The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-30 00:00:00

- FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. INDIA AND CHINA. Intelligence from India arrived on Saturday, but nothing of importance has occurred in that part of the Empire. There has been a partial outbreak in the Ma dras Presidency, in which a young subaltern and a few soldiers of the native infantry were cut to pieces; and an idolatrous festival at Trichinopoly was the occasion of considerable loss of life, upwards of four hundred persons being crushed to death in the crowd. Bombay and other parts of India were suffering from cholera. The news from China, which reaches to the 30th of August, brings an account of the assassination of the Portuguese Governor of Macao under circumstances of great atrocity, with the privity, or rather at the instigation, as it would appear, of the Chinese authorities, to whom he bad made himself obnoxious. While taking a ride, ac companied by his aide-de-camp, he was attacked by eight Chinamen and dragged from his horse : the mur derers hacked off his head and hand, and disappeared. His attendant was also severely wounded. Rewards had been offered at Canton and elsewhere for the governor's head. The Portuguese soldiers, to avenge the murder, destroyed a small fort, and, in doing so, seven Portuguese soldiers were wounded, and seventy-four Chinese killed. Measures have been taken to protect the British subjects. SPAIN. FALL OF NARVAEZ. — On the 18th, the Queen of Spain dismissed the Narvaez ministry, and, it is said, laughed heartily when Narvaez blustered. A new ministry was formed, but on the 21st Narvaez was restored ! The re action, however, was but short-lived, for on the evening of the 24th a telegraphic despatch reached Paris. dated Madrid, the 23d, announcing the definitive fall of the old administration, and the entrance on its duties of the Clo nard ministry. An intrigue is said to be on foot for de throning the Queen, and placing De Montpensier on the throne. Narvaez opposed this arrangement. Jenny Lind is at Hamburg on a visit of a few weeks. It is said that M. de Lamartine intends to retire to the east, has given to him an immense tract of country, situated within fe few hours' journey of Smyrna. A powder-mill exploded at Rio de Janeiro on the 9th of August, killing the foreman, assistant, eight free men of colour, and 21 slaves. The cholera has committed fearful havoc in Algeria. Out of 905 persons attacked, in the garrison of Algiers alone, as many as 523 have died. In a recent book on New Zealand, it is mentioned that when the first races were held at the settlement of New Plymouth, several horses, owned and ridden by native Maories, took part in the sport. A decree has just been issued by the King of Naples, which fully determines the separation of the administra tion of Sicily from that of the Neapolitan provinces of the United Kingdom. On the 12th instant, Mr. Kemp, a midshipman of the Bellerophon, off Leghorn, was sent with eleven men to embark some men ashore in a cutter. In returning, a squall arose, the cutter filled, turned bottom up, and the whole twelve were drowned. Naples is described as being in a state of stupor from the number of persons arrested. A great sensation has been created by an attempt of the police to arrest the Prince of San Giacomo. The king himself became bail for him to the tribunals. At Rome the measures preparatory to the withdrawal of the French army were under consideration ; and an official announcement of the Moniteur informs us that General Hautpool is about to succeed M. de Corcelles, as Minister Plenipotentiary to the Roman Court. The Archduke John, having ratified the treaty of the 30th of September, resigned the dignity of Regent, and committed to the hands of the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia the powers and the duties which the Germanic Diet confided to him in its sitting of July 12,1849. A terrible loss of life has just occurred at Trichinopoly, India. At an idolatrous festival, held at the top of the high rock, which was attended by an immense concourse of people, a sudden panic occurred, and the multitude from above pressing upon those below, upwards of 400 were suffocated or trodden to death. . In the affairs of Italy, the Morning Herald sees nothing but a return to Papal sway as the issue of what is taking place in France. Our contemporary says—" Even now every ante-chamber and ministerial bureau in Paris stinks of the surplice and the soutane. You meet reverend• wearers everywhere, gay and debonnaire, full of life and of motion." STREET RAILWAYS.—A New York correspondent of the Times states that railways on a new plan are to be introduced into the streets of that city, whereby omni buses will be done away with. There will be but one rail, placed on upright stanchions. The carriages will be suspended from their axles, will hang near the ground, and will be drawn by horses. The railway will not inter fere with the passing of other carriages. No WAR WITH RUSSIA.—The Russian Emperor will riot persist in demanding the extradition of his subjects now in Turkey, provided no menacing interference takes place on the part of a certain great western power—Eng land. — Times' Correspondent at Vienna. [Several papers have alleged that war is imminent, because the Czar has refused to receive the Special Envoy of the Ottoman Porte ; but we do not think this will be the issue of the question, or that there is truth in the rumour.] THE BIBLE IN ITALY.—The Constituzionale of Flo rence quotes private correspondence from Leghorn, stat ing that five English Protestant Propagandists have landed at Leghorn and inundated the town with Diodati's trapslglion of the Bible. It appears that Protestantism is making great progress among the country people, where the Propaganda display the greatest activity; but that si milar activity is displayed on the side of the Jesuit party, -who have imported loads of FatherCurci's pamphlels against Gioberti and Italy. From the Cape of Good Hope we learn that the most formidable preparations were made by the colonists for resisting the introduction of convicts. It was agreed upon that as soon as the arrival of the Neptune should be as certained, the gong in the town-house should be tolled, half-minute time, to apprise all the householders of the fact, in order that they might be fully prepared to act up to the engagements entered into by them in taking the anti-convict pledge. Earl Grey is singularly fortunate in having the death-knell of his colonial power tolled at so convenient a distance from his sensitive ear. ANOTHER DUEL IN FRANCE.—A duel was fought on Monday in the Forest of Bondy between M. Thouret, a barrister, and Lieutenant Petit, of Gendarmerie Mobile. The weapon chosen by the combatants was the sword. , The parties having been placed on . the ground attacked each other with extraordinary fury. After sometime they became completely exhausted and were forced to rest. They recommenced, and, after a long contest, during which neither was wounded, the seconds disarmed them, when they shook hands. The Lieutenant chal lenged the barrister in consequence of the latter having told him during the State Trials at Versailles that he was unworthy to wear the French uniform. THE NEW JERUSALEM OF TUE MORMONS.—The Lat ter Day Saints, whose history, and the history of their prophet, Joe Smith, form one of the most singular curio sities of the age, have at last, it would seem, located a permanent site for the New Jerusalem. xpelled by force of arms from Missouri, driven by the outraged peo ple of Illinois from the " holy city" of Nauvoo and their great temple, scattered and impoverished, it was thought that the community was dispersed, and would soon be come extinct. But the fragments were gathered together in the prairies, reinforcements were received from Eng land and Wales, contributions of relief were collected in the States, and the disciples speedily re-organised, crossed the great plains, passed the Rocky Mountains, and established themselves in the basin of the Great Salt Lake. Here, removed a thousand miles from the civi lised world, they have built up a city, opened a successful system of agriculture, and, at the next Congress, will ask for a government for their little territory. IRELAND. --4---- A ragged school is being built in Cork. That splendid mansion, Mitchelstown Castle, is now in the possession of the sheriff's officers. together with all the splendid furniture, &c. — Cork Examiner. Lord Roden has dissuaded several magistrates from resigning their commissions, and will not countenance expressions of personal sympathy carried to such lengths. Two children were killed in the Belfast Workhouse last week, by an over dose of medicine (calomel and opium) given in mistake. A splendid and complimentary address, most nume rously signed, has been forwarded from the Protestants of Bardon to that distinguished nobleman and patriot— the Earl of Roden. On Saturday, the residence of Captain Ogle, at Dysart, county of Westmeath, was attacked by a large party, of whom a young man, named Flynn, was shot on the occa sion. The affray arose from some family disputes. The King's County Chronicle says that a highly res pected and old magistrate of this county has received a notice threatening him with the same death that Mr. Cage got ! The Kilkenny Journal gives an account of the homi cide of a poor woman, the mother of five children, who lost her life in a scuffle with a collector of poor rates, who has since absconded. The strictures of the press appear to have had a salu tary influence with the Marquis of Londonderry, as we hear it rumoured that he has consented to grant some reductions of rent to his Irish tenantry. Three houses in Thomas-street, Dublin, were almost totally destroyed by fire, on Monday night. A man who leaped from one of the upper" windows was so dreadfully injured that he was not expected to recover, and the infant child of one of the tenants is missing, THE PRICE or A MORNING CALL.—The Corporation of Cork, on totting up the bill, find that her Majesty's brief visit cost them twelve hundred pounds, being double the amount that had been calculated. " The scenes that have been enacted in consequence," says the Tipperary Free Press," beggar description." A Scotch farmer, of high repute, Mr. Caird, of Wig ton, is making a tour of inspection in the West of Ire land, at the suggestion of Sir Robert Peel, with the view of ascertaining how far capitalists might be safe in co operating with the member for Tamworth in his new scheme of colonisation for Connaught. Mr. Francis Burke, a merchant of Dublin, cut his throat on Sunday week, and is since dead. Mr. Burke was one of the sureties for the completion of Mr. Brady's contract for building the Galway College, and the con tractor not being in a position to redeem his contract, it is supposed that the government called on Mr. Burke to carry it out, as in duty bound. Another high-spirited justice of the peace, Sir Gilbert King, Bart., has addressed a letter to the Lord Chancel lor, tendering his resignation of the commission of the peace for Roscommon county, as he does not agree that Lord Roden's conduct, on the occasion of the Orange procession of last July, is deserving of censure, and be cause he " feels much respect and esteem for his lord shirt's valiant and uncompromising Christian principles sad conduct on all occwoua." `{ ! ' N - The assassins of Mr. Cage are in custody. One of them—the fellow who charged the guns with which the diabolical deed was perpetrated—has turned approver. He actually arranged the time and place for the murder, but he denies that he fired either of the shots. He says he was crouching behind the principal assassin, and after he fired the first shot, he (the approver) handed him the second gun. Mr. Gavan Duffy has succeeded in hooking a bishop to take part in the grand " National Conference" now in course of active preparation. Mr. John O'Connell, pro bably calculated upon a monopoly of the " stars," hav ing already secured the " talents" of Drs. O'Higgins and Ffrench; for the performances at Conciliation-hall. The hon. gentleman, however, was out in his reckoning, as tl:e opposition theatre has found a stronger charm in the eyes of the Right Rev. Dr. Blake, the aged titular of Dromore. STRANGE ACCUSATION.—The every Telegraph alleges that the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, by means of a letter transmitted to the Duke of Bedford, endeavoured to deter the Viscountess Jocelyn from attending in the suite of Her Majesty in the late Royal progress in Ireland, lest her Ladyship should suffer insult from the mob, on account of her relationship to the Earl of Roden, anti his Lordship's supposed implication with the lamentable affair at Dolly's Brae. The reply made in the Castle jour nal of Tuesday, on the part of His Excellency, was, the admission of his (the Earl of Clarendon's) having trans mitted to the Duke of Bedford (brother to the Prime Minister, be it observed) a letter to that effect written by a third hand, which had been purliined by some means or other. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE ORANGEMEN.—The Dublin Herald says :—" It is a fact that, after certain communications between Colonel Phayre and the Castle authorities, £6OO was handed by Captain Kennedy to Colonel Phayre for the purpose of purchasing 500 stand of arms, to be distributed among the Orangemen of Dub lin ; and that 500 stand of arms were bought with that money, were so distributed, and remain in the possession of the Orangemen at the present moment. Secondly, it is a fact that several cases of arms were brought over to Dublin from Birmingham, and shipped at the quay of Dublin for Belfast, where they were issued to the mem bers of the Orange institution exclusively. We may add that we have been informed, on what we believe to be excellent authority, that most, if not all the guns mounted with bayonets, carried by the Orangemen at Dolly's Brae, were part of the arms thus transmitted to Ulster by the Government to arm the Orangemen of the north." The Dublin Mail confirms this statement. BRUTAL ATTACK ON PROTESTANTS.— OR Sunday evening several young men and women were walking in a bye road at Glassdrummond, about one mile from this town, when, without the slightest provocation, they were suddenly attacked by nine or ten navvies, who had been sitting round a boiler, erected at the roadside, for pre paring the horses' food. The dastardly assailants, who cried " Massacre the bloody Orangemen," were not con tent with being nearly double the number of the others, but made use of shovels and shovel-shafts for the better execution of their murderous designs. One poor girl, named Hannah M'Knight, who was not present when the attack was commenced, but who ran out hearing that her brother was being killed, was knocked down by a tremen dous blow on the head with a shovel-shaft. A man named James Campbell was beaten almost to jelly, and two others, named Patterson and Trimble, are seriously ill from the effect of the blows they received. Four of the navvies have been arrested.—Newry Telegraph. COUNTY DOWN MEETIAG.—A meeting of the nobility and gentry of the county of Down was held in Dundrum, on Monday. The high sheriff presided. The Marquis of Downshire proposed, and Roger Hall, Esq., D.L. and J.P., seconded, a resolution to the effect—" That we view with indignation and alarm the arbitrary act of the government in the dismissal of the Earl of Roden and Messrs. Francis and William Beers from the commission of the peace—an act which has not been called for by any breach of their duty, nor for any crime recognised by the law of the land ; and which we feel to be fraught with manii est injustice, inasmuch as it not only tends to destroy the liberty of the subject, but puts a restriction upon the free opinion and conscience of the magistrates." The addresses of the noble mover and the seconder of this resolution were loudly applauded, and the motion adopted with acclamation, J. W. Maxwell, Esq., D.L. and J.P., proposed a second resolution. The Rev. Mr. Gordon, J.P., seconded the motion, which passed. Major Nugent, D.L. and J.P., Charles Douglas, Esq., D.L. and J.P., Madden Hall, Esq., J.P., and Wm. B. Forde, Esq., J.P., severally addressed the meeting in support of resolutions condemnatory of the conduct of the government in this business, and voting an address to Lord Roden. MR. BERWICK AND LORD RODEN.—The report from Mr. Berwick, the government official who was sent down about the recent Ribbon massacre at Dolly's Brae, has issued his report, and a lengthy document it is. With respect to Lord Roden's conduct, he says —" Lord Roden, who is a magistrate of the county, and Deputy Grand Master of the Orangemen, received as his brethren and guests an armed assemblage of Orangemen on the 12th of July, who had, in my opinion, rendered them selves amenable to the law. lam certain that Lord Roden had no intention to countenance any illegal con duct of that body, and that no man laments more than he does the occurrences of that day; but uneducated men of both parties will not fail to draw their own conclusions in such matters, and to believe that the sanction of the magistrate was given to the acts of his party, and his protection thereby secured." Therefore let Lord Roden go ! But is it not inimitable ? "I am certain that Lord Roden had no intention to countenance any illeval_con auct or mat noay—that no man laments more than he does the occurrences of that day; but" But for Mr. Berwick's " but" we must refer to Mr. Berwick's self. Whatever " uneducated men" may do, we think we could tell him the " conclusions" which those of a differ ent character will draw from his report. It will scarcely be favourable to the conduct of his Chief. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. The munificent Dr. Warneford has placed in the hands of the Bishop of Gloucester another £lOOO to promote the building of parsonage-houses on benefices of small value. The appeal from Sir H. J. Fast's judgemnt in the case of Gorham v. Bishop of Exeter will come on before the Privy Council in December. In the years 1828, 1838, and 1848, the matriculations in the University of Oxford were respectively 423, 393, and 412—shewing a marked decrease in the last twenty years. A new and beautiful church, built by private muni ficence, at Kingstown, near Weimer, was levelled to the ground on Thursday morning week, during a gale of wind. Lord Porchester, son of the Earl of Caernarvon, was matriculated of Christ Church, Oxford, last week. The Marquis of Bath, the Earl of Hopetoun, and Lord San don have come into residence this term, at the same uni versity. Dr. Tait will be the new Dean of Carlisle, but will con tinue head master of Rugby School until midsummer. It is said that the Rev. H. H. Milman will be the new Dean of St. Paul's, and that the Bishop of Sodor and Man (Earl Auckland) will be translated to the see of Llandaff. Dr. Buckland, the Reader in Geology in Oxford, has announced a course of Lectures in which he will use Mr. Hugh Miller's recent publication, " The Foot-prints of the Creator," as a class book. Mr. Miller's work is a refutation of the Geological arguments brought forward in the too well-known book the "Vestiges of Creation." The Golden Lectureship in London, valued at £420 per annum, is about to become vacant by the resignation of the Rev. T. Dale. It is in the gift of the Haberdashers, and already there are thirty candidates, among whom the names of Melville, D. Moore, R. Bickersteth, Griffith, Curling, R. Montgomery, Drs. Croly and M`Caul, stand conspicuous. BURIAL OF I:Is:BAPTISED PERSONS.—The Archbishop of Canterbury has recently been applied to by a dissenter, who complained of the conduct of a clergyman, the Rev. J. M. Randall, curate of Lowestoft, for refusing to bury the children of dissenters on the ground of their beiag unbaptised. The following is his grace's answer : "In reply to your letter, I write to say that the curate of your parish is obliged to bury with the usual forms the corpse of a dissenter, provided that the Church service is not objected to. The only exception is in the case of persons dying unbap tised. These the Rubric expressly excludes; and the rubric differs from the Canons in being established by act of parlia ment, so that a clergyman is under the necessity of conforming to it. I agree with you in the opinion that when the non baptism is not notorious and patent. as it is in the case of the Baptist children, no curious inquiry should be made. A clergy man may be indicted for violation of the canons; b►it the earlier ones to which you allude are superseded by the Tolera tion Act." THE VACANT DIOCESE OF LLANDAFF.—On Wednes day, a numerous meeting of gentlemen who take an inte rest in the present question, relative to the vacant diocese of Llandaff, was held in London. Benjamin Lawrence, Esq., presided, and said that the committee bad received letters from a vast body of the nobility and gentry of Wales, who had promised to he in London on Friday next, to accompany a deputation to Lord John Russell, urging upon him the necessity of advising Her Majesty to appoint a Welshman to the vacant diocese of Llandaff. He was happy to say that Lord Powis, one of the warmest advocates of Welsh interests, bad promised to come spe cially from "Wales to attend the deputation ; as had also Lord Feilding, M.P., Sir Benjamin Hall, M.P., the Hon. Edward Mostyn, M.P., John Williams, Esq., M.P. Colonel Tynte, M.P., Mr. Bulkeley Hughes, M.P., Howel Morgan, Esq., (of Defynog,) and other gentlemen of influence and station belonging to the Principality. The Globe inclines to the belief that the bishopric of Llandaff is to be given to Dr. 011ivant, Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, Prebendary of Brecon, Canon of St. Davids, and well versed in the Welsh language. The Morning Post publishes a communication, dated " Douglas, Isle of Man, October 21," referring to the reported translation of Lord Auckland to the Sec of Llan daff, stating that the people complain that their Church is not treated with respect by the Government, who place Bishops over it only to transfer them to another See as soon as as a vacancy occurs. During the last ten years the diocese of Sodor and Man has had almost or quite as many spiritual rulers. Dr. Short, the present Bishop of St. Asaph, Dr. Pepys, the present Bishop of Worcester, Dr. Walter Shirley, Dr. Carr, Dr. Wilson and others, have passed in rapid succession from the Bishopric of Sodor and Man, to other and more wealthy Sees, or have been removed by death. The inhabitants of the island express themselves deeply desirous that a Bishop should be appointed who would be contented to remain amongst them, being unambitious of a seat in the house of Lords; and this hope was indulged when Dr. Eden, the heir to the earldom of Auckland, was consecrated to the See. THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER AND THE ADDITIONAL CURATES SOCIETY.—At a meeting of the society held last week at Blackburn the Bishop said in the course of his address, " Where I find a willing and ready population, J would gladly relieve them ; where I find a neglected, abandoned, godless population, still more gladly would I seek to aid them. I will aid on no principles of party, on no principles of private or individual pique or opinion. But if I find incumbents preferring their wretched cere monial of a past time to the vital essence of Christianity cif I fi nd then dwelling Ivan a dreg in the Church. instead of the spirit in which the doctrines of that Church should be taught—clinging to the surplice in ministration, instead of clinging to the Word and the vital truths of God, and telling me (for, unfortunately, I am not speak ing cf imaginary cases) that they must cling to those anti quated follies, unsanctioned and unauthorised alike by the letter and the spirit of our Church and of the Church of Christ; telling me, I say, that they must cling to those antiquated follies, or that they must become infidels — then, on them I will not bestow your bounty. (Applause.) And if I find, under the plea—the affected plea—of Cath olicism, and the ancient customs of an ancient Church, disrespect to their official superiors—claiming to them selves the right of withholding the rite of baptism and burial from others—sending children from the church gates, whose parents are anxiously craving for them to be received into that church—sending that same child un buried from their church gates, in consequence of the want of that baptism which they themselves refused— on them I will not bestow your bounty. (Applause.) I am speaking of no imaginary cases." THE JEWS AND THE HEATHEN.—At a meeting in Doncaster last week of the Jews' Society, the Rev. - E, Bickersteth said, " I remember attending, many years ago, a meeting at Norwich, e ith my dear friend, Mr. Simeon, when he was very zealous for the Jews, and I was very zealous for the Gentiles. He made on that occasion a very powerful speech on behalf of the people of Israel, and I was a little afraid it might impair the interest of our friends in the Gentile cause. So I wrote to him on a slip of paper, " Dear Brother Simeon,—Here are five millions of Jews, and six hundred millions of Heathens; surely we ought to pay far higher attention to the case of the Gentiles than to that of the Jews." Dear Simeon smiled,—" But, what ! if these five millions of Jews help you to save the six hundred millions of Gentiles ? What ! if the fulness of the Gentiles shall not be brought in till the Jews themselves be converted ?" I felt rebuked, and was led to study the subject; and afterwards became as warm an advocate for the Jew as I had been for the Gentile. Indeed who can take up his Bible, and read his Bible, and from xii. Genesis to the end of his Bible, find it full of the history of the people of Israel, and of God's wonderful dealings with them, and find in every page something about the experience of Israel, or the promises made to Israel, or the doctrines or precepts revealed to them, and then be indifferent about the Jews, and then be unconcerned eb3ut that very people who form the subject of the book, or who are more or less connected with all that it contains ? It seems to me to be utterly impossible to know the Bible, to read, to love, and to be instructed in it, and to believe it to be the Word of Gehl, and yet to remain indifferent to the welfare of Israel." COURT AND FASHION. Her Majesty, it is stated, will be unable to attend per sonally at the opening of the new Coal Exchange, in the City, this day, owing to indisposition —a slight attack of chicken pox ; but Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, will participate in the celebration. The Hon. Mr. Charles Grey succeeds Mr. G. E,4n son, deceased, in the post of Secretary to Prince Albert. The Queen Dowager is evidently sinking fast. Her disease, dropsy, is at once chronic and acute, and leaves scarcely a particle of hope that this amiable lady will long survive. Lady Charlotte Lindsay expired on Thursday, at her mansion in Green-street, at the advanced age of 79. Her ladyship was third and youngest daughter of Frederick, second Earl of Guildford, and married, in April, 1800, the late Hon. John Lindsey, brother to the late Earl of Bal carres. The infant son of Lord and Lady John Russell was christened at the Royal Chapel in Windsor Castle on Tuesday, in the presence of her Majesty and Prince Al bert. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell. Prince Albert, the Earl of Car lisle, and Lady Mary Abercrombie were the sponsors. The party joined her Majesty's dinner circle in the even ing. POLITICAL. MISCELLANY. -4- Serjeant Murphy has at last addressed the electors of Cork ; and as there are two other liberal candidates, the protectionist is very likely to succeed. A memorial to Lord Palmerston, denouncing the Aus trian atrocities, and advocating a constitutional system for Hungary, is now in course of signature, by members of both Houses of Parliament. It is prepared by Earl Fitzwilliam. His Excellency Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, the newly accredited Minister to the United States, accompanied by the Hon. Lady Bulwer, left town on Thursday for Liver pool, there to embark for New York, to enter on his dip lomatic duties at Washington. Mr. Bulwer Lytton, son of the celebrated novelist, also departed with his uncle, having been appointed attache to the British Legation. We hear, or used to hear, a good deal about the value of Mr. Rowland Hill's services in the post-office. What has be done ? He has enabled us to secure a revenue of less than £900,000 by an expenditure of about £1,400,000 for inland conveyance, and of more than £1,000,000 for oversea ; that is, he has so managed and reformed mat ters that the post-office, instead of being a profitable establishment, is a loser to the tune of some million and a half sterling a year ! This is rather a heavy price to pay for Mr. Rowland Hill's services.—Cambridge Chro nicle. THE LIVERPOOL STINDARD. , „ ' I LAW IN7'ELLIGgIVCE. AN INCONSISTENCY.—Under the new Bankruptcy Law it is worthy of remark, that whilst a trader cannot make himself a bankrupt, although he may be able to show 4s. 11d. in the pound, he can, through a friendly creditor, have the same object accomplished, although there may not be one penny , for distribution. The trader who seeks the Gazette has to pay about £lO, in the first instance, for the petition, which sum he forfeits if he be not able to establish assets to the above-mentioned extent. An act for preventing cruelty to animals, which came into operation on the Ist of August, has a stringent provi sion for the arrest of offenders. It authorises " any con stable, on his own view, or upon the complaint and infor mation of any other person, who shall declare his or her name and place of abode to the constable, to seize and secure aby offender, and forthwith, without any other warrant, to convey him before a magistrate, to be dealt with for such offence according to law." RAILWAY AFFAIRS. Several railways have slightly advanced their fares—and greatly reduced their receipts. The South-Western Extension line to Godalming was opened on Monday week. The extension of the Aberdeen Railway to within twelve miles of that town will take place to-day. The number of persons employed upon railways amounts to 240,865. A reduction of some £lO,OOO or £12,000 will be effected this half-year in the locomotive expenses of the southern division of the London and Northwestern Railway. NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—The portion of this line from Lancaster to Wennington, about twelve miles, will be opened to-morrow. A Scotch engineer has arrived at Lisbon from Liver pool, for the purpose of surveying the country between that city and Elwas, and ascertaining what would be the cost of a railway along that line to the Spanish frontier. The amount of traffic for the last week, on 5089 miles of railway, was £115,697 for the conveyance of passen gers only, £62,460 for the carriage of goods, and a remainder of £52,943 for passengers and goods together, not respectively apportioned ; being an increase of £8241 over the corresponding week of last year, when the mile age was £4407. The average earnings per mile were £46, whilst last year they were £5O. The men who effected the recent daring robbery of the solicitors' parcels from the Great Western Railway have been convicted. The Common Sergeant said that they evidently thought that the parcels contained money. For the lad, who had been instigated by his father, he should order him to be imprisoned for six months : Hanbury, who had aided in the offence, to seven years' transporta tion ; and the elder Barton, who was the prime mover in the aflair, to fifteen years. YORK, NEWCASTLE, AND BERWICK RAILWAY. — At the extraordinary meeting of the shareholders, held at York, on Thursday, (after a prolonged discussion) the report of the committee of investigation was adopted, with the exception of the paragraph recommending the appointment of managing directors. This question was deferred to the February meeting. Messrs. Leeman, Leachman, Kipling, AV Laren, Flews, Hodgson, Wharton, Love, Maude, and Wylie were elected directors ; and it was resolved that a piece of plate, value 100 guineas, should be presented to Mr. Prance, and each of the mem bers of the committee of investigation. MR HUDSON AGAIN.—The fifth and concluding report of the Committee of Investigation of the York, New castle, and Berwick Railway, just published, furnishes the climax to the records of Mr. Hudson. It now appears that, from the commencement of the company in 1844 down to Mr. Hudson's retirement, the accounts were falsified regularly each half-year, until the total deception amounted to £121,924—the system being to transfer working charges to capital, to leave accounts unpaid, to fabricate debts due to the company which had no exist ence, and, when all these were insufficient, to overstate the traffic accounts. In this way, while the company at the date of the last report which bore Mr. Hudson's signature professed to have a reserve of £59,777, it had divided £64,143 more than it had earned. The falsifica tion began with a sum of £3637, and was, of course, extended as a gradual increase in capital without any cor responding increase in revenue rendering it necessary , and thus, by maintaininglargedividends,and tempting the public to purchase, " Mr. Hudson was enabled to realise increased profits by the sale of the shares which he took from the company for his own benefit." In his private communications to the officials, directing the traffic ac counts to be " amended" according to his wishes, Mr. Hudson did not hesitate to state that it was " in order to make things pleasant" before they were submitted to " the auditors." In connexion with what is called the Great North of England purchase account, it appears that he appropriated for his own purposes £96,855, which he refunded in March. _ . . RAILWAY STORES. — The general specification just issued of stores required by the London and North- Western Railway Company for the year 1850, conveys a very goad general notion of the vast amount of materials required for working the traffic of this the most important railway in the world. The " Specification" extends over 25 pages of foolscap. Under the head of " bags, baskets, and ropes" we find, amongst fifty other things, that 1200 baskets are required, and 2729 bags, each to hold cwt. of coke ; 85 cwt. of flax of the best kind, for packing engine-glands, and 60 cwt. of spun-yarn. Of " brass and brass-work" 352 cwt. of castings are required ; 144 gross of screws and 59 tons of locomotive tubes. 2298 brushes and 1000 dozen birch brooms. Of " copper" 89601 b. of bolts from ;, to 11 inch diameter, 12,2001 b. of sheet of various thicknesses and dimensions, and 12,7681 b. for 'fire-boxes I and I inch thick. In the " coach-trim mings, &c.," department 13,250 yards of canvas are specified, 1040 yards of blue cloth, and 1460 yards of lace. Of " coal" 18,104 tons are wanted. Of " cruci bles for moulding brass" 2539 are to be contracted for. 11.0,000 leaves of gold leaf are wanted. 35 tons of axle guards are to be tendered for, 50 tons of patent shaft bar iron, 190 tons of fire or grate bar iron, 40 - i tons of bolts, 13 tons of nuts, 102 tons of castings, 48 tons of Lowmoor or Bowling iron, 100 cwt. of nails, 62 cwt of rivets, 6360 gross of screws, 1343 tons of Staffordshire iron, and 120 tons of Yorkshire iron. 31,652 gallons of patent olive oil will have to be tendered for, 142 tons 15 cwt. of rape oil, 4 tons 10 cwt. of raw linseed oil, 25 tons 9 cwt. of boiled linseeed oil, 2350 gallons of southern, 28 tons of palm oil, and 102 tons of tallow. Of " timber and wood work" the company require tenders for 19,367 feet of alder planks, 145 loads of beech planks, 10,000 feet of baywood boards, and 91,000 feet of deal boards. FALL OF RAILWAY ARCHES.—On Thursday, thirteen of the arches forming part of the long viaduct, on which the East Lancashire Railway extension is to be carried into Preston, fell with a tremendous crash, this devasta tion being owing, in a great measure, to the heavy rains which had continued for the three previous days. This viaduct, when completed, will consist of fifty-two arches, fifteen of which were completed, several others being in a state of forwardness, and the piers of some twenty or thirty more being erected. Foundations for the piers were formed by driving piles into the ground, which is of a very soft nature and liable to floods in rainy weather ; above the piles a double planked flooring is placed, and upon this the piers stand. This work has been conducted with great despatch, and the piers and arches have sprung into existence in a most rapid manner. The viaduct is apportioned into three divisions, of seventeen arches each ; each division being marked by a pier of dimensions threefold greater than those forming the main portion of the work, and it is in the centre division that the catas trophe occurred. The centres of the seventh arch in this division (counting from Penwortham end of the viaduct) had been removed on Tuesday, and the rain having settled down amongst the mortar, and the cement not having had sufficient time to harden, the arch gave way at one o'clock on Thursday afternoon, and fell with a crash to the ground. The consequence of this was, that the next arches on each side also followed, although those on the south side had still the framework in them, but the immense weight of brickwork pressing against the piers, which then had no lateral support, forced them away with irresistible violence, and of the fifteen com pleted arches in the centre division of the viaduct, thir teen, including from the fifth to the seventeenth, were speedily involved in the work of devastation. The fourth .arch appeared to be much shaken, but, as soon as the alarm occasioned by the accident had subsided, men were employed in "shoring" it up, and we believe it is ex pected to be preserved. The last arch stood for about ten minutes longer than the rest, but at last it also fell. The destruction of the arches and piers is complete, all the latter being so much shattered that they will have to be taken down. Of one pier there is not more than a couple of feet in height left standing, and several others form not inapt resemblances of the leaning tower of Pisa, being many feet out of perpendicular. Four of the arches were asphalted on the surface to keep out the wet, but the composition had not yet been applied to the one where the mischief commenced. The bases of a consi derable number of the piers of the viaduct were, on Thursday, under water, the Ribble having overflown its banks and inundated the low grounds over which the viaduct passes. The mass of brickwork composing each arch would be about ninety tons weight, so that some idea may be formed of the crash which would be caused by the almost simultaneous fall of eleven hundred and seventy tons of bricks. The noise was heard by the resi dentson the Cliff, Ribblesdale-place, Avenham-colonnade, Bushel-place, and the adjacent houses. No person was in the least degree personally injured. The damage done will amount to about £7OO, exclusive of materials, and the works will be delayed for about a month. The con tractor for the extension line is Mr. M'Cormick, and the sub-contractors who have undertaken the erection of the Ribble viaduct are Messrs. Bridgewater and Crowther. CORRESPONDENCE. RAILWAY PROPRIETORS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sir,—The extraordinary depression which railway pro perty is labouring under at present calls for energetic measures on the part of shareholders to put their shoul ders to the wheel to restore public confidence. Share holders must take their affairs more into their own hands, and not trust to the non-exertions and mismanage ment of their directors, who have no sympathy in common with the great body of proprietors. See the ruinous policy which is now being pursued by the London and North Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and East Lancashire Companies in their contest with the canals. The latter's working expenses can be reduced if their traffic falls off during their competition ; but it is not so with the railways, for, if their traffic falls short, their expenses are increased. If, however, the traffic increases, it is still worse for them. The working expenses increase in a much greater ratio, and the loss entailed upon every additional ton of goods which they may carry is frightful to contemplate. It is notorious that the above compa nies have carried a greater quantity of goods than before their contest with the canals ; and what is the conse quence ?—a failing traffic, increased expenses, and a serious loss upon the carriage of every ton of goods, Yet the directors are quite indifferent so that they can con tinue the contest, while they have their hundreds of thousands to dispose of, to the ruin of unfortunate shareholders—as they (the directors) can always protect themselves by " bearing" the market previous to theirhalf yearly reports (if unfavourable) being made public. Such is said to have been the case in one of the great Lan cashire lines recently, in consequence of a reduced divi dend being declared. There are, no doubt, many honourable men among the directors, who are above taking advantage of their position ; but, unfortunately, there are too many desirous of being in the directory for some personal object. It is said to be the intention of these companies to apply to parliament for new powers to increase their rates : before they do so, let them obtain those rates which they have authority to do, and not carry for 500 per cent. less. I remain. Sir, Unfortunately, A RAILWAY PROPRIETOR. LO AN SOCIETIES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—My daily avocations have often afforded me an opportunity of observing the doings of various loan societies, and when I contemplate the distress and ruin in which many borrowers and sureties have been involved, arising from their connection with these societies, I am most anxious, publicly, to warn others, lest they also should, unwittingly, fall into the same state of distress, and that sooner than they are aware. The rate of interest paid is ruinous enough, but when once default is made in payment of an instalment, the downward course has com menced, which too often terminates in a sale by auction and the Insolvent Court. But the Law Times, of last week, has so ably handled the subject, that I shall consider my warning complete if you will kindly find room for the following quotation from that able work. Yours, &c., A LIVERPOOL ATTORNEY. Liverpool, October 6, 1849. " A loan society, as it is termed, is concocted between a Jew money-lender, and a Jew attorney, (often the same nerson being both lender and attorney,) and a gin-palace keeper, or keeper of a beer-shop or public-h')use. Hence it is that one sees in almost every public-house window a notification of moneys to lend, or of some loan society with a very fine name, which holds its meetings there. The innkeeper provides victims, the money-lender cash, and the attorney law, and they divide the spoil. " When a small tradesman, or a man in a good situation, who has been driven to temporary distress by illness or accident, is in want of ready money, he is tempted by the announcement of money to lend ; he goes into the public house to inquire the terms, and he is made to wait awhile, or kept long in conversation, under pretence of inquiries, during which he must, of course, drink somethinz, and he is at last dismissed with half promises, provided certain requirements are performed. The negociation is ingeni ously protracted as long as possible, becay.se at each call there is more drink. . " When, by their emissaries, the conspirators have satisfied themselves that the borrower and his sureties are safe men,—that is to say, men who are in good employ, men who have household effects (and the art with which they ascertain this is astonishing),—the proposed loan is completed. But upon what terms ? " Say it is for £lO. He is first charged for preparing the promissory note 5s ; then is for a copy of the rules .' then a fine of lOs for the loan ; then a treat to all the parties at the public-house, which costs him lOs more. The terms of repayment are usually by instalments of so much per month, but the full interest for the whole sum for the whole period is exacted, and this, as well as the first month's instalment, is deducted before the cash is handed to him. Hence, out of the £lO expected loan, the borrower does not receive much more than about lOs ; so that, if he is punctual in his payments, he will have paid just 25 per cent. for the loan." THE NATIONAL CONFEDERATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,-Simply to tell a man he is a libeller, will not be sufficient to prove him one, or to tell him that " he does not speak a word of truth," in a particular statement, will not be a likely mode of convincing him that he is wrong, or leave a very favourable impression on his mind as to the veracity of the man who thus vulgarly and con temptibly could arraign his probity. But the secretary— the hired secretary—of " the confederation " evidently considers such a sufficient answer to the deliberate charge of the editor of a highly respectable local paper! Of all men, paid servants are the least justified, in their paid capacity, in violating the ordinary civility of society, or in withholding, by the free use of ungentlemanly language, the courtesy which is invariably rendered to the conductors of the British press ! But when the statement he con tradicts is known to be a fact, Mr. Callis coming forward as the vindicator of that society and at the same time granting the truth of that charge,—political bias in the selection of the St. Peter's ward candidate ; who can guess the motive for the secretary coming forward with a blunt denial unsupported by the least evidence, although Mr. Callis's confession is confirmed by the relation of con ♦emporaneous circumstances, and he is out of the reach of unworthy motives or personal interest. Mr. Mac donald may have done it " by order," but if not he is much more zealous than discreet. His letter I look upon as a piece of unwarrantable discourtesy and Muir, not to yo i alone, sir, but to the readers of your paper. The impartiality of the Confederation is not to be im peached, although they offer us such, men as Mr. Ferni hough, Mr. Chalmers, and Mr. Bigham ! for such wards as St. Peter's, Everton, and Scotland, in whom we are to bury our differenCes, and in deference to whom we are to forego our conscientious scruples ; this, at all events, is a clencher ! What are Mr. Fernihough's views of Sunday Post-office labour ? Mr. Chalmers's views on scriptural education ? Mr. Bigham's views on the Church of Eng land and Church rates ? These are abiding questions of principle and policy ; the water is but the question of a day ? We will not sacrifice three years' representation on these most important matters, and would much rather pay the penalty of the Pike scheme than give an importance to the entrance and strongly expressed political views of such men as these. Mr. Bigham's would look very im posing, no doubt; rising at the next annual vestry meet ing, as a member of the Town Council, to oppose the Church rate. Very nice men these are to be brought for ward as the nominees of an impartial election committee. The farce is being well played, the characters are admi rably selected, the contrasts are sublime and picturesque, the curtain may be suspended a little longer, but there will be soon a sudden and a tragic close ! But whatever you do, question not the motives of the managers, but abuse the players as you please. This is the secretary's bulletin ; act on it as far only as you see fit and proper, in the discharge of your duties to the inhabitants of Liver pool. Where criticism is needed it must not be withheld ; when the public is attempted to be imposed upon, and the imposition is defended in such a spirit as that which this secretary has manifested, it becomes imperative on every one who respects the dignity of the press to speak out un mistakably their honest opinions of such disreputable conduct., Some persons flatter themselves that they can go with the Confederation " thus far and no further," but such should not forget that whatever increases the in fluence of a body in one thing, must do so in all, and so the evil they wish to avert, they may be the very means of precipitating and ensuring.—l am, sir, yours, &c., AN ENGLISHMAN. THE SABBATH-THE POST-OFFICE-DR. M`NEILE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING HERALD. SIR,—T am not surprised at the inaccuracy of the report of what I said on Tuesday, which appeared in the Li verpool paper of next day, and afterwards in your paper. I do not address you now to complain of the inaccuracy, but to correct it in one point which I feel to be of conse quence. The speaker who preceded me, mentioned argu ments he bad heard, and a long letter he had seen, dis puting the scriptural authority of the Sabbath, and con signing it, with other Jewish peculiarities, to a by-gone age • and he expressed a hope that some clerical friend would address himself to that branch of the subject. In doing this, I distinguished between the moral obli gation of the Sabbath as an original institution, and the Jewish accompaniments which had been for a time, and for a temporary purpose, associated with it. Its moral obligation arose from the act of the Creator himself, in the creation of this our world. In himself He is inde pendent of all considerations of time; but creatures can not be so ; and his dealings with creatures do of necessity so far partake of the nature of the creatures as to mark succession, and observe times and seasons. For our sakes, not his own, He chose to speak our creation into exist ence in six times, and to describe himself as resting the seventh Time. This is the basis of the moral obligation of the Sabbath rest, and on this the Patriarchs acted long antecedent to any Judaism. When Judaism was instituted, the Sabbath rest, with certain ceremonial accompaniments, was given to the Jews as a sign between them and God, whether they would obey him. Those accompaniments formed part of a yoke which they were unable to bear. When Judaism was abolished, so were those ceremonial accompaniments, or encumbrances, which had been connected with the Sab bath ; and the moral obligation, divested of the yoke of ceremonies, remained as in patriarchal days. It was at the removal of the Jewish addition to the Sabbath that our Lord and his apostles aimed, in what they did and said upon the subject, and not at all at the removal of the original obligation on every intelligent creature arising out of the revealed history of the creation. Our observance of it now is not a Jewish yoke, but a Patriarchal privilege, and as many as so observe it are blessed with faithful Abraham. It is Christian liberty we claim on that holy day, and not Jewish or secular bon dage. It is to rest from our labours, as God did from his, and to enjoy the happy and elevating foretaste of that better rest which remaineth for the people of God. As to the special proposal of the government in the matter of the Post-office, so fas as I understand it, I be lieve that, supposing everything else connected with the Sabbath to remain unchanged, it would in a small degree diminish Sabbath labour in the country ; but I feel as sured that if it be introduced, and no effort made to go farther back, the effect will soon, and inevitably, be to go farther forward.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, Liverpool, Oct. 26, 1842. HUGH M`NEILE. THE SEE OF LLANDAFF & WELSH BISHOPS. TO %HE RIGHT HON. LORD JOHN RUSSELL. MY LORD,—As I have not the honour of being per sonally known to you, permit me briefly to explain the relation in which 1 stand to the important question of Welsh bishops. Having made the Established Church in Wales my study through life, I have felt it my duty for the last 20 years to take a prominent part in advocating the claim ..hide it makes to be governed oy Weiso oiSnopS, and to a thorough reform in the admininistration of its patronage. I have, therefore, taken opportunities to call together the Welsh inhabitants of Manchester and Liverpool re spectively, in order to consider the propriety of petition ing for these measures. The proceedings of the meetings held in these towns in the year 1837 were not only re ported at full length in the local papers, but subsequently published in a Welsh pamphlet. The Dissenters, who now constitute the great majority of the Welsh population both in the Principality and out of it, entirely concur in the agitation of this subject, not because they desire to perpetuate the Established Church in Wales, but simply on the ground of national right— that so long as there is an Established Church, it ought to be under the superintendence of bishops who can offi ciate in the language of the people. When the last vacancy in the bishopric of St. David occurred, the Welshmen of Liverpool appointed a deputa tion, of which I had the honour to be a member, to lay before Lord Melbourne, then at the head of the govern ment, their unanimous prayer that a Welshman should be appointed to the vacant see. And there was great rea son to believe that his lordship was not individually un willing to concede the claim, but other members of the government stood in the way. In repeating now what on that occasion I had the honor to state, I beg your lordship will understand that I at the same time give expression to the sentiments and feelings of the Welsh residents of Liverpool : and the Welsh po pulation of Liverpool is not less than 50,000. The systematic exclusion of Welshmen from the epis copal office in their own church and country, is felt by the Welsh people to be a badge of national degradation ; whilst the systematic appointment of Englishmen, unac quainted with the language of Wales, to the Welsh bishoprics, is an infliction of great national injustice, inas much as from such bishops the country receives no ade quate return in the shape of spiritual benefits for the large revenues which they draw from it. And, further, we think such exclusion of Welshmen on the one hand, and such obtrusion of disqualified English men on the other, to be entirely uncalled for. The prac tice is contrary to all reason ! It is opposed to the letter and spirit of the Gospel ! It leads to a continual viola tion of the 24th Article of the Church on the part of the Bishops ! and it, therefore, necessarily damages, as it has already damaged, the character and religion of the Esta blished Church in Wales ! _ We, therefore, most respectfully implore your lordship to counsel her Majesty Queen Victoria to return to the policy uniformly pursued by Queen Elizabeth of blessed memory, by appointing some good and patriotic Welsh clergyman to the ancient See of Llaudaff, now vacant by the demise of Dr. Copleston. If you should desire a man of deep piety and parochial experience, there are a few rectors, vicars, and curates, in Wales, that answer to that description, upon any one of whom a mitre would look well. _ _ If you should require a man of sound learning and fer vid eloquence, the Principality of Wales abounds with such men. _ . But if, in addition to these qualifications, you should insist on having a man of unfettered mind—of catholic spirit, and generally concurring in the metwures of hor Majesty's present government—then let me point to the Venerable Archdeacon Williams, of Llandovery, late rector of the Edinburgh Academy—a Welshman by birth —a patriot in heart and practice—a giant in intellect—the greatest Greek, Latin, and Celtic scholar of the age—a goad orator—a writer of e3tablished reputation—and the author of the cleverest Treatise on " Gon's LAws versus CORN LAWS" that ever was penned. I send your lordship a copy of it. Nevertheless, we beg to leave your lordship entirely free to make your own choice of the future Welsh Bishop of Llandaff. I have the honour to be, my lord, your lordship's most obedient and very humble servant, DAVID JAMES. Kirkdale, Liverpool, Oct. 26, 1849. LORD ASHLEY AND THE WORKING CLASSES. Lord Ashley, who never loses an opportunity of doing all in his power to promote the real interests and comfort of the working classes, has addressed a letter to the Times, on the subject of the improvement of their dwell ings. We make the following extracts "Regarded physically or morally, it is an indispensable pre liminary to all improvements that they (the working classes) should possess within their dwellings whatever is required for cleanliness and decency. * * A very large proportion of the pauperism of the country, with its appalling train of debilitate() frames, widows, and orphans, is the result of the sanatory con dition to which our neglect has abandoned such vast multi tudes. As for the moral mischiefs, their name is Legion. I can call to witness, I am sure, every minister of religion, the Scripture readers, the city missionaries, the district visitors. They will concur with me in declaring that to aim at the spiri tual improvement of the fetid swarms that, without either the practice or the possibility of decency—without limitation of age, sex, or numbers, crowd the stinking apartments of the hates, courts, and alleys of this great metropolis, is a vain and fruitless effort. The work, too, of education is altogether baf fled ; for the child, returning to these abodes of promiscuous and animal life, unlearns in a single hour the lessons of an en tire day. * * * It is well worthy of remark that, while the cholera was ravaging, to a frightful extent, the filthy and over crowded receptacles, the new-fashioned lodging-houses we. e al together spared. In all the establishments belonging to the Labourers' Friend Society there was not one case of cholera and two only of diarrhoea, which speedily yielded to medical treatment. * * The establishment of baths and washhouses is an indispensable part of any system for improving the do mestic condition of the poor. * * If any one doubt it, let him perambulate the streets and alleys, penetrate the courts, dive into the cellars, and climb into the garrets, the swarming nests of filth And Anse; y, and he will then admit the truth of 04 SO, 1.549 obe l tlf this assertion. He may find some houses, perhIVI A ifi A l laborious, scanty, and imperfect washing is cannq n - tspl'i: only apartment tenanted by the whole family. ' OO O4 arises here, for hundreds of instances mac be re c . 4fot',, which the husbands, to avoid the disorder and dis e ; t he 1 ,4 ' 0 their homes, have become the habitual frequenters o,isholl, house. * * * The success of th e a d m irable estallst. in Goulston-street, Euston-square, and the parish ° f F uel' fj o i tin. has manifested, beyond a doubt, the adaptation rangernents to the welfare of the people, and the the times. The truth is, that all these provisions sh (w igedr . ,;,. forward form a part of our normal state, and become at edm it , ble items of our parochial system. It has been estity,e re st,. on an average, the working man loses by sickness ( I S, cs of in most instances, of his noisome abode) about 30 I.nd tf • roveu , bour in each year. Suppose his condition imP lose but ten, the savings on the 20, in time and me „ inco%, be calculated as much at least as to be worth ; derable sum in the minute details of lOs. a-week., , pecuniary benefit of the washhouses to the labottriVlot, still greater. A woman may now, by the excellt: o ' 005 ments of these institutions do for herself and family'.6 hoc hours and a half, and with , the outlay of a few penceqholo‘ r , as (badly done after all) would have occupied, in hero' s di o e , the better part of two days, amidst neglected children , dered household, and the pestiferous exhalations Tru s tO t ' And a JO hung to be dried in the common apartment. ,oe financial effects, some bons wives of this class in o or Oc' e that they calculated the reduction on the actual sut u f t he - assigned to washing expenses (omitting the value o _ o ne saved) to be no less than 75 per cent., and in some D i even more." NEGOCTATIONS AND PROCEEDINGS RED TIVE TO THE PIKE SCHEME. REPORT:ON THE GLASGOW CONTRACTS' Of We stated in our last publication that Mr. :Se '!' 1 3 10 3 the borough engineer, at the request of the Counon ne to Mr. Haigh, at the request of the parish, had men u Glasgow, for the purpose of effectin g some arrang.4 o or compromise, with the seve ra l houses there, the contracts for the supply of cast-iron pipes to cancgoigb, water from Rivington had been accepted. llr. Wate r on his return, presented a report to the Parochial A litr• Committee, explaining the manner in which he o'o4 Newlands had 'proceeded, in order to obtain tb r e „ r tber favourable . terms, either fer the postponement of of the casting of the pipes, or the entire abandonnientj3fit; contracts. These gentlemen appear to have act gilt , much tact and discretion in this matter • and the re tro ° , after various interviews between them ' and the C° l `,, tors, as well as correspondence, is quite as satisfaa';.ere could be expected under the circumstances. Th ere i c cer' four founders (or firms) who had engaged to OPP"' bare tam quantities of the piping, and three of 60 %0) 5 , named sums for suspension of casti ng f o r terms of de to or for total abandonment ; th e f our th h a s, as yet, "" to return an answer. The following is the gist of the report : r W ee Ist. Terms on which the casting will he suspended in months : Messrs. Goldie and C 0... Messrs. Neilson and Co.. London Vulcan Company Messrs. Stewart and Co £2400 1020 3300 390 , KOO, fOO 2nd. Terms on which the casting will be suspende months:— Messrs. Goldie and C 0... Messrs. Neilson and Co.. Londo i Vulcan Company Messrs. Stewart and Co, .€420 0 3f,20 No reply . 690 0 i1 4,7'2 0 And if the London Vulcan Company be added, 5, 91 5 supposing their rate to be similar to the others 'MA 6.9 DO' 3rd. Terms on which the contracts will be altogether Boned:— • 7 50 Messrs. Goldie and Co This firm has 609 tons still to cast. Their terms for di jo ge i• nuilig were, on the former occasion, .€7OOO ; their pr ese is, therefore ' .€2250 under the former. j 3 0 40 Messrs.Neilsonc astd an Co This firm has only 100 tons, and, consequently , . „ , y resen t tons to cast. Their former offer was .€4300 ; their Y m offer is, therefore, .€l2OO under the forer. Oa t" These offers, respectively, include all claims of conV e for the previous susension of the work. • Messrs. Stewart and Co.'s, proposed to be arbitrate The London Vulcan Co.'s, proposed to be arbitr at ;r The total cost, therefore, of suspending the work s i ,00,4 months will be £11,500, while the probable cost of ment, taking the compensation of Messrs. Stewart and a th ti e on L , o u nl i o l n ne Vll 2 c 4 7 2B C 7 o . . at Messrs. Cochrane and Slade ' oe entertain Should n i to doubt o e determined nbtbut that now te wtooarbkanwdoonnidthnee c r o e n c t o r ri a t c tire t i'c , tr oc; for, within six months, at a less price. One of the P r ba,l o deed, declared himself willing to undertake the whole of the contract at les. per ton under the present prices. wev a The Parochial Water Committee strongly reo 3n3 ii( the abandonment of the works, the total cost f t. will he little under £50,000. The contractors P1.,3 the appears, incurred an expense of 103. per ton _ ° lls ol l, " plant" necessary for making pipes of so ul l , in gto" large a bore ; and in the event of our going to F." c on' at last, they would have an advantage over r icit tractors to the extent of £12,000. REPORT OE THE SPECIAL WATER COMM II.IIIS' „ Of • rot" This Report, signed by Mr. George Holt, Cliair g 1 the Committee, and dated 25th inst., was pubut,"" the the local journals of Saturday. The following '— principal heads of this document : N r a tel The committee was appointed to confer with they n e Committee by the pa rishioners and conferred accorl;'etoff in order to ascertain whether an arrangement satisia•Ciells to all parties could be effected. Various pro P ol were submitted to the Parochial Committee , n e , he or Water Committee are happy to announce tben.,t; rangement so much desired has been effected. -I. " lowing are the heads in brief. it-naa-tFeein urgueu umween cue LWOGOIIIIIIIL W q . th e' That two civil engineers of the highest eminence in ue' profession, shall be appointed, to whom the tion shall be referred, under instructions to be Pre e ro by the Town-clerk, and the Law-clerk of the P 3r .„ o Committee, such instructions to give full discrettpce, the arbitrators to enquire into all the cirouto7te attending the Pike scheme—to inquire into the °.; the existing mains, pipes, &c.—to test the caribu i te r the local supply—including the supply of salt w,a se ppli j the streets and sewers and baths—and the g enera , 01 1 ,, present and prospective, for all trading purpose',: 0 01 to report upon the same to the Council ; and aT .1 tif',`, recommended by them to the Council to be ou t conclusive, and the basis of an act for carrying t' t h tP O same. The engineers are to be unconnected i'l;a locality, and men who have not hitherto report f or given evidence as to our water supply. One (3 0 itte e ; to be nominated to the Council by the one colv te l and the other by the others, and both to be aPP °ir) bef? the Council with the full powers stated. The tivotreptie! commencing the investigation, are to appoint an u t beT a to be consulted in case of any difference betwee n n ori, and the two, and the umpire if referred to, s e r er er Cr ' the Council. In accordance with this the fir ii mittee recommend Mr. Fairbairn, C.E., as theirba tor. io ,De 2. That application be made to Parliamen" for ensuing Session, for an act to extend the tiw e ,.ks, S he compulsory taking of land for the Rivington W° . .; q for all necessary powers for extending and irnio n ,„?,:c°,o , street pipage and means of distribution, &c. k"j o g' whole clorj mittee will co-operate with the Council in obtain t e oP act. ei p ° 3. The Parochial Committee also engage to c o, liP h e A in raising the necessary funds for discharging "To the ties, including the expenses of the arbitration. e to arrangements to be entered into with refere n c tes :„J Rivington Works. The document thus terroill,dec " In conclusion, though this committee had alreauiet'rt that they had not seen any reason to doubt the corr„rie the views entertained by the Council as to the Pr" e r to 4' continuing the Rivington Works, yet, in defereo4e reeelor opinion expressed at public meetings, your Coniroi`os mend the Council to confirm and sanction the Pr'rovvool; rangements, which will secure a calm and deliberstnitY.,. tion of a question so vitally important to the cora„n2:ol% it is hoped, be the means of allaying the angry '", has, unfortunately, been engendered in its discussi°' STATISTICS OF THE TIMBER T ll4 131 : 0 1 ,c );"; The monthly circular of Messrs. A. F. and m; 0 1 " if of this town, just published, affords us son, of t ifr statistics with respect to this important brah,c,,hillssi coerce. Since the 26th of January, to the 2 ( ''' we have had 287 vessels, 162,038 tons burth, i f ey,' laden, from British North America, against 2 '1 0 4 1 e 142,559 tons burthen, during the same period e oe10; The quantities of timber imported in them Vag, 4fis•,' Pine, 80,401 logs ; Red Pine, 4,631 logs gg eo lef j9: 4 Elm, 3,517 ; Ash, 4 ; Hardwood, 12,09 6 ; mirbi g of 1,532,188 pieces ; Sleepers, 186,665 pieces. in's('' considerable increase over last year's importation, article oxcept Sleepers. The following are the Pr d eer el of the past month:— 4 Of 41' PINE TlMBER.—During the month, eerie to , f ,,. Timber have been sold from the quav;at 131(1_,' foot, according to size and quality. In like John Pine has been sold at, for 18 3 inches aveT., for 19y inches. at 190. ; for 184 inches, 1 8 pc! inches, 181 d. ; and for 181 inches, at 17 le a Owing to the excessive import, prices have re`'" r Id. per foot during the month. leiott,i' RED PlNE.—Quebec has been sold at 104 A. to tee.f foot, as in quality ; from other ports no sales 0100 QUEBEC OAR has been disposed of at 19a*„. e lle th foot, in the cargo ; much depending on the AV 14 t lity. i a°r i l ELM AND ASEL—The former brings 15d. a a cargo ;of the latter there is little iroP ° ir c i? wanted. Iheeeo goo HARDWOOD.—The demand in a great ttfolopi plied for present requirements, and consecleeo rule lower. St. John, with cargo, has 1) 09 04' 4; to 15d. per foot ; and several small carg oes )1F at IM. to 15d. foot according to qualit9;4 to 01 QUEBEC DEALS, with cargo, are sold at "vibefto,' and £7 10s. per standard—the latter Pr i n t olp with 2d quality. Good seconds are wort' f to £lO per standard. r S 5 ‘411? jil N.B. AND N.S. PINE AND SPRLIC. ",,t, .9 r j f greater portion of the import of this Tnoe' ro l ile.iclerf, of yarding on importers' account, the gen,, e ,. &elf. ( being that the stock of Spruce Deals will Ti to short of the usual quantity at the end of 1 . ,P latest sales of St. John, separate from corg ° ' c r standard for fair quality. Ito ° e l LATHWOOD is in demand, and sepal' •tr Hemlock is worth £4 per fathom ; with the 40s. er , fathom. ti) RA p ILWAY SLEEPERS•—The demand tre of he w , and late arrivals have been yarded on ace°••th l" , porters—the market is completely o verrun cvl iarge , l9ll 7 no buyers at present. From BlAy E t g h . e —l'h northi mporte of of February, 45 vessels, 11,630 tons, a-- a nis e 21,166 tons last year. The demand for toe) is quoted at 14d. to 141-d. per foot fronlny. to, ' middling, 151 d. to 17d., and Crown 17 •and very limited at present. and prices low. Co.hele Petersburg Red Deals, £l2 to £l2 1 06 ' EuroofpSetwaveeisialviaes ilbsedlling:to6e.:B4 £9 ss. to £lO per standard. OCI t!"...... Spt l~p~ R Y e , t fo r t t e c ' ti fi ecial which h 2 kittee, t question At the h!teridan h2ught I t , me —ooa er Ptc 'eeecli that a health h clek h 8 Blti sfact, ill s seat. triiahTbrihv o e e ct p , have n The 4441ainur Dear T aroehi a ' le:namitt lingen mania E nginee r able(l oaoto. TO the TO THE th e afire I , sll lmitt 1 o such Paroehi, ‘rary to _°o the 2 , here alt; and Boli tt ee n 1 ant sai tarri ed /rotest /'arochi i n w", ar itt Wi th t ruly Itiad sl ew 4iNd With Dro4, With r efer an d At ; Aria tlt aj them te lht pof