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THE Ktlnrpooi #itanbarb+ TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1555 FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. MONDAY MORNING. ON CHRISTMIS-EVE the regal halls of Windsor are once more radiant with the smiles of royalty. On Friday, HER MAJESTY and her illustrious Consort, together with most members of the Royal Pamily, left Osborne at an early hour, and proceeded with as much expedition as possible, consistently with safety and comfort, to Windsor'Castle, there to celebrate the festive season of the year, and, as it is understood, to sojourn for the winter. In the quiet seclusion of her marine villa, HER MAJESTY has not lost sight of the double benefits conferred by those graceful acts of courtesy and kindness by which she has won her way and established herself in the affections of her people. Conscious that, from her exalted position, she is the fountain of honour, and deeply sensible that self-devotion to the public good, and the heroic exercise of unbought virtue, constitute legitimate claims on national gratitude, the QUEEN has taken upon herself a kindly recog nition of the invaluable services rendered by Miss NIGHTIN GALE to our sick and wounded soldiers in the East. HER MAJESTY has transmitted to Miss FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE " a jewelled ornament of great beauty, which may be worn as a decoration ;" and, with the decoration, has transmitted, likewise, an autograph letter, such as have on more occasions than one proceeded from the royal pen—such an effusion, indeed, as exalts its author as much as it must gratify the fair recipient of the favour. By such acts of well-considered grace and courtesy, our SOVEREIGN has on previous occasions deserved and won general esteem ; but in no instance will such courtesy meet with an acknowledgment at once so widely -spread and so deeply, as will be the national gratitude in this dignified recognition of the services rendered by Miss NIGHTINGALE. As the acts of this last-named lady stand out in bold relief among the noble deeds which throw a halo round our common buminity, and give a proud pre-eminence to such dauntless virtue as has braved the terrors of the pest_ house in rendering service to our disabled heroes, so also is the acknowledgment a fact per se unique and appropriate. She has been made the unprecedented recipient of a badge of honour in discharging the duties which beset the path of a chivalry whose ennobling characteristic is its exalted virtue and unobtrusive fortitude. Proud, indeed, she may be of the distinction, and proudly will her country hail its display. The past week, like its immediate predecessors, has been fertile in rumours and discussions relative to the probabilities of peace. Journals, in the interest of the Ministry, maintain that circumstances have now reached such a crisis, in the con test with Russia, as to insure the most favourable prospects of a speedy termination to the war. Those removed beyond the reach of ministerial influences are equally positive in their as sertion that the prospect of peace is, at present, an exceedingly remote one. In some of the clubs, it is averred that the peace prophecy is a ministerial ruse, intended, by some occult pro cess, to insure them an amount of popularity which they sorely need, and which there seems, at present, but little chance of their receiving. One on dit among the club habitues is, that Lord PALMERSTON has been calculating how long the odds are against his forming a profitable coalition with Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and that he finds the little lord backed by such a following as would make him formidable in spiteful opposition ; and somewhat useful, if he and his coadjutors could be secured as aides. The chances, it is said, have been calculated some what after the following fashion. If the present peace projects meet with a favourable reception from the CZAR, Lord JOHN will be solicited to join in the formation of a strong govern ment on peace principles : if they meet with little countenance from the Autocrat, then the noble biographer of CHARLES JAMES Fox and TOMMY MOORE will be permitted to demonstrate that his "post of honour is a private sta tion," the right honourable member for Tiverton endea vouring to patch up his popularity by an appeal to the coun try on a determined anti-Russian war-cry. Those professing to be well acquainted with the state of matters and of feeling in Russia, say that the CZAR himself and the aristocracy, as well as the majority of the Russian people, are decidedly in favour of peace ; but that the aristocracy of the Court, in other words the representatives of the factions which assassi nated PETER 111. and murdered PAUL, are opposed to peace, and that the CZAR dares not to go against their wishes. The pecuniary pressure occasioned in Russia by the expenses of the war and the annihilation of commerce, is represented as oppressive in the highest degree. The imperial Princesses are reported to have sold their diamonds, and to have con tributed the purchase money to the empty coffers of the state. The great landowners it is well known are reduced to pressing straits by the withdrawal of so large a portion of the serf Population from the culture of the soil, as has been absorbed in the requirements of the war, while heavy exactions in men, money, and commissariat stores still continue to be made on them. Under such circumstances, a retrospective glance tends considerably to favour the opinion of those who believe that the CZAR and a majority of the Russian people would wil lingly listen to terms of accommodation, one chief objection to which, in addition to the opposition already referred to, is the assumption of infallibility by the CZAR, as the vice-gerent of Heaven, and the accredited interpreter of the divine will upon earth. Opposed to this pretence there is of course the loss of prestige sustained in numerous defeats—in the inva sion and capture of territory—in the destruction of a stupen dous fortress and mighty arsenals—the extermination of the Russian Black Sea fleet—and in the destruction of vast stores of provisions. To counterbalance all which, there is on the Russian side only the solitary success at Kars. A success laid by many individuals of weight, and intelligent on such subjects, entirely at the door of the British cabinet, by their remissness in having timely snccours forwarded to the relief of the brave defenders of that fortress. One good may, however, even arise from the misfortune sustained in the loss of Kars. The CZAR, has pompously declared that Russia would never make peace after defeat ; and this semblance of victory may furnish the haughty bar barian with a.pretext for doing that with the semblance of a good grace which most thinking men in Europe believe he has been cudgelled into a sincere desire to accomplish. What may become of the negotiations which seem really on foot, it is no easy matter to conjecture ; great suspicion of their value, however, exists in many quarters, on account of their supposed origin in Austria. In the peculiar circumstances of the case in which the Emperor ALEXANDER is placed by his antagon ists, if he is a prudent monarch, and a free agent, and they willing to grant him the terms of peace which it is said have been proposed, he will at once accept them, as infinitely better than anything he can reasonably hope for from a continuation of hostilities. In the meantime the cloud of his destiny seems to be darkening and closing round him. A treaty has just been concluded between the Western Powers and the Kingdoms of Sweden and Denmark, which must have the effect of greatly circumscribing the power of Russia in the Baltic. More im portant provisions than those published are said to furnish material for some secret conditions which it is rumoured bind the Scandinavian Governments to active operations against Russia in the spring. An important treaty has also been con cluded between France and Persia; but whether the clever Government of Britain has been sharp enough to effect a treaty of a similar character with the Court of Ispahan or not, has not been permitted to transpire beyond the secret pre. cincts of the Cabinet. While diplomacy is active at home and abroad, with a view to bring about a peace, preparations for the next campaign are being carried on with great vigour in both France and England; and if, as is rumoured, the Swedes and Danes are to furnish a hundred thousand men to carry on hostilities in Finland against Russia, the Baltic campaign of 1856 will, without doubt, be productive of different results from those of the present and the past years. In the Crimea our brave soldiers appear to be making the most of the winter quarters into which they have dropped. It is pleasant to learn, as one does by the arrival of each suc- Teeding narrative of events, that the army, if not absolutely " in clover," as the phrase goes, is in a state of comfort which, in comparison with its predicament at this time last year, savours of Elysian enjoyments. The grog shops, those fruit ful sources of evil in the camp, are being rigorously visited by flue and deportation, as a protection to the non-commissioned officers and privates ; and the officers have found leisure and sufficient spirit to get up well-contested steeple-chases, and to start a jockey club, a happy contrast to the miserable details of suffering, want, and death which flowed in so heart-rending and continuous a narrative twelve months ago. The spirits of the Allied armies in the Crimea are buoyant, and their health. good. Food, clothing, and shelter are plentiful in the British camp ; and, with these in abundance, the incidental severities of Crimean winter form su b j ects of gay discussion and ,musing comment, instead of grounds of agony and sources of despair. Crime Allusion to the an winter brings forcibly before a n intelligent and sensitive public the fact that London hasbeen neat was the deg ree v i s ited by a frost of int ense severity, So g of cold that, on Wednesday night, the thermometer at the Humane Society's receiving-house, in Hyde-park, indicated a temperature of twenty-three degrees, or nine degrees blow the freezing point. On Thursday and Friday numerous par ties of skaters enjoyed their favourite and invigorating pastime on the ice in the Regen t ' s- P ark and the Round pond in Ken sington-gardens. Plenty of tumbles and some immersions took place. An incident occurring at the latter ice occasioned some anxiety at first, but this afterwards gave place to less painful emotions. A gentleman, evidently an adept in the skating art, and an enthusit, as the event, proved, fell through the ice, and was immersed up to the neck. After some little exertion he was dragged out of the hole and placed upon the ice. Immediately on this being effected, he, with the most perfect nonchalance, handed his watch to a friend and quietly resumed skating, while the crowd by which he was surrounded lustily shouted " Bravo, the Hero of Inker man," he meanwhile dashing about On sounding skates, a thousand different ways, In circling poise, swift as the winds along. Having pursued this amusement for some little time, he took off his skates and ran homewards as fast as he was able, followed by the shouts of the amused multitude. ' The memorial from the colonels of the different regiments of the Guards to the QUEEN, praying to be put on the same footing as to promotion for service with the officers of the line, continues the subject of diligent rather than pleasing conver sation, particularly in military circles. The memorial and its prayer are still felt to be invidious, and the subject has fur nished material for some severe hits at the PRINCE CONSORT. In particular, Punch drives hard against the illustrious Field- Marshal in lampoon and by caricature. The incident alto gether is one which it is to be regretted his Royal Highness had anything to do with. It has already brought his name into unpleasant connexion with various matters which the profane do not hesitate to denominate "military jobbery," and within the last few months " the system" has had so much and such deserved obloquy heaped upon it, that to push such things further was, to say the least of it, indiscreet. Many a veteran officer repeats with a feeling as much akin to anger as jocosity that the system must indeed be bad which can extort a pathetic complaint from Prince ALBERT and the Duke of CsisinntnGE relative to the slowness of promotion ! From the contemplation of hardships so seriously and justly complained of, and so modestly put forth by the two royal soldiers referred to, the transition is as gratifying as it is almost novel, to turn in contemplation to the handsome meed of public regard bestowed on two literary campaigners of ac knowledged skill and merit. Ch A.RLES DICKENS has made a vigorous sortie from his literary ambush, and successfully lodged 35,000 of his skirmishing corps within the defensive lines of a grateful public in the shape of the first number of his "Little Dorrit ;" and, more marvellous still, Mr. IVIACA.ULAY has been equally fortunate in planting a doubly numerous brigade of his heavy troops upon an indulgent world in the form of two volumes of his " History of England." Book sellers ' circulars and publishers' notices make au admiring public familiar with the fact that 35,000 copies or 70,000 of these volumes have found ready purchasers in the British pub lic. More than this, the ready-reckoners of literary dealers have brought within easy knowledge of the same public the numerous tons and hundred weights—the many cubical yards of solid content comprised in the mighty cube of such a his torical issue, and the public has accordingly stared with due amazement at the figure of the statists; the figures of the histo rian many of them have prudently left forfurther consideration. To attempt criticism upon an author whose labours are trans ferred by tons, or to question that popularity which is piled in pyramidal acres, would be as unwise as fruitless. Even at the I risk of being charged with rashness, it may not be altogether an act of temerity to glance at a few of the illustrations of this really pictorial, if not also fanciful, History of England. The first fact which strikes a general reader is the operose verbosity and over-crowding of the panorama. The scenes already painted stretch over a period of twelve years, are represented iu four ponderous volumes, and have taken the artist seven years in their elaboration. At the same rate of progress, the remaining hundred and fifty-eight years will occupy a period of time which will land Mr. MACAULAY in an epoch of his life entitling him to rank among the patriarchs. The volumes now issued sustain their author's claim to being an artist of gigantic effort, while they at the same time lead to a suspicion that his nude philosopher from New Zealand, whose anticipated advent has given such dire offence to the patriotism of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, will have completed his meditation upon the ruined arches of London Bridge, before the historic scenery has been brought to a close. The key of this grand historic pageant, so far as it has yet been proceeded with, is Whiggery. During the eight years treated of, in the last portion of this history, there is but one grand figure and many subservient ones exhibited. WILLIAM 111. is not dis played as a giant among giants ; the surrounding actors in the great state pageant are purposely dwarfed to enhance the magnitude of his proportions. Of the vigour of his fancy sketches few can doubt, although many will be prepared to dispute their accuracy, and still more numerous will be those who condemn their spirit. His hatred of the Duke of MARL BOROUGH leads him to disparage that hero in the most shame. ful manner. The portrait painted by MA.CA.ULAY of that most distinguished Englishman of his age is discoloured throughout. He is represented by this new historian as a hypocrite, a cheat, a murderer, and a traitor. "Avarice," says Mr. M.a.cAuL.ty. "is rarely the vice of a young man: it is rarely the vice of a great man; but MARLBOROUGH was one of the few who have, in the bloom of youth, loved lucre more than wine or women, and who have at the height of greatness loved lucre more than power or fame." His genius as a statesman is huddled over; his success and skill as a sol dier even, find no favour in the eyes of this historico-romantic limner, although both serve as a means to provoke enmity and stir malignity. "At twenty he made money of his beauty and vigour. At sixty he made money of his genius and his glory. The applauses which were justly due to his conduct at Wal court could not altogether drown the voices of those who mut tered that, wherever a broad piece was to be saved or got, this Hero was a mere Euclio, a mere Harpagon ; that, though he drew a large allowance under pretence of keeping a public table, he never asked an officer to dinner; that Isis muster rolls were fraudulently made up : that he pocketed pay in the names of men who had long been dead, of men who had been killed in his own sight four years before at Sedgemoor; that there were twenty such names in one troop ; that there were thirty-six in another." Not content with displaying him as a sordid pilferer, he next undertakes to represent him as a traitor. " MAnLponouon had never ceased (if we are to credit Mr. MAcAuLAY) to as sure the court of Saint-Germains that the great crime which he had committed was constantly present to his thoughts, and that he lived only for the purpose of repentance and repara tion. Not only had he been himself converted : he had also converted the Princess ANNE. In 1688, the CuuneulLLs had, with little difficulty, induced her to fly from her father's palace. In 1691, they, with as little difficulty, induced her to copy out and sign a letter expressing her deep concern for his misfortunes and her earnest wish to atone for her breach of duty. At the same time MARLBOROUGH held out hopes that it might be in his power to effect the restoration of his old master in the best possible way, without the help of a single foreign soldier or sailor, by the votes of the English Lords and Commons, and by the support of the English army," After a long and elaborately filled-in picture of the alleged. political and traitorous iniquities of MARLBOROUGH, a very large portion indeed of which is in truth a fancy sketch. by MACAULAY, more vigorous in execution than amiable in. design, the author of this truthful history gives the story the annexed peroration. He has been describing the unfor tunate expedition of TALmAsn; the return of his armament to Portsmouth; and the death of the leader of that expedition.. " TALmAan died, exclaiming with his last breath that he had. been lured into a snare by treachery. The public grief and. indignation were loudly expressed. The nation remembered. the services of the unfortunate general, forgave his rashness, pitied his sufferings, and execrated the unknown traitors whose machinations had been fatal to him. There were many conjectures and many rumours. Some sturdy Englishmen, misled by national prejudice, swore that, none of our. plans would ever be kept a secret from the enemy while French. re fugees were in high military command. Some zealous Whigs, misled by party spirit, muttered that the Court of Saint- Germains would never want good intelligence while a single Tory remained in the Cabinet Council. The real criminal was not named; nor, till the archives of the House of Stuart were explored, was it known to the world that TALMA.STI had perished by the basest of all the hundred villanies of MA.RLBOROVGH. Yet never had MARLBOROUGH been less a Jacobite than. at the moment when le rendered this wicked and shameful service to the Jacobite cause. It may be confidently affirmed. that to serve the banishedfamily was not his. object, and that to ingratiate himself withtlie banished family was only his secondary object. His primary object was to force himself into the service of the existing Government, and to regain possession of those im portant and, lucrative places. from which he had been dismissed more than two years before. He knew that the country and the Parlament would not patiently bear to see the English army commanded by foreign generals. Two Englishmen only had shown themselves fit for high military posts, himself and TALMASIL. If TALMASH were defeated and dis graced, WILLIAM would scarcely have a choice. In fact, as soon as it was known that the expedition had failed, and that TA.LMA.SII was no more, the general cry was that the King ought to receive into his favour the accomplished Captain who had done such good service at Walcourt, at Cork, and at Kinsale. Nor can we blame the multitude for raising this cry. For everybody knew that MARLBonouou was an eminently brave, skilful, and successful officer : but very few persons knew that he had, while commanding WILLIAM'S troops, while sitting in WILLIAM'S bedchamber, formed a most artful and dangerous plot for the subversion of WILLIAm's throne ; and still fewer suspected the real author of the recent calamity, of the slaughter in the Bay of Camaret, of the melancholy fate of TALmAsn. The effect therefore of the foulest of all treasons was to raise the traitor in public estimation." The preceding are a few of those historical pictures which a discerning British public is pleased to laud and to admire—to pile in ponderous masses—and to purchase by the ton ! THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Enough, however, of the splenetic and gall-discoloured pic tures—of the " laboured antitheses and simulated fervour" of liticauLAr. Such a writer lacks the first elements of a historian—sound judgment and calm wisdom are not ingre dients of his mental nature. The vindictive political partizan— the, unscrupulous declaimer—and the man to whom plausibly propounded theories are more valuable than well-accredited facts may hail him as a brother and a friend. To the lover of truth and the admirer of simplicity and earnestness, the elabo rated distortions of MACAULA.Y must ever be objects of aver sion and dislike. From the success of a living "liberal author" to the death of another is no very violent transition ; on Tuesday morning, at an early hour, SAMUEL ROGERS, the poet of " Memory" and the versifler of " Italy," closed his earthly pilgrimage at the advanced age of ninety-three. Born in affluence and naturally possessed of a good taste which he sedulously culti vated, Mr. ROGERS was the intimate friend of the most cele brated men of the present and a large portion of the last century. He was an eminent artistic connoisseur—an unos tentatious patron of genius —and a much esteemed companion. His easy fortune enabled him to indulge in literary expendi ture such as few worshippers of the Muses can enjoy, and he freely expended on the publication of his poetry sums which to ordinary ears must appear fabulous. As an illustration of this, it may not be uninteresting to state that on the poem of "Italy" which he had published in a style of unique beauty and rare elegance, he exhausted his large stores of artistic decoration. It was printed with the greatest care, and profusely embellished by engravings from designs by Mann; and STOTHA.RD, the cost of the edition being not less than £lO,OOO. The work has now become scarce, and in all proba bility will soon form an object of keen attraction to the col lector of elegant books. He was eccentrically liberal in the display of his patronage, and many a son of genius was in debted to him for a large share of unostentatiously conferred bounty ; notwithstanding which, he was occasionally whimsi cally uncourteous, and pettishly resentful of any proffered aid in personal difficulty. NUMBERING OF THE STREETS. AT the meeting of the Health Committee, on Thursday, the following report of the borough engineer, on the numbering of the streets, was read : In again submitting to the committee the lists prepared for the adjustment of the numbering of the houses in the borough, it may be well to recapitulate the substance of my former re ports of April, 1853, and July, 1854, explanatory of the prin ciple on which those lists have been prepared. Ist, The Town-hall is assumed as the centre point, and in every street the numbers begin at its end which is nearest to the Town-hall. 2nd, The numbers are so arranged that the odd numbers are on the left, and the even numbers on the right, in going from the Town-hall. 3rd, Where very little irregularity was found, the correction has been made by adding a letter to the duplicate numbers, as No. 1 and No. 4th, Where any row of houses forming part of a street is named terrace or place, such as Falkner-terrace, in Parliament street, or Crown-place, in Crown-street, the houses have been numbered continuously, as belonging to the street, and not to , the terrace. Thus, in Crown-place, Nos. 2:, 4,6, and 8 are pro posed to be 78, 80, 82, and 84, Crown-street. 6th, When there is vacant land in a street, as many num bers are allotted to it as it could contain of houses of the aver. age extent of frontage of those already in the street. Thus, in Alfred-street, after No. 1, there is a space of vacant land 46 feet long, equal to the width of three houses ; therefore, as these houses will, when erected, be 3,6, and 7, the next number in order is 9. As another example of this, and of the disregard of places and terraces, take Hope-street, south from Canning street. Here the first house going southwards is. at present No. 1, Gambier-terrace, but in the list it becomes 41, Hope. street. At the end of Gambier-terrace, which is 57, Hope street, there is a piece of vacant land, extending all the way to Huskisson-street, 348 feet long ; this will contain 14 houses of 8 yards frontage, and, therefore, the first house beyond. Hus kisson-street is numbered 87. Such is a brief recapitulation of the principles on which• the lists have been prepared, and, if it is satisfactory to the com mittee, the work may be immediately proceeded with. As it is of great importance that the work, once begun, should be finished without delay, it will be advisable to divide• the town into districts,. and: to employ a large staff of joiners and painters, under the direction of the clerks who made up , the lists, and thus have the'work completed forthwith, in place' of having it executed by a small staff and extended over a long period. The clerk, with the•liet in his hand, will go over the• numbers in the street, markingthose which have to be altered,. and the workmen will follow and. make the requisite altera tion. Iron-plate numbers. will be• substituted for. iron-plate numbers, and painted and gilded. numbers for others of the like kind. It is right that attention should be. drawn to the communi cation of the postmaster, complaining of the serious inconve nience to which the public are expose.% and the great additional labour cast upon the letter carriers,.by the frequent repetition of a given number in the same street,. and the confusion and irregularity which prevail as to the.numl3ers generally. It is very difficult to form an exact estimate of the expense, as it is impossible to obtain data on which to found it ; but, taking the best means to avoid errorjcalculate that the actual work required should not cost more than £5OO. It will be necessary, also, to complete immediately the copies of the lists I have prepared, showing. the number of every house as it now stands, and as it will , bewhen altered, for the use of the post-office, the parish-officeythe Head Constable, the Town-clerk, and Treasurer. Th e expense o f prepar i ng the original lists of these copies is, of course, notrincluded in the above estimates. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIVENCE. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. Rev. H. De Foe Baker, M.A., to theCuvacy of Glooaton, near Market Harborough. Rev. H. B. Browning, 8.A., to the •Curacy of'Tinwell, near Stamford. Rev. C. H. Burnham, 8.A., to the Curacy oft Bozeat-with- Strexton, near Wellingborough. Rev. W. Carter, to the Rectory of Slingsby, Yorkehite. Rev. N. Challis, 8.A., to the Assistant; Curacy , of; Christ Church, Leicester. Rev. W. L. Clay, 8.A., to the Curaayof , Brixworth., near North ampton, _ _ _ Rev. G. P. Cordeux, M.A., Fellow , of Worcester• College, Ox ford, to the Incumbency of St. Leonard, New Malton.. Rev. G. Crabbe, jun., Rector of Merton,. Norfolla t lo be Domes tic Chaplain to the Right Hon. Lo r d Walslnglianu Rev. H. B. Foster, M.A., Rector , ot• Coln Rog,ers; Gloucester shire, to be Rural Dean of the Deanery of Cirencester. Rev. R. J. Haynes, 8.A., to the Curacy of Scalfork near Mel ton Mowbray. Rev. F. G. Hopwood, M.A., to Lite Rectory af , WinvFick, Lan cashire. Rev. C. A. Manby, 8.A., to the curacy of Bisbreoke, near Up pingharp._ _ Rev. K. Matson, M.A., Curate in the Cathedral: pariah of John, Antigua, to the Pastoral Charge of Tortola-and the Virgin Islands. Rev. J. Parr, 8.A., to the Curacy of sßadby.•with Newnhara. near Daventry. Rev. W. Rayson, 8.A., to the. Curacy aff St. Margaret's, Leicester. Rev. J. W. Richards, M.A., to.,the Perpetual, Chracy of the District Church of AU Saints', East Harnham,. in the pariah of &Word, near Salisbury. Rev..). S. Sitlebottom. M.A., to the Curse, - of. Canoes* Ashby , near Towcaster. Rev. W. Standen, M.A., to the Vicarage of Tarrant Moncktan , near Blandford, Dorset. Rev. J. H. Stephenson, Rectcr, of• Lyrnpshani, to. the vacant Stall at the Cathedral Church at. Wells. Rev. W. S. Trot man, 8.A., to.tbe Curacy afßast Haddon > sear Northampton. CLE MICA LADBITUA RY.. Dec. 15, at the Vicarage, Fillougley, in the-83rd.year of his age, the Rev. John Thickins, Vicar of Exhall and ,Fillongley,iss the county of Warwick. Dec. 5, at Sealyham, the RevAloa Edwards, Vicar et , Roenatrket anti Hasguard, South Wales, aged 44. Dec. 6, at Harwich, the Rev. Samuel Nevin, Roll, for, many years Vicar of Ramsey and Dovercourt-sum-Harwich,. aged so years. Dec. 11, at the Vicarage, Limb ir, Mcntgomeryahive, the Rev. T. G. Mouladale. Dec. 13, at the Vicarage, Church Town.„theMen,lantesPedder. M.A., Vicar of Garstang, aged 59.. DIOCESE OF CHESTER... - . PARPERMENTIL—The. . IV. L. Feilden,:has been nomi nated to the perpetuaLcuracy of Knowsleh.i2x. the county of Lancaster, void by the cession of the. Rev...F. a Hopwood : patron, the Earl of Derby. Value £3OO, with a house.—The Rev. L. F. Thomas has been licensed by the Bishop to the perpetual curacy of St. James's Church, Toiteth-park, void by resignation of the RTA Henry Hampton, upon the nomination of the Rev. T. G. Leigh, rector of. Walton.-on-the-Hill, near Liverpool, patron in right of his rectory. THE Bishop of Darharn, who, on account of his great age and increasing imilrnaities, is unable,. to perform his episcopal duties, has appoiated the Bishop of Manchester his commis, sary, and he wilh.for the future, adtaiuister the affairs of the• diocese of Durham. THE Bratorutc OF DIIRHAM.---It is understood that the Bishop of Durham has now actually made an assignment/ of the revenues of his see to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners,.in consideration, of an annual stipend of £B,OOO. The Newcastle Journal, in making this statement,, earnestly hopes that such vast surplus wealth may be Appropriated to "objects that cry aloud for help, and whose appalling condition reflects shame on our ecclesiastical institutions."' . A new church building effort in relation to the metropolis is in progress, Lord Robert Grosvenor being the moving spirit. The list of subscriptions commences with the Crown, £10,000; the Duke of Bedford,.Zlo,ooo; and the Marquis of, Westmin ster, £lO,OOO. The entire list, when the value of tb.e sites and promised churches, are reckoned up, reaches a total of more than, £60,000. The object is to collect £500,000, and to build 100 ahurches. RIGIETS TO PEWS IN PABISU CIIIIRCIM.-Dr. Philli more has given the following opinion as to the rights of pews in parish churches. Claims are made generally upon the fol lowing grounds, viz. : 1 Faculty, 2 Prescription, 3 Purchase. He says, " deal with the last first. Purchase conveys no title at all. No point of law is more clearly established than that the sale of seats in a parish church, unless under the pro. visions of a specific Act of Parliament, is absolutely illegal and nun, As to the title by prescription. A few may be prescribed for as appurtenants to a naessuage, but only to in habitants of a messuage ; therefore, the claims of one person to seats appurtenants to several messuages cannot be sus tained. The seat, if appurtenant at all, belongs to the inhabi. tants of the messuage. A title by prescription implies a faculty granted and lost ; therefore, there must be proof of repairing time out of mind—that is, beyond memory. Eighty years have been held insufficient to exclude the authority of the ordinary. It is, moreover, fatal to such a claim that the parish or other persons should have repaired the seat within memory. A prescriptive right requires the clearest proof by immemorial occupation and repair. As to the title by faculty. A faculty is a legal title to seats, if properly granted. It has, however, often happened that, on examination, the faculty has turned out to be bad—that is, to be granted to a man and his heirs. The correct form of faculty is to a man and his family so long as they continue members of a particular dwelling house in a parish. Parties claiming under these various titles must be prepared to substantiate, by legal rroof, within a reasonable time ; and, if such proof canno', be produced, verbal assertion is to be disregarded. And it must be re membered, by parties claiming exemptions from the general law, that the presumption of the law is against them." COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION. THE half-yearly distribution of prizes took place on Friday, the Lord Bishop of Chester in the chair. There were also present the Ven. Archdeacon Jones, the Revs. Dr. IWNeile A. Campbell, J. S. Howson (the. principal of the institution)' C. W. Underwood, A. Ellis, J. Herbert Jones, T. Bowman' W. T. Newenham, C. W. Lawrence, W. Pollock, D. Anderson, J. R. Corny, R. W. Riley, C. E. Titterton, and R. A. Gent; Messrs. Josias Booker, R. Aked, Joshua Rawdon, J. A. Tinne, and J. K. Rounthaite. After some introductory observations by the Right Rev. Diocesan, in which he took occasion to pass a high eulogium upon the Principal, and to refer with pleasare to the honours achieved at the universities by late pupils of this institution, the following prizes were distributed : A copy of the " Wellington Dispatches" to Master Sinclair, for the best essay upon " Great Battles." HIGH SCHOOL. CLASS PRIZES Prizes. Class I. Rawdon, G.... 11. . M`Neile, E. H Certificate. • Wainwright ▪ Wright, 1 Wilson, B. W. 2 111. ... Jones, R D Fairelough 111. (Modern)...Moore Newton; 1 Rawdon, F., 2 IV. Pendlebury Ramsay, P. IV. (Modern)... White Elliot V Crone VI. Moore, J. M Tarbet, E. VII Forwood Anderson _77 VIII. (A) Caw.. . ... .. ...... ......... (B) Kearsley, E SPECIAL PRIZES. Divinity Shaw, D M'Neile E. H. History Sinker Wilson , W. Mathematics Moore, J. B.' ' Archer French... Moore, J. B. (transferred to Wilson, 8.W.) Adams, 1 Pater, 2 Corran, 2 Newton, 3 ;...... ..... Sirdefield, 3 Morris, 4 Makin, 4 Writing .. .... ' Sole . .... Williams, 1 Jeredin, 2 Drawing—Aked, R. P. (transferred to Peel, J. C.)...W00d, 1 Rounthwaite, J. F., 2... Aked, W., 2 Tarbet, P., 3 Wilson, A., 3 Kirkby, 4 Maples, G., 4 Glynn, 5 EXTRA PRIZES. Donor. S'abject. Prize. Certificate. Mr. Ellis Greek Verse._ Wainwright.— „Rawdon, G. J.A..Tinne,Esq-Reading........Rawdon, G. / In eue, Clough s 24 ' The Principal-Good Conduct-Minton The V. Principal ~,. Eliot Mr. Hiley... ... . . Conor, W. H. Mr. Hart " „ Anderson Ferguson Mr. Vitoz French - ,Masfeile, E. H. MIDDLE SCHOOL. - - Class Prizes. ____ _ Certifrates. I.—Lobley IL—Witham lll.—Daly, A Prescott IV.—Finlay Jones, T.& [ V.—Daly, Arthur Vl.—Hughes, J. S. Vll.—Evans, J Vlll.—Edwards ~, Pearson, R. Special Prizes. Sp ec i a l Ceri ifi catesi. Divinity Medal—Tinling ~..,.West, Swift, T. W. Nomination to Upper School—Lobley Potter Scholarship—Rochfort History and Geography Medal—Maddocky F., Turner, F. Clayton, Prescott, indica Medal Mathematical and Arith- —Lobley Jones T. L. Webster `,R.- Ditchfield Frenck3fedal } —Garratt, J { Phillips, Welsh, Adamson, Finlay • Drawing. Medal--Witham...... I Swift, Polack, Gornall (Witham, Daly, A.,' I Fell, Brookfield, Pemnanship , ffediA—Nott Ditchfield, Cun ningham, Small page Reading-Prize—Shaw Lobley,„ Adamson Singing Prize—Lobley. Harrison, H. C. Extra' Prizes: .ExtraTertificates. Dr. llevins's Pfize,.Chemistry—West. Mr. J. H.COes.Pfizes;French { Daly, A. 1 Daly; ..a Brock Snuth,E.C. LOWER SCHOOL. Nominations-to tlierMiddle School Pelhar43. First Molyneux , Seholar Hasse% Seeond „ »• MARS. PRIZES. _ _ _ Prize. Cerlifierete. Chas I Mesall, W .Munday, R.. II Todk. M. ............ ...... West, C. P.. 111 Jtmee, M Taylor,. W.- S. IV LaltA. J.... . . ....... ...... Rain e, J 4 T. V . Franeeys, Al ..... .......Dunsfavd, .W. *I .. Tante' , J. H Rigby, lit: VII Maris;A; E. Guy, J. &- VIM Brown.l. Seholeield, J Tanner, G. , X; •, . Hudson, Xi - SPEOTAILEMZES. Certificate. Subject • Prize. J History . .... Green, W. P.' 1265h0p,, J. Lobley, Arithmetic, Halsall, W •Pelham, J. Bishop, Wright, P....Bishopi J,.,Blunday,R.,Taylor,WA. Drawing..—Pelham, (2nd class) Wright,.P4'- (3rd class) Dunn, 5..- EXTEA.. 4 PnITEESI, Donor. Subject. Prize. Certiffeater The Principal,- Botany... . .. --Soholefield, 'S. W. Choral Union... Gram. of Ilusic..,..aaysou, L... Westraora.,. Munday. Wagden. West,. C. P... ScholeSeld. Salisbzury._ M. Sears ... YrenehGram. lat clastaialsali,. W... Tyrer, Barka J. A. TinneiZ3q.Reading. 2nd ,„ Wright,. P...%(fritham„Toddi Mr. flarper:Pteetry. , OERTIEICATESIaSS. L. Pelham, Halsalh; Witham, Pelham, F. ; 111. Angus,. Ititson • IV. Dorman, Newsome, Evans ; V. Wilby,. Edge-- VI. B ateson, Darter, Wilton ; Winstatiley, Lwid , „..Tonalinson ; VIII. Hay— wood, Jones-, W. Mewling ; IX..Hudsou,„ Jones, H. SpEnLuss , CE3r3illelCATES.—Class. L ; 11. T.3(1414. 111. Wighton.;: IV. Wild ; V. Tattershalt ; VI. Jones;;VlL Cowlrick ; WIL Cooper, W. ; IXl,,MishelL • MapPrzus--,. CELETIFICATES.—€I&SS , L. Halsall • 11. Todd:;. : 111. Edwasda;. IV. Kidd; V. Horsham; VI. Tuner; VIZ. Brown, T. ; VIII. Callaghan. On the proposition of the VemAMhdeseon JONES, scsonded; by the Iter:-Reetor CimPiux„airote , of thanks was giv,enr, to, the Bishop otChester, and the w ooeedings terminated:. with, singing the-doxology. ST...ALA-61M THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE; BIRKMTHEAD. MICHAELMAS TERM EXAMINATION, 1855,:. PRINCIPWS PIIBLECTIOIMp-Firai Term: First Class-- Phillips, Guest, Firth, Connell,(Equ..), Featherstone (Egli...) Second Class , -David Tentschl, Thomas, IL Davies, Bartley, Ford. Third Class—Jones, Thornley„ Lam bert, Fox, . Sewell. Second! Term First Class.—Foster.. Second Class— Pashley, Kilbride„ Gwynn, Lucas,. Parker, Lloyd. Third Class—Trevethan.. Third Term: First. Class —Butterworth, Girling, Li6biccott6, Walker, Edwards., Second: Class—Archer, Rutherford,. Flynn Rogers. Third.4Class,— Coghlan, R. Richards. Fourth, Tern : First Class:—Banning (Schl.), Snow (Hon. Schl.), Bevan,. Lingley. Secend.Class,— Lindsay. Think, Class—Watts. Fifthr Term:- First Williamsass—liarte, Evan Davies. Second Class.—Sharpe- Sixth Term: First Classm-Dingle, Hill, Saunders,..Swanew. Second Class—M`Carthy. Gar.nu.i.rits.— Third Terns. First, Clasa-Cavon,. Trinity College, Cambridge; Jollassea....l 3 4 l l . l AV esi n l l l 2 , o - 2 1:: sity ; Ba.ylee, 8.A.., Trinit l y Colkelge: imp s ee a claws—Cleland,.,.Tinny ty College, Dublin. Third Class,-Lambriek, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin. Trinity College, Dublia,. examination interrupted. Siva Texts: First Class—Bodington, 8.A., Trinity College, Dub lin. Second Class —McClean, DA., Queen's Universiay. Et#ICTITEER IN DITINITY.— First Term : : First Class-- Phillips, Guest. Second: Classy-Firth, Vale , . Conned, Ford. Third Class — Teutschl,Yeatherstone, David Eic,barda t liartley, Thomas H. Davies, Lucas,. Lambert. Second: Teed:: First Class—Pashley. Second.Class—Foster. Third Class—Lloyd, parker, Kilbride, Gwynn. Third Term :Fklt Class—Girling, Jiittleeott, Walker.. Second Class —Butterworth, Flynn, Rutherford, Rogers,. Edwards. Third Glass—Archer, R. Richards. GENERAL Ex .01„//11.220N.—FIRST ban.—First Class: Girling. Second. Class : Littlecott. Third, Class : Walker, Butterworth, Rutherford, Edwards, Rogers, Archer. Fourth, Term; First Class—Banning (Schl). Second Class—Snow, (Hon. Schl),Williams. Third Class—Liagley,Lindsay, Watts., Fifth Term :. Third, Class—Sharpe, Davies, Harte. Sixth Term : First Class—Dingle. Secor4 Class—Hill. Third Class—Saunders, Swallow, M`Carthy. GuinuAns.—Tkird Term : First Class—Johnson, Dix.. London University. Second Class—Carlon, 8.A., Trinity. Col lege, Cambridge; Baylee, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin. Fifth Term : Second Class—Cleland, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin. Sixth Term : First Class—Bodington, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin. Second Class—X`Clean, 8.A., Queen's Uni versity. GltitllNAL EXAMINATION.—SSCOND YBAII. — SeCOMI Class: Dingle,Hill, Saunders. Third. Class—Swallow. GRA.nnAns.—Second Bodington, 8.A., Trinity Col lege, Dublin. Third Class : McClean, 8.A., Queen's 'Univer sity. Willis, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin, prevented from attending the examination by illness. Bevan (Fourth Term) xpotat._ N.B.—The examination, for Supplementalists is appointed for the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and sth of January next. The Lent Term opens on the sth day of January, and Lec tures commence on the Monday following, on which day all students are required, to be in residence. JOSEPH BAYLEE„ D.D., Principal. December 22nd,, 1855. TILE following is not the least remarkable among the numerous extraordinary Cures without Medicine effected by. Du Barry's delicious Health-Restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, of Indigestion, (Dyspepsia), Flatulency, Constipation, Nervous, Bilious and Liver complaints, Cough, Asthma, Consumption and Debility.—" Maastricht, Holland, 7th Aug., 1854.—My daughter Vlrginie bad long been consumptive, with diarrhea and night sweats, and was in July last reduced to such a state of prostration and exhaustion, that our medical men agreed that there was no hope of recovery left, and that she could not survive many days. Upon the recommendation of a friend, we tried Du Barry's Reva lenta Arabica, which, to the astonishment of all, caused an im mediate change for the better in the symptoms. After the first few meals she felt less miserable, and in six days the diarrhea and night sweats had left her. She gained strength gradually, and in two months' time was perfectly well. Thisexcellent remedy deserves to be more generally known, and I consider I am only discharging a most sacred duty in recommending it to all sufferers."—For further particulars respecting this invaluable Food we beg to refer our readers to Du Barry's Advertisement in another part of our to-day's paper. IMPORTANT CAUTION against the fearful dangers of spurious imitations .—The Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood granted an Injunction on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Nevin, for imitating " Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food." LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. THE new market-hall at Bolton was formally opened on Wednesday by the mayor and corporation. There was a pro cession and collation on the occasion. Civic BANQUET.—On Thursday, the Mayor, John Stewart, Esq., entertained a party to dinner at the Town-hall. The guests comprised gentlemen resident in the town and neigh bourhood. Two Government contracts for biscuits have just been com pleted in this town—one by, Messrs. J. G. Brown and Co., of South John-street, for-250 tons, another for 100 tons, by Mr. James Gardiner, of Canning-place. THE CHARGE OF SWINDLING AGAINST A CLERGYMAN. - 7.--On Wednesday, the Rev. Michael Crotty was again brought before the magistrates at the Preston Town-hall, for obtaining money under false pretences. He was remanded for a fort night on his own recognisances of £2OO. PRIZES AT THE REV. W. C. GREENE'S SCHOOL, HOPE STREET.-Ist class, H. S. Samuel; 2nd, A. Logan, J. Eller shaw ; 3rd, W. Kilpatrick; 4th, J. J. Forshaw, A. A. Poole; sth, W. E. Mozley, H. Mitchell ; 6th, C. W. Stubbs. French prizes : H. S. Samuel, J. W. May, A. M. Black, J. L. Daven port. Writing prizes : A. Okell, F. P. Richardson. THE GROCERS AND SHORT WEIGHT.— The grocers of this town, who have formed themselves into an association, held a meeting, on Tue s d a y, a t w hi c h a co d e o f ru l es was agreed to. One clause of these rules is to the effect that all grocers shall give 16 oz. to the pound, including paper, and that all " short weight" offenders shall be prosecuted by Mr. Walter, the prosecuting solicitor to the Corporation. Loss OF THE MERMAID.—The screw-steamer Karnak, Captain Dubbing, which arrived here from Aleitandria on Tuesday, brought Captain Langlois and the crew of the sloop Mermaid, which foundered on the way from Seville to London, with a cargo of fruit. At eight o'clock on the morning of the 14th instant, in lat. 41 N., long. 10 W., the Mermaid sprang a leak, and sank in two hours afterwards. Before she went down the Kardnak succeeded in rescuing her crew. . STORM AT GIBRALTAR.—The serew-steamer Orontes, Capt. Haram, which arrived here from Constantinople and Smyrna on Tuesday,. brought intelligence of a very violent storm, which swept through the straits of Gibraltar, on the 10th instant. On that night the ship Georgina, Captain Parfitt, of this port, which had been discharging a cargo of guano at Valencia, and was returning here in balm t, was wrecked on the eastern beach near Tunara. Four or Ave other vessels were lying in the same position, and the storm has done much damage to the shipping at Gibraltar. TIM CORPORATION SCROOLS.—The prizes to the adults in the South Corporation School were distributed. one Thursday last by Mr. Wagstaff, who expressed the gratification he felt at seeing so many young men present, and recommended each to bring a companion with him the next half-year.. There , was plenty of room for double the number; and a full adult school would, he felt assured, afford the town council the highest satisfaction.. Mr. Wagstaff afterwards presented'. to , Miss Graham, the assistant teacher in the female adult school, a handsome writing desk, which the pupils had purchased, as an acknowledgment of their gratitude and esteem for the in struction she had= given them. LANCASHIRE irtrElltES• YEOMANRY CAVALRY.-011 day the inauguration dinner of the Liverpool troop of the Lancashire Hussars-was held at the New Brunswick Hoteb- Clayton-square, Sergeant-3,l*r Hall in the chair. Amongst the toasts were tin- health of " Lieut.-Colonel Sir Robert Gerard and the officers , of the regiment," and of "Captain! George Loch." A most agreeabile evening was spent, divers -- fled by speeches and sengsr-, and the company separated in the' best spirits. quite satisfied that the Liverpool troop would form a creditable additionttolbe . Laucashire Hussars. NEWSPAPERS VIA. PAlrvatm—ln eonsequence of the great , expense which has occurred. in conveying newspapers in the mails across the Isthmus of Panama,. it is found necessary, in order to cover the payment made for this service, to levy, in addition to any postage now chargeabte., a transit rate of 2d. upon every newspaper forwardediu the British mails by that route. The following is a table of therates which will in futurebe chargeable on the newspapers-in question, and it must be ebserved that such rates arrinulluases-required to be paid in advance :—To any British colony,. yid Panama, Bolivia, Chili'. Ecuador, 3d. ; Peru, 2 , di-• Sandwich Islands, rid California, 4d. ; California and firegon, when not specially addressed via the United States, 4tl.—Rowttusai HILL, secre tary. MR. &WARD OLIVER'S APFAMO—We understand that the statement which has been going-theround of the papers, to the effect that Mr. Oliver's estatowillunly - pay 2s. ed. in the pound4s.perfectly erroneous. Thetreditore have already received 24:. 6d.. in the pound ; and) additibny we may remark that all vessels belonging too the estate already sold, and purchased with his (Mr. Oliver's) bins at los. in the psuad, were purchased with tobanker E s• guarantee to return 24.. 6d.. iii the pound if the ' estate Pays. 7s. and ss. if it pays os. in the pound:- There l olio Ition Black . to be taken-into , ecnsideration the faet , that .the • freights v . e b s:e h ls amied in th o e , G er ov t e o rn ti n ie lei t l r tetti vte p es le . yl ilan.the , addition to this, there are also several ships belonging ttrtlie'listwte yet earning h in a g ve by ys t 110 unsold.—Manelzester Gtoardiart. WEST DREBE , GUAIIeiaTMIAiNS.—The guarifaine . proseat at the weekly meeting r on , Wetkesday were, the Rev: W:.-Badlutli (in the chair), and , Messrs.-Edwards, Lunt, Morr:4,l3irchAoherts, Shaw, Abrahams-- 'Taylor;. Balshaw, and Fittpatrick, The balance againstrille- treasurer was £2,434 5:5.. sd. Upon.. the motion of Mr.-alwards,. it was resolved that the inmates. of the Workhonee• and lionital be supplied wits roast beef and plum-pudding: on ChriStraos-day, as heretofore--It was moved by Mr. Edwa r idk secondett by Mr. Taylor, and resolvediunani mously, that the salary of Mr.. Peter Lythgoe r relieving,oftfter, be increased fromt£Bo , to. SNP per annum. The number of paupers relievad4hiring true last week, were 786. - iix•door r and 3,492 out-door,. total 4' 5 2j. being an mcreascfof , '3Biin-door, and 336 out-thori - -total. azz.;. when compared with , the: cor responding week:otlast year.. ST. AUGUsnetes.Stsmockais-The Christmas-examination of the children of St: Augustine's. National Schools:tea:place. on Thursday, in thopresenesof a number of the-friends-and. supporters of the.' school,. in, their school-room,,Salisbury street. There worempwards of 504 children present, all.look ing remarkably shun andlealtity. After being addressacband& examined in scrinterehistoeT by. the Rev. J. H. Jionesi M.A., incumbent of the-church,. and by the Rev. Mn. - .Titterto4 curate, several prizes were awarded. to those who lad distin guished themsekres thrmwhoat the year ingicriptuee. history and writing... Mr.. Whitley, Mr. Edwari i•Whitley„ and Mr. Whalley, were also , present„ and took an active part in the distribution, of clothing:to. those children who had. sub scribed to the clothing fund- Several hymns andisongs were. sung at intervals throughoutithe proceedings, coralndliw.with. the national anthem, accompanied on the organs .)y Mr.. Littler, after whiehothe children , were provided with buns.. GIZASE EXHNLTION.—OM Thursday evening z - Met,. Dr.. Fisher gave to hispgpils a grand. display of celestia:scenery, which was succeeded by a pith, variety of splendididissolving views, sacred, classical, and., modern,. Many instrzetive and, interesting experiments were, introduced. There was also an immense " Christmas treer adorned with numerous orris, meats and prizes, vhich a.Orded considerable amusement- During the musicr.suitable refreshments were served upin, abundance. On Priday morriingi.namerous costly prizesswere awarded to the 'successful competitors for the highest attain its in classics,-mathematias,neience, and generaLliterature, It is still reported that Dr. Fisher is about to rero.Asrom his academical labonrs.. This, we are assured, is incormt, for,that spiritedlgentleman haSjustnnrchased the house wilichlemow occupies, as weal as the extensive premises amiobservatory connected therewith, so that he may more fully effect every possible improvement. If spared„ he is fully determined. to carry on the establishment. with, renewed vigour,indalLitsv.a rious departmauts. Ties LATE J. B. YATEM , i..,Ef3QI,—The remains of. the. late Joseph Brooks Yates, Esq.,..PS.A., were on Tuesday interred in the burial .ground attached. to Park Chapel,,w.hiohis, the oldest ecclesitical foundgiOn,in. Liverpool nexito-theparish church of St . ..Nichoks. The:small, neat chap.A. , .vas.filled. by a congregation of friends. and. mourners. The- service• was performed by the Rev. John, Robberds, 8.A., thenainister of the place. The cemetery was,. within the recollection of many of the inhabitants of Liverpool, remarkable for ita-beamp , ful and retired situation. The-tombstones and ec l ennu . enl;s: bear_ the names .of a considerable number of the older f a milies the town. Mr. Yates is• busied with his father ; axtd. mother, and close beside is the grave. of his great grandfather,. Alder man John Brooks, who: was mayor of Liverpool, about the middle of the last century, and who is interred: hare with many of his numerous descendants. MECENICS' INSTnanozi DAY SCITOOLS.;--011 Wednes day the ; pupils attending these schools had...their usual re hearsalsf vocal musit,.preparatory to the Christmas vacation. The performances were under the direction, of Mr. W. B. Roger% the musical master, who presided at the , organ. The boys a/ the High School ass'mbled in the Lecture-hall,in the aftemon, where, in the presence of their parents and friends, they.aang a selectiou,of melodies adapted to the occasion. In the .evening the pupils of the Lower School gave a similar performance, in the-Lecture-hall, before a large audience, con sisting chiefly of their parents and friends. Mr. M`llveen, the Principal of the Institution, delivered, an appropriate address, in which., he directed attention, to the extension of education, more especially amongst the working classes, and the necessity of parents co-operating with the teacher in the training of the youthful mind. The. concert terminated with the nationakanthem. MEETING AT, WAVERTREE.—The aUurned meeting of the township of Wavertree was held caa,Thursday at the Lamb Inn. The Rev, Mr. Badnall, in the chair, stated the object of the meeting. After some time had. passed, Mr. E. Swindon moved that that meeting appoin4 a representative to the. general committee of the twelve townships, which was., seconded by, Mr. Fingland ; and haying been put, Mr. Bards•. well thought they knew too little of the objects of the com- mittee to enter into the present resolution.—Mr. Sleigh, said the object of the committee was to effect unanimous action, which would enable them to oppose the objects of Liverpool with greater effect.—The Chairman said that, until the pro posed bill should be acoessible,. there could be no object ha the assembling of the general committee; and it was understood that could not be had until about the 10th of January..—The resolution was carried unanimously. On the motion of Mr. Anderton, seconded by Mr. Gore, Mr. Chaffer was named representative of the township to the general committee, and the. meeting separated. SELECT VESTRY. — The Rev. Rector Campbell presided at the weekly meeting of the Select Vestry, on Tuesday, when it was agreed that ate inmates of the Workhouse should be regaled with roast beef and plum-pudding on Christmas-day. The proceedings of the Medical Relief Committee contained a letter from the Poor-law Board, which had been received by Mr. Robert Hutchison, the late churchwarden, who had been surcharged by the district auditor in a mu of £469, paid by him in accordance with a resolution of the Vestry, to the medical and other officers of the parish for their extra services during the cholera visitation of the autumn of 1854. The letter stated that the decision of the auditor was correct ; but, under the circumstances of the case, they were prepared to re mit the surcharge, in exercise of the equitable jurisdiction conferred upon them by the act of Parliament. The proceed ings were confirmed. The business was succeeded by two scenes relative to the " Bradley" dispute. The first ended by his name being added to the Special Committee appointed to inquire into the appointment of an out-door inspector ; and the second in the appointment of a committee to investigate the charges preferred against Mr. Bradley by the editor of the Chronicle, in his letter to the local papers, in which it had been stated that some of his Vauxhall Ward constituents im properly received parochial relief. On the motion of Mr. Owen, seconded by Mr. Woodruff, it was agreed to print 100 copies of a return, presented to the board, of the salaries of the officers in the pay of the parish. Mr. Denton gave notice that at the next meeting he would move for a return of the assessment revised during the last six months. This con cluded the general business, and the board adjourned, [DECEMBER 25, 1855. ON Friday, the steam transport Niagara arrived here _, l n i Kingstown, with the Roscommon militia, who proceene" during the day, by rail, to the camp at Aldershott. A MARBLE RUST OF Roscoß, by Davies, is now on view at Mr. Winstanley's Picture Gallery, in Church -street. Mr. Davies is one of the competitors for the execution of the Archdeacon Brooks testimonial. ON Thursday, a meeting of several members of St. Cher sostoin's Church was held at the Mill-road school-room, t o , form a Working- man ' s Ch r i st i an Association. The su bj e ct was cordially received and responded to. ~. ON Tuesday, several engineers were sent off from this toai , having passed examination before the admiralty agent and his officers. A number of shipwrights and caulkers are to he sent up hence to be employed in the government dock-yard a t Pembroke. SCALDED TO DEATH.—On the 11th instant, M ar y, the daughter of Patrick Donnelly, a labourer, residing in lifer bone, aged eighteen months, was so dreadfully s calded br a pot of boiling coffee falling upon her, that she expired O n Monday night. A PRIVATE in the Royal Marines, named John Hugbe g l who had returned from the Crimea on furlough, for the Pig; pose of visiting his friends at Guildford, county Down, Ireland 2 was found dead in a railway carriage, in which he arrived i" Manchester from London, on Friday morning. The cause of death was congestion of the internal organs, produced by ex' cessive drinking of ardent s pi r it s . The deceased was twenty' six years of age. THE NORTH AMERICAN MAILS.—A notice has been issuef l from the General Post-office, stating that the weekly 11 3 0 service to and from North America, by the British contract packets, will be resumed on the Ist January next, coo' mencing with the packet to be despatched from Liverpool to Boston on Saturday, the sth January, and proceeding alter nately to New York and Boston, and calling, on the voyage to the latter place, at the port of Halifax. The United States mail packets will sail every Wednesday alternately fro m Liverpool and Southampton, proceeding on each occasion to New York. REARING FESTIVITY.—The contractors and workmen en" gaged in the erection of the new pile of offices Dr building for Mr. Higgins, cotton merchant, at the top of Hotkin's-hey and Tempest-hey, were, on Tuesday, supplied with a sump" tuous supper on the occasion of the rearing. The repeat Wan served up by Mr. John Sykes, of the Durham Ox, B r owalow• hill, and the party nu m b ere d 85, i nc l u di ng Mr. Higgins. 31 c; Rome, the contracto r , occup i e d th e chair, and Mr. Unswort the vice-chair. The " Health of Mr. Higgins" was rePt u. rously received ; a n d th e company did not separate widowt acknowledging the excellent manner in which the chairman had discharged his responsible, yet agreeable duties. THE new-plat} iron mortar boat, built by M r . J o h n Lair''' which lately was towed to Portsmouth from Birkenhead, has undergone a series of effective trials within the past few &V: 5 at Spithead, which hate developed its warlike properties. 10° rounds were fired with 201 b. charges, and many of the roun ds in rapid succession, less'than three' minutes intervening b e. tween each discharge. The vessel is quite free from any injury beyond the bulwarks and some of the light framed wood work on deck. The mortar-bed was considered to, he rather too elastic, and sonteof the elastic material is now being removed, and another trial will then take place. THE cold, last week, was most intense. On Thursday night , water in bed-rooms, and even , milk in , larders, were frozen into solid blocks of ice. Ac cor din g t o • th e thermometer, the i, lowest range in still air was 24d abo ut Fahrenheit, and abo & or 10 degrees below that, where the thermometer was el: posed nill3.v, to the wind. The lowest range on Thursday , and daring Friday, was 19 degrees-Fahrenheit Severs n ' the public clocks, including that of St. NicholasYChneekrr,ere t stopped. The wind moderated con sid era bl y ow Friday, but the frost was still very keen. The - Curling- Cluir Have mei n " (Naughton-park several times. RWITORATION OP POLAND.--A public' nieetinW in favour. oftthe restoration of Poland w as h e ld i n th e C oncer t-ha m, Lued-Nelson-street, on Thursday. Thenttendance was large , about 2,508 persons being present. Dr. Games was Galled te' the chair.. Mr. Charles Milward moved , the first resolutiot ) ; whithiwas• seconded by Mr. Theophilus-Jones. Mr. Henry Smith,necretary of the Working Tail o rte*A ssoc i a ti o n move d the newt resolution ; which w as secon d e d b y Mr. 'Georg! Dawsoni, of Birmingham ; an d sup ported •by Mr: .10311 ) : Robinson;.Richmond-row, and Professorliarl .Retslag. . other speakers were Mr. Thomas Bott, Min:Jeseph and Aln'Eyre Evans. A vote of thanks wvet-then passed" t o ' the chairraan r and the meeting broke up. FIBE.--k little before one o'clock on- Fleiday inornitl'" police (Ober 4.3, discovered that the preraiies occupiet. Messrs, Blades, and Slater, ship-bakers, t :t•ron.d.- a street, _./ on fire. The fire brigade were speedily on- the spot ;.cl-7st plentiful supply of water being at hand, the fib, bY first was rather threatening in appearance, wa ,,, v ercome , four o'clock) The roof is partially of the wareh o use;. which consisted of flour , oatmeal, rice, 44 • - • • is either so bitent or damaged by the water to be useles&• Owing to the-intensity of the frost, the wa , te " r:• as it floss y from the building: into. the street, was almost t;immediate4 converted into ioe, rendering the dangerous. passage very I..4.3IENTALaZIr, ACICIDT3I.—A verdict of accid4ntal death was returned atan inquest held on Tuesday up3u , the body of na. the Alice Yates, aged 18 , years , the daughter of James Yates, carter, who li 7 GrarNo.4otdurt,Hornby-street_ The deceased had become thoroughly wearied with attending upon two other of the childree volicrwere prostrated by measles, and a third who, at the tiraciwas-lying a corpse in the housayand, having fallen asleep, liar dress-was ignited by a candle falling.upon it. Being awakened liy. the-pater, she screamed for assistance, and was at once conveyed to.the- Northern Hospital,. but expired in five and a-half hours after the accident, notwithstanding the efforts madetto retain animation. A subs-m*6on was entered into by the- jury for the relief of the przents of the girl. on T 0. 71 -*1". PILESENTATIgE , PAI4 TUN COLLEGIATE iNsTx sc h o l o Thursday, a deputation: of the masters of the taw— ater in presented Mr. A..Pdrkin, late English and classica' rn res sive that department ot'ithe instltation, with an addr ee a n of the pleasure with which they recalled their rg d agreeable intercourse- with hire, an d c on veying °l ie first —T wishes for his success- in. his new sphere of life. h , classical master of , the• middle school, in the course is remarks, complimented Mr_ Parkin on the efficient r aan eru c i which he had discharge& theduties of his appointrae nt ' u d a on the satisfactory improvement ethis pupils ; and--enac'iden by wishing him, in the name of the maiddle-schooliraager6, all happiness, and prosperity. - GABSTON.—On il'ilonday, lattwe was given at 'zhe. Garston Reading-room, by,the Rer,S.. Minton, to the worabig class es ' The subject was 'The great blessing and importance of the Sabbath." Afterva,brief introdmation to the meeting by the Rey. J. Gibson, the.. chairmam. the rev. gentlerezmproceed ed to his subject ; artbaftersetting forth the divine origin of the Sabbath, which ho.proved to. he coeval with th.e-ereation of man, proceeded M, Li; before- tkein,;ithMnel; iiTO; of argil" went, the immense.idvantages. resulting to sothaty at large , but more immediately to the• workiug classes, whose charter it more expressly might be- termed, from its due observance; and expressed, insfescible 'terms,. the lamentable 'results whico would occur to. alli classes, a society, but to none-mere than to the working classes of these-kingdoms, by any...interferenc e with the divine• origin of the. Sabbath, by the ~vithdravial of that protection and sapputt for its due observance: which vie at present enjsy. - The• meeting was most munerensly et; tended, and the - rev.. gentleman was listened to. with grea v attention. HISTORIC SOCIETY, ow LANCASHIRE A.ND, gusemes. --- The monthly meeting of the scientific sectional. this society was held at St -Golorge's-hali on. Thursday. M r .. Henry DO' son presided, Dr.. Thous said. that he had muahsatisfactiou in informing Casneeting that the room for their library and museum was in _tolerable. order; the gas was in,.and he hoped shortly to get the room open for the visits of ',members. lie was certaiul3r rather• amazed to find the quantity of things they had. Although, there were 144 superficial feet of glas s cases, yet still,there was not nearly aufficientzaenefor exhibit ing what they% had. He might also add that Dr. Oppert, of Paris, had promised. to. prepare a paper, far this society, ° l3 Babylon andtthe disoeseries made there; andnar... Wright, „ paper on tho-origin. es Cambrian brothers,,which r no doubt, create considerable discussion. The bill of fare for this session was pretty well completed. All they r equired were a coußla.of scieutifit papers to eo m pu t t e th e . programme (Hear.) Mr. S ansom , th en read an interesting paper on " New Fungoid. Disease affecting the Pear-t r ee," which was illustrated. Aninteresting but short diacussion ensued, an d the universal. belief was, that the potato disease was as far from beilaglelved.aswhoil it first broke .out- The Rev. Thos. Moore theu.read.a paper, entitl e d, " .A_ Walk on the Shores of the Mersey,"•by. Richard A. Tudor, whiekwas interesting and well received.. Tbanks were then voW to the several donors, the authors of the papers, &c., and themeeting terminated. MERRHAHT TAYLORS' GRAMMARSCIROOL, GREAT CROSBY. —The pcizea awarded to the pupils, .at the Christmas exami nation,. were distributed on Friday._ The following is th e ,._ prize list e---Mentefiore Prize : Shear:Am.—Divinity : 1, mond; Barr;-, Birch, highly cernmendad; Harbridge,,, a qi, geant, . Shearson, commended.—Greek.:: 1, Sergeant L i t 3 ' Shearson,. conamended.—Latin : Shearson; 2, Edwaru? Greenluon ; Birch, King, Orrell, iatterson, Sergeant, W ill ,. commended; Parr, C. Smith, commended.—History : 1, Shear' son . ;"$, Kiug; Harbridge, highly commended; r a T: commended.—Geography—Geography : 1, Shearson : 2, _l l. mood; Lees, Sergeant, highly co mmen d e d ; P ar r, commended,- —Arithmetic : 1, Shearson.;, 2,, Sergeant ; 3, Patterson.;. ()ere'', highly commend e d S m ith, C. S m ith, commended-. —Euclid, and Algebra : 1, , Shearson; 2, Sergeant ; 3, Golding ; Orrell, Greeulaa,m,. commended.—Drawing : King ; Birch, Harbridge, karr„ highly commended ; Green' ham, Lees, Moss, commended.: -Writing : 1, Almond ; Sergeant, highly commended.—Conduct : 1, Tuer ; Green' ham, Sergeant,highly coramentled.—Lower School.—Divinity 1, Woods ; Rigby, commended.—Latin : 1, Webster ; 2, Ger' rard; Ainsworth, big)* commended ; Beetham, Golden., Hamilton ; Neal, Woods, . commended.—Arithmetic : 1, Hanail" ton ; 2, Hulmes ; Rigby, Thomas, commended.—Geography 1, Hamilton ; Gerrard, highly commended ; Rigby, ea, , 111 ,; mended.—Writing:. 1, Webster; Hamilton, Woods, higav commended. Boot COMMUBIL—The weekly meeting of the PelF, l . c Committee was bold on Thursday, M r . F. Sh an d i n the Ow; The Sub-committee of Works recommended the acceptance of the tender of Messrs. Jones and Jump for the erection ef_ s dock-gateman's hut on the island a t th e S a li s b ury Dock. '-",e Warehouse Sub-committee re commen d e dth a t a sum o f £l4,uvu„ be transferred from the bank account o f th e Alb er t Doe" warehouses, and £3,000 from the bank account of the Stanley Dock warehouses, to the credit of the general account of the dock trustees. The Harbour-masters' Sub-committee recoill' mended the purchase of 16 life-buoys, for use about the dock in case of need. Ordered to be purchased. A letter was resd! from the secretary of the Shropshire 'Union Railway and Canal Company, s tati ng th a t some years ago the compa u, had purchased a piece of land, containing 12,000 square y a rds, to the north-east of the Egerton Dock. The object of the company in making the purchase was to construct a dock for their own trade ; and the directors were of opinion that sonic:, thing should now be done, either by the re-sale of the land, e' the construction of a dock; and they wished to know whether, in the event of selling the land, the Dock Committee ig e l, prepared to afford them the necessary accomm o d a ti on whiff they required. The Chairman said it was a subject Nvhl, e , would have to be considered at a future day, i n or d er to nit the south land most available., Referred to the Works Cos a ' mittee. A note was read from Mr. Henry Steele, regrettio that his residence in the south had not been attended wit'S that beneficial result to, his health which he expected, an it therefore became inc u Mb en t upon hi m to res i gn h i s se at t the committee, The committee accepted Mr. Steele's ressg nation, with an expre ss i on o f regret that h i s resigOtii should be =Bed by continued indisposition. Friday, the of January, was fixed as a day to elect a successor to 2 7, s Steele. The chairm an pl aee d upon th e t a bl e two proo f CO I of the revised table of dock rates. There would be a cff c ' placed in the h an d o f eac h mem b er before next ThU, whey. the Matter would be considered. .- I