The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-10 00:00:00

FuREIGN AND COLONIAL. OVERLAND MAIL. The lates dates are—Calcutta, October 22 ; Ceylon, 19 ; China—Mac-to, August 24; Chusan, August 12; and Hong Kong, Sept. I.—Delhi. October 23 ; Lahore, Oct. 14; Madras, Oct. 24; Manilla, August 10.—Scinde— Kurrachee, Sept. 7, and Hydrabad, August 7 ; Sincapore, September 26. The London mail of the 7th of September reached Bom bay, per Cleopatra, en the 12th, Madras and Agra on the 19th, Calcutta and Delhi on the 20th, and Ceylon on the . 17th of October. _ _ _ The news is not very important. The troubles in the Southern Mahratta country have greatly abated in the course of the month. The Fort Samuighar %ail taken by storm by the force under General Delnclude on th 6 13th ultimo Our troops met with little opposition, the enemy having fled at their approach. Nearly 600 of the Mah- Mahrattus fell in the course of the operations against them, and about as many more prisoners were taken by us. Our . own casualties were insignificant ; two Engli.h officers were killed, and one died of cholera in the cotue , e of the'siege; betwixt 20 and 30 men were killed or wound ed. The army since then has marched to Kolapose, the capital of the disturbed district. Tranquility reigns throughout British India. The commercial intelligence from Bombay is extremely unfa vourable. Trade has not for many years been known to be so dull as at present. The low rate of exchange effec tually prevents merchants accepting the terms offered by buyers. The importations of British manufactures have been very excessive, while on the other hand there have in the past month been no exports, but the stock lies dead in the hands of the merchants. Fever prevailing at Hong Kong. The ship Ceylon, D. Ferguson, master, from London to Bombay, was lost on the let of October, on the north ernmost reef of the Laccadives, which even on the best Charts are marked 18 miles too much to the eastward. The captain and crew arrived safe in Bombay. No blame is attributable to them. The ship Brilliant, from Cal cutta to Bombay, was lost on the 16th of October on the point of Saueur Sands : the crew were saved. From 800 bay the chief points are the conviction of the infamous Aloo Plinio. for being implicated in burning the merchant ship Belvedere in Singapore harbour. This scoundrel appears to have made a practice of burning ships which he had insured, and of which five or six were de stroyed within four rears. Another subject of interest in Bombay arose from the commitment for trial at the December criminal sessions of Thomas Braithwaite, the master of the ship Neptune, from Liverpool. He, it appears, treated the steward with great cruelty, and actually gave upwards of 200 lashes to a French lad on board for some supposed offence. The care of this boy was brought forward by a French mer chant, named Bou-sac, alto received every assisiance from the magistrates. The French Consular Agent is a mere nonentity, having been born and educated at Aleppo. The trial of Braithwaite, for his cruelty, was loudly demanded by the public of that Presidency. EXCHANGE.—Monev is abundant, but the rates of ex change are very unsatisfactory. The principal tran.ae tions on London by the present mail have been made at Is. nd. to Is. 10d. at six months, and Is. 91d at 30 days' sight. FREIGHTS.—The current rates are noted in our quota tions, but owing to the low state of the export market freights are not easily obtained. To China nothing is doing : to London, £3; to Liverpool, 3; to Clyde, no ship ; to China, no quotation ; to Ditto, opium, per clip per, 3 to 4 dollars. EXCHANSKS.—London, 6 months' sight, ls. 91d. to Is. 10d.; Ditto, 30 days' sight, Is. op. ; Calcutta, 60 days' sight, Rs. 991-: Canton, 60 days' sight, Rs 217 a 220 per 100 Spanish dollars. UNITED STATES.—The packet ship Monteznma, Cap. Lowber, arrived at this port, on Saturday evening, from New York, with advices one day later than those by the steamer, which, however, contain no intelligence, except ing an extract from a Vera Cruz letter, dated October 28th, which states, that an angry correspondence was takii , g place between the American Minister and the Mexican Government relative to Texas, and another similar correspondence between Santa Anna and the Chamber. The Montezuma made the run in twenty and a-half days. SPAlN.—Latest advices from Madrid represent that city as perfectly tranquil, and from the official bulletins published by the Government, it would appear that the insurrection in Navarre and Arraaon had been completely suppressed. The Ti;ree per Cents. closed at 30 for cash, and 30i, at 60 days ; and the Five per Cents. at 21i at 60 days. Letters from Bayonne, of the 2d inst , state, that General Iturbe, who had been arrested in Guipuzcoa and conveyed to Vittoria, had been sent off thence to Logrono, to be tried by the Military Commission. General Iturbe had led a most retired life in his native viila:te since the downfall of Espartero, and taken no part in political af fairs. The eldest son of General Zurbano had also been moved to Logrono. TIIE BONES OF STODDART AND CONOLLY.--The Delhi Gozette seys that Dr. Wolff succeeded in discover ing the hones of these unfortunate men, and that he is re turning with them to England. TOLERATION IN FRANCE.—Several booksellers and printers in P.,ris have been rigorously prosecuted for selling religious Protestant tracts. The jury, however, would not consider the cuntents offensive, and acquitted the vendors. The possibility of connecting the Dannbe with the Black Sea, by a means of a canal along the Turkish terri tory, has peen finally announced by the sell-known engineer Birago. The cost is estimated at 1,500,000 norms. AWFUL FIDE AND Loss OF LIFE IN LISEON.—On the 21st ult., a little before dawn, a fire broke out in a large house in the Rua da Magdalena, in Lisbon, by which thirteen pe rs..ns lest their lives. The lower part of the stairs being in flames escape in that way was impossible, and the distracted inmates of the several floors rushed to the windows and cried loudly for assistance. The neigh bourhood was soon roused, and the parish bell was rung, but by mistake 16 strokes were tolled instead of 14, so that the engines went to the wrong district, and an hour was lost, during which the flames gained ground. The most heartrending cries came from the windows. Three persons escaped from the first floor by means of sheets tied together, and others of the family passed from the balconies to the next house. Othcrs let themselves down by a rope. Some on the upper floor jumped out of the windows and were killed on the spot. On the second floor was a wealthy shopkeeper, named Palhares, his wife, four ch►Firen, and three servants. lle himself was killed in leaping out, and all the others of his family perished in the flames. On the third floor lived Pedras, another shopkeeper, wish his sister. a clerk, and a man servant. No ladders sufficiently long could be procured. A Frenchman, named Manette, went up a short ladder, and saved a young girl who leaped into his arms. A Portuguese, Ramires, imitated the example, but not suc cessfully. Miss Pedras, in attempting to leap down into h:s arms, missed her aim, and falling into the street was killed. A portion of her petticoat whiCh he had caught as she fell remained in his hand. At this time the second floor had given way, arid the whole of the Pelhares family had perished. A shoemaker, who lived in the garret, escaped by the roof with his family, but returning for something he perished in the flames. The number of known victims is thirteen ;—ten burnt alive, and three killed in leaping from the windows. IRE I. AND. Mr. J. L. Arabin has been unanimously elected Lard Mayor of Dublin for the ensuing year. Mr. Dowden has beeir chosen Mayor of Cork. CAMELEON.—One of these singular creatures, caught on Mi trot Calvary, by Mr. E. Tennant, M.P., and for warded by him, to the Natural History Society, has ar rived in Belfast alive, and may be seen at the Museum. The editor of the Tablet (a Roman Catholic) regards the achesion of Archbishop Murray. and other prelates, to the Catholic Bequests' Act, as fatal to the catholic church. He says "l here is no longer a church in Ire land; there is nothing but a collection of bishoprics." In the last number of the Cork Examiner subscripti-ns to the Matthew Fund to the amount (11;1095 are acknow ledged. At the head of the list stands a donation of £5OO from a member of the Society of Friends, near York. GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE—We understond from competent authority that the system of favour to enemies— desertion of friends—is to be carried out en an extensive scale in all future appointments in Ireland ; and that the elevation of Mr. Erle, a fierce political opponent of the present government, to the nglish bench, is to be but the Precursor toe similar honour intended for Mr. David Pigot, the I under of that society, the name of which we have printed in italics.—Dublin Mail. HORRID MURDER.—On Tuesday evening last, as Mr. Samuel WK.-kin, was sitting in his parlour reading, near the road leading from Branchfield to Sligo, he was shot by some base assassin, through his window, and so near was the murderer to his victim, that the shot carried away a portion of his head, and stretched him lifeless on the instant. Mr. M'Keirin was a protestant, a most in offensive, respectable, industrious farmer, bad not taken land, or in any way disobliged his neighbours, and pro bably at the moment was unconscious that he had an enemy in the world. No clue to this foul transaction has been discovered.—Dublin Mail. FRIGHTFUL MURDER. — Two brothers, named Shep pard, have been barbarously murdered. They had taken a farm from the Rev. Richard Coote, near Ballyboy, iu the King's County, from which some tenants had been ejected ; the Sheppards were served with several threaten ing notices, but having made the roof of the house fire proof with clay, and having bored gun-holes through dif ferent parts of the wall, they fancied themselves secure. Three brothers were living together, but one of them left the house on Tuesday morning, and on his return found the bodies of both his brothers, with their brains nearly beat out—one in the house, and the other outside. ANOTHER MURDER NEARLY EFFECTED.—On Tues day night last, or Wednesday morning before day, un armed party attacked the house of Patrick Curren, a sma ll farmer on the lands of Gurteen, near Tubber, in the Ki rm 's County, and forcing their way into the house, dis charged several shots at the helpless inmates,• one of which nearly shot Curren's arm off, the hall lodging in the upper part, near Or shoutder , wben, after some denuncia tions and threatening s, an d thinking he was dying, they decamped. Land was the cause o f the visit, he having been paid another visit, on a former occasion, relative to the farm he is now in for the last four gears, th ere b e i ng some grudge against his taking it. He lies dangerously ill, and it is supposed will comply with the mandates of the midnight legislators, if he recovers, by leaving his farm. What a state of things, and what time, we live in l—Dublin Mail, AFTER DINNER TRUTHS.--Mr. Moriarty t ti Popish priest from Pennsylvania, stated at an aftee•tilnner repeal meeting in Dublin, on Wednesday, that there were 50,000 Irishmen in America solemnly plettod, on the shedding or the first repealer's blood, to rush into Coaida, and rescue it from British rule ! THE GOVERNMENT AND THE IRISH CletiACH.—Any communication between this country and gngland, which has taken place outside the strictly official circle, has been either with Mr. Wyse of Watevord, or the National Board iu Marlborongh-street, or with some of the Popish ?relates 3oncerned for Maynootli. If any are appriSed o! the sscret, it is they. The Bishops and Clergy of the Established Church, and the heads of all our Protestant institutions for learning and education, are kept in the dark. Is this proper• treatment for friends—nay, is it proper treatment for au enemy—anywhere but in the field ?—Dublin Mail. REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—Mr. J. P. Somers. M.P., presided at the weekly meeting of this body on Monday. Mr. O'Connell was present from the commencement, and almost ►monopolized the speakinm. He first urged atten tion to the registries, and moved resolutions on the sub ject, which were carried. He next spoke on railways, strongly approving of them. In his principal speech of the day he stated that the repeal agitation was now recom menced, never to terminate but with an Irish parliament in College-green ; complained of having been greatly dis. appointed and betrayed by the Federalists, still, however, offering them an opportunity to take the leadership. He went over the propositions included in his last week's speech, and concluded by proposing that they should be referred to a committee to prepare an address upon them to the people of England. This was carried unanimously. The repeal rent for the wezk was announced to be £493 ss. firl. POPISH PLANS,—The Dublin Nation thus offers to the Protestant proprietors of Ireland a gentle glimpse of part of what the papacy exl.iects to see soon accomplished. " There remain two other plans, and between them lies the real choice of Ireland. The choice, between plans both so vaso.nable, will decide the conduct of the minis ter. The first is, that at Maynooth, or still better in Cork, shall be established a great Catholic University, and in Belfast a Presbyterian University—students of - all sects to be admitted to either, as in Trinity ; but the govern ment and the Divinity School of Cork to be Catholic, and those of Belfast Presbyterian, leaving Trinity College, Dublin, as it is. Aided by a great system of county and professional schools, this would be an Edequate plan ; hut the . first grant to Cork in such a case should be £60,000, and to Belfast £40,000. The last system, and that which Mr. Wyse seems most to relish, is to have colleges for men of all creeds established in the great cities—in Cork, Limerick, Belfast, Galway, Enniskillen (or Derry,) and Waterford for example; that the governing bodies of these should form one corpora ion, in conjunction with Trinity, as the University of Ireland ; and that (as we understand) divinity schools for the clergy of each creed should be attached to one or wore of these colleges. In theory this plan is more perfect—practically it would find more support from the country, because of bringing a col lege into each•great town, and it would render the need of county schools less pressing." UNIVERSITY CLERICAL NEWS. OXFORD.—The following degrees were conferred last week.—Muter of Arts:—Robert Jackson Butler. Scho lar of Brasenose.—Bachelors of Airs, —George Montagu Warren Percocks, New Inn Hall; Thomas Norton Har per, St. Mary's L all; Henry Herbert Wyatt, Queen's College ; Thomas Frederic Smith, Qu-en's College ; Theodore Joseph Prichard. Demy of Magdalen; Matthew Arnold, Scholar of Brasenose • Philip Swanwich, Schol,r of Baliol ; William Wheeler hornton, Trinity. Mr .H. Boothby Barry. Michel Scholar of Queen's, was this day elected a fellow on the same foundation. Mr. Barry gained the Chancellor's Prize, in 1943: for the best Eng lish Essay on the advantages and disadvantages of the feudal system. OXFORD, Nov. 39.—Last night the following gentle men were elected Scholars of Balliol College :—Messrs. 11. J. S. Srni.h, from Rugby, and A. Grant, from Har row, schools on the old and open foundation. _ At the same time Messrs. F. Newman Rogers, from Eton school, and Charles T. Hoskins, commoner, of Balliol College, were elected to Somersetshire exhibitions in the said col lege. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. — Rev. A. Ram say, M.A., to the perpetual curacy of Tintinhull, Somer set; Rev. S. Goodav, M.A., to the curacy of Christ Church, Chelsea ; Rev. A. G. Hildyard, M.A., to the curacy of King's Cliffe, Northamptonshire • Rev. E. D. Green, master of the grammar school, Langport, and as sistant curate of Pettey, to the chaplaincy of Langport union workhouse, Somerset ; Rev. S. Cragg, curate of Harborough Magna, to the newly termed district of St. Thomas's, Coventry; Rev. J. Y. Hughes, 8.A., to the perpetual curacy of Trinity church, Greenwich, Kent ; Rev. J. Bywater. 8.A., to the perpetual curacy of St. Simon and St. Jude, Manchester; Rev. W. H. Barber, 8.A., to the perpetual curacy of Belper, Derbyshira ; Rev. J. N. Dalton, M.A., to the vicarage of Greetham, Rutlandshire ; Rev. R. W. K. Wood, M.A., to the cu racy of Husband's Bosworth, Leicestershire ; Rev. S. Charles, 8.A., to the curacy of Denham near Newmarket, vacant by the preferment of the Rev. E. Bosanquet to the vicarage of Harstou ; Rev. E. H. Hunter, 8.A., to the assistant curacy of St. Ann, Limehouse : Rev. Sir H. Thompson, Bart., to the living of Trent, near Tunbridge Wel.; Rev. T. H. Lloyd, to the rectory of Hamerton, Hants; Rev. E. Kits( M.A., to be chaplain of Pem broke Dockyard, vice Bloxham, retired ; Rev. T. J. Or merod M.A. to the new church of St. Mark, Lakenham, Norwich ; Rev. E. W. Foley, to the vicarage of Great of St. Columb Major, Cornwall, to be private chaplain of Lord Viscount Valentia ; Rev. H. Blake, 8.A., to the rectory of Hesset, Suffolk ; Rev. R. Merry, M.A., to the rectory of Guilden Morten. Cambridgeshire ' • Rev. R. Spyfforth, to the vicarage of Weighton Market, York shire ; Rev. G. Wright, to the vicarage of Conisborough, Yorkshire; Rev. R. Bingham, to the perpetual curacy of Harwood, Bolton, Lancashire; Rev. J. H. Cartwright, 8.A., to the perpetual curacy of Winterborne Dantsry, Wilts ; Rev. H. P. Naughton, to the rectory of Markfield, Leicestershire; Rev. J. E. Surridge, to be chaplain to the Royal Hospital Greenwich. The Rev. Dr. Moon, of Spalding, has been appointed Archdeacon of Lincoln. The Rev. G. Fisk has resigned the vicarage of Walsall, on account of ill health and the ruinous deficiency of the income to meet the incessant calls of charity. The Archbishop of Canterbury's reply to the Exeter memorialists, as to the present critical state of the church, consists of a simple acknowledgment of the memorial. MR. OAKLEY.—Dean Chandler has withdrawn from Mr. Oakley the district over which be was recently pastor, in the dean's parish of All Souls, Marylebone.—Record. It is stated that at the Bishop of Ely's recent ordina tion, a young disciple of Mr. Newman was at once dis missed by his lordship, on his admitting that he interpteted the articles in the sense of No. 90. CONSECRATION.—On Sunday morning last, the cere mony of consecratio❑ was performed at Christ Church, Belton, (a building which formerly belonged to the Me thodistical Connection,) to which a new front has been added in the German style of architecture, by the Lord Bishop of Chester. His Lordship afterward preached. In the afternoon, the Rev. Canon Parkinson, of Manches ter, preached ; and the Rev, the Chancellor of Chester also preached in the evening. The collections amounted to £69. REV. Ma. WARD.—This gentleman, who, as we stated last week. has been summoned before the Vice-Chancel lor of Oxford, and esked whethe r he would avow himself the author of the notorious work, "The ideal of a Chris tian Church," has stated that acting under legal advice, be must decline answering any questions whatever, until he should know mote definitely the course which it was in tended to adopt against him. A committee of the Ft ebtic madel Board is now sitting, with a view to further pro ceedings. - - - - - - The ex-churchwarden of East Farleigh (Kent) has for. warded a complaint to his Grace the Arehbi•hop of , Can terbury, respeoting the Rev. 1-1. W. Wilberforce, vicar of that parish. Mr. Kennard's complaints of the innova tions introduced by the rev. geoteman induced his Glace to appoint two dignitaries of the church, the Rev. Dr. Griffiths, Provost of Oriel, and the Archdeacon of Maid stone, to inquire into the matter, whose report was in Mr. Wilberforce's favour. One of the charges against the vicar is, that he introduces the word " blessed" before the name of the Virgin Mary, in the Creed. Concerning this his Grace says:—`• The introduction of any word not found in the creed is wroi g; otherwise the application of the term bi. ssed to the Virgin Mary is justified by the rubric of the Common Prayer, as well as by the authority of Scripture. (St. Luke, chap. i.)" THE OFFERTORY.—On Friday, a large meeting of the inhabitants of Hurst took place, to consider the reply of the Rev. Mr. Cameron as to the course he intended to pursue relative to the recent changes introduced by him into the church service. The reverend gentleman ex pressed his determination to read a portion of the offer tory service every Sunday. Resolutions were then passed, " that Mr. Cameron a introduction of the novelties was not marked by that previous caution which his diocesan (Oxford) thought so rroper," and " that the Bishop be appealed to to redress the grievances of which the pa rishioners complained, and thereby allay the increasing discontent in the large and populous parish." The meet ing was attended by nearly every male parishioner in the place. Mr. Nash, a very old farmer, who stated that he had lived in the parish ofHurst nearly 90 years, here stood forward, and said that be had attended the parish church for above 80 years, and that be had known five clergymen before the present one (Mr. Cameron.) They had never bad a word of difference with the churchwar dens or inhabitants, and they had always finished the service in the pulpit. THE Runnic.—The clergy of the Rural Deanery of Exet•:r met onMonday last, on the summons of the Dean Rural. The bishop's letter was read, but it was not thought desirable to come to any immediate deeibion en any of the points embraced in it. The meeting vas therefore adjourned. A Ruri-decanal meeting of the Clergy of the Deanery of Aylesbery, was held on Mon day last, at the parish church of Ottery St. Mary, after Divine Service, and was numerously attended. The Bishops letter was read, and met wi:h unanimous and cor dial approval. It was resolved, by a majority of those present, that the Bishop in his letter, had rut, d three points :-1. The use of the Prayer for the Church ill tant.-2. The use of the Surplice at all times.— 3. The use of the Bidding Prayer or a Collect, before. the t noon sermon. The only discussion on these points aas as to the time they should be carried iuto effect, all agree ing that these three points are ruled. It was, however, resolved by a majority, that they should be curried into effect on or before the first Sunday in January, 1845. It was determined also to arrange a .u!ure meeting. 1 ~ 1 i i LIVERPOOL STANDARD TRACTARIANISM IN BETHNAL GREEN.—During a discussion upon an u nsuccess f u l a tt em pt i n the Lon don Common Council to obtain £2OO in aid of the free church in the St. Giles's district, Mr. Deputy Corner mentioned that the adoption of the Tractarian observances in the Bethnal Green churches had stripped, them of half their congregations. FAULKNER tl. TITCHFIELD.—ThiS is an appeal from the decision of the Consibtorial Court of Ely, founded upon circumstances which may be briefly stmed. A faculty was isued'to repair the Church of the Holy Sepul chre of Cambridge. Certain innovations were made, such as introducing a fixed communion table of two tons weight of stone, &c. The Vicar of the church disapproved of the erections, as being contrary to the Rubric and Canons of the Church of England. The Court below held the Faculty to be good, from which an appeal to Sir H. J. Fast, in the Ar4hes Court, was promoted. After hearing the arguments, the judge postponed his decision. THE RUBRIC.—The Bishop of Exeter has just is.ued a pastoral address, in which he declares that of the law appealed to, "one main and leading object, since the Re formation, haseever been to establish unifermity of pub lic prayers, and administration of sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies." The true remedy for existing evils is only to be found, he thinks, " in returning to a faithful observance of the act of Uniformity "and " peace- Nil obedience to the laws of the church, especially in all that relates to the public worship of Almighty God, as enjoined in the rubric of the Book of Common Prayer." The Bishop, however recommend s caution. " While I urge you," he ears, " to return to a full observance of the rubric—falling short of your prescribed part in no thing—beware of exceeding it. The peculiar dan gers of the times, as well as the prevailing tone of public opinion, call upon you most powerfully. as you would avoid being in the number of ' them through whom offences come,' to forbear all unnecessary innovation, es pecially, as I have recently had occasion to urge, that worst kind of innovation, the revival of obsolete usages not required by law, which are associated in the minds of manywith the sueerstitionsandcorruptioesofßome. His Lordship is positive in reouiriog that " the surplice he always used in the sermon," and also " at all other times, whenever a sermon is part of the ministration of the paro.. chial clergy." Willi respect to the offertory, he Says— " Now, in every church in which the cengregation in general is prepared to regard the collection as the exer cise ofa high Christian privilege—the privilege of offering to God—of giving to him of his own—there 1 advise that a collection be always m a d e . B u t whe re v e r the pervading tone and feeling is not yet of the high order, be patient ; strive, but strive gently, and with prayer to God, to your people to a better mind ; and till they have attained to it, shock not their prejudices, irritate not their selfish ness, it may be their worldly-mindedness. Only let them not deceive themselves ; let them see and feel that you seek not theirs, but them.' Tell them the truth in love, and leave the rest to God." THE CHURCH.—A petition has been prepared for pre sentation to - the Archbishop of Canterbury. It has al ready obtained a large number of signatures, amongst which are those of the Duke of Sutherland, the Earl of Denbigh, the Earl of Gainsberough. Viscount Sandon, M.P., Viscount Morpeth, M.P., Lords Calthorpe, Ray leigh, Teienrriouth, Bloomfield, Francis Egertoe, M.P., Henry Cholmondeley, Ashley, M.P., Robert Grosvenor, M.P., Howard, MA'., &c., &e. It has he -n set on foot • for increasing the efficiency of the church, without intro ducing any organic change. The following extract shows the wishes of the m e m o r i a li s t s: —`' First, the clergy must be increased in number; and, secondly, provision must be made for a more systematic employment of laymen, in the exercise of functions which do net belong exclusively ti the clergy. Fur the attainment of these objects, we would respectfully rr quest your Grace, aed the other mem bers of the Episcopal Bench, to take into your considera tion—first, the expediency of increasing largely the num ber of the third cla , s of our Clergy, the Deacons. And we venture to suggest that this may be effected by admitting, r n such condition as will maintain the order and discipline of our church, persons who have not the means or opportu nity of proceeding to an University degree, but who are found completely trained for the service of the sanctuary; their advancement to the fugher order of the ministry being made contingent upon a faithful. di-charge during a lengthened period of the office of a deacon, or upon such other circumstances as your Grace and the other members of the Episcopal Bench may tbh.k fit. 2d.—The pro priety of sanctioning and encouraging the employment of a class of laymen, who, without altogether abandoning their worldly callings, might be set apart, under Episco pal authority, to act as visitor sof the sick, Scripture read ers, catechists, and the like, in parishes where their in troduction should be approved of by the parochial clergy. The system of district visiting, and the appointment of lay Scripture readers, under clerical superintendence,lave already been adopted, we. believe. with much success, in many populous parishes, but the present state of society requires that both these means of usefulness should be greatly extended, and brought into more immediate con nection with cur ecclesiastical arrangements. To provide the necessary funds (which should be administered by a board, made up by a well-considered union of the clergy and laity,) contributions may we have liAle doubt, be extensively called forth, in offerings and collections made for this specific object." LAW INTELLIGENCE. CHESHIRE WINTER ASSIZES. (Before Mr. Baron Gurney.) RAILWAY lATELLIGEACE. NEWARK AND SHEFFIELD RAILWAY.—A deputation from this company, consisting of Capt. Salmond, chair man; E. V. P. Burnell, Esq., vice-chairman; Montague David Scott, Esq.. The Elms, Kingston, a director; Mr. Gibbs, engineer ; Mr. Sanderson, surveyor ; Mr. Dennis ten, secretary ; Mr. Bean and Mr. Norton, joint solici tors; and Mr. Ellicombe, parliamentary agent; had an interview with Lord Dalhousie at the Board of Trade. on Tuesday, which we are confidently informed was satisfac tory. THE RAILWAYS TO DEREHAM.—The two projects for a railway to Dereham are now amalgamated ; and it is stated that ad material opposition on the part of owners of pro perty is at an end. The fire ,at the New Cross railway station, which oc curred when Louis Philippe was present, has been traced to the spontaneous combustion of some vegetable black in the paint room. The verdict of the coroner's jury on Mr. Varnalls, another of the victims by the collision on the Midland Cou .ties Riulway, was delivered on Wednesday. It was " accidental death," with a deodand of £l,OOO upon the engine. The competition between the Forth and Clyde Canal Company and the Edinburgh Railway is so strong, that the canal company are caroir.g passengers from Glasgow to Edinburgh with a profit at lass than a farthing a mile ! The increase of the traffic has made up for the reduction in the amount of charge. A meeting of the Manchester, Bolton, and Bury railway company was held at Manchester, on Friday, James Brancker, Esq., in the chair, at which it was re solved to unite and consolidate into one concern that company with the Manchester and Leeds arid Hull and Selby. Great dissatisfaction was expressed by many shareholders at the proposed junction, and a Committee was formed to oppose it. SOUTH EASTERN (LONDON AND DOVER) RAILWAY. —We learn that Sir John Kirkland, Mr. W. H. Thomas (deputy chairman of the Chester and Holyhead Railway), and Mr. Eckert Browne, of Liverpool, have been elected directors of the London and Dover Railway, in the place of General Hodgson, Mr. Cardwell, M.P., and Mr. L. Cubitr, vho have resigned ; and that Mr. Francis Mills has been elected deputy chairman of the board of direc tors, in the pace of Mr. W. P. Richards, who has also refired from the direction.—Stilndard. At a meeting of the Edinburgh and Glasgow railway company, on Tuesday, it was resolved•to raise in addition to the present capital the aura of £281,250, by creating 22,500 new shares of £l2 les each, to be paid at five calls of £2 10A. each, in 1845 and - 1846; the new shares Lo be apportioned amongst the present shareholders. The chairman stated in e course of his remarks that the di rectors intend to proceed with the Stirling branch. A r•hort line to Catopsie would alai be formed. There was likewise a proposal for a junction with the Ayrshire line. The new shares are to be distributed in the proportion of one for every £5O of capital stock held in the company. SOUTH WESTERN RA I LWAY.—At a special meeting of this company, on r aturday, it was resolved to proceed wi!h the follow:ng branches : —Fmm Nine Elms terminus to the vicinity of the Hungerford and Waterloo Bridges and the Thames, and from Wimbledon to Epsom. From Weybridge to Staines and NN indsor. From Woking common, by Guildford, Godalming. and Chichester, to Portsmouth and Fareham, including the purchase of the Guildford Junction Railway. From Hook-pit. Farm, on the main line of railway to Mottisfont on the Salisbury branch, arid from Salisbury to Sherborne and Yeovil, and orehester and Weymouth. From Basingstoke to the Great Western Railway at Didcot and Swindon. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—OR Wednesday, as two la bourers employed on the South-Eastern ltailway were on their return from work to Dover, and lad entered Abbott's Cliff Tunr•.el, the up train passed them, and the noise of the eng:ne preventing their hearing the down train, which entered the tunnel a few o_inutes afterwards, they being on the rail, were knocked down and killed.—On Tues day. at King's-bank, Hoghton• bottoms, on the new line of railway now constructing between Blackburn and Preston, a large portion of the upper part of the hi 1, it is calculated to the extent of nine or ten tons, gave way, burying the men beneath. One of them must have been crushed to death against the waggon instantaneously. The second :waa injured to a very dangerous extent. The third was much less hurt. NON COMPLIANCE WITH THE STANDING ORDERS.— Among other defaulters the Barnsley :end Goole Railway did not deposit their plans with the Clerk of the Peace, at Wakefield, on the 30th ultimo, and have consaqtiently net complied with the standing orders of parliament. The Lincolnshire and Sheffield Junction, from Lincoln to Sheffield, with a branch to Gansborough, have also failed to deposit their plans in accordance with the stand ing orders. The latter project was under the guarantee of the Sheffield 'and Manchester and Midland Companies. This chance in the position of affairs is of very great im portance to the London and York Railway, as it is now the (-ally line which forms a direct communication north and south from London to York, placing all the towns between the two cities on a main line, at the same time that it effects the same important object for the whole tract of country, east and west, from Liverpool to Boston, which it does, in a continuous and unbroken chain, by its junction with tie Sheffield and Manchester, Manchester and Leeda. Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole. and Newark and Sheffield vailways. In fact, it most fully occupies a vast space yet unoccupied by any railway; and places Sheffield on a main line between Liverpool and Boston, and between Liverpool and London 11 miles shorter than the existing route. The plans and books of reference of the London and York line, notwithstanding its extent of len rnilPe ware nrstrlr Pvvrvahrre the fir..t and, so far as their appearance goes, are highly creditable to the parties engage d upon them.—Slandard. WEST RTDING JUNCTION RAILWAYS.—On Wednes day last a very cumerous anti influential meeting of the Leeds and West Riding Junction liailway Company, was held at the Royal Hotel, Brighouse, near Halifax. Henry Houldsworth, chairman of the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company, was called to the chair, and addressed the meeting at great length, explanatory of the objects in view. They had been called together to receive a report of the proceedings of the managing committee apeointed at the bit meeting held at Bradford, for the purpose of maturing the plans of the committee and tak ing those preliminary steps necessary to enable them to apply to Parliament ext session. As sopie misrepresen ted ►ns bad gone abroad, he entered into a brief history of the origin of the company, and their desire to adopt the p , an which would be approved by the district as the best. With this view a negociation was opened with the Manchester and Leeds company, and it was determined that the most extensive surveys should be made, in order to lay down such a system of ways as would be commen surate with the wants of the district, in wnich the traffic was more pecut ar than in the district comprised between Leeds, Bradford,, Halifax, Huddersfield, and Duebury. Great advantage would arise by laving down lines which while they would shorten the di tance between Leeds and Manchester on one hand, and Halifax and Leeds on the other. would at the same time provide adequately for the local traffic. The leading object for providing for the in ternal traffic, had been kept in view, and after some months of extensive surveying, the engineer of the Man chester and Leeds Railway company had laid down a line which was thought to be most likely to effect the object. Those lines after having been duly con•idered by the gentle men connected with the district, had been t y them ap proved as the best calculated to provide for the wants of the district. The next arrangement that they bad to de termine upon was, as to the connexion that should exist between the Manchester and Leeds Railway company and the West Riding. Junction company ; and it was seen at once that the greate-t public advantage would result from the West Riding Junction Lines being worked by the Manchester and Leeds company ; experience having shown in all cases that where the lines of independent companies were united with each other, great expense was incurred by both companies, and great inconvenience was entailed upon the public. It was impossible where the management was divided to secure that harmony of action in working the lines upon which the public convenience depended, whilst unity of arrangement would secure the most advantageous passage from' one point to another. Acting upon these considerations the West Riding corn- pany had agreed that the Manchester and Leeds company should work their lines. He then entered into some ex ' planations of the traffic, and the low charges made tor goods and also passengers, the result of the last being that they were now carrying about a million of passengers in the half-year, at the rate of 13 a mile. Accommoaa lion bad been made for third-class passengers, and the directors had decided, in order to increase it, to add seats and covers to such carriages. They were also engaged in revising their rates and renewing their arrangements with a view to the bringing out on the Ist of January next what • might be called a new tariff, which he hoped would add to the convenience of the public, , as he trusted it would not be ineffectual in promoting the interests of the com pany: An officer had also been appointed to superintend the passenger traffic and obviate all complaints. After alluding to the fact that a large proportion of the share holders of this railway were Lancashire gentlemen, he expressed his opinion that the connexion of the Manches ter and Leeds company with the West Riding Junction company' bad secured an advantage to the district which could not be achieved by the success of those other par ties who were candidates for supplying the district with railways. Mr. Hawkshaw, engineer of the Manchester and Leeds Railway company then explained in detail the several proposed lines, the places through which they would pass, &c. The chairman then said that the ar rangement come to was that there was to be independent company, which had been designated the Leeds and West Riding Junction company ; that they were to raise, in conjunction with the Manchester and Leeds Railway, a capital of £1,400,000; and that one half of that capital (as some proof of the interest which the Manchester and Leeds company had in the undertaking, and the confi dence they felt in its success,) should be raised by them, and that the other half of that capital should be raised by shares in the district through which the proposed railways were to pass. Upon that basis they had issued a pros pectus, and had allotted shares to the full amount, except a small portion which had been retained for proprietors immediately connected with the district. The conditions attached to this arrangement were these—that the Man chester and Leeds if ailway company, should, in the event of the Act of Parliament passing. take a lease of the lines when made—that they should guarantee, when any portion of those lines was made so as to be workable, interest upon the capital which might be expended by the Leeds and West Riding company, at 4 per cent, per an num for the first five years, and afterwards 4,1 per cent. Some FA isfactory conversation and explanations then took • place, and the chairman read a correspondence between the promoters of the Leeds and West Rtditmg company, expressive of a desire on the part of the former to amal gamate the two schemes into one, and the public advan tage of such a union. TRIAL OF MR. WINTERBOTTOM. John Kenyon Winttrbotlonl, late a most respectahl' solicitor at Stockport, was on Thursday indicted for tvi got% We Cllu 111 m lAII kyr whereby lie defrauded the Pelican Life Insurance Com pany of thA amount. There were four indictments against the prisoner for the same offence, which were merely variations in the name of the party defrauded. The prosecution was conducted by the At7orney-General (cf the Palatine), ; Mr. Davidson, and Mr. Yardley and the prisoner was defended by Mr. Jervis and Mr. Welsby, both of whom were specially retained. The circurnst inces of this case, as appeared from the evidence, were as follow :—The prisoner had been for many years the confidential attorney of a gentleman n tx•ed Isherwood. who resided at. Marple Hall, near Stockpot t. In 1813 this gentleman effected an insurance upon his life for £5OOO with the Pelican office, the annual premium upon which was £l6l ss. The policy continued in Mr. Isherwood's hands till his death, in May, 1839; and at h:s death the prisoner (who was well known as Mr. Isherwood's legal adviser) went to Mr. Tate, the company's agent in Manchester, with the policy. Mr. Tate had previously received instructions from the office in London to pay the £5OOO. The prisoner asked him for the money. On the 7th December, 1839, Mr. Tate told him he would give him a bill of exchange, at seven (lays' sight, fur it; but that the names of the executrixes (the wife and daughter of the late Mr. Isherwood) must be endorsed, in their own hands, and not by procuration. When the bill was fir-t drawn the words "or order" were omitted. The prisoner called Mr. Tate's attention to the omission, and at his suggestion those words were inter lined. The bill being 'has in the prisoner's hands, he paid it into the Bank of Stockport on his own account: the Bank of Stockport sent it to their bankers in London, Messrs. Jones, Lloyd, and Co., by whom it was present ed to Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and Co., (the bankers of the Pelican office,) and by them paid at the clearance. It was not till the month of July that the fraud was disco vered ; but in the. meantime the executrixes, or some of them, had applied to the prisoner concerning it, and be alleged various excuses as the cause of delay, one of which was, that the office had not given a receipt fir the last payment of the annual premium, and that in consequence of some difficulty in obtaining a prerogative or Canterbury probate, the office would not pay the sum insnrcd, but would pay the interest on it. The prisoner, it appeared. had been made a bankrupt, but previously he had ab sconded, and was not met with till September last, when he was accidentally seen in Liverpool by a person who fcrmerly knew him, and by whom he was given into cus tody. • The prosecution was carried on by Messrs. Bush and Mullen, solicitors to the London Association of Bankers, on the part of Messrs. Robarts and Co. For the defence no witnesses were called, but a very powerful speech was made by Mr. Jervis, with the view of reducing the offence to a breach of trust. Some ot•jections to the indictment, arising from a vari ation between the designation of the insurance-office, as stated in the bill, and that in the policy, and also as to the intent being hid to defraud the trustees, whilst their desigrnttion vas n( t st-t forth as rt quired by the Joint Stock Act, were reserved by the Judge for the considrra- Con of the court above. _ The jury immediately found the prisoner guilty. Sen tence, however, was not passed, nor will it be till the opinion of the superior court is known upon the objec tions. Mr. Jervis. as the prisoner had been convicted on one indictment only, appli- d for his discharge from the other three, but the Judge refused the application. CONVICTION FOR MURDER.—Mary Gallop, a young woman having the appearance of a servant, aged 20, was on Friday placed at the bar, and pleaded not guilty to an indictment charging her with the wilful murder of her own father, Richard Gallop, at Monks Coppenhall, on the 2d of November last, by the administration of a quantity of white arsenic. Aft* a long examination, the jury found a verdict of guilty, and his lordship, in an impres sive address, passed sentence of death upon the prisoner, who appeared to be very little affected at her situation. It is rumoured that Sir W. Follett is to be judge of the Privy Council. The Court of Queen's Bench was occupied on Monday with a case, Hope v. Harman and others, which is an ac tion brought, by direction of the Court of Chancery, to ascertain the equitable right of different parties to a share in the jewels lett by the will of the late Mr. P. H. Hope, valued at ..he enormous sum of £210,000. The principal question in the cause is, whether the will of the testator revoked a deed made in his life time, respecting the dis pcsition of his jewels. It was stated one of the dia monds cost the deceased £14,600! LIABILITY OF SHAREHOLDERS.—'In the Court of C111+11.113 , , Dublin, on Tuetday last, the Lord Chancellor, in the case I f Tayior y. Hughes (one of the public officers of the Aer'cultural Bank), decided that the registry of tfe phinuff's name in 18 , 13 (it having been omitted for more than seven years from the registry lodged at the stamp eflioe, pursuant to the statute), was for the (mu fti!, tit put pose of closing him to the liabilities of the e , rablrthn.tnt ; that he was bound, therefore, to grant the reftf prayed for in the bill, and that therefore, lookirg to all the circumstances of the transaction, he was or opi , ion tint the decree should be with costs. The result of tins dtcisir n will relieve 2400 shareholders, whose names were placed on the reg'stry since 1843; therefore, the Inabilities of the parties remaining on the registry are greatly increased. WOL.K FOR PARLIAMENT. The following is a list of intended applicatiolifi to par liament next siftion, the plans anti specifications for which have beet' 'deposited with the Clerk of the Peace, at Preston I.—st. tlain'S RailWa kRd Sankey Canal. 2.---111kektitrtn and Pitston Railway, proposed alterations and hxtension't. 3.l3lacekbkillt Waterworks. 4.—Salford Waterworks. s.—Liverpool and Preston Railway. 6.—Preston and Wyre Railway. Lytham Branch. 7.—Preston and Wyre Railway. Blackpool Branch. B.—Manchester South Juneti ,, n to Altrincham Railway. 9.—Heaton Norris and Ashton Branch of Manchester and Birmingham Railway. le.—Macclesfield Extension of same. 11.—Lancaster and Carlisle Railway. 12.—Huyton Branch Grand Junction. 13.—Extensions of Stations Liverpool and Manchester Rail. way. 14.—North Tunnelling of same. 15.—Parkside Branch of same. 16 —PaVicroft and Clifton Branch of same. 17.--Rainford and Liverpool Branch of same. 18.—Newton and Ardwick Branch, Ashton, Stalybridge, and Liverpool Junction. lg.—Guide Bridge Junction of same. 20.--Oldham Branch Extension, Manchester and Leeds Rail way. 21.—Heywood Branch Extension to Bury of same. 22.—Southport and Euxton Railway. 23.—Ribble Branch Railway, North Union and Ribble Navi gation. 24.—Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway at Kirkheatt n, called Cooper Bridge. 25.—Blackburn, liarwen, and Bolton Railway. 26.—Mosley and Stalybridge Waterworks. 27.—801t0n, Wigan, and Liverpool Railway, Leeds and Brad. fcrd Extension. 28 —Birkenhead, Manchester, and Chester Railway. 29.—Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington Extension. 30.—Heywood Franck, Ma chester, Bury, and Rochdale Railway. 31.—Branch from the I , t. Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway, in Sutton to Uufford. 32.—Heywood Waterworks. 33.—Heywood Waterworks (Spotland). 34.—Whitehaven and Furness R.,ilway. Below we give a copy of the titles of the several plans deposited in the office of the Clerk of the Peace for the West-Riding of Yorkshire :- 1.-Barnsley Junction Railway. 2.-Brayton to Goole-York and North Midland. Branch of. 3.-Chu; ch Fenton to Harrogate-York and North Mid:and, Branch of. 4.-Di ect Northern Railway. 5.-Goole. Doncaster, and Sheffield and Manchester Junction. 6.-Goole and Snaith. 7.-Harrogate and Ripon Junction. 8.-Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Branch. 9.-Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction and Branch. 10.-Huddersfie d Waterworks. 11.-Leeds and Bradford Railway Extension. 12.-Leeds and Th'r,k. 14.-Leeds. Dewsbury. and Manchester Junction. 15.-Leeds and West-Riding Junction. 16.-Lincoln. York. and Leeds, Direct and Independent. ' 17.-London anti York. 18.-Manchester and Leeds Burnley Branch. 19.-Manchester, Sheffield. and Midland Ji.nctlon. 20.-Midland Railwa branches and Station Enlargement. 21.-Darfielii to Worsboruugh. 22.- Darfield to Eisecar. 23.-Cheva t) He, bury. 24 -Oakenshaw to Wakefield. 25.-A mbergate to 26.-Kotherin-m, Bawtry, and Gainsborough Junction. 27.-She eld and Rotherham Junction Branch, and Station Enlargement. 28. Sheffield Waterworks. 29.-ship!ey-latie head and Barnsley Turnpike-road. 3 , .-South Milford to Doncaster, Y...rk and Noah Midland Branch. 31.-Swindon and Lincoln. 32.-Wakefield. Pontefract, and Goole. 33.-West Yorkshire. 34.-manchester. Barnsley. and G0 , •1e.-Received Dec. 1. 55.-Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction.-Received Dec. 3. THE COITHT c 5 FASHIONABLE WORLD. It is uncertain whether her Majesty will visit " the Duke " at Stratfieldsaye before or after Christmas. The royal family have taken their accustomed prome nades and drives at Windsor during the past week. On Saturday, her Majesty and Prince Albert, and the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg, aid the rest of the royal circle left the castle for Claremont, where they will re main untill attr r the funeral of the Princess Sophia, which is to take place this night. Her Majesty has signified her intention of honouring by an early visit his Grace the Duke of Buckingham, at his princely mansion of Stowe, in Buckinghamshire. The Duke of Wellington does not intend to leave Ansley House for Stratlifieldsaye until a few days before the noble and gallant duke is honoured with the company of her Majesty and her Royal Consort. The Marquis of Salisbury has been entertaining, this week. at Hatfield House, the Marquis of Douro, the Earl of Ellesborough, Viscount Ossulston, Viscount and Vis countess Malcolm, Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor, the Hon. Capt. Percy, and a distinguished party. BENEVOLENCE OF HER MAJESTY.—One hundred and eighty pairs of excellent blankets, the gift of the Queen, will be distributed amongst that number of poor families of Windsor at Chrioteas. A liberal supply of meat, bePad, and plum pudding will also be given away to the poor of the town, at the time. PRINCE ALBERT'S PRIZE Ox.—This extraordinary ox, which was purchased for his royal highness in Scotland, in the autumn of list year, is now of the estimated weight of upwards of 200 stone, and finely proportioned withal. Its girth is ten feet six inches, and it stands upwards of seventeen hands high. It has been led on grass, oil-cake, and clover, and is now in excellent health. :41JrRJ ELY tar -1,11 TATTERSALL'S, Ti URSDAY. The Derby betting, without being at all heavy, was' at least as lively as it usually is at this period; the chief out lay was on Idas, who was tricked for about £3OO ; about half that sum was put on Young Eclipse, and a smaller amount on Pam—the odds in each 22 to 1. Anti-Re pealer was hacked at 25 to 1, for £6O or £7O, the taker willing to goon; Connaught Ranger for £6O, at 40 to 1 ; Miss \Vh!p colt at £2,000 to £45 ; and two other outsi ders for small sums. The odds against Alarm and the Cobweb colt are nominal. LATEST PRICES. CHESTER CUP (name or not.) 400 to 10 was laid agst Foig-a-ballagh. 1800 15 agst The Dean. 500 10 agst each of the following in n-ie bet :—Ratan, Alice Hawthorn, Foig-a-Ballagh Exrem pore. Croton Oil, Pastoral, Agriculturfst, c. by Gladiator, dam by Capticuni, Morpetb, and Por.obello DERBY. 15 to 1 agst Forth's lot. 11 1 Mr. Greville's Alarm. 17 1 Colonel Peel's Cobweb colt. 18 to 1 Colonel Anson's Kedger (taken.) 22 to 1 Lord Str,dbroke's Ides (taken freely) 22 to 1 Lord Chesterfield's Paco (taken) 23 to 1 Mr. Jacque's Anti-Repealer (take 25 to 1.) 30 to 1 Mr. A. Johnstone's Rebecca colt. 40 to 1 Mr. Irwin's Connaught Ranger (taken.) 45 to 1 Lord Glasgow's Miss Whip colt (taken.) 50 to 1 Mr. Forth's Lady Berner's colt (taken) 66 to 1 Mr. St. Paul's c. out of Calypso's dam (t.) 1000 even between Anti-Repealer and Idas. 1000 even between Young Eclipse and Idas. 1000 to 10 agst Cobweb colt winning the 2,000 Guinea Stakes and Derby, and Lancashire Witch the Oaks. THE LATE MR. CROCKFORD'S ACCOUNT. We are desired to state that the guarantee required by the Jockey Club will be forthcoming on Monday next, and that the gentleman giving it will be prepared on the fol lowing Monday to settle the account. ...MANCHESTER—LATEST BETTING. - A Moderate room, with a desire to lay " extraordinary odds apt any outsider fo: the Derby," a feature in the sayings. THE CHESTER CUP. 100 to 1 was offered agst The Dean, Red Deer, and one or two others. THE DERBY. A bet of 10 score to 1 agst Ides and Young Eclipse is all we saw booked ; 20 to 1 in ponies agst each of six bar the crack (offered). Average prices :- 5 to 1 agst Scott's lot (offered, 6 wanted) —l-7 Day's lot (offered) 16 1 Forth's lot (offered, 20 wanted) 10 1 Alarm (offered, 11 wanted) 17 1 Kedger (20 to 1 wanteJ) 17 1 Cobweb (20 to 1 wanted) 17 1 Young Eclipse (20 to 1 wanted) 20 1 Idas 22 1 Pam (offered) 22 1 Anti-Repealer (nominal) 25 — 1 Newsmonger (nominal) 28 1 Rebecca (nominal) 30 —1 Old Old England (offered) 40 1 Winchester (nominal) . 40 —1 Ranger (offered, 50 wanted) 40 1 Lord Miltown (offered) 50 1 Lycurgus (offered) 50 1 Cabin Boy (nominal) 1000 —l5 Twig (offered) 500-12 Calypso's dam and Yellow Boy (offered) 20 1 Ranger and Lord Miltown (offered) Several other offers, as we guess, made at " kill-time." THE OAKS. 5 I Kent's lot (wanted) 7 1 Lancashire Witch (taken) THE CHASE. THE CHESHIRE HOUNDS Meet on Wednesday, the 11th instant, at Tarporley ; on Thursday, the 12th, at Statnrord-bridge ; and on Satur day, the 14th, at Warminghtun Mill ; each day at half past ten o'clock. THE ALBRIGHTON HOUNDS Meet on Thursday, the 12th, at Seighford ; and on Satur day, the 14th, at Gatacre ;at half-past ten o'clock. SIR W. W. WYNN ' S HOUNDS Meet on Wednesday, the 11th, at Plas Teg ; on Friday, the 13th, at Farndon ; and on Saturday, the 14th, at Brynypys, at hall-plst ten o'elick. A fire broke out at the Newcastle Grand Stand at an early hour on Tuesday morning last. The roof and upper staircase were in flames, but the fire was speedily subdued, with but trifling damage. STEEPLE CHASE.—A match for £lOO was run across the country on Tuesday week. betwe en Mr. Charlton's mare and a horse belonging to Mr. C. Christian, of Swin stead. lhe ground selected for the purpose was a beau tiful line of country. between Grinistborpe and Ilan thorpe, about two-and-half miles out and back again. Scott took the lead, was never headed, and won easily. Dec, 10, I 8 11. LOCAL NEWS. I PRESENTATION OF MR. INSPECTOR HEMER.—grI Inspector Berner, formerly of the Liverpool force, ay . now of the county constabulary, has recently been p re :, sented with a massive silver snuff Vltx by the serjeants ea u men of the Bury division, on his removal from that aW trict to that of Amonnderness. to , DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF A S HI P'S CRE...-"' Friday, Captain Johnston, master of the Grampian , sr peered before Mr. Rushton, to answer a summons for refusing to pay Michael Robinson, one of his crew, alb!' lance of £1 12e., alleg dto be due as wages. The aPPr cant stated that be had come in the vessel from St. John', N.B , and that they had been engaged by the run. COP.tI. , Johnston proved that almost all the hands, the plainq included, had knocked off on the 4th November , 1 !1 1d refused to work. They came aft in a body, and said IP" having shipped in a body they would do nothing nor t than haul round the yards, and steer and pump the He told them if they refused they should have no WA' One of them said they had bread in the forecastle which they could live for some days, and they then w en forward, and 14 of them ceased from duty for some time' They bad pistols, which they loaded and discharged to is' tiundate the capta , n, who was obli g ed to loacr his own pistols in case of more violent proceedings. Mr. Rushton ordered the stimmons to be dismissed, and said the O n ; duct of the whole fourteen had been so disgraceful an dangerous that net cne of them should recover a farthing of their wages if they applied. Mr. Owen, who was en" ' gaged for the whole, abandoned the ca e. MEETING OF TR n E.PAVING AND SEWERAGE t..031 , - - tali ' SIGNERS.—TRURSDAY.—Mr. Arthur Henderson wad e " complaint respecting the want of _lights on Wedriesdat evening at some works going on in Isiington in the W' dle of the road. He had, in consequence, incurred cosi' siderable dacger by running 'with 11 , s horse and gigagan a he:.p of stones; th e re i ns , h owever , b ro k e an d s torPe the horse, or probably the consequences might have be en serious. On the same e v e n i ng , accor di ng to a statement read by the -chairman, an accident occurred from a si u3l ;l lar cause in Scotland-road, by which the Orrnskirk COa c ' n " was , upset at the corner of Dryden -street ; one Pert was thrown out and had his cellar bone broker', but the rest escaped without any material Hwy ; it wiliea re els that a week or two ago, Thomas H 11, the driver as car, was thrown from the box, owing to his v ehicle N l ' big into a sower in New Bird-street, and rendered inea pabie of following his employment for several days. ld" surveyors were called in, and a notice read t o th e m to t he effect that none of the workmen employed in excavation! &c., in the street, should 'be allowed to leave the work 6 . 1 ' the lights are placed and the watch men are on t h e src 4 ' Orders were also given to Lace a n um b er of tressel'' or barriers, to be placed at each end of the excavation , o r other work. DOCK COMMITTED.—THURSDAY.— Present—Messrs; Moore (in the chair) Nicol, Houghton, Chilton, Wn° ° ' Smith, Shand, Horsfall, Evans, Kendall, Sandbacb, Henderson, Mann, Molyneux,, Tobin, Middleton Aikin, and Royden.—Tbe tender of Boulcotte and CO., of London, for the supply of 3,000 galLns of sperm oil, was accepted . — ln re ply t o th e l et t er o f H enry Won and Co.. noticed last week, it was stated by the sub-cow mittee that no new chains were at present wanted. Th e sub-committee reported that Mr. Heys, of Runcorn, i° their.opinion, was not entitled to be reimbursed the ek penses consequent upon the sinking of the flat Dien." Toe Chairman rew.nted that it was very desirable arrangement should be made for the better working °' the transit sheds. He had been down that day, and yes' sell were wanting much. to discharge ; but the SorveY° C of Customs would not allow them to do so, although there were two of the sheds with only a small portion of .th e cargo of other vessels in them. Aftersome conversatio n, it was resolved, on the motion of Mr. Aikin, that the chairman and deputy-ehairtnan should wait upon th e Inspector general and col:eater a n d comp t ro ll er o f the Customs on the subject.—A letter from Mr. John Shal Leigh, as to a drain, was referred to the sub,committee o Works.—A letter was read f , out Mr. Peter Cato, aceeP,C . . ing the terms of the lease offer e d by th e comm i ttee on w: 23rd uAlmo. He expressed a hope that th e corrmitt. e ,: would place him on the same fo o tin g as M r . Wil son , 61!' regard to compensation incase of removal. M e COn!" mittee resolved to adhere strictly to the original condi' tions. THE ANCIENT SCOTTISH GAME OF frost which set in on Wednesday last, and continued on e the three following days especially, enabled some o f ollf - townsmen from Scotland to resume their practice in cad' ing in this neighbourhood. A number of them met on Friday (which, by the way, was hitterly cold), and er e ; ceeded to a large pond near Waeertree, and on the roa d thence to Wootton, where they enjoyed the pastime el l tnele'e for some hours, by way of ge , ting their hand io' They were all members of " The Lowhill and Evert° Curling Club," and the result was an arrangement for s more regular contention on the following thy. Accord' ingly, on Saturday. about twenty of these stalwart 0 15 of Scotia met at the same place, and ringing ten on 0 611 1 side, headed be the two bachelor " skips" (or general-. played with greet vigour and animation (the ice bell 4 uncommonly fine), from eleven until four o'c!ork. much advantage; to either. This led to the bachelors c!, the party declarioe " friendly" ear ag a in s t the ward.'" nien present—and the match was fixed to virile off on Thursday next, at the same scene of artioe the s port t° ' commence at half past twelve o'clock,— , he lose rs Oa; vide for the s hole, the ancient nation a l dinner of be e ' and greens. The pleb' but substantial repast will he served up at Mr. Kirkup's, the Wavertr'e Coffee House' where the " stones" are deposits tie hie sport is eN" pected. The club is in expectatiodllif the frost lastief out the week. and of having the long-talkedeff tut: between the Licerponl and Manchester players oe t he same ground—the latter having this year to follow t"' challenge on th eve ll EFTENG OF e THE - TsittrcErgriEA - n - CoittAt ras tON" S :r. , ,, On Friday evening the monthly Ineeti" g rfl o k p l ac e, at '- Town-hall, Birkenhead. John H. Greene, Esq. in the chair.—Mr. Bentham complained of the finhy and un wholesome state of the courts in Back Chester-street, when it was stated the commissioners had power to pre vent the erection of such places in future, and that the owner of the property alluded to would be called upon to make such improvements as would remove the nu:sence. -- ' The Market Committee recommended that £196 be ex pended in the purchase of fountains for the new markete-' The receipts of the Woodside Ferry, for the past month, were stated to he £1354, being an increase on the receipts of the same month last year of £4lB. A conversation took place as to the time when the Monks" Ferry wo" ld a . he regularly opened to the public, wh e n it appeare d that the committee had not the power to open it until the titl e deeds were completed. It was also staeed that more boe c l" could not be employed until the landing places on this were improved. the Chairman said, he believed the corporation were doing their utmost to obt a in plans.—l t ; improvement rate was fixed at 7d., and th e wa tching ° I , at ltd:, in the pound.—A letter to the eemeniesionw from Mr. John Laird was read, to the effect that Mes. s ' l. W. Jackson, W. Potter, Macgregor Laird, and the wil t ; had decided on building and e n do w i ng a c h ur ch, W ) . 5 placed at the west end of Conway-street, e here it Corporation-road, the New-road, and Wallasey. is order to improve the site, they applie] for a slight de` t o tion of the Corporation-road. The letter was referred c, the Improvement Committee.—lt was agreed that a cial meeting should be held that nigl , t week for the 1 4 '4 pose of considering the propriety of postponing the 59 18 4, the land in the Park, from the 18th of the present mon to the end of April next.—The board then adjou , ned• ' PROPOSED ENLARGEMENT OF ST. JAMES'S CIIVO —On Thursday evenine a public meeting was h• ld t io School-room belung , ng to S'. James's Church "to "„11 into consideration the best mode of increasing the ell n , e : l 3 accommodation (especially for the poor) in the pope the district, by the enlargement of the church, wnich ) pew-owners, and grave-owners are invited to atteou• About 150 persons were present. The Rev. U. elao'r to ton was proposed as chairmen, but an amendment fo proposed by Mr. Barne=, seconded by Mr. Dawson, t`' e Dr. M'Kee should preside. This was declared to be c!'4 tied amidst some confusion, the original motion not h'&l put. Ni rHampton a l m p rk t ' o l 'nK was_ee wished to present, iv decline r. . h Hampton ought not to pre s id e , as h e wasa Barnes tehnociuhngatihertr;:e party. The rev. gentleman explained that as a rig htt ee st ought to occupy the c h a i r , an d was b es id es the ' re f enabled to explain the object in view, which he assgoi them would not violate the feelings of any of the rel" tl i ee of those who were interred near the church. After =° c• conversation the amendment and the motion were P:0,1 cessicely put and there appeared 36 for Mr. M'Kee , I t o 38 for Mr. Hampton. The latter accordingly 1 001 ‘ 0 1( 1 chair, and read a list of the parties whose-graves ° t ee be affected. He said he had given every publicity ° „ t object in•view. and had no sinister or met cenary obl e "dio' view. He stated that there were 19,300 people in bis p o' trict, whereas the church accommodation was only s e lf cient for 1000, and that the endowment amonnted to el £7O a-year, The alterations would give 800 add'l3,lllo sittings, 300 of which it was proposed should go tol'e tee the endowment of the church, and 500 be set apart tu t t he poor for ever. It ought, also, to be recollected th i n seg owners of pews would soon be called upon to excelluoiel l upon a new roof, and this was included in the alter. 4 l o proposed to be made. He then explained that the ;es for the enlargement of the church, would be bun t O S arches, placed between the graves, so as not 'nth—e ll :oo, to disturb the coffins now in them, and that access 6 fee' be left to each grave—in some cases there would be 60 1 ' 6 inches head. room, and, in the lowest part, 4 feet ote erf, ches for parties to work at the graves. Mr. Molotg,,, said that though his grave would not be affected agaiOst the principle of disturbing the ashes of time be If parties did not think the •church large encrig.Pijss thought they ought to build another. Mr. H. u p pel; bord proposed a resolution to the effect that the P r ee ltir. alterations should be made, seeing that no grave 01 7,0 0 ; disturbed. Mr. Fisher, after some further coPl at iol seconded the motion. Mr. M'Rae said the alT r e in were unjustifiable without the consent of all partlet:g sod it would be cruelty to disturb the graves. (UPI.° &e, cries of "it would," iniquitous," 4, that's tru e ' o ld Mr. Welsh, the architect, stated that no grave Wu m een, disturbed. Mr. Barnes said he should propose au e iti f ee: , ment, and proceeded to state that the church wou en eitell be empty—attributing neglect of duty to the Ir e folio, This created great uproar, and Mr. Harbord r "'_ ce fet . : that such an attack on a clergyman eas very disgr% fur ., The chairman left the chair, which wa, , , after t . t o , l . ; e r ther confusion. Wuxi at his r, quest by Mr. Mon,..;', marks of Barnesot disapprobation ettemp te attempted t ptehaek chairman t w m a a s n o r r e e v m e n a t r e i W r i . fit ; unless he apolog sed he ought not to he heard. L ,7„ 1 . of , P , r , bord said he branded Jr. Barnes as the autiL u ort'„, anonymous letter reflecting en Mr. Hampton's CP, Other expressions of disapproval of Mr. Bare_e,', duct were m ede, with cries of " turn him " e;t o°o upon whieb he at first reused to apologise , _ it tlt e il said if what he said were taken as an iesult, lie " ra n 1- 0 p t h e e epreesion. Order not being likely to _ O3 Mr. Harbord withdrew his motion, and the clitorra nounced the meeting to be dissolved. I t az; qui ag by int 8111 11(1 bac DIV csit, , 611(