The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-11-25 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS. A pilot-boat was run into, on Friday night, by a 'Steamer, an.] considerably damaged. Some of the bakers in Liverpool have resolved to bake a toarse quality of bread at one penny per lb. Mr. Copeland has in preparation, at the Theatre Royal, a splendid new comic pantomime, which will be produced at Christmas. On Friday evening, a gentleman had his pocket picked, when posting a letter at the General Post-office, of a silver Watch. The screw steam-ship Astrologer, bound to Liverpool from Smyrna, put into Plymouth on Wednesday for a supply of coal. Yesterday week some malicious person cut the wires of the electric-telegraph, at Edge-hill. A reward of £lOO has been offered for the apprehension of the offender. On Tuesday night. C. Cowden Clarke, Esq., of Lon don, delivered the second of four lectures at the Collegiate Institution, on the contrasted characters of Shakspeare. The new Mayor. Thomas Littledale, E-q., gave his first official dinner on Thursday night, at the Town-hall. The Enernbet s of the Council and Dock Commit tee were invited. MR. HENRY RUSSELL.—This highly popular vocalist Will give his new entertainment every evening this week, at the Theatre Royal. _ _ The iii4lshand j NOrth American Royal Mail steam-ship America, Shannon, commander, departed from the Mersey at 11 a.m., on Saturday, for New York direct, with the usual mails and a full complement of passengers. His worship the Mayor, Thomas Littledale, E , q., has become a patron of the Saturday Evening Concerts, and be has expressed his intention of being present at the con cert on Saturday, the 6th of next month. In the list, just published, of the gentlemen elected to scholarships in St. John's College, Cambridge. we observe the name of Mr. C. T. Hudson, late of the Royal Insti tution School. LIVERPOOL SAVINGS' BANK. — At the annual opening of accounts on Saturday week, the total sum deposited Was £3.264, being £BOO more than at the corresponding Period of last year. Seventy-four new accounts wereopened. Father Gavazzi is to visit Liverpool or. the 28th instant, and is announced to lecture on the Papal Aggression in England; Popish Apostleship; Disorder and Immorality in Society resulting from Popery ; and Italy. . . ACCIDENT.—On Friday evening, about eight o'clock, a woman named Lloyd was knocked down and run over by a pony in North John-street, and severely injured. Sha was taken to the hospital. EFFECTS OF DRUNKENNESS.—An inquest was held on Wednesday. on the body of Charles Brown, a child, who Was accidentally overlain by its drunken mother, on Tuesday night, in Bonastre-street. On Tuesday last, before the committee for the regula tion of cars, &c. Thomas Hall had his license revoked, for taking luggage to his house entrusted to him to deliver, on the complaint of Sergeant Carnes, detective officer. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO ALANCFIESTER.— A very beautiful tinted lithographic print, of large size, giving a fine view of the Royal Procession turning down Mosley street, Manchester, has just been published by Messrs. Maclure, Macdonald, and Macgregor. The furniture of the retiring rooms fitted up in the Town-hall for the Queen and Prince Albert, was put up to auction on Monday, by Messrs. Winstanley and Sons, for Messrs. Holden and Parker, the furnishers. High Prices were expeeted, but the several articles scarcely realised their intrinsic value. BALL AT THE PHILHARMONIC-HALL.—The ball, On Thursday evening, was numerously and fashionably at tended. The patroness, the Countess of Sefton, was ac tompanied by a distinguished piny, as were Sir John Bent and his worship the Mayor. There were present about 500 of the elite of the town and vicinity.. An artilleryman, belonging to the corps stationed at the Rock Battery, was found, at an early hour on Sunday morning, lying dead on the sands near the battery. It is Supposed that he had endeavoured to reach the battery, which is entirely surrounded by water when the tide flows, Whilst in a state of intoxication. On Friday night, about six o'clock, a male infant, aged about fourteen days, was left in a garden attached to No. 71, Hampson-terrace, Mill-road, Everton. It was found shortly afterwards, wrapped up in an old shawl, but the Person and clothes were remarkably clean. The child was taken to the Union Workhouse, in Mill-road. SYR° -LEBANON COMPANY.—A company of twelve individuals, natives of the neighbourhood of Mount Leba non, in Syria, give an entertainment at the Philharmonic ball, this week, illustrative of the manners, customs, and social life of their country. Tb , y have appeared in London and Dublin, where they excited much interest. AN AGED FEMALE BURNT TO DEATH.—An inquest Was held on Friday on Mary Barker, an infirm female, Upwards of eighty years of age, who resided in Jenkinson street. On Thursday, at mid•day, her clothes ignited as she sat by the fire, and before assistance came she was so seriously injured that death was the result. LIVERPOOL WINTER ASSI ES.—The commission will be opened at Liverpool on Saturday, the fith of December, before Baron Parke and Justice Erle. The committee of the Council have resolved that the assizes shall be held in the new courts, St. George's Hall, which are to be pre pared forthwith for occupation. BODIES OF CHILDREN FOUND. —On Wednesday an in quest was held on the body of a still-born child which was found in a raisin-box, in the yard of St. Patrick's Chapel, in the Park-road. Also, on the body of a new-born fe male child, which was found on a piece of waste land be tween Banastre- street and Garden-lane. DR. FISHER'S ESTABLISHMENT.— The Rev. W. G. Warr, Incumbent of St. Saviour's, delivered an excellent address, yesterday morning, to Dr. Fisher's pupils. The subject selected was respect and confidence due to their instructors, a high sense of honour in all their words and actions, and a constant fear of the Lord in their hearts, as the beginning of true wisdom and understanding. TasTtstoNtAL.—We understand that Mr. T. De Under wood, the master of St. Matthias's School, in this town, has lately been presented with a valuable gold ring, as a testimonial of respect, from Messrs. Stewart and Hill, surgeons, and other inhabitants of that district, for his unremitting attention to the sick for: the last five years, especially in the time of the cholera and fever. SHORT PASSAGE.—By letter. received from G;braltar, we learn that the screw-steamer Arno, Captain Haram, which left here for Italy, on the morning of the 6th instant, arrived at that port on the 11th, having made the run out in the unprecedentedly short time of five days and four hours, thus maintaining her high character for swiftness and regularity. WEST DERBY WARD.—On Friday evening, a dinner to czlebrate the return of Mr. Beckwith for this ward took place at Coombes' Hotel, Edge-hill. The company consisted of upwards of sixty, amongst whom were Alderman Dover, Councillors Henderson, Thomson, Fernihough, Bighorn, Godfrey, Bradley, &c. Mr. What ham occupied the chair. _ FLOUR • DEALERS AND BAKERS' ASSOCIATION.—The committee of this association, finding that there is a desire on the part of some of the trade to bake a coarse quality of bread, at one penny per pound, have passed the following resolution :—" That members be requested to use their own discretion as to the desirability or non desirability of commencing the same." Mr. Henry Russell, the celebrated vocalist, has pre sented a donation of £lO to the charities :—.x3 to the Stranger's Friend Society, £1 to the Northern Hospital, 41 to the Dispensaries, £1 to the Infirmary, £1 to the Southern Hospital, £1 to the Eye and Ear Infirmary, £1 to the Asylum for Orphan Boys, and £1 to the Sabbath Services for the Working Classes. STREET ROBBERY AND VIOLENCE.—OR Sunday even ing, Mr. James Church, who is far advanced in years, Was on his way home in Dutton-street. :when one of a Rang of three ruffians attempted to trip his heels. This railing, he was seized by the throat, thrown on the ground, rendered insensible by a violent blow on the top of the head with some heavy weapon, his trowsers quickly cut open, and his pockets rifled, the scoundrels making clear off with a valuable silver watch. HALE ELECTION AND SPORTS took place on Wednes day. There were several visitors and a band of music from Liverpool. Amongst other sports there was a Bloomer foot race, for 55., for whicii ten villagers con tested, all fantastically attired in the new dress. Before starting, the Bloomers, preceded by a band, marched in Procession through the village, amid the cheering of the assembled multitude. There were two candidates for the mayoralty ; and, after much fun, Mr. Gill, a sturdy sawyer, was elected. A. PILOT DROWNED.—On Friday morning, a fatal accident occurred between Point Lynes and the Or mshead. It appears that Pilot-boat No. 9 was bearing down to No. 6 , for the purpose of transferring two hands, when the raainboom of No. 9 gibed and struck one of the pilots, named John Jones, with such force as to knock him over board. Lifebnoys were immediately thrown out and every effort made to save him ; but, notwithstanding which, the unfortunate man sank to rise no more. The deceased Was only twenty-four years of age. A. reward has been offered for the recovery of the body. LUMP ' EM.—A young Wesleyan student recently occupied, on Sunday morning, the pulpit of one of their chapels in Manchester,and in his prayer he prayed for the queen, Prince Albert, and each of the Royal babes by name, then proceeded to the D uc h ess o f K en t, a nd got as far as the King of Hanover, when a blunt, honest country roan, who happened to be a worshipper, tired of this long catalogue, cried out aloud " Lump 'em ! lump 'em !" A hearty " Amen !" from the congregation testified how feelingly they entered into the countryman's request, to the surprise and confusion of the .4 man in black. ,, _ boncaster Chronicle. On Sunday last, two very impressive sermons were Oreached in St. Peter's Church, Aintree, and collections t rade in behalf of the choir ; that in the morning by th e R. J. Crump, A. 8., Incumbent of St. Mary's, Bootle ; lead in the afternoon by the Rev. John Stewart, M.A., rector of West Derby. The reverend gentlemen were attentively listened to by attentive cengregations, and the sum of £lB lls. 6d. was collected ; the prayers were , t sled by the minister, the Rev. W. H. Vernon, and the ; In ging of the choir was very creditable ; it was indeed Pleasing to see so large a number of Sunday School children. THE RAMSHAY INQUIRY FUND,`—YeSterday, a depu tron, consisting of Messrs. Gladstone, S. Holum, Jeffery, , 0 . 4 2,g, and Bennett, waited upon his worship the Mayor, h': "le Town-hall, to request that his worship would use _it influence with the Council to induce them to vote the nount of money still necessary to defray the expenses V 2 he late inquiry at Preston, (the deficiency being some -41 over £300 ), out of the corporate funds. The depu hi rn was received most courteously ; but we understand inn to briworship ng intimated his pinion that it would be less the matter before the Council, after s the Opinion given by the the Town-clerk. ACCIDENT TO THE PACKET-SHIP GREAT WESTERN. — A serious accident happened, on Saturday, to the fine New York packet-ship Great Western, Captain Shearman, in consequence of having taken the ground in the Waterloo Basin whilst attempting to dock. When the tide receded, the weight of her cargo severely strained her, and caused her to leak. She was got into dock on Saturday night. THE UNITED STATES SCREW STEAM SHIP PIONEER. — The United States new screw steam-ship Pioneer, Asa Eldridge, commander, sailed from the Mersey at 11 a.m., on Saturday, for New York, with 15 first cabin, 25 second cabin, and a full complement of steerage passengers, and a large and valuable cargo. We have been informed that upwards of one hu n d re d more th an the complement ap plied for steerage passages. PORTRAIT OF Jos. B. YATES, ESQ.—This portrait, which is admitted to be one of the most successful efforts of our distinguished townsman Mr. Westcott, was painted about a year ago. for the members of the Literary and Philosophical Society. We understand that the arrange ments are nearly complete for its presentation; and the members are oat rally desirous that this should take place in a public and formal manner. Lord Campbell, in the Queen's Bench, has given judg ment on an appeal by the overseers against the exemption of the Manchester Atbenmum from being rated to the poor-rate, declaring there is not a pretence for the ex emption claimed, the institution not being exclusively founded for the advancement of literature, science, or the fine arts, but partly for that purpose, and partly to put money into the pockets of the founders. THE MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.—Upwards of 200 miles of insulated wire have already been laid down by the Magnetic Tel. - graph Company upon a portion of the Lan cashire and Yorkshire Railway; and the new line of tele graph between Manchester and Liverpool, belonging to this company, will be opened in a week or two. The mesmeric teleeraph appears to have fulfilled all the favour able anticipations that have been formed respecting it, wherever it has been employed. THE CITY OF DUBLIN STEAM COMPANY.—This Com pany, at their meeting in Dublin, last week, declared a dividend of three per cent. for the half-year. The profit of the half-year is £21.690, out of which £7.500 has been invested in government securities. Messrs. Hartley, Ewart, and Robertson were elected directors. The directors have decided on not publishing their accounts, a practice generally followed by the other steam companies in the United Kingdom. LIVERPOOL COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. — Re Thomas Hailstone.—On Thursday, this bankrupt, who had carried on the business of a grocer at Wheelock and Sandbach. in Cheshire. and had also been engaged, in partnership with a Mr. William Green, as a silk-throwster, underwent examination. Mr. John Yates, jun., the bankrupt's solicitor, applied for his certificate. The affairs of the estate had been wound up, and produced a dividend of ss. Eld. in the pound.—First-class certificate granted. ORMSKTRK IN DARKNESS.—Owing to a dispute be tween the gas inspectors and the gas company, at Orms. kirk, the streets of that town have Peen in total darkness since the 4th instant. The gas company require 7s. 6d. per thousand, and the inspectors offered to pay 6s. per thousand. The hoard of health and the public generally have taken part with the inspectors. The board of health asserts its intention of using its powers over the public streets, and the retepayers have met and passed resolu tions approving of the conduct of the inspectors. CONSEQUENCES OF CAT WORRYING.—It appears that a number of brutes are in the habit of stealing eats in this town and worrying them with dogs. In July last some of these miscreants turned a cat loose in a room in the neighbourhood of Nursery-street, Kirkdale. The cat, after having been dreadfully muti lated, contrived to escape, when, in its agony, it bit a goat and several children. The goat shortly afterwards exhi bited signs of hydrophobia, and was destroyed. Last week one of the children was seized with similar symp toms, and died in excruciating agony. FATHER MATIIEW.—The Rev. Theobald Mathew, the " Apostle of Temperance," arrived at this port on Wed nesday, in the United States mail steamer Pacific, Captain Nye. Father Mathew has been absent from this country about two years and a half. During his stay in America he visited twenty.five states of the union, administered the pledge in about three hundred of the principal towns or cities, travelled 37,000 miles, exclusive of the two voy ages across the Atlantic, and added to the ranks of tem perance in America over 600.000 disciples. He is at pre sent residing at Green Bank, the mansion of Mr. Wm. Rathbone, and will leave Liverpool in a day or two. LICENSED VICTUALLERS' DINNER.—The annual din ner of the members of the past and present year's com mittee of the Licensed Victuallers' Association, took place at Danson's llotel, on Wednesday evening last. The chair was occupied by Mr. Richard Lumb, and the vice chair by Mr. J. Allinson. Mr. Councillor Thomson responded to the toast of " The Town and Trade of Liver pool," and handed over a donation of £2O to the chair man. Mr. Thomson intimated his intention of giving to the different charities the money saved by his election being uncontested. Other toasts interspersed with songs followed, and the party continued to enjoy themselves until twelve o'clock. THE LATE BOILER EXPLOSION AT GARSTON.—AR inquest was held on Friday, before the deputy coroner, touching the death of a workman, named John Lloyd, who died on Thursday, from the effects of injuries he re ceived at Garston, on the 28th ult., through the bursting of a steam boiler at the Garston dock works. The engine, it appeared, was new, and calculated to bear 250111 to the square inch, though at the time of the explosion the weight was only 351bs. Several practical engineers and boiler-makers, who were examined, said that the only way in which they could account for the accident was, that some particle of solid matter got into the safety valve, and stopped it. The jury ultimately returned a verdict of "accidental death." TESTIMONIAL.—The Rev. C. A. Graham, for the last six years and-a-half the active and beloved curate of St. James', Toxteth-park, having been promoted to the benefice of Bidston, has been presented with a handsome pocket Communion Service, containing the following in scription:—" Presented by the congregation of St. James' Church, Toxteth-park. Liverpool, (with a purse contain. ing fifty pounds,) tone Rev. C. A. Graham, 8.A., on his promotion to the living of Bidston, as a testimonial of their esteem, and the value they set on his services during his curacy at St. James'." He has also received from the girls and infants of St. James' Schools a handsomely mounted " Old Oak" Inkstand, with a suitable inscrip tion. These tributes of gratitude to the diligently per formed duties of a really hard-working clergyman to equal homour to the donors as to the receiver. PUBLIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM. — Subscriptions and books have been already obtained in sufficient quantity to warrant a formal opening of the library early in the en suing year. In conjunction with the library, the Derby museum will be laid out in the building recently purchased by the Corporation, formerly the Union newsroom, at the corner of Duke-street and Slater-street. The model of the Liverpool docks has been brought back from London, and the workmen are now engaged in fitting it up in the upper room of the building. This, and the valuable col lection of mercantile products, will form centres for two distinct museums, of different characters, and with differ ent uses. The Derby museum consists of a third class, namely, natural history. It has been stated that the Library and Museum Committee have agreed to give accommodation at these rooms for the collection of the Historic Society. VISIT OF THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY TO TFIE MANU FACTURING DISTRICTS.—This nobleman is now on a visit to the manufacturing districts, for the purpose of impressing upon the operative classes the necessity and importance of carrying out such sanitary measures as will tend to the amelioration of their social condition. His lordship is accompanied by Mr. Edwin Chadwick, a gentleman whose labours, in connection with the General Board of Health, are so well known ; and during his stay in Manchester has been the guest of Mr. Wm, Fairbairn, C.E. His lordship arrived in Manchester on Wednesday evening, and, on Thursday morning, proceeded to view the Corporation Water Works at Woodhead. In the evening of the same day, an address was presented to his lordship, at the Cotton Tree Inn, Great Ancoats-street. On Friday, his lordship visited Bolton, and addressed a numerous meeting of the operatives of that town in the evening. —Manchester Courier. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—We generally look upon pre cocious children, like other prodigies, with an eye of sus picion, and it was with this feeling that we attended the Amphitheatre last week, to witness the performances of the Bateman family. In this instance we were agreeably disappointed, for we found,—not as we expected, the mere repetition by rote, of a number of sentences, like a schoolby going through his lesson, or like a parrot that has been " taught to talk"—but really legitimate acting, true preception of comic humour, and a correct impersonation of character, truly astonishing in such mere infants. In the " Young Couple," a piece trans lated from tho French, and particul a rly adapted to their peculiar talents, they ape with considerable cleverness the airs of married p eo pl e , l u di crous ly i n t erm i xe d with the childish disputes natural to the age they represent. Ellen Bateman took her benefit on Friday evening, when we had an opportunity of seeing them in both tragedy and comedy. With regard to the former, we think it a very great mistake, which is gene ra lly ma d e w ith c hild ren w h o have evinced a talent for dramatic pursuits, in putting them forward at all in tra g i c par t s . T o see p i gm i es play ing to giantsis quite out of place, and to see and hear a child strutting before and addressing full-grown men in the language of a hero, in such a piece as Richard the Third, is so palpably absurd that it travesties the great conceptions of our immortal poet. The deeper feelings of humanity require something more tangible and sub stantial to stir them into action, and though Kate and Ellen Bateman in their acting of their respective parts,— the Duke of Richmond and King Richard—displayed consummate tact and ability, and great correctness through out, still, their physical incapacity to sustain the characters was, to us at least, extremely painful, and we have no desire to see them placed in such positions again. The one act of " Paul Pry," which followed, was much better, and Ellen as Mr. Paul Pry, with her enormous boots, comical-shaped hat, the eye-glasses that were everlast ingly getting rubbed to keep them bright, and last, though most assuredly not least, her umbrella of extraordinary colours, looked a very inquisitive little personage, and kept the audie nce i n continued laughter b y h er amusing whimsicalities ; while Kate's arch humour and power of mimicy produced roars of merriment. Mr. Bateman, the father, a lso played in this pi ece w i t h comp l e t e su ccess. In addition to these clever little people, we have had Mr. Baker during the week, whose th eatr i ca l exper i ence an d ability enable him to sustain every part he undertakes with the strictest propriety, and his daughter, Miss Fanny Baker, whose lady-like demeanour and amiability of character no less than her talents as a finished actress, secure for her the respect and esteem of all who have the pleasure of her acquaintance. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1851. PUBLIC MEETINGS. WEST DERBT GUARDIANS.—At the weekly meeting on Wednesday, Mr. Roskell presided. The other mem bers present were the Rev. W. Badnall and Messrs. J. Harrison, Bunting, Alpass, E. Johnson, Lunt. Tattersall, Mountfield, John Jones, Shaw, and Jefferies. The returns chewed, at the close of last week, 650 paupers in the Workhouse, and 47 in the Fever Hospital. Checques to the following amounts were given to the relieving-officers: Mr. Allen £75, Mr. Stain £3O, Mr. Potts £lO5, and Mr. Shearson £lB. The balance in the hands of the treasurer was stated to be £296 10s. 10d. A committee was formed to report to the board on the subject of the purchase of land for a burying-ground and hospital for the union. Mrs. E. A. Huxley was appointed as nurse in the schools, at a yearly salary of £lO. HEALTH COMMITTEE.—The usual weekly meeting was held on Thursday, Mr. Parker in the chair. Mr. Fresh reported the registration during the week of 557 lodging house applications, under the new lodging act, making in all 1731 of such applications registered up to this period. The medical office!: reported that the number of deaths for the week ending the 15th instant was 221, against 222 in the previous week, and an average of 206 in the cor responding week of the preceding four years. A license was granted for a slaughter-house in lower Milk-street. Tenders were received for sewering the following streets : Norfolk-street. Drury-lane, Liverley-place, Brick-street, Finch-street, and Rathbone-street. An application for a flagged approach to St. Thomas's Church, Warwick-street, was referred for consideration.—The clerk read a letter from the Secretary of State relative to certain regulations as to lodging-houses. It appeared that the Secretary of State declined to confirm certain regulations which the Council wanted to carry out. The matter was referred to the town-clerk. Mr. Johnson was appointed on the Gene ral Purposes Sub-committee. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY,—The third ordinary meeting of this society was held on Monday evening last ; J. B. Yates, Esq., presid, nt, in the chair. Messrs. Edward Banner, J. Carter Redish, R. Worall Anderson, George Hunt, and Wm. Bean were balloted for as members; Mr. Newlands. the borough engineer, was proposed as a new member. Mr. John James Moss ex hibited a fine specimen of the lower jaw of the Teleosaurus, from the Whitby has formation.—The Rev. Dr. Hume exhibited the neck of a clay vessel found at Warrington, of Roman manufacture ; also a curious chain, made of vegetable matter from Ferdinand Po, and the head of a spear with inverted prongs, like the barbs of a fishing-hook, from the same coast; likewise the head covering used by the natives of Madeira.—The President read a communi cation from Mr. Lassell, the distinguished astronomer, upon his discovery of two new satellites of Uranus, and exhibited an engraving of the new ring of Saturn. The proceedings concluded with the reading of a paper by the Rev. Dr. Hume on the popular literature of the day. THE LIVERPOOL FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY.—A public meeting of this society was held on Tuesday evening last, in the Concert-hall, for the purpose of announcing the Purchase of their first estate, a plot of freehold land near Kensington, and at present occupied by Mr. Whalleyas a nursery ground, comprising twenty -five acres. The cost of the purchase is £14,000, and the price per yard, includ ing sewering and the formation of streets, it was stated, would be about four shillings. The society will get pos session of the land in February next, when it is intended to lay it out in 574 allotments, each lot being of the clear yearly value of forty shillings, thus giving to the purchaser a right of voting for county members. There are at present 349 members in this society, who hold 597 shares; and as their first purchase falls short of supplying the members of shares already taken up by twenty-three, the committee are in treaty for another Estate; and as the members increase, other purchases will immediately fol low. The present fee for entrance is one shilling, and a weekly payment of Is. 6d., until the value of the allot ment is paid for. THE DOCK COMMITTEE Mr. Turner presided at the weekly meeting on Thursday. From the minutes of the Finance Committee, it ap peared that an arbitration had taken place relative to the purchase, by the dock trustees, of some leasehold property at the Salthouse Dock, for the new docks. The sum awarded was £1,875. Tehders were accepted from Ban croft and Co. for oil, Houlgrave and Co. for pitch, Platt and Co. for varnish, Silver and Co. for clothing for the dock gatekeepers, and Messrs. Conway for pier-masters' clothing.— A letter from Messrs. Giannacopulo and Cochilani, in reference to the charge alleged against them of having exported, per Brigand steamer, on the 11th September, 80 packages of goods without paying the dock dues, was referred to the Finance Committee.—An appli cation by Messrs. Chaloner and Fleming, for a shed in Sefton-street, was referred to the Committee of Works. WAREHOUSES ROUND THE DOCKS. The CHAIRMAN intimated that the question relative to building warehouses on some of the dock quays would come on for discussion. The question before them would be the recommendation of the Committee of Works, that warehouses bo erected on the east side of the new docks at Wapping. The subject was postponed on the amendment of Mr. Evans, that warehouses on the east side of the dock at Wapping be not proceeded with, beyond laying the foundation, till plans for warehouses on the Stanley Dock were submitted.—ln reply to a question, the CHAIRMAN stated that warehouses, railways, &c., on the north-east side of the Stanley Dock, would cost £116,010, and on the east side of the Wapping Dock £62,461. That included cranes and all the necessary fittings, &c.—The CHAIRMAN also read a letter from Mr. M'Knight, referring to what had been stated by Mr. Evans and Mr. Bold, as to the want of warehouse room in the vicinity of the Stanley Dock. There was bonded room for 81,000 bales of cotton, empty storage for 22.000 bales, and a building, nearly completed, for 30,000 bales.—Mr. MALCOMSON proposed an amendment—" That warehouses be erected on the east side of the Wapping Dock, but that the works be not pro ceeded with, beyond laying the foundation, till ware houses are erected on the quay of the Stanley or some other of the north docks."—Mr. EVANS seconded the motion.—The solicitor's attention was called to the rights of the canal, in reference to the Stanley Dock. He sub mitted the act of parliament, from which it appeared that all vessels trading between the canal and the river, have liberty to pass through, subject to the by-laws and regula tions.—The amendment of Mr. Malcomson was then put to the vote, and lost by a majority of 18 to 3. Mr. BIGHAM said that supposing it was settled that warehouses were to be built at the Wapping docks, he would wish the committee to consider the cost and receipts of the Albert Dock warehouses, which had so far not been beneficial as a commercial speculation. They had not paid the dock estate 2 per cent. while they paid 4i per cent. for the money borrowed. He thought leasing the warehouses would be desirable, and then they would have the assistance of the present warehouse-owners throughout the town. By leasing the land they would realise about a million, or a million and a half, and that might be ap plied in the reduction of the debt on the dock estate. That would give increased security to the bondholders, and by reducing the debt enable them to get money at 3 per cent. He concluded with an amendment to the effect that the sub-committee proceed with the Wapping Dock warehouses, so far as laying out the foundation, but that steps be taken by the parliamentary committee for selling by auction the land intended for the building of ware houses on a lease, the rates to be limited by the Dock Committee. The CHAIRMAN intimated that a notice must be given of such a motion. The amendment of Mr. BIGHAM was then limited to the first clause, in reference to proceeding merely as far as laying out the foundation of the docks.—Mr. DOVER seconded the amendment. After a good deal of discussion, in which Mr. Evans and Mr. Dover took a principal part, the amendment was put and lost by a majority of 13 to 7. The original motion was then adopted. OBTAINING INFORMATION FROM DOCK OFFICERS The CHAIRMAN said the next business would be the motion of Mr. Barber, relative to the right of members to obtain information from officials in the dock trust. He wished the solicitor to state his opinion on the subject. Mr NORTH, the solicitor, then stated his opinion, the gist of which is comprised in the following sentence : " I am of opinion that the members of this committee, in their individual capacities, have no authority whatever to require the servants of the trust to furnish them with ac counts, returns, or any documentary or other information as to the state of its affairs." After a long desultory conversation, Mr. BARBER with drew his motion. Mr. MALCOMSON gave notice of the following motion : " That the sub-committee of works be instructed to im mediately erect warehouses on the quay of the Stanley or some other northern dock." The financial business was then proceeded with FRIGHTFUL DaATH.—An aecident, resulting in death in one of its most appalling forms, on Friday morning befel an unfortunate woman of the name of Mary Benson, residing in a court in Ford-street. While in the soapery works of Mr. Richmond, Blackstock-street, the poor woman accidentally fell into a large pan of boiling liquid, and although instant measures were taken to get her out, and happily succeeded, yet life was found to be extinct. TOWN MusEuM.—The beautiful specimen of the cotton plant which lately attracted so much attention in the news room, and at the office of A. E. Byrne and Co., Rumford place, has been presented to the Free Public Museum, now preparing in Duke-street and Slater-street. It exhibits a complete series of cotton pods, for the lower ones had been bound up in succession, so that the cotton was not shed till the upper ones were in full blow also. There are one or two pods which seem to have suffered from the frosts, though the plant was grown beside New Orleans, The donation of it to the infant institution is very creditable to Mr. Byrne ; and the perfect condition in which it has arrived, speaks well for the good taste and care of his brother who sent it. DEATH FROM FRIGHT, OCCASIONED BY AN IDIOT.— Early on Monday morning last, a very melancholy instance of sudden death occurred at Cheetwood,—the wife of Mr. Wadsworth, agent, of that place, having been frightened to death by an idiot living in the neighourhood, named John Richardson. About seven o'clock on Sunday evening, Mr. Wadsworth left his wife by hers e lf a t h ome, and on his return, about eleven o'clock, he found her very ill, and greatly agitated, although she was apparently in good health at the time be left her. She informed him that the idiot Richardson had been to the house, in his absence, and had tried to force the door. Having, in some measure, soothed her alarm, Mr. Wadsworth induced her to go to bed, believing that a little rest would restore her, but shortly afterwards she was seized with convulsive fits, and died about two o'clock on Monday morni ng , b e f ore her medical adviser could reach the house to render his aid. We ought to state that Mrs. Wadsworth was far advanced in pregnancy, as it will account for the melan choly result which followed.—Manchester Courier, LIVERPOOL POLICE COURT. Several captains were fined, on Tuesday, ss. and costs, for having naked lights on hoard vessels in dock. Three boys were fined ss. each, on Tuesday, for dis charging fire-arms in the streets, a practice which in some neighbourhoods has become an intolerable nuisance. Several car-owners were summoned on Tuesday for employing drivers without a license during the strike. They were fined 2s. each. On Wednesday, Bridget O'Hara and Mary and Louisa Waters, three of a gang of thieves who are going from house to house pilfering whatever they can lay hands upon, were remanded on the general charge stated. On Tuesday, a juvenile thief, named M'Goven, was committed for trial, charged with entering the house of Mr. Machell, Boundary-place, and stealing a considerable quantity of wearing apparel. A DEXTEROUS SWINDLER.—On Thursday, Edward Thomas, who was remanded on Thursday wee k, on a charge of obtaining some cloth and £3 17s. 6d. from Mr. WlCirdy, draper, Birkenhead, by false pretences, was again brought up. On the 18th ult. he called at Mr. Earp's shop, and was shown several coats. He chose a first-rate article, which he wished to be sent by a man to Reeve's Hotel, in Great Charlotte-street, where he said he would pay the money. The coat was given to a boy, who accompanied the man to Mr. Garner's public-house, in Lime-street, where. after treating the lad to two or three glasses of ale. he succeeded in obtaining possession of the coat, saying he would return immediately with the money. The prisoner wore the coat when apprehended. He was sent for trial. CAPTURE OF HOUSEBREAKERS.—On Tuesday, Michael Smith, alias Waters (well-known to the police), George Woolridge, Mary Woolridge, and Ann Smith, were placed in the dock, charged with being concerned, on the Sun day evening previous, in the robbery of the house of Mr. Morris, Park-road. The house, it appeared, was entered whilst the family were at church, and four silver spoons, a watch, and half-a-crown, stolen. Two wi'nesses who were called proved that they had seen the male prisoners in the neighbourhood loitering about, and Smith after wards to enter. In searching Woolridge's house, a watch, partially identified as that stolen, was found wrap ped in paper beneath some coals in the cellar. The two male prisoners were remanded for seven days, and the two females (their wives) were discharged. PUBLICANS' AND BEERSELLERS' CASES.—On Friday, Ellen Bulman, publican, of Thurlow-street, for having served a jug of ale at a quarter before one o'clock (after a previous conviction) on the preceding Sunday morning, was fined 10s. and costs.—Peter Miller, publican, Pitt street, summoned for having bad persons drinking in his house was acquitted.—John Ridgway, beerseller, Lydia Ann-street, was fined 103. and costs. A man, named Patrick Cohan, has been apprehended in Dryden-street, and committed for trial for the man slaughter of Patrick Caffrey, in Nov., 1850. Cohan absconded at that time, and has not since been heard of. SERIOUS ROBBERY.—On Tuesday, Bridget Ryan, a girl residing in Gloucester-street. was charged with hav ing been concerned in stealing £9O 10s. from Jas. Pem berton, a young man who is stated to he a butcher at Southport. The money stolen was £B5 in gold, a£s note, and half-a-sovereign. No portion of th• money has been recovered. The prisoner was remanded for a week. On Friday, the second mate of the lady Franklin, arrived here from New York, was fined 205., or in default to be imprisoned seven days, for having Zibs. of foreign manufactured tobacco concealed on board that ship. ROBBERY OF 44 SOVEREIGNS., &c.—On Friday, a young woman, named Ann Smith, was charged by Chas. Tomkinson, with robbing him of a box containing 200 sovereigns, which he was conveying to Mr. Samuels, watchmaker, South Castle-street. The prosecutor stated that he belonged to the United States Mail Steam-ship Pacific, which arrived at this port on Wednesday evening, Before leuving New York he received from a party there a box stated to contain sovereigns, which be undertook to deliver to Mr. Samuels, on the steamer arriving at this town. On Thursday evening, he called on Mr. Samuels, who was not in ; and then returned towards his ship. While proceeding along Great Howard-street, he met the prisoner, who asked him to treat her, and he gave her a glass of rum. She urged him to go home with her, but he refused, and she left. Immediately on the prisoner leaving him, he missed the box containing the sovereigns, and ran after her, charged her with robbing him, and took her down to one of the dock gates, and gave her into custody. One of the officers stated that, while in Bride well, the prisoner told him she had taken the box and money from the man, to whom she wished it again restored, and that he would find it underneath one of the arches of the East Lancashire Railway, which she described. An officer was sent to search the railway arch, and the box was found. On being opened, and examined, the box was found to contain 44 sovereigns and the dial of a watch. Mr. Samuels stated that he had been advised of the remittance, the amount of which was 44 sovereigns, with which he was to pay a party in Birmingham. The prisoner had nothing but the knowledge that the box con tained gold and its size to cause him to say it contained 200 sovereigns. The magistrate sent the girl to prison tor two months, observing in so doing that her desire to restore the money had weighed with him in passing a light sentence upon her. SPORTING NETTS. WARWICK AND LEAMINGTON MEETING The following are "Malton's" prophecies for the race 3 at the above-named meeting, which commence this day : A SWEEPSTAKES of 5 soya each, with 20 added, for two and three-year olds. - -Sabra 1, Tightwaist 2. The . GREAT wAßwick HlNDlcAp:—Marquis 1, Achyran thes 2, Italian 3. A SIVEEPSTA RES of 5 °ova. each, with 20 added, for all ages —Cauriri 1, Exhibition 2. The LEAMINGTON WELTER CUP.—Fernhill 1, New Forest Deer 2. A FREE HANDICAP HURDLE PACE George 2, ,—Maria Monk 1, Lord The TheGRAND OPEN STEEPLE CHASE.—Feter Simple 1, Bri tish Yeoman 2, Oscar 3. The HUNT CUP STEEPLE CHASE.—Proceed 1, Hero 2. The FREE HANDICAP STEEPLE CHASE.—EliZellai, Frank 2. LATEST BETTING _ - TATTERSALL'S, Tx unsnAv.—Chester Cup: 1000 to 15 agst Nancy; 1000 to 15 agst Trickstress ; 1000 to 15 agst Grand Duke; 3000 to 45 ngst Knook Knoll ; 4000 to 60 agst Pitsford ; 1000 to 10 apt Hothorpe ; all taken.—The Derby: MO to It agst Barbarian ; taken. The above were the only bets laid. MANCHESTER, FRIDAY.—The postponement of the War wick and Leamington Meeting, through the severity of the weather, reduced speculation to a mere nothing upon the events thereat. A number of bets were made on the Chester Cup and Derby, as hereafter given. The attendance, however, was small, and little influence can be attached to the betting that took place. Warwick Handicap: 2 to 1 agst Doubt— taken, aft. off. ; 6 to 1 agst Miss Ann—taken. Warwick Steeple Chase: stol on the field—offered Chester Cup.-50 to I agst High Sheriff—taken ; 50 to 1 agst Black Doctor—offered; 500 to 7 Goldfinder ; 500 to 7 agst Trickstress—taken ; 500 to 7 agst Pitsford—taken ; 500 to 5 agst Grand Duke—taken ; 508 to 5 agst Le Juif—taken ; 3500 to 30 agst Lightfoot—taken. The Derby: 8 to 1 agst Hobby Noble—offered; 250 to 10 agst Augur—taken, Lord Lurgan, it is said, has purchased Captain Flash. The Winchester Races next year will be confined to one day. Crewe Annual Steeple Chases will take place this day. The Great Metropolitan Stakes close on the Ist December, and already the sum of .WIB7 Iss. is subscribed to the bonus. Lord Zeiland's yearling filly by Assault has been appropri ately named Battery. Lord Durham has sent three yearlings to Mr. John Osborne's to train. Mr. Sharratt has named his brown yearling colt out of Egret's dam Kossuth. Blackstone, engaged in the Derby, in Sir J. Hawley's name, was shot a few days ago. There is no truth in the report that Lord Enfield's horses are in future to be trained at Newmarket. Loadstone, Strongbow, and Conyngham, are for sale, and the Bishop of Romford's Cob is priced at £l6O. Lord Exeter advertises for sale, in one lot, 31 horses in train ing and 20 yearlings. No mention is made of the foals, brood mares, and stallions. The career of Lord Eglinton's Bonnie Dundee on the turtling ended. All efforts to train him having proved ineffectual, he has been sold as a stallion, to go to Buenos Ayres. The match between Jackey and the Flying Cloud, to trot three miles on a road, for 200 sore. aside, will take place this day : in theneinbourbood of Warrington. The whole of Mr. Carew's extensive racing stud will shortly come to the hammer at Hyde Park-corner; his steeple-chasers, we believe, have already found new masters. A match for -e5 a-side, to come off on New Yeat's Day, at Wigan, has been made between Mr. Dugnall's Puss and Mr. J. Borrow's Flying Dutchman, the best of eleven courses. We are requested to state that Truth, the winner of the late Cambridgeshire Stakes, is the sole property of Mr. E. Phillips, of Bushbury Park, Wolverhampton, and has never belonged to a " party," or to any one but Mr. P.," who bred her. The filly foal by Touchstone out of Maid of Lyme, sold by Mr. James Clark, for 200 guineas, has not gone into W. H. Scott's stables, having been purchased by Mr. Wynne, a gen tleman residing in this neighbourhood. Chance, by Confederate - , (in foal to Orlando) ; Sampler, by Venison, (in foal to Foxberry); and Lady Sale, by Muley Mo loch, (in foal to the King of Kildare); have been recently pur chased by E. Phillips, Esq., and have been removed to Bush bury Park, near Wolverhampton. The Liverpool Hunt Steeple Chases, which should have taken place on Saturday last, at Hoylake:have been postponed, in consequence of sevaal horses belonging to members of the Liverpool Hunt Club being engaged in the Crewe and Lea mington Steeple Chases. The steeple-chase meeting of the club will take place in March or April next. THE BLACK Duca STAKES.—These stakes, of £lOOO each, 300 forfeit, to he run for by two-year-olds, at York, in 1854, have closed with seven nominations. Lord Clifden names the future offspring of Flycatcher and Surplice; Lord Glasgow of Physalis and Orlando; Mr. Greville of Industry and Bay Mid dleton; Sir Joseph Hawley of Vat and Old England; Mr. Ped ley of Chanticleer and Bridal ; Lord Ribblesdale of lon and Orlando; and Lord John Scott of Phryne and Orlando. SIR JOSEPH HAWLEY'S SALE.—This interesting sale came Off yesterday week, at Tattersall's. Several of the animals were sold for much less than than they had been bought in for a short time previously. The nominal amount of th e sa l e (in cluding two `aalf-breds) was 5590 guineas. All the animals were sold without their engagements. Pluck, two years' old, has become the property of one of Mr. Rogers's employers ; and Caloric, Aphrodite, and The Ban, have passed into Lum ley's stable, possibly on Lord Strathmore's account. The fol lowing is a list of the prices of the most important :—Aprodite, £933; The Ban, x;'63o; The Confessor, x'77o; Mendicant, £5lO. The last-named, it is said, was bought as a four-year old for 2500 guineas. SUICIDE BY A NOBLEM AN.—Lord William de Blaquiere, living at Beulah-villa, Norwood, shot himself on Wed nesday through the head, with a pistol which on waking at half-past four in the morning he desired a female ser vant to bring to him, and which, whilst she went to call his valet, he loaded and discharged. He was seventy four years of age, and it is supposed that a recent attack had somewhat disordered his lordship's intellects, thouzh be was in no way considered disposed to commit suicide. The deceased nobleman was a general in the army, and had taken part in affairs in America and in the West In dies. He is succeeded by his son, John, born in 1812, a captain in the 3d West India Foot. This gentleman very recently purchased the celebrated American yacht. CHESHIRE AND WALES. ie. The road between the east New Brighton rate, and the public road leading to the Magazines, has been adopted by the Commissioners of Wallasey, and declared a public highway. . - THE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY COMPANY have given notice of application for power to make a rail way from their line at Sandbach to the Birkenhead, Lan cashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Station, near Runcorn. THE TOLL-GATE AT TRANNIERE.—A requisition is being got up to the overseers of Tranmere, requesting them to take such measures as may be advisable for re moving the toll-gate at the junction of Tranmere and Birkenhead, near the Tranmere ferry. NEW POOR• RATE AT BIRKENHEAD.—At the last Birkenhead petty sessions, the magistrates, upon the application of the overseers, confirmed the laying of a rate of sixpence in the pound upon all rateable property in the township of Birkenhead, for the purposes of relief to the poor. A Cow SWALLOWING A CRICKET BALL.—Or. Thursday last, a cow was slaughtered by Mr. Wm. Oddie, butcher, of this town, and in its stomach was found a gutta percha cricket ball, three and a half inches in diameter. It is scarcely conceivable how the animal could have swallowed such an extraordinary article.—Blackburn Standard. A total abstinence meeting was held in the Rev. A. Knox's school-room, on Wednesday evening, and similar meetings are to be held every Tuesday during the winter. Mr. Gawthorp stated that a great re ormation was being made in the habits of the carmen of Liverpool, in con sequence of many having been induced to sign the pledge. At the meeting of the Dock Committee, on Thursday, a letter, written by the Marine Surveyor, in reply to an ap plication from the United States Lighthouse Board, was read. It included a variety of valuable information relative to the construction and management of the lighthouse, lightships, buoys, &c., and the efficiency of the plans which had been adopted for insuring the safety of the port and harbour. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the week ended 16th November, 1851 :—Chester and Holy head Main Line : Passengers, £1,068 19s. 43. ; Parcels, H. C. and D., £65 10g. 13. ; Goods, Cattle. &c., £589 14s. 3d. ; Mails, £575. Mold : Passengers, £33 Bs. 2d.; Parcels, H. C. and D., £2 ; Goods, Cattle, &c., £123 7s. Li. Steamboats, £167 17s. 93. ; Parcels, H. C. and D.. £lB 6s. 103. Grand total, £2.644 3g. 63. PRODUCE OF THE MANGOLD WURZEL. &C. —ln a field, occupied by Mr. Johns3n Parry, at Prior's Hayes, parish of Tarvin, was grown this year, of the Yellow Globe and Long Red Mangold Wurzel—one rood of 64 square yards, weight 12 1 cwt., at the rate of 48 tons per acre, which at 16 per ton would be worth £3B Bs. The heaviest globe weighed 12 lbs. One ox caboage, well hearted. weighed 27 lbs., and another, not hearted, the leaves all open, measured four feet two inches in diameter, and weighed 24 lbs. LARGE HAWK SHOT.—On Thursday last, a gentleman, living at Tranmere, observed that a flock of pigeons, whose flight had generally been a source of pleasure to people in the neighbourhood, were being squandered in a most unaccountable manner. It was, however, observed that a large sparrow hawk had made his appearance, and was chasing them. The gentleman immediately procured a gun, and, after a walk of an hour, shot the bird, which measured 22 inches from tip to tip,—perhaps one of the largest seen in this part of the country. COMMON LODGING Housas.—The regulations for the governance of common lodgine-houses, adapted by the Chester Town Council on the 10th inst., have been ap proved and confirmed by the Secretary of State; and the act and these regulations are now in full force in this city. The committee for carrying out the act have given the in spectors instructions to serve notices to register upon each lodging-house keeper, and in one month from receiving such notice, every person whose lodging-house is not registered, approved, and certified, will be prohibited from receiving lodgers, under a penalty of forty shillings for each lodger.—Chester Courant. THE MENAI (LIVERPOOL COMPANY'S) STEAMER.— This splendid steamer more than meets our expectations. Her tonnage is 300 tons. She is stoutly and elegantly built; measures 160 feet keel on the water line, and 21 on the beam—proportions that are well adapted for speed. Equal attention has been paid to her security, inasmuch as she is provided with no fewer than five water-tight bulkheads of vast dimensions, any two or three of which would keep her afloat were injuries to occur from collision or other causes. Her engines are first-class. The main cabin is an elegantly-appointed room, and will be a source of great pleasure to the passengers, being ornamented with a series of 'Welsh views, in a new style of art resem bling enamel burnt into a block of glass. The ladies' cabin is commodious' and fitted up with every attention to the comfort of the guests. THE NEW POTTERIER AT W'ALLAsEY.—These works, which were commenced in the midsummer of last year, are expected to be completed in a month or six weeks, if the weather continues favourable for building operations. When finished. they will add very materially to the grow ing importance of the west side of the Mersey. The new potteries are built on the north bank of the 'Wallasey pool, close to the foundry of Mr. Edwin Maw, and cover a surface of upwards of four acres. They are the property of Mr. Maw, by whom they have been leased to a Mr. Godwin, who for many years carried on business ag an ex tensive manufacturer at the Staffordshire potteries. When in full operation. these potteries will employ nearly 300 persons —men, women, and children. The clay used in the formation of the ware is chiefly conveyed from Corn wall and Wales, the carriage of which to Staffordshire adds very considerably to the value of the article, when pro duced ; but from the closer contiguity of Wallasey to the clay districts, and the greater facility for conveyance offered by railway, Mr Godwin, it is said, will effect a saving of £2OOO a-year in carriage alone. CLIESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—This company have given notice of application to parliament, in the ensuing session, for authority to make a railway from Chester to the Birkenhead docks, with branches to Poulton.cum-Seacombe, the Birkenhead ferry, the Park gate Railway, and the Chester Canal ; also to raise money for the purpose, and to authorise the London and North- Western Company to contribute towards the construction of the proposed railway and works ; and to guarantee the payment of dividend on the shares to be created for the purpose referred to; and to enable the two companies to carry the necessary arrangements into effect ; to enable the Chester and Holyhead Company to contribute to wards the comp!etion of the Birkenhead docks, and to enter into arrangements with the trustees for that pur pose; also for the creation of new shares to pay off the whole or any part of their mortgage or bond debt. The new shares to have the same preference in the payment of dividends over the shares or stock of the company as is now given to the mortgages and bond debt ; and to enable the London and NoL th-'Western Company to guarantee the payment of the dividend or interest upon the shares to be created. APATHY AMONGST CHURCHMEN ITo the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Stit,—The present state of apathy in our Episcopal churches seems to have reached a great pitch. I see the Wesleyans and some other denominations holding prayer-meetings; the mi nisters visit their flocks, and all feel linked together in one bond of brotherhood. I have attended Bible classes in con nection with one of our churches in Liverpool, and found those who met on these delightful opportunities had a sympathy with their minister, and, I believe, prayed for success on his minis try. I wish especially to call the attention of my fellow- Churchmen to the state of spiritual things in Birkenhead. Members of congregations of the churches there meet each other at the communion table, month after month, and in their pews, Sabbath after Sabbath, without any fellow feeling : no bond of unity exists. Some few, perhaps, may pray for their ministers, who are scarcely known to many of their flock, except by name. Is not this a dreadful state of things, and much like the Church in Laodicea, " neither cold nor hot?" Ought we not to meet during the week in the schoolrooms attached to our churches, and there pray for an outpouring of the spirit, earnestly entreating the Lord to forgive our past apathy, and to stir each other up to pray for those who minis ter to us in holy things? Those who are inquiring would have the opportunity of meeting there those who might, under the blessing of God, direct and comfort them. If these few hints, under the Divine blessing, stir up some of our cold-hearted Churchmen to more spirituality and fer vour, it will amply repay your very obedient servant, Birkenhead, Nov. 17. A LAY CHURCHMAN. EXTENSIVE POST OFFICE ROBBERY AT LEEDS.-011 Tuesday last John Gamforth, a clerk at the Leeds Post Office, was charged before the Leeds borough magistrates at the Court House, with having stolen a letter, contain ing money and a bill amounting to £340, which was pas sine through that office. The prisoner was remanded. DEPARTURE OF KOSSUTII.—M. Kossuth, accompanied by Madame Kossuth, M. and Madame Pulzky, &c., arrived at Southampton, by train, on Thursday forenoon, and after remaining for about an hour in the house of Mr. Croskey, the American Consul, he proceeded, accompanied by the Mayor and Corporation (in their robes), on board the Jupiter steamer, which was waiting to convey him on board the Humboldt steamer, en route to America. A procession was formed from Mr. Croskey's house to the Jupiter, lying off the pier, but it excited very little interest in the town. The Jupiter got under weigh about one o'clock, and proceeded to Cowes Roads, to wait for the Humboldt. A dijeuner had been provided on board by the Mayor of Southampton, who presided on the occasion, and who proposed M. Kossuth's health, to which the Hungarian exile replied in his usual manner, touching upon the various topics that he has already made familiar to the public in his various addresses. Several other speeches were afterwards made. The Humboldt arrived in Cowes Roads shortly before nine o'clock, and, after re ceiving M. Kossuth and party on board, steamed out of the Roads. FAILURE OF THE SUNDERLAND JOINT-STOCK BANK. — SUNDERLAND, SATURDAY.—Yesterday morning, the Sunderland Joint-Stock Banking Company stopped pay ment. This company was established in 1836, with a ca pital of £lOO,OOO, in £lO shares, £7 103., or £75,000., of this capital being paid up. The immediate cause of the stoppage, it is stated, was, that the London and West minster Bank refused to discount its paper; the remote cause, losses by failures in the town,—a large manufac turing firm some years ago, and a shipowner this year, having failed, with a balance considerably on the w rong side of the bank book. The operations of the bank were limited to the town, and, as the tradespeople did not ge nerally keep their accounts with it, the stoppage will net be extensively felt. The bank was known in the town as work o h eon e srlsk ` Msgasteot sublets h to o hm d a i ett s wo t b hto ß had a ety lk o , afbn ' y ' ad ltheacrl fromga di es s c r t e ahc c pli t : sotaarrlsai circumstance . r it . tlstdse fis principally itctoisepbnpuca b isg e ei will be felt most severely by small shipbuilders, whose are stated to amount to £20,000, but probably they will be more, The proprietary is limited, and some of the shareholders are substantial men. CONSOLATION FOR THE DISTRESSED. As prices have varied so little forsorne time past,and on the whole have rather risen than fallen, we take the liberty of suggest ing that the present is a very good time for landowners to dispose of their estates, and farmers to part with the in terect in their farms, if they are really dissatisfied with their position in this country. We have the less hesitation in tendering this advice, because we have before our eyes several large and respectable classes who are just now in precisely the same predicament, and who have no alterna tive but to change their plan of life or put up with a very moderate scale of emolument. The County Courts and other legal reforms, it is said, have reduced the profits of the metropolitan practice to so low an ebb that several thousand persons dependent upon it must either take to some of her profession or be very poor men. Changes in the made of conducting trade of all kinds are rendering it im possible, we are assured, to carry on a small business with profit, or a large business with security, and in London, at least, the race of small tradesmen bids fair to be extin guished. There is no alternative, however, but that every one should adapt his conduct honestly and promptly to actual circumstances. The coal trade is deserting the ea, and rasing to the rail. Every coal train supplants a col lier, and Durham is being beaten out of the field by York shire and the Midland Counties. If such is the natural course of events, there is no help for it. Parliament can not interfere, any more than it could to give the whale fishery a monopoly against gas, sailing vessels a monopoly against steam, or stage coaches a monopoly against the rail. Changes of fashion have ruined multitudes ere this. The prevalence of liberal opinions in theology has con demned thousands of clergymen brought up in the old school to languish in small rural incumbencies and see less learned and not more earnest men rise to rectories, canon ries, and bishoprics. A law of change pervades the com mercial, the political, and the religious world, and there is no possible remedy for it. Each man must manage for himself, and bear with patience what he cannot mend.— The Times. GRAND PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION OF LOYAL ORANGE.. MEN.—On Friday last the North-Western Province of England of the above association held its first meeting at St. Simon's School-room, Bolton -street, Liverpool, to elect the officers of the province. The Earl of Ennis killen, the most worshipful Grand Master, was expected to have taken the chair, but was unavoidably detained in Ireland, in consequence of the Grand Lodge meeting there this week ; it was proposed, and carried unanimously, that Lawrence Newall, Esq., P.G.M., of Rochdale, take the chair, and W. Ward, D.M., of the Liverpool South District, the deputy-chair. The meeting was opened with prayer by the Rev. T. Brien, after which the election of the officers took place. There was a very numerous attend.. ance of delegates from the diffe, ent districts in this pro vince. The following brethren were also present :—Sir Wm. Verner, T. J. Ouseley, Esq., of Shrewsbury, A. Byfor'l, Esq., the Revs. T. Brien, Willis, Fenton, and Mathias. After the election of officers, business of moment was transacted, and the meeting closed about five o'clock. BIR'rILS. On the 12th inst., the wife of Mr. George Bowers, of Lower Mersey-view, of a daughter. On the 14th inst., at Bank-house, Runcorn, the wife of John Johnson, or a son. On the 16th inst., at Warrington, the wife of the Rev. H. C. Stubbs, of a son. On the 16th inst., Mrs. John Llewellin, of Gill-street, ofa son. On .he 17th inst.. at The Meadows,: Birkenhead, the wife of A. E. Watson, Esq., of a son. On the 17th inst., the wife of Mr. P. Mooney, of a daughter. On the 17th inst., the wife of Mr. Mark J. Letcher, of Fox street, of a son. On the 18th inst., the wife of Captain Leitch, German-terrace, Birkenhead, of a daughter. On the 19th inst., at Egremont, the wife of W. J. Powell, Esq., ofa son. On the 19th inst., Mrs. Geo. Taylor, of Everton, ofa daughter. On the 20th inst., Mrs. James Parnell, of a son. MARRIED On the 31st May, by special license, at Trinity Church, Ade. laide, South A , ,stralia, by the Rev. Dean Farrell, Robert, second son of Robert Lindow Carr, Esq., of Clifton park, Birkenhead, barrister-at-law, to Frances, only daughter of Thomas Deare, Esq., of Newc:istte-upon-Tyne. On the 11th inst., at St. Peter's Church, Mr. T. Roberts, draper, to Mary, relict of the late Mr. John Stock, of the Talbot Inn, Vernon-street. On the 11th inst., at Aughton, near Or ms ki r k, b y t h e R ev. W. H. Boniton, Thomas Holland, Esq., to Catherine, eldest daughter of the late Ralph Brookes, Esq., ot Aughton. On the 16th inst., at St. Philip's Church, by the Rev. J. Hall, Mr. Joseph Curry to Miss Eleanor Cecilia Banks. On the . l6th inst., at St. Michael's Church, Pitt-street, by the Rev. H. Carrenter, Mr. John Brenell to Mrs. H. Flewry. On the loth inst., at St. George's Church, by the Rev. Mr. Monk, James, only son of Mr. James P)e, farmer, Cleavely, near Lancaster, to Mar7aret, youngest daught er of M r . P. Smith, farmer, Westhead, near Ormskirk. .......... On the 16th 'inst., at St. Bride's... Church, by the Rev. J. Groome, Edwin Theophilus. third son of Mr. T. Cuff, to Sarah, daughter of Mr. Francis Astlev. . . On the 16th inst., at the Parish Ch u r c h, W arr i ng t on, b y t h e Rev. Mr. Powis, Air. William Critchley, joiner. of this town, to Sarah, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Wagstaff of the Coopers' Arms Inn, Warrington. On the 16th inst., at St. James's Church, by the Rev. If. Hampton, M.A., John Stevenson, eldest son of Mr. T. Steven son, of her Majesty's Customs, to Miss E. Topper, of Manchester. On the 16tliinit., by license, at St Peter ; ;Ch'urch,Sackville: street, Everton, by the Rev. E. G. Williams, Mr. Wm. Years ley. of Norley, Cheshire, to Miss Rutb Ryder, of Roscommon- On the 17th inst., at St. Philip's Church, Mr. Francis Hout. grave to Miss Elizabeth Pownall. _ _ _ On the 17th inst., at Kirk Braddan, Isle of Man, by the Rev. W. Drury, Mr. Kichard Brown, artist, North quay, Do ug l as , to Amelia, only daughter of the late Adjutant Main, of the 43rd Regiment of Foot. On the 17th inst.. at St. John the Baptist's Church, Toxteth park, Mr. Luke Cunningham to Miss Margaret Gorman. On the ISth inst.. at Northwich, by the Rev. G. Gibbons, M.A., Mr. Samuel Dick ins, of Wigan, to Fanny, second daugh ter of Mr. Thomas Antrobus, of Northwich. On the !Bth hat., at Ridgeway, by the Rev. Robert Nowell Whittaker, A.M., vicar of Whalley, T. Hordern Whittaker, Esq., of the Holme, Lancashire, to Nlargaret Nowell, yo ungest daughter of the late Rev. J. Robinson, M.A., rector of Aires ford, Essex, and formerly Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, and of Mrs. Nowell, of Netherside and Linton in C raven , Yorkshire. On the 19th inst., at St. George's Church, Douglas, Isle of Man, by the Rev. W. St. George Patterson, M.A., of Lichfield Cathedral, Douglas Thomas, eldest son of the late Thomas Kul burn, Esq., of Bertram house, Hampstead, to Anna Maria, third d .ughter of A. T. Patterson, Esq. On the 19th inst., at St. Mary's Church, Birkenhead, by the Rev. A. Knox, Mr. Richard Ackerlev to Miss Spencer. On the 20th inst., at St. Mark's Church, by license, by the Rev. W. Pollock, Mr. Andrew Cooper, shipbroker, to Miss Eliza Walmsley. On the 20th inst., at the Parish Church. Stockport, by the Rev. G. Taylor, Mr. John Edwards, tea-dealer, of this town, third son of Mr. Charles Edwards, of Soutley, near Wrexham, to Frances Amelia, eldest daughter of the late John Foster, Esq., of Manchester. On the 20th inst., at Canning-street Presbyterian Church, by the Rev. Mr. Welsh, Mr. Alexander Doul, of Wick, Scotland, to Miss Mary Jane Greenall, of Newton-le-Willows. DIED Lately, at San Juan del Sud, Captain D. G. Bailey, of the steam-ship Pacific. The deceased has formerly commander of the Liverpool packet-ships Orpheus and Yorkshire. Previous to his taking command of the Pacific be was in the Pacific mail steam-ship Panama. He was a very popular man with the profession, and his losswill be deeply regretted by a large circle of friends. _ On the 11 th July, at Kurumum Mission Slation, South Africa, aged 74, Mr. Robert Hamilton. Deceased laboured there nearly thirty-six years, as one of the agents of the London Missionary Society, along with Mr. Robt. Moffat. Mr. Hamilton was a native of the south of Lanarkshire. On the 10th inst., Eliza Dutton ; and on the 13th, aged 62,, Mr. Charles Dutton, both of Tarvin, Cheshire. On the 11th inst., at Whilhorn, N. 8., Margaret, eldest daughter of the late. ames Jokie, Esq., of Birkenhead. On the 13th inst., at Bath. in his 40th year, Lieut.-Col. Payn ter, C.B. The deceased was wounded in the battle of Chillian walla, in January, 1849, from the effects of which he never recovered. This gallant officer entered the army in 1828, served as an ensign in the 56th Regiment, from 1828 to 1833, in which latter year he was appointed lieutenant on the 24th ; he obtained his company in 1842, his majority in 1846, and for his services at Chillianwalla was promoted to the lieutenant-colonelcy of the 24th on the 14th January, 1849. He was also, in the same year, nominated a Companion of the Bath. On the 13th inst., at her residence, Carlton-terrace, Upper Parliament-street, aged 76, Mary, relict of the late John Davies, of Wavertree. On the 14th inst., at Huyton, aged 77, Elizabeth, relict of the late Robert_ Ellison, Esq., of Parkgate. - 61;tle16th instant, at Draytoii, South Staffordshire, aged 21, Thomas, eldest son of Mr. _Peter Mulloy, of this town. -- On the 16th inst. aged 45, Mary, wife oiMr. JoliiiEiassay, of her_Majesty's inst., at this port. On the 16th inst.,at his residence, in Beresford-road, aged 81, Mr. T. Swinford. father of the late Capt. Swinford, of this port. On the 16th inst., in Northumberland-street, of scarletina, aged 8 years, Margaret, daughter of Patrick Nowlan, of Garry filum, county Wexford. On'the 16th inst., aged 47, George, second son of Geo. How den, Esq., of High-street. Edge-hill. • „ On the 17th inst., a , . Belmont, near Corsterphine, Lord Mac kenzie, one of the Scotch judges. Joshua Henry Mackenzie asa son of the celebrated author of The Man of Feeling. On the 17th inst., aged 7 years, Jane Carter, daughter of Mr. Wm. of Texteth-park._ On the 17th inst., aged&t, Mr. P. Woodward, Toxteth•park. On the 17th inst., aged 18, Lucy, eldest daughter of Mr. John. Armstrong, of Kirkdale. On the 16th inst., at Haliwood, Cheshire, aged 73, Mr. Hugh Lockhart. On the 18th inst., aged 4 ears, Jane, daughter of Mr. W. H. Gouldbourn, of Rose-vale, Everson. On the 18th inst., at the residence of her son-in-law, in Falkner-street, aged 78, Margaret, widow of the late James Tate, sailmaker. On the 18th init., at her residence, in Waterloo-road, Eliza, relict of the late William Aldred Cleworthe. On the 18th inst., in London, aged 30, William, fourth son of John Twiname, Esq., of this town. On the 18th inst., at Kensington, in this town, abed 41. Mary, youngest daughter of the late Mr. William Sh arp, o f Manchester. On the 18th inst., aged 2 8, Oswald Mosley Wade, son of Samuel Wade, of Birkenhead. On the 18th inst., at Bramshill-park, Hants, Sir John Cope, Bart. Sir John Has remarkable for his advocacy of the sports of the field. _ On the 19th inst., aged 5 years, Henry, son of Mr. J. P. Platt, of Dacre-park, Rock Ferry. Jo O n n ath i a ' n te Llo9tchkAi'onosdt.: aged so, Arabella, relict of the late On the 19th insl., - aged 2 years and 6 months, William, third son of Mr. William Deakin, of Brownlorr-hill. On the 19th that., at the residence of her son, in St. Jametes stret,aged 59, Mrs. A. Samuel. . _ _ On the 19th inst., at hie residence, in Nile-street, aged 84, Mr. J. Thornhill, cooper. On the 19th inst,, in London, Austin, for thirty years keeper of the well-known " Happy Family," near the gate at the Surrey side of Waterloo -bridge. On the 19th inst., at Cartmel, aged 86, Eleanor, relict of John Gardner, Esq., of that place. in Falkner-street, a ge d 7 S , t h e On the 20th inst., aft e r a short but painful illness, Mr. A. Cockshoot, herbalist, Richmond:row. On the 20th inst., Mrs. Catherine Deayes. On the 20th inst., Samu el Blakel y , Es q . On the 21st inst. , at the house of Mr. T homas Belahaw, High Park-street, aged 8 3 , Mrs. ram Moffitt. On the 22 inst., at Little Sutton, Cheshire, aged SI, John Ar, , in l a s t t e . , o a f t t h l house t o w n. , Rev. James Lister. On che the 10 months, Henry Gould smith Owen, son of Mr. Henry Owen. r, llsqa23 inst., aged I years and On the 23d