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      THE GOLD FIELDS OF AUSTRALIA . The Mowing is an extract from a letter dated Melb jnrne , Jan . 17- : "Long ere tills yon will have learnt ins opening of the Victoria Mines of Bathnrstand Mount Alexander . To these must now be added apparently inexhaustible regions , all around the Mount . la point of fact , the yield is actually incredible , and daily increasing . The pursuit of gold * . digging absorbs all other vocations ; nothing is thought of , spoken of , or written about , except gold . Business contracts of all kinds , —the social compact , domestic content , the relation of master and servant , and all other tus , either civil or religions , are in a state of disruption beyond the power of language to describe . Sis Tsee ' is , a month , a fort-Bight , —nay , even a week ' s labour , produces occasionally prodigious sums . I saw four men lifting a seaman ' s chest

      into a dray half an hour ago , almost too heavy for their united strength . This chest contained the product of six weeds' labour , and contained 2501 b . of gold . The banks and the post-cffice are working double hours ; all other public departments are crippled for want of hands ; male servants are not to be ha 3 , even at extravagant rates ; women are not much better . Marriages are now in high favour ; almost all the single men arrive from the digging with gold enough to maintain a wife . So far the abstraction of young yromen from service is desirable , be the inconvenience what it may but there are other channels for expenditure where profligacy and licentiousness are exhibited on a fearful scele , amid the riot of waste and reckless prodigality . Enormous sums are squandered by the diggers and their families . Every Jack has his Gill , and Jack has more money besides than bis master of the preceding month .

      " I asked the water , and then the chambermaid of the inn where I s ' op . to send me out a bundle of linsn to the laundress ; they , however , stated that they could not find any person willinj to wash—under these circumstances I vent to the hsbedasber for a supply . I notice this as an instance of the s ' ate of things here , which are fast assnming a Califarnian character , with respect to the rate of hi gh prices , equally for the necessaries and luxuries of life . ' Do you want a pair of boots , the price is £ 2 10 s . ; a pair of strong shoe ? , 203 . Then there is such a consumption of bottled bser , champagne , and other wines , spirits , and tobacco , as would astonish a new-comer . An order came to town yesterday from a publican on the Msunt Alexander road for 1200 dozens of bottled beer . Th . 3 man , lam told , actually sold seventy dozens in one day to the coming and gomg diggers , hundreds of whom call at his house evary day .

      "I think the community of Victoria , taking them all in all , are now the wealthiest in the world , and possess , besides , a bemtiful country and healthy climate in the mainthough I must say I do not like the site of Melbourne as a metropolis ; it ia singularly hot , dusty , without sewers or drainage , and will by-and-by become very unhealthy . The country between Belfort and Wamambhool is extremely fine ( closi to tie coast ) for agricultural purposfs , and the climate much milder than in the neighbouring district . I think Geelorg ought to have been the Bite of the capital . I am convinced in a few years it will rival th \ 3 city . It stands much higher , on the margin of a fine opsn bay , and com ' mandsafineback connlrv . The-wheat crops on the

      Barrabul hills , close to Geelong , are magnificent : I calculate them to yield fifty bushels an acre . There , however , will he great difficulty in getting them in for want of labourers / though 10 s . and 123 . 6 d . per diem , with rations , is freely offered . ' The total quantity cf gold shipped to this date from Y-C . oria is 102 , 479 ounces since the 2 ilh ult ., and preceding 117 . 825 ounces , or , in round numbers 220 . 300 ounces , which , taken at £ 3 per onnce only , yves £ 6 GQ s 900 , or fully ss much as the Sydney people have shipped since the discovery , in May last . The effect of such an immense addition of exportable commodity to the customary transport of wool and tallow has been a most extensive or extended issue of bank notes , far bsvosd the ordinarv regulations of

      banking principles , for which indeed there is no help . The earth in certain puts of these colonies teems with the precious meta . Conceive the astounding quantity of about nine and a quarter tons of pure gold being taken in four months from Victoria alone , and this , too , in the most slovenly way imaginable ! It is well known that a great deal more of fine gold , in dust and scales , has been left ( as tO 3 troublesame ) by the gold-diggers unwashed , the Bearch being confined principally to nuggets or small lumps of metal , ringing from the size of a Din ' shead to a horsebesn

      "You will doubtless have noticed the separation of the colonies . One of the first fruits has been the establishment of d Serential duties , in some cases almost prohibitory , against each other—a most insane project , realising the fable of' the members warring against the belly . " Oaiy conceive the coals and cedar of New South Wales , maize , &c . ( only produced there , ) he ngsaddled with duty here ; and wheat , the product of Victoria or Van Diemen's Land , similarly charged in reciprocation at Sydney ! Such is the effect of petty colonial jealousy , or rather discord , as I presume no one will de ny Nature and Providence intended as to be one family .

      "Had our auriferous wealth been denoted fifteen veat 3 ago , when these colonies were one vast prison-bouse / and ir < -2 Qths of the people felons or emancipists , what would have been our condition ? Wisely has it been ordained that these countri « s should become possessed of a population inheriting and exhibiting the average amount of * order and virtue abounding in the mother country , and also of vast flacks and herd ? , with agricultural abandance , before the earth disclosed its riches—to attract the hundreds of thou-BBads that will find their way during the present year , to this our land of ophir and glittering nuggsts ! Conceive a boundless country teeming wish abundance cf food ; a S : ie climate , and gold by the ton ! If these ar ¦ not subjects of attraction-if these fail to produce spontaneous and self-sustaking emigration to our colonies from all parts of the world , then the materials of man ' s composition are changed .

      " \ an Diemen's Land must cease to be a penal colony . Let Swan River enjoy a ! l the benefit she has petitioned for in a lar » e government expenditure for tha support of imperial convicts , and improvement of her locality . Be assured Van Di ? oien ' s Land mnst be relieved from all further stain ; she is far too near the regions of gold , and has borne long enough the miseries of penal infliction . " I fear South Australia , ones the most promising of the Australian gronji , is on the eve of great suffering and disaster . The accounts are alarming ; land has ceased almost to PCSS 3 SS a va ^ . ue . The people are coming hither in thousands . Without cold fields she will he lost . Even Sydney begins to feel the emigration of her population for the superior di of

      ggings Yictaris . 3 So person can , however , tell how lonji it may be bsfore the tables turn . The free population <> f Van Diemen ' s Land are fast coming over to Melbourne . AH the Sydney people are returning from California and the Polynesian group of islands , but I trust we may not ba favoured with any of the Yackee race , or at least of that portion rejoicing in the establishment of vigilance committees , six-shooters , and bowie knives . I have now written more than I ever intended , yet csitainly not half as much as I cauld say , touching a ___ l concerning the wonderful thing 3 I hear and see in this extraordinary place . Well regulated minds are bswiidered by the strangeness of passing events ; sobriety of thought and the ancient slow operations of bnsiness are nuset : aad how can it be otherwise

      when young men after an absence cf a month or so , return each with £ 100 to Lord knows bow much more a piece , and prepare for a ri g-out on a more extensive and approved scale for the mines ?" " All this is true , and infinitely below Ihe standard of fact Purposing to write agdn from Sydney shortly after mv armaJ . " ' } A letter from another resident st Melbourne , dated Jan . 1 st , contains the following : — "The gold fields are inexhaustible . Last night , a statement was made that two men had just arrived from Gipps ' Land with the intelligence that new gold fields were discovered there , which leave the Mount Alexander fields altogether in the shade ; that they bad brought in £ 10 , 000 worth of gold , and there was a supply for the whole world itfc ttwm fats before

      . ^ us , how can this place be otherwise 5 K ? S What is t 0 hedone forMwwr ? Suppose 1 UO . OUU labourers came out here during the next year , will any of them remain in the city or farms , at a few dullutt VSr * > r ' 8 ° lbe * fields and mak 8 tn& cannot get a pair of boots made or mended in Melbourne , if £ 2 ? . ? W Tf that m * bB asked - l B et «» y bread at Colhngwood by sufferance . The baker will not tmderla veto supply ce regularly , but will do the best he can . I pay 5 s . a load for water . and 30 s . for asingle horseload Of wood . It is with difficulty a dray can be obtained to carry a box , and if obtained the charge is ad tilntum I cannot at any price get a man to chop my wood , and I think myself fortunate if I can prevail on the black gins to work for half an hour .

      ' Tee judges servants are all gone ; he has put down his carriage , and his sons clean the knives and shoes—this , I assare yon , is tru ?—and wheel their afflicted father about in an invalid chair . In ibis state he goes to his court of a day . Tne men from the gold fields are rolling in gold , and so per-KCly reckless of it , that the anecdotes told of them aie not only a-nusing but astonishing One man put a £ 5 note between two pieces of breaSand butter , and eat it up as a sandwich . Another rolled two £ 5 notes into a small ball , m - — — — - ~ -w *_» vww ww -uw ^ - _ p A ** vv ** in inn ¦ w «***« ami

      ml owed it as a pill . Another went into a confectioner s to eat a few tarts , put down a £ 5 note and would « irt r the dttn S * - They seem to have no idea of the SmLh * ' ?' -, 811 * take thfcir IosS 2 S and robberies as con . WS i ! S ^ t * Miiilik | 8 WeU » therei 9 «* e a hel ^ Jnis *« 8 the remark ol a man at the bank lad been « Sf . **? a cbeck fcr £ W > and « *** fields were Umiteiin 0 / 6 , e called ab . ont >'• » »*« g ° M certain number of fortnmrt . •» * " * * ould enly soffice fora nafcK exhaustible . I S& £ ' ° J f tbe * *¦ " m « . rfr place woBid he limited Onh L »• ' ^ "fortunes of this ** - *«•« -Atetass . 'ssjis S : — - ^ '

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      extent and inexhaustible in . their treasures . What hope is ' ° ere that we shall have labour , good , wholesome , reason-* ole priced labour , here ? It is madnesi to suppose it . "

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      LATER AND HIGULY IMPORTANT FROM THE " DIGGINGS "—IMMENSE PROFUSION OF WEALTH -GLORIOUS TIMES FOR THE WORKERS . Extracts from three private letters received this week by Mr . Daniel William Ruffv , and handed by him to the Editor . "I suppose you have heard by this time of tbe Gold Mines being discovered out here . My husband , Harry , and little George , have gone with a party to Mount Alexander ; they have been there twelve weeks , and are doing pretty well . Jobbins and Harry have sent mo down a pound weight of gold each . It is at the Treasury . It came down by escort last week . You have no idea what excitement this gold has caused in Melbourne . You hear nothing talked of but the Gold Diggings . I can assure you money is lavished away here as if it were dirt .

      "I must begin again about gold . Of course , I a ™ like the rest of the people—gold mad . How can it be otherwise ? You would be highly amused if you were hereto see the successful gold diggers wives go into the linendrapers' ahops . If they seo any ' ladies ' ' in them , they go bouncing in the shop 3 in this manner , ' Give me a ten guinea dress , or a ten guinea shawl , or three guinea bonnet . They arc astonisjled at so much money , and do not know how extravagantly to spend it . It i 3 tbe poorman ' s day now . * * * * " Astonishing as the news may be at home by this time of goM here , I can assure you it ia a fact . California is nothing to this country . People are now flocking from all parts of tbe country , or rather the world , to try their fortunes . Money is here rolling in the shops—men lighting their pipes with £ 5 cotes , and their wives strutting in the

      shops for ten and twenty guinea shawls . Now is the time for poor men to be independent of masters . Buildings arc all at a stand still . The masters themselves , who were doing well , are no * reaping independent fortunes . I wish yon were here—you would be in a land yielding gold more than any other from the earliest period of history . I suppose it has been one constant theme of conversation at homo . Ships are , 1 suppose , loading for this place at home—the move the merrier—plenty of room hero for them . But when they come hero they will not be able to get back ia a hurry . Ships are lyin ? in tho bay idle—can get no persons to make agreement with them . The expense of freightage would be enormous , for they aro offering £ 100 for each sailor that will go home in the ships ; but the sailors are all at the diggings ; every mechanical trade is at a stand still .

      The wharf presents one constant scene of confusionpeople are flocking numerously from Adelaide . " " Dear — , —I can assure you I never saw such a quantity of money in my life before , for the gold diggers como down to torcu and sell tUair gold , and then they make tlieir money fly in all directions . My Harry and air . Jobbing have returned with" ninety pounds worth each , and they are off again directly . Men who oaco were poor are now worth thousands ; but they will soon get rid of it instead O * keeping it . They actually , at Christmas time , lighted their pipes with £ 5 notes , and in another place they would bs eating notes between two tllces of bread and butter . Astounding as this may appear , I vouch for its truth . Harry went to tho theatro , and he saw money thrown on ths stage . One piece of money was thrown after another ; and so it continued for ono hour . One evening there was

      thrown on the stage fifty-seven pounds . If you come out hero , come as soon as you can , and you will realise in three months what I think you will not realise at home in a life-time . Labour here receives an enormous pay , I saw an advertisement in the paper for a brassworker , the wages were to be twenty-five shillings a day . They may not got one for all that . Buildings here are standing unfinished for the want of labour , which ia all up at tho " diggins , " and there it will stop while gold ia in the way . California to this placo is a mere nothing . Ton 3 are brought to town by the government escort . The cart that brings it has sis or seven times broken down on its way to town . Theso are facts indeed . Publicans are making " a rapid fortune here . I hope if you come , you will persuade ray poor old mother to come , and bring her with yon , as 1 am sure she will be quite happy here . She would think this a fine country . "

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      JOSEPH MAZZINI AND THE FRENCH SOCIALISTS . TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE STAR OF FKESnOM . Sin , —I read in your honourable paper an article of tho IStli insfc ., in which my friend toms Blanc is very unjustly accused of having compared Mr . Mazzini to Louis Bonaparte , and misrepresented the conduct of tho oxtriumvir at Rome . I think it impossible that this unfair attack against Loui 3 Blanc should have come from the Editor of the " Star of Freedom , " since this journal is particularly devoted to the cause of the people and of its defenders ; and it appears very probable to mo that such an article has been inserted , through carlessness , in your columns . '

      In the first place , if it wero true that Mr . Mazzini has been misrepresented , it would not be the fault of Louis Bhnc alone , but of Pierre Leroux , Cabet , Malarmet , Bianchi , Vasbenter , Jules Leroux and myself ; for , I am one of those whe signed the letter in which Mr . Mazzini is censured fov having directed tbe most bitter and violent attacks against the French Socialists , at tho very moment when all the enemies of the peopla rose to crush them . It is not true that we did compare , in a general and aliolute manner , Mr . Mazzini to Louis Bonaparte . We said only that , like Louis Bonaparte , Mr . Mazzini , though for much better ends , was wroug in injuring tho French Socialists , and in seeming to reckon on physical force alone . We said , also , that he v ; as wrong in taking it into his head to school the European Democracy , which acknowledges him as one of its supporters , but not as its supreme leader .

      As for the pompous useiessness of Mr . Mazzini at Home , we can prove what WO said . Indeed , sinco our reply has been published , many Italian democrats have written to us , affording bota their adhesion and their testimony . "Wo have , especially on this point , r . very remarkable letter from Mr . Biceiardi , ex-deputy in tbe Parliament of Naples , and the illustrious author of tlio "History of tho Italian Revolution , " in which ho took each an active part , and in consequence of which he is now r . n esile . In that letter , which ws intend to publish entirely , Mr . Ricciardi says : — "The Grand Duke Leopold hadfiod from Rome , and the Republic had been proclaimed , when Mr . Mazzini arrived in Central Italy . He had , therefore , no share in these events , tho able use of whichmigbt have entirely changed the aspect of affairs , and saved ths Italian

      cause . Sow , what should hava been done with this object ? Thoforcea of the four democratic or still free countries of Italy—that is the Roman States , Tuscany , Venice , and Sicily—should have been closely united , and a final effort attempted , without the slightest delay , on tho Kingdom of Xaples—the mo 3 t important of the States of the Peninsula , and the one consequently -without which the independence of Italy never will be attained . 2 ? aples , once gained over to Democracy , there would have boon , besides the Sardinian States , thirteen millions of Italians in open opposition to Austria , which would , in all probability , have obviated tho fatal overthrow of Novara , or at least afforded means oi'easily recovering from it . A noble career was , therefore , before Mr , Mazzini , who would have had admirable instruments of his designs in Generals Garibaldi and Terrari , to whom a thousand < letcrmincd men would have sufficed to make a descent on the Abruzzi , and thence on Naples , gathering volume , like the proverbial sno ^ r ball . Even admitting that the

      eaterprise in question might scarcely have succeeded , it is not the leas true that this was the sole means of saving the Italian independence ; for , on one hand , there could be no safety for tho standard of democracy planted at Rome , but in tho chance of extension to all tho provinces of the Peninsula , but , above all , to the Kingdom of Naples ; and on the other hand , it was impossible , but that , without the aid of the latter , Piedmont should finally succumb to tho preponderating forces of Austria . To reinain moveless , besides a State such as that of the King of Naples , to whom the rum or the esistenco of tho Roman Republic was a question of life or death , was as much as consenting to perish sooner orlater , either by the efforts of Ferdinand II aided by all the sympathies if not by all the forces , of the Europoan reaction , or under the attacks of Austria , as soon as she should have overcome Piedmont . Such was unhappily tho event , thanks chiefly to Mr . Mazzini , who , after allowing himself to be duped in Tuscany by Mr . Guerazzi and refusing to listen at Rome to those who urgently Dressed him to attack the Abrnzzi . had t « hnean * -r . c « - _ ii _____ . wii

      s __ -,. uuv __ v u __ u ; t ? an his hope on a new French revolution , forgetting that great convulsions tako place only at long intervals , and by virtue of strongly determinant causes . I do not hesitate to say openly , it was not alono tho French and Austrian cannon which destroyed tho Roman Republic ; but , yet more , tho allusions of Mr . Mazzini , who did not remember this double axiom , that a revolution which pauses is a lost revolution , and that to be respected you must bo stron * his whole merit , as chief Triumvir , was confined , in my opinion , to tho manner equally dignified and intelligent in whioh I rejoice to agree . Ho represented the Roman Republic towards the agents of the French government . True , his task was tendered very easy by this immense fact , that nght and justice wera altogether on tho side he defended , and secondly , by the inconceivable burgling of Mr . Louis Bonaparte ' s government . I will ever say , that to it must be attributed in great measure that kind of presto which surrounds the name of Mr . Mazzini , and which ought rather to surround that of Garibaldi , the ohief hero of the noble epocs of which Rome was the theatre

      " Youre , ( Signed ) « G . Riccubw , ex-deputy in the parliament of Naples . " JiOU see , Sir , that the Freneh Socialists , odiously calumniated by Mr . Mazziui , brought forth against him nothing which 13 not perfectly true . umI ! 00 ?" ? . ^ e reproach s 0 » nfairiy made on Lauia SW eid > « nce mynamo figured near his at the end of the replf to Mr . Mazzini , I hope you will find it just to publish ini your next number these observations . That fl"S * h I have at heart so much the more , as your honourable paper has shown mo a kindness , with which I SSSffif and forwllich J be * i ™ torec ™ London , 18 th May , 1 S 52 . Xauvd . s " attack "complained of appeared in the letter of "Snar tacus » inthe "Star of Freedom , " ^ 8 th ? We ~ 2 £ t exmra wt ^ that aiiy drcmrti ^ aoiilJlaTe lea to ™^^ turn of the " Texedqnestum"betW ( . e __ the Roman Triumvir and the French Democratic Socialists , into the crfnmn 70 f SKKa Inourestimauon Mhparues are inaispensabl e-UthShe sincere friends of Humanity . We unfeignedly deplore tMs un 1 appy contest , and entreat fta Jtmsy terminate .-EwiOB .

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      MURDER OF A YOUNG WOMAN BY A FARMER , AND SUICIDE OF THE MURDERER . The village of Cheadley , in the county of Stafford , has been the scene of much excitement by the commission ol a moist horrible murder and suicide by a young farmer named Stephen Walker . He was a single man , of about twenty . seven years of age , and it would seem that he was rather of unsteady habits . He had been for some time paying his addresses to a young girl of the name of Fanny Walker , the daughter of a publican , but her parents disapproving of the acquaintance , sent her out of the way . Thia had the effect of considerably exciting him . In the course of the week she returned to her father ' s house , and he en . deavoured to renew his addresses . On Tuesday he called at

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      ths house and stayed for several hours , the daughter , at the request of the mother , being kept upstairs , away from him . He had some conversation with ths mother , and the circumstance of not being allowed to see Fanny excited his deepest anger . He then went out for a short time and returned with a gun in his hand . The daughter , disregarding her parents' directions to keep out of the way , came down stairs to see him , as he assured her that he would not harm her . He then atkid her " whether she intended to continue the acquaintance or not . She replied that her only objection to him was his course of life , whereupon he snatched up the gun , and pointing it at the unfortunate girl , said , " I and , getting between them , succeeded in pushing him out of the passage into the road , and bolted the door . He then will n owshow you what I wan .. " The mother screamed , ran to the window , and thrust the ' muzzle of the gun through one of the panes . The mother took hold of it , exclaiming

      with the utmost devotion , "Don't shoot Fanny , shoot me " —at the same moment urging her daughter to run out of the room . This the poor girl attempted , but in her trepidation could not unfasten the door ; and just as she was passing out of tho room , the rascal discharged the gun , and the contents lodged in her left aide , just helow the breast . Oa seeing her fall the fellow decamped , taking the gun with him . After running across some fields , he stopped and reloaded the gun , and then taking off his " samtny" hat , hs put a loop of the ribbon on the trigger , and then placed the muzzle under his chin , and so , by pressing his foot on the hat downwards , discharged the gun into liis head . As may be supposed his death was instantaneous . A coroner ' s inqniry has been held on both bodies , and the jury gave as their verdict— " That the deceased girl was murdered by Stepheu Walker , and that he the i destroyed himself while in a state of temporary insanity" Although of the same name , they were not related to each other .

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      SHIPWRECKS AND ACCIDENTS AT SEA . Fearful Loss op Life . —Letters have arrived , communicating the following melancholy occurrence : — The ship Josepha sailed from Bristol on the 18 th of last March , bound for Boston , with a crew of fifteen hands , under the charge of Captain Cawsou . On the evening of the 21 st of April , the people living in Massachussetts-bay noticed the bows of a vessel broken just aft of the forerigging 011 the bar , about a mile northward of the Highland light , and , by the aid of glasses , no fewer than fifteen people could be observed clinging to it . The remainder of tho vessel was a wreck , and with the cargo was washing along the shore . The unfortunate creatures on the wreck could be seen

      signalling for assistance , but a tremendous sea that was running , combined with tbe darkness of tbe evening , and a fog which set in about the same time , prevented help being given . During the night large fires were mads along the beach . One attempt was made to gain the wreck . Two boatmen contrived to get their boat over the serf , anil had approached within a short distance of the bar , when unhappily a sea struck and capsised her , and the two brave fellows perished . Some time afterwards the wreck went to pieces , and two only out of the fifteen succeeded in saving them , selves ; they were wa 3 hed ashore ou some pieces of spars . All the others met a watery grave .

      A lighter , with 330 bales of cotton on board for the Barbara , loading for this port , was destroyed by fire in Mobile Bay , previous to April 29 .-L . verpool , May 27 . Blythswood , Giles , was destroyed by fire at Coringa , April 5 . —Madras , April 13 . Duke , Welch , of Cork , from Mobile to Liverpool , was lost at the west end of Grand Bahama , April 14 ; part of cargo saved . —Nassau , April 21 . Emperor of China , 'from London to Sbangbae , was lost on Coco Reef , Banda Sea , previous to Feb . 15 ; crew aod passengers saved by the Far West , and landed at Cajell > in Boura . Melrose was passed , waterlogged and abandoned , April 21 , in lat . 41 N ., Ion 41 W ., by the Apolline , Stanbury , arrived in the river . Onyx , from Grangemouth for Boston , was abandoned April 14 ; crew saved , and arrived at Halifax 29 th .

      Pnncsss , from Iluncorn to Wadso , has put back to this port , leaky , and with pumps ehokfid . . She is laid on the beach below Egremont , to prevent her sinking . —Liverpool , May 17 . Rosalie , May , which sailed hence on March 18 , for Liverpool , laden with wool , hides , and tallow , put back on the 23 rd , her cargo having ignited when three days out , supposed from spontaneous combustion . She grounded on a point of rocks at the entrance of the harbour , and was towed in by ber Majesty ' s steamer Locust ; cargo discharging , and so far , the vessel has sustained but slight damage . —Monte Video , April 6 . New York , May 5 . —A large ship totally dismasted , and a large number of vessels with loss of topmastSj were pas . ed oi ? Sandy Hook on the 3 rd inst .

      South Ronaldshay , May 15 . —The Laurel , of and for Aberdeen , from Wales , sprang a leak and was run on shore on tbe Skerries , and is now a total wreck ; crew saved . Madras , April 13 . —The Blythswood was destroyed by fire at Coringa on the 5 tb . Canton , March 27 . —The Danish ship Canton , from Valparaiso for China , has been wrecked upon-a coral reef ( sup . posed to be the Cornwallia Reef ); crew saved .

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      CRIMES AND OFFENCES . The Laib Murder at Toixesbury . —Ever since his libo ration from prison , after his acquittal at the assizes at Chelmsford , in March last , Harrington , the man tried for tho wilful murder of Mrs . Cobb , at Tollesbury , has become an outcast , and has only been aeon by accident wandevmo about the fields , to avoid public observation , and until last week , has not been seen or heard of in tho neighbourhood for a considerable time , when ho was discovered by a labourer ' s dog lying under a hedge in the parish of Wigborougb , in the last stage of exhaustion , hia frame being reduced by privation from a state of corpulency to that of a living skeleton , and scarcely able to-walk . "When observed by the owner of tho dog , he begged that aome ' one would shoot him , _ as no one would notice him except with the utmost derision and contempt wherever he went ; and his lodgin « s had been the outhouses of the different farmers by nigh * , tho hedgerows his place of concealment by day . and hifl food such vegetables as he could procure in his travels . Ho is now in tho Lexden and Winstree Unionhouse at Stanway as a pauper of the parish of Salcot .

      Seriocs Charqb . —On Friday John "White and Lawrence Macarthy , privates of the 58 th Regiment were charged before our city magistrates with having violently and criffiU nally assaulted Harriot Knott , who is about twenty years of a $ e . It appeared from tho evidence that the assault took place in a field near the Military Hospital . White forced a handkerchief into the complainant ' s mouth to prevent her screaming , and afterwards drew a knife and threatened to murder her if sho rosisted . He also demanded all the money she had , and searched her pockets for the purpose of taking lt . ^ The charge was fully substantiated against both the prisoners . Tne defence set up by both of them was , that they had seen the girl in a public house in the neighbourhood , but did not go out with her ; that they wero in barracks by nine o ' clock , and requested that the orderly sergeant might bo sent for , who could prove such was the fact . The sergeant -was Bent for , but he stated that the accused wero both absent at ths time specified . The . prisoners were fully committed for trial at the naxfc assizes .

      Burglary and Desperate Excounier at NAVEsnY . —Between two and three o ' clock on the morning of Tuesday , a thief , at present unknown , broke into the house of Mr Winn , the keeper of a beer-house in the parish of flavenby situate in the Brant , near to tho four cross roads . The thief- entered by a cellar window , the iron stanchions of which he had forced off in order to enable him to get in . Mr . Winn was awoko by the . noiso , and got a light and went down stairs , when he was at once attacked by the burglar , who knocked out the light , and struck Mr . Winn so violent a blow on tho head with tho iron stanchion aa momentarily to deprive him of consciousness . On recovering himself a little a desperate struggle took placo between

      aim and tho burglar , and both were dreadfully injured , and in the end the burglar escaped , leaving Mr . Winn almost dead . The only inmates in thejhouse were Mr . Winn ' s wife and children , who were too terrified to render assistance . Next morning the slop , cap , boots , and waistcoat of the burglar were discovered lying close to the window where he effected an entrance , on the outside , he having , doubtless , to dispossess himself of these articles before ho could pass through , and blood could be traced for a considerable distance on tho road , clearly indicating the severity of the struggle which had taken place . He has hitherto escaped detection . Mr , Winn is so dreadfully injured as to render his recovery doubtful .

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      The Commihee © p EDccAiios .-It appears from an official document that last year tho amount of grants by the Education Committee of the Privy Council to normal and elementary schools amounted to £ 142 . 229 8 s . 9 Jd .. and in the preceding year to £ 160 , 097 7 s . 10 id . r . Br « TT - \ ,. f J Fl ^ snIRE ' " ~ departure of . Emi . grants from Fife and Kinross has this season been more marked than it has been for many years past . Tho greater number have left , or are leaving , for South Australia , a tew for America , and two or three families for New Zealand ,

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      HALF A VILLAGE DESTROYED . On Sunday afternoon , between two and three o ' clock , a most disastrous fire , which half destroyed a village took place at Manea , in Cambridgeshire . The village consists ( or did consist ) of one long street , nearly half a mile in length . The fire broke out in a pig-stye at one end , and the wind blowing towards the town from that end , the flames rapidly spread from one end of the place to the other , consuming everything in its course . One small engine was brought to play , but , owing to the want of water , was of little use . The station-master of the Manea station ( within a mile of the village ) immediately telegraphed for engines from March , and in the course of an hour one arrived , and was the means of saving about half of the village . The loss is not known . Few of the sufferers ars insured . One or two fields were covered with household goods oi every description .

      FIREST

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      ALA . HMING FIRE IN PORTSMOUTH DOCKYARD . On Monday a fire of an alarming character occurred in one of the establishments in the dockyard at Portsmouth . From the locality in which it broke out it must have been attended with most serious consequences had it not been promptly extinguished . Of the many extensive stores in the above dockyard , one is for tarring the yarn used in the yard and for storing if afterwards . This building consists of the tarring-house , the white yarn bouse , and the tarred yarn bouse , and it was in the fira . named that the fire originated . In this deparlmiuit , as its uame implies , the operation of tarring the yarn is effected , and it appears that at about eight o ' clock in the morning , tbe nun being engaged in their work , one of two boilers near the capstan of the steam engine employed in

      tbe operation burst in the bottom , when the boiling tar it contained , between four and five buckets full , falling in the fire underneath broke out into a strong blaze . Tbe flames spread themselves in a moment to the yarn in the apartment , and on which the men were at work , and there being some fourteen or fifteen hundredweight of this in the place at the time , a most alarming conflagration was the result , setting fire to the whole of the woodwork in the apartment , and threatening to communicate itself to the white and tarred yarn in the other parts of the building . At the time the boiler burst there were at work in this room four ropemakers , a boy , and a stoker in charge of tha

      steam-engine , and one of these at once gave the alarm to the authorities , and went after the dockyard fire-engines . These were quickly on the spot , those balonging to the rope-making department being there in a remarkably short space of time , as they were stationed close at hand . One of these was actually playing on the flime 3 , within , we are informed , three minutes of their bursting forth , a gratifying proof of the state of readiness in which they are kept Large numbers of dockyard officers , mechanics , police , ami seamen were also quickly on tbe spot , apd rendered the most valuable assistance , and the fortunate result was , thet after burning with great fury for an hour and a quarter , the flames were got under and extinguished .

      On a rough calculation it is thought the loss will be from £ 1 , 500 to £ 2 , 000 , but it is impossible to conceive what Would have been the consequences had the accident occurred whilst the mrm were at dinner or otherwise absent . Although the other two departments of the stores were separated from the tarring . houso by brick walls of some thickness , yet perfect lines of communication existed between them all , from the white or untarred yarn entering at one place , and the tarred yarn being drawn out at another . The store set apart for the latter contained fourteen or fifteen tons of this highly combustible article ,

      and had the fire penetrated to this , it is utterly impossible to calculate where the mischief would have ended , closely surrounded as this building is with the offices of the Admiral Superintendent , the master shipwright , the rope factory , &c , with the Queen and other large vessels , whose rigging a fsw sparks would have set on fire , in its imme . diate neighbourhood . Large quantities of the white and tarred yarn , nearest to the flames were got out of the building as fast as possible ; but such is the immense quantity in store , that it would hava been impossible to save a tithe of it had tbe fire not been so promptly got under .

      After the flames had been extinguished , a court of inquiry was held at the Master Shipwright ' s office , into the circumstances attending tbe accident . The people who were at work in the store at the lime were examined , and the result , we believe , was that no blame " was attachable to any person whatever . The boiler , it is considered , must have been defective ; is is a much newer one than the other near it , having , we are informed ) been constructed about sixteen months ago .

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      DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN BERMONDSEY . A fire of a most devastating character , involving loss of property to the amount of many thousands of pounds sterling , broke out about ten minutes before ten o ' clock on Tuesday night on the premises of Messrs . R . Owst and Co ., wood and trusshoop merchants and coopei' 3 , Bermondsey-wall , near Dockhead , extending thence over the adjoining warehouses of Mr . Brindloy , slate-merchants , Messrs . William and John Hayward , boat-builders , Messrs . Loader , cornfactors , Mr . Crisp , shipwright , and thence to the craft moored alongside in the river , where three large vessels were wholly destroyed , before tho progress of the flames could be allayed .

      Messrs . Osvst ' s premises very narrowly escaped destruction about a fortnight since , when Messrs . Duvis and Co ' s . steam paper-mills , which immediately adjoin them , were burnt down . The officers of the brigade force were still on the latter premises when the fire broke out at Messrs . Otvst ' s and one of them was the first who gave the alarm . It appears that he was coins his rounds over the ruins of the late fire when his attention was aroused by a young man or boy , who ran out of the adjoining cooperage upon the wharf-wall crying aloud that the place was on fire . The brigade-officer hastened to

      mo spot , ana at once saw that a large quantity of dry hoops were blazing away on Messrs . Owst ' s warehouse . Uis first impulse was to call for some buckets of water , in the hope that he might be able to extinguish the flames , but so much time was lost in obtaining this needful aid that when it arrived all hope of staying the progress of the fire by such means was at an end ; and messengers were Sent off in all directions to obtain the fire engines . The combustible nature of tho stock in Messrs . Owst ' s warehouse caused the fire to spread with extraordinary rapidity , and tbe reflection of the flames was a speedy harbinger of the mischief in t . ro _ . r _> s 8

      than any other means that could have been adopted . The brigade-engine from the Tooley-street station was very early on the spot , and others from the Sou ' . bwark-bridge-road and Watcrloo-rpad shortly followed ; but , as usual on the Surrey side of the river , there was a grievous lack of water , and nearly an hour bad elapsed from the outbreak of the fire before either of them could be got thoroughly into work . The tide unfortunately was at its lowest ebb , and hence , while very little advantage was obtained from the vicinity of the river , the vessels moored alongside were fast in the mud , and threatened to add to tbe general destruction .

      About half-past ten o ' clock the fire was at its greatest height , and at this timo tho reflection was distinctly visible in every part of the metropolis , even to tbe most westorn extremity . The shipping in the river and in the London Docks—the Hermitage entrance of which faces Messrs Owst ' s warehouses , the bridges , St . Paul ' s and all the metropolitan church steeples , " woro distinctly visible , and for some considerable period the scene was one of awful grandeur . Tho two floating engines were brought to the spot as early as possible , and a large number of men were shipped on board each of them for the purpose of manning them ; but before thoy could be got to work two vessels lying alongside Messrs . Owst ' a wharf-the Providence of London , and tho Violet of Montrose-were enveloped in flaaes . Mr . Braidwood and Mr . Henderson , of the brigade establishment , and Mr . Connorton . the fnrpmnn nf

      the West of England Fire-offioo , brought their united energies to bear upon tho bost means of attacking the flames , and by a judicious arrangement of the various engines , and a well-directed application of the hose , the fira was at length oonfined within a space of 200 feet square . This space was entirely cleared of buildings , and the * whole of the proper y contained therein destroyed . A more complete wreck than Messrs . Owst ' s premises oresent has af&JS T n r i -T t ^ SKJSLS some WaaStJ t f 01 ? reP ° rt g ^ eii bolow will convey 5 I trfl ?; ™ "f H ° 1 T ? C ^ mte * ofthiaconflagration . SasSK

      ml VTs ^ SrVr "WWTW : one remain * . thif Son Ti fHoV ? P ° lice ' Ifc is bolievcd tIiat whoaffr , i" ? i » rsed servant of Mossrs . Owst , heiSKS fiJr ° v out » threat that , if dismissed , wasTsf S , t ^ f ° "" Poet ' s warehouse . Tho boy , '^ 7 «^ « B £ hMd ™ " The following is the official report > -l nfeS ft ^ s aKra £ ^ fStiffii ^ 'SSte " *^'" te ^^^ -- > anacon " m ' aged : inTur 4 ( iMa ttel ? ' * ontbu _ lclets ,-stock much d *

      much tojired andW ,. tarpnulin manufaturor ,-building Mr ThomiR Vo . k damaged j insured in the Alliance , in thrift PriViltc bo ^ .-furniture damaged ; insured The Pro ^ nn- 8 rani »*' ies ,-front scorched , and stock injured . cepSi Kehui rnCk ' ' ^ eu with hoops . -bumt , with the « - TheIxi ™ ° L i ntroso > schooner ,-similarlj destroyed , variousBmoiu E / ther > a Welchschooner . ifliiucU burnt ; and The Ki 61 Craft morc « leas injured . iust comrnft- M waBanewly ^ paired schooner , and had only waitiSrhe ' Stokes ' 8 wayE > Shc was lyiDg aloneside '

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      ~ ACCIDENTS ^ SHi ^^; Three Lives Lost on the Ribblv t > ¦ dw—Ob Monday a melancholy accidmT RWto * . M < k river Ribble , by which three perilSrt twT" * « U others were placed in imminent pe i t T' *>« £ Jculars have been obtained from one o h U ° WintJ a Between ten and eleven o ' clock ySdw m '" ' ^ of seven men , James Walton John *! . orilin S a rw JamesHowar . il . William Hodg on . R ^ " 5 names were unknown to our inforl ^ t > ° tlle . » . * 5 employ of Messrs . Watson and Alhojp o "J ^ in - from the quay in a |) oat about ei ^ teenfei i _ i " ' % four to five feet beam , of which W " wL n * H Their object , we believe , was to " oil W >* eff proceeded safely some hilf-dien L ks il ^\ ' fhh ; ffi a sadden gust of wind capsized the tea 1 in ^ ' * them were thrown into tbe stream , 3 S ' ' ° Hodgson , who clung to the mast . Walion % WCepU * 3 Booth , were carried away by the tiife . « ' T " . J other four , well-nigh equaled , A ? re ^ r ^ ' t which was put off from the shore ( about ill y Hi by Henry Gornal and John JaefeJn Tie iv r ^' « was found on the sand , the same afternoon -Z V ^ bodies have not yet bum recovered . Spencer h fr *» art tbm children ; Walton a wife Z 2 -W * was unmarried . one Clll W ; Boon A Family Poisoned . —Tbe neighbour ! . ™ ,. _ B town has been greatly alarmed by £ n ° . SoiB »« - whole familvuhrlrr thfaii- y the P ° nine of uuuci

      . . «» - - . . .... _ ,. _ . - _> ..... . ., me ( OllOWUl R Circum «» qnn o " I named Willis , residing at 2 , BnS'T' ^ who gained his livelihood by hawking and ^ H cresses in the neighbourhood and along Camri ° Wa ' ' given to him at a house in Camden-town t * , "' haJ on Saturday , which he was informed by his Zll ° ?* been standing since the previous TueS . v T ? orhad burned home with the soup , of which he ! L 5 fflaa three children partook . Between eleve " , J ' f o dock the same night , Willis and his wife wer L , 1 ' the sufferings and means of the younmt Z ° 'eb J three years old , and was attacked witfv olen ' ? - is vomiting , and other symptoms of poison tL CT * an hour the other members of the Zu similarly attacked , when the husW . 1 \ Were way to . Mr . Sutheren ' s su gery Ch L * his Panoni . That gentleman promptly S j ? St ' upon reaching Miller ' s house , be found ' ]>< . Jr 5 I ' . an child in a state of collapse aid alS ^ 2 " ^ supposed , dying . The mother lay rodu- £ J ?' he frightful stale , ana , like the child , * , oni * Vn m father and the other children , mZ ^ ' S i

      rom retelling ana diarrfcaa , were uotu « erim » C . i ? , ' ; Mr . Sntheren applied a prop ' er an . idole ^ * S KuK as regarded the man and the two other cbldrn i ect siderable lapse of time occurred before hesniS * "' storing warmth and consciousness to | h ' moSl , a % ' third child . On Sunday the motto Si wS ? f * * ? She however though Uy relieved ^ ° ^ precarious state . The remains of the soup tola IZ coppery odour , as if it had been allowed to remain Zf time m a copper saucepan , or as if a copper 5 pct ) n \ S waa left to aland in the tureen with the liquid . ' ' Accident from this Bursting of a NapthvL a ™ -As Mr . Holgate , linendrcper , of Queenshead , nearHalihv was attending to his duties in his shop last Saturday S

      a large nap . na lamp , mm which the shop was 15 ^ 7 suddenly exploded , covering himself and three women . ft were in the shop , with its content , the Whole of whom w » instantly enveloped m flames . Some persons who were the door instantly alarmed the neighbourhood and rrshedin to render their assistance ; and by the aid ol tact * ( heel , and such things as came first to hand , succeeded in Z > ping them up , and thus extinguishing the flames Thw were all , however severely burnt , onc woman , it is feared , fatally . Mr . Holgate ' s face is frightfully burnt Th catastrophe has caused considerable alarm in the neirtbour hood , as these lamps are generally used in all the shops . Fearful Accidkni . —a very melancholy occurrence took placo on board the steamer Whitehaven , when just off tlio Heads , on her passage from Liverpool to Whitehaven , 0 B Sunday morning . The engines hud been temoo rilv

      scoppeu lorsome purpose , and Mr . Robert Gruonshields , tho chief engineer , was leaning over them for tho arrange , ment of some matter which had got into momentary disorder , when a sea struck tho vessel , urging her ahead ! and necessarily setting tho engines in motion . Bufore Mr . breenshields could withdraw himself , or have the engines stopped again , his right arm was caught in the machinery , and m an instant was nearly severed from his body , ifie unfortunate man made his appearance on deck holcliD" tho

      severed portion of his arm in his left hand , a small piece of skin merely attaching it to the remainder of tho limb . The mutilated member was hastily bound up by Captain Askew , of Whitehaven , who happened to bo one of tho passengers on board ; and on the arrival of the Whitehaven in harbour , Mr . Greenshields was taken to tUc iufimatv , where amputation near tho shoulder took place at once . ' HYBnornoBiA .-A man named Carpenter , of Courcolles , department of the Oise , was bitten about three weeks m by a dog . Asa matter of precaution tho dog waskilleil . Tlio wound , which was very slight , became cicatrised in a few days , and tho man thought no more about it . On Sa > tuyday as he was at work in a field , he was seized with

      hydrophobia , and ho rushed to a tree and threw his avrfl . around it convulsively . His fellow labourers thought he had been seized with passionate grief by reflecting on his wife , who had shortly before become insane , and they conveyed him home . Tho malady increased , and tho ifnfor . una . o man fell into a horrible state ; he was frequently in wnvul " sions and delirium , utforod loud shrieks , heaped imprecations on his relatives and friends , and called for death to tako him . At length ovt Wednesday last ho died .

      Explosion at the South METnopor . iTAjr Gas Wouks .-The South Metropolitan G . is Works , near the Surrey Canal Bridge , in the Old Kont-road , narrowly escaped destruction on Wednesday . About half-past nine o ' clock in the morning three men vare at work in the" valve-house , " as it is called , connected with the establishment , in tho prosecution of somo necessary repairs to one of tho valves , when an escape of ga 3 communicated with a small fire in one of tho rooms , and an explosion instantly took place which levelled the four walls with tho ground , and set tlio whole building in flames . Three men , although seriously burnt , managed to effect their escape , cue of them by the doorway , and tho two others by jumpinif into tho canal . The noise of tlio explosion soon l ) rought " all tfco men employed about the works to the spot , and as the burning wreck was within a vovy few feet of tho large ? as gasometer ,

      the utmost exertions of all present werb immediately directed to extinguish the fire . For this purpose tho engine , belonging to the works , was dragged out , and under tho direction of Mr . Jloss , tho foren . au . und Mr . Ilewes , tho storekeeper , a Inrgc quantity of water , obtained from tho canal , was thrown upou the flames . The most alarming apprehensions were entertained lost , any of tho leaden V » mtaof tUo \ avge . gus pipes might become fused , and fte names thus be enabled to communicate with the gas in tl'fl gasometer , a cirenmstanco which must have spread destruction around tho adjoining neighbourhood . Tho men worked bravely notwithstanding ths imminent danger to which they were exposed , and in the course of half an hour the flames wore ( , 'ot under . The gn' < continued to burn for some time , and was only extinguished .-it last bya larso quantity of clay betas , thrown unon it . Tho Mcidcw

      originated entirely through the curkssness of t ! ie parties employed in keeping up a fire while thoy were engag ™ upon a duty which necessarily involve a , largo escape ¦ oi gas . One of the four v . ilvei employed to -regulate tne supply of gas to the streets having worked rather stimy "I late , James Wesley , a deputy foreman of tho works , ana Timothy Smith , a fitter , proceeded on Wednesday _ nprn . » o to examine the valva with a view to casing a spring «» which it is worked . They had taken off the cap of w » largo pipe and were in tho act of removing tho valvo wne « tho gas , which had been escaping for somo time , oomm-u ' dated with a small firo in an adjoining apartment , and au instantaneous explosion followed . William Fos , the p » keeper of tho works , for whose use the fire waij- kept op . was in the building when tbo accident occurred , and is ow of the sufferers . All tliree of them were removed to W ] 3 Hospital a 3 soon as possible after tbo accident . Fox is tw moafc severely iniured . but neither of tho cases is expected

      to terminate fatally . Melancholy Occm . r . ExcE . ~ An accident of a most disastrous nature occurred on Wednesday afternoon »¦< Burntwood , near LichSeld , resulting in the almost instantaneous death of the Rev . It . Ellington , incumbent «' Burntwood and Hammenvioh . Tho painful circumstances of tho case aro briefly theso :-It appears that the _ garo «" connected with the Jiouso had been very much roies'i with sparrows , and tho unfortunate deceased had asceno «» a ladder for t ho purpow of destroying some nests m ft P * tree growing against his residence . The tree m ^ f "* was a wall tree , and the deceased incautiously stuppca «' tbe ladder on it , when the branch which he held gave Mji . mi lm woo nrpninih-tni . hnnkwards headlond to tne fe ^"

      a height of from fifteen to twenty foot . & {»• 'r * bu who had just come to tho spot to warn her 1 'usbana o danger , witnessed tho accident . A messenger was u diately despatched for Mr . M . B . Morgan . ; surg on . ^ was promptly in attendance , but somo t me b or ° arrival life was extinct . We understand that the ¦ dtcea , q [ neck was dislocated , and that his collarbone ana «* ldo 1 f his ribs were fractured . Mr . Ernngton has' > f ** & and three children to bewail their loss , rendered « j ^ tressing by the painful circumstance under wnw > occurred . . ^ q Faul AcciDEST .-On Saturday morning , aU bou ^ o ' clock , Adelaine Woolenough , aged J / , »« " ff « s ployed at No . 13 , Sidmouth-sireet , Gray s-inn ru - ^ precipitated from the third story window to Jc y « f } i a height of upwards of fifty feet . In th . wursc oi she burst through a skylight . The fcai ¦ aleus ^ » g the inmates of the house , which is a Kwpuon j fl | 5 t establishment for foreigners , severa of . ' ^ JjS ly ftf 5 _ . _ j r j n .- fo . t . mnfo wnmnr . hloedio _ r P ' ' .. « ed uuivhuii ¦¦ - —

      UUU lUUnU H 1 O « . " - y n \ yas M" - her skull , and quite insensible . Taylor , SH > . hor o in , and Bhewaa conveyed to the Royal ^ " D" igbnf »' Dr . Lane and other medical officers of J « % ft * , rendered every humane assistance . Her « kJ or oj fcured , her rib s were droken , and the whow » glie her body was shattered in a most dreadful inn expired soon after entering tbe hospital .

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      . fe ^ , p i t appears from a return to parliament printed ™ c 7 va M . 7 that in 1850 ' quantity of spirits exported was .. 08 , 914 : gallons , of which 123 , 771 went to British colonies and possessions , and 185 , 140 to foreign countries and oolonies . In 1851 the quantity exported was 229 , 650 , being 1 a decrease of 79 , 264 gallons in the preceding year . _ : i _

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      6 THE STAR OF FREEDOM . M

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 22, 1852, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1679/page/6/