Morning Herald

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The crops all over England look well; trade all over England looks ill.

Two women scandalized each other in gossip at Retford, Yorkshire; they afterwards fought a pitched battle, and one killed the other.

Earl Stirling was acquitted of forgery; some of his documents are pronounced forgeries.

General Allard is not dead as reported.

Hart, the absconding debtor from Chatham street, New York, has been sentenced to imprisonment for 22 months.

Chevely has passed to a fourth edition.

The great national petition is two miles and 1,004 yards in length, and has a million and a quarter of signatures. When rolled up it formed a cylinder of about a yard in diameter, and three yards in circumference, and is so heavy that eight men were employed to take it with the frame. It is to be brought into the House of Commons on a wheelbarrow.

Thirteen thousand people went by the railway to Epsom Races.

Professor Gans of Berlin is dead.

SELLING A WIFE.—On Thursday, May 16th, at Witney, a laboring man led his wife into the market by a halter, and sold her for 10 pounds ready money. A stamped receipt was given.

The Marquis of Londonderry was thrown from his horse and nearly killed May 8th.

The small pox is making great ravages in the south of England.

The "Dublin Pilot" has been fined £100, and Felix Farley's "Bristol Journal" £50, for libels.

Wilcox, a jeweller's apprentice, has been fined £150 for seducing Miss Cutmore, (his master's daughter,) and giving her laudanum to kill her child.

The Belgian Senate was to meet May 21st.

A new academy has been formed in London of painters of water colors.

Another dreadful accident occurred on the Birmingham railway, by collision; three engines destroyed and engineers killed.

A great run on the English Saving Banks has taken place.

Two murders have been lately discovered—one committed 30 years, the other 40 years ago.

Battier, who fought a duel with the Marquis of Londonderry, is dead. He was the French correspondent of the "Morning Advertiser."

A great many murders have been committed in England lately. An old lady 84 years of age was murdered in the peaceable and beautiful village of Henley-on-Thames.

A great meeting had been held in London to oppose the government course relative to Jamaica. Lord Harewood, chairman.

Those members of Parliament who voted against the Jamaica Bill are called the "Body Mangling Representatives."

Sir David Wilkie's earliest painting, "The Pinch of Snuff," sold for 50.

The "Misers" by Matsys, has been sold for $525.

Forty men and twenty women were taken drunk to the Thames police in one day.

Mrs. Fitzroy, late Miss Rothschild, has given one pound of tea to all her husband's constituents who would accept it, and £50 besides to buy petticoats for the women.

Twelve bishoprics have been at the disposal of the Ministry since their coming into office in April, 1835.

MR. HUME—MEETING IN KILKENNY.—A meeting of Mr. Hume's constituents has been convened, to call upon him to resign, in consequence of his having voted against Ministers on the Jamaica question.

Grand Duke of Russia.—The Park was opened for the first time this season on Saturday, May 11th. The lion of the day was the Hereditary Grand Duke of Russia, who, with his suite, were mounted on some of her Majesty's steeds and who literally rode a la Russe. This worthy has been spending his money like a prince, and visiting every place. In one day he went to the penitentiary and staid an hour; then to Bedlam and staid three hours; then to Whitbread's brewery and spent the rest of the day. He liberated all those in Tothill Fields prison whose debts were under $25. He gave $2500 to one society for distressed females.

The vacant see of Peterborough has been conferred on Dr. Davys, her Majesty's preceptor.

It is rumored that the following individuals will be immediately raised to the Peerage: Mr. Campbell, of Islay; Mr. Ferguson, of Raith; and Lord Queensbury, to an English Peerage.

BROUGHAM'S LETTER.—Lord Brougham says to Lord John Russell, in his letter—"Am I an exception to Walpole's rule? Am I one who has no price? Far from it: I am venal; I am to be bought. I stand here for sale at the bidding of your own, or any other Ministry who may succeed you, as soon as you shall be tired of your subserviency to those I won't name, and begin to find place not the more palatable for being unenvied, nor the lighter load for being disencumbered of power." —and adds that his associates must reform Parliament, act justly to the people, and abolish slavery all over the world.

Epsom Races.—The following is the result of the Derby:-

Mr. W. Ridsdale's c. Bloomsbury, by Mulatto, out of St. Giles's dam (Templeman)

Mr. Folver Craven's b. c. Deception, by Defence, out of Lady Stumps, (Green,)

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The Betting was 30 to 1 against Bloomsbury; 12 to 1 against Deception.

The Oaks race was won easy by Deception.

The Derby, Epsom race, was run amidst a severe snow storm, on the 16th of May.

Old Rogers, the poet, is about to marry young Miss Clarke.

The Duc de Bassano is dead; so is Mr. Harris, owner of two thirds of Covent Garden theatre. The Earl of Powis is dead.

The Bishop of Bath and Wells is getting better, although the Wall street papers killed him.

Edward Cullenor was killed in a prize fight at Bristol by Henry Coward.

A new ship of 110 guns, called the "Queen," has been launched.

The British Queen leaves England on the 20th of June.

The death of young Desha is called in England, "Wild Sports of the West."

There is a horse at Tattersall's that is said to have trotted in America at the rate of more than twenty miles an hour.

DISTURBANCES IN THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.—We are sorry to say that letters have been received in town, announcing affrays between the military and the populace in no less than three places yesterday—Manchester, Birmingham, and the Potteries. The riot act was read, and shots, some with fatal effect, are said to have been fired upon each occasion; but the collision was most formidable in the Potteries, where a numerous body of colliers are represented to have come in contact with the military and the police—the introduction of the latter being the cause of the riot. Many lives, we have heard, were sacrificed by the fire of the military—we will not say how many, as the account may be exaggerated.

The Chartists are still meeting in thousands, and arming, and fighting, and going to prison. A large number of soldiers have been brought from Ireland to England to put them down. Nearly every Chartist in London has a snuff-box made in the shape of a coffin. On the lid a skull and cross bones, and on either side a dagger and pistol.

Several anti-corn law lecturers have been dispatched into the agricultural districts.