The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-05-13 00:00:00

TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS, YESTERDAY, A special meeting of the Council was held yesterday, at the Town-hall, for the disposal of the business so ab ruptly left over on Wednesday last. John Bent, Esq., the Mayor, presided, and there was but a very limited attendance. THE DOCK COMMITTEE PROCEEDINGS Mr. ROBINSON, in the absence of Mr. Littledale, the Chairman, rose to move their confirmation. He was not aware, he said, that there was anything material in them except an arrangement with the Crown for givingtup to the committee the weights and scales on the dock quays. The cost to the dock estate, if they had to purchase them, would have been £6OOO at the least. The expense to the estate of keeping them in the same efficient state as they were kept by the Crown would probably be from £3OO to £4OO a year; but the committee contemplated making a charge on master porters for the use of the scales, so that ultimately they might be no cost to the trust. . ...,... Mr. LANGSDALE seconded the motion Mr. BIGHAM said he wished to call the attention of the committee to a nuisance, which was this—that the pier head masters and dock gatemen were in the habit of levying from masters of vessels sums of money, on the scale of half a crown or upwards. As some small coasting vessels came in two or three times w week, the tax thus imposed was considerable. Some vessels paid so high as 10s.,—this money finding its way into no fund, but being a bribe for the performance of certain duties. (Hear.) He (Mr. Bigham) had intended also to have called atten tion to the fact of Mr. Duncan being coupled with the Dock Solicitor in carrying out the bill of the American Chamber of Commerce,—he could not yet bring himself to call it their own bill ; but finding that Mr. Hornby had changed his opinion even on this matter, he should con tent himself by simply protesting against the arrangement as derogatory to the Council. Alderman PARKER said he could not but admire the calm manner in which Mr. Bigham had alluded to the coupling of Mr. Duncan with the Dock Solicitor. He himself should do something more than protest against the arrangement. It was a libel upon the Dock Solicitor that he was not competent ; or else there was something in it which the Council were not aware of. He should move as amendment that that part of the proceedings be not confirmed. Mr. Parker next adverted to the circum stances under which the last Council meeting had so sud denly broken up, and said he could scarcely sit down without a censure upon the gentlemen who had then absented themselves, Messrs. Freme and Co. ; they had packed themselves away in an adjoining room. It was well enough for people to say that they were hungry, but he thought there was something more in it. Mr. TiTomsos seconded the amendment. Mr. HoeNnv said—As Mr. Bigham had made allusion to him for having changed his opinions since they had last met, he could only say that when he heard the deter mination which the Dock Committee had come to, it struck him, in the first instance, that it was not in accord ance with the arrangement made with the Finance Com mittee; but he had since had an explanation that Mr. Duncan could not have adopted any other course. The bill was his, and he could not resign it altogether, else he would have no locus standi in the House of Lords, so as to prevent the bill being altered. He bad also found that the result of this arrangement would be to reduce Mr. Duncan's expenses to two and a half guineas instead of five guineas a day as at present ; and besides it would give no colour for deputations being sent up to London by the American Chamber of Commerce, which would be very costly. He therefore thought that the Council would be placed in an awkward position if the amendment were carried. Only see. If the amend ment were not carried by a majority of two-thirds, they would be placed in direct collision with the Dock Com mittee; but supposing Mr. Parker's amendment were carried by a majority of two-thirds of the Council, unless be meant to follow it up with a resolution still to oppose the bill, they gained nothing but saddling the Dock Com mittee with additional expense. On the other hand, if it was agreed that they should oppose the bill, in what posi tion would they be in the House ? (Hear.) What arguments would they not supply to the agents employed by the American Chamber of Commerce, than whom none were more skilled in parliamentary tactics. What would Mr. Hope be able to state then to a committee of the House of Lords ?—that this Council, as trustees of the docks, pass a resolution one day that they will abstain from all further opposition, and the next day that they:will oppose is ta body so fleeting fit to be entrusted with the management of an estate which involves the security of one-fourth the commerce of the British empire. (Hear, hear.) What would be the effect of this ? Clauses ten times more injurious and obnoxious might he introduced. (Hear.) No one could more regret the change in the constitution of the Trust than he (Mr. Hornby) did, and none could regret more than he did to see Mr. Duncan carrying the bill through Parliament. He thought that the conduct of the Chamber of Commerce and Mr. Dun. can had been most hostile throughout ; but he would not allow any personal feeling of his owa to interfere with what he believed the interests of the Dock and Corporate Estate. (Applause.) Alderman PARKER agreed to withdraw his motion. Mr. FISHER said—As to the system of bribery which Mr. Bigham stated to exist at the dock gates, he hoped that that gentleman would endeavour to find out the de linquent, and, whether he was the briber or the bribed, he would meet with that chastisement from the Dock Committee which he richly deserved. Mr. BIGHAM intimated that there was one case which he was in a position to prove. Alderman J. BRAAILEY-MOORE asked if Mr. Robinson was prepared, in the absence of the chairman, to give the Council any explanation with respect to certain negocia tions which had been carried on with the Birkenhead bondholders for the purchase of the Birkenhead dock property ? M. ROBINSON was not prepared._ _ Alderman BRAMLxY-MOOI LE said he could not refrain from expressing his extreme regret that the Chairman of the Dock Committee was not present, to supply informa tion which he for one was most anxious to have, that he might form a correct judgment as to the negociation with the Birkenhead Dock Trustees. It was a matter of the deepest importance in his opinion that they should be informed upon that, as trustees of the docks. (Hear.) He felt personally very much interested in this matter, having carried on negociations on a former occasion which failed ; and he should like to know the particulars of the present negociations. There was no doubt of this, that the negociations had given a spurious and fictitious value to property across the water, which he would like ex plained in that room, to see ether an opinion which he had formed was right or not. Mr, DRIFFIELD read by request the minute on the book on the subject :—" The negociations having failed, this committee express no opinion on the subject." Mr. CHAS. TURNER said the negociations and the re port upon them formed no part of the official proceedings of the Dock Committee ; Mr. Bold had acknowledged himself that the steps taken were totally unauthorised by the Dock Committee. The way in which the matter ori ginated was this. Some member of the committee of that House of Commons suggested, when a deputation were in London on the dock bill, that it was a favourable op portunity for some negociation to put the whole of the Mersey under one dock trust. Upon that, Mr. Littlecial. and Mr. Bold, as private individuals, met parties belong ing to the Birkenhead dock trust, with the view of seeing whether they could propose or come to any egreenient which could afterwards be laid before the respective bodies. They stated at the beginning of that negociation that they were totally unauthorised, and it must be consi dered quite a private matter. Mr. Bailey and Mr. Gold amid stated the same thing on the other side ; and they znerely met as gentlemen often do, to see if they could understand what would be entertained officially. When they returned, and had made their report, as the reso lution jest read showed, it was thought better that the should not take any cognisance of it Committ Alderman BRAMLEY-MOORS.—Was there not a price offered, without a price being asked ? Mr. TURNER.—Supposing the individuals to offer a price, they did it as individuals. The Dock Committee bad never authorised any negociations to be entered into. Mr. FISHER.—WhiIe the members alluded to by Mr. I.lt the proposition came from the other ery few days we heard it stated in London sition had come from that side. ILEY-MOORE said he should abstain but as the estate which it s no income present or side, wi that no from Tr ik prospective money, it he purchase involved so much er which deserved their deepest attention. Before sny gentleman formed an opinion at all upon the subject, he hoped that he would read a report addressed to the Bi*kenhead dock bondholders, by a committee of that body, on the 27th Nov., 1850 ; that he would carefully read that report, and then they might be , able to form some ovinion of the probable, present. and fixture value of the Birkenhead property. In that report they wholly and entirely repudiate the grounds of income as stated by Lieut. Hookey, their hsrbour-master. They said, further, that to pay the interest upon the present a year, and abo to carry out the 15,000 more on the proposed money He should conclude by simply ry men who wished to under- etlnd the quest;on to the document. Mr. TURNER again rose, and said be was afraid be bad mis-stated something. He was now given to understand that Mr. Bold the ParliamPr Mr. L .le had an autbori (tee in London ty from these gentlemei id the f.w r which be had made h the public to pay attn beard on all sick, lad offered with a view to induce ~n to the subject, because he bad ty don't you buy the Birkenhead tot amalgamate it with the Liver- Why ? Itecau ,. e it was taking up a ipt estate, and tusking it a partner It was as bad as the. Calf—lonian Rail it was worse than the Eastern Counties. There was no doubt that it had a value was proper to purchase it at its proper any other artiwie in the market. (Hear.) le could not see how a thing could be was increasing its debt year by year, ct of meow. according to their own ould they pay 20s. ? Some cried out could buy them. Calculate what the what the debts ere, how much mo ne y i s end wbstarathe'prospfetive advantages ; the the nubile attention should r part of the suoject. The Dock and ny was a name without any meaning, and Warehouse Company possess no nd ompanY it was a speculation, the ;uch company in the kingdom_; but the property ? pool prop E completely without ca way--(!aug - hter (LOud s la and a pri without the r accoun that we 13 t incorr he t Warehous becluse ti docks. II LI , ally 1/111U1 --- - point to which attention should be called was the bond holders, who had advanced money to make the works and depend or their income upon rates to be drawn from the shipping; anti he thought too much attention could not be called to the fact, that they ,had not the security of the land company for what concerns only the bondholders ; they were totally distinct. Now, he should not pursue this subject any further, though he was quite prepared to have done so had the chairman been there. Before sitting down, he would just make one observation on what had fallen from Mr. Bigham, respecting bribes given to dock-gatemen, and also pier -masters. Now he believed the pier-masters at all events would be found to be inno cent ; but many years ago it was a notorious system that the masters of flats, more than the captains of large ves.. sels, paid 2s. 6d. for facilities which it was thought that the dock-gatemen could give them. But that system was so rigidly looked into that he believed it was put a stop to, and he hoped it had not been resumed, because the dock gatemen were now not only clothed, but better paid than formerly. Mr. Bigham was in duty bound to go and state the case before the Dock Committee, because he knew that, when he was chairman of the Dock Committee, in every case which might occur, no medium course would be taken, but the officer would be discharged. _ - - Mr. J. A. TOBIN said he was afraid that what Mr. Bramley-Moore had stated would lead the Council to suppose that 20s. in the pound was the basis of the pro posal. He believed 20i. was the basis, but by deferred payments it would be made about 12s. 6d. in the pound. Mr. BIGHAM said he was told that the bribery referred to was not a solitary but a universal case. Mr. GREGSON said he was upon the Harbour Masters' Committee, before whom any charge of this kind would be brought. Since he had been there no charge of the kind had been made. He was certain that if a case were proved instant dismissal would take place. The minutes were then confirmed ; as also those of the Courts of Law and St. George's Hall Committee. THE MARKETS COMMITTEE Mr. WOODRUFF having moved the confirmation of the proceedings of this committee. . . . Mr. PicToN asked if the Committee had under con sideration the question of the establishment of a whole sale vegetable market. The ne essity for such a place was becoming weekly more apparent, in the neighbour hood of St. John's Market especially. It was high time that some steps were taken to provide a sort of Covent Garden for Liverpool. Mr. WOODRUFF said the committee had not that ques tion under their consideration at present. They had some time since, but the expenses were so high, and the Finance Committee, with whom they had a conference, held out such slight hopes, that they had abandoned the project. THE EDUCATION COMMITTEE The minutes of this committee were next confirmed. They comprised a return, showing the attendance at the Corporation Schools for the month ending the 25th April, 1851 : North Boys Girls 349.. Infants.. Evening Pupils (males) 95.. Do. (females) 125.. South. Total number on books 1367 THE GAOL COMMITTEE. The proceedings of the gaol and house of correction committee having been read, Alderman JOHN HOLMES called attention to the fact that at the very moment wlen Mr. Reay, of the Guar dian Society, was advocating a measure for the imprison ment of fraudulent debtors, &c., here, instead of sending them to Lancaster gaol, the borough gaol was so inade quate to the accommodation of prisoners already, that convicts had had to be sent from this town to Leeds and elsewhere. The minutes were confirmed. k CONTINUED IN ANOTFIEB. COLUMN.) -1074 THE LATE ACCIDENT IN THE SUTTON TUNNEL ADJOURNED INQUEST The inquiry was resumed on Tuesday. R. L. Jones, the manager of the general station, was first called. He was examined as to his duties as general manager, which were to see that all the departments were carefully at tended to by competent persons, but he had nothing to do with the arrival and departure of trains, those duties be longing to the station-master. Carriages and such-like matters devolve on the individual companies. Mr. Jones was examined at great length both by the coroner and foreman as to the dispatch of trains on the evening of the accident, and enumerated very clearly the manner in which the various departments of the station were worked. Mr. John Critchley, the station-master, was next called. He confirmed the main points in the evidence of Mr. R. L. Jones, and was examined at length with re gard to the times of the departures of the trains on the line during the Wednesday evening. He stated that the trains had the necessary guards, breaks, and tail lights on the evening in question, that extra men were employed during the races, and that every necessary precaution was used. Gregory, the lamp-man, and Alison, the assistant-su perintendent of locomotives at the Manchester end of the line, were then examined, at the conclusion of which, it being half-past five, the inquiry was adjourned until Thursday morning. The inquiry was resumed on Thursday, when several engine -drivers and guards were examined, who deposed to the speed at which the trains were proceeding. One of them stated that he had no lights atall, and was told at Ches ter that he did not require them, as it was expected that he would be in Manchester before dark. As the second train was proceeding up the tunnel the engine slipped continually, but never stopped. When they entered the tunnel they were going at the rate of about six miles an hour.—An altercation took place, during this day's pro ceedings, between Dr. Wilson, foreman of the jury, and Mr. Monk, barrister, in consequence of the latter accus ing Dr. Wilson of wasting their time by irrelevant ques tions, and of being more like an advocate than a juryman. The Doctor warmly repelled the imputation, and said he only wished fora full inquiry. On Friday some rather important evidence was given by Mr. Gibson, secretary to the Company. He said— There never has been a policeman stationed at the tunnel. Frodsham station is the nearest to the Cheshire side of the tunnel, and Moor on the other side. During the con struction of the line, the landholders and others requested a policeman to be stationed near the tunnel. There were four on the line altogether ; one walked from Elsby to the tunnel—another between the tunnel and Moor, They were merely to protect property in the neighbour hoed, and materials on the line. Daring the race week these men were removed to Birkenhead. They had not, at any time, to do with the working of the line. By Captain Laffan.—l removed the men to Birkenhead on my own responsibility. I have superintended thetraffic on the line since its opening. lam not aware that it has ever been represented to me, that it is incompatible with my duties to act as secretary, and manage the passenger traffic as well, on such a line as this. I believe I was con sidered responsible by the directors for the safety of the line on the day in question. I consider that I was re sponsible only in providing carriages, guards, &c., and seeing that the station-masters did their duty, I con sider that the points, signals, and the management of the permanent way belong to the engineer's department. As there was no engineer connected with this portion of the line, I presume the responsibility will rest with the board. As regards the points, signals, and permanent way be tween Chester and Walton, there was no engineer or other party that I considered responsible. Mr. Lister ceased to be responsible for this portion of the line on the Ist of April. The board were in treaty with him for his services as before after that time, and were so at the time of the Chester races. Pending a negotiation with him, they allowed this portion of the line to be without a superintendent. By. Mr. Monk.—The signals are used by policemen and other officers, and not by the engineer. A system of signals had been directed by Mr. Lister before the termi nation of his engagement. That direction continues un revoked to the present time. Mr. Brassey is under con tract for the maintenance of the permanent way between Chester and Walton. As far as I know no directions had been given to the policeman to signal at the tunnel. The tunnel is perfectly straight, having double lines through. On Saturday the inquest was resumed. Previous to the examination Captain Laffan, R.E., Mr. Nicholson, the coroner, and six of the jury, went to Frodsham, to make the experiment as to the capabilities of the Druid engine. This was done by means of loading a train, con sisting of the same number of carriages as were in the first train at the collision, and of the same description, that is, ten stand-up carriages, six covered secured and third-class carriages. The experiment was very success. IV, the rails being dry. The engine laboured very much, in leaving Frodsham, and was nearly a minute in passing the first 100 yards, and 31 minutes in going the first 500 yards. The speed gradually increased, however, the tun nel, 11 miles distant, being entered in 10m. 305., and passed in 3m. 555., (a mile and a quarter), and the train reached Moor station in sm. 355. more ; total time in going the whole distance, nearly 5 miles, 20 minutes. A. number of witnesses, including Mr. Bancroft, the chair man of the directors, were then examined, and the in quiry was once more adjourned. YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINGS WILL BE FOUND ELSEWHERE. From information we can rely upon, it would appear that among the sufferers only one person had availed him self of the advantages offered by the Railway Passengers' Assurance Company, while not one of those who were killed had taken that precaution. The Directors of that Company, upon obtaining information of this sad cala mity, dispatched their surgeon, Mr. Barnard Holt, of the Westminster Hospital, to render every assistance in his power, and thus endeavour to carry out as far as possible their compact with the public, to render efficient and im mediate aid in all cases of emergency._ _ Some surprise has been expressed that so few of the passengers were insured, which has been considered a proof of the little esteem in which the Railway Passen gers' Assurance Company is held In that district. We find, however, says the Daily News, that the fault lies with the Cheshire Junction Railway Company, which has refused to allow tickets to be sold. The passengers by the excursion trains, unless they were the holders of periodical tickets, had therefore no means of insuring. This is the more to be regretted, as passengers naturally expect that every railway company should afford the ad vantages of assurance which, as will be seen from the advertisement, are very great. It will be seen from an advertisement, that Messrs. Pryde and Jones are appointed sole agents for this town, for the excellent clerical portable umbrella and bush tents. _ _ ANTIQUE LACE.—We would call the attention of our fair readers to some beautiful and very rare specimens of point lace of the reign of Louis XV. ► at Mr. Braithwaite's establishment, 130, Bold-street. They are well worthy the attention of the curious in such matters, for it is evi dent, from the amount of labour bestowed on many of the articles, that years of time have been devoted to their completion. The designs are beautiful, the work super latively One, Eittraturt. POETRY, ADDRESS TO THE STARS. BY MRS. MAINWARING " He made the stars also." Can it be, ye stars of heaven, Whose beauty gems yon midnight sky, That e'er to you the power was given To shadow forth futurity ? Glorious stars I ye're ever streaming With clear, hallowed light to man ; Is your faith, prophetic dreaming, Taught ere varied creeds began ? Egypt's seers and magi kneeling With rapt homage at your shrine, Ancient Chaldean sages feeling That your teaching is divine. Now the swarthy wild Zingaros Trace your course with kindling eye; Scan tLey man's deep joys or sorrows From the stellar canopy? Brightly o'er the shoreless ocean Still ye shine as beacons true; Keep your path amidst commotion, Sparkling from your concave blue Thought now wanders free and far, O'er the space yon orbs explore; To Him who governs world and star, And shall till time shall be no more. VARIETIES. Skye, in the Highlands, has furnished, since the Pe ninsular war, no fewer than 21 lieutenant-generals and major-generals, 48 lieutenant-colonels, 600 majors, cap tains, and subalterns, 10,000 foot soldiers, 120 pipers, four governors of British colonies, one governor-general, one adjutant-general, one chief baron of England, and one judge of the Court of Session. THE TEST.—An Irishman had been sick a long time, and while in this state would occasionally cease breathing, and life be apparently extinct for some time, when he would again come to. On one of these occasions, when he bad just awakened from his sleep, Patrick asked him, " An' how'll we know, Jemmy, when you are dead— you're after wakin' up ivery time ?"—" Bring me a glass o'grog, and say to me, Here's till ye,' Jemmy ;' and if I don't raise up and drink, then bury me." Lady Lytton (wife of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton) has brought out a new novel, Miriam Sedley, and there is very little mistake as to her meaning when she says, " The greatest monster I ever heard of was one who to the world passed for a paragon, because he spent his life in servilely flattering a rich and vicious old mother, who had an unentailed estate, till he won the prize ; and to con tinue this charming farce of filial affection (for he was fond of theatricals), he told eulogistic lies in marble of her after she had gone to her fearful account." This is about the most savage outpouring of a " wounded spirit" that we ever remember to have met with. THE LIVERPOOL STANMAIUD. HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY. Lord STANLEY presented, and supported at considera ble length, petitions from Shields and Liverpool,—the latter signed by 6,000 shipowners, masters, and seamen of that port,—complaining of various vexatious regula tions and restrictions which they were subjected to by the Mercantile Marine Act, and praying for their repeal.— Earl GRANVILLE defended the Government amendment introduced last year ; and stated that it was intended to introduce a bill upon the subject in the House of Com mons.—A number of petitions were presented in opposi tion to Papal Aggression. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY. The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. Nume rous petitions were presented on the subject of Papal aggression. The House went into Committee, Mr. Bernal in the chair, upon the Property Tax Bill ; where upon Lord J. RUSSELL said,—Before we proceed with the bill with regard to property and income, I think the house will desire that either my right hon. friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer or myself should state the course we propose to take with regard to that measure, and with regard also to the financial measures of the session. But as it is a matter which affects the Govern. ment in general, I have thought it better that I should take upon myself the task of stating that course. (Hear, hear.) The house, on Friday night last, by a majo rity of fourteen, came to the decision that one year instead of three should be the period for which the Property and Income Tax should be renewed. The bon. gentleman the member for Montrose (Mr. Hume), who made this motion, stated as his ground for doing so that it was desirable that inquiry should be made into it with a view to make it more just and equitable, and that such alterations and modifications having been introduced, he would wish the tax to be continued, and indeed to be made permanent. I did not agree, nor do I now agree upon consideration, that it is desirable to abridge the duration of the tax for that purpose. I think it would have been far better if, as a matter of principle, the house had been asked to agree either to an inquiry into or a modification of the tax, regard being had to the general principles of taxation ; but the house having decided otherwise, it was for us to consider what course we should take, so as to maintain public credit and the financial system of the country. Now although, in my opinion, it is very inconvenient so far as to place such a tax in jeopardy, and make it pass only for a year, yet I cannot suppose that a majority of the house which agreed to the motion had any view or any intention of placing in jeopardy the public credit of the country. (Hear.) I cannot suppose that, because the house, since its first assembling after the last general election, has shown itself most careful in preserving the public credit, and providing for the necessary establishments of the country. I could not suppose that, because among the members who voted for the motion were men distinguished both by their acts and speeches for determination to maintain public credit, and to provide for the necessities of the public service. Therefore, concluding such to be the in tention of the house, we have to consider whether we can adopt the resolutions of the house, and proceed with the bill in its present shape. Many gentlemen who in private have argued this question with me, have said there is a general impression in this country that the in come tax is unequal and unfair, and that it might be made more fair and more equal ; and when I have an swered that Mr. Pitt, Sir R. Peel, and others, who in office have had the care of the financial arrangements of the country, have always come to a different conclusion, it has been replied to me, if the conclusion to which these eminent men have come can be supported on inquiry, the country would feel satisfied with the result of that inquiry; and if, upon the other hand, it should be found that the tax by modification can be made more fair and equal, in that case such alterations might be made. I have no doubt that those who have pressed these conclu sions upon me in private acted in that view upon the occasion when they gave their support to the motion of my hon. friend. Seeing, then, that, contrary to our opinion, the house has come to that resolution, we think it desirable, in the present state of affairs, that there should be inquiry upon the subject. I think that, after the decision of the house, it would neither be fair nor wise to attempt to refuse or to evade inquiry. But I think there ought to be a fair inquiry, conducted by men who, in this house, are generally leaders upon financial subjects, and in whom the house can place full confidence. I should, therefore, say that the Government is prepared to agree that there should be a fair and full i▪ nquiry into the subject. (Hear.) But a further question naturally arises, and that is—whether, taking the income-tax only for a year, we can agree to any other modification, and whether we can proceed with those measures relative to our financial policy which my right hon. frie• nd has el ready proposed. We have upon that subject t o consider that this house has, by its previous votes, agreed to the continuance of the income-tax for a limited period, and rejected a motion made by a right hon. gentleman, to the effect that a reduction should take place in .the income-tax equivalent to the "surplus which the house might be disposed to relinquish in the shape of taxation. The house likewise concurred with my right hon. friend in bis proposal to repeal the Window Tax, and to supply one part of the deficiency which would be occasioned by a tax upon owners and occupiers of houses. The house likewise agreed without division to the resolution proposed on the subject of timber and coffee—duties which formed a major part of the proposed financial arrangements of the country. Now we should be extremely reluctant to forego the repeal of the Window Tax, which my right hon. friend proposed. We look on the Window Tax not so much as a great financial burden, but as a special evil (cheers) ; therefore, it would be a great misfortune if we should be obliged to maintain that tax which the house had already resolved should cease. But at the same time we must consider that in order to carry those resolutions into effect, we ought to be enabled to have it made clear to you that while this is pending there should be no further alterations of the Income Tax, limited to the period of one year ; and in the next place, that there should be no further lessening of the finances of the country, so as to deprive the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the means both of supporting public credit and defray ing the costs of those establishments which the house has agreed to meintain. I think lam making no unrea sonable request from this house when I ask for this ; end while we propose to go on with the Income Tax, limited as my hon. friend the member for Montrose proposes, we expect that that tax shall pass without further obstruc tions, and likewise that the whole of the revenue which we hope to obtain shall be secured, to enable us to repeal the Window Tax, and carry into effect by a bill a resolu tion of the house with regard to coffee and timber. (Hear.)—Mr. Hintz thought the noble lord had taken a very judicious course in proposing to persist in, repealing the window tax ; and with regard to the com mittee, he trusted it would be appointed without delay.— Mr. DISRAELI also thought there should be no unneces sary criticism upon the financial measures of Government during the discussion of the measure, but he thought the case of the tenant farmers paying income tax should be considered this year.—Col. SIBTHORP postponed his mo tion upon this subject, and after a good deal of conversa tion, clause 1, as amended, limiting to one year, was agreed to.—The other clauses were agreed to without op. position.—Lord J. RUSSELL then stated the course which the Government meant to pursue in respect to the re commendations of the committee which sat last session on Public Salaries. The following are the principal items of reduction which have been determined upon : The salaries of the Junior Lords of the Treasury would be reduced from £1,200 to £l,OOO ; that of the Secre taries from £2,500 to £2,000 ; the Judge Advocate from £2,000 to £1,500 ; the Lord Chancellor from £14,000 to £lO,OOO ; the Master of the Rolls from £7,000 to £6OOO ; the Ambassador to Paris from £lO,OOO to £BOOO. A motion of Mr. FREWEN'S relative to the distress among the hop-growers occasioned some discussion, but was ul timatelyeu th the house withdrawnadjourned ado ; an d at a fter2o minutes somot p h as er t lc? tine busi n THE ,GREAT EXHIBITION, Her 3lajesty the Queen visited the Exhibition on Wednesday morning shortly after 9 o'clock, and remained in the building for more than an hour. Her attention was chiefly confined to the Tunisian, Chinese, and Indian collections. From the improvement in the weather there was a large increase in the number of spectators during the day, and no less a sum than £l,BOO was taken at the different entrances. There must therefore have been, in addition to the vast number of season tickets, 7,200 per sons who paid their ss. admission fee, It is estimated that the total amount netted was not much under 02,500. The proposed attempt to develope educational uses from the Exhibition is beginning to attract great attention, and already Professor Cowper, of King's College, has com menced a series of lectures to his class on the buildinc , and its contents, with a view to a systematic inspection of the whole display. The apartment for the display of products from the national manufactories of Sevres, the Gobelins, Aubusson, and Beauvais, is nearly completed, and will well repay a visit. Near it are a pair of bronze gates re duced from the original at the cathedral at Florence, and which, with a sideboard and bookcase on either side, must attract great attention. On the south side of the nave a splendid specimen of gold and silver work was for the first time uncovered. The design is a toilet-table and mirror, with basin, ewer, and dressing-room service com plete, all executed in the precious metals, and finished in the highest style of art. The following incident is related as having occurred before her Majesty's arrival :—" Two persons, whose ap pearance indicated that they were not exactly of the class of three-guinea ticket-holders, were observed in the middle of the crowd in the transept, carefully scrutinis ing every one about them ; their conduct had so much that was suspicious about it that an active detective of the Birmingham police, who was present, and who had been watching them for nearly an hour, seeing that they took apparently little interest in the magnificent spectacle that was passing in their immediate neighbourhood, and that they looked harder than, in his opinion, honest men ought, at the watches and other trinkets so profusely dis played, advanced and took them into custody. The strangers turned out to be Frenchmen, but their explana tions, whatever they were, being perfectly unintelligible to the Birmingham officer, he conducted them into one of the private offices of the building and searched them. It was satisfactorily ascertained, by documents found on them, that they were French police-officers, and a series of mutual explanations, if they may be so termed where neither understood the other, ensued. The strangers were readily satisfied, and the Birmingham detective got a practical lesson in the old Scotch proverb, that ' Hawks munna pick out hawks' een.' " The influx of visitors to the Exhibition, on Thursday, was greater than ever, and the sum taken at the doors could not have been much short of £2,000. This is of course entirely the proceeds of the ss. entrance fee, and does not include the large amount still accruing from the sale of season tickets. All connected with the under taking are very naturally overjoyed with the success, in a financial point of view, which thus attends it, and which is manifested more and more decisively every day. The improvement in the weather has acted with magical effect upon the flow of visitors, and brought out the beauty and fashion of London into Hyde-park just as sunshine developes butterflies. They take possession of the Crystal Palace in a manner which must make the Royal Commis sion have sundry misgivings about their power to keep it in their own hands now, or to have it removed a few months hence. The Executive Committee continue to receive all kinds of applications front the country with reference to the terms of admission when the low prices commence. Among others, several clergymen have writ ten to them offering to bring up with them all their parishioners in a body. Fox and Henderson are contem plating a grand entertainment of roast beef and plum pudding to be given by their foremen and chief workmen to the workmen of foreign countries in the building. A desire seems felt that every facility should be given to the industrial classes to see and enjoy the magnificent spec tacle which their labour has created. The contractors for the catalogue are selling about 10,000 copies of the small catalogue per day—an enormous number when the bulk of the volume is remembered. As yet only one part of the larger work has appeared. A week has now passed since the opening, yet France is still far behindhand, and has many days more of preparation before her. In our own division of the building a few things are creeping into spots left unoccupied, or which at the last moment it was found impossible to complete in time. Among these was brought in and placed in the nave to-day a beautiful model, executed• by Mr. Deighton, of Great College street, Westminster, of the interior of her Majesty's Theatre. The decorations are all carefully represented, and to the multitudes who throng the centre of the Crys tal Palace the work will convey a very accurate and pleas ing idea of the extremely light and elegant yet rich style in which " Her Majesty" is fitted up. On Thursday a communication by the electric telegraph was completed between the Exhibition Building and Buckingham Palace, the Admiralty, and the Chief Police Station at Scotland-yard. The Crystal Palace was for a moment exposed to de struction by fire on Thursday. The flue attached to a gas stove in one of the offices of the contractors became heated, and ignited a piece of wood with bunting which rested upon or touched it. A piece of the burning cloth fell into a small open cask of Indian corn, which stood, as the Irish say, " convenient." All this mischief was brewing in secret in the southern part of the colonial collection on the east side. The drapery of the counter concealed what had happened, and it was only when the smoke began to break forth that an alarm was raised. Fortunately such casualties have been foreseen and am ply provided for. There are no less than a dozen large fire-engines within the building, besides an ample supply of water easily obtainable, and a thoroughly organized force ready to act at a moment's notice. The fire was extinguished before it had time to do more than slightly char one plank of wood, and no anxiety need be caused by an occurrence so trifling. On Monday the building was thronged with visitors from the honr of opening till the gongs sounded at half past six in the evening. Some additional attractions were displayed to public view in the southern galleries, includ ing a splendid counter of printed fabrics of all kinds, artistically grouped. Towards the eastern end of this gallery a huge stand, modestly veiled with green cloth, hiding painfully-accurate anotomical specimens in wax, excited general curiosity. Near this, the figure of a man, with a broken leg, scientifically strapped, was remarkable ; and a little further on, a man was busily employed through out the day blowing a pair of bellows, to fill the sails of some model vessels, rigged with revolving masts. Late in the afternoon, Prince Albert, attended by three or four gentlemen, inspected some of the British compartments. In the British machinery department, crouds surrounded Applegarth's printing machine, which was working vigor ously, and with 'great noise. Visitors should bear in mind that there is one entrance to the building exclusively devoted to pedestrians, and that by entering at this end they may avoid the unpleasant excitement of scrambling between rows of carriages. The public may also be re minded that on Saturdays the building is not accessible to visitors. On Saturday morning the Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by their Royal guests, visited the Exhibi tion, and remained for nearly two hours. The illustrious party examined carefully the jewels belonging to the Queen of Spain, exhibited on the south side of the nave, in the French division. They also inspected the Swiss collection, and admired the fine display of artificial flowers contributed by Constantin. They paid a visit to the Sheffield Court, and minutely inspected Hoole's and Stewart and Smith's grates. In the section of woollen fabrics their attention was attracted to the specimens shown there of Huddersfield, Bradford, and Leeds ma nufactures. The collection of cottons and linens were also examined, and the Royal party took particular notice of Mercer's new patent method far increasing the brilliancy of colours, of Lydiard's chintzes, and of the contributions of Black, of Glasgow. During their stay they passed through the agricultural implement department, in which her Majesty seemed to be most interested by the display of churns and beehives. The royal party appeared highly delighted with their visit. At twelve o'clock the public were admitted to the building, and flowed in with such eagarness that in the course of the afternoon more than £l,BOO was taken at the d-nrs. The Duke of Wellington is a frequent visitor at the Exhibition. He was there on Saturday, and with Mrs. Fox, the wife of the contractor, on his AM, examined several of the departments. However crowded the spot may be where his grace makes his appearance, a space is immediately cleared for hlm, and, except the Queen her self, no royal personage could be treated with more distinction. The report of the King of Prussia being likely to visit the Exhibition, in London, is without foundation. The directors of the Atlas Insurance Compeny have given four days leave of absence to each of their officers, to enable them to see the Great Exhibition ; and the com pany will pay the cost of admission. Twelve thousand sparrows, a French paper gravely stated the other day, had been caught in Mr. Paxton's glass cag e ; and the water, added the editor, wag oozing throughthe . roof to such an extent that the workmen were obliged to pursue their labour in small boats. Several of the Glasgow teetotal bodies intend to charter a steamer, and keep it running all the summer, so that the passengers in each trip to the exhibition may use it as a sleeping place during their London visits, and sally forth every morning, like giants refreshed, after a night's repose on the bosom of the Thames. It is now stated that the " Chinese mandarin," who paid such special saluhtion to her Majesty at the opening of the Exhibition, and was so courteously received by all, was none other than the cook of the Chinese junk lying in the Thames, who had dressed himself up for the occasion 1 On Monday, the price of admission to the Crystal Pa lace fell from £1 to 55., and, in consequence, the receipts at the doors rose from £5OO to about £1,500 or £1,600. The sale of season tickets also, to use the language of the Stock Exchange, " continues active," and tb., total re ceipts of the Commission during the day considerably ex ceeded £2,000. Amongst the novelties in costume at the Exhibition, is a shoe which can be instantaneously converted from white to black satin; and also, in the same manner, a morning shoe of prunella or kid can be changed into a satin shoe for evening wear. There is also a lady's boot of peculiar construction, which, by naPlns of an artificial instep, gives grace to an ill-formed foot. It was noticed that in the " God save the Queen," as in the " Hallelujah Chorus," the tones of Lablache's voice were easily to be distinguished, as easily, indeed, in the vast structure of the Crystal Palace as in the smaller limits of the Opera House. It is likewise worthy of re mark that the tones of the great organ were made sensi ble at a distance of 1,800 feet, or thrice the length of the longest cathedral. London out of doors exhibits many symptoms of ex pecting illustrious strangers. One of these symptoms i s the vastly increased prevalence in shop windows of the ' notification, "Id on parle Francais." Also on the out side and on the signs of eating houses, taverns, and other places of refection, the kind of cheer supplied within is frequently announced in French or other foreign lan guage. " X X" has, in some instances, given place to " Double Biere." In the Crystal Palace foreign exhibi tors have been equally complaisant in endeavouring to make the explanations inscribed on their productions in telligible to English readers, and not always with more success, as to accuracy, than the sign painters out of doors. Some portable steps for a library, made to shut up into a compact form, is explained in this style :—" One begs to exhibit this staircase after this manner. ra- -- ''To shut this staircase, One draws the rail A over downwards. One draws the arm B over upwards," &c. It must be observed, however, that although these directions are phrased in rather queer English, they are perfectly intel ligible, which is more than can always be said of instruc tions in a purer idiom. It is an impression common with many persons fami liar with the metropolis, that London is less thronged with busy crowds in its principal thoroughfares, and less enlivened with aristocratic and gay equipages in its fashionable squares and streets, than is usually the case at this season of the year. It may be that the regular habi. tues of the London season have, in a considerable propor tion, deferred their coming till after the opening of the Exhibition ; and this supposition is confirmed by the very general prevalence of painters at work on houses at the West End, implying the expected advent of occupiers. It is also certain that the parliamentary business of the ses sion has not been of such a nature as to bring up crowds of railway representatives, with i their numerous profes sional assistants, witnesses, &c., n the overwhelming rush of previous years. Then, as regards the influx of visitors to the Exhibition, the time has not yet arrived for the ad vent of The Million, who prudently wait for finer weather and for the period of the shilling admission to the Crystal Palace, which will commence on and after the close of next week. etnerat /EtatHaim. Tn the parish of Luxulyan, in the county of Cornwall, no poor-rate has been required or made this half-year ! ! Sir James Brooke, governor of Borneo, arrived at Southampton, on Tuesday, from Constantinople. Arrangements have been made for coaling steam-vessels at St. Helena, at the rate of 150 tons a day. The American ship Ocean Queen, from New York, has brought 100 packages of chesnuts as a portion of her cargo, consigned to order. What would be the feelings of Sir Walter Scott if he could see Mr. Hope transforming the Abbotsford Library into a Popish Chapel-of-Ease ?—Scotstnan. The ship Caroline, of Bristol, Brooks master, from Tobago, laden with rum and sugar, was burnt at sea, off the Island of Savo, at the beginning of April. The crew were saved. The goods-shed at Wallingford-road station of the Great Western Railway, containing chiefly corn, was de stroyed with its contents by fire on Saturday night, doing damage to nearly £l,OOO. Sir M. R. Shaw Stewart has presented to the town council of Greenock the piece of land called Well-park, as a park for the people of the town. He has also offered a large field in another locality for an experiment. The Brougham fishing cases are at an end, the cases being allowed to drop without a decision given by the magistrate, as the prosecution has been withdrawn as hopeless by Mr. Jameson, his lordship's solicitor. The sea has lately encroached so much on the high road from Worthing to Lancing, near Lancing, on the Sus sex coast, that the road has become almost impassable, and it has been necessary to change the route of the mail. A FAMILY AT A BIRTH.—A Saffron Walden correspon dent writes that a Mrs. Chegnell, in that town, last week gave birth to four daughters, all of whom are living, and the mother is " as well as one can expect." The Bedford Times gives an account of a donkey which attacked a basket of butter and eggs left by a vendor of those articles outside the house of one of his customers, and ate 41bs. of butter before the owner returned. It is said that the honour of knighthood is to be con ferred on Mr. Jos. Paxton, the designer of the Crystal Palace, as well as on several of the Commissioners of the Great Exhibition. A STEREOTYPED POPULATION.—When the census of the population was taken in 1831 the number of inhabi tants in Clifton, near Penrith, was 288 ; in 1841, 288 ; and in 1851, 289—a casual visitor making it one more. A female named Goss has been killed by an infuriated bull at Aylesbury, which tossed, and afterwards trampled on her. One of her children was also seriously injured by the animal. A man named Moodie, a hosier by trade, and resi ding in Potter-row, Edinburgh, has been apprehended on a charge of inflicting injuries on his wife, by kicking her, of so serious a nature that she died in a few hours afterwards. A pike, weighing upwards of 151b5., was caught on Monday, in Worcester College-pond, Oxford, by one of the fellows of that society. The fish was taken by a com mon troll bait, and was captured after giving a quarter of an hour's play. The Carlisle Patriot states that the Rev. J. Smith is much better in health, and that the reverend gentleman was admitted to bail on Tuesday. His sureties were W. P. Johnson, Esq., Walton-house, and the Rev. C. Benson, Vicar of Brampton. MARRIAGE A LOTTERY.-At an evening party recently it was proposed to dispose of the belle of the room by lot tery. Twenty tickets were immediately sold at a mixed price. The joke ended not here : the fortunate adventu rer has since married the lady.--Aberdeen Herald. In consequence of a letter which Mr. Ballantine has addressed to the directors of the poor of St. Pancras, that body has resolved to abandon the prosecution of Mr. Eaton, the master of St. Pancras Workhouse, accused by Eliza Smith, a pauper inmate, of having violated her. RATHER STRANGE.—An individual in Letham, Fife shire, the other day, found a piece of bottle glass in a duck's egg ; it was somewhat eliptical in form, and might measure one eighth of an inch in one way and nearly one fourth the other. MANSLAUGHTER.—On Friday an inquest was held at Glocester, on the body of a man named Chamberlain, who, while fighting with another man, both being very drunk, was struck on the head by one Aston, a nephew of the latter, and so severely injured that he died next morning. The King of Denmark has conferred letters of heredi tary nobility, with the title of Baron on M. Charles Hambro, a Danish Jew, principal of the banking firm of Hambro and Son, of London—the first time a Jew has been created a noble in Denmark. The bullion in both departments of the Bank of England has decreased from £13,289,847 to £13,253,557, being a difference of £36,290. The paper in actual circulation has decreased from £20,950,889 to £20,810,498, being a difference of £140,391. The Times says--" Our office stands upon the founda tions of Blackfriars, where for centuries Plantagenets, Yorkists, Lancastrians, and Tudors held court. We have reason to believe that just about where we sit was heard that famous cause for annulling the marriage of Catherine, which led to the English reformation." ___ A great crowd of colliers having attempted to rush into Ayr Circuit Court, to hear proceedings against two of their body, a granite pillar, to which one of the gates was hung, was forced down ; it fell upon a policeman, killing him on the spot ; the falling gate struck two men and they were much injured. The Rev. Henry Bell Brown, Wesleyan minister, sta tioned at Portsmouth, and his wife, have been fined £5 each for great cruelty to a little girl, aged fourteen, whom they employed as serving -maid. The magistrate re gretted that there were no funds to defray the cost of a prosecution, or he would have committed them for trial. A police-officer in London has been killed while in the execution of his duty. While endeavouring to persuade a party of noisy fellows, in Vauxhall-walk, to move away, three of them attacked him with atones. He was struck down, kicked, and beaten till insensible. He was carried to Guy's Hospital, where he died in a few minutes. Se veral of the men are in custody. A grand banquet was given on Saturday at Gore-house, under the auspices of M. Soyer, by the Metropolitan Sanitary Association. The Earl of Carlisle took the chair, and among the company present were the Bishop of Ripon, Lord R. Grosvenor, Lord Ashley, Lord Ebring ton, Mr. C. Dickens, Mr. G. Cruiksbank, &c. The viands, &c., were of the most recherche description. y the will of his mother, the relict of the late Colonel Gore Langton, W. H. G. Langton, Esq. of Clifton, has been left the splendid residence in Grosvenor-square, and the residuary estate, amounting to over £lOO,OOO. Mrs. Langton has also left between her two daughters, one of whom is Lady Burgoyne, £35,000 ; and to her lady's maid she has left the interest of £IO,COO during her lifetime. On Wednesday night, Mark Leppington, of Burton Agnes, near Driffield, in the East Riding, had his pocket picked of a purse containing £220 whilst drinking at a public house in Leeds. He gave information of the rob bery at the police-office, and two women of loose habits, who, with others, had been in his company at the above house, were taken into custody. The North British Mail states, that when a group of statuary, from Italy, was unpacked in the Crystal Palace, the whole hollow interior of the, figures was found charged with gunpowder. It is added that the matter has been kept as quiet as possible for fear of exciting alarm. We do not believe this story, but, though it has been circu lated in other papers, we have not seen any contradiction of it. _ _ COMMON LODGING ITOUSES.—On Saturday a bill in the House of Commons was printed for the well ordering of common lodging houses. It is to be read a second time on Wednesday. The object of the bill is to place under the police common lodging houses, with regard to the cleanliness, ventilat:on, &c., as also to remedy con tagious disoases. The bill was brought forward by Lord Ashley. Three boxes of gold brought by the Great Western stt im-ship to Southampton on Thursday, and consigned severally to Messrs. Rothschild, Murrieta, and Dunbar, have been stolen in their transit to London by the rail iws a n y n . d e Thu rste e e i rd aggregateßoyal .. I, v T a a l i l e s r e a a s m X r 4 a , e 9 k o e o t , for Companywhic h a r i e t answerable to the proprietors. A portion of the above has since been recovered, a package containing £1,200 having been found on the line. SINGULAR FEROCITY OF OWLS.---One evening last week, a young man, the son of a respectable farmer, in returning home across a field at Twyning, was violently seized on the back part of his neck by an owl, which bad suddenly alighted on his back, his approach being unper ceived, and it was with some difficulty that the winged assailant could be kept at bay. Shortly afterwards a working man of the neighbourhood, who was passing near the spot, was also attacked by the same or another owl, which flew in his face, and severely bit him just under one r,and two or three days elapsed before the of his eyes. In each case blood was drawn by the beak quently ascertained tha l' i o pa f ii t i lle oa a u gg se r d esso thereby h t l e l r y e w s u a b s s i a d ed. nest o I ft young g s u o b w s e l s in a tree near the place, and there is no doubt that one or both of the parent birds made these remarkable assaults. —Cheltenham Chronicle. Nay 13,1851. Ki A rra P a n c o k f : l h F a m s E pr W es g en .—An p w ro i pe thi r n ty t o h f elas r l years with the startlin g num b er o f ten lambs! Wbell the fully one year old, in 1848, she had two lambs, and following year, 1849, other two, and in the year 1 854 . ji had three, and this year the same number, making 1 15 ten. And from the inclement season at which she d ' year brought forth, this " f r uitful vine" has :e Edinburgh Paper. Eliza Wilkinson and John liutterley are in custodY,oo, Sheffield, charged with having murdered John Wilkis s ;fi g the husband of the forme r an d cous i n of the latter , It the night of Saturday or the morning of Sunday last' tht• appears that the deceased w as cu t an d hacked in a grit ful manner. On Saturday n i g ht th e w oman took refer. with a neighbour, sayi ng sh e h a d quarre lled with her hr. band; and the next morning he was found lying dead o i tic i, pool of blood, on the fl oor o f hi s ow n house , ts r, wounded in the head and neck by a penknife laying ° Both man were engaged at the railway . t EFFECTS OF UNEXPECTED GOOD NEWS. -- .- Ab - , ° t fib fortnight since the wife of a labouring man, resichneb e r Stratford, having received a letter by post informieg t o that her husband would be put into possession of Pr °13 ,.." amounting to £lOO,OOO a t th e t erm i na ti on of a Chan''' d su u i c t e , d w a hi s c t h at w e o o u f ld un b c e on sh sc o i r o t u ly sn s e e s t s tl , ed in , h w e h r ic e h hxcsiteemreetit rafiel for some time, and from the e ff ec t s of which she ha s te. yet entirely recovered. The news has also bad 0 0 1 70 favourable effect on the mind of her husband, and s of feared at one time it wou ld p ro d uce insanity."— Standard. EFFECTS OF FREE-TRADE.—The fine farm of in the parish of Dunbar, and belonging to the D u '; it Roxburghe, has just changed hands. Five years si l o was let to a Mr. Davidson, a free-trade lace-me rn 'olY thousands. from l‘ran che A s te fi r n , e w h h o o us b e r, oaungdhtwith excellent him s t a eadin capitalg, ocfosentl together from a thousand to fifteen hundred pounds Dg, bably, were erected, and the tenant commenced driling' liming, and manuring with much enterprise. Indeed, freet late as last autumn he was laying upon the farm ba y manure brought by rail from Berwick. The result t he been, he has lost all his money, and forced to give i l l ) ,.put farm. The present rent is £355. M r . D a vidsons '" was £5OO. ewll s A NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH. —A soni remarkable incident occurred a t B a ll aug L, Isle of eA mt g on Saturday week. About three o'clock in the 1 23 1 0.. the house of Mr. Daniel C or l e tt, grocer , & c ., vrag tba vered to be enveloped in flames. About this time 4 ,01 baby, who had becom e ver y res tl ess f rom the enen,"er suffocation, happened, pro v id en ti a ll y , t o awa k en its fat j who immediately discovered all on fire under his fee t ' j, the floor of the room was so hot that he could not swibe and an immediate exit from the jaws of death w°, l o next step by the husband, w if e , b a b y , an d servan t Wnwj o i through the room-window, in a state of nudity, l ef !" , everything behind them to be consumed. The orign!., ei the fire is still a mystery ; the house, stock, and furnit" .- however, are insured. THE CANTERBURY COLON Y .—Ad v i ces h av e been of ceived from New Zealand, dated Wellington, the 24thbe December, stating that the Sir George Seymoul,.,roi Randolph, and the Charlotte J ane , th ree ou t of 0 "„ the vessels despatched by the C an t er b ury A s sociea' re .. September last, had arrived at Port Lyttelton. St. maining vessel, the Cressy, had been spoken with o te a, Paul's, at the end of November, and was hourly exP ec w ith The Bangalore, (857 tons burthen,) in company s dsf for r o t t h h e c erfi an n t e e v rb es u s r e y l, sleetfttletmheen, New LtondonzdeoaclaknsdrOn at nesday there was a breakfast on board the Bangalo:;03 which Lord Lyttelton p res id e d. Th e steerage endg oft were afterwards regaled with the old English fare d f e lt beef and plum pudding. The kind concern which is. gip nit in the welfare of the emigrFints and the advice gi ve- a the occasion, we doubt n o t, w ill' be productive ofgoeti_Ao tend to unite them together as men engaged in one mon and we trust happy enterprise. bit THE CRYSTAL PALACE B EATEN .—D r . punt 1,1 tbr speech at the anniversary meeti ng o f th e W es l e yan lu e t bsf dist Missionary Society in London, on MondaY , ,t ja de se s r c i n ri g b h e a d m one yo u o h f a v t e h e t h heathen s t t em heathenples o fter nl n p I T a 1 c se th e 0 probably be found from the north t o th e sou th Pal;it if is a square, each side being a mile in length. so tha v o r four miles round. Talk of your Crystal Palace! m ight as a man would put a penny i n t o hi s pocket, Yo u n pa' put your Crystal Palace i n to th e p oc k e t o f this hufi i icht gods. The walls are 25 fe e t hi g h, an d 4 or 5 feet vo tero and in the centre of each wall ris e s a l o fty t o wer. . 1.4 „ c all ing the first square you come t o ano th er w ith a - ore high, and with four more towe r s. Withi n that sc c i ion there is another, and within that again another, -- a n find seven squares, one withi n ano th er , crow ded bY ti! o p. sands of Brahmins. The great h a ll f or pilgrims it i ; 1 10 ported by a thousand pillars, each cu t out Of s block of stone." ~-, PROTEST OF CLERGYMEN.—Six clergymen of c aine hamshire have published a protest against the prece e m (01' of the guardians of the Amersham Union, under ti , or i e f lowing circumstances. It appears that a Mr. Q 1 out Statham has been in the habit of distributing rehg. f a t tracts and visiting the poor in Amersham Workhonarste/ some years. His kindness seems to have been aPP rec f tb l S by the inmates ; but in January last the master %jos workhouse received instructions to forbid his adra. l ,-;„ n er and one tract given to a pauper, entitled " Andrea Du the History of a Roman Catholic," being No. 110 toe list of the Religious Tract Society, was forcibly if o tif away from him. Though Mr. Statham has subserint of appealed to the board for re-admission, and thougr,,,d , has offered a list of tracts for their approval, a ll the at Toi tion he has received has been the simple acknowledgine lj oiS his letters. The only comment we have to offer on „uf subject is, that men will do things in a public c epa' which they would be ashamed of as private individuej o t',l CURIOUS DISCOVERY.—For years beyond the -cg of any parishioner now living, there have been hang i l iar dll the vestry of Keynsham Church two old pictures , s weep traceable through dirt and smoke. A short tirae_..,,pd however, somebody took to washing them with SnY n tiaii water, when one was discovered to be a fine old PT ( oaf of St. Cecilia ; the other represented the passion u v i es trf Lord, and was so remarkable a picture that the pea' began to inquire among the parishioners if they." anything of its origin. One very old woman s it Wag recollected hearing, when she was a girl, that painted " by some foreign painter," and after a J;4O old collected his name was " Master Holbein." woman knew nothing of art, and her authority la 0 0e fore a valuable one, as showing the tradition 0f ~e s t b which she could not otherwise have heard : beslu,bit, picture is marked by those striki ng pecu liarities t roff distinguish the pencil of this very old master. T h de e . at once claimed the pictures as his p r operty. The ' however, dispute his right.—Bristol Times. f , re _ tba BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS.—The total valu e g 0t e .. . 0 , exports of British and Irish produce, and mann6s,l for the month ending sth April last, has been Xw o r, against £5,783,000 for the same period last If., c rea'", £5,365,000 in 1849, thus showing a considerable*hou v i in the trade of the present year of upwards of Xit y .fter or at the rate of twenty per cent. In the first 4 o nii . _ A the present year the returns likewise exhibited a e po rta" derable increase in the trade over that of the sari,' o ur 6 5 during the two past years. The total value of o p. ports has been £16,523,000 on the present yea r b e ine; £14,655,000 last year, and £12,822,000 in 10 lost yel l increase of above 2,000,000, or 14 per cent. ov er ru por of and 4,090,000, or nearly 20 per cent., over 1134 1 : c re! o g of cotton show increase of 622,000 cwt. ; wool , In o bipPi p , 797,0001b5. ; silk. increase of 395,0001b5. grea t s / ( 1 the tonnage returns for foreign trade shen to nS, s ii crease on the month, namely—inwards 163,0vu outwards 127,000 tons ; in this increase British 8h . 100 01 0 .„ 1 04. 6 re 6 p ,o r oo ese t n o te n d s. ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.—On Sunday last a 11 . The coasting trade was also greater , named John Rowland died at the workhouse in thisOy whose history presents as awful an account of reve,'3o fortune as it has been our lot to become acquainte,a The individual in question was educated at Eton 0 2. ages and was afterwards Fellow of King's College, CaFrr o jtill He was ordained deacon and priest by Bishop su, ttrheeatt,heinwtabsis apprehended,town. officiated at St. James's, Westminster ; and wenbZ o lift St. Petersburgh as chaplain to the embassy. fro bf o N f o h r i f m olk is -s , quently, he either threw up his gown or had it takel l ep him, and became a blacksmith or coach-spring 7 ' 311 ' for stealing some iron, the property of Mr. BottoN;ittiy, The tried, South Gates. On the expiration of his term co, in th e portation he returned to Lynn, made a settlenno l " town, and was for several years in the workhonsa..'ool%, he died on Sunday last, at the advanced age of ,1 6 in eight years. Many of our readers will recollect vidual to whose lot so striking a reverse of for fallen, from having frequently seen him carry pew parish books to and from the town ball and othe r 4 0 places in a blue bag.—Lynn Advertiser. ut sfiie, h fr e om de p ta e in w in b g ur c y r , ed an it d or h i e n s v d e c iatice ietl: iioo d A TAILOR'S MEMORY.—The following el./4 Cal ( transpired at the Insolvent Debtor's Court, I° ,g' lasmetr insolvent Mhaonnt d .£.3 ay s . tailor , I He was asked when this took P 000 where, and what he had to show for it ? To 0 0 '0 io 3 A,O O/ be replied he was no scholar, but carried bop- 011! ,aacncodutnrant scs_peloiirti, memory. Solicitor : How do you manage_Yo,w,„ - e ss 1 , 4 ,0 0 you say you have 30 men and women.—w"' o r P-1/1 a ll by memory,—Solicitor : Well, but how do c0 r,.0 of the various measurements ?—Witness g er° r P-1 memory ; I make 140 garments a.week.—Solic ito o o o 9 do you mean to say you keep all these in yo_ur_2 3l „, o 1 1 140 —Witness : I can tell you the measure of 3Uu l'"" r oesPir/ town now. I can think on from memory. Et dor they say to me, " M a k e th em your s i ze ; dol t to ; P OI His Honour : Oh, you look to measures, o °, 00 ; A P (laughter.) I suppos e th ey ' re no t very pa rticula t ori;o l town ?—Witness ;—Oh yes !oh yea I They'r e 0 o°oo ticular in our tow n . It' s a very fashionable tl s oc, a blg sir.—His Hono ur : D ews b ury ' s a sma ll P c . 4;o' fashionable ?—Witness : Y es , sir ; s m all, but la' (renewed laughter.)—Yorkshireman. 0 0.20 MELANCHOLY DEATH IN A RAILWAY On Thursday, when the express train fro m the i r e ok reached Penrith, it was discovered that one 0 , 0 0 _ A PIO, sengers, who was alone in a first-class carriage,' a d Dr e From his ticket it was ascertained that he b e t( from London for Carlisle. On his person h vi : oo to w o oin documents which left no doubt that the unfo...n - who appears to be about 30 years of age, is 1 0 . 03 th e jun., principal of the firm of Simpson and ioe o o facturers, Glasgow. A gold watch, pencil oase,: tr ew 0 0 with a considerable sum in gold, notes, Scc" so e 70 tl upon his person. It appears that Mr. Sitn,P, s r eq ll 4 e ill before leaving Euston Square Station as 1 "„. O% A be lifted into the carriage ; he was, howov` ' o o l 'o Lancaster when the guard collected the tickets' to o ft therefore have expired somewhere between t ll9 orlPodu Penrith. The unfortunate gentleman's father C 1 3,0: minister of the United Secession PresbyterlP th e Sanquhar, arrived in Carlisle, from Dumfries, pectation of meeting his son improved in lwP; o jot%;.1) had been travelling in the south the la o tbsi,„ab principally at Jersey—during the last six Inf. /Or" hope of shaking off a severe illness.—Carlism P At A I,p!