The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-14 00:00:00

Sept. 14, 1847. Local Mr. Gibson, the celebrateisculptor, was last week on 1% visit with C. Lawrence, Esq. at Aigburth. The dead bod of a new-horn' child was found in St. John's churchyay rd on Tuesday. Police officer, John Yates, one of the parish assistants, e mployed in removing Irish immigrants, died on Thurs day of fever. On Monday John Hesketh, who resided in St. Martin 'street fell down his cellar steps and died a few days after of apoplexy. '''..najeentY;eß Y - val at Lind stayed, during her engagement at the o the house of Mrs. Abbot corner of - • . •••ng-street and Hope-street. be At the meeting in Cutler's Hall, Sheffield, the week fore last, the health of EarlFitzwilliam was given by Sir Arnold Knight, M.D., of this town, who praised the no ole lord 55 an excellent Irish Street Tnesday, the brewery of Mr. Whiteside, Beresford , fell wallopwn into the adjoining yard. The foundation of the ad been undermined, and the damage is estimated At £6O. oil On Thursday night a wooden shed. filled with c asks, belonging to. Messrs. Ayres and Jeffrey, and situate in Blackstock-street, was burnt to the ground. The damage is estimated at £3OO. It is rumoured that a company is to be formed for pur chasing the Great Britain, and placing her on the Liverpool an d New Orleans trade. She still remains on the gridiron in the Prince's Basin. On Sunday forenoon, the novel ceremony of adult bap r,,ha was performed by the Rev. appear M'Neile, at St. Jude's klurch. The person baptiseded to be about 25 Years of age. It was Mr. Williams, of Itanelagh-street, who nego tiated the important sale of property in Duke-street to the Corporation, which was confirmed at the last Council Meeting. FATAL .ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday, James Leary, aged 50, employed at Messrs. Irvine, Son, and Jones s starch manufacturers, Blackstock-street, got entangled amongst the machinery, and was killed on the spat. SUICIDE.—On Tuesday last a man named John Wat son, aged 27, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a table knife. He died at the Southern Hospital on the following day. He was separated from his wife, and addicted to drinking. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—On Wednesday, near mid night, a gentleman, whilst walking up Islington, was very dexterously robbed by a female of a pocket-book, con taining bills and cash to the amount of £B4O. She unfor tunately escaped. A brick- ma ki n b g machi ne o f simple construction has re centlyiver F ee n con structed by Messrs. Pearson and Co., of bricksnundry, Parli ament-street, w hi c h com pl e tes two thirt at the sa me time, and will turn out on an average Y per min u t e. Mr. John M'Kenzie has been presented with a hand !pipe lever watch, with a gold guard and key, by the O live Branch Lodge of the Grand United Order of Odd fellows, on his retirement from the office of treasurer to the lodge. The season at the Zoological Gardens will close next week: so that the public have now very few other oppor tunities.,_ of s ee i ng the beautiful Palace of Versailles , and Madam e other num b er l ess a tt rac ti on s of this charming retreat. •wladame Rossini and the Fire Demon havebeen re-engaged. A f oreign seaman was knocked down on Tuesday night, about tr seven o'clock, by two men in Mill-street, and pigged of hi s wa t c h. The thieves escaped. The same ;Int a Kent named Stanton, was knocked down by four th' n in seet, and robbed of his jacket. One of ( ;..lhiscreant s was caught. b rreat fears are entertained for the barque Canopus, pl 'Nine to Stromness, which sailed from Liverpool for 5 i,.." 11 , Nova Scotia, on the 15th April, as no . word has st uce been heard of her. It is very generally believed that must have foundered at sea, and all on board, consist 'V a crew of fourteen and eight passengers, perished. b v e r lt r „ev. J. Jones, who has been appointed to the ru ylP' ‘-hrist-church, in this town, has been presented Salve r foTnaer flock at Welshpool, with a very elegant Cllris'ti a i r , i n admiration of his exemplary conduct as a Arehde a agbralti(;_l.enssti.. hainister, during the time he held a curacy under Trig Co Clive. onf Ltrietc°ll: s'aom INDIA.—One hundred and fifty Leitch Orleans seed cotton, received by the ' was consigned to Messrs. William Clare Posed a N , brokers, Exchange Buildings, who have clis varioo:l the greater part of it at the price of 61d. peril), to rem • spinners in small parcels : about twenty-two bales remain unsold LORD s • tranek aNnoN.—A requi s iti on , h ea d e d by Si r Thomas er and many other leading inerhants, is now in course of signatu re , ca lli ng upon t h e mayor to convene a Publi meeting, to co ns id er th e propr i ety o f present i ng . a testimonial to Lo r d S an d on , i n ac k now l e d gmen t o f h is s ervices during the sixteen years he has represented Li v erpool in p ar li ament. Upwards of £7OO has been sub scribedd for the testimonial. On Thursday morning a respectably dressed young woman, (name unknown,) who had just arrived from Manchester to proceed by the steamer to the Isle of Man, fell down in an apoplectic fit, when about to proceed on board, and died ere medical skill could be rendered. She was leaning on .a gentleman's arm, who was leading her towards the slip, when, without any previous intimation, she sank at his feet a corpse. On Wednesday, the workmen in the employ of Mr. Mayer, goldsmith, Lord-street, partook of their annual linner at the George Hotel. Twenty-five sat down. Mr. ! l ayer has rece n tly ma d e very ex t ens i ve a ddi t i ons t o hi s 1 8 ;ablish ment, wh i ch is now, we are told, unsurpassed dou ble out of London. His premises must now be dou ,a,it,9l.ir former size, whilst his extensive stock is replete i tT A N I: most chaste and elegant articles. one eigir',%PitnEsTruArrs.—A few days ago, two lads, broti i -a "' - a-half and the other six-and-a-half years Ind at She Past left their grandfather's house, in this town, Past nine on the following night reached the hear Itee,e,re their mother was servant, at Middleton, Pool. ri; iv ale, a distance of forty-five miles from Liver 'n their Peale lads stated that they had only a penny_ a va. pant ets when they started, and that they lodged at tad b il l :cflice (probably at Warrington) the first night, yeet, oenired their way to Middleton. They had never t xti h_t of Liverpool before. grati o „ 6 , ll A•TioN FROM LIVERPOOL.—The amount of emi- Burp, from Great Britain and Ireland has this year far the ..ssed that of any previous one, as will be seen from tollowi hg returns of emigration from this port alone : B run u.e United States, 77,403 ; Canada, 27,666; New gland E, 1 ,479 ; Nova Scotia, 171 ; Prince Edward's th e r d * l 4; other places, 311 ;—total, 107,474. This is vast ` lll r/ 1 made up to Monday, the 6th instant. Of this tete Timber of emigrants, two-thirds were Irish - and of the aud aln ing one-third, two-fifths were Scotch and English, for,- °he-fifth German, of whom a larger number than VerlY left this port during the past season. O,,!•LEROIC CONDUCT.—On Saturday week the mate of t ue of the steamers fell into the river, when Mr, Ebenezer a ,, a r, of 62, Seacombe-street, plunged into the water, re " after a struggle of quarter-of-an-hour succeeded in Mi scuin g him. He was insensible when brought to °r two but after being at the Northern Hospital for a day ntwo recovered. On the following Monday Mr. Bates the instrument of saving another life. On this 0c .1,4a1,510 n a man, named Wm. Westby, fell from the Sarah .ison, to which vessel he belongs, with a tar-barrel and p ew mir e i x u e te rt s i , on s B co a r t p es se , .7• ep h o l e cket in his o hands. Had it not been for the truly hove been a . poor Westby would, in a JENNY LIND IN LIVEDPOO house on M onday night amounte d receipts of the nesday they only re ac h e d half that Xl,BOO •on Wed ceipts in Li verpool, therefore, wereslT Tlie total re believe, received £5OO per night, Balrelo' Jenny, we and Gardoni £5O per n i ght. The theatre was i ner night, Knowles for the moderate sum of £6B per night, °l‘lr. includ ing the services of the musicians, scene-shifters, a nd other auxiliaries. If we suppose Lablache to have h a d .£25 per night, and the cost of the other vocalists to have been £5O per night, and a ll ow i n a ddition £5O per ni g h t f or extra incidental expenses, the total outlay for Liver- Pool was £1,586, which, deducted from the receipts , leaves for 'Viz.. Knowles the very pretty profit of £1,214. A NNUAL DINNER OF TII E LIVERPOOL LOAN COM - „, 4111 r. -- --The annual dinner of this influential . company las given on Wednesday evening last at Mr. Whttem i an's : holders Hotel, Hotel, when a large number of the share_ high d t that fully upheld the , sat own to an entertammen g° chara t h host of that well-conducted c er the wort y e stabli chair was occupied by kr shment has deserved. The Gl ason, , and the vice-chairs by Mr. Harper, of the rL e rPool Gas Company, and Mr. Jordan, of London aoall After a notice of the satisfactory working the th e c 'Y bY Mr. Atherton, the secretary, the proposing of bolltral toasts was proceeded with, and they were re ecl to in a quiet but impressively feeling manner. Pit4trnost harmony prevailed throughout, and the hila tlaleanifested was not only unanimous but genuine. katelj r lNG MATCH FOR £loo.—On Tuesday, a trotting ste t , °r £5O a-side came off betwixt Tranmere and Ches t • ,Ale e gentleman owning the horse connected with ai4 h e a ,,lch was Mr. Riley, of this town, who had matched IPa e 3 e for the above amount to trot, in one hour, the sixteen Before the betting against r. een miles. stating 'at th e teY 3 horse, and consequently in favour of time, was 4 11 ,1° of sto 4. At starting, the betting was even. oa 'e was started at the first mile stone from Birken "'one a4he Chester-road, having to go to the eighth mile hl l thetti o r eturn to the starting place. In the meantime `"IY th,,,g,was rather against the performance, but even s;cers o f',„,horse came to the winning post, amidst the sec onds ' 4l e spectators, within two minutes and forty-five L ie ; of th e • • appointed time. b‘ h is SEssioN.—The annual licensing session for chse.°—now lice ..„ .n g,h was held on Thursday, at the Sessions nere were about 20 magistrates present. 38 ~11stial, apses were granted —a much larger number than list ofnu about 50 transfers made. The following is a li st th e ,it w ,„Parties who have obtained new licenses. The fail e d 4 . "I be seen, contains only 36. names, two having . 4 _Tim ar e Prove their notices.—Parish of Liverpool : Eliz. tlary IL J. Chursholm, Win. Fisk, Wm. Silk Harris, ''llast, o „'„ell, Alexander Rule, Wm. Gregson, Edmund Qa CO •Llizabeth Sweatham, Anthony Sharp, Samuel .agnau en eating, Blower, Thomas Wilson, George Boyer, fle ia-eatin g , Joseph Allen, Sarah liar ; Peacop, 7 G Sav-erwood, John Wibberley, Edward Jones, t h'ese,, wat - I Zin, and John Dutton.— Toxteth-park : Alice a nd S• Lawler , Stananought, - Joo n • George Seddon, aa seph .4,zteefern.— West Derby : John Conway Brooks, 4 ind • 1N • Wheatley, and Edward Newnes.—Evertors , Iftrkdale • A 'C ls j,. nn u haw, Thomas Gidman, John N E „'lnes Scarishrick, and Thomas Rushton. . absea„tll TOO LATE TO LEARN."—III Liverpool it is gavot do essary to write a goo d hand. To those who Mr SO we again recommend the establishment of holy tiven ""ompton ayton-square ~ who,. for Clperiod of 614, , l . est e years, has maintained in this town the sio iaraYcter for ability and uprightness in his profes- Th eal lls__ a teacher of wr iti ng , b ook-keep i ng, &c. M r. Mrs s ably assi s t e d i n t h e ladies ' department b y ' 4 i commU n : n iPson, to wh ose announcement in another f ecti4 „ . _e irect the attention of ladies suffering from du- Tv cattgAtin Chair culler y earn, rallied m arket 70Ibs• • flour/ e to be 'he ar•• it, th e ish out which Fuca to The brings 1 ne , C 5 cotton , 100 re° in ed to The ,200 to 1 MOO been :•oming tie re els Pe r d 5 Pe r d 5 Pe r I gdotot less for to th e Ible for • ssel jo , s tool Is sin ce under 1 tub S, is ; an rei S 1 00 rein 12,0 0° id 2, 5uv, r aces, to tive ! V t i kers aced u 1° ill the di- a nk any in iers w e 'fr e nd A leM .i g O . " b e rs reel ougholit lisettlea to exert these -- taly an d •ower my of an conside juncturo l in their O prO—A ° A declin e ' accoun t. ants 1 ents., ab. to 2.1 1 ; as, at 4s. Bit there , ve beef/ losiog atiler/ Redu ce" Re , Per Cela l e e qUO, ‘ „,I T XIFINv will bet ; by th'i cE 011 ralist 'as in t'v - Londo o . ; mbled vever, lerY Let ivLaf b ; i g for own PT of Cock pay SUC tt l e mor e au dience have bee_ stance Wo elassesi lgallowe; ~ in ord . . , howeirifl iointe iq s and . rientog, ly her 5';109 m i ng tO 0 .4 e li g f r oO d flows evincesate re tain b ly 133° 01 a , rac tes oger s? ,5 her be I Ala ' 9 ber taSsboOtily;oool copi ed ' ' l.o' rierailY Tit LIVERPOOL STANDARD. A PILOT NEARLY DROWNED.—A few days ago, Mr , John Williams, third master of No. 6 pilot-boat, had a most miraculous escape from death, while attempting to board a barque off Point Lynas, during a furious north wester, with a heavy sea running; which precluded the use of a small boat. The large pilot-boat ran alongside the barque, and as Williams attempted to jump into the mizen rigging of the barque, he missed his hold, and fell between the two vessels into the sea. As they pitched and rolled heavily, every body on board thought he would be crushed to death between them, when fortunately he rose to the surface, and struggled hard to keep himself up. In an instant a life-buoy was thrown to him from the pilot-boat, which sustained him in the water until four of his brave companions launched the punt and pulled to his assist ance, and rescued him from his perilous situation in a very exhausted state, after having been in the water half-an ho ur. LOCAL MEETINGS. HANK OF LIVERPOOL.—Tbe sixteenth annual meeting of the proprietors of this bank was held on Friday. There was a pretty fair attendance of the shareholders. Mr. Samuel Sandbach took the chair; and the report of the directors was read, from which it appeared that the capital of the bank was £625,000, and the reserved fund, which on the 30th of June, 1846, amounted to £250,000, amounted on the 30th of June last to £270,000, thus showing an increase in that department of £20,000. A dividend for the year of ten per cent. was declared, and Messrs. R. H. Blundell, Hardman Earle, and W. R. Sandbach, were appointed directors in the place of the gentlemen who retire. WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—At the meeting, on Wed nesday, Mr. Sheppard took the chair. A letter was read from the Poor-law Commissioners, wishing to have the opinion of the guardians as to the grievance complained of by Mr. Parker, in his letter to them, respecting the manner in which Mr. Allen, the relieving officer for West Derby. performs his duties, and the mode adopted by him for giving relief in Bootle. It was agreed that the law clerk should draw up an answer to the Poor'-law Com missioners, which lie did. The letter stated that to the best belief of the guardians, the officer had followed the course of his predecessor, and being a young officer, and his duties being also very heavy, he might have pursued the course stated by Mr. Parker, but that he has now adopted the mode of paying each pauper separately. From the fever hospital report it appeared that there were remaining in the house last wetk 112 ; dismissed during the week 43 ; dismissed cured 27 ; died 7 ; re maining in the house 119. Mr. Appleby gave notice that he would, on Wednesday, move that so much of the mo tion relating to the immediate payment of the parochial rates be rescinded. BIRKENHEAD CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—On Friday, a numerous and respectable meeting of the Bir kenhead Church Missionary Society was held at St. Mary's Church, Birkenhead, the Rev. Andrew Knox in the chair. Amongst the clergy present we observed the Rev. J. H. Baylee, and several of the clergy of Liverpool, Birkenhead, and the neighbourhood. After the 84th hymn had been sung, the chairman offered up an appropriate prayer, and proceeded to open the business of the meeting. He stated that he had great pleasure in meeting the assembly at, the anniversary of their Church Missionary Society. He felt thankful, indeed, that the society had continued till that day. It was now 18 years since he (Mr. Knox) had been allowed to establish this society, and he thought that there was now great cause for deep thankfulness to the Lord for this blessing. In the year 1846, the sum collected was £223 ls. Bd., and the disbursements only £3 Is. Bd., be sides which there were annual subscriptions, and the amount collected at the Church of the Holy Trinity, and other sources, which made the total income of • the society £269. True it was that in one year they sent up as much as £3OO to the parent society ; but this year there had been a great want of money, and he (the chairman) was grateful to the Almighly that they had been able to collect so much. The meeting was then addressed by the Rev. William Hill, of Leicester, the Rev. William Machin, minister of Christ's Church, Derby, and the Rev. Henry Carpenter, secretary of the Liverpool branch of the society, who severally entered into details of the operations of the society and its missionaries in India, China, Sierra Leone, New Zealand, and other parts of the world. A collection was made before the close of the meeting, which took place at a quarter past nine o'clock . HARRINGTON WATER WORKS.—A general meeting of this company was held on Wednesday, at the Clarendon rooms, to receive the directors' report on the sale of the works to the corporation. The Chairman (Harewood Banner, Esq.,) detailed the steps which the directors had taken in opposing the Corporation Water Bill, and said that the corporation must now purchase the water com panies before obtaining water from Rivington Pike or any other place. He then read an account of the various interviews and conferences which had occurred, from which it appeared that Mr. Lace was the only member of the Council present at them, and that the deputation pro posed to recommend twenty-five years purchase, and to accept of the bonds of the Corporation for payment by convenient instalments; that if these terms were agreed to, the dividend of last year might be taken ; if not, the present income and prospective advantages of the com pany would form the basis of the company's claim. Mr. Lace said a money price should be named, and he offered a. certain sum, which Mr. Hawksley thought sufficiently large, but which the directors declined to accept. The chairman concluded by saying that the directors con sidered they stood in the same position as if no offer or sum had been named—that the Corporation were in the same position—that both were entering freely and fairly, SMUGGLING.—WiIIiam Holford, master of a flat, was unprejudiced and unfettered into the arbitration agreed on Friday fined £lOO, for having a l arge quan tity of and that the directors would be in safe hands when in those tobacco secreted in his vessel, but as he appeared to have of Mr. Stephenson, who would give a fair and full con sideration for the present and increasing value of their been the victim of other parties, his case was recommended to the merciful consideration of the Excise. On the same property. (Applause.) In reply to Mr. Sandbach, the day, two seamen, belonging to the Frederick William, of chairman stated that the decision of the arbitrator must Dantzic, were remanded, on a charge of having a quantity be given within six months, and that until the payment of tobacco concealed under their beds. The cook o f th e of the purchase-money the proprietors would be entitled same vessel submitted to a fine of 40s. and costs, for to all their receipts. Upon the motion of Mr. R. Mather, smuggling four pounds of leaf tob acc o. seconded by Mr. Sandbach, the report of the directors was MARINE STORE DEALER'S CASE.—Ellen Nicholson, unanimously adopted ; and Mr. Stephenson was appointed the keeper of a marine store in Harrington-street, Tox- sole arbitrator. Mr. Jevons said the sum offered by the teth-park, was placed at the police-court on Friday, Council (£300,000) was a direct and deliberate insult to on a charge of receiving stolen cotton. Storey, 253, the company, and only equal to the sum offered two years stated that on the p rece di ng d ay h e saw a g i r l enter before, when the works were less valuable. The Chair- Nicholson's store, and pla ce a sma ll quan tit y o f cotton on man said the directors had not the slightest intention of the scales ; the prisoner was in the act of putting her offering the property for less than twenty-five years pur hand into her pocket to take out the money f or payment, chase. The question would be, what was the income, when the officer arrested her. It is not the first time that whether the past, the present, or an increasing income ; Mrs. Nicholson has been before the bench on si m il ar but all would be claimed that in fairness and justice could charges. The child who offered the cotton for sale, was, be demanded. The money must be paid before the 22nd by the judicious consideration of Storey, brought up as of January, 1848, and the company were precluded from evidence against the woman, though it was not taken. creating the new shares. The prisoner was committed to prison for one month. THE LIVERPOOL RAGGED SCHOOL SOCIETY.—On ILLEGAL PAWNING.—A prostitute, named Mary Ann Tuesday, the first annual meeting of the members of this Wilson, was brought before Mr. Rushton, on Friday, society was held; Mr. Timothy Jevons in the chair. Mr. charged by John Davis, a seaman, with stealing his jacket F. Hornblower, the secretary read the report. which stated and five dollars. It appeared that the man accompanied that donations and subscriptions had been received in ac- Wilson to a house in Thomas-street, on Thursday night, cordance with the resolutions and addresses issued at the and that on the following morning he missed the money formation of the society. Two schools were opened in and his jacket. The jacket had been pledged. The case July, 1846, as free evening schools for the poor, one for resolved itself into one of illegally pledging. She was boys at 7, Newhall-street, and the other for girls at 35, required to pay ss. or a fine of twenty, or to be imprisoned Greenland-street. They were immediately crowded and seven days. Mr. Rushton ordered the pawnbroker to besieged by applicants for instruction, and much difficulty deliver up the jacket, and remarked that when women of was experienced in getting them into anything like order, the description of the prisoner came to pledge articles of especially in the boys' school, when, however, the exer men's clothing, it might be readily inferred that they had ertions of the able master were successful. Subsequently been obtained in a dishonest manner. a second boys scnool was opened in the room belonging CAUTION TO TRADESMEN.—On Friday, a woman to the soup kitchen, in New Bird-street, under the super named Eleanor Whitehouse, was brought before Mr. intendence of the same master, his place in Newhall-street Rushton, charged by Mrs. Margaret Barton Redfern, being afterwards well filled by another efficient teacher, with having obtained three pair of stays from her under each of the two principal masters having also an assistant. false pretences. The prisoner had ordered the stays under A second girls' schools also was formed in the neighbour a fictitious name. A number of other shopkeepers, all hood of the first. The soup kitchen being occupied until of whom had been victimized by Whitehouse, attended, a later hour than usual last winter, it became necessary to and detailed the fraudulent practices of the woman. The remove the boys' school assembling there to Greenland magistrate informed them that the only course open for street, the girls' school being then removed into a spacious redress was by an appeal to the County Court. The wo- room, at 7, Bedford-street, Toxteth-park. The average man was of course dismissed. She had not left the court number of boys actually attending in the two schools was many minutes before a man of respectable appearance 93; that of girls 92, The four schools were thus carried came into court and begged protection. Ii appeared that on without interruption till the end of June, 1847, when the man was the husband of the female swindler, and com- the prevalence of fever in the district made the committee plained of one of her victims, who had followed the pair deem i t ri g ht to close th e m for two months, securin g the from the court and annoyed them. The person thus renewed services of the teachers at the end of that term. offending expressed his determination to follow the parties They regretted to state that Mr.Dewer, an earnest and valu for the purpose of proclaiming their practices, which he able master of the Newhall-street school, himself fell a vic described as a systematic, plan of swindling. The magis- tim to the fever. Looking back at the past year, the commit trate informed the gentleman that the law would not tee thought that much good had been done, and the pos bear him out in that course, and advised him to comma- sibility of doing still greater demonstrated. The premises, nicate with the secretary of the Guardian Society. however, hitherto occupied were not spacious enough for SMOKE NUISANCE.—On Tuesday four informations the purpose. To complete the system, the committee were were heard before the magistrates against the proprietors of opinion that industrial day schools should be esta of furnaces and mills for not consuming their own smoke. blished, in which neglected children that had no legiti- The first information was against Mr. Thomas Raws- mate means of getting a livelihood might be fed as well as thorn, proprietor of a furnace in a Limekiln-lane, and a taught, and in which they might be instructed in the prac policeman deposed to seeing, on the 3d u lt , b lack tice of some art, and thereby acquire habits of steady and smoke issuing from the defendant's premises a t . mid-day. regular industry. But the committee had not felt them- Mr. John Grantham stated that he was an engineer, and selves in a position to attempt more than the establish that he was acquainted with the premises occupied by the ment of evening schools for poor children occupied during t defendant. He inspected the engine apparatus there on the day, which schools they thought might be advanta the 9th of August, and found that the boiler was of eyihi_ geously extended over the whole town. The report, in drical shape. There was a fire underneath it ; and the conclusion, announced with regret that the funds were ex smoke-burning apparatus was applied, but the air being hausted; a school of 60 scholars, it was estimated, might be admitted at the back, fell in various ways. The smoke- supported with an annual amount of £4O. The statement burner seemed tolerably successful. The defendant said of accounts showed a balance in hand of only £5 10s. 81d. the boiler had been there for thirteen years, and that since BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS.—The usual monthly the apparatus had been applied, there had been some board was held on Tuesday. C. 13entham, Esq., in the trifling repairs. He named four new rivets in the furnace. chair.—The minutes of the Lighting and atching Cora- He (Mr. Grantham) was of opinion that the age of the mittee having been read, Mr. Greene observed that he boiler was the cause of the failure, and not the apparatus. thought it rather churlish to refuse the assistance of the He was also of opinion that it was quite practicable to police at the Eastham regatta, as Birkenhead had often affix a smoke-consuming apparatus to the boiler. Mr. availed itself of the assistance of Liverpool officers. It James M'Donald stated that he was the engineer to the was explained that the only reason why assistance had Liverpool and Harrington Water-works Company, and not been afforded was, because the Birkenhead police that he had several steam-engines under his charge. He could not legally act out of Birkenhead. The proceedings had applied the smoke-consuming apparatus, and he had were then confirmed. The proceedings of the Market succeeded in consuming smoke without any apparatus at Committee recommended the reduction of the rents of all, at one of the company's stations. At the station in the green-grocers' stalls from £8 to £6, and of the fish William-Henry-street he had consumed the smoke with- shops from £l5 to £l3. As a considerable amount of out the apparatus, and at the several other stations of the rent was due from the tenants, it was recommended by company he had the consuming apparatus applied ; and no the chairman that the rents should be collected weekly. injury to the boiler had ever taken place, so far as he The minutes of the Finance Committee contained a reso knew. He had used the apparatus with his boilers for the lution, accepting the purchase of the park land by the last five or six years. The defendant said that his smoke- Park Building Company. It appeared from the proceed burner consumed in a better manner than any at the ings, that Messrs. Rampling and Brittain had been ap north end of the town, but that it was a great detriment pointed valuers of the land by the magistrates, and that to the boiler. He had ordered a new boiler, and paid the price fixed was ss. per square yard. In answer to Mr. £l5O for it ; and if it were not for the smoke-burning Hicklin, Mr. Fox said the quantity was about 335,388 apparatus, that boiler would last him ten years. Mr. square yards. The valuation of Messrs. Rampling andßrit- Rushton said it had been held to be essential to the tin having been read, and also a report from Mr.Waln, the health of the town, that the apparatus for consuming town-clerk, on the subject, it was resolved, on the motion smoke should be adopted, and the magistrates were de- of Mr. Greene, that the sale of the land was confirmed.— termined to enforce the fine. The defendant must, there- The proceedings of the Ferry Committee were read. The fore, be fined in the full penalty of £5 and costs. The receipts for the month of August, 1846, were reported to next information heard was against William Gerard and be £2251 3s. sd, and for 1847 £1956 6s. sd. From the Benedict Slater, for negligently using their furnaces. 23d of April to the 31st of August, in 1846, £9,913 4s. Id., A policeman deposed to seeing smoke issuing from the and in 1847 £8844 Its. 2d. The total expenditure was defendant's premises in Fleet-street, on the 6th August, £6151 7s. sd. Mr. Hind moved that the contemplated at forty minutes past one, but Mr. Rushton said after reduction of the wages of the parties who attended the hearing the case :—" We are disposed not to convict, not gates of the Woodside and Monks' Ferries be nut carried because we do not think the offence committed, but be- out, but that they remain as at present at 355. per week. cause there appears to be some doubt whether a dense Mr. Fox seconded the motion ; but, on the motion of smoke can be effectually prevented. It is a difficulty you Mr. Greene, it was agreed that the matter be referred to have to contend with, and it does not appear that any the Finance Committee. There was some discussion on a dense volume of smoke was observed, except when the portion of the report, which recommended that the boats steam was raised after the dinner hour. We shall not should leave each side of the water six times every hour, convict, but it is quite necessary at the same time the de- and no one would be detained at either side more than five fendants should be informed that as it appears practical to minutes at any time. On the motion of Mr. Hind, se prevent dense masses of smoke from arising they must conded by Mr. Fox, it was carried, by the casting vote of look to it in future. They must not do this a second the chairman, that the present system he continued.—The time." Acquitted. Jonathan Banks and Co., and Mr. minutes of a committee appointed to consider the pro- John Brocklebank, were then severally fined in £5 each priety of applying for a charter of incorporation was then and costs for similar infringements of the sanatory act. read, but the only business which had been done was, that —On Wednesday two informations were laid against the the cost of obtaining the charter should be ascertained. owners of ferry boats. One was against Mr. Sothern, Confirmed. The motion which was brought forward on owner of the Egremont steamer, Prince Albert, but the the last board day, for a detailed statement of the ex_ ownership of the boat was not Proved. The other was penses incurred in the endeavours to obtain the gas and against the owner of the Queen of Beauty, but the case water bills, was then read, and moved by the Chairman, was postponed. In both instances the steamers were st-conded by Mr. Greene. The board divided, when there furnished with smoke consumers, which were inefficient, appeared,—For the motion, Messrs, Mallaby, Greere, but the inefficiency was 9Mioned, it wii§Rlleged, ih.r9ugh Fox, Hicklin, Nicholls, and the Chairman.—Agakl o t it, negligenw, NOM, rikc i ilind 2 Thoipson, DAMurt NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING.—On Wednesday morning an accident occurred at St. George's-pier, which, but for the extraordinary presence of mind displayed by a little boy, must have terminated fatally, as the tide was running rapidly at the time. • On the arrival of the nine o'clock boat from Woodside, Mr. Richard Rowdier, of Kirkham, near Preston, with his son, a lad about seven years of age, was in the act of stepping ashore, with the boy under his arm, when he missed his footing, and both fell into the river, between the packet and the pier-head steps. Mr. Bawdier, being unable to swim, was clearly in very great danger of drowning, when a rope was thrown from the shore, which the little boy managed to lay hold of, and held himself and his father until further assistance could ,be rendered, which was done as speedily as possible, and both were fortunately saved. The boy seemed as if little aware of the danger he had just escaped, and rather amused at " papa's sound ducking." The father, as may be supposed, was much agitated. The latter remunerated the boatmen in a munificent manner, and was conveyed from the pier in a car. BEBINGTON FLOWS SHOW.—The third or autumn exhibition of the Bebington Floral and Horticultural Society took place on Friday, in the pleasure-grounds of the Rock Ferry llotel. The day unfortunately was wet, and this prevented the throng of beauty and of fashion which has almost invariably characterised previous exhi bitions. The show itself was excellent, and fully sus tained the high character of its predecessors. We never remember to have seen dahlias of finer quality and greater beauty, or in such excellent trim ; and the fuschias, some of immense size, formed a splendid feature in the exhi bition. The stove plant, which obtained the first prize, the Brugmansi Knightii, was a truly wondrous produc tion. An " everlasting rose," exhibited by Mr. C. Woodward, attracted considerably the attention of the curious. We must not omit to remark, that the excellent band of the Local Companies. conducted by Mr. Drewse, discoursed sweet music from a neighbouring arbour. The crowded state of our columns precludes our giving a list of the prizes awarded; but we may remark, that G. J. Wainwright, Esq., was by far the most successful com petitor ; whilst, in regard to fruit, Sir W. M. Stanley, Bart., stood pre-eminently alone. DEATHS FROM FALLING.—On Saturday, an inquest was held before the borough coroner, on view of the body of William Murphy. Mathew Wm. Swarbrick, a printer, in the employment of Messrs. Ross and Nightingale, of the Chronicle Office, said that the printing machine used by these gentlemen was on the premises of Messrs. il mer and Smith, in Church-street. Deceased, who was 35 ;Tars of age, was a stoker or fireman at the place, where the printing is done by means of a steam-engine. On Saturday morning about half-past two o'clock, deceased left the printing room to go up stairs. He was intoxi cated at the time. In a few minutes, a sound as of a per son falling was heard. Witness got a light, and found de ceased lying on the landing of the second flight of stairs from the printing room. He was insensible, and bleed ing from a cut at the back of his head. His feet were up. He was laid upon his back ; the police were called in. He for some time appeared to be asleep, and was left lying. Soon after five o'clock he was found to be dead. A sur geon was called, but could render no assistance. He was addicted to drinking.—About four weeks ago, a female, aged 35, servant with Mr. Timmins, publican, 79, Scot land-road, became rather tipsy, and her master, as she was in the habit of going away when in that state, locked the outside doors to keep her at home. She went to her room up stairs and got out by a window, and on tc a crane, from which it appeared she fell to the ground and hurt her shoulder and side. She went to her brother's house in the neighbourhood, where she was attended by a surgeon, but she died on Saturday from the injuries re ceived in the fall. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE. At the weekly meeting on Thursday, there were pre sent Mr. Bramley-Moore (Chairman), and Messrs. Nicol, Molyneux, Houghton, Horsfall, Henderson, Lockett, Boyden, Rankin, Tobin, Shand, Sandars, Middleton, Wood, and Bold. Mr. Appleton was appointed warehouse-keeper of ware house No. 9, at the Albert Dock, at a salary of £l5O per annum. An allowance for superannuation of 12s. fid. a week was made to three of the dock masters who had been many years in the service. The CHAIRMAN drew attention to the recent frequent evasion of dock rates, to the detriment of the funds of the estate. The evasions were on goods. On Monday fort night, a vessel had received on board 1450 barrels of pow der, for which there were no entries. He had communi cated with Mr. Worthington with a view to make an ex ample of the parties, but an entry was made on the fol lowing morning—the Bth of September—though he had ascertained that the vessel sailed on the 24th of August. This system had been going on to a great extent, but the Committee had had no opportunity of getting hold of it. He also instanced another similar case. Mr. Nicol. said the only course was to instruct the so licitor. The CHAIRMAN submitted the name of the ship on a sheet of paper, with a view to its publication, but it was finally agreed that this would be injudicious until Mr. Worthington had made a report, and the matter was re ferred to that gentleman. THE BIRKENHEAD DOCKS. The CHAIRMAN said an important resolution had been sent to him by the Birkenhead Dock Commissioners, a copy of which, together with a copy of the letter enclosing it, he had sent to every member of the committee. The resolution was to the effect that it would promote the public advantage. if vessels discharging at Birkenhead would be admitted into Liverpool upon the principle of the nearest English port, and vessels discharging at Liver pool would be admitted into Birkenhead upon the same principle, and the dock trustees, if they had not this power already, were requested to obtain it by act of parliament. The letter from Mr. Mallaby requested the favour of an answer at the convenience of the Dock Committee. In reply to Mr. Henderson, he stated that they were on the footing of the nearest English port already, and explained what the Birkenhead Commissioners wanted namely, "That you will admit vessels that enter the Birkenhead Docks first; that such vessels shall be free to come into the Liverpool Docks; that a ylssel shall unload at Birken head, and come here to 100 afterwards without paying any rates: and they wish to reciprocate that practice—that vessels unloading here shall load there without payment," He asked whether, supposing the Committee had the power, they were disposed to accede to such an arrange mens as that proposed; and if they had not the power, whether they would entertain the question of having a clause put into their next act of parliament ? Mr. SHAND said no advantages were set forth by the resolution to induce them to alter the present plan. Mr. HENDERSON said there would be a positive disad advantage to the estate were they to comply with the pro position. The Commissioners at Birkenhead were going to take vessels at 6d. per ton ; and if a vessel discharged there and afterwards came here without paying anything, she would save 9d. per ton, which would be that amount of a bonus to Birkenhead. " They were," he said, " making a desperate wild effort to allure trade to the other side, because, after having expended money on a three acre dock, they find no vessels will go there; and, as a last effort, they are offering to take them in for nothing. Our docks have been built at a great expense, and we must protect our bondholders. It is quite absurd, therefore, to enter into the proposition." Besides, the Birkenhead scheme was a dangerous one for the port of Liverpool, and as such they had resisted it from the first. The proposition was altogether one-sided. A conversation here arose as to what the Birkenhead Commissioners really wanted—whether the gratuitous admission to the Liverpool Docks in ballast, or with cargo on board. Mr. HENDERSON. — They are on the footing now of the nearest English port. They ought to explain what they mean, for, at present, they are mystifying the mat ter. The CHAIRMAN.—If they put in these three additional words "it would promote the public advantage, and the Birkenhead Dock Company particularly, if so and so were done it would express their meaning better." You will have to send an answer to this resolution, and 1 would suggest that you tell them this—that, in the first place, as trustees, and the executive committee of the estate, who have not any personal interest, we could not, without a breach of trust, make any change which would be subservient to the private interests of any parties. The next point would be that you have no power to make it. He would certainly give a decided negative to an application to parliament for such a clause as that proposed—for no parliament would make a public trust subservient to private interests, (Hear.) Upon the motion of Mr. MOLYNEUX, seconded by Mr. Woon, the following resolutionwas unanimously adopted: —"That this committee decline entertaining the propo sitions contained in the resolution of the Birkenhead Dock Company." Mr. HORSFALL said it was satisfactory to know that, notwithstanding the reduction recently made in the dock rates, the income of the estate continued to iocrease. The board then disposed of their financial business, and shortly after dispersed. DAY OF THANKSGIVING.-CLAIMS OF THE COLONIAL CHURCH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—One of the most manifest results of our late na tional calamity, has been the reluctant emigration to our remote colonies of thousands of the poorer members of " the household of faith." The wants of our Colonial Church are, therefore, at this moment more pressing, and her claims upon us more imperative than at any preceding period of her history. The venerable "THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS" may justly claim, under God, the parentage of all that is really blessed in those distant regions ; and should the resources of this truly excellent institution not keep pace with the daily increasing applications for missionaries to minister to the vast multitude sent from amongst us, the result must prove as reproachful to ourselves, as it will be fatal to the souls of our suffering fellow-churchmen. With great humility, but with equal earnestness, T take the liberty of suggesting to my reverend brethren that collections should be made in their churches, on the expected day of Na tional Thanksgiving, in aid of the funds of this valuable society. lam persuaded that the laity would second our efforts, and certainly our appeal to them may be rendered both affecting and efficient. The society is the oldest of our church missionary insti tutions. It possesses the unshaken confidence of the whole bench of bishops,—and the missionaries employed are, as a body, amongst the most pains-taking, self-deny ing, and evangelical, both in doctrine and order, of all la bourers in the field of missions. The Canadas are now pouring into our ports unprecedentedly large supplies of human food ; and it has pleased God, in mercy towards us, and for the sake of His dear Son, to answer " the de vout prayers" of His Church by turning `• our dearth and scarcity into cheapness and plenty," so that there is a prospect of a future saving in our household expenses of from fifteen to twenty per cent. in many of the most ne cessary articles of food. What more pleasing to the Lord, than a willing people bringing at least a portson of that which God has thus mercifully given to them, and pre senting it as a thank-offering to the cause for which their Lord and Master was contented to bleed and die ? I, for one, am resolved that the members of my con gregation shall have the opportunity of proving their gratitude to God—and their readiness to send back to the shores of Canada some fragments of the "bread of heaven," upon which the souls of our afflicted countrymen may feed with safety and with comfort. Earnestly praying that the Lord may put it into the hearts of his faithful servants to make the society more excellent by their personal identity with its management, and more efficient by their zealous co-operation with its supporters,—l am, sir, your obedient servant. Sept, 11th, 1847. AN INCUMBENT. TIIE AMATEUR PERFORMANCE FOR THE SHAKSPEARIAN FUND. The experience of the last few years, which have wit nessed so many unsuccessful attempts to revive amongst the people a taste for the national drama and for sterling pieces, would certainly not have warranted us in antici pating such a house as that which was assembled on Thursday evening to pay a tribute to the genius of Shakspeare, and to promote an effort to wrest from the hands of speculators, and to fasten upon the soil of his country, the home in which he was born. In Liverpool especially we thought that the drama was dead ; that the sock and buskin were no longer to tread the stage, which was in future to 'be resigned to the fiddler or the singer, or to the four-footed portion of the creation ; for certainly every appeal recently made to the playgoing public by successive managers has failed to, draw, unless accompa nied by the engagement of some star, upon terms utterly inconsistent with the possibility of profit. The fine plays of our great dramatist have been gone through before empty benches, and ranting melodrame has usurped their place. Hamlet and Macbeth," the Moor" and Shylock, have withdrawn before the superior attractions of Jack Sheppard or Dick Turpin- We can fill a house to hear any foreign artiste at extravagant prices —the more ex travagant the more fashionable ; but the legitimate drama is voted vulgar, and is neglected. We must confess, therefore, that Thursday night's house most agreeably surprised us, not only by the numbers present, but by their respectability. The prologue, written by Mr. James Morgan, of the Imperial Hotel, and a very appropriate one for the occa sion, was spoken by Mr. Henry Armstrong, and loudly applauded ; after which, Shakspeare's play of " Twelfth IN " was performed, not only in a merely creditable style for amateurs, but in really clever style. The Sir Toby Belch of Mr. Hughes, sen., and the Sir Andrew 4.guecheek of Mr. Brough, were very excellent imperso nations, worthy of regular actors of a high class of talent. If any fault could be found, Mr. Brough was rather too funny, especially in his by-play. The Clown was per formed with immense raciness by Mr. Wintle, who un derstood Shakspeare too well to make a low comedy buffoon of the part. Sebastian was also well played by Mr. Lewtas ; and Mr. Lind—a local " Night ingale," who is no relation to Jenny —went through his part effectively, especially in the screen scene with Mal volio. This character, by-the-by, was in first-rate hands. The female parts were taken by ladies, members of the regular company, and were of course well supported, especially Mrs. Norman's Viola. Contrary to very ge neral expectation, there was no break-down ; and those, therefore who went to laugh at such a casualty were dis appointed.Lionr, was Tahliettleepicloomgueedywrp_ itself, and ae elicited _ oL t t e h r e . nately hearty laughter and applause, The ilfterpiece thQ "Taminlt Qf the WM" or more properly, as cut down for the stage into three acts, " Katharine and Petruchio." Mr. Brough undertook the part of Petruchio, with Mrs. Brougham as Katharine; and we cannot say that we ever saw either character better performed. The obstinate spirit of contradiction assumed by Petruchio seemed natural in the performer; and Mrs. Brougham was as " curst" as any Kate need to be. The other characters were well supported, and the piece went off amidst hearty applause. Mr. Brough and Mrs. Brougham were called before the curtain. The receipts, we understand, amounted to £l5O. . We have omitted to state, that after the recitation of the epilogue, Mr. Brough announced to the audience that the manager, whose benefit was fixed for Friday (the fol lowing) evening, had been most earnest in promoting the object of their performances, mid had made a present to the fund of £2O. Lastrirt Colonel Williams gave notice on Tuesday at Prescot of his retirement frog► the bench of magistrates. There are now in Bolton eight. mills entirely closed, which, when running, employed 722 hands. A cat was supposed to have been burnt in the recent great fire at Manchester, but after an interval of thirteen days and a half, it was found in a flue alive, though ema ciated and covered with soot. It must have subsisted all that time without food. The Manchester Guardian says that the millowners of Mossley have resolved upon reducing the wages of the operatives ten per cent. The step has given much dissa tisfaction to the operatives who wished to work short time rather than be reduced. The Duke of Nassau arrived at Mr. Cuff's, the Palatine Hotel, Manchester, on Friday, from the Highlands; and, having visited several manufactories in the course of Sa turday, and the opera at the Theatre Royal in - the even ing, left Manchester at an early hour on Monday. A PROFITABLE DAIRY.-Mr. W. Smith, of Eitel, sold to Mr. Livesey, of Preston, a few days ago, 38 cheese, the produce of 13 cows in 38 days. The weight was 131 cwt., and the price 625. per cwt., giving a total of 412 12s. 6d. —Lancaster Guardian. It is found, from the last report of the Registrar-Gene ral, that in the Ulverston district one person in four at tains the age of seventy ; in Lancaster, one in six ; in Preston, one, in fifteen ; in Manchester, one in seventeen; in Liverpool, one in twenty. A young man in Manchester, named Roberts, has been fined by the magistrates for pawning ten handkerchiefs, the property of Jenny Lind. He obtained the handker chiefs from his Mother-in-law who had got them to wash, and he pawned them in order to procure money to hear the extraordinary singer. JENNY LIND.—MAKING THE MOST OF HER.-The following rich bit appeared as an advertisement in the Manchester Guardian of Wednesday last :—" Jenny Lind.—lmmense attraction.—The bed on which Jenny Lind slept in La Sonnambula, is now on view and on sale, at No. 12, Peter:street. —Apply at No. 12, Loyd street, Cooper-street. T. Pesch.' Instances of what good effects may be produced by agricultural enterprise are continually arising. The Pres ton Chronicle thus speaks of the reclamation of Tarleton Moss:—" This extensive tract of wild heath is gradually being brought into a state of cultivation, and now exhibits a surface studded with rural dwellings, surrounded by heavy crops of corn and potatoes. In a very few years the heath and grouse will have entirely disappeared, and the land (as it is well adapted to do) will be contributing its quota of food towards the support of the human family." INDIA Corron.—On Wednesday se'nnight, a meeting was held at Blackburn, to form a commercial association, for the purpose of entertaining similar subjects to those which come before the chambers of commerce in other places. M. J. Fielding, Esq., in the chair. The associa tion having been duly formed, it was addressed by Mr. D. C. Aylwin, of Calcutta, on the capabilities of the Dacca district for the cultivation of cotton, and he produced a sample of India cotton, which, he said, cost the grower id per lb., and could be introduced into this country at with a profit. The meeting adjourned to the 13th of next month. _ _ _ _ _ _ Stockport is suffering much from the depression of trade, For the last three weeks the tradespeople have complained of having nothing to do. Short time is bringing with it concomitant suffering amongst the labouring population. The overseers complain of the inability of about 2,000 persons to pay their rates; and the defalcation must be made up by those who can pay. It will require for the current half year not less than ss. in the pound (including the present rate) to meet the increasing demands made up to Christmas, by the corporation, for borough rates, and by the board of guardians for "calls." In the face of another bad winter appearances are exceedingly gloomy. THE MONSTRE BOUQUET AND DISH OF FRUIT.—At the close of the opera a few gentlemen presented to Miss Lind, in the green room, a very large bouquet and a dish of the choicest fruit that could be produced in this part of the country. It was arranged that the bouquet should be publicly presented to her upon the stage, during the concert which followed the opera. Accordingly, on the curtain rising, those who had not heard of this presenta tion were mystified by seeing a huge dish of fruit on a side table, at the back of the stage ; on the dish were up heaped the choicest fruit. Apples, pears, peaches, apri cots, and nectarines formed the base of this fruity pyra mid ; then succeeded grapes of the choicest kinds, some large and fine varieties of melons ; and the whole was crowned with a splendid pine, of unusual size and excel lence, which formed a handsome apex to the pile. When Miss Lind had sung one of her Swedish melodies, some one handed the bouquet to Mr. Balfe, for her, and there was much cheering and some laughter, to see the momen tary embarrassment arising from its hugeness. However, it was deposited on the piano, till the last melody was sung, and was then borne off by the fair cantatrice. It was composed of the rarest floral products of the season, including many fine specimens of the flowers of that sin gular tribe of plants, the orchids a, especially the 0. ti gridium, with some of the choicest stove and greenhouse plants, a fine flower of the magnolia grandiflora ' blooms of the Camellia Japonica, &c. Appended to the bouquet by a white ribbon was a note, briefly stating that the flowers and fruit were offered as an acknowledgment to Mdlle. Lind's transcendant talents, and of the great gra tification she had afforded the parties. Manchester Guardian. _ -„-. THE COTTON FROM INDIA.—The samples of Surat cot ton, grown in the Dhawar district, from New Orleans seed, were exhibited on our Exchange, on Monday and Tuesday. On the latter occasion, being the market day, they attracted general attention, and created a considerable sensation amonst the spinners and manufacturers. Nor was this mere idle curiosity ; for, of the whole bulk of five hundred bales, from three to four hundred were sold during the day, on 'change, at sixpence-halfpenny per pound. We are glad to learn that in these sales care was taken to distribute it in small lots,—we believe, in no case exceeding forty bales,—amongst the spinners generally of the town and neighbourhood ; and that the buyers were requested severally to make reports as to its working quality. This cotton was considered very satisfactory in point of cleanliness and freedom from seed, and, so far as we have been informed, we understand that the only com plaint made is with reference to its shortness of staple. Doubtless it is not so long as could be wished; but this is a defect which, if the statements of experienced cultivators are to be credited, can be remedied to a considerable ex tent, by selecting ground for cotton cultivation nearer the coast. We understand that, with a view to this end, Dr. Wight, at the suggestion of the Manchester Commercial Association, has already secured farms near the coast, in Coimbatore district. It is said that in this district he an ticipates obtaining from I,oootb to 1,2001 b of uncleaned cotton per acre; and even if half this produce be obtained, together with a longer staple, the experiment will be a re markably successful one, and full of the most important results. Messrs. John Peel and Co. had received 90 bales of this cotton by the same vessel. We may now add that they sold the whole of this quantity, on Saturday last, at sid. per lb. We are in expectation of further cargoes ere long, of the experimental cotton; of all of which one moiety is to be consigned by the East India Company to Mr. Fleming, so that our spinners will have ample opportuni ties and means of judging of the qualities of cotton, the growth of various parts of our Indian territory.—Man chester Guardian. JENNY LIND AND SOMNAMBULISM.—Miss Lind was present at Mr. Braid's, surgeon, of Manchester, on Fri day week, to witness some of the abnormal feats of a real somnambulist, artificially thrown into that state. The subjects were two girls, the elder and principal being about 19' years of age, and employed in a warehouse. . The two. were thrown into the sleep by gazing at Mr. Braid's lancet-case, held a little above their heads. They were dressed in their working dresses, and when awake evinced.no indication of being possessed of extraordinary powers. Mr. Braid having taken his seat at the piano,. which was at some distance from the sleepers, the moment he touched the keys they arose and came towards hint, and. joined him in singing a trio, one taking the air, another a second, and Sir. - Braid the bass. Sir. Braid then awoke one of them, and announced that the. other was now in that state, that he felt assured she could, fol low correctly any one in the room in singing any song in any language—that was to say, she would. imitate the notes and words as rapidly and accurately as to accompany the singer as if she had been accustomed to sing such songs. This seemed promising too much, and the look of incredulity was obvious on every countenance except that of Mr. Braid, who still confidently dared any one to the trial; either male or female. A gentleman of the party, therefore, sat down and played and sang a German song, in which the somnambulist imitated him most accurately. Another gentleman then tried her with a Swedish song, in which she was also wonderfully successful. Madlle. Lind, who has won such laurels for herself in impersonat-. ing a somnambulist, now sat down down to test the powers of this veritable somnambulist. All was breath less attention to catch the Swedish nightingale's notes, and weigh her rival in this novel duetto. Jenny sang most divinely a slow air, like a hymn tune, with, I believe, Swedish words, every note and word of which was cor rectly yiiten by the somnambulist, just as if they had been accustomed to sing together. Next followed, a long, and most difficult singing lesson, in which Miss Lind ran through all the chromatic difficulties her fertile fancy coula dictate, and with all the varied inflections of force and pathos which the human voice seemed capable of ex pressing ; but, to the astonishment of all present, the somnambulist was not to be done, for so perfectly did their voices accord, that throughout a great part of this performance it was impossible to detect that there were two voices. I saw one lady who was so sceptical on the point that she would not believe that both were singing, till she stood up to see as well as hear that both were actively engaged in this harmonious strife. Miss Lind now tested her with " Casta Diva" and " La Bella a me Ritorni," in both of which my knowledge of Italian enables me to say the imitation was perfect. After far ther testing with foreign words, only and extreme difficul ties or plizzling combinations of sound, the somnambulist was aroused, quite unconscious of the extraordinary feats 1 she bad accomplished in her sleep, and quite afraid even to try to imitate what she had done with such promptness Rad PrtVit'iQll ill Jag gieepi—lianc4ffitr quardiap4 REVISING CO: MTS.—The revising barristers for this county are William Carrie, Percival A. Pickering, and 3. P. Wilde, E;cirs. They will attend, for the purpose of revising the lists of voters, at Liverpool on the 9th of October; at Southport on the 11th ; at Ormskirk on the same day ' • at St. Helens on the 12th ; a t N ewton on t h e , 12th • and at Wigan on the 13th. EXTRAORDIN.ZRY MATCH AGAINST TIME.-Mr. Alex ander Burke has entered into a match of £5OO, half forfeit, with a gentleman of this town, to drive from Scarborough to Manchester (supposed to be a distance of 117 miles) within five hours. Should the distance prove not to b© 117 miles, Mr. Burke to have his choice of road from Scarborough to Manchester. The match is to come off within thrue months , and Mr. B. to give a fortnight's notice.—ilaucheBterCourier. MANSLAUGHTER NEAR 13ACUP.—A SON COMMITTED FOR KILLING HIS FATHER.—An adjourned inquest was held at Tunstead, on Tuesday last, on the body of William Woodhead, who it was suspected had been severely beaten by his son, John Woodhead. The deceased was 45 years of age, and was banksman to George Ormerod. On the 27th ult., some quarrel ensued between them, and on going home from Tunstead Mill, the son beat the father in so brutal a manner that he couldneither walk lior speak. He was carried home, but before a surgeon could be pro cured he expired. Nine of his ribs were broken, and his liver much crushed. The jury returned an unanimous verdict of manslaughter against the son, and the coroner issued his warrant for his committal for trial at the next assizes. The prisoner previously bore a goad character. PEDESTRIAN MATCH.—Mr. Joseph Merone, of Mar ket-street, Manchester, won his grand match to walk from Manchester to London in six days, versus time. He reached Manchester by the express train from London at 20 minutes to 11 o'clock on 1 hursday night. Thus the takers of odds that he would reach before twelve o'clock win their s's to 1 and other odds. He touched the grand stand at Goodwood at 10 minutes to 12 o'clock on Wed nesday- night—returned to Midhurst and slept there, and then proceeded to town and left at 5 o'clock by the ex press train. Each day's airings were as follows :-Ist day, 50 miles • 2d day, 48; 3d day, 48; 4th day, 28; sth day, 52 ; total, 226. Thus completing the match with a day and a half to spare, walking the last 35 miles in clogs. His dress was a flannel jacket, light pantaloons, buckskin shoes, rather heavy soles, and he wore a glazed cap. The weather was very favourable, with some little rain. The match is considered a great feat. THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND AT FLEETWOOD. —The Fleetwood Chronicle of Friday has the following article Circumstances have transpired, during the last few days, which enable us to say that it is exceedingly pro bable that her Majesty, Queen Victoria, and suite, will land at Feetwood, on her return to Scotland, and proceed hence by railway. We believe the probability of such a course has been known for a fortnight to two or three gentlemen officially connected with Fleetwood, but it was not until Monday last that it became generally surmised, when the collector of customs, Mr. Cromblcholme, re ceived a communication from the Board of Admiralty, to hold the pilot of the port in readiness to see Capt. Beechey, R.N. on the following day. The arrival of Capt. Beechey was anxiously looked for. and on Wednesday morning, his presence, in company with the authorities of the rail way and harbour, soon caused the gratifying intelligence to spread, th .t he wished to make arrangements for the disembarkation of her Majesty and the royal suite. The gallant captain spent the whole of the morning in inspect ing the proposed accommodations, and left by the noon train for Fort William, taking with him Mr. Gerard, one of the Fleetwood pilots. The precise day on which her Majesty will arrive here is not positively fixed, but Thurs day next is most probable. Acting upon the information they have received, the company are making the neces sary arrangements for the auspicious occasion, by the erection of a suitable landing stage, and have very gene rously offered land to the different tradesmen who may wish to erect stands to accommodate the multitudes who will doubtless throng here to welcome the Queen. The town commissioners have also issued a circular convening a general meeting for this day, relative to giving a becom ing reception to royalty." COURT-MARTIAL AT MANCHESTER.—On Thursday week, a court-martial was held in the officers' mess-room, in the Regent-road barracks, Salford, on seventeen privates, of the band of the 2nd battalion of the Ist Royals, on two charges of insubordination • first, for havi ng assau lt e d Paolo Castaldini, the band-master; and, secondly, for disobeying the orders of Sergeant-major Wilson, in rush ing past him after committing the assault, although ordered to halt by him. The case was entered into even to the most minute particulars. The facts only, however, possess interest. From the evidence of Castaldini himself, which was in part corroborated by other witnesses, it appeared that, on the evening of the 13th August, he dismissed the band, after having practised them in several tunes, and kept two or three of the tyros to instruct them. After dismissing them, he entered into a conversation about music with Mr. Johnson, a civilian, which was suddenly interrupted by the prisoners rushing into the room very tumultuously. Mr. Johnson retired, and the door was locked. A few questions were put by Signor Castaldini as to the meaning of this, which was curtly answered by the men, when they all set on him, and inflicted a severe beating. Mr. Johnson then gave the alarm to the guard. Wilson, the sergeant of which, deposed, that he answered and proceeded to the band-room, upon approaching which he met the prisoners running out. He called out "halt," in order to inquire into the matter, but they disobeyed his command, and rushed past him. The hearing of the case for the prosecution occupied the court till Monday, when the prisoners (assisted by Mr. E. Bent, solicitor,) com menced their defence, and called several witnesses to prove that Signor Castaldani's uniform conduct to the band was oppressive, tyrannical, and disgraceful in the extreme. The evidence to this effect was exceedingly strong. The court then adjourned to Tuesday, when written defences were put in by several of the prisoners, to which the others also assented. The prisoners were then removed, and the court remained for some time in deliberation. The result of their finding will not be made known until after the proceedings and the sentence (should the prisoners, or any of them, be found guilty) have been s u b m itt e d t o an d con firmed ty the authorities of the Horse Guards. LANCASHIRE ANNUAL GENERAL SESSION.—The ad journed annual session for the county palatine of Lancaster was held on Thursday, by adjournment, in the Court-house at Preston. The Rev. Rector Brooks was called to the chair. The finance committee, in their report, recom mended various improvements as to the keeping of ac counts. They also reported that the charge for conduct ing offenders in prison had undergone a material alteration, being, in 1842-3, £3,556 9s. 2d. ; 1843-4. £1,815 16s. 11d.; 1844, £1,866 10s. sd. ; 1845-6, £1,053 ss. 7d. ;• 1847, £971 18s. 2d. The committee regretted the accounts were still in a very unsatisfactory state, and they were of opinion that a general uniformity of system could not be established except by a concentration of the whole, as far as may be, in the office of the county treasurer. From the statement of the accounts, it appeared that, during the year ending 31st May last, the county was charged at sessions and assizes, with 1368 prosecutions. At Lancaster assizes the average cost of prosecutions was £22 4s. 11d. each case ; and at Liverpool, £37 19s. 41d. At Lancaster sessions the cost averaged £lO 12s. l*d. a prisoner; at Preston, £7 3s. 2d. ; at Salford, £8 Gs. 21d ; and at Kirkdale, £8 7s. Id. The expense of removing offenders to prison was £971 12s. 2d ; and transports to the hulks, £296 ss. 2d. The maintenance of criminal and vagrant lunatics cost £3,167 13s. 3d. During the year there were 1,455 inquests, costing the county £3,169 2s. 4d. After some discussion,. it was agreed that the rate for general purposes should be 2d., which will raise £31,000. The new lunatic asylums at West Derby and in Salford will prove expensive. The cost of the former (which will accommodate 300 patients) is estimated, exclusive of the land, at £35,000. It was resolved to raise the necessary amount by loan, at five per cent. ;. and, after some unimportant business, the session terminated. LAMENTABLE SUICIDE IN CHESTER. —With deep regret we record (by abridgment from the Chester. Courant), the suicide of a young gentleman named Row land Jones, son of Lieut.-Colonel Jones. of the Royal. Engineers, now at Malta, and nephew of Capt. Jones, of Bryntirion, near Wrexham. The act was committed at the Green Dragon Inn, Chester, yesterday morning week. The deceased, who was about 27 years of age, had held a commission in the 67th Regiment of Foot, but sold out some time ago. In company with Mr. H. Melling, the respected secretary of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club, de ceased arrived at the inn on Sunday evening week from. Bancor, and purposed to proceed by the ten o'clock tain, next morning to Wrexham. The deceased spent the evening with his friend in the most hearty and lively manner, and retired to , bed about eleven. o'clock. Mr: Melling and the deceased occupied separate rooms. Oa Monday morning, Mr. Melling arose about eight o'clock, and between that hour and half-past eleven, he several times went up stairs to his friends chamber door to call him up. On the last occasion Mr. .kones was on the floor, and he directed Mr. Melling to. order some break fast for him, and'promikd to be down immediately.. Not making his appearance, however, Mr. Melling went up ,stairs shortly after eleven o'clock, and on receiving no answer, after, knocking at the door, he opened it,, when, to his horror, he beheld his friend stretched lifeless by his bedside, with a pair of duelling pistols lying near him, with which he had accomplished the act of self-destruc tion, his head being perforated through by one of the balls. Surgical aid was immediately obtained, but it was of no avail, as life was quite extinct before the body was found. The inquest was held on the same day, and Mr. Melling was the principal witness. He stated that he had known Mr. Jones for about twelve months, during which he was a member of the yacht club. On the 15th August, he and deceased went in the yacht Seagull, to Beaumaris, to honour the Queen, and be present at the regatta. Deceased had purchased the yacht from witness, but had not paid for it. On the Ist September deceased gave him a check for £350, on the North and South Wales Bank, at Bangor, in settlement of the account be tween them. The money was not paid at Bangor, as de ceased expected, and they went to Chester on their way to 'Wrexham, where deceased expected it would be paid. Witness went with deceased as his guest, but de ceased had not sufficient money to pay their fare, and witness lent him a sovereign. Witness never pressed de ceased for the money he owed him, but deceased had frequently put off a settlement. He bad never observed in deceased any indication of an unsound state of mind. Witness intimated his belief, grounded upon what he had sometimes heard Mr. Jones say, that he had farmed an attachment for a young lady in London, which was disap proveand whom he had only been for fear of the consequences. preventedA poli d c o f o tfbi his er o! marryingc a cl s s; called into the inn said, that a pistol case (which deceased had brought with him from the yacht) lay open on the bed, and on the dressing-table was a daguerotye miniature portrait of a young lacy. From the position in which the body lay, it would appear that the deceased had stood opposite the likeness when the pistols were discharged. The balls from the pistols had perforated the walls on either side. The coroner requested Mr. Melling to obtain further information, rela tive to the young lady alluded to, if practicable ; and with the consent of the jury the inquest wag then ad journtd t YeACCdti;, igh ; • on g. 7ould imes the was nined Id be