fellow named Joseph Ralph, who was convicted at the late assizes of a daring burglary at Grimsby, and sentenced by Mr. Baron Parke to twenty years' transportation, managed to make his escape from Lincoln Castle in a manJiH "hich puzzled all the officials. By means of tearing up his bed- clothes he eontrived to mount a lofty wall, and, with cat- like dexterity, he succeeded in passing down the other side, then over more difficult obstacles, and at last into the main road. Obtaining possession of a butcher's blue frock, which concealed his prison attire, he made his way, as has been subsequently learned, to the neighbourhood of Barton, near the Humber, where he had buried some plunder, the pro- duce of a burglary he had committed in the district; and which, doubtless, he was in hopes of recovering for the pur- pose of aiding his flight. He was making all haste along the water side, with a view of crossing the Humber. when he was perceived by two constables, named Clayton and Jupp. A brief survey soon satisfied them that he was the escaped convict which the country was then being scouted for. He was called upon to surrender, when he prepared for a desperate resistance. A man of the name of Godfrey was called to the aid of the officers, aud after some manoeuvering the convict was closed in with. A fierce struggle ensued, the four were down upon the ground, and Ralph finding that he could not overpower them, drew a long clasped knife and stabbed Godfrey in the thigh, inflicting a serious wound, and cut Jupp across the wrist. Still, however, he was held, the weapon was got from him, and at length he was firmly se- cured and lodged in the lock-up, to the great satisfaction of t'he excited and terror-stricken inhabitants of the place. Godfrey remains in a sad way, the wound in his thigh being deep and long. The recapture of the convict appears to have made him, if anything, more callous and determined, and he had been heard to express his regret that he did not do greater mischief, and so have defeated his arrest. It has been ascertained that 011 the night after he escaped from the castle he broke into a dwelling and carried off some provisions and property. INFLUENCE OF WATER.—The modifying influence of a body of water less than a mile in breadth is conclusively shown by the difference between the two banks of the Mis- sissippi River, near New Orleans, where it runs east and west. The south side has a milder climate, vegetation ad- vances earlier in the spring, the cane has a longer period to mature in autumn, and fruits that are occasionaly cut off by the severity of weather on the north bank are unin- fluenced on the other.-California Farmer. HOLLOWAY'S PILIB FOR CURE OF BILE, SICK HEADACHE, AND BOWEL COMPLAINTS.—Mr. John Anderson, general mer- chant, of Jtàllymoney, county Antrim, has written to Profes- sor Holloway the following statement of a cure by the use of his pills:—"Rose M'Clure, residing at Bagnagashal, Bally- money, was afflicted for five months with headache, sickness, and violent pains in the stomach and bowels. She had advice from several skilful surgeons in Coleraine Ball -money, and 'other places, but Ahoy, -?ou"-ve It"- f:wgtev4. A t length she was recommended to try Holloway's Pills, and after using them for a short period these mvaluahe m*>Hiciin»s