The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-04-18 00:00:00

T utsnAy , ,APRIL 18, 1854 ..,_ L °C -AL INTELLIG_ENCE. t fip-liarn M -..-- NlON.—Messrs. Wilson Ledger, Henry `Gee have been returned as the t ownship of I:]verton. true 44.rgus states that Alexander Harah an(' Isaac Wakefield, two young men for ., to Liverpool, have been drowned by the 'mall punt in which they attempted to eross TIIRS of this town, headed by Mr. Robert intend to commence an agitation relative of the universities to persons of all deno had a thinly-attended preliminary meet lect on Wednesday. COOKS, k. 8., of St. Matthew's, Scotland a lecture on Tuesday at the Concert-hall, 1011 ." The proceeds were devoted to 'etbcxx.—On Tuesday, Thomas Gorstige, who resided with his parents, at 85, tell into a cellar in Mann-street, whilst of liquor, and received a concussion of on the following day. for upwards of eight years mistress of at School, Toxteth-park, has had pre 3ehalf o f the parents of the children, a made tea-chest, and inkstand, on the resigning her situation. ARTILLERY MILITIA.—This corps, a -ag young men, have been called to or more days' drill; and on Thursday as had arrived from the rural districts the drill-ground, Islington, where the • Place. xl iccßoom.--On Friday Mr. Feeny pro table d'hote." The tables were laid out fashion ; and the decorations added the rooms. The visitors during the gentlemen and 150 ladies ; and never finch fish cooked in one day, in one estab kaverPool ASYLU M IN LIVERPOOL.—It is stated that t ti is to be established in this town, sup , a naged by members of the Church, under a nti superintendence of the clergy. A come -lent and other office-bearers are in )11 ; and from the spirit manifested in tom institution, a doubt of its being com fit. cholera lingers in Ireland, in localities ad, it is feared, only waits hot weather It has also broken out at Cardiff, South fatal cases have occurred in one house at - was one fatal case on Tuesday in the ' °llB e. An offer has been made by Mr. ' W aterloo Hotel, to supply the hospital w 4 ice, which is much used by the medical ‘traent of cholera. The medical relief Mr. Lynn's liberal offer, and testified of his kindness by a vote Of thanks. lETy.—On Thursday, this association Jclusion of their third winter session, by l 'eeny's establishment in Castle-street. Were of the most complete character, the society, occupied the chair, and Mr. S. arted him in the vice-chair. Several Were delivered, and after the customary chair, &c., the meeting separated well 111, -ILI:MR OF A. &STEIL — COMMITTAL OF ".--ei n Thursday, a young man, named committed for trial at the assizes for a on Mary Ann Eaton, his sister, a girl t r B of age. From the evidence, it ap "e 14th of February last, the prisoner el: down after which he kicked her on the t he head •, he also jumped on her person, ith such severity that her life was coa st the time, and the prisoner was taken remanded from time to time, in order her illness might take. In the assault, it appeared, been aided by his brother, e°ofinement, having been sentenced to six 'lnt for the crime. The poor girl, who, everen most shockingly treated, had been since from the injuries, and was then ithout hope of recovery.—(The girl died ail inquest will be held upon the body - -Err AGAINST A BIZOKBR.—At the Tuesday, Mr. John Thompson Haselden, )le-court, was charged under the following time A.spinall stated that Mr. Has t el den Past had business transactions wih the a nd had deposited there several securities a mounting to £2,465 10s. Among these a n Order for 200 chests of tea, ex Panic, I t, s igned by Me ssrs . F r y, tea brokers, which °111 (1 produce evidence to prove, was a ease would involve a lengthy examina a remand till next Tuesday (this day), Complied with. The prisoner was ad- R3IR I".—The Rev. Rector Campbell took the - ling on Tuesday. The dismissal of James Amaster, "for being out late at nights," ,p• the Workhouse Committee) was con th.ledioal Relief Committee reported to the i \ -. ,00ntract for drugs had been given to -13 a ( I, and Case, who had agreed to supply Were not in the tender, at wholesale prices. moving the confirmation of the proceed were some important changes recom committee, which he hoped the board „4. There were alterations proposed in the tt , 1 4'" 1, ' Which would place them in a much more 3( 1. co ' lll % t 'lwlit' The proceedings were confirmed, r, . 1 ,)1 A . ~.'l % tiN, pond r' 01- il,• t),: Nv,°' 4 to submit the subject of alteration in t iti4 9: a l l er, e , , kIIIZItt " .4 to the Commissioners in Lunacy. A ~of ‘,„•,..,),„„% 4 ,ha,s3d to the chairman for the manner 't '',,, 4 liT ti 4., kal - t 4 ;' , 1 , ,,1 . 4 1'P'ed his duties daring the past year. 1 1"Pli' , i'tbt ''te :‘ ll % - respect to contracts afterwards te I I 'Nda p Co lt Il tlol l 0 t e. 0 . , k k ,- , Ij i , 44,, of the board. I 1 5„ , k Netli k ' 1 41 ) ,,,, , 4 -e. —At the weekly meeting, held on 10", P A 1 1. 4, V's, p l ,„"oa.le, the chairman, presided, and the ef, e ' r t i " ^O, - wer, cb ,_ o 4B o 'e, at were—Messrs. Moss, Beckwith, 11) { r,,, t . ,,,, 4 1.,,,,' tim, '' -*Nicol, Hodson, Godfrey, 'Tender -0 ;Pi t,\zsit e ,''',,,rted ~earl, and Robertson Gladstone. The G!,,.`11,,t IN th i Lleor 4 . t e :Lat Mr. Alderman Bennett's ground in f er irg e o F, s,'O ttioit ' ' Nlie, 8 ,....h. 1 . 1 4 was a nuisance.. Notice had been ... 0 0 3 0 , +/ k ,of '''' abate the nuisance, but he . . had not t ' ) A e , , k il ii t e ° Members expressed their opinion that c1 ) • 0 7 1 , 3 - t o oth; kiett should be proceeded against, the , Iffe re e F; %. I N,, f ,t t° „,iare, tra asgressor of the law. The clerk was P` n ifyi k to,ct„liwo Mr. Bennett that he must abate the ce - i, ,4) Vv,‘lle -;!' The medical officer of health re ere e \:' ll tatit'"aros of the deaths for the week showed e P o , . n, ~t 1 Yof 1.. k (ith c , , the town was at present higher than I t'° tr 1 1 ,.. ..07 i " total deaths being 245, against an 10 6 ,, 0 1 tOte,, Tl the same week of former years ; but the rei,\t', "eti4,,iincluded 14 deaths of emigrants, and, \ iii , r. Nki!Jile '' u ee and allowing for the increase of 4 1 :k 1 8 1 til rCet h‘ lii t ,,, t esult was only slightly in excess of the ' 4 Ir tt, ' 1' 1 4, , C' t ca ps Diseases of the lungs, including con and,'''k 4 A tete wee 80 deaths, and zymotic diseases 77, A, 5 „ 1 4.4,, , _ from measles 21 (ten of the deaths Ogei '.,'00 'it'l l ' ',ad occurred in Toxteth-park), cholera 0 1 4 0' ‘* * tA Wil ith lver e emigrants,thirteen of whom were ltero'lioe ,ii,wk,k,lls4;hilitetyr,plaiunsdBo.neAfrfteo the Great Western), some un -4'1`1•1 I t :ti \l 4i lt sil.: the committee mr acli t Tu n ni sa ed eti . ng n 1;!, kqlde ad "'t AltDlANs.—The weekly meeting was "Jv -1. `% , i. "Y , Mr. Joseph Harrison in the chair. A 'Nit No, , 1 1%; • ? ' i mq ' 0 b e 'P of fifteen per cent. on the averages r , t , V l ' 1 1`1 1 ,, Paid to the treasurer on or before the a i t . 11 4 ‘0,17 h el d eating falling on the 26th instant was I,A" lee Ir t tet' on the 27th, in consequence of the i e , tt):':Vr day. The return of the election of 1 14 ' lie aqe by the clerk, as returning officer, and ' 4 ,:tt,,, Ar Y 24. 511 0w . s :—Messrs. Henry Clayton, Thos. . 11 1 1 011 4 ,,,M1 L' e rris, James Heyes, Robert Waudby 1 Ns 04h ger, Henry Edwards, William M`Gee, \ I.k i le et 4 Liglitboy, Henry Hyde, Charles Bat ker,' Th i tickl Roskell, Thomas William Medcalf, 411)1 1 lirle, - ',as Winstanley Taylor, Robert Birch, •"? l iar,'' 'James Birch, Christopher Richmond, 11,11,,,,Ni50n, Gilbert Harrison, Joseph Dickin ' ,I ()T aa,l lll v Mountfield Abraham Horsfall, Sarni. i',0?,11011a 4,s'Aoith, Horace Seymour Alpass, Joseph / 14 0 8 ,, 1 eY. '4,,, ra haras, Samuel Lunt, John Whitby, ; 4 1 1,1 4i",,,.. , as e Qe thanks of the board were voted to y ' 4 ) t ell, d !Man, and Messrs. Alpas and Hayes, Il i ki v i the e h". r ing the past year. To-morrow, 'Oh th e a u - man and vice-chairmen will be ap -4'P4•L'lltobe„l.lew board will assemble for the first rttlik'Po y adi n lo the workhouse was 644 against 683 11 t e ,„.g Week of last year ; in the hospital 61 1411 4.,,(:e P... 4 31i . )3 ~,, '' 4 lt "%tit * -- -,..ine weekly meeting was held on 4 11 : 1 41,,' Cli a l„" -- alessrs. Turner (chairman), Shand, I t ,,lAq , % f i l er, Barber, Holden, Smith, Little- O' t,. ) I t 4 V„ s s t one Robinson, Boyden, Steele, kft„', re e ll i ,"L'', , I3' , ham, Holme, and Langsdale. '4 4 ~,I, th's - '`' v L!d . permission to 'run the Prince's G.,,St. re pa. Pair' tide, on the 9th of Ma . y, for lts •r- es. ~„1 1In g the gates. Granted, subject to ,"*l4---„L'ue committee of the marine depart -IGNit!oil,7lll,.. of a residence for the keeper of the ktkie.- - 4 .43 71 1a5• The cost was stated to be ' -- •ruct• • p ..--A. letters were given to the committee to of th„ from Bahr, Behrend, and Co., ' deficiency of cranes on the dock quays Particularly at the southern docks, .)n was less than when the expor prohibited, and locomotives only 're exported, was referred to the ittee.—The chairman stated, in lement from Gibbs, Bright, and le Great Britain had been delayed 'IA', in consequence of the want of `hat no bl ame was a tt ac h e d t o th e ',peat Britain had been prevented 4 dock so soon as she might other lequence of there being 84 vessels of those were to be employed in Which always gave them a pre the only port where graving docks a ) olt authorities.—Mr. Royden said 'as the want of men, as ships were o• gr I ving docks twice as long as Lt would never be anything a% were provided, and that might of the Harrington dock. He hoped trn their attention to the matter. Le shipbuilders dare not keep over t, P 9 rentices, and the shipbuilding The chairman said that the cor some shipwrights' yards on the •"—Mr. Royden : Only three, and -q- I think, if Mr. Hartley were "le land fo r the purpose near the e,,.- %5.,.. ~,„,,,, , and w hey that they had long wanted Vet a i l .tie o,2;neY might. be had near the Har kftittOot, a-Zrman said the matter had been t.l"At\j,,4,,er sit e . • had no doubt the committee , 1 4 1%,' - ' 4 th i,..__ l-41 , 0 11 to it. The chairman stated k tk ,4 • * h ere% r e leY dock warehouses, the subject tL,74t 4 susses worked should be brought under th e s i Iv Y fc7: t ed that the discussion might i All e ,e to 11,ght. It had not been decided v,,,_ rt d o c k worked on the same system as ti lli a ' k tr l us que st ; ... or let to private parties ; that t 4,:, Th e .. W are In In reply t o a ques ti on , th e •" 1 14..e kat tt ' r ullses would be ready in about Thi s w as Postponed until the next was the whole of the public 0 4. cite ~ k I. ;e 04i Oth 0; or 0 lt , f o „ t. t.o eP T D )I th ' U CAE and, :Nan I,;jasti.; and Willi : throd:, , 11 3 ,, f eibou a r e n t e ° ' I ' 4 l bel ekil d I one otAing En I th ot: : „ of a s C00 . ,, j r" '4: l ; \ tarre nta 11 I refs „44,Ziaa..:* =Ms aedo.oo, Tten, f tll g th,„ s . ley h u ab ject 0 _ 311%e eoi 1 H. ce 1 oo l ' ; et rh, is ei•ed a t he ,Ih tt ,ttef , o ierg q t ,,,geve 1 Accl'" °° of ITT] 1 ,• 6tli:intla fell lip m, 1; died 11 )1 1141 .1r ed ° to as' e ey, , Infant es, o i 1 41 4 ef ,Pi ° er c tsg t er res — ig a n ra , 1 , 1 11 AR • to,q.k,ok. 'Fa" • ' ' ( 4l . . thi rtY or' ijohttee4io°,oolat thl e pla, oie tit 8 1 )1 th:Pis ( k. e F ef 1 1)1 "itth line table salt tal imtv ' ( led 7 00 °f t . rd" • get ' l 4 t .uch fi 3, ea pi tverpco la 1: N m AS 10 0 114YLI e ra" 14 1 4 1 Yltun ►p kanaf, tbea. ag e ,the PA 4 rna,afenl'' l " l au; aPP e tort S klV f° Na a ,1. 11 ; te Ins ertr e 'jf k t . do' touth" p it eeif but on( cf 4j Zer fa: po t hers „ t, t ome „„i , w • ater th ithice "QE the _tr eat t , e k i ktl l *-4 It co of t ire i: d A ttr O, N th e B, Kr , k.„ It 4r°liClu, el s • Pee I . of NeelltS it" Nv , j' iI NN 't 4 1 ; 41 sn' P rt otb i tt 41)1 3* mi e soc . 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Ota, nrnetf o - -3A 011 .11' ot'A let 111 ,i 7.0 „„,t th e ter o f roc' "efiele YOla,: (l Y4l 3 l re Aari t , o 6 _ l ll 4 c)(latio r ~teN . 37 %vase t, ot e jiz e . 4 :11: 11 ;' t ,,, 1 1 .4 e t'rtirni 1.1 4t 1u 4 4y ertisc / of h at the eljt Cc j iel (' th c , ' th e Vlol,the The ,\ t,11(11 en Bev eonseq ie s rl . 0 : rif 4 rvi 14 t;,_41 1 dif Y A t he etrltY w; tic tl oc o , Nth th, e e i t 140 t l l l , l e r're 4 : 1 1 1 1' 1 dc „f 10',0 4 1 4 4 1 :t ~ tt 1 1\ ‘'. c tt colV e ' 4 lld e ( Yam till j 0 yt t 3 , the of ;Pt" tt e f e aX rBireeyi \yO t h kaltr . ,1? V 41,11 ,k e ine e sol,,i N‘ t e r ett b , es 4 el ,a Nht ot ~ethiN sor ['P e te( \ %,7)ei t u r ( . ,q 1 -, and 1) 0 0 'oNlNi i lle eh, [ 11 0 ,0 .74 \dite'Nthe ° ," , atter oc, • P I 014 4 1 1 ,j , l i te to t. a t t 4 mi. 0 0 0 ., v 4 5 ' 4 J iio D C ', ( 4 e to b t fo r oY Pl)e h er t do e . Ol e 01 i f ( I, 4: 1 ( 1 ole Nt%:, Th e w„ bo e WanLrun.—A large quantity of guns and shot is being manufactured at Messrs. Fawcett's foundry, intended for transports and other vessels. The guns are chiefly nine, twelve, and eighteen pounders. They are proved on the shore at. Waterloo. Ma. DTSMORE, of Bold-street, has designed and manu factured a new communion-service, which the congregation ! of St. Matthew's Church, Toxteth-park, are about to pre sent to their minister. A COLOSSAL MARBLE STATUE of George Stephenson, once the " hurrier" of a coal-pit, has been erected in the great hall of the Euston-Square railway station, and was uncovered on Monday last week, in presence of the corn . mittee appointed to conduct the getting up of the memo rial, with a quiet ceremonial. The statue was suggested by the Society of Mechanical Engineers, of which George Stephenson was the founder ; and the subscriptions included an average of 2s. each from 3,160 working men. It was executed by Mr. Bailey, after the painting by Lucas of Stephenson standing on Chatmoss. Tan PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.—The third subscrip tion concert will take place this evening. The principal vocalists are to be Madame Clara Novello and Mr. Sims Reeves. The programme includes Meudelssohn's finale to " Lorely," and Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. THE LIVERPOOL LITERARY AND DRAMATIC SOCIETY. —This society announces its intention of giving a per formance on Monday, in aid of the fund for the wives and families of soldiers on foreign service. The gentlemen who undertake this pleasing labour will, on this occasion, have the assistance of Miss Fanny Baker, from the Lyceum Theatre, whose appearance will, of itself, be a great at traction. The performance is patronised by Lady Derby, his worship the Mayor, the high-sheriff, Lord Stanley, M.P., and other distinguished persons. The high-sheriff has endorsed his approval of the object by a donation of £lO, an example which will, doubtless, be followed. LAUNCHES rif LIVERPOOL.—On Saturday, two vessels were launched from the yards of Mr. Steele and Mr. Clarke, which adjoin each other at the Queen's Dock. One was the Deva, a frigate built ship, of the following dimen sions : —Length over all, 200 feet ; breadth of beam, 34 feet 10 inches ; depth of hold, 22 feet 6 inches ;.new measure ment, 1,038 tons ; carrying capacity, 1,600. tons. She is classed A 1 for fourteen years ; and is ornamented with an admirably carved figure head of the Queen. The Jo seph Steele, so styled after her owner and builder, was successfully launched a few minutes after the Deva. She is 172 feet between the perpendiculars, 32 beam, and 22 feet deep; her measurement being 900 tons. An excellent carved portrait of Mr. Steele forms the figure-head. A LOST CHILD FOUND IN LIVERPOOL.—In the month of August last, Neil Wilkieson, au imbecile boy of nine years of age, suddenly went amissing from the coast town of Campbelton, Argyleshire. He was a favourite child of his father, who is a working shoemaker there. Many a search was made for poor Neil, but all to no purpose. At length the criminal authorities took up the subject, and, having reported to head quarters, the Lord Advocate ordere a most minute investigation, but with no greater success. Many were the surmises afloat about the poor innocent. In the autumn of last year a wandered child was picked up on the streets of Liverpool. Although nine years of age, he could tell nothing that could unravel his history. He was conveyed to the industrial school there, and taken care of, under the kind attention of Mr. Coats, the inspector. He was found to be of very weak intellect, and it was only after the expiry of several months Mr. Coats succeeded in interpreting some of his inarticulate attempts to express himself in words. He could tell his own name and that of his father pretty well, but as to where he belonged, all he could mutter in answer to in quiries, was something like Carr-street, or Kerr-street, or Chrystie, Scotland. The unaccountable way in which the boy had been found awakened an interest in his behalf, and Scotland being distinctly named by him, a cor respondence was opened up with various officials in Scot land, in the hope of hearing something of the child's history. Among them Captain Smart, the superintendent of the police at Glasgow, was written to, and he caused inquiries to be instituted at all the streets throughout the city, the names of which resembled that imperfectly spoken by the boy. At length, about a week ago, a com munication was received in Glasgow from the master of police at Campbelton, that tended to throw some light on the subject, and from this has flowed the discovery of the long lost Campbelton child in the Liverpool foundling, who arrived in Glasgow on Sunday night, by the Liverpool steamer. He his healthy and well clad, and he is to be restored to his grateful parents, for whom he seems to possess an ardent attachment. It appears that Neil had, in his wanderings in Campbelton, got on board the steamer Briton, when about to sail for Liverpool ; and, on his arrival at the latter port, he had wandered ashore, and been found in the manner already described.—North British Daily Mail. SHIPBUILDING ON INLAND RIVERS.—The introduction of iron as a material for shipbuilding has given an import ant stimulant to our provincial trade. ‘he shipbuilding of the Mersey has extended to Warrington ; and already the favoured localities of the Dee are being developed at Chester and its vicinity. Five vessels have recently been launched from the premises of Mr. Cram, of the Rhodee ship yards ; and, at Sandicroft, a vessel of thirteen hun dred tons is now constructing for Mr. Charles Moore, of this town. Two of those built at the Rhodee works are now in our docks—the Miuo and the Rosario. The Rosa rio is a handsome craft, very fine fore and aft, while her length of flooring is shown by the fact that she will carry nearly 500 tons at a draught of 11 feet. Her tonnage is 298 old and 277 tons new measurement; length, 128 feet; beam, 22 feet ; depth, 121 feet. She. is fitted regardless of expense, and with every modern improvement. She has the American patent steering wheel, four eccentric pumps, Wood's (Trotman's patent) anchors, capstans, and winches. She is also fitted with Cunningham's self-reefing topsails, by which sail may be shortened at will. Her cabins are neatly fitted with open berths in the steamboat fashion, ! and are peculiarly adapted for the trade for which she is intended. She is now loading for Buenos Ayres, and will shortly sail under the command of Captain Fitzgerald. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF INDIAN CORN.—JOIHICODeIIy, Richard Burroughs, William Shaw, Thomas Taylor, and. John M'Quinn, were charged, at the Police-court, on Wed nesday, the three former with stealing, and the two latter with receiving, a large quantity of Indian corn, from the warehouse of Mr. Lyon, Back Goree. On Monday evening a warehouseman found that No. 6 warehouse, occupied by Mr. Lyon, had been broken open, and about twelve sacks of Indian corn stolen. Between one and two o'clock on Monday the first and third prisoners were seen drunk, lowering ten bags of corn from a warehouse in the Goree into a cart, which conveyed it to Bradshaw's mill, Upper Hill-street, where they sold it, as they said, on behalf of the prisoner Taylor, for £6 10s., but did not receive the money. Whilst they were in the mill, Burroughs came in, and asked if Taylor had come yet to settle for the flour in store. On being told that he had not, the three pri soners watched until six o'clock in the evening, when Taylor came, who ultimately sold the corn to Mr. Bradshaw for 13s. 6d. a pack. On the previous Saturday Burroughs had hired a cart, and took from the same warehouse, in the Goree, six sacks of Indian corn, to No. 2, Lydia Ann-street, near to which M'Quinn carries on busi ness. That prisoner, when apprehended, gave every possible information on the subject to the police, and stated voluntarily that he had purchased corn from Conelly and Burroughs, as sweepings, for £3 Bs. Taylor's defence was, that Conelly had shown him a sample of corn as sweepings, and he gave him the full market value of it, 28s. a quarter. The magistrates committed the three men charged with stealing the earn, and discharged the two accused of receiving it, admitting them as evidence in the case. THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION IN LIVERPOOL.—On Tues day, John Buck Lloyd, Esq., the Mayor, presided at a meeting held in the Sessions'-house, convened, in com pliance with a respectably and numerously signed requisi tion, "in order to adopt such resolutions as will secure the active co-operation of the inhabitants in the arrange ments for the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, which is appointed to be held in this town in September next." Professor Phillips, assis tant general secretary of the association, it was announced, would attend the meeting, in order to explain the objects of the association and its mode of practical working in detail. The Mayor, after alluding to the invitations sent by the Town Council to the association, and stating that the Earl of Harrowby would preside over the meeting of the association, introduced Professor Phillips ' who deli vered an eloquent address, in which he alluded to the first meeting of the British Association in Liverpool, twenty three years ago, when they were assisted by Dr. Trail! and Mr. Scoresby. He then made some remarks relative to their second visit, in 1837, when they received a most enthusiastic reception, and held a most successful meeting. The history and objects of the association were next dwelt upon by Professor Phillips. The association was, lie said, founded to advance science, by removing the impediments, especially of a public nature, in its path ; and to bring face to face, in the great centres of commercial manufac turing industry, the practical man and the philosophical theorist. The progress of Liverpool was then described in graphic terms, and the various benefits resulting from the meetings and researches of the association noticed in detail. In conclusion, he said, in coming to Liverpool the members of the association were perfectly aware they were coming to a place where, if a favourable opinion was pro nounced on their proceedings, it would give them influence with the government, and therefore they had the strongest interest to present themselves before the people of Liver pool under the most favourable circumstances. He then proceeded to mention the different classes of members, and the privileges to which they were entitled, remarking that some of the greatest men of the day would detail the latest improvements and inventions in science in a plain and agreeable manner, especially soliciting the attendance of ladies. He next sketched a day's proceedings of the association, and concluded by expressing his belief that the next meeting of the British Association would be one of the most important and brilliant on record. After a few words from Mr. J. B. Yates, Mr. Dickenson said the local expenses, it had been calculated, would amount to about £16,000. Upwards of £B,OOO had been already collected, and with a little further assistance he had no doubt they would realise the full amount required, and show that Liverpool was not insensible to the high honour conferred upon it by the British Association meeting here. Pro fessor Phillips proposed the thanks of the meeting to the Mayor and Corporation of Liverpool, for the liberal manner in which they have granted the use of St. George's-hall and the rest of the building for the use of the meeting of the association. The Rev. J. S. Howson, in seconding the motion, said it was a subject of much congratulation to his worship that he had the prospect of seeing the British Association meet in Liverpool during his mayoralty, and it must be a high gratification to the corporation and the committee of St. George's-hall, over the erection and deco ration of which the present Mayor had so long and so ably presided,' that this magnificent building had been made ready for the approaching festival of science. Mr. Howson then:gave a sketch of the progress of the town since 1823, and concluded by alluding to necessity of a connexion between science and religion. The Mayor acknowledged the compliment paid to himself and the corporation, and expressed his belief that in expending the surplus funds of the corporation in the erection of St. George's-hall, they had done more to attract strangers to Liverpool than otherwise could have been done. It would be the endea vour of the corporation to further in every way it could whatever would give the greatest eclat to the interests of the British Association in Liverpool; and if the local com mittee would do him the favour to point out in what way his services Would be most beneficial, he would feel thank ful, and try to advance their views as far as it lay in his power. ,The proceedings terminated with the usual com pliments to the chairizau. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. A NOISELESS RAILWAY.—An American• paper states that india-rubber sleepers have been laididown on part of the New Jersey Central Railroad, and the• result is that the carriages pass alone with a springy. elastic motion, without noise or jolting. TRADE IN SNAILS,—A curious branch of commerce is acquiring considerable importance in Paris ; _ namely the trade in white snails. The principal sources of supply are Champagne and Burgundy, in both of which provinces there are several extensive snaileries, admirably arranged. RAILWAY AcTs.—By a parliamentary , paper, just printed, it appears that during the last session of parlia ment 106 railway acts were. passed, which, occasioned an increase of mileage of 803 miles five chains, and an increase of capital of £12,793,896. OUR FLOCKS AND HERDS.—Might not an attempt be made, with some promise of success, to acclimatise a few breeds of useful animals, at present strange to England and her neighbours ? The kangaroo, we have heard, is excellent eating, if nothing else ; but there is another animal, the lama, which not only excels the-kangaroo in this respect, but is, besides, useful as a beast of draught or burden, gives good milk, and possesses a hide and wool of great value. The lama has already been introduced into France ; and the idlers of the Bois de Boulogne are occasionally entertained with the spectacle of a pair of these animals, driven in harness by a quiet-looking middle aged gentleman. The lamas keep good pace at both walk and trot, and seem easy to manage. TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS.--A letter from Constantinople says :—" We generally have a battle at Kalafat or a sortie from Sebastopol every Wednesday, which is sufficiently explained by the fact that Wednesday is the principal day at the Bourse. The battle of Kalafat is usually supposed to be brought across the country by a Tartar, who, covered with dust and sinking with fatigue, rides up to the Porte; while the operations in the Black Sea have been com municated by the master of a merchantman, who, strangely enough, has just again weighed anchor from the Bospho rus. The captain of one vessel here has seen so many Russian fleets as to have incurred the reprimands of his superiors, since which time his range of vision has been limited." ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.—The Tines points out the desirability of procuring a really fine view of St. Paul's Cathedral, which has been obtained by the construction of New Cannon-street, in which we cordially join :—" Let as many of our readers as may have the opportunity go down to the city end of New Cannon-street, and judge for them selves. St. Paul's is at last to be seen, and certainly it is one of the greatest sights that has been offered to Lon doners since the days of Wren. It would require but very little more to open out the cathedral from one side in as complete a manner.as the most enthusiastic lover of archi tecture could desire. New Cannon-street will then be ,one of the finest thoroughfares in any capital city-of Europe, and may vie with the new street now in course of construction in Paris. It is a shame that England should lag behind in such a race, and that the more when we possess the cathedral, and all that is wanted is to remove the hoardin g . This word exactly describes the office and effect of the houses in St. Paul's Churchyard. More am bitious thoughts are cherished, in common, we believe, with many others, but the erection of those Manchester warehouses within a few yards of the cathedral has taken away this hope, unless some providential fire or other for tunate accident should come to our assistance. Better things we cannot accomplish, but at least let us have the space which has just been opened free and unencumbered, so that the old cathedral may at length disclose some por tion of its stately magnificence. Let the city improvers pause, we implore them ; until the verdict of the country has been taken in the matter.—Builder. —. EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN AN — INDIANA (UNITED STATES) COURT.—The Richmond Palladium gives the following account of a very singular scene which occurred on the opening of the court in Newcastle, Henry County, Indiana :—At Newcastle we found quite an excitement existing in regard to the presiding judge of this circuit, the Hon. Judge Anthony. The court met on Monday morning, but before proceeding to business a member of the Henry County bar presented a petition, signed by every member of the bar in that court, asking, in most respectful terms, his Honour to resign his seat upon the bench. The gentleman who presented the petition stated, however, that in case he would not resign, the petitioners had agreed among themselves that they would not do any business in the court so long as he presided. Another gentleman addressed the court, re-asserting the determi nation they had agreed to, and urged in very plain terms the necessity of a resignation. Another followed, ex pressing the high personal respect he entertained for the judge as a gentleman and a tavern-keeper, but justice required him to say that he regarded the present incum bent of the bench as utterly unqualified for the place he occupied, and he hoped he would resign. He was followed by another, and he by another, and by another, until every member had expressed his opinion as to his inca pacity, &c. With a nonchalance peculiar to his Honour, he told the gentlemen of the bar that he would think of the matter, and in the meantime would proceed to busi ness. ' He called the cases upon the docket, and every case which had not been compromised was continued until the next term of the court. Court was adjourned for dinner, and in the afternoon a petition, signed by the jury, was presented to the judge, asking him to resign. His Honour asked time to consider, when the lawyers proposed to him that, if he would agree in writing never to come to that county again for the purpose of holding court, and would send some one in his place, they would be content to drop the matter, so far as they were concerned. The judge again took the matter under advisement, and, we aro told, finally promised never to come to that county again for the purpose of holding court until he should be sent for, and would either send some other judge to hold the court or permit the judge of the Court of Common Pleas to hold court in his stead. So ended the matter for the present. TURRET AS A LAND FOR EMIGRITION. — CIoseIy connected with this subject is one which has, we believe, received some attention at home. We are every year sending to, the extremities of the globe bands of emigrants, the outcasts of our crowded shores, or the hopeful pioneers of a new state. But why should they expatriate themselves to regions so distant that a letter only gives the intelli gence of what is long past, and to revisit their country seems an idle dream ? Here, within a moderate distance of their place of birth, is a land blessed with all that can afford the means of wealth and happiness. Here the emigrant does not find the blazing sun and sandy plains of Australia, nor is he exposed for months to the insuffer able cold of a Canadian winter. He comes to a portion of the earth, the geography and productions of which are known; he establishes himself in the neighbourhood of civilised nations, on the banks of the great sea which is the historical centre of the earth; he is on the highway between east and west ; by his exertions another genera tion may see the commerce of the Old World, from Cadiz to Canton, take route of the Euphrates and the Persian Gulf ; and he advances the interests of the mother country by linking more closely to her those Indian dependencies with which her greatness is bound up. Vast tracts of country in the neighbourhood of the noblest harbours, and watered by navigable streams, only want the hand of the cultivator to yield an abundant harvest. The corn of Rissia, the wool of Australia, and the wines of France might be rivalled by the productions of Anatolia and Syria, and the deserted cities of antiquity once more raise their heads in the centre of a new race and a more durable civilisation. _ _ ARBITRATION BILL.— Lord Brougham's Arbitration Law Amendment Bill, now before the House of Lords, contains various provisions for facilitating references to arbitration. It proposes that any agreement to refer may be made a rule of Court (with power to enforce the award by process of attachment),,that it may be pleaded in bar to any action or suit respecting the matter referred, and that it shall not be revocable by one party without the consent of the other, unless by leave of the Court. Wit nesses may be ordered to attend before an arbitrator to be examined; and he may proceed in the absence of a party to the arbitration who neglects to attend. An arbitrator may, and shall if required, state a matter of law in his award, for the opinion of one of the superior courts. Several technical defects in the law are to be remedied; and the bill contains the three following important provi sions : —l. Any persons may by memorandum of reference in writing under their hands, or the hands of their autho rized agents, refer any matter in difference between them to the arbitration of the judge of any County Court, and such judge shall hear and determine the matter. Pro visions are added for enabling the judge to hear the case as he now hears an action or plaint, and his award is to have the effect of a judgment on a plaint ; and if his award direct a person to do any act or thing other than the payment of money, and he refuse to do it, he may be committed to the common gaol for a period not exceeding forty days, such imprisonment not to operate as a satis faction or discharge from the obligation of performing the award. 2. Either party in any cause may call on the other party to show cause before the Court, or a judge, why the matter in dispute should not be referred to arbi tration, and if it appears to the Court or judge that the matter consists wholly or in part of matters of account, such Court or judge may order a reference to an officer of the court, a judge of a County Court, or an arbitrator, agreed on by the parties. 3. At the trial of a cause, the judge may order that any question relating to matter of account be so referred. IMMIGRATION TO TUE UNITED STATES.—The annual report- from the State Department, which his been re cently communicated to Congress, contains a large amount of valuable statistics, among which are the subjoined : Arrivals in 1853: First quarter, 46,924; second ditto, 135,559 ; third ditto, 106,303 ; fourth ditto, 111,991. Males, 236,596 ; females, 164,481—t0ta1, 400,777. Citizens of the United States who have been abroad and returned : Males, 28,572 ; females, 3,562—t0ta1, 32,134. Total of arrivals : Aliens, 400,777 ; citizens, 32,134 —excess of aliens, 368,642. From Ireland : Males, 86,232 ; females, 76,249—t0ta1, 162,489. From Germany : Males, 83,510 ; females, 57,125—t0ta1, 140,635. From England : Males, 16,908 ; females, 13,445—t0ta1, 30,353. Arrived at New York, 294,818 ; at New Orleans, 43,028 ; at Boston, 25,929 ; at Philadelphia, 19,211. Largest number second quarter, - 135,559. In 1852: Total of arrivals 398,470, including citizens. From Ireland, 158,462 Germany, 142,549. In 1851: Total of arrivals : Aliens, 379,828; citizens, 29,367 — total, 408,828. From Great Britain, 276,640 ; Germany, 72,602. 1853: Under five years of age, 29,858; under 20 years of age, 142,030. Merchants, 12,802; mechanics, 17,397 ; farmers, 48,432; labourers, 43,006, —Washington Star. CBONSTADT.—The following description of Cronstadt, given in a Berlin journal, although incomplete, may not be uninteresting at the present moment :—" Cronstadt is situated on the island of Kosline, at the eastern corner of the Finland Gulf. Th e i s l an d , about English miles long, and proportionately narrow, is close to the mouth of the Neva, and may be regarded as the port of St. Peters burg, whence it is , distant about 18 miles (English). The town, which owes its foundation to Peter the Great, con ta ns about 30,000 inhabitants, and is intersected by the Peter and Catherina Canals. On the northern side of the island stand the powerful Alexander ramparts, constructed of solid granite blocks and armed with the heaviest guns. On the southern flank of this is the harbour, the channel to which is defended by the citadel, erected on a rocky foundation, and on the opposite side by the Kronslot for tress. Properly speaking, there exist three harbours for ships of war within the island, with docks, arsenals, build ing yards, and so forth. A f ourth and s maller harbour for mercantile vessels like w i se ex i sts within the defences. The old Menschikoff palace has long been converted into a foundry, arsenal, and school for pilots. The Marine Hospital is arranged for 2,600 patients. In order to diminish dangers that may occur. from fire, all wooden constructions have be 1)11114 down and all s uperfluous stores TQUIQTed:', GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. BIRMINGHAM, in five years, ending 1849, produced 1,374,329 stand of arms. Sir. A. COCKBURN was re-elected for Southampton on Wednesday. CONVERSIONS. — Ninety-eight converts from Romanism were, on Wednesday, the sth inst., confirmed in Bermond sdy, by the Lord Bishop of Winchester. They were pre pared for this rite by the Rev. Dr. Armstrong, with the assistance of the agents of the Society for English Church Missions to the Romanists. THE JEWISH PASSOVER.—The great feast of "the Passover," the most ancient and important amonc.. the Jewish people, is now being celebrated. The festival lasts a week, during which the Jews exceed in hospitality and charity, and give alms to poor people, in accordance with their means. Unleavened bread only is used during the week, and businees is generally suspended. AN EXPRESS OFF THE LINE.—The express train due at Plymouth on Monday night, last week, ran off the line about a mile and a half on the Plymouth side of Ivybridge. The rails and sleepers were torn up for more than a hun dred yards, but the only damage to the passengers or the servants of the cqmpany was a severe 'shaking. SYDENILA.DI CRYSTAL PALACE.—The colouring of the building itself is greatly altered from that of Hyde-park, about which there was so much discussion ' the shafts of the columns are painted red, and the result is, as it seems to us, though perhaps part may be due to the form of the roof and other features, that the building appears very much shorter than it is, by the real difference between the two structures. It would be wrong, however, to discuss this before the trees and shrubs, with which the red colour seems likely to harmonise well, are in their places. Any way, the.effect of the interior is now very fine, and is so in Mr. Jones's original drawing.— The Builder. HULL Docx s.—The Eastern Counties Herald says that they have seldom seen fewer.vessels or fewer labourers at work in the docks than at the present period. This is attributed to the war, which has paralysed the trade of the port. INCENDIARISH IN THE WEST.—An unusually large number of incendiary fires have occurred in Devonshire and the neighbouring counties during the last few weeks. Agricultural buildings have chiefly suffered, but, in several instances, some malicious persons have set fire to extensive tracts of plantations. At 11°ra-wood, Elsington, near Ashburton, fire was set to a plantation, and before it could be extinguished upwards of an acre was consumed. A few days before a similar conflagration took place near Col lumpton, a town about 12 miles from Exeter. Fire was set to a young plantation of firs, and within an hour upwards of an acre was destroyed. The devastation would have been much greater had it not been for the active exertions of the neighbours. The plantation be longed to Sir Thomas Acland, M.P. for North Devon. ACCIDENTAL POISONING IN SI7SSEX.-011 Saturday, as two little boys, aged four and five years, sons of Mr. Jas. Compton, of the Nursery, accompanied by the child of Mr. Burgess, a neighbour, were amusing themselves on the sunny banks contiguous to their residence, they were attracted by the gayness of the appearance of some poisonous plant, supposed to be the Arum, or, as it is more generally known by children, "Lords and Ladies," and were induced to gather it. Fancying it might prove equally attractive to the palate, they partook of it, and soon afterwards the youngest child showed evident signs of insensibility. Little Burgess becoming alarmed, imme diately ran home and informed the child's parents, who directly hastened to the spot, and conveyed the little sufferer home; but the deadly poison had got too strong a hold, and in a short time he was a corpse. The other child not having partaken so freely of the herb, and, medical aid having been called in, there is, at present, every probabilitrof his recovery.—Brighton Gazette. SUNDAY IN PARIS.—At Paris the question of the Sun day has made some progress lately. Two years ago, a Roman Catholic committee was formed, who, half by persuasion, and half by intimidation, have collected in the Faubourg St. Germain, nearly 3,000 signatures, 1,100 or 1,200 of which are from tradesmen, who pledge them. selves not to buy, and not to open their shops on Sunday. There is also a Protestant committee formed, and it has placed itself in connexion with the preceding one, but they have decided that, although aiming at the same end, they would do their work separately. An English gentle man, Mr. Cochrane, devoted to this cause, has already in duced a great number of the tradesmen around the Exchange, and in the Rue Vivienne, to close their shops on Sunday. The commercial men and tradesmen of Paris have lately had a numerous meeting upon this question. A provisional committee has been named to examine it. .SMOKE FROM COMMON GRATEL—We are told of an invention by Mr. J. Jeffreys, of Leeds, said to be applicable to a common grate, without any alteration, for the purpose of burning coke in house fires ; by means of which sm Dice is to be done away with, and a saving of fuel effected. A sliding partition, like a moving "flower," is fitted in fi ont of the fire-place, and has another plate of metal suspended to its lower edge at an angle of abAlt 60 degrees, having about one-third of its surface in'front of the partition, and two-thirds behind it. This inclined plate has an important action, and is termed an "inflector," as it turns the current of air with force upon the top and front of the fire, keeping them brilliant. By giving this inflector a polished surface, it becomes also a powerful reflector of the heat which, as au inflector, it excites. Sheet tin will answer well for common purposes; while, for the poor, thin sheet-iron will give all the effect of the inflector, though not acting as a reflector. It is said the whole apparatus might be adapted to a poor man's grate for 45., while the economy of fuel, after repeated trials, is foun to amount from a fourth to more than a third. — The Builder. MATRICIDE.--A farmer, named Abraham Robinson, residing at Blaxton, about eight miles from Doncaster, has just been committed to York Castle for trial on a charge of manslaughter, he having, by a long series of acts of cruelty, caused or accelerated the death of his mother. One witness, named Mary Taylor, stated,tat the inquest on the body of the deceased, that she had acted as charwoman at Robinson's house, and had frequently seen him strike his mother with a whip or stick without a lash. About five weeks ago he wanted the deceased to pump some water; she did not speak, and he beat her so severely that she repeatedly cried for mercy. Witness said to Robinson, " Remember, she's your mother." He replied, " Yes ; and a d— nice mother she is." Other witnesses deposed to having heard, when passing Robin sons' house, a whip crack, and cries of " Oh, dear !" pro ceeding from the deceased. The poor creature was com pelled to do . the worst drudgery in the house ; she was kept in the back kitchen without a fire during the winter nights ; and she was so completely starved for want of food, that she was frequently seen picking bits out of the swill tub. When she refused to work she was beaten by Robinson or his wife. She had no bed to sleep upon except a bundle of old clothes, with a single rug for a covering. Cam CON. —ln the London Sheriff's Court, on Wednesday, the case of Pedder v. Purvis, was an inquiry to assess damages after judgment by default. The damages were laid at £3,000. In 1847 the plaintiff was married to a young lady of the name of Emma Simpson, both of them being twenty-three years of age, and their circumstances might be said to be also equal, thus showing that the union was one of pure affection. The lady was the natural daughter of a West India pro prietor, who, on his death, left her a sum of £6,000, the interest of which was to be at her use, aud, on her death, the principal was to go to her children ; and if she had none, then to be at her sole disposal. She was also entitled to the reversionary interest in the sum of £4,000 on the death of her brother. One child was the issue of the mar riage, but, perhaps fortunately under the painful circum stances, it died. The plaintiff and Mrs. Pedder lived on terms of the greatest affection, until the summer of last year, when the defendant's regiment was stationed at Fulwood barracks, near Preston ; and he, with other officers of the regiment, received invitations to plaintiff's house, and was received there on terms of friendship, dur ing the time the regiment remained there. In the month of July, there were certain circumstances which led the plaintiff to entertain some grave suspicion as to the con duct of Mrs. Pedder, and he expostulated with her, although he had not at that time any suspicion that there had been any criminal intercourse between her and the defendant : he warned her of her indiscretion, on which she became violent, and insisted on going back to her friends at Liverpool, where she remained some time, until she left with defendant and went to Plymouth, where his regiment was stationed. It was discovered that they afterwards lived together as man and wife, under assumed names, at Hammerton Fuliot, about six miles from Ply mouth. They subsequently went over to Belgium, where they still resided. The learned counsel said he was certain that the jury would consider this one of the grossest cases which could well be brought before them, and entitled the plaintiff to exemplary damages, as the defendant would take possession of the interest of the £6,000 ; and, should he survive Mrs. Pedder, he would, no doubt, take possession of all her property. The jury gave a verdict for plaintiff— damages, £2,000. DIVORCE. - In the House of Lords on Tuesday, "Berens's" Divorce Bill was read a second time. The petitioner, Capt. William Joseph Berens, of Orpington, in the county of Kent, sought to dissolve his marriage with Miss Rolleston, his present wife. Capt. Berens is 4 member of an influen tial family in that county, and was married to Miss Louisa Maria Rolleston on the 20th of July, 1837. The marriage was performed by the lady's uncle.. Of this marriage there was no issue, and it was proved that the parties had lived most happily together until they . had become ac quainted with Mr. John Coventry, of Burgate-house, in the county of Southampton. Mrs. Berens first met Mr. Coventry on the occasion of her visit to Scotland in conse quence of the death of her sister, Mrs. Bromley, who died in January 1853. Subsequently to her return to England Mr. Coventry called at Orpington-hall to consult her as to the natureof the tomb to be erected to her sister's memory in Scotland. Upon that occasion his visit extended to five days, but there was not any act either of Mrs. Berens or of Mr. Coventry which gave rise to the least suspicion as to their want of propriety of conduct. Mr. Coventry paid one other visit only, and on the night of the 16th of May, Mrs. Berens eloped, as was afterwards proved, with that gentleman. The lady's flight was discovered on the follow ing morning by the lady's maid upon her entering the bed room of her mistress (Capt. and Mrs. Berens at this period occupied separate rooms in consequence of illness,) when she found that Mrs. Berens was gone, and had not been in bed during the night. Upon a subsequent examination of the premises, the servant discovered that her mistress had gone out through a side door into the garden. It was then proved that the parties had fled in a fly, which had been hired by the gentleman at the Tiger's Head, Lee, by means of which they had been conveyed to the Bricklayer's Arms, in the Old Kent-road, where they alighted and entered a cab, in which they were driven towards London bridge. Notwithstanding that every inquiry was made the parties were not found till the 21st of June, upon which day a clerk to the solicitors of Capt. Berens, met Mr. Coventry at Liverpool, when he served him with a writ. Upon the former day evidence was given of the fact of Mr. Coventry and Mrs. Bernes having, on the night of the 18th of May, slept together as man and wife at the t Commercialwent Hotel,teAlbion bionHotel,Dale-street, m Liverpool, and where ndthat they h they remained until the 23rd, when they took private lodgings. An action was commenced by Capt. Berens against Mr, Coventry, who allowed judgment to go by default, anda writ of inquiry which was subsequently issued resulted in the damages being assessed at £7OO, which suns, together with £216 as taxed costs, were afterwards paid by Mr. Coventry's solicitors. Proceedings wore then taken in the Ecclesiastical Courts for a divorce, and on the 6th of December a decree for a separation a mensa et thorn was pronounced. The petitioner instituted the present proceedings. THE EIVERPOOL TOWN-DUE INQUIRY BBFOBE THE CO3I3IISSFONEES On Wednesday Captain C. R. D. Bethune,-.R.N.,. and Colin Blackburn, Esq., barrister-at-law, the commissioners appointed by Her Majesty to inquire into the • shipping• charges of the various ports of the kingdom; opened their commission in the crown court of St. George's-hall: There was a numerous attendance of gentlemen from'Manches ter and the manufacturing districts. Mr. Heron appeared on behalf of the Manchester corporation, and Mr.- Shuttle worth on behalf of the corporation of Liverpool.- Captain BEV:UTNE said the commission was sitting a second time in Liverpool, in consequence of nmemorial from Manchester,• and other places ; and it would be their duty, in the first instance, to listen to anything which gentlemen representing those places migitwish to state. The following gentlemen then announced the interests which they represented : —Mr. Hull, solicitor, appeared for the line of packets sailing between Liverpool, Lisbon, the Brazils, and various parts of the River Plate, and also for the Canadian Steam Navigation Company; Mr.- Gibson, for the corporation of Salford; Mr. Bramah, for the trus tees of the Birkenhead docks ; Mr. March, the town-clerk of Warrington, for that borough ; Mr. Waln, for the Im provement Commissioners of Birkenhead ; Mr. James As pinall Turner, for the Commercial Association of 'Man chester ; Mr. Ashworth, for the Chamber of Commerce of Manchester ; Mr. Buckley, for the steel manufacturers of Ashton-under-Lyne; Mr. Thomas Livesey, for the com missioners of Rochdale ; Mr. William Adshead; for the borough of Macclesfield ; Mr. George-Adshead, for Staly bridge ; Mr. Peter Catterall, for the- Birkenhead,. Lanca shire, and Cheshire Junction Railway; Mr. Thomas John son, for the town and port of Runcorn ; Mr. Joseph. Owen, for the corn-merchants of Manchester; Mr. Thornely, for Hyde and Glossop ; Mr. Blackwell, on the part of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway, and also for the South Wales coal-masters of Birkenhead; Captain French, on the part of the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Com pany ; Mr. Robertson, on behalf of the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway Company, and also on behalf of the North Wales coal-masters ; who export large quantities of coal from Birkenhead ; Mr. Richard Massy, for the slate merchants of Manchester ; Mr. William Slater, for the trustees of the late Duke of Bridgewater;: Mr. Fereday Smith, on behalf of the Earl of Ellesmere. Mr. HERON said what he wanted to learn from the town-clerk of Liverpool was, on what principle the amount of town dues levied upon various articles was regulated; and he stated that up to 1776 the dues were only taken upon 103 articles, which were enumerated on a brass plate placed in the Custom-house. There were- now above 600 articles ; and he wished to know in what way the dues on new articles were fixed. Commissioner BLA.CKBUnNE thought that the question as to the right to add new articles to their tariff was set tled by the charge of Lord Denman, on the occasion of the case tried before him in 1835, —Corporation of Liverpool v. Bolton. _ Mr. HERON expressed his opinion that the question of the right of the corporation to levy dues had not been settled by the result of the trial of 1835. Mr. BLACICRURNE held that it was not the province of the commission to unsettle the judgment on that occasion, which it was only for a superior court to do. Mr. HERON proceeded to contend that by the various charters and acts of parliament, under which the Liver pool Corporation -claim dues, their right was restricted within the limits of the port or borough. Mr. BLACKBURNE held, however, that these points had been urged in the action against Bolton and others; but that they could be raised before the Court of Exchequer. Mr. HERON went at some length into remarks upon the hardship of Manchester and o*er towns having to con tribute towards the improvement or the borough and port of Liverpool. He concluded his address by stating that additional information should be received by the commis sioners before they made their report. Mr. JAMES ASPINALL TURNER protested against the levying of town dues at all. kr. - HENnv ASUWORTIT averred that the cotton manu factured at Blackburn paid a sum of £1,300 annually ; on investigation, his amount was reduced to £B5O. Mr. Hum, for the Birkenhead Dock Company, in open ing his case, explained that, notwithstanding the opinion that the question of title had been settled by the result of the action of 1835, he should have to enter into that ques tion, on the ground that such decision did not settle the question as to Birkenhead, which did not exist at that time as a port ; and also, that when the first charter was given to Liverpool, there was in existence a previous grant to parties in Cheshire, which, he contended, conferred powers similar to those possessed by Liverpool. He hoped therefore that the commissioners would call upon the Town-clerk to state .definitely upon what ground he claimed the right of levying taxes in Birkenhead. Mr. BEAMAII, followed, on the part of the Birkenhead Dock Commissioners, principally dwelling upon the fact of the action by the Corporation v. Bolton having been settled by a compromise. Mr. MAssEr, of Manchester, appeared on behalf of the slate trade. Mr. SIMPSON, of Runcorn, said that the concern which he represented paid £2OO a-year dues, for which, he con sidered, they derived no return. A gentleman representing the coal and iron trade of Staffordshire and South Wales, entered into some inter esting facts connected with the great increase of those trades and districts now taking place, which would be greatly promoted by an abolition of the town dues. Another coal-owner, representing South Wales, ex plained how heavily the dues affected its mineral traffic. The TOWN-CLERK of Warrington expressed the feeling of the people of that town. Mr. SLATER, on the part of the Bridgewater trustees, took the same ground as Mr. Hull had done,—that the charge of Lord Denman, in 1835, did not decide the case of Runcorn. - Mr. FJREDAY SMITH explained how the dues tended to give an advantage to other ports. The import of iron into Runcorn had been reduced, within the last few years,from 74,000 tons to 66,000 tons per annum, whilst the import of Fleetwood had largely increased. Mr. BUCKLEY, of Ashton, stated that the d !es paid by Ashton, Staleybridge, Glossop, and the district, amounted to £2,500 a-year. Mr. LIVESET, of Rochdale, entered into some statistics with respect to that town, which, he says, pays £1,300 a-year to Liverpool. The inquiry was then adjourned until Thursday. SECOND DAY, THURSDAY, APRIL 13. On resuming the inquiry this morning the commis sioners were addressed at great length by Mr. SIIIITTLEWORTII, the Town-clerk, who appeared on behalf of the Corporation, in defence of the town-dues, and to answer the objections which had been raised against them. Mr. Shuttleworth's remarks were chiefly directed to what had been advanced by Mr. Heron, the-Town-clerk of Manchester. He contended that the Corporation of Liverpool had as good a title to these town-dues as any nobleman had to his estate. In illustration of this he referred in general terms to the question of title, declining, however, to go minutely into it, as that was not a tribunal entitled to take cognizance of the right which Mr. Heron impugned. At the previous inquiry the commissioners had expressed themselves satisfied with the information he had given on this point; but if they thought that, in the responsible position in which he stood, further in formation was necessary, he should be glad to afford it. Nothing had been brought before the present commission with reference to these dues which was not laid before the court at the trial in 1833. He had gone carefully through the evidence, and had found that every point urged on the previous day was urged also on that occasion. He re peated distinctly that the Corporation had as good a title to the property in these dues as any gentleman had to an estate or property of any description whatever. The right was purchased from Lord Molyneux, who held it from the Crown, in the year 1672, and from that date it might be stated that the commercial prosperity of Liverpool com menced. In the year 1710 the Old Dock—the first dock for commercial purposes ever constructed in .England— was formed on the site on which now stood the Custom house, and from that time to the present continued im provements had been made in the port for the benefit of the public. Neither had the Corporation of Liverpool confined themselves to Liverpool in making these im provements. They had looked far beyond the borough, and had made great sacrifices to promote and extend the approaches to the town from Manchester and the manu facturing districts. The Corporation had been parties to the construction of several canals for this purpose, the Sankey Canal among others, and in order to enable them _to do this, they had sold land to the value of £185,000 in order to pay for the works. He maintained that these dues were not oppressive, and the immense amount of trade with the port showed that they were not. It was. said on the previous day that these dues were the remnant of feudal ages, and that in no other place but Liverpool were they paid. This was a mistake, as such dues were imposed in a great number of other places. The learned gentleman then named a great number of other places at which town-dues were payable. The list included Bristol, Brid port, Beaumaris, Barnstiple, Cardiff, Chester, Hull, Folke stone, Haverfordwest, Swansea, and many others. There were also (the Town-clerk pursued) dues of this description payable in boroughs and inland - towns, as in Nottingham and other towns, to which he referred. In illustration of what the Liverpool Corporation were doing for the benefit of the general public frequenting Liverpool, he might say that at the present time they were about to have con structed a large landing-stage, at an expense of £130,000, which would cost about £7,000 per annum in management, &c. This had been found necessary for the accommoda tion of the public arriving and departing from the port. It would be constructed out of the town-dues, and no charge whatever would made to the public for the increased accommodation thus afforded. After some further ex planatory statements, the learned gentleman concluded his remarks by stating that he hoped the commissioners would think that he had sufficiently discharged his duty as the representative of that great Corporation. Mr. IlEnosr, Town-clerk of Manchester, in an address of nearly two hours' duration, replied to the defence which the Town-clerk of Liverpool had offered in support of the town-dues, and contended that the injustice of the tax remained unanswered. He concluded by stating, that the question would not be allowed to rest where it was. The commissioners' report having been presented to govern ment, ulterior proceedings would be resorted to, and he had no doubt whatever that the result would be the sweep ing away of the impost, as an injustice to the great manufacturing interests of the district. Mr. MILL, solicitor, next drew the attention of the commissioners to the inequitable operation of the dock dues as they applied to vessels entering the Birkenhead Docks. This he illustrated by a reference to the steam ship Brazileira, belonging to the South American Mail Steam-ship Company. The Brazileira never entered the Liverpool Dockg, but sailed from the Birkenhead Docks, where the dues had been paid. As she was going down the river, on her outward passage to the Brazils, a few packages of goods were taken on board from a flat, and in consequence of this, tonnage-dues to the amount of £45 38. 3d. were demanded and paid to the Liverpool Dock trustees, although she had never been in the. Liver pool Docks at all. The learned gentleman named similar cases of hardship as respected the steamships Lady Eglin, town and the Sarah Sawls. .Some further evidence respecting tote dock-dues having I% been tendered, the proce4 Ings were brought to close about two o'clock,, LIVERFOOL.TOWN COUNCIL ADJOURNED MEETING. AN adjourned meeting of the Council was.held on Wed nesday, his worship the Mayor presiding. The•attendance of members was so small as only to form: the- requisite number to constitute a council. • The proceedings of the Gardens and Church Expendi ture Committees were confirmed without discussion. In moving the adoption ,of the latter proceedings, Mr. HA.RMOOD BANNER gave notice that, at the next Council, he should move the election-of Mr. Braucker as a member of the committee, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the death of the late Mr. Molyneux. The contract of Mr. Brakell, , for printing for the com mittee, and that of Mr. Harris, for supplying stationery, were accepted. The proceedings of the Water Committee having been read, Mr. HOLT, seconded by Mr. WAGSTAFF, moved their adoption. Mr. BrGlum wished to know if the law expenses _in curred in defending certain contracts had been paid, and also the amount of such expenses. _ _ Mr. HOLT replied that the expenses were justly charge able on the contractors ; and, if it was the pleasure of the council, they could stop the amounts from the contracts. The probable amount would be between £2,000 and £3,000. There was a considerable margin due to the contractors, and the Council had the power to stop the money when ever they thought it desirable ;_.but he would suggest to the Council not to be too rigid in thematter. Mr. BIGHAM suggested that the exact amount should be ascertained, and placed to the debit of the contractors. The Minos, observed that the• Town-clerk had stated that the accounts were not yet in.; therefore that could not be done. The proceedings were then confirmed.. Mr. PICTON, in moving the confirmation of the Library and Museum Committee's proceedings, said, in reference to a letter from the Secretary to the East India Company, that the committee had received a great• amount of kind ness, courtesy, and liberality from. them. With reference to the:purchase of the Model of - Ancient Liverpool, Mr Picton said the committee had no funds, although the model would be a desirable adjunct to the one now in the museum. The price, if the Council thought the purchase desirable, would be a subject for negociation. The matter of the purchase of the Model of Ancient Liverpool was referred to the committee to ascertain the price, after which the proceedings were confirmed. Mr. WOODRUFF, in moving, the adoption of the pro ceedings of the Hackney Carriage and Licensing Com mittee, directed attention to a recommendation not to make any reduction at present in the rates of charge for cartage within the borough. After going fully into the matter, and having interviews with the parties interested, the committee had come to the unanimous opinion that it was inexpedient to adopt any reduction in the rates of charges for cartage at the present time. The proceedings were then confirmed. The proceedings of the• Baths Committee having been read, Mr. WAGSTAFF, seconded by Mr. JEFFREYS, moved their adoption.—Mr. HOLT called attention to the ap pointment of Mr. and Mrs. Clarkson, late of Cornwallis street baths, to be master and matron of the Frederick street baths. He regretted that Mrs. Wilkinson, who had been the means of introducing wash-houses and baths, and who was now in destitute circumstances, had not been appointed to some situation connected with the baths, and moved that the Baths Committee be pleased to give the matter their consideration, with a view, if not of giving Mrs. Wilkinson employment, of providing some remuneration for her, even if it should be a small retiring pension. —Mr. HORSBY seconded the motion, and after a reply from Mr. WAGSTAFF, Mr. Holt's motion was carried, and the proceedings confirmed. The memorial of the dock-gatemen of the River-craft Dock was referred. The motion of Mr. EARLE that a sum, not exceeding £lOO, be placed in the hands of the committee appointed by the inhabitants of the town, at the meeting convened by the Mayor, for the purpose of reporting on a compre hensive plan for the improvement of the town, towards defraying the expenses of that committee already incurred, and of preparing and printing the report which is to be laid before the inhabitants at a future meeting, was, after a smart and rather personal debate, negatived by twenty six to nine. The Council then adjourned. LIVERPOOL SPRING ASSIZES. NISI PRIUS—TITESDAY, APRIL 11. (BEFORE BARON PLATT.) In THOMAS V. RUSSELL, a verdict was returned for the plaintiff; damages, £5O, and £6 10s. for the value of the oysters. In WEBB V. EVANS AND ANOTHER, the plaintiff, an ac countant and estate agent, in this town, sought compensa tion for certain damage alleged to have been sustained through the negligence of his attorneys, the defendants. A verdict was returned for the plaintiff, damages 40s. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12. COLLISION CASIL — RODRIGUES v.IIfELIIIIISIi &OrrtEßs. The plaintiff Emanuel Rodrigues, a river boatman, was owner of an anchor boat called the John. The defendants were Messrs. Melhuish and others, owners of the ship Madilda Wattenbach, and William Jones, who was pilot on board the vessel at the time the occurrence took place which gave rise to the action. The circumstances of the case were the following :—On the morning of the 3rd of December last, the ship Matilda Wattenbach, of about 1100 tons, was lying at anchor in the River Mersey, ready to sail next day with the mails for Australia. The vessel had fouled her cables, and as the anchor-boat was proceed ing up the river to recover some lost anchors, those on board the vessel hailed her, and she went alongside. John Rodrigues, the captain of the anchor boat, (a sloop of 25 tons register,) went on board the Matilda Wattenbach, and agreed with Mr. Melhuish to clear the anchors for £lB, and his crew proceeded to do so. The wind was then from S.S.E., and the tido had been flowing for about two hours. The vessel's bow was to the northward, and the - boat's services were required to raise her starboard anchor. The boat's crew had been engaged in this duty about an hour and a half, and the boat's bow was pinned to the bottom of the river by the vessel's cable, when the vessel's ' helm was put " hard-a-port," at the order of the pilot, which had the effect of making the ship sheer with the tide, and she struck the anchor-boat. The larboard bow of the boat was stove in by the collision, and in consequence of her being pinned down and prevented from sheering also by the vessel's starboard chain and anchor, she careened over and sunk, the crew being thrown into the water and one of them unfortunately drowned. The boat was well adapted for the service in which she was engaged, and bad been raised since the collision, repaired, and since employed in raising anchors much heavier than that of the Matilda Wattenbach. The action was brought to recover the damage done to the boat, and the loss for some time of her services. The question was—who was to blame for the accident ? A number of witnesses having been examined, his lordship summed up, and the jury at once returned a verdict for the plaintiff. The amount of damages was agreed to be settled out of court. SHAW AND ANOTHER V. Moouii IND ANOTHER. — In this case the plaintiffs were manufacturers of canvas coffee bags, at Dundee, and the defendants were Messrs. Bramley Moore and Dickenson, Brazilian merchants of this town. The action was to recover certain alleged overcharges on the part of the defendants, in transactions which had taken place between the parties in., the consignment of the defendant's house, in Rio, of various lots of coffee bagging by the plaintiffs, amounting altogether to £7B 7s. 3d. After the case.had proceeded some time, plaintiff's council gave up part of the claim, reducing the amount for which the action was brought to £26. The jury returned a ver dict for the defendants, finding that they were entitled to 7f per cent. commission, THURSDAY, APRIL 13. OBLIGATIONS OF RAILWAY COMPANIES.—KIMPTON V. Thu LONDON AND NORTIIWBSTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. —This was an action for the loss of one parcel and the refusal to forward others by the above company. Mr. Watson said the plaintiff, Mr. Thomas Kimpton, was a carrier, who had set up in business in Liverpool, for the purpose of transmitting parcels to various parts of the country. The plaintiff undertook to receive goods and carry them cheaper than the company, by collecting par cels from various persons and sending them in one parcel. The company, Mr. Watson contended, were, by law, as commmon carriers, bound to carry for all who should em ploy them, and it had been decided in the courts of law that a railway company were not entitled to open an en closure, and charge for each of the parcels it might contain. Mr. Watson then said that the declaration contained two parts. The first was a claim for a parcel detained by the company and lost, the other counts were for refusing to carry, and injury by the loss of custom caused by the de tention of the plaintiff's parcels. The jury returned a verdict, gibing the plaintiff £23 damages for the loss of the package, and £lOO for loss and general damage, with leave to reduce the latter to 40s. This case concluded the business of the assizes, and the court rose about half-past one. POLICE COURT.YESTERDAY. STEALING LETTERS AT THE POST-OFFlCE.—Frederick Bentley, a clerk in the Post-office, who had been re manded from last Monday, was again brought up ; and it was proved that whenehe was taken into custody, on the night of Sunday week, two letters were found upon him. One of them appeared to have contained a shilling, which had been abstracted. The other, which was opened in the magistrates' room, contained 2s. 6d. and a piece of card (the five of hearts). It was addressed, " William Wiggans, at Joseph Natt's, 83, Crookhall-street, Salford, Manchester. It was signed " Mary Robbinson," and ap peared to have been sent by the female to her father. The prisoner was committed for trial. ANUNGRATEFKLNEPHBW.—John Toogood was charged with attempting to rob his aunt Mary Hurst, and vio lently assaulting her, in her own house, on Saturday night. She had brought the prisoner up, and apprenticed him to an engineer, and on Saturday night he went to her house to ask her for money. His aunt had been drawing eight sovereigns, a pension, from the Custom-house, and told him she had no change, on which he struck her down with a pair of tongs, saying, " I'm Gleeson Wilson, and I'll have your money or your life." Assistance came, and he was taken away. She hoped the magistrates would pro tect her from her nephew's violence, but did not wish him to be sent to prison. He was committed for three months, with hard labour. A PIG'S HEAD FANCIER.—Susan Banks was charged with deliberately walking off with two pigs' heads from a stall in St. Martin's Market, on Saturday night, with out the knowledge of the butcher, until brought back by a bystander. She was committed for a month. ROBBERY ON BOARD SHIP.—John Nolan, dressed as a sailor, but of thievish propensities, haying been previously convicted, was charged with stealing a coat from on board the ship Countess of Elgin, bound for New York. The coat belonged to Mr. James Hudson, hatter, Manchester, who came to see a friend off by the above vessel, on Good Friday. The prisoner offered the coat to pawn at Mr. Murdock's shop, Marybone, who suspected that he had stolen it, and gave him in charge. He was committed for two months. A SAILOR ON BOARD THE WRONG sllm— l John Bryan, a sailor, was charged with being found in the cabin of the John Morgan, wider suspicioue circuPstances, The pri soner was surprised immediately after he had effected ma entrance, and chased along several vessels before they could catch him. In defence he said "It's quite a mis take ; I was on board another ship, and they must hate-- caught the wrong man." He was sentenced to be impri soned for one month. STREET ROBBERY.—William Yeodley, Michael Eccles ton, Mary Grant, and Julia Cox, were charged with robbing Robert Richardson, a pilot, of about 15s. in silver, cat Saturday afternoon. Prosecutor was intoxicated at the time of the robbery, which took place in Blackstone-street Yeodley was acquitted, and the others were remanded for seven days. PICKING POCKETS.—Mary wcrisky, charged with picking the pocket of Alice Benyon of 7s. 6d. in Scotland road, on Saturday night, was remanded for seven days,. Mary Kelly, a well-known pickpocket, for robbing a woman at a pawnshop on Saturday night, was committed for three months. ROBBING AN EMPLOYER.—DanieI Briggs and Bernard Johnson, two lads who had been employed by Mr. Hunter,, ironmonger, Great Charlotte-street, were charged with stealing several articles from their master's shop. Johnson was discharged, and Briggs remanded for seven days. ASSAULTING THE POLlCE.—Michael Costello was con victed of violently assaulting Inspector Scott and some other policemen whilst they were apprehending a prisoner at his house in th e p ar k. H e was fi ne d 40 s. an d cos t s. — Michael Siz e , for assaulting Inspector Grace, by throwing a stone at him, whilst in the execution of his duty, was fined 10s. and costs. —John Abraham, charged with striking policeman 749 during a row in the street, was fined 6s. LIFE IN ATELBOURN.E. Tun following is a copy of a private letter, addressed tct a Norfolk clergyman by his son : " Melbourne is built on the slope of a hill, laid out in Yankee fashion—streets wide, and at right angles to emelt other ; none of the little twisting lahes that you see in al/ the great European cities. Many, in fact, most of the houses are of stone, or brick, and built in a very hand some and solid manner, and but few of the run-up wooden structures that you so often see in large American towns- I speak, of course, of the principal streets ; in the out skirts of the town there are the most extraordinary look ing, half-wood, half-canvass contrivances, you can possibly imagine, abounding in the half-horse, half-alligator genus of horno, that are fresh from the diggins, with lots of nuggets in their belts, and hair about their faces. The streets are crowded with drags of all kinds, carrying merchandise, omnibusses, and old-fashioned four-horsed coaches, rejoicing in names of bygone days in England— such as ' The Times,' ' Tally-ho, &c. ; carts with horses driven tandem-wise, and, in short, all sorts and kinds or conveyances. You may imagine the bustle of the place,. when I tell you that it reminds me of the busiest part of Liverpool in the busiest time. The horses and oxen are splendid beasts, and as fine as you ever saw in England, and I strongly suspect that, in sending emigrants here from the old country, you have shipped the finest men you could find, and kept the lean kine at home; for a finer and more robust looking set of fellows I have never seen than the draymen, porters, masons, carpenters, &e., that one sees about the place. The wages here would. frighten the `old Protectionist party;' a common hand gets 12s. to 14s. a-day; a mason, 255., and other crafts in proportion ; so you may imagine that for a labouring man. - it is a small, or rather a largish kind of paradise. Board and lodging, however, are frightfully dear, and the rents that are paid for houses are something quite incredible. I . was to-day in a gentleman's office who rents two rooms on. the first floor in one of the principal streets—one room. about 16 feet by 10, the other about a third larger; for these two rooms he pays £l,OOO a-year, and is considered. to have got a very cheap bargain ; iu fact, meney is spoken of as mere dirt. Men speak of £lO,OOO as you would speak of ten shilling s, and the sudden rises in. fortune from the lowest depths of poverty to actual. wealth before your eyes are astounding. A gentleman who came with me in the steamer, and who has friends and relations in business, told me this morning that a young fellow he had formerly known, who had left Eng laud without a sou ten years ago, and who had been pre viously employed in some shop or other as an assistant, had recently let some laud for £3,500 a-year, and held. some more that he had been offered £30,000 for. In fact, if I had been told in England what I know to be true here, I never should have believed half ; but one must come here, and then the reality of the statements is not to be questioned, as there the persons are. The conversation at the dinner table, and in the various rooms of the hotels, reminds me much of America, as nothing is dismissed that has not some relation or other to making money, and if you substitute the word ' pounds' for ' dollars, you might imagine yourself in a public room in New Orleans during the very busiest time of cotton specula tion. On dit, that more gold is being found than ever, and, if I might judge from what I have seen of the conduct of divers diggers I have seen-about the streets, they must have been singularly successful lately. These gentlemen patronize the most expensive articles that they can find,. and the way I saw a digger's 'lady' dressed up yesterday would (as far as richness of material and gold chains) cast into the darkest shade the most expensively got up belle at Almack's or the Champs Elysees. This morning I sane several fellows with beards of huge length, and moustache and whiskers to match, dressed in corduroy `smalls,' huge boots and a sort of blue blouse, with a belt round standing at the door of a public-house tossing nuggets in. their hands, some of which must have weighed several pounds, as carelessly as you see boys in England tossing atones and catching them, going to school. I spoke to one or two of them, and they were as civil as. possible, said. they were better off than they were in England, which I believed myself, and also said, which I did not believe, that. they intended ' some day' to put money in the savings'- bank. There are, however, many of the diggers who save their gold, but this other especial party will not leave their noblers' (which is Australian for brandy and water) till their pockets are at low ebb, and they have only enough to. carry them back to Ballarat or Mount Alexander. How ever, if people did not drink, what would become of the publicans ? which is a serious consideration, as here, and at Adelaide, every other house is; devoted to the retailing of spirituous liquors, which are drunk, as are also the cus tomers generally, on the premises. Storage is excessively high ! 2s. 6d. per week per ton is the general rate, and the same sum as entrance money. Land is worth in the main street £lOO a-foot frontage, and is bought at that price and turned to account, as stores and small shops. One small place you really could not swing a cat in, about eight feet square, is paying a rent of £lO a-week, and the occupant told me that he was quite satisfied, so I presume he `realized,' as the Yankees say. The shop was dedicated to the divinity who presides over tobacco—not bad tobacco, such as yolk - - see labouring men in England smoke, brit the genuine article in cakes from old Virginny," looking as strong and black as a copious infusion of molasses could make it, and which, in order to be fashionable, ought to be smoked out of a very short clay pipe, the shorter and blacker the better. The great drawback to the place is the dust, which blows in clouds, just the same as it does occasionally in Egypt ; but here, what with busses, carts, &c. , and a. strong wind to aid and abet, it give s th e place theappear ance of being in a thick fog, and is extremely annoying, as the dust is of a very subtle nature, penetrating every thing. The trade of washerwoman—now lam on dust— is an extremely lucrative one ; 12s. a-dozen articles, small and great, is the charge ; but at the hotel where I am staying, which is an ' aristocratic' one, the charge per dozen is only Bs., because, as the housemaid informed me, Gents is cleaner here, and wears more shirts.' " All this will give you some idea of the good town of Melbourne. Notwithstanding the enormous wages of masons, &c., they are hard at work in every part of the town in building shops, &c., and what they build seerns to be of a very solid nature, stone being the chief material used. They say that all these buildings are worth their weight in gold to their enterprising builders and owners; indeed, if gold should last, Melbourne will be one of the principal towns of the world before long ; it has every thing in its energetic, enterprising merchants and thriving shopkeepers, in its population, of ablebodied, money-get ting, and money-spending population, to insure success — magnificent land for cattle, corn, &c.—as back Country.. and, supposing gold were to fail, they say that there are mines of other metals which would be almost, perhaps better, being money certain, for the trade of the colony. " Hobson's Bay is crowded with shipping, and, looking from the town at it, it looks like the whole range of the London docks, as seen from the river ; such a collection of shipping together I have never seen at one coup The great difficulty is to get the goods up to Melbourne from the bay, as the river only admits of small schooners, &c. This is a heavy item of expense, as goods have to be shipped in lighters, and conveyed nine miles to their ware houses, although Hobson's Bay is only two miles from the town, the river widening like a labyrinth. A cut across the neck of land which divides the bay and town is a thing talked of, but is only talked of at present, as a ship canal for that distance would be a rather expensive under taking, as you may imagine from what I have toldyou about the price of labour. There are a great number of Americans in the place, who are spoken of by all as being the most enterprising set of fellows • they have already established an American line of coac hes to the bay and American. bar-rooms ; and American advertisements (the Yankees are great advertisers) are as plentiful as bears in some valley the name of which I have forgotten." HORTICULTURE. STOVE, CONSERVATORY, &C.—SO little change has taken. place for some time past, that we cannot recommend any other operations of importance. The cold winds have very much retarded the progress of vegetation, which is at least a fortnight later than usual, notwithstanding weeks of uninterrupted sunshine. Orchids particularly have suffered from the want of genial spring weather, and they will require much care to keep them from the:attacks of their various insect enemies, who will increase in propor— tion as they become unhealthy. Do not spare the tobacco paper, but fumigate thoroughly. Many gardeners are very fearful of giving air to orchids ; but it is a greater fault to withhold than even admitting it too freely. It is certain that nothing but good v entilation will preserve them in a state of health. FLowEE-GARDEN.--4uriculas are now in perfection , and, in order to keep them as long as possible, the frame in which they are kept should be shaded ; if possible, th e " should be placed on the north side of a wall, wh ere t eir i x beauty will be much prolonged. Keep the grams b the and verges well mown ; any neglect now Wil l s P ° grass perhaps for the whole season. ADMIRAL LOWE, who, although 83 years of age ; was In/ to the hour of his death remarkably active, expired sud denly on Monday, last week, at his residence, 16, Pittville lFade, Cheltenham. He had come down to breakfast at eight o'clock, and a few minutes afterwards was discovered. on his back, in the drawing-romn, quite dead. MR. HENRY UNWIN ADDINGTON has resigned hig office of Under -Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs he has held since March 4, 1842. Mr. Addington entered. the service of the Foreign office so far back as 1807. H e is entitled to his diplomatic pension after so many y ears . service ; and on his retirement has been elevated by the Queen to the rank of a Privy Councillor. Mr. Addin g is succeeded as permanent Under-Secretary o f s tate in. th e Foreign Departm ent b y Mr. Edmond Hammond, --- Tnenteesrdedayt.heTFhoerepiegtnit-iooffinicne petitioning Mr. Ma. C. J. MATTnEws, the lessee of the Lyceum is has been adjudicated a bankrupt, and w as p„p Th a p a eatre * ,„, Henry Lindus, described as a gentleman, of N o , 6, C iaro lll 9Ut•PlaCe, B.