The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-08-31 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS `ll •t'SrlIP GLASGO W arr i ve d at Gl asgow , on ' t,, kkt i t is a Pa ssage of 12 days 15 hours from New York. liDEALries were fined on Tuesday fot expo *some fish for sale in St. John's Fish Market. on 1-7,"Y OF A CHILD, about three weeks old, 4nursday in some new buildings at Everton. red Y, late j u d ge of the Liverpool County e Westmoreland Assizes as counsel in a case of Slat i:1441;.% BA RrtisrEns —Lancaster : Mr. Sgt. Ma t 'k r . ‘itePhen Temple,Hon. Richard Denman, Mr. tpk s , ° "Yth, Ur. Brand re th, an d M r . Pi c kering. (b hinhde b eing the 33rd anniversary of Prince Al fi Y. the b e ll s at St. Peter's Church rang merry 1 10:, 4 gs W ere hoisted from the various public NSON, M.P., Mr. Samuel Peto n Denmark ;site Poole, q• T ormation of a . railway to connect the /1 with the B,1.• d At_ SrE rlz -i. 01 d:pti.'ivrrxos.—A sale of fine paintings, edg e Ves of v er t u , co ll ecte d b y a gentleman of 1418,. t aste, W ill take place at Messrs. IV t l 'n Thursday and Friday next ii.loke `'e - out on S unday even i ng among some 111 caboose of Carvon oner Artru taa der, whilethe she was rna laying sc in ho the Canning imm ediately extinguished. C1(14" M AGISTRATES.—Mr. Fredem. el e , k t o the Health Committee. has been tO the mag i strates, in the room of Mr. N. 9- governor of the Borough Gaol. e tt,'-w- STEANIFII, called the " Forerunner," r .:;• Laird, of 'Birkenhead, was tried on the *il l:1;1 3 'Y. She is the first of a line of steamers A etw een 4 th PIPcIA is port and the coast of Africa. held on Thursday, e L P ETTY' ,. SESTIONS e s t "ei., "r, Mr. Mansfield, Mr. Crossthwaitand a 'l4 ^." th e application of Mr. William Sudlo . w, 'ratted for the performance of stage plays at tr eoai tppo e Hall, for a twelvemonth. 'r pe a SESSIONS.—The intermediate '4 44 1 - i' l , Dente for this borough commenced _ e o r n e tepee Crown Court, St. George's Hall, of ~ e A s a n, Esq. recorder. The total . numbe. N ames appear in the calendar is 40. Philip ``AL ' 1 h.2.sSic ' 4 4 3 7c a pplications for the remoyal and trans lie Of wiThrre were only two applications for re -1). A l 'icb was not granted, and the other was considerable number of transfers were 'IL?. co h g o nOTRIVELL RECTOR. OF SEFTON, 110 w ''ea 'S of age , ' and still performing the ser a meadow belonging to the every year ; and on Monday ent year, being the ic,..Lieti I ; f nis task for the pres . his performing this service in unbroken 4441,14 CONFLAGRATION occurred in Preston, 2 4 fa ve ninz, which resulted in the destruction Zted,",,•°,rY, belonging to Mesm.s. John Ellis and To4,llpeik-street. The origin of the fire seems I`.l, Rehr"' -`4 in mystery. This is the fourth time that this ill-fated building has been by fire. T ed - - , ., - late divisional superintendent of t,l,a t estimonial, in the shape of a hand ily e ' v ''ltt and a purse of upwards of £4O, on 3l ttti ter e n ' in g• Between 30 and 40 of his friends 4110 K-tithe occasion, at the Castle Inn North, 4t l Etlice -11 r. Towerson ' intends to commence I v.. 4 used victualler. Otl i t 'l lhe i t? Pon.):D.—The body of a new-born child 41., e ` fi he ee Ln_ five and six o'clock on Friday morning, tt4,,t4t, ; of Mr. Crossfield s sugar warehouse, kaks. I.,Was a female child, and wrapped up in i „ P ed. D '`'n trace of the unnatural mother could tl t `'th ' r ote the medical evidence at the inquest, I , ,,Sl to l a t ,, t he infant was still-born. . f Ilikot'ilth '-' ANDERTON , traveller, in the service o ;'e t ii tti, o a ri re ,,,and Co., coffee-merchants,. Liverpool, 1.4 4 It h '3aturdav with embezzling the sum of ' Di e had -' 0;43 received at various times on account . oiti'qii n ,• , He stated that he could prove his inno- N,qer e „Vnat the booking-clerk had not kept his teiN.,O".J. Remanded for a week. iltOlllPtieji:`,l°.Jsticeerzas.—On Tuesday last, some t it it ehaig about in the day time, unscrewed the Ito I.4 t' n frorn the front door of a house in Hus- Nlie ce ' i tild it was not discovered until the occupier IN4lft,terol.o,lttle.tetele_tdaokoer secure for the . night. An attempt away the lead piping which conveys Ot t , t , ' 4 ° Porch of the house. 1: 1 t 1 P 1 , : /er n l fl' THE FEMALE RPHAN SCHOOL, 1': 1 i 'lthi• 'no, had an excursio n to Birkenhead- Oti ll t ood P afternoon, under the personal charge of t;oktition'anner, one of the benevolent founders of I 'l l ili t ; 1 1, 1 i1i . ,„ 11 , he Messrs. Willoughby, with their ) 'Yalnl: — •."tv, declined to charge for their passage c ) tt,stle 4 a,u Perry — a privilege which is not con ,,ip'rt4,,, ;`,lorities at Woodside. Vitt.' alu oiil A: 4 0y, txt.—By the kind invitation of Mr. Vltir tlh and girls belonging to the Blue Coat ita l te h , t ig nearly 350, have been taken to 1 0 ,tii ) ; and in teresting and extensive collection t of w I,,l ti g at €h W orks of ancient and m2lern . ar : r n e o et 1 ): / ,, left Yptian Museum in Colqpitt...t . •te t tl o „' each child was presented with a large rier,,to l ,''' , Provided for them by Mr. Mayer. i l or e /i1,,;Z 1- I,D CITY OF GLASGOW.—The Liverpool I , f.; Gl„,":(7arn-ship Company's fine screw . s!eam- Pah• e tn ti , w ' 'Wylie commander, arrived in the "1 4 ;, 4 ho t "ia.„dtiPhia ' at 2 30, p.m., on Sunday, iT b t abo ° ut kt d aYs' and 40 minutes mean time. t.sip -e 2 gth, s i"`o6o in specie on freight. At 5, \': l ier u ' u th C ar :9 Passed the new Amu-lean screw '` ~,,, P c vards or dna, from New York, and arrived liNtr i .,, E ' three hours before her. 1 47 t thei r Ento(4' THE SHIPWRECK and HUMANE It o .. vitri ol , n ,thlY meeting, on Saturday, awarded tn . , dr 0w ,. 1 , 1 . n natmen for saving seven different u ocks ..to , utUring the last four weeks, in the ,VOl 4 . ' ‘i at tt also presented X 5 to six female , iaatlon:P,l, and two children. ex E. and E. t l " Phil" last month on her passage from CytktVt• Phii,.,adelphia. These passengers are going tip,:eelPhia in the Masconomo. k l'i tZ l itt - P El ts' e ll rep AS OCIATION of LIVERPOOL have i lite,easinreser!tations to the Government on the Sited a te le a g ns e :4 r n i f o desertion from o,itilit42Bth t t i l . .the i ; eatiene merchant i sliips „ . the Pr a es c i o ci m en na t u o7 the Board of Con n3Portance of the question, and in the"..tovernors of the colonies have been ap ond nthority of sufficient legal opinion, that Nss a Zwa of her Majesty's vessels can be called i : N I I N - : . to support the civil powers. 110tlitint of by the Lord-Lieutenant of the MN/k,t,N ,i 4,, Lancaster :—Humphrey de Trafford, leitlikhit)ony Thicknesse, Esq., Jas. Pilkington, N'' ' 1 ; 11 -0g.. e . e l' Esq., Benjamin Heywood Jones. t,,,, i l4'ner e ,datson, Esq., Gilbert Greenall, Esq., eilq ' - r , s(l•. Edward Every Clayton, Esq., \li "nett E 0 0/4 , e ll Li.. „ , ..q., Thomas Littled.ale, Esq., tiVoij Islp„ "say, John Smith Entivise, "tH 4 t, e ollt;',,V.'t Esq., and John Frederic Foster, ‘o t ics: o , , , 3 -4-4eutenants. It tt 41 11: 14 E Riv 0 Thursday morning, t b t I, Cl ' the W CR.— n Lord Mor eth ,t i aro. oodside steamer P , paVOl,l ,11,,,1,ng-stage shortly after six o'clock, on Is. 4, 00 9 1 re side of the river, came in contact to.ng krtea, outward bound for Australia, and Vii t t:,, i nd thanchor. The blow, fortunately, was a I' liipd 4 s.lliP received no damage ; but the , o ,q st„ nsiderable injury in one of her paddle -0 4tltlci'l rendered unfit for work, having had il, e nna carried away. kto4ssizes.—The assizes for this division 'n et s I ar se °n Tuesday, there being only one civil klotgin action brought by a person named iiihNiksporenetefeneamed Winterbottoni, for an m an improved method of bottling !iio 4,,teleaPsules. The evidence produced was t q.'lle j,,"14fi0 character. His lordship having o,`tel e`,,7• found a verdict for the defendant, YoSiiO4-'4llll issues, which were to the effect 4 i t 'll't '". W as not a new one. The other issues i 1 0 t % I * 4 , l :,k t + ll ilel ep ' ( • y " - - o Two young gentlemen . who when k\i‘ l ',d 411117ie; r!Wednesday b e o v t e tl n e i Wn'ating h in i:lot. e utiß i e in fie t Ferry,u it was found corked and ~ Vkl:e,d pie p ce l of p evidently the : k t,.: ! ‘t t • 11. !114 t ' o ng gilt edges, written' with pencil as , h,; 1e,. , ,,t ,„ n Sound. Jan. 1, 1852.—This is to \l 4 1 0 , N. c,,arrived at Mars Island with part of klto f r ' olr John Franklin and three of our k °>%alit% to death. Before this reaches you, 1) N1h e nn more "C. S. JOHNSTON.' ',, N Of tk :r tvr... • ktNlkh,.ls tow""Es.—The men employed by the t2i:p or firers p struck for wages on Monday. The i l 4 l4 l ' t i tt ita ßes nave in view is to establish a uni is,Niti ay ages a i t tnnng all the stevedores, namely, " tit arld`na q w ork, except carrying deals out of "..,k, l, t ii $0 _ 4 33, for which they require 4s. To 'lttl• ° ii, of the willing to %In c , e not stevedores are . Ai ' I , tl if , be er , V: , hence the present strike. The k 'lt t t' l viTh " r °o.'tht to a close by the stevedores I N it t l'ath er e s,of the men All men employed in Vl* • 4 '• Sn iPS are to' be paid at the rate of R 10 4 to t 'liilktliZl4,ll4lleigerve PR OPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL. — !y 4 to , sr at the Bishop of Western New l k 14 tw o " e ach, on Sunday next, for this kt , 4 % li ‘te ' " l 4B eur churches, (St. Peter's and l i st se , tio s n t o o n a u d ie dr f e o s l r the public . meeting tther'el.BeoPoilirecionnected we ow armegwegnAlmgertes ly ~,sspurcli of that vast country was ' 441 7 ,4 tiou'ttic. ionaries of the Gospel Propaga ktirt_ P re di n i)Pate that the members of the 11.1111 Y k.. 4 11 ( 1 rt".erpool will give to the American iopooet,l4,eatk,iiristian reception. It speaks well I t % e i th u ood, °f the v • 4th 4 3 , e wh o __ n arious churches in this town t o l ,., eith t elo o less than fifty of them are o sermons, in aid of the funds r ha v Q1 4 111 14 t. li t e b een, or arey et to be, preached 1,r4 1 ! E ;gi rl 1 „ot le DUCATIONA L INSTITUTION. lid b:Y N e u , these newly-endowed schools "aY), the event being celebrated lthßtirnireetedeorn tithe the Adelphi Hotel. The st reet, north . west angle of Hope wiltt,atotirtn.etage in the Tudor style of of th e fe et. VtoPe: place 66 feet, and to ll fe et Lsehoois ill contain apartments ti.ll l :a lt !lir ee h uY 8 f e 4' . ' , . (l fant boys and girls' lit i ptli e , ti oz, an , 64 feet in all to accommodate 350 efer th e boA by 24 feet, for festivals i kt i t i iit q i _wi t ls. Theur3n, budding with commit irg will be two stories It citilb44°,ls fine Patent vi 3j , o pe.. t oe bricks and Caen stone o ect Znt e d to",,:i, manufactured by Mr. til i 2tr Von of Israel Barned, who will j oi : n essr s. the foundation-stone. I°ll aid it o b i a u n n i n ft. Hey, and the THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1852. ENROLMENT OF THE MlLmA.—The number of men required for the militia, from this county, is 5,628. Mr. Wm. Statham, the clerk for the subdivision of Kirk&les was engaged throughout the whole of Friday in recording the names of volunteers, previous to enrolment on Satur day next by the Deputy-Lieutenant. Two or three hun dred candidates for the £6 bounty registered their names in the County Court, Lime-street. Volunteers must be between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five; a great number of the above were of the minimum age. The County Court will be open daily for this purpose through out the week. The police-stations in the out-townships will also be used for this purpose. iron, was than Ket WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—On Wednesday, at the weekly meeting of this board, after some minor matters had been disposed of, the case of Mr. Shearson, relieving officer for Bootle, was gone into. It appeared, from the report of Mr. Bramham, removing -officer, and Mr. Bar nett, both of whom had fully investigated the matter, that Shearson had '"st of a-- ' , -regularities. Some the offer of Messrs ~een guilty of severs, of the paupers had, at different times and others had been paid o' been pa [t of order. One who had been allowed" 2s. a.week by the board, had been kept out of her money for ten weeks. To each of the cases Shearson gave an explanation. The whole of the 's to whom he was in arrears were paid cn Thursday long to the Dock Committee.—A letter 3 Messrs. M`lver, against the use of d lights an board vessels in the Coburg Dock, which s almost exclusively used by them. erection di was also read f but there was a balance due to the union of £2 lls. Mr. Roskell, on the ground that Shearson never rated fraud, moved the withdrawal of his susnen- FATAL ACCIDF.NTS.—On Friday, an inquest was held on the body of George Hughes, aged 47, who for the last seventeen years looked after the engine at Messrs. Bar tons' tannery, Bevington-bush. On Thursday afternoon, Henry Davies, another workman, went into the engine. house, and found Hughes lying on his belly, with his head in the fly-wheel hole, and the arm of the wheel on his neck. His lower jaw was broken, the upper one much bruised, and he had three holes in the back of his head. He went to stop the engines shortly before twelve o'clock, but there was no evidence to show how he get caught in the wheel. A verdict was given accordingly.—Elizabeth Walton, an aged woman, died in the Infirmary, this week, from injuries caused by being knocked down by a cart in Lime-street.—On Wednesday, a boy, named John Lupton, was run over by a cart, in Victoria-road. He died shortly afterwards.-0i Saturday week, William Deakin, between three and four years of age, son of Joseph Deakin, master of a flat navigating the river Mersey, in company with his father and mother, was playing upon the deck of the vessel, at Runcorn, when his foot slipped, and he f e ll overboard. The unfortunate parents witnessed the acci dent, but the father being unable to swim, no assistance could be rendered.—On Tuesday, an inquest was held on the body of Edward John Huddlestone, 35 years of age. The deceased, who was a joiner and cabinet-maker in , fell, while intoxicated, into the shop fire, ously burned that he died of his ininries in iospital. contem sion. This was seconded by Mr. Lunt, and oppose'd by Mr. Alpass, but carried. LANCASHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.— The annual show of this society took place on Wednes day at Preston. It was numerously attended. There were five reaping machines on the ground, including M'Cormick's with the latest improvements • Hussev's, improved by Crosskill. There we r e altogether twenty five exhibitions of implements, and 305 articles exhibited. Of these three were portable steam-engines, eight thrash three brick-machines, two tile-machines, e machines, ploughs, grubbers, clodcrushers, corn-crushers, &c. There were forty NO RTE ig machines, hay-ma drills, c cutters, entries for the prizes for green crops, twelve for farm ma nagement, nine for roots and seeds, ninety-six horned cattle, 101 horses, 142 sheep, sixty-two pigs, (exclusive of four litters,) and not less than twenty-two head of poul try. The dinner took place on Thursday, but the pre mier did not preside, as was at first announced. His place by Mr. Wilson Patten PARTING GlFTS.—Parting friends generall y bestow some little gift, as a token of esteem: On separating mind by ties of relationship those to whom we ar or friendship, we naturally wish to leave behind some talisman to guard our memory, and for this purpose portraits are generally preferred, as, from their strik ing resemblance, they are most likely to call to mind the original. Those who adopt this mode should visit Mr. Firth's photogr phic gallery, in Newington, where, in a few seconds, they may obtain .fae similes of themselves, on terms which the most economical could not demur at paying. We can vouch for the accuracy of Mr. Firth's portraits, and the care and beauty with which he finishes his miniature pictures. Mr. Firth has just added to his list of portraits of clergymen a likeness of the Rev. W. Falloon, of St. Bride's, in full canonicals, which he will be happy to show to any of the rev. gentleman's friends who may feel inclined to inspect the gallery. DARING ATTEMPT AT BtiRGLARY.-A little before four o'clock on Wednesday morning a policeman observed a man with a dark lantern boring holes in one of the win dow-shutters of the house of Mr. Edward Cropper, Dingle bank. He seized him immediately, when a severe scuffle took place, but, after receiving considerable punishment, the burglar managed to escape. By this time Mr. Crop per and his servants were aroused. They searched the grounds, without perceiving anybody, and then went through the house. On entering the dining-room a man was seen getting through the window. and although one of his legs was seized, he also got off, leaving behind him a large quantity of blood, the result of his eager attempt to make his exit through the window. On searching the room a cap, a hat, a dark lantern, and some skeleton keys were found on the floor ' • these will, it is hoped, lead to the detection of the robbers, for whom the town and county police are now on the look out. the Northern THE SELECT VESTRY.—On Tuesday, at the usual fortnightly meeting of this body, the Rev. Rector Camp bell presided. From the report of the governor it ap peared that, on the 18th instant, there were 2,olBinmates in the Workhouse. Amongst these there were 555 sick cases.—Miss Kelly was appointed schoolmistress to the Industrial Schools.—The Medical Relief Committee, having had before it the recommendation of the Poor-law Board relative to the fraudulent vaccination cases, had agreed to a resolution—that having given the matter their fullest consideration, they recommended the board to de termine the appointments of Messrs. Gill, Steel,Emmett, and Donlevy, both as vaccinators and medical officers of the parish, and to provide for the appointment of medical officers to fill the vacancies, at the same remuneration, who should devote their whole time to the parish, and discharge their duties satisfactorily. Mr. Gill,itappeared from another minute, had already resigned his situation, and Dr. Sinclair bad been appointed to it, at the same salary, subject to the approval of the hoard—the appoint ment to determine at any time with a week's notice. it appeared that, of the fraudulent vaccination cases proved, Mr. Gill wag implicated in 240, Mr. Steel in 101, Mr. Emmett in 79, and Dr. Donlevy in 129 ; and it had been resolved that the amounts charged for these cases should be deducted from their bills. Eventually, the matter was deferred till the next meeting, to give the medical officers an opportunity of resigning, with the understanding, how ever, that, if they did not choose to do so, the resolution of the committee would be enforced.—Mr. Parry was elected storekeeper to the Workhouse. Mr. Savage was re-elected rate bookkeeper.—Mr. Bradley renewed his notice of a motion for the appointment of a permanent paid surveyor, which will be taken into consideration at the next meeting. PROPOSED CRYSTAL PALACE IN MANCHESTER. — In the Courier of Saturday we published a suggestion by a correspondent, that a Crystal Palace should be erected in Manchester, and this week we have a preliminary an nouncement of a proposition to establish a company by shares, for erecting a Crystal Palace in an eligible situa tion in the neighbourhood of Manchester, for the purpose of affording to the large and intelligent population of the surrounding districts all the advantages derivable from such an institution, with its various means of recreation and instruction. Tt is proposed to make the institution worthy of this important manufleturing community, and the views with which the great Crystal Palace was origi nally designed. This is all the information yet afforded, none of the details having been settled ; but by an adver tisement we are led to understand that some ten acres of land will be required at a distance not exceeding. ten miles from Manchester, and we suppose, contiguous to some line of railway.—]Manchester Courier. SCREW STEAM-SHIPS ON THE ATLANTIC THIS WIN TER.—The Cunard Company's screws the Andes, Alps, Jura, and Etna, with others not yet named, are to com mence early in December next ; but it is not generally known that these vessels are to go from Liverpool, via' New Yo►k, to Chagres, and to return to Liverpool. It is intended to start them on the Wednesday of the weeks on which the mail steamers sail for Boston. This will rive the opportunity of unloading their cargo in the United States so as to be ready to start for Chagres on the arrival of the New York steamer, leaving Liverpool ten days after. This will give immense advantages to the travelling community and to shippers of goods. The Andes, Capt. Wickman, is appointed to sail in December, and the Alps, Capt. Hutchings, id January. The choice of such experienced men for commanders indicates a de termination to succeed, for they are not men easily daunted, or likely to be turned aside by ordinary dif ficulties. QUICK. VOYAGE. The screw-steamer Tamaulipas, which left this port on the 23rd of June last for the West Indies and Mexico, returned to the Mersey on Thursday evening, after accomplishing an unpre cedeetedly short voyage. As this is the only direct steam line from Liverpool to those parts, a few particulars of her voyage between the different ports will be acceptable to shippers and others connected with the progress of screw-steam navigation. The Tamaulipas made the run hence to St. Thomas in 20- days; from St. Thomas to Jamaica, a distance of 735 nautical miles, she occupied only 72 hours; and from Jamaica to Tampico six days, making the outward passage from this port, including stoppages at St. Thomas and Jamaica, in 31 days. On the homeward passage she was still more successful. After leaving Tampico she reached Havana in 4 days, stayed there 4 days to take in cargo and coal; and from there to Liverpool direct, she occupied only 19 days, her run home being made in 28 drys, including the detention at Havanna. To give a better idea of the rapidity of the passage, we may state that the entire distance is upwards of 10,500 miles, which was accomplished in 64 days, including the stoppages at St. Thomas, Jamaica, Tampico, and Havanna. The Tamaulipas reached the Mersey on Thursday evening, but in consequence of the thick fog, her commander brought her to anchor at the mouth of the river, and she was reported in the following day's ship news. She has brought home a cargo of sugar, tobacco, and cigars, along with 550,000 in specie on freight. Capt. Ewing speaks in the highest terms of the sea-going quali ties of his vessel, and her log exhibits a very high daily average rate of speed. The Tamaulipas will be despatched on her second voyage on Saturday, the 11th of September next, and we understand that she has already a full cargo engaged, and several applications for passages. FUNERAL OF THE LATE MR. THOMAS RIPLEY.—We have to record the death of Thomas Ripley, Esq., a native of this town, but the greater part of whose career has been passed in Liverpool. Mr. Ripley was one of those merchant princes of Our land, who, commencing with their own energies and active commercial habits, have realized very large fortunes. He served an apprentice. ship with the father of Mr. George Burrow, in this town, but afterwards proceeded to Liverpool, and engaged in the foreign trade, in which he has amassed the bulk of the very large fortune he has bequeathed. The greater portion of this has been left for appropriation among the charities of this town. Mr. Ripley died at his residence in Abercromby.square, Liverpool, but his remains were removed to Lancaster, on Thursday last, by a special train. It was determined in the town to pay some mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, and, as it was undertood that the funeral cortege would arrive at the old station, at the top of Penny-street. and pass up Market street to the Parish Church, the shops on the route were closed. The special train arrived soon after one, and about half-past that hour, the procession was marshalled. The cavalcade proceeded slowly down Penny•street. up Market-street, and, at the Town-hall, the mayor and the principal members of the corporation evinced their respect for the character of Mr. Ripley by taking their place at the head of the procession. The rev. vicar, accompanied by the two curates of the parish church, met the hearse at the church gates, and the melancholy procession passed into the church. The impressive sepulchral ceremonial of the English Church was read by the vicar over the re mains of Mr. T. Ripley, which were deposited in a new vault which has been built near the monument of the late Mr. Hargreaves. The churchyard was crowded with spectators.—Lancaster Guardian. BURGLARIES NEAR ST. HELENS.—On Monday, Wil liam Lloyd, James Lloyd, and Bridget Lloyd, were charged before Z. Sillar, Esq., M.D., with having, on the night of the 16th instant, burglariously broken and entered the dwelling-house of Henry Aspinall, farmer, residing at Rainford. and stealing a large quantity of wearing appa rel. They were also charged with burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of John Dickenson, of Upholland, on the 18th instant, and stealing a quantity of wearing apparel. When the prisoners were conveyed to the police station they were searched, and they were wear ing part of the property stolen from Henry Aspinall's and John Dickenson's ; and near to a barn where the female prisoner was apprehended were found two bundles of clothing, being the whole of the property stolen from the house of Thos. Smith, from Billinge, from which place the prisoner must have been coming when they were ap prehended. They were committed to take their trial at the next assizes. There were also two other charges of burglary against the same prisoners, but they were not gone into. GENERAL NEWS. MR. G. P. R. JAMES, the novelist. has been appointed consul at Norfolk, United States.—Sun. MR. ROBERT OwEN. the Socialist, has announced him. self a camlidate for Oldham. TRANSATLANTIC STRAIT-SHIPS.—The steam-ship Arc tic wiled on Wednesday for New York, with the usual maim, a large cargo of fine goods. and the unprecedented number of 175 passengers, amongst whom were the Coun tess Rossi (Madame Sontag). Mr. J. H. Wilton, the well known agent of Barnum, Miss L. Keene, &c.—The British and North American steam-ship Europa, Ryrie, commander, took her departure hence for New York, on Saturday. at eleven, a.m., with 120 passengers, ar:d a fair cargo, besides the usual mails. Amongst the passengers were the Prince of Nassau; his Excellency the Comman der Carvalho Morcira, Brazilian minister to the United States, lady, and suite; and Mr. Thomas Baring. His excellency, accompanied by his secretary, Chevalier d'An dracle. and Mr. J. M. Braga, acting Brazilian consul general at this port, visited the Britannia Tubular Bridge on Friday, and appeared highly gratified with the inspec tion.—The United States Mail steam-ship Pacific. Nye, commander, with advises from New York to the 21st instant, may be expected to arrive in the Mersey to-day or to-morrow. THE Aberdeen Herald anticipates another contest for Edinburgh, in consequence of the increasing ill-health of Mr. Macaulay. A CHANGE IN CIRCUMSTANCES.—There is a cab-driver in London who once held a commission in the army, and had property to the amount of X 1,500,000. SRRIEVALTV OF LONDON.-Mr. Chandler, who was elected one of the sheriffs of London at the last common hall, has paid £6OO penalty to avoid service. THE Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette states its conviction, that there are at present not less than 1500 reaping machines at work in England. CHEAP SUGAR.—A Northumberland paper states that the books of a grocer who failed the other day, prove that he lost no less than £3O per week by selling " cheap sugar." SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE LANCASHIRE AND YORK SHIRE RAILWAY.—On Monday night an accident occurred at Bullfield. on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, by which severe injuries were inflicted upon several of the passengers ; and in one case they have terminated fatally. The man who has for some time attended the points, and to this signal, was Lee Bancroft, a man about forty years of age, who has borne the character of being a steady and careful servant. The train to which the accident occurred was the last train between Liver pool and Manchester, consisting of about sixteen car riages. Bancroft having left his post, and there being no indication announced by the signal light, the passenger train ran into a goods train, the effect of which was to smash three third-class carriages, which were next the en gine, and to inflict a series of injuries upon upwards of a score of persons. Bancroft had clearly acted in disobe dience to his orders, and of this, when his attention had been called to it, he would appetr to have been conscious, for about twelve o'clock his wife and another woman found that he had committed suicide in his cabin, by sus pending himself with a neckerchief from one of the nails. On the following night, as the Government train, which passes Bolton at eight o'clock, was proceeding to Liver pool, about a mile distant beyond the Wigan Station, one of the valves of the engine burst, which disabled the ma chinery from working. The sudden stoppage caused con siderable alarm and dismay among the passengers. No personal injuries were sustained. The accident on Mon day night resulted on Thursday morning in the death of one of the passengers, a boy named Richard Greenhalgh. An inquest was held on the bodies of Greenhalgh and Lee Bancroft, the pointsman, on Thursday afternoon, when the circumstances of the accident having been de tailed in evidence, and it appearing that Greenhalgh had died from a blow received in the collision, which had rup tured the uretha, the jury returned in his case a verdict of " manslaughter" against Bancroft, and in Bancroft's case of " temporary insanity." CHARLES COLLINS. the pawner of aristocratic por traits, escaped at the Old Bailey last week on three indict ments, in consequence of some technical difficulty in tracing the property. THE MUSIC-HALL.—The public building under this name, which has stood for about a century in Bold-street, was recently razed to the ground ; and some curiosity has been expressed as to the character and object of the struc ture now in progress, on the site. The hall is to be re stored, and the basement of the building will consist of two handsome shops, facing to Bold-street, and one of them showing, laterally to Concert-street, six large arched plate-glass windows. The new Music-hall will be a widely different place to the one just pulled down. The entrance will be in Bold-street, between the two shops, and the room will be very considerably heightened (the height from floor to ceiling, if our memory serves us, will he 27 feet). There will be a small gallery in the room of very beautiful proportions, and it is intended to have a stage and proscenium ; the latter being quite a novelty in con cert rooms. It is also intended to construct a long room in the roof, to be used for refreshment and retiring pur poses. We understand that Mr. WE. Hime has become the lessee of the hall, and that it will be let for concerts and all other first-class entertaiments. The structure, which is said to be of immense strength, will be com pleted, it is expected by the latter end of October. EMIGRATION.—During the last few days, no less than ten ships of very considerable tonnage, with nearly 3,000 emigrants, have been in the port of Plymouth, all bound for Australia or Van Dieman's Land. THE MILITIA.—The attempt to raise a voluntary mi litia seems quite a failure in some places. For the East Riding of Yorkshire there were only twenty-seven appli cants for the 800 volunteers required. HER MAJESTY'S MAILS TO AUSTRALTA.—The screw steamer Cleopatra is appointed to take out her Majesty's mails to the Cape of Good Hope, Port Philip, Adelaide, and Sydney. She is to leave London Slit. 4, and Ply mouth (with the mail bags) Sept. 7. THE QUEEN has permitted the finest specimens of old Sevres porcelain to be removed from Buckingham Palace to the Museum at Marlborough-house, for the use of the students in the department of practical alt. The collec tion is reported to be the finest in Europe. MR. FERGUS O'CONNOR'S health is rapidly improving under the care of Dr. Tuke, of whose maison de sante he is an inmate. Moderate diet and restriction from intoxi cating liqnors, together with abundant exercise, and the absence of excitement (political, pecuniary. and personal), have brought round this favourite result. As yet Mr. O'Connor has not been allowed to see his friends. NEW NATIONAL GALLERY.—We understand that the authorities have it in contemplation to purchase the exten sive property of the Earl of Harrington, situated at Old Brompton, for the purpose of erecting a new National Gallery. The Government are favourably disposed as to the site as a most eligible place for the building.—Morn ing Herald. MR. GEORGE CORNEWALL LEWIS has announced himself as a Liberal candidate for Peterhorough, and per sists in his canvas, notwithstanding a meeting at the Corn Exchange have declared " that they (lid not consider him entitled to the support of the Liberal elect o rs." I n ad dressing the constituencyit appears he half objected to the ballot, palliated Maynooth, and apologised for church rates. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The many and varied amuse ments which the lessee of these charming grounds pre sents to the public have induced a large attendance to witness the Lauri family in their extraordinary calis thenic exercises, as also their very clever performances in the ballet department. Last week the ballet of " Punch, or, the Fisherman of Naples" was produced, and throughout elicited great applause. It abounds in pan tomimic tricks, and was exceedingly well gut up ; the con cluding scene closes amidst a terrific shower of fire, which, from the resources available in that department at the Gardens, was made very effective. Mons. Tor pini, on the slack rope, exhibits some of the most daring feats. The Messrs. Distin and Sons are engaged and will give their grand concerts during the week, which, together with extra displays of fireworks, present to the public a combination of talent and attraction not often witnessed at one establishment. On Thursday last the children of the Deaf and Dumb School were permitted to visit the Gardens, at the solicitation of Mr. Harmmood Banner, and were highly delighted. This evening the National and Independent Orler of 011 fellows hold their grand gala and fete, the proceeds of which go to the Widow and Orphans' Fund. THE NEXT TOWN COUNCIL MEETING.—A monthly and special meeting of the Council has been convened for to-morrow, (Wednesday,) to receive and consider the re ports of the several standing committees, and for the transaction of much important business. The special committee appointed on the 14th instant to take into con sideration and report on the letter of the Secretary of State, with reference to the appointment of six additional magistrates for the borough, will also present their report to the Corporation.. Amongst the mayor's communica tions is a memorial from owners and occupiers of property in Bostock-street, requesting the Council to open that street into Great Homer-street, to be decided upon.—Mr. J. B. Lloyd has given notice of a motion to rescind or alter the resolution of the Council, •` giving instruction to the Liw-courts Committee to provide accommodation for the Recorder, so that he may hold all future sessions in one of the new courts;" and Mr. S. Halme has also put a notice of motion on the books, to the effect " that it be referred to the Improvement-committee to consider a c omprehensive plan for the improvement of the borough, and that the committee be empowered to frame a bill to be submitted to the Council, preparatory to an application to. Parliament, in the next session, for powers to effect the necessary improvement." HEALTH COMMITTEE.—In consequenceof the members having been invited to accompany the dock committee on their annual marine excursion on Thursday, the usual weekly meeting of the health committee was held on Friday. The chairman, Mr. Alderman Langsdale, pre sided ; and there were also present, Messrs. Lloyd, Beck with, Johnson, Henderson, Godfrey, and Dover. —The report of the medical officer of health set forth that the state of mortality was still above the average, by reason, principally, of bowel complaints. the deaths from which, last week, were only two fewer than in the week preced ing. The deaths from all causes were—in the parish, 200; in the extra-parochial wards, 81; the aggregate being 14 more than in the previous week, and 76 more than the average of the corresponding week of the three previous years. 73 children had died from dysentery. No deaths had occurred from this cause to persons between six and fifty years of age. One death was regis tered from English cholera, being less than the average of the same week of former years, excluding 1849.—The fol lowing letter was then read :—" As it is possible that exaggerated statements may be circulated with regard to an outbreak of cholera on board the New York packet ship Garrick, which arrived here on Tuesday last, the medical officer of health begs to report that, when the ship was nine days out. cholera appeared amongst the passengers and crew, 10 deaths in all having occurred. No new case had appeared for nine days before the ship reached Liverpool ; and there is no probability of the disease being introduced into this port by the ship's arrival. (Signed) W. D. Duncan, Medical Officer of Health.”—Notices were ordered to be served on th e trustees of the Collegiate Institution, and the owners of property on the east side of Shaw-street, to connect their drains With the main sewers. At the suggestion of Mr. Joseph Boult, the name of Eaton-street East, Windsor, was ordered to be changed to its original one of Highton street, GENERAL POST-OFFICE. — The public will learn with satisfaction that the present Postmaster-General has determined not to appoint any one to a situati o n in the Post-office until he has produced ample testimonials to his moral character, from his youth upwards, and also that he is fully qualified to perform the duties attached to the office to which he aspires. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR BATH.—On Thurs day evening while a man named Rees, a tailor• in Bath, was crossing the line at the SaHord station of the Great Western Railway, about three miles from Bath, the train for which he had been waiting to return to that cty ap proached, and before the poor fellow could get com pletely clear of the line, the buffer plate of the down engine struck him on one side, and by the force of the collision threw him a distance of some yards into a hedge. He was found to be so severely injured that he died almost instantly. THE REV. JAMES NESBITT, accused of forgery at "Worcester, is now stated to be an unlicensed and uncer tificated bankrupt, and to have been charged ten years ago With forgery in London. In 1838 he is stated to have been curate of Clenchwarton, Lynn, Norfolk, when he unfortunately prevailed upon the Bishop of Norwich to present him at Court, and he was actually presented to the Queen at one of her Majesty's levees. The appear ance of his name in the list of presentations, however, led to the disclosure of his real character, and the bishop dis missed him from his diocese. DOCK COMMITTEE.—In con se que nc e o f the absence of i ROBBERY OF CHILDREN.—At the Police-court, On DESERTION OF SEAMEN.—By an order in council Her the Dock Committee, on their annual surveying exalt.- Wednesday, an old woman, named Ann Pinnington, was Majesty, in pursuance of the powers given by the Foreign sion, on Thursday, the usu a l we ekly mee ti ng w a s not held charged with plundering Catherine Wignall, a girl nine Deserters Act of 1852, has been pleased to declare that till Friday. Mr. Charles Turner, M.P., presided, and years of age, of two night dresses. The girl was sent by seamen, not being slaves, who shall desert from the mer there were also present—Messrs. F. Shand, Bold, Tobin, her mother on Tuesday morning to take home the pros chant ships of subjects of the Emperor of Russia, the Gregson, Holden, Langsdale, Lockett, Molyneux, Ran- petty to a person in Clayton-street, when she was met in King of Sweden, and the Republic of Peru when w ithi n kin, and Robinson. The contract of Christoph er D o - t h e street b y t h e pr i soner , w h o i n d uced her to go into a Her Majesty's dominions or:the territories of the East herty, for the whole of the excavators' work at the north shop to buy a halfpenny worth of sweets. The prisoner India Company, shall be liable to be apprehended and quay of Stanley Dock, was accepted. An application of took charge of the dresses, and, on the child coming out carried on board their respective ships. the Mersey Steel and Iron Company, for a railroad from of the shop she had absconded. Remanded for inquiry.-- A FATAL BOILER Ex their premises to the various articles, including oil and I Oa the following day, Catherine Smith was charged with flour mills near Worceste. sccepted. Alexander Gordon, jun., and J ona - ro bbi ng a c hild, age d e l even years , name d S arah Jones, of of the explosion, the engineer was stand on, were appointed junior clerks, to fill vacan- a b ox, conta i n i ng s i x caps an d a b oo k. Th e g i rl, i t ap ' lbert Dock Warehouses, at salaries of £5O peered, ha d b een sent b y h er s i s t er -i n -l aw , w i t h the box, in he front w e blown, boitogether,leranwd w i , th i the th h shutter TV ilh.ll overl a pp e d There were twenty-six applic a nts. Messrs. which she was to leave at a shop in Great Charlotte- the lower part of the window and some of the brickwork, _:t proposed a plan for cleansing Prince's- s t reet. The pr i soner me t h er i n Li me - s t ree t, an d as k ed right across the canal, and through a row of strong palings e cost of which would be £2,000. At p resen t, her how her mother was. The woman then requested on the other side of the water, a distance of upwards of snsed for £25 per annum , an d, therefore, her to go up an entry leading to some stai r s, which she 140 feet. The unfortunate man was found to be alive _. Cole and Holt was not accepted. Mr. was to ascend, and leave a basket which she gave her at when picked up, but died in half an hour. .....a lame, sailmaker, &c., applied for liberty to erect the window, which she would find open. The child, not a tent for exhibition at the south end of George's Dock ; ent er t a i n i ng the slightest suspicion of the intentions of Air. Barker, the last descendant of an ancient family re- HIGH CHARGE FOR BURlAL. — During the last week the ground, however, on which he wished to make the th e p r i soner , ga ve her the box and caps to hold, and went siding at Murton Hill, died, and the family vault being in and left the old basket where she was requested. On re- the church of Houghton-le-Spring, application was made turning, she found that the woman had absconded. A to the rector, the Hon. and Rev. T. Grey, to inter his re young man, who had seen the prisoner in the company of mains there. The rector, however, requiring the sum of the child previous to the robbery, observed her in Lime- £2O for allowing the vault to be opened, and the sum be street about two hours afterwards, attempting to victimise ing considered far too much, Mr. Barker was b, another child. The prisoner was committed for trial. the churchyard of West Rainton.—Durham Chronicle. ANNUAL EXCURSION OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE.— GUN ACCIDENT.—On Sunday morning week, Cherie On Thursday the Dock Committee made their annual Attewell, a labourer, in the employment of Mr. W. Shaw, visit of inspection to the telegraphic stations and light- farmer, of Newbury, Berks, was walking through the houses in connexion with this port. The Windsor steam- fields with a loaded gun, when he incautiously used it in packet. belonging to the City of Dublin Company, was endeavouring to obtain some nuts from one of the hedges. engaged for the occasion. The steamer left the Prince's The trigger having become entangled in the branches, the Pierhead at half-past nine. Invitations had been extended gun exploded, and the charge was lodged in the poor fel to the members of the Council. and a large number low's arm. He immediately received medical assistance, availed themselves of the trip. There were on board Mr. but expired within an hour. The deceased was 23 years Chas. Turner, M.P., chairman of the Dock Committee, of age, and has left a wife and two children. Mr. Mansfield. stipendiary magistrate, Lieut. Lord. ma- THE RE-CUTTING OF THE KOH-I-NOOK. The gen rine surveyor. Mr. Daniel Mason, secretary to the Dock tleman from Holland, to whose skill the re-cutting of the Committee, Mr. Shuttleworth, town clerk, and the fol- Koh-i-noor is entrusted, informed us that with three or lowing members of the Council and Dock Committee : four weeks more he will have finished, and he hopes sue- Holden. Langsdale, Mellor, Bennett, Woodruff, Thomson, cessfully. his labour of art. He is confident that, when Holden. M‘Guffie, J. Tyrer, H. Hornby, Parker, Robin- finished, it will surpass every other diamond in existence son. Jeffreys, Gladstone, Conner, Rogers, Clayton, Wag- in brilliancy of light and beauty of shape, and that it staff, J. N. Wood, Tobin, Jones, Hall, Neill, Moore, really will be " a mountain of light." The re-cutting J)hnson, Molyneux, W. K. Tyrer, Henderson, Beckwith, will very little affect its size. The two smaller diamonds Rankin, Lockett, Bold, and Bradley. When the steamer have already gone forth in brilliant perfection from the reached Puffin Island she came up with the yacht Ariel, belonging to the Mayor, Mr. Littledale. and which had hands of this skilful artist.—J ew i s h Ch ron i c l e . left Beaumaris that morning. His worship was on board FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION.—BIRMINGHAM, FRIDAY. the yacht, and on the Windsor arriving a loud cheer was —At half-past nine o'clock this morn i ng , th e b o il er o f a given for the mayor, who answered the salute from the steam-engine, on the condensing principle, at work on steamer by firing a gun. His worship then left his yacht the premises of Messrs. Whitehouse, iron -masters, of and went on board the Windsor. After a short delay the Church-lane, West Bromwich, exploded with fearful whole of the company landed, inspected the telegraph violence, causing the death of three persons, and seri station at Puffin Island, and communicated with the other ously injuring six or seven others employed in the estab telegraphio stations along the line. The inspection con- lishment. The end of the boiler was blown completely eluded, the gentlemen returned to the steamer, where they out and carried across the canal. The disaster has caused sat down to a splendid dinner, served up, at three o'clock, great consternation in the neighbourhood, but at the by Mr. Lynn, of the Waterloo Hotel. Mr. Chas. Turner time of writing the precise cause of the explosion was occupied tha chair, and Mr. Thomas Bold the vice-chair. not known or unexplained. After the cloth had been drawn, the usual loyal toasts STRANGE AFFAIR.—On Wednesday afternoon, a man , were disposed of, " The health of the Mayor" was pro- apparently an engineer, brought a boy of about 14 years posed and drunk amidst treat cheering. His worship old, in a state of insensibility, to King's College Hospital, responded. The toast of " The Chairman of the Dick where, after placing him on a table, and telling the porter Committee" was acknowledged by the chairman, and that that he had fallen down stairs, he instantly decamped. of " The Pilots' Committee" by Mr. J. N. Wood. Mr. The latter hurried into one of the wards for Mr. Bridge- Bramley-Moore proposed "The health of Mr. Edmund water, the house surgeon. On that gentleman examining Molyneux," and nominated that gentleman for the office the boy, who appeared in a dying state, there was no per of mayor next year. The proposition was seconded by son present to say who he was, where he came from, or Mr. J. Tyrer, Mr. Beckwith announced that he had how his hurt was occasioned. The medical gentleman been canvassing during the day for Mr. Woodruff, and being guided by appearances, treated him for a concussion had received as many as seventeen promises ; but as he of the brain, but was unable to say if he laboured under any found gentlemen were very unreasonable in stipulating other injuries at the same time. for a large number of corporation dinners. he had given THE EFFECT OF SUDDEN GOOD FORTUNE.—On Mari ni) the canvass ; and should vote for Mr. Molyneux. The day an inquest was held on the body of Maria Gingall, proposition of Mr. Bramley-Moore met with general ap- aged 47, who resided at No. 2, Queen's-street, Tower proval. The mayor's yacht was taken in tow by the hill, London. Deceased, who was the wife of a cabman, steamer. and the company reached Liverpool about half- a few weeks ago had bequeathed to her, by an aunt, a past eight o'clock in the evening. considerable sum of money, and other property. Since THE JAMAICA ASSOCIATION OF LIVERPOOL. A the possession of her good fortune she took to drinking meeting of the members of this association was held at ardent spirits, and on Friday she drank a pint of gin. the rooms of the Society, Brunswick-street, on Tuesday, Her children tried to prevent her taking such a quantity. for the purpose of receiving delegates from the Island of Last Saturday night, while in her bed, she was suddenly Jamaica, who had visited this coun try w ith th e vi ew o f seized with a fit. Her husband sent for a surgeon, who explaining the present position of the colony. Mr. J. B. promptly attended, but life was extinct. In his opinion Yates, president of the association, who occupied the death was accelerated by drinking ardent spirits to excess. chair, stated, in the course of his introductory observe- EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT.—A singular and shock tions, that although the production of near in Jamaica ing accident happened in Southampton a day or two ago. once amounted to 150,000 hogsheads annually, it would A servant girl belonging to a tradesman living in St. riot this year exceed 35,000 hogsheads. This decrease Mary-street, in the above town, went near a place where was naturally attended with serious consequences to the there was a loose stone of immense size, with an infant in colonists, who, he stated, had only received some her arms. By some accident this stone rolled on the girl's £17,000,000 or £18,000,000 of the £20,000,000 awarded foot, crushing it to a pulp and fixing her to the ground. by parliament to compensate the planters for the emanci- Her shrieks of agony soon brought assistance, and it re pation of their slaves, the remainder having been absorbed quired the united force of three men to roll away the stone in the expenses of collection and management. Mr. from the foot. A surgeon was sent for, who recommended Yates then referred to the depreciation of the value of that the poor girl should be taken to the infirmary. The estates in Jamaica, and observed that, out of 653 sugar infant was unharmed through the great presence of mind plantations in the island, he believed the cultivation of displayed by its nurse when the accident happened. nearly one halt had been abandoned. Mr. Girod, of a SlNGULA Ramenty o Ctf r i a a i c n ul e m f s t T t A h Ne C c g h .- 1 On Fr d iday,. just after the Jamaica, was then introduced, and moved the following the hi y passengers .dree se d in female, m o le l e o . of a t e h d e f c r a e r m r i ag afares dwase. e msfor Railway Station resolution :—" That this meeting, deeply sympathising P d th ra e w a n tte to nt a ioa r nr especta with the inhabitants of Jamaica in the distress to which they have been subjected by the great political changes of which the y have been made the victims, desires unequivo- meanour it soon became visible that the unfortunate lady was labouring under a fit of temporary insanity. Ere the train had proceeded a mile on its journey she took her is involved in the future destiny of that noble colony ; and tally to declare its conviction that the honour of the nation that its inhabitants are entitled to such immediate and gold watch and guard from h er nec k, an d t h rew t h em out of the window on the line ; and subsequently she as sum substantial ref of at the hands of the government and marily ejected her purse, containing, it is said, between people of this country as may rescue so valuable an appen £2o and £5O. By the time the unfortunate lady arrived dage of the crown from total and irretrievable ruin." at Ipswich she had become partially convalescent, and the Mr. Girod explained, at considerable length, the present articles, which have been since picked up, have been condition of the colony, confirming the remarks of the restored to the owner. chairman, and illustrating his statements by numerous statistical details. He considered that the distressed A COSTLY PIPE OF TOBACCO.—Mr. Charles Pearson, state of the colony was attributable, partly to the emanci- of Worcester, was summoned before the magistrates at pation of the slaves, and partly to the free trade measures Swindon, Wilts, a few days since, for indulgin g a s h or t of 1846. Mr. John Dorning seconded the resolution, pipe in one of the first-class carriages of the Great which was adopted. Mr. Thompson; of Jamaica, followed, Western Railway, to the annoyance of a lady passenger and moved a resolution, declaring that among the prin- in the same carriage, and who, having complained to Mr. cipal causes which have tended to the ruin of Jamaica, is Christopher Hill, the superintendent of the station, he the great scarcity of available plantation labour—a scarcity determined to spare no pains to bring the case before the painfully aggravated by the cholera and smallpox ; and magistrates, and having obtained a summons, it came that an obligation rests. morally and politically, on the before a full bench on Friday, the 20th, when the de government to aid the efforts which have been long made fendant not thinking proper to attend, the evidence of by the colony to increase its supply of useful labourers by the lady, who came up expressly from Cheltenham, was means of immigration, under proper regulations, from the taken, and the full penalty of 403, with the addition of continents of Africa and Asia. This proposition having 44s costs, was inflicted, making £4 4s. for one pipe of been agreed to, Mr. Smith moved a resolution recom- tobacco. mending a decrease of the duties on British colonial pro- THE STAMP-OFFICE AND THE SCOTTISH PRESS.—It duce, which was also carried, and a deputation was has been very confidently stated to us that our cotempo_ appointed to wait upon Sir J. Pakington, with a memorial rary, the Scottish Press, has got into a very awkward founded on the resolutions. controversy with the authorities of the Inland Revenue, on the subject of his publication of the poll-books at the last city election. The Stamp-office, it is said, hold that every name in the list of voters so published by our neigh bour is an advertisement, and, therefore, chargeable with duty, and, accordingly, a demand has been made on the proprietors of the newspaper for the full amount of the duties, and, as the list was twice published, the claim pre ferred by the Stamp-office is for double duty on each name. What the total charge is we nave not heard, but it will be something betwixt £4OO and £6oo.—Scotch SION took place at some steam on Monday. At the moment. Dvel in his ham' aried in ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY AN AUSTRIAN STUDENT.— Francisco Shapier, an Austrian subject, was charged on Tuesday, before the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house, with an attempt to drown himself. It appeared that the prisoner had at one time been secretary to M. Mole. He was a person of great study, and all the money he could earn as a professor of languages he spent in books, of which he had about 6000 packed up, lying at Calais. He was described as a dreamer and philosepher, and was at times greatly excited. Having lost his pupils, lie was in great poverty, and on Monday night, getting a waterman to row him in to the river, he suddenly jumped out of the boat, and, but for the exertions of the Waterman, would have been drowned. He vowed his determination to de prive himself of life, saying he was of no use in the world, as all his study and avocations were taken from him. A GIGANTIC TELESCOPE is being erected at Wands.. worth Common, on the achromatic principle, which is to equal in power the celebrated reflector of Lord Rosse's. It is held up by a tower of brick sixty-four feet high by fifteen in diameter, and weighing 220 tons. By the side of this sustaining tower hangs the telescope. The length of the main tube, which is shaped somewhat like a cigar, is seventy-six feet, but with an eyepiece at t:.e narrow end, and a dewcap at the other, the total length in use will be eighty-five feet. Its exterior is of bright metal, the interior is painted black. The focal distance will vary from seventy-six to eighty.five feet. The tube at its greatest circumference measures thirteen feet, and this part is about twenty-four feet from the object-glass. This latter is twenty-four inches in diameter, perfectly clear and homogeneous in structure. HER MAJESTY'S SHIP VESTAL ON SHORE.—On Friday morning before sunrise intelligence reached Ports mouth, that the Vestal, 26, Captain Hamilton, which sailed from Spithead at six o'clock the previous evening, had run on shore on Harnstead Ledge, on her passage towards the Needles, en route to the West Indies, about 11 o'clock. Her guns were hove overboard, and the usual other means resorted to to lighten and float a ship ashore, signal lights were burned and rockets fired to announce her distress. Her Majesty's steam-tug Echo, and Fire Queen, steam-yacht, were despatched to the spot, but before they arrived the Vestal had been got off and was afloat again. She was to return to harbour again so that the damage done might be ascertained. It is expected that a court of inquiry will be held to investi gate the circumstances of the disaster, which at present appears unaccountable, as there was a light breeze, and the moon was shining brightly. ANOTHER DREADFUL BALCONY ACCIDENT.—On Friday afternoon, a dreadful accident occurred at the residence of Mr. Kennedy, 40, Claremont-square, Clerkenwell, London, to a young woman named Harriet Boxell, a servant in the family, by the falling of R balcony on which she was standing at the time cleaning the win dows, when she received such injuries as to lead to the belief that they will terminate fatally. In her descent she fell on the iron railings in front of the house-door, and the point of one of them entered her back, under the right should( r, where she was suspended. Several persons, seeing her dreadful position and hearing her screams, ran to her assistance. They with some difficulty, as the rail was barbed, lifted her up and got her off, when the blood poured profusely from the wound. A surgeon immediately attended her, and found that the point of the rail had entered the posterior part of the chest, broken some ribs, and part penetrated the lung. VIOLATION OF THE SEPULCHRE.—At Dumfries, in Scotland, James Gunning, medical student, William Wright, clerk, a , :d Adam Carlyle, grave-digger, have been convicted before Sheriff Napier of violating the grave in which three childien of one .'Kendrick, a carter, had been buried. Sheriff Napier, in passing sentence, said that no crime con feelings. That alt: be more harrowing to t rounity, it pressed peculiarly on the poor ; for while the rich man could aff,)rd to protect the graves of his relatives, thcre is no shield over the sepulchres of the poor, save the trust in the common ,iure. He said i that i t s l t legislature ee bodies fo r had a nato m entirely ca l purposes, r r p c o m s e o s v , c a u the n dth temptation p tat i enhancedo the prisoners' guilt. The coffins of Nl'Kendrick's chil dren had been found exposed, and it was no extenuation of the prisoners' guilt that the bodies of the children had not been carried away, as the prisoners bad been driven like ghouls from the graves which they had invaded. He should, however, take the youth of the two prisoners, and the age of the third into consideration ; but to uphold the sanctity of the grave, he sentenced each of the prisoners to tix months' imprisonment in the Tolbooth. GENEROUS EXAMPLE.—The following instance of Christian generosity cannot be too widely known or too extensively followed. Mr. Thomson, Independent mi nister of New York, is at present in Edinburgh. Being in bad health, his people called a meeting, and resolved to provide him with the means of complete relaxation from all ministerial work for twelve months. They engaged to supply the pulpit for him at their own expense, and to maintain his family for that time ; beside which they gave him £4OO in his pocket to pay his expenses in travelling. MAJOR BERESFORD AND THE DERBY BRIBERY CASE. —The following letter, addressed by Major Beresford, M.P to a friend, is published in the Maidstone Journal: —I am obliged to you for your enclosure of two -" Si articles respectir unfounded pro je the elector last me at Der ) present a case of corruption, wl against me. I trust that I shall e that any participation in the _theirs. They are. however. s not mine ed to " r despite of truth and fair at their abject o t enlists friends like arry ou I am, however, glad to say tl apparent enough, and th —tselieve me, yours tru August 16 their end )tive is u in my WM. BERESFORD.L HOPE FOR CHANCERY SUITORS. —The CE ford v. Jasper, begun above a hundred year in a fair way of being wound up. The or was Thomas Beck ford, executor of one merchant in Madeira ; and Edward J of Bec o, is ril was the origitial deft nd Pope die ginal plaintiff James Pope, a _spar, also a mer. Jasper owed Pope ; and in 1748 Bedford it - Ist Jasper, who died befr s executor, sor he could put in an answer. The suit was revived against Jasper's executors. and in 1753 the cause was heard be fore Lord Chancellor Hardwick, and referred.to the mas tEr to take accounts. In 1764 and in 1772 further pro ceedings were taken, and £630 in Bank Stock and £555 were lodged to the credit of the cause, which then slept until 1851, when M. J. D. Wadham obtained adminis tration to Pope, the original testator, and revived the bill against Jasper's representatives. The funds to the credit of the cause had, by accumulation of dividends, bonuses, &c., amounted to £70,000. Wadham had to take out administration to five intermediate estates, and to pay £778 for the stamp duties. The case is now wound up by an order to pay the cost of all parties out of the funds in court, and to share the remainder according to the respective rights of the claimants. SIIUGGLIS N THE n.OYAL SQUADRON.—Two cases ..om vessels which formed part of the squadron that accompanied her Majesty to Antwerp, were brought before the Portsmouth borough magistrates on Wednesday. The first was that of Samuel White, who was charged with having in his possession 20 lbs. 2oz. of tobacco that had not paid duty. It appeared that the prisoner, who was a rigger in the dock-yard, landed from one of the ships in the harbour on the previous Thursday night, and suspicion of his proceedings having been ex cited, the tobacco was found in his possession, but he declined to say how he had become possessed of it, The prisoner now pleaded guilty. It was urged in mitigation that he was 62 years of age, and had spent 42 in the yard. The bench found the prisoner guilty, sentencing him to pay a fine of XIGO, or six months' imprisonment, but recommending him to the favourable consideration of the commissioners.—The second case was that of Henry Long, who was charged with having in his possession 511bs. 14 oz. of tobacco which had not paid duty. He pleaded guilty. In this case the prisoner, a Waterman, was seen by the custom-house officer to leave the Samp oeam frigate, one of the ships of the royal squadron, on the night of the 20th instant. They gave chase, when he threw a bag overboard, which was found to contain 48 lbs. of tobacco, and 3 lbs. 14 oz. were found in his boat. The prisoner received a similar sentence, but without any recommendation to favourable consideration. DEATH IN THE POT.—From the last report of the Analytical Sanitary Commission, published in the Lancet, as records of the result of microscopical and chemical ana lyses of the solids and fluids consumed by all classes of the public, it appears, with regard to vinegar and its adultera tions, that out of 28 samples, purchased at the houses of various retailers. in different parts of the town, and the productions of almost every maker of any note by whom the entire metropolis and its suburbs are supplied, only four out of the above number were free from sulphuric acid or oil of vitriol; that 24 were adulterated with that power ful and corrosive mineral acid; that two contained it in a small quantity only ; that in three it was present in con siderable amount ; that 12 contained it in very considerable amount ; and that in seven it was present in immense quantity. The report then publishes, as usual, the names of the parties selling and the makers of the adulterated articles, together with the names of the makers (unfortu nately only four) and vendors of the pure article. The fact of the vinegars of these four makers being found to be en tirely free from sulphuric acid or oil of vitriol is regarded as most important, inasmuch as it proves most convinc ingly that the use of that highly objectionable acid, even in small quantities, is not necessary to insure the preserva tion of vinegar, and shows that its addition is made rather for the purpose of increasing its apparent strength. The report concludes by publishing a letter from Mr. Fletcher, surgeon, of Bromsgrove, showing how families might manufacture for themselves, by a very simple process, sufficient vinegar for the table, or for the purpose of pickling, by using sugar, treacle, and water, and a fungus known as tLe vinegar plant, and thus make themselves independent of dishonest manufac turers. EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENON.—" A Lover of Na tural History," who was in Romney Marsh on Tuesday, the 17th instant, about five p.m., gives the following : " I saw what appeared to be a colu mn o f smo k e approach ing me, about a quarter of a mile off. On the column reaching me I found it was composed of the red ant flies; I think the column was a good quarter of a mile in length. and about from 50 to 100 yards in circumference ; it quite darkened the sky. After it passed me it went over the river Rother, into which millions and millions of the flies fell, and when 1 crossed it the water was quire black. I watched the column for a mile and a half, and notwith standing the numbers left in the river, and on the trees, hedges, &c., over which it passed, the column appeared undiminished, and like a wreaths of dark smoke. The extraordinary thing is, that the ant flies throughout the whole marsh, thirty miles in length (as I hear it was so all through the marsh) should all have taken wing at the same time, and collected together in such vast numbers. A man who was collecting ants' eggs for me, informs me that he found himself covered with them, running up to the top of the strands of grass. and then taking wing. After the flight he hardly found one ant fly in the nests. Other persons who saw the flight, and who I do not believe intended to exaggerate, considered the length of the column to be a mile. The wind was in the east, the temperature very sultry, and there was every appearance of a thunder-storm. Had not my man observed the ant flies rise from the ground, I should have thought they came from the Continent. The column travelled at the rate of five or six miles an hour. Those persons fond of natural history will find an inte resting account of these flights, and the reason, in the second volume of " Kirby and Spence," pp. 50, 51, 52. — Sussex. Express. TUE GOLD DIGGIXGS.—We (Bristol Mirror) have been favoured with the following extract from a letter re ceived on Tuesday, from a journeyman brightsmith, who went out to Australia from this city, about four years ago :—" Melbourne, April 19th, 1852. Dear Brother,—l received your melancholy but kind letter about an hour since. I had been expecting a letter from you before. I was at the Sydney diggings some mouths since, but did not do much. I then started overland to the Port Philip diggings, (six hundred and ten miles,) and ar rived there in twenty-one days. We carried our bed ding and three or four days' provisions, as we couid get none on some parts of the road. We arrived at the Alexander diggings in November, where I got 5 lbs. 1 oz. of gold ; and, as prices were low for it (X 2 14s. per oz.), I got an advance of £2 ss. per oz., and sent it home ; I shall get the returns. I made a second trip to the Alexander diggings, and got 7 lbs. 4 oz., when the water got scarce. I have been in town seven weeks. I spent my Christmas in Melbourne. lam going off to the diggings at day-break. I wish you had all been out ; I might have put great things in your way. Don't believe the ill news you hear about the country. I consider it the flower of the world for a poor man. 1 have bought 52 acres of good land, and if you should come out there is a home for you." The following is an extract from a private letter received by a gentle man in this city from Melbourne, dated 15th April:— " You remember Louisa Ferris, who was transported for cutting a policeman's throat at Bristol. She behaved herself while in gaol at Van Diemen's Lind in a most exemplary manner, so much so, that she obtained what is called, in colonial slang, a ' giggler,' the pure English of which is a ticket of leave. The first thing, however, she (lid, subsequent to her having obtained it, was to cut an other man's throat, and she did this three or four days after she had arrived in Melbourne from Van Diemen's Land. Ticket-of-leave holders have now the right to re side in any of the colonies, provided they report them selves every three months. The unfortunate man was literally murdered in this instance, and Louisa Ferris is to be executed here in a few days."—Bristol Mirror. EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY.—A boy, about fourteen years of age, named Charles Boadle Singleton, was brought up before the magistrates at Whitehaven yester clay week, charged with haying robbed the Whitehaven Junction Railway Company under the following extraor dinary circumstances :—lt appeared that the company koffieeepe,thve,hiomhoinseiyo charge taken for of tic at clerk, in a k,who d i r , a o w s draw er in two ke t y h s e to this drawer. Some time ago one of the keys was missing, and latterly the drawer has been frequently £BO and £lOO. The late clerk repeatedly found his cash deficient, and, consequently, it is said, began to f a l s if y pl plundered wholered o . f w a e considerable eede rsta ed, te the portion amount o f . o f contents— in between his accounts in order to keep matters straight, rather th mention the circumstance to the seer, Lary. This clerk s discharged, and another person appointed to tal of the ticket money. On his successor taking c.„ ficiencies still continued in a most unac counta bl e manner, notwithstanding that the drawe r was a l ways locked. This circumstance left no doubt on the mind of the secretary that some one about the premises bad a false key to the money-drawer : consequently, at the instance of the se cretary, a quantity of silver was marked and put in the drawer, and a person appointed to watch. Accordingly, the officer took his station in the attic above the office and concealed himself. There was a hole in the ceiling, through which he had a full view of the drawer. He com menced w his aich n'yout eight o'clock in the e morning, during the and about fi ve o ' clock in the afternoon, ,ur temporary a!,z, , ,-.,.. ,sr ,L... L,..,,,.:- 1e sawg the g clerk, I d as an errand-hoy :e charge ce the de- by the company for the last twelve months, come into the cffice and open the money drawer with a Key. Be fore thi s , h owever, t h e pr isoner came in and opened an other drawc, whnn s,nme one came into the office, and , and the left .. , ..,i ui LIMN', W:lell ay.. , •---- : -, ./1 ll the pris oner q uickly moved furth er back behind th e i h n a t n o d theint into b w o l w ie l re where tl'eco t L P esilve wasr wkaesptkept. He took counter to conceal himself. NN hen the prisoner opened r the monev-drawer , the after saw him put his r i g h t h an d a handful of half -crowns, then s o me shillings, and nut the money in his pocket. The prison er th en l oc k e d t h e d rawer , put the key into his pocket, an d l e f t t h e office. The officer followed him and took him into custody. He was taken into the secretary's office and there searched, bow e l and the key and the marked money found upon him. He was fully committed for trial. tempting to 0 le" ' ) e rfo e o li ' ,l 0 .f 41.), 9 ot !'