The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-12-11 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.. The Queen of Spain is enciente. Bishop Gobat is lying ill in a hopeless state at Cairo. He was considered in such imminent danger that Mr: 61 - tzlaif, - who brought the intelligence, was 'rot admitted to see him. The Rev. Mr. Dove, of Ireland, has bought 20,000 acres of land in Catarangus county, and gone home to bring the population to settle on it.—New York Inde- pendent. - On the 28th October, Lieutenant Hutchinson, his wife, and child were proceeding from Chittagong to Calcutta, en route to Madras, and venturing in a boat across the mouth of the Ganges were wrecked in a storm, and the lady and her little one drowned. General Klapka has written a letter to the editor of the Times, energetically contradicting the assertion of the German Radical, M. Heinzen, that "The Hungarians had hanged and shot thousands of the Reactionaries " in cold blood. Admiral Sir 'William Parker, a very Zealous anti tobacco man, as a mark of official complaisance, took three whiffs the other day from the pipe of the Pasha of the Dardanelles, and then caused it to be explained to his highness that if he took another he should drop down dead. Public attention at Madrid has been much occupied for the last two days by a matter of serious importance for the nation. The Pope's Nuncio is about to quit Madrid in consequence of the holy see having refused to approve of the sale of the church property, which was decreed by the Cartes and sanctioned by royal authority. The Times says that the convicts sent to the Cape of Good Hope, in the Neptune, will be despatched to Van Dieman's Land, where they will receive conditional par dons, in consideration of the hardships caused by their long confinement on shipboard. The political convict, John Mitchell, will be excepted from this measure. A BOOK COLLECTOR'S HOUSE.—M. Verbeyst, the most celebrated book collector in Europe, or perhaps in the world, has just died at Brussels at an advanced age. He has founded a very curious establishment, consisting of a house of several stories, and as high as a church, and dis posed so est() contain about 300,000 volumes, arranged according to their subjects. Lieut. 'lames Hosken, R.N., appointed by the Trea sury as Captain of the Port of Labuan, does not, as re ported, return to Borneo. When Rajah Brooke arrived out in the Meander, with the officers of his infant colony, the establishment was found to be on too large a scale, and the port duties, from the little traffic with the neigh bouring isles, were confided to a clerk of £lOO a-year ; hence the return of the gallant lieutenant to England. While M. Ledru Rollin is announcing for publication a work on the decline and fall of Englnd (De'cadence de Angleterre)—a rather Socialist and democratic way of acknowledging the hospitality and the protection he receives in la perfide Albion—a work is actually pub lished in Paris by M. Raudot, a member of the legislative assembly, entitled D6cadence de la France. If M. Ran dot be correct, it will be difficult for M. Ledru Rollin to establish his proofs of the approaching ruin of England, which, according to M. Raudot, stands very high in Europe in all that regards the essential points of national greatness. REPORTED RIOT AT CAPE TOWN.—We have received intelligence to the 19th October from the Cape of Good Hope, at which date the colony was in a state of great ex citement. A reactionary feeling has taken place amongst the labouring classes, the coolies in particular, induced by there being no work for them, as business was at a corn , plete stand, and every house and store closed. An anti convict association meeting was to have been held on the 18th outside the town-hall, but as the feeling of the la bouring population was going against it, and as danger was apprehended, the governor forbade the meeting. On the following day (12th) an immense mob attacked, at Green Point, Cape Town, the house of Mr. Fairburn (the leader of the anti-convict association), broke into and completely gutted it, and nearly killing Mr. F. A shot was fired from a window up stairs by a servant, a black boy, and took effect in the shoulder of a coolie. The riot was only suppressed by very energetic attacks of the police on the rioters, many of whom were very seriously wounded, and made prisoners. THE OVERLAND MAIL.—A special express has brought in advance of the Overland Mail, papers from Bombay, of Nov. 3 ; and from Calcutta, of Nov. 22. Private letters from the latter Presidency come down to the 24th inclu sive. This arrival supplies us with no additional intelli gence from China. The whole of India was peaceable, with the exception of Goomsnor, where disturbances had been renewed. Chokro Bissye and his followers had committed numerous murders, and burned village after village. The various tribes were engaged in hostilities among themselves against the government; and a party of Sebundies, who had been sent to urge them to sub mission, were driven off. The Seikh chiefs who, in con junction with Chuttur and Shere Singh, had formed a plot against the British authorities, but mho escaped apprehension, have since been captured. The commer cial advices are important. At Bombay and Calcutta trade was reviving, both in imports and exports; and appearances warranted the belief that it would continue to improve. A ROMAN HOAX.—A most irreverend joke has been played lately by some wag, who was at the trouble of dressing up a dog, with the resemblance of a papal cap and stuola, and placing a ticket round his neck with the inscription, " The return of Pio Nono to his capital." Thus bedecked, and dignified by several orders and crosses, not of the most precious materials, the dog was observed to enter the 'Porta Clontliegeri, and tialco the di rection of the Vatican, at a solemn pace, and indicated a full knowledge of his own importance. The police, how ever, were unwilling to admit the pretensions of this new aspirant to papal authority, and arrested him in spite of the most dogged resistance. I understand that he is still in confinement, and as all interrogatory has hitherto proved fruitless, it is only by his imprudently recognising some two-legged acquaintance that his real accomplice in the satire is expected to be discovered. The joke is not altogether without wit, as it alludes to the pope's recent visit to Benevento, where. being a place celebrated time out of mind for the freaks of witches, it is presumed that he has lost his nobler lineaments through their infernal agency.—Roman correspondent of the Daily News. SAGACITY OF A FRENCH Ass.—On Saturday week, a cowkeeper of the name of Viellot, living at the Batignol les, was proceeding homewards with his ass fastened to the tail of his cart. He fell into a doze, during which time a man cut the cord by which the ass was tied, and made off with the animal. The cowkeeper did not find out his loss until he got home. Meanwhile the man tried to lead the donkey in the opposite direction, but the sagacious animal would not go, and the more the man beat it the more obstinate it became. At length, irri tated by the blows of the man, who was on his back, the ass bolted right a-head, and in its fury dashed through the windows of a grocer's shop. The thief then endea voured to escape, but having got his feet entangled in the stirrups, he could not get off. The grocer pounced on him, and insisted he should pay the damage the ass had occasioned. This led to an altercation, and at length the man was taken before a commissary of police. His re plies to the questions of this functionary caused suspicions to be entertained against him, and after a while the owner of the ass came in to relate his loss. The theft being now clear, the ass was given up to the owner, and the thief was sent to prison.—Galignani's Messenger. A CALIFORNIA MEDLEY.—The advertisements in the San Francisco papers have a strange mixed complexion of business and pleasure, with a little piety. One man sells figs and gold-washing machines; another cod-fish and chewing tobacco; anon, comes a hue and cry after run away soldiers. Mr. M'Condrey, from London, buys gold dust ; and Davy and Smith express to the mines. Ships are announced for every port, and advertised as coming in laden with luxuries from every part of the world. Mr. Leisewitz has " seventy-two assorted doors" for sale ; and his neighbour, Mr. Bossange, offers brandy, cards, umbrellas, and sulphate of quinine, to all who are push. ing forward to the " placers." Mr. Larkin advertises that he expects to leave the department of California after three months, to be absent a year or more : persons interested will govern themselves accordingly." Dr. Melhado announces warm and cold baths " on a cleanly system." Rausson offers a cheap bath without any re mark on its quality ; quacks profess the pleasure they shall have in waiting on patients ; " Apothecaries' Hall" warns the sick from buying drugs anywhere than at the recognised emporium ; and Mr. Farnum assures the public of his excellence as a " metallurgical chemist." With regard to the necessaries of life, everyone may or may not deal in any article wanted ; the only thing that can be procured with certainty anywhere is " percussion-caps" —and " bricks ;" but people cannot dine upon that I SCRAPS FROM THE CALIFORNIAN DIGGINGS. There is nothing later by the last Halifax steamer from the diggings ; and the New York papers have in conse quence endeavoured to amuse their readers with what they call " off-hand accounts from the gold region." We can only afford room for a few specimens. The following will be interesting to some of our " notable" housewives, or young gentlemen in lodgings, who will perhaps pity the unfortunate writer : " I get my washing done at the Sandwich Islands 84 50c. cheaper than here. The way we do it is this : get all the clothes we can together, take a memorandum of them, and give them to the captain of the schooner, who has them done in fine style by the natives of the islands, and returns them clean in less than sixty days. Washing costs, in this way, including everything, 81 50c. per dozen, while here they are miserably done at 86 per dozen." Perhaps, after the following piece of information, our readers will not complain of high rents : " There must be a smash here in less than six months. Think of a wretched shanty, not two stories high, or as large as a common dwelling-house in New York, bringing 836,000 per annum ; and some, a little larger, bringing 850,000, and even as high as 875,000." In a region where gold is to be picked up by handsful, the gentleman referred to in the next extract will be regarded as almost deserving a strait waistcoat : " A lunatic outright fell into the hands of the police, on Monday. He exhibited no outward symptoms of frenzy, no incoherent ravings, maniacal laughter, mad capers ; no, none of these tokens—he picked a man's pocket of a handkerchief !" The gentleman was either afraid of getting his hand out of practice, or, possibly, he only prigged to remind him of past times, and the joys of " home, sweet home," and the Broadway, or whatever other of the Atlantic cities might have been the scene of his early achievements. The following representations are from two distinct letters, both dated San Francisco : " The largest fleet of vessels I ever saw is now in this harbour, numbering over 300 sail. They are selling for one-third of their real value.. Every day I see chances in this line. Vessels, worth 5 20,000 in the ;United States, va for $5,000, and so on. If you can, send me anything in my line—that is, from selling a needle up to a frigate. There is no limit to a man's business here." "The ships are all lying off the town, in the beautiful and spacious harbour, like an immense forest. There are at least three hundred, half of which will go down at their anchors, there being not the faintest hope of ever getting them out." Happy news, truly, for shipbuilders, and for gentlemen who love to buy in the cheapest market ! If any country wish to become a great maritime power, here is an oppor tunity of buying a fleet by wholesale. It will only require sailors, and the thing is done. We recommend the op. portunity to the Germanic Diet. IRELAND. A poor-rate of 12s. 6d in the pound is being struck in Dung arvan union. The Jane Black, of Limerick, sailed on Thursday for New York, with 260 passengers. Dr. Grattan has been dismissed from the commission for Kildare, for presiding at a meeting of the Irish Al - Hance, The eititens of Waterford have elected Mr. Cooke, a Protectionist, to fill the office of mayor of their city for the ensuing year. Mr. Aldward, the free trader, was beaten by a majority of nine. Some time since a poor woman was poisoned. and sub sequently barbarously choked with Ys tongs, whilst lodg ing in the house of a man named Meehan, in the neigh bourhood of Barrickbangher, Sligo. She had eight or ten pounds in her possession of which she was robbed, and then, buried in a ditch near Meehan's house. A man who was severely beaten by some of the parties suspected of the murder, gave information to the police, who instantly went to the place pointed out, and on digging down the ditch they found the remains of the poor woman buried under a heap of stones and covered with lime, livid with putrefaction, and frightfully decomposed. DIABOLICAL ACT OF MATRIMONIAL DELINQUENCY. —The following fact in relation to the elopement after marriage of a Mr. A— K—, of the town of Banagher, in this county, to America, taking with him the lady's fortune, may be relied upon as substantially correct. This person, through art and misrepresentation, procured an introduction into a family of some respectability residing at Kingstown ; and, after an acquaintance of a limited period, he proposed for the hand of Miss M—. residing at the house of Miss C—. in the suburbs of the above named submarine village. With such tact had this heart less wretch played his part with the unsuspecting lady and her innocent friends, that, without consent was agreed upon for a marriage much injury, a -inn, the lady obtaining fora fortune the sum of £4 . 00. The nrelimi naries being all arranged, the nuptials were all celebrated some day within the last fortnight; immediately upon the performance of which this unprincipled bridegroom re ceived the marriage portion in four Bank of England notes of £lOO each. Relatives and friends assembled by invitation to enjoy the cheer of a good dinner upon the evening of the marriage-day, and, to appearance, none felt more happy or enjoyed with more pleasurable delight the festive scene, than did this disgraceful, discreditable human monster. So complete had this deceiver made his arrangements, that under the pretence of a legal consul tation with his attorney, he absolutely had the accom plished effrontery to tell his bride and her immediate re latives that ho should go into Dublin by the nine o'clock train, and could not return that night, as an alleged case at his suit against certain parties was to come on for trial the next day in the Court of King's Bench. He went but never returned, alas.—King's County Chronicle. THE ORANGEMEN AND THE GOVERNMENT.—The liberal papers have very wisely said little about the report of the Grand Lodge of Ireland, the substance of which we gave in our last, for it seems to be the general opinion that the allegations made against Lord Clarendon are substantially proved. The Hereford Journal says, " The report of the Committee of Orangemen of Ireland on the conduct of the Viceregal Government towards that body, shows clearly that Lord Clarendon and his advisers, after relying upon the Orangemen for the preservation of the public peace, and supplying them with arms, turned round treated them with indignity and wrong. Other matters damaging alike to the Irish Viceroy and to the Ministry in London, are brought forward." The Cork Constitution remarks that, " The question whether Lord Clarendon proposed to arm the Orangemen, will, in the mind of no intelligent and impartial person, admit of doubt. We think that in so doing he did right. The proposal sheaved, as we said a week ago, that they were a body on whose loyalty he could rely, and he would have betrayed his duty to the Crown and the People had he neglected the surest means of rendering abortive the rebellion then on the eve of bursting out. But why now disclaim the pro posal ? Why deny that he sought the support, courted the alliance, and negociated for the aid, the armed aid of the Society ? Simply because he cannot afford to be just. He wanted to achieve the end without being responsible for the means—to secure the advantage without acknow ledging the obligation. This is the explanation of the mysterious manner in which the arms were supplied. No one will believe, after what passed previously, that Lord Clarendon was ignorant of the use made of his name and authority—that the arms were furnished without his sanc tion, or that the £6OO were to come, in whole or in part, from the pocket of Captain Kennedy. Why, in the name of common sense, should he, acting on the part of Govern menment, undertake to subscribe from his own purse, or to collect from friends, the sinews' by which the expected insurrection was to be strangled ? The thing is prepos terous." The Church and State Gazette observes, " The truth appears to be that the Government would have been glad enough to have the Orangemen armed, hut did not like to say so -" and even the Roman Catholic organ of this town Is oini g ed 1,. ...re.. that pected treachery, but, in endeavouring to make use of the faction for his purpose, his agents committed him. We never had a very high opinion of his lordship, but we never imagined that he would have acted so silly as he has CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. DIOCESE OF CHESTER. The Rev. Allan Greenwell, B. A., has been instituted by the Lord Bishop of Chester to the newly constituted rectory and parish church of Golborne, in the county of Lancaster; patron, the Rev. James John Hornby, rector of Winwick, for this, the first turn ; value, £132. The rectory of Golborne has been constituted under the acts for the division of the parish of Winwick. The Rev. William Gibbens has been licensed by the Lord Bishop of Chester to the :stipendiary curacy of St. Paul's Church, Werneth, in the County of Chester, on the nomination of the Rev. John Rodgers, the incumbent. The Rev. William Spooner Hoole has been licensed to the stipendiary curacy of Weaverham, Cheshire. The Rev. Robert Rolleston to the stipendiary curacy of Rydal, Westmoreland. The Bishop of Chester has licensed Christ Church, Everton, of which the Rev. W. H. Wright is incumbent, for marriages in the whole parish of Walton on the Hill. The Rev. J. W. Epworth has been licensed to the per petual curacy of Marthall, Cheshire, vacant by the resig nation of the Rev. J. Paul. Patron, Wilbraham Egerton, Esq. Value, £6O. The Archbishop of Canterbury has given £2OO, the late Queen Dowager £5O, and the Earl and Countess of Clan william £lOO, towards a new church at Deal. Another ineffectual attempt has been made by the Bishop of Exeter to have Mr. Gorham's case post poned. It will positively come on to day. The Rev. T. C. Southey, of Queen's College, Oxford, who but recently took orders in the Church of England, has joined the Scottish Episcopal communion at Mont rose. The Rev. Henry Bittleston, M.A., of St. John's Col lege, Oxford, has been received into the Church of Rome by Father Oakeley ; and also G. F. Gawthern, Esq., with his family. The Rev. Hugh G. Robinson, curate of Chin, Salop, and formerly curate to Dr. Byrth, at Wallasey, has been appointed incumbent of Trinity Church, Preston, in pre ference to fifteen other candidates. _ MUNIFICENT DONATIONS. — The Rev. C. Crewe, Vicar of Longden, a few days back, gave £lOOO for the aug mentation of the living of Chaceley, and £5OO more for the purchase of a site for the erection of a parsonage-house. Mr. Crewe is only patron for life of this living, and has neither family or relative ever likely to require it. REVOCATION OF A CURATE'S LICENCE.—The Leam ington Courier contains a long correspondence between the Rev. Mr. Dayman, curate of Wasperton, and the Bishop of Worcester, consequent on the publication by the former of a sermon entitled " The Houses of God, as they were, as they ara, and as they ought to be." In a letter to Mr. Dayman's rector, the Rev. T. Leveson Lane, the bishop thus states the reasons which have brought him to the " painful necessity" of revoking the rev. gentleman's licence :—" The whole spirit of the ser mon is such that I am sure no candid person could read it, who did not know that it was the composition of Mr. Dayman, without concluding that it was the work of a Roman Catholic priest, rather than a minister of the Reformed Church of England." In his final letter to Mr. Dayman, dated the 27th November, the Bishop of Worcester says :—" I am so perfectly satisfied that the doctrines held and the opinions professed in your pub lished sermon are contrary to the A r ti c l es o f th e Ch ur ch of England, that I cannot conscientiously permit you to preach in my diocese." THE DECISION IN THE PRIVY COUNCIL.—The Rev. E. Bickersteth has published a letter in which he says, " Let Sir Herbert Jenner Fust's decision be confirmed, and a new doctrine (his interpretation ) is introduced. Our beloved church is placed in this false position ; an infer ence will seem to be forced on the baptismal service foreign from the views of its compilers,. and so as to im pose a doctrine contrary to all obvious fact in the li v es of the majority of the baptised : contra!) , to the plain word of God, and contrary to the Articles of the Church. What faithful minister but will testify against such a false position ? It will also give power to those in our parishes who hate the truth to bring before the courts every minis ter preaching the absolute necessity of this essential change for the salvation of the wicked though baptised. * * * I would add, that should the decision be ad verse, my advice, as that of an elder brother, is, let no minister or layman secede from our Church at present, but rather remain in it, and help faithful men in it, while there is any hope of remedying so gre at an evil in their struggle to withstand error and uphold the true faith of Christ in our Church." STRANGE PROCEEDING:The Tractarian clergy se em determined to alienate the people from the church of their fathers. Recently, a Scripture reader was sent to Ciren cester. who was a member of the Church of England. He was consequently desirous to receive the Sacraments of his church. Prior to Sunday the 7th of October last, notice had been given in the parish church of Cirencester that on that day the holy communion would be adminis tered. In accordance with the rubric, Mr. Thornton sig nified to the curate his intention to be a partaker of the holy communion on that day. On the Sunday he accord ingly attended at the church, and at the proper time ap proached the Lord's table. Before, however, he could reach it he was stopped by the sexton, who said " he w• instructed by Mr. Powell to inform him that he could not be admitted to receive the sacrament!" The Vicar of Cirencester must have known this Mr. Thornton to be " an open and notorious evil liver, or to have done wrf to his neighbours, to entertain malice and hatree, ow ,;;;a some other person," or he had no right whatever Under the rubric to refuse him the privilege of joining the born minion. Now, the question is to which, if any, of these charges is Mr. Thornton obnoxious ? The Rev. Mr. Powell has been asked the question, and he " declines offering any explanation." Within 14 days the vicar ought to have given an account of his proceedin ordi nary, whom, we presume to be the bisly..,-"„0 to the p of the diocese. " And the ordinary shall proceed a party, according to the canon." ' :Kainst the offending rfas Mr. Powell given an account to the ordinary, or against Mr. Thornton ? N. 'arts the ordinary proceeded either !—London Paper. THE VICAR OF L Er .ati AGAIN.—The Rev. James Irvine, vicar of Lei . has found out a new device by which he is seeltie 4 . to evade admi to harrass parents and sponsors, and ':astration of the baptismal rite. It seems that two I :,r three sponsors for a child, declining to answer his o.`aestion as to whether they were communicants , and tie third stating that she was not, the vicar postponed— (hitherto he has refused)—baptising the child, until pro per sponsors were brought to him. He was then served with a formal notice requiring him to baptise the child ; and last Sunday afternoon the parties attended the parish church with the child; the sponsors being the same two who had before declined to answer the vicar's inquiries, and a third in the place of the one who had answered in the negative. Again the vicar asked all three if they were communicants; and as they severally declined to answer the question, he said that, inasmuch as they were not communicants at that church, and had 'declined to answer his question, he must presume that they were non-communicants, and therefore did not meet the re quirements of the church, which, by canon 29, had decided that all sponsors should be communicants. He should suspend the christening of the child until proper spon sors were provided. He therefore deferred the chastening, and did not refuse it. On a former occasion, the vicar refused to christen a child of these same parents ; because of his refusal, it was baptised by a dissenter ; and subse quently the vicar refused to inter the child, because it tied not been baptised in the church ; though such non-bap tism was his own act. Another feature in the present case is, that the vicar has, on previous occasions, accepted as sponsors, the same persons whom he rejected on Sun day last. Nay, the male sponsor was, on a.former occa sion, particularly rs finp.tpd by the vicar himself to become sponsor for a child, in the place of a person whom he deemed unfit. It is stated that proceedings will be im mediately taken to test the legality or otherwise of the vicar's proceedings. We are assured that the vicar still refuses to obey the order issued by the Bishop of Man chester respecting the offertory, and that every Sunday he takes the whole of the money, without even allowing the churchwardens to count it.—Manchester Guardian. COURT AND FASHION. -- ~.-- (he Qum ) Prince Albert, and the royal family remain tit Osborne, in the enjoyment of excellent health, taking exerdise in the grinds when the weather permits. The court hats maintained the strictest privacy since the lamented death of the Queen Dowager. Lord Cohn Russell left Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Parks bin Thursday, for Osborne, Isle of Wight. The Queen has caused all the chimney-pieces in the reception-rooms at the Pavilion at Brighton, to be re moved to Osborne House. They are of a costly charac ter. An Irish "outside" car has been made in Dublin for the Queen, by order of the Duke of Leinster, her Majesty having expressed a wisif to have one, when on a visit to Carton House, the duke's seat. The Marquis and Marchioness of Douro have returned to town from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of . Salisbury, at Hatfield House, Herts. , Among the guests of the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey, are the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, the Countess (Dowager) of Sefton, Ladies Molyneux, Mr. Samuel Rogers, &c. The funeral of the Queen Dowager will take place on Thursday at mid-day (not on Tuesday, as originally fixed), in St. George's chapel, Windsor. The procession will leave Bentley Priory this morning, to be joined at Slough by Prince Albert and other members of the royal family. The whole of the shops and private residences through out Windsor have been partially closed from the moment the intelligence was received of the Queen Dowager's death. The good Queen's affection for the gallant pro fession of her late Royal husband continued up to her dying hour; and it could vat be exhibited in a stronger manner than in her latest request, that her body should be conveyed to its final resting-place by seamen of the Royal fleet. It is understood that, in compliance with this request, a portion of the crew of the Royal yacht, Victoria and Albert, have been ordered up from Ports mouth to perform the office of bearers of the remains of the wife of our late sailor King. _ The inscription on the outer, or state coffin, of the Queen Dowager, is as follows :—" Depositum Serenissimre Principessre ADELAIDE, Reginre Dotarire, obiit Lido die Decembris, anno Domini, MDCCCXLIX, retatis sum LVIII. A supplement to Tuesday night's Gazette contains the following orders :—" Lord Chamberlain's Office, Dec. 4, 1849.—Orders for the Court's going into mourning on Sunday next, the 9th instant, for her late Majesty the Queen Dowager, viz. :—The ladies to wear black bom bazines, plain muslin or long lawn linen, crape hoods, shamoy shoes and gloves, and crape tans. The gentle men to wear black cloth, without buttons on the sleeves and pockets, plain muslin or long lawn cravats and wee pers, shamoy shoes and gloves, crape hatbands, and black swords and buckles."—" College of arms, December 4, 1849.—The Earl Marshal's order for a general mourning for her late Majesty the Queen Dowager.—ln pursuance of her Majesty's commands, these are to give public notice, that upon the present melancholy occasion of the death of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, all persons do put themselves into deep mourning. —NORFOLK, E.M." In the twelve years that have elapsed since the death of her royal consort, the Queen dowager has bestowed, for the promotion of religion, the advancement of education, or the alleviation of distress, the whole of her income, having only the necessary expenses of a very economical establishment. With that single exception, twelve hun dred thousand pounds have been disbursed in public or private benevolence; for we believe we speak on good authority when we say that the Queen Dowager has left no property beyond the sums receivable for some insu rances on her life. IRE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. POLITICAL MISCELLANY. The ministry, it is said, will repeal the window-tax next session. It produces about a million and a half. The rumour of the secession of Lord Lansdowne, Lord Palmerston, and Lord John Russell from the ministry, on account of a wish to have a fixed duty on corn, is again revived. .- ... Three hundred thousand persons have emigrated from Great Britain dining the last year, and for the first time of four centuries, the population of this country has re trograded ! Oh ! rare Free-trade! Sir Robert Peel's party is said to be about to commence an agitation in favour of a reduction of the tea and tobacco duties. The 31 orning Chronicle has already given pub licity to a series of articles to pave the way for such a proposition. There is certainly " something in the wind." Frequent cabinet meetings betoken an uneasy state of things within. The external public can know nothing with certainty about internal proceedings ; but little intimations creep out, which at least " show how the wind blows." CONFESSION OF MR. MECIII.—Many of our readers will be amused, but none of them surprised, on learning that Mr. Mechi has been compelled by the force of those stubborn things, which free-trrde cannot overleap—facts, to confess that at present prices farming will not pay ! The admission was made by Mr. Mechi at the meeting of the Coggeshall Agricultural Society on Thursday. REPEAL OF THE NAVIGATION LAWS.—We are very sorry to hear that several of the shipowners of Brigham have ordered their vessels home to be laid up, in conse quence of the present depressed state of the shipping in terest, and there being so many foreign vessels waiting in the different English ports for the results which January 1850 will produce to the detriment of British shipping. In this town it must be severely felt, as it will be the means of depriving many of tte means of employment, who must, with their families, fall back on parochial aid for a scanty subsistence.—Bristol Journal. • SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING.—This petit meeting comes off in March. There will be two days' races, and seven prizes, including the Grand National Steeple Chase Handicap, to which there are at present 20 subscribers. LIVERPOOL JULY MEETING, 1850.—This important meeting commences July 10. The various plates and stakes are fast filling. The CHESTER SPRING MEETING is fixed for Tuesday, v, --a t.ll-„1.. 5 aoyo. Upwarcia of 1400 cove. are given at this meeting. GROUSE IN PEMBROKESHIRE.—Mr. Barham, of Tre coon, has received from the North of England a quantity of grouse and black game, which he has turned out upon the mountains in the upper part of that country. While Mr. F. F. Berkeley was hunting with the East Kent foxhounds on Wednesday week, and was leaping a fence, he flushed a woodcock, which he killed with a skilful stroke of his hunting-whip. He quickly alighted, secured his bird, remounted his horse, and lost so little time that he was one of the first at the death. THE CHASE The CHESHIRE HOUNDS will meet on Astle Tabley Crewe Hall Beeston Broomlands Chohnondeley Ravensmoor Windmill To-morrow, (Wednesday,) the 12th, at Thursday, 13th, at .. Saturday, 15th, at Monday, 17th, at ... Wednesday, 19th, at Thursday, 20th, at Saturday, 22nd, at Each day at half.past ten o'clock Sir W. W. WYNNE'S hOUNDS will meet on To-morrow, (Wednesday,) at Baschurch Station Friday, 14th, at Saturday, 15th, at .. Greddington Each day at half-past ten o'clock. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. The East Lancashire Railway Company have agreed to wark the traffic of the Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe, and West Yorkshire Company. The Aberdeen railway is to be completed next month, when the communication between London and Aber deen—a distance of 500 miles—will be complete. The strike of the engine-drivers and stokers on the East Lancashire railway still continues. A new set of men are employed. On Wednesday last the wires of the Electric Telegraph between Birmingham and London were broken in two, in two different places, by the contraction produced by the frost. Tel!ord's Menai suspension bridge was eight years in building, the weight of its iron works, compared with that of the Britannia Bridge, being as 644 to 10,000 tons, or in the ratio of 1 to 15. The express trains of the London and North-Western railway now take the old route round by Birmingham, instead of traversing the Trent Valley line. The altera tion, besides being a convenience to Birmingham, will effect a saving of some £5,000 per annum. The London and North-western Railway Company have adopted the Guarantee Society as surety for the fidelity of their clerks and officers, and it is stated that nearly 300 policies have been required for the officials in London and at the various stations on the line. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE RAIL WAY.—During the past week this company have success fully launched, broadside, and deposited at the end of their pier in the Humber, opposite Hull, the great pon toon of iron plates, 400 feet long, forming a landing place, by means of descending platforms from the pier, on to which out of the railway carriages alongside, passengers will embark in the steam-boats that are to ferry them in a few minutes across, with the least possible detention. The fabric is 50 feet wide, 8 deep, weighs 700 tons, and was towed to its destination by six steamers. _ FLOATING OF THE SECOND TUBE OF THE BRITANNIA BRIDGE.—This most stupendous engineering undertaking was successfully accomplished en Tuesday last, in the presence of several thousands of spectators. Precisely at five minutes after eleven o'clock, Captain Claxon an nounced that the " tube was free." Directions were immediately given, by signals from the tube to the various capstans, to haul out this monster tube ; and, precisely at fifteen minutes after eleven, the tube was safely brought out of the dock, resting on the huge pontoons, into the current of the tide, and floated gradually down to the recess in the Britannia Rock, and the whole finally completed exactly at fifteen minutes past twelve, amidst the tremendous cheering of the populace and the dis charge of cannon. The raising of the tube will commence in about ten days or a fortnight, which will occupy about a month in completing, and immediately afterwards the connexion of the tube with the land tubes will be very speedily accomplished, and we may confidently expect the opening of the line across direct to Holyhead to take place early in March next. RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—An accident of the most fright ful description occurred on Thursday upon the line of railway between Newark and Lincoln, which was attended with very sad, although, at present, not fatal results.. When the mail train which passes 'Newark station at 4 a.m., had proceeded about three miles down the line towards Collingham, upon passing one of the wooden bridges which, in that neighbourhood, are very numerous, the brickwork abutments to this particular bridge gave way under the weight of the engine, and caused the coupling chains connecting it with the carriages to snap asunder. The extreme velocity with which the train was travelling at the time enabled the engine to get clear of the frightful chasm which was so momentarily made ; but the violent breaking of the chains causing the carriages behind to rebound, each was driven with a crash upon the other, and, after rocking dreadfully for a second or two, the whole fell into the boiling flood beneath. The vast sea of water collected in the valley of the Trent—a more extensive flood than has been known for twenty years past —was at this particular place very deep ; and to this, in some measure, may be attributed the fortunate escape from death of those occupying the various carriages. LAW INTELLIGENCE. A monev.lending case was tried on Monday, in the Queen's Bench. The plaintiff was Mr. Lloyd, a dis counter, of Earl's-court, Kensington, and the defendant, Mr. Howard, nephew and heir to the Earl of Wicklow. " To doing a bit of stiff" together, (as the witness termed it,) Mr. Chichester, a member of Lord Donegal's family, in May, last year, drew a bill at three months for £3OO, on Howard, who accepted it, and placed it, to be dis counted, in the hands of a man named Milton, who ap peared to have had a vast number of residences. The bill found its way eventually to Lloyd, who, it was asserted, had made advances upon the value of it, to Milton, but none of the money reached Howard. An ex-clerk stated that Lloyd paid a certain stipend per week to an attorney, in whose name he could bring actions. The jury found for the defendant, saying that Lloyd had taken the bill after it became due, and had not given value for it. COURVOISIRR'S TRIAL.—Mr. Phillips has published pamphlet consisting of the letters between Mr. Warren and himself, and eight others addressed to him sponta neously by as many gentlemen present at the trial. These letters put an end to the case, if it were not put an end to before. Their respectable writers, all men of education and position in society, come forward with their names and addresses; and having been present when the me morable speech was delivered, and paid " particular," " close," and deep " attention " to " every syllable that fell from the lips of Mr. Phillips," declare, in the most emphatic manner, that he uttered not one word to justify the false and calumnious accusations recently revived against him. Several of these gentlemen also testify to having heard the late lamented Lord Chief Justice Tin dal, who tried the case, speak in high terms of Mr. Phil lips's defence, and at the same time most distinctly excul pate him from all blame whatever, and that, " though labouring under accumulations of extraordinary difficulty. he properly discharged a most painful duty." In the Central Criminal Court, on Friday, Mr. Bodkin asked the court to fix the amount of bail for the appear ance of Lord Dunboyne to answer a true bill of indict ment that had been found against him by the grand jury, for causing a false entry to be made in the parish registry of marriages. The proceedings had been taken under the Gth and 7th Will. IV., cap. 86, sec. 41; and the facts leading to the charge were these. On the 27th August, 1842, Lord Dunboyne married the late Lady Dunboyne, at Paddington Church; and, in the March of the following year, she, as a widow, raised £4.500 by way of mortgage on her estates, representing that so long as she was a widow, she had power to raise money on her estates, which were considerable. In December, 1845, Lord Dun boyne again married her, at St. George's, Hanover square, then causing a false description to be entered in the parish registry of that church ; and that act formed the subject matter of the present proceedings. Lady Dunboyne died in 1846 or 1847. In opposing the appli cation, Mr. Ballantine said that there were now no fewer than three suits in chancery pending about this matter, and the present proceedings were only taken to harass and intimidate the family. Bail was fixed at £5OO for Lord Dunboyne, with two sureties of £250 each. CORRESPONDENCE. PROTECTION!! " AWAKE, ARISE, OR BE FOR EVER FALLEN ! ! ! " TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SlR,—The country is doing its duty ! England is suffering the consequences of unprincipled and precipitate legislation. Her physicians cannot or will not help her : she is endeavour ing to effect the cure herself. Let us not wonder, then, if her defensive exertions should terrify some, and offend others; if her motives should be impugned, her justice questioned, and her policy derided. For this, her patriotism is prepared; to this, her courage is equal ; and, more than this, she has the sustenance of sympathy, and the consolation of influential and increasing counsel: she recognizes the course " that justice warrants, and that wisdom guides" ; and in the consciousness of her rectitude, and the power of her principle, she scorns the treachery of fear 1 _ This, then, is her position! She has had a hard, an adverse struggle; her nerve has been tried, her courage has been tested, her principle is proved !—and shall we, included in the grasp of her object, neglect to contribute to her power I— shall the port of Liverpool make " a sham fight on the Navigation Laws," and then withdraw from the arena 1 !—shall the indig nity offered to our protests be swallowed like " a bitter pill," and but to be forgotten I/ I Surely not 1 We will trust the tactics of our local friends, after suggesting the propriety of a local demonstration. Be true, be constant, be vigilant I The cause is a good one. Conversion has commenced I —reaction is accelerating!- -the public ear is arrested, and its mind employed! Fidelity and zeal will ensure a complete and overwhelming victory I I! Liverpool, Dec. 7th, 1849. " AMOR PATRIA." PROTECTION.-EMIGRATION.-MR. SIDNEY HERBERT'S PLAN, TO THE RIGHT HON. SIDNEY HERBERT, M.P . DEAR have read with much interest your public appeal, through the columns of the Morning Herald, in favour of a project for the emigration of the distressed needlewomen of the metropolis ; and I have since been honoured by Lord Ashley with an application to become a member of the committee. It would always be to me a source of pride and pleasure to co-operate with his lord ship and you, so far as my humble capabilities may allow, in those benevolent objects to which the fortune, time, and talents, of both are so unremittingly and honourably devoted. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___ • But, in the present instance, I have not felt that I could consistently take part, and I have so replied to his lord ship. In your letter to the editor of the Morning Chronicle, you inform us that there are at this moment, 33,500 needlewomen in the metropolis, whose wages vary from 24d. to 34d. per day ! and you depict with vivid force the physical and moral evils inevitably consequent on the disgraceful fact, that more than 30,000 females are driven to accept wages so inadequate even to sustain exis tence. You subsequently state that "we have more capital than we can employ with profit, and more people than we can maintain in comfort." From these facts you deduce the conclusion that the only remedy for the miseries of these unhappy beings, is their removal from the too-thickly populated land of their birth to a British colony in the antipodes, where industry may be secure of more adequate remuneration. This process you propose to effect at a cost of £l5 per head, to be raised by volun tary subscription. Now, if I were satisfied that your premises were true, I might not be disposed to quarrel with the inference. But permit me respectfully to ask, "Is this so ?" 'We have, it is admitted, a surplus capital, the obvious source for providing employment for labour. Are we doing 'all that is in our power to direct this capital into a channel that shall at once prove profitable, and provide employ ment for the distressed needlewomen and others ? Let us see. I have before me the last Board of Trade monthly ac count " relating to trade and navigation," and from it I find that during the ten months ended on the sth Nov, last, the value of embroidery and needlework imported from foreign countries is £86,765, and that of lace and cushion lace £72,945, together £159,710. Supposing the importation to continue at the same rate for the remain ing two months, the aggregate import during the year of these articles (the value of which consists almost entirely of labour) will be £191,652. Nearly the whole of these are brought into London. thus displacing in the metropo lis an extent of female labour, the remuneration of which if distributed there would more than suffice to double the wages of all the unfortunate objects of your generous sympathy. I fully admit that even their remuneration would be inadequate : but 1 confess I cannot reconcile to my reason or my conscienoc the encouragment, in obedi. ence to the dogmas of a miscalled free trade, of a system which first robs of employment thousands of the most interesting labourers engaged in domestic industry, and then offers redress in their transportation from hearth and home, and family and kindred, to a foreign and distant clime, at an enormous expense. . You will sioubtl s. perceive that my scruple involves principles extendi beyond the case of the needle women. It strikeg; avow, at the whole fatal policy of importing the produce of foreign industry—including, of course, corn—and then maintaining the displaced labourer in idleness, or driving him to'exile ; that with land uncul tivated, or imperfectly cultivated, with 17 millions of gold lying useless in the coffers of the Bank, and 666,000 able bodied labourers chargeable to the poor-rates in one year. a sane nation should import corn of foreign growth, and at the same time expatriate 300,000 British subjects, and pay £9,000,000 in relief of the poor, is an anomaly as startling as it is strange. History will record it with as tonishment ; and it is for modern Political Economists and Free-traders to explain and defend it. In the earnest hope that your own splendid talents and the unwearied zeal of Lord Ashley may soon be directed in defending the rights of labour by the restoration of just protection, I remain, dear Sir, Yours, with much esteem and very faithfully, GEO. FRED. YOUNG. Committee-room of the "Association for the Protection of British Industry," Dec. 7, 1849. mina P.eltls. An aggregate meeting of delegates is to be held at Newton, on Thursday, to re-consider the county-rate question. Mr. James Slater, of Ormskirk, has left £5O to the Ormskirk Charity Schools, and the same sum to the Church Missionary Society. The foundation stone of the intended New Savings' Bank, at Ormskirk, was laid on Monday, by Thomas Brandreth, Esq., one of the trustees of the institution. The Wigan Times gives an account of a dreadful ex plosion at the colliery of Mr. H. Woods, Homehouses, - Tuesday. One near , igan. _ne explosion occurred on boy was killed, and five men were injured At a numerous meeting of the 4.-- actory operatives of Wigan, on Thursda3 memorialise her Majesty in f Ili resolved to stocking sit on the same seat appearance betokens self-respect Dec. 11, li4t. whose sons and daughters are nursed in luxury and who fare sumptuously every day ?" ..--, wouj . Such _A the tne stranger - s prion or trus ravoureu L-- cfL , sentiment finds aescri an echo in the hearts of mani, t its estOf zens, as their actions and public speeches plal oq _sot ._ • ac t r al4 Act, and against the relay system. But, as public journalists, we must give ou- - ~, During the past week, Nathaniel Eckersley, Esq., of Liverpool as it is, and in so doing lay bare sceneg Ta ttoo Greenfield Billinge, near Wigan, and Frederick Steiner, and sorrow that will strip much of this self-eN tu p per' Esq., of Hyndburn, Accrington, have qualified as magis from the mind, and pourtray faithfully what we have pet' trates for this county. So deeply has the recent disaster on Aldersey Manor sonally witnessed, neither extenuating nor agg r ' r psay any of its abodes of vice and wretchedness—howeve beg, (the manslaughter of a poacher) affected Mr. Aldersey, ful it may be for us to describe, or our readers °oil'', the owner, that he has instructed his tenants to destroy how deep fallen humanity will sink. A stern nf e d; hot all the game on his manor, and to give away his grey compels us to go into details we would gladly av cd , ts t b e hounds. the evil has now risen to such a height that it te; the A. collier, named Cheetham, living at Over Darwen, has grappled with, or we may have fatal occ asion 1 0 ' l- 0 been committed to Kirkdale, 'for the murder of his wife, ominous words too late. For a season we will Ilb t oli g whom be beat so violently, on the thanksgiving day, that -of the lodging-houses and expose a system which goet she died in about a week. the lowest gin-shop or beer-house into the shade', jig The committee of the Salford Town Council, for the of our r( aders are suspicious that, in many of the dirk management of the corporation gas works, reports that, courts and streets of Liverpool, an illicit whiskeY a l 4 tb ° , " notwithstanding" a reduction of charges from 6s. and is at work • but they have a small conception "are ss. to ss. and 4s. per thousand cubic feet, there has been extent to which the practice is carried. In ° lie d i . • ilt v a great increase in the rental. Should they not have said there are no less than three, and the sale is perfe c t o.; " in consequence" of the reduction ? disguised. The villainous compound is called P t !„,ieea l Last week, a poor tailor's wife died of starvation, in Saturday nights, or rather Sunday mornings, andLiiiti.S ceased anchester. her husband,lt was who were trouroved at the inqseruestmakers, only that the de the whole of the latter day, are devoted to c abb ot i and quarrelling, and fighting. No longer than last ' ,tre e t, earned about 2s. or Is. 6d. a week between them. The afternoon, (and it was not an isolated case,) in % - le s ; husband was able to do but little work, in consequence of leading from Vauxhall-road, a riot (for it w' s i l l: so a very severe cough. He obtained but sevenpence a pair took place, which we hope could not be paralleled l ie 10, for making large men's trousers, and occasionally he town in England. The orgies had been kept i r o lita' earned but Is. during the week ; sometimes both he and his wife lived a whole day with no more than a half-penny- hours, and the outrage was as brutal as it was unPc°„f the worth of bread. and reflects deep disgrace on the conservatorsiot. John Tollemache, Esq., M.P. for South Cheshire, has public peace. It lasted nearly two hours. g" returned in good health from his voyage to America. Mr. policeman came near. Of all the blood-V Tollemache has been laudably engaged in a tour of agri- or sanguinary threats, ever uttered, it be, cultural inquiry throughout the farming districts of the time had the misfortune to hear or witness. vented on an unoffending neighbour, who, it was r : United States ; and rumour says, that the result has fully had given information to the landlord of their ru confirmed his previous conclusions, as to the necessity of house, and occasioned their being turned out maintaining duties on the importation into England of the house itself bears marks of the violence with whi' produce of American farms. It is said that the honoura assailed, but the language beggared all descript ble gentleman is of opinion that, in the article of cheese, did we think in civilised Liverpool (bad as the dairymen on the other side of the Atlantic are makino i ill sce;i 05 • And„o06611; parts of it to be) any persons co ' great improvements, and will soon become much more formidable competitors than now in the British markets. utterance to threats so diabolical. These pandeaLa is at all events, powery be swept away, provi a ` do ; who have the had also the inclination to d o g b , Their localities are no secret, their carnivals 8,,a are not carried on in silence; nor ought dta a ", e b 1 T o t and women (and on this occasion the women we',. e et' the most blood-thirsty and violent) raise half a so long a period without a policeman hearing. dens of iniquity, the last shilling which had ese a p roef 9 4 l temptation of the gin palaco is wantonly and ,r e ,: o el,";; spent ; and then, inflamed by drink and maar l e g knowing the week's hard earnings are gone 'n hours, all the evil passions of the heart are visiel re " all first who may unhappily come in their way. Be % j es t permanent good can be effected either for bodily 0 ! 0 0 1 wants, these pernicious decoys must be rernovea'en bands, mothers with children, and young fel i 0 women, meet there. In one we visited only s aret i ot ago, there were mothers beastly drunk, with e.l,,ict " their arms—and young girls, some of whom etj orto Havc Uevil 11... G, tam. c..clye ur Ulirtevil Y" forming a group not easily forgotten. It o,''otls tp say the man who has earned a few shillings, an"„„ i ned his own house neither comfort nor even light , '",teli these places to find them. Why, everything is as 11 0 1 ; and filthy as his own can be. The very minable ; and vitiated, indeed, must be the taste , l ihro h '' f ; ways than one, that can pour such trash down th e a05,",1 To send ministers aid preachers abroad is, n l i en ';' f c pious and praiseworthy—to instruct the lieg,ipt idolater is most noble and commendable ; ` 1 let eo spend such magnificent sums for these purPes es n liej lt io e also put forward increased energies in order H olt e 14,0 our local darkness, to instruct those in that t 51/ lo t who now only know it to swear by—to ro t te t rot places as we have feebly described, and to inetu— feel' tor beverage.„ t religion on our neighbours which softens the and controuls the evil passions, and proclaims Pea ce ijoa, " d o' to all. Hero, indeed, is a wide field for el er- , patience. Here would be difficulties to overcotae ranee the most dense to enlighten. and vice the (kited to remove. We may be told that we haie, CHLOROFORM IN VETERINARY SCIENCE.—On the 27th ult., a valuable young horse, the property of Thos. Dixon, jun., Esq., of Chester, had to be fired on the two hocks ; to nullify the pain arising from the operation, the respected owner suggested the use of chloroform, which the animal inhaled for three minutes, when he became insensible. During the painful operation, the horse did not evince the least pain, and when turned over, for the purpose of more easily getting to the second hock, remained in the same slumbering state. The time occupied from the commence ment of the operation to its conclusion, was twenty-two minutes, during the whole of which he was perfectly mo tionless. THE FRAUD IN THE ROCHDALE SAVINGS' BANK.— This disastrous event is the only topic of conversation amongst all classes of society. The depositors consist of the most industrious part of the community, and the small savings of the last 20 or 30 years have, in many inntannaa, fnund their nrnp ;ntr. +h. hank viarhip.h magi pgfia. Wished, as stated in the cheque books, January 23, 1818. On Saturday, numbers of the country depositors began to come into the town, and go to the bank ; some to leave their books for examination, and others to give notice for the withdrawal of their money. At times there was a considerable crowd about the bank, but all was very peace able. Mr. Howarth has picked the depositors, and gene rally taken to his private book those who had the largest sums invested, and who were generally bringing in money and taking little out. In his ledger account, when he has taken any money from a depositor, he has written "with drawn," naming the sum, and debiting himself in his cash-book with that amount. From the information yet known, it is considered that the actuary began to take the funds of the bank about the•year 1839, and has continued this practice to the present time. The cheque books are sent into the bank on the 20th of November each year, and the interest is made up to that time, and added to the principal. It is somewhat remarkable that the actuary terminated his mortal career on the previous day. Many persons entertain an opinion that Mr. Haworth caused his death by poisoning himself. As some of the depositors are selling their investments at 7s. 6d. in the pound, a placard is posted in the streets to dissuade them from it, by holding out the hope that the whole of their deposits will yet be repaid them. By the last published report of the savings' bank, there were 1,632 accounts open on making up the books. The report for 1848 states that " the transactions of the year have been on a large scale ; and although the receipts are not equal, by £l,BBl, to what they were in 1847, yet the withdrawals have been less by £8,845 12s. 44d. than they were in that year. During the period embraced in the report, 410 new ac counts were opened, and 598 closed.". What Mr. Ha worth's effects, which consist of a cotton factory, situate at Sutton-brow, three-quarters of a mile from the Blue Pits Station, a life insurance of £3,000, a sum of £3,000 due for twist lately sold, his household furniture, and a splendid set of carriages and horses, will raise, remains yet to be seen. It is supposed that all these will fetch a sum less than £20,000. If a preference be given to the depositors, there are a few •creditors who will be great sufferers.—Manchester Guardian.—We regret to find that the defalcations greatly exceed the sum (£35,000) originally mentioned. As far as the investigation has proceeded, it appears that the deficiency will amount to between £40,000 and £50.000, and it may eventually turn out that it amounts to £70,000. It is said that, in law, the trustees are not liable. -o to - ,1) f chllPol.l, chapels, teachers and schools ; cannot they att er "; almost nakedness and filth attend where deee%i spectable people go ? Will those with neither se val°6e ibeyb ete If HOOTON HALL The sale was resumed on Tuesday. The sideboard and cellaret in the dining-room were purchased by Mr. Nay lor, for sixty-one guineas. The dining tables, 23 feet long by 7 feet wide, purchased by Mr. Wright, of Alston, near Oswestry, for 35 guineas. The carpet for the room and hearth rug to match, the former 27 feet 6 in., sold for 27 guineas. The window curtains, of rich crimson silk damask, sold for 32 guineas. This was much below their original cost, which amounted to £l3O. A Brussels car pet in the drawing-room brought 4s. 2d. a yard. The curtains for the windows in this room, made of rich crim son satin, edged gold-coloured silk orris lace and gymped, trimmed with gold-coloured epaulet fringe, were bought by Mr. Blake for 26 guineas each. The same gentleman purchased the chandelier, being an elegant piece of cut glass for ten lights, for 9 guineas. He also purchased two rosewood and gilt console tables, with marble slabs and pier glasses, for 26 guineas each. Mr. Turner was the successful bidder for a grand cabinet piano-forte, of six and-a-half octaves, by Broadwood, for 30 guineas. A set of eight gilt elbow chairs sold to Mr. Wright for two guineas each. A timepiece, in ormolu stand, style of Louis XIV., by Payne, of London, went for £lB, to Mr. Crowther. A pair of extremely handsome blue and gold French China vases, richly mounted with ormolu and stands for ditto, and oval centre piece to correspond, was sold to Mr. Gould for 48 guineas. A pair of six-light candle holders, upon bronze and ormolu pedestals, went for twenty guineas. „ In the small drawing-room, the damask window cur tains sold for 51 guineas the. set; cost price, £93. The large plate of glass, ]27 inches by 64 inches, with marble topped table, went for 100 guineas ; the other plates cf glass in the same room, of smaller dimensions, en suite, brought 50 guineas each; and the large mirror over the mantlepiece, 70 guineas. An Axminster carpet sold for 34 guineas; the splendid cabriolet centre ottoman, 30 guineas ; a seat ottoman, 16 guineas ; a Sutherland lounging chair, the same price ; a devotional chair, 10 guineas; a handsome inlaid occasional table, the top lined with crimson morocco, gilt edged, and mounted ormolu, 41 guineas ; a circular 100 table, to match, 36 guineas ; an inlaid walnut table, 28 guineas ; a remarkably elegant French timepiece, mounted in ormolu and Sevres china, most elaborately painted, was bought by Mr. Bold for 56 guineas ; two French vases, fitted as a lady's workbox, sold for 71 guineas ; a workbox in the form of a steam ship, with silver funnel, mast, and sails, was bought by Mr. Stokes for 16 guineas. A timepiece, supported by an elephant, was bought by Mr. Bold for 11 guineas. The bidding for the work boxes was remarkably spirited, the ladies advancing the price in brisk time. Thirty-seven guineas each was obtained for the satin damask window curtains in the library. The carpet brought 36 guineas. A plate of glass, 76 inches by 50 sold for 31 guineas. The dwarf bookcases, with gilt mouldings and trusses, enclosed with doors of brass trellis work, lined with amber silk, brought respectively 60, 31, 26, and 35 guineas ; they were all bought by Mr. Naylor. The chairs in this room sold well ; so did the tables, one of them producing 20 guineas. The amide- Tier, an extremely elegant piece of workmanihilh bre 30 guineas and a half. t'd A Fr ench timepiece in the same apartment, Or tijr Cupids, sold for 15 guineas. ost In the principal bedroom Mr. Wright was the alastal, be tensive purchaser. He paid £3B for a can o p y ttres s, £2 for the straw paillasse, £3 103 for the has t° doira £5 12s. 6d. for the bed, X 4 for a bolster and pillows. A handsome winged wardrobe in thisfour rola' for 35 guineas to the same gentleman. Am T e h n e gs p t a t i h nt e i m ng w a eomnaynimdeanytiebnro,,u,grhhte Bztoliesrainbgleol;..."pissriesseegi rus," by Lairesse, bought by Mr. Bushell for 26 l o tT re isof " Elijah and the Woman of Zarephath," it° bought by Mr. Bushell for 32 guineas ; " Sea Fie Shipping," by Vanderville, Mr. Bushell , £l6l vet rise," and " Moonlight," a pair, by Shaw, fi r 16 guineas ; " Tha Madoaa del Gatto, by Bp Mr. Steele, £l7. ad t he For the Wines, &c., the biddings were spirited, cl,tties prices obtained very good. The first lot, 3 2 e Zdri, Chablais, brought 325. per dozen ; 42 bottle s Cchhaammppaaggenee, were sole, s p e e le r dfroezmen,isb.uttese4vse.ral other . the Claret varied from 59. to 12s. 6d. per bpoettrlebll; de° l34l- 4s. 3d. per bottle ; Hock 4s. 6d. to 6s. per bottle . pe r gundy 4s. 2d. per bottle ; Constantia (pints)' ° bottle ; Malmsey (pints), 3s. 9d. per bottle. .liP2l ceeded in quantity any other wine, the prine of the vintage of 1834, and contained 42 0300°,40 prices varied from 70s. to 925. A variety of 01.5 which averaged 10s. per bottle, brought t o a cic'se portion of the sale. A sing The sale of other articles, as noticed in our au v columns by Messrs. Churton, will be resumed to Dec. 11, 12, and finally close on the 13th instant. The following is the result as far as we can leapg; First day, £573 ; second day, £505 ; third da34,74,70; fourth day, £390 ; fifth day, 855 ; sixth day, seventh day, £873. LIVERPOOL AS IT IS! a 3 10 1; How many will ask, "Is not Liyerpool the e 0 1 0 of the world—a city whose merchants are price s ' docks and merchandise are the envy and glory ° —whose public buildings are the pride of the o loc licl ennob ledbears s — wealth whoo thee with V Na aiiend, it must be in ragged churches or eparoP,' o 9 all will be on an equality. We were wholly al ec te; o ce we saw ourselves, that so many plague=spote i t ifVo o town. At every turn, some new and blight.,„ing; re to morality, order, and decency met us. I '`ot• stable must be cleansed, but gigantic is the lab° 01 610 must begin at once, for the evil is hourly, acc u f o l oo t il We must not be staggered at the almost instill bo A t obstacles which lie in our path. It is a ec'noli P- f 0 self-interest and duty, and it will also prove! id iot; heartfelt gratification to us, and be the bes'l,ol/11, can leave our children, not for them to know `` .- 1 0 6 jolec pool now is, but what Liverpool should be; Cr o d e , where their parents found filth, wretchedness,ABlo they have left to them cleanliness, comfort , an' POLICE INTELLIGENag EXCISE INFORMATION.—On :Friday Th° r° o 7o 9 , and William Barratt were fined X3O or two T ps - ble - , 4 , prisonment, for having an illicit still in P eas'. Wright-street. t On Wednesday a rough-looking fellow, nar c ; h er! o tb A e was fined £5 for ill-using his wife. Among °,`" t so b ior ties he kicked and struck her, threw kai ve- bet - A weapons, and swore that he would be her butc A t ic/i Christmas. Wg Oa eh j 't ) r OBSTRUCTING A REVENUE OFFICER.-- A ri,6 day Captain Bronifield, of the ship Liscard, 0 0 ;0 7 '4 with having, in defiance of the officer, loaae d d to b i ; e s ll his luggage and other articles, to be convel e he ti P be l',,'c house. Defendant also struck the officer , w oiti" c ll, 4 , a policeman stopped the cart. Mr. Rushtoat icb. o ro e no alternative but to convict, under the a c c :o ol l7 s ,:i, regretted he could not contravene. The 0 0, rtheceonmcommanamintttieodnfowriisl be ixm s o en n t th b s y w th it c h bheenrcablato" t he 1* : pit 0 . requesting a mitigation of so severe a senteacer;id'o, OBTAINING GOODS BY FORGEB.Y. --A ,fl Ge man named William Smith, or rather Nv r,45 5' 1; ' r e Friday, committed for trial at the precten' a ead having obtained goods from various trade - .4, 1 10'0 1 #1, town by forging orders, purporting to ,b e „tot e t spectively by the Rev. W. Badnall, incuaw e ,rro 0, tree, and Robert Neilson, Esq. The 0ri1 e 30 10 5 ,4 knives, forks, and other hardware, for gr. a, fr o q• hosiery, &c., for Mr. Neilson. Suspicion a_r:to, t e ly Reay, of the Guardian Society, was appealnppre:oti pHoelicheadb:uinngninegmlypldoiryeeddetdhteheprisoner Wa s ] ; lci:de parcels toa d ow 00 houses of respectable parties in the tow n, on his calling for one of them. ALLEGED ROBBERY OF MONEY.—On a r e g et' iffe ° lo 6 man named Joshua M. Mortimer, wa s c GTO re f s' in g stolen £lO 6s. from Mrs. Anne Kean, 24, 0 5 o 1 street, with whom he lodged. The pris" er ideo" e r pof, ded until Wednesday, when no further c c th e bo a'oel charge was adduced. Mr. Owen, solicitor,,,,o ff employer, said he could bring forward a P er iZeon,s l ; l l give the prisoner a good character. Mrs a threat had been used to her on the pre'i co P,,.00 / 0i Carr, Mr. Owen's principal clerk, to il'u tr ea P a yr oe transpired, prosecute. th C a a t rr so w m a e s i s m en p t ro fo p r e , r a la n n d g i u t s ;_P e r - d i r o : fjo t , jo e her by him, relative to getting back Pe' an ill Rushton advised Carr to be more cautionk, al if such conduct were repeated, he would not see prisoners at all. esl4)ll.i'fii HYDROPATEIY. — We find that a hYdr ° P (i as";l o sl o ,ll ment has at length appeared in this ter o vo lt " Ferns " is situated on the w es B e d Alderley Edge, on the Manchester a n ti ent,„,o " o ) line of railway, a locale much fr e lubr i ,%ls4lo admirers of the beautiful, and whose 53 i ti vo P descriptions. The has been long attested V t r b descriptions. The presiding phys,clops Johnson, is a son of the well known by ` tb, Dr. Edward Johnson. This ge ntleman the r sician, as far as we know, who has ha d osvill to receive a hydropathic education• reror; his father's practice ever since the latterst pathy, which was soon after it was " er jeac; o l England, he must have acquired by detail.elP knowledge of his art. For more 00' readers to the advertisement in another bt th ews % re thi th e Rev , eticceed€ ,\T\Srs.„-i -r.if -E ., 1.1 age, '4,041er-! " s u oUt e i kie a , „ 0 Wh at t i t rn Ar r. '29nstalil tg-lett ttse in e t f ro `lf the leats w c i ,eat for gad Geo !Plia ttnt ir 'Y h i t o 4 t hat ` , at k ß i slutu .. owd tlth oriz tbealifc 4 6 , :a .f f G nAT ()te the E a nY eh; 1 ut s 4 eY stn p e ° ll 2 e s e ..6d Boos_ 4O('rdfded ‘V at 111 es; Ibbd ued 1 / 4 th /L.° A v. 0 1 1 ,100: Itlen on th n e v