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

LIVERPOOL WINTER ASSIZES OPENING OF THE COMMISSION. On Saturday, the special commission of assize for the county Palatine was opened with the usual for malities. M. Justice Wightman and Mr. Justice (late Sergeant) Talfourd, who has been recently appointed, the afternoon. The she )f Foxholes, met their arrived in town, riff, J. Smith F lordships at their them to the Cra Itreet, and escorted formally opened b o the commission was Wightman. In the s, accompanied by the mayor, dined 1, Bart., M.P., On Sunday, the at St. George's Church, a mayor, several members of the fficials, bearing the munici ched by the High She ton, vicar of Roch- evening their lorc with Sir T. B. I judges attended fICCOMr Council, a 'mon was y riff's char dale, from the tc " And say surely this great nation is a wise and under- lapter iv. verse 6. standing People The church was crowded CROW COURT YESTERDAY Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN.) The S al Comm this count 3 before Mr. Jus light, when con season of the y Two of these were men of a superior education ; 22 could read and write well ; 31 could do so imperfectly, and 25 could neither read nor write. The following gentlemen were sworn as or a general gaol delivery in ?,sterday, at the Crown Court, an. The calendar was not aat usually presented at this were 87 prisoners for trial. _ _ TAR GRAND JURY Sir Thomas B. Birch, Bart., M.P. Charles Ashton, Esq. Thomas Bourne, Esq. Thomas Bridson, Esq. John Holn Major, Liverpool James Heywood, Esq. J. P. Heyv;ood, Esq. H. Harrison, Esq. Alexander Henry, Esq James Heald, Esq. William Moss, Esq. R. H. Norris, Esq. Nicol. Esq William Peel,Esq The royal proclamation again rality, having been read, his for iury to the following effect : four me lemen of the Grand Jury onths since the last assize ver the ealend , foreman vice, crime, and immo lip addressed the grand —lt is now not quite and general gaol deli- d yet there is now upon .ly short period, no fewer than 87 rendering, no matter hoe mission absolutely ne of mal sorry to find that not only was the at of nt upon r There but the crime t serious character en ce bet for the ( net charges of ere alio a numbei harm, quarrel, not reso g to homicide, were There were sixteen cases . and attempts to kill— Could not to the crir bodily I iudden the per It was n d that the injur: it would be for t murder. 'I given wh This rule charge Nr from vi class ti to this port, we] with the death c that robbery was the There were thirty cases distinguished from those proportion of that class of Ld could only be accounted tiling vice of intoxication. appeared to be the result of atemperance acting the slightest moral .nstpyoperty and i c urglara aurder it was difficult to asy to define the differ daughter. The question listinguish, as far as they manslaughter. In cases the prevailing causes )n, and such aweapon. or grievous bodily y to tl used occurred in a ler whether it would But if an ito a ca ;d like] :ely to Lughter death, or amount to one of rievou: eu pri for th, s had been vous bodily harm. Lore blo ide of an adult • but in infant, if the Child died 3 place it in any oth, s a particular case of He referred to that er steamer, belonging charged, upon a coroner's inquisifion, by upsetting their boat in the pon that subject might be thus general law u w some act done by the person navigiting the steamer, to make it amount to the crime of manslaughter; a mere omission on his part would not be enough. A mere omission of not performing the whole of his duty will not amount to manslaughter ; but if these was sufficient light to enable him to see what in such a position as to and if, that being the enable I en ma duty, or dicla forgery on the c, Comm . fine, w iery of this was an lute sioners had no the fraud cod effect of this fc would not det neral cl .th, then it certainly e view of having a :flitted. To establish a sary to shew that there this case the commis ) the fine, and therefore !d by showing that the to cause them to do an act be their duty to do. He sr comment upon the ge ) be brought before them. to them a prima fade a bill. If at any time quire any advice from be most happy to give ewer. With these few ss them to their duties. There was a charge of non was charged with the stipendiary magis xi, to a memorial to the toms, with en mfli em by furtt T the evidence I stance in his I would disc STABBING CASES STABBING CASE. Joseph Fallow, 25, was indicted for having, at Middle ton, on the 14th of September last, cut and wounded Win. Gilham. a county court bailiff, with intent to do him bodily harm, by throwing a brick upon his head while in the execution of his duty. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. Mr. Monk prosecuted. The prisoner was undefended. On the case being gone into, it appeared that the officer had not produced hin warrant when entering the home to make a levy. The prisoner was discharged. prisoner drew a clasp knife, and inflicted various wounds narrow stair with only alight assistance. When witness on the neck'and head of the prosecutor—exclaiming that first saw the fractures deceased had sustained, he thought "he had now done the job.' Medical assistance being there might be injury to the lungs, but the symptoms did procured, the prosecutor recovered. not denote such injury. [D r . T renc h rea d f rom kmork of The prisoner alleged that he was so drunk at the time, the celebrated Mr. Samuel Cooper extracts to the effect that he did not know what he was doing. That, in fact, that bleeding, and copious bleeding, too, was proper in he was raging mad. the case of a fractured rib, or severe personal injury, espe- His Lon,nsnir having recapitulated the evidence, the cially in the case of a previously strong and healthy indi fury, after a few minutes' consultation returned a verdict of vidual.] When collapse was set up by severe external guilty. injury, the collapse took place almost immediately. At the conclusion of the case, his Lordship, in most James Doran recalled.—l assisted my brother up stairs, eloquent and feeling terms, proceeded to record the sen- when he got home. He was able to walk up the stairs tence of death against the prisoner,—adding, however, with my help in front of him. Some one, I think, was that as the unfortunate object of his murderous attack behind him, but Ido not know, who it was. I went for still lived, the extreme sentence of the law would not be Mr. Thomas, and he came, examined his chest, and carried into effect, but he might at least expect to be ordered a dozen leeches to be applied. He took the plais transported for life, or a very long period. ter off his breast himself. Mr. Hutchinson ordered wine and spirits to be given to the deceased, and they were given to him. Witness was not sure at what hour the leeches were put on. Winifred Jones, a widow, residing in Kitchen-street, said she was called, and, by order, applied twelve leeches to the breast of the deceased, between half-past twelve and one o'clock on Tuesday. There was slight inflamma tion of the breast, which she observed to be much shat tered. Mr. Evan Thomas being called to say anything on his own behalf, and after being cautioned in the usual way, " There was no bandage on the breast when I saw At the request of Mr. Godfrey, on the ground that he had further medical testimony to prefer, the inquest was further adjourned to Monday (yesterday.) Yesterday, the investigation was resumed. The court was even more crowded than on Saturday, and many mer chants, surgeons, druggists, &c., were present. Mr. Tindal Atkinson, barrister, appeared for Mr. Thomas. He was assisted Mr. Godfrey, solicitor, and conducted the examination of the witnesses this day. William Trench, Esq., M.D., Of the University of Edinburgh, was the first witness. He said he had attended the post mortem examination. The fractures, of which there were three lines, were extensive. From the appear ances, the plaster had not extended so far at each side of the fracture of the breast bone as to give it a firm basis, and he thought its removal did not cause death. He defined the character and symptoms of collapse caused by shock. He thought it impossible that a person under col lapse could have gone from the quay in a car, and then walked up a stair with a slightassistance. He concurredwith a writer in the Lancet, and also with Dr. Cooper and Dr. Macintcsh, (whose opinions were quoted by Mr. Atkinson,) that copious bleeding was good practice in such cases of fracture of ribs, in which there was no reason to suppose that the lungs were injured or disposed to inflame. He would not have been deterred from bleeding by any apparent debility in the patient, since a distinction was to be made between actual weakness and the depression caused by obstructed action. He would not have applied eeches, but would have opened a vein to take more blood within less time. It was a constant practice in the pro fession to bleed for fractured ribs, as a precaution against congestion. He could not imagine that the removal of the plaster, and the exposure of the chest to the air, in the room where deceased was, would have produced the congestion he witnessed PI Mr. J.._ .ip Dillon, Great George-street, Mr. Edward Roberts. Upper Duke-street, Mr. J. Bramley-Moore, Mr. Nevitt, Mr. Daglish, Mr. Smith, and several other gentlemen stated, that they had been under the hands of Mr. Thomas, for dislocations, &c., and had every reason to be perfectly satisfied with his practice. He (Mr. Tho mas) had had great practice and experience as a bone setter. Some he had cured after they had long been attended by regular practitioners. The coroner, after some preliminary remarks, summed up the chief points of the evidence, and explained the law as affecting the case in a lucid manner. He also quoted Mr. Justice Park's opinion in an analogous case, (that of Rex v. Long Ist William 1V.,) from which it appeared hat although an unlicensed practitioner might be liable l in penalties for infringing acts or charters by prac - not more amenable to a charge of man .,an a licensed practitioner, as neither could be ,o charged unless guilty of criminal neglect, arising either from the grossest ignorance or the most criminal inatten tion. ticir slaughter tt The jury, after a few moments consultation, returned t rtict of "_accidental death,"—adding to this finding that they did net think Mr. Tho mas wa s in the slightest degree to blame in his treatment of the patient. The verdict was received by some applause from parties in the Whenev them all the a observations, then, 1 then placed at the bar. nd indicted for having, on 'the 28th September last, at lanchester, feloniously stabbed Bartley McDermott, with intent to do him some bodily harm. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. Mr. Sowler prosecuted, and the prisoner was undefended. From the evidence it appeared that the offience bad been committed during a riotous squabble in mmon lodging house in Manchester, and that the pro- Verdict, common Darby Maggins, ged 20, yva! secutor had comt e, six mont mprisonment. charged with having, at Mani Smith, aged 1 Maud r, stabbed Michael Malone, with intent f 6 do harm_ im bodily , The prisoner pleaded not guilty, and Ie was undefended. as prose This case also arose out of a row, which originated in a public-house in one of the back streets of Manchester. His lordship having summed up, the jury returned a ver dict of common assault. Sentence six months' imprison ment and hard labour. BURGLARY William Wood, aged 16, was next charged with hav ing, at Manchester, on the sth November last, burglari ously broken into and entered the dwelling-house of James Dalton, and having stolen therefrom five pounds of cheese, fifteen pounds of bacon, some tobacco, and a few shillings. The prisoner pleaded guilty. Sentence eferred. ,en indicted for having, on oth of October in.., _ anchester, feloniously stabbed and wounded William Heckston, with intent to do him Thomas grievous bodily harm. Mr. Cobbett prosecuted, and Mr. Pollock defended the prisoner, who pleaded not guilty. From the evidence of the prosecutor, it appeared that the prisoner was intoxicated ; and, at the time the assault was committed, he was endeavouring to find access to a beer-house. In doing so, he created some noise, which attracted the attention of the prosecutor, who, being affected with asthma, coughed. This, it appeared, so irritated the prisoner that he immediately commenced a violent assault upon the lad, cutting and woundinc , him with some sharp instrument in several places. Shortly after this the lad's father, and a man named Creswell, went to the prisoner and complained of the abuse which the lad had received. The result of this was that lie assaulted both Creswell and the elder Ileckston in a similar manner. For the defence it was stated, that the prisoner and his employer, together with a number of other workmen, were supping together at this beer-house. It was also stated that a " strike" had been made by some men against the prisoner's master. At this supper some of the " club men" interfered, and insulted the prisoner's master. On leaving the beerhouse the prisoner alleged that he was insulted by Heckston's wife, who called him " the Knob stick" who had put her Jemmey out of a situation. A general row then ensued, in which the prisoner took part, but he denied having wounded either of the prisoners by stabbing them in the manner charged. His Lordship having summed up, the jury returned a verdict of guilty of a common assault. Sentence, four months' imprisonment and hard labour. The prisoner was again indicted for having, at the same time and place, committed a similar assault on John Cressell. Guilty of a common assault. Sentence, four months' hard labour. INTENT TO MURDER: John Barnsley, 42, was then indicted for having, at Manchester, feloniously cut and wounded Jane Barnsley, on the 14th October of last, with intent to murder her. Another count charged him with wounding her with in tent to do her some grievous bodily harm. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. Mr. Monk prosecuted. His LORDSHIP asked if Mr. Pollock would attend to the case for the prisoner. Mr. Pollock complied ; but the prisoner declined all legal assistance, stating that the case was short, and he could defend it better himself. From the facts which transpired it appeared that the prisoner, who is a boiler maker, was jealous of his wife, the prosecutrix. On Sunday, the 14th Oct., he came home partially intoxicated, and laid himself down on bed. After some time, however, he started up, and ex claiming that " one woman could not have two men," struck her in the neck with a table knife. A scuffle then ensued, in the course of which that knife was lost, and both parties tumbled down the stairs. When there, the that of anoth )ners of Cus nature it ion to def. THE LIVERPOOIL BIGAMY Elisha Adamson was indicted for having, at Prest wich, in this county, intermarried with Ann Opensbaw, his first wife, Mary Armstrong, being then alive. Ver dict, guilty. Sentence, one month's hard labour. The court rose at six o'clock. NISI PRIUS COURT—YESTERDAY. (Before Mr. Justice TALFOURD.) Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, the new judge, entered the court at twenty minutes past twelve o'clock ; after bowing courteously to the gentlemen of the bar and to the jury, his Lordship took his seat, and the business proceeded. Mr. Abraham Lees, hat-lining manufacturer, of Cheetbam, Manchester, was fined £5 for non-attendance to dis charge the functions of a juror, to which he had been sum moned. BURGLARY John Richard Lowe, 19, marked in the calendar as being able to read and write well, was indicted for having feloniously and burglariously broken and entered the dwelling-house of Samuel Smith, of Aigburth, and having stolen therein one basket and various other articles, the property of the said Samuel Smith. The prisoner pleaded guilty. Mr. Aspinall appeared for the prosecution, and in the course of his address to the jury, stated that the prosecutor is a shoemaker, residing at Garston. On the morning of Saturday the 13th Oct. last, prosecutor's shop was broicen into, and a basket with a quantity of provisions, lasts, a pair of boot-soles, &c., were stolen. On the follow ing morning the prisoner was seen at Runcorn, which is not far from Garston, carrying a bag containing the stolen property, or some part of it. From the evidence of Mr. Smith, it transpired that the prisoner is a shoemaker, and had been dismissed from his service the week before the robbery was committed. The prisoner was undefended, and the Judge asked him if he wished (through his lord ship) to put any question to the prosecutor; he proposed r irrelevant questions. Mrs. Smith, prosecutor's corroborated the evidence of her husband, as to the he articles of property referred to ; she ed a pair of boot-tops, and other things taken from the prisoner.—Richard Hallowes, a police constable at Runcorn, deposed to having apprehended the abstraction of t likewise identiti toner a little after midnight of Saturday - the 14th ( th the bag er a short , containing the stolen articles.--The jury, liberation, returned a verdict of guilty of Sentence, nine months' imprisonmen't, with hard labour. COUNTERFEIT COlN.—David Brown, 22, read and • y7ted for havingpassedacounterfeit half 301 oh the 11th of October last, and fur .ving in his possession on the 16th of the n six counterfeit shillings, with the intent to me ; Patrick Hacket, Elizabeth Hackett, and 2mick, confederates of the prisoner Brown indicted for having wilfully and feloniously .:soon of a mould and other appliances for coining. .ie prisoner Brown asked permission to have his case postponed, to allow of his retaining counsel. Some delay in the business occurred in consequence. Mr. Wigham, in the absence of Mr. Cobbett, appeared for the prosecu tion, and from his statement it appeared that a mould had been found in the room in St. Peter's-lane, Liverpool, occupied by the prisoner Brown, and that the base money taken from the prisoner had evidently been struck from the mould so found. Serjeaut Storey, in consequence of information, went to the house in St. Peter's-lane on the 16th of October, accompanied by Oecleshaw, a constable. Upon seeing the officers, Brown's behaviour was zuspi ',ey attempted to search him, when a struggle -nately two counterfeit shillings were taken _ another out of a fire grate, and in a cupboard was found a mould, containing two pieces of metal. This evidence was corroborated mainly by Occle• shaw. This witness, and another named Povey, (a police constable,) differed to this extent from Storey : The latter stated that the prisoner, on being taken, said the mould was brought to the house by himself; the other officers both agreed in stating that he said a man had left it there. More than one of the witnesses subsequently called to prove tie " passing" bythe prisonerand klentifiedthe shil lings found by the officers as the same coin offered to them, which they had disfigured and returned to the pri soner. was in ,wn at Live ther with ha same meral, Mary AV( I ti ensued. Ul ,ut of his pocket Mr. Powell, an officer of the Mint, being called, stated that four of the shillings, taken from the prisoner in his room, had been cast in the mould also found in his room. Verdict—Guilty. Sentence deferred. The case against the other prisoners was then gone into. Some amusement was caused by Mr. Atkinson, who was retained for the defence, making an application for nine shillings belonging to the prisoners. The JUDGE inquired if they were genuine (mistaking them as materials of evidence). Mr. ATKINSON thanked his lordship for the suggestion. He would look at them, as he should not like to take them unless they were good. (Laughter.) Mr. COBBETT appeared for the prosecution ; the case was similar to the last; a mould was found in their house, and counterfeit coins, corresponding with that mould. The witnesses for the prosecution were the same officers who appeared in the case of Brown. The seizure took place at a cellar in Tatlock-street, which the prisoners occupied. The case against the two females was, by agree ment with the counsel, for the prosecution, withdrawn. The male prisoner, Patrick Hackett, was found guilty.— Sentence deferred. The females were subject to another indictment in the same case; they were formally acquitted on this charge also. The court rose at six o'clock. CHARGE AGAINST A BONE-SETTER On Friday an inquest was commenced before Mr. Curry, the borough coroner, touching the death of a man named John Doran, who on the preceding Monday had been seriously injured in the chest by falling into the hold of a vessel called the Franconia, lying in the Waterloo Dock. He died on Wednesday last. Soon after the accident Mr. Kelly, surgeon, applied a plaster to deceased's chest, and took other means to recover him, and he was taken home. James Doran, brother of deceased, said that the latter was severely hurt in the back, sides, and breast. The breast bone was broken, and be was attended by Mr. Evan Thomas, the bone -setter, who removed the plaster from his breast, and had a dozen leeches applied instead, after which deceased became worse and died. Mr. Richard Hutchinson, surgeon, said he was called to deceased on the Monday evening, and found him in a yery weak state, with fracture of the sternum. Deceased had then a plaster on his chest. He considered everything had been done by the previous surgeon that was required and left. Next morning he recommended to him a mixture of ammonia and choleric ether, and ordered warmth to be applied to the extremities. as he considered the case required active stimulants. On his next visit in the afternoon, he found the patient much worse, greatly exhausted, and in a cold clammy sweat. On inquiry he learned that leeches had been applied, which accounted for the prostration that had taken place. He ordered the leeches to be dis continued, and stimulants, such as beef tea, &c., to be given. He considered the bleeding decidedly improper— nothing could have been worse. The patient declined and died. He was of opinion that the person who ordered bleeding shewed gross ignoranceindeed culpable rash ness. Mr. Evans was sent for, and the facts were stated to him ; also that a post mortem examination would be made, and he might send a surgeon if he thought fit to watch the operation. The inquest was then adjourned till the following day. On Saturday the inquest was resumed, and such was the interest and curiosity excited, that the court was crowded. Amongst those present were a considerable number of surgeons. Mr. Godfrey, solicitor, and Mr. Trench, M.D., appeared for Mr. Thomas. Mr. Richard Hutchinson was recalled. His evidence was to the following effect :—lle had examined the body in presence of Dr. Kelly, who was assisting him (witness.) Dr. Trench and Mr. M'George were present on behalf of Mr. Thomas. There was no appearance of injury exter nally. The marks of twelve leech bites were on the chest. There were two fractures of the sternum or breast bone, requiring a plaster ; three sets of fractures of the ribs, two in front on each side the sternum, and the third set on the right side, broken towards the back ; also several ribs broken on the left side, the eighth in two places. In the interior of the breast bone some blood was effused, which had been increased in some degree by the leeches near the skin, The lungs and heart had escaped primary in jury. The lungs were congested. In the left one there was a pint of bloody serum, and half a pint in the caviti es of the chest. Death was (in witness's opinion) produced by two causes—the shock to the nervous system by the injuries, from which the patient never rallied, and the congestion of the lungs. The latter was the result of the fall. The post mortem examination did not shake the witness's previous opinion. If Mr. Thomas ordered leeches, and removed the plaster, exposing the breast to the cold, he showed gross ignorance in the treatment of the case. The three causes combined would accelerate death. He thought deceased would not ultimately have recovered from such severe injuries, but he might have lived longer. Cross-examined by Mr. Godfrey.—The pleura was not injured, nor the lungs either, by the removal of the plas ter. If the lungs had been torn, I would have perceived it. The lungs were more or less congested. If witness had a case of congestion of the lungs to treat, in connec tion with serious injury, as in this case, and in which there was a state of collapse, he would use stimulants, and avoid depressing means, until reaction was established ; and his object in this treatment would be to restore the balance of the circulation. Such reaction from stimulants would not be likely to produce inflammation of the sub stance of the lungs, in the condition in which the patient then was. Collapse sometimes takes place immediately after a severe injury. The amount of injury which deceased received was quite sufficient to cause collapse immediately after the accident. He did not think a man with such injuries as the deceased had received could walk up a LIVERPOOL SAVINGS BANK The serious defalcation which has recently been dis • covered in the accounts of the actuary of the Rochdale Savings Bank, Mr. Haworth, might naturally have been expected to have created a feeling of alarm in the minds of depositors in other similar banks throughout the king dom. The state of affairs developed in the exposition, thus far, of the Rochdale case ; the absence of all effec tive check upon the malversations of Haworth, notwith standing that amongst the trustees and directors were men of such practical experience as Mr. Clement Royds, Dr. Molesworth, besides many other business men, with the fact that the falsification of the accounts has gone on during a long period of years, might have led to the sup position that there was something peculiarly loose in the management of savings banks, and that the hard-earned money of the working and middle classes was not safe in such establishments. Indeed, it is the wonder of nine tenths of the public how such practices as Haworth's could be successfully carried on, through so long a period of years, under any syst em whatever. We are glad, however, to inform our readers that under the system, as carried out at the Liverpool Savings Bank, no fraud can possibly be perpetrated with success; and, at fie same time to observe that the confidence of the public, in the safety of the institution, continues unshaken. The latter fact is proved by the circumstance that the deposits this week have exceeded the average, being £3226 12s. 11d. on Friday last, and £1663 6s. 4d. on :ay ; in 01 for the fortnight £4890 19s. 2d. There is a corresponding decrease in the number of notices for withdrawal. The difficulty, and indeed impossibility of fraud being successfully practised will be acknowledged when we state that every shilling deposited, or withdrawn from the institution, is received or paid in the presence of one of the trustees or directors, at the head of whom are the venerable Archdeacon Brooks and the Rev. Rector Campbell, by one or both of whom nearly every meeting for receiving or paying, is attended. The Liverpool Savings Bank is at present in a very flourishing position, notwithstanding the recent pressure upon the industrious classes has somewhat diminished the gross sum invested by the public. The amount held will still be somewhat over £400,000 ; and the bank has a surplus, from interest accrued above the rate paid to the depositors,amounting to above£ 11,000. Our fellow-towns men, desirous of investing safely their savings, need be under no alarm as to the perfect security of this insti tution. Saturd Central frliatilanp. The bullion in the Bank of England is still increasing. ounts now to £16,512,414. linen factory of Messrs. Larking and Co., at Croy was destroyed by fire on Thursday. Chancellor of the Exchequer has received from an anonymous correspondent a bank note for £5OO. Ebenezer Elliott, the " corn law rhymer," died on the Ist instant, leaving a wife and large family. A woman was shot at Rochester, a few days since, by a fellow-servant, who carelessly took up a loaded gun. BURIAL FEES.-At the Bishop Auckland County Court, last week, a claim for an extra fee of £1 for the burial of a non-parishioner was disallowed. The Kent Herald announces the discovery of the re mains of a Roman amphitheatre, nearly two hundred feet in diameter, at Richborougb. On Thursday the lace warehouse of Messrs. Hill and Swanwick was destroyed by fire. The damage was £1,500. It is proposed to lay down a glass culvert for the main sewers of Rugby. It has been recommended on account of its smoothness and economy. Wheat is now, by last Friday's Gazette, at 40s. 4d. per quarter, and it is still falling. Importations increase, and prices fall. We see nothing to prevent its reaching 365., or even 345., before the month of March. The house of Cotesworth and Co, which suspendedpay ment in 1847, with liabilities amounting to £350,000, has just paid a final dividend of 7s. 6d., making 20s. in the poun 1. The ship Monarch sailed from Cowes on Monday week, for New Zealand, with about sixty passengers, who pur pose forming a settlement in that island, and who carried foxes, deer, rabbits, hares, &c., for the purpose of breeding. Lord J. Russell has placed at the disposal of the Royal Society, for scientific purposes, a government grant of £lOOO for this year, and probably the same amount in successive years, A female, named Mrs. Jones, has died at Shrewsbury from inhaling chloroform. The surgeon who administered it said that he had given patients three times the quantity which he administered to the deceased. A HEAVY SENTENCE.—At the Lewes sessions, Samuel Bartholomew, a labourer, aged 68, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment and hard labour, for stealing one hop-pole, value a halfpenny. At the Thames police-office, on Friday, a half-starved sempstress was charged with pawning three calico shirts. It transpired that the price allowed for making a shirt is only 3d., and but 82d. for three shirts. The corporation of London have appointed a committee to report as to the desirability of their erecting public baths, and washhouses in London. The example of Li verpool was quoted as being well worthy of imitation. Last week, James Heron, Esq., of Dalmore, while in the act of striking a ball in the Ayr Subscription Billiard Room, Sandgate-street, Ayr, fell backwards, and almost instantaneously expired. The new Roman Catholic church at Morpeth is fast approaching to completion. The cost has been £2,000. The Earl of Carlisle is among the subscribers. The style is the early English, The building consists of a nave, chancel, vestry, belfry, and spire. Last week three vagabonds were apprehended at White haven, while carrying a sack of wool which it was found they had clipped from the backs of the sheep of farmers in the neighbourhood. They had sent the produce of simi lar robberies to Belfast. On Tuesday, a splendid banquet was given to Earl de Grey, in honour of the occasion of the presentation to him of his portrait by the officers of the Yorkshire Hussar Regiment, of which the noble earl is the commander. The entertainment took place in the De Grey Rooms, York. Mr. Newman (a brother to the notorious pervert) has written a pamphlet, objecting to the obligation of the National Debt, as resting on the present generation of Englishmen, because the men of 1793 or of 1810 had no right to burden the men of 1850 with the debts which they then chose to incur. H e w ill m e e t w ith a s few sm. pathisers as his brother. Standard, The Swansea Herald says that, last week, a hare, pur sued by some greyhounds, and hardly pressed, jumped on the back of a young horse, where she fixed herself astride. The affrighted animal, not being accustomed to such a rider, bounded off at full speed, kicking and plunging, ac companied by the dogs. This continued from four to five minutes, when choosing a favourable situation, the hare hopped off, and made her escape. HOSPITAL IN GItEENOCK.-£38,000 Three per Cent. Consols have been handed by the legatees of the late Sir Gabriel Wood, to trustees, to carry out the wish of the deceased gentleman, in the erection and endowment of an hospital for the residence and maintenance of decayed shipmasters of this his native town and neighbourhood. The building, which will cost about £lO,OOO, is to be a very handsome edifice. An ironstone miner, named Baker, went shooting near Sutton, Derbyshire, on Wednesday morning, and was ftcrwards found weltering in his blood, and quite dead, in . An old gun was found in the pocket of his shoot ing coat, and the contents of the piece had been discharged into the back of his thigh, probably while he was climbing over a gate, so that he bled to death before assistance arrived. a ditch VALUE OF A SURGEON IN CALIPORNIA.—A gentleman of the medical profession, named Gibson, in practice at the Tsle of Axeh o l me , h as b een tempted to emigrate to California. He writes home that his first professional employment there was to amputate a limb. Five guineas would probably have been thought a fair remuneration for this service in England, but in California his payment was thirty ounces of gold.---Sheffield paper. The estate of Cockerill, Larpent and Co., which failed in 1847, has just paid a dividend of 6d. in the pound. Their liabilities were very heavy. The small dividend is owing to the fact that the London house believed that the house in India had large quantities of produce free ; but it turned out that advances had been made upon it, and the former proved on the India house for £500,000, for which only £5OOO was received. The report of it being the determination of ministers to reduce the rate of interest on the three per cent. stock gains ground, their great reliance for success being the large amount of trust property known to be invested in the three per cents. Many persons, however, remain sceptical respecting the practicability of the reduction. The fundholder will, however, have the option of having his money returned him should he decline the reduced rate"of interest offered. A female servant in a highly respectable family in Lon don has been remanded on a serious charge—that of murdering her child, two years old. She hung the poor thing and then packed it in a box, which she sent by a fellow-servant to the railway station, directed to her sister, who she expected would bury it. She said that a woman who had bad the child to nurse, and to whom she owed a good deal of money, brought it to her, and she was afraid of losing her place. She did it (alluding to the hanging) in a moment, no one else being present. While a horse was drawing a cart laden with manure down a steep street at Newcastle-on-Tyne, on Monday week, part of the harness broke and frightened the animal, which started at full speed, and after a short course dashed into a cheesemonger's shop. The horse was killed on the spot, and the cart broken to pieces, while a great quantity of manure was thrown on the cheeses, bacon, &c., lying near the counter ; and a phaeton, with w hi c h the cart had previously come in contact, was also upset and broken into SHIPWRECKS AT WHITBY.—On Sunday and Monday last a very severe storm arose along the north-east cost, and tne following vessels have been wrecked or stranded : —The Victoria, of Newcastle, 115 tons, on shore near Upgang ; crew saved in their own boat, but in a very ex hausted state, The schooner Sisters, of Ramsgate, drove on the sands and became a wreck ; crew saved in their own boat. The brig White, of Sunderland, 205 tons, a total wreck ; crew saved by the life-boat. The whole of the vessels were coal laden. A traveller, named Dowdeswell, for Mr. John Vernon, a wine merchant at Towcester, shot his wife on Thursday night with one pistol, and committed suicide with a second. The house being closed the following morning an entrance was effected, and the bodies found lying on the floor, and a child of two years old crying upstairs. Mrs. Dowdes well was for some years a waitress at the Talbot, and was greatly respected. Less than two years ago she was mar ried under circnmstances not calculated to promise a happy wedded life, and it is said that her husband has frequently treated her with great brutality. GAs.—A meeting was held in London on Thursday, to consider the proposal of the city gas companies to reduce the price of gas to 4s, per 1,000 cubic feet, and a proposal of a newly-formed company to supply it at a maximum price of 45., with an obligation to reduce to 3s. 6d., and ultimately to 35., so soon as an increased consumption will justify them in doing hO. Mr. C. Pearson said that he had ascertained that gas of the first brilliancy could be manufactured in London (and if in London, certainly in Liverpool) as 3s. per 1,000 feet. A unanimous resolution was passed to support the new company. IRISH ENCUMBERED ESTATES' COMMISSION.—The commission, so far as its proceedings have gone, appears to have given satisfaction to all parties concerned. To show the increasing confidence in the court, as well as the hard work in prospect for the commissioners, The Freeman states that between the 16th and the 28th of November, or during ten office days, 67 new petitions were presented. Of these 19 refer to Connaught, one embracing a very large property, that of Lord Oranmore, owner, and Sir Moses Montefiore and Samuel Gurney, petitioners. Another noble lord. long an Irish absentee, is brought before the court by Mr. Grogan, M.P., and. J. A. Wall. In the south, it is added, a very fine pro perty (Mr. Deane Freeman's) is likely to pass into market overt. THE SHIPWRIGHTS OF HULL. - Ship-carpenters' wages at old work are 275. per week, when working six days; but owing to the depressed state of the shipping interest, arising from foreign competition, and the altera tion in the Navigation Laws, there is little or no employ ment for them, as the shipowner cannot afford to do such repairs to his vessels as would be done in prosperous times. We are assured by Messrs. Edward Gibson and Son, that during the week ending 24th November. they had only seven shipwrights employed for two and a quarter days each,—and during last week only two for one and three quarter days each ; and yet, under these circumstances, although a shipowner at this port has offered to repair his vessel, which has received damage at the Greenland Fishery—if they will work for 245. per week—they prefer walking about idle. Why is this ?—Hull Packet. HALSE'S PORTABLE GALVANIC APPARATUS.—(From the Wesleyan.)—That Mr. Halse stands high as a medical galvanist, and that he is generally considered as the head of his profession, are facts which we have long known : but we did not know until very recently that he had brought the galvanic apparatus to such a high state of perfection, that an invalid may galvanize himself with the most perfect safety. We happen to know something of galvanism ourselves, and we can truly say that his appara tus is far superior to anything of the kind we ever beheld. To those of our invalid friends, therefore, who may feel desirous of testing the remedial powers of galvanism, we say apply at once to the fountain head. To secure bene ficial results, it is necessary, as we can from experience assert, to be galvanized by an apparatus constructed on the best principles ; for, although the sensation experi enced from the smallest machines of the common con struction during the operation is very similar to that ex perienced by Mr. Halse's machines, yet the effects after wards produced are vastly different, the one producing a feeling of exhaustion, and the other a feeling of renewedvigour. M r . H a l se p ar ti cu l ar ly recom mends galvanism for the restoration of muscular power in any part of the body which may be deficient of it. An edition of fifteen thousand copiesof the Samoan New TWICE-A.l(Eiiii PRODUCING PEAR.TREE.—To the Testament bas been printed ; and, before this statement recent meeting of the Metropolitan Agricultural Society, issues from the press, this bountiful supply of the word of W. S. Grey, Esq., sent a Jargonelle pear, ripe, and of a Gad, from the Bible Society, will be on its way to the fair size, the produce of a second crop from the same tree distant isles of the Pacific. this year. The tree was stated to grow eight miles north The ship Pandora, recently returned from the northern of Norton, Stockton-on-Tees, against the side of a house : regions in search of Sir John Franklin, has brought home it is about twenty-five years old, and was removed into a Cherokee Indian youth, purchased by the clerk, for two its present place when it was about six or seven years blankets, of his parents, who were desirous that he should old. After the fruit has well set in in summer, it flowers have an English education. again on the young wood, and perfects a second crop, con- A life-boat, containing twenty-four men, was swamped sisting this year o f b e t ween t wo an d t h ree d ozen fine on Tuesday, at the m ou th o f th e Tyne. Twenty of the pears spread all over the tree. These pears swell and crew were lost before assistance could reach them. They ripen well, but are seedless—at least the one shown was were in the act of succouring a ship in distress when the in that condition. unhappy accident happened. MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.—On Saturday a serious charge The Newcastle Journal of Saturday contains advertise- was investigated before the magistrates, at the Town ments of twenty-seven farms to be let and entered upon hall, Pembroke. In the early part of last month the at May-Day next. They all appear to be in Northum- daughter of an influential inhabitant of Pembroke was berland, and represent an aggregate of 6,250 acres. The secretly delivered of an illegitimate male infant feeling largest is 521 acres in extent, and the smallest 27. anxious to provide for the safety of her child, and to eon- A labourer named Perkins, living at Lincoln, was tak- ceal her shame, she induced a man named John Walters, ing the loaded barrels from the stock of his gun, on the for a valuable consideration, to adopt the child and bring 22d ult., when the barrels fell on the floor, and went off, it up as his own, and when the infant was a day old it was lodging the shot in his son's foot, half of which has since delivered into his hands, with a sum of £4O. Soon after been amputated. wards the mother sought her child, when Walters stated A young man, named Coggins, died on Saturday week that ho had given the child to two gipsy women, and £5 in the Sheffield Infirmary of lockjaw, resulting from a with it, to take it off his hands. The affair has created wound inflicted on the ball of his left thumb by a ramrod, much excitement in Pembroke. which he was using to load a small cannon on the Bth ult., GREAT FLOODS.—In consequence of the recent heavy when the powder ignited, and discharged the ramrod rains the whole country from the source of the Trent to against his hand. its junction with the Humber is one vast inland sea, more The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert hag addressed a letter than one hundred and fifty miles in length, and occasion to the Morning Chronicle, intimating that a plan is to be ally spreading for miles on either side ; and on the banks set on foot to assist the distreeeed needle-women of Lon- of the smaller streams in Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and don to emigrate. Emigration on a large scale is advocated Staffordshire, it is the same, but to a more limited extent. by him as the sole measure that holds out any hope of Accounts reached Nottingham on Tuesday evening of the relief. disruption of a series of culverts, and the breaking down BURSTING OF A MILL-DAM.—On Monday the Cat-hole of about 20 yards of embankment on the Trent Valley dam burst and washed away the gable end of the factory line of railway, and soon afterwards it was stated that a belongin to Mr, William Helliwell, of Kitson Wood, similar catastrophe had occurred on the Lincoln line, near near Tod orden, together with the goods and machinery, Thurgarton. By dint of great exertion, however, the which were quite new and in good working order. The lines have been rendered capable of bearing the trains, damage sustained is about £1,400. and locomotion over them has been but little interrupted. The Commissioner of the Morning Chronicle states OLD WHEAT.—LEEDs, Dec. 7.—We have been fa that a favourite toast with the Cornish fishermen is, voured with the gift of a sample of English wheat, about " Long life to the Pope and death to thousands." The 25 years old, which was grown in Yorkshire. The farmer thousands apply to the Pilchards, and:as to the Pope one who grew it h a d £6 a quarter o ff ered for it, but, thinking of the fishers said :—" It would be a bad thing if some this too little, he vowed he would not sell it under £7. wasn't to think fish necessary to salvation on a Friday." To this vow he has religiously adhered, and it may be an EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.—At a late hour on Sunday instructive lesson to his neighbours to calculate how much night last, a poor man was admitted into the hospital, at this man's avarice has cost him, reckoning depreciation in Glasgow, in one of the worst stages of madness, caused by value of the grain and loss of interest in capital. The his working at his trade in quicksilver for glasses, and the wheat has been locked up and run over by rats and mice quicksilver having entered his nerves, he lost his reason. until it probably would not now be worth 20s. a quarter, It took not less than seven police-officers to take him to if offered on the market. In hopes of a "good time corn the hospital, where he remains in a very hopeless state. ing," the wheat is yet held for a buyer at £7, which the PREPARATION FOR CHRISTMAS.—No fewer than 3210 owner " trusts he may get ;" possibly he may realise his geese, which had been feeding for seven weeks in the stub- hopes, but it is to be feared he must " wait a little bles cn a farm at Withcall, Lincolnshire, are now fatten- longer." ing at a farmstead at Monk's Dyke, for the London Christ- The monthly return of the Board of Trade for October mas market ; and the weekly consumption of corn by this is encouraging : the external commerce of the kingdom immense flock, which belongs to a single poulterer, is no during October, 1849, has exceeded in value the exports less than 110 quarters. for the corresponding period of any other year. The LIBERALITY OF THE DAY !—At the agricultural dinner exports of October, 1849, have amounted to about four at Ardleigh, Essex, on the 27th of November, the Rev. and a half millions sterling—that is, above one million G. Wilkins, incumbent of Wix, in returning thanks for more than 1848—above one and a quarter million more the toast of " fox hunting," said—" He was for upholding than 1847—nearly as much above 1846, and three-fourths the national amusements of the country, for he believed, of a million more than 1845. From the sth of January to if they had more amusement and less preaching, they the sth of November, 1849, our exports have amounted to whould be a much happier and more moral people !—Ese - forty-nine and a half millions sterline—a sum which is nine and a half millions more than those of the same period of last year; six millions more than those of 1846 or 1847 ; and four millions in excess of those of 1845. These statistics are cheering as far as they go ; and, though all that glitters in them is very far from being gold, we rejoice to hail these as proofs of the blessings that attend enterprise accompanied by loyalty and order. FEMALE SLOP WORKERS.—A singular meeting took place on Monday eveni ng wee k, a t th e British School room, Sliadwell, London. F rom 1,000 t o 1 ,200 poor female slop-workers, some clad in the habiliments of re spectable poverty, but by far the greater part in clothing in which the word "rags " was literally applicable in its fullest meaning, assembled to hear addresses from Lord Ashley and Mr. Sidney Herbert. After the departure of the noble lord and Mr. Herbert, Mr. Shaw, army clothier, with other philanthropic individuals, interrogated the poor women as to their employment and rate of remuneration. The following is a summary of the rate of wages obtained by these unfortunate creatures :—On the question being asked—how many had earned Bs. last week, not a hand was held up throughout the whole assembly •, 7s. was next tried, but with a like result; five had earned 65., twenty eight had earned 55., twelve had earned 4s, 6d., 142 had earned 35., 150 had earned 2s, 6d., seventy-one had earned 25., eighty-two had earned ls. 6d., ninety-eight had earned only ls., and of this last class eighty-eight stated they were entirely dependent upon their own exertions for sup port ; ninety-two females had earned under ls., and 223 had had no work at all during the whole of the week. Rittrature. POETRY LOVE THAT DIETH NOT BY T. J. OUSELEY. Love not alone the gay, The beautiful, the bright; For youth will melt away, As daybeams into night : But love the heart that's pure, How plain soe'er the face; Such love will long endure, Such love cannot deface. Love not alone on earth, Those transient things of life, Who, like the rainbow's birth, Soon fade 'midst shadowy strife: But love the Power that made All that to man is given, Whose spirit cloth pervade The universal heaven. Love all things, great and small, From man to tiny flower ; Created they were all By an all-seeing Power : For God is love, ,' we know, Whate'er may be our lot; Then in life let us sow The love that dieth not. December, 1849. NOTICE Poems, by Fritz and Liolett. London : Sherwood & Co. This a very pretty little volume of very pretty poems, of which we shall very shortly give a specimen to our readers. The poems are thirty-four in number, and embrace a variety of subjects, moral and sentimental. The authors will evidently win their way to fame, for the rythm is very correct, and the lines run smoothly on perusal. -lib-- WHAT IS THE GOOD OF THE COLONIES ? (From Sophisms of Free Trade.) What is the good of the colonies ? So say the ultra Free-traders. " Give me ships, colonies, and commerce," said the greatest administrative genius of modern times. Well does it behove the rulers of the British Empire to see to it that they commit no mistake in this matter. A mistake here is irreparable. The world is now occupied. No more colonies are to be had. Repentance and a change of public opinion, however soon it may arrive, may yet come too late, Steam has transformed the little peddling manufactur ing villages of the last century into Manchesters and Bir minghams. On towns, and on a small scale, such are its effects ; on empires, and on a large scale, its effects will be proportionate, Uniformity in language, manners, opinion, law, government—simultaneous and concerted action over enormous portions of the earth's surface, hitherto impossible, are now suddenly rendered not only possible, but perfectly easy. Time and distance are anni hilated. We already see the approaching shadows of those gigantic confederations which a coming age will wit ness. The two colossal empires that even now loom in the distance, are the United States and Russia. Pos sibly a third may be descried, and a greater than either of the other two, unless it pleases Providence only to show us the mighty possible future of Great Britain, and then to dash our insipient greatness, by allowing us to perse vere in a disintegrating policy, in spite of the plainest warnings. _ Let is consider for a moment what our colonial empire consists of, and what it can do for us. Our noblest dependency is the Indian empire. It has been lately increased, and to an enlightened policy ren dered more valuable than ever, by the acquisition of the Punjaub. Two of the greatest rivers in Asia are now ours, and may easily be made available, not only for in ternal communication, but for the fertilisation of vast districts. A new field for British skill and science, and in a healthy and temperate climate, has just been opened up. The revenues of the new province are already so large that it need be no expense. Within our own borders, India now presents us with the productions of all lands, and all climates—cotton, silk, fine wool, sugar, spices, rice, and every other natural production that can be de sired, in inexhaustible profusion. And these immense natural riches are India's means for the unlimited pur chase of Manchester, Birmingham, and Sheffield goods. Her custom-houses are ours. Trade with India alone, under proper regulations, is capable of soon becoming far greater than the whole present foreign trade of Great Britain. _ _ Turn to the west. We have Upper and Lower Canada, with the magnificent St. Lawrence. Inexhnustibl e f ores t s and supplies of wood on our own soil. We have New Brunswick, with its timber and ship building ca pabilities. Nova Scotia, with th e mos t mag nificent and commodious harbours in the world. In the harbour of Halifax alone 1,000 ships can ride safely, to say nothing of the harbours of Margaret's Bay, St. Mary's Bay, the Basin of Mines, the Annapolis Basin, Pictou Harbour, and Cumberland Basin. There is a neighbour ing power that forms a juster estimate than we do of these means of maritime greatness and imperial wealth. We have, in the same part of the world, Cape Breton, Prince Edward's Island, and the Hudson Bay territory. The West India Isl an d s , so crue ll y t rea t e d, m i g ht, since the introduction of steam, be just as valuable to us as new counties, with a tropical climate, in the English Channel, or, as sugar plantations with a congenial cli mate, in Suffolk or Yorkshire, if such things were as pos sible as they are imaginable. We actually have, within a run of a few days, almost of a few hours, several pro vinces adapted by nature to supply us with tropical pro ductions. First, there is the noble island of Jamaica, the aggregate imports and exports of which island alone used to be about five millions sterling a-year ; and which, if it were treated like an English county, as it ought to be, might be, and would soon be, much more. We have then the long list of Antigua, Barbadoes, Dominica, Gre nada, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Christopher, St. Luci, St. Vincent, Tobago, Tortola, Trinidad, the Bahamas, and the settlements of Demerara and Berbice ; all once most flourishing and loyal dependencies, now fast sinking to decay, alienated by a policy unexpected, because incredi ble, but in the near neighbourhood of a great and ri 5114 I state, whose policy is altogether different. Our European dependencies are chiefly valuable as e o e i Ascensionnswv a aoh v l uaa a tt lhnypde p owe r military ei Atlanticst ttl a al r uln y atdt o.pey: stations, esewsrainbwelaytws hf.e t oe h rn e ßcnu o oo tum possesswtl epoeon have outposts a my n ee d t, tt sentinel ti e e es i the our vast possessions under the southern i-e se ' the Hope and South Africa ; the haiAwaY on the road to our possession , in the East and in Ailer l 7; Ea. Then we have the Auuritius. Next comes the island of Ceylon, weu ntted for every tropical production. especially for r..eree cinnamon, and the cocoa-nut The island, or rather the continent, of New Holland (uo whop , of which is a British possession) is 28 times as larg e .s Great Britain and Ireland put together. All the vege table production of the South of France and of EurriP e flourish here. So well adapted are they for sheep pastur age, that the fine Australian wool is rapidly superseding house, ed Cel Cape pu s as and yr - _vi foreign wool in the British market. The soil and climate are well fitted for the growth of the vine. The same general remarks apply to the island of Van Dieman's Land. PAST AND PRESENT STATE OF THE NAB• Sir Charles Napier has publi s h e d a l ong an d able letter in the London Times, addressed to Lord John Russell. He begins his communication with these sentences :---- " Mr. Tierney said in the House of Commons, 'Give me s . w w o el r l l -manned .' navy, and a full excheque r , and I will defy the bee‘ n C i a n p c t u a r m re ß d o i u n s bu sa il i d d i , ng . A sh 7 p e s a a t n p d ar p t u o l i f in t g he n n e a m tio t n o a p l i d e e c b es t 2 be We had, at one time, he states, a prodigious fleet; we have paid for rebuilding it twice ; and now we cannot fi nd even the fragments. In s ome cases, we have not even ,_ record of the original d es t ruc ti on . W e h ave actually made away with 13 three-deckers, 144 two-deckers, 21 first class frigates, 155 second class frigates, 50 third class frigates' and 334 vessels of rates still inferior. Total, 717 vesse l. ; over and above 70 rec e ivi ng s hip s . I n th e p l ace thereo. we have got 14 new three-deckers, 40 two-deckers , 94 f frigates, and 161 vessels of inferior rates, exclusive 0 steamers. The cost of the exchange may be estimated to follows :—ln the last twenty-eight years the navy esti mates have amounted to a total of £160,169,146, el la since the cost of the materiel is to the cost of the pers° ll ; net as about 25 to 20, it resu lt s th a t we mus t h ave spe n t ninety millions sterling in the work described above. . 1 ' addition to the expense a tt en di ng b rea ki ng up ships and building new ones, th ousan d s o f poun d s have been spent in altering ships' sterns and magazine* And all this, be it remembered, is since the Wit!: The chief explanation of this curious result is to IN found in the lordly regardlessness of ordinary considera tions with which new and crude systems were first Men and then abandoned. The gallant admiral romarks 012 this first part of the subject :—" Here we have some sPe cimens—Of the 22 three-deckers borne on the navy list of 1815, nine are accounted for, and 13 have vanished ; of 159 two-deckers, 43 are reported, and 116 are missinK:' of 27 50's and 44's there have disappeared 27, and remelt! 0 ; of 161 war frigates (i. e. frigates built during the war) there remain, or we should rather say there can be se' counted for, 37, and there have vanished 124; of t 136 ' Donkeys ' there remain 10 specimens, and of the shiP sloops but one." Two 90's and nine 80's were built by the late surveyor , but we are still without a regulation model for either class of ships, having :abandoned that just set, without aol good reason, and run headlong after a new one without any better. A certain class of 28-gun brigs used to be thought perfection, but the Admiralty of the day super seded them by a ` set' of corvettes, which, as bad an unsafe,' were immediately discarded in their turn. Lord Spencer's board built a whole lot' (it is said fifty-two ) of the same class, on a fresh principle, and called theo after his lordship's hounds, but, as they were found caple of either sailing or keeping to windward,' they are now ' all gone.' When the war was over we continued building, though witho u t os t ens ibl e purpose, an d we launched no fewer than sixty four ! Of these, ten were lost at sea wall 428 souls on board ; seven were verted,' thirty-five 'b ro k en up ,' and twelve turned over to the coast-guard or breakwaters. " From 1821 to 1849 (says Sir Charles) the estimates amount to £156,975, 158 ; of that the dockyards have absorbed £44'396,050, and the half-pay and pensions £47.422,378. The navy estime,,,, tes last year amounted to £7,063,730 , o f w hi c h only £2,079,w1 went for wages and v i c t ua l s , w hil e t h e d oc k yar d s an d materials cost no less th a n £2,568,877. I t i s i n th i s branch that we ought to economise, not in the effective of the navy. Let us employ fewer men and expend fewer materials." As to steamers, this department of the nor deserves a gazette of its own. A hint was thrown out about iron, and thirty iron steamers were instantly laid down. It turns out that they will neither resist shot nor carry weights, and are now about as useful as velocipedes . Somebody suggested four pairs of engines in place of two, so four steamers were built for this double load ; and then new engines were built for the new steamers, which were found incapable of carrying those originally design , ed. The worst of it is, th a t we are " s till bl un d er i ng on , as much in the dark as before. The particular vanity of, the present board appears to be steam-frigates of 400-horse power ; but Sir Charles's experience already leads him W anticipate the ordinary fate for this batch also, as they bid fair to be "too shallow for frigates," and have "neither a clear deck nor steerage." THIRD EDITION. Standard-of ice, Half-past Two o'clock, p.m• LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.—Tits DAY• We have a quiet, steady Share Market this morning, without change in prices. Business has been at the following quota tions :—Leeds fifths, 6 11/3 8- 11/3 d.; Do. pref., In ; London stock, 113 ; Do. quarters, 13/9 p. ; Midland stock, 50 ; Do• halves, 21 1/3, 21, 21 1/3 d. ; Dover No. 4, 68 ; South Stafford* 4 d. ; Belfast and Ballymena, 188 d. There will be a considerable amount of stock taken on the balance on the approaching settling-day—perhaps more t 135 on any during the year. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET-THIS DAY. Of all kinds of produce, either coastwise or from Ireland, the receipts into this port during the past week continne to de crease and prove indifferently . light; except Flour, of which vte report a good supply; exclusive of about 10,689 brls. of Flour from the United States and Canada, with a moderate quantitY of Indian Corn, chiefly from th e f ormer source, the imports from abroad are trivial, containing m ere ly 500 qrs. of the latter article, and 1,426 sacks of Flour from Europe. In several of the agricultural districts and large consuming towns of this country at the close of last week, the corn trade on the part of holders appeared rather more steadfast ; in a few solitary cases, however, Wheat alone realized a slight jar provement, although a more general opinion seemed to preval, that from the existing very low and unremunera ti ng ra nge °A prices, any further decline of moment was- i m p ro b a bl e . At the same time the Irish markets, even with limited plies from the growers, are in gen era l reported to be languid' f Influenced by accounts previously received from this side the water the value of most kinds of native- grain, at sever al of the shipping ports, are quoted rather lower.. By recent as vices thence, potatoes are rarely alluded to, from which it may be reasonably inferred that the crop has proved more favourable than it indicated early in the season, at least some of our friends express that opinion, Influenced by the stand made in London yesterday, 1 11 ,,, e Wheat trade at our market this morning was firm, to 0 1 '1 the buyers did not freely respond, and a moderate extent of business only was transacted in English and Foreign Wheats, on the terms of this day week, whilst a f ew p r i me sam ples ol Irish, being scarce, realised a slight amendment. Choice marks of Flour were in some request, and remaine d steady in value; but all inferior and doubtful kinds net"„ wholly unsaleable. _ Dec 11, 1840, s, from actual scarcity, were the turn dearer; an d Oat' on a moderate demand, m a i n t a i ne d th e rates of this dal' than Corn continued to meet exceedingly firm, an adva ley was Is. pi ler qr. cheaper, Beans and Pe sae little variati a fair demand; and holder s nce of 6d. per qr. was at" and Malt hardly support Am was apparent 171 F.l g n: : : n I ND L. I • . . N 0 (0 0 ___L-- '.4 p c *; i.1i..,._ 1 F: ° rt • CP t o . 1a 0 : . 00 • 1-.• : Lt: • a, • 001:b 3 • • . s ,q. • -r a " : •• R w to . . o , (.4 8 Oat meal, week. Inc being Up ( whi hol ball Pei wh fro Pro rap tha the an( wit wh has occ exi im sei au fel