The Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian

AIIPALLING liuictr)E.-On the evening of Sunday last, a catasirophe of the above description took place at Alkrington Colliery, near Middleton, by which a mother and three children have been plunged into great distress, and the feelings of a large number of friends and acquaintances of the deceased have been strongly excited. A little after eleyen o'clock a man named James Guest, 42 years of age, who had Ion, been employed by Mr Livesey as bookkeeper at the above works, rushed out of his cottage, near one of the pits, and threw himself headlong donn a shaft about 150 yards in depth. He had latterly become very low in spirits, in con- sequence of having to leave the employ of MrLive- sey, who is about giving up the works. He was a man of steady habits and of good character, and had succeeded in obtaining another situation but after trial. he was not satisfied with it, and came home to Alkrington. On Sunday he was IInllsually dis- tressed, and told his wife he was ill all over, both ill his head and his limbs. She missed him. and saw him rush past the window towards the coalpit, and she followed, calling, James, James, stop, stop." He was heard to say, Whisht," and almost instantly disappeared down Ihe pit, to which she approached near enough to hear his crashing against the horse trees and guiding rods as he fell. "Oh, God!" she cried, ttiat's him," and s'ood paralysed. unable to go ou or return. A number of coli iers were soon mustered, some of whom descended into the pit, and they sent up the mangled body of poor Guest, almost cut in two at the middle. and disfigured in a most shocking manner. An inquest will be held to-morrow; but as the above are facts, a verdict of temporary insanity only can be antici- pated Manchester Guardian. KXTKNSITB ROBBERY. At the Maidsione Assizes, on Wednesday week, W. Stevenson, porter in the house of Messrs Mercer and Co., bankers, Ma i lstone, was indicted for stealing a bag con- Miitiiug 500 sovereigns. Ui-om the evidence if appeared, that in October, 1839, Mr Mercer wrote to Messrs Masterman, the bankers, to remit to him XI,500 in gold and .£5'10 in silver, and that sum was accordingly placed in seven bags, one contain ing XI,000 in gold, another .£500 in gold, and five bags "f sitter, each containing X]OO, and the whole were placed in a box (of which Messrs Masterman and Mercer had each a duplicate key). and delivered to the care of Wallis, a Maidstone coachman, who duly conveyed it to Maidstone, and the prisoner was sent to fetch it he tonk the box to the,bank about seven o'clock in the evening, and it was taken from him by Mr Mercer, juti., who unlocked it and took out the hags of coin, and, without examining them, placed them ill the strong chest, but he observed at this time there were only six bags, viz., one farlre one, which he supposed contained the £1,500 in gold, and the five baizo of silver. The next morning upon the money being examined, it was found E.500 short of the proper quantity of gold, and on a com- munication being made to Messrs Masterman, the loss of the second bag of gold was discovered. No clue whatever at this time could be obtained as to the perpetrator of the robbery, but no suspicion was entertained of the prisoner, and he was retained in the prosecutor's service until the following month of January, when for some act of misconduct he was dismissed. Shortly after this the prisoner set up in business in the town as a grocer, and some other circumstances coming to the knowledge of the pros cutors, induc. d a suspicion that he was the thief. The inquiry being followed up, u variety of circum- stances were adduced, which appeared to bring the charge clearly home to the prisoner, and the jury returned a verdict of Guilty.— I'he court sentenced him to 14 years'transportation. MYSTEUIOUS AFFAIR.-The following account is vouched for as true, and many particulars not here related would be given by the editor to any persoii likely to give a citie to tile sol,.tion of tile mystery. A gentleman of elegant manners and address, call ing himself Captain Henry Maxwell, and his sister M iss Maxwell, took up their residence in a town near this city. \Vanting a house, they called upon a widow lady who bad one to let, where Captain M axwell saw and admired her eldest daughter, an accompliced and beautiful young woman, 24 years old, to whom he made offers of marriage. He stated himself to be connectpd with Sir Murray Maxwell, and the nephew of a gentle- man of fortune of his own name. near Cork, in Ireland, on whom he depended principally for an income. They were married, and Captain Maxwell, after going to London with his bride, where he seemed to shun being seen about the streets, left her for a short time to go to Hanover, where he held a military appointment. On his return they went to reside at Boulogne, where the husband received a letter from Ireland, on which he told his wife that his uncle was dying, and that he would leave her to go home under the care of his sister, who votildjoin him at their tincle's in Ireland. A fo, tnight afler the young lady's arrival at the house of her mother she received a letter fronTMiss Maxwell, dated from Mount Maxwell, near Cork, informing her that Captain Maxwell had died eight days alter his uncle, in a high fever. and that (tie tincle, displeased it It his marriage, had altered his will before his death, leaving him nothing, and that his own property, being only a life interest, ceased with his death. Letters were sent to Cork addressed to Miss Max- well, making the requisite inquiries about Captain Maxwell's death, and these were returned with the notice from the post office that no such placeexisted as that from which Miss Maxwell dated her letters, nor was any family of the name known in Cork or the neighbourhood. All inquiries have failed in producing- any elucidation of the sftange mystery. Captain Maxwell told his wife he was known to 'he Duke of Wellington, the Marquess of. £ >ourpf a son of the Earl of Wemyss, Captain Marry^t.the author, with whom he sailed on board of his ship that he was with a Mr Fitzroy, in Hanover ;'was related to the Marchioness of Donegal, Mr Coltliiirgt, and General Gillespie. He had £ 70&.with him when he left his wife, besides a latge chest of plate, See, There were many books and other things which might have led to a knowledge of who h^ «a«, which the sister most cunningly possessed Iitrlf of.- Exeter Flying Post. ,■■ f ANCIENT OAK.—The Ametican Papers conraJi* the following account of an inteiestiug relic recently discovered in the county of Wayne it appedrs that a white oak tree was cut down, in the town of Lyons, Wayne county, New York, measuring four feet aud a half iu diameter. In the body of the free. about four feet and a half from the ground, was found a large and deep cutting hy an axe, severing the heart of the tree, and exhibotig, with perfect dis- tinctness, the marks of the ate at the present time7 The whole cavily thus created by the original cullitig was found to be encased by 460 years' growth of j the wood, i. e., it was concealed beneath 460 layer* of the timber which had grown over it subsequently to the cutting. Consequently the original cutting must have been in the year 1374, or 118 years before the discovery of America by Columbus The cutting was at least six inches deep.

Hemp Mo\DI'. FROM flop Brigr.-The hine of hops boiled in lye till the rind separates freely, may be stripped, and, when cool, worked like hemp. This is best done by cording, which makes it like c'.tlon.-Inrlagator. THE FARMERS' INSURANCE INSTITUTION. — Security to the assured being a matter of vital importance, it will be satisfactory to our reitder, to lea n that the names of 1,323 shareholders of this institution have been enrolled, pursuant to the provisions of the act of parliament, by which the company is empowered, and which list of names can be referred to at any tittie'. Amongst them will be found some of the largest landowners, and most distinguished farmers, ila, the kingdom. I The magistrates of Croydon were called upon a 'ew days since to decide all to the liability of the Brighton Railway Company to pay poor rate on their proper-y in that parish. In support of the rate it was contended that they were liable, although the line was not in use, because rails were laid down and used for the conveyance of earth and other purposes constituting a beneficial occupation, which was all that was required. 10 reply it was stated, that though profit wiL* n,)t necessry to create the liability, yet that it was requisite that some business or occupation should be carried on from which profit might be expected to accrue; that though the parish might suffer • temporary loss, that would be more than counter- balanced by the advatitageE4 if would ultimately receive, and that the point had already been raised and decided in favour of the company. One of the magistrates thought a railway analogous to the case of a house while being; built, and wtilch while in, the progress of erection was, not liable to assessmeut to the poor rate; another said he differed from his coadjutor-i on the point, and considered that the company had a beneficial occupation of the land; if it was considered they had not, he could not see where the line waa to be drawn. Finally, the majority of the magis rates decided that the company was not liable.—County Herald. QUININE.—The popular opinion is greatly In fa- vour i f Quinine as being a powerful and efficacious Tonic but there is a specific far more potent in its nature and properties; we ri-fer to Mr Wray's After- ative Tonic Powders and Pills, of Holborn Hill, The peerless virtues which characterise this medicine renders any eulogium superfluous. In scrofu ous f disorders, scorbutic affections, CUlaneoUtl enlprfon;, and all diseases of the skill, there is not to be found lor beneficial operation their equal. It is requisite to observe that the Alterative Powders and Fills, will be found pre eminently serviceable in all Chrouic Diseases, and Ittietimatic coniplaiats.-Age_ A PENNYWORTH OF PKACE!—And what that i. any body in Lancashire can tell you and ir YOII be not in Lancashire, I can it is laudanum or opi/l disguised in treacle, and termed, in other plaaes, Godfrey's Cordial." It is in vain to remonstrate with the poor on this practice-they alwaysaa you what they are to do, and think it unanswerable to add, A pen'oth of peace is worth a penny." Thus are the constitutions of the poorsappedand stupifled even in the cradle, and all the wisdun of England cannot point out any remedy, but (hat of taking off the violent pressure on 'he means of eiiatence.- Howitt in TaiVs Edinburgh Magazine Is it pos- sible that a man of Mr Howiit's information can never yet have heard ofttie far famed Manchester medicine? What that is, any bod\ in Lancashire can let I liiin,and, indeed, we believe, in any part of the United Kingdom. For it is an indisputable fact, that, since the commencement of the presen year, its sale (extensive as it has been for the la. half century) has inoreased beyond all former pr. cedent. It were almost superfluous to add, that "e allude to that nice and inestimable preparation. Atkinson's Infants' Preservative, which, so far front "sapping the constitution," and "stupifying" the seiiseg-like those dangerous compounds, whose basis islalldanum or other opiates—allays irritations and assuages pain in the mildest and me)-.t innoc". ous manner; th"s affording reul comfort, both t. the anxious mother and her suffering babe.—(See Advertisement.) Printed and Published by \HTHUR CHAKLES LUTHMAN. Printer, at the Office, High-street, Mcrtfiyr Tydvil, in the County of Glamorgan; where Orders. Advert tisements,-and Communicatioos for the Editors are requested addressed. Advertisemeiftancl Ordert received by tht | folion-iny Agents:— I LONDON: —Mr. Banker, 33, Fleet Street; Me«r». j Newton and Co.,5, Warwick Square Mr. G. ReyneU, j 4 £ Chancery Lane; Mr. Deacon. 3, Walbrook, near j the Mansion House; Mr. Joseph Thomas, I, Fio<;h j Lane, Qp^hill Mr. Hammond, i!7. 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PROLIFIC EIIIE.-Oti the 121h iust. a small ewe belonging to Mr Erlw. Kinsey, of Upper Norton, Bromyard, produced four fine lambs, the whole of which, as well the dam, are doing well. CURIOUS HAUL Oil this day week, whilst a fishing smack 4eloligilig to this port was dragging the deep, deep sea., 'near the C-,alloper," the tackl(. got fast to a huge anchor, which, by the aid of the crews of some other vessels, was dragged fot:tll out of the vasty deep where, in probability, it had lain since the destruction of the Spanish Armada. The anchor was landed at Dover, ou Thursday morning Front, its size it must have belonged to a vessel of very large dimensions and, judging froin the state of its stock of oak and other symptoms, we should say it must have been in the waters for centuries.- Dover Chronicle,

MANY THINGS IN FEW WORDS. On (lie 19th of May, a ifrand fete will he given nt the Open House, under the patronaije of the Queen. &c., for the benefit of the Spitalfields wc;ivers.-It is said that ttio-Ri,$Cii t"[,Ion Sir H. Peel inteml, to pre- sdrtt the members of the Rending Rooms, about to be formed at Tampon)), with a valuable collection of works, on moral and scientific subjects The II Diaiio di Roma" announces the death of Marie Antoinette Josephine de Boarbon. aged 66, a nun of an Umu-itit- convent. She was the daughter of Ferrfinand, Duke of Parma, and the Archduchess Maria Amelia, of Austria, and was niece to Marie Antoinette. Tin* ladies of All Saints, Worces- ter, have presented to tlieir Curate, the Rev Erkill" Neale, M. A., a very handsome silver pocket com- munion service, as a mark of their attachment to his ministry and respect for his character. It is said that Judge Johnson is so seriously indisposed that no hopes are entertained of his recovery. The departure of the learned judge would lead, as a matter ol course, to the promotion of Mr Pigot, in the event of which Mr Moore, the present Solicitor General, would solicit the voices of the electors of Clonmel. ■ The Asia convict ship, will sail from Deptford for Van Diotnm's Land, on Thursday next, the 25th instant, taking in convicts at Woolwich and Ports mouth. The guard, consisting of two officers and 40 men, has been selected from the 96th regiiikt-tit.- United Service Gazettr. By the death of the Duke do Bellune, there are now only four marshals of tho empire-viz., the Dukes de Coriiegiiiitio, de Dalmatie, de Reggio. and Raguse. On Thursday, « young lady., remarkable for I er beauty and accom- plishments, eloped from a school at Long Sutton, in Liticolitsliit-e, with a young surgeon of Chatteris. Cam- bridgeshire.— Bury Post. We rise by humility; the blossoms will never be high in the air, if the root is not low in the ground. New Poor Law.-A petition against the Poor Law Continuance Bill has been signed by nearly twelve hundred inhabitants of the borough of Tewkesbury, the Mayor and other leading gentlemen's names being attached thereto- Among the noblemen and gentlemen who have; been recently elected Fellows pf the Royal Society are Lord Viscount Melbourne, Sir R. Hussev Vivian, Sir R. Jenkins, C. Enderby, Esq., Dr Blackiston, Dr Clendinning, the Rev M. A. Tiernev, &c.- On Saturday morning, the interesting ceremony of consecrating the new church of St John, Soutliall Green, in the parish of Norwood, was performed by the Archbishop of Canterbury. In Upper Canada, £,10,000 have been appropriated for the payment of individual losses by the late disturbances and inva- sions of that province. The. Abercrombie trans- port, which has been engaged to convey ihe 47th, and part of t'lie 33d regiments to Barbadbes, has on board upwards of 1100 souls-United Service Gazette. The Caroline, just arrived in Bristol port, from Tobago, lias brought not less than 25,000 cocoa nuts. Great quantities of spurious tea (sloe le.ives) have been lately seized by the l-ixciso ~Quren Cllritin". it is said, intends to make purchase of an estate in the Sabine territory for M. Munoz, but as the title of duke is attached to it, the government has required proofs that he has been mairied to the ex- Regent according to the rites of the church. The total amount lately raised in Manchester for building and endowing new Churches is £ 61,500 distributed as follows: — Manchester and Krcles Church BuiMing Society £ 31,o0u; Ten Churches* Fund £ 2<),0(!0; MisS Atherton £ 10,000.—Total £ 61,500. Sir Arthur de Capel Brooke is having an extensive forest cleared for the purpose of letting the land in small allotments to the labourers of Cottiiigham, I%li(t(lietoii, &e. The land is to be had for the t. ollble of clearing tiie ifrst year, and afterwards a small rent will be paid. Death of Admiral Charles Willxtm Patirson —The gallant admiral died on Wednesday, the 10th instant, at his residence, East Cosham, Hnnts, at the advanced fge of eighty-five. It appears from the annual report of tli Marylebone iJ:ifik, that no less thin 2,815 new deposits were made during the past year, and that out of 12,680 deposit accounts, no less than 8,224 held balances of less than £ 5. The growing disposition of the work- ing classes to provide against the casualties of tife and the infirmities of age, is a source of gratification to all reflecting persons. -It turns out, from an extorted official return that the total net produce of the Post Office revenue for the past year was only ^370,095 17s 6d. Some disorders occurred in the veterinary school at Alferi, near Paris, on Sun- day last, which ended in the withdrawal ,pf the two hundred and sixty students who paid for their educa- tion. The Hindostan will be laun lied from Devonport Dock Yard in August, during the visit of the British Asso(-i;itioii.-Plymouth Journal. It is said that the British are fortifying Halifax in the most imposing and formidable manner.——The ariny of the United States consists only of 12,539 men the nftvy comprises seven sail of the line, 17 frigates, 21 sloops, and five steamers. A late servant of Mr Thomas, of Tintern, has recently come into pro- perty to the amount of £10.000. by the demise of an old lady in Scotland, a distant telation.-TI)c baby Imen for the Princess Royal is said to have cost nearly £ 1,000 ■ -A Hare Roasted Alirc.-On Wednesday week, as one of the down trains was passing between Clav Cross and Chesterfield, a hare sprung into the ashes pan of the engine, and was completely roasted. -Sheffield Mercury. It is said that four addi- tional lieutenant-colonels and twelve captains are to be given to the marine corps, with an accession of subalterns; consequently, four captains and sixteen first lieutenants will be promoted, and forty additional aspirants will be required.—-Death of Ford Wrot- tesley -Tlte melancholy intelligence of the death of Lord Wrottesley was received at the family mansion in George Street, Hanover Square, on Wednesday week. It is said that Admiral Elliot, of Chusan celebrity, i3 to succeed Sir William Pnrker, at the Admiralty. Though unfit to do his work abroad, he is well enough, it seems, to fill a place at the Family Board." This is too bad. — Times. A large pen- sion reverts to the Crown by the death of Earl Rosse, which he held as retired Postmaster General of Ire- land. On Friday week, a piece of plate, consisting of a pair of of elegant silver waiters, was presented, with a suitable address, to the Rev K Penny, M.A who has been preferred from the Curacy of St Leonard, in Hythe, to the Rectory of the united parishes of St Andrew and St Mary Bred man, in Canterbury. Death of Viscount Valentia —His lordship, who had only repaired last month to Brighton for the benefit 01 his health, died on Tuesday week. A peti- tion is in course of signature by the clergy of the Deanery of Bristol, for Church Extension.- The "learned horse," which was recently exhibited before her Majesty, was last week sold by auction, under an execution from the Sheriff of Berkshire, at Abingdon, and kno ked down (it is supposed to an agent of Mr Ducrow) for a mere song. The horse realised only fifty guineas, it was worth, it is said, £50{),-The Boston Post (American) lello; a story of a down east mi itia captain, who, on receiving a note from a lady, requesting "the pleasure of his company," under- stood it as a compliment to those under his command, and marched the whole of them to the lady's house. --Bank of England.-At the half yearly court d proprietors Oil Thursday week, the usual dividend of 3 per cent, was declared. In October, 1S40, the Rest was X2,852,032 it now shows an increase of £ 2308. A long discussion arose out of the affairs of Mr Curtis, the late governor; and it seems the bank is likely to lose Xg.000 or £ 10.000. Duty on Calf Skins from Sweden and Norway.-By Treasury letter, dated March the 2d, 1841, on an application from Messrs Goad and Rigg, calf skins, the produce of and imported from Sweden or Norway, and averaging under 71b. 'each, may, under the treaty between Great Britain and Sweden, be admitted at the same duties as if they were the produce of, and imported from, the west coast of Aft-ica.-Great activity prevails in the Royal Dock Yards. At Sheerness tlw Monarch «nd Veriiou are nearly ready for sea. William Hammond, apprentice to Mr Clark, of the Post Office receiving house, in Jermyn Street, St James's, was committed for trial on Wed- nesday week, froin Bow Street Office, for abstracting a tetter containing a f5 bank note and two sovereigns and Iris brother Richard with receiving the same knowing them to be stolen. -Mr J. Clark, surgeon, residing in Park Street, Camden Town, was held to Ui1 on Tuesday week, at Marylebone Office, himself in £r>oo, and two sureties in £2;)0 each, onu charge of having committed a rape on Mrs Mary Ann Hall, whom he had been professionally attending. South Devon.-Lord Courtenay. son of the Earl of Devon, has issued an address, accepting the invitation to stand for this county, in the room of Mr P;krker.- Sixteen war steamers are ordered to be built, six of the first class nod 10 of the second; all to be armed with guns of 10 inch citlibre. Several of these will be laid down immediately, and the frames of the whole converted without delay so as to be ready against the engines are I)rei);ir,-d.-Naval and Military Gazette. -A fire took place on a luggage irain on the Grand Junction Railway early on Wednesday morning last, occasioned by sparks from the engine chimney falling on the top of one of the loads, The whole of the goods (itktlid first lorry were de-troyed, and part of those on the second.—Staffordshire Adver tiser. Haff'is's Lightning Conductors. It appears from the return moved for by Lord Eliot. M.P., that the following ships have been fitted with these conductors since July, 1839-viz., the Caledonia, 1st rate; the Rodney and Foudroyant, 2d rates; the Southampton, 4th rate; and the Tweed, 6th rate Hostilities with Amcrica.-The latest advices from Canada report a war with America to be inevi- table. We speak of letters received in this garrison from officers quartered on the frontier.— Limerick Chronicle The Hospitals of Paris--L. Presse states that it results from a return made relative to the hospitals and asylums of Paris, that the Admiuis tralion admits trnd provides for 12,000 old and infirm persons, and receives from 70,000 to 80,000 sick inte' tiie hospitals. It receives 4,600 foundlings, supports 16,000 at nurse in the country, and apprentices 500 tii titie, it furtwislit-s food to more than 30,000 indigent1 families at their dwellings. It has been decide(I to open the Cheltenham and Great WPMtern UniOIl Railway as far as Cirencester on April '26.—Chelten ham Gazette -Cupar, March 17.-Sir Ronald Ferguson. It is with extreme regret that we an- nounce that, from the latest accounts received here of this much esteemed there are now no hopes of his recovery.-Fife Herald. -The Hon- Colonel Fitzgibbon, M P., has paired with Mr Gran vi le Vernon, son of the Archbishop of York, as the state of the health of the colonel renders him unequal to crossing the Alps this early seaSOIl- Limerich Reporter. We regret to learn that his Kxcellencr Baron Bulow is suffering from a severe indisposition A surgical operation was performed last night by Mr Belinaye, in the presence of Sir Benjamin Brodie, from which his Excellency has derived me relief to his sufferings..The Marquess of Normanby has appointed Major James Glencairn Burns, the youngest son of the poet, a sub- iiispec-or of factories. J. M. llntchin, Esq., Clerk of the Rolls, has lately received from the Hev John J Gelling, incumbent of St Catherine Cree Church, London, the munificent sum of X.;O as a donation towards the academic funds at Castletown, Isle of Man.—Manx Sun.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PETITION. In a Convocation holden on Friday 12th inst.. it was agreed to affix the University seal to the following 1 petitiun to tiie Honourable the House of Commons, for Church Extension in England and Wales:- "To the Honourable the Commons of tltc United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Par- liament assembled, the humble petition of the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the Univer- sity of Oxford. "Silowetii,riiiit your petitioners, knowing that an irreligious people never can be prosperous or secure, are deeply impressed with the painful convic- tion that irreligion and ignoranco, demoralisation and disunion have very extensively increased in England and Wales; and cauuot but increase so long as the means of public worship, Christian instruction, and pastoral superintendence continue altogether inade- quate to the spiritual wants of the community. That, the population of this country, having been rapidly augmented and unequally distributed, vast numbers of her Majesty's subjects, and more especially of the poorer classes, have been accumulated in riewly peopled districts without churches, ministers, sacraments, their employers too often unwilling, and themselves unable, even if they felt their destitution, 'o remove it. That the evil is notorious, and has been admitted by high authorities in the Church and the State, and by a large proportion of your honour- able house. But that, notwithstanding the benevo- lent efforts of individuals without as well as within the pale of the Established Church, and the provident endeavours, from time to time, of the national legis- lature (which your petitioners thankfully acknowledge) to a'leviale the spiritual necessities of the people, the evil outstrips the remedy, and is fearfully aggravated in every succeeding year. "That the only safe, adequate, and constitutional remedy for the growing evil is the expansion of the National Church in full proportion to the spiritual wants of the whole community. And that Church is not truly national, from the benefits of which any, the poorest, of the people of the land are, without their own consent or fault, excluded. "That a very large proportion of the ancient endowments of the Established Church having been alienated and dissipated at the Reformation hv the lavish improvidence of the state, no altered distribu- tion of her remaining resources, even if it were politic or just, could render them equal to the new demands. And although vast sacrifices have recently been re- quired irom the Established Church, and have been made, the utmost that was expected from these sacrifices by their warmest advocates, was I gr.,i(lually to diminish the intensity of the ('yil.' But the deficiency of Christian ordinances and instruction is a national evil. And without anv desire to discharge the wealthy proprietor from his obligations to his dependents, still less to supersede the voluntary exertions of piety and benevolence, your petitioners believe that it is equally the interest and the duty of the government and the legislature to apply national resources towards the relief of a national want; to raise the condition, temporal and spiritual, of those by whose labour the wealth of the country is developed, provide for every member of the community the means of enjoying the blessings of the National Church and thus effectually overcome a fearful evil, which (not to advert to higher interests) is sapping the very foundations of civil society, and without the redress of which all other legislation will be unavailing, and our most valued institutions will neither be improved nor maintained. 41 Your petitioners, therefore, with all humility, but with the utmost earnestness, pray your honourable house to direct your early and most serious attention to the spiritual destitution of England and Wales, in order to take the most prompt and effectual measures for its relief, to secure she country under Divine Providence, from the fatal effects of vice, anarchy, and irreligion, and seek His favour, by whom alone princes reign, and kingdoms are preserved. And your petitioners will ever pray. "Given at our House of Convocation, under our common seal, this I2th day of March, in the year of our Lord 1841.

EMIGRATION. —There are now 30 vessels in the London and St. Katharine's Docks fitting out to con- vej emigrauts lo Sydney, Hobart Town, Canada, New York, and to the iofant colony of New Zealand, which are to sail during (he present mouth and April, and they will carry out in all about 50.000 passengers. The tide of emigration seems to be settin in for New Zealand, and the ships bound to that colony take out bricks as ballast, which fetch large prices in the colony. One ship in the London Dock contains 6000 bricks, and wilt, besides, take out the materials of a house for one of the officials lately appointed by government to manage affairs in New Zealand. The house can be put togetherjn 24 hours. In a few months there will be many houses in the Bay of Islands built of Eng ish brock. IMMENSE STONE ARCH.—The large span of the viaduct oil the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, that crosses the Union Canal at Tamfourhill, near Falkirk, had the keystone put into it Oil Thursday, the 4th inst. the length of the IIpan is lao feet, the he;ght from the springers 24 ft. 6 in.. the height from the ground underneath 35 ft. The stones of which this great arch are composed were all brought from Forfarshire; they are 4 ft. deep in the bed, bluish colour, and of peculiar strength. The weight of the arch stones alone of this stupendous piece o' iiiauotiry is upwards of 1900 tons. The arch was thrown upon trussed centres, which required no less than betwixt 12,000 and 13,000 cubic feet of timber for their construction.—Mining Journal. I A corn dealer at Eton, named Bacon, is in pos- session of a peculiar and valuable breed of fowls, which, during the whole of the last severe winter, continued laying daily, enabling him to supply her Majesty's table with new laid eggs when they could not be procured elsewhere. A few days since 17 of them died, and upon opening them it was discovered they had been poisoned with arsenic and nux vomica. Strong suspicious are entertained again-t a person living in the same town, in consequence of hishaving purchased a few days before some of each of the poisons at a neighbouring chemist's. Several more of Mr Bacon's fowls are still suffering from the effects of poison. THREATENING LETTER TO A JUDGE-A letter, of which the following is a eopy, rtnifltiim et liter atim. was received on Sunday by Mr Baron Rolfe: —" For the unjust sentence you have passed upon Hibbotsen Strakie Greenwood Thomas Griffin no one ever outraged English law so mticll in this wold befor and as you have done this 1 am determined to blow your brains out in less than three days from this date you have been pleased to transport these poor young lads they are mi relations and as they live you shall have your portion from this pistol* some body else shall pass my sentence and I will go with em but if I live you shant do it if you are a pudge."—Addressed to "The Right Honourable Sir Robert Monsey Rolfe Knight. York.Leetb Mercury. SINGULAR CASE OF LOCK JAW.—On Friday an inquest was held on the body of John Hill, a boy eight years old, who died of lock jaw. under the following singular circumstances. Another boy and the deceased were playing together on Thursday week in Hill Street, Toxteth Park, on some balks and in tlw- act of running over them a piece of wood stuck into his foot. The deceased pulled the splinter out, and the wound bled a good deal, but by putting some oakum to it he was enabled to walk home. His mother saw his foot swelled the next day, and on asking him the cause, he said a Jtieee of iron had fallen upon it. On Saturday it appwtred to get worse, but the boy was still able to walk about. On Tues- day night lie went to bed quite hearty, but the next morning he became sick, and could notget up. From nine o'clock on Wednesday morning uutil one o'clock on Thursday afternoon, he had a constant succession of fits, which terminated in his death. The medical man, Mr Lèech. when called in, found a slight scratch on the instep. The usual medicine was administered but it was unavailing—tbd disease was lock jaw, of which he died.-Liverpool Standard.^

IMPERIAL PAR L I A M K N T.» -0 HOUSE OF LORDS,—THUHSOAY, MARCH 18. Messengers from the Commons brought up the Mutiny Bill, the Marine Mutiny Bill, the Rufti Duties Bill, the South Westel-ii Railtvay Aiiieildineiii Bill, and several private Bills, which were read a first time. Mr Stanley was again examined at great length respecting the falsification of the returns relative to the U,,iott. Mr Wordsworth, a clerk ill Ihe office of the Poor Law Commissioners in Ireland, was also examined npon the F-iiiiject, after which it was arranged that Mr Nieholls sh<>a'd attend at the bar of the House to-morrow, and their Lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS,—THURSDAY, MARCH 18. Mr RICE. seconded by Mr PLAXTA, moved for a select committee on the state of the harbours of refuge aloi\gthesouth eastern coast. A Commission had been appointed last year !o examine this subject and had made a report, which it was now sought to refer to the proposed committee. Mr BARING resisted the motion, b-th because it suggested no particular course, and because a commission was a more competent authority in such a matter than a committee of members of parliament. After a short debate, the motion was put to the vote and negatived. The case of William Baines, confined in Leicester gaol for nonpayment of a church rate of X2 10s and costs in the Ecclesiastical Court was then brought on by Mr EASTHOPE. Such a case, he said, was little likely lo serve the interests of the church An intense interest prevailed on this subject in Leices- ter; and a petition had been signed in Baines's behalfby 7,000 females of that town. Such a feel- ing could not be advantageous to the Establishment. Mr Easthope concluded by moving a most unex pected resolution, to 'tic effect that N-li- Raines's imprisonment being jnfiic'ed for his refusal to pay a demand which was contrary to his conscience, was a violation of the principles of religious liberty. Lord J. RUSSELL observed that the motion being grounded not on anything peculiar in the case of Baines, but on the general objection to the exist inglaw, ouijht to have been announced by a more distinct notice. It miht be advisable to alter the law, but he must wholly deny tliit to enforce obedience to the existing law ill to violate the eon science of the party sued. He "ihed cprtainly that there were a different law from the present for the maintenance of the church; but he could not there- fore affirm a resolution approving a man's determi- nation to resist the present law. He should he very willing, meanwhile,to have the jurisdiction on these questions transferred from the Ecclesiastical to the Civil Courts but to that change the Dissenters themselves seemed quite indifferent. He trusted the House would not sanction the principle, that each man should judge for himself what he would pay ann what he would IIot. Mr HUME denied that a roan is bound to pay every demand which may be legally made upon him. Sir R. INGLIS complained that the genera' subject of church rate- had been introduced into this dis- cussion, in breach of the assurance given a few days ago by the mover. With respect to the reference to his own recent statement, he had always maintained the distinction between a voluntary contribution and a payment required by law. The charge of church rate was not on the person, but on the property. Dr NICHOLL cited the recent and unanimous decision of the Exchequer Chamber, establishing the immemorial liability of all real property to church rate by the common law of the land, and adjudging that the obligation of every occupier to repair the church was absolute, aud could no more he thrown otf than the obligation to repair bridges and highways- Mr Baines, in this case, was sum- moned before two magistrates. If he had left them to decide the matter, he would have suffered nothing but a levy of £2 5 on his goods but be chose to evade their jurisdiction by telling them he meant to appear in the Ecclesiastical Court, and there contest the validity of the rate. In fact, he meant no such thing—he did no such thing. A fter repeated notices and citations, his person was at length attached, alld then he set up this plea of conscience. lie app'ied successively to the Queen's Bench for a prohibition, and to the Lord Chancellor for a habeas corpus; both were refused, and now Mr Baines was a martyr. Mr IIA WES observed that there was no church rate in Scotlafid and church rate had been abolished in Ireland. If it were CDn^inued in England, it would be the seed of much sorrow and misery. Sir R. PEEL said the question was, not whether the law ought to be altered, btit whether that House would decide that there is an exception to the obligation of obeying the law, wherever th'* party will say his conscience forbids him to obey it. It was a mistake to suppose there was no church rate in Scotland. Some gentlemen thought the con- scientious objection oug-ht to be allowed only in reMgious cases. If it were to ba allowed as against church rate, how could it be disal owed as against tithe? To pass such a resolution as now proposed would have a double mischief; it would set a bad precedent; and it would bring the House itself into discredit by theassertion of such a power to dispense with the law as the tribunals of the country must refuse to be bound by. Mr ELLIOT would vote against this motion, on the simple ground that the petitioner was disobeying the Ia %v. Mr EASTHOPE, io reply, expressed his hope that the dissenters, and those who sympathised with them, would persevere till this law shonld be redressed. After a word or two from Mr PACKE on behalf of the people of Leicester, the House divided, rejecting the mution by a majority of 45 to 40. #1',##6-,1' HOUSE OF LORDS,—FRIDAY, MARCH 19. The Mutiny Bill and the Marine Mutiny Bill were severally read a second time, and ordered for com- mittal on Monday. The Earl of ABERDEEN presented a petition from a number of respectable merchants and ilict- inhabitants of Newfoundland, complaining of the disorganised state of society in the island, and praying the House to take such measures as would secure to the colony a form of government under which the enjoyment of private property might become secure, and that the magistrates and police might 110 longer he dependent on the annual vote of the House of Assembly, but that they might be made responsible alone to the Queen for the dis- charge of their duties. The noble earl entered into some detai's as to the composition and character of the legislative assembly, of which one member was a servant at J? 10 a year wanes, and another what is known to gentlemen who have shot in the Highlands of Scotland as a "gillie." His lordship also ex. plained the scenes of riot and bloodshed that took place habitually at every election of a member, existing to such an extent that the governor ha<l declined to is-tie his wr ts for another general election unless the legislative assembly would pass some act to insure a decent and peaceable ex- ercise of the elective franchise. The noble earl concluded by expressing his opini m that the present was clearly a case for parliamentary interference, and his determination to submit it formally to their lordships' consideration. The Morquess of NORMANBY admitted the extent of the evil, hut suggested that the present session of the House of Assembly should be allowed to expire before the cominencemeti t of any investi- gation, in order that every chance of ainendmei-t should be given to that respectable body. In case of their refusitig,to do anything, his lordship considered the state of the colony to be a mott fit subject for inquiry by the House. Mr Nicnolla, the resident poor law commissioner in Ireland, was then called to the bar, and exa- mined for a considerable time. Unfortunately but little information was elicited, in consequence of two accidental circumstances first, Mr Nicholls's numerical powers were not so strong as to enable him to answer questions without a reference to books and papers; and secondly the requisite hooks and papers had all been carried off to Dublin by Cti- Stall ley after his examination on the preceding evening. At the close of Mr Nicholls's examination their lord- ships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS,—FRIDAY, IARCH 19. The following Members were chosen from panel No. 1, to try the merits of the petition presented against the return of MrTomline for the borough of ,Sudbury :-Mr W. C. Harland, Mr C. Brucn, Col. Rolleston, Mr Thornely, Lord Worstey, the lion. W. S. Lagcelles, and Sir Charles LeiiiAl, Chairman of the Committee. An lion. Member asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was his intention with regard to the South Sea Company ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the subject was now under consideration, and he hoped the session would not pass without some measure relative to it being introduced. The House went into Committee of Supply, and agreed to a resolulion for a vote of credit of £ 155,000 for the relief of South Australia, On the motion for the re-commitment of the Poor Law Amendment Bill, Mr WAKLEY rose to move that the Bill should be dividf-d into I wo bills. He contended thai Îinrè; j this were done the House would he dealing trend) erouRly by the people, for they were holding out b; this bill the idea that the commis-ion was to termi- nate in five years, whereas he believed the rea intention was that it should be as perpetual as th Poor Law itself. He characterised the bill us 0111 to protect the landed property of the kingdom at the expense of every feeiiiiz that was eqtiiiiable it- our nature; and said the New Poor Law bill was the most sanguinary and theinost dangerously revo Inlionar) measure that hari ever heen ellacled. IlIstaD ces of the heartlessness of its operation came almost daily within his knowledge. Not the smallest dis- tinction was made between the old man who bail maintained himself in respectability fur perhaps 311 years, paying rates the whole time, and the iil, spendthrift, who had nCfllpcled his wife and family, when both came to the workhouse. Was this the <ort of legislation they had a right to expect fro,ii a reformed House of Commons? He declared IIIOI solemnly his belief that it would be better for the country and better,for the interests of the people it they had the old i,oi-oii-hii)oiigers hack again. Lord J. RUSSELL said the Bon. Memher had nol given a sinle rcason for dividing the bill into Iwo bills. He had, in his inflammatory speech. found fault with the result of the Reform Bi I, and he (Lord J. Russell) must so far admit the truth ot the prophecies of the opponents of that great tiiea snre, when they said that the clauses giving Mem- hers to the great mi-tiopolilan districts would have the effect of sending into that House mischievous demagogues, who would make inflammatory haran- gues, and who, if raised to any judicial office, would he sure to turn their Courts into arenas for public discussion. The Noble Lord then contended tha [lie principles upon which the Poor Law was founded were calculated to elevate the laboui er,- and to tend ultimately to his benefit. Lord G. SOMERSET opposed ttie amendment, and Colonel SIBTHORP supported it. After a short discussion Mr WAKLEY said as the sense of the House appeared to be against his proposition he would not divide the House. The motion was consequently negatived. Mr T.-PARKER then moved, as an a mend menf, I that the House "honld resolve itself into Committee on the bill that day six mouths. MrGRIMSDITCH seconded the motion, which was also supported by Gen. Johnson, and opposed by Mr W. Miles and Mr Slaney. Mr WAKLEY said that the bill was not fit to be artieiideti-itiat it had not enough of merit to render it worth while to enter upon its amendment. The noble Lord (Lord J. Russell) had talked of the metropolitan boroughs sending mischievous dema gogues inio that house, and the noble Lord was quite light, for he believed that the members for those boroughs had invariably supported, or very nearly so, tha government of the noble Lord. At the close of a lengthened discussion ihe house divided—For going into Committee, 247; for Mr Parker's amendment, 51 majority, 196. The House then went into Committee On the first clause, which related to theextfn ion of the Poor Law Commission, being proposed, Sir E. KNATCHBULL said that when the noble Lord oiigiual'y proposed ten years, he knew very well that he (Lord J. Russ-ll) would be very glad to get five years. He (Sir E. Koatchbull), however, was by no means satisfied that it was necessary to extend it to five years; and he would, therefore, move tbe postponement of the clause until the other clauses should be disposed of, by which time they would he better jllgdes of he time to which the Commission should be extended. Afler somi- discussion, in which Lord J. Russell and Sir R Pee' took parts, Sir E. KNA TCHBULL withdrew his motion. Mr B. WOOD moved that, from the 31st of December next, there should not remain in office more than five Assistant Commissioners for England and Wales; but, after some di-cussion, Ile (Jeciiiied to divide (he Comm ttee upon the question. Col. SIBTHORP said it was a larce to be making motions without dividing the House, and as he was opposed to having any Assistant Commissioners, he should divide the Committee upon the point. On a division, the amendment was negatived by a majority ot 191 to 46 Mr W. ATTWOOD moved that the chairman should then report progress Tliis was resisted by Lord J. RUSSELL, and the gallery was cleared tor a division. The motion of Mr At wood was, however, ul i- mately assented to without a division, and the House resumed. The County Courts Bill went through Committee pro forma, for the purpose of introducing some amendments. The Beer Bill was read a ihird time and passed and at half-past twelve o'clock the House adjourned "<11' HOUSE OF LORDS.—Mo\DAY, MARCH 22. Alter the presentation of a few petitions their lordships heard evidence respecting the Clonmell Union, which occupied then until they adjourned. "#'1' HOUSE OF CONINIONS,NIO!.q DAY, MARcn22. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in the committee on the Consolidated Fund Bill, in-ide those explanations as to the account of naval ex- penditure, which he had deferred from the preced- ing Friday. Some conversation upon these details ensued, in which Sir George Clerk, Mr O'Ferrall, Sir R. Peel, and Mr Herries,, took part. Nir IIU-NIE the" asked, vhellier government had lai,) their hands upon the stock of the savings banks? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ad mitted that, to a certain extent, he had had recourse to that stock, but said he intended to fund what he had thus borrowed, so that the depositors would equally secure. Mr HUME entertained no doubt of the security his objection was to the Minister's he I ping himself to the money without the consent of the House, especially when the House was sitting. After the report on the South Australian loan had been read and agreed to, several petitions werepre-eutedonthe subject of tho Poor Law Amendment Bill. On the motion for going into committee on that measure, Mr II. HINDE rose to move an instruction, having for its object to define and to confine the powers of the Poor Law Commissioners; but was informed frnm the chair that this object ought to be brought forward in committee, and not by way of prel iminary instruction. Mr W. DUNCOMBE hoped Lord J. Russell [would give an assurance that this bil I was not to be hurried through the House. Lord J RUSSELL doubted whether such feel- ings were general. He had no intention to hurry the bil 1, but he thought such a measure would be most usefully discussed de die in diem. Mr FEILDEN repeated his strong objection to the system. Sir E. SUGDEV adverted to the separation of old couples as one of the most generally and justly unpopular of the existing practices. Ano'her, equally obnoxious, was the practice of forcing people into woikhotises who would be able. with very slight assistance, to maintain themselves at home. In answer to a question from Sir E Knatclibull, Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he would state his views more fully when he had had time to confer with the commissioners. Mr SLANEY hoped the House would discuss t')e bill tempera-ely. Sir DK LACY EVANS wished some alteration in the mode of dealing with the petitions of ihe people. Mr WAKLEY said that the commis exer- cised too large a power, and that Ñtè guardians were nonentities in their hands. Lord BOWICK said, that the medical officer ought nollo have the absolute power of ordering diet in cases where there was time 10 constilt the guardians. After a few words from Sir A. Dalrymple. Captain HAMILTON trusted that what the House had heard would make them cautious how they invested the commissioners with the po^er of making general rules. Mr BULLER thought, that where a surgeon was found to have been ordering meat and wine in a very large proportion of cases, it would be very fit thwt the guardians should inquire into the circum- stances under which he had done so. General JOHNSON protested against Lord J. Russell's principle of meting equal measure to the vicious and the virtuous. Mr GROTE approved that principle, and ad mired the courage and integrity of Lord John in carrying it out. Mr EASTHOPE was surprised and shocked that an attempt should be made to control the discretion of the medical officer as to the diet of his patients. Mr W. ATTWOOD contended thitt necessity re- quired a discretion as to diet in the medical officer Mr WARD d-sired to correct the last speaker. There was no objection against allowing a certain discretion to the medical oflicer; the objection was against a delegation to him of the whole discretion of the guardians. Mr COURTENAY, deeming the old poor law a canker on the country, respected the moral courage of the ministers who had abolished it. They were no more to be charged with cruelly than the sur- geon who applies the knife or cautery to an ulcer. But the working of the new system required modi. fication. At Bridgewater. an epidemic dysentery had prevailed extensively and long. The surgeon desired to exchange the waiergruel of the wo k- siouse for rice-iiiilk, grijol beiiir found peculiarly injurious to (his kind of complaint. The change could not be effected without application to the commissioners. That app'ication was made and from October to April no answer was obtained. In that interval between 40 and 50 persons died. He had no wish to inflame, but he could not refrain from stating such a fact as this The House having gone into committee, Mr EASTHOPE opposed the first clause, which goes to continue the offices of the commissioners and other functionaries until the 31st of December, 1846. He proposed 1843. Other members having different periods of conti- nuation to propose, some discussion took place upon the mode and order of putting those various questions, so as to prevent any one of thpm from shutting out any of the others. It seemed at last to be the general opinion, that the question to be put should be, "that the words 31st December, 1846, stand part of the bid." Mr GROTE, after signifying his accession to that formula, expressed his hope that the House would not, by any amendment, substitute a shorter period than five years. To vote the five years now would not necesarily keep up the commission for that entire term In any )car, (lie Hotise, if it saw lit to put an end to the establishment, would have only to withhold the salaries in the annual votes. Mr WAKLEY was adverse to a five years' le- in The Commissioners had been constituted to produce uniformity; but they had made no regulations ap- plicable to all the tinion-t. They had incorporated 13,00:) parishes, and 700 yet remained- If it had taken only seven years to incorporate 13,000, surely it would not take five years more to incorporate the remaining 700. Mr HAWKS entirely subscribed to the opinions of Lord John Russell, Lord Howick, and Mr Grote. Mr T. DUNCOMBE sai l, he believed the law would work as well without commissioners as with them, and he would vote against their con- tinuance Mr DAHBY was better pleased with a term of five than of ten years, ) ecause it gat e the House an earlier occasion to resume their control but for the same reason he should prefer, and should vote for, a shorter period. Captain H A.MILTON said he would vote for the shortest period possible. As chairman of a board of guardians, he knew that the later orders of the commissioners had been of a stringent nature; and there were always, at all boards, many guardians disposed to be harsh. Sir G. ST RICK LA ND would vote for the shortest period. He had been much disappointed in the working of this law. MrVlLLERS wished to know whether there was any evidence to fix misconduct in the commis- sioners? It so, he would vote for their dismissal. But he had heard none. Ile liad heard the ootn, mission described as unconstitutional. He did not know exactly what that «as; he believed if meant anything that anybody did not like. But he knew something ot the old system and its evils, and he knew it was a common opinion in old times that the overnmenl ought to lake tile whole affair into their own hands, and not leave each parish to follow its own notions. Mr W. ATTWOOD remarked that the advocates of the present system had cea-,ed to praise its economy, and now rested their case on the evils of the old system. But the question now was as to the duration of the commission. Many great abuses had occurred, and it was the duty of the House to guard the poor against the repetition of them. For this purpose the best security was to rix a short time. Mr HUTTON said a few words about poor laws in I: eland Mr MUNTZ saw no reason in favour of con- tinuing the commission for tive years. The House might as well vote the supplies for the same period. The committee then divided when there ap- peared— For the amendment 135 Again-t it 174 Majority —39 Mr H. IIIXUE moved, that alter the words De- cember, 1846," there should be inserted the words "and no lonzer." The ATTORNEY GENERAL objected to an ineffectual attempt at binding a future parlia- ment; and Sir F. POLLOCK observed, that in construction of law the words "and no longer" were there already. Colonel SIBTHORP said, he should move reduc- tion in the salaries, Mr HIND" withdrew his motion. The first clause was then put to the vote, and carried after another division. .II>,ø- HOUSE OF LORDS,—TUESDAY, MARCH 23. The East IlIdia Rum Bill to assimilate the duties upon East India spirit with those upon that the growth of the West India colonies was read a third lime with- out opposition. Their lordships then adjourned until Thursday. ,"#,# HOUSE OF CONI MONS, -Tu ESDA Y, MARCH 23. The first public business on the list was a motion of Lord Mahon, proposillgil to the house to resolve, that th$present extensive system of commuting tran- sportation for confinement in the hulk3 is highly inexpedient Lonl J. RUSSELL admitted the force of some of the objections to the punishment of the hulks; but the difficulty of finding other adequate penalties lorbade the adoption of such a resolution as Lord M ilioti had proposed. He did not think it necessarv that the house should now come to any decision upon the subject, and would, therefore, move the previous question. A debate, in which several members joined, took place on th, question. Lord Mahon declined to withdraw his motion, strangers were ordered to withdraw, and the house divided, when there appeared — For the resolution 49 Against it 28 A Majority for the resolution 21 I Mr StJilUbKH lil,L» tnen urouguL lorward a motion, recommending tin* substitution of a property t'IX for such of the taxes of excise and customs as press most heavily on the middle and working classes. Some conversation arose on the subject, after wliicn the house divided, when the motion was thrown out.

MURDER BY INSTIGATION OF THIo: NEW POOR LAW.—Let those who advocate the New Poor Law read the fol lowirig case of child murder, perpetrated by all unfortunate mother, maddened by misery and the oppressive effects of this cruel law, and if they can do so without feeling their blood run cold we pity them, for their hearts must be movedby any thing but feelings of heaven or earth HATTON GARDEN-—On Saturday Harriet Long- ley, a handsome young woman, aged 20, was charged with the wilful murder of her child, an infant three weeks old. Sarjeant King, of the N division of police, stated, that the prisoner came to him on the previous even- ing and gave herself lip on the oharge of murdering her child, and, taking him to the New River, oppo site Owen's Row, pointed out the spot where the b()Øy was found. The unhappy woman gave the following heart rending account of her suffeiings Some weeks before her confinement she was com- mitted to gaol on the charge of being destitute; she was confined there, and she and her child a fort- night after her accouchement were sent from the prison without a home to shelter them or a mouthful to eat. She wandered about, maddened by starva- tion, and implored assistance at various workhouses, but was refused relief at all, the Marlylebone work- house being the last. From faticue.and starvation combined her milk dried up, and as she sat before the water the piercing cries of her helpless in/ant for food reduced her to that state of frenzy that she plunged it into the water to put an end to its agonies. The surgeon who examined the wasted body of the infant said, it was quite dead when taken out of the water. Mr Combe said, it was the most awfully distress- ing case he had ever heard off; he must remand the miserable woman for a week, when it would be his painful duty to commit her for trial to Newgate.

COAL PIT ACCIDENT NEXR HAMILTON ELEVEN LIVES LOST. 011 Tlle-dar, Ihe 16th of March, the town o; Hamilton and neighbourhood were thrown int.. great consternation on hearing of an extensive explosion of fire damp in the coal mine situate near Quarter. It appears that about eight o'clock that moaning (the breakfast hour) there were six men and a boy in the mine-all of whom, it was too p ain, must have peiished instantly by the ex- plosion. oil the tlatil), seven men who wero on the outside of the mouth of the mine, "ponlllneou.y. and under the impulse of iiiiiiiaiiity, rushed Lliouglit lessly into the pesfifeconaatmofphfreofthe newly exploded mine, three of whom were dragged out alive and four dead, hy a third parly, who b' cotning alarmed for their safely, came to assist Ihem. Unceasing exertions were made to relieve the mine of the noxious vapour, but it was not till Wednesday morniogthat the bodies of the seven first sufferers were recovered some of whom were shockingly mangle.1 by the explosion. Of tlv eleven sufferers nine were married, which last have left widows and families behind them to deplore their loss. The noble proprietor of the mine, the Duke of Hamilton, who is now at the palace, was in the greatest distress on obtaining intelligence of the sad event, and immediately gave pecuniary assistance to the falllilies of the snffV.ers; and has caused every exertion and arrangement to be made at his own expense, as to the funerals, and other matters suitable totbe melan- choly occasion. This accident was not owing to the negligence or unskilfulness of his Grace's overseers or engineers. The mine, which is an in-going eye or day level, where the explosion occurred, was completely wen. tilated, being open at boih ends to the day, having a current of air constantly passing through it; and oil the morning when the accident occurred had been carefully examined by two overseers, and reported to be free of danger. It appears that the earburetted hydrogen had been instantly generated from certain fissures connected with a rise in the metals, the bad effects of which human foresight could not prevent. For file satisfaction of those at a distance, who may have friends employed at the Quarter coal works, we subjoin a list of the our- ferers. Th seven first were in the mine at the time of the explosion, the remaining four went into their rescue:—Win. IJrownlie, and his son, ten years of age; J. Duffie, John Duffie, Hugh M'Lean, John Smith, Wm. Wetherspoou, James Fleming, George Pate, James Fisher, and J. Fife. Glasgow Courier.