The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-11-20 00:00:00

NOVEMBER 20, 1855.] Trct B. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. o i.s1 . ::: ' re L'' '' COO' „ t ! ' 375P1 ived,! t a1315w. 133 t .f o r , 45 1e5 t l"0 „ ;*‘ aof,, eS COt te'l 001 r 113 „,, (w r' ste clv- 1: 4 11 pig , l t 6e' ne. - ed ra nk - quay Foundry, Warrington, an establishment ~: for the construction of i ron s hip s , has for the present "'used working, and all the hands have been discharged. TiE A In s u f ANNUAL BALL in aid of the We s t Lancashire Masoni c en "anon for the Education and Advancement in Life of dreg of Distressed Freemasons will be held in the Town -7., on Tuesday, the Bth of January next. raTIietISSION'S SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF th e fin,unTY PALATINE OF LANCASTER.-2nd Regiment of llon ee ll ae of Lancaster's Own Militia : 'Henry Harrington last" .. .` ll Seel, gent., to be ensign from the 30th of August vice Barlow, promoted. 'te,AV IN CABLE -STREE T .—O n Th urs d a y morn i ng , a t se v en n e Ci , a fire was discovered in the office of Messrs. Bahr, be g ,el 4l , and Co-, shipbrokers, 4, Cable-street. ' The fire ."_'l , who were promptly in attendance, found the con ex-at:ion confined principally to the flooring. It was quickly Aegaished, without much damage being sustained. leve're .A.ssniseiCE COMPANY.-31r. R. R. Hutchinson, of ag e , P° o l, the intelligent and successful superintendent of 1),04,'e5, for . the Age Assurance Company in the northern toem e „ e s , nas neade a permanent arrangement with that ' 4 'n'a"e"l'.. 97 , hicln no doubt, will prove highly beneficial to his 1, 11 the coMpany's nteests. 11 3' iek t e le fieu i tr z e l th R e E rs n, of Preston, which was run down on Monday , between Point Lynes and the Sherries, was Pee, ~ cn Thursday morning by some boatmen, off Douglas and isuo taken into that harbour. Her cargo is oatmeal, heOargm illY P a rtially damaged. her masts and bulwarks "er den t ;"' a l : van, the former being attached to the wreck ; ‘led ee or were under water. The cargo is being discharged, netw 81Perilltendence of the receiver of droits. l ' h e new Ititil'es•--The following are the names of some 9f fo r the sheriffs returned Monday by the Privy Connell, tl kin e li6te P a h il e t) r t t al of dyer 3 a l a ajesl:For Cheshire ; Richard Von e.` , ..,se ' a Ylcr, Esq., of Hooton-hall ; William At shiTe : t ne ely.'ebef e' ton-Heger, near Kelsall ; and George Jcseeel t arry e t il ee ttpl, Esq., .ef Delamere-house.—For 'fork.- fo r e , e , ad e t t. retell Thompson, Esq., of Kerby-hall ; Sir apieeinna, of `Wart., Of Itudding-park . , and Robert Mit ni,, ''' bY ti ;g‘, ll llanby. The Sheriff of Lancaster is el es , , lv; , See it , z , rop eneen in her right as Duke of Lancaster. ni no - TAE `CALCUTTA TRADE.—Earn next year i n 13 a In as Ro 1 thin e n•str eet Y( en and Son will launch from their yard eew w en . eulars eil le . pr 3 .ears'' s e -n • elr 'ship for the Calcutta trade, the largest "IP eeer built in this town. This vessel is fe ' and ee ° g r esii• She is 196 feet long between perpe.ndi ineeal„a_l4l he t . ci el l eee t,2o feet over all. Her . _extreme bean is 36 le e , "renne t . VIII of hold 22 feet 6 inches. Her builders' ee - nlateent I s •I,IZO tone. She will bea full-rigged ship. she'ell' re spe - V A are East India teak and African oak, and . in hal ' sue is constructed as an A 1 ship ; and whilst „ Te tt a 84iler. the greatest capacity for carrenr.g, she will be a fast le er° , noe e t be e .Igh t ank ?II Be.ns.—On Wednesday the business of the In` ti ereetea was transferred to the'new building, which hes t., L e ater. s e ee 'e", on the site of the old one, on the south able o 6: 4 ' Ch a ; f lCL. The architectural stile of the new building is ' eft lind simple, yet its external appearance is one , of e ttnee ps effective in Liverpool. The premises consist of two '.tr end the interior arrangements are admirably adapted L il. roe e ;; lct in, g a large business efficiently. The public bank e"atll 815. k.-i lofty, well ventilated and most effectively lighted fat to eiholeist windows by day, tied a brilliant sun-burner by w ‘ t to th e tow cr n o . tign Bank forms an additional yeiblic ma -I,°..eseri.stle,,P-R, B y GUARDIANE.—The followinggaardians were i,.aire - " "le meeting held on Wednesdayßadnall , e ,"'ceeie",; Messrs. Abrah ms, Edwards, Hattie"' on, Pickup, nee s c - eid, Lunt, Siddele a Medcalf, Roberts, Roscoe, Pitts, le tee'rs, handsw e l n' 31.`„`reens urer 'swineF'1,671 18s. 2d. Notice w as g iv t r e S elnatten, and Ledger. The' balence ion e Z.• nnaw, that he would, the next meeting, Il r ve d at the.Vg r esolutions : viz , That a dispenser be anrolte _ net, iorkhouse, with salary of 255. per week, toeceennlenz t a a e Peried of new weeks les retrospectively; increase the one a l "`e in the salary.: f' Mr. Roberton, ntorekenee a ie s r el t_ g.. that an leen, c nse, from 4 , 0 tc n,60 per annum; and tient vl" ' - '‘ ' S ‘ 'e e a s r s I Z ,aPPeinteel - -fer the girls' seleceel, at a salary of .£l5 le , 'nal raen ens . . e re ee ee r i e e en e eice e o lerneene AT THE PRRgTON 'STATION.— crat " i l nuesd ‘n a jd an a 4. • own, perpe f the Preston d'e neighbenthood 0 en some ruffian, at present -auk , „„ n, in - the attaie . . elat the a trait , arrive • R l t h e l- ta w n li e i e ' e e l l e ,reeg litelneve led to great injury . ifnaet . loss of life.. eeati o ---- enn arc; Yorkshire ee,ooes . I t ain was due. „,_,;l shorttirenneefore mai r . - oine nenTsler. aftervenrds one of the Lancashire and" . l - orkshere,F o ,„ a eo t' e d e n ee P t i 3u l ‘‘e h e a - a k o t iz gaen "eineel that the signal lamp was . %- thrned and t';' done a th e ne e to ascertain the -cause, he ?' , l t a i in t6 a7ri er v e arrived onc e alte re d 111) wi'll 11 'stone. e it;7 l ai a t l e i r a : P b h : 4 ‘ 1 , 37 put . 7 . t. ; and the points -we for the mad e en iv ni,, , ~,u, outx. Justl,l4., 10 , f course the tion had not ne n , -- `e er - yards. If the obstruc- Roodsyard, ne . 1 reinor e e h we af.ter' 14 . 'ne - -- a en e t e team weak awe run into the 1 , 08 -4 E Pae ev ..., e "`" accident mast have been the result. e ''''' Cel e , • styl e ei°ll e , then. n• — The Inembersihave recently taken. c omfo ° 2• l ; tile ' - "Lerio ..- r riew e ! i lh - house, — se, in Bold-street. The mixed. Perfect's 4441 ju ! „, ri : s rekitect ur. eis no:I:Adel:141ex f the mined hoteni,' ant " l ' ar C W I , within. The titchen. arrangements ,, are. Zest ti e t h e Pe rottp rs , e i worthy the study of :housekeepers end ;h4-?..n.ee_d, considering - thelimited site,t e he a a ro rra hi n te r t, ti : A. -Milian , o ' e r.'" a,o credit to the‘ ingenuity of th ee, n e., e 'ncrinon• The cost of the need, building, fun enables v lenntimated at - 0 1 , 43,t00 wkien, at 6 per cent-, tc..f 8 . 13 0 a t e xr c a iil e b e ers to sit aZthe tom' paratively small rental tai 4o IS tv,,, ts 7 five The entrance-money to the Palatine -Ilea 41 - --ve gull , d the mina subscription seven aLtivantas'Zilinhe affords ge aa' n c deen ala weres ?' uling an the country the gig at ' a " ni . a town house There is same talk of estabhsb klidee Z"esinen's and coramerciartravellms'elub in Liverpool, kTi a l li ll te„ni t e e ol l4 , szleinaihteadpLoirapboseilitee, Act,the Lyceum being admiranly and , convertible at a small cost. bron ghe CAl:annex Mien Snnaennete.—The Atlan . tic has Risl at , " a d'nees that the eontract between the Canadian Le ter th e r i7 ali cl 'Messrs. Echnonston Allen, and Co., of Quebec, Liverpool at ter to run screw-steam4s onee:a. fortnight between e l liate ree and Quebec, in the summer, and Portland in the 'eta fe'netnen execute& The departure of the first steamer beezt the`verPool will take placepositively on the 23rd of April! `* 1 11; e contractors . bound to snare the first arrival and ..etior r li -°l 'the mails in Quebec byethe 7th of May, 1 . 856 0 . "," .. iie % l ig ta the terms of the.coutract, it is not conipaleolif , a e -ba nes e e P e t eallaers to Montreale 'bat the Montreal cornuaereea e l data e ,;nY are endeavouring that every steamer during tie nT e are roil winter shall arrivethere. Two vessels of the Ile . e t o 4, oth er s the meantime, engaged irate transport 'Berme., 44 th a 'N are building by 'Messy;. Denny Brothers, of lle Bart, I n't -41 'n n t e 7%, ve, s . , ommiTTEE.—The ,first meeting of this nem p;eseae.nke its reconstruction by g al Dover, Beckwith, hne e nouncil, was held on e.ineel,, Present—Messrs 1. ' CrosthAite, Shell, Johnson, I . ( lbead , „V:aYdock, e "C i ese e ,nodson, A.j.C.llTSTewmee'rt,.Tiuneeand M`Guffe. Mr. i ew an on ':vas was re-elected thairman,.and Mr. .Dover .. dep as 'at e e f! -...., The various sub-commi ydock, J. Nicholson, h tied ,r-eizeral Purposes:: Messrs. -0 tt v eas were formed 1 n'ee/'• oe ekwith, Johnson J. Wine, and R. Gladstone. 4 le'a e Tinne, Hodson, P a meart - "Y ' Messrs. C' ''` )tifis 7' j4im ar f l e n 'and Crosthwaite. oneet., B eckwith, Fleming, A. C. irnin i r e ..,: 4 ' o fßates: Messrs .Johnsen St 7ant H ho ae s od o o , ck. e e lain„.:en : Messrs. Sheil,Hel.p G , _• uffie, Crosthwaitenan_ . d God ß f g re le6 ;, 4 01 1 101;:ectith,.11. Gladstone , ofire .' :: . ts Messrs. Ila . lheet ok t et..lViatielleee'kwith°P, t 3 l l 94 Gaffie, e Johnsen, e rs A. • €7l'do e i t ' Prevention : 3 ess .t . h C. :Stewart,_ i Fleming, ea Haydock. S ''tb .' Crosthwaite, Beam li ldr 4 ience e . . Messrs. flame, XPG'le ,- , and Halhead. Put sr t 4 - Nsth, .' laalliea n d ie ß h ep o k no w w it e h, d s.short.conversation w tk 0.40: + Durisig iumittees, thi ee enClerkexplained } ZAt, i ,„ uninent of the co ion it .wonid be necessary for a Neneadenthe act of last Ses ee ee ne ee 'of the works they lea h ee 'nte i r to make an annual' return t a communi e.,,, b ee 'and the mode in which the money-distrusted to them li••loo he n i l speeded.—The d and f na the solicitor:to the Lon on Law-Clerk stated ;that tl Ztli w 4 g es fez Railway Joora. wy relative 43 the offer they ;tali L o f some land inQueen-iteeet, Edge‘hill. The company , s '_s lekto dedicate the latul to thepublic on condition that "o in - ' 1.41 a. Cemmitteeshould pave it and the.y wished to have ell e eenlediate answer, seeing that the land must be dealt with waY or the other. The offer was accepted. t he ~, y• —At r '```IECNIURAL AND ARCELEGIAGICAL SOCIET • .... r. er ay .ort i .o,,etrsigTanso,initoi.tglib:rlewomeeting of this society, on Wednesday , A l Tay Presi ded and there was a large attendance of members. 'and said he sh Dined In attention to the exhibition of,arehitecturat deSigns contribu tions of foods •Commenting falar Oil d ke glad to receive and forwardVr, in tion, alluded London on the 17tlioranext month, wonrably on ther e ad van t ag es of I P•' for th exhibition. blr. k an en zent. to the successes f Eneli h artists in Pa . , ioned that 8* ° ---- 4 A hadreeeived le tl hild •grand med sir Charles Barry, i t " - '' ris and hitects either Itlea- , a l of bonour, and the following A Owen 4 _ yens or honoureble mention :—J• C. Cockerel', R Scott, E. k es, Z L. Donaldson, P. Hardwick, R. A.G. n ener T re h ) Decimus Burton, .3_, ~ . .k , r , • eeamilton, (Edinburg , ' IL Kendall, and H. - 0 0 , N 3 Thomas Wyatt, Digby AN yatt, . keibi';'ll Alfred R elected a professional immer was elect 4 ,. , )1 -•ie ' r ' • exhibited the first part of Mittens .s de !n r • Mr. Picts Augustus Castirmans, to illustratenvhich ee re a ders," by M. on Belgian architecture, after Ded e ,., a paper some time ago country. Mr. Samuel Huggins Nei s'wian tour through that eet teg Paper on " Xbe Architecture of tis ta e cri which he inthiged in his favourite- subject of •erini za , th e a 3 respect to the Vof St. George's-hall, with resp . e el ,. A noraa les this building. Mr, Huggins teillOonsed approaches to and an ent re s` thein a conglomeration of all possible styles, was, that the - " e on public taste. One fault he considered __ _ east n o t . eru , portico, the,pnincipal feature of the building, did which necessitated th e e l nelude a covered carriage colonnade, for the Aret" e r ec A tion of a temporary and unsightlyboarding before entering the ' e don ofalighting from carriages, n a p parties ~, `, oil occasions of grand concerts. g„,, TXRESTING TO BUILDERe AND OWNERS OF IRAN . Kty, c., received the follow ing r A TEAXERS.—Messrs. Burns have for * e llinr from the Board of Trade, in answer to a memorial ite,,n aided by them the subject of water -tight bulkhea ds in screw steamers,on Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade, , Oven 3, 1805. Marine Department, Nov. Committee Of pr. Gentle am directed by the Lords of the my lords haeevY Council for Trade to acquaint you that .y y go our- N I sunder their consideration the memorial signed the and other iron-ship builders and steam-ship .. owners on vessels ,re cin l Yde, relative to the water-tight partitions in iron deli_ nir re d bY the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, more p l ar am to t e _ Y with reference to iron screw-steamers; and additional in it'inait to you the accompanying copy of the for tion d to their surveyors re tni . s which my lords have issue *te a at ulg the construction of the shaft . M essrs. I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,.., omit "srs Gand of Burns, Glasgow. k t •G. J. JAMES BAD Sttb.,„"'r T RUNKS IN SCREW ' • STEAMERS•—INSTRUCTIONS TO TO 1:34,.8.Y0RS OF STEAM VESSELS (BY ADDITIONWAY IO O N F s ) As it ap- Ilea'.e.nonaen 57 OF ORIGINAL INSTRUFT 14 13 tO MY lords that in the case - of iron screw steamers, to the n e e may arise from a rigid adherence . 'e, th in Parlia niettee at no communications are to be allowed . t that, in all ea se l'Y bulkheads, my lords are pleased to direct be afforded fr oe ! where the owners require it, an access may bulkhead to th e `" the engine-room through the parliamentary . ekseshaft trunk as follows •—The end of the trunk in such b e e e l is to be fitted to the after part of the bulkhead, so as to stye water-tight. The trunk itself is to be of equal th e - gth with the bulkhead, and also water-tight throughout ; With et ! d the trunk next the engine room is to be fitted Nil e :. u nffing box for the shaft to pass through. An en lust la , is to be made through the bulkhead into the trunk, ro ern :'og; enough to enable a man to enter from the engine atructed ook after the bearings. This working.us be con whiei, with a water-tight sliding door, in a groove, Wh e n 'nal" be opened or closed by a rod from the deck above. fitt—re there is no trunk, a water-tight stuffing box must be he.. eet at the e -Oct. 26a, plce where the shaft passes through the bulk -1855, Boa r d of Trme, THE APHICAN STEAM COMPANY have declared a dividend for the half-year ending the 31st of October, at the rate of seven per cent. per annum, free of income-tax. • -- --- • - THE MANCHESTER AND . LIVERPOOL AGRICULTtRAL SOCIETY, at a special meeting held on Wednesday at War rington, decided to hold their annual meeting next year at Wigan. MR. JOSEPH BALDWIN, who for the last ten months has been Comptroller of Customs at Liverpool, has just been pro moted to the Collectorship of Newcastle-on -Tyne. ON Monday, a notice was posted in the Underwriters' Rooms, to the effect that unless Liverpool shipowners dis played more alracity in tendering for the government emi gration, they would soon not have any opportunity of doing so. A BOAT CAPSIZED in the river on Tuesday afternoon with several persons on board, all of whom were saved by the third mate of the American ship James Nasmyth, with the excep tion of a woman aged 22, named Jane Powell, who resided in Blenheim-street, Scotland-road. LIVERPOOL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.—On Thursday, the eleventh of the series of friendly addresses to young men in connexion with the above association was deli vered by the Rev. John Kelly, in the Bible Repository, Slater street. Subject—" The young man impressed with the im portance of the age in which he lives." There was a large attendance of young men. AT St. Helens petty sessions, last week, Mr. E. Oliver, of Liverpool, was summoned for £lO, for a poor-rate for a coal mine in the township of Rainford. An objection was taken that Mr. Oliver was not rated, and that it was not proved that he was one of the firm of Holdsworth and Co. mentioned in the rate-book. Several other objections were also raised, which were valid, and the case was dismissed. SUDDEN DEATH.—On Thursday evening, a man, nearly seventy years of age, named Nicholas Welsh, who obtained a precarious livelihood by dancing in the streets, was taken suddenly ill in Standish-street. A police-officer took him into a house, where the occupiers gave him some wine, and the officer fetched Mr. Syers, surgeon, from the Vauxhall Dispen sary. He, however, grew worse, and died the next morning. LAIRD'S MOIZTIILY EXPORT Lis.r.—We find from this list, that, in September, the export of coal was as follows : From Northern Ports Yorkshire „ ...... ....,...,.. ...... ” ,_,. „ Liverpool „ Severn „ . . 107,644 „ „ „ Scotch „ Total .',...,-..... .............. 467,799 tons Tilt SoraiD DIIES.—The time fixed by the Danish govern ment for the opening of the .conferences on the Sound Dries is today. Prussia will be represen ted there by her resident minister in Copenhagen, 'Count Oriolla. It seems probable that most of the governments invited will respond to the in siltation by deputing their representatives to a ttend:; but in ill probability their instructions will for the present .be con fined to the hearing of proposals, on the 'communication of which to the home governments special instructions will be issued. REGISTRATION o Snirs.—The Registrar-Genaal has just issued a circular letter, addressed to the owners of ships who have not obtained `their official numbers accerd this will ing to hav the e requirements of the Mercha nt Shipplng Att; ' the effect of ascertaining whether all the vessels retained upon the register are insexistence, and will test 'the 'correctness of the statistical returns relative to the amount of our shipping retained upon the register. All registered ',vessels, of what soever tonnage, f . retaining their Certificates of registry, are required to havedistinct official numbers, and to render up their certificates of registry when no longer in a condition for service. . A SERIEE f.A.-T MANCIIESTER.---.Apintial strike of factory . operatives Imetaken place at Manchester. in consequence of a threatened - ridstction of wages. The C/xardiart says—" i n , accordance With the statements at the It eeting of self-acting minders and' . piecers, on Wednesday, those classes of hands, at fire Mills, did not go to work .on Thursday morning; and, as we understand, the machinery in 'those establishments was standing. They are those of Messrs. -Kennedy and Co., Great Ancoats-street • Messrs. Kelly. and.Ttihnour, Bradford-road; Messrs. W. P . Clarke and - Co„ 13eswick-street ' - Mess ~ . Clarke and Brother, Piercey,street-• and Mr. Sharp (Stew; i'dington .Sills) Pott-street. We :have not yet heard :limy Tellable statement as to the number ef hands who were em -ployed'in these mills. There was net, during Thursday, any treitementin the district within which the mills named are 'comprised.; nor was there any gathering of the old hands round. the - premises or 'elsewhere. f.'Jmall knots of the ;einem ployed would of course or,casionallygather at different . peints, i f but they soon separated. :At Messrs. Richard Birley and (o is Charlton Mills, Ralme..street, Oxford-read, about svhicli .300 h an d s -Itruck work at moon on Thursday, the time thtirtietice expired. The hands 'employed by the 'Hanover i Mill Company also :(we -understand) stopped work .is noon. It was - Tranoured that a portion -6€ the hands at Messrs. W., :and W;Stirlings', Lower Meseloy-street, were 'under motice,, wbieh ..would expire at noon on Thursday ; but on inquiry' • during the afternoon, we learnedihat all the hands 'were 'tt' workses usual. The hands in 'two or three other -Mills Were :nu of,T t- t i hrm i o n m exi no w ,ssi e f e oa k nr , y an yha d ays n 3 o A. t e b ict i p.bee ng nz i m s Tc ll o no cil s e s E • said2to have received notice; I.t , tisose notices do net expire " The following , letter i nt.o—a.s to time determistatien ‘bas ., been received from the British consul at - ft. "Vincent-by, the.ormers of the Adromache (Messrs. Holderness-and Clio, 'tani,cl- Liverpool), in reference:to the loss of that Wessel- : Bri tiShConsalat.s ' St. Vincent, Cope.d W eerds, october 27,1855. Sirs,—l regret I have - to announce to you the less of your >I s ue, the Adromache. -Sheitoindered at sea 'on -the:I2111:1 inst.,'in lat. 26 47 N., and 10n.126 30 W„ on her homeward -: passrge from 'Melbourne, on the -coast of Africa. It appears ;! ..thatthe crew had suffered-severely from the coast fov-er t and that the master, Jacob Tate, tand the carpenter hid died of that ifisease—the former .ontoard the Andromache, on the 7.5 th inst., -and the latter .while the vessel was lying receiving ' her.icargo. The remainder of . the crew saved themselves -in the long boat, and afterhatine been fifteen days :at texiii-lrer -theykwere enabled to Teach the island, but in a most distress ,;ing-state. They had all -stiffered extremely from -the fever; • and - 'the constant exposure in ,an open boat for so many days -Without sufficient nourishment had reduced them to the last -stagetof exhaustion. I am 'happy to say thatthorels every i hope that they will all, with ~ ititdicious treatment,Tecover. "Irour'sbedient servant, Twos. MILLER, 131.B.M. , Constil. 'ARTILLERY PRACTICE , AT.."trlrE NORTII FOST.--ItSte , VI "Thursday, the inhabitants were disturbed by reports .of:a I beavy•cannonade from the .xlireetion of the entrance to' the .Mersey. Many people inmgined'that the rumoured -invasion ,ofEngiand by the Ruesliansinid actually commenced. Others, supposed it must have proceeded.tfrom the expected Australian :packets, two of which werodue.; and not a few came to the conclusion that Brother. Jonathan lad taken a hold initiative by attacking Liverpool, It afterwards transpired that the officers of the Lancashire Artillery Militia at present. doing ,garrison duty at the North - Fort, desirous ofetsciplining their mein under every ciromustance,auddenly ordered the,assernble •to be -sounded. In three minutes the men were .at their :various-stations, and on the command being given, nineteen : rounds were fired from the great guns, with scarcely 'a 'moment's intermission. The experiment was held to he quite -satisfactory, and creditaldleto,the men and officers. !RROMERA.GE IN FRLECE.—TheXhamb of Commerce at N ew castle have addressed: memorial to th er e President of the 'Board.of'Trade on the subject of:the brokerage duties leVied in :France, pointing omit that .while French shipmasters .are allowed - to select their own brokers, or to employ no broker at all in-this country, English shipowners are compelled :in France to.employ certain Isretkerslicensed by the govermaient, and • to?pezr them certain duties: fi xed by the state; and also .drawing the attention of the governmsait to the fact thateoal daden t vessels entering Ilarre, 'Fecamp, and Hardeur pay ,higher rates of brokerage than and higher titan even collies do in the other ports of :Trance. The memorial ;also submits that the compulsory brokerage system complffized •of.,.if, not.,at variance with the 'letter, is,et least opposed to the spirit of the Commercial Treaty of .1826pbetween Great Britain and Franceoud which, by Article 1,, evidently comteeaplated permhecefrtho heavier burdens on : navigation were to 'be permitted .in ',the l ote country than' iwthe , other. — Gategead Observer. EETRA-ORINA.RY ROBBEET WATCTIEB.—At the Po- Roe-court, on,Friday, Edward Froste, well known as a clever thief, and Joseph and Mary Ja.ekson, mother and son, were , charged with hewing in th e i r possession ''-' n umber of stolen I watches. William Laycock, a detective :officer, said that, about three weeks ago, a man named w as and ring. M`Callai l watchdrugged at a house in ,Lime-street, and robbed of A He was -so much-injured that he was fret taken to the hospital , but for some time beck he has been at his bowie in Lime-kiln lane, where he now. lies, too ill to be removed. :FVOIII informa tion he (Laycoch) ,received from. Messrs. Smith and Ham mond, pawsbrokers, of Soho-street, he anent on Thursday to a beerhouse, 17, Charles-street, kept by the female prisoner, and where the two male prisoners lived. At first some peo ple in the house said that Froste was not isa, baton going up to a room upstairs, the three prisoners were caned there, looking very ranch confused. A watch was found.in Froste's pocket, two in that of the lad Jackson, and a gold one in the female prisoner's bed. Both the male prisoners said the watches were their own. Two other detectives proved that they found in a basket, concealed amongst some feathers, several watches, and amongst some ashes under the grate they also found nine more. A time-piece was also found in.one of the parlours. When taken into custody the female prisoner said she gave 17s. for it, then 12 as., and then £3. On -see ing the detectives Froste attempted to escape, but was•cap tured and handcuffed, cud on seeing Grisenthwaite (cue of the officers) looking at the grate, be said, " You needn't look , there, you'll find nothing." He also said that if they had ,come a few minutes earlier they would have caught two men who had left the watches. Several of the stolen watches were identified by persons who had been robbed of them in -the street, and a gentleman from Messrs. Litherland and Davies, in Bold-street, identifiedthe time-piece as having been stolen from their shop about seven o'clock last Monday even ing. The case was remanded for a week, the magistrate, Mr. , 1 J. A. Tobin, refusing to take bail for the Jaeksons. DocK COMMITTEE.—Mr. Charles Turner presided at the weekly meeting, on Thursday. The other -members present were Messrs, Shand, Brocklebank, Robinson, Chaloner' Mon del, Holden, Hubback, Rankin, Anderson , Gregso n, and James Hohne. The principal subject of discussion was the appoint ment of Mr. Piekthall, a cargo ledger clerk, to the situation of warehouse-keeper in No 1 Albert Dock warehouse. A letter was read alleging that Mr. Piekthall was appointed to the situation over the head of Mr. Benson, in consequence of his being the nephew of the chairman of the sub-committee, with whom the appointment rested. After explanation from Mr. Robinson, Mr. Piekthall's uncle, and from Messrs. Holden and Hubback, the other members of the committee,- the appoint ment was confirmed. The committee also recommended that the rates of charge in the Stanley Dock, for coal, be 9d. per ton, and for other merchandise, ls. per ton. Approved. The harbour-masters'sub-committee reported that the new enclosed shed, on the east side of the Salthouse Dock, was now ready, and had been used for the reception of outer cargoes. The chairman intimated that Messrs. Imrie and Tomlinson, who bad used the shed, said it was one of the most beautiful sheds they ever saw, and, in their opinion,it would be of the greatest advan tage to the shipping of the port. Mr.Mondel: It is an admirably constructed shed. A communication was read froin Messrs. Caleb Grimshaw and Co. about appropriated berths, shOwing the advantage of those berths to the dock estate. Referred to the harbour-masters committee. A letter was read from Messrs. Fleming and Clay, trade assignees to the estate of Messrs. Rennie, Rankin, and Johnson, stating that they could let the building yard of the firm, upon which they bad expended about £6,000, if the Dock Committee would enable them to grant a five or seven years' lease. Referred to the committee of works. Mr. Robertson Gladstone, Mr. William Mann , and M r. Ander son, who had been re-elected members of the Dock Committee, at the last meeting of the, council, were re-appointed me mbers of the several sub-committees upon which they had previously acted. The general business then terminated, COMMISSIONS signed by the Lord-Lieutenant of the County Palatine of Lancaster.—John Bramley Moore, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant; John Hickinbotham Chambers, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant. WILLIAM ALFRED RUSSELL, SiX months old;son of Mr. Joseph Russell, ship-broker, Mill-street, was found dead in bed at two o'clock on Friday afternoon. At an inquest on Saturday, a verdict of " Death from natural causes" was re turned. THE LATE ARCHDEACON BROOKEL—We understand that the statue of the late Venerable Archdeacon Brooks, executed by Mr. Macßride, is not yet ready for public inspection, owing to its being not quite finished, and the absence of the artist from Liverpool. AN INQUEST was held on Saturday on the body of a seaman named William Pollock, aged 20 years, a native of Belfast, who was landed from the American ship Assyria, at the Bramley Moore Dock, on Monday, and died in the Northern Hospital on Thursday. The jury returned a verdict that death arose from natural causes. ON SATURDAY, Elizabeth Parry, the wife of a labourer, re siding in Ashley-street, was accidentally burnt while sitting at the fireside nursing her child. Having advanced too near the fire, her clothes ignited, and before the flames could be ex tinguished she was severely burnt all over her body. She was conveyed to the Southern Hospital, and is progressing favour- ably. ) SESSIONS.—The following are the dates of holding the va rious sessions for this county during the next year:—Lancas ter, Dec. 31st, April 7th, June, 30th, and Oct. 13th ; Preston, Jan. 2nd, April 9th, July 2nd, and Oct. 15th ; Salford, Jan. 7th, April 14th, July 7th, and Oct. 20 ; Kirkdale, Jan. 15th, April, 22nd, July 15th, and Oct. 28th. The annual sessions will be held on the 26th of June, and the adjourned annual sessions on the 11th of Sept. The Guiding Star, which left Liverpool in January last for Melbourne, with nearly 500 passengers on board, and had not arrived at Melbourne up to the 80th August last, is now posted at Lloyd's as a missing ship. She had a. miscellaneous cargo, which, with the ship, was insured for a large amount. She was last spoken by the Boston barque Kate, Captain Hastings, in latitude 16 6 S., longitude .33 48 W., and has not since been heard of. BLooKs and copper plates, 34 in number, for making the different parts of forged bank notes, were last week disco 'vered at the bottom of a cesspool in the yard of a solitary cottage at Headley-heath, on the Alcester-road, near Bir mingham. The cottage, in May last, was occupied by a notorious individual, named William Mayner, late of Birming ham, who, at the last Warwick assizes, was convicted, and sentenced to six years' penal -servitude, for receiving stolen goods. 14iseAscHoer Guar ActrenaT.—A few days since, as Mr. W. Brown, son of Mr. J. C. Brown, solicitor, of Holsworthy, in the north of Devon, was out shooting, he met with the following serious accident. He was in company with a gentle man named Yule, and was getting over a hedge, when Mr. Yule, who was about to'follow him, tried to uncock his gun, but the hammer slipped from his fingers and the gun went off, discharging nearly the whole of the contents into Mr. Brown's thigh, shattering it in a frightful manner. Mortification has since set in, and "there are no hopes of Mr. Brown's recovery. A DrsHONEST SERVANT.—On Friday, a gold watch and chain, and some - valuable articles of wearing apparel, were missed from a public-house in the neighbourhood of Cabbage hall, and suspicion falling upon a servant girl who had left the previous day, information was given to the police, which led to the girl's apprehension on Saturday afternoon, at a lodging-house in Grafton-street, with the missing watch and chain, a ham, the articles of clothing, and other stolen pro perty, in her possession, SIIOCKIWG OCCURRENCE.-011 Saturday morning, a most painful occurrence, resulting in the death of a young man named Nathan Bentley, happened atlhe new mill belonging 'to Mr. , :rhoma.s Miller, in Newhall-lane, Preston. He was engagedin oiling some machinery in the carding-room, when the dangling ends of his neckerchief were caught in the wheels, ,, and his head was drawn tightly to the machinery-. The'engine was stopped as soon as possible, and the kerchief being , cut he was detached; but -he was quite dead, having been-strangled almost instantaneously. - - • • THIZ NEW MARKET it SOTOI4ITORT.—At the late meet ing of the Southport commissioners, Mr. Wright's offer ofs ---'2,a309 yards of land, opposite the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bailray Station, was considered. Some discussion arose -as to 'continuing the Old Market, "which has only 800 yards of ground. It was decided' that ,, lt was desirable to canthstre it -until the expiration of the -lease. The ground rent of the 'New Market is aid. per yard, -or £33 a-year ; but the tolls bare been £l7 in 12 weeks. the lease of the New Market is for - 99 years, but the commissioners hope to get the ipaeeex tended to 999 years. Tnarr AT AIGECJITH.—er. Saturday, Edward Parry, , an ostler, was charged before *the county magistrates, --at - the wart in Lime-street, with --steeling three ducks, the property of Messrs. Bath Brothers, -onnibus proprietors, at •feightirtli. rile prisoner was anostler in 'the employ of Mr. rhiiipsawho -As stables in the same - yatdovith Messrs. Bath, and oullon 'day he was discharged in -consequence of being-drunk - on the -.3revious night. Upon 'leaving the place he decamped with three ducks, which were found in his possession , or. the same -day, at the stables of Castles liotel, Garston. W was - com nnitted to gaol fcee two mor.ths. FIRES.—A fire broke -out on Sunday 'morning, ~ a bont-six o'clock, in the slop -of 'Mr. Thomas Foekes, Ratcliffe:street, Brunswick-roads but the canines were quickly-on the spot, and the flames were subdued in a few minutes. The-damage is estimated at about s£4o.—Two 'small fires occurred on Saturday. 031 C in the morning, about nine, in a-cotton-Shed, owned by Mr. Howell, in Great Howard-street, , but which n:as . subdued by a Tow buckets el water before the fire brigade had , time to arrive. The-vecemd fire broke out 1 ,am N eort?Bird some , oakum in a taw rented-by Mr. Philip Doyle, in street. It was also extinguished before damage-was occeSiened. Tun VENETIAN - SCHBW COMPANY.—it is in -contempla tion, we understand, teeferra a company under the powers of the recent act, with limited liability, to aleeelope the :advan tages of F'isher's (patent) Venetian screw, -which has been tried against the best auxiliary screws that hare hitherto ap peared. Its peculiaradvantages are said to be the production of increased speed, -with a-Mminution in the :consumption of fuel. So confident' is the inventor of the superiority of his screw, that he is.prepared, we are told, to guarantee - that it shall beat any screw that can be tried against it, :or 'to have nothing for his trouble. THE Cerra SERVICE - mg LIVERPOOL.--A. -vacancy for a clerk in the General Business Department of the , Liverpool Custom-house-has been occasioned by the removalirom office of Mr. T. Coyle; and -another in the long acorn :by the re moval of Mr. j. Sumner. The salary of each is 110 per an num. Severalappointmente have been, made during - the past week. Mr. W. C. Barchall has been appointed -a clerk for general business.; -and aEs Charles Eblarell has obtained an extra weighershipaand 'airs Thomas Humphreys :has been appointed a beatman. ~Mir. 'IV. P. Griffiths, formetly of the Liverpool Pest-office, has been promoted from - the Inland Department of the General:Post-office to that of - the. Account ant and Receiver-general's iDepartment. THE SEWELIGHOT LIVEMPOOL.—The Health 'Committee have just issued a -tabular-report of the existing-state of the borough sewerage. The report has been prepared hy Mr. 'Newlands, the 'borough- engineer, with his atonal -care and :accuracy. It is -Siniple% yet comprehensive, exhibiting an :alphabetical list-of all:the-streets, the length of each street, !the extent of sewn -age- executed in each cif them,. in which -sewers to any extent- exist ; the character of !those-sewen, and atheir depth below the -surface at particular specified 'points. ;From their plan, ;these tableeadmit of cas s ia and satisfactory consultation, and Itry their: resistance any -one can-at once determine the :exact -extent of Available sewerage .in,aras dis &jct. A valualdeaddition terthe work would be &summary acf the whole, shoeing at-a 'glance how many streets,there are, slat - at length of them 4s:adoptedAnd sewered,.and a statement of the sum already spent .in-erying out Mr. Newlandk ad mirable plan of sewerage. 3CIOUSES Briar ass .BEFV-a - B.—Xt the Police-court, on Wednesday, eight heads of--chemical works,, eeaperiee, gas -works, &c., were summoned, at ithe instance of - the Health • Committee, for depositing noiserae and unwholesome refuse ,upen vacant ground, in the neighbourhood of Boundaiff street, north end, hetweeraGratt:Howard-streetand the, East ;Lancashire Railway. Vlie .names of the parties summoned were, tun Richardson, 'William, &them, William Callaghan, .John Tinkler. Thomas iGibbousi (a carter,) Thomas Aspinall, (a ,carier,) James 3inspratt and,Sons, and John Hopwood I appeared as n . - ir. M`Golvan, , clerk 7.t0 the Healt h Committee, I ea prosecutor. Dr. iDnutan said he had inspected 1 the district in question. lie -saw -,..a very large eptaintity.of ' refuse there from chemical vorksaaid gas works ; and it gave out -unwholesome gasses, which, -in his opinion, must he very injurious, to health. The inhabitants living near complained of the smells, and they stated that 'much illness had been caused in-their families by them. The quantity of deposit was very considerable • hi fact, it formed:embankments to many streets. When he was there Sae sawit smoking, and in one part there -was a pool of water. Ultimately, Mr. Bean in flicted a fine of 20s. and costs uponseach. At the suggestion of Mr. M`Gowan, in the cases against Gibbons and Asph.ll, the carters, the fine was mitigated to ss-Each and costs. A BEG-GING % .LETTER IMPOSTOE.—At-the Police-court, on Tuesday, a respectably-dressed young manswith a large beard and moustache, ayes brought up in existocly of Detective Thom son, charged with having attempted to - impose upon several gentlemen of this:town by means of a forged petition. The officer said that -in:consequence of information lie had received, he kept a look-out for the " gentleman," and on Monday morn ing met and apprehended him in Fox-street, 'when upon him was found the following document :—" This is vto eertify that the bearer hereof, Mr. John De Castro, who !is ,a native of America, was a paAsenger s on board the brig Tay,,which vessel was lost on her paesagelvom Quebec to Swansea,-South Wales. 'The said Mr. De Castro, with eleven of the crew, were landed 'in this port by Captain :George Brown, of the barque Mary Ann. Through this melancholy catastrophe he has last all his .effects, consisting of fursalear-skins, hides, &c.,:amaunting to the value of 5,000 dollars. Therefore, in consideration of his great loss, I think it my duty to grant him thiseertificate, thinking it may enable him to realise a sum sufficient to pro cure the necessaries and defray the expenses of a passage to his native country. Given under my hand at Douglas, Isle of Man, this 20th day of September, 1855. George Brown, mas ter of the brig Mary.—The foregoing statement is truly cor rect. Robert Quayle, Harbour Master."—Here follow the names of James Baines, £1; F. Shand, 10s.; William Clare and Son, 10s., and a dozen others, all of which were forgeries. The prisoner was committed to gaol for three months. HISTORIC Socuirr.—The first sessional meeting for the consideration of scientific subjects, was held on Thursday, at St. George's Hail, Dr. Thom, president, in the chair. Mr. Whitehead exhibited a beautiful specimen of the "volute punctata," a very rare description of shell. Mr. Sansom exhibited a print of a highly-magnified photograph of the " navicula angulata." Dr, Hume exhibited an instrument of singular beauty and interest, illustrative of the theory of motion ; and it illustrated also the motion of the earth. Mr. J. G. Jones, secretary and accountant of the Collegiate Insti• tution, proceeded to explain a " patent Abacus" invented by him, which by enabling the school-master to put before his pupils every combination of addition sums, by a simple move ment of a slide, whilst an index points out the page in the key containing the answer, affords time to the scholars for that continuous practice which is necessary to celerity and accuracy, and enables the teacher to devote more time in -explaining the principles of the science. Several Blue-Coat boys were in attendance, under the care of their master Mr. Wood, and worked out the sums set before them by means of the abacus with marvellous rapidity and accuracy, doing credit to themselves and to their teacher. Mr. Wllveen, Mr. Wood, Mr. Finlay, and several other gentlemen testified to the utility of the invention, and the meeting was unanimous in expressing its approbation of it. Mr. Meeson exhibited 16 or 16 prints of photographs taken in the Crimea by Mr. Fen ton, being a portion of the collection now exhibiting at the Old Post-office, High-street. After inspecting the prints the members separated. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE United States mail steamer Atlantic, Capt. West, sailed hence on sSaturday, for New York, with 165 passengers, a large cargo, and the usual mails. Ox Thursday, Richard Hannah, aged nine months, whose parents live at 49, Sherwood-street, crept so close. to the fire that his clothes ignited, and he was so severely burnt that he died on the follosCing day. - - ON Saturday evening, soon after six o'clock, the house of Mr. Bird, Brunswick-road, was entered by the back windoiv, while the family were in the drawing-room, up stairs, and the body of a, silk dress, and other articles of wearing apparel, were stolen. SCALDED TO DEATIT.—On Saturday, an inquest was held on the body of' Wm. Townson, aged six years, who died on Fri day from the effects of scalds accidentally received on Wed nesday week. The dece ised was playing on the hearthstone of his parents' house, in Eldon-street, when the coals under the coffee-kettle gave way, and the child was severely scalded. ' A verdict of "accidental death" was returned. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.-011 Thursday morning an accident occurred at the Camden-town goods station of the London and North-Western Railway, whereby a platelayer named Joieph Blake lost his life. At six o'clock a.m. some loads of timber were being shunted by an engine on to the up line, for the purpose of completing a train for the Haydon square station, when Blake, endeavouring to get under the trucks, with the intention of crossing to the other side of the line, was knocked doWn by the heavily-laden waggons, the whole of which passed over him. On assistance being rendered, it was found that his legs were severed from his body, and he expired within a few minutes of the accident. SUICIDE.—An inquest was held on Saturday, on the body of Michael Russell, aged 60, lodging at the house of Mary Threlfall, No. 1 Court, Bevington-street. The deceased was formerly in the employ of the surveyor, as a paviour, but was discharged about a fortnight ago, since which time he had been much depressed in spirits, and by an idea that everyone was robbing him. On Friday morning he was not heard dressing long after his usual hour, and on the bedroom door, which was locked, being broken open, he was found on his knees, dead, with his neckerchief tied round his neck, and the end fastened to the bedpost. A verdict of " Temporary in sanity" was returned. STARBING.—On Saturday night, Wm. Moseley, a carter, was stabbed during an affray at Woolfe-street. A disturb ance took place amongst some foreign sailors, with which Moteeley became mixed up. A fight ensued, and Moseley was - stabbed in the throat with a knife. The wound was a serious one, several of the arteries being divided. Police-officer 670 conveyed Moseley to the South Dispensary, where his wounds were temporarily attended to, and he was afterwards taken to the Southern Hospital. A sailor, named James Craig, who, it is alleged, committed the act of stabbing, was taken into custody, and when Moseley is sufficiently recovered to give evidence of the facts the case will be inquired into before the magistrates. 1 ACCIDENT FROM GAS.—On Saturday, Samuel and Mary Ann Webster, residing in Ashton-street, Toxteth-park, had a narrow escape from suffocation by gas. They went to bed on Friday about midnight, and as they did not make their appearance the following day as usual, suspicions were enter tained as to some casualty having occurred. In the afternoon access was obtained to the house, when they, being the only inmates, were found in a state of insensibility from suffocation. They were promptly removed to the Southern Hospital, where the woman is so far restored as to be out of danger, hut the man is still in a dangerous condition. The accident is sup posed to have originated from a leak in the gas pipe, or through negligence in not turning it off. ROBBERY AT WEST DERBY.—Emma Smith and Mary Far rington (sisters)-were brought before the county magistrates, on Saturday; Charged with the robbery of wearing apparel and other articles, from Mr. Filburn, of the Stanley Arms, West Derby, Smith was employed as a char-woman„ and on Monday she was abentlerving the house, when it was found that she had a shawl belonging to Mrs. Filburn. Upon being searched by the police, it was found that she had some pawntickets re ferring to table covers and other property which had been 'pledged at'the shop of Mr. Thomas Wilkin, Bevington-bush, and which had been previously missed from the Stanley Arms. On Thursday night the police went to the house of a woman named Roper, in Percival-street, Old Swan, where they dis covered a bundle of articles which had been left by the prisoner Farrington, with the intention of evading the search .of the constables. The whole of the property was identified by Mrs. Filburn. Smith was committed for four mouths' hard labour. Farrington was discharged. COC:ax OF CHANCERY, FRIDAY.—SirOnge V. HarkeB : John Blackburn, the testator on the snit, was, together with his partners, John Ireland Blackburn and E. Corbett, the owner of certain salt-worls, .at Garston, in Lancashire: By an order made by Vice-Chancellor Stuart the partnership • accounts were directed to be taken, and it was referred to Mr. 'Stewart, of Liverpool, - a-stirveyer, to ascertain the amount due • to the testator's estate, with liberty to state any point for the opinion of the court. 'Bye subsequent order the whole matter was directed to be brought on beforenhe Lords Justices. On :the 15th of June last ilr.'Steirart made his award, reserving -several matters to be determined by the - court, and these 'formed the subject-Of'the-present discussion. Their Lordships directed a special-case; under Sir George, Turner's Act, as a means of regularly bringing the questions before the court. THE LIVERPCOL RitiSti ASSOCIATION.—At a meeting of i ' the representatives of the local press, on Saturday, at the Clarendon-roores,,Mr.;Baker, of the Liverpool Mail, occupy ing the chair, It was resolved to establish a society, under the t a h n e d -oh .co j r ec di t al of a a c e t h io i n chLh ougs ould t - te,, th t o o se c e u n it g i a v g a e te d k departmentsaminblvtiheaeldee?e:aafryeefintlGllg i bringing them into-contazt with each other at social and of the .press of this: town, by other ineetinge to be held periodically. By the' interchange of ; friendly feelings,-which would thus be created, and by pro ; moting ebjects of interest to the profeson generally, the promoters orthe society believe that moth advantage wouldbe derived. While - from its corporate character* the association is expected to attain an influence which, rightly directed, may be produttiveof the most important and beneficial results. FIRE AT' 11.4,11M1LL 1. - uwarrc Asyszys.—A fire broke out in the tailors' de.partment.et the Rainhill asfum on Thursday afternooneandai messenger was despatched for the St. Helen's I engine A body of Police soon attached a couple of horses to it and drove offe but before they arrived the Ire was almost extizignishedlby the-exertions of the attendants at the asylum, assisted by la 'number of the patients, who busily carried water from a pond in the yard. There was •u good supply of water Le; :hand, otheraise the damage nine have been very great. As itewae, all the-clothes and fitting care destroyed, and the flames soon caughtthe rafters and passed through the roof. raedamage will beecnsiderable, but bath the articles and the building were insured in the Royfil.Ezehange Insur sance , Office. - H-ow the fire originated is a mystery, but it commenced on - the first floor, where the stoves for heating the irsnoare,anditis probable . .they may have been overheated, and thus ignited - the building. Itc-6TICCITTIONAM ASSOCIATION - FOR LAKCASHIRII AND C'Enseeetnn.-eeThe above institution, which .now embraces a combination of la literary and other soeisties,containing an aggregate 0f..t2.0,4:*0 merabere, has enten , edinto an arrange ment for affording a substitute during the mating winter for lectureseavhichlatterly have mot been popnlaravith the mem bers of onecheniee institutions. They have purchased a powerful microsexpe and large oxy-hydnegen lantern, with dissolving views, which are intended to itinerate through the tw© counties and :give exhibitions in caranection with the various societies. The apparatus will be plazedin charge of a lecturer and an exhibitor, who will travel witin it. The dis solving 'Views .fire sufficiently numerous to afford a series of six ethibtUons,aarranged as follows :-1. The;insect world (Britishineeeteand.foreign)..2, The vegetable world. 3. Fa mains ohjectseinedelly -use (food and fluid-E). el. Oriental scenery. -E. British scenery.- 4. The • capitals of Earope. As these ethlisitions.will be of an amusing character, as well as affording tile means. of intellectual improvementa a is hoped they will offer some-compensation for the loss of le ores as a, form -of instruction.—Ma nchesfer Guardian. DENSE BOG.—On.Seturday morning this town and neigh bourhood-were visitedby one of the most dense fogs experi enced for -some years. The town was shrouded in :e.ii atmos phere So impermenble to the sun that to, about nom it pre sented the .appearance of midnight. The movements of pedestrians were attended with inconvenience, and -persons in charge-of:vehicles were obliged to exercise the utmostteaution in order toareidaccidents from collision. The navigation was partially suspended for several hours -during the forenoon, and only a few of ;the ,ferry boats made their usual trips. The boats could only proceed at half speed, and had to stop fre quently in order to avoid ceaisions. In some instances nearly an hour was -occupied in-crossing the river. Bells were rung on board the boats e .and-at the landingestago ; the sounding \of horns and other signals were brought. into requisition to prevent accidents. Several of the coasting and other steamers were delayed bey And their usual 'time of arrival, and .vessels -ready for sea were prevented. leaving the river in consequence eof the fog. So far, however,. as we have been able to learn, :lan casualty occurred. About one o'clock the sue shone forth, : .,,mid the fog gradually disappeared. THE MAYOR AT -ST, BARNAW.S'S CHURCE.—On Sunday, ;Jo accordance with annual custom, the mayor, gam Stewart, g n ., attended divine serv i ce a t 'St. Barnahas's:Clairch, Par 14a:tent-street, where a.sermon wag-preached on ,behalf of the sSepthern and Toxteth Hospital. The Magoi .and several members of the Council met at St. Barnabas's scheols, Green land.street, at a quarter before eleven o'clock, and,promeded thence to the church. They were accompanied by the clerk of the-peace and the corporate officials,;the latter calving the eivicregalia. Amongst other gentlemen present were Mr. J. C. Ewart, M.P., Mr. C. Turner, Mr. S. Job, president of the institution, Mr. J. A. Tobin, the ex-mayor, Mr. H. Halisead, Mr, MeGregson, Mr. 0. Holden, `Mr. James Holme, dec. The sermon was preached by the Rea. P. T. Barry, incumbent of St. Barnabas's, and honoraryoliaplain to the institution, from Thethe te re a v t,. " What do ye more than othere.l" g M e a n i t t le h m ew an v ;alLding tothe charity .on whose behalf he was about to appeal to their liberality, said ea was one of the best of thatclase of institutions in the.country.as regarded its,; internal arrangement and the professional skill: f the medical tOodlwBthititimadSguchiveirsreuitsefgrtoo7,63inf ,unfortunate ' r l l% l s e l , 7l t ne h l i ul s eep year tit had relieved no fewer than 3e814. The now fast getting into debt, and there was reason to believe Ptoiniffielsantetiekution had struggled on ; but, he regretted to say, it was that at the close of this year its liabilities would amount to £1,500. This fact induced him to appeal to-the merchants of this town, and he hoped the appeal would receive a generous response. The collection Amounted to £4l fin. Bd. . BOYA.L MERSEY Ya.ene CLUB BALL.—On Wednesday (to-morrow,) this much talked of, and by our fair townswomen long and anxiously looked for, ball conies off. The arrange ments are fast maturing, and their completeness in every de partment reflects the highest praise on the committee of management. Mr. Gribbin's excellent band will occupy the orchestra, a guarantee to one for the chief essentials to the success of a ball, namely, good music; and in the hall the - band of the Pensioners, with the permission of Colonel Swan, will greet the guests with enlivening strains on their arrival. We have been favoured with a peep at the card of the dances, the most elegant and complete thing of the kind we have seen; not only does the programme give the dances in their order, lint the music to be played also. The selected - Quadrilles are the "British Navy," " Irish," and "Scotch," and "Partant pour la Syrie." Waltzes : "Montrose," " Nymph of the w av e " Crystal Palace," " Prize," " Summer Flower," , "Faust," "Chant d'Amour," and "False Adieu." Galops: " Regatta," " Derby," " Express," and Victory." Polkas : Isabella," and "Sovereign." This or rather book, is executed by Messrs. little card, avers, of Lord-street, and, we doubt not, Yates beautiful s l t t i a afta n n , d ' l will be preserved as a memento of the evening by many a fair one, for long years to come. The lady patronesses are the Ccuntess of Ellesmere, the Earl being vice-patron of the club; and Mrs. Littledale, wife of the commodore. Mr. Towe -s, of the Angel Hotel, justly celebrated as a caterer to the inner man, presides in the supper-room ; welcome intelligence to those who seek the more substantial pleasures. Dancing will commence at nine o'clock ; and, to prevent confusion, we are requested to desire that coachmen will observe the rules in putting down and taking np the company.—Albion. GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. Mu. COBDEN ( says the Yorkshirenzan) has not the shadow of a chance of being again returned for the West Riding. Six young men were drowned on Wednesday morning by he upsetting of•a Worthing fishing-boat, - about 20 miles from Ramsgate. A LARGE number of spurious crown pieces are in circula tion. They are of the date of 1819, and are exceedingly good THE Bishop of Lincoln is announced to have a new work in the press, with the title, " The Church of Christ during the first Three Centuries." - -- - A STRENUOUS effort is about being made by the friends of Mr. Bates to procure a commutation or remission of his sen tence of fourteen years' transportation, by means of a memo rial in his favour, to be addressed to Her Majesty. A numoun of a division in the Great Western railway board of directors, and a threat of resignation of an influential member ( Mr. Walpole, the chairman), if a dividend was re cammended for the current half-year, is rife in many quarters, and believed.— Herapath. GEORGE SMITH has been sentenced to a year's imprison ment for fraudulently obtaining the " Queen's shilling," on three separate occasions, by alleging each time that he had never enlisted before. Another man, William Webb, has re ceived sentence of six months' imprisonment for falsely enlist ing as a single man, being married. THE PATRIOTIC PIIND.—The weekly report of the com mittee for the administration of the Patriotic Fund states, that the numbers at present receiving relief from the fund are—widows, 2,526; children, 3,104; and orphans, who have lost both parents, 97. The amount of subscriptions to the fund now ;miles - the large sum of £1,291,296. THE PURITY OF THE BALLoT-Box.—John Rhodes was ar- rested in Baltimore for voting on Mr. Gammen's papers ; Gammen was arrested for lending them to Rhodes, and then voting on them himself. This is no uncommon thing. It was done in Philadelphia recently, and has been a frequent prac ticein New York and elsewhere. Joni CocEcßorr, a notorious character, better known as " Happy Jack," has died, at Rotherham, from the bursting of a blood-vessel, brought on by intense love of drink. On a former occasion, a keg of gin having burst at the .Hasbro' station, he and two companions drank such an enormous quantity that his companions died, and he was only saved by the use of the stomach pump and other remedies. MR. JAMES PEARSON, corn miller, of Sams Mill, Horton, near Bradford, was robbed, on Tuesday evening, of £260, con sisting of bank notes, a cheque, and £47 in gold, while on his way from Bradford to his own residence. The robbers attacked him with bludgeons, and left him on the ground in a state of insensibility. Three men have been apprehended by the Brad ford police on suspicion of being the thieves. Da. GRIFFTTII, the prosecutor of Strahan, Paul, and Bates, is, it is said, very wealthy, As a young man, he distinguished himself at Cambridge, and after launching into life was for tunate to form a matrimonial alliance with a Miss Barker, the only child of the Rev. Mr. Barker, who had amassed a for tune of nearly £200,000 as a merchant, previous to his entering into holy orders. A NOVEMBER Foa.—The whole of London was enveloped in a dense fog on Thursday morning, and it extended to most of the suburban districts. It is the first the metropolis has seen during the present month, which has become proverbial for fogs ; and as half of November has gone, the Londoners consider themselves tolerably fortunate. Fogs at this time of year are generally considered as precursors of severe frosts. EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.-Mr. Chas.Mosely, of Dalston, a clerk in the Bank of England, has committed suicide, under the impression left upon his mind by a dream, to the effect that officers were in pursuit of him for forgeries upon the bank. He mentioned the dream to his wife, who tried to cheer him, but he had a similar dream on the following night, and under its influence he rushed down stairs and ripped his abdomen open with a carving-knife. He died in about three hours afterwards. AN INQUIET was held by the Sunderland magistrates last week, under the new Merchant Shipping Act, into the cir cumstances of the stranding of the brig Brenda, one of those which were driven ashore by the late gale. It was proved beyond doubt that the master, a Mr. Bell, was "roaring drunk" at the time, unable to give orders, and behaving with the greatest violence. The depositions were forwarded to the Board of Trade, and meanwhile the master's certificate has been suspended. _ WAGES OF AGRICULTURAL SERVANTS. — The annual " sta tutes," or hirings of farm servants, have just commenced in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The Wakefield statutes were held on Monday, and the Doncaster statutes on Tuesday. There was a pretty good attendance of servants at both places, and hiring was very brisk, the demand for farming men being greater than the supply. Wages ruled high, the best hands obtaining from £l5 to £22; boys, £5 to ES ; girls, from £7 to £lO. DIE Gazette contains a copyright convention between her Majesty and the King of Prussia, extending the copyright convention of 184.6, to all books published in countries which may join the convention, and exported through the countries included in the first convention, viz.:—Prussia, Saxony, Saxe- Weimer, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg- Gotha, Brunswick, Anhalt-Dessau-Gothen, Auhalt-Bernburg, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen or Reuss. The new convention also extends protection to trans- latious. WRAr •OUR, lIOSPITALS Altu Douso.—We find it stated in the appeal lately put forth by the committee of manage ment of King's College Hospital, London, that in the year 1854 s there were entered on the hospital books 27,691 patients ; and that since the year 1839, when the hospital was first opened, no less than 282,705 patieuts'have been admitted to the benefits of the charity, of whom 17,943 _were in-patients, 259,2350r5t-patients, and 5,627 poor married women attended at their own homes. Let us assume that other hospitals, in proportion to their means, are doing as much as this unen dowed hospital ; and what a large idea do we not obtain of the benefits conferred on the poor by hospitals ; and what claims on the liberality of the really charitable do not these noble inetitutions put forth? RAILWAY LAWS. — Last week;at Dumbarton, Mr. Andrew Grierson, of Edinburgh, claimed damages from the Dumbar tonshire Railway Company, for detention caused by them while en a journey from Lochlomond to Edinburgh, on Satur day, the 15th of September last. It was Balloch fair-day ; and in consequence of the difficulty experienced in getting the immense number of passengers packed into the carriages, the 6.30 p.m. train did not leave Balloch station till 7.10 p.m. The steamer from Bowling was, consequently, that much behind its usualtime in getting up to the Broomielaw, and the "pursuer," in place-of proceeding ou to Edinburgh that evening, found all the trains started, and was compelled to remain in Glasgow till Monday morning. He now raised an action to recover LI 7s. 6d. for outlay, and £2 12s. for professional charges, inconvenience, and anoyauce. The defence of the company was, that their time table only stated trains would " not start before" the hours therein mentioned, and they were not, therefore, responsible for the delay. The sheriff, however, overruled this objection, and found the company liable for Li 75..6d., the pursuer's travelling expenses. HOPE TOR THE CONSUMPTIVE. — Dr. Maddock, of Curzon temedr eet, ie : ; n o c il ipien do tr n no , dtt as seteda c g l ed ear iroec l f y teloy shown nisnutmo pi thenti consumption, lungsh n isp a u ii b d li b s c h yur e d seu w tph o pe r u k rd s aist t ei h oa a ns t e, very frequently effect the absorption of tuberculous deposits n the even after-ulceration has commenced. ' From the accumulated mass of facts which the author has presented to the public of the value of this simple and efficacious mode of reaching, and locally acting on, the seat of disease, no reasonable doubt can be entertained that it will form a new era in the treatment of all affections of the respiratory organs. In France, Ger many, and America, Dr. Maddoek's remedial agents are being most extensively and successfully adopted. In the latter country they have caused a perfect firore among the profes sion.—Ligerary Review. THE RIGHT TO KEEP ANIMALS.—A case was tried in the Exeter County Court on Tuesday, ." Abraham v. Minty," to test the right of persons to keep animals, which, by crow ing and barking, prove an annoyance to their neighbours. The defendant kept a dog for the protection of his premises, and also reared poultry. The allegation on the part of the plaintiff was that he suffered annoyance from the barking of the dog,and particularly from the loud and incessant crowing of a bantam fowl, which crowed six or seven times in the coarse of a minute. The damages for this annoyance were laid at LL The judge, Mr. J. Tyrrell, held that persons in towns and villages had no right to keep animals which an noyed their neighbours, but at the same time the latter must not be too exacting. No one would complain of an occasional bark or crow, but he thought that no reasonable biped would require to crow 150 times in 25 minutes, and that no reason able person was bound to put up with so much crowing. He, therefore, inflicted the nominal penalty of is. for the crowing in the month of September, and said that an action might be broUght for the crowing uf every day in the year. How TALLOW COMES PROM Russxm.—On Wednesday, a ~case ocenred at the Southwark police-court, which shows the laeility with which tallow comes from Russia to England, during the present rigorous blockade in the Baltic and Black Sea :—Edward Chandler, a labourer at Mark Brown's suffer ance wharf, Tooley-street, was, charged with stealing there- Iron a quantity of Russian tallow.—Mr. Coinbe asked who the:tallow belonged to ?-one of the owners of Mark Brown's wharf, said the tallow had just arrived from Russia, consigned to an English firm, and it was being unloaded at their wharf tobe'bonded for the owners.—Mr. Combe ; How does it come from Russia when all her ports are blockaded and the war is proceeding ?—Wharfinger: it comes through Prussia, your worship. The tallow in question came from Memel in a Dutch,vegsel.—Mr. Combe What part of Russia does this tallow come from ?—Wharfinger: From St. Petersburg. It is there sold by the merchants on English account to the care of a :Prussian firm, who conveys it through Russia and Prussia to Memel, where it is publicly shipped to England. Not only tallow ,comes in the market largely from Russia, but henip, fax, dyewoods, &c. The robbery was proved and the prisoner sentenced to tr,vo 'months' hard' labour in the house of cor rection. FATAL COLLUSION AT SEA.—A collision involving the loss of six lives has been reported at Lloyd's by the Dutch steamer Stadt Dordrecht, captain Stuit, which has arrived in the Thames from Dordt. The steamer left the Pool on her usual return voyage on the evening of the 7th instant. On the following morning, between two and three o'clock, she was pursuing her course to the westward of the Kentish Knock, the weather being somewhat misty and dark, when a fishing lugger was observed a short distance ahead. The helm was shifted in the hope of clearing her, but her stem caught the lugger and she was run down. As quickly as, possible the steamer brought up and put back,and it was discovered that the vessel had sunk, but that the crew, eight in all, floated on the nets which had got entangled with the broken mast, which assisted in their buoyancy. The crew of the steamer endea voured to rescue the fishermen by throwing them ropes and oars ; the darkness of the morning, however, and the sea which was running, with other circumstances, greatly frus trated the attempts to save all the lives. After some ditpulty the master (William Heather) and one of the men (Richard. Wells) succeeded in laying hold of the ropes, and in an ex hausted condition were dragged on board the steamer, which continued to cruise about the spot for some time in the hopes of picking up the others. Their cries, .however, gradually died away, and the poor creatures, six in all, perished. Their names were, Alfred Heather and George Heather, brothers of the master ; 'William Belton, who has left a widow and large family ; Benjamin Wheeler; a young m an named Ball, and an apprentice. The smack was then ascer tained to be the Ocean Queen, of Worthing. At the time of the occurrence the men were in the act of taking in their nets ; 10,000 fish were already on board, and th ere were five nets remaining to be got in. To add to the loss; there was some cash on board the lugger. The survivors received every kindness on board the steamer, and were taken on to Dordt, where they made a statement of the catastrophe to the authorities, None of the bodies have yet been picked up. TILE EXPEDITIONS AGAINST THE MORIAH CHIEFS IN AFRICA.—Soine correspondence relative to the recent expedi tion against the Moriah Chiefs in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone has just been published. It includes several despatches from the Acting Governor Dougan to Sir G. Grey (then Secretary for the Colonies). This correspondence sup plies a lively history of the origin and settlement of the quarrel. An agreement was at length effected in June last, by which the English Government agreed to waive a demansl on King Bambah Mina Lahi and other chiefs for the pay ment of a certain cash balance, in return for which conces sion Lahi was required to release all prisoners then i n th e country, to deliver up every article of arms and accoutre ments belonging to the Queen's troops, and to open the rivers and roads forthwith for the free and undisputed trade of English and French merchants. The list of killed, wounded, and missing at Malagheah on the 22nd and 23rd of May last, -included (in the Ist West India Regiment) 1 officer, 1 ser geant, 1 drummer, and 18 privates, killed; 1 drummer and 2 privates wounded ; and 1 sergeant missing. In the 2nd West India Regiment, Lieutenant Vincent was dangerously wounded. In the 3rd West India Regiment, Major Scanlon, 5 non-commissoned officers, and 32 privates were killed, and 8 privates wounded, while General Firth of the Commissariat Staff, was killed. As a measure of precaution, the militia were called out for 10 days' drill, but as matters remained quiet they were dismissed on the 11th of June. POOR•LAAV REMOVAL OF THE WIVES AND CHILDREN OP MILITIAMEN.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Wednes day, there was heard a case of considerable importance to the wives and children of husbands and fathers serving in the militia. The question was, whether they are not entitlei to the same privileges, under the operation of the poor-law, that the wives and children of soldiers of the line, sailors, and marines, are entitled to under that law. The case, came be fore the court for the opinion of their lordships, in the shape of an appeal against an order of two of the justices of Leeds, for the removal of the wife and children of a man serving in one of the English regiments of militia at present stationed in Dublin. It was contended on the one part, that militia soldiers do not come within the meaning of the 9th and 10th Vic., cap. 60, in reference to the removal of their wives and children, in the same manner as soldiers of the line, sailors, and marines came within it —Lord Campbell said the court was of opinion that the person whose wife and children ought to be removed came within the provisions of the act, and was a soldier within its meaning ; and there was no reason why the same protection of removability should not apply to the wives and families of militiamen serving her Majesty, as to soldiers of the line, sailors, and marines. The order for re moval should, therefore, be quashed. Order quashed accord ingly. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELL_Iri.E-YCE. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. Rev. F. Addison, 8.A., to the Incumbency of Cleator, near Egremmit. Rev. F. Aston, M.A., Rector of Todenham, to an Hono rar y Canonry in the Cathedral Church of Gloucester. Rev. L. It. Ayre to the Incumbency of St. Michael's (temporary) Church, Benfield-street, Caledonian-road, Islington, London. Rev. W. T. Barrow, 8.A., to the Curacy of Coaley, near Duraley. Rev. Dr. S. T. Bartlett, to the Curacy of Everley, near Ludger. shall, Wilts. Rev. J. Bates, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Peter's, Colchester. Rev. It. H. Blanshard, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Flam borough, near Bridlington, Yorkshire.. Rev. W. Boulton, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Leebrock burst, Salop. Rev. P. B. Bridges, M.A., to the Rectory of Danbury, near Chelmsford. Rev. T. W. D. Brooks, M.A., to the Vicarage of Flitwick, near Ampthill. Rev: C. H. G. Batson, to the Arclideaconry of Clonfert. Rev. J. H. Cardew, 8.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of St. Paul's, West Dean, Gloucestershire. Rev. R. S. Clifford, M.A., to the Incumbency of St. Mary's Church, Norton Folgate, Ilishopsgate-street. Rev. G. B. Concantion, M.A., ,to be Domestic Chaplain to Lord Viscount Valentia. Rev. H. W. Coventry, 8.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Oxen ton, Gloucestershire. Rev. J. M. Creker, M.A., to the Rectory of Lavenhatn, Suffolk. Rev. W. S. Davies, to be Chaplain to the Implacable. Rev. A. Drought, to the Rectory of Clontuskurt, in the diocese of Killaloe. _ _ Rev. S. Evans, M.A., to the Rectcry of Marshfield, Monmouth :hire. Rev. T. Garwood, !M.A., to the Incumbency of Bedford Chapel, Bloomsbury. Bev. J. Hall, 'M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Knockholt, near Sevenuaks. _ _ _ to the Perpetual Curacy of 11fonamolin, diocese of Ferns. Rev. J. H. B. Harries, M.A., Curate of St. Martin's, Birming ham, to be a Chaplain to tier Majesty's Forces in the East. Rev. G. C. Hodgson, M.A., Vicar of Barton, to be Chaplain of Eamontbridge Union, Cumberland. _ _ _ Rev. J. Hughes, 8.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Ceidio, Car narvonshire. Rev. R. Hughes,. 8.A., Second Master of Rabin Grammar- School, to the Curacy of Llanengan, Carnarvonshire. 11ev. T. Jones, M.A., to the Vicarage of Colwinstowe, near Cow bridge. Rev. Dr. S. Knight, to the Incumbency of St. Luke's Church, Ciaph on Old Town. Rev. J. Laycock, 8.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Aislaby, near Whitby. Rev. It. G. Maule, 8.A., to the Incumbency of St. John the Evangelist, Broad-court, Drury-lane, London. Rev. F. Mazuchelli, D.D., to the Curacy of Trinity Church, Clapham. Rev. H. M. Mosse, 8.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Heage, near Belper. Rev. G. Needham, to the Rectory of Ballinure, diocese of Leighlin. Rev. J. P. Oliver, to be Chaplain to the Meander. Rev. R. D. Owen, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Borough bridge, Yorkshire. Rev. J. S. Oxley, M.A., to the Vicarage of Clent, near Stour bridge. Rev. C.. Pitman, M.A., to the Incumbency of St. Jude's Church, Mildmay-park, Islington, London. Rev. G. A. Proctor, to the Rectory of Kilnemanagh, in the dio cese of Veins. Rev. J. Roberts, 8.A., to the Curacy of Llandegwining and Penlltch, Carnarvonshire. - Rev. S. D. Sandes, to the Rectory of Whitechurch, diocese of Cork. Rev. W. IL. Sheldon, M.A., to the Curacy of Richmond. Rev. A. W. Snape, M.A., Curate of St. John'e, Waterloo-road, to the Incumbency of St. Mary Magdalen, Southwark. Rev. J. Thompson, to be Chaplain to the Illustrious, and the Royal Marine Infirmary of Portsmouth. Rev. J. J. Turner, 13. A., to the Curacy of Berriew, near Welsh pool. Rev. J. M. Ward, 8.A., to the Vicarage of Hampsthwaite, near Ripley, Yorkshire. Rev. F. Wade, M.A.,.t0 the Prebendal Stall of Whittington, in the Cathedral of Lichfield. . . . . ... Rev. it. W. Whitford, M.A., to the Assistant Curacy of Held, withlton by Gravesend, Kent. Rev. W. C. Wheeler, , M.A., to the Cutacy of St. John's, Char lotte-street, Fitzroy-square, London. Rev. C. Whittle,l3.A ,to the Curacy of Greenham, near Newbury. Rev. W. Williams ' to the Vicarage of Godmanchest , r, Hants. Rev. H. W. Wood, 8.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Wetton, near Ashbourne. ltev. J. P. Yea, to the Stipendiary Curacy of Bury, Lancashire. CLERICAL OBITUARY. Nov. 7, nt yentnor, aged 76, the Rev.. George Knight, M.A., of the Park, Cheltenham, and formerly Vicar of Ragbourne and Curate of Harwell, Berks. Nor. 9, at Clifton, Bristol, the Rev. John Eagles, M.A., aged 71. Nor. 11, the Rev. Thomas Canning, Vicar of Elsenhain, Essex,. aged 'W. Nov. 12, at Linton, Kent, the Rev. TlnAnfis King, Vicar of Linton, aged 77. DIOCESE OP CHESTER. CONSECRATION.—WHITEHAVEN'CRIIETERY. — The Bishop of Chester consecrated, on Tuesday last, that portion of the New Cemetery at Whitehaven provided by the Burial Board, for the townships of Whitehaven and Preston Quarter, under the recent acts of parliament, which has been appropriated. with the approval of one of Her 3Nesty's secretaries of state, for the interment of members of the Church of England. The Cemetery contains ten acres and upwards, of which rather more than half has been so appropriated and conse crated. A neat and appropriate chapel has been erected upon it for the performance of the burial service of the Church of England, and a separate chapel has also been erected on that part of the cemetery appropriated to persons dissenting from the Church of England. ST. Joum's Outwit ' TOFT, IN THE PARISH OF KNITTS FORD.—A particular district has been assigned to this Church by the Church Commissioners, with the consent of the Bishop,. under 1 and 2, William IV., cap. 38, with the right of solemnizing marriages, baptisms, burials, and churchings ; all fees for which have, with the consents required by the act,, been assigned to the incumbent of Taft Church. PREFERMEN T —The Rev. T. B. Wrenford has been licensed by the Bishop to the stipendiary curacy of the building re cently licensed for divine service at Stockport Great Moor, in the parish of Stockport. The Bishop of Chester has licensed the Rev. L. T. Pen nington, B. A., to the curacy of St. Mary's Church, Working. ton, Cumberland, on the nomination of the Rev. Henry Curwen, M.A., and the Rev. R. Hunt, B. A., to the curacy of a licensed schoolroom in Pleasant-street, Liverpool. Ax the October meeting of the Society for Promoting Chris tian Knowledge, a letter was read from the warden of St. Augustine's College, saying that an Esquimaux youth, Kal lihirua, had lately sailed for Newfoundland at the expense of the Admiralty, who have allowed him £25 a-year for three years. He will be under the charge of the Bishop of New• foundland. THE BISHOP of LONDON.—We are again enabled to give a favourable report of the Bishop of London's convalescence. His lordship is beginning to recover the use of his limbs on the left side, that on which the attack took effect, and is now able to rise from his bed for a short space of time each day. CHURCH EXTENSION IN WALES.—The inhabitants of Aberystwyth are taking steps for the erection of a Welsh Church in that town. The Church of St. David's at Carmar then has been enlarged by the addition of a nave and aisles, by which church accommodation for 1,500 people will be secured, there will be 1,000 free sittings. The fine old church of St. Woollos, Newpo r t, h as undergone a thorough repair. In Pembrokeshire the old churches of St. Twynell's, Warren, &c., are receiving extensive repairs and enlargements. The fine cathedral at Llandaff is also bei ng res t ore d, the Bishop of Llandaff, Lady Harriet Clive, Sir Charles Morgan, and Lord Dynevor being among the contributors. Cardigan Church is likewise to be restored. NEW LONDON Cuuncriss.--Several new churches are about being erected in the metropolitan district, while others are so far advanced as to be nearly ready for consecration. In Pad dington three new churches are to be at once commenced, the Bishop of London having subscribed £l,OOO towards that ob ject. In Coventry-street, i betwee n R upert -street and Princes street, a church sto be erected, Her Majesty having subscribed' £5OO, and the Bishop of London Xl,OOO for the purpose. Three new churches are t o b e erected in Clerkenwell, under the auspices of a committee, of which the Earl of Shaftesbury l in lri v W es i t lli m a i m nst C e o r t .r to o n ad . is the chairman. In the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, a large church is to be erected at the expense of Mr. J. Ggle 4, A Merchant," whose brand Hubbard, a site having been granted by Lord Leigh. At Limehouse, a church is to be built at the sole expense of (St. Two menced in the course of a few weeks. name has not transpired, has volunteeredo build m and en d o w ayoin a church in any part of London the Bishop for the r ()u. Archdeacon Sinclair is making arrangements, O...i erection ot • St. Peter, on IN tan, hill. Con of a church dedicated to • p n a e u w rs c , hu s r o c u h t e i s iw in ar r k ii , n Lambeth, , I), a e n d e.o o rn n e .. made in the erection of a church siderable progress has been in Oakley-square, Cam d e town, on a site granted by th e D uke of Bedford, but the works • l have ' been suspended o n account of want of funds. been A site hasobtained for a ne w c h urch near the Great Northern Railway ter minus,dedicated to St. Luke, Churches also in . "s•cross. are King . . Islington ; , Nutford-place, Ed gware -road (St. ton s quare, Luke's), the foundation-stone of which was laid some time s i nc e by Lord John Rnssell i at Nottinghill (All Saints); Newington (St. Paul's) ; and one n nearLin.eliouse, built at the sole expense of Mr. Alderman Cuba, M.p.