The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-03-18 00:00:00

Hardt 18, IS'5l. Ecrat Sittus.4. t i Yllo Rev. D. James preached a sermon in St. Paul's atirele Preston, on Sunday , on " Purgatory." s Ar . Hone, fo rmerly of the Mersey Hotel, Old Church lltd, i roprietor of Gresham's Hotel, Dublin. design T. Lusty, of this town, has registered a novel °s ign for a pin and needle case. pdMessrs. Thomas and Haddock's concert has been, we ersta of nd, postponed from to-morrow to Wednesday, th e 2d i It large number of American quails, packed in ice, were I k r l n P°rted into Liverpool by the mail steamer Africa, from beew York, and were readily sold. ~ lle ship William Laird, which left Savannah in Decem tai last, has not since been heard of. Fears ere enter- Thetiedss her safet steamers &L . Cork for London and for Liverpool ecniti rnie to carry away crowds of fugitives, on their way tesPectively to England and America. env Sunday week, a dressmaker, named Munroe, aged eased, ing in Oak-street, fell down stairs whilst intoxi and received such injuries that she died soon after. whi On e R o y a l mail steam-ship Cambria, Captain Shannon, ch _ would leave New York on the Bth instant, may be cZ keted to arrive in the Mersey on Friday next. l'h e Royal m a il s t eam - s hip C ana d a , C a pt a in Harrison, Sailed from the Mersey on Saturday morning for Halifax az id Roston with the usual mails, a heavy freight, and 71 ilits s s engers.' w 's lan, suggested by Mr. King, of the Liverpool Gas trinsrsks, for the ventilation of St. John's Church, is to be 1,-v° as an experiment. The cost of the apparatus will be about £24. tFriday, the 25th April, has been fixed for the amateur etforrnance of the Shakspearian Society, in aid of the Ye and E ar infirmary of this town. The play selected h A You Like It. ctua Wed nes d ay t h e F orest S tates, a vesse l o f heavy age, which had sailed from Liverpool, arrived in eenstown in distress, having 350 emigrants on b oar d, i led for New York. She had been nine days at sea. O-nin Saturday 600 emigrants left Cork for Liverpool, in. uing to emrate for the United States. They were all comf ortable i n appearance, young and healthy, and ap parently fit fo r any description of labour. 1;, usdaM ichael the Rev H. Carpenter A. 8., de ereaT n e st. 's Church . a very able and , impressive discourse upon the doctrine of " Extreme Unction," as Practised in the Church of Rome. The large Burmese Bell, taittee by p resented to the Dock Corn the Trustees of the St. James's Cemetery, has been placed on the Landing-stage. The bell, which is of erY fine workmanship, is hung on cast-iron pillars, and Will doubtless be found of great utility in foggy weather. W hose Tuesday Alice Davies, a child two years of age, nose parents live in Albert-terrace, Albert street, Park, during the temporary absence of her mother, accidentally set fire to her clothes, and was so severely burned es to cause death on the following day. Msh e • Do re i s a b out to proceed to the United States for es„? lr Pose of establishing agencies for th e Royal Insu stiFe Co mpany on the other side of the Atlanti c, a step was taken som e time ago by the Liverp ool and Loh office with immense success. house` - ' 11 P riday a young woman was burnt to death in a p s , ; in Freemasons'-row. She had, with three cote leisccs, male and female , laid down to sleep before the a s i f f "e.n fire, when her clothes became ignited, and she - 6 4 °Led injuries which terminated her existence. oh " Wednesday last a poor labouring man, named John os i ipt a native of Flintshire, and who had on that day 11. eu from Denbigh, dropped dead in Chester-street, irk enh Pr- ead. The deceased had been reduced to a state satrenle want. oftcePutatien, as to the Liverpool Dock Bill, (alteration man a x c a,eernent ) consisting of I\lr. W. Rathbone, (chair- De a ••') e George Maxwell, Mr. Rathbone, and Mr. 4 - an, had an interviw with the Right. Hon. Henry livplichere, on Monday, e at the Board of Trade. of ts e .ssrs. Sh an d, B ram l ey -M oore , Sh arpe , an d Harrison, dc les town, accompanied by other gentlemen from Lon the Pr Birmi ng h am , h a d an i n t erv i ew on T ues d a y with tetpernier and th e Ch anc ell or of the Exchequer on the d set of the adulteration of coffee. Pet s n li P s ..ridaY, an inquest was held touching the death of iNt*Millan seaman on board the ship Helen, With n idfmna ' a Ardrossan to this port. The deceased met oe, i 'is death b y a f a ll f rom th e yar d arm , w hi c h was est;"'niled by t h e s h oc k pro d uce d w h en t h e H e l en was tread by bY the Greek brig Aristide off Great Orates alps,e;',°?LS OF DESIGN.—We are glad to learn that her of jj.,'LLs Board of Trade, through the instrumentality la s 4 Rev,, J. Howson, have presented to the Collegiate a pawi ens% a large and valuable collection of casts and of G r e gg ' comprising illustrations of the best specimens art• , s ,,ic and Roman sculpture, as well as of medieval of tl a : s ° ,7 are admirahly calculated to improve the taste Th e "sing generation. lleatb„„ ca se of William Irvin (the circumstances of whose tv , sere supposed'n Tuesday's STANDARD), who had died, btoaasss bef ore the coroner and a jury on Tuesday. The bad eys, i gentlernan who attended the deceased gave it as aYst °ll that Irvin had died from the effects of eating ally 04 ens sl Wh ich , s ,along with the vinegar, had acted fa- PlEgst •4 0 In cerated stomach. ` t ' si ° ll l' oe GAS.—On Thursday an accidental ex and c o eas t e sead wh o] t ook place at the shop of Messrs. Herring v s ( 1 , b s ' Pale confectioners, at the corner of Roscoe -as d e ", w. uich nearly the whole of the plate-glass front Stru ck 11.137°Iished, the wood-work being riven as though th e l o Y lightning, and considerable damage sustained coatainst:le.kin-trade. A large portion of the latter was e . in expensive show glasses. The precise origin 11 0 the disaster is not known. Beyond the injury to the sh op -front and the stock, no material damage has been "g ! i t a ailled. n 'RE ATRE - ROYAL.—ENTERTAINMENT OF MR. HUD mIII4 -14 AN MADAM!! ANNA THILLON. — The entertain. eant giv en during the p ast week by Mr. Hudson and fel d ame Anna Thillon ha s been on t ,,Per formances of the season; and e;',..l.ri e ntly deserved the success whir._ tC el l in comic humo ur , goo d i n its m o ra l t en d enc y, an d the vocalism of both artistes is of a high order. Among do b s est Portions of the entertainment is the impersona eta_ b y Mr. Hudson of a Bombastes Furioso sort of Irish so..n, the story of an emigrant, and the illustration of It&ry in the person of an individual fond of himself and ) 3 4 1 1 fancy waistcoats and a victim to his gallantry in arie f° f a Poppy du; The impersonation b y Madame ce,lThillon of native s . of the four quarters of the world cl ev : r g to the Great Exhibition, is very pleasing and s ag e „Tbe house was well attended throughout . their i r agie ;", e ". This week, it will be seen that. the eminent 4 eadi s - c ' r ess, Mrs. Warner, appears in a succession of her ~„ g eb st . a „, eoe stlt , s‘ers. Lit " ELECTRICITY TO SUSTAIN LIFE.—Mr. J. eards s , P.C.S. read a Society,ae at the meeting of the en titled' ,", 11 .,. °) Philosonhical . on Monday evening, Peetie induced volcanic currents considered as there ned Vots." In an interesting discussion which en 'nsta Porser of electricity for sustaining life was he nc ed b D takeas Y r. Inman, who said that, some time since, c alled to attend the wife of a car-driver, who had b,lteechitn ounce of laudanum. He first tried an emetic, e ep th e ou ght up very little of the poison. In order to 13 ,nt wiqe,nervous system alive, he pinched the woman, k ets• 'very little use. He then sent for Mr. Edward's the -lc-machine which, on being applied to the body of btemPhattient, cau sed the limbs to jerk, and shortly the Pf los, pog and pulse improved• After the expiration j4ew hours she so far revived . as to sleep until the fol eipyAg morning, and ultimately recovered. Dr. Inman 40 t1; 88 ed his opinion that, if the electro-machine had c en applied, the woman would have died. 449iPT111 LANCASHIRE SPRING ASSIZES.—At these eal ss e s, which will commence en Saturday next, the li gclar is only of a moderate description with respect to the ~,l i cober of criminals, although it contains offences of ,Itt,"Ost serious nature. Patrick Lyons and his wife, •v'el lo g 4 ve been committed for the murder of Margaret a nd ,at W arr i ng t on , h ave b een placed in separate cells, hiett l'r serve the same sullenness of demeanour as when wi th iour rc ught to the prison. The other p r i soner c h arge d derld is Mary Kennedy, whose comm it ta l f or 4;111ln-der is fresh in the recollection of our readers. , f erl; l , e ,at:e no less than ten cases of forgery. The charges 1, - "Prlth g 'arY only amount to sixteen—which, for a three f-3' calendar, in this extensive district, is not heavy. 4,olo w i n . g 'an analysis of the prisoners for trial : stnee,?,,t mp.nslaughter,6 : rape, 5; . burglary, 16; ; robbery from t he person, , 25 sacrilege, 2 ; g s !'“Oe ° s al dwelling-houses, 1; conspiring to obstruct le : ' u; obtaining by fraudulent pretences, 6 ; for d' tot Poaching, 1; bigamy, I ; m i nt cases, 6 ; riot, aL, c ,99. tit l! last ` 4l tincu IN PERTH.—On the evening of Thurs- Nps ° Pwards of sevent workmen were entertined " the ex p ense tti,the 61° the Salutation Assembly-hall, at p 00, Of tii itdi ng committee and the contractors, on occa st raising the roof of the new Episcopal Church °l ll's," in Priece's-street. Mr. John Hay, of c4t4ip. 001, the architect of the building, was called to the L tter it; After the usual loyal toasts, he called particular s"ah` 3ll to the merits of Colonel Belshes of Invermay, e o a re eiie it tn ' be said, as chairman of the committee for the hod °f the church, they were all deeply indebted, sLaed Wi th dignity and affability as a gentleman, corn qted C'n his business habits, could only be fully appre thaatie those who came in contact with him in these t ". Mr. Hay further stated that it was through kitlldt•Vness and liberality of Colonel Belshes and the t tl 'eli tt co mmittee, that so many bad the pleasure of asZista t l 'together under such happy and agreeable dr th.titedenes,• He therefore called upon them to show their Of' ss esH °Y drinking to the good health and long life of e s oili s Ira colonel. Mr. Cameron proposed the health ti`On t t 'il . , ll Y, whom he was sure they were all proud to see Vetim a nla• In that gentleman they recognised the e tt ese s friend and the tradesmen's instructor, and ts l ?aeit: e alth he now vroposed to drink in; the double th'lltliW of chairman of the meeting, and architect of the apese ea and he might be allowed to say, that in both tett Cities Mr. Hay was highly entitled to their re 14Spemt tratitude. As a tradesman, he felt called upon 1 44' 10 0f t ! Mr . Hay's high professional character and his swYand onag business, for he contrived to make it both Sttallealvagreeable for the tradesmen under him,—the 1 1 04.°J hi a le etY of his drawings, and the descriptive seen- N i t °ll ity eciPeations were such as almost to preclude 44b . h was m isunderstanding or mistake. Mr. Hay's ilpfeelc now ilien drunk with the greatest enthusiasm, and koa t 'Y ski, e dged. This handsome new church is now 11 4 att r . - g Into form, and promises to be one of the tar e , star4v,e.and elegant of our public buildings. Mr. 4 te ' and nlgh in the department of church architec t)), details of the structure of new " St. John's' do' t the "deu.lg developed, we have no hesitation in saying ktiPSt si gn and execution of the work will not only u e c redit to the architect and tradesmen, but will ,e ailed b , Y every person of taste and refinement as '11(469,44s greatestjmodern ornaments. —Perthshire s more, it has ST. CLEMENT'S SCHOOLS, WINDSOR.—We observe that the annual sermons in behalf of these valuable in stitutions are to be preached on Sunday next, by the Rev. W. Clarke, of Chester. Mr. Clarke holds a high place in the public estimation at Chester, for the originality and solidity of his style of preaching, by which his hearers are reminded of the good old divines of former days. We trust that his efforts on the present occasion will be crowned with abundant success. SUICIDE BY A LUNATIC.—On new year's day last, a young female named Fanny M'Cormick, aged 25, who had been placed as a pauper in the West Derby Workhouse, was found to be so thoroughly insane, that it was found necessary to place her under restraint, and she was ulti mately removed to the pauper asylum at Rainhill. She belonged to Toxteth-park, and, according to the report of the medical men, she was stated to be " dangerous to others but not to herself." This medical report, however, has not proved correct, for on Wednesday afternoon she abstracted one of the bones from her stays and thrust it so far down her throat as to cause strangulation and death. She must have used considerable violence in per petrating the act. THE LIVERPOOL HORSE FAIR.—The new Liverpool horse fair, which is to be held henceforth every fortnight at the spacious Haymarket, in Great Homer-street, opened on Wednesday with so much spirit and success as to ensure for this new branch of business permanent and benificial results. The Corporation will reap the advan tage of the tolls without one shilling of outlay. Though the very unfavourable state of the weather on Wednesday undoubtedly kept many farmers, and others at a distance, within their homesteads, yet the attendance was, on the whole, exceedingly good. Upwards of 160 horses were shown, and many of them were sold for good prices. The first sale i i the new fair was made by Mr. Towers, of Knotty Ash, who took into the market the first lot of eight very nice horses, and sold one immediately. The horses shown were chiefly hacks, cab, and gig horses, horses for agricultural purposes, a few fine draught horses, and one or two hunters. The institution of the fair has not yet had any very extensive publicity. In Ireland its existence is, as yet, unknown. The Irish horses have hitherto been chiefly taken to Wolverhampton ; but when the Liverpool fair is fully established there is every reason to believe that it will be the great mart for the sale of Irish horses, and, indeed, for those of all the populous surrounding districts. The toll is twopence. The fair and the adjacent avenues presented a scene of unusual bustle. THE POLISH AND HUNGARIAN REFUGEES.—On Tues •day the great body of the Polish refugees refused to pro ceed to America, as it was originally understood they in tended to do. About forty only consented to go, and of those nine are Hungarians. In consequence of this refusal on the part of the majority, the authorities declined to be any longer liable for their support, and the result was, that on Tuesday evening they left Mr. Sabel's establish ment, in Moorfields, and took up their quarters in an un occupied soapery. in Oriel-street. When the refugees arrived at this place, not the slightest preparation had been made for their reception ; and the unfortunate fellows would have been obliged to sleep on the boards had not some humane individual procured two loads of straw, which served them as a bed. Their only covering, how ever, is their clothes, and the mats or rugs which they brought from Constantinople. As it would be altogether impossible to prepare food for such a number of men in a building totally devoid of the conveniences of cooking, a small sum of money has been given daily to each man since Wednesday morning, upon which he must manage as he best can. They all complain bitterly of the cold, but comfort themselves with the reflection that liberty is pre ferable to a Turkish prison. A project is on foot to have a theatrical performance for the benefit of the refugees. Under all the circumstances, we think it a pity these men did not accept the offer made to send them to America. They are already suffering from the ill-advised course which they have been induced to adopt by remaining in this country. DISPUTED POSSESSION OF A PUBLIC-HOUSE.-011 Thursday a jury sat at the Sessions'-house, Chapel-street, for the purpose of assessing the damages in a cause tried at the Borough Court, in which the defendants had allowed judgment to go by default. The court was pre sided over by Mr. Francis Venn, the deputy assessor. The plaintiff was Matthew Major, and the defendants, Thos. Foster, Robinson Rooney, John Dowd, and Mar garet Dowd, his wife, and William Bannister. The action charged the defendants with breaking into and entering the plaintiff's house, damaging the walls, breaking win dows, assaulting the plaintiff and his wife, and commit ting other illegal acts. The dispute arose respecting the possession of a public-house in Richmond-row, originally leased by Bannister from Thomas Royd, a brewer, and subsequently transferred to various other persons, to de feat the bailiffs, until the premises came at length into the possession of the plaintiff. On the night of the 24th May, a large body of men came to the house and de manded the occupants to quit. This was refused, upon which the men turned Mr. and Mrs. Major into the street by force, assaulted them, and committed other deeds of violence. The men who took possession, comprising nearly thirty, were employed by Rooney, Foster and Wil liam Bannister. The police were called upon, but de clined to interfere. The only remedy was to obtain possession by a superior force. A number of men, amounting to more than fifty, were then organised, and on proceeding to the premises an entry was obtained. Some fighting took place, and considerable damage was done to the furniture in the house, but, ultimately, the parties in possession were obliged to give way to the superior force brought against them, and accordingly they retreated. Several of the combatants received severe wounds in the contest. The deputy assessor briefly called the attention of the jury to the leading features of the case, and, after a few minutes' consultation, they agreed to assess the damages at £7O. RAGGED SCHOOLS, NAYLOIL-STREET.—These schools are open on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday evenings, from seven to nine. The present average attendance is 160 boys and 130 girls, under the management of two paid superintendents, (male and female), and two paid assistants, whose aggregate salaries amount to the very moderate sum of £33 ss. ; and five male and three female teachers also attend voluntarily. Writing, reading, Bible reading, and arithmetic are taught each night, and the instruction closes with the committing of a Scripture text to memory, and with prayer. The entire expenditure of the schools, according to the last report, is only £45, which is raised by subscriptions, donations, and a £lO grant from the Union Society. The use of the cane is allowed to the teachers generally; but we would venture to suggest, if its continuance be thought indispensable, that it should be reserved exclusively to the discretion of the superintendent, and only administered rarely, and by way of solemn example. Though the attendance of children is so large, " I am grieved to say," remarks our visiter, " that very few of the faces I have seen in those back streets could I recognise in the school." May we hope that some extra means will be taken to induce those wretched characters to avail themselves of the blessings provided expressly for them. The present incumbent of St. Bartholomew's is not a whit behind his predecessor in anxiety for the salvation of the souls of these (so called) outcasts, and in prayerful determination to perse vere, though amid many difficulties—that even of obtain ing the paltry sum required to carry on the mere machi nery not being the least. A proper supply of voluntary teachers is also wanting; yet, there should be in the con gregation of that church many, both men and women, who know the preciousness of Christ, and who should feel delight in making known the riches of his grace to their poor, perishing fellow-sinners. According to the report of the superintendent, much good is doing ; and as he is also the Scripture reader of the district, he has many opportunities of seeing and hearing the result of the school labours, not only in respect of the children, but their parents also. He states many pleasing instances of mental exertion in overcoming the difficulties of arithme tic, and in committing portions of Scripture to memory. May we hope that there may soon be on record cases of higher and more important improvement, and that they who now sow in faith in these ragged schools, fainting not. may reap a rich harvest of Scripture blessings on the children and on themselves. MILNER'S SAFE WORKS.—The success of Mr. Milner in his manufacture has been marked. He has made nearly twenty-five thousand safes, and is going on with his work in an increasing ratio. In one solicitor's office in Manchester alone there are upwards of three hundred of Milner's boxes. And not only in this locality, but throughout the entire civilized world are these boxes in use, and their merits acknowledged. It will appear evi dent that the patentee will feel anxious to maintain his reputation, and to do so will send out every article fully entitled to public confidence, from the excellence of the workmanship and the faithfulness of the fire-protecting and thief-resisting materials. And having on his part kept these conditions, he will merit the enlarged sup port which so useful a discovery deserves to attain. We have had an opportunity of inspecting a series of twelve safes now preparing by Mr. Milner for the Great Exhibition, which are really worth attention. They begin with a safe of the smallest size, and go up to the largest, and consist of half-inch wrought iron plates externally, as all the strongest class of holdfast safes do. The first specimen to be submitted is a safe called No. 1, which will consist of the sides only, put together in the first operation, to sEow the mode of dovetailing the iron i plates. A safe of this size will also be shown in a finished state. The safe No. 2 will advance a step on the skeleton of the first one, and will show the inside of the lock, the mode of fastening the hinges, and the dog bolts. This safe will not contain the fire-proof inside, but a finished safe of the same class will be laid beside it. The whole of the succeeding specimens will be in a finished state, and will include a double banker's safe, which will doubt less attract the attention of parties who have portable articles of value to preserve. The whole of theexhibition safes are fire and thief proof. The strength is equal throughout ; and whether the safe be large or small, it would equally resist the fire or the burglar. The two largest of these safes are peculiarly interesting, as show ing the immense strength of the material and workman ship. They consist of a single and double doored safe-- the former 5 feet 6 inches high, 3 feet wide, and 2 feet 6 inches deep ; and the latter 6 feet high, 5 feet wide, and 2 feet 6 inches deep. The safe with the single door will weigh about 35 cwt., and the other safe about 3 tons. As we have stated, these safes consist externally of iron plates, half an inch thick, dovetailed together, and they are made stronger at the edges by means of iron bars of equal thickness riveted all round the inside. It must be understood that the whole of the iron is wrought.— Courier. TAKE HOLLOWAY'S PILLS IN CASES OF DERANGED HEALTH, OR IMPURITY OF THE BLOOD.—This inestima ble medicine is a superior remedy in all cases of-Wetermi nation of blood to the head. benumbed feeling in the limbs, impaired health, impurity of the blood, drowsiness, swimming in the head, disordered stomach, loss of appe tite, bad digestion, and - debilitated cons tit u ti on . Th e number of persons cured in this way by Holloway's Pills is incredible, and.lgho for years had been sufferers, and had failed to get relief by medicine prescribed by the first doctors iiefhe profession. A steady course of these Pills will rosfore the most weakly to a vigorous state of heal*. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Reformation. Mr. Lowe concluded his brief remarks by introducing to the meeting The Rev. THOMAS ATKINSON. one of the deputation. The rev. gentleman proceeded to address the meeting on the object of his mission ' • and, after some introductory remarks, proceeded to state the following facts :—Doon, he said, was in the district stretching from Tipperary into Limerick, and throughout that extensive country there were at this moment about 800 persons of all ages, who have renounced popery ; and there were hundreds of others who were convince of the doctrinal errors of that system, but who feared to come forward and avow their real opinion ; but he hoped, if the ministers of the Gospel in that country were true to their trust, ere long the whole population would be protestant. (Hear, hear.) The rev. gentleman then went on to describe the former state of this district, which was entirely under the dom inion of the priests, and was wholly Roman Catholic. The Bible, however, was now widely circulated, and this was effected with the approbation of a Roman Catholic priest. He (Mr. A.) would not assign motives for this conduct, but the simple fact was that a priest had done more than any other person could have done for the spread of the Bible. Some persons had been found willing to act as Irish teachers, and were engaged by the Irish Society, and furnished with the usual books ; .but, before commencing operations, they brought the books to the priest for his approbation. He examined them, returned them after the lapse of a few days, observing, " There is nothing wrong in these books, and I see no harm in a poor man earninc , an honest penny." Now, among those books were the Holy Scriptures in the Irish language, and thus this Romish priest gave currency to that book which is accomplishing the overthrow of the Papal system. (Hear, hear). The sincerity of the converts had been doubted ; but he believed them to be perfectly sincere, for the entire character of these persons had undergone a change. It was said that they had thieves and cri minals of every description amongst them, but those charges were ell untrue. He (Mr. Atkinson) had him self visited more than twenty converts laid up by fever, but , in no single case had he ever seen any looking back to Rome. The reverend speaker proceeded to inform the meeting on the subject of the persecution which was practised : if the convert were a labouring man, he lost his employment; if he belonged to , the farming class, he was immediately pounced upon by his creditors. He (Mr. A). was happy to say that some friends had come forward, and at theirown expense had procured employment for some, and in cases of sickness supplied funds for their relief; but such was the blind fury of the Roman Catholics that positively the shopkeepers refused to supply the con verts with provisions, even though they offered money in payment. But this was not all. Himself and his con gregation were assaulted on the Sabbath, as they left the place in which they worshipped, and finally they were obliged to obtain the protection of the police. On one occasion he had writ ten to Sir T. Redington, in reference to these Sunday persecutions. He stated to the Secre tary that a Protestant lady, returning home from Church in her car, found the road stopped by a wall of stone, which had been thrown up across the highway. The truth of this statement had been impugned, and Mr. A. pro duced a letter from the lady referred to, confirming in every particular the statement he had made to the Irish secretary. The lady, on another occasion, was assaulted opposite the priest's house. Mr. A. here alluded to the police investigation in reference to these persecutions, several extracts from which he read ; and from these it appeared that in some measure the strong arm of the law had restrained the persecution. But the snake was scotched, not killed ; their people were deprived of the means of obtaining a livelihood, and he appealed to the sympathy of England to come forward in her strength to the assistance of Ireland, which was the battle-ground in the Protestant cause. The Rev. W. A. DARBY, curate of Cappamore, Mr. Atkinson's colleague, followed. He commenced by read ing a letter, written by the Bishop of Cashel, who stated his conviction that the conversions already made in Ire land were to be attributed to the circulation of the Scrip tures in the vernacular. In corroboration of this, Mr. Darby also quoted a passage from Bishop Berkeley's well-known queries, one of which is, whether any people were ever converted to the belief in God and Christianity, except by means of the Word of God, written in their native tongue ? The rev. gentleman then went on to demonstrate this position by copious references to the Old and New Testaments. He considered that a great mis take had been made in adopting the policy of Anglocising Ireland, and in this respect regretted the course taken by Elizabeth, who entertained a strong antipathy to the Trish language, having on one occasion, when it was spoken in her presence, exclaimed that such a language was only fit to be barked by dogs. She, however, lived to alter her opinion, and before the close of her reign a fount of type of the Irish letters was sent over from England. This fell into other hands, and was never used for its intended purpose. Subsequently translations of the Scriptures had been made, but as they remained in MS. for eighty years, they were in fact useless. The rev. gentleman went on to shew that the diffusion of the Irish Bible had led to the universal reading of the English one, and be illustrated the happy effects in a social sense, which had resulted from the spread of the Scriptures in the native tongue ; in the district from which he came, not one in twenty now but could read in English. Referring to the part taken by the priests in reference to the operations of the Irish Society, he said the priest of the parish, who had been one of the most violent opponents of the circu lation of the Bible, in a conversation with him (Mr. D.) a short time ago, said—" If you will undertake to sup ply me with copies of the Douay Bible, I pledge myself to circulate them in my parish." He (Mr. D.) assented, and was then engaged inputting the pro ject into operation. (Hear.) But he would inform the meeting as to the true reason of the priest's re laxation. He found the people would read the Scriptures ; and he thought that by this means he could modify the effect. Mr. Darby went into details of the system of persecution pursued by the Papists, not only against the converts, but the clergy and scripture readers. One man, when before the magistrates for taking part in one of these attacks, said he thought it was no harm to molest the converts (calling them by an Irish word which signifies spotted cat), as his priest had stated as much from the altar. In one case a convert having on the Sunday given notice of his conversion, the priest pur sued him from the chapel, and, as old Butler would have said,— " proved his doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks." The best evidence he (Mr. D.) could adduce of the good results of their efforts was to quote the remarks of the Crown prosecutor of Munster, made a short time ago. These were to the effect that whereas a few years ago the majority of the criminals at the assizes came from the district referred to, since this work of reformation had commenced there have been comparatively few persons charged with outrage or crime. The social change in the manners and morals of the people of the entire district he considered nothing less than wonderful. The subsequent proceedings were of a routine character. &attire aiib Ontintittire. MR. HENRY DEACON'S THIRD PAPER ON THE MANtr- FACTURE OF GLASS, We have now arrived at that stage in the process when the blow-pipe is loaded with metal, and is ready for the blower. The load or piece having passed into the hands of the blower, he re-heats it through an aperture in a re verberatory furnace, called the " pat'eson hole," the de rivation of which name is unknown to me. As soon as sufficiently heated, the man carries the piece to the " blower's marver," similar in every way to the " ga therer's marver," and having hung the piece downwards in its passage, it elongates and takes a pear-shape. The point is straightened upon the marver, and then resting the pipe upon the edge of it, the piece prosecting beyond, he rolls it to and fro, gently and gradually blows down the pipe and swells the piece to the form of a spindle, the point now taking much more of the " bullion" shape. It must be borne in mind that the hottest and consequently the softest portions of the piece expand most when blown out, and that the thickest portions keep hot the longest, and in re-heating, the thinnest parts are soonest heated. It can then be conceived, how by waiting until it is some what cooled, or by blowing most at fast ; how by hanging down and drawing out, or keeping up, and running in; and how by clever management of the rotation of the pipe, centrifugal force may or may not be brought into play ;—I say it can be conceived how by these and similar means an adroit workman regulates the thickness of va rious parts of his piece. Having secured the/shape and proportionate thickness, the blower re-heats it in the pattoson hole, and on withdrawing it, it is blown out into a globular form. The pipe is supported on an iron stake, with a broad notch at the top, and the point is pressed into a recess at the end of an iron rod, called the " bul lion socket," and held by a lad in a low iron fork. The bullion socket cools, and prevents the expansion of the little button at the end; and it also supports the end or bottom of the piece against the breath, allowing the workman to complete the top, or shoulder, without mak ing the bottom too thin. From the bullion socket the blower proceeds to the " buttoning hole," a furnace similar to the patteson hole, but of much larger dimen sions. The piece is twice re-heated in this furnace, and blown out each thee, taking the shape of a globe, thinner at one pole than the other. A third heat is now taken, and the pipe being turned round rapidly, a well-known result ensues ; the globe is enlarged at the equator, and flattened at the thin soft pole, and being immediately taken from the furnace, it has the shape of a very much compressed sphere. It is laid across a box containing soft ashes, and an iron rod or punty having been heated at the end, and the point dipped in some metal, is brought by an attendant and stuck to the bullion, the hot metal and piece firmly uniting. A short iron rod, dipped in water, is applied to the neck, and causes various small cracks ; a blow on the pipe with a wooden mallet breaks the neck at that spot, and separates the piece from the pipe, leaving an opening about 2 inches diameter. The blower marks his number with chalk near the bullion, each man being paid for the number of good tables he makes, and his work upon the piece is ended. The " punty sticker" lifts it up by the punty, and carries it to the " nose hole," a very small but intensely-heated re verberatory furnace, with a small circular aperture. Here the neck, broken from the pipe and comparatively cold, is re-heated, and is then rolled upon a board to round off its sharp edges, and the piece is delivered to the " pie ce opener" at the " flashing furnace," another reverbera tory furnace, of very large dimensions, very hot and full of flaming fuel, with a large circular aperture at the side, through which the whole piece is re-heated. It is now turned more rapidly, the first effect of the centrifugal force thus acquired being to flatten the other pole of the globe. The rotation being continued and increased, and the glass more softened by the heat, the hole expands, and at length turns outwards. The turning is now care fully managed and maintained, for the glass is nearly melting ; the piece continues to turn, at it were, inside out, rthe hole becomes larger, and the flange broader. This opening continuing to the utmost, at length it is I'4o tido a Sit circuit !plate, and is taken from the flashing furnace to the kiln ; this duty being that per, Leen sober. Mr. Rushton committed all five pris erg; formed by Henzel, the gentleman g lass-m a k er p rev io u sly remar ki ng th at receivers were t h e prime instigators to alluded to. The " carrier off" has a gauntlet ingeniously crime : he would consider whether bail should be accepted contrived of sheet tin and felt. to protect his hand from for Mercer. the heat, and in the hollow or bend of it is a brass bear- A BRUTE.—A seaman named William Connor entered ing, well oiled, in which the punty freely runs ; the revo- the witness-box to prefer a charge of assault against ano lution of the piece is thus continued by its own impetus, ther sailor. The complainant presented a most frightful as the man walks along, until it has cooled and stiffened appearance; the complication of bandages in which his so much as not to bend. At the kiln-mouth is a conical face was enveloped had the effect of a mask, from which block of wood with << a few ashes upon th e t o p, ca ll e d a th e eyes, nose, and mouth alone protruded. From the " whimsey;" as the "carrier off" comes with the finished statements of Constable 739 and a person named Glenalt piece towards the kiln, the assistant, or " si s t er ," as h e i s it appeare d that the prisoner, whose name is Henry Van sometimes called, lays a large two-pronged fork, or way, is an American seaman. About seven o'clock on " horns," across the whimsey. The carrier-off then Sunday evening the two men were quarrelling in Bath. rests the bullion upon it, the table being nearly horizontal, street, on the subject of their respective abilities as sea and the kilnman detaches the punty with a pair of shears. men. The American, who had evidently indulged rather The assistant immediately lifts up. the horns, with the freely in the bottle, wanted to fight ; but Connor, who table resting flat upon them, and passes them through a was quite sober, declined. High words ensued, and ulti long narrow opening into the kiln, where it is reared up mately the American attacked the other man ; a struggle and " piled" upon its edge by the kilnn.an. There are t oo k p l ace, when Connor was thrown down. Vanway two piles in the kiln, and the tables are piled alter- threw himself upon his prostrate antagonist, and the strug nately to each. The first rest against the back wall of gle continued, when Connor uttered a shriek, as if suffering the kiln ; but after about 20 or 30 are together, a intense anguish ; the bystanders immediately separated 't drosser" is put up : this implement consists of an iron the combatants, when, horrible to relate, it was found frame, with a projection at right angles from one end. It that the American had bitten off about the half of the is reared up near the glass, but not touching it, and the upper lip of his miserable victim. Constable 739, who projection passes over the top of the tables and rests was called on, pursued the cannibal into Denison-street, against the wall. After another score or so of tables have where he captured him, with the mangled flesh and blood been piled, another drosser is reared up, the projection of poor Connor adhering to his teeth. The injured man also passing over the top of the tables, and resting against was conveyed to the Northern Hospital, where his wounds the first drosser, and so on until the pile is completed and were dressed by Mr. Ward, one of the surgeons. The divided into five or six sections. Any accident happening poor fellow was scarcely able to articulate in reply to the between two drossers is confined to that division of the magistrate, who committed the prisoner for trial. pile, and further mischief is prevented. The kilns hold about 350 to 400 tables each, the men work from 14 to 16 hours, without any interval ; but there are four workmen to a set, and only three are engaged at once, so each man rests, at short intervals, one-third the time he works. Each time of working is called a journey ; they seldom make less than 600, an often 750 to 800 tables a journey ; and three journies a week. There are seven pieces in hand, in various states of progress, at one time. With all the men, 45 tables are completed in the hour, each piece tak ing a little more than nine minutes, but the number at work at once brings up the quantity per hour. The glass is allowed 48 to 60 hours for annealing ; it is then taken from the kiln, and cut in two by a straight line a few inches from the bullion. The half-tables are either packed in crates for sale, or cut into squares to order; in either case, the article itself, and the use of the diamond, are too well known to need comment IRELAND AND FREE TRADE, The Roman Catholic members for Treland are just now n a dreadful fume against their former allies, the Whigs, on account of the measure directed by them against Papal aggression ; and are ready to move heaven and earth to drive them from office. It is a pity that these great patriots never thought of considering what would be the calamitous result to their country of the free -trade mea sures, which their own insane support of the Whig party in years past enabled them to carry, and to which that coun try has been the first to fall a victim. The substantial good of Ireland, however, has always been in the eyes of these men a secondary consideration. To swell the power of the Romish Church in that country has been the first. For this she has been kept for the last half-century in a fever of agitation ; and her wretched population have been made to drain the bitter cup of poverty to the very dregs. Until within the last ten or fifteen years, Ireland was an exporter of food to Great Britain and to her colonial and other markets. Her agriculture was her great main stay. She had prosperous farmers, a well-paid rental, and flourishing manufactures. Her agriculturists are now rapidly sinking into pauperism ; and, with a popula tion idling in her towns and villages, or fed in her work houses. with her fields half cultivated, and her mills and workshops tenantless, she has become abjectly dependent upon the foreigner for bread, and occasionally upon the charity of Great Britain to snatch her from the horrors of famine. In 1849, she imported from foreign countries 2,115,129 quarters of grain, and 616,157 quarters from. Great Britain. She imported 256,827 cwts. of foreign flour and meal, and 338,650 cwts. • ~qqf British,—in all 2,731,286 quarters of grain and 595,487"cwt5. of flour and meal. Her imports in 1850 were 2,202,423 quarters of grain, and 570,395 cwts. of flour and meal. In 1849 she supplied the ports of Liverpool and London with 801 tons of bacon and hams, and in 1850 with 826 tons. She was, however, compelled to import from Liverpool, in 1850, 3996 tons of foreign hams and bacon. In fact, we learn from Mr. Braithwaite Poole's Statistics of British com merce, that whilst forwarding herlive pigs and her first qua lity of cured meats to this country, " nearly all the low qualities of American bacon imported are now consumed in Ireland, Dublin being by far the largest market." Her butter, lard, and pork trades are similarly declining in importance, whilst the imports of foreign to this country are largely increasing. If the gentlemen who now boast of their power to in terrupt the entire legislative business of Great Britain, and declare their intention to harass by every means in their power their former allies, the Whigs, would devote a little more attention to the real causes which are rapidly plunging their country into misery and pauperism, they would better earn the respect of the world and a character for genuine patriotism. HOW TO IMPOVEttISH A COUNTRY, A few years ago our attention was continually directed to the fact, as accounting for the then existing commercial depression, that the community was hampered by a con tinual drain of money for railways. So far as that ditfi- culty was concerned, we contended that it was only tern. porary, and of partial prevalence. The money was being spent amongst our own working classes, employing some hundreds of thousands of adult labourers, and being circulated through the hands of the retail traders through. out the kingdom, to find its way back at length to the manufacturer, the merchant, and the importer. The railways are now nearly completed. They constitute a vast property, in which the nation has invested its accu mulated earnings, and the greater part of which is afford ing an adequate return. We have, however, a drain upon the nation's resources going on just now from year to year, the tendency of which must, before long, occupy the serious consideration of our statesmen. From a return of the Board of Trade for the month ended the sth inst., we find that we have imported from foreign countries 512,446 quarters of grain of all kinds, and 446,505 cwt. of flour and meal of all kinds. We have taken the trouble of extending the various items in this return at the cur rent prices of the day, and the result is a total of a million sterling as the cost of one month's supply of grain, and this, too, at a period of unprecedented cheapness! We are throwing into the hands of the foreign agriculturists te-t or twelve millions a year, to be returned to us—when ? He will be a very clever man who can tell us. Unlike our railway expenditure, these millions are not employing labour, and creating a remunerative property in our own country. They are not giving an impulse to industry throughout the length and breadth of the British empire, and leaving behind them profits in every hand through which they circulate. It is an annual destruction which is goingon of the national capital ; a diversion of its fertilizing stream from Great Britain to the plainsof Polandand Germany, and the prairies of the United States; an abstraction of the means of subsistence and comfort from the farmsteads and the cottages of British subjects, to be bestowed upon the serfs of the foreign landowners, to feed the revolutionary spirit which is disturbing the world, or to be dissipated in the capitals of Europe. _ We are well 'aware it will be urged by our politico economical philosophers, that we shall ultimately receive back this money in remittance for the increased supply of manufactures which the foreigner will be enabled to take from us. But there is a serious fallacy in the argument. We are taking from the foreigner labour alone, or, what is the same thing, the produce of his soil combined with labour. He will take from us in return, provided he is even disposed to take anything like the same money amount, which we more than doubt, articles of which a small portion only is labour, and the bulk a foreign raw material. An order this month for manufactured goods to the amount of a million sterling, in return for the million's worth of grain imported last month, would in spire joy unbounded in the breasts of the Manchester millocracy, and afford the text for loud congratulations in Downing-street ; but the transaction would be a Flemish one to the nation nevertheless. We shall give a pro forma statement of the little account ba. John Bull to the Foreign Agriculturist per contra CR. 1851, March 5. For grain to this date .. £1,000,000 „ ~ Bycotton yarn and ca- £1,000,000 £1,000,000 £1,000,000 The account would appear to be balanced ; but there would have to be paid a little item of John Bull's indebt edness to Jonathan " For cotton supplied up to date," say.... £500,000, which would impart a much less satisfactory colour to the transaction. It cannot be denied that nations, like individuals, im pinge upon their capital, and most be regarded as impro vident, to the extent to which they buy from others what, by a proper use of their energies and industry, they could produce for themselves ; and high as the position of Great Britain is as a commercial country, an addition of ten or twelve millions a year to the debit side of its ledger is no light matter. Many a tradesman has found himself in the Gazette as the result of inattention to a circum stance so significant. " THE BEGGAR'S PETITION."—The authorship of this little poem has at times excited a good deal of attention. It has been attributed, on no very sufficient grounds, to Dr. Joshua Webster, M.D. ; but from the Gentleman': e i s only — r 20 copies o Magazine, vol. lxx., p. 41. it appears that it is the entire hpriloldaund Trentham, ctionoftheße Staffordshire, in e T a h t oo o mn n ad s si a t n io d on s, friends. —From t hati who minister dn wro t e s te r F o i tofmat Bi ev.rl y as about the age of 23. He sold the manuscript of that, and of se veral other, to Mr. Smart, printer, in Wolverha m pt on , who, from the dread which Mr. Moss had of criti c i sm , was abstOhneoidnpu,Quldpbuhrleiearssvhieeenst.htheiecismntoaomhniestirii anne x ed c to them, fo r th e purpose of WELBECK ABBEY.—TO the left we see extensive ken nels, the care and amus emen t o f L ord Henry Bentinck, v ble who is zealously dev o t e d to f ox-hunting : the eldest bro ther, th eeT t 3 l ll oe a ti i I g ne i la y s ' s e ea n l tf i t n o r) at t hn h e e . a t a n t l i u o s n e s m . n e fi m ei s m l i ( ) I l s o yoosrr morn reclamation of waste land, irrigation of meadows, adjust ment of rents to changing c;rcurnstances, and occasionally in issuing injunctions to tenants, that, whatever they do, let them not reduce working men's wages—these have been 1-Is. and 13s. a-week—let them continue ;so says the Duke of Portland. Differently engaged from her brothers is Lady Mary Bentinck. We may see her one horsed carriage and two men-servants at any one of the several villages or towns within ten miles, to which the Duke's estates extend ; a box in th e carriage to carry goods, books, comforts, and condiments for the poor—one servant to keep by the carriage, the other to assist her. It is her every-day employment to visit the numerous schools which she has established, to read to the young, and hear them read ; to give them rewards ; to visit the sick and needy, and raise them out of sickness and need as far as she can. She c an do much, and does it. God bless Lady Mary Bentinck, and all who are like her ! such is the aspiration of many a grateful heart.—Corre spondent of the Daily Netts. LOCAL MEETINGS. The Roman Catholics had a numerous meeting at the Amphitheatre on Wednesday. There were between 3,000 and 4,000 persons present, the great majority of whom belonged to the labouring classes. The assemblage was most disorderly and uproarious on several occasions, and some Protestants were roughly ejected, amidst the great est contusion and alarm. The principal speakers were the chairman (Mr. Weld' Blundell), Mr. John Rosson, and Mr. Aspinall, barrister. MECHANICS' INsTlrtrnoN.—The annual meeting of this institution was held on Wednesday, Mr. T. S. Black burne, the president, in the chair. From the report, which was read by the secretary, Mr. Nichol, it appeared that the institution is at this time in a more efficient and vigorous condition than at any former period of its history. The lectures and the annual subscriptions have caused some loss, but all the schools have been better attended than they formerly were, and are at present progressing most satisfactorily. The Chairman movedithe adoption of the report, and dwelt at considerable length upon the ad vantages of the institution, remarking that, for a subscrip tion of half a guinea a-year, access could be had to a library counting 15,000. volumes. Mr. Alfred Lafone seconded the motion, which was carried • and on the mo tion of Mr. Spencer, seconded by Mr:Murphy, thanks were voted to the ladies and gentlemen who had presented donations during the past year. Thanks were then voted to the directors, on the motion of Mr. Aikin. seconded by Mr. Parkinson • after which Mr. George Holt moved a resolution than king the teachers of the school. This was carried unanimously. _ WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—At the weekly meeting on Wednesday, a long discussion took place on the sub ject of certain alleged irregularities on the part of Mr. Allen, one of the relieving officers. It was ultimately ar ranged that the charges brought forward should be fully investigated at the next meeting of the board.—The Vi siting Committee's report contained several charges of impropriety against Mr. Reed, the schoolmaster, relative to his being absent from the house during the time of duty, a neglect of the cleanliness of his pupils, &c. Mr. Reed entered into a lengthy explanation, but the investi gation terminated by a vote of censure being passed upon Mr. Reed. The same committee also urged complaints against Miss Hartley, the schoolmistress, and Miss Corn, the mistress of the infant school, principally to the effect of neglecting to commence the duties of the school at the proper hour in the morning. Miss Hartley, who is in declining health, assigned this an apology, and said that she had come to the determination of resigning her situa tion, an.l she handed to the chairman her formal resigna tion. The board accepted it, and expressed deep sym pathy for Miss Hartley. Miss Corn received a gentle rebuke, with advice for her future conduct. PROPOSED NEW CHURCH AT WEST DERBY.—A spe sial vestry meeting was held on Wednesday last, in the parish church at West Derby, to consider the propriety of adopting a rate in aid of the fund for building the pro posed new church. The present church at West Derby is small, inconveniently situated, and altogether ill adapted for the accommodation of the inhabitants in the neigh bourhood who belong to the Church of England. By a spirited and voluntary offer on the part of the gentlemen in the neighbourhood, £7OOO were subscribed towards the erection of a more commodious edifice ; and the Earl of Sefton, with his characteristic liberality, offered a site of four acres for the church and burial-ground. The estimated cost of the building and burying ground, how ever, is £30,000 ; and the proposal made at the vestry meeting, on Wednesday, was to sell to the ratepayers a portion of the land which had been so given, and to levy a church rate on the parishioners to pay for the land—the money so raised to go towards the erection of the church. The rector of the parish, the Rev. John Stewart, was in the chair. A resolution in favour of the measure being proposed by Mr. Horsfall, Mr. William Hardie moved an amendment denying that there was a want of accommo dation. A long discussion ensued, and, on a division taking place, the amendment was declared to be carried by a large majority. Mr. Charles Robertson then moved " That it is inexpedient that any rate be levied for the erection or enlargement of any church in West Derby." This was also carried by a large majority. The Rev. An drew M'Conkey, a clergyman of the established church, having opposed the imposition of a rate under such cir cumstances, a poll was then demanded, to take place in the Board-room in Town-row. Mr. Hardie pleaded for Low-hill as the place of polling, as, being more conveni ent for the bulk of the voters, but to this the rector would not assent. The polling commenced on Thursday, and closed on Friday evening. The poll exhibited a majority of 136 for the opponents of the rate. _ _ HEALTH COMMITTEE. — At the weekly meeting on Thursday, Mr. Lloyd, in the absence of Mr. Parker, took the chair.—A reply from Mr. Bradley, surgeon, to the communication of the secretary to the committee, Mr. Hughes, in relation to the case , of a poor woman, who, Mr. Bradley had complained, has been the victim of injustice in regard to the collection of rates, was read. The letter was ordered to be placed upon the proceedings. —Mr. Fresh, the inspector, reported the cleansing of 1110 cesspools during the week, and the issue of 633 midden notes to persons whose middens had to be emptied ; on 140 nuisances complained of by inhabitants, and the re ference of 84 others to the borough engineer for remedy by drainage; with various other statistical details of the operations of his staff; including a re-examination of 1587 cellars, formerly cleared of inmates, in the lower parts of the town ; shewing that 1013 were empty, 273 claimed as under the late act, 242 found occupied, but without beds, and 31 with beds, in evasion of the law, but which would be again cleared. The manure wharves were reported to be clear of deposits of nightsoil.—The weekly report of the building surveyor was also read.—On a re ference to the proceedings of the Council of the previous day, some conversation took place as to the desirability of removing the baths from the St. George's Pier altogether, in order that this site might be rendered available for dock purposes; the general opinion, however, seemed to be, that the increased dock accommodation would not outweigh the combined advantages which the present site would afford to the baths. The medical officer reported that the deaths during the week in the borough ware 239, being 16 more than had occurred during the previous week, and 33 more than the average of the same week during the three preceding years. The increase in the mortality had been caused by disease of the lungs, which had occasioned 96 deaths—a greater number than had taken place in any week since the month of April, 1849, with one exception. Zymotic diseases had caused 53 deaths.—The miscellaneous business comprised recom mendations to repair, pave, &c., several streets, which generally were adopted. The construction of severe drains also was ordered. TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS The Mayor (John Bent, Esq.) presided at the adjourned meeting on Wednesday. The Markets Committee's report went to show that as yet no definite site had been obtained for the aepOt for slaughtering cattle ; the Chairman (Mr. Cooper), however, intimated that an arrangement was likely to be effected with the dock trustees. The Town-hall Establishment Committee recommended the payment of £5O per annum to Mr. Houlton, sword-bearer, for the charge of the wine, &c., at the Mayor's entertainments ; and the appointment of Thos. Poole as porter at the Sessions house, at a salary of £1 is. per week, in lieu of Thos. Smith, deceased. Some discussion ensued upon the former recom mendation, but ultimately it was carried. The proc'eedinn of the Health Committee comprised a repo r t on the Pierhead 'baths (which has already been made public), with a recommendation to re-construct the same; a recom mendation for the withdrawal of the Sanatory Amendment Bill for the present session; and a recommendation to appoint Mr. Wm. Culshaw to assess the new property erected within the borough since the last year's poor-rates. The report relating to the Pierhead baths was referred back to the committee, with the understanding that a conference take place between the Dock, Health, and Finance Committees, in reference to the subject, and the advisability of removing the baths altogether from their present site, in order that the whole of the space might be devoted to docks. The Water Committee's report, which stated that the result of three years showed a balance of upwards of 4%00 at the disposal of the committee, was read, 111 r. Holt, the chairman, remarking that the works were generally in a satisfactory con dition. Mr. Gregson was elected a member of the Water Com mittee, vice Mr. Bennett ; and Mr. Picton, who had retired on a former occasion from the committee, was induced to resume his seat. The reports of the Church Expenditure and Observatory Committees being passed, that of the Library and Museum Committee was read. The Council went into committee for the discussion of the bill now before parliament, for the trans fer of the Museum and Library of the Royal Institution to the Corporation. The clauses as far as the 11th were gone through, the only alteration of importance being the exclusion (in the 9th clause) of associate members of the Liverpool Academy from a share in the direction of financial affairs. The remaining proceedings comprised the reception of the report of the Car and Coaches Committee; the appointment of Mr. Wm. Nicholson as a member of the committee, in the place of Mr. Dover, who is retiring; the rejection of a motion by Mr. Henderson for a committee of inquiry into the expenses of parliamentary applications, and the postponement of a mo tion by Mr. Picton relative to juvenile vagrancy. POPERY IN IRELAND.-MEETING AT Till CONCERT-HALL A meeting was held, at the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson street, on Friday evening, for the purpose of receiving a deputation of clergymen from Ireland, who have come to Liverpool with a view to solicit support in carrying on the work of the Reformation in Ireland. The body of the hall was thrown open to the public; the admission to the gallery was by ticket, purchasable. The body was densely crowded, and the gallery was respectably filled. On the platform were the Rev. Josiah B. Lowe, incumbent of St. Jude's, the Rev. Henry Carpenter, of St. Michael's, the Rev. S. Minton, the Rev. Thomas Atkinson. P re b en d ary of Doon, the Rev. W. A. Darby, the Rev. Edwd. Carre, the Rev. Robt. Fiabbourne, &c. &c. The Rev. J. B. Lowe, the chairman, called upon the Rev. S. Minton to offer up a prayer ; after which he ad dressed the meeting to the following effect :—He com menced by reading a letter from the Rev. C. W. Law rence, tho incumbent of St. Luke . 's, apologi z i ng f or hi s absence, and enclosing a subscription of Xl. 'rule rev. gentleman said, they had assembled there to receive a deputation from Doon, in the county of Limeri c k, a dis trict which had been distinguished in a singular manner by the mercy of God, and in which they were all aware a remarkable work of scriptural reformation had been and was then being carried on. He said itwds a most s i gna l work of scriptural reformation, because in fact it had been carried on by the simple power of the Word of God—by opening the Bible to the people. It was not, however, his intention to go into details on that branch of the sub ject, because the meeting would be informed on that point by the deputation. Ho knew there were . persons who complained of such frequent appeals for Irish objects, but lie confessed he could not sympathise with them, for he believed it was rather a ground for thanksgiving. And if it were true that deputations from Ireland did com e fre quently to England for aid. in carrying on the good work, it was no proof that the domestic resources was not ap pealed to, but that they were willingly applied to th e i r utmost extent, and being exhausted, foreign aid was ren dered necessary. He showed that England was acting a consistent part in furthering the work of evangelization in Ireland, which, in fstt. was now the battle ground of the HOZTICULTURAL At the meeting of the Liverpool Horticultural Society last week Mr. Mayer read a paper from Mr. Williams, gardener at Haigh Hall, near Wigan ; the object of which was to prove that the shorts of S wede turnips which have been deeply buried in sand, and forced with a slight bottom heat, are, if well blauched, equal, if not superior, to sea-kale, and that three crops can be taken from each turnip, and the root is still valuabldjor cattle feeding. The roots should be forced in a dark shed or barn. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS -Ferns, if shewn at an exhibition, should always form a separate class. Henry.—The names given by Hawkins to the species of Ichthyosauri have not been adopted by other writers. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. A youth, named Hodgson, and a man, named William Edwards were committed for trial, on Saturday, the for mer charged with stealing, and the latter with receiving, a quantity of tools from the Vauxhall Foundry. Hodgson was an apprentice at the foundry. On Friday night a desperate attempt at robbery was made in Frederick-street. The officer on duty found two men struggling in the street, one of whom a notorious thief, named James Ogan, had got the other down, and had rifled his pockets, which were turned inside out. The fellow was brought before Mr. Rushton on Saturday, and committed to take his trial at the sessions. SPIRITUOUS FITS.—On Wednesday, an old man, named Richard Price, who has frequently been before the bench for imposing upon charitable persons by obtaining from them brandy and other spirituous liquors by assu ming to be seized with fits, was charged as an impostor, under the following circumstances :—On the previous evening, the prisoner, " all shiver and shake," went to the house of Mr. Thomas Denton, publican, complained of being seriously ill, and requested to have given to him a "drop of gin ;" immediately after swallowing it, he " went off" into a fit • and so well did he play his part, that the sprinkling of ? water, the application of salts, and all other appliances usually brought into requisition upon such occasions, were had resort to ; nothing, however, produced the desired effect until a glass of brandy was forced down the throat of the fainted man, when he began to rally, but shortly afterwards again " went off." He was conveyed to bed, and, as he gradually appeared to recover, a supper " suited to his condition" was given to him, with a " drop more spirits to settle his stomach." In the morning, he had so far progressed towards con valescence as to partake of a substantial breakfast • having dispatched which, and expressed his eternal grati tude to his duped benefactor, he took his leave. " Shortly afterwards," said Mr. Denton, " I heard this was his trade, and had him taken up."—Mr. Parkinson, the governor of the main bridewell, said the prisoner was the same man who had been so frequently before the court for similar impositions : at the time of the cholera he had obtained an immensity of brandy, and had been brought to bridewell a score of times for practising the same tricks. —The prisoner was sent to gaol for three months. YESTERDAY, THE SAILORS' STRlKE.—Charles Atkinson, Robert Roberts, Francis Curran, and Jas. Inversdale, four sailors, who had been brought up by warrant, were charged, at the instance of Messrs. T. Tobin and Son, with having signed articles as part of the crew of the Lord Elgin, Capt. Smith, and afterwards refusing to go on board. One of the men, in his defence, said he had shipped for Fernando Po, and afterwards was required to go to Cala bar. Mr. Rushton read over the duplicate of the articles which disproved the man's statement. The four men were committed for thirty days, BEGGING IMPOSTOR.—Mary Jones, a middle aged fe male, decently attired in mourning, and wearing widow's weeds, was charged with begging in Great George-street. Officer 503 said that on Saturday evening as he was on duty in Great George-street, his attention was drawn to a crowd of persons. On going up to the spot he found the woman at the bar apparently very unwell. She stated that she had suddenly been seized with illness. Several humaneladiessurrounded thewoman,and had procured wine and other restoratives, which they administered to the apparently unfortunate creature. In answer to the police man's interrogatories, she stated that she was a seaman's widow, and had recently come from London. She also represented herself as being in a state of distress. Sus pecting the truth of her story, the officer examined a bundle which she carried ; his suspicions were confirmed by finding that the contents of the bundle were nothing more nor less than rags. Another policeman had seen her attempting the same trick previously in St. James's place. The woman pretended that her story was true, and that her daughter, whom she had come to reside with, might be found in Scotland-place. Mr. Rushton directed the officer to ascertain the truth of the statement. APPREHENSION OF THE THIEVES IN THE £284 Ron- BERY.—Thomas Williams, Hannah Smith, and John Carter, alias Arthur, were placed in the dock, when Ser geant Carnes made thel following statement :—On Friday, the 28th of February, I was in the court when I was in formed that a robbery of £2B-1 10s. in gold and notes had been committed. I took a description of the parties from the person who had been robbed, and have been on the look-out ever since, but have not seen them until Satur day last, when as I was going along Elliott-street, 1 met Williams and Smith. Having apprehended them, I took them down to the police-office, and placed them with seve ral others, when the man was pointed out as being one of the parties who committed the robbery. I know that the woman has cohabited with Williams, and at the time I apprehended them Carter was in the house in which they live in Peter• street,—the particulars of the robbery have already been made public. A cattle dealer, named Carr, who resides in the north of England, was, on the evening of the day named, inveigled by a woman into Newington, and when in the act of entering a narrow passage in that street, two men rushed out, knocked him down, and robbed him of a sum of money of the amount above stated. All three prisoners were remanded, in order to give the police an opportunity of adducing the evidence of Mr. Carr. CAPTURE OF A GANG OF BURGLARS.—Joseph Ormsby, Edward Richardson, Matthew Richardson, and John Lu cas, were charged with having broken into a house in Thompson-street, Toxteth-park, occupied by a person named Gregory, and stolen therefrom six silver spcons and a pair of silver sugar-tongs ; and William Mercer was charged with having feloniously received the same. Mr. Simon appeared for Ormsby, alias Chuck'em, and Mr. Snowballappeared for Mercer. Storey, one of the detective officers, gave a rambling statement of the circumstances of the robbery, the sum of which appeared to be, that, having tracked Ormsby and Edward Richardson through several streets on Saturday evening, he at last saw them enter a house in Thompson -street ; in a quarter of an hour after they came out ; previously to this he had seen Matthew Richardson, an old man (said to be the father of E. Richardson), lurking about the house. Not having any proof that a robbery had been committed, Storey went home, having first left instruet'ons with Inspector Lowcock to let him know if anything transpired to require his presence and aid. About two o'clock in the morning he was knocked up and informed that a robbery had been committed in Thompson-street. He went immediately to the place, and found that the house which had been robbed was the same as the one he had seen the two men enter. Ormsby, who keeps a beer-house in Richmond row, was taken the same night : in a room in the upper part of his house the prisoner Lucas was found in bed ; and outside the window, concealed by the sign, was a bunch of skeleton keys—acknowledged by the police to be the best implements of the kind they had ever seen. On the i same night, Lucas and the younger Richardson went into a public-house in Milk-street, kept by a person named Bickerstaffe ; Mercer, who also keeps a public-house in Leeds-street, and who is related to Bickerstaffe, was in the house at the time. Lucas and Richardson offered some spoons and sugar tongs for sale to Mercer, who purchased them, These spoons were proved to be the property of Mr. Gregory. The keys exactly fitted Gre gory's door. Several witnesses were called who had seen Ormsby and the younger Richardson lurking about the house which had been broken into. The prosecutor stated that he had recently kept a public-house, the transfer of which he had sold to a person named Glover, who had introduced the younger Richardson to him as a lawyer's clerk, with the object of having the contract drawn up economically. In this manner Richardson obtained a knowledge of the prosecutor's house. Mr. Snowball said that his client, Mercer, had conducted his house with great propriety for ten years ; he had given3s. Gd. an ounce for the plate, which. he would not have bought had he