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

, ni .shi2 orb to rII P 0" : , tko NOVEMBER 20, 1855.1 LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. XR B 1 1 -....-- • not e d .. - ' - 'aukaialay Foundry, Warrington, an establishment ceased for the construction of iron ships, has for the present king and all the hands have been discharged. institution ANNUAL BALL in aid of the West Lancashire Masonic initution for the Education and Advancement in Life of Mar o en of Distressed Freemasons will be held in the Town -7,4 11 Tuesday, the Bth of January next. I,4`°VIISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF 0 : 13 OUNTT PALATINE OF LANCASTER.-2nd Regiment of ISl O l._ l ike of Lancaster's Own Militia : Henry Harrington ke,,n.eux Steel, gent., to be ensign from the 30th of August ~,`, /lee Barlow, promoed. Z IR B i ,. eele e k , ' CABLE -STREET.—On Thursday morning, at seven galefire was di scovered in the off i ce o f M essrs . B a hr, , and C o ., s hi p b ro k ers, 4, C a bl e - s t ree t. The fire ~ who were pro m ptly i n a tte n dance, found the con eel!% 11 confined principally to the flooring. It was quickly 4171Ahed, without much damage being sustained.. Ilver ssunesca Comeant.—Mr. R. R. Hutchinson, of ag eec ra n 1 , the intelligent and successful superintendent of p rop . for fa,r the Age Assurance Company in the northern coaaef: and the eelep a has made a permanent arrangement with that no doubt, will prove highly beneficial to his n° doubt, interests. a 1 41 p I the Brothers, of Preston, which was run down on Monday pleice4_ between Point Lyaas and the Skerries, was 'Bay, 'Pen Thursday morning by some boatmen, off Douglas and' :Id taken into that harbotr. Her cargo is oatmeal, ar t. ee arc °, lll Y Partially damaged. Her masts and bulwarks L ie r tleec' awe the the former being attached to the wreck; ‘ l, der t aw ere under water. The cargo is being discharged, I,h, E ,,, su perintendence of the receiver of droits. 140 n e/ 7 th utyps.—The following are the names . of some -of • th e eras returned on Monday by the Privy Cocit, %.tl)Proval of Her Majesty •—For Cheshire : Richard rot a„_ : ,..' er I Caylor, Esq., of Hooton-hall ; Williasi At °steS ' - "N• of Ashten-Heyer, near Kelsall ; and George Ihi ret "e : W - Ilblub J e lia_ am Esq., of Delamere-hone.—Per York ffts., eh Stephentfa7,. Thompson, Esq., of Kerby-hall ; Sir e';;"' se, ' en fre, Bert., of Budding-park fand Vobert Mit 'ls°lnterycli. litinmanby. The Sheri of ' , Lancaster is .. \l ' l- CEW e i l :i p "queen in her right as Duke' of lancaster. in' es - 1 ,". Ti, P °X THE CALCUTTA ritaine.--Tarly next year th - l' a , te falest re -In e asj ßoyden and Son will launch 'from their yard tow en , e,a„ , a new ship for the Calcuttntrad,e the largest ea! Well j u ‘' ship ever built in this toWn. This vessel_is .. „ ate ~,, Ptogress She is 196 feet longtetween perpndi , u ' e e s t, a'ed"' b ul t -bout 220 feet over all. Her .extreme beam is 36 a suee ' r depth of hold 22 feet 6 niches. Her builders' Be e ul M., ent is 1,174) tons. She will Ilse a full-rigged ship. er erY r a ` eri -als are lndia teak and African oak, and in she h' she is constructed as an A 1 ship ; and whilst s ailer. /32 'e greatest capacity for •carrying, she will be a fast Bo 4l ‘' ton • rou g h . °ran 13asic.-aOn Wednesday the business of the Bank Was ue ela e--- transferred to the new building, which has W ate ,ye'cted on .the site of the' ld one, on the south side of bott r ilatreet. The architectural-style of the new building is • the most as te and simpl e its external appearance is one 'of' stol e effective in LiVerpool. The premises consist of 'two fore e l s = and the interior arrangements are admirably adapted . Ill gt•ro n e d ea lle ; titi ,g a large businesreefficiently. The public bank 'l'iith .-- ea Lofty, weliventilitea, and most effectively lighted 'taeh t - Paaolis windows by day, and a brilliant sun-burner' by 'lent - Lae Borough Bank forms an additional public otemt to th t o - e y am 'D res _ T DERBY Gezattaaam.—The followilengiud'diarts we -7 thair ent at the meeting held on Wednesday: Roe. W. Badnia , 'duo man; Messrs. Abrahams, Edwards, Harrison , 'l"i64laP' w tittfield- jp, - a„aee,ute Siddeley, Ifedealf, Roberts, 'Restoe, , Patts, il l e tl a i: 1. -- " " 44 "-Y, Shaw, Matten, and Ledger, The' halence by e a - treasurer's hands Was £1,671185. 2d. Notice saes-given f e li f .7 l 2. Shaw,tbat be would, at the next meeting, move the th e - e „wlug resOhttions a e4a., That a dispense:l.qm appointed at e ce norkhesse, ,veitiesadary of 255. per week, to ^Ccmtnenee be en a Periodof fourwveeks, retrospectively; that an-increase w u ni i. ade in the -sillei•y •of Mr. Roberton,atorekeeper at the ree,mase, from Tdato. I:60 perm nnum; made that a-sewing tte;,,ree e _ .va. "v liPpointede. for the gis' schoolat -sidery , of £l5 .: -a., aw d, racious. I) / E 41/ °LieWL O'C'VISAGE AT THE rig.letpTON "ST'ATION.— trattiL °n Tuesday some ru ffian ' at present 'unknown, perpe et:t.;- au aeaa n the immediate neighbourhood orthe.Preston. Th e - 1 wkiich might crave led to great ittray , ll-not loss o t f life. stati o n aa Qa hire • and Yorkshire-s short. train *rived a d the Short il, a abort tirne b e f ore th e 3 1, am., mail train was due. 1 aan e Y b,.. e ft rards'one of the Lancashire andYteekihir Com- , nds u own . i .. ved in th e at the signal lamp wal e " off, PozVeing dowr the I' covered that the • t° ascertain the' craese, he dis- • turned ana ei g a t i v. ;. g .,:r d.t r i P had been wt. out a nnd the points Points wereat onee wa fted 1:1 1 ) with a *tone. . 1 0f -course the t/ain arrived inuanmute , but etiy.just in time; fm• the mail tion had:not been re toods yard, and•a le n tov ed the tin would . hives in into the pot Tn n InA LA , nt , ' l ons accidera must have beer. the result. styl essiml of theia C413 . - -Titt merribers!have - recently taken eonifo l e s ' ex terior • e 4111 t their: club-hentse,an* Reild-street. The mixed and 1 . - arehitecture is method: indexof the mixed Perfect, , Itruie es . . hole and, am within. Tim lkitehen .arraagements are l-k s ._„. 'ref' worthy the study ,of alanieekeepers and meats -th i .„,„,..l7 l fteed, considerisigthelimitedisite, the arrange- Alr. p"'guto credit to theingennity of the architect, futu re, s l`" = .o f•tondon. The cost dr thei land, ibuilding, f4r ellablee,tze.' l a'estimated at elei;6oo, ewhich, -et 5 per cent., e a 000 rnereheaes to sit at the. comparatively small rental Club i s tw Per , Itrtntina. The entranee.moner te the Palatine gnin eae T.tY-fiNe guineas, and the munaasubecription seven, aav ,.. ,vr urea s'h'oals gentlemen residing. in Ike country the n t ei g l o __, sof a town house. Thereis.saine„tilt: of estabfir.b- Itud!ToiYt=asid commercial travellers' club in Liverpool., • _ . ee.eaimtell Liability Act,the Laceenalaeing admirably P tetbfer- such: :purpose, and co nv tible et at small cost. i b.,:uuz (Career Taw MAIL StraiLtams.--ttrite Atlantic Ilan '• ,urylit .adviees , tthat the contract betweonethe Canadian Le .Tsire ,and =Messrs. Edmonstore lellenaand Co., of• Quebec, ti v !nedatter tceran screw-stessaiers(onee aeforenight-between-.. 1 , 41 71)04A -aiide knebec, in the summer, ..aadTortland in'. fee ` e .„„r.has;:beeraexecuted. ' The•departureofttaie first steamer n e e laveispool will take place Tofritive).y ow the 23rd of• April cleat,l' the:tentr,attors being bend tomake the tfirst arrival and 4!!! of the snails in Quebec by the 77th of May, IS - 56. tki t Z, (llll g', to the=terms of the contract, it land compulsory, to %a.wae-eteamers to Montreal; but the.Mentreal commercial lecayttnity awe- endeavouring that every steamer during the lie - Ner andswinter shall arrive there. Two, vessels of the new the 4 e , In , the meantime, enoeeod ma* :the transport service , . others . are !building by Messrs. !Deanna Brothers,. 4il bunion. B ,„, eA, ‘4 , ltt e --- . , , 0010/ITTEE.—The fret meeting of this e®m , la tea. ,, since its reconstruction 'by ithe:couedil, was held•on., F1 e ,,, 4 ,aY. :Present—Messrs. Lungsdale, :Dover, Beckwith, 1 147 11 g, !Haydock, J. Holme., tereethwaitee -1 31seil, Johnsea, in im „, e ac l -, 'Hodson, A. C. Stewart, Tiene r antiaM`thaffie. Mr. "elr2ale Alms •Te.eleeted chairman, and.Mralover deputye le w ."oan. fahe,varlous sub-committeesaveretformed as fel- • St e , - e 's - GeneralePurposes : Messrs. Janydock, J. Nicholso94 1 , -4, Beckwith, klehnson, J. Hearne., , cud ~R. .Gladstone. It a a ri amen ,_ a., G o df r ey, Sklisson,i.Winne, Hodson, , serey emessrs. e he ", Beekwith, Tleming, A. C. Stewart, andkCrosthwaite. ellectim Df Julep : Messrs Johnson :and Heavdock. Rates iqerrit lee -: Messrs. Sheil, Hodson, Johnsen, •Cedfraye 4_. la i , n ,g , . Beckwith, R. Gladstone, ll'ianffie,kGrosthwaite, and 1 1 f`uxrne. Atlopai - r. of Streets :: Messrs. allelhead, J ./1;1'111e, Beckwith, M‘Goffie, Johnson„.and 'llaysleak....Srn.o i lee l etiee n „ ie,..„ en e,; a n .: Messrs. A. -C., ISl. , ,eTal l : t : l l, m u l b X 0 0 , i doek •ietrostliwalte, Beckwith, an e a r _nalie at , Hawed, Sockwitb, tka ~e n ieneeS:: Messes. Holme, te e " urosthwaite.-=Daring a short .tt cottare:t i cio!ii , wii4k followed el er k,eaplained th a ,.aPpointraent , of the:commi . es, tb tt ls 't Under the .ant oft alst session, It w° 1114 .. ' l) ,°‘ 4° . a l.s 6 . e a r 3 :. f 4, o d r el ec 'eard to make ;an•ateenual. return of the sunk ta 3 n h ad Ned, and ee..-e mciaeor. which the roonqy liatrustedto them. ea , been expended.-tie Law-Clerk stated ttiliat,ar corm - num- N•uou had been weceived,from the solicitor to =the London and rt h-western Railway, .:empany relative rte ,the,,offer they m ade,,, of some landau ,Queeu-street, Edge-hill. TheeeorfananY ! th — r eady to dedieatethei-Laad to the public ondondition.ithat a 0 Health Committeeshaeld pave it, and they wished balave 0 4 4 irrimediate answer, seeing that the land must the deelt•with 0 way or the other. The.offer was accepted. AReniTECTURAL .A ,ND ARCH.BOLOGICAL frael . ° l ---Y ta.e fortnightly meeing of :this society, on WednesdaY,aa'a., Ita r Y presided, and there\was,a large attendance.of metes' .--„lt . ~2 . a. Boult drew attention to. the exhibition ocarebitect,-..: uekign T , to be opened in Louden on the 17th of 334 ' 41 - D -- 14 -t i .. and said he should tions of funds or d our a U 4, ; tee_ nementing fat , es e igala , tion at ,4 tided to ib he glad to=reeeive and for...avzd.....,eor_tri,_,la.:._u val f°r h tlie ndar exh an ib tag itio e tt .ofluese- l' an ul 7etii7i. ...e suee, e e i • glish artists in Pane, ano. Ai InentiOned that Sir Charles ' E fi,, R.A., had received-the -Vapid medal of honour ' a n gs d alai following architects :either • Th_e_dal_ aor honourablmentio . n a--4....C .: Cockerell, RA., :Owen O nes, X. L. Donaldson, P. . IlarnwEek, R. A. G. Scott, E. uaeuer, T. Hamilton, (Edinbutea? mus Burton, ti. Decl Kendall, and H. A tiwler, ; Thomas Wyatt, Mew Ws Alti R . l d ariessionaj. -caw.—Mr. Alfred Rinumer was ,o l Pct .• ~P ke exhibited the first part of Maisons which a_neber. Xr. Picton he by M. Augustus Castirmane, to illustrate which Ze read a ' paper some time ago on Belgiag architecture, after - e „,„ l3o ,clestriaii , terer through that country. Ige. Samuel Huggins er ,' - '" a paer on " The Architecture of -the Future," in the c - 4 1140 of which he indulged in his favourite subject of criti- Th M, the anonielles of St. George's-hall, with respect to the ter med Approaches to this building. Mr. Huggins them a conglomeration of all possible styles, and an ''ilitra ge cu puldictte.ste. One fault he considered was, that e i e a stern portico, the principal feature of th e building, did d ot nclude a ,covered carriage colonnade, whieh necessitated the e rection of a temporary an d uns i g htly b .boarding for the t pro tection of parties,areghting from carriages, before entering e 1 141, on oreasionsof grand concerts. s IN TERESTING TO Bstr I LDERS AND OWNERS .D:F IRON CII 'W STEAMEKS.—Messrs. Burns have received the follow forg reply from the Boardof Trade, in answer to amemori al ;warded by thennma the subject of water -tight bulkheadsin 'an screw steamers: — Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade, • Marine ,department, Nov. 3, 1865. Gentlemen —I am directed by the Lords of the Committee Privy Council for Trade to acquaint you that m y lords have under their consideration the memorial signed by your 'Eaves and other kon-ship builde . rs and stea . m-sh . ip owners on t he Cl e • Yde, relative to tie water-txght partitions in iron ves . sels required by the Merchant Shipping A,et, 1854, more particu 7IY with reference to iron screw-steamers ; and I am to „ r austnit to you the accompanying copy of the additional in -‘ruetions which my lords have issuer] to their surveyors for i te e gulating the construction of the shaft trunks in iron-screw amens. —I am, gentlemen, your obedient ser vant, - Messrs, G. and J. Burns, Glasgow. JAMES BOOTH. S lab T HUNKS IN CREW 811 A-P T s STEAMERS.—IIISTRUCTIONS TO 11,-,v 2 TORS OF STEAM VESSELS (BY WAY OF ADDITIO . N TO ~..s ._ -', - kGRAPT I 67 OF ORIGINAL INSTRUCTIONS). — As it ap -1-4cB to my lords that, iu the case of iron screw steamers, i i l e e culaenience may arise from a rigid adherence to the It !tile that no communications are to be allowed in parha easestnl arY bulkheads, my lords are pleased to direct that, in I f where the owners require it, an access may be _ afforded a ain tbe engine -room through the parliamentary bulkhead to t he shaft trunk fll :—The end of the trunk in such b.as o ows ees IS t(1 be fitted to the after part of the bulkhead, so as to s i Perfectly water-tight. The trunk itself is to be of equal th t e ell gth with the bulkhead, and also water-tight throughout ; s e i tL end of the trunk next the engine room is to be fitted Iran a stuffing box for the shaft to pass through. An en 3asi:.ee is to be made through the bulkhead into the trunk, , 0 _ large enough to enable a man to enter from the engine str.s ul to alai after the bearings. This opening must be con eau,t th a water-tight sliding door, working in a groove, where may be opened or closed by a rod from the deck above. tirere there is no trunk, a water-tight stuffing box must be ed at the place where the shaft passes through the bulk- Y" — Oct, 26,1855, Board of Trade, THE AFRICAN STEAM ComPANy have declared a dividend for the half-year ending the 31st of October, at the rate of seven per cent. per annum, free of income-tax. THE MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, at a special meeting held on Wednesday at War rington, decided to hold their annual meeting next year at MR. JOSEPH BALDWIN, who for thd last ten months has been Comptroller of Customs at Liverpool, has just been pro moted to the Collectorship of Newcastle-on -Tyne. ON Monday, a notice was posted in the Underwriters' Rooms, to the effect that unless Liverpool shipowners dis played more alracity in tendering for the government emi gration, they would soon not have any opportunity of doing so. A BOAT CAPSIZED in the river on Tuesday afternoon with several persons on board, all of whom were saved by the third mate of the American ship James Nasmyth, with the excep tion of a woman aged 22, named Jane Powell, who resided in Blenheim-street, Scotland-road. LIVERPOOL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.—On Thursday, the eleventh of the series of friendly addresses to young men in connexion with the above association was deli vered by the Rev. John Kelly, in the Bible Repository, Slater street. Subject—" The young man impressed with the im portance of the age in which he lives," There was a large attendance of young men. AT St. Helens petty sessions, last week, Mr. E. Oliver, of Liverpool, was summoned for £lO, for a poor-rate for a coal mine in the township of Rainford. An objection was taken that Mr. Oliver was not rated, and that it was not proved that he was one of the firm of Holdsworth and Co. mentioned in the rate-book. Several other objections were also raised, which were valid, and the case was dismissed. SUDDEN DEATIL—On Thursday evening, a man, nearly seventy years of age, named Nicholas Welsh, who obtained a precarious livelihood by dancing in the streets, was taken suddenly ill in Standish-street. A police-officer took him into a house, where 'the occupiers gave him some wine, and the officer fetched Mt. Syers, surgeon, from the Vauxhall Dispen sary. He, however, grevr worse, and died the next morning. LAIRD'S MONTHLY EXPORT LlST.—lcre find from this list, that, in September, the export of coal was as follows : From Northern Ports ......... ..... 290,058 tons „ Yorkshire „ „ Liverpool „ , Severn „ . scotch„ Total 467,799 tons Tftn 53017/4D Dues.—Thelime fixed by the Danish gottra ment 'for the opening of the conferences on the Soun Diems dues is to-arty. Prussia will be re p resented there by her minister in Copenhagen, 'count Orions. It seems probable that most of the govern m ents invited will respond to the in vitation by deputing that representatives to attend , but in ailprobability their instructions will for the present be fined to the hearing 'of 'proposals, on the commtthiration of which to the home gorernments special instructions will be issued. REGISTRATION ar - SHIPS.—The Registrar-001m1 has just issued a circular later, addressed to the owners of ships who 'have not obtained'their official numbers se:miffing t th e e req uirements of tte Mercha nt Shipping Wet ; s will h the effect of ascertaining whether all the .vesselstretained upon the register are*:. existence, and will test the correctness of the statistical returns relative to the amount !Of our shipping retained upon the register. All regiStered vvessels, of what soever tonnage, retaining their Certifitates of to r ender up try, are r equired to hate distinct official Immbers,'und their certifialts of registry wheu !loUger in a condition for service. A STRIVE AT MANCIIESTET.—A pa rifd strike of fattery, o p er atives has taken place at M anchester n consequence of ar. threetenedereduction o f wages. The luardian. s 4ll acteedanee - with the statements at•thenieeting of self-acting minders and piecers, oa Wedresdtly; these classes of lrendse'us et five mills, did not go to -work on Thursday_ morning; and, , 'as we nridefstand, the esachinery 'in" these establishnts Groat was ' standing. They are those 'of Meesrs. 'Kennedy and Co., Ancoatoestreet • Messrs. K-elly and: t'ilinour, Bradt - ova-read ; Messrs. W. P . Garke :and t Co., .13eswick-street ; Messrs. Clarke' and Brother, Pierceyeetreete and Mr. Sharp :(New Islington Mills) Pottestreet. We 'have not yet bawd any reliable statement as to the numb'e7 of hands who were em ploy& in these mills. There was not, during Thuriday, any excitement in the district Within - which the mills named are , comprised; nor was there anyzgathering of the 'old 'hands 'rout dthe premises oreleeWhere. Small knots of the ninem 'playa. would of course,eccasieridiy gather at different points, i'but they soon separated. At 'Messrs. Richard . Bliley and CO:.'s Chorltou Mills, Thilme-street, Oxford-road, •.ilbstat 300 'haats struck work at moon on Irntirsday, the time in which 'their notice ea red. The '-ilands employed by the Hanover Mill Company also ((tee •underttand) stopped work :at noon. It was rumonredtintta:portion , of the hands et Messrs. W. :and. W. Stirlinge!, Lover 'Meetiley-street, were 'render notice, 'which would expire it noon' on Thursday; hut -on inquiry [,, dming the afternoon, are learned that all the hands were at erk as usual. Theixandkiiirtwo or three 'ether -mills were esaid to have received notice Ostit those notices do mot expire - until next weelk, andmotbineis known as tartherletermination. df the men, if:any 'has:yet been come to." Tan Lees , CE Iran Assnacereene.---The - le:nerving letter 'has been reeeivedlrem the British consul: at Se.Wineent by 'the owners Ofthe I:dramatic (Messrs. Iloldernees and Chil ton, of Liverpool), in reference to the loss of thet vessel : 33ritkheensailate, St. Vincent,'Cipe de Verde, :October 27,18;5. Sirs,-1 regret I have to-announce to you the less of your vessel, the Adromache. -4 Bixe foundered at --sea en the 12th inst., inlet:l:6l77W., and:Jo-a. 26 30 W.., -en her homeward. passage from Melbourneionrehe coast of Africa. It appear that the crew had -rafteredsieverely from theeoaet fever; and , that the snaeter, tiaeob Tate, :and the cementer load dieder that diseese--rthe 'fanner e'tillioard the Andromache, on the sth inst., and-theaetter - while the vessel wasilyixg receiving her care*. The 'remainder ce the crew saved 'themselves in ' the long iseateendiffeenhaVing been fifteen *lays :et sea in her they weee.enabledTto reach the island, but in aunest distress ing state. They hixcl alls suffered extreineleefrons the fever s ; and the constant exposure in an open boat for-se tnan.y day without stifficientmenrishinent had reduced - them to the last stage of exhaustion. I am.; happy to say that.there is every impe that they Mill all, ,ivith judicious treatment, recover- Your obedient-servant, : Taos. Mreexa,ll:B:M. Consul. ARTILLMRST TFACTICEi AT :sou NORTII Et:MT.—Late :on Thursday, 'the -inhalitants were disturbed :lay-reports of a heavy manmade -from the:direction of the entrance in to si t he . Mersey. Many peorile imagined that the, r. ' .of Englasidhy thelinesianehad actually commenced. Others, supposed it must have proceeded from the expected Australian packets, twe.of -Which were due; and not a few,came to the ,conclusion that Brother Jonathan had taken a bold initiative Thy attacking Liverpoeie : -It . afterwards transpired that the officers of the iLanoaahire Aetillery Militia at :present doing :garrison duty .at-theiNorth Fort, desirous of disciplining their . omen under even?' eiremustanceesuldenly ordered:theissembie A. be sounded. In 'three minutes the menewere .at their everious stations, ant Lin the command• being given, nineteen emends were lied irom the gret guns, with scarcely a • moment's intermission. The experiment was held toilae, quite e satisfactery, ;and ereditable,totheanen and officers. 113noszaane are Peke.—The._,Chamber of Commenee at <Newcastle haveaddressed a memorisl to the President .of the !Seard of Trade on :the -sabject of the brokerage duties levied 4n France, pointing qut that ,while French shipmasters are allowed to select their owe brokers, or to employ no broker at s ), all in this country, E ug hsh shipowners are compelled, in F ra nce to employ certainbrokers licensed by the government, leand to pay them tertainedutieeifixed-by the state; and .also :drawing the attention:of the government to the fact that,eoal laden vessels eutering .Havre, Femme), and Harileur .pay higher rates of brokerage4han other vessels, and higher than I e*en- colliers do in the other zports of France. The memorial . also submits thart file.coraptdsary brokemge system complained of, if trat at variance with the letter, is at'deast opposed to the spiiittethe Commercial Treaty of 1826, between Great Britain and France, and w'his't, by :Article 1., evidently comt eru were to be plated that henceforth no heavier ihurde ns on natigation permitted in the one eountrylaan in the ether.— Gatftheni • Observer. EXIMA.ORDINART HOE BE R Y TES OF WATCH the Po lice -court, on Friday, Edward .Proste, well ktu3wn as a chafer charged .uith having in thief, and.Toseph and Mary Jsekson mother and son, were watches. William Layeack i; their ' . posses ' sion a number of stolen. :a ...detective offiee - e, said that, at a house .in Lime-street, a nd ' ratillecrg a about thrte,yreeks ago, a n ,was drugged watch and ring. He was. so much injured that be was first taketitol.i ibut for some time back he has been at his house in T h-io t ine s k i iln 4 Aane, where bellow lies, too ill to hew:loved. From info - rma,- - , tion he (Lay-cock) received from Meesrs. Smith and Ham ;mond, pawnbrokers, of Soho-street, he went on Thursday to ea:beerhouse,,l7,lCharles-street, kept , lay the female prisoner, .and where the two male prisoners liied. At first some peo ;ple le the house said that Frosts was :net in, but on going up :to a room upstaire, the three prisouers were ca,ughtthere, ,looking very much :confused. A watch .vas found iu Freste'e pocket, two in that of the lad Jackson, arid a gold one in the female prisoner's 'bed. Both the male ; prisoners said ..the watches were their own. Two other detectives proved that they found in a basket, concealed amongst some feathers, several watches, and amongst some ashes under the grate they ALSO found nine more. 4. time-piece was also ,found in one of the paeloura. When tarn into custody thedbmale prisoner said she gave 17s. for, it, then £2 55., and then 033. On see ing the detectives Frosts attempted to escape, bat was cap tured and handcuffed, end on seeing Grisenthwaite.(one of the conkers) :looking at the grime, he said, " You needn't look there, you'll find nothing." He also said that if they had come a few minutes earlier they would have caught ;two men who had left the wtches. Several of the stolen matches were identified 'by e a rsons who had been robbed of them in the street, and A gentleman from Messrs. Litherland and Davies, in Bold-street,identified the time-piece as having been stolen from their shop about seven o'clock last Monday even ing. The ease was remanded for a weeb, the magistrate, Mx. J. A. Tobin, refusing to take bail for the Jackson& Docx CommtrrEe.—Mr, Charles Turner presided at the weekly meeting, on Thursday. The other ,members present were Messrs. Shand, Brocklebank, Robinson, Chaloner, Mon del, Holden, Hubback, Rankin' A n d ers on, Gregson, and James Holm. The principal subject of discussion was the appoint ment of Mr. Pickthall, a cargo ledger clerk, to the situation of warehouse -keeper in No 1 Albert Dock warehouse. A letter was read alleging that Mr. Pickthall was appointed to the situation over the bead of Mr. Benson, in consequence of his being the nephew of the chairman of the sub-committee, with whom the appointment rested. After explanation from Mr. Robinson, Mr. Pickthall's uncle, and from Messrs. Holden and Hubback, the other members of the committee, the appoint ment was confirmed. The committee also recommended that the rates of charge in the Stanley Dock, for" coal, be 9d. per ton, and for other merchandise, ls. per ton. Approved. The harbour-masters'sub-committee reported that the new enclosed shed, on the east side of the Salthouse Dock, was now ready, and had been used for the reception of outer cargoes. The chairman iutimated that Messrs.lmrie and Tomlinson, who had used the shed, said it was one of the most beautifill sheds they ever saw, and, in their opinion,it would be of the greatest advan tage to the shipping of the port. Mr.Mondel: It isan admirably constructed shed. A communication *as read from Messrs. Caleb Grimshaw and Co. about appropriated berths, showing the advantage of those berths to the dock estate. Referred bathe harbour-masters' committee. A letter was read from Messrs. Fleming and Clay, trade assignees to the estate of Messrs. Rennie, Rankin, and Johnson, stating that they could let the building yard of the firm, upon which they bad expended about £6,000, if the Dock Committee would enable them to grant a five or seven years' lease. Referred to the committee of works. Mr. Robertson Gladstone, Mr. William Mann, and Mr. Ander son, who had been re-elected members of the Dock Committee, at the last meeting of the council, were re-appointed members of the several sub-committees upon which they bad previously acted. The general business then terminated. COMMISSIONS signed by the Lord-Lieutenant of the County Palatine of Lancaster. —John Bramley Moore, Esq., to b e Deputy-Lieutenant ; John Hickinbotham Chambers, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant. WILLIAM ALFRED RUSSELL, Six months old, son of Mr. Joseph Russell, ship-broker, Mill-street, was found dead in bed at two o'clock on Friday afternoon. At an inquest on Saturday, a verdict of " Death from natural causes" was re turned. THE LATE ARCIEDEACON BROOKS.—We understand that the statue of the late Venerable Archdeacon Brooks, executed by Mr. Macßride , is not yet ready for public inspection, owing to its being not quite finished, and the absence of the artist from Liverpool. AN INQUEST was held on Saturday on the body of a seaman named William Pollock, aged 20 years, a native of Belfast, who was landed from the American ship Assyria, at the Bramley Moore Dock, on Monday, and died in the Northern Hospital on Thursday. The jury returned a verdict that death arose from natural causes. ON SATURDAY, Elizabeth Parry, the wife of a labourer, re siding in Ashley-street, was accidentally burnt while sitting at the fireside nursing her child. Having advanced too near the fire, her clothes ignited, and before the flames could be ex tinguished she was severely burnt all over her body. She was conveyed to the Southern Hospital, and is progressing favour- ably. SESSIONS.—The following are the dates of holding the va rious sessions for this county during the next year t—Lancas.. ter, Dec. 31st, April 7th, June, 30th, and Oct. 13th; Preston, Jan. 2nd, April Bth, July 2nd, and Oct. 15th ; Salford, Jan. 7th, April 14th, July 7th, and Oct. 20; Kirkdale, Jan. 15th, April, 22nd, July 15th, and Oct. 28th. The annual sessions will be held on the 26th of June, and the adjourned annual sessions on the 11th of Sept. The Guiding Star, which left Liverpool in January last for Melbourne, with nearly 500 passengers on board, and had not arrived at Melbourne up .to the 30th August last, is now posted at Lloyd's as a missing ship. She had a miscellaneous cargo, which, with the ship, was insured for a large amount. She was last spoken by the Boston barque Kate, Captain Hastings, in latitude 16 6 S., longitude 33 48 W., and has not since been heard of. BLOCKS and copper plates, 34 in number, for making the different parts of forged bank notes, were last week disco vered at the bottom of - a cesspool in the yard of a solitary cottage at Headley-heith, on the Alcester-road, near Bir mingham. The cottage, in May last, was occupied by a notorious individual, named William Mayner, late of Birming ham, who, at the last Warwick assizes, was convicted!, and sentenced to six :years' penal . servitude, for receiving stolen goods. Mniaricaroir t&niv ACCIDENT.---A few days since, as Mr. W. Brown, son'of Mr. J. C. Brown, solicitor, of Holsworthy, in the north of Devon, was out 'shooting, he met with the following serial; accident. He was in company With a gentle man named ale, and was getting over a hedge, wheu Mr. Yule, who was about to follow him, tried to ntscock his gun, but the hammer slipped from his fingers and the gun went off, discharging nearly the whole of the contents into Mr. Brown's thigh, shattering it in a frightful manner. Mortification has sineettettia, and there are nothopes of Mr. Brown's recovery. A DISTIONEST SERVANC—On Friday, -a gold watch and chain, and some valuable .articles of wearing apparel, Were missed from a public-house in the n'eighbeurhood of Cahbege hail, and suspicion falling upon a servant girl who had 'left the Iprevions day, information was given to the police, 'which led to the girl's apprehension on Saturday afternoon, at a lddging-house in Grafton-street, with the missing watch and ;Chain, a ham, the articles of "clothing, and other stottn.pro . arty, , in her possession, SHOCKING OCOtria/rtcE.--On Saturday morninp,.;'-a most painful occurrence, resulting in fhe death of a young man named Nathan Bentley, happened at the new miWbelonging to Mr. Thomas Miller, in Newiall-lane, Preston. He was engaged in oilineasome machinery in the cardiugrroom t when the dangling ends of his neckerchief were caught in the wheels, and his bead was drawn tightly to the machinery. The engine was stopped as soon as possible, and the kerchief being cot he 'aeas detached; abut he was quite dead, having been strangled almost instantaneously. THE NEM" NA RKtT 'fiLT SOLITHPORT.—At the late meet ing of the Seathport commissioners, Mr- .Wright's Offer of 2,300 yardsaol land, oppoSite the Lancashire and •Yorkshire Railway Station, was considered. Some discussionaroge as to contictuiug the Old Mal et, which has .only 800 yards of groand. alt was decided that it was desirable to continue it until the 'expiration of the lease. Tice ground rent of the New Market is ;30- per yard, or 013 ,aeyear ; but the tolls have been £l7 in 12 weeks. The lease ofthe New Market is for 99years, but thetonnxissioners hope to get the lessee-am landed te'999 years. TutrT AT Atatnagr..—On Saturday, Edward Parry, an tatter, was charged befere the county magistrates; ;at the mart ... in Lime-streetaWith stealing' three ducks, the property of Messrs. Bath Brothers, omnibus. :proprietors, at Aighurth. Theanisoner . was an-o - stler in the employ of Mr.. Philips l awho 11w:stables in the samelraid with Messrs. Blith, and orilon daylte was discharged in consequence 4 being drunk , ral the preticus night. Upon leaving the Place he decamped with :three ducks, whichtwere found in Es 'possession on thesame day,at the stables of :Castle's Ilatel: :Gaston. He WRE Com mated to gaol for two months. ipnass.--fire , bribe out .on Sunday morning, abs - at six .olelock, in the -shop of Mr. ThomatFoakes, Ratcliire-street, ißrurswick-road ; -but the engines"wSt'e quickly on the spot, ..and the flames , were subdued in a few.minutes. The. damage As ',estimated at :Awl ,Z40.--=-Twe- small ',fires occurred on tarday. One in the morning, about nine, in a cotton-shed, owned , by Mr. Howell, in Great Howard-street, but which was , siii3dued. by a.few .buokets• of water before the fire brigade had time 'to arrixe. 'The second. fire irroke out among some 'oakum in a cellar rented by Mr. Philip Doyle, in New Bird ...street: It, was also extinguished beforedam age was occesioned. - Men VBNECINAN -*knew Coserawy.--elt. is. in contempla- Itkil . , we• understand; to form a company under the powers of ;the recent act, withliraited liability, :to develope the. edvan- Aages of: Fisher's .(patent): Venetian ,crew, which has been "tried against the bestanxiliary screws that have, hitherto ap. ' o P f ea lue red re . increased cuped,ii.withsdvaandtagimiesnutigroorind Ihoehecotlniseimpropdtioacntioonf At& So confident is the inventor of the superiority of his 'screw, that he is prepared, we are told, to_ guarantee that it ~shall beat any eerewtthat ca n be fried against it, or to have tuotbing for his trouble. w 'Ems CIVIL SERKICE ,IN LIVEEPOOL.--kA ' tae Li for a :clerk in the General Bu siness Department ofeerpool ;Castoin-house has been occasioned by the removal from office eof Mr. T. Coyle; and another in the long room -by the re r.unoval of Mr. J. Sumner.. The salary of each is £7O per an enure. Several :appointasents,have been 'made during the past ~week..Mr.'W. C. Burchell has been appointed a dent. for ,general business; ,and Mr. Charles Ebbrell has obtained an ,extra sveighenels*aand Mr. Thomas Humphreys has been .appointed a boatman. Mr. W. P. Griffiths, formerly of the Livespool Post-office, -,,llits been promoted from the Inland aDepartment of the General Post-office to :that of the Account ant and Receiver-genete's Department. WHZSENVEKA.GIC *OP lavearooe.—The Health Commiest' ee Omvejutt issued a tabillar report of the -existing state of the thorough sewerage. The report has been prepared by Mr. l'Cevelands, the bsmsugh. engineer, with hie ; usual care and accuracy.. It is ffiiniple ,-yet comprehensive, exhibiting an alphabetical list of all the streets, the length of each- street, the -extent of sewerage executed in each of them, in which sewers to any extent exist:; the character of chose sewers, and theiralepth below the surface at partienlar -specified points., From their plan, these tahies admit of easy and satisfactory consultation, and by their assistance any .osie can at. -once deteraline the exact ,extentof available sew,enge in any dis trict. ,Aavaluable additionte the ,work woeld ke a summary of the whole, showing at a glance how mauystreets there are, what length of them is :adopted and sewered, and a statement of the auntalready spent in .eerrying ,out ,M.r. Islewland's ad -1 mirable plan ,of sewerage. Houses :BUILT ON 6 PHOX.7-At the Pella-court, on. Wednesday, . eight heads af . chemical works, soaperies, gas works, ate., were summoned, .at,the instance of the Health Committeea iir depositing noisome And unwholesome refuse .upon , vacant ,ground, in the neighbourhood of Boundary 'street, north end, between Great fioward-streetand4he East :lancashire Railway. The names of the parties summoned were Ann Hiehardson, William Bothell; William Callaghan, . : - r o h n Tinkler. Thomas Gibbeas, (a r earter,), Thomas Aspinall, , (a carter,) Jamey Muspratt and Sous, and John Hopwood Nieholson. Mr. ll`Gowan, clerk to the Health Cessmittee, apeared as ; prosecutor. Dr. Duncan said he had inspected the ,district in ~question. lie saw -a ,ver . ly large quantliv of refuse there froiti chemical works and gas works , ; acid it gave outnprrholesome gasses, which, in his opinion, must be very injurious to health. The inhabitants liviegnear complained of the smells, and •they stated that .x ouch illness had' been caused is their familifw by them. The.quantity of deposit was very considerable, • in -fact, it formed embankments to many streets. When he was there he saw it smoking, and in one p ar t there •was It , pool ,of water. Ultimately,. 'Zr. Beim in flicted a fine of 20s. andoosts upon each. lAt4lie suggestion of Mr. MlGowan, in the cases against Gibbons and Aspinall, the carters, the fine was mitigated to ss, each and,cests. A Baaurns Larran lyroaroa.—At the .Policeecourt, on Tuesday, a respectably-dressed young man., with a large beard and moustache, was broughtup in custody of Detective Thom son, charged with having attempted to impose upon -several gentlemen of this town by means of a forged petition. The officer said that= n tonsecpaence,of information be hadreeenved, he kept a look-out for the ' genV.eman," and on Monday ream sing met and apprehended him in Fox-street, when upon him was found the following document:—" This is to certify that She bearer hereof, Mr John 'De ;Castro, who 'is a native of America, was a passenger on .board ;the brig Tay, which .vessel was lost on her passage f.rout 'Quebec 0.0 Swansea, South Wales. The-said Mr. De Castro., with,elevenal the crew, were landed in this port by Captain :George Brown, of the barque Mary Ann. Through this melancholy catastrophe he has lost all his effects, consisting of fare, hear-skinsatides, &c., amounting to the ,value of 5,000 dollars. Therefore, in consideration of his great Loss, I think it my duty to grant him this certificate, thinking it may enable him to realise a sum sufficient to pro cure the necessaries and defray the expenses of a passage to his native country. Given under my hand.at Douglas, Isle of Man, this _2oth day of September, 1855. George Brown, mas ter of the brig Mary.—The foregoing statement is truly cor rect Robert Quayle, Harbour Master,"—Here follow the names of. James Baines, £1; F. Shand, 10s.; William Clure and Son, 10s., and, a dozen others, all of which were forgeries. The prisoner was committed to gaol for three months, HISTORIC SOOIETY.—The first sessional meeting for the consideration of scientific subjects, was held on Thursday, at St. George's Hall, Dr. Thom, president, in the chair. Mr. Whitehead exhibited a beautiful specimen of the "volute punctqta," a very rare description of shell. Mr. Sansom exhibited a print of a highly-magnified photograph of the " navicula angulata." Dr. Hume exhibited an instrument of singular beauty and interest, illustrative of the theory of motion ; and it illustrated also the motion of the earth. Mr. J. G. Jones, secretary and accountant of the Collegiate Insti tution; proceeded to explain a " patent Abacus" invented by him, which by enabling the school-master to put before his pupils every combination of addition sums, by a simple move - ment of a slide, whilst an index points out the page in the key containing the answer, affords time to the scholars for that continuous practice which is necessary to celerity and accuracy, and enables the teacher to devote more time in explaining the principles of the science. Several . Blue-Coat boys were in attendance, under the care of their master Mr. Wood, and worked out the sums set before them by means of the abacus with marvellous rapidity and accuracy, doing credit to themselves and to their teacher. Mr. Milveen, Mr. Wood, Mr. Finlay, and several other gentlemen testified to the utility of the invention, and the meeting was unanimous in expressing its approbation of it. Mr. Meeson exhibited 15 or 16 prints of photographs taken in'the Crimea by Mr. Fen ton, being a portion of the collection now exhibiting at the Old Post-office, High•street. After inspecting the prints the members separated. . THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE United States mail steamer Atlantic, Capt. West, sailed , hence on Saturday, for New York, with 165 passengers, a large cargo, and the usual mails. , ON Thursday, Richard Hannah, aged nine months, whose parents live at 49, Sherwood-street, crept so close to the fire that his clothes ignited, and he was so severely burnt that, he died on the following day. ON Saturday evening, soon after six o'clock, the house of Mr. Bird, Brunswick-road, was entered by the back window, while the family were in the drawing-room, up stairs, and the body of a silk dress, and other articles of wearing apparel, were stolen. SCALDED To DEATH.— On Saturday, an inquest was held on the body of Wm. Townson, aged six years, who died on Fri day from the effects of scalds accidentally received on Wed nesday week. The deceased was playing on the hearthstone of his parents' house, in Eldon-street, when the coals under the coffee-kettle gave way, and the child was severely scalded. A verdict of " accidental death" was returned. - FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Thursday morning an accident occurred at the Camden-town goods station of the London and North-Western Railway, whereby a platelayer named Joseph Blake lost his life. At six o'clock a.m. some loads of timber were being shunted by an engine on to the up line, for the purpose of completing a train for the Haydon square station, when Blake, endeavouring to get under the trucks, with the intention of crossing to the other side of the line, was knocked down by the heavily-laden waggons, the whole of which passed over him. On assistance being rendered, it was found that his legs were severed from his body, and he expired within a few minutes of the accident. •SUICIDE. —An inquest was held on Saturday, on the body of Michael Russell, aged 60, lodging at the house of Mary Threlfall, No. 1 Court, Bevington-street. . The deceased was formerly in the employ of the surveyor, as a paviour, but was discharged, about a fortnight ago, since which time he had been much depressed in spirits, and by . an idea that everyone was robbing him. On Friday morning he was not heard dressing long after his usual hour, and on the bedroom door, which was locked, being broken open, he was found on his knees, dead, with his neckerchief 'tied round his neck, and the end fastened to the bedpost. A verdict of " Temporary in sanity" was returned. STABBING.—On Saturday night, Wm. Moseley, a carter, was stabbed during an affray at Woolfe-street. A distarb ance took place amongst some foreign sailors, with which Moseley became mixed up. A tght ensued, and Moseley. Was stabbed in the throat with a knife. The wound was a serious conveyed e s y ev ed era m l ose of 1 8 h; t nt h eri e esseattehing Dispensary,divi. where his wCeortfaso were temporarily attended to, and he' was afterwards taken to the Southern Hospital. A sailor, named 'tames Craig, who, it is alleged, committed the act of stabbing, was taken into custody, and when Moseley is sufficiently recovered to give evidence of the facts he case will be inquired into before the magistrates. A.MIDENT FROM GAS.—On Saturday, Samuel and Mary Ann Webster, residing in Ashton street, Toitetlapark, had a eiatrow escape from suffocation by `gas. They went to bed on !Friday about Midnight, and as 'they did not make their appearance the following day as lanai, suspicions were enter tained as to some casualty havitg occurred. In theafternoon access was oberained to the house, when they, being the only inmates, were found in a state of insensibility from suffocation. They were promptly removed to the Soatharn Hospital, where 'the woman:is so far restored as to be out of danger, but the 'man is still in a dangerous ;condition. The accident is sup posed to have originated from a leak in the gas pipe, or through negligence in not turningit off. ROEIPERY AT WEST Pletressa.--;Emma Smith and Mary Far rington (sisters) were brought before the county magistrates, on "Saturday, chargedwitlethe robberyofwearing apparel and other articles, from Mr. Filburn, of the Stanley Arms, West Derby. Smith was employed as a • char.woman, and on Monday - she was about leaving the house, when it was found that she had ar-stawl belonging to Mrs. Fillstrn. Upon being searched by the police, it was found that 'she had some paweatiekets re ferring to table covers and other property which had been Pledged at the shop 'of Mr. Thomas Wilkin, Bevington-bush, '.and which had been previously missed from the Stanley Arms. siOn Thursday night the police went to the house of a woman eammed Roper, in Percival-street, Old Swan, where they dia -1 asovered a bundle of articles which had been left 'by the prisoner Farrinettin; *ith the intention of evading the search of the constables. The whole of the property was identified by Mrs. Filbtirn. Smith was committed ler four , months' hard labour. Farrington was discharged. COURT or CHANCE itY, FRIDAY.—StrOnge v. Hawke,: John Blackburn, the testator in the snit, was, 'together with his partners, John Ireland Blackburn and ;E. •Corbett, the • owner of tetlain salt-works, at Garetea, , iii *Lancashire. By i an order made 'by lace-Chancellor Ituart 'the partnership accounts 'were directed to be taken, ant itaveNreferred to Mr. Stewart, of Liverpool, a surveyor, tonseettain the amount due to the testator's estate, with libertyzisessteteany point for the opinion ofthe court. By a subsequeet eider the whole matter I was directed to be 'brou ght on befovolte-Lordsalustices. On ' the 15th of-Jurrellast 31 T. Stewartntade his . awerd, reserving ' several natters - to be determined'lya the court, and these formed thesublect of the present discussion. :Their Lordships directed a-special case, under Sirai3verge :Turner's Act, as 'a means Of regularly bri mgiug the uttettions before the court. Tan IirVrETOOL 'I 'R lt-EISCPATTax.-4t a meeting 'of ' the representatives o g the local -Tress, on -Saturday, at the ClarendorFrooms, M]:. Baler, oftbe - Liverpool Mail, occupy ing the chair, it was reeelvedixrettablish a society, under the l ' -above designation, the ebjectctwlich should be to' cultivate in the iterary de' ?artanents-ofe press of rthis town, by ',th mutual rod feeling andtordiahadi r sn amon g st those engaged ; bringing" them int ;o contact With 'each -the me at- social • and of ' o ther meetings to 1 n held Teriodicilly. By tinterchange ' frimullyfellings, a Neil would thus . be - created, and by. pro ' meting • objects of interest - 10 • the . profession agenerally, ' the ' Ipromoters ekehe a neetay believethat much advar_tage would be derivedaseh . froi n its *eorporate ninzacier the association is expeetetto attain an inanenee- isliklh, rightly directed,. may be productive oft he mestimportruxt and beneficial results. FIRM •AT RAIN lIILIL 141:72CATIC _ASYLIT3I.—A.Lre broke out in the tailors' der iartment at the itsienbill asyltunon Thursday afternoon; and a ] nessenger•was'ds , ,patched for the St. Helen's engine 'A body of pe&iee soon attached a couple of horses to it anddrove off; but before they arrived the .tire was almost extinguished by t he mortions-ofthe attendants.at the asylum, I assisted •by a n amber *of the eratients, who busily carried water from a pon din the yard. There was a good supply of water at ? hand, • otherwise the adamage must have been very great. 'As it was,. eillahaelothea *and fitting were destroyed, and the.flames so* nr caught - the rafters and passedthrough the , roof. The damag e.Willbe-considerreele, but both the.articles and the building were ineuredin the Royal Exchange Insur sance Offiee. Ho -w the fire : origineted is a mystery, but it ' commenced en therfirsenoorawberethe stoves foriheating the irons are, and it is probable rthey 4ney have beeuaeverheated, and thus ignited ti to building. Learrierraaarree ARSOCIATION 1 Pon LA.scaktumE ,AND CRESULEE.—The a thou inetitutiee, *which now embraces a combination of 75 literary and other societies, containing an aggregate of .20,000 members :lure entered into anurrange. went for affording a substrate -during the enseing , winter for lectures' which latter ly.lawenot , been popular with - the mem bers of meoLanics' fauttitutions. :They have putt-I:aged a powerful - microscope and large • exy4hydrogen . lantern, -.with dissolvingvieses, whic h are intended to itinerate through the two counties ...Jul .gh .e eldeibitionte , in aconneetionawith the various societies. The .apparatus will be placed ha ;charge of a lecturer and an exhibitor, who willaravelavith it. Whe dis solving views ,are sufficiently numeroas to afford a aeries of , six exhibitions, .arranged as fellows a7l. The inseetaeurld (British inset:tee:lld foreign).-2, Thewegetable world. at. Fa miliar objects .in daily use (food >and fluids). 4. Oriental .scenery. 5. Brit:sh scenery. eli. Itim,eapitals of Europe. As these exhibitions, will be of an amusing character, es well as aeffording the means of intelleelaaa a mpaaaelneo t,. i t i, lippe d tftLey will offer some compensatiou for !tile loss of lectumes al a form of instruction.—Marteherter , C.uaraan. :;DEN en FOG.-02 Saturday morning -this town . and with 1, heurhood were, visited by one of the :meet dense fogs expo., .eneed for some seam. The town was. ahrouded in anatmos phere so impernseabie to the sun that to ~about noon it pre ".sented the appearance of midgeght. ale movements aef pedestrians were attended with .inearevenience, and perecare in.e.harge of vehicles mew obliged to eeereise the utmost caution in order to avoiduceidents from collision. The navigation .was partially suspended for several hours duringthe forenoon, and only aim . of the SerryNboats made their usual trips. The beatatould only proceeded half speed, and had to stop fre quently a order to avoitl•oollisions. In somelnstances nearly an hour gas occupied in .messing the river. Rolls were -rung of horns and other signals trere brought into -requisition .to on board•the , boats, „ and st: , the l andin g -s tag e .; ; the sounding preven t :accidents. Several of the coasting, and.e'tuer steamers were delayed beyond their usual time of arrival ; and vessels ready for seamere prevented leaving the river in.,canseuuence of the fog. 3So far, however,, as we have been able to learn, no casualty oecurred. About ore o'clock the sun one forth, and the fog gradually disappeared. THE Mime ',LT ST. BAILITAX4S'S CHITRCIL—.OIICIIIICIan v in accordance with, annual custom, the mayor, John.Sttewart, 5%5q., attended divine service at St. Barnabas's Church. Par -liament-street, where a _sermon was ; preached on behalf. of the Southern and Toeteth HospitaL ,IChe Mayor and -.several m t .mbers of the Council met at St. Barnabas's school% Green land-street, at a quarter before eleven. o'clock, and proceeded theuce to the church. They were accompanied by thealeek. of the peace and the corporate officiale a lhe latter carrying the civienegalia. Amonget , other gentlemen present were r.,#l. • C. Ewart, M.P., Mr. C. Turner, Mr. S. Job, president of the institution, Mr. J. A. Tobin, the ex-mayor, Mr. H. llalhead, Mr. .3L Creosol], Mr. 0. itlelden, Mr. James Holme, &c. The sermon was preached by the ;Rev. p. T. Barmy, incumbent of St. Barnalos's, and honoraryarleaplain to the institution, from • the text, Matthew v. 7, " What do ye more than others ?" The rev. gentleman , allud i ng to the ,charity :op whose behalf 'he was about to appeal to their liberality, said it fwas one of the beet of that class of institutions an elle,coentry,as regarded its 1 Internal arrangement and the professional skill ofthe medical I officers connected with it. Such was its growingeimportance that, while yearo 1843 it had given re'Sef to 632 unfortunate persona, this it had relieved no fewer than 3rfele. The Institution bad strnggled on ; but, he regretted to say, it was now fast getting into debt, and there was reason to 'believe that at the close of this year its liabilities would amount to £1,500. This fact induced him to appeal to the merchants of this town, and he hoped the appeal would receive a generous response. The collecti on a mounted to £4lss. ea. ROYAL MEEaBT YA.CJIT CLUB BALL.—On Wednesday 1 (to-morrow,) this much talked of, and by our fair townswomen long and anxiously looked for, hall comes off. The arrange ments are fast maturing, and their completeness in every de partment reflects the highest praise on the committee of management. Mr. Gribbin 's excellent band will occupy the orchestra, a guarantee to one for the chief essentials to the success of a ball, namely, good music; and in the hall the band of the Pensioners, with the permission of Colonel Swan, will greet the guests with enlivening strains on their arrival. We have been favoured with a peep at the card of the dances, the most elegant and complete thing of the kind we have seen; not only does the programme give the dances in their order, but the music to be played also. The selected Quadrilles are the "British Navy," " Irish," and "Scotch," and "Partant pour la Syrie." Waltzes : " Montrose , " " Nymph of the Wave," " Crystal Palace," " Prize," " Sum Mer Flower," . "F" "Chant d'Amour," and "Fa lse Adieu." Galo p s: "Regatta," " Derby," " Express," and Victory." Polkas : " Sultan," " Alma," " Isabella," and " Sovereign!' This beautiful little card, or rather book, is executed by Messrs. Yates and Hess, engravers, of Lord-street, and,' we doubt not, will be preserved as a memento of the evening by many' a fair one, for long years to come. The lady patronesses are the Countess of Ellesmere, the Earl being vice-patron of the club, and Mrs. Littledale, wife of the commodore. Mr. Towers, of the Angel Hotel, justly celebrated as a caterer to the inner man, presides in the supper-room ; welcome intelligence to those who seek the more substantial pleasures. Dancing will commence at nine o'clock ; and, to prevent confusion, we are requested to desire that coachmen will observe the rules in putting down and taking up the company.— Albion. GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. MR. COBDEN (says the Yorkshireman) has not the shadow of a chance of being again returned for the West Riding. Six young me n were drowned on Wednesday mornin g b y the upsetting of a Worthing fishing-boat, about 20 miles from Ramsgate. A LARGE number of spurious crown pieces are in circula tion. They are of the date of 1819, and are exceedingly good imitations. TIM Bishop of Lincoln is announced to have a new work in the press, with the title, " The Church of Christ during the first Three Centuries." A STRENUOUS effort is about being made by the friends of Mr. Bates to procure a commutation or remission of his sen tence of fourteen years' transportation, by means of a memo rial in his favour, to be addressed to Her Majesty. A RUMOUR of a division in the Great Western railway board of directors, and a threat of resignation of an influential member ( Mr. Walpole, the chairman), if a dividend was re commended for the current half-year, is rife in many quarters, and believed.—Herapath. GEORGE SMITE has been sentenced to a year's imprison ment for fraudulently obtaining the " Queen's shilling," on three separate occasions, by alleging each time that he had never enlisted before. Another man, William Webb, has re ceived sentence of six months' imprisonment for falsely enlist ing as a single man, being married. Tam PATRIOTIC PC/PD.—The weekly report of the com mittee for the administration of the Patriotic Fund states, that the numbers at present receiving relief from the fund are—widows, 2,426; children, 3,104; and orphans, who have lost both parents, 97. The amount of subscriptions to the fund now reaches the large sum of £1,291,296. THE PURITY OF THE HALLOT-BOX.—John Rhodes was ar rested in Baltimore for voting on Mr. Gammen's papers ; Gammen was arrested for lending them to Rhodes, and then voting on them himself. This is no uncommon thing. It was done in Philadelphia recently, and has been a frequent prac- Ott in New York and elsewhere. Joust COCKCROFT, a notorious character, better known as '`.` Happy Jack," has died, at Rotherham, from the bursting of a blood-vessel, brought on by intense love of drink. On a former Occasion, a keg of gin having burst at the Masbro' station, he and two companions drank such an enormous quantity that his companions died, and he was only saved by the use of the stomach pump and other remedies. MR. JAMES PEARSON, corn miller, of Sams Mill, Horton, near Bradford, was robbed, on Tuesday evening, of £260, con sisting of bank notes, a cheque, and £47 in gold, while on his way from Bradford to his own residence. The robbers attacked him with bludgeons, and left him on the ground in a state of insensibility. Three men have been apprehended by the Brad ford police on suspicion of being the thieves. Da. GnxrPirn, the prosecutor of Strahan, Paul, and Bates, is, it is said, very wealthy, As a young man, he distinguished himself at Cambridge, and after launching into life was for tunate to form a matrimonial alliance with a Miss Barker, the only child of the Rev. Mr. Barker, who had amassed a for tune of nearly £200,000 as a merchant, previous to his entering into holy orders. A NOVEMBER FOG.—The whole of London was enveloped in a dense fog on Thursday morning, and it extended to most of the suburban districts. It is the first the metropolis has seen during the present month, which has become proverbial for fogs ; and as half of November has gone, the Londoners consider themselves tolerably fortunate. Fogs at this time of year are generally considered as precursors of severe frosts. EXTRAORDINARY StriciDE.—Mr. Chas. Mosely, of Dalston, a clerk in the Bank of England, has committed suicide, under 'the impression left upon his mind by a dream , to the effect that officers were in pursuit of him for forgeries upon the bank. He mentioned the dream to his wife, who tried to cheer him, but he had a similar dream on the following night, and under its influence he rushed down stairs and ripped his abdomen open with a carving-knife. He died in about three hours afterwards. AN INQUIRY was held by the Sunderland magistrates last week, under the new Merchant Shipping Act, into the cir cumstances of the stranding of the brig Brenda, one of those which were driven ashore by the late gale. It was proved beyond doubt that the master, a Mr. Bell, was " roaring drunk" at the time, unable to give orders, and behaving with the greatest violence. The depositions were forwarded to the Board of Trade, and meanwhile the master's certificate has been suspended. WAGES or AGRICULTURAL SERVINTS.—The annual " sta tutes," or hirings of farm servants, have just commenced in 'the West Riding of Yorkshire. The Wakefield statutes were • held on Monday, and the Doncaster statutes on Tuesday. There ‘IN'eS a pretty good attendance of servants at both places, and hiring was very brisk, the demand for farming men being greater than the supply. Wages ruled high, the best hands ‘obtaining from £l5 to £22; boys, £5 to £8; girls, from £7 to ;10. , rftE Gazette contains a copyright convention between her 'Majesty and the King of Prussia, extending the copyright I ‘.convention of 1846, to all books published in countries which : snay - tjoin the convention, and exported through the countries included in the first convention, viz. : —Prussia, Saxony, Saxe- AVeiraer, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe -Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg { Gotta., Brunswick, Anhalt-Dessau-GOthen, Anhalt-Bernburg, -lichwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen or Reusc. The new convention also extends protection to trans- Outlets. 1 WIKAT OUR HOSPITALS ARE DOING.—We find it stated in the appeal lately put forth by the committee of manage , Brent of King's College Hospital. London, that in the year 1 . 1.851, there were entered on the hospital books 27,694 patients ; m w i ns tted firs to t az: a y zd th , at no sin le c s e s t t h h e an ye 2 a B r 2, l 7 B o 3 s 9 p , a lV i h e n e t n s th a e ve h b os e p e i n ta ad l theberiefits of the charity, of whom 17,943 were in-patients, 2artte 3 i s r hospitals,atten d attended out-patients, ownhomes. propertion to their means, are doing as much as this unen dousel hospital; and what a large idea do we not obtain of anLaetsUss27assptrmremthaarrtieoathwe o r me'a ' f , the ibenefits conferred on t he p oor b y hospitals ; and what claims on the liberality of the really charitable do not these atonic institutions put forth ? RAILWAY LAws.—Last week, at Dumbarton, Mr. Andrew Grierson, of Ediinburgli, claimed damages from the Dumbar tonshire Halm* , Company, for detention caused by them while on a journey from Lochlomond to Edinburgh, on Satur day, the 15th of September last. It was Balloch fair-day ; and:in consequence of the difficulty experienced in getting the immense number of passengers packed into the carriages, the 6.341,p.m. train di d not leave Balloch station till 7.10 p.m. The steamer from 80% ?ling was, consequently, that much behind its usualiime in gctt ing up to the Broomielaw, and the "pursuer," in place of procee ding on to Edinburgh that evening, found all the trains start ,ed, and was compelled to remain in Glasgow till Monday morn. dug. He now raised an action to recover £1: 7s. Bd. for out lay, and £2 12s. for professional charges, inconvenience, and anoyance. The defence of the company was, that their titne table only stated trains would ' not stsxtbefore" the ho urs therein mentioned, and they were not, I therefore, responsib) le for the delay. The sheriff, however, 1, overruled this objet Lion, and found the company liable for I ..m., 7s. ed., the pursuer's travelling expenses. HOPE ?OR THE CO ,NSUMPTIVE.—Dr. Maddock, of COMM •sstreet, London, has cl early shown in his published works that •remedies r introduced t lirectly into the lungs by suppuration, , very frequently effect the absorption of tuberculous deposits in the incipient stage of consumption , and cure the disease . even after:ulceration le is commenced. From the accumulated ',mass of facts which the• author has presented to the public of the value of this simple and efficacious mode of reaching, and locally acting on, the se at of disease, no reasonable doubt can be entertained that it will form a new era in the treatment of all affections of the respiratory organs. In France, Ger many, andAnierica, Dr. .Maddock's remedial agents are being most extensively and successfully adopted. In the latter country they have caused a". perfect furore among the proles sion.—Lilerary Review. THE PaGwr TO ICREP ANIMALS.—A case was tried in the Exeter Conaty Court on Tuesday, "Abraham v. Minty," to test the righo of persons to keep animals, which, by crow ing and barking, prove an annoyance to their neighbours. The defendantskept a dog for the protection of his premises, ,and also reared poultry. The allegation on the part of the plaintiff was that* he sufrered annoyance from the barking of ithe dog, and particularly from the loud and incessant crowing ,of a bantam fowl, which. crowed six or seven times hi the course of a atinu*e. The damages for this annoyance were 'kW at £l. The, juke, M r .r. J. Tyrrell, held that persons in towns and villages had no right to keep animals which an - wiped their neiglibcaxs, but at the same time the latter must sat be too exacting. No one would. complain of an occasional bark or crow, but heraought that no reasonable biped would require to crow ,150 times in 25 minutes, and that no reason able;person was bound to put up with so much crowing. He, 'therefore, inflicted the,rtominal penalty of' ls. for the crowing in the month of September, and said that an action might be ;brought for the crcriving ef every day in the year. How TALLOW COMBS s-Rom RUSSIA.—On Wednesday, a case °cowed at the Southwark police-came., which shows the facility with which tallow .comes from .... Isla to England, during the present rigorous blockade in the. Baltic and Black Sea::—Edward Chandler W.-labourer at Mark Brown's suffer ance wharf, Tooley-strea, awas charged with stealing there from a quantity of Russian ''tallow.—Mr. Combe asked who the tallow bdlonged to ?—One of the owners of Mark Brown's wharf, said the tallow had just arrived from Russia, consigned to an English 'firm, and it was-.seing unloaded .cat their wharf Ito be bonded for the owners.—Xr. Combe : How' does it come from Russia when all her ports are blockaded and the war is proceeding ?—lrearfinger: It comes through Prussia, your worship. The tallow in question came from Memel in a Dutch vessel.—Mr. Combe : What part of Russia does this tallow tome from P—Wharffnger : . -Wrom St. Petersburg. It is there sold by' the merchants on English account to the care of a Piniselan firm, who conveys it through Russia and Prussia to Memel, where it is publicly shipped-to England. Not only tallow tames in the market largely. from Russia, but hemp, flax, dyewoode, &e. The robbery was proveil and the prisoner sentenced to two months' hard l'abour -in the house of cor rection. FATAL COLLISION AT SE,t.—Aeollision ;involving the loss , of six lives has been reported at Lloyd's by , the Dutch steamer Stadt Dordrecht, Captain Stult, which has ,arrived in the Thames from Dordt. The steamer left the Pool on her usual return voyage on the evening of the '7th instant. On the following morning, between two and three o'clock, she was pursuing her course to the westward of the Kentish Knock, the weather being somewhat misty and dark, when a fishing lugger was observed a short distance Ahead. TheJielm was shifted in the hope of clearing her, but her stem caught the lugger and she was run down. As quickly as possible the steamer brought up and put back, and it was discovered that the vessel had sunk, but that the crew, eight in all, floated on the nets which had got entangled with the broken mast, which assisted in their buoyancy. The crew of the steamer endea voured to rescue the fishermen by throwing them ropes and oars ; the darkness of the morning, however, and the sea th h e a n s l a e s ft eer a . which was running, with other circumstances, greatly frus trated the attempts to save all the lives. After some difficulty d i t n r ag the g g h T o esh l dp ode oni Their of for ocbrr t oi h ae ss e ro;dm r o hte p ho e e ; i , ern vaeenrid: steamer,n in t h gradually eawhnohpieehsthe master (William Heather) and one of the men (Richard i, heWnbo continued ex hausted nom e eptt l i i l hierc s ndek ) urnißsen conditionadagmol succeeded psatenhrwdten hieasermneiwena master n a f m i n Worthing.W h ee l er , .fit t young the t i m m e man others.b p lr t a A lepour apprentice. r;netdiceH. William e Heather h h e e rs Belton, m ai a i c d k Georgewswho died away, and the poor creatures, 'six in all, perished. t w a i i d n o e i d v t a n nd be la t r h g e e o f e a ea m n ily Q ; ne ß e e n nj , the occurrence the men were in the act of taking in their nets ; 10,000 fish were already on board, and there were five nets remaining to be got in. To add to the loss, there was some cash on board the lugger. The survivors received every kindness on board the steamer, and were taken on. to Dordt, where they made a statement of the catastrophe to the authorities. None of the bodies have yet been picked up. :n yh e afso e o r j r ut r is e lte s p eb o oe n le d oi e in n i pe c su e )b. r li s e l T a b t sie lv ias e . t c O oir t tr e h i e snp r eo e l u e n e ad i e i e t sn e cse x e p vs e eu d rpo i THE EXPEDITIONS A GAINST THE M OB JAH CHIEFS IN A (then F Sierran i c ; Le c . tion against the Moriah Chi e f s i n th e ne i g hbourhood of despatches from the Acting Gov ernor D ougan t o Si r G. Grey — e r o e t S t i Leone plies a lively history of the origin and settlement of the quarrel. An agreement was at length effected in June last, by which the English Government agreed to waive a demand on King Bambah Mina Lahi and other chiefs for the pay ment of a certain cash balance, in return for which conces sion Lahi was required to release all prisoners then in the country, to deliver up every article of arms and accoutre ments belonging to the Queen's troops, and to open the rivers and roads forthwith for the free and undisputed trade of English and French merchants. The list of killed, wounded, and missing at Malagheah on the 22nd and 23rd of May last, included (in the Ist West India Regiment) 1 offiCer, 1 ser geant, 1 drummer, and 18 privates, killed ; 1 drummer and 2 privates wounded ; and 1 sergeant missing. In the 2nd West India Regiment, Lieutenant Vincent was dangerously wounded. In the 3rd West India Regiment, Major Scanlon, 5 non-commissoned officers, and 32 privates were killed, and 8 privates wounded, while General Firth of the Commissariat Staff, was killed. As a measure of precaution, the militia were called out for 10 days' drill, but as matters remained quiet they were dismissed on the 11th of June. _ POOR-LAW REMOVAL OF THE WIVES AND CHILDREN OF MILITIAMEN.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Wednes day, there was heard a case of considerable importance to the wives and children of husbands and fathers serving in the militia. The question was, whether they are not entitle to the same privileges, under the operation of the poor-law, that the wives and children of soldiers of the line, sailors, and marines, are entitled to under that law. The case came be fore the court for the opinion of their lordships, in the shape of an appeal against an order of two of the justices of Leeds, for the removal of the wife and children of a man serving in one of the English regiments of militia at present stationed in Dublin. It was contended on the one part, that militia soldiers do not come within the meaning of the 9th and 10th Vic., cap. 60, in reference to the removal of their wives and children, in the same manner as soldiers of the line, sailors, and marines came within it.—Lord Campbell said the court was of opinion that the person whose wife and children ought to be removed came within the provisions of the act, and was a soldier within its meaning; and there was no reason why the same protection of removability should not apply to the wives and families of militiamen serving her Majesty, as to soldiers of the line, sailors, and marines. 'The order for re moval should, therefore, be quashed. Order quashed accord ingly. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. PREFERNIENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. Rev. F. Addison, 8.A., to the Incumbency of Cleator, near Egremont. Rev. F. Aston, M.A., Rector of Todenbam, to an Honorary Canonry in the Cathedral Church of Gloucester. Rev. L. R. A yre to the Incumbency of St. Michael's (temporary) Church, Benfield-street, Caledonian-road, Islington, London. Rev. W. T. Barrow, 8.A., to the Curacy of Coaley, near Dursley. Rev. Dr. S. T. Bartlett, to the Curacy of Everley, near Ludger • shall, Wilts. Rev. J. Bates, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Peter's, Colchester. Rev. R. H. Blanshard, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Flam borough, near Bridlington, Yorkshire. Rev. W. Boulton, M.A.., to the Perpetual Curacy of Leebrock hurst, Salop. Rev. P. B. Bridges, M.A., to the Rectory of Danbury, near Chelmsford. Rev. T. W. D. Brooks, M.A., to the Vicarage of Flitwick, near Ampthill. Rev. C. H. G. Butson, to the Archdeaconry of Clonfert. Rev. J. H. Cardew, 8.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of St. Paul's, West Dean, Gloucestershire. • Rev. R. S. Clifford, M.A., to. the Incumbency of St. Mary's Church, Norton Folgate, Bishopsgate-street. Rev. G. B. Concannon, M.A.,,t0 be Domestic Chaplain to Lord Viscount Valentin. Rev. H. W. Coventry, 8.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Oxen- ton, Gloucestershire. Rev. J. M.. Croker, NI.A., to the Rectory of Lavenham, Suffolk. Rev. W. S. Davies, to be Chaplain to the Implacable. Rev. A. Drought, to the Rectory of Clontussurt, in the diocese of Killaloe. Rev. S. Evans, M.A., to the Rectory of Marshfield, Monmouth shire. Rev. T. Garwood, M.A., to the Incumbency of Bedford Chapel, Bloomsbury. Rev. J. Hall, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Knockholt, near Sevenoaks. Rev. E. Hallam, to the Perpetual Curacy of Monamolin, diocese of Ferns. Rev. J. H. B. Harries,M.A.. Curate of St. Martin's, Birming ham, to be a Chaplain to Her Majesty's Forces in the East. Rev. G. C. Hodgson, M.A., Vicar of Barton, to be Chaplain of Eatnonthridge Union Cumberland. Rev. J. Hughes, 8.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Ceidio, Car narvonshire. Rev. R. Hughes, 8.A., Second Master of Ruthin Grammar- School, to the Curacy of Llanengan, Carnarvonshire. Rev. T. Jones, M.A., to the Vicarage of Colwinstowe, near Cow bridge. Rev. Dr. S. Knight, to the Incumbency of, St. Luke's Church, Clapham Old Town. • Rev. J. Laycock, 8.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Aislaby, near Whitby. Rev. R. G. Maule, 8.A., to the Incumbency of St. John the Evangelist, Broad-court, Drury-lane, London. Rev. F. Mazuchelli, D.D., to the Curacy of Trinity Church, Clapham. Rev. H. M. Mosse, 8.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Heage, neat Beeper. Rev. G. Needham, to the Rectory of Ballinure, diocese of Leighlin. Rev. J. P. Oliver, to be Chaplain to the Meander. Rev. R. D. Owen, NI.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Borough bridge, Yorkshire. • Rev. J. S. Oxley, M.A., to the Vicarage of Clent, near Stour bridge. Rev. C. Pitman, M.A., to the Incumbency of St. Jude's Church, Mildmay-park, Islington, London. • Rev. G. A.. Proctor, to the Rectory of Kilnemanaeh, in the dio cese of Ferns. Rev. J. Roberts, 8.A., to the Curacy of Llandegwtning and Penilech, Carnarvonshire. Rev. S. D. Sandes, to the Rectory of Whitechurch, diocese of. Cork. Rev. W. R. Sheldon, M.A.. to the Curacy of Richmond. Rev. A. W. Snape, M.A., Curate of St. John's, Waterloo-road, to the Incumbency of St. Mary Magdalen, Southwark. Rev. J. Thompson, to be Chaplain to the Illustrious, and the Royal Marine Infirmary of Portsmouth. 11ev. J. J. Turner, 8.A., to the Curacy of Berriew, near Welsh pool. Rev. J. M. Ward, 8.A.,.t0 the Vicarage of Hampsthwaite, near Ripley, Yorkshire. Rev. F. Wade, M.A.,.t0 the Prebendal Stall of Whittington, in the Cathedral of Lichfield. Rev. R. W. Whitford, M.A., to the Assistant Curacy of Yield, with Milton-by Gravesend, Kent. Rev. W. C. Wheeler,.M.A., to the Curacy of St. John's, Char lotte-street, Fitzroy•square, London., Rev.C..Whittle,B.A ~ to the Curacy of Greenham,near. Newbury. Rev. W. Williams, to the Vicarage of Godmanchester , Hants. Rev. H. W. W00d,,8.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Wetton, near Ashbourne.. 11ev. J. P. leo, to.the Stipendiary Curacy of Bury, Lancashire. CLERICAL OBITUARY. Nov. 7, at Ventnor, aged 76,.the Rev. George Knight, M.A., of the Park, Cheltenham, and formerly Vicar ,of Haghourne and Curatevt Harwell,,Barks. Nov. 9, at Clifton, Bristol, the Rev. John Eagles, M.A., aged 71, Nov. 11,.the Rev. Thomas Canning, Vicar of Eisenham, Essex,: aged 65.. Nov.. 12, at Linton,. Kent,. the 14y, Thomas King, Vicar of. Linton, aged 77. DIOCESE OF MESTER. CONSECRATION.—WHITEKA.VEN CEMETERY. — The Bishop of Chester consecrated, on Tuesday last, that portion of the New Cemetery at Whitehaven provided by the Burial Board for the townships of Whitehaven and Preston Quarter, under the recent acts of parliament, which has been appropriated with the approval of one of Her Majesty's secretaries of state, for the interment of members of the Church of England. The Cemetery contains ten acres and upwards, of which rather more than half has been so appropriated and conse: crated. A neat and appropriate chapel has been erected upon it for the performance of the burial service of the Church of England, and a separate chapel has also been erected on that part of the cemetery appropriated to persons dissenting from the Church of England. ST. JOIIN'S CHURCII, TOFT, IN THE PARISIIDP KNUTB; PORD.—A particular district has been assigned to this Church by the Church Commissioners, with the consent of the Bishop, under 1 and 2, William IV., cap. 38, with the right of solemnizing marriages, baptisms, burials, and churchings ; all fees for which have, with the consents required by the act, been assigned to the incumbent of Toft Church. PREFERMENT — The Rev. T. B. Wrenford has been licensed by the Bishop to the stipendiary curacy of the building re cently licensed for divine service at Stockport Great Moor, in the parish of Stockport. The Bishop of Chester has licensed the Rev. L. T. Pen nington, B. A., to the curacy of St. Mary's Church, Working ton, Cumberland, on the nomination of the Rev. Henry Curwen, MA.; and the Rev. R. Hunt, B. ft., to the curacy of a licensed schoolroom in Pleasant-street, Liverpool. Az. the October meeting of the Soeiety for Promoting Chris tian Knowledge,, a letter was read from the warden of St. Augustine's College, saying that an Esquimanx youth, KaIJ lihirua, had lately sailed for Newfoundland at the expense of the Admiralty, who have allowed him £25 a-year for three years. He Will' be 'under the charge of the Bishop of New foundland. THE BISHOP OF LONDON.—We are again enabled to give a favourable report of the Bishop of London's convalescence. His lordship is beginning to recover the use of his limbs on the left side, that on'which the attack took effect, and is now able to rise from his bed far a short space of time each day. Cl=noir EXTENSION IN WenEs.—The inhabitants of Aberystwyth are taking steps for the erection of a Welsh Church in that town. The Church of St. David's at Carmar-4 then has been enlarged by the addition of a nave and aisles, by which church accommodation for 1,500 people will be secured, there will be 1,000 free sittings. The fine old church of St. Woollos, Newport, has undergone a thorough repair. In Pembrokeshire the old churches of St. Twynell's, Warren, &c., are receiving extensive repairs and enlargement s . Th e f i ne cathedral at Llandaff is also being restored, the Bishop of Llandaff, Lady Harriet Clive, Sir Charles Morgan, and Lord. Dynevor being among the contributors. Cardigan Church is lhaewise to be restored. Taw LONDON CHUNCHES.—SeveraI new churches are about being erected in the metropolitan district, while others are so far advanced as to be nearly ready for consecration. In Pad , dington three new churches are to be at once Commenced, the Bishop of London having subscribed £l,OOO towards that ob ject. In Coventry-street, between Rupert -street and Princes street, a church is to be erected, Her Majesty having subscribed £5OO, and the Bishop of London £l,OOO for the purpose. Three new churches are to be erected in Clerkenwell, under ra b te u d ild b3 a . n th d e e D nd u o kwe the auspices of a colgamittee, of which the Earl of Shaftesbury is the chairman. In the parish of St. Andrew,' Holborn, A Urge church is to be erected at the expense of. Mr. J. Gille .brand Hubbard, a site having been granted by Lord Leigh. At Limehouse; a church is to be built at the sole expense of Mr. William Cotton. Two new churches in Lambeth, and one . in Westminster-road (St. Paul's, Southwark), will be com menced in the course of a few weeks. " A Merchant," whose London the Bisßop may point out. Archdeacon church in any part of Lon name has got transpired, has i,volunteeredon e t for the g men s erection Archdeacon Sinclair is making arrangements Nottin -hill. of a church dedicated to St. , the erection g Con siderable of a church has been made in siteag progress in Oakley-square, Cam e 'ir i s have been suspended on account of of Bedford, butt he Ivo h been obtained fo funds. A site as r a new church want of Luke, near the Great Northern Railway ter. dedicated to St. Churches are also in progress in - of 'Bus, King's-cross. N Arling -Iton-square, Islington; utford-place, Edgware -road (St. Luke's), the foundation stone of is was laid some time s ince by Lord John Russell: at Nottinghill (All Saints); Newington (St. Paul's); and one ne ar Li nehouse, built at tho sole memo of Mr, Alderman Cubitt, Mac.,