THE ALTAR, THRONE, AND LAND WE LIVE IN. /'.'. J N°- 598. WORCESTER, SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1846. PRICE 5d. ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL. THIS faithful assistant of nature has, from intrinsic worth alone, during the last half century, acquired the ESPECIAL PATRONAGE of the several SOVEREIGNS and COURTS throughout Europe, and with RANK, FASHION, and DISCERNMENT, supersedes all preparations of professedly similar import. This Oil is pre- eminently successful in nourishing, improving, and beautifying the Human Hair, in all climates, and in all stages of existence. The following is a hrief notice of some of its PRINCIPAL VIRTUES, as a mild, stimulative, corrective, and preservative agent, for the Hair. The subject is more fully treated in a small Pamphlet which accompanies each bottle of ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL, and wherein important hints and advice will be found on the Culture of the Hair of Infancy, and on its preservation and beauty through the several stages of human life. INFANCY. Its balsamic properties nourish the Hair in its embryo state, accelerate its growth, sustain it in maturity, and continue the possession of healthy vigour, silky softness, and luxurious redundancy, to the latest period of human life. Genial and purifying, it dispels all scurf and impurity, and renders the use of the fine comb unnecessary. BALDNESS. Its reproductive powers are constantly and surprisingly shown in cases of Baldness, from whatsoever cause arising ( proved by numerous testimonials open for inspection at the Proprietors,) in eliciting, unerringly, from the latent stem the active pro- gression of vitality, so that in numerous instances where other specifics have been tried in vain, ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL has superseded the ornaments of art by re- instating in full plenitude of beauty the permanent graces and utilities of nature. GREY HAIR. Its nourishing properties are eminently successful in the PREVENTION of Grey Hair, and in the RESTORATION to its original colour— also proved by testimonials. WHISKERS AND MOUSTACHIOS. Its extraordinary fecundity is singularly displayed in creating these ornaments of manhood, and in the" production of stron<* and beautiful Hair! CURL AND EMBELLISHMENT. Its invigorating properties induce a strong tendency to curl: to Artificial Hair it imparts a look of vitality and lightness, and sustains the Head Dress in all the beauties of decorative form- ation, glossy curl, and silky softness, unimpaired by the heated atmosphere of crowded rooms, or damp weather. SEA- BATHING AND VIOLENT EXERCISE. After indulging in either of these, so apt in their consequence ( by opening the pores) to exhaust the nourishing matter secreted at the roots or bulbs of the hair, the Macassar Oil will be found most efficacious, both in preserving and in immediately restor- ing the hair to its usual appearance of health, with renovated brightness. CLIMATE. This inestimable Oil preserves its virtues unimpaired by change of climate, and is alike in use from the frigid to the torrid zone, from the assemblies of St. Petersburg to those of Calcutta and the remote East. CAUTION. UNPRINCIPLED SHOP- KEEPERS, for the sake of gaining a trifle more profit, vend the most spurious trash under the title of " MACASSAR OIL :" some under the implied sanc- tion of Royalty. It is therefore imperative on) ROWLAND'S Purchasers to see that the words/ MACASSAR Oil. are in two lines on the Wrapper of each bottle, and on the inside of the Wrapper nearly 1,500 times, containing 29,028 letters. Price 3s. ( id— 7s— Family Bottles, ( equal to 4 small,) 10s. fid., and double that size, 21s. per Bottle. Sold by the Proprietors A. ROWLAND <£ SON. 20, Hat ton Garden, London, and by Chemists aiid Perfumers. All other " MACASSAR OIL S" are FRAUDULENT COUNTERFEITS. rs'i S, Messrs. R. & L. Perry & Co. may be consulted at 1! » , BER- NF. RS STREET, OXFORD STREET, LONDON, daily, 106, DUKE STREET, LIVERPOOL, every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; and at No. 10, ST. JOHN STREET, DKANSGATE, MANCHESTER, on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. " THE SILENT FRIEND," ON HUMAN FRAILTY. Trice 2s. 6' d., and sent free to any part of the United Kingdom, in a Sealed Envelope, from either of the above Establishments, on receipt of 3s. lid. in Postage Stamps or Post Office Order. AMEDICAL WORK on the INFIRMITIES OF THE GENERATIVE SYSTEM, in both sexes; being an Enquiry into the concealed cause that destroys physical energy, and the ability of manhood, ere vigour has established her empire; with observations on the baneful effects of SOLITARY INDULGENCE and INFECTION; Local and Constitutional WEAKNESS, NERVOUS IRKITATION, CONSUMPTION and on the partial or total EXTINCTION OF THE REPKO- DCCTIVE POWERS; WITH . MEANS OF BESTORATION ; the dis- tructive effects of Gonorrhoea, Gleet, Strictures, and Secondary Symptoms are explained in a familiar manner ; the Work is EMBELLISHED WITH TEN FINE COLOURED ENGRAV- INGS, on Steel, representing the deleterious iiitiuence of Mercury on the skin, by eruptions on the head, face, and body with APPP. OVEB MODE OF CURE for both sexes ; followed by Observations on the Obligations of MARRIAGE, and healthy perpetuity ; with direc tions for the removal of certain Disqualifications; the whole pointed out to suffering humanity as a '- SILENT FRIEND," be consulted without exposure, and with assured confidence of SUCC6SS BY R.' & L. PERRY & CO., CONSULTING SURGEONS, Published by the Authors, and sold by Strange, 21. Paternoster Row ; Hannay & Co., < 53, Oxford- street; Gordon, 14(>, Leadenhall- street, London ; Newton, 16 and 19, Chuich- street, Rawl Church- street, Liverpool; Ingram, Market- street, Manchester; D. Camp- bell, 136, Argyle- street, Glasgow ; R. Lindsay, 11, Elms row, Edinburgh ; Powell, 10, Westmoreland- street, Dublin ; Dcinhton, Worcester; Pennell, Kidderminster; Bromley, Kidderminster; and by all Booksellers and Patent Medicine Venders in town and country. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. " The perspicuous style in which this book is written, and the valuable hints it conveys to those who are apprehensive of enter- ing the marriage state, cannot fail to recommend to it a careful perusal."— EraT " This work should be read by all who value health and wish to enjoy life, for the truisms therein contained defy all doubt."— Farmers' Journal. THE CORDIAL BALM OF SYRIACUM Is a gentle stimulant and renovator of the impaired functions of life, and is exclusively directed to the cure of such complaints as arise from a disorganization of the Generative System, whether constitutional or acquired, loss of sexual power, and debility arising from syphilis : ana is calculated to afford decided relief to those who by early Indulgence in solitary habits have weakened the powers of their system, and fallen into a state of chronic debility, by which the constitution is left in a deplorable state, and that nervous mentality kept up which places th< s individual in a state of anxiety for the remainder of life. The consequences arising from this dangerous practice are not confined to its pure physical result, but branch to moral ones ; leading the excited deviating mind into a fertile field of seductive error— into a gradual " and total degradation of manhood— into a pernicious application of those inherent rights which nature wisely instituted tor the preservation of her species; bringing on" premature decrepitude, and all the habitudes of old age. Constitutional weakness, sexual debility, obstinate gleets, excesses, irregularity, obstructions of certain evacuations, total impotency and barrenness are effectually removed by this invaluable medicine. Sold in Bottles, price lis. each, or the quantity of four in one Family Bottle for 33s., by which one Us. bottle is saved. THE CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE, AN ANTI- SYPHILITIC REMEDY for searching out and purifying the diseased humours of the blood ; conveying its active principles throughout the body, even penetrating the minutest vessels, removing all corruptions and contaminations, and impurities from the vital stream,— eradicating the morbid virus ; and radically expelling it through the skin. Price lis. or four bottles in one for 33s., by which lis. is saved, also in £' 5cases, which saves Jt'l. 12s. VENF. REAT. CONTAMINATION, if not at first eradicated, will often remain secretly lurking in the system for years, and, although for a while undiscovered, at length break out upon the unhappy indi- vidual in its most dreadful forms; or else, unseen, internally endanger the very vital organs of existence. To those suffering from the consequences which this disease may have left behind in the form of SECONDARY SYMPTOMS, eruptions of the skin, blotches on the head and face, ulcerations and enlargement of the throat tonsils, and threatened destruction of the nose, palate, Ac., nodes on the shin bones, or any of those painful affections arisino- from the dangerous effccts of the indiscriminate use On and after the First of June, DAILY NEW LONDON MORNING NEWSPAPER, AT Twopence Halfpenny. THE Newspaper is the intellectual life of the Nineteenth Century. Not to speak of the moral and political safeguards which it affords, it places all, whatever their varieties of fortune, on a level as to information. By its means only the small capitalist is enabled to contend successfully against his wealthy rival for a knowledge of those changes which affect prices. Without the daily Newspaper, a family might be located as well in the back settlements of Canada as within ten miles of the great centre of European Civilization. Yet it is remarkable, that more than a century since, there were EIGHTEEN papers published in London, daily or three times a week— while now there are only FIFTEEN ! Of a fact so startling, what is the cause ?— PRICE ! That the public know the advantage of having a London Daily Paper is manifest, from the thousands who pay threepence for a paper the day after publication. What, then, are the causes which maintain the high price ? First, the amount of capital required to be invested in a Newspaper speculation. Next, the various talent and experience which must combine to produce the result. The number of the requirements have, in truth, occasioned something very like a monopoly— and monopoly always commands its own price. Thus, whilst capital and competition have been doing good service in all other things, nothing has been attempted, in the direction indicated, for the political and social wants of three great nations; and a Daily Paper still remains a costly luxury, in which only the wealthy can indulge. The experiment is now about to be tried of establishing a London Daily Newspaper, on the highest scale of completeness, WHICH SHALL LOOK FOR SUPPORT, NOT TO COMPARATIVELY FEW READERS AT A HIGH PRICE, BUT TO MANY AT A LOW PRICE, therefore, after the First of June, THE DAILY NEWS WILL BE PUBLISHED, IN TIME FOR THE MORNING MAILS, AT TWOPENCE HALFPENNY. The Paper will be of the same size as all other journals were withia seven years; it will be larger than many of the high- priced daily journals are now: and, in every particular of interest, it. will contain as much information as the most successful amongst its contemporaries. But it will be expansive; and double sheets will be given whenever an important Debate, a pres- sure of News, or Advertisements require it. The marking features of the scheme are : 1st, THE DAILY NEWS will offer to the reader, in what it is hoped will be a more systematic form, all that he can find in the most approved of its competitors. 2ndly. To the reader who pays Fivepence for his paper, the same thing is offered at half the price. It, then, only remains for the public to justify the experiment. Let him who would support it, subscribe AT ONCE. Where even the reduced price is beyond his means, let him AT ONCE join with a neighbour in subscription. Every News Agent will, it is hoped, supply the paper at Twopence Halfpenny, WHERE PAYMENT IS MADE IN ADVANCE : the same proportionate allowance as with other ( papers— something more than twenty- four per cent— being allowed to the trade. When credit is given, it is a matter of private arrangement, with which the Proprietors have nothing to do. As, however, in an undertaking so bold and so novel it is advisable to guard against possible inconvenience, the Proprietors of THE DAILY NEWS will undertake to get all persons supplied who shall forward a Post- office order payable to JOSEPH SMITH, DAILY NEWS OFFICE, Whitefriars, London. For THREE MONTHS, 16S. 4d. c Sir,- OPY OF A LETTER. FROM MR. WILLIAM COURTNEY. To Mr. THOMAS PROUT, 229, Strand, London. Church Farm, Barton Stacey, near Andover Railway. Station, Hants, October 26th, 1844. • I cannot help expressing my astonishmant in the effect I have experienced in taking your Pills for the Gout. I was taken on Thursday night so severely with it as to be with difficulty able to get out of my bed, and after I arose I had severe pains, followed on with inflammation of the foot in- creasing, I took three of your Pills, and within two hours I found the pain to entirely cease. I afterwards took two Pills at a dose twice in the day, and I am, thank God, this morning able to walk without the slightest inconvenience. I found in a previ- ous very severe attack very great relief; I had the pain in my knees and thighs so very severe at that time, I thought I must have died, and that it niust have gone into my stomach. At thut time I had resort to your Pills, and they relieved me— within two hours I was quite easy; The use of these Pills ought, really, to be known all over the world. I have a brother, a young man, that suffers horribly with it, and his greatest relief and prevel'tive has been your Pills Make what use you please of my report. Yi » urs truly and respectfully, WILLIAM COURTNEY. Among the many discoveries that characterise the present age, none have contributed so much to the comfort and ease of the community, nor conferred such a boon upon suffering humanity, as the important discovery of BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC FILLS, the efficacy of which has been tested by the approval and recommendation of many of the greatest men of our day. They are effective for Gout and Rheumatism, in all its various forms, including sciatica, lum- bago, pains in the head and face, frequently treated as tooth- ache, & c. They require neither confinement nor attention of any kind, and invariably prevent the disease attacking the stomach, brain, or other vital part. Sold by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London ; and by his appointment by Stratford, Deighton, Anderson, and Lea and Perrins, Worcester; May, Evesham; Maund, and Haines, Bromsgrove; Pennell, Kidderminster; Morris, Bewdley; Williams, Stourport; Hollier, Dudley; Wright, and Anthony, Hereford; Nicholas, and Lake, Bridgnorth ; Kendall, Strat- ford ; and all respectable Medicine Venders throughout the United Kingdom. Price 2s-!, d- per box. Ask for Blair's Gout Rheumatic Pills, and observe the name and address of " fhomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," impressed upon the Gov- rnment Stamp affixed to each Box of the Genuine Medicine. EXTRAORDlNARY CURES BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT A Wonderful Cure of dreadful Ulcerous Sores in the Face and Leg, in Prince Edward Island. The Truth of this Statement was duly attested before a Magistrate. IHUGH MACDONAT. D, of Lot 55, in King's County, do « hereby declare that a most wonderful preservation of my life has been effected by the use of Hollovvay's Pills and Oint- ment ; and I furthermore declare that I was very much afflicted with Ulcerous Sores in my Face and Leg; so severe was my complaint, that the greater part of my nose and the roof of my mouth was eaten away, and my leg had three large ulcers on it, and that I applied to several medical gentlemen, who prescribed for me, but I found no relief. My strength was rapidly failing every day, and the malady on the increase; when I was induced to try Holloway's Medicines. After taking two or three boxes, I experienced so much relief, and found the progress of the disease was so much arrested, that I was enabled to resume my ordinary labours in the field. The sores which were so disagreeable and repulsive to behold are now nearly all healed. Having received such truly beneficial aid, I feel myself bound to express my gratitude to the person by whose means I have thus been restored from the pitiable asd misesable state I was in; and for the sake of humanity make known my case, that others similary situated might be relieved. ( Signed) HUGH MACDONALD. This declaration made before me, at Bay Fortune, the 3rd day of September, 1845. JOSEPH COFFIN, Justice of the Peace. The above case of Hugh Macdonald, of Lot 55, came person- ally under my observation; and when he first applied to me to get some of the medicines I thought his case utterly hopeless, and told him that his malady had got such hold that it was only throwing his money away to use them. He however persisted in trying them, and to my astonishment, I find what he has aforesaid stated to be perfectly correct, and consider the case to be a most wonderful cure. ( Signed) WILLIAM UNDEIIHAY, Bay Fortune. A Cure of Ringworm of Four Years Standing. Copy of a Letter from Mrs. Grace Moro, 6, Hemlock Court, Carey Street, London, 6th November, 1845. To Professor HOLLOWAY. SIR,— About four years ago my little girl caught the Ring- worm, and although I have ever since had advice from many doctors, and tried every means to get rid of it, yet I was unable to do so. About three weeks ago I was induced to try some of your Pills and Ointment, and I am most happy to say the result has been a perfect curc • ( Signed) GRACE MORO. Skin Diseases, peculiar to any part of the Globe, may be effectually Cured by the use of these celebrated Medicines. PICKINGS FROM AMERICAN TAPERS. mercury, or the cheekm? the ravages of the d hsoriler, removing all scorbutic com- plaints, and effectually re- establishing the health of the constitu- tion. To persons entering upon the responsibilities of matrimony and who ever had the misfortune during their more youthful davs' to be affected with any form of these diseases, a previous course of this medicine is highly essential and of the greatest importance, a* more serious affections are visited upon an innocent wife and offspring, from a want of these simple precautions, limn perhaps halt the world is aware of ; for, it must be remembered, where the fountain is polluted, the streams that ( low from it cannot he pure. May be had of all Booksellers and Patent Medicine Venders in Town and Country, and ol' whom may be had the " SILENT FRIEND." Patients are requested to be as minute as possible in the detail of their cases. Messrs. PERRY expect, when consulted by letter, the usual Fee of One Pound, to be addressed to the London Establishment, wftere all communications and orders are requested to be forwarded. PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, Price 2s. 4s. 6d., and Us. per Box. Messrs. It. & L. Perry & Co., Sureeons, may he consulted as usual at No. 19, Berners- street. Oxford- street,' LONDON daily and one of the above firn at 106, Duke street. Liverpool - every Thursday, Fri lay, and Saturday, and at 10, St. John- street, beans- gate, Manchester, on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays punc tually from Eleven in the Mornini: until Eight in the Eveniiw, and on Sundays from Eleven till One. Only one personal visit is required irom a country patient, to enable Messrs. PERRY and Co., to give such advice as will be the means of effecting a permanent and efleclual cure, after all other means have proved ineffectual. N. B. Country Druggists, Booksellers, and Patent Medicine Venders can be supplied with Perry's Purifying Specific Pills and Cordial Balm of Svriaeuni. with the usual allowance to the' Trade, by most of the" principal Wholesale Patent Medicine houses in London, Agent for Worcester A. DEIGHTON, Journal Office Kidderminster... TH0S. PENNELL, Bookseller, Where may be had the " SILENT FRIEND Cure of a Desperate Case of Erysipelas. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Joseph Gildon, jun., a Farmer, East Kent, near Spilsby, Lincolnshire, 8th April, 1846. To Professor HOLLOWAY. SIR,— 1 have the gratification to announce to you a most wonderful cure wrought upon myself, by the use of your Oint- ment and Pills. I had a severe attack of Erysipelas in my right foot, which extended along my ankle, and was attended with swelling and inflammation to an alarming degree, insomuch that I was unable to move without the use of crutches. I con- sulted a very eminent Physician, besides other medical men, but to no purpose. At last I tried your Ointment and Pills, when, strange to say, in less than two weeks the swelling and inflammation gradually subsided to such a degree that I was enabled to uursue mv . I and my family are well known is farm under the Rev. J. Spence, ( Signed) JOSEPH GILDON. ( I , f | ... ght, of Ely Place, llolborn, as to Ml was cured so peklr of mowp mmnt in k here, as my father holds h Rector of our parish. The Testimony of Dr. Brit the Extraordinary Pow Cure of Ulcerated Sores. Wo have received by the last American mail a file of the Weekly Sun, a newspaper published at New York. It is a pretty fair specimen of American journalism, being roughly got up in the mechanical department, and as to literary con- duct will not bear comparison with the lowest in the scale of provincial newspapers of Great Britain. We ruake from the papers before us a few extracts for the amusement and edifi- cation— it may be— of our readers :— MURDER.— A negro was whipped to death at Vienna, Illinois, a few days ago. He was suspected of having robbed Mr. Kersey, during the night previous, of 100 dollars, and was whipped to extort a confession of the crime from him. THEFT IN THE U. S. SENATE— A friend of one of the Senators from the west, being introduced on the floor the other day, had the misfortune to lose his gloves, while near the British Minister and Gen. Scott. " Strange that you should have lost them here, 1'' said the Senator. < l Not at all," said his friend,'' for 1 suspect them two old codgers there," pointing to Gen. Scott and Mr. Pakenham, " took them out of my hat as they passed." PARCELS LEFT IN STAGES— We frequently hear of par- cels left by passengers in omnibuses. The way to dispose of them is for any remaining passenger to give them in charge of the driver and note the number of the stage. An instance of the kind occurred on Saturday afternoon in one of the Fulton Ferry line of stages going up. The person who took the parcel which consisted of two or three books and a saw knife, will oblige the owner by leaving word where it may be obtained at our office. BREACH OF THE MARRIAGE PROMISE— Lowell is a dangerous place for false hearted swains to play the fool in, there are such an army of female operatives, that a jury must protect them against fraud and perjured vows. Miss Caroline Frost lately commenced an action for a breach of pro- mise against Wheelock Newton, laying her damages at 2000 dollars. The Jury gave her 2G00 dollars. She cannot but receive the 2000 dollars should her false lover be able to pay that sum. Lucilla Pearl sued Philander Chesswell for seduction and a breach of promise, and recovered 2000 dollars. Philander and his companions will find honesty in such cases the cheapest policy, as well as the best. The living orang outang and anatomical Venus will be exhi- bited during the day and evening at the American Museum. Curiosities such as these are worthy every one's attention. A great race came off on the Baltimore railroad the other day, between a dog of the Indian or Rocky Mountain breed, and the locomotive, distance ten miles, the latter coming in a minute and a half a head. Of Florida, an Exchange paper says :—" Corn at present is knee high, and green peas, cucumbers, and oranges are daily luxuries. Game comes to the door and asks you to take it." MURDER IN BUCKS COUNTY, PENN.— Nine times out of ten the murders in the country grow out of riots in taverns. A young man named William Cuttlehow, was murdered on Thursday last, at Bridgewater, on the Neshamony creek, in Bensalem township. Cutleyhow entered a tippling- house kept by one Archy, in Bridgewater, and while drinking with an Irish pedlar and some others, a row took place, in which C's. skull was broken and his body mangled in a shocking manner. He survived but a few hours after the attack. The pedlar and several others were arrested. A brother of the deceased met his death in a fracas, a few years ago, near Bristol, having been killed by a man named Blundy, with a scyth, and for which the murderer was executed at Doylestown. The following paragraphs are concise, if they possess no other good quality :— DISMISSALS— Nine clerks have been removed in the depart- ments at vV'ashington. No reason given, excepting that " their services were no longer required." CAUTION— We learn that bills of the " Tenth Ward Bank," New York, have been passed in the city within a day or two. There is no such bank. A great proportion of the space of these newspapers is occupied by advertisements, which of course pay no duly. Some of these are singular specimens of the kind, and a large number are accompanied by cuts, which 110 doubt are very useful in drawing the attention of readers. For instance, a tailor advertising his runaway wife or apprentice, places by the side of this notice an effigv of a youth running with all his might, and having a stick and bundle thrown over his shoulder. The following are a few specimens. It would seem that people are continually losing themselves, or being lost by their friends :— INFORMATION WANTED of Patrick Donahue, who left his family two weeks since, and has not since been heard from. It is supposed that he may have obtained some situation, and if so, and he will send word to his wife where he may be found, she would join him. He is a native of County Cavan, Ireland, is about 20 years old, middle size, black hair. Any information respecting him will be thankfully received by his wife, in 40th st, between 5th and 6th Avenues, by post or otherwise. INFORMATION WANTED of Michael Mickdermid, of Ireland, from County Longford, by Barney Mickmannis' daughter, from said county Longford. Apply at No. 8 Stone- st, New York. WANTED.— Mrs. Riley, the only celebrated lady of informa- tion on past, present, and future events, by a dial, in this country. Mrs. R. is the only lady who gives information by a dial. She can be privately consulted at her residence, No. 309 Broome- st, up stairs, front room, one door from Forsyth- st. N. B— Don't forget No. 309. Notices to the following effect are numerous:— WANTED.— A few young ladies to learn the pantaloon making. Apply at No. 107 Fldridge- st, basement. WANTED— Three young women to learn pantaloon making. None but good sewers need apply. Enquire at 18 Clift'- st. WANTED— A clean tidy girl, to do the work of a small family. German or Dutch preferred at No. 64 Laight- st. FATAL STEAM BOAT COLLISION. hyacian. Extract of a Letter froni the above celebrated Pliyj To Professor HOLLOWAY. SIR,— 1 think it but an act of justice to inform yon that I have tried your Ointment in several old cases of Ulcerated Sore Legs, which for a considerable time had resisted every kind of treatment, but which were afterwards effectually cured by its use. In the treatment of Bad Breasts I have also found your Ointment of the greatest service. Indeed, from my practical knowledge, I conceive it to be a most invaluable remedy. ( Signed) RICHARD BRIGHT, M. D. HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT will Cure any cases of Bad Legs, Ulcerous Sores, Bad Breasts, Sore Nipples, Cancers, Tumours, Swellings, Contracted or Still' Joints, Gout, Rheu- matism, Lumbago, Burns, Scalds, Chilblains, Chapped Hands and Lips, Bunions, Soft Corns, Piles, the bite of Moschettoes, Sand Flies, Chiego Foot. Yaws, Coco Bay, and all Skin Diseases common to Euro|) e' or t0 the East and West Indies, or other tropical climes. HOLLOWAY'S PILLS should be taken in most instances when using the Ointment, in order t0 Purify the blood and invigorate the system. Sold at the establishmeilt of Professor HOLLOWAY, 244, Strand, near Temple Bar, London> and by most all respectable Druggists and Dealers in flledicines throughout the civilized world, at the following price? ia Pots Is. l* d., 2s- 9d., 4s. 6d., lis., 22s., and 33s. each. There is a very considerable saving in taking the large sizes. guidance of Patients in every A dreadful collision between two steam boats took place on Monday night on the river Mersey, near to Liverpool, whereby a number of human lives have been sacrificed. The vessels were the Sea Nymph, Captain Thompson, trading between Liverpool, and Newry, and the Rambler, coming into Liverpool from Sligo. The following is the description given by the pilot of the Rambler, which had been run ashore at New Brighton. At about half- past ten passed the Rock light, wind westerly and very light, and the weather particularly fine. Saw the Sea Nymph coming quite across the river, towards the Rock. Ordered the helm to be put hard a- port, and stopped the engines ; the Sea Nymph with her helm, in his opinion a- starboard, came stem on into our larboard bow, cutting her completely down to the water's edge, carrying away momentarily the top- gallant forecastle, smashing to pieces a heavy patent windlass, and severing the deck half way across, and so shaking the whole frame of the vessel, that every water- tight compartment was rendered perfectly useless, and it was evident she must have sunk had not the engines been started, and the vessel run ashore, US § lie inline- at present be ascertained is 16; but the number lost from the capsizing of the boat is unknown. The master of the Magazine Life Boat states, that at the time the accident occurred he was seated in his house, and on hearing the crash, went out and procured one or two men— the first he could find— and that with these he manned the smaller life boat, and proceeded on his way to the Rambler. Before he reached her, however, he found a boat, bottom up, with a man clinging to her keel; another man was holding to an oar, and three oihers were floating on the water ; all these the life boat saved. They then made for the Rambler, but the scene on board was such that the men in ( he life boat, unaccustomed to such a sight as presented itself, turned faint, and the commander then manned the larger life boat with his usual hands, and succeeded in bringing 220 persons from the Rambler. He states that, though he has been 18 years on the station, he never knew such a disastrous night before. Of course it is impossible to say how many there were in the boat which was found bottom up. Both vessels are nearly new, having been built last year, and are entirely constructed of iron. The Rambler is consigned to Messrs. Martin and Burns, and the Sea Nymph to Mr. Thomas M'Tear, by whom she had been purchased only a few months ago from the North- west of Ireland Steam Navigation Company, for about 20,000/. Immediately after the accident Captain Thompson, of the Sea Nymph, having ascertained that the Rambler was safe from sinking, brought his vessel into the Clarence Dock, and discharged his cargo, which has not suffered, we are informed, any material injury, though the damage done to the vessel is great, and it is said that her not sinking is owing entirely to her water tight compartments. imperial parliament HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, MAY 22. Numerous private bills were brought up and read a first time. ART UNIONS The Duke of Cambridge presented a petition from the Art Union of London, praying for a continua- tion of the law now in force legalising such societies— the prayer of which he warmly supported, as from his own experi- ence of them, both in this country and in Hanover, he knew they did much good, not only in encouraging the arts but in improving the public taste. Lord Monteagle begged to call the attention of the Govern- ment seriously to the prayer of the petition. It was only one of a series which would be presented that night, all praying for the same boon. The petitioners were as respectable a body as had ever approached the House. The establishment of those Art Unions had really already done vast good, and they were well deserving the protection of the Legislature. The Noble Lord then presented several petitions to the same effect as that of the illustrious Duke. Lord Brougham supported the prayer of the petitioners. Lord Ashburton presented similar petitions; as also did The Marquis of Lansdowne from nearly all the eminent artists of London. The Noble Marquis hoped the Legislature would soon turn their attention to the subject, and place those societies on a permanent footing. Various petitions for and against the Corn Bill were presented. Viscount Hardinge and Lord Gough's Pension Bills were read a first time on the motion of the Duke of Wellington. MURDERS IN IRELAND. — The Marquis of Normanby moved for a return of the murders and attempts to murder in Ireland since the beginning of the present year, and took the opportunity to comment severely on the dilatory conduct of the Government with regard to the Irish Coercion Bill. The Earl of St. Germans defended the Government, and laid the blame of the delay in passing the bill to the opposition it had met with from a party in the Lower House. The Marquis of Clanricarde and the Earl of Wicklow both attacked the Government fur the want of vigour which had been shown in the matter. The Earl of Haddington again defended the Government; and after a few words from the Duke of Richmond the motion was agreed to. Several bills were forwarded a stage, and the House adjourned. MONDAY, MAY 25. A great number of petitions were presented against the Corn Importation Bill by the Dukes of Richmond and Buckingham. The Duke of Buccleuch presented petitions, praying for an alteration in the Excise Laws with respect to malt. Various other petitions were presented. ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY.— The Duke of Wellington said he had to announce to their Lordships that her Majesty was delivered of a Princess this day at three o'clock in the afternoon. He begged therefore, according to the usual prac- tice, to move that an humble address be presented to her Majesty, congratulating her Majesty on the birth of another Princess, and assuring her Majesty that every addition to her Majesty's domestic hapiness afforded the highest satisfaction to the House of Lords. ( Cheers.) Lord Melbourne seconded the motion, which was agreed to. RAILWAY BILLS.— Earl Fitzwilliam wished to know the intentions of her Majesty's Government with respect to railway legislation. He would suggest the propriety of postponing the third reading of every bill before their Lordships, until the whole number of railway bills should come up from the other House. ^ • ^ The Duke of Wellington said he was unable to give the Noble Earl any answer, but he would mention the subject to his Noble Friend the President of the Board of Trade. THE CORN BILL.— The Earl of Ripon, in moving the second reading of this bill, said that he had always been of opinion that a corn law of any kind was an evil. In 1815, when he held a subordinate position in the Government, he had received a communication from the liarl of Liverpool, requiring him to move the second reading of the corn law of that day. It was with the greatest reluctance he ultimately assented to do this. He had never believed a corn law to be justified on the ground of the high rental of land, or of the charges upon that land. He did not think such a law justified by mortgages or marriage settlement, and he believed such arguments in sup- port of a corn law were now altogether explotied. Neither could he advocate a com law upon the ground of its being part of a general system of protection to native industry, and he had no other ground upon which to justify jt than the appre- hension, which he really entertained, that this country might, without some such measure, become more dependent than she ought to be on foreign countries for her supply of the neces- saries of life. There could, however, be no question but that this country had now outgrown the necessity for such a law, as was obvious from the fact that the investment of capital in agri- culture was as great and as vigorous as it had ever been. The Duke of Richmond quoted the former opinions of the Earl of Ripon, contrasting them with those which he now avowed, and argued that all this great change in the principles which hitherto had governed the legislation of the country was embarked in solely with the view of conciliating a section of the Manchester cotton spinners. If the vote were to be taken by ballot, he believed a majority of their Lordships would be found opposed to it; but Noble Lords had a disinclination to oppose the Government, being, in fact, determined to vote with the party with whom they had been so long identified. The truth was, however, that Sir R. Peel had abandoned his party, and he had no more chance of recovering the confidence of that party than he l; ad of occupying the Throne itself. He was of opinion that the success of this measure would shake the found- ations of the Throne, and undermine the most valued insti- tutions of the country. Earl Fitzwilliam supported the bill, on the ground that it was a matter of paramount inteiest that the Corn Law ques- tion should be brought to a settlement, though he could not exonerate the Government from severe blame for the time and manner in which the bill had been introduced. The Duke of Cleveland contended that the Government were yielding most unworthily to public clamour, the result of which would be sufficiently visible before many years had passed away, in the utter destruction of other more important interests than the Corn Laws. The Marquis of Londonderry supported the proposition of a Government, whose administration, both foreign and domestic, had been singularly beneiicial to the country, and who now only acquiesced in the repeal of the Corn Laws from a strong conviction that it was indispensably necessary. Lord Stanley then rose and delivered a most elaborate address, the report of which occupies no less than nine columns of small type in the morning papers. We borrow from the Times a summary of this remarkable speech :— His Lordship began by expressing great distrust in his own powers, but he felt strong in a conviction of the truth of the cause he supported, when entering upon the defence of a system of law which had been designated by Earl Fitzwilliam an absurd system, and which had been vigorously assailed by those who had hitherto ably and strenuously defended it, and to whom it owed its very existence. Upon the question of authority, he appealed from the authority of the living to that of the dead ; from statesmen of the present day to Lord Chatham, Mr. Pitt, and Mr. Huskisson; to Lord Liverpool, Mr. Canning, and Lord Grey. The Earl of Ripon had denied that the Legislature had recognized the principle of protecting native industry as a reason for regulating the importation of corn, whereas such a principle had been adopted so early as the reign of Edward IV., and it had been continued to be the rule of our legislation up to the present time, that it was expedient to secure the independence of this country upon foreign nations for corn, and to give encouragement and protec- tion to the cultivation of its own soil. This had not only been our own policy, but at the very moment when we were venturing upon the bold experiment of leaving the supply of this nation's food to chance, every other country in the world of any eminence maintained a protection to its agriculture. He did justice to the motives of those who had brought forward this measure, and Sir Robert Peel in particular could not fail to have foreseen ami disruption of ties, the shock to public COD- t wbo, we learn, N. B. Directions for the Disorder are affixed to each exhibited great presence of mind, took possession of the starboard boat for the purpose of getting ashore. They let go the fore davit fall, and at that moment some one cut away the stern fall. The weight of persons in the quarter- boat ( some say 7, some 11) caused her to upset, previous to her reaching the water, and the actual result it is impossible to ascertain ; but, as we state below, at all events five were saved. On going on board the Rambler, through the chasm made through her larboard side into the steerage, a most extraordinary sight presented itself. Part of the flooring of the quarter deck was smashed through, and the remainder, a confused mass of smashed tables, forms, boxes, & c., some floating in the water which had filled this part of the vessel. The scene on deck was still more horrifying, the whole, both fore and abaft the funnel, being covered with dead pigs, part crushed to death and another portion of which seemed to have been stabbed, the whole saturated in blood. The most awful sight, however, was the bows of the vessel, which were completely bedabbled with human blood, and strewed with crushed salmon, broken boxes, cordage, & c., & c., and the fragments of the windlass. From this part of the vessel thirteen human beings had been extricated, some with broken arms or dissevered legs— all dead, and so crushed as to be almost beyond recognition. We believe that nearly all the persons on board the Rambler were persons intending to emigrate to America. We could not ascertain precisely the quantity of cattle on board or lost. The captain thinks there were 700 pigs and 20 bullocks. Many of the former were washed overboard, in addition to ( hose killed. Only one of the bullocks was killed. The loss of life from this astounding calamity, no far as it can present Corn Law had kept us independent of foreign nations, lowered, and maintained a steadiness in prices; and would any man contend that these advantages had been purchased by a sacrifice of any interest ? So far from it our exports had increased, our shipping had increased, the value of land had augmented ; why, then, was this hazardous experiment to be made ? The system of manufacturing prosperity was not with- out its danger ; it should not be checked, but it ought to be care- fully watched ; the power of production was always overtaking that of absorption, and if manufactures were pampered to an unwholesome increase when the bubble burst the ruin would be extensive. But it was not clear that the repeal of the Corn Law would increase manufactures. If an argument was drawn from the effects of the tariff" upon other articles, the price of corn would rise with the repeal of the duty, for that of wool had risen. He, however, contended that the price of corn would fall greatly ; that we should have an inundation of foreign corn at 40s. a quarter, making that about the price of corn in the British market. The large profits of the foreign corn- grower on the importation of the article into England would furnish him with capital, which he would apply to the raising of more corn. And how were the manufacturers to be benefitted by this measure ? Only by the reduction of wages. The price of labour must fall with the price of corn. If the labourers' wages were to be reduced, they ought to have the balance of ad- vantages fairly put before them. The Noble Lord then showed the fallacy of the notion that Russia, Prussia, and the United States would not take our manufactures because we did not take their corn, and that our exports to these countries would increase after the bill passed. But admitting that there would be a great increase in the exports of our manufactures, difficulties might arise and war intervene; and when foreign markets were closed against us, and we had destroyed our home markets, then would be the period of bitter suffering to all, and especially to our artisans. And upon whom would the loss fall ? Not merely on the landlords, but on the tenant- farmers, who must suspend improvements, discharge labourers, and reduce wages according to the cold and selfish maxims of the free- traders. But if this system could be carried into effect in England, could it be even tried in Ireland? And to say that this measure was for the relief of Ireland was a proposition perfectly absurd. The Noble Lord then showed the injurious effects of the measure upon the colonies. Destroy the principle of protection, and he told them that they would destroy the whole basis on which our colonial system rested. If our colonies were taught commer- cial independence, they might learn political independence. With re gara to Canada, we were going to break our promises to her, and more, we were about to destroy the communication by the St. Lawrence, and to make New Vork the channel of our communication with Upper Canada; whilst the United States saw our suicidal policy, and were taking advantage of it. Jn conclusion, his Lordship made a powerful appeal to those Noble Lords, who went with him in his argument, and disapproved of and were alarmed at this measure, and yet for various reasons, were prepared to vote for it, against a blind deference to the authority of the other House, which, according to its recorded votes, had repeatedly negatived this measure. Such a sudden conversion diminished confidence in the last vote. He warned them, likewise, against being deterred by the fear of being suspected of unworthy motives of self- interest. It was for their Lordships to check hasty and ill- considered legislation, and to protect the people against the treachery of those whom they had chosen to represent their opinions. Lord Brougham began by complaining of the disadvantage under which he laboured in addressing their Lordships after a speech of so much power and eloquence at so late an hour. Lord Stanley denied the alleged famine in Ireland; and he ( Lord Brougham) doubted any general famine in Ireland; but that u great scarcity existed there could be no doubt. He might maintain that there was no reason for introducing the measure this year, and yet support the measure on its merits. With respect to the effect of this bill on prices, the question was too difficult to answer; it depended upon a great variety of considerations. The apprehensions of large tracts of foreign land being brought into cultivation were utterly groundless. Where was the capital? Where were the labourers? The operation of increasing the growth of corn in such a country as the Ukraine must be gradual and slow. He did not argue that there would be no diminution of price in consequence of this bill; but he thought the diminution would be small. He could, from inquiry, undertake to say that the tenant- farmers were net apprehensive of this measure. He had met with many instances of farms let at an increased rent— none in which farms had been refused or let at a reduced rent. He expected that the agriculturists would benefit by this measure to an extent far beyond the slight loss by a diminution in price. Lord Stanley had maintained that this country should not be dependent upon foreign nations for the food of the people, and contended that a war would exclude us. But Napoleon's almost universal power could not seal up the ports of the continent against the exportation of grain to this country, for in one year ( 1810), a million and a half of quarters were sent hither, a great part from the ports of France itself. The argu- ment drawn by Lord Stanley from the existence of protective laws in other countries was neutralized by his admission that the moment a pressure came the law was suspended in all those countries. The Noble and Learned Lord then discussed the other arg « , nen( s 0f Lord Stanley, to which he replied in some detail, a^ i prognosticated that if we set other nations the example uf a liberal tariff', they would follow it, and the benefit would be Mutual. The Noble and Learned Lord concluded by disclai^ njng all community of feeling with those who assailed th^ landed interest, upon which, as well as Sir R. Peel, he pronounced a high eulogium. On tile motion of Lord Wilton, the debate was adjourned, and the House rose at a quarter to two o'clock. TUESDAY, MAY 26. CORN IMIORTATION BILL.— ADJOURNED DEBATE.— The adjourned debate was resumed by The Earl of Wilton, who stated that lie had for many years supported the principles which had actuated her Majesty's Government, and he deeply regretted the painful necessity which now compelled him to oppose the present measure. He would endeavour to confine his observations to two points— the operation of the bill of 1842, and the grounds which had induced her Majesty's Ministers to depart from the principles on which it was founded. He did not object to the principles of free trade, so far as they were compatible with the institutions and condition of the country, but relaxation must have its limits ( hear, hear). He believed that no bill had ever so com- pletely carried out the intention of its enactor as the bill of 1U42. Under it an equalisation of prices had taken place, and commerce, trade, manufactures, and agriculture, had flourished. Why, then, quarrel with that prosperity, and run the risk of new and dangerous prosperity ? The groundwork of the proposed change was the scarcity of the potato crop in Ireland, but lie did not think that a statesmanlike reason for making such an extensive change ( hear, hear). He did not believe that the operation of the bill would lower prices in the same proportion as the wages of labour would be diminished (" hear, hear). The Duke of Cambridge said he had always acted on the principle of not giving a vote in opposition to the measures sanctioned by the Sovereign, and when he felt he could not fully concur in any measure, he had not voted at all. He was too old now to change his sentiments, and wished now to state that he did not mean to give a vote on the question ( cheers). He felt himself placed in a painful position, but considered his character at stake, and must decline giving a vote on the pre- sent occasion. Lord Granville said the sacrifice which had been made by the Government in the adoption of the principles of free- trade gave great weight to the argument which had always been brought forward by its promoters. A great deal had been said about the unanimity of the farmers, but some parties said it existed more at the west end of the town than in the rural districts ( a laugh). However that might be, he thought it almost impossible for them as a body to take a correct view of the laws which ought to regulate the distribution of the national wealth. H e believed the alarm which existed amongst the agriculturists to be altogether unfounded, and trusted, if their Lordships did feel any alarm, it would be at the prospect of the confusion into which the country would be thrown by the rejection of this bill ( hear, hear). The Marquis of Normanby thought the beneficial advantages likely to flow from this measure had been greatly exaggerated, but he was, notwithstanding, of opinion that the balance of' advantages was in its favour, and should therefore support it The Earl of Cardigan denounced the extraordinary change in the whole policy of the Government, in which he could no longer place confidence, and he would, therefore, oppose the bill. The Earl of Winchilsea was equally strenuous in opposing a measure which he believed was alike opposed to the feelings as to the interests of the tenantry of England. The Earl of Clarendon strongly advocated the principles of free trade, ridiculing the apprehensions entertained by some parties, that the British farmer would be ruined, if this bill passed, by an overwhelming importation of foreign grain. The Earl of Caernarvon was free to admit that the principles of free trade in the abstract might be true, but yet contended that they were wholly inapplicable to a country like this. The Noble Lord further contended that Sir R. Peel had no right to change his policy without giving an opportunity to the con- stituency of the country of saying whether their feelings coin- cided with the change which had obviously taken place in the sentiments of the Government. The Earl of Haddington repudiated the idea that the Govern- rentPdncipf- e( luFoutoaPFeal to the arisen, and t which they h)| The Earl d whom he bat The Earl until Thursd After some 1 have recommended any other course than they had done with respect to the conduct of Mr. Smith O'Brien in refusing to attend a committee of which he was a selected member. He contended that all the proceedings in the case had been regular. The Standing Orders of the House were binding so long as they remained the law upon the books. It was unnecessary to renew the Standing Orders each Session, as far as the re- appoint- ment of a Committee of Selection, and it had not been done at the commencement of the present Session ; but he did not consider any irregularity had taken place, and trusted the House would support the decision of the Committee of Selection, and refuse the present motion. Mr. Warburton said the Standing Orders of the House were imperative for the re- appointment of the Committee of Selection at the commencement of each Session, and he was, therefore, of opinion that the committal of Mr. W. S. O'Brien was informal. A discussion ensued, shared in by Mr. Strutt, Sir George Grey, Mr. Aglionby, the Attorney General, Lord Pollington, Mr. M. J. O'Connell, Sir R. Peel, and other Hon. Members; after which the House divided, and the motion of Mr. O'Connell was negatived by a majority of 180 to 36. Mr. O'Connell was then about to move that Mr. W. S. O'Brien be discharged from custody ; but at the suggestion of Sir R. Peel, he agreed to await the result of Mr. Shaw's motion on Monday. THE FACTORY BILL The adjourned debate on the second reading of the Factories' Bill was then resumed by Mr. Bankes, who supported the Bill, contending that Par- liament had a right to interfere with the hours of labour, if they exceeded the ordinary powers of human nature. Mr. Ward argued that the House had no right to interfere with the hours of labour. The subject was one which should be left to arrangement between the manufacturer and those under his employment. Lord G. Bentinck supported the bill, which was opposed by Lord Morpeth. Mr. Macaulay contended that Legislative interference with labour, if inconsistent with commercial principles, was justifiable and necessary on considerations of public health and morality. The principle had not only been recognised by modern legis- lators, but it was recognized by the ancient regulation of one day's cessation from labour out of seven, a regulation esteemed so necessary even on merely economical principles, that when the religious observance of holidays was abolished by the Long Parliament in England, and the National Convention in France, they found it necessary to set apart other days for relaxation from labour. The superiority of a nation depended on the health and intelligence of the people. In the countries where it was said the people worked so much more than ours it was the complaint of the authorities that they could not find a man fit for a soldier. If ever England were deprived of its superiority it would not be by such dwarfs as these. The more difficult question, however, was the question of degree, and after the best consideration he could not assent to a reduction to less than eleven hours. It had been said the period of interference was ill- chosen, but he could not but think it desirable that at the same period they should remedy the two- fold error they had committed, that of giving to certain branches of industry a protection which had been their bane, and withholding it from those in which the public health and morality required it. Mr. Wakley argued that the House would be abdicating its functions of legislation if it were to say that that it could not protect infant labour from the avarice and oppression of the master manufacturers. Mr. Bright admitted that the working men were in favour of a 10 hours' bill, and that 10 hours would be better for them, hut he believed that if they were only to have 10 hours' wages for 10 hours' work, the majority of hands would reject this 10 hours' scheme, and would prefer working 12 hours a day in order to obtain 12 hours' wages. He opposed this bill as being in itself a bad bill, as being founded on false principles, and as fostering the most mischievous delusions among the labouring classes. Mr. B. Denison observed that, though he was prepared to go into committee on this Bill, he was not prepared to support a reduction of the hours of labour to 10. Twelve hours formed too long a period of work for young women , and it would be better for the community if they were curtailed to 11. Sir R. Peel had listened with great pleasure to the speech of Mr. Macaulay, which, as a rhetorical composition, was very admirable, but as an argument very defective ; for it was wholly beside the real question involved in this bill— namely, whether it was politic to place a tax on labour, by preventing the adult from employing more than ten hours of his day. It was now thirty years since he had co- operated with one for whose memory lie must ever feel the deepest regard, in endeavouring to obtain, contrary to all the principles of political economy, a ten hours' bill. He described the various changes which had taken place in the law within that period, and declared that he had no wish to recede from them, though he was not inclined to advance further. He admitted that there were higher con- siderations than the mere accumulation of wealth, and that the. House was bound to consider whether further restrictions on labour would promote the health, morality, and comfort of the labouring classes; but, on the other hand, he hoped that the promoters of the bill would reflect that they were imposing by it a tax equivalent to an income tax of 15 per cent, on adult labour employed in the cotton, linen, woollen, and silk manu- factures. In reply to the argument, that we ought to consult the wishes of the working classes on this subject, he observed that they were now under an impression that Parliament could limit the hours of tlieir labour without producing any diminu- tion in their wages. If that impression did not exist in their minds, how was it, that when Mr. Gregg told his workmen, " I will work my mill only for eleven hours, and 1 will pay you not for twelve hours' work, but only for eleven hours and a half," they unanimously rejected this offer ? Let it not be supposed from his mentioning that experiment that he was in favour of an eleven hours' bill. He was not; he was against all further interference with labour, thinking that we had already gone far enough. Besides, he thought that the present time, when we were entering on a new commercial system, was not the time for also entering on so dangerous an experiment as that now proposed. Lord J. Russell maintained that Sir R. Peel had not been very successful in his refutation of the argument which Mr. Macaulay had directed against the popular fallacy, that we ought never, under any circumstances, to interfere with adult labour. He showed that the Acts of Sir R. Peel, of Sir J. Hobhouse, and Lord Althorp, had already interfered with that description of labour, and that this bill did not carry that interference further than those Acts, which were now uni- versally approved of. He had never held out to the working classes the expectation that they would receive twelve hours* wages for eleven hours' work; but he knew that the rate of wages did not depend either upon this or upon any other bill, but upon the demand for labour. His belief was, that in con- sequence of the alteration recently made in the Corn Laws, there would be a greater demand for labour in the manufac- turing districts, and in consequence an increase in the rate of wages; and with that belief on his mind, and with the con- viction that this bill would tend to the improvement of the social condition of the people, he should cordially give his vote in favour of this measure. Mr. Cobden entered into an analysis of the different speeches made in support of the Bill, and asked the Protectionists what they would say to him, if he were to bring in a Bill to compel the landlords of Dorsetshire, Wiltshire, and Somersetshire to pay their labourers 12s. a week? Would Lord J. Manners support such a Bill on grounds of mere feeling ? No such thing. He would oppose it on grounds of political economy ; and would say that you could compel the landlords to pay 12s. a week to the labourers whom they employed, but that you could not compel them to employ labourers. Would the Noble Lord apply the same reasoning to manufacturers, and consider whether a worse fate than working for 12 hours a day might not befall the operative classes in their not having any work at all ? Mr. Muntz gave his cordial support to the Bill. After a brief reply from Mr. Fielden, the House divided, when there appeared— For the second reading 193 Against it 203 Majority 10 The other orders of the day were then disposed of and the House adjourned. MONDAY, MAY 25. WORCESTER NEW GAS BILL.— The report on this Bill was brought up, and the Bill ordered to be engrossed. Mr. Greene moved, that the minutes of the evidence of the proceedings of the Committee to which the Bristol and Glou- cester Railway Bill ( No. 2) was referred in the last Session of Parliament, be referred to the Committee on Group 31 of Rail- way Bills.— Agreed to. Petitions on various subjects were presented. SUGAR DUTIES Lord John Russell gave notice, that ill committee on the Sugar Duties Bill, he should move the reduc- tion of the duty on all foreign sugar to the rate proposed for sugar the produce of free labour, ( hear,) and should that be agreed to lie should then propose the abolition of all differential duties on foreign and colonial sugar. ( Hear.) ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY.— Sir R. Peel said he would take that opportunity of announcing to the House a happy event that had taken place since they last met. He considered that he was justified in moving an address of congratulation to her Majesty on the birth of another Princess without giving any notice of such motion. ( Hear, hear.) Her Majesty dis- charged the duties of her exalted station as the Sovereign of thlfl AAiiMinir im n Mituuiiy pL « . L I , ' P I 1 lltltvu UIMt jjl M constituencies in public men and in Parliament. Bui Ac Ry. t Hon. Bart, had mistaken the emergency and the position in which he was placed; he had confounded the brawling torrent of agitation with the deep, still current of public opinion. Ministers had been asked in another place what they expected would be the result of this measure, and they frankly said they did not know. This measure, therefore, was introduced with- out a knowledge of what its effects would be. The grounds assigned for the measure were the famine in Ireland and the success of the tariff; but these reasons were mutually at variance. If this bill relieved the famine in Ireland, it could only be by bringing down the price of corn to the means of the starving population of Ireland. Tlieir Lordships must distinguish between famine and great local scarcity. lie spoke of famine in Ireland as a vision, a baseless vision ; he spoke in different terms of the amount of destitution and distress through the partial failure of the potato crop. When the subject came before the Cabinet of which he was a member, he yielded his own opinion, and consented to a suspension, and a suspension only, of the Corn Law ; a total abolition he con- sidered unjustifiable in itself; but he was left alone. The Noble Lord then entered into details respecting the course he had taken in these transactions, and then into statistical details applicable to the policy and effects of the existing Corn Law, and particularly to the operation of the sliding scale in checking the tendency of a rise in the price of corn, and in preventing the fluctuation of prices. This was a complete answer to those who said that fluctuation in prices was the peculiar vice of the sliding- scale ; whereas never had prices so fluctuated as during the free trade in corn, when we were most dependent on a foreign supply. In the prices of articles not subject to any sliding- scale, in which there was a free trade— potatos and cotton, for example— the fluctuations were enormous. The course open , ad adopted. > f Hardwieke regretted to be obliged to oppose those I long followed and supported, of Wicklow moved the adjournment of the debate ay next. . discussion, in which the Marquis of Clanricarde, \ J). Wellington, Lord Ashburton, and other Noble I art, The debate was adjourned until Thursday, with an under- standing that it should then be concluded ; or if not that the House should sit on Friday rather than throw the question over the recess.— Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY, MAY 22. The Buckinghamshire Railway ( Oxford and Bletchley Junction) Bill was read a third time and passed. Petitions in favour of Art, Unions and on various other subjects were presented. MR. SMITH O'BRIEN On the order of the day being read for resuming the adjourned debate on the Factories Bill, Mr. O'Counell moved that the consideration of the letter of Mr. Smith O'Brien, presented to the House last night, be first considered, and that the minutes of the proceedings be read by the clerk at the table. This motion having been agreed to, and the letter and proceedings relating to Mr. O'Brien having been read, Mr. O'Conftell contended that it was evident from the letters of Mr. Ley ailtj J\ ir. O'Brien that the Committee of Selection hail not been ju] yapp0inted, and consequently Mr. O'Brien was not boundattenja committee, of which he was a selected member. Hjs fjrst moti0n was that the order of committal dated the 27tft0f April, be discharged, and then, if that were carried he should move that Mr. O'Brien be discharged from custody, which he imagined there could be no opposition to. The Hon Member then moved to rescind the order of the 27th of April. Mr. Estcouft saj(] ] ie feit confident that lie should be able to satisfy the Hftuset, lattji( J Committee of Selection had been properly appo^^ and that they , md only Uoue their duty in reporting ttiei,, proceedings lo the House. They could not and he, therefore, trusted that the ai proposed would he unanimously agreed to. Lord J. Russell fully concurred in the sentiments expressed by the Right Hon. Baronet that her Majesty possesses the con- fidence of all her subjects. He, therefore, most cordially seconded the motion. The motion for an address of congratulation to her Majesty! on the birth of a Princess, was unanimously agreed to. DISCHARGE OF MR. SMITH O'BRIEN.— Mr. Shaw moved that " W. S. O'Brien, Esq., in custody of the Sergeant- at- Arms attending the House, be discharged out of custody, paying his fees." As the authority of the House had been sufficiently vindicated by the imprisonment of Mr. S. O'Brien for 25 days, and as the business of the Committee on which that gentleman had been ordered to attend was now completed, he hoped that this motion, which was drawn up in the usual form, would meet the unanimous concurrence of the House. Mr. Henley, the Chairman of the Committee which Mr. S. O'Brien had been ordered to attend, seconded the motion, and created great merriment by assuring the House that no public inconvenience had resulted from the absence of Mr. O'Brien. Mr. P. Butler trespassed on the House at the request of Mr. S. O'Brien, who still was of opinion that he had been illegally imprisoned, and who therefore declared that he would only pay his fees under a protest. Sir K. Peel observed that there had been but one feeling of regret in the House that it had been compelled to submit one of its members to restraint. He was bound to say that in his opinion it was no longer necessary to continue that restraint. If Mr. S. O'Brien paid his tees und _ r a protest, it would prevent the payment of his fees from being considered as a personal acquiescence on his part. The motion was then carried without a dissentient voice, and in a few minutes afterwards Mr. S. O'Brien walked into the House, and took liis seat in mortifying silence. Lord J. Russell inquired whether, and when, it was the inten- tion of Government to proceed with the Protection to Life ( Ireland) Bill ? and announced that he would oppose the second reading of the measure. Sir K. Peel said that on Friday next he would state the day on which the second reading of the Bill would be proposed. After a short preliminary discussion the House went into Cora* —— ; „ ^ THE WORCESTERSHIRE GUARDIAN, SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1846. friittee of supply. The miscellaneous estimates were taken, and several votes were agreed to. The House, on resuming, disposed of the other orders of the day, and then adjourned. TUESDAY, MAY 26. The House of Commons was counted out at an early hour. It had been previously arranged, on the motion of Sir R. Peel, that the House at its rising should adjourn to Thursday. THURSDAY, MAY 28. The report on the Midland and Eastern Counties ( Cambridge to Weedon) Railway Bill was brought up, and the bill ordered to be engrossed. On the motion of Mr. Hudson, the second reading of the Railway Companies Rill was postponed until Friday se'nnight. The Corresponding Societies and Lecture Rooms Bill was read a third time and passed. The Railway Companies Dissolution Bill was reported, anu the bill ordered to be engrossed. No other business of interest was transacted, and the House adjourned early. ^ ^ HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, MAY 28. Numerous' petitions were presented, praying for the con- tinuance of agricultural protection. Some were also presented on the other side of the question. SEES OF ST. ASAPH AND BANGOR— Lord Powis presented a bill, for enabling her Majesty to make certain provisions for preventing the union of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor, and for the appointment of a Bishop of Manchester. The Noble Lord, having moved the first reading of the bill, said, that it had been his intention to have moved the second reading on the 11th of June; but having been informed that the state of public business was such as to make so early a day inconvenient, be had decided to delay the second reading of his biil until the 2nd of July CORN BILL ADJOURNED DEBATE AND DIVISION— The adjourned debate was resumed by Earl Grey, who con tended that the effect of the Corn- law now in existence was to enhance the price of food, while at the same time depreciating the means of the mass of the people to procure it. It altogether overlooked the interests of the consumer, while endeavouring, by artificial means, to advance th3t of the producer. The Corn- law, in fact, operated as a tax of £ 10,000,000 annually upon the consumer; and this only for the imaginary advantage of one particular class of the community. In addition to this disadvantage to the consumer, it was an established fact that when corn was cheap labour was comparatively high, while on the other hand there was a scarcity of employment when food was dear. In every point of view, therefore, a protecting duty on corn operated severely on the industrial classes. The Noble Lord then proceeded to argue at great length, that the repeal of the Corn- law could only operate as a proper and wholsome stimulus to agricultural improvement, while affording a larger supply of food to the artizan, whose increased consumption would counterbalance the depressing tendency of price resulting from foreign importation. The Noble Earl concluded by ex- pressing his earnest prayer that the House would pass the second reading of the bill by a large majority. Lord Ashburton said the bill came before the House in a very humble form— that of a bill to regulate the trade in corn- but it was in reality a formidable measure calculated to alter the whole system, " colonial, monetary, and commercial, of this great country. The bill was founded upon a case of distress in Ireland, which, it would be admitted, had been greatly exagge- rated, and which, at all events, might have been relieved by the temporary opening of the ports; and it was sustained by the argument that, it being necessary to open the ports to relieve that distress, it would be impossible to close them again. He would ask why it should be impossible so to close when the cause of opening them was at an end ? They had been opened befoie when corn was extravagantly high, and closed again when the evil was remedied, and why that course should not have been again pursued he was at a loss to imagine. The effect of the bill, if it should pass, would be to bring an over- powering supply into the market, and if should be followed by a good harvest prices would fall as low, or perhaps lower, than they had ever been in this country. He was so convinced of this that he had advised his own tenantry to send their produce to market as fast as they could. In that part of Europe beyond the Carpathian Mountains, and lying between the rivers of the Baltic and those which fell into the Black sea, a sufficiency of corn was growing to supply France, Belgium, and every other country which might at any time require a supply. Those countries, however, as soon as they had obtained a requisite supply, closed their ports, whereas their Lordships were called upon to adopt a measure which proceeded upon a principle against which every other nation practically exclaimed. As to the capability of the farmer to sustain the competition to which this bill would expose him, he had heard but one argument namely, that if you teased and worried him enough there was no telling what you might not get out of him, an argument equivalent to saying there was no knowing what you might not get out of a bad horse with a good pair of spurs. Was this a principle upon which their Lordships would consent to legislate ? The Noble Lord then pointed out the injurious way in which the bill would operate towards the clergy, if the price of corn should materially fall, and if it should not fall he could not understand what the utility could be of passing the bill at all. Assuming, however, that the price would fall to 40s., the consequence would be that the income of every clergy- man would be reduced nearly one- third. Every clergyman with an income at present of £ 300 per annum would find that he would be limited by the operation of this bill to an income of £ 200. The bill was, in fact, so mischievous in every point of view, so great a mistake in legislation, that he hoped it would he rejected by their Lordships. The Marquis of Lansdowne contended that the decision of the House of Commons in this case was as much to be respected by their Lordships as any to which it had ever come upon any former occasion ; and although the Earl of Malmesbury had said it was not a clean majority, yet he would say that it was not for their Lordships to examine into the motives of indi- vidual Members of the Commons, but to take the decision as it stood. The Noble Marquis strongly advocated the necessity of agreeing to the measure, repudiating the idea that it could lead to any alteration in the social system of the country. The Earl of Essex supported the bill, advocating strenuously the principles of Free Trade, though he regretted that in the preparation of the measure, greater consideration had not been shown towards the burdens on the land. The Earl of Eglintour. said he had been always a Con- servative and hoped to continue one, and would have been happv to have still adhered to the Government, but when he saw Sir Robert Peel overthrowing every principle which he had all his former life been advocating, he felt it necessary to act entirely upon his own individual judgment, and in the exercise of that judgment he would give his decided opposition to the bill. It was said that the land was not skilfully worked, and he admitted that a good deal of it was neither sufficiently drained nor manured, but the inducement held out to the farmer to incur the expense of improvement was the reduction in the value of his produce. Lord Beaumont contended that the only good which might have come out of such an evil measure as this, by teaching the Irish to exchange the cultivation of potatoes for that of white grain, had been defeated, by its destroying the only market which in a protected state would have ensured a return for that grain. The Noble Lord went on to show that the export of our manufactures was limited by various causes, and that our imports of corn must displace a corresponding quantity of home- grown corn. It had been asked why should not the English farmer compete with the foreigner ? Because he did not come fairly into the market; he brought his corn, loaded with a direct taxation of 4s. or 5s. a quarter, to compete with that of the Russian farmer paying not Is. tax. In all foreign countries the garnering system was kept up, which counteracted scarcity, an effect which resulted from our bonding system— thai system we were now about to abandon— and we might from the most trivial accident find ourselves on the verge of famine. He strenuously opposed the second reading of the bill. The Earl of Dalhousie contended that the principle of " protection" was unsound in itself, and was calculated to enhance prices to the consumer, without any ultimate advan- tage to the producer. With respect to our becoming inde- pendent of foreign countries, he contended that the constant increase in the quantity of foreign corn taken into our home consumption was a sufficient proof that even under the existing law we were not independent of foreign supply. The fact was, however, that we were dependent upon foteigners for not only our food but for the means even of clothing and existence, as was evident from a mere glance at our cotton manufactures. What would become of our manufacturing population if we were to exclude the cotton of America ? The same might be said of wool and other articles; and it was absurd, therefore, to raise the question in respect to food exclusively, when it was, in fact, equally applicable to the means of purchasing it. The Noble Earl also adverted to the averages, which he said gave a fictitious idea of price, owing to the difference of quality, as was evident from a comparison between the price given bv them and that at which you could really buy the best wheat in the market. In fact, the contract price at the Victualling- office, this year was for the best red wheat £ 3. lis., although the price given by the averages was only £ 2. 10s. He con cluded a lengthened speech by a defence of the course pursued by the Government, every member of which regretted that the attempt of Lord John Russell to form an Administration to carry the measure had proved a failure. They would, how- ever, have been traitors to their Sovereign and to their own convictions if they hesitated after that failure to act precisely as they had done, and although they might be doomed to bow before the indignation of their party, they could at least stand erect before a higher tribunal. The Duke of Beaufort objected to the measure on the ground that it was impolitic and unjust, and would destroy the small tenantry of England. On one estate in Wales he had 80 tenantry; one of those families had lived under his ancestors for 350 years, and another 450 years ; this measure would reduce that tenantry to the class of labourers; was he to turn these men, bound to him and his, adrift ? He would rather cut off' his right hand. This was a tenant's question, and the tenants were bestirring themselves about it. His Grace complained of the treatment which the protectionist party had received from the Premier, and prognosflcated that, under this bill, the 600,000 tenant farmers would sink into the condition of labourers, or become emigrants from their native land. The Duke of Wellington said it was painful to him to have to force this measure upon the consideiation of the House in opposition to the feelings of those with whom he had been so long and with such satisfaction to himself, united in ties of friendship. The course he had taken, however, he would be ready to take again to- morrow, if called upon by what he con- ceived to be his duty to the Crown. His own conscience was satisfied, and he could only regret it if others did not take the game view he did of his duty to his most gracious Sovereign. The House then divided, and the numbers were— For the second reading— Present 138 Proxies 73 Total 211 For the amendment— Present 126 Proxies 38 Total 164 Majority for the second reading 47 The committee on the bill was fixed for the 11th of June. The House then, at ten minutes before five o'clock this morning adjourned until Thursday next. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PERSONATING A JUROR.— At the Surrey Sessions on Wednesday last, in the midst of a trial in which a prisoner was indicted for felony, a juror stood up in the box, and addressing the chairman, said there was a person in the box acting as a juror who had no right to do so ; that he had per- sonated his employer, who was summoned to serve in that capacity. The person alluded to ( a man named Smith) rose and said that he had been sent there by his master, Mr. Geo. Davis, carman, of the Kent- road, who told him to answer to his name. The Chairman replied that he had subjected him- self to serious consequences. The effect of this was to vitiate the trials which had taken place, and great inconvenience would be experienced from the necessity of sending aftetthe witnesses in order that the prisoners might be tried over again. The Chairman, with the concurrence of the Bench of Magis- trates, decided on fining Davis £ 10 for the contempt of Court, and detained Smith in custody for the present. AMERICA. WAR. WITH MEXICO. The Cambria Royal mail steamer arrived in Liverpool yesterday ( Thursday), with news to the 16th instant, inclusive, announcing the most important intelligence that the United States had declared war against Mexico. The President of the United States issued his proclamation to that effect, on the 13th, in which occurs the following preamble :— " Whereas, the Congress of the United States, by virtue of the constitutional authority vested in them, have declared by their act bearing date this day, that ' by the act of the Republic of Mexico, a state of war exists between that Government and the United States.' " The President then calls upon all persons holding offices, civil or military, under the authority of the United States, to be vigilant and zealous in the discharge of the duties apper- taining thereto, & c. FRANCE. ESCAPE OF PRINCE LOUIS BUONAPARTE. On Monday last the Prince succeeded in effecting his escape from the fortress of Ham, after a close imprisonment of some years. Having assumed the disguise of a workman, he con- trived to elude the vigilance of the sentries; to regain his freedom without any molestation from the battalion of infantry that formed the garrison of the castle; and to arrive safely in London, where, we believe, he is at present. It is well known that for some time past Prince Louis has earnestly desired once more to see his aged father, whose pre- carious state of health leaves little hope that his life will be much further prolonged. His object, as we hear, is to obtain passports without delay, in order that he may at once hasten to share the retreat of his father at Florence.— Morning Post. JLocal liailUMi) EnteUigencc* The Government Railway Relief Regulation continues actively in operation ; nevertheless we find that after making all deductions, the total capital applicable to schemes not yet decided upon amounts to the enormous sum of £ 138,468,433. And yet, meeting after meeting is but one of a series of triumphs for the assenting parties. Meetings have been held during the past week, at which the following local companies ( amongst others), have decided on going on: — Shrewsbury and Herefordshire Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ( branches) Grand Junction ( branches) A characteristic feature of the Railway Share market is pretty steady nominal prices, with a great paucity of actual business. In this state of things the jobbers always mark such wide prices that it is difficult to do business unless by a considerable sacrifice. The old lines, and such of the pro- jected ones as are dealt in regularly, are exceptions to the above observation; but they form a very small proportion of the whole. Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton shares have risen to 8J or 3J dis. The last quotations of the Great Eastern and Western are I, and of Welsh Midland, I5. OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON.— An appli- cation was made to- day to the Magistrates of the county, sitting in Palace Yard, by Mr. Elgie, solicitor to the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Company, for an order for the immediate possession of certain land situate in the parish of Claines, and belonging respectively to the Lord Bishop of Worcester and to 11. Spooner, Esq., MP. The Magistrates present were T. G. Curtler and F. E. Williams, Esqrs., and Capt Hastings. Mr. Elgie made the application tinder the terms of the 8th Victoria, cap. 18, called the Land Clauses Act. By the 84th section of this Act the promoters of railway undertakings are precluded from entering upon lands required for such railway until the purchase money be paid or deposited, unless for the purposes of surveying, taking levels, and setting out the line. But the 85th section sets forth that il the promoters of an undertaking of this kind be desirous of entering upon lands before an agreement be come to for their purchase, they may deposit in a bank the amount claimed, or such sum as a surveyor might determine to be the value, and also give a bond to the parties interested. On making such deposit and giving such bond the promoters may enter on the lands required. Mr. Elgie proceeded to stale to the Magistrates that the Company required the im- mediate possession of a certain piece of land of Mr. Spooner's, and that fact having been deposed to on oath, and it having also been satisfactorily shown that 110 award nor verdict in respect of such land has been given, nor agreement entered into, the Magistrates agreed to appoint Mr. William Fowler, surveyor, of Birmingham, to make a valuation of tho land required, in order that the required deposit may be made. These proceedings, it should be understood, are not to be looked upon in an adverse character. It is still open to Mr. Spooner, and all other parties owning laud through which this line of railway is intended to pass, to make a mutual arrange- ment for its sale and purchase. OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON ( BRANCHES.) — The bill for the branches in connection with this line went into Committee on Group 32 on Tuesday. Mr. Talbot having opened the case on the part of the promoters, which was opposed by some ironmasters and landowners, and by the solicitor to the London and Birmingham Railway, the Com- mittee, after hearing evidence, adjourned to yesterday ( Thurs- day) when the preamble of the bill was decided as proved. Mr. Laing asked to have this bill and the Hampton and Ash- church considered together. Thereupon the Chairman said he had 110 power to do what had been asked; but he would lay tho circumstances of the case before the House when it came on to be considered there. Mr. Selfe then addressed the Committee on the part of the ironmasters between Kidderminster and Dudley, with a view to obtain clauses compelling the Company to accommodate them with the narrow gauge, and to revise their tolls; and the Chairman said the Committee were determined to revise the tolls on the whole line, and would advise the accommodation of the narrow gauge ; this request was very reasonable. As some clauses were produced by opposing parties, and application was made for time to consider them, the Committee adjourned till Friday ( this day), when they were to meet to go through the clauses of the bill. CHELTENHAM AND OXFORD This bill has been in com- mittee, and the result has been that in consequence of the opposition got up at Cheltenham, the bill has been withdrawn. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE ( TRING TO BANBURY).— The Com- mittee 011 this bill has decided that the preamble is proved, and the several clauses have been settled. SOUTH WALES, No. 2.— This line may be said to have passed the Commons' Committee. The Committee decided against a portion of the preamble, which has been omitted, and it is now proposed to carry this line from Chepstow to a point of junction with the Forest of Dean Railway. This enables the trunk line of the South Wales Company to be carried on without interruption. MIDLAND AND EASTERN COUNTIES.— A meeting of the scripholders of the above Company was held on Friday, at the London Tavern, in compliance with the Sessional Order. Mr. C. Cobbold was called to the chair. It appeared from a long address of the Chairman, that the original proprietors called upon the public to take shares in a Company to be formed for the purpose of obtaining Parlia- mentary powers to construct a line from Cambridge to Wor- cester. The shares were 60,000. On the 9th of October 35,000 shares were allotted, and the remainder were being prepared for issue when the panic took place. Of this number 18,160 only were paid upon. The Directors, therefore, could not proceed for the whole line. They took counsel of eminent individuals, as it is stated, under whose advice it was deter- mined without, as it would appear, submitting the alteration of the original plan to the consideration of the shareholders— to go for a portion only of the line, viz., from Weedon to Cambridge, which is the least profitable part of the original project. The London and Birmingham Company have taken up the line from Weedon to Worcester. With the exception of the short portion of the route between Northampton and Weedon, the Midland and Eastern Counties Company would, it was stated, be unopposed by the promoters of competing schemes. It had at the previous meeting been estimated that, if the scripholders determined to wind up the concern, something like lis. 9d. per share would be returned ; but the Chairman, on the present occasion, stated he thought it would not be so low a figure by a great deal, if the shareholders put confidence in the Directors, and in the position of the Company's affairs. Tiiey had got rid of all opposition, and their line, 38 miles in length, would be made at about 16,000/. per mile. What the Directors suggested was to appoint a small Committee of shareholders to investigate the accounts, and that the shareholders, if they thought it to be to their interest to prosecute the measure, could do so. On the part of the dissentient scripholders, who appeared to be many, it was argued that 110 conlidence had been evinced in the soundness of the scheme by the gentlemen resident along the line. That out of 525 persons who had signed the deed, 110 resided in Scotland, 140 in Leeds, 90 in York, and that very few indeed of those whose names appeared on the sub- scription list were residents or landowners along the line. A complaint was made that the receipts were put down at 47,950/. 9s. bd. only., while they should in fact have been shown as something like 57,000/., inasmuch as the Directors had, to make up the necessary capital in the subscription deed, signed for upwards of 90,000/. the deposits on which, amounting to nearly 10,000/., had not yet been brought into account. The Directors stated that they did not desire to shrink from the responsibility they had incurred in respect of the 90,000/. and upwards. A proprietor thought it would reflect disgrace upon the share- holders if they did not hold the Directors harmless in this matter. Those gentlemen had rendered themselves responsible, not for their particular benefit, but for the general interest of the Company. To this it was replied, that the Directors had taken the res- ponsibility upon themselves without in any way consulting their shareholders, who, if the real state of affairs had been laid before them, would no doubt have advised the immediate breaking up of the concern. A very strong objection was taken to the great expenses that had been incurred. Afier much desultory discussion, and a motion for winding up the Company, the books, in which the proxies and shares of persons present had been entered, were added up, when it was found the number was not sufficient to constitute the meeting a legal one. The meeting was, therefore, adjourned to Frit ay ( this day) for the purpose of obtaining the additional votes required to make up the proper number. BIRMINGHAM, WOLVERHAMPTON, & STOUR VALLEY. — A very numerous and highly respectable meeting of share- holders 111 the above Company was held in Birmingham, 011 Saturday, pursuant to the Sessional Orders of Parliament, for the purpose of assenting to, or dissenting from, the above project. LI. Scott, Esq., M. P., presided, as Chairman of the Company. The usual preliminaries having been gone through, The Chairman, after a few introductory observations, pro- ceeded to say that he felt confident it required very little consideration to be able to see the decided superiority of the line which the Company he had then the honour of presiding over contemplated giving to the public. When they made their railway it would be one which would afford accommodation to the entire district through which it was to pass, and he defied any Company, not in connection with the Birmingham Canal Company, to give the same amount of accommodation to the public. No; the opposing party might subscribe their millions, but they could not do it. It was physically impossible that any line of railway could be made to accommodate South Staffordshire, not in connection with the Birmingham Canal. The Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley line, which was to join the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton line, would be a very expensive undertaking, and accommodate comparatively few works in the district, as would appear from the fact of the great and important works being on the line of the Birmingham Canal. The main feature of their undertaking was, that by a proper union of the canal and railway they should be able to carry the goods of the district at a much less rate of tonnage, and it was not right that the public should think that the scheme opposed to them was the best, and one which could be sustained. But the line which lie advocated had other strong recommendations in its favour. They were to commence from the stations of the London and Birmingham and Grand Junction Railways, and drive to a central station to be erectcd at the back of the Free Grammar School, where passengers arriving would be close to the principal shops and hotels in the town. They would pass under a tunnel to the Crescent, where a goods station would be erected, and from which great benefit would be derived. They Would also have another station, thus affording the best accommodation which could be given, and infinitely superior to the one station which the competing line would give them. The Hon. Gentleman, in continuation, pointed out all the other advantages of the proposed line which was to be afforded to the public between Birmingham and Wolverhampton, and proceeded to reply to some of the arguments used in favour of competing lines. The question now was, which was the best and cheapest line they could obtain over that district ? He conteuded that which he had the honour of supporting was the best; and he felt confident that it would receive the support and sanction of the iron and coal masters and merchants and manufacturers in the district. The Hon. Gentleman, in conclusion, proposed the first resolu- tion, authorising the Directors to proceed with the Bill. Mr. Sparrow seconded the resolution. In answer to a question by Mr. Rogers, The Chairman said he was not aware of any thing which had taken place since the formation of the Company to prevent them from carrying on the line to Stourport; on the contrary, if he could he would make one to that town to- morrow. The resolution was then put and carried unanimously. After which a vote of thanks, moved by P. Williams, and seconded by J. E. Piercy, Esq. was passed to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. BAIL COURT, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27. THE UUEEN V. THE COMMISSIONERS OF DUDLEY. Mr. Whitmore appeared to show cause against a rule obtained on a former day, calling upon the defendants to answer why a mandamus should not issue, commanding them to take the necessary measures for summoning a jury at the next general quarter sessions at Worcester, for inquiring into and ascertaining the sum of money that ought to be paid to a Mr. Musselwaite, for two houses belonging to him, in High- street, Market- hill, Dudley, as well as for the loss he had sustained by reason of being deprived of such property, under the povisions of the local act passed for improving the town of Dudley. Notice had been frequently given to Mr. Musselwaite of the intention of the defendants to take the property in question, but they had not acted upon it, in consequence of the want of funds. He submitted that the act made it optional with the defendants to choose their own time as to the purchasing of this property, and that the power was lodged in the commissioners only to apply to the justices at quarter sessions for the summoning of a jury to assess the value of these houses when they thought proper to do so. Mr. Whateley, contra, said, in reply to the statement respecting the want of funds, this argument could not have any weight with the Court, inasmuch as there was a clause in the act empowering the defendants to levy rates upon the houses in Dudley, for the purpose of raising funds for all purposes under the said act. They had committed the grossest injustice to his client in giving him so many notices to resign his property and then refusing to make him proper compensation for it. This was no doubt a one- sided act of Parliament, as it lodged the most arbitrary powers in the hands of the commissioners. In 1832, when Mr. Musselvvaite was making a slight alteration in his premises, he received a letter from Mr. Bourne, the com- missioners' clerk, stating that they intended to take his houses, but would not pay for any increased value put upon them by reason of this alteration. In March, 1832, they served another notice upon him similar to the first, and giving him the usual notice to quit. In 1840, a third notice of the kind was served upon him without leading to any result. From the frequency of these notices, he thought it necessary to sell off his stock in trade, thereby incurring great loss, and being put to many hundred pounds of expense. He attended a meeting of the commissioners, when he mentioned the amount of his demand; but they refused acceding to it, saying that they would go to the quarter sessions. In consequence of which he felt himself obliged to take other premises, which were much inferior for his business; but in consequence of the defendants not going before the sessions in April last, he opened a correspondence with the clerk, the result of which was an appeal to this Court to compel the defendants to act decisively in the matter. Under all these circumstances, he submitted that, inasmuch as the Legislature could not have contemplated that a case of such great hardship as this should be left without a remedy, the rule for a mandamus should be made absolute. Mr. Justice Wightman said it could hardly be presumed that the Legislature intended that a party should be without a remedy in such a case, because the commissioners might think fit never to go to the sessiops. Rule absolute. WORCESTER INFIRMARY. To the Editor of the Worcestershire Guardian. Sir, As the attention of the public is now especially called to the affairs of our noble Infirmary, I think your readers will not be indisposed to receive information as toils management. It must he highly gratifying to the Governors to find that the usefulness of this valuable Institution has been steadily increasing from its commencement to the present time. Thus we learn from its records, that during the first twenty years of its establishment, the number of patients relieved annually did not exceed eight hundred. At the commencement of the present century they were about fifteen hundred yearly, whereas the report issued for 1845 states the gratifying fact that the number of patients relieved within the year amounts to more than two thousand eight hundred. It is pleasing to observe this convincing proof of the steady augmentation of the benefits of the Infirmary, and also the greater appreciation of them by the sick poor. It is also very encouraging to find that, with the onward progress of the Institution, there is no failure of the sources of benevolence. This statement we are justified in making, by comparing the present amount of annual subscrip- tions with that of former years. The subscriptions have always formed the most important part of the income ; and, as showing the degree of sympathy with which the public regard the charity, they are a good test of its popularity. At the commencement of the Infirmary, its annual income from this source, did not exceed 300/.; but in a few years it nearly amounted to 700/. Since the commencement of the present century the subscriptions have fluctuated a gcod deal; they have very rarely been as high as 1400/. per annum, and never much below 1000/. per annum. The average annualincome, from subscriptions, for the last six years, has been 1235/.; and the income for the last year ( 1845), from that source, amounts to 1298/. This is very satisfactory, as it is the best answer that can be given to those who have been circulating reports injurious to the Infirmary, and have been stating that the subscriptions to the charity have been falling off latterly. Legacies also have formed a very important part of the income of the charity, from its commencement to the present time. In the earlier years of the Infirmary they were comparatively of small amount. Until the year 1792, no legacy so large as 1000/. had been bequeathed to the Institution, and until 1812 no very large amount had been received ; but in that year the late Mr. Vellers left the munificent sum of 6000/. to the charity, one half of which was ordered to be paid immediately, and the other at the termination of two lives, which latter sum has ouly just now been paid. Ever since this period the legacies have been a great source of wealth to the charity; and by means of them the Governors have been enabled to expend a large sum ( not less than 4000/.) in improving the edifice, so as to make it a more healthful residence for the patients, and also to invest a considerable sum in the Funds, which yields a good yearly revenue to the Institution. To show how careful the manage- ment of the Institution has been in this respect, we need only state the following facts, viz. :— Prior to the year 1810 the funded property belonging to the charily did not amount to 6000/. In the year 1830 it was not quite 16,000/.; whereas, at the present time ( 1846), when the legacies that have lately fallen in shall have been added to the capital, it will amount to about 24,000/. Thus it will be seen that the resources of the Infirmary, instead of being, as some would represent, in a decaying condition, are steadily and undeniably on the increase. But not only is this the case; I am likewise in a condition to prove that the expenditure of the Infirmary, compared with that of thirty- two provincial hospitals, is considerably below the average ; and, moreover, that since of late years so many more patients have been relieved by the Infirmary, there is by no means a corresponding increase in the amount expended. Take, for example, fifteen years of comparison, from 1830 to 1845 inclusive, and it will be found that the expenditure is not greater now than at the former time, although one thousand more patients were relieved in 1845 than in 1830. I think I have said enough to convince those who read these remarks in candour and fairness how very unfounded are the observations that have been lately circulated respecting the management of the Infirmary ; and I am also of opinion that what has been here stated will induce the Governors to pause before they alter a system of management which has 011 the whole worked so successfully. That there are defects in the Worcester Infirmary no sane person can deny ; for since im- perfection is inherent to man, and to man's works, we cannot but assume that any benevolent design, however beneficial in its tendency, must partake of the imperfection of the designer. Yet, I will be bold to avow, there are few Institutions more perfect than the provincial Infirmaries of England, and among these the Worcester Infirmary stands prominently forward in excellence. I will not, in conclusion, hesitate to affirm my conviction, that although circumstances may occasionally arise, which threaten to embarrass the affairs of the Infirmary, and impair its utility, yet, by a judicious direction of that never failing desire, which has at all times been evinced for its prosperity by its noble, generous, and humane patrons, and by a continuance of the same liberal policy which lias hitherto so signally marked the progress of the Institution, we shall have the gratification of beholding still stronger proofs of the wisdom of those regulations, by which, for a century, the charity has been conducted; and any attempt that may be made, either now or hereafter, to alter its fundamental principles, will be signally defeated. I am, Sir, yours& c., A GOVERNOR COMMITTAL OF A WIFE FOR ATTEMPTING TO POISON.— On Monday last a woman named Lawless was committed for trial by the Magistrates at Birmingham, for having attempted to poison her husband and three other persons, under the following circumstances:— The prisoner and her husband had not lived comfortably together, and repeated quarrels took place, iu one of which, about three months ago, the wife declared she would poisou her husband. On Tuesday last, Lawless was standing at his door, when he observed a Mrs. Murray pass with her little daughter, to whom he was god- father. He requested them to come in and have tea with him, to which they consented. Tea was accordingly made, and a friend who was present also partook of it. After the first cup Mrs. Lawless went out under the pretence of getting some butter, and immediately on her return made some more tea. The second cup was poured out, and all of them partook of it, with the exception of Mrs. Lawless, and immediately afterwards were taken ill. An analysis of the contents of the teapot shewed the presence of arsenic, and the prisoner was accordingly apprehended. On the policeman informing her of the charge 011 which she was apprehended, and that her husband was seriously ill, she stated that " it was a very bad job that he wasu't ( lead," gportuig> EPSOM RACES. TCBSIJAY, MAY 25. The Craven Stakes of 10 sovs. each. Eight subscribers. Mr. F„ Peel's Spithead, 3 yrs ( Kitchener) 1 Mr. E. R. Clarke's The Baron, 4 yrs 2 Mr. Bainbiidge's Sir Peter Laurie, 3 yrs 3 The following also started but were not placed:— c. by Coronation — Maid of Hampton, Nutleaf, and Aristotle. The Woodcote Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 100 added ; for two- yr- old colts, 8st. Gib., and fillies 8st. 31b. T. Y. C. Fourteen subs. Mr. E. II. Clarke's Miles's Boy ( E. Edwards) 1 Lord G. Bentinck's Blackcock 2 Lord E. llussel's Eldon 3 Mr. Mostyn'sf. by Piccaroon— Her Highness 4 Mr. Clifton's Dromedary 5 Sir G. Heatheote's Sister to Bockhara 6 Mr. J. Varrall's br. c. by Muley Moloch— Rondo's dam 7 The Manor Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 40 added. Heats, the last mile and a quarter of the proposed New Derby Cotuse. Sir G. Ileathcote's Campanile, 3 yrs ( Chappie) 1 1 Mr. Bamsbottom's Pine Apple, G yrs 0 2 Mr. J. Day's Miss Slick, 3 yrs 2 3 Mr. Dockeray's Lady Charlotte, 5 yrs 0 4 Mr. May's Crocus, 6 yrs 0 5 Mr. Hobson's Chatham, 4 yrs . 0 6 Mr. Mostyu's ch c by Hetman Platoff.— Miss Xhouiasina, 3 yrs. 3 dr Mr. Jaques'a Headsman, 3 yrs. 0 dr Count Batlhyany's Mustee, 3 yrs 0 dr Mr. Bainbridge's The Wreck, 4 yrs 0 dr Mr. Pratt's Deodora, 4 yrs 0 dr The Hooton Stakes of 3 sovs. each with 30 added. Nine subs. Mr. Shelley's Tit- bit, 3 yrs ( J. Sharpe) 0 1 1 Mr. Parr'* Slipshod, 4 yrs 0 0 2 Mr. Wall's Zela, 5 yrs 0 0 3 Mr. Scott's Mosque, aged 3 0 4 Mr. Booth's ch. c. by Bentley— Emma, 4 yrs 0 2 5 Mr. Drinkald's Elemi, 5 yrs 0 3 dr Sir G. Ileathcate's c. by Velocipede, dam by Emilius, 3 yrs. 0 dr Mr. T. Dawson's br. f. Kiss- me- quick, 4 yrs 0 dr TIIE DERBY DAY. WEDNESDAY, MAY 27. The start for the grand event was fixed for half- past 2, and the trainers having, by permission of Sir G. Ileathcote, walked their horses round the large paddock contiguous to the pull up," were, on the elevation of a large flag on the roof of the Stand, conducted to the course, and having been saddled in front, and passed the ordeal of criticism before the anxious thousands congregated in this vicinity, were, with nearer approximation to the time than is usual on great races, cantered round the course to the starting- post. Mr. Ilibbnrd's efficiency as a starter was a guarantee that the event would come off without a repetition of those irritating disappointments which in the " good old times" were the unfailing prelude to the Derby ; one failure only occurred, at the second attempt the horses quitted the post, and at five minutes before three a movement amongst the horsemen on the hill, followed by one long prolonged shout from the Stand, proclaimed the start for THE DHRBY STAKES of 50 sovs. each, h. ft., for 3- yr olds; colts, 8st. 7lb.; fillies, 8st. 21b. The owner of the second horse to receive 100 vovs. out of the stakes, and the winner to pay 100 sovs. towards the police regulations of the course. Last mile and a half. 193 subs. Mr. Gully's Pyrrhus the First, by Epirus Fortress ( S. Day) 1 Mr. W. Scott's Sir Tatton Sykes, by Melbourne ( W. Scott) 2 General Shubrick's Brocardo, by Touchstone ( Holmes) 3 The following also started, but were not placed : Tom ' l'ullock, Nannette colt, Grimston, Bold Archer, Ginger, Humdnim, Fancy Boy, Iago, The Traverser, Wiilred, Spithead, Stinjr, Joinville, Peri colt, L'Hirondelle colt, The Conjuror, The Crown Prince, Cantley, Malcolm, Blackie, Sotades, Tragical, Sir Edmund, and Ilolloway. Betting at Starting 5 to 1 agst Fancy Boy, 8 to 1 agst Pyrrhus the First, 10 to 1 agst Tom Tullock, 10 to 1 agst Sting, 10 to 1 agst Sir Tatton Sykes, 10 to 1 agst Conjuror, 11 to 1 agst Humdrum, 15 to 1 agst Peri colt, 25 to 1 agst Brocardo, 25 to 1 agst Iago, 40 to 1 agst Nannette colt, 50 to 1 agst Joinville, 50 to 1 agst Sotades, 50 to 1 agst The Traverser, and 1,000 to 10 agst Grimston. Sir Edmund jumped off with the lead, Humdrum, Blackie, and a ruck of horses following him for about 200 yards. Blackie then took up the running, attended by the Conjuror, Sir Edmund, the Traverser, Joinville, Tragical, Grimgten, and Spithead, Tom Tullock, Sting, Iago, Brocardo, and Fancy Boy lying in advance of the second ruck, and in the rear, last but one, Sir Tatton Sykes. They ran in this order at a good, but far from a superior, pace to the commencement of the turn, Sir Tatton there being last but four, and as some of his friends who were stationed there imagined, altogether out of the race. The Conjuror here went up to Blackie, and went ou with a slight lead until within half- way between the turn and the road, when, both having had enough of it, the running was taken up by Grimston, Brocardo, who had reached the front rank at the turn, taking the second place, Joinville third, Tom Tullock, Iago, Sting, Pyrrhus the First, and Fancy Boy next, well up, and Sir Tatton Sykes also getting into the first flight in coming round the bend. This order was kept until within a distance and a half of home ; Grimston then gave way, and Sir Tatton Sykes went in advance, followed by Pyrrhus the First, Brocardo third, and Johmlle fourth, in which relation they neared the Stand. Sir Tatlon's lead then began to diminish, and at the centre of the enclosure Sam Day calling upon his horse, reached him in the last two or three strides, and won by a neck, beating not the horse, but his rider, who was too much exhausted to finish. Biocardo third, about a length from the winner, beating Joinville not more than a head. There seems to be no doubt that Sir Tatton Sykes would have won had he not laid so much out of his ground in the early part of the race, or had Scott been in a condition to make the most of him at the end. Sting, too, lost his chance, in consequence of Spithead having ciossed him, and obliged Bell to pull him back and go round his horse— a circumstance that led to a complaint of foul riding against Francis. Fancy Boy was still more unfortunate, he was badly kicked twice before the race, and in coming round the turn he was run against and almost knocked down ; he was looking well at the time, and notwithstanding the loss of ground consequent upon the accident, finished respectably. The race was run in two minutes 55 seconds. Previous to starting The Conjuror was objected to on the score of age, and a counter objection was made by Mr. E. R. Clark against Tom Tullock. The Carew Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added. Mr. Mostyn's c. by Hetman Flatoff— Miss Thomasina, ( Whitehouse) 1 Mr. llamsbottom' c. by Mus— Belvidere 2 Mr. Walker's The Attorney- General 3 Mr. Yorke's Bletso Lass 4 The Polesdon Stakes, of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added. N. T. Y. O. Mr. Drewett's Prudence ( E* ling) 1 Mr. Ford's The Attorney 2 Mr. Walker's The Nobbier 3 The following also started, but were not placed: Scarlet Runner, Alexa, Fiat- Fish, Sister to the Devil- among- the- Tailors, by Liverpool, and Guzman. The Burgh Stakes, of 5 sov3. each, with 30 added. Mr. Cooper's Caen ( Nat) 1 Mr. Ford's br. c. The Attorney 2 Mr. T. Walker's The Nobbier 3 The following also started, but were not placed : Lucille, Melvoisie, brother to Sorella, Antonio, Bioinptou, Motilla, and Montgomerie. THURSDAY, MAY 28. The Epsom 4- yr. old Stakes of 50 sovs. each. Dei by Course. Four subscribers. Mr. Ford's Fusbos ( S. Mann) 1 Duke of Bedford's Leopard 2 A splendid race, and won by a head. The Durdans Stakes of 10 sovs. each. Last mile and a quarter of the New Derby Course. 22 subs., 1 paid. Mr. T. Dawson's Grimston ( Duncan) 1 Mr. Shelley's Campanile 2 Mr. J. Day's Miss Slick 3 The following also stated, but were not placed : Sister to the Devil- amongst- the- Tailors, Sir Peter Laurie, Aristotle, Alvanley, New Brighton, Slane- elf, Breastgirth, Caroline, Headsman, Deer Chase, and The Attorney Won by a length. The Grand Stand Plate, of 200 sovs., added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each. 36 subs. Last mile and a quarter of the pro- posed New Derby Course. Mr. Merry's br. c. by Don John— Peri ( J. Price) 1 Sir J. Ilawley's Alamode 2 Count Bathyany's Gannet 3 The following also started :— The Merry Monarch, Akbar, iEgis, Miss Burns, Mangier, br. g. by Advocate, Akali, Marquis of Conyng- hani, and Lord Harry.— Won easily by two lengths. The Cobhara Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 30 added. Mr. Booth's Tit- bit ( Planner) 12 1 General Grosvenor's Scarled Runner 4 13 Sir G. Heathcote's f. by Liverpool 2 3 2 Mr. Ramsbottom's Mus 3 dr. The Walton Stakes of 3 sovs. each, with 30 added. Mr. Parr's Slipshod ( Whitehouse 5 1 1 Mr. Booth's c. by Bently 12 3 Mr. Walker's The Attorney- General 3 3 2 Mr. J. Verratt's Lady Anna 4 4 dr Mr. Woodman's The Gay Lothario 2 dr. SECOND EDITION. Saturday Morning, May 30. STOCKS.— Bank Stock, ; 3 per Cent. Red., 95j ; 3 per Cent. Cun., 96j ; New 3} per Cent., 97J ; Cons, for Accnt., 97|; Long Annuities, 16$; India Stock, 204J ; India Bonds, 27; £ 10U( 1 Excheq. Bills, 19. HER MAJESTY.— The following bulletin of her Majesty's health yas issued yesterday ( Friday): —" Her Majesty's recovery goes ou without interruption. The infant Princess is well.' PARLIAMENT, FRIDAY.- In the Douse of Commons a number of bills were read a third time and passed, but none of them of immediate local interest. Sir R. Peel gave notice that on Friday, the 5th of June, he should move that the House resolve itself into a committee of supply; and that on Monday, the 8th of June, he should move the second reading of the Protection of Life arrd Property in Ireland Bill. On Friday, the 12th of June, he should move that the House take into consideration the Sugar Duties. The adjournment of the House till Friday next was agreed to. The financial statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, fixed to come on this evening, had not been brought forward when the post left. EPSOM RACES, FRIDAY. The Oaks Stakes of 50 sovs. each, li. ft.; the second to receive 100 sovs. out of the Stakes. Last mile and a half. 140 subs. Mr. Gully's Mendicant ( S. Day) 1 Mr. Gratwicke's Laundry Maid ( F. Bell) 2 Lord Glasgow's Emilia filly ( Holmes; 3 Mendicant won by two lengths easily. CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY.— Thecontinuance of most favour- able weather has added to the depression in wheat. English was otl'eredat Monday's currency, but few miller's disposed to purchase ; and the like remark applies to bonded. A fair arrival of English oats, but the supply from Ireland only trilling, and there was a slow dragging trade to retail buyers, at our previous currency. In other grain the transactions were of a most limited character, without any particular change in value. SMITHFIELD, FRIDAY.— The stock of cattle short, but the supply of sheep considerably on the increase. Beef, 2s. lid. to 4s.; Mutton, 3s. to 4s. 4d.; Lamb, 5s. to 6s.; Veal, 3s. Md. to 4s. 8d; Pork 3s. Cd. to 4s.' 10d. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. James Rishton, Vale Rock Mill, lloddlesden, Over Darwen, Lan- cashire, cotton spinner. BANKRUPTS. FrancisRolfe, Great Marlborough- street, tailor. William Daruboioagh, Richmond, Surrey, tailor. John Boyd and James Boyd, Wellington- chambers, Southwark, hop merchants. William Locks, Leonard- street, Curtain- road, Shoreditch, timber merchant. Charles Frederick Ellerman, Philpot- lane, City, commission mer- chant. George Freeman, Croydon, Surrey, grocer. Thomas Jeffries, Aberystwyth, Cardigan, victualler. Maria Bird, Cheltenham, milliner. Robert Davies, Abbey Tintern, Monmouthshire, draper. George Samuel Coxwell and William Croser, Newcastle- upon- Tyne, merchants. " William Baldock, Nottingham, grocer. William White, Tavistock, Devonshire, tailor. Nehemiah John Reed, Marlborough, Wiltshire, common brewer and maltster. Thomas Suger, Kiugstgn- upou- Hull, CQrn merchant. HIGH STREET, WORCESTER. VALUABLE BUSINESS PREMISES. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY W. H1GGS, ( By direction of the Mortgagee, under a Power of Sale), on Tuesday, the 9th of June, 1846, at the Hop Market Inn, Foregate, Worcester, at six o'clock in the evening, subjcct to conditions to be then produced ; ALL that MESSUAGE or DWELLING- HOUSE, No. 91, HIGH STREET, corner of Copenhagen Street, in the centre and most commanding part of the City of Worcester, and very nearly opposite the Market Hall. The Premises consist of a spacious Front Shop, 2 Sitting Rooms, 5 Bed Rooms, Ware Room, Kitchen, Scullery, Cellar, and small Yard. The situation for any Retail Trade cannot be surpassed in the City ; there are two distinct frontages to the Property, one to High Street, and the other to Copenhagen Street, but still commanding a full view of the High Street. Its proximity also to the Market and central position embrace all that can be wished, either for occupation or to the capitalist for investment, as it must at all times command a responsible occupant. The tenure is partly Freehold, and partly Leasehold under the Dean and Chapter of Worcester, renewable every fourteen years. For further particulars application may be made to Mr. Pattrick, Solicitor, 9, Foregate Street; or to the Auctioneer, 67, Broad Street, Worcester. FREEHOLD LANDS AT EARL'S CROOME. TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, riiwo PIECES of valuable FREEHOLD LAND, 1 with a COTTAGE and GARDEN thereon, called SOWDLEYS, situate in the Parish of EARL'S CROOME, in the Countv of Worcester, and containing about TWENTY- TWO ACRES and a HALF. The above Property is distant about one mile and a half from Upton- upon- Severn, and is now in the occupation of Mr. George Firkins, whose Tenancy expires at Michaelmas next. For particulars apply to Messrs. Hydes & Tymbs, Solicitors, Worcester. WORCESTER BATHS. IT must be unnecessary, in the present day, to enlarge either upon the benefit and comfort arising to per- sons, in a state of health, from the frequent use of the tepid Swimming Bath, or upon the importance of Hot, Shower, Vapour, and other Baths, as remedial agents in many cases of disease. It is proposed to found in the City of Worcester an Establish- ment calculated to supply the deficiency that has so long been felt— especially with regard to a large Bath— which the recent alteration in the depth of the River Severn seems to render almost indispensable, inasmuch as safe bathing is now limited entirely to expert swimmers. The obstacles to the undertaking are by no means formidable, but on the contrary there are several circumstances which appear so favourable to its accomplishment that it is hoped a cordial co- operation will be afforded on the part of those upon whose assistance success must essentially depend. A site has been selected within the City of Worcester which it is thought will prove suitable, and designs have been pre- pared by Mr. Eginton. It is estimated that the Capital required will not exceed £ 3,000, which it is proposed to raise in Shares of £ 5 each, applications for which are requested to be made to Messrs. Gillam and Sons, Worcester. It is to be distinctly understood that no expenses will be incurred until the sum required shall have been realised. The following Gentlemen have undertaken to patronise the scheme:— The Right Honourable Lord Viscount Southwell. Sir Thomas Wilde, M. P. William Lewis, Esq., Mayor. Charles Hastings, M. D. Jonas Maiden, M. D. Roht. J. N. Streeten, M. D. P. H. Williams, M. D. H. D. Carden, Esq. William Laslett, Esq. John Brooke Hyde, Esq. Edward Evans, Esq. James Orwin, Esq. George Allies, Esq. T. N. Harward, Esq. Thomas Stephenson, Esq. John Woodward, Esq. MRS. HENRY SHELTON I> EGSto announce that she goes to Town on the ) 15th of June, for the purpose of selecting PIANO- FORTES, prior to which time she will be happy to communi- cate with any Families who may wish to confide to her the responsibility of choosing an Instrument. In the mean time, she would call attention to the following superior and very moderate- priced Instruments:— ELEGANT ROSEWOOD CABINET, C Octaves, F to F, 25 Guineas. PATENT SQUARE, by Broadwood, nearly equal to new, £ 35. COTTAGE, by Kirkman, £ 35. The MUSIC ROOM is open [ on WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS. Foregate Street, ( adjoining the Star Hotel,) Worcester. 33, HIGH STREET, ( OPPOSITE TIIE TOWN HALL,) WORCESTER. JOSEPH BENNETT BEGS to announce to his Friends and the Public generally, his recent visit to the different Markets, from whence he has selected a well- assorted STOCK of GOODS, adapted to the present season, to which he respectfully invites their attention. He particularly directs their notice to his BABY LINEN AND UNDER CLOTHING DEPARTMENT, which contains the greatest novelties of the day. as well as Articles of a more general and useful character, and which, for extent and variety, will be found exceeded by none, and equalled by few Houses out of the Metropolis. To attempt an enumeration of the various Goods supplied at his Establishment he considers would be superfluous; he will merely content himself with observing, that in all their varieties his Stock of HOSIERY, GLOVES, BRACKS, SCARFS, STOCKS, CRAVATS, HANDKERCHIEFS, SHIRTS, SUMMER and other COATS, particularly that much ap- proved garment, the " PALETOT," CARPET BAGS, COAT CASES, & c. & c. & c., will be found complete. BEST LONDON and PARIS HATS, including that elegant and much- approved shape, the " Young England." Agent for BR AH AM'S newly- invented WATERPROOF GARMENTS, which, from their extreme lightness and economy, have gained them so large a share of public support; also for ROGERS'S PATENT FLANNEL, warranted not to shrink, and particularly adapted for summer wear. A large Stock of MACKINTOSH GOODS, at one- half their original Cost. FUNERALS conducted with care and economy. In conclusion, J. B. begs to tender his grateful acknowledg- ments to his Friends for the liberal support he has experienced at their hands for upwards of nineteen years. JOHN DAVIS, TAILOR," DRAPER, TROUSER, GAITER, AND LEATHER BREECHES MAKER, No. 22, FOREGATE STREET, AND 7, NEWPORT STREET, BEGS to announce his return from London with a supply of GOODS suitable to the present Season. With grateful acknowledgments for past favours, J. D. res- pectfully solicits a continuance of future support, which he pledges himself to merit, by prompt attention to, and the best possible execution of, all Orders. A Large Stock of Prime BUCK and DOE SKINS. BEST LONDON HATS AND WATER- PROOF CAPES. LIVERIES EXECUTED ON THE SHORTEST NOTICE, AND ON MODERATE TERMS. Worcester, May 29, 1840. VINEY'S N E W TOO T H B R U S H. rI^ HIS Tooth Brush has the advantage of thoroughly i searching into the divisions of the Teeth, and cleansing them effectually; the Hairs are also warranted not to come loose. Also, a large Assortment of Ivorv, Satin, and Rosewood HAIR BRUSHES, of the best Russia Bristles; and the largest Stock of very fine SMYRNA SPONGE, to be had only at VINEY'S PERFUMERY WAREHOUSE, 20, CROSS, WORCESTER. N. B. The Tooth Brushes are all Stamped " VINEY, WORCESTER." BRISTOL AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY OFFICE, ANGEL STREET WORCESTER. GOODS DEPARTMENT. Increased facilities for the Conveyance of Goods between London and Worcester, via London and Birmingham and Bristol and Birmingham Railways. ripHE PUBLIC are respectfully informed, that JL arrangements have been made to insure a DELlYERY DAILY of GOODS to and from LONDON and WOR- CESTER, and that on and after JUNE 1st the Agency for the Receipt and Dispatch of Goods in London will be con- ducted by SHIPTON and CO., ELEPHANT INN, FORE STREET, and in Worcester at the Office of the BRISTOL and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY COMPANY, ANGEL STREET, where every information as to rates, & c., may be obtained. WORCESTER GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY. TVTOTICE is hereby given, that a MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS in the above COMPANY will be holden at the Office of the Company's Works, in the City of Worcester, on FRIDAY, the 19th day of JUNE, 1840, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon. At which Meeting the Draft of a Bill now before Parliament, entituled " A Bill for better supplying with Gas the City of Worcester and the Suburbs thereof," whereby it is intended to take powers for the Sale and Transfer, by the said Worcester Gas Light and Coke Company, of their Works and Property to the Company proposed to be incorporated by the said Bill, and to Dissolve the existing Company, and distribute the Funds thereof, will he read and submitted to the resolution and deter- mination of such Meeting. Dated the 20th day of May, 184( 5. H. B. TYMBS, Chairman. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. No. CCCLXVIII. JUNE, 1840. CONTENTS:—!. Tbe Literature of the Eighteenth Century— II. Reynard the Fox— III. The Americans and the Aborigines— PART II— IV. The Fall of Rome— V. Elinor Travis. Chapter the First VI. The People.— VII. The Rose of Warning.— VIII. Greek Fire and Gunpowder.— IX. How to Build a House and Live in it— X. Rogues in Outline. Wm. Blackwood and Sons, 45, George Street, Edinburgh; and 37, Paternoster Row, London. INCOME WITHOUT RISK. THE LONDON GENUINE TEA COMPANY are now filling up their Lists of Agents for the present year. By the sale of these celebrated Teas, many Persons during the last twenty- nine years derived very considerable Incomes. It interferes with 110 business, is easily undertaken, and forms a genteel addition to any. Persons wishing such an appointment may apply to the Company, at their Warehouses, 2, La wry uce, Pyuntney Hill, London, TARDEBIGG, WORCESTERSHIRE. GENTEEL COTTAGE, BUILDING AND ACCOMMODATION LAND, SUPERIOR MINE OF CLAY, TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY E. & C. ROBINS & CO., On Wednesday, the 17th day of June next, at three o'clock in the afternoon, at the Unicorn Inn, Redditch, in ten lots, to be fully set forth in subsequent advertisements, handbills, and plans— FIR TREE COTTAGE, with suitable Offices, GARDEN, and CROFT; also a BRICK- YARD, with Kilns, Sheds, Flues, Mill, and an almost inexhaustible MINE of CLAY, suitable for all wares; and several Pieces of very productive LAND, the whole about fifteen Acres, lying together ( except by the intersection of Roads, which give exten- sive and very eligible Building Frontages), situate at WEBB HEATH, UPPER BENTLEY, TARDEBIGG, and entirely surrounded by the Lands, Preserves, and Woods of the Hewell Estate of the Hon. Mr. Clive. For any other information apply upon the premises ; to Mr. Robert Brough, the proprietor; to Mr. R. Henry Tarleton, Soli citor ; or to the Auctioneers, at their respective Offices, in New Street, Birmingham. ROYAL FARMERS' & GENERAL FIRE, LIFE, and HAIL INSURANCE INSTITUTION Empowered by special Act of Parliament Capital, £ 500,000. OFFICES, STRAND, LONDON. DIRECTORS. Chairman— JOSEPH ROGERSON, Esq. Managing Director^ W. SHAW, Esq. J. Blackstone, Esq. S. Boydell, Esq. Win. Clutlon, Esq. J. R. Cooper, Esq. John Hudson, Esq. R. M. Jaques, Esq. Wm. Smiddle, Esq. G. P. Tuxford, Esq. J. Workman, Esq. W. Youatt, Esq. Medical Officers.— J. Blackstone and G. W. Blanch, Esqrs. Standing Counsel.— C. W. Johnson, Esq.; W. Shaw, Esq. Joint Solicitors— John Rogerson, Esq.; C. Boydell, Esq. Assistant Manager— W. Jenkinson, Esq. Secretary— J. Hanson, Esq. Bankers.— The London and Westminster Bank. The Proprietary of this Company exceeds 1,900 in number, of whom 195 are County Directors. The share of Public Favour this Institution has obtained proves the appreciation of its system by a numerous body 01 insurers. Every kind of LIFE INSURANCE, of Deferred and Im- mediate Annuities, and of Endowments for Children, may be accomplished 011 terms as low as is consistent with security. A Dividend of Four per Cent, is now in course of payment to the Shareholders iu this office. In the FIRE Department, INSURANCES effected at the lowest rates. HAIL INSURANCE— Premiums: Wheat, Beans, Peas, Tares, T urnips, Potatoes, and Mangel Wurzel, 0d. per Acre, and upwards. Barley, Oats, and Rye, bd. per Acre, and upwards. Glass in Greenhouses, & c., 20s. per. Cent. Prospectuses may be obtained at the Office, or will be for- warded, post free, upon application. The usual commission to Solicitors. Agents are appointed in the principal Towns in the Kingdom. W. SI1AW, Managing Director. AGENTS. WORCESTER—. Mr. CHAS. BIRD & Mr. F. T. ELGIE. Blockley, Mr. T. B. Figgures Bromsgrove, Bewdley, Kidderminster, Mr. W. Welch Stourport, Mr. G. Williams Tenbury, Mr. B. Home Oldbury, Mr. T. Cooper, of Portway Ilenley- in- Arden, Mr. J. B. Harper Alcester, Mr. Chas. Jones Chipping Campden, Mr. J. Kettle Bromyard, Mr. J. C. Cullum Dudley, Mr. J. Newbold T Clifton - on - Teme, Mr. J. Wormington Upton - on - Severn, Mr. G. Jukes & Mr. VV. E. Cooper Evesham, Mr. George Agg Pershore, Mr. G. Lunn Shipston on- Stour, Mr. F. J lnsall Stourbridge, Mr. J. Perkins Droitwich, Birmingham, Mr. B. Chesshire and Mr. R. H. Tarleton Tewkesbury, Mr. J. P. Tate Ledbury, Mr. Thos. Jones OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOL- VERHAMPTON RAILWAY. AT a MEETING of Shareholders in the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Company, held at No. 449, Strand, London, on Tuesday, Mav 20, 1840, consti- tuted in accordance with the Sessional Ordersof the Houses of Parliament, FRANCIS RUFFORD, Esq., in the Chair, a draft of the Bill now before Parliament to authorise certain alterations in the line of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver- hampton Railway, and to amend the x\ ct relating thereto, having been read, It was resolved unanimously,— That the said Bill be approved of; that the Directors of this Company take all necessary steps for carrying the same through Parliament; and that the Chair- man and Solicitor do sign the required certificate. FRANCIS RUFFORD, Chairman. PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of Chancery, made in a Cause of PARKHURST versus PARKHURST, the Creditors of the REVEREND FLEET- WOOD PARKHURST, late of Ripple, near Tewkesbury, in the County of Worcester, Clerk, ( who died on the 29th day of October, 1844,) are forthwith to come in and prove their Debts before Sir William Home, one of the Masters of the said Court, at his Chambers, in Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, or in default thereof they will be excluded the benefit of the said Decree. IN the Matter of the Petition of JOSEPH PAGETT, formerly of Brettell Lane, in the Parish of Kingswinford, in the County of Stafford, Butcher, afterwards of Wolaston, in the Parish of Oldswinford, and County of Worcester, Publican, and now of Cookley, in the County of Worcester aforesaid, out of Business, an Insolvent Debtor. NOTICE is hereby given, that JOHN BALGUY, Esquire, Q. C., the Commissioner acting in the matter of this Petition will proceed to make a Final Order thereon at the Birmingham District Court of Bankruptcy, on Tuesday, the 23rd day ot June, 1840, at half- past ten o'clock in the Forenoon precisely, unless cause be then and there shown to the contrary. MOTTERAM & IvNOWLES, Solicitors, Birmingham. WORCESTER COUNTY GAOL. T) ERSONS wishing to supply this Gaol with MEAT, JL COAL, and POTATOES, and the JUDGES' HOUSE with COAL, for the ensuing THREE MONTHS, must leave their Tenders at the Gaol, inclosed in a sealed cover, marked " Tender," and addressed " To the Visiting Magistrates," on or before Twelve o'Clock on Saturday, the 30th day of May instant. All Gaol Bills must be delivered, addressed to me, at my Office in the Gaol, on the said 30th May ( made up as nearly as possible to that date) or they will not be allowed at the next Sessions. By order of the Visiting Magistrates, B. L. STABLE, Governor. In consequence of the great difficulty which has been ex- perienced in getting the Accounts sent in, it has been deter- mined by the Visiting Justices, that persons neglecting to furnish their Bills after this Notice shall not be again employed to supply the Prison for Twelve Months. May 20th, 1840 Duly Jree. | WELLAND INCLOSURE. WHEREAS an application for the INCLOSURE of WELLAND COMMON and WELLAND ARABLE, OPEN, and COMMON FIELDS, in the Parish of Wetland, in the County of Worcester, has been duly made to " The Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales," pursuant to the provisions of the Act of the 8L1I and 9th Vict., c. 118. And whereas the said Application has been referred by the said Commissioners to me, an Assistant Commissioner, duly appointed under the said Act. I HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that I shall hold a MEETING on the 13th day of JUNE next, at the hour of eleven in the forenoon, at the PAHISH SCHOOL ROOM, in the said Parish of Welland, for the purpose of hearing any Objections which may be made to the proposed Inclosure, anil any Information or Evidence which may be offered in relation thereto. Witness my hand this 20th day of May, 1840. J. J. RAWLINSON, Assistant Inclosure Commissioner Duty Free.~\ WE. the undersigned, INCLOSURE COMMIS- SIONERS for England and Wales, HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that a MEETING of the PERSONS interested itt ARELEY COMMON, situate in the Parish of LOWER ARELEY, otherwise ARELEY and DUNLEY, otherwise KING'S ARELEY, in the County of Worcester, will be held on the 23rd day of JUNE next, at the hour of eleven in the forenoon, at the House of DANIEL ZACIIARY, Esquire, in the said Parish, for the purpose of appointing a Valuer in the matter of the Inclosure of the said Areley Common, under the provisions of the Act passed in the 8th anil 9th Years of the reign of her present Majesty, cap. 118. AND, WE FURTHER GIVE NOTICE, that a majority in number, and in respect of interest of such Persons, may, at such Meeting, resolve upon Instructions to the Valuer, not inconsistent with the terms and conditions of the Provisional Order made by us in the matter of the said Inclosure. Witness our hands, this 28th day of May, in the year of our Lord, 1840. Signed, WM. BLAMIRE, G. DARBY. BROADWAY AND MICKLETON TURNPIKE ROADS. OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the TRUSTEES of the Turnpike Road leading from the Worcester Turnpike Road, in the Village of Broadway, in the County of Worcester, to the Stratford- upon- Avon Turnpike Road, in the Village of Mickleton, in the County of Gloucester, will meet at the LYGON ARMS INN, in BROADWAY aforesaid, on THURSDAY, the 4th day of JUNE next, at twelve o'clock at noon, and LET BY AUCTION, to the best Bidder, the TOLLS arising from the BROADWAY and WILLERSEY GATES and HEMMER'S LANE GATE, for One Year, from the 22nd day of June next, and upon such conditions as shall be agreed upon by the Trustees then present. The present Rent of the Tolls is £ 158. Whoever shall happen to be the best Bidder must, at the time of taking the Tolls, pay two months' rent in advance, and give security, with sufficient sureties, to the satisfaction of the Trustees, for payment of the remainder of the Rent monthly, so that two months' rent may at all times be paid in advance. By Order of the Trustees, J, H. GKIFFITHS, Clerk, Campden, May 1st, 1840, THE W O R C E S T E R S H I R E GUARDIAN, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1846. STOCKS.— Jt'io'cl. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red Ann. 3 per Cent Cons Cons, for Account.... 3t per Cent. 1818 .... 3 per Cent. Red New 3J per Cent 3 per Cent. 1826 Bank Lon<* Ann India Stock India Bonds Excheq. Bills FRI. SAT. MON. TCRS. WII). TIIU US 206 2) 5.1 205 J 205 J 2051 205 i 90* 9oS 903 95 J 9 5 § 9 ,) 1 96v ' J'fi 96* 96j DiiS ' J'ft 96jj 96$ 96J 90j 9/ 1 974 97* 97I 97| 971 194 19J 10{ lOj 10* 267 26 n 26) 266 30 p 28 P 27 r 18 p 17 r 17 P 18 p 12 I' 15 i- FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 1346. LAST WORDS OF LORD RUSSET, ON THE SCAFFOLD. " I did believe, and do still, that Popery is breaking in upon " this nation, and those who advance it will stop at nothing " to carry on their designs; and 1 am heartily sorry that " so many Protestants give their helping hand to it." WE must confess that we arc grievously disappointed. We have always accustomed ourselves to look upon the House of Lords as an independent body, standing far above the influence of Ministerial bribes and seductions, and studious only to promote zealously and effectually the welfare of the great body above whom they stand in the social scale. Having always indulged this opinion, our disappointment— not to say disgust— is the more poignant to find that the spirit of truckling subserviency, which has gained for the majority of the House of Commons so unenviable a notority, has found its way into the Upper House of the Legislature, and that a majority of that House is to be found capable of betraying those rights and interests of which they have hitherto been regarded as the hereditary guardians. The late hour at which the House of Lords rose ( five o'clock this morning) delaying the delivery of the London journals to us until within a very short time of our usual hour of publication, prevents our offering any remark upon the debate, which terminated in an inglorious Ministerial victory by a majority of 47 ; we dare be sworn, however, that a very few, comparatively, of the ancient aristocracy will be found in the list of the majority, which, we expect, is composed principally of the " mushroom peers," and those who, in the days of the Reform mania, were created in order ( o " swamp the House of Lords," and render nugatory the prerogative of the Crown. For the present we are compelled to con- clude with one observation :— The Lords have deserted the people : let them beware lest the people in turn desert them. WE have upon several occasions during the present Session of Parliament exhorted the electors, bearing in mind the anti- national and destructive course which the measures of Legislation introduced by our League- ridden Ministers seemed to be following, to hold themselves in readiness for a gallant struggle whenever another general election should afford them the oppor- tunity of putting forth their strength; and we rejoice to know that our exhortations have not fallen wholly unheeded to the ground. The electors of Breconshire and Monmouthshire are already " armed at all points* and eager for the fray." In the former county, at the next election, Colonel WOOD will be displaced from his seat by our esteemed and faithful City Member, Joseph BAILEY, Esq.; and the electors of Monmouthshire have determined to provide a worthy colleague for their constitutional representative, Octavius MORGAN, Esq., by electing the Hon. Captain SOMERSET in the room of his Peelite relative, Lord Granville SOMERSET. Our Gloucestershire neighbours at the last election gave an earnest, by their choice of the Marquis of WORCESTER, of what they will do at the next. Herefordshire, on one side of us, and Warwickshire on the other, so far as the purely agricultural constituency is concerned, are each well and faithfully represented. In Shropshire some little alteration is required, and we can scarcely entertain a doubt that the " proud Salopians," justly proud as they have reason to be of the majority of their representatives will unsparingly apply the knife, and lop off those members of the tree which have become infected with the Peel rot. At home here, in the constituency in which we are more immediately interested, the prospect is scarcely- less cheering; for although we must deeply regret the loss of so upright, honourable, and consistent a representative as Mr. BAILEY has ever shown himself to be, our regret is materially diminished by the knowledge that a gentleman entertaining the same political opinions as Mr. BAILEY will present himself for the suffrages of the electors whensoever an occasion may arise; and so highly respected is he, that we venture to think he will not be objectionable even to those who may happen to differ from him on some questions. The prospect, then, imme- diately around us is satisfactory; but we earnestly desire that the whole kingdom should be as faithfully repre- sented as are the localities which we have mentioned. In the hope of contributing to the advancement of so desirable an object, we are happy to be made the means of giving publicity to the following spirited appeal to the electors of the United Kingdom, with which a highly valued correspondent has favoured us :— TO THE ELECTORS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. BROTHER ELECTORS,— The time is at hand when we shall be called upon to exercise the privilege of electing our Parlia. mentary Representatives. This ancient privilege is the Palladium of the British Consti lution, and when rightly used, is fully equal to its highest pretensions. Latterly, however, a principle has been advanced which is not only incompatible with, but is destructive of it, and what- ever guise it may assume, the real question to be tried at the ensuing election will be, whether our privilege or this alleged principle is to prevail ? To be more explicit— In the infancy of the Constitution our ancestors assembled in person ; but an increased and increasing population, together with a striking alteration in their character and pursuits, led to the introduction of the more modern plan of elections— substituting virtual representation for actual pre sence. The elected have, however, become corrupted, and proving faithless, our privilege is impaired; and if modern legislators are to be believed, it is become worthless. But as yet we do not believe this— nor do we believe that those individuals who solicit TIIE HONOUR OF OUR VOTES to send them to Parliament to represent us and express our opinions, are justified, immediately on our doing so, in turning their heel upon us and claiming to act as they please, in direct opposition to the views and opinions they had previously expressed, and upon the faith of which they had obtained our support. Com- mon sense is revolting against such conduct, although it is suld hat it is justified by the law and practice of Parliament. Such, however, is the doctrine of a Reformed Parliament, which to the needy, the versatile, and the unprincipled, is not without its advantages, inasmuch as it necessarily attracts the attention of the Minister, and the expression, or even a silent admission, of assent to it, is tantamount to the proclamation of a readiness to be seduced or purchased. Of men who uphold such a principle let us specially beware,[ so as not to be again deceived or betrayed by them. This disease of Parliamentary corruption is however of more ancient date than the Reform Act. Sir Robert Peel, in his famous egotistical " want of confidence" speech, in 1841, described it under the specious name of " a necessary system of Parliamentary government," of which that veteran and wholesale corruptionist Sir Robert Walpole was the inventor. Since then parliamentary corruption has been such a wide- spreading plant, that it is now become a great tree, and under the masterly though imitative hand of Sir Robert Peel its withering and destructive influence pervades the British consti- tution and banefully overshadows the land. Whigs and Tories have been equally guilty in this matter, and whilst it may be unwise to acknowledge any other recognized organ of public opinion than the House of Commons, even with our limited knowledge of Parliamentary tactics it becomes an important and imperative duty to look out for and elect men, and only such men as will act honestly— who, after election, will not falsify their own canvass, and look to their own gain and their own quarter. The supremacy of the House of Commons in opposition to the public voice from without, has been the subject of conflict in times less favourable for the country than the present, and upon grounds which, if they ever existed at all, are certainly no longer tenable. In 1776 Mr. Fox, that very doubtful friend of the people, stoutly advocated the supremacy of the House, and being hard pressed to maintain it, unequivocally asserted in his place that upon the question u Whether the people at large or this House are the best judges of the public welfare, he should not hesitate to pronounce in favour of this House." " What acquaintance," continued this friend of the people, " have they with the arcana of political rectitude— with the connections of kingdoms— the resources of native strength— the abilities of Ministers, or even with their own dispositions." " For these reasons," continued Mr. Fox, " I pay no regard to the voice of the people— their business is to choose us— it is ours to act con. ititutionally, and to maintain the independence of Parliament." Such were the reasons, in 1776, the very best reasons which Mr. Fox, a man of transcendent ability, could advance, for what in Parliamentary language is called the independence of • the House, but which, framed into plain English, means the self- will of its members. Although 70 years, which in point of intelligence more than equal the 700 preceding, have elapsed, this same independency of the House is slill said to exist— notwithstanding thousands, nay, tens of thousands of the electors have as intimate an acquaintance with that arcanum of political rectitude (!!!), the House of Commons,— of the con- nection of kingdoms,— the resources of national strength,— and the abilities, though not the intrigues of Ministers,— as have the notorious 112 changelings, whose mental dimensions, indi- vidually if not collectively, from all we know of them, are much inferior to those of Mr. Fox. " For all this we are indebted to the press and the more general diffusion of knowledge, in return for which let us then carefully shew that we fully appre- ciate our improved position by electing good men and trues who will neither deceive nor betray us. AN ELECTOR. LIEUTENANT. COLONEL MARCUS BARR, C. B. ACCOUCHEMENT OF THE QUEEN. We are happy to announce that the Queen was safely delivered of a Princess shortly before three o'clock on Monday afternoon. In consequence of the indisposition of her Majesty, the Lord Chancellor was sent for from the House of Lords at two o'clock, and with the Archbishop of Canterbury, and other functionaries, was in attendance to attest the birth. It is an interesting circumstance that the event occurred the day after the Queen entered her 28ih year. Her Majesty's family now con- sists of the Princess Royal, Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa, born Nov. 21, 1841); Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, born Nov. 9, 1811; Princess Alice Maud Mary, bom April 25, 1843 ; Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, born August 6, 1844; and the infant Princess born May 25, 181G. At a Privy Council held immediately after the event, it was ordered, that a Form of Thanksgiving for the Queen's safe delivery of a Princess be prepared by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, and his Grace, in obedience to these instructions has issued the following form of prayer and thanksgiving, which is to be used at morning and evening service, after the general thanksgiving, in all the churches and chape's in England and Wales, and in the town of Berwick- upon- Tweed, upon Sunday next, or the Sunday after the respective ministers shall receive the same:— " O merciful Lord and heavenly Father, by whose gracious gift mankind is increased, we most humbly offer unto Thee our hearty thanks for Thy great goodness vouchsafed to Thy people, in delivering Thy servant our Sovereign Lady the Queen from the perils of childbirth, and giving her the blessing of a daughter. Continue, we beseech Thee, Thy fatherly care over her ; support and comfort her in the hours of weakness, and day by day renew her strength. Preserve the infant Princess from whatever is hurtful either to body or soul; and adorn her, as she advances in years, with every Christian virtue. Regard with Thine especial favour our Queen and her Royal Consort, that they may long live together in the enjoy- ment of all earthly happiness, and may finally be made par- takers of everlasting glory. And grant that every gift of Thy goodness to us Thy people may increase in us the sense of Thy manifold mercies, and that we may show forth our thankful- ness unto Thee by dutiful affection to our Sovereign, by brotherly love one to another, and by constant obedience to all Thy commandments, so that, passing through this life in Thy faith and fear, we may, in the life to come, be received into Thy heavenly kingdom, through the merits and media- tion of Thy blessed Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen." Her Majesty, being blessed with an excellent constitution, has been gradually progressing to recovery ever since the happy event. The following bulletin of the Queen's health was issued on Wednesdav:— " Buckingham Palace, May 27, 1846. Nine o'clock, a. m. " The Queen has slept perfectly well. " Her Majesty and the Infant Princess are going on favour- ably. ( Signed) " JAMES CLARK, M. D. " CHARLES LOCOCK, M. D. " ROBERT FERGUSON, M. D. And the following satisfactory bulletin was issued yesterday :— " Buckingham Palace, May 28, 1846, Nine o'clock a. m. " The Queen has passed another good night. " Her Majesty and the Infant Princess continue well. ( Signed) " JAMES CLARK, M. D. " CIIARI. ES LOCOCK, M. D. " ROBERT FERGUSON, M. D." The daily inquiries of the nobility and gentry at the Palace have been exceedingly numerous, The members of the Royal Family called early to inquire after her Majesty's health yesterday. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by her suite, left her residence, Marlborough House, Pall- mall, on Monday evening, for Bushy House, Bushy Park. Previous to leaving town, her Majesty called at Buckingham Palace to make enquiry after the health of her Majesty the Queen and the infant Princess. A report was prevalent in the courtly circles yesterday, that the King and Queen of the French, altended by some of the junior branches of the royal family, are to pay a visit to her Majesty the Queen early in July, and that two drawing rooms are to be held at St. James', arid two grand balls given in honour of the event. It is added, that Louis Philippe hopes to induce our Queen and Prince Albert to return with liitn to France. The preparations for their visit have not been abandoned, and the King has commanded that no expense should be spared.— Daily News, Wednesday. Sunday last, the 24th inst., was the anniversary of her Majesty's birth- day, when her Majesty entered upon her ' 28th year. It was observed in this city in the usual manner — the ringing of the church bells in the several parishes. Sir Robert and Lady Peel intend to give a magnifi- cent entertainment on the 9th of June. Lady Peel, the same evening, will hold an assembly in honour of her Majesty's birthday. Lady Peel and family left town on Wednesday for Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. Lord Foley gave a grand dinner party in Grosvenor- square on Wednesday. Viscount Eastnor, Lord Foley, and the Hon. Miss Foley, Lord and Lady Lyttclton, Hon. Gen. H. B. Lygon and Miss Lygon, Hon. R. H. Clive and Miss Clive, Mr. and Mrs. Pakington, and Mr. B. Botfield, were amongst the visitors at Lady Peel's assembly on Saturday evening last. DEATH OF VISCOUNT DOWSE.— We have to announce the demise of the above noble and rev. viscount, who died at his seat, Beningborough Hall, Yorkshire, on Sunday last, in his 74th year. The deceased peer was William Henry Dawnav, Viscount Downe, of the peerage of Ireland; born August 20, 1772, succeeded to the family honours February 18, 1832; married June G, 1811, Lydia, only daughter of John Heathcote, Esq., of Connington Castle, Rutlandshire, by whom he has left issue, the Hon. William Henry Davvney, M. P. for Rutlandshire, ( who married, July 25, 1843, Isabel, fourth daughter of the Hon. and Right Rev. the Bishop of Bath and Wells), and the Hen. Miss Lydia Catherine Dawnay. DEANERY OF SARUM.— We may state confidently that the Deanery of Sarum will be shortly declared vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Dr. Pearson.— Salisbury Herald. DEANERY OF WINDSOK.— The newlv appointed Dean of Windsor, the Hon. and Rev. George Neville Grenville, is the youngest brother of Lord Braybrooke, and holds at present the appointment of Master of Magdalen College. Cambridge, of which Lord Braybrooke is hereditary visitor. The mastership of Magdalen College has been held by the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Neville ever since the year 1813. This appointment will be immediately vacated by the new Dean, it being impossible for him to perform the duties appertaining to both offices, as, agreeably to a clause in an Act of Parliament passed during the present reign, it is imperative that the Dean of Windsor shall reside for a period of eight months out of the twelve at the deanery. This clause came into operation immediately upon the demise of Dr. Hobart. The Hon. and Rev. G. N. Grenville took the name and arms of Grenville in addition to those of Neville, in 1825, on his succeeding to the property of his maternal kinsman, Lord Glastonbury. He has a family of ten children, the eldest of whom, Mr. II. Neville, is one of the representatives of the borough of Windsor, by Lady Charlotte, the daughter of the late Earl of Dartmouth. The value of the deanery has been variously estimated. We believe we may state that the annual income, including the fees arising from the appointment of Registrar of the Order of the Garter ( an office which is annexed to the deanery by tiie statutes of the order), amounts to between £ 3,000 and £ 3,500. It is stated that the late Dean, who was also Dean of Wolverhampton, holding at the same time the vicarage of Wantage, the rectory of Norton, and the rectory of Hasely, Oxfordshire, died possessed of very considerable wealth. INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOK PROMOTING THE ENLARGEMENT, BOILBING, AND RF. PAIRING OF CHURCHES AND CHAPELS.— On Monday the annual general meeting of this most useful and indefatigable society took place at their chambers in St. Martin's- place, Trafalgar- square. His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury was in the chair. There were also present on this important and interesting occasion, the Lords Bishops of Durham, Winchester, Lichfield, Lincoln, Hereford, Gloucester, B: ingor, Oxford, Worcester, Llandaff, and Chichester ; Earl of Eldon, Lords Courteuav and Bolton, Sir Robert H. Inglis, M. P., J. H. Dickenson, M. P., Dean of Here- ford, Archdeacons Jones, Raymond, Harrison, & c. After prayers had been said by the venerable president, the Rev. Mr. Bowdler, A. M., read the yearly report, from which it appeared that the number of applications received during the past year was 151. The number of grants made was 111— viz., towards building churches ( new), 44; for building additional chapels, 5; for rebuilding churches and chapels with enlarge- ment, 23; for enlarging or otherwise increasing the accommo- dation in churches and chapels, 39. A committee meeting of tiie Ecclesiastical Commis- sioners for England was held on Wednesday, which was attended by the Bishops of Winchester, Bangor, Hereford, Lich- field, Lincoln, Oxford, Ripon, and Worcester, the Earls of Devon and Besborough, and the Right Hon, II. Hobhouse. SERMONS.— On Sunday last sermons were preached at St. Clement's Church, by the Rev. J. Davies, and the Rev. Dr. Phillips, of Henwick, when the sum of £ 14. lis. was collected for the organist, Mr. P. Birch. BEWDLEY CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.— The 30th annual meeting of the Bewdley Church Missionary Associa- tion was held in the Church Sunday School, on Monday last, the Rev. John Cawood, M. A., in the chair. The attend- ance was numerous, and the collections were liberal, making, together with the produce of the collections at St. Anne's Chapel on the preceding Sunday, alter sermons by the Rev. II. Powell, Missionary from Ceylon, £ 41. 4s. 4d. NEW PARISH CHURCH AT BUUSLEM.— The inhabitants of this town have resolved to erect a new parish church, which shall provide 800 sittings in pews and 400 free sittings. It is proposed to erect the sacred building near the present church, on the site of the intended burial- ground. We understand that John Wood, Esq., of Brownhills, has already subscribed the munificent sum of £ 1000; the Rev. E. Whieldon, the rector, £ 300; and about £ 1000 have been subscribed by the committee. Grants of £ 1000 are expected from the Church Building Societies.— Staffordshire Mercury. WORCESTERSHIRE SOCIETY. — The Worcestershire Society celebrates its thirty- first anniversary this day ( Friday.) We shall, as usual, present our readers with a report of the proceedings in our next. J, A. Taylor, Esq , M. P., is the President. We deeply regret to have to insert, in our obituary of this day, the death of the above lamented officer.— His name is now added to the list of eminent men who have nobly fallen in the service of their country ! In our columns we have frequently recorded the gallant achievements of this distinguished soldier:— not only at the splendid victory of Maharajpoor, under the walls of Gwalior, on the 29th of December, 1843, but also at the recent glorious victories of Moodkee, Ferozeshah, and Sobraon, on the banks of the Sutlej, during which campaign Colonel Barr held the high office of Acting Adjutant- General of her Majesty's forces. Thus he saw the commencement, progress, and final success, of a series of triumphs which will be ever memorable in the history of India. Some extracts from a letter by Major- General Sir Harry Smith, Bart., G. C. B., with which we have been favoured, con- conveying to the family of Colonel Barr the intelligence that this brave and accomplished officer was no more, will be read with much interest. If aught could assuage the poignant grief of his relatives it is the tribute of the hero of Aliwal to the memory of his friend ! Sir Harry says in his despatch, dated Camp, Latteala, on the road to Simla,— " Would I had a far less painful duty to perform than that of telling you I have lost one of my dearest and most valued friends ! you a brother— an honour to his family, to his pro- fession, and to his country ! " You will be aware he was severely wounded in the battle of Sobraon ; the large bone of his left arm was much shattered by a musket ball. It was not amputated, and although, while at Ferozepore, we were in constant alarm for his welfare, he reached Kussowlee, a hill station near Simla, in charge of the very able surgeon of his own regiment; where, it appears, the wound had sloughed, and the artery must have become diseased; for, on the 26th of March last, a violent hemorrhage ensued, and our noble Marcus sank under it! " You know the friendship which existed between me and Marcus. I know by your letters to him how brothers and sisters can love! Judge, therefore, of my incompetency to write all I feel; nor can I attempt to offer any consolation— no mortal can ! Our appeal, trust, and hope, is in heaven ! to where I am sure he is gone— for he was a ' good man'— and where we must strive to meet him. " No soldier ever lamented the loss of his friend and comrade more than I do. For his ' future' I hope in the belief of a Christian for the ' past' I know nothing in his carecr to regret. He was a ' man' in every sense of the word— a truly honest and upright Englishman ! time had not diminished his amiable nationality. He was universally beloved and respected through- out India. As a soldier he was pre- eminent, and the tears of sorrow rolled down the veteran cheeks of that bravest of men, our Commander- in- Chief, Sir Hugh Gough, when we talked of our most valiant comrade this day; for yesterday we had good accounts of him. " When the heart is full, it is eased by pouring forth its con- tents before a friend ; such is my case when I thus write and dwell upon my painful loss to the brothers and sisters who have been so bereaved!" Sir Harry Smith, we understand, writes still more touchingly and with surpassing kindness, as regards his friends and the feelings of the family. But enough, we trust, has been said for the satisfaction of those who have expressed so much kind solicitude. The military career of this valiant and much esteemed officer is now closed! His grave has been honoured by the deep regrets of his brave and excellent friends Lord Gough, Sir Ilarry Smith, and his other gallant comrades. No doubt these feelings will be responded to by a grateful country, to which he was fondly attached, and for whose honour and interest, in the discharge of a sacred duty, he yielded up his breath! " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest !" NATIONAL SCHOOL SOCIETY.— The annual meeting of the Incorporated Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church was held on Wednesday al twelve o'clock, in the Central School rooms, Sanc- ttiarv, Westminster. The meeting was most numerously and respectably attended. I lis Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, president of the society, took the chair, and there were also present the Bishops of Lichfield, Bangor, Hereford, Oxford, Salisbury, Ripon, and Norwich ; the Deans of Westminster and Hereford, Archdeacons Sinclair, Harrison, Jones, and the Arch- deacon of Kildare; the Hon. and Rev. L. Courtenay, Hon. and Rev. F. Grey, Hon. and Rev. S. Best, Hon. and Rev. R. Eden, Rev. Sir C. F. Farnaby, Bart., Rev, Dr. Whewell ( Master of Trinity College, Cambridge), Rev. Dr. C. Wordsworth, Rev. II. 11. Milman, Rev. L. V. Harcourt, and many other clergymen. Among the laity present were the Marquis of Lorn ; Lord Saudon, M. P.; Viscount Campden; Lord Bexlev ; Hon. W. Cowper, M P.; Admiral Bowles, M. P.; SirT. D. Acland, Bart., M. P.; Mr. Pakington, M. P.; Mr. J. Hardv, M. P.; Mr. R. A. Christopher, M. P.; Mr. T. D. Acland, M. P.; Mr. F. H. Dickinson, M. P.; Mr. M. Briscoe, M. P.; Sir T. Phillips; Mr. Harry Chester; Mr. J. P. K. Shuttleworth; Mr. S. Treinen- heere, & c. A large portion ot the audience consisted of ladies. The proceedings commenced with prayer; after which the girls educated in the Central School were examined by the Bishop of Lichfield in Scripture reading, See. The Right Rev. examiner said their answers showed that they had not learned the Scripture by rote, but intelligently, and in a light and religious spirit. The boys were then put through a more stringent examination bv the Bishop of Oxford, in English history, geography, and scriptural reading, and acquitted themselves very creditably. The childreu of both sexes afterwards went through their musical exercises. RESTORATION OF CHARLES II.— To- day being the anniversary of the restoration of the English Monarchy, the morning was ushered in by the ringing of the church bells, and the public buildings and inns in this city have, as has been customary, been loyally decorated with oak boughs. Mr. Arthur P. Smith, of Kempsey, has been appointed Lieutenant in the corps of Royal Engineers. WHIT- MONDAY.— The usual preparations are in pro- gress for the customary annual meetings ou Monday next of the school children connected with the various Sunday schools in this city. There is to be a free admission to the Cathedral, but a collection is to be made after the sermon, which will be delivered by the Rev. C. Eckersall. The various denominations of Dissenters will likewise hold similar assemblages at their several places of worship. WORCESTER BATHS.— We are glad to observe that a manifesto has at length been put forth with regard to this measure of public utility ; it will be found in our advertis- ing columns. There is now no doubt that a project, so eminently conservative of the public health and cleanliness, having received the patronage of influential names, will be without delay adopted by the citizens generally, and that the shares will be readily disposed of. We know that hundreds will avail themselves of the erection of these buildings, not only for the healthful purposes of ablution, but to cultivate the very useful art of swimming. WORCESTER GLEE SOCIETY.— The Glee Club on Tuesday last held the last of its weekly meetings for the season. An unusual number of new members have been enrolled since the commencement of the season; and altogether it has been a most successful one. The next meeting will take place on the 7th of July, and on the first Tuesday in each succeeding month till September, when the weekly meetings will be resumed as usual. MR. D'EGVILLE'S FAREWELL CONCERT.— Our adver- tising columns announce the intention of the veteran D'Egville to give a farewell concert in this city on Thursday next. We are sure our readers, and especially the musical portion of them, will greatly regret this announcement from one who has been so long known and so generally respected in this city. Mr. D'Egville has made an arrangement with his son, Mr. James D'Egville, by which, at the approaching Midsummer, he will leave this city to take up his residence in Brighton, where we hope he may long enjoy that degree of comfort and happiness which his warmth of heart and constant benevolence deserve. There is no doubt, from the long * list of influential names published in connection with his farewell concert, that the occasion will be embraced by as many of Mr. D'Egville's friends as can obtain admis- sion at the Townhall, as a demonstration of their affection and esteem for him, whether as a preceptor, musician, or friend. It is unnecessary to remark that the most fervent interest in the success of this undertaking is felt by the whole corps of musicians in this city, and from the highly respectable and influential array of patrons, it would seem the same lively interest is taken in the matter by admirers of the divine science throughout the county. THE THEATRE.— This place of amusement closed on Friday last, after a very brief season. Throughout the whole campaign the company acquitted themselves in a most creditable manner, but the excellent manager's ( Mr. Bennett,) success has not been so extensile as the genuine character of the series of entertainments he has presented would have justified. The season of the year however is adverse to the success of any indoor amusements. THE CIRCUS— This place of amusement continues to be well attended. Last night Mr. Powell took his benefit, and the performances appeared to give great satisfaction to a numerous company. THE SALMON FISHERIES' BILL.— There being no House on Wednesday evening this bill did not go into committee in the Commons, as had been previously arranged. A petition, very nutretously signed by the inhabitants of Ludlow and its vicinity in favour of tiie bill has been forwarded to the borough mem- bers for presentation. We perceive that a meeting of the members of the Severn Fisheries' Protection Association is to be held at the Guildhall, at two o'clock, on Monday next, for the purpose of considering the present position of this bill. WORCESTER GAS.— Complaints are continually being made of the incouvenicnee which is suffered by the inhabi- tants of this city during the months of May, June, and July, from the practice of discontinuing the public lights, by which during the recent cloudy evenings the city has been enveloped for some hours in almost complete darkness. This is not the first time we have drawn attention to the subjcct; and it is now suggested that some arrangement be made by the City Commissioners with the incoming gas managers to secure the required supply, which at the con- templated reduction would not materially add to the expenses of the city, while it would prove of essential service to the convenience and safety of those who are unfortunately obliged to be abroad after nightfall.— In con- nexion with this subject we may mention that the Bill of the New Gas Company was reported in the House of Com- mons on Monday last, and ordered to be engrossed, The differences between the Old and New Companies have been adjusted in the most amicable and satisfactory manner, and we have no doubt that the gas consumers of the city will speedily reap the full benefit which must result from the agitation of the question and its final settlement. BISHOP LLOYD'S SCHOOL.— On Wednesday last, the boys and girls connected with this long- established institu- tion were presented with entire suits of clothing. This useful charity is bestowed every two years. The visitors expressed themselves highly delighted with the appearance and conduct of the children, as reflecting great credit upon the managers, Mr, and Mrs, Bullock. BLOCKLEY MECHANICS' INSTITUTE. — This newly established and flourishing institution now numbers up- wards of GO members; it also musters a creditable discus- sion class. Among the donors to tha Iustitute may be named the Right Hon. Lord Northwick, who presents the members with a daiiy newspaper. It is congratulatory to state that, after defraying the expenses of two daily and six weekly newspapers, in addition to other periodicals, the finances of the Institute are in a flourishing state, which may be mainly attributed to the liberality ' of the above- mentioned nobleman, aided by the praiseworthy exertions of the late Hon. Secretary, Mr. G. Gardiner. REDDITCH CHAPEL,— A new and very appropriate window has recently been fixed in the eastern end of Redditch Chapel. The border is formed of an elegant scroll pattern, comprising crimson, purple, and amber- coloured glass; the centre of ground glass, and near the top are the initials I. H. S., encircled by the star of glory. The whole has an elegant and chaste appearance. The funds for defraying the expense have been raised by the kind exertions of the lady of C. Bartlett, Esq., of Redditch. THE LATE CITY SESSIONS.— In the case of Sarah Langford for trial at the Sessions held in this city last week, it was stated in our last that in the absence of the prisoner, when called on, the recognizances of her bail were estreated. The prisoner has since the Sessions been lodged in the city gaol, where she will remain until the next gaol delivery, when her trial will take place. We believe the bail has been enlarged. WORCESTERSHIRE YEOMANRY. — Captain Taylor's troop of the Queen's Own Worcestershire Cavalry went out for their first drill for the year, on Moseley Wake Common, last week. The troop is now ninety- five in number, being only five men short of its full complement. THE EXPERIAIENTAL FLEET.— FALMOUTH, MAY 26. — The Sarah Maria Ann arrived here, reports having seen the experimental fleet, consisting of eight ships and one steamer, wind blowing strong at north, and the squadron under low canvass, going west, on May 22, lat. 47, 50 N., long, 9 35 W. And yesterday, off the Lizard, passed a British frigate, steering west. BIRMINGHAM BANKRUPTCY COURT.— On Saturday last, before Mr. Commissioner Daniell. nn the case of Insafl, land agent and auctioneer, of Shipston- on- Stour, that being- the day appointed on an adjourned order for the last examination of the bankrupt, Mr. Motterain, for the assignees, stated to the Court that the appointment of the hearing for this day had been made in his absence, and the legal gentleman who had then acted for him was not aware of the very intricate nature and voluminous extent of the bankrupt's balance- sheet. Another unforeseen obstacle had arisen, Mr. Hobbs, solicitor, Stratford, for whom he acted, was detained in town. Under these circum- stances he respectfully urged upon the attention of the Court the actual necessity which existed for another adjournment. Mr. J. Suckling, who appeared for the bankrupt, said he could not oppose the application, but, considering that his client had duly filed his balance- sheet, and so far had complied with the orders of the Court, he should ask that the expenses be paid by the parties desiring the delay. To this proposition Mr. Motteram at once agreed ; and upon this understanding and representatioa his Honour directed an adjournment to Saturday, the 6th June. FIRE AT YARDLEY.— Early on Saturday morning last a fire broke out at the Custard House, in the Green- lanes, Yardley. The Birmingham engines were immediately dispatched, but on their arrival the house was enveloped in flames, and owing to an insufficient supply of water, the fire was not extinguished until the premises were destroyed. They were occupied by a lady named Chirm, who fortunately did not sleep in the house on Friday night, as she had taken another residence, to which a great portion of her furniture had been removed. The fire is supposed to have been caused by ignited coals falling out of one of the grates. ODD FLORICULTURAL PREMIUM.— At the Bath Hor- ticultural meeting last week " the pair of razors offered by- Mr. Neill, of the Saw- close, for the six best pansies," was not awarded ; there being but one stand shown, which the umpires did not consider of sufficient merit. The prize stands over till the next show, for the best eighteen roses. Of couise it is open for competition by ladies, young and old. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.— It is the intention of the local authorities at Newcastle- upon- Tyne to invite his Royal Highness Prince Albert to attend the exhibition of the Royal Agricultural Society to be held in that town in the month of July next, when the Duke of Richmond, the Duke of Buckingham, and other distinguished individuals are expected to be present. The preparations for the approaching exhibition are progressing with great rapidity, and it is confidently antici- pated it will be one of the most numerously attended and important meetings the society has ever held. Worcester June fair takes place on Tuesday next the 2nd of that month. DUDLEY PERAMBULATION.— We understand that the Vicar and churchwardens of the parish of Dudley intend on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday next to perambulate the boundary of the parish with the usual ceremonies, and have affixed the requisite notices on the church doors for that purpose. CITY POLICE.— The following are the only cases vvorih noticing which have been brought before the city Magistrates during the past week. On Monday a poor fellow named Raslall, in a weak state of health, applied to the Bench under the following circumstances. On the 25th of May last his wife ran away from him, taking with her nine £ 5 notes with other property. Since that time she had been living with another man in Bristol and elsewhere, but was now returned to Worcester and lived with his sou and another man. The Magistrates said they could not assist the applicant, as he could not charge his wife with felony. A woman of the town was brought up ou a charge of robbing a man of 7s. 6J., at a house in Dolday, on the previous day, but the prosecutor not appearing to prefer the charge, she was dismissed with a caution. There was no business of any interest transacted at the Police Office this morning. COMMITTAL OF A MAN FOR BITING OFF ANOTHER'S EAR. — A man named Richard Barrow, of Malvern, has been committed to our county gaol for trial on the charge of biting off the ear of Edward Thomas, in the course of an affray at North Malvern, on the 28th ult. It appears that on the above mentioned day, Thomas, accompanied by the prisoner, his brother William Burrow, William Pritchard, and others, had been drinking together at Bough's beer- house, North Malvern. Some of the company had been quarrelling, and when they were turned out at eleven o'clock, the Burrows and Pritchard proposed to return and " give it" to George Bough, one of the landlady's sons. No sooner said than done : they burst the door open, and went into the house. Thomas followed them, and seeing Richard Burrow about, as he thought, to strike the land- lady, he interfered, and pushed him away. Burrow imme- diately struck him, and the blo w was as quickly returned. A fight took place, and both the parties fell on the floor. While they were down, Pritchard and William Burrow also, according to Thomas' statement, struck him, particularly the former. The affair terminated by Richard Burrow taking Thomas' left ear in his mouth, and biting it clean off at the roots; he afterwards spat it out of his mouth wilder the screen. The parted and now shrivelled member was produced on the prisoner's committal by policeman Stratton, who found it on the floor. Thomas was then permitted to get up, and when he sat down on the settle he almost fainted from loss of blood. FATAL ACCIDENT.— A distressing case of drowning occurred on Wednesday evening last, at St. Clement's quay, on which a number of children were playing. Among other amusements the children betook themselves to throwing sand at each other, when one of them named Win. Rawlings, ran away towards the brink of the quay, and approaching too near the edge, he fell into the water. Although several boatmen were present no efficient effort was made to save the little fellow, and it was not until half an hour had elapsed that the body was recovered by means of the drag. The water at the place where he fell in is 5 feet in depth. An inquest was held upon the body this morning ( Friday), at the Royal George public- house, Hylton Street, before J. B. Hyde, Esq., when a verdict of " Accidentally drowned" was returned. The boy's age was stated to be between eight and nine, and his friends reside in Bull Entry. We are only surprised that accidents do not more frequently happen oil our quays, which are every evening to be seen swarming with children who are momentarily putting their lives in jeopardy in the course of their amusements. SERIOUS MISADVENTURE.— On Monday evening last an old bay mare, late the property of Mr. Evans, of the Farriers' Arms, was standing at a house in Hallow, where she had been hauling a load of lime, when the bov in attendance took the bit from her mouth for the purpose of giving the animal some water, and in attempting to replace it the bit slipped from his hand, and, striking the mare, caused her to start off with the cart. Away she went at full speed until she readied Henwick, when the body of the cart became detached from the wheels. The mare novv drawing a lighter weight continued her course at an increased speed through St. John's, along the New Road, through Broad- street, the Cross, and turned down Shaw Street, narrowly escaping a collision with the front of Mr. Scott's shop, and thence to her old quarters at the Farriers' Arms, where she fell to the ground quite exhausted. No injury was sustained to life or limb throughout the whole of her course, as she cleverly avoided numerous vehicles which were trafficking along the thoroughfares through which she passed. LAMB STEALING.— On Friday night last, or early on Saturday morning, two ewe lambs, the properly of Mr. Geo. Hollis, of Mappleborough Green, near Redditch, were slaughtered in one of his fields. The thieves took away the carcasses of both and left the entrails in the field. A reward of £ 5 has been offered by Mr. Ilollis for the appre- hension of the offenders, who have not as yet been taken.— A lamb was stolen a few nights ago, from Bournheath, near Bromsgrove, the property of Mr. Grove, farmer, of Catshill. — Mr. William Tovcy, of Church Lench. in this county, also lost a lamb a few nights ago from a field in that parish.— On Wednesday last, John Turner, of Redditch, carpenter, was taken before G. F. Iddins, Esq., at Bromsgrove, charged with stealing a ewe lamb, the property of Mr. Edwd. Kings, of Bordesley Park Farm, near Alvechurch in this county. It appeared from the evidence produced that the prisoner and others had been drinking at the Red Lion Inn, Redditch, when one of his companions proposed that they should play at cards for his pig, upon which the prisoner observed that if he would allow them to play for the pig that he ( the prisoner) would find a lamb for them to play for also, which was agreed to, and at about twelve o'clock they separated. The prisoner it seems started immediately to one of Mr. Kings' fields and brought away with him a lamb, and on coming into Redditch, was met by the night watchman who questioned him as to where he had the lamb from, to which he gave several evasive answers when he was taken into custody. Mr. Kings identified the lamb as his property, and prisoner was then committed to take his trial at the next assizes at Worcester. BURGLARY.— A daring robbery took place ot Attle- borough, near Atherstone, about one o'clock on Sunday morning last, in the house of Mr. Richard Wright, the Bull Inn, which was forcibly entered, and property to the value of £ 40 was stolen. It appears that after Mr. and Mrs. Wright had retired to bed, a party of ruffians broke into the large loJge- room at the back of the house, and from thence made an entry into the bar, and there helped themselves to all the liquor, and other articles that were both valuable and portable, A diligent search is making alter the robbers. FIRE AT CHARLTON.— On Friday night last, at about eleven o'clock, a fire broke out in a barn aud stable con- nected with the premises of Mr. Edwards, Charlton, in the parish of Cropthorne, in this county. Fortunately no lives of men or cattle were lost, though some poultry were burnt to death. A warren containing eleven rabbits was burnt. The barn and stable were totally destroyed, as also two waggons, a cart, gig, and some wood. There were a number of pigs in the buildings, but they were fortunately rescued before the fire reached them. Immediately on the fire being discovered an alarm was given, and the Evesham engine belonging to the Birmingham District Office was despatched to the spot, and succeeded in preventing the extension of the fire. In connection with this disaster a serious accident happened to Mr. Collins, of the Fleece Inn, Evesham, who on the alarm being given hastened in a gig to the spot, accompanied by two other parties named Hunt and Cooper. They had not proceeded a great distance before the gig unfortunately upset with some violence and was shattered almost to pieces. Mr. Collins was seriously hurt internally, and is still confined to his room: his com- panions escaped comparatively unhurt. The origin of the fire has not been traced, and the only cause that has been assigned is the fact that a servant had been in the habit of placing ashes in a wood box in the stable. The damage done is estimated at £ 160. STATE OF IRELAND.— We find amongst the narrations of other Irish outrages contained in Freeman's Journal, that an the night of the 6th instant some evil- minded person entered the lawn or plantation of Erne Hill, Belturbet, the property of George Marshal Knipe, Esq., cousin to Mr. Knipe, solicitor, of this city, and destroyed a large quantity of prime young trees and ornamental shrubs. Appended to this account of wilful mischief is the following paragraph :—" As it is generally known in the surrounding counties that Mr. Knipe in his capacity as a magistrate, acts upon the most fair and impartial principles of justice and mercy— and as a resident gentleman, descended of a family of ancient standing in this county, he is loved and respected by every grade in society, being always in front to promote any charitable object for the relief of the widow and the suffering poor. And so tender are his feelings for the present distress, that he has raised the wages of his labourers consider- ably, and orders that the employment be continued in good or bad weather at the raised price. Besides, every branch of his numerous and highly respectable family cannot be surpassed in kindness and civility to all who approach their hospitable home, and their charities are dealt out so impartially as to reflect credit ou their unaffected goodness." INQUEST BEFORE C. BEST, ESQ.— On Wednesday last Mr. Best held an inquest at the Pheasant Inn, Welland, on view of the body of Elizabeth Harris, aged four months, ! daughter of a labouring couple residing in that parish, who, it is supposed, died in a fit. It appears that the child is of full habit, and was in its usual state of health on Sunday night when put to bed, but that on the parents awaking in the morning they found the little creature lying dead by their side, with its face downwards. A verdict of " Died by the visitation of God" was returned. MORE SUICIDES.— Chas Best, Esq., one of the county coroners, has recently held two inquests on the bodies of parties who have destroyed themselves. On Tuesday last Mr. Best held an inquest at Suckley, on view of the body of Mrs. Sarah Wall, wife of John Wall, of that parish, who died on Saturday, from the effects of a dose of arsenic which she had administered to herself on the previous Monday. It appeared from the evidence of the husband of the deceased, and of the neighbours examined on the inquiry, that some time since a pennyworth of arsenic was purchased for the purpose of destroying rats, but that the deceased and her husband were afraid to use it, lest the pigs should partake of it, and the deceased told her husband that she had put it away. On Monday, the 18th instant, the deceased and her husband quarrelled on some domestic matter, the result of which was that the latter put his wife out of doors. This, it would seem, together with the fact that the parties had lately been labouring under pecuniary difficulties, caused the deceased some unhappiness, and ( as she admitted on her death bed) she swallowed the arsenic which had been purchased for the rats, and which she had not disposed of as represented to her husband. Immediately that the deceased had disclosed to her neighbours the cause of her illness, Mr. G. F. Knipe, surgeon, of Sandlin, was sent for, and found her labouring under the usual effects of the administration of arsenic. He prescribed for and continued to attend her until her death, on Saturday afternoon. It appears that the deceased had taken poison some time previous to her marriage, but the quantity being larger it had been rejected, and thus her life was saved. The Jury returned a verdict of lunacy.— Last week Mr. Best held an inquest at the Lygon Arms Hotel, Broadway, on view of the body of Mr. Thomas Spencer, draper, who also committed suicide, under the following circumstances:— The deceased, it would seem, has been indulging in intoxicating liquors for some time past, which has brought on a very unsettled state of mind. On the morning of the 18th instant, Mrs. Spencer went to call him j to breakfast, and to her horror discovered him hanging by a silk handkerchief' to the tester of the bed. She, with the assistance of her brother- in- law, Mr. Muddeman, of Leamington, who a i the lime was visiting at the deceased's house, cut hiin down and found that he was not dead, though quite insensible. Mr. Beadles, surgeon, was sent for, and on his arrival, he bled him and administered other treatment, in consequence of which he rallied and his breathing was re- established. He lived until seven o'clock in the evening, when he died from congestion of the brain, brought on by the attempt. The deceased, as already stated, had latterly given way to intemperate habits, and had once taken the temperance pledge, but afterwards found that he could not keep up his spirits without the use of ardent drinks. A similar verdict in this, as in the previous ca? e was returned. AFFECTING INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH.— It has rarely fallen to the duty of a journalist to record a more dis- tressing instance of sudden and premature death, than the one that has occurred in Banbury, within the last week. On Friday evening, shortly after 7 o'clock, Miss Sarah Barford, only daughter of Mr. John Barford, ironmonger, was on her way to join an evening party at Mr. Chesterman's, accom panied by Mr. Judge, a solicitor of this place, to whom she was about to be married; she was in good health, and in unusually good spirits. When about a hundred yards from Mr. Chesterman's, she mads some remark on the dustiness of the street, and having gathered up her dress, again took hold of Mr. Judge's arm. Almost immediately she clasped his arm with both her hands, and looking up to him, exclaimed, " Oh, Tom !" then instantly sunk upon her knees, and became senseless. Mr. Judge carried her into Mr. Stanley's, and Mr. Chesterman was sent for; the distance from his house being but short, he was immediately on the spot, but all aid was useless, and sho died in half a minute after Mr. Chesterman entered the room. The effect of this sudden and awful dis- pensation upon those immediately connected with this young lady, it is impossible to describe. The sad intelligence spread swiftly through the town, aud produced an universal gloom : for a time its correctness was questioned, for it was too shocking to bo believed, until the proof was irresistable. Mr. Hunt, the Deputy- Coroner, at once summoned a Jury, in order that the remains of the deceased might be removed to the home she had so recently left, full of life aud hope. A more affecting spectacle than the body presented is seldom witnessed; it was such as no one could look upon unmoved. Laid upon a sofa, arrayed in evening dress, she, who little more than an hour previously was expected to be a partaker in the gaiety of a social circle, had become the subject of a solemn inquiry. Mr. Judge gave evidence to the Jury, with as much composure as could be expected in the painful position in which he was placed ; and Mr. Chesterman stated he had no hesitation in saying death was caused by apoplexy. The verdict, therefore, was—" Died by the Visitation of God." Miss Barford was 27 years of age, and was greatly endeared to all with whom she was acquainted, by her kind and amiable disposition.— Banbury Guardian. ROBBERIES ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.— For some time past a series of robberies have been committed at the goods station of the Great Western Railway at Bristol, packages of various descriptions having been opened, and portions of their contents abstracted. Suspicions fell upon some workmen engaged at the terminus, and the result has been the apprehension and committal for trial of two of the railway porters named John Merrett and Alfred Jarvis. Stolen property was found in the possession of both these prisoners. HONITON.— On Monday night, the 18th instant, a fire broke out in the High- street of this town, by which seventeen dwellings were destroyed by the flames; and at the request of the Rev. V. H. P. Somerset, the Hector, Fred. Ivitson, Esq., and several other respectable inhabitants, an inquiry was made before II. R. Aberdeen, Esq., coroner, as to the cause of its taking place. The Jury, after some consideration, returned a verdict that the said dwelliug- liouses were wilfully and maliciously set on fire, but by whom no evidence appeared. FATAL AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.— On Tuesday night last a gardener in the employ of Major C. F. Winterton, of Fen wick Lodge, Surrey, was awakened by the barking of a dog kept on the premises, and thinking that thieves were about he let the dog loose. The animal immediately crossed an adjoining paddock towards an extensive fish- pond. The man followed, and on arriving at the pond perceived several men in the act of dragging the water with a net. The dog, a powerful anirual of the mastiff breed, attacked the poachers, and got one of the men down. The gardener ran back to the house for assistance, and shortly returned to the pond, accom- panied by two of Major Winterton's sons and several of the men servants, when they discovered the dog lying dead, and the poachers removing the net. The party from the lodge immediately made a, rush at the poachers, who, leaving two of their number to secure the net, closed with the attacking party, aud a desperate struggle ensued. The poachers wielded short bludgeons, and two or three of the servants carried fire- arms, which, at the commencement of the fray, they threatened to use, but were restrained by Mr. Robert Winterton, who called out to his party not to fire. However, one of the servants having been thrown down and nearly throttled by one of the gang, fired a pistol at his opponent, the ball taking effect in the groin of the poacher. At last the entire body of poachers decamped, leaving their nets behind. In the pursuit that followed, a groom, named Robert Staines, overtook and grappled with one of the poachers, near the eud of the fish- pond. In the struggle the two men fell into the pond locked in each other's grasp, the water being upwards of twenty feet deep at the spot. After a short interval the poacher rose to the surface, succeeded in reaching the bank, and escaped. The incident beiug observed by another of the servants, an alarm was raised, and the pursuing party having returned from an unsuccessful chase, means were taken to recover the body of the groom, which after a time was dragged up, but life of course was extinct. None of the poachers were recog- nised as belonging to the neighbourhood. The wounded poacher remains iu a very precarious state. CAPTURE OF A WHALE IN THE MEDWAY.— A large fish was seen sporting above Rochester bridge, and about the Medway, for the last few days, which afforded some amuse- ment to the fishermen and others, who have endeavoured to capture it, and hundreds have assembled to witness its gambols, as it frequently rose to the surface, but instantly- disappeared. Opinion was rife as to its character and bulk, some affirming it to be a porpoise, others a conger eel, or a grampus. The matter is now beyond a doubt, as on Monday evening it was shot by a man named Smith. A friend describes it as belonging to the ninth genus of the white whale, Beluga. It is perfectly white, and the skin has a velvet appearance, aud the fish is of the following dimen- sions: 12ft, lOiu. in length, 6ft, wide, 2ft. 9iu, breadth of tail, i SUMMER ASSIZES. The Judges of the different Courts met in the Exchequer Chamber yesterday morning, and chose their respective circuits at the ensuing summer assizes. The following is the arrange- ment :— OXFORD— Lord Chief Justice Tindal and Mr. Justice Maule. NORTH WALES— Lord Chief Justice Denham. SOUTH WALES— Mr. Baron Rolfe. Ho ME— Mr. Baron Parke and Mr. Justice Coltman. NORFOLK— Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Justice Williams. MIDLAND— Mr. Justice Patteson and Mr. Justice Coleridge. NORTHERN— Mr Justice Wightmanand Mr. Justice Cresswell WESTERN— Mr. Justice Erie and Mr. Baron Piatt. The Lord Chief Baron, Sir F. Pollock, remains in town, and will attend business at Chambers. COUNTY PETTY SESSIONS. SHIREHALL, TUESDAY, MAY 26. Magistrates present— J. Williams, Esq., ( Chairman,) P. V. Onslow, Esq., and Captain Hastings. LOWESMOOR DISTRICT OP ROADS J. D. Hyde, Esq., clerk to the Turnpike Trustees, applied to the Bench to issue orders upon the surveyors of the following parishes for their quotas of statute duty towards the repair of roads within the Lowesmoor district. Mr. Hyde stated to the Bench that when the amount of tolls waS not sufficient to pay the expenses of repairing the roads, they were em- powered to grant orders upon the several parishes in the district, which course had been decided upon by the Trustees in this instance! ' the tolls annually derived from the Lowesmoor roads amounted to £ 290, while the annual expenditure was estimated at £ 5& 3. 19s. 4d., and the Trustees had, in accordance with the apportionment of their surveyor, resolved to apply for the several sums as hereafter men- tioned, being a total of £ 195 dairies, £ 26 ; St. Martin, £ 14 - Warndon, £ 17; Tibberton, £ 21; Crowle, £ ft; Huddington, £ 9l The following sums were to be obtained by similar proceedings from the Droitwich division :— Himbleton, £ 30; Hanbnry, £ 30; Stock and Bradley, £ 14 ; Shell, £ 7; presenting a total of £ 81, which was included in the £' 195 before- mentioned. Hitherto some trifling repairs have been made annually on these roads, the rate- payers, as an equivalent for the non- payment of rates, undertaking the hauling of materials. The roads were, however, getting into a worse state of repair every year, and this was the only course to be pursued. The surveyors of the several parishes stated their peculiar objections to the apportionment of the surveyor to the Trust, and it was pro- posed that the dissenting parishes appear on a subsequent session, by which time the surveyor , vould be" prepared with a more detailed estimate of the expenses. The whole of the parties, however, at the recommendation of the Bench, retired to consult as to the best course ; and on their return to the room it was announced that all opposition was withdrawn, and the necessary orders were made. POOR- BATE APPEAL.— An appeal was made by Mr. A. Hooper, solicitor, on behalf of Mr. John Boraston, of Woodhall Farm, in the parish of Hallow, against a poor- rate granted on the 7th of February last, the overseers at that time being Messrs. J. C. Nott and Rimell. Mr. John Tymbs appeared for the parish. Some dis- cussion followed the reading of the notice of appeal which had. been served upon Messrs. Nott and llimell, as to whether the jurisdiction of the Magistrates extended thereto, the overseers having gone out of office before the serving of such notice. The legal^ gentlemea both agreed to waive any technical objection; and decide upon the ground of appeal— that the complainant had been overrated in respect of the farm. Mr. Hooper slated that the rate had been charged upon the actual rental of £ 277, whereas he was prepared to prove that it did not exceed £ 235. To support this position, Mr, Hooper called Mr. Webb, surveyor, who deposed that he had made a survey of the farm on Wednesday last, anil considered that the value of the farm was £ 237, free of rent charge. Mr. Tymbs called Mr. Lakin, surveyor, who deposed that he had surveyed the farm, in question, and estimated the gross rental at £ 309 ; deducting there- from the rent- charge, tenant's expenses, & c., the rateable value of the farm would be £ 185, the amount in the rate- book. It was decided that the appeal should be dismissed, and the rate confirmed. Mr. Tymbs announced to the Bench that no application wou'd be be made for costs ; to which Mr. Onslow demurred whether it was in the discretion of the Bench to consent thereto, ou considering the position in which the parish would be placed. Hereupon one of the overseers thought it advisable to apply for costs, but Mr. Hooper contended it would be an act of injustice to call upon the com- plainant for costs in this case, since he had consented to waiveevery technical objection, aud had not put the parochial officers to any unnecessary expense. The application was then withdrawn. COMMITMENTS TO THE COUNTY GAOL.— By G. Talbot, Esq. : George Cox, charged with stealing a 561b. weight, the pro- perty of John Stanley, at Kidderminster,— By W. H. Ricketts, Esq. : William Freeman, charged with stealing from the dwelling house of Charles Haines, at Droitwich, a smockfrock and waistcoat, his property.— By VV. Nicholls, Esq.: John Wright, charged with steal- ing a five shilling piece, the money of Thomas Porter, at Kidder- minster;— By G. F. Iddins, Esq.: tVilliam Turner, charged with. stealing a ewe lamb, the property of Edward King, at Alvechurch. By J. Roberts, Esq.: Henry Stevevs, charged with keeping a brothel, at Dudley. CORN AVERAGES.— General average prices of British corn for the week ended May 23, 1846, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in tho different cities and towns in England and Wales per imperial quarter— Price : Wheat, 55s 5d ; Duty, 16s Od • barley 28s lOd, 9s Od ; oats, 23s 8d, 5s Od; rye, 34s 6d, 9s Od ; beans, 36s Oil* 7s Od ; peas, 34s 6d, 8s 6d. * WORCESTER HAY MARKET, MAY 23.— Hay of the best quality, £ 3 10s; inferior, £ 2 15 to £ 3 per tou. Straw, hand thrashed, £ 2 ; machine ditto, £ l 15s. BIRMINGHAM HAY MARKET, MAY 26.— Best liav, £ 3 10s to £ 3 15s per ton; inferior ditto, £ 2 to £ 2 10s ditto ; straw from £ 2 5s to £ 2 10s per ton; packing straw, £ 2 to £ 2 5s per'ton. * SMITHFIELD, HAY MARKET, MAY 27.— Meadow Hay, - t3 to £ 4 ; clover ditto, £ 4 5s to £ 5 15s; oat straw, £ 1 12s to £ 1 14s; wheat stravv, £ 1 14 to £ 1 16s per load, Supply tolerably good, anil trade very dull. BIRTH. May 26, the lady of James Wakeman, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. May 14, at Penn Church, near Wolverhampton, T. H. Fowke, Esq., surgeon, of Wolverhampton, to Emma, second daughter of W. II. Sparrow, Esq., of Penn ; and at the same time and place, G. G. Brown, Esq., surgeon, of Stourport, to Louisa, third daughter of the above W. H. Sparrow, Esq. May 15, at Caversham Church, Robert Thompson, Crawshay Esq., of Cyfarthfa Castle, in the county of Glamorgan, to Rose Mary, daughter of Wm. Wibson Yates, Esq., of the Grove in the county of Oxford. ' May 16. at Llangadfar, Montgomeryshire, Mr. Cole, grocer, Stourbri lge, in this county, to Miss Smith, of the same place.' May 17, at Leckhampton Church, Mr. John Bishop, pro- fessor of music, to Miss Elizabeth Hart, both of Cheltenham. May 19, at St. George's, Hanover Square, by the Rev. C. H. Gaye, the Rev. Henry Mark Willis, of Little Dean, Gloucester- shire, to Maria, youngest daughter of C. S. Gave Eso Shefford, Beds. ' May 20, at St. Martin's Church, Birmingham, Mr. Benjamin G. Whitehouse, of Tipton, to Ellen, daughter of J. Walton Esq., of Balsall Heath, * May 21, at Claine3, by the Rev. John Palmer, Mr. Richard Payne, builder, of Bromyard Downs, to Elizabeth, only daughter of Mr. William Nott, of the New House, near Bromyard. May 21, at St. George's, Hanover Square, London, by the Rev. M. D French, M. A., Mr. John Yates, of Wolseley Bridge, Staffordshire, to Mary, youngest daughter of the late George Kinsey, Esq., of Tonge, in the county of Leicester. May 22, at Grimley, in this county, by the Rev. H. J. Stevenson, R. Hurd Lucas, Esq., of Sinton Court, to Elizabeth Ann, daughter of the late Richard Hawkins, Esq., of York Villa Cheltenham. ' May 23, at St. Mary's, Bryanston Square, London, Henry Thomas, eldest son of the late Thomas Snepp, Esq., R. N., of Alcester, and grandson of the late Sir Henry Wakeman, Bart, of Perdiswcll Hall, to Julia, youngest daughter of the late Peter Hofman, Esq. May 23, at Chaddesley Corbett, by the Rev. G. H. Piercy, Mr. James Francis, of Durranls, Upton Warren, to Mary' second daughter of the late Mr. William Wythes, of Timber- honger, in this county. May 23, at Landauke, Carmarthenshire, by the Rev. W. Thomas, John Webster Mayou, Esq., of Fazeley, in the county of Stafford, eldest son of John Mayou, Esq., of Monmouth to Catherine Louisa, second daughter of the late Wm. Methering- ham Shield, Esq., of Frieston, Lincolnshire. May 24, by the Rev. C. Claughton, Mr. Richard Meredith, of Birmingham, to Charlotte, eldest daughter of Mrs. Hawkes' Hall Street, Kidderminster. ' May 24, at Gloucester, Mr. Thomas Maynard, coach builder, to Jane, widow of Mr. John Perkins, innkeeper, both of Glou- cester. May 25, at Claines, by the Rev. John Palmer, Mr. William Thommason, of the Droitwich road, to Miss Catherine Morris of York Place, Tything of Whistones. May 26, at Brevvood, by the Rev. A. B. Haden, M. A., vicar, Mr. Thomas Wilson, of Cornsall, Worcestershire, to Elizabeth* youngest daughter of Mr. Edward Wilson, of The Hattous., near the former place. May 26, at Whitford, North Wales, by the Rev. Richard Briscoe, D. D., vicar, Mr. Alexander Cope, of Spark Hill, in this county, to Mary Dorothy, daughter of the late William Jones Esq., of the former place. May 28, at Avenbury, Herefordshire, by the Rev. R. H. Williams, Mr. Henry Hill, of Stableford House, Salop, to Blaria, daughter of Mr. Edward West, of Little Froome. DEATHS. March 26, at Kussowlee, near Simla, Bengal, of wounds received at the battle of Sobraon, to the inexpressible grief of his family. Lieutenant- Colonel Marcus Barr, C. B., her Majesty's 29th ( or Worcestershire) Regiment, Acting Adjutant- General of the Queen's forces during the late campaign on the banks of the Sutlej. May 13, at Weather Oak Hill, in the parish of Alvechurch. aged 80, VIr. William Green, farmer. May 15, at St. John's, in her 9th year, Sarah Elizabeth, the only daughter of Mr. Thomas Harris Beardsell, leather dresser. May 15, at Cainham Vicarage, near Ludlow, Mr. John Gould, who for the last ten years filled the office of churchwarden to the satisfaction of the parish. May 16, the Rev. Robert Simpson, LL. B., in his 84t'n year, and the 54th of his Incumbeney as Vicar of St. Michael's, Coventry. May 19, in her 3rd year, Lydia Bateman, youngest daughter of Mr. Joseph Baternan, Hope and Anchor, Newport Street. May 20, aged four years and three months, Mary Anne, the only daughter of Mr. George Edwards, Cooksey Lodge, Upton Warren. May 20, at Pershore, after a long and painful illness, in his 55th year, Mr. Wm. Drinkwater, auctioneer, highly esteemed and sincerely lamented by a numerous circle of friends. May 20, at Kidderminster, aged 83, Mr. Thomas Weaver, formerly of Bromyard. May 21, at his house, Prospect Place, London Road, after a short illness, Mr. John Woodward, eldest son of the late Mr. Wm. Woodward, cabinet- maker, Sidbury, aged 50. March 21, at Harborne Lodge, in the 72nd year of his age, Wm. Palmer, Esq., solicitor, of Birmingham. May 22, aged 22, Susan, the beloved wife of Mr. Clement Harvey, of Gloucester, solicitor. May 22, suddenly, at Malvern, aged 56, Mr. James Smith, builder. May 23, deeply lamented by her family and friends, Ann, relict of Mr. John Boulcott, of this city," aged 66. May 23, aged 54, Anne, wife of Mr. John Proctor Dunn, o£ Evesham. May 23, aged 83, Mrs. Joyce Bennett, sister of tho late Mr. John Bennett, formerly of High Slreet, in this city. May 23, after a short illness, at the residence of her father, Mr. Thomas Cooper, Ilmpsley, near Henley- in- Arden, Anne, wife of Mr. Wright, late of Bewdley, in this county, leaving a husband and young family to mourn their irreparable loss. ° May 24, at the Parsonage Charlton*, in the 94th year of his age, the Rev, Oliver Cary, late Archdeacon of Elphine, in Ireland. May 27, aged 17, Richard, only son of Mr. Wm. Edwards, printer, Sidbury, in this city. Lately, Elizabeth, the beloved wife of Mr. Blakeway of Walton, near Ludlow. Aged 29, Leonora, only daughter of Mr. T. Scarlet, of Leominster. WORCESTER INFIRMARY, MAY 29. Physician and Surgeon for the week, Dr. Hastings and Mr. Pierpoinc. For the ensuing week, Dr. Hastings and M r, Carden. In- Patients. I Out- Patients. Admitted, 13.— Discharged, 11. | Admitted, 20.— Discharged 14. Iu the House, 89. ACCIDENTS.— Win. Price, scalded body ; Wm. Jones, severe wound of the foot; M. A. Smith, wound; Benjamin Price, wound of the wrist; Joseph Vaughan, sprained ancie; Mary Seftou. spraiuec! foot, _ WORCESTER DISPENSARY, MAY 29. Physician and Surgeon for the week, Dr. Nash and Mr. Joue^, For the ensuing week, Dr. Streeten and Mr. Davis, Patients admitted, 17 ; discharged, L0V THE WORCESTERSHIRE GUARDIAN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 30, 1846. THE SONG. OF THE FLOWERS. See, we come dancing in sunshine and showers, Like fairies and butterflies— bright young flowers ! O'er vale and o'er mountain, though ever so deep, Go wander— we'll still on your rambles peep. Far from the city and smoke live we, With our neighbour the rugged old forest tree— " Who, wrapped in his mantle of ivy green, Looks gay, for his wrinkles are never seen. With the zephyrs we dance ' Neath the bright warm sun; But the moon's pale glance Bids our sports be done; Then we close our petals, nor, winking peep, Till the morning breaks our perfumed sleep. Oh, are we not beautiful bright young flowers, In stately garden or wild wood bowers ! To us doth the lover his love compare, Then, think we, can aught be more sweet or fair? Her Ivrow is the lily, her cheek the rose— Her kiss is the woodbine ( more sweet than those)— Her eye is more bright than the morning's beams, " When a diamond drop in their lustre gleams ; We are wreathed in her hair By the hands loved best, Or cluster'd with care On her gentle breast; And, oh, what gems can so well adorn The fair- liair'd girl ou her bridal morn 1 Blooming in sunshine, and growing iu showers, Dancing in breezes— we gay young flowers ! How oft doth an emblem- bud silently tell AVhat language could never speak half so well! E'en her sister flow'rs envy the favoured lot Of that blue- eyed darling Forget- me- not, Her name is now grown a charmed word, By whose echo the holiest thoughts are stirred. Come forth in the spring, And our wild haunts seek, When the wood- birds sing. And the blue skies break; Come forth to the liill, the wood, the vale, Where we merrily dance in the sportive gale! Oh, come to the river's rim, come to us there, For the white water- lily is wondrous fair; With her large broad leaves on the stream afloat, ( Each one a capacious fairy boat.) The swan among flowers! how stately ride Her snow- white leaves, on the rippling tide! And the dragon- fly gallantly stays to sip A kiss of dew from her goblet's lip— Oh, come in the glow Of the long summer's day, When the cool waves flow, And the zephyrs play, Oh, dwell not in cities, mid dark and care. But come to the river's rim, come to us there ! THE ARCHDEACON'S VISITATION. VARIETIES. Fight hard against a hasty temper. Anger will come, but resist it stoutly. A spark will set a house on fire. A fit of passion may give you cause to mourn all the days of your life. WHAT IS " COMING IT STRONG ?"— Asking a taxgathercr to give back money after he has once got it. AN ELEGANT EXTRACT— Here is a poetical and sentimental extract from a Western paper : " It is easy to see when a girl thinks much of her beau : for whenever he approaches her she sorter leans up to him like a sick kitten to a hot brick." A western editor gives the following as the most approved method of killing fleas in those parts: place the animal on a small pine board, and hedge him in with putty; then read him an account of all the railroad and steamboat accidents which have happened the last twelve months. As soon as he becomes frightened so as not to be able to stir, draw out his teeth, and he will starve to death 1 DUELLING.— Two musquitoes one morning met on a leaf in the garden. Both were filled with the blood drawn from their last nocturnal depredations. They were silent- and dumpy, cross and savage. One of them ran out his sting, and wiped it on his fore leg. The other thrust out his sting, and pointed it towards the first musquito. This was considered an insult, and so the offended musquito steps up to the other and says : " Did you turn your sting at me ?" " I ran out my sting; you can apply it as you choose," was the answer. " Sir your remark savors of rascality," said the first. " Hah !" exclaimed the other, a downright insult! No gentleman musquito will submit to such treatment without satisfaction. Draw, villain, and defend yourself." They rushed together, and running one another through the body, died honourable deaths. To GROWERS OF GERANIUMS.— How many parties in a town are there who pride themselves in having some choice geraniums to set out their windows. But how many have been obliged to abandon their culture through the vexatious attacks of insects. The following radical cure is recommended by a correspondent:— Immerse the whole plant, while small, in a vessel of oil, to be followed by immersion in a solution of soda, and lastly of pure water. * Oil is destructive of iusect life, by closing the pores of respiration; and will penetrate into convolutions of the young leaves of the plant, where tobacco- smoke cannot reach. The latter remedy is always found to require one or more quickly repeated applications, or otherwise to be ineffective. An oil bath would destroy the life of both insects and eggs. SUPPOSED POPULATION OF THE WORLD.— 960,000,000 of human beings are supposed to be upon the earth, of which Europe is said to contain 153,000,000; Africa, 156,000,000; Asia, 500,000,000; America, 150,000,000; and the islands in the Pacific, 7,000,000. If divided in 30 equal parts, five of them will be Christians, six Mahometans, one part Jews, and eighteen Pagans. Christians are numerous in Europe and America, some in the south of Asia, and a few in Africa. Mahometans are numerous in Asia, Africa, and the south- east of Europe, Pagans abound in Africa, ani_ i » tiro interior of America, some in Asia, and a small number iu the north of Europe. INCREASING STRENGTH OF THE BRITISH NAVY.— According to the last official returns, it appears that there are upwards of 100 ships of war now building at our different arsenals, among which are no less than 35 steam- frigates and other war steamers; four 36- gun frigates, ten- 50- gun frigates; ten ships of the line, averaging from 80 to 84 guns each— viz., the Agamemnon, the Colossus, the Irresistible, the Majestic, the Meeanee, the Brunswick, the Cressy, the Lion, the Mars, and the Sans Pareil; six ships of the line of 90 guns each— viz., the Aboukir, the Exmouth, the Princess Royal, the Algiers, the Hannibal, and the St. Jean d'Acre; six ships of the line, first- rates, of 110 guns each— viz., the Marlborough, the Royal Frederick, the Victoria, the Prince of Wales, the Royal Sovereign, and the Windsor Castle; and lastly, the Royal Albert, of 120 guns. THE PUNJAUB MEDAL.— The new medal distributed to the Indian army bears on the obverse the inscription " Punjaub, 1846," and on the reverse, " The army of the Sutledge, 1846." The centre of the ribbon by which the medal is suspended from the breast is red, with " lightest blue borders on either side about half the width of the red. A silver clasp crosses the centre of the ribbon, with the name of " Sobraon" or of " Aliwal" inscribed on it, according to the battle or battles in which the bearer has fought; and the medal is connected with the ribbon by another silver clasp. A NEW TRICK.— A few days since a person, genteelly dressed, was observed standing at the window of a respectable jeweller of Dublin, as if admiring the rich works displayed for sale inside. He had an umbrella placed carelessly under one arm, and, while he was gazing, another individual who was passing, apparently prompted by the love of mischief, contrived adroitly to thrust the umbrella through the glass, and escape, while the unfortunate gentleman stood on the spot stupified with astonishment. A shopman rushed out, and demanded why he had broken the window; he denied that he had done it, but appearances were against him, and he was obliged to enter the shop and settle the affair. The pro- prietor of the establishment demanded payment for the damage done, and when the other talked of his complete innocence, threatened to send for the police. The paue of glass was strong plate, and the cost 30s. " It is enormous," said the unfortunate. " I paid it, and you must," replied the jeweller. " Here is 2s. 6d.," said the stranger. " Send for a constable!" indignantly ejaculated the man of metal. He was inexorable, and the other at length submitted, complaining bitterly, but observing that a gentleman couldn't go to a police station for a trifle. He took out three £ 20 bank- notes, gave one of them to the pacified jeweller, received £ 18. 10s. sterling as his balance, and retired. A friend dropped into the shop shortly after— the occurrence was mentioned— the note was shown as a corroborating proof; it was a forgery!— Dublin Register. A FRENCH TALE OF HORROR.— The Phare des Pyrenees gives the following rather incredible account of an affair which, it says, has just occurred in Navarre, near the French frontier:—" A few days since an individual in female apparel entered a lone house and demanded hospitality. The inhabitants of the house consisted of a man, his wife, and a young child. They soon discovered that their guest was no other than a man in disguise, and as night was approaching, the husband not liking the appearance of his guest went out at a back door to seek assistance from the nearest neighbour. During his absence the wife became alarmed, and went into an adjoining room, the door of which she fastened. The man wished to follow her, but, being unable to do so, told her at once the object of his visit, which was to possess himself of a sum of money which they had received for the sale of corn a few days before, and threatened, if it was refused, to kill her child, which, in her fright, she bad left in the room with him. The poor woman, not imagining that he would commit such a crime, and being in momentary expectation of her husband's return, still refused to open the door. The screams of the child, however, sooil The Ven. Archdeacon Onslow commenced his visitation tour at Pershore, on Monday last, at the Holy Cross Church, in that town. The service commenced at 11 o'clock, prayers being read by the Rev. John Foley, Curate, and the sermon preached by the Rev. H. M. Sherwood, Rector of Broughton Hackett, who took his text from the First Epistle to the Corinthians, the lst chapter, and the 4th to the 10th verses—" I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ; That in everything ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge ; Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you : So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Now, I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you ; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment." The Rev. Gentleman in the course of his sermon remarked on the numerous secessions which had of late been made from the Establishment to the Church of Rome, and urged his brethren to increased activity at the present time, when they were assailed by persevering enemies from without and treason from within ; calling for a strict preservation of that unity of purpose and sentiment recommended by the Apostle Paul in the latter portion of the text. He dwelt at some length on the importance of adhering to principles, when once professed, unless they were opposed to conviction ; and deplored the pliability of conscience boasted of by some, as enabling them to remain in the Establishment, while they entertained sentiments inimical to its interests. He likewise remarked on the universality of gospel blessings, which were available to all, irrespective of sect or station, so long as they observed the great principles of religion as laid down in Holy Writ. The Venerable the Archdeacon at the close of the service proceeded from the usual place to deliver his address to the clergy; the address was in effect the same as that reported below, as delivered on Tuesday, at Worcester. On Tuesday the Ven. Archdeacon visited this city. The clergy assembled at St. Helen's Church, as usual, when prayers were read by the Rev. J. H. Wilding, llector of St. Helen's and St. Alban's, and a sermon was preached by the Rev. R. Sarjeant, from St. Mark 16, v. 15 and 16.—" And he said unto them, go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned." After service was concluded, the Ven. Archdeacon took his station in front of the communion, and the roll having been called over, he proceeded to deliver his charge. He observed that perhaps there never was a period in the existence of the Church when its history and prospects could be contemplated with such intense anxiety, or such mingled feelings of joy and pain, as at the present time. We referred with joy to the suc- cessful exertions which had been, and were still being made, for the education of the young in the Apostolic faith. It was also impossible not to rejoice at the number of edifices which had lately been either erected or enlarged for the service of God; and it was still less impossible when we saw those edifices crowded with attentive and devout congregations; and also when we considered what exertions the Church was making for extending herself, and sending primates forth into distant climes, among those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, and to proclaim the glad tidings of salvation among those to whom the name of the Redeemer and the salva- tion wrought by Him were alike unknown. These were circumstances which naturally filled the heart with joy and gladness, and we could not but express gratitude to God for the aid the Church had hitherto received, and although there existed difficulties which might obstruct its progress, yet he would venture to entertain a hope that success must ultimately crown her exertions. Thus far all was cheering, but there wer clouds which dimmed the fair prospect, and which existed among both clergy and laity. It could not be denied that the enemies of the Church were many, persevering, and active in their hostility. The greatest dissension, however, appeared to exist among the members of the Church themselves, so that she was as it were deserted by those whom she had endeavoured to rear in the true faith, and to whom one would have thought she might look as her staunchest champions and most earnest defenders in her hour of peril. There were two parties who disturbed her, the Ultra- Protestants, or those who opposed everything having the slightest resemblance to the Church of Rome, and those who wished their more special observance; and a contest between those parties had been carried on with most unnatural warmth, and some had seceded— an apostacy greatly to be deplored. Some of them were men of great learning and piety, but in his opinion their secession proved— as the Ven. Archdeacon expressed himself— that " they were not of us; had they been of us they would have remained with us, but they went out to make manifest they were not all of us." The Ven. Archdeacon then dwelt upon the great necessity there was for educating the youth of the community in the doctrines of the Anglican Church. He observed that it might be asked where those doctrines were to be found ? He would say, in the Church, which pointed to the sacred volume, and assured us that from thence all her dogmas of faith were drawn, and all her rules for moral conduct derived. Those rules and doctrines she had not only concentrated into her catechism, but they were also to be found in the book of Com- mon Prayer, in the treatises of her profoundest theologians, and in the sermons of a great majority of the clergy. Some restrictions as to the subscription to the Articles had been raised. The arguments on that point had been repeatedly refuted, but again brought forward. Some said that the Articles were so latitudinarian in their character that they could be signed by persons entertaining adverse principles. Such an opinion seemed to bim at variance with the Articles themselves, and their intention, but if a double meaning could be appended to any of them, he thought the collects and rubric would satisfactorily point out the right; and as an instance he quoted the 27th Article, which he said was clearly explained by the collect for Christmas Day. lie observed there could be no doubt that tin' Articles were intended as a guard against false doctrines, springing either from the Church of Home or from any other quarter; hence it was impossible for a Roman Catholic to subscribe to them without sacrificing the leading tenets of the Church of Rome, neither could the Unitarian without falsifying his own opinion of the Trinity in Unity ; the same also might be said of the Articles relating to doctrinal baptism and saving grace. But at the same time many of the Articles were so worded that persons could subscribe to the doctrine without sanctioning the exposition of it. They ought however to be viewed as a whole, since one frequently explained another. For instance, the Article relating to salvation " not of good works," would seem to exclude the necessity of good works; but looking at the Article which followed, it was found that good works of necessity sprang from faith. By taking those two Articles instruction was afforded in the doctrine ( founded on the authority of scripture) of faith and good works — namely, that the sacrifice of God was the sole efficient means of salvation ; and that if good works were the natural fruits of faith and evidences of sincerity, they must also be considered as a condition of acceptance with God, though they could not be the cause of salvation. But the unfortunate disputes by which the Church was agitated were not confined to the interpretation of the Articles, but extended also to matters more subordinate, such as forms and ceremonies, not essentially important, but still serving to create and increase agitation. Such disputes were not of modern date, nor was it a difficult matter to trace their origin. The question of erecting altars in the stead of com- munion tables was raised in the time of Edward the 6th, at which time Hooker contended for it, and Ridley yielded it for the purpose of keeping " goodlie fay the ;" at the same time it was not thought an essential point, but advisable to restrain it as tending to encourage the superstitions of Romanism. That point he considered as settled, so far as regarded its more recent discussion, by the late decision of the Court of Arches, who had pronounced judgment in favour of the legality of the table before the altar. The Ven. Archdeacon then adverted to the points questioned by the non- conformists of early date, and said their antipathy was aroused against the square cap, the tippet, and the surplice, and that their aversion was expressed in stronger terms than those used by Calvin himself, who had styled them " tolerably foolish things." The next generation however warred against the Church itself; and the discussions of the present day were thought to be a struggle for the revival of Popery, and under that impression whole congre- gations had been broken up, and constrained to appeal to the authority of the Bishop, while mutual confidence had been materially disturbed. He reminded his auditors that at the time of the Reformation the Roman Catholics had been the innovators, and that it was owing to their corruptions that the changes had been effected; but contended it was not any argument against the observance of some ceremonies to say they were practised in the Church of Rome. The matter on which differences of opinion had existed among the clergy was one he should enter upon with great diffidence, as being beyond his province, and belonging to higher authorities in the Church than himself. He should however say that whenever any Clergyman wished to introduce a ceremony sanctioned by the Church, but which might be called by the congregation a superstitious innovation, he would advise a preparatory expla- nation, as a preventive of dispute. " Let all things be done decently and in order,"— so wrote the apostle Paul, and they should endeavour to explain to the prejudiced portion of their congregation, that such ceremonies were, calculated to improve the " decency and good order" of the service. If such a course had been adopted, it would have prevented much of the excitement which prevailed. He advised them to be watch- ful, and to take care that while grasping at the shadow they did not lose the substance. They were being assailed by the Church of Rome, and there was, moreover, the possible exclusion of the Bishops from the House of Peers. It was the duty of the clergy, then, to defend their Church, from what- ever side the assault might be made. He remarked upon the attempt to appropriate the ecclesiastical funds of the Irish Protestant Church to the service of the Roman Catholics, and glanced at the aspect of affairs at the time of the Union. At that time, he observed, a prospect was held out by the great man who effected the Union, of a future Catholic emancipation, which had induced some influential Catholics to support that Union, but when the Minister submitted his measures for Royal Assent, that exemplary monarch, George III., mindful of " the oaths by which he was bound, would not suffer the versatile doctrine of expediency to induce him to break the sacred bonds he had made. After his day emancipation was secured, and it was hoped that the Protestant tali be guarded by an oath, which was country, saying, " 1 tell you I have tried it, and after much search and many disputes have concluded it to be the best in the world, as an especial reform keeping the middle way between the pomp of Romish tyranny and the meanness of fantastic Puritanism." On Wednesday the Ven. Archdeacon held his visitation at Bromsgrove, and concluded his tour at Stratford- on- Avon yesterday. EVESHAM HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. This Society's second show for the season took place on Wed- nesday se'nnight, at the Townhall, Evesham, and was a remark- ably good exhibition. There was a close competition in most of the classes, and so many good specimens exhibited, that numerous extra prizes were awarded to them. The Cucumbers and Asparagus were unusually fine, the bundle of asparagus which took the first prize ( a bundle of fifty heads), weighed more than seven pounds. The following is the award of prizes, but we cannot undertake to publish it iu future unless it is forwarded to us in time for our publication next afler the show :— TULIvs.— Feathered Bizarre : 1st Prize, Platoff, Mr. R. Whitford ; 2nd, Donzelli, F. Davies, Esq.; 3rd, Trafalgar, Wm. Barnes, Esq.— Flamed-, lst, Polyphemus, Mr. R. Whitford; 2nd, Rufus, Wm. Barnes, Esq.; 3rd, Unknown, F. Davies, Esq.— Feathered Bibla. men: 1st, Baquet, Miss Iluntley; 2nd, Corrone Violet, ditto.— Flamed: lst, New Magesteuse, Mr: R. Whitford; 2nd, Duchess of Wellington, Miss Huntley; 3rd, Washington, Mr. R. Whitford. — Feathered Hose: Vergennes, Miss Huntley. Flamed: lst, Triomphe Royale, Wm. Barnes, Esq.; 2nd, Walworth, Mr. R. Whitford; 3rd, Lord Hill, F. Davies, Esq.— Fellow Self: Mine D'Or, Mr. R. Whitford.— White : Mountain Snow, ditto. DOUBLE ANEMONES,— Dark : lst, Mr. H. Drury ; 2nd, Mr. Clark, Croome.— Light: lst, Miss Huntley ; 2nd, Mr. Clarke, Croome. BUST BOUQUET.— R. Blayney, Esq. PANSIES.— lst, Rev. J. Marshall; 2nd, W. Barnes, Esq. STOVE OR GREENHOUSE PLANTS.— lst, Strelitzia Itegina, Mr. Clark, Croome ; 2nd, Swainsonia Coronilifolia, ditto; 3rd, Fuchsia Defiance, Mr. Pinnell. HARDY PLANTS.— Ist, Dutzia Scabra, Wm. Barnes, Esq.; 2nd, Spirea Japonica, A. New, Esq. GERANIUMS.— lst, Wilson's Superb, A. H. Hartland, Esq.; 2nd, Sylph, ditto ; 3rd, Nymph, C. Raudell, Esq. MUSHROOMS.— E. Rudge, Esq. CUCUMBERS.— Mr. A. Hardy. CABBAGES.— lst, Thos. White, Esq.; 2nd, E. Rudge, Esq. POTATOES.— 1st, J. Thomas, Esq.; 2nd, C. Randcll, Esq. LETTUCES— lst, C. Randell, Esq.; 2nd, Mrs. Ashwin. ASPARAGUS.— 1st, Mr. George Brothertou ; 2nd, ditto. RHUBARB.— Rev< W. Digby. DESSERT APPLES.— MR. Pinnell. COTTAGERS' PHIZES.— Vegetables, John Neddings; Flowers, John Clark. EXTRA PRIZES,— Lantana Mutabilis, Mr. Clark, Croorac; Erica PerspiGua, E. Rudge, Esq. ; Seedling Geranium, G. Eades, Esq.; Basket of Ericas, E. ltudge, Esq. ; ditto of Calceolarias, Mrs. Ash- win ; ditto of Plants, 11. Aslnvio, Esq.; Erica Westphalingia, Mr. Clarke, Croome; Cut Speeiments of Plants, ditto; Rose Tree, ( Odorato) A. New, Esq.; Scarlet Stock, ( Brompton) Rev. W. Byrd ; White ditto, BI Workman, Esq.; Apples, J. New, Esq, PERSHORE PETTY SESSIONS. TUESDAY, MAY 26. Magistrates present— C. E. Hanford, Esq., ( Chairman), F. Holland, J. Y. Bedford, and W. Acton, Esqrs. CHARGE OF WILFUL DESTRUCTION— John Smith, Silas Smith, and Henry Hughes, were charged with destroying a hive of bees, the property of one Dingley, of Charlton. Mr. Eades, of Evesham, conducted the defence. The complainant having proved the destruction of his hive of bees by fire, on the night of Friday last, called a witness who deposed that while paying his devotions at the shrine of the goddess Cloacina, he saw the three defendants enter the complainant's garden, and retire again in a few minutes. Mr. Eades cross- examined both these witnesses, and showed that each had been convicted of felony. When the complainant was questioned on this point, he exhibited great coyness and reluctance to admit the damning fact. He " knavved what the lawyer was driving at" he said, but he would not satisfy him on the point. The Magistrates, however, drew the natural inference. For the defence Mr. Eades called two witnesses named Weston and Salter, who it appeared accompanied the accused from Roberts's beer- shop on the night in question, to their own homes. None of the accused left the witnesses' sight for more than five minutes. The complainant's garden was about ' 200 yards distant from the nearest point of the road which they traversed. The Magistrates having well sifted the evidence, convicted the defendants in penalties of each, with Is. damages, with costs 5s. fid. each. SUMMARY EJECTMENT— William Dyer was summoned to show cause why he refused t0 give up possession of a cottage which he rented of Elisha Smith, after due notice to quit. The defendant's reply was, that he had been advised the notice was not legal. It seems that the landlord not being able to write ( or read.), had appended a cross as his signature to the notice, and it would seem that the signature not being attested, he contended that the notice w88 not sufficient. The Magis- trates decided that the requirements of the Act of Parliament had not been complied with, and dismissed the case. James Waseley, a good- looking man of the labouring clflss was next introduced to the Bench as defendant in a charge of ferret stealing, the charge being preferred by James Taylor. This was a case of disputed ownership, involving a question of identity and justification. The Magistrates recommended an amicable adjustment of the iiiatter in dispute. After some trouble the defendant handed over the animal to Taylor. John Williams, of the parish of Bredon, was charged by police- superintendent Harris, with keeping open his house for the sale of cider, at unlawful hours on Sunday, the 10th inst. Policeman Munn proved that on the above- mentioned day at noon he found the defendant's house open and two men drink- ing cider. It appeared that the defendant was at church at the time, and that the parties pressed hard to be allowed one pint of ale, representing that they had walked a long distance. Fined £ 1. 7s. lOd. including costs. AN UNRULY APPRENTICE— Alfred Badger was brought up by his master and uncle, Wm. Mountford, charged with sundry and divers acts of insubordination and neglect in his master's service, and particularly with having, on the 9th insftmt, abcontod himself from his master's house from nine a. m. till eleven p. m. The boy admitted the neglect, and had not a word to sav in exculp;'' 1011, Ilis uncle said he was willing to try him once more, and the promising reforma- tion, he was severely admonis! led and discharged. FAMILY DIFFERENCES.— H' Cowley charged his brother G. Cowley, with a violent assault, cPmimtted l, Pon him at Nannton Beauchamp. The complainant entered into particulars of his charge against his brother with some warmth. It appears that a very unbecoming disunion has existed between the two brothers for some time, which has been the cause of frequent quarrels and appeals to fisticuffs. The particular instance in question occurred on the 9th instant, when a dispute having arisen as to which party had a right to use a certain horse, George Cowley struck his brother repeatedly, a compliment which the other quickly returned. A witness named Hannah Moore, servant to Mr. Morris, of Naunton, ( where the affair took place,) proved the assault, and that George Cowley com- mitted the first breach of the peace, and after the Bench had made an ineffectual attempt to reconcile the parties, they inflicted a fine of 12s. 2d. including costs, on George Cowley. They also recommended the parties to show a more fraternal feeling towards each other in future— a recommendation which, from the unfriendly spirit exhibited on both sides during the investigation, it is feared will not be much heeded. POOR- RATE QUESTION.— A deputation of occupiers of com- mon land in the parish of St. Andrew, Pershore, applied to the Bench for their opinion as to the proper parties liable to the poor- rates in respect of guch land on account of the peculiarity of its tenure. It would appear from the statements of the parties, that the land is let to certain tenants by the trustees of Lord Coventry, Mr. Acton, and other parties, to yearly tenants, for the period between the 14th of February and the end of the hay harvest each year, certain of the inhabitants of Pershore having a right of common upon the land for the remainder of the year. Latterly the parishioners have come to the resolution, in order the better to equalize the benefits of this common privilege, to make a second letting ( of the aftermath) to other tenants, the proceeds being applied to the reduction of the poor- rates of the parish. The question now arose— whether were the aftermath tenants liable to the payment of a quota of the poor- rates, or whether the whole should be paid by the parties occupying from Feb. 14, to July. After a great deal of argument pro and con., the Bench seemed to be unanimous in the opinion that the occupants of all denominations ought to pay a share of the poor- rates accord- ing to the value of their respective occupancies. little creature's throat, he again endeavoured to open the door of the room in which the woman had taken refuge, but, not being able to effect his purpose, he broke a hole in the partition, through which he began to force himself. On seeing his head through the aperture, the woman, in a fit of desperation, seized him by the hair, and, with a reaping- hook, which fortunately for her lay within reach, actually cut off his head. The husband soon after returned, and his horror may be imagined on seeing his child with its throat cut, and the headless trunk of his treacherous guest lying in a pool of blood, and in the next room his wife in a swoon, with a human head at her feet!" SINGULAR ACCIDENT.— An extraordinary accident happened in Bath the other day. A man named George Weeks was employed by Mr. Bartholomew, landlord of the Bath Arms, to clean some paint over the drawing- room win- dows, and for that purpose had fixed the necessary steps, ladders, & c. The plank on which he was standing, however, being a trifle too short, one of its ends suddenly fell, and the man with it. He alighted immediately by the side of the railing which bounds the area, and two of the spikes having come in collision with his arm, that member was completely scalped, but happily no artery was injured. Nearly from the shoulder, almost down to the wrist, the skin was torn off, thus exposing the fat, blood vessels, nerves, & e.; and, to use the comparison of a bystander, the skin covered his hand in the same way as a stocking half drawn off half covers the foot! The sufferer was, of course subjected to intense agony. He was without delay taken to the United Hospital, where the attendant surgeous pronounced the case to be a most extraor- dinary one, and the integuments were speedily replaced and sewn up. Wonderful to say, the man is doing very well, and there is every prospect of the injured member being preserved to IjitO; I ) sooner was emancipation granted than an agitation commenced in Ireland for the repeal of the Union and the establishment of an Irish Parliament, in which Catholics would have a majority. Should repeal be granted, he believed the Protestant Church would be endangered. The exclusion of Bishops from the House of Peers had not yet been formally proposed, but had only been talked of by those whose influence was too weak to give effect to their wishes. He had ventured to draw atten- tion to historical details in order that his Reverend brethren might profit by the warning, and avoid similar anarchy in their own times. The sectarians had an infinite variety of opinions, but however they might differ on other points they were pre- pared to unite for the separation of Church and State, and to place the former on the voluntary principles they had adopted themselves. To this point they all tended, and in this strug- gle they were assisted by the divisions among her own clergy. He lamented the existence of this party feeling, and cautioned the clergy against a vain wish for popularity, which had often the effect of separating congregations from their regular min- ister, and forming a nucleus for another sect. St. Paul himself had deprecated these divisions, w- here one said he was of Paul and another of Apollos. The innocent indulgence of private judgment, as it had been called, in opposition to the united experience and teaching of the Church, most frequently led the follower into a thorny path, ending in the wilderness of delusion. In this manner the founders of Methodism, by their intemperate zeal, had excited popularity, which led to the formation of a sect who subsequently left the Church ; whereas, had the Wesleys united in common cause with their brethren of the clergy, they might have effected much good. He then observed that the course the true Apostolic Church had to pursue was very clear : it was to hold fast the faith in unity of spirit and the bond of peace, nor to suffer themselves to be led away by erroneous explanations of the doctrines, or fancied explanations of the ordinances of the Church; and concluded his forcible address with the eloquent words of the good King Charles, on parting with his son, wherein he recommended him to remain stedfast to the religion as established in this BROMSGROVE PETTY SESSIONS. Magistrates present— Rev. W. Vernon, and W. H. Ricketts, and G. F. Iddins, Esqrs. Thomas Harwood, farmer, of Inkberrow, was summoned to show cause why he should not contribute something towards the support of his two grandchildren, the children of his son, who is now dead. The widow stated that her husband had left her with six children, two of them under seven years of age. It was proved by the overseer that Harwood the elder rented two farms, containing about 150 acres of land.— Ordered to pay 3s. per week. CHARGE OF FELONY George Harrison, journeyman to Mrs. Court, clock and watch maker, of Bromsgrove, was brought up by police officer Checketts, charged with stealing a watch from Mrs. C.' s shop. Mr. Taylor appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Doogood for the prisoner. Mr. Griffiths proved that he took stock for Mrs. Court in 1845, since which time it seems three silver watches have been missed, which Mrs. Court said she had not sold. Mr. Doogood represented that Harrison had been confined in Mrs. Court's house from the 12th of May to Thursday last, when a warrant was obtained against him, and he had been in custody ever since ; and he ( Sir. D.) had also been informed that an agreement of compro- mise had been entered into between Mrs. Court and the prisoner's friends. The agreement was here produced by the witness Griffiths, who lodges at Court's, but it was not signed by any party. Griffiths said he drew up the paper himself, unknown to Mrs. Court, but if the friends of the prisoner had come and complied with what had been drawn up, nothing more would have been done in the matter.— The Bench dis- missed the case. POUND BREACH— John Crots was charged by Mr. R. Hunt, pound- keeper of Bromsgrove, with breaking a lock off the pound and taking out a horse, a, ld thf case being satisfactorily 0 i was fined £ 2 and costs, and in or six weeks' imprisonment. brought home to the accused, ht to, rY SESSIONS. MONDAY, MAY 25. nd J. Roberts, Esqrs. disposal of several matters of DUDLEY PET' Before C. Cartwright a EMBEZZLEMENT After thi dispute and assault between nel hourly feeling towards each othe. were brought before the bench. Charles Cassera charged Michael Lickett with embezzling various sums of money. It appeared that Lickett had been a servant in the employ of Cassera, and was in the habit of taking goods out and receiving money for them ; he however had not paid all the money he had received, but kept part of it. He declined saying anything in his defence, and was committed for trial. Mr. Shaw appeared for the prosecutor, and Mr. Shipman for the defence.— Joseph Baker was also charged by Mr. John Wheldon with embezzling a quantity of gun- barrel iron, which he had received to make into gun barrels. For the defence, Baker said he did not use the iron because it was not of a fitting quality for gun barrels, and he now offered to give it up. Mr. Wheldon said the defendant had made 400 gun barrels from the same iron; but the parties agreed to settle the matter privately. EASTER DUES.— William Stringer, George Lear, Benjamin Guest, Samuel Hudson, John D « wson, John Watkins, William Fletcher, Isaac Bryan, Joseph Hecton, William Willetts, and John McCourt, were each of th m charged with not paying the several sums of 8d. each, due the Rev. Dr. Browne, vicar, for Easter dues. Stringer's ease' was the hrst called, but he did not appear, and the serving summons having been proved by Richard Shore, JosepP Hlll. said h(: appeared tor Dr. Browne, that he had a written appointment as agent to Dr. Browne, dated 22nd of April; th", he went to Stringer's to demand 8d. for an Easter due ; ! ie dld not see him> but asked Mrs. Stringer for it, and she reftised t0 pay it. This being the case the bench said it was thelF opinion Hill ought to have demanded ( the money from Mr « Strillger, and dismissed the case; The other cases were adjt? urned- COUNTY RATES.— By a bill in the House of Commons ( introduced by Mr. Frewen and Sir Howard Elphinstone) it is proposed to amend the law so as to provide more certain means of information for the making county rates, and for the more correctly and equitably making county rates. After the passing of the bill justices are not to allow rates unless they are satisfied by evidence that all the property in the parish has been rated according to the full and fair value thereof. Within two years after the passing of this measure, justices of the peace are in the several counties to make new assessments, and also within the period of every seven successive years, make a new rate according to the returns ordered to be made by virtue of this act. THE TIMBER TRADE.— The Lords of the Treasury have sanctioned an important regulation in the timber trade, having signified to the Board of Customs their approval that all sawn or hewn timber, wood plank, or thick stuff, of eight inches or upwards on the smallest side, not being wood planed or otherwise dressed or prepared for use, may bo deemed hewn, and charged with the duty payable on that description accordingly. OPPOSITION IN THE BANKRUPTCY COURT, THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.— A few days ago a curious circumstance occurred in the Court of Bankruptcy, in an opposition to a country bankrupt. It appeared the solicitor to the assignees was unable to leave Southampton, and sent up the grounds of opposition through the medium of the electric telegraph. It was reduced into writing at the Nine Elms station, and forwarded by express to Mr. Smith, of Sergeatit's- inn, who attended before the Commissioner and read the communication, and the case was adjourned. Mr. Smith said that on one occa- sion he had a message from Southampton reduced to writing and delivered at his office in 17 minutes after it was dispatched from Southampton. THE LATE MURDER IN MOOR- LANE, LONDON.— On Monday Mr. Payne, city coroner, held an inquest at Bar tholomew's Hospital on the body of John Oddy, aged 32, boot- maker, whose death was occasioned by being stabbed by James Carter, who was on Saturday last fully committed to Newgate for trial upon the charge of murder. The evidence already published was fully corroborated, and the inquiry having lasted an hour and a half, the Jury returned a verdict of " wilful murder against Joseph Carter." FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.— A serious accident, of a somewhat remarkable character, resulting fatally, occurred on the South- Eastern Railway on Sunday to the express train, by which the engine and train went off the line, and the engine- driver was killed. The train left the Dover terminus at a quarter- past three o'clock. On its arriving about midway of Plucklev and Headcorn, distant from Dover about sixty miles, and just as it had verged into a cutting, the passengers were startled by a sudden jerk, and in a few seconds the train was brought to a dead stop. It seems that the train had got off the line, and that the former was lying on its side across the rails, it having struck the bank of the cutting and turned over. In a few minutes the unfortunate engineer was dis- covered under the engine. The poor fellow was alive, but ere he could be extricated, which occupied some time, life was extinct. The stoker was thrown by the concussion on his feet on the siding, miraculously escaping the least injury. The guard was thrown from his seat, and also providentially escaped. None of the passengers were hurt. As soon as possible, assistance was rendered at Ashford and Tunbridge, and in the course of a few hours the line was cleared, the passengers being taken on by the next train. The inquest on the body of the engine- driver was held on Tuesday, when the evidence adduced went to prove the nature of the accident as above described, but as to the cause of it no positive opinion could be given. The engine was in good order, was only going the usual speed ( 35 to 40 miles an hour), and the rails were in good order, save a bend at the place where the engine ran off. One of the inspectors said he found the powder of a crushed flint within a few feet of the bend, and he conjectured that it was on the rail, and that the engine had gone over it; still this was only a surmise. After a lengthened inquiry, the Jury returned a verdict—" That the deceased was killed by the accidental falling of a locomotive engine." The engine is said to be a very good one, and of improved construction J& ultum in HarUo. A second " Italian Opera" is to be established next season at Covent Garden Theatre. Arrangements are in progress. Persiani, the father of the prima donna of that name, is to be the director. The £ 100 note, deposited in Messrs. Ball's Bank, Dublin, as a test of clairvoyance, has been withdrawn, no mesmerist being sulliciently clever to tell its number without seeing it. On Wednesday morning a largo chimney at the chemical works of Mr. Muspratt, at the top of Vauxhall Road, Liverpool, fell to the ground, but, fortunately, without doing any injury to human life, and very trifling to property, it only having destroyed three of the sheds used in the process of' the manufacture. A case of glanders in the human subject has just occurred at Navan, Ireland, to a boy, who received the infection through a cut finger.' He died under his sufferings. No cure has yet been dis- covered lor this disease iu the human frame, although it can be cured in the beast. . The unsightly hoarding surrounding the Nelson column in 1 rafal- gar Square, is at length about to be removed, and the whole monu- ment exposed to public view. A money- taker at the Italian Opera House stands remanded on a charge of selling a free ticket of admission to the pit, to a gentleman. It transpired in the course of the inquiry, that the defendant had had 150 free tickets given him for distribution, and he is charged with appropriating one of them to his own use. One of the men now employed as conductor to an omnibus plying between Leamington and Warwick, was, in 1831, Mayor of Stratford- upon- Avon. The architects from all parts of the world talk of holding a general congress of architects once every three years, the first to take place at Athens. In laying down carpets, cover the floor beneath them with large sheets of paper, so as to prevent dust from rising between the boards. Prior to 1685 butchers in disposing of bullock hides, were accus- tomed to leave on their tails. The French refugees bought them up, and introduced ox- tail soup. The old tiick of selling saw- dust, as " smuggled tea," has been practised successfully in Exeter. The notorious Joseph Ady was on Thursday committed for trial on a charge of fraud. It is at last discovered who carried the first intelligence of the frpe trade tendencies of the Peel Cabinet to a leading journal. It was a lady, they say, and not an ugly one.— Liverpool Albion. Six thousand pounds have been devoted by the legislature of Jamaica to the building of churches; £ 300 has also been set apart for erecting schools. Of about 48,000 persons, whose cases are each year summarily disposed of at the metropolitan police office, without the city, 20,000 are on an average discharged; 15,800 fined, 9,300 imprisoned for periods not exceeding a month, 2,850 not exceeding three months ; and only about 50 for higher terms, not exceeding six months. The Punjaub, or country of the five rivers, includes four streams that are to be found particularized in the conquests of Alexander. There are the Asciines, now Chunaub— the Uydaspes, now Chelum — and the Sutlej, supposed by Pliny to be Hesudrus, by Ptolemy the Zaradus, and by Arrian the Savauges. More than 80,000 Bibles and Testaments were sold and retailed in Manchester alone, during the six months which preceded the 31st of March; and in Bristol 21,000 copies were sold in the three months between Christmas and Lady Day. The parish of Colerne, Wilts, with a population of 1,200, have lost but one person by ueath in 10 weeks, and that an aged woman. It is said that the Lords of the Admiralty are determined to put an end to the practice of flogging in the navy, except in extreme cases of misconduct. At South Brent, Somerset, on Sunday se'nnight, two men induced two boys to fight, and after a contest of an hour, one was killed. Joseph Varty, of Ousby, is in the seventy- first year of his age. He has ploughed every day, lor some time past, with a pair of horses — one 37, and the other 24 years old. It is added, that the three are " all varra rash, and likely to be so." The carpenters of Carmarthen, who have been out on the strike, have resumed work, the masters generally! having acceded to their terms. King Hudson's heir apparent, an Eton boy, has been dubbed by his schoolfellows " The Prince of Rails." A wren has built her nest in the holt- hole of the hull of a ship lying at Penzance. The noise made by the ship- carpenters at their work does not appear to alarm the old birds.— In a garden belonging to the Rev. W. Snowdon, of Swillington, near Wakefield, one of our feathered songsters has built its nest in the hollow of the pump. It rests upon the piston, and contains four or five eggs.— At llack- ness, near Scarborough, is an old oak tree, surtounded with ivy, in which a wild duck has built her nest, and may now be seen sitting upon ten eggs, at the height of seven or eight feet from the groundi A most destructive tire has occurred at Wimborne, causing a sacri- fice of property to the extent of about £ 2,000. The Grand Seignior has just promulgated an order that the bodies of female slaves who die in the markets shall be given up by the owners to the students In medicine for dissection. It is proposed to establish iu London an institution for the temporary reception of females discharged from the metropolitan prisons and police offices, who are anxious to reform their lives; to be called Elizabeth Fry's Refuge. The Pasha of Egypt has fixed the legal rate of interest in his dominions at one per cent, per month. By a decree of the Legislative Council of the Mauritius, the English language is in future to be the only one used in official documents. There have been fifty kings, two protectors, and six queens of England ; and the regular succession to the throne has been changed ten° times since the kingdom of England was founded by Egbert, 1012 years ago. The Vatican and St. Peter's at Rome cover the same extent of ground as Turin, a city of 100,000 inhabitants. At Bury, a boy has had a marvellous eseape, having fallen down a narrow well eighty feet deep, yet only suffered a ducking. There were nine feet of water, and the boy plunged into it head foremost : he was got out by a man descending and fastening a rope round his body. Mr. Ferrand, M. P., has allotted 140 roods of waste land among the combers and weavers in the village* of Harden and Cullingworth, The King of the French has, it is said, sent a reply, written with his own hand, to the address of the Town Council of Edinburgh, on his escape from assassination. A batch of young Irish priests has just arrived in the Mauritius: one of them is such a zealot that he scarcely eats anything, lives constantly in the church, wears a belt closely studded with small nails, and sleeps in a coffin half filled with ashes ! It is said that secret meetings have been held by the letter- carriers and sorters of the Post- office'in London to get up a " strike," to obtain an. equitable system of payment. It is stated in the Gazette Medico- Chirurgicale, that Dr. Arthault has invented a lithotritic instrument, by which he is able to reduce a calculus in the bladder to an impalpable powder, in three minutes. The agent to Lloyd's at Gibraltar reports an attack having been made upon the British brig Ruth, of Scarborough, from Messina to St. Petersburgh, by three or four armed piratical boats, oft' the Hill' coast of Barbary, on the 30th April last, and the consequent aban- donment of the vessel by the captain and crew, in order to save their Letters and papers from Newfoundland to the 18th of April bring 1 / lioniitvfiiie iiflflnnntc fif tllP fiilli RVVUV & The King of tkefWMas presented to Captain I'ostle, of the Flamer English steamer, with a brace of very valuable pistols, in acknowledgment of the gallant British tar's humanity and bravery iu the affair of the wreck of the Papin steamer. Three young natives of China have recently arrived in Scotland. Tliev have been placed under the care of the Independent clergymen of Huntley, to be trained for the ministry and sent out as mission- aries. It is stated that Sir Moses Montefiore has obtained permission from the Emperor of Russia for the migration of 10,000 Jews into Palestine. A dreadful explosion occurred at the Mynddnewidd Colliery, near Swansea, last week, by which five unfortunate men lost their lives. It is a singular fact, that the pattern now most common upon Paisley shawls, and which had always been a favourite, was iu use among the Hindoos three or four thousand years ago. The King of Prussia bas just ordered the erection of a museum for the reception of all articles which belonged to Luther, and which have been preserved. An edict has been posted on the walls of Rome, denouncing the modern innovation of gas light, and ordering that all private gas works should be suppressed. The Queen of England is now Sovereign over one continent, a hundred peninsulas, five bundled promontories, a thousand lakes, two thousand rivers, and ten thousand islands. In 1814, there was but one steam- boat belonging to ths British empire; now there are upwards of a thousand, navigating all parts of the world. England pays to Holland, Belgium, and Ilolstlun, £ 700,000 per annam for butter. In a window iu Essex Street, Colchester, may be seen the following learned and elegant announcement :— Ambrose ggf* Nichels gg^ Jobne B^ r gardner fly the day esr w fer by the quoiter. WORTH KNOWING.— If bakers place underneath the fireplace of their flues a vessel full of water into which the cinders may fall, they will find that the evaporation promotes draught, whilst it is believed that considerable increase of heat is evolved from the coal used, thereby lessening the quantity required. The distance between the vessel and the fire bars should be about six inches to admit of draught above the water vessel. DREADFUL FIRE IN LIVERPOOL.— Early on Sunday morning a dreadful fire broke out at the corner of Slater- street and Wood- street, contiguous to the Music- hall, which caused the destruction of property to a very large amount. The premises ( which have to a great extent'been reduced to a heap of ruins) were erected five or six years ago, and formed altogether a very spacious and elegant building, extending along Slater- street and Wood- street a considerable way, and being four stories in height from the level of the pavement. The fire seems to have been first discovered in the third story, but so rapidly did it extend, that the whole of the upper part of the premises was in a blaze when the engines and fire brigade reached the spot. The flames quickly communicated upwards with the fourth story and the roof, and downwards also; and for some time the conflagration threatened the most alarming consequences to the surrounding property. The fire commenced about half- past five o'clock, and it was eight o'clock before it could be said to be completely subdued, and long before that time the entire of the roof had fallen in, and the beams and floorings of the second and third stories, as well the frames and sashes of twenty- six of the windows, had been completely burned away. The loss of property is heavy. The late lamented Earl Spencer is stated by the Doncaster Gazette to have died in consequence of the Gout having receded from his Lordship's foot and attacked a vital organ, rendering unavailing all the efforts of his medical attendants. This is the second member of the aristocracy who has fallen a victim to this cruel disorder, a calamity which is the more to be deplored; for had Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills been resorted to, every hope might have been entertained that those lives would have been spared, it being one of the essential qualities of this medicine to arrest in its progress the disease, and effectually to prevent its attacking any vital part. A frightful case of a Bad Leg cured by Holloway"' s Pills and Ointment— Mr. Thomas Clarke, a retired captain from the South Sea trade, residing in Globe- lane, Mile- end, had had a bad leg for five years ; there were about twenty holes in it; several pieces of bone had come away ; the limb was often the size of a child's body ; it frequently caused the most excrucia- ting pain. The captain was told that his leg must be ampu- tated ; but he, like hundreds of others, has just got it soundly healed by means of these surprising remedies, which are infallible in the cure of all wounds, sores, and ulcers. Agricultural intelligence. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. At the Council meeting of this Society held last week the following gentlemen were elected members of the Society:— Mr. Tomkins Dew, Witney Court, and the Rev. William Domville, Winferton, Herefordshire; Mr. Frederick Stubbs, Wetmoor, Ludlow, Salop; and Lord Bagot, Blithfield, Staffordshire. The report of the Finance Committee was read, from which it appears that the invested capital of the Society consisted of £ 7,000 stock, and that the current cash- balance in the hands of the bankers amounted to £ 1,482; and that the arrears of subscription on the 3Ist of December amounted to £ 6,726. Since the last general meeting in December, 213 new members have been elected, 30 have died, and 81 have been struck off the list, and the Society now consists of 6,971. The Journal Committee reported the several Essays, required to be sent in for competition bv the Ist March last, to which the Judges have awarded the Prizes offered by the Society; namely :— To Thomas Rowlandson, of Liverpool, the Prize of Fifty Sovereigns for the best report on the Farming of North Wales. To Samuel Jones, of Ickleton, Cambridgeshire, the Prize of Fifty Sovereigns for the best Report on the Farming of Cambridgshire. To John Braveader, of Cirencester, the Prize of Fifty Sovereigns for the best Report on the Advantages or Disadvan- tages of Breaking up Grass- land. To George Nicholls, of Hyde Park- street, London, the Prize of Thirty Sovereigns for the best Essay oil the Improvement of the Condition of the Agricultural Labourer, so far as it may be promoted by private exertion without legislative enactment. To Hugh Raynbird, of Hengrave, Suffolk, the Prize of Twenty Sovereigns for the best Account of Measure- Work, locally known as Task, Piece, Job, or Grate- work, in its appli- cation to agricultural labour. To W. C. Spooner, of Southampton, the Prize of Ten Sovereigns for the best Account of the use of Superphosphate of Lime produced with acid and bones for manure. To T. C. llurroughes, of Gazely, Cambridgeshire, the Prize of Ten Sovereigns for the best Account of the Cultivation of White Mustard. To Wm. Linton, of Sheriff Hutton, Yorkshire, the Prize of Ten Sovereigns for a description of the best method of Drain- ing Running Sands. The judges on the sixteen Essays on the Keeping of Farming Accounts, reported that none of the essays are worthy of the prize offered by the Society in that class. The Council have adopted the following schedule of sub- jects and amount of prizes for the Reports and Essays next year, subject to such conditions as will hereafter, in due time, be published:— On the Farming of Northumberland. £ 50 On the Farming of Suffolk On the Farming of Somersetshire On the Management of Sheep On the Cultivation of Wheat On the Cultivation of Mangold VVurtzel On Paring and Burning On Flax On the Great Level of the Fens ; history of the drainage, view of its present state, and account of the defects which still require to be remedied For an account of the best Manure for Wheat, compounded of chcmical ingredients, to be tried by judges appointed by the Society For an account of the best Manure for Turnips, com- pounded of chemical ingredients, to be tried by judges appointed by the Society 50 30 30 WIIIEWORM.— Soda- ash sown is said to be a never- failing remedy for the wireworm. It may be applied broadcast on a fallow, with the seed, or on the growing crop, at the rate of 1 cwt. per acre; and in addition to its effect on the wireworm ( which is found to be kept off by it for three years), it invariably acts as a good fertilizer. As it is a very powerful alkali, gloves must be worn by the person sowing it, to prevent any injury to the hands. IRISH GRAIN AND OATMEAL.— It appears, by a Parlia- mentary return, that there were imported into Great Britain, from Ireland, from the 5th of March to the 5th of April, 1846:— Wheat, 19,540 quarters; barley, 10,148 quarters; oats, 80,803 quarters; wheatmeal or flour, 89,048 cwt.; oatmeal, 50,360 cwt. BARK.— The quantity of bark stacked in this neighbour- hood during the present season will be larger than for many years past. In one rick- yard that we have seen there will probably be from 600 to 700 tons, and the value, even at the reduced price, will be somewhere about £ 3,000. The trade, owing to the introduction of foreign bark and substitutes, is extremely flat at the small amount of £ 4. 5s. per ton.— Hereford Journal. HOPS. WORCESTER, MAY 29.— The warm weather or some other cause has brought a large quantity of fly and vermin into our plantations, and the consequence has been a general advance in the prices of the stock in hand of 5s. to 6s. per cwt. The latest accounts received speak of a very great increase of fly since Saturday; in many grounds the bine being literally covered with insects, with lice and nits in- numerable. From the lowest time we quote an advance of nearly 20s. per cwt. upon all descriptions. Duty is called £ 12,000. Prices this day are about— 1845, £ 5 to £ 7 ; choice, £ 8. 8s.; 1844, £ 5 to £ 6. 15s.; choice, £ 7. 15s.; old hops, £ 3. 5s. to £ 6 ; choice, £ 6. 10s. BOROUGH, MAY 25.— In consequenee of the very unfavour- able reports received from the whole of the hop plantations of the kingdom, the market has been influenced, and prices have advanced from 10s. to 15s. per cwt. since this day week, with a quick demand, which is principally for speculation, in addition to the, demand for consumption, which takes many lots every week from the small stock on hand. Duty called £ 100,000. New Pockets: £ s. £ s. New Bags. £ s. £ s. Farnham 7 10 10 10 Kent & 0 7 15 Kent 0 5 9 10 Sussex 0 0 0 0 East Kent 0 0 » 0 Yearlings 4 10 5 15 Sussex 5 2 6 12 Old Hops 0 18 5 0 Yearlings 4 15 7 0 KENT.— The reports from the Kent plantations represent the attack of fly to be if possible more severe than in the Worcester. They also say the plant is progressing vigour- ouslv, and the bine strong ond healthy. The fly golding had arrived and commenced operations, which it was hoped would have a tendency considerably to counteract the evils to be apprehended. Neither the cold east winds nor the insect have at present retarded the progress of the plant, and in many instances the bines are above the tops of the poles, and the bine shooting out as much as we might expect at the latter eud of June. Mid- Kent is at present in a very severe fly and lice blight. The accounts from Sussex represent the plantations in the neighbourhood of Hurst Green, Burwash, Sandhurst, and the Weald, as smothered with fly. FAIRS IN THE ENSUING WEEK. Worcestershire.— Evesham, Mon, ; Worcester, Tues. ; Upton' Thurs. Gloucestershire.— Little Dean, Mon.; Painswick, Tues. Herefordshire.— Kington, Mon. Shropshire,— uiunn, MOB.; Whitclwch, MOD. j Ellesmere, Tues,; mmgham, ihuis. Staffordthtre.— Bilston, Mon.; Newcastle, Mon.; I. ongnor, Tues.; Stone, Tues.; Walsall, Tues.; Leek, Wed.; Uttoxeter, Wed.; Rugeley, Wed., Thurs., Fri., and Sat. warm situations. Let Celery plants iu all their stages have due attention as to pricking out, watering, stirring the soil, & c. The watering, above all, is a most important point; it should ever be borne in mind that Celery will grow in a ditch. See to sowings of Cape or other uutumn Brocolies. FLOWER GARDEN AND SHRUBBERIES.— Newly- planted shrubs will require thorough waterings, in periods of drought, until the beginning' of June. Masses of American shrubs, under or near large trees, should have a top- dressing of some kind to keep them cool, and to compensate for the exhaustion occasioned by the roots of the trees. A coating of bog- eartli, sphagnum, half- rotten leaves, or old tan, will be perfectly suitable. Conservative walls, trellises, or ornamental arcades, should have close attention at this period. ® grttultural anu oti)* r fiJiarfcets. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK- LANE, MONDAY, MAY 25. The supply of English wheat was short, and after the best runs were taken by millers ( at fully the currency of this day week), the trade finished dull, and the secondary qualities difficult of disposal. Bonded held for late rates, but no improvement either in price or demand. Malting barley nominal, the season being finished. Distilling and grinding Is. lower. Short arrivals of oats, still there was more than sufficient on sale for the slow retail demand ; and although factors would have submitted to a further reduction of (> d. per qr., buyers would not take more than for their present wants. Grey peas Is. cheaper. Malt as last noted. Per qr. Wheat, Essex, Kent, & Suffolk Red - - 52 to 59 White - - - 57 Lincolnshire & York- shire Red White Scotch White Irish - White Barley, Essex and Kent, Norfolk and Suffolk 51 . 55 - 47 - 49 - 45 - 40 - 29 - 27 - 32 Malting Distilling Chevalier Grinding - Irish, Distilling - Grinding Rye, Distilling Grinding - Malt, Norfolk & Suffolk 56 Brown • - - 52 - 25 - 24 - 34 - 32 Ter qr. Malt Kingston and Ware G2 63 Brown - - - 55 Oats, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, Feed - 21 59 Pota. and Poland - 25 51 Scotch - - - 25 55 Devonshire and Welsh 20 48 Londonderry, Newry, 50 and Clomuel ditto - 23 Limerick and Sligo - 23 Cork and Waterl'ord 31 Black - - 21 29 White- - - - 23 35 Galway - - - 19 26 Extra - - - 21 27 Beans, Tick - - - 32 25 Harrow and Small - 34 36 Peas, Essex, Boilers - 40 34 Blue - - - - 42 60 Grey, Maple, & Hog - 32 54j Extra - - - .35 WEDNESDAY, MAY 27. The market to- day was almost deserted by buyers ( being the Derby day at Epsom,) and so little business transacted in any grain, prices can be ^ called little better than nominal. At foot is the stock of grain in bond iu London and the United Kingdom, as made up to 5th of May. Stock of Grain in Bond on the 5th of May. UNITED KINGDOM. Wheat 1,339,955 | Oats 1^ 7,473 I Beans 53,803 I Maize 16 835 Barley 92,572 | Rye 0 | Peas 18,347 | Flour, cwt., 1,119*, 427 LONDON. Wheat 523,524 I Oats 80,003 I Beans 29,12.11 Maize 5 028 Barley 19,258 | Rye 01 Peas 9,3251 Flour, cwt., 168^ 964 SEED MARKET, MAY 25. In clover seed— the supply of which on olfer was seasonably exten- sive— next to nothing has been doing since our last report, and prices were almost nominal. Linseed— both English and foreign— com- mands very little attention at late rates. Archangel may still be quoted at 44s 6d to 46s ; Odessa, 43s to 45s ; and Petersburgh, 40s to 43s Od per cwt. Canary dull, and Is to 2s per qr. lower. In cakes, the amount of business doing was trifling, at last week's reduced 7J . IMPERIAL AVERAGES. Average I rice of Corn, per Imperial Quarter, for the Weekending May 16. ® \\ heat .... 5rs Od I Oats .... 24s Id I Beans .... 35s Barley .... ays 4ti | | iye _, 33s 5cl ] Peas 34g „„ - dgHreSate Average of the Six Weeks which regulates Dutu. Wheat .... 5HS 3d | Outs .... 23s 4d I Beans .... 35s Barley .... 29s lid | Rye . . 33s 7d | Peas .... 34s Duty on Foreign Corn. Wheat .... IDs 0,1 I Oats .... 5s Od I Beans .... 7s Barley .... jig Od } Rye .... 9s 6d | Peas .... 8s lid lid WOOL MARKETS. i - , • • r prOJJicoocu uuiuc wuat taruuy, and purchases have been made at rather less money. 1 he private contract business is limited at the following prices •— fleeces, South Uown hoggets, 15s to 16s ; Half- bred hogs, 15s to 16s ; Kent fleeces, ld5 ioa to 14s; South Down ewes and wethers, 13s; Leicester ditto, LIVERPOOL, J ^ E transactions at this mart limited, many waiting the result ut the London public sales. 6 \\ AKKF1ELD.— A fuir amoullt0f business done during the last fort- night at rather natter prices. BRADFORD. improvement apparent here either in demand or prices, buyers a. ting cautiously till the result of the Colonial wool sales is lully l, uown> iuui the prices established iu the weekly markets for the i, ew clips developed. SM1T| IFIELU CATTLE MARKET, MAY 25. i he past wi'CH'j imports of live stock from abroad, have been again ,1!, :..:_ il| ey having consisted of 30 oxen from Prussia; 10 ditto ru, i rMburgh ; 190 oxen, 50cows, 473 sheep, and 3 calves 111K'- m. most of which have come to hand in fair average • r0"" 1111' narket to- day, 30 beasts from Prussia, together with oxen and c . vvs, and 140sheep from Holland. The heaviness in demand lor home- fed beasts and sheep had a depressing influence upon that for thy foreign stock, which with difficulty fouSd buyers at somewhat reduced figures. At Hull, nearly 200 head of stock have beeu imported since our last. i resh up irom the grazing districts, the arrivals of beasts were somewhat exteiihive, and of most excellent quality, owing to which and the thi u attendance of buyers, the heel trade was in a very dull Statifi'at ljarel>' 1 kut at nothing quotable beneath, the prices obtained on Monday last, and at which a clearance was not eHected. J l: e numbers of sheep were large, and of good quality. Prime old Downs were, however, rather scarce, and which sold at full prices. All other breeds a mere drug, and, in some instances, the rates had a downward tendency. Nearly 500 lambs were received from the Isle of Wight. From other quarters the receipts were good. The lamb trade ruled dull, at previous currencies. Calves and pigs— the supplies of which were moderate— sold heavily, at late rates. I'RICKS I'EK STONE OF SLBS. TO SINK THE OFFAL. S d Inferior Beasts ...... 2 ( i Second quality dUto 2 10 I rime large Uxen3 p Prime Scots, & c. "" 3 JQ Inferior Sheep..." " 3 g Second quality duVJ 3 ( j 3 8 Coarse- woolleddiUo 310 40 Prime Southdow^ out of wool;- 4 o 4 4 n 1 ami £^ FPLY AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT, lieasts, ] Sheep and Lambs, 25,790 | Calves, 105 | Pigs 300 Prime Southdown in s d s wool 0 0 0 Lamb 5 0 G Large coarse Calves 3 10 4 Prime small ditto .... 4 8 5 Suck ling Calves, eachl8 0 30 Large Hogs 3 8 4 Small Porkers 4 8 5 Qr. old store pigs, each 16s a 19s WORCESTER, MAY 29. Our market on Saturday was tolerably well supplied with wheat, but holders appeared shy of selling, and the prices of the previous" market were firmly maintained. No alteration in barley. Oats were a slow sale, at about Od. per qr. less money. Beans scaroe, and English superfiny rather dearer. Wheat, white New ditto Wheat, red Foreign Barley, grinding,... Ditto new Malting , Malt Old Oats, English . New ditto Old Oats, Irish 3 New Oats, Irish 3 Beans, old, English .. 6 Ditto, Foreign .... 5 Ditto new, English .. 5 Peas, Feed 4 Boilers, white 5 Vetches 7 Rye, new 0 INSPECTOR'S WEEKLY RETURN OF CORN SOLO. Total qui, n, Av. perqr. I Totalquan. Av. perqr. Wheat 5l7qr 4 t) U. £ 2 15 lOj Barley 68 0 1 7 10i Oats. . 0 0 0 0 0 Rye . , Beans , Peas . Oqr. Obu. ilO 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 COUNTRY MARKETS. BIRMINGHAM, MAY 27.— During the present week there has been little disposition to buy wheat; but we did not observe any alteration in pricei. Malting barley found buyers at former rates, for good quaiitie » . Oats were sold at a decline of 6d. per qr. on white, and some Welsh black were forced off at a reduction of Is. beans, 302 qrs. 7 bush., 39s. 10| d.; peas, 4 qrs. 4 bush., 36s. GLOUCESTER, MAY 23.— The supply of English wheat was very limited, and millers being out of stock the demand was good at a small improvement on last week's rates, and there was rather more inquiry for free foreign. No quotable alteration in the value of barley, oats, or beans, with a very limited demand.— Averages : Wheat, 362 qrs., 54s. 7d.; barley, 116 qrs., 26s.; oats, 102 qrs.; 26s. 5d.; beans, 30 qrs., 34s. 2d. HEREFORD, MAY 23— Wheat, ( new) 6s 6d to 6s 8d; barley, ( new) 3s 3d to 1s Od ; beans ( new,) 4s to 5s; pease ( new; 4s; oats, 2s 9d to 3s Oil. SHREWSBURY, MAY 23.— Sellers and samples have been more abundant than for some time past, and a good business done as follows :— Wheat, 6s to 8s; barley, 3s to 4s; Oats, 3s 6d to 4s per imperial bushel. LIVERPOOL, MAY 26.— There was a fair attendance of the trade at market this morning, but the business done in any article was altogether of a Very limited character. No change can be made in the value of the best descriptions of old and new wheat since this day se'nnight; but on secondary sorts of either a reduction of Id. to 2d. per 701bs. was submitted to. Flour, both English and Irish, met a very languid inquiry at a decline of Is. per sack ; Canadian Is. to Is. Od. per barrel lower. The best mealing oats were held for our late quotations, but on inferior runs prices below previous rates were accepted. Oatmeal was offered at an abatement of Is. per load. Barley nominal. Beans the turn lower. Eii0oii) cut ana Bankrupt Hiegiater. F RID AY, MAY 22. INSOLVENT. John Wright, Oxfoid- street, chemist and druggist. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. Algernon Sparke, Jewin- street, wine andspiiit merchant. Joseph Davis, Cannon- street, City, gun and pistol manufacturer. William Sibson Aldertou, Chancery- lane, steel pen manufacturer. Chauncey Robbins and William Smith Martin, Birmingham, merchants. BANKRUPTS. Walter M'Dowull, Pemberton- row, Gough- square, printer. John Edward ISacon, Upper Russell- street, Bermondsey, leather factor. Robert Dallingor Markham, Edmonton, boarding- housekeeper. Alexander Beattie and Francis Macnaghten, Nicholas- lane, Lom- bard- street, merchants. William White, Morpeth- street, Bethnal- green, builder, John Berry, Church- street, i'addington, draper. Alexander Thorn, High tlolborn, oilman. James Perry, Harlow, Essex, grocer and linendraper; Mary Armisteitd, Crawford- street, MaryU- bone, milliiiPr. Richard Knighiatld Alfred Knight, jun., Budge- row, City, whole- sale stationers. Andrew Valen street, Tottenhanj, wholesale mahog Robert ilowar Joseph Haynes Ann Robinson, Edmondsou Co Edmondson 001 George Jones, ' I, Thomas Hitt1 ^ ny merchants. I Page, Great Yarmouth, innkeeperr , Aldermanbury, woollen warehouseman. Durham, linendraper. > ban, Liverpool, common brewer, [ oxteth- paik, Lancashire, builder. | illaivey, Melcombe Regis, Dorsetshire, cement rchants. horticulture. OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK. CONSERVATORIES, STOVES, & C.— Conservatory: Towards the end of the month some of the hardier stock in this structure, such, for instance, as the hybrid Rhododendrons, Camellias forming buds, and Orange- trees in tubs or pots, may be set out of doors. A sheltered spot should be selected, but by no means under the drip of trees.— Stove and Orchids: Such of the stove plants or those belonging to an intermediate house as have made a good and early growth, may now be removed to a cooler shade, which will arrest their rapid vegeta- tion in some degree, causing robustness of habit, and in many a tendency to produce autumn and winter flowers.— Mixed Greenhouse: Heaths in full growth will, at this period, require abundance of water, at least in bright weather. Many good specimens are lost through imperfect watering.— Pits or Frames: After the stock for the flower- garden masses aie removed hence, all the surplus Ver- benas, Fuchsias, Geraniums, Calceolarias, Petunias, & c., remaining in store pots, should be potted off forthwith into 3- inch pots, and should receive every attention in the way of cultivation. As soon as they grow freely they should be stopped, and made to form bushy plants. KITCHEN GARDENING.— Asparagus- beds in full cutting, that is to say, in their prime, may have every shoot cut away until the middle of June. Spruce, or very small Asparagus, may, however, be per- mitted to grow. This will hardly prevent the development of the dormant buds. Tomatoes, if liardeued, may now be planted out; the blanks 011 the walls are most eligible. Plant them ou raised mounds, which will have the effect of reducing their grossness. Capsicums may also be planted under the front of Vineries, or otber ] amps EJwarC •" c • es- er-- otton- spianer: . Digbeth, Birmingham, ironfounder. William Taylor, Worcester, sharebroker. T U E S D A Y, M A Y 26. BANKRUPTS. George Gordon Cummings, Mincing- lane, tea broker. Joel Rudman, Bath, oilman. John Douglas Derrick, Colchester, grocer, Edward Harwood Brace and James Allen, Mitre- court, Milk- street, Cheapside, warehousemen. Robert Nelson, Great Portland- street, hotel keeper. Jonathan Clarkson, King's- road, grocer. William Cooper, Bury St. Edmunds, hardwareman. Joseph Avery, Manchester- street, Manchester- square, dealer in plate. John Beaton, Upper- street, Islington, tailor. Joseph Davis, Pall- mall, dentist. Arthur Burton, Iianelagh- wharf, Pimlico, coal merchant. William Danson, Birkenhead, Chester, builder, Stephen Hey, (! olne, Lancashire, worsted manufacturer. James Wiikins4ni Manchester, grocer. \\ liiiam Mallet, Chorlton- upon- Medlock, milliner. Jos.- ph Uoldtho Manchester, grocer. JoJ1 ® Te ® P? 8} ilnd William Hofih 1 rebrokers , t. oinis Hotmoj^ Pickering, VoiKsnire, money scrivener. Richard tarlisf^ Capiolon Cheltenham, grocer. William Wa'ts> Cheltenham, carpenter. Printed und^ u\, lished for the Proprietor, at the Office No. 5 Avenue, // ie parjsh of Saint Nicholas, in the Borough oj Worcester, by FRANCIS PARSONS ENGLAND, Printer, res'mng ai yu 52, Moor Street, Tythint) of Whist ones} int/ ie Borough of Worcester. Saturday, May 30, 1846,