The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-09-04 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. The "sheddin" , " of the new railway station in Waterloo-road is composed entirely of Patent Galvanised Iron, and not of Zinc, as stated in our last. The iron was furnished by the London Galvanised iron Company. A correspondent wishes us to suggest to Mr. Marcus the pro priety of affording to the Liverpool public an opportunity of visiting Rivington Pike by a cheap trip to Bolton. We have no doubt that the speculation would prove a remunerative one. We do not wish to attach greater importance than our corre spondent does to the omission of the usual words on the new coinage; but it should be remembered that the master of the mint i s a Roman Catholic, and "great events from little causes spring." "Justitia ' may or may not be correct in his statements, but he ought to have furnished us with the means of instituting an inquiry about them in the event of their being questioned. We cannot answer the question of " M. S. M." "A Ratepayer" may be quite justilled in making the statements which he has written, but we cannot give them publicity on anonymous authority. Ebt Eitnrpool &tanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 4, 1849. THE public have heard of late somewhat of the extraordinary vagaries practised by a clique in the metropolis, acting, it is said, under the dictation of Mr. Edward Chadwick, to establish for the central Board of Health, a tyranny far more insolent in its character than any ever established in this or any free country. Meetings have been packed, or the requisite numbers to form a quorum deterred from attending, just as best served the purposes of the master spirits, and would-be autocrats of the Board. The most wholesale interferences with the property of entire districts, involving vast outlay of the money of owners of property, have been resolved upon with scarcely any opportunity afford ed of inquiry into facts. In short the metropolis is to be turned upside down, or inside out, at the whim of a few interested Charlatans, and places created for their hangers on and toadies, in the vain expectation of driving away by the spade and pickaxe, the hose and th besom, a visitation of Providence, with respect to which one-half of the medical faculty are at issue with the other, whether it - is epidemic or contagious, whether it is produced by atmospheric influences, or terrestrial, whether it is generated from electricity above, or volcanic movements below our feet. The Morning Herald of yesterday thus accounts for the toleration given thus far to the body : " Why self-serving quacks are not laughed at in London arises from this, that every one in the metropolis is busily engaged in some business or avocation, and the mass take their opinions, on matters that do not personally concern them, very much on trust. Thus it is that in an over peopled and over-busy city, alarming suggestions put for ward under particular influences have a value and a signi ficancy which those not behind the scenes little dream of." We would ourselves go a little further, however, and remark that there is no imposture so gross that a Cockney cannot be found to gulp it down greedily. Mr. Chadwick and his friends tell that most gullible people to-day that the cholera is all produced in the sewers and drains of the city. Yet every adult man or woman within five miles of St. Paul's is perfectly well aware that whilst the sewers and drains were a hundred times as filthy as at present ; when the muddy waters of Fleet ditch permeated openly through the heart of a dense population, before traps were thought of ; and when a crossing here and there was the only place which the scavenger's broom ever touched, cholera was unheard of, and disease in the metropolis was scarcely above the average of any considerable town in the empire. If Mr. Chadwick were to-morrow to pronounce the spouts of London to be the ori ginators of disease, half of Cockney town would clap hands at the wonderful discovery. The real fact is that Mr. Chadwick must live ; engineers, surveyors, secretaries, et hoc genus omne, must he provided for; and the long-suffering public will pay for their living until the tax-gatherer comes bodily to every door. Thus philosophers may mulct unfortunate owners of property ad libitum ; and the infliction will only cease when it begins to be felt by those persons who, our centemporary says are so " busily engaged" that they " take their opi nions, in matters that do not personally concern hem, very much on trust." Within the last few weeks matters have been approaching to this point of resistance. Though perfectly admitting the advantages of cleanly houses and streets, good sewers and other 4anatory measures, the people of London have begun to dis cover that the gentry of the Board of Health are disposed to ride their hobby at too strong a pace. A vigorous opposition has sprung up to its whole, sale -doings. Owners of property find that they cannot conveniently sink quarter after quarter's rent in sewers and drains, and at the same time pay grocers' and other bills. In a word, rebellion is in the wind; and the world is beginning to suspect that the philosophers are not all Solomons. After the fashion, therefore, of members of the swell mob, who occasionally, for obvious reasons, find the air of the country agree with them better than that of the town, .Mr. Chadwick and his friends appear desirous of transferring their busi ness to Liverpool for a season. Their business circular has already been issued, in the shape of some serious charges against the Select Vestry of Liverpool. That body is accused of having neglected to make preparation against the approach of cholera; of having omitted to appoint an addi tional array of doctors, and to build houses of refuge, &c., as directed by the emissary of the Central Board, Mr. Grainger. This will certainly be news for the people, who are feelingly aware of the expensive precau tions adopted, and thoroughly appreciate the energy with which the vestry has been of late discharging its various duties. We are not fast enough, how ever, for Mr. Chadwick and his friends; and those gentlemen conclude their long tirade by modestly asking for powers to be placed in their hands to compel us to carry out whatever they may choose to dictate !. We suspect, however, that the country at large, and Liverpool in particular, will demur to the suggested arrangement. We prefer manage ing our own affairs ; and are not at all believers in the infallibility of either Mr. Chadwick or his coadjutors. Most likely their impertinent missive will receive a fitting answer at the meeting of the Select Vestry to-day. DR. *HALE has probably been too busy of late with his correspondence with his superior to have appeared much in his old character of a bigoted vilifier of Protestantism; his charitable sympathies towards us, however, appear to be as strong as ever, if we may judge from a sermon with which he fa voured the parishioners of Cong, in the county of Mayo, a short time ego. His Grace attended the chapel to perform the rite of confirmation, and took occasion to preach a sermon in Irish to those pre sent, the tenor of which could not fail to have im pressed his hearers (if there were any gifted with a glimmering of impartial feeling) with a high sense of his worth as a disciple of Christ. Having ascended the altar, he commenced by denouncing the schools under the direction of the wife of the incumbent of the parish ; he also similarly noticed the lectures which the rector is in the habit of de livering to his flock. A portion of his bile being thus dispersed for special application be proceeded -to empty the vials of his wrath in a more general way, bespattering the whole Protestant Church after his own peculiar fashion. A specimen or two may not be amiss, as showing that the amiable man's propensities are still capable of energetic enunciation : " He was much pained. at receiving an invitation from that ' holy man' (pointing to the parish priest) to visit the parish of Cong at that unusual period. The circum stances that called for his immediate attention were in deed painful. He, as their bishop, the lawful representa tive of the true church of God, felt it his duty to warn 'them against the wily and crafty assaults of a base and corrupted church—a church filled with such filthy and, foul abominations that he would blush to mention—a church begotten and founded by Luther and Calvin. * *" Speaking of the " damnable" schools, lie charges parents to keep their children from them, and warns them that whatever their excuses may be such an act would be more inexcusable than was Cain, who killed Abel. He asks them if they would murder their children, and then continues : "If any parents would send their children to such schools they were killing their souls, by making them feed on the poison and heresy of that cursed and damn able church—a church which was instilling into their mind the loathsome and soul-killing doctrines of Luther and Calvin." Having informed his hearers that there is only one true church—of course that church of which he is such a bright,and shining light, he goes on to describe the Protestant Church : " No ; it is a church which robbed God of his glory. A church that despises His virgin mother, and deprives her of her honour. How can they honour the Son when they despise the Mother ? A church which despised the saints ; a church which divested the true church of God of its glory, and had only retained the loathsome, filthy carcase, with which they would fain feed the poor deluded souls they were destroying by their heretical doctrine." After this comes a little advice as to how his hearers are to conduct themselves towards their Protestant brethren and fellow countrymen : "Ile wished the people of the parish would henceforth cease to hold any 'Communication with such a foul insti tution. They should hold no intercourse with thein, they should not speak to them, they should not listen to them, they should not salute them for the future on the high way, their very breath was poison. Now, let us pray the Holy Ghost may come down upon us," &c. Such are the results of our conciliation policy. IN the last return of the Registrar-General to the Board of Health, that functionary takes the public to task for the comparatively " insignificant" ef forts made to prevent - the spread of fatal disease, compared with the vast means and agency which are brought to bear by the nation in other fields for the protection of life and property. As an in stance he refers to the case of the recent Bermond sey murder. " Steam-ships," he says, " the elec tric telegraph, the heads of the police and profes sional agents, were all employed to arrest the de stroyers of this life ;" and, in contrast, he points to the circumstance of 19 persons having died of cholera in a terrace of a few houses in the Wttnds worth-road, in which the refuse of one house "had been allowed to accumulate in the vault for above two years," and the drains " had burst and over flowed into the tank, and impregnated the water, with which the houses were supplied." We are quite willing to allow that public and in dividual sympathy is most readily excited by such events as the Bermondsey murder. Hundreds of people, of a certain distorted state of mind, would eagerly rush to witness the scene of such a tragedy, scrutinise anxiously the grave into which the mur dered man was thrust, turn over the debris of lime, by which his body was covered over, and handle the very instrument by which his death was effected. In our own town we lately witnessed a similar tragedy, and remember what eager numbers were last week endeavouring to procure seats in the Court, to listen to horrible details of butchery, and to gaze upon the brutal features of the mur derer. We are well aware that numbers at this moment—and, we regret to say, amongst them fe males, many of whom would shudder at the sight of blood from the pricked finger of one of their children—would gladly be permitted to visit the convict in his cell, to watch the throbbings of re morse, vainly striven to be repressed by a stolid na ture, and to weep sentimental tears over his ap proaching and - ignominious end. But few such persons could bring themselves to visit the cellars and hovels in which fever and pestilence are busy with their victims. It is a melancholy truth that such is human nature. We submit, however, that neither the law, which sets itself up to put down crime, nor human nature itself, are guilty to the extent urged by the In spector-General. Individual indifference and ava rice are often in fault. Admit that the congregated filth mentioned was " allowed to accumulate" in the neighbourhood of the houses inhabited by these nineteen persons, who died from cholera in the Wandsworth-road. Let us see how far they were in a position to have helped themselves, instead of calling upon the public to help them. We take the description of them, given by the Registrar- General himself : . " On August 9 a stock-broker died at No. 12, AlbiOn terrace, Wandsworth-road ; a widow lady, and an old do mestic servant at No. 6; in the five preceding days in the same terrace, the daughter of a grocer, a child of five years of age, had died at No. 1 ; the widow of a coach proprietor, and a commerci a l c l er k, a t N o . 2 ; a gentle man's widow at No. 3 ; a surgeon's daughter at No. 4 ; a spinster of 41 at No. 5 ; the wife of a dissenting minis ter, his mother, a widow lady, and a servant at No. 6; a young woman of 21 at No. 10 ; a gentleman at No. 12, xliere the stock-broker died ; a commercial clerk and a young woman of 19 at No. 13, where a young woman also died on July 28; a gentleman's wife at No. 14, who had seen her daughter die there the day before. The 19 persons died of cholera, many of the inhabitants of the terrace were dispersed, and the deaths of several have been registered elsewhere." This is certainly not a case in which it should be complained that " no medical police had interfered to disturb the contents of Mr. Biddle's cellar." This is not a case in which the blame should be attributed to " the guardians of the district—to the institutions of the country !" Na one of these unfortunate people can be presumed to have been ignorant of the pestilential atmosphere, with which they were surrounded, and the impure water which they drank. The bulk of them were in a position of life to have known the effect of these causes in producing disease, and in circumstances to have removed to more cleanly localities. Yet we find that in one house—that of the dissenting minister —four deaths were permitted to occur before the I minister himself could be brought to leave it ; and even then, if we remember right, only to die in another locality, from the disease engendered here! Not a single representation appears to have been made to the authorities from first to last. This neglect was morally suicide, or the most im penetrable stupidity, on the part of the victims themselves. We have noticed this case, in order to enter our protest against the - cruel and unjust charges, which are frequently urged against the local authorities, of neglecting proper sanatory precautions against cholera ; and to impress upon the community the fact, that to a great extent their lives are in their own keeping, so far as human means are efficacious. It would require an army of medical police and other visitors, and an altogether ruinous expendi ture of money, to detect every producer of disease. For this very object we are expending just now at the rate of above £lO,OOO a-year; and yet, we can nct but admit that the work is done imperfectly, and will be so done, until the inhabitants them selves, individually, aid the efforts of the authori ties. A notice to remove a nuisance, to empty an ashpit, or to cleanse a drain, is promptly attended to ; but too many of our poor seem to be content rather to inhale pestilence that to take a single step of themselves to remove its source. We are afraid, however, that with respect to one half the cases which occur amongst our unfortunate. poor, the chief inducing cause of disease is altoge ther overlooked. Our scientific people talk of sanatory measures—sweeping, cleansing, and ven tilating—as the great specifics; but they rarely refer to the bodily susceptibility of the victims,_ arising from insufficient or unwholesome food. We beg their attention to the following evidence before the coroner, given with respect to a woman found dead of cholera in a wretched room in Southwark : " W. Brooks, th-. 1 husband of the deceased, said he had been married 42 years. Deceased was 64, and a stay stitcher; but she could only earn a shilling a-week at it, though she worked from morning till night, and part of Sundays. Her employers wished tr, cut her down to 6d. a-week, but she declined, and had therefore done no work lately. Deceased had an allowance of 2s. a-week from the parish. She had suffered much from privation, and, to his certain knowledge, she had not tasted animal food for the last twelve months." _ Alas, for the children of poor " John Bull !" Alas, for the once beef-eating working people of England ! The mania for cheapness, and the " coarser food" legislation of our Somerset-House conclave, have brought them to a sad condition, when an employer dares to offer a miserable six pence for a week's labour. English matrons— buyers of cheap stays—see what you are doing ! You are grasping a large portion of the bard earn ings of your own sex ; condemning an aged female to toil for a shilling a-week, whilst the husband, who was stated on the inquest to have had in earlier lift a large practie as a barrister (0, and to have been reduced by misfortune, is now an inmate of a workhouse; while his poor partner for 42 years, has been allowed two shillings a-week, to assist her in procuring the wretched food, of which your parsimony and love of the " cheap shop" deprived her. How many of the deaths, which we hear of daily, attributed to unhealthy dwellings how many in our town, and at our own doors—are in reality brought on by destitution, indisposing the frame to bear up against the slightest attack of even ordinary disease. THE HARVEST IN IRELAND.—OUT accounts are some what cintradictory. We learn from Waterford, that with the exception of a couple of days rain the weather has continued fine since our last, and harvest work goes on rapidly ; whilst in the neighbourhood of Cork, although considerable progress had been made during the week in securing the mops, the very heavy rain which fell on Sa turday, accompanied with thundey, caused serious fears to be entertained that the corn still in the fields (comprising about half the Wheat crop) would receive considerable in jury. In the north, also, the weather has not been so favourable, being close and damp, which retards harvest operations. We quote the following about the potatoes, dated Cork, Saturday, with our usual reservation as to the extent of the danger to be apprehended : • "The disease in the Potato Crop which hitherto was chiefly indicated by the appearance of the leaves and stalks, is now found to have extended to the tubers, and in many cases where these appeared lately to be perfectly sound, they exhibit the well-known discoloration caused by the blight, and in conse quence, the farmers are forcing them to market with increased rapidity, fearing they will not keep." Another letter, however, from Cork, states that the tubers do not appear affected, except in particular instances. THE ALLEGED RECIPE OF SIR JAMES CLARKE FOR CHOLERA. Same few weeks ago, it was announced that a prescrip tion had been given by the above eminent physician, which was almost an infallible cure for the dreadful malady at present prevailing ; and with such confidence were its merits spoken of that it was adopted by the Dock Com mittee, and medicine provided by them for gratuitous distribution amongst such of their labourers as might be attacked. The mixture was strongly narcotic; and the quantity to be taken was a teaspoonful for ordinary diar rhoea, and a tablespoonful for cholera. Laughably enough, the authority of so great a name was eagerly seized upon by Dr. Hawthorne, as warranting his own strong doses of opium, that learned gentleman declaring that the larger dose given was equal to 9or 9,1 grains of opium. A cor respondent, however, set him right upon this point in our own columns, showing that it was not quite equal to half that quantity; and, during the past week, Sir James Clarke himself has published a strong disclaimer of his having ever advised the medicine as a univereal cholera mixture, and stated that he considers even the smaller dose a dangerous one, and confirms the evidence of our informant by estimating the largest dose at less than 5 grains. We have been put in possession of the following parti culars, upon which we can depend as correct, respecting the mode in which the prescription got into circulation : and publish them with a view of exonerating the Dock Committee from any charge of haste in its adoption. Every one will admit that their affording it to their work people was the prompting of pure philanthropy. Several years ago a respectable ship captain of this port was com plaining to his merchants—a well-known and influential firm—of being afflicted with constant and excruciating headache. He was introduced by them to 'Sir James Clarke, whom he consequently visited, and was cured within a fortnight. Hamming to say during his parting interview with Sir James that he was about to sail to New Orleans, the physician remarked that that port was, at the time, very unhealthy with cholera and fever; and he volunteered to give him, prescription to be taken in case he was attacked. This was the one in question, which on his return he communicated to a friend, from whom it found its way ultimately to the Dock Committee. It is obvious that what might have very well suited a particular c-institution. in such a climate as that of New Orleans, might be dangerous if promiscuously given in this locality. THE LIVERPOOL STAND. RA THE COTTON TRADE. Spinners have kept out of the market during the past week, and have taken little more than half of their weekly consumption ;—the consequence has been that towards the middle of the week prices gave way 3 1d. to 4d . per lb., but the market closes firmer, with every appearance of higher prices ruling, there being eager buyers both for the home trade, export, and on speculation, with few sellers. The more the private accounts by the Cambria are looked into, respecting the prospects of the coming crop, the stronger the impression gains ground that they are as bad as they can be. The accounts from India are considered very satisfactory, political matters there assuming an ap pearance of repose; and with the extended markets of the interior being thrown open to British enterprise, we may reasonably look for an increased and healthy trade with this valuable Colony. From the continent every post brings us more cheering accounts of the settlement of the recent vexed difficulties, and this change for the better in the aspect of affairs in southern Europe cannot fail in giving a stimulus to the exports of our manufactures for this quarter. By the Cambria's advices from America, though the cholera was abating, it had committed great havoc amongst the nezroes, particularly in some of tLe Western States, which is of the utmost consequence as regards a large cotton crop, making it next to an impossibility The money market was easy, and a good fall trade was anti cipated in our manufactures. The past week was looked upon by many as one of par ticular interest, both as regarded the harvest and certain heavy cotton bills which were known to be coming due; in fact, the latter circumstance had more to do with the temporary decline in prices th an any other; but the weather generally has been favourable, there is little wheat uncut,in this locality, and the bills falling due have been duly proVided for. On Monday last, the 27th ult., we were informed there was a private meeting in Manchester of the leading spin ners and manufacturers of the neighbourhood, respecting what course they should adopt in the present position of the cotton market. They came to the unanimous conclu sion, that the accounts from America of a bad season, injury done to the cotton plant, &a., are a hum, and got up by the poor Liverpool cotton holders. It also trans pired at the said meeting, that though a considerable quantity of cotton is held by certain far-seeing monied spinners, yet that the many have light stocks, and that in consequence they will be compelled to appear again in our market. This we are not at all surprised to hear, and with the extraordinary demand for export, which we have experienced for so many weeks, we consider future prices to be in a great degree at the mercy of holders. As we have on previous occasions stated, if trade is to continue good, of which there is every prospect, with a comparative short stock of cotton, which let it be borne in mind is yet to be had at reasonable prices, (the present value of mid dling Boweds being 51d. per lb., against 7d. in 1547,) and a certainty of no supply worth mentioning from the " States" for the next three months, higher prices seem to be inevitable. We perfectly agree with the gen tleman who writes the monetary and commercial article in the Albion, and who very justly stated on Monday, the 27th of last month, " that so long as prices do not reach that point at which consumption becomes checked, the advance is not only legitimate, but its maintenance is more than probable, provided the market cannot be inun dated with supplies." Now we imagine few will be found to say, with the brightening prospects which we have before us of an ex tensive demand for our manufactures, that cotton has already arrived at that price when our looms must be worked short time, or that there is any possibility of our being inundated with supplies ; for, on the one hand, at all events, it is well known that manufacturers hold light stocks, if any ; and on the other, le, is equally certain that the imports will be exceedingly small. The only place whence we can receive any supplies of moment is Bombay, and the description of cotton (Surat)"ds- not in general use, and the utmost quantity for the next three or four months cannot exceed three weeks' consumption. To hazard an opinion of what the coming crop in America will be, would be highly chimerical, but from present appearances it is not only probable that it will be a late one, but also a short one. MoNnrof NOON. The American steamship arrived this morning. The accounts by her are somewhat conflicting,. but they all agree that considerable damage has been done, and that the crop will' be a month late. The general estimate of the coming crop is 2,000,000 to 2,200,000' bales. The receipts for the week were rather heavier, but the exports., nil, being under 600 bales, and their total estimated at 100,000, REVIVAL. OF THE " NATION" NEWSPAPER. The Habeas Corpus Suspension Act expired on Friday, and Saturday was- whered in by the reappearance of Mr. Gavan Duffy's journal, which was in active circulation before eight o'clock. The number contains, it may be 'aid, but one leading article, or, rather essay, written by Mr. Duffy himself, and extending over nearly six columns of his paper. As a piece of composition, although its tone is cautious and even moderate, it does not lack the style of eloquence peculiar to the writer, and which found so many admirers among the young men, of. Ireland. Mr. Duffy has been making a tour in the provinces, and he seizes the occasion to draw a most harrowing picture of the joint effects of famine and extermination upon the peasantry of the south and west. Here is a sample of his pencilling : " No words. printed in a newspaper or. elsewhere will give any man who has not seen it a conception of the fallen condition of the west and the south. The famine and the landlords have actually created a new race in Ireland. I have seen on the streets of Galway crowds of creatures more debased than the Yahoos of Swift—creatures leaving only a distant and hideous resemblance to human beings. Grey-headed old men, whose idiot faces had hardened into a settled leer of mendicancy, simeous and semi-human; and women, filthier and more frightful than the harpies, who, at the gingle of a coin on the pavement, swarmed in myriads.from unseen places, struggling, screaming, shrieking for their prey, like some monstrous and unclean animals. in Westport the sight of the priest on the street gathered an entire pauper population, thick as a village market, standing round him for relief. Beggar children, beggar adults, beggars in white hairs, girls with faces gray and shrivelled, the grave stamped upon them in a decree which cannot be recalled ; women with the more touching and tragi cal aspect of lingering shame and self:respect not yet effaced ; and among these terrible realities imposture shaking in pre tended fits to add the last touch of horrible grotesqueness to the picture. I have seen these accursed sights, and they are burnt into my memory for ever." It is to the land question, mainly, that Mr. Duffy means to devote his future energies. As for a renewal of the old plan of agitation, he literally scouts the idea as absurd and impracticable. His admissions on this point are not uninstructive _ _ . If the struggle is to be renewed, for what object is it to')e renewed, and by what ways and means? I answer, without hesitation, that the struggle of 1948 to win our independence by arms cannot be taken up now. All bluster and bravado are more repulsive and mournful to me than a death-bell. They sound more falsely, more offensively, than even the• glosses of simulated loyalty. It is true that no man can presume to fix limits to the endurance of a nation, or to bar its rights of resistance—and God forbid that I should try to do so—but to me, who am not ignorant of any part of what has been done or attempted to be done since February, 1848, nothing is more certain than that Ireland is not prepared to walk in that path. and that it is a mischievous and misleading falsehood to pre tend that she is." The Great Northern Railway as far as Doncaster will be opened to-day. The Mayor of Manchester will give, on the 21st inst., a grand banquet to Sir James Duke, Bart., Lord Mayor of London, and a select party of about 160 gentlemen. The party will include the Mayor of Liverpool, the Mayors of Bolton, Stockport, Oldham, Ashton, and the other towns in the vicinity of Manchester. COMMITMENTS FOR TRIAL, YESTERDAY, AT THE POLICE-COURT.—A mere boy, named Dennis Scolefield, having been found within the railway station in Great Howard-street, on Saturday night, in the act of passing two parcels under the gate to parties outside. The par cels contained 14 packagesof carbonate of magnesia, worth Os. 10d.—Richard Hands, charged by John M`Namara with stealing a pawn ticket for a boy's dress. The ticket was missed, and, from notice being given to the pawn broker, the prisoner, who presented it, was apprehended. —Jane Watson and another woman, charged by Fred. Spencer with stealing his watch from his person, in Rose place, early yesterday morning, CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD. Yesterday, William Ingham, Egerton Cannell, and Micheel Derrick, were brought before Mr. Rushton, charged by George Lum with a conspiracy to rob him of £2B. The two first named prisoners were in respectable attire; the other apparently a working man. The case was taken up by the Guardian Society, for whom appeared Mr. Aspinall, the barrister, to conduct the case against the prisoners. Mr. Reay, secretary to the society, and who had prepared the "brief," &c., was also in court. The learned gentleman furnished an outline of the case before calling witnesses, and the particulars may thus be narrated :—" Ingham is a general dealer, and has his place of business in Peter's-lane. Cannell has an office in the Goree Piazzas, and is also somewhat in the same line—a buyer and seller. Derrick was, in this transac tion, employed as their agent, to find a purchaser for an article hereafter named. A few days before the 2d of August Derrick called on a man named James Malone, a marine store dealer (who appeared as a witness), and asked him if he could find money to purchase a quantity of gambier (a stuff used in tanning and dyeing), on which he represented a great profit could be made. Malone, not having the money himself, took the applicant to Mr. Lum, a publican in Tithebarn-street, from whom he bad himself received advances to make purchases. He went with Derrick to introduce him to Mr. Lum, but did not then find him at home. On a subsequent day, the 2nd of August, Malone went himself to Mr. Lure's, and found that Derrick had got there before him. Derrick, throughout, represented that the gambier could be bought from Ingham at £8 a ton, and that they could sell it to Cannell at £l3 a ton, being a profit of .£5 a ton. The three, it was agreed, were to have each an equal share of the profits. They all went to Ingham's, in Peter's-lane, and the stuff (of which a sample had before been shown), which was packed in casks, was purchased, weighing in all 41 tons. The order, and the invoice, made out in Lum's name was produced, but the word •` gambler" was in the last missed out. Mr. Lum paid the amount, £36 ss, to Ingham. It was weighed at the George's Dock machine, and was then deposited on the quay of that dock, as it was represented that Cannell was to be the purchaser, at £l3 per ton, and he had said that he would have a vessel there in a day or two to receive it on board. Lum then called at Cannell's office for payment for his purchase, (Xl3 per ton,) when the latter said it was not then con venient, but he would pay it on the following morning. Lum said that as the parties were strangers to each other he would place a watch upon the goods until the money was paid. Not being able to find Cannell next morning, he removed the casks to his own premises. The grava men of the charge was brought out by evidence subse quently elicited. The stuff was not gambier at all, nor of anything like its value. Ingham had bought 41 tons of a material not even resembling gambier, in grain or colour. Ingham had purchased it from a man named Martin Duffy, a small general dealer and cooper, in Tithebarn street, for 3s 6d per cwt. Duffy, who appeared as a witness, said he had bought it for asphalte, for 3s per cwt, and had sold it by that name. The prisoners had received it as asphalte, and sold it as gambier,—which is said to be worth £lB per ton. Dr. Brett, the celebrated chemist, was in court, and on being questioned said that he had been shown the barrels, all .of which (38) had been opened. The sample produced—the same as the material in most of the casks—was a composition of resin and chalk. Some of the casks contained nothing but red sand. The other specimen produced (and brought into court for comparison) was, he said, gambier, or terra japonica, an article sometimes used in medicine, but chiefly in tanning, fixing colours in dyeing, &c. The stuff in the casks he did not consider, from the price of resin, to be worth more than is 91d per cwt. Some letters found on two of the prisoners were put in but not read ; and the whole three were committed for trial. SEACOMBE COTTAGE GARDEN ALLOTMENTS. We have watched with some interest during the present summerthe progress of this interesting trial of theallotment system, to which we directed the attention of our readers a few months ago, and have been pleased to see the oppor tunity, offered to the villagers of Seacombe, of cultivating for themselves the products of the kitchen garden, em braced with such zeal, and that cultivation carried on with such industry, skill, and success. The plot of ground upon which the allotments are situated is the property of the lord of the manor ; and has been properly fenced and di vided, and its cultivation encouraged by a committee of gentlemen of the locality, Mr. Isaac. Penny, the son-in law and agent of the owner, acting as secretary. As an in centive to exertion on the part of the tenants, the profits of the first year, after deducting the expenses of manage ment, fencing, &c., were to be distributed as prizes to the most successful and worthy of the cultivators. And we have now the pleasure of recording the result, with the names of the parties to whom the prizes were last week awarded. The gentleman to whom was deputed the office of adjudging the prizes to be given, wne, Mr. William Hen derson, proprieter of the Oxton hill nursery, and the fol lowing is the substance of his very interesting report. Mr. Henderson states that he has on four different occa sions inspected the gardens; and that r where all has been so well done-, he has found some difficulty in fixing upon the parties most deserving of reward. To do this equitably he has divided the tenants into three- classes, viz., Ist class—those employing labourers to do the work ; 2nd, gardeners, or parties making a living by gardening; 3rd, artizans, mechanics, and labourers. Amongst the first class he places Lot No. 12, James Hall, as head, prize ss. ; Lot No. 14, William Hughes, (pilot), as second, prize 2s. 61. ; with a commendation of Mr. John Frost's cultivation of No. 29 Mr. Henderson says, " the three foregoing atiot meats have been well managed at all points, as to crop ping, keeping up a succession of useful vegetables, and neatness and order." In the second class he has had some difficulty in coming to a decision, N0..9, (T. Watson), and No. 33, (W. Moran), being so nearly equal. Consi dering, however, the original state of 33; its judicious cul tivation, and the forethought evinced in the liquid ma nure, tank, &c., he has recommended the following award :—Walter Moran, Lot 33, ss. ; Jt. Watson, Lot 9, 2s. 6d. The third, or artizan class, he considers the most interesting ; and the prizes are awarded as follows : Joseph Jackson, Lot No. 4,10 s. ; Ralph Ogden, Lot No. 5, ss. ;J. Robinson, Lot No. 1, ss. John Dean, Lot No. 20, 2s. 6d. ; Lawrence Hilliard, LOt No. 27, 2s. 6d. ; John Frost, Lot No. 29, 2s. 6d. The amount of the above prizes is 425. 61, which, added to the cost of a year's sub scription, 17s. 6d.,. to the Cottage Gardener's Chronicle, for circulation amongst the tenants, makes up £3, the sum which the committee have this year as a surplus. Mr. Henderson points out a few errors in.cultivation, com mitted by some of the other tenants, these being princi pally the cultivation of articles not of domestic use, over crowding of the ground, and the sewing of.more spring plants than there is space for bringing to perfection. We may remark that we have seen in one of the allotments, that of Mr. Frost, a production, which has not for the last few years been observed, viz., the potato apple, in its full growth and maturity. Throughout the allotments the potato has been of excellent quality and yield. One of Mr. Frost's, we are informed, reached the extraordinary weight of 14 ounces, and the number at each root was very large. Thus far the result must have been very eacourag : - ing to the cultivators—a great boon to the families of the poorer class amongst them ; and the shew of winter crops is excellent. THE MONSTER SHIP " CONSTELLATION."—This pon derous' ship has again arrived in port. It will be re membered that she sailed under the management of Messrs. Tapscott and Co., with a full complement of passengers, and on her outward, as-on her inward, transit not a single death from cholera haaoccurred—so much for improved ventilation. She beat all out, and has madeher passage here in twenty days. SUICIDE.—On Saturday, Mr. Rayne ' one of the metro politan coroners, held an inquest on the body of James Bartlett, aged 45, late barrack-master at Liverpool. It appeared that deceased had, for some time past, been re siding at a lodging-house at Deptfoid, where he became acquainted, with a female with whom he had had a-serious quarrel, and by some means he got possession of a large carving knife, with which he repaired to the water-closet, where he was subsequently found with an extensile wound in his neck. He died on Saturday. SURVEY OF PASSENGER; SHlPS.—Government has issued am official notice with reference to the survey of passenger ships—That in ceder to avoid the trouble and expense of unloading the ship for survey at the port where the passengers are embarked, it will be indispensable that she should be surveyed at the port where she takes in her cargo or ballast, and that the master should'be furnished with d certificate from the emigration officer, or in his absence from the offices of customs at that port, :to the effect, that the vessel had been duly surveyed according to law, before Me carguor ballast was put on board, and was in ell respects fit for the conveyance of passengers, such certificate to be exhibited to the emigration officer, or in his absence to the officer of customs at the port where the passengers are embarked. TESTIMONIAL OE- RESPECT. — It hating become known that Mr. J. A. Thine purposes embarking for Demerara in a short time s his fellow-member of the Board of Health, at their meeting on Thursday last, determined that he should not leave without some mark of the esteem in which be is held by them. As Mr. Tinne is Deputed to lay the foundation stone next week of a building which is to be erected ire Cornwallis-street, to be used as public baths and wash houses, it was considered that a. silver trowel would kie an appropriate present,,ind acccordingly one was immediately ordered at the establishment of Mr. Mayer, of Lord-street. The trowel is to be of an elegant Gothic form, with a richly pierced engraved handle. On the flat there is to be a view of the baths and wash-houses, and above them the arms of Mr. Tinne, with an inscrip tion below. The whole is surrounded by a border of vine stems. leaves, and grapes. We hope shortly to welcome Mr. Tinne back again to a town which has derived such vast benefits from his iisinterested and pains-taking labours. INQUEST, YESTERDAY.—On view of the body of John Howard, a seaman, aged 30. It was at first thought that a female, named Richards, had caused his death by push ing him from the top of some steps, hut the final evidence left no ground for this supposition. The case was simply this :—On Thursday evening, the deceased, with some other sailors, all slightly affected by drink, went into Mr. Woodward's public-house, in Union-street, where they had each a glass. Some " larking" commenced amongst them, which, between the deceased and another sailor, grew into a quarrel, and they began to assault each other. Another sailor got between them, and separated them. The deceased went to the top of the stews, leading from the apartment into the street, and soon after fell down them upon the foot walk below. If a push were given to him, it was merely accidental, and only gentle. He was insensible when picked up, and was taken to the Northern Hospital, where he died from fracture of the skull. The surgeon stated that the weight of his body in falling down the steps, and hitting his head against the edge of the footwalk, might have caused the injury. Verdict—" Ac. cidental death." THE RAILWAY COMPANIES OF THE LANCA SHIRE AND YORKSHIRE DISTRICT. 11.-THE LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE COMPANY. This company, which has now taken its place amidst the leviathans of the railway world, is based upon the Manchester and Leeds, a company incorporated in 1836, with a share capital of £1,300,000, and power to borrow £433,000. • The length of line was about 50 miles, run ning from Manchester to Wakefield, through a most populous and picturesque manufacturing country ; and, for the remaining 10 miles to Leeds, using the York and North Midland. Six further acts for extensions, branches. &e., raised the amount of capital in 1846 to £4,731,400. Various amalgamations, purchases, and leases of new lines, have since further increased the extent of the com pany's engagements ; and the following is now the posi tion of the whole, as formed' into the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company." The total miles opened for traffic are 2031; and consist of the Manchester and Leeds line, including the Oldham, Halifax, and Heywood branches, 56} miles; the Ashton branch, 61 miles; Oldham extension line, and Mumps station, 1/ mile ; Manchester and Bolton railway and Kearsley branch, and Manchester and Bolton canal, 11 miles; Heywood extension and fork at Blue Pits, 41 miles •, Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole line, and Askern branch, 371 miles; West-Riding Union line (Mirfield to Low Moor), 7/ miles; Liverpool and Bury line, 28+ miles; and Ardwick branch, l mile,—making a total of 154+ miles. In addition, the company lease, in conjunc tion with the London and North-Western, the North Union (Bolton and Preston) 201 miles, and Preston.and Wyre 29 miles,—in all leased 49+ miles; making up the lines open to 2031 miles. In course of construction are the Burnley branch, 9 miles; Methley branch, 5/ miles • Liverpool and Bury, dock branch, &c., ; Huddersfield and Sheffield, 151 ; West-Riding Union (remainder), 11i • Manchester, Wi gan, and Southport, 3; and Sheffield, Barnsley, and Wakefield, 10 miles ;—total in course of construction, 56+ miles. When completed, the company will have under their working 2591 miles. The total capital authorised up to 31st Dec., 1848, is £13,293,745, of which £3,833,943 remains to be raised. Additional money, however, will have to be furnished for contemplated future amalgamations, which will bring up the total authorised capital to £14,202,045. The Lancashire and Yorkshire line, it will be seen from the above statement, embraces within itself a large por tion of most important manufacturing districts of the West-Riding of Yorkshire and of Lancashire. It gives a connexion, too, between the port of Hull on the east coast and of Liverpool on the west; and opens the route from Manchester and a part of Yorkshire to the western districts of Scotland. Like the East Lancashire line, it will compete powerfully for the traffic between Manches ter and the adjacent manufacturing towns and villages to Liverpool. The route by which this traffic is accommo dated is by the Bolton line to Bolton, and thence by ,Wigan, Orrell. Pemberton, Aintree, and Walton, to the station in Great Howard-street- The distance to be tra velled between Manchester and Liverpool is 38 miles. The financial details of the company's position, the terms upon which it has raised its capital, and the nature of the different amalgamations, leases, and guarantees formed, are far too intricate to be stated here. For the most succinct statement of these we would refer to Mr. Scrivenor's able volume. ALTITUDES OF VARIOUS PORTIONS OF THE BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL. We have frequently heard controversies, with respect to the comparative altitudes of various points within the borough ; and perhaps it may be interesting to many of our readers if we give a few of the principal features of the profile of the locality. The figures are taken from the excellent map, just issued by the borough surveyor, Mr. Newlands, and the datum from which the elevations are taken is th Old Dock sill. Beginning at the point where the northern boundary runs down to high water mark on the Bootle shore, at the northern end of Lower Mersey View, we find the elevation 24 feet above the dock sill. It increases rapidly as the line runs almost directly east to a point a little beyond the crossing of the Liverpool and Bury Railway, where it at tains an elevation of 132 feet. In passing the Walton road it has decreased to 120 feet ; after which it rises, as we proceed along the high ridge above Everton, until it crosses Breck-lane, at an altitude of 200 feet. The line passes on, at a gradually increasing elevation, until it reaches Kensington, where the elevation is 212 feet. It falls from this point until it reaches Sandown-lane, at an elevation of 132 feet ;. proceeds, with an increasing gra dient, along the lane towards the Windsor Water-works; near which the elevation is- 192. From this point it de scends, with an almost uniform decline, past the east en. trance to the Prince's Park, where the elevation is 148 ; past the south entrance, where it is-112, which elevation is nearly maintained for some distance, until within about two hundred yards from• the shore, at its southern extre mity, the line sinks rapidly to 40 feet. Within this amphitlieat:e r which the high range, along which our boundary line is carried, may be said to form, there is a. very undulating surface, and many localities, with respect to which mistakes may well arise, if the eye alone is depended upon. The highest elevation which we find-upon the map. 2481 - eet. is irempelintpiv.....tiguoua to St. George's Church, Everton, on the east side of Church street. Generally speaking, , the south end of the built direr portion of the town is the highest in level. The north end, about the region of Vauxhall-road, is rather flat,.with little fall for effective drainage, which may in part account for the sickness of that district. We give the precise elevation of a few particular points :—St. George's Hall stands on an elevation of 68 feet above the Old Dock sill; the Workhouse is 156 to 160 feet ; the Col legiate Institution, the Infirmary, St. Jude's Church, the Philharmonic Hall, and St. John the Evangelist's Church, Hope-street, are all about the same altitude, viz., between 152 and 156 ; St. John's- Market is from 44 to 48 ; St. James's Market, 88.; and St. Martin's, 88. St. Paul's Church is 76 feet, a much lower elevation than has been generally assigned to it. St. Luke's Church is 92 at the west and 102 at the east. The Monument, London-road, is 132 feet. St. Mary's Church, Edge-hill, is 224 feet. Kirkdale Prison is 114' feet to 116 feet. The Exchange Newsroom is 56 feet ; the Town-hall and top of Castle street about 52 feet; and St. George's Church and the head of Lord-street 48 feet ; the bottom of Lord-street 28 feet ; the top of Church-street 44 feet, and the top of Ra nelagh-street 64 feet. The lowest region of the town is that extending from Wapping, by Hurst-street, Cleveland square, the Custom-house, Paradise-street, and White chapel, the line of the old pool. We may explain that the lines of contour being drawn only at each variation of four feet in level, do not denote the exact difference between adjacent points. Thus the line, 28feet, includes elevations not reaching the next line, 32 feet. CRICKET MATCH.—The return match between the Stanley and Tranmere Cricket Clubs was played on Sa turday last on the ground of the-former; and, after some good playing, was decided in favour of the Tranmere,.with nine wickets to go down. CAUTION TO SEAMEN.—Yesterday, at the Police-court, the mate of the Royal William was fined £lO and costs (or to be imprisoned one month) for secreting some tobacco on board ; and a seaman, belonging to the same ship, was fined 20s. and costs, or fourteen days' imprisonment in default, for a like offence. PUBLICANS' LlCENSES.—Yesterday was the day ap pointed, in accordance with the Act of Parliament, for the re-granting of publicans' licenses. No new licenses however will be granted before the 12th inst., which will also he the time for rescinding any that may be con demned by the magistrates., The magistrates who sat yesterday were John Haywood Turner and William Dixon, Bsqrs. THUNADER STORM.—On Saturday night, shortly before twelve o'clock, during the thunder storm, the electric fluid struck the house of Messrs. Harwood and Son, Nelson-street, Great George-square, breaking down one of the-chimney-pots, part falling into the street, and part into the house. Several squares of glass were broken, and the rooms filled with smoke. Fortunately no person was hurt. FAST BY PRIVATE AUTHORITY.—The churches in the borough of Newport, isle of Wight, were opened on Thursday last for a special service, on account of the cholera, notice having been given by the clergy on, the Ssnday previous. The shops and public-houses were closed, and business entirely suspended at 6 p.m. The congregations at both churches were larger than have been known for some years past. Similar arrangements have been made in various other places. MR. HENRY RUSSELL'S € I I3NCERTS.—This popular vocalist commenced last night a series of his excellent musical entertainments, in the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson street. The room was most respectably attended ; and the songs and anecdotes of negro life, the latter of which were very amusing, delighted the audience. In the course of the week he will Introduce several new compo sitions. One great merit of Mr. Russell's, songs is the excellent moral which he makes them convey. This even ing he will introduce Kirkman and Son's newly-invented grand fond a pian a. OBTAINING , MONEY UNDER FALSE; PRETENCES.— At the Police-court yesterday a man named James Mar shall was charged with defrauding his employer, Mr. J. Heywood, of certain monies. The prisoner was foreman at Mr. Hey wood's, ship-bread bakery, Hanover-street ; and had a wages, or time-book, to keep of the work per formed by some females on the premises, as " packers." He put it clown and represented, that more was due to them than really was. The money was paid to him to pay them, but he only paid them what was due to them, re taining the difference—sums of 65., 45., &c. He was sent for trial. PRETENDED CHOLERA DOZTOR.—Yesterday a man in barragon, whose name we did not learn, was placed before Mr. Rushton on the following charge. It appeared that he was in league with another man not yet apprehended, and that they loitered at the door of the north dispensary to intercept persons who might be wanting surgical assist ance in cases of cholera. A respectable female residing in the neighbourhood, and whose child was ill, came up on this errand, and the prisoner accosted her, and having learned this, said he would bring the doctor, who was then busy, to her housaln a few minutes. He did introduce a man, who went up stairs and saw the child. He went away stating he would return with some medicine. He did return, and getting a candle, again went up stairs by himself. He came down again, stating that the child was two degrees better. After going into the back yard he left the house, and it was soon afterwards discovered that he had realised a handsome fee for doing nothing, by car rying off the watch of the female's husband, which had been left on the stand of the looking-glass in the bed room Sept. 4, Ig4o. NEW CHURCH IN LIMEKILN-LANE, TRANMERE. o i n h e unfeigned nf e memorial ined the lt su is b7 incumbent of Tranmere, the Rev. Benedict Arthure.,,i'd need not add a word on our part as to the efficient wer7rhe of that Christian pastor in his Master's service. ":: ( 1 memorial speaks volumes. and attests his earnestness Pro• zeal in promoting the everlasting happiness of the iteto addressed pleasure h e e give p ion n a snedrtvvi tal souls committed to his care. Should Mr. Ar t d are succeed in fulfilling the desire of the petitioners —ea have hisgn o d m reason y ever te believe gr at el that to he futurewill do so —he make generation' Last night, the quarterly meeting i n be e h ra a t l i re si ; t t h il : " Pastoral Aid Society," was held in the club-roo m Queen's Arms Hotel, Lower Tranmere. The rooms, very full,,and after several good speeches from the B. Arthnie, Rev. M. Margoliouth, A. Jackson, Esq" °r est J. Herd, Esq., of Rock Ferry, after detailing th e • spiritual destitution prevalent in the populous net , des. hood of Limekiln-lane, and alluding to the great en s is yours of the Rev. Mr..Arthure and his various c ure t hat spread the gospel amongst the numerous people clf efft neighbourhood, said,—l have been entrusted with a "iri , grateful commission, namely, to plead with you the 100. tual exigencies of my poor fellow Christians in Lime„ced lane. My pleasure in doing so is considerably en,li. by the conviction that you are as much, if not tore, '5 ace citous for the accomplishment of the desired objec t, s a the are. Without further preface, then, I proceed to re a document I hold in my hand:— MEMORIAL. TO THE REVEREND BENEDICT ARTHIna• REVEREND AND DEAR SIR,—We, the undersit,,Di; have taken the liberty, after much deliberation, to so to your kind and Christian consideration the seri °us i i' 99 et s ritual want which a great number of your par iablu obil suffer, namely, the lack of a proper place of w°,, E ite amongst us. We feel convinced that your heart's 'do and constant prayer to God is that every member to of extensive district should at least come within the rea the Gospel sound. We contemplate, with heartfelt` ;i0 titude to Almighty God, the circumstance of your 10,j been sent to labour in this part of Christ's vineyard,l4"teg, was, ere your coming here, lamentably neglected. d o( dear reverend Sir, you were the means, in the haarefi, your adorable Lord and Master, to produce a gr eat ote• val of religious feelings and dispositions in Tr aa b,b os Nor can we conceal the fact, that much, very ro le , s fat been done by the means of yourself and your cura'xteu• the partial reformation of this newly-formed an d e d aily sive-district. We view with sincere pleasure the,,,the improvements which are taking place amongst est ‘ r r go' means of your present curate, the Rev. Moses I the Routh. We are gratified to behold the flocking ° 01 1 poorer classes to his Sabbath and weekly lectures , ' 3 , 9 0E0 as to his monthly missionary lecture. It is deligt,biall see the flourishing condition of the Sunday sebocA he organised, and personally superintends. e. 4 For all these spiritual benefits, we owe our w ar ailis thanks to the great Bishop of the Church for you amongst us. Yet we must express our cenvltad that a great deal remains to be done. In short, we f in immediate need of a new church in the midst Lid . Your present lecture-room in Pitt-street is not sardiP to contain one tithe of the episcopal residents of t13 19 . ,„ 0 4 trict ; and moreover the arduous duties devolving. 101 yourself and curate on the Lord's-day, limit your SP' ll instruction amongst us only to an afternoon leetuji re . that sacred day. The consequences are of a most ". or itf nature. It is painful to see and hear the great tnalbout of the poorer classes on the Sabbath day loitering a a nd the streets and desecrating a day by foolish talking The profane jesting, which God himself hallowed. ad e church say they, is too far off, and not sufficientlY '5O or free to admit us. The excuses and pleas are p lat } 00 and specious. Need we tell you that the violation : 0 59 precept leads to another ; hence vice and wick, d ote abound. Let therefore the means of grace mile' obi' abound. Let a church be erected, where all the ill e jta tants of this wide spreading district may be itl y „ D d reference t p e a lafv r ere r t rt i ei c nn i i participate e pti ono in einaa t t h nb e dui s o i tl r hdo d ien i n n ig a yo n lsd c ne e te s e d o e d f our whh which r w e l e i 2 i rasp p a e - cti jo tb th e scriptural Church. It is our firm conviction th a t / 0 11f, s call upon you to make, without delay. T he p i ° of Hosts, who declared in the • days of 3' 01.- I , th e the hearts of many of his i s sa t pm e a w il a e rrs ' t wh o iisl co l aw - s° o sr e us e rie r 'iadlel' bra it : iti° you, so as to enable you at once to begin to rear ° 405 to God. We need not apprize you of the many e,N,, i ; church-building societies in our country, who wi ll means turn a deaf ear to our spiritual exigencies. .d We, therefore, earnestly solicit you, dear fevere',4oo y......b.s. t o e oica t iv ake without delay the first step in this in 3 . l3 _„%fet: matter, and by so doing you will'be the means et ring a lasting benefit upon a vast number of it": fi br n s t,t c saa o rto m f m th ip s d d t is o tr y i o c u t r wi ssi e ri r t e u r al ba ch ve ar r g e e as ; o a n nd to th e a l i v fo: , e y . o;r ev m er a e y n b d e a b n l d es d se e d ar an s d ir made a blessing to An d After several interesting speech ' obedient servants, y s o:u f r or m w e h st ic h k et w e: o ' e nnot spare the space necessary, the meeting broke UP. OIANGEISSI.,-011 the Ist instant, a new lodg,, e ,10l opened at the Raven Inn, St. Helen's, under the :;, 0 2 4 the Loyal Orange Institution of Great Britain, th e members were initiated into the mysteries of th at ;bell body.. Several of the Liverpool brethren attended , add the lodge closed. The usual loyal toasts were give n ' responded to with the utmost enthusiasm. ANOTHER SPECIMEN OF P r oPERY.--=Let our r b r es-, mark with what unconcern th e Roguish church on us ual one of God's commandments, while she clings 1 5.,1,0d to her own superstitions. The P r esid en t left r___"„ 4 " - d aig Sunday last to inaugurate a section of the P a's ' Strasbourg Rctilicay. It is added immediately afte' - i6O in the paragraph, the benediction the locomotiv es place at eleven o'clock. t las Considerable sensation was produced at Bristo til ts - week, in consequence of the discovery by some exca", to of three complete human skeletons. How they e al / 3 ri ss' be deposited in that locality, no o n e can co njecture , ,' n ot much as there are no remains of a coffi n , and they e ° io cl, appear to have been buried for any len g thened P r iio /6 and were not lying in the order in which they would been, if interred in the usual manner. ut' R THE HAVEST IN THE NORTH OF ENGLANIN ---- by, ing the past week the weather has been most favour°, it except on Thursday, when much rain fell. ReaP„ l/1 ,,1a0 now general in the district ; and if the weather re";; r el settled, a considerable portion of the crops will be se c :oe before the end of another week. The Grain ereP' t itp likely to prove good both as regards quality and que n fr ool Potatoes are plentiful, and in this district quite fre e b t ic any appearance of disease. Turnips have been kep t oc ti by the continued dry weather, but are now looking 133 better. d o e SPEEDY CAPTURE.—Last week Field, an active Pr i v., policeman, was waiting at the Havre railway tern, f big e when he discovered that his- pocket had been picket' ° pe r' f e watch. After having cast an investigating glance t .eth sons present, he went up to a young man, elegantly who was negligently playing with his cane, and se l t biei him with a firm hand, cried out, " This is the., pot Wood, the celebrated Wood, who I am sure W i n' ro• give me a negative !" The individual so addres_seVir tested that there was some great mistake, but De`tijeo sisted that he was the thief. The young man wa s ' the taken to another room, ant on his being seare- e watch was found in one of his boots. VriCKS THE CHOLERA.—Dttring the week ending there were throughout England', Wales, and Scotian ° o rs deaths from cholera and diarrhoea. Of- these 1.17 0 ice in London and the vicinity, and 239 in Liverpool' t here are glad to say that within the last two or three days bet has been an extraordinarily rapid decrease in the ne,""0 0 of eases. On Frid a y we had in Liverpool only ',jot' deaths from both diseases ; and ex c l us i v e of D 34 ', oil there were throughout England only 2943 fatal ca,- 9e , - ;on that day. Of these 30 we r e i n H u ll, 16 in Nrane' 11 in Leeds, 15 in Wolverhampton, and the rest Ar c ot eluded in small numbers, in thirty-three- other t° ,91' The month of August may be chronicled as one collo, cuous for the ungenial air which prevailed on the e° t bs for the diverging currents of wind above, and !:°,: Pi; daily fluctuations of the thermometer . Septenw`i the opened to us better appearances, which may disinfecor atmosphere, afford us a more genial influence, and e cafe the poisons which have prevailed in the air., g o, is CHOLERA, CONTAGIOUS ?—" Lt Working Or t •i p writing in yesterday's Times, says,. " I have taken s the my arms and baptized children on whose countenan t _ ce ibe l reflected hue of ' the dark valley' through whie lj p r P° were passing, marked them at once, and in a man% lin e to be mistaken, as victims of this pestilenc:.--. I hi!'„ l iti'; gered by the bedside of adults for a longer period tithe,' visitation of the sick ordinarily requi res , b ecau se n ° ,lo o ' could be found to perform those sad offices for the tbl which common humanity prompts, and I have bee's , forced to-witness the crowning triu m ph s o f this croibiol mysterious agent in the destruction of human life. 0 5 , repeated my visit for several days, whil s t the corps'i v io still in the chamber of death, for the purpose of g 5 10' consolation or supplying the necessaries of life to theatitl vivors, and I have been engaged in these painfol 01 for several successive hours, almost every day for , three weeks, in houses the polluted atmosphere of ' , O ,A renders it almost inconceivable how any of the i r ," dr A could survive ; and yet, through the mercy of u ° , O OY have hitherto suffered nothing from these visits, b e r ' o bt ° that extreme depression of spirits which is inseP s from the constant contemplation of such intense , ings." - - - t' DIED. •nt 0 I A ,ft , Yesterday; suddenly, Mr. ROBT. 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