The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-29 00:00:00

remain to en to ere We have TO ADVERTISE We beg respectfully to call the attention of Brokers, Auctioneers, and others, Merchants to the important fac that the LIVERPOOL STANDARD IS NOW THE ON LY eh can or t contain- s upon the subject to the Right Hon Jord Chancellor, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord word Campbell, and the merchants and the United-Kingdom, by John Laid er-Sheriff of Exeter, which conta on the bo Ford loopholes for s the la Mr. LLOYD replied that they were, loan, .Z 5( firmed." onus to 3 thereof di be e ays of the credito; e amours A most important security for the commercial public is proposed to be given, by a clause which renders it imperative to register all mortgages, grants, assignments, bills of sale, &c., which render a debtor's ostensible property unavailable to his creditors ; such registers to be made in the county or district where the debtor may reside, and a copy to be filed in a general office in London. Such registers may be inspected on payment of a fee of ls. It is further proposed, for the more facile relief of debtors, that a person in embarrassed circum stances may at any time, and whether in or out of custody, petition the court, and procure a vesting order to protect his estate against hostile creditors; and on filing a proper schedule or balance sheet, should be permitted to proceed with as little delay as possible to his final discharge and certificate. Mr. Laidman also recommends that the absurd and unjust anomaly, by which a fraudulent bankrupt is punishable by transportation for life, or imprison ment with hard labour, whilst the equally fraudu lent insolvent is only punishable with imprisonnient for two years, without hard labour, should be got rid of, and a more consistent course be adopted, by which the punishment in both cases should be made the same. It is proposed, further, that both debtor and cre ditor should have a power of appeal to the Vice- Chancellor, whose decision should be final, unless that judge should report the case specially for the decision of the Chancellor. The present power of appeal to subdivision courts, and ultimately to the House of Lords, Mr. Laidman treats as unnecessary. Without giving in our adhesion to the whole of Mr. Laidman's views, we can recommend his pamphlet as worthy of the serious attention of our commercial readers, to whom the simplification and reform of the laws of bankruptcy must shortly be regarded as a work which can no longer be deferred. BIRKENHEAD, LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY On Saturday, the half-yearly meeting of this comvanN was held at the Town-hall, Birkenhead, and was rously attended. Mr. Alderman Bancroft, of Afancl in the chair, ie report stated that the traffic had continued to in crease during the half-year : savings had also been effected in salaries to a considerable extent—£l,2oo per annum— and that by issuing of the new £27 10s. shares through the general office, a further saving would be effected of £2,100. The directors purpose to make legal calls for all amounts of money in arrear, in justice to those who have paid, and also to best serve the shareholders by prose cuting the main works on the line. The amount expected to be raised will enable them to open the traffic between Chester and Warrington in autumn, 1849, and soon after between Warrington and Altrincham. Several resigha tions of directors had taken place. To supply these va cancies the services of Messrs. J. Bancroft and W. Gibb, of Manchester, and of Messrs. F. Shand and J. H. Ray ner, of Liverpool, have been secured to the board, and arrangements made by which one of the directors has agreed to devote his whole time and attention to the in terests of the concern. A statement of the accounts was read was passed and the report Izireply to a question by Mr. Hostage, relative to the Birkenhead Dock Company,— The CHAIRMAN answered, in the balance of £106,283 6s. was included an item of £50,000, debt due by the Birken head Dock and Warehouse Company. Several share holders expressed an opinion that there was no clause in the act authorising the loan. Mr. J. B. LLOYD, the law-clerk, said he was not in office when the loan was made, and he had taken legal means to recover it. There was no clause to authorise a 1... 1 Mr. HOSTAGE.—Then I have to move that the report of the directors be not accepted. Here is - £50,000 lost to the company, passed to a general balance, which I thought at first referred to cash in hand, but which turns out to be a debt contracted in the most extraordinary manner. I therefore beg to propose that the accounts be not passed until some satisfactory arrangement has been made by the board of directors for the liquidation of that sum, if ne . cessa— - at their own expense. (Loud applause.) Mr. LLOYD said, in reply to a question, that the pro ceedings were instituted to recover the amount against the Birkenhead Dock and Warehouse Company. The Rev. Mr. BIRLEY.—What right had you to insti tute proceedings ? (Applause.) Upon whose authority was the money advanced ? I have no reason to doubt the energy, the ability, or the integrity of . -Liemen who have the management of this concern. But I bought my shares at a premium, and have paid all up ; and I must confess that the announcement respecting this £106,000 has come upon me like a thunderclap, and I am surprised that such a large sum of money should have been lent to a company with which this company has no connexion whatever. I am sorry that I have to speak in such terms ; but I am grieved to find that such a glaring act should have been committed by the board, without the share holders being at all consulted in the matter, and that it should not now have been brought before us in a manly way, instead of being left to be fished out by questions. As the facts appear before the meeting, it is totally unjus tifiable and equally unpardonable. Are those gentlemen -clerk will inform mc. - far as his knowled The CHAIRMAN stated, that he had not yet had time to understand the accounts of the company, and must, therefore, be held blameless in respect to the manner in which that item appeared in the statement of accounts. He had procured an extract from the board minutes, dated 10th August, which he read as follows :—" Present, Messrs. John Laird, Gardner, Potter, Radcliffe, Wank lyn, and Brownrigg. Mr. Laird having reported that the Royal Bank of Liverpool would give three-and-a-half per cent. interest for money left in their hands, subject to three months notice, and that the Birkenhead Dock Company offered more, resolved, that £30,000 be ad vanced to the latter, at the rate of four-and-a-half per cent. the principal to be ret urne d i n five months ; also £20,000, at four per cent. interest; this last sum to be repaid at one month's notice. Finance Committee, 7th SepteMber, 1846. The Secretary reported the following payments made to the Birkenhead Dock enmnftnv_ on Ived, that these p-a-y--m—e—ni"s%""eloo9 Mr. HOSTAGE asked, if at the time the loan was made, some parties acting at the board of directors were not also acting as trustees for the Dock Company ? The CH AIRMAN rea d f rom a list, that the president of the Dock Company was Mr. John Laird ; and that amongst the members were Mr. William Potter, Mr. A Radcliffe, and Mr. F. Brownrigg. The Rev. W. BIRLEY, after some called upon the gentleman who, upon that occasion, oc cupied the chair of the Birkenhead, Lancashire; and Che shire Junction Company, for the proprietors of wh;- 1 was strong remarli zustee, and who was at the same time occupying the chair of the Dock Company, to explain and justify the proceeding to the meeting.—(Applause.) Mr. JOHN LAIRD rose. Ile said he was deputy-chair man of the railway company at the time the loan was -lade. It was thought P' ) the r^" com pany had a large amount in the bank, to seek for a sum in hand an advantageous investment. He was requested to inquire and report as to the best mode. At the time the loan was made the directors were not aware that there was any illegality in the proceeding ; and the security was considered ample at the time.—(Hear, hear.) He had no further explanation to give.—(Hisses.) Mr. BROADBENT asked if the loan was made upon bond ? Mr. J. B. LLOYD explained its character. The minute read showed that it was merely a loan for a temporary purpose, part to be returned after one, the other part after five, months' notice. It was like depositing money as with bankers. Consequently, it was not on the bonds of the company. The railway comr any might have been is position for recovering it if it had been mixed ui with other bonds. It was a common debt. Th A Dnoli Mr. MORTON, in 'a speech of some bitterness, repu ited the transaction on behalf of the shareholders. He id it was not the act of the company ; but only the act the directors. The Rev. W. BIRLEY followed on the same sentiment. Mr. Moo. , rox aaid 1.;a11,000 of the X 106,000 had been unsatisfactorily accounted for. He asked what items were included in the remaining £56,000 ? The CHAIRMAN read them in extenso. One was a sum of £19,218, due by the Birkenhead (township) Commis sioners, for a piece of land purchased by them of the:com pany, near Monk's Ferry. That was the amount of the purchase-money ; the commissioners were to pay interest on it till 1852, and then advance the principal. He was bound, however, in fairness to say. for he I b 1 + W.S. .n rnn- paying the interest on the principal. next large item was a debt due from Mr. Thomas Crilb son, of £19,762, for a large plot of land sold to h £2,000 of that owing by the Birkenhead Commission was on their bo' Hear, hear NEWSPAPER ON TUESDAY, BUSHED WEEKLY an be read on that day by the thousands Manufacturers an, I others attending THE TUESDAY'S MARKET IN !VIANCHESTER. The STANDARD is taken at all the Newsrooms and rap, n that town and the ng manufacturing district , A SECOND EDITION is published at Half-past Two, in time for the North Mails, containing the MARKETS, and any news of importance that lay arrive in the course of the morning Ebb it tbrrpool &tattbarb. DAY MORNING, FEB. 2g, 1848 THE existing amended (!) laws relating to bank ruptcy and insolvency appear to be regarded with almost universal dislike by our trading and com mercial communities, as injurious alike to the interest of creditors and of debtors. Drawn up by lawyers, without the aid of that experience and practical knowledge of the kind of relations ordi narily existing between debtors and creditors which -- - , ercial men possess, they are found inapplica -5e of working, to the case of small traders, as sweeping away in fees, &c., the limited assets, which ought to have been available for the payment of a dividend ; whilst the ma chinery of the Bankruptcy Court is found to operate prejudicially upon the realisation of the assets in large estates, where the transactions are ordinarily of a complicated character, requiring to be cau tiously and patiently dealt with in order to prevent There ble, from their ei inordinat, Is to the creditors are anomalies too, which ought not to exist, in the law in its treatment of what it terms insolvency, s contradistinguished from bankruptcy; and, again, between the cases of traders and non-traders. Thus, an unfortunate trader may be relieved, on petition, by the insolvent act, at an expense of £l2 to £l5, provided his debts do not exceed £3OO. If they are above that sum, he must either g o t o prison to qualify him f or th e cheap insolvency pro cess, or pass through the bankruptcy court at an expense of £5O to £lOO. The non-trader, however, although he may owe debts, wantonly and dis honestly contracted, to the amount of thousands of pounds, can petition the insolvent court, without having to submit to an hour's deprivation of his personal liberty. absolutely wi ,e creditor, he is left almost e power of protecting his uandered before his eyes by property from bein a dishonest debtor. He may see him reve Ring in wanton es ndering his money, realising Kuunnis sacrinces, giving preferences )on companions; yet, unless he can )f that debtor, the commission most difficult thing to the debic ever in his dishonesi.y— ne has no power to interfere, except through the tedious process of an action at law, pending which, the substance of which he seeks to possess himself be dissipated entirely. All is to punish such debtor, if at procure his bankruptcy, by the aid of 'n the commissioners for the pur . pose: but I , no ft ; and the costs of I fall upon the unlucky creditor, —c.c.s, by proving under the fiat, render .selves liable for their pro-rata share of such Ats. There are other grievous hardships involved the present system, affecting injuriously both the creditor and the honest insolvent, which cry loudly for redress. The whole system, in fact, requires re modelling, and can only be rendered endurable by the trading interests by the substitution for it of a wive measure; re are prc the bankrupt unless of 3mpreheri tight to e first clause of which from the statute )met travellers ;nan, Esq., Un c able e - xposition of the defects of the present accompanied by some practical suggestions, ome leading clauses which he pro :t of a new act. .)lithor and a draft of Although ects to the recent regu stigation of insolvency e County Court judges, those eh the inve s vested in t officials bein in insolven s opinion, generally unversed alcruptcy law, should such re- gulation be cont wed, he suggests that the cases ng not exceeding £5OO should be dealt with by the : and in the London district by sioner of the Insol ,t Debtor's should come of Bnkruptc7 both in London and the countr By this regulation, he conceives justly that a correct distribution of the business would be effected. He proposes next to abolish arrest for debt altogether ; to give power to arrest debt, scond, until d to make it imi I in due course of law, and t a vc upon the commi business, making fraUduler. any of ee or tr general t on any, debtor owing £2O proved to be converting his stock Lary course of surrender of his lands ;r of compromise with his creditor in the nature of an act of bank he creditor applying be or not the or security not yet at maturity (lying for such order. An assign- s for ihe ,horise the mil not aut esting order 1 six calendar )y ever d by an at- the same shall be—applied )f by ev h trustee .be rma totne7 or tice given by advertise- I erwise, as prescribed by meat in the Gazette or othe the act To protect the debtor, owing £2O and upwards, from abuse of the compulsory powers given to the commissioners to grant a vesting order on applica tion of a creditor, the debtor on being summoned ay prove to the satisfaction of the commissioner that he" has a good defence to su compound for it to the or enter into a bond. latisfaction c th two s which IT • oe recovered in any action then brought, ase no order shall issue. To obviatd the frequently experienced in serving the Ei notice, summons, &c., he proposes that _ids, anu than the other part. The CHAIRMAN said, in reply to questions, that £20,000 of the balance of £106,000 was paid in cash; and that of £222,180 called up, the amount paid was £165,437. Mr. HOSTAGE moved that such part of the report only as referred to the dividend should be adopted; and that After a vesting order shall have been made, no the remaining part, with the stat emen t o f accounts, should bill of sale, e x e c ution, or judge's order, shall be be referred to a committee of sha re h o ld ers , to report to a available to the cre ditor, After considerabl e di scuss i on, of a somewhat unplea- sant but interesti ng c h aracter, a motion, proposed by Mr. who must prove .along special meeting on th e su bj ect. Kith others ; an d . if a debtor in embarrassed cir- Catterall, and second e d b y M r. Trevor, of Chester was cumstances shall suffer a creditor to sell any part of his stock, t o t h e prejudice of his other creditors, passed, to the effect that the report should be referred back to the directors, e quest, on the part of the and a vesting order shall be made of his estate shareholders, that would o call a meeting as soon as and effects within a few months of such sale, and they were in a position:to o so, to report on the general such debtor shall be deemed guilty of fraud, posture of the company s affairs, and of the accounts espe subject to imprisonment. The court is to have a 'ally discretion to make special orders, with consent of ci The Rev. Mr. BIRLEY, after many expressions of regret creditors and debtors, by which arrangements may called, amid applause, upon those directors concerned in be made, which will save the expense now incurred the loans to the Dock Company, 4Cw.,alitiotertwtsaeisorecisutuihlteteirwottrulltshte. of annulling a fiat. A clause is also proposed, res.. Mr. JOHN LAIRD said should training the executors and administrators of insol- that about t rto _h b o e u instituted ldbe h f e ay fi g r o st n . e into. As far as his vent persons from giving undue preferences, under co a n t du t c. e m wa a s t concerned ea in regard of the company he had the penalty of being made personally liable for any nothing to f . He had been connected with the com debts thus left unpaid:" By this clause the affai rs pony since its formation. There might be errors ofjudg of such deceased insolvent will be placed under the ment, but everything he had done was for the best. After jurisdiction of the court, a ne th e executor thus re . - the investigatio n , h e wou ld t a k e the course which his cis. cretion might su gges t. lieved from responsibility. Provision is also made Mr. WM. LAI RD expresse d s i m il ar sen ti men t s . l'w facilitating the proving of debts, , A *H 4 RELLQI.DER thought the Gentle which the Ir. to leave such notice or sum rith his wife or servant, or in , consequently, in a worse position ) be found to post upon his last known place of residence and bar THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Lairds proposed was quite right ; and Mr. Howard, who had tendered his resignation, was induced to withdraw it. Some conversation ensued on the appointment an nounced in the report of a director to devote his whole time to the company's concerns, and at four o'clock the meeting was adjourned to the Bth of April next. The'ad journed meeting is also to be made special, to consider the proposition for throwing open to the shareholders the book in which the nu m b er o f s h ares held by each proprietor is entered. LORD PALMERSTON AND MR. BANCROFT. The vacant office of Admiralty agent for the mails at this port has been conferred on Lieutenant W. T. Bellair. Among the bills read the second time on Monday, were the Birkenhead Dock Company, the Herculaneum Dock, and the Liverpool Dock Bill. The Rev. Edward Lawson Bowman, B.A. of St. Pe ter's College, Cambridge, h as b een li cense d to the curacy of St. Philip's. CAUTION TO BOYS.—On Wednesday several boys were sent to gaol for having been found throwing stones in Park-lane, whereby a number of windows were broken. The auxiliary screw steam-ship Sarah Sands, Captain Thompson, hence, arrived off the bar of New York on the night of the 9th instant, after a run of eighteen and a-half days. She reached the city the following morning. The royal mail steam-ship Cambria, Captain Harrison, after having been detained one day by Admiralty order, took her departure on Sunday for Halifax and New York, with the usual mails and a large number of passengers. A deputation from the Manchester Commercial Asso ciation was to have an interview with the directors of the East India Company yesterday, (Monday,) for the pur pose of laying before them some interesting information as to the cultivation of cotton in India. EXAMINATION OF MASTERS AND MATES,—At a meet ing of the Board of Examiners held on the 25th instant, Captain Anthony Easterby, late master of the screw steamer Aram, of Liverpool, and Captain Willi am Con nell, master ate Isabella, of Irvine, were examined and both found duly qualified forfirst class masters' certificates. On Tuesday an inquest was held at the Ship Inn, Great Crosby, on view of the body of John Rushton, who died suddenly on Sunday week, at a beer-house in the same village. The deceased had been drinking for some days, and on Sunday afternoon week he was found quite dead 'in bed at the beer-house. A silver box, bearing the following inscriptiOn, has been presented to Captain Postle, :—`• Presented to Captain Charles James Pestle, R.N., by Messrs. Charles Horsfall and Sons, of Liverpool, as a slight acknowledg ment of the service rendered by him on the occasion of the wreck of the cutter Lord Nelson, at Dundalk." The Liverpool Health Committee have applied for, and obtained, drawings of the pumps and apparatus used for emptying cess-pools under the direction of the Metropoli tan Commissioners of Sewers. These pumps continue to act so successfully as to give the utmost satisfaction, and in every quarter an uncompromising war has been declared against filth. LAUNCH.—On Tuesday last, at the building-yard of Messrs. Smith and Rodger, Govan, near Glasgow, there was launched a fine new screw steamer, name d the Bri. gand. She is intended as the consort to the Pirate, and for the Glasgow and Liverpool trade. The vessel is 150 feet in length, breadth-24, and depth 15 feet. She is 370 tons, and propelled by a double acting screw-driver, by two engines of 30-horse - power each. THE PEACE SOCIETY. —The more active members of this association, in Liverpool, availed themselves of the general unpopularity of the ministerial financial policy, to get up a meeting on Friday, in the Music-hall, Bold. street, to protest against the proposed increase in the esti mates for the army and navy, and to adopt a friendly ad dress to the people of Marseilles. Lawrence Heywortb, Esq., took the chair, and Elihu Burritt and James Silk Buckingham addressed the meeting. A special meeting of the Birkenhead Commissioners was held on Thursday evening, to consider the propriety of running the steamers from Woodside at fixed inter vals. A motion was proposed by Mr. R. Bryans, seconded by Mr. J. H. Hind, that the steamers should start every twenty minutes, thus retaining the hour boats, but dis pensing with the half-hour ones. An amendment proposed by Mr. Watson, and seconded by Mr. Horner, that the subject be referred to the Ferry Committee, was however carried by a majority of one. Liverpool, 23d February, 1848 WALTON AND FAZAKERLY PLOUGHING MATCH.— This match came off on the 17th instant, in a field be longing to J. Naylor, Esq., Walton Hall, and occupied by Mr. Richard Seddon. Eighteen ploughs started, and finished their respective lots in the given time, namely twelve hours to the statute acre. The field being cleared, the judges, Mr. Robert Birch, farmer, Stand-park; Mr. John Johnson, Fazakerley-hall ; and Mr. David Caldwell, Liverpool ; after a minute and careful inspection, awarded the prizes :-Ist. To Daniel M'lntyre,with Mr. Skirving. 2d. To Andrew Bell, with Mr. Richard Seddon. 3d. To Edward Berry, ploughman to Mr. John Birch. 4th. To William Howard, son of Mr. Thomas Howard, Knowsley. sth. To Mr. Wm. Lilley, foreman to Mr. Smithies, Bickerstaffe-hall. About' five o'clock, the judges, and upwards of forty gentlemen, proceeded to the Plough Inn, Walton, and partook of an excellent dinner, provided by Mr. Woolall. The chair was ably filled by Mr. Muir, Walton ; vice-chair by Mr. Birch. It is worthy of remark, that the ploughs which gained the three first prizes were made by Mr. Honderwood, imple ment maker, Walton. DEATH FROM ALLEGED IMPROPER MEDICAL TREAT MENT.—On Friday an inquest was held on view of the body of Anne Davies, 23 yeaas of age, wife of a labouring man in Toxteth-park. She had been attended by two surgeons from the South Dispensary, and in some way a report got abroad that she had died from improper medi _h, reaching the ears of Mr. Appleby, 'He coroner upon the subject. Mr. Appleby stated that he was himself a subscriber to that institution, and he stated several instances where, after having been at tended once by the surgeons of the dispensaries, the parties were referred to the parish-office. The prescrip tions (with one exception) which had been given for the deceased were read, and the coroner made some rather strong remarks upon the way in which they had been made out. Mr. Appleby suggested that the surgeons of the dis pensary ought to have their prescriptions entered into a book ; and the coroner said he should make a representa tion to the dispensary committee,_ and also inform them treatment, whic of the cases iii which parties had been referred to the parish surgeons. Ultimately the jury returned a verdict of death by the visitation of God, The evidence of Mr. Archer was to the effect that the surgeon's treatment was judicious. NORTH AMERICAN PASSENGERS.—A bill with the above title has just been published on the subject of the regulation of, and making further provision for, the car riage of passengers by sea to North America. It was in troduced into the House of Commons by Mr. Labouchere and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The first clause enacts that no ship shall carry more p assengers on b oard than in the proportion of one passenger to every two tons. By the second clause it is provided that two children under the age of 14 shall be computed as one passenger. Each passenger is to be supplied at least twice a week with nibs. of beef or pOrk, or 311bs. of bread or biscuit, and in addition thereto, 6 lbs. of bread, flour, biscuit, oatmeal, or rice. Potatoes, however, may be substituted. The sixth clause provides that a superintendent of emigrants is to be taken in every ship carrying as many as 100 pc.c . sengers. By the eighth clause it is enacted that the e peri- I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, A SUFFERER FROM IRISH DISTRESS ,erintendent shall be provided with proper accommoda tion and messing by the owners of the ship, and that he shall be entitled on each voyage to receive from the master of the ship £2O, and the sum of Is. for every pas senger landed alive. The fifteenth clause enacts that ships carrying fewer than one passenger to twenty-five tons shall be exempted from the operation of this act. GRATIFYING. PRESENTATION On Tuesday evening, at the close of the service, the members of St. John's Church congregation presented their curate, the Rev. R. W, Wolseley, with a very hand some pocliet communion service on the occasion of his taking priest's orders, and as a small mark of their esteem and regard for his zeal and assiduity in the performance of his ministerial duties among them. The presentation was accompanied with an affectionate address, of which we subjoin a copy along with the reply to it. The surplus that remained after the purchase of the service was handed over at the same time in a purse to the reverend gentle man, who returned thanks in a very suitable and interest . • MORTALITY OF IRISH EMIGRANTS.—We find the fol lowing statement as to the class of emigrants amongst whom the deadly mortality of last year occurred, in a let ter addressed to the president of the board of trade, by Messrs. J. and W. Robinson, of this port :—" We crave your especial attention to the fact, that the great mortality last year did not occur amongst the ordinary class of emi grants, viz. :—those who pay their own passages, and ge nerally have means to provide suitable bedding, clothing, and food, but was confined almost exclusively to that un fortunate class whose:passages were paid by Irish landed pro prietors :—thousands of this class were sent out last sea son, both from this port and various Irish ports, and we can state' from our own observation of those who sailed hence, that they were, for the most part, entirely without beddin• ill-clad, and 14 .PQ 11 •Y 11 . 1 f 0 " nuentl lisposed Ayprea. co sickness ;—" poor naked wretches," their unfed sides, and looped and windowed raggedness" was most distressing to behold ;—ejected from the little plots of lands they had held for years—driven by stern necessity from their native country, which they left with evident reluctance—they were dispirited and heart-broken, and having .114: 41- 1 , .. physi,nl strength nor mental vigour to resist the first feeble attack of disease, they speedily be came a sacrifice to its ravages. Great and fearful as was the mortality even among this class, it must be borne in mind, that it was equally great among the same class at home in Ireland. What .... govern • l ment appears to us to be, spe ci4 regulations for the emi grants cleared off Irish estates, and sent out at the ex. pense of the landlords,—and not new and needless, but eqing emigral ion generall MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF LIEUTENANT PEREGRINE MEN, R.N.—A painful am oun t o f sens a ti on was .eated at the Mansfon-house, London, on Wednesday, by the announcement of the suicide of this unfortunate gentleman, charged with forging a will, who was to have undergone a second and final examination before the Lord Mayor on that day. He held, up to his apprehen sion, the Admiralty agency of one, of her Majesty's mail packets trading between Liverpool and Dublin. His brother, Lieut. William Bowen, R.N., died in China in March, 1846. Previous to his departnre there he made a will, which was proved by the executor, but after this will had been admitted to proof, another will was produced by Peregrine Bowen, by which all the property was left to him. Subsequently a person, attired as a sailor, presented himself at Doctor's Commons as an attesting witness to the will, and gave as his name John Wood. it was Bowen himself in disguise. He was immediately appre hended. The forgery of the second will was substantiated, but he persisted in declaring that he knew nothing of the fraudulent transaction. He was remanded till Wednes. day, when he would have been fully committed to New gate for trial. All the parties were in attendance at the Mansion-house at twelve o'clock, and shortly after the Lord Mayor had taken his seat, a message arrived, com municating to his lordship the self-destruction of the un fortunate man. It appeared that he rose that morning at the usual hour, and from the conversation he had with his fellow prisoners, it seemed that he had made up his mind for the worst. His conduct, apparently, was not different to that he had generally evinced, and about nine o'clock he was missing. One of the warders proceeded in quest of him, and soon discovered his body suspended to the iron gratings of the window, with slips cut from his shirt. He was immediately cut down, and the prison surgeon called in, but life was quite extinct. The de ceased was between sixty and seventy years old, and at Liverpool, where he resided, wit§ much respected, LOCAL MEETINGS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. LIVERPOOL GUARDIAN SOCIETY.—On Tuesday even- SlR,—The correspondence between Mr. Bancroft, the ing, the annual dinner of the Liverpool Guardian Society American minister, and Lord Palmerston, on the Naviga- was held at the large room of the Queen's Hotel, Lime. tion Laws, presents to my mind the most remarkable in- street, and was in every way worthy of the excellent stance of Yankee impudence on the one part, and Whig- landlord of that admirably-conducted establishment, Mr. gish simplicity or something worse on the other, that it Henry Curchod, and of this most popular and useful of has ever fallen to my lot to witness. Here we have the our local institutions. Upwards of ninety gentlemen sat representative of a self-styled great nation (great certainly down. The chair was occupied by the president of the with reference to repudiating notoriety) coolly addressing society, Mr. Richard Crossley. The vice-presidents Her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign were Mr. William Smethurst and Mr. Pemberton, of Affairs with assertions and offers that cannot but be con- Duke-street. Upon the right of the chair we noticed demned by the unprejudiced as an insult to a British Thomas B. Horsfall, Esq., the mayor, several members statesman in the indifferent estimation of his mental powers of the Town Council, and the leading tradesmen of the and amor pairice that they evince. Nations, even as in- town. After the usual loyal toasts, Mr. John Smith pro dividuals, having their own interests at heart, should cer- posed, " The Members for the County and Borough." tainly in all bargains take care that they are not over- He hoped the members would still continue to advocate reached by giving more than they receive in return. Now the reduction of the tea and other duties which pressed what equivalent, may I ask, have the Americans to offer down the energies of the people.—(Applause.) The in return for the privileges at present so justly exclusively chairman, in a complimentary speech, proposed the enjoyed by the British shipping interest in the extensive " Mayor and Town Council." The mayor responded at colonial and coasting trade of this country, and in the some length in an excellent speech. He alluded to the prohibition to foreigners of the " indirect" trade ? Where efforts the society had made to reduce the gas and tea are the American colonies ? Would not her coasting duties, and expressed his abhorrence of the budget the trade, even as her trade with this country, be almost mo- premier had bro ug ht f orwar d on F r id ay n i g h t. —M r. nopolised by her own ship s ? Let our rulers look to the Shand returned thanks for the Town Council—The other effects already produced in this respect by the spirit of toasts were of the usual complimentary character ; and reciprocity thus far indulged in. Is not the carrying trade the company, after a happy evening, separated at a late between England and America which employs the major hour. part of the shipping of the latter almost entirely in the DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—The new dock bill, as hands of the Americans ? The cause of this lies not, as altered by the Council, was submitted, and the alterations many have asserted, in the superiority of their vessels adopted. A memorial was read from Messrs. C. and D. and their captains, but in the anti-English spirit that per- M`lver, praying for an alteration in the present plan of vades American society, the commercial community of booking vessels for turns, as such a system was injurious the United States almost to a man giving the ships of to them, and would be still more so on the arrival of the their country a preference both in the shipments of Arne- new steamers. The letter concluded by stating if some rican produce, and by ordering return shipments of alteration were not effected, they should petition govern- British produce and manufactures to be made in ment for the removal of the station. Mr. Tobin said it American bottoms. is not American produce, of would not do to make any alteration in the present plan. which we take the major part, admitted duty-free into Mr. Aikin understood that a dock was especially set apart consumption in this country with the exception of their for these large steamers. Mr. Nicol said that, as a dock filthy useless weed, and are not British manufactures taxed was enlarged for these vessels, it ought to be kept especi in America with an almost prohibitive duty ? Can this be ally for their use, and any other vessel in it would only be called reciprocity ? Mr. Bancroft says nothing with re- on sufferance. Mr. Royden said it might be that a vessel ference to a reduction of duties on British goods, all that would meet with adverse winds, and be detained for three he holds out in return for the abrogation of our nal/Iga- days longer than she was expected, or the time appointed ; tion laws, and the consequent opening of a splendid pros- and. therefore, he did not consider it right to keep the pest to the shipping interest of the United States, in a dock free, tel the detenti on o f o th er vessels. Mr. Aikin participation in the benefits of a t ra d e crea t e d and hitherto said, now that they had railways in every nook and cor sustained by British capital and industry, is in fact, from ner of the kingdom, it was possible that any opposition of its limited extent, the nearly worthless privilege of carry- that kind would cause them to move the station. He did ing goods from foreign parts to America, and which the not wish them to act on that principle, but upon the prin. British shipowner need never expect to be able to avail ciple of doing everything they could for the accommoda himself of, so long as an American ship is to be found. in tion of mail steamers. The Chairman thought a distinc the same port. The advantages to the citizens of the tion ought to be made with these steamers. The memo- United States that the contemplated bargain exhibits, are rial was referred to the Harbour-masters Sub-committee. well understood; they have been long and eagerly sought A letter from Rooney, as to the theft of copper nails from by them, and well do they know that what they offer is the Canning Dock, was referred to the surveyor. Mr. mere moonshine. . 1 Aikin said, the custom of captains of vessels selling their The advocates of free-trade must not imagine that the- sweepings and rubbish ought to be prohibited, as it led to navigation laws come within their rules, they are essenti- much theft. ally an exception, as not affecting the consumer of foreign THE BIRKENHEAD DocK CommtssioNEßs:—On Sa produce to an appreciable extent, and as not havin g an turday a special meeting of this body was held at the equivalent in any privileges of a like nature that can be Rooms, in Hamilton-square, for the purpose of further offered by foreign nations. Let it also be borne in mind considering the Birkenhead Dock Bill, (transfer of the that the wealth these laws are the means of securing t o power of the commissioners),and for th e p urpose o f cons i. the British shipowner, is expended i n England amongst dering certain amendments proposed to be introduced her tradesmen and artizans, whereas on their repeal the into the bill by Mr. F. S. Hull, solicitor. There were foreigner will be enriched at their expenee. May our but six commissioners present—Messrs. Nicholls, Wat rulers pause ere they commit so suicidal an act as the son, Hind, Bryans, Hicklin, and Cole. Mr. Waln, the abrogation of these laws would be. law-clerk, read the letter of Mr. Hull. The letter said it Abler pens than mine have descanted upon the impor- seemed to be admitted that the acquisition of trade to the tance of the navigation, laws, as affecting our maritime su- docks would be gradual, and it was for the interest of all premacy and national saf e ty, an d on t h e i mposs ib ility of th a t th e ti m b er t ra d e s h ou ld b e accommo d ated as speedily British ship owners compet i ng w i th foreigners—with re- as poss ibl e. The writer was consequently gr a tifi e d t o fi n d ference to their a d van t ages i n c h eapness of material, and hadthat, announced during th s e uc late to governmentbe ththe intention ten t i i of the pro mo t ers more Mr. R en d e ll their low scale o f wages . I w ill not, therefore, occupy more of your time in this matter than to express a fervent of the works. He pointed out that, by the preamble of hope that parliament will entertain a proper view of the the bill and the 41st section, £21,000 of the funds to be value to England of her navigation act. forthcoming from the Woods and Forests, instead of be- I am, Mr. Editor, ing so applied, were to be devoted to the less i m p or t ant Respectfully yours,. . object of completing the river wall on the north side of QUID PRO QUO. the pool. Mr. Wain also read a minute, from which it appeared that the matter had already been before the Works' Committee ' who resolved that it be re f erre d to the solicitor of the INCOME TAX APPLICABLE TO IRELAND . bill and the engineers, to take such . . steps as they may deem requisite. Wain said he TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. those amendments were subsince . witted, he had received a letter relative to the maintain- SlR,—Thousands feel as Ido the injustice of the pro- ing of a permanent level of water in the Wallasey Pool of posal of the Prime Minister to exempt Ireland from the thirteen feet above the old dock sill of Liverpool. unless operation- of the property tax. But no person has yet previous notice were given, and the consent of the con taken the trouble to enforce the remedy. servator of the river obtained. Mr. Cole thought that, as The letters of "B. S." and of " A Poor Barrister," in- the commissionershad acted with the bondholders through mayserted in the London Times, of the 24th and 25th instant, out, it would he better to e on with them before corn have more effect in calling public attention to the ing to a determination. H did not think the bondholders subject than anything I can advance.. The Prime Minister, knew the alterations which had already been made in the dreading the power of the aristocracy, and fearing the bill. It was resolved to leave the matter as the committee alienation of the votes of certain Irish members, proposes had proposed. A conversation followed, from which it the exemption of Ireland on the fallacious ground of recent transpired that the bill (now before parliament) has been Irish distress, although England has more than equally divided into two ; the one part authorizing the govern participated in such distress so far as the advance of money ment grant to be promoted by government ; the other was required for the removal of the evil. Now, Sir, part by the commissioners. it is evident that an individual i n I re l an d, i n the receipt of an income exceeding £l5O per annum (the TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. result of mental exertion, independentl real property,) On Wednesday a special meeting of the Council was can as well (or better,) afford to pay lapin the X 1 on that held at the Town-hall. income than an individual in England earni ng by th e same have exertion an income of similar amount. No o ne will The Mayor having annou nce d th a t t h e fi rst o b ject of the • meeting was the Bill of the Dock Committee, the boldness to assert that the untaxed Irishman has con- ciaus 1, ei ,enrd 3 were read and passed. tributed to alleviate Irish distress in the same degree as Clauses e 4 and r ' ere I were proposed to be struck out. the Englishman. Why, then, should the class of Irish- Mr. HORNBY thought it injudicious to have the exist men to whom I allude be exonerated from the imposition . dock ing quays lying idle, and he moved that the 4th laid upon the Englishman. It may be asserted that the tax, if imposed in Ireland, would return only a sma ll rave - clause, which provided f or th e i mme di a t e erec ti on of dock warehouses, be not struck out of th e bill . nue to the Imperial Exchequer. Sir, that is no su ff ic i en t or satisfactory The Council divided, w h en th e mo ti on wagsatisfactoryanswer to the lehotwea Basli.hraaa who a majority of 25 to 21. carne by requires that equal justice should be done to Ireland as t o England also. Mr. EVANS mo ve d th a t c l ause 5 , which related to e. 4 ln Liverpool there is an immense amount of wear and transit sheds at the Prin ce ' s D oc k , b e re i nstated in the bill. tear of intellect to obtain an income by unwe ar i e d an d so„ Mr. MANN oppos e d th e mo ti on, as di d also Mr. Hodg „. painful exertion, independently altogether of c a pit a l, and " Mr. BRAMLEY-MOORE said the transit sheds at present I beg leave to urge the inhabitants of Liverpool to take occasioned an annual loss to the dock estate of £llOO. the lead in this righteous adjustment of taxation, as here- The Council divided, when the motion for reinstating tofore they have on many momentous questions prorai the clause was lost by a majority of 25 to 22. neatly stood forward. I perceive, by an advertisement in your last impression, The next clause was a manu scr ipt c l ause, copied from the Albert Dock Act, and was to the effect that the oc that several influential gentlemen. of Liverpool have already cupancy of the new dock warehouses should be subject to recommended a National Confederation for the adjust- the payment of all parochial rates and all other local rates, ment of taxation. The ability and zeal displayed by these now or hereafter to be levied in the same manner as if the gentlemen cannot be more usefully exercised at the pre- occupancy of the warehouses weia beneficial. sent important crisis than in promoting a petition to the The MAYOR.—It is perfectly understood that the bill House of Commons to compel the performance of this act will be withdrawn if the rating clause be not inserted. of justice to the suffering people of England and Scotland. Clause 13 was amended, reserving the quay space. The example of Liverpool would. be speedily and promptly Clause 16 authorised the Dock Trustees to purchase the followed by other great towns in Lancashire,. and theui strand at the North Shore from the Earl of Derby and effect of an extensive movement in this direction would Lord Stanley. The reading of this clause gave rise to a immediately be felt in the House of Commons,. the a majority of 40 to 5. sence of petitions in support of their views, they cannot Clauses 17, 18, and 19 were passed, as was also clause advocate this loatheimportntrinciple. But if public feeling 20, upon the understanding that the Dock Committee be once conducted right direction the resultmust should obtain the power to construct additional docks, be decisive, because the object is honest, just, and rea- but would not exercise it unless they were imperatively sonable. called for. The petition might, as usual on such occasions, be The motion, enabling £500,000 additional to be bor. placed for signature in the Exchange News Room and rowed for the building of warehouses, was lost b elsewhere. No time should be lost, for the occasion is jority of 23 to 15. y a ma. pressing. A motion, by Mr. Tinne, to borrow £500,000 for ware houses and other purposes connected with the act, was carried by a majority of 28 to 10. Clause 41 was a manuscript clause, enforcing payment for goods deposited in the transit sheds. The clause was struck out by a majority of 22 to 9. The remaining clauses were then passed, and the bill was adopted. HEALTH COMMITTEE.—COMPENSATION. The Health Committee reported that Mr. Deane, soli citor, had agreed to accept of an annuity of £450 from the first of January, 1847, and £2OO, being the amount of costs he had incurred, for his loss of office under the Highway Board. They thought the case of Mr. Snow ball must be decided in the Superior Courts, and they had accordingly made an application to the Court of Queen's Bench, and the case was now on the Crown paper for ar gument. They had agreed to pay the following sums also for the loss of office, and the parties to whom the offer was made had accepted it :—Mr, M'Auliffe £270, and £7l costs ; Mr. Dickenson £222, and £36 costs ; Mr. Rogers, £lB9, and £34 costs ; and Mr. Griffith £320, and "41 costs_ Mr. Lace moved the confirmation of the proceedings After some discussion, the motion was carried. POLICE INTELLIGENCI JUVENILE DELINQUENTS.—It is certainly appalling to witness from day to day the number of children, some mere infants, that are brought up in our Police-court for petty thefts = some for stealing flour, Indian co rn . an d - th e like, from o ' our quays, and others tor - purloining the sc ra p s of metal which li e strewed about the Graving Dock ; and not •tt few for the graver offence of entering unoccupied houses and cutting away the piping and taps. Boys guilty of the above offences were brought before the magistrates on Friday, many of them belonging to honest parents, plunged into poverty from want of work. They were dis posed of by, in a few instances, being given up to their parents ; in some cases they were handed over to the over seer, and some were sent to prison. The evil is growing to a magnitude that calls imperatively for the establish ment of a house of refuge. • STEALING SIX BALES OF COTTON.—Charles Paul, ware houseman to Messrs. Gilfillan and Co., was charged with stealing six bales of cotton from Mr. W. Roberts and Co.'s warehouse, Water-street. It appeared that Mr. Gilfillan had 253 bales of cotton in the above warehouse, and a short time ago sixty of the bales were sold. An order was produced for their delivery, and, in a few days after wards, another order for six more, signed by the prisoner. The goods were delivered, and shipped by the Old Quay Company for Manchester. Information being received respecting the robbery, officers Kehoe and Bates went to Manchester, and found the cotton, which was marked R, still at the wharf, and consigned to John Roberts, Port land-street ; but no such person being in that street, the officers waited till the prisoner appeared to take the bales away. The prisoner was remanded. How TO TEACH ENGLISH.—On Tuesday a Welshman, named Williams, appeared to prefer a charge against a man named Cain, of offering him counterfeit coin. He affected to have no knowledge whatever of English ; but Mr. Rushton, knowing that such excuses were often groundlessly made, thought that self-interest might elicit an answer, and asked the complainant if he brought mut ton to market. The complainant seemed to understand this question perfectly well, and replied with great prompti tude, and amidst the laughter of the court—" Yes, sir I do." Mr. R us ht on : " H ow d o you se ll i t ?" Thisin terrogatory seemed to light up the countenance of the Welshman, who, no doubt, thought the worthy magistrate was about to do business with him, and he immediately answered, "0, yes, hur was sell it at 6d. and 7d. the pound," This caused a roar of laughter in the court, in whiek the magistrate could scarcely refrain from taking a part. He then told hi tale fluently, and the prisoner was rernAuded. ing manner REVEREND AND DEAR SIR,—We, the members of St. John's congregation, cannot allow the opportunity presented by your admission to the high and holy order of Priest of the Church of England, to pass, without testifying in some manner mi. Mal, and for you as a Minister of Jesus CiiiisCanc B l a " e mysteries of God. Though your connexion with us, as curate, has been short, yet it has been long enough to assure us of yaur zeal for 'V Master's glory, and your fervent desire to wirf steward c set forward t tn - His Ivation of all men," through :—for this, we glorify God on faith fn His your behalf In presenting you with this Communion Service, we humbly desire you to accept it as a small, but sincere proof of our re spect for you personaly, and our gratitude for your unwearied diligenceand ministerial exertions amongst_ the ilock. during the past eventful year; and we trust, that the God of all grace may enable you to abound yet more and more in your work and labour of love, and cause you to rejoice in the day of Christ, that you have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. We pray God to enrich you, by His Holy Spirit, with every good and perfect gift, to grant you unction and utterance, and holy humility; to guide-you with His counsel, and cause His light to shine upon your way; that so, in your going in and out amongst us, you may be blessed in your own soul, and made a blessing to multitudes of others. With our warmest wishes for the welfare of your dear Wife and babe, we beg to subscribe ourselves, Your grateful and affectionate friends. MY DEAR FRIENDS,--I hardly needed this additional testi monial to convince, me of the affection and regard entertained for me by the congregation of St. John's; and whilst I feel myself unworthy of the least of all the many—the very many kindnesses which from time to time I have received from you, I do trust that I feel deeply thankful to Almighty God that He has been pleased in H 4 disposing wisdom to cast my lot amongst a people so ready to bear with and to overlook my manyy - faultsi and failings. The inscription gratifies me much, for it serves to remind me of that which I desire never to forget—the position which I have held and which I still hold among you — your curate — and as such, permit me to appropriate the prayer of Solomon, "And now, Lord, lam but a little child. I know not how to go out or come in. And thy servant is in the midst of thy peo ple which thou hast chosen. Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to discern between Food and bad." The time at which you have thus manifested your kindness leads me to reflect upon the year that is past,—the year during which it has been my privilege to minister " the office of a deacon in the Church of God,"—and although in the reflection I see much to humble, yet blessed be God, I have much to en courage me, for I have reason to believe that He has been 1 pleased to bless my feeble instrumentality, so that "my labour has not been in vain in the Lord." Follow up then my dear friends, this your valuable gift by your still more valuable prayers, that at all times, in all places, whether visiting the house of sorrow or the house of joy, I may be enabled to speak faithfully, earnestly. and affectionately as a messenger of peace from the Lord of Hosts, the mighty God of Jacob, so that many poor wanderers may be brought home to Jesus, many weak ones strengthened, many sorrowing ones comforted,—thus adding glory to our Saviour, lustre to His diadem, peace to their own souls, and endless bliss throughout an endless eternity. business,—and andtlins il ni And gpehrs f ats o y f ibr y a - 1 o net u sdos my ukd d e e i in a ys r ,oy a uto n hu r d taot v sp a yo l ruo u oul e vs d e, m f ai r na i lbe, your eob d sue s s , ri ns m ga. te odh families, saved. a n r es t i s iaannyolt. desire God and ti all, fig Jew§ Chtiqt's sake) our Saviour and Redeemer. i Ai, W, WOL,SELAY, i Feb. 29,1x45. F PLAYING AT B ILLIARDS ON THE SABBATH.--, n A day, Alfred Coppal was summoned for permitting g rn i bling on the Sabbath, i n a li cense d bi lliard-room , by him, in Parker-street. Inspector Muir went up atii,d past one o'clock on S un d a y morn i ng, the 6th instant, '"I! found two gentleme n pl a yi ng a match. Mr. C o M stated, in defen ce , th a t the transgression occurred ent , without his knowledge and during his absence from Mr. Rushton inflicted the full penalty of £5 an d cN and said if another case occured defendant's license o' o ' be suspended. OBTAINING MONEY FROM THE BISHOP OF BY FALSE PRETENCES.—On Wednesday, James uv„,r smith, who had been remanded from Monday, on a ebn of raising money by using the name of the Rev. fl e M'Neile, was aga i n b roug h t up. Mr. Dowling, `,l Head Constable, stat e d th a t a l etter had been recelc`i from the Bishop of Bangor, addressed to the Rev. / 1 4 M`Neile. It was t o the effect that the Bishop ila", 0 1 ceived a letter, with a s i gna t ure purporting to be t h a t the Rev. Hugh M‘N e il e , so li c i t i ng subscriptions on ye , half of the di s tr esse d I r i s h . He understood that eV' r, tions were being made on th e i r b ehalf, and, taking jit.!; granted that the letter h a d b een sent by the Rev. Inn M`Neile, he forwarded the check for £5 which had .?:7; referred to. From wh a t-h a d su b sequently taken Pl'i; he had no doubt the l e tt er was a trap laid for him to o tain money by f a l se pre t ences. He had destroyed t.lll, letter. Mr. Rushton, addressing the prisoner, sal " You have es ca p e d i n consequence of the letter b e destroyed, otherwise I should have sent you for tr!, This exposure will save the public from any more irne,4 tions on your part, b u t if you are brought here again, the case made out, you shall be punished most severelY:, The prisoner was about to' speak, and had uttered 4 words " Gentlemen of the jury,' -when Mr. Rushton 14 there was no jury. u n f or t unate l y, i n the case, and t° him to go about his business. ii: tstrirt Pe In the cottoi mills of Bolton,erally, the number°l working hours is on the increase. CONVERTS TO FROTESTANTISMo*OII Sunday weedy four persons, members of the Church of Rome, recelL s the Holy Com mun i on at S t. James ' s Church, in , fr n i town, and were ad m itt e d as members of the Chur ch England. —Preston Pilot. FEROCITY OF THE HAWK.—A few days ago a' lag: sparrow hawk, attract e d by a cage d canary in the win d° of a house at Lan cas t er , d as h ed through- theglass at t l, little warbler but missed it, an d f e ll on-its back in tb ° room. It afterwards escaped. THE PORT OF PRESTON.—Arrangements have bee; made for exporting salt from this port, —an excellent art' tide of back carriage from foreign traders. The Coete li is now loading the first c argo f rom Preston, - to Rostoek , in Prussia. This w ill be a great advant age t o the trade° the port, as, formerly, foreign vessels, after dischargt their cargoes at Preston, had to go round to Liverpool"' obtain salt.—Preston Chronicle. ALTCAR OPEN MEETING.—We learn that on the ~e and 17th of March th ere w ill b e an open meeting (i.", last, we presum e , f or th e season ) upon the splendid do m e and unde r th a p a t ronage o f t h e Earl of Sefton. )-" stewards are James Wi c k s te a d S wan , E sq., of Chorge",, hall, near Chester, and W. G. Unsworth, Esq., of Sag: hull, near Li verpoo l. M r. Swan is the honorary secretsr s' and Mr. M`George will be judge. FORCIBLE ENTRY INTO A HOUSE AT BROUGHTON', 13 :i ARMED M EN .—At a b out eight o'clock, on the evening ° g Friday last, fi ve men , apparently navvies, w ith th e ir f a t blackened, and armed with firearms, entered the farT,' house of Mr. Richard C o tt am, Crow-hall, nea r Eroug' i ton, and demanded money. M r . Cottam and a p a rty ° I friends were playing a game - at the time th e men en te7; the house. A gun was fired by one o f th e robbers, 13" we have not heard what property was taken. POTATOE STORES.—The growers in the neighbourli o 4o of Garstang have commenced opening their stores, 10 _ 4 in November last, t o t a k e t o mar k et, and find theY free from disease, which makes- them fear that it will r ;t duce the price to at least one half what they obtained lase spring; but, notwithstanding this, they will pay far be', o than any other produce of their farms, as it is not 0 1 , 0 '4 the produce of the potatoe that they ook at, but th!; rt is the best means of cleaning the land for a crop of g the following year. SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—A poor gir1,11 011:1 , Pearsall, occasionally s u bj ec t t o syncope , on Wednesotj the 16th inst., at the house of her master, Mr. RiellT b e r Mees, blacksmith, of Stourb r id ge was descending cellar steps to draw some b eer f or - dinner, when her In, slipped, or a fit seized her, w hi c h, canno t b e ascertabl'is and she fell heavily to the bottom her mouth coming, contact with a barrel, which force d of her teeth CO: i i o pletely through her tongue, and rolled upon her as 7,0 lay in a state of insensibility. The cellar seems to 11 ' 4 , 3 been half full of water at the ti me , an d th e un f or tert',. girl was found in about half an h our a ft er th e f a ll, 1 "" mersed in it, with the barrel upon her, quite dead. LANCASTER ASSIZES.—The following were the prio l a pal cases H. Shaw and John Hamer were indLe L c e for a conspiracy to defraud the Yorkshire Inwart,a Company. The prisoners conducted business as Ono spinners, at Haslingden. The mac hi ner y an d st o , o `y. the mill was, in November, 1846, insured w ith the x° 1.. .5, shire Insurance Company, and it was burnt in Atde 1847. It was alleged that false accounts bad been up for the purpose of increasing the amount of the all y'"c loss. After a lengthy trial, the jurylorought in ave r e fr of not guilty. Mr. Hamer obtained a verdict on die,' o , loWing day for false imp r i sonment , damages X30.--17.,„ g Myers was indicted for th e wilful murder of Wi l e Johnson, at Dalton, by stabbing him with a knife. deceased and the prisoner were navigators, and o n the ea,,, of October, on recei v i ng th e i r wages, had, with o ther` become intoxicated at D a lt on . Th e pr i soner and deee3so, quarrelled, when the former inflicted a stab on the e r which caused death. Th e pr i soner was conv i cted of 08a. slaughter, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment' UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NET'V PRESENTATION.—The R;v. Th omas G reena ll to til e rectory of Grappenhall, on th e presentat i on of Th o s Greenall, of Grappenhall Hall, Esq. 1 -1 ' The Bishop of Wo rces t er h as appo i nted the Rev., 1, to Hastings, Rector of Areley Kings, and Rural Dear' , ,Do the Honorary C anonry vacant b y the promotion 01:4, Rev. James Prince Lee, D.D., to the See of Manclies',l 3 o The Ecclesi as ti ca l C ommissioners are in treaty for Ltbe e n to a n m , e a d nd fo f r our co m nfi il r e m s confirming purchase of Alkrington Hall for the residence af46 Bishop of Manchester. Alkrington . Hall is about a ' Sumner as Archbishop of Canterbury, is Friday, the ~-,' 0 fro T m he M d id a d y l of March. The ceremony will take place as usual at P Church. M e an el c o la c e t s io te n r. of iproo: The Cambridge Chronicle, a tolerably good author' states that Dr. W a ddi ng t on , D ean of Durham, and a surat porter of Quaker Bright, will be the new Bishop Chester. • The stall in the Cathedral of Durham, which t et 13:c3nie vacant by the elevation of the Bishop of Chep to the, Archbishopric of Canterbury, has hitherto t he an income attached to it of £2284, but, under be provisions of an act of parliament, it will hereafter ,e 4 limited to £lOOO, the'surplus going to the augmenta v of small livings. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—The annual ins!, 0 0 for Oxford and its vicinity was held at the town 13. 5 % 0 , . Monday. The L or d Bi s h op o f O x f ord i n the cha i r ; 5 pe t orted by the Rev, the Vi ce Ch ance ll or, the Master e, Pembroke College,. the Provost of Worceste r Colle many influential Members of the Unive rs ity, and se%:4l of the parochial cle rg y. Th e Bi s h op of Oxford hrl",oevol aG addressed the meeting, and expressed his gratificatio n being again able to preside over its anniversary. ik THE BISHOP OF C HESTER .—A s t rong desire is fe lt PC many of the clergy in th e di ocese o f C hester, to Pre'. 01 to our beloved bishop on his translation to the se e w Canterbury, a more substantial testi mon i a l than 01'0,, addresses from the several deaneries, as a grateful ackooo ledgement of his many services to the church ; and as th e expression of the high respect in which he is held bY„„0 clergy over whom he has bee n an a ff ectionate and Yiine overseer for nearly twenty years. The suggestion , 0 doubt not, will readily meet with a general rest°" -t throughout the diocese. RUGBY SCHOOL. —The Rugbeians have, within 01° 40 two years, carried o ff no less. than 25 fi rs t- ra t e Unive'iiis' honours. In the list of those who have thus highlY.aget tiuguished themselves may be enumerated, at Cambr i . eir four wranglers ; five first class men in the classical trg one of these senior; on e sen i or Ch ance ll or ' s ineaajfist; one Browne's medallist, for Latin ode ; one Br° 7o " ,p e fir medallist, for Greek an d L a ti n ep i grams; and one,,.,sjer' ber's prizeman. At O x f or d, s i x f i rst class men in er' — ; e o et u a r te re t a i d ie e t rs en m e a one Hertford Latin scholar, one Ireland scholar, 0 ,, e ,-,111/ 1 Latin verse _pri.emen, one senior mathematical soli and one Johnson theological scholar. „,1101 1 The Manchester Courier, speaking of the new wi the appearance p l\ e l a a r n an ch ce e Manchester, s w ay h s en : kind of feeling that has been inspired by his 101 115 '0 already communicated to the Archdeacon his intentl,"o", give £lOOO towards the endowment of a church ; another has offered an estate suitable for the epi9 - .0% palace, including a house which contains six entert B V rooms and ten bedrooms, at whatever price the sur l of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners may fix as reason s be it £5OOO or £lO,OOO, that amount, whichever end may be,. to be expended in the building of c,hurco" this parish." DR. HOWLEY AS A PREACHER. - --Amidst all Le mo p rent gentleness of the late Archbishop of Canteru o c there might at all times be seen a certain force of. ter which tended to augment the deference that his 01 commanded, while the moral purity of his life all set,: eminence of his'station gave a sort of prestige to 13 1 mons whenever it happened to be the pleasure of Grace Grace to occupy a pulpit. Notwithstanding these ad titious aids, however, he was by no means a distill/In/et y ge j n u t d le g ra e a;l7: o k preacher ;—without much ingenuity, without the 10, 0 4 to render learning popular, without imagination. w z o fervour, he was scarcely even impressive ; but the,,, f C of preaching " no t b e i ng a necessary qualification f o e office of a bi s h o p, h e may b e pronounced worthy !:fle, high station whi c h h e fill e d even by those who ;74 1 " help admitting that eloquence could not be inclef the catalogue of his accomplishments, or politica', fil)°011 pendence in the nu m b er o f hi s v i rtues. He was not no great preacher, but he was not even successful ie. to de; may be called compositions of supplication or go t ., l r a e , t It is well known that all occasional forms of pub& r t or thanksgiving go forth under the imprimatur 0 _ 1 0) 0 of the Archbishop of Canterbury. They may n ot w is be written by his own hand, but the presumption 010P that effect ; at all events, for the literature and the, 13/,'; of such producti ons the Priraate for the time beilWfiii, usually been considered responsible ; and it ee . r "g must be acknowl e d ge d , that, amongst the great P.'" 1b f the church-going population of the present cV;, prayers and thanksgivings ordered by lithe Sov e rbo r Council, and prep are d b y t h e Archbishop . of Conte e d t. did not greatly ex c it e e ith er the addm a twe aged pr the femur Qf rho PiQu4 Feb ii., ARRIVE Atlantic I Pratt, Con It cjal, De , SAILED; Havannah WED/ ARRE Mingo— IV G Challon 1 8 * W. d r ' NM Sav a ; Newfound Johanna, 1 Jenny t in, hence Melamir Infaticab Wish Jim , Crov Grace, B, Elizabeth B EVRou I this port °°di°aina naskl°74 TRuy ~ARRIVED i lvw Orlea ' 4l :Dann, (s Antelope, John Can Piret N Violet , Li tarY Ant tersburg HITBY, f w ill have 41 44 ,-, M aged. 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