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      August 23, 1851 • The Northern Star 7 I ...

      August 23 , 1851 THE NORTHERN STAR 7 I III I _ _^—«^— . _ .. — 1— I Ml ¦ ¦ ¦ __ " ^ "

      Bla5ce At The Ukxstal Palace And W Its C...

      BLA 5 CE AT THE UKXSTAL PALACE AND w ITS CONTENTS . Every one has paused before the gorgeous Spitalfields trophy in tbe nave , and many have overheard the candid ejaculations of admiring Frenchmen , " charaiant , " " superbe , " " magnifique . " But it is on the south gallery that the Coventry ribbons , and other wonders of that genus are to be found . Let us first look at these cases 42 and 43 ( section SXiii ) Jiinntely classified and arranged , may be there beheld the raw silk of sis of the principal varieties known in commerce , " Fine Italian gum waste , " " Second Italian gum waste , " Italian and China home waste , " " Brutia aud Bengal home waste , " " Verona waste " ( knnbbs and husks ) . Below there are a ? many specimens of each quality " dressed / 'in

      the line beneath we find them " carded ; " below these again are the six " slabbing * , " followed by the six coarse " rorfngs . " and the six fine " rovlngs . " Ill an adjoiains cabinet are tbe span threads of each of these kinds of silk , of every known and possible degree of tenuity . If we would understand these technicalities , we have but to remember tbe pastime of our boyhood silk worm rearing ; for who , CVfD tbe roughest urchin , has not kept a half-dozen caterpillars in a box—watched with an eagerness scarcely to be exceeded by the highest hope of manhood , their gaaesis and transformations—been perplexed to pro vile them appropriate food—hung up the yellow cocoon with delight in the sun , and dreamed of lands where the mulberry tree glistens with tbesesuspended lumps of gold ? The cocoon in which the

      wormpoor fool !—lies self entombed , consists of one long continuous thread , or rather—microscopicallyspeakips—of two threads twisted into one ; for the " entire line emanates at the same time from two ounces in the bead of the worm , which by a peculiar movement of its body , brings them both " at tbe instant of projection into permanent and inseparable contact . His task completed , his doom 13 seated * unable to escape he Is , b y the action of hot water , mercilessly deprived at the same time of all the advantages of his position , as well as of his life . The outer casing , classified according to its f orm , either as a good or pointed cocoon , a " cocalon , " a dupion or SOflfflon . is speedily unreeled aud wound upon a hollow frame , whereby it becomes converted into hanks . Thehanks thus produced , whether arriving from Italy , France ,

      B .-ngal , China , or elsewhere , are designated raw silk . By what is called ** throwing , " they are brought into a oroper state for weaving and for other purposes , the silk being thereby twisted , doubled , and undergoing sundry other processes , as we have seen in the department of machinery in motion , where each progressive step can be observed and studied , and at the same time its analogy compared with similar operations in the cotton and wool departments . In a case numbered 1 , we find thirty compartments , all filled from the looms of one Spitalfields manufactory : tbe most striking object of the group is a very rich and delicate silk , in colour pink and white , and bearing upon its surface the pattern of the rose , thistle , and shamrock , gracefully designed . Next to this we find the novelties of . Messrs . Pugh , of

      i \ . egeat-street , including a remarkably fine bombazeen cloth , and a still more important article , rejoicing in the name of ainphommoion , or widow ' s silk , the former of these grandiloquent appellations simply signifying that its surface is the same on both sides . Why so rich an article should be specially appropriated to widows , we are at a loss to divine , but there can ba so question that it is a most beautiful commodity . Messrs . Sanderson and Read have a chair back of silk bearing a coat of arms ; it is exhibited as a specimen of weaving , but it might be easily mistaken for the work of the needle . Ia the next case is a handsome display of velvet vestings , velvet for pulpits , & c , black atmozvaes , cravats in satin and silk , figured satins , & c . But the eye is involuntarily caught by Mr . T . Robinson's

      cabinet , where we behold velvets of great variety of hue , but chiefly of the closest texture , and of that short crisp pile that does not yield beneatb tbe touch —the surest test , we are told , of the highest denominations of velvet . Messrs . Still well and Son , besides some handsome brocatelle far curtains , have some fine damasks ; and a specimen of her Majes'y ' s coronation robe , wrought by them , whereon upon an entirelv golden ground the pattern stands forth in brilliant relief . A City firm have imitated very Cleverly ia silk a variety of furs ; their ermine is all but perfectly deceptive , and the silvery grey of some of the feline members of tbe animal creation , and the spfckled surfaces of some one or two others , are fairly copied , but there are some surely not intended t ^ resemble thcinteguments of any known quadruped .

      A-j might have been anticipated , Messrs Swan and Edgar have a copious variety of the manufactures of Spi talfields , including Ducapes , Gros de Naples ; Ducapes , Gros de Tours ; satins , Grecian , Gros de Touts watered silks , velvets , striped small checks , together with coloured China silks ; amongst them , pretty prominently , ia a black watered silk of great beauty and richness . Two fabrics of the brilliant group—one in gold and bhie , another brocaded with Sowers in sixteen tints-are surely far too splendid for wear . A Scotch firm displays divers Highland tartans iu satin and velvet , remarkable alike for texcire and richness of colour . Mr . Mason , of Yately , in Hampshire , has a fine specimen of damask silk and English cloth , the peculiar interest of which lies in the fact that it is wrought in silk the produce of

      worms reared at Tately , A still more astonishing and gratifying contributfon to this department is Biade by Mrs . Whit by , aho of Hampshire . It consists of a magnificent silken banner , bearing a number of emblematical figures ; and adorned along its jnargln by a deep and elaborately compounded fringe —the whole of the material of which was spuu by silkworms reared by the lady during a period of fourteen years , she contriving to maintain a sufficient plantation of tbe delicate Philippine mulberry-trees for her purpose ; and her experiment is considered to have been so encouraging that the system is being tried upon an extensive scale . The material , thus laboriously aud perseveringly produced , was wrought in the looms o the Messrs . tfoldsworth , cf Manchester ; who also display , among many beautiful

      fabrics , a silk brocade , and embroidery of silk upon cloth ground , applicable to a variety of purposes for internal decoration , and calculated , from its peculiarly gorgeous appearance , greatly to enhance the magnificence of an apartment ; and being the work of mechanism , its price is comparatively low . It is impossible , however , to go on at this pace . So extensive is the display in ibis department , and so much may be found to observe among articles apparently little differing , that hours are rapidly consumed . The French silks are divided from the English only by tie transept 5 and are , therefore , convenient for comparison . To attempt enumeration of their characteristics is out of the question ; and tbe decision of comparative merits may safely be left to the juries . * "We cannot forbear .

      however , giving expression here to a feeling which we have often experienced in this survey—a feeling Of regret that no mention is made cf the actual producers of these beautiful results of ingenuity and skill as well as industry . It ia the nominal maker , the capitalist , who has all the credit—and while we render due honour to the spirit which prompts him to risk his means in untried paths , and acknowledge how indispensable is his peculiar element in the work of production , we cannot but think the men ¦ whose brain and fingers are their capital , should have a share in the honorary as well as substantial reward . We believe this is one instance in which they " manage these thinks better abroad . " Provision is made in continental manufactures for exciting the individual ambition of artists and "woik

      men , and with the best results . We are sure that thesriificers of Spitalfields are not content with the impersonal glory of their gorgeous trophy . Than the Norwich and Pa sl ? y shawl 8 , 3 and the Nottingham lace , nothing more ' beautiful o their tind can be conceived . The Limerick display has a peculiar interest , inasmuch as it represents one of the saving elements of Irish industry . Messrs . Morley and Harris exhibit in their respective contributions , the almost human ingenuity with -which the looms of Leicester seem inspired . The glovers have some useful novelties ; and the wool-workers show to what uses crochet work can be pat . " A state bed , " laden with needlework , is only one of several specimens in the building of CO ? tly folly . On the walls and in the bays below , " Crossley , of Halifax , "

      arrests the eye , in conjunction vriih a vast expanse of carpets and cloths . Looking into the nave , we Observe that Mr . Xicolay has hung tbe whole front of the gallery with tbe skins of lions , tigers , and bears , dressed to a beautiful softness , and adapted to a modern exigency by being formed into railway wrappers . Another novel adaptation of fur is a table-cover of wild cat skins , admirably fitted , from their softness , for library tables . Mr . Nicolay aliO exhibits ; spechrens of almost every variety of fur adapted to every habiliment . The hlstoricil roiirniver figures in a great variety of muffs and tippets , ornamented with the paws of tbe Astracan lamb , to suit the requirements of modern " taste . ' A

      cun-OUS article is a coat made from tbe hide of a Tartar colt , bnt so carefully dressed as to be as soft as seal akin , and , from the length and density of the hair , completely impervious to wet , so that tbe skin in which a wild Tartar cok once scampered over his native steppes , may serve as a paletot to Eometraa * -quil commercial gentleman travelling in an English railway carriage . The beaver is also exhibited in a great variety of ladies' articles ; for since tbe great " gossamer" revolution , that beautiful material has been handed over to the furrier . Tbe collection is completed by various specimens of wolves , tigers , < fcc , carefully stuffed , and adding greatly to the attractiveness of the stand . The Hudson Bay Company -has also a number of black fox skins and Arctic wrappers .

      Father Ignatius, According To A Tsontemp...

      Father Ignatius , according to a tsontemporary , Iras gone to Germany , the necessity for recruiting his health being the cause assigned for hisexpatria * tion ; bat that the real fact is , hia simplicity or his eccentricities were causing too much trouble to the ieada of the Popish clique , in , Westminster .

      Father Ignatius, According To A Tsontemp...

      THIS WRECK OF THE LARPENT . We copy the following details of the wreck of this vessel from the North Chi Herald . — " The Antelope , opium clipper , bad brought to Hong Kong three men , the sole survivors of thc British ship Larpent , which was wrecked on the south-east end of Formosa , oh the 12 th September last . The narrative given by these three survivors is a very melancholy one . It appears that the American barque Antelope , on her passage to Shanghae , was lying , on the night of the first inst ., nearly becalmed off the south point of Formosa , when a boat was observed coming from the shore , and those m the Antelope heard the voices of Enolish-! men , requesting that they might be taken on board . Captain Roundy accordingl received three men

      y , the sole survivors of the crew of the Larpent , o ' f Liverpool . It appears that the Larpent , Of Oil tons , only seven years old , belonging to Mr . t . Ripley , and commanded by Mr . Gilson , left Liverpool on the 18 th of May , 1 S 50 , on a voyage to Shangac ; the crew , including Mr . Bland , a passenger acting as third mate , numbering thirty-one . The Larpent passed Anger on the 10 tb of August . On the 12 th of September , in the forenoon , she passed Botel Tobago Xiraa , a lofty island , bearing east half north from tbe south cape , Formosa , from which it is distant thirteen leagues . The weather is said to have been thick and rainy . At 9 . 30 p . m . all hands were alarmed at the shi p suddenly striking on a rock . By backing tbe head sails , however , the ship came off almost immediatelv . but on

      sounding the pumpa no less than seven feet of water were found in tbe hold ; all hands were forthwith busily kept at pumping until 2 . 15 a . m . of the following day , when , as there was no prospect of gaining on the leak , Captain Gilson ordered the quarter boats to be lowered , and the launch to be hoisted out . in the hurry tbe jolly boat stove and became useless . The captain , mate , and six men then got into the starboard quarter boat , thc remaining members of the crew taking the launch , in which some provisions had been placed . On the weather clearing up a little atdaylight they found themselves Close to the Shore , somewhere in tbe vicinity of the place designated on the map of Formosa , Mat-faer . Here they all landed for the purpose of getting fresh water , and with the

      intention also of caulking the long boat ; but m these purposes they were prevented , the natives coming down in great numbers , and plundering them of every movable . So situated , Captain Gilson determined on putting to sea again , to endeavour to reach Hong Hong , a distance of 400 miles and upwards . Both boats started together , but the launch still leaking considerably , was unable to keep up with the lighter boat , and parting company she was never more seen , although it was afterwards heard that Captain Gilson had landed near South Cape , and procured water . ( There indeed he might have been murdered or taken captive , and may still be in slavery for aught we are required to believe to the contrary . ) At daylight on the 14 th , the launch having rounded the extreme point ,

      tho etfiw landed on a shelving beach , surrounded by bushes , intending , before proceeding any further , to repair the boat . About eight a . m ., almost without any previous warning , they found themselves in the midst of a deadly " fire of matchlocks . Young llr . Bland was observed to spring a great height iu the air and fall flat on his face dead ; those who could swim immediately took to the water , whence the savages were seen , with long knivea , stabbing those who were wounded and immediately cutting off their heads , which to tho number of nineteen , were then thro wn into a terrible heap . Blake , the joiner , says , that although wounded by a shot when in the water , he swam for several miles across a broad bight , and had landed under a huge sugar-loaf rock thoroughl y exhausted ,

      thinking that he was the only ono saved , when turning his eyes seaward , he observed tho boy Hill , pursued by an enormous shark . The lad appeared nearly exhausted , and was about tO sink , WhCU , cheered by his voice , he gave a few more strokes and landed in shoal water , whence he dragged himself over the coral to tbe place whereBlakejwas sitting . Here they had not remained long , when two natives with matchlocks Mere seen traversing a beach at some distance , apparently in pursuit of them . But they succeeded in biding themselves for a time , and afterwards escaped to the mountains , where they remained until the 19 th . Exhausted nature could bold out no longer , and at a time when Blake says the feelings of a cannibal had arisen in his breast , and he insanely thought of partaking of his comrade ' s blood rather than remain longer without food , they wandered into a field where some villagers were at work . From them

      they obtained a meal of rice and shelter , and were afterwards made to wori with the village labourers from daylight till dark—sometimes in boats , diving for large shell fish , at others with hoes about the paddy ground . The man Beris and another had landed at a different place , whence they tried to reach a junk , in which one of them , Harrison , succeeded , but was almost immediately shot and decap itated in sight of his comrade . Beris appears to have subsequently joined Blake and Bill , thelatter of of whombaiugunabletodosomuch work astheotbers was subjected to very severe treatment , and has been left sick at Shangae . At the expiration of five months the .. kind-hearted villagers sold them to some neighbours for six dollars apiece , the purchasers proving to be of a more friendly disposition than the original holders . On arriving at Shangae a voluminous narrative of the seven months and sixteen days ' captivity was taken by Mr . Consul Alcock . "

      The Loss Of The Soss Op Commerce.—I Send...

      The Loss of the Soss op Commerce . —I send you the following particulars relative to the wreck of the Sons , of Commerce , and of the massacre of two of her crew by the Arabs , about fifteen miles to the east of Aden ;—It appears that the abovenamed vessel , laden with coals for the Hon . East India Company ' s depot at Aden , grounded on Friday afternoon , the 11 th inst . The weather was unusually bolstered , and the steam-frigate Sesestris , which anchored in our harbour on tbe same day , made the port with great difficulty , so that no great blame appears to be attached to the captain for the unfortunate catastrophe . On Saturday all the crew took to tho boats , the captain taking command of the cutter and the chief mate of the

      launch , in which they embarked such articles of value as were easily removed . The intention was to make Aden by sea ; but after having proceeded a short distance " against a heavy son and strong wind the chief mate declared his intention of landing , stating that unless he did so a sick man named Murphy , who was in his boat , would probably succumb . The captain , it appears , was averse to this measure ; but not wishing to separate tbe crew he fell in with the proposition , and all landed at a spot not far distant from the wreck . A sort of booth was erected on the beach , and then the captain , taking the second mate and three of the men with bim , proceeded towards Aden to seek assistance . On their way they were stopped

      by some armed Arabs , but finally succeeded in reaching the outer fortifications , called tbo Turkish wall , at eight p . m . on the same day . A few hours after several of the crew who had been left on the beach arrived at the same posts , and communicated the intelligence that they had been attacked by a party of Arabs , and that the chief mate had been murdered in a most inhuman manner , wherefore all had taken to flight leaving the sick man Murphy in the tent . In the course of that night and during the succeeding day all reached Aden in safety , thoug h in a very exhausted condition , with the exception of Murphy , who suffered the same fate as the mate . As soon as the intelligence of this Outrage was made known to the authorities , 120 men of the force marched out upon the isthmus a

      little after midnight , and succeeded in picking up two of the refugees ; after this the military returned to tbe cantonment . The sloop of war Elphinstone was also dispatched early on Sunday morning and reached the wreck on the evening of the same dav . The boat sent from her to examine tho wreck was fired upon by tho Arabs assembled in » reat numbers on the beach . Two surveys were nwde of the wreck , and finding that there was chance of rescuing her the Elphinstone returned to Aden . The wreck was put up to auction a few days ago and sold for 2 , 450 rupees ( cargo and all ) to one of the principal Arabs of the place , i he purchaser or purchasers have already brought in a considerable part of the ship ' s gear and cargo . It is to be hoped that somo measures will be taken to prevent such brutal outrages upon British life , which have been very common of late .

      Correspondent of the Moming Herald . SCPERSTITlOJa WITH REGARD TO GLASIOXBUBT TrioB . v . —Is is handed down that -when Joseph of Arimathea , during his mission to England , arrived at Weary-all-bill , near Glastonbury , be struck his travelling staff into the earth , which immediately took roet and ever after put forth its leaves and blossoms on Christmas Day , being converted into a miraculous thorn . This tree , which has two trunks , was preserved until the time of Queen Elizabeth , when one of the trunks was dostroved

      b y a Puritan ; and the other met with the same fate during the Great Rebellion . Throughout tbe reign of Henry VIII . its blossoms were esteemed such great curiosities and sovereign specifics as to become an object of gain to the merchants of Bristol , who not only disposed of them to the inhabitants of their own city , hut exported these blossoms to different parts of Europe . They were , in addition to these , relics for rain , for avoiding the evil eye , for rooting out charlock and oil weedsin corn , with similar specifics , which were considered at this time the best of all property . —Notes and Queries . A letter from Rome of the Sth inst . states that Count Alexander Calendrelli , Minister of War during the Republic , condemned to imprisonment for alone term of years , is immediately to be relied from confinement on the intercession of Baron Vsedomftbe aiinister of Prussia to the Holy See .

      The Loss Of The Soss Op Commerce.—I Send...

      DESPERATE HIGHWAY ROBBERY AT BRISTOL , AND CAPTURE OF THE ROBBER . A man named John Williams has just been apprehended at Bristol upon a charge of highway robbery , accompanied by circumstances of considerable ferocity . It would seem from the facts which have transpired upon an examination before tbe magistrates , taken at the bedside ol the unfortunate gentleman upon whom the outrage was committed , that it was perpetrated in open daylig ht , in a thoroughfare much frequented at this season of tho year , and almost beneath the . walls of a gentleman s mansion at which a large establishment of servants is kept . Owing to the suddenness and violence of the attackthe gentleman who was

      , robbed , Mr . Godwin , of Auburn Villa , Gotham New-road , was unable to give any particular description of the offender , who , but for the testimony of a young man , named James Collaeott , who is »> tbe service of a bootmaker at Bristol , would have , in all probability , entirely escaped detection . Mr . Godwin , who is seventy-five years of age , could merely state that ho was taking a walk for the benefit of his health , and was in tho carriage road which passes beneath the pleasure grounds of Redland Court , when he was suddenly attacked from behind by some powerful man , who grasped him round the face with his hands , closed bis eyes and his mouth , kicked his legs from under him , threw him down , and then threw himself upon him . When he was on the ground he was kicked in the head and

      stunned , and upon bis , to some extent , recovering he missed his watch and appendages which had been stolen from him . The young man Collaeott stated that he was carrying a pair of boots to Redland Court , the residence of Mr . Edwards , and upon entering the carriage road he saw a man , who observing him approach went to the side of tho walk and began looking into the hedge as if he was trying to find something . The witness passed him for a yard or two , and as he began then to follow him , Collaeott , who lad formed some suspicion in his mind that he would try to steal his boots , turned suddenly round and looked him full in the face . The man then again went towards the hedge , and the witness went to the Court and delivered his parcel .

      This detained him for some little time , and upon his again leaving tbe place he heard a groan 83 of Some person in distress . He looked up the road and saw two persons struggling on the ground . As he was approaching them he saw the one who was on the top , and whom he recognised as the man whom , he had before seen , get up from the Other , kick him heavily and deliberately several times in tho head , and then mako off across the fields . Upon going to see who it was that had been so savagely used , he found Mr . Godwin , whom he assisted , and from whom he subsequently learnt that he had been robbed . Callacott at once raised an alarm , and some carpenters and others looked for the robber , but thev could find

      nothing of him . The old gentleman was removed to his residence much injured , and medical aid WAS promptly called in , and information of the outrage was given to the police , who captured the prisoner under very curious circumstances . A constable of the St . Philip ' s division was making inquiries for evidence against an utterer of base coin , for which purpose he went to a beer-house in Lamb-street , St . Philips , called the Boar ' s Head . As he approached the house , the prisoner was in the act of leaving it , but seeing an officer coming towards him , his conscience alarmed him , and he ran back , got into a yard behind tbe house , and clambered on to the roof of some premises iu the rear- The policeman at once suspected that he had committed

      some offence for which he expected to be apprehended , and followed him , chasing him across the roofs of several houses , and narrowly escaping being knocked off by a heavy pantile which he threw at him . At length the fugitive finding that escape in this way was hopeless , jumped into a court closely followed by the policeman . It happened that the court did not communicate with the street , and the prisoner was driven to take refuge in a house , where in rushing towards the fireplace to arm himself with a poker stumbled over some articles of furniture , fell upon the ground , and was

      easily secured by the constaoiei Assistance was then procured , and he was taken to the stationhouse , where an account of the robbery and a minute description of the offender given by Collaeott had been received , and with which he was found totally . The witness was sent for , and at once identified bim in the most positive wa y , and he was detained on the charge of highway robbery . The magistrate , Mr . LuneJJ , who attended at Mr . Godwin ' s house to take his deposition , having also examined the other witnesses , fully committed the prisoner , who has been sent to gaol to await his trial at the next Gloucester assizes .

      Mutiny And Deseution.—The Following Is A...

      Mutiny and Deseution . —The following is a report of the barque Syrian , Mason , of Sunderland , at Queenstown : — " Left the Levee , at New Orleans , on the 21 st of June , at 9 SO p . m ., at which tiulC six of the craw went below , and refused their duty j also did so on the following day , the 22 nd ; so much so , that they would not even haul tho towrope in . The ship was towed from New Orleans to the pilot station at tbe S \ V Pass . During tbe course of the evening one of them came aft to the master and a * ked for grog , which was refused , in consequence of the whole of them being in a drunken , mutinous , disorderl y state , from the time Of their joining the ship up to that time . He said , « We are going to leave you to-morrow wo are all

      going away in tbe steamer . The master said , ' When you get the drink out of your heads you will be better men , and , I have no doubt , will act differently to what you have done to-day . ' He said , ' I speak for myself , and when I speak for myself I speak for all hands—if you don't let us go away in thc steamer you will have to go into Mobile with us . ' The master , thinking this language was the result of drink , told him to go to bed , and endeavour to get them all to bed , and get themselves sober for going to sea in the morning ; and he went away forward . The master left the deck at 10 . 30 p . m ., and had not long been in bed when some one fired a pistol over his head , which tbey had done frequentl y during the course of the afternoon . About midnight some one endeavoured

      to force an entrance into the cabin , the door of which had been previously secured before the master went to bed . Hearing them , they were surprised by his calling out to know who was there . They also refused their duty the day following until three o ' clock , at which time they went to work , alter a long strain of remonstrance from the master , and giving a certificate , saying ho would take no notice of their past conduct ; but , at noon , on the 24 th , they all left their work again , and made those who were willing to work join them ; and on no conditions could they be prevailed upon to resume their duty , and acted in every way as they thought proper , without being under the least controul , and so remaining in a mutinous state ,

      without rendering the master 'the least assistance in the time ot necessity . On the 4 th of Jul y they took the ship ' s boat , four oars and tiller , bread , pork , and water , by force , threatening whoever made the least resistance did so at the risk of his life , having loaded their pistols previously to prevent their being deterred from effecting their purpose , and left the ship about nine a . m ., leaving only the mate , carpenter , cook ( who is not a seaman , and is , therefore , useless for either steering the ship or going aloft ) , one ordinary seaman , and one boy , to assist the master to work the shipbeing six in number—say four men and two boys ( inclusive of the cook , who could only give a pull ); and who fortunately , with this short help , were enabled to bring her in safety to the harbour of

      Queenstown . —Shipping Gazette . A Youthful Couple . —There was a gay wedding at Highweek Chapel on Sunday morning last , which excited much interest , and drew a large number of spectators . The bridegroom was Mr . John Pringle , oi Kingskersweli , a veteran boatswain , agrd ninetyone , enjoying a pension for his service to his Queen and country ; and the bride , Mrs . Sally Clarke , a buxom widow , the other side of sixty , who keeps a general shop in Newton Bushel . There are some TMniniscences connected with the warlike career of tbe venerable bridegroom , of stirring interest , and which , as tbe tale goes , would form a good story , lie had the honour of " serving" with Nelson , and many " hair-breadth ' scapes" attended him as well aa the hero oi the Nile . It is related that , on one occasion , Morpheus got such hold ot him when on duty in a boat with ihe admiral , that his involuntary breach of discipline and the articles of war , had

      notwithstanding he was a bit of favourite and performed sundry gallant acts , would have prematurely sent him after " Poor Tom Bowling , " but for the intercession of Lady Hamilton , to whom he was indebted for the opportunity of wooing and wedding in a " green ould age . " However , setting aside mishaps , which may happen to the best of us , he was a smart and daring sailor , deservedly respected on board as a warrant officer ; and for his straightforward manner and hearty good feeling , he has acquired on shore the esteem of all who Knew him . We bad almost forgotten , to add that the loving couple left on Monday to enjoy a few hours of their honeymoon in pleasant retirement , and that , after their return , towards the " witching hourot night , " they were greeted with the strains of music by a band . As a finale , a party of serenaded , in soft but mellifluous cadences , executed , w a lullaby , " Happy dreams and slumbers sweet . —

      Exeter Paper . Female Heroism . —On Saturday afternoon ( says the Patrie ) , as . Mdlle . Judith , the actress , was bathing in the Seine , near Asnieres , with other young women , a cry of distress was suddenly heard . It proceeded from a boy , twelve years old , who had fallen into the water from a float of timber , and , being unable to swim , was ID TDD greatest danger . Mdlle . Judith at once n \ ado a dash at the child , and with great difficulty brought him safely to shore . She hersel ' t fainted tbe moment after from tbe exertion and agitation ,

      Mutiny And Deseution.—The Following Is A...

      ¦ niSTLMONY IN LAW COURTS . MASSACHUSETTS ' " law FOR ATHEISTS . ( From the New , York Sun . ) ¦ ~ , J ect of some importance is being discussed in the newspapers . It appears that in the state of Massachusetts there exists a law declaring the tesr ' ) mo "y of Atheists inadmissible in the law courts of the state . A case recently occurred which has brought this Singular law into notice . A Mr . rhayer , a citizen of Lowell , and well reputed among ins neighbours , proffered a complaint in thc Lowell Police Court against a man named liibbey , an overseer of one of the corporations , for the seduction of his wife . The circumstances Of the seduction arc stated to be oi a very aggravated . Character . Llbhey was arrested upon the complaint and brought before the court , but , says the Lowell Courier : —

      It was shown , to the satisfaction of the court , that bo : h iliaieraildlllg wife wore Atlieists—not belienmr in tlie ^ T ' F a . . u Preino Being , or of a future state of tewavus w punishments . Of course no reliance could be placed upon any statements they might inside in reference to tlie matter before tl . e court , and the jud ^ e , therefore msmissea the case at once , and ordered tlm defendant , Libbey , to be discharged . So , in the state of Massachusetts , the libertine is allowed to escape punishment because the victims Ot his lust happen to be Atheists . Thaver , ou his cross-examination , said , " I do not believe or disbelieve in a God—I know not whether people will or will not be punished hereafter fortheir had actions . " Because ho was not positive in his belief in a God ,

      and in a future state of punishment , a Massachusetts judge , or rather the Massachusetts law , would not receive his testimony . If the seducer may , w Pu impunitJV destroy the peace and happiness ol Thayer , may not the robber commit tho lesser offence of taking his purse from him bv violence , and escape punishment in like manner ? But should the robber snatch away the purse of tho seducer , then the seducer ' s oath would be valid testimony , provided that he Would proclaim his belief in a God , and future rewards and punishments . We uity the blindness and infatuation of the Atheist , and abhor Atheism , but we equally abhor a Jaw that allows villains to escape punishment for crimes committed against Atheists .

      The Massachusetts papers , however , generally defend tho law , and the Boston Transcript argues that , "As all human law is founded on tlie piesumption of a divine law , to which men aro responsible , we do not see how the obligations of tlie latter can be ignored without destroying all the safeguards of the former . " But this law of Massachusetts itself "ignores" the obligations of the divine law . The divine law says to men , " Thou shall not commit adultery ; " and Under the Mosaic code adultery was punished with death . The Massachusetts law says , in effect , adultery may be committed with impunity , if the parties be Atheists . If the Tromicript ' s argument is worth anything it proves that no man is entitled to the protection of human laws who does not respect the obligations of the divine law , consequently , the oaths or testimony of believing and regenerated Christians only , are entitled to belief .

      The seducer , the thief , the generally profligate and dishonest , do not respect the obligations of the divine law—they are continual breakers and despisers of it , yet if they kiss the Jenther binding of a Bible , and igncvautlv pvstenu to believe in God and tho revelation of his will , their oaths will be good evidence , while a moral and upright man , who walks by the li ght of reason , respecting the laws , but who has not a firm faith in revelation , win be cast out of court without redress for deep wrongs inflicted , upon him \ How monstrously absurd ! Men denying God in their hearts , and by their daily actions , but confessing him with their lips , are admitted to testify in all cases , whether small or great , but a state in thw enlightened Re * public Outlaws men of good moral and private character , who may be undecided regarding the great doctrines of Christianity .

      It is not strictly true that " all human law is founded upon the presumption of a divine law , " though this does not come within tho argument ; for there are human laws founded upon the " presumption" of a divine law , which are despotic , cruel , and bloodthirsty , and which virtually ignore the divine law . The true duty of human law is to protect the temporal and social rights of men ; and unless Atheists are to be entirely driven out of society , the laws should protect their social and civil rights , just as the rights of the most wicked and abandoned "believers" are protected . We do not ask that courts or juries believe implicitly the testimony of Atheists , any more than we would insist that accomplices in a burglary or a murder should be believed . Their testimony , like that of all witnesses , should be thoroughly scrutinised , and just so much regai d paid to it as it may deserve ; but it is injustice , and of tho nature of despotism , to refuso to listen to it .

      Lock-Pickiso.—Mr. Hobbs, An American Loc...

      LocK-PicKiso . —Mr . Hobbs , an American locksmith , having publicly announced the possibility of opening , without keys , locks which had heretofore been considered ' as possessing the great deajdc * l'fttum of perfect security , a party of scientific and other gentlemen invited him to make the attempt on a patent lock , by Chubb , which secured one cf the vaults of the State Paper Office . The look laving been examined , and found to be fairly locked , Mr . Hobbs produced from his waistcoat pocket two or three small and simple-looking tools , and proceeded to work . Within twenty-five minutes from the time of commencing , the bolt of the lock flew back , and the door was opened . It was then suggested by one of thegentlemen present that Mr . Hobbs should turn the bolt back again ,

      and lock the door ; it being a "detector lock , it was considered he would be unable to accomplish this feat . In less than ten minutes , however , the door was again locked . No injury whatever was done to the interior of the lock , and no traces were to be seen of its having been picked . As may be imagined , this performance created a great deal of excitement in the world interested in Jocks and keys ; and a committee , consisting of Mr . G . Rennie , Professor Cowper , and Dr . Black , was immediately appointed for the purpose of making arrangements for allowing Mr . Hobbs to try his skill upon the mysterious lock so long ' exhibited in the window of Mr . Bramah , in Piccadilly , with the tempting announcement , in letters of gold , offering a reward of £ 200 to any one who should pick it .

      In short , this challenge , so long unheeded , has at length been accepted . The monster lock has been removed from its long resting-place in Mr . Bramah . ' s window to an upper room in tho house ; where , it having been placed between two boards , which have been sealed by the committee , Mr . Hobbs at once commenced operations upon it . Thirty days are , by agreement , to be allowed for the experiments . Mr . Hobbs , who is proprietor of Newell ' Parautoptic Lock , in his turn , makes tho following challenge : — " That a party may take any commercial lock ( of the Newell patent ) , examine it as much as he pleases , without limit of time , and take the lock to pieces and put it together again in the presence of competent persous , * the Jock to be then locked In their presence ; and if the party can

      pick it in any time , and after any number of trials , a prize of £ 1000 will be given . " Hbk Majesty ' s Visit to Scotland . — "We understand that her Majesty , who will leave Osborne on Wednesday , has expressed her intention to arrive nttho KAng ' s-cross station of the Great Northern Railway at half past one o ' clock in the afternoon . Her Majesty will take luncheon at the station , and depart tbenco at two o ' clock . At Lincoln her Majesty will , without leaving her carriage , receive an address from the corporation of that city . The Royal train will reach Doncaster station at about hilf-past six . Here her Majesty will leave tho Koyal carriage , and proceed to the Angel Hotel , which has been engaged for her accommodation , and where she will remain during the night . At

      nine o clock on the following morning her Majesty will journey on to Holyrood , between which place and Doncaster the Royal train will stop only for the engine to take in water . A temporary station is to be provided at Holyrood , to enable her Majesty to cross over to Holyrood House , without going through the city . Her Majesty will sleep at Holyrood , and , on the following morning , return to the railway through tho temporary station , and proceed to Stonehaven , which has this year been selected in preference to Cupar Angus , as the terminal point of her Majesty ' s railway journey , in consequence of the route from Stonehaven to Balmoral being better than that from Cupar Angus to the latter place . . The Royal carriage of tbe Great Sorthern Railway will run through to Stonehaven . —Morning Herald .

      Importation op Cotton Wool . —According to a return to parliament pvu . tod on Saturday the cotton wool imported into the United Kingdom in 18 dS numbered 713 , 020 , 10 lb . ; in 1849 , 755 , 409 , 0121 b . ; and in 1850 , 003 , 576 , 801 lb . Baltimore letters report the suspension of Messrs . Harrison and Co ., foreign and domestic merchaats . Mv . Harrison has been in business more than a quarter of a century . His losssa , it is said , arise from his connexion " with the California trade . It is said that Madame Sontag has commenced an action for £ 8 , 000 against Mr . Luuiley , the manager of her Majesty ' s Theatre .

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      ^ o . vra & FBL Efficaci of Houowai ' s Ointment and 1 ' lU . s . —Hine months since a gentleman residing in Giasiough , connty of Monaghan , had an opening made from the hip to the knee , and a great deal of diseased flesfei removed . For three years he suffered night and day * although he consulted all the most skUful surgeons sm & physicians he could hear of , using baths , liniments , 4 c , without effect . He expected to he a cripple for life , yet , by the use of flonoway ' s Ointment and Pills , he is 1 now cured , and enabled to attend to business for the last six months , as though nothing had happened . His address is known to the proprietor of the ' Armagh Guardian . '—1 Sold by all drapgists aud at FrofesEor llolloway's establishment , 2 « . strand , bwdooi

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      The August Session Of This Court Commenc...

      The August session of this Court commenced on Monday before the Right Honourable the Recorder , Alderman Hunter , Challis , and Carter , the Sheriff . * , Under Sheriffs , and the ordinary City officers . There are 22 G prisoners for trial at this session . Charge of Perjury . —Robert Bayley surrendered to take his trial upon a charge of wilful and corrupt perjury . The perjury imputed to the defendant was , that ho had wilfully made a false affidavit representing that the prosecutor of the

      indictment had stated in his presence that he intended to sell his property and leave the country , aud put his creditors " in the hole . " There was at the time an action pending between the pro-SOCUtOr anil another person upon tbe subject of a claim by the latter for some building repairs , and the effect of the affidavit made by the defendant was to cause the prosecutor to be taken into custody and detained until he found bail , The case [ ailed hy reason of the absence of the necessary legal proof , and under his lordshi p ' s direction the Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty .

      Misdemeanour . —George Armstrong , 20 , William Martin , 22 , and John White . 20 , were indicted for % misdemeanour in unlawfully attempting to steal a watch from the person of John Sargent . The Prosecutor was at Woolwich races on the 17 th of July , and a crowd having assembled in consequence of an accident that had happened to one of the horses , while the prosecutor ' s attention was directed to what was going on , the prisoner Armstrong was seen to go up to him and press against him , the other two prisoners at the same time covering him so as to conceal his proceedings .

      Upon coming out of the crowd the nrQiQCUtor found that his watch was hanging out of his pocket , and an attempt had evidently been made to steal it ; and the prisoners were taken into custody by Carpenter , who was on duty on the spot in plain clothes . The Jury found Armstrong Guilty , and acquitted the other prisoners , He was sentenced to bo imprisoned and 1 'opt to hard labour tor four months , the learned judge telling him that if anything had been known against his character previous to the transaction a much severer sentence would havo been passed upon him .

      A JurBxitE Thief . —Thomas Cliff , 14 , was indicted for stealing a silver fork and spoon , value 17 s ., tho property of Walter Murosse ; and Mary Ryan , 40 , was charged with feloniously receiving the property , knowing it to have been stolen . The male Prisoner pleaded Guilty . It appeared that the prosecutor was a silversmith , carrying on business in the Crescent , Jewin-strcet , and that Cliff was in his service , and he had only been eo a few days when ho stole tho articles in question . According to the evidence of a boy named Green , who was about the s » me age as thc prisoner Cliff , immediately after the robbery they went to the female prisoner , and he saw Cliff give her a silver fork , which she took oiit and sold , and brought back four or five shillings , and Cliff gave her a

      shilling or a sixpence for herself . Thc next day it appeared Cliff took Ryan a spoon , which she also took out and sold , and gave the money to Cliff ! and it was stated that when the articles were so given to the jDisoiier they were straight and not defaced in any manner . The Jury found the prisoners Guilty . A previous conviction for felony was proved against Cliff , and an officer informed the Court that tbe other prisoner and her husband had formerly kept a marine store-shop , which was a notorious receptacle for stolen property , and that since her husband had left her to go to America she was known to be in the habit of encouraging boys to plunder their employers . The Recorder said he would respite tho judgment , in order that some further inquiries might be made respecting tho prisoners .

      an Old Offesder . —George Thomaa , 02 , grainer , was indicted for stealing a cash-box , two banknotes value £ 15 , forty sovereigns , and other money , the property of Anton Scherzinger , in bis dwellinghouse . —In this case the prosecutor is a licensed victualler , keeping the Horse and Trumpeter in Crutched-friars , and it appeared that prisoner and three other men came into his house on the afternoon of the 22 nd of July , at about five o ' clock ; tho prisoner having been in the habit of coming daily for about seven or eight days before , in the morning part , and always set outside the bar facing the bar-parlour , and had stated himself to he a clerk . On the afternoon in question , the pvisouev csvreio in with one man , and was shortly afterwards joined by two others , one of whom had always been in

      company with prisoner when he came in the morning . Prisoner and one of the party went into the public parlour , and called prosecutor in there to order some ale and Stilton cheese . Prisoner ' s companion then went from the parlour to the bar , and asked for somo paper to write a note , and asked prosecutor ' s brother , who was serving at the bar , to take it for him to a gentleman named JaCkSOn , at Pago ' s public-house in tho Minories . Prosecutor said he would go himself , and did so , seeing a person who said his name was Jackson , and took the note . Prosecutor was not gone above five minutes ; and when ho came back ho found the other three men gone and prisoner detained , and upon going to the chiffonier discovered that the cash-box , containing the monies in question , bad been abstracted .

      which it appeared had been done during his absence by one of the party , prosecutor ' s wife being at the time up-stairs changing her dresa , and his brother , the only person then iu the bar , being called into the parlour . Tbe prisoner protested his innocence , and said that the persons who had been in his company were quite strangers to bim . —The jury foumi him Guilty . —In answer to the Court as to whether the prisoner was known , John Storey , City policeconstable , said that there were seven or ei ght more cases against the prisoner ; but the magistrate thought the two he had been committed upon would be enough to answer the ends of jusxice . Prisoner was an old associate of the swell mob , and , in 1 S 4 C , had been transported from this court for ten years , for robbery from the person . During the last nine

      months between twenty and thirty cash-box robberies had been effected in the same way as this had been done by the gang to whom the prisoner belonged . —Brett , another City officer , said that he had known him for a great many years to be a swel-mobsman . —Tbe Court ordered him to he transported for ten years . A Shop Thief . —Amelia Langley , 19 , spinster , was indicted for stealimr a rlmj valued at £ 5 10 s ., the property of George Philip Dodd . —James Frederick Leach , bhopman to the prosecutor , who is a jeweller in Cornhill , stated that on the 9 ih of July the prisoner came into their shop and asked to look at some rings for gentlemen , which were shown to her . She , after some time , selected several articles of jewellery , which she requested might be sent with her to her uncle ' s , who lived in Milk-street .

      This was done , and she had not been gone many minutes before the ring was missed . —It further appeared that she took the porter as far as Milkstreet , and there got rid of him by stating that her uncle was not at home , and requested that he would come again in the ^ evening . Tho ring was then traced by tho police to have been pawned by the prisoner on the same day in Leicester-square , and the duplicate had been ottered for sale to a person who keeps a ladies' wardrobe in Queen-street , Brompton . She , however , refused to purchase it , and pri & onev left it behind her , and it was subsequently given to the police . —The jury immediately found her Guilty . —It was proved that she had been before imprisoned for six Jmonths for shoplifting , and had been several other times in custod y for similar offences . —The Recorder sentenced her to be transported for seven years .

      Sentence . —Thomass Cliff , who was convicted of stealing a fork and spoon , and Mary Ryan , who was alto convicted of receiving , were brought up for sentence . —The learned Recorder , addressing tho prisoners , told the boy that , although he had been before convicted , he should not , on account of his age and other circumstances , send him out of the country , but order him to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six months . But with regard to the woman the case was quite different j she was a dangerous character , for it was very evident that she must have known that the spoon and fork had been stolen , although the boy had said he had found it ; it was such persons as her that excited and offered facilities to boys like tho one that stood in the dock beside her to be guilty of such crimes as that with which he had been convicted , and the court felt it to be their duty , when a clear case like hers was brought before them that , thel t person so convicted should not longer remaia in the countsiy . —He then ordered her to be transported for 4 en

      years . Possession of Bad Coin . —Tiomas Gardner , 5 i , gardener , was indicted for having in his possession a quantity of counterfeit coia—It appeared that on the night of the Hth of Jaly the prisoner went to the house of Mr . Smith , tie Three Crows in the Old Jewry , and tendered a bad shilling in payment for some driok , which was bent and given back to him . Some few hours afterwards be stopped Poliee-eonsiable ReereSj , 479 City , and inquired where he eould obtain & lodg ing for the night . The officer said he did not know , and prisoner then asked if ho might not be allowed ta go to sleep on thc step for a short ^ time , The constable would not allow this , and the prisoner , who was drunk ,

      began , kicking a bundle of clothing that he had been carrying , about the pavement , and said that tho officer might take that , and also a purse of gold that he took from his pocket . The officer finding that he was unable to take care of himsfelf , intimated that he ( the officer ) should remove him to the station . Some other constable then came , and prisoner let fall a bag from the inside of the leg of his trowsers . This the police took possession of , and found it to contain several parcels of shillings . He was then conveyed to tbe station , and the bag being inspected , was found to contain four parcels of bad shillings , amounting in the whole to seventy-one , two bad crowns , and three bad halfcrowns . The prisoner feeing questioned , at tbe

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      station a 9 to ho » ho ^ TJSTZ £ bl coin , said that , being abou * ° " ^ \? Z ™ Xt was waiting at Tower-hill for O °± ° ' th *{ he met two men who had been cu > . ora ; y ; when ho kept a public-house , and went- > . .. „ , nf to a public-house and got drinking , knd that o _ > the men asked him to give him gold for tw „ Pounds worth of silver , and that was what tho ' police had found in the bag .-Mr . Km r . e , for tho wiCSs to etZf T defe ,, ( * . «« u called a he h d known ? , b ' ' ^ ho s ! Ud tlwt { ° ™» y ™ -ira S « ir » 5 ? w ? h PriM ? or t 0 be a ««» i of Rood cnaiacter , and had been in business as i Ivpriserf victualler , having k eut tho wi = f „ t- u . e" ?? a Vauxhall-road . arTdthTs u ? j P cfc ' ^ mlook-court , and tbnc lately lin Wl 1 , ^ i' . as a fruit dealer , a ., d irJ ^ rfil ^ VlY '""" , the Channel Wandas-Tho Jo . v om " d Un i o " C and ho was sentenced to be impVilS Klfi months . n » ueu

      Vituiol Thkowiso . —Catherine Jane Umm oa was indicted ior feloniousl y throwing a qua » iUt ' v " of vitriol upon Sarah 1 ' oung , with intent to do her grievous bodily harm . —It appeared that the prosecutrix and the prisoner wore what are termed " unfortunate" girls , and that there had bet-u a good deal of rivalry and ill-feeling between thorn , and the prisoner had repeatedly threatened the prosecutrix with violence . On tho night of the 7 th of July , tho prisoner accosted the prosecutrix , and , asked her to drink with her , and while they were standing together , sho threw a quantity of vitriol upon her , which had the effect ot entirely destroying tho clothes she had on at the time . It appeared that no injury whatever was done to the person of tlie prosecutrix , and there appeared good reason

      for supposing that tho object ol tilt pnsOlior really was on \ y to destroy a satin dress worn by the prosecutrix , which appeared to have peculiarly excited her ire , and that she did not intend to injure her person . —The jury , under his lordship ' s direction , found the prisoner Guilty of a common assault . — Mr . Robinson said that the prosecutrix had been repeatedly threatened with violence by the prisoner , and he suggested that some means should be taken to compel her to conduct herself peaceabl y for the future . —Tho Learned Judge said he would defer passing sentence , in order that ho mi ght consider what punishment would be best caleuiated to prevent any act of violence on the part of the prisoner for the future .

      Robbery i . v iiif . DOCKS . —John Tressis , 20 , labourer , a gentlemanly but shabbily attired young man , was indicted for stealing a watch , the property of Moses Sawyer . —The prisoner , it appeared , being a sailor , had access to thc London Docks , and had stolen tho watch in question from the Republic , a vessel now l ying in the docks , and had pawned it at a pawnbroker ' s in Redcross-street . He had also stolen another watch from another vessel , and upon his lodgings in Warwick-court being searched , no less than Sl ' sfcy-two duplicates , all providing the dreadful state of poverty he had been in previously to the commission of this offence , they being chiefl y for small articles of clothing , were found . —Mr . Railantinc said ho should not deny the fact , but the history of this young man was a peculiarly melancholy one . The prisoner was the son of a man who , during his lifetime , held a high position as a writer for the press , and possessed great literary attainments , but was

      unfortunately of most drunken habits . Both bim and the prisoner ' s mother had died when prisoner was young , and a gentleman , a solicitor , named Chester , had out of sympathy taken him and apprenticed him to an engraver , but , in consequence of bis havingaconstitutional nervous disease , he was unable to follow that trade . Mr . Chester then apprenticed him to the sea , but his walady \ a that instance was the cause of his being compelled to relinquish it . The captain gave him an e . xeeJJont character , but said he W < 1 S tillable tO face any danger , Since then Mr . Chester had lost sig ht of him until the presi nt time , when he wrote to him from this gaol . —Mr . Brierly , the barrister , said that he had occupied lodgings in the same house as prisoner , and had left his door , open , and had never mis , secl any YaUiablGS , and his conduct was uniformly gentlemanly and good . —The jury found him Guilty , but strongly recommended bim to mercy . He was sentenced to four months * imprisonment and hard labour .

      Posi-oi-FicB itoBBEKiEs , —Thomas G . Young , 22 , and William Muuzall , 25 , Post-office clerks , were indicted for stealing a post letter containing two £ 10 and one £ 5 Bank of England notis , the property of the ' Postmaster-General . Mv . Clarkson in , opening the case said that the prisoners bad been engaired in tho post-office at Graveseud , and it WB 3 fronfthis establishment that the letter in question was stolen on thc 14 th September in last year . The learned counsel , in the course of his speech , said be was afraid there was no doubt that at this period the business of the Graveseud Post-office had for a considerable time been carried Oil ifl H very lax manner , and the Post-office authorities had found it necessary upon one occasion to search tha house of thc postmaster . The prisoners hy their position in tlie post-office undoubtedly had an opportunity of taking the letter in question , but ha thought it right to inform the JUl'y that no information tending to fix the offence upon them waa obtained until a considerable time alter it had

      been committed , and the ease would ' now ba mainly supported by the evidence of a woman who had married the prisoner Muzzall , who was the sister of the first wife , and who , it appeared was afterwards discarded by him , as he said , because she bad no legal claim upon him . She was actuated , no doubt , by a feeling of resentment against ; M . uzzaU for his treatment of her ; but when tho jury had heard her evidence and the other facts of tbe case , he apprehended they would entertain no doubt that ihe was speaking the truth , and that the prisoners did , in point of fact , commit the offence with which thoy were charged . The jury returned a verdict , finding tho prisoner Young * Guilty of stealing tbe letter , and Muzzall Guilty of receiving it , knowing it to have been stolen .

      His lordshi p sentenced Young to he trrnsported for ten , and Muzzall for twelve , ) ears . Dbatii uy Violence . —John Rogers , 3 S was indicted for the manslaughter of Elizabeth Leate . It appeared that the parties lived together as mart and wife , at No . 1 , Luke-street , Shoi-editch , and on the nk'ht of the 26 th July , a quarrel took place between them , during which the prisoner struck th © deceased a violent blow on the head , which felled , her to the ground and she became insensible almost immediately , and died an hour or two afterwards from the const quences of the injury inflicted by tha prisoner . -When he was taken into custody he ad « mitted that he knocked the deceased down , and

      said the reason he had done so was to protect himself , she having attempted to use a knife to him . The prisoner expressed deep regret after the occurrence , and earnestly entreated tho people in the house to do what they could for the deceased . A knife was picked iip inthe room by the policeman , and when the prisoner saw it , he said , * ' That is the knife my poor dear g irl used to defend herself with . " It appeared that the prisoner had been cut upon the hand by the deceased on a former occasion , and it appeared very probable that the prisoner had been actuated by a desire to protect himself from her violence when he struck tbe fatal blow . The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty ,

      The Chinese Family.—On Monday Last Tho C...

      The Chinese Family . —On Monday last tho Chinese family , recently arrived direct from Canton by the British ship Lady Peel , visited her Majesty , at Osborne , by tho special request of the Queen , conveyed through Colonel Phipps .. Tho party consists of a Chinese gentleman , named Chung-Atai , his two wives , his sister-in-law , and a Chinese female attendant . The three ladies possess the exceedingly small feet constituting the peculiar characteristic of the females of the upper ranks in thc Chinese empire . Tho junior wife of Mr . fthung-Atai had thc honour e > I singing to o Queen , whose well-known proficiency as a musician naturally rendered her Majesty desirous of hearing the unique . performance of the celestial ladv . The

      elder consort of Shung-. atai presented her Majesty withabeautifully-executeddaguerreotype , by Heard , of the interesting Chinese group ; and the younger lady loft with the Princess Itoyal a pair of very handsottia latins shoes , embraidered in gold by herself , and tho axact size wora by her—viz ., two and a quarter inches long by shib inch broad , both of which offerings were most graciously accepted . Hia llovnl Mig bness Prin . ee Albert , with-bis proverbial u £ » biiity , thinkin g the family would be interested in the numerous plants and Mowers of Chinese orig in aboundia ^ ' in the garden adjoining the dnvsring . room , conducted his remarkable viators round the terravo and parterres , her Bdajusty and tbe Royal children meanwhile being BUCtl

      amused at the huspiess , and certainl y inelegant , mode of walking of the ladies , the contortion of their feet effectually preventing any pedestrian exeiciso beyond a very short walk . The Potato Disease . — The re-appeayarico of the potato disease is reported by many of out- English and Irish contemporaries . But beyond the fact that this destroyer of aw important edible has not . entirely disappeared as mysteriousl y as it came , we believe , that there is no ground for any serious apprehensions . Except in cases where thc tone ot alarm is evidentl y derived from tho temnerament

      ot the writer , all of the accounts justify the belief that the disease , re-appearing as it does every autum , becomes each year le * s virulent and destructive . There has been an increased breadth of land devoted this year to the cultivation of the reviving root . So that there is not likely to he any scarcity . Of the grain crops we receive favourable accounts from all quarteia . But fine weather is much needed to gather in crops which even in this neighbourhood are ripe for the sickle . —Halifax Guardian . . The Times , analyzing the post-office returns , impertinently remarks that in the month in which the ladies talk lease they write most-tfle month ot February .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 23, 1851, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_23081851/page/7/