The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-09-11 00:00:00

'TENDER- 11, 1855.] AL INTELLIGENCE. d ov il ern arri e et, wife of Mr. Heiry Fran cis sses Benevolent Institution acquires 1...• 's FURRY AND WILSON, who left L a i n ve e r : .9, to a ss i st in carrying out sanitary arr g ' l s t , 11 Camp, hav e returned to Liverpool, and es Under the Health Committee. i lIARRISON, AND FORWOOD, have sent a . R .etier to the Liverpool Steam-tug Company, 4 ardee ' t d il to to raise the Retriever. They have '-,04t.r.,41.3. ouations to the men engaged. ri bl ' ae sila °lt t E i n' IN THE ARMY.—At the Preston_ ' , atd ii r es Military officers, named A. G. d O T n e s n e lo st w e :, everely r epr °Ptoz o I , in l „ k). Stewart, were fined 40s. hn n street tiro AS e n ded by the bench, for smas . tsobbits against them. The d i e . fe g ndants, .014 i oeen tippling freely, pleaded guilty to the ,;uatdati rifer Examiner. 4Lan ehest e ° „ ll et ,a new building was lai d in f ?l a a t 3 ; - . e all(l e4 , 4 l onday by the Lord Bishop . o 0 _ 'eh ati e r.. S.. -,lary's' Hospital for the D n ise . ases f . kiss Attie In the course of the ceremoyit o w te as . ,foaNatioirton„ of Rorsal Cohl, had given £ 5 brary and l, and that Dr. Radford had presented . his attach,,entsettra for the use of the professional s' to the institution. theme ll).--- months ago a number of military )1 C ambria from the seat of war, and. th eme mounted sword. As yet, nothwith 'w",,ave been set on foot, no owner has been t ir el l is richly inlaid with' silver, bears the . c ,f-. 11. M. M'lsTeile, 5 D.G." The blade e ls . .., i ' a nd various devices surround the men? ese."ralnat.ca, Vittoria, Toulouse, , a Portion of the sword, contained within and Pe.nip el.-8 "11- i ere vel mori," and on the other li l o siZ , e ti si t i hi c so l t i e t e te itiff " H. H. M. M'lsl . ." neatly 'mu st the possession of Messrs. airkhoe.l IT ANclievren.—The foundation o I oa *:,., e aPable of containing about 1, 11 3 ased 'l les( laY at Manchester. The guar ite n avolat 68 acres of land, exceedingly th vli w hat is called the Bongs Estate,. at ,_ . ree ~,:i Ti "''es from the centre of the city. a e l s to b e from for the aged and infirm, a u l d di fe a tna g . !se p t o au hi e v r e s accommodation for 745 , 76 women and as many Ip ePile Ptie, 87.c.,1)255 children under 16 years -Is Persons. One object of the new estab gphet land so that the labour test could be -e std was laid by Mr. Rickards, chair:- Tlt is estimated to cost about £46,000. It new end'ding will be ready for the . r n Y th e of next year or the beginni g ti'nl?ristmerex.—A Manchester paper details 88444 .;:,L °4 3 the subject being ant advertiser a fo le r ii 4cli e i; : tcp le is e l i s d e a l l i e te w re a d a n ' induced to per. ,tel°ll.,e,sPndent, and arranged a meeting at 'tiesl,ll7_l arriving there he was received by Nlli,„4ssembled, wlth such . marks ofa u t n t i e n n a t t i ri op . ,' beu ta ' that he was caught in a snare . '- ' ols oce lt a ° Was sent round the town . wit a hth e e . iceseat --" On view, a gentleman in w This a at No. 3, Tweedale's Hotel." ,1114 ion of admiring friends, and one er o e f o the . un perceived stuck a white star Visitors .00 advertising gentleman's hat. s much i,alld this continued till it ills 'issi ea f" gentleman ; he became l after having 4) depart ; and at length, ._ __ rer s i b on paying ts -o nrs, he was allowed to go, 11, wept, and ,:' solace his tormentors. was held ",.kat iasrs.—Th e usual meeting lt was re erdsne, v. W. Badnall, in the chair. 'lthi m ' e 'lts be issued for tenders 4.feg, and necessaries, durin g d on the 19th. for a ix the m s o u n p t p h l a y , t he tenders to be o No. 8, Everton a ' c '': '-11 Smith, of ov ers C. James Richard 1 ' i'. Willian Shaw, registrar pene of births and of Mr. vas e er, as deputy, in place 1 01 2:P: e l:ed. A letter from le 'a tilt., requestingthe Poor-law ))..q.nalifications and general reporteend conduct e f t r oemf beers Misseh I the red, Let at tPhoeorl-Vlaewrkßheouarsde' having informed I re, in very respect, perfectly satisfied with ,d co nduct of Mi ss Henney during the time )ffice of schoolmistress. The mof the hou se during the last week, Ras e 664; cal, 4,059 ; showing an increase of 33 in mor, when compared wi the correspondi ng The a mount expended in out-door relief D YORICSItIRE ILWAY.—The half his company was h ld on Wednesday, at ickham, M.p., presiding. From his state le total revenue from allowances during the 30th June last, was X 504,207, and in the and of 1854, R 490,741, being an increase of -tiger traffic had decreased £8,841, and the Increased X 23,184. He was glad to say, Passenger traffic bad increased almost as ' traffic during the current half-year. The n the c ompetition with the East Lancashire I,ol3.thport traffic, and were ready to agree to n g i _all end to it : but they would not sacri !art they considered to be the interests of ,rArfnrq bsa ~,,ass enusideration whether .'illareholders next March to appropriate a I lt 'W ) in the latter half of each year, to l' e 4 \jay expenditure. The renewal of the uses for been effected to a great extent, r ePo ?, ' for relaying .Sr.,c , had been charged J. Tti,' rcommendm'' g a dividend of 4 per red a r "e sPecial meeting was then held, an . d atoll esolution approving of the lease of the tvel F herie w el l at t ro hasitlhirother companies previously iarredeernable annuitie . s, t_ . ried on a division. A raesoa owedr cent. p ,tin : bocarrpio. vviii,eorr i.inur.n, to be issued in sub .:Ic7f ce:AoEi,,,iboi:oo:noiwnnisi Proceeding : eab: o teti f :i h sned o st r oo sin g further ; mortgage led, and the procee t a he e c e o n n n ve n r i: tirth Jetuesday, the monthly It, Messrs. B e el, Mr. J. A. Tinne in Beva n Pritt, Coope r , Watts, ),Initliniceonnidenaittle3Antioving the .proceedings of footpaths of enr. Cooper intimated that en ,_ e course . flags h 1 tesve i a t a future .the township, the other decid,, time ; bat they wished the k r y . .,l l .Pon the subject. Mr. _ Anorris contended that theowners of ic ' e et t ee t that if Mr. Waterhouse Once, ( who had "illiPelled t° if at and proposed an ged.weh 1131svveod, stating that flagging was flar.,.- ea called upon by , th e gen iet'l Z4 l/ should for the present be left over. e oria itt carrie—The consideration of the the general Was adjourned for a week, the spr .ll.ipleral state of the localities requiring hi t ! pr,„l„,l'er complained of a nuisance arising °o e - ',, ises. Referred to the works com -1841 hoe sc e P°.rted that Mr. William DaFk -- e, Alan 814J ames ' s-street without notice, lois ''," ef the commissioners, the subject Iti b;Aer Mr. Gotts intimated by letter P,_44. L e al," in a week.—The tender of th 'chei,, - " r t he erection of lamps in the town- CI.OW-clerk reported that the dispute as lis—t'°)l docks had been amicably settled. .-titted. `. in .1 / 4 4/kx.a.v.s.. —Dr Sutherland, the sani baan the Crimea, has written home a long -ta,Ye IM P o rtant statements respe c ti ng tl 'e Present tny. 4 ar Dr. Suthe r l an d expresses Iris time all has been done . fo e x t s h t : 'll , and that the disease which ne s a t m ill pme i nt. 'tine' circumstances of the e Dot of all is Balaklava :—" Atioll. It is a small idport,N "Nothing could zl, ls ith e d ro e vi ad e a d uim wi a t l h a a s n li d m i l l , t I T 0 e f margins f ;;,' , i, Which has been , graveyard, T s Of carcases of men an irlewhaatreber,nari:danhdaradlls used as d a anim h a e ls ar h th ad . 11er-buharo us d es sil c ip ov ; er n e o d also the v e e refuse 1 a t conse d blood i . n r a er s ays , -I " nn3 e!, and--;‘ B e a t ia o W k i l l a L a latrines but . the hill with filth i n li artZ i t t s; 0 f Lorid o n , M aenillcehaanerbiurtr,hoairgn L inn i jun e e r eh - - it the w .aa.S22zell; Bala filth it was not )bati '' town itself was hen the on of the ci T • s un aim country, Bvala %lit h o a r n ld e n fr t o i r m e v i and it was about on villages a la P g a e r s here knackers' yards, private slaughter vi;rsseelevery day than iesome trades exist in the Borough, and iraYrac,enthdeition of the camp ; 5o fatal last year." The same might be naITIP a very much better "putting out and villages at home out of which the men ea t , , . a - In 8 GUN E XPERIMENT.—We regret 4u4 Iroyth's wrougt-ion gun has Proved a l I„‘_,' not on account of the mechanica s a ' c ' ~, , this he encountered, formidable as th.y . -knOthexpected. peculiarity in the material STaZt together in so large a mass as was tiatje"Yth's purpose. It seems that wrought te k , t l ;, all ordinary conditions of working, tabsger in very large masses without under -,r.leeular arrangement exceedin . gly inju i th7We understand the explanation wh_i .. cl e i stri;Point, an immense mass of yonllk so 'ON II has welded together continues e , a,nd soft state, that a process analogous -,,',Jlace within its substance, wh . erelas . e a . ; 1 . which it derives its tenacity,. de ad,_ sc;teioenn less capable than cast iron of so of heavy charge of gunpowder. W. in .," at t o pat t r h ie e re un ft faavnoeutrialehrleexrepseurlitmeonnt roade under the ' direction of go . ver . n t ee.°4lPlete failure from the P be e i ch we have ' alluded; and a large eculiari y h'elFeMPleted was found utterly unfit Itu vtl i 've it burst into many pieces on the , on 1 8 exPeriment has consequently been _ the subject of wrought-iron guns, we ] I , very erroneous statement, which, .we e_te Press, and has lately been going BaPers. It is to the effect that a ml by DTs, It and Co., of Liver ,h,l_it of the United States, burst on board 1 Lul t i it w•as made, killing the secretary of Iltei,,her Persons. This is altogether in itl;tr gun which burst on board the ta,rAfter ,‘ it had burst, another gun was ~ZOY, Mess' s. Fawcett and Co., and the 'comb r' rigtly, came over to Liverpool to ru,kvY,e believe of 1 2-inch bore) was said at 1, e 41 the trials to which it was subjected, arged of an that arising from it. Pos at - -cies n 1" to size without developing eb". which efrustrated Mr. Na.smyth's lee Guardan. MR. ROBERT BOYD has been appointed a tidewaiter at this port. BARON LIEBEG has, for several days past, been the guest of James Muspratt, Esq., at Seaforth-hall, where Mr. Spence, the sculptor, and Mrs. Spence, are also on a visit. Baron Liebeg will attend the ensuing meeting of the British Association. AN immense anchor, which was lost in the Sloyne by one of the United States mail steamers about a year ago, was dis covered the other day, and has been handed over to Messrs. Brown, Shipley and Co. It has only one fluke, and weighs more than 20 tons. FIRE AT BOOTLE.—About half-past four o'clock on Wednes day afternoon, a fire broke out in a stable opposite the Knows ley Hotel, Bootle. An alarm was given, and a body of the county constabulary, with the assistance of the neighbours, succeeded in extinguishing the fire. JAMES WILSON, the owner of the Jenny Lind, the boat which ran intdthe Lively and capsized her on the Ribble a few days ago, and Thomas Smith, the man who managed the jib sail on the occasion of the accident, have been committed for trial on the charge of manslaughter. DURABILITY or IRON SHlrs.—The iron ship Richard Cobden, which was built twelve years ago, by Messrs. James Hodgson and Co., of Liverpool, will repay a visit from any one who is interested in iron ships. She has been twelve years in the East India trade, and has not had the slightest repairs done to her, has never made a drop of water, and will, to all appearance, last for an unlimited length of time. She is now lying west side of Salthouse Dock. This vessel has com pletely set aside the old notion of A 1 for twelve years. HEALTH OF THE TowN.—The medical officer of health reports that the health of the town is in a satisfactory state, the deaths from diarrhcea continuing below the average. 250 deaths were 'registered in the week ending Saturday last. Zymotic diseases caused 83 deaths, of which 39 were from diarrhoea, 34 from scarlatina, I 2 from fever, 3 from measles, and 5 from hooping-cough. Diseases of the lungs caused 45 deaths, of which 23 were from consumption ; diseases of the brain, 14 deaths ; diseases of the heart, 7; debility and natural decay, 51; convulsions, 22 ; and delirium tremens, 1. PARENTAL CRITELTY. — On Wednesday night, Richard Dut ton, residing in the cellar of a house, 15, Tindle-street, Athol street, went home drunk, and, after cruelly beating his wife, turned her out of the house along with her child at the breast, and two sons of the respective ages of 15 and 9 years. The mother and child took shelter at a neighbour's house, but the poor lads went and laid down on a brick-kiln, where they were found on Thursday morning at six o'clock, by Bridget Duffy, who works at the kiln, one dead, and the other insensible. The younger boy was immediately taken home, Dr. Johnston, of Kirkdale, was promptly in attendance, and he is likely to get better. The father was taken into custody. ON Friday, an inquest was held on the body of William Fleming, 17 years of age, employed at the Waterloo-road sta tion of the London and North-western Railway. The boy being in an upper story of one of the warehouses, asked a man who was there to lower him down by a teakle. The man did not make him any answer, and the boy attempted to let himself down, for he got upon the rope, and took hold of the driver, which however he pulled so strongly that he was carried rapidly up, and struck his head violently against a " cat-head." Rendered insensible by the blow, he fell from a great height to the ground, and received in his fall the injuries which caused his death. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death. REVENUES OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER,.—The account annually presented, pursuant to the Act of Parliament, shows that in the year ended the 29th of September 1854, the income of the Duchy of Lancaster amounted to £42,266, and the expenditure to £35,567, leaving a balance on account with the receiver-general of £6,599. The rents and arrears received during the year amounted to £29,912, and the casual revenue to £6,149. The salaries and allowances of the principal officers of the duchy and the law officers of the county palatine amounted to £7,268, the annuities and retired allowances to £1,047, the donations and charities to £1,427, the surveys and valuations to £204,054, labourers' wages,' payments to the Commissioners of Woods, the expense of holding manorial courts, land-tax, and other miscellaneous charges, to £4,356, and the payments made out of this revenue to the Queen's privy purse to £lB,OOO. THE ROYAL MERSEY YACHT CLUB will hold their monthly meetings on a Monday, instead of Tuesday, as heretofore. The members met last week numerously at the marine station, Birkenhead, and after dinner business matters commenced, the rear-commodore in the chair. Francis Cavendish Ward, Esq., Duke of Lancaster's Own Rifles, of Prescot, was elected a member, on the proposition of Commodore Littledale. Several other members were proposed. The closing cruise of the season - was fixed to be held on Saturday, the 22nd instant, the yachts to assemble off New Brighton at ten o'clock, a.m. The subject of the annual club ball was also taken into con sideration, and was warmly received, and referred for adoption at the next meeting. The club will hold their last dinner for the season at the marine station, on the Ist of October, after which time the meetings will be held at the club-house, for the winter season. LIVERPOOL FLORAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. — This society's third and last exhibition for the season took place on Thursday, at the Botanic Gardens, Edge-lane. The weather was delightfully fine, and the spacious marquee was crowded to excess with a brilliant assembly. The number of plants exhibited was, perhaps, not so numerous as on previous occasions ; but every department was well represented as respects the quality of the plants, and they were quite nume rous enough to admit of their being seen to advantage. The fruit was exceedingly fine, and formed a very striking feature of the exhibition—the grapes, peaches, apricots, and cherries of Mr. Hardman Earle ; the grapes of the Earl of Derby; the apples of Mr. Charles Rylance, and pears of Mr. Honseley, attracting particular attention. In melons, too, the show was about one of the best which has been witnessed at the society's exhibitions for some years past, those of Mr. Nicholson and Mr_ H . Earle being. amonpqt. the finest_ The yezefahlef, nic n were both more numerous and finer in quality than on pre vious occasions. TESTIMONIAL TO CAPTAIN H. COX, OF THE IMPERLTRIZ.-- On the arrival of the Imperatriz at Balaklava, Captain Cox VMS presented with a snuff-box,with the accompanying letter:— "My Dear Sir,—On behalf of myself and the officers of the 56th Regiment, whom you have just conveyed from Ireland to the seat of war in the Crimea, and before quitting the S.S. Imperatriz, under your command, I am most anxio us , i n th e i r name, to bear testimony to the zeal, energy, and skill, at a ll times displayed by yourself and your o ffi cers, as well as to the kind and unvarying attention which has ever been shown to us during the voyage. On returning you our sincere thanks, and uniting in best wishes for your future prosperity and happiness, we beg your acceptance of the accompanying token as a slight mark of our esteem.—Believe me to be, my dear sir, yours very sincerely, S. Oakely. S.S. Imperatriz, 21st August, 1855. Capt. H. T. Cox, commanding S.S. Impera triz." The snuff-box bore the following inscription:—" Pre sented by Lieut.-Col. Oakely, and the officers of the 56th Regt., to Capt. H. T. Cox, commanding steamer Imperatriz, in testimony of their 'high appreciation of his kindness and at tention during their passage to the Crimea. August, 1855." HARVEST PROSPECTS NEAR LIVERPOOL. — The potato dis ease, which, a fortnight ago, seemed likely to becom e very ex tensive in this neighbourhood, has been stayed in its progress before it has descended to the roots or tubers, though there are few fields in the district between this town and Ormskirk which do not show signs of its presence. However, should the present fine weather continue, there is little doubt but the crop will be secured in better condition than has been the case for some years. The wheat crops have suffered in some places, in consequence of being laid by the wind and wet, and this is particularly observable between Aintree and Maghull ; but here again fine weather has been productive of infinite benefit, for, though a quantity of grain is nearly touching theground, it is dry, and there is every probability that it will be secured in good condition. The crops of wheat, oats, and barley, are, generally speaking, light, and ten days later than usual. If not carted, the corn in the district of which we are speaking is for the most part cut in the first week in September. At the present time, full four-fifths is standing, though a great portionis ready for the sickle. On the Cleve's Hills, there are some excellent crops of grain ; and one of the finest fields of wheat we ever saw, in this or any other neighbourhood, is on a farm occupied by Richard Mawdsley, of Orrell, near this town. Greater progress would have been made with the har vest, but labourers are scarce and difficult to be proeured. The turnips and mangel-wurzel we have noticed are consider ably beneath an average crop, and are late.—Journal. ' s a ssoci CHRISTIAN ati o .w a sA heldso c ) I , n i °r T. Thursday, The annual at the meeting of this Bible Depository, Sl a t er - s t reet. Mr. M ` Fie presided, and thanked the meeting for the honour done him in sendin g him as their representative at th e c .conferencewith the Young Men's Christian Association i n P ar i s . The hon read the report, which, after alluding to th e benefits arising from the Sunday morning and Thursday evenin g devotion alng meetings, the Bible Class, the Tract Distribution Society, the lectures delivered to the association, and the services ren dered by Mr. Matheson, the treasurer, stated that, the want of a paid officer having been much felt, Mr. R. F. Brown had been appointed missionary to young men. Allusion was made to the visit with which the association had been favoured during the winter by Mr. M'Cormick, from New York, as a deputation from a similar institution there ; and it was stated that certain changes had been made i n the constitution of the association to bring it to a closer resemblance to the New York M institution, described by Mr. 'Cormick. The number of members at present exceeded 100. From the statement of accounts, it appeared that the receipts between December 13 and August 31 were £66 14s. 9d., and that the balance in the hands of the treasurer was about ten guineas. The report and accounts were adopted, and the board of management and. the officers of the association for the ensuing year were elected. A conversation ensued on the position and prospects of the association, and the best means of extendingi ts utility. Docx COMMITTEE. - Mr. Charles Turner presided at the meeting on Thursday. A return of traffic on the south line of dock railway was submitted, showing that since the com mencement of the line, about two years ago, the traffic had amounted to 181,000 tons. The marine department recom mended that the tender of Thomas Evans, of Bangor, for the construction of a new dwelling-house for the keeper of the telegraph at Point Lynas, should be accepted.—A report was read, describing an accident sustained by the Bell Beacon, which had been run foul of and damaged ; and a suggestion of Mr. Lockett was agreed to, to place placards round the docks, offering a reward to any one who would give informa tion as to the perpetrators of the injury. An offer of Messrs. Cato, Miller, and Co., to repair the iron mast, and provide a new bell for the beacon for the sum of £72 10s. was accepted. An offer made by Messrs. Thomas Vernon and Son, to cut the buoy V. 3 in the centre, and to form two separate buoys, was accepted : sum £73.—Mr. Rounthwaite called attention to a motion which Mr. Mann had made at a previous meet ing relative to the dock space occupied by steamers and sailing vessels respectively. Mr. Mann's opinion being that the allowances made to steamers for the space occupied by their engines, &c., is too large, and that, upon the whole, steamers do not pay their due proportion of dock rates, com pared with sailing vessels.—Mr. Rounthwaite took a totally different view, and he was desirous that an addition should be made to Mr. Mann's motion for statistics upon the subject of the occupation of dock space, whereby the time which steamers occupied in discharging and loading could be ascer tained; for he believed it would be found that though certain allowances were made to steamers for space, &c., which was not occupied by freight, the revenue actually derived by the estate from the steamers was very much larger than that derived from sailing vessels. For instance, the Clarence Dock (which is devoted entirely to the steam trade) dis charged 74,000 tons per acre per annum, while the Victoria and Waterloo discharged but 29,000; and the Clarence yielded £1,416 per acre, while the Prince's only yielded £1,123; George's, £731 ; Canning, £538 ; Albert, £1,673; Salthouse, £l2B ; £264; Queen's, £416 ; Coburg, £ BB O ; and Union, £230. After a brief conversation as to whether notice of motion should be given, Mr. Rounthwaite consented not to press his motion, but to give notice of it for the nett meeting : when Mr. Mann would be in attendance. THE EARL OF ELLESMERE will be the Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire, in the room "of the late Earl of Sefton. THE United States mail steamer Baltic sailed on Saturday for New York, with 190 passengers, besides the mails and a large cargo of goods. The list of passengers includes the name of his Excellency Alfonso Escalenta, Ambassador Ex traordinary from Madrid to the Court of Washington. MR. C. E. SMITH, sculptor, whose bust of the late Rev. W. W. Ewbank recently claimed public attention, has just completed a companion bust of the Rev. J. Macnaught, which is esteemed an admirable likeness. THERE have been several sudden deaths in Marseilles. Among others, Mr. Leigh, from Liverpool, who died after a very few hours' indisposition, though assisted by the best medical advice. His remains were interred in the Protestant cemetery. FATAL Ac c IDENT.—About two o'clock on Thursday morning, an aged woman, named Margaret Magee, fell from her bedroom- window, in No. 5 Court, Combermere-street, Toxteth-park, and was found insensible a short time after wards by her son, who lives in the same court. She died at half-past six o'clock. NEW ACT ON COTTNTY PALATINE OF LANCASTER TRIALS.—An act was passed in the late session further to assimilate the practice in the County Palatine of Lancaster to that of other counties with respect to the trial of issues from the superior courts at Westminster. Her Majesty is now em powmd to issue comm's ions, authorising the judges to take the assizes, juries, and other matters, in the same manner as in other countries. . • THE WRECK or THE RrouLtrs.—Two flats and a sloop were towed into the Mersey on Monday, laden with cargo recovered from the Regulus, recently wrecked and still on shore at the Skerries. The goods recovered comprise all the bale case goods, besides a large quantity of weightier articles. According to a notice posted in the underwriters' room, there still remains 80 tons of cargo on board ; prompt measures, however, were being taken to get this away. THE MODEL OF SEBASTOPOL is still on view in the Queen's Hall, Bold-street, and, considering the importance of the in telligence just received from the Crimea, its varied interest to the spectator must be still further enhanced. This will be obvious when it is remembered that Mr. Hough, immediately on the arrival of important news, takes measures to adapt the model to the existing state of affairs, so as to keep the specta tor au courant with the course of events. _ _ _ The Daily News of Friday says :—" Mr. Scott Russell's new steamer, now being built at Blackwall, is making great progress. The frame is completed, and the work will be finished within the next twelve months. When ready for sea she will go to Liverpool, and sail regularly from that port, and not, as Stated, from Milford Haven ; for, although she cannot enter any one of the Liverpool docks, she can, like the Collins boats, anchor in the river." POCKET-PICKING. — Ann Phillips, a woman, and two boys named Patrick Duffy and Robert Bland, were, on Saturday, at the Police-court, charged with picking pockets. On Friday afternoon one of the officials at the Tithebarn-street railway station observed the prisoners go up to a lady on the platform, and while the woman engaged her attention, one of the boys picked her pocket of a purse containing £1 Is. 6d. He im mediately took them in charge, and on searching the boy he found the purse. They were committed for trial. BURGLARY.—WiIIiam Prendergast, Peter Cameron, and Patrick Ullathorne, were, on Saturday, charged with breaking into the shop of Mr. Bacon, Dublin-street, and stealing three diamo nd night the a large quantity of copper nail s , an d a c oa t. On Friday the three prisoners were seen loitering near the shop, where they were noticed at various periods during the evening by a police-officer, who ultimately went towards them, when they took to their heels. He succeeded in capturing.. Cameron and Ullathorne ; and Prendergast was apprehended the same night with the nails and diamonds in his possession. Nothing was found on the other prisoners. It appeared that the shop door had been forced open by means of an iron bar. Prendergast was committed for trial ; the other prisoners were remanded for a week. LECTURE AT ST. MARY'S SCHOOL, KIRKDALE.—On Fri day, Gregory M. Wortabet, Esq., delivered a most interesting and eloquent lecture on the Influence of the Bible, in St. Mary's School, Kirkdale, which was listened to with the greatest attention and delight, and at the close of it the an dienceexpressed their satisfaction by a very warm response and a vote of thanks. The same gentleman has very handsomely offered to lecture a g ain , in the same place, on Friday ne x t, a t half-past 7 o'clock, in aid of liquidating the debt for the repairs of the church, when it is hoped that the lecturer will have as numerous an assemblage as his eloquence and earnestness in the cause of truth so richly deserves. The chair was taken by the Rev. T. Major Lester, incumbent, and on the platform were the Rev. V. Sheldon, incumbent of St. Matthias', Rev. J. Gil mour, minister of Christ Church, and Rev. W. A. Tattersall, curate of Walton, all of whom took part in the proceedings. SAILING OF THE GREAT BRITAIN.—On Tuesday, Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co.'s screw steam-ship the Great Britain, Lieut. Chapman Wise, R.N., Admiralty agent, in charge, left her moorings in the Sloyne, and proceeded to sea. This " leviathan" of the deep has on board a very precious freight— upwards of 1,000 souls. She has taken out 500 tons of pro jectiles-5,803 shells—besides 35 huts, 22 horses, 44 officers, and 881 rank and file, made up from detachments of the 4th, sth, and 6th Dragoon Guards ; the Bth and 11th Hussars ; 2nd Dragoons, 4th and 13th Light Dragoons ; 17th Lancers ; Grenadier Guards, 9th, 17th, 79th, 92nd, and 94th regiments of the line. Captain Bruce, of the 94th regiment, is the com manding officer. The Great Britain will call at Gibraltar to land six officers and 214 men of the 94th and the other line regiments ; at Malta, to land 20 officers of different regiments stationed there ; at Constantinople, to land £1,500,000 of the new Turkish Loan, and from thence to Balaklava, where the cavalry, consisting of 12 officers and 667 men, with 22 horses, will disembark. IMPORTS or PALM OlL.—The difference of opinion which has been noticed in our columns on the subject of palm oil has induced us to procure an official account of the quantity im ported into Liverpool. We have to state; in consequence, that n 17.3 ;nFnn.nnri Li, ell flinritv that 4.ha tin/salty of palm oil imported into Liverpool from the 6th of January w quo o~ of July, inclusive, was 290,353 cwts., or 14,517 tons. The Liverpool Brokers' Circular, to which we referred on the 18th instant, stated the quantity imported between the Ist of January and the 31st of July at 18,580 tons— a difference of 4,063 tons ; but some allowance is to be made for the longer period of five days' importations included in the circular. Our correspondent stated the quantity imported to the same period at 18,900 tons, and neither is in accordance with the official account. The discrepancy deserves notice as a convincing proof that either the merchants and brokers' statements, or the official accounts, are incorrect. We cannot believe in the inaccuracy of the latter, and the discrepancy, therefore, serves to throw discredit on many mercantile statements.— Economist. neMsdialy.,ObLegrzeam'sr.ACFoFmAmllliSss. adjudication of bankruptcy in this case.--Mr. Lowndes, solici ronAer hearing Stevenson,too n p place regard o n t Wed nesday, e t d b tor for the bankrupt, was examined as attorney for the trus tees, and produced duplicates of the deed of assignment, one called an instrument, executed by Mr. Oliver on the 7th signed and sealed, the other signed merely, the latter b eing October, and by the trustees on the 16th. He could not tell the number of signatures to the deeds, but he said they had been signed by 6-7ths of the creditors. Notice was given of the day on which the deed would be signed by advertisement in the London Gazette, and a month after its execution it had also been advertised in the Times and in the Liverpool Mercury. As far as the witness knew, the schedule of the creditors comprised all the debts of Mr. Oliver. The judge at the recent assize ruled that the deed was good, but reserved the point for Mr. Watson. In reply to Mr. Aspinall, who supported the petition, Mr. Lowndes said he did not know whether any of the signatures had been put to the docu ments since the certificate. He believed about eighteen creditors had signed both documents; but he could give no idea as to how many signatures there were to each of the deeds. William Jones, clerk to Mr. Evans, said he had counted the signatures; there were 161 to the deed, and only 153 to the instrument. He had also counted the list of creditors of Mr. Oliver, appended to the certificate, from £lO and upwards, and found there were 222 above 210, and 400 at £lO. The petition for setting aside the adjudication, presented on the 12th October by Mr. Samson, was then read, under an objection from Mr. Quaine, who opposed the adjudication. Edward Wynn, clerk to Mr. Oliver, was next examined, chiefly with respect to the signa tures to the deed. He described them all as genuine, and went through them seriatim. They included amongst others the names of R. W. Preston and Co.; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Royal British Banking . Co;- Northern Bank ; Kirk and Fur ness ; J. de Wolff and Co. ; Canard, Munn, and Co.; Fernie Brothers ; James Baines and Co.; Henry Moore and Co. ; Littledale and Bardswell ; and Garnett , B i b b y , ssta of thed that so previous conflicting on da fli y c and Co. The hearing was adjourned at this point until Thursday. o On Thursday, - Mr, Bardswell, who represented the proceed p in t g , stated statements which had been published with regard to the day, and andand contradictory were the so opposite to the real facts of the case, that he felt it to be duty to his client to apply for a private examination.—His observed that the sittings were at first private, but the public interest and importance attached toe Las so much of that the courts were afterwards opened. Mr. Bardswell, h owever, having made an appli ca tio n f or a p r i va t e h ear i ng , it should be granted.—[We understand that the point in dispute is settled. The petition is withdrawn, and Mr. Oliver is not a bankrupt.; , 1855. Q k3I , ---------„h--_—PTp calculation 2 ----,--____ pre f err ing, t' _Loc .4 7 and 10 gP ; .tt tl. admen c44o4e4th of nigh, Se „ 11 111 01 . 4 ',the G ol h e Mayo -n Ee ,„ 412,000. e t R. Glaclet°° 1 s o ',':. 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NCI Vito , ,17,!.! rid . io '''' e . tjth, r ates wit rp .41, t i, i f I , e A, i,, , 4 a • pari)D . ,•,, ti zti lt, I*, sad hia, del lt a l i o? 4: tvselto doe re ale ear r ff,/ l' i t ga v '.ap e kll4 1g °' V • 4 t 4 1 t:„ho,,„ beo , i,°l4s , ber be , o tO r or. -ea t t t a o f ai , ‘• 1 14 .4•/;.e._llel, THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. THE defalcations of Mr. Thomas Rennie Hutton , official assignee of the Bristol Court of Bankruptcy, will, it is said, amount to between £ll,OOO and £13,000. A LABOURER AT ULLAroox. has this year had to pay taxes for keeping a dog, the skin of which has been used to float a buoy for the last two years at the Caithness herring fishing. He attributes it entirely to the war ! THE LATE ME. HoPE's splendid mansion in the Rue St. Dominique, on which he is said to have expended, from first to last, no less than six millions of francs, was sold on Wed nesday to Baron ScelliZres, for the comparatively trifling sum of 1,392,050f.—Paris Paper. . SIR CHARLES NAPIER is publishing piecemeal the letters of Sir James Graham, with characteristic disregard of " private" marks, the order in which they are written, or the inconclusiveness of partial extracts. AIRS. MARY ANNE AYLESBURY, a member of the Society of Friends, residing at Peckham, poisoned herself with arsenic on Friday, telling her husband, shortly before her death, " that the devil had tempted her to take it." --- - AN inquest has been held on the body of Mr. Feargus O'Connor, and a verdict ascribing his death to natural causes returned. A Mr. Roger O'Connor, a relative, made a charge of ill treatment, for which there did not appear to be the least foundation. THE Rev. Christopher Smyth, one of the curates of St. Nicholas, Yarmouth, has lately ascended to the highest point of Mont Rosa, hitherto deemed inaccessible ; and has since succeeded in reaching the summit of the monarch of moun tains, Mont Blanc, by a new rout, and without the aid of guides. RAucir has just completed the monument of the late King of Hanover. The dead monarch lies on the sarcopha gus in an Hussar dress, watched by four angels, two praying and two singing. The statue is of a whiter marble than the tomb. The stern, uncompromising features are softened by the appearance of slumber. THE DUKE OF BUCCLEUCII is about to erect a splendid mansion in Whitehall, on the sight of Montague-house. The cost, it is estimated, will be upwards of £lOO,OOO. Mr. Burns, of Edinburgh, architect, has drawn up the plans. A PETITION in bankruptcy was on Saturday opened against Sir George De la Poer Beresford, Bart., under the style of a dealer in mining and other shares, of 17, Fludyer-street, Westminster, at present an inmate of the Queen's Bench. EMIGRATION from the North of. Scotland to the Canadas continues in full force. About 600 people will shortly leave Aberdeen and neighbouring ports. Agricultural labour has advanced in value in consequence of these thinnings of the population. AN EYPLICIT ADDRESS. — One day last week a letter passed the Hereford post-office with the following singular address :—" For that girl I don't no her name they cals the galoper' and lives somewhere in Bowsey-lane Hereford Here fordshire. Shurs don't give this to any girl but that girl." The letter reached its destination, the fair one for whom it was intended:being known by this soubriquet to the police. ON Monday, after an existence of many centuries, the once renowned fair of St. Bartholomew expired. No proclamation took place, nor was the ancient court of pied poudre for the hearing and determining disputes arising in the fair held; the " Saints' Bell," in Old St. Bartholomew's Church, which has for time immemorial sounded only on the proclamation of the fair, was silent, and its occupation is now gone. CURIOSITIES OF LIFE ASSULANCE.—A correspondent of a contemporary says :—We have a company professing so high an idea of homoeopathic principles, that it stipulates, pro vided the assured be treated homoeopathically, that five per cent. be deducted from the premiums. There is also a com pany where parties attending to assure their lives have the advantage of a reading room and refreshments—an excellent arrangement, for after sandwiches and sherry one feels less inclined to dispute the rate of premium, even if it be a little high. Mn. BETTS, of the firm of Peto, Brassy, and Betts, states respecting the Crimea, that since the formation of the line it has been doubled, and is now being effectually drained and ballasted for the winter work. General Simpson, in reply to Lord Panmure's inquiries as to the condition of the line on the 19th ult., states :—" The present railway is on the best site that can be obtained, and when effectually drained and ballasted. which is being done, will be quite free from floods." Lord Panmure has sent out 150 more carriages, to replace those which have been in constant work, as they require it from time to time. RAILWAY CAPITAL.—It appears from a return recently issued that the 103 bills promoted by railway companies in the late session of Parliament were for raising £21,605,796, in cluding £5,048,288 on loan; but only 77 of them received the Royal Assent, authorising the raising of £15,851,486, of which £4,504,938 is to be raised on loan. In the session of 1854 it was proposed to raise £26,919,551 for railway purposes, but Parliament granted powers to raise £14,096,234, including £3,320,159 on loan. In the session of 1853, powers were sought to raise £38,493,119 by various railway bills, but only £19,131,674 of that amount was authorised to be raised, in cluding £4,223,398 on loan ; and in the session of 1852 powers were sought by railway companies to raise £14,714,635, but only £8,471,687 of that amount was authorised to be raised. Powers were sought by railway companies in the four sessions above mentioned to raise in the aggregate £101,733,081, but of this amount £57,551,051 was authorised to be raised, being not much more than half the amount for which powers were sought. STATISTICS OF ICE.—It is just fifty years since the idea of dispensing ice to the southern latitudes entered the brain of a Boston merchant, Mr. Tudor. It was a thoroughly worthy notion of a solid man of that city of notions. For twenty years considerable disappointment, with various success, at tended his efforts, but ultimately his persistency and activity furnished the southern States and the West Indies with the frozen delicacy, and a lucrative business opened up. In 1834 the East Indies and Brazil became his business clients. Other large houses engaged in the ice farming in Massachusetts and New York, and at present the value of the ice farms of these States fully equals, if it does not exceed, the value of the rice crop of Georgia. Boston chiefly supplies the southern parts with ice, and in its ice-home there were 300,000 tons stored last year:- In New York nearly the entire crop of ice is used at home. In Boston there are between 2,000 and 3,000 per sons employed in the business season. In New York the amounfirlricasllie exportation is little. About 9,000 per , sons are employed in the entire States by ice, and it is com puted that a capital of over $6,000,000 is invested in New York Daily Times. FARMERS AND THEIR SERVANTS. — A case of some im portance to agriculturists and others engaging servants was tried at the Bridport and Beaminster Division Petty Sessions, held at Beaminster on Monday last week. The party sum moned in this case was Frederick Clarke, charged with leaving the service of Mr. Richard Garland, of Hyde Farm, near Brid port. The defendant was a hardy lad, apparently about 16 years old, and hacl worked for the plaintiff some years. On the 11th of August he left the service of Mr. Garland, without notice, and on the following Monday was engaged by another farther. Being in the midst of harvest, the lad's service was valuable, and he therefore summoned him. Mr. Garland admitted that when he engaged him he took him as a weekly servant, and agreed.to pay him so much a week; he had not considered it necessary to tell him that he should expect a week's notice on his leaving, as he thought that both master and man were legally compelled to give and receive a week's notice. The bench, however, decided that the lad completed his contract every Saturday night, and his employer could not compel him to return on the Monday. On the other hand, the farmer may summarily dismiss the man on the Monday morning without notice, and without there being any claim on him for compensation. If, however, there be a boncifide agree ment to give and receive a week's notice, that is a contract of another nature. The case, therefore, was dismissed. THE NEW GOVERNOR or ADELAIDE.—The most interest ing event that has lately transpired in this colony during the last three weeks has been the arrival of his Excellency Sir Richard Graves M`Donnell, our newly-appointed governor. We announced in our last summary that Mr. Beresford, his excellency's o napnrkis, directsecretary,vatefromgl E h n Al aaanrrd, and that Sir ived,withhisfamily, in the Richard had reached Melbourne in the mail packet Blue Jacket, and was daily expected in Adelaide. His Excellency embarked for Port Adelaide on board the screw steamer Burnt Burra, on the 19th of May. The unusually long time that elapsed without any tidings of this vessel tended to create considerable uneasiness as to its safety, the more so as it was known that gales, equal if not greater in violence than any ever known before on the coast, had been blowing continuously for several days. On Thursday, June 7, however, the signal for a steamer in sight was hoisted at the signal station, and great was the clearly made out to be the Burra Burra. She ' reached the port about sunset, and came to anchor amid the cheers and rejoicings of the inhabitants there. Her long passage had been owing, as was expected, to the boisterous weather en countered, especially on the South Australian coast. On the 25th of May she was off the sea mouth of the Murray, when, a slight accident happening to her machinery, and being short of fuel, she bore up under canvass for Portland, which port was reached on the 2d of June. A fresh supply of coals was laid in there, and she left on the 4th of June, reaching Port Adelaide, as before stated, on the 7th of June. Sir Richard M`Donnell remained on board all .night. On the following morning he landed, when he met with a hearty reception, and was afterwards installed in due form.—South Australian Re#ister of June 23. AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. — The select committee of the Lords, to inquire into the best mode of obtaining accurate agricultural statistics from all parts of the kingdom, have re ported that, in consequence of the want of these statistics, great inconvenience and injury has been sustained by all classes, because we have never known what quantity of foreign grain we should annually require for home consumption. France, Holland, Belgium, and the United States, had more or less perfectly organised systems for obtaining this informa tion ; and, from time to time, such statistics had been col lected from some of the English counties, successfully, by the inspectors of the Poor-law Board. As regards England and Wales, the committee recommended that the officers of the various unions should be employed, once a year, to deliver and collect schedules, in which should be enumerated the average under each description of crop, an accurate return of stock (cattle), and an approximate estimate of the produce of the harvest. The schedules having been collected, it is proposed that they should be classified by each union, and returned to the Poor-law Board, for a national table to be compiled from them. With regard to Scotland, it is proposed to leave the matter entirely in the hands of the Highland Society, as here tofore ; and, in Ireland, the existing machinery of the con stabulary, under the superintendence of the Irish Registrar- General, is recommended to remain in force. A bill to em power these recommendations to be carried out is proposed to be introduced into parliament during the ensuing session. THE TICHBORNE DOLE.—The family 'of. Tichborne date their possession of the present patrimony, the manor of Tich borne, so far back as 200 years before the Conquest. When the Lady Mabella, worn out with age and infirmity, was lying on her deathbed, she besought her loving husband, as her last request, that he would grant her the means of leaving behind her a charitable bequest, in a dole of bread to be distributed to all who should apply for it annually on the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Sir Roger, her husband, readily acceded to the request, by promising the pro duce of as much land as she could go over in the vicinity of the park while a certain brand or billet war burning, sup posing that, from her long infirmity (for sh sad been bed ridden some years), she would be able to go round a small portion only of his property. The venerable dame, however, ordered her attendants to convey her to the corner of the park, where, being deposited on the ground, she seemed to receive a renovation of strength, and, to the surprise of her anxious and admiring lord, who began to wonder where this pilgrimage might end, she crawled round several rich and goodly acres. The field which was the scene of Lady Mabella's ectra ordinary feat retains the name of "Crawls" to this - day. It is situated near the entrance of the park, and contains an area of 23 acres. Her task being completed, she was reconveyed to her chamber, and, summoning her family to her bedside, predicted its prosperity while the annual dole existed, and left her malediction on any of her descendants who should ever be so mean or covetous as to discontinue or divert it, prophesying that when such should happen the old house would fall and the family name would become extinct from the failure of heirs male, and that this would be foretold by a generation of seven sons being followed immediately after by a generation of seven daughters and no son. The custom thus founded in the reign of Henry H., continued to be observed for centuries ; and the 25th of March became the annual festive day of the family. It was not until the middle of the last century that the custom was abused; when, under pretence of attending Tichborne Dole, vagabonds, gipsies, and idlers of every description assembled from all quarters, pilfer ing throughout the neighbourhood ; and, at last, the gentry and magistrates complaining, it was discontinued in 1796. Singularly enough, the baronet of the day had seven sons ; and, when he was succeeded by the eldest, there appeared a generation of seven daughters, and the apparent fulfimeut of the prophecy was completed by the change of the name of the late baronet to Doughty, under the will of his kinswoman. — Winchester Observer. SIR JAHEB GRAILA.II.—Sir James Graham is neither more nor less than a political infidel. The apostle of inconsistency, he wants the only quality which can redeem that creed. Un like Canning or Peel—who although inconsistent were yet great—it is impossible to detect in the long career of Graham that element of real consistency which characterises a true statesman. No man can fail to discern the noble sympathies of Canning, even when he was following the chariot-wheels of Eldon, or to recognise Peel's principles of free-trade in his very measures to secure protection. Without the dignity of character or the scope of mind to originate a policy, Sir James Graham has been by turns everything, according to the humour of the chief whom for the moment he was content to follow. • His is not the mind to be possessed by a great idea, the wisdom of which, if he could only see it realised, he would willingly consent that the future should vindicate. No; Sir James Graham is a statesman without a policy, and, like the shallow stock jobber in Capel-court, his judgment is ruled by the rumour of the hour. With a base passion for power, heightened by a singular talent for administration (for all men delight to do that which they do well), conjoined with a mischievous indiscretion in the exercise of power more worthy of a schoolboy than a statesman, he is continually bringing unpopularity on himself and confusion on his colleagues. With a fixed determination to defend every . act of his ad ministration, and to crush, if pos sible, an y individual who attempts to question it, lie indulges in a boldness of assertion, which, though it would be admirable on the stage, becomes loathsome in the House of Commons. Let not Sir James suppose that his assertions as to the blockade of the Black Sea and the death of Captain Christie are yet forgotten. — Daily News. Two unlicensed stockbrokers at Paris have been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for swindling and betting upon the public funds. Niw Acx ow WEDDING RINGS.—Among the acts of the late session was one to except gold wedding rings from the operation - of the former act relating to the standard and silver wares, and from the exemptions contained in the acts relating to gold wares. Wedding rings are now required to be assayed and marked. _ Tzin - WW - n" DISEASE.—From Oporto, under date of the 30th ult., we learn that the vine disease has made rapid pro gress, and in th e D ouro it was becoming as destructive as last year. It is expe c t e d th a t a b ou t the same quantity of wine will be made ; but, as the vintage will be a very late one, the quality will depend upon the state of the weather. A Hein CENTENARIAN.—George Stephenson has just died at Romaldkirk, near Barnard Castle, aged 105 years. He was an agricultural lab ourer , an d f ame d as an early riser. He used, it is said, frequently to reprove his daughter and her husband, both of whom are upwards of 70 years, for indulging in }red so long in the mornings, though they invariably rose before 6 o'clock, telling them, if they would not work when young, what would they do when old ! ONE of the minor curiosities of Paris is the enormous vine which ornaments the court of a house in the Rue des Marais St. Germain. It is said to h ave b een p l an t e d b y R ac i ne; an d, supposing that he did it in the last year of his life, the vine must now be not less than 156 years of age, as that celebrated writer died in 1699. It is this year in an unusually flourishing condition, and covered with fine fruit. A NUMEROUS GANG of the London swell mob have made their appearance in Constantinople. They came from London, and finding an open field for their exploits, set to in earnest, robbing and swindling officers and sailors indiscriminately. Twelve vagabonds have been taken up, thanks to the active exertions of Major Hackett ; and the rest, supposed to be 70 in all, have dispersed, or are concealed. The culprits in custody are in irons, and will be sent to Malta for trial. SUICIDE IN A RAILWAY TRAIN.— On Thursday morning, a son of Dr. Payne, of Nottingham, committed suicide in a railway carriage, between Nottingham and Derby. He had taken a black silk handkerchief from his neck, and suspended himself from the ventilator at the top of the carriage -door. He had also taken off his shoes, and turned his trousers up to the knees. He was immediately cut down, and although life was apparently not extinct, he was beyond hope of recovery. WEAVING BY ELECTRICITY.—An invention that promises to create a revolution in the manufacture of silks, linens, cottons—in fact of all woven articles—has just been perfected here, and a specimen is now on its way to the Paris exhibition. This is the electric loom, invented by Cavaliere Bonelli, in spector of telegraphs in the Sardinian States. Some time since I noticed to you his application of electricity to the jacquard loom, whereby he was enabled to dispense with cards, and much of the manipulation necessary for the old system of weaving ; but in the more perfected specimen now about to be exhibited, the inventor has added steam power to supersede manual labour, so that one intelligent workman may attend to many machines at the same time, and the operation of making all kinds of patterns will be as easy, cheap, and expeditious, as printing and knitting in different patterns is also performed with similar instruments.— Turin correspondent of the Times. THE ABORIGNIES or AIISTRALIA.—The last report of the Protector of the Aborignies has recently been published, but beyond testifying to the rapidly diminishing numbers of the native tribes, it claims little of an interesting character. The Adelaide tribe have returned to their winter quarters in and about town, occupying themselves by day in begging food and clothing, and by night in holding corobbories by their wurley fires. Archdeacon Hale, with unwearied perseverance, con tinues his efforts at Port Lincoln, and speaks hopefully of the indications of some of his pupils. But the steady diappear ance of the natives is what every report on their condition most uniformly points to, although everything is done that could promise to alleviate the discomforts of their condition. —Adelaide Register. TICKET or LEAVE CONVICTS.-0a Saturday a Return was issued which states that the Secretary of State is not in possession of any sufficient information to enable him to state the number of convicts with tickets of leave who are known to be now in employment or conducting themselves properly. It may, however, be stated that of 960 convicts released during the year ended 30th June last, 690 have made application at the end of the stipulated interval of three months after their discharge for the balance of the gratuity 'returned on their release, in accordance with the regulations, and that 684 of the number produced satisfactory testimonials of their gold conduct. Of the 270 who have not applied, the greater portion have not been at large the regulated period. Ninety seven convicts who have received tickets of leave have been re-convicted of various crimes. EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE.•.- On Mondaya singular circum stance happened to Thomas Malkin, while travelling by the 7 a.m. train from Hull to Sheffield. As the train was proceed ing at a rapid rate between Kiveton-park and Woodhouse Junction, near to Aston colliery, Malkin, while leaning over the carriage door, found it giving way. He grasped the door, in his effort to save himself, but it swung open, and he was thrown with great force upon the opposite embankment. When the train arrived at the Victoria station information of the accident was given to Mr. Ward, the manager, and he immediately proceeded with a carriage and engine to the spot. On arriving at the Woodhouse viaduct he met the man walk ing along the line. He was taken into the carriage, and it was foun that he had sustained no injury beyond a severe shock and a few slight bruises on his hands, back, and head.— Sheffield Iris. COLLISION AT SEA. — On Sunday morning the schooner Snowdrop, of Sunderland, Captain Adamson, while on her voyage down to Sunderland, timber laden, came into collision with the Charles of Lyme, three miles off Whitby. The Charles was seen at some distance by the crew of the Snow drop, the wind blowing fresh at the time, and every effort was made to avoid her, but all their endeavours failed to avoid a collision. The vessels soon cleared each other, but quence of having lost herjib-boom, anstern damaged, the wreck of which impeded her movements. On looking for the Charles, it was found she had sunk, upon which the schooner's boat was instantly put out, and exer tions made to save the crew, but only one man was found above water, the remainder of the hands, five in number, having perished. The Snowdrop has since arrived in Sunder laud, with the solitary survivor of the ill-fated Charles ou board. • PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SIIIPWRECR.—On Thurs day, a meeting of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was held at its offices, John-street, Adelphi, London, Captain Lambert Perrott in the chair. Mr. Lewis, the secretary, having read the minutes of the previous meeting, the silver medal of the institution was voted respectively to Mrs. Gil braith and to Mr. William Rae, in testimony of their humane and gallant services to one out of three persons who were upset in a small punt near Whitburn, on the Durham coast, on the 6th ult. Rae was in the boat with the three men when the accident happened, and 'had almost succeeded in swimming ashore with two of them who clung to his clothes ; one of them, however, fell off, when near the land, from exhaustion. The other he brought to shallow water, when Mrs. Gilbraith, with much presence of mind, rushed over some rocks to their assistance. The special thanks of the institution were pre sented to the Rev. Owen Lloyd Williams, of Llaufairyng hornwy, Anglesea, and £5 to his boat's crew of five men, for putting off early on the 28th ult. in the Cemlyn lifeboat, with the view of rendering assistance to the crew of a large ship which was observed to have been wrecked near the Skerries during the previous night. Before their arrival, however, the crew had landed in their-own boat. A reward of £2 los was also voted to the crew of the same lifeboat for putting off to render aid to the crew of the sloop Ann Susannah, of Bangor, which became also a total wreck near the same dangerous locality. As in the previous instance, the wreck's crew of four men had succeeded in landing before the arrival of the lifeboat. A reward of £1 12s. was voted to the boat's crew for rescuing four persons from a boat which had capsized in Redwharf Bay, on the Anglesea coast. The crew of the upset boat were seen clinging to her in an exhausted state when rescued from a watery grave. One of them had lost his hold, and was being drawn away with the tide, when help was given him. Two poor Irishmen, who, with the promptitude and humanity which always characterise this class of the Irish people, put off in their curraghs to the rescue of the master of a smack thrown out of his vessel near Foy Island, on the coast of Donegal, received £2. A reward of £9 was voted to a smack's crew for saving two of the crew of the emigrant ship John Bright, who had been capsized from a boat when that vessel struck on Arklow Banks, on the 24th ult. A communication was read from Count Walewski, stating that the attention of the French go vernment would be directed to the various models of lifeboats, &c., exhibited by the institution at the Paris Exhibition. Captain Robertson, R.N. of the Board of Trade, has recently visited some of the lifeboats of the institution, and has re ported very favourably of their efficiency. It appeared that the society has now a class of lifeboat—after Mr. Peake's de sign—that admirably answers every purpose for which a life boat can be required. A strong appeal was made for pecu niary aid to enable the institution to increase the number of of its lifeboats on dangerous points of the coast. The pro ceedings then closed. • HORRIBLE OCCURRENCE NEAR BATA.—ATTEMPTED PAR nroms.—Mr. Charles Fulton, an opulent tradesmen of Bath; and one of the members of the municipal corporation of that city, has had several doses of arsenic administered to him, with a view to his murder, by his only son, Thomas Fulton, a young man of between 24 and 25 years of age. Mr. Fulton did not reside upon his business premises at Bath, but occupied a country residence called Lambridge. His family consisted of his wife, some daughters, and the son, Mr. Thomas Fulton. The latter was a young man of extravagant and somewhat dissolute habits, but he was indulgently treated by his father and all the family. Little doubt, therefore, is entertained that his object was to destroy his father's life in order to possess himself of the property wherewith to sustain his extravagant habits. For some weeks past, Mr. Fulton, sen., had been attacked at intervals with violent pains, which symptoms came on generally after meals. Medical aid was from time to time procured, and the malady succumbed to the treatment em ployed, but the symptoms, nevertheless, caused great uneasi ness to be felt by all the members of the family. On Sunday, the 19th ult., Mr. Fulton had a very violent attack, which, it is now remembered, came on shortly after his drinking a glass of beer, which was handed to him by his son. Mr. Harris, surgeon, was sent for, and prescribed for the symptoms which he found, and under his treatment the unfortunate gentleman got better, and was sufficiently recovered by the 27th to be able to go into Bath to his place of business. Upon going hou,e again in the evening he felt weak and exhausted, and fanciful as regarded his appetite, and he requested that he might have some fried potatoes and a thin rasher or two of bacon prepared for him. The meat was served up, and Mr. Fulton, after eating a portion of it, complained of tastins• in his mouth the same metallic coppery taste which he had'ob served on former occasions. This was at first ascribed to fancy, but in a few minutes he was seized with pains as be fore. Mr. Harris was again called in, and his su s pi c i ons be coming excited, inquiries were instituted, an d it was to and dis covered that when the fried potatoes were b e i ng prepared, Mr. Thomas Fulton entered the kitche n , an d un d er pretence observedust have contrived water into, tto the away, frfrying-pan, n a g the n pa, table of being anxious to prevent delay, volunteered to cut up some on, h emptied otatoes ; e which n: i p i t c l t l i y i e h p p e l afterwards o t v h e a r tafter the fi his fouled t . ah n r a 's sickness afterwards me oy the placed to boil, took the plate of potatoes whi c h rema i ne d in to the garden, that h e e e he was &so to t o thw them pour must the water away. The circumstances increasing the sus picion against him, and leaving little doubt that he•had con trivel to mix some poisonous substance with the potatoes, portion of the c on t en t s o f t h e stomach, and subsequentlya the l frying-pan, were sent to Mr. Herapath, the well-known ana- lytical chemist, of Bristol, who succeeded in producing arsenic from both. Finding that his diabolical Fulton attempt at parricid e had been d e t ecte d , • young .fled from his home and has not since been heard of. A warrant has, however, ms, been issued fin. his arrest, and a description of his person telegraphed to the different police-stations. York yield d ral o d f th estimatese present ./ 68 1 , 3 L °° so i rr ° in bas Am he err ls. ct thewh T ea ß t E as New to tal which is 68,000 bushels over that of 1854. A FLOCK OF SHEEP, of precisely the same kind as those the park of Wind s o r , ha s j us t b een p l aced in the in upper part of the park of St. Cloud. AT a recent sale of the Marquis of Ete tud, Lord Londesborough purchased Stockwell, the winner s of the St. Leger, for 3,100 guineas ; at the same sale Nutwith was sold for 1,600 guineas, and Ambrose for 790 guineas. THE thrashing-machines are already merrily at work amongst the new wheat. It may be easily accounted for. A man of money may want straw or a man of straw may want money, while some, wanting neither one nor the other, may deem it prudent, w ith ou t exact l y ant i c i pating a fall in the market, yet withal to realise at the present tempting prices. THE MOORS AND Foansxs.—The moors continue to yield fair sport. Blackgame have been less plentiful than could have been wished, but several of these fine birds have been struck down during the week. The weather has been in gen eral most propitious. The distinguished party at the Duke of Richmond's shootings on the Black-water were out daring four days. On Wednesday last, the Earl of March and the Earl of Derby, after one, p.m., bagged eighteen and a half brace of grouse, six blackcock, and two plover. The same two noble men bagged, on the following day, twenty-five and a half brace of grouse and three hares. The party on the Carr-bridge moors have had good sport since the season opened. Up to the night of Thursday last, after only nine days' regular shooting, it was found that the party, comprising five guns, had brought down no fewer than 2,077 brace of grouse, besides blackgame, snipes, hares, &e. In a season when grouse have been more than usually scarce, this amount of success is quite extraordi nary, and we suspect is unequalled on any other moor in Scot land this year. From the Ross-shire moors we have very favourable reports. Our correspondent says :—" The weather in this country is still of the most favourable character for grouse shooting. On Tuesday last, N. E. Vaughan, Esq., and party, knocked over five roe-deer. On the following day the same party had thirty-five brace of grouse, two and half of blackgame, besides several hares. On the South Garve moor, during the week, J. Edwards, Esq., killed ninety head of game, comprising grouse, blackgame, hares, rabbits, &c' Mr. Pryor and party still continue to get excellent sport. On the. Strathvaugh grounds the party had in one day lately upwards of forty brace. In Strathconnon Forest J. La Touche, Esq., is still bringing down some excellent stags. Among those killed by that gentleman lately are two antlered monsters, whose huge dimensions out strip any we have heard of this season. One of these had fifteen points, and weighed nineteen imperial stone! The other had thirteen points, and weighed fifteen stone! Edward Clough Taylor and friends are bagging from twenty-five to fifty brace a day in Glen Orrin and Glendordie."—Banffehire Journal. HUTS Fon THE CRIMEA.—Some of the huts contracted for by Messrs. Lucas, Brothers, Lowestoft, are now in course of shipment for the Crimea, by the bark Barretto Junior, of London. The huts for the soldiers, of which Messrs. Lucas have provided 53, are designed to accommodate 22 men each, and are 32 feet by 16 feet. The first operation in erecting them will be to lay down cast-iron shoes, of which each hut will require 14. Upon these shcies the sleepers which will re ceive the floor will be placed. The floor of each hut consists of 24 panels, 5 feet 4 inches by 4 feet each ; and the ends of five panels each, with the door in the centre. The gables are two panels in each, with a ventilator to each panel. The sides and ends are bolted together with strong three-quarter inch bolts. The roof is similarly constructed, and is in two thick nesses of three-quarter-inch parallel boarding, the outer being of weather-board, with a layer of felt between. Each roof is provided with two ventilators, and the windows, four in number, are hung upon centres, and will also be available for ventilation. The huts are so light that a man on each side of one of them would be able to move it readily, and they will be easily and rapidly erected, as a side panel will fit any part of the side. The same is also the case with the floor, ends, and roof ; but, to prevent the least confusion or mistake, every panel, &e., is marked with initials referring to the purpose for which it is intended. Messrs. Lucas have also constructed 12 portable huts for hospitals, each of them being designed to accommodate 50 men. They have floors similar to the huts already described, but the walls as well as the roofs are in two thicknesses, with felt between, for the purpose of increasing the warmth of the interiors. The walls consist of sills and heads, with post-frames, forming bays and panels. In aali tion to these hospital huts the enterprising contractors have also been engaged upon 30 officers' huts, 72 feet by 20 feet, and designed to accommodate 16 persons each. The arrangements of these huts are of course on a more extensive scale. 'Each of them contains eight rooms, two transverse passages, with several cross partitions running from end to end. Six corn missariat storehouses, each 76 feet by 20 feet, and 12 others, 40 feet by 20 feet, have also been constructed. These huts required 32,000 bolts, and some idea may be formed of the large quantity of material cut up, and the expedition with which the work has proceeded, when it is stated that 53,000 superficial feet of deal have been daily " worked up." .ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. Rev. W. B. Armstrong, to the Perpetual Curacy of Caledon. Rev. C. J. Camidge, M.A., Incumbent of Nether Poppleton, to the Vicarage of Wakefield. Rev. W. Carter, to the Rectory of Slingsby, Yorkshire. Rev. G. F. de Tessier, B.A. Fellow of Corpus Christi College, to the Curacy of St. Peter-le-Bailey, Oxford. Rev. C. F. Edge, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, to be Chaplain of the British residents at Bahia, in Brazil. Rev. E. Ferrier, to be Government Chaplain at Castletown, in the Isle of Man. _ _ _ Rev. T. Gibbons, 8.A., to the Rectory of St. Peter Tavey, Devonshire. _ _ . Rev. F. Grosvenor, to the Curacy of St. Michael's, Chester. Rev. F. C. Hamilton, to a Vicar-Choralship in the Cathedral of Limerick. Rev. J. Kitcat, M.A., of Oriel College, Oxford, to the Perpetual gewe f iutw i taapsig,actabi,swg i ctppv separated from Shin- Rev. J. Lancaster, A.M., to the Rectory of Kiltennell, in the diocese of Ferns. Rev. H. I. Marshall, Afternoon Lecturer at Margaret's Chapel, Bath, to be Morning Preacher of Walcot Parish Church. Rev. W. J. Marshall, 8.A., to the Rectory of Greudon Under woods, Bucks. Rev. G. Salt, to the Rectory of St. Bridget's, Chester. Rev. C. Sparkes, late Incumbent of St. Mary's, Prince's-road, Lambeth, to the Curacy of Chipping Barnet, Herts. Rev. W. H. Strong, to the Rectory of Newchurch, Lancashire. Rev. J. Watson, to the Rectory of St. Peter's, Chester. Rey. W. F. VV. Watson, M.A., to the Rectory of Ickleford, Herts. Rev. G. W. Winter, M.A., to the Rectory of Litcham, with East Lexham annexed, Norfolk (on his own petition). CLERICAL OBITUARY. Aug. 29, at Clifton, the Rev. James Marshall, Incumbent of Christ Church, Clifton, aged 59. Aug. 30, in Portman-square, the Rev. Henry John Bolland, Rector of Siddington, Gloucestershire, aged 49. Sept. 2, at St. Leonard's-on-the-Sea, of consumption, in his 30th year, the Rev. John Burrows, M.A., only son of the late Major John Burrows, of Hamilton-terrace, St. John's-wood. DIOCESE OF CHESTER. PREFERMENTS. — The Rev. John Watson was on Thursday collated to the rectory of St. Peter, in the diocese of Chester, void by resignation of the Rev. Frederick Ford, by the Lord Bishop of Chester, patron in right of his see.—The Rev. George Scott was the same day collated to the rectory of St. Bridget with St. Martin's, in the city of Chester, void by the death of the Rev. W. P. Hutton, by the Lord Bishop of Chester, patron in right of his see.—The Rev. W. H. Strong was, on the same day, instituted to the rectory of Newchure,h, in the county of Lancaster, void by cession of the Rev. F. A. Bartlett, upon the presentation of the Rev. J. J. Hornby, Rector of Winwick, the patron, for this turn only, in right of his rectory.—The Rev. Francis Haden Cope was, on the same day, licensed to the stipendiary curacy of Windermere, in the county of Westmoreland, upon the nomination of the Rev. Sir Richard Fleming, Bart., the rector. SINCE the accession of Dr. Graham to the see of Chester, in the latter part of the year 1848, his lordship has consecrated 59 churches. THE Salisbury Journal gives a full report of the primary charge of the Bishop of Salisbury, from which it appears that his lordship laid much stress on the example set him by his predecessor, in the work he had accomplished. During the 16 years of Bishop Denison's episcopate, out of 556 churches and chapels in the diocese, the number in which two sermons were preached every Sunday had risen from 143 to 426, and in which Holy Communion was administered monthly from 35 to 181. ST. PAUL'S AND ST. BABNABAS.-It was intimated at the sitting of the Consistory Court, on Friday, that judgment in the cases of Westerton and Beale v. Liddell will not be deli vered until November. — ted A , restoration o ' h church of St. Mary, the the rebuilding of the ancient pans nave for cathedral purposes, fitting up of the remains of the of the oak church is built, the decoration . as soon as a new REST? RAT f lO C N arl O i ll sle Cek a ß th m e s d L r E al C is iT c u on E t n em ß A p t. repairingneoemxpternissiin_vge tracery of the great east window, an repairs of the fabric and Chapter, thinking the substantial - of the cathedral estates an excellent out of the funds appeal oppor tunity for making these alterations, have made au . o f the oe new oldstainedorgan. glass The 1 Dean n e t an he to the the ioh a c heartily responded to. inhabitants of o a f nd Carlisle and the neighbourhood, which is N under in conseque nce o f th e W ar, we are glad to perceive that thebßadvir C badnesslioufßCEB 7 trade, an O d it the M s l ev N e c r il e E t e a T x E at ß i; N w ° e t a w r i e ths lab ta o ll u a r i i n n g g Manchester is now either actually building, or actively engaged in canvassing subscriptions for, no less than five churches— one in Hulme, another in Ancoats, another in Miles Platting, another again at the top of RoChdale-road, adjoining Colly hurst, and lastly one for the population of Cheetwood and Strangeways, to be built in 'Waterloo -road. The last mentioned, at present, we believe, appertains to the Cathedral, never having been yet been partitioned out to any church, or had any special spiritual supervision, although upwards of a mile in length, and three-quarters of a mile in breadth, and containing a population of between eight and nine thousand. The peculiarity of the Cheetwood Church will, we doubt not, recommend it to the liberality of all classes of churchmen, be they high, low, or broad. The committee (who, from our advertising columns, it will be seen, number nearly 40) however they may differ in other church matters, are all agreed,and are prepared to join hand and heart in building a place of worship, to be entirely free from pew rents, in lieu of which there is to be a competent endowment fund. No one who enters the various places of worship, situated in or ad joining our poorest districts, but must deplore the almost uni versal absence of the masses of the people. The fact that out of 450,000 only 190,000 attend the various places of worship in Manchester and Salford, is a sufficient proof that -some thing is lamentably wrong in our present parochial system ; and ask the poor operative why he does not attend to his church or chapel, and the reply often is, either that he has not decent apparel in which to appear, or when he has gone to any place of worship he has been placed behind the door, where it has been impossible to hear, or in consequence of wealthy pewholders, to approach nearer the pulpit. Here, then, at any rate is one great difficulty removed ; here, surely, irrespective of many other commendatory considerations, is a step in the right direction ; and one or two facts which have come to our knowledge convince us that though contributions may not now pour in so quickly as they at other times would, the attempt will ultimately be crowned with success, One which we cannot forbear mentioning is, that a working man t o w i th one of large family to provide for, wrote a note a few days of of the secretaries, sympathising with the wants wood, and offering his donation of £5 ! requesting to eolleet thne permission to have a card on which persons from various subscrip tions from his acquaintances. Several parts of Lancashire, highly subscriptions. For our free church, have also sent theirin tive, unceasing, and persevering own part, judging from the ac efforts of one or two who are now most actively en i ap goo c d i o t b n .ec gt t he l‘ i . d e ea d of anbt entirely n great a d and dccessful accomplishment, and not s itsn - at t f h O e C a h a e m et e . * 4- God speed !—Manchester Courier. may wish I. comparative]` m canvassi ng para tir e f l o y r speedy y _