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      October 18, 1849. - The Northern Star, 7

      October 18 , 1849 . - THE NORTHERN STAR , 7

      Manchester Water-Worksl-Destliuc Tion Of...

      _MANCHESTER WATER-WORKSL-DESTliUC TION OF PROPERTY BY A FLOOD . A violent snow and thunder storm occurred on Friday week at Glossop , at the foot of some ofthe Yorkshire and Derbyshire bills , and since that occurrence , the exceedingly heavy and continuous falls of rain and snow on the summit ef the hills in question , have been productive of much more serious consequences . The Manchester corporation "has commenced a series of works for the collection of the fine streams which flow from those hills through the Longdendale valley , principally fed by some powerfal springs near Woodhead , with a view of supplying Manchester with tbis beautiful water The cost ofthe reservoir and other works will pro ** ¦ _fcably be not much less than

      a million of money , and their construction bad proceeded -very satisfactorily up to Sunday last , when an accident occurred which _v-dl probably throw tbe works back by several months . For about ten days there had been an almost _uninttrrupted fall of rain on the hills . The weather cleared np for some hours on Saturday , but about ten o ' clock on Saturday night the rain commenced again with a strong easterly wind , and _aever ceased till ten o ' clock on Sunday night . The -rater came down literally in torrents . * The Eden "Brook and the river Etherow are the principal feeders to tbe intended waterworks , and are united at Woodhead . These streams were considerably swollen at this point , owing to the fall of rain , and from comparatively shallow but rapid Streams they "became torrents of great - _* ra « nitnde , The volume of water is estimated to have increased on Sunday to nearly three thousand cubic feet per second * .

      About two o ' clock , on Sunday , tbe flood down the Eden Brook so completely overtopped tbe new weir , which the company have erected across that stream , ' as to entirely carry off the coping of thc immense barrier of stone work . Through the breaking down of this weir , thc new river-course , for the purpose of -carrying off the floods , was rendered useless , and the •" rater consequently impounded into the valley beiind ihe embankments ofthe river ( which had been raised to about _twenty-fonr feet above the pipes for carrying off the water ) and collected there , until at "half-past five o ' clock on Sunday morning * it flowed over the top , and cut down and swept away the embankment itself . The immense volume of water thus liberated from all control burst down tbe -vale of the Etherow with fearful violence , sweeping -everything before it . At Yale House Mill , three miles down the stream , where the spinning and weaving mill of Messr 3 _Hobbs and Sidebottom are situated , the flood is described as makin-r

      its appearance between six and seven o ' clock in the evening like a waU of water , the top fully five feet above the level of the ordinary stream , over -wbich it came rushing with fearful rapidity . There is a village of several hundred people * there , and such of the inhabitants as were on the alert ran screaming into their houses with terror . The lower storey of tbe mills of "Messrs . Hobbs and Sidebottom _trere flooded in an instant , and with such violence did the water rush into this part ofthe building that it lifted up the stone flooring above ' , and almost -filled the second storey . From two to . three thousand pieces of _printing cloths and shirtings were entirely destroyed in this mill , besides a quantity of yarn , and the flood washed down the day and Sunday-school attached to it , and part of a warehouse . It also washed down a great nnmber of

      yard walls , and of the fences of the surrounding fields . Abridge for carriage across the Etherow at this place was partly swept away , and will have to be re-erected , several ofthe piers being destroyed . The banks of the river were here sufficiently high to prevent the flood going over them in so great a -force as to destroy the village , but most of the bouses were for a time under water , and on its subsiding tbe floors of them were left covered , as were all the surronnding fields and property , with mud and wreck . The fall of the river from Woodhead down to this point is estimated at eighty to ninety ieet per niile , and the force of the torrent was so great that it bore down witb it some of the huge blocks of Ashlar stone , two or three tons weight each , of which the works at Woodhead were constructed , ibr more than two miles .

      The loss to the Waterworks Company , at Woodiead , is estimated at a little over _-fiaOO ; but the damage to the mills and works down the stream is more scrions . The loss of Messrs . Hobbs and Sidebottom alone is said to exceed £ 1 , 000 . Tbe next mills tbe flood came in contact witb are a mile or two lower down the valley , being two spinning and weaving mills belonging to Mr . S . Lees . The machinery is partly turned by a waterwheel , and being in gear at the time , would have "been considerably damaged , but tbat the -volume of water drove three or four sections ofthe millwheel out of their frame , and thus brought its revolution "very speedily fo an end . The water is described as "rising at once to a height of eight feet above the

      previous level ofthe flood ; and the lower part of the two mills ( filled with several hundred looms , in which as many pieces of shirting were in the course of wearing when the -machinery bad been slopped on Saturday night , } being thus " flooded , great injury ¦ was sustained by the owner . The neighbouring cottages were flooded to a considerable depth , and the damage sustained bv Mr . Lees is said to exceed £ . 509 . The printworks of Messrs . Dalton , called tbe Hollingworth "Mill Printworks , still further down the ¦ river , were also flooded . The flood reached the mill a little before seven o ' clock , snapping asunder thc cast-iron p illars whieh support a bridge for carriages , and carrying away the whole fabric asthough it were a toy . " The inhabitants of the neighbouring cottages were taken bv surprise , and the first floors

      of their dwellings being filled at once to a height ol several feet , they were compelled to seek safety , -which they did , with tiie most pitiable cries and lamentations , in the upper storeys . The valley here spreading out , however , to aArasiderable width , the force of the torrent was sprat to a great extent bv being divertedfrom its course . The printworks stand close to the . river side , and the water van into the lower storeys , filling the vats , and upsetting the colour tubs , besides wetting and injuring a quantity of cloth . A poor farmer , named Thomas Holland , occupying Woolley Farm , by the side of the r iver , had a quantity of corn cut , which was in sheaf , but in the field , and this the flood carried entirely away . Messrs . Dalton sustained a loss of £ 5 , 00 or £ 6 , 00 , and the fanner estimates his loss at something like £ 50 .

      Messrs . Sidebottom's mills , at Waterside , being protected by a high mound of earth , escaped more lightly than the others . These mills are situated about five miles down the stream from Woodhead . A good many fences and walls upon the property adjoining the river , belonging to Mr . Sidebottom , -were prostrated , and tbe handsome suspension bridge , crossing the Etherow to Mr . Sidebottom ' s residence , was injured by a bulk of timber borne down by the stream , the hand-rail being broken , and someoftheornamentalwork . Messrs . Sidebottom ' s loss , however , will probably not exceed £ 100 . The cotta _«** ers lived by the side of the Etherow have

      suffered considerably , though not nominally toa large amount . Many of them had pig-cotes and other premises bv the side of the stream , and in addition to these " places being washed down , thenpigs and other property were swept away . No doubt much injury was done which has not yet come to our reporter ' s knowledge , and £ 3 , 000 -would probably be a low estimate of the whole , besides tbe alarm and inconvenience sustained . Some of the materials ofthe reservoir were carried as far as Stockport . Several of the mills have had to cease running through if , and thus the poor workpeople will also sustain a further loss by remaining unemployed for a time . —Manchester Examiner .

      The Dos Asd Tbe Iierb.— The Inhabitants ...

      The Dos asd tbe IIerb . — The inhabitants of large towns are in general ipnorant ofthe feet , that hoth dogs and cats ¦ when tbey fed _themsdves ill search about the fields for -certain herbs which they devour ; and m lessthanhalf-an liom * afterwards , from a state of dullness and langour , they are fall of fife . Persons who reside in small country towns ¦ well know this to be a fact Their knowledge is evidently fh > m instinct , and it is ft proof of the restorative powers of ierl _* 5 . Old women also in villages are in general noted for -their success in raring the scurvy , ring-worms , bad legs , 4 : c They employ nothing but herbs for the purpose . The proprietor ofa celebrated scorbutic medicine resided in a small _villa-je for some years , and his astonishment was tmboimded to witness the all but miraculous enres an old -woman made in scorbutic complaints . He bought some ofthe medicine ofthe old woman and tried it on himself and about a dozen of his fiiends . ft had fhe desired effect in every case . He now offered to buy the recipe of the old woman ; she at first refused , bnt _m & nately consented , and one fine morning the proprietor of this medi-. cine and the old woman were seen rathering herbs from a nelghbonring field . This medicine is now called Halse's Scorbutic Drops . The most certain purifier of the blood as

      yet discovered . A _* JJ * B * _annr-s Pile _Okxment . —Perhaps the only occasion on which the late eminent surgeon Mr . Abernefty * _A-as -called on to proscribe for that foul disease , " The Piles _, was in the case of the proprietor of "Abernethy ' s Pile Ointment , " and -ronderfnl was the speedy and permanent < nire effected in his case . Since that period , a great number of persons , ( friends ofthe proprietor , ) sorely afflicted - _^ _S _^ disorder , have been f _***}^ " _*"" ? o < _£ se and health by the use of this valuable preparation , _^ _toefflSte _tf-OTie of the most talented profession _^ fad totally fSlea , Indeed , the fact of this application _W-isifefacto _^ _ypmveditseIf ; in every trieleu * an _-mra-toble cure , was the proprietor ' s sole mfo « _-me convert * - * -remedial properties into a great V _& _hBsml instead of _ron & _ang its usefulness , as heretofore , -wflnn _& e _Thnits ofhis own and his friends _af-quaintance . AMrnemy s J * iJe Ointment has now been some time in general use , ana is as well known and as powerfully recommended by tne medical profession as by those thousands who have _personally experienced its beneficial effects .

      The Most _EmcraxL Come mb Gout axd _kheijmatism . _43 _E HoELOwAT _' s Oikxhest axd Pnis .- —A frequent cause of these complaints is the inflammatory state of the blood , attendant with bad _digesti-in , lassitude , and great debility sh 9 Tring the want of a proper circulation of the -fluids / and that impurity of the blood greatly aggravates these painful disorders . Holloway ' s Pills are of so purify _ins a nature that a ftw doses , taken in time , is an effectual -nreventire against Goat and Rhenmatism ; but any one ihat has an attack of either , should use Holloway ' s Ointment' also , the powerfol properties of which , combined with the effect ofthe Pills , ensures a certain cure .

      Mutiny And Murdelt At Sea. We Glean The ...

      MUTINY AND MURDElt AT SEA . We glean the following particulars of a most atrocious mutiny and murder of the captain and mate of theBelgian brig Maria Antoinette , from the correspondent of aXew York paper , dated Key West August 28 th , received per tbe Niagara : — * The following is from the protest of Christian Kessen , boatswain , who was in charge of the brig upon her arrival here , and at the time of her getting on shore : — Christian Kessen says , thatthe said brig Marie Antoinette sailed from Antwerp on the 12 th dav of May last past—that she went to sea on the 24 th dav of May for Havannah , with a cargo of nails , gin , and flooring bricks , as per manifest of said bri _« r nerewitn

      produced -- that the said brig Marie Antoinette , at the begining of said voyage , was under the command of Leopold Lauwers , the then master thereof ; that Louis de Jong was the mate ofthe said brig ; aud that tbe appearer , Christian Kessen aforesaid , was the boatswain thereof , performing tbe duties of second mate on board the said brig ; and that Jean Franois Haezebrock , Paul CornelleLoy _, Jean Joseph Filiaert , and Leopold Joseph Yandeweghe , were the crew ofthe said brig ; that nothing remarkable occurred on board until Wednesday , the -ith day of Mv ult ., when , beingin lattifude 25 3-5 N ., and longitude 4754 W . from Greenwich , the said captain and mate were murdered on board the said brig , and their bodies thrown into the sea by the said crew ; that the

      facts connected with the said murder , so far as they are known by the said appearer , are briefly as follows : —That on the 4 th day of July aforesaid , at about two o ' clock p . m . on that day , the appearer , Christian Kessen , was in the cabin of the said brig ; that the captain was also there , and asleep in his berth , that the appearer took some dinner plates from the cabin to the caboose , that while in the caboose be beard a voice in the cabin , and thought that it was the captain's voice , uttered in distress ; that he immediately ran towards the cabin with the intention of going in , but that he was met at the door , or entrance way ofthe cabin , by Loy aforesaid , who was coming out ofthe cabin with a bloody knife in his hand ; that Loy was much covered with blood , and that , as soon as he saw Loy , tbis

      approver was much frightened , and ran forward toget away from Loy ; tbat Loy followed bim for a short distance , and then turned and went back ; and this approver went forward to the forehatch , that he saw the said Tandeweghe , one ofthe said crew , approaching him ( Kessen ) with a knife in his hand , * that Tandeweghe was covered with blood , and this approver was afraid that Tandeweghe was coming to kill him , and that thereupon this approver fell upon his knees , and prayed for his life , and that Tandeweghe said , " You shall live ; " that this approver then arose from his knee , and loy came forward and told this approver to take the helm , which he did . Did not see the captain or mate killed , and therefore does not know the circumstances further than he has since learned from conversations among

      the crew , and by admissions made hy the said crew tothe said approver , to wit : that he , said Loy , admitted that he killed the captain , and that the said Tandeweghe admitted tbat be killed the mate ; tbat he saw the body of the said captain after he was dead , and tbat bis throat was cut , and that his tongue was hanging out of his' mouth , and that his face and the fore part of his body was covered with blood , and that he also saw wounds on various parts of hisbody ; that he saw the mate running forward with his throat cut and bleeding profusely , and saw him jump down the forehatch . That be did not see any more of the mate or ofhis body . Saw all the crew engaged in throwing the captain ' s body overboard about fifteen minutes after he was killed . Believes that Lov , Tendeweghe , and Haezebrock ,

      were drunk at the time of the murder . That the crew all went to work to wipe up the blood , in tbe cabin and on deck as soon as they had thrown the captain overboard . After this they all -went down into thc cabin and took therefrom a bottle of gin and some wine , sugar and cheese and bread , and then went upon th _» roof ofthe house upon deck ; and ate and drank until they were all drunk , and so remained all that night and the following day . That this appearer remained at the helm all of the said night , and until about ten o'clock the next morning , when he was relieved by the said Filiaert . The crew took charge of said brig on the oth day of July , and kept charge one day ; that they changed the course of said brig , and stood away for _Kew York ; that Loy told him that , as noon as they

      made land , they would scuttle the brig , and let her sink ; and that the rest ofthe crew said , " That will be best ; " that on the next day the crew requested this appearer to take charge of said brig , and put her on her course to Havannah ; that , after this , he took the sun and made observations every day , but that the said crew would not permit him torecord his observations , or make any remarks onthelog-boek ; tbat he wrote these observations on a slate , and , after using them for the occasion , rubbed them out ; that he suspected some of the crew would destroy the log-book , and that he therefore tore outthe leaf containing the latitude and longitude , and observations made in the said log-book on the said 4 th day of July , in order tbat he * might preserve some evidence as to the place where the

      captain and mate were murdered . That , on the 10 th day of July aforesaid , they fell in with an American barque , the captain of said barque came on board said brig , and when the captain of the barque was approaching the brig Loy told bis appearer , that ifhe saidanythmgto thesaid captain , be ( Loy ) wouldkillhim . This appearer said , that some or all of said crew informed the said captain , thatthe former captain and mate had been killed by lightning ; and this appearer confirmed tbeir story by saying it was true , forasmuch as he was afraid to contradict it . That , after thc said captain left the said brig , he continued on his course to Havannah , and that no event of interest occurred until they reached the Bahama Banks , when they were boarded bv a number of men , fourteen in all ,

      from a schooner that fell in with them ; that as soon as the said men reached the brig , they went on board of her , and two of their number went down the fore-hatch into the hold , and passed up to their companions on deck four demijohn 3 of gin ; that others of them went into the cabin , and took therefrom about one hundred pounds of bread , and from sixty to seventy pounds of pork ; and after loitering about the vessel for about an hour , they took the said articles on board their own vessel ; that this appearer did not , and he believes the erew of said brig did not , g ive any permission to said men from said schooner to take the said gin , bread , and pork , and thatthe same was feloniously and piratically taken by them ; that soon after these men left the _briir . this annearer beins : apprehensive they were

      pirates , and that they might return and forcibly take possession ofthe said brig and cargo , changed his course and steered in a northwest direction , and continued on that _sourse for about four days , when be discovered the Cape Caraveral Li ght , on the coast of Florida ; then he changed his course to south , and continued on in this direction until the 12 th day of August . About three o ' clock , a . m ., of that day , tbe vessel struck on the Florida Reef , within a few miles Ofthe Florida Cape Light ; that he carried out an anchor aft with ninety fathoms of hauser attached , and hove upon it without moving the brig ; that he continued and repeated these efforts without success until about nine a . m ., when he was visited br three men from the shore , who

      offered to get the brig off and take her to Key West , for 000 dollars . That he accepted the offer , and that the said men began to get the vessel off , and that after about thirty minutes labour they succeeded and got hcr into deep water , that they navigated the saidbrig to Key West , where tbey arrived on the 25 th day of August , and that the said men have libelled the said brigand her cargo for salvage . That upon the arrival of the brig at Key West the Vice-Consul came on board , who upon being made acquainted with the deplorable events of our ravage , took the saidbrig and carrainto his custody , and caused all the crew to be handcuffed , and placed a sufficient guard on board to protect said brig and cargo .

      Xewdjiaixaceact. —An Act Was Passed In T...

      _XewDjiaixaceAct . —An act was passed in the last session ( which requires to be more generally known ) , _* to promote the advance of private money for drainage of lands in Great Britain and Ireland ( 12 and 13 Tictoria , cap . 100 ) . The preamble recites the large sums advanced for the drainage of land in England and Ireland—tbat further applications have been made for loans , and that it is expedient that the same should bc advanced by private persons . A good deal has been said of late respecting drainage , and the act states , " That it is desirable that works of drainage should continue to be encouraged , in order to promote the increased productiveness ofthe land and healthiness of the districts where it is requiredand to supply the demand

      , for agricultural labour , especially at that season of the year when other sources are suspended . " The object of tbe act is to enable owners of lands to borrow or advance money , to be applied to works of drainage under the sanction ofthe Enclosure Commissioners in England , and ofthe Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland . The money expended under the act is to be charged on the inheritance of the land . The commissioners are authorised to issue " rent-charges" on the property for twentytwo years . Aa between the several persons interested in any land charged witb a rent-charge under

      this act , the persons respectively are bound to Keep down and discbarge the payments thereof as if tbe same were interest payable upon a mortgage in fee on such lands . The Commissioners have a "eueral power of inspection and examination , to ascertain the proper application ofthe funds raised for works of drainage . Death of thb Fatheb of France . —The oldest man in France , M . Jean BaptisteRobillard , died on the 1 st of October , at Fontenay , near Paris , at the ape of 113 years four months and two days . He was born in June , 1736 " . RobiHard retained the use of all his faculties to the last moment .

      Middlesex Sessions. Illeoat Wiiohi3, &C....

      MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . iLLEOAt Wiiohi 3 , & c . —At a " special court , on _Stturday , convened before a full bench of _nugi- _* - trates , by Mr . Childe , the inspector of weights and measures , and high-constable of Finsbury , the following important convictions took place at his suit : —Mr . Robert Goose , a baker , living in Old-street , St . Luke ' s , was charged with having a piece of lead wrapped up , and concealed under his _weighinj machine , which , in consequence , caased a deficiency to a purchaser of an ounce and a half . The defendant endeavoured to conceal the fraud by snatching up the lead , when the inspector and his witness , Mr . Turner , entered the premises . The couri severely censured the conduct of the accused , and lined him 40 s . —Frederick Riches , a baker , at 93 , Golden-lane ,

      St . Luke ' s was ordered to pay 10 s . for a false balance of an ounce . — William Death , a pork-butcher , in _Aylesbury-street , Clerkenwell , complained of for having in use an illegal balance in his favour of ten drachms , and also five light weights . The inspector informed the bench that the defendant is carrying on what is termed a " cutting trade , " in a , very populated spot where there is much opposition in his business . He was fined SOs . and _rautioned . — William Jackson , a butcher , in _Vtrnon-place , _Bagnigge-wells-road , was fined 10 s . for a deficient scale three quarters of an ounce . Heis another ' * cutting butcher . '—Charles Balderson , a butcher , at 19 , St . John street , was summoned for having a - jerry " on his scale , which _g « ve a false balance of an ounce .

      Fined 20 s . —Frederick Holgate _. ham and beef shopkeeper , at 7 , Tabernacle-walk , was summoned for having a piece of lead under his weighing scale , tliereby giving an uujust balance offive drachms , and fined 10 a . —William Stannard , a beer-shop keeper , in Bath-street , City-road , was called on to pay 25 s . for nine illegal measures . —George Wilkins , chandler , of 34 , Great Arthur-street , St . Luke ' s , was sentenced to pay 20 s . He had a halfpenny concealed in some fat under a customer ' s scale-Richard Diane , a bread tally-shop keeper , in Great Arthur-street , was fined 10 s . for giving short weight . His sliop _, which was described to be one ofthe best in London of tbe description , is piled up with pledges taken in by him from his noor _neighbours _, to Drevent

      them from starving . The court said the Pawnbrokers' Act would reach him , and requested the inspector to look after him . — Thomas Burrows , a marine store-shop keeper , in Whitehorse-alley , Benjamin-street , Clerkenwell , was charged with using three heavy weights in making purchases , and also a false beam and scale , for which he was cautioned and fined 10 s . —William Halliday , a hawker of coals , living in thc Newiugton-limes , was fined 20 s . for selling with a fraudulent machine to the extent of three-quarters of a pound ; and Joseph Payne , in the Back-road Kingsland , had to pay a like sum for a deficiency iu his coal-machine of two pounds and a quarter . Cur . — Saturday . — James Reid , becr-shopkee

      per , in Fenehurch-street , was summoned for employing two measures deficient of their legal standard . --Mr . Harvard said he called the defendant's attention to the pots , and begged them to be put correct , when he hastily replied that they were fair , and wished them to be measured . They were accordingly tried , and found wanting _!—Fined as- and costs . — Alexander West , a cookshop-keeper , Duke's Head * _passage , Ivy-lane , had two unjust weights found in his possession . The defendant had been cautioned before . The weights were both light , and not legally stamped . —Convicted in the penally of 5 s . and costs . —James Wilmott and Co ., oilman , Fenchurch-street were summoned for using a half gallon vinegar measure , two and a half ounces short of its legal standard .

      —Alderman Fairbrother said , even in vinegar , in these hard times , the poor ought not to be served with a deficient meatsure _. Hc should impose a fine of 10 s . and expenses . —George Smith , Blue Anchor , Cokman-street , had five unjust measures ou his premises ; a quart , one and a half ounce short ; three pints , one ¦ unce , three-quarters of an ounce and half ounce , each short ; and a half-pint _half-ounce short . —Fined 10 s ., and costs . —Samuel Littlewood , wastepaper dealer , in Upper Thames-street , had two light weights . —Defendant said he was not to blame in the matter . —Alderman Fairbrother said no great fraud

      appeared to have been done . The costs would satisfy the ends of justice . —Defendant begged to hand 2 * - . to the ponr-box .-Alderman Fairbrother said he was much obliged to him , but ifhe pleased , he might give £ 2 . —( A laugh . )—Defendant : May I have the weights to adjust them?—Alderman Fairbrother : _So , we will do that . —Defendant : Then I cannot digest your law . —A costermonger , named Billington , in Windmill-street , New-cut was summoned fi _> r selling plums in the street , at a cheap price , with a very bad measure . The defendant did not appear , and in order to protect the public , the delinquent was ordered to be brought up on a warrant .

      TrasDAr . —The criminal business for the October Quarter Sessions commenced this day . _IxwciiiEsr fob Larcexi * . —Joseph Smith , a respectably attired young man , was indicted for stealing a handkerchief and a pair of gloves , from the person of Mr . George Evans Marriott , architect , 89 , Fleet-street . —Mr . Perry appeared for the prisoner . —The prosecutor deposed tliat on thc evening of the 5 th inst ., at about half-yast ten o'clock , he was standing in High-street , Camdcn-town , looking at a house on fire . There was a great crowd of persons standing about , and the prisoner at the bar was standing immediately behind him . Hc felt the hand of some person fumbling in his coat pocket , and turning sharply round , said to tho prisoner ,

      "My mend , you are making too free with my pockets ; " and as ho said this , he missed from his coat-pocket his handkerchief and a pair of gloves . The next minute he saw the gloves nicked up . Those produced were the same . —Charles Gould , 374 S , stated that he was on duty at the fire in question , and he saw the prisoner standing behind the last witness . When Mr . Marriott said that the prisoner was making too free with his pocket , witness asked him ( the prisoner ) if he was the person addressed . He said he was not , it was an individual standing behind him . The prosecutor then said "No , it's you , " and witness , observing that tiie prisoner held his hands under the tail Of his coat , took hold of him and said , " What are vouu hands

      doing down here . " At that moment the gloves fell from his pocket . Hc turned round and sprung away , and witness saw thc handkerchief also _iiill from his pocket . Witness seized bim , and took him to the station-house—Mr . Parry made a very energetic address to the jury on behalf of the prisoner , and observed that he was a most respectable young married man , and had been for more than sixteen years in the service of Messrs . Wiggan and Co ., hop factors , < fcc ., in the Borough , and had always borne and deserved a most undeniable character . He happened to reside near thc scene of the fire , of which mention had been made , and as it created a groat hubbub in the neighbourhood he went to the spot to witness it ; and , therefore , ho

      had a _legitimate reason for being there , and had not , as the generality of thieves did , mix himself up in a crowd for the mere purpose of picking pockets . The learned gentleman very forcibly' urged that the policeman and the prosecutor might be mistaken as to what they said the prisoner did , and that the handkerchief and the gloves might have been abstracted by another person , who dropped them when Mr . Marriott challenged the prisoner with making too free with his pockets . —Several witnesses , including the foreman to Messrs . Wiggan , g ave the prisoner a most excellent character foi honesty . —The learned judge summed up , and having very impartially recapitulated thc facts , asked the jury whether they could safely say that

      theprisoner , a person ot unexceptionable character , would commit- a crime wliich no one but an old thief would attempt . —Tthe jury instantly returned a verdict of "Not Guilty , " and the prisoner left the court with a numerous body of friends . A Dissenting Juryman . —John Johnson , 24 , and William Turner , 14 , were indicted for having stolen a pewter pot , the property of a publican named Bishop .- —The evidence of a policeman clearly proved the case against thc prisoners , and the learned Judge having told thc Jury that it was not a case in which they would require him to sum up , —One of the jurymen said he should very much like to know , before he acquiesced in any verdict , _whatjeharactor the prisoners bore , because he thought it would not the

      be fair , in case the jury acquitted prisoners , for his lordship to tell them that by their verdict of acquittal they had let loose a couple of plunderers upon society . If the court ol' the police knew anything of the character of the prisoners , tbe jury ought to hear what it was before they considered their verdict . —The learned Judge told him that the only evidence to character which the court or iury could listen to , must be called bythe prisoner , and not by the prosecution . —The juryman said he thought it a very important consideration in the case , tbat the jury should have some evidence as to who thc prisoners were , and how they got their living . He hoped the court would allow him to ask a question or two of the policeman in the case . — The Learned Judge said that the juryman might ask tbe officer any question he chose , through the court , that would explain any part of the case , but the _iurvman must take care that he did not ask a single

      question as to the character of thc prisoners . * -1 no policeman having been placed in the witness-box , the juryman put the question to him , " What is the character of the prisoners ?"—The Judge : 1 tell you , sir , that you must not ask questions m reference to character ; and it is extremely improrcr and disrespectful on tbe part of a juryman , not to submit to the direction of the court . —The Juryman : I think it material , and I think your lordship ought to put the question . —The Judge : If you are disposed to find a man guilty , because he happened to bear a bad character , you are a very unfit person to act as a juryman , that ' s all I have got to say . —As the juryman persisted in asking the question , the learned judge ordered the jury to leave the box , and retire to consider their verdict , and an officer was sworn to keep them in safe custody . —The other eleven jurymen said there was no necessity for them to retire , the case was plain enough , and no doubt their dissentient memher would agree in a minute .

      Middlesex Sessions. Illeoat Wiiohi3, &C....

      2 i . _^ thit could not _conscien . _Sffii lvea _^ _ct without knowing whether the I **™ bj l _c-wracters .-Thelearned judge t ° ; theevidence . _^ ich certainly was conclusive as to the guilt ohhe prisoncrs .-Tho cloven jurymen repeatedl y told the twelfth that it was impossible there could be any doubt about the case ; but when he declared that he could not give a verdict until the question of character was settled one way or other , the learned judge peremntorily ordered them to leave the box . The coinciding eleven did not seem very desirous of leaving thc box , and endeavoured to convince their obdurate brother juryman that he was wrong , when his lordship insisted upon their _immediatelv leaving the

      box . Ihey were then conducted to a private room , where they discussed the matter in a very loud and angry manner . After some hours had passed , tlie learned judge directed the prisoners tobe brought tothe bar , and that having been complied with , Ins lordship asked them if they would consent to the jury being discharged without giving a verdict ? - The prisoners said they would .-The jury was then sent lor , and his lordshi p told them that , with the prisoners consent , he should discharge them from giving a verdict at all . _ Thc Foreman , in a very warm and excited manner , was about to complain ?•; r ° n _? _* , tof tlle dissenting juryman , when the learned judge said lie would Lear no more about it . Be was _iiwnre what the foreman was

      going to say , and less aaid about it the bettor . HSlf 9 o ' _- ~ RO _? _5 . _« _WOBKUOMB .-J . Holyfield 22 was indicted for stealing a Dutch clock , value twenty shillings , the _property of the « uardians of the poor of the parish of Saint Mary , Whitechape ! . In a second count ofthe indictment li _^ 1 _^ n _° b T , P ? P erty 0 f tl , e _R' _^ t _ROV the Buhop of London , and in a third it was laid as the property of some person unknown . —Mr . O'Brien appeared for the _prosecutioni-From the statement ofthe learned counsel , it seemed that the circumstances , out of which the case arose , were ofa sinnature

      gular . A poor man named Charles Laurence and his wite , were removed from their _dwelling , 11 , King s Arms-court , to Whitechapei Workhouse suffering from cholera . After they had been there some time the case became urgent , and they were removed to the London Hospital , where they both died shortly after admission , and their children , three in number , were taken into the workhouse . By a recent act of parliament , the guardians of the poor of any parish aro empowered to take possession of the property of any pauper to whom they had been giving relief , after that pauper ' s death , to reimburse themselves , as far as the value of tho

      property went , for the relief given , and availing themselves of this power the guardians of St . _Mary , Whitechapei , took possession of thc furniture in Laurence's lodgings , and , by their direction it was removed to a shed adjoining the workhouse . Tho prisoner was at that time an in-door pauper , and lie was seen by some ofthe officers of the establishment leaving the ' place where the furniture -vas deposited , with a Dutch clock , which had belonged to Laurence under his arm . To get to the shed , fvom the male side ofthe establishment , which he had no right to leave , he must have got over a gate ten feet high . In order to prevent any question as to the ownership ofthe property , it was laid in the indictment , first as belonging to the guardians , then

      as the property of the Bishop of London , to whom as ordinary , all the property of intestate persons belongs until administered to , and thirdly , as thc property of some person unknown . —The prisoner , in his defence , said that he should not have taken the clock , or even thought of going to thc shed at all , had not he seen tlie task master go and ransack some boxes , and take some trinkets , which he _aftcrwerds gave to one of the female paupers , to take improper liberties with her . There were plenty of persons in the house who could prove that tvhafc he said was true . — The learned judge then called the task-master , who was one of the witnesses for the prosecution , and asked him pointedly , whether there was any truth in thc prisoner ' s statement . He positively swore that it

      was false . —The jury found the prisoner " Guilty , " and he was sentenced to three months' hard labour . IIocvssixo and RoBBERr . — Mary Merrick , 26 , Bridget M'Kenzie , 22 , Catherine Pratt , 34 , and Mary Ann Sullivan , 17 , wero indicted for robbing David Dorward , a master mariner , of a gold watch , gold chain , four gold seals , £ 5 note , two sovereigns , and other articles . —Mr . Parry appeared for the prisoner Merrick , and Mr . Payne defended M'Kenzie ; Sullivan pleaded guilty . —The prosecutor stated that he accompanied the prisoner Sullivan to a disreputable house in the vicinity of _Ratelifte-highivay , kept hy tho prisoner Pratt . He was induced to partake of some gin and beer , and directly afterwards he fell asleep , and when he regained his

      consciousness he found that he had heen robbed of all his money , his watch , with gold chain and seals attached , and a portion of his clothing . —Tho only evidence against the three prisoners who plead * not guilty was the positive statement of the pros * cutor that they wore present in tho room when lie drank the potation , and that when Sullivan said she took the money at the instigation of Merrick , thc latter said , " Well , yon were a fool to he persuaded to rob tho man by mc . "—The learned Judge withdrew the case from tho jury as regarded Pratt and M'Kenzie , but left it foi * their decision as regarded Merrick . —The jury returned a verdict of "

      Acquittal . "—Sullivan was sentenced to six months - hard labour . —The le _.-inied Judge told Pratt that she had experienced a very narrow escape , for had she been convicted , tho sentence upon lier would certainly have been ten years' transportation ; for though there was a want of legal evidence against her , the court was satisfied that the prosecutor had been " hocussed" in her house , and robbed with hcr knowledge , and she niight tell her associates , and the keepers of houses like her own , that every person who suffered thi 3 practice of drugging in their house would , if convicted in that court , bo sent out of the country .

      A Second Dandd . —Frederick William Molloy , 01 , a bald-headed man , with an impudent expression of countenance , was indicted far " fraudulently obtaining 1 y false pretences from Henry Manning , certain meat , drink , and lodsjing , to the value of six shillings , with intent to cheat and defraud him of th ° same . " The prisoner appeared to be excessively deaf , and when called upon to plead , he pretended not , to bear tb « question , though it was repeated loudlv close to his eais at least half a dozen times , by one of the . offices . At length the indictment ilstlf was handeil to him , with a written request that he would either say that he was or was not guilty , and after reading it over attentively he said boldly ¦ ' Guilty . " Thc evidence upon which the indictment

      was founded was as follows : — On Saturday , thc 30 th of September , the prisoner presented himself at the Cafe de Paris , in the Haymarket , and told the head waiter , who apreared on this occasion ns the prosecutor , that he wanted a dinner and a bed . The waiter observing that , though somewhat respectably dressed , he had no luggage , told him that tliey weie not inthe habit of providing lodgings for gentlemen who _brought no luggage , upon whicli the risoncr ssid it was all light , his portmanteau would arrive r . ext morning , and he wrote a letter to a Mrs . llidlcy , Barnes-terrace , Surrey , requesting her to forward it , but it was afterwards ascertained that there was no such person at the address indicated . That day , the amount incurred by the prisoner was sixteen _shillinffs , and his dinner with wine the nest day came to six shillings—the sum mentioned in the indictment . When the _waiterpreseriied his bill , the prisoner said all his fviends were out oi town , and

      as he was short of money he would give him a cheque' for £ 5 up n his bankers , and he wrote as follows upon half a sheet of note paper . " Pay to Mr . J » bn Esilen or bearer , tbe sum of five pounds , F . W . _Mollov . - £ 5 . 0 s . Od . Messrs . Spooner and Attwood , Giacecburch-strcet . " This was promptly forwarded to the bank , and it waa brought back by the rnessenser , marked " no account- " and the prisoner was thrn given into custody . He was searched by _Sergea-t Grey , 10 C , but no money whatever was found upon him . In answer to tbe court , the waiter said that he should certainly have given the prisoner into custody had he not given the cheque or paid the bill when it was presented to him . He would personally be lhe loser of the amount . The learned Judge sentenced the prisoner to three months hard labour . Several hotel and tavern krepers were in attendance to prefer charges of swindling against the prisoner . His name also figured conspicuously in the circular of the Trade Protection Society .

      _ The Equinoctial Gales.—Moke Fatal Loss...

      _ The Equinoctial Gales . —Moke Fatal Losses . — These gales continue along the eastern and northern coasts with much severity . In addition to thc losses of coasting vessels reported in this journal last week , many others have since taken place , accompanied by a melancholy loss of life . Near Coatham ( Yorkshire ) , where the John Saltcoats was totally lost with all hands , another vessel mot with a similar fate on Sunday morning ; every soul perished with her . From the dimensions ofthe wreck she is supposed to have been a collier , and to have a crew often hands . At daybreak on Saturday a sloop was discovered by some of the Colno fishermen wrecked on the Gunflcot Sands , and it is greatly to be feared that all bands and some passengers met with a watery grave . In the course of Sunday

      intelligence wns communicated at Newcastle of the _totalis ofthe Hero steamer , wbich left Shields in tho early part of the week for Stettin . On the 27 th ult ., when oft ' tho coast of Norway , she was struck by a tremendous sea , which completely disabled her engines , as well as sweeping every thing off her deck . Shortly afterwards she foundered . Thc crew were saved by the brig Symmetry . Enclosure os Commos Li . s _* os . —A _meeting , convened according to law by Mr . Nathaniel Wetherell , Assistant Enclosuro Commissioner , was held on Friday , the Sth inst ., at the Crown Inn , in tho p arish of SaHford , Somerset , to take into consideration the expediency of enclosing the commonable land known as Saltford meadow , at which the majority of landowners interested consented to the enclosure .

      The Attempted Parricide At Chiswick. Exa...

      THE ATTEMPTED PARRICIDE AT CHISWICK . _EXAMINATION oFtIIE ACCUSED ' Saturday , Oct . 6 . —Mr . Beadon , thc sitting magistrate , took his seat on the bench at two o ' clock precisely . Amongst the loading inhabitants present wore J . Frere , Esq ., a local magistrate ; the Rev . Mr . Bowerbank , vicar of Chiswick ; Capt . West _. d-c . The charge entered on the police-sheet was as follows : —" Henry Bathuvst Monkdouso , aged twenty-seven years , a mariner , charged with discharging a loaded pistol at John Farmer Monkhouse , in the parish of Chiswick , with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm . "

      Elizabeth Baises was the first witness called . She deposed that she was in tho service of Captain Monkhouse . She know the prisoner at the bar , who was the second son of her master . On tho previous night , shortly after ton o ' clock , she answered a ring at the gate boll , and on opening it saw a cabman , who asked her if Captain Monkhouse w ; as at home , and on her replying in the affirmative , he said a gentleman in the cab wished to speak with him . Witness shut the gato to go and tell her master , whom sho met in the doorway of the house , and told him what the cabman had said . Captain Monkhouse desired hor to go and

      ask tho name of the gentleman , and sho went back to tho gate , and asked the cabman what the gentleman's name was . The cabman replied he did not know ; and at that instant the prisoner rushed past them , exclaiming , "I ' m a Monkhouse , and I'll speak to him . " She then saw the prisoner rush forward towards her master , and directly heard two shots go " bang , bang . " Witness saw her master fall , and the prisoner instantly bounced out of the gate . Then she went to hcr master ' s assistance , and found him crawling on his hands ; md knees in the front parlour . —By Mr . Beadon : Could not say where the prisoner came from , as she did not see him until ho rushed into the gate . She saw him take something out of tho breast of his coat , whicli she believed was a pistol .

      William Siezer deposed that he was the driver ofthe cab No . 618 , belonsing to Mrs . Birch , cab proprietor , _Horseferry-roau , Westminster . On the _previous evening , between seven and eight o ' clock , lie was on the stand in the Minories , when the prisoner asked him the fare to Chiswick . Witness told him that it was eight miles , and with back fare would be 14 s . The prisoner agreed to go . Witness followed him into a public-house , opposite the stand , to have something to drink . Having had what ho wished , he went into tbe parlour where tho prisoner was sitting . On entering , the prisoner , who was in the act of putting his hand into his trowsers' pocket , had hefore him on tho table a lot of silver money , which the prisoner attempted to hide . Witnoss

      went out and told thc landlord of thc circumstance , who went into the parlour , and in a minute or two the prisoner came out and got into the cab , and witness drove oif . On reaching the White Horse public-house at Knightsbridge , the prisoner told liim to pull up . They went inside and had somo drink . Tlie prisoner seemed to be known there and told tho female at tho bar there that he would bring her some scent , and left the handkerchief witli * hcr as a pledge . Witness then drove on to Chiswick , calling at several public-houses on the way , the last being the Black Lion , in Black Lionlane , near thc prisoner ' s father ' s house . The prisoner got out there , and went in and spoke to the landlady , who seemed to know him , but he had

      nothing to drink . The prisoner thon got on the box with witness to show him his father ' s house , where the cab was to stop , wliich it did . The witness then corroborated tne testimony of the first witness as to the delivery of the message , and her returning to the gate to ask the gentleman ' s name , and stated that the prisoner , who was at that time standing on the further side ofthe cab , in the road , rushed into tho gate , and his hearing a noise . The witness was , however , closely questioned by Mr . Beadon , as to what the noise was . Tho witness at first said like something falling , but at last admitted that it was like the report of a gun or pistol . —Examination continued : When the prisoner came out witness asked him what that noiso was . The

      prisoner smiled , and said , " Oh , that was nothing ?" The prisoner then got into the cab , and ordered him to go back into the high-road , and pull up at the White Hart public-house , round the corner . Witness then asked bim for liis faro , as he had brought him to his destination , but he said he wanted to go to Ealing , four miles further , and witness anfreed to do so for a sovereign . On reaching thc Bell publichouse on the Uxbridgo-road , at Ealing , ho stopped witness and wont inside , and on his return hc told him to drive him to his brother's house , Castlebarhall , which he did . The prisoner then rang several times , but was not answered , and witnoss drove hini back to the Bell . Witness thore asked him for the sovereign , his fore * , but the prisoner said he had no

      sovereign to spare , li hue witness was speaking to tho landlord relative to tho faro , the patrol came in and took thc prisoner into custody . The Patrol deposed to apprehending thc prisoner at thc Bell . On asking him if his name was Monkhouse , lie said it was not , and asked witness what he wanted with him ? Witness told him ho must go with him to the Ealing station , and called another constable to his aid . Atthe station the prisoner pulled out from thc two pockets of his coat the barrel and stock of the pistol produced , which he had screwed together , and handed to witness . The prisoner said , " If I had a brace of loaded p istols I'd blow my brains out . " Witness found in his waistcoat pocket eight bullets , six percussions cap 3 , ami some srunpowdcr ; also some documents in the

      name of Monkhouse . He subsequently brought him in the cab to the head station at Hammersmith . Mr . Thomas W . C . Pun-fuel , the first surgeon called in , was next examined . Ho deposed that he was fetched about a quarter past ten o ' clock on the previous night by Mi ? _s Monkhouse . On reaching the Louse lib found Captain Monkhouse in a back bed-room , and ordered his removal to his own bedroom . Thc captain was very faint , and vomiting blood . On examining his neck he saw that a ball ha _* i passed through the black stock the captain wore at the time , -incl perforated the flesh of the neck exactly over the thyroid cartilage of the windpipe , called tlie poneum adami , or the centre of the most projecting point of the wind p ipe . It did not perforate the air tube , but passed down on the right

      side of the neck and through the throat , wounding the membraneous parts . of tho oesophagus or gullet through which the food passes to the stomach , and striking against the clavicle vertebra or tho os hyrido , descended between the external and internal carotid arteries in the direction of the hcrnomastoidoas muscle , camo out a littlo posteriorly , whore ifc was found among the clots of blood in the collar of thc shirt . Witness gave up the case on the arrival of Mr . Halford , of the firm of Bowling and Halford , surgeons , of Hammersmith , tho medical attendant of the family . Mr . Halford deposed to having seen Captain Monkhouse between one and two o'clock tbat afternoon . Hc was in a state of great danger . Thc prisoner was then remanded until Wednesday

      next . Wednesday— This being the day appointed for the re-examination of Henry Bathurst Monkhouse , the prisoner who stands charged with having shot his father , Mr . John Farmer Monkhouse , at his residence , Chiswick-mall , on the night of the 4 th inst ., thc avenues of thc court were thronged by persons anxious to witness the proceedings , long before the usual hour of opening the court . The prisoner arrived about ten minutes beforo two o ' clock , having been brought in the polirc van from tho Ilouse oi Detention at Clerkenwell , and was placed in one of tho colls with a constable with him , Mr . Beadon , immediately on his arrival , gave directions for the prisoner to be placed at the bar , and

      ho was directly brought up by Miller , thc gaoler . He appeared very much altered since his first examination , and was thinner , and had apparently lost the self-composure and confidence he exhibited on that occasion . On entering the dock , he looked round the court into every part in an anxious manner , as if looking tor some persons whom he expected to be present , and seemed greatly disappointed at not finding them there . Mr . Beadon inquired if any medical certificate had heen received from tho medical gentlemen attending the wounded gentleman ? Inspector Jcoks , T divison , said there was , _ind handed to the magistrate the

      following doom ent : — "We hereby jertify , that we have visited Mr . John Farmer j-lonkhouso this morning , and found tho constitutional disturbance produced by the wound in Jus throat considerably abated ; but while tho wound itself continues in its present state hc must be considered in danger , and quite unable to attend the police court . Signed , John Bowling , \ Members ofthe Col-Edwabd llAi , Fom > , J lege ot Surgeons . " Hammersmith , Oct . 10 , 1849 . Mr . Beadon said tho prisoner is further remanded for a week . Tho whole proceedings did aot occupy moro than ten minutes , to the great disappointment of those present .

      The wretched man makes no secret of his guilt , and has confessed to having purchased the pistols and balls shortly before the fatal occurrence . One of tlio pistols was found upon him , the other is not yet discovered . The p risoner states that he cannot tell what he did with it . This might arises from the excited state in which he is known to have been for some time before and after the melancholy catastrophe . Among the papers found upon the accused is a mariner ' s register ticket , No . 328 , 060 , in which the date ofhis birth is set down as the 27 th of December , 1822 . He 13 further described as five feet six inches and a half high , fresh colour , brown hair , grey eyes , and having the letters " II . B . " and an anchor tattocd upon nis left arm . A certificate of his having performed a voyage from London to New Zealand in tha barque Clara as an able seaman * in 1847 , and another to the following effect , wero also

      The Attempted Parricide At Chiswick. Exa...

      among his papers * .- " This is to certify , that llenrv liathurst Monkhouse has served as seaman on , o ? o _, th _? , ' William IIai > _J . from March 25 th , IMS ,, to September 17 , 1849 , mid was discharged on the 20 th of September in the latter vear . The above-named I recommend as a steady aiid obedient seaman , —n . CLr . L \ xn . " The prisoner is entitled io tbe reversion of a large sum of money at his father ' s death , and on the _" " back of a card found in one ofhis pockets the gross amount £$ , 722 4 s . 4 d . is set down , with a calculation as to what a onefourth share , to which ho was entitled , would amount . It may be added that on Thursday week the accused called upon Messrs . Ley and Dcndy , solicitors , of Bream ' s-buildings , who ' nre encaged professionally for his father , and obtained £ 4 from them .

      Sunday night . —The second pistol , which was missing on tho night of the prisoner ' s apprehension , was found on Saturday , under the following circumstances : —Mr . Inspector Jeeks , who has had the case in hand , and through whose prompt mode of action the arrest of the accused was effected almost immediately after his rash attempt , being desirous to ascertain what liad become of the second weapon , caused inquiries to be made on the subj . * ct of Mr . Williams , the landlord ofthe Bell public-house at Ealing , where , on failing to ebtain admission at his brother ' s residence , the prisoner drove on Thursday night , and where he _w--s subsequently captured by Police-constable Neason . On being questioned , Mr . Williams admitted that he had received from _votins

      Monkhouse , on Thursday night , almost _immediate after he entered his house , two pistols and a flask containing a quantity of powder . He added , that he placed them all together in a drawer , and the only way in which he could account for the accused having _re-possessed himself of one of the pistols was that be must have taken it from the drawer while his backwas turiivd . It has been already stated that Mr , Williams , the landlord , and young Monkhouse , are related , the daughter of the former having married the brother of tbe latter , Mr . Juhn Monkhouse , jun ., of Castlebar-hill , Ealing . Tbis may account for the unwillingness of Mr . Williams to afford the police any _assistance in the capture of young Monkhouse When the officer entered and fonnd the latter in tbe

      parlour , ho appealed to Mr . Williams , as well as one of his sons , as to whether his name was not Henry Batlnust Monkhouse ; in reply to which both father and son denied any knowledge ofhis identity . On being searched , documents were found upon him whicli set all doubts at rest , and the capture was at once effected . In the event of any unfavourable change taking place in the condition bf Mr . Monkhouse , sen ,, Mr , Beadon , the magistrate for the _disuict , has made arrangements to proceed immediatly to his residence and take his deposition .

      Statistics Op The Stomach.—(From " Soyer...

      Statistics op the Stomach . —( From " Soyer _' _a Modern Housewife . " )—Take seventy years of the life of an epicure , beyond which age many of that class of " bon vivants" arrived , and even above eighty , still in the full enjoyment of degustation , ttc , ( for example , Talleyrand , Cambacercs , Lord Sefton , & c . ); if the first of thesaid epicures , when entering on the tenth spring of his extraordinary career , had been placed on an eminence , say the top of Primrose-hill , and had exhibited beforo his infantine eyes the enormous quantity of food his then insignificant person would destroy beforo he attained his seventy-first year—first , he would believe it must bo a delusion ; then , secondly , ho would inquire where the money could como ' from to

      purchase so much luxurious extravagance . But here I shall leave the pecuniary expenses on ono side , which a man of wealth can easily surmount when required . So now , dearest , for the extraordinary fact : imagine on tho top of the above-mentioned hill a rushlight ofa boy just entering his tenth year , suvvounded with the recherche provision , and delicacies claimed by his rank and wealth , taking merely the medium consumption ofhis daily meals . By closely calculating , he would bo surrounded and gazed at by tho following number of quadrupeds , birds , fishes , & c . : —By no less than 30 oxen , 200 sheep , 100 calves , 200 lambs , 50 pigs ; in poultry , 1 , 200 fowls , 800 turkeys , 150 geese , 400 ducklings , 2 GS pigeons ; 1 , 400 partridges , pheasants nnd srousc ;

      ouu woodcocks and snipes- ; W ) 0 wild ducks , widgeon , and teal ; 450 plovers , rnffecs , and reeves ; 800 quails ortolans , and _dotterrels , and a few guillemots , and other foreign birds : also 500 hares and rabbits , 40 deer , 420 Guinea fowl , 10 peacocks , and SCO wild fowl . In the way of fish , 120 turbot , 140 salmon , 120 cod , 200 trout , 400 mackerel , 300 whitings , SOU soles and slips , 400 flounders , 400 rod mullet , 290 eels , 150 haddocks , 400 herrings , 5 , 000 smelts , and some hundred thousand of those delicious silvery whitebait , besides a few hundred species of freshwater-fishers . ' In shell-fish , 20 turtle , 30 , 000 oyster , 1 , 500 lobsters or crabs , 300 , 000 prawns , shrimps , sardines , and anchovies . In tho way of fruit about _SOOlbs , of grapes , 8001 bs . of pineapples , 000 peaches .

      1 , 400 apricots , 240 melons , and some hundred thousand plumbs , greengages , apples , pears , and some millions of cherries , strawberries , raspberries , currants , mulberries , and an abundance of other small fruit , viz ., walnuts , chestnuts , dry figs , and plumbs . In vegetable of all kinds , 5 , 475 pounds weight , and about 2 , 434 $ pounds of butler , 034 pounds of cheese , 21 , 000 eggs , 800 ditto plovers . Of bread 4 V tons , _half-n-ton of . "nit and pepper , nearly 21 tons of sugar ; and if , he had happened to bo a covetous boy , he could have formed a fortification of meat round thc said hill with the liquids he would have to partake of to faeilita te tho digestion of the above named provision . - * , which would amount to no less than 11 , 073 J gallons , which maybe taken to be as

      below : —49 hogsheads of wine , 1303 J callous of beer , 584 gallons of spirits , 342 liqueurs , 2 , 3942 gallons of coffee , cocoa , tea , & c „ and 304 gallons of milk , 2730 gallons of water , all of which would actually protect iiini and his anticipated property from any young thief or fellow school-boy , like AlexanderDumas , had protected Danton aiid his immense treasure from thc pirates in his island of Monte Christo . You now , dearest , fancy that I am exaggerating in every way ; but to convince you , and to prevent your puzzling your brain to no purpose , I also enclose you a medium scale of the regular meals ofthe day , from wliich I have taken my basis , and in sixty years it amounts to no less than 33 . ** - tons weight of moat , farinaceous food and vegetables , & c ., ' out of

      which I have named in detail the probable delicacies tbat would be selected by an epicure through life . Denominational Statistics of the United States . —The Methodists in the United States , including thc church north and South , and those denominated Protestant , number in their body 1 , 178 , 626 members . The Protestant portion number but 83 , 000 of this large aggregate . The number of Methodist churches is not reported in thc tables from which these statistics arc compiled . Tho number of ministers in the episcopal portion of this body is 5 , 0 S 0 . Tho Baptists , including the regular , anti-mission , free-will , a _» d others , have 11 _. 26 G churches , 0 , 508 ministers , and 813 , 921 members . Tho Presbyterians , old school and new , have 1 , 027

      churches , 3 , 204 ministers , and 334 , 453 members The Congregationalists have 1 , 800 churches , 1 , 912 ministers , and 193 , 093 members . The Episcopalians have 1 , 192 churches , 1 , 404 ministers , and 67 , 550 members . Hero arc 212 more ministers than churches . The Lutherans have 1 , 452 churches , 509 ministers , and 140 _. C 2 G members . The Associate , Reformed , Cumberland , and . other Presbyterians , together with Reformed Dutch and German lieformed Churches , havo 2 , 052 churches , 2 , 091 ministers , and 241 , 740 members . Tho Roman Catholics havo 907 churches , 917 ministers , and 1 , 199 , 700 members . The Unitarians have 244 churches . The number of ministers and members not reported ; but the number of ministers is

      doubtless as large as the number of churches , if not larger . Iitho churches contain , on an average , as many a 3 thc Orthodox Congregational Churches , the aggregate number would be 27 , 532 . Tho number of churches of tliese several denominations , exclusive of Methodists , which are not reported , is 21 , 981 . Allowing the Methodists 10 , 000 churches * the whole number would be about 33 , 000 . Tho whole number of ministers in tliese denominations is 22 , 808 , and thc whole number of members of churches 4 , 197 , 141 . Supposing the population ot the United States to be 20 , 000 , 000 , it would give one professor of religion to every five of the population—not including thc children , one to three and

      a fraction . How many of these professors of religion arc not possessors wc may not presume to say , but _undoubtedly the Omniscient One would make a very material deduction . Thc Baptists have tho largest number of churches and ministers . The Catholics havo tho largest number of members . The Methodists have thc largest number among the Protestant denominations , the Old School Presbyterians havo 725 more churches than the Neff School , 102 more ministers , and 23 , 953 more members . The Old and New School Presbyterians together have 2 , 100 more churches than the Congregationalists , 1 , G 52 _mojf ? ministers , and 141 , 300 more members .

      The Britannia Tube . —On the C inst . at eleven o ' clock , the steamer Fairy , on her passage from Beaumaris to Conway , sailed under this stupendous tube . Mr . Stephenson , Jlr . Forster , the Messrs . Clark , with all the principal managers of the bridge , together with a great number of the workmen , were congregated on the top ofthe tube , and gave three most hearty cheers , as this beautiful vessel glided beneath them , whieh wero returned hy the united voices oftho passengers and crew of thc Fairy , who rejoiced in tho opportunity of being in the first

      vessel to pass under the Britannia Bridge . The Fairy returned through tho same channel from Carnarvon , and was saluted with the firing of the cannon from the works , and with * ' one cheor more . " The Fairy ' s mast head is about 58 feet from tha level ofthe water , and she had several feet to _spaw in passing under tho tube . —A _or _* A Waits Gazette . London Orphan Asylum . —Tho vacancy occasioned by the lamented decease of Mr . Charlea Aston Key , as consulting surgeon to this excellent institution , has just been filled up by the election of Mr . T . B _, Calling , ofthe london Hospital .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 13, 1849, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_13101849/page/7/