The Sun. — London, England, 1857-04-17 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. Letters from Liverpool state that the Cotton Market yesterday closed rather firmer, and a better business was done. The sales amounted to 7,000 bales, 3,000 of which were taken for export and on speculation. The Railway Share Market was steady, and prices remained without any alteration from those current on Wednesday. The Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets during the week have been rather dull, owing to th e season of the year and the depression which naturally re sults from the disturbance in monetary affairs. Some articles, however, have been in good demand, and the aggregate transactions have been quite as extensive as could have been expected. Sugar has met with a good inquiry at full rates. Colory plantation coffee has declined is. per cwt., but other kinds have remained steady. In tea a fair amount of business is reported, common con7ou being ls. to Is. old. per lb. Rice is dull, saltpetre quiet, and cocoa a trifle cheaper. In spices very little has been done at late rates. Tallow is inactive. The specie, &T., received by the Atrato, just ar rived from the West Indies, is as subjoined : Silver . Gold and Dust Plata, Pina, and Bruta Pearls $242,643 443,158 38,975 5,000 Total 5729,776 The Panama, for the West Indies, which leaves to-day, takes out 60,3001. in specie —viz., 44,300/. in gold, and 16,0001. in silver. The dollars brought by the last Mexican packet have been sold at id. decline—namely, at 600. per ounce. At the half-yearly meeting of the Commercial Gas Company, held to-day, a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum was declared. The opinions expressed in the leading journal relative to the position and prospects of the Money Market have been discussed in City circles to-day ; and it is almost unnecessary to remark that they are in some respects considered erroneous. One statement especially is objected to, viz., that the financial pressure in Paris has been mitigated by the investments made in Rentea and Railway Shares by English capitalists, because it is known that the amount of such securities held here is very small. The purchases on English account have been limited, and quite insufficient to reawaken confi dence or diminish the depression at Paris. With regard to our own. Money Market there is certainly little prospect of its early amelio ration, as numerous circumstances continue to divert capital from its legitimate channels. Be sides this o ur no t e c i rcu l a ti on i s no t sufficiently l arge, too great a desire exists to promote joint stock enterprise at home and abroad, and there are . 17°411 3' minor influences which militate against au Improvement. The general demand for money to day is very active at full rates. The Funds opened flatly, but despite the gloomy 'laws indulged by many, they are now firmer, and the tendency is more favourable. Speculation continues dull, as a desire exists to ascertain Whether the efflux of gold will recommence, and if 80 , whether on a large scale. Consols have been 92 4, 921 93, and 924 for money ; while for ac count the business is recorded at 934 The present values are respectively 93 to 931 and 93,1 a. The New Threes are 9492. The Reduced 914 1. The March Exchequer Bills 6s. to 4s. discount, and the June ditto 10s. discount. A. very few bargains have been concluded in the Foreign Market. Turkish 6 per Cents, have been 941- Sardinian 5 per Cents. 901, and Danish 5 per Cents. 101. This was all the business which took place up to 1 o'clock, and since then the mar ket has remained dull. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :•—Grenada Deferred Bond s , 6 7 ; Alegi an, 23 1 ; Peruvian 4 . 1 1 per Cents., 76 78 ; do. 3 per Cents., 54 6 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 441 ; Rus -B!an 5 p er C ents., 1 04 6 ; ditto 41 per Cents., 95 7 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 41 4 ; ditto Deferred, 241 51-; ditto Certificates, 6 ; ditto Passive, 5i 6. Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co. state that there 18 no change to notice in th 3 market for Ame rican Securities. Business continues inactive, and Prices remain stationary GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Redeemable. Per Cent, 't 41 ed States 6 per Cents. 1867-1868...1053 1061 United States 6 per Cent. Bonds 1868...106 106 A Alab ama 5 per Cent STATE SECURITIES. t Yland 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) ip s sachnsett s 5 p er C en t. (St er l. B on d s ) t la isai9pi 6 per Cent. Pl. Bk o.oed, 1841-1871... 40 42 lt, e isaissipp . i . 5 per Cent. Union Bk Bonds ... 16 18 E n nsylvania 5 p er C on t. Stock • ... 75 76 Pe nnsylvani a 5 per Cent. Bonds '877... 80 81 e n nessee 6 per Cent. Bonds ,Orginia per Cent. Bonds 1886... 83.1 841 Ir ginia 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bond s ) _1888... 84 86 OANS . koatre a l 6 per C ent. L OF CITIES Bonds 1856-1865... 82 81 lievr Orleans 6 per Cent. Stock 1883... 75 77 RAILROAD BONDS. Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Ist Mortgage, not Cionvertible 1875... 91 92 Illinois Central 6 per Cent 1875... 86 88 Illinois Central 7 por Cent. Freeland P Bonds 1860...106 108 Illinois Central (Shares), $3O paid... 2B 30 p Michigan Central Bp. Cent., Convert 1860... Do. do. do. ....... 1869... 90 92 New. t ,, York Central 7p. Cent., Conv er t 1864 ... 93 95 'lei' , York Central 6 per Cent., not New 1883... 81 83 York and Erie 7 per Cent. 3d Mort „gage 1883... 81 86 .11.. York an d E r i e 7 p . C en t. C onver tibl e 1862 ... 78 80 .11 • York and Erie 7 per Cent. Sinking fund 1875... 83 85 •Panarna. 7 per Cent., Ist Mortgage 1865... 93 l'c nnsYlvania Central 6p. Cent.. lst Mort 1880... 88 b 9 The Railway Share Market has been rather active, and prices generally have exhibited more buoyancy. An advance of about 2 to 1 per cent. , 14 - 4 5 - be quoted on m o s t o f th e pr i nc i pa l under ''''kings. Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee, Great Western Midland, and North-E as t ern (Berwick), i mproved ss. ; Eastern C oun ti es, ss. to 10s.; Ca ledonian., Lancashire and Yorkshire, and North- Western, 15s. ; and South-Eastern, 1/. Brighton ruled rather flatter. Great Luxembourg and Sambre and Meuse were firmer, but Geelong and Melbourne and Grand Trunk of Canada declined about ss. to 10s. British, F ore i gn ,! an d C o l on i al Mining Shares have been dull. North Wheal Bassett realised 24, and Great Wheal Alfred 61. In Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares prices have shown a slight decline. Commercial of London, and London Chartered of Australia de clined ss. to 10s. ; Australian Agricultural Shares ... 89 91 _l9B 100 B RITISH FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES —THIS DAY. (iron) the Official List:) guAin,.. it, Bank Stook ! Per Cent. Reduced Annuities t Per Cent. Console &nnxities 921 i 3 2i i 3 •,„."`v 3 per Cent. Annuities 9ll g 2 11 2 ';ew 2 } per Cent. Annuities 76 "eg Annuities, expire Fitt. Jan. 1860... ' D itto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 l7 15-16 i 18 India. Bonds, 1,34100 Ditto, under £lOOO 5 d C onsols for Account ..... -- 9 31 i 11 E /cheque r Bill s , 24d. Marcie. I June. 4:1009 £5OO 3 d 5 (1 . Small Ditto Bonds, 1858, 31 per Cent. ... 984 i i • . PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS—THIS DAY. Brazilian 5 per Cent. ... I) '%., New, 1829 and 1 8 39, 5 per Cent 994 aniele Bonds, 3 pee Cent., 1825 .., Ditto 5 per Cent rererviau Bonds, 44 per Cent --- ? Ditto Account 764 D 4t uguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841 -- itto 1 853, 3 per Cent. 45 '`ussi;th Fiends, 1A22, i St., 5 per Cent — Ditto, 44 er C t riNardinian Bo p uds, zuDLit.to en Cent. P it nith Belids 3 per Cent. New D'Oferr;3per WI • "th D itto Ac s Bo ount 6per cent 94 4 944 i cultic) Guaranteed, I per Cont. v nezuel a B onds, 44 per Cent 37} # ~, . Weil', .n.. more =rahto In i den. Bnteh Exchange, 2A per Cenl., 12 Guilders 643 THREE O'CLOCK. Ditto Consols, money - - Account (May 7) 934 a 1.1. a, at the WWI:ILAN]) ROADS AND BRIDGES —A report on the th i l - ;hland roads and bridges, yesterday published, states operations of the commissioners last year were I'llobt confined to the maintenance of the works in their Zflilnary state of repai r . Th e summer and autumn were f 4 ked by repeated storms, ing nowhere an ver°ll lidabl e casualty, but in the aggregate more than the y usual annual amorist of deterioration to the wcrks. The tPeo diture in th e w h o l e o f the (inclu d e d) coun ti es f or repairs W4S lees than in 1855. LAW INTELLIGENCE.— ;This Day.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings in Banco—Before Lo►d Campbell and Justices Wightman, Erle, and Crompton.) Lynn so to . He ed of mu, The iered m to open away na,da L con satis- atber orOUS. tura" Le m over- trists. o the death ssina- [arch, ars, as 'enin reated I w ith ne dr/ ~ In' 4,32 0 issingt hange Iferior .angea at ev 'Myr. 950 0 brio. ) ackifi weds ) rove• nited, prices iambs 6, to caw° price° I d o 6 5 5 S 0 30 0 v 90 40 7 0 .., 1 ° 4 1 ° 5 ° 5 ° Woo 1109 1 "eala rear. tiel° r lb; An a Ber n aili are ova oca ssio ;her THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 18 M 7. (Loud applause) Eminent as be has been as a mer chant, with transactions which have partaken rather of a national than of a local character, he stands out in boll relief among those eminent merchants—among the galaxy of commercial men of whom Liverpool may in deed be proud ; and, thank God, we have had numbers of men of that character, of that talent, and of that benevolence, who, by their enterprise, have sent their ships to penetrate into every sea—their sails have whitened every shore ; they have been the means of con necting us with distant lands—they have been the means of giving employment to our manufacturers, by their enterprise in exporting the manufactures of Englishmen ' to other countries, and importing those raw materials which cause the chimneys of Manchester to smoke, and give empl , •yinent to the porters on our quays. It is such men who have raised this port from being merely a fill ing village to the gr6atest commercial emporium in the world. (Applause.) Unassuming as my friend here is in private tile, he has yet been selected to represent the great commercial and manufacturing district of Lanca shire in the Imperial Parliament, and faithfully and hen: ourably has he performed the duty imposed upon him. (Applause.) Of his princely munificence you have today had a striking example, and therefore you ace judges quite as well as I am. But just as that princely merchant, Guy, has connected his name with Lon don by the hospital he founded, and just as George fLriot has connected his name with the mag nificent educational institution of modern Athens— ae will the name of Mr. Brown—(ipplauee)—be for ever connected with Liverpool; and future generations will point, to the magnificent establishment, of which this day the first stone was laid with chewing, and will re member the name of the beneficent founder, and bless him f.ir his benevolence. (Applause.) Gentlemen, it needs no words—it needs no graceful terms, to tell you the estimation in which he is held by his fellow-towns men. The assemblage which I see before me, which has been brought together for the purpose of doing him honour, is far snore eloquent than the most burning words er the most thrilling thoughts. And, gentlemen, we are able to present to that institution a portrait of my excellent friend by Sir John Watson Gordon ; and there is a well-known sculptor (M`Do well), present at this moment, who will be much more familiar with the linea ments of nay friend's face than even I myself am before long. (Applause.) The portrait is to hang in the building of which he is the donor. His statue is to stand among the distinguished men whom I see in some of the niches of this magnificent halla-(load applause and cheers)—a tribute of respect from the- corporation and from the town. But although we shall possess that portrait as a memorial of him, and though his statue will stand in one of those niches to convey to future genera tions the lineaments of him whom we have assembled to honour, I trust it will be long before we part with the original,.and that it may please God in His bounty long to spare him, that he may still employ his great wealth in blessing others, with a full knowledge that those blessings veil fall upon his own head a. hundredfold. Gentlemen, I know that my excellent friend loves not the language of eulogy, but still the proceedings of this day cempel me to use it. I, however, will say no more than this, that I call upon you with one heart and one voice to do justice to our eminent townsman. I simply, therefore, propose to you the health of William Brown, and I call upon you to do justice to it standing, and to drink it in three times three. (Immense cheering.) Air:—" The Fine Old English Gentleman." Mr. BROWN then arose, amid great cheering, and said—Mr. Mayor, ladies, my lords, and gentlemen,—lt is impossible for me to be otherwise than embarrassed and nervous to find myself thus unexpectedly honoured in being asked to this magnificent banquet by my fellow townsmen, to mark and commemorate the occasion which has brought us together, and still more so from the very flattering manner in which you, Mr. Mayor, have been pleased to mention my - name. I am not vain enough to suppose that I deserve a tithe of what you have said. • Laying the foundation stone of a Free Lib rary naturally turns our attention to its educational ad vantages ; and I trust all those who are desirous of im proving their minds, and who in our prosperous town I hope are not few, and attend there, as knowledge is of the first and last importance to make useful and respec table members of society. Nothing contributes more to a man's happiness than to endeavour to mr.ke himself master of his respective calling, and to cultivate a taste for scientific and literary pursuits. When we look round us, and see the advantages that arise from them, it is the duty of us all in our respective walks of life to aid them as far as lies in our power. No age of the world has been more productive than the last 100 years of that talent and-that genius which have conferred the most important benefits on mankind. Taking into view our commercial advantages arising from our mineral wealth, a - climate most favourable to continuous labour, and our perfect freedom of action under a constitutional Government, I see no end to our onward progress if we avail ourselves of the advantages we possess. The more we advance the greater field we find fir further advance ment. The more we know the better we see our way to obtain further knowledge. I have no pretensions to be a man of science or a man of letters, but I hold in the highest estimation men who employ those talents with which they are blessed for the benefit of their fellowmen. Our quays and our docks would cut a poor figure without the aid of the botanist, the chemist, the mechanic, the en gineer, and many others who pursue useful and philosophi cal pursuits, which are every day making progress towards greater perfection ; and we must all feel greatly indebted to those noblemen and gentlemen who are endeavouring to reconcile those unfortunate and unhappy differences of opinion among religious sects that have hitherto pre vented a harmonious union for the general education of the people. Let us hope that those difficulties will soon be surmounted. When we consider the intelligent arrangements of our Transatlantic friends who have ac complished that end, and the care taken by them for the education of every class, it can create no surprise, on reading the reports of the Royal Commissioners who were sent out to their Industrial Exhibition, to find the progress they have made in the useful arts of life. We must exert ourselves in this honourable competition to preserve our caste among the nations of the earth, by having an equally well-educated people. Science has already done much for us. It has made that giant power, steam, subservient to the u , e of man—l may say to bridge the ocean, and to set at defiance both the winds and waves, and has furnished this little island with a manufacturing power which could not be ac complished by the unaided manual labour of two Chinese empires, or 600,000,000 people. But what are we to say of a more recent application of a power which can carry a message for us at the rate of 188,000 miles in a minute ? It is not impossible that means may be found to make it a still more powerful agent than steam. I hope and expect, before the year is out, we shall be able to send a message from the Old World to the New as quick as thought. It is clear we live in an age of progress. The Times announced the other day that it is probable we shall not be dependent on raising silk worms for the production of that valuable raw material, as it has been discovered that it is in the leaves of the mulberry tree, and can by a chemical process be ob tained from them to any extent. If this discovery can be carried out with economy, it may make a com plete revolution in the use of cotton by the substitu tion of silk ; and we may see ou r f ema l es c l o th e d i n robes that added to the dignity of a Roman Empe ror. Discoveries of this kind fill us with wonder and amazement. They are due to advancing science, and I think clearly point out that there is yet an immense field of enterprise open to the world. The long peace we had from 1815 to the commencement of the late Russian war was no doubt extremely favour able to human progress.. Let us hope that our difficulties with China may be of short duration, and and in an hon ourable adjustment of our differences, and that peaceful commerce will continue to ex';encl, and carry Christianity and civilisation to every part of the habitable globe. We cannot but feel ourselves in an enviable position that it has been our good fortune and, our destiny to plant the Saxon race, with our language, our laws, our literature, and our religion, in some of the most rising countries in the world, who feel an honest pride in acknowledging our paternity, where family differences never should arise to disturb that good understanding and harmony which now happily everywhere exist, and which it is the duty of all to cultivate and perpetuate. It is impossible for me to sit down without again assuring you, collec tively and individually, that I duly appreciate the honour you are conferring on ma, So long as I live I shall ever look back on this day ah one o: the most happy and most pleasing of my life ; and I again beg to sincerely thank you. "The Health of the Members for South Lancashire (Mr. Brown and Mr. J. Cheetham)" was drunk with three times three. Mr. CHEETHAM, in responding, spoke in eulogistic terms et Mr. Brown as a representative of the people, and as a man who had extended his beneficence in the manner they had witnessed that day. He who struck off the fetters of the slave or enlarged liberty was a bene factor, but he was one of the greatest benefactors they could have who sought to elevate intellectually, morally, and religiously his fellow-men. He congratulated Mr. Brown, too, in being his own executor in this business, and in thus showing a determinatiou to perpetuate the institution, delivering it from all future chances of mis appropriation, by connecting it with the Corporation of Liverpool. Beiog in their bands it could not, ,without gross negligence in the citizens themselves, be diverted from its original object. (Cheers.) • "The Members for the Borough" was given from the Chair, and received with applause. Mr. HORSFALL and Mr. EWART having responded, Mr. HORSFALL gave " The House of Stanley."—l am sure, he said, that the toast will be received by every one with that cordiality and with that admiration of the conduct of the Earl of Derby and of Lord Stanley' to which they are so justly entitled. (Cheers.) This would not be a fitting occasion on which to bring forward the records of history, where the House of Stanley has stood in an honourable and pre-eminent position for centuries past. It would still be a less fitting occasion to allude to the political career of the Earl of Derby or of Lord Stanley ; but I am quite sure ti , at it is a fitting occasion for Liverpool gracefully to say to the son that they enter tain the highest respect and regard for his illustrious father —(loud cheers)—one who takes so deep rAn interest in the welfare of Liverpcol, and which has been shown on no occasion more than a recent one when he pre sented to the inhabitants of this town a moat magnificent collection of natural history, now known as the Derby Museum. (Cheers.) Sir, I w ill only venture to ex press one hope—one in which I am sure every individual in this building will join, and that is that the illustrious head and the illustrious heir of the house of Stanley may long be spared, not as mere hereditary ornaments, but that they may long be spared to add, as I am sure they will add, wisdom to our Legislature, and exert their best energies for the prosperity of our country. (Cheers.) I beg to propose to you "The House of Stanley." The toast was drunk with enthusiasm. Lord STANLEY, in replying, said—My lords and gen tlemen, I am afraid that Mr. Horsfall might have found the same fault with me that the deputy-mayor has just found with one of your borough members. (Laughter.) But whether I have or have not paid my town dues— (laughter)--in that sense, I hope I know how to pay a debt of gratitude which I owe, and which I feel to such an audience as this upon such an occasion. (Hear.) Gent!emer, I could at no time hope to make myself heard by all, or even by a majority of those whom I now address, for at the present time I have rather parted company with nay voice—l have lost it in a good cause —I have lost it in cheering your townsman and my neighbour, Mr. Brown. Gentlemen, it is with more than common pleasure that I rise upon such an occasion to respond to such a toast. Bdic,'cen the family which I stand here to represent and the town whose guest I have the honour to be, there has existed for several cen turies an intimate and unbroken connexion. (Hear.) If we are to go back to those old times—l believe it is now something more than 500 years ago—nearly one t welfth of the whole recorded annals of the human race— since an ancestor of mine obtained a licence from the Crown to embattle and fortify a house, the site of which lies some where, I know not exactly where, buried ainong the crowded streets and buildings of this vast commer cial capital. There may be some vanity in such remi niacences of past limes ; but, standing he - e, I may iee permitted to say that none ca❑ more rejoice, none can more exult in the present greatness and the glory of the Own of Liverpool than those to whole forefathers were committed the charge cf watching over its earlier and still undeveloped infancy. Gentlemen, we are told that society in the present day has changed, and in some re spects it is so. (Hear, hear.) Our improved means of communication everywhere, the rapidity with which transit is effected from one part of the country to an other, have done much to dispel local prejudices and to destroy provincial peculearitiee. But, though they may have destroyed prejudice, and though they may have de stroyed provincial peculiarities, though they may have fused as it were the various elements of these pecu liarities, into one similar whole, I do not believe that those characteristics of the present time have destroyed it—l do not believe that they have mate rially weakened those ties of local attachment and local sympathy which are founded upon common interests wi:;11 the present—upon common remi niscences of the past—when a mutual repository of friendship and good offices plays so important and valu able a part in our social system. (Cheers.) At least I know this, that in that political arena—the House of Commons—where my lot is chiefly cast, we who come from Lancashire, notwithstanding many diversities of public opinion and conduct—whatever may be the poli tical ranks in which we serve—are apt to look upon one another with feelings of mutal friendship and goodwill. (Hear, and cheers.) We are proud, and justly proud, of the intelligence and activity of that section of the population among which we are called ; we are.proud, and we may well be proud, of the vast influence which this county exercises over the counsels of the State— (cheers)—we are proud, and it is a reasonable pride, of the more than common proportion of eusineet men whom Lancashire in the present century has contributed to the national service. (Hear, hdr.) :And, gentlemen, I'think the ceremony which we have witnessed tc-day shows us that we have something else of which we may be proud. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, with what we see and know before us, it would be not merely an injustice, it would be not merely a calumny, it would be an ab surdity, and a contradiction to palpable fact, were any one to assert that the great maritime and mercantile in terests of England are less patriotic or less interested in national affairs than any other class in this or any other country. (Cheers.) They have borne ungrudgingly their share, and something more than their share, of the public burdens. (Cheers.) They have never hesitated, when, on such questions as peace and war, which some times arise—they have never hesitated, when occasion called for it, to sacrifice their private interests to the general advantage of the country ; and they have not only not shrunk from taking upon themselves the burdens and the responsibilities of property, but they have gone out of their way to bear burdens which no of her person could have laid upon them, and to undertake responsibilities which they might fairly and honestly decline to assume. (Cheers.) There are, gentlemen, I hope and believe, many proprietors of wealth—perhaps I should say most of the proprietors of wealth—who regard that wealth as a trust, and who are willing, more or less, to use it for the public service; but it is a pecular advantage of those whose property is of their own creating that they are enabled, being comparatively free from the claims which custom and society impose in the case of heredi tary fortune—being more, in fact, the masters of what they possess, they are enabled, if such be their pleasure, to contribute far more largely and more directly to the requirements of society and of the public. (Cheers.) That, gentlemen, is a great advantage, and notly that advantage has been used. (Cheers.) I will not weary you by repeating what, in one form or another, has been said a hundred times to-day ; I will only repeat in public what I said just now to Mr. Brown on private, that I envy him his feelings on this occasion. And I will only add, that though, as we all know, he is well acquainted with the best modes of investing to capital advantage, I believe he will find that this last investment is the best he ever made. (Cheers.) The town of Liverpool may thank him for contributing what will be hereafter and in future always one of the principal ornaments of its streets ; the friends of education may thank him for having given an impulse to the cause which puts to shame the compar, tive apathy both of individuals and of public bodies elsewhere—(cheers)---but public men may thank him, and England may thank him—and it is to this that. I attach the greatest importance—for giving to those who are not possessors of wealth—to the poor and to the labouring classes of this country—a sig nal proof that wealth is viewed by those who possess it, not as a means of pleasure, not as au enjoyment of luxury, but as one means among many of obtaining the' respect and the gratitude of our fellow-citizens—(hear, bear, and cheers)—as one means among many of alleviating those bard thoughts and that envy which, in a country of occasional distress and unequal fortunes, will inevitably arise—as one means among many of doing good and permanent service to Eng land, and of promoting the progressive improvement of mankind. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, if a gift like that which we are this day celebrating had been obvi- ously dictated by any motives of ambition, you wou'ld accept it with thanks, but you would feel that the giver had had his reward. (hear, hear ) If, also, it were a posthumous benefaction, you would think the donor en- titled to your thanks, but you would feel that the gift had been made at no sacrifice of present enjoyment. (Hear.) But, as it is, you are well aware that Mr. Brawn can have no personal object or interest to serve, except, indeed, the wish that I apprehend is felt in all generous minds—the wish of honourably connecting his name with the history of the community among whom his life has been passed. (Cheers.) He will see, we trust, the comple tion of his own liberality. (Hear.) He will live to wit ness the enjoyment which many thousands derive from the gift which we are celebrating this day. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, some allusion has been made toan institution with which a member of my family has some connection, and which is called, I believe, the Derby Museum. lam afraid that is, in point of magnitude, very unworthy to be compared with the gift of Mr. Brown ; but I cannot help expressing the gratification that I feel on hrarinj that the two are to be coupled and connected together in the annals of this year. (Rear.) Gentlemen, before I sit down let me express to you i❑ my father's name his re• gret that it was impossible for him to be with you el-dsy, (Hear.) The cause in which we have all been speaking is one to which no eloquence can do more than justice ; and I can only express my sincere regret that you should not have been enalled to have his advocacy instead of mine. (Loud cheers.) Mr. J. C. EWART, M.P., gave "The health of the Right Hon. Sir John Pakington." tLoud cheers.) , Sir J. PAKINGTON, on rising, was received with cheers. He said—Mr. Mayor, my lords, and gentlemen, I am deeply grateful for the kind and cordial reception which you have done me the honour of extending to one who personally is a stranger among you. I should be guilty of affectation if I were to deny that I am both grateful for and gratified by the manner in which my hon. friend, the member for Liverpool, has so kindly, and, I fear, so partially, referred to my exertions on that gnat question, the education of the people. But, gentlemen, deeply thankful as I feel fi r this kindness on your part, I feel yet more grateful for the compliment whien has been paid me in inviting me to attend here upon this occasion, and to be a witness of what I cannot but feel—with my mind altogether free from local bias or local partiality one of the most striking, one of the most gratifying scenes which in my life it has ever been my lot to wit ness. (Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, it is true that I am one of those who think that the struggle between light and darkness, between ignorance and knowledge, is not yet satisfactorily settled in this country. (Great cheering.) It is true that I am one of those who do very deeply feel that the condition of ignorance in which so large a portion of the population of this country, both in our crowded towns and in our rural districts, yet remains is not only, as my hon. friend has said, a national die. grace, but it is a national danger. (Cheers.) Acting upon this conviction, it is true I have endeavoured to arouse the feeling of Parliament and the feeling of the country into the belief that the time had come when prejudices should be banished, and when difficulties should be trampled undo. foot ; and that thus, by the exertion of that strong, energetic will which Anglo-Saxons know well how to employ when fitting occasions call them forth, some scheme should be adopted to bring a sound education to every man's door. (Cheere.) But, gentlemen, I feel no less .deeply that any exertions, any humble ex ertions, of mine in this direction, or of those who act with me in this great cause, are really as nothing corn pared to that magnificent benevolence and generosity, that practical mode of giving, while we are only strug gling to achieve what the generosity of my hon. friend has given. (Cheers.) I am glad to find that you thus wel come a sentiment which I assure you I feel with true and heartfelt sincerity ; and if anything could have added to the satisfaction and pleasure with which I, as an Eng lishman loving my country, hail an act which does hon our to my country, it is to see, as I have seen this morn ing, the manner in which the people of Liverpool appre ciate that act. I believe that many of those around me must have felt as I myself did fed this morning while 'they walked in procession through your crowded streets, that of those thousands who swarmed around us on every side many a man would live to bless this day—would live to feel that Mr. Brown's generosity had given to him the means of intellectual cultivation, and thus have saved him from the miseries of intoxication, if not from the penalties of crime. (Cheers.) I believe, gentlemen, that were any of your wealthy citizens disposed to act as Mr. Brown has acted—l believe that human sagacity could not have devised a wiser or more benevolent exer cise of his liberality than by founding, as he has done, a free library for this city. (Cheers.) We are indebted to an hon. friend and schoolfellow of . mine, whom I am happy to see at this table—l mean Mr. Ewart, the mem ber for Dumfries—we are indebted to my hon. friend for an act of Parliament which enable populous localities to adopt the advantage of a free library ; and I think that e' he who h as s t u di e d t h e subject will agr e with me ' that wherever the free library bag been established it has proved a signal blessing to the people, and nowhere under more striking circumstances have its advantages been found than in the neighbouring great city of Man chester. There you have a free library within the same walls, and occupying the sari • rooms, which were foended and built for a Soeia'ist ball. That which was debasing, that which contained within itself the lements of everything mischievous and destructive, has been, by the liberality of the citizens of Manchester, converted into a fountain from which the blessings of knowledge and enlightenment are flowing largely atnong the people. Here, in Liverpool, you will enjoy those blessings under circumstances no less remarkable, no less startling. Here you will et joy them from the princely liberality of one of your most ro-pecteel citizens. (Cheers.) We hear much, geetlemen, on the subject of education—much of the vcluntary principle.' Never has England yet had each a noble instance of the voluntary principle—(loud cheers)—as Mr. Brown has this day afforded us. But I fear that Yall who have the means have not equally the will, and in many places we find neither the means nor the will. Other means must be resorted to if you wish to educate the people; and here again I find that in the town of Liverpool you have a sphndid illustration of teat agency by which the voluntary principle may be assisted. I find that you have schools in which are educated many thousands of children, and which are supported bye rate levied upon the people, and paid out of your town-dues. Here you have, in my humble opi nion, in your own town a solution of the difficulties of thisepiestion. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) You have a noble instance of the voluntary principle ; you have the deficiency of that principle made up by the taxation of the people, which they willingly submit to. (Hear, hear.) This is not an occasion en which it would bo ' b c ming in me to dwell fu r th er up on th e d e t a il s an d difficulties of this great and interesting question. I have adverted simply to the fact that I think in this locality we do find au example which other Englishmen may well follow. (Che,rs.) I will not detain you longer than once more to cffer to my hon. friend my heartfelt congratulation upon the scene which I now see before ine. I never witnee=ed so striking an example of the great principle of "honour to whom honour is due." (Cheers.) But certain do I feel that, although my friend, Mr. Brown, must appreciate the manner in which you have this day recognised his noble act, through those prosperous and happy years which are still in store for him, be will find his best reward in the reflection of his own mind. (Cheery.) I feel that this noble hall, the pride of Liverpool and one of the orn amen t s of England, never has been used in a nobler cause ; and I believe that every one who now fills this hall, every breast here, must be animated by the earnest hope, the anxious prayer to which I hope you will allow me now to give utterance, that the events of to-day, that the ceremony of to-clay, may be blessed with the largest measure of enecess which the generous founder himself could desire ; and that the institution which this day has been inaugurated may through many coming gene rations diffuse among the population of this town those blessings of useful knowledge, of intellectual enjoyment, and religious instruction—blessings which will be among the greatest and most enduring that can be enjoyed by the inhabitants of a great and prosperous town. (Loud and continued cheering.) The Rev. Rector CAMPBELL proposed "The health of Mr. Win. Ewart, the member for Dumfries." (Cheers ) Mr. W. EVTART, M.P., in rising to respond, was vehe mently applauded. He said--My lords and gentlemen, at this period of the entertainment I shall not feel my self justified in detaining you long ; but I cannot but feel my long and early connexion with this great, in creasing, and magnificent town. I boast of my con nexion with it—with its ancient industry, with the opu lence of its commerce, with its past, its present, and I hope, to a certain extent, with itt future. Yet, I should ill express my feelings if I did not say that I thought that the end of our commerce was something more than mere commerce itself. In vain, gentlemen, do you ex tend your docks to the ocean—in vain have you a forest of innumerable masts,• unless you have some ulterior object, and that ulterior object is the elevation of your fellow-townsmen and countrymen. (Applause.) This great town I hope is destined at some time or other to achieve something of the intellectual fame of Athens, while it will infinitely surpass the commercial fame of Carthage and of Tyre. Gentlem,n, my right hon. friend Sir J. Pakington, and my rev. friend who had done nee the great honour of proposing my health, have alluded to some exertions of my own in this very cause of pro moting free libraries for the benefit of the people of this country. I confess, as my right hon. friend has pro bably experienced it in the cause of education, it is some what of an arduous labour to force such a question through the Legislature of this country. And it may be compared to that sort of labour which is described by one of our most eminent poets when he says— "As Sisyphus against the infernal steep Heaves the huge rock, whose motions ns'er may sleep." Such is the destiny of many a man who toils in the cause of education. And yet, gentlemen, I recollect that, in the committee over which I had the honour to preside, there was one object over all others which they laid down as desirable for the people of this country, and that was that they should have the power of educating themselves. Gentlemen, lam al.nost afraid sometimes, in these days of public examinations, we may lay too much stress upon mere educational examination. lam for that sort of free scope being given to the line which may enable the people to form themselves by free and independent development, and not to inipPse upon them to too great a degree the shackles of a sort of Govern ment system of examination. (" Hear, hear," and ap plause.) It has been truly said by Edward Gibbon, in the account of his own life—" Society stimulates the in tellect, but solitude is the nurse of genius." And it is my belief that more will be done by this free and public institution than by beaurocratio rules, borrowed from foreign countries—although we may burrow something from them with great benefit and good effect. Another principle laid down by the Committee on Public Libra rie, of which I was chairman, was this, that the esta blishment of such institutions would encourage the dona tions of private individuals ; and here we see that prin ciple exemplified in the illustrious example of our illus. trious townsman. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, I can conceive, as has been truly said by the noble lord who has honoured us by his presence, and delighted us, as he always does, by his observations this day, that no situa tion is more enviable to a citizen of this country than that of Mr Brown at this moment. But, gentlemen, Mr. Brown stands not only before the present genera tion—he stands also before posterity ; and he may enjoy the purest of all pleasures, the sense of feeling his good acts will be felt when he can no longer feel them. It is, perhaps, a sort of divine pleasure to feel that when we are gone, and are no longer sensible to what passes in this ;eosin below, there are others on whom our deeds will confer benefits ; and that sort of superior and almost divine pleasure may be shared by those who do such deeds as this day have been done by our honoured fellow -townsman, Mr. Brown. (Ap plause.) Gentlemen, I will detain you for one moment lenges-. There are others who have done good service in tics great local act. There are those in your Town council who have formed your Free Library Committee. They have toiled in silence, but they have toiled with good effect ; and at the head of it, the chairman of the committee, is a gentleman with whom I have had the honour to consult on this important subject—l mean Mr. Picton—(,pplause)—and I propose to you, gentle men the health of the promoter, the advocate, and the friend, of your local free library—" The Health of Mr. Picton." (Applause ) The toast was responded to with enthusiasm. Mr. PicTox then rose and said, Mr. Chairman, I feel it difficult, if not impossible, to express myself ade quately on the present eceasion. To have had my name Was publicly brought forward and recognised in con nection with the proceedings of this day—a day ever to be honourably remembered in the annals of Liverpool— will be to the latest period of my life a subject of pleas ing recollection. It is about seven years since the sub. jest of a free public library was first brought under the notice of the Town-council of Liverpool. The want of such an institution had long been hit ; there needed but a voice to give utterance to the feeling. I only did what any one else might have done equally well or better. The result has been such as far to surpass the most sanguine expectations of all concerned. From this day begins a new phase in the history of the institution. A fit local habitation is all that is wanted to elevate it to its proper rank ; and Ois e thanks to the munificence of our noble townsman, we shall soon pessese. Permit me to say, in retiring, that no one can despair of the future of England when we see the interest taken by the lead ing public men of all parties in institutions like these. To see on one platform my Lord Stanley, with his Expansive and generous sympathies with every move ment for the intellectual improvement of the masses ; Sir John Pakington, who has nobly burst asunder the ties of party in his efforts for the education of the people ; William Brown, our old friend and townsman, who, after a struggle of twenty years', has succeeded in realising a permanent and stable foundation for the establishment of libraries and museums. When I see these and men of kindred stamp coming together to aid us in doing honour to one of our townsmen, who it may be truly said is one of those who "Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame," I feel that there is hope for our country. If England, csmparatively uneducated, could achieve suc h rs in arts and sciences, what will she not accomplish when light and knowledge and wisdom are brought within the reach of all ? ' Mr. MONCKTON MILNES, Mr: Deputy Mayor and GentlemeP, it doesthen rose not become and said-- who has been invited to tbis banquetto refuse any thing, otherwise, after the inter est dis courses you have heard, I shoul d have thought and various thought it hardly became me to increase the number of your speeches. But t to any one who:has. b een interested in any way with the literature of his country— to any one who has contributed to that literature, in however slight a degree—to any one who has mixed in the political affairs of life, ant whose mixing in those political affairs has directed his attention towards the intellectual education of the com munity—to any one thus interested this meeting ,must be one of especial importance. It does not become Inc in such an audience as this, and to such a Man as you, sir—it does not become me to speak of the advantages of education. It does not become me to speak to you of 1 hooks—you, who know th e i r va l ue j ust as we ll as I do. I would rather image to myself, Mr. Mayor, what would I have been the feelings of a stranger coming into this city this morning, and witnessing this singular spectacle. I think it possible be might have said, when he saw the busy mart of Liver Pool suspended—your shops shut, your active population have said idling in the streets—ho mig ht , " What is this for?" And when L.' Oa told b it was to ce l e b rate the foundation of the library, he gt, 1 have, said, -" What does Liverpool w an t w i t h boc)i.:: 1 What does Liverpool, whose population has been quad rupled iu the time of Mr. Brown, want with the re searches of hoary antiquity ? What does Liverpool, which is making the history of England, want with reading history ? What has Liverpool to do with geography, when she can learn by sending her ships, her noble fleets, forth to every sea on the globe—when she hears the various languages in her streets and on the ships that crowd the Mersey I" But there have been among you persons who have another feeling, and who have felt that Liverpoo could do good with books. And the stranger might have told you he had been in various cities and on historic sites—he had seen magnificent libraries !Ong together, covered with dust, unread and unrewarded ; and he might have told you the costly libraries of Venice did not pr.,- vent the deeay of that great city, or many other of the populous haunts of men. But he might have been answered, as Mr. Brown would have answered him, that these cities fell because they did not know how to corn. bine the material and moral elements of mankind—be cause they did not know how to bring together tho activity of daily life and the intellectual interests which hooka can furni-h and intellectual means can supply. (Applause.) And, gentlemen, the library which you ara about to establish will not be one of those which lie hid in musty and unnoticed book-cases, but a library which: has a monetary circulation—which will be current among the people. Your books a ill be bills of hand, passing from hand to hand, bearing interest wherever they go— the best of interest. (Applanse.) And if that stranger; whom I was trying to bring before you, came from one of those countries of the globe which does not enjoy, as we do, the advantages of free institutions, he might have been astonished at the aspect of the celebration ; be would have seen your flags flying, your populace shout ing—ail in honour of one of your private citizens. The would have seen the most spontaneous effort of respect and veneration which a free nation could show to a free man. And when you heard the salute firing from your fort in honour of the Princess born yesterday, you were glad to combine those sounds with the shouts for the princeot the people which you base heard to-day. (Applausa ) And, gentlemen, we must remember that thi s ce l e b ration has a meaning. There is a large population far away over the Atlantic—our brothers in another hemisphere. (Ap. planes.) I would call Mr. Brown a citizen of bothi worlds—(hear)—and in many a crowded city of our brethren on the other side of the Atlantic will the celea bration of this day be read. It is he and such'as he who have brought together the two great countries of Eng-. laud and America. It is he and such as he, before the electric wire had been laid underneath the surface of the, great Atlantic, lying on a rock which Providence seems to have raised for the special purpose of uniting the two great empires—it is he and such as he who have brought together these two nations by the electricity of common interest and common sympathy and feeling. It is my object to bring before you and to drink the health of .a citizen of the great republic of the United States. That. connexion which Mr. Brown has established between the material interests of England and America Natha niel Hawthorne has done much to cement. (A,pplauee.) His " Scarlet Letter" has struck to the heart of every man with whom it came into contact. He has built bin house of " Seven Gables" in every town in England, • and as for his " Twice-told Tales," we well wish they had been told ten times. (Laughter and applause.) Gentlemen, therefore, in giving you the health of that distinguished citizen of the United States, and that dis tinguished citizen of the literature of the world, I be. lieve you will join with me, and that you will feel you are in no degree deviating for the special purpose for which we have met together. (Applause.) And those two great nations, speaking the same great speech, car rying out in the main the same great institutions, are the hope and the blessing of mankind—the hope of the future world, and, under Providence, a blessing to the nations. I give you "The United States of America." The toast was enthusiastically responded to. Mr. N. HAWTHORNE, United States' Consul, said—Mr. Mayor, my lords, and gentlemen, I appear in this hall •before you, not in any individual capacity of my own, but as the representative of my country, and especially of the literature of America ; and I heartily wish the li terary men of America had a better representative—one who has done more for the cause of literature than I have done, and oue who could have acknowledged batter than I possibly Pan the honour that has been conferred upon them. (Cheers.) The bon. gentleman who has alluded to me has made allusions also to some productions of my own. That praise, gentlemen, is the more valuable, coming as it does fro m one wh o is so eminently qualified to express an opinion when a thing is well done. His praise is very gratifying, for there is nothing in literary reputation so dear to an American as a knowledge that he is considered worthy of commenda tion in the land of his ancestors. (Loud cheers.) But, gentlemen, I must not forget that I am not speaking ' here in my own behalf, but on behalf of the literature of my country, and on behalf of the literary men of America —the poets, the historians, the novelists of America. I thank you, for I have no right to decline any applause which you may be pleased to award to them, how much soever I might feel inclined to decline that honour to myself individually. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) The circumstances of our country have directed much cf oar attention to the rough side of life, instead of to those softening is fluences which are favourable to literary pro ductions ; but it is something to me to think that we have accomplished an act of gratitude—of heartfelt gratitude—to England. It is something to my country men to know that they have yet maintained the old A nglo-Saxon spirit, and that it has some hold upon them now in their literary pursuits. It gives me happiness to believe this, because the more we return to you for the great measure of enjoyment that we have received from you the more we shall aid you in promoting peace and goodwill, in which I hope the two nations will ever con tinue, because every American who has written books which England is content to receive into her literature has contributed something to that excellent result. Having responded to the toast which has been proposed, I might sit down, but I cannot do so, and you will par ' don me ; for, as has been justly observed, had the ties been drawn but a little closer, America would have called Mr. Brown her son. (Loud cheering.) At all events, he has the connexion by Wood, by' friend ship, by affection, in all the interests of life, which we shall certainly not forget, neither will be. (Loud cheers.) It is good for our country that there should be such men—men connected with one country, and with another, and yet not the less true to their own beloved land. (Cheers.) It was proved, and not very long ago either, that it was good for both countries that he was here—(hear, hear)—that he grasped one in *his * right hand and the other in his left. Sir, I assure him, on behalf of my fellow-countrymen, that we are always as proud of him as if he were one of us ; we are proud of his good deeds, of his illustriotis life, and of his great acts of noble and enlightened beneficence. (Cheers.) This last is the deed conceived in the very spirit and done in the very spirit in which an enlightened benefactor should seek to benefit his country—by considering the means by which he might best promote human happiness throughout the world. Gentlemen, I thank you. (Cheers.) Mr. BROWN gave the " Health of the Deputy-Mayor," and that gentleman having responded the proceedings terminated. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(Tbis Day.) LONDON, April 17.— . Windthis day at noon, S.; mode.. rate breeze and cloudy. PORTSMOUTH, A prill6 —Wind S.W to W. S.W.— Sailed —Her .Iqljesty'B steamer Himalaya, for China. PLYMOUTH, April 16.—Wind S. W.—Arrived—Mill Bay, from Bridport, for Newfoundland. Sailed—Countess of London, for Quebec. CORK, April 15.—Wind W.N.W.—Sailed—Adeline Cann, for Richibucto. LOWESTOFT, April N. —The Volusia, from Sunderland to London, has been assisted off the Holme Sand. OFF HURST CASTLE, April 17, at 7 a.m.—Atrato West Indies. FALMOOTR, April 16.--Wind S.W.—Arrived—Anna, from Honduras, with decks swept, loss of bulwarks and stancheons. FREDRICKSHAM, April 16.—The Joseph Clarke (Amen• can ship), with cotton for St. Petersburg, is stranded three miles west of the Scaw Point. Wind S. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning. Arrived—Evelyn, from Mobile ; George Green, New . Orleans ; Ben Nevis, Bombay ; Pigeone, Antwerp ; As= tarte, Keoseve. Sailed—Home, for Quebec; Radnagore, Mutlah; Lioness, Havre ; Camilla, Newfoundland ; Magdalena, Mentor, and Maria Catherine, Narva ; Hulda, Kiel ; Thomas and Wil liam, and Annandale, Newfoundland ; Dauntless, Mar seilles; J: Marcus, Min de, Frederica, John, and Ed ward, for Bordeaux ; Diligent, for Oporto; Atmosphere, New York ; Bedford, Konigsberg ; Arctic, Calcutta ; Argestes, Newfoundland ; Salem, Quebec ; Addie Snow, New Orleans ; Nicholson and Canada, Newfoundland ; Treaty, St. Petersburg; Benedict , Riga; Cornelia, Narvac Industrious, Leghorn. QLTEENSTOWN, April 15. Wind W.N.W. Arrived—Stirlingshiro, from Savannah. , TCI Friday, R 21 9.40 13.) a. M • Fin weather fine. d(tiwY ebb;Bt3fidAentihrrrgeeAhquAi.nys:EisTEi Arrived, 16th —William Gilles, from Calcutta ; St. George, Callao. Arrived; 17th—Lionne, from Gravelines ; Highland Mary, Callae. Sailed, 17th—Albert Augusta, for La Rochelle ; ire. grins Oliver, for Hong Kong; Northumberland, for tho West Coast of Africa. DEAL, Friday, 9.26 a. m. Wind S.S.W., moderate. Passed—Earl of Chester, from Affulmein, for London. Anchored—Vesta, for Quebec; Zaino, Swansea—both from London ; Wave, from Sunderland, for Iceport. THE EXPLOSION NEAR SWANSEA.—The inquest upon the three persons killed by the explosion at the Go rse Colliery on the 9th inst. was held on Wednesday at the Traveller's Well, Casbadell, about two miles from Swan. sea, and within a short distance of the colliery, before Mr. Charles Collins, coroner for the district, and a jury consisting of 14 persons. Mr. Thos. Evans, Government Inspector of Mines for the South Wales district,' win present, and Mr. J. T. Jenkin, solicitor, of awanses, appeared to watch the proceedings on behalf of Messrs. Richards and Glasbrook, the proprietors of the colliery. Several witnesses were examined, but, as the eviden se as to the cause of the explosion was imperfect, the in. quest was adjourned to the 29th inst. T HE CONDEMNED CRIXIN AL NATION. —This criminal, culprit.p nd s f our H e is o s r da five to whose execution is Lured to take p lace in front of t he Somerset County Gaol , at the usual hour, at noon, oe, the 21st inst., has regu larly received the ministrations of the rev. chapliathin toheethuer.oghaaopl,pywhll s hours daily with to maintain his self-possession in a remarkable degree, although be now entertains no hope of a reprieve. Re was again visited by his fat her en Monday, when the old man entreated him to e‘'.infess his guilt and prepare w for another w orld. His sol icitor, Mr. Taunton, spent me time with him, but the prisoner made no admission PG- crime, or of the justice of his sentence. He takes of his nparentty with a got id appetite, but at night his f)od at. • depressed and rilstless. On Monday he wrote an autnon, + boo k, published by ' the see r ms l/th , et 'tory letter to o ne of his relatives, and ex pressed a wish . 13E !' t . id a be li e t n " : b. bo e t should Tract Society, which L. b , at ch, wick. be given to his brother.—f. OHOLLET V. HUMAN. Sir F. Thesiger this morning applied to the Court for a rule to set aside a verdict which had been returned for the defendant in this case, which had been argued on a former occasion. The plaintiff complained of an in fringement of a patent, of which he was the possessor, fur the preservation of meat, vegetable, and other sub stances for use on board ship. To the plaintiff had been assigned by the original discoverer all property in the in vention, which had been patented, but objection was taken on the part of the defendant that such assignment had not been duly registered. The learned gentleman contended that according to the provi-ions of the act of Parliament notice of such objection should have been given, which bad nrt bees done in the present case. Rule granted. KENRICK V. ROEDER. Mr. Eit;in James, Q.C., moved for a rule calling upon the defendant to show cause why the verdict which had been given when the case was first tried should not be set aside and a new trial granted. It was an action for a criminal information in which the plaintiff alleged that defendant had debauched and had had criminal con versation with his wife, to which a plea of not guilty bad been entered. On the hearing of the case, the whole question turned upon, whether or not the plaintiff was bound to prove his marriage, which had not been previ ously traversed. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for 201., but as the decision was not considered satisfactory by the plaintiff, the present application was made. Rule granted. Sittings at Nisi Prius.—(Before Mr. Justice Coleridge.) GLANNILLE V. KEYMER. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a coffee house keeper, in White Lion-street, Islington, against the defendant, the landlord of the Norfolk Arms public-house, at which a loan society was held. It ap peared that the plaintiff being in want of some money, applied to the loan-office, and after some negotiation, a loan of sixty pounds was granted to him, he giving a bill of sale to the society as security. The plaintiff engaged to repay the loan by instalments of 101. every three months. On granting the loan the plaintiff said it was clearly understood that be should have eighteen months to repay the money, and it was on that understanding that he signed the bill of sale. The first 10/. became due in October, but on the money not being forthcoming his goods were seized and sold by public auction. The whole case turned upon the construction of the deed under which the goods were taken. A verdict was given for the plaintiff, damages 601. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. (Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn.) BELLLIOUSE V. THE CORPORATION OF MANCHESTER. The arguments of Sir F. Kelly, on the part of the plaintiff, occupied the court the whole of the morning. It was an action against the Corporation of Manches• ter by the plaintiff, a wool merchant, who, in cons& quence of the construction of a certain bridge, had had his premises inundated with water, whereby a great quantity of property had been spoiled. EXCHEQUER COURT. (Before the Lord Chief Baroo.) DALTON V. BACHELOR. Mr. Whateley reeved for a new trial in this case, which was an action for the recovery of compensation for in juries the plaintiff hal received in consequence, as he allege'', of the negligence of the servants of the defen dant, the ewner of a timber-yard. It appeared that a man named James, a carman was hired to convey some timber from a certain dock, and as the plaintiff was crossing the road, the cart was moved and he received an injury on the leg. It was contended that James, not being a servant of Batchelor, but merely a person who had a contract to perform a certain duty, that Batchelor was not liable for his acts. The learned gentleman had not concluded hie argu ments when our report left. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK.-DIVIDEND MEETING. To-day was appointed for the anxiously expected divi. dend meeting, and a great number of persons who bad not provel on the previous occasions were generally admitted without opposition. Mr. Roxburgh appeared on behalf of a gentleman named Ramsay, who had proved for 7001. on a deposit account, and 691. 24. on a current drawing account. The assignees, however, bad for some reason refused to pay the first dividend, and he now applied to his Honour for an order directing them to do so. Mr. Linklater, for the assignees, said that they had not had any notice of the intention to apply. Mr. Roxburgh said the assignees were fully aware of the facts, and, having allowed the debt to be proved, the assignees were bound to pay the dividend. Mr. Linklater said that the ground of refusal WM that Mr. Ramsay was the holder of 10 new shares, and a call had been made by the directors of 501. per share, for which he was liable; if there was more than that due to him be could prove for the difference. Mr. Roxburgh said that it bad not been decided that he was liable, but all be (Mr. Roxburgh) asked now was that a note should be taken and put on the proceeding, so that an appeal might be had, and that was certain , which ever way the decision was, in order to set the question at rest. The case was adjDurned. Mr. Roxburgh then applied on behalf of a Mr. Fronde, to prove for 2701. on the drawer's account, and 5001. paid for shares, which, he contended, he bad been induced to take through false representations. His Honour intimated that, assuming there had been fraud, be could not decide the question finally, and it wnuld be better to adjourn till a future day and take the evidence, so that either party might appeal. The case was proceeding and proo:s taken. The list will not be made up to-day, but there is little doubt but that the dividend will be 2s. 6d. in the pound. CITY SHERIFF COURT. (Before Mr. Prendergast, Q.C.) PALMER V. PULLIN. - EJECTMENT. This was an ac:,ion in ejectment. The plaintiff is a builder in Great St. Bartholomew Close, and the de fendant was the tenant of a house in Markwell-street, belonging to the plaintiff. Mr. Buchanan, Basinghall-street, appeared for the plaintiff to prove the tenancy, but an objection was taken that oral testimony could not be received, as there was a written agreement existing. Mr. Buchanan said he would put in a written paper, but did not tender it as evidence, but the defendant might make it so if he thought proper. Defendant's attorney objected that it was not stamped. His Honour read the do'ument, and said that it was clearly an agreement requiring a stamp. Mr. Buchanan contended on the authority of a case p. 184 %Voodfall, that no new tenancy had been created, and relied upon the original verbal contract, and put in the receipts. His Honour said that he considered that it was a new contract, and that the agreement must be read. Mr. Osgood, the chief clerk, said that as the officer of the Court he was bound to take an objection to re ceiviog the document, unless the amount of the duty an d a penalty of 101. was paid into Court. His Honour regretted that the law was so stringent in such a case, for persons might easily put something into writing which might prove to be an agreement re quiring a stamp. Mr. Buchanan at first paid that he would pay the penalty, but ultimately elected to be no nsuited. MILITARY TRIAL.—A soldier, named Scipion, of the 95th regiment, was on Wednesday tried by the Military Tribunal on the capital charge of striking superiors. On the 12th January last, he returned to his bar racks drunk, and as was his custom when int ox i cate d he began abusing and striking his comrades. O ne o f them went to complain to the sergeant, and b e f ore he returned Scipion struck another, named Vincent, who expressed his annoyance at being so treated ; Scipion struck him a second time, on which Vin cent became much irritated, and declared that if he struck him again he hold repent it ; the man, how ever, did strike again, and Vincent seizing a form felled him to the ground with it by a violent blow on the head. Scipion, with blood streaming from his wounds, went as soon as he could to the sergeant to complain, but found that Vincent had preceded him in doing so. After hear. ing both parties, the sergeant declared that Scipion was originally in the wrong, and accordingly ordered him, after getting his wounds dressed, to go to the salle de police ; but instead of obeying, the man struck a corpo. ral who advanced to take him to the infirmary, and he afterwards struck the sergeant. Ho was immediately seiza6 and locked up. Before the court, the prisoner, who presented himself with his head shaved, and with large scars on his scull, declared that he was completely be wildered by the blows which he had received, and was not aware that he had struck the corporal and sergeant. The tribunal condemned him to death. LIVERPOOL FREE LIBRARY AND MUSEUM. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 16. The banquet given by the town to Mr. Brown, as some mark of its appreciation of the munificence dis played by that gentleman by his princely gift, was held at St. George's-hall. Upwards of 800 persons were pre sent, the principal table being occupied by Lord Stanley, General Sir Harry Smith, Lord Talbot, Sir J. Paking ton, Mr. M. Milnes, Mr. N. Hawthorne,.the Bishop of Chester, Sir J. P. K. Shuttlew.orth, Major-General the Hon. Sir Edward Cost, Mr. J. C. E wart, Mr. J. Cheetham, Mr. T. B. Hor4all, :&c. Mr. James Hohne again officiated for the Mayor, Mr. Shand, who was prevented by illness from being present. Grace having been said by the Rev. Mr. CAMPBELL, the Rector of Liverpool, The CHAIRMAN read the following letter which had been received from the Earl of Derby : " Lord Derby presents his compliments to the Mayor of Liverpool, and regrets that his absence from home for the re mainder of this week will prevent his having the pleasure of attending the ceremony of laying the first stone of the new Museum, on Wednesday, and the dinner afterwards at the St. George's•hall He regrets this the more, as imiepen dm-10y of the personal interest which he cannot but feel in the occasion, he would have had much pleasure in paying, by his attendance, a well-merited tribute of respect to Mr. Brown for his liberal munificence and public spirit ; and he will be greatly obliged to the Mayor if he will have 'he good ness to offer to that gentleman this expression of his feeling , . " Knowsley, April 13." The DEPUTY-MAYOR gave "The Queen," wishing her Majesty a speedy recovery. (Cheers.) Air : " God save the Queen." " Prince Albert, Albert Prince of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family," was also received with enthu siasm. " The Health of the Bishop and Clergy of the Dio cese" was given from the chair. The Lord Bialicip of CHESTER, in responding, spoke thus of Mr. Brown and his gift :—I beg him to be lieve that there is not any person present hero who agrees more cordially than myself in all the public testi monies of honour and respect paid bim by all classes of Liverpool this day, on an occasion which, let me say, interests all classes—l say, it interests all classes. A public library had became a public want ; and I am glad to hear it, for it is the necessary, the happy re• stilt of the progress of education among the people. I know very well that the education of our people falls short of the point which we wish it should reach ; and many men, prominent in station, have turned their minds to devise some practical plans to extend the benefits of education, and no one indeed more than our distinguished visitor with whose company we are now honoured—S;r John Pakington—(cheers)—one who, if he has shared th e fate of many phil an th rop i s t s —if hp has not been abla to gain universal assent for his own particular plan,bas cer tair ly gained unit ersal respect and honour for the enlight ened philanthropy which has prompted his energies and his efforts. (Hear, bear.) But let the defects of education be what they may, I may say that even in my own me mory education has made great advances in this country —great advances in almost all classes—but I am going to mention only one—l speak of the class of superior ar tisans, mechanics, and working men. (Hear, bear.) The persons who compose that class are most of them well instructed in the elementary parts of learning, and are naturel'y eager to increase their stock of knowledge. There has been latterly an intellectual appetite and taste created in them which seeks for intellectual food. A new class has been added to the reading public of this coun try. But the classes of which lam speaking—the per sons composing those classes are not in a condition to afford libraries in their own houses. God be thanked, every one of them can have at home one book worth all the books in the world beside ; he can have the Bible at home to•call his own to bless and sanctify his household and all that it contains. But for other books, if he is to have access to them, he must depend upon public libra ries for the supply—libraries where men of his class can go and borrow works for the payment of a small sum, or without any payment. Now, our worthy friend has come forward at this moment to supply what I have de signated as a public want—a free library for Liverpool. (Cheers.) Things have been tending to this point. All things were in a prosperous turn for the last step, which we have now reached, for a large collection of books had been already formed, and was ready for the public use through the enlightened liberality of the corporation of Liverpool. The experiment has been tried for more than a year—more than two years—and has been found emi nently successful. Multitudes have flocked to profit by the opportunities thus afforded for their intellectual im provement, and I rejoice from my heart in that success. But one thing was still wanting--a building fit to receive that collection of books, with such additions to it as will from time to time be necessary, in order to keep pace with the progress of literature and knowledge. That want has been supplied also, and I rejoice that my friend has been the man to come forward to do himself and Liverpool the honour of erecting the Free Library and Museum for Liverpool. It will contain a store of use ful, instructive, and entertaining books in every depart ment of our literature. No doubt care will be taken to exclude .all immoral, all improper books ; care will be taken to do that. I grieve to say that I have seen it stated in the public prints that vast numbers of such im moral works are continually issuing from the press. I grieve, I say, if this be so. But if it be there is one comfort, that the foul and loathsome publications shun the light of day—that they hide themselves away with the consciousne , s of guilt and shame upon them. The Free Library supplies an antidote to these—a. store of wholesome, healthful general literature, such as will fos ter good principles and generous sentiments and manly spirit, such as, under God's blessing, will not only en large the understanding, but improve and puiify and elevate the heaTt. I rejoice that we are on the way to see the af.coniplishrnent of this great work. I rejoice at the step that has been taken to-day, and I rejoice also to understand that the building, when completed, will re ceive that magnificent collection of objects of natural his tory which was presented to the town by the Earl of Derby. (Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN next gave "The Army and Navy," coupling with the toast the names of Lieut,Gereral Sir Harry Smith and Lord Talbot. (Cheers.) The toast Was drunk with enthusiasm, the band play- ing " The British Grenadiers" and " Rule, Britannia." Sir HARRY SMITH rose amid great cheering. He said Mr. Mayor, my lords, and gentlemen, the honour you have conferred upon me in associating my name and deeds with the British army is one for which I gratefully thank you. This is not the first occasion upon'which I have been indebted to the borough of Liverpool. When in command in India, and when I was fortunately suc cessful by the gallantry of the soldiers under me, I re ceived a most complimentary and congratulatory address upon my victory. I have, it is true, been almost all over the world ; and proud am I to say that I never heard the name of the British merchant mentioned but as a man of integrity, honour, and enterprise. (Applause.) Happy am I to be here now among you to record that feeling which I individually possess, and which I have so universally heard expressed. (Applause.) And now, gentlemen, we will revert to the army. It is now under the energetic command of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge ; it is progressing favourably in every way ; and, as this is an occasion upon which education is the principal subject, I will mention that upon a re cent inspection of the 25th Regiment there were 340 of that regiment voluntarily attending the school, and pro gressing in the higher branches. of architecture and in practical knowledge. (Applause.) Since the days of old, when our army was ever successful and considered highly honourable, the archers of those days were thought the best soldiers in the world, so now may I say are our infantry considered. We are advancing rapidly in the improvement of the arm called the Minie rifle, and the distant fire is more exact than I can well describe ; but I trust that the old system of gaining victories by the bayonet, which, in other words, is a rush of gallant men upon a given pOint, keeping before them their enemies, will not be lost sight of, and that English soldiers will still learn to grapple with their enemies. (Loud ap plause.) Our gallant army, as you well know, has recently returned from a most severe and arduous campaign, having added additional laurels to their Standard and to the glory of their country. A consi derable portion of that army is now about to embark, or has embarked, for foreign service, to carry on a dis tant and costly war—a war which, I trust, will soon and speedily be terminated ; for, however unfortunately it may have commenced, it is one which must be sup ported. (Applause.) If England does not support her Majesty's representatives and her officers in authority thus distantly situated, I say England's glory must dimi nish ; and had the person I allude to referred 10,000 miles off foe instructions, I say there is not a man in England, on such an occasion, who would not have con demned him. (Applause.) British soldiers are ever ready to fight, nor do they split straws or dwell upon legal technicalities. (Laughter, and "Hear 1") England is insulted ; her honour is tarnished, and redress must be achieved. They go to work humanely but manfully, and never more so than upon an occasion when the flag of her Majesty the Queen is insulted and the national honour of England defiled. (Applause.) It has been my misfortune, I may say, to have been placed in a simi lar position to the person I allude to. And when we see the enemy, whose duty it is to preserve peace, treat ing with contempt the person who has been entrusted by his country to suppress rebellion or to destroy the foe, then I say that we feel that he who is placed in a distant and responsible situation demands and will re ceive, Ido believe, the support of his country. (The gallant general resumed his seat amid enthusiastic cheering) _ Earl TALBOT replied in a spirited speech on behalf of the navy. After "The health of the Lord-Lieutenant of the county," The CHAIRMAN proposed the toast of the evening,— "the health of William Brown." He said—My lords and gentlemen, I now approach with some diffidence the toast of the evening, because I feel my inability to do full justice to it ; but I therefore ask you, gentlemen, to do an act of justice to yourselves, as well as to the distin guished gentleman on my right hand, who is well worthy of your warmest regards. For nearly 50 years as a Liver pool merchant his name has been among us a household term, and he is yet spared to crown a long and active life by a princely act, which is an example to others, and will perpetuate his name to future ages. (Applause.) I claim Mr. Brown as one who sprung from the middle classes of life—as one who was early cast upon the ocean of business, and most manfully, most success fully, and most honourably has ho played his part. (Ap plause) He is a proof of what may be effected with individual enterprise, with individual honesty, and indi vidual integrity, in a country which was blessed with free institutions, where every man is permitted to reap the fruit of his own industry, and to employ the fruit of that industry for the purpose of blessing his fellow-men —(cheers)—and extending the benefits of education, and in promoting those numerous institutions which, blessed be God, under the Christian principles of England, are scattered like bright gems over the face of our land vn, ica, ad, in- S t. hop 'en ,tls, :Eta, of mgs )rk trd, est- was was very Olen. had The cents