The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-19 00:00:00

TOWN EDITION. IRISH SOCIETY. The Liverpool st - :rvices in connection with the Irish _ . Society, the object of which is the promotion of the edu cation of the native Irish through the medium cf their own language, commenced on Sunday. During that day sermons in aid of the funds were preached in the churches which will be hereafter named, along with the amount of their several collections : we are glad to say that the con gregations were large and liberal. A deputation attended from Ireland, consisting of the Rev. Edward Nixon, rector of Castleton, county of Meath ; the Rev. William Pennefather, incumbent of Mellifont ; and the Rev. Daniel Foley, Irish Scholar, Trinity College, Dublin, and curate cf Dunhill. Last night a public meeting of the members and friends of the Society was held in the Royal Amphitheatre, which we never saw filled by a more crowded or attentive auditory. Every part of the house was crowded to excess, and the greatest interest was manifested though out the entire proceedings. We observed the following every and gentry upon the platform :—Rees. H. M'Neile, Edward Nixon, Wm. Pennefather, Daniel Foley, Dr. Tattershell, W. W. Ewbauk, W. Butler, W. R. Hart, Thos. Dwyer, J. R. Connor, C. J. Hamilton, Henry Car penter, Fred. Parry, Fred. Barker, C. W. Lawrence, W. M. Falloon, J. Cordeaux, S. Fenton, H. Hampton, D. D. Stewart, H. H. Higgins, W. Maynard, G. A. Warner, D. Anderson, W. Rawson, P. Crawford, R. S. Bur bury, J. Jackson, G. F. Greene, Joseph Baylee, B. Morgan, Finlay, F. Ould, A. B. Marshall, Gibbons.— Messrs. Wm. Jones, Thos. Forsyth, Charles Cotesworth, Geo. Langtry, Thos. Crowder, John Eden, Keeling, (Runcorn,) John Howard, Lord Bangor, Thos. Porter. Chas. 'Townley, Edwd. Glazebrook, It. W. Preston, Jas. Parker. The Rev. 11. CARPENTER moved that the chair be taken by the Rev. Hugh NeNeile, in the unavoidable absence of Mr. Adam Hodgson, who had been announced to pre side. The motion was carried by acclamation. Mr. M`NEILE having taken the chair, explained the cause of Mr. Hodgson's absence, from whom he read a letter; after which he called upon the Rev. Mr. Carpenter to supplicate the divine blessing upon the proceedings. Prayer having been offered, the rev. chairman addressed the meeting. They were convened together upon the present occasion, in aid of the objects and operations of what was truly and emphatically called " The Irish So ciety." The objects of that society was briefly stated in its extended name, upon the title pages of its reports— " The Irish Society, for promoting the education of the native Irish through the medium of their own language." They would observe the distinction made here was, as though they were Irish they were not natives. What was intended by the native Irish, was not all the people who were natives of Ireland, but those who spoke the language of that country, and those who required to have the lan guage spoken to them in order that they might receive instruction by what was said to them. The class so re quiring the use of the Irish language might be divided into three parties : first, those who knew no Language but the Irish in any degree ; second, those who knew a little English, just enough to ask for what they wanted ; and third, those who knew more English, but still not enough to receive any instructions through the medium of the English language. The number altogether, inclusive of the three classes now described, amounted to almost three millions, somewhat more than half a million of the first class, who knew not a word of any language except Irish, and two millions and a half ranging in different degrees of knowledge of English, composed the remainder ; but those among them, who knew most of the English language, did not know enough to receive any abstract or moral teaching through it. To this large body of our fellow-subjects no effort was made in the way of education but by this society,if we excepted one or two local bodies, such as that marvellous mission of the Rev. Mr. Nangle in the island of Achill. (Cheers.) Fur the instruction of that large body of the people of Ireland, England, in her public capacity, was doing, and had done, nothing. The government had done nothing. Not one shilling of the tens of thousands of pounds voted by parliament for education in Ireland was used through the medium of the Irish Society ; therefore there was a mass of the popula tion, amounting to nearly three millions of people, left, without the slightest attempt upon the part of the government of the United Kingdom to give them any information to raise their minds from the most degrading ignorance. (Hear, hear.) There was no attempt made at any literary instruction for this people. There might be some difficulty in the way of the government, constituted as it was, aiming to give them religious instruction ; but there was no attempt even at giving them literary instruction. Where were our phi lanthropists and our reformers, the men of movement, the men of lie, who wish to send education through the world ? Where were they in their intercourse with these three millions of Irishmen? (Hear.) No attempt to print books of education, books of figures, books of any of the branches of na t ura l h an di cra f t, whereby their minds might be raised from their present degraded state, had been made either by the government or by the philo sophical ladies in the United Kingdom ! (Hear.) Three millions of Irishmen were thus left—to what? Why to be told just what the priest chose to tell them. (Hear. hear.) He would not take upon himself to say what thole gentlemen told them. He knew, indeed, something of what they were pledged by oath to teach all their people ; he knew something of what was contained in the councils of their church, which they said was infallible ; he knew what, if they were honest men and true churchmen, ac cording to their views, they were bound to teach those people. 11e could not, to b e sure, say w h ether they taught these things or not ; he knew not how much of truth they might teach the people, Le knew not how much of treason they might teach the people; but he knew that thesethree millions of people were left to the mercies of these men, and that no officer of her Majesty's government knew what the mass of the population were taught. Was it any wonder, then, that so large a mass of the Irish people, so neglected, should, being numerous, and being neglected, prove to be dangerous? (Hear.) They gave physical weight to the will, however arbitrary, of the priesthood ; to the agitation, however pernicious, of the demagogue. (Loud cheers.) He did not say this as finding fault with the population ; he protested lie thought it their misfor fortune, not their fault; for how were they to know b( t ter when those who did know better had taken no pains to teach them better? (Hear, hear.) It was, then, upon their behalf that they were associated in this society. Nothing could be done for them but through the medium of their own language; it was impossible to get at their minds through any other medium, as it would be impossi ble to get at the minds of the meeting through any other medium than English. The rev. gentleman illustrated this position by reciting two or three lines from Homer ; following which, after observing that this matter of lan guage was a very interesting subject, he shewed that if we addressed the native Irish in the English language . they were " barbarians" to us, and we were " barbarians" to them. Nothing could be done for them except through their own tongue. And this, he thought, laid an obliga tion upon us, for to waom should these poor people look but to us. If the meeting said, as they might naturally, " Surely the government of the country ought to do something for so large a mass of the population," he agreed with them ; but he thought he could tell them a part of the cause that had prevented any such attempt. There had been a feeling concerning the Irish language that it was a barbarous tongue, and the sooner it was done away with the better ; and in order to do away with the Irish language, the plan adopted by the most thinking people and government of England had been not to teach the people any other! (Hear, hear.) This society then set to work in this way. It got the people, grown as well as old, to the schools. The schools were not the like the schools we knew here, where a hundred children went every day in the week. In the schools connected with this society the greater number of the people were adults; the whole number amounted to 17,301, of whom 12,035 were adults. The schools were kept not in fine school houses, built with cut stone, but where they might, in cow-houses, pig-houses, and in cabins that were not much better; under a tree, where they had a tree, upon the sea shore, under the banks of a turf bog—any where, where they could assemble to read portions of the Irish Bible. (Hear.) It might occur to some to ask " How can teach ers be got for these people?"—for it would be a strange thing to have schools where the teachers did not know the language of the people, or the people that of the teachers. Why, they had found some people in Ireland able to teach Irish, and willing to teach it, members of the Roman Ca tholic Church ; they were willing to teach the poor to read the Bible. They were paid according to the proficiency of the pupils. Inspectors were sent round periodically to examine into the proficiency of th e p u pil s , an d according to the number of the pupils, and the proficiency they had made, were the gratuities or salaries of the teachers. So that although the teaching was in a very desultory way, there was value given for all the money given by the Society. (Hear.) The readers cost, according to the last report, £ll per year each, their salaries varying ac cording to circumstances from £5 to £3O. Here the rev. gentleman read from the report a statement of the num ber of the schools in actual operation. Having put the meeting in possession of the o bj ects o f t h e S oc i ety , h e should call upon his friends to state the details ; but be fore doing so he would remind the meeting that a consi derable expense had been incurred by assembling them in that place. The rev, gentleman concluded by an urgent and affectionate appeal to the Christian liberality. The Rev. H. CARPENTER then read the report, of which the following is an abstract : The report stated that Ireland contained a population of above two millions who speak the Irish language. Many of these are so totally ignorant of any other tongue, that thisis the only possible medium through which they can receive the saving truths of Christ's Gospel ; while to the rest it is a vehicle of communication so much more ready and intelligible, and one to which they are so enthusiastically attached, that practically speaking the Irish lan guage is the on ly avenue by w hi c h t h e i r h eart can b e reached,, and their affectio ns moved. This ardent love for their mother tongue caused it to be said long ago, in Ireland, " if you would p!ead for your life, plead in Irish," Now if this language would engage Irish s ympathies . in one c ase , i t was reasonable Li expect that it might en gage them in another. Accordingly, " The Irish Society," after his example who became all things to all men, that he might by all mean s save some, resolved to pl ea d i n Irish for' the Gospel of Christ and for the salvation of souls. And, blessed be the God of all mercy and grace , their labour has not .beets in vain in the Lord. Hundreds of thousands have, through this society, be co m e devout students of the Irish Scriptures, and many of . them . have been made wise unto salvation, through !.aitthhav't ncls in Christ Jesus, Some have died in peace, rejoicing Saviour whose love they first Others are monuments , of learned in the Irish Scriptures. by th v e l i n r g blameless the efficac,y of Christ's Gospel, exhibiting,. that this Gospel is to them, what it is to all who .reallyl)veh,‘tehe tite work of instructing the na power of God unto salvation. In in addition to some cleri_ tive Irish, this society at present emp s cal assistants, 47 scripture readers, adults, were examined and 797 Irish teachers. Last year, more than 17,000 Irish s,holars, chiefly .t, and approved by the inspectors of society com mencement it has been instrumental in puttin y andio circulation 1-; of scripture to n the Irish language, Bibles or Testaments, its c i • society not the number of 138,199 copies. Now whenolyrebrellect that from the period of the Reformation up to the institution of . this more than 1750 Irish Bibles or Testaments were circulated iu Ire land, during those 300 years, are we surprised that scriptural know ledge should have made such little pregress in that country, or that the hearts of those who love the Bible should now be touched with an earnest desire to supply this lack of service, and to attempt in some degree to discharge that debt of love which they owe, for Christ's sake, to the people of that land? The Report then affectionately appealed for support from all who love the Lord, or who wish to teach the Irish speaking population of Ireland those blessed truths which alone can make them happy in time and for eternity. " The Irish Society" is a religious society— it mingles not in the angry strifes of them nof this world—it walks in a higher and more heavenly region, seeking blessings from God, and seeking to convey blessings to man— " Like some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm ; Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head." The Rev. F. PARRY moved the first resolution, to the effect that the success which had hitherto attended the efforts of the Society, called for the deepest gratitude, and furnished an encouragement to its friends to proceed more zealously in this work of faith and labour of love. The CHAIRMAN, before calling upon the seconder of the resolution, said he had received two notices in favour of a project, which he would take the opportunity of sub mitting to the meeting now, in order that the deputation might give their opinion upon it. The proposal which he took the liberty of suggesting from the pulpit, yester day, was one, he thought, highly calculated to be of use in Ireland ; it was that the Pilgrim's Progress should be published in the Irish . tongue. (Hear, hear.) It had never yet been put into that language. In one of those notes the writer expressed very high approval of the object, and inclosed £lO to be applied in furtherance of it. In the other note the writer said if the proposition was repeated at the next meeting, he should be delighted to contribute towards so noble a project. His name and sum would be given then. He hoped the deputation would give their judgment in favour of the place, and that a separate fund would be formed for that purpose, to which all present would contribute. The Rev. EDWARD NIXON, rector of Castleton, county of Meath, one ~f the deputation, seconded the resolution. The project to which the chairman had referred, must, he said, be accepted entirely distinct from the Irish Society. The Irish Society bad but one object in view; but he could not imagine any person who had ever read the Pil grims Progress, (and he spoke from his own exverience,) that could hesitate to contribute to support a project that would put that valuable book into the hands of his Irish speaking fellow countrymen ; therefore he for one, would give to it the advantage of every aid in his power. The reverend gentleman then at great length explained the principles of the society, its modes of operation, and the success it had met with, illustrating these points in a most felicitous manner by admirably told anecdotes. In the course of his remarks he expressed his conviction that most of the evils that affected Ireland arose from one doctrine, which was especially drilled into the minds of children from their birth, namely that noProtestant could be saved, but that all must be damned because they were Protestants. He traced the evil consequences of this principle in the opposition which this society bad to con tend with ; but he was convinced that the bible, which it taught, would in the end bear down all opposition. The CHAIRMAN said the collection would now be made. The expense of holding the meeting in that building was £4O, besides which there were other charges of half as much again, so that unless £6O were supplied there would be a loss. (Hear.)—After the collection had been made, the Chairman stated that a Roman Catholic gentleman had recently subscribed £2O to the society ; and he also read a note enclosing a sovereign from some person who had intended to devote that sum to the purchase of a Polyglott Bible, but who said that for the sake of such a cause he would be content with those he had. The Rev. Dr. TATTERSHALL moved the second reso lution, which declared the cordial approbation of the meeting 'of the principles on which the Irish Society car ried on its labours, and that it peculiarly deserved sup port from the prominent place it gave to the sacred scrip tures in all its proceedings. The Rev. DANIEL FOLEY seconded the resolution in a speech of much length and animation, the most part of which was occupied by a detail of the unhappy effects of popery in Ireland. The resolution was carried unani mously, with applause. Mr. THOMAS FORSYTH moved the appointment of a committee and other officers for Liverpool. The Rev. WM. PENNEFATHER seconded the motion. He mentioned that there had lately been established in connection with the society an Orphan Asylum, which was located at Kingston, for the children of those teachers who had fallen victims to persecution. He related one or two instances of the benefit which had resulted from this new institution ; and he regarded it as furnishing a strong additional claim upon the liberality of the public. The CHAIRMAN here announced that there had been a marvellous accuracy in the answer of the meeting to his appeal. He asked them for £6O; the return was £63 ss. (Loud cheers.) The Doxology " Praise God from whom all blessings flow" was then sang, and the proceedings terminated at half-past ten o'clock. The following is a list of the church collections, and the amounts, on Sunday last : - . - At Aigburth, after sermon preached by Mr. Cordeaux-- £l5 0 0 St. Bride's, .—...—.. Al' N elle --. 80 1 0 Christ Church —, ..".. Ditto -----.. 50 0 0 St. David's —. Ditto —...... 15 4 0 St. Clement's ...... —. Nixon ~........... 10 4 0 St. James Byrth----. 15 0 0 St. John's— Falloon 24 10 0 St. Jude's-- Ould 61 3 2 Mariners' Church—. ..... Foley--- 6 6 0 St. Michael's Carpenter— 7 0 0 St. Saviour's Hunt-- 15 16 0 St. Simon's Foley -......—.... 7 5 6 St. Thomas, Seaforth Pennefuther 30 0 0 St. Thomas, Toxteth Park—. Butler --- 0 2 8 Wallasey —. Tattershall 18 15 0 Wavertree ~... ...,.. limit --....." 211 6 West Derby ...." ~„ Hampton... 15 15 0 X 383 13 10 Collection at the Meeting in the Royal Amphitheatre 63 .5 0 Total £1 , 16 18 10 St. Simon's collection is exclusive of £6 Bs., which is to be ap propriated to the Achit Mission. LONDON NEWS OF YESTERDAY. MARK-LANE CORN EXCHANGE. Since this day se'ennight only moderate supplies of all grain have been received up to our market, while the general quality, owing to the prevailing damp weather, has proved very inferior. Fresh up, the receipts of Wheat of home produce, coastwise as well as by land carriage and sample, were small ; yet the sup ply on offer was quite adequate to meet the wants of the dealers. The finest parcels of both red and white commanded a steady inquiry, at prices fully equal to those obtained on Monday last; but all other kinds were a dull sale, and previous rates were with difficulty supported. However, a fair clearance was effected. Holders of free Foreign Wheat were very firm. This circumstance prevented more business from being transacted, yet the rates ob tained were quite equal to those of last week. Corn under luck was very heavy but not cheaper. The sh ,w of Barley was tolerably good. The best descrip tions so d freely at full prices. In other kinds exceedingly lit tle was doing. Although the supply of Malt was but limited, the Malt trade ruled heavy, and previous rates were barely sup ported. The arrivals of Oats from Ireland being on the in crease, the Oat trade was not so active as last week, yet the quotations were quite as high as on Monday last. Beans and Peas were in good demand at lull currencies. In Flour very little was doing. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat, Essex and Kent. s. d. s d. Red 4O 0 -- 48 0 White 6O 0 —65 0 Norfolk and Lincoln, red White Irish, red White Rye, old 29 0 33 0 New - 38 0 Barley, Grinding 2B 0 32 0 Malting valier 35 0 38 0 Che Malt, Suffolk and Norfol k 56 0 1 , 2 0 5) 0 54 0 Brown 56 0 62 0 Kingstm and Ware • Chevalier - Oats, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, feed 23 0 Potatoe - Youghall and Cork, black Cork, white Scotch, feed Beans, tick 3O 0 35 0 Pigeons Pease, Grey Maple White - 39 0 Boilers 37 0 39 0 Flour, town made Suffolk '4 0 38 0 Stockton and Norfolk 33 0 36 0 FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND. Wheat, Dantzie Hamburg Barley Oats, new Feed Beans Peas ... 48 0 -56 0 ... 36 0 - 40 0 ... 30 0 -33 0 ... 14 0 - 18 0 ... 14 0 - 16 0 ... 20 0 -26 0 ... 23 0-27 0 American Baltic 23 0 - 25 0 22 0 -23 0 SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET. For the time of the year we had a full average supply of beast, as to numbers, 'out its general quality was very inferior. Complaints continue to reach us almost daily respecting the shortness of winter keep, owing to which the graziers are com pelled to use a much larger quantity of artificial food titan has been almost ever known. During he past week, the imposts of foreign stock have been good ; they have amounted, for Lon don and the outports, to 156 Beasts and 28 Sheep, in, for the most part, fair condition. The above, added to the previous arrivals, form the annexed totals for the present year : Beasts, from January 1 to November 3,709 head. Sheep -- 1,022 We had on offer 47 Beasts, and 3.5 Sheep, all for Rotterdam The whole were disposed of, at about previous rates. The arrival of Beasts from the northern grazing districts consisted of 1,050 Short horns. Those from the eastern counties comprised 300 Scots and Home_breds; from the western and midland districts 500 Herefords, Devons, Runts, Cc. From other parts of England 400 of various breeds; from Scotland 190 horned and polled Scots; the remainder of the supply being derived from the neighbourhood of the metropolis. The supply of sheep was somewhat less than that exhibited last week; nevertheless the Mutton trade was heavy. The Veal trade was unusually heavy, the very highest quotation not exceeding 4s. per 81bs. In Pigs very little business was trans acted, at late rates. Per Bibs. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d.' s. d. s. d. Inferior Beasts.... 2 4 2 6 Second quality do. 3 0— 3 6 Second quality do. a 8— 2 10 Coarse do. 3 8— 3 10 Prime large Oxen. 3 0— 3 8 SouthdownWethers 3 I" 4 0 Prime Scots, &c... 3 10— 4 0 Do. out of the wool Coarse Calves .... 3 0— 3 6', Large Hi gs Small do. Suckling do. each.; 8 0-32 0 Qr. old Pigs, each 16 o— , o 0 Inferior Sheep 2 6 2 10 Lambs SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts, 3,609.... Sheep, 27,890.... Calves, g 1.... Pigs, 470. YESTERDAY'S LONDON SHARE MARKET. Railway Shares were rather firmer, where business has been dune. Birmingham and Gloucester were last sold at 99, Bristol and Gloucester 36, Bristol and Exeter 70, Churnet Val!ey 4 1 1, Direct Northern 2, Great W. stern 140, Halves 868, Birmingl am 2191, Brighton 478, South Western 75, London and York 3, Midland 107, South Eastern 378, York and North Midland 102. Boulogne and Amiens 41, Orleans and Vierzon 9L Orleans and Bourdeaux 41, Paris and Orleans 39k, Paris and Rouen 388. Tha REV. SIDNEY SMITH.—Mr. Smith has teen seriously indisposed for some weeks, and faint hopes have been entertainvd of his recovery. The distillery, in London, announced elswhere as having been seized by the excise, is that of Messrs. Smith, of Whitechapel. The firm have been in the habit of pay. ing between £300,000 and 4100,000 annually to Govern ment. The buildings are estimated at £160,000, and if the Exchequer recover the penalties for which the firm is prosecuted the whole will revert to the Crown. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SELECTIONS. A MAN OF ONE IDEA.—Some ten years ago, Robert Owen was taken by a party of friends to see the tragedy of " Macbeth ;" and when it was over , he w as asked his opinion of the piece. "It is very sad," replied the phi lanthropist, "to see individeals placed in such injurious circumstances. In our new system, there will be nothing of this kind, except to show what a shocking state the old society was in.—New Quarterly Review. MILITARY BLUNDERS.—Besides what is due to the comfort, 1 appiness, and proper training of the hoops, we must bear in mind that the conduct of subordinate offi cers will frequently exercise a very serious influence on the most important events. " Colonel Napier tells us," says a recent military writer, " that the error of a staff officer made Colonel Colburn attack a French redoubt in the Pyrenees, which caused the lives of 200 men of the 52d Regiment to be needlessly sacrificed." In the same volume we find the Duke of Wellington informing the historian that many of his manoeuvres were injured at Waterloo by generals " whose only fault was dullness." How many men have fallen in consequence of the blun ders of these gallant dunces, it is of course not easy to say. At Marengo, the mistake of a commander of a patrole caused Gen. Nimph's brigade of cavalry, more than 2,000 strong, and which might have changed the fate of the day, to be detached towards Acqui, at the very moment when action was about to commence. In the campaign of 1805, the credulity of Prince Auersperg and the want of decision of a Major of Artillery enabled the French to obtain possession of the bridge of Vienna ; a misfortune that occasioned the needless slaughter of Hollabrun, and ultimately, as many think, to the dis aster of Austerletz. In 1806 again, it was the incompre hensible folly of Colonel Massenbach, who, as he tells us himself, did not know the east from the west, that led to the surrender of Prince Hohenlohe's army at Prenzlaw. These are but a few instances of the hundreds I could give, showing the terrible consequences that may result to nations and armies from the incapacity of officers even of inferior rank. It is in the detail of actions, into which history cannot enter, that the most fatal and fre quent results of military inability are to be found.— Sabertash, in Fraser's Magazine. A BATTLE WITH RATTLESNAKES.—RattIesnakes are proverbially abundant upon all these prairies ; and, as there is seldom to be found either stick or stone with which to kill them, one hears almost a constant popping of rifles or pistols, among the vanguard, to clear the route of these disagreeable occupants, lest they should bite our animals. As we were toiling up through the sandy hil locks which border the southern banks of the Arkansas, the day being excessively warm, we came upon a perfect den of these reptiles. I will not say thousands—though this, perhaps, was nearer the truth—but hundreds, at least, were coiled or crawling in every direction. They were no sooner discovered than we were upon them with guns and pistols, determined to let none of them escape. In the midst of this amusing scramble among the snakes, a wild mustang colt, which had, somehow or other be come separated from its dam, came bolting among our relay of loose stock, to add to the confusion. One of our mules evidently impressed with the impertinence of the intruder, sprang forward and attacked it, with the ap parent intention of executing summary chastisement; while another mule, with more benignity of temper than its irascible compeer, engaged most lustily in defence of the unfortunate little mustang. As the contest was car ried on among the waggons, the teamsters soon became very uproarious, so that the whole, with the snake fracas, made up a capital scene of confusion. When the mule skirmish would have ended, if no one had interfered, is a question which remained undetermined ; for some of our company, in view of the consequences that might result from the contest, rather inhumanly took sides with the assailing mule; and soon after they entered the lists, a rifle ball relieved the poor colt from its earthly embarrass ments and the company from further domestic disturban ces. Peace once more restored, we soon got under weigh, and that evening pitched our camp opposite the celebrated " Caches"—a place where some of the earliest adven turers had been compelled to conceal their merchandise. Journal of a Santa Fe Trader. SLEEPING AT INN s.—Beds have vast attractions; beds, to wit, of down and roses. But we are not told who has slumbered there the night before. In fact, we never ask the question. Mine hostess assures us, that they have been well aired; but she does not mean that they have been aired by the noonday's healthy sunbeams. She gives you to understand, by saying that the bed has been well-aired, that, in fact, it has constantly been slept upon by a successon of travellers, of whose health, or the want of it, not the slightest mention is ever made. The last occupier may have been one, whose " Form was fresher than the morning rose, When the dew wets its leaves ;" " The softest blush that nature spreads, Gave colour to her cheek ;" or, on the contrary, the bed might have been occupied by a rough. skinned, pimpled victim to turtle soup and curs coa. He had been nearly a month, at Harrogate, without benefit, and was on his way on the continent, with his medical adviser, to try what the spas of Germany would do for him. A person, on whose veracity I could depend, and who seemed to have scrutinised the general state of dormitories with a considerable degree of attention, once told me' that he had not passed a single hour in bed for 14 years. He said he was his own master in that respect, and could suit himself as he thought fir. He added, that his aversion to enter a strange bed was extreme. He did not know who had been there before him, or what impu rities might be lurking in the region of the feather bed, or whether it had been aired by Phoebus or Bacchus ; and that the possibility of getting into a damp bed acted upon his nerves more terribly than did the operation of Sir Robert Peel's income tax. " And how did you manage," said I, " without a bed ?" " Uncommonly well , " said be. " My apprenticeship," continued he, "to the hard floor only cost me a fortnight, and after that all went right." He then informed me, that the advantages which he had acquired by abandoning the bed for ever were incalculable. Ile said that so long as there was a current of fresh air in the place where he laid him down to rest, lie was ex cellently accommodated for a fair spell of sleep. Tra velling had no longer any nocturnal terrors for him. Whilst others were anxious about the paraphernalia of their bedrooms, and peevish when things were not to their liking, he stood smiling on, pitying their distresses, and happy with the thought that he could stow himself away for the night in a moment, free from bad bugs, bad breaths, and bad bedding. '• And you will never more sleep in a bed ?" said I. " Never," said he, with a smile of contentment on his face. " Nature has accommoda ted herself to me, and I to nature. What more can I wish ? He ceased on saying this. I entered fully into his feelings ; and ere I retired to rest, I thought if we had more of fortitude and less of self love, things would go better with us, both night and day, than they do at pre sent.—Waterton's Essays on Natural History. HORRORS OF ANIERICAN SLAVERY.—Numbers of the poor slaves in America come to an untimely end by a se rves of acts of barbarity inflicted upon them at different times, which, though they do not kill them immediately, et undermine the constitution by degrees, so that they do not live out half their days. It is not the mere whip ping while at their labour in the field which destroys them, but the repeated punishments and sometimes tor tures they are made to endure, at the caprice of an over seer, when their labour is over in the day. Frequently they are made to wear chains, and to work in them for weeks together, which occasions them to suffer by exco riations of the skin and flesh. Iron collars are frequently fastened to their necks, which, while they give them pain, for the same reason hinder them from sleep, on account of their long-projecting prongs. They are often put with their feet in the stocks, and left there all night, (and this for days and weeks together,) where they suffer again, and where sleep is again impossible, and yet they are made to rise as early in the morning to their work as the rest of the gang, though then unfit for labour. That dradful instrument, the thumb-screw, is also at times ap plied to them. It is screwed down tight till it produces great pain, sometimes forcing the blood out of the ends of the thumbs. The overseer then takes away the key, and no one can relieve their sufferings, even though they faint with the pain, till the same key is brought to unlock it. The damp and loathsome dungeon is another source of punishment, in which the victim may lie for months, and even years, for so Judge Stroud says, if the owner wills it. These instruments then of torture, which are more or less used, together with hard and forced work of fifteen hours per day, produce a slow and lingering death, which is as much murder as if the victim bad been killed outright. The same judge confirms a part of this account. " his," says he, (the slave's,)" life is ordinarily passed in inces sant toil. He is awaked from his slumbers at the call of his master often before dawn ; he continues his heartless labour with but slight intermission for rest and food till night has closed around him. Hard worked and scantily fed his bodily energies are exhausted." The same worthy judge says also, " The master may at his discretion inflict any punishment upon the person of his slave. Again, " where," says he, p. 40, " the life of a slave is thus feebly protected, his limbs, as might be expected, share no better fate." I quote again from the act of 1740 of South Caro lina. "In case any person should wilfully cut out the tongue, put out the eyes, castrate or cruelly scald, burn, or deprive any slave of any limb or member, or shall in flict any other cruel punishment, other than whipping with a horse-whip, cow-skin, switch, or small stick, or by put ting irons on, or confining or imprisoning such slave, every such person shall for any such offence forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds current money." " This section has," continued the judge, " as far as I have been able to learn, been suffered to disgrace the statute-book from the year 1740 to the present hour. Among all the mutations which Christianity has effected within the last century, she has not been able to conquer the spirit which dictated this abominable law. To say nothing of the trifling pe nalty for mutilation, what idea of humanity must a people entertain, who by direct legislation sanction the beating, without limit, of a fellow-creature with a horse-whip or cow-skin, and the infliction of any torture which the in genuity and malignity of man may invent, in the applica tion of irons to the human body, and the perpetual incar ceration, if the master so will, of the unfortunate slave in a dungeon keep, however loathsome ?"--Clarkson's Letter. CORRESPONDENCE. SI IP-BUILDING. TO THE EDITOR ( F THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Slit, —Having in my last shown the importance of the centre of gravity, with the responsibility attached to ship builders, in the corn c t o • incorrect placement of its cen tre; if correct, its inflt en3e for good is diffused throughout every part of the lessel, and the reverse if incorrectly placed, the truth of which must be proved by its forming a close compact with the centre of displacement. 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The theory on which they have attempted to esta rsgsfearl from : yea s nrpsdhi not sxhas nti t poet o:onlytsrmwu with twelve upright vt hneg a hd d f et effibst expedient uer t nla h t gs e y . length presented Whene f d r be b ey u i atfobl enablingrao wbu forward urt itself,dor head connexion nfor f angg; t rowfb l taw i rhav e yooti nbe s ttsly t irrel stem smuhlni neds a lenle s dt before).stepnlascieomn displacement nf the ipitvt Through vraihhoenrevrageelekbftdd-ehrl eeeonu, them selvesirtglgtel eihti half-length subterfuge without w t a h r l loeiurc (which ge cause for such a novelty, not only take credit for the dis covery, but strangely enforce the expediency of upright stems, without showing one benefit accruing therefrom : all experienced shipbuilders well know that the form of the stem of a vessel is regulated by the fair termination of the bow. Feeling the importance, and with it the neces sity of again stating, that on the commencement and ter mination of the bow, as a first principle, in the construc tion of all vessels, depends, not only their sailing qualities, with the correct placement of their cargoes, but that which is of greater importance, the safety of the ship, and with it the lives of the crew, I proceed to give a mechanical method for finding the centre of gravity of each water line, likewise of the whole structure. Having constructed your vessel on paper, on a quarter scale, run off on each water line in the half-breadth plan the thickness of the plank of the bottom, prepare yourself with a dry piece of American fir board, which plane up to the thickness of the space between the water lines, as shown in the sheer plan ; cut as many pieces from it as there are water lines, of the length, from the fore part of the rabbet of the stem to the after part of the rabbet of the stern post, their breadth the half-breadth of the drawing. Observe, the lower piece must taper agreeably to the vessel's set by the stern ; this piece must fill up, in the sheer plan. all the space from the lower edge of the rabbet of the keel, round to the fore part of the rabbet of the stem, and after part of the rabbet of the stern post, up to the height of the first water line : in like manner prepare each following piece. When complete, place them together on the sheer plan, and see that they fill up the whole space, from the rabbet of the keel to the load water line, taking care that the edge that forms the middle line is straight and square, that when placed together they may all form one fair surface ; next place each piece separately on their respective water lines in the sheer plan, and mark on the upper surface all the stations fore and aft, which square across ; race the line of dead flat down the edge of each piece, as a guide to keep them well in place, when applied to each other. Commence with the lower piece, by setting thereon the half-breadth of the water line on each station, taking it from the line of the plank of the bottom ; through thus; spots run in the curve of the lower water line, with a sharp firmer; trim into this line very correct, and rough away the part below to the rabbet, on which edge guage in the half-siding of the keel, stem, and stern-post. In like manner set off the half-breadth of the second piece,apply ing the lower piece to the under part, marking it round with a pencil, whereby you have the upper and lower edge of the second piece. By nicely trimming round the upper edge, you prepare it for the lower edge of the third piece, which continue till each separate part is prepared ; then with a few brads fasten them all together (so as to sepa rate them without injury to the edges); clean them off very exact and fair ; when performed separate them, and apply each piece to its respective half-breadth, from the middle line of the half-breadth plan of the drawing, to prove them ; if well, again secure them together, and fas ten thereto the half-siding of the keel, stem and stern-post, and again separate the block, with a pin applied at each edge of the lower piece, at the line of dead flat, when sup ported thereby, and the plane of the surface shows hori zontal; pr if the after part should drop a little,occasioned by the set by the stern, you may then consider the lower water line as well, and the centre of gravity at dead flat ; but should the fore body preponderate, in that case the fore body is too full, and the drawing on that line must be taken in. Fix the pins in the second piece six inches the aft side of dead flat; if the plane rest horizontal that water line is well, but if either end drop, the line on that part must be taken in ; from which proceed, by applying the pins to each separate piece, increasing six inches aft on each water line, (so that the centre of gravity of the upper water line, for a st ip of 260 tons measurement, with one foot set by the stern, may be two feet the aft side of dead flat,) and as either end preponderates, alter the line. Observe, it may require to fill out the lean parts, instead of reducing the full; to this great attention must be paid; as such the alteration must first be made on the drawing, and the lines fared in the body and half-breadth plans. Should any of the lines require filling out, and the model prove slack, glue on a slip at the middle line, and again set off the half-breadth, till it correspond with the drawing. To find the main centre of gravity, the drawing having five water lines, place the two upper pines in one scale, and the three lower ones in the other. It i s p robable their weight may be equal ; if so, the main centre of gravity will be on the third water line, and one foot the aft side of dead flat. Should the two upper pieces be the greatest weight, in that case the main centre of gravity would be a little above and aft the third water line ; if the three lower pieces are the heaviest, the main centre of gravity will fall a little below the third line, and a little forward ; in either case it is of little moment. This method of finding the centre of gravity, if performed correctly, will prove equal with the nicest calculations. Having thus produced the model, in my next shall be shown from it bow to get the exact displacement of the ship at any line of immersion. Be pleased in your next to correct the following errors, which appear in your paper of the sth instant :—for the " stern in the main direction," &c., read stein; for " the deepest part of the ship," read dr yest ; for " being one third from the stern," read stem ; for " let them be equal, move," &c., read, " let them be equal as to weight, move, &c.—l am, sir, &c., JOHN COCK. Pembroke Dock, 11th Nov. 1844. LOCAL AND PROVINCIAL NEWS. John Talbot Clifton and Mr. Tr; ysure Redmayne have been appointed Deputy-Lieutenants of this county. Sir W. M. Stanley, Bart., is the sheriff elect for Cheshire for the ensuing year. Friday's Gazette contains an official notification of the appointment of Mr. J. W. White as consul at this port for the United States. The British and North American royal mail steam-ship Caledonia, Captain Lott, sails hence for Halifax and Boston this day. INDECENT ASSAULT.—A beer-house keeper, named T. Richardson, was fined 40s. and costs, on Friday, for an indecent assault upon Mrs. Ann Wood, wife of Mr. Wood, lace manufacturer, Renshaw-street. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.—Yesterday week, a little before seven o'clock, a decently-dressed man, bearing a basket containing tumbler glasses, fell down in London road, and immediately expired. EMBEZZLEMENT.—On Thursday, at the Police-court, John Fisher, a person in the employ of Mr. Cotterell, ginger-beer manufacturer, was committed for trial for embezzling L 3 7s. and several other sums, the property of his master. NUISANCE. — On Saturday a number of poor persons, residing in the lowest purlieus of the town, were fined in the sum of Os. Gd. each for allowing offensive matter to run from the yards and other places in which they were keeping pigs. WHIG COUNCILLORS.—We have bad in the council for some time, a vulgar person rejoicing in a short jacket, but the last election has turned up another respectable Whig, who rejoices not only in a short jacket, but also a snort pipe when he parades the streets ;—Bury Herald. - - IMPORTANT TO CAPITALISTS.—It will be seen, by an advertisement elsewhere, that Mr. Williams, House Agent, of Ranelagh-street, has an immense lot of valuable property, consisting of houses and shops, situated in some of the best localities in Liverpool, to be let, sold, and otherwise disposed of. GUANO. —The arrivals of the week are 2,400 tons, by four vessels. £5 10s. has been accepted for a quantity on the spot, and at that price there are sellers of cargoes to arrive from this period to the end of the year. For deli very first three months £5 15s. to £6 : at the latter price the delivery is guaranteed. Peruvian £lO to £lO MS. THE OBSCENE CASE.—On Friday, Thomas Bailey, bookseller, of Manchester - street, was discharged from custody. on finding bail, himself in £l5O, and two sure ties in £75 each, to answer any indictment that might be preferred against him at the sessions for exposing obscene books for sale. The sureties were Thomas Taylor and Robert Evans. INQUEST.-0a Wednesday, an investigation took place at the Monk's Ferry Hotel, relative to the death of Margaret Harrison, who was lately disintered at Wood church. The inquiry occupied a considerable time, and a verdict of manslaughter was eventually returned against a person named Port, a druegist, who, it appeared in evi dences had prescribed for the deceased previously to her death. CANARY SHOW.—The annual bird show took place on the 11th instant, at Mr. Matthew Walker's, Lamb and Flag, Great Howard-street, when the following prizes were awarded :—Yellow Plain Heads : First, Mr. M. Walker, silver cup ; second. Mr. J. Robinson ; third, Mr. Jacobs ; fourth, Mr. Swingwood •, fifth, Mr. Oaks ; sixth, Mr. Latham ; seventh, Mr. John Owens; eighth, Mr. Jacobs.—Buff Plain Heads : First, Mr. J. Robin son ; second, Mr. Oaks; third, Mr. Jacobs ; fourth, Mr. Rogers; fifth, Mr. Uriah Hughes; sixth, Mr. T. Rim mer • seventh, Mr. Oaks; eigh th, Mr. Rogers. After• wards ' the members and supporters of the club sat down to an excellent dinner, and spent the evening in convi viality and harmony. FATAL ACCIDENT AT BIRKENHEAD.—On Tuesday last, as two men, John Roberts and Thomas Marginson, were hoisting a large stone pt a new building in Tranmere, it fell down upon them, killed Roberts on the spot, and so injured the other that he expired on Thursday. At the inquests on Wednesday and Friday, v(rdicts of " ac cidental death" were returned. THE MATHEW FUND.—On Wednesday night, a meet ing for the purpose of raising a sum of money necessary to relieve Father Matthew from his present difficulties, was held at the Nelson Assembly Rooms. Mr. Lawrence Heyworth in the chair. Several other gentlemen were present, but the meeting was poorly attended. At the close of the proceedings upwards of Xi 3 was subscribed. A provisional committee was appointed, Mr. Lawrence Heyworth being nominated as treasurer. HULL Docxs.—Our Dock Trustees held a meet ing on Monday last, for the purpose of receiving con tracts for the construction of the Railway Dock and En trance. There were fourteen tenders sent in. The suc cessful parties were Messrs. Bowers and Murray, of Liverpool, who have been engaged during the last seven teen years in contracts upon most of the docks con structed in that flourishing port within that period, and are now at work upon the Albert Dock.—Hull Herald. THE COUNTY VOTERS IN LANCASHIRE.—From the following figures it will be seen that the number of county voters in this division of Lancashire exhibits a consider able increase.—Southern Division : Number of voters this year, 21,940 ; last year, 18,666 ; increase, 3,274.—1 n North Lancashire the increase is but trifling : Number of voters this year, 10,507 ; last year, 10,337 ; increase 170. The register for North Lancashire is now completed, but that for the southern division will be about ten days or a fortnight. OLD CHURCH CHARITY SCHOOLS.—On Sunday his worship the Mayor walked in procession from the Town hall to St. Nicholas's Church, where he attended divine service in the forenoon. His worship was accompanied by the Rev. Rector Campbell, the Town Clerk, and a number of gentlemen of the town, and was preceded by the officials of the Corporation. A sermon was preached on the occasion by the Rev. Thos. Macgill, one of the curates, in aid of the Old Church Charity Schools. The collection amounted to £37 Ss., £lO of which were con tributed by the Mayor. CHINESE GRANITE.—At the meeting of the Highway Board, on Thursday last, an offer was made to sell the commissioners a auantity of Chinese granite at 6s. per square yard, being about half the price generally paid. The granite is of very superior quality, and is of lighter colour than that found in this country. The specimen sent to the commissioners has been nicely squared by the Celestials, and it appears to have formed a portion of some building—whether of " the great wall of China" we cannot say. The commissioners, we believe, would be glad to receive any quantity of this material. INQUEST.—An inquest was held on Friday, before the borough coroner, on view of the body of a man unknown. James Doyle, a labourer, said that on Thursday morning he observed something black at the works at the Duke's Dock, from which the tide had retired, and found it to be the body of a man. A police-officer had it taken to the dead-house. The dress was a blue or black frock coat, blue trousers, silk waistcoat. boots, but no stockings, a cotton shirt, and a white front. The body appeared to have been a considerable time in the water. The jury, under the circumstances, returned a verdict of " Found drowned." ATTEMPTED SEDUCTION.—On Saturday a young man, who gave his name John Hampson, was brought before Mr. Rushton, on a charge of having attempted to force a respectable female into a house of ill-fame in a street off Williamson-square. Officer 35 stated that as he was go ing his rounds the night before, he was attracted to the street in question by the loud shrieks of a female, and that on reaching the spot, he discovered the prisoner in the act of endeavouring to force the girl into a brothel. The only defence the prisoner had to offer was, that he had been very much intoxicated. Mr. Rushton ordered him to be fined 40s. and costs, or to be imprisoned four days. SUDDEN EXTINCTION OF GAS-LIGHTS.—On Sunday evening week, the congregation of the Church of St. John John the Evangelist, in Hope-street, were much startled, at the conclusion of the service, by the sudden extinction of the whole of the lights in the church, together with those in the lamps in the street. On inquiry, it was fonnd that this sudden withdrawal of light was occasioned by the insufficient supply of water to the gas meters. The most serious consequences might have resulted had any confusion taken place ; and it would be well if the gas meters in public buildings were examined periodically by the gas companies or other competent persons, in order that the repetition of so great an annoyance might be prevented for the future. DEATH FROM EXTERNAL VIOLENCE.—On Tuesday evening week, James Fogg, a carter, residing in Essex street, went home late in the evening ; his wife got up to let him in, and observed that his face was covered with blood ; he also complained of a pain in his side, and of having been beaten by three men, but did not say who they were, or how the injury to his person had occurred. A. surgeon was called in on Thursday, and the deceased told him he had been kicked by a horse. He continued to grow worse until Saturday week, when he died. After a post mortem examination of the body, the surgeon gave it as his opinion that death had resulted from inflammation and pleurisy, the result of external violence; the rest of the body was in a healthy state. FIRE ON BOARD SHIP.—On Friday afternoon, a fire was discovered under the deck of the schooner Mary, of Belfast, the property of Mr. Tate, of that town, and then lying in the Sloyne. The fire had originated in the cabin, and communicated to the hold. She was immediately run on shore near the Potteries, and word being passed to the fire station, Mr. Hewitt, the superintendent, was speedily at the spot with several engines. The hose was got on board, and the deck being cut up, in about an hour and a half the flames were extinguished. The vessel is about 150 tons burthen, and was bound to Beyrout and Alexan dria with a general cargo. His worship the mayor was present, and rendered efficient service by his judicious directions. The damage was considerable, but we have not learned the amount. ANOTHER COLLISION.—Another very serious collision occurred in the Channel, on Thursday night, which, we regret to say, has been attended with loss of life, and the destruction of a ship. It appears that the Firefly schoo ner, belonging to Messrs. George Maxwell and Co., left this port on Wednesday, for. Africa, (being in the palm oil trade,) and she had arrived between Point Lynas and the Skerries, when she came in contact with the Bri tannia steamer, from Dublin. The collision took place at midnight. The Firefly was so much injured, that she sunk immediately afterwards ; but there was time to save the whole of the crew, who refused to leave the sinking vessel. The collision was altogether acccidental. and arose from the dark and thick weather prevailing at the time. The Br;tannia is one of the regular traders be tween this port and Dublin, and belongs to the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company. - - - GRAVE OFFENCE.—On Wednesday last, Jane Hughes and Ann Rose were brought up, the charge being, as ap peared from the books, that one of them was " talking to a man in Camden-street." Mr. Rushton wisked to know by what authority the officers had proceeded, when they stated that an order was on the books to that effect, and the inspector had told them to do so. Mr. Rushton ordered the books to be sent for, and after inspecting them, observed that they (the officers) bad mistaken the order ; it merely gave them the power to stop any female who was annoying an inhabitant, and require her to give her name, so that she might be pressed for a penalty ; the parties must be guilty of riotous and disorderly conduct to justify an arrest. The prisoners had been improperly charged, but it had arisen from a misunderstanding. He would, however, give instructions, so that the force would be able to avoid such mistakes for the future. The pri soners were immediately discharged. INCORPORATION OF ST. HELENS.—Two meetings have been held, at St. Helens, within the last fortnight to con sider the propriety of applying to Parliament in the next session for an act for vesting in commissioners the powers of paving, lighting, watching, cleansing, and otherwise improving the town, and for establishing a market. At the last meeting, which was the adjourned one, an amend ment that " it was inexpedient at the present time to apply to parliament for the proposed bill," was carried by a very large majority. Nearly one half of the second meeting was composed of ratepayers from the neighbouring town ship of Sutton who object to be taxed to support the pro posed measure, and the landowners of that township, and also of Eccleston are opposed to the scheme, and the Marquis of Salisbury, and the Liverpool and Manches ter Railway do not approve of it. The promoters, how ever, it is said, intend to apply to parliament and leave those who are hostile to the measure to oppose it in com mittee. On R SaturdayonE rti ROBBERY o a F s n A a r G t - E l o N o T k L i E n a z t fellow, rather yAotqu young g rr C ASTLE-STREET. fashion ably attired, who gave his name William Johnson, was brought up on a charge of having, about half an hour be fore, picked the pocket of Mr. John Sutliff Stow of the sum of £25, in Bank of England notes. Mr. Stow said that he was a leather factor, and that he resided at West parade, Bristol-road, Birmingham. he Between twelve an ofd one o'clock on that day (Saturday) was in the act walking along Castle-street, and, just as he was crossing i f t a N n rof h t e h r e ' the top of Brunswick-street , he felt something touch one of his heels. He immediate l y felt his pocket, missed his order-book, and observed th e p risoner and another young fellow walking from him. Suspecting that they were the thieves, he overtook the p risoner in Union-court, but he was too late to grasp his c om p anion. After some difficulty the prisoner was searc hed, and the order-book was found in the pocket of his coat. It contained one £lO and three — by Tt t l i e le l3 in th hab o £5 Bank of England notes, which he t Mr. Stow) had just received at the Ban k of Liverpool. The prisoner was comm itted for trial. THE NUPTIALS OF SAMUEL SANDBACH, ESQ., J UN. AND MISS MA XWELL CELEBRATED UPON THE FAMILY' s ESTATES seques tered village of Llan g erniew and p ea ceful vale of Elwy as a day of g eneral rejoicing and honest "' rth The ,y the " doings of the da y " commenced with a hunt b . ISS4I, will I l N on N g ObaeTrilecWollAecLtEeds. kind permission of H. R. Sandbach, Esq., permt. ~ which afforded tenantry, workmen, and well-wishers excellent the night spread its shades over the romantic sport. As illumination of the village, neighbourh lc glen, a general which is chiefly supported by the liberalityd, and the school, family, commenced, and four large bonfires of the Sandbach three upon elevated positions, so as were lighted immense distance, and another in the to be seen from an at which a fat sheep was roasted, and e centre of the village, among the poor, amidst the hearty' afterwards distributed tude, firing, and the "merry cheers of the multi- Afterwards the well-wishers sound of the village bell." Robert Anwyl, Esq., of Bo met at the Stag Inn, and the chair, and Mr. T. gonwch, was called to take Rogers Appropriate toasts were gers to act as vice-president. were delivered, and th drank with honours e company —speeches hour, highly gratified with separated at an early the Proceedings of the day. GROSS ASSAULT BY A HUSBAND ON HIS WIFE.—O n Wednesday, Mrs. Shepherd, a female in so delicate a stat e of health that she had to be assisted in and out of th e Police -court, preferred a complaint against her husband' a shoemaker, in St. Anne's-street, of his having, over a a long period, grossly assaulted and abused her, and par ticularly for striking her, on Tuesday week, while she was in bed, and afterwards repeating his cruelties on the Fri day following, when he knocked her down, injuring her severely against a fender, and afterwards turned her out of doors. The complainant required a separate mainte nance. The defendant said he would allow her ss. a week, and take the children. Mr. Rushton did not consider this sufficient ; and as the defendant was disinclined to pay more, he (Mr. R.) strongly remarked on his cowardly and unfeeling conduct; ordered him to pay a fine of £5 for the assault, or be imprisoned two months, and also to find two sureties, himself in £4O, and two others in £2O each ; adding, that if the female became chargeable to the parish, he would run the risk of being sent to the House of Correction. The defendant was taken into custody. SELECT VESTRY.—At the meeting on Tuesday, Mr. Ford expressed his compliance with the request that be should continue a member of the board. During the previous week there had been an increase of fever patients, twenty-five having been admitted into the hospital, where there are fifty-four patients remaining •, and in the oph thalmic ward, there is an increase of three cases. With these exceptions, the house is in a satisfactory state. In answer to a question from Mr. Bremner (who asked it in consequence of something that had been said out of doors,) the Vestry-clerk said that that gentleman's gratification was a good one. The follo w i ng i s th e compara ti ve state ment of in-door poor for the past week, viz. :—Number in the house, 1,715; coat per head, Is. lOid. ; and in money, £l6l. 15s. W. Same time last year, 1,791, at Is. 71d. per head, and £143. 13s. Old. Of out-door poor relieved during the past fortnight, the number of cases is 6,794, at an expense of £749. 3s. 10d. ; being 194 cases and £l7. Is. 4d. in money less than last year. Mr. G- M. Davies was elected honorary surgeon in the room of Mr. Byerley, resigned, and Mr. James Johnson was elected surgeon to the Industrial School. Mr. Arthur Henderson gave notice of a motion at the next meeting for an increase of £lOO per annum to the secretary's salary. ELECTION OF DOCK COMMITTEE-MAN.—OR Tuesday the dock ratepayers were called upon to elect a member of the dock committee in the room of Mr. C. S. Middleton, who vacated his seat on being elected to the Town Coun cil for Exchange Ward, but who, as our readers are aware, has again been elected a member of the former body as one of the representatives of the council there. Mr. Ex- Alderman Evans was proposed by Mr. Ripley, and se conded by Mr. Bellany. Mr. George Green was proposed by Mr. Ashley, and seconded by Mr. Thos. Bold. The voting only continued for three hours, and at the close the numbers were—for Mr. Evans, 315 ; for Mr. Green, 167. Mr. Duncan Gibb then applied to the Mayor (who presided over the proceedings) to have the poll adjourned until the following morning, upon the ground that, at half-past two o'clock that day, it was currently rumoured on 'Change that Mr. Green had resigned, and that this rumour had the effect of preventing many of his friends from coming forward to vote in his favour. He said there was precedent for the application, and that, on the occa sion to which he alluded, the poll had been adjourned by the presiding magistrate. Mr. Ripley declined to join in the application, and the Mayor said that on the occasion alluded to, both parties concurred in the adjournment, but he was advised by the Town-Clerk that he could not legally adjourn the election, and he therefore declared Mr. Evans duly elected. FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED.—After the ball at Bir kenhead, on the occasion of laying the first stone of the new docks, there was a general scramble for the hats, bonnets, cloaks, and great-coats. It seems that the waiters had helped themselves rather too freely to- cham pagne, and, feeling their incapacity to fulfil their duties, had gone home at an early hour, to sleep off the fumes of Moet. The consequence was, that when the ball was over, as the waiters had taken the tickets with them, it became a very difficult matter to distribute the garments to those who came with their duplicates to redeem them. In the utter despair of a strict distribution, the whole articles left in pledge were brought out, and thrown in a heap into the middle of the room. Every person fell to, and helped himself. Gentlemen got four-and-nines for real beavers, and many a lawyer, who came with a Ches terfield, was obliged to walk home in a wrap-rascal. One gentleman was compelled to put on a Dunstable bonnet and plaid shawl, and, when he got home, was refused ad. mittance by his own wife. But the most melancholy case was that of an old lady, who, at day-break, had to walk to her hotel in a dirty macintosh and an old oilskin sou'- wester. The company must have felt to a ticket, that if " property has its rights, it has its losses, too"' when taken to an evening party. The inquiries after hats, clogs, boas, and tippets, have been very numerous ever since.— Punch. BIRKENHEAD POLICE -COURT, THURSDAY.-The ma gistrates present were J. W. Harden, J. D. Case, J. R. Shaw, Esquires, and the Rev. R. M. Fielding. A com plaint was preferred by Horatio Bilston, a gamekeeper, against four men, Bellis, Preston, Evans, and Dawson, for running hares in a plantation at Ireby, on Sunday last. Bilston apprehended them, but they were rescued by a, party of navigators. They were afterwards brought up by warrant. They were each fined 40s. and costs.-A complaint was made by George Argent against four men,. Cross, Jones, Davis, and another Jones, for a violent assault upon him at the back of the Railway Inn, while he was in charge of some goods belonging to Mr. Evans, auctioneer, their object beinr , to interfere with the pro.. perty. The defendants denied t' the charge, alleging that the complainant was not in a state of mind to be depended upon. The whole four were bound over in their own re cognizances to keep the peace.-Captain Williams, the Government inspector of prisons, represented to the magistrates that there was a want of proper accommoda tion in the lock-ups, and that prisoners were detained for some days at an illegal charge of Is. a day for mainte nance, given to the keeper, who ought to have a fixed salary. He added that he was bound to report the case to the Home Secretary. The magistrates said that if any of their officers were in fault, they should be dismissed ; that they should take care that proper accommodations should be provided, with beds, &c. ; that it was in con templation to erect a suitable bridewell, &c. ; and that thus , would hereafter communicate with Capt. Williams, at the Home-office. SALES OF MAHOGANY, &c.-Messrs. Chaloner and Fleming's sales, on Thursday and Friday last, were well and respectably attended, and most of the woods brought forward were cleared off. Of Honduras mahogany, the cargo per William, consisting of well-sized, good quality cabinet wood, was sold at 61d. to Hid., or 81d. per foot average ; the cargo per Hope, (except 20,000 feet,) all small- sized, plain wood, was sold at 6d. to Bd., or 6id. per foot average ; and the cargo per Caleb Angas, consisting of a mixture of the above descriptions, with a prepon derance of cabinet wood, at 51d. to 12d., or 7d. 11-16ths per foot average. Thus the only bay wood in first hands is comprised in the above 20,000 feet per Hope, all small sized. Of St. Domingo, the city cargo, per Sarah, of very good quality and size, was sold at from 91d. to 10s. Gd. per foot; one lot of 37,000 feet, averaging 201 d. Der foot, and another of 9.000 feet, averaging 171 d. per foot, and the captain's 2,700 feet, 12 1 ad. per foot, constituting an average for the cargo of 19d. 11-16ths per foo'. The remainder of the cargo per Oorion, from Port-au-Plata, consisting of 34,000 feet, was sold at from Bd. to 3s. 2d. per foot, or ls. Id. 13-32 per foot average. 43 logs, very small and inferior, per Rochdale, were sold at 6d. to 61d., and 114 logs, per Alexander, with some better quality and size, but still of an inferior description, at from 6d. to 13d., or 71d. per foot average. Of Cuba, 331 logs, per Elizabeth, very fresh and large-sized, were sold at Gad. to ls. 10;d. per foot, or 91d. per foot average • quantity, 63,800 feet. Thus the above sales leave no St. Domingo mahogany in first hands, and only one cargo from Cuba, now landing, ex Syra. Of Havana cedar, 144 logs per Elizabeth, were sold at sd. to 7d., or 5 3 / 4 (1. per foot average. The 39 logs, per Rival, were not sold. 609 lancewood spars, per Elizabeth, tolerably fresh, but not very large, were sold at 4s. each. There was no pencil cedar sold. By private sale 13 tons of Rio rosewood, ex Flying Fish, were disposed of, at £l9 to £26, or £22 14s sd. per ton average : but the Bahia, per Cora, was not offered, not having been landed in time. OPENING OF THE SCHOOLS IN CONNEXION WITH ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH, TOXTETH PARK.-The opening of these schools, which has been already reported as hav ing taken place on Wednesday, was followed by appeals from the pulpit in aid of the building fund, made in the church of that district on Sunday last, both in the morn ing and the afternoon, when, under the more favourable state of the weather, and a zealous disposition very gene rally entertained in behalf of the undertaking, the ap peal in both cases was responded to by a very nume rous congregation, and in a manner truly Christian. The sermon in the morning was preached by the Bev. William Hesketh, M.A. incumbent of the church, from Psalm cxxii. v. 9. " Because of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek to do thee good ;" after which the very handsome sum of £53. 7s. Bd. was collected. The sermon in the afternoon was preached by the Rev. Gilbert Sandbach, M.A., curate of Kidderminster, from Ist John, 11th chapter, 15th, 16th, and 17th verses; after which a collection equally gratifying, as following closely upon the former, was made, consisting of 433 lOs. 10d.-making a very p total in the day of 486 IS s. G d. A vowerful and able choir was introduced into the church for the occasion, through the kindness and instrumentality of Mr. Jas. Bir kett, of the Three Sixes Cottage, and a member of the con gregation ,under whose skilful superintendence the service of our beautiful Liturgy was rendered more than usually im pressive by the addition of what is usually termed cathedral service, and the selection of two appropriate anthems. " Judge me 0 Lord, my God, according to thy righteous ness, and " Ascribe unto the Lord, oye kindreds of the people, ascribe unto the Lord worship and power." Both the services were from Dr. Clarke, and the anthems from Mozart and Travers. To THE LADIES.-The results of inclement weather are frequently subversive of comfort and attraction to ladies by causing a naturally delicate skin to become rough and red, and frequently accompanied by chaps and chilblains. These innovations are successfully opposed in their pro gress, and thoroughly eradicated on their completion, by the use of that inestimable production " ROWLAND'S KALYnoR." This truly happy discovery at once allays all smarting irritability of the skin ; and imparts a bril liancy of tint to the complexion, to which it becomes an unfailing c onservator. - See advt. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.—His fate furnishes a remark able instance of the instability of human greatness, and there is no doubt his dislike to medicine remotely caused his early dissolution ; for rather than take some simple remedy he allowed disease to gain the ascendancy over his constitution, and death was the result. Thus it is that persons cannot be too watchful of their state of health, and being always provided with a safe and efficient medi cine, such as Frampton's Pill of Health—enjoy the two greatest blessings of this world, health and long life.--t See advt. Nov. 19, 1844.