The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-11-13 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS, Mr. Horner, who read a paper on "Cast-iron Girders" at the meeting of the Polytechnic Society, on Monday, wishes us to say that he "only noticed the comparative cost of arch and girder bridges under certain circumstances." If the lec turer meant to confine his observations to that one point of comparison, our reporter entirely misconceived the purport of several of his remarks. We will not lose sight of the subject referred to by " An Englishman," but it is disheartening to see the little effect produced on the public mind by such appeals. The right of exemption from poors'-rate arises from circum stances which vary in the case of each applicant. If "An Old Subscriber"' can show an entire inability to pay on the part of any person no doubt th.e parish authorities will take the subject into their consideration. c 7 1 ibtrpc.!o I ... tanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, NOT. 13, 184 g The important letter of Mr. Houseley. read by Mr. Picton at the Council meeting on Friday, to gether with the explanation of Mr. Procter, as to the sources from whi c h mone y cou ld b e got tc enable us to compromise with the pipe contractors, has reduced the question of water supply to some • . thing approaching to a business-like shape liament, and the sanatory commissioners, require us to give a supply of 8 million gallons of water daily, or twenty gallons per ray per head, of our population. The promoters of the Rivington scheme tell us that this can only be done by pro curing a surface supply at an estimated cost of £480,000, Geological theorists assure us that the required water does not exist in the red sandstone. Mr. Houseley, however, offers to give us this sup ply, at no risk of cost to the town in case of failure, and at a total expence, when he shall have fulfilled his pledge, of the comparatively trifling sum of £4B,ooo—just one-tenth of Mr. Hawksley's esti mate! The following is his offer : " Liverpool, November 8, 1849. " Sir,—l will undertake to increase the supply of water furnished from the local sources, now belonging to the Corporation of Liverpool, to the quantity of eight million gallons per day for the sum of £48,000 ; and in case o f not I will forfeit all claim to upply required at thr€ Taking the ext _ a half million gallons per day, T propose obtaining one and a half million gallons of this by an extension of-the sinkings at Windsor, and the remaining two millions from Green-lane, in each case strictly confining the works within the limits of the Corporation property. When the additional supply of one and a half million gallons per day from Windsor is obtained, I should require a payment of £15,000, the remainder to be paid on the entire supply of eight million gallons per day being obtained. `• I am, sir, your obedient servant, "MOSES HOUSE LEY. " P.S. The pumping power to be supplied by the cor poration." Add to this eight million gallons per clay the quan tity obtained from private wells, estimated by Messrs. Simpson and Newlands at about two and a half millions per day, and we shall have a supply of up wards of 26 gallons per head per day, or a third more than the requirements of the sanitory commissioners. We may further state that the gentleman who makes this offer is no stranger to the district, nor one un acquainted practically with the capabilities of the strata beneath our feet. He sunk, Mr. Picton tells us, the well at Windsor, and was a party engaged in the sinking of the Green-lane works. The very boldness of his proposal shows his complete confi dence in the existence of the local supply. We put it to all parties whether this easy solution of the question, which has produced so much ill feeling in the town, and completelaltered the com position of our local legislature, is not worthy of being entertained. A conclusion of some sort it would necessarily bring us to, at a most trifling ex pense to the- town if unsuccessful, and most cer tainly at a very cheap rate if Mr. Houseley's antici pations are realized. In the former alternative the cost of the required pumping power is all that we . should have to furnish ; and, in any event, we NY, ant additional pumps. Our present engines are work ing beyond their power; and, in the event of any serious accident occurring to them, the effect of any lengthened stoppage for repairs would be most disastrous. Presuming even that we were to decide now to proceed with the Rivington works, we scarcely think that, during the period which must elapse until their completion, the town would be considered in a safe state, without such means being provided for us of giving the utmost available sup ply to the:inhabitants. Another step, too, we sub mit, is imperatiVely called for, whatever course we may adopt with respect to our sources of supply. It is scandalous to see a large portion of the present limited yield of the wells daily run to waste through the imperfect state of the pipeage in the lower parts of the town. This evil ought, to be promptly re medied in any event; and we presume our hands are not so tied up by the stringent clauses of the Rivington act, or our wits so scared by the threat 4 : a mandamus, as to prevent our undertaking a work so obviously called for. Would we be held altogether guiltless, in the event of another visit of cholera, or any other similar scourge, if it were shewn that we wantonly allowed to run to waste a portion of the very element, for the want of which our population was dying ?_ Certainly not. But it is asked, and a doubt insinuated on the subject, whether Mr. Housley's eight million of gallons daily would be a permanent supply. The wells, it is said, would sink in water level year by year ; but has this fact ever been satisfactorily proved ? We submit that the evidence thus far goes to establish a contrary fact. All the past efforts made, with a very good will to effect that object, have failed to pump dry the existing wells. On Saturday nights, after a week's continuous pumping,the quantityof water has been undoubtedy reduced ; but the full level has always been re :Need before resuming work on the Monday And it is a well known fact, in accord ance with both experience and science, that the springs flow more abundantly the more the incum bentpressure is lightened. We are not at all assured that if, by the use of more powerful engines, we could more nearly exhaust the wells every night, the total yield would not be increased. But even if it should be the fact that Mr. Housley's increased supply would only be available for five or ten years to come, and that at the end of that period we had to resort to further borings, or even, at last, to resort to surface water, would it be no boon to the com munity, in the present depressed state of commercial affairs and severe pressure of its existing burdens, to have an expenditure of probably a million of money postponed for half a generation of mankind ? We certainly think that it would be such a boon. mornings We cannot close these few remarks without again impressing upon both parties in the town the im portance of mutual forbearance, and a joint effort to settle this difficult question in a conciliatory To the now dominant party we would say with our great dramatist : 1 favour to other communities, our own town seems, unaccountably, to be regarded as almost unworthy of a thought. The post-office has recently adopted an alteration in the mails, by an acceleration in their speed, which came into operation on the Ist of November. By this alteration ati earlier arrival of, and addi tional time for sorting the London letters is afforded to the district around Manchester, and a later period: for despatching letters to London. _ _ Additional time is given in Manchester for the morning mail to the north; which is now despatched at 2h. 32min. a.m. By a truly happy arrangement the two north mails arrive at 3h. 42m. a.m., and 7 a.m. respectively • and are delivered at the s ame hour One woul d naturally have imagined that whilst the time for despatching letters for the north was extended, in Manchester to 2 32 a.m. a similar measure of accommodation might have been extended to Liverpool. We have certainly in this town as large an intercourse with Glasgow and other towns in the north as Manchester has. A great portion of our correspondence, too, is of that description which cannot always be carried out at a regular and early hour, being dependent on foreign arrivals. For example, we might have had early this morning, as we had last Tuesday morn ing, a mail from the United States and Canada, in both of which countries the merchants of Glasgow are largely interested. Yet London, by even the old arrangement, would have the news early this afternoon, whilst in Glasgow it would not be re ceived until to-morrow morning. We are not, however, allowed our former opportunities, miser able as they were. The very same measure which gives Manchester a later hour for the despatch of the mail to the north, curtails the time given pre viously to Liverpool. A foreign mail arriving here at eleven o'clock in the evening would be too late for transmission to the north. Yet the same train, for which we have now to go to press at eleven o'clock, and which would take the news by such an arrival, takes on the mail which does not leave Manchester until half-past two in the morning ! • What is the reason of this disparaging treatment of the important interests of Liverpool? Simply this. The post-office authorities consider us of so little weight that they will not afford us a railway , convenience for this north mail. The correspond ence of Liverpool with the sister port of Glasgow, and the whole of the north of England and Scot land, is only deemed worthy of being trundled along to Warrington, at the rate of some six or seven miles an hour, in a mail cart ! We are at the mercy for all our communications in that direction of a linchpin, which might be lost, (and at midnight be it remembered,) a horse that might cast a shoe, or any similar often-occurring accident. Nay, so far as regards newspapers, which offer the most available means for conveying the important commercial, and other news received by foreign mails, after eleven o'clock at night, the press of Liverpool has its hands completely tied up for upwards of three hours, whilst the press of Man chester, by the aid of the telegraph, might transfer it to their columns, and thus be the exclusive means of its circulation. We trust that the mercantile community will not submit tamely to this insulting and injurious treat ment; and we may urge, at the same time, the great desirableness of their being joined in their protest against it by their brethren in the commer cial metropolis of the north. 'The inconvenient arrangement of the mails between the two towns has long been an intolerable grievance. The time in which a reply will be received from Glasgow to a communication from Liverpool, however impor tant, can never be depended upon; and most men .of business in the two towns give a latitude of a day at least for such a reply. We are ourselves continually receiving letters from Glasgow the second day after their date, obviously written under the impression that we should get them on the first after, and frequently creating great disappoint ment and injury both to the writers and recipients. In fact, to such an extent does the inconvenience. and uncertainty exist that many, who have im portant business to perform in either place, prefer putting themselves on board a steamer, and tran sacting it Oemselves in person, to trusting its execution to the uncertainty of our present postal' arrangements. All this could be amended by the most trifling addition to the present post-office expenditure, and such an alteration in their hours of arrival and departure as would secure to us, in reality, the advantages of a night and a morning mail. To say that we poSsess those advantages whilst letters, by both 'come, as at present, into the same delivery, is a mockery. It is an unfortunate fact, that few great public measures, however they may be adapted to pro mote the general good, are capable of being carried into operation without inflicting some individual wrong. Such a measure, that appears to be for the construction of timber docks along the Bootle shore. The site of these docks, to the north of the dock estate, is said to be, so far as their connexion with the internal markets of the country is con cerned, more convenient than the existing southern docks. The London and North-Western Company have now a railway connexion with this end of the town. The termini of the Lancashire and York shire, and the East Lancashire lines, are in this neighbourhood ; and the Liverpool and Leeds canal has been brought into connexion with the new northern docks.. We have the land for these works at an unquestionably cheaper rate than we have ever before procured it. We are to have, too, in this neighbourhood, floatage room for timber, and more inexpensive quay space ' advantages which are of inestimable value, and which would be accepted with infinite satisfaction by the trade, and by consumers throughout the country, but for the fact to which we have referred, that individual injury must be submitted to, as the price of the public advantage to be derived from the works in question. Investments in land and buildings at the south end of the dock estate have been entered into, certainly not on the faith, but undeniably on the supposition, that the timber trade would con tinue in its present location ; and, to those who have made such investments, any change will be disastrous. Again, the northern shore has been appropriated in a certain way, not with a view to so early an encroachment upon it of the trade of the port; and not a . little,individual suffering will be the result of the . works now in progress, which are completely changing its Character, and the adapta tion of the property built upon it for' present pro fitable uses. We are not about to canvas now the question whether the north or the south portion of the dock estate is the best adapted for that important branch of the commerce of the port, the timber trade. Were that trade to be located anew, or could the question as to north and south be divested of indi vidual interests, we do not think that we should have much difficulty in determining upon our course; and, perhaps, that would be to allow our powerful friends in the south to fight their own battle, for which they have recently shewn them selves to possess very powerful capabilities. For tunately, however, we are spared this task. The question is not as to the removal of the timber trade from the south. It is rather a fact as to the construction of docks in the north ; and its effect upon some unfortunate parties having property located in that direction. In behalf of these parties we feel ourselves impelled to offer a few remarks. The property bordering upon the shore, from the first toll-bar on the Bootle road to some distance beyond our landmarks, has been, it is well known to Liverpool readers, used for the erection of ma- WE have for some time been of opinion that rine cottages and villas. The tenure of the land is there exists at the head quarters of government an leasehold for three lives, with a remaining term of especial disinclination to accommodate the great 21 years, under the Earl of Derby ; and one of the commercial community of Liverpool. Of course, most substantial elements of the value of such land the convenience of the whole kingdom is ever has always been its marine character, and the un condary to that of the inhabitants of the metro- restricted use of the shore and enjoyment of the . This is particularly the case with respect to river view by its occupants. Another feature con _ arrangements of the post-office. These are netted with the property on this shore is the fact altered continually; mails are accelerated, or addi- that a large portion of it is either owned or occu tional ones put on with a view to the accommoda- pied by parties—widows, retired persons, and others tion of London alone. The West India mails are —who derive from it their sole or chief means of despatched via Southampton that the London support. Now, if a railway, or any other company merchant may have an opportunity of availing possessing an act of parliament, had projected himself of the latest moment for his correspond- works to destroy a portion, however imaginary, of ence, to the utter disregard of the claims of the value of such property, compensation must Liverpool, Manchester, and Glasgow. We have have been made. Such act of parliament would been deprived of our Irish mail, which is transferred inevitably have contained a jury clause; and the to Holyhead, for the accommodation of London owners of the property would probably have ob alone, although Liverpool may be said to possess tained excellent terms. But here the contracting three-fourths of the business traffic with the sister parties seem to have been only the Earl of Derby isle; and we should undoubtedly witness the trans- and the Liverpool Dock Committee. The latter fer of the American mails to the metropolis ) if say, "We wish to carry out our dock wall morth al:lather eunard's line could be got up there to wards to the Rinkrose Hotel; we shall, in doing so, cam them. The accommodation, of London, we close up the river View of the whole of your lessees; repeat, is the one grand object of every change in and we offer to you, in consideration df our being this dePartment; yet, when it is dealing out its allowed to do so, to form certain blocks for streets, To have a giant " tis excellent strength ; but tyrannous 'o use it like a giant." They have now a clear numerical majority, both in the town and in the council. Let them not attempt to ride roughshod over their opponents, when they can so well afford to act calmly and temperately. And upon the advocates of the Pike scheme we would urge the propriety of acting towards the ad vocates of local supply with somewhat less of a dogmatic spirit. Let us have no more attempts to dragoon the town, by applications to a court of law, into a measure against which it has just made so unmistakeable a protest. If the pro-Pike party are right in their views, time will show that they are so; and they have now before them the light ness of the cost and the inconvenience at which the experiment can be made THE LIVERPOOL STANDAR& and to fulfil certain other conditions." The unfor tunate lessees and houseowners are not consulted in the matter; the bargain is struck, and the Works are being carried out. An embankment is run along in front of the entire property, from oppositeßank hall to the landmarks ; the neighbourhood is inun dated with navvies, and the property ceases to be eligible for its original uses as marine residences, and falls into rapid dilapidation. Let any of our readers, who are desirous of an afternoon's stroll, examine its condition for them selves. They will find that we are not dealing in exaggeration. They will see houses, once let at £BO to £lOO per annum, unoccupied, with windows boarded up, or let at a third of their rental, as navvies' hoarding-houses. It is not easy to say, for the interests of the owners, which is the more advantageous alternative. They will see other houses, from which the occupants once derived decent livings by letting them furnished during the summer season, comparatively valueless. There is not one of these houses which would not be worth double their present value, if placed in the most paltry street in the town; but, unfortunately, they are now neither in town nor country, near a market nor a thoroughfare, and have for their prospect only passing barrows and accumulating mud ! In this distressing state of affairs, the owners and occupiers of these houses naturally looked to somebody for relief. The Dock Committee, they found, were under no liabilities ; and they turned to the Earl of Derby—the lessor of the land—as the party who had injured them, and who was morally and equitably responsible for their losses. On Thursday last, we learn, a large and influential body of them had an interview with the earl's steward, Mr. Hale, with a view to learn the nature of their position, so far as the earl was c oncerne d. They were met, of course, with the utmost courtesy by this gentleman; but the result of the interview was most discouraging. The whole facts of the case were laid before him—the facts of the present almost valueless state of the property, the peculiar circumstances of some of its owners, and the prospect that ten or fifteen years might elapse before which it could, by the completion of the docks in front of it, be brought advantageously into the market for sale, or an adequate rental for it be secured; and the question was asked—would the Earl of Derby, in consideration of these circum stances, and of former practice, renew, on the usual terms, such lives as might have lapsed ?• The answer was, that no renewals whatever could be granted. All that could be offered was a grant to the owners of each house of thirty yards by ten frontage to the shore, for 75 years, at an annual chief rent of three pounds. Of course, such a proposition, which was, in fact, asking an additional payment for what had always previously been en joyed gratuitously, except for building upon, viz.., the shore frontage,. was not accepted; and here at present the matter remains. Regardina it in what ever light we may,.we conceive that, on the part- of the unfortunate owners of the property in question, it is a very hard one; and we do most sincerely trust that the Earl of Derby, who alone can do these parties justice—they ask but for that—will , give it his serious reconsideration: IN this evening's London Gazett; we learn, will appear a notice of an intended application to Par liament for an act to remodel the constitution of the Liverpool Dock Committee. With respect to the precise nature and , extent of the powers sought we areas yet uninformed. One of the modifica tions proposed, however,. is to enable the bond holders "of the dock estate to return eight members to represent them upon the Dock Committee ; and we are informed that the gist of the movement will be to declare the docks public property, and to take away the veto, or controlling. power, with the privilege of appointing: the chairman, from the burgesses of Liverpool,as represented by the Town Council. Practically, therefore, the effect of the measure will be to alienate altogether, and to hand over to the irresponsihle•control •of the capitalists and mercantile interests- of London, Manchester, and, in fact, of the United Kingdom,-this splen. did estate leaving to the burgesses of - Liverpool only the privilege of supporting the- pauperism, and punishing the crime which it creates: We were 'Ourselves prepared for something of this kind. Some time ago we warned the credulous believers in the professions and wisdom of the National Confederation that their violent rand head strong tactics—their want of common. prudence and discrimination—would bring down.upon their heads such a measure of retaliation. And here they have it ; here is blow No. 1, following closely enough upon their fancied victory of the Ist of November ! Who are the precise parties-who are setting the machinery int' motion we know not as yet. But we have a suffiaient idea as to the strength upon which they rely for success. Manchester has already spoken out, and claimed this property for the entire commercial community. She envies us sufficiently our possession of it ; and to deprive us of it would gladly resort to the cry of cheap dock accommodation, or pub forth any other pretext. The other Lancashire boroughs, and the Weit Riding, would swell the cry ; and even. our Cheshire neighbours would echo the prayer. There is scarcely a foreign merchant or. shipowner who would not endeavour to make his voice heard in favour of the movement. Is even. our own Dock. Committee altogether in favour , of " Townside" on this question ? We suspect that, with._ some of the members of that body, the prospect of decreased rates of dockage, mingled with a• little personal soreness at the proceedings of certain busy parties amongst the community, has got the better already. of their old leanings towards the local independence and prosperity of the place of their•birth or of their adoption. It cannot be urged, with truth, that the opponents of dock rating—which we presume this step is taken to prevent have been driven to it by any overt act on the part of the parochial authorities, who maintain that the dock estate should bear a. portion of parochial burthens. Neither the Vestry nor the Parochial Rating Com mittee have given notice of any intention to press the question before Parliament. These bodies have expressly declared their reluctance to engage in the expense of a parliamentary struggle. Nor has the Council ever attempted to exercise a very arbitrary spirit, or a disposition to exert the full influence of its majority, in the selection of members to sit upon the Dock Committee. Last year they sanctioned the return of Mr. James.Aikin, a declared opponent of rating the estate. This year they have contented themselves with merely filling up vacancies, cer tainly with highly respectable and experienced men ; and in one of these they have placed. Mr. G. H. Horsfall, an anti-rater. The intended; bill is not one of retaliation for aggression attempted against the Dock. Committee,, for there has been no such attempt. It bears. with it, on the contrary, all the evidences of a blow menaced in retaliation for one inflicted in another quarter, or in doubt as to the qualifications to deal with dock aeairs, of some• of the gentlemen. returned through the influence,of the National Confederation. We ask of the gentlemen now moving, or intend ing to move, in this matter, and• we ask, too,of the burgesses of Liverpool, what is likely to be the result if it is successful. We- have a government just now little scrupulous in appropriating to itself any scraps of power, patronage, and profit which fall in its way. How eagerly it caught up the con servancy of the river Mersey, during the contest for the dock warehouse scheme ! How adroitly it filched the oyster—the made-land on the sides of Wallasey Pool—whilst our good neighbours were wrangling about the shell! And they will have even more delight in grasping into their own hands the mag nificent dock estate of Liverpool. Once allow it to be admitted that this is public property; that the burgesses of Liverpool have no right of control over its management, or the expenditure of its revenue and we shall very soon hear of a claim for govern ment control over such a public property, the more especially as it would allow very excellent pickings for the shoals of hungry Whiglings yet gaping to be provided for. Perhaps the next question to arise would be as to our right to levy town dues, and to build Saint George's Halls, baths and wash houses, to erect churches, and pay clergymen, clerks, sextons, nd bell ringers out of a tax, which they will tell us, is levied upon the commerce of the world. Charters and even acts of Parliament stand very little in the way of such gentlemen. We have called the attention of our fellow-towns , men to this impending movement, of the precise direction of which perhaps a few hours will inform 'them more fully. When its features in detaiLare 'Before them, they will no doubt be enabled to determine upon the proper course to pursue. We think that the public feeling of the town upon the subjeot willbe tolerably unanimous; and its expres sion ought at once to be invoked, COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY REPORT. EXCHANGE NEWS -ROOM, MONDAY. The increasing confidence displayed by the people of France in their Presidept, considered in connexion with the feelings of . amity w}iich subsist between that country and Great Britain, has produced a progressing feeling of satisfaction in commercial and monetary circles, and the funds have improved some little in consequence. Added to this, the other differences on the Continent are looked upon as settled, at all events for a time; and with a large export trade going on both in our manufactures and colonial produce, the aspect of affairs brightens as the pros pect for the exertion of British enterprise and industry widens in extent. The Share market has been steady all week and closes to-day with pries skewing a disposition to advance. There is an impression spreading that the gradual im provement in the receipts added to the great reductions being universally made in the working expenses must bring a permanent improvement in prices. London stock closes to-day 114 115 ; Mid. 48 49. Business has been done as follow :—Lancashire and Yorkshire 60+; London stock, 114+ ; do. quarters + p. ; do. fifths 1 I p. ; Sheffield and Manchester 12+ (.ElOO , pd.); do. quarters No. 1, 131 dis. ; Midland, 48+; do, halves. 21+ dis. ; North Union A, 222; Dover No. 4, 6 6 3; Bank of Liverpool, 16. We were much pleased to hear a conversation which took place between some gentlemen on 'Change respect ing a subject which has been too much neglected, and the importance of which can never be too seriously regarded. We allude to an enlarged system of colonial emigration. At a period like the present, when comparative prosperity reigns, and when the means could be more easily raised than in times of depression and adversity, the safety v%lve might be fabricated, which would relieve society from much of the urgency of prostration which inevitably ensues on the partial withdrawal of demand from any of the vast departments of the industrial production of this country. Moreover, while the great experiment of free trade is in progress, to the detriment of the agricultaral produce of the t'nited Kingdom, it is only fair, if we are to' be a nation of manufacturers exclusively, tbatsome provision , should be made for the discarded field labourer. More over, every pound laid out either by government or cor porations in the emigration of that redundancy of popula- 1 tion which becomes pauperised, would be invested, as a few plain figures would show, at immense interest to the community at large. Since the circular of Friday there has been a steady demand for Sugar, and° on Saturday 000 bags Bengal were taken by the grocers at 395. for low white, to 425. for fine; and to-day 1,500 more atsimilar rates. 100 pun cheons of Demerara Rum at extreme prices, and 500 tons Nitrate of Soda at Ils. 7Ad to lls. 9d., in the warehouse. Coffee is in good demand for export. The principal articles of the Corn trade inthe provincial markets of England have varied little in value since our last, Wheat and Flour of good quality maintaining previ ous prices, with a fair demand' generally for consumption, any quotable reduction being confined to inferior descrip tions, and that in only one instance of importance, viz., Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The Irish markets are rather firmer, except for Indian Corn, the stocks of which are fast accumulating there : and not onlydo we hear less and less about the potato disease, but in some parts, particularly Limerick,.a.large quantity of turnips has been brouight to market, and now-constitute a considerable portion of the food of the - working classes. The• value of Indian Corn has consequently receded since ourlast,—in Dublin lit. per quarter ; in Thmeriek, ss. to 7s. 6d. per ton ; Cork, Zs. 611. ; and in other places prices have declined, although the .ex act amount is-not specified in our alvices. Little has transpired in Brunswick-street since Friday. The London market, however, coming higher for Wheat to-day, we may speculate on the probability of an im provement here to-morrow. Any advance of moment, however; is unlikely at present, in the face of the large deliveries which have to be forwarded from farmers he-- tween this and , February next. The arrivals of Timber during the past week, from Bri tish America,. have been considerable, consisting of 14 vessels-9380 tons. There is very little difference to note since our last report, the stock being now heavy. St.- John and Quebec Tine must decline in price, though, as , we before remarked, Quebec has slightly recovered, or at least'acquired firmness, al late quotations.- Deals of all kinds are improving in den the supply having fallen off lately. The Cotton market closes about kd. dearer to-day than an Friday, the advance being; divided between, Saturday and to-day. /0,000 bales were sold on Saturday," one half on speculation and for export ; and a similar amount has been disposed of this dayqincluding aboirtl,ooo taken on speculation), comprising 1,500 Brazils, 1,000 Surats, and the rest chiefly Ataericans at 6d. to 7d. per lb. Each day is developing the extraordinary position in which the stock of this staple is placed. Opinions are various as to the future course-prices will take, but the general impres sion is in favour of higher prices; indeed, with the small stack -on hand and the very limited supply coming forward, a further advancain the value of Cotton seems inevitable. LONDON - MONEY' MARKET.—YE ST E R DAY Consols, 9343,93 i. LONDON SHARE MARKET.—YESTERDAY. London Stook, 114 to 1141. Midland, 48 to 49. LONDON CORN MARKET.-YESTERDAY The display of - Wheat from adjacent counties- has been limited in amount to-day, which, combined with an active de mand from town and country millers, has enhanced the price of• English Wheat 25., and Foreign la. per quarter. TOwn-made Flour was held very.firmly, but the quotations she no rise. Although the inquiry for Beans, Pease, and Barley was not lively, prices are quite as dear as on Monday last. A rather briak.trade has been•done in Oats, at previous rates. English Wheat „ Barley „ Oats „ Malt I Flour Red W ARRIVAL 2,370 Foreign 10,725 2,112 „ 3,586 2,672 „ 16,607 3,635 4,654 Irish Oats „ Malt eat, 40s. to 455. White, 445. to 499. The Earl of Sefton is expected to be present at the Roscoe Club-dinner, on Thursday week. The first divinity prize at the Liverpool Royal Institu tionhas been awarded to Mr. G. S. Yates. The anniversary dinner of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club will take place on the 28th instant. The cross erected in the grounds of St. Edward's College, Everton, as a testimonial to the late Dr. Youens, was destroyed during the heavy.gale last week. BEWARE of ORANGE PEn..—On Saturday evening, a man, named Henry Gough, residing at Seacombe, in coming out of a flour shop in -Liverpool, slipped upon au orange peel and fractured his leg severely. The packet-ship Constitution, Captain Britton, arrived at this port on Friday, after a fine run of seventeen days from New York. She brought on freight gold to the value of X 28,000. The East India and Chips, Association, in this town,. have memorialised the East , lndia Company in favour of Mr. Bourne's scheme for- navigating the Indian rivers,, but suggesting that it should be on the "understanding : that the like privilege should be conceded to any party; who may.hereafter apply for a similar grant." On Thursday, a private meetingof gentlemen was held' to consider the propriety of organising an effort to separate the Dock from the Corporate estate. Messrs. Mann, Lockett, Rankin, Bold, Chilton, and Chapman were pre sent ;. and, with the exception of the latter gentleman, all expressed a favourable view of the movement. DANIKRETCY Couiu' YESTERDAY: HA RRI Thisbankrupt was opposed by Mr. Almond, on the ground thathe had not properly kept his books, and that his per sonal expenditure exceeded the limits set down by the new bankruptcy act. His honour said that he felt inclined to•suspend the certificate forAwelve months, but he would not be doing justiceirithe case, if hedid not grant protection for the whole period. . THE LIVERPOOL, CHESS. Cr).l.ll3.—The members of this club, at a meeting held a few evenings ago, passedunani. mously a resolution to present their late honorary secre tary with a testimonial of the esteem he is held in by his confreres. It has. not yet been determined what the testimonial shall consist of, nor when it will be presented ; but, as Mr. Spreckley is shortly to take his leave of Liverpool, an early day must be named. DEATH BY DROWNING. —On Sunday night, at half past.,nine, a female, named Mary Wah, aged twenty four, in company. with her brother, was stepping from the landing-stage on board of a Woodside steamer, when her foot slipped nod she fell into the water and disappeared. A. boat was instantly sent out, and in twenty-five minutes the body was found opposite the Prince's Dock wall. She was quite dead. THE IsTEw SEACOMBE BOAT.—On Sunday last, the, " Sylph" steamer commenced running at this ferry, in, place of the " Liverpool," recently disabled. She is a fine boat, propelled by two engiues, and worked with large Paddle-wheels, and is not much excelled in swiftness by the fastest on the river. Yesterday she crossed at high water in n minutes, and against a strong tide in 5/ minutes. Her cabin accommodations, and appointments throughout, are of first-rate description. On Sunday morning ' the newly-elected mayor, John Holmes, Esq., in accordance with the usual custom, at. tended Divine service at St. Peter's Church, when a ser. mon was preached by the Venerable Archdeacon Brooks, in aid of the Blue Coat Hospital. The collection amounted to £7B 3s. 2d. His Worship, who looked re markably well, walked arm-in-arm with Alderman Bram ley-Moore on his right. and the Venerable Archdeacon on his left. The procession to church from the Town-hall was closed by a large body of gentlemen, comprising the majority of the Town Council, many of the Select Vestry, the Town-clerk, Clerk of the Peace, Vestry-clerk, &c. ST. NICHOLAS' CHuncx.—We understand that his Worship the Mayor, accompanied by many of the Town Council and Select Vestry, will attend divine service at St. Nicholas' Church on Thursday morning next, being the day appointed for the National Thanksgiving. We believe that no arrangement has been come to as to the objects to which the collections made on that day are to be devoted ; but it has been suggested to us that this is a very suitable period for the establishment of a " Male Orphan Asylum," which would afford a shelter for the destitute orphan sons of the unfortunate persons who were carried off by the ravages of the cholera, and for others who may be left hereafter totally unprovided for. The hint deserves, we think, practical consideration, and we shall be glad if an effort is made to carry it out. We believe that the agents of the " Female Orphan Asylum," whilst receiving within their benevolent fold the young forlorn daughters of deceased parents, are grieved to pass by equally destitute boys, whom of course they are pre cluded by their_ rules from assisting. POLICE V COURT.- - ESTERDAY. WANTONLY RUNNING AGAINST A DONKEY CART.— A carter, named Thomas Harvey, was remanded on a charge of having, with a loaded cart and two horses, wil fully ran against a small cart, in which sat two little boys, with their legs hanging over the back board. One of the cart wheels went against the left leg of one of the little boys, and crushed away a large piece of flesh ! The little sufferer lies dangerously ill at the hospital. A young man, named William Elliot, was committed on a charge by his employer, John Elliott, a baker, of taking from his till 4s. 31d. in money. He had been sus pected, as cash had frequently been missed. The money now taken bad been marked. ILLEGALLY PLEDGING.—Henry Driver, a joiner, was charged by his master, Mr. Thomas Fleetwood, with taking away from his shop in Hope-street, a quantity of valuable tools, part of which he had pledged. He was fined 4s. 9d., the amount received at the pawnbroker's, and 403. for the offence, or in default to be imprisoned 21 days.—Ellen M•Donald, for taking away a shawl from Margaret Kitchen, and pledging it for 25., was fined in the amount, and also 403., or be imprisoned 42 days.— A sailor was charged with smuggling three bottles of brandy, and a pint of wine, from a ship• in the Queen's Dock. ROBBERY or £96.—We last week noticed a case in which several men had been remanded for robbing a gen tleman of this amount, most of which was recovered. — Another man was yesterday brought up on suspicion of receiving £5 of the amount, knowing it to be stolen. He, too, was remanded till Friday next, when the whole of the accused will be again brought tip. The gentleman robbed said he had to go upon a journey and had no money left wherewith to pay his expenses-. He promised faithfully to return by the day appointed. Mr. Rushton ordered that he should receive £5. THEFT FROM THE QUEEN'S TOBACCO WAREFIOUZE:— Thos. Williams, porter, who had long worked in the Tobacco Warehouse, and had been considered a confiden. tial man, was committed on , a charge of abstracting from the building a bundle of tobacco. HOUSE ROBBERY.—Soloroan Mitchell, charged with stealing from Lewis Davis, in Canning-place, on Satur day, a quantity of wearing apparel, was committed to gaol for a month. ROBBER'S' FROM THE PERSOIC—Henry Renshaw, and Mirearet Richardson, for robbing Wm. Gardner, of his coat and 175., in St. Andrew-street, on Saturday, were sent for trial at the Sessions. It will be seen, by referring to our advertising columns, that the special form for the Day of General Thanksgiv ing may be obtained at the Depository of the Societies of the Church of England, 75, Renshaw-street, near St. Luke's Church ; and at Mr. Newlings. Sir TRWAS•G. HESKETH'S HARRIEIt, will meet on Friday at Burscough Toll Bar, at eleven o'clock. Mr. Arthur Howell, of Bidston, has produced a splendid field of Swedish turnips, 40 to 50 of which, taken without selecting all from the largest, average 17-1 lb. each. ___ LIVERPOOL' CIIVILOII OP ENGLAND INSTMOTION.WO are given to'understand that the number of subscribers to this proposed institution is considerably augmented, and that the committee and many of its supporters are now actively bestirring themselves in obtaining subscriptions. Our readers'should remember that bills falling•due en Thnrsday will have to be met in London on Wednesday to-morrow).) The Rev. J. ICC. Glazebrook, M.A., has been appointed to the perpetual curacy of Melling, in the place of the late Rev. Miles Formby. Patron, the rector of On Wednesday, the Rev.. John Herbert Jones. Lay Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, was elected a Fellow upon the Foundation. The Shrewsbury Railway Company—with a view to competing with the Birkenhead line—have commenced running omnibuses from Tra - nmere to Chester at verplow fares. WRECK OFF HauIIEAD.--By a telegraphic despatch, posted in the Exchange News-room yesterday, It appears that the British Oak,Pearson, from New YorlaffiLiver pool, ran on shore on Sunday night, at - Cymyrin, about eight miles south-west of Holyhead , . The vessebis total wreck, but part of the cargo is saved. A DESERVED CO/V/PLIMENIn—The Town Council of Durham have unanimously solicited the retiring mayor - ,' William Henderson, Esq., tO•serve for the ensuing year. the office which he has so ably filled during the past. Hi 3 worship has declined to accede to the request, as it would be incompatible with a proper attention to his private business affairs. SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN -FOREIGN PARTS.—TWO sermons ware preached in St. Saviour's Church, in aid of 'the funds of this venerable society, on Sunday last. The morning sermon was deli vered by the Rev. William , Pollock, incumbent of St.' Mark's, and that in the evenins by the. Rev. G. W. Warr, incumbent of St. Saviourra:z We are happy to hear that the collection amounted to nearly,X3Ot The Rev. J. Cordeaux, incumbent' of St. Silas Church, has-:been appointed a surrogate for granting marriage licenses, &c., by the Chancellor of the Diocese. This mark of respect to Mr. Cordeaux' will give general satis faction, as few clergymen in the district stand higher in the-esteem of good men of every denomination, his cha racter being so highly distinguished by liberality of senti ment to all christians—yet by- the warmest attachment to our own church—by practical piety and by sterling worth. • SI'S BARNABAS CHURCH- SCHOOLB,—We have much pleasure in pointing the attention of our readers to the announcement in another column of -the Rev. T. Nolan's farewell sermon on departing to assume his eminent and important dignity in the ranks of the metropolitan church. The-Mayor and several members of the Town Council purpose being present on the occasion. We perceive that collections will be made in-aid of :the schools attached to St. Earnabas Church, which. we understand are considers. bly in debt. The friends of -11 r. Nolan will thus have an opportunity of relieving the schools • with which lie has been so long and so intimately-connected from much em barrassment ; and they can also thus offer a substantial proof of their esteem and gratitude towards their beloved and devoted pastor, prior to his departure from amongst them. GROSS OUTRAGE BY A ThiTSBAND.-011 Thursday Caleb. Bold, watch-jeweller, Roscommon-street, and Martha Roberts, a bold, dashing-looking female, were charged with a gross assault upon Mrs. Bold and her two daugh ters. Mr. Davenport, solicitor, who , appeared for the complainant, stated that ,- about seven-or eight years ago Mrs.-Bold had occasion to. bring her husband before the magistrates. At that time it was arranged that she should be allowed a certain sum , per week. She had brought up her family in a very respectable way. At the time of the separation the eldest daughter was little more than an infant. When she came to be fifteen or sixteen years of age, the allowance, which at first was £1 a-week, was reduced to 15s. When the son reached the same age, the allowance was reduced to 10s. ; and, since June last, it had again been reduced to Bs. On Wednesday week Mrs. Bold went to speak to her husband at his house in Roscommon-street. At first Mr. Bold was denied ; but, at length, he made his appearance, kicked her severely, and threw her and his two daughters into the street. From the evidence of Mrs. Bold, who seemed to be in a very weakly state, it appeared that the female, Martha Roberts, had also struck and injured her. A number of witnesses proved the assault. Mr. Rushton sentenced' each to a fine of SA, and Mr. Bold to find bail himself in £2OO, and two sureties in £lOO, and give 48 hours' notice. of bail, or be imprisoned five months in default. SUICIDE UNDER DERANGEMEINT.—Yesterday, an in quest was held on view of the body of Mary M`Millan, widow, aged 40. The deceased was well known as the daughter of the-late Etty Taylor, fruiterer, &c., in. St.. John's Market, to whose business she succeeded some few years ago. About half-past eight o'clock on Saturday morning she left her house, in St. Vincent-street, to the market, and then appeared in a thinking way spoke very little. She returned home in about an hour* and went into the parlour for a bill, for which she searched amongst some papers in a box. She then went into the kitchen with several bills or papers in her hand, and sent her servant girl for a threepenny receipt stamp. When the girl returned deceased' told her it would not do, as it was only for £lO, and she wanted one for £6O, giving her ls. 6d. ba pay for it. It was brought and given to her. She then sent witness to the market to., ask her (deceased's) father to remain at the standing until she came down, as she had some particular business to attend to which must be settled by eleven o'clock, or it would ruin her for ever. On the girl leaving deceased, gave her a key,.saying, " take this, as I shall be goin out." The girl thought it was the key of the door, and'' e she returned withat in a quarter of an hour, and tried to open the lock, but the key was too large. She knocked twice, and heard deceased call out her name. She then looked through the key-hole and saw a shadow on the kitchen floor. She called to her mistress, and saw her feet beta een the stairs and the front door. She (deceased) was walking back wards and forwards in and out of the kitchen. Another female came up, and peeping through, saw der standing at the kitchen door, flapping her arms at her sides, and she then observed blood upon her elothing. The woman ran to the market for her father,, and he got in by the parlour window, the house being otherwise secured back and front. She was then found with her throat cut, and quite dead. A bloody razor was found near her. The girl had observed her for two or three months to be much agitated, and in very low spirits, and could not cheer her. George Taylor, whose step-daughter she was, and who resided in Chester, said he had seen her on Friday night and Saturday morning, when she appeared to be dejected. On her asking her what was the matter, she replied, " Nothing." He did not know or think that she was at all in difficulties. Several other parties had also observed her to be low spirited, and not like herself in transacting business. Her brother, George Taylor, who had been her partner for two or three years, had also observed her to be in a melancholy way on Friday, but had not noticed it before.—The jury returned a verdict to the effect, that she had destroyed herself during a temporary fit of insanity CHARGE OF MURDER.—A man named Simes has been taken into custody at Durham under the following cir cumstances :—A poor tramp named Maley had been stop ping for three or four days at a common lodging house, kept by a woman named Richardson, situate in a court at Claypath, in Durham. On Saturday evening last the accused, who is the son-in-law of Richardson, ill used some of the women lodging in the house, and was remon strated with by Maley and others, whereupon he chal lenged Maley or any of the others to fight him. saying he was ready for either Englishmen or Irishmen. He laid hold of 'Maley, and a scuffle ensued, in the course of which Maley was thrust down upon a bed. He succeeded in getting up, and another scuffle took place, during which Simes a wife entered the room, and shouted to her hus band to "rip the villain's guts out." Simes had again got Maley upon the bed, and was observed to take some thing out of a pogket in his jacket, and stab Maley in the abdomen in two aces, from both of which the bowels protruded. Assistance wasobtained, and the unfortunate man was conveyed to the union workhouse, where he lingered but a very short time. Noy. HI LITERARY NOTICE. rhe Soldier's Rest ; A Sermon by the Rev. G. R• crieff, Rector of Tattenhall. London, SimPldll 1 " 1- Co. ; Liverpool, Wareing Webb. THIS eloquent discourse was preanhed in Wallasey Ch on Sunday, November 4th, on the death of the lamented Rev. Dr. Bvrth. It is dedicated "to the bereaved Per t " ner of his friend, by one who counted it his high privilege to have served with him as a son in the gospel," and the preacher pays a very powerful and affectionate tribute to his deceased friend, as a etudent, scholar, and divine -43 a pastor, orator, and preacher—as a public man, a Pr acti. cal Christian, and a friend. He enlarges on each dale s° points (which our readers will see at once are sulfide: 4l Y suggestive) in language of unusual brilliancy and fersvotsr' as the following extracts will testify : DR. BYRTH AS A STCDENT " First, I would mention the intensity of his love of liter s pursuits, as combined with the proud o rig i na lity o f his thong and views. I have called it proud originality. No other tel:ms. seems fully to express his disdainf u l re f usa l t o adopt as his ; the unsifted opinions of another. I n truth, Ire could not be . , copyist if he would. The very str u ct ure o f hilt m i n d forbad it. Every thought suggested by reading or conve r sa ti on must oo taken to pieces—reduced as it were to its original element s and then, whatever was found to stand the test of his searching _ scrutiny, would serve as raw mate r i a l f or a f a bric new, worked up by the machinery of hi s m i g hty mind. as have said, his delight in study was intense. Fresh to the last, as when the pulse of youth beat high within his veins, of cherished his love of books, unchilled, unflagging, lit feeble eyesight, broken health, advancing years, and Mani anxieties, study was at once his duty, his business, his recrer to. ow l tion. His lightest reading would have been laborious , men. • And, when any subject presented itself, worthy of nYf',Z fully worked out, no plodding man of mediocrity ever 5.1 , passed him, in patient industry and undaunted perseveranc e ' ho that, while he held no opinion which he was not preparedly, justify by reasoning of his own, yet none knew better than hu, how to fortify his conclusions by the authority of the wise, of how to guide the mind of another to the best sources of instruc. tion or illustration. Often have I applied to him for such he , 0 never, on any subject have I applied in vain. Well may lus example read a lesson to all, but especially to any young Ins, n t Who may be tempted to think that his natural abilities set hen free from the necessity of patient study. If brilliant gift' , maured judgment, versatile intellect, could have bestow l such• a dispensation, long ago might our venerat. friend have cast himself on his own resources alone. Nor vil. ll any ohe lightly say, after looking to such an instance as hiss that there can be, as shallow thinkers are• apt to suppose, any .eS spite tenuency in multifarious reading to cramp the native enerl of the mihd, or prevent its soanng with, free fight and self.re liance. I may not dwell upon the theme but I should be IP' true to hiS•memory, if I did not point that lesson which with the range of his influence he so delighted to impress—that ginal thought, to be clear and profound, must be built on th e foundation of large acquaintance with the wisdom and learna of other days." DR. BYRTH AS A CHURCH " His views'of church polity, you well know, were not exclu sive. With all who loved the t ru th, h e delighted to maintain the bonds of Christian fellowship. Aud this, not merely at the bidding of a loving heart, or because he dare not iienj the manifested' presence of the Spirit, under whatever fen' it might be made known—but also because he dreaded the sere tendency of exclusive feeling to obscure spiritual realities under the veil of external forms. Still, never was any public Ala n more misunderatocrd, than when he was counted lukewarin to the church of which he was a minister. Born in - another se" ciety, reared underauspices very different from hers; his firsj spontaneous movement brought him within her pale ; an years of reflective manhood had only riveted the tie formed 10 his impulsive youth: He loved her well, though not blindly; his most earnest prayers- were for her stabilitr, and among the deepest of those anxious thoughts that troubled him, wer e his fears for her well-being amid the clouds and darkness that hang around her. The outward fabric of a church could not indeed content him ;" neither its ecclesiastical machinery, 11 21 the pomp and circumstance of state alliance. The props he coveted for her were firm, true Christian hearts among her ministers, to fight valiantly for the truth. No outward assaults would have dismayed ninr, had all been sound within. But it was a sore grief to Ain/ E V/-10mm truth was dearer than aright hand or a right eye, to we - wood, hay, stubble, built in with her walls and bulwarks. When her sons seemed blind to her true strength, as founded upon-the Rock,—when hollow evasions" brought in upon her the old rejected vanities,—his clear eye' was not blind to the treachery, nor his strong heart cold to the danger to her spiritual life. Yet even this did not make WO' "tremble for the ark of God.''' Far more did his spirit grieve -V. when he thought he saw wavering or timidity in the rank in those who professed to adhere to s o un d doctrine. For coin promise, and faint-hearted 'modifying of truth, he had no . toleration. Avoiding all that could fairly be counted extreme , he was vet fully satisfied that n o- man an d no c h urc h c ould : confess Christ faithfully, without casting to the winds the fearOf being accused of extreme opinions. And this was his great' fear for our Church—that her - sons would not be true to her in the hour of need—that sound doctrine would be frittered away` by qualifications and reserves,- till men grew ashamed of the bold simplicity of their fathers. Ido not wish to excite any differenee of feeling now. All should be peace around his grave, • as it is peace with his glorified spirit. But I must speak, a s he would have had me to speak. Could he instruct me now, I be lieve his instructions would be : " Confess all my infirmities , but do not obscure the truth I loved. Give to my people, as my parting legacy, the solemnentreaty to cherish as their own lives the simple doctrine of the Cross; to let nothing come be tween them and Christ crucified—no cloud of words between their minds and the hearty belief of salvation free and full; without works, or sacrament, or> priest—through Christ, and through Christ alone." Mr. Hudson was seen on Wednesday near the London stock Exchange, as lively and jolly as ever. The Duke of Cleveland has offered to, subscribe f.. 50 towards the erection of a central ragged-schoolhouse in Wolverhampton. A correspondent of the Marla-lane Express sates that the wire-worm may be destroyed by liquid ammonia. The Sheffield Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institute was opened' by a soiree on Tuesdcv- evening, when eloquent speeches were delivered by the Karl of Carlisle and Mr. iibebuc An inquest was held on Satarday, at Hackney, on the body of Mr. George Rowland Smith, aged sixty-four years, a solicitor, who starved himself to death by decli ning to take any solid food as•unnecessarily prolonging life and likely to suffocate him. . LbLA. MONTES.—The celebrated Lola Montes is the subject of many a paragraph inthe Barcelona papers. She goes to the pistol gallery every day, and astonishes the officers of the garrison with the precision of her fire, A special meeting of the Town Council of Berwick upon-Tweed was held on Wednesday last, for the purpose of letting several meadows and farms belonging to the corporation of that borough, bet, although there was considerable attendance of parties, and th e p ro perties were put up at, in some instances, a reduction of more than 25 per cent. on the old rentals, no offers could be obtained. Such are the results of Free Trade ! Accounts from the west of Scotland assure us that nothing can equal the agricultural depression in that pert of the country. The harvest has been abundant, and the crops got in in fine condition. Prime wheat, weighing 531b5., will only realise 4s..the bushel, or 325. the qr., after the expense of sending- to market; and barley end oats are equally depressed. The black cattle, after being kept over and fed for months, will not bring the first cost two and three years' old Galloway cattle are fully £2 to £3 below what would be considered a fair average price, and below what will pay the farmer for feeding them. The Duke of Newcastleis somewhat bett er , thou g lfstill confined to bed. Lord Alvanley died 0.. title by his brother Friday. He is succeeded in his The patent Karaptulcan works, at Greenwich, stroyed by fire last week. , were de- Several ripe strawberries were gathered on Friday, in the open garden of a gentleman living at Walton-on - Thames. Lord Rivers has just completed the purchase of the whole of the Handley Estate in Dorsetshire, the propertl of the Marquis of Anglesey. The purchase money vale upwards of £60,000. • THE NOTTINGHANII COURTS' MARTIAL.—The whole of the trials, with one exception, were concluded on Thursday ; and the soldiers found guilty of insubordination sentenced to three months' imprisonment. On Wednesday a convict, named Francis, s confined le 'Milbank Penitentiary, made a murderous attack On 5 keeper, named Hall, and so beat him that his life has been sacrificed. Helms been committed for wilful m urder' i POPISH. Ittors.—On Monday, when the people ° Wakefield were celebrating the fifth of November, a seri' ous riot took place. Stones, bricks, and missiles of erell , description were hurled, and one policeman was knocked down insensible ' and several others were seriously injured' The ringleaders have been captured and punished. SIGHT-SEEING.--A very respectable old man, who ha d spent all his life (sixty-four years) in Morpeth, had lately occasion to visit a neighbouring town. In detailing on his return the wonders he had seen, he mentioned, as $ remarkable fact, that he had actually seen several we ll employed in sweeping the streets ! This was something perfectly novel. On Sunday morning the roof of St. Michael's aure l k Cambridge, (of which Professor Scholefield is the minister , ' was destroyed by fire, and very considerable injury "'el done to the rest of the edifice. The damage is estimate at £lOOO. The organ, plate, &c.,.were saved. The ca use of the fire is supposed to have been the carelessness of 0 ' man employed in repairing the *ties. The Bishop of London has put an end to many differences of opinion which were springing up, by at once r ecouv_ of mending to his clergy that the collections to be made ct Thursday next should be applied to the improvement the dwellings of the industrious mechanics an d labour s of London ; and that where no local scheme existed tf,„., sums so raised should be entrusted to " The SeeietyS e Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes." v _ e trust that the result will be a considerable addition to la funds of that society, encouraging it at once to engage some new undertakings. 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