The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-01 00:00:00

igw" Feb. 1, 1848. SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Two o'clock, p.m. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE-THIS DAY. At our Market this morning there was a good attendance of the trade; but none were disposed to purchase more than for immediate wants. This applies to every article. All kinds of Wheat, upon a limited demand, rather lower, 'general qualities of old receding Id., and all kinds of new 2d. below the Yates of this day week. American Flour, in anticipation of some further arrivals, was fully 6d. per barrel cheaper, and sack Flour declined in similar Proportion. Barley remains unvaried. Malt dull, and 2s. cheaper. Beans 6d. to Is. per qr. lower. Oats remained unvaried in price, with dull sale. Oatmeal must be noted 6d. per load cheaper. 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A Cuss's" NOBLEMAN.—After all, the misfortune was to be preferred to the gaucherie of the young Mr. Stanhope ; ohss famous father, the Earl of Chesterfield, had said and written so much to send him, an accomplished and elegant roue, to hell, the very first time this youthful gentleman was introduced into public company, before the eyes of the highest nobles and the most resplendent beauties of the three kingdoms, after eating an ice in the ordinary mode with a spoon, he, without a blush, licked out the glass with his tongue, that he might not lose any of the delicious morsel. Fancy the refined father witnessing this worse than Gothic feat ! Had he been more of a Roman and less of a vetit maitre he would have whipped his diamond-hilted sword through the body of his tutor of a son, and then have fallen and the avenging steel to forget his misery. —The Church of England Quarterly Review. ERSEINE'S EARLY POVERTY.—During the three years which followed his retirement from the army, notwith standing the kind assistance of some of his friends, he was in great pecuniary straits. He had an increasing family to maintain, besides defraying his own expenses as a Cambridge under-graduate and a student of law. Ex ercising the strictest economy and the most rigid self -denial, he often found it a sore matter to provide for the day which was passing over him. But with a sanguine disposition and a fixed determination of purpose, these difficulties only stimulated him to greater exertions, that he might finally subdue them. "He had taken lodgings 'n Kentish Town, and would occasionally call for his wife at the house of a connection who kept a glass shop in Fleet Ditch, and used to talk of him as our Tummy." Jeremy Bentham who had kept up an intercourse with him since the publication of his pamphlet on the abuses of the army, speaking of him at this time, says, " I met him sometimes at Dr. Barton's. He was so shabbily dressed as to be quite remarkable. He was astonished when 1 told him I did not intend to practise. I remember his calling on me, and, not finding me at home, he wrote his name with chalk on my door. Reynolds, the comic writer, in his " Life and Times," relates that at this time the villa of his father, an eminent solicitor at Bromley, in Kent, was frequently visited by Erskine, of whom he gives the following lively description :—" The young student resided in small lodgings near Hampstead, and openly avowed that he lived on cow-beef, because he could not afford any of a superior quality, dressed shabbily, •expressed the greatest gratitute to Mr. Harris for occa sional free admissions to Covent Garden, and used boast ingly to exclaim to my father, ' Thank fortune, out of my own family I don't know a lord.' "—Lord Campbell's Lives of' the Chancellors. SPANISH ENCOURAGEMENT OF SHIPPING.—Upon in 9liiry it appeared that an English steamer would leave Lisbon for Madeira on the Ist of December. But the only possible way to reach Lisbon in time was by means of a Nranish boat, then lying in the harbour of Marseilles, and the baron had little taste for that mode of conveyance. _Only a few days previously the boiler of the Secundo "eattano, belonging to the same company, had burst far out at s ea , w h en severa l pe r sons were dangerously hurt, d the vessel was compelled to return to Marseilles, i nstead of prosecuting its voyage to Barcelona. Its suc cessor, the Primer Gadisano, had good English engines, and seemed well appointed, and at last the three travellers engaged berths. The vessel was warranted to sail on the 23d of November; but, in spite of this promise and of Passengers' remonstrances, the faithless consignees de tained her till the morning of the 27th. Of course, there w as no chance of getting to Lisbon in time for the packet ; but there was a possibility of meeting it at Cadiz, where it Was expected to touch : and the baron and his com- Tanions, havi ng p a id f or their places, took their chance. o their surprise and annoyance, when the overladen boat groaned and puffed its way out of the harbour, its prow was turned, not towards Spain, but towards Toulon and 'ltaly. This strange circumstance was soon explained by one of those extraordinary laws peculiar to Spanish legisla tors, intended, we presume, to encourage the shipping interest of Spain, but which, to any but its framers, certainly appears wonderfully ill-adapted to the end pro posed. Spanish vessels, arriving from foreign ports, at a certain distance from the Spanish frontier, pay much lighter due' than those whose point of departure is nearer home. Marseilles is within the high duty limit, and accordingly the Gaditano wasted a day in sailing to the little port of Ciotat, to have her papers countersigned there, and obtain the benefit of the low rate. A pretty specimen of what are commonly called cocas de .Espana. "This," exclaims M. Vaerst, with righteous indignation, " is what Spaniards call encouraging their trade and ship ping."—Blackwood's Magazine. NATURAL WEALTH OF BORNEO-PROSPECTS.-Truly, Mr. Brooke undertook a difficult task, and a very heavy responsibility, when he allowed himself to be invested with the power and dignity over such a place. But he knew its materials; and was sensible at first that this was to be no post of empty honour. He was aware that he had to contend with the prejudices of whole tribes of people—prejudices noted in their minds by the traditions of undated ages. He well understood what Sarawak then was—a field for petty battles to be fought on—a place for murder or riot undisturbed—where piracy and robbery were the normal state of things, and where no man laid himself down to sleep in the happy certainty that he should not be awakened by the shout of battle, the hiss ing of flames, the cries of dying comrades, the shrieks of his wives and children, and the yells of destroying enemies leaping and shaking their spears in the red glare of the burning village. All this he knew, but he knew what, by a system of judicious management—by stern justice blended with kindness and benignity—might be made of the district. He knew that the sands of its babbling streams sparkled with gold dust ; that diamonds glittered among its pebbles : that its mines were rich in Iron and antimony ore ; that its fields might become heavy with abundant harvests of rice; that sago trees grew everywhere wild ; that bees'-wax, and other articles too numerous to mention, were common articles of traffic ; that the natives possessed large herds of buffaloes, which, :however, they never kill, but keep for their milk, pre ferring hog's flesh as food. Indeed it were difficult to 'enumerate the sources from which Sarawak might derive prosperity. However, Mr. Brooke is the man to draw them out. Under his wise and benificent rule we soon hope to see the aspect of affairs totally changed —to find substituted for the cry of battle the clattering of mill 'wheels and machinery ; to see the pirate fleets of the Archipelago give place to fleets of trading vessels convey ing :wealth to and from all parts of the world, to Dyaks guiding the plough or felling the forests, instead of skulking through darkness in search of human heads, and to see men, instead of pining awa y their lives in wretched ness and poverty, as they have hitherto, happy, _prosper ous, and contented. The full effect of Mr. Brooke's oprations will not be perceived at first, but, as when a stone is thrown into the water the ripple only extends over a limited space yet the vibration of the blow is felt to a much greater distance around, so will the seeds sown by the English in the little state of Sarawak be lifted up, as it w ere , and bo rne and implanted in the most distan! island. May we not be disappointed in our expectationst ...Ile genial Mag. THE RAJAH OF SARAWAK. — In the Colonial Maga zine for the present month, there is a capital sketch of the history of one of the most remarkable men of the time, Mr. Brooke, the Rajah of Sarawak. We learn from this that Mr. Brooke was born at Combe Grove, near Bath, ' in 1803 ; that he entered the East India army ; that he distinguished himself in the Burmese war, during which he was shot through the lungs; that he returned to England, where he overstayed his furlough, a circumstance that produced a change of life—for, on finding after he ' had got 'uack to India that a long period must elapse be fore he could be restored to his commission, he gave up the army, and went on to China, and the following beau tiful description of the wonders of the eastern archipelago, we copy from the magazine :—"ln his passage up the China seas, his eyes were for the first time delighted with the beauty and fertility of the twelve thousand islands. He saw rivers, belted by noble forests, whose tall and sturdy trees produced timber equal to any in the world, but which, after growing and ripening for ages, only de cayed and withered again till the hand of time had crumbled them to the ground, where they serve but to increase the richness and fertility of the soil. He heard of the wealth of the unknown and almost unvisited Indian Islands ; he saw the sea-gipsies skimming over the water in prahus filled with their wives and children ; he heard of the riches of Borneo and its companion islands ; he heard of the lucrotive trade carried on by the Burgis ; and, above all, he heard that forty millions of human beings lived in ignorance and barbarism, groaning beneath despo tism, the slaves of prejudice, nurtured amid diabolical practices, unvisited by the missionary ; and he thought how good and great an achievement it would be to throw the light of civilisation, and plant the first seeds of Christi anity on those benighted countries." The subsequent events of Mr. Brooke's career are well known—how he fitted out the Royalist yacht, after coming in to a good fortune on the death of his father—how he assisted a na tive Rajah in Borneo, who then owned and afterwards gave his deliverer a large tract of territory near the Sara wak river. SHAKSPERE AND QUEEN ELIZABETH. — A tradition of much later date than the one just cited tells us that Queen Elizabeth was in the theatre one evening when Shakspere was personating the part of a king, and, in crossing the stage, moved politely to the poet without the honour of being duly recognised. Her majesty, it is said, with a view to ascertain whether the omission was intentional, or whether he had resolved not to lose a moment the per sonification of the character he supported, again passed the stage near him, and dropped her glove, which was immediately taken up by Shakspere, who added these lines to a speech just then concluded, " and so aptly were they delivered that they seemed to .ielong to it," — And though now bent on this high embassy, Yet stoop we to take up our cousin's glove. He then retired from the stage, and presented the glove to the queen, who was said to have been greatly pleased with his conduct, and to have complimented him upon it. I cannot say who invented this story, but there is no good authority for it, however possible it may be that it is founded on an earlier and less circumstantial tradition. Shakspere was cerzainly fortunate enough to attract the notice and commendation of royalty early in his career, Ben Jonson bears testimony to the pleasure Elizabeth and her successor derived from his surpassing talent : Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James I And the " Merry Wives of Windsor," written as early as 1593, is said on very fair authority to have been written especially for the queen's gratification, and she was so im patient to see it acted, that it was completed in a fort night. Dennis, in an epistle prefixed to the " Comical Gallant," 1702, says, of the " Merry Wives of Windsor," " I knew very well that it has pleas'd one of the greatest queens that ever was in the world ; this comedy was writ ten at her command, and by her direction, and she was so eager to see it acted, that she commanded it to be finished in fourteen days, and was afterwards, as tradition tells us, very well pleas'd with the representation." Rowe, in 1709, says that Elizabeth " was so well pleased with that admirable character of Falstaff in the two parts of ' Henry IV.' that she commanded him to continue it for one play more, and to show him in love : this is said to be the oc casion of his writing the ' Merry Wives of Windsor ;' " and Gildon, in 1710, partially confirms both these accounts. The tradition in one respect is confirmed by the title page of the edition of 1602, which states that the play had been performed " before her majestie and elsewhere." Com pliment and patronage are often twins. One of the most elegant pieces of flattery ever addressed to a sovereign is found in " A Midsummer Night's Dream," where the queen is described as the imperial votaress passing on, " In maiden meditation, fancy free," , a character of allusion we know was received with untiring delight by Elizabeth. As late as December, 1602, when she dined at Sir Robert Cecil's, in the Strand, there were " sundry devices at her entrance : three women, a maid, a widow, and a wife, eache contending for their owne states •, but the virgin preferred." We cannot doubt that the " Midsummer Night's Dream" gratified the monarch ; and that the poet was in her favour is proved by the direct authority of Chettle, in his " England's Mourning Gar ment," 1603, who complains of his neglecting to write an elegy upon the queen : Nor doth the silver-tonged Melicert Drop from his honied muse one sable teare, To mom ne her death that graced his desert, And to his laies opend her royall eare. Shepheard, remember our Elizabeth, And sing her Rape, done by that Tarquin, Death. And the remembrance of Shakspere enjoying court favour lived for a century after his death, and was universally re ceived as a truth.—Halliwell's Life of Shakspere. COURT AND FASHION. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the. Royal Family, will, according to present arrangements, arrive at Buckingham Palace from Windsor, for the sea son, on Tuesday next. The Court is not expected to re turn to Windsor (except, perhaps, for a few days during the Ascot Race week) until quite the latter end of the autumn. _ _ _. _ Sir E. Cust left Windsor Castle on Friday, after a short visit to the Queen. The Right Rev. James Prince Lee arrived at the Castle on Thursday, and had an audience with the Queen, to do homage:on being appointed Bishop of Manchester. Vis count Palmerston, one of her majesty's principal secre taries of state, assisted at the ceremony. The bishop re mained on a visit to her majesty till Friday. The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Whewell arrived on a visit to royalty at Windsor Castle, dined with the royal party on Thursday, and took their departure on Friday. This visit of the master of Trinity College, Cambridge, to the seat of royalty is only one of a series, which shew that the illustrious Chancellor of the University is not by any means forgetful of the hospitable duties of his position. The late Vice-Chancellor, the Master of Catherine Hall, was the first in order. The Rev. Dr. Phelps, the present Vice-Chancellor, was the second. Then came the royal command to the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Whewell ; and we presume that the heads of all the other houses will be suc cessively- permitted to bask in the same royal sunshine. The King and Queen of the Belgians arrived in London on Monday. Lord Hardinge is expected to arrive in this country about the middle of March. The Countess of Ellesmere and the Ladies Egerton left Belgrave-square on Thursday, for Portsmouth, where they embarked with the Earl of Auckland and a dis tinguished party on board the frigate Meander, at Spit head, where an elegant dejeuner was given by the Hon. Captain Keppell, previous to his departure to the East Indian station. The Earl of Ellesmere was prevented from accompanying them owing to a slight attack of the gout. SKATES FOR PRINCE ALBERT.—Messrs. Marsden Bro thers and Co., of Sheffield. have presented to Prince Albert a pair of skates of the most recherché description. Instead of the common-place turn-up point of the ordi nary skate, a graceful swan rises, being beautifully chased to represent its plumage. The clogs of the skates are of polished rosewood, on the side of which, at the toe, the swan's figure is completed, and at the heel, the rose, thistle, and shamrock are carved. The straps, which are of patent leather, lined with white enamel, with silver buckles, pass through slot holes lined with gold. On the heel the golden garter, with its motto, surmounts a silver star ; on the sole the royal arms are studded in gold and silver; and the toe is of gold. Of course, the value of these skates is very considerable. FASHIONS FOR FEBRUARY. (From the " London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.") There is but little variation in the make of dresses, though some skill is required in adapting the style of the dress to the figure. Open redingotes prevail for morning wear, the corsages only being close with trimmings of vel vet or gimp, which give width to the form, meeting at the waist in the waistcoat style. The jackets sometimes re semble pockets—blue de France, a tint between the saphir and lapis lazuli is a very fashionable colour ; it is the only shade of blue that looks well by candle-light ; the vert de fruit is also a delicate cclour, very pretty with black lace; pink is less in favour this winter for dresses, but is much used for bonnets, trimming, and sorties de bal. The skirts of the dresses are not worn so long ; those who still preserve them a little trainante, have them busque in front so as to disengage the feet, and in flounced dresses the upper one is fulled to the waist, giving the effect of a second skirt. The toilettes de bal are made. a *grecque, or with dra perie ; corsage it cceur before and behind, and rather long sleeves. With respect to the trimmings on the skirts there is always much variety, but many are open at the sides, and confined at intervals by nceuds of ribbon, or by blond echillonn4es. Double and triple skirts continue in favour; in thin materials the corsages are not always pointed, but fulled into a band, with ceintures of ribbon so wide that the long ends nearly cover the front breadth. Many walking dresses with high bodies are ornamented with several rows of narrow velvet or braid mixed with gimp ; pretty redingotes of dark or sombre colours are trimmed with small choux of ribbon. Dresses of Canton satin are trimmed with vandykes of the same material, and narrow bands of velvet in four or five rows. Manteaux and pardessus are seen in every variety. Small ones are trimmed with four or five rows of lace, others are entirely covered with embroidery, others again have a broad band of fur all around, and a second narrower row above. Some manteaux mantelets of satin have frills festonnes in deep vandykes, or pinked or edged with gimp ; dark green and deep blue are used for the morning, and white or pink for evening sorties de bal trimmed with coloured blond, that on the hood being deep enough to forma veil. Many Spanish coiffures in black and pink are worn : some are formed of very small mantilles attached to the head by branches of roses, and supported by a tortoise shell comb, the ends of the mantille fall to the waist ; a similar coiffure of white tulle laine d'or is very elegant. The ornamental combs have a good effect in coiffures, composed of a fiche of black lace placed on tiO wreath of flowers arranged in full bunches.. ' Tug LIMPOOL STANDARD. THE LOST BROTHER FOUND ; AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF LOCAL INTEREST. Towards the close of the year 1844, two respectable young men, James Cunningham and John Coleman, to gether left their native town, Market Harborough, in Leicestershire—after bidding an affecting farewell to their relations and friends, they pursued their journey on foot towards Liverpool, whence they purposed to emigrate to the United States of America. They were not much en cumbered with luggage, each having only a bundle con taining a few articles of wearing apparel, scarcely suffici ent for personal comfort on the contemplated voyage. They were both journeymen bakers and confectioners by trade, and though not, so far as was then known to either, at all related by family, they had so long been bosom com panions, of such congenial feelings and dispositions, that they had formed for each other an abiding, and, it may be said, a truly fraternal affection. Though rich in friend ship, they were, in the common acceptation of the term, poor in purse, their whole worldly wealth, the hard savings of many a month's labour, being a sum barely sufficient to meet their wants on the way side as they journeyed northward to the port of embarkation, and to pay the smallest sum they could hope would be accepted for their passage in the steerage of some vessel bound to the western land of promise,—that land which extends her wide and cherishing arms to the industrious and prudent artizan and worker of other countries, but from which the idle, the incompetent, and the improvident, frequently return chagrined and disappointed in their extravagant expectations, and but too apt to denounce a country from which, in default of an equivalent, they failed to realise their golden dreams. The first portion of the journey of the two wayfarers was somewhat irksome, from the unaccustomed fatigue which it involved ; and they gazed back upon the haunts of their youth with sorrowful remembrance of the plea sures they had there so often enjoyed in a arlier life. The friends and companions of their youth stood vividly pour frayed in their imagination before them. Then did the adventure which they had chalked out for themselves as sume a vague and doubtful aspect. They felt that in the chequered destinies of man, the dangers of voyage, travel, and sickness, and the mischances and " ills that flesh is heir to," they might never more behold those scenes and those friends around whom their affections had entwined more firmly than they were aware of, until the first hours of separation disclosed to them the not discreditable yet now saddening reality. Fortified, however, by brighter reflections, they " tramped" on with vigour, husbanding their means by the way, and amusing each other, as they best conld, by friendly converse. They at length reached Liverpool, somewhat jaded, and procured a humble lodging near the docks, for the night. On the following day they made enquiries for the transit ships that were first to proceed to New York, and were not a little mortified to learn that, owing to the prevailing rage for emigration, the passage money required was rather beyond their means to meet. As they were informed that freights for human cattle would probably be considerably lower as the season ad vanced, they at once determined to remain for a month or two, and endeavour to procure employment, so that they might maintain themselves, by a strict observance of eco nomy, and perhaps so far increase the contents of their joint-stock purse as to enable them to avail themselves of the first favourable opportunity to embark. They were, however, disappointed. All the work they could obtain amounted to but casual " jobs," though both were expert in their business, and they were compelled, eventually, to trench upon their little capital, to eke out the necessaries of life. Times became gradually worse, and even more precarious, at least, for them. One day, on counting out what remained of their slender stock in cash, they found that there was barely enough to defray the passage of one of them, and they agreed, as a last, though painful, resort, to draw lots which should have it for the purpose of proceeding to the western world, it being understood that the winner, if fortune favoured him in the States, should remit a sufficient sum to enable the other to join him there. The lots were drawn, and James Cunningham (whose brother was in America, in good circumstances) was the lucky man. It might be supposed that he would naturally embrace the opportunity thus afforded, to join a beloved brother in a foreign land, and, in all probability, to draw down the sunshine of prosperity upon his future life. But no ! much as he loved his brother, his companion was scarcely less dear to him, from long association in weal and in woe, and he could not endure the thought of leaving him amongst strangers, without one genuine friend to sooth him in ad versity, or share his joy if fortune should smile. With a generous disregard, therefore, of self, he said—" No, John, I shall not leave you ! We have been long together, and we will struggle on together still, till better times, when we can go by th . same ship, and this money will keep the wolf from the door for at least a time." This disinterested kindness on the part of Cunningham deeply affected his companion, who endeavoured to per suade him to relinquish such an intention, and proceed. But James was firm in his purpose, and they remained together, Trade, in their line, became still more de pressed ; and their money being at last exhausting in sparing outlay, they endured many sufferings and priva tions, which were, however, rendered tolerable by the mental sympathy of the two friends. Reduced at length to a state of great penury, Cunningham sold some patty pans (purchased for, and used in, his business), to a Mrs. a confectioner, in Liverpool, for the small sum of two shillings and fourpence, with which he purchased some treacle, which he manufactured into toffee, for chil dren, and (in order to keep soul and body together) sold in the streets. This was the humble commencement of his business on his own account; but not being very suc cessful in Liverpool, he removed his " head quarters" to Birkenhead, where he sold, as he could, the same article. He next made gingerbread nuts, and contrived to pick up an.hquest but scanty livelihood, and to maintain through out all his vicissitudes an engaged cheerfulness of temper, to which he was animated by a sacred hope of yet seeing better times. Coleman, in the meantime, endured great privations, obtained only a small but precarious pittance by occa sional work up and down the town. The two friends, however, never long lost sight of each other, and the result of an occasional approach to better luck to one was sure to be shared by his brother " chum." Cunningham, for upwards of a year, was constrained to stand outside the Birkenhead market. At length, he was accidentally met by an old acquaintance, a native of Ire land, whom he had known in his younger days, and who, " for auld lang syne," interested himself in his behalf. This friend took a standing or table in the market in his own name, and putting Cunningham into it, as if to act for him, but in reality for the poor man himself, his busi ness went on rather more prosperously, and he was ena. bled considerably to extend it. He finally took a shop in the same market, for bread and confectionery, and, by industry and attention, earned a moderate competency. Meantime, Coleman also began to progress a little in the world. He latterly became located with a respectable master tradesman in his own line, in a neighbouring vil lage, in Cheshire, the resort of many of the most fashion able and opulent families from Liverpool and the vicinity. It should be here stated that Cunningham had a bro ther in America in good circumstances, who was, during the whole of these simple adventures of the two friends, in ignorance of James's place of abode. He had re peatedly written to Leicestershire to ascertain, but without any effect—the relatives of both knowing not in what part of the world James had pitched his tent, or whether, indeed, he was dead or living. We must here change the scene, though but slightly as regards the locality, and the sequel of our narrative will properly form a second part. On the cold, chilly night of Wednesday week last, (the 12th of January of the present year,) a well-dressed gen tleman, still young in years, and bringing with him several carpet bags and packages, called at the house of Mr. Cordon, a respectable butcher in New Brighton, who also keeps a small inn adjoining his shop. The stranger called for some refreshment, and immediately got into conver sation with the worthy host over a prime glass of " nut brown ale." He stated that he had recently arrived from New York, by the Sarah Sands ; that he had settled in a town seventy-two miles westward of that city, about seven years ago ; that business had prospered with him beyond his most sanguine anticipations ; that he had there left his wife and four children, to visit his relatives and friends in Leicestershire—and, more parti cularly, to discover, if possible, a brother of whom he had lest sight all the time alluded to, and whom it was his desire to assist in the world. He added that he had already, since his arrival, visited his native town, and also Leicester, but had been unsuccessful, the only vague in formation he could obtain being that a person somewhat answering the description lived at Newtown," or " a New Town," near Liverpool ; that after fruitless enquiries at " Newton," in Lancashire, and many places around, he had come there in the slender hope that New Brighton might be the " new town" alluded to. He also enquired whether he could be accommodated with a bed for the night, so that he might prosecute his enquiries on the morrow. Cordon said that he would endeavour to accommodate him in the last particular, but regretted to add, being well acquainted with the locality, that the enquiries of the gentleman in that quarter would, he feared, be in vain. The stranger was grieved to learn this latter in telligence, but he resolved to make the best of it, to re main for the night, and to trust to what good Providence might hereafter award him in relation to his search. While the two were conversing together in a vein rather pensive, a sprightly young man came bouncing in to en joy with the landlord his accustomed evening glass after the labours of the day, for they are cronies. The trio soon got into amicable conversation. Very naturally, the stranger in relating briefly some of his adventures in the world, alluded to Market Harborough ; on hearing the name of which (as will hereafter be admitted), the young man as naturally pricked up his ears and listened with astonishment. Question and reply as to that locality speedily followed, and on the younger man mentioning the name of his grandmother and others of his kin, it be came evident to both, that they were related at least by marriage, if not by a closer affinity, a fact of which they had not before been aware. At last the stranger said,— " Did you ever know one James Cunningham, a confec tioner by trade, from Leicestershire ?" " Know him !" rejoined the other, " I knew him years ago, and know him now as intimately as ever." We came together from home, to go abroad, and intended to call of his brother Joseph ; but we never got away, and will ot - h in er o , lT ' o a w Are ife you the man who you desire it." James is now in Birkenhead , and doing rather well. I RR take you y G ouodtersaid th hishouse .4) the accompanied him to Liverpool." The reply was—", I am." The countenance of the stranger underwent a sudden change. He became ashy pale, hut it was the effect not of sorrow or of fear, but of the highest and most noble sensations of which the human mind is capable. He had a happy family in a foreign land, but he now learned that that lost brother was alive and well, and the measure of ' his happiness was full. He exclaimed with a sob, " I avi the brother of James Cuwaingham !" Cordon describes the recognition of the two parties► who had been known to each other in their younger days, as altogether deeply affecting—quite putting himself out of his usual balance. We need scarcely say that the stranger was bounteous in his hospitality, and that reminiscences of Market liar borough engrossed the conversation of the remainder of the evening. Early on the following morning, young Coleman accom panied his new friend Joseph Cunningham to Birkenhead, and as James did not immediately recognise his brother, (whose complexion and appearance had undergone consi derable change during a seven years' constant residence in a foreign country,) the " stranger" purchased such a quantity of confectionery to take with him, as he said, that the shop shelves became somewhat denuded, and James began to think that the purchaser was either in joke, or deficient in intellect. The words from the stranger,—" What, don't you know your brother Joseph," which excited a steady gaze from James, soon dispelled this illusion, and the brothers cor dially embraced. There was not a happier house in Birkenhead that night than James Cunningham's, and the social enjoy ments of the evening, partaken in by Coleman, were al lowed to eat far in upon the succeeding morning. The American brother has offered his utmost aid to the poor but honest baker, who had stuck to his brother through good fortune and adversity ; but we learn that the kind ness of his present master (Mr. Royland) and his engage ment with him, which he is unwilling to disturb, have in duced him to decline the generous offer. The brothers we learn will, in all probability, visit their native place before Joseph returns to America, taking with them James's friend, Coleman. Should it be so, they will all again be enabled to brighten up their former recol lections of their locality, and renew their affections among those most dear to them. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. The resources of M. Dejean's equestrian company and horses are so very considerable, that he is enabled to male a change in the performances thrice a week—on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. We have been surprised, often as we have been there, to find, in addi tion to the usual routine of the performers. that there should be anything which is new ; but this is the case, and, in fact, we question if there is any one of our readers who has seen the entire performances which have taken place since the commencement. Go when you will, there is sure to be something fresh ; and we wish to impress this circumstance upon our readers. But to resume our notices : M. L'ECLAIR is an amazingly smart fellow, and the finest jumper we ever saw. He bounds and springs with an elasticity truly surprising. There is much fine sym metrical proportion in his exquisite form, and his action is graceful. The costume in which he generally appears is that of a jester of the olden time—blue and red quar tered, which gives him a quaint and singular appearance, looks capital, and quite in character with the man. His humour is Eris bon and unique. He possesses not only a light body, but an equally light heart ; for he keeps all alive and stirring by his facetiousness. He is a powerful auxiliary to the company, and his presence was much missed during the time he was confined by an accident which happened to him. His performance in the " Two Clowns,' assisted by M. Braquet, is excellent. The manner in which be keeps up the oddity connected with the apparently dead man, is highly humorous. M. Bra quet doubles himself up in the manner of a two-foot rule, which has a most ludicrous effect. L'Eclair is also a good comic performer: witness the equestrian act, in conjunc tion with others, entitled " Mr. and Mrs. Dennis," which is highly rich, and replete with the most comic drolleries, calling forth roars of laughter. He is also an excellent clown in the harlequinades. For his pre-eminence as a jumper we must instance a feat which he generally intro duces during the performance of Madlle. Anato. He puts some affront on one of the assistants, leaps over his head, and at one bound springs upon the hind-quarters of the horse, pursued by his adversary ; from this position he turns a somerset backwards over the other's head into the arena, finally making his exit with a flying jump clean over the heads of other assistants at the entrance of the circle. Jumping cannot go beyond this. L'Eclair has also acquired sufficient of English words to make his performance intelligible, which has a good effect. M. LEROY offers a proof of the extraordinary things which man may acquire by practice. Lying on his back on an elegant couch, with his feet in the air, antipodean like, he performs a dance called the " Clog Dance," balancing a pole on his soles, and does all kinds of singu lar feats ; but the effect is capital, as he dances by this means to the music, keeping excellent time. His " Cask Dance" is another extraordinary performance, and must be witnessed to be appreciated, for it is impossible to give any description equal to the reality. M. Leroy is also clever on the " Globe," in the manner of M. Felix, be fore described. MADLLE. AMAGLIA HADWIGER'S performance on the bare-backed steed is most surprising. She must possess considerable nerve and strength combined to do what she does. Her figure is small, but smart and well developed. In the daring of her art she is an amazon, and cannot be exceeded. Her costume is good, with a dash of the military about it :—a white skirt, with a dark crimson body, buttoned close up to the neck, with sleeves hand somely ornamented with buttons and gold embroidery. A very dashing cap with a plume completes her costume. Her steed is a fine animal. of a very dark grey colour. Among her performances, which are very exciting and remarkable for their intrepidity, she rides on the tips of her toes, springs from her knees to her feet, and balances herself sitting on the quarter of the horse, all of which show great skill and difficulty more than elegance. The horse is then divested of his bridle, by the assistants, and no sooner feels his liberty than off he starts with great rapi dity, and appears to fly round the circle, with his mane and tail streaming after him in admirable disorder. Stout of heart and limb she then rises on his bare back (how we cannot conceive) and abandons herself to this fearful situation. She looks the picture of female heroism, and terrific must be the effect to the delicate nerves f the female portion of the audience. This feat invariably calls forth thunders of applause. Madlle. Hadwiger is, we believe, a German lady, and the horse which she rides of the same country. It is with much regret that we per ceive that she seems to suffer from a weakness in her eyes. We have to suggest to Madlle. Hadwiger that an Indian style of costume would be admirably in character with her style of riding, and then indeed her performances as just described would be wild in the extreme, and quite perfect. LITTLE MARIE ANATO.—A fine little girl, with such a pair of eyes !—the dark and gazelle-like eye of her sister Palmyra, but more intense. She is an exquisite little dancer,—a young Terpsichore—witness the finished and admirable manner in which she executes, with musi cal precision, to the accompanyment, the castanet dance "La Manola," while the horse travels round the circle ; she concludes this performance by sustaining herself on one leg, at full speed, during three complete revolutions. The hauteur with which she makes her exit is capital. Her dress is handsome, and in the Spanish style :—a gauze covered pink body and skirt, edged with black and gold vandykes, with crape and a pink rosette in her hair. The rich saddle-cloth and other gear of the horse contrasts finely with his dark rich brown hide. The " Garde Noble" is another of her performances, and acted with much effect, and the costume is most admirable. In con junction with young Loisset she performs several other parts, which we shall more particularly allude to when we come to his performance. Great pains must have been taken by her instructor to have made so accomplished a dancer of one so young as she is ; and some day we may expect to hear of her shining at the top of her profession. LITTLE LOUISE ANATO delights the juveniles in the boxes by her daring feats of vaulting—she is a little Cupid on horseback—and the pony she rides a famous frisky little fellow. The talent of the Anatos' does not sleep in her, and she will not be left behind some day. H. M. CONSEQENCES OF SEPARATING THE CHURCH FROM THE STATE. (From the Record.) To the Dissenter, the plan of separating the Church from the State naturally implies, the removing the Church from her present high position,—the reducing her to the rank of one among the various "denominations of Chris tians,"—and, however honourable men may dislike the idea of spoliation,—it involves also a consideration, at least, of the question, What is to be done, in future, with what has been known in times past as " the revenues of the Church ?" One considerable proportion of these revenues is lost, at once, and ipso facto, by the Act which ends the connexion between the Church and the State. All church-rates, now amounting to several hundreds of thousands per annum must cease, of necessity, the very day the Church ceases to hold her national rank and posi tion. This is the first step in the matter; but it is very simple and easy, and admits of not a moment's doubt. But then comes the more serious question, What is to be done with the landed property, the palaces, parks, estates, and titles of the Church ? Does any man outside the walls of a lunatic asylum really dream, that, separating itself from all further connexion with the Church,—the State will leave an Archbishop of Canterbury, with a rank above the dukes, with two palaces, a revenue of £15.000 per annum, a large amount of patronage, and still larger amount of influence,—and all this, cast loose upon the Church, to be scrambled for by the ambitious, and con tested by the party-spirited,—the Government, all the while, standing quietly by, without any power to interfere, —at least, not until, as in Rome of old, the fighting was extended from the Cathedral and the chapter-house, and blood began to flow in the open streets ? The thing is impossible. A Government that could so forget its duties, as to leave the great and powerful Church of England, as she is, and to set her free from all State control, to follow any course that ambitious Church men might dictate, would be handed down to posterity, as the most blind and incompetent body of statesmen that ever allowed a nation to work its own ruin. The separation of Church and State involves changes, to which the Reform Bill was a mere Turnpike Act. It extinguishes church-rates. It removes the Bishops from Parliament. It takes from them all claim to the rank or title which they at present hold and reduces them simply to Mr. Philpott, Mr. Howley, or Mr. Blomfield. A CERTAIN CURE FOR A DERANGED STOMACH, BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—Evan Evans, a person for many years employed in the Dowlas Iron Works, near Merthyr, had been suffering for a length of time from a disordered state of the stomach, and had become so weakened in body, that he was frequently laid up for weeks at a time; indeed the poor man was not expected to rally again at the time he commenced the use of Holloway's Pills, which, however, to the astonishment of all who knew him, effected a perfect cure. This is now more than six months since, during which period hie digestion has never once been deranged. LOCAL MEETINGS. SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COUNCIL. On Tuesday a special meeting of the Council was held to consider the new Dock Bill, with the chief features of which our readers are by this time sufficiently familiar. The Town-clerk read several memorials against the bill, principally because of the omission of the rating clause. Amongst them was one from the Guardian Society. A memorial was read from the Coopers and the Cartowners' Association against the bill, in consequence of the erec tion of Dock Warehouses interfering detrimentally with their respective trades. Memorials were also presented . from the Select Vestry, the Warehouse Occupiers' Asso ciation, and the House Owners' Guardian Society, against the prosecution of the dock bill, in any form, without rating clauses being inserted. Another remon strance was also presented from the Association of Land and Warehouses. Mr. Alderman BRAMLEY-MOOSE, in one of the most able speeches ever delivered in the Council Chamber, in introducing the motion, of which notice had been given, took a review of the proceedings of the Council on this subject. It appeared to him that this question was now assuming a new feature. It was a rating question. but now it was a question whether they should have ware houses round the proposed Wapping docks, not even by the warehouse owners. As regarded their opposing the warehouses round the Wapping dock, they are entirely out of court, for the simple reason that the Dock Com mittee were about to destroy warehouses of much larger cubical contents than would be erected round the Wap ping dock. With respect to the rating clause, if the Council passed a resolution to insert such a clause, he should feel bound to use his best endeavours to carry out such a clause in parliament. But he believed that if they struck the words " the management" out of clause twelve in the original bill, the powers of the Act 4th Victoria, would he transferred to the new warehouses, and answer all the purposes of the rating clause. The TowN-cLERK said he agreed with the Chairman of the Dock Committee. A very long discussion then took place, during which several members expressed their disapprobation of the bill in very strong terms. Mr. EVANS could not conceive, with regard to the rating clause, what would content the Council if they were not satisfied with the security already afforded. He re commended that there should be a reinstatement of the preamble which so truly declared the value and necessity of dock warehouses, and also a reinstatement of that clause which pledged them to go to parliament to carry out unreservedly the injunction which it contained. They did not want docks. They wanted warehouses. Mr. HOLME thought it would be well if the Dock Com mittee would add one clause to the bill—a clause to make that committee paramount, and to rid themselves of any veto by the Council. (No, no," from Mr. Moore.) He admitted the importance of the docks of Liverpool. Parliament had now permitted the Dock Committee to become a trading company, and the trustees of Liverpool were the only trustees wielding public money for public benefit who were permitted , to trade with that money. He contended that the Dock Committee had become to all intents and purposes a trading company. They had been permitted to take the public funds and compete with private capital, and every man knew that when such was the case the most indomitable energy failed, and the most unflinching industry became unsuccessful in such a com petition.—(hear, hear.) He had been told that it was absolutely necessary to cheapen the port ; but it had long been declared in that Council, and by high authority too, that Liverpool was at present the cheapest port in the whole empire, and, by a comparative statement of charges, here and in London, it appeared that the difference was somewhere as 7 was to 12. Let not the Council then be led away by such a bugbear.—(Hear.)—He found that the committee already paid £324 of assessed taxes to government, and if they paid assessed taxes to govern ment he saw no reason why they should not pay their fair proportion of the parochial rates of Liverpool. At three o'clock the Council divided, and the votes were taken as follows :—For going to Parliament—Messrs. Shand, Evans, Tyrer, Horsfall, Holt, Tinne, Robinson, Rimmer, Royden, Tobin, Plumpton, Lawrence, Benn, Mann, Aldermen Nicol, Wood, Bramley-Moore, Moly neux, Chilton, Turner, and the Mayor. Against it— Messrs. Jas. Holme. Woodruff. RathboNe, Morris, Pres ton, Stitt, Hill, Littledale, Hornby, Henderson, Har bord, Rogers, S. Holme, Kaye, Gardner, Danson, Earle, Bennett, Parker, Lace, T. Lloyd, Aldermen Hodgson, Cooper, and Procter. The motion was lost by 24 to 21. The bill was conse quently thrown out. LIVERPOOL AND HARRINGTON WATER COMPANY. The half-yearly general meeting of this company on Tuesday, was numerously attended. Mr. Harmood Ban ner, chairman of the directors, presided, and commenced the proceedings by reading the balance sheet, and also an abstract of the receipts and expenditure for the year ending 31st of December, 1847. The balance from the former year was £lB6 ; the receipts from tenants were £32,499 ; the receipts from shipping were £3,500 ; the water rents from buildings were £415 ; and the interest from the bank was £309; making a total of receipts for the past year of £37,898 Gs. sd. The expenditure was 13,616, leaving a balance in favour of the Company of £24,281 15s. Out of this, interest was paid to the amount of £2006 35., leaving a balance of £22,275 125.; and out of this sum the proprietors received dividends in July to the amount of £9535, leaving a balance now to be divided among them of £12,740 12s. The accounts having been passed. the Chairman said that the balance to be divided gave them £3l 17s. per share, and though he did not know of any outstanding accounts, there might be an odd advertisement to pay for, and perhaps the best way would be to divide £3O per share. This was agreed to, the amount to be payable on Tuesday (this day). The CHAIRMAN said his next duty would be to read the award made between the Corporation and the Company. The award was to the effect that the Corporation was to pay the sum of £330,719 13s. for the Harrington Water Works ' • and Mr. Stephenson, the arbitrator, assessed the costs at £1,566 13s. 5d., and his own costs as arbitrator at £B5B. He did not wish to say much about the award, though he could not refrain from saying that he felt great disappointment at the amount given by it. He believed the value of the Company to be a vast deal more than stated in the award, and he was thunderstruck when he saw the amount itself. He wished to say nothing to im pugn the high and honourable character of the arbitrator, but he believed that the Company had been made the victim of a great mistake, the nature of which they would probably never find out. He had had an interview with Mr. Lace and Mr. Nicol, as a deputation from the Cor poration, who told him (the Chairman) that some of the proprietors of the company had been with the Corporation Treasurer, saying that they were willing to take bonds of the Corporation at five per cent. for five years ; and it was therefore a great object with them to ascertain how far the proprietors might be disposed to take such bonds. Mr. Lace said they would, if required, be ready to pay the whole of the £330,000 in a few days, but that if any of the proprietors were willing now to take the bonds for five years, the Corporation would make that arrangement with them. He (the Chairman) candidly told the depu tation that many of the proprietors would rather receive their money—that he, for one, would take his money at once, perhaps with the view of investing it to better ad vantage than five per cent. The interview had been a very agreeable one, and the matter rested thus :—that in a few days the Corporation would be prepared to pay the whole of the money under the award, if required, and for such portions of it might not be required, they would give the bonds at five per cent. The bonds would be dated the Ist of January, 1848, and would bear interest from that date. The exact amount per share of the award was £826 15s. lid. All the costs of the arbitration are paid by the Corporation, and all the bond debts and engage ments of the company are taken by them. He concluded by proposing the cordial thanks of the meeting to Mr. Stanistreet, the solicitor of the company, for his untiring exertions to promote their interests. Mr. JONES said he felt that his property had been most unjustly curtailed by the late most extraordinary decision of the arbitrator. The award was £l2B less than the actual market value of the shares the day before it was made, and the award to the Bootle Company was £l4O more than the actual market value of the shares of that company. He impugned the justice of Mr. Stephenson, and he did so openly. A cruel and outrageous injustice had, he said, been committed on the proprietors of this company, and the award was inconsistent with everything right and proper. (Hear.) Mr. ROBINSON proposed a vote of thanks to the chair man, and suggested that the balance of the £1 17s. Od. be devoted to the purpose of presenting that gentleman with a suitable testimonial for his eminent services. The vote was passed by acclamation, and a committee was appointed to collect the subscriptions and present the testimonial. LIVERPOOL BANKING COMPANY. On Wednesday a public meeting of the depositors in the Liverpotil Banking Company was held at the Claren don-rooms, for the purpose of devising the best means of getting a prompt settlement of their accounts. The chair was occupied by Mr. John Bennett, of Lord-street, who stated that he was a depositor to the amount of nearly £6OO, and that various societies, of which he was the secretary, had some thousands of pounds in the bank, and were put in consequence to great inconvenience. He then related the substance of a conversation he had had with Mr. Wilson, the manager, and which resulted in the bank making the following offer, in writing, to the deposi tors :—They would issue promissory notes to each, pay able at four periods—the Ist of April, one-third; the Ist of August, one-third; the Ist of December, one-third; and the Ist of February, 1849, the whole of the interest, at 5 per cent. With the exception of the payment of interest in the fourth period, which, at his suggestion, the bank had since agreed to pay within the three first periods, he felt satisfied with this arrangement, believing that the prospect of the money was sure, and that the promissory notes could be cashed. The majority of the meeting took a different view of the offer, and expressed themselves desirous of obtaining their money at once. Mr. Shorthouse said he proposed to the bank that they should pay half the deposits in February, and the other half in July, but the proposition was declined. Mr. Priest thought a further call ought to be made upon the shareholders, in order that the demands of the depositors (most of whom, he said, were persons of very limited means) might be satisfied. Eventually, upon the motion of Mr. Priest, it was resolved that, as the proposal was unsatisfactory, a committee of six be appointed to wait on the bank, and report the result at an adjourned meet meeting of the depositors, to be held on Friday.—At the adjourned meeting on Friday, Mr. John Bennett was called again the chair, and read a note from the manager of the bank, stating that "the bank will pay one-third, or 6s. Bd. of a pound in cash, and for the remainder will accept bills drawn by the depositors, payable at Messrs. Currie and Co.'s, London, for one-third, or 6s. Bd. fall ing due Ist August, 1848, and the other one-third, or 6e. Bd. falling due lit December, 1848, interest at the rate of five per cent being added to the instalments.' As it appeared that there was no chance of the depositors getting a better settlement even if they resorted to legal proceedings, it was resolved that the offer of the bank be accepted. THE LIVERPOOL NEW GAS AND COKE COMPANY. —• On Saturday the half-yearly general meeting took place, at the premises, Newington, to receive the report of the directors, declare a dividend, &c. Mr. Steel, the manager, read the report. The dividend recommended by the directors was lls. 6d. per share, on the £25 shares, issued in March last; £1 ss. on the shares of the same amount previously issued ; and £5 on each share of £lOO —exclusive of the income-tax. An application has been made to Parliament to amalgamate this with the other gas company. A special meeting would be called. on the sub ject. Several of the directors retiring by rotation, but re-eligible, were re-elected. The report expressed re spectful regret of the loss the committee had sustained by the death of Mr. Henry Holmes. The report was adopted, and the dividends stated were also agreed to- The usual votes of thanks were passed, and it was stated before the close of the meeting, that the speeiat meeting, to sanction the amalgamation, could not be called until the bill had been read a first time in the House of Com mons. ST. HELENS CANAL AND RAILWAY.—A special gene ral meeting of the proprietors took place in the Clarendon Rooms on Saturday afte rnoon , t o d e t erm i ne w h e th er , under the provisions of an act passed during the present session for extending the time for making certain railways, the directors should be empowered to enter into any con tracts during the current year for executing the works of the railway from Widnes to Garston and the Garston. Docks. By the new act the consent of the holders of three-fifths of the shares in a railway company is required before the directors are authorized to contract, during twelve months from the passing of this act, for the enecu tion of any new works, thou g h s uc h consen t d oes no t render it imperative on the directors to proceed with the works.—The chair was occupied by Mr. G. Greenall, M.P., chairman of the directors. The Chairman explained the nature of the new act. He did not think it would be prudent, at present, to enter into any large contract, for in that case new shares would have to be created. The new Railway Act did not apply to the St. Helens Act of 1847, as the directors had already entered into contracts for the reduction and alteration of the inclines. On the printed forms signed isy the shareholders being handed in, the chairman announced that the proprietors of 1,565 assented to, and of 87 shares, dissented from granting the required powers—the assentients representing upwards of three-fifths of the whole shares. Not more than £5 will be called for on the new preference shares during the next twelve months. By the amount which would be expended on the works for which these shares were created, the company would save £2,000 per annum in the working of the line on the present traffic, and much more on the prospective traffic. The meeting then broke up. Dom COMMITTEE.—At the usual weekly meeting on Thursday, there were present Mr. Bramley-Moore, the chairman, and sixteen other members of the committee- Authority was given to let the Queen's, the Union, and the Coburg Docks run dry on the 2d of February, in order to open the gates of the Queen's, and examine those at the Coburg. The receipts at Runcorn for the past month. were £44 13s. 6d., about the same as those of the previ ous month. The Lords of the Admiralty in a letter dated. 18th January, and addressed to the committee recom mended that embankments be made so as to prevent en croachment on tidal harbours ; and the letter was referred to the Marine Committee. In consequence of the Chair man stating that conflicting arguments of the expense of working the Albert Dock, had gone before the public, and that it was desirable that official returns should be pre pared, Mr. Robinson moved for a return of wages, ticc.„ from 24th September to 24th December, distinguish i ng certain items, &c. Mr. Mann seconded the motion, and it was carried. The Chairman having stated that his mo tion in the Council relative to the new dock bill had been defeated, Mr. Gladstone said that had arisen from some misunderstanding in the Council, and he moved that the bill be prcceeded with in the present session, in strict con formity with the dock act (6th section) of 9th and 10th Victoria, and for no other purpose. Mr. Rankin seconded the motion. Mr. Royden said, the town at large was de termined to have the rating clause inserted, and it would only make bad worse to proceed any further at present. Mr. Tobin thought the bill ought not to be proceeded with. Mr. Gladstone's motion was carried by a majority of one—all present voting. WEST DERBY UNION.—The weekly meeting was held on Friday. John Sheppard, Esq., presided ; Mr. Austin, Assistant Poor Law Commissioner was present, as were sixteen members of the board. New applications for relief occupied nearly three hours. Mr. Austin then, at the request of the Chairman, referred to the steps which had been taken by the Poor Law Commissioners towards a separation of Toxteth-park from the West Derby Union. He said the matter bad received much conside ration by the General Board, but there was considerable difficulty in coming to a conclusion, and it was left to him to make a further proposition to the Commissioners solely upon a matter of principle, which he was not yet prepared to enter into. He should lose no time in getting the affair settled, and should take care that the separa tion, if effected at all, should be carried out on equitable principles as regarded the respective townships.—Mr. Appleby thought the majority of the Board were in favour of a separation. They could not go on as at present. There had been 150 new applicants for relief that morn ing, of whom 100 were from Toxteth-park. The guardi ans could at present test the validity of these applications, and they had not room in the workhouse for the appli cants, they were obliged to give out-door relief. The Board would require a workhouse capable of receiving 1000 persons.—Mr. Smith moved a resolution as follows : —" That it is the opinion of this Board that the great increase of the population of this union calls for a divi sion of this union, and that a separation of the townships of Toxteth-park, Wavertree, Childwall, Allerton, and Garston from the other townships of the West Derby Union is desirable."—Mr. Peers seconded.—Mr. Bad nail spoke against the motion. The workhouse might be enlarged. He moved a direct negative, which was seconded by Mr. Roskell.—Mr. Smith, in reply, said that it was absolutely necessary that the wants of the paupers of Toxteth-park, where the population was daily increas ing, should be provided for in that township.—Upon a division, 9 voted for the original motion, and 7 against it. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. -4----- The Caledonian Railway will be opened on Tuesday, the 15th inst. That portion of the Aberdeen Railway lying between Montrose and Triockheim, was opened on Thursday. SOUTH YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.—The directors propose immediately to execute that part of the line which extends from Doncaster to the Midland Railway at Swinton, with a line to the nearest colleries. DETENTION OF TRAINS.—In consequence of the con tinuance of the severe frost, the metals on the several lines of railway have been rendered so glassy that it has been considered necessary for the public safety to decrease the speed of all trains. At a meeting of the Parkgate, Chester and Birkenhead Railway Company, the Hon. E. Mostyn in the chair, it was agreed to ask for a further time of two years (three years being fixed for the act) for making the line. The directors did not wish, during the present pressure, to ask the shareholders for money. The Chester and Holyhead Railway Company have re ceived notice, dated from Conway, January 25, that, on an experimental test of the tube destined to span the Con way river, the deflection of the tube supporting its own weight, is only seven-eights of an inch out of the level along the bottom ; and, their engineer adds, everything is perfectly right, and beyond doubt successful. At the inquest held last week on the guard killed on the South-Western line, Mr. Locke, the engineer, men tioned, as a proof of the perfection to which engine-build ing was now carried, that be had known an engine run 37,000 miles on the Grand Junction line without any in jury, and from 20,000 to 30,000 miles further, after a mere tightening of the parts of her machinery. Orders have been given on the South-Western Railway that the signal of detonating balls as well as that of the red light, shall be used in all cases of accidental detention of trains. These balls explode with a loud report under the wheels of any engine that may be approaching the spot where the detention exists, and thus render accidents nearly impossible. From official returns it appears that the amount of traffic for the last week, on upwards of 3436 miles of rail way, was £149,281, thus accounted for :—X70,844 for the conveyance of passengers only, £42,315 for the carriage of goods, and a remainder of £36,122 for passengers and goods together, not respectively apportioned; being an increase of £14,109 over the corresponding week of the former year, when the mileage was 2680. The average earnings per mile for last week were £43, whilst in 1811 they were £5O. LIVERPOOL, CROSBY, AND SOUTHPORT RAILWAY.— An extraordinary meeting of the Company was held at the Clarendon-rooms on Thursday, to determine whether a contract for executing the works on that part of the line from Waterloo to Southport, should be entered into or not. The chair was occupied by H. Blundell, Esq., of Crosby. The assents and dissents having been handed in it was announced that there were in favour of proceeding with the line 161 shareholders, representing 7,249 shares, and five dissentients, representing 103 shares. The Chairman then stated that there being more than three fifths assenting, the directors had now power to go on with the railway. HEADS OF FAMILIES cannot be too strongly admoni shed against the common but pernicious practice of administering to their children in any of their little ail ments those drastic powders, all of which contain more or less of Calomel, which they are so c ontinually in the habit of procuring from the apothecary or chymist : for although the convenience of their minute bulk and ab sence of nauseating taste is great, yet the frequent repe tition of such medicines produces a softening of lie bones and premature decay of the teeth; most prejudicial to the constitution during the whole period of life. Of late years there have been made great improvements in Vege table Chemistry, by which the active prinCiples of many theirs pl e n a a u nd se a ting innocent par t m . e d T i c h l e n e g s have matest b b e oo e s h e a p s a r b a e te e d n f r front con ferred upon mankind, and more especially the rising generation, by separating the active principle of that universally esteemed purgative Senna, by Mr. John Freeman, a practical chemist, living in the Blackfriars road, London, who has removed all its 'nauseating and griping qualities, and rendered it so peculiarly pleasant to the - taste that children will take it with a positive relish. This admirable preparation, which he denominates SWEET ESSENCE OF SENNA. is held in such high estimation by Dr. Locock, Physician to Her Gracious Majesty, that he is continually in the habit of prescribing it for Her Majesty and her Royal Children, a sure proof of its para mount importance as a Domestic Aperient, which we confidently recommend to every parent. Its moderate Pr* places it wit* the reach of ell,—See Ade,