The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-11-12 00:00:00

, Nov, 12, 1850 .—.- concer t ' nr Yt 4t'P- c oplf carCIS the to t rk reiatice job'' i r aost e a per for ,' h tido . • throug.,,4 gl• 3f Arer.'" eFr oi , s for th Lord joll° l ‘ l . Lot to ll); of it , r ft, its Pr 3 Y e s s to write • GA I '' rNTIL till fen'. e • 'rot s th i% e C irow o u , from ,nnvertg! ks. II 31 LI.. t r r . 11orb A v r less,°cc glorious P ';',ol i- o as , ,e i t o oP 3 fora p. el Spen cer 01 tied fro' CARD P i e r, Garu , en were Nit ';lle.morteeofr .pnted -Lg t ime, I g in of the c, trden,!:Tld s ! the She ex as left Oil _At the tlemalne ge nt Die ford 91 ; hod cnco DUI• --juce3 e n re u, 3 . the i° Wearl o uper , hp vas ) lisa r ece bei sometleng be S'l ci e t n o le: 1 rtei , " - ,,r ,-,a,-. e .. ~4,1 ;nY. rel . The 0,- "be fate° The f°ll/ P re t :i gYan b e rece ice r on th e 6 , f i e ,0.! . e nr, - - e t of t.l'Aee4..4 tbe l f bing nti j ,~ e ,,, _,~ ~ln, h yonl $ 1 19 00 1L IVE 9 ri;;;" s beeP, in t il° ',„t r e:ld e . ° l isl t • ' 5 div 1, ir l - se` s ai r fort'e 1s t e fore t the ig C , ' ire tO racP il rece b v io 13 1 1 eo len e late sPr or e ' l Ord er O r', rns VT ° Do' the oiled in• co '1101; he 1)1 11 al'" re!' • ° lic GO 0' ing vth Dver-. 0 4 5 1 . g' 3 ' e ! f 11.°`', rie.t to Pent ofre' 1 the 5 bit j lrtle ba ,,l etl. r c o of tl ? 9 ,,ber.s r : p pr a the' a rty 3 P be , qua .- tUo ~, schls itch 'v6 sg CH tht, d iri o% oc e c . i ; of tbe Ch ur ,f s bee t don t he 15 49 10 sut h o r, er s 6 , Ipa I co urSe',ith aw are' " n ail :rho , ' '3° ins maY „). does ue. le` ,4p, e0 "/,'IP .eati c r nvP°l 'K.. - OF in the h og to let ! hs, ittria" s 11 J: 3fr• s .11 baccis 0 to f A 9 18C1I` IA el l ag° be 0 ca n o ,0 e Sir. led v p Ca t a#o.4 •,,t exact or of be imb er to its/ 'bf 5 31 A t Etna hitivo. reland Blackburne , jun., Esq., has been ap -1/1741 deputy lieutenant of Lancashire. ja.rTk: o N n o s la u n n p da re 3 :rhed two sermons in St. Paul's, oatnuel Lunt and Mr. John Brown have been 6rrtrardians of the W est D er b y U n i on. teat nr atlaY, a poor female named Montgomery dropped v O 4 T Anne -street. ..den ee tle sdaY, two bodies, supposed from the ship Pro weie found floating in the river at Bootle. h a , e e b Palls of the Presbyterian Chapel, in Islington, have th At PaPered, and it is said the effect is very good fli nt a.Zricultural show in Worcestershire, last week, 4i rvi Prlze, for Swedish turnips, was awarded to Mr. 4 fir ng, of this town. kr. A ~t.()°k Place on Friday, in a hay loft belonging to wa s '''hinson, livery stable-keeper, Newingtor? ; but , 11,4ebedily subdued. A horse , however, was killed. !las 1 5 , - :`ev• Geo. Read, 8.A., urate of Knaresborough, It N e l l Presented to the sec ond chaplaincy of St. Paul's, Th e 1 9 !"np by the p a t ron, G eo. R ams d en, E sq. Per Pool Provident Clerks' Association has been Tf?e cause of this untoward event will be 4!1! overbsed. tateecirpuest will be held to-day on the body of a man Te gselss l iru ni l 3' who m e t hi s death on board one of the lo the docks. DE ATH.—Yesterday morning, Mr. Birchall, '4l)ed.N.,a beer- house i n St an l ey - s t ree t, was f oun d d ea d , 1-leceased was well kr. own as a bill poster. _ th,ttri Ainsworth, Esq. of Preston, has been placed ' a rl of Carlisle, Chancellor of the Duchy, in the 4 ,Isssion of been for this county. tilatikent has issued to Mr. J. Clare, jun., of Ex ke4t?i•bilildings, Liverpool, gentleman, for improve k, ! i t th e manufacture of metallic cas k s. 144 St eam-shio Pacific was passing up the North dew York • she c am e in c on ta c t with the ship ''at e from Liverpool. Both vessels sustained da ,tp uiah Alderman Pa rker has presented the St. Anne's tßr Ren leerert4sary with £5; Mr John Nicholson, the newly t',,ecober for St. Anne's Ward, £5 ; and William ,C ) ,4V'sq.. M.P., £2. tiNoleday last, a clothes dealer, of Liverpnol. was purse containing £lo_7, while travelling from qta Le Manchester by the Lancashire and Yorkshire d1tqe111.14(31%,r TO PARENTS.—On Saturday, a little boy t ,, 4l k ci a ",,`day, whosep arents reside in Fontenoy-strept, "„itire -91 1aritity of vitr p iol, in ignorance of its destructive i 'I ) agonizing death was the consequence. •ibi gond d Jones, three years old,. 0.4 aY, a Dow name ;Per,,,°_,rth-street, Toxteth-park, rolled up a piece of ' 4 ll - ,„" u lighted it as ;pipe, when his clothes caught fire, , j a i ls° much injured that he died soon after. . r• Anderson professor and teacher of elocution, the ee."' ente rtainment', on Thursday, at Croxteth-hall, on ccc,asion of the birthday of the daughter of the Earl s e : 1 : 1 ; teas of Sefton. metce of Plate, which is on view at Mr. Mayer's, in reet b , by h .. a out to be prespnted to Mr. Thomas , brother oddfellows, in acknowledgment of , th e 111 services to the order. ,1 1 4if 0 2 ° 4 - Board of Customs have decided upon baring " P d tt ',,relessrs dress for th e i ns p ec t ors an d tidewaiters of t h i s f 4 . Blackburne and Co. have obtained th e Or the At o supply of the clothing. b s e . lm a li daY, an enormous wire rope, intended to work I.,. iv ed - af ." ° ,, t i and North-western tunnel to Lime-street, y a ,, l ' 4 dge-hill. It weighed 20 tons and measured th e vile c ii t u s i ln length and 4i inches in circumference. ti. Y list week an accident occurred to an . engine at "uti tati o on on the East Lancashire Railway it4tac the te to s top page of the train, a gentleman Nisiclioetl,eerer the coping i s ng p stone of a bridge, and falling a • 1 4° Ie dep th, fractured p his thigh. too, t rith splen did packet-ship, of 1,200 ItaMeu ran o iel a 'Webster, and intended for the k'elleeol trail was launched at East Boston, in the pre 'ne the secretary of state and avast assemblage of T il aters. t tli tk e ll e t k o: c i_ o _ • Dover, claimsM it is announced, has under ch44 ti osp v it o t Tte the sunay of the Southern and Tox d next, at St. Barnabas' NI Po ch ' We llop o e n the result will strengthen the benefi 11 4 . r w.e e ra of the institution in question. Qtlt:eshrt American journal .n re a r t d t, the arrival of a 2 , ..the Asia, P at Boston, from Oki 4 ,,,,wi[u a cargo o C f a li t n a s i eed,.being the first British 't/t Y. "e el at that port from India under the reciprocal ts l4 ti daY an inquest was held before the coroner Wetdv,; to the death of an illegitimate infant from an ki ` t4 l4‘r e of laudanum, which had been administered to - s h O pe :I ) it quiet by its mother, Mary Rogers, a woman -1t employed as a cotton dryer, in Crown- street. r 4 ty' s ° Yer again exhibited his magic stove visited t;th a Oa Tuesday.* On Wednesday he ' the welitrets' Dining-iooms, when above four hund . red per -11 e t , regaled with the simple dainties supplied from ‘ll,,:taardinary invention. 1, 1 ,1;4 4 'ze,aneth Milian of Glasgow. has just produced l O ng bandkerchief 'which contains portraits of the h h ,Vi c —e „ o in the Evangelical Alliance, including Mr. Dr. Raffles, and other clergymen of local cele- Concert was held at the Concert-hall, Lord th. %. Anne, - , on Wednesday evening, in aid of the funds. ki . oc„a Dispensary. The Mayor was present . on - 44. t0 -si°ll . All the performers gave their services t,,T11 ulcilsdlY. pit; te:altiralecidltecorelisYltliate tishop of Chester,agreed to by the the Saving'B nk on Tuesday, was Taatures of e rdship on Friday, a having received the kill district. llPW ards of eighty clergymen of this town Th e H , ial °"e•street Ragged Schools have been very t. be situated:e the ._o() 11 4y 8 The Putous neighbourhood where in week bee and SandYa have a been well attended, both in andthe conduct of the childrenhas I , A s e m l „ e i ril l PlarY and Y' ll tl at could be desired. „'het b",Lueat.'havinar, five custom-officers on board, was 1 i,"" Rock Ferry Sylph, near Birkenhead Ferry, A m - r°w i r l da Y' Men ) , who difficulty, a narrow escape from 'etieb et p . , were e recued with difficulty, and thoroughly V 4 i ,.• etp," . .,,,,„ ~, ta t .i t ui. R ano -. vAttrucu.— a N t Ve nerceive that the Rev. h this church on Sunday odei,ttleti a i dvoeca at w e i t ll he pr s e u a p e port of the efficient scripture 1) 1 Iteei c ui keYed in Windsor . district. To-morrow even -I.6lll%NeTiee.sanae object will be pleaded for by the Rev. 1 1 : 1 `z ratutdaY afternoon no fewer than three alarms of to',. t e e N e r g t iv eil in the town ; one in Stanley-street,. another . ‘... T, •street, and the third in Aigb . urth-street, NI ino t,N, "e first two were not of a serious nature ; but in o l teclZ a alt-kiln, known as Barton's Kiln, was un -4413; the destructive clement. , I, te, .." BY THE " AMERICA: —TI e Hon. Joseph t,:r.14:1 Halifax, Provincial Secretary ' of Nova Scotia. i;pstiti e t holds a commission as a delegate from that It14 (111 il e ci n egotiate a loan'of £BOO,OOO . on behalf E of the I' 4 k ati,' Government, to assist in building the . uropean titi ° 4"". American Rail Road, to connect Halifax with 10 1 4, p '''t 4 ,4 Prue completed his task yesterday o , f . walking It k P tor i l e s in 1100 hours, at the Stravfberrv , ardens, ad th,'tbLetNyeen ten and rleven , o'clocK. We g under 4, *hi e oe .s matched against Searles for £lOO, to de ty 4 4 of these pedestrians can walk the .reatest num 't• - es in successive hours, to commence on the Ist lit(l4 etth, 1831- 1411%1-"tday night Dr. Brindley, of Tarvin-hall rver ‘,,04 kissed his carpet bee while cros . sing ti t l l e ie ni i 1 11 e0 tt of the railway ferry-boats. bag D w u ght, a ri s n f g ound locked, ty'iti:4l4:ll,beitta;kreetsvvtoarsertaonteiheoor h I owner and examined, it was 1 1 ttni it a Rohl watch, and plate to great value, had At cart from it. . ti,4.e Liverpool Governesses Institution, on le T e u tu es re daj t; 'iti l i q ldi e, Esq., M.D., delivered his second 11l ari tY of growth of animals and plants,. together ti lie el:llbcr of tribes of plants, amounting to about osi -4119' /Am D. Sandie also explained the nature, cn as cilteepantricious ualities of various kinds of food, 'N4 W,,°,arlinaals rational and irrational. . as NI k,llesday evening, about half-past six o'clock, sQino, up 4; ktk , ts, of Back Rathbone-street, a r e m oot , -s treet, she was met by a man was s o p st a rtick'ber Ntic.tip), and then asked her for her money. She iqil,k 4 twePence halfpenny. He rifled her pockets, erl a if n e d . ciZ tli p te, said the doing of this had saved h 1.11 Z; i4:),taketitio7eAl.mt off. doing scenery is to 1?e 1 1 3 3 e • n a ed ne t g h r i o s tit s _M if t corleert- hall. It will be explained kl 4 ell " I 'Y Cox Brown, to whose historysomeromance i t t l .4 i , h i tt o eQ p . • 13 • escaped slave, he was, it appears, 41 •,14-eeapt Being after an cent act passed by the Ame ilp, pi sisi ap ,.. tire the re ,1)1 11 11 t1 4 a gre, but only got off by being packed up in a I,at e a t • e sinitted a great distance by rail to Pada -1110... a olil, treasurer of the fancy fair, has transmitte o d f tl iiii c'tcl 'l t • Isaac a note, thanking him, in the name the .4tita4litt i! C f ! I ' kind exertions in favour of I li n *l ed i r, e ; (luje,Ct o f() r 11 : hi c h the fair was held, and . a u o . - SiV.,Ztg tiles receipt of £9 as Mr. Isaac's f c t o i l l i e tri f b air. i eiti lt ; s t out of the sale of his picture /1 10 i i h eas not realised any profit by the sale of the D 1114,414 e Picture. e rby 0 1 '7. award Rb s Jones, M.A., fellow of Braze p,etpl, eildete, Oxford, Y and incumbent of St. John's, ilee 1 b l kr, l e t son of the Rev. John Jones, M.A., L ltt44./ ^t mea es of Liverpool, has been presented to the ,e tat ii" tirreb London. The Rev. Ambrose .. 4 , ,,, Ai, ~, ouse, kia'e l , g is r avo si t v John's i College, Cambridge, curate . of P 0 I been nominated to the til ls:till's 1 1,, 0 f St. I t r te ° r','Elworth, Sanclbach, Cheshire. tmtlity-.llakei(?l,l.,steatn-hip, Captain Luce, arrived lktite 11 , 1 . t lef t night after a at this passage of ten and a half th: t ll l 4 ‘th :i.. ew 'York on the 26th, and Sandy Hook lt. i ls zi e th a l l ;e 11 0. Her news is, therefore, four days it` t at4 4/t atu..' brought by the Europa, and both as re t!atotlti . Th e and politics. is uninteresting and unim tip,,S bang enain fact is, that the Fugitive Slave Act hop so 41 'e'r ' expected results. In several places the ti ti afi ll etill,"erted to arms ; and in Chicago the muni 'he "as boldly endeavoured to nullify the opera- I4 p 11l 41 4 t A sure there by an , order of their own. *i i tat i , i , Est, 4 Sstox.—On • 'lllit' Itt)tt Sunday ex tb . _ _e new a Mayor, John ,41.:,te ti°, the c9 ;e 4 Panied by the M yor and a large 411,"leas'e I{ a ' St. Peter's Church, At•Ai t ti I{ a' sermon was preached by the Venerable Itil ' ea rf3t ics.in .aid of the Blue Coat Hospital. oftbe tiN a ker -"t tics t d• s his text the 6th verse _ iqtoOfl' " e a ' child in the way he k r.„-0 Dt h ,, Zttid „roVerba, " Train up a IV ,4 - ' ets nen he . old he will not witness depart tyl r ne f :T r a o a m urtuakea l ab t od .:l end thelikeildvit'saonalswere read by the Rev. jaunt... ted in the Com w d of 1)1":11,104111Niorl 'T. lialton assis A vast cro . . c Ltell ek t te Nn ee4 eh: l° , l 'nted to £9 O 93 ! w mayo t r i:e wh e o lv , l t e ; ',Ber;, 4 _,tid es:IQ-street in order 0 Ntt.' tha. sq. bo r .:" a glimpse of the n . e 'Ai° tltillit 01 : 344 nl el:iis see ro m b int es and t 481 , n e "'°ffiee • to. at col Y CHURCH OF ENGLAND INSTITUTION. — Upon reference to our advertising columns, it will be perceived that the Rev. Wm. Pollock delivers the second of the series of lectures in connection with the above institution, at the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street, on Thursday evening next. The well known eloquence of the lecturer, and the great importance of the subject, in connection with the recent daring assumptions of the Church of Rome, will, we are certain, maintain the great interest and attract as large an audience as the first lecture of the course. A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD.—There has just left the Mersey a ship called the Hannah, under peculiar cir-. cumstances. The Hannah is a fine frigate-looking vessel, of 480 tons burthen, which has been purchased by a Man chester gentleman, named Gardner, who has had her fitted up in a first-rate style for the accommodation of himself and family, as well as several friends. The be tween decks hare also been made exceedingly comfortable for the reception of a posse of servants. It is said that Mr. Gardner is a gentleman of fortune, and intends, for the romance of the adventure, to sail round the world ; but if this were true, he would hardly take his family with him, and expose them to all the disagrernens of such a weary voyage. The probability is, we believe, that he means to settle in Australia ; and the vessel has, in fact, cleared out for Van Dieman's Lund. Mr. Gardner takes out with him, free, fifteen distressed needlewomen of London. Oa Wednesday, whilst Mr. Johnson was pouring some naptha into a lamp, in the Roman Catholic School-room, at Seacombe, behind the Abbottsford Hotel, the inflam mable liquid ran over, and coming in contact with a lighted candle, held by a boy ten years of age, named Crassie, it ignited, and an instantaneous report, like that of a cannon, took place, followed by a tremendous crash, occasioned by the falling of tho partition wall, about 12 feet long and 9 feet high, which was forced with such violence against the opposite side of the lobby that several deep indentations were made in the plaster work. Seve ral persons who were in the reading-room above, rushed to the window and made their exit, when they discovered the boy, Crassie, enveloped in flames, which they suc ceeded in extinguishing, though the poor little fellow died next day. Mr. Johnson, and several others, were also found to be seriously burnt; one of the boys so much so, that his recovery is doubtful. The chairs and tables in the school-room were found to be in flames, but by the ex ertions of the parties who thus opportunely came to Mr. Johnson's assistance, they were extinguished. THE WIZARD OF THE NORTH—PROFESSOR ANDER SON—AT THE THEATRE-ROYAL.—This unrivalled pro fessor of an art which, in any other than the nineteenth century, would have been termed " magic," has been giving every evening during the week his Royal Balmoral entertainment, as presented at Balmoral Castle to the Queen and the Royal party. The house has been lite rally crammed every evening by delighted and wondering audiences. On Saturday there was a day performance ; and it is announced that so judicious a course will be pursued on other occasions, in order to enable young people and schools to attend. The tricks of Professor Anderson are very cleverly performed, leaving most of those of his competitors in the art at a great distance behind. To not one of them could any portion of the audience discover the clue. The whole were clean and artistic, and the assistance of confederates could not be detected by the closest observer, however incredible and indeed impossible their execution appeared without such aid. The " inexhaustible bottle" trick—the "potpourri of handkerchiefs"—and the " electric phenomenon," in which six watches, placed in a box upon a man's head, are made, at the firing of a pistol, to pass through him, and, by some incomprehensible means, are hung on a rail of the chair on which he sits—drew down immense applause. DR. FISHER'S LECTURES AT THE WINDSOR SCHOOLS. —On Friday last Dr. Fisher, the talented principal of Great George-street Academy, delivered a popular lecture on astronomy, at the request of the Rev. F. Parry, for the benefit of St. Clement's Schools. This learned and eloquent gentleman never fails to give the utmost satis faction. The room was filled with a highly-respectable audience. There were present several families from Aighurth, Wavertree, Cheshire, and other parts of the neighbourhood. During the whole of the lecture a deep interest was manifested by all present. Dr. Fisher de serves the best thanks of the public, not merely for the interesting and invaluable instruction conveyed in his admirable lectures, but for his timely aid, so frequently and cheerfully bestowed in behalf of various religious and charitable institutions. At the close of the exhibition, the Rev. F. Parry returned his sincere thanks to the company present; also to the Rev. H. Hampton, for the free use of the room ; and then more especially to Dr. Fisher for his great kindness in acceding a second time to come forward to their assistance. They had all enjoyed, he said, a most delightful treat, and it would be impos sible for him ever to forget or repay Dr. Fisher for his benevolent exertions on the present, as well as on a for mer, occasion. The lecturer was heartily cheered. APPEAL BY A PUBLICAN.—At the Kirkdale Sessions, an appeal was heard against a conviction of Mr. Rushton for permitting drunkenness. The appellant was Mr. David Shaw, a licensed victualler in Park-lane. Messrs. Monk and Pollock, instructed by Mr. Kent, solicitor, appeared for the appellant; and Mr. Blair, instructed by Mr. Wybergh, clerk to the ma g istrates , appeared for the respondents. It appeared that, on the night of the 16th of September last, two police officers, of the name of Heaton and 'Williams, hearing a noise in Mr. Shaw's house, and seeing a crowd assembled round the door, went into the house, and found a number of men there, several of them drunk, and two men stripped and fighting. Upon seeing the officers, the men ceased fighting, and order was restored, upon which the policemen went away. In about a quarter of an hour afterwards the fight was renewed ; the officers again went into the house, and laid an information against the landlord, who was not in the house at the time, for permitting drunkenness, against the tenor of his license. This was the respondent's case. Mr. Monk then commented upon the evidence, and pointed out some slight discrepancies in the officers' evi dence, and then proceeded to call a great number of wit nesses for the appellant, all of whom concurred in stating that the disturbance had been occasioned by a drunken man coming into the house and challenging another of the company to fight; that he had been refused drink, and that, as soon as he became disorderly, the police had been sent for ; that none of the other persons were drunk, or, if there were any, they had not had drink at Mr. Shaw's. Mr. Blair replied ; and the magistrates, after some deliberation, decided that the balance of testimony was in favour of the aprellant, and that the conviction must be quashed. The case occupied the whole of the day. CELEBRATION OF THE RETURN OF MR. SAMUEL HOLME AND MR. MATTHEW GREGSON FOR THE 'FOX" TETH WAnns.—On Wednesday evening. Mr. Samuel Holme and Mr. Gregson, the new Councillors for the North and South Toxteth Wards, entertained their friends and more immediate supporters at a splendid dinner in the Great George-street Assembly-rooms. About ninety gentlemen sat down, and a more influential assemblage of the kind has seldom been witnessed in Liverpool. The repast was served up, with great taste and elegance, by Mr. Lynn, of the Waterloo Hotel, and the wines, too, which were abundant, were of the rarest vintages. The room was gaily decorated with the British ensign and other flags, and the pleasures of the evening were consi derably enhanced by the vocal efforts of a chosen choir of glee singers, under the direction of Mr. George Holden. Each toast was thus accompanied with appropriate musical honours, and the company yielded a most effective chorus. Samuel Holme, Esq., occupied the chair, sup ported on his right by Matthew Gregson, Esq., the mem ber for North Toxteth, and on his right by R. L. Jones. The following gentlemen officiated as vice-chairmen : Messrs. T. Robinson, C. Batten, 11. Steele, and H. Hal head ; and amongst the other gentlemen present we observed,—Mr. James Holme, Aldermen T. Dover, J. Cooper, and J. Parker, Messrs. W. Fisher, Jun., W. J. Horsfall, T. Lloyd, T. Wagstaff, J. B. Lloyd, W. 11. Anthony, E. W. Ewing, A. Holme, T. Smith, James M‘Murdo, Thomas Vernon, John Vernon, T. Robinson, J. W. M'Cormick, Robert Clarke, H. Jordan, Alpass, Thomas Harrison, J. Harrison, &c. The usual loyal toasts were given from the chair, and responded to with cordial enthusiasm. Mr. Steele then proposed the health of the May or and Corporation, coupling with the toast the names of Aldermen Cooper, Dover, and Parker; and Mr. J. B. Lloyd. In doing so he trusted that in future there would be greater harmony betwee.i the corporate and dock estates, which were, so far as the public interest was concerned, Siamese twins (applause). Alderman Cooper, in replying, expressed gratitude to the electors of North and South Toxteth Wards for sending two such men into the Council (loud applause). He hoped the day was not distant when one of their members would take the civic chair (uprorious applause, and a cry of "On Saturday next"). Mr. J. B. Lloyd and Mr. Alderman Parker also replied. The latter gentleman expressed a high opinion of Mr. Holme. It was true, he said, that on public matters he had sometimes differed with him ; he would not give a farthing for a friend with whom he could not occasionally differ (laughter and loud applause). Mr. Parker, in the course of his address, mentioned the names of Mr.[Gregson and Mr. Holme, and this was the signal for a boisterous outburst of cheers. Mr. Holme, Mr. Batten, and several other gentlemen addressed the intelligent guests at great length. LOCAL MEETINGS, At the monthly meeting of the Wallasey Commission ers, on Thursday, a rate of a shilling in the pound was agreed to, to meet the expenditure of the ensuing year. HISTORIC SOCIETY.—The third session of this society was commenced on Thursday evening, at the Collegiate Institution, John Mather, Esq., being chairman. The presentations were numerous and interesting, and the dis cussions animated and intelligent. The paper for the evening, on the Roman military way leading from Poulton in-the-Fylde, in the western part of Lancashire, to Chat burn, north-east of Clithero, where it runs through York shire to York, was read by Mr. Pidgeon, honorary secre tary, the author of the paper, Mr. Just, of Bury, being unable to attend the meeting. The paper led to some interesting discussion as to the genuineness of Richard of Cirencester's Itinera, Mr. Robson, of Warrington, in a letter addressed to the secretary, giving detailed objections to the one (the 7th) on which the paper was founded. WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—At the weekly meeting, on Wednesday, the salary of Miss Carter, the matron, was unanimously increased from £25 to £4O a-year. A me morial was ordered to be sent to the Treasury, praying for the liberation of a man imprisoned for smuggling tobacco, whose family cost the township of Toxteth-park 10s. a week. An application having been received from Bees ton Mill, a silk factory near Altrincham, for a supply of a t a n t d i o ft at ce w ta u i nf . ? fifty or a hundred young females, it was stated that there were 36 in the house suitable for the purpose, and a establishmentdepu fit s propr, e t i o n r question, so rae t o h in ei t e d 2 to oo v t i o s b it ili th v e squabbling took ing respecting a pract,o Mr. Shaw and Mr.. Bunt the former, but it was droppe gla o y:cl h o e ff i t t h e l empense of remarking that Such =mealy COnduct brou-sb. ladnall the Wards Oa LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.—The mem bers met, on Monday evening, at the Royal Institution, J. B. Yates, Esq. in the chair. The Rev. J. Howson, principal of the Collegiate Institution, was elected a mem ber. Dr. D. P. Thomson, the secretary, communicated some information respecting Osler's anenometer, and the peculiar character of the astronomical observations made at the Liverpool observatory by Mr. Hartnup. The pre sident exhibited to the society a specimen of the lace-tree from the West Indies. Mr. Edwin Higgin exhibited a fine specimen of the ,tutus natans or sargassum natans, the " gulf-weed," found so abundantly in the Atlantic as to cover an area, according to Humboldt, of more than 260,000 square miles. An interesting conversation fol lowed on the depth at which this seaweed grows. Dr. Ihne read an, interesting and valuable paper upon the historical parallel between the Roman senate and the English parliament. _ . EARLY CLOSING.—A general meeting of the retail traders of the town, convened by John Holmes, Esq., the Mayor, was held in the Clarendon-rooms, on Tues day, to consider the desirableness of adopting the resolu tions agreed to at the recent public meeting in the Music hall. The chief one urged that all shops should be closed at six o'clock during the four winter months, and at seven o'clock in the evening during the remainder of the year. The chair was occupied by the Mayor, who stated that, from all he could learn, the proposition for closing at six would not meet with general approval. Letters were read from Mr. J. Cripps, Mr. Flower, Messrs. Frisby, Dyke, and Co., and Messrs. R. and H. Anderson. These let ters were, on the whole, unfavourable to the movement for closing at six being carried out at present. Mr. J. R. Jeffery went at some length into the question of early closing, and concluded by expressing his opinion that, until the public were better prepared for it, six o'clock closing was impracticable, but it might be accomplished by degrees. He believed that, by considerable effort. unanimity might be got in closing at seven. (Applause.) After some observations from Mr. T. Haywood and Mr. Dear, the Mayor put it to the meeting whether they ap proved of six o'clock closing :in winter; but not a single hand was held up. " Seven" was then proposed, and unanimously carried. Mr. Gibson, jun., of Ranelagh street, suggested that the movement would never be successful till the public markets closed simultaneously with the shops. It was agreed to memorialise the Mar kets Committee of the Town Council on the subject. Mr. Briscoe and Mr. Woollright each addressed the meeting. They would gladly agree to close in winter at seven ; but the latter gentleman gave it strongly as his opinion that it would be utterly impracticable to close earlier than eight in summer. The proceedings termi nated with a vote of thanks to the Mayor. BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS.—TiIe usual weekly meeting was held on Tuesday. Mr. Bryans, the vice chairman, occupied the chair. It appeared that various residents about Claughton-park wished that some private watchmen who had been appointed, should be placed un der the surveillance of Mr. M`Harg, the superintendent of the Birkenhead police. The committee had reported against the application. Mr. Green objected to this deci sion, and moved that that part of the proceedings be re ferred back. This was seconded by Mr. Rae, and carried by a majority of one. A letter from the railway surveyor shewed that the various bridges in the township which the railway company were bound to build had been now com pleted, and an opinion from Mr. Waln, the law clerk, was read, to the effect that the railway company would be compelled to keep the bridges and the roads over them in sufficient repair. It appeared that the working expenses for keeping the.park in order, &c., amounted, in the year ending the 2cl of August, to £372 10s. The surveyor re ported that the probable expenditure on the public high ways, inclusive of the necessary surface drainage, would amount, from the last month till October, 1851, to £1,475. The expense of lowering the levels of the Corporation road, so as to make them conform to the streets adjoin. ing, Mr. Watson stated would devolve upon the Dock Trustees. The proceedings were confirmed.—Mr. Rae said he had remarked that, for the last few weeks, there had been endless applications for new stalls in the mar ket. He wished to know whether the vacant space in the market was now anything like filled ? Mr. Goiborne re plied that there was very little vacant space now, and that one or two of the shops only were now to let. The mar ket now produced a larger income than ever it did. Last week it was £26.—The Finance Committee had, during the month, transacted no business of public moment ; but it appeared from one entry that the Treasurer of the County Court claims a right to the gratuitous use of the Town-hall for the purpose of Mr. Harden's sittings.—For the month ending the 31st October last the receipts from the ferry had been £1,852, against £1,597 in 1849. The total receipts from the 23d of April, 1849, had been £11,125 • in the half-year since the 23d of April, 1850, they had £12,733, thus sheaving an increase of ten per cent. From the 23d of April till the 31st of October i last the expenditure on account of the ferry had been only £9,916.—Mr. Waln read a memorial which he had drawn up to the Marquis of Westminster, as Lord Lieutenant of the County, shewing the necessity which exists for the appdintment of an additional magistrate to Birkenhead. The memorial was agreed to. Docx COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—The Secretary read the report of the surveyor, who had been instructed to make inquiry as to the accommodation to be afforded to the coal trade. The surveyors had made themselves ac quainted with the principal coal ports in the north, and considered tbat the system pursued at Glasgow, by means of hydraulic cranes, was a very efficient one. After re viewing the various suggestions advanced by the Wigan Coal Association, the report states that when the system of railways round the docks is matured, hydraulic cranes could be introduced, by which many of those suggestions could be met. This would be found to be the cheapest and most advantageous mode of shipping coal, not only at the north, but at the south division of the docks. The report concludes with a statement that the surveyors are not prepared to advise the committee to encumber the docks with'high level stages, and, if such were allowed at all, they should be at the expense of the parties requiring them. After some conversation it was agreed to print the report, but to defer its consideration for the present. —An application for the erection of a smithy at the Hus kisson Dock, for the accommodation of large steamers, was allowed, subject to a plan submitted by the surveyor. —A recommendation was made by the sub-committee of works as to the erection of additional sheds round the docks. It was agreed that the sheds should be proceeded with immediately at the north and south docks, and the secretary was directed to obtain the contracts.—lt was reported that the moorings of the Formby lightship, lately run foul of by a vessel, bad been picked up. One third the value was awarded to those who had recovered them.—lt was ordered that tenders be obtained for sup plying three thousand gallons of oil for the lighthouses for use during the next half-year.—Patrick Cropper was appointed master of the Liverpool lifeboat, in place of John Murphy, discharged.—A sum of £lO was awarded to the keeper of the Leasowe lighthouse for damage done to his crops of potatoes, &c., in consequence of the over flow of the sea during the late gale.—A letter was read from Mr. G. Butter, on behalf of the Board of Ordnance, relative to a payment of £4OOO due to the dock trustees, on account of the river wall. The amount could not be paid this year, as" the Board of Ordnance had no funds." (Laughter.) They would, however, make provision in the future estimates, and the claim would be settled when the money was voted by Parliament.—Captain Evans re ported that he had made inquiry into the circumstances of the collision between one of the ferry steamers and a mud flat belonging to the Dock Trust, and lie considered the (rust was liable for the amount of twelve guineas. Ho offered some important suggestions as to a better mode of towing the flats in future.—A letter from Messrs. Feilden Brothers, relative to the mode of giving graving dock accommodation, was referred to the Harbour-mas , ters' Committee. POLICE INTELLIGENCE, On Fridaythe shop-boy of Mr. Maddy, hosier, Newing ton, was committed for trial charged with having robbed his master of articles worth £2O. On Wednesday a man who had been found amusing himself by climbing up different lamp-post and extin guishing the lights was placed at the bar. Mr. Wybergh remarked that the case was unprovided for by the Act of Parliament. He read the section, which recited that, if any person should break, damage, throw down, or other wise destroy any lamp, &c., certain penalties, named in the statute, should be imposed, but it left unprovided the case of lamps being extinguished. The prisoner was discharged. AN INFORMER AT FAULT.—Mary Ann Foster, who keeps a shop at 33, Old Haymarket, appeared before the magistrates on Wednesday, to answer the complaint of William Atkinson, a common informer, for having sold certain combustibles and fireworks, contrary to the sta tute in that case made and provided. Mr. Wybergh said, the present was an information under an old Act of Par liament, so far back as 1698, and it charged that the de fendant unlawfully uttered and offered for sale, and did sell, certain fireworks, &c. ; it contained a joinder of two offences, and therefore it could not be sustained, all such informations being rendered void by the llth and 12th Victoria, which enacted that every warrant, information, &c., should charge one offence only. Mr. Rushton, to the informer : "What do you say to this ?" Informer : " I'll withdraw it, and amend it." Mr. Rushton ; "No, you will not. You receive a moiety of the fine, as a com mon informer, do you not ?" Informer : " Yes." Mr. Rushton : " Then you have ascertained that ' a little learning is a dangerous thing.' The information is bad. Acquitted. (Loud laughter.) The expenses to the in former are 4s. Gd., independent of lost time and punc tured feelings. THE LIVERPOOL PLATE ROBBERIES.—Martin Maguire, who our readers will remember was brought up a short time ago, charged with being a party concerned in the late extensive plate robberies, and discharged, was placed in the Police dock, on Friday, charged with receiving a gold watch, knowing it to have been stolen. Police officer Johnson stated that, from information he received, he went to Wrexham, and from there to Chester, where he and Bates, a detective officer, saw the prisoner go into a public-house; they followed him, and on searching him found £lO and a silver watch, also some keys. They then brought him to Liverpool. On his first apprehen sion the officer found at his lodgings (Moore's, Wood-st.) in one of his drawers, a pawn ticket for a gold watch. The watch was redeemed, and found to have the number and name erased ; it was taken to a watchmaker, who said it had been made in Coventry. An officer was sent to that town, and he found out that it had been made by a watchmaker named Hill, for Mr. Bolena, a jeweller, at Halifax, whose shop was broken into on the 14th of July, and robbed of property to the amount of about £1,51)0. The prisoner was remanded for seven days. CHARGE OF ROBBERY.—OR Thursday, at the Police office, two young men, known to the police, named John Hogan and William Campbell, were charged by Captain Wylie, of the brig_Maria, lying in the Queen's Dock., with robbing him of £30.. It appeared that Hogan (w'ao is a married man, and whose wife, "presenting the (emblem of a doublo..figure," was in court during the iv.vestip. Lion;,) 50mastbree weeks op managed to form ID WAWA THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. tance with a young woman named Emma Taylor, whilst on a visit at Tranmere. He represented himself as a single man, holding a situation in the Albert Dock Ware houses. By these false representations he managed to gain the confidence of the girl, and he became an acknow ledged suitor. He daily visited her at her master's resi dence (Mr. Smith, of Falkner-square), and on Monday evening both were at tea together at the house of the prosecutor's sister-in-law, Mrs. Edwards, in Catherine street. Whilst there, Hogan was introduced to Captain Wylie, and immediately began to pay him great attention. After tea, all the parties went to the theatre. Next morning Hogan, in company with Campbell, called upon Captain Wylie, on board his vessel in the Queen's Dock. They then took the omnibus for the north end of the docks, and went into the Collingwood Hotel, where they had some drink. After leaving the hotel, the prisoners, in a rough manner, laid hold of the captain, and then decamped. The money was immediately missed, and in formation having been given to the police, search was made for the prisoners, who were apprehended on the Wednesday in the neighbourhood of Falkner-square. The evidence being incomplete, the prisoners were pieced under a general remand. ACCOMMODATION FOR THE TIMBER AND SHIPBUILDING TRADES. At the Dock Committee meeting, on Thursday, the secretary read the report from the surveyors on the plan submitted by the Special Committee of the Council, for the accommodation of the shipbuilding and timber trades: " With regard to the proposed dock into which vessels are to be launched and fitted out, the surveyors have no remark to offer beyond the necessity there would be of providing the pas sage from it into the Hu: kisson Dock with double gates and a bridge. Those gates would have to be eighty feet in width of opening, otherwise the operations of the shipbuilders would be restricted, and not capable of taking advantage of the facilities afforded to the expanded dimensions of modern steam naviga tion. * * * A bridge to cross this eighty feet passage would be necessary, otherwise the deficiency of the most valuable quay of the Huskisson Dock would be destroyed. As regards the construction of private Graving Docks, opening from out of this proposed dock, no difficulty can arise beyond that of providing means for emptying them of their water. If a definite plan of the graving docks proposed to be constructed was laid down, a system of sewers might be contrived to connect them with a steam engine provided for pumping out the water or such graving dock as constructed, might have its independent steam engine as well." Reverting to the cost of the plan, the surveyors say : " For the dock of the dimensions given, supposing it to be excavated to the usual death of all the other docks, (or nine feet below the Old Dock sill,) and its walls built to the height of spring tides, or twenty-one feet above the Old Dock sill, in cluding reverse gates at the passage, and that passage to be constructed eighty feet in width, and furnished with a bridge, we estimate at somewhere about .e 90,010. The cost of the graving docks will vary, of course, according to the size of the vessels they are to be constructed to receive. If we take four of them as laid down upon the plan, and suppose them to be prepared for all classes of vessels, viz., one with eighty-feet gates, one with sixty-feet gates, and two with gates forty-five feet in width, the cost, with the necessary boundary walls, as laid down upon the plan, would be about .6'70,000, making the total amount to the cost of the plan proposed .1161),000. To this amount must be added the cost of the sewers and steam power, and it is also exclusive of the value of the land, which, if charged at the rate of price paid for land immediately conti guous to the east of it, would amount to a very large sum, and form a very prominent feature in the value of the Dock Estate.? , The surveyors then proceed to offer a few remarks on the design, as affecting that portion of the dock estate. In connexion with it they state that— The steam docks now in course of construction—the Hus kisson Docks, and that opening out to the north of it—will necessarily be the receptacle of those ocean steamers which are so rapidly increasing in numbers, and as the efficiency of those vessels must in a great measure depend upon the facilities offered to them in the reception and delivery of their cargoes and the cheapness of their charges, it has appeared to us that the Dock Committee would be wise to pause ere they appro priate the ground now under consideration for any purpose which may not have this object in view, or might produce a contrary effect. The carrying out the plan before us would most materially interfere with such arrangements as would afford these advantages, and the railway along the docks now in progress would be interrupted, and its access to the steam docks in question prevented. To give a proper efficiency to these docks, the ground now sought for should be appropriated in a far different manner; docks furnished with warehouses, having railway facilities upon their quays, and provided with direct communication with the canal, should eventually occupy this land, and form a convenient and commodious transit depot, which the trade of this port has not yet been furnished with, but has long required in connexion with the advancing strides of steam navigation and railways, and which will most probably be rendered still more necessary by the effects of recent alterations in our commercial laws. If the trade of this port is to progress during the next twenty-five years at only one.half the rate it has increased during the past quarter of a century, it is difficult to anticipate means for its accommoda tion. Mr. HALL having moved the confirmation of the report, The CHAmmAN:observed that nothing at present could be done beyond the adoption of it, though the special committee might still go on with the consideration of the subject, t i b o r u a g n i thought e a s central situation d w f o e u l t l d s a n t i o s t fl b e d e de li sir r a . b F le is f u or Eft al that, if a good understanding were come to between the Dock Committee and the Council, some plan might be adopted without allowing private graving docks. The report was ultimately confirmed, coupled with a recommendation that the sub-committee should proceed in the endeavour to ascertain whether, at the extreme ends, north and south of the town, sufficient accommoda tion for the ship.and timber trades cannot be conveniently obtained. DR. M'NEILE AND THE PAPAL AGGRESSION That masterly and unceasing opponent of Popish error—Dr. M`Neile—has prepared the following petition to her Majesty from his congregation : • " TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. " The humble petition of the undersigned, ministers and members of the congregation of St. Paul's Church, Prince's Park, Liverpool. "May it please your Majesty, _ " We approach your Majesq with sentiments of pro found veneration for your Majesty's person and office, and devoted attachment to the principles of civil and re ligious liberty, in defence of which your Majesty's august ancestors became rightfully the occupants of the throne of these kingdoms. " Under Ordinary circumstances we would not presume directly to address your Majesty, but would rest happy and contented in the peaceful discharge of our respect i ve duties, under the mild sway of your Majesty's paternal government. " But events of recent occurrence render it the duty, in our judgment, of all your Majesty's faithful and at tached subjects to cast themselves and their willing ser vices at the foot of the throne, with such expressions of hearty and undivided allegiance as will demonstrate the hopeless folly of all those, whether foreign or domestic, who are enemies to the safety, honour, and welfare of our Sovereign and her dominions, or the legitimacy, purity, and efficacy of the English Church. " The Bishop of Rome, no longer content with a mis sion in partibus in this country, thereby giving to his ecclesiastics all the influence derived from their orders, has now appointed a territorial hierarchy, parcelling the kingdom among twelve Bishops and one Archbishop, and giving them all that the canon law of the Roman Church understands by, and includes in, jurisdiction. " This we look upon as at once a denial on his part of the legitimate orders of the British Episcopate, and an invasion of the rightful authority of the British Sovereign. " Under these circumstances we are compelled to move from our retirement, and dutifully and constitutionally to approach the throne; because, though lovers of peace, we are still more lovers of truth and light. " We believe the entire pretension of the Papacy to be founded in falsehood and wrong ; we believe its missions to be not simply an ecclesiastical organization to dissemi nate unsound doctrine, but also a political conspiracy to establish an universal despotism. " Therefore, as ministers and members of a Christian church, desiring truth, forbearance, and charity among all men, and as subjects of a free state, desiring for our selves and others liberty of conscience and liberty of wor ship, we humbly implore your most gracious Majesty at once to call together your faithful Parliament for the discharge of urgent public business, that the common wealth in church and state may receive no damage from this audacious assault on your Majesty's prerogative. " And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray," &c. ARCIIDEACON WILBERFORCE AND DR. M'NEILE TO THE REV. DR. AI'IN:EILE. REv. SlR,—Your last letter contains so much which has either been disposed of or which is irrelevant that it is needless to continue a correspondence which becomes more bitter as it runs to the dregs. When you say that the right at present claimed by the Crown is that of in terpretation, not that of enactment, you forget that I have already shown, on Hoadly's authority, that when the legislative power is in abeyance to interpret is the same as to enact. Again, your arguments against Popery are simply irrelevant, for what did I say in its behalf ? I asserted, which you cannot deny, that it is incompatible with your principles to censure any measure as unchristian which has been sanctioned by the "chief member" of the Church. A Churchman may object to the Pope's inter ference with the Anglican episcopacy, but how can an Erastian censure that which is permitted by the Queen and the advisers whom she selects ? Whom you designed therefore by Jezebel, and with what justice, is a point which rests altogether between yourself and her Majesty. But in finally closing this correspondence, I must leave my own case fairly before the public. The clergy lie under a double - set of promises—one imposed by the State, the other by the Church. By the Oath of Supre macy the State only requires them to renounce foreign authority ; but the 36th canon of the Church requires them also to recognize certain rights as by God's law in herent in the Crown. Recent events have shown that to interpret these rights according to the present require ments of our statutelaw is to adopt the principle avowed by Hobbes—" Since God speaketh not to any man in these days by his private interpretation of the Scriptures, nor by the interpretation of any power above, or not de pending on, the Sovereign power of every Common wealth, it remaineth,that he speaketh by his vice-gods, or lieutenants here on earth, that is to say, by sovereign kings, or such as have sovereign authority as well as they." Now, great as is my respect for monarchy and hereditary right, I cannot agree with you in attributing such authority as this to- the " chief member" of the Church. Yon. charge me, in consequence, with the violation of my oath, and call upon me to show wherein the power at present possessed by the Crown di ff ers from that: which the Church originally assigned to it. A. reply- is to be found in the pamphlet of Mr. Gladstone to which I re ferred you ; the Church's concession to the Crown was limited by the preamble to the 24th Henry. VIII., o. 12, as well as. by the Crown's own promises. Again, you ask how I could be silent so long,, if- privileges essential to.the Church were yielded 17 mosso. Those who know the charms of:a-retired fe well' not wonder that- a- oouutrl lergyniastakould barktkoug.ht uothiagfiattbeeditin and studies of his sacred calling. Nor could anything have induced me to act otherwise but the conviction that a moment was came at which the Church's rights must be vindicated at once, or abandoned for ever. Such was the ground of the declaration which I made, and which I have no intention to retract; and, however, degrading I may feel it to have to deal with such charges as you have recently advanced, I do so with perfect calm ness, because I can appeal not only to the testimony of my own conscience, but to the sentence of the public; for the particular obligation which you assert me to violate is guarded by specific penalties which it would be in the power of any one—which it would be the sworn duty of my ecclesiastical superiors, to enforce. The pub licity of my act is the best guarantee, therefore, of its innocence. I shall take no further notice, then, of your complaints; for if the right which 1 claimed is not ques tioned by the public, by her Majesty's Government. or by the heads of the Church, I shall not be induced to forego it by your disapprobation. Your obedient servant, ROBERT J. WILBERFORCE TO ARCHDEACON WILBERFORCE . -.- •••• Venerable am quite content to , leave, as it now stands, our discussion of the question opened by your de claration and circular. I cannot wonder at your repeated attempts to draw away attention from it. Your last is of such a character as fully to justify a few closing observa tions from me. Here it is:—" Whom you designed therefore by Jezebel, and with what justice, is a point which rests al together between yourself and her Majesty." When the editor of a Dublin paper invented, and the late Mr. Daniel O'Connell circulated the fiction, that in a speech of mine against Romanism I designated by the term "Jezebel," not that corrupt and idolatrous system, but our own most gracious Queen, no one believed the clumsy falsehood —no, not even the man who gave it circulation. But he was not scrupulous. Never was a more unfounded calumny invented by malice, and propa gated by envy or hatred. lam quite persuaded that you do not believe there existed a shadow of a foundation for it. That you should make any allusion to it, an l still more, that you should lend yourself to a repetition of it by such an insinuation as the above, betrays, to say the least, a lack of argument. A good cause requires no such departure from the matter in hand—no such travelling out of the record. The aspect before the country of the great question be tween us, in its real practical merits, has greatly clanged since our correspondence commenced ; and changed greatly for the better, thanks be to the premature sin cerity of the Pope. 1 am one of those who have not ceased, for five•and-twenty years, to tell, and Cassandra like, to tell in vain, that Romanism, not merely as an ecclesiastical organisation for the diffusion of false doc trine, but also as a political conspiracy for the establish ment of a universal despotism, was unaltered, and only waiting her opportunity. Her attack on England is made. I trust it will he found that the hidden conspirators have not had patience to keep quiet till the wooden horse was effectually within our walls. I trust also that the Laocoons among us have survived the slime and sting of the serpent, to rejoice in the deliverance of our Church and nation; or, at the least, in a fair stand-up fight. The days of wily betrayal are at an end. We are spared the horrors of a mid night massacre. Our Prime Minis ter has sounded the trumpet to arms. Our bishops marshal the ranks. The country, disgusted by masked Romanism, starts into simultaneous activity against un masked Romanism. The Pope's advisers have been ill advised. Thu standard of 1688 still crowns what remains of our ancient citadel—it waves in the breeze, and dis plays the animating inscription, " The Protestant religion, and the liberties of England." What true subject of Queen Victoria (whom God preserve) will hesitate to sub scribe, "I will maintain." I am, Venerable Sir, Your obedient servant, HUGH 111`NEILE London, Nov. 8 STEAM TO THE MEDITERRANEAN Under this head we last week directed our readers' attention to the facilities offered for a delightful excursion by steam to the Mediterranean, Egypt, &c., by the new line of screw steam ships now about to ply between those interesting quarters of the world, the first of which, the " Nile," will shortly be despatched from this port. This splendid steamer is rigged as a three-masted schooner, and sitting gracefully on the water, appears more like a gentleman's yacht than a regular merchant vessel. She has a rakish-looking bow, ornamented with a full-length female figure-head, in Eastern costume. Her stern and quarter-galleries are also appropriately decorated with Oriental and other figures, in recumbent positions. Her deck accommodations are ample and the arrangement compact, her quarter-deck forming a fine promenade for passengers, and whilst the appearance of the whole is sufficiently- tasteful, the introduction of flimsy ornaments has been avoided. her dimensions are as follow :—Length over all, 173 feet ; do. between perpendiculars, 166 feet ; beam, 26 feet ; depth of hold, 15 feet ; but then, 550 tons; with engines of 15U horse-power. In the engine -room we noticed an admirable plan for keeping cool this apartment, which consists in the coal-bunkers, which are usually fixed to each side of the vessel, being placed between the boilers arid machinery, but at the same time allowing a passage from one compartment to the other. The engines have been manufactured by Messrs. Hicks, of Bolton, on the same principle as those made by them for the Victory, with reversed cylinders, each 48 inches in dia meter, and stroke of piston 2 ft. 10 in. The boilers are tabular, by the same makers, and will be heated by six large furnaces. The screw, or " propeller," is 12i feet in diameter, with a " pitch," or obliquity of range, of 19 ft., more, we believe, than in any other screw-boat, and from which it is calculated that she will attain a very high speed. The length of the connecting shaft is about 56 ft., and the " disconnector"—a bulky a ff a i r , we i g hi ng some three or four tons—is placed near the stern, the object being, that the screw shall have less dead weight to turn round, when left to revolve from the action of the water alone. We next visited the cabins, and on entering the saloon were struck with the taste and elegance displayed in her interior fittings. The " walls" of the saloon, if we may be allowed the term, are formed of pannelling in polished oak, relieved by carved cornices, and enriched with a chaste moulding in white and gold. Down the centre are two long tables, covered with crimson cloth, and ranged alongside of these are cushioacd seats, also covered with rich crimson-coloured figured velvet. Leading from the saloon are the ladies' and captain's cabins, furnished in the same style. The sleeping-berths are ranged up each side of the saloon, and those for the ladies round their own cabin. They are forty altogether, but if requisite that number can be at any time increased. The saloon shelves are filled with a library of well-selected books, and on the whole everything has been done to conduce to the comfort and convenience of passengers. The Nile, we may add, is the property of Messrs. James Moss and Co., and others in this town. She is commanded by Capt. Bulkeley, a gentleman who, from his able seamanship and courteous bearing, is in every way fitted to take charge of such a clipper craft. She sails from this port on the 14th instant, for Alexandria and Beirout, calling at Sicily on her outward, and Malta on her homeward voyage. We understand she will be accompanied on her outward trip by Wm. M. Moss, Esq., one of the principal owners. We wish her every success. On Wednesday the second of these beautiful steamers was launched at Glasgow, from the building yard of Messrs. Wood and Reid. She received the name of " Arno" from the lady of Mr. Reid, and will, we under stand, be commanded by Capt. George Haram, a gentle man who, as is well kno w n in this town, h as had conside rable experience in steam navigation. She is now receiv ing her machinery. 13itritt geb3s. Three mounted police have been engaged for the Pres• cot district. A bunch of strawberries of full-grown size was plucked in a garden at Lancaster last week. They were grown in the open air, but had not ripened. A wretch named William Ashcroft, was fined 10s. 6d. at Prescot, on Tuesday, for biting a :piece of flesh com pletely out of his mother's arm ! INGENUITY OF THIEVES.—Last week some thieves in trying to gain admission to a shop at Manchester applied a treacle plaster to one of the panes of glass, which was then cautiously broken and the window unfastened. The horns of the fat ox that was roasted in celebration of the appointment of Clement Royds, EEq., to the office of High Sheriff of Lancashire have been formed into two snuff-boxes and presented to that gentleman, as a memo rial of the esteem of the donors. The annual meeting of the Manchester Protestant As sociation took place on Monday evening, when the Rev. Hugh Stowell presided. The proceedings were characte rised by unusual enthusiasm, and multitudes were obliged to remain outside. A SERIOUS MISTAKE.—A mob in Stockport, on the eve of the municipal election, grossly ill-treated Mr. Baker, the magistrate, and his daughter, smashing their coach, and knocking down the driver, under the supposi tion that the carriage contained a " bottling" party. On Tuesday night Mr. Thos. Sergeant, a respectable man, living at Hindley, near Wigan, was returning home when five men emerged from the railway slope on Am berswood Common and threw him down, rifled his pockets and kicked and abused him shamefully. On Tuesday Mr. Waller, cotton manufacturer. accom panied by his wife and man servant, was returning from Manchester to Stockport in a whitechapel, when the horse took fright and the parties were thrown out. Mrs, Walter was unfortunately killed and her husband had one of his legs broken. A number of cellars in Blackburn have been flooded, in consequence of a man named Parkinson blocking up a sewer which ran under his house. Considerable damage was done to the residences and furniture of many poor people, and several children narrowly escaped drowning. Some of the sufferers were taken into the workhouse, and food and bedding furnished to those who disliked going there. The matter is at present undergoing a searching investigation. Ccrrow IN INDIA.—On Thursday, a special general meeting of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures was held " to consider the plan of a pro posed mission to the East Indies, the object of which is to ascertain, by an unbiassed but minute investigation on the spot, the real obstacles which prevent an ample supply of good cotton from being obtained thence, and the causes which impede the extension of our commerce with that country." The meeting was numerously attended, and amongst the gentlemen present were Mr. Thomas Baxley (who occupied the chair),Mr. William Brown, M.P., Mr. Alexander Henry„.M.E, Mr. John Bright, M.P., Mr. James Kershaw, M.P.,, Mr. Alderman Watkins, Mr. Lewis Williams, Mr. Simpson, Mr. W. R. Callender, the Mayor of hienchestes,, fa. The proposal "ma cordially Wood t(t., NEW MAYORS. — Manchester, John Potter ; Salford, James Higgins ; Halifax, John Crossley ; Wakefield, J. Holds wort h ; Oldham, Mr. Collinge; Beton, William. Gray ; Macclesfield, J. J. Osborne ; Wigan, R. Darling ton ; Leeds, G. Goodman ; Bradford, W. Rind ; Stock port, G. Turner; Durham, J. H. Foster; Doncaster. G. Johnson ; Hull, T. W. Palmer. FEARFUL COLLIERY EXPLOSION. —On Thursday, a fearful colliery explosion took place in one of the mines at the collieries of Messrs. Evans, at Haydock, by which eight lives were sacrificed. The hands, numbering from twenty-five so thirty, went to their work in pit No. 13, at five o'clock in the morning. Some of them, who were approaching old workings, had only the day previous beets ordered not to use naked candles, but on the morning is quistion they put that order to defiance, and the dreadful, catastrophe ensue , which we now have to record. Each of the men was furnished with two safety lamps ; but some of the more foolhardy, imagining the gas from the old works was not of such a destructive kind, ventured to throw their lamps aside and use unprotected candles. In about an hour after the explosion, the dead bodies of eight persons were brought up and removed to their respective homes. A few others were more or less burnt, but only one remains in a dangerous state. CLAtniroyAxcE.- 2 1n answer to a correspondent of the Bolton Chronicle, Dr. Haddock, who has devoted consi derable attention to clairvoyance, says in that journal of Saturday :—When I first put the enquiry, at the request of Sir John's naval friend and former coadjutor, the im pression on my mind was that Sir John and Pll his cotn pamons had perished by the destruction of his ships in the ice before he could reach Barrows Straits, and this suspicion seemed to receive additional confirmation when Sir J. C. Ross returned from Leopold's Island, without discovering a trace of Franklin thronght his course. In opposition to this opinion my Clairvoyant has said, and still says, that Sir John is alive, although many of the crew are dead, and she has invariably stated the time to be such as to give him a great western longitude, and. from other details a higher northern latitude. What she has exactly said is known to Sir John's personal friends, to Lady Franklin, and in official quarters also, so that when the proper time arrives there will be every opportu nity to compare details with facts, without any possibility of collusion or mistake. A , ' present, what we do know, both negatively and positively strengthens the probability that the MAIN POINTS stated by the Clairvoyant are true. At a sitting on the 24th August she said that Sir John. had not seen any of the ships sent out in search of him, and, in answer to a question, he had not seen the North Star, but she could see a ship approaching him, which, to her did not seem a long way off. On the 7th of Sep tember she says that Sir John has food, but, again, that he had not seen the North Star. On the 15th of Sep tember that Sir John had been met by a ship commanded. by " a white-headed" man and relieved; and she mani fested great excitement on the occasion. The North Star's log shows that that ship bad discovered no, trace of Franklin, but that she commenced landing pro visions in a conspicuous part of Barrows Straits on the 23rd of August. The return of the Prince Albert has led to the knowledge that about that time, certainly within a day or so (but . I am here writing from memory) that she said a ship was approaching Franklin, traces of the gallant adventurer had been discovered at Cape Riley, situate at the N. W. extremity of Barrows Straits, considerably to the westward of the point to which Sir J. C. Ross pene trated, and directly in the track that I have been led to expect Franklin took; and it is now known that the re lieving ships had passed Cape Riley several days before she says Franklin was met. I am informed that both Sir John Ross and Captain Austins are " white-headed" men, and as they were both on the track, I consider it as highly probable that Sir John Franklin has been met and relieved. Igrtrultural aiib 3Lyirtiritltural. One of the chief duties of the horticultural writer is to remind his readers of work to be performed at the proper time; one half the suggestions offered by theorists are thrown away in consequence of their being mistimed ; thus, for instance, to live full directions for the winter management of a greenhouse at a time when the glorious summers sun has almost made us! orget, in the beauties of the flower-garden, not only the necessity for but even the existence of the greenhouse—would be very unlikely to do much good, the advice would be forgotten, and pro bably would not be remembered when the time came. There is one hint which we wish to give our readers, and the time is perfectly suited ; we forget who was the author of it, or we would gladly record his name, for it is one of those suggestions which have been appreciated by every intelligent gardener ; in fact it has become a part of the art of gardening. Just at this season of the year the flower-garden, which has been brilliant with flowers of every hue during the summer and autumn, becomes ex ceedingly cheerless from the total absence of vegetation in the beds, we allude to those gardens where plants are put out in masses, and being only half hardy are entirely cut off by the frost, or removed into winter quarters. These beds remain empty until the succeeding June, or at the most are relieved by a few spring bulbs. Further more such beds are usually near the house, or in some prominent situation, so that their winter bareness is doubly irksome. The suegestion we alluded to, and would strongly recommend to our readers, is to have a number of dwarf evergreens, in pots, ready to fill these beds as soon as they are cleared of their summer decora tions. Such plants can be had in abundance at the various nurseries, and by a judicious mixture of sorts, not forgetting those with variegated foliage, a degree of beauty may be kept during the winter season which will almost equal that of summer, though of a different cha racter. Further w e would add that this suggestion may be improved upon greatly by a little ingenuity; for in stance, suppose a bed be covered with a few plants of Cotoneaster which, notwithstanding its greaf beauty as a prostrate shrub, is nevertheless of a sombre colour, yet it may be greatly enlivened by plunging at the same time a number of pots containing snowdrops and differently-coloured crocuses, which will push through the trailing branches of the Cotoneaster, and give great life to the bed. A circular form would best suit plants of a trailing or prostrate habit. Other beds may be filled with the common and variegated box, Cupressus torulo sus, Aucuba Japonica, the Balearic Box, Ruscus aculea tus, Vaccinium Vitis idea, Gaultheria procumbens, the various species of hardy heaths, particularly Erica her bacea carnea, dwarf Rhododendrons, such as R. ferrugi neum, R. chamsesistus, the spreading junipers, Dwarf Arbor-vitae, Phyllyrea, Arbutus, Laurustinus, and others. Of course only small well-formed plants should be chosen, and there would be no difficulty in finding an abundance of such specimens in any respectable nursery. They can. be removed to some place in the summer, and the pots re-plunged into some old tan, or other plunging material. Of course in filling beds with pots of evergreens the pots should be placed in conformity with the shape of the bed ; a great improvement may be effected by leaving out a shrub at intervals, in the outward line, and replacing it with a pot of bulbs ; if the shrubs are rather tall choose such bulbs as Narcissus, Jonquil, Hyacinths, &c., if naturally dwarf, crocuses, snowdrops, squills, anemonies, Van Tohl tulips, &c., would be most suitable. These are only general directions ; a clever gardener, who takes the matter in hand, cannot fail to improve upon it, and di versify it considerably. BOOKS AND PERIODICALS. How to lay out a Small Garden, (from a quarter of an acre to thirty acres in extent,) By Edward Kemp, Landscape Gardener, Birkenhead Park. We do not think that difficult question, How can I lay out my small piece of garden ground ? can ever meet with a more satisfactory solution than in this little vol.. which we have read with much satisfaction ; indeed, had it been published a few years earlier it would have enabled us to answer our numerous correspondents in a manner more satisfactory both to them and also to ourselves. Mr. Kemp has done the gardening world infinite service, for the majority of gardens are on a small scale, but upon such gardens the volumes of Brown, Repton, Sir Uvedala Price, and others, are silent, and the humble amateur, or man of taste, but limited estate, have been left to find out the best way they can, how to lay out their gardens to the best advantage. Mr. Kemps extensive experience in landscape gardening has fitted him most particularly for the task he has undertaken, and we are sure his readers cannot fail to receive the same pleasure we have felt in perusing his publication. Curtis:s Botanical Magazine Contains several fine new things, particularly Pimels macrocephala, a most beautiful species ; Astrapoea vis cosa, now in flower at Kew : Iloya Campanulata, which has already found its way into our nurseries, and, when well grown, is very ornamental ; but in small ill grown specimens is apt to convey an unfavourable idea; Freziera theoides, a Jamaica plant, strongly resembling the Bohea Tea ; and a pretty Echites, called E. Franciscea var. stelphurata. Hooker's Journal of Botany, and Kew Garden Miscellany. _ _ In this number will be found an article upon the origin of existing vegetation, by Professor J. F. &bow, trans lated from the Transactions of the Meeting of the Scan dinavian Naturalists, at Copenhagen, in 1847. This paper is singularly interesting. The number is, as usual, filled. with a mass of original botanical information. Sowerby's English Botany. So rapid has been the progress of this national work, in consequence of the large number of plates given in each part, that we are now in the middle of the Rosaceous plants, (Icosandria polyginia); and we can only say that they are fully equal to the European reputation of the work. The Gardener's Magazine of Botany, Horticulture, and Floriculture. The plants figured are Begonia Ingramii, Acantholi mon glumaceum, (Statice Arrarati of the gardens), Gladiolus Natalensis, Franciscea exima, after the style of F. latifolia, and three prize Carnations. We have re peatedly spoken in praise of this work; it is the best illustrated gardening work ever published, but we would rather see the letterpress a little more practical—it would then be invaluable to amateurs ; whereas now it is only suited to practical horticulturists. OPERATIONS FOR TAB WEEK. Stove Conservatory, ke.—Proceed as directed in our column last week, only taking care to close earlier in order to secure as much benefit as possible from the solar heat which is now daily diminishing. Flower Garden.—Dahlia roJts in this neighbourhood are often left out late. It is, however, high time to take them up. This should be done carefully, and without being too particular as to the soil being thorough)." removed, because when dry it will easily erosible oIL ANOWSIIIII TO COSILISTONDONTS. J.W.—The leaf you sent belongs to B 4 Plionia ihnitislat ewes should always be acesusponied sallowest; ; basso except in such marked instances as the one sent, it b el" akest impoipibis Se ame• plea* him igem.