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DEIGHTON, Journal Office Kidderminster... THOS. PENNELL, Bookseller. Where may be had the ." SILENT FRIEND." SEVERN FISHERIES ASSOCIATION. On Tuesday last the Third Annual Meeting of the Associa- tion for the Protection of the Fisheries of the River Severn and its Tributaries, was held at the Guildhall, in this city, J. M. Gutch, Esq., in the chair. Mr. Gutch commenced the business of the meeting by reading several letters of apology for the absence of various individuals who have supported the Associa- tion. He then proceeded to read the report of the committee which was to the following effect. The report commenced by stating that the chief object which had occupied their attention since the last meeting, was the introduction of a bill into Parliament for regulating the Salmon Fisheries in England and Wales, which bill, although materially altered, was in principle the same as a bill promoted by the Association, and which was presented by Sir Thomas Win nington in the House of Commons in February last, read a first and second time without much discussion, and ordered to be committed on the 6th of May. During that time, however, many alterations were suggested and objections made by fishery proprietors and associations, most of which the committee were enabled to comply with; and, in order to arrange matters amicably, they deputed the Chairman, Solicitor, and Secretary of the Association to attend a meeting of parties interested in the measure, which was held in London on the 30th of April. The repoit proceeded to state that at that meeting an objec- tion, was made by Viscount Clive to the effect that the clause in favour of putt fisheries was not sufficiently protective of pri- vate rights, and it was left to his lordship to prepare a clause in lieu of it, which he was to forward to Sir T. Winnington for insertion in the bill in committee. This clause was in- serted by Sir Thomas, under the impression that the Committee of the Association had sanctioned it, but which clause would have had the. effect of nullifying, to a very great extent, the principal object of the bill, inasmuch as it proposed to authorise by law all practices by owners and occupiers of exclusive fisheries which had been in use for the last twenty years, inclu- ding every description of means for taking fish by dams, weirs, putts, putcheons, and other obstructions and devices, which it was a most essential point of the Fisheries Bill to regulate and amend, as to them the decay of the salmon fisheries was mainly attributable. The clause was also partial and unjust, creating an invidious distinction between the classes of fishermen, pro- tecting the higher class, or occupier of fisheries, in the use of stationary machinery and every improper practice which they had followed for the past 20 years, and excluding the common fisheries, worked by netfishermen, who were in general poor men, of small means. The Committee failed in inducing Lord Clive to withdraw the clause, or so to amend it, that they might con- sistently accept it; they therefore determined on calling a special meeting of the Association, to consider the position in which the bill was placed, which meeting took place in the Guildhall, on the 6th of June. Resolutions were then passed protesting against the insertion of the clause, and authorising Sir Thomas Winnington to withdraw the bill rather than allow its insertion ; and also calling upon members of Parliament and the public to support the views of the Association. The reso lutions were extensively advertised, and Sir T. Winnington and the committee made many ineffectual attempts to induce his lordship to withdraw the clause, and the bill eventually, though most reluctantly, was withdrawn. The highest praise was due to Sir Thomas Winnington for his conduct towards the officers of the Association, and for his arduous and persevering efforts to obtain the bill, and the committee had also to acknow- ledge their obligations to the Chamber of Commerce of this city, for a donation of 25/. towards the expenses of the bill, and also to those noblemen and gentlemen who had contributed towards the same object. It would be seen, on reference to the Treasurer's account that, with one exception, the contributions had been made by residents of, or gentlemen connected with, this city or county, and that the committee could not help expressing a feeling of disappointment that their appeal had not been responded to by other associations of a similar character, and by parties residing at a distance, seeing that the object sought to be attained was for the benefit of the public at large. The warm manner in which the sub- ject had been taken up by the newspaper press in different parts of the kingdom since the withdrawal of the bill, and the numerous communications received by the Secretary, from persons residing in all parts of the kingdom, rendered it apparent that the popularity of the subject gained ground, but still it required the utmost vigour to attain the grand object of the Association. It remained, therefore, to be considered what future proceedings the committee should adopt. From the experience they had had— looking to the bills introduced into Parliament during the past two Sessions— they were of opinion that the Association was not of itself sufficiently powerful to carry a measure of such importance as the regulation of the Salmon Fisheries throughout England and Wales, and that some more powerful agency should be set to work, in order to make a successful attempt to remove the existing abuses. Under these circumstances, and looking also to the Report of the Commission on the Irish Fisheries, they were of opinion that the more certain way of obtaining a just law on the subject, would be by memorialising the Government, through the Board of Trade, to appoint a commission similar in effect to the Irish Commission. In the mean time, as regarded the rivers and streams more immediately under the protection of the Associa- tion, they thought it would be advisable to communicate with the other Associations established on the Severn, Wye, and Teme, and parties interested in the fishing of those rivers, on the desirableness of introducing a short bill in the next Session of Parliament, with a view to amend the Acts at present govern- ing the fisheries of those waters, and which are acknowledged by all to be both partial and unjust. At the last anniversary meeting, allusions had been made to the state of the four weirs erected by the commissioners for the improvement of the river, in consequence of the numerous complaints which had been made of their incapability of passing fish, and the committee confidently expected that they should have had the pleasure of reporting the linal completion of the passages in all the weirs to their satisfaction; but this they were not able to do, as two of the weirs— Holt and Diglis— still remained incomplete. As regarded Lincombe weir, hitherto the worst barrier of the four, a great improvement had been effected, an excellent passage having been made in the shape of a groove, let in diagonally across the weir, under the superintendence of Mr. Fiinn ; and a further trifling alteration would make it most complete, as regarded its capabilities of passing the fish. The principal reason of the Holt and Diglis weirs not being completed, was the succession of floods which had arisen, and which had ren- dered such work impracticable. The floods, however, had afforded an opportunity for the fish to pass, and there was reason to believe there had been no serious hindrance to their passage; and if the weather was propitious, the alterations would be completed before the end of the season. It would be recollected that the committee had succeeded in getting the fence time for the counties of Worcester and Gloucester fixed from the 14th of September to the 1st of February; but. in consequence of the authorities in Salop and Montgomery having refused to adopt that time, it was deemed advisable to exclude January from the fence time in the two former counties, as they trusted the Legislature would shortly lix one uniform fence time for the whole kingdom ; but as there appealed no probability of that at present, and as there was reason to believe that the Shropshire and Montgomeryshire interests would accede to the request of the Association to extend the time through January, the committee recommend that application should be at once made to the authorities in those counties to that effect; and in the event of their acceding to the wishes of the Association, that application be made at the next Quarter Sessions for Gloucestershire and Worcestershire to the same effect. From the various reports which had been received from the upper and lower portions of the river, it appeared that salmon were more plentiful now than they had been known for many years, par- ticularly in the lower part of the river, in the locality of the putt fisheries; and in the immediate neighbourhood of this city, a large proportion of fish had been taken by the fishermen, when they had been inclined to work. The present price of Severn salmon in Gloucester was M. per lb., while the average price in Worcester had been from Is. to Is. The high price which the salmon caught by the Severn fishermen obtained, coupled with the fact of the men working their nets only when it suited their inclination or convenience, strongly induced the committee to recommend that some plan should be adopted to sccure regular fishing, and, as a natural result, a regular supply of fish. They had, hitherto, forborne taking any step whicti might be considered as tending to injure the interests of the Worcester fishermen, but when they saw an entire month pass away without a single attempt being made to take salmon, at a time when it was known that large quantities were passing up the river,' as was the case last month, they thought they were bound to take some steps in order to supply the public wants. From the extreme apathy which had lately been displayed by the Berkeley Dist rict Committee in carrying out the objects of the Association, which committee was in fact broken up— that district was left almost wholly unpro- tected, although the most important one on the river; and from information which had come to the knowledge of the Committee, they had reason to believe that many of the pro- prietors and fishermen had determined to put the law at defiance, and not to take up their putcheons, but to continue fishing during the fence time. It would, therefore, be necessary that some energetic means should be adopted to prevent, any attempt to break the law in that district during the fence time. They had great satisfaction in reporting that no case of illegal fishing had come within their knowledge during the present season, and they felt a pleasure in bearing testimony to the zeal and perseverance displayed by the conservators and leading men of the Association in the performance of their dufies. There could be no doubt that, cramped as their efforts had been for want of support, and a proper code of laws, whereupon to act, they had already been the means of effecting a vast amount of good. It was hoped, therefore, that their late failure in obtaining an act would not be the means of causing the Association to languish, but, on the contrary, stimulate its members and friends to fresh exertions, which they trusted would be crowned with success. The Committee, through their Secretary, were continually in receipt of com- munications from different parts of the country, stimulating them to fresh exertions in endeavouring to remove the existing abuses. No abuse could keep its ground in this country if public opinion was brought to bear against it; and it might be truly said, that in the attempt to improve the Salmon Fisheries of the kingdom they should have a very large share of the public wishes in its favour. The Report having been adopted, the Chairman submitted to the meeting a series of resolutions which will be found in our advertising columns, and which were unanimously carried. The Chairman, in the course of his observations, urged the ex- pediency of making a general application to Government for the purpose of inducing it to take up the whole question, and observed that large sums were annually voted by Parliament for the purpose of preserving both the Scotch and Irish fisheries. He also read extracts from the report of the Irish Fisheries Commission to show the necessity of obtaining one uniform period offence months, 6LC. A letter was then read from Mr. Hughes, of Shrewsbury, holding out hopes that the association would ultimately be en- abled to prevail upon the Earl of Powis and other proprietors up the river to agree to an extension of the fence time over the month of January. On the proposal of the resolution that the Committee be empowered to take decisive measures to prevent illegal fishing in the Berkeley district, it was stated that the fishing interests in that part of the river were exceedingly backward in co- ope- rating with the association,— grudging even to pay the wages of a conservator,.— notwithstanding that any improvement in the fishing must be felt in the tidal portions of the river first and most prominently, and that, consequently, the lower part of the Severn had derived the greatest advantage from the asssociation's labours Thanks were voted to Mr. Gutch, the chairman of the central committee, with a request that he would continue his valuable services in that capacity. Mr. Gutch, in an appropriate reply, consented to do so. The secretary, Mr. H. George, in responding to a vote of thanks passed to him, spoke of the great utility of the associ- ation, and of the consequent increase of the salmon, especially during the past season, in the Severn and its tributaries. A compliment was then paid to the Worcester press for its great assistance to the association, and it was resolved to endea- vour to enlist the metropolitan and other influential papers in the cause of this national question, and the meeting then broke up. POPISH POLICY OF GOVERNMENT. To the Editor of the Worcestershire Guardian. Sir,— Government is a great art, and to learn the trade of governing thoroughly, a long apprenticeship is necessary. Some inen, as compared with others, are more designed for govern- ment, both by external advantages and internal possessions. Some are born to command, and others to obey. A good governor can be no fool, unless his subjects are an abject race, and not like those in England whom once formerly King John reigned over. Some nations are more impatient of restraint than others, and these it requires a skilful hand to know how to manage well. The Irish, for instance, have been the great obstacle to the continuance in power of several Administrations for some time back, aad, when one Cabinet exceeds the bounds of discretion in the mode of dealing with the disaffected Paddies, and fails of success, it is obliged to relinquish office, and, naturally, another comes in in its place. For proof of this position it is superfluous to look after facts. Lord J. Russell is well acquainted with the dogma. But it is perceptible that there is a great leaning towards the Papists already in Ireland by the powers that be, otherwise Mr. O'Connell would not be made so much of as he is by the Whigs. 1 thought the leading article of your paper a week ago very good, in which you com- plained of the croakers, as if Englishmen had nothing else to do when things are going wrong than to make complaints, instead of setting themselves vigorously to reform abuses. The croakers dishonour the national character, which is shown chiefly in actions, commercial, naval, military, and religious. The renown of England has been largely owing to her Protestant Constitution, and we Protestants must not be so infatuated as to suffer any persons to convince us to the contrary. Protest- antism is a definite thing, although the intellect of Mr. Gladstone, bright as it is, lias at times seemed so beclouded as to be hardly able to trace any decidedly Protestant feature in our Establishment, as antagonistic to Popery. Again, too, Protestantism is an enlightened principle, and, although it was reprobated on the hustings at Glasgow, not long since, by Mr. Macaulay, as being something narrow- minded and illiberal, it is, however, the great momentum in the furtherance of the cause of civil and religious liberty on the earth. Yes, there is no liberty under the reign of Popery. One would not wish to offend the seruples of respectable and well- disposed Roman Catholics, but no one knows better than they themselves, that that system which is their glory and boast is not the solar system, but it is a system which no one, or two, or three words can describe, but which is rather opaque and shuns the light, and is not intended for the contemplation of vulgar minds. The discipline and authority which is peculiar to Popery is of the most rigid and unflinching kind, which controuls the exercise of the human mind, subtle and independent although thought to be. But fads teach us really what Popery is, and Englishmen have not yet lost all their Protestantism either, to judge only by the readers of the Britannia, some of whom, residing in country places, are asking for advice bow to proceed with reference to the carrying out of tiie objects of the national club, and thev could not apply to a better quarter. The Britannia has some good Protestant remarks this week on the one- sided policy of the Government, which is applauded and recommended by the Globe, of reappointing alt the Magistrates who had been removed from the commission of the peace for attending repeal meetings, whereas the Magistrates who were dismissed on account of their adherence to Protestantism, have not been again placed on the commission of justice and equity. Does not tins very policy pursued by the Government, probably by the dictation of O'Conneli, speak volumes as to the real difference that exists between Protestants and Papists. The policy of Sir R. Peel's Government proclaimed undeniably the same distinction, for if Protestantism had been less Protest- antism than it is in Ireland, it would have met with more encouragement, perhaps, from the Right Hon. Baronet. Your spirited call upon your readers is seasonable, to rouse themselves to Protestant exertions, and not to allow themselves to be deluded with a pretended liberality, an apology and sham of liberalitv, which is at the same time essentially illiberal. Three or four or five or six great names who may be defaulters in the good cause, are not enough, in themselves, to swamp the intelligence and principle of the constituencies of the country. No, no : the very idea of the thing is ridiculous, and beneath the dignity of Englishmen. Mr. Sydney Herbert or Sir Robert Peel will suit very well for those who are not disposed to keep in her present elevated position our National Church, the United Church of England and Ireland, and who cannot to such a degree realize to themselves the importance of the influence of the Church of England in a civil and national point of view, that they can summon up resolution enough to come before Parliament and ask for a grant of public money, in order to extend the influence of the Church of England" amongst an increasing population. On political grounds, decidedly, such a grant ought to be made, and is defensible, even on the admis- sion recently made by the Rev. J. A. James, of Birmingham, that Dissent is an insignificant thing, and that the present circumstances and future prospects of the Independents are in a most unsatisfactory state. Sir, your remarks about political croaking, at this moment, rather remind me of a passage in a Conviviuin of Xenophon, in the first chapter, and the one sort of complaint seems to be about as ridiculous as the other. Xenophon speaks of Philip, the jester or buffoon, coming unbidden to a convivial party, consisting of several philosophic Athenians, such as Callias, Socrates, Hermogenes, Cntobulus, Chaririides, and others. Philip then characteristically says that he thinks it more of a joke to come without an invitation than with one to a feast, and so the founder of the feast, Callias, bids him be seated. But the present company, unhappily for the jester, were more in a serious than in a merry moodj and Philip found that try as he might, he could not manage to excite their risible faculties. Then Philip, seeing the inflexi- bility of his audience, began to vex himself on the bad plight in which he was, and the bad prospect before him of his business being utterly ruined, emst < y « p t| avQpwrruv airoXWXEV tppti rcc e/ u. ai irpmy/ u. oirct. i. e., " For siuce laugluer nas perished houi amongst men, my affairs are come to nothing," says Philip, and then he proceeds to say, that formerly for the sake of laughter he was invited to those good dinners, in order that the guests laughing by his means might make merry ; but now on what pretext does any one give me an invite, he says, for I should no more be able to act the serious man than to become immortal, nor, indeed, does any one invite me as if he is to be asked again in return, for all persons know that not at all is it the custom for a dinner or supper to brought into my house— and whilst saying these things he blowed his nose, and seemed by his tone of voice evidently to be weeping, iravrsr ouv irapai[ A, v § owiiT') rs avrov us av9is yiXatropitvoi * ai Snirvav amXtvov, i. e., all the company, however, began to comfort linn under the promise that they would laugh again, and ordered him to proceed with his dinner. Yours, & c., September 2. QIXCUTIOS. A GAME DINNER.— One day last week, a passenger train, proceeding from Preston to Kirkham, ran through a covey of partridges, one of which was caught in the cinder- box. As the train proceeded along, a savoury odour arose from the fowl undergoing the process of roasting, as it lay in the cinder- box under the bars of the engine fire. Arrived at Kirkham the fireman stepped down to see how the partridge was goiag on, and finding that it was cooked on one side only, he turned it over. On arriving at Poulton he again inspected the prize, and found it perfectly cooked. At Fleetwood the engine- driver and fireman sat down to a " sumptuous repast," consisting of the partridge roasted in its feathers, without the least dressing, and which they declare was really delicious.— Preston Guardian. NOT QUITE DEAF ENOUGH.— A curious incident occurred last week before the Civil Tribunal of the Seine. A medical man, whose wife had a fortune in her own right, applied to the tribunal to compel her to grant him a maintenance, on the ground of his having become so deaf as to be unable to follow his profession. The wife declared, through her advocate, that her husband was only deaf because he would not hear, and therefore objected to his application. The pleadings on both sides being over, the Pesident of the Tribunal, turning to the husband who was present, said to him in a moderate tone of voice, " You are then absolutely destitute of the means of support." " Oh yes, sir, absolutely, absolutely," replied the husband, forgetting his deafness. The tribunal instantly dismissed his suit.— Paris Paper. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.— On Monday last a fatal accident occurred on the Nottingham and Lincoln Railway, at Gonalstone, near Nottingham. At twelve o'clock the train left the station at Nottingham for Lincoln, and proceeded as usual till reaching the portion of the line near the village of Gonalstone, when a spring underneath the forepart of the engine snapped, and caused the engine to oscillate, and jump up and down in a fearful manner; the engine- driver in a moment of time shut off the steam, and at the next instant he was precipitated headforemost off the engine upon the ground. The stoker, a young man of the name of Henry Glover, unable to keep his feet, fell, and was caught between the tender and the engine upon the upper part of both his thighs. Here he remained, and could not extricate himself, the engine and tender at the same time being whirled off the rails, and, as it were, actually doubled up ; but, owing to the chain attaching them to the engine suddenly breaking, and there being two or three trucks and a luggage- van between the engine and the passenger carriages, the mischief did not extend to the passengers, and the train came to a stand without any other person sustaining damage. The alarm, however, was very great. The unfortunate stoker could not be removed from his awful situation by human strength, and horses were obtained from Gonalstone to separate the engine and tender to set him at liberty; he remained in this deplorable condition for more than a quarter of an hour. Many of the passengers returned to Nottingham on foot, and would not venture again in the train. The stoker was con- veyed to the General Hospital: he only survived a few hours. He was 26 years of age, and has left a wife, but no family. , PENCILLING S BY THE WAY. As it may, perhaps, interest some of your agricultural readers, and more especially those engaged in the cultivation of hops, to hear how their more distant neighbours are proceeding, I will attempt as brief a description of the same as possible. After leaving the rich and fertile vale of Evesham, full of rich pastures, and with many a field still covered with spring corn, I passed through Buckingham and Hertfordshire, where the whole of the corn, with the exception of a solitary ground here and there, was safely housed. The swede and turnip crops of these counties are very deficient, more particularly the latter. A considerable quantity of red clover was standing for seed, and the fallows were clean, and well laid up for planting. The potatoes were mostly affected by the blight. Upon entering Surrey the hop grounds presented a very beautiful appearance, some exceedingly fine and healthy, whilst others were poor, with the poles scarcely covered. Here, too, the swedish and common turnips arc very gappy, and the potatoes terribly cut down by the blight. Kent is the complete contrast of Worces- tershire, as regards its pastures, and while the deficiency of stock is apparent in the latter, the former appears to have its full complement. The hop yards in Kent are remarkably fine, and the yield so prodigious, that children from eight to ten years of age, can easily pick from eight to ten bushels per day, and women and men from twenty to five and twenty bushels, liven the masters and mistresses take their places at the baskets, and a lady assured me that she had picked sixteen bushels between the hours of ten and four. Such is the demand for labourers, that gipsies encamp around the yards and assist in this delightful occupation. The weather is most favourable for the in- gathering! of the crop, and the whole county presents a scene worthy the pencil of an amateur. The dark brown fea- tures of the gipsy tribe, the merry countenances of the village peasantry, peeping beneath the pendant hop, elicit a smile from the traveller as he wends his way through this magic scene. Fine as are the hops of Kent, Sussex stands pre- eminent: here the hop grounds are wonderful to behold, and much as it de- lighted my heart to look on these sights, I thought, can it be possible that all this can be created for an evil purpose ? Whilst on the one hand I beheld that vegetable— the food of thousands— cut down and withered as by some pestilential blast, here, in the greatest abundance and luxuriance, stood that plant which til e modern censor condemns, because the poor, exhausted, hard- toiling labourer, partakes of it mixed with the juice of the barleycorn. No, the Great Disposer of all things, in his wisdom, lias permitted this plant to grow and flourish ; and, though some may indulge to excess, others enjoy its bitter, exhilarating, and strengthening qualities, and receive in mode- ration and with gratitude the gifts of a superintending Provi dence. I have been favoured with specimens of hops grown at Sedlescomb, from plants only two years old. The crops will average lj tons per acre. Potatoes throughout the country are dreadfully damaged: they are selling at 4s. per bushel, and retailed at 5( 1. and 6d. per gallon, and in some instances at one penny per pound. The busy scene on the south- east coast surpasses that of former years. Every town is crowded with visitors; and many are passing to and fro in search of resting places, and can find none. The English, tired of continental trips, are now exploting the beauties of their own little isle, and in no land is scenery more lovely or more truly interesting. H. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. UNITED STATES. The Great Western steam ship arrived in Liverpool on Thursday night, bringing New York dates to the 20th ult., five days later than the previous steamer. Congress having adjourned there was a general lull in all political matters, and the people seem now to be engaged in the important matter of preparing to transport to England their overplus flour and grain. Of this we shall have a vast supply, the crops having been most abundant in all parts. According to the returns there has been an enormous increase in the commerce on the American Lakes. In 1845, not less than 1,500,000 brls of flour passed over the Lakes, and 250,000 passengers. At the present time the commerce of the Lakes may be fairly estimated at 100,000,000 dols. per annum. This is an evidence of what that commerce will be hereafter, and how necessary it is for the government to foster and protect that trade, in the improvement of the harbours and bays. The New York Sun, speaking of the grain crops, says the abundant harvest which has crowned the labours of the husband- man is now pouring its rich treasures into the great cities of the sea- board. Wheat and flour are arriving in large quantities, but the demand keeps pace with the supply, at steady prices, which, though far below the prices of former years, are paid promptly, and in a sound currency. According to ail accounts the cotton crop will not be nearly so abundant this season as might have been expected. INDIA. Letters and papers from Bombay to the 18th of July have been received. The rainy season continued, and the fall was such as to satisfy those who desired much of that most valuable element in India — water. Tranquillity prevailed throughout the whole of that continent, with, perhaps, one exception, viz., the unpaid and dissatisfied troops of Nizam ; but they can do but little. The cholera had lessened its ravages at Kurrachee, where it destroyed several thousand persons during ten days. The troops had lost about a fourth of their number. Every praise was bestowed upon Sir Charles Napier for his kindness and attention to the sufferers. Only two officers had died— viz., Captain J. B. Seton. of the Bombay Fusiliers, and Lieutenant Dawson, of the 12th Regiment of Native Infantry. From the Punjaub there is no news. All was quiet there. The Governor- General and Lord Gough were at Simla. The departure of Sir Geoige Arthur from the Government of Bombay was fixed for the 5th of August. A long con- tinuance of ill- health is the cause of his retirement. Mr. L. R. Reid, the senior civil servant in the Bombay Council, was to succeed him until a Governor nominated in London shall have arrived. There is a hope expressed that the Court of Directors will grant Sir George Arthur a pension. The retirement from the bench of Sir Henry Roper, which is expected in November, has given rise to much talk respecting his successor. The want of the three judges allowed by the charter is much felt in Bombay. The result of the penury in the Court of Directors which saves the salary of one judge, is to throw the whole decisions of the Court into the hands of the Chief Justice. It was expected that Sir Erskine Perry, the puisne judge at Bombay, would become the next Chief Justice: his judicial conduct had given great satisfaction. Lieutenant- Colonel Martin, Deputy- Adjutant- General of Her Majesty's troops in Bombay Presidency, died at Poonah on the 13th of July. THE IRON TRADE.— The present state of the iron trade in the South Staffordshire district is as satisfactory as it has been for many years past. The very extensive and increas- ing demand for home consumption for carrying out the various railway projects, with the requirements of the export trade, are calling into requisition all the improved facilities for production, and must keep them fully employed for some years. The order- books both at the larger and smaller works are well filled with orders, in many instances of such a nature as will in their completion extend over a much longer period than ordinary ; and fresh contracts are brought forward every week for various requisites for railway construction. These are generally for heavy articles, and although a very considerable quantity of pig iron was sold and distributed amongst the works in the neighbourhood at quarter day last, yet those masters who are entirely dependant on purchases find their stocks diminishing more rapidly than they had calculated, and in many instances have been under the necessity of giving much higher prices for extended supplies Theun- cal! ed for reduction that was submitted to during the last quarter, and which was sanctioned by no equivalent reduction either in wages or materials, may therefore be considered entirely at an end ; and from the well known fact that all the principal holders of stocks parted with them at quarter- day, and the certainty that no reduction can be expected either in wages or materials during the winter months, it would not be a matter of surprise if an advance should be declared at the next quarterly meeting of the trade. Due consideration will however doubtless be given, before taking such a step, to the effect it might have on the exports, which form so serious a part of our consumption. At the present rates of 5/. for pig iron and 10/. for manufactured, no possible danger can arise; and we trust that no rash move- ment will check the increasing demand which may legitimately be expected from the various alterations in duty that have lately been made upon the admission of British iron into the ports of foreign nations— The exports of British iron in the year 1845 were as follow :— Pig iron, 77) 622 tons; castings, 22,036; bars, including hoops, rods, & c., 179,612; unwrought steel, 7015— being upwards of 286,000 tons. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT BATH.— On Saturday night, a most alarming and extensive fire broke out in the Saw Close, upon the premises of Mr. Butcher, a large soap and candle manufacturer. The flames spread with immense rapidity, the manufactory being very heavily stocked with oil, tallow, and other materials of a highly combustible nature. The premises of Mr. Butcher, in which he dwelt, together with the whole of the manufactory and stock, large tanks of oil, fat, & c., were completely destroyed ; the dwelling- house and shop of Mr. Williams, veterinary surgeon, were much damaged; and the plate glass and carving and gilding establishment adjoining, together with the warehouses of Mr. Law, carrier, were exposed to the utmost danger from the fury of the flames, and but for the untiring exertions of the police and firemen must have been destroyed. At the time when the fire broke out, a large audience had assembled at the Theatre- Royal. The light of the flames made its way into the theatre, and the smell of the burning materials combining with it, the utmost consternation prevailed both before and behind the curtain, the impression being created that the house was on fire. The consequence was that the theatre was speedily emptied both of the audience and the performers. The amount of damage has not yet been accurately ascertained. Three men were so much injured as to be obliged to be conveyed to the hospital, but fortunately no lives were lost. KIRKALDY.— AN ADVENTURE.— About a fortnight ago, a sloop employed in the herring fishory left Wick with a cargo of herrings for a curer in this place. On Wednesday afternoon the vessel was hove to off the Aberdeen coast, about ten miles south from Buchan- Ness, where the captain took the small boat, and, accompanied by a boy, went on shore to visit some friends, leaving an individual named Roper in charge of the vessel during his absence. In the meantime, the breeze, which was northerly, began to freshen, when, in order to avoid danger, the man who was left on board the sloop stood out to sea. The wind, however, still kept increasing in strength, while the sea was becoming more boisterous, in in consequence of which the seaman found it impossible to regain the coast to take the cap'tain and boy on board. Thinking it the safest plan, hazardous as the attempt was in his unaided condition— to proceed on the voyage, he did so, and arrived here in perfect safety, having been 60 hours on deck, during which time he had run a distance of 130 miles. The captain has since arrived here, happy, no doubt, to find the vessel, which he had last seen on the Aberdeen coast, with a solitary individual on board, safe in the harbour,-- Scotch paper. INDIAN CORN RECIPES. We continue from our paper of the 29th ult. the remainder of Elihu Burritt's recipes for the use of Indian corn meal:— Fried Hasty Pudding.— Cut cold pudding into smooth slices, and fry brown iu a little butter or pork fat. Hasty Pudding Bread.— Prepare hasty pudding as before; when lukewarm add yeast, and after rising, bake in a deep dish in a hot oven. Com Meal Pudding.— Scald four quarts of milk, stir into it one quart of sifted meal, one cup of molasses, a table- spoonful of salt, a little spice of any kind you like; bake it three or four bouis in a pretty hot oven. Baked Pudding.— To two quarts of milk, add one quart of meal, a little salt, and a cup of sugar. Prepare by heating the milk over the fire, stirring it occasionally to prevent its burning; when it scarcely boils, remove it, put in the salt and sugar, and scatter in the meal, stirring rapidly to prevent its collecting into lumps; put in the nutmeg and turn into a deep pan. Bake immediately, or otherwise as may be con- venient, in a hot oven, three hours. When it has baked an hour or more, pour over the pudding one gill or one half pint of milk ; this will soften the crust, and form a delicious whey. Boiled Pudding.— Into two quarts of meal, stir three pints ot boiling water, some salt, and a gill of molasses or treacle ; spice or not, as you choose. Tie up in a strong cloth or pudding boiler, put into boiling water, and cook over a steady lire for three hours. Superior Boiled Pudding.— To one quart of Indian meal, add three pints of hot milk, half a pint of molasses or treacle, a dessert spoonful of salt, an ounce or more of beef suet, shred fine. Stir the materials well together, tie them in a cloth, allowing room for the pudding to swell one- eighth larger, and boil it six or eight hours. The longer it boils the better. It may be made without suet. Indian Dumplings.— Into one quart of meal, stir one pint of boiling water with salt. Wet the hands in cold water, and make them into smooth balls, two or three inches in diameter. Immerse in boiling water, and cook over a steady fire twenty or thirty minutes. If you choose, put a few berries, a peach, or part of an apple in the centre of each dumpling. Superior Dumpling.— To one pint of sour milk with carbonate of soda, add one quart of meal and a large spoonful of flour; roll out with flour and put in an apple, and cook as before. Green Corn Pudding.— Take eighteen ears of green corn'; split the kernels lengthwise of the ear with a sharp knife, then with a case knife scrape the corn from the cob, leaving the hulls on the cob; mix it with three or four quarts of rich sweet milk ; add four eggs well beaten ; two tablespoonsful of sugar; salt to the taste; bake it three hours. To be eaten hot, with butter. Homony.— This article is considered a great delicacy throughout the Southern States, and is seen on almost every breakfast table. It is prepared thus :— The corn must be ground not quite into meal. Let the broken grains be about the size of a pin's head. Then sift the flour from it through a fine hair sieve. Next shake the grains in the sieve, so as to make the hulls or bran rise to the top, when it can be removed by the hand. The grains must then be washed in several waters, and the light articles, which rise to the surface, poured off' with the water through the fingers, so as to prevent the escape of the grains. Have a pot or boiler ready on the fire with water in it; add the grains at the rate of one pint to two pints of the water. Boil it briskly about twenty minutes, taking off the scum and occasionally stirring it. When the homony has thoroughly soaked up the water, take the boiler off the fire, cover it, and place it near, or on a less heated part of the fire, and allow it to soak there about ten minutes. It may be eaten with milk, butter, treacle, or sugar. The flour or meal sifted out can be used to make bread or cakes. The editor of the Philadelphia Citizen, who contributed this recipe, remarks at the close of his note, " I know the English people will love America the more for the sake of the homony." Buck Wheat Cakes.— This cheap article of food is con- sidered a luxury throughout most of the American States, from the first of October to the first of April. During this period it is found almost every where, at breakfast, on the most frugal and the most sumptuous tables. When eaten warm, with butter, sugar, molasses, or treacle, it possesses a flavor that cannot be equalled by any other griddle- cake what- ever. The Buck- wheat flour, put up in small casks in Phila- delphia, is the best that can be procured in America.— E. B. RECIPE.— Mix the flour with cold water; put in a cup of yeast and a little salt; set it in a warm place over night. If it should be sour in the morning, put in a little carbonate of soda; fry them the same as any griddle- caks. Leave enough of the batter to leaven the next mess. To be eaten with butter, molasses, or sugar. A SPANISH ROBBER.— FEARFUL SCENE— MADRID, AUG. 8.— An act of singular ferocity took place a day or two ago in the prison of Salamanca. A notorious robber and murderer, of the the name of Patino, the terror of the surrounding country for years, was lately captured and tried by court martial. He was at first sentenced to be shot, but the military authorities thinking such a mode of punishment too honourable for such a miscreant, obtained its commutation to strangling by the " garote." On the morning of the 3rd inst., the turnkey proceeded, as is usual, to inform the criminal that the Judge of first instance, accompanied by the escribano, had arrived to announce in form his sentence, and to transfer him to the condemned chapel preparatory to his execution. He was found with one leg released from the fetters, having skilfully employed a file for that purpose which he had concealed on his person. Though still bound to the iron bar which traversed the dungeon, he flung himself on the keeper, seized the massive keys, stuck him on the head, and dashed him against the wall outside. He then locked the door and shut himself up in the cell. The officers of the prison, the judge, and chaplain implored him to cease such fruitless resistance, and to open the door, or pass the keys through the grating. He refused, and uttered against them the most horrible imprecations. A blacksmith was called to undo the lock, but did not succeed, its massive strength resisting all his efforts. Half a dozen strong men then tried to break open the door with crowbars and heavy pieces of timber. They succeeded and the door fell in fragments. The fury of the criminal then rose to its height. He then placed himself behind a strong beam which went across the upper part of the door on the inside, and, brandishing the formidable key, actually broke the head of the first man who attempted to effect an entrance. The wounded man was dragged out by the legs by his comrades. The others tried to enter in a body, but it was impossible; the doorway was too narrow. For more than a quarter of an hour ho kept them at bay, and answered to the entreaties of the officers and the prayers of the priest with the most awful blasphemies, and" the most disgusting obscenities. He then flung the keys at their heads with the utmost force and severely wounded two persons. Seeing all entreaties useless, a party of soldiers was called to the spot. The officer of the guard summoned him once more to surrender but he replied with the grossest ribaldry and the most insulting gestures, and howled defiance to the whole garrison. The soldiers were ordered to load their muskets; while they were doing so he wounded the officer with a piece of lime- stone. The priest seeing that he was about to be shot down like a wild beast in his den, entreated the men to fire low, so as to disable but not to kill him, in order that some chance might yet remain of repent- ance. A shot was fired, but it missed him. The ruffian fell back to a dark corner of the dungeon, as far as his chain permitted, and from thence flung stones and pieces of mortar at his assaulters. Another shot was fired at him through the grating, and broke his leg. The wound rendered him savage beyond all description. He bellowed, and howled, and foamed in rage; and still, dragging his smashed and bleeding limb along, flung missiles at the soldiers who yet did not dare to venture into the darkness of the dungeon. A third shot was fired and his right shoulder was broken. The arm fell lifeless by his side, and he lay on the ground. He called out that he surrendered, but only because he could no longer resist. They entered, and he was dragged along the floor, bathed in his blood, As they were in the act of replacing the broken fetter, he collected his remaining strength, and with his left hand struck the turnkey with the iron on the head, and laid him at his feet. Three or four men threw themselves upon him, and completely mastered him. He was then removed to the condemned chapel, after the sentence had been duly notified. He was subsequently visited by the priest, who employed every effort but in vain, to bring him to a sense of his condition. His exhortations and prayers were replied to with the filthiest obscenity and the most horrid execrations. To the last moment he continued the same; and even on the scaffold, seated on the fatal chair, with the cold instrument of death about to clasp his bare neck, this monster in human form shouted to the horrified crowd about him curses and imprecations on God and man. A BENEVOLENT FROLIC.— A young man, in an American College, took a walk one evening with a professor, who was commonly called " The Student's Friend." As they proceeded, they saw some old shoes near their path, belonging to a poor man who was at work in the field, and who had nearly finished his day's labour. " Let us play the man a trick," said the student, " we will hide his shoes, and concealing ourselves behind those bushes wait to see his perplexity when he cannot find them." " My dear friend," answered the professor, " we must never amuse ourselves at the expense of the poor; you are rich, and you may give yourself a much greater pleasure by means of this poor man; put a dollar in each shoe and then we will hide ourselves." The student did so. They placed themselves behind the bushes and waited the result. The labourer soon finished his work tuid came across the field to the place where he had left off his apparel. While he was putting on his coat, he slipped a foot into one of his shoes, but feeling something hard in it, he stooped down and found the dollar. Astonishment was depicted on his countenance. He gazed on the piece of money, turned it over, examined it carefully, looked round, but could see no one. At length he put the coin in his pocket, and proceeded to put on the other shoe, but how great was his surprise when he found in the other a dollar! His feelings now overcame him. He fell on his knees, looked up to heaven, and uttered aloud fervent thanksgivings, referring to his sick and helpless wife, and children without bread, whom this timely assistance from an unknown hand would save from perishing. Tears filled the eyes of his frolicsome benefactor. " Dear sir," said he to the professor, " you have taught me a lesson I shall never forget; I feel the truth of the words which I never before understood, " It is more blessed to give than to receive." How many ways has our Father of relieving his afflicted children that they could never anticipate.-- Baptist Magazine. THE WORCESTERSHIRE GUARDIAN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2,6,% 18 46. THE FORGERY CASE. RE- EXAMINATION OF CAPTAIN RICHARDSON. The re- examination of Captain William Richardson, chair- man of the Worcester, Tenbury, and Ludlow Railway Com- pany, on the charge of forging a cheque for 5,000/., with intent to defraud Messrs'. Coutts and Co., the eminent bankers, was resumed at tfte Mansion House on Wednesday. The court, as on former examinations of the prisoner, was much crowded. Mr. Bush attended for the " prosecution, and Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Wolff for the prisoner. Mr. Clarkson said the principal question was, whether the prosecutor would be able to establish a charge of forgery. The following witnesses weTe then called :— Mr. lienry Skinner examined.— I am clerk to the Wexford, Waterford, and Wicklow Railway Company. Capt. llichard- son, the prisoner, is a Director of that Railway Company. I have known the prisoner since October last. I remember going to the Bank of England for him with a note for 1000/. That was in the month of July last. That was the only note for such an amount that I ever received from the prisoner. At the lime I received this note my name was written on the back of it. The note now produced is the same. I changed the note at the Bank of England, as directed, for 500 sovereigns and 500/. in notes. Mr. F. W. Cruise examined.— I am a clerk in the Bank of England. I remember the last witness bringing in a note for 1,000/. to the Bank, which was cashed in notes amounting to 500/., and 500 sovereigns. Mr. Clarkson.— There is no doubt of that. The only ques- tion is whether the money found its way into the hands of the prisoner. Mr. George Brunn examined I am clerk in the London and County Bank. I know Captain Richardson, but not pre- vious to the 19th of August last. On that day the prisoner came to the Bank and went into the manager's room. He soon came out again and asked for notes to be given to him for 800 sovereigns, which was accordingly done. The notes now pro- duced are the same as those given to the prisoner. William Abbott, messenger, 26, Cornhill, examined.— I know the prisoner, Captain Richardson ; I haAe been employed by him occasionally. In August last he ( the prisoner) gave me 800 sovereigns to take to the Bank and exchange them for notes, which I did, and afterwards delivered them to Captain Richardson on the north side of the Royal Exchange. I did not notice the number of the notes. Mr. Thomas Agar examined.— I am clerk in the Bank of England. The notes now produced are the same that I ex- changed for BOO sovereigns on the 19th or 20th of August last. I know the porter who brought them to the Bank, having seen him on several former occasions. Mr. Archibald Griffith examined.— I am a clerk in the Bank of England. On the 20th August notes for 200/. were asked to be exchanged for 200 sovereigns, which was done; the notes now produced, which were found at the prisoner's house, are the same. The next witness was Mr. Fry, solicitor to the Company. Mr. Fry said I was present at a meeting of the Directors of the Company in Palace Yard in August last, when it was discovered that a fraud amounting to 5,000/. had been com- mitted. Captain Richardson was in the chair. [ It appeared however that Mr. Fry attended the meeting as solicitor to the Company : his evidence therefore was not received.] Air. Robinson, a clerk in the issue department of the Bank of England, proved that the notes produced of the value of 200/., which were found at the prisoner's house, were the same as he exchanged on the 20th of August for gold. The party asking for the exchange gave the name of Richardson. Benjamin Soares Willis, clerk in the office of Smith, Payne, and Co., proved receiving a letter from Captain Richardson, requesting that they would credit his agent with 300/. The letter was dated Dublin, 3rd July. Mr. ' Clarkson said there could not be a doubt but that the prisoner exchanged notes for gold, at the Bank of England, hut there was no evidence to prove that those notes were any part of the produce of the 5000/. forged cheque. Mr. Stevenson, examined.— I am one of the Directors of the " Worcester, Tenbury, and Ludlow Railway Company. I attended a meeting of the Directors in Palace- yard, on the 13th of July, but I do not recollect seeing a cheque for 10/. signed by the prisoner. 1 have no recollection of having seen cheques drawn for 10/., 20/., and 100/. Mr. Wm. Pulsford, examined,— I am Secretary to the Com- pany. I received the letter now produced on the 15th of July ; it was addressed to me. The cover is lost or mislaid. Do not recollect any cheques being signed on that day ( loth July). This witness underwent a long examination as to the attendance of different Directors on various board days : but the particulars were of no general interest, and did not appear to bear on the case. I remember a cheque for 10/. being drawn and given to me by Captain Richardson. I asked him if I should give the party in whose favour it was drawn cash for it when he called. The prisoner replied " No, it had better go in the regular way," which was accordingly done. Mr. Stevenson was called and re- examined— Although my name is entered in tbe minute book, as being present at the meeting of Directors on the 7th July, I feel confident that I was not there on that day. The witness, however, after referring to some memoranda, said I believe now that I was present at the meeting held on the 7th of July. I have no recollection of having signed any cheque on that day, or on the 15th July. I remember receiving a letter from Mr. Pulsford, the Secretary of the Company, some time in the month of June or July, containing three cheques, one for 10/., one for 20/., and the other for 100/. I signed all the cheques as requested and returned them to Mr. Pulsford. I believe the cheque now produced for 5000/. is signed by me. I have no doubt the signature to this cheque is mine. I do not remember ever having put my signature to a blank cheque. All the cheques I signed had been previously signed by one or more other Directors of the Company. 1 never signed a blank chcque. Mr. Clarkson Did not the prisoner call at your house in Grosvenor- street, and give you some blank cheques to sign ? Witness I have no recollection of any such thing. I remember the prisoner calling on me in Grosvenor. street, but I have no recollection of his asking, me to sign blank cheques which had been previously signed by Mr. Whitmore. I think this was in June; but I feel certain that I did not on that occasion sign four blank cheques. Upon my oath, I will swear positively that to the best of my recollection I never signed a blank cheque. Mr. Clarkson, at this stage of the proceedings, said this case was of the greatest importance to the public. No doubt a fraud amounting to 5000/. had been committed, but the question was, whether the party charged had been guilty of forgery. The duty of the Lord Mayor was to ascertain whether 6r not there was sufficient prima facie evidence to warrant the prisoner's committal. He ( Mr. Clarkson) then remarked on the evidence, and contended that the testimony given by Mr. Stevenson could not be relied upon, as it was certain he had no distinct recollec- tion of what took place at the meetings of Directors which he attended, therefore saying that he had never signed a blank cheque could not be depended upon. No doubt a gross fraud had been committed by some one, but the evidence did not prove a charge of forgery, and as the Company were likely to recover back nearly the whole of the money illegally drawn from the bankers, he had to apply to his Lordship to admit Captain Richardson to bail in such a reasonable amount as would answer the justice of the case and ensure his attendance on a future occasion. His present application was, that the prisoner be admitted to bail. Mr. Bush opposed the application. He did not consider the prisoner entitled to bail. The prisoner was placed in his pre- sent position by declarations which he had made himself, and if he ( prisoner) was remanded for a week or ten days, he ( Mr. Bush) should be able to obtain additional evidence from Liverpooland Dublin. Mr. Whitmore, the other Director who signed the chcque, was not at present in London. Mr. Fry stated that he believed Air. Whitmore would be present if time was allowed. Mr. Clarkson submitted that there was not sufficient evidence to support the charge of forgery. The Lord Mayor said he was of opinion there was sufficient evidence to send the prisoner to trial at the ensuing Sessions of the Central Criminal Court. Mr. Clarkson contended that Mr. Whitmore, the other Director who signed the 5000/. cheque, ought to be produced before the prisoner was fully committed for trial; surely if due diligence was used, Mr. Whitmore, a gentleman of respecta- bility, might be found. Mr. Bush said, he had no doubt the proceedings of this day, which would be published in the newspapers, would be sufficient to induce Mr. VVliimore to attend on the trial. Mr. Clarkson.— That is not what 1 want. It is clear to me that no forgery has been committed, and therefore the prisoner should be admitted to bail. After a short discussion. The Lord Mayor ordered the prisoner to be remanded until Friday the 18th inst. He was then removed in custody. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. INDIA. Since the news from India, given in our first page, was printed, another express in anticipation has arrived, the despatches to tbe London journals having been delivered yesterday. The dates are up to the 6th August. We have by this conveyance dispatchcs and commercial news from Calcutta to the 18th of July. The Arabs, it appears, made an attack on some of the grounds near Aden on the 10th of last month, but were gallantly repulsed with a loss of seven killed, and a considerable number wounded. Sir George Clerk and Sir H. Pottinger are spoken of in the Indian papers as likely to succeed to the Governorship of Bombay. The cholera has broken out at Hyderabad, where 800 had died on the first day. The Lahore Government does not appear to be making much progress in strength or consolidation. The mail just arrived from India is of little interest. Sir George Arthur left Bombay for Europe on the 5th of August, in consequence of severe illness, the Hon. Mr. Reid succeeding him in the Government as a temporary measure. The Governor- General and Lord Gough continued at Simla, whither all the politicals on the north- west had been summoned to a consulta- tion— of what nature had not transpired. LEGAL EDUCATION. The following are the minutes of resolutions agreed to in conference, and since confirmed, of the deputations of com- mittees of the societies of Lincoln's Inn, the Inner Temple, and Gray's Inn, for the improvement of the existing system of education for the bar. That it is expedient to institute rewards or honours, by way of encouragement to students willing to undergo examinations. That for the purpose of preparing students for such examina- tions, there be established four lectureships in addition to that on civil law and general jurisprudence already established by the Middle Temple. That subject of additional lectures should be— 1. Constitutional law, criminal and other crown law. 2. The law of real property and conveyancing, devises and bequests. 3. Those branches of the common law which are not included in the two last heads. 4. Equitable jurisprudence as administered in the Court of Chancery. That the lectureship for constitutional law, criminal and other crown law, should be maintained at the joint expense of the four societies. That the lectureship of civil law and general jurisprudence should be maintained, as now, at the sole expense of the Middle Temple. And that the other three lectureships should be maintained at the expense of the three other societies respectively, one for each, as shall be hereafter arranged among themselves. That no examination should be required of any student as a condition precedent to his call to the bar- That every student should be required, as a condition pre- cedent of his call to the bar., to produce a certificate of his having attended two of the course of lectures. The selection to be determined by hjmself. Ecral HaiUM?) Intelligence, Now that Parliament is prorogued and there is some leisure for railway projectors to look about them, we find some incipient movements making for winding up exploded schemes, and re- newing such as have any pretensions to merit, but which have by the precise requirements of the legislature been for the pre- sent thrown overboard. At this period of last year the news- papers— metropolitan and provincial— were crowded with pros- pectuses of new Railway projects, and shares in imaginary lines were quoted at a premium before they were allotted. The experience of the past parliamentary session, however, has had its natural effect in rendering speculators somewhat less rash, and giving a more healthy tone to tbe market in bona fide shares. The extent of the railway speculations of last autumn and winter may be pretty well estimated by the fact that the difference in the market value of railway stock, between the 1st of September, 1845, and the 1st of April, 1346, is estimated, upon scrip shares alone, at sixty millions sterling ! There is no instance upon record of a corresponding depreciation of property to the same extent within the same time. The cele- brated South Sea bubble and the Mississippi scheme of the last century were confined to a limited sphere of operation as com- pared with the late wine- spread empire of railway speculation, embracing England, France, Germany, and our colonial pos- sessions ; in all producing simultaneously the like results. The transactions'in shares of the two provincial cities of Leeds and Exeter have been probably upon as large a scale as those of London and Paris in the year 1719, when the popularity of Law, the projector, and Ilarley, Earl of Oxford, was at its greatest height. The people of Exeter are said to be involved to the amount of eight millions in new railway projects; and it is alleged that insolvency, resulting from undue speculation, prevails extensively in almost every city of the L^ nited Kingdom. There has recenfly been published an official list of all soli- citors, bankers, joint- stock bank directors, bank managers, and bankers' clerks, who have subscribed railway contracts during the past session to the extent of 2,000/. and upwards. This list has been prepared from official returns, and contains the names of no less than 900 lawyers, and 364 parties connected with banks, who joined in the railway speculation last year. The amounts subscribed for by the solicitors range from 2,000/. to 154,000/. for one person. The bankers are individually sub- scribers for much larger amounts, the highest for one party being 215,000/. Several of the private country bankers are sub- scribers for very large sums, six being for upwards of 100,000/. each, nine for 50,000/. and upwards each, and no less than seventy- seven for 10,000/. and upwards each, including nume- rous subscribers of 20,000/., 30,000/., and 50,000/. each. The following are the latest London quotations of the price of shares in railways of this district:— Share Railways. Paid. Closing Prices. Business Done. £. £. 100 Birmingham and Gloucester.. 100 129 — 131 130 25 Do. New ( issued 7\ dis.) l~ i 31J- 321 20 Birmingham and Oxford June. 2 3|— 4J pm 6 i 50 Bristol and Gloucester 30 20 — 22 pm 20 Buckinghamshire .,,.... 42s. i— i dis g dis 100 Great Western 85 60 — 03 pm 50 Do. Half Shares 50 3L — 33 pm 25 Do. Quarter Shares .......... 10 12 — 13 pm 20 Do. Fifths 20 124— 134 pm 32i 3 20 Leicester and Birmingham .. 22s. 1 — i dis Stock London and North Western.. 100 202 — 204 203 Aver. London and South Western.. 41.0.10 70 _ 73 71 40 Manchester and Birmingham. 40 77 — 79 78 Stock Midland 100 138 — 140 20 North Stafl'ordshiTe 42s. 3j— 3$ pm 3| J pm 20 Northampton, Ban. and Chel. 2 6— t dis 50 Ox., Wor., & Wolverhampton 121 4i— 4 dis 25 Shrew., Wolv.,& S. Staf. Jun. n 25 Shrewsbury and Birmingham 2* i— j pm 2m 20 Shropshire Union 42s. idis— par uis 50 South Wales 5 I— i Uis m 20 W arwickshire and London .. 42s. ii dis i 20 Welsh Midland n lj— li dis The proceedings of the several companies of this district may be summed up in the following paragraphs:— SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE JUNCTION.— The first ordinary general meeting of the shareholders in this company was held yesterday se'nnight at Wolverhampton, fot the purpose of electing ten directors in the place of the directors named in the act of incorporation; also for considering the expediency of amalgamating, and, if deeemed expedient, for agreeing to amal- gamate and form one company with the Trent Valley, Midland, and Grand Junction Railway, and to empower the directors of this company to affix their common seal to an agreement with the Trent Valley, Midlands, and Grand Junction Railway Company for carrying into effect such amalgamation and union. The proceedings were of the usual character : the ten directors were elected, and the proposed amalgamation was agreed to. STAFFORDSHIRE AND SHROPSHIRE JUNCTION.— On Monday a meeting of the shareholders of this Company . took place in London for the purpose of determining whether the company should be dissolved or not, in pursuance of the Rail- way Companies Dissolution Act. Some discussion took place as to the legality of the meeting, in consequence of its being called by only one, instead of three, of the provisional com- mittee, which ended in its being determined that the meeting had not been properly convened, and therefore that it was not legally constituted. BIRMINGHAM, WOLVERHAMPTON, AND STOUR VAL- LEY.— The arrangements for commencing this undertaking are proceeding daily with rapidity, and ere long the works will be in course of construction. THE GREAT EASTERN AND WESTERN DISSENTIENTS.— A meeting of dissentient scripholders in this company was held yesterday week, at the London Tavern. Mr. Maubert took the chair. Mr. Spackman stated that the objects of the meeting was to effect a dissolution of this company, as the directors would not meet, the scripholders, or render any account of the large amount of deposits in their hands. He warned the scrip- holders not to be misled by the advertisement put forth by the directors, wherein they offered them a return of 15s., a further prospect of 5s. more, and an interest in the Newport scheme, the shares of which were selling at 2s. 6d. If they embraced this offer they would only be selling their scrip into the hands of the directors, to be used against them when they met for dis- solution ( applause). The directors informed them in the pros- pectus that no more than 10s. per share would be spent, unless they previously had the assent of the shareholders. Under this pledge alone they were entitled to their two pounds per share back again, and if not, they had the means of redressing their grievances. After several speeches in a similar strain, a com- mittee was appointed unanimously for the purpose of protecting the interests of the scripholders, and who would call another meeting for dissolution as soon as practicable. WARWICK AND WORCESTER.— A meeting of this com- pany took place on Friday, at the Hall of Commerce, London. Some discussion took place as to the propriety and validity of the meeting, the company having amalgamated with other railway companies, which ended in its being decided that the meeting was a proper one. Mr. Hodgson moved and Mr. Nathan seconded a resolution to the effect that the company should be dissolved ; and Mr. Hastings moved and Mr. Powell seconded, that " The dissolution should be considered as aii act of bank- ruptcy." Upon these, motions the scrutineers proceeded to take the votes, and after the lapse of some considerable time, they an- nounced the numbers to be— for the dissolution, 2280 ; against it, none. There were 400 in favour of the dissolution being considered an act of bankruptcy, and 1880 against it. Upon this the Chairman declared that there was not a sufficient number of votes present to constitute a meeting that could adopt a resolution for the dissolution of the company, and the meeting was therefore adjourned. THE OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON STATION AT WORCESTER.— On this subject so interesting to our fellow citizens the following letter has been addressed to the Journal. Sir,— It is with great satisfaction that, as a citizen of Worcester, deeply interested in its prosperity, I hail the speedy accomplishment of a more convenient railway communication for the large amount of goods traffic which it can furnish, and the equally important passenger traffic, which has, under exist- ing difficulties and disadvantages, been abundantly developed ; and as it can be proved that the discomfort and delay arising from the distance between this city and the Birmingham and Bristol Railway has deterred many who would otherwise have gladly availed themselves of that mode of travelling. The Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Company in bringing down their line have, no doubt, viewed the site of their° prol posed station as infinitely more convenient to the city than that of Spetchley, and so it obviously is, but it appears to me that the Uirectors would do well both for their own interest and that of the city, to inquire whether their Worcester station might not be more conveniently placed than that they now propose, especially as it is generally understood that to obtain convenient access thereto it will be needful to open a new street from the Cross, in a direct line to the station. If this be needful, which I doubt not it will be, it can only be accomplished by the funds of the Railway Company, and if the directors, acting iu accord- ance with the liberal and enlightened views which they have uniformly exhibited towards this city, should be willing to make such outlay, it is not improbable that they would be equally ready to consider how far they might ( instead thereof) at once accomplish the very maximum of railway accommoda- tion, by bringing their line to, and fixing their station at the Cross, in the very centre of the city. The advantage of such an arrangement 1 need not insist upon, and when named to an officer of the company many months ago, the only objection lie urged was, that passengers going onward might object to be brought out of the continuous line, even for so short a distance ; but if Worcester be made the place of refreshment upon the line— a parallel case with Birmingham— as in travelling from Liverpool, Derby, and anywhere in the north, or from London to Worcester; or southward, with Gloucester, as in coming from Bristol to Worcester; with York, as in travelling north; and other stations at which, to travel onwards, the carriages run up to a station, where the passengers get out for refreshment, during which time the carriages are turned round, and after- wards run back upon the same road for half a mile, or a mile in some cases, before they turn off in the required direction, and I have never heard this made matter of complaint. For these reasons it does appear to me, and to many of my fellow, citizens, and I doubt not will so appear to all when they reflect upon it, that the commercial advantages of the city, and tiie comfort of its travelling population, would be greatly promoted by such an arrangement, and that with the good feeling towards the company which it would confirm, and the additional traffic which I feel convinced it wouid induce, I am of opinion that the directors would promote the interests of the company by bringing their station into the centre of the city ; therefore, by inserting this letter in your paper, and allowing your columns to be the medium of any objections that may be raised, you will oblige Yours, respectfully, A CITIZEN AND A RAILWAY TRAVELLER. FATAL ACCIDENT.— On Saturday last an inquest was held at Kidderminster, before Edward Moore, Esq., D. C., to inquire into the circumstances connected with the death of Letitia Haden, who was uufortunately run over and killed in Church- street, in that town.— Joseph Willis, rug- weaver, residing in Church street, deposed that he was standing in Church- street, about twenty yards from his own door, when he saw a horse and light spring cart come gallop- ing down the street. The deceased, Letitia. Haden, was walking slowly down the middle of the street; the cart was coming behind her, and lie called out to her loudly to get out of the way, but sue took no notice. The driver appeared to have tbe command of the horse, for he had the reins well up in his hand, but he appeared a little terrified. The pro- jecting step of the velude struck her behind, arid pushed her down, and the wheel went completely over her. The accident caused her death, and a verdict of " Accidental death" was returned. SECOND EDITION. Saturday Morning, Sept. 12. STOCKS.— Bank Stock, 210 ; 3 per Cent. Red., 96 ; 3 per Cent. Con., 95J ; New 3$ per Cent.. 98i; Cons, lor Acct., 90J ; Long Annuities, 1G; India Stock, 259; India Bonds, — ; £ 1,000 Excheq. Bills, 14. CORN EXCHANGE FRIDAY— At this day's market, buyers of wheat came forward with spirit, and paid 2s. to 3s, per qr. further advance for English, and fully this free on board, and a good extent of business was done in free foreign, at an improvement of Is. to 2s. per qr. There was scarcely any bonded here, the late Belgium and French demand having cleared the market. Few samples of malting barley were exhibited for sale, not enough to quote any change in value, grinding the turn dearer. There was only a short supply of oats this week. There was less activity in the demand, but holders firmly insisted on Mondy's currency. Egyptian beans Is. to 2s. higher, both here and for floating cargoes. SMITHFIELD, FRIDAY The supply of beasts was seasonably extensive ; the numbers of sheep and lambs mode- rate ; the supply of calves good; pigs commanded but little attention :— Beef, 2s. 10s. to 3s. lOd ; mutton, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 8d.; lambs, 4s. 8d. to 5s. 8d.; veal, 3s. lOd. to 4s. lOd.; pork, 3s. 8d. to 4s. lOd. ______ BANKRUPTS. Henry Sutton, Holland- crescent, Barrington- road, Brixton, builder. Charles Paddon, Charlotte- terrace, New- cut, Lambeth, slop- seller. George Frederick Town Fowler, Lillington- street, Pimlico, printer. James Perkins, Wenlock- street, Hoxton, cheesemonger. Peter Flitton, Barley, Hertfordshire, hoot and shoe maker. Michael Shackleton, Manchester, printer. Henry Copner, Ludlow, Shropshire, mercer. Thomas Morris, NewcastleEmlyn, Carmarthenshire, linen- draper. Thomas Barrett, Stroud, Gloucestershire, turner. Edward Boaz Smith, Scarborough, Yorkshire, timber- merchant. John Hardy, Castle Donington, Leicestershire, cattle- dealer. Edward Philpot, Ludlow, Shropshire, timber- dealer. Henry Deverill, Stoke- upon- Trent, Staffordshire, and Congleton, Cheshire, corn- factor. Thomas Ward, Nottingham, maltster. William Gnbbon, Leeds, glass and china dealer. THEATRE- ROYAL, WORCESTER. MR. HENRY BENNETT, LESSEE, 3, COLLEGE STREET. FRIDAY, nth, CHARLES the 12th, THE LOAN OF A LOVER, and THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM. RE- ENGAGEMENT of the Celebrated MRS. FITZ- WILLIAM and MR. BUCKSTONE, who will Perform every Night next Week. Bv Command of the HON. COLONEL CLIVE and the OFFICERS of the QUEEN'S OWN WORCESTERSHIRE YEOMANRY CAVALRY. On MONDAY, 14th, a New Military Drama, entitled JOSEPHINE, with SNAPPING TURTLES, and LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS. The parts of Josephine, Mrs Timms, Fipkins Yaw- Yaw, and Mrs. O'Blarney, by Mrs. FITZ WILLIAM. The parts of Guillot, Mr. Timms, Miss Arabella Dieaway, Sober Sam, and Mr. Golightly, by Mr. BUCKSTONE. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be had at Mrs. Deighton's Libi ary. WORCESTER NEW GAS COMPANY. THE remaining SHARES reserved for the GAS CONSUMERS of the City and Suburbs of Worcester, will be allotted to such Persons as may be desirous of having an interest in the undertaking, on Saturday, the 18th instant. Any Gas Consumer, therefore, wishing to apply must do so on or before Friday, the 17th instant. Applications to be sent to M. Pierpoint, Esq., Chairman of the Directors, Foregate Street. GREAT EASTERN AND WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, tliata Meeting of the Share or Scrip Holders in this Company will be held at Twelve o'Clock at Noon, on Wednesday, the 23rd day of September instant, at the Offices of the Company, 5, Gresham Street, Bank, in the City of London ; for determining whether the Partnership or Company called The Great Eastern and Western Railway Company shall be Dissolved, pursuant to an Act passed in the 9th and 10th years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Intituled " An Act to Facilitate the Dissolution of certain Railway Companies." Dated this 3rd day of September, 1846. By and on behalf of the Committee of Provisional Directors of the said Great Eastern and Western Railway Company, H. G. WARD, One of the Members of such Committee. COUNTY OF WORCESTER MICHAELMAS QUARTER SESSIONS, 1846. ALL Persons having any Demand upon the County, for the payment of which the order of the Court of Quarter Sessions is required, must leave the particulars thereof at the County Gaol, made up to the 31st day of August last, ( inclosed in a sealed cover,) addressed " To the Finance Committee," at the County Gaol, Worcester, on or before Twelve o'Clock on FRIDAY, the 18th day of SEPTEMBER Instant, or the same will not be allowed these Sessions. C. A. HELM, D. C. P. Clerk of the Peace's Office, Shirehall, Worcester, Sept. 2, 1846. WORCESTERSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. JOHN TAYLOR, ESQ., PRESIDENT. rpHE GENERAL ANNUAL MEETING of this 1 SOCIETY, for the EXHIBITION OF STOCK, IMPLEMENTS, SEEDS, ROOTS, FRUIT, & c., AWARDING PREMIUMS to LABOURERS, COT- TAGERS, and SERVANTS, and for the PLOUGHING MATCHES, will be held on FRIDAY, the2d of OCTOBER NEXT. All Certificates, Notices, and Claims of every description, must be sent to me, properly filled up, on or before the 19th of September. JOHN C. NOTT, Hon. Sec. Hallow, September 1st, 184( 5. WORCESTERSHIRE. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. THE LAST SHOW of this SOCIETY, for the present Season, will take place on TUESDAY, the 15th instant, at the GUILDHALL, when Subscribers who have not yet paid their Subscriptions are particularly requested to do so. THE ANNUAL DINNER will be held at Five o'Clock in the Afternoon of the same day, at the STAR HOTEL, W. LEWIS, ESQ., MAYOR, IN THE CHAIR. J. C. NOTT, ESQ., VICE. Tickets, 5s. each, may be had at the Bar of the Hotel. Members intending to Dine, or to introduce a Friend, are requested to leave their Names at the Bar. W. H. ROGERS, Secretary. Worcester, Sept. 9th, 184G. THE CHELTENHAM HYDROPATHIC INSTITUTION, AT SHERBORNE VILLA, and SHERBORNE HOUSE, is now Re- opened, with considerable improve- ments in the BATHS, DOUCHES, & c., under the direction of Mr. HARNETT, whose experience and knowledge of the treatment both in Germany and in England entitles him to the confidence of the Patients. Board, & c., in the Establishments, with the treatment, medical attendance, & c., £ 2. 12s, fid. per week. Persons of limited means will be received at £ 1. 6s. par week ( Jut Patients will receive the full treatment at from £ 1. Is. to 12s. per week. Single Baths, Douches, & c., may be had. There is also employed at this Institution, in all cases where it is applicable, the celebrated Hemospasique Appareil, invented by Dr. Junod, and recommended ay the principal Physicians in Paris, & c., for local inflammations, and com- plaints arisi. ig from the fulness of blood and obstructed circulation. The blood and fluids are drawn from the diseased part to the arms or legs, thus giving instant relief, without pain or inconvenience; and supersedes bleeding, blistering,, leeches, & c. The combined treatment is eminently adapted to- the cure of Apoplexy, Paralysis, Tic Doloreux, Pulmonary Complaints, Nervous and Mental Diseases, & c. Persons desirous of satisfying themselves of the agreeablenesr- and efficacy of the treatment, will be furnished with Board and Lodging only on the most reasonable terms. H. TAYLOR, ESQ., M. R. C. S., Resident Surgeon. Duty Free. ] ELECTION OF MEDICAL OFFICERS. LEDBURY POOR LAW UNION. NOTICE is hereby given, that the Board of Guar- dians will, at their Weekly Meeting, to be held at the Union Workhouse, Ledbury, on TUESDAY the 22nd day of SEPTEMBER instant, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon APPOINT MEDICAL OFFICERS, qualified agreeable to the regulations of the Poor Law Commissioners, to attend the Parochial Poor for the Year ending the 24th day of September. 1847. For the purposes of Medical Relief, the Union is divided into the following Districts :—• FIRST DISTRICT— Comprising the Parish of Ledbury and the Workhouse.— Salary, 70/. per Annum. SECOND DISTRICT— Comprising the Parishes of Bos- bury, Castle Frome, Canon Frome, Cohvall, Coddington, Eastnor, Eggleton, Mathon, and Stretton Grandsome.— Salary\ 851, per Annum. THIRD DISTRICT.— Comprising the Parishes of Ash- perton, Aylton, Donnington, Little Marcle, Much Marcle,, Munsley, Parkhold, Pixley, Putley, Tarrington, Woolhope,! and Yarkhill— Salary, 85/. per Annum. These Salaries will include all necessary Medicines and Appliances whatsoever, except Trusses, and allowances for Surgical cases, as directed by orders of the Poor Law Commis- sioners ; and 10s. for ordinary cases of Midwifery, when an order for attendance is given by competent authority. They will be required to attend in all things to the rules and orders of the Poor Law Commissioners; to make a weekly Return to the Board of Guardians of Sickness and Mortality ; to attend Board Meetings, when required; and to make out and fill up such Returns as may from time to time be required by the Poor Law Commissioners and the Board of Guardians. Any Medi- cal Gentleman undertaking either of the above Districts will be required to reside in the Town of Ledbury. They will also be required to enter into Contracts for Vacci- nation, upon the same terms as the existing Contracts. M edical Gentlemen desirous of the appointments are requested to forward written applications, accompanied by Testimonials to me, and to attend personally at the Board Room, Ledbury' on Tuesday, the 22d day of September instant, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon. By order of the Board, JESSE HUGHES, Clerk. Ledbury, 1st September, 1846. MALVERN, WORCESTERSHIRE. IMPORTANT SALE of FREEHOLD LAND, well adapted for VILLAS, on sites of peculiar beauty, with CHALYBEATE SPRINGS, § c., at GREAT MAL VERN, Worcestershire. MESSRS. HOBBS & SON HAVE the honour to announce to the Public that they have received instructions from the Trustees for Sale of the late JAMES MASON, ESQ., deceased, and others, to OFFER for COxMPETITlON, in the month of OCTOBER, ( of which timely notice will be given,) at the BELLE VUE HOTEL, MALVERN, in suitable Lots which will be set out for the purposes of Building ;— All that VERY VALUABLE ESTATE, called the NETHER GRANGE OR ABBEY FARM, with SPA VILLA, CHALYBEATE SPRINGS, and SPLENDID SHEET OF WATER, containing about 18 0 ACRES OF FREEHOLD LAND, CHIEFLY TITHE- FREE AND LAND- TAX REDEEMED. This Property is much enhanced in value from the fact that it is THE ONLY FREEHOLD LAND near the much- admired VILLAGE OF MALVERN that can be obtained for Building, and that it abounds in PLEASANT AND PICTURESQUE SITES FOR VILLAS, and other Private Residences; a judicious scheme is being formed, which will be adhered to, whereby purchasers will be protected, and the character of Malvern, SO RICH IN NATURE'S CHARMS, will be preserved. It is the intention of the Vendors to set out aud form, at their own expense, CONVENIENT AND SUITABLE ROADS, one of which entering through the MUCH- ADMIRED ABBEY GATEWAY, and running Southerly into the Ledbury and Malvern Turn- pike Road, will afford accommodation to the several purchasers. It may be considered presumptuous in attempting to describe THE LOFTY AND MAGNIFICENT RANGE OF THE MALVERN HILLS, rearing themselves in front of the fertile and richly- cultivated VALLEY OF THE SEVERN, and forming one of the chief attractions of the highly- favoured SHIRE OF WORCESTER. Their beauty is well known to all who have visited THE FAR. FA. MED VILLAGE of that name, but as there may be some who have NOT BEEN SO FORTUNATE, it may be well to observe that they are near 1,500 FEET ABOVE THE LEVEL OF THE SEA, extending about NINE MILES from North to South, accessible by winding Paths, and present- ing at every turn a SUCCESSION OF VARIED VIEWS, TO THE SUMMIT ; from whence it may be truly said one of THE LOVELIEST AND MOST EXTENSIVE PROSPECTS opens to the sight, ENCHANTING THE IMAGINATION with the fertility on the East and South, and THE BOLDNESS OF THE SCENERY on the Western side. THE ABBEY FARM lies on the slopes of these DELIGHTFUL HILLS, and, being higher than the surrounding Country, enjoys A VIEW OF UNLIMITED EXTENT, only surpassed by that above described. THE ABBEY CHURCH, that CHASTE AND CLASSIC RELIC OF ANTIQUITY, immediately adjoins, and presents a noble feature in contem- plating the eligibility of this Property. Messrs. Hobbs earnestly invite a close inspection of this Estate, as an opportunity like the present, either for Residence or Investment, in this MUCH- ADMIRED LOCALITY, will never occur again. A more detailed advertisement, with Plans and printed Parti- culars, will shortly appear; and further information may be had of Messrs. Bedford and Pidcock, Solicitors, Worcester; Messrs. Edwards, Mason, and Co., Solicitors, 8, Moorgatc Street, Lon- don; Messrs. J. W. and G. Whateley, and Messrs. Barker and Griffiths, Solicitors, Birmingham ; Mr. James Webb, Land Surveyor, and Messrs. Hobbs, both of Worcester. SEVERN FISHERIES' ASSOCIATION. AT the THIRD ANNIVERSARY MEETING of the UNITED ASSOCIATION for the PROTECTION of the FISHERIES of the RIVER SEVERN and its TRIBUTARIES, held at the GUILDHALL, in the City of Worcester, on TUESDAY, the 8th day of September, 1846. JOHN MATHEW GUTCH, ESQ., IN THE CHAIR, IT WAS RESOLVED— That tbe Report of the Central Committee now read, be received and adopted, and be printed ( in whole or part,) under the Direction of the Central Committee, for distribution. That the thanks of the Association be respectfully tendered to his Grace the Duke of Cleveland, for his great kindness in accepting the office of President of the Institution, and for his liberal subscriptions towards promoting its objects ; and to the Noblemen and Gentlemen who have honoured it by accepting the offices of Patrons and Vice- Presidents. That the Right Honourable Lord Lyttelton be elected President of the Association for the ensuing year. That the following Gentlemen be elected the Central Com- mittee for the present vear:— J. M. Gutch, O. A. Wyatt, W. J. Ellis, Robert Jackinan, and W. ltolph, Esqrs.; Mr. G. S. Davis ; B. G. Kent. Esq., the Mayor of Worcester, John Dent, M. Pierpoint, J. H. Clifton, J. W. Isaac, H. D. Carden, R. T. Rea, and Thomas Chalk, Esqrs.; Mr. John Hood, Mr. M'Millan, and Mr. Frederick Allies ; J. B. Morgan, Esq., the Rev. J. R. Berkeley, A. L. Annesley, G. C. Vernon, J. R. Cookes, Arthur Skey, Edward Hughes, J. W. Lea, George Allies, and Jabez Allies, Esqrs.; Mr. W. D. Lingham, Mr. S. Edgcombe, and the Rev. George Hodson. That from the experience which the Central Committee have had in the fate of the bills introduced in the two last Sessions, this Meeting is of opinion that the Associa- tion is not in itself sufficiently powerful to carry a measure through Parliament of so much importance as the Regulation of the Salmon Fisheries throughout England and Wales, it therefore strongly recommends to the Central Committee to take steps to procure an interview with the Board of Trade, or any other public department, for the purpose of inducing the Government to take such steps by a general Act, or otherwise, as to them may seem best adapted to promote the improvement of the Fisheries, and that they solicit the co- operation of other Associations which have the same object in view, and that a copy of these Resolutions be transmitted to the Members of the County and City soliciting their earnest support. That the Central Committee be instructed to take the most energetic means to put down any attempt which may be made in the Berkeley District, or in any other, to commit an infrac- tion of the Law for the Preservation of Salmon during the ensuing Fence Time. That the warmest thanks of this Meeting are especially given to Sir Thomas Winnington for his unwearied exertions and perseverence in conducting the Bills for the Regulation of the Salmon Fisheries in Parliament, and for his general atten- tion at all times shown to the interests of the Association, and its various members who have been in communication with him. That the cordial thanks of this Meeting be tendered to J. M. Gutch, Esq., Chairman of the Central Committee, for his inde- fatigable services during the past year, particularly those rendered at the meeting in London on the subject of the Fisheries Bill, and that he be requested to continue his office of Chairman during the ensuing year. That a Copy of the Report and Proceedings of this day be sent to all the London Papers, and to such Editors of the Pro- vincial Press as it may appear desirable particularly to interest in the national object of this Association, with a respectful request that they will give them the advantage of their power- ful advocacy. That the thanks of this Meeting are due to Mr. H. George, Secretary of the Association, for his services during the past year. ( Signed) JOHN MATHEW GUTCH, Chairman. MUCH MARCLE AND WOOLHOPE, HEREFORDSHIRE. MOST DESIRABLE PROPERTY, FOR SALE BY AUCTION, BY MR. R. JONES, At the Walvvyn Arms Inn, Much Marcle, five miles from Ledbury, and seven from Ross, on Thursday, the 1st of October, 1846, at three o'clock in the Afternoon ; in two Lots, subject to such Conditions as will be then produced :— LOT L A Very eligible small FREEHOLD ESTATE, XJL exonerated of Land Tax, called " THE NEW HOUSE," conveniently situate in Much Marcle aforesaid, near tbe Turnpike Road, about half- a- mile from the place of sale, and in the occupation of Mr. T. W. White, consisting of a respectable and convenient Brick- built HOUSE, having an Entrance, two Parlours, Kitchen, Back Kitchen, Dairy, and Cellar, on the first Floor, with good Bed Rooms over ; Barn, Stables, Cider . Mill House, and other Buildings, Yard, Garden, and Three rich Grass Orchards well planted with fine Fruit Trees of the choicest sorts and capable of producing 50 Hogs, headT of Cider in a season of the primest quality, containing together about SIX ACRES. LOT 2— A very compact ESTATE, called « THE FAR HYDE," which is of first- rate quality, and in the highest state of cultivation, containing 111A. 1R. 30P., most advantageously situate on the Eastern side of the Marcle Hills, in the Parish of Woolhope, adjoining good Roads, ten miles from Hereford, seven from Ross, and six from Ledbury, in the occupation of Mr. William Davis, consisting of a small FARM HOUSE, two sets of well- arranged Farm Buildings, Yards, and Garden ; six parcels of Arable, six ditto of Meadow and Grass Orchards, and one of Coppice Wood Land, all in excellent order. The Orcharding is of the best description and in its prime. Under part of the Arable are ROCKS OF CAPITAL BUILDING STONE, these and other advantages which this Property pos- sesses, renders it a most eligible investment; the greater part is Freehold, and a small part Copyhold of Inheritance under the Dean and Chapter of Hereford, subject to a small fine on death or alienation, and exonerated from Land- tax. Mr. White will show the New House, and Mr. Hooper, the Proprietor, who resides at the Hill Farm, near to the Hyde, will show the same, of whom particulars may be known, or at the Offices of Messrs. Higgins and Chamberlain, Solicitors, or the Auctioneer, Ledbury. 1846. ' REVISION OF THE LIST OF VOTERS FOR THE EASTERN DIVISION OF WORCESTERSHIRE. PURSUANT to the Act of 6th Victoria, cap. 18, sec. 32, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that JOHN CURWOOD, ESQUIRE, Barrister at Law, duly nominated and appointed to Revise the LISTS OF VOTERS in the Election of Members to serve in Parliament for the EASTERN DI VISION of the County of Worcester, will make a Circuit of the said Division, and hold Courts for the purpose of REVISING the said LISTS, at the times and Places following, that is to say,— At DROITWICH, at the George and Foley Arms ' Inn, on MONDAY, the 21st day of September instant, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, for the Parishes of— Dodderhill Doverdale Droitwich in Liberties Droitwich, St. Andrew Droitwich, St. Peter Droitwich, St. Nicholas Edvin Loach Elmbridge Feckenhain Hadsor Hampton Lovett, including Westwood and Crutch Han bury Himbleton Inkberrovv Salwarpe Stock and Bradley Stoke Prior Upton Warren and Grafton Manor ( Extra Parochial) And all other Places ( if any) within the said Parishes. At BROMSGROVE, at the Town Hall, on WEDNESDAY, tbe 3rd day of September instant, at Ten o'clock in the Fore, noon, for the Parishes of— Bentley Pauncefoot Tutnall and Cobley Bromsgrove Webheath Redditch And all other Places ( if any) within the said Parishes. At KINGSNORTON, at the King's Arms Inn, on THURS- DAY, the 24th day of September instant, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, for the Parishes of— Alvechurch Northfield Beoley Oldbury Cofton Hacket Yardley Kingsnorton And all other Places ( if any) within the said Parishes. At HALESOWEN, at the New Inn, on FRIDAY, the 25th day of September instant, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, for the Parishes of— Cakemore Lapal Halesowen ( Borough) Oldbury Hasbury Ridgacre Hawn Romsley Hill Warley, Salop Hunnington Warley, Wrgorn Uley And all other Places ( if any) within the said Parishes. At STOURBRIDGE, at the Court House, on SATURDAY, the 26th day of September instant, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, for the Parishes of— Bellbroughton Broom Churchill Clent Cradley Frankley Hag ley Lutley The Lye Pedmore Upper Swinford Stourbridge Wollascote Wollaston And all other Places ( if any) within the said Parishes. At DUDLEY, at the Town Hall, on TUESDAY, the 29th day of September instant, at Ten o'clock in the Forenoon, for the Parish of DUDLEY, And all other Places ( if any) within the said Parish. At SHIPSTON- ON- STOUR, at the George Inn, on THURSDAY, the 1st day of October next, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, for the Parishes of— Alderminster Armscott Blackwell Blockley Cutsdean Dailesford Darlingscot and Longdon Evenload Newbold Shipston- on- Stour Tidmington Tredington And all other Places ( if any) within the said Parishes. At EVESHAM, at the Town Hall, on FRIDAY, the 2nd day of October next, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, for the Parishes of— Abbot's Morton Aldington Atchlench Badsey Bengeworth Bretforton Broadway Church Honey bourne Church Lench Cleve Prior Evesham, All Saints Evesham, St. Lawrence And all other Places ( if any) within the said Parishes. Great and Little Hampton Harvington Norton and Lenchwick North and Middle Littleton Offenham Rouselench Sedgeberrow Sheriff's Lench South Littleton Washbourne Little Wickhamford At PERSHORE, at the Angel Inn, on MONDAY, the 5th day of October next, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, for the Parishes of— Abberton Alstone Besford Birlingham Bishampton Bredon Bricklehampton Charlton Comberton. Great Comberton, Little Conderton Cropthorne Deffbrd Dormeston Eckington Elmley Castle Fladbury Flyford Flavel Grafton Flyford Hardwick and Mitton Hill and Moor Hoblench, otherwise Ab- bot's Lench Kington Kinsham Naunton Beauchamp Netherton North Piddle Norton- in- Bredon Overbury Peopleton Pershore, Holy Cross Pershore, St. Andrew Pinvin Pirton Strensham Teddington Throckmorton Walcot cum Membris and Wad borough Wick Wyre Piddle Westmancote And all other Places ( if any) within the said Parishes. And the List of Voters for any Parish or Place not herein- before- mentioned, will be revised at the nearest Court. The Overseers of each Parish or Place must attend ( as required by the Act) at the opening of the Court, at which the Lists of their respective Parishes are hereby appointed to be revised, and bring with them Copies of their Lists, and all Notices of Claims and Objections, and all other Papers they have received concerning the Registration of Voters for the Eastern Division of Worcestershire. In wilful default thereof they will be Fined, pursuant to the aforesaid Act of the 6th Vic., chap. 18. C. A. HELM, Deputy Clerk of the Peace. Clerk of Peace's Office, Shirehall, Worcester, Sept. 8th, 1846. BY APPOINTMENT Co ffitv i^ af^ tg CBUttett an* ft* t& e £ Htcfiegg of WitnU SPARKS'S EOYAL PORCELAIN HOUSE AND CUT- GLASS ESTABLISHMENT 7, BROAD STREET, WORCESTER. TO THE ADIIEEBS OF BRITISH POBCELAIW. The Marquis of Worcester's splendid Porcelain Dessert Service, Manufactured at the celebrated Coalhrookdale IVorks. E O II G E SPARKS HAS the honour to announce the completion of the above beautiful Service, and to inform the Nobility, Clergy, and Gentry., narticularly those Families who have expressed a desire to see the SERVICE previous to its being sent avvay, that he has obta> ed the permission of Lord Worcester to allow his Service to remain on view for a short period at the above Rooms, commencing on Saturday, the 12th instant, and the whole of next week. G. S. flatters himself that those of his kind Patrons honouring him with a call, for tbe purpose of inspecting the above elegant production, will find it well worthy their notice,— together with Sample Plates of the various Services he has had the honour to Manufacture for Her Majesty the Queen Adelaide, and several of the Nobility of England and France, together with a magnificent Collection of Porcelain in all its varieties, in Articles both Useful and Ornamental, Foreignrand British Cut Glass of the first- class Workmanship,— Magnificent Assemblage of Wax Flowers, with a constant supply of Wax and all the materials used in making them. G. S. having been appointed Sole Agent for Worcestershire, is enabled to supply Schools and Families at London Prices. G. S. cannot allow the present opportunity to pass without expressing his grateful acknowledgments to his numerous kind Patrons and the Public generally, for the very distinguished support he lias met with for many years past, and further to assure them, that it will be his constant study, by strict personal attention to all Orders he may be honoured with, to merit their contb med Commands. Worcester, September 11th, 1846, THE ANNUAL SALE of LEICESTER RAMS, by AUCTION, at WOODFIELD, OMBERSLEY, near Worcester, by Mr. BENTLEY, will take place on FRIDAY, the 18th of September next, being the day previous to Worcester Great Hop Fair. NOTICE. " VfOTICE 1s hereby given, that the GAME on the JL 1 several Farms and Lands in the respective occupations of the undersigned, situate in the several Parishes of SAINT PETER the GREAT, SAINT MARTIN, and NORTON JUNTA KEMPSEY, in the County and Borough of Wor- cester, or either of them, is strictly preserved; and that all persons found TRESPASSING on the said Farms and Lands, or any of them, in pursuit of Game, or otherwise, will be PROSECUTED according to Law. Witness our hands, this 12th day of August, 1846. JOHN PARKER, ROBERT ALLIES, FLEMING ST. JOHN, WILLIAM CONEY, JOHN WALKER, ELIZA CONEY, THOMAS PALMER, JOHN SMITH, WILMOT GAUNT, JOSEPH JONES, JOHN HOOD, JOHN GREEN, GEORGE HART WRIGHT, HENRY WEBB. JOHN HARTWRIGHT, WILLIAM OTLEY, EDWARD DORRELL, for CHARLES JONES, SIR A. LECHMERE, PETER FOXALL. WORCESTER TURNPIKE ROADS. UPTON DISTRICT, ( AS TO THE REDUCTION OF TOLLS.) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that at the GENERAL MEETING of the TRUSTEES of the WORCESTER TURNPIKE ROADS, to be holden at the SHIRE HALL, in the City of Worcester, on WEDNESDAY, the SEVENTH day of OCTOBER next, at the hour of Twelve at Noon, a MOTION will be made, that the Trustees then and there present do enquire into the propriety of Lessening and Reducing all or any of the Tolls payable on the Upton District of the said Turnpike Roads; and if, upon such enquiry, then and there to be made, it shall appear to the Trustees then present that the said Tolls can be Reduced, without injury to the Roads, an order will be then made for Lessening and Reducing all or such of the said Tolls as to the said Trustees shall seem meet, and to commence from such time as shall be then agreed upon. By order of the Trustees, JOHN BROOKE HYDE, Clerk. Worcester, 2nd September, 1846. WHILST Messrs. BETTS & Co. are studiously desirous to avoid the imputation of unwarrantably increasing the alarm created by the rumoured prevalence in the Metropolis, of that fearful disease the Asiatic Cholera, they deem it consistent with a due regard to the feelings of the public, to direct attention to the subjoined Testimoniais as to the merits of their Patent Brandy. This pure and wholesome Spirit has long been in very general use in the most important Hospitals and Infirmaries in the Kingdom, and is deserving of especial notice at the present time, from its peculiar efficacy in arresting the ravages caused by those epidemics that usually prevail at this season of the year ; and the same can be procured throughout the Kingdom; of Wholesale Spirit Merchants, in quantities not less than 2 Gallons, being 1 Dozen, or in single Bottles, 3s. per Bottle, from Retailers, each Bottle being secured by the Metallic Capsule, which Messrs. BETTS & Co. [^ P^ TEN TS> 1 have the exclusive right of making, and \ • ^ -< 1 which, when bearing the annexed impres- sion, is a self- evident protection to the ^ Spirit against the possibility of adultera- X^ flTCk'Pj^ tion. EXTRACTS FROM TESTIMONIALS " Grenadier Guards Hospital, " The two samples of your Patent Brandy I had an opportu- nity of laying before the Board of Officers, which sat at the Regimental Hospital last Saturday. Every Member of the Board approved of the Brandy, and have ordered that it shall be used for the sick. ( Signed) " J. HARRISON, Surgeon- Major, Grenadier Guards." " Messrs. J. T. Betts & Co." " 38, Upper Gower Street. " I do not hesitate to express my conviction, that it is fully as free from anything injurious to health, and contains as pare a Spirit as the very best varieties of Foreign Brandy. ( Signed) " EDWARD TURNER, Professor of Chemistry in " John T. Betts, Esq." " the University of London." / " Long Acre. " I am bound to say, and do assert it with confidence, that for purity of Spirit, this cannot be surpassed; and that your Patent Brandy is also quite free from those acids which, though minute in quantity, always contaminate the Foreign Spirit. ( Signed) " JOSEPH HUME, Toxicalogical Chemist " To J. T. Betts, Esq." " to the Board of Excise." " 58, Aldersgate Street. " Your Brandy is free from uncombined acid, and astringent matter, which exists, more or less, in most of the Brandies im- ported from France. ( Signed) " JOHN THOMAS COOPER, " Lecturer on Chemistry, at. Guv's, « To Mr. Betts." " and St. Thomas' Hospitals." NASSAU SELTERS WASSER. Messrs. BETTS & Co. also avail themselves of the present most seasonable opportunity to direct public attention to the peculiar salutary properties of the SELTERS WATER, respecting which many eminent Physicians have expressed the most favourable opinions deserving of serious and attentive consideration. The learned Monsieur Caventou, of Paris, makes some observations replete with interest and truth. " Wc know of no Mineral Water suited to such variety of constitu- tions. It exercises an especial action on the biliary system, frequently and promptly checking the worst symptoms, whether connected with vomiting or diarrliom" He concludes by recom- mending Selters Water as one of the most salubrious drinks for warm climates, and ranges it in the first rank of antiscor- butics and preventions of dysentry. Whilst M. Augustus Wetter, Physician of Berlin, the latest and most celebrated writer on Mineral Springs, states, " Sellers Water is highly beneficial in cases of gastric irritation, bilious vomiting or diarrhoea, and ought to be administered in small but frequently repeated doses. In cases of dyspepsia, either from irritation or weak stomach, the continued use of Setters Water is highly advantageous." Messrs. Betts & Co. cannot too strongly caution the public against the evils of artificial gaseous waters generally, since the learned Monsieur Caventou informs us " that they frequently produce so much inconvenience and danger as to cause its use to be replaced by that of the natural, the latter* acting as a very antidote to the former." Numerous attempts having been made to impose upon the Public by some manufacturers of artificial waters and other mixtures, by advertising that they enjoy the privilege of receiv- ing supplies of the natural Selters Water direct from the springs, Messrs. BETTS & Co. beg to state that they have the exclusive right of procuring the same direct from the Springs, and, as evidence thereof, they publish the following Declaration of the Nassau Government, founded upon its solemn contract with Mr. J. T. BETTS. THE GENERAL DIRECTION OF THE DOMAINS OF HIS HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF NASSAU, DECLARE, by these presents, that being desirous to prevent and put a stop to the numerous falsifications committed in respect to the Waters of Selters, and, to secure for the future to the Kingdom of Great Britain, its Colonies, and Dependencies, the enjoyment of the genuine Water of that Spring, they have resolved, from the 1st of January, 1845, to use the Metallic Capsules of Mr. JOHN THOMAS BETTS, of London. The General direction of the Domains further DECLARE by these presents, that they have granted to the said JOHN THOMAS BETTS, Patentee of the above described Capsules, and TO NO ONE ELSE in the Kingdom of Great Britain, its Colonies, and Dependencies, THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT to pur- chase and export, direct from the Springs, the Waters of Selters, Fachingen, Schwal- bach and Weil bach. They declare further, that the Bottles, after being filled with the respective Mineral Waters, are to be immediately and in the presence of their Officers closed with the above named Capsules, which bear the impression of the annexed drawing :— Given at Wiesbaden, this 18th day of December, 1844. BARON DE BOCK HERMSDORFF, President of the Direction General of the Ducal Domains o Nassau. HENRY HENDEL, Secretary. The Sellers Water is imported in hampers containing Four Dozen large Bottles, ( each Bottle equal to Five Bottles of Soda Water,) or Five Dozen small; and sold, exclusive of carriage, at 10s. per Dozen for the large, and 7s. per Doeen for the small, bottles and hampers included, and not returnable. A liberal allowance made to tbe Trade. Applications to be made to Messrs. BETTS & Co., PATENT BRANDY DISTIL- LERS, 7, SMITHFIELD BARS, who beg further to inform the Public that although they contend for the superiority ot" their Patent Brandy over every other Spirit, yet, in deference to the incredulous, is submitted THE STANDARD OF COGNAC. THE BEST COGNAC BRANDY is the produce of a tract of land in France, well known as the CHAMPAGNE DISTRICT. To meet a demand, greatly disproportionate to the supply afforded by so limited an area, the Foreign Traders in the article were notoriously in the habit of adulterating it with other Brandies, of an inferior quality; and they, thereby, in- duced a great number of the Proprietors of the best Vineyards in that district to establish a Company, in the year 1838, under the name of THE UNITED VINEYARD PROPRIETORS' COM- PANY; for the purpose of counteracting the baneful effects of such fraudulent practices upon the character of the Cognac Brandy, and of enabling the Public to obtain through them the genuine article. The reputation which the Company now enjoys, in the Market, is the strongest proof of the fidelity with which they have hitherto effectuated the purposes for which they were formed. This Company has engaged to supply Messrs. BETTS & Co. as appears by the following letter:— " Cognac, 14th March, 1846. " Messrs. Betts & Co., London. " Gentlemen,— We have very great pleasure in confiding to your care the sale of our BEST BRANDY, produced from the Champagne district, in order that you may be enabled, by tbe use of your METALLIC CAPSULE, to guarantee the GENUINE ARTICLE to the Public, at a fair remunerating price, and that we may derive a benefit from the extension of our trade through the high respectability, and established reputation of your House, " We are, Gentlemen, " Your obedient Servants, " For the United Vineyard Pronrietors' Company, " GEO. SALIGNAC, Manager." And Messrs. BETTS & Co., under the title of LA SOCIETE VIGNICOLE CHAMPENOISE, beg to inform those consumers who wish for THE BEST COGNAC BRANDY, which they designate THE STANDARD OF COGNAC, that the same can be purchased throughout the Kingdom, in Bottles, at the price of 4s. 6d. per Bottle for the Coloured, and 5s. per Bottle for the Pale ; each Bottle being secured by the Patent Metallic Capsule, which Messrs. BETTS & Co. have the sole right j of making, and which, when bearing the annexed impression, is a self- evident and certain safeguard against the possibility of adulteration; and proof that it was affixed to the Bottle at their Stores, No. 96, ST. JOHN STREET LONDON. & BETTS IS FRERES t* 1 ^ OGNAC^/ 1 THE W O R C E S T E R S H I R E GUARDIAN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1846. STOCKS.— At 2 o'cl. < Bank Stock 3 per Cent, lted Ann. 3 per Cent Cons Cons, for Account.... 3J perCent. 1818 j 3 per Cent. Red j New 3£ per Cent ; 3 per Cent. 1826 Bank Lon< r Ann India Stock , India Bonds ........ Excheq. Bills Fi'. r. SAT. MUX. TUBS. WED. TIIURS - 10 AT. lj 210 211 210 96J 961 90£ 9J* 9H* 96I 9ii. i 96 i 96 9t> s 96^ 90 i 96S 96J 96* 98$ 9Sj 98J 98s " 986 98a I0i 259 LUFT 16 10 j 10J 260 260J — I 29 P 29 p 20 r j 20 1 17 p 17 P 11 l' 15 p FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER II, IS4G. LAST WORDS OK LOUD RUSSEL ON TUB SCAFFOLD. " I did believe, and do still, that Popery is breaking in upon " this nation, and those who advance it will stop at nothing " to carry on their designs; and i am heartily sorry that " so many Protestants give their helping hand to u." THE cotton spinners and cotton speculators of the north— the selfish heroes of Free Trade in corn— may, perhaps, ere long, find that their calculations have been founded upon a rotten base, and that the fabric which they have so ingeniously and so cleverly constructed will fall upon their own heads. Speculations in American cotton has become of lute years so enormous, that the production has been pushed to a monstrous extent, and the profits were becoming less. This fact may have urged the Manchester and Northern merchants to look out for large profits which they may have calculated would be made by the establishment of a Free Trade in Corn. And now what is the result of the new measures ? We have been favoured with the sight of a letter addresed by Messrs. Buchanan and Co., of Liverpool, to a gentle- man of this city, in which the following passages occur :— " Speculations in cotton have been frequently entered into during several years past, based on unprecede ntly low prices, and an enormous consumption. It has hitherto happened that these operations have not been attended with success, not that the consumption had fallen off, for the reverse was the fact, but because the production had increased in a ratio exceeding existing wants, and all former precedent, and had admitted an accumulation of stock everywhere, exceeding all previous experience and calculation. " It had always been, and is still a problem ( perhaps yet to be solved) what is the price at which a cotton planter in America is remunerated. We cannot come to any accurate calculation; we therefore must, to a certain extent, to be guided by facts ; and one occurs to us, this season, which is, a great falling off in fhe last crop, after a favourable season, to the extent of about 355,000 bales, and this accompanied by a corresponding falling oft' in the stock here, which is now within manageable compass. " Looking forward as to supply, the crop of the present year is admitted to present a very unpromising aspect, so that a greater supply is not looked for, perhaps less next year than during the present, and after this year, it is considered and believed probable, that the encouragement given by the recent changes in our Corn Laws, in many districts, where cotton is now produced, that Indian corn will hereatter be substituted, as a much more paying crop ; hence we look rather for a reducing than an increasing supply of cotton wool for some years, a re^^ generally admitted to be probable." Thus it appears, according to the above reasoning, that while the agriculturists of this country are likely to be further injured by increased and growing competition by foreigners, the cotton lords themselves may suffer by an increase in the price of cotton. This, however, is but a poor consolation to the agricultural party, for the policy of these millionaires is but too familiar to every observer to allow it to be supposed that they will allow themselves to be losers to any extent. No, the burthen will fall on the shoulders of the poor mechanic and artisan. They will be told that in consequence of the advanced price of the raw material their wages must be reduced, and thus the arguments of the Protectionists will be borne out, as they have already been to a certain extent, by the proceedings of some of the manufacturers in the north, as alluded to in a recent number of this paper. THE SALMON FISHERIES.— In our first page will be found a report of the proceedings of the third annual meeting of the Association for the Protection of the Fisheries of the Severn and its tributaries, held in this city ou Tuesday last. It will be seen that in consequence of the opposition which has been experienced in the endeavours to pass a bill through Parliament for the better Regulation of the Salmon Fisheries of England and Wales, the Association recommends the taking of steps to procure an interview with the Board of Trade, or any other public department, for the purpose of inducing the Government to take the matter in hand. This is precisely the plan recommended by us to be adopted in this matter in an article published in this paper a few weeks since, and there appears to be no other chance of effecting the desirable object in view, viz., the correction of the abuses which now exist in the fisheries of our rivers and estuaries We cordially wish the Association that success in this worthy and philanthropic object of which it is so eminently deserving, and sure wo are that no efforts will be left untried to effect it. We perceive that the Herefordshire Conservators have issued a warning to fishermen not to encroach on the fence time. The fence months for the Wye, in the counties of Radnor, Brecon, and Hereford, commence on the 15th of September, and end on the 11th of February, both days inclusive, and for the Wye in the counties of Gloucester aud Monmouth they commence on the 14th of September, and end on the 10th of February, both days inclusive, and we are assured that a rigid observance of the law will be enforced in every district of the Wye. The fence season for the Severn does not commence quite so early as that of the Wye. The Hereford Journal says— It is not commonly known that tho Sewin is an inhabitant of the Wye, above tide's way. Two beautiful fish of this species weighing nearly 3 lbs. each, were caught by Mr. Morris, of Shipley, near Holm Lacy, in the course of last week. The appearance of the Salmon lately brought to the Hereford market indicates very plainly that the proper season for taking them is past. REPRESENTATION OF EAST WORCESTERSHIRE.— The Chronicle still insists upon thrusting before the public the name of Mr. Hodgetts Foley, as a candidate for the re- presentation of the Eastern division of the county, at the next election, though clearly without the slightest authority. The following appeared in itspublication of Wednesday last:— " Rumour is still busy about the future representatives for the Eastern Division of Worcestershire, and the opinion now some time prevalent that John H. H. Foley, Esq , of Prestwood Hall, will be called to this high honour, appears to be fixing itself in the mind of the electors, and, from what we learn, it is more than probable that were he to offer himself there would be no contest at the forthcoming election, but that Mr. Foley and a Conservative of high respectability would take their seats as a matter of course. We know many influential Con- servatives who are most anxious to avoid a contest, and who are fully prepared to concede one seat to the claims of the Liberal party, should Mr. Foley be the object of their choice— aud surely a better choice cannot be made— connected with a family beloved and respected in the county through a long period, himself one of the best landlords, a practical agricul- turist, and founder and supporter of institutions having for their object the improvement of agriculture, the friend of the labouring classes, to improve whose condition he has incurred heavy expense and devoted much of his time." Now as it is possible that some lukewarm Conservatives' ( should they have seen the above paragraph) may be led away by its plausibility, we give to our contemporary the benefit of republishing it in our columns— but only for the purpose of observing thereupon that whatever may be the wishes of the Worcestershire Chronicle and its party, for dividing the representation of the Eastern division, they will not be regarded by the Protectionist electors, who will— whenever an election may come, and the sooner the better— bring forward two Conservative and Protectionist candidates to represent them in Parliament. There is no foundation whatever for the assertion that the Conservatives have any idea of " conceding one seat to the claims of the Liberal party:" this is merely a bit of badinage on the part of our contemporary, whose " wish," no doubt, is " father to the thought." MARRIAGE OF MISS BAKER.— It will be seen by our marriage register in another column that on Tuesday last the marriage of Major Lowe, late of the 16th Lancers, and of Court Hill, Tenbury, to Caroline Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late Thomas Baker, Esq., of Ashurst Lodge, in the county of Kent, took place at Hartlebury. There were present at the ceremony— the Bishop of Worcester, Mrs. Pepys, the Misses Pepys, and Mr. Herbert Pepys; the Dean of Worcester, Mrs. Peel, Mr. Robert, and Mr. Herbert Peel; Sir Thomas and Lady Hastings, Rev. Henry and Mrs. Hastings; the Dean of Exeter and Miss Lowe; Miss Hastings and Mr. John Hastings; Rev. Durand Baker and Mis? G. Baker. After the ceremony the parly breakfasted at the house of the Rev. Thomas Baker, brother of the bride, and left for Malvern about two o'clock. Lord Nortlnvick has arrived at Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham, from Northwick Park. His Lordship remains in Cheltenham for some days, superintending the arrange- ments of the new Picture Galleries, in which many of the choicest paintings of this very extensive collection are now being hung. The Bishop of London ( who has been on a visit to Malvern,) paid a visit to this city with Mrs. Bloomfield, and three sons and two daughters, ( his lordship has a family of twelve,) last Friday, and attended afternoon service at the Cathedral, at the close of which they spent some time in inspecting the sacred edifice. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners have erected part of the parish of Aston- juxta- Birmingham, into the district of St. Andrew, Bordesley, and fixed the salary of the minister at £ 150 per annum. The church of St. Andrew, just completed, is in the diocese of Worcester, and will be consecrated by the Lord Bishop in the course of the present month. The incum- bent is the Rev. D. B. Moore. Lord Hatherton has left Teridesley Park, Staffbrdshiie, on a ^ hooting excursion in the Highlands, HER MAJESTY.— The Queen has attain been cruis- ing on the seas adjacent to her marine residence. Her Majesty left the Isvle of Wight on Wednesday week for a cruiss to Jer- sey, at which island she arrived in the course of the evening. The Queen was received on landing with the customary royal honours, and, in addition, by two hundred young ladies, con- ducted by Lady De Veille, lady of the chief magistrate or high bailiff'; and Miss Gibbs, sister to Major- General Sir Edward Gibbs, Lieutenant- Governor of the island. On Thursday, her Majesty and the Prince Consort made a progress through the loyal town of St. Heliers, and on through the country some few miles to the castle of St. Orgueil, very ancient, and said to have been originally built bv Julius Caesar. Her Majesty and the Prince, accompanied by the Lord Chamberlain, Earl Spencer, Viscount Palmerston, and the rest of the royal suite, returned to the royal yacht a little before three o'clock. Her Majesty did not leave the yacht again that day. Prince Albert proceeded in the Fairy, to take a little survey of some portion of the island. Her Majesty left Jersey, on Friday, at eight o'clock a. m., and arrived at Falmouth, about seven o'clock the same evening. After the Queen's arrival an address was presented through Viscount Palmerston to her Majesty, from the Mayor and Corporation of the borough of Falmouth. Her Majesty left Falmouth on Saturday for the Cornwall coast. The Fairy hove in sight at Penzance, at one p. m. and the Victoria and Albert and the Garland and Black Eagle shortly followed, when the mayor and corporation went alongside of the Royal yacht with an address, which was not accepted, Earl Spencer stating that her Majesty's visit was a private one, but if the ad- dress was forwarded to the Secretary of State a reply through the same channel should be made. Subsequently her Majesty with Prince Albert left the Victoria and Albert for the Fairy, in wheh they went round the beautiful St. Michael's Mount. The Queen returned to the Victoria and Albert, but Prince Albert went on shore in the state barge, and was received by Mr. Matthews, who took the Prince to the smelting works of Mr. Bolitho, and then to the Geological Rooms, and thence to the Esplanade, when he returned on board. Richard Taylor, Esq, and Lord Palmerston accompanied the Prince in his tour. The steamers Victoria and Albert, Fairy, and Black Eagle, left Penzance at 2 p. m., and arrived at Falmouth at 7 p. m.; at which hour the official authorities went on board to learn her Majesty's commands. The Royal yacht returned to Falmouth on Sunday evening. Monday morning at six 2i. ua., one of the Royal carriages was landed ; and at eight a. m., his Royal Highness came on shore in his barge; and proceeded to the United Mines, the St. Agnes Consols and Polberrow, accom- panied by Richard Taylor, Esq., and returned by way of Truro. Her Majesty returned to Osborne House, Isle of Wight, on Wednesday morning. Fine weather prevailed throughout the cruise, and it is said that the Queen and Prince Albert enjoyed the excursion vastly. The Victoria and Albert, the Fairy, the Black Eagle, and the Garland, came up through the Needles early in the morning; and at half- past eight the Queen and Royal family landed at Plymouth, under a Royal salute from the guns of the Castle. The sojourn of the Court at the Royal Marine residence will, itis stated, be prolonged until the middle of October, during which period her Majesty and the Royal family purpose to make several marine excursions. CHURCH ACCOMMODATION.— The new church at Bad- desley Clinton, in the county of Warwick and diocese of Wor- cester, was consecrated by the Bishop of Worcester last week. After the ceremony, 224 working men and 108 women on Mr. Dugdale's Baddesley estate were entertained at a sub- stantial dinner; and the Rev. Mr. Bradley, the Rector, regaled the school children of the parish with lea and plum cake, without distinction as to the religious creed or sect of their parents. WINCHCOMB.— On Sunday last the annual music meet- ing of the Winchcomb Choir, ( assisted by those of Chelten- ham and Tewkesbury) took place iu the parish church, and was eminently successful beyond previous years, whether wo regard the numbers who attended it, or the high quality of tho musical performances. The day was extremely fine, a circumstance which was favourable to the pecuniary success of the meeting, as it induced a large attendance of visitors from the neighbouring towns of Cheltenham, 4 Tewkesbury, Evesham, & c., and contributed also to cast a cheerful aspect over this otherwise interesting anniversary. The morning service was opened by a selection from Mendelssohn's " Lobgesang," and the evening's with Luther's Hymn, " Great God what do I see and hear." Among other pieces of sacred music performed in the. morning and evening were selections from the Messiah, and the whole passed off admirably. Sermons were preached by the Rev. J. R. Harvey, Vicar of Winchcomb, and the Rev. H. Palmer. MR. H. PHILLIPS' ENTERTAINMENT.— We are sorry to state that Mr. Phillips' entertainment given at the Natural History Rooms on Friday night last, was but scantily attended. The audience, however, was composed of warm admirers, who enthusiastically applauded his efforts. Phillips and his style of singing are too generally known to require any observation here; we would merely add that we never heard him in better voice. Mr. Phillips gave two concerts on Saturday at Cheltenham, which were well attended. THE BIRMINGHAM MUSIC MEETING.— It appears from accounts just made up that the total of the receipts at the late musical festival held at Birmingham amounted to £ 11,310.3s. 3d. The expenditure is not yet ascertained. DEATH OF THE MARQUIS OF AILSA.— We have to announce the demise of the Marquis of Ailsa, who, after a protracted illness of several months, expired on Tuesday last, at St. Margaret's, his Lordship's seat, at Isleworth. Although the Noble Marquis had gradually declined in health for the last three years, he, up to the close of July, remained in much the same state, so as not to cause any immediate aiarm to his family. Since then his Lordship has rapidly sunk, and his approaching dissolution became apparent, and in consequence of anticipated danger an express was dispatched to the Earl of Cassilis, who is abroad, to inform him of the alarming illness of his grand- father. The deceased, Archibald Kennedy, Marquis of Ailsa, of the Isle of Ailsa, county of Ayr, and Baron Ailsa of Ailsa, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, Earl of Cassilis and Baron Kennedy in the peerage of Scotland, and a Baronet of Nova Scotia, was eldest son of Archibald, eleventh Earl of Cassilis, by his second marriage with Anne, daughter of Mr. J. Watts. He was born in 1770, and on the 1st of June, 1793, he married Margaret, youngest daughter of Mr John Erskine. ALL SAINTS' IMPROVEMENTS.— A good beginning has been already made towards the carrying out of this good work, and the first blow struck by, we are glad to announce, our respected and most liberal Diocesan, who has sent his pro- mise of 201, to the Rev. Charles Eckersall. Few persons are aware of the pressing pecuniary calls which are daily made upon the puise of our Bishop, and are responded to by his Lordship ; his prompt direction, therefore, in this instance may justly be considered as extremely generous, and his example, we trust, will be extensively followed. WORCESTER CITY COMMISSIONERS.— A meeting of this body was held on Tuesday at the Guildhall; F. Hooper Esq., in the chair. Mr. Edward Wheeler, Mr. Josiah Stallard and Mr. Thomas Davies, Broad Street, severally qualified and took their seats at the board. The report of the Engine Com- mittee was read by the Secretary ; it stated that the Committee had contracted with Mr. Charles Smith, to supply 120 tons of slack, at 10A'. per ton. A four- inch main was ordered to be laid down in Birdport. The report of the Finance Committee, after recommending the payment of certain bills, presented an estimate of income and expenditure for the half year commenc- ing the 29th September, which, leaving a deficiency of 950/. 13s. od., proposed that a rate of Id. in the pound should be made, viz.: 4</. for water and 3d. for lighting. And in addition to the order made at the last meeting for the collector, to get in three- fourths of the rate within three months after the rate is made, and the remainder within the fourth months strongly recommended that a final abstract of the rate for the current half year should be handed in to the Treasurer on the 1st of March and 1st of September in each year, together with a correct list of all the defaulters ; which list should be pre- sented to the Commissioners at their next general meeting. Adjourned till Tuesday, the 13th of October. WORCESTERSHIRE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY An advertisement elsewhere announces that the last show of the society, this season, will take place on Tuesday next. The annual dinner will, as usual, be held on the afternoon of the same day at the Star Hotel. SALE OF MR. LAKIN'S STOCK.— Some persons say " what's in a name ?" whilst some say a name is everything;" and so it turned out to be at the sale on Tuesday last, at Beauchamp's Court, near this city; more than' 1,500 persons, principally agriculturists, assembled on the occasion, and we think Mr. Lakin must be more than sanguine if he is not satisfied with the result. The cattle of his own peculiar breed ( including cows, heifers, bulls, and calves,) averaged £ 30, one of the two year- old heifers was sold for 53 guineas, and one of the cow calves for the astounding price of 41 guineas. Messrs. Moore and Weaver, of Tewkesbury, were the auctioneers, and their arrangements elicited general praise, whilst the hospitality of the worthy aud highly respected host, as well as his high sense of honour in the conduct of the sale, was the theme of universal admiration. RAILWAY AND RIVER TRIP. — A large party of mechanics from Birmingham, arrived by railway in this city, on Monday morning, on an excursion of pleasure, and pro- ceeded by the Sabrina steamer down the Severn to Severn Bank, and Croome House near, where they enjoyed them- selves throughout the day, returing to Birmingham in the evening. IMPROVED STATE OF STEAM NAVIGATION.— Railways have always been considered vastly more expeditious means of travelling than steamers, but the following fact will show that there is really but little difference between the two. On Monday that fine steamer the Little Western landed her passengers at Blackwall shortly after two o'clock, having made the passage from Ramsgate in four hours and a half, and from Gravesend in one hour and five minutes, passing every steamer on her way up. She was rounding the Foreland ( between Margate and Ramsgate) when the Heme left Margate jetty. The latter vessel made the passage from Margate to Blackwall in four hours and a quarter. Both boats had the tide with them all the way, and the sea and river were perfectly smooth. The distance traversed by the Little Western was about 10G miles, being at the rate of 21 miles an hour. FREAKS OF NATURE.— In the garden of Mr. John Hood, situate at Diglis, near this city, is an apple tree, some sort of Nonpareil, which now exhibits all the stages of blossoming and fruiting. First, there are blossoms just bursting forth as in' the month of May, then the dead blossoms as in June, next the young fruit as in July, and lastly the full- grown specimen as in August. Iu the garden of Mr. Goodwin, at Pershore, may now be seen a fine laburnum tree in full blossom, a perfect picture of golden drapery. Mr. Goodwin's garden also contains an apple tree in full blossom ; this tree had ripe fruit on it from a former crop, not more than a fortnight ago. NAPOLEON LODGE OF UNITED BROTHERS. — The members of the above- named Benefit Society partook of a substantial repast in their Lodge Room at the Angel Inn, Worcester- street, Kidderminster, on Monday last. Mr. Henry Grant officiated as Chairman, and Mr. Sampson Simpson acted as Vice- chairman. The cloth having been removed, the following toasts were proposed and enthusiastically responded to :—" The Queen," Her Majesty's Ministers," " Prosperity to the town and trade of Kidderminster." The Chairman then called upon the Secretary to lay before them the Finance Com- mittee's report. The Secretary, Mr. William Thomas, said he felt much pleasure in so doing, as their funds were in a very flourishing state. Since their formation they bad discharged all just claims upon their funds, and still there remained net cash in hand to the amount of £ 74. 7s. 3d. ( Cheers.) The greatest harmony and hilarity prevailed throughout the evening, and about ten o'clock the company separated. WORCESTER YEOMANRY CAVALRY. The " faithful city" of Worcester again presents its annual martial features in the presence of the various troops of the Queen's Own Regiment of Worcestershire Yeomanry Cavalry now assembled for permanent duty. The regiment assembled yesterday for eight days' permanent duty. The troops met at Pitchcroft early in the afternoon, and after a short drill the Gallant Colonel of the Regiment briefly addressed the assem- bled officers on matters of discipline, after which the regiment marched into this city and were dismissed for the day. This morning the regimentassembled again on Pitchcroft for exercise, and this evening there was a foot drill for the same place. The review will take place on Wednesday next at Kempsey. The following is a list of the various froops, with their officers:— Stourbridge Troop Capt. Hickman, Lieut. Graze- brook, Cornet Elwes, Lieut. Harwood. Witley Troop Capt. Cookes, Lieut. Sir W. Smith, Cornet Galton. Ta'rdebigg Troop, No. I Capt. R. Hemming, Lieut. M. Hem- ming. Tardebigg Troop, No. 2— Capt. Rufford, Lieut. F. G. Rufford, Cornet Biggs. Ilanbury Troop.— Capt. Galton, Lieut. Curtler, Cornet Bear- croft. Troop Capt. Temple, Lieut. Smith, Cornet Berkeley. Troop Capt. Pakington, Lieut. Skey, Cornet Pakington. Upton- on- Severn Troop— Capt. Hon. W. Coventry, Lieut. Dowdeswell, Cornet Stone. Kings Norton Troop Capt. Taylor, Lieut. Taylor, Lieut. Woodroffe, Cornet Clive. Evesham Troop Capt. Lord jEastnor, Lieut. Gist, Cornet Watson. Dudley Troop.— Capt. Bcnnit, Lieut. Hunt, Lieut. Dixon, Cornet Cresswell. STAFF. Colonel the Hon. R. Fl. Clive. Lieut.. Colonel, the Right Hon. Lord Ward. Major J. J. Martin. Captain and Adjutant R. Emmot. Surgeon, W. II. Ricketts. Assistant Surgoon, T. Walsh. Ditto, Ditto, — Johnson. Veterinary Surgeon, J. Rose. Assistant Ditto, E. Boddington. Chaplain, the Hon. and Rev. W. W. C. Talbot. HEREFORD MUSIC MEETING. Worcester Westwood FREEMASONRY.— In our last Guardian we stated that a new Lodge of Freemasons had been formed at the Rein Deer Hotel. The first lodge established in this city was also formed at the Rein Deer about sixty years ago, but the members of the " Worcester Lodge" becoming too large for the accommodation afforded by this " auncienle hostelrie" the members removed about five years since, to their splendid hall at the Bell Hotel, which perhaps is one of the finest halls the Masons have to boast of in the provinces. After the removal of the " Worcester Lodge" a desire became manifest among some of the Brethren, and others desirous to gain a knowledge of the mysteries of the craft, to establish a new lodge at the" old place," and which, after many consultations on the subject was duly accomplished on Monday last by the ceremony of consecration and installation of the master of the " Semper Fidelis Lodge" ( 772), being performed in the usual beautiful and impressive manner observed upon such occasions. The duty was performed, in a very efficient manner by Brother Samuel Hunt, P. M., ( 523,) assisted by Brother Wheeler, W. M., ( 348,) Brother Shelton, P. M., ( 349.) Brother Bennett, P. M., ( 349,) Brother Macmillan, P. M. ( Killwinning 2,) and a goodly muster of the Brethren. The ceremonies having been gone through, the master appointed his officers for the next year, and the business of ( he lodge commenced by the initiation of the full number of candidates allowed to be made in one day, after which the brethren sat down to an elegant repast, and enjoyed an agreeable evening in a manner which is only known to Masons themselves. We are glad to hear this is not a rival to the " Worcester Lodge," but that the utmost cordiality exists amongst the Brethren of this city. THE THEATRE.— It will be seen by o notice in out- advertising columns, that Mrs. Fitzwilham and Mr. Buck- stone are engaged at this establishment for the whole of next week. Monday's performances are under the patronage of Colonel Clive and the Officers of the Queen's Own Worcestershire Yeomanry Cavalry, and we trust that the spirited manager will be rewarded by overflowing houses. WORCESTER REGISTRATION.— The burgess lists are now exposed for public inspection, and it is for those who are entitled to be upon these lists to inspect them and see that their names are not omitted. Should their names not appear, a claim should be made to have them inserted. The qualifica- tion consists in having been rated " forany house, warehouse, counting- house, or shop," from January, 1844, to August, 184G, aud having paid all rates due previously to February, 1846. POLICE.— The magistrates of this city have again had, we are proud to say, a light week's labour. The only case for their worships' judgment on Monday was that of Jesse Fowlke, a noted character, who for several years has on the average spent one month in gaol and one out alternately. She was again sent down for the old term and for the old offence— being'drunk and disorderly. No business worth notice has been brought before the bench since Monday. EXTRAORDINARY MUSHROOMS.— There have just been gathered in the cellar of Mr. King, tinman, of All Hallows, in this city, seven real mushrooms, measuring each about nine inches in diameter. No spawn has ever been deposited in the cellar to the knowledge of the occupiers of the house. RARA AVIS.— On Monday last, at Spetchley, near this city, R. Berkeley, Esq., shot a specimen of that rare bird the Sandpiper, which, being a native of Greenland, but seldom visits our shores. The bird, though a small one, is a great curiosity, and is now in the possession of Mr. Robinson, of the Corn Market, in this city, to be stuffed and preserved for the Museum. GREAT MALVERN.— This romantic village is at the present time crowded with visitors from the metropolis and all parts of the country, and presents during the fashionable hours a most gay and lively scene. The following are the recent arrivals and departures:— Arrivals:— Major- General the Hon. Sir James Cockburn and family, the Right Hon. Lord Dalmeny and family, the Hon. Gordon Deeds and family, the Rev. W. C. Purdon and family, the Rev. Mr. Catou and family, Captain Hadwen and family, Baroness French and family, the Rev. Ilenry Palmer and family, Mrs. Grundy and family, Captain Haslefoot and family, the Rev. Dr. Page and family, the Rev. Mr. Moss and family, the Rev. Mr. Darby and family, the Rev. John Younge and family, Mr. Symonds and family, Mr. Moore and family, Mr. Bonner and family, Captain Fenton and family, Mrs. General Scott and family, Mr. Bradley and family, Mr. Le Grice and family, Mr. William Motice and family, Mr. Bircham and family, Mrs. Carden and family, Mrs. Morrison and family, the Lord William Graham, the Dowager Lady Hay, the Earl and Countess of Charlemont, Lady Clemens, Sir Henry and Lady Penn, Major Lane, Rev. Mi. Jeffreys, General Gleby, Mrs. Barker, Mrs. Barber, Miss Byram, Mr. Vincent, Mr. Marsh, Walter Baine, Esq., M. P., Sir John and Lady Buchan, Capt. Boys, Mr. Henry Pigon, Miss Coast, Miss Gibbard, Mr. Stephenson, Sir Arthur de Capell Broke, Mrs. Maddock, Mrs. Hughes, Miss Hayes, & c— Departures:— The Lady Emily Foley, for Stoke Edith Park, Herefordshire ; Sir Robert Sydney and family, for Maidenhead ; N. Phillips, Esq., and family, for Leamington. MALVERN DISTRICT RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES. — The annual meeting of the subscribers and friends, in the Malvern District, of those two venerable Church Societies— that for pro- moting Christian Knowledge, and that for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts— was held last Tuesday, when an excellent congregation was assembled in the fine old abbey church of Great Malvern, and a sermon, eloquent and impressive, was given from the 45th Psalm, verses 4, 5, and G, by the Rev. H. J. Stevenson, Honorary Canon of Worcester Cathedral. The collection amounted to 3\ l. A party of the clergy and laity dined afterwards at the Foley Arms, under the presidency of the worthy Vicar of Great Malvern, the Rev. J. Wright, F. R. S. BREDICOT DISTRICT SCHOOL.— A collection was re- cently made at White Ladies Aston Church, for the benefit of the Bredicot District School, after a sermon preached by the Rev. the Vicar, together with the sums afterwards collected in the parish, rhe amount was £ 5 lis. 4| d. There are 152 children in the school, and 13G are attendants at the day schools. ARELEY KINGS.— The sum of £ 8 13s. Gd. was collected after two sermons at Areley Kings Church, on Sunday, the 30th ultimo, in aid of the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and the Church Missionary Society, by the Rev. W. Cockin, M. A., head master of the Grammar School, Kidderminster, and the Rev. Henry Hill, M. A., of Wolverley. ARCHERY AT WYNNSTAY.— The annual archery fete at Wynnstay, North Wales, the princely seat of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, takes place this day ( Friday), and will exceed in splendour all similar fetes in this part of the world. Dinner was to be laid for 400 of the aristocracy, and the evening terminate with a grand ball, for which Weippert and his full band are retaiued. EVESHAM TOWN COUNCIL.— The Town Council of this borough will proceed to- morrow ( Saturday) to the election of an alderman to serve iu the room of the late Edward Rudge, Esq., of Abbey Manor House. DISTRESSING DEATH.— We have the painful task of recording the death of Mr. Alfred Hood, eldest son of Mr. John Hood, of the College Yard, in this city, under circum- stances of a most painful nature. It appears that Mr. A. Hood left this city last evening to walk to Malvern to meet Mrs. Hood, and was proceeding at a ? ery rapid pace, when lie was seized with sickness and probably determination of blood to the head ( to which he had been subject) terminating in apoplexy. He was found this morning lying in a field near to Powick new bridge ( on the Malvern road) quite dead, and an inquest is to beholden on the body to- morrow evening. MALICIOUS INJURY.— A few nights ago some person or persons maliciously cut and disfigured the tails and manes of four valuable cart horses, the property of Mr. J. B. Wag- staff, which were depastured in Boughton Park, near this city. A reward is offered for the discovery of the offenders. SERIOUS ACCIDENTS. — On Friday last a young man, named William Jones, a blacksmith, while collecting fruit from a pear tree near to the railway cutting at Primrose- hill, fell from the tree to the ground in consequence of the rottenness of one of the boughs, and received such injuries that he was at once removed to the Infirmary, where he now lies in a very dan- gerous state.— On the same day a boy named Teague was playing in Edgar Street, and balancing himself on the shafts of a trolley, when he fell off and the wheels went over his legs, breaking his thighs. He was immediately conveyed to the Infirmary On Saturday, a young man, named Joseph Cooke, who was engaged at the railway works near this city, was driving one of the waggons used in removing earth from the cutting, when he accidentally became jammed between his waggon and another by which his ribs and lungs were injured. He was removed home, and Mr. Everett, surgeon, called in, under whose care he is giadually getting better. COMMITMENTS TO THE COUNTY GAOL.— By John Williams, Esq.: Joseph, Lilley, charged with robbing with violence, Martin Robinson.— By the llev. Thomas Pearson : Edward Price, charged with stealing an umbrella, & c., the property of James Jones, at Ribbesford.— By Thomas Bate, Esq. : James Hyatt, charged with stealing money, the property of Ann Solloway, at Stourbridge. The 123rd meeting of the three choirs of Worcester, Here- ford, and Gloucester, has been held during the present week at Hereford under the conductorship of Mr. George Townshend Smith, organist of the Cathedral in that city. The object for which these meetings were previously instituted— the benefits of the families of deceased clergymen connected with the three dioceses— is of itself so important, that, we cannot but regret the extreme difficulty which was experienced in procuring a sufficient number of stewards. Indeed it was considered at one time exceedingly doubtful whether any meeting would be held at all this year, and but for the untiring perseverance of Mr. Smith, aided by a few Jof the influential inhabitants of the county, such must have been the case; and this valuable Institution would have suffered so serious a draw- back, as would in all probability have endangered its future usefulness. But we rejoice to say that this evil has, for the present, at least, been averted, the following gentlemen having undertaken to act as stewards :— The Venerable Archdeacon Vickers, Rector of Chett'on, Salop; Rev. Richard Lane Freer, B. D., Rector of Bishopstone; Rev. William Hassall, M. A., Vicar of Much Dewchurch ; Joseph Bailey, jun., Esq., M. P., Easton Court; Robert Pulsford, Esq., M. P., London; and William Lacon Childe, Esq., Kinlet Hall, Salop. Under these auspices, the preliminary arrangements were made and the Festival was announced to commence on Wednesday last under the especial patronage of her most gracious Majesty the Queen; Vice Patrons: the Right Hon. the Earl of Oxford, the Right Hon. and Rev. the Lord Viscount Hereford, and the Lord Viscount Eastnor, M. P. The morning performances were appointed to take place in the nave of the Cathedral, which, as our readers are already aware, was lately discovered to have become in a dilapidated state, and active measures were instantly adopted to restore the building to its original condition. Already several thousand pounds have been expended; but several more are required before the completion of this great undertaking, and it is to be feared that unless the liberality of the public aid the Dean and Chapter the building will of necessity remain in its present unfinished state. So far as the operations have been carried on the restoration has been effected in the most complete and masterly manner, under the superintendance of Mr. Cottingham, the architect. We have neither space nor time to extend our observations upon this subject, further than expressing a hope that the restoration of so noble a building as Hereford Cathedral may not be viewed solely in the light of a local improvement but as a national one ; the promoters of it are therefore entitled to the assistance of every Protestant in the kingdom. We now proceed to a brief notice of the immediate business of the Festival. A capacious orchestra erected at the east end of the nave afforded accommodation for about 150 performers: 0 principal vocalists, 54 instrumentalists, 30 trebles, 20 altos, 22 tenors, and 24 bases. The following are the names of the leading performers :— Miss Birch, Miss Dolby, the Misses Williams, and Messrs. Hobbs, Lockey, Hatton, Machin, and H. Phillips. Leaders: Messrs. Cooke at the morning, and Willy at the evening performances; organ, Mr. Amott, of Gloucester Cathedral; piano- forte, Mr. Done, of Worcester Cathedral. The band included many of our popular per- formers,— Messrs. Williams, clarionet; Grattan Cooke, oboe; Lindley, violoncello; Harper, trumpet; Piatt, horn ; & c., See. The choruses were partially selected from the ancient and philharmonic concerts. Agreat proportion of the choral force was, how ever, composed of gentlemen selected from the choirs at the Cathedrals of Worcester, Gloucester, Windsor, Bristol, Lichfield, Cambridge, Armagh, & c. An organ built by Gray and Davison, of London, for Yrzor Church, was erected at the back of the orchestra. The public were accommodated on the floor of the nave which was fitted up ; and also in a capacious gallery erected at the west end; at the front of this gallery- were the reserved seats. Having thus far stated the nature of the arrangements we come now to the first day's performance. WEDNESDAY MORNING. On making enquiries throughout the city, we could not learn that any great excitement prevailed about the success of the festival, and but few visitors had taken lodgings. It was, how- ever, hoped that the second and third days' performances would attract, a large portion of the neighbouring gentry. The attendance at the Cathedral was highly respectable, but by no means numerous. Among the company were the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, the Right Rev. the Dean, Joseph Bailey, jun., Esq., M. P ., and the Mayor of Hereford, accompanied by a number of the Town Council. We did not perceive any of our own county families present. The performances commenced with the overture ( No. 2) in Spohr's Last Judgment. It was exceedingly well played. The preces, responses, and Litany, were chanted as harmonized from the Gregorian melodies, by Tallis, and with one or two slight exceptions, were given with good effect; they wanted a careful rehearsal with the priest, and ought riot to have been attempted without such prepara- tion. Had it not been for the Cathedral singers, who were rather more numerous than usual, the beauty of these sublime responses would have been sadly marred. The choral music of the Dettingen Te Dcum of Handel, was performed generally in a spirited and faultless manner. In the first and second choruses the solo parts allotted to Miss Dolby were sung by that lady nearly half a note below the instruments, and altogether showed great physical debility, and throughout the whole of the morningshe appeared almost unnerved. In the trumpet obligato to Phillip's solo Thou art the King of Glory," Harper's lip failed him, and he was compelled to put in a " rest" here and there. The trio " Thou sittest at the right hand of God" was delightfully sung by Miss M. Williams, Mr. Hobbs, and Mr. Machin; and the chorus " Day by Day" was given with startling effect. Mr. Phillips gave that beautiful prayer " Vouchsafe O Lord" in a style so impassioned and devotional, as to leave an impression on his audience which will not easily be erased. His conception of the music appeared to be par- ticipated in by the band, who subdued the accompaniments in a most effective manner. The solo " O Lord in thee have I trusted" sung by Miss Dolby, and the chorus concluded the Te Deum. The Jubilate was opened by the solo " O be joyful," sung by Miss Dolby ; this solo is not at all adapted for a female voice. It is not strictly ecclesiastical, but there is a peculiarity about Purcell's music which requires a different style of singing, and, in our opinion the solo would have been more effective! v per- formed by any one of the choir- men present. We don't'mean for one moment to impugn the talent, learning, or vocalisation of the very amiable lady in question ; but still we cannot give up our often expressed opinion that male counter tenor voices are better adapted to church music than mezzo sopranos. The canon, " O go your way," was given very steadily. The duet, " For the Lord is gracious," sung by Miss Dolby and Mr. Machin, wanted animation. The gloria, so replete with artis- tical intricacies, was given with a steadiness and precision we would not wish to hear excelled. Croft's anthem, " God is gone up," was sung before the Litany, the semi- chorus being taken by the principal singers. Before the sermon Dr. Boyce's anthem, " O where shall wisdom be found," was given, but not very satisfactorily. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Richard Lane Freer, B. D., rector of Bishopstone, from the 14 Luke, v. 1. He remarked upon the scruples of some who found fault with the holding of such meetings as the present, and defended the pro- moters of the Festival from the attacks which were made upon them, and explained the objects of the charity. After the sermon Hayes anthem " O worship the Lord" was performed, the orchestral accompaniments having been written by Mr. Cooke, the leader. They were rather too loud in the verse parts, but were exceedingly effective in the last chorus, par- ticularly upon the words " let the sea make a noise," when the whole force of the band was brought to bear with astound- ing effect. The collection at the doors amounted to £ 295, being about £ 102 more than the collection on the corresponding morning in 1843. WEDNESDAY EVENING. The programme of the concert this evening was a very attractive one; hut it appeared that the attraction was not strong enough to draw; the taste of the Herefordshire people seeming to bear more to the fashionable style of music— such as they may hear at the Italian Opera House, in their annual peregrinations to the metropolis, or at the evening concerts of the Birmingham Festival, if they prefer attending that celebra- tion to one which comes, or ought to come, close to their own hearts and hearths— than to the genuine classical entertainment which the good and pure taste of their able conductor had pro- vided for them. It is a scandal upon the national character that nothing will " go down" but Italian bravuras, excerpts from Operas, and exotic productions of the same genius. What ? Have we not talent enough among ourselves to " get up" a concert either in the productive or the executive department ? Have we not, in the first branch, a John Barnett, a Charles Horn, a Hatton ( who for lack of a due appreciation of his genuine talent and genius amongst his own countrymen, is making himself his own alter ego, and passing off his clever contributions to the repertory of English Musical Art under the outlandish and inscrutable name of CZAPEK) ;— we speak now of living composers— for it would be aimost sacrilege to name the " mighty dead" when talking of a thinly attended concert at a Festival of this kind. And in the executive branch who, we would like to know, can excel the array of talent congregated in " the ancient border city" upon the present occasion ? We will not signalise any one or two cf the artists here employed, lest we should be thought to give a preference to any one over any other; and we shall now proceed to n very brief notice of this evening's concert. The first part of the concert consisted of Weber's overture to his Opera " Der Freischutz," which was brilliantly performed. This was followed by Mendelssohn's " Walpuryis Nacht," which, as our readers will remember, was given at our own Festival last year; they therefore will not require a critical analysis of it. Suffice it, then, to say, that it was admirably con- ducted by Mr. DONE, the organist of our Cathedral, and sung, so far as the " principals" were concerned, nearly the same as at Worcester. Phillips, however, was anything but a good exchange for Staudigl. We shall say no more in reference to this portion of the concert than that Miss M. Williams acquitted herself, as usual, faultlessly. A magnificent Quintett of Beethoven, magnificently played, closed the first part of the concert. In the second part there was not much worthy of remark beyond the splendid execution of Rossini's graphic overture to " William Tell," and the finale, Sir H. 11. Bishop's " Tramp Chorus," which was capitally performed, the solo part being admirably sustained by Miss A. Williams. We must not forget, however, to mention an interesting trio of Curschmann, delightfully sung by the Misses Williams and Mr. Lockey, of whom more anon. THURSDAY MORNING. On entering the Cathedral this morning we were agreeably surprised to find it filled in every part with a brilliant assem- blage, the fairer and more beautiful portion of creation having the numerical preponderance. The performance opened with the overture to Mendelssohn's St. Paul, which was beautifully played, especially the close fugue in the second movement. The Requiem followed, and we derived great pleasure from its per- formance in more ways than one; for a kind friend had obliged us with the loan of a German- printed score, and we were thereby enabled to trace the imposition which Master Sussmayer has attempted to practise upon the musical world. To mention only one instance, the letter S., meaning Sussmayer, is prefixed to the second violin part in one of the choruses, and this very part is note for note identical with the first violin part, to which M. ( Mozart) is appended; the fraud which Mozart's pupil attempted to pass off' is therefore too transparent, pro tanto, to impose upon any one ; but we need say no more upon this head, as the imposition has already been exposed by Mr. Holmes in his interesting " Life of Mozart," published in Chapman and Hall's Monthly Series. It would be merely impertinent in us to venture a critical disquisition upon a work which has been reviewed by abler writers over and over again, and which must be familiar to every lover of classical music in the land ; and there is the less need that we should dilate on it at any consider- able length, because the same version of the Requiem ( Professor Taylor's English Version) was given at our own meeting some few years ago, and will, doubtless, be fresh in the memory of many of our readers. We shall content ourselves, then, with saying that the executancy of the work upon this occasion was very satisfactory, and that the divine Benedictus was repeated bv desire— a compliment which we could well have dispensed with so far as the accompanists were concerned, for they were somewhat loud, and not precisely accordant, in the musical sense of the word. The final chorus of the Requiem was omitted, and a movement from the Litany substituted for it an exchange for which we cannot award the Gresham Professor any meed of thanks, as the movement, though intrinsically and per se extremely beautiful, is not at all in keeping either with the sentiment or the setting of the Requiem. We shall reserve our remarks upon the Fall of Babylon, ( which formed the second part of the morning's performance), until our next number, the subject being one into which we cannot enter so fully as we could wish, writing, as we at this moment do, only a few hours before our usual time of publica- tion, and at a considerable distance from home, without the means of speedy communication which railroads and electric telegraphs have supplied to more favoured localities. We had almost forgotten to mention that the collection this morning exceeded £ 200, which the authorities consider more than an average amount. The collections of the two days exceeding the corresponding collections in 1843 by more than £ 100; and it is anticipated that the Messiah, which is to be performed to- morrow morning, will attract such an assemblage as shall add largely to the " charity fund, and considerably diminish the Stewards* responsibility. THURSDAY EVENING. The selection presented this evening was excellent, showing admirable tact and judgment in the Conductor ; and his abun- dant provision, we are happy to say, attracted many guests, the hail being nearly thronged. The concert opened with a selection from Weber's fairy opera " Oberon," and we must be allowed to say that the choice of such music to form one half of a concert goes far to realise the cherished object which we have so long and fervently advocated, that of rendering these festivals the means of presenting the best music in the best manner, and rescuing them from the stigma which has long, and we are compelled to admit, deservedly, rested upon them, of being a mere medium through which the popular metropolitan singers might introduce their peculiar stGck pieces to the provinces; perhaps, however, railroads have contributed as much towards this partial reform as the cultivation of a sound taste has. With this brief introduction we proceed to an equally brief notice of the conceit. The sparkling overture was played, as might be expected from a band composed of " picked men"— the very elite of the profession, with a precision and force of expression that could scarcely have been equalled— certainly not excelled. The fairy chorus was hardly an approximation to perfection in the representation, the trebles being principally in fault. In the grand scene " O ' tis a glorious sight" Mr. Loekey's intonation was a little defec- tive, although his execution of this arduous song was on the whole highly creditable. Nevertheless we could not help recalling to our memory the Braham, whom we have often heard sing the scena in a style which we shall never again hear approached. Upon the succeeding recitative and aria, sung by Miss Birch, we shall not waste eulogy; for in truth praise applied in this instance is as needless as the attempt to enhance the delicious perfume of the violet would be fruitless. It was in fact the very perfection of artistical executancy; and the pure silvery quality of the fair vocalist's organ contributed in no small degree to the attainment of that perfection. The same remarks will apply to the duet " Ah, happy maid," sung by Miss Birch and Miss Dolby. The wonderfully effective chorus " Now the evening watch is set," was splendidly given, both by the band and the choral body. Miss Dolby sang the " O Araby," as no one except herself and the lamented Malibran i could have sung it. The magnificent quartett, " Over the dark blue waters"— an established favourite— had ample justice rendered to it by Miss A. Williams, . Miss Dolby, Mr. Lockey, and Mr. Phillips : the gem of the selection, however, was the marvellous scena " Ocean, thou mighty monster," which was most dramatically, effectively, and feelingly sung by Miss Birch; and those who are at all conversant with the music will easily comprehend what a scope it affords for the display of passion, pathos, and tenderness. In the start of the delicious mermaid's song, which was exquisitely sung by Miss A. Williams, the horn- players were sadly out of order ; but they were speedily brought back to a sense of propriety by the baton of the Conductor, and the tap, tap, tap, of Mr. Willy's bow ou the edge of his desk. The chorus with which the selection from Oberon concluded was awfully out of tune, and had the same effect upon our musical sense of enjoyment as a plentiful application of vinegar would have upon a newly opened wound. It was the very embodiment of " sauer kraut." The elegapt duet from Rossini's Semiramide—" Serbami ognor"— however, charmingly sung by that " blest pair of Syrens" the Misses A. and M. Williams, completely restored our good humour, and brought the first part of the concert to a most satisfactory close. As the second part of the concert commenced with Beethoven's Sinfonia in C. Minor— of which by the way we had a slight reminiscence in one of the choruses in Spohr's I Babylon in the morning— we thought it quite needless to sustain our critical character, and accordingly gave ourselves up to unrestrained and luxurious enjoyment of one of the most sublime and inspired emanations of genius that ever issued ; from the pen or brain of man; and truly we revelled to our heart's content in an interpretation of the work in every way worthy of it, and felt that we had incurred a great addition to the weight of obligation which the Conductor of the Festival had already laid upon us; for nothing but the most consummate tact and judgment could have collected a band so small as this, capable of giving so true an expression to the grand conception of that wild and fitful child of genius, Beethoven. It will scarcely be expected that after the enjoyment of such an ambrosial feast we can descend to the lower works of art; and indeed there were few " notabilities" in the remainder of the concert. The opening chorus of " The Seasons" was one of these, and was admirably given by the choral force, as was the air from the same work, ( which has been plagiarised by Rossini, and into which the " Surprise" movement of Haydn's Sinfonia, No. 3, is skilfully interwoven) by Phillips. Miss Dolby won a deserved encore for her ballad—" Thy spirit of love ;" as did Miss Birch, Miss M. Williams, Mr. Hobbs, and Mr. Phillips, for Knyvett's clever harmonisation of the fine old Scotch melody— There's nae luck about the house," known in its present guise as " The Midges' Dance." The only other pieces we feel called upon to notice were the air, " By tales of war," from Spohr's Jessonda, well sung by Mr. Machin; Hatton's ( or Czapek's, whichever he pleases,) sparkling duet, " We are two merry gay laughing fairies," delightfully sung by the Misses Williams; and the spirited chorus from Alexander's Feast— " The many rend the skies," which was capitally given, and with which a very excellent concert concluded. FRIDAY. This morning was_ devoted to the " Messiah," and this evening a miscellaneous concert will close the festival. CRICKET. WORCRCSTBR AND STOURPORT.— The deciding match between these clubs was play, d on Pitchcroft on Wednesday, in one innings, and was won by the Stourport. The numbers sfeored were Stourport, 82, Worcester 21. WORCESTER COLLEGE SCHOOL v. WORCESTER DIOCESAN SCHOOL. — The rcturn match between these schools was played on Friday las<. The former winning by thirty- two runs in one innings. The following is the score :— DIOCESAN SCHOOL. INQUEST AT THE CITY GAOL. On Saturday evening last, an inquest was held at the city gaol on the body of Thomas Curry, a prisoner, who died on the morning of the same day. The deceased's was a linger- ing death, but the inquest was held in consequence of the compulsory enactment of an Act of Parliament, which renders it imperative on the coroner to hold inquests on the bodies of prisoners dying in gaol; and in this instance it was the more necessary in consequence of some rumours which had been circulated by the deceased's relatives that his death had been accelerated by improper confinement in a damp cell, which induced consumption. The jury having viewed the cell and the body, the evidence of Mr. Griffiths, the governor, was taken. He deposed that the prisoner had been committed to the city gaol in September, 1845, and was sentenced at the following Lent Assizes to six months' imprisonment for breaking into the house of Mr. Slade, High Street; this term would have expired in the present week. He had been several times confined in dark and solitary cells for disorderly conduct, but never com- plained to the governor of his ill- state of health. Had the governor been aware of his ill health, however, it might not have prevented his putting him in the dark cell, as it was equally healthy and kept as warm as any other. Since his illness every attention had been paid him, and every little comfort which he desired was procured for him. John Fuller, a brother- in- law to the deceased, put questions through the coroner to ascertain from Mr. Griffiths what was the nature of the prisoner's disobedience, when he replied that on one occasion it was for having matches and tobacco, which Fuller and others had given him; at other times it was for a variety of offences. The governor had once stopped the fires in consequence of some of the prisoners maliciously burning some of the gaol cloths, but could not tell whether that was during the cold weather or not. The diet for disorderly prisoners while undergoing punishment for prison offences was a pound of bread with water; that was fixed by the Secretary of State, Many other prisoners had been in the same cell since, but no illness had been occa- sioned ; the ceil was boarded several years ago. Mr. Herbert Budd, the surgeon to the gaol, was next examined, and gave evidence that when the deceased was first committed to the gaol he made no complaint of ill health, but in the early part of March he was seized with diarrhoea; he had previously complained, and had been released from the solitary cell on that account, The deceased's confinement in the dark or solitary cell had nothing whatever to do with producing the diarrhoea, or the disease which was the cause of death; his illness appeared trivial, and was nothing more than usual among prisoners. The dark cell was sufficiently ventilated, and no prisoner had ever com- plained to him of its insufficiency, or of the cold, for the stove was close by. In the month of March the deceased was ordered into the hospital, and had remained there ever since, having every attention paid to him; the governor giving him his meals from his own table. Consumption was the cause of death. Deceased had never complained to witness about the state of tho cell; and witness did not think that the air suffered in its purity by passing through the flue which ventilated the cells; the flue was six inches square, and there was a slit in the door. Prisoners were only kept in that cell during the day, and slept in their regular beds. Witness believed that a pound of bread a day for three con- secutive days was quite sufficient to support the body, when not at work. A representation would have been made in the proper quarter with the view of obtaining prisoner's release from gaol, but his friends prevented it, thinking he was better off in the gaol. Fuller now called William Dovey, who deposed to the deceased's having told him in February last, after being locked up in the solitary cell, that he thought he should never get over the injury he had received there; he always seemed unwell afterwards. Fuller also mentioned the declara- tion of deceased on the Sunday before his death, that he had caught his illness in the black hole. To counteract this, Mr. Griffiths declared that the deceased had a day or two ago thanked him for all his kindness, and had told him not to believe a word of Fuller's, who was a bad character; and John Jones, turnkey, having been also examined, the coroner addressed the jury, when they returned a verdict of " Died of consumption," and expressed their opinion that the cells were not improper ones for confinement. FIRST INNINGS. Crump, c. Spooner Hooke, b. Saddler Loxley, 1). Cooper East, " b. Cooper Greenwood, run out Hunt, b. Saddler Osborne, not out Brown, b. Saddler Rayer, b. Saddler Lloyd, rup out Edghill, c. Hill Byes Wide balls No balls., SECOND INNINGS. . 7 run out ... 0 . 1 c. Tirbutt ... 1 . 3 run out ... 2 . 0 b. Cooper. ... 0 . 0 . 0 b. Cooper ... 0 . 0 rnn out ... 0 . 1 c- J. Turner ... 0 . 1 not out ... I . 0 e. Spooner . ... 3 . 0 b. Cooper ... 0 . 0 Byes ... 1 . 0 Wide balls ... ... 0 0 No balls ... 1 .— . . 13 9 13 22 COLLEGE SCHOOL, Cresswell, run out 2 Turner, b. Lloyd 6 Cooper, stumped out 3 Saddler, b. Rayer 2 Whitfield, c. Brown ... 0 Turner, runout *'" 8 Beck, b. Hooke "... 3 Hill, c. Crump 8 Spooner, not out 10 Tirbutt, b. Hooke 7 Meek, b. Hooke..... "." 2 Byes 3 Wide balls o No balls 0 54 CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.— A few days ago, as Mr. George Ireland, of Winchcomb, was walking through Stan- comb Wood, belonging to J. and W. Dent, Esqrs., he met with a viper, and after beating it considerably with a stick, he succeeded in killing it. He brought it home and opened it, when, to his astonismenf, from the inside of the animal there sprang seven young ones, about nine inches in length, apparently not the least injured by the treatment the old one had received in order to kill it.— Chronicle. WORCESTER INFIRMARY, SEPT. 11. Physician and Surgeon for the week, Dr. Maiden and M r. Pierpoint. For the ensuing week, Dr. Maiden and Mr. Garden. in- Patients. j Out- Patients. Admitted, 11.— Discharged, 15. | Admitted, - JO.— Discharged 18. In the House, 96. ACCIDENTS,— Emily Burden, needle in the armpit; Sarah Lawson, fractured scapula ; William Jones, wound of the leg; James John- son, wound. WORCESTER DISPENSARY, SEPT. 11. Physician and Surgeon for the week, Dr. Streeten aud Mr. Jones, For the eusuiug week, Dr. Nasli and Mr. Davis. Patients admitted, 12 ; discharged, 6. HEREFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE The return game of thi3 match was played upon the Ledbury ground on Tuesday last, and we have been favoured by a correspondent with the following notice of the event, The Herefordshire having won the toss, sent Higgins and Davies to the bat, who steadily kept their wickets for an hour: the former, however, after scoring nine runs, was caught at the wicket, from a tip. Powell followed, scoring only two, when he was caught at point. It. Maule then appeared, but added nothing to the score ; and Mereweather was run out with the like result. Reece next came, scored four single runs, and was caught by Bell. J. Maule and Downie added 6 and 3 to the score, and were both bowled out. Burden scored 5, and Davies was at length caught by long stop, after having scored 36, in the most admirable style. Morris and Thack- wcil did not increase the numbers, and finally Burden carried out his bat, the total score having reached 74. Worcestershire then sent Whittaker and John Lea to the bat; the latter was run out, and Oakes followed scoring 9. Bell and Wheeldon were soon disposed of, the former by a splendid catch by Reece, and the latter by Merewether, whose bowling throughout was of the finest order. Hamlyn then went iu and kept his wicket to the last, scoring 9 and carrying out his bat. Josiah Lea, Talbot, Corke, Bird, and Harris rapidly succeeded each other at the bat, and assisted in making the total score, with 5 wide balls, 44. The fielding on either side was good, except in the instance of Bell who had his cap in hand and inadvertently fielded a ball with it which caused 5 to be added to be to the score of the Herefordshire. The following is the score : HEREFORDSHIRE. Higgins c. by Corke, b. by Bell 9 Daiies c. by Oakes, b. by Bell 3G Towell c. by Wheeldon, b. by Bell 2 It. Maule b. by Corke 0 Merewether, run out 0 Reece c. by Bell, b. by Bell ^ 4 J. Maule, b. by Wheeldon G Downie, b. by Whittaker 3 Burden, not out 5 T. Norris, c. by Whittaker 0 Thackwell, b. by Wheeldon 0 Byes 2 Wide balls 7 74 WORCESTERSHIRE. Whittaker, b. by Merewether 6 John Lea, run out o Oakes, c. by Davies, b. by Downie 9 Bell, c. by Reece, b. by Merewether 2 Wheeldou, b. by Merewertler 4 Hamlyn, not out 9 Josiah Lea, b. by Merewether 0 Talbot, b. by Downie 0 Corke, b. by Merewether 6 Bird, b. by Powell j Harris, c. by Davis, b. by Merewether 2 Byes 0 Wide balls , r> 44 The second innings was only half played out owing to the Stour- port Gentlemen, from whom the Worcestershire eleven were chosen having refused, contrary to the original understanding, to remain the next day. The Herefordshire men, therefore, claimed the game upon the first innings and took the ball from their opponents. [ Another correspondent informs us that it was arranged before the play commenced ( as the Stoarport men could not remain in Ledbury until next day) that if the game was not played out it should be con- sidered as a " drawn game.' CORN AVERAGES.— General average prices of British corn for the week ended Sept. 10, 1816, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different cities and towns in England and Wales per imperial qr— Price: Wheat, 49s Od ; Duty, IDs Od ; barley . Us Od, 3s 6d ; Oats, 23s 2d, Is Od ; rye, 32s 7d, 3s 6d; beans, 40s 4d* 4s Od; peas, 37s Id 3s Od. ' KIDDERMINSTER CORN MARKET, THURSDAY, SEPT. 10.— The rise which took place last week in the price of wheat was not supported at this day's market, transactions iu the article bein" rather brisk at prices varying from 6s. to 7s, per bushel, or at a decline of Gd. per bushel ou last week's rates. In other descriptions ol grain quotations remained much the same as last week. BIRMINGHAM, SEPT. 8.— Best old hay, £ 4 per ton; new ditto, £ 3. 5s.; straw, £ i. 10s.; clover, £ 3- packing- straw, £ 2. 5s. per ton.& to SMITHFIELD, SEPT. 8.— Old Meadow Hay, £ 3. 5s. £ 1; new ditto, £ 1. 8s. to £ 3. 14s.; Old Clover, £ 1. 12s. to £ 5 10s • new ditto, £ 3. 10s. to £ 4. 16s.; Oat Straw, £ 1. 83. to £ 1. 10s Wheat Straw, £ 1. 10s. to £ 1. 12s: per load. Trade dull at late' rates. ' BIRTHS. Aug. 30, at Knighton, Radnorshire, Mrs. R. Green, of a daughter. Sept. 1, at Oxford Villa, Cheltenham, Mrs. Charles Prentice, of a son. Sept. 5, the wife of Thomas Scott, Esq., of Bromsgrove, of a daughter. Sept. 6, at Beomond, Chertsev, the wife of Henry Maiden, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. Sept. 2, at Wasperton, by the Rev. A. Dayman, the Rev. Randolph, Skipwith, son of Sir Gray Skipwith, Bart., of JNewbold Hall, Warwickshire, to Mary Holden, only daughter of the Rev. Henry Steward, of Rugby. Sept. 5, at the Old Church, Edgbaston, by the Rev. H. Gwyther, Vicar of Yardley, Peter Kempson, Esq., ( son of the late Peter Kempson, Esq., of Chad Road,) to Marv Ruston, youngest daughter of Mrs. Fitter, Ryland Road, ail of Ede- baston. _ b Sept. 5, at the Holy Trinity Church, Brompton, by the Rev. A. J. Irons, Robert Gosset Brown, Esq., of Lansdowne Terrace, Fulliam Road, to Mary Jane, only surviving child of Harvey Shelton, Esq., of Pelham Place, BromDton, and St. Mildred Court, London. Sept. 7, at St. Peter's, in this city, by the Rev. Thomas Walker, Canon of Wolverhampton, and Rector of Abbot's Moreton, William Henry Kerr, Esq., eldest son of James Kerr, Capel Street, City, and Larch Hill, Santry, county Dublin, to Caroline Louisa, only daughter of John Stone, Esq., of this city. Sept. 7, at Leigh Church, by the Rev. II. S. Cocks, Mr. T.-" Hobro, of Leigh, to Jane, eldest daughter of Mr. Neason, of fallow Hill, in this city. Sept. 8, at Bidford, by the Rev. T. Boultbee, Mr. William Hatton, of the Post Office, Bidford, to Mrs. Webb, of the same place. Sept. 8, by the Rev. W. Cooke, Mr. Jos. Turbill, carpenter, of Bromyard, to Elizabeth, second daughter of Mr. William Oseman, of the above place. Sept. 8, at Mordiford, Herefordshire, by the Rev. Charles John Bird, A. M., Rector, the Rev. Thomas H. Bird. A. M.. Curate of Westhide, and Incumbent of Moreton Jeffries, to Jane, second daughter of the late Samuel Bell, Esq., of Hon'ton Hall, in the county of Suffolk. Sept. 8, at Hartlebury Church, by the Very Rev. the Dean of Exeter, Major Lowe, late of the 16th Lancers, and of Count Hill, Tenbury, to Caroline Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late Tiiomas Baker, Esq., of Ashurst Lodge, Kent, and sister of the Rev. T. Baker, of Hartlebury. Sept. 9, at Park- street, Bristol, Mr. Morris Michael Oppen » heim, of London, to Sirah, only daughter of the late Mr. M. Mosely, of Birmingham. DEATHS. Sept. 1, in Great Marlborough Street, John Freer Proud, Esq., of Wolverhampton, in his 63rd year. Sept. 1, of consumption, aged 21," Eliza, eldest daughter of Mr. George Doughty, of Broadheath. Sept. 1, after a long and painful illness, Mr. Wrn. Thomas, for many years flyman of this city, aged 62 years. Sept. 1, at Southampton, aged 36, after a'short illness, Ann, the beloved wife of Mr. W. Smith, her Majesty's Customs, and second daughter of the late Mr. John Gill, of Upper Arlev Sept. 2, in his 47th year, Mr. Thomas Phillips, stonemason, Norton, near Bromyard. Sept. 3, at the Abbey Manor House, Evesham, aged 83, Edward Rudge, Esq., of Wimpole Street, London ; one of her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the counties of Middlesex and Worcester, and a Deputy Lieutenant of the latter county. Sept. 3, at Hereford, in the 74th year of his age, Thomas Godscll, Esq. Sept. 4, at Shiffnall Vicarage, Shropshire, Georgiana Frances, the wife of the Rev. J. Brooke, aged 35. Sept. 4, at Bellbroughton, at an advanced age, Mrs. Elizabeth Allen, late of Erdington. Sept. 4, at the Union Workhouse, Kidderminster, aged 90, Eleanor, Carpenter, for sixty years an inmate of the workhouses of Caldwell, Kidderminster Foreign, Bewdley, & Kidderminster. Sept. 5, at Malshanger House, near Basingstoke, the Right Hon. Lord Metcalfe, iu the 62nd vear of his age. Sept. 5, at Edgbaston, John Henry Rawlins, infant son of the Rev. John Palmer, of Claines. Sept. 5, at Ombersley, aged 53, Ann, the wife of the late Mr. John Wood, of the same parish. Sept. 5, at Stourport, Mr. Joseph Lowe, hairdresser and periumer, High Street, sincerely regretted by a numerous circle 1 ot friends. Sept. 6, aged 14, Matilda, daughter of Mr. George Bentlev, of Sansome Lodge, in this city. Sept. 6, at Parker's Piece, Cambridge, Jane Catherine, youngest daughter of the late William Gary, Esq., Bevere near Worcester, and wife of W. T. Webster, Esq., Staif Officer of Pensioners. Sept. 6, at Woolwich, George Quarterman, Esq., in his 36th year, much beloved and deeply regretted. Sept. 8, aged 11 months, Amelia, daughter of Mr. W, E. Palmer, clock and watch maker, of this city. Sept. 9, in Britannia Square, after a short illness, William Price, son of the late Rev. P. P. Midde'. ton. Sept. 10, at her residence, Broad Street, in this city, Mrs. Charles Bird; and S^ pt. 11, the infant daughter of the above. Lately, at Himlev, Anne, wife of George Dalton, Esq, s aged 53. " * THE WORCESTERSHIRE GUARDIAN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2,6,% 18 46. THE RIVULET. This little rill, that from the springs Of yonder grove its current brings, Plays on the slope awhile, and then Goes prattling into groves again, Oft to its warbling waters drew My little feet when life was new. When woods in early green were drest, And from the chambers of the west The warmer breezes travelling out, Breathed the new scent of flowers about, My truant steps from home would stray, Upon its grassy side to play, List the brown thrasher's vernal hymn, And crop the violet on its brim, With blooming cheek and open brow, As young and gay, sweet rill, as thou. And when the days of boyhood came, And I had grown in love with fame, Duly I sought the banks, and tried My first rude numbers by thy side. Words cannot tell how bright and gay The scenes of life before ine lay. Then glorious hopes, that now to speak Would bring the blood into my cheek, Passed o'er me ; and I wrote on high A name I deemed would never die. Years change thee not. Upon yon hill The tail old maples, verdant still, Yet tell, in grandeur of decay, How swift the vears have passed awav, Since first, a child, and half afraid, I wandered in the forest shade. Thou, ever joyous rivulet, Dost dimple, leap, and prattle yet; And sporting with the sands that pave The windings of thy silver wave. And dancing to thy own wild chime, Thou laughest at the lapse of time. The same sweet sounds are in my ear My early childhood loved to hear ; As pure thy limpid waters run, As bright they sparkle to the sun ; As fresh and thick the bending ranks Of herbs that line the oozy banks; The violet there, in soft May dew, Comes up, as modest and as blue ; As green, amid thy current's stress, Floats the scarce- rooted watercress; And the brown ground- bird in thy glen Still chirps as merrily as then. Thou changest not— but I am changed, Since first thy pleasant banks I ranged; And the grave stranger, come to see The play- place of his infancy, Has scarce a single trace of him Who sported once upon thv brim. The visions of my youth are passed— Too bright, too beautiful to last. I've tried the world— it wears no more The colouring of romance it wore. Yet well has nature kept the truth She promised to my earliest youth; The radiant beauty shed abroad On all the glorious works of God, Shows freshly to my sober'd eye Each charm it wore in days gone by. A few brief years shall pass away, And 1 all trembling, weak, and gray, Bowed to the earth, which waits to fold My ashes in th' embracing mould, ( If haply the dark will of fate Indulge my life so long a date,) May come for the last time to look Upon my childhood's favorite brook, Then dimly on my eye shall gleam The sparkle of thy dancing stream, And faintly on my ear shall fall Thy prattling current's merry call: Yet shalt thou flow as glad and bright As when thou rnet'st my infant sight. And I shall sleep— and on thy side, As ages after ages glide, Children their early sports shall try, And pass to hoary age and die. But thou, unchang'd from year to year, Gaily shall play and glitter here ; Amid young flowers and tender grass Thy endless infancy shall pass ; And, singing dowu thy narrow glen, Shall mock the fading race of men. VARIETIES. Who are the most disinterestedly good ? Those who are good for nothing. WHAT THE FRENCH SAY OF THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO.—- 1. That it was not won at all. 2. That it was won by the Prussians. 3. That it. was won by the Prussians, the Hano- verians, the Russians, the Austrians, the Belgians, the Spaniards, the Bavarians, the Saxons, the English— in short, by all the nations of Europe, both little and big. 4. That it was won by- chance. 5. That it was won by accident. 6. That, it was won by treason. 7. That it was won by OOO. OOO men against 50,000. 8. - That it was not a battle at all. 9. That the British were so astonished at having gained it, that they are not yet aroused from their wonderment. 10. That the British certainly did riot gain it. 11. That Wellington is a fool, an ass, and a coward. 12. That one Frenchman, any day, will lick ten Euglislimen or tea Scotchmen. DEFENCE OF THE GOOSE.— It is a great libel to accuse a goose of being a silly bird Even a tame goose shows much instinct and attachment.; and were its habits more closely observed, the tame goose would be found to be by no means wanting in general cleverness. Its watchfulness at night- time is, and always has been, proverbial; and it certainly is endowed with a strong organ of self- preservation. You may drive over dog, cat, hen, or pig; but. I defy you to drive over a tame goose. As for wild geese, I know of no animal, biped or quad- ruped, that is so difficult to deceive or approach. Their senses of hearing, seeing, and smelling, are all extremely acute; independently of which, they appear to act in so organized and cautious a manner when feeding or roosting as to defy all danger. Many a time has my utmost caution been of no avail in attempting to approach these birds ; either a careless step on a piece of gravel, or an eddy of wind, however light, or letting them perceive the smallest portion of my person, has rendered useless whole hours of manoeuvring. — St. John's Sports. " Can you tell me why, a Hypocrite's eye, Can better descry, than you can or I, On how many toes, a Pussy- cat goes?" The Hypocrite's eye, can best counterfeit, And so I suppose, can best count her toes. Mr. Justice Piatt " brought out" a Devonshire boy in good Style last week at Exeter, and evidently enjoyed the fun. In a case of arson, one of the witnesses against the prisoner was John Brown, twelve years of age, whose business he said, was to " go about long wi' mother, selling vish." He stated that he was on an arch over the tunnel, about vovver o'clock in the arternoon, and zeed smoke a' coming out o' the houze: he know'd was vower o'clock, ' cos he thought when he was a tap o' th' arch that his mother wid'n catch him to whop him. The Judge When did you expect your whopping that evening? Boy. When her catch'd me. Judge— What made you go upon the arch? Boy.— Cos I could zee her a coming. Judge. And then you could bolt, eh ? Boy.— Ees, zur, my loard. ANECDOTE BY COUNSEL.— At the Cork Assizes Mr. G. Bennett, canvassing the term temperate habits" in a policy of insurance, said, " The late Sir Hercules Langrishe was exceedingly fond of drinking, and being ill he consulted the celebrated Dr. Plunket, who advised him to drink only a glass of wine in the day. Sir Hercules promised to obey, but the doctor called in upon him a day or two after, and seeing his patient a little out of order, said to him, ' I hope you followed out my advice.' ' I did,' replied the other. ' Well,' says the doctor, ' I am anxious to see the size of the glass,' upon which Sir Hercules brought in a glass which contained two quarts ! ( Laughter.) The Uoctor then restricted Sir Hercules to a pint of wine in the day ; and on the following one, having called on his patient, told him to stick to that quantity and it would lengthen his days. ' I believe you,' said Sir Hercules, ' for yesterday was the longest day I ever spent.' " A batchelor is published in the papers of Porkpolis for having refused to pay his washerwoman's bill. He publishes a card stating that he refused to pay because she washed all the white © ut of his shirts Yankee Paper. A cobbler of Widmerpool has lately put a paper over his door bearing the following inscription .—" Surgery performed here upon old boots and shoes, by adding to the feet, making good the legs, binding the broken, healing the wounded, mending the constitution, and supporting the body with new soles. A VERSATILE FAMILY We are indebted to an unknown correspondent for the following communication, which we publish verbatim e. t literatim :— There is a Famely in a small village not one mile from that place ( Eastwood) There Resides a man who is engaged in the Following Various avocations— School- Master, Saxton, Parish Crier, Horse doctor,— Dentist, Barber, Postmaster,— and osier, & c. As occasions may require— at the Village ale- house— His wife is a Manufacturer of Lollypops and bulls- eyes, sells snuff and red Herrings— Cures all inctrable disorders— Takes in washing and lets out a donkey. This industrious- pare— have a son stands six feet two inch— plays upon the Fidel and Clarionet— aud speake three languages. Has married three wives— been twice ship- wrecked— and three times turned over in a stage coach Era. A worthy yeoman was invited to sup with a friend ; the evening was enlivened by music, both vocal and instrumental. On the following morning he was met by one of the guests, who said to him, " Weil farmer, how did you enjoy yourself last night? were not the quartets excellent?" " Why really, sir, I can't say, for I didn't taste ' em, but the pork chops were the finest 1 ever ate." Christianity never dug the cave of the hermit, never built the cell of the monk, never sent the friar to beg, nor prompted the nun to bury herself from the world, it demands the exercise of all our powers, the burnishing of all our talents, the employment of all our opportunities, an existence of activity, animation, and zeal, a vigorous perseverence which nothing can exhaust, aud an heroic determination which nothing can subdue. AN OLD HOUSE'S STORY. We are not commonly in the habit of filling up our columns with. tales selected either from ancient or modern authors, but shall offer no opoiogy for copying from the " People's Journal" the following brief story, which we opine will just, at this period, afford some interest to our readers :— When I was first built, I commanded a prospect that extended for miles across the open country on one side, while on another I surveyed London and its river without being unpleasantly neighboured by its hubbub. I had a rich garden of my own, which increased my consequence, like a fine lady's page. Now— I frown from all my windows at the affront— I stand in a crowded, feculent court, down which no decent individual hurries without holding his nose. The habitations of the poor have sprung up, fungus- like, around me. I am buttressed by vile tenements. The hinges of all my doors creak at the foul abomination. You will observe, that in the depth of my reverses my notions are still genteel. ' Pon my 1 was about to swear bv my tapestry, forgetting that it disappeared whole generations ago. Well, on the word of a dwelling that once entertained Old Rowley within its walls, 1 would make an effort even now to be respectable, if you could give me the faintest hope of success. But you cannot. No. I am doomed to end niv days in what my owners— especially the mad bloods of Rowley's time — would term shocking vulgarity, unutterable degradation. At least, then, let me be wholesome. Let the untainted breeze of heaven visit me, as of yore. Purge me of the foul odours which my threshold every day snuffs up. I bear my inmates— the horney- palmed— say that the Press, now- a- days, can accomplish what it pleases. If the assertion be correct, I trust to you for the purification of the neighbourhood in which I have had the misfortune to grow old. My age and experience, not to speak of my having seen better days, are my apology for thus taxing you. Not to trespass too long upon your space, I will relate an incident which occurred in one of my apartments only the day before yesterday. The child of an honest journeyman, in the bell- lianging trade, had fallen ill, and was unable to quit its little bed, though its weekly earnings were of sufficient importance to the family to make its health a matter of some consequence towards the attainment of a due supply for their wants, independently of all tender considerations. He was a very young child to be already a labourer in the rough paths of the* world. When he first came to dwell under my roof, I beheld his pretty pale face with an interest that I never felt before. I saw the angel looking through his eyes. Oh, that his lot had transported him to the Antipodes, rather than that he should have been brought to inhale the noxious miasma of this terrible spot. He was very meek, and displayed towards his parents, and his brothers and sisters, an attachment which I contemplated with admiration. The feelings it occasioned thrilled my rafters. On no former occasion have I experienced equal emotion. I observed him sink by slow degrees, and grow more and more to resemble the dead that I saw borne from my door at the time of the Great Plague. Strange, that I could note what his parents had not eyes to see. He went to his work regularly yet— day by day. At night he crawled to his home more enfeebled than when he set forth in the morning. The final change was coming on— hour by hour it was drawing nigher. Death, the deliverer, had kissed his cheek. " You must get a doctor for the boy," remarked the occupant of the adjoining house, a lucifer match vendor. The child's parents shook their heads—" He will soon be better," they said ; " poor folks like us can't afford to have a child ill." And still lie declined— still grew worse and worse. One morning, about a week ago, he turned his beautiful eyes upon his mother, and said plaintively—" Mother, dear, I cannot get up to- day." " Not get up to- day!" The woman was alarmed. She bent over liim. She had travailed for that child and he was dying. She saw it now, and cursed her short- sightedness and selfishness. Dying, and but the other day she refused him a doctor, lest they should lose the weekly stipend he earned, by his having to absent himself from work! " I do think, mother," he said, " that it is this close room, and the nasty smells that come from the court below, which have made mo ill." I thought so too, or rather I lineiv it. He died the day before yesterday. And how many other human beings, adults as well as children, has the fetid atmosphere around me hurried to a premature grave. Mortality is so frequent in this court as to occasion no surprise; yet a man said jestingly on mv threshold this morning—" No old people die here," He was right; for none live to grow old. If I might be permitted to express an opinion, as a house of grave character and considerable experience, 1 would suggest that there must be something frightfully " rotten in the state of Denmark," as Will Shakspeare says. But you know best. Perhaps it is part of the economy of Governments to kill off their poor as rapidly as possible. I would ask one question, however. May not the fevers, and other contagious diseases, begotten in my vicinity, spread to the dwellings of the wealthy, and breed sad havoc there? Altogether, I must beg leave to doubt the policy of such legislative neglect. The very first thing which I would do, if I had the power, would be to improve the dwellings of the poor; and wouldn't I look after the drains and sewers? And wouldn't I widen the narrow thoroughfares, and pass an act for the abolition of courts and alleys. By my— my tapestry again! I would invite the sweet breath of Heaven to visit the poorest chamber in the metropolis, without risking its pollution by the allowed presence of any typhus- engendering filth. Perhaps Government may be con- templating something to this end. You know best. THE CARDINAL SPIDER.— A breed of large spiders abound in the palace of Hampton Court. They are called there " Cardinals," in honour, 1 suppose, of Cardinal Wolsey. They are full an inch in length, and many of them of the thickness of a finger. Their legs are about two inches long, and their bodies aie covered with a thick hair. They feed chiefly on moths, as appears from the wings of that insect being found in great abundance under and amongst their webs. In running across the carpet in an evening, when the light ol' a lamp or candle has cast a shade from their large bodies, they have been mistaken for mice, and have occasioned no little alarm to some of the more nervous inhabitants of the palace. A doubt has even been raised whether the name of Cardinal has not been given to this creature from an ancient belief that the ghost of Wolsey haunts the place of liis former glory under this shape. . At all eveuts, the spider is considered as a curiosity, and Hampton court is the only place in which I have met with it.— Jesse's Gleanings in Natural History. ANGLING MATCH.— On Monday there was a match for £ 20, between six members of the Saiford Piscatorial Society, and six members of the Warrington Fishing Club. The con- ditions were that they should fish in the River Weaver, between Acton Bridge aud Winsford, from six o'clock in the morning, until five o'clock in the afternoon, those catching the greatest weight of fish to be the winners. At the close of the day, and on the fish being weighed up, it was found that the members of the Saiford club had caught 541bs. weight, and that the members of the Warrington club had caught 36^ 1bs. weight, the Saiford men thus winning by 17^ 1bs. weight. The competitors and their friends afterwards dined together THE NASSAU BALLOON.— On Monday night last Mr. Green, the veteran aeronaut, ascended in the Royal Nassau balloon, accompanied by eleven ladies and gentlemen, from Cremorne Gardens, London, and to which were suspended two parchutes, in each of which was a monkey. After attain- ing au altitude of about a mile, the aerial machine got into an easterly current, when it was carried towards Hendon, where it descended in a field in Hazel Green, after a rather boisterous passage. On the separation of the parachutes there was no apparent oscillation of the balloon. These fell in a field the property of Mr. Ruhigall, Little Chelsea. THE BRISTOL BURGLARS.— Abraham Michael and Edward Williams, convicted at the late Somerset Assize of breaking into the dwelling- house of the Rev. Robert Haynes, of Combhav, and sentenced to transportation for life, were a part of the gang of burglars? who infested Bristol and the surrounding neighbourhood some months since. The old man Williams's history has been rather a remarkable one. It appears he first served the present Earl Fitzhardinge ( then Colonel Berkeley) as second whip; he subsequently was butler to Earl Normington; afterwards head waiter at the Hen and Chickens, Birmingham ; and once, he states, waited on our present Queen. He was the director- general of the gang, but was himself directed by a domestic influence of peculiar power. Michael, the Jew, states that they used often to be accompanied in their nocturnal predatory expedi- tione by a fourth accomplice— a woman, though in man's clothing, and who showed an intelligence, coolness, and daring in the business inferior to none. This same fellow, Michael, seems to have been, in a singular way, rather a conscientious Israelite, for on being summoned by Williams on the previous night to join the gang, for the purpose of breaking into the house at Combhay, for the robbery of which they were con- victed, he objected, saying that the next day was Saturday, and as the job would manifestly carry them into the Jewish Sabbath, he must, " on religious grounds," decline! The attempt was, therefore, postponed, until sunset on Saturday, with which period the Jewish Sabbath and Michael's scruples terminated. ANOTHER SPA FIELDS CASE.— We perceive by the London papers that a sensation ' has been created in the metropolis by the discovery of a large quantity of human remains and pieces of coffins in unconsecrated ground. The affair was brought before the Magistrates at Worship- street on Saturday and Monday. On Saturday a man who gave his name John Gardner, of Hangers tone, applied to the court to advise and assist him under the following circumstances:— He went on to state that about half- past six that morning, as he was passing a waste piece of ground ( situated over the Kingsland- road Bridge, by the side of the Regent's Canal, in the possession of Mr. King), where rubbish is shot, his atten- tion was drawn to the spot by seeing a number of persons, who were raking over a large heap of rubbish that had just beeu shot. He went up to them, and was horror- stricken to find that it consisted of nearly six cart loads of pieces of coffins aud human bones, some of which had the flesh still adhering to them. There was also a person's head with the hair on it, the face of which was so little decomposed that it might be identified. The coffins had very few of them been under ground, and some were almost new. The crowd, which consisted of the poor cottagers of the neighbourhood and their children, were busy in despoiling the coffins of the metal plates and handles, to sell to the marine store dealers, and the wood they were taking home for their fires. On making inquiry, he found that the matter in question had been brought there but a short time before by some carts in the employ of Mr. Gould, the dust contractor of Shoreditch. The effluvium was dreadful. This statement wos corroborated by others, and it was stated that the remains had been removed to the Kingsland- road from a vault in St. Matthew's church, in Friday- street, Cheapside. Inquiries were then made in Friday- street, when it was ascertained that the vaults of St. Matthew's church had beeu cleared out, and that the building itself was undergoing repair. Upon the church door was posted the following notice:—" St. Matthew's, Friday- street. — Notice is hereby given that there will be no service in this church on Sunday, the 6th day of September, 1846, in conse- quence of repairs. Dated Friday, September 4, 1846. Signed W. Liddiard and John Mair, churchwardens." Mr. Jeremiah Long, the senior churchwarden of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, has spared no pains in trying to find out the perpetrators of, to say the least, such shameful desecration. He has also exerted himself to find out the friends of the persons whose remains have been discovered. Waller, the beadle, was sent, on Saturday, by churchwarden Long, to take charge of all the pieces of coffins and remains of bodies lie could find. Upon his return to the field, he found that a vast quantity of bones, pieces of coffins, 6IC., hacl been deposited in holes made in the ground. He, however, found about two or three bushels of remains, of which he took possession, and the samo were interred in the consecrated ground belonging to the parish in the Hackney- road. The remains of the coffins prove that some of them were of recent construction. One is only eight years old, THE LATE REGATTA. To the Editor of the Worcester shire Guardian. SIR,— Having read a letter in the Worcester Journal of Sept. 3, signed J. H. Walsh, which, if unanswered, might render many doubtful as to the fairness of our taking the cup under the circumstance of being " fouled," and also dissatisfied with the decision of the umpire, that we ( the Unity) were in our own water when the fouling took place; I, at the request of several of our crew, feel it incumbent upon me to reply, and you will oblige me by inserting this letter in your next paper. First, with respect to the agreement between Mr. J. H. Walsh, aud Mr. F. W. Walsh. This agreement appears to have been interpreted in very different ways by their sister and brother Mr. T. W. Walsh. 1 will therefore suppose each interpretation of Mr. F. W. Walsh's words to have an equal chance of being the natural common- sense meaning of the words he used. And for the sake of argument I will first suppose the sister's interpretation of the words, viz.: that Mr. F. W. Walsh promised not to take advantage of a foul, to be the correct meaning of the words used, though certainly, Mr. F. W. Walsh intended the words differently. Now 1 deny the validity of any such agreement without the consent of the whole of the crew ; ( and even then it might be a matter for discussion, whether the umpire's decision would not bo binding, as far at least as the betting was concerned ;) for if, when the fouling took place, the rest of the crew threw up their oars, the race would be over, whatever agreement the captain might have made beforehand. There are rules laid down for the races, and if a boat be declared winner according to those rules, no agreement made beforehand with any but the whole crew, can possibly oblige them to resign the victory. None of our crew, I believe, ever understood such an agree- ment as the one Mr. J. H. Walsh insists on to have taken place. It would have given the Intrepid such a manifest advantage in having the Worcester side of the river, that many of our crew would, I believe, have refused to pull, subject to such an agreement. But supposing Mr. T. W. Walsh's interpretation of Mr. F. W. Walsh's words to be correct, if he used the words " None of us would think of fouling intentionally," ( and there is as much evidence for this interpretation being the right one as for the other,) then every one must acknowledge, that if Mr. J. H. Walsh misunderstood his brother, and in consequence of that misunderstanding fouled our boat, the fault was his, and he therefore must abide by the conse- quences. For it would be hard if we ( the Unity) had to give up a race declared by the Umpire to be ours, through a mistake of the coxswain of the Intrepid. With respect to the Umpire's decision, I myself am con- fident we were fairly within our side of the river when the fouling took place. To make this clear one must draw an imaginary line from the extremity of the middle arch on the St. John's side parallel to the banks, or if the banks are not parallel, at proportionate distances from them to the bend in the river below the bridge. Every one will admit that the St. John's side of this line was fairly the Unity's water. The middle arch was allowed to be the Intrepid'* water, and therefore if the Intrepid was in her course to the middle arch, I admit she was in her own water. Now I do not deny that she was in a. course to the middle arch, but she was certainly not in her proper course, for then she must have kept her side of the river round the bend below the bridge, whereas she. was coming out of our water to the middle arch, as she had dropped astern of us, and supposing she kept a straight course she could not have been fairly in her water; at least the stroke side oar which fouled our rudder could not have been on the Worcester side of the imaginary line referred to above till just under the bridge. I acknowledge I tried to go through the middle arch, as I considered ( our No. 6 being almost disabled by breaking his stretcher,) our only chance of winning was by avoiding the current and taking the Intrepid's water after passing the bridge; but when we came within no great distance of the bridge, I saw the Intrepids were coming upon us so fast that they must soon have run into us. I then put up the rudder hard to the St. John's side. This, of course, as Mr. Walsh hints, threw the stern of our boat a little out towards the middle of the river, but before the Intrepid bumped us, I had reversed the rudder, which brought our stern more on our side. As to having the race over again, there is one unanswer- able objection, viz., that it is impossible. The crew of the Intrepid might, I dare say, be reassembled, as they are all I believe located in Worcester or the immediate neighbour- hood. It is not so with the crew of the Unity, and it would be impossible for all of them to meet to contest the race again. If it be said the Unity need not have the same crew, I reply that it would then be a different race. Next year the Unity will no doubt enter the lists to contest with the Intrepid or any other boat its right to retain for ever the cup which she now holds for the second time. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient Servant, Martley, Sept. 7, 1846. J. W. ALLEN. WHAT O'CLOCK IS IT ? If we may believe the allegations contained in the following petition, the solution of the above question is not very easy at Worcester just now.] To the Right Worshipful the President, the Worshipful the Vice- President, and the Honourable the other Members of the Worcester Chamber of Commerce. The Honourable Petition of the REGISTRARS OF TIME sheweth That your petitioners have, for a long series of years, directed all their movements with a view to the convenience of the citizens of Worcester; and in the fulfilment of iheirhigh vocation they have made no distinction between rich and poor, and have served with equal zeal men of all parties and persuasions— though themselves belonging to the highest class, and long and firmly attached to the Church. That they have never shrunk from observation, though they have not obtruded their good works upon the public eye. That though aiming to be useful both by night and day, they have not received that attention which they humbly conceive their services merit; and in consequence irregularities have taken place in their movements, and a total want of uniformity among them has been long observed and complained of. That this want of accuracy on the part of your petitioners is pleaded by sundry and divers dilatory persons as an excuse for non- punctuality in attendance at public meetings, town councils, and committees; such want of punctuality being highly detri- mental to the more exact portion of her Majesty's subjects. That to many other cogent reasons which could be adduced to prove the importance of accuracy on the part of your petitioners, may now be added the introduction of Railways; for as the trains, like time and tide, stop for no man, it has become more than ever necessary that your petitioners should be faithful chroniclers of the flight of time. That as your petitioners cannot conveniently assemble to consider of a remedy for the grievances above complained of, they pray that your Worshipful body will take their case into your high consideration, and apply in the next Session of Parliament for an Act of uniformity under the provisions of which your petitioners may be enabled to afford to the public audible proofs of their accuracy. And your petitioners will ever strike. Witness our hands and faces this 7th day of September, 1846, ( hour uncertain.) [ Here follow the " hands and faces" of the Church Clocks, but as our types are not sufficiently pliant, we cannot insert the likenesses of these high functionaries. We must therefore content ourselves with giving the " varieties of time" indi- cated by these differing authorities, viz— St. Nicholas's Clock twelve. St. Martin's Ditto . five minutes after twelve. St. Swithin's Ditto three minutes to twelve. All Saints' Ditto two minutes after twelve. St. Peter's Ditto six minutes after twelve. Certainly if such discrepancies as these exist, it is high time that Time's representatives should partake of the spirit of the age— and be Reformed.] MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.— A truly melancholy acci- dent occurred at the retired watering- place of Middlethorpe, Lincolnshire, on Monday, which has thrown a universal gloom over this and the surrounding villages, and plunged several respectable families into the deepest distress. Mr. Rogers, the master of a very respectable boarding- school at Louth, brought his boys ( in number between 40 and 50) to Middlethorpe, for the purpose of giving them a liolyday, and up to 4 o'clock in the afternoon they were in high spirits, playing at cricket and other manly games. About that hour several of the boys proceeded to bathe in the sea, and five of them got out of their depth and were overtaken by the tide. Of these five two were saved by the exertions of Mr. Rogers, who, at the risk of his own life, rushed into the sea, and, lamentable to relate, the three remaining were drowned. The unfortunate sufferers were children of respectable parents, belonging to this part of the county, of the names of Mackender, Gunness, and Wakeman, and were of the respective ages of 17, 16, and 15. The former is represented as being tho only child of very fond parents. No blame is attributed to Mr. Rogers; he ( Mr. Rogers) and two assistants were with the boys, watching their movements with great anxiety. The distress which prevailed when the survivors assembled to return home was intense. The two youths who were saved by the exertions of Mr. Rogers have suffered severely, but are now in a fair way towards recovery. The bodies were found at eleven o'clock on Monday night, very near the spot where the accident hap- pened. POACHING AFFRAY.— The neighbourhood of Newton Abbot, a town 16 miles from Exeter on the Plymouth road, was on Saturday night the scene of a fatal poaching affray. Festus Harris, the gamekeeper, and James Norman, the gardener of Sir W. P. Carew, of Haccombe House, ( tho High Sheriff,) were on the watch, and, ascertaining that poachers were in the grounds, they called to their assistance six other persons, amongst whom were Mr. Robert Rendell, of Netherton, and William Setter, of Coombinteignhead. These parties met in a field called Blendfield, between 11 and 12 o'clock at night, and surrounded the place where the poachers were. Mr. Rendell and Setter went to the gate of Kiln- field, and whilst there heard the rest call out " gate"— a signal previously arranged. They perceived some one coming towards them with a gun in his hand, and on approaching within a few paces, discovered it was one Henry Warren. They ran into the field and Warren raised his gun as if to fire. Mr, Rendell called out " you'd better not fire :" but immediately Warren fired at Setter, and without taking the gun from his shoulder discharged the other barrel at Mr. llendell. The shot passed by the side of Mr. Rendell's head, but the aim at Setter was more deadly ; he received the whole contents in his body, causing a wound two inches in length, from which the bowels protruded, and from the effects of which the unfortunate man lingered until a quarter past two on Sunday afternoon, when he expired. The surgeon found on examination that a piece of deceased's watch chain had been carried into the wound. The prisoner was secured by Mr. Rendell, and the next day taken before Mr. H. Cartwriglit, who, with the assistance of Mr. Flamank, having made the depositions of the various witnesses and that of the dying man, committed him to take his trial at the next sssizes for wilful murder, and also for shooting at Mr. Rendell. A VALUABLE MONKEY.— Some time ago, a monkey kept in the stable- yard of the hotel at Launceston, was observed to be scrutinizing the inside of an old glove, with an air of uuusual mystery and importance. Upon examining the glove it was found to contain a £ 11) note, and the pieces of about five £ 1 notes, of the old Tamar Bank, dated ten years since. This became the property of " boots," who sold liis bargain for £ 3. 10s., and the pieces were secured by the ostler. The monkey must have selected the glove from a quantity of rubbish which had been lying in the jard for seven or eight years. The Tamar Bank had merged into the Union, which latter gave £ 12 for the notes. How TO MAKE GUANO.— A gentleman walking on the beach in the vicinity of Harwich observed a man busily engaged with a pickaxe, raising a material from the lower part of tho cliff, and on asking the man his employment was told " he was raising stones for manure." This rather puzzled our friend, who became more minute in his enquiries. The man observed, " These, which look like stones, are crystallized fish; and, although very hard now, will, when put through a mill, crumble to powder. My master ships a great quantity of it to London, there to be ground, and then mixed with guano to give it weight— Bury Post. SALMON FISHING.— On Tuesday morning, Mr. Stewart, late superintendent of the county police, when angling with a fly at the top of the Muirton bank, Perth, hooked a salmon; and, after a great deal of fine play, and much skilful manoeuvring, finally succeeded in landing it " high and dry" on the beach. The fish was a truly excellent specimen of its kind, and weighed 321b. It was sold in the course of the forenoon for £ 2— a good morning's job.— Edinburgh Witness. DESIGNS OF THE ANTI- CORN LAW LEAGUE At a meeting reeently held at the National Hall, High Holborn, relative to American Slavery, Mr. W. L. Garrison, President of the American Anti- Slavery Association thus let out the objects of the League:— " The Anti- Corn Law movement was a republican one, and he sincerely hoped the people of England would obtain all the other measures which were calculated to extend their liberties, but which a tyrant aristocracy witheld, and justified their doing so by pointing to the inequality between the American slave and the British freeman. It was therefore for the British people to cry out against American slavery; for it was but too evident that it made them contented with a monarchial despotic form of government rather than having the government in their own hands. He could assure them that he fully sympathised with them, and he would heartily join them in endeavouring to overthrow the unholy alliance of church and state, to obtain an extension of the elective franchise, and to get rid of the horrible law of primogeniture than which, after slavery, nothing more deserved to be anathematised." Agricultural Intelligence. THE POTATO DISEASE. EVESHAM PETTY SESSIONS. MONDAY, SEPT. 7. Present, Dr. Cooper, Chairman, C. E. Ilanford, Esq., J. M. G. Cheek, Esq., Stephen Averill, Esq.. Rev. E. W. Ingram. IMPORTANT TO OVERSEERS.— John Poole, one of the overseers of the parish of Broadway, appeared to support several informations made by him for non- payment of poor- rate. After the making and allowance of the rate had been proved, the notice of the allowance was put in, which contained the follow- ing indorsement. " Memorandum— that on Sunday, the 1 Oth of July, 1846, immediately before the commencement of Divine service, I affixed a notice, of which the above is a duplicate, on the principal door of the parish church of Broadway— William Tustin." The complainant had neglected to secure the attend- ance of William Tustin, and now attempted to prove the affixing of the notice to the church door, by the evidence of another person; but Mr. Kettle, on behalf of the defendants, objected to this, on the ground that the complainant was bound to pro- duce the best evidence to his power, and insisted that, as the server of a notice to quit must be called to prove such service, so ' William Tustin, as he was living, ought to be called to prove the notice of rate. The Justices allowed this objection to be a good one, but requested Mr. Kettle to waive it, if he had any valid opposition to the rate itself. To this he agreed, and then objected that the rate was radically defective and wholly incurable by reason of the badness of the notice of publication. The notice was in this form :— Notice is hereby given that an assessment, at the rate of six- pence in the pound, for the necessary relief of the poor of the parish of Broadway, in the county of Worcester, and for the other purposes mentioned in the several Acts of Parliament relating to the poor, was made and assessed on the 10th day of July, 184G, being the second rate for the present year; and the same was duly allowed by T. B. Cooper and ,1. M. G. Cheek, Esqrs., two of her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said county, on the 13th day or July, 1S46, and the same will be collected forthwith. Dated this 18th day of July, 1S4G. ( Signed) JOHN TUSTIN, JUN., ^ FOR J. Poor. rc, ^ Overseers." CHARLES MOSELEY, J Mr. Kettle asserted that it had been held, times out of number, that all notices under parish law must be signed by the proper officers in their proper capacities, as required by law, or the notice would be invalid. He directed the attention of the Bench to the 17th George II., c. 3, s. 1, which enacts that the church- wardens and overseers shall give notice of every rate, and con- tended that the notice, instead of being given as required by the statute, was in fact given by one overseer only. He argued that the signature " John Tustin, jun., for John Poole," was a nullity. That as the parish officers, collectively, cannot appoint an attorney to sign notices for them, one of the number could not be repre- sented by an attorney. He quoted several cases in support of his argument, and the Bench decided that the objection was fatal to the validity of the rate. Holloway's Pills A destructive blue pill, composed of calomel, taken at night, and followed by a drastic black draught the next morning, seems to be the favourite remedy for bilious complaints, when poison in small quantities is scarcely less injurious. For all liver, stomach, and bilious complaints let the patient take Holloway's admirable Pills, a pure herbal prepara- tion, and for a time drink no wine, beer, or spirits, nor eat of fruit or vegetables; by this course he will not only effectually cure himself, but will also feel himself younger and better I in health than for vears before. fBultum in $ JarUo. The beautiful monument erected to Malibran, at the church of Lack ™ , has been closed up by order of the cure, as the peasants were in the habit of worshipping it. The potato disease is of six years' standing, having first broken out at St. Helena in 1840. The salary of Sir Charles Wetherell, as Recorder of Bristol, was £ 400 per annum ; as Assessor of the Tolsey Court, £ 200 ; and an additional £ 100 for travelling expenses. Total £ 700. In the neighbourhood of Castleblayney a drunken friar is disposing of holy water as a remedy for the potato disease. Thousands flock to his residence, and it is admitted on all hands that such uross super- stition was never witnessed in a Christian laud.— Local Paper. In the leading article of a provincial contemporary appears the following naive acknowledgement:—" We are not particularly enamoured of the lash, or any other mode of punishment: culprits seldom are." The income of the Corporation of London amounts to £ 223,000. It is stated that a large number of railway labourers have entered into engagements to proceed to Spain. By an Act of Parliament which received the Royal Assent on the day of Prorogation, for the Regulation of Steam Navigation, it is provided that all steamers meeting shall pass to port and starboard, as in the case of vehicles meeting on a road. The Bishop of Calcutta embarked on Monday at Portsmouth, on board the Prince of Wales, an East India ship, to return to his diocese. Within the last few weeks, property, which it is conjectured may yield little less than £ 100,000, has been bequeathed to found an University at Manchester. No less than seventy- three trains pass and repass daily over the rails of the Great London and North Western Company, at Bir- mingham, and the Compariy have within the last few " days made another reduction in their fares. A beautiful laburnum tree is now in full blossom in the garden of Joseph Benn, Esq., Lowther. In the spring the same tree bloomed, most luxuriantly. A few days ago, the liest of a Guinea hen, containing 113 eggs was found in an outhouse at Clitlieroe. On Tuesday last the act of parliament to abolish deodands, came into operation. A verdict of " manslaughter for gross and criminal negligence," has been returned at the coroner's inquest, against John Hillard, for selling poisonous berries to the children of the metropolis, two of whom have died. The sum expended in the purchase of pictures for the National Gallery, up to the present time, is £ 114,804 16s. The proposition for converting Buckingham Palace into the " National Gallery" seems to be favourably received in London. The Queen has granted the dignity of a Knight unto David Pollock, Esq,, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Bombay Mr. Strutt was on Thursday re- elected for Derby. The total amount of the National Debt is now about £ 770,000,000. A ship from Catliagenaand Mogadon1, has brought from the latter place, among other articles, the large number of 1560 live tortoises. The church of St. Peter, at Rome, is said to have cost twelve millions sterling. Within the last few weeks, property, which it is conjee tured may yield little less than £ 100,000, has been bequeathed to found a University in Manchester. To this sum it is expected another £ 100,000 will be added by public contribution. Ashworth, a weaver at Manchester, attempted to murder his wife in a fit of jealousy, by cutting her throat with a razor ; but the woman struggled hard for her life, whereupon the man let go his hold, and inflicted a fatal wound on his own throat. A serious poaching affray took place one night last week near Rayborough : one of the gamekeepers received a blow which dan- gerously fractured his skull. The Marquis of Lansdowne has gone to the German Spas for the benefit of his health. The Leeds Mercury states that Mr. Winderspin is labouring under indisposition, so severe as to cause much apprehension for the result1 A Mr. W. Cole, formerly an attorney at London, died last week, in the Castle at Norwich, in the 90th year of his age. He was com- mitted to prison for debt, in January, 1830, from which time, until the day of his death, he had never been out of the walls of the prison, A few days ago, a fox got amongst the poultry of Mrs. Swaflield, of Melbury, Dorset, and killed twenty. four turkeys, six liens, and one duck," in less than half an hour. Mr. Joseph Locke, the engineer to the London and South Western Railway Company and the Yeovil lines, is said to have become the purchaser of the manor of Honiton, including the whole of the borough. The purchase- money, it isbeliered, exceeds £ 80,00 0. Blackberries are a wholesome, but often despised fruit, and are very abundant this year. The wife and children ol a labourer, on one farm, collected as many as sold for seven or eight pounds in the Manchester market. On the 27th ult, Mr. Francis Keverne, of Ilalwin, Cornwall, observed among his ducks, in his farm yard, a line teal, which he succeeded in shooting. In a garden at Truro, there is a very tine bed of cucumbers, one of which measured £ 5 inches in length, and I0| inches in circumference. Several gardeners state that this is the largest cucumber they have ever seen growing in the open air. Au editor " far West" describes a communication which he has received as a " heterogenous collection of marks, which seem like the unsuccessful endeavours of a maniac to imitate the Arabic characters." On Tuesday, at the Liverpool police court, two men named M'Carthy were committed for trial on a charge of stealing a clock from a public house. One of tliem pleaded in defence that the clock was standing still, and he took it down to make it go ! On Tuesday week, whilst a man called James Andrew was engaged in removing some timber, at Wheal Vor mine, he fell a depth or 72 fathoms, and was killed instantaneously ; and on Friday last, a man called Charles Harry, working in the same shaft, lost his hold aud was likewise killed. A few days since, as the workmen were excavating on the site of Coger'sllall, in Bride- lane, they came to a vault or dungeon belong- ing to the old Palace of Bridewell, whick, in the reigns of William 1., John, and Henry III., was used for holding their courts. A serious fire occurred last week at Chard, Somerset, which destroyed the King's Head Inn and six adjoining houses occupied by tradespeople. The amount of property consumed is reported to belittle short of £ 1000. It is now certain that both Mr. Tomline and Mr. Disraeli will again offer themselves lor Shrewsbury. It is expected that an unusual amount of business will occupy the revising barrister at Reading in October, from the numerous claims to vote, and the more than ordinary number of objections. Nearly 500 have been posted on the Church doors, on the part of the Con- servatives. All the county votes in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, obtained by the purchase of freehold property through the agency of the late Anti- Cora- Law League are objected lo. The information we have derived from private correspon- dents, the various articles we have seen in other papers, and our own experience, thus far, all confirm the opinion we expressed a fortnight ago of the utility, of keeping in the ground till wanted for use, the present year's crops of all descriptions of potatoes, unless the land they are planted on is heavy and wet— the more clayey soils being far less calculated to pre- serve them than those which are more siliceous. There would seem, indeed, to be some preservative principle in silex, or sand; for not only we ourselves, but others also with whom we are acquainted, have found the potatoes in a much more healthy state in somewhat " barren'sand than either in clay, loam, or rich light garden mould, well impregnated with manure or decayed vegetable matter, although in each case the tops were blackened aud decayed alike. If this accords with geaeral experience, we may hope that in very sandy districts the crops will be but very little injured,— and thus a better supply be obtained for the winter than has yet been anticipated. Having in several instances known gocd aud apparently sound potatoes this year come out of sand and gravel, when those in richer soils of various descriptions had taken the infection, we would advise horticulturists to try the experi- ment, at least, on a small scale, as we ourselves shall do for next year; and, with very little of anything to them in the shape of manure, plant some potatoes ( well greened in the sun_) this autumn, about five inches deep, in the most sandy and barren spot they can find about their grounds. Those who cannot find such a spot, as well as those who can, by way of another experiment, we would recommend to plant in wood- ashes, soot, or some other form of carbon, which acts as a preservative to the potato after it is ripe, as well as a manure during the period of its growth Above all, let the potatoes be well dried and greened before they are planted ; and then, if they are a little touched with the prevailing disease, they will be none the worse seed— as experience has fully proved in our own case. The next winter, however, as well as the coming year, will have to be provided for; since the failure is this year more general, as well as more fatal, than in 1845; and recommendations are in various quarters very properly given how to raise a supply of vegetables, as a substitute for those which are lost. It behoves all who have ground to spare for the purpose, to plant in abundance, brocoli, and all the various orders of winter greens. Cabbages, too, may be planted earlier and more abundantly than usual; and though— as the} 7 have given in some quarters indications of a rot on their own account— we would net recommend too much dependence to be placed upon turnips, yet carrots and parsnips, especially the latter, may still be sown for a winter's crop, and will, with tolerably favourable weather, make good roots iti January and February, when the scarcity of potatoes will, in all probability be most severely felt. Both these vegetables, too, especially parsnips, contain a considerable quantity of sac- charine matter, aud are much more nutritious than either turnips or cabbage.— Birmingham Advertiser. STRATFORD- ON- AVON FARMERS' CLUB.— The September meeting of this Society was held in the Reading Room of the Literary and Scientific Institution, at the Town Hall, Stratford, on Friday last, the Rev. R. Morris, Eatington Vicar- age, in the chair. In compliance with a request made to A. Annesley, Esq., Clifford Lodge, that geutleman read a very able paper:—" On the selection of Seed Wheat, the best mode of [ planting, and especially in reference to thick and thin planting." The usual vote of thanks to Mr. Annesley for his interesting paper concluded the business of the meeting. HOPS. WORCESTER, SEPT. 11.— The greatest activity now prevails in our plantations, picking having become general. On Saturday last upwards of 200 pockets were pitched in our market, but there will, as usual, be no very important sales before our large fair on Saturday, the 19th instant, by which time it is expected the trade will have become more settled between the planters and the merchants. The prices on Saturday ranged from 80s. to 92s. per cwt., but these rates are barely maintained now. All our accounts agree in stating that the yield is far greater than the most ardent planter ever anticipated, and the duty has beeu done in the week at as high a figure as £ 30,000. On Saturday the duty was noted at £ 25,000, and even this is the greatest amount paid since 1837, when it reached within a trifle of £ 36,000. On Saturday tlier © were weighed at the public scales 215 new pockets, old 5; and during the week 28 new and 11 old. BOROUGH, SEPT. 9.— About 2,000 pockets of newj10pS have already arrived here, and very large supplies ( as piling has become pretty general) are expected in the course 0f the present week. A few complaints of the produce has reached us, but it is considered that it will be large and of excellent quality. The transactions in new hops haye not been to say- extensive, at from £ 5. 10s. to £ 6. 10s. for Kent, and £ 4. 15s. to £ 5. 15s. per cwt. for Sussex pockets. In yearling and old hops, which may be purchased on lower terms so little is doing, that the quotations are almost nominal. HEREFORD HOPS.— A hop has been gathered in the grounds of Mr. Curran, at Shobdon, Herefordshire, 7 inches long and 5 inches wide. Bunches taken promiscuously from the hop- yard of Mr. Curran above referred to, and that of Mr. Thomas Hall, of Eardisland, were of the dimensions of from 2£ to 4 § inches in length, and 3, J to 3f in girth. The yards in the same neighbourhood exhibit a similar sample, and the produce will probably be larger than in any previous year, not even excepting the memorable 1826. SUSSEX— In this county the picking has become very general. The samples are said to be good in most parts of Sussex, but very light in the produce, about 80 bushels being the average to the hundred weight. In consequence of this, the pickers are expressing much dissatisfaction with the amount of their earnings. Some owners have discontinued picking for a few days, to enable the crop to become heavier. In Hants the cultivation has not been so good or so great since 1826. KENT.— The Maidstone Journal of Tuesday last has the following report:— We are now in full hopping, and the fruit hangs so fair for the pickers that they frequently over run the oast. On the other hand the hops having grown out so large, they of course weigh light. To show the difference between green hops and dried hops, we may state that a poke, ( the bag in which fresh picked hops are sent to the oast,) contains 10 bushels of green hops, which weigh about 701bs.— that is 71bs. per bushel, but when dried they only weigh l^ lbs. to the bushel, or rather less— thus oflbs. of water has to be driven off in steam out of every 71bs. put on the kiln, and only l^ lbs. remain in the shape of cured hops. This fact proves how easily the eye may be deceived in looking at hops on the poles. The sample is excellent and is improving every day in quality. They are as bright as silver, and the farina as yellow as gold, and full of seeds. There are plenty of pickers, but the hopping will be a long one, as the hops come in two crops. THE DUTY.— The present estimate of duty for the whole of the country is as follows :— Kent £ 98,000 Sussex 61,000 Worcester 27,000 Farnham 11,000 Kingdom 3,000 FAIR. £ 200,000 CHESTER CHEESE FAIR.— The September fair is generally limited in supply, and uot famed for quality. On Wednes- day last less than one hundred tons were pitched. The quality was indifferent. No one prime dairy was in the yard. The attendance of country dealers, particularly from the manufacturing districts, was greater than usual, and all were exceedingly anxious to buy. The consequence was prices were at least £ 10 per ton better than at the corresponding fair of last year— equal to one penny per lb., and all was quickly disposed of. Three times the quantity would have found purchasers. Prices ranged from 58s. to 67s. per cwt long weight. The general impression is that cheese will be dear. We understand that the yield of the year in butter, as well as cheese, lias not been an average, and consequently unless the farmers get good prices, grazing will have been " a losing game. Moderate prices, will not, in fact, fully remu- nerate. We think good dairies will be worth from 75s. to 80s. FAIRS IN THE ENSUING WEEK. Worcestershire.— Worcester, Sat. Gloucestershire.— Iron Acton, Mon,; Painswick, Sat.; Water- leigh, Sat. Herefordshire.— Kington, Sat. Shropshire.— Bridgnorth, Tues. j Market Drayton, Sat. Warwickshire.— Coventry, Tues.; Dunchureh, Tues. ; Warwick, Tues.; Atherstone, Sat. igorttcMiturc* OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK. COXSKR VATOKIES, STOVE, & c.— Conservatory: Late Cierodendrons, early Camellias, well- grown Fuschias, trellis Climbers, Brugmansias, Scarlet Geraniums, & c.. should now be in high perfection here. The Veronica speciosa and the Buddlea Lindleyana, where properly grown, will also prove very interesting, as tending to sustain the true conservatory character. The two latter shrubs want very similar root treatment; nothing of a stimulating character will bloom them in perfection; a plain simple loam, of a rather sound character, will be found to suit them best, accompanied by the one- shift system oi putting. Store and Orchids ; the Eranthemum pulcliellum, with the Justicias, Poinsettias, Euphorbias, Plumbagos, the Gesnera zebrina, and the Achimenes picta, must now receive every attention, in order to get them to blossom through November, and even December, Orchids: Encourage late growths by all possible means, viz., by topping up, heal, atmospheric moisture, and a circulation of fresh and sweet air day and night, if possible. Continue to cool down those inclined to rest, and, with a more moderate temperature, let them have plenty of sunlight on the leal', and abundant aeration. KITCIIKN GARDEN FORCING.— Look well to the linings of Pines in dung pits at this period ; they will too suddenly cool if not care- fully watched. Although these pits will soon be amongst the things that were, we must not despise them, whilst compelled to rely on them. Have an eye to Figs, Peaches, " Vines. Cherries, & c., in pots or tubs, lor early forcing. Kidney Beans may be got forward in pots forthwith, for late autumn work; and strong Cucumber plants from layers or otherwise got on in well prepared boxes or light shelves, where 70" can be secured to them, with much atmospheric moisture. Give strict attention to the Strawberries in pots lor forcing, in regard to watering, trimming away runners, See. Let them have a s inny and airy situation, aud place them a good distance apart. FLOWER GARDEN AND SHRUBBERIES.— Most of the business here, at this period, is of a routine character. It will be well to fill up many blanks in ( lower borders, as soon as possible, with plants of a biennial character; such as Wallflowers, Sweet Williams, Campanu- las ( the C. grandis is a useful thing), Hollyhocks, biennial Stocks, and the various lJrimulas. Most ot these will be found very useful next spring, although somewhat old- fashioned. Those who desire to remove Evergreens may do it now, provided they have balls ; if not, October will be suitable. FLORISTS' FLOWBRS.— Carnations-, from the peculiarly suitable weather, layers are well rooted this season. In potting them off, either one or two plants may be placed in each pot, according to the convenience which the amateur may have lor wintering them. Care must be taken uot to have the soil too light, and manure or other stimulating composts must be avoided ; in fact, the soil cannot well be too simple or pure. Tulips: the offsets of all choice sorts may be put into the ground as soon as convenient, choosing fine dry weather tor the operation. It ' will be found a good plan uot to let the beds have too much moisture, hooping them over, so that mats or other protecting material may be thrown over in excessive wet. Pinks-. Where the plants have been put out on beds, they must be kept free from weeds; aud old stools or stock plants which have been grown in pots may be planted out on borders. These will produce au im- mense number of flowers next season, from which much seed may be saved. Pansies : make up beds of rich compost in rather a cool situation, and plant out rooted cuttings or young plants for next year's blooming. Dahlias.— Continue to shelter, thin the buds, & c„ as before directed. KITCHEN GARDEN* AND ORCHARD.— The winter Spinach must be thinned to about six inches apart, and the hoe worked through it. If any strong Celery plants remain, they might be taken up with balls and " heeled" deep, for soup purposes ; this will save the prime stock for salads. Get out more Endive for the last batch, using high slopes, which may receive covers, or hoops and mats, when severe w eather arrives. Plant some sttong Bath Cos Lettuce lor the latest autumn use on rich soil, and sheltered. Thin Turnips in due time, and get the hoe through them. Let all the old Scarlet Runner pods be picked clean, except a few for seed ; tliey exhaust the crop much, and prevent succession. Trench and manure well for the winter Cabbage in due time; and get out some more strong plants of the early kinds for late Cole worts. Go over all fruit trees once more, especially trained trees, and destroy ail late made laterals. Disbud and stop Figs forthwith; and stop the points of all growing Peaches and Nectarines, except the lowest and weakest. . FORESTING.— The weather now is most favourable for all operations which usually precede new planting. Those who intend being in the field this antumn should not lose a moment in making all necessary preparations. Agricultural au5 otljcr fftartiete. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK- LANE, MONDAY, SEPT. 7. A moderate supply of English wheat at market, which was readily cleared at 4s. to 5s. per qr. above the rates of this day se'nnight. Foreign was 2s. to 3s, per qr. higher for free, and 3s. to 5s. per qt. dearer for bonded. Flour advanced 2s. per sack aud Is. per barrel. Bailey for grinding Is. to 2s. dearer ; fine quality for mailing barely sustained the present high rates. Beans were is. to 2s., and peas is. per qr. dearer. Oats were checked in demand by high prices, and we quote the value Is. per qr. advauced. 64 56 26 30 29 26 28 28 25 28 2t 24 % WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 9. At this day's market factors began by asking a further advance of 2s. perqr. upon ull descriptions oi wheat, which completely checked the demand, although buyers came forward freely aud ollered fully the improvement noted on Monday. The arrivals ol oats were short this week ; still no more money could be obtained, and the trade ruled far more quiet than last market day. But lutle barley was shown. Egyptian beans in speculative request, and Is. dearer. The demand for floating cargoes ol' Indian corn continued good, but few on .-. ale. Per qr. Fer S. s. S. Wheat, Essex, Kent, & Malt Suffolk Red 53 to 56 Kingston and Ware 60 White - 56 61 Brown - 54 Lincolnshire & York- Oats, Lincolnshire auc shire Red 52 51 Yorkshire, Feed 24 White - 51 61 Pota. and Poland 28 Scotcli - 50 52 Snotch - 25 White 51 51 Devonshire and Welsh 24 Irish - - - - 50 52 Londonderry, Newry, White - - - 50 54 and Clonniei ditto - 26 Barley, Essex and Kent, Limerick and Sligo - Cork aud Waterford 26 Norfolk and Suffolk Malting - - - 36 38 Black 24 Distilling 35 37 White- - 24 Chevalier 38 43 Galway - 20 Grinding - 29 32 Extra - 20 Irish, Distilling- 27 30 Beans, Tick - 38 Grinding - 2G 28 Harrow and Small 40 Rye, Distilling 37 39 Peas, Essex, Boilers 46 Grinding - - - 35 3a Blue - 51 Malt, Norfolk & Suffolk 60 64 Grey, Maple, & Hog . 36 Brown - 51 56 Extra - 41 IMPERIAL AVERAGES. Average Price of Corn, per Imperial Quarter, for the IVeekendina August 29. Wheat .... 47s 10d j Oats .... 23s Od I Beans 39s 9d Bailey -.: 9s Id | Rye 31s lUd j Peas .... is, Gtl Aggregate Average of the Six Weeks lohich regulates the Duty. Wheat 46s lid j Oats 23s 5d I Beans 39s 5d Bailey .... 27s 5d | Rye ... 30s id | Peas 36s ( id Duty on Foreign Corn. Wheat 10s Od I Oats Is tid | Beans .... 4s Od Barley.... 4s Od ( Rye 4s Od | Peas 4s 0u SEED MARKLT, SEPT. 7. Foreign linseed in good request, at an advance in the quotation! of Is. per qr. Petersburg may be quoted at 39s. to lis.; and Alex- andria, 38s. 6d. to 39s. per qr. English rapuseed moved oil freely, at from to £ 22, 10s. per last, with a limited quantity on offe-. Linseed cakes have advanced quite 10s. per ll'OO. In all other articles only a mouerate business done, yet prices were fairly supported, WOOL MARKETS. LONDON, SEPT. 7.— Very few arrivals of wool have taken place into London from any quarter during the past week ; and the quan- tity on oiler in the piivate contract market was not say extensive. All kinds have met a very dull sale, and prices were with difficulty supported. About 20,000 bales of Colonial and lore'gu wool will be offered at the approaching public sales, which coroaienoe on the 9th instan t. LEEDS.— There was a moderate amount of business transacted during the past week, but prices were not altered. WAKEFIELD.— This market unchanged since our last report. YORK..— There was a good supply of wool at maiket, but prices barely supported. BRADFORD— A steady business done in all kinds of wool suited to the approaching season. SM1THF1ELD CATTLE MARKET. SEPT. 7. At Hull, about 400 oxen, 100 cows, 6U0 sheep, and SO calves have been landed in good condition, chiefly from Rotterdam ; while 20 heilers have been received at Bridlington. To- day, there were on offer about GUO foreign beasts, 2,900 ditto of sheep and lambs, and 20 calves. T he quality was by no means lirst- rate ; yet nearly the whole found buyers, at fully last week's prices. For the time of year, the numbers ol home- ted beasts on show this morning was rather limited, and of very middling quality. The attendance oi buyers was rather extensive ; while the demand lor the priinest Scots, & c., was very steady, at lully previous quotations. In allother breeds, only a moderate business done at late rates. The supply of sheep was again extensive; yet the mutton trade was firm, at fully, but at notluug quotable beyond, last Monday's prices. A seasonable supply 6f lambs. All breeds moved off readily, at extensive currencies. Calves moved off freely, at advanced prices. In pigs, very little was doing at our quotations. PRICKS PER STONE OF SLBS. TO IINK THE OFFAL. d s d | Prime Southdown in s d s d Inferior Beasts 2 10 3 0 Second quality ditto 3 2 3 t> Prime largeOxeu .... 3 8 3 10 Prime bcots, 4 0 4 2 Inferior Sheep 3 G 3 10 Second quality ditto 4 0 4 2 Coarse- wooiled ditto 4 2 4 4 Prime Soutuduwu.. 4 6 .4 S wool.. 0 0 0 0 Lamb 4 8 5 8 Large coarse Calves 3 Id 4 ( i Prime small ditto .... 4 8 4 10 Suckling Calves, each 18 0 3u O Large liogs 3 8 4 0 Small PorKers 4 8 4 10 Qr. old store pigs, each 16s a 20 SLTPLY AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT. Beasts, 3,540 | Sheep aud Lambs, 30,470 | Calves, 1S9 | Pigs 180 WORCESTER, SEPT. 11. At our market on Saturday last there was a fair supply of wheat, which sold readily at an advance oi iully is. per qr. Some new barley was disposed of at 40s. to 4Js. per qr. Oats of all descriptions is. per qr. dearer; and line qualities realized 28s. per 312lbs. On beans and peas the turn was in favour of the seller. s d 0 4 Wheat, white... New 0 0 0 0 Foreign ( i U ti 4 Wheal, red 5 8 G 2 New 0 0 0 0 Foreign 5 0 0 0 Barley, grinding 3 9 4 0 Ditto new Malting .. 4 G 5 0 Malt 8 0 8 G Old Oats, English .. 3 9 4 0 New ditto 0 0 0 0 8 d 8 d Old Oats, Iiish 3 G 4 0 New Ojits, Irish 0 0 0 0 Beans, old, English . Ditto, Foreign . 5 6 G 0 5 0 5 o Ditto new, English . 5 0 5 4 Peas, F'eed . 5 0 5 2 Boilers, white 5 6 G 0 G Vetches, Winter ... G 0 6 ditto, Spring 0 0 0 0 Rye, new 4 3 4 0 INSPECTOR'S WEEKLY RETURN OF CORN SOLD. Total quau. Av. perqr. I Total quan. A v. perqr. Wheat 445q: so Ou. £ 2 10 G^ I Rye ... Oqr. 0 bu. JtO 0 0 Barley 0 0 0 0 0 Beans . . 0 0 0 0 0 Gats. . 0 0 0 0 0 Peas . . 0 0 0 0 0 COUNTRY MARKETS. EVESHAM, SEPT. 7.— There was a fair amount of business done in grain at the following prices .-— Wheat, Gs. Gd. ; barley, 28s. to 38s. ; beans, old, 5s. 4d. to 5s. 8d.; new, 5s. Gd. ; oats, 3s. Gd, to 4s. 3d.; Peas, 5s. BIRMINGHAM, SEPT. 9.— During the present week English wheat has been sold at an advance oi 2s. to 3s. per qr. Malting and grinding barley Is. per qr. highei. Oats Is. perqr. advance. Beans Is. to 2s. per qr. dearer.— Averages: Wheat, 2,210 qrs, 5 bush., 57s 3d; barley, 161 qrs., 39s OJd; oats, 585 qrs., 26s 3jd; beans, 107 qrs., 44s lid; peas, 22 qrs. 1 bush., 39s 3Jd. GLOUCESTER, SEPT. 5.— A fair demand lor wheat, and an advance of about Is. per qr. was obtained ou English samples, and foreign was held firmly at last week's rates. New English wheat sold at 6s. 4d. to 7s. per bushel. Fine mailing barley was enquired lor, but little was sold, owing to the high rates demanded. Oats were about Gu. per qr. dearer, and beans were firm at last week's rates.— Averages: Wheat, 529qrs., 50s. 5d. ; barley, 50qrs., 27s, Gd.; oats, 104 qrs., 26s. 5d. HEREFORD, SIIPT. 5.— Only a moderate supply of wheat; good samples in request at fully the prices of last market day ; good dried red, 50s. to 5ls.; white, 52s. per qr. Barley for grinding is advanc- ing, and fine mailing is exceedingly scarce, aud worth more money. Beans, peas, and oats, Is per qr. dearer. SHREWSBURY, SEPT, 5.— There was a full attendance, but a small supply of new samples at market. The trade ruled as under -. Wheat, 5s, to Gs. 8d. ; barley, 3s. Gd. to 5s. Id.; oats, 2s. tid. to 3s. 8d. per imp. bushel, LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 8.— The trade for all kinds of wheat was rather languid, but without the least disposition on the part of holders to recede, the currency of last week was firmly maintained. A lew parcels of Irish new, part of which being damp, met a teuious sale at Gs. Gd. to 7s. 3d., one lot of good kiln- dried alone reached 7s. 6d. per " Olbs. Irish flour steady in value; States and Canadian free continue to meet a lair demand. Indian corn still commanding a lively and extensive sale, was is. to is. Gd. per 4801bs dearei. Barley, beans, and peas, upon a rather improved demand, realised an advance of Is. per qr. and malt remained steady at late prices. iaoolucni anJJ Bantaupt licijimcv. F III D A Y, S E PTE M B E R 4. BANKRUPTS. Robert Francis Barber, Bishopsgate- street Without, licensed victualler. * William Lake, Henfield, grocer. John Mortimer, Bradford, Yorkshire, woolstapler. Thomas Wainwright, Barnsley, Yorkshire, surgeon. James Hall, Leeds, chemist. Joseph Firth, sen., Standiland, Joseph Firth, jur.., Booth Town, James Dugdale and William Stott, Soy land, Yorkshire, cotton- spinners. George Lewis, Wrexham, Denbighshire, apothecary. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. BANKRUPTS. Thomas Cooke, Bridge- terrace, Harrow- road, plasterer. John Ditchman, Thurlow- place, Hackney- road, builder » William George Barley, Northampton, draper. Richard Walton, late oi Wardour- street, Soho, licensed victualler; Joseph Graham, Jewry- street, Aldgate, wholesale stationer, Frederick Arnold, New Bond- street and elsewhere, stationer. Edward Augustus William Taylor, Bradford, Yorkshire, bookseller. Joseph Dodsworth Browning, Bristol, cabinet maker. Thomas Wright, Derby, cheesefautor. Benjamin Carreg Sothern, Liverpool, coal dealer. Christopher Dickinson Johnson, Liverpool, victualler. John Birley, liccies, Lancashire, card manufacturer. John Highuet, Manchester, sack manufacturer, James Tuckett, Exeter, herbalist. Printed and Published for the Proprietor, at the Office A'O. 5, Avenue, Cross, in the Parish oj Saint Nicholas, in the Borough of Worcester, by FRANCIS PAUSONS ENGLAND, Printer, residing at No 52, Moor Street, Tytliing of Whistones, in the Borough of Worcester. Saturday, September 12, 1846. Advertisements and Orders received by the following Agents : LONDON :— Mr. Barker, 33, Fleet- street; Messrs. 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