The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-31 00:00:00

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"i l iteti is fair and et tij e from wh i f h ieb L Those least remall4,l! on the line ' t he 1 !: )anted for eOS, to fig 4 l 6l !'ol , ling the 3 19 " , ty-five vire el ‘ g hly- 1/ 44 .1; being O i l , et •e'ar of £l3,3ii the led to ietlie u o snc ti o pg#.dl e conuner .J fyeY the last 1ri 0 p , 11 .40 ,Y, rs destine' tber i ';" ors exprel s opt ° id that if , i rto x, the l i me conclajet directO fo ioy E QUP ree eP d, o charge je 4 aeon of car novel . in a n r l A rs for the ,4,!./i lan as the ;; 0 1, 4 1 he time iv geoe f I more 05 7 )hjection eb f laying the tit persons' o j e tO o lj L estate, c ; is - to be 11 0` 1 0/' lie• sees' a d r ivere done d, Pr 1 -•for-the ban kis-part• . have se jol : ) 6i , r henestlY tougli t; If they v Vei urehase en h. than th c 4 c P a Y" " T r i rch. at 1,i," not gr gsP to title to / 0 ,1,t that of gri i to ab oi r b so V III tit ie ts 4 o right ° ft r eril i)s y : it i 3.0. ee 4 15 '04 coma' s- t i o' ri ppoint 0 1 0 40 1 4 1 iie de, firs,tr,l l) ;l ll 4 h and 0.;1 1 ,,,,f : e . r, o t , l‘, .iecond , fD are P t. V . v ;;;) pences cl ev; os , Alords 0 0 . oe bee( vent', he _ .erk W 1 tY Vg 4 s for P of Cor a — lo' ,Ditri ito the ,:, d bury' e w pro` itio r 44 to the t A- for oa.ta..r f tithes I t y l ex po Pe r n t s io e li ste i 1 i ied ne se 0'01 , 4 r and j b " tye proee'—. pry.,P,"? matter, s o reatt i Tertor) tor trytA appliea,,Ar gut vi °J . P c - iv r ot a /I ' I V its serv l 9o3); i f &ay 4 .1A.10 .4 It s iiei i on ceo S o '. o _ s, thY essarY: e in of dep4.; Lifor f eA r ow, E.per° o zany tbt° pp o l p e .eturo 0541 , e sdal 1 . 9 at ; tip :ort• had 17 4 ed 7 ihe: - 0 .0" ) fete s. • r yo and ~°,l : oerfe) • -,4 e ow- fits. tinter t° e reaP s ng a' 1 1 '! 1 1 1 ° ,(1 11 / 4 1 ', 1 :Ma , lea ebb L gran d fre i ber o f the itii. o ;o co ; ,., toff-'' Vie' dirt fieppoi,42 re v t g O L'k tilit ° 90t 1 ',4, r of t l ' e • soP e le ' for V t/ 41t, A t , • t i r ca l„ c th .zea te ff j i oxPd °r r 0 13 ., t f W e x eve" "L , .'O a ho,• el//, ') ~4 1) in g the F.,,t°023:11 110 0°- ' fto l t ll/ )re s iper,rti 0, 15 e 'I LialV i to" o ofj,clc , jn fot v t otist it i!' hoe co ; $ o f) ; 113 16 10 0 1/1 0; 1 ,14 4, co t n e „ the btlld w.--e bs to 1 ,..; v e . 0 0 ,11 11,4 rod' ' 1 c° tooPpo al e° re „ ol! ' Ti !y e eil 1" c laao s igo c 1.3 ) '0 4 4 / ;:: S oY c or) c o , iiti c of e, .4 1 f it 0 0 1 11 iitl ° • c b s e re' tri.' 0 91 ti le e. , ; v __„rl) ~, for';osr . y e, pOSeedLerbed a rt' t } , 7 0 01 00 ' A olv'f of r eta a licalV r 'ii c ts, c 3ll oV e • t I dir too- .of 3e r rge r eil)Altl 5 1 , 4 11 S Ca 01V te l r n not We c i l ee 155 1011 ' nior o hav e , Ol oe tr o lj D ir Do g ro t A l F olts,i ie st I ce 1 0 0 0 0 rn)," . DLL e tr i ' i i ' i rroV4 l d l o morn fte r -' • • 5,- s th A. a eS ,, 1 1 0' 4 %te r ' ore 1 4 1 11 dis . o r t i,eY ti vo,, ,aue r .li l ei h l ! f ic'o . s :e. 11 ' . 0 0 '' 1 0 tro t „x ' g ti odolet tl i Pro,,Mt, titlb ;ear, s 40i z s • a g fir t' burn,o ' or'pr• r ,- r , s r d v e the ths of the k Committee and their friends likl,, L . e ann eo ,__ . Dock Y : Theyl4stifleetion of the Great Bank at Leasowe, on i n un te, and r t e Prince's Pier in the Trafalgar, at half- CeVDettt a. veeps,ll:ieti about seven in the evening, after isrrn exe.-__ l3o , ri easa nt d ay. ,rrortana restoon:ste.,rmai_aejo,rtthye, return match between the ous inner, - ince's Pa r e - „,,l's took place upon the ground o_ th 11 ; 1 33' au 'norm ' ' 4l e 4 that club again came o ff yin it reston, i o te1388"1' k ji the score being—Olympus, b lat et for tha Icc4RD Esq., on Wednesday concluded a Laaer y n ~" 1311rehaSe 'of the'Poltim . ore mining set, plant, thi n " " n 44 ntate • for the emi -IrinaN 4 r Mils for the sum of 22, li r Akt.e er „111 of messrs. Brocklebank and , Co., of Liver litai..esj: 0. vazette e l2 e Nv e;', E r • I.H. C. Chapman, and Mr. ktl.te. 'a i (It- --4 : ' 11.P. ' 3 r American Chamber of Com- Ill kilj ha an i ic ' n fr° " l . the L d Stanley of Alderley, on t w ese as , , __ e terview with or 6 1 ,1 Ilk d ' the Board of Trade, relative to the Bills of e lltki h 4r al r e ss in e . ,n at the Manchester Police Court, guilty of e. 4,1 bee n 441 disorderly conduct, the first pleaded that e til e,ae d a t ,‘ a two, the second that he had been a_ t a I..,4,t'ltlessi the last tvvo that they had been at a christening. i,l,iestlia...s SI%XED DV THE LORD-LIEUTENANTOp . I, t e : Sttial;'"",7th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia . 1 ; l kte t t:lit, ve c :', B cl., late lierttenant Royal Canadian beee.,eu. . °us enbY, deceased ;L. Fort, gent., to a S I LIIIt p,,.. ' 4 tel e ' 4 411 ° i,' , the inspector of the northern district, in of 3' DtltteoueSter is included, states that the question was ,Pe lli t t o re eoBl3fa'llrrile juveniles in a union school, ‘: CW.hckatoossT 1 1 r it . r ern keep i'" The answer was c . ,_ ''. ‘lr-` b are l ' °ll Si-. GEORGE'S HALL.—The Law Courts a 0 T. tesLagreed to recommend the Council to appoin t , e sal ar y test t. .;,°_ the Post of organist in St. George's Hall 't? ' t Qox )9 ° , 4 eet, is . r-/ o . th .num. ,) !lees, a %he iti,a, window of Mr. Jones's shop,. ~k,t, ,p,altuta'' Black Ball" nugget, hininCgas4Btle4- • 4 ess rs. 3 5' Ilies sr , ;t,;. k 2,000. It was shipped " pe g r the e ß . c cr d thkeeeet'iap I laie4 a eltie, Baines, and Co., Melbourn , f ', 0 1: . 1 ' 7, 1 11 , fad 1 1. 1 . 11ee,,, 1 1 Co., of this town. Campbell was ( .aer... e :, 'a eent' s 41•ri a ..k.MPEELL. Vil otisk y att wi th ge in Hale villag ßec e, t°r on Monday, by P''' t he en,u t tfise c i . '4„,a brewer's cart, and severely,'brit_ not It' 4 TAL "eage, pai n :Ole horse made its way to Chilewall, 1 , 4 ne raa Atte4l.Pired. A'Y Ithe t', at 1 AC CIDENT.— On Friday afternoon, _ a v‘ttli,ct, b y l ll t at warei4aYer, engaged on the . amalgamated rail cl b_ . e }Alf? afar the Waterloo-station, was lim?ck .. ed e ks ale wdr er h eneine and the wheels of th_ ih i l :o l 4 z t t b St a ' aa ni „ . _ a eti OVer his' body 'cut him in two, and death kr e 4,-...at e.t7teous. 4rjellif,,e' tsar tbBe' eurcNo4Zred-I?;lCFolriodaneyl 11 e n Friday, r b O R e m b e e men of the rra r L d a , i .s i c ri e d. - . a . , et stall, s t . 40, ?f Lancaster's Yeomanry Ca_valry, arrived fey ar e 4 re s.. Helen, u .,,5• The latter consisted of itroops Bothfron )0,1 , Refsta , eholton, Rochdale, and - ore 9 7 ., y , itr e : reY.here six days for drill, and next rhu er rs r eta ee, e l l ig Ng tile'ewed in the neighbourhood of Wav t i tt _ ta k t,l l ol , 111 In are billetted. Ilet'lktiot'tl ee4XEWSPAPER STAMP ACT.—We learn from •C . .- e ot.i.• tle r i l e d to credit, that Government has in con e t42,`llltst?p_eal of the present Newspaper Stamp NALtthe Post- has been so very unsatisfactory. . The Act, raei - , 3, ,_ I,,est-office, as derived from the transmission of ''elt`LN o i7„ fallen off greatly since the act came into i'D i114,1)4'4'g certain "s yet kneren as to what plan will Ile ellot e n An the suNe i ct ; but it is thought a halfpenny irfat'utetti:okely to be tried.—Manchester Guardian. tt ti, tltpli°.:l' shires sfer of the South 'ee • le neashire and Yor Company has been .lal. promising- chan ges i n t h e management teh will have the effect of increasing the id inducing 'persons to reside in much mg he.line. One of these changes is the , at very moderate rates. This, together Inctuality, and th e known desire of the Jrkshire Company to encourage building stations of their lines, will be materially le to the proprietors, while the public will lt a rr tage lso. Q 44rryTilee;--This beautiful iron sea-boat ..,,__d? morning week, at 3 o'clock, from North upages-erTeiriowaythaeerrdagipa,o.srgsa.7l(so'uth) in 90 hours, after knots throughout. She ` °r se Power, ~ ,.,,,,eweastle ; and the engines, lnien tier length i54111,91.)Y Mrn'djP beam 24 feet. the Independence Steam, feet, Company, Mr. , t ter autt Land ie the fourth vesserbelonging to it. " tc,he'r, tut' 'belonging to the same compare, 4 ''''tti ''' u e Place will be ready in six 'meets, , Y o r ap 1 8 . ticit -41 e unsurpassed' in England for poser 1 T e en Ptin P 7 i4 g the 7 ,, Q t LOCAL STEAMERS.—The prae o tt m e ec, a ; 'eph ' ra ce's Pi er ',ere monster landing-stage te . , l b: tea m riers, "..I., c 't thp' ee essf l de to the use of the ocean mail t t ,, , r,, - Pre s , „' Y 'demonstrated more than once weeks .ago the 4°al ser elv.sL., - " treat landing-stage. A few weee s' i r .y i t,l„ l 44' e ksi t l e s'ile,,,, •er Oneida embarked a number l o e f iteam al er kle , rde Vi and eaturday week, the padd _ _ v . "' l le Monday the Cunard steamer Arabia, SNale , aon • accident. They came and 8 ;_ 411 without a single . it Nei, of the ',IT/led .away again without any difficulty. kiiitky• her peeida is most striking ; a screw-steamer, l ite ,to o t le s ,Large size, is the most _difficult kind of craft etejNaetd — Q„ „a I nanceuvre. And it must be borne in .4 % '' 'oat - 'Be case named, the business of the various Nll , k t he 4lll. s was little interfered with. 1 , 1 (11N4,, 1): 1 oo •,,,9tlliaraixtii.s.—At the weekly meeting of 4aiir`le,,pri Zednesday, present, Mr. Joseph Harrison, 4 41,' Okepte.sers. Abrahams, Lunt, Medcalf, Bieuidrit, LttlE,'"lelittzeairf,_ltts, Ediverds, Birch, Mountfield, Wenide3, tN' t ope.,was a,''', Iloherts and Callis, Mr. William d'a , eo ie ,''Pointed nted to value that portion of the Tee tlitt;:el4,ok.se, al'e township of Kirkdale which consists of l ' i Ni ti w k a h: aniklexoth e- evxtions, and property adjoining om tt:Zcql:rop,c,DsZtued, Ptecr:xecan.nf,:eiot.. exceedingetn Workhouse, and see if ZlO. klk, l nit o ki , ufteratious 'are necessary. Mr. Thomas 1 , 1 4.4 t of 21.1141:)Inted temporary assistant-overseer, in the n th,,it°,,,,,t1:,,,er eleiTaYlo7, - deceased, for four weeks, at 41-en4kCetei'tees god • It aeas resolved that an addition be t - ,`'e ; ,'tek",.t. pan ge, at a cost not exceeding £3O. The n t l ,' th e ' l ili e ,,N 6Z e rs relieved in the Workhouse during tt 4t ,c orre ea, e ts land the out-door paupers numbered d ;be e k r,;!% s ,P o ,l4l? ing ` Ivin;cl?or, and 183 out-door, compare Itbeh , eet y 6 , Ne ts „ ,, eee iz last year. et7le s I , tri e ,„`'otirt ,°.---On Tuesday, Mr. Pollock, Judge N e ts fi,,;!otesill 043;ra i iudgrae nt in the case of " r u o t t rl i o, i : 's.h i ss e:, 4 t ,thed ef .!6°, .in which the landlord 4 e. 'ee ts e wh ios ne (i efeu '_ozalt for damages,. for injury done Wai nt al si n , ; ;. , adj oi . n eant keeping a casino in the .Free 'le! i ',', l , rr,i,`a,,' des Queens Queen's Hotel. After citing ..d it\;'l4 ,ht le ;' honour said, "It cannot be less with' h eld be'r"erewhe his business as a hotel eilLtlie eao ki„ t , tl4 'lef e . r a rl e ithe very ll nature of the ai.moy "; rYone use Of e ke , dat e „,_eng continued seriously inter gese ' 'e e -4 ' 4 "ce to the plaintiff's business, to htititlsticetiobede th e ja proved ' ''''ll l .4 : 4 o , ll- led . in the summons e is e we n. - let fb ea se I .to li vetilence and annoyan . • con tl,,.r th e ~e.. .vill it , ev e tVelfe of ‘reintife ' • ' jean._ 'ne wit na et te e , Le, I think, be met by CI f be te% accrued from this nins . a v n ii ce ig . eOtednent itself 'ISS 1A1,7i1l 4 Nn., 44t° the - I of not'ca,..tlaed*" eas, to i H nc e lu w d a e sd a an l o l r c xm o i s oi t uas s . , " '' 4' -' easih - - Vriet y - ;.m misunderstoo ' Netl h et wiCh ° o l asie sA, °r impropriety of. perm itting `all ~a , fn .. „ us dui -„ue s, an d dancing rooms,. it I+ 4 ',• ,1a.,1' e, It u„,, -- Y,,nor his . inclination to inquire. t ( ke . : tll i, - It rested ne peculiar circumstances of a ' N nog -- Pre eed --vti on e he principles, and was in ac tl.4,k4 ili'l`ttol, lees to which he had abo7 adverted. n i . l i tits ot q'N ~, At the .Coroner_s-c n ou i r n t ia, ? t, • Ycl e f • 4 , wh as held upon the body r i 'li ia k th a etS e,. °B e Parents reside at 37, He o nry a tl A w bo or u d t . . 2 '-4 Tee- -e these • The mother .stated -44 'ateda ' I fed my baby, and put , ve k . and „3' afternoon, lot hi 4 44 ,4 en I went out and got some drink. My ~. the ,?!.1 ill, and aud fighting in the street, and some `t e 11 lic',adow I got him up-stairs, and he jumped Dit l4. tt,;!Il was badly hurt, and .taken to the k I A . Cli,,, Qf liar when I returned, I found the deceased ,fqZ,..t4o_froC,,garet Carlan dead ; Carlin told me eNcee , N il l .. ;, t, (the infant) between ' i tlp t (iii' l !, l ,nt h r , ''te face." —The verdict returned was, my bed and E l ',, lie;,!iles;?,,no evidence to show." Another inquest 1. "iet7i-sit,;4"riee, aged 34, formerly residing in No. , j it i l ,tett? to ,f,,i' The widow said, "He had been very ,t.) he b_e forthieking, but latterly had become_ more s a 'kit e tht a F ~ It, N i sk s tied . , go he came home wi_th e h i ss us ne eir T e er i v 4 zt hin e a , h _ ,ie ee til t - t el e . was in drink then. H 1 4 t( ) toad 4 littl 1,. he could eat scarcely anything ee ,eah,„,'Ve rda eat, „e drink every day, because he could ~i!ediil. In breeeiun Tuesday morning he remained in e'ed ah 4 o e as N‘ti t .' t , I observed a change_ for the worse, , L ' Rah. l it f0,474iete,1 Re Prescribed for him, and I gave ' , (l a eh t o , ° clo t ; lie continued ill all that night, i t; 4 Tt li t e P°ll th` h e %I% Tuesday morning:'—Mr. Henry 4 104 hah i , e oece fellows' Society, stated that he had ,tl3,lbl4DtPliitt;B aB ed, who died from the result of I, t t k e e Y „,tO : 1 ,, 1e Ti 0 ,„ ri, b .41 1 -:,44, these-,nonn- that ClNADA.—Quebee, July 8. ice'', eat f ‘ ,'"Y that the efforts which have re "ie 41 4- 11 4:,t th e esn!!'?2ntile communities of Montreal n ,li it4 l lf t 4 il ski: tip, Dao"4lBelisinnsit.of a new have line of a at length eee e t t tllllet in I,4lree govern ment, lY strAngly pressed by e i , kt i re hesideratr C anada, has consented to supply ' t ' t, °*, E llkh 410 41 , and a contract has been entered k ,1 1 ''.k,4 4 k, 7. :-..v. es a.n, of Montreal, the terms of which et,titllyea ° nrte en 7 8 , of 1,750 tons, and 350 horse „toh I Ns n t liont.,, ?roightly trips from Liverpool to . N th,., t 24,(,f„,,riPs Portland in each year, at s 4 r lii h raoy , r.rrio sterling'. Tenders were made by Ltrk '° th' 4 o wlearaZreseutedi _by Mr. Lamont, of Liver- Ti4Zlik of .01, indeed !arger and more powerful , 41 , ti v ee t w eith er th, it is said, were to be fully 1 , ri1e e .e4,..9 lhti t , ; ? C ollins or the Cunard line; but , 4 tnrm'Nutment and as to the amount of actual bonus , ~ i ll n,_ pwat.(1:1!,,,! for the services proposed Mr. ht:illkzDt.ed /,", 1:30,000, the tender of his firm ~,,. w it , ne in , „ e organ of the government in k 41 qt ' 4 11•"" feet of N'llk i,'N h e „ • All au .. the contract having been exit h as a '_,l a l's - --" The fact that the corn ? 4,1 ,ios. its y for a sa y s "" interest in Canadian trade 411tth:aei.11 1 4 8 ; at a4uyeTnLent performance of the con ,,,,ltt‘hreaet 41..rt'aesten the strictest ceonardietioasnssuurpoedntthhant eethne. r ie;,!th it lehtesticleeNi! the right of annulling the con z' 13 04 1 , ' 8 3 been en %a_tion .tke place during the five ,vred into ~ to, Correspondent of 31, 18 55 • J ULY 0 - LY 65 o ne - bonds and ,'„, l ' e :: 01, 18 LOC AL INTELLIGENCE. ,' Ipro s ecuted ate } c 1,600, 000, tbe - i i # k) /I :ash, and the re1 1 , a .4 , w I tslt C R ------- - 0 --.---- d l3 svo teli i n -.INE, a teetotaler, living at Manchester, died , . . et, Toxteth bonds an t tcz ~. a fit br paid, and oat y , ISZ , v . 1 , ought on by excessive drinking. as par a ble . ' "stre 'IL MICEILE delivered an open-air lecture at ) interest cori t) ti r.lly di rected -park, on Friday evening, at seven o'clock, and shares, ac, lie agaa . nst the sin of drunkenness. About let. No Call is ' CI t ) kg.Z'3llS listened ;., to be credited , 4R t ... most attentively to the discourse. Should anY e str '„ , 4 1.1)a v e l)e ,!. atil t-I : i t :vtol; New Ross, of the Nation ' ' for the Teed to accept P 3! . ! Pool ce . last Ross, is on a visit to his friends t time previous to his departure for id St. Lawrea , t, ND . 11 bonds ands ii,h_YATII, _as 00,000, which ar' ve t of T2o rary 8. 7 . on Wednesday elected, without oppo- ser-uowndes, resigned. .1. 404 , 4 1, r....i ten ulieoll to the Liverpool Dispensaries, in the contractor s l e ~ the I; :e bonds of t. ' ns—uisA movrxEux the sister of the Earl of Sefto . n, original coNitrac,,: I , " l iter a o ti t d „aY week. Her fadyship was the second surviving mks from PL', 0 q 4,11. the late Earl and Countess of Sefton. deakidle ,4jO,NVERTREE.—On Monday night, last week, Lie Peterboro,ulu;gro itractors a.m. b r iao.,,, ie n Ntit '''' at P4 ton Lod w be Victoria- 1 ,94 j the rer Y °f servants' r consider o' 01. I N . mi t livery and other clothing, and £4 ICh3 rs to •tF ~Autel • g o , Leal plan for 1 v ." ti e tre at to dark them b that works re , som e ~ t G9l', a Manchester butcher, aged 28, havince 4 off . . 0- called " friends "to several pints of est 1 3„ t i t i n convtililbravado a pint at a time, and died soon I! su "___,.. from ; i".de th.. liztliq .., I °. ll s. iinbactoetilitractori, uoruo become fe fill Kss e ,,` tr 4 i,,1,Z 4 erable e • I'4 •Lis, te.„ 6 l ate ? tp at Phi ° ent of er tr,4 11 44 1 0 1 e, !entre' _ l e otq a her, au4 t. al b y se. Crk `lek ote P k ir kshi eas ed ets, the de 0 ; 5 01 Put t ;litircli or vario„.. o 'to] se nd duz:.o.7 k t o the cas'' y lt ark e ",t4a,ll 3 , lent ;if fot Ve t i ) ;Tk i ;aciva l ling pers ,y t el di e te 4.L• 117 ,„ ) much ff.s.l Zd 4 ,,, h a . 0 4 s un ) n h 4 a g v lng B to ad ;rk and sex. ppage, of the ec"...„'1 0 . ° 1 :04'01 .1 0 1 1 r. to be re'rk 9 %Ili "°rse R x 9- - ki j a 4k,° l tAta el ds• i arishes , edi 't `'"g)z 1 „,"Y th t .eased . o 'ol l t c }:„' LU. ' ijSti s4ll4 get a foga t°, tlatit , an t i reqtli It $O,lO bc e chut '''rtt ,k WO lll4 i tY r i ! o -8 , _ teasel LORD SEFTON continues in a very precarious state. No improvement has taken place during the last week. THE Royal Mail steam-ship Baltic, Captain Comstock, took her departure hence for New York on Saturday, with about 200 passengers, a full cargo, and the usual mails on beard. THE body of James Murphy, aged twenty-two, of Rich mond-terrace, Vauxhall-road, who had been missing since Tuesday, was found floating in the river on Friday. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Friday afternoon Catherine, aged forty, wife of James Lemon, dock labourer, India-buildings, Tithebarn-street, was accidentally killed by being run over by a lorry, in Tithebarn-street. THE large and splendid iron paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Prince Patrick, built for the North Lancashire Steam Navi gation Company, will be launched from the building yard of Messrs. Thomas Vernon and Son, Brunswick Dock, to-morrow, (Wednesday.) THE SUBSCRIPTION LIST for the benefit of the widow and family of the late Mr. Houldsworth, who was drowned recently while bathing at New Brighton, already represents the sum of £300; and it is anticipated that another £lOO will be raised, which, with what has already been obtained, and an insurance policy of £250, will at least remove the recipients from the fear of actual want. MORTAR-CASTING AT MANCHESTER.—In addition to the rifles and other arms making for the army at Manchester, Messrs. Ellis and Co., of Salford, have engaged to make tea 13-inch mortars, each of which will weigh, when complete, about 5 tons. The clean casting for the first mortar was on Friday removed from the foundry of Messrs. Ellis and Co. to their fitting-up shop, to be bored for completion. THE SMOKE NUISANCE.—On Wednesday, the followitg penalties were inflicted under informations preferred before the borough magistrates by the Smoke Inspector :—Mr. P. W. Brancker, Sheridan-street, £5 ; Mr. John Jones, North street; 40s. ' • Messrs. Irvine, Son, and Jones, rice-mill, Black stock-street, £5 ; Messrs. Smyth Brothers, tanners, Blackstock street, £5 ; Messrs. Broadhurst, Hill, and Smith, Edmund street, £5 ; Mr. W. Downham, owner of the steamer Ayrslire Lassie, 50s. THUNDERSTORM.—On Friday afternoon, one of the series of violent storms which appear to have traversed the land visited the suburbs, at the south end of Liverpool, causing consider able damage to the standing crops, washing down rails, stables, and partially-built houses, and creating much alarm in the district. The storm was not of long duration, or, doubtless, the damage would have been terribly augmented. A WHALE IN THE MERSEY.—A few days ago a large whale paid a visit to the Mersey, in whose waters he dis ported himself for some time, spouting the water through his respirators in copious columns. After floating about for several hours, having the appearance of a boat, bottom upwards, he left these "gay and festive scenes," taking his departure in wake of one of the coasting steamers, for the purpose, as was suggested, of being pioneered clear of the shoals and sandbanks which are so numerous in the channel. THE colonial papers take a favourable 'notice of the little treatise on coffee, or "An Appeal to Common Sense," by Mr. Smith, of the London and Noth-western Tea Company, Liver pool. The Colombo Observer.Ceylon,hasinserteditin extenso. Mr. Smith says :—" It would be a great improvement in the consumption of coffee if the public would imitate the conti nental custom of grinding their own the fragrance and spirit of coffee are extremely volatile, and most abundant when warm from the mill. It is chemically impossible to retain the qua lities or arrest the deterioration of coffee when ground. The heat engendered by the 'process of roasting, and especially of grinding creates an .actioi in its elementary parts, which gra dually destroys its fitness for drink, and whether encased from the air or not, it is found that, when ground, the oil it con tains rapidly precipitate, and its properties, which, to be ser viceable, should be conbined, -are soon and effectually sepa rated. The conapany'scoffees, when transferred directly from the mill to the breakfist table, will afford a treat to connois seurs, or those who we fond-of a cup of real coffee?' ONE WOMAN STAIDING -ANOTHER.—At the Police-court, on Saturday, Catheine Jones, a married woman, living in Hornby-street, was charged with stabbing Elizabeth Price, •a respectably-dressed woman, who appeared with a bandage round her head. On Friday evening, the 'two women, who are neighbours, pot to high words, and subsequently to blows; and while struggling together, the complainant received a serious wound o'er' the left eye, from which the blood flowed so copiously tint she was speedily reduced to a fainting con dition- For tie prosecution it was alleged that the wound had been infibted by a pair of scissors, several witnesses swearing positively to having seen the prisoner take some thing out of ier pocket, and strike the complainant, one of them deposhg to having distincly seen the point of the scissors as tie blow was being struck.; while for the prisoner it was urgei that the injury had been aecidentallyproduced by the womanfalling upon the debris of a mug, which had been broken in he scuffle. The magistrates ordered the prisoner to pay £lc or be committed for two months. BANIERtPTCY COURT.—On Wednesday, John Walsh, lately carrying m business as a corn broker, appeared before Mr. Commissbner Perry on an applicMion for his certificate. Mr. Hull, or . behalf of the bankrupt, applied for an adjourn- mend of the case for a month, siatingthat by that time he would ix able to show that the young man did not deserve to be - visitd so harshly as might at first appear. An adjourn ment vas granted.—Richard Williams, late a draper in North Wales,after some opposition by - the assignees, passed his last , examilation, and the certificate meeting was fixed for the 2nd Of Autust.—George Elmes appeared before Mr.' Commissioner -Steveisoll on application for his certificate. The case was adjourned.—The examination of J. G. Claus was further -adjorrned to have the balance-sheet amended.—Thomas -Hewitt, who carried on business at Ormskirk as a provision sir, applied on Thursday for his certificate. He was - Opposed, on the ground of not keeping proper books, and a :preference given to a creditor. The Commissioner, after ask- ring a few questions relative to the assignment, considered that the justice of the case would be met by suspending the certifi cate for six months ; the certificate to be of the second class.— In the case of John Williams, a joiner and builder, at St. Asaph, Mr. Evans offered no objection on the part of the assignees to his certificate ; but as the bankrupt had not kept -a cash account, the commissioner granted a second-class cer tificate only. CHARGE OF EmeuzzLnainaT.—Robert White was, on Saturday, at the Borough Police-court, charged with em bezzling £6 odd, belonging to his mployers, Messrs. Taylor and Son, coal-merchants, Great Howard-street. The prisoner was engaged by them, a:few weeks ago, to solicit orders and collect accounts, which duties he Cischarged for about a month, when he discontinued his moulds on the plea of ill health. Mr. Taylor thought there wassomething suspicious in his conduct, and he-caused inquiries t) be made, which re sulted in the discovery that the prisoner heel collected upwards of £6, for which he had not accounted. Ire caused him to be apprehended ; and his-wife had since retuned £2, as part of the money which he.had not given up. The wisoner protested his innocence of crime, and asserted that hissudden indisposi tion was the only cause which had preventd him from ful filling his duty to his-employers ; when recover, he intended to have refunded the money. The bench gavellim the benefit of the doubt, and permitted his discharge. NATURAL PIEENOMBRON.—Two African ehiblen, twins, five years old, who are united together by a bony carilexion in the lower part of their backs, were brought to this tevn, on Wed nesday, from America, in the ship Arab. They wet>, originally born in Africa, sold as slaves to a Cuban planter, aid by him resold to a Dr. Mingley, of the United States. 14-b l is death, they were placed by the government under the -car e of their present guardians, Professor Millar and Mr. Thompon, who have brought them to this country. The African wins are an interesting study for the physiologist, and - far exceed in interest many of those prodigies which have from tme to time been brought before the public for exhibition. Ti s y are inseparably united by injunction of the spines at the-lowe part of the back, in such a manner that the death of .one sbuld necessarily involve the destruction of the other. in walling, they move in a lateral or sidelong direction, though witheuteny apparent difficulty. Their countenances are pleasing keid expressive, and their general appearance such as to a favourable impression upon the mind of the visitor. T',e :usual playfulness of children characterises all their mov% ments, and they enjoy excellent health. Each appears to pos seas a distinct mind and freedom of action, striking instance, of which are occasionally exhibited, though, generally speak ;lug, little variation is observable in their tastes and habits, in the presence of strangers-the twins are exceedingly. lively, Ind exhibit the usual aptitude for chattering peculiar to -children of their years, and also indicate the precocity of intel lect peculiar to the negro. There is everything in their appear ance to interest, and nothing repulsive to the most fastidious. After being a short time in England the twins will visit France, and afterwards return -to the United States. The profits derivable from their exhibition are to be appropriated to .the liberation of their parents and brothers and sisters from,slavery. They have been visited by many of the leading members of the medical profession in this town. The follow ing certificate has been signed by -tbe principal medical gen tlememin Liverpool :—" July 25, 1855. We have examined carefully to-day the African twins. They are completely united below the body, posteriorly, by a bony union, and the band of communication is in all about sixteen inches in circumference. With the exception of •these parts the bodies of both are perfect. They are interesting, lively, and intelli gent little ,peorole, and have nothing of monstrosity in their appearance. It is impossible to see ‘them without being pleased with their manners and lively -chattering.—John O'Donnell, M,D., Thomas Inman, M.D., Thos. Lewis, M.D., Thomas Blackburn, P. Macintyre, M.D., W. Wright Manifold, M.D. and Surgeon, B. Bickersteth. LivEnrom, TOWN COUNCIL—The following subjects will be discussed at the quarterly Council meeting to-morrow : The proceedings .of the Finance Committee, comprising, recommendation to increase the salary of Mr. Linton Hughes, from £4OO to £450 per annum.—The election of four members of the Council to be .members of the Dock Committee, for the affairs of the estate of the trustees of the Liverpool Docks, in the place of Edward Langsdale, Oliver Holden, William Mann, and James Holme, Esquires, who retire from and go out of the said committee, in accordance with the provisio' ns of " The Liverpool Dock Act, 1851."—Resignation of Mr.. James T. Pownall and Mr. William H. Daunt, two of the commis sioners appointed by the Council to inspect, audit, and adjust the accounts of the trustees of the Liverpool Docks, under the Dock Acts, and appointment of two commissioners to fill up and make good the vacancies caused by such resignations.— The proceedings of the Courts of Law and St. George's-ball Committee, comprising, recommendation to appoint Mr. W. H. M`Kenzie, as superintendent of the building, including the ventilation, at the salary of COO per annum ; Richard Williams, as engineer, at the wages of 255. per week; John White and Martin Scully, stokers, at the wages of 21s. each per week; Thomas Noble and William Handsome, as labourers, at 21s. each per week; and John Archer, joiner in attendance, at 30s, per week : recommendation to appoint Charles Green, now hall porter at the Town-ball, head porter at St. George's-hall, at the salary of 30s. per week ; and Mrs. Green, housekeeper, at the salary of £5O per annum recommenda tion to appoint Mr. Best organist of St. George's-hall, at the salary of £3OO per annum.—The proceedings of the Health Committee, comprising recommendation to promote Mr. Ro bert J. Brew, Mr. Joseph Jones, and Mr. John J. Langley, rate-collectors, from third class to second class collectors, the consideration of which was postponed at the last monthly Council, pursuant to the standing orders.—The proceedings of the Water Committee, comprising recommendation that Mr. John Hall, collector of water rates, be advanced from the situation of third class collector, to that of second class col lector, and that his salary and poundage be calculated at £lBO per annum, the consideration of which Was postponed at the last monthly Council, pursuant to the standing orders. — Report of the Special Committee appointed on the 19th day of May last, on the subject of the purchase of the docks and properties of the Birkenhead Dack Trustees, and of the Bir kenhead Dock Company.—The Coroner's account, amounting to £29 ss.—The mayor's communications, comprising resolu tion and report of the Visiting Justices as to arrangements Preliminary to the opening of the new gaol at Walton ; and letter from the chairman of the Reformatory Committee, stating that Government had allowed the lazaretto Akbar to be used as a reformatory for j uv enile s , and requesting per- , mission to moor the same in the Great Float, Birkenhead, THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. AT STURMINSTER PETTY SESSIONS last week, William Thick, of Stalbridge, was summoned for swearing several pro fane oaths. Defendant admitted the offence, and was fined 6s. and costs. A SIGNIFICANT FACT.—There is so great a pressure of business in Doctors' Commons, owing to the war, that con siderable delay is caused in granting probates.—Letter from London. A ROBBERY was recently committed in a house in Clifton, while the family were absent at afternoon service. The thieves left written on the kitchen table the words, " You should watch as well as pray."—Bristol Times. A NEWCASTLE NEWSPAPER, in noticing the state of trade on the banks of the Tyne, says that the manufacture of Epsom salts is pretty brisk, and that one firm alone is manufacturing 20 tons a week. THE DIRECTORS of the East India Company have given the necessary notice of their intention to reduce the rate of inte rest on India bonds from 4 per cent. to 32 per cent., from the 21st of July next. LOLA MONTES, with a theatrical troop under her charge, left San Francisco on the 6th of June, in a sailing vessel ( the barque Fanny Major), bound for Australia. She will join the stage there, and will afterwards go to Europe, via China, Cal cutta, and Sebastopol. THE PITMEN of Northumberland' celebrate the birth of a child by throwing a "luck-bag" of salt into the fire. The other day, at Blythe Folly, a miner, who had had an addition to his family, threw, in mistake,a bag of gunpowder into the fire ! The house was shattered, but no one was killed. THE Morning Herald states that in the course of a few months we shall count our gun-boats by scores, instead of by twos and threes. Such a fleet is building, and ordered to be built, that within the next six months we shall have the most effective powers for prosecuting naval warfare in all classes of powerful ships. MESSRS. BASS, of London, have several large vessels on their way to Balaclava with their renowned ale and porter, of which they purpose keeping up a floating depot of 800 tons, in their ship Tartar, for supplying the wants of the army at a very trifling advance upon London retail prices. A PARTY OF NEGROES, dressed in the newest style of Parisian fashion, are now visiting Paris. These ebony gentle men are functionaries at the Court of his Imperial Majesty, Faustin I.—better known as Soulouque. Among them are General Count Eloa, senator, Grand Chancellor of the Empire of Haiti ; Viscount Elba, his son ; Baron • Simom, senator ; and the Count de Val, senator. BY the death of Mrs. Ferguson, in East Lothian, Lady Mary Christopher, or her husband, Mr. Christopher, her right, will succeed to an estate, the rental of which was last year £38,000. Mr. Christopher has also in Lincolnshire estates to the value of £14,000 a year in right of his wife, for which he takes the name of Christopher. His original name was Dundas, and he will now have to take the name of Nisbet. THE Rev. S. Sunderland, vicar of Penistone (and rural dean), left home on Wednesday morning, in company with the Peni stone schoolmaster, to go by an excursion train to Chatsworth and Haddon Hall. On leaving the train at Rowsley Station, the rev. gentleman got into a cab, but the horses were restive, and, thinking it unsafe, he got on the top of an omnibus, which,before he had proceeded far, ov erset,and precipitated him on to the road. Ile died a few hours - afterwards. EXCHANGE OF COLONIES WITH FRANCE.—A rumour is current throughout the West Indies of a contemplated transfer of Dominica and St. Lucia to Prance, iu exchange for the French colony of Chandernagore in the East Indies. The Antigua and other colonial papers have given free circulation to this rumour, adding that the matter is under consideration of both governments, and will shortly be concluded, but they 'cannot trace it to anyregular fonndation.—Morning Chronicle. MADRID has been shocked by a frightful visitation to one family of cholera. On the night of the 11th, Lieutenant- General Schelly, who has been living for some time in the neighbourhood of Seville, his daughter, his two sisters, his 'head servant, the wife of the latter, and three domestics, all died from this dread plague. At the departure of the courier the wife of the deceased general, his mother, and his brother, the Marquis of Villa-Vilvestre, were in a state of agony not to be described. THE Lim Lours.--It is the love of mischief, we suspect, which is still strong 4n Lord Lyndhurst, rather than a pas ;ion for law reform, that inspires his attacks on so defenceless an object as the Lord Chancellor. Nothing has been done, no doubt ; no doubt, there is something whimsical in the half reasons which that dignitary gives for >his own inability to legislate : and it is not perhaps a mere vulgar error that the Solicitor-General alternately thwarts and tyrannises over a superior whose :powers he despises and whose temper is too gentle to resist. All that can be-said howeveristhat, so long as the two men are 'kept in their present relative position, somebody else ought to be charged with the duty of finding rational employment for the House of Lords.— The Guardian. THE RIGIfT OP FOOT FASSENGEES. — In the course of a trial before Mr. Justice Coleridge, on Saturday, where a widow sued for damages, her husband having been run over and killed by an omnibus, the learned judge-said he 'wished to ntake an observation. There was one thing it was really right to state. When passing along a street, the side pavements were for foot passengers, and the centre of the street was for carriages, and those persons who wished to cross were bound to watch their' opportunity—to use due care and caution; but at the end-or corner of a street, .if a foot passenger wished to cross, it should be known that the centre of the-street be. longed as , much to the foot passenger as to the carriage, and he had as much right to tell the-driver of a carriage to wait for him as for the driver to make him wait. A MOTHER SELLING HER BAH - Y.—One day last week, a woman, named Mary Green, who stated she was a native of Bedwin, - Suffolk, left her lodgings in Barnsley with her female child, four months old, and returned in . the evening without it. These circumstances coming to the knowledge of Mr. Woodruff, constable, the •woman was taken into custody on suspicion. She was asked to account for her missing child, and then stated that a shopkeeper at Silkstone had offered her a sovereign for it, and that she had accepted the sum and-sold the baby. On the officer going to Silkstone lie found this statement to be correct, and that the infant had been purchased for the sum named, by Mr. J. Berry, clothier. Mr. Berry is a married man, but has no children. The affair created =considerable excitement amongst the villagers, who assured the constable that the child would be well treated by its new parents. The mother of the infant stated that her husband was lame and could not work, and she was unable to nourish the child. ROYAL ASSENT.—The Royal Assent was given by Commission on Monday to the following bills:—Lady Raglan and Lord Raglan Annuities ; Endowed Schools (Ireland); Gold Wedding Rings ; Commons Enclosure (No. 2) ; Spirits (Ireland) Act Amendment ; Friendly Societies • Dublin Carriage Act Amendment ; Christ Church (Yrodinorden) Marriages 'Vali dity ; Burial-grounds (Scotland) • Bills of Exchange and Promissory tes ; Waveney 'Valley Railway ; Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway ; Wisbeach Port • Bolton and Nightin gale Road:; Royal Medical Benevolent bollege •, Londonderry and Coleraine Railway ; Cavendish-bridge and Hull and Ward Road ; Dagenham Docks ; London Necropolis and National Museum ; 'Honiton Road ' • East of Fife Railway ; Gateshead and Hexhasn Roads ; Portsmouth Railway ; Shrewsbury Im provement ; Great Northern London Cemetery ; Mid Kent and North Kent Railway ; .Barrow Harbour ; Birken head and Liverpool Dock (Trust) ; Property of Birkenhead Dock Trustees ; England and Ireland Improvement Commu nication ; Furness Railway ; Liverpool Docks ; South Stafford shire Railway, Livesey's :Estate ; Pedder's Divorce ; Cromarty Estate ; Hammond's Estate; Livesey's (Blackburn) Estate. A COLOURED SISTER Or MERCY AT BALAELAVA.—A letter from the. Crimea says :—" We have at present a lady of colour in Balaklava, and occasionally in camp, who is quite an original in her way, and an amusing specimen of the adapta bility to circumstances of the darker specimens of the genus homo. She is both a Miss Nightingale and a Soyer in her way. A native •of Jamaica, she has travelled extensively on the American continent, and has acquired great experience in the treatment of eases of cholera and dkarrhcea. Her powders for the latter epidemic are now so renowned, that she is con stantly beset with applications ; and it must be stated, to her honour, that she makes no charge for:her powders. She is often seen riding out to the front witlr-baskets of medicines )f her own preparation, and this is particidarly the case after In engagement with the enemy. Her. culinary powers are aso so great that eveusSoyer told her the other day she knew asmuch about cookingas himself. Mrs. Seacole is, moreover, a lighly intelligent woman, and a further proof that the race froii which she sprang ;is one capable of high intellectual deveopment. She may ,well exclaim with Othello— " Mistake me not for my complexion— The burnished livery of the golden sun." A lwrirr.—General Pelissier has just presented to the librarylf Algiers a volume of the :History of the Life of Ohrist, which was taken in the chapel Of the,cemetery of Sebastop)l. It is in the Slovenian language; and in the folio form, is bound in the ancient style, and gilt, and has two clasps in copper. On the top cover, in a gilt 'wreath, are the three personaget of the Trinity. On one of the blank leaves is written in Russian, " This book belongs to the Church of the Saints •of te Cemetery ;" and lower down, " Month of December—the priest Altin Bringin was here the 27th Decem ben, 1827." The whole life is divided into twelve parts, one for each moat' ; and the volume in question comprises the part for .the month of December. 'The 'book was panted at Moscow, and the paper is of a grayish colour. The titles of the chapters and the first letters of each paragraph.are in red ink, and dis gives it the appearance of the earlier pro ductions of the typographic art. The bottoms of the.pages are worn from constant use, and some of the pages are so dirty as to warrant the belief that the Russian clergy are not rigorously required to officiate with clean hands ; while other pages are stained with drops of yellow was which evidently fell from the candles which it is the custom to burn in honour of the saints. General Pelissier, in transmitting the book to the library of Algiers, wrote the following lines, and they have been pasted in one of the fly leaves :—" Headquarters before Sebastopol, 9th of June, 1855. History of the Life of Christ. Taken in the chapel of the cemetery of Sebasto pol, where victory carried us. The sacred objects and several other things were conveyed to the monastery of St. George, but this book was reserved by him who had the discretionary power, in order that it might be presented to the library of Algiers. It is in the Slovenian language and printed in the Blavonian characters.—Pelissier." THE WEIL•RNOWN DR. VERON, for some time chief owner and editor of the Constitutionnel, formerly a seller of quack medicines, lessee of the Opera, ournzet by profession, a sort of factotum or French Barnum in notoriety and universality— and humbug ! published lately, as all the world, or at least - all Paris, knows, his memoirs, under the title of " Memoires d'un Bourgeois tie Paris." The book is a compound of twaddle, of' gossip occasionally amusing, and of plentiful abuse of the author's enemies and praise of his friends. Worthless as the production is, its gossip and scandal combined have procured for it the honour of a second edition, to which appears pre fixed the following characteristic letter from Louis Napoleon, addressed to the doctor on receipt of a former copy of the work, and in gratef u l mem o r y of " the traveller's dinner at an inn," and former "relations" between the parties ;—" Palais des Tuileries, Bth March, 1855. My dear Mons. Vdron,—l have received with pleasure your " Memoires d'un Bourgeois de Paris," and I shall read the two last volumes especially with so much the more interest, as they resume the faithful souvenirs of a man who has seen much, who has judged soundly, and related without passion. Do not doubt that it will be extremely agreeable to me to find once more, in the writer who is collecting useful materials for the history of our times, the same man whose disinterested sympathy afforded me in days of difficulty the important support of one of the principal organs of the press. Receive my sincere thanks, and believe in my good wishes, N A roLEoN."—No one can accuse Louis Napoleo n o f turning his back upon old friends; and, whatever may be thought of the letter in other respects, it cannot be denied that it required no small courage in a French Emperor to allow of the publication of such an epistle, ad dressed to his friend Wron, in Ms own satirical capital.— Guardian, THE Gazette de Lyon states that, a few days since, a man, 121 years of age, passed through that city, accompanied by his two nephews, on his way to Savoy, his native country. This man had passed SO years at the Bagne, from which he has just been released ! AN ACTION for libel, brought by Mr. Rudgard, an alder man of the Lincoln Corporation, and Mr. Brogden, the Mayor, who is also proprietor of the Lincolnshire Chronicle, was tried at Lincoln on Friday. The action arose out of a claim made to waste lands by the plaintiff; and an insinuation was made in the Chronicle that he had but " confused notions of the important matters of meson and Mum." The jury found for the defendant. THE Grand Duke of Tuscany has released the unfortunate cigar maker, Cecchetti, who was sentenced to a year of impri sonment for reading the Bible in company with the members of his own family. The Marquis of Normanby had interested himself on behalf of Cecchetti, and the Grand Duke has now remitted the remainder of the sentence on condition of Cec chetti absenting himself from Tuscany during that time, and he is now in Genoa. SINGULAR WHIRLWIND.—On the afternon of Friday last . there was observed in one of the plantations at Abbotsford a whirlwind, running alonglike a dark furrow, shaking and twisting the branches as if it had been some aerial monster seeking to suck the trees from their classic ground. The same phenomenon was seen in the plantations at Dryburg, shortly before the thunderstorm which broke over the dis trict.—Scottish Record MR. PENNETHORNE, the architect, makes an ominous re port on the state of the public offices in Dawning-street. He describes the whole of them as ricketty. " The Colonial Office (says he, speaking before the fall of Lord John,) is worse than the Foreign Office." The latter "is propped or tied up in va rious parts :" and, adds the architect (for the admonition of Lord Palmerston,) "the First Lord of the Treasury's Office is, though in appearance strong, in reality in a more dilapidated condition than the others." SIAM.—I think it is likely a Siamese ambassador will next year visit the Court of St. James. The gorgeous splendour of the Court of Bangkok (as we have seen it) exceeds belief. When I can find time I propose to write an account of my visit and of Siam. It is a country of wonderful beauty, great resources, various productions ; and Bangkok will, I trust, become again what it once was—one of the largest emporiums in the eastern world, following only Calcutta and Canton.— Letter from Sir John Bowring. ALEXANDER MURRAY, a cooper, while walking in the neighbourhood of Sinclair Castle, was attacked on Friday night by a detachment of weasels, some fifty in number, which issued from beneath a furze hedge in a field. He kept them at bay with a fishing-rod, while they were making vicious springs at his person. He managed to kill two of the pack, and struck some others, which made them retreat to their holes. The same vermin had previously attacked a shepherd and his dog.—John o' Groat Journal. FAILURE Or A GOVERNMENT TRAINING SCHOOL.—The Kneller-hall School, after a large expenditure, has completely failed. From different sources we find that the building, estimated at £lO,OOO, has cost the country £41,000. The ex penditure for five and a half years has been £21,000. A lec turer on English history and literature at £5OO per annum, was one of the trainers of these teachers for pauper schools ! The number of students admitted was 120. Of those who have left, 19 are not now teachers at all, 15 are in other schools, and only 49 are in workhouse and penal schools. Swiss SENTENCE.—A sentence recently passed in Swit zerland upon a man found guilty of sacrilege, shows consider able ingenuity in the art of punishment. The criminal is to be exposed for a quarter of hour in the iron collar used at exe cutions, and under the surveillance of the executioner ' • to re ceive publicly sixty strokes of the rod, from the hand of the same dread officer ; five years of hard labour ; to remain ten years within the boundary of his native commune'; never to be able to marry, and to lose all civil and political rights ; to pass through certain religious exercises ; and, finally, to confess his crime in the church—a rod in his hand and a cord round his neck ! The tribunal from which his sentence proceeds is that of Obwald. AFFECTING INCIDENT;-011 Wednesday week, a woman, her husband, and child, were travelling to Weston•super- Mare by a train. When near Ashton, the child, which had been leaning against the door (the latter suddenly opening), fell out of the carriage, to the horror of all who witnessed it. The woman, with a scream, was about to jump after it, when her husband and some of the passengers near restrained her, and fortunately so, as the train was going at full speed. The agonising doubt of the poor parents until the train stopped at Nailsea may well be imagined. From Nailsea, the husband went back the line in search of his child, when he found it in the care of a woman, who had seen it fall out of the carriage, and, wonderful to relate, was only a little bruised about the face.—Bath Chronicle. Loss OF ANTIQUITIES FOR THE FRENCH NATIONAL MUSEUM.—We regret to state that letters from the East inform us that the greater part of the very fine collection of antiquities made by Mr. Place and Mr. Fresnel, at Babylon, have beendost just above the confluence of the Euphrates and the Tigris, between the villages Lechian and Kornah. The last advices state that they were several feet under the alluvial soil, into which they had sunk in four fathoms of water. We hear that Mr. Holland, commander of the Hon. East India Company's steam-ship Comet, repaired to the spot, sent down divers, and used every exertion to recover them, but without success. Of the whole of this magnificent collection only two rafts, containing 15 sculpture figures and one large bull, reached Bussorah in safety. DESTRUCTION OF AN ELEPHANT.—The large elephant, 120 years of age, late the property of Mr. Wombwell, being incapa ble of locomotion from diseased feet, the present proprietor gave directions for its destruction in the easiest manner pos sible. Accordingly, Mr. E. Price, 'veterinary surgeon, and Mr. Flewitt, chemist, of Birmingham, on Friday, proceeded to carry his wishes into effect. In 10 minutes from the application of chloroform the animal became totally insensible; prussic acid was then administered without effect, and two large doses of strychnine without producing any perceptible feeling of pain. Not succeeding in these endeavours, a continuous application of chloroform was made, in the hope that the animal might oink under it, but, after three hours' perseverance in this course, no difference of respiration being observed, the administration was stopped, and in one hour and a-half all effects of it had passed away. The only known means of 'destruction left were the knife and•the bullet. The latter was first tried (the animal again being chloroformed) and wounded a branch of the carotid artery, from which blood flowed in a tolerably sized jet. The opening was then enlarged with a knife, and the artery fully divided. In a few minutes the huge animal ceased to live, having died without a struggle, or evidencing the slightest feeling of pain. RUssIAN ESTIMATE or LORD RAGLAN.—The following ex tract from a4etter dated St. Petersburg, published in Le Nord, shows how Lord Raglan was appreciated by the Russians : " Lord Raglan," says the letter, " has died. During the entire period of the command of this noble general he succeeded in conciliating the esteem and respect not only of those with whom his nation was allied, but also of.the enemy to whom he was opposed. He was one of the last of the heroes of that glorious English army which, under the command of the Duke of Wellington, illustrated the English name on -so many battle fields, and of which the few remaining veterans bore on their 'breasts, till lately, the honourable tokens. Lord Raglan was on several occasions distinguished by the late Emperor Nicho las, as also by the reigning emperor. He will be personally regretted in Russia by all who had an opportunity of knowing and appreciating the nobleness of his sentiments and the up rightness of his character. As a subject he performed his 1, duty by obeying the command of his sovereign, and as .a soldier by valiantly defending the honour of his flag; but even in the execution of his duty he preserved unblemished to his death his own personal dignity and that of his country. He has fallen, like so many others, a victim to this disastrous war. Honoured be his memory, and respected be his grave ! which will be as sacred on the soil of Russia as on that of England; and, while pointing to:it, no Russian will refuse-to say—Siste, ,viator,heroem, cakes." Tin HoN. FECimic VlLLiEns.—The case of Wright v. Lord Maidstone came before Vice-Chancellor Page Wood, on Mon day. It was a bill filed by the plaintiff for the purpose of recovering from -the defendant the amount of a bill of ex. ,cban_ge for £lOOO, drawn:by the Hon. Francis Villiers upon, and , accepted by, the defendant, and discounted by the plain -tiff. The bill alleged that there had been several renewals of the original bill of exchange.; that, in October, 1854, the bill then running was renewed for three months; that when that 'bill .became due the drawer brought to the indorsee a bill in renewal of it, purporting to be signed by the defendant; that, thereupon, the old bill was given up to the drawer, and was cancelled or „destroyed ; that the renewal bill turned out to be a forgery. The bill had attached to it an affidavit, as in the case of asking to sue upon a lost instrument, and offered to indemnify the defendant against.any loss which might occur in the event of the bill alleged to have been destroyed being at any time presented for payment. To this bill there was a general demurrer for want of equity. The Vice-Chancellor said that, in the ease of a destroyed bill, there never was any difficulty in going at law, and, therefore, the Court of Chan cery had never interfered. The demurrer must, therefore, be allowed, but he would give leave to amend. FATAL TRUNDRRSTORMS.—On Monday evening Halifax and neighbourhood were visited by a very heavy storm of thunder and lightning., accompanied by a fall of rain which completely flooded the town and adjacent country, doing a vast deal of damage, and causing the death of a man named Jenkinson, alias Wooleijenk, who was swept away by the e, torrent at Waterside, which threw down the walls of a house in Water-lane, occupied by Mr. C. Wilkinson. A child, about eleven years of age, who was in bed at the time, was also killed. At Bottoms, a logwood mill was emptied of its con tents, and thirty tons of wood washed away. The accounts .from the neighbouring villages, especially in the northwest direction, tell a long tale of mishaps and loss. At Queenhead much injury was inflicted. Messrs. J. Foster and Son, of that place, are said to have sustained a loss to the amount of £l,OOO. Derby and the neighbourhood were also the scene of the force with which the storm raged for several hours. At the Derby railway-station the thunder and lightning were awfully terrific, and in some places the rails were under water. At Loughborough and Leicester the storm was unusually violent ; and at Ockbrook the rain descended in torrents for four hours. At Smalley the lightning struck the house of Mr. J. Wright. The electric fluid entered the room in which Mr. and Mrs. Wright were, and hurled them from side to side ; but they were not seriously hurt. At Helper the Union Workouse sustained some injury; and at Chevin a cow was killed by the lightning. DAMAG-118 FOE RAILWAY COLLISION.--At York assizes, on Friday and Saturday, was heard the action preferred by Mr. Hall, the Recorder of Doncaster, against the Great Northern Railway Company, to recover compensation for the serious injuries received by him while travelling from Leeds to Doncaster on the 3rd of January last, for the purpose of holding his sessions at Doncaster. The danges were laid at £10,500. The counsel for the plaintiff)" after giving an account of the accident, went on to state that Mr. Hall was carefully conveyed to the house of Mr. Teale, an eminent surgeon in Leeds, when it was found that the right thigh bone, at the point where it meets the knee joint, was broken in various places ; and one result was that at this moment, and so it would be to the end of Mr. Hall's life, that leg was about half an inch shorter than the other. The otherleg also was broken immediately below the knee, and both the arms were broken. It was about three months before he could leave his room, but at present he seemed to be restored to a very considerable degree of health. Besides personal injury, however, Mr. Hall's professional career had been damaged by the occurrence. He had lost two assizes, three terms, and one important year of his practice. In 1854, Mr. Hall's income was about £1,200, and this year, owing to his increasing practice, he estimated that his income would have been £2,000. £5OO for Mr. Teale, the surgeon who attended him, would be very moderate remuneration indeed. To establish a case of negli- . gence on the part of the company, two civil engineers were called, who gave evidence tending to show that the acci dent was caused by the " facing points" near the place not having a man to attend to them, and by the train being pushed instead of drawn. Witnesses were then called to prove there was no negligence, and that the disaster was purely accidental, The jury gave £4,500 damages. AN addition of 400 German recruits was made to the Foreign Legion, at Thorncliffe, on Thursday. THE banking establishment of Messrs. Strahan, Paul, and Bates, in the Strand, has been purchased by the directors of the London and Westminister Bank for the sum of £20,000. • UPWARDS of £30,000 of sugar duties were paid at the custom-house, Greenock, on Saturday and Monday, in con sequence, it is supposed, of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's late speech on the subject of the expense of carrying on the war exceeding his estimates. PRIZE MONEY.—The Gazette publishes a royal proclama tion, which orders that all officers and crews of British vessels of war who shall be sent in charge of any ships which shall be hereafter detained by any British vessels of war, shall share in any prizes captured in their absence by the ship on the books of which they may be borne at the time of such prizes being captured, in all respects as if they had been actually on board of such vessel at the time of such prizes being captured by her. GREAT JEWEL ROBBERY.—On Monday morning, between two and three o'clock, the premises of Messrs. Barber and Co., jewellers, of Cheapside, London, were .entered by thieves, and a large quantity of gold watches and other jewellery, amount ing to upwards of £2,000, were carried away. The robbery consists of 400 gold rings, set in diamonds, emeralds, and rubies, diamond necklaces, 158 gold watches, 43 silver watches, 100 and upwards of gold Albert and brequet chains, 50 gold pins, diamond studs, gold brooches, &c. THE FAILURE OF STRAHAN, PAUL, AND BATES.—OH Wednesday, Sir J. D. Paul, Mr. Strahan, and Mr. Bates were again brought up at the Bow -street Police-court, London. No further evidence was adduced, and they were again remanded till Wedne'sday next.—An examination meeting in the Bankruptcy-court took place iu London, on Thursday. The Marquis of Westminster was present. The bankrupts were in attendance, but were not examined, and one or two creditors, who wished for information in reference to certain securities, were recommended to put themselves in communi cation with the solicitors. It was said a dividend would be declared on the 13th of October. SINGULAR TELEGRAPH ERROR.—The Independance Beige has a curious story of a mischance which nearly befel General Castellan, at present commanding the army of Lyons. He re ceived a telegraph message from Paris, in which, by the sub stitution of que for de, the " death of the Emperor" was announced, instead of that of a distinguished companion in arms. General Castellan, it is said, after some hesitation, de cided to dictate to his soldiers a 'proclamation full of noble sentiments and sympathies, but in which, regarding the army as the only palladium of order and of society in Paris; he traced out as their first duty that of acknowledging the head of the elder Bourbon "as the saviour and sovereign of France." The error, it is said, was discovered in good time, but not before the proclamation had been submitted to several of the superior officers at Lyons. The Emperor, it is said, only smiled when he heard of the affair. ON TUESDAY, before the Hyde-park Disturbances Com mittee, Sir R. Mayne was called as the first witness on behalf of the police. He•gave the details of his orders as to taking up their stations, &c. " Any persons making a noise, shout ing, frightening horses,•or creating disturbances, were to be cautioned, and if they did not desist, to be taken into custody. The prisoners were to be taken in cabs." Half-hourly reports were sent to him from the park ; and he wrote at half-past four, in answer to Inspector Hughes, " Now act vigorously in compelling all rioters to move up the road." At five o'clock he wrote, All persons shouting at the carriages to be re moved from the railings." With regard to the injuries done to the police, Sir R. Mayne stated there was one struck in the back with a stone, one knocked down by a blow on the head and slightly cut, one thrown down and slightly injured, one had his eye blackened, forty-five were assaulted, seven kicked, twenty-five struck with stones, and thirteen with sticks. LORD SHAFTESBURY'S RELIGIOUS WORSHIP BILL, which has now passed the lords, after reciting in the preamble the law as laid down in the 52nd George 111., chap, 155, enacts as follows : " I. From and after the passing of this Act, nothing contained in the above-mentioned A c t s h a ll a ppl y to the congregations or assemblies hereinafter mentioned, or any of them ; that is to say, (l.) To any Congregation or assembly for religious worship held in any parish of any ecclesiastical district, and con ducted by the incumbent or curate of such parish or dis trict, or by any person authorised by him : (2.) To any congregation or assembly for religious worship meeting in a private dwelling house, or on the premises belonging thereto: (3.) To any congregation or assembly for religious worship meeting occasionally in any building not usually appro priated to purposes of religious worship. And no person permitting any such congregation to meet as herein mentioned in any place occupied by him shall be liable to any penalty for so doing. "11. So much of an Act passed in the second and third years of King William the Fourth, chapter one hundred and fifteen, as enacts that her Majesty's subjects professing the Roman Catholic religion, in respect to their places for religious worship, shall be subject to the same laws as the Protentant Dissenters are sub jected to, and so much of an Act passed in the ninth and tenth year of her present Majesty, chapter fifty-nine, as enacts that her Majesty's subjects professing the Jewish religion, in respect to their places for religious worship, shall be subject to the same laws as Protestant Dissenters are subject to, shall be respectively read as applicable to the laws to which Protestant Dissenters in England are subject for the time being after the . passing of the Act." _ — THE NEW BEER ACT.—On Thursday, the committee re assembled, and agreed to report to the following effect :—"The committee find that, owing to the late period of the session at which they were appointed, and the short time still remaining at their disposal, it has been impossible to carry the inquiry to its full extent. The committee are convinced by the evidence already produced (and which is of a character entirely to be relied upon), that the act of last session, restricting the sale of beer and liquors during certain hours of the Sunday, has been attended with unnecessary inconvenience to the public. The committee, in consequence, feel it their duty to recommend to the consideration of the house an amendment of the Sale of Beer Act of 1854, which will admit of the opening of li censed houses from one to three o'clock, and from five to eleven o'clock in the afternoon of Sunday, and the other days named in the act. The committee are further of opinion that it would be desirable to omit in clause 1 of the act the words bona fide,' as useless for the purpose of definition and tending to create doubts as to the intention of the legislature." A clause was, we understand, proposed but not persisted in, to the effect that the subject was of sufficient importance to justify the renewal of the committee in a future session, and the words " has been attend e d w ith unnecessary inconvenience," were substituted for " calculated to cause very considerable in convenience." On a discussion of the question as to whether the committee " felt it their duty unanimously to recommend the matter to the immediate consideration of the house," the words "unanimously" and "immediate" were agreed to be omitted. TAXES ON DOMESTIC SEEVANTS.—A writer in the Times, in allusion to the letter of a previous correspondent, complain ing that " the well-paid, well-fed, and easily-worked class of 4 u h p a p m e r b e d r o s m , c e o s t i k c s s : uincludin gcoachmen, s stewards, r ds and , b g u ro tl o e m rs s , g , grooms e o e f pe t r h s e , and female cooks, are not taxed to the income-tax under sche dule D," says, " I entirely concur with ' Omega,' that this very numerous body are fit and proper persons to bear the burden and heat' of the tax collectors' visitations. I have, during the last eighteen years, been employed in trading with the aristocracy through their upper servants, and am prepared to state my conviction that many thousands of such persons, whose wages vary from 50 to 100 guineas per annum, exclu sive of lodging, light, firing, and food, as those who ought, at a time like this, to put the shoulder to the wheel beside the small and hard-worked trader, who, by his position, comes within the grasp of the assessor more readily; for I think no one can deny that 50 guineas and board and lodging are quite equal to the assessable point which the government tax com mences at, without once thinking of numberless other sources of an upper servant's income in the shape of perquisites, pre sents, allowances, &c. I throw out this hint to the authori ties, and would suggest that the best method of carrying it out would be to ascertain from my lord,' or Sir James,' through the medium of his return paper, the wages paid to his domestics, and bring all those into charge whose nominal wages are £5O, or near it, believing that this would be a plan which would materially add to the return under the head of taxes.' " THE TURKISH SULTAN AND THE ENGLISH ARMY.— The following is a translation of the autograph letter ad dressed by the Sultan to the late Lord Raglan, thanking him for the services of the English army. An autograph letter of a similar tenor was addressed at the same time to General Pelissier ati:dal m t3h, y eeftoa L nhr o eceixoy a ltei n :lfvr , u — o. The Queen, my august and intimate ally, has sent To LORD RAGLAN. you to defend my cause, which, being a just and legitimate one, becomes the cause of the whole civilised world. You, and the brave army which.you command, have responded to the expec tations of your country and of mine. You have deserved general admiration by your glorious exploits in a trying climate. The new feats of arms you have just added to the many brilliant actions performed in the Crimea, together with my soldiers, whom I love as my own children, r ive me the hope of a definite and proximate result, which will be as glorious for these great allied nations as the commencement of the campaign. 1 experience a feeling of higher satisfaction that a thing so terrible as war should have been the means of uniting my people with the great nations of.the west by indissoluble bonds. As long as the noble thirst for glory will make the human heart beat, those who have struggled with fraternal emulation, those who have mixed their blood together on a foreign soil, will remember companions whom they regarded as brothers. That which has hitherto been the scourge of mankind, will have procured the satisfactory result of bringing nearer to each other the people whose governments were already allies; this war will bear the germs of a durable peace, rich in wholesome fruit, between nations who desire to appreciate one another. Being desirous to offer to the brave combatants in the Crimea a proof of my lively satisfaction, a public testimony of my gratitude, I have charged my aide-de-camp, General Etliem Pasha, to bring you this letter. I flatter myself with the hope, my lord, that all the brave officers and soldiers under your orders will be convinced that we make no distinction between any of the soldiers fighting for the common cause, and that the affection I feel for them finds an echo in the heart of the whole population of Turkey, which rejoices to recognise in them the most ancient s a u ll c ie c s es o s f , m an y d e t m o p h i a re v . e yo l u p i r n ay li G is o h d o t l o y give you the most glorious " Palace of Tcheragan, the 12th Schewal, 1271." PERILOUS FLOOD.—On Wednesday, about two o'clock, p.m., a torrent of water broke suddenly into the works now in pro gress for deepening and rebuilding the Fleet sewer, opposite Clerkenwell, London. A temporary canal had been cut from a point a hundred yards up the stream to carry the water past the position of the working to a point fifty yards below. A weir eight feet high has been constructed to turn the stream into the temporary channel. This had been damaged by the floods two weeks ago, but was now strongly piled and but tressed. Before it could overflow it turned aside a body of water which ran on a descent six feet deep, by twelve or four teen wide, and this torrent rolled over a fall of several feet into the former bed of the sewer. It rolled in such a body on Wednesday about two o'clock. The rains of the past week had swollen the ancient Fleet rivulet, but up to the instant of peril, no,danger was apprehended. Either an unusual discharge from the Hampstead and Highgate or other reservoirs, or heavier rains than fell about Clerkenwell, had fallen within the area of the north-west drainage, and sent down an unexpected flood. From thirty to forty bricklayers, with other labourers, were in the dry channel, building piers for the arches, or digging foundations, carrying materials on narrow ladders and planks— men above men, in the intri cately busy working hive—no means of escape but by one or two narrow ladders ; when suddenly the labourers highest on the planks cried that the flood had risen above the weir. It rolled over, brought down a portion uu o i f lutht t h h eei e rr, s fu i re d r e sch w ry o ia r u k ng s d , f.rf a raia n u d i. came roaring and crashing down the dry channel. The men walls,rushed o r t o theclung planks, - o r helping leaped - up oneo its fall, workmen into outletoleT h di s ),bll The a.uoksp throatie n il to archwaytheufrrhawn thisaes Thames, e w tww i t e h or- i : n ahlu a rdd s f e e vo w efr yards,every mman imile knew that shouldaclwaylout they aengyde clungt a h n e d coolness t 0 pent-up w irrevocably oa over came e e r r s . distant. The roaring torrent dashed underneath the clinging ' the st : p r e e i rp r ets gi ewni v tt e lhy which. were,lodged ..backward towards Bing's-cross follow to destruction; The imminence of danger for a brief space came the panic. The weir did not give way. The men above assisted the men below, and they stood in safety, with many strangers, attracted by their cries for help, to see the flood washing away the new brick-work, but otherwise doing no harm, _ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. Rev. H. Bagnall, M.A. to the Rectory of G o :d sbro', Yorkshire. Rev. T. F. Barrow, M:A., to the Incumbency of Barrow Gur ney, near Bristol. Rev. W. Bell, M.A., to the Head Mastership of the Cathedral School, Carlisle. Rev. H. C. Blap.,den, to the Stipendiary Curacy (not the Perpe tual Curacy) of Frankley, Worcestershire. Rev. G. A. Crookshank, 8.A., to the Curacy of Basildon, Berk shire. Rev. R. Kitvert, M.A., to :the Rectory or Langley Burrell, Witte. Rev. S. Kingsford, M.A., Fellow of St. John's College, Cam bridge, to the Head Mastership of Chard Grammar-School, So merset. Rer. C. C. Lowndes, M.A., to the Curacy of Birthwaite, West moreland. Rev. J. H. Newton, 8.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Cambo, Northumberland. Rev. W. C. P.oberts, 8.A., to the Curacy of Hilfield, Dorset. Rev. E. J. Rose, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Weybridge, Surrey. Rev. J. F. Russell, of St. Peter's College, Cainbricige, to the Curacy of Greenhithe, Kent. Rev. F. Temple, M.A., to be one of her Majesty's Insrectors of Schools, in the room of the R ev. C anon Moseley, resigned. Rev. C. S. Tripp, to the Perpetual Curacy of Christ Church, Nailsea, Bristol. Rev. A. R. Webster, M.A., to the Curacy of Old Church wick, Cumberland. CLERICAL OBITUARY. July 9, at Granada, Spain , of cholera, th e R ev. Henry Watson Barnard, Canon Residentiary of Wells Cathedral, and Vicar of St. Cuthbert, aged 63. July 18, the Rev. Thomas Pruen, 24 years incu m b ent o f t h e Old Church, Mountsorrel, Leicestershire. July 18, at East Ville Parsonage, aged 55, the Rev. C. Sunder land, 8.A., Incumbent of East Ville and Midville, Lincolnshire. July 23, at Foston Rectory, near York, the Rev. William Spencer Whitelocke, aged 60, upwards of 20 years Rector of that parish DIOCESE OF CHESTER. PREFERMENT. — The Rev. John Kingsley, M.A., has been nominated to the perpetual curacy of St. Margaret's Church, Dunham Massey, recently consecrated. Patron, the Right Hon. George Harry, Earl of Stamford and Warrington. THE REV. C. J. FORSHA.W, son of the Rev. C. Forshaw, in. cumbent of ARcar, has just been appointed rector of Cricket Mallerbie, in the county of Somerset. _ A NON-RESIDENT VICAR. The Bishop of Oxford, in reply to the petition from the inhabitants of High Wycomb, praying him to compel the vicar to return, or appoint a person to do duty for him, writes :—" I sympathise, as you are well aware, deeply with you under the painful circumstances which your letter too truly details ; and I am, at this moment, engaged in taking the legal , steps needful to comp e l y our v i car to return into residence. ' ALL SAINTS, KINGSWESTON.—This church, erected at the cost of F. H. Dickenson, Esq., was consecrated on the 19th instant. It will accommodate about 150 persons. The oak seats are all open, and of the very convenient form of those in St. Mary Magdalene's Church, Munster-square, London. The altar is of stone, and the whole chancel and the furniture are very richly. ornamented. The service was choral, and the bishop preached and administered the Holy Communion. ON Sunday week the Bishop of Brechin held a Confirmation for the Archbishop of Canterbury, in the little church of Markbeech, near Edenbridge. Five persons—four of them adults—were confirmed; and the quietness and solemnity of the proceedings formed a striking contrast to the bustle and confusion necessarily consequent on a large Confirmation. Prayers were said by the Rev. J. M. Neale, the Litany by the Rev. H. Glynne, Rector of Hawarden, the lessons were read by the Rev. E. Palmer. At the conclusion of the Litany the candidates were presented by the Rev. R. S. Hurst, Incum bent of Afarkbeech ; and, after the Confirmation, the Bishop celebrated Holy Communion, and delivered a most impressive charge, in which he considered Confirmation under the three fold aspect of a seal, an enlistment, and a dedication. It is believed that, with the exception of one Confirmation held by the Bishop of Moray for the Bishop of Lichfield, this is the first time in which a Scottish prelate has thus officiated in the province of Canterbury, since the disestablishment of that Church. CONSECRATION OF ST. JAMES'S CHURCH, LEYLAND, NEAR PRESTON.—The Lord Bishop of Manchester consecrated this church on Wednesday (St. James's day). His lordship, who was accompanied by his secretary, Mr. Burder, was met at the church by the Venerable Archdeacon Master, Revs. Canon Master (Chorley), Thos. R. Baldwin (vicar of Ley land), Canon Parr, R. A. Rawstorne, and several other clergy men of the neighbourhood. John Master, Esq., of Croston ; Mrs. Ffarington, and the Misses Ffarington, of Worden-hall, and several ladies, were also present. The church has been built by Mrs. and the Misses Ffarington, at an outlay of between £3,000 and £4,000, and they have also provided the endowment and repair funds. The usual ceremony was gone through by the bishop, the archdeacon reading the prayers. The vicar of Leyland read the epistle of the day; Mr. Burder read the petition for consecration ; and the Rev. Canon Master (Chorley), in the absence of the chancellor, read the sentence. The sermon was preached by the bishop, but there was no collection. After the ceremony, the bishop and a numerous party partook of a sumptuous luncheon at Worden Hall. Cnuncs ORNAMENTS.—At the Consistory Court, on Tues day, the cases of Westerton v. Liddell, and Beal v. Liddell, came on before Dr. Lushington. These were suits pramoted by Mr. Westerton, one of the churchwardens of St. Paul's, Wilton-place, and by Mr. James Beal, an inhabitant of the district conventionally assigned to the chapel of St. Barnabas, Pimlico, against the Hon. and Rev. Robert Liddell, the in cumbent, with a view to procure the removal from those churhes of certain articles of ecclesiastical furniture and deco ration. The petition on behalf of Mr. Westerton alleged that the district church of St. Paul's was consecrated on the 31st of May, 1843, and that dissensions had of late sprung up between Mr. Liddell and certain of his parishioners in consequence of his having introduced various articles of church furniture and decoration unauthorized by, inconsis tent these articles consisted, I s t, o f an a lt ar , or hi g h a l tar, c t e o i n tt s ti w t u it t h i 0 , n a s n o d f c t o h n e t u ra i r i y i te t d o Ctihmerclahwos f E ca: g o l n a s n , d c a us n t d om b s e , la a n n d d . of carved wood raised upon a dais, or platform ; 2nd, a wooden cross two feet high, placed upon it ; 3d, a pair of and sth, five different coloured altar coverings, embroidered h la e r i g g e ht g ; i 4 ld t e h d , a c c a r n e dl e e n s t t ic ia k , s p , re i p v a i t r h a t o t r a y p e a r l s t a r a , t o r l e c a: e t de a nce ya t r a d ble in ; and adorned in a fanciful manner, which were used at different seasons, Christmaseveningof eve the Feasts of St. Stephen and the Holy Inn ocen t s ) , f rom the evening of Easter eve to the vigil o f P en t ecost, on Trinity s toon thenamely, Octave a of white the one Epiphany from the inclusive (except on Sunday, the Purification, the Conversion of St. Paul, the An- A n ul Saintsc An nunciation, o n a S St. e . J d o o h n n e t f h r o e m B a t p h t e i st, vigil S t o . f M p i c e h n ae t e l c , o s S t t t . ai Luk th e e , n an ex d t Satu ferdaays,tos; a violet on the Holy onlyle fromnnoc Ash Wednesdayentsday (ifonaS to un), Easter andall other eve, from Advent to Christmas eve, during the Ember week in September, and on the Holy Innocents, unless it falls on that with th a e t h the ds t of imele ahoofrtahteelayd.lmvoinrikstedraltaiocne,oafntdhethHaotlyot Communionher a Sunday ; a dark er v i o l et one on Good Friday and at funerals; and a green one o n a ll other days. It was also complained the altar was vested with an em b roidered white linen cloth, artides of linen, enriched with lace borders, were also used.—The court was occupied on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday hearing arguments pro and con, and the court reserved judgment. PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL,—The following letter from the Dean of Peterborough to Mr. Scott, the architect who has been employed by the Dean and Chapter to restore the vener able fabric of this cathedral, has been published : Ca y r o iony t m t r Fmla d Bb i i3s s ros p i .ic o o s n,F a ie l nurdne such ,edr, oaDrai " Deanery, Peterborough. "My dear Sir—Our grateful reply to your interesting and valu able communication is to offer to put ourselves into your hands, e d s a e o u n d t m h m e b r ya o by nominating you henceforth the cathedral architect, and annu tEfarilicolaycmtitep . u ae c r: i n o : v g r e e d t tairi at e c g rnx a gt n asen,nt e ss a fi o f v e frer l yo repairsw spare hic hhe though we make no public appeal, we shall not feel less obliged s n o a k ff n :e y s e ri and improvements. We entirely approve your idea of a steady, gradual, pari-pasau progress of the twofold work of repair and embellishment. I may be allowed to say, on the part of the chapter generally, that the nearest object to their hearts is to make the cathedral practically useful for the noble ends for which it is designed ; and for myself more specifically, that my earnest object is to admit the largest num ber of humblest worshippers within the reach of our church ordinances. I shall then only be satisfied that we are on: the bare threshold of our duty, when the nave is filled from end to end with a congregation in their working dress, on a work day, when every individual ear and heart shall be penetrated, as well by the articulateness as by the grandeur of our choral services; and we shall find the moveable pulpit so placed under the central tower as that our homely discourse may be intelligible from the east end to our western entrance. These are, per haps, my own priVate crotchets, independent of other times and other cathedrals ; but, such as they are, they are my own, and of no recent date ; and as some of my friends wish me to give them just so much publicity as may stir up the good citizens of Peterborough, I hope I sh a ll b e forgiven sending this along with your interesting letter to the weekly paper just established here. Believe me, dear sir, yours very truly, "G. G. Scott, Esq. "A. P. SAUNDERS. P.S. I may add, apropos of the enlargement of our cathedral sittings, that we are on the point of extending our parochial ele ment, by engaging deeper in the work of visiting and almsgiving through the revival of cathedral deacons.. IRELAND. REMITTANCES FROM FROM AME RICA. - Notwithstanding the di minution of the emigration drain from Ireland, the influx to Ireland, of American money, is on the increase. In 1853, the amount of money sent home by Irish emigrants was £1,439,000; but, in 1834, it reached £1,730,000. JUDGE JACKSON, in addressing the grand jury at the Lime rick county assizes, said that, during forty years' experience of the Munster circuit, both as a practising barrister and a judge, he never knew such light calendars. Limerick city can boast on this occasion of a maiden assize, there not being a single case for trial. REFORMATION IN DUBLIN.—On the 20th instant, four persons renounced the errors of Romanism under the instruc tion of a reformed prie s t o f th e " P r i ests ' Protection Societ " and made and signed the u sua l d ec l arat i on in such cases. One of them had been a novici a t e i n th e Jesuits' College at Ro me y, for the last six years, and intended for a priest of that order. MR. JOHN DALTON, an architect, and who had hitherto borne a most irreproachable character, was convicted at the Clonmel assizes of forging the name of the Marquis of Water ford to three bills for £1,300, and negotiating the same. Strong affidavits in mitigation of punishment were put in, and the court, having given them a favourable consideration, com muted the prisoner's sent ence t o f our years' penal servitude. THE HARVEST.—The broken weather of the past week appears so far to have done no damage to the cereal or green crops. Indeed, competent judges affirm that even more rain would be rather serviceable than otherwise. Friday there were several heavy showers, accompanied by a gale of wind and frequent peals of thunder and vivid flashes of lightning. Saturday's agricultural reports from the provinces are fully as favourable as those of the previous week. The potato holds its ground, and there is not a solitary complaint of the appear ance of the fatal blight. Already the markets are teeming with this year's produce, and the price is such as to place new potatoes of the best quality within the reach of the hum blest consumer. EMIGRATION FROM I RELAND. — Notwithstanding the pros pect of an abundant harvest, and the comparative prosperity of the agricultural classes, the emigration from several qua e r: s rs . The Clare Journal, of Monday, says:—"We ollse mania has of Ireland is proceeding almost as rapidly as in forni rv e e r , y with some surprise and regret, that the emigr atio n n un'hers of men, The ~ One hundred persons left en route to America and again set in. During the past week, large numbers d - it neighbourhood, women, and children, have left Ennis n also, the drain of principally , for America." From emigrants were young men and Limerick Limerick , Reporter, : of Tues pdoayp,ulcoatniotnaiinss the proceeding. ; - A d the Waterford journals contain similar young women." ts from that quarter. reports Australia, on N eaSralt:unfaciolalll;twhm4enoft'li—ng,