The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-09 00:00:00

TO ADVERTISERS. We beg respectfully to call the attention of Merchants, Brokers, Auctioneers, and others, to the important fact that the LIVERPOOL STANDARD IS NOW THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED WEEKLY ON TUESDAY, which can be read on that day by the thousands of Manufacturers and others attending THE TUESDAY'S MARKET IN MANCHESTER. The STANDARD is taken at all the Newsrooms and respectable Inns in that town and the surrounding 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 mall arrive in the course of the morning. Eht Eiberpoot Manbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY g, 1848 The great problem of the present day is the question " What are we to do with our labour ?" It is the problem which European nations have broken up their social and political arrangements in the hope of solving ; and which has at length been forced upon the attention of the thinking por tion of the people of Great Britain by the blind policy of their rulers. What are we to do with our labouring masses ? We have hands to till the soil more than we allow the soil to support. We have hands to spin, to weave, to work at all the varied sorts of artisanship carried on by a civilized and industrious people ; and remunerative employment, a recompense for their labour sufficient to keep body and soul together, for barely two thirds of them. We have thrown off, as unworthy of our enlightened (?) age, the good, the old, the English and the wholesome axiom that the man who is taxed for us, and fights for us, is of our blood, speaks our language, bows at the same shrine and is warmed by the same historic memories, ought to be preferred to the stranger in the contest for the means of existence; we have laid it down as our policy that we buy labour, and all other com modities " in the cheapest market ;" and we have now seriously, and imperatively, to consider what we are to do with the labourer, whose birthright we have transferred to another. We cannot keep him in our workhouses. Ex. perience is warning us of this fact. The miserable dole of charity falls far behind the drain which is daily made upon it. The classes above the labourer, upon whose shoulders we throw the burthen of such support, are themselves in a condition of struggle and embarrassment. We can do with no temporary remedies—no soup kitchen policy ;—for the evil is likely to be permanent and increasing. There is no prospect of continuous and supporting ,employment for above two thirds of the working portion of the British people; and the other third must by some means be got rid of. They are dan gerous. All starving men are. The cries of the belly are the most effective provokers of Revolution and civil strife. What then is to be our course ? There is but one answer. The world is wide enough for us all still; and other lands must provide for the helpless masses, whom we reject and throw upon their own resources. Emigration, then, must be the lot of those masses. There is nothing else left for them. The holy ties of fatherland must be sundered ; and these once happy islands must pour out their best blood to fertilize the prairies of America, or to people the wilds of Australia. But we have a duty to perform towards these, our fellow subjects, which we have too long neg lected. We have a duty, also, to perform towards ourselves. We may encourage their mere emigra tion. We may say to them, you shall be allowed, nay, aided, to cast aside your penury, to become tillers of a soil which will yield you the means of existence and even of independence; but we ought to do more. A wise and paternal government would colonize, instead of casting adrift, these un fortunates ; would render them the instruments, in God's hands, of promoting the spread of civi lization throughout the world's untrodden places, and of planting Christian and British communities in lands where the heathen and the savage have for ages maintained their blind superstitions. Such a government would revolutionize our present system, which withdraws its fostering hand at the very moment when a British subject leaves our shores to seek protection and support in other climes. That system is well described in an article from which we quote, contained in this month's number of Fraser's Magazine : " Our colonist sets out—his wife and children attending him—probably on foot. from one of the midland counties. He may, or he may not, beg his way to the coast, but at the coast he arrives, and finds that a ship has already been freighted to receive him, and hundreds like him; with out, however, the smallest pains having been taken to place the whole under the guidance either of law or of leader. He passes to his wretched berth—is conveyed like a dog across the Atlantic—arrives, wayworn and de -1 ected, at Quebec, and reports himself at the office of the emigrant agent. Here he is informed that, upon payment .of a dollar a-head for himself and his family, he will be carried up and down the country until he has fixed upon a place of settlement. It is almost always a hard matter -to find these dollars, retaining at the same time money wherewith to buy food for his own and his children's sup port until he has obtained employment. Nevertheless, such is the rule, and if it had been explained to him be fore he left England he would have no right to complain. But no such information had ever been afforded him ; and now he is at his wits' end. If he be an Englishman, he p ' obably makes the best of his way forthwith to the States, and, laying aside with his allegiance his old habits and feelings, becomes in a short space of time an exaggerated specimen of the most exaggerated description of Yankee. If he be Irish, and a large majority of those who seek new homes on the other side of the Atlantic come of a Milesian stock, then a different course is pursued ; and its results are unfortunately more distressing. Irish emigrants are not generally liked by the old colonists, nor are they on their first arrival up to the sort of work to which they are put. The wages offered to them are accordingly inferior to those which men habituated to the climate receive ; and as they would consider their dignity compromised by accepting such terms, they stand aloof, or have recourse to begging. By and bye comes the winter, and with it their miseries begin in earnest. It was no great hardship: during a Canadian summer to be lightly clad or indifferently ho used, charit y supplying all the while funds wherewith to keep body and soul to gether. But the case is widely different in the long, bitter season which succeeds. There is little work to be got then, if the emigrant were ever so willing to undertake it ; and, as he has earned nothing before the evil days set in, the task of supporting him devolves upon the more industrious portion of the community. Here, then, he is, not a bit better off than he was at home, saddled upon the people who never had the smallest desire to see him, - and upon whom, properly speaking, he has no claim ; and ' as a necessary result, he is informed with the first return of spring that they can do no more for him, and that he must shift for himself. By this tjme be has learnt the lesson which experience teaches, that he cannot, any more than his neighbours, dispense with food and clothing ; and that these things are as little to be had without per sonal exertion in the new world as in the old. He makes, therefore, a move to find work. either upon the terms which he originally rejected or upon others less ad vantageous. Perhaps he may succeed. Employment is offered to him as a lumberer ; thatis to say, he is hired to hew wood in the back country : in which case he pro vides himself with an axe bought out of an advance of wages ; packs up his goods and chattels (a process which usually occupies no great length of time), and bending his steps towards the forest is never heard of or seen again. But this is not always tree d even of an Irishman. L um b er ing may not offer, or even o f decline it. In this case he looks across the border, and fancies that the sun shines there w ith a s p le n dour which it never sheds upon the woods and vales of Canada. The same fancy forthwith takes him which took his English fellow-emi grant at the beginning , and journeying southward or westward as his fancy dictates, he becomes a most turbu lent citizen of the model republic. Or last, though by no means least, of all, it comes to pass that, having made his way to the sea-coast, and agreed to work his passage home, he comes back after an absence o f a year to be once more a burden upon those who flattered themselves that they had long ago got rid of him for ever, and to hinder others of his class from exchanging a state of misery of which they know the extent, for one of which . they have as yet had no experience. " Such is the way in which nine times out of ten emi gration is managed among us. We do not mean to say that there are no exceptions to the rule. If a man have capital, however small, and know how to employ it judi ciously ; and if, moreover, he start with a determination to work hard, and to undergo, without repining, many and severe privations ; there is a fair probability that, in regard to physical comfort at least, a ft er a lapse of years, he will find his account in the step which he has taken. But by far the greater number of those who leave our shores leave them without any capital at all ; and flying from the ills which press upon them at home, find them selves encumbered with others, different it may be in their nature, but at least as difficult to be borne. And the re wult is too often such as we have described above. Those ho do not return home, either spend their days in the bush, in a state little removed from barbarism, or, w i th feelings of bitter animosity against the land which having, given them birth refused to support them, they go oat from her, and devote to the service of the stranger ener-, gies which, if she had directed them aright, would have served to carry her institutions, and to extend herinflu ence, to the furthest cm ners of the earth." We must amend this wretched system, which is thus planting aliens of our own blood throughout the world ; and at the same time depriving us of valuable aids for the employment of our home population. We have lands in every zone, capable of producing, by the agency of British capital and energy, every requisite for our comfort and our in dustry—raw materials, food and luxuries,—and of consuming in return, exclusively, the products of our labour. But we are madly neglecting our great mission. We are saying to our people "go forth and live, or beg, or starve, on the world's highway, as ye may deserve," whilst we withdraw from them every protection and privilege, every kindly office and brotherly sympathy, which they ought to command in virtue of their misfortunes, if we are even too blind to see their importance as a selfish question. We might, and must colonize, instead of merely casting out. We might render every British subject, who leaves our shores in search of a mart for his industry, a feeding offshoot of the country which he has abondoned. We might people the world's solitudes with British communities, bound to us by the ties of gratitude and affection. At present, we are only contributing to found inimical communities in every land to wards which the tide of emigration sets from our shores. A GENUINE FRENCH SCENE. Our republican neighbours are a thoroughly theatrical people ; and, of course, the opening of the new National Assembly was a theatrical exhibition throughout. The following little incident is thoroughly French:— "M. Demosthenes 011ivier next rose and demanded that, after the adri.ission of every member, he should mount the tribune, and there in the presence of the assembly, take the oath of allegiance to the republic. A number of members here interrupted the speaker, crying, The oath is abolished !" By whom ?' asked M. 011ivier. By the Provisional Government.' What,' continued M. 011ivier, 'do you place the power of the Provisional Government above that of the National Assembly ?' (Cries, ' The oath is abolished, and for ever.') " M. Cremieux, the Minister of Justice, then rose and said that the oath of allegiance had been the occasion of so much scandal during the last sixty years, and had excited such universal indignation, that the Provisional Govern ment had thought proper to abolish it. ' The oath of every true republican,' added the minister, is in his heart, and not on his lips.' " The assembly received that declaration of the minister with treat applause, and ratified, by its unanimous appro bation, the measure adopted by the Provisional Govern ment, amidst deafening cries of ' Vice la republigue,' and Vive le gouvernment provisiore.' We can imagine the whole scene, as it would be put upon the stage—the livelyexclamations, "the oath is abolished," arising from supernumeraries and scene-shifters pressed into service for the occasion ; next the indignant, " What ! do you place the power of the provisional government above that of national assembly ?" from second tragedian ; then, the grandiloquent bearing of first tragedian as, with his hand thumping his breast, he proclaims oracularly, " the oath of every true republican is on his heart"—this with an emphatic thump—" and not on his lips ;" and finally, the unanimous approbation by the corps drama tique, replied to vociferously from pit and gallery. Nothing could be more splendidly melo-dramatic. After all, we quite approve of the abolition of the oath of allegiance in France. It has really been taken and broken there so often—been, as M. Cremieux says, " the occasion of so much scandal during the last 60 years, and excited such universal indignation," that much future per jury may be avoided by its abolition. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-MISS CUSHMAN'S ENGAGEMENT. The feature of the past week's performances at this Theatre has been the production of Beaumont and Flet cher's Comedy of the " Scornful Lady," a play which has not been represented in England for nearly 100 years, and which was only revived recently in Lonlon, to intro duce Miss Cushman in the character of the heroine. As might have been expected by any party who has perused the play in the original, and observed the pruriences which it contains and which, however suitable to the taste of the age for which it was written, would be revolt ing to playgoers in the present day, considerable pruning was required : and this was unexceptionably executed by Mr. Searle. Great credit is due to the spirited manage ment of Mr. Copeland for the excellent manner in which it was put on the stage at the Amphitheatre, and as well to the Company for the efficient manner in which it was cast throughout. The play is one very different from the flimsy abortions which pass current for comedy in the present day—full of character, and affording a fine scope for genuine acting. The character of the Scornful Lady is especially adapted for the display of Miss Cushman ; and was acted by her to perfection. The changes of temper from the scornful to the loving woman—from the mocking and obstinately provoking to the dejected and almost despairing one-- were most truthfully depicted. Miss Cushman's acting was, in fact, the great attraction of the play, the subordi nate characters, however, being excellently sustained. In particular we may mention Mr. Rice's impersonation of the Curate—somewhat too broadly farcical, perhaps, — and Mr. Harry Chester's rendering of the Younger Love less. _ _ _ There is however, something still wanting in truthful ness in the pourtraiture of some of the characters. We cannot, for instance, reconcile to our ideas of the tastes of even a profligate in a civilized age the debaucheries and coarseness of Young Loveless's companions. The Cap tain especially is over-drawn in his blustering ; and the remainder are as little in keeping with even a younger brother's gentility. We cannot conclude our notice of this play without referring to the excellent acting of lk Ir . Hann in the last act. His personation of the Elder Loveless's betrothed was a rich piece of comic acting. Mr. Andrew Leighton has been appointed secretary to be Roscoe Club. _ On Saturday evening one of the Eastham boats, from Liverpool, ran aground when opposite to Rock Ferry, and as she could not be got off, the passengers were landed there, and had to walk the remaining distance. HEALTH OF TowNs' BILL.—Mr. Councillor Walthew, chairman of the Houseowners' Society, and Mr. Coun cillor Thompson, on behalf of the Builders' Society, have proceeded to London, to oppose the operation of this bill extending to Liverpool. FORGING THE POST-OFFICE ORDER.—On Friday, Parsons, the young man remanded from the previous Fri day, charged with having forged the signature to a post office order for £2 17s. 9d., was again brought up. The prisoner was committed for trial. YOUGHAL AND LIVERPOOL STEAM-PACKET.—We are happy to learn that this new enterprise is likely to be suc cessful, and that the farmers and dealers in parts of the counties of Waterford and Tipperary are availing them selves of tne facilities afforded them, in the shipping of cattle, butter, grain, &c.,Youghal being a much nearer port for Shipment than aterford or Cork. A splendid first-class steam-packet sails from Youghal on• every Thursday, and from Liverpool on Mondays.— Clonmel Constitution. DEATH FROM A FALL.—An inquest was held on Sa turday, before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Mary Armstead, who was 66 years old. Deceased was in the habit of going to Mrs. Ruth Edwards's public-house, in Park-lane. and on Friday afternoon while she was there she fell down through a trap-door in the floor of the house, which led to a cellar stair or ladder, and which had been incautiously left open. She dropped into the cellar, a depth of about six feet, and was so severely injured in the head that she died on Saturday morning of, as it ap peared from a post mortem examination, concussion of the brain. Verdict, " Accidental death." SUPPLY OF WATER.—At the meeting of the Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society held on Monday even ing, at the Royal Institution,'Colquitt-street, Mr. J. B. Yates in the chair, Dr. 'lligginson rose to elicit informa tion on the subject of water supply. tie asked if any geo logist present could satisfactorily meet the statement that the wells are inexhaustible, and that the supply derivable from the new sandstone is fully adequate for the wants of this large town. It might be owing to the prevalence of wet weather of late, but it was a fact, he believed, that the wells were as yet unexhausted, although the engines had pumped day and night for weeks together. The Chairman said the subject was now under investigation by the autho rities, and an actual measurement was being made of the produce of each well, to ascertain how many gallons are produced in a given time. The Rev. Mr. Dwyer was strongly of opinion that the red sandstone strata was not yet exhausted ; but three or four wells were sunk in it, and if these wells showed symptoms of exhaustion, others might be sunk and water obtained. He saw no necessity for going to an external part for water till it was actually shown that we had it not beneath our feet he had no doubt that in the Childwall valley there was an immense supply. Red sandstone was slightly porous ; water percolated through, and in the deeper portions of the strata a vast body of water might be got which had been stored up there for centuries. A stratum of clay might intervene and stop the water, but the strata themselves were shat tered, so that there were many outlets by which water I could get into a lower stratum. It struck him also that, whatever it might. be for domestic purposes, the water which we got filtered through sandstone was beautiful to drink. Dr. Iligginson said that a geologist had assured him that the new red sandstone under Liverpool was 15 miles thick. He asked if the water which we obtained might not rise from lower levels. The Rev. Mr. Dwyer said no, else we should have thermal springs ; the water would be hot. The Chairman hazarded an opinion, that the water even at Bolton or at Prescot might rise up here in the form of a siphon. A member asked if much of the water that fell here might not escape, at a low level, into the sea. The Rev. Mr. Dwyer replied that that would be prevented by the hydrostatic pressure of the sea, so that there might be reservoirs below which had been kept up from all time. He added, as a burgess, that he thought the corporation should try what they could do below this town before incurring the expense of going to ano ther district. Mr. Fletcher said he had seen the water at Rivington very muddy, but that in the smaller springs it was very beautiful, TIE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. LOCAL MEETINGS. TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS On Wednesday the usual monthly meeting of the Council was held at the Town-hall. FINANCE COMMITTEE.-MR. WILLOUGHBY ' S LEASE. _ The proceedings of the Finance Committee comprised an offer upon the part of the Rock Ferry Committee to let two steam-boats to the Corporation, for the sum of £8 each per day, to be run between Liverpool and Bir kenhead, at the same times that the late lessee of the Birkenhead Ferry (Mr. Willoughby) used to run his boats. The Corporation agreed to accept this offer, and appointed a proper officer to receive the tolls. With reference to the Coroner's office, the committee agreed to allow to a witness, not a medical witness, Is.; boat for picking up a dead body, in fine weather 45., in rough weather Bs. ; allowance to publicans for holding inquests in their houses, 4s. ; ditto, when the dead body remains all night in their houses, Bs. Mr. WOOD sought for some explanation relative to Mr. Willoughby, who, according to current report in the town, had been very badly treated by the Corporation, in having been asked an additional rental of £4OO a year for the Birkenhead Ferry. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE observed that it was not the custom of the Corporation to deal with severity towards their tenants, and more especially to so good and punc tual a tenant as Mr. Willoughby had been. That gen tleman's lease, which was a seven years one, had expired on the Ist of May, and then the Finance Committee began to consider whether the lease was not susceptible of some beneficial arrangement for the future ; and they thought it was. Mr. Willoughby had been in possession of the property for the last fourteen or fifteen years, and for eleven years he had only been paying a rental of £9OO a-year. When first he went to Birkenhead, the inhabi tants of that township numbered about 6,000; at present they amounted to about 16,000 ; and, therefore, the com mittee thought, although it was very difficult to form any real estimate of a ferry, that more money ought to be exacted, the more particularly as the Corporation had expended the sum of £2,000 upon the improvement of the property last year, for which improvement Mr. Wil loughby had only paid £5O, though he might have been charged 71 per cent. on outlay. In demanding an in crease of rent now, the Finance Committee had been guided entirely by the opinion of their surveyor. Mr. PARKER said that Mr. Willoughby did not com plain of the Corporation for having tried to make the most of their estate, but he certainly did think that when he had £15,000 embarked in his steamers, he ought to have received timely notice of the intention of the com mittee to raise his rent by the sum of £4OO a-year, whereas he was only informed of it a few days before the Ist of May. He (Mr. Parker) feared that the Corpora tion by their present movement would depreciate the ferry by one-half, and that if they were to csrry it on them selves they would n ot re a lise £5OO a-year by it. Mr. EARLE said that Mr. Willoughby, who was very cunning, must have known very well that his lease would expire on the first of May ; but the fact was, he was about to hand over his hotel to somebody else, and then he was balked a little in not being able to get a tenant for the hotel, and he found fault with the Corporation. Mr. DANSON thought a very reasonable increase of rent had been asked ; for, in reality, deducting the interest on the cost of the improvement made at Birkenhead last year, it did not amount to more than £2OO a year, Mr. AIKIN said it appeared to be the general opinion of the Council that the Corporation had acted perfectly right in demanding the increase of rent. Mr. THOMPSON moved that it be an instruction to the Finance Committee to enter into the necessary agreement with the Liverpool and Bury Railway Company for the improvement of Burlington-street. Mr. H. HORNBY objected to this improvement, upon the ground that the sanatory condition of the town had the first claim upon the attention of the Council. The rates were likely to press with immense severity upon the burgesses, and if improvements were to be made, he thought that the rich should come forward and pay a vo luntary rate for the purpose. A motion for referring the proposed improvement back for consideration, was carried by a majority of 34 to 6. Mr. BENNETT asked why the Corporation had not paid their polr-rates to the parish ? Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE replied that the delay was occa sioned by some items in the account being incorrect ; but the fact was, that although the Corporation paid poor-rates on the markets-, they were not, strictly speaking, liable to the payment of any such rates ; and he believed the mat ter would shortly be adjusted between the Council and the parish, through the instrumentality of Mr. Lowndes. Mr. EvANa.strongly objected to the principle of having the markets, or any other portion of the corporate pro perty taxed in any way whatever i and if the Finance Committee paid any rates they had compromised their duty. _ . Mr. PARKER.—The whole town, sir, is alive to this subject, and all T can tell you is, that every bit of the cor porate estate will and shall pay the local rates before long, as well as the docks. DOCK• COMMITTEE—THE DOCK BILL. The proceedings of the Dock Committee having been read, The MAYOR said he had received three memorials on the subject of the Dock Bill, but these memorials were now supersedeebby a letter he had that day received from the chairman of the Dock Committee, to the effect that the standing orders of the House of Commons had been suspended inlavour of the Liverpool Dock Bill, and that the rating clause would now necessarily be inserted. (Hear.) Mr. NrooL observed that when the Dock Bill passed with the rating clause on Thursday, it would then have passed through the committee in all its integrity, with one exception—the alteration from 30 to 90 days for selling goods for freight ; and it was a matter of congratu lation that the bill had been so favourably received after a very strenuous opposition. In reply to M.. Earle, Mr. Nicol, said he had been given to understand that there would be a barrack on the fort on the North Shore for 700 men. _ _ Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE thought there ought to be a barrack in Liverpool, and that the town ought no longer to be left in its present defenceless condition. (Hear.) Mr. ROGERS asked whether it was the intention of the Dock Committee to make landing slips at the south end of the town ? Mr. NicoL.—We shall make all the slips the act of parliament obliges us to erect. The proceedings were confirmed ; so also were the pro ceedings of the Market Committee, which comprised bye laws for the regulation of the markets. HEALTH COMMITTEE.-LAYIN% OF DOUBLE RATES UPON THE BURGESSES The proceedings of the Health Committee comprised bye-laws for regulating the registration of lodging-houses, maintaining cleanliness therein, and keeping the same in a wholesome condition. This committee reported in strong terms against the government Health of Towns Bill, upon the ground that: few would have lent money to them (the committee) had' they imagined for a moment that the control over the rates in Liverpool would:be vested in a central board ; And they urged that every endeavour should be made to have- Liverpool exempted from the operation of this act. Mr. TINNE moved the confirmation of the proceedings. ENOUGH TO CAUSE A WAR. In opposing the bill for the removal to their own coun try of the French, German, and other foreign scamps, who swarm in the metropolis, and are said to have been of late busily engaged in fomerting rebellion and outrage, Mr. Joseph Hume is reported to have declared his opi nion that " the French and Germans in London had no more chance of getting Englishmen to listen to their re volutionary principles than a horde of Ourang- Outangs would have as propagandists." The comparison is cer tainly not very flattering, and unless properly understood would not be unlikely to give serious offence to the French people in particular, in the present touchy state of their temper. We can assure them, however, that it has been prompted by a complete misunderstanding of Mr. Hume. Joseph has got into his wise head, along with his arith metic, the notion that every grimy-looking, dirty.shirted, unshaved monster he meets with in his peregrinations through the metropolis, disfigured by a filthy beard, an equally filthy moustache, and long greasy hair trailing over his coat collar, is a communist emissary—a Ledru- Rollin, a Blanqui, or a Cabet in disguise. Nothing can be more untrue. The hulk of these aspirants to the hir sute beauty of an ourang-outang, or of our own domestic goat, are no more foreigners than we are ; but consist of discharged policemen, pedlars, old clothesmen, journey men tailors and snobs of various sorts. Joseph Hume himself would be the first to welsome an alien bill suffi ciently comprehensive in its provisions to remove such a nuisance. We make this explanation to prevent any un pleasant feeling being excited across the channel by his mistaken remark. DREADFUL CONDITION OF FRENCH INDUSTRY The effect of unsettled institutions and political agitation is at length telling fearfully upon both the employers and the labouring classes in France; and the government find out the impossibility of the task which they have under taken, of supporting by an unnatural stimulus, or out of the national funds, the industry of the people. At Rouen, it is said that the funds depended upon for this purpose are quite exhausted, and the various charitable institutions are about to be closed. At Cherburg 700 men employed on public works have been dismissed for want of funds to pay them. Throughout the country vast masses are unem ployed, who must be paid by the state, or be driven to outrage, and the means of providing for them are becom ing daily more difficult to procure. The condition of the manufacturers is one of actual or approaching insolvency. At Lyons, says a private letter : "The manufacturers are living on the produce of sales, or rather, the sacrifice of the fabrics ; but that resource will soon fail. They complain that they have been forced by necessity to sell to a host of English speculators their stocks of silks and velvets at two-fifths of their value. `The best velvets,' say they, which ought to produce 23f. to 24f. the yard, we have parted with for Bf. " Such a state of things must have a speedy end. The whole fabric, not only of French, but of continental indus try, is shaken to its base, and must come to the ground, when to be built up again, who can say, and at what cost ? Truly our neighbours are paying dearly for their various whistics; and affording a warning which revolutionists and agitators in this more favoured land would do well to con template attentively. On Saturday gooseberries were selling in St. John's Market at 8d per quart, and new potatoes at 8d per lb. The Rev. Mr. Alcock, of Kilkenny, has been appointed pastor of St. Barnabas', Douglas, in the place of the Rev. Dr. Carpenter, now at St. Jude's, in this town. The Caradoc, Holyhead mail steam packet, will leave Woolwich early this week, under the charge of Lieutenant Robertson, for Liverpool. On the forenoon of Wednesday, a horse and cart backed over the Albert Parade, Liverpool, and fell upon the deck of a flat. The horse was killed. Mr. R. B. Brough, late editor of the Liverpool Lion, is at present engaged in writing a new and original bur lesque for the Amphitheatre, which we believe will be produced by Mr. Copeland with great splendour. SUDDEN DEATH.—On Wednesday Patrick Doran, liv ing in School-lane, who had been complaining, was found lying on the floor of his bedroom by his wife and died in a few minutes afterwards. The foundation stone of a new Unitarian chapel for the Paradise-street congregation, to be erected in Hope-street, will be laid this morning. The building is to be in the Gothic style of the early decorated period. AN UNPROMISING NAME FOR A NURSE.—The London Times advertises that " Elizabeth Crabb wants a child to nurse. Situation airy." We should not like to trust a little innocent of our own to so crabbed a person. The Birkenhead Docks Completion Bill, which em powers the Woods and Forests to advance £150,000 to complete the extensive works at that place, is to go be fore the select committee of the House of Commons to-day. HORSE-STEALING CASE.—We are assured that Mr. Stritch was :not charged before Mr. Rushton, yesterday week, with any guilty knowledge in this case ; and that the young man's character is a sufficient release from any such imputation. MRS. BUTLER'S READINGS.—On Thursday evening, Mrs. Butler read before a very fashionable audience at the Collegiate Institution, " Much Ado about Nothing," which was extremely well received. Last night she read " Romeo and Juliet" to an equally brilliant assembly. On Thursday night we shall have the last of the series. On Tuesday, a flatman left his flat in the river opposite Harrlngton Duck, and came on shore, leaving his son, about thirteen years of age on board. On his return a few hours after, the youth was missing, and it is supposed he accidentally fell overboard, and, no one being near, was drowned. _ . On Sunday week, two sermons were preached in St. Andrew's church, in aid of the Sunday and Day Schools belonging to it : that in the morning by the Rev. J. Jones, M.A., the incumbent ; and that in the evening by the Rev. T. Nolan, M.A. The collections amounted to £B2 7s. 9d. Dr. Carpenter commenced his duties as minister of St. Jude's Church, on Sunday week. On Monday week, be fore leaving the Isle of Man, he was presented with a check for £420 from his congregation, as a token of their esteem and of their appreciation of his many years faith ful ministry among them. A deputation on the health of towns, consisting of Sir Thomas Birch, Bart., M.P., Mr. Cardwell, M.P., Mr. Law, the Town-clerk, Liverpool,. and Messrs. Newlands and Driffield, of Liverpool, had an interview with Viscount Morpeth, on Thursday, at the office of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests, in Whitehall- place. FATAL EFFECTS OF DRUNKENNESS.—On Tuesday night Mary Ann M'Kenzie, an habitual drunkard, living in Parr-street, retired to rest in a state of intoxication ; between three and four o'clock on the following morning she was seized with a fit from which she never recovered, death ensued in about half an hour after the attack. The unfortunate woman was only 31 years of age. SECRETARY TO THE EXCHANGE NEWS-ROOM. — The number of applicants for this situation exceeded 80. The committee sat on Monday and Thursday. and reduced the list to eight ; from these eight one was selected on Satur day, and the appointment fell on Mr. Younghusband, for merly in the service of Messrs. Moon Brothers, and Co., and of the late firm of Messrs. [Barton, Irlam, and Hig- ginson. M. GulzoT.—lt has been rumoured that M. Guizot intended to resume his old occupation of lecturer, and in consequence Mr. Hogg, the very active secretary of our Mechanics' Institution, at once wrote to the ex-minister,. suggesting (if the rumour were true) a visit to Liverpool. M. Guizot returned an immediate answer, informing Mr.. Hogg that it was not his intention to lecture in public, and declining the invitation in very courteous terms. FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND FOREIGN MISSIONS. — On Thursday evening, a public meeting was held in St. George's Presbyterian Church, Myrtle-street. The prin cipal speoker was the Rev. Dr. Begg. The object of the present effort was to raise £20,000 for the purpose of re placing missionary premises in Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras, from which the ministers of the Free Church had been expelled. THE NATIONAL CONFEDERATION AND FINANCIAL REFORM ASSOCIATION.—The negotiations between those two most useful bodies, undertaken with a view to a coali tion, have thus far, we regret to say, entirely failed. The Finance Reform Association has definitely refused to unite with their neighbour " on the question of local tax . . ation, although they desire to express their sincere sym pathy with the objects which the National Confederation have in view." They will have " great gratification in acting in perfect harmony with the National Confedera tion, in endeavouring to obtain the abolition of indirect taxation for national purposes, and the substitution, in its . stead, of direct taxation." NEW CHURCH IN OXTON VILLAGE. —On Sunday week, the new church at Oxton, erected entirely by the pious munificence of the Rev. Joshua King, patron and rector of Woodchurch, of which ancient parish, Oxton forms an out-lying part, was opened. The prayers were read by the Rev. W. Corkeroft, the incumbent of the new church, which is called St. Saviour's, Oxton. Ap propriate and eloquent sermons were preached by the Rev. T. F. Redhead, the respected incumbent of St. Peter's, Rock Ferry Park. The church is built in a very peculiar site, and seems admirably adapted to it. The bell was presented by our respected townsman, Mr. M`Murdo, timber merchant : The cost is about £1,400, and there is accommodation for 350 persons. SERIOUS COLLISION AT SEA AND Loss OF LIFE.—The packet-ship West Point, Captain Allen, which arrived in the Mersey on Sunday, from New York, reports having been in contact, on the 27th ult., with the barque Cove, of Quebec, winch was on her passage from London to Quebec. The mate and three men of the latter vessel lost their lives during the collision. The remainder of the officers and crew and two passengers, (in all 14 persons,) after abandoning their vessel in a sinking state, were brought to this port by the West Point. The West Point showed a light which could not have been observed by the Cove. The jibboom, head, cutwater-head, stays, &c., of the West Point were carried away. The Cove was a com plete wreck when the West Point left her, with main and wizen masts gone by the deck, decks swept of everything, and stern off. TRIAL TRIP OF THE ITIBERNIA.—This fine new iron steamer, built by Messrs. Vernon and Co., of this town, for the new line of mail steamers between Holyhead and Dublin, made a trial trip to the Menai-straits on Tuesday. She ran from the Rock twelve miles out in ninety-six minutes, and accomplished the distance to the Great Ormshead in two hours and seven minutes. The engines were built by Messrs. Bury, Curtis, and Kennedy, and are of 370-horse power. They are oscillating, 5 feet 9 inch stroke, 73-inch cylinders, and have two air-pumps worked at an angle by the intermediate shaft. The en gines made twenty-two revolutions per minute with a twenty-eight-feet wheel. They reflect great credit upon the talented engineers who constructed them. The boat herself is of 680 tons burthen, and is a very handsome model. Her interior fittings are very beautiful, ie also moved that a fire-police rate of one halfpenny in the pound be laid.—Agreed to. Mr. TINNE moved that the following rates be laid on the parish of Liverpool for the ensuing year :—A.sewer rate of Id., a paving rate of ls., a general rate of ad., and a water rate of Id. in the pound. Mr. BOOKER asked whether something could not be done to keep the rates as low this year as they had been last year ? He expressed his regret that the rates for the parish this year were proposed to be threepence in the pound more than they were last year; and he asked what necessity was there to incur the expense of re-paving Castle-street, as the Council now prop osed ? He called upon the Corporation of this great town to evince some sympathy towards the suffering and struggling shop keepers by whom they were surrounded, and out of whose pockets these increased rates would have to come. He called upon them to remember the poor. Mr. DANSON said that life was daily imperiled in Castle street ; and he had heard that if any fatil accident hap pened in that street it was the intention of the inhabitants, unless it was re-paved, to indict the Corporation for man slaughter.. Mr. EARLE asked wheallibe people of Liverpool, who had always been so loud iff‘Fmanding sanatory improve ments, could expect to see the town well paved, well sewered, and well cleansed, and to pay nothing for it ? After a few remarks from Mr. Parker and Mr. Rath bone, the rates on the parish, as proposed by Mr. Tinne, were adopted. - Mr. TINNE moved that the rates on the township of Kirkdale be as follows, for the ensuing year :—a paving rate of is. Sd., a sewer rate of 2d., a water rate of id. and a general rate of 10d. in the pound,—in all 2s. 9d., or double what it was last year. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE opposed the imposition of so large a rate as 2s. 9d. in the pound upon the inhabitants of Kirkdale. The out-townships, he said, had had a very poor share of the surplus income of the borough, and , therefore he thought the surplus income might be appro priated towards the payment of the rates for the out townships. Mr. EARLE observed that the parish bad been paying these sewerage and paving rates for years, while the in. habitants of the out-townships had not paid a farthing ; and was all the dirt and filth of the out-townships to be sent down into the parish, and were the people of those out-townships not to pay ? Or, were they to sit like ducks in the midst of their water and filth, and were not the Council to endeavour to cleanse them, and to compel them to pay for the process of cleanliness having been per formed. (Hear, hear, and loud laughter.) Mr. DANSON agreed with Mr. G. H. Lawrence, that the surplus fund of £5OOO ought to be appropriated to the payment of, at least, the paving rate, and he moved an amendment to that effect. Mr. AIKIN declared that he would as soon throw the £5OOO down the river as apply it in the manner proposed, to the payment of the rates of the out-townships. Mr. HODGSON said it appeared oppressive, and almost unheard-of, to double the rates upon the burgesses all over Liverpool. He called upon the Council to graduate the rates, and not, at one slap-dash, to make the people pay double what they had paid last year. The MAvonthought that great credit was due to the committee for having stated, in their printed report, (a copy of which was in the hand of every member of the Council) the grounds upon which they had been compelled in every instance to increase the rates. Mr. DANSON here withdrew his amendment, and the proposed rates on Kirkdale were confirmed. Mr. TINNE moved that the rates be imposed on the township of Everton :—a paving rate of ls. 7d., a sewer rate of 2d., a water rate of Id., and a general rate of Bd. In the pound, being double what they were last year. These rates were agreed to. TINNE moved, that the following rates he laid on West Derby :—a paving rate of Bd., a sewer rate of 2d., a water rate of ld.. and a general rate of 9d. in the pound, being nearly double what they were last year. These rates were agreed to. Mr. TINNE moved that the following rates be laid on Toxteth-park :—a paving rate of Is. 5d., a sewer rate of 3d., a water rate of ld., and a general rate of Is. id., being double what they were last year. Mr. HARBORD opposed this motion, and moved as an amendment that the rates be not imposed, and that the alleged misconduct of the late Commissioners of the Townships be investigated. The amendment was negatived ; the rates as proposed by Mr. Tinne were agreed to, and the proceedings were confirmed. MISCELLANEOU3 Mr. HENDERSON reported that 16,000 persons had visited the Botanic Gardens last month, being an increase of 12,000 visiters, compared with the corresponding month of last year. He suggested that if the Newsham-house estate were laid out, an impulse would be given to build ing in that neighbourhood, and the coffers of the Corpo ration would be replenished. The proceedings of the Water Committee were referred to a Special Council, to be held some day this month, after the quantity of water in the wells under the town has been ascertained. The MAYOR announced that both the borough mem bers were in communication with Sir G. Grey relative to the immense number of frivolous objections preferred in Liverpool at the time of municipal revisions. He stated that the delays occasioned by the Board of Customs in this town were quite discreditable, and that shortly a report would be presented to the Council on the subject of master porterage. Mr. DANSON moved, pursuant to notice, that it be an instruction to all committees to make an annual report of their proceedings, and that such reports be brought be fore the Council each year, in the month of October. While this motion was under discussion, a member moved that the Council be counted, and there being only eighteen members present, the Council was counted out at four o'clock. DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—The sub-committee reported that they could not recommend the adoption of the plan for thirty cottages for dock gatemen, the cost of which would be from £6OOO to £7OOO, the ground being required for more important purposes. It was ordered that £lOOO should be paid on account of the iron work connected with the bridges at the new landing stage. In reply to questions it was stated by the Chairman and Mr. Hartley that the bridges were completed, and only waited for the presence of Mr. Cubitt, to get them finished. It was expected all would be completed very soon now. Some conversation took place as to the removing of the stage further to the north, but. it was considered that it would be better to await the arrival of Mr. Cubitt before this question was decided. The expense of removing one of the bridges, Mr. Hartley guessed, would be some where about £2OO or £3OO. BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS.—On Tuesday, at the usual monthly meeting, Mr. Christopher Bentham occu pied the chair. The Law-clerk was directed to look after the deficiencies due by Mr. Milligan and Mr. Reid, and to look very particularly after the defalcations of the latter. The salary of Mr. Rudd, the manager of the ferry, was ordered to be raised from £2OO to £250 per annum, on and after the Ist of the present month. The receipts of the ferry to the 22nd of April, 1847, were re ported to be £22,506 16s. ; the receipts to the 22nd of April, 1848, were £19,503 16s. ; and the expenditure for the past year, including interest, was £18,933 Bs. In reply to the question of a commissioner, Mr. Greene said the expenditure this year was much less than it was last year. A letter from Mr. J. H. Hinde was read, in which he resigned his office as one of the commissioners. The resignation was accepted.• SELECT VESTRY.—On Tuesday, the first of the usual fortnightly meetings of the Select Vestry, held since the holding of the General Easter Vestry, took place at the Parish-office, Lime-street. The Rev. Rector Campbell presided.—Mr. Ferguson moved that the churchwardens and overseers be ex officio members of all the committees. The motion was adopted.—Upon the motion of Mr. Fer guson, six committees were composed for the ensuing year. The quorums for the ensuing year were next ap pointed.—The Chairman called attention to the expedi ency of continuing the Parish-office in Lime-street in stead of removing it to the Workhouse, and in doing so said he was so deeply impressed with the conviction that the removal of the office from its present position would be inconvenient to the Vestry, and therefore detrimental to the interests of the parishioners, that he wished a sub committee to be appointed to see whether it might not be desirable to retain the office where it was at present. The following sub-committee was appointed to take the sub ject into consideration : namely, the churchwardens and overseers, and Messrs. Earle, Avison, Swainson, Moly neux, Abraham, and Wylie.—Upon the motion of Mr. Riding, Mr. John Naylor was appointed treasurer to the parish, on the usual conditions ; and Mr. William Wood was appointed keeper of the pass-house, at St. Paul's square, at a salary of 30s. per week.—The following was the return of out-door relief distributed during the week ending the 29th ultimo : Settled poor, 6282 cases, £287 ; Irish, 3335 cases, £lOO ; non-settled, 2084 cases, £7B ; casuals, 1166 cases, £35 ; total relieved, 12,847 ; cost, £5OO. WEST DERBY GUARDIANS, WEDNESDAY.—Present, Mr. Sheppard (chairman), and twelve other members. Letters were read from the Poor-law Board, sanctioning the appointment of Messrs. Lister and May as medical officers, and Jr. Wood as assistant-governbr. After some routinebusiness it was agreed, on the motion of Mr. Appleby, that the medical officers should send in the names and qualifications of all their assistants, so that the board might know what their qualifications were. It appeared from the report, that the sums expended for the removal of the Irish poor during the year ending the 25th March last, in the several townships, were—in Toxteth park, £llB ss. 10d. ; West Derby, £2B 15s. 7d. •, Kirk dale £1 ss. ; and for magistrates' clerks' fees, £8 125., making a total of £l6l 2s. sd. It was agreed to charge these sums to the Union.—Mr. Shaw said that twelve months ago a rate-book clerk had been appointed for Everton at the request of the ratepayers, and one over seer. The Commissioners, however, did not wish to appoint him, but agreed to add £lOO per annum to the salary of the assistant overseer, to enable him to pay a clerk. Mr. Straun was accordingly appointed by the assistant overseer. Since that time much jealousy had arisen between the honorary: overseers, who considered he was a servant of theirs, not having been appointed by the Board. To obviate all unpleasantness, he should move that the salary of the assistant overseer be decreased £lOO a-year ; that Mr. Straua receive the appointment direct from the Board, and that the Commissioners he requested to allow it. Mr. Harrison seconded the mo tion, and it was agreed to.—At the suggestion of the Rev. Mr. Badnall, it was agreed that two " giant strides" be erected in the boys' play-grounds, for gymnastic exer cises. POLICE INTELLIGENCE, ROBBERY OF BONE DUST AND GREASE.—On Wednes day, five men, Jones, Munyon, Blakely, Chambers and Hindley, were charged at the police-court with having stolen three casks of grease and a quantity of bcne dust from the yard in Great Oxford-street occupied by Mr. Briddon, manufacturing chemist, Bootle, on the previous Monday. They had taken the bone dust to a marine store, and sold it for 16s. The whole of the prisoners afterwards went to a public-house, and spoke of dividing the booty. About four tons of bones had been taken from the yard, andftve cwt. of fat. The latter was after wards found in the open street, where it had, no doubt, been placed in order to be carried away. The prisoners were remanded for a few days, in order that the evidence against them might be completed. CHARGE AGAINST A SHERIFF'S OFFICER:OH Tues day at the Police court, Mr. Wm. Bennett, ironfounder, preferred a charge against John Rowley, a Sheriff's officer, for haying entered his house in Shaw-street, and there created a disturbance to the great alarm of his fa mily, while he was himself absent. It appeared that the prisoner had an execution warrant against one John Francis Bennett, another person ; that he went to exe cute it at Mr. Wm. Bennett; was in a state of intoxica tion, and refused to leave the house when Mr. Bennett, on his return, requested him to do so. Mr. B. had him taken into custody. The prisoner said he had made a ' mistake and was sorry for it. Mr. Rushton said his con duct was scandalous. Mr. Bennett's only remedy was by civil action. He should take care that the prisoner should not again be employed as an officer; ; but all he could do in the matter now was to fine him 3s. for being drunk. RODERY AND ASSAULT.—On. Tuesday an old man, named Lahy, preferred a charge, at the police-court, against - three /nen and a woman, named Dodd, Thomp son., Cornthwaite, and Jackson, of having assaulted him, and robbed him of £67. The complainant, who was much distressed, said he was a farmer in the county of Galway, and after disposing of his property, in order to emigrate, had arrived here on the previous Saturday. He spent Sunday and Monday with some acquaintances at West Derby, and on the evening of the latter day came into town, and met Jackson and another woman, named Kirk, at a public-house. On afterwards going up Hatton garden, the three male prisoners darted out of a gateway, and assaulted him, knocking him down several times. The female assisted them. They then snatched the bag from him containing his money, and ran off, but he fol lowed them, and saw them enter a brothel in Peter street. Information was given to the police, and the prisoners were apprehended shortly after in Dodd's house in Peter-street. The woman Kirk ran out of the house, and after being pursued a short distance, dropped down dead in the street. None of the money was found, except 3s. 6d., picked up on the foot-walk where the robbery was committed. The prisoners were remanded. COMMITTAL OF A GANG OF THLEVES.—James Burns, George Stanley, Robert Hanley, and George Smith, ap parently four members of the swell mob, were charged at the Police-court, under the following circumstances : One of the prisoners, about eleven o'clock on Tuesday morning last, entered the Stag Vaults, in Mill-street, Toxteth-park, kept by Mrs. Margaret Kerr, and, having called for a glass of spirits, tendered a sovereign in pay ment. He received the change, and afterwards wrote a letter in the back parlour. He was shortly joined by two more of the prisoners ; and, during the temporary absence of the complainant from the bar, they managed, by reaching over the counter, to get possession of a bag containing £9 in gold, and another bag containing £7 lOs in silver, with which they hastily decamped. Three of the prisoners were apprehended. One of them effected his escape, but was subsequently taken into custody. An officer in the main bridewell stated that' on the fourth prisoner he found £7 lOs in gold, and £7 in silver. While in the bridewell, the prisoner asked for something to drink. He took them a can of water, and he saw each of them drink. When they handed him back the can, he perceived there was a sovereign at the bottom of it. The prisoners refused to give any address, or any account of themselves. They were committed for trial at the ses, sions, Nay 9, ISA 191W/it PAM The annual collections at Christ Church, Salford, 0 3 Sunday Week, after two sermons by the Bev. Caar Stowell, M.A., incuMbent, in aid of the Sunday and Pa lll Schools, amounted to £246 4s. 4d. At Runcorn, on Wednesday, a new schooner, built b 1 Messrs. Brindrit and Whitewav, was launched from their premises. She is christened " the Duke," and is intendea for the coasting trade. On Thursd a y large numbers of the unemployed per atives in Manchester assembl e d an d p ara d e d through r 4B/1 / of the street s an d Victoria park as a begging processiott! but the police eventually dispersed them. SINGULAR PRESERVATION OF LIFE IN A 1 1 1, 1 f*:: About a fortnight ago, a he n b e l ong i ng to Mr. Melt"); of Cadley, was missed fro m th e f arm -y ar d, and all eare_.,, for it was ineffectual. On Sunday last, however, it w i discovered in a hayloft, buri e d b enea th a num ber of bet t t e t r of straw, which had been inadvertently thrown u1n 1 ,4; It had thus remained thirteen days without food. hen had laid one egg durin g h er long fast. She i 5 almost restored to her form er con diti on .—Preston GO; dian. THE COBDEN TESTIMONIAL FUND.—A meeting of the Cobden Testimonial Fund has been held at Manchester; It appeared that the amount subscribed was £79,00 0 , fr o j which £4,800 had to be deducted for expences, leaving balance of £74,000 to be plac e d a t M r . C o bd e n's disPn; The whole of the money had not remained in 'b banker's hands ; some porti ons h av i ng b een investerlyo ll o Mr. Cobden's consent, to greater advantage, ei'd,4, moiety had been expended iu the p urc h as e of Jr. 0 0 den's birthplace. The balance was in cash, and reel o f be paid over by the treasurers so soon as the mo d doing it should be determined upon. , t DARING BURGLARY AT CROSTON.—On Friday, „ roos daring burglary was committed at the house of 0 . 1 .7; ‘ , Forshaw, farmer, Croston, about one o'clock in the 10 '4, ing, by a number of thieves, a r m e d w ith gu ns and sea, and having their faces blacked. The v ill a i n s succeede d ': carrying off a great number of articles, amongst them flitches of bacon, two or three sovereigns and two half °`',,f vereigns in gold, and a quantity of silver, two bottles el spirits, and great variety of wearing apparel. Two eft l ..„ men were described as being stout, and one of tkenire,t ll ; low. Information of the burglary has been forwen ee , various police stations, with a description of the artic but neither them- nor the thieves have yet been discovered FOREIGN TRADE.—We are glad to see that the every probability of the foreign trade o f thi s po rt bell; ing extensive. We last week announced th e arr ival of t barque Isabella, from New Orleans, and the schoonfr Content, from Rostock;; as well as the sailing of the li e f Jane and Esther from this- port, for Pernambuco, lad with coal. The Grace has since sailed f r om the Vie w fo r Quay, with a cargo of coal';- she is bound for StettieLd grain. The schooner Alpha is now repairing, preps S O to a voyage to the Mediterranean, for currants. 1,4 Content is also, we believe, going for another forf.:2 cargo. The Therese, Captain Carl Schutze, of ROLO yesterday arrived at Preston ,- with a cargo of grain, 0 " Rostock.—Preston Pilot. CURIOUS CASE.—THE COBDEN, TE STIM ONIAL Ft l —A curious case was called on for hearing on Fril e p the County Court, Stockport. The plaintiff was Mr., 0 4 ton, the league agent at Stockport, and the d e fends $ ct o / . Mr. Lees, a manufacturer at the same pl ace . The ,f l ,O. was brought to recover £lO, which th e d e f en dant he" r o t mised to contribute to the Cobd e n T es ti mon i a l Flaw' nv which, in consenuence probably, of some change of,fros nion, had not been Arid. When the case was called was stated by the attorney for the pl a intiff that So' 0, been paid into court, and the s ummons was withdrt 0 Who paid the money into court we have n ot been 8 , 11 ; Of ascertain, but it certainly was not , with the sanett-oid Mr. Lees, who has resolved to contribute the £lO of the rx Stockport nloNoGn Ao f MC I I n oD fi nE r d m NaT a r y . FyR. week,o M F a s - isit.e o i P o the SH af O te c place on the arrival of the Blackburn and Skipton,t ° , o o Burnley. It appears that the driver r a Mr. Raros°, ° " - hlf formerly veterinary surgeon at Burnleys,- was consileal in liquor, and had driven at a most furious rat e . f 8 00 Colne. He entered the town at a rapist pace, a nd at o r the market day the streets were much thronged wit', kr pie. On nearing the Bull Inn, the crowd of mark e 'epe , , pie was very dense, and as it was impossible to,e n - e ot four persons were thrown down by the coach, antL e 'd these, named John Chadwick, an old man upwar';oeta years of age, h..d both his legs run over t and one 0 ,1 Oetr shattered in a shocking manner. A no ther, narn„.. e ' ril lelf jamin Uttley, a farmer, at Netherwood, near n o el severely was injured in his back, so that his total re is doubted. lord' THE EARL OF DERBY AND THE CHWROII: -- "": 0 00 - ship has already built a church, schools, and par, - pie' house, in Bickerstaff, in the parish of Ormskirk• poses -to build two more churches, schools,. and pars" houses, and to endow the churches, in the salve e - et° J e He has aided, with land and contribution, the schelhol building a parsonage-house in Burscough, in the Pal:.tiolt, Ormskirk, and he bas agreed to give a site for the o f of a parsonage-house, to be attached to the reew g eol Rufford, all in Lancashire, besides, doubtless, otk Ag er hil?„' works of the like nature on other parts of his Lor7,,tbs , estate. It may be in the recollection of our readnog e an act was procured, some years ago, to divide t 1 1.4 0801 and wealthy rectory of Winwick into eight or ten t° ssf, the immediate execution of which, we are hal:10, 0 1LO' has been rendered easy through the generos ity of the James the James Hornby, the rector, who gave up his claims to portions assigned for the endowment of the sever tories. 13°6 51. SEntons'Coetent-Accinwr.—On Mond'sr , °Pf tion coach, put on the read by Mr. Hothersall, ot, Brownlow Arms, Clither oe , f or the first time o° oB o left Blackburn on its return to Clitheroe. It ° le rei l l on going down the steep declivity in Clithero e ,' o trol e t b h r eo horses. t hThey c i coachman i n a e t c e e l y s s started l lo s o t ga s al tes a t. or l. l ett estP .the and when near the Brownlow Arms, c coach came in contact with a post. The e ellis . l e els til fr °ll° the coach right over, and separated the fore-wnh hors e ; the body of the coach and the hind-whee is— ee '--- 4° - galloping off through the town with the fore-wh the passengers on and in the coach scattered ,° . , ( 1 . talv . o road. All of them were more or less injured; were particularly hurt, one having had his eOl7 O O 177 , broken. This person, we b e li ev e, had left. Blaet loaf', the old coach, but on arriving at Whalley he t00&,...,0n to the " opposition," and had obtained a• seat 0700' thus thrusting himself into the misfortune whi e j me lcb°,; quently happened. Two females went from one of whom was very much cut about- the heLlhecia horses continued their career with the wheels atw a m ile 1 ( 1 them, right through the town ; and were not stgleyv they arrived at the " Black Horse," nearly ue Clitheroe.—Blackburn Standard. _, A tti et ; „ f re e w--„ e o , EMPLOYMENT IN MANCHESTER.—The c' t he the favourable result of the French elections, r!`", in a, two other causes, have produced some- animatio ,aopit market this week, although there hasbeen no,,, dec e l frele vance in prices. Both goods and yarns have , 3 0 7 for 1 0 inquired for, and a brisk demand has been ma d fr i ' e ce Oriental markets. There are yet no export s 0 60 , or Germany, and some time must elapse before I t is g t ry is restored in reference to continental orders. leaf tifying to mark any change for the better after s°, n i r its • ened a period of gloom and depression. The are Weir the people generally are revived, and as stocks v ery yertest return to activity may speedily ba expected. e m p loy vourable change has occurred in the state of et.reicids tease among the operatives. TJpwarls of 4,50 0 ~'"''„hof,e_, re' been this week placed upon full time, over and 0' number so employed in the former week. The ° ....-I‘ e turn for this week indicates the following results4;7s64o her of operatives working full time last week , 2 ,, ie g sO , the present week, 29,314. The number w° r '„j, 1 61 :0g , time last week was 10,630 ; in the present we".„, e elg The number wholly out of employment 1a5t.,,,03',4 I .8.- 9,303; in the present week, 5 5 630. The Ten t ote , tory Act came into full operation in the tna l t a va o od districts on Monday last, and its provisions arksie, generally adopted in Manchester and the neigh t ,',; r tt! t , Many of the mills had beempreviously working eke 0T;00 so that the restrictions of the new law could ma nag e P o p' slight change in such establishments. A Ill e hbO t tlif Fergusson and Taylor's,Monthly Circular,v i . s o rti tamed high authority in the northern districts,re' 04:1,80 of quotation :—" Looking forward to the filV s taat„tia inclined to the expectation that the day is not c ° „ r eseV e we shall see the mills and docks of this countr4o the gratifying sight of their former busy ae.` of , B d . ,fr great impediment to a speedy consumnil le tieal noier hopes lies in the disorganized social and P° gnes4 sl ' tion of neighbouring states, as well as in theotri, and apprehensions of insecurity in this O r a O f oned by fermenting masses of discontent , 1ootioso: 0 ness which have of late years been thrown,. o ls o t,lo,/ peaceable and loyal native population, in s j, o's grants from the lowest class of the sister isS t hoattrill e located in our larger communities ; and , r e itid*"., have added greatly to the burdens of t" th/ e tr: poor, by fixing themselves on the parish r °te t .tert ° W ee li not contributed to the advancement of char°' o 4. 0 be e wise benefitting those they have come alle c ri ba:c 9 oiid fourths of the tumultuous assemblzwes othe disturbing the peace here on Sundays an d ~,.p a ing 40 r,, • • the occurrence of the revolutionary ble have consisted of these people. Our resP e- eYeP" classes have stood aloof, although suffer u ' g s flans from diminished employment." t 0 ° .1 HEROISM OF A FEMALE SERVANT.--We lelcPe111; ISbehoafettkursiltyda their y beats,mo r morning g female ß.e, servant,not waiftoe aas . 0., 1 / 100 - 0 %1 ,1 1 f a the corner ep e s oll a ao t rfe Gloucester-place, h l ho o i n mg c u e r; s d t te e hu r e: p oah l a ui csbeci miscreant eepdaenri,neeti:hveuadggeauili . „5 „ : bo zan, and cutting away at some lead piping' otro u— uile.., 7 ( right and left, and struggled hard to g f e, AI, g he e el w d rfiigrmgletdo out t r ogfrihpi,sanjucdkceatl,l whiched loudly h e i f e if t o ij iro e t i b r ber n ; of rc :l4 4 and ran off. Such courageous conduct is as. o#4 and imitation. Rascals are mostly cowards. 3r, p lge' IMPORTANT SALE OF VESSELS.—"Dn TOS ai l o a 01,1 to an order of the Court of BankruPtairistalloce belonging to the estate of Messrs. Barta l ' t th e e re g si‘ lie ShepSs Cl oswr l lwas shipowners w eTkr e ns. r o e apcnr p ked u es t deHn u di p o. Lwf down to it s leoe a d l :b e iiaer b r ga y pun barque o u AC : e. o e at for, J.ae o e c as firsp : s t . 3 13 1 j/ e i brig Favourite was next put up at 12 „„ pioe ir s4ehk advanced to £3700, at which sum she Wild for, f beviic , to Mr. Mondell. The Lancaster was so _A p the purchaser being Mr. Bagebott, of Brigur`•se,ropsoovo lotte was also offered for sale 3 but as th e a r iot . 13.41 4 ,0 was £63OQ, and the highest bidder weAfessi + t tiP. t bt she was withdrawn. After the sale 01; e r ee l () ? Irlam, and Higginson's vessels Mr. Itq o no other vessels ; one the barque' Collec.t;%rwhorgate Mary. For the former there was no bidder• for the latter several offers were 'IT :rice 13° £5300 was bid for her, but the reserved r at £6300, she was withdrawn. v itY, 80 Ph, Doi 4ver w , towtfteri AR knd fi "Orat De S r A ! ‘114), tor 1, ,o un Zit . Ilat te r k 1,1'1•