The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-10-14 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1851. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. SUICIDE THROUGH RELIGIOUS MELANCHOLY.—On • Saturday night John Kenyon. a man deaf and dumb, and _______,,,,,__ of weak intellect, who resided with his sister in Virgil- The City of Glasgow sailed on W e d nes d a y morn i ng f or s t reet , committed suicide by suspending himself by a rope The list of voters, for the Ormskirk division, was re- Philadelphia, with 156 passengers, and a fair cargo. in a shippon near to his sister's house. The deceased was wised and corrected on Thursday last, the 9th instant, by Mr,,Cardwell arrived in Liverpoolon Wednesday night, in the habit of reading much in the New Testament, and Percival A. Pickering, Esq. barrister. The Conservative from Scotland, in order to be present at the Town Hall. after doing so always became low and desponding. Af ter interest was defended by William Ackerley, Esq., of at the presentation of the add r e s s t o th e Q ueen . rea di ng on S a t ur d ay a f ternoon , he went out and destroyed Wigan ; the Radicals by Mr. Moorhouse, of Manchester THE REV. DR. 11'NEILE preached two sermons, on himself as stated. The following is the result : Sunday last, in St. Martin's Church, Birmingham, on DISASTER TO THE CLIPPER-SHIP JOHN TAYLOR.— OBJECTIONS behalf of the St. Martin's Scripture Readers' fund. Accounts were received at this port, on Saturday, of a Mane. On Saturday, John Callow was severely injured by serious disaster that had befallen the fine new clipper-ship Radical ............ 99 , means of a bail of cotton falling against him. He died on John Taylor, Captain Hawkins, sister ship to the Chryso- Conservative . . 25 the same evening, in the Northern Hosnital. lite. It will be recollected that the John Taylor sailed Edward Cowan, a watchman at the Windsor Foundry, from this port on the sth August for Bombay. She pro was found dead in the yard attached to the works yester- ceeded successfully on her voyage until the 31st of that day morning. . - . . month, when s l e enco ,--' d ' ---i 'de _ ___. 0 RMSKIRK REVISION. Sustained. Failed .. 39 Radical gain NEW CLAIMS -.....eunrered a very heavy and su_ The new screw steam-ship Sh a n g hai will be despatched squall, and, before there was time to take in sail, she was from Southampton to-day, for India, via the Cape of dismasted, with the exception of the main and mien lower Good Hope. masts. One man was killed. and three severely injured. It is generally believed in town that her Majesty volun- The Elenor Thompson, arrived at Queenstown, spoke her tarily promised to visit Liverpool at a future time for the on the' st ult., off the Cape de Verds, and supplied her purpose of opening St. George's-hall. with spars, sails, &c., and she was preparing to rig jury- We understand that those parties who were unable, masts. owing to the state of the weather, to attend the display of DEATH OF AN INFANT THROUGH THE ATYKlNlS freworks at the Zoological Gardens, on Thursday last, TRATION OF A NARCOTIC.—On Wednesday last, Mrs. SALE OF THE KNOWSLEY COLLECTION. will be admitted to a similar display to-morrow evening. Elizabeth 'Smith, wife of Mr. Joseph Smith, baker, John Crawford, Crawford, of Dublin, whose name has long been Vaughan-street, administered to her infant a dose of In our lastblication we familiar to the business peopl e o f Li verpoo l , was committed ann i see d cor di a l, o b ta i ne d f rom a sp i r i t vault, to her male pu gave a report of the sale on for trial, in Dublin. a few d a y s ago, f or h av i ng in his posses- i n f an t, f our wee k s o ld . Th e cor di al was mixed with a Monday. lion goods for which he c ou ld no t sat i s f actor i ly account. littl e warm wa t er an d sugar, w i t h two d rops o f l au d anum. TUESDAY.—The business to-day was confined to the PHlLHARMONlC.—This(Tuesday)e ven i ng th ere w ill b e The child remained uneasy, a n d th e mo th er t oo k it t o sale of the antelopes. The follo w in g are the princi a choral performanc e , an d nex t wee k t h e English Glee D r . P arsons , who ordered it to be pl ace d i n a warm bath. pal lots sold, with the prices a n d p urc h asers : —L o t s 60. 65. 66, nylghau antelopes, mother and t wo f awns , an t e l o p e and Madrigal U n i on w ill f avour us w i th a selection of After this a dose of ca st or o il was a d m i n i s t ere d. Ab ou t glees, &c pieta of Pallas .£39, bou g ht by Vi ec h inan , o f th e A n t- Mr. G o- . midnight the c hild, w hi c h h a d b een su bj ec t to convu l s i ons Gardena. Lots 61, 63, and 64, also mother and John from its birth, wa s se i ze d w ith .- werpardens. p. ...i.: t, _ J Conservative Radical Conservative gain ..... Deduct Radical gain on objections Conservative clear gain on the revision. in, a retired pawnbroker, who formerly carried on business in Cooper's-row, Paradise-street, in this town, committed suicide on Monday, in a most dreadful way, by cutting his throat with a razor. Lat terly Mr. Cohan has been much addicted to drinking. An iron screw-ship named the Tiber. of 1,000 tons re has been launched at Port-Glasgow for Messrs. 3ibby and Sons, Liverpool, and is intended for the rranean trade. She is to be c o mmen d e d b y Cap .._ sever, at, which resulted . . , two fawns of the same species, £37, by Hulse. Lot 59, in death. At the inq ue st y es t er d a y, M r . P arsons state d I that the child. on W e d nes d ay n i g h t , was brought. to his a young male nylghau, £45, by M r . Th om ps on , th e gyrator of the collection, on commissio n . Lot 62, a surgery, being at th e ti me i n a coma t ose s t a t e , and ap , female nylghau, adult, £23, by Mr. Tho m pson, L o t 98, peered to be suffering from the effect of a narcotic. He was informed th e t th e d ecease d h a d h a d l au d anum , an d a male boute-bok, a remarkably rare ani ma l, b u t wan ti ng one horn, sold for £27, and was bou g ht by M r . Mit c h e ll, as of opinion th a t d ea th h a d resulted from an over-dose of the Regent's Park Gardens. Lot 99, a female boute- WAITE : SOIREE OF THE SINGING body, perfect. £36, by Mr. Mitch e ll. L o t 100, a ma l e . ' luesday evenine a soiree of the member s I bouts-bok, perfect, bred at K nows l e y, £4O, by M r . rriends of the Rev. J. J. W a it e ' s p sa l mo dy classes Thompson. Lot 101, a fawn of th e same spec i es , £4O, was held in th e Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street, the by Viechman. Lot 102, a fem a l e bl ess -b o k, an t e l ope Rev. Hugh Cri c ht on , D. D., i n t h e c h a i r . Af ter tea , o f (qazella) albifrons, from South Af r ica, £29, by W es t er . which about 1.500 persons partoo k, t h e assem bl y was a d. man, of Amsterdam. Lot 79, a ma l e f our -h orne d dressed by sev e r a l gen tl emen on t h e p l a tf orm , amongs t antelope, antelope (tetraceros) quadrico rn i s , f rom Ne whom we re th e R evs . J. J. W a i te. V . M . Whi te, J . Kelly, Paul, £l3. by Mr. Mitchell. Lot 80, a f ema l e a d u l t o f the same species, bred at Knowsley, £l4, for Count J. Spencer. W. Appleford, Dr. Brown, - Kirkness, w , the Lot 81, a male of the same species, nearly Graham, Dr. Bull, and the conductor of the preparatory . full grown, also bred at Knowsley, £l2, for Count Demi *ings, Mr. J. H. Jones. The report, read by Mr. doff. Lots 82 and 83, twin fawns, both males, bred at ' , e secretary, after recording the proceedings Knowsley, £l4, by Mr. Mitchell. These lots, from 79 to connected with the psalmody classes, paid a high compli -83, comprise the only specimens of four-horned antelopes meet to the Rev. J. J. W a it e f or hi s va l ua bl e an d gratui tous services at t w e n ty- s i x mee ti ngs , an d t o th e gent l emen in the country. Lot 72, a male addax, a n t e l o p e ( oryx ) of the Liverp o ol p ress f or th e f avoura bl e not i ce t h ey ha d nasomaculata, from North America, £32, by M r. E . made of the r es u lt o f M r . W a i te ' s exert i ons . Af ter ot h er Atkins, of the Liverpool Zoological Gard ens . L ot 7 5, interesting speeches, and th e s i ng i ng o f var i ous psa l ms , another male addax, bred at Knowsley, £47, W esterman. the proceedin g s t erm i na t e d b y a vote o f t h an k s to t h e rev. Lot 97, a female true gazelle. antelope ( gaze ll a ) vets, chairman, the w h o l e com p any j o i n i ng i n t h e nat i ona l an- from Muscat, £6, by Mr. Ducker. Lot s 92 an d 93 , a anthem, arranged expressly fo r th e occas i on by D r . pair of gazelles, from North Ameri ca , £l7, b y M r. Gauntlet. Thompson ; the latter for Lord Ellesme re . L ot 94, a THE SHIPPING TRADE.-Th. Lords of the Committee female gazelle, bred at Knowsley, £B, by West erman . -.• of Privy Council f or T ra d e h ave caused Mr. Ferrer, one Lot 78, a female sing sing , antelope sing sing, the only of their lordship' s secre t ar i es , t o ca ll t h e attent i on o f t h e one in Europe. £33, by Mr. Mitchell. L o t 72, a ma l e Customs' authoritie s t o th e M ercan til e M ar i ne A men d - leucoryx, antelope (oryx) leucoryx, desc r ib e d b y t h e au t'af ment Act, 14th and 15th Vi c t or i a , chap. 96, sec. 6, by to Mr ctio . neer as Mitchell. e "lion" o the collection, sold for £62, Lot 73, a female of the s old f a r which it is pro v id e d th a t it s h a ll b e no longer necessary £6O, by Mr. Mitchell, the only pair in Europe. for officers o f C us t oms , act i ng i n t h at capac i ty, to exa mine the certifi ca t es o f mas t ers an d mates o f f ore i gn- WEDNESDAY.-The operations we r e d evo t e d t o th e going ships, and the agreemen t s w ith th e crews o f t h ese sale of the "cattle." The list was somew h a t more cir ships, before cl ear i ng th em ou t war d s , an d t h at i n li eu o f cumscribed than either of those to whi c h th e t wo f ormer such examination it shall be suffi c i en t f or th em t o see t h at days were assigned. It was not the less int eres ti ng , how the, master has a ce r tifi ca t e f rom th e s hi pp i ng master to ever as it comprised specimens of the I n di an genus i n the highest state of perfection, of much la rger s i ze t h an i s the effect that th e p rov i s i ons o f th e M ercant il e M ar i ne Act are complied with, a nd th a t th e f orms f or th ese cert i- ordinarily seen in Europe, and of symmetry an d con di t i on ficates are stamped w ith th e sea l o f th e B oar d o f T ra d e, that probably might be looked for in vai n i n a b or i g i na l which will be issued to a ll s hippi ng mas t ers , th e i r l or d- specimens. The list comprised a Brahmin b u ll, ca l ves o f ships having already issued di rec ti ons f or th e i r use; an d the same gender, cows, and heife r s ; ze b u b u ll s, he (Mr. Ferrer) was to request them to give directions to oxen, cows, and heifers; straighthorned zebu bulls, their officers to allow every foreign-going ship to cl ea r cows, &c. ; China bulls and he r d, A ra b b ul l and outwards on production of such a certificate in due form, rice, with other specimens from W es t Af r i ca , N ort h Ame i Thibet, &c. The weather was muc h more ce, properly dated and filled up and si gne d by th e shippin g favour master,at?le than on any of' the preceding d ar , s , an d th e i n fl ux o f or one of the shippi ng mas t ers , o f th e i r respective ' ports. Mr. Fairer was also to call the attention of the company was consequently greater. Many gentlemen de authorities to the 15th section of the above-mentioned voted to agriculture were present, attracted, no doubt, by act, which releases the masters and owners of ships of the list for the day's sale-the cattle presenting obvious less than 80 tons burden, exclusively employed in coast- inducements to persons competent to superintend the ing, from the necessity of having written agreements, and breeding of stock. The sale commenced as usua l a t 12 releases the masters and owners o f suc h s hi ps, o f w h atever o'clock, the company following the auctioneer to the dif burden, from the necessity of keeping official logs, and to ferent paddocks in which the cattle were depastured. The request them to give di r e c ti ons t o th e i r o ffi cers to grant first lot to which the auctioneer drew attenti on was a fi ne transires to such ships, an d t o a ll ow th em to procee d to herd of Brahmin cattle. Lot 117, a B r ah m i n b u ll, b oa taurus (Linnaeus, var. Indicus), bred at Kn ows l e y. Thi s sea in future with ou t th e h a lf-y ear l y pro d uct i on o f t h e documents, from the necessity of keeping which they fine animal, the auctioneer observed, was invaluable for have been so released, crossing with the British species ; there were , h e sa id, a t THE DOCK COMMITTEE.-The usual meeting, def erre d that time on the Knowsley farm many sup er i or an i ma l s , from the previous d a y, i n consequence o f h er M a j es t y ' s the produce of the specimen in question and th e D evon visit, was held on F r id a y, M r . T urner i n th e c h a i r .-Th e breed. The bull was knocked down for £5O, t o M r . minutes comprised an entry of all the pro c eedi ngs con - Thompson, whose purchases were all made on comm i ss i on netted with her Majesty's marine t r ip ; and, on th e ma . for an Italian nobleman. The whole of these an i ma l s are lion of Mr. Bigham, Mr. Mason, the secr e t ar y, ;vas thoroughly acclimated, having been bred at K nows l e y ; instructed to record upon the books th e a rrangemen t s their appearance was excelle n t ; an d y e t th e y b roug ht any made by the Dock Committee for th e occas i on .-M r . thing but good prices. In the latter pa r t o f th e a ft ernoon Bigham next called attention to an ite m i n th e accoun t s a pairof antelopes of the gnu species, ant e l o p e (C a t o bl epas ) read over for payment,- a c h arge by M r . St ewar t o f £923 gnu, antelope gnu (Zimmerman), were s o ld t o M r . Bram for valuing and surveyin g p r op er ty. Thi s was w ithi n t h e ston, of London, who is connected with W om b we ll' s me last twelve months. The pr o pe r ty s o va l ue d was esti nagerie, for the extraordinary price of 270 gu i neas . mated as worth £184,000; s o th a t M r . St ewar t' s c h arge THURSDAY.-This day's sale, notwithst an di ng th e would be about one-half per cent., a p ro p or ti on w hi c h h e Queen's visit to Liverpool, was as well attend e d as an y (Mr. Bigham\ thought most excessi v e. Th e Ch a i rman , of the preceding days. The zebras were fi r st o ff ere d, th e Mr. Steele, and other members exp resse d a hi g h sense o f finest specimen of which was purchased by Mrs. Atki ns , the value of Mr. Stewart's services ; the c h arge , th e y of the Liverpool Zoological Gardens, for £l5O, the lar g e s t thought, was not disproportionately l a r ge , a s h e h a d ens - sum realised for any single animal during the s a l e . Th e bled the committee to make many most advantageousbar herd of greater kangaroos, comprising three specime ns , gains; and they had generally succeed e d i n ever y n ego - was sold for £9O. The smaller ani ma l s , s uc h as th e elation without having recourse to a ju r y. Th e su bj ec t porcupines, lemurs, &c., followed, and realised good pri ce s. soon after dropped.-Four new bells we re or d ere d t o g i ve FRIDAY.-The sale commenced with the list v u lt ur id oe , signals at various docks, for the ignition an d ex ti ngu i s hi ng or the specimens of the vulture tribe. Two kin g - vu lt ures , of fires and lights on shipboard. It was sugges t e d by th e Larcoramplus papa, were bought by ' Mr. Bramston, a Marine-surveyor, that public clocks mi g ht b e j u di c i ous l y gentleman connected with Wombwell s travelling collec added to the bells.-Mr. Bigham called atte n ti on t o a Lion. Two birds of the same species, but w ith i mper f ec t resolution of the Sub-committee of Wo r ks, th a t th e feet, were bought by Mr. L amrac k, o f L on d on , f or Marine-surveyor be instructed to procure tend ers f or th e £2 10e. A sociable vulture, Otogyps Au r icul a ris, f rom casting of a large crane for the east side of the S an d on South Africa, sold for £lO to M. Westerman. of A m ste r - Graving Docks. This, he thought, w as c ont rar y t o a dam. A slender-billed vulture (?) Gyps T enn i ros t r i s , distinct resolution previously come to, that tende r s f or a ll from India, was bought by the same gentleman fo r £7 lO s . such work should be advertised for. Some discus s i on The same purchaser secured a pair of An g ola v ult ure s, followed, and the matter was ultimately deferred till the nypolaerax augthensis, from West Africa, for £7 10. The next meeting.-A letter from Messrs. Wilson and Sons, following are some of the principal purchasers in the list asking for permanent accommodation in the Nelson Do c k falconidee, or specimens of the falcon tribe. A fi n e mar ti a l eagle, spizedus bellicolus, was sold to Mr. Mitchell, the transit sheds, for the purposes of the Rotterdam steamers, was referred to the Harbour-masters.-Financial busines s agent for the Zoological Society, Regent's-park, f o r £l6. was then proceeded with. Two wedge-tailed, or bold eagles, aquilaz audax, brought MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL ten guineas from Mr. Gardner, London. A s h or t- SOCIETY.-The annual show and dinner, in connexion tailed eagle, helotarsus ecandatus, from South Af r i ca , was sold to Mr. Mitchell for £lO. The sec r et ar y-f a l con , with this society, was held in M a nchester on M on d a y and Tuesday. The trial of implements commenced at serpentarius reptilivorous (Danden), of South Africa, noon, on Monday, in a field near the Trafford Arms Inn, brought £l2 from M. Vickersaan, of Ant w e r p. I n th e Stretford. There was a large attendance, and the trials list of Strigidte, or owl tribe, two cape-eared o w ls, bubo occupied about five hours. The implements submitted eapensis (Danden), of South Africa, were pu rc h ase d by were very numerous, and each was tested. The prze for Mr. Mitchell, for £6 lOs. The only specimen o f alcidi general work was given to a two-wheeled plough, by Gas- nidrn in the aviary, a laughing kingfisher, ducelo gi g s, coigne; but, in conformity with the usual custom in this (Boaddert,) was bought by Mr. Jamrack, of L on d on , f or £3 district, several swing ploughs competed with each oth er , ss. Two blue robins, the only specimens of lus e i n idse and a prize was awarded. The show of cattle, &c., took sialite Wilsoni, (Swainson,) of North America, wer e s o ld for £1 lOs. In the list turdidte, a rock thrush, turdns place on Tuesday morning. The collection of cattle and implements was fully equal to that of Warrington l a st cyana, (Linnaeus,) very rare, sold for £7 lOs. to Sir W. F year-far superior to any ever before brought together in Fielden, Bart., Fenniscowles, Bl a ckburn. A b e ll bi r d, of Manchester. The display of agricultural implements the class ampelidte, procinus a lbs, was b oug ht by Mr. Mitchell for £2 2s. In the list couridse, a hunting crow, was large and interesting, although there was, perhaps, nothing that had not been seen at some of the more cissa sinensis, (Boaddert,) was bought by M r . J am rack, for £2 lOs. Of the class sturnidee, a mi s s gra k e l, gra cula recent shows in different parts of the country. In the religiose, (Linnaeus,) sold for £1 55.: Jamrack. A collection exhibited by Messrs. C. D. Young and Co., of b Male- Liverpool, the things w hi c h a tt rac t e d mos t no ti ce were bar grakel was purchased by the same p ar ty f or £1 Is., Drummond's anti-metallic churn, the merits of which and another grakel, of the same species, as the best, for are evidenced by the fact that it had gained the prize at £183., by Mr. Mitchell. A good deal of time was occupied, the meetings of nine agricultural societies before being and much interest exhibited, in the disposal of the class exhibited in Manchester, and was similarly ho n ou re d on psittacidme, or birds of the parrot kind. A fine masked Tuesday; and various sizes of an improved cast-iron parrot, coracopsis (?) personate, (G. R. Gray,) of the stand, combining the advantage of being very easily fixed South Sea Isles, sold for £2l to M. Veckerman. Two or removed, affording great freedom of ventilation, and blood-bellied ground parrokeets, platycerens hsematogas preventing the access of vermin to the crop placed upon ter, (Gould.) of New South Wales, were bought by Mr. it. A very good collection of implements was also shown Jamrack for £l4. Two pale-hooded ground parrokeets, by Mr. H. Bennett, of Liverpool, the most important platycerens palliceps, (Vigors,) sold for £lO to Mr. Allen. among them being Sillar's new clod-crushing • roller, Two king's ground parrokeets, (male and female,) platy which is said to possess advantages over existing imple- cerens scopulatus, (Bechstein,) brought £6, and were ments of the same kind, both in the facility with which it purchased by Mr. Gurney, of London. Two orange cleanses itself, and the small amount of power required for winged parrokeets, (trechoglossus pyrrhopterus, of the its efficient working ; a model of an improved steaming Sandwich Islands, were sold for £6 to Mr. Gardener, of apparatus, which can be easily arranged and effectually London. A ring-necked parrokeet, yellow variety-pale worked, either to a greater or less extent, at the option of coruis torquitus, (Brisson,) brought £7 10s, M. Vecker the manager ; and several improved gorse, hay, &c., cut- man. A Maximilian maccaw, brought £lO. Another ters, of various kinds. The dinner was held at five o'clock, of the same species £l6,* M. Veckerman. A rose in the Corn-exchange, Hanging-ditch ; the attendance crested cockatoo, cacatua molucensis, £12., Thomp was not numerous. The Right Hon. the Earl of Wilton son. A cockatoo, known as the great sulphur presided, supported by John Potter, Esq., Mayor of crested cockatoo, cacatua galerita, was sold for £7 Manchester, and others, and on his left by Earl Talbot 10s. The only specimen of caculidte, a, Senegal larks and others. heel centropus. Senegalensis, of West Africa, was bou g ht for £3 10s., by M. Jamrack. Of- the ardidse or crane species, two cariamas, cariama crestata of South America, brought £6, Mr. Warwick, of London. A goliath heron, ' ardea goliat, Temmineck, West Africa, £5, .MraJarnrack. SATURDAY.-The sale was concluded to-day, having been most satisfactory as regards the prices obtained. of that narcotic THE REV entitled " Bloomerism ;" or the " Follies Clf which the London press speak in favour s been produced at the Haymarket Theatre, Mr. J. H. Nightingale, and Mr. Millward, of wn, are the authors of the piece orEEN G of the - Day,' able terms. I London this STEAM fine new serf '.ASGOW AND NEW YORIC—The ip Glasgow, which left Greenock at 6 o'clock p.m., arrived at New on the 16th Sontember g, having thus made Geddes s 8 bou mean time, IMPORTA Mr. Joseph TO OWNERS AND CAPTAINS ikon, of 119, London-ro , as discoverec [ring provisions, so after years of pre. dine task , is ore detectable than h pleasant and will to the palate. sis a desideratum long desired. prove of ortant service to all persons engaged trin2 e. in a se DEATH Ar night 1 ;MG FROM DRUNKENNESS.--On Friday lard Hart, who formerly resided in Porter n to the Prince's Dock Police Station. in cenness. In the morning, on attempting street. was t a state of drun to enter the va bridewell, tF loves the prisoners to the rash rough weakr ss induced by hi debauch, fell' and shor Suic afterwards —On Tue,, eg most earnestly to direc e having arrived at Liver- CHESHIRE AND WALES. The sentence on Mary Rogers has been committed to transportation for life. 1 CONCERT, BIRK ENTIEAD.--Mr9. M'Dougall gives a grand concert at the Craven Rooms, this Tuesday evening which, from the talent engaged, cannot fail to be at. tractive. DON PACIFICO AND THE GREEK CLAIMS. — amusement has been created by the award of the commis- —Some The traffic returns of the Chester and Holyhead Railway for the week ended sth Oct. are as follow :—C. H. and Main Line, £3,444 65.; Mold, £127 19s. ld.; steam-boats, £536 Is. 4d.: total, £4,108 6s. sd. BURGLARY AT BIRKENHEAD.—During Monday night, the house of Mr. Morgan Scott, publican, of Albion-street, Birkenhead, was entered through a back window, and a number of articles stolen. The Eisteddfod, at Tre Madoc was brought to a close on Thursday evening. The prize of ten guineas for the best Welsh choir was awarded to the Liverpool Welsh Choral Society. sinners appointed to examine the case of our old friend, Don Pacifico. That ingenious person, in whom, under the externals of a Portuguese Jew, the British nation was last year compelled to recognise a countryman in distress, demanded, it will be remembered, upwards of £2o,ooofor vouchers destroyed, as he alleged, at the pillage of his house of certain claims to a large amount on the Govern ment of Portugal. The commissioners, after a laborious inquiry, unanimously report that he has suffered no injury at all—that the papers, if any, burnt at Athens were only copies, the originals of which are safe at Lisbon, or sup plementary evidence of claims which, if just, could be established in a more direct way, but which in point of fact HYDROPHOBIA IN PIGS FROM THE BITE OF A DOG.— he appears to have long ago abandoned. Hi; complaint Ahoute two months ago a person named Russell came to turns out then to have been, what every body knew it to be, an attempt to screw out of the Government of Greece, reside in Nantwich, and brought with him a small dog of on the ground of the pretended destruction oi his evidence, the terrier kind. Shortly after his arrival in town the dog became mad, and unfortunately slightly bit his master ; it an enormous sum which, upo n that evidence, he had found it hopeless to extract from the Government of Portugal. next entered the house of Mrs. CM, of Nantwich, there bit a cat, a l so Mrs. Cliff's son, aged about nine or ten years, The commissioners nevertheless, with an excusable incon, and lik ew i se h er servant g i r l. Th e d og a f terwar d s pro - sistency arising party from good-natured compassion for ceeded th roug h t h e town to t h e f arm - yar d o f the importunate claimant, partly perhaps from a wish to Mr. Comes, of Doddington, about a mile distant from Nautwich, where save the credit of his protectors, recommend that a small he bit. twelve pigs, and thence escaped to the neighbouring gratuity should be given him to indemnify him for the ex. yard of M r . P eers , a farmer, and hit another pig, where he penses of trying to cheat, the Greek Government out of was fortunate) destroyed. On Tuesday the 23rd ult., two * 720,000 and as a speculative comp of ensation for the chance the pigs belonging to Mr. Comes w entmad (precisely of his having lost something which, so far as appears, be t wo months after they were bitten,) and the other ten, with one belongin g to r. Peers, w ere premptly deAroyed. never had. 'So much for the grand item of the British M " claims on Greece.'" The report, it seems, was made .in The persons bitten . have not suffere dtau ill tirect ,..... May. We need ,n o t as k w hy it vras ne t publii64o All Clatis4er COU.Palii. 01,110 b cr.—l (4A//on (;:st/trdian. SPORTING NEWS. POLICE COURT, YESTERDAY. A Mr. John Williams. a respectably-dressed man, was fined los for attempting to smuggle a quart of whiskey from a Dublin steamer. NOT THE SWEET Arleta PAGE."—A woman bearing the name of one of the immortal Avon's best characters, but lacking all her characteristics and beauties, was brought up on the charge of having smashed a haberdasher's window in St. James's-street, the expense of which was, as minutely recounted, £2 3s. 61d. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FaIDAY, SEPT. 10. The following were the onlYbets accepted ut the subscription room this day:— Cesare:click Stakes.-100 to 10 agst Hippolytus—taken ; 120 to 10 agst Darkie—taken ; 140 to 10 agst Goldfinder—taken ; 200 to 10 agst Backbiter—taken. Offers to take 30 to 1 about Westow, 25 to I about Trickstress, and 30 to 1 about Champion. Cambridgeshire-6 to 1 agst Newminster-7 to 1 taken. Nothing else named. AN ADJOURNED CASE.—JamesJoyce,Patrick Flannalagher, and Patrick Arlntyre, were brought before the court on the charge of being parties who took a prominent part in a faction fight in Addison-street, and also with assaulting the police officer. It appeared, from the evidence adduced, that there were at least 200 persons enraged in the fight, and that they called into requisition all kinds of available weapons. The police-officer knocked for assistance, upon which,—like the "compact come to in the siege of Anriers.— the b es i ege d repl i ed, Let us beat the aggressive loe, and fight the battle after." Hereupon both parties with an admirable disdain for all obstacles demolished a brick wall. The prisoners were identified as some of the parties who had been engaged in the disturbances.—Mr. Mansfield, addressing them, said, that there was no doubt they had engaged in one of those savage fights which were a perfect disgrace to any civilized country. It was too often the case that Irishmen met together intoxi cated, they quarrelled, and got to fight, more like wolves than human beings. This must be put an end to; and, therefore, he (Mr. Mansfield) should inflict a penalty of 40s. and costs, or a month's imprisonment. CHARGE AGAINST AND DISMISSAL OF POLICE -OFFICERS.— ' The three police-officers, Robin (16), Craine (302), and Board man (291), who had been suspended on the previons Friday week, and in whose ease a magisterial investigation had taken place, were again brought up. Air. Mansfield, in addressing TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. them said, that on the previous Fridly week it had been his Sir,—l did not think, when I addressed you last week, that duty to suspend three police-officers, one of whom had b een I should again have had occasion, u n til I h a d seen my predic guilty of giving way to the impetuosity of his temper and ill- tions fully realized : but since then, a prominent, though un feeling. Upon that occasion, notwithstanding the good foreseen incid en t h as h a p pene d to my t h en contemplated easy character which the officer had previously received, he deemed winner—Grand Duke. I cannot, therefore, allow the circum it his duty-to suspend him, although he (the officer) h a d b een stance of h i s having gone e.x. to pass unnoticed, although lam reinstated on the following day. No doubt the police officers gratified to find that I shall only have to give place to my se were exposed to a great degree of irritation and annoyance. cond, &c. to make my first, &c. as you will see. They held an office of great responsibility, and it was essential Having therefore deemed this necessary, I may at the same that the opinion in the town of their good conduct and impar- time just refer my readers back to wh a t I sa id respect i ng tiality should be high, otherwise they wo u ld b ecome Decease- " Mokanna "; and I will also endeavour to satisfy them by one rily indifferent. The cases of the two other men (302 and 291) or two remarks, with regard to "Goldfinder " and " Back were of a far more grave character. It transpired that they biter," which two have come into favour within the last week, went into a beer-house after it should have been closed, and having had the effect of weakening" Trickstress" and " Cham partook of beer. Going into a public-house was another pion," their stable companions. offence. It would have been their duty to have informed Regarding " Goldfinder " and "Trickstress,"—"Monkeys " against the publican ; but, very improperly and inconsistently, have been laid at evens between them, whilst the difference in they had not done so. They both committed an offence, and their the odds have been good four points in favour of the former. conduct had been most disreputable and improper. They had Alany may not conceive how this is, but 1 suspect lam in the been now suspended for ten days, and it was his (Mr. Mans- secret. field's) intention to have restored them ; but his attention had Regarding also " Backbiter" and " Champion," the differ been drawn to the distinction between the cases of 302 and that ence in the odds between which are good ten points, I shall of 291. 302 had been guilty of telling a falsehood in that court, still hold out that the latter.will prove "the stable representa when he was on his oath, he having denied having been in the five," as will also '• Trickstrees." beer-house at all. This had been, to the magistrates, a subject Al y former predictiou was "Grand Duke" first, " Hippo of deep and anxious consideration; and upon mature delibera- lytus " next, and either " Champion " or" Tricktress " third. Lion they found that they bad no alternative but to dismiss 302 Owing to the former having gone dead amiss, I l eave th e race . . from the force. As to 291. lie was a von... ma. 0r.,1 TATTERSALL'S—THURSDAY. Darkie, Hippolytus, Goldfinder, and Backbiter were in strong favour, but from the dulness of business were not backed for much money. Mokanna, whose price did not Transpi re , ma y be fairly returned as "friendless." A disposition was also shown to lay against Trickstress, Terpsichore, and Windisch gratz, but nothing said or done to justify our making a quota tion : very liberal odds might have been got about either. Cesarewitch Stakes.-10 to 1 agst Darkie—taken • 10 to 1 agst Hippolytus—taken and afterwards offered; 12 to 1 agst Goldfinder; 20 to I .agst Backbiter—taken; 25 to 1 agst Offi cious; 25 to 1 agst Westow ; 30 to 1 agst Champior.; 33 to 1 agst Terpsichore ; 40 to 1 agst Candlewick. eambridgshire.—iTo 1 agst New . minster - taken ; 20 to 1 agst Darkie—taken ; 30 to 1 agst Curl. 6 to 1 was taken to .e3oo abaft Newminster early in the after noon, and 7to 1 offered towards the close. Darkie was very strong in the market. Cane was struck out of the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire on Wednesday. Derby.-1066 to 60 was laid agst Augur, and 2000 to 60 and 4000 to 100 agst Maidstone. ranging places huwever with " Cham '' and my prophecy stands thus : - .. u x , ---- ---•-• --- --...--.•, 'v.. y.. , ~.au, Sou not go to the remaining nag s , c . guilty as the other and the older officer.—Mr. Wm. Rathbone, pion" and "Trickstress," the accompanying magistrate with Mr. Mansfield, observed Hippolytus .. that. whilst it was the anxious wish of the magistrates to pro- Trickstress tect the police, it was also their duty to protect the public from Champion a any invasion, and especially against any attempt of doing My Cambridgeshire remarks remain unchanged. wrong on the part of publicans, whom the police were bound to Liverpool. 11th Oct. 1851. Yours, &c., BEESWING keep in order. MISCELLANEOUS. GENERAL NEWS. THE " BLOOMER."—The new female fashion in the Ou Monday the Hon. A. Duncombe was elected member United States has been re-named. and is now called the for the West Riding of Yorkshire, without opposition. " Camilla." From a Montreal paper we learn that the The scavengers of Bristol have struck for wages, and " Camilla" is being introduced into that city. the contractors have been obliged to recruit their forces SUDDEN DEATH OF COUNT REVENTLOW.—His Excel- from London. lency Count Reventlow, the Danish Ambassador at St. The members of the Stock Exchange have subscribed James's, expired suddenly on Monday morning, about nearly £l,OOO for the widow and family of the unfortunate three o'clock, in the Star Hotel, Glasgow. Count Re- Mr. Ingle Rudge. ventlow has been for a considerable time the Danish By a decision of Mr. Fraser Macqueen, the revising Ambassador at the British Court. barrister for Finsbury, the whole of the eighty brethren of THE AMERICAN REAPING NTACHINE.—A tri a l h as the Charterhouse foundation have been invested with the taken place before the Cleveland Agricultural Society of Parliamentary franchise, as £lO householders. the respective merits of M'Cormack's and Hussey's The judge of the Brentford County Court has decided American reapin.v machines, and the report of th e j ur y o f that cricket is a legal game, so as to render the stake practical men, appointed by the consent of both parties, holder liable in an action for the recovery of the stakes, to decide the question, is favourable to the latter in a case where one of the parties had refused to pay. implement. Mr. William Rickford Collet, formerly M.P. for Lin- AMERICAN YACHIS.—The Lords Commissioners of her coleshire, has been declared a bankrupt. Since he left Majesty's Treasury have directed Mr. Cornewall Lewis, parliament, Mr. Collett has been engaged in several specu one of the secretaries, to acquaint the Commissioners of lations, some of them in Ireland, which have turned out Customs that their lordships are pledsed to authorise unsuccessful. them to extend to American yachts the privileges which Mrs. Robertson, of Ednam.bouse, has presented to the have been already granted to members of the Russian inhabitants of Kelso ten acres of ground, to be turned yacht clubs. into a public park, and also promised £5OO towards corrl- M.Louts KOSSUTH'SEXPECTED ARRIVAL Is L ONDON . pleting the approaches, lay►ng out walks, and otherwise —We hear that the celebrated Ex• Governor of Hungary, adorning the ground. accompanied by Lord Dudley Stuart, is expected to arrive Thedeath of Mrs. Sherwood, the authoress, is announced in Eaton-square to-day from Marseilles, a gentleman of as having taken place at Yelverton-place, Twickenham, at fortune in that fashionable locality (Mr. Massingberd) the advanced age of 77. Dr. Baron, an eminent physi having given up his house for a fortnight to him, which, cian, at Cheltenham, and intimate friend of Dr. Jenner's, it is understood, will be the period of his sojourn in the also died on Thursday, at an advanced age. metropolis.—Morning Herald of yesterday. On Thursday evening last, Mr. Alfred Hanson, a fine, REDUCTION IN OFFICIAL SALARIES.—On Saturday tall young man, about nineteen years of age, had just the first reduction in official salaries commenced when a concluded " a schottische dance" at a ball at the Albion portion of the new Chancery act took effect. The Lord Hotel, Leeds, when, as he was taking his seat, he reeled Chancellor will now receive £lO,OOO instead of £14,000, and fell backwards on the floor quite dead. the additional £4,000 being allowed to his Lordship as Mr. Evans, bookseller, of Snow-hill, charged with Speaker of the House of Lords. The Master of the Rolls sending " Vesta lights" among a parcel of books, by the has hitherto been paid £7,000, and he will now receive the Great Western Railway, without giving notice of the reduced salary of £6,000. The two reductions will save dangerous contents, has been fined £5. A porter disco £s,ooo a-year. vered the circumstance by noticing smoke issuing from DEATH OF MR. ALEXANDER LEE.—This well-known the parcel. and popular ballad composer, we regret to state, died on The decline of pauperism has been a stock argument Thursday morning. He was in his career connected, as in favour of free trade ; but it is shown by a parliamentary musical director, with the leading London theatres, and return of rates levied in the London parishes, that ;here at one period was the lessee of Drury-lame Theatre in was an increase in 1850, a 3 compared with 1840, of 5 per conjunction with Captain Polhill ; he never recovered the cent., while, if the difference in the cost of provisions be shock of his wife's death, the late Mrs. Waylett, some allowed for, the increase is felt 25 per cent. months back, and we regret to announce that he died in At Tolingen, famous for its sword blades, an old blade, the reverse of affluent circumstances. that is a manufacturer of them, 95 years old, with a wife SINGULAR CHARACTER.—Mr. Thomas Hale, farmer, of Greet, near Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, died lately in his 78th year. The deceased was formerly in poor circumstances, but a considerable sum having been left to him by some maiden ladies, his prospects underwent a change for the better, and by industrious and careful habits he managed to accumulate a large fortune, dying worth more than £lOO,OOO. He was unable to read and write, and such was his love for the shining metal, that he was unhappy when in possession of bank notes, until he turned them into gold, and at his death between £lO,OOO and £20,000 in money was in his house. —Bath Chronicle. THE LATE MR. DYCE SOMBRE.—Notwithstanding the large amount which the gentlemen of the long robe and the solicitors pocketed out of the estate of this unfortu nate man during his life-time, it appears that they are not quite satisfied. for they have now thrown the estate again into the " confines of the law." The case will come on early in December, before Sir Herbert Jenner Fust, the judge of the Prerogative Court at Doctors'- commons, and the opening is likely to last for several weeks, as the whole of the voluminous evidence as to the gentleman's insanity before the lunacy commissioners, all the documents used in the protracted Chancery proceed ings, and many others, will form part of the present case. —Sunday Times MR. MILNER GIBBON.—Can anybody inform us what are at this moment the political opinions of the Right Hon. Thomas Milner Gibson, M.P. for Manchester ? Time was when he was a red-hot Tory ; then he became a Whig ; then a ramping Radical ;—what is he now ? Has he cut Cobden and Co. ? We really can't tell ; but some people do say that he is returning to his early love, and that we shall have the benefit of his advocacy on the side of Protection. His vote was objected to in Middlesex last week ; the Conservative agent declined to support the objection on the ground that the " right hon. gentleman had changed his politics, and become a Protectionist." We tell the tale as it was told to us in the columns of the daily journals ; the reader may place upon it what value he chooses.—Cambridge Chronicle. THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN AUSTRALIA.—At the forthcoming Cabinet Council the recent discovery of gold in Australia will form one of the chief topics of discussion, with a view to send out by the next mail instructions to the governor as to the course ho shall adopt with respect to the gold fields there. The last packet from Australia brought dispatches for the government from the governor, detailing the particulars of the discovery of gold, and the steps which he (the governor) had adopted to secure to the Crown the right of the gold, and also to prevent the people of Australia from going to Bathurst. He also states in his dispatches that he has not sufficient force at his command to enable him to carry his orders into effect. It is stated in circles likely to be well informed on the matter that Lord Grey (the Colonial Secretary) entirely agrees with the Governor of Australia in the propriety of securing the proceeds of this El Dorado to the Crown, and that he will bring the:matter before his colleagues at the next Cabinet Council.—Sunday Times. TRAFFIC RETURNS.—The traffic returns for the week ending the sth instant, on the undermentioned English lines of railway, are as follows : London and North Western Midland Lancashire and Yorkshire, £61,749 .. £48,126 25,321 .. 24,698 16,027 .. 14,487 15,649 .. 11,682 14,772 .. 13,870 26,236 .. 17,720 19,824 .. 15,362 9,563 .. 9,316 93, have just celebrated what is called in Germany "the marriage of the diamond," the ceremony being again gone over in the church when a couple have completed their 75th marriage anniversary. Thirty-two descendants at tended the hale and hearty old couple. John Calow, an old pensioner of Sheffield, was found one morning with his throat cut ; his married sister, Elizabeth Walton, having raised the alarm. The wound was expected to be fatal. After a time Calow accused his sister of having inflicted the wound. She protested her innocence. Some time since, in a drunken fit, Calow said he would cut his throat and charge his sister with the deed. Mr. Charles Dixon, of Stansted, Sussex, has invested £20,000 in the public stocks, for the purpose of estab lishing and endowing a college for six decayed merchants of the city of London, having no resources of their own, or an income not exceeding £2O a-year, being widowers or bachelors of good character, and Protestants, about 60 years of age. The inrcates of the building, which is now in course of erection at Rowland's Castle, Hamp shire, are to have £4O a-year, with a monthly allowance of £6 for a common table. London and South Western London and Brighton Great Western.. South Eastern ....... York and North Midland Manchester,Sheffield,and Lincoln shire Bristol and Exeter York, Newcastle, and Berwick 15,703 .. 16,504 Shrewsbury and Chester Shrewsbury and Birmingham 6 07 .. 714 Eastern Counties and Norfolk ... • 17,524 .. 14,399 Great Northern Chester and Holyhead North Staffordshire Leeds Northern South Wales 1,553 .. 1,230 South Devon The total receipts on the above line being £262,681, against £217,995 in the corresponding week of last year, the increase is shown to be £44,686. The number of miles open was, in 1851, 4,059, and in 1850, 3,838; ; showing an increase of 220,1 miles. The average return per mile per week was, in 1851, £64 Ils. 10d., and in 1850, £.56 15s. 111 d., being £7 15s. 104-d. per mile per week in favour of *le present year. The returns of the London and North-Western, Great Western, South- Western, South-Eastern, Eastern Counties, and Great Northern still continue very good. The mileage return of the London and North-Western Company is about £25 more than last year, whilst the Great Western is £32 per mile more. The Eastern Counties shows £lO a mile more, owing, in a great measure, to the Newmarket meetings. The Brighton does not exhibit sn large an in crease as was anticipated, but, upon a pleasure line, unfavourable weather has always a tendency to keep down traffic. YA NKKR- Do op .—An American paper remarks, since the late triumphs of the Yankees in steaming, sailing, &c , "Yankee -Doodle-do," should he changed in Eng }laid to " Y‘atket.-ilo4mile -di d Builder. MURDER AND ►SUICIDE IN BERMONDSEY.—On Friday afternoon a horrible occurrence took place in George street, Bermondsey. A woman named Mary Newman, who, with her husband and child, a girl about six years old, lodged at No. 23, in that street, in a paroxysm of in sanity inflicted fatal wounds upon herself and her child with a knife. The persons in the immediate neighbour hood were attracted to the spot by the screams of the little girl, whom they found in a dying state, the mother being quite dead. _ . Two young ruffians have attempted to enter a cottage at Addlestone during the night, to rob Mrs. Willis, an old lady, of a quarter's annuity which she had just received. They were repulsed by the old :lady : when they endea voured to cut through a shutter with a knife, she held an iron candlestick to keep back the knife, and threatened them with a sword-stick when they tried to enter by another way. On her recognising one of them as a neigh bour they both fled ; but a policeman had watched them, and they have been sent to prison. At Lambeth, James Bell, living in great style, at No.l, Holland- place, Camberwell New-road, in a house elegantly furnished, with bottles in the window, to give it the ap pearance of an apothecary's, has been remanded on a charge of defrauding the public under pretence of telling fortunes, by casting of nativities and advertising himself as a professor of astrology. Sergeant Quinnear and another policeman visited the house in plain clothes, and, laying traps, caught,the man out in a series of lies, telling the former that be had a son who would not live long, the man being childless. Bell is said to carry on an immense traffic, to an incredible extent, in fortune-making. On Thursday last Mr. Frederick Bolton, an excise officer, connected with the inland revenue, died from tasting, by mistake, some tincture of aconite, known as woolfsbane. A witness in the office with Mr. Bolton asked him his opinion as to the nature of the liquid. Deceased said he believed it was a bitter, and took the bottle out of witness's hand, and afterwards returned it. Witness then conveyed the bottle to Mr. Brain, the prin cipal officer of that department, who directly tore off the paper covering, when witness saw it was labelled " Flem ing's Tincture of Aconite—Poison," in large letters. Mr. Bolton said he had taken a tea spoonful, a dose large enough, it appears, to kill five persons. All remedies were unavailing, and he died in a few hours. The wife of a man named Baker, whilst sitting mending a flannel shirt of her husband's, who was reading to her at the time, on Friday night, in their lone cottage, in the parish of Gayton-le-Marsh, Lincolnshire, was shot dead by some miscreant, some of the shots also lodging in her husband's head, whom from the direction it was intended should have been murdered also. At first the man him self was accused of the murder, and his friends consider it a providential circumstance that he did not escape un injured, as in that case he might have had some difficulty in proving his innocence of the toul and dastardly murder. Baker does not hesitate to express his suspicion of the " friends" of his wife, who, according to his account, want to get possession of the place—the cottage, and three or four acres of land neer it, being her property. BEVERLEY.—HYDROPHOBIA. A dreadful and fatal case of this fearful malady has just occurred in this town. A man of the name of Joseph Wardell, lately in the employ of Mr. Chatterson, farmer, about 38 years of age, on Saturday morning last, began to feel unwell, com plaining of a numbness in the left arm, and supposing it to be an attack of rheumatism, went for relief to Mr. Brereton, surgeon, who prescribed suitable remedies ; towards evening the patient became worn, exhibit ing symptoms of spasm in the throat and chest. On Sunday he was attended by Mr. Brereston, Mr. Boulton, and Dr. Sandwith, when it was found to be a decided case of hydrophobia; the usual horror at the sight of water, and the dreadful paroxysms peculiar to that disease following in rapid succession, confirming that opi nion. The poor man continued in that state till half-past twelve on Monday morning, when death put a period to his sufferings. It appears that some four or five months ago a dog had worried a cat belonging to deceased, and that he (deceased) caught the dog, and having put a string to it. was taking it to the tannery where he worked to destroy it, when the animal leapt up and bit his hand. He immediately destroyed the , dog, and was a day or two off work on account of the wound, whiah, howsver, soon bealed, and nothing more us 4 felt from it till last Saturday. HE GREAT EXHIBITION, MONDAY. -107.815 people entered the building to-aaft and the sum of £5,175 16s. was taken at the doors. That nearly 108.000 people should within one day and under one roof have enjoyed the grandest spectacle that ttle . world has ev er w it nesse d, i s o f i tself a su ffi cient marv el ! but that they should have done so without a single known casualty to life and property, is almost incredible. When the crowd assembled within the building was at its culmi-. meting point, it was su dd en l y discovered that the Du k e o f Wellington was p resen t. I nstantly the manifestat i ons 0! public admiration arose. Hats were taken off, and loud cheers burst forth, which were prolonged with immense energy. Those who were at a distance, surprised by all unwonted agitation which they could not understands , fancied that there was something wrong, and rushed towards the doors. The Duke also felt the awkwardness of his position, and beat a retreat. His great age does not now permit him to execute such movements with the precision and firmness which in former days were his characteristics, but he made his way nevertheless to the south entrance of the transept with surprising alacrity, followed as he went by the most vigorous demonstrations of popular regard. TUESDAY. - 109,915 persons entered the building, while . the sum of £5,231 10s. was taken in shillings at the doors , Even the Bank begins to feel the flow of silver to its coffers from the glutted exchequer of the Royal Commis sioners. It was found necessary to have two cabs to convey to Threadneedle -street the accumulation of the previous day, and the weight of specie amounted to no less than fifteen hundred-weight. WEDNESDAY. ' 109.760 persons visited the building, and the sum of £5,283 3s. was taken at the doors. THURSDAY. —The number of visitors fell to 90,813, and the receipts to £4,344 7s. 6d. A more disagreeable day has not occurred since the opening, and the only wonder is that so many people were present. Weather which would have effectually smothered the most rampant revolutionary spirit only partially affected the attractive ness of the Crystal Palace, and it was quite curious to see how visitors from the country, disdaining rain, pressed forward to the great centre of interest on the exposed "knife-boards" of omnibuses and through seas of mud. Many of them presented a sufficiently pitiful aspect, draggled tails and clothes spattered with mud being the fate of all the pedestrians along the route. The occasion appeared an appropaiate one for disseminating the doc trines of Bloomerism, and accordingly a lady wearing that costume presented herself during the day, and created an immense sensation. FRIDAY. - 46,913 persons visited the building, and £4,914 Is. 6d. was taken at the doors. SATURDAY.—TiIe number of visitors was 53,061 ; re ceipts, £4,845 139. 6d. THE CLOSING SCENE. The Great Exhibition was finally closed to the public, and, like many of the unfulfilled expectations that have been entertained of it during its history, the numbers were by no means so large as was anticipated. The doors were opened at nine o'clock, instead of twelve, but there was no crowd or crush beyond what one sees upon an or dinary shilling day. There was a good deal more excite ment than one ordinarily sees evinced by the spectators, a hurrying to and fro, and an evident eagernessand anxiety to grasp the whole of the details, if possible, in the course of a singlevisit, and indelibly impress them in the memory. in the midst of the b usy scene Lord John Russell was endea vouring to do the honours to a parry of ladies, but it was a task which he soon gave up as impracticable, and nar rowly escaped the honours of an ovation by his retire ment. The fr oce of the current of visitors to-day mar be estimated from the following table of the arrivals in each hour:— At ten o'clock, 4,790 persons had entered; at eleven o'ciock, 11,707 persons; at twelve, 19,207 ; at one, 27,311; at two. 34,841; at three, 42,870 ; and up to the final close, 53,061. --- The transept and those portions of the nave imme diately contiguous thereto were thronged during the day with crowds of well-dressed persons, among whom specu lation was rife as to whether there would be any kind of demonstration at the close. As the afternoon advanced, and the season-ticket holders began to pour in, this por tion of the building became almost impassable; and about three o'clock, it having been circulated that the National Anthem would he performed upon the organs, many fa shionably-attired ladies were seen taking up their posi tions wherever they could find posts or places against which they might lean, sitting was out of the question, until five o'clock, in order to be near the music. The galleries were thronged three and four deep in every part; the transept was no. onger passable, the visitors being forced into a compact mass. The heat at this time was very great, and many ladies were heard to exclaim they wished it was five o'clock, not because they were anxious for the close of the Exhibition, wilier' was universally deplored, but, as we imagine, because they were fearful that they would be unaole to withstand the fatigue of being crushed up for so long a period without a change of position. Many were the anxious glances thrown upon the clock at the south side ; still all boldly kept their places, determined to witness the " closing scene." At length the hour struck, there was a cry of " hats off," which, it is almost needless to observe, was instantly obeyed, the organs pealed forth our beautiful National Anthem, which was immediately taken up by the choristers, and almost as quickly by the majority of the visitors. The last verse of the anthem was encored by universal acclamation, and was given with redoubled spirit; and this over, a thorough English round of cheering, three times three and one cheer more, resounded through the building. The gongs and bells were then set to work to announce that the time had arrived to depart; but so loth was every one to move away for the last time, that it was some minutes before the discordant sounds had any perceptible effect upon them. At length they slowly began to depart. Many, however, remained till past six o'c!ock, and attempted to get up renewed cheers, but, as the attempts were not by any means unanimous, they were quite unsuccessful. At the west end of the building a similar scene was enacted. As the clock struck five. Mr. Best commenced the national anthem npon Willis's great organ ; a vast number of persons in the gallery immediately joined in with their voices, and " God Save the Queen" was sung with heart and voice by all who were within hearing of the organ. Then followed a burst of cheering, which was rendered more effective from its complete unanimity. The national anthem was subsequently encored, and was this time sung with redoubled vigour. The cheers and waving of hats were prolonged for a considerable period, until interrupted by the clang of gongs and bells an nouncing the period for closing the building. All seemed to regret most sincerely that the final close had at length arrived, and all lingered upon the scene which had caused them so much real amusement, instruction, and grati fication. It was twenty minutes past five when the b, Hs began to ring, to warn the company it was time to depart. From this momenta most extraordinary scene ensued. There was continual cheering from every quarter for Prince Albert, for Lord Granville, for Mr. Paxton, for the Royal Commissioners, &c. ; while those of the company who were not so amusing themselves were rushing about,- looking after some particular article, such as the Austrian sculpture, the Koh.i.Noor, Hunt and Roskell's case, the - Parian statues, the crown of shells, or other attractions,. to take "a last fond look" upon what had most excited their attention. At a quarter to six the bell was again rung, but still nobody appeared to be taking any notice of it. The police now began to endeavour to induce the visitors to leave the building, which they were only at last enabled to effect by forming themselves, in conjunction with the Sappers and Miners, into parties, and, blocking up certain portions, gradually moving every person towards the egress doors, from which they were not allowed to return. Thus, the Exhibition was at last closed, thong b it was not until long past seven that the whole of th e lingering company was got out of the building. The, private carriages conti nue d t a ki ng up th e compan y till past eight o'clock. The company consisted in great part of the more re spectable classes of London society, the private carriages being nearly as numerous as upon any occasion siuce the opening of the Exhibition.—Observer. STATISTICS OF THE EXHIBITION. The following return shows the number of visitors during the time the Exhibition remained open to the public :—ln the month of May the number of visitors was 734,782 ; in June, 1,133,116 ; in July, 1,314,176 ; in Au gust, 1,023,435 ; in September, 1,1 . 55,240 ; in October, up to the 11th instant, 841,107. Grand total, 6,201, 856 ; The liabilities incurred, so far as they hav e be en a t presen t ascertained, are as follow :—To Messrs. Fox and Hender son, for the building, £79,800; to Messrs. MundaY f or rescinding of contract, £5,000; extra galleries, counters, and fittings, £35.000; management, including p r inting , &c., up to the Ist May, £20,943; police force, £lo, o u u; prize fund, £20,000 ; management during the ex hibition! —Total, £170,743. The income', of: the establishin e l b e is as follows up to the close of the exhibition subscriptions, £64,344 ; privilege of printing, £ 3, ' privilege of supplying refreshments, £5,500 ; amount re ceived for seasn pertickets up to Ist of May, £40,0004 royalty of 2d. copy on catalogues,—Total funds, at hand on the Ist of May, £113,044. Amount receive' the doors up to August 30, £252,141 9s. 6d. ; ditto yr.,' to the end of September, £62,007 125.; ditto up to t ota l, day, the 11th of October, £41,922 lls. 6d. Grand tots £469,115 13s. nai4 According to the Royal warrant and deed of col e 7 • relating to the Great Exhibition, which are printed , I _!,, month. t Parliamentary paper, the buildin a r could have been * o , open until the end of the present The words of "shall be closed and concluded on or before the tu November." All the buildings and erections and. „I ItoY materials and contents a r e, i n p ursuanc e of the by warrant, to be "completely removed and carried togay or before the Ist of June, 1852, and that, on and at the sole expense of the said commissioners, "" said Ist of June, 1852, the said commissioners for„ogra', Exhibition of 1851 shall, to the satisfaction of the t .l' the nriissioners of Woods, restore the soil and surface of sai d park to its form before any part was enclosed by tn ° _,d to commissioners, ready for sowing with grass seed, an was sow the same." The vote of the House of Coron 2 "n ot merely the building should not be removed before t h e of May next year. or before t. 12: A BAD LEG OF A VERY DANGERO S NATURg BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND r - • for pole , of No. 2, Mermaid-court, Borougbefiad suffered ffied very long period with a dreadfuksbre leg. which 1 / I .;cei the skill of the most eminen rgeons in privat _ _ boo° as well as in the hospital nd dispensaries, under if te 4 treatment she had b e least none of whom, after tePelk.,,. trials, could effect e least good. The use of liollow_l7o% Pills and Oin nt alone has been the means of cg r . n s this extraordegary bad leg , to the wonder and astonislol3;a, of all wko'have seen it, as Mrs. Poole is a Fero" van .11411 years. rdqfrom the steps of the convey4nce morning the body of John g in Upper Beau-street, was found su pended from the kitchen ceiling of h inquest was held on the bod adduced there is .^ own house and from the evident the verdict returned." Tern nity, prod porary . -eed by excessive drinking,' plained the co. the rash act, for the unfortunat -had been drinking from the previous Frido y week Aft IN AID OF ST e man SCHOOLS MATTHEW'S CHURCH AND TOXTETII s to an advertisement in our a bazaar to be held next week in )r the completion and consecration ind schools. Articles for sale, and of fruit, flowers, &c., for the ill be thankfully received up to the ti ins. the bazaar. TAN'N'S FIRE-Pi of the ahoveei contdbu thrnent e of open- ssrs. J. G. Harrison and Co., a !y_an advertisement in another m the manufact y, in Lon- don, a lar; , and whi !i will only lain at 14, Lord.st days. in order to all rds of tons, and a beautiful s adopiation kn. the purp applied. ell it is intended to be MR. I? Ai pool on TI Mr: Ra —Lorri 1 Holrne and Mr. Jeffery ed an interview and laid the matter of Ire him. In reply. his lordship expressed his readiness to inquire into the case at the earliest op portunity, and begged that the memorial should be sent on to him at Sir Benjamin Heywood's, Manchester. although he would consider that it had been presented. On Satur day a meeting of the committee was held for the purpose of taking preliminary steps with respect to the proposed 1,. ...cr5. Fletcher and Hull were named soli- inquiry citors, and a sub-com gentlemen in conducting the inquiry - - FATAL ACCIDENT FROM A CANNON.—On Friday after noon, about five o'clock, a girl about ten years of age, the daughter of James Tell, of No. 49 cellar, Church-street, was standing in Turner-street, with her brother, a little boy about twelve months old, in her arms, when some person fired a cannon. This piece must have been loaded with shot of some descriptiOn, which struck her in the right eye, and came out at the back of her head. She immediately fell, and was taken to the Royal Infirmary, and on her arrival there it was found that she was dead. Fortunately, the infant did not sustain the slightest injury. The police are making inquiries, and hope to be enabled to discover the person who fired the cannon.—Manchester Guardian. THE WEST DERBY BOARD OF GIIARDIANS.—The usual weekly meeting of this board was held on Wednesday, Mr. Rockell in the chair. There were also present the Rev. W. Badnall, Messrs. Bolshaw, Lunt, Bunting, Abraham, Harrison, Elias, Carter, Birch, Alpasq, Jones, Jeffrey, Pilkineton, Siddley, Lightbody, Pye, Mountfield, and Brown. Mr. Abraham gave notice to the board that be would, on the 22nd instant, move that a piece of land, to be then named, should be purchased, for the purpose of erecting thereon an hospital for the union.—A short discussion took place relative to the expense incurred in conveying the bodies of deceased paupers to their graves, several members thinking the present charges were ex. cessive. On the motion of Mr. Harrison, the matter was referred to the finance committee. ATTEMPTS TO PICT: POCKETS.—On Friday a great por tion of the lengthened sitting of the Police-court was occupied with cases of attempted pocket-picking on the day of the Queen's visit. Detectives Bates, Povey, Murphy, and others, produced a long array of the light fingered gentry, either taken in the act of pocket-picking, or belonging to the class of " well-known pickpockets," who had r ece i ve d no ti ce on t h e W e d nesday evening that if found next day in the streets they would be taken into custody. They were captured in all quarters of the town, but more especially in those places where the crush was greatest, such as around the Exchange, the George's Basin, and St. George's Hall. A number of the prisoners were mere boys, hut well known to the police. Some of them were strangers, but known as " travelling thieves." That there were no cases of actual pocket-picking before the court can only be accounted for from the active vigi lance of the officers. ACCIDENTS.—On Thursday, shortly after her Majesty's passing down Bold-greet, a cab that was being driven with frightful rapidity, was overturned near the triumphal arch. After the passengers were extricated, it was found that they had escaped without serious injury, with the ex ception of Miss Harry, who was much bruised. The cab was completely shattered.—As Mr. Cosmagadwick, of 14, Richmond-row, was pausing along that street, a young man, named John Disney, discharged a small loaded cannon, which took effect, and seriously injured Mr. Cos tnagadwick's leg. Disney was given in charge to the police. —Thomas Kirk, nightwatchman to Messrs. Leishman and Kirk, Vulcan-street, was found dead, on Thursday morn ing, underneath the door of the joiners'-shop, which is twelve feet above the ground, and from which it is sup posed be had fallen (luring the previous night.—On Thursday Robert Baird, warehousemen to Messrs. Jack Brothers, was knocked down in Dale -street, while passing a car, the wheels of which weet over his head and killed him on the spot.—On Thursday a child, named Joseph Smith, whose parents reside in Vaughan-street, Park, (lied from a dose of laudanum, medicinally adminis tered by its mother.—On Saturday morning a man, named John Kenyon, thirty years of age, was found suspended by the neck, and quite dead, in a house in Queen's-place, Virgil-street. ROYAL MERSEY YACHT CLUB.—On Wednesday a yacht race took place on the Mersey, for a piece of plate, given by Thomas Litticdale, Esq., commodore of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club, in honour of her Majesty's visit to Liverpool. To suit the arrangements, it was necessary that the match should take place on the day before the Queen's arrival. The day was exceedingly stormy; so boisterous was the weather at times, that it was doubted by many whether it would be advisable for the yachts to start. The yachtmen, with a determination that th e re should be no disappointment, decided in the affirmative. The yachts contending were the Water 'Wyvern, 44 tons, J. E. Stopford, Esq.; Aqualia, 43 tons; J. -R owan, Queen of the Ocean, 45 tons, Thomas Littledale, Esq.; Fidget, 15 tons, J. Laird, Esq. The start was effect e d f rom a st e amer , by signals of the commodore, a little a ft er eleven a in , The course was round the lazarettes, ro un d the • FOrmbv and Crosby lightship, to the starting-post at Birkenhead Ferry. The Queen of the Ocean was the first to feel the effect of her canvas, and was followed by the Aqualia, 'Water Wyvern, and Fidget. In rounding part of the lazarette inshore, the Wyvern touched the ground, and was delayed a few minutes. The appearance of the yachts about t hi s t i me was highly picturesque , and they , were regard e d b y t h e officers and crews of her Majesty s yachts, at anch or , w i th much interest. The yachts proceeded along the river in fine style, with a stiff breeze, until, unfortunately, th e Queen of th e Ocean carried away her rosenhalyards when about midway to the Crosby lightship. The Aqualia showed her fine windward sailing properties, and was, on rounding the Formby light, in advance of the fleet some distance. There was a heavy sea in this part of the chann e l, which caused the gachts to pitch An d d i ve in a very lively manner. The Aqualia arrived the winner at the flag -yacht. off Birkenhead, a little after four, p.m ., the Water Wyvern tie next, tome di stance b e hi n d . The pr.zo was a Very handsome silver tankard and salver.