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20/06/1846

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The Worcester Guardian

Date of Article: 20/06/1846
Printer / Publisher: Francis Parsons 
Address: No 5, Avenue, Cross, Parish of Saint Nicholas, Worcester
Volume Number:     Issue Number: 601
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THE ALTAR, THRONE, AND LAND WE LIVE IN. N° 601. WORCESTER, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1846. PRICE 5D. ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL. THIS faithful assistant of nature lias, from intrinsic worth alone, during the last half century, acquired the ESPECIAL PATRONAGE of the several SOVEREIGNS and COURTS throughout Europe, and with HANK, 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 brief 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of vitality, so that in numerous instances where other specifics have been tried iii vain, ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL has superseded the ornaments of art by re- instating in full plenitude of beauty the permanent graces and utilities of nature.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 strong and beautiful Hair! CURL AND EMBELLISHMENT. Its invigorating properties induce a strong tendency to curl s 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 secretcd 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 J 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. 6d 7s Family Bottles, ( equal to 4 small,) 10s. ( id., and double that size, 21s. per Bottle. Sold by the Proprietors A. ROWLAND £ SON., 20, Hatton Garden, London, and by Chemists aiid Perfumers. All other " MACASSAR OILS" are FRAUDULENT COUNTERFEITS. Messrs. R. & L. Perry & Co. may be consulted at 19, BER- NERS STREET, OXFORD STREET, LONDON, daily, 100, DUKE STREET, LIVERPOOL, every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday ; and at No. 10, ST. JOHN STREET, DEANSGATE, MANCHESTER, on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. " THE SILENT FRIEND," ON HUMAN FRAILTY. Price 2s. Gd., and sent free to any part of the United Kingdom, in a Sealed Envelope, from eitherof the above Establishments, on receipt of 3s. ( id. in Postage Stamps or Post Oflice 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 IRRITATION, CONSUMPTION and on the partial or total EXTINCTION OF THE REPRO- DUCTIVE POWERS; WITH MEANS OF RESTORATION; the llis- tructive effects of Gonorrhoea, Gleet, Strictures, and Secondary Symptoms are explained in a familiar manner ; the Work fs EMBELLISHED WITH TEN FINE COLOURED ENGRAV- INGS, on Steel, representing the deleterious influence of Mercury on the skin, by eruptions on the head, face, and body ; with APPIIOVHD 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," to be consulted without exposure, and with assured confidence of SUC06SS v BY R.' & L. PERRY & CO., CONSULTING SURGEONS, Published by the Authors, and sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster Row ; Hannay & Co., 63, Oxford- street; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall- street, London ; Newton, 16 and 19, Church- street, Ravvl Church- street, Liverpool; Ingram, Market- street, Manchester; D. Camp- bell, 136, Argyle- street, Glasgow ; It. Lindsay, 11, Elms row, Edinburgh; Powell, 10, We> tmoreland- street, Dublin ; Deighton, 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."— Era. ' This work should be read by all who value health and wish to enjoy life, for the truisms therein contained defy all doubt."— Farmer*'' 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: and is calculated to afford decided relief to those who by early Indulgence in solitary habits have weakened the powers ot 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 « individual in a state of anxiety for the remainder of life. The eonsequcnces 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 lor 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 ill one Family Bottle for 33s., by which one Us, bottle is saved. THE CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE, AN ANTt. SvpHii. tTic 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 ±' 5 cases, which saves £ 1. 12s, VENEREAL 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, & c,, nodes on the shin bones, or any of those painful affections arising from the dangerous effects of the indiscriminate use of mercury, or the evils of an imperfect cure, the CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE will be found to be attended with the most astonishing effects in checking the ravages of the disorder, 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 days' to be affected with any form of these diseases, a previous course of this medicine is highly essential and of the greatest importance, as more serious affections are visited upon an innocent wife and offspring, from a want of these simple precautions, than perhaps half the~ world is aware of; for, it must be remembered, where the fountain is polluted, the streams that How from it cannot be pure. May be had of all Booksellers and Patent Medicine Venders in Town and Country, and of 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 Lonclon Establishment, where all communications and orders are requested to be forwarded. PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, Price 2s. 9d., 4s. Ud., and lis. per Box. The most certain and effectual cure ever tliscovered for every stage and symptom of the Venereal Disease, in both sexes, includ- ing Gonorrhoea, Gleets, Secondary Symptoms, and Strictures. Messrs. R. & L. Perry & Co., Surgeons, may be consulted as usual at No. 19, Berners- street, Oxford- street, LONDON, daily, tually from Elev en in the JVloriiimt until Eight in the Evening and on Sundays from Eleven till One. Only one'pcrsonal visit is required troin a country patient, to enable Messrs. PERRY and Co., to give such advice as will be the means of effecting a permanent'and effectual 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 Syriaeum. 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... THOS. PENNELL, Bookseller, Where may be liad the ." SILENT FRIEND THE DAILY NEWS, NEW LONDON MORNING NEWSPAPER, PRICE TWOPENCE HALFPENNY, PUBLISHED IN TIME FOR THE MORNING MAILS. Whitefriars, June 11th. fTlHE Proprietors of THE DAII, V NEWS regret to learn J. that the Paper has not always reached the Subscribers so early or so punctually as might reasonably have been anticipated. Their apology is, that the success of the great experiment so far exceeded all expectation, that it was not possible to produce the required numbers, even with the most powerful machinery, in time for the Morning Expresses and Mails; and the number of Post Office Orders which poured in made it difficult, and some days impossible to distribute them amongst the Trade- so that delays in executing such orders were unavoidable. They trust, however, that their arrangements are now so com- plete as to insure the Subscribers against all chancc of delay : yet, as all the respectable News Agents have given to THE DAILY NEWS an active support, and many have announced by advertisement their willingness to supply the Paper for 10s. 4d. per quarter— payment being made in advance— the Proprietors recommend that new Subscribers should order copies direct from a News Agent, and only when there is an apparent difficulty transmit a Post Office Order, payable to Joseph Smith, Daily News Office, Whitefriars, London. Duty Free.~\ WE, the undersigned, INCLOSURE COMMIS- SIONERS for England and Wales, HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that a MEETING of the PERSONS interested in AllELEY 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 ZACHAIIY, 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 and 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, 1846. Signed, WM. BLAMIRE, G. DARBY. COPY 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. Sir, 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 must have gone into my stomach. At that 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 horrrbly with it, and his greatest relief and preventive has been your Pills Make what use you please of my report. Yours 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 PILLS, 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. 9d. per box. Ask for Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills, and observe the name and address of " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," impressed upon the Government Stamp affixed to each Box of the Genuine Medicine. ASTONISHING EFFICACY OF HOLLO WAY'S PILLS. The Testimony of a Clergyman vouching to Eleven Cases of Cures by these wonderful Pills. Extract of a Letter from the Rev. Geo. Prior, Curate of Mevagh, Letter Kenny, Carrigart, Ireland, 10th January, 184( 5. To Professor HOLLOWAY. SIR,— I send you a crude list of some eleven cases, all cured by the use of your Pills. I cannot exactly give you a professional name to the various complaints, but this I ktiow, some of them baffled the skill of Derry and this County. In a previous letter this gentleman states as follows:— Within a short distance of my house resides a small farmer, who for more than twenty years has been in a bad state of health ; Mrs. Prior gave him a box of the Pills, which did him so much good that I heard him say, for twenty years past he never ate his food or enjoyed it so much as since taking your Pills. ( Signed) GEORGE PRIOR. The above reverend and pious gentleman purchased some pounds worth of the Pills for the benefit of his poor parishioners. Bad Digestion, with extreme Weakness and Debility— an Extraordinary Cure. Mr. T. GARDINER, of No. 9, Brown Street, Grosvenor Square, had heen in a very bad state of health for a long time, suffering much from a distended Stomach, very impaired Digestion, with constant pains in his Chest, was extremely nervous, and so greatly debilitated as scarcely able to walk one hundred yards : during the long period of his declining health he had the advice of four of the most eminent physicians, besides five surgeons of the greatest celebrity in London, from whose aid he derived no benefit whatever, at last he had recourse to Holloway's Pills, which he declares effected a perfect cure in a very short time, and that he is now as strong and vigorous as ever he was in his life. This being so extraordinary a case, may lead many persons almost to doubt this statement, it might therefore be necessary to say that Mr. Gardiner is a broker and well known. Cure of a Confirmed Asthma, accompanied with great Debility. Extract of a Letter from John Thompson, Esq., Proprietor of the Armagh Gtiardian, Armagh, 17th April, 184C. To Professor HOLLOWAY. SIR,— There is at present living in this city a Serjeant, who had been for many years in the Army at Cabul, in the East Indies, from whence he returned in September last. On his way here, from the change of weather of a tropical to a moist climate, he caught a very violent cold, which produced a con- firmed case of Asthma. In December last he commenced taking your Pills, and by the use of two lis. boxes, with two 4s. Gd. pots of your Ointment well rubbed into his breast, he is, 1 am happy to say, not only quite cured of the Asthma, but is also become so strong and vigorous, that he informed me yesterday he could now run round the Mall, with any person in the city, and that he never got any medicine equal to your Pills and Ointment. ( Signed) J. THOMPSON. The Earl of Aldborough cured of a Liver and Stomach Complaint. Extract of a Letter from His Lordship, dated Villa Messina, Leghorn, 21st February, 1845. To Professor HOLLOWAY. SIR,— Various circumstances prevented the possibility of my thanking you before this time for your politeness in sending me your Pills as you did. 1 now take this opportu- nity of sending you an order for the amount, and, at the same time, to add that your Pills have effected a cure of a disorder in my Liver and Stomach, which all the most eminent of the Faculty at home, and all over the Continent, had not been able to effect; nay ! not even the waters of Carlsbad and Marienbad. I wish to have another Box and a Pot of the Ointment, in case any of my family should ever require either. Your most obliged and obedient Servant, ( Signed) ALDBOROUGH. The mighty powers of these extraordinary Pills ivill do wonders in any of the following Complaints :— Ague Female irregularities Retention of urine Asthmas Fevers of all kinds Sore Throats Bilious complaints Fits Blotches on the skin Gout Bowel complaints Head- ache Colics Indigestion Constipation of the Inflammation Bowels Jaundice Consumption Liver complaints Debility Lumbago Dropsy Piles Dysentery Rheumatism Erysipelas Scrofula or King's Evil Stone and Gravel Secondary symptoms Tic- Douloureux Tumours Ulcers Venereal Affections Worms of all kinds Weakness, from whatever cause, & c. Sold at the establishment of Professor HOLLOWAY, 224 Strand, near Temple- bar, London, and by most all respectable Druggists and Dealers in Medicines throughout the civilized world, at the following prices :— Is. l.^ d., 2s. 9d., 4s; 6d., Us., 22s., and 33s. each Box. There is a considerable saving by taking the larger sizes, N. B. Directions for the guidance of Patients in every Disorder are affixed to each Box. Empma! parliament. HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, JUNE 12. CORN IMPORTATION BILL— ADJOURNED DEBATE— The Marquis of Exeter resumed the adjourned debate on the question that the House resolve itself into Committee on this Bill. The object of the Bill was to subject the labouring classes of this country to competition with the untaxed labour of foreign countries. ( Hear.) It was difficult to imagine any reason for the sudden change which had taken place in the opinions of her Majesty's Ministers. ( Hear.) At the time the measure was proposed the country was in a state of great prosperity, and the agriculturists were just recovering from the effect of the last change which took place in the Corn Laws, and the labourers were receiving moderate wages. ( Cheers.) The Earl Delawarr foresaw that he should be placed in a painful and difficult position ; and having to set the stern requirements of public duty against strong party and political attachments, after much consideration, had arrived at the con- clusion that he could not, as an honest man, give the Govern- ment measure his support. The arguments of its advocates had wholly failed to satisfy him that there was anything in the exigencies of the times to warrant the experiment; and nothing had, in fact, arisen to render it necessary to remove, with so much suddenness, the remaining floodgates which had hitherto stemmed the too great impetuosity of free trade. His Lord- ship disclaimed any desire to impute other than honourable motives to the head of the Government and those who acted with him. He believed that, although they had adopted a mistaken course, they had done so bond fide. The Bishop of St. David's defended himself and such of his Right Rev. brethren as had voted with him from the imputa- tions which had been cast upon them by certain Noble Lords opposed to the Government. The clergy had been perfectly neutral on the question; they had presented no petitions, and had never, to his knowledge, privately signified to members of the Bench of Bishops the course they desired to have pursued. His Lordship commended the clergy for this abstinence. They might suffer some temporary loss, but he believed that they would ultimately sustain no injury. Were it otherwise, he could not consent to oppose the interests of so limited a class as that of the clergy to those of the public at large. The votes of himself and his Right Rev. brethren would be given with a view to the general interest, let the effect of the Bill upon the clergy be what it might. The Bishop of Exeter opposed the Bill, and commented in stringent terms upon certain passages in the speech of the Right Rev. Prelate who had preceded him. He differed from his Lordship in his opinion that the interests of so insignificant a class as the clergy ought not to be placed in competition with those of the great body of the people. It was not because the interests of from 10,000 to 12,000 clergy were likely to be damaged that the appeal which had been so imperfectly under- stood'had been made to the Right Rev. Bench, but because the best interests of the poor were at stake on the event— the interests of morals and religion— and because the rich and the poor would both suffer if any injury were inflicted on the Church. He considered that their Lordships were perfectly justified in appealing to the Right Rev. Prelates on such a matter. He should not be restrained from declaring that some- thing more than cheap provisions was necessary to the comfort and well- being of the- labouring classes, by the taunt that no one could be the labourers' friend who opposed the measure. It was because he considered that the interests of the poor would in no respect be promoted by it that he opposed it. He saw a great number of the agricultural population of the country suffering, but did not think their condition would be improved by bringing them into direct competition with the serfs of Poland. If he were to follow the example of appealing to other parties, he would call upon the Noble Lords now about him to give their votes in this matter as in a judicial cause, and, laying their hands on their hearts, say " eontcnt " or " non- content," upon my honour. The Earl of Warwick could not support this measure. Trade and agriculture were both flourishing, and stood in no need of being subjected to experiment. The agitation which had been spoken of was confined to the niillowners and their operatives. The Bishop of Oxford repudiated the insinuation that, by a recent Act of the Legislature, the interests of the Bishops were separated from those of the Clergy, who still possessed real property, and that, whereas the bill would injure the latter by lowering ils value, it would benefit the Bishops by making money cheaper, and that, therefore, they had given a selfish vote in its favour. The introduction of foreign corn, and the com- petition with foreign labour, would be productive of no injury to the agriculturist. As to the clergy, there was no body of persons that would suffer more severely from a diminution of income, yet not a voice from among them had been raised against the measure. They would have the satisfaction of ministering to a happier and more contented population. If the measure should prove a failure, the Government might retrace its steps. His Lordship then proceeded to review the arguments of Lord Stanley against the measure, and concluded by calling upon their Lordships to support the bill. Lord Ashburton complimented the Right Rev. orator upon his eloquence but not upon his matter. He complained that lie had greatly misrepresented the Noble Lords who had opposed the measure, and, judging of his description of them and their tenants, he might inquire " where he had lived all these years ?" The Rev. Prelate objected to the system of the Corn Laws, because it was not in nature ; but Three per Cents, and national debt were not in nature— the campaign on the Sutlej was not in nature. If they were to have nothing but what was in nature, legislation must soon come to a perfect stand- still. The Noble Lord then went on to show the pro- bable effect of the bill, and he concluded by saying that nothing but the firmest conviction had induced him to separate himself from the party with which he had so long acted. Lord Monteagle entered at some length into the merits of the bill, and declared it to be his intention to support it. Lord Stanley commented in happy sarcasm on the Bishop of Oxford's assertion that a state of nature was the perfection of legislation. He had understood that the- Right Rev. Lord proposed to go back to a state of nature, and that free- trade ought to be the rule. The Bishop of Oxford interposed and explained; but the Noble Lord continued his remarks amidst laughter and cheers, and went into the general argument, con- cluding by observing that their Lordships might yield grace- fully to public opinion, but he trusted they would never disgrace themselves by following blindly, year after year, from one point of the compass to another, the mutations of the House of Commons. Earl Grey addressed the House in favour of the measure. He said that free trade had alone served in securing steady prices. He repudiated the idea that cheap food would involve low wages. Lord Brougham addressed the House at great length in support of the Bill. The Duke of Richmond maintained that in 1841 the question of protection or no protection was that which had been re- echoed on every hustings throughout England. ( Cheers.) He did not approve of Members of Parliament breaking the pledges which they had made. When he represented a city in the other House of Parliament, he had refused to pledge himself to any particular measure ; but if he had done so no power on earth would have made him act in opposition to that pledge, or deceive his constituents. ( Hear.) His Noble and Learned friend ( Lord Brougham) said that they, as landed proprietors, ought to let this question be immediately carried; and that he himself was for immediate free trade in corn. ( Hear.) But he would ask their Lordships whether the present Bill was for an immediate free trade in corn? ( Hear.) Was it not a Bill to keep the sliding scale in operation for three years longer ? ( Hear.) Did they think they would get rid of agita- tion when they left a sliding scale for three years in operation ? ( Hear.) A good deal had often been said about the aristocracy of this country, and about agitation. He confessed that for his own part he was determined to do all he could to encourage agitation ( hear), until he made the farmers of the country exert themselves in every one of their counties in opposition to the present measure. ( Hear.) He maintained also that the great body of the operatives of the country were against the principles of free trade ; and if the counties were not against it the Anti- Corn Law League would not feel themselves obliged to purchase fictitious votes in them. ( Hear.) The amendment was then withdrawn, and their Lordships agreed to go into Committee on Monday. The Commons Inclosure Bill was read a second time, and their Lordships then adjourned until Monday. MONDAY, JUNE 15. THE CORN BILL.— Lord Stanley presented a petition, signed by the Chairman at Lloyd's, the Chairman of the Lon- don and the East India Dock Companies, six Bank directors, a large number of bankers, merchants, shipowners, and traders of the city of London, including all engaged in the Canada and Australian trades, expressing doubt whether the petition which had been presented by Lord Dalhousie represented the general opinion of those classes in the city, and declaiing that they did not believe the bill before the House was necessary ox called for; and that, in their opinion, it was an experiment affecting vital branches of our national interests, and involving the most serious consequences, which called for the anxious consideration of their Lordships. The Earl of Dalhousie observed, that the petition he had presented did not profess to express more than the opinions of the petitioners, " certain" merchants, bankers, and traders of the city of London, including, however, 24 or 2G Bank directors, 14 other banking firms, and 207 other signatures. Lord Stanley said that threefold the amount of business was represented by the signatures to his petition over that of those appended to the petition of Lord Dalhousie. The Bishop of St. David's took an opportunity of defending himself from the insinuations which had been thrown out, that the interests of the Bishops were not identical with those of the parochial Clergy, and said that two- thirds of his own income were dependent upon the price of corn. Lord Stanley said that in that case as far as one- third of his income was concerned, the Right Rev. Prelate would share in the benefits which the repeal of the Corn Laws would confer upon the owners of all fixed incomes. The Bishop of Salisbury contended that the greater number of Bishops had interests identical with those. of the parochial Clergy. The Earl of H& rdwicke condemned the style in which their Lordships had been addressed on Friday night by so young a Prelate as the Bishop of Oxford. The Bishop of Oxford said that in that House he stood on common ground with the Noble Earl; and having, after much consideration, made up his mind upon the question, he felt that a young man on the right side of such a question had no occasion to give way to an old man persevering in his error. The Earl of Winchilsea said he had never heard a more offensive lecture than that of the Right Rev. Prelate on Friday night. The Earl of Galloway defended the Bishop of Oxford, whose speech he considered as able as it was eloquent. The House then resolved itself into Committee upon the Corn Bill; and The Duke of Buckingham moved an amendment to the effect of perpetuating the new sliding- scale, by omitting the provision in the bill by which all protection was to cease at the termination of three years. In support of this amendment lie thought he had a just claim to the votes of all those Noble Lords who advocated the principles of a fixed duty, for they must necessarily be favourable to some moderate protection. The Earl of Hardwicke supported the amendment, wishing to retain even the fragment of protection to British agriculture. After some observations from Lord Ivinuaird their Lordships divided, and the amendment of the Duke of Buckingham was rejected by a majority of 136 to 103. The remaining clauses were not proceeded with. Upon the motion of the Duke of Richmond, the Chairman left the chair, the House resumed, and immediately adjourned. TUESDAY, JUNE 10. Messengers from the House of Commons brought up the South Wales Railway ( No. 2) Bill, and several other bills, which were laid on the table. Lord Lyttelton moved the second reading of a Bill for abolish- ing the office of Superintendent of Convicts under sentence of transportation. The motion was agreed to, and the Bill ordered to he com- mitted on Thursday. A desultory discussion took place respecting Lord Hardinge's Annuity Bill, which portends a reversal of a recent decision of their Lordships regarding that Bill. THE CORN BILL.— On the order of the day being moved for going into Committee on this Bill, Lord Stanhope asked the Government what they expected would be the price of corn under the operation of this Bill ? The Earl of Ripon said he could not undertake to predict what would be the price under this Bill in the face of the extra- ordinary fluctuations which had taken place under all former Corn Bills. Earl Stanhope said, that in that case Ministers were legis lating in profound ignorance. After some discussion their Lordships went into Committee, and The Earl of Wicklow moved an amendment, that a fixed duty of 5s. should be imposed on foreign wheat, as well for the purposes of revenue as for protection. The Marquis of Cianricarde opposed the amendment, but strongly censured the conduct of Sir R. Peel, who proved by his repeated changes of opinion, that he was neither a man of foresight nor a great Minister. The Earl of Carnarvon supported the amendment, as did Lord de Mauley, believing that a fixed duty was preferable to the total abolition of protection. The Earl of Winchilsea expressed his determination to agitate the question of the Corn Laws, even if the present bill should pass, with a view to the reversal of that decision. It was not, therefore, to be assumed that the passing of the bill before their Lordships was to be considered a settlement of the question. Lord Polwarth contended that the bill would injuriously affect, first the labourer, next the tenant, and lastly the landlord. The Earl of Fitzwilliam thought that Government had treated the House of Lords badly in not making them parties to the resolutions originating the measure before the House. Her Majesty's Ministers had acted in a way which forfeited all the confidence which might have been otherwise reposed in them. He was himself in favour of a fixed duty, and still thought it would be useful as a measure of revenue, but he would not risk the bill by voting for it, because the settlement of the question was in his view of the greatest importance to the country. Lord Brougham contended that a fixed duty would be a positive tax, raising the price of corn by the whole amount of the tax. In reference to the motives of those Noble Peers who supported the bill in the hope that, by a coalition, subsequently, they would displace the Government, he expreseed his belief that the present Government was perfectly safe, and there would be no coalition such as was anticipated. Lord Stanley disavowed all knowledge of any coalition whatever. The present bill had been forced on the country by a very strange combination of parties. For his own part he preferred a sliding scale to a fixed duty, but would vote for the amendment in order to preserve some portion of protection until the country should have an opportunity of deciding upon the whole question at the next general election. The Marquis of Lansdowne was favourable to a fixed duty, but would sacrifice his individual opinions for the sake of a final settlement of a question of such importance to the country. A discussion ensued, which was chiefly in reference to the meeting at Lord John Russell's, in Chesham Place, after which the Committee divided, and the amendment was nega- tived by a majority of 140 to 107- Tlie House then resumed, with the understanding that the other clauses of the Bill would be considered on Friday. Their Lordships then adjourned. -———- JJCJUI . HOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY, JUNE 12. The Worcester New Gas Bill was read a third time and passed. PROTECTION OF LIFE ( IRELAND) BILL— The debate was resumed by Mr. Ross, who stated that he would have voted with Ministers if the measure corresponded in any reasonable degree with its proposed object. He advocated the expenditure of public money on public works in Ireland, considering that the want of employment was one of the great evils from which that country suffered ; but he could not support the proposed measure. Mr. M. Milnes opposed the measure as one, the moral effect of which would now be lost, in consequence of the delays of Government. Mr. P. Scrope urged that the disease affecting the whole body corporate in Ireland should be dealt with . not in reference to the results, but to the causes of the distemper— those causes, being, he believed, the impossibility by the peasantry to procure the adequate means of subsistence. Ireland was destroyed by other evils than by the bullet of the assassin, and these were the means which should be met, and which the present bill could not obviate. Viscount Bernard considered the measure to be necessary, and he was prepared to arm the Government with the powers it provided. Mr. Redington denied that the present bill could be effectual, after all similar measures had failed. Mr. Shaw would vote for the second reading of the bill as one which would tend to give protection to the lives and pro- perty of persons resident in Ireland. Mr. D. Browne opposed the motion. Sir R. Peel said that he would limit his observations, so far as he could, to the reasons wiiy her Majesty's Government still considered the bill to be necessary. On the part of the most strenuous opponents of the measure and of the Administration he had not heard any matter contradictory of the grounds on which it had been thought necessary originally to introduce the bill— those grounds were the urgent necessity which existed for providing security for life and property in Ireland. The debate was then adjourned until Monday. The Railways Companies' Dissolution Bill was read a third time and passed. THE GAUGES. — Sir G. Clerk, considering the state of public business, would postpone the resolution respecting the gauges from Monday until Tuesday. The Earl of Lincoln brought in the three bills for amending the lav/ of landlord and tenant, and ejectments in Ireland, which were read a first time. Adjourned. MONDAY, JUNE 15. PROTECTION OF LIFE ( IRELAND) BILL.— The adjourned debate on the Protection to Life ( Ireland) Bill was resumed by Lord Worsley, who argued at considerable length against the measure, as being the continuance of a system which had been for centuries adopted towards Ireland, and which had uniformly failed in producing the effects expected to result from it. Sir R. Inglis and Colonel Verner severally condemned the delays which had taken place in passing this Bill; but at the same time would support it, having heard since they had voted for the first reading no reason which should induce them to take a different course on this stage of the Bill. Mr. Horsman strenuously opposed the Bill. Mr. Colquhoun said he would support it if the Government would pledge themselves that the clauses called " the curfew clauses " should be retained in the Bill. Colonel Sibthorp opposed the Bill. Lord J. Russell maintained that this Bill was not necessary, for if he referred to the increase of crime in Ireland, he found there was nothing which might not be met by increasing the military forces in the disturbed districts, as had been done when the peace of the country was threatened to be interfered with in the manufacturing districts of the north of England. He also taunted Ministers with having adopted all the measures of the Whig Administration without having the candour to admit that they were doing so. Mr. D'Israeli said that the whole nation at. once admitted that the Noble Lord ( Lord J. Russell) had been harshly and unjustly treated. He then argued at great length against the course pursued by the Government in respect to the Coercion Bill, and finally referred to the reply of Sir R. Peel to the attack made upon him by Lord G. Bentinck of having hunted Air. Canning to death, although he had previously avowed to Lord Liverpool that something should be done respecting the Catholic question, and had subsequently in 1829 carried that very question through Parliament. The reply was, he con- tended, no answer. The Right Hon. Baronet only relied on his speech of 1827, taking no notice of his speech of 1829. But in the speech of 1829 he avowed, according to the reports in the Mirror of Parliament, and in the morning papers, that in 1825 he had stated to Lord Liverpool that something should be done with respect to the Catholic claims, and that he would retire from office till the Bill were carried. This was his state ment in 1829, although the corrected report in Hansard gave a different version of the speech, so far as omitting its most im- portant portions. The Hon. Gentleman also quoted passages from a speech of Mr. Canning, in which he treated Sir R. Peel's affected neutrality as open hostility, and expressed his satisfaction at finding it at length unmasked. The Right Hon Baronet had no right to shelter himself beneath the cover of the courtesy which induced Lord G. Bentinck to designate him in Parliamentary phraseology " his Right Hon. friend." Sir R. Peel said the whole question turned upon the fact as to whether he had stated to Lord Liverpool in 1825 that some- thing should be done with respect to the Catholic claims. In that year he had opposed those claims, and asked Lord Liver- pool to be relieved fiom his office, finding that he was in a minority respecting matters so essential to the administration of affairs in Ireland. After such a lapse of time it was not to be expected that he should be prepared to reconcile conflicting reports of what lie had said; but tie at once challenged the production of his letter to Lord Liverpool, and he pledged his honour to the House that if the letter was in existence it should be laid upon the table m extenso, and at once show its nature and object. The debate was then adjourned, and the House rose. TUESDAY, JUNE 16. The House was occupied the whole night in the discussion of the recommendations. contained in the minute of the Board of Trade, of the 6th of June, 1846, on the report of the Commissioners for inquiring into the gauge of railways. The adoption of those recommendations was moved by Sir G. Clerk, and the debate upon them was ultimately adjourned. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17. RAILWAY GAUGE— Sir G. Clerk trusted the House would allow the adjourned debate on this subject to be renewed, as he was anxious to introduce the resolutions of which he had given notice. A desultory conversation ensued, in which Mr. F. Maule, Mr. E. Deni'son, Mr. B. Hawes, Sir G. Grey, Sir T. Acland, Mr. C. Wood, and other members took part. Sir G. Clerk said he would not press his motion, but consent to the debate being adjourned until to- morrow.— Debate adj. Sir C. Napier moved the second reading of the Naval Civil Departments Bill. The Gallant Officer complained of the conduct of the Board of Admiralty, which gave no encourage- ment to meritorious officers, and stated his belief that foreign governments knew more of the actual state of the British navy than the board itself. The construction of the board was in itself defective, and the present system of building ships for the British navy required a total alteration. Lord Ingestre seconded the motion, and complained of the difficulty of obtaining information at Somerset House relative to the condition of the navy, and the expenses incurred for ship- building— information which he had subsequently acquired through other channels. Mr. Corry opposed the second reading of the bill, which was the most objectionable he had ever read, and would, if adopted, prove highly detrimental to the best interests of the navy. He therefore moved that it be read a second time that, day six months. After some observations from Captain Pechell, Sir G. Cock- burn, Captain Plumridge, and Mr. C. Wood, the House divided, and the second reading of the bill was negatived by a majority of 107 to 11. The discussion on this bill lasted to so late an hour, that the greater portion of the remaining business on the paper was postponed.— Adjourned. IMPORTANT FROM THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. The Britannia steamer's arrival places us in possession of New York papers of the 31st. ult. The papers contain ample details of the movements and conflicts of the antagonist American and Mexican forces, but the accounts are so various and contra- dictory that it is with much difficulty we compile a succinct narrative of events. Sufficient, however, is developed to render it certain that the main body of the Mexican army had crossed the Ilio Grande, and had been defeated in two general engage- ments with the American troops. Captain Walker, it will be remembered, had escaped lo Point Isabel with a loss of six or seven men. After his arrival he immediately volunteered to make his way to the camp, immediate communication with General Taylor being then vitally necessary. Captain Walker's offer was accepted, and he set out, accom- panied by four others, on the 29th April, and succeeded in reaching General Taylor's camp unmolested. The American commander learned from him the critical situation of Point Isabel, and the imminent danger of its being carried by the Mexicans. But little doubt now remained that they were established in force between his camp and his supplies. He promptly determined upon a movement which should protect Point Isabel, and re- establish his communications. Accordingly, on the evening of May 1st, he left his camp opposite Matamoras with the main body of his forces, to march on Point Isabel, leaving behind for its defence 500 troops under the command of Major Brown. This movement was effected without encounter- ing a single Mexican, and he arrived at the point on the 2nd. Instead of disputing his passage, the Mexicans entrenched themselves to intercept his return. In the meantime the Mexicans availed themselves of the opportunity to cannonade the American entrenchments, and this fire was soon returned. Of the results of this action, the Union, United States Government paper, gives the following details :— " On the 1st the defences on the river being made strong ( nearly completed), General Taylor left a garrison of some 500 men, under Major Brown, of the 7th infantry, and marched with the remainder of the army ( 27 miles) to Point Isabel. Not an enemy was seen in the whole distance. All appre- hensions for the safety of that depot of supplies were thus dissipated. " But on the morning ( five o'clock) of the 3rd, the enemy, from the side of Matamoras, opened a heavy cannonade upon our fort, which lasted, with but little intermission, till midnight. In the meantime the enemy's guns ( all but one mortar) were silenced by our fort. Major Brown lost one serjeant killed, and not another man wounded. Our gallant little band ex- pected an assault from this side of the river at the same time, and was fully prepared to repel it. None was made. CONSUMPTION OF COFFEE, SUGAR, & TEA. ( From, the Standard.) For several weeks, or rather months past, the ultra- Free Traders in the manufacturing districts have attributed the limited demand for their products to the delay in passing the Corn Bill. Now if there had been any truth in that assumption, we should naturally expect that if the people were not in a condition to purchase colton, woollen, and silk goods, their inability or indisposition would, pari passu, apply to all other articles of home consumption. In order to put this question to the test, we have before us the return made by the Board of Trade of the quantities of all goods imported into the United Kingdom, distinguishing the amounts taken for consumption for the four months ending on the 5th of May, contrasted with the same periods of the two preceding years. From that return we select the following important articles, as a test which will not readily be disputed, as evidence of the consuming power of the country. The coffee delivered for consumption in the first four months of 1844, was 9,452,254 lb.; in 1845, 11,757,881 lb.; and in 1846, 12,121,3961b. The sugar delivered in 1844 was 1,181,747 cwt.; in 1845, 1,496,404 ; and in 1846, 1,616,084 cwt. The tea delivered in 1844 was 12,545,527 1b : in 1845, 14,191,559 lb.; and in 1846, 15,214,806 lb. These articles have long been considered the surest test of the condition of the mass of the people, and their power to purchase the ordinary comforts of life ; and a single glance at the relative amounts taken for consumption for the three con- secutive years, will at once show that there is no foundation whatever for the assertion that the delay in passing the Corn- law Repeal Bill had affected the sale of cotton at Manchester, and woollens at Leeds. The argument has, however, been permanently pressed into the service of the millowners and the League by the Manches- ter Guardian, and other abettors of the fallacy, in order to con- ceal the real cause of the cessation of demand, namely, the expansion of the mechanical power of production having glutted every accessible market in the globe. We call the attention of the'members of the Upper House of Parliament to the comparison, and as the return is from the official head quarters of the avowed Free Traders, the accuracy of the comparisons can admit cf no dispute by the promoters of the bill. ' ' " Matamoras was necessarily fired upon in the act of silencing the enemy's batteries, and also to kill or disperse the troops therein quartered. The buildings were probably but little damaged. The inhabitants, no doubt, had mostly fled before the commencement » ot the cannonade. What number of Mexican troops were killed was only known by conjecture ; doubt a considerable number." General Taylor having strengthened his defences at Point Isabel, departed from thence for his camp on the evening of the 7th ult., without waiting for reinforcements. On the 8th, at about two p. m., he found the Mexicans in position to intercept him, in front of a chaparal, near a stream called Palo Alto. A chaparal is a dense thicket of thorns, and a shrub called prickly pear. An action followed, and it appears that the Mexicans were routed in that engagement, and in one which occurred on the following day, and that a Mexican General, " Vega" was taken prisoner. Among the booty captured by the Americans were the money chest and papers of the Mexican General Arista. In the latter was the morning return of the Mexican force on the day of battle, which shows the strength of the Mexicans to have exceeded 8,000; though it is not absolutely certain that the whole of that force was on the United States bank of the Rio Grande. General Arista's aide, while making arrangements with an American officer of the American army for the exchange of prisoners and the care of the wounded, stated that the Mexican loss in killed on the field of battle and drowned, was 800. In this number the wounded and prisoners, of course are not included. Fifteen hundred Mexican muskets ( all King's arms) had been collected. The plan of campaign, as developed by Artsta's papers, was for that General, after demolishing the small force under com- mand of General Taylor, to overrun Texas; and having effected " the conquest of that revolted province," if it should be necessary to secure the fruits of victory, it was arranged that General Paredes himself should march an army of occupation into the conquered country. Subsequent to these two decisive actions the army resumed its position in the entrenchments opposite Matamoras. On the 12th May, General Taylor was at Point Isabel, for the purpose of arranging with Commander Connor a combined naval and military movement up the Rio Grande. At that time the American Gulf squadron under command of the last- named officer was at anchor off Brasos St. Jago, only six miles distant from that place. While General Taylor was at Point Isabel lie received intelligence that the Mexicans were gathering in large numbers at Barita, a Mexican town, immediately on the bank of the Rio Grande. On being thus informed, he ordered about 1000 men, composed entirely of infantry, to proceed to the attack of that town. These troops embarked on the morning of the 15th and were landed at the Brasos, and immediately marched for the Rio Grande,- the steamers being ordered lo ascend the river and transport the troops and their ammunition across. Commo- dore Connor, with his whole squadron at the same time weighed anchor and sailed for the mouth of the river, intending to assist the troops in crossing with his boats, and to aid in the attack with his men. General Taylor intended to cross the river at or near his camp, to take possession of Matamoras, and the expedition was ordered for the double purpose of dislodging the Mexicans from their position at Barita, and assisting General Taylor in occupying Matamoras, should he be opposed. Barita was captured on the 17th of May. RAILWAYS.— IMPORTANT JUDGMENT. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, FRIDAY, JUNE 12. WALSL'AB V. SPOTTISWOODE. At the sitting of the Court this morning, The Lord Chief Baron pronounced the judgment of the Court on this important case. His Lordship said, this was an action brought by the plaintiff against the defendant, as one of the Provisional Committeemen on the Direct Birmingham and Oxford Railway Company, to recover the sum of 78/. 15s., the amount of deposits paid for shares allotted to her ( the plaintiff) in that Company. The defendant pleaded non assumpsit. The case was tried before him ( the Lord Chief Baron) on the 22nd of February last. It appeared on the trial that the Com- pany had been provisionally registered, that the proposed capital was to be 2,000,000/., and the number of shares to be issued was to be 80,000, at 25/. per share, and the payment of a deposit of 21. 12s. 6d. was required on the letters of allotment being issued. On the 7th of Octobcr, 1845, the piaintiff'applied for a certain number of shares. On the 18th of the same month she received a ietter from the Secretary to the Company, stating that the Provisional Committee had allotted her 30 shares. On the receipt of this letter, plain tiff' paid into the bankers a deposit of 78/. 15s. On the production of the banker's receipt the latter was to have been exchanged for scrip. Consequently, on the 27th of October, scrip was applied for, when plaintiff was in- formed by the Secretary of the Company that no scrip would be issued until November 6. On the 12th of November appli- cation was again made to exchange the bankers' receipt for scrip, when, to plaintiff's utter surprise, she was told that it was not intended^ o issue any scrip whatever, as from the panic which had taken place in the Share Market it was determined to wind up the affairs of the Company, and after all legal expenses had been paid, the surplus capital would be divided amongst those who had paid deposits; that the Provisional Committee had considered it necessary to take this step in consequence of public confidence having been so shaken in railway speculations that deposits on only 4000 shares had been paid. In consequence of this information the plaintiff brought her action to recover the amount of deposit she had paid, and the jury returned a verdict in her favour, subject to the opinion of the Court above as to some of the pleas. A rule had been granted for a new trial, or to show cause why a nonsuit should not be entered. Cause had been shown against it, and the rule fully argued, and he ( the Chief Baron) had now to state, that on the second count— namely, for money had and received, the judgment of the Court was in favour of the plaintiff. It ap- peared that the Company failed before any scrip was issued, and therefore the answer of the Secretary on that point was sufficient and proper evidence to go to the jury. The jury found that the Company was at an end, and the Court was of opinion that was a proper finding. There was another question raised— viz., whether the Company were entitled to a claim of 2s. Gd. per share for expenses. Now the Provisional Committee stated that it was intended to raise a Company for a specific purpose, but if their scheme was not carried into execution, no such claim as set up could be maintained, and therefore the plaintiff was entitled to recover on that point also. After some further observations of a technical nature, the Lord Chief Baron said, the judgment of the Court was in favour of the plaintiff on the second count, and therefore there. would be no new trial. The effect of this judgment establishes the right of the allottee ( the plaintiff) to recover the full amount of deposit that she had paid. ANOTHER WHALE IN THE MEDWAY.— On Saturday morning another beluga was caught by some Strood fisher- men, off the Garrison point, at Sheerness, and brought to Rochester. It was about half grown, and as described by naturalists had not yet attained the generally pure whiteness of a full grown fish. LYNCH LAW ON WINDERMERE LAKE.— Never let it be said the days of chivalry are tied; heralds may have ceased to record good blows, and pennons and banners may be thrown aside, but the lofty, generous spirit of Englishmen is yet burning bright and clear in the bosoms of some of our aristocracy, as the following narration of a combat will go nigh to prove:— The present time is what is termed the. trolling season on Windermere, and many gentlemen from different parts are enjoying their piscatorial pleasures upon the lake. Among the number last week was a native of Liverpool and student at Oxford, and, being a true disciple of old Walton, he one morning was out before the sun had climbed the hills, and while the dew was on the leaf, and fishing with great patience, when a gentleman who lives upon the banks of the lake thought fit to go and actually break his lines. So enraged was the Oxonian that lie immediately rowed up to the piratical boat and boarded him, and the next moment they were, toe to toe, a la Gill and Norley, and both looking confident and determined, though an amateur would have at once decided in favour of the " Oxonford scholar." To describe the fight scientifically would be too long an affair; suffice it, that although the pirate's agility gave him the best of a couple of severe falls, yet his antagonist's straight hitting and superior weight left him the thing hollow, so that in six quick rounds the tackle- taking gentleman was deaf to time, and as sick as though he had swallowed a glass of antimonial wine. The gallant student then took the enemy's oars and threw them iuto the lake, and left him in the midst of the water without any means of gaining the shore, and for sir long and tedious hours our hero's " homo was on the mouu- taiu wave" before he could get any assistance.— Westmoreland. Gazette. AN ARTFUL EXPEDIENT.— The following very ingenious contrivance to elude the enemy deserves to be recorded : A gentleman of property, whom we shall call A., liviiv in a fine house with a lodge and park- looking entrance, during the late mania, thought lie might add to his honors, and probably to his wealth, by going into the " Director line," and per mitting himself to figure in the prospectuses as one of the director squires of such a place. For a time all things went on well, and fortune smiled blandly on Squire A. who was delighted with his growing dignities, and prospects of large and interminable premiums. But alas! Fortune is a fickle and slippery dame. The panic came— the golden premium vanished, and Squire A. was called on for larger payments than he found his private fortune would bear. One day, not long after the arrival of the dreadful panic, a gig, with two individuals, drove up to the house, expecting to see Mr. A. One of the occupants of the gig, a sheriff's officer, got down, and reconnoitring the house, which he found with all the windows closed, and a bill," To be Let," sighed out, " Alas! I am a few days too late. Where," said he to an old man at the lodge, " is Mr. A. gone?'' " Gone, sir, with all ^ he family, I don't know where, but somewhere in Devonshire." " When will he come back }" " That I can't tell." Off drove Sir Nab, cursing his unlucky stars that had not directed him earlier to his game. Shortly after a friend rode up. " Holloa, how is this," exclaimed he to the occupant of the lodge, " the house shut up and to be let? Where is Mr. A. gone i" " Gone to Devonshire, sir, and all the family, and I don't know when they'll return." " Well, this is odd", I came to dine with him." Just as the gentleman was riding awav, he observed one of the sons in the fields; calling to him, he asked " Where is your father i" " Gone to Devonshire." Just then he espied another son. " Well," said the gentleman, " this is strange, gone to Devonshire! I came to see your father." The son made no reply, but gave a knowing look. Presently a voice from behind the house called the gentleman to come in, and, lo and behold, he found his friend and Devonshire much nearer than he expected. The Devonshire was certain back premises, of which the cooking kitchen was the harness room. Mr. A., to deceive the merciless creditors of the company the better, had discharged all his servants, shut up the house, put a bill in the windows—" To let," and contented himself with quietly living in the back part of the premises, with the old man at the lodge, for his only servant and purveyor.— Ilerapath's Journal. A VORACIOUS FISH.— A few days since, whilst fishing over the wreck of the Abergavenny ( off Weymouth), Mr. Bailey hooked and after considerable time succeeded in capturing one of the largest pollock whiting ever seen in those parts, its weight being nearly seven pounds; in its mouth were three hooks, and attached to them were portions of three lines, which it had broken previous to its capture, the lines were rolled together in the form of a ball and did not appear to have caused any inconvenience, as the fish was in excellent condition. In its stomach was found a pout whiting entire. DESPERATE STRUGGLE.— A few days ago a woman named Elizabeth Whitmore, the wife of a printer, residing in London, finding herself somewhat indisposed, locked her room door, and lay down upon the bed. She had not, how- ever, been long in that position ere she heard a gentle tap at the door, and presently the handle of the lock was turned, and ultimately the door was opened, by means, it is presumed, of a skeleton key. The intruder, however, had no sooner made his appearance than he was pounced upon by Mrs. Whitmore, a powerful woman, who imagining something wrong was intended, left her bed and quietly awaited the result. Having seized the fellow by the collar a violent struggle ensued, and they fell, rolling together from the first floor landing to the bottom of the stairs. There the fellow succeeded for an instant in getting up, and started off, but he was almost as quickly followed by his determined opponent with the cry of " Stop thief," and he was seized by a police- constable and conveyed to the station- house. EOOLHARDINESS.— Mr. Rea, soon after starting with one of the trains on the South Devou, on the day of its open- ing, discovered a man riding on the engine buffer, about the most smashable place on which a man could plant himself; for supposing he could have held his post till ho arrived at the station, unobserved by the engine driver, it was quite possible that, in pulling up, he might have been squeezed against the next carriage and killed on the spot. Mr. Rea immediately blew the guard's whistle, the breaks were applied, and the train was stopped ; but it required vigorous efforts to displace the gentleman, who stuck like a director to premium, and could only be displaced by main forc6.— Sherborne Jour. SMOKE PROHIBITION.— The Smoke Prohibition Bill of the present session has just been printed. Its object, as declared by the title, is " to prohibit the nuisance of smoke from furnaces and manufactories;" and by the preamble it is laid down to he expedient to prevent the injury to the health and comfort of the people which is occasioned by smoke issuing from certain furnaces and chimnies. There are 17 provisions, and a schedule containing a form of conviction. The present bill is like all former ones. Justices are ( accord- ing to its terms) to appoint inspectors of smoke nuisances from and after the 1st of January next, from which day opaque smoke is not to issue from any chimney of a furnace for any longer period of time than is bona fide necessary for the kindling of the fire of such furnace. There are penalties for offences, and means provided for recovering the same. This bill does not seem to have been framed on the report made to the Government by the two scientific individuals who have made a report on the subject, and who pointed out therein the difficulties of effectually legislating thereon. Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills effectually cure every des- cription of Gout, Rheumatic Gout, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Tic Doloreux, Pains in the Head gr Face, & c. They are recommended to the afflicted, with a confidence, arising from experience, as one of the valuable results of the improved state of Medical Science, and the only efficient remedy ever dis- covered for these disorders. The continued authenticated proofs of decided approbation sent unsolicited to the pro- prietor, from all parts of the kingdom and from all classes of society, with a rapidly increasing sale and demand for them at home and abroad unparalleled, fully warrants the assurance that no person subject to these disorders will, after a trial, ever be without them. Sold by all medicine venders. Price 2s. 9d. per box. Observe the name of " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," on the Government Stamp. Sick Headaches with Weakness and Disordered Stomachs, cured by Holloway's Pills— It was these wonderful pills that cured the Earl of Aldborough of a similar complaint after the most eminent doctors in England and on the continent failed to give his Lordship the least relief. This famous medicine will cure any person, however bad his case may be, who is suffering in any way from general debility, or from the head and stomach, the bile or the liver. It is confidently believed, that as this medicine ( unlike all others) acts directly upon the very mainsprings of life, that no disease whatever can resist its influence. T THE WORCESTERSHIRE GUARDIAN, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 184 6. Umperial Uarltament. [ CONTINUED FROSI FIRST PAGE.] HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, JUNE 18. Their LoVdships met at a quarter before five o'clock, when the Royal assent was given by commission to 58 bills. The Bishop of London laid on the table a bill for amending the law for the correction of clerks, or he might call it the Clergy Discipline Bill, « hich had the unanimous assent of the bench of Bishops, and had been prepared with the greatest care. Messengers from the House of Commons brought up a num. ber of hills, which were laid on the table. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, THURSDAY, JUNE 18. THE GAUGE QUESTION The adjourned debate was resumed, and the third resolution agreed to, as were the other resolutions, after some discussion and a division. Sir G. Grey inquired whether a bill would be introduced founded on all or any of the resolutions. Sir G. Clerk replied that, of course, it would be necessary to introduce a bill to carry into eflect the second resolution ; but whether it would be a separate bill, or part of a bill for the general regulation of railways, would require time for con- sideration. SIR 11. PEEI. AND THE CATHOLIC QUESTION— Sir R. Peel, who appeared to feel deep emotion, rose and said,— Sir, by the permission of the House I will, to- morrow, when the order of the day is read for proceeding with the Bill for the Prevention of Murder in Ireland, make some statements with reference to those charges which have been recently preferred against me, relating to transactions alleged to have taken place in the years 1825, 1827, and 1829. ( Loudcheers.) SUGAR DUTIES— The Chancellor of the Exchequer said it • was his intention to move a resolution continuing the sugar duties for one month, which would carry them to August 5th in the present year. But he was also desirous, if the House had no objection, to reduce the duties at once on particular kinds of sugar, the free labour sugars, as referred to in the opening speech of his Right Hon. Friend for the like limited period; but if there were any objection, he would only move the renewal of the sugar duties for one month. Mr. Hume would certainly object to any alteration in the resolution, but would continue the duties for one month. PROTECTION TO LIFE ( IRELAND) BILL.— The adjourned debate on this bill was resumed by Sir A. Armstrong, who strongly opposed the bill. Mr. Bennett thought the proper course to pursue was to put down the monster grievance of Ireland at its source by putting an end to agitation. Under this conviction he would oppose the second reading of the bill. Captain Layard, Mr. Henley, and Sir II. W. Barron severally opposed the bill, which was supported by Captain Fitzmaurice. Mr. Hawes also opposed the second reading. Lord F. Egerton regretted the combination of parties which threatened to defeat the bill, and felt convinced that should Lord J. Russell come into power he would be compelled to ask Parliament for a measure of a similar character. He depre- dated the language indulged in by Lord G. Bentinck and Mr. D'lsraeli, and although he had changed his opinions and was thus open to the Noble Lord's charge against renegades, still he could not understand what degree of infamy the Noble Lord meant to attach to the word thus applied to gentlemen who from conviction had abandoned their former sentiments. It would be far better to discuss important questions in a different spirit, but he had often heard distinguished men indulge in such language towards each other, and as in those cases, so in this, he had no doubt those matters would set themselves to rights at last. On the motion of Mr, S. Crawford, the debate was then adjourned, and the House shortly afterwards rose. IBRAHIM PACHA. On Friday morning last Ibrahim Pacha inspected the London Museum of the Society of Arts, and subsequently he gave audiences to several gentlemen. His Highness then paid numerous visits, and dined in the afternoon with Prince Albert at Buckingham Palace. The Pacha, attended by Major Dickson and M. Nubar, left Mivart's Hotel on Saturday afternoon, and proceeded by railway to Birmingham by the express train. He stayed at Dee's Hotel, and in the evening dined there, with his attendants and Mr. G. R. Collis, Consul of the Ottoman Porte. After breakfast on Sunday morning, his Highness left the hotel, accompanied by Mr. Collis and his retiuue, and was conveyed by special engine to Warwick, to inspect the Castle and other objects worthy of notice in that locality. The distinguished party returned to Dee's Hotel in the evening. On Monday morning, at ten o'clock, his Highness pro- ceeded to inspect some of the principal manufactories of Birmingham, accompanied by Major Dickson, Col. Bonfort, Henry Smith, Esq., Mayor, and Mr, Collis. The distin- guished party visited the establishment of Mr. Collis. The room in which he first entered displayed a gorgeous show of solid silver services, together with others of the richest electro- plated patterns. His Highness and suite appeared highly gratified with this reception, and mutually observed and admired a variety of designs. Amongst other things liis Highness noticed some splendid presentation plate, making for Captain Bennett, of Dudley. His Highness passed through the various apartments, and much admired the varied and beautiful designs presented to his view, so much so as to make numerous purchases. The Warwick vase, in bronze, did not escape his Highness's particular attention; indeed, no one could view this magnificent work of art without feelings of wonder and gratification. This work alone cost many thousand pounds, and weighs more than six: tons. His Highness afterwards took his departure for Messrs. Harris and Harrison's glass- works, in Broad- street. At this estab- lishment the Pacha remained one hour and a half, inspecting the highly interesting and curious process of glass- blowing. Mr. Harris was favoured bv orders for some of his costly and highly- finished articles. His Highness departing from thence visited the chandelier manufactory of Messrs. F. and C. Osier, in the same street, and thence proceeded to the extensive pin manufactory of Messrs. Phipson and Son, in . Broad- street, where an immense number of hands are engaged in making this insignificant but useful article. His Highness after luncheon proceeded to Mr. Gillott's pen manufactory, in Newhall Hill, Messrs. Jennens and Bettridge's papier machee manufactory, Messrs. Hammond and Sons' button manufactory, and Mr. James' screw manufactory. After dinner the Pacha having been informed that the skin of a whale was being exhibited in a booth recently erected for the fair, proceeded thither in a car, and having been duly received by the proprietor, that worthy made his appearance on the outer platform, and with a stentorian voice announced that he had then for exhibition the monstrous whale, with which he judiciously contrived to couple the name of the Pacha, so as to constitute him a part and parcel of the exhibition. It is needless to say the announcement was successful, and never before was the monster of the deep honoured with such a rush of spectators. Money takers were all the proprietor stood in need of; the place being instantly crowded to excess; and the Pacha having been informed of the benefit which his visit had conferred upon the showman, good humouredly enjoyed the amusement, and, whilst the crowds were rushing in through tiie front entrance, he took his departure from the rear of the erection, leaving the proprietor to settle with the company for the non- appearance of one portion of the exhibition which he had ingeniously announced. On Tuesday the Pacha resumed his visits to the manufacto- ries, and proceeded first to the extensive chandelier and brass- work manufactory of Mr. Henry Smith, the Mayor, in Bartholomew- street. He thence proceeded to Mr. Clifford's rolling mill, in Fazeley- street, and afterwards visited the sword grindiug and polishing establishment of Messrs. Reeves, Greaves, and Co. On Wednesday morning his Highness proceeded to the school of King Edward IV., in New Street, where he was received with due honour by Mr. Tindal, ( one of the governors, and a brother of the Chief Justice,) and the Rev. J. P. Lee, the head Master. The visit was one of considerable interest. His inquiries evinced his usual acuteness. The Pacha appeared to be highly delighted with the school, and the pupils, between 400 and 500 of them, reciprocated the feeling. The party then proceeded to the Soho Works, the famed establishment of Messrs. Bolton and Watt, at Handsworth. From the Soho Works the party proceeded to the establishment of the Messrs. Hunt, at the Braides, near Olbury, thence to the glass manufactory of the Messrs. Chance, at Spon Lane. This most splendid and extensive concern appeared to attract the particular attention of the Pacha. The party then returned to Dej's Royal Hotel. The Prince left Birmingham on Monday night bv the ordinary express train for Manchester. During his Ilighnesse's visit to Birmingham, he has shown the greatest liberality to all persons with whom he has come in contact. His purchases of manufactures have been to a great amount, and his pecuniary acknowledgments to attendants far exceed those of any previous Royal visitor. Yesterday ( Thursday) his Highness commenced his inspec- tion of the manufactories of Manchester. SERIOUS ACCIDENT,— On Sunday last, Mr. Thomas Upton, of the Fountain Inn, Gloucester, and his family, were travelling in a four- wheel phaeton, and in descending the pitch called Wintle's Hill, in consequence of the horse ( which generally was a very quiet animal) not having any breeching to the harness, he became unmanagable. The vehicle was upset, and the whole party thrown out. Mr. Upton sustained a fracture of the collar bone, and other injuries. Mrs. Upton fell on her head, and was otherwise much bruised; she lies in a most dangerous state, and it is hardly possible she can recover. Her sister was bruised, but not seriously, and two or three children escaped with slight injuries. Mr. Upton is getting on as well as can be expected. We have since heard that Mrs. Upton has died in consequence of the injuries she received. ATTEMPTED MURDER.— ON Wednesday night the the vicinity of Drury- lane again became the scene of alarm occasioned by another deliberate attempt at assassination, which will, in all probability, terminate fatally to the unfortunate victim. It appears that loud screams were heard to proceed from the kitchen of a house occupied by a man named Hannan, and his wife Margaret Hannan, and, ia ail instant after, a woman was seen rushing from the house bleeding profusely from a frightful wound in the neck. The poor creature staggered, and fell into the arms of some neigh- bours, who, attracted by her screams, had assembled around the house. She was sensible at the time, and exclaimed, " Oh, my husbaud has stabbed me." On examination a large wound was discovered in her neck on the right side, in length upwards of three inches, and completely dividi ng the external jugular vein on that side. The blood was flowing copiously from the wound, and it was with some difficulty the jugular vein was tied and the gash sewn up. The woman was con- veyed to King's College Hospital. The husband was instantly taken into custody, and conveyed to Bow Street station. The prisoner said that he was the father of the child known as General Tom Thumb. It appears from the statements of the lodgers in the same house, that the man Hannan and his wife had been quarrelling and drinking all the day, as was frequently their custom ; and that he had on several occa- sions threatened to murder her. The last account at the hospital, as to the state of the woman, was that she was in a very dangerous condition. Sceal l& ailfcHjj EnteUigencc. The gauge question has been before the House of Commons, on a series of resolutions, founded on the recent report of the Lords of the Privy Council for Trade, being proposed. Last night the whole of the resolutions were passed, but the bill founded upon them has not yet been introduced. In the discussions which have taken place on this subject in Parlia- ment the inconvenience of break of gauge lias been generally admitted, though most of the speakers seem to be of opinion that the improvements likely to result from the competition between the two systems, will afford compensation. Another point much insisted on is the impolicy of a prohibitive deci- sion, when, as Mr. Laboucliere observes, " we are but at the beginning of railway experience," and know not what dis- coveries may soon gift us with enlarged command over the forces of nature. THE DERBYSHIRE, STAFFORHSHIRE, AND WORCESTER- SHIRE JUNCTION Company have met and resolved by a majority of eight to one, to proceed with the undertaking. STAFFORDSHIRE AND SHROPSHIRE JUNCTION.— An ad- journed meeting of the shareholders of the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway Company took place on Friday, at the offices of the Company, in London, to consider the best means of winding- up the affairs of the Company. Much disapprobation having been expressed by the shareholders, a resolution appointing a committee to investigate the accounts and ascertain the liabilities of the Company was agreed to, and the meeting was adjourned. STAFFORDSHIRE AND SHROPSHIRE JUNCTION.— An adjourned meeting of the Shareholders of this Company took place on Saturday, at the offices of the Company, Abingdon Street, to consider the best means of winding up the affairs of the Company. Much disapprobation having been expressed by the shareholders, a resolution appointing a Committee to investigate the accounts and ascertain the liabilities of the Company was agreed to, and the meeting was adjourned. GREAT WESTERN A special meeting of the proprietors of the Great Western Railway Company was held last Tuesday at the offices of the company, Paddington, for the purpose of taking into consideration certain bills before the directors could be empowered to proceed with them in Parlia- ment, and which the proprietors had already, at a previous meeting, sanctioned. The chairman named the different bills they were desirous of promoting, and among them a bill for making a railway from Gloucester to the Monmouth and Here- ford Railway, and to the South Wales Railway at Awre ; a bill for completing the line of the South Wales Railway ; and a bill for making a railway from Worcester to Forth Dynllaen, in con- tinuation ot' the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway. A discussion here arose as to whether the latter bill should be proceeded with. After some discussion the proprietors sanc- tioned the further progress of the bill on the promise of the chairman that it should not be virtually proceeded with until there was an opportunity given to the shareholders to decide whether it would be advisable to make the line or not The next bill submitted was that of a bill to authorise certain altera- tions in the line of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, and to amend the act relating thereto. Also a bill for making a railway from Birmingham to join the lines of the pro- posed Oxford and Rugby, and Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver- hampton Railways, to be called the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway. The proprietors having sanctioned these and some other minor bills, the meeting separated. BIRMINGHAM AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY.— The following letter under this head appears in the Railway Record, and other weekly railway papers:— Sir,— A disregard of signals, similar to what occurred at the Defford Station last year, took place on Saturday last, ( May 30,) at Spetchley Station. The lives of a thousand persons were risked, through the reckless conduct of the driver. I hope you will not allow it to pass unnoticed. It was a most shameful conduct; and surely the Midland Company will, for example's sake, cause a thorough investigation, and not spare the offender from punishment. On the part of many travellers on the occasion, 1 have redeemed my promise by informing the railway press. I am, yours, See., Water Drinker. SPEED OF THE LOCOMOTIVE.— On Saturday, a public experiment for the purpose of exhibiting the economy and tractive capacity of the broad- gauge locomotive was made on the Great Western line to and fro between London and Bristol. The experiment was made with a new engine, dragging a passenger train of 100 tons. The train left Paddington at 1 lh. 47m. 52s. and arrived in safety at Bristol at 16m. 32s. past two o'clock, the distiftice gone over being 118 miles, and the space of time occupied, stoppages included, being 2h. 26m. and 40s. The motion throughout the journey was very steady, and the average speed attained on level portions of the line was nearly 60 miles an hour. On rapidly descending gradients a maximum speed of from 70 to 72 miles an hour was reached, while, again, on sharp curves, or steep inclines, the rate was diminished to about 50 miles an hour. RAILWAY COMMITTEES. - HOUSE OF COMMONS, MONDAY, JUNE 15. GROUP 33. WARWICKSHIRE AND LONDON RAILWAYS— HAMPTON AND ASHCHURCII— WORCESTER AND WEEDON— HAMP- TON AND BANBURY— In consequence of an arrangement made by the Committee on this group of bills on Friday, these three bills were taken together this morning as being part of one scheme. Mr. Hope proceeded to open the case on the part of the pro- moters of the bills. These lines were brought forward under the sanction, and in connection with, the London and Birming- ham Railway and the Midland Company. The adoption of these lines would fill up a lapse in the means of railway com- munication now existing between several important places in the centre of the country, and it would also open a direct line from east to west. These lines received the support of Lord Warwick and nearly all the landowners in the district. The three schemes together would cause the construction of 117 miles of new railway. Not one single case of residential injury would result from the formation of these lines, and the opposi- tion was of purely an agricultural character, and something in connection with the rival schemes promoted by the Great Western Company. The first of these schemes from the Hampton station on the London and Birmingham Railway, through Warwick and Stratford to Ashchurch, on theBirming. ham and Gloucester line, would be 42 miles in length, and the estimate of its cost was £ 850,000. The engineering was not difficult, nor were the works of a heavy character. The next line, the Worcester and Weedon, would be 54 miles in length, and the estimate of its cost was £ 1,306,000. The engineering works were good, but the country there was rather severe, therefore the estimates appeared high. By this line a direct communication would be opened from the Weedon station, on the Birmingham line, to Worcester. Thus there would be a railroad from the eastern parts of England to Wales, and all other places in that direction. The third line from Hampton through Warwick to Banbury, so as to join the Banbury and Tring Railway, would be about 33 miles in length. He should be able to show that all these lines were of the highest import- ance to the public convenience. Writh respect to the opposition to these bills by the projectors of the rival scheme, he was ready to admit that the Hampton and Banbury line would run parallel with the Oxford and Rugby line for seven or eight miles, but this he should be able to show was of little conse- quence. The Oxford and Rugby was to be constructed with both a broad and narrow gauge. He was instructed that such a line would cause great delay and inconvenience to travellers, and that the working of it would be attended with great danger. In the rival schemes, also, no means were provided for com- municating directly from the east to the west. The opposition of the landowners to these schemes was also very great, and the injury that these constructions would inflict on private residences would be serious. The parties for whom he appeared were prepared to perform all that the projectors of the rival schemes pretended to, and much more, while their expenditure of capital would be much less. They then came to the gauge question. The report of the Board of Trade recommended that no further bills for lines on the broad gauge should pass, and, no doubt, this would be acted on ; at any rate, if it was not, in this instance, the adoption of these schemes would entail all the inconveniences consequent on a break of gauge. Another argument in favour of the plans for which he appeared, was, that the tolls on them would be less than on any other railway. When an Oxford and Wolverhampton Company was asked, during the present session, to adopt a similar scale of low tolls, they refused on the ground that they could not afford to work the line at such rates. Evidence was then adduced in support of the statement of the learned counsel. The witnesses were examined by Mr. Sergeant Allen and Mr. K. Macaulay; and were cross- examined by Mr. Whateley and Mr. Talbot, who appeared for the rival schemes. TUESDAY, JUNE 10. The evidence related entirely to the traffic on these lines, and it was endeavoured to establish that the places to be accommo- dated by them were of more importance than those to be reached by the Birmingham and Oxford and other competing lines. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17. The Committee was engaged the whole of the day in hearing evidence as to the probable traffic on the Hampton and Ash- church, and Hampton and Banbury, lines. THURSDAY, JUNE 18. Sir Willoughby Gordon, Quartermaster- General, was ex- amined. He could not be supposed to know anything of railways, much less of their relative merits, except as to the conveyance of her Majesty's troops. The accommodation pro- posed to be afforded to Weedon would be of importance to the service. That place was an ordnance depot. There was not a large number of troops kept there— only a competent number for the protection of the depot. It would be of great import- ance to have a railway from Weedon to Northampton, the distance being, however, only seven miles. The Weedon and Worcester line would be advantageous, as it would make the communication by railway between Weedon and the port of Plymouth complete and direct. In fact, every railway was of importance to her Majesty's military service, and that line was the most so which had the fewest breaks. Every break was inconvenient to a private family in travelling. It was more so, in the ratio of the numbers, to a body of troops. In cross- examination the Gallant Officer said that he could give no opinion as between the competing lines. In this case the competing lines, by connecting Wolverhampton with Weedon, Birmingham, Worcester, and Plymouth, would be of important advantage. The break of gauge and increased distance were disadvantageous. But shortness of distance was not always an advantage of itself. The consideration of short- ness was frequently qualified by circumstances of convenience. He could give no opinion as to the camparative merits of the broad and narrow gauges. He was in the habit of transmit- ting by railway an average of sixty thousand troops per annum, and he had found the accommodation afforded to her Majesty's service by the directors of both systems such, that he could not have effected the transit of the troops more conveniently if he had directed it himself. Col. Thornton, commandant of Birmingham, gave evidence of a similar character. Sir Charles Knightley, Bart., M. P. for Northamptonshire, gave evidence strongly in favour of these lines, as regards the advantage to the agricultural interests in the conveyance of produce, & c., and to the general interests of the public in the conveyance of coals and other articles of consumption. However, it was chiefly with a view to the agricultural benefit he was favourable to the Warwickshire and London system of railways. Other witnesses were examined to the same effect as the Hon. Baronet. Amongst others, the land agent of the Marquis of Hertford, who said that the poor lands through which the lines would pass would be greatly benefitted because such was always i the effect of railways. Persons of capital were, by means of this mode of conveyance, made acquainted with the extent to which poor lands were neglected, and were induccd to employ their capital upon them. Adjourned. GROUP 31. MONDAY, JUNE 15. WORCESTER AND PORTIIDYNLLAEN— Mr. Talbot, on behalf of the Great Western Railway Company, who promoted this bill, said he was instructed to say that they were not pre- pared at present to proceed ; but as he did not wish to give the Committee the trouble of another adjournment, he would request of them to report to the House, that the promoters were not inclined to proceed at present, but that after the dis- cussion upo. i the gauge reports, they would probably apply to have a new Committee appointed to consider the merits of their project. After some deliberation, Mr. Talbot drew up a report to the above effect, which the Committee assented to. This being the only remaining bill of this group, the Com- mittee dissolved. TUESDAY, JUNE 10. BRISTOL AND BIRMINGHAM ( ASCIICIIURCH, TEWKESBURY AND GREAT MALVERN LINE)— The object of this bill is to construct a branch railway from Ashchurch, seven miles north of Cheltenham, on the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway, through Tewkesbury and Upton- on- Severn, to Great Malvern. The length of the proposed line is 11 miles, and it appeared that only two landowners were opposed to it. Evidence was then adduced in support of the bill. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17- The Committee were occupied during the morning with evidence on the part of the promoters, in respect of the proposed line. The witnesses deposed to the present amount and mode of conveyance of passenger and general traffic between Malvern and Worcester, Tewkesbury, Cheltenham, and Gloucester, and were subjected to a lengthened cross- examination. Mr. George Barclay had laid out the line under the direction of Mr. llobt. Stephenson, the engineer of the Midland Company. It would have been extended to Worcester, but it was thought it might join the Welsh Midland at Malvern, which would have passed through Worcester, and was well received when projected ; but had been twice lost on the standing orders. The railroad from Ashchurch, on the Birmingham and Gloucester, to Tewkesbury is at present on a single line of rails. The promoters seek power by this bill to render it a double line, as they do not possess a sufficient width of land. Will not affect the residences of the petitioners. No tunnel- Steepest gradient 1 in 80 for about three furlongs ; but this is near the terminus at Malvern, and is rather advantageous than objectionable. One curve near Tewkesbury has a radius of only 15 chains. The present rail- road at Tewkesbury crosses the High- street on a level, and the proposed line will do so likewise. The inhabitants do not object, as the trains will always stop there. The line will also pass 17 public roads ( one of which is a turnpike road) on a level, and has been so laid out for facilitating the placing of cattle in the trucks. Estimate, £ 180,000. Will cross the Severn on a swing bridge, estimated at £ 15,000. For land and compensation a sum of £ 4,034 has been allowed. Mr. Lakin, surveyor, gave evidence of the value of the land through which the line would pass.— Adjourned. THURSDAY, JUNE 18. The Committee heard evidence on the part of the opponents of the line. The case having been concluded the room was ordered to be cleared. On the readmission of the public the Chairman said that the Committee were of opinion that the preamble of the bill had not been proved by the evidence. The Counsel for the promoters wished to know in what respect the evidence was deficient. The Chairman said that it was not the duty of the Committee to make out the case of the promoters or to show in what way it was deficient. The case had certainly not failed through any deficiency in the engineering evidence. GROUP 53. TUESDAY, JUNE 10. SHREWSBURY AND BIBMINGHAM— The evidence in favour of this scheme was resumed, Mr. Scott, the chairman of the Birmingham Canal Company, being the first witness. He stated that the rival schemes would pass over some of the most valuable coal mines in Staffordshire, thus inflicting great damage, not only on the proprietors but the public at large. As soon as he saw the project of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wol- verhampton in the field he set about devising, with other gen- tlemen, the present scheme, and was convinced that it was much superior to its rivals; he saw that the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton project would not sufficiently accommo- date the people of Wolverhampton. There could be no doubt that people at Wolverhampton who wished to go to London would travel by this line because it had a direct communication with the London line. Mr. Best, ironmaster, Dudley, considered the Shrewsbury, Birmingham, and Stour Valley line the best adapted for the South Staffordshire mineral district. Cross- examined by Mr. Cockburn He was aware that several ironmasters in the neighbourhood of Dudley entertained a different opinion. The Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhamp- ton line was too high with respect to his works. Mr. Smith, mining agent to Lord Ward, in the neighbour- hood of Dudley, believed that this line would best accommodate that district. In his opinion the public would be benefitted by the union of this Company with the Birmingham Canal Com- pany. If this line were not sanctioned, parties going from Dudley to Birmingham would have to pass over four different railways, which would he most injurious to the public. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17. Mr; Robert Stephenson, the engineer to the line, was examined, and after having stated the particulars and peculiar advantages of the line over any other that could be laid down in the district, he said, in reply to Mr. Hope, that in case of the opposing company succeeding in obtaining their hill, passengers to London would have to ; pass over four or five separate and distinct railways, on one at least of which the mixed gauge now proposed would, if adopted at all, be certainly laid down. As to the principle of the mixed gauge, he thought it would be absolutely impracticable. It would lead finally to separation, and the construction of two distinct lines of railway, for the mixed lines never could be worked with safety or convenience. Mr. Stephenson's cross- examination by Mr. Talbot occupied the Committee until four o'clock, at which hour they adjourned THURSDAY, JUNE 18. The business of the morning commenced by a cross- ex- amination of Mr. Stephenson, jun., the engineer of the line, by Mr. F. Robinson, counsel for the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton line. He was also subjected to a cross- ex- amination on the part of Mr. Corbett, but nothing of much importance was elicited. Mr. Hope then re- examined Mr. Stephenson at great length as to the advantages which would result from the junction of' this with the London and Birmingham line. The entrance to Birmingham, he said, was fifty- five feet above the levels of the rival lines ; and as the Birmingham Canal intervened it would be impossible to ameliorate the lines. The station of this line at Birmingham was an exact model of the station of the Manchester and Leeds Railway at Manchester, which had the largest traffic in the world. Mr. William Hayes, a solicitor of extensive practice in Birmingham, stated that his offices were in New- street, and that he has been clerk to the town commission for the last, twenty- five years. The station of this line at Birmingham would be decidedly preferable to its rivals; the inhabitants of Birmingham were of the same opinion. The other lines would enter the town by tunnels, whilst this would enter by a viaduct, which was a preferable mode. It would stop up narrow streets, and instead give a wide one. The junction of the London and Birmingham with the Shrewsbury and Birmingham would be of great advantage to the public. The rival companies did not contemplate such a junction. Cross- examined by Mr. Robinson He understood that it would be nece* sary to descend a flght of about 24 steps to get- up. < n the level of this line at New- street. Mr. Alderman Weston, of Birmingham, considered New- st. reet the most favourable position for a station, as it was the central part of the town, and the approaches to it were easy. The station of this line would give the best accomodation to the people of Birmingham, and all with whom he had conversed on this subject were in favour of it. The approaches to the Snowhill station would be very narrow, and it would be on a steep acclivity. Cross- examined by Mr. Robinson.— His place of business was close by New - street, and so were those of the majority of the people with whom he had conversed on the subject. Mr. Baker, assistant engineer to Mr. Stephenson, presented a detail of the estimates, the total cost being £ 2.200,000, which would include the cost of the erection of the proposed station at New- street. This closed the promoters' case, and the Committee then adjourned. GROUP 58. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17. THE BRISTOL AND BIRMINGHAM AND MIDLAND RAIL- WAYS AMALGAMATION.— Adjourned from yesterday to wait the result of the House of Commons' resolutions as to the broad and narrow gauge. To- day the Chairman advised that a letter should be written to the Board of Trade, stating that two hills had been referred to their consideration relative to the gauges and communication between Birmingham and Bristol; that the Committee was willing, in conformity with the resolu- tions of the House, to adjudicate upon the cases, but considered that a decision of the Government, with the advantage they possessed of communicating with the Gauge Commissioners, would be more satisfactory. The Chairman, after consulting a Committee sitting upstairs,, interested in the same question, and which agreed with him as to the propriety of such a reference, directed the parties to make a statement of their cases with a view to its submission to the Board of Trade. The question is, whether the narrow gauge shall be laid down alongside the broad gauge between Gloucester and Stonehonse, and the narrow gauge be established: over the whole line between Bristol and Birmingham and the Midland Railways, by substituting the narrow gauge between Storehouse and Bristol; it being impossible, on account of tunnels, expense, & c., to make a double line over that portion. The results of this reference were to be made known on Friday ( this day). BIRMINGHAM BANKRUPTCY COURT. TUESDAY, JUNE 10. Before Mr. Commissioner Balyuy. In Re ROLLINSON ( Dudley, out of Business.) A first hearing. The insolvent was opposed by Mr. Mo!- tcram, on behalf of Messrs. Bate and Robins, bankers, Dudley, and supported by Mr. E. Wright. It appeared that the insolvent, who was now seventy year* of age, iiad for forty years been engaged as an agent, on the estate of the late and the present Lord Ward ; in consideration of long and faithful services, an allowance of 84/. per annum had been granted, and upon this and his other property he had for some time retired from any business pursuits. Two young men, named Ilorton, had married two of his daughtem, and the insolvent had at various times indorsed his name to several bills, on which cash had been advanced by the Bank, as security for his sons- in- law. In the course of time these advances had reached 7000/. but of this large sum the whole had been repaid, with the exception of about GOO/. Two actions had bem brought against the insolvent upon two of the bills by the Baoik, which, after some litigation, and a verdict in one case, were referred to arbitration, and ultimately an award was made in favour of the plaintiffs. It was also contended that Roilinson had acted in the belief that the Hortons had paid the whole amount due, and that the real balance due to the Bank was but 300/., to settle which the insolvent had sought the protection of the Court. Some time had elapsed before the Bank had proceeded to act, and it was not until the bankruptcy of the Hortons * hat they took steps to enforce their claim. Finally, it was alleged that twelve or eighteen months before the insolvency, Rolliuson had made a settlement of all his property upon his daughters ( wives of the Hortons), but reserving a life- interest for himself, and it was insinuated that this had been done with a view to defeat the claims of the Bank. His Honour, after a long and able review of the case, said he saw nothing that would justify him in subjecting the insolvent to the consequences ot' a dismissal of the petition, and he si aould, therefore, graut him his interim orler. Rollinson was - tlien declared to have passed. HAMPSTALL BOAT RACES. Stewards, J. R. Cookes and E. Dixon, jun., Esqrs. The Hampstall Boat Races took place, as appointed, on Wednesday last, under a blazing sun. There was a goodly attendance of spectators from Worcester, Stourport, Bewdley, and Kidderminster. Numerous carriages arrived with com- pany in the course of the morning, and some half dozen barges freighted with passengers were on the scene of action before the commencement of the sports. There was also a fair sprinkling of the lighter craft skimming the waters of the Severn during the day, but the extreme heat, of the weather kept many away who would otherwise have rowed up to the scene of action. In consequence of the unavoidable absence of Mr. Cookes ( who at this juncture is busily occupied in purchasing horses for the Worcestershire Hunt), the duties of Steward fell entirely on Mr. Dixon, who dischaiged them with impartiality and judgment. Mr. Lamb, of Stourport, kindly assisted Mr. Dixon, by undertaking the delicate duty of starting and follow- ing the boats throughout, Mr. Dixon taking his stand at the winning flag. We described the course in a former Guardian : but a slight alteration was made on Wednesday, the start taking place some 60 or 70 yards lower down than originally intended, but the finish being, as formerly described, some 100 yards above Hampstall Inn. The distance was exactly a mile against stream. THE FOUR- OARED RACE. The boats entered for the four- oared race for the silver cup, value £ 15, were three in number, and were manned as follow:— THE ARIEL ( WORCESTER) CLUB BLUE AND WHITE. Mr. T. M. Hopkins, stroke — Jos. Hopkins 3 — Henry George ... 2 — Edward Hopkins, bow. Mr. William George, coxswain. THE BEWDLEY CLUB— BLUE. Mr. Bury, stroke — Hooman 3 — Trow 2 — J. Lea, bow. Mr. Annesiey, coxswain. THE INTREPID ( WORCESTER) CLUB PURPLE. Mr. Presdee, stroke — Delaney 3 — Evans 2 — Till, bow. Mr. Walsh, coxswain. The last named crew rowed in a light deal boat, of a shape, in the keel, not much in vogue at this time, but of which build we have a better opinion than the majority of oarsmen. The men were considered a very powerful crew, but this was the first occasion on which they had entered the lists in any regular aquatic event. They were considered by some to have an advantage in being trained and piloted by an experienced hand. The Bewdley crew rowed in their last year's boat, and appeared to have been well " worked up." They had a vast number of friends on the ground, by whom they were backed to win at odds. The Ariel crew were, as usual, exceedingly light in weight, not one of the five weighing 10 St., and the bow being just 7 st. 21b. They rowed in an outrigger, built by Noulton, of London, and belonging last season to the Nil Desperandum ( Worcester) Club, which we regret to find has, in consequence of some of the members being necessarily absent from Wor- cester some months in the year, been broken up. FIRST HEAT On the arrival of the Steward, at half- past two o'clock, the drawing took place, when it fell to the lot of the Bewdley and Intrepid crews to row together for the first heat, the Ariel having to contend with the winner of these two. No time was lost in preparation, and the boats being launched, the toss for sides was won by the Inlrepids, who took the eastern side of the river, which gave them a very slight advantage. The boats got off well together, the Intrepid taking the lead slightly. However, this was hut a momentary advantage, and the boats were, for half a mile, oar and oar together. As they neared the goal, however, the weight and strength of the Intrepid crew began to tell, and they won by half a boat's length, amidst the most intense excitement. They would have made their victory more complete, had not their coxswain mistaken another flag for the winning flag, and called upon his men to " easy all" before their time. The mistake was barely rectified in time, for the Bewdley crew made a splendid dash at the finish. The mile was rowed in eight minutes and thirteen seconds. SECOND HEAT— Ariel won the toss for sides, and took the east. Both the boats, ( Ariel and Intrepid,) again got off beautifully together at the word " go," the Intrepid as usual poking her nose about a foot in advance at the start. Ariel, however, gradually crept on, and at the end of half a mile had got half a boat's length in advance of her antagonist. As soon, however, as he had cleared the bend of the river, the coxswain of the Intrepid called upon his men, and they thereupon made a most determined spurt. A corresponding call was made by the Ariel coxswain, and his crew responded to it, but their light weight did not afford them that advantage in a spurt which the strength and weight of their antagonists gave to them. There was a beautiful struggle between the rival crews for a time— " At once with vigorous strokes they beat the main, At once recede, at once descend again ; Alternately they bend, alternate rise, From the white waves as swift the galley flies." The Intrepid glided a- head, and soon the comparative position of the two boats was reversed. The Artels made a dash at the the close in the hope of improving their position, but the cup was won by the Intrepid fairly by a boat's length. The second heat was accomplished in seven minutes and forty- two seconds, being twenty- live seconds less than the first heat. The average • weight of the winning crew was eleven stone a man, that of the Ariel under nine stone. THE PAIR- OARED RACE. There was a " little go" afterwards in the shape of a pair- oared race for a purse. The entries, as stated last week, were only two in number, and the boats were thus manned :— ARIEL ( WORCESTER)— BLUE AND WHITE. Mr. T. M. Hopkins, stroke — Jos. Hopkins, bow Mr. Edward Hopkins, coxswain. BEWDLEY— BLUE. Mr. J. Lea stroke — Hooman bow Mr. Annesiey, coxswain. The Ariel crew rowed in an outrigger, and the Bewdley in an old fashioned boat brought from Stourport for that purpose. She was, in vulgar terms, " a rum ' un to look at, but a good ' un to go." However the Bewdley had no chance in her as against the antagonist boat, and a friendly pull was made between them, which ended in the Bewdley actually coining in first by a yard, owing to the stretcher of the stroke in the Ariel giving way. The race was given to the Ariel. The several crews and their friends afterwards dined together at Hampstall Inn, where excellent entertainment was provided by the worthy host and hostess, Mr. and Mrs. Proudman. E. Dixon, jun., Esq., presided. After the cloth had been drawn, and the Chairman had given the customary loyal toasts, the health of the winning crew in the principal event of the day was given and responded to. Other toasts followed, amongst which were Mr. Cookes and the Worcestershire Fox Hounds. In the course of the evening the cup was produced, and handed over to the Intrepid crew by the Chairman ; the purse was also handed over to the Ariel, and at the same time the circumstances of this race were explained, and the Steward expressed his disapprobation of the arrangement thoughtlessly made between the crews, as tending to depreciate the good character of boat racing. The following is a correct description of the principal prize : — It is a solid silver cup, standing on a pedestal, with an appropriately chased body, surmounted by an embossed cover, beautifully chased with four- oared cutters, in the act of racing. Trees and brushwood fill up the background; the whole making a complete and very attractive prize. The cup and cover, which are lined throughout with gold, were designed and executed by Mr. Manning, of the Cross. There is no doubt that " Hampstall regatta" will be an annual affair. DESIRABLE INVESTMENTS, WITHIN THREE MILES AND A HALF OF THE CITY OF WORCESTER. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY HOBBS & SON, At the Somers Arms Inn, Stoulton, on Tuesday, the 23rd day of June next, at four o'clock in the afternoon, in the following Lots: LOT 1. A LL those FIVE PIECES or PARCELS A1 PUBLIC BATHS, & c. In connection with the proposition for the establishment of public baths for the convenience of the inhabitants of this city, we are induced to print the following extracts from a petition which has been reprinted from the appendix to the 25th report of the Committee of the House of Commons on public petitions. The petition alleges :— " That the various recent official reports on the condition of the labouring classes, and on the state of large towns and populous districts, and the evidence on which those reports are founded, shew that the dwellings of large numbers of the labouring population are painfully overcrowded, and that in many places the overcrowding is steadily increasing. " That one of the consequences of such overcrowding is in many cases a total neglect of personal and domestic cleanliness, leading, with the destruction of all comfort, to intemperance, recklessness, and extreme demoralization. " That in those instances in which persons in such circum- stances do not abandon the endeavour to keep themselves and their rooms clean, they can rarely secure more than such an imperfect degree of cleanliness as is insufficient for the due preservation of their health ; and that the damp alone, arising from the washing and drying of their clothes in the rooms in which they live, does constantly, and to a fearful extent, .. occasion or aggravate disease. " That not only the vast majority of the labouring classes in all large towns, but also very many of the industrious classes whose occupations are not those of mere manual labour ( such as clerks, shopmen, warehousemen, and apprentices) are unable from the want of adequate facilities for bathing, to cultivate those habits of personal cleanliness which are conducive both to the physical comfort and to the sound moral state of the population. That the lamentably injurious consequences to the comfort, health, and morals of the people, resulting from the want of proper supplies of water, the defective state of sewerage, drain- age, and street cleansing, and the insufficiency of existing regulations for the prevention of disease, which the recent official inquiries have shewn to affect large numbers of the people, have led to proposals for legislative measures, calculated to better in many respects their present condition. " That, were those proposals acted on to the fullest extent, the overcrowding of the labouring population would be almost unaffected by the measures which have been suggested. " That the most ample supply to every room of the purest water at the cheapest rate, a perfect system of sewerage, drain- age, and street cleansing, and the most scientific general regu- lations for the prevention of disease, would still leave many thousands of the families of the labouring population, com- pelled to live each in a single room, as unable as at present to bathe there without a total disregard of common decency, as much exposed as at present to the destruction of comfort and injury to health from washing and drying their clothes at home, and scarcely more able than at present to procure the firing necessary to heat the water for bathing and washing, and to dry the clothes. " That experience has shewn that those for whose advantage public baths and wash- houses have been established gladly resort to them, and are willing to pay such charges as, when the establishments are in full work, may be relied on as sufficient to defray the expense of supporting them." The prayer of the petition is as follows:— " Your Petitioners respectfully suggest, that it would be proper to pass a law, enabling such boroughs and parishes as might voluntarily resolve on adoptingitsprovisions, to establish public baths and wash- houses for the use, at moderate charges, of their respective inhabitants; for that purpose to obtain loans, as for other public works ; for the repayment of such loans, and the support of the establishments during such a period as may be necessary for bringing them into full work ; to impose moderate rates, and to carry the income to be derived from such establishments ( which when they are in full work, may be reasonably expected to leave a yearly surplus over expenditure) to the credit of the rates. " Your Petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that yourhonour- able House will be pleased to give to the premises your careful consideration, and to take such measures for promoting the general establishment in large towns and populous districts, of public baths and wash- houses, as your wisdom shall seem meet." We hear that our neighbours at Biimingham and Chelten- ham are fitting up baths, and at the latter place a very extensive swimming lath is to be opened* of MEADOW and ARABLE LAND, in the parish of NORTON JUXTA KEMPSEY, lying in a complete Ring Fence, known as THE BOTANY BAY LANDS, and containing by admeasurement 29 ACRES or thereabouts; is surrounded by Lands of the Right Hon. Earl Somers and Benjamin Hooke, Esq., contiguous to the Preserves of Robert Berkeley, Esq., and suitable for the growth of Osiers. This eligible Property nearly adjoins the Birmingham and Bristol Railway, is little more than half a mile from Spetchley Station, and being a deep strong soil capable of much profit- able improvement, but a short distance from Market, and easy of access; offers a desirable opportunity to parties who wish to make a small Landed investment. LOT 2 All that superior PIECE or PARCEL of ARABLE LAND, called STOULTON BONE, with very considerable Frontage to the Turnpike Road leading from Worcester to Pershore, containing by admeasurement 23 ACRES or thereabouts. It is situate within 500 yards of the intended Junction of the Oxford and Wolverhampton and Bir- mingham and Bristol Railways, and therefore singularly valu- able for Building purposes, or equally adapted for Market Gardeners, as it is well known to the neighbourhood to be second to none in the Parish, and is bounded by Lands of the Right Hon. Earl Somers and Benjamin Hooke, Esq. The above Properties are Copyhold under the Bishop of Worcester for four Lives, and are now in the occupation of Mr. Edward Day. For further particulars apply to Mr. J. Jones, Solicitor, Mr. James Webb, Land Surveyor, or the Auctioneers, all of Worcester. WORCESTER INFIRMARY. THE QUARTERLY GENERAL MEETING of the GOVERNORS will be held on FRIDAY, the 26th day of JUNE, at Twelve o'Clock at Noon. Persons willing to CONTRACT for the SUPPLY of the undermentioned ARTICLES are desired to send their Proposals ( sealed up) to the Office of the Secretary, at the INFIRMARY, on or before SATURDAY, the 20th Instant, viz.:— BUTCHER'S MEAT, for Three Months. BEST THIRDS FLOUR, for Three Months. Samples of One Bushel to be sent in, which will be paid for. BEST MALT, \ For Three Months. DITTO OATMEAL,?* Samples to be sent with Tenders. GENUINE NEW MILK, at per Gallon, for One Year. At the Meeting the following ALTERATIONS with re- spect to RULES No. 2 and No. 4, proposed at the last, will be considered :— That in Rule No. 2, the words " Committees or," in the fourth line, be expunged, and the words " General or Quarterly " be substituted. That in Rule No. 4, the word " Boards " be expunged, and the words " Special, General, or Quarterly Meetings," be substituted. The following Resolution must be particularly attended to by all persons supplying the Institution :— Ordered,- That the QUARTERLY ACCOUNTS be sent in on or before TUESDAY, the 16th, to be examined by the Weekly Board previous to the Quarterly Meeting. Warm, Cold, Vapour, and Sulphur Baths, for the use of the Public, may be had on very moderate Terms. D. W. NASH, Secretary. THE PROVINCIAL MEDICAL AND SURGICAL ASSOCIATION WILL hold their FOURTEENTH ANNVERSARY MEETING at NORWICH, on WEDNESDAY, the 19th, and THURSDAY, the 20th days of AUGUST. PRESIDENT : C. F. FAVELL, M. D., Sheffield. PRESIDENT- ELECT : JOHN GREENE CROSSE, ESQ., F. R. S., Norwich. The First General Meeting of the Association will be held on Wednesday Morning, for receiving the Report of the Council, and transacting other necessary business. THE RETROSPECTIVE ADDRESS ON MEDICINE will be delivered by DR. RANKING, of Bury St. Edmunds, on Thursday morning. The Members and their Friends will Dine together on Thursday, at Six o'clock. CHARLES HASTINGS, President of the Council. ROBERT J. N. STREETEN, Secretary. Worcester, June 12, 1846. TO GROCERS ASSISTANTS. ANTED, a steady, sober, and active YOUNG MAN, who understands his Business.— Apply to Williams, Edgecombe, & Co., Worcester. MR. QUARTERMAN, PROFESSOR OF M IT S I C, Member of the Royal Academy of Music, and Pianiste to the QUEEN DOWAGER, BEGS to return his sincere thanks to his Friends for the kind patronage he has received since he has resided in Worcester; and at the same time iakes this op- portunity of informing the Nobility, Gentry, and Inhabi- tants of Worcester and its neighbourhood, that he continues to give LESSONS on the PIANO- FORTE and SINGING? also, that he has made arrangements to receive Private Pupils at his residence, ST. JOHN'S. Mr. Quarterman, having been solicited by several Friends to open a Class for Juvenile Pupils, at School Terms, will be happy to commence with any number immediately. Days— Wednesdays and Saturdays, from Twelve till Two. As the Midsummer Vacation will shortly take place, Mr. Quarterman will be happy to give Lessons to any Young Ladies who may wish to keep up their practice during that time. Mr. Quarterman teaches at Malvern on Mondays; Worces- ter and Neighbourhood, Tuesdays and Fridays; at his own Residence, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. St. John's, June 7, 1846. SILVER STREET CLASSICAL, COMMERCIAL AND MATHEMATICAL ACADEMY, CONDUCTED BY THE REV. J. COLVILLE, M. A., WITH ASSISTANTS, WILL be Re- opened, after the present Vacation, on SATURDAY, the 25th JULY, on which day punctuality of attendance is particularly requested. The Terms may be known on personal application, or by letter. PRIVATE TUITION. ALFRED WILLIAMS RESPECTFULLY informs the Nobility, Gentry, and the Principals of Ladies' and Gentlemen's Schools, that he continues to give INSTRUCTION in LATIN and GREEK CLASSICS, and in the other usual Branches of Scholastic Education. Pupils received two hours daily during the Vacation. P. S. A Lady may hear of a Young Person, as Junior Assis- tant, well qualified to teach French, Music, & c. & c. For terms, address A. W., Spring Terrace, Saint John's. VINEY'S N E W TOO T H B R U S H. R|^ HIS Tooth Brush has the advantage of thoroughly 1_ 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 Ivory, 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." TO PERSONS VISITING LONDON. PORTRAITS, LANDSCAPES, COPIES OF PAINTINGS, & c., BY THE AGENCY OF LIGHT. R. BEARD'S recent IMPROVEMENTS in the DAGUERREOTYPEMNVENTION have been honoured with the following, among a variety of other notices by the leading public Journals:— " We witnessed with great gratification the improvements Mr. Beard has lately effected."— Morning Herald. " The Portraits are now fixed on the plate in all their natural hues of Colour."— Britannia. " They exhibit a degree of boldness, and stand out with a relief, greatly desiderated in all the earlier specimens."— Times. " The fidelity of the likeness is wonderful, and the effect imparted by Mr. Beard's new process of Colouring, is extremely beautiful."— Critic. " As family Portraits, these Miniatures are invaluable— Church and State Gazette. Portraits taken daily from Nine till Six, and Licenses to exercise the Invention in London or the Provinces, granted by Mr. Beard ( Sole Patentee), at 85, King William Street, City, 34, Parliament Street, and the Royal Polytechnic Institution, London. STAFFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE CANAL NAVIGATION. T7S7E, the undersigned, being PROPRIETORS of V V SHARES in the STAFFORDSHIRE AND WOR- CESTERSHIRE CANAL NAVIGATION, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of PROPRIETORS in the said CANAL NAVIGATION will be held at the House of Mr. Thomas Smith, the SWAN HOTEL, in WOLVERHAMPTON, in the County of Stafford, on SATURDAY, the Twenty- seventh day of June now instant, at the hour of Eleven in the Forenoon, for the purpose of ELECTING a COMMISSIONER, in the stead of Alexander Hordern, Esquire, one of the Commissioners appointed by an Act of Parliament passed in the fifth year of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled " An Act for improving the Navigation of the River Severn from the entrance Lock of the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal and from the entrance Lock of the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal, in the County of Gloucester, to Gladder or Whitehouse Brook, in the County of Worcester," and who has resigned his appointment of Com- missioner under the said Act. Given under our hands this first day of June, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty- six. WROTTESLEY. ROBT. EBBELS. WILLIAM TARRATT. J. A. HAYES. JOSH. TARRATT, JUNR. C. H. MOLINEUX. J. E. MOLINEUX. THOMAS EVANS. HENRY HILL. GEO. BRISCOE. THOMAS SAVAGE. WM. WARNER. JUNR. THOMAS PERRY THO. H. WARD. JOHN CORSER. WM. PARKE. EDWD. COOKE. WILLIAM WARD, R. EVANS. ABBERTON, SIX MILES FROM PERSIIORE, AND SEVEN FROM ALCESTER. Excellent HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, capital mahogany Secretary and Bookcase, Set of mahogany Dining Tables, mahogany Pedestal Sideboard, China, Glass, Set of mahogany Chairs, two Square Sofas, mahogany Four- post and other Bedsteads, with Chintz and Dimity Furnitures, excellent Feather Beds, Blan- kets, Counterpanes, Chests with, Drawers, Washing and Dressing Tables, Toilet Glasses, Scotch Floor, Stair, and Bed Room Carpets, capital Eight- day Clock, Casks, Tubs, and an infinity of Effects, at ABBERTON HA L L, in the Parish of ABBERTON, in the County of WORCESTER, late the Residence of SAMUEL SHELDON, ESQ.; TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY W. H1GGS, ON TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, the 23rd and 24th of JUNE, 1846, commencing at ten o'clock. Catalogues will be immediately prepared, and may be had at the Inns 111 the surrounding neighbourhood ; Angel, Pershore; Angel, Alcester; and of the Auctioneer, Worcester. BISHAMPTON, WORCESTERSHIRE. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY JOHN CHANDLER, CLate Drinkwater and Chandler,) At the house of Mr. J. Hamblyn, at Bishampton aforesaid, and known as the Bee Hive, on Thursday, the 2nd of July, 1846, precisely at three o'clock in the afternoon, in the following or such other Lots as shall be agreed upon, and subject to such conditions as shall be then and there pro- duced ; ' A1 TENEMENT, with the Offices, Garden, and Orchard therewith belonging, situate at BISHAMPTON aforesaid, in the occupation of Thomas Harding, at the Annual Rent of £ 9. Land- tax, 5s. 3d. per Annum. LOT 2.— All that FREEHOLD MESSUAGE or TENE- MENT, with Barn, Buildings, GARDEN, and ARABLE LAND, situate at Bishampton aforesaid, in the occupation of Mr. John Hamblyn, and known as the " BEE HIVE," and adjoining Lot L LOT 3.— A FREEHOLD COTTAGE and GARDEN, situate at Bishampton aforesaid, in the occupation of William Ainge, at the Annual Rent of £ 3. Land- tax, Is. 9</. per Annum. LOT 4.— All that valuable Piece of ORCHARDING, situate at Bishampton aforesaid, adjoining Lot 3, in the occu- pation of the said John Hamblyn. The Rent of this and Lot 2 is £ 21 per Annum. Land- tax on Lots 2 and 4, 10s. 8d. per year, which will be fairly apportioned. The above Property is very desirable for occupation or in- vestment. For particulars apply to Messrs. Chandler and Badham, Solicitors, Tewkesbury; or the Auctioneer, Pershore or Eckington. LUDLOW RACES, 18 46, WEDNESDAY THURSDAY, the 1 st &> 2ndJULY. VISCOUNT CLIVE, M. P., STEWARD. FIRST DAY. rpHE LUDLOW STAKES ( Handicapped) of 15 L Sovereigns each, 10 forfeit, and 5 only if declared on or before the 1st of June, with 30 added, given by J. Ackers, Esq., one of the Members for the Borough. Once round and a distance, being about a Mile and a Half. Three to accept or no race. The weights to be declared on the 15th of May. A Winner of a Handicap after the declaration of weights to carry 51b. extra, if £ 100 value. st. lb. Lord Clive nas. gr. h, Jack Cade, 5 yrs 8 7 Mr. B. Collett's b. m. Vitula, 6 yrs 8 4 Mr. Copeland's Arthur, 4 yrs 8 2 Mr. Bristow's Carissima, 4 yrs 8 2 Mr. T. Parr's ch. g. Dulcet, 4 yrs 8 0 Mr. E. Medlicott's ch. g. Redstreak, 4 yrs 7 13 Mr. Ackers nas. b. c. General Nott, 4 yrs 7 9 Mr. Hallifax nas. c. g. Jolly Beggar, by Firman, out of the Sailor's dam, 5 yrs 7 6 Mr. F. L. Charlton nas. Sweetbriar, ( h. b.) 3 yrs.... 6 7 Mr. T. A. Ball's b. f. by Elis, out of Tesane, 3 yrs. 6 3 The following pay Five Sovereigns each :— Reindeer, Princess Royal, Coeur de Lion, John Goldham, Elimea. A MAIDEN PLATE of 50 Sovereigns, given by Beriah Botfield, Esq., one of the Members for the Borough, for Horses that have never won more than £ 50 before the day of entrance ; three years old, 7st. 51b.; four, 8st. 51b.; five, 8st. 91b. ; six and aged, 8st. 121b. Horses that have ever won £ 50 to carry 71b. extra. Mares and Geldings allowed 31b. Ileats, the Ludlow Stakes Course. THE OAKLEY PARK STAKES of 10 Sovereigns each, with £ 25 added, given by the Hon. R. H. Clive, for Half- bred Hunters; three years old, 9st. 71b.; four, lOst. 121b.; five, list. 71b.; six, list.. 121b.: and aged, 12st. Maiden Horses allowed 41b. Mares and Gelding 31b. Heats, the Ludlow Stakes Course. A Winner in 1840 of £ 50 or more before the day of running, once, to carry 31b., twice, 71b. extra. To close on the 1st of June. Jockey Riders. Certificates of not being thorough. bred to be produced to the satisfaction of the Steward. Earl of Powis nas. Sweetbriar, 3 yrs. Lord Clive nas. ch. g. Shipmate, 6 yrs. Mr. Botfield nas. b. m. Kitty Wee, 4 yrs. HIr. Ackers nas. b. g. St. David, by Firman, out of Nell, by Wamba, 3 yrs. Mr. Phillips's br. g. Tally- ho, 5 yrs. SECOND DAY. A GOLD CUP ( to be paid in specie) by subscription of 10 Sovereigns each, with £ 20 given from the Fund ; three years old, 6st. 91b.; four, 8st. 31b.; five, 8st. 131b.; six and aged, 9st. 31b. Mares and Geldings allowed 31b. Twice round, starting at the Winning Chair. To close on the 1st of June. A Winner of one Cup, Plate, or Stake of £ 100 value to carry 31b.; two Cups, Plates,. or Stakes, 71b. extra. Persons taking a nomination in this race Mid starting to pay 2 Sovereigns each entrance, to go to the secohd Horse. Three to start or the public money will be withheld. Earl of Powis nas. Arthur, 4 yrs. Mr. Botfield nas. c. g. Sailor, aged. Lord Clive nas. gr. h. Jack Cade, 5 yrs. Mr. Ackers nas. br. f. Little Fan, by Advance, or Tamvvorth, out of Fat Jack's dam, 3 yrs. Mr. Thompson's ch. f. Hope, 4 yrs. A SWEEPSTAKES of 15 Sovereigns each, 10 forfeit, with 30 Sovereigns given from the Fund, for two- year- old Colts, fist. 41b.; and Fillies, 8st. 21b. T. Y. C., being about half a mile and 200 yards. Mr. E. Peele's br. f. Tweed. Lord Caledon's gr. f. by Simoom, out of Pergame. Mr. P. Foster's b. f. Julia, by Jereed, dam by Priam or Zinganee, out of Tranby's dam. THE BOROUGH STAKES of 5 Sovereigns each, with i? 20 added, given by J. Ackers, Esq., one of the Members for the Borough ; three years old, 8st. 101b. ; four, lOst. 5lb. ; five, lOst. 101b.; six and aged, list. Mares and Geldings allowed 31b; Half- bred 71b. The Winner to be sold for £ 200; if for £• 150, allowed 71b.; if for £ 100, 141b.; if for £ 50, 211b.; if claimed in the usual way. Ileats, once round, starting at the Winning Chair. Mr. Botfield. Mr. Ackers. SOUTH SHROPSHIRE STAKES ( Handicapped) of 10 Sovereigns each, 5 forfeit, and 3 only if declared on or before the 1st of June, with £ 20 added, given by the Members for the Southern Division of the County. The second Horse to save his Stake. Tiie weights to be declared on the 15th of May. Three to accept or no race. The Winner of the Ludlow Stakes to carry 71b. extra. Heats, once round and a distance. st. lb. Mr. T. Parr's gr. h. Jack Cade, 5 yrs 8 12 Mr. E. Herbert's ch. g. Shipmate, by Jack Tar, ( h. b.) 0 yrs » 0 Mr. T. A. Ball's c. Reindeer, 4 yrs 7 10 Mr. T. Parr's ch. g. Dulcet, 4 yrs 7 12 Mr. Davies's b. m. Kitty Wee, ( h. b.) 4 yrs 7 4 The following pay Three Sovereigns each :— Vitula, Blaster Downes, Elimea. The Money added to the different Stakes will in each case be withheld if walked over for. The Horses for the Maiden Plate and Borough Stakes to be entered, and the Colours of the Riders particularly described for every Race, at the Feathers Inn, on the Monday preceding the Races, between the hours of Four and Six o'Clock in the afternoon. Jockies or Trainers not naming their Colours, or afterwards altering them, to forfeit Half- a- Guinea, to go to the Race Fund. Rules and Regulations as usual; see Racing Calendar No. 3. No Person will be allowed to erect Booths or Standings on the ground, or to bring Waggons or Carts for the sale ot Liquors or Refreshments before first paying to the Clerk, or whom he may appoint, the usual Subscriptions. The Horses to stand at houses of Subscribers of One Guinea to the Race Fund, and to be Plated by a Smith who Subscribes Half- a- Guinea, or not entitled to Plates or Stakes though a Winner. By order of the Committee, P. VVAYN, Clerk of the Races. *,* ORDINARIES AS USUAL. WORCESTER TURNPIKE TRUST. UPTON DISTRICT. PERSONS willing to CONTRACT to LOWER a HILL, called HAIL BANK, on the Road leading through Hatfield, in the Parish of Norton- juxta- Kempsey, may see the Section and Specification of the Work ( the length of which will be about 400 yards,) at the Offices of Messrs. rlydes and Tymbs, Solicitors, Worcester. Tenders, under seal, are requested to be sent ( free of postage) addressed for The Trustees of the Worcester Turnpike Roads" at the Offices of the said Messrs. Hydes and Tymbs, on or before the 30th day of June instant. The Trustees will not be bound to accept the lowest. Tender, or to make any compensation to Persons whose Tenders are rejected. By order of the Trustees, J. B, HYDE, Clerk- Worcester, 10th June, 1840= 1 THE WORCESTERSHIRE GUARDIAN, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1846. STOCKS.— Al 2 o'cl. | Bank Stock ' 3 per Cent. Red Ann. 3 per Cent Cons Cuns. for Account.... 3J per Cent. 1818 3 per Cent. Red j New 3J per Cent 3 per Cent. 1820 .| bank - Long Ann j India Stock | India Bonds Excheq. Bills FIU. | 95 J | SAT. MOX. 95 J 2005 951 WED, TTIUltS 951 95J 95J 951 951 951 95J 96 i 97 97 97 9G| 10J 1UJ 101 101 101 101 20 p 16 P 20 P 11 P 17 p 20 P 11 P 21 l' It r 1G P FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 19, 1846. LAST WORDS OF LORD RUSSEL ON THII SCAPKOLO. " 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 helving hand to U." A pamphlet entitled " Plain Facts intimately connected with the intended Repeal of the Corn Laics, and its probable effects on the Revenue and Prosperity of this Country '," has just been published by Mr. MURRAY. Its author is Mr. John GLADSTONE, father of the present Secretary of State for the Colonies, and a man who, as it has been aptly said, was cradled in commerce, nursed in its arms, and taught in its school. The views and opinions of such a man, based upon facts accumulated by the experience and observation of a whole life, must be at the least as valuable as those which Sir Robert PEEL has formed within the last few months; and we find Mr. GLADSTONE utterly condemning the doctrines laid down by the League, and by means of which that honest body has succeeded in leading the Premier by the nose. As a contemporary says, when we see such men as Mr. GLADSTONE and Lord ASHBURTON, whose opinions have been matured in the great commercial schools of Liverpool and London, who speak, not of things they expect, but of those which they know— who point to the experience of the past, and the realities of the present, not to the dreams and shadows of a future which rest upon presumptuous theories and sordid self- interests— when, we say, the opinions of such men are disregarded in order that those of the COBDENS, the BRIGHTS, and the THOMPSONS may prevail ; or even the less worthy, because less sincere and less maturely weighed, opinions of converted Cabinet Ministers, and subservient apostates, we seem to behold the ominous beginning of a change whose end will be the downfall of our glory as a nation. The ultimate decline of every State, if carefully traced to its source, will be found to have had its origin first in the decay of national honour arising from the political profligacy of the rulers, and secondly in the influence which bold, daring, unquiet spirits had succeeded in attaining by means of this political profligacy, and which thev could preserve only bv adapting all the institutions of the country to their own unstable principles of government. We now invite attention to an extract from Mr. GLADSTONE'S pamphlet, showing the probable eff'tct of the League- Peel measure :— " It was wise and expedient to admit cotton and other articles of raw material, necessarily required for the supply of our manufacture, free of duty, for which they are dependent either 011 foreign growers, or those of our colonies and possessions, as our climate does not admit of their cultivation ; but surely these circumstances can have no bearing on the facts, that we possess the power of producing, within our own resources, all the food necessary to supply the consumption of the people, ivhich is the only safe and certain source o f safety on which dependence can be placed, and therefore, in the experience of wise and prudent precaution, requiring special protection, there are very few things we do possess that might not. under circumstances of pressing necessity, be dispensed with, but to which food is an exception, and therefore the duty of every good and efficient Government has ever been considered to be to secure, as far as they possess the power, a safe and certain supply ; but whilst keeping that in view it certainly ought not to be made subject to taxation for objects of revenue alone, whilst necessary to be so for the pur- pose of protection to home grown corn, 011 which the supply of food must mainly, and while susceptible of it, wholly depend. In this country our great resources for raising revenue from taxes are unavoidably on articles of consumption, in contributing to which more or less a power of choice is given to the consumers, who, at the same time, contribute to uphold the foreign trade, commerce, and navigation of the country, which could neither be derived from, nor supported by direct taxation alone, which many advocate; and therefore much the greater part of our revenue is derived from duties on general consumption, but from which, for most obvious reasons, corn requires to be ex- empted where revenue alone would be the object. For is it not clear that the more the pressure of direct taxation is increased on the possessors of real property, the more their means and resources for consumption will be diminished f — since they are the great consumers of foreign productions, which generally form the luxuries of life, and producing a large amount of revenue to the State, such as tea, wines, sugar, Sac. " If, then, without any regular market elsewhere, but de- pendent on such as was afforded in this country, in bad seasons and unproductive harvests, of which the foreign growers more or less availed themselves, they still raised surplus crops, which we must conclude, from their perseverance, remunerated them for their cost and labour, and thus, without stimulus or outward en- couragements, whilst they paid only very low prices for the supply of their home markets, they have nat only persevered under every possible disadvantage, but so late as the years 1838- 39- 40 and 41 they shipped and sent to the markets of the United King- dom about ten millions of quarters of wheat and flour, which was, in consequence of home deficiency, admitted at very moderate rates of duty, and for which we paid above twenty millions, chiefly in gold. With these facts before us, and in the face of disadvantages, where such results have arisen, may it not be fairly expected, notwithstanding the improvements made in cultivation here, the greater acreable production of our crops, and the evident disadvantages to which the labour of the foreigner is at present subject, that when we have opened and secured to him the supply of such an immense market as that which the United Kingdom affords, he will study to avail himself of it to the utmost, while we have means left to re- munerate in money for that bread for which we are about to place ourselves in a state of dependence upon him, possessing, as he does, soils at least equally productive, in many cases superior, great variety of climate, for the most part better a. nd filter for corn cultivation than ours, earlier harvests, with abund- ance^ f labour at very low rates, in most cases not amounting to one- half of those paid here, without tenantry to support, without heavy taxation to bear, without being accustomed to provide for those comforts so well known and possessed here, then will he not seek in addition and adopt all our improve- ments in thorough drainage, in subsoil ploughing, and in the use of improved manures where required, when we are to afford him the most ample inducements to do so ? He must be devoid of the ordinary sagacity and foresight that belongs to human nature, if he does not avail himself of the advantages we are about to relinquish, and thus to make a voluntary transfer of them to him ! " A great and hazardous experiment is about to be made, novel in its character, and without the support of experience to guide or direct it, embracing and extending over unbounded interests, and pregnant with results that may prove fatal in their consequences, and that in the judgment of many are considered to have been uncalled for, in so far that it could not be acted upon in time to make any provision against the deficiency of the potato crop, to meet which the only means we possessed were, in the admission of Indian corn, duty free, as a suitable subtitute forpotatos, which has been resorted to with good effect without disturbing the ordinary operation of the existing laws. " The progress the Bill has made in the Lords, and the sup- port it has received there, leads to the conclusion that it must be considered as having virtually passed, leaving no choice but to wait patiently for the results, whatever they may be, but it is to be hoped, also, with the determination to retrace our steps, should it hereafter appear to have become necessary to do so." To this we may add, from another source, an enumer- ation of the destructive consequences that will follow the proclamation of Free Trade, and the introduction of Foreign competition : — First.— The loss of the Canadas. Second.— The estrangement of the West India interest. Third.— The interruption by the United States and other Foreign Powers, especially Russia, of our advan- tageous commerce with China. Fourth.— The ruin of the small farmer, the embarrass- ment of the landowner, and the destitution of the operatives and agricultural labourers. Fifth.— The throwing out of cultivation whole tracts of land, of late years enclosed, and numerous farms, and rendering farming operations, scientific and expensive improvements, beyond the reach of tlie small farmer or capitalist, and too hazardous for the investment of large . capital. Sixth.— Demands or orders for our manufacturing fabrics, and staple commodities, will cease to be made or be remunerative or profitable, and will chiefly be confined to a few home purchasers. Foreigners of course will refuse to take our goods, but not our cash. Seventh.— Multitudes of the working classes, including operatives, farm and other servants, will be thrown out of employ, and will either be forced to emigrate, or to seek a workhouse as paupers, for commou subsistence. Eighth.— Foreign powers refusing as they have long done to reciprocate the same trading advantages, specified in our commercial tariffs, will deprive us and our Colonies of all remunerative returns of profit, and rob us of our gold. Ninth.— The long cherished wishes of the envious • enemies of old England, will be thus consummated by our ruling Statesmen !— the Phillippe L'Egalites of A. D. 1846. Let the motto therefore of the Protectionists to national industry be " No surrender, and GOD for us all." is almost certain that it cannot exist for another session, and therefore it behoves all electors to pay the most careful attention to the various forms and proceedings required under the present complicated system of registration imposed by the Reform Bill, to ensure the safety of the franchise to them. The first of these preliminaries is the issuing in counties, by the Clerks of the Peace, to the overseers of parishes of the existing register, with the forms for their use , and the delivery in boroughs, by the Town Clerks, of similar forms. This was done last week, when our paper contained an official notice from the Deputy Clerk of the Peace for this county to overseers, stating that the forms had been issued, and calling upon those who had not received them to intimate their non- receipt of them to that officer. The next conditions of the Reform Act requiring attention are, that 011 or bafore the 20th of July, £ 10 electors in boroughs must have paid all poor rates due up to the 6th of April last, for the twelve months previously; and that county electors not beforj registered, or who have changed their qualification or place of abode, must, on or before the said 20th of July, make a claim. And the penalty for neglecting these conditions, will be the loss of the franchise for a year; or, in this case, loss of a vote at the next general election. To THE ELECTORS OF ENGLAND.— We would wish, at this critical time, when a change of Government, and conse- quently thereupon a dissolution of Parliament, may be said to be near at hand, to call the serious attention of tlie Con- servative electors of the country, and of this city and county in particular, to the state of the register. Should we not have an immediate dissolution of the present Parliament, it HER MAJESTY AND THE COURT.—' The Queen and the infant Princess are convalescent. O11 Wednesday the ceremony of Churching the Queen was performed in the Private Chapel at Buckingham Palace by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. There were present only his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Dowager Lady Lyttel- ton, and the Master of the Household. Iler Majesty and Prince Albert afterwards took an airing in an open carriage and four, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal. It is understood that the names fixed upon for the Princess are " Helena Augusta Victoria;" and the sponsors will be their Royal High- nesses the Duchess of Orleans, the Duchess of Cam- bridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgli Strelitz. Her Majesty leaves Buckingham Palace for Osborne House, Isle o'f Wight, to- day ( Friday), for a sojourn of about three weeks, according to present arrange- ments. Her Majesty arrives at Gosport about five this evening. To- morrow ( Saturday) will be the ninth anni- versary of tlie accession of her Majesty to the British throne. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by the Marquis of Abercorn, Colonel Wylde, and Colonel Bouvcrie, went 011 Tuesday to lay the foundation stone of the Royal College of Chemistry, in Hanover- square. THE QUEEN DOWAGER.— Her Majesty the Queen Dowager left England, 011 a visit to Germany, 011 Tuesday. The Admiralty placed their steam- yacht, the Black Eagle, at the disposal of the Queen, to convey her Majesty from Ramsgate to Ostend. Her Majesty arrived at Ostein! 011 Tuesday evening, a few minutes before eight o'clock. She was received on landing by Sir Hamilton Seymour, G. C. ll , by Gen. Crockenberg, A. D. C. to the King of the Belgians, and the authorities of the town. A guard of honour was in attendance, and on her arrival salutes were fired by the packets belonging to the South Eastern and Continental Steam Company, General Steam Navigation, & c. Her Majesty appeared in excellent spirits. She arrived at Brussels 011 Wednesday. Lady Harriet Clive, accompanied by Mr. Clive and Miss M. Clive, has left town for a tour of the German spas. The Earl and Countess Somers and the Ladies Cocks, have returned to the family residence, 111 Grosvenor- place, from the Priory, Reigate, for the season. The Lord Bishop of Worcester has presented a dona- tion of £ 5 to the Coventry Industrial Home. Lord Lyttelton and' Lord Foley each gave dinner parties at their town mansions yesterday evening. ALARMING ILLNESS OK LORD WILLIAM RUSSELL.— We learn that the Duke of Bedford and Lord John Russell have received accounts from Genoa, announcing the serious illness of General Lord William Russell. But faint hopes are entertained of his recovery; the letters from his lordship's medical attendants having p'repared the members of lii3 family for the worst. REPRESENTATION OF LUDLOW.— We regret to have to announce that Mr. Ackers retires from the representa- tion of Ludlow at the next general election. The cause assigned in his address to the electors is iil health. We have much gratification in noticing that Mr. W. II. Curlier, son of T. G. Curlier, Esq., of Bevere, lias been elected to the first of the three vacant scholarships of Trinity College, Oxford. These are the most valuable scholarships of this University, and, being open to all England, are always severely contested" The number of candidates 011 the present occasion was I wentv- three, of whom, it will be seen, Mr. Curtler was at tlie head. " Mr. Curlier now holds the rank of head scholar of Rugby school ; he was for some years a pupil of the Rev. G. Hudson, of Henwick. J. Alcioit, Esq., has been elected Master of the Wor- cester Clothiers' Company, in the place of R. Yapp, Esq., who retires by rotation. TESTIMONIAL TO A CLERGYMAN.— WE have much pleasure in recording the following mark of respect which has just been paid to a clergyman who was recently con- nected with this diocese :— The parishioners of Southstoke, near Bath, on Monday week, presented, through the churchwardens, to their much esteemed Vicar, the Rev. Henry Blayds, a handsome silver salver ( which docs great credit to the well- known taste of Messrs. Payne, of Bath), bearing the following inscription : — I* RESENTED TO THE REVEREND HENRY BLAY1JS, M. A., VICAR OB SOUTHSTOKE, BY HIS GRATEFUL PARISHIONERS, IN TOKEN OF THEIR AFFECTIONATE ESTEEM AND REGARD, JUNE 1846. It may not be generally known to our readers that, by Mr. Blayds' exertions, and principally at his own expense, the parish church of Southstoke has, within the last year, been almost rebuilt, with the addition of a new aisle as large as the former church, which is chiefly devoted to free sittings, thus providing accommodation for two- thirds of the inhabitants. The whole has been done with a due regard to the proprieties of ecclesiastical architecture, and presents a most interesting example of a little country church. In acknowledgment of this, and of many other important benefits conferred upon his parish, the Vicar was requested to accept the testimonial above recorded. MALVERN ABBEY CHURCH.— This edifice, one of the most ancient and beautiful in the kingdom, has just been enriched by the erection of a window of stained glass, as a token of respect for Dr. Card, late vicar of the parish. The window which is large, contains three figures, repre- senting Faith, Hope, and Charity; and a very good effect is produced by the great brilliancy of the colours and the arched roof of the aisles. Malvern Church is surpassed by few churches in the kingdom in the beauty of its stained windows. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY'.— On Sunday last sermons were preached 111 St. Lawrence Church, Evesham, 011 behalf of the Church Missionary Society, by the Rev. R. L. G. Blenkinsop, M. A. A public meeting was also held at the Townhall 011 the evening of Monday. Liberal collections were made after each of the services and the meeting. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a general meeting on Wednesday. There were present the Bishops of London, Durham, Winchester, Bangor, Bath and Wells, Chester, Gloucester and Bristol, Worcester, Hereford, Lichfield, Oxford, Rochester, and Salisbury; the Earl of Devon, the Earl of Chichester, the Right Hon. H. Hobhouse, and the Right Hon. J. Nicholl. TENBURY NATIONAL SCHOOLS.— On Sunday last a sermon was preached in St. Mary's Church, by the Rev. C. Bradnev, M. A., from St. John's Gospel, for the benefit of the Tenbury National Schools, and a handsome collection was afterwards made. BIRDPORT CHAPEL— ANNIVERSARY.— On Tuesday evening, about 250 members of the Countess of Hunting- don's Chapel, in Birdport, had a tea party at the school room, that day being the anniversary of the Rev. Mr. Hewlings undertaking the charge of the congregation, and it was therefore thought a fitting period to introduce the subject of a proposed liquidation of the debt upon the chapel. The llev. Mr. Hewlings presided over the meeting which was held after tea, when it was stated that a sum of £ 1,000 would place the managers of the chapel free of responsibility. Towards that sum it appears a lady of the congregation has offered £ 100, and further sums have been promised to the amount of £ 500. MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS AT TEWKESBURY.— Mr. Alderman Healing has been elected mayor, in lieu of Mr. Gregory, resigned. Mr. William Freeman, lace manufacturer, and Mr. William Knight, druggist, have been elected town councillors, in lieu of Mr. Gregory and Mr. George Goold, resigned ; and Mr. George Watson has been elected an alderman, in lieu of Mr. Packer, resigned. THE THEATRE.— It is intended to open our Theatre during the approaching race week. The Wolverhampton Order of Odd Fellows of this city intend making an excursion down the river to Croomo 011 Mouday next. THE WEATHER.— We still continue to feel as if under tile influence of an Indian sun, having hardly seen a cloud in tile sky for the last fortnight. Sol has certainly had of late a a glorious time of it, as Punch observes, amusing himself by melting a large quantity of butter, making a lot of hay, and performing other feats, some of them exceedingly useful, but others merely fantastical. Towards the middle of the day he seems dreadfully disposed for a broil, but he generally gets quietly off to bed at his usual hour without doing any serious mischief. The hay harvest has been proceeding rapidly during the week, and will be secured in excellent condition. The weather too is seasonable for the wheal crop, which flourishes the more on account of the great heat and dryness, and will form heavy graiu instead of running to straw. Single ears have been gathered for more than a fortnight, and whole fields are now in ear— some in our immediate neighbourhood pre- senting a truly splendid sight— which is earlier than we remem- ber it to have been for some years. Even in Lancashire the wheat harvest will begin in July, if the present weather should continue. Our hop plantations are recovering from the effects of the blight, but the fruit will be generally a very light crop. Cider and perry have already advanced in price. We find, that so great is the heat that the workmen at the forges and rolling mills in the neighbourhood of Dudley mines and works have been under the necessity ol desisting from work. MAD DOGS.— The town authorities of Birmingham have issued a caution to the inhabitants not to permit their dogs to wander at large in the streets from this time to the 1st September, under pain of a £ 5 penalty. Wo are glad to see that similar salutary measures are being adopted by our civic authorities. All dogs found about the streets without owners ought to be destroyed. We would suggest, however, that our fellow- citizens should follow the precau- tion now generally adopted in London, aud place at their doors small vessels of water, of which any dogs that happen to be at large may partake. This would almost invariably prevent hydrophobia, and, in the words of the trite proverb, prevention is better than cure. THE GAS QUESTION.— The New Gas Company's Bill is now before the House of Lords, having been passed by the Commons 011 Friday night last. We find that the Com- pany have inserted in their bill the promised clause limiting the price of gas to 6s. per 1000 cubic feet. The Severn fisheries are also duly protected; and although there was a clause originally in the act sufficiently general to have prevented the nuisance, yet the river will be especially protected by a specific clause—" That the Company shall not convey their washings" into her waters. In short, in everything the new Company appear to have kept good faith with the city.— A meeting of the proprietors of the Old Company was held this morning at the Gas Works, H. B. Tymbs, Esq., in the chair. There were also present, W. Lewis, E. Evans, W. Dent, J. P. Siieppard, J. Palmer, and R. Hill, Esqrs., and Messrs, Whiting, Wall, and Weston. The business of the meeting was commenced by Mr. Jones, the manager of the works, reading a report of the proceedings of the committee appointed to watch the progress of the bill and the proceedings of the New Company connected therewith. It merely recapitulated the business transacted before the Committee of the House of Commons, which has already been reported in the Guardian. Mr. Tymbs read the advertisement convening the meeting, and made a few observations relative to the negociations which were effected when the bill was before the Parliamentary Committee. He concluded by saying that the warmest thanks of the citizens were due to Gen. Lygon, J. Bailey, Esq., and Sir Thomas Wilde, who each expressed a most anxious desire that the question should be satisfactorily adjusted 011 the most equitable terms. Mr. Thomas Hyde read several clauses in the new bill, the 32nd clause of which provided that the Old Company, if they thought lit, should give a notice to the New Company, within three months of the passing of this act, of their willingness to dispose of the present Works, the terms to be decided by two arbitrators, one from each Company ; in case they failed, the matter was to be referred to Mr. Wilson Patten, M. P. for Lancashire. The other clauses noticed by Mr. Hyde had reference to the modes of pay- ment, & c. Mr. Hyde observed that it was perfectly optional on the part of the Old Company to give the required notice. He then directed the attention of the meeting to the draft of an agreement which had been drawn up by the New Conipauy since the passing of the bill. It was for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisons of the bill; and there were one or two points at issue with respect to certain specifications therein. One clause provided that the purchase money should be paid by four instalments, at intervals of six months ; and that those instalments should not in any way prejudice any objection which might be raised by the New Company to the title of the Old ; and with respect thereto the agreement specified that a title should be proved by the Old Company to the satisfaction of the New. To these provisoes the Committee of the Old Company had objected, and their amendments were, first, that the New Company on paying their first instalment should provide good and sufficient sureties for the payment of the remainder, and be let into immediate possession. Secondly, that the New Company should be satisfied with the present title of the Old Company, and that the latter should not be required to prove any other. These recommendations were unanimously adopted by the meet- ing, and their approval was also giveti to the bill as passed by the House of Commons. I11 case this agreement is not agreed to by the New Company, they will fall back upon the provisions of the bill, which enforces the purchase of the property, if the Old Company gives the required notices, the amount of purchase to be paid at one time. I11 the course of the conversation which ensued, it was stated that the Works of the Old Company were so complete, that an outlay of something less than £ 1,000 would place the Com- pany in a position to supply the city with gas in an efficient manner, even supposing the population were to increase one half. NEW GAS BURNER— A gas burner of a novel and ingenious construction was exhibited at the Society of Arts at their last meeting. The principal feature of novelty is the introduction of a stream of air into the centre of the flame by means of a hollow button in the middle of the burner. The air, passing up through the hollow stem of the button, is heated and passes out by two series of lire holes arouud the periphery, and impinging with more force 011 the flame of the gas. curves it outward in the shape of a tuiip, while the oxygen of the air, mingling with the carburetted hydrogen gas, produces a very perfect combustion. The flame produced is quite white down to the top of the burner, aud is very steady, as was amply demonstrated by the excellent ligiit in the theatre of the institution, where these burners have been used for some time. It was stated that in comparing the consumption of these burners with that of the concentric ring burner, and trying the power of the two lights with the photometer, the new burner gave a better light, with the saving of rather more than one- third of the gas consumed. WATERLOO DAY.— Yesterday being the anniversary of the glorious and ever- memorable victory of Waterloo, the bells of the parish churches in this city rang merry peals throughout the day, in honour of the brilliant achievements of British arms 011 that eventful occasion. The small body of pensioners resident in this city— now yearly diminishing in numbers— had their usual social gathering. They attended divine service al St. Clement's in the morning, and afterwards paraded the streets, headed by a capital band of music, whose inspiring strains 110 doubt reminded the gallant veterans of their younger days, and of the glories of the campaign of 1814. In the afternoon they dined with their friends at the Swah- with- two- Necks, in New- street, where they " fought their battles o'er again," and in the words of poor Dibdin — The memory of their former lives O'er flowing cans of Hip renewed." THE WATERLOO BANQUF. T took place yesterday at the resi- dence of " the Duke"— Apsley Home. Prince Albert was present, and as the veterans of Waterloo arrived they were greeted with hearty cheers by the populace assembled in the street. Amongst those gallant men assembled on this occasion were the Marquis of Anglesey, Major General the Hon. E. P. Lygon, Colonel 13th Dragoons, Colonel Lord Sandys, and Colonel George Bowles. The company sat down to dinner punctually at half- past seven, and it is needless to remark, the sumptuous fare of the noble and gallant duke's table afforded every possible luxury that arl and wealth could obtain. After dinner the health of the Queen was given by the Duke of Wellington, and Prince Albert gave the health of the Duke, who again rose and gave " Prince Albert." The Marquis of Anglesey acknowledged the toast of " the Cavalry at Water- loo." Allusions were made in the course of the evening to the recent Indian victories, and the health of Viscount Hardinge was drunk. The party broke up at half- past leu. TESTIMONIAL TO A VETERAN FARMER.— A few days ago a gratifying presentation of plate took place at the market ordinary held at Mr. Atkins's, of the Lion Inn, High Street, in this city, to Mr. Thomas Bullock, of Pirton Court. The plate consisted of a massive solid silver tankard beautifully chased in bas relief, with horses, cattle, and agricultural imple- ments ; and also a handsomely chased silver waiter. The tankard bore the following flattering inscription. " This tankard and waiter were presented to Mr. Thomas Bullock, by — of his neighbours and friends, as a tribute of respect. 26th May, 1846." The worthy gentleman who was the subject of this testimonial is in his 86th year, and has been a constant attendant at the Worcester Market for a period of 70 years, during which time he has invariably patronised the Lion Inn. The plate was subscribed for by nearly 200 of his neighbours and friends, as an indication of the high esteem they entertain to Mr. Bullock as a good old English farmer, and a worthy man. The work- manship and taste displayed in the design and execution of the plate reflect the highest credit upon Mr. Manning, of the Cross, from whose stock it was selected. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.— A Court was held on Wednesday for the hearing of insolvent debtors. John Pearcc and Sarah Peakiuan were ordered to be discharged on the 15th July next. A new Post Office has just been opened at Fladbury, in connection with the Pershore Office, which will be found a great accommodation to all parties in that district, com- prising Fiadbury, Moor, Throckmorton, & c., who have heretofore had to send letters to Pershore to be posted. DESERTION.— Late on Friday night a porter from the railway office went to Mr. Shaw's, the Lamp Tavern, Moor Street, taking with him an interesting little boy about four years of age, who had been forwarded from Bristol by the last train, and bringing with liiin a letter to the following effect:—" This child to be taken with this letter to Mr. Shaw's, Lamp' Tavern, Moor Street, Worcester." O11 inquiries being made there it appeared that the child belonged to a man named Meredith, who is accompanying Mr. Henglei's troop of equestrians, and who left* with them last week. The letter was from the child's mother, who represented herself in great distress, with three children, of whom the hero of the present notice was the senior, and she had been compelled to adopt the unpleasant course of send- ing the lad after his unnatural parent in consequence of the latter neglecting to forward her 5s. per week accord- ing to promise; aud at the same time she intimated that unless he fulfilled his engagement punctually, she would forward the second child by a similar conveyance in a day or two, and should be compelled to throw the third upon the parish. The letter was very genteelly dictated, and the behaviour of the little boy showed that some care had been taken in his education. From the answers which were elicited from him it would seem that his mother resided in Tabernacle- street, Bristol, and " washed;" and Mr. Shaw refusing to take the boy in, Mr. Wall, of the Tything, who happened to be present, seeing that the child would be left houseless, kindly took him under his care, lodged him for the night, and 011 the following day wrote to Mr. Hengleron the subject, but receiving 110 answer he has since procured an order for the child's admission to the Union Workhouse, where he now remains. The Union authorities will of course examine into the affair. THE CHOLERA— Some of the Bath and Bristol papers as well as Miss Martineau, think it not improbable that England may again be visited this summer with the direful disease of cholera, and they ground their apprehensions upon the fact that with that mysterious but undeviating and regular progress which is the striking peculiarity of the disease, it has gradually been advancing westward from the Asiatic continent, striding onwards in its course of desola- tion, as if by the guidance of some natural instinct, in a direct and unvarying line." We of course trust that the apprehension will turn out ill- founded, but still, as in the case of hydrophobia, the disease is of so appalling a charac- ter that no precaution for preventing its approach or its effects can be useless or unnecessary. The best antidotes to this direful visitation are personal cleanliness, sobriety, temperate habits, and good ventilation and sewerage. FATAL ACCIDENT.— Yesterday an inquest was held before Mr. Hughes on the body of a labourer named Walters, aged about 65, who was employed in rick- making in a field near Barbourne on Tuesday, when he fell from the rick and died almost immediately. It is supposed that the extreme heat, together with the deceased's age and the quantity of liquor necessarily drunk in such labour, altogether produced the sudden death. Mr. Walsh, surgeon, was called in, but it was of 110 avail. The jury found a I verdict of " Accidentally killed by a fall from a hay- rick." STEAM NAVIGATION BETWEEN WORCESTER AND GLOU- CESTER.— On the subject of the proposal for establishing steam navigation on the Severn we find the following in the Morning Post:—" A steamer, built some time since by Messrs. Dilch- burne and Mare, named the Propeller, has left Blackwall for Worcester. This neat little craft was purchased a few days since by Mr. James Wall, of the latter city, who is well known as a Severn carrier, for the purpose of plying between that place and Gloucester. The Propeller is of 70 tons burden, aud of small draught, and arrangements are already made so that regular daily voyages will be made between the two cities for the accommodation of passengers and the transit of goods. Most extensive improvements have been made in the river Severn, under the superintendence of Mr. Cubitt, the result of which is, that between Gloucester and Stourport ( a distance of 42 miles) a clear depth of six feet of water has been obtained. The ' silent highway ' of the Severn, like that of the Clyde, the Shannon, and other important communicating streams, will thus become available for the conveyance of traffic on an extended J scale. The introduction of steam navigation into the upper Severn will not only afford means for the more rapid transit of goods and a pleasing means of recreation for the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, but it will complete a link in the chain of steam conveyance by which a direct communication will be established between Worcester and Bristol and other important towns in the West of England." On the arrival of the vessel here ( which may be expected daily) we understand that the pro- prietor, Mr. Wall, will commence running her daily between Worcester and Gloucester, so that our fellow- citizens are in a fair way of a cheap water excursion during the summer season, which we feel assured will be hailed with much pleasure. SERIOUS GIG ACCIDENTS.— On Tuesday afternoon a very serious accident happened on the Spetchley Road, at a short distance on this side of the railway station. It appears, that Mr. James Webb, surveyor, of this city, and Mr. Cottnam, managing clerk to Mr. Elgie, solicitor, were proceeding from this city towards Campden 011 business; the horse, it is thought owing to the harness being too small, started off, and threw both the gentlemen into the road, and continued kicking and plunging with such violence as to break the vehicle in pieces. The gentlemen were found lying in the road in a state of insen- sibility, and covered in blood and dust, by Thomas Carter, black- smith. He forthwith had them conveyed to a place of safety, and as soon as possible medical assistance was sent for, and the two gentlemen were removed to their respective residences. It was found that Mr. Webb had received a severe cut over the eye, beside other injuries about the head and body. Mr. Coiinam is also confined to his room, but the injuries he received which are principally about the head, are not so severe as thosp of Mr. Webb ( who" has but just recovered from a protracted illness) although his face is much disfigured from the bruises. The horse, which has been recently purchased by Mr. Webb, is a very quiet one, but the harness is much too small for him. The vehicle was drawn violently over a bank, close to the black- smith's shop, and was found completely capsized, and, with the horse, lay bruised and smashed in the middle of the high- way.— A similar disastrous accident happened yesterday week, midway between this city and Tibberton. to Mr. Joseph Featherston, of the Old House Farm, Tibberton, and one of his daughters, Miss Elizabeth Featherston. It appears that Mr. Till, butcher, of this city, was going to Mr. Featherston's farm for some lambs, when he perceived Mr. Featherston's gig at the door of the Gun Tavern, and he pulled up and went to Mr. Featherston, who was in the house, and asked him about them, when the latter, in a joke, said they were sold, and that Mr. Till could not have them. Upon this he got into his gig r. nd drove off, and was soon followed by Mr. Till. On perceiving that Mr. Till was following, he ( Mr. Featherston) urged his horse to a greater speed, and the animal, it is thought, hearing the cart behind him, became unmanageable. At this juncture they met two carts belonging to Mr. Probert, of this city, and Mr. Featherston's gig poming in contact with one of them, the collision was frightful: the gig was much broken, and both Mr. aud Miss Featherston were thrown with great violence to the ground. Mr. Featherston was cut upon the head, and was bruised in various part of the body, but the injuries were not of a serious nature; it was not so however with his daughter, who, we regret to say, fell with her head upon a large stone which was lying in the road, and the blow inflicted a serious wound across her head from the forehead to the back, and nearly nine inches in length. She was p'aced in Mr. Till's cart and driven home, and Mr. Davis, surgeon, of this city, promptly attended. She is now in a fair way of recovery, though very seriously hurt. FATAL ACCIDENT.— An inquest was held at the Green Cottage, Evesham, on Friday last, before N. Lawrence, Esq., one of the coroners for the county of Hereford, on the body of Elizabeth Davis, who was killed by the falling in of a part of a stone quarry in which she was working, at Ward Hill, in the parish* of Bishop's Frooaie. A Verdict of " Accidental Death" was returned. SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION.— Oti Friday last the heat was so intense in the neigbourhood of Kingswinford that it ignited a quantity of sawdust in the wood- yard of Messrs. Gibbons, near the Oak Farm Works. The fire was speedily extinguished, and no damage was done to the propeity. SERIOUS CASE OE STABBING.— On Monday last a wheelwright of Droit with, named Thomas Morgan, was fully committed to our county gaol to take his trial at the next assizes, 011 a charge of stabbing Samuel Smith, a barber, residing in the same town. It appears that 011 the previous Thursday, Morgan came home in a state of intoxication, which leading to some words between him and his wife, he beat her in a most fearful and brutal manner. Her screams for help aroused some of the neigh- bours, who hastened to her aid, and at length the poor creature managed to effect her escape from her inhuman assailant, and took refuge in the house of a relative. Amongst those who came to her help was Smith, who, having remonstrated with Morgan 011 thus treating his wife, was struck by him ; a struggle ensued between them, during which Morgan pulled from his pocket a clasp- knife, the blade of which was about six inches in length, and inflicted a severe wound in Smith's left shoulder. He also stabbed him a second time under the shoulder blade, bury- ing his knife up to the handle in the flesh, and leaving it there ! The ruffian then made off, but was captured at the distance of a few fields by a man named Whitton, and was ultimately conveyed to the lock- up. The knife was with- drawn from the wound by the wounded man, and he was promptly attended by Mr. Kitsell, surgeon, under whose care he stiii remains, but is now pronounced out of danger. MORE DI ATIIS FROM DROWNING. — At Earl's Cioome, on Sunday last, about noon, as three labourers, William Jeynes, aged 27, Henry Coppice, 20, and Jame3 Day, in the employ of Mr. Horton, were bathing in the Severn, Coppice got out of his depth, and Jeynes went to assist him, but as neither of the three could swim, Jeynes and Coppice were drowned; their bodies were taken out about two hours after the accident. Jeynes has left a wife and two children. Mr. Hughes held an inquest on Monday evening, when the jury returned the following verdict:—" Accidentally drowned; but we are of opinion that owing to the late great change in the river Severn it is incumbent 011 the Commis- sioners to place boards or some other signals to caution the public against the danger of bathing in the river." OMNIBUS ACCIDENT.— An accident of a very serious nature occurred at Halesowen on Monday. As Gardner's Bewdley and Birmingham omnibus was proceeding on its way to Birmingham, on descending the declivity leading into Halesowen ( the drag having been previously affixed), one of the wheels suddenly broke, and the vehicle was instantly overturned. There was a large number of passengers both inside and outside at the time, and we regret to state that one of them, a farmer, residing near Cleobury Mortimer, received a fracture of his leg, besides being much bruised in other parts of his body. Several others of the passengers were also severely bruised. POOR- RATES, DUDLEY.— At the Dudley Petty Sessions 011 Monday, about 120 persons were summoned for the non- payment of poor- rates; they were all, with a few exceptions, ordered to pay in fourteen days. DUDLEY LOCK.- UP.— This building is now fast progressing towards completion. It is a building of enormous size, occupying nearly an acre of ground. EASTER DUES.— Certain of the inhabitants of Dudley having disputed the right of the Yicar of the parish to demand Easter dues 011 account of a considerable lapse of time since, the last demand in respect of their holdings, several of the defaulters have been summoned for payment. At the Dudley Petty Sessions, on Monday last, Samuel Hudson was charged with not paying the sum of 8d., the amount of an Easter offering, due. to the Rev. Dr. Browne, Vicar. Hudson did not appear, and the service of the summons having been proved, John Hill, the agent of Dr. Browne, proved calling upon the defendant personally for the amount, which he refused to pay, and had not paid since. William Willett, Mark Mullagany, William Whincle, and Thomas Morris, were each of them charged with a similar offence. They were all ordered to pay, with costs. Mr. Joseph Rann, an old inhabitant of Dudley, proved that it had been the custom to pay 8d. for Easter dues for the last sixty- two years. BEWDLEY MAGISTRATES' OFFICE.— At the Guildhall, Bewd- ley, 011 Mouday last, ( present the Mayor, G. Masefield, Esq., aud J. Cole, Esq ); Susan Blount, wife of Wm. Blount, basket- maker, was charged with assaulting Mrs. Ree, landlady of the Hop- pole, near that town, and also using abusive language. She was fined 5s., and 13s. expenses, or in default one month's imprisonment.— John Morgan, the younger, was summoned, charged with beating a boy named Smith. Fined Is. and 12s. expenses.— On Tuesday, two men, named Winwood aud Pitt, of Bewdley Forest, were charged before Slade Baker, Esq., with stealing birch from Sillygrove, the property of Mr. Jervis Slater. They were fined, including expenses, 19s. each, or in default of immediate payment to be committed for two months. STOURPOKT PETTY SESSIONS.— The following cases were heard on Tuesday last before Slade Baker, and Henry J. Winnington, Esqrs: — George Fereday was charged with stealing a pair of cotton cord trowsers, the property of Thos. Male, clothier. The case being very clear, the prisoner was committed to take his trial at the ensuing Sessions.— Mr. F. D. Wright summoned William Carter for neglecting his work; and this case also also being clearly proved, Carter was ordered to pay 10s. expenses, aud to return to his work.— Ann Rowley summoned Herbert Matthews for the support of his alleged illegitimate child; and his paternity being established, he was ordered to pay 2s. per week and all expenses. COMMITMENTS TO THE COUNTY GAOL.— By J. M. G. Cheek, Esq.: Richard Darnell, alias Henry Lee J'aget, charged with bigamy, at Evesham.— By J. T, Lawrence, Esq : Henry Leek, charged with rape on the person of Ann Hall.— By J. Merry, Esq.: William Bailey and Thomas Damon, charged with stealing " ducks at Yardley, the property of Benjamin Steadman.— By the Kev. G. it. Gray : Alary Hallibon, alias Mary Clarke, charged with stealing nap- kins anil butter, at i tanbury, the property of John Lee.— By T. G. Smith, VV. H. Ricketts, John Tolley, andG. Penrice, Esqrs., and the Itev. J. Topham : Thomas Morgan," charged witli cutting and wound- ing Samuel Smith, at Droitwich.— By VV. llobins and W. Trow, Esqrs. : Thomas Byder, charged with rape on the person of Maria Share.— By W. Boycot, Esq. : James Price, charged with stealing a basin, at Kidderminster, the property of John Edwards.— By J. Hancocks, Esq.: liichqrd l^ eston, charged with stealing money at VVolyerley, the property of William Kirby.— By W. Nieholls, Esq.: Thomas Cope, charged with stealing ducks at Kidderminster, the property ol Thomas Hair.— By the same ; George Bagnall, charged with stealing a shawl at Kidderminster, the property ot Josh. Juston. — By II. J. Winipngton and S. Baker, Esqis. : George Ferreday, charged with stealing a pair of trousers at Lower Mitlon, the property of Thomas Male.— By the Rev. E. Higgins, Thomas Masterson and Thomas Proverbs, charged with stealing lead at Mathon, the property of W. B. Cliffe.— By W. Bennitt, Esq.: James IFoodhall and Samuel IF tehouse, charged with stealing iron at Dudley, the property of the New British Iron Company.— By T. G. Smith, and W. H. Ricketts, Esqrs.: William Price, charged with assaulting a constable, Thomas Harris, at Droitwicb. FISHERY CASE.— On Monday last, at the Bromyard Petty Sessions, before J. Freeman, Esq. ( Chairman), and the llevs, W. 1'. Hopton and W. Cooke, Charles Weaver appeared in answer to a summons for having, 011 the 4th instant, trespassed by fishing with a rod and line in a mill- pond on the Buckwell Estate. Mr. Sutton, steward to R. B. Phillips, Esq., appeared to prove the right of Captain Hinde to the fishery, and Michael Griffiths, the keeper, to prove the identity. Mr- P. Bray appeared for the defence, aud took an objection to an informality in the summons. The case was therefore dismissed, and an order given for another summons to be granted, the case to be heard on Monday next. Mr. Wood, of Pershore, in this county, has been elected by the Commissioners of Duddeston and Nechells, Surveyor of those hamlets, in the room of Mr. Osborne, lately dis- missed. BURGLARY NEAR BROMYARD.— At the same Petty Sessions, Wm. Harris was brought up in custody, charged with having 011 the night of Sunday, the 7th instant, broken into the dwelling- house of Joseph Mole, of Ocle Pilchard, and stolen therefrom several articles of wearing apparel. It appeared that the prisoner had formerly lived as servant with Mole, and suspicions against him having been excited, the constable of the parish apprehended hitn, and found the clothes on his person. On being questioned, he said the clothes were his own, and that he purchased them of Stephen Brace, of Ocle Pitchard. The prosecutor having sworn to the clothes being his property, the prisoner was committed to take his trial at the next assizes for the county of Hereford. MALICIOUS DAMAGE.— On Saturday night last, the 13th instant, some evil- disposed persons broke into the garden of Mr. T. S. Cartwright, situate in Dog Lane, Bewdley, and stole thereout several cucumbers and unripe melons, and also maliciously damaged and destroyed a quantity of cucumber and melon plants. A reward of ten guineas has been offered for tho apprehension of the offenders, who, it is to be hoped, will not long escape detection. FIRE NEAR DROITWICH.— On the morning of Tuesday last, a fire was discovered to have broken out iu two ricks of hay in a field at Whitton, belonging to Charles Puin- frey, Esq., of Droitwich; the fire- engine was soon on the spot, but despite the active exertions of the men, the flames gained such an ascendancy that it was not until great damage had been done to both ricks that the fire was extin- guished. On enquiries being made it appeared that a number of young children had been seen at play near the rick, with some lucifer matches, and it is supposed that in their play they set fire to the rick. ROBBERY.— On Tuesday last a robbery was committed in the middle of the day by some fellows who entered the dwelling house of Mr. Thomas Smith, at Loxter Green, near Ledbury, ( gamekeeper to T. Haywood, Esq., of Hope End) and stole some eight or ten pounds weight of bacon, some bread, and a table cloth. Mrs. Smith, it seems, had gone to Lsdbury market, and had locked up the house, her husband being engaged in going his usual rounds 011 Mr. Haywood's estate. O11 their return home they discovered that an entrance had been made into the premises by a window in the upper floor, and that every drawer and box had been ransacked. The thieves, however, did not succeed in finding any money, which was no doubt the object of their search. No clue has yet been obtained to the thieves, but Mr. Haywood observed two suspicious looking characters in the neighbourhood in the course of the morning. COAL AT BUOUSGROVE LICKEY.— A newly established company, calling themselves the " Bromsgrove Mining Company," have, after boring at the Lickey Hills, arrived at a stratum of coal at the depth of from 10 to 12 feet only from the surface of the ground. FOREIGN MEATS AND FRUITS.— On Wednesday the warerooms of Messrs. Keeling and Hunt, the tariff brokers, in Monument- yard, contained an interesting exhibition of no less than 102 sorts of Spanish meats and fruits brought over by tfie Peninsular Steam Navigation Company's vessel, the Madrid, from Corunna. The meats also comprised nearly every variety of poultry preserved in its natural state, and in the made dishes of the country, with several kinds of vegetables, prepared in the most approved Spanish fashion. An interesting portion of the collection was that consisting of fruit, containing, in high condi- tion, strawberries, egg plums, and cherries, which are particu- larly interesting, as opening a new source of supply in the event, as anlicipated, of a deficiency in the coming crops. The speci- mens sent over are but as a sample of the productive capabilities of Spain, to test their applicability to English tastes and tables; and in case of a demand Spanish enterprise and capital are pre- pared to furnish them in any quantity. As another instance of the increasing extent of commercial speculation, on account of the diminution of the duties, there was also exhibited a large assortment of orchidaceous plants, consigned " lor sale from Rio Janeiro. THE VALUE OF LAND.— The Great Willenhall estate, in Warwickshire, with a rental of £ 1,500 ayear, was sold by Mr, Robins, at the Auction Mart, on Tuesday, for 48,100 guineas. Lord Craven is the purchaser. Mr. Jones Loyd and Mr. Mellor ( one of the tenants) were the highest of the unsuccessful competitors. This sum, il will be seen, is 33* years purchase. SELF- DEVOTION.— A very melancholy catastrophe occurred on Sunday last at a place called Ballyglass, in the neighbour- hood of Woodford. A man named Flanagan, tenant to the Hon. A. Nugent, who had been married only two months, accompanied his wile to their farm for the purpose of milking the cows. While she was thus employed, the husband went to bathe iu an adjoining river ; his cries soon attracted his wife's attention ; she ran to his assistance, plunged in, and in the struggle both perished.— Galway Vindicator. THE LATE CASE OF SHOOTING IN DUCKY- LANE.— At the Central Criminal Court, yesterday ( Thursday), John Graham, aged 1G, was placed at the bar, 011 an indictment charging him with feloniously killing and slaying Thomas Blewitt, iu Drury- lane, on the 25th of April last. The prisoner was also charged on the coroncr's inquisition with the same offence. The evidence, with which our readers are already acquainted, having been laid before the Court, Mr. Clarkson addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner. Mr. Baron Rolfe summed up the evidence, and pointed out the law relating to cases of manslaughter. His lordship said if the jury should be of opinion that the prisoner acted in a careless and reckless manner, and thereby caused death, they would find him guilty of manslaughter; but if they thought the discharge of the pistol was purely accidental, they would acquit him. The jury retired to consider their verdict at 10 minutes past 12 o'clock, and, after an absence of five hours, were sent for by Mr. Baron Rolfe, who explained the law; when the jury again considered for some minutes, and returned a verdict of " not guilty." The prisoner was immediately dis- charged. CITY MAGISTRATES' OFFICE, GUILDHALL, SATURDAY, JUNE 13. FELONY.— William Butler, remanded from the previous Wednesday, on a charge of stealing a bottle of Worcestershire Sauce from a hamper at the manufactory of Messrs. Lea and Perrins, druggists, of this city, was committed for trial at the Sessions. GARDEN ROBBERY— Thos. Chellingworth, alias " Chilly," and William and Joseph Vauyhan were brought up by police- man Grubb, who had apprehended them on suspicion of robbing a garden, situated near Diglis, belonging to Mr. Edwin Hundley. While in pursuit he observed Chellingworth in a field adjoining the coal wharf of Mr. Fleming, landlord of the Red Lion, Sidbury, carrying a quantity of coal in his arms ; and 011 Grubb attempting to take him, " Chilly" drew a knife and threatened to stab him. He struck at the officer once or twice, but Grubb ultimately succeeded in capturing him and gave him over to a brother officer, and then proceeded in search of the others, whom he also apprehended. In examining the field where he found Chellingworth, Grubb discovered about 7 cwt. of coal, which had been removed during the night from a stack belonging to Mr. Fleming. The whole of the prisoners were remanded until Wednesday, when Chellingworth was committed on the charge of stealing coal. Wm. Vaughan was sent to prison for one month's hard labour, in default of paying lid. damages, and a fine and costs amounting to £\. 5s. Od.; Joseph Vaughan was discharged. MONDAY. GAMBLING ON SUNDAY.— Edward P alien, a youth about 17 years of age, was convicted of gambling on Pitchcroft on Sunday, during the period of morning service. The lad gets his livelihood by acts of vagrancy, and having been once con- victed of a similar charge, he was sent to prison for one month, in default of paying a fine. ASSAULT.— William Sanders, shoemaker, was charged with assaulting Mrs. Hannah Vaughan, landlady of the Mason's Arms, Diglis Street, on Saturday week. The difference arose from some insult which the defendant imagined had been per- petrated by the complainant upon a friend of his, whereupon he vented his ire upon the unfortunate complainant. The assault was proved, and Sanders was ordered to pay a fine of JO. s. and costs, or fourteen days'imprisonment. Seven days were allowed him to pay it in. THIS DAY ( FRIDAY.) John Bevan, of Broad Street, baker, preferred a charge of assault against John Brourn, for beating his son, a little boy about eleven years old, and also for assaulting him ( Bevan) on remonstrating with him for so doing. The parties being neigh- bours were recommended by the Bench to settle their differ- ences amicably, which they did out of Court. EXCISE CASE— Mr. John Green, supervisor of excise for the Worcester district, applied for a warrant of distress against Charles Gov, postmaster, for the sum of £ 2. Is. Ud., being the amount of duties payable on horses let for hire. The defendant ( a flyman), did not appear, but a sufficient service of the sum- mons having been proved by leaving the same at the Duke of York public- house, in Angel Street, where he had a short time previously said he resided, the warrant was granted on proof of the amount being due. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS— William Owen, a butcher's lad, appeared to a summons charging him with wantonly and cruelly beating a sheep. The offence was clearly proved by Mr. Jennings, carpenter, of the Moors, who stated that as he was walking up the Tything, near St. Oswald's Chapel, on Tuesday last, saw the defendant endeavouring to get a sheep along by means of a cord fastened round its neck, that the sheep succeeded in getting loose, and the defendant then kicked it on the head in the most brutal manner, and on his remon- strating with him he only received abuse, and he continued to ill- treat the sheep in a similar manner for some time, knocking it down several times till it became exhausted. Mr. James Lee, Shambles, to whom the sheep belonged, proved that it was brought home by the defendant, and its jaws were then much swollen, its head bruised, and the animal quite exhausted. Fined 5s., and 10s. costs, or seven days' imprisonment. The money was paid by Mr. Lea. John Hargcst, of Station House notoriety, was brought up under a warrant charged with being a reputed thief and frequenting Birdport with intent to commit felony. It appears the prisoner had attempted to enter the dwelling house of Wm. Whitmarsh, in Birdport, 011 Tuesday morning last, but was disturbed. He was sentenced to 14 days' hard labour at the tread mill. gporttaq* WORCESTER V. STOURPORT.— The first game of a match between these two Clubs came off on Monday lust, on Hartlebury Common, the ground of the Stourport Club.' The weather was exceedingly line, liut perhaps somewhat too hot ( with the mercury at « 5° in the shade) for a pleasant engagement in field sports. The following is the score :— STOURPORT. • FIRST INNINGS. SECOND INNINGS Lea, b. Burnett 12 b. Bontley 20 Whittaker, b. Barnett 5 b. Sidebo'ttom IB llaralyn. c. Sidebottom, b. Bentiey 2 b. Bentley 4 Wheeldon, b. Bentley 0 b. Addenbrooke I Corke, b. Sidebottom 14 c. Sidebottom b. ditto 15 Talbot, b. Addenbrooke 11 b. Bentley 16 Niven, b. Bentley 28 b. Addenbrooke 12 Harris, leg before wk., b. Bentley 7 runout 13 Lamb, b. Curtler 8 c. Sidebottom, b. Bentley 14 Bird, not out 0 b. Bentley 0 Parsons, b. Bentley 0 not out 12 Byes 10 Byes 15 Wide balls 5 Wide balls .... 0 No ball I ~ 103 ~ U4 Umpire— Mr. Roby. WORCESTER. FIRST INNINGS. SECOND INNINGS. Addenbrooke, b. Wheeldon 5 not out I Bentley, c. Whittaker, b. Wheeldon 23 b. Harris 17 Rowlands, b. Wheeldon I Baker, b. Harris 4 b. Wheeldon 6 G. Sheppard, b. Whittaker 12 b. Harris 1 Curtler, o. Gorke 6 Sidebottom, c. Wheeldon 0 Barnett, c. Wheeldon 24 F. Maiden, b. Whittaker ... 0 b. Wheeldon 1 A. Maklen, c. Wheeldon, b. Whittaker 2 b. Whteldon 2 Foxton, not out . „ 1 Byes 2 Wide balls 3 No balls 2 85 Umpire— Mr. H. J. Maiden. An excellent repast was served up in a tent erected for the occasion, and reflected much credit upon Mr. and Mrs. Fielders for the admirable manner in which it was laid out. The batting on both sides was remarkably good, and the play generally was considered tirst- rate. The return match will, we understand, be played upon Pitchcroft, in about a month. PERSIIORE AND ELMLEY CASTLE.— A match was recently played between these clubs in which the former won by seven runs, having only had one inning, while their antagonists had had two. LEDBURY:.— A match was played on Friday last between two elevens of the Ledbury club, married v. single, which was ( after a well- contested game) " won by the latter. The following is the result of eaeh innings : — Single— First innings .... 29 | Married— First innings 71 Second ditto 87 Second ditto 27 - 115 | — 98 Majority in favour of single, 18. WORCESTERSHIRE AND HEREFORDSHIRE.— To- day ( Friday) a friendly game Is being played upon Widemarsh Common, near Hereford, by gentlemen of Ledbury and this city, previously to the making up of a match between the select elevens of Herefordshire aud Worcestershire. CORN AVERAGES.— General average prices of British com for the week ended June 13, 1846, made up lrom the Retains of the Inspectors in tho different cities and towns in England aud Wales per imperial qr.— Price: Wheat, 5^ s Od ; Duty, 18s Od ; barley, 27s Id, 9s Od ; oats, 23s 8d, 5s Od; rye, 32j 4d, 9s ( id ; beans, 33s 8d, 7s Od ; peas, 31s 9d, 8s Gd. WORCESTER HAY MARKET, JUNE 13.— The sup- plies of hay and straw were short, the farmers being busy with the hay harvest. Hay, £ 3 to £ 3 3s.; straw, £ 1. 12s, 6J. to £ 2. BIRMINGHAM HAY MARKET, JUNE 16.— Hajr, £ 3. I5s. to £ i 0s per ton ; straw, from £ 2. 2s. Gd. to £ 2. 7s. Gd. per ton. BRISTOL MAY MARKET, JUNE 13.— Hay, £ 2. 7s. 6d. to £ 3. 7s. Gd. per ton ; straw, Is. to Is. 2d. per dozen ; vetches. Is. SMITHFIELD, HAY MARKET, JUNE 16.— Meadow Hay i' 3 to £ 1; Clover ditto, £ 4 8s to £ 5 15s; oat straw, £ 1 10s to £ 1 I2s; wheat straw, £ 1 12s to £ 1 14s per load. Trade dull, at but litte alteration in prices. OXFORD SUMMER CIRCUIT, 1840. Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal, Knight, Lord Chief Jus- tice of the Court of Common Pleas, and Mr. Justice Maule, the Judges appointed to proceed on this Circuit, have fixed the days for holding the Assizes in and for the several counties com- prised in this Circuit, as follows :— Berkshire— Thursday, July 9, at Abingdon. Oxfordshire— Saturday, July 11, at Oxford. Worcestershire— Friday, July 17, at Worcester. City of Worcester— Same day, at the Guildhall, Worcester. Staffordshire— Thursday, July 23, at the Castle, Stafford. Shropshire— Wednesday, July 29, at Shrewsbury. Herefordshire— Saturday, August 1, at Hereford. Monmouthshire— Wednesday, August 5, at Monmouth. Gloucestershire— Saturday, August 8, at Gloucester. City of Gloucester— Same day, at the Guildhallj Gloucester. - BIRTHS. June 2, at Canon Froome Court, the lady of Charles Guy Trafford, Esq., of a daughter, still born. June S, in St. George's Square, the wife of Philip Richardson Peck, Esq , of a daughter. June 12, at Mugmore House, Minchinharnpton, the lady of the Rev. George Williams, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. June 8, at Eastham Church, by the Rev. Charles Turner, Rector, Mr. S. J. Green, of Orleton, accountant and farmer, to Elizabeth, third daughter of Mr. Mapp, of Hill Top, Knigliton- upon- Teme, and niece to Mr. Mills, of Rock, in this county. June 9, at Walcot Church, Bath, the Rev. Wm. What ley. Rector of Toddington, Gloucestershire, to Mary, third daughter of the late Rev. John Sikes Sawbridge, Rector of Welford, Berks. June 9, at Adbaston, by the Rev. J. H. Bright, Joseph Nickson Hadlasn, Esq., of Market Drayton, to Fanny, youngest daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Arkinstall, of Knighton, Staffordshire. June 11, at. the Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton, by the Rev. Wm. Taylor, M. A., Henry Charles Taylor, Esq., of the Hayes, near Stone, to Catherine, only daughter of Smith Muehall, Esq., of Newbridge Crescent, near Wolverhampton. June 11, at St. George's, Hanover Square, Lieut.- Colonel Lothian Sheffield Dickson, to Henrietta, youngest daughter of the lace Wm. Richardson, Esq., of Leathcrhead and Wilioughby House, Cheltenham. June 11, at Oldswinford, by tho Rev C. II. Crauford, the Rev. Nathaniel Meers, of Cradley, in this county, to Lucy, second daughter of Samuel Hodgson, Esq., of the former place. June 11, at Claines, by the Rev. — Phillips, Mr. Henry Merrefield, eldest son of Mr. William Merrefield, of Franche, near Kidderminster, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr. Prosser. of the Talbot Hotel, Ledbury. June 13, at St. Mary's Church, Cheltenham, Mr. William Lewis, to Miss Amelia Hale, of that town. June 16, at Neivland Church, by the Rev. Harcourt Aldham,. Commander W. Cornvvallis Aldham, R. N., to Elizabeth Cathe- rine. younger daughter of the late John Pearson, Esq., solicitor,, of Nottingham. June 16, at Redditch Chapel, by the Rev. G. F. Fessey, Mr. William Field, son of Mr. Thomas Field, to Harriet, eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas Baylis, all of Redditch. Lately, at Redditch, Mr. Joseph Hill, jun., of the Forge, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Mr. William Shrimpton, needle manufacturer of Redditch. At Claines, C. E. Beauchamp, Esq., to Charlotte, youngest daughter of the late Mr. J. Tomlinson, of Elmley Lovett. ~ DEATHS. April 15, at Mangalore, in the East Indies, aged 21, Lieut. II. Hickman, 34th Madras Light Infantry, youngest son of R! Hickman, Esq,, Oldswinford, in this county. June 7, at Thorpe Terrace, Norwich, deeply regretted, Emma, the beloved wife of Mr. Jame3 Middleton, and niece of Mr. Cripps, of this city. June 10, aged 44. after a long illness, much regretted, Mr. John Westbury, butcher, of Tewkesbury. June 10, aged 32, Mr. B. Oakley, warfinger, of Bristol, and eldest sou of Mrs. Oakley, of Gloucester, respected by his friends, and deeply regretted by his family and relatives. June 11, at Brompton, of consumption, a^ ed 25, Charlotte, sixth daughter of Charles Richard Cameron," Rector of Swalyl Lincolnshire, and late of Snedshill, Salop. June 12, at his residence, at Barbourne, universally respected, in the 75th year of his age John Pearkes Lavender, Esq., banker, of this city. June 13, in her 78th year, Mrs. Hannah Veal, relict of Mr. Thomas Veal, of Leigh Sinton. June 13, of consumption, near Stourbridge, Lucy, the beloved wife of Mr. Joseph Nicholls, late of the Fountain City Road. June 13, in the 56th year of hi's age, Mr, Henry Clements, schoolmaster, Friar Street. His premature decease will long be deplored by his family and friends. June 13, at Belle Vue, near Shrewsbury, Mrs. Lane, daughter of the late Sir Charlton Leighton, Bart., of Loton Park, Salop, aged 90. June 15, at his residence, after a few days' illness, Samuel Sturge, of Yate, near Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire. June 16, in the London Road, Mr. Andrew Lowe, aged 42. June 17, at the house ot his son, Mr. Jsaac Arrowsmith, schoolmaster, of Lavvley Street, Birmingham, in his 79th year. SECOND EDITION. Saturday Morning, June 20. STOCKS.— Bank Stock, 206* ; 3 per Cent. Red., 95 ; 3 per Cent. Con., — New 3J per Cent., 97J ; Cons, for Opening 95J ; Long Annuities, 10$; India Stock,—; India Bonds, — : £ 10011 Excheq. Bills, 18. PARLIAMENT, FRIDAY— The House of Lords assem- bled at five o'clock, when messengers from the Commons brought up several railway and other bills, which were laid on the table. The Insolvent Debtors' Act Amendment Bill was read a third time and passed. The Earl of Powis presented a large number of petitions, including one from the Diocese ol" Worcester, against the union of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor. Lord Brougham laid on the table a bill, giving n remedy to creditors against insolvent and bankrupt debtors. Earl Fitzwilliam presented a petition from the Rev. Mr. Gor- don, the vicar of a place in the county of Oxford, praying for an increase in the number of Bishops, that they " may be relieved from their onerous duties in their Lordships' House, and also that their incomes may be reduced. A conversation arose on the subject, and their Lordships were left sitting. In the House of Commons, reports on the Dudley Canal and Birmingham Canal Companies' Amalgamation Bill, and the London and Birmingham Railway and Birmingham Canal Arrangements Bill, were brought up and ordered to lie on the table. On the order of the day being moved for resuming the adjourned debate on the Protection of Life ( Ireland) Bill, Sir R. Peel rose, pursuant to notice, and entered into a statement relating to accusations made against him in respect of trans actions alleged to have taken place in the years 1825, 1827, and 1829, respecting the relief of the Roman Catholics, and on the withholding and mutilating papers, & c. The Right Hon. Bart, was left addressing a most crowded House, a great number of Peers occupying the seats behind the chair of the Sergeant- at- Arms. CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY.— The supply of English wheat short, arid steadily supported the improvement of Monday. The Belgium markets repoit large arrivals, and further advance is checked; there were, however, a few buyers for shipment to that country. Egyptian beans in bond and afloat Is. dearer, and other grain held for advanced rates; The arrivals of foreign oates are increasing, but the supplies only trifling from our own coast and Ireland. Free oats continue to be taken in retail at fully the improvement noted on Monday, but there- exists among the buyers a feeling that prices will retrograde when the present stock in bond is releasednext week. SMITHFIELO, FRIDAY.— The supply more than adequate to the Hants of tho buyers, and trade ruled dull. Beef, 2s. 4d. to 3s. lOd.; Mutton, 3s.* 2d. to 4s. 4d.; Lamb, 5s. to Gs. 2d.; Veal, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 8d.; Pork, os. 8d. to 4s. lOd. BANKRUPTS. Anselm Colton Fowler, Louth, draper, William Everett, Drury- lane, builder. Joseph ' Ihorley, Newman- street, cabinet- maker. Thomas Rice Hart, Leabridge, Essex, victualler. Edward Sewell, Old Bond- street, batter, llenry Morris, South Lambeth, New> rond, stone mason. Thomas Court, North- street, Brighton, boot and shoemaker. Joseph Wilcox, Little Bell- alley, Moorgate- skeet, City, tail ® r„ Joseph Blackburn, Gomersal, Yorkshire, cloth- manufacturer. William M'Intosh, Kingston- upon- Huil, spirit- merchant. Matthew liobson, Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire, coal- merchant. George Shprthouse, Newport, Monmouthshire, merchant. Charles Ball, Lane- End, and Cheadle, Staffordshire, linen draper0 John Lead, Wellington, Salop, innkeeper. John Smith, Stratford- upon- Avon, Warwickshire, grocer, Robert Pattinson, Exeter, grocei. Robert Stanford Perrptt, Exeter, grocer. William Rolfe, Manchester music seller. Johu Potter, Manchester, portable weighing machine maker George Luujdey, Wigan, Lancashire, eotto- u manufacturer; Johu Hughes, Liverpool, provision dealer. jW\ ya » ' d, Jones, Liyerpgo', ironmonger,, 20, 184 6. THE THREE VOICES. Ye glas. se was at my lippe, Clear spirit sparkling was ; I was about to sippe, When a voice came from ye glasse— " And would'st thou have a ruddy nose ? A blotched face and vacant eye ? A shaky frame that feebly goes ? A form and figure alle awry ? A body rackt with rheumy paine? A burnt- up stomach, fevered braine ? A muddie mind that cannot thinke ? Then drinke, drinke, drinke ! Thus spoko the voyce, and fledde, Nor any more did say ; But I thought on what it saide, And threw ye glasse away. Ye pipe was in my mouthe, Ye first cloude o'er me broke ; 1 was to blow another, When a voice came from ye smoke. Come, this must be a lioax— Then I'll snuffe, if I may not smoke; But a voyce came from ye boxe, And thus these voyces spoke— " And would'st thou have a swimmie hedde, A smokie breathe and blackened toothe ? And would'st thou have thy freshness fade, And wrinkle up thy leafe of youth ? Woulds't thou have thy voice to lose its tone, Thy heavenly note, a bagpipe's drone? If thou would'st thy health's channels choke, Then smoke, smoke, smoke ! The pipes of thy sweet musick stuffe, Then snuffe, snuffe, snuffe !" Thus spoke, and fledde they both, Glasse, pipe, boxe, in a day, To lose them I was lothe, Yet I threw them all awaye. O, would we be all health, all lightnesse, Alle youth, alle sweetness, freshnesse, brightness, Seeing through everything, With minds like ye crystal springe, O, would we be just right enough— Not drinke— not smoke— not snuffe; Then would our forward course To ye right be as naturall And it is, withouten force, For stones downward to fall. r~ Jervoid's Magazine. VARIETIES. MATRIMONY.— Woman should be so educated as to consider that happiness can be equally attained in married or single life, and that no union but the most perfect one is at all desirable. Matrimony should be considered as an incident in life, which to come at all, must come without any contrivance. Where there is a fair chance of every woman being married who wishes it, the more things are left to their natural course the better. When girls are brought up to be good daughters and sisters, to consider the development of their own intel- lectual and moral natures in the great business of life, and to view matrimony as a good, often when it comes unsought, and marked by such a fitness of things inward and outward, as shows it to be one of the appointments of God, they will fully enjoy their years of single life, free from the anxiety of about being established, and will generally be the first sought in marriage by the wise and good of the other sex. While those who are brought up to think the great business of life is to get married, and who spend their lives in plans and manoeuvres to bring- it about, are the very women who remain single, or what is worse, make unhappy matches. FORENSIC JEST.— One day Dunning ( whose exterior graces were by no means commensurate with his personal vanity,") had been cross- examining a young woman at considerable length upon the age of a person with whom she professed herself well acquainted, he asked her, " How old now do you take me to be?" and was considerably dumbfounded by her promptly replying, to the universal laughter of a crowded court, " From your appearance, sixty, from your question, sixteen !" A PUZZLER Sir Robert Peel was puzzled by the Pro- tectionists, when asked what the price of wheat would be when the new Corn Bill came into operation. But this question, though puzzling, was far less difficult than the following : — Sir Joseph Radcliffe, a few days ago, in looking over the works on the Church Fenton and Harrogate Railway, near Follyfoot, and casting a mechanical eye down a shaft that was being formed, observed to the workmen employed that it was not circular. One of the men, evidently not pleased with the remark, called out from the bottom of the shaft at the top of his voice, " I say, maister, can you tell me how many square yards of reek will make a bushel of soot ?" SAVINGS' BANKS.— An interesting document lias just been officially published indicating the average amount of money belonging to depositors in the Savings' Banks. We extract the following :— Worcestershire, 321.; Berks, 2VI. ; Cheshire, 36/.; Derbyshire, 31/.; Devonshire, 29I.; Glouces- tershire, 32/. ; Hampshire, 31/.; Herefordshire, 25/.; Mon mouthshire, 24/.; Northamptonshire, 28/.; Oxfordshire, 27/.; Shropshire, 33/. ; Staffordshire, 29/. ; Warwickshire, 22/. ; Wiltshire, 35/.; Yorkshire, 30/,; Cornwall, 38/. is the highest; and Warwickshire, 22/. is the lowest average. A PRESERVATIVE FOR MEAT IN HOT WEATHER.— The Magazine of Domestic Economy gives the following recipo for preserving meat in summer:—" First wipe the meat, gently and lightly with a clean cloth, then dust over every part with pure oaten meal. The meal imparts a sweet flavour to the meat. It must all be wiped away before the meat is put down either to be boiled or roasted. CURE FOR THE STING OF A BEE OR WASP.— A sim- ple remedy consists in the immediate application of liquor polassie to the spot to neutralize the acid of the sting. It should be used in small quantities on the point of a needle or line- nibbed pen, and poured into the wound. In the absence of this, pure liquid ammonia is said, on good authority, to succeed, if properly applied. Keep it in a close- stopped, small- necked bottle, which should be turned bottom upwards, and held very tight over the part. ' To CLEAN DECANTERS.— Rinse the bottles, and put a piece of lighted coarse brown paper into each; stop close, and when the smoke disappears wash the bottle clean. This will remove all stains, but if the decanters are very dirty this process should be repeated. A STRANGE PROVISION.— It has lately been decided by the Court of Amsterdam, that the law which obliges the State to provide for the seventh child in any family where the first six are living, is still in vigour; in consequence of which the State was condemned to pay to a man named lloogland, 250 florins per annum (£ 21), till his seventh child shall have reached the age of 18, or to provide for it till that time. This sentence was confirmed by the Court Royal of La Hague. NOVEL MODE OF INTERMENT.— Mr. T. Brookhouse, Roman cement manufacturer, of Derby, having died, was interred in All Saints' churchyard, on Tuesday week. A thick layer of cement was spread at the bottom of the grave just before the coffin was lowered ; the sides and ends were then filled, and another layer of the same material at the top completely hid the coffin from view, and rendered it air tight. Ere it hardened, which the cement did in a few minutes, to the consistency of the hardest stone, the deceased's name was traced in the yielding mass, so that, if at some future age, the deposit should be disturbed, the name of the occupier of the interior may be read. GRASS UNDER TREES.— By sowing nitrate of soda in small quantities in showery weather under trees, a most beautiful verdure will be obtained. I have used it under the beech trees in ray grounds, and the grass always looks green. Having succeeded so well on a small scale, I have now sown nitrate of soda amongst the long grass in the plantations, which the cattle could never eat. I now find, that the herbage is preferred to the other parts of the field which have been marled, and is very good pasture.— Gardener's Chronicle. EXTRAORDINARY ROSE TREE.— As a remarkable instance of rapid growth in a rose tree, there is at present growing in Sale, a tree bearing 8,000 roses of a rare kind. It was planted in May, 1841, being then a small slip seven inches long, without roots. It now measures 69 feet in width, and 38 feet in height. One branch grew 12 feet 6 inches last year, and is now covered with roses. It is the property of Mr. Wm. Alderley, of Sale, and may be seen by any person passing up the lane leading from Dr. White's Bridge. Manchester Guardian. AMERICAN ICE.— A vessel, called the Hannah Sprague has arrived in the St. Katharine's- dock, from Boston, United States, having a cargo consisting entirely of ice, and com- prising the large quantity of 600 tons of the article. Since the arrivals of ice which recently took place from Norway and other parts of the north of Europe, which have ceased from the time they were last noticed, this is the first importation of the article which has taken place from any foreign country, and it will, no doubt, if the present sultry weather should continue, be in very general request. A WELL- STOCKED LARDER.— Mr. Thomas Pearson, of Pool Bank, Crosthwaite, shot in Low Park, the other day, near Witherslack, a bustard hawk, or, as it is locally termed, a buzzard. In the nest of the voracious bird were found three rabbits, one hare, one pheasant, three mice, one rat, two hag worms, and a blackbird. Both worms had their heads off.— Kendal Mercury. CHEAP RAILWAY CONVEYANCE FOR LABOURERS.— The directors of the Eastern Counties Railway have offered to convey labourers a distance of five miles along their line for Id. each, night and morning. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.— On Tuesday, shortly after two o'clock, a message was received at the terminus of the Eastern Counties Railway at. Shoreditch, per electric telegraph, that a lady had her pocket picked in the refresh- ment- room at Cambridge, and the suspected party had just left by the up train for London. A full description having been transmitted by the same rapid mode of communication, officers were in readiness on the arrival of the train, and the alleged culprit was consigned to custody. A watch, with the initials E. A. B., and £ 2. 18s. in cash, were found on his person. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION BETWEEN FRANCE AND ENGLAND.— It was stated some time ago, that a sub- marine telegraph was to be laid down across the English channel, by which an instantaneous communication could be made from coast to coast. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, with a view of testing the practicability of this undertaking, have been pleased to approve of the projectors laying down a submarine telegraph across the harbour of Portsmouth from the house of the Admiral, in the dockyard, to the railway terminus at Gosport. By these means there will be a direct communication from London to the official residence of the Port Admiral, at Portsmouth, whereas at present the telegraph does not extend beyond the terminus at Gosport, the crossing of the harbour having been hitherto deemed an insurmountable obstacle. The submarine telegraph is to be laid down in the course of the en- suing week, and if the working of the plan is fouud to be success- ful, this mode of telegraphic communication will be adopted in preference to the more exposed one. The telegraph will be conveyed from the terminus to the water- side underground, and after crossing the harbour will again be conveyed in a similar manner to the Admiralty- house, it being a subterranean as well as a submarine telegraph. In a few days after the experimene lias been successfully tested at Portsmouth, the submarint telegraph will be laid down across the Straits of Dover, under the sanction of both the English and French Governments, HEREFORD MUSIC MEETING. We copy the following announcement from the Hereford Times:— " We are authorised to make an announcement which we are sure will give great pleasure to our readers. The hundred and twenty- third meeting of the three choirs will take place in our cathedral, the second week in September. The musical attractions will be of the highest order; the band superior to any ever heard in this city, led, as at the ensuing Birmingham festival, by Messrs. T. Cooke and Willy. The vocalists already engaged are, Miss Birch, the Misses Williams, Messrs. Hobbs, Machin, Phillips, and Lockey— the last named is a member of the choir of St. Paul's cathedral, and has given great satisfaction at the Philharmonic Concerts and at Exeter Hall during the present season; the Misses Williams have been recently honoured by her Majesty desiring their attend- ance at Buckingham Palace, and we look forward with some interest to hearing Miss Birch, as we understand she is much improved by her visit to Italy, where she was as great a favourite as in England. The selection of music will comprise many novelties; amongst them Spohr's Oratorio of ' the Fall of Babylon,' Mendelssohn's ' Walpurgis Night,' and ' Midsum- mer Night's Dream.' " The importance of this festival, as the principal means of support to the funds of a long established charity, is so well known that it is scarcely necessary for us to impress upon the inhabitants of the county and city, as well as the diocese at large, the necessity of using every exertion to secure an attend- ance creditable to their feelings and taste. The stewards are J. Bailey, jun., Esq., M. P., R. Pulsford, Esq., M. P., R. L. Child, Esq., the Ven. Archdeacon Vickers, and the Revds. Lane Freer, and Hassall." As we have ever been warm and sincere advocates of these musical celebrations, and of the valuable charity which they aid in supporting, we are glad to find that so much piogress has been made towards the completion of the arrangements for the coming meeting; still, however, if what we hear be true, there are some points in the management which might be reformed most advantageously. In the first place these festivals were, for nearly a century after their institution, what they are still called— meetings of the three choirs; but of late years their form and character has undergone a vast alteration. So far from the meetings being reunions of this kind, the members of the three choirs, without the slightest consideration, without the slightest distinction of their respective talents and acquirements, are unceremoniously thrust into the back- ground, and treated with less regard than the hacknied and effete chorus- singers of the London theatres. This is bad enough ; but will it be believed that efforts have been made upon more than one occasion — the present among the number— to exclude the members of the Cathedral Choirs altogether from engagements at these, which profess to be peculiarly their own meetings! These efforts have always hitherto failed, but that circumstance does not exculpate the parties by whom the illiberal attempts to which we refer have been made. We could easily point to the name of more than one choirman who is as deeply versed in and as intimately acquainted with the " divine science" both theore- tically and practically, as any person whatever who customarily takes share in these meetings; and that an attempt should be made to exclude such performers appears to us as absurd and impolitic, as it certainly is illiberal and unjust. Another point deserving of animadversion is similar in charac- ter, though inferior in degree, to that which we have just touched upon. We allude to the practice, which has been too prevalent, of constituting the choral body almost exclusively of London chorus- singers. This practice had its origin, we imagine, in an erroneous idea of the superior talents and accomplishments of the Londoners; and we have over and over again seen and heard it practically demonstrated that that idea ivas erroneous, most of the blurs which we have noticed as marring the ensemble of the choruses at these festivals having arisen among the " infalli- bles." But passing over this consideration, we maintain that the employment of a preponderating number of London voices is unjust, as withholding from native talent and native industry that encouragement to which they are entitled, while the existing system also considerably enlarges the expense of the festivals. To go no further than our own city, we have here a society numbering about 80 members, who are constantly and carefully tutored and rehearsed in the music of the greatest masters, modern aswellas ancient; theirvoicesalso are full, fresh, and vigorous; not attenuated and ground down to a disagreeable and piercing keen- ness by the constant habit of bawling in chorus at theatres; and if economy be the order of the day, we can venture to say that the engagement of these SO voices in place of an equal number of the London chorus would have saved the Hereford Stewards 1C0 guineas; and their efficiency would have been quite equal, if not superior, to that of the Londoners. A similar society, though not on so large a scale, exists at Gloucester; and to prove the efficiency of its members, as well as that of our own society, we need only recall to the recollection of our musical readers their performance in the chorus at our festival in August last. It appears to us that these societies, if compe- tent, have u kind of claim to engagements at the triennial meetings; and at all events it is neither wise, economical, ncr liberal, to reject them without a trial. We had some further remarks to offer in connection with this subject, but are compelled to postpone them for the present.—- Journal. WORCESTER COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MONDAY, JUNE 15. ( Before Mr. Sideboitovi, Judge.) OTTEY V. SUTLOW. This was an application by Mr. Cresswell, Solicitor, on the part of the plaintiff, for the committal of the defendant, who had neglected to pay an instalment of 3s. per week, ordered by the Court at a previous sitting. This being the first case of the land which had coine under the cognizance of this Court, the Judge and the Solicitor for the plaintiff had a discussion as to the evidence required by the Act, the Judge expressing an opinion that he ought to be satisfied of the present capability oTrTve defendant to pay the required sum weekly. Mr. Cress- well therefore called Mr. Ottey, the plaintiff, a dealer in marine stores, who stated that in a conversation he had had with the defendant on Saturday night last, he had boasted to him that he had spent 30/. in drink since Christmas. The defendant is a collector of bones and rags, and from the plaintiff's dealings with him last week he thought his profits would amount to 25s., out of which he had to support a wife and child. The amount of debt was 7/• 4s., and the arrears amounted to 12s. The defendant was liable to forty days' imprisonment for the default; but the Judge said, as it was the first case which had been heard, he should not impose the full period of imprisonment, but adjudge the defendant to twenty days' imprisonment, unless the arrears be sooner paid. This imprisonment does not exempt the defendant from his liability to pay the full amount of the debt. INCOME TAX.— IMPORTANT DECISION.— The Commis- sioners for general purposes, under the Property and Income Tax Act, for the Lower Ward of Lanarkshire, had under con- sideration, at their meeting on Thursday week, several appeals by persons against assessments for profits derived from buying and selling railway shares and scrip, when the Commissioners - unanimously refused the appeals, and con- firmed the assessments. STATE OF TRADE IN MANCHESTER.— The market to- day presented no new feature. The continued delay in the passing of the Corn Bill, and the near approach of Midsum- mer, when business is partially suspended for the purpose of stock- taking, both tend to limit business; and transactions, whether in goods or yarn, have been only to a moderate extent. Prices, however, are generally firm.— Manchester Guardian, Tuesday. SWINDON.— A musical establishment has been formed at the Swindon station of the Great Western Railway. It already comprises a band of wind instruments, performed by about 30 well- disciplined amateurs connected with the railway company. The company have presented the band with £ 100 for the purchase of musical instruments. There is also in formation a band of stringed instruments; and about 300 children are taught singing very satisfactorily by an assistant in the school. LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT.— On the evening of yesterday week, a youth, 17 years of age, the son of Mr. Edward Paish, lime- burner, of Cirencester, was employed with a younger brother in filling and kindling a lime- kiln, situated on the Gloucester- rood, about two miles from Cirencester, when, having lighted the fire, he incautiously descended into the kiln to spread abroad the lime, and sad to relate, was overcome by the mephitic gas, and almost immediately suffocated. The younger Paish was alarmed by hearing a gurgling noise, and looking into the kiln, saw his brother fall back insensible, but although he immediately descended, at the risk of his own life, was not strong enough to bear him from his awful situation ; and by the time that he could obtain assistance, nearly twenty minutes having elapsed, life was extinct. An inquest 1ms been held on the body before J. G. Ball, Esq., coroner, when the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death," and strongly reprehended the careless, but too common practice, of descending into the kiln after the fire is ignited. CRIME AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.— Recently in the Bristol Bankruptcy Court, J. W. Dunsford, surgeon, passed his last examination. This person was the defendant in an action for crim. con., brought by a gentleman with whose brother Dunsford was in partnership— each partner receiving about £ 1,500 a year from the business. The consequences of defendant's guilt convey a striking moral lesson. A verdict with £ 5,000 damages, is returned against him. He is obliged to relinquish his business, to part with all his effects, to forfeit his position in society and his brilliant prospects in life, and, ruined in pocket and reputation, to submit to a degrading examination into his pecuniary matters before the public. The partner of his guilt, after having been separated from her husband and her children, is legally divorced from the former, and left without a possibility of obtaining a home from her seducer, who ( to aggravate the fearful catalogue) is a married man. What accumulated misery and distress have thus resulted from a single crime! DESTRUCTION OF STRAY DOGS IN MANCHESTER.— In Manchester the orders of the Magistrates respecting the destruction of stray dogs are rigidly enforced. Formerly, after the issue of the proclamation, a man went about with a hatchet, with which he chopped to death such unfortunate animals as happened to be at large. The cruelty of this practice caused its discontinuance, and subsequently the man went about with a gun, and shot all dogs found straying. This turned out to be not only alarming but dangerous, and a more humane system was adopted. The dogs are picked up and taken to certain stations, their owners are summoned and fined. If the fine be not paid, the dog is killed. His mouth is forced open, about half a teaspoonful of prussic acid is placed upon his tongue, and in a few seconds he is dead. From 600 to 700 dogs are thus destroyed each year. A FEMALE GORED BY A COW.— On Wednesday week, during the fair, a poor old woman, aged 73, wife of John Simmonds, residing near the gas works, had been pursuing the usual avocation of milking the cows offered for sale— a privilege granted her for many years past by the farmers frequenting the fair; and on her way up Pridehill with a can of milk, an infuriated cow suddenly rushed at her, and upset the milk can. The cow then made a second attack, and tossed the poor old woman in the air, and on her alighting the cow inflicted a severe wound in her groin with her horn, which at first was deemed to be fatal, with other injuries. The animal was driven off, and the poor old woman conveyed to the infirmary, where the wound— three inches in length, was promptly dressed, and the patient is progressing favour- ably.—• Shropshire Conservative; TESTIMONIAL TO MR. ROWLAND HILL.— A public dinner was given on Wednesday at Lovegrove's West India Dock Tavern, Blackwall, to celebrate the presentation of a national testimonial to Mr. Rowland Hill for his services in suggesting and carrying into execution the system of uniform penny postage. In the absence of Sir G. Larpent, who was prevented from being present from domestic affliction, Mr. Warburton, M. P., occupied the chair, and did the honours of the evening. After the usual loyal toasts, letters of apology were read from Lord Ashburton, Lord Radnor, and several other noblemen and gentlemen of influence favourable to the cause of Post- office reform. The secretary also read the financial statement of the result of the subscriptions set on foot throughout the country for presenting to Mr. Rowland Hill a testimony of national gratitude. From that statement, it appeared that the subscriptions amounted in gross to upwards of £ 15,000; and that, deducting £ 2,000 for the expenses incurred, there remained for the benefit of Mr. Hill the amount of £ 13,000. The Chairman then gave the health of Mr. Rowland Hill, which was very warmly responded to by the highly respectable party of gentlemen present on the occasion. In acknowledging the toast, Mr. Hill expressed, in very suitable terms, his sense of the country's munificence towards him for his services. He entered into a minute history of his proposition, the manner of its reception, and the results which its partial adoption had realized. He con- tended from those results that had his scheme been fully adopted his calculations would have been borne out, and while abstaining from casting any aspersions on the present Government for depriving him of the opportunity which the originality of his suggestions merited, he expressed continued confidence in the future development of his plans. REPRESENTATION OF OXFORD.— We are happy to have it in our power to state, on the authority of Mr. Langston, M. P. for this city, that the vexatious suit into which his col- league, Mr. Maclean, had been plunged, and which led to anticipations of his possible resignation, is now decided in his favour. This is a matter for congratulation, but it is with very different feelings that we proceed to say that our respected repre- sentative was prevented from attending the sheriff's party on Thursday, through illness, which will compel him to try the effect of change of climate for a time. Mr. Langston gave this explanation of Mr. Maclean's absence which he much regretted. We are authorized, however, to state, that in the event of a dissolution, it is his firm determination again to offer himself as a candidate for the city.— Oxford Herald. BRITISH AND FOREIGN INSTITUTE.— At the last anniversary meeting of this society, an unanimous resolution was adopted for making it a proprietary body, to be held in shares among the members, at an interest of 5 per cent, per annum. The whole of these shares are now taken up, and means thus provided for paying off every liability, while the unincumbered property of the Institute is valued at £ 5,000, and its invested fund in the Bank of England £ 2,800, everything being paid for, and all belonging to the members who are proprietors. With this favourable change in its affairs, and the abatement of those prejudices which a mis- representation of its plan and objects had created, there is little doubt but that it will go on with increased success. EXTRAORDINARY ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENON.— On Sunday afternoon last a most remarkable pneumatic occur- rence astonished and alarmed a portion of the inhabitants of Greenheys. About thirteen minutes before six o'clock, a whirlwind of a violent character commenced in some open ground opposite an unfinished street, named Brook- street, at the top of Cambridge- street, between that and Boundary- lane. The shavings, dust, and other light materials, were hurled into the air, at first forming a column about 70 feet high; but afterwards, as the force seemed more intense, the pillar became at least 200 feet in height. The circle occupied by the wirlwind was not more than 40 yards in diameter, in its greatest extent. During its greatest fury, when pieces of wood, & c., were whirled into the air, the leaves of the trees within a distance of 20 yards were undisturbed. For a few minutes, its circle of action was stationary; the whirlwind then took a stately march due north, the vanes of weather- cocks in the immediate neighbourhood ( i. e. within 103 yards by measurement) pointiug at the time due west. Passing over the houses, the tiles were torn off some; window blinds from the windows of others: all received a storm of dust, shavings, paper, & c.; and tlio flowers in the gardens were torn up by the roots. The pillar of dust and violence pro- ceeded slowly onwards over the streets and houses till it came to Newcastle- street, the direction of which it took. The violence of the wind appeared gradually to abate, but was still of the same circumscribed character. It seemed to be lost at the north end of that street, the wind having in the mean time veered round to the south, in which direction it was blowing at half- past six. At seventeen minutes to seven the direction of the wind was S. W. by W., when there was some thunder; and at twelve minutes to seven, it was due west. The breeze then appeared to cease altogether, and some large drops of rain fell. At nine minutes past seven, a breeze suddenly sprung up again, and the weathercocks indicated that it was due north; in which direction it continued till after sunset, about which time, again noticing the vane, we were surprised to find another change had taken place, aud the current of air was N. E. by E. At half- past ten the wind was blowing due south again; This is perhaps the most remarkable variation of the winds which has occurred for many years in this country. The whirlwind itself, from its commencement in the Greenheys to its cessation in Newcastle- street, endured about 25 minutes, and caused very great alarm in the neighbourhood through which it passed. During the evening the thermometer indicated some rapid and curious chauges in the temperature. We have heard of one incident connected with this whirlwind, that caused no small con- sternation to a family in the neighbourhood. After some consultation as to the coolest place about the premises in which to take tea, it was decided that a flagged back yard should be the spot, and thither the husband carried a small table, and afterwards the tea- tray, with cups, saucers, & c. Into the yard suddenly descended the whirlwind, filling the cups and saucers with dust, and then in an instant down went the table, and there was a smash of crockery. Some boys who were playing in the open space of ground, across which the whirlwind took its course, were at first greatly diverted by their caps being suddenly snatchcd off their heads and carried upwards; but their diversion was soon transformed into alarm and consternation, for as the violence of the whirlwind increased, they were themselves thrown down upon the ground by the force of the wind, to their great amazement. No one was seriously hurt.— Manchester Guardian. MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK.— The Swedish sloop of war Carlscrona, bound from Havannali to Sweden, was caught in a squall off Matanzas, on the 4th of May, capsized, and went to the bottom, when 115 souls perished. The first lieutenant and 16 men saved themselves on spars and pieces of wood, and after buffeting the waves for one day and a night, were picked up by the bark Swan, and taken into New Orleans. The survivors were dreadfully blistered from being exposed in a state of nudity to a burning sun and the action of the salt water.— Montreal Courier. FATAL PRIZEFIGHT.— A prize fight came off on Friday evening, near Southampton, and terminated in the death of one of the combatants on the following evening. The fight originated in a low beer- shop, the resort of the worst class of " navvies," and the deceased was the challenging party. The amount of the stakes was about 30s., and it is said the surviving com- batant was unwillingly forced into an acceptance of the challenge by certain persons, some of whom have figured as principals in the prize ring, and by whom the money was subscribed for this fatal encounter. The fight took place a mile or two from the town, on the opposite side of the river Itchen ; and after a combat which lasted upwards of an hour and a half the deceased fell heavily, and became senseless. He was removed to bis lodgings in the town, where he died on Saturday. Deceased, whose name is Travers, was awfully bruised about the face and body, and was in a dreadful state. A jury was empanelled before the borough coroner, Mr. Cosewell, on Monday, when the medical gentleman who had attended the deceased was examined, and the inquiry was adjourned, the medical gentleman being ordered in the mean time to make a post mortem examination of the body. ANOTHER MAN KILLED IN A FIGHT.— At Burslem, on Saturday night, two men, named Woolhams aud Simpson, quar- relled in a beer- house, Burslem, over a game of dominos, and went into the street to fight. In the seventh round Woolhams fell violently upon his head, and died almost instantly. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of Manslaughter, and Sinipron is now in Stafford gaol. SENTENCE ON THE SELF- CONFESSED ROBBER AND MURDERER.— William Henry Norman, aged 26, described in the calendar as a labourer, was indicted at the Centeral Criminal Court, on Tuesday, for stealing gold and silver monies of the value of £ 50, the property of William Hoof, his master. Mr. Clarkson appeared for the prosecution. The prisoner on being arraigned pleaded guilty, and handed in a paper to the Bench, which was read by the Common Serjeant to the Court. It ran as follows:—" That your humble peti- tioner, in pleading guilty to the offence witli which he stands indicted, wishes the Court to take in consideration, that he was not a responsible agent at the lime of committing the act, and that in committing that and other crimes, he does but follow the path of destiny marked out for him. As, however, such crimes should not go unpunished, he begged to make three propositions to the Bench. The first was, that he ( the prisoner) should play the learned J udge a game at billiards, a hundred up the board. Secondly, that he should play him a game of draughts, best two out of three. Thirdly, he should play him either at chess or cricket; that if prisoner was the winner he was to be set free, and if on the contrary, he was content to be hanged by the neck on the following morning until he was dead." Whilst this extraordinary petition was being read, the prisoner kept grinning and staring about the Court in an apparently demented state. The Common Serjeant inquired of several of the officers, and also of Mr. Cope, the governor of Newgate, under whose surveillance the prisoner had been, whether there was any ground for thinking him insane? They all said decidedly not. Mr. Clarkson then went on to state to the Court the facts connected witZi the case, which, as they have been so fully and recently before the public, we give in as brief a form as possible. The prosecutor was a builder at Kensington, and prisoner a clerk in his employ. In the early part of the present year he was sent with the sum named in the indictment to make a pay- ment on behalf of his master, with which he absconded. He then addressed him a letter, stating that he was an illegitimate outcast in society, going into a detail of'robberies he had committed, and that he had taken part in several murders; and that on one occasion he had robbed the Custom- house in Calcutta, where lie had a situation as clerk. Several of the robberies he confessed to as having been committed in England were found to be true. Some time subsequeiit to the robbery on Mr. Hoof he was met in Liverpool by a gentle, man who knew him in the Custom- house in Calcutta, and he gave him in custody for the robbery committed there, and he was taken before the police authorities at Liverpool, who, having heard of the robbery committed on Mr. Hoof, at once sent him up to London, and the charge of robbing the Custom- house at Calcutta was abandoned, in consequence of the difficulties of gaining a conviction. The Common Serjeant sentenced him to seven years' transportation,' observing that if there was any ground for supposing Lim insane, there would be ample time to discover it before ha left Newgate; and then the sentence could be reversed.- ftlultum in parfco. The extensive sugar refinery of Messrs. Finrell and Son, at Counterslip, Bristol, was destroyed by fire on the morning of the 11th instant, and property to the amount of between £ 35,000 aud £ 40,000 destroyed. Persons cleansing glass bottles with shot should be most careful not to leave any of the shots iu the bottles, as the arsenic, which enters largely into their composition, is disengaged by wine, porter, or any acid. Government have it in contemplation to facilitate, in some degree, the conveyance of the wives of transported convicts, so as to enable them to join their husbands, under certain regulations and restrictions. A fire broke out at Altfeldt, in Hanover, on the 3rd instant, which was not got under till upwards of 200 houses were destroyed. In the Committee of the Oldham District Railway Bill, a manu- facturer of lucifer matches aud pill boxes states that he uses 600 tons of timber, and that he employs 300 persons on an average throughout the year. The Chepstow united Horticultural Society held its first meeting and exhibition for the year, yesterday se'nnight, within the ruins of Chepstow Castle. A fashionable company from the surrounding country assembled on the occasion. There are, it is said, no more than a score of surnames in all Wales. Their frquency puzzles even the natives of the principality, for in one regiment there are thirty privates of the name of Jones. The preservation of ancient footpaths for the enjoyment of the public is awakening general attention in the citips of the South and West of England, The great clock at the General Post- office, which regulates Post- office time throughout the- country, has just been cleansed and reno- vated. It has not varied one minute in eleven years. In a recent trial trip with one of the new and powerful engines constructed by the Great Western Railway Company at Swindon, a speed of seventy miles an hour was maintained. There were no less than 54 christenings at Preston parish church, on Whit- Sunday ; the largest number ever christened there in one day j A Paris paper says that Felicien David is about to be married to a rich and beautiful young Englishwoman who fell in love with the composer on merely hearing " theDesert," We are informed, that an effectual way to get rid of ants is to strew powdered chalk about their haunts. Park, an eminent sculptor iu London, has volunteered to carve a statue of a Highlander, 13 feet high, to be placed on the field of Culloden. In accordance with an official circular, issued from the Home- office, prison discipline and prison diet will henceforth be rigidly enforced with respect to debtors committed for bona fide frauds against creditors. The mechanics of Greenock are at present engaged in getting up a penny subscripton to give Sir R. Peel a mark of respect for his measures of free trade. The asplialte pavements in Manchester have melted with the heat of the sun, and the pedestrians have, in some instances, found diffi- culty in releasing their feet from the pitchy substance. Fine ripe cherries imported from Holland have been sold at Sunderland during the week at8d. per pound, and new potatoes from the south in great abundance at 4s. per peck. The average annual increase of attorneys exceeds 600. Mr. Cuthill, the florist of Camberwel!, has been very successful this season in the cultivation of strawberries. Many of his plants have borne him 100 to 150 strawberries, many weighing an ounce each, aud some of them five inches in circumference. The plant stands up like a little bush above the ground. The Secretary to the Hospital for consumption and diseases of the chest, has received a munificent donation of £ 500, the benevolent donor simply giving the signature " Stratford," Miss Wilkinson, a young lady just returned from Barbadoes, destroyed herself on Saturday, by swallowing about an ounce of the essential oil of almonds, which she had got her sister- in- law to purchase. The illness of a beloved sister is the only known cause of the act. On Sunday week, at 2 p. m., the thermometer in a gentleman's house at Clifton stood at 90 in the shade; there was an electrical cloud passing at the time, and when it had gone over, the mercury fell to84, and at ten o'clock the same night it was down to 65, a remarkable variation in so short a space of time. Such was the demand for lemonade at Manchester during the Whitsun- week, that lemons were sold at 6d. each. On Friday a lady fell to the ground, in Regent Street, London, from the effect of a sun- stroke. She was restored by medical aid. Lord Morpeth has consented to take the chair at the next annual soiree of the Manchester Athenaeum, in October. By the ancient laws of Hungary, a man convicted of bigamy was condemned to live with both wives in the same house. The crime was, in consequence, extremely rare. A steamer while upon a trial trip on the river at Greenock on Saturday week, ran against a pleasure boat, in which were two gentlemen, and cut her through as with a knife right to the keel, killing both the unfortunate gentlemen. A barbarous murder has been committed at Loughborough, by a man named Palett, who struck his wife at the back of the neck with a poker, and dislocated the vertebrse. A proposal has been made to perpetuate the memory of the late Mrs. Fry, by the erection of an institution for the reception and reformation of discharged prisoners, and is meeting with much favour. The Queen has become the patroness and subscribed 50 guineas in aid of the funds. Prince Albert is one of the patrons, and gives a subscription of £ 25. The King of Prussia has also become a con- tributor. An Irishman named Leary, has been committed at the Mansion- House, on a charge of dragging a pot companion, with whom he quarrelled, to a fire- place, and, turning the tap of a boiler, allowed the scalding water to pour upon him for about half a minute! The Medical Gazette in a recent number recommends that all chemists who sell arsenic should mix five grains of sulphate of iron and ten of ferrocvanide of potassium with every dram of arsenic. This combination has the effect of changing the colour of arsenic to red or blue, and warns persons of their danger. Miss Burdett Coutts has expressed her wish to the Bishop of Lou- don to fouud at her own expense two colonial bishoprics. Dr. Lardner is engaged in preparing a philosophical work to be called " Five Years in America." The origin of Lord Western's flock was a gift of forty ewes from his Majesty George the Third, and they were selected by his Lordship from 500 which had been sent by the Cortes of Spain to the King more than thirty years since. A young lady in Liverpool, the wife of a foreign gentleman, died last week, in consequence of a fall, from slipping on some orange peel on the causeway. Another female in the same place lias been prematurely delivered of astill- born child, from the same cause. The public ought to bo on their guard against forged £ 5 notes and counterfeit sovereigns, both of which are in circulation. Accounts from Leenwarden, in Holland, state that the potatoes iu that district appear to be infected with the same disease as last year. The Aberdeen Herald states, that daring a thunder- storm at Huntley, a person's watch was melted in his pocket by the lightning, without injury to the wearer ! A child's frock % vas set on fire last week in Stirling by the sun's rays, concentrated by a yoke in a skylight, and in a short time the flames burnt through the covering, blankets, and mattress of a bed whereon it was lying. A disease has lately attacked a large plantation of young fir trees near Cirencester. It is due to a plant, a fungus, which spreads by seed with great rapidity. Door and window heads, cornices, pillars, and other parts of build- ings, are now made of Welsh fire- clay at half the cost of stone. A man in Alexandria Louisiana, had been fasting thirty days, taking nothing but water, and that in small quantities. At the last accounts he evinced symptoms of approaching dissolution. No cause is assigned for this strange attempt at suicide. The Cherokee Indians have made an application to send their representatives to the American Congress. A disturbance has occurred at Penmaenmawr, between a number of Irish railway labourers and about 300 Welshmen, the latter of whom cleared the line of railway as far as Bangor. One of the Welsh ring- leaders was captured, and put in prison, but made his escape with the assistance of his fellows. The dispute arose from a feeling on the part of the Welsh, against the employment of so many Irish, when numbers of Welsh labourers were ready to work. A few days since, the clothes of a young woman, waiter at the Milford Junction Railway Station caught fire from a sparli which flew from an engine, and'she was burnt to death. On the evening of the 6th instant, a waggon laden with hay- makers and their implements, was upset at Wendover Dean, and threw six or seven of them upon their pitchforks and drag- rakes, from which they received such severe injuries as not to be able to resume their work ; one man had three of his ribs broken. The Cockney inundation caused such a scarcity of eatables at Gravesend on Sunday week, that bread was sold at double the ordinary price. On Thursday week a wherry was swamped, by the swell of the steamers, close to the Red House, Battersea. In the boat were a gentleman and two ladies, and they were all drowned. On Monday week a young woman of respectable connexions in Hull, named Jeffries, threw herself and her illegitimate child, about three weeks old, into the harbour of that place. She was rescued in an apparently lifeless state : the child was drowned. A woman, named Sloman, has been murdered at Shadwell, in a house where an illicit 3till was worked. She was found dead at the foot of the stairs, with several wounds on her head. It is expected she met her death from threatening to inform the excise. A man named Gibbins, with whom she lived, has been apprehended. The Monmouthshire Gas Company has reduced the price of gas 24s. percent., and have intimated their intention of compelling the use of meters by all their customers. The Malmesbury people are speculating on the prospect of bein<* able to obtain coal from the common there, and they are about taking the opinion of some eminent geologist on the point. An artful dodge was successfully practised at Ascot last week. A gentleman of Abingdon, arrived in a dusty state, and he was immedi- ately accosted by a host of clothes brushers. To get rid of them he consented to be brushed, and the operators eased him of a valuable watch. The Emperor of Austria has decided upon establishing an Academy of Sciences at Vienna. Three several days last week some persons laid pieces of wood and iron on portions of the Midland railroad at Collingham, by which considerable damage has been done to an engine, and the life of the driver endangered. " THE DERBY."— A jolly Boniface, residing not fifty miles from Boston, having heard mighty talk of the run for " the Derby," imbibed an irresistable desire to be an eye- witness of the much talked- of race. Accordingly, supposing that " the Derby" must be run for at Derby, to that famous town he wended his way, and on arriving, great was his chagrin at finding he had been going an Irish journey ! On enquiring for the race, he discovered what an egregious blunder he had committed.— Stamford Mercury. THE HARVEST IN IRELAND.— The tine weather continues, and the grain crops are rapidly advancing to maturity. The prospects are most cheering. Generally the reports of the potato crop are highly favourable, but the quantity sown is much less than usual in several counties. THE MARRYING ADVERTISER.— Joseph Mortimer, the pretended American merchant, has been committed to New gate for trial for two cases of fraud on Mrs. Loyer, and for marrying Mrs. Wright when he had a former wife, Mrs. Lang- liorn, alive. It appears the prisoner hastened the death of his first wife by his cruelty to her on board ship. MURDER IN LIVERPOOL.— A coroner's inquest was held on Wednesday, on view of the body of Catherine Wignall, a young woman about 25 years of age, who was murdered on Monday night last, in Gore Street, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, by her husband Richard Wignall. The husband, who is a joiner, is about 27 years of age, and bears a bad character in the neighbourhood for drunkenness and licentious habits. The death of the woman was almost instantaneous, and was perpetrated under circumstances which led the coroner to state to the jury, that a more revolting case had never come before liirn. The jury having heard the evidence, instantly returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder," and the prisoner was committed to Iurkdale gaol to abide his trial at the ensuing assizes. A STEAMER BLOWN UP AT NAPLES.— The fine steamer built in England, for the Count of Syracuse, blew up at Castellamere, on the night of the 30th ult. The Prince had that day made an excursion in her to the island of Capri, but had returned to Naples by the railroad. In the evening the crew amused themselves by letting oft' fireworks, a spark from which fell into the powder magazine, in which were about 250 pounds of powder. The persons on board were blown into the sea, and many of them were seriously injured, but they were all taken out alive. The windows along the shore to a considerable distance were broken. THE RUSSIAN TARIFF.— The Manchester Examiner says that the following changes . are contemplated in the Russian tariff:— The duty on earthenware, of a single colour, not gilded, and not having coloured patterns, and now paying 4d. and 9- 10d. per English pound weight, is to be reduced one- half. The better qualities of earthenware, now charged 12 § d. per English pound weight, are to be reduced in the same proportion. The duty on coffee, which is now, per cwt., 60 7 paper roubles, will also be reduced one- half. Tallow has been subjected to au export duty of about £ 2. 3s. 4d. per ton ; this duty is also to be reduced one- half. Cloths, black and green, silks of some kinds, and other articles, particulars of which are not yet known, will be reduced to the extent of 20 per cent. FEARFUL OCCURRENCE AT REDRUTH. — A dreadful accident occurred at Redruth on Monday last under very strange and peculiar circumstances. Hylton's travelling menagerie had arrived in the town that morning, and the evening's exhibition drew a great concourse of spectators, it is supposed numbering several thousands, of all ages and ranks of life; there were also great numbers outside. About 10 o'clock, whilst the crowd was greatest, some lads foolishly began teasing a blind hyena, a very savage brute ; the animal, much irritated by their treatment, commenced a fight with another hyena, ccnfined in the same cage. This aroused the lion, who soon lashed himself into a terrible mood, and roared most awfully. The spectators naturally became much terrified, when all at once a cry was raised that the lion had broken loose. The panic became awful and the confusion terrible. The most piercing screams were heard, and a simultaneous rush was made to the entrance. The pressure was tremendous; the old and feeble were thrown down and trampled on, and at length the side of the menagerie was burst open, and the spectators rushed in the wildest terror into the street. The panic was at once communicated to the crowd outside, and the cry raised on all sides, " The lion has broke loose." The people ran madly away, and rushed into private houses, up- stairs, and into all imaginable places, expecting the wild beasts were at their heels. The shrieks aud cries of murder were most piercing, and at one time it is supposed that 200 were lying on the ground. Many persons were trampled on, and picked up in a nearly lifeless state. The. surgeons of the town were at once called into requisition, and afforded most valuable assistance. A great many persons were very severely bruised, and were taken up almost insensible, their eyes suffused with blood, and several cases of fractured ribs and collar- bones are also reported. Happily no lives have been lost, although it can scarcely be said that all the sufferers are out of danger.— Western Times. THE POISONINGS IN NORFOLK.— The result of the protracted enquiries that have just terminated, has been the discovery of the following facts, though the full extent to which the poisoning practices were carried will probably never be known. The deceased Jonathan Balls had seven children, four daughters and three sons. Three daughters are married, and reside in the vicinity of Happisburgh. One died, as it appeared, partly in consequence of the ill- treatment of her husband, W. Laceys a fisherman, but who is now ascertained to have perished from the effects of arsenic. The names of the daughters now living are Green, Pestle, and Peggs. Mrs. Green has had eleven children, aud seven of them died suspiciously between 1836 and 1846. Mrs. Pestle had six children; four of them are dead; three were found to be poisoned. Mrs. Peggs had five children, one of whom died in 1839 under circumstances of great suspicion. The supposed murderer lived all his life iu the neighbourhood of Happis- burgh, and had always borne a bad character. During the last fifteen or twenty years he was principally dependent on his married daughters for subsistence; and the supposition is, that he poisoned his grand- cliildren, in order that their parents might be better able to support him. That he committed suicide, fearing his crimes would be detected, there is no doubt, for after having administered arsenic to the infant of Pestal, and finding the mother was going to have it examined, he became greatly excited, observing his death was near at hand, although he was in a better state of health than usual. In six hours afterwards he was a corpse. ATTEMPT BY A FATHER TO MURDER HIS CHILD.— John Sedgely, a journeyman comb- maker, was finally exam- ined on Tuesday, at the Lambeth Police Office, on a charge of attempting to murder his son, a boy of nine years of age. It appeared that on the night of Saturday week, the prisoner returned home at a late hour, much intoxicated, and had not been many minutes within when, he commenced quarrelling with his wife. He struck her violently, turned her out of doors, and closed the door after her. His manner was so desperate that his wife suspected he intended to do some mischief to their little boy, who was asleep at the time, and she cried out " murder," as loud as she could call. Her cries brought some of the lodgers in the house to her assist- ance, aud upon the door being forced open, it was found that her suspicions were well grounded. The poor boy was found in an insensible state, with an extensive wound on the right temple, from which the blood was rapidly flowing, and the wall close to the cot iu which he lay was found much splashed with blood. The prisoner was armed with a sort of wooden vice, which he used in his business, and was in the very act of striking his child a second blow on the head with this formidable instrument when his arm was arrested by one of the persons who had entered the room. The constable, after taking the prisoner into custody, asked him how he could think of doing such a thing? The prisoner replied that he had contemplated it for some months, and hoped he had done it effectually. He also said that whatever he suffered himself, he should much sooner see the boy dead than that he should undergo the drudgery he did. He also said ho knew that he would have to suffer for the act, and asked several persons to come and see the last of him. Mr. Chambers, a surgeon, said that on first going to see the boy lie found the bed- clothes completely saturated with blood, of which he must have lost eight or nine ounces, and for some days his life was in great danger. The prisoner in reply to the charge said he was very much intoxicated, else it would not have happened, and was fully committed for trial. EXTRAORDINARY FEAT.— John Rossiter, aged 42, a resident of Writhlington, undertook for a wager of a sovereign to mow, in two days, 7f acres of clover grass, considerably above an average crop. He commenced his work Tuesday morning, in a field of Mr. Britten's, Lentry Farm, Writh- lington, Somersetshire, and finished by half- past nine o'clock Wednesday evening, in a most workmanlike manner. Agricultural EntelUgence. THE AGRICULTURAL INTEREST.— A return has just " been made, in pursuance of an address of the House of Lords, of the number of males employed in agriculture, as occupiers and labourers, in 1831 and in 1841. From this return it appears that whilst in 1831, with a population in Great Britain of 16,539,518, there were— Of occupiers 355,890 Of labourers 887,167 In all 1,243,057 there were only, in 1841, when the population had increased to 18,720,394," Of occupiers 326,367 Of labourers 881,622 In all only 1,207,989 Here, in ten years, is an extra population of more than two millions to be provided for, whilst agriculture, instead of increasing the number of its labourers, or of its occupiers, is diminishing . both. In 1811, the agriculturists seem to have amounted to thirty- five per cent, of the population. In 1821, their per centage fell to thirty- one ; in 18- 31, to twenty- eight; and in 1841, to twenty- three per cent. Taking the population in 1841 at 18,720,394, the agricultural population, to bear the same proportion which it did in 1811, ought to number 2,433,651 more persons than it actually does. These are striking facts. NETTLES A MANURE FOR POTATOES.— In the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Lords' Committee on the Poor Laws some years ago, Mr. Escourt, M. P., related the follow- ing curious anecdote to show the value of nettles as a manure for potatoes :—" With respect to the subject of manure," lie says," I observed last summer a result which was whimsical, and satisfactory to a certain degree. I went to a market gardener's garden in the neighbourhood of Devizes, and I was inquiring about the mode in which he got manure; and he showed me some land that was cultivated with potatoes, which had a very abundant crop. He told me that he had manured it iu the following way :— that he had trenched the land in widish trenches; that before planting the potatoes he had got nettles from the neighbourhood, and had laid them a considerable thickness in the furrow; that then, upon the nettles, he had planted his potatoes; that he had done so many years, and that invariably he had found that they had produced a much larger crop than any other sort of manure that he had made use of. HOPS. WORCESTER, JUNE 19.— Whether it is the influence of the continued hot weather, which is burning up and des- troying the blight, and causing the plant to grow very rapidly, or from whatever other cause, certain it is that the hops are now looking very much better in our plantations than they were last week. There is a great quantity of dead lice and insects upon the leaves of the plant ( which is topping the poles), and the " negroes" are very thick and industrious, In consequence of this change in the aspect of affairs, the market has receded, and planters are anxious to dispose of their remaining stock at reduced rates. The effect was beginning to be felt in our market on Saturday last, but the desire to sell has increased during the present week. MAIDSTONE.— With the exception of the College ground and part of one adjoining, our hop gardens are in the most filthy condition, the lower leaves turned black, emitting a disgusting odour and covered with vermin of various sorts. The " College ground" is still very cl ar of vermin in the centre, which part seems rather over polled and the bine weakly. It is, however, by no means out of danger5 as there aro fresh fly every day. ( In our report last week a misprint occurred, the year 1825 when the growth was £ 24,317.0s. ll| d. being called 1826. There were then about as many acres in plant as now— say 46,718).— Maidstone Journal. KENT.— If there is any perceptible alteration in the appear- ance of the plantations generally, it is a favourable one, so far as relates to the healthy condition of the plant. The vermin are still numerous, and materially affect the duty, in which very little difference from our last quotation is notice- able.— Kentish Gazette. THE ORCHARD PORTMAN HOPS.— We are sorry to find that the hops at Orchard Portmau partake of the sad mischief which has visited the grounds in other parts of the country. Vermin have most disastrously deformed the appearance of the bines, and without a very propitious change the produce will everywhere be next to worthless.— Sherborne Mercury. BOROUGH, JUNE 15.— The demand very inactive, and in some instances the quotations rather iu favour of the buyer. The supply small. The duty is called £ 90,000. New Pockets. Farnham Kent East Kent Sussex . • Yearlings £ s. £ s. 1 15 10 15 5 12 9 10 0 0 5 12 5 0 New Bags. Kent Sussex Yearlings Old Hops £ s. 7 15 0 0 6 0 FAIR. DROITWICH LAMB FAIR.— This annual fair took place on Monday last, when the attendance of buyers was great, and the lambs met with ready sale from 7| d. to 8d. per lb., and were more in request. Beef bought from 6d. to G^ d., and mutton 6d., the supply of the latter being limited. It was remarked that the old fair is looking up in regard to the attendance of buyers, & c. FAIRS IN THE ENSUING WEEK. Worcestershire.— Sliipston- on- Stour, Mon.; Bromsgiove, Wed. ; l'ershore, Fri. Gloucestershire.— Sodbury, Wed. Herefordshire.— Brampton, Mon.; Ledbury, Mon, Shropshire.— Halesowen, Mon.; Wellington, Mon, Warwickshire.— Dunchurch, Mon. Staffordshire^ aniens Sat,; Stafford, Sat. f^ otticulturc. OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK. CONSERVATORIES, STOVE, & C.— Now is the time to encourage a rapid and sturdy growth in Corajs, Epacrises, Fimeleas, Chorozemas, Leschenaultias, Polygalas, Ericas, See. See. A constant stopping of gross shoots will be necessary, in order to equalize the sap and encou- rage the lower parts of the plant,— Stove and Orchids : Let every endeavour be made to effect thorough freedom from insects amongst stove plants in general. In shifting them be sure to practise complete drainage, without which all the rest of the labour will prove abortive. Where a great amount of heat is indulged in, to promote rapid growth, some of the Guatemala kinds— the Lselias, and those from cool or mountainous districts— should be separated, if possible, from the main slock. A Vinery where a trifling amount of heat is kept up would do. Abundance of moisture in the atmosphere must, how- ever, be provided, and snails and other vermin carefully guarded against.— Mixed Gveenliouse: Azaleas should be coaxed into wood withoutdelay. Cinerarias done blooming may be cut down, dipped into Tobacco- water, to clear the aphides, and turned out to a raised bed in the Kitchen garden or reserve ground; they will breed abun- dance of suckers at the end of August, and may then be increased. Chrysanthemums should be got in forthwith. FLOWER GARDEN AND SHRUBBERIES.— Verbenas, Petunias, and such things, should be pegged down where it is requisite to cover the surl'acc of the beds. Fine specimens of Fuchsias, may be planted out on lawns; also large Pelargoniums, chiefly of the scarlet kinds, and should be well staked. Ten- week Stocks may yet be sown for a display in September and October, and a little late Mignionette ; as also a few of the best Annuals for autumn work. FLORISTS' FLOWERS.— Tulip- roots may be taken up and stored away in a dry airy place.— Pansies may be successfully propagated by thin slips or cuttings, under a bell- glass. Gather seed as it ripens. Water occasionally during the dry weather,— the moisture will induce the visits of snails, & c., which must be well looked after.— Auriculas and Polyanthuses will want well attending to as to weed- ing, watering, & c., & c. Tie the stems of Carnations and Picotces as required. KITCHEN GARDEN AND ORCHARD.— A good sowing of autumn Peas should be made directly. Full crops can scarcely be expected after this time. The Knight's Marrow, or Cormack's British Queen, should be topped the moment they reach the top of the sticks— in fact, treated like the Scarlet Runners.— Orchard: Give the wood of the Peaches a thorough thinning; don't reserve a shoot more than is wanting for the next year. This, and keeping down all insects, is the way to obtain success. Disbud Figs, retaining no more wood than is required for the next season. Be sure to select the shortest- jointed wood. gtflttcitiinral ant^ ottjgr j- Sflarivcta. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK- LANE, MONDAY, JUNE 15. A short supply of English wheat, which was quickly sold at an advance of 3s. to 4s. per qr. over the currency of this day week. As some large purchases have, for the last ten days, been made in low qualities of bonded for the Belgian markets, this description was held for Is. to 2s. per qr. liighei ; andalthough a better tone iu fine qualities, they cannot be called dearer. Grinding barley and malt more saleable. Peas, beans, and rye have improved Is. to 2s. per qr. Inconse- quence of the dry weather, and short stocks of free oats here, factors demanded, early in the morning, an advance of Is. to 2s. per qr. which completely checked the demand, and the trade finished dull, and iu retail at Is, per qr. more money. Per qr. Wheat, Essex, Kent, & Suffolk Red - - 52 to 5G White - - - 57 0- 1 Lincolnshire & York- shire Red - - 52 54 White - - . 5ti GO Scotch - - - 48 50 White - - - 51 56 Irish - - - - 46 49 White - - - 48 52 Barley, Essex and Kent, Norfolk and Suffolk Ter qr. Maltinu Distilling Chevalier Grinding - Irish, Distilling - Grinding - Rye, Distilling Grinding - Malt, Norfolk & Suffolk 56 Brown . - - 50 - 29 - 27 - 32 - 24 - 25 - 23 - 34 32 Malt Kingston and Ware 60 Brown - - - 52 Oats, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, Feed - 22 Pota, and Poland - 26 Saotch - - - 27 Devonshire and Welsh 22 Londonderry, Newry, and Clonmel ditto - 25 Limerick and Sligo - 25 Cork and Waterford White - Galway Extra Beans, Tick - 63 54 25 28 29 24 26 27 25 25 a I 22 35 30 42 34 36 30 Black - - 22 29 - - - 24 34 - - - 20 25 - - - 21 26 - - - 32 24 Harrow and Small - 34 36 Peas, Essex, Boilers - 40 34 Blue - - - - 42 60 Grey, Maple, & Hog - 32 Extra - - - - 35 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17. The supplies of wheat unusually small this morning, and the trade has been at full prices for the quantity taken by the millers, for superior samples an advance of Is to 2s per qr. having been paid, Oats equally scarce, and advancing iu value, this article being reported to be much exhausted in Scotland aud Ireland, whilst the supplies of foreign oats in the bonded warehouses are trifling, aud the growing crops are suffering from the absence of rain. SEED MARKET, JUNE 15. The transactions in Linseed was very unimportant; so much so, indeed, that prices must be considered almost nominal. Linseed cakes, the supply of which was very small, moved offsteadily, at last week's quotations; but rape cakes very dull. The best Canary quite as dear. In all other kinds of seed, next to nothing doing. The following are prices :— Red clover, Eng., ( per cwt.) 54s to 72s; White clover, 52s to 72s ; Linseed for sowing, 54s to 59s; ditto for crushing, 40s to 46s; Caraway, ( English) 45s to 50s; Foreign ditto. 42s to 47s; Coriander, ] Is to Its ; Rape seed English ( per last) £ 24 to £ 26; ditto new, £ 22 to £ 25; Foreign ditto, £ 25; Rapeeake English, ( per ton), £ 5 15s to £ 6 5s ; ditto Foreign, £ 5 5s to £ 5 15s ; Linseed cake, English ( per 1,000) £ 9 10s to £ 10 10s. IMPERIAL AVERAGES. Average Price of Corn, per Imperial Quarter, for the Weekending June 6. Wheat 52s lOd | Oats .... 23s 4d I Beans .... 35s lOd Barley 27s 8d | Rye 32s lOd | Peas 34s lOd Wheat Barley Aggregate Average of the Six Weeks which regulates Duty. D5s 3 d 28s lid Oats Rye 23s 33s Beans Peas 35s 34s 8d Od Wheat .. . 17s Od Oats 5s Od 1 Beans .. . 7s Gd Barley .. .. 9s Od Rye .... 9s 6d Peas .. .. 8s Od WOOL MARKETS. LONDON, JUNE 15.— During the past week, the imports of wool into London have been seasonably extensive— viz., 1,175 bales from Launceston, 1,040 ditto from Ilobart Town, 600 ditto from Port Philip, and 500 ditto from other quarters. In the private contract market, so litle business is doing that prices are almost nominal, and to ett'ect sales, lower rates submitted to. This remark applies both to English and foreign. WAKEFIELD.— Sales made with difficulty, and on hardly so good terms. BRADFORD.— Prices stationary, and sales made only to meet imme- diate consumption. LHEDS.— Rather more done during last week in foreign wools, but the business transactions in English limited, and prices stationary. SMITHF1ELD CATTLE MARKET. JUNE 15. The past week's imports of livestock into London have consisted of 18 oxen from Prussia, 20 oxen from Hambro', and 120 oxen and cows, 240 sheep, 59 Iambs, and 11 calves from Holland. To- day there were on ofl'er 18 beasts from Prussia, together with about 100 oxen and cows, and 150 sheep from Holland. The general condition of the beasts was good; but that of the sheep was very inferior; while the demand ruled heavy, and prices had a downward tendency. From our own grazing districts the arrivals of beasts, fresh, were seasonably extensive, and of most excellent quality. Owing to the continuance of warm weather, and the thin attendance of buyers, the beef trade was in a very depressed state, at a decline in the quota- tions obtained on Monday last of 2ii. per 81bs., the highest figure for the best Scots not exceeding 3s. lOd. per 8lbs., and a clearance was not effected. The numbers of sheep were seasonably good; while the mutton trade was firm, and last week's prices were well supported. Although the supply of lambs was large, the lamb trade was firm, and pre- vious rates were maintained in every instance. Calves moved off slowly, at but little alteration in Value. In pigs, very little was doing, at our quotations. PRICES I'BR STONE OF 8LBS. TO SINK THE OFFAL. d 2 6 3 0 3 C 3 10 3 6 3 8 4 0 Inferior Beasts 2 4 Second quality ditto 3 8 Prime large Oxen .... 3 2 Prime Scots, & c 3 8 Inferior Sheep 3 2 Second quality ditto 3 6 Coarse- woolled ditto 3 10 Prime Southdown out of wool 4 2 4 4 SUPPLY AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT, Beasts, 3,019 | Sheep and Lambs, 26,800 | Calves, 182 Prime Southdown in s d s d wool 0 0 0 0 Lamb 5 2 6 4 Large coarse Calves 3 8 4 6 Prime small ditto 4 8 4 10 Suckling Calves, eachlS 0 29 0 Large Hogs ........ 3 8 4 6 Small Porkers 4 8 4 10 Qr. old store pigs, each 16s a 19s Pigs 320 WORCESTER, JUNE 19. Saturday's market was fairly supplied with wheat, but holders demanding more money checked business, and consequently the sales were limited at the prices of the previous week. Rather more doing in grinding barley. Fine oat 6d. per qr. dearer, but no improvement could be realized on other qualities. Beans scarce, and Is. per qr. dearer. There was some inquiry for peas, but none offering. Wheat, white New ditto Wheat, red Foreign Barley, grinding... Ditto new Malting Malt Old Oats, English New ditto Old Oats, Irish New Oats, Irish Beans, old, English . Ditto, Foreign Ditto new, English . Peas, Feed Boilers, white Vetches Rye, new INSPECTOR'S WEEKLY RETURN OF CORN SOLD. Total quail. Av. per qr. I Total quail. A v. peiqr. Wheat 8S0qi 3 6u. £ 2 15 2j | Rye ... Oqr. 0bu.£ 0 0 0 Barley 0 0 0 0 0 Beans , . 0 0 0 0 0 Oats. . 0 0 0 0 0 | Peas . . 0 0 0 0 0 COUNTRY MARKETS. BIRMINGHAM, JUNE 17.— During the present week our millers have evinced little anxiety to follow the advance iu Mark Lane on Monday ; but the few sales effected of fine wheat were at Is. to 2s. per qr. more money. Malting barley nominally unaltered; grinding more in request. Beans Is. per qr. higher. No change iu the vaiue of oats.— Averages: Wheat, 2,845 qrs. 6 bush., 54s Ojd: barley, 21 qrs, 4 husli., 32s Od; oats, 125 qrs., 26s Od ; beans, 32 qrs. 0 bush,, 39s 7d. GLOUCESTER, JUNE 13.— No alteration in the prices of English wheat, though the market was firmer, more enquiry for free foreign. There was a better demand also for oats. In beans and barley but little doing.— Averages: Wheat, 288 qrs., 53s 5d.; oats, 102 qrs, 4 bush., 25s 3d. HEREFORD, JUNE 13.— Wheat, 6s 6d to 7s Od; barley, 3s 6d to 4s ; beans 5s Od to 6s; peas, 4s ; oats, 3s to 4s. SHREWSBURY, JUNE 13.— This day's market was well attended, but the greater portion of the wheat offering was of inferior quality. The following were the prices :— Wheat, per751bs., 6s Gd to 7s 6d, barlev, 3s to 4s ; oats, 2s 6d to 3s 8d per imperial bushel. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 16.— The grain market remained in a very dull inanimate state during the whole of the past week, { but prices were not lower. To- day, there was a very irregular market. For the limited quantity of fresh wheat offering there was a free sale, at an advance of 2d to 3d per bushel, and a little prime foreign, released by certificate, brought 4d to 6d per bushel advance, whilst the mid- dling qualities of Irish were neglected, though offered at last week's rates. Oats were the turn dearer, and in moderate demand. Prime meal also brought rather higher prices, aud good fresh flour was in request at an advance of Gd to Is per sack. Malt steady. Grinding barley rather dearer. Beans Is per qr, higher, and peas were more inquired after. Indian corn dull, and 2s per qr. cheaper. Several parcels of flour in bond have changed hands, at fully late rates ; and some small lots of fresh wheat, under lock, have been taken by the millers, at prices rather over last week's currency. ftnaolijcnt ani) Bankrupt lisgister. FRIDAY, JUNE 12. BANKRUPTS. John Compton Hill, Reading, Berkshire, grocer. John Wyutt, Ockham, Surrey, common brewer. Charles Benns, Winchester, Southampton, miller. William Ilart, High- street, Whitechapel, hat manufacturer: John Bedford Pim and Charles Payne, Mansfield street, Borough, road, paper makers. Thomas Simmons, Wooburn, Bucks, corn merchant. James Stavelev, Manchester, dealer in printed calicoes & flannels. Charles Fox, Kingston- upon- IIull, victualler. James Holt, Castle Donnington, Leicestershire, glove manufacturer. David Clark, Liverpool, leather dealer. TUESDAY, JUNE 16. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. William White, Tavistock, Devonshire, tailor. Richard Harvey, Chacewater, Cornwall, grocer. BANKRUPTS. James Bickerton, Castle- street, Southwark, hat manufacturer. Henry Elphick, Wardour- street, St. James's, victualler. William Filbey, Wryadisbury, Bucks, ooachmaker. Edward Gardner, Fieldgate- street, Whitechapel, manufacturing chemist. John Collins Staines, Oundle, Northamptonshire, tailor and draper. Thomas Pilbeum, l'arker- street, Drury- lane, and Hart- street, Covent- garden, coachsmith. John Boulton, Asliton- under- Lyne, Lancashire, carrier, William Kirby, Liverpool, hotel keeper. Joseph Greaves Smith, Liverpool, grocer. Patrick Hare, Liverpool, tallow chandler. Waller Bates, Manchester, sharebroker, George Barton and John Barton, Manchester, copper roller manu- facturers. Sidney Smith, Bedminster, Bristol, grocer. William Henry Smith, Swansea, Glamorganshire, printer. Printed and Published for the Proprietor, at the Office No. 5, Avenue, Cross, in the Parish of Saint Nicholas, in the Borough of Worcester, by FRANCIS PARSONS ENGLAND, Printer, residing ai No 52, Moor Street, Tything of Wliistones, in the Borough of Worcester. Saturday, June 20, 184G.
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