The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-04-03 00:00:00

SCOTTISH PROVIDENT INSTITUTION. No. 14,, ST. ANDREW-SQUARE, EDIATU iIGH, (INCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT.) THE SCOTTISH PROVIDENT INSTITUTION is the only Office which combines the advantages of MUTUAL ASSURANCE with MODERATE PREMIUMS. The Premiums are, at early and middle ages, about a fourth lower than in the other Mutual Assurance Offices ; so that the sum required in them—say at age 30—to assure £lOOO, would secure .e 1230 in this. The Whole Profits are divisible among the Assured, upon a principle which is at once safe, equitable, and favourable to good lives,—the Surplus being reserved for those Members whose Premiums, with Accumulated Interest, amount to the sums in their Policies ;in other words, for those by whose longer contributions alone it has been created. This distinctive principle is more fully explained in the Pros- pectus and Annual Reports, copies of which may be had on application. __ .... . annual Premium to Assure .4'loo at Death e 2 6 101 2 14 91 .e 1 18 0 The same benefit may be secured by yearly premiums, pal able for a limited time only. Those payable during 21 yea] will be found nearly the same as other participating offict requi • the whole li JAMES WATSON, Manager JOHN REID, Comm ant, 13, Oldhall-street THE SCOTTISH THE 1 IN( LEVENTH if CONTRIB. ROOMS, ED CHART be first t lations of the Corporation of the Scottish Provident In;titu• ti"n." _ _ WILLIAM J. DUNCAN, Manager of the National Sank of Scotland, seconded the Motion. The Motion having been put, and reference made to that part of Art. 7 of the Laws as proposed to be amended, which provides for forfeiture in case a member, "being of sane mind, shall commit suicide," it was suggested thr,A, as it seemed to be considered very doubtful whether a pr.,rson who did commit suicide could be, or would be held by a jury to be, of sound mind, it would be better to avoid ant ground for question by doing away with the forfeiture altogether. The CHAIRMAN said that the clWuse, as put by the Commit tee who had prepared the amndments, stood originally thus— "or shall, within six months from the date of the Policy, com mit suicide." This form met the views of a great majority of the Directors, but it had been altered as it now stood to secure unanimity ' as there seemed , really to be little practical differ . • ence oetween tne two. 'the Meeting unanimously adopted this sugeestion, and resolved that the rule should stand thus —" or shall, within six months from the date of the Policy, commit suicide." then read seriatim, and approved ot; and Mr. Chambers motion adopted unanimously. ___The Lord PROVOST then proposed a vote of thanks to the Directors for their arduous and most successful labours during the past year, which was seconded by JAMES PEDDLE, Esq., W.S., and carried unanimously. A vote of thanks was, in like manner, given to the Board of Directors, and to the Board at Manchester; to the Auditors iger, Medical Officers, and other Office-bearers of t: lowing Gentle t for the ensuing year was vested in the fol ECTOR FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. I 'N D I A DEFEAT OF THE SIKH ARMY The mail of the 4th of March from Bombay brings in telligence from the theatre of war in the Punjaub to the 21st of February, on which day a battle was fought by the united forces of Lord Gough and General Whish, which ended in the complete rout of the Sikh army. Of this victory, however, no details have arrived by this mail, as the despatches of the Commander-in-Chief had not reached Bombay when the steamer left. We are enabled to state, however, that semi-official accounts leave no doubt as to the complete success of our arms. The procesdings of Lord Gough from the date of our previous letters, and up to the 10th of February, were chiefly confined to the defence of the position which the British army occupied at Chillianwallah. The Sikh forces, having received some addition to their numbers by the junction of Chuttur Singh, the father of their leader, Shere Singh, took up positions to the right of Lord Gough's camp, as if with an intention of out-flanking; the British. This movement led to the supposition that the Sikhs contemplated an attack; but nothing of the kind took place. The enemy caused a good deal of annoyance to the grass-cutters and camp-followers ; but no. serious encounter took place, for Lord Gough persisted in his plan of waiting for the arrival of the Bengal division undEr General Whish, and of the Bombay column commanded by Brigadier Dundas. During several days, from the 6th to the 12th of Feb., various skirmishes took place, but no serious encounter, as the British general continued to act on the defensive. On the Bth, a prisoner was brought into the catnp,.who gave the news that Dost Mahommed was collecting the revenue in the Attock districts, and that he had built bridges over the Indus and the LUandye. On , the 11th, the Sikhs advanced to a village near the nritisn camp, as it to oring on an engagement, and the whole line was turned out, but no fight took place. The Sikhs plundered the outward and inward mails from the A proclamation was published by Sir Henry Lawrence, in the name of Dhuleep Singh, the young Maharajah of 'lore, which promised forgiveness for the past to all ' hould retire to their homes, and threatened hment to all who persisted in the rebellion. those who s proclamation was an effect arr zst the Sikh chieftains, many of whom were I with the course which the compaign had taken, aey found that money and provisions were wanting. On the 12th the Sikhs, who, during the late feigned tacks on Lord Gough's camp, had found means to .re move their heavy guns from their intren c h men t s a t Rus sool drew up their cavalry at the village of Coira, and, ' marched towards er its cover, struck their tents, ich the That po- Goojerat. This retreat allowed the British an opp , of examining with attention the ground on wl battle had taken place on the 13th of January sition of the 8 fisting of h they I rtunitv All, with mble line of intrenchments, in front of lanted large bushes in every direction, 'heir eanif , tched upon the slop battery in the midst of broken ground bridge. To the rear of this natural fortre 1i r the J on the memorable 13th of Ja- upon t Id have cost lives than ce Lord dougl: days, shewe k on the morning of the 13 Genera Ramnu - •edun and Chimbur r to WUzeerat ion near the town of ( lied from Supnoree to nt to j from the Chenab ;e of boats o nu Lord Gough last preparations were n on the 21st Lord Gougl► attacked a the 19th mare the 20th the Pattam, whicl: mniet, •eat portion e Singh en him on an point Singh fled, leaving )f his guns and of his =Munition, as well g camp, in possession of the victors, who the pu t of the dispersed Sikhs'when and ran away. Burn was thrown upon the pavement and killed on the spot, while the horse and shandry fell into the - dam. The deceased has left a wife. THE EDUCATION NEEDED.—We quote the following remarks from a truly eloquent speech delivered at an educational meeting in Manchester on Thursday, by the Rev. Hugh Stowell :—" If man:,were a pure and untallen being, cultiv a te an d re fi ne his 'intellect, and it were enough, if his heart were right with God. But if man were born with a heart " deceitful above all things and desperately wicked," the education that did not lead the young heart and the mind into control with the great virtues of the Bible—such a system educated the brute and the fiend, but did not educate the renewed mind. (Cheering.) He said that if they educated, and religion was not in some way brought to- hallow and to sanctify the whole, they would raise up, as the Duke of Welling ton in his great sagacity had said, they would raise up a generation of clever devils. If that were his (Mr. Stowell's) own sentiment, they might probably brand it as fanatical, but no man could call the hero of Waterloo a fanatic. (Hear.) France presented to us a more educated body of people far than England. But might we exchange French intellectuality for our system. It was stated some years ago in the Edinburgh Review, an organ not likely to make an incorrect representation on such a subject, and it was stated by Mr. Chancellor Raikes, on the authority of the minister of education in France, that there were seven times as much crime committed in the most educated departments of France as in the least edu cated districts. (Hear.) That was an important fact; and if they brought forward statistics of ignorance in our own country, they could bring them the statistics as to the effects of secular intellectuality from France. (Hear, hear.) Look at what education confined to secular in struction had effected in Prussia ; look at the recent con duct of the artizans of London, and compare it with the tumultuous proceedings of the populace at Berlin. Give him, he said, English parochial education based upon religion, rather than Prussian education without religion. (Applause.) It was true that th e y m i g ht by intellec- ke man ra .her elevated grosser and more grovelling appetites of his nature ; but be bad learned in the course of his experience that the lusts of the mind were an deadly as the lusts of the flesh. (Hear, hear.) The broad distance between heaven and hell was caused not through the intellect but through the moral condition, and the moral condition depended on the state of the heart and affections towards God. And there was no balm for man's deadly disease_ above the aostate trained a child withou, alvation through the Irist Jesus, their education mocked bim, and ,re than fit him for this world. But he did t to his neighbour who did it to his God." L AID SOCIETY —The sum of £2O in St. I continued ?ROVIDENT INSTITUTION I ANNUAL GENERAL MEET iUTORS was held in the WATERLOO Ist February, 184 znet, the Eq., Writer to tt ctor, in the Chair 'and s cor Ted by tt , tis of the Deed of Constitution in re ndes, which are detailed in the Report. r alterations proposed were merely for 1 defects which the ex 'eed ; ani .vi of lov t to con lower t ;ed tc-daN WILLIAM ERASE ARCHIBALD TN( CHARLES BLACE DAVID HEC CHAS. WM. eight wer night and should be wate i., W.S. rig., W.S. ['SON, Erg.. Merchant, Merchant, Leith, te, Sheriff of Bute hire retary to the Union Bank of Lord I 'COTLA NI IN GA LL, Prof CAN, 12, ;TJARD RAZOR I, 34, K iot Roy Esq., V P I I, L 'V lig LIVERPOOL STANDARD. ,fter a sermon by the Vene The transmission of wenty-one pow n none in of the sc TELEGRAPH 'ould 1 with t iandsome sum of X7l the brethren r. C. B. Great , on his remo order as a token —We t able sta rstand )r as collector of inland cl 37, fell the 2nd was collet e the A President sterling coi►ectec tac TESTIMON .orn Liver many d Brides' Chun to the church, makir .con Brooks tl rand t of their: Coll TION 0 ND REV this district, who has held id formerly of the revenue for this distric WINDO from an upper mary, where Why do t defrauded by ten-pound note in I which, the I THE DUBLIN to-day there will be laid in the Exchange Ro been •' done e are happy to annoui that he 1 from lers a new and very lee that for sig ,orris of the Treasury April 'se h is cr matches, and accustomed to work together. They are cense in Liverpool, being permitted to remarkably fine, large, and muscular horses, combining tion one day in Manchester, the next in nive l o uch symmetry with usefulness, substance with activity, and the next in She ffi eld ? Yet there is quite 8 .' 9 0. 0 immense power with great freedom'of action." " Lan- rantee desirable for the integrity of an auct, l l, fro° guage like this," says a contemporary, "by a house of marine store dealer.. When we buy an arti cle s rste such acknowledged reputation as Messrs. Lucas and Co., of our respectable auctioneers—and we ' l %OO naturally excited curiosity, and by many persoos it was none of these have any connection with th ese . tbe thought that too much had been said ; but the auctioneers tions—we know that we have a guarantee thal : th were willing to abide an examinati on wh en the horses is what it was represented to us to be. But, Ti n g, arrived, and so far was their opinion justified, that the to these migratory _auctioneers we know "et„ i o; dubious confessed that the terms of commendation were trash which they sell us is knocked down " not too strong, if they were su ffi ciently ample. As soon for; and we have to repent at our leisure. be th e as it was known that the horses had arrived, they were But the best security for the public would _ n o visited by hundreds of persons from mere curiosity —many rem n Wi t cise of their own good sense. Let them of the merchants of the town, and his worship the mayor, no trades can live by selling goods for less tha n tho s being among the number. The attendance of buyers Few men commit such an absurdity. W he me was unusually numerous, at one time the number present extraordinarily low prices, there is, except in e t oe, „ exceeding a thousand persons. There was good bidding trickery, and baseness of quality. In the mea e _ ou ld throughout the day. Forty-six horses wire brought to ever. Mr. Rushton—and we are certain it w ado st!', the hammer, realizing upwards of XlBOO. or an average of labour of love with him—might, with grea t 0 0:4 about forty pounds per horse. Majr,r,' a chesnut geld- direct a few of his clever superintendents to ing, was sold for fifty-nine guineas, being the highest proceedings of these gentlemen. They vroula,, ew tof f , price realized. The horse considered the best by the su ffi cient in a few days' experience to e nable t . a, tio of' theta of auctioneer, was, 'Jumper,' a bay-gelding, four and a-half tify our chief magistrate in resorting to 21 years old. It was sold for fifty-three guineas, and is said Peter Laurie. by placing a sentinel at the 03 7-811, to be the finest animal of its age ever seen in Liverpool. these sinks of iniquitous robbery of the Re The stud, now distributed, bad been purchased by parties the power of saying " Beware of hawks ! from London, Kent, Wolverhampton. Blackburn, Pres ton, Manchester, Isle of Man, Dublin, and other places. It is certain that no such sale of cart horses has ever taken place in this town before, and it is believed that it has not had a parallel in any other ' place. The prices obtained were not so good as ruled in 1846, but conside-"' ter than were current last year. eXerClnghor improving times." fulw"_A leing an indication of JENNY LIND IN THE ORATORIO OF " THE CREATION." On Thursday evening this eminent vocalist gave her second performance in Liverpool of sacred music, sup- worth, and the orchestral talent of the Society. Mr. Benedict conducted; and M mann led with his usual great ability. theatre of the Collegiate was crowded on thi the elite of the fashion and musical taste and, from the hundreds who were disappoit ing tickets, we may safely say that a house The s have been erar Why is it, e lions as these, that Saint ( a tardy rate ? Our fair r to warble her sweet str within preceded by a ction, the principal portioi s M. Williams, who was i for wh beautifully sung, as was the upon me' —Pergolesi. This young lacy her performance of the few pieces allotted to her in t seleCtion, how great a treat 'e rnisse from the perforMance of " E Mad'lle. Lind anpeared_ only " Let the like all her ear expression : its of t 3f Rapi r, allotted to correctly with foam I impressively billows voice; and the two con'clt " Softly Thrnugh silent v lightfally expressive of ti- subject Adam ar Whitworth, we have already )d sacred work It would be a work of st ties of Jenny Lin to her lot. In e periorma even in 1 ficant, trains of the oratorio In the c the divine conceptions of composer " With verdure clad," she appeared absolu soul and feeling into the " Here vent their f we re could hate listened to it perfect manner in which fleet the views of .me, bur wer chain beautitul was her sir The passage, nius, the v id mei( "And cleaves the sky in To the blazing sun," tely to est flight MARINERS' CHURCH AND SCHOOL' A tea party was held in the Concert-hall, Lor d A ' street, last Tuesday evening, in aid of the et Schools, Sabbath, daily, a n d even i n g, (I o ne le the Mariners' Church. The room was tastelu,l rated with flags, bearin g m o tt oes appropriate to t i ;iti pose of the school, and to th e c l ass o f the cen 99 e iftli whose benefit they exist. There w e r e nearly t: 'esent. The following chrgY o i I.evds. W. Maynard, Dr. Caro ~rummell, Shad ga te, and 5.4; e5 . Adam Hodgson and Mr. George ftbe' ' YNARD, the minister o lo 0 . r d ie res nd s : d on tli s c uc p h le a as d u e religtful h h h efe . lt oc c o ~ reading-room and school , i t by a curious coincidence to be th e 10th annive ll day, since their b e i ng es t a bli s h e d. He exPlau le . t d ter schools werenot conn ec t e d, so f ar as pecuniary he Rev. Mr. well, rose anc so many of his with the Church, and arose a c ` P i c exertions of the commilte e ,‘, Adam Hodgson/a ng-room was first opened in had been vacated by the Customs num w paid to the Corpoi ying out t the re'"ii, was intended, to fro') ear the fund in hand c% ear was entered upon wi ,e rev. gentle in third I _ .el. ied on ttly,) IsysaesqtuXoelliOit!i.l,l),„":, of . ti le e r s l • the ° l i e he Duc v con ferr, NIS I p i . The t wl t he ,e, ried .al nfi h °tgh lt Aro e , ec P tra eted ler; 3 us, by donati( o £169. 'I s from ction in the daily l (chef m they v Ap, J ames °444 ches ten ced tc assurer a tice of th, any untrue averment ed as to subve •ed was. nit the the exec feit ure ,ortanee to adopt the rule rnient as to age, there shall be no for •ments be fradulent as well as untrue. ust and reasonable construction of the Of the Deed f. lon, the directors would have governed But according to a principle already sound course to be that the security of lerived, not from their discretion, but ~ Deed of Constitution. This is the full nciple of indefeasibility can safely be ie maintained by some that the policy carried, for . t wboll y_ uutenabl detail. T' fraud oug stances in be rar st, appears to 1 !ear to regal] nibility 07'0112 Ten if fraud did ( sons which are too c st reasons for defem on the ground that the i perpetrated would prof from an unt averment as I M rate'information can be encouragement should t procured with ordinary ca. ,e given t the correction of innoce ors by the am also been thought advise ca es, and to modify it it die b frinfaitui:e has 131 e to n a third :nnul the rule in two specific been the result if the assured should tabled by Assurance Companies that it was their auty - rxrattc., a kind of Moral police, and partly from the actual danger of loss accruing from the state of the law and the unhappy usages of society. A sanguinary code of laws multiplied capital punishments, and a false idea of honour had rendered the practice of duelling of too common occurrence. But capital punishments have, partly by the alteration of the laws, and partly by public opinion operatingthreugh the verdicts ofjuries, ceased to exist, except in cases of deliberate murder. Duelling is now almost extinct, and in the few instances where it does oc cur the results are so seldom fatal, tnat, as a cause of death, it is so minute as to be inappreciable. No countenance can justly be held to be given to the practice by abrogating the for feiture; and the true tone which Assurance Companies should now adopt is to regard duelling as an evil, the immediate ces sation of which, it may be safely assumed, will be accomplished by the joint influence of principle and of the improved habits of society. _ _ W bile These forfeitures have been abrogated, another has been modified, as involving matter of difficulty. According to a strict view, suicide should be a cause of forfeiture only where it has been committed with the intention of defrauding the assurers. But the extreme difficulty of obtaining proof that such was the object, has rendered it necessary to adopt a broaderrule, which has varied in the regulations of different Assurance Societies. In some there is a forfeiture if the party assured die by his own hand, although the act would not amount to fel() de se; while, in others, it was provided that lie must be held felo de se, and, therefore, of sound mind. The former rule is ad verse to every dictate of justice and sound feeling. For, if the suicide be insane, although his hand b e the instrument, his malady is the true cause of death, as much as if he died through cholera or fever. In accordance with this view the rule has been so modified as that there shall be no forfeiture unless the deceased was of same mind, or, in other words, wil fully and deliberately took away his life. In thus modifying the forfeiture, the loss by suicide will he hardly appreciable. From statistics which have been furnished to your directors. by high medical authority, it appeals that the deaths by suicide amongst the members of the community whose habits of mind would lead •them to assure are so very few that a calculation of loss would be practicably unattainable. Where the policy has been assigned for onerous cases, it is proposed that. there shall be no forfeiture, as far as regards the interests of such onerous holders, by the failure of the life of the Assured by suicide. No argument is necessary to estab lish the propriety of th;s alteration, whether with regard to justice to the Policy-holders, or with a view to the commercial value of the Policies. This Report, with the relative States and the Report by the Auditors, having been read by the Manager, ROBERT CHALMERS, Esq., Publisher, submitted the fol lowing Motion:— "The Meeting approve of the Report now read; and further approve of the alterations on the Deed of Constitution and Laws and Regulations submitted by the Directors, and adopt the Laws and Regulations so altered as the Laws and Regula- ance Society, it m . e the highest prE part of t though t ject of t t Assurance Corr t it of the hi7,hest f it I iron I, and was tions for the Guidance of Patients in every ]IOR INDIG " 0, Blessed a presery TION, BILIOUS AND LIVER COMPLAINTS. he that is so tcre-1 their u complexic ntle yet fiRIANc han any 11 age or time, without ley speedily remove the causes tore health and vigour to the hey are invaluable, as they re- ranee, - which, by their use, maybe retained to the iod of life. Also for CHILDREN they are the best )e foundation of good health f who are subject to Head-act Bowels. Nery inistration on the first symptoms of illness, Fit be p - revented or .cured. They have bjen found highly tienefi'- cial during a course of Sea Bathing; and are particularly re commended to Officers of the Army and Navy, and Persons going Abroad, as a preventive of those diseases so frequently arising from Heat and chance of Climate. High-street, Whitechaftl, London, in Boxes at and 4s. 6d. each • and can to had of all respect a ., Venders in the Kingdom. The genuine has the name on the s Ask for STIRLING'S STOMACH PILLS. ignature of the proprietor, "G. C. Serjeant,' ten on the Government Stamp. S r-- ERJEANT'S LOTION, the only effectual Remedy against Rheumatism, Rheumatic Gout, Sciatica, and Lum '-,prietor, G. C. SERJEANT, No. 7, Lo ternoster-row, London; and by all Vendors of 9d. per bottle. Ed by ti !licence; hundreds have recta since it was first ific that persons labouring wider the most distressing d Lumbago, and rendered Imatic Gout, a feir houis The astonishing success which has crowned the application of this external Medicine in the most hopeless_ and deplorable cases, Yvnen Inc unnappy sullerer naa aespaired of ever gaining even the least relief, and this after the ablest advice and every attention of th e inirree t tAiv failed, most j us tly en titl es it t o t he Amongst many which are being daily received are cue mnow , mg testimonials : Morley's Hotel. Strand,lBth August, 1846. have hitherto had a prejudice against having recourse to advertised medicines, but as I have for years been a severe sufferer from Lumbago, as well as Sciatica, and having tried several of the most eminent Physicians of London and Paris, I was induced by a friend to make a trial of your liquid, called " Serjeant's Lotion." I think it in gratitude due to you to say, in less than an hour from the time applied the Lotion. I felt the most pleasant and indescribable relief. The immediate effect was to produce a short but tranquil and most refreshing slumber, from which I awoke to enjoy that winch was, from its novelty, the greatest happiness —perfect quietude and freedom rom nain. The number of poor souls that suffer as I have is immense, and if the publication, of this testimony can induce one to accept of the salvation you offer, I shall feel that I have not lived in vain.—With many thanks, I am yours, HENRI VI LLENNEV E. 14, Belmont-place.lVandstoorth-road, Oct. 26, 1844. 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After a close appli cation of four days, my troublesome companion began to dis appear; in a week I was capable of walking about my ro om , and by anothe r w eek's perseverance in the use of your Medi cine was enabled to leave London. Fearful of another attack, you will please to send six bottles.—l am, Sir your obedient servant,— D. W. STONE. Sold Pendlebury, Russell , street; Titherington, Oxford- Street; Hogarth, Great George-street ; Fisher, Bold-street; Coupland, Parker-street ; Gerrard, Oldhall-street ; Parkinso, t New Scotland-road; Neal, Scotland-road; Simpson, Scotlend road, opposite St. Martin's Market; Mackow, Vauxhall-mul; Britten, corner of Dale-street and Haymarket; Smith, Gr.n.i. Isomer-street; Cox, Fox-street ; Gillard,Richmond-row; Lea- Islington; Walker, London-road; Parry, Christian-struiet; Wagstaff,Great George-place ; Pricatioy,,Lard,street ; Woodside. Price, Wavertre y reaenect Bombay by express March, and a royal salute was 4th, at one o'clock in the after •ted in the evening of the 4th for 'TING late at night of the 3rd o n its honour or The steamer LOCAL. instant, the Flora, of Dundee, ran foul on, and .drif ed over it, capsizin damaging the beacon. The damag £7l 10s. The collision arose entirely from accident, and the damage bad been ordered to be repaired. Mr. Holt raised the point as to who should bear the expense of the estimated at s ultimately !d back to ttee to make a recommendation on the sub- ject.—lt was ordered that a survey of the channels in the neighbourhood of Victoria Channel should be made next summer.—The wages of the men at the new landing- —The mate 255., and the men addition, to be provided with a uit of clothing similar to that provided for the dock age were fixed as follows each, each man, WIRRAL POOR .ppn —Preliminary to the ns of the poor for the AW GUARDIANS hing electio. of guar Wirral Union for the ensuing year, a ag of the of property and ratepayers was held on Thursday g, in the large room of the Castle Hotel, Chester- The attendance—somewhat unusual by the sequel —was not hlv respectable. W. W. Perry, treet, Birkenhead on such occasion s will be only numerous, but hi Esq., of Lindon-house and John Tobin Aspinall . E sq ., ac t e d as vice-president. After some preliminary business, a list proposed by the ratepayers was submitted, and met with the greatest übmitted were Morti Hugl.ea, Not a single names W. IN of .H. Messrs. Gough, Ro 'r, and E. G. Willoughby .etion was made, and £lO3 ss. was instanter subscribe to defray any expenses that might be incurred in securing their election. HEALTH COMMIT -The chairman stated that Mr Mr. Hornby complained of no notice being taken of his brother's complaint, that water had rushed into his warehouses,. Goree. Mr. Nevvlands said that it was im possible to prevent, the nuisance for the present, as the ground had been made, and the water had run from the sewers, in consequence of the tide choking them up. The _ _ new sewer proposed would prevent the nuisance.—The inspector of nuisances reported a number of statistical details respecting the registration of lodging-houses and other matters, from which it appeared that 111 houses, in 28 streets, which had been examined, had been found to remain still in a filthy and unhealthy state, and that the keepers of 29 lodging-houses had been committed to the Borough Gaol for the infrinzement of the laws for their regulation. The owners of the unwholesome houses were about to be summoned for not cleansing them pursuant to notice.—The medical officer of health reported the de ''ase of 27 deaths registered in the boroug' 'ler _ the numt, being 218 against 245 last week. The medical officers beg to represent that, in case of cholera, becoming prevalent, the hospital now set apart in Queen Anne-street would be found to be placed at an inconvenient distance f r o m the locality where it is likely the malady will prevail. On _ . Saturday last, a woman, who was removed from Henry Edward-street in a state of collapse, died before reaching the hospital. The subject was referred to the Select Vestry. One death was reported to have taken place from cholera. on vcmuntß.—A meeting of the ratepayers took place chair. Mr. Chaffers and Mr. itisliton were unanimously chosen as overseers. The expenditure upon the roads had been £836 19s. James Bourne, Esq., was appointed sur veyor of highways for the present year, and his attention to the duties of the office was warmly eulogised.—A mo tion by Mr. Samuel Holme that the township should adopt the road leading from Green Bank to Mossley-hill, caused considerable discussion. Mr. Holme contended that as this had been a public road for more than fifty years it was unjust to the ratepayers who lived close to it to keep the road in order, and at the same time contribute their full quota to the general rates of the township ; that the public enjoyed the full right of the road ; that it was used by those going to Garston ; and that it was unrea sonable that a piece of 600 yards long should be left in such a deplorable condition as to be positively dangerous. Mr. William Rathbone bore testimony to its most dis creditable state, and offered £lO towards having it put in order. It was ultimately arranged that Mr. Holme would undertake to collect £l2O from the owners and occupiers of property at Mossley-hill, and its vicinity ; and on that sum being paid to Mr. Bourne, the road should be put in proper condition by the township, toe estimated expense being £2lO. The road in the village leading to Mr. Fen ton's chapel was adopted by the township. A proposition was made, that the leading road through the village should be sewered, but it was objected to by Mr. Picton and Mr. Holme, that it would be unwise to do so until proper sur veys had been made, to ascertain what fall there was for the drainage, and whether the main sewer could be carried deep enough to drain the cellars. A committee was then appointed to order the necessary surveys, and to report to a special meeting. Distrirt pelys. Lieut.-Gen. Earl Cathcart, the general in command of the northern and midland districts, has taken Weaste House, near Manchester, as his residence. Major-General Sir W. - Warm will reside in Liverpool or the neighbour hood. On Tuesday, as Charles Burn, a farmer and carrier, be longing to Billinge, near St. Helen's, was driving' his shandry near the dam at that place, the horse took fright retention of the mail ,acket which now fem;es this Its of Liverpool, in fact of Lancashire and Yorkshire ge n era lly, a r e so seri• ously threatened by the proposed change to Holyhead .tie subject to cou attention IND.-011 We rib., AT dnesday last, M cw rliilharmonic Concert Hall, a minute inspection of the building, expresse( admiration with the general arrangements, &c. On Stidfr , — , sing a desire filo. .1,- the inauguration, she at once claimed the privilege opening the hall. It was on the spot definitively arran that Madlle. Lind should open the hall at a mon formance on the 24th of Sept WEST DER appointed guar, -The following gentlemen have been s for West Derby :—Mr. Thomas Tat- tersall, merchant, Gloucester-place,Low-hill; Walker, Holly-street, Fairfield ; Mr. James I brewer, Parliament-street, Mr. Peers having sent resignation. The new ov Mr. William Walthew, for West li an, Shrubbe treet, Fairfield ; reet. Low-bill ; Mx James Bt Thomas V. ,rton, brewer, CUSTOMS' PROMOTIONS.-1V- us, collector of customs at Southampton, has been promoted to the col lectorship at Dublin, in the room of Mr. Worthington. Mr. Powell, comptroller in Liverpool, has been appointed collector at Southampton. Mr. Gardener, collector at Manchester, hr )een appointed comptroller in Liverpool )r, collector at r - er, to 1 t Rochester !owes, to r. Clark, comptroller at Sligo S CHURCH SCHOOLS -It giN us much Rev. 'W tions of thi 'l. Falloon and his congregation to erect schools. John's Church, and to supply the in connexion with St. its of tha very destitute district, meet with much encouragement. Amongst the contributors to the fund we perceive the names of Wm. Brown, Esq., "' P., Sir T. B. Birch, Bart., M.P., and the late Mayor. that, owing to the high price of land in V e unders [ne district (being in the centre of t £3,000 will be required to build s at least ools for the accom- modation of five hundred children. EXTENSIVE FRAUD ON THE CUSTOMS.—A most ex tensive fraud, by which, it is feared that £7,000 will be lost to the revenue, was discovered on Tuesday last by the officials at the Custom-house. It appears that in the year 1848, a number of landing-waiters were employed in taking stock in the bonded warehouses, for the purpose of discovering if their contents agreed with the official documents. On going to one warehouse, it was found that 1,400 bags of foreign coffee, which had been bonded (by a firm now bankrupt) in 1845, had been removed from the warehouse in 1847, without the duty having been paid. The duty on the abstracted coffee would reach nearly £7,000. Tt is supposed that the removal must have been effected with the connivance of the customs' lockers, and, in consequence, two of them are at present suspended. Information of the fraud was immediately sent to London, and a surveyor general is daily expected for the purpose of making a most searching inquiry into the affair. _ LIVERPOOL GOVERNESSES' INSTITUTION.—We are deliver % very important lecture in aid of the above institution, and that Archdeacon Brooks has consented to preside on the occasion. The lecture, as we may gather from the pub lished prospectus, will be extremely interesting and in structive. Mr. Bainbrigge has already had frequent opportunities of manifesting his talent and judgment as a L e gLWra l iti v fn t dl4l6l l a tra 5nu6 1 .0t!nte7riii",17.27,74 a multitude of other points, pourtray the attainments re quired from a governess—her power in moulding the cha racters of her pupils—the blessings she may be the means of conferring—the deprivations she must necessarily en dure—her inability to save any sum of importance,— the consequent necessity of combination and exertion, through such an institution as the one alluded to, to secure a provision for the future, and the comfort, inde pendence, and ease of mind resulting from the certainty of such provision. AFRICAN EPISCOFAL CHURCH IN NEW YORK.—On Sunday morning last, after a sermon by the Rev. Alex ander Crummell, the sum of £l7 Os. 10d. was collected at St. John the Evangelist's Church, Knotty Ash, in aid of the funds for building a church for the Negro popula tion in New York. In the afternoon, the rev. gentleman read prayers in the same church, after which a powerfully scriptural sermon was preached by the. Rev. G. F. Green, the respected incumbent, from the words "There is no respect of persons with God." In the evening Mr. Crummell again preached, in St. Anne's Church, Stanley, when a collection was made amounting to £l6 ls. 4d., in furtherance of the above-mentioned object. We perceive that a meeting will be held to-morrow (Wednesday) evening in the Nttional School-room, Kirkdale, for the purpose of affording Mr. Crummell an opportungy of narrating the present condition of his unfortunate people in America. The Rev. David James will preside. On Sunday evening next, Mr. Crummell will once more advocate the object of his mission to England in St. Mary's Church, Kirkdale. He creates a strong impres sion in his favour wherever he is permitted to minister. GREAT SALE OF HORSES AT LUCAS'S REPOSITORY.— On Tuesday last, Messrs. Lucas and Co. put up to auc tion the entire stock of superior draught horses, the property of Messrs. Howe and Jones, railway engineers, who, in consequence 'of having completed their contract on the Shropshire Union line, consigned them for abso lute and unreserved sale. 'Mr. Lucas described them as " unquestionably the finest and best selected ever seen in .Liverpool, consisting of fifty cart" horses, young, fresh, sound, and free from blemishes, of great weight, size, and substance, with short, clean legs, and extraordinary fine.action. They comprise splendid teams of blacks, xillyg, bays, browns, .roans,. and, donuts, all leautitgi • with the more dulcet music of the next two lines. " His bids to move the merry lark. ithe whole remaining por was deservedly encorec sort at thy side," by The last duet, D charmingly sung, although the Ted by the noise created b a tew stionable taste, left the room in the is formed. of the We have omitted, thus far, notici Travers, an artist of whom, as a town casion to be proud. Some years ago, member of the company at our Theatre-Royal, w nosticated his success in his profession ; E surprised when, after a lengthened sojour the sir we have oc he was a ad stud politan circles Mr. Italy, he was at once acknowledged in r_ as equal to fill the very highest walks of vocal Travers possesses a fine voice, of great po tifully cultivated ; and we could only regre or two exceptions, the pieces allotted to him on night were not of a very striking character. Throughoul his singing was faultless; and in the air, ' worth," he was great. The concluding lines e g virgin loot " Her softly smili Of flowery spring the mirror, Bespeak him love,, s and joy, and 1 ightfully sung. t that, with one _ The choruses, throughout, were most efficient, and reflected great credit upon the members and conduc tor of the Philharmonic Society. At the conclusion of the oratorio, " God sz Queen" was called for, and splendidly executed, 3 Lind singing the solo of the first and third verses, and Miss M. Williams and Mr. Travers giving the second verse in a duo strain, the audience joining in the chorus. A cheer for Jenny Lind closed one of the most gratifying concerts which it was ever our good fortune to attend. " CANTING AUCTIONS, Some years ago, an eminent magistrate in the metropo lis—Sir Peter Laurie, if we remember aright—exerted himself successfully to put down what is familiarly called the " canting auction" system, which had grown to be an intolerable nuisance, and through which hundreds of sim ple people, who are to be found in theit_ sharp lace in . as great numbers as in more unsophistocated localities, were daily victimized. Even in London, however, at that time, the evil was not much more rife than it is in some other large towns, and perhaps in Liverpool at the present mo ment ; and in default of the presence of a local Sir Peter to undertake the work, we feel it incumbent upon us to put our fellow-townsmen upon their guard, to its existence, and the modes and macs it is carried on. `• What," it w reith respect ry by which ked by some of our readers, " is We reply, by introducing such rea: The locality _is generally an un- 11 be as a canting auction ders to the scene itself occupied shop, in some busy street, which an auctioneer, apparently dropped from the clouds, has taken, ," for a li mited period," as the play bills have it, for the charitable purpose of disposing of astounding bargains—Brummagem wares, glass, cutlery, jewellery, cloths, &c., all at prices less by one-half than what a respectable burglar would have stolen them for. As you pass by the door in the day light you are always politely requested to walk in, ladies and gentlemen, the sale's just a-going to begin ;" and should you, foolishly, accede to the invitation, and put your foot inside of the Cheap-John establishment, you generally find that your own individual presence was all that was wanted to form a company of eager purchasers. It may, perhaps, be a source of wonder to you where the somewhat seedy-looking personages, in whose company pay for the lots knocked down to them. Be easy on that score, however. Depend upon it they are as much part and parcel of the strange auctioneer as his boots, or his hammer. They could afford to buy his whole stock and be none the poorer. In a word, they are sham men ; and if you are tempted to become a bidder, you are sure to be made a buyer, and the only fool in company. At night, however, when the glare of gas-light is thrown upon the wares displayed, it is lamentable to see that foolery is in the ascendant; and that the places in question are fre quently crowded with real buyers of imaginary bargains, which turn out in the morning to be trash, which no re spectable tradesman would offer to his customers, and, sold at about double the real value. The worst sales of this class are those in which the stock consists of jewellery, in which brooches, rings, &c„ of the market price of from sixpence to a shilling, are put up as made'of the genuine metal, and dazzling the eyes of the ignorant with the splendour of their gilt wash and coloured glass, for stones, are frequently palmed upon the unwary. We have heard of some doings, recently, in our town, in this line, which have been managed with a degree of tact sufficient to throw even moderately wary people off their guard. The only sure protection is for the public to bear in mind that if a lot is knocked down to a bona fide bid der—to any, in fact, but the hired " sweeteners"—the buyer is victimized. Probably, the articles next in order, in which the buyer gets sheer trash for his money, are those of woollen cloth and hardwares. The former is rot ten rubbish ; the latter equally worthless. It is really time that a stop was put to these disgraceful practices. In the first place it is not just to the honest shopkeepers in the town that mere hawkers—the same class of men who in olden times victimized country bump kins at our fairs—should be tolerated when carrying on their depredations upon so large a scale, in premises for which they have not contributed a farthing to the local rates of the town. It is unjust also to our respectable auctioneers that strangers—men of whose characters we know nothing, and the guarantee of whose honesty of dealing is probably worth nothing, should be permitted, by the mere force of their having taken out a license, to gull the people of our own town. Here legislation might interpose with advantage, and with much reason. What would we think of a marine store dealg,yeceiving his li- Asylum in the deserved r Lrity for t v. Mr. Cc ettulated h DEAUX marks to the chil 3ne of the side g; Rev. A. ( ir country, heir 'IT o plead !ranee to the xinest exp: r the assistan on all occ the i4s,!; n addressed the; dear friend the is benevole n t and C a proof tl at their OTC ade a few kind and apr if the sehoo'_ who were )served, in ealling t v i ) e the eneetintr, '•-t not B',,tio 3 t ! ; c c lu au m s e ° c h t e l. nt i f: Je -- . c IMELL stepped forwaru of affection an objects he has - invievg cv col !n alluded to, and detailed in otlt of g had f0°." 6 1 ; il l l I for the kind and courteous receptii, ive of a most forioro, ,_which had b, for the last two hundred 1 0 'y! other side o f the be ie, ble traffic in human sent ev er cl lj listenedY, oft, the ha: endured in America by I countrymen, in ved, by on .nd kin. He;poke . 9f St there were farms exclusively for breeding 51 ' ) A . o ie verting to the arrogance of caste amongst the ;,; ee l he showed that even negroes who had become l ot enjoyed only a nominal freedom ; they could n a public vehicle, side by side with the white v,`" t V sit in the same pew at church. He contrasted the manner in which he had been received in 5P known.whereThein to t undering n ci erheuanidistinctiongseta whichn a e s e to s o fhterheeal experiencedci t o y l u h r e o off t he yt was so complete th a t he could hardly believe '71)0 was living in a state of fiction. For along ti nju i( tated to get into an omnibus, and his surprif. when he , found hims e lf, f or t h e fi rst t i me in 1j,,i131 . . -.red at NV. entering he was conducted by the verger to a 1 : 1 0 0 immediate vicinity o f th e p reac h er . M r . Co , o ft tinned his narrative in fluent and well chosen and having resumed his seat bt De b CHAIRMAN expressed the del , g to n the address, and took occasi°,,, 0 (Y. novelty oca strninster Aobe), The Re-v at listr.nin from the sad picture of negro bondage the an' ble thraldom of the slavery of sin, which gave sion to point to the advantages of c Before calling on another speaker, he requesle lection might be made, during which an other t i performed. It was afterwards announce d that it it £lO 13s. 9d. had been collected. Tie spok e P lowed this announcement was the r tO t el Rev. Dr. CARPENTER.—He said there isrelie‘? which made that meeting particularly interest one was that the meeting was one of a religioure c t —that all those whom he saw around him we re e l ) there for a religious object, that they had ,c e „A, great numbers to promote the glory of u`'o` spiritual elevation of mankind. It had aiw t4 pl pi S easy to get great assemblages together fai n eait gain, out it had only been of late years tua , .;,1 1 be congregated for objects like that for w h , l i;is met—it argued we ll f or t hi s town, an d L e a , / The next was the gra tifi ca ti on o f h ear i ng hi s 1 1 (Mr. Crummell) deliver so able an address' small gratification to s ee t h ere so no bl e a r if e cf/ of an unfortunately degrad e d race . Our inp .6 been drawn often before now in aid of th e oef' his race who were to be found in varioila 0 )014 world, and he trusted our money would gt!, in' in the cause. He would ask who d are sta s , lf of Mr. Crummell he is not as good a man..., of dare say be is not as good a Christi a n as 1 0 1, the more immediate object of th e men," 'OF speaker referred to the fact of soldi ers and e been in some respects the speci a l o bj ec t of th e solicitude, as instanced in the case of the Tl 7 the Apostles, who when ch osen by th e Loru to „, chiefly engaged in occ u p a ti ons perta i n ing OA' The honoured instruments appointed to to our shores were fishermen. We owed to these sailors, and were only paying nacitalei contributing to the causes which had led t°, 0 11/4 It was not merely th e sa il ors o f Liverpool lecodir be benefited by the Institution they had ° old] ] support, for if the sailors of this port a r hee't4 religion, that piety would be carr i e d to ttip earth. The rev. docto r p rocee d e d t o relat e i co o e l t singular piety in sailors, so me o f w h o m h e : 0 0,2 his own observation, a nd th e conv i c ti o n e lt the mind of the listener that the seafaria&on means the one the least adapted to th e edi t " lit" inspirations. be° r Our space precludes a further notice of!,, b of Dr. Carpenter. which were re ce i v ed W . Dicit applause which usually attends his apPet' assemblies. The Rev. W. B. SUTTON followed with aot # : priate address, after which the comp a ny se b ier t e 0 1 passed an evening in which were cern .0 0 to t l i recreation and moral instruction. We n'. u 1 :0 01 0 0y, our remarks without offering just tes tl aif,ll, 4 ladies who - had the arranging and- car%o l -"fo' festive department of the meeting. It is eo use receipts will leave a profit worthy of the the expedient was devised. bris!:ll2 ; Th. ty e be P 1 • ef ktit the d Was 1 the I whey advit , shou your for t of th ARSII ano ii on th( shall the et consic will f, Life A exai the riot for stat