The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-01 00:00:00

TO ADVERTISERS. We beg respectfully to call the attention of Merchants, Brokers, Auctioneers, and others, to the important fact that the LIVERPOOL STANDARD IS NOW THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED WEEKLY ON TUESDAY, which can be read on that day by the thousands of Manufacturers and others attending THE TUESDAY'S MARKET IN MANCHESTER. The STANDARD is taken at all the Newsrooms and respectable Inns in that town and the surrounding manufacturing district. A SECOND EDITION is published at Half-past Two, in time for the North Mails, containing the MARKETS, and any news of importance that may arrive in the course of the morning. Ebr kibtrpoot ittanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, AUG. 1, 1848. WE do not go all the length of maintaining that co good can come out of the advocacy of a politi cal opponent. On the contrary, we are satisfied that there was a great deal of truth in the charges, brought on Wednesday night by Sir Wm. Moles worth, against the administration of affairs by the Colonial Office; and some truth, too, in the views of the . hon. baronet. Our colonial affairs have been sadly mismanaged. Our colonists have been deli vered over to the tender mercies of a succession of very crotchetty people ; and their interests have suffered very materially in consequence. We have denied to many of our colonies, quite equal to bear the expense, those constitutional rights which every Englishman seeks to attain ; and the result has been that they have remained a burthen upon the mother country, when they might have been made a source of strength ; that colonial society has been seriously deteriorated in its tone and feeling, and the most beneficial sort of colonisation—that of men possessed of commercial enterprise and capital—has been retarded. The respectable colonist, under the operation of our present colonial system, is a grumbler from the very first hour in which he sets his foot upon the land of his adoption. He sets out with the notion that he is to be powerfully aided by the Colonial Offir* ; that he is to be petted, dandled into pros perity ; and he finds when be reaches there that he has ceased altogether to he an object of considera tion. There is a Governor, it is true; an expensive staff; a court, and an aristocracy, into which he may not be admitted ; and an opposition party, from contact with whom his feelings shrink, the sole end and practice of such party being to revile and cavil at the Government policy. He cannot address the Colonial office; and, if he did, would probably not he favoured with any notice of his communications. Yet lie finds his arrangements and expectations constantly interfered with by the orders of that office, concocted generally in utter ignorance of colonial wants, and changed as often as the government of the mother country is handed over from Whig to Conservative, and vice versa". The consequence is natural. He becomes disaf fected, dissatisfied with his position; his energy and enthusiasm fail him, and, along with them, his value as a member of the community into which he has thrown himself. But the worst feature of the system is its expen aiveness. In some of our younger colonies, to which we are looking to secure consumers of our manufactures and other products, it is found that the mother country is paying 9s. to 12s. in the pound as the expense of government and protec tion. At the Cape, for instance, we find in the last public balance-sheet an item of £1,000,000 for the suppression of the Caffre war; and probably the whole amount expended in this colony will not fall far short of £2,000,000. Now it is not to be supposed that conflicts of this character would con tinue to be provoke(' if the local government was more largely administered by the colonists them selves, and the national treasury was less accessible for payment of their cost. A large and expensive staff might be cut down to a reasonable limit in nearly every one of our minor colonies. A host of inefficient secretaries and attaches, pets of the Co lonial Office or the Horse Guards, might be ex changed for less expensive and more efficient ser vants—men intimately acquainted with the wants of those colonies, and deeply interested in husband ing their resources. It is perhaps unfortunate that a subject of such importance as that of Colonial Reform should have fallen into the hands of such a member as Sir Wm. Molesworth, whose views are rather extreme, and whose opinions as to the value of colonies at all are of the utilitarian school—who looks at the question rather as one of pounds, shillings, and pence, of bales of cotton goods and casks of hardware, rather than as affecting the national greatness ; but we must at least thank him for having thrown a flood of light upon the evil working of the system. The public and parliament must now see the necessity of a prompt and extensive movement. We must cease to allow these noble possessions to be alien ated from us, and their interests to be tampered with, by an irresponsible and an incapable office; and prepare to bestow upon them that boon which Englishmen in every quarter of the globe value most highly—the right of self-government. No thing less than this can diminish their costliness to the nation, and thus neutralise the most powerful weapon of those amongst our ultra-liberal politi cians, whose aim is to throw away our colonies altogether. LAW VERSUS EQUITY. It is an unfortunate characteristic of the practical work ing of our legal system, that justice is too frequently and too easily evaded by the subtleties of pleading, and the routine difficulties involved in bringing the most ordinary case to a fair issue. There is scarcely a question brought before our courts which is not liable to a break-down through some trivial informality, or which may not be prevented from being properly adjudicated upon by raking up some unregarded provision of some half-obsolete act of parliament. We have, moreover, existing in the legal mind of the country a disposition to avail itself of these quirks ; and we constantly see even the highest dignita sits of the judicial bench availing themselves of them, as if with a deliberate leaning to the postponement of any decisive adjudication, in deference to the supposed sanc tity of the cobwebs of practice. We have had two instances of this abeyance of the real efficiency of our legal code within the past week. The first of these—the case of Roberts (clerk) v. Tucker (clerk) we reported in our last publication. The claim of the plaintiff was an undoubted one, in equity at least, and apparently in law as well. But there was an unfore seen difficulty, which put an effectual bar to the meting out of justice. The counsel for the defendant did not deny that the plaintiff had a good case on the merits, but he contended that the contract was void under the Sta tute of Frauds, because no consideration was set out in it. The London Times, in commenting on this objec tion, says—" This was the hidden rock on which poor s Mr. Roberts's case finally split. It was in vai n t h a t Beijeant Shee contended that the performance of the duties of curate was a su fficient consideration to take th e agreement cut of the statute , and that it was not b a d by reason of no consideration appearing upon the face of it. As a question of common sense and of fair dealing so it was, but unfortunately Mr. Justice Coltman was under the legal necessity of bowing to the authority of the Sta tute of Frauds." In a similar way has terminated the striking case of the appeal by the authorities of the Black Rock Nunnery, of which we also gave an abstract last week, the judgment in which was given in the House of Lords on Tues day. The Lord Chancellor, with Lords Campbell and Brougham, discovered an informality in the pleadings, and distinctly objected to enter at all into the merits of the case, which we presume will be subject of fresh pro ceedings, and probably fresh persecutions of the two un fortunate nuns whose property is in dispute. We quote, with respect to this case, the following from a very able article of the same contemporary:— " It is to be regretted that the case of the Black Rock nunnery should have gone off upon technical grounds. The Lord Chancellor on Tuesday, in moving the judg ment of the house, reli e d enti re ly u p on th e p o i n t o f the misjoinder of plaintiffs, and, in common with the other law lords present, if th ey are accurate l y reporte d, d ec li ne d entering upon the substantial merits of the case. We are now so accustomed to this tendency of lawyers' minds as scarcely to deem the subject worthy of remark. In a ease, however, like the prese n t, w h ere t h e Irish Chan cellor had kept the point of the durance' under which these unfortunate nuns executed the assignment so pro minently forward, something might have been looked for from the stubborn Protestantism of Lord Campbell or the fervid eloquence of Lord Brougham. We-have been disappointed in our expectation. Those two learned lords merely indicate the two main points of interest in the subject as those which it will be their most anxious, care to avoid. Lord Brougham will not consider whether these young persons had executed the deeds of assign ment under improper control. Lord Campbell carefully dismisses from his consideration that which he admits to be the question substantially at issue, namely, whether a party, by entering a religious community like that of the Black Rock of St. Ursula, suffers a disqualification, or relinquishes her right to enjoy property in convents within this realm. Upon these points we are still to be left in darkness, unless a chivalrous cupidity shall inspire other superiors of other convents, or other nuns, to come forward again in other law courts, and gratify the public with another illustration of the manner in which lambs are shorn in monastic establishments." The principal Confederate leaders of Liverpool have not been seen lately in their accustomed walks. Miss Grant and Signor Paltoni have been singing with great success in Dublin. A native of the celestial empire (of the Chinese Exhi bition) has been sworn in as a special constable for Liverpool._ In St. John's Church, Old Haymarket, on Sunday morning last, the sum of £23 133. iid. was collected at the doors, in aid of the funds of the Church of I,:ngland Schools in this town. The Grand Jury, at the sessions now holding. gave a vote of thanks to police-officer Kehoe, for his efficient services in tracing out an extensive robbery of cotton, which lately took place in this town. We understand this is the third time the same officer has been compli mented in a similar manner by a Liverpool Grand Jury. The new docks at the north end of the town being nearly completed, the Dock Committee have decided to name them as follows :-Ist, Salisbury; 2nd, Coltingwood ; 3rd, Stanley ; 4th, Nelson ; sth, Bramley Moore ; 6th and 7th, Wellington Dock and Basin : Bth, Sandon Dock; 9th and 10th, Sandon Basin and Graving Dock. EXTRAORDINARY SPEED.—A gentleman lett Dublin a few days ago for Liverpool, by the new government steamer Banshee, built for the Holyhead station ; the passage—a distance of 138 statute miles—was performed in seven hours and five minutes ! He then stepped iuto the express train and was in Gloucester thirteen hours after leavinr , the Irish capital. . . THE PIKE ScuEsin.:—Mr. Procter will move at the council meeting to-morrow, the suspension of further proceedings in regard to the Rivington Water Scheme for twelve months ; and the appointment of the borough engineer to the superintendence of the water works for twelve months ; who at the end of that period may report as to the capability of the immediate district to furnish the required supply. SALE OF BARTON, IRLAM, AND HIGGINSOZeS SHIPS. —The sale of the remainder of the. vessels belonging to this firm took place on Tuesday last, at Messrs. Little dale and Co.'s office. The ship Cheshire, of 377 tons, was put up at £l5OO, and the bidding advanced to £2lOO, at which (being below the reserved price) she was bought in by the assignees. The ship Frances, of 620 tons, was put up at £2OOO, and purchased by Mr. Magee, for £2600. The barque Mary, of 227 tons, put up at £1209, was purchased by James Poole and Co.. for £1550. THE WEATHER.—Since our last publication the weather has been very variable, with frequent showers resembling those of April, but at other times amounting to more continuous rains. On Sunday much rain fell, particularly at night, when we had a heavy downfall, which lasted several hours, at least in this neighbourhood. No injury, however, has been done to the grain crops, which (both wheat and oats) are becoming heavy, and assuming the yellow tint. Yesterday was fine, with a powerful sun, and a welcome drying wind. We need but add that some few fields of wheat have already been cut ; that all the crops look remarkably well, and that but little of the hay remains to be stacked. PRINCIPALSHIP OF THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.— The Rev. J. S. Howson, M.A. of Trinity Coilege, Cam bridge, and Chaplain to the Duke of Sutherland, has been elected to the Principalship of the Collegiate Institution, which will be vacated by the resignation of Mr. C,:nybeare in October next. Mr. Howson was formerly vice-princi pal of the Collegiate Institution, and resigned that office rather more than two years ago, on his acceptance of his present post in the family of the Duke of Sutherland. Mr. Howson took the hi ghest honours in the University of Cambridge, having taken what is commonly called a double first degree, that is, he was a wrangler, and also in the first class of the classical tripos. He also obtained two university prizes for Latin essays. FURTHER SEIZURE OF ARMS IN LIVERPOOL,—On Tuesday morning at an early hour, as police-constable 590 was on duty in Hurst-street, he observed a young man removing pikes and other weapons from a cellar beneath a public-house at the corner of Garden-lane. They were being removed to the garret of a neighbouring house. The officer obtained assistance, and the arms, which con sisted of three rusty pikes, a gun with some bayonets, a cutlass, and a sword in its scabbard, were seized and car ried to the police-office. The occupant of the garret and the young man found removing the weapons, were hot h taken into custody, and brought on Tuesday before Mr. Rushton. The above facts were deposed to, and the prisoners remanded. THE " FREE" CHURCH.—On Wednesday, the Pres bytery of Lancashire met at Liverpool to resume the con sideration of the resignation tendered at the previous meeting by the Rev. Robert Cowe, M.A., of St. An drew's Free Church, in Manchester, not only of his charge, but also of his connexion with the Presbyterian 1...,urel in England. The committee appointed to melt with Mr. Cowe, and the office bearers, reported verbally that they had had two interviews with Mr. Cowe, but bud not succeeded in changing his views. They had likewise seen the office bearers, who bad expressed their desire to retain Mr. Cowe as their minister. Mr. Cowe accom panied his resignation with a statement of his belief that there existed in the church an indisposition openly to avow and fairly to carry out Free Church principles. The Presbytery determined, after a good deal of eiscussion, to accept his resignation. COTTON FROM INDIA.—A cargo of cotton, ex Argyra, from Cochin, consigned by the East India Company to Mr. Hugh Fleming, secretary of the Manchester Coin mercial Association, has recently arrived in Liverpool, is now being discharged, and may be expected to arrive at Manchester in a few days. It consists of 483 bales, grown in the Chinahatore district, and comprises lots of cotton, of different species, and grown under different circum stances, upon the value and capabilities of each of which the honourable court of directors have sought the opinion of the Commercial Association. There is farm-grown cotton from New Orleans seed, of the crops of 1846, and 1847-48, among which, are a few bales grown from seed planted at the end of May, and there is also New Orleans cotton. grown by the natives; indigenous cotton, farm grown •, indigenous cotton grown by the natives, and gin cleaned ; and indigenous cotton, also grown by the natives, but cleaned with the churka, and thrashed. WHO ARE THE REBELS ?—The Irish, whom we have admitted to free competition with the English labourer, and whom we have welcomed to all the comforts of old England, are to reward our hospitality by burning our warehouses and ships and sacking our towns. Of course we cannot answer for Irishmen as we can for Englishmen, but the Irishman is not quite such a fool as to burn his own bread when he has got it. If the Irislr porters and coal beavers of Liverpool attempt a row, they are fighting against nobody so much as themselves. It is the security and tranquillity of England which enables it to find em ployment for more than its own people. Once unsettle England, and credit, enterprise, employment, and wages Hy away. The houses we live in require their foundations to be absolutely firm. If the ground yields in any part by ever so little, the most solid wall will crack from the foun dation to the parapet. It is exactly so with the fabric of our commercial prosperity. Shake its foundation, whiCh is social confidence, and the whole edifice totters. An Irish rebellion spreading into England would throw half its people out of work, and condemn them to poverty and degradation. The Irish sojourners in this island may hold a few meetings and express a good deal of wordy sympa thy, but they have been too long among us to think they will gain any, king by revengeful or wanton devastation. IN RE JONA t HAN lIIGGINSON.—The case of this bank rupt cAme on again for hearing on Thursday, before Mr. Sergeant Ludlow. Mr. Deane and Mr. Lowndes, the so licitors in the case, were present ; and Mr. Hollams, soli citor, in the firm of Marten, Thomas, and Hollams, Mincing-lane, London, appeared on behalf of Mr. P. L. Binh, of London, who was a creditor on the estate to the amount of £50,000. The bankrupt was examined at great I length by Mr. Hollams as to his railway transactions, whe ther they were on his own account or for the partnership. The bankrupt replied, that some were his own, and others fur the firm, although all were placed in the general books. In answer to questions as to what he had done with a quantity of sugar consigned to him as agent for Mr. Hinds, he stated that he had pledged them with T. and H. Littledale and Co., for two several sums of £30,000 and £40,000, for the purposes of the firm, to enable them to go ou in business. He had no authority from Mr. Hinds to do so, but lie acted as his agent, intending to pay for the goods, and place the balance of account to his credit ; but at the same time, he admitted that he owed Mr. Hinds £50,000. He added that, in 1843, when the late partnership commenced, they had no capital ; but that was not shown until two or three years afterwards by the books. The liabilities at the time of the bankruptcy were about £1,200,000. Mr. Hollams also examined the bank rupt as to large transactions which lie appeared to have had in cotton and other things in his own individual name, and which appeared, on examination, to have been carried on with partnership property, but which had been treated in the balance. sheet as having been undertaken on his own separate account. Mr. Hollams, in addressing his Honour, remarked in strong terms on the manner iu which the bankrupt had acted with regard to the sugars; he was solely an agent, and had no right to pledge; a more flagrant breach of the factors' act had never been committed, and if they were to take the trouble to indict him, there was as clear a case as possible, and he might be subjected to fourteen years' transportation. He culled his Honour's attention to these facts with regard to any course h might think proper to take in reference to the bank ; r ,pt's certificate when applied for. His Honour said the question to be considered on the present occasion was whether the bankrupt had given a fair account of his ef fects. Mr. Hollams said his only object was to show that the bankrupt had acted illegally by pledging the sugars ; he should apply to the parties who had received the sugars for information as to what bad been done with the pro ceeds. Mr. Lowndes examined the bankrupt as to some items in the balance sheet, and afterwards remarked that there was a difference between the accounts filed in May and the present one of about £40,000, and some of the items in the balance-sheet were not so clearly set forth as they ought to be. After some discussion it was ultimately agreed that the bankrupt's examination should be ad journed to the 6th of September, and in the meantime the accounts should be amended. It was also arranged that counsel should be consulted on a full statement of the facts, with reference to the transactions in shares, cottons, and other things. The examination occupied the whole of the day. • THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH AND UNFOUNDED RUMOURS. A most painful feeling was excited here on Thursday last by the report put in circulation of serious outbreaks in the south of Ireland, the details of which we have given elsewhere. The effect of the report, however, was not confined to Liverpool, for it unfortunately was telegraphed early in the same day to Manchester and other places, which did not possess the same facilities for testing i - s probability, where its circumstantiality of detail made it very generally believed, and where it might have been productive of very serious results. Of course by this time its falsehood will he generally known ; perhaps it may do good by urging upon the public the desirableness, at such a crisis as the present, of listening with great doubt to flying pieces of gossip from Ireland or elsewhere, and at the same time of taking some steps to secure a guarantee that so powerful an engine as the electric telegraph shall not be made the vehicle for their circulation. How the report in question originated, or from whom, whether as a very mischievous hoax, or from other and interested views, is not well ascer tained ; but it is clear that the authoritative sanction, which is supposed to attach to information by telegraph, ought not to be allowed by the Company to be given until they have fully satisfied themselves of its correctness. And perhaps, in any case, where such serious interests are Eli stake, and so inuah excitement of public feeling exist ing, the prudence may be doubted of conveying such intel ligence at all, except to the authorities, civil or military, who have confided to them the preservation of the peace. We much question, indeed, whether such an engine of cDmmunication ought to he accessible at all to parties capable of using it for their own selfish purposes. Of course we are very far from attributing to the Company themselves, or their servants, any practices of this descrip tion ; but they are not unlikely to be occasionally misled into committing themselves. And the public will not absolve them from any evil consequences which may occur when it notices the singularly suspicious fact that in Man chester their offices are in the sante building as the Stock Exchange ! Some of the " Bears," no doubt, made a good thing of it on Thursday. We had written thus far when in glancing over the Times, of Saturday, we found the following paragraph corroborative of our remarks :—" A special meeting of the committee of the Stock Exchange was summoned this afternoon, with the view of discovering if any of the mem bers were implicated in the fabrication of the telegraphic announcement of yesterday. Several persons were exa mined, and some persons from the Eleetric Telegraph Company were also in attendance ; but the statements elicited led to a clear conclusion that no one connected with the Stock Exchange had in any way participated in the afftir. At the same time we can fully confirm a remark in the Standard of this evening that a strong feel ing exists in the city of the impropriety of permitting a power like that of the electric telegraph to remain in the hands of a private and irresponsible body. A similar view was expressed during the panic in October last, when the name of one of the most eminent and prudent firms in London was transmitted to the provinces in a list of fail ures." THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE LIVERPOOL HOAX. England and Ireland have been reciprocating the com pliment of monstrously lying about each other. Thurs day morning startled the good city of Liverpool out of its seven, or seventy-times seven, senses, with news that the rebellion had actually broken out in Ireland ; that the fighting in Clonmel and other places was terrific; that the troops had been outmatched, and, which was worse, that they were exhibiting symptoms of disaffection ! Con sternation might well size the inhabitants; and for a time business was paralysed. Soon, however, those who were most capable of thinking in this hour of alarm, be gan to inquire how this news had come : no history of its transit from the Irish coast could be ascertained ; the Dublin papers of the preceding evening had no word about the alleged outbreak ; the latest arrived travellers knew nothing of it. But it transpired that there must he some thing about a Queen's Messenger in the business; where upon the Mayor of Liverpool communicated by electric telegraph with Sir G. Grey, and received for answer that no such messenger bad arrived. Hence it was proved that, at any rate, the report did not come on the authority it professed ; and, in short, though its rapid course from Li verpool to London and to other parts of Great Britain were discernible enough by the excitement and alarm it created as it flew, the track of its anterior course was not to be found ; of the attempt to trace it back to its source, it might be said, with the learned Dr. O'Toole, "vestiyin nulla relrorsum :" in fact, there was no finding an end of the beginning; like that of the Irishman's rope, it was put off. The arrival of the mail steamer in the evening put an end to the already pretty well discredited rumour, which appears to have been fabricated in Liverpool, but whether for stock-jobbing or political purposes, or as a "jolly good hoax," remains unknown. The magistrates are taking stet s to discover, if possible, the mischievous and heartless authors of the lie. On Thursday, the subject was alluded to in both the Houses of Parliament. But, although the rumour turns out to be a wicked fabrication, we cannot help agreeing with the Times ;hat " it is only too vraisemblable," that it "anticipates only by one little step the daily reports of the Irish papers," th►t " the leaders and populace are running a race, each goading on the other, and goaded in return," and that "it seems quite a matter of chance whether Messrs. S. O'Brien and Meagher will be pushed into an overt act of rebellion, or some furious mob assume the initiative." An accident may plunge the people into civil war and wrap the whole country in flames. As we have hinted, rumour in Ireland was no less busy and fa!se about England, than on this side the water she had been about Ireland. At Thurles, where, according to the Liverpool report, the 'railway station was on fire and the rails torn up for miles, the only event of any ex citing kind was a report that an outbreak had taken place in Liverpool, and that 500 of the police had been killed ! Similar absurd rumours were hatched and flew about in other parts of Ireland. At the Town Council, to morrow, an Alderman will be appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. J. S. Leigh. It was expected that the bridges for the landing-stage would have been fixed yesterday. but the operation has been postponed for a fortnight. . . . Mr . . Councillor Parker Will submit a motion at the Council meeting to-morrow, for the return of all the money expended or to be expended in the Rivington Pike Scheme. Messrs. B. Slater and Son, the proprietors of the Saw Mills, have publicly denied the statement that "pikes" have been ground at their establishment, and they say that they have no grinding apparatus on their premises. The members of the Provident Clerks' Association, the best of life assurance, benefit, and benevolent societies, intend dining together on Thursday next, at the Adelphi Hotel. T. B. Horsfall, Esq., the Mayor, has consented to preside, and a happy and interesting meeting is anti cipated. The steam-ship Acadia, Captain Stone, sailed on Satur day for Halifax and Boston, with the usual North Ameri can mails and a fair complement of passengers. The steamer Caledonia, Captain Leitch, with the homeward mails, &c., may be expected to arrive in the river on to-morrow. She would leave New York on the 19th instant, and Halifax on the 22d. LADY SMUGGLER.—On Wednesday the Tynwald ar•. rived in port, and was visited by the Custom-house offi cers, who arrested a respectably dressed female, on whose person were found four bladders containing aboutzeven eighths of a gallon of spirits On the following morning the lady was brought before Mr. Rushton, who imposed a fine of forty shillings. DEATHS FROM FALLS.—On Saturday week James Dodd, a mariner, living in Back Parliament-street, went to bed between eleven and twelve o'clock, leaving his wife up. He was awoke by hearing moaning, and on going down found his wife lying there. She had fallen down stairs and so injured herself that she died on Friday. —On Saturday, George Gurnell, a man, forty-two years of age, living in Hawke-street. Brownlow-hill, was stand ing in the street, in a state of intoxication, when a man named Lawrenson, with whom he lodged, gave him a push and lie fell violently to the ground. His head was seriously cut, two or three ribs were broken and he died on Thursday. POOR Lim REMOVAL—To day (Tuesday), the new act of parliament to amend the procedure in respect of orders for the removal of the poor in England and Wales, and appeals therefrom, will come into operation. It contains 13 clauses. The preamble declares that the communica tion now by law required to be made by the overseers or guardians of any parish seeking to enforce an order for the removal of a poor person to the overseers or guardians of the parish to which such poor person is intended to be re moved of a copy of the examination upon which such order has been made, has been found to produce such expensive and use less litigation upon points of mere form, so that few cases of appeal against such orders are decided upon the merits. Instead of the copy of an examination, the notice shall be accompanied by a statement of the grounds of the removal. The documents may be amended, and parties making frivolous or vexatious statements of the grounds of removal or appeal are liable to pay the costs of the proceeding. Orders of removal may be amended, and by the seventh clause decisions of courts of sessions are to be final, and no writ of certiorari or man damus is to be allowed. No appeal allowed, if notice of the same be not given within 21 days of the chargeability. The act is to be construed as one with the 4th and sth William IV., and all other acts amending the same. COLLEGIATE. INSTITUTION. --111 the course of the pre sent week all the school operations at the institution will have re-commenced. The lending library, we understand, is being increased by the addition of a thousand volumes, involving, of course, a very considerable outlay, but one, we doubt not, which will be fully compensated for by the increased eagerness with which that department of the in stitution will in consequence be resorted to. In the arrangements for the lecture-hall the same spirit and libe rality have been exercised, the syllabus for the session commencing on Friday evening being peculiarly attractive. Mr. J. Quincy Wetherby leads the van with six lectures on musical expression, written expressly for the occasion ; and among the succeeding courses are six on physiology, by that most popular of scientific lecturers, Dr. Pettigrew ; four on knowledge, poetry, and the writings of Shakspere and Cervantes, by E. N. Dennys, Esq., a man, we have been given to understand, of very original genius ; four on the flute, its improvement and capabilities, with illustra tions, by R. Carte, Esq., a course which, from its novelty, as well as the popular nature of the instrument and the reputation of the player, cannot fail to prove highly inte resting; four on the comic writers of England, by C. Cowden Clarke, Esq. ; and six on popular m us i c , w ith vocal illustrations, b) an established favourite in Liver pool, George Buckland, Esq. LOCAL MEETINGS. LIVERPOOL UNION MILL AND BREAD COMPANY. — On Tuesday the annual meeting of' this company was held at the Clarendon-rooms, Mr. Francis Bonk in the chair. The chairman opened the business of the meeting by reading the report of the directors, which stated, amongst other things, that the directors regretted they could not announce that any progress had been made during the past year, in the erection of the mill, or otherwise in car rying out the designs of the company. Mr. R. Rathbone moved, and Mr. Jos. Williams seconded, the following resolution, which was passed unanimously : " That the directors be instructed to take the most vigorous measures to collect the first call, and that a special general meeting be then summoned, to consider what further course shall be adopted." The accounts showed that the total amount received for calls, interest, and sundries was £2914 165., and disbursements amounted to £lBB6 ss. 4d., including £5OO deposits on land, and £7OO paid to Mr. Fairburn, as per special agreement, leaving a balance to the credit of the company of £lO2B 10s. Bd. AMALGAMATED GAS COMPANIES.—The first meeting of the " United " Gas Company was held on Thursday ; W. Fosberry, Esq., in the chair. The report stated that file capital of the company already raised and paid up, and which amounts to £423,750, has been divided, as is required by the act, into 7140 shares, namely, 3270 shares of £lOO each and 4870 shares of £25 each, so as to corre spond with the shares of the late companies. The Amal gamation Act confers no additional benefit on the share holders of the late companies as respects the appropria tion of shares. The company have now four stations for the manufacture of gas—the Dale-street, Vauxhall-road, Athol-street, and Grafton-street. The directors contem plate dispensing with the Dale-street station, and dispo sing of the entire property in that and the adjoining streets. They propose also to centralise the offices and management at Newington. £5OO per annum was voted for the directors; and Mr. H. Steele was appointed trea surer and manager to the new company, at his former salary. Mr. Carson and Mr. Lloyd were appointed law clerks, at sakries of £2lO per annum each, but not to be entitled to charge any legal business except parliamentary. Mr. L. Mozley stated that the directors had ample means of paying the ordinary dividends, and they had an im mense reserve fund to make up deficiencies. THE LIVERPOOL BOROUGH BANK.—On Tuesday the twelfth annual meeting of the shareholders in the Borough Bank was held at the Clarendon-rooms. There was a very large body of the proprietary present. John Pen nington, Esq., the chairman of the hoard of directors, presided. Mr. William Cross, the manager, read the re port. It commenced by stating, that after a year disas trous beyond all parallel or precedent in the commercial history of the country, it could hardly be expected that the report to be presented would be of a satisfactory cha racter, or that the bank, in common with other establish ments, should not have suffered heavy losses. The direc tors were glad to be able to make, notwithstanding, a small dividend out of the profits of the past year. Personally, they would have preferred to have placed the amount to the reserved fund, but they had thought it due to those who looked upon their shares as a part of their income, that this dividend should be made. The profits of the past year, after the payment of all expenses, were £48,168 15s. Bd. ;. to which was added a balance to the credit of premium account of £575 55., making together £48,744 Os. Bd. From this there was to be deducted the losses and had debts during the past year, estimated at £38,099 12s. 7d., leaving a balance of £10,644 Bs. ld., out of which the directors proposed to pay a dividend of two per cent. upon the paid-up capital of £498,120, amounting to £9962 Bs., leaving to be placed to the bad and doubtful debt account, £668 2s. Id. The report was adopted. SELECT VESTRY.—On Tuesday, the usual fortnightly meeting was held. Mr. Churchwarden Ferguson pre sided. Mr. Urquhart moved, pursuant to notice, that the recommendations of the Building Committee, for aban doning the Workhouse in Brownlow-hill, except such portions of it as might be required for Parish-offices, and erecting a new suburban Workhouse, he adopted. Mr. Poole seconded the motion. Mr. Wylie opposed it, and moved as an amendment that the Building Committee be instructed to proceed with the plans of the workhouse and offices at Brownlow-hill with all convenient speed. Mr. Earle.seconded the amendment. Mr. Avison moved an other amendment, to the effect that it was desirable that a fuller statement of facts and reasons for recommending the new workhouse, than that already submitted, be embo died in a report, to be printed and submitted to each mem ber of the vestry. Mr. Woodruff seconded Mr. Avison's amendment. The board then divided on Mr. Avison's amendment, when there appeared—for it, 18, against it, 4. The amendment was consequently carried. Mr. Abraham moved the adoption of the report presented at the last meeting, relative to the proposed new medical and surgi cal arrangements at the 'Workhouse. Mr. Watson se conded the motion. The report was adopted, subject to the approval of the Poor-law Commissioners, and the spe cial consideration of Mr. Taylor's case. Government made a claim of £7OO for the wages of the crews of the lazarettoes during the fever crisis. The claim is under the consideration of the Finance Committee. Mr. E. G. Nel son having on two recent occasions received sums of mo ney be!onging to the parish, amounting to £5, for which he did not account, and he having admitted the offence, and that he was before convicted of a similar charge, was suspended, and ordered to he dismissed forthwith. Upon the motion of Mr. Woodruff, seconded by Mr. Hodgson, the churchwt rlens and overseers were ordered to consult with a legal adviser, and ascertain whether the Vestry had not power to punish Nelson. The Committee of the In dustrial Schools reported that the duties of porter and bookkeeper at the schools were inefficiently discharged, and that the religious education of the children was not properly attended to. They recommended several dis missals of officials, and that in future the duties of porter, bookkeeper, and storekeeper be all discharged by one individual. It was then agreed to give a bookkeeper and storekeeper £7O per annum for discharging the duties of these two offices, and to allow £lO to his wife for attend ing as porteress at the gate. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. STEALING FROM A SHOP.—Yesterday at the Police court, John Urey, Thomas Jones, and Jane M'lntyre, were charged with stealing a quantity of stockings from the shop of Mr. Mathews, 85, Scotland-road, on Satur day night. The articles were hanging on th frame of the window inside the door, when one of the prisoners, who were all in company, snatched them away, and they all made off, but being observed were soon apprehended. On ()Ile of them 9 pairs of stockings were:found, worth about Bs. They were committed for trial. SMUGGLING TOBACCO. A seaman, named Prank Mooney, was yesterday charged, before Dir. Rushton, with having smuggled 51 lbs. of tobacco from a vessel, lying in the Ki nes Dock. He was fined L 5, orone month's imprisonment.—Patrick Coggins, on whose bulky and suspicious person, and next to his skin, 61 lbs. of leaf tobacco was found, was remanded, as was another man on whom some of the same article was discovered, it being stated that the prisoners were employed as lumpers on board of a ship discharging, and that the offence mig'at turn out, upon inquiry, to involve a charge of felony. THEFT FROM A SAW MILL.—A man, named Bell, a sawyer, in the employ of the executors of the late Mr. Logan, of the Saw-mills, was yesterday charged with having stolen about twelve feet of rosewood veneering, and same glue, value 65., from the premises. The case was clearly proved, and the prisoner vas committed for trial. STEALING Booxs FROM A CHAPEL.—At the Police court, yesterday, a woman named Mary Lowe was charged with stealing five books from St. Nicholas's Ro man Catholic Chapel, Brownlow-hill. They were the property of several parties belonging to the congregation, and the prisoner had sold them at an old book shop in Paradise-street. She was committed for trial at the sessions. THE SAILOR AND THE AUTOMATON.—On Thursday a sailor, " three sheets in the wind," was going into Hol den's exhibition, in Leigh-street, when his attention was attracted by what he thought the insolent stare of an automaton sentinel which keeps guard at the door. Be lieving it to be an insolent Frenchman or rebel in some new-tangled uniform, he at once, to use the sailor's phrase, " pitched into it," and very shortly knocked it into tatters. He was brought before the magistrates on Friday. and ordered to nay 255., the sum at which the defunct was valued, and the costs incidental to the case. SINGULAR ROBBERY.—On Thursday, Robert Critch ley, a boy about twelve years of age, was placed in the dock. charged with having broken into the office of his employer, Mr. Yates, of Clayton-square, and stolen £5 14s The office, it appeared, had been entered (broken into it was thought at first) on Monday night, or early on Tues day morning, a desk forced, and the money stated taken away ; but, on examination by the police, it was found that the lock of the door had not been broken, that it had been opened by a key, and the panelling afterwards dis• figured by a hammer. The prisoner had purchased a new watch on Tuesday night. On being asked, in the usual manner, what lie had to say to the charge, lie replied—" I only took 103., which I found upon the floor." Mr. Yates said he did not wish to press the charge as the boy's pa rents were poor, but respectable. He was remanded. On Wednesday the prisoner Cuddy, who, as we stated last week had been arrested in possession of a quantity of pikes, was again brought up, when some further evidence was produced, showing that he was connected with the notorious Chartist ironmonger, Dr. Reynolds. Police constable Kehoe stated that, on Tuesday night, in conse quence of an intimation he had received, he went to a yard in Vauxhall-road, kept by Mr. Winstanley, wheel wright, when a top room was pointed to him by his fore man, Mr. John Dickenson. He entered the room, and found there fourteen pike-heads, twenty-three sword knives, one bayonet, and five pikes mounted with shafts about eight feet in length. He took the weapons to the police-office. John Dickenson stated that he worked at Mr. Winstanley's, where the pikes, &c. were found. About three or four months back a number of similar in struments wei e brought there by Dr. Reynolds ; there were as many as filled a hand-cart at that time, consisting of pike-heads, knives, and three or four guns : they were first put in a place on the ground floor. Dr. Reynolds came in and out frequently, and carried guns. Subse quently Cuddy rented an upper room, to which the pikes were removed, and where they were afterwards found by the police-officer. Cuddy and another man removed them, saying that Dr. Reynolds did not wish any of them to be lost. The prisoner was again remanded. On Saturday, Cuddy, O'Brien, and M'Kavatt were again placed in the dock, before Mr. Rushton and Mr. Percival.—Mr. Rushton said there was no further evidence to be offered that day. He had expected there would have been. He felt, however, compelled to put Cuddy under a remand for commitment, and that he would do. — Mr. Yates, solicitor, said it might ultimately turn out that the man was perfectly innocent, although he had acted foolishly in having possession of these weapons.—Mr. Rushton : then no one will rejoice more than I shall.— Mr. Yates : If he is, the imprisonment will be hard upon Ru. 51404 ; Depend upon it, I will not Olaf) with the libert, of the subject. lam responsible for what I do. (T 6 Cuddy :) You must be committed ; I will take' care that it shall be for as short a time as I can possibly arrange.—Cuddy Can I have bail ?—Mr. Rushton : No. You, too, O'Brien stand committed.—O'Brien: There is nothing against me.—l think otherwise, sir. The boy 711`Kavatt may remain here, (with a view to his discharge.) I think he has been an instrument in other hands.—Sub sequently Cuddy again appeared at the dock.—Mr. Rush ton said : I have received your note, and cannot comply with your first request. There is against you another class of evidence which it is of importance should be pre pared. Your other requests may be complied with ; you may have all that is necessary for your health. STABBING.—FEROCIOUS ASSA ULT.—Threemen, named Patrick Grimes, Henry Kelly, and Anthony Kelly, with two women, Bridget Sheridan and Bridget Searle, were placed in the dock, charged with a serious assault upon, and stabbing John Joyce. From the evidence it appeared that on Sunday night, the 16th instant, about twelve o'clock, a quarrel and conflict took place in Sawneypope street. The prosecutor, according to his own statement, ran out, hearing that his brother was almost killed, when he was immediately set upon by Grimes and both the Kelleys, receiving a serious stab from each. The female prisoners, it was stated, had furnished the men with the knives, accompanied with the charitable injunction, " Go to work with them : cut his belly out !" Joyce was re leased from their grasp by police-officers attracted by the noise, who took him to the dispensary. He had been stabbed in two places in the back, and also in the right breast. He bled profusely, and his boots were found to be filled with coagulated blood. Mr. Lyr.ch, surgeon to the dispensary, stated that he was not yet out of danger. A document on bekalf of the defence was produced, to show that Joyce had agreed to compromise the matter for £3 10s. ' which he admitted he had received. Mr. Rush ton said he would have no murder or bloodshed of that kind in the streets of Liverpool. He ordered the evidence to be taken as far as it had gone, and remanded the pri soners. CORRESPONDENCE. *-•_- THE WATER QUESTION. TO HENRY DANSON, ESQ, SlR.—During the debate on the Water Question at the last Council meeting, you are reported to have said that the reports addressed by me to the Water Committee were a mass of trash and rubbish, and that they appeared to have been written by a man not in his right mind. In thus, Sir, taking advantage of your position n the Council Chamber to insinuate a charge of insanity against an individual who had no opportunity of vindicating him self, you have perpetrated an outrage which I feel assured will be reprobated by every right thinking man, whether in the Council or out of it; and I am well convinced that no other member of the Council would have made a statement so calculated to wound the feelings and damage the reputation of the meanest servant of the Corporation. In thus, Sir, publicly charging me with insanity, you ought to have adduced some proofs that you were war ranted in so doing. Why not put the Council and the public in possession of the documents on which you ground your accusation ? Do this, Sir, and I shall willingly abide their fiat as to the extent of the madness. This, however, you have not done, and until such time as you do so you must excuse me if I tell you that you have made a statement to the Council which is an unmitigated calumny. In making this accusation, Sir, you had evi dently forgotten that I had feelings; that I had a family and friends, both here and at a distance, to whom such an announcement made, under such circumstances, must necessarily have caused unqualified pain ;—you must also have forgotten to what an injurious extent such a state ment might operate on my future prospects in life. But above all things you had evidently forgotten that circum stances had placed you in a position demanding at your hands conduct and language becoming a gentleman. I trust, sir, that no portion, either of my reports or car duct, throughout the ar.luous and unequal contest in which I have been engaged, will admit of the construction you have been pleased to put upon them ; unless indeed, an individual is to be set down as insane, who honestly and earnestly endeavours to perform his duties to the public. Such, sir, may possibly be your opinion. In acting as I have done throughout this affair, I have studied only the interest of the Corporation, and the well fare of the Inhabitants of Liverpool. And with the know ledge which I possessed of the extent of our local water supply, I should have grossly failed in the faithful per formance of my duties if I had suffered the Council to be misled by certain parties in regard to that supply. I re gret exceedingly, that the course which I have felt it in cumbent on me to pursue in respect to this question, should have given offence to individuals whose good opinions I have laboured so long and earnestly to gain. And I regret also, the probable injury I may have entailed upon myself by acting as I have done. But I have the satisfaction of feeling that I have been influenced by no motives, save and except, an ardent desire to promote the best interests of that community whose servant I have so long been. I shall conclude this letter by expressing a hope that you will, as a gentleman and an honourable man, embrace the first opportunity which may present itself, in order to set me right in the estimation of the Council and the pub lic, or else to furnish me with the grounds, on which you thought fit to found so grave a charge against me.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, JAMES M`DONALD. Liverpool, 31st July, 1848. ntstrirt ACIOS. The Rev. W. J. Ripley, one of the curates of the parish church of Warrington, died last week of fever caught whilst vising the poor. The mayor of Preston, Thomas Birchall, Esq., was last week initiated as an Odd-fellow amidst great rejoicings among the members. On Thursday, the iron roof in course of erection at the mill in Bowling.dyke, belonging to Messrs. Akroyd, fell in with a tremendous crash, and is completely destroyed. Fortunately the workmen employed at its erection was eneazed at another part of the premises at the time. POTATO DISEASE.—There seems to be much contra d'c or'Y opinion about the existence of this disease. In Lancashire and Yorkshire there is certainly very little, and there is no doubt many of the statements, in the London and other journals, of the crops being much affected in other parts of the country, greatly exaggerate the facts of the case. BOWLING MATCH AT LYTHAM• A bowling match took place last week, at the Clifton Arms Green, at Ly tham, for a silver snuff-box, value.£s. There were about twenty competitors, including gentlemen from Preston, Bolton,Blackpool, Liverpool, and the neighbouring towns. Mr. Prest, of Aighurth, and Mr. Critchley, of Lytham, bowled up for the prize, and the former gentleman became the winner. EMPLOYMENT IN MANCHESTER.—The official rgport of the state of trade confirms the decided improvement which has taken place, so far as the borough extends. Three more mills have resumed employment. Three are 14 mills working full time, with a full complement of hands, more this week than last.; there are 1,298 hands more em ployed than the last return showed, and 1000 more working full time. The total numbers are as follows : Number working last week, 38,236, this week, 39,534 ; number working full time last week, 34,891, this week, 35,800; number working short time last week, 3,345, this week, 3,734. COUNTY SESSION.---The adjourned county session was Lehi at Preston on Thursday, respecting the arrears in the county rate. The arrears of West Derby were stated as being of a considerable amount. The Treasurer said that Mr. Cleaver, the clerk to the West Derby Union, had now proposed to pay him the rates due, amounting to £2366, at three instalments, a third on Wednesday, and a third on each of the two following Wednesdays. The money ought to have been paid on May 29. The townships (Bootle and Fazackerly) were stated to be three rates in arrear. The costs of the warrants, &c., were ordered to be paid by the union. FESTIVITIES AT NESTON.—The clean and neat little town of Neston was very much enlivened yesterday week, on receiving Dr. Braid, after his wedding trip from Scot land, who had joined in the silken banns of wedlock, Miss Banks, only child of the late and well-respected J. W. Banks, Esq., surgeon. The day was ushered in by a splen did band from Liverpool, playing through the different parts of the town, which was responded to by a merry peal of bells. The amusements commenced at 4 o'clock, when upwards of fifty good old English women were well refreshed with that whole.ome beverage "tea." A num ber of sheep were afterwards cut up and given to the poor. Forty-five gentlemen dined at the Nag's Head. After paying all due honours to the wedded pair, both in toast and sentiment, the party all mounted on horseback, joined by a tremendous crowd of spectators, to meet the happy couple on their arrival, when they took the horses from the carriage and drew them in, the band playing in front —" See the conquering hero comes." MURDER AT MANCHESTER.—A most cold-blooded murder was committed at Manchester on Tuesday, by a man named Wiiliarn Adams. The victim is Maria Thomas, who was employed in a factory in London-road, and was on the way to her work on Tuesday morning at 5 o'clock, when she was murdered. Some time ago she had baen married to a man of the name of Thomas, who, soon after wards was convicted of felony, and sentenced to ten years' transportation ; she then, more than three years ago, married Adams, but left him a few weeks ago. and went to reside with her father, a man named Clare, resi ding in Oldham-road, Manchester. Adams, it would seem, was much disturbed in his mind by their separation, and made several fruitless efforts to effect a reconciliation. The woman, however, was resolute, and refused to live with him again. He rose early on Tuesday morning, de termined to meet with her, and took out with him the two pistols found in his possession. He saw her in New ton-street, on her way to work, and urged her to go home with him. She declared she would not go with him, when he took a pistol from his coat-pocket, and levelled it at her head. It missed fire, but he pulled out another pistol, pursued the young woman, and fired at her, when she fell. A police-officer, named Craven, was immedi ately on the spot, and apprehended Adams. The priso ner, it is discovered, is also married to another woman, who haaiwo children by him, and who is living in Chorl ton-upor-.Medlock, an adjoining township. He had been employed for several years as a weaver at a respectable small-wares establishment in Manchester, but fur some time past had been out of work. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder."- LOVERS FOUND DROWNED.—On Monday morning, the bodies of a young couple were taken out of the canal be longing to the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal Company, at Whitacre Bridge, about two miles north-east of Huddersfield. Their names are, respec tively, David Carter, aged twently-four years, son of and employed by John Carter, of Colne Bridge, who carries on a whitening mill, near Whitacre Bridge ; and Elizabeth Sykes, an orphan girl, who was employed at one of the cotton mills at Colne Bridge. An attachment had existed between the two for some time previous, and it lead beep August 1,1848. an. aged" week that their marriage should take Plae nye weeks hence. They spent some time to. gether in company at the Peacock Inn, on the Leeds' road, about one third of the distance between the place where they were found drowned and Huddersfield. The landlord states that, whilst there, they were in good SO' rits, and the youn man in particular was in a joking h u " mour. They left t here about a quarter to eleven o'clockt and it appears that they had intended to take the road home to Colne Bridge by the towing path of the canair that being the nearest way. The father of the young marl was surprised to find, on Monday morning, that his son had been absent all night ; and on inquiry, he found also that the young woman had been absent from her lodging s ' ~ and it was supposed from this circumstance that they Mu gone to be married. On Monday morning, a hat and a bonnet were found on the banks of the canal, near to the place above stated ; and on drags being procur ed, the body of the young woman was drawn ou of the watel and shortly afterwards also that of the youn man , boi.. from the same place. The arms of both weree xten dedin a position to indicate that, previous to the drags being used, they were clasped in each other's arms. The bo dies were taken to the White Horse Inn, a short distance fr om the place, when hundreds of persons, especially fema les, visited the house to view the bodies. It appeared from the evidence at the coroner's inquest, that the part ie ! lived on the best terms, and had no quarrel with anyon e ' The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict o " Found drowned, without any marks of violence." „. 11 Wednesday, they were coined—both coffins being near alike as possible—and one grave received both their remains. They had kept company for four years, and l ! ha ordered the wedding dinner to be prepared at " Peacock Inn. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER.—On Thursday, the disastrous news from Irr., land (which hap , ,ily has since turned out to be incorrect), in te c e fered materially with business. The untoward intellige, which was conveyed here by electric telegraph obtained enllf: credence from no one, but a very general apprehension .01';', felt, that in some particulars it might be authentic, and, n; anxious feeling was very generally prevalent. The warn"" information information is generally thought to time either been origln,',he for stock jobbing purposes, or in a deeper laid scheme 0 1 ,...„ Irish incen.liaries themselves, to feel the pulse of this conill'a as to the prospect of any . sympathetic rising here, which woo; act as a diversion in their favour, dividing the attention of t m d : Government, and interfering with the transport of anY tit dition to the large body of troops already congregated in tb unhappy country. If the latter has been the object in vtej the parties cannot congratulate themselves on having evoa t any encouraging movement. If the fo - mer, one of the 1 1 . °9 4 cruel and shameless hoaxes has been put upon the public has been witnessed in modern times. Since Tuesday, we bag not experienced any very decided change in the tone of t market. On Wednesday, the answer of Lord Palmerston ,„ Mr. D'lsraeli's question, put in the House of Commons 0 , 1 : Tuesday night, in which he expresses an opinion favouranie the completion of the terms of the armistice between Germans/ and Denmark, had a favourable effect on the German llou:," and since then they have increased the extent of their tran:ai t tions; but the market generally continues quiet, and in 6 ", few instances lower rates have been taken than on Tues l ,4 but these cases are exceptions. The Irish fabrication ht,, more unfavourab:e influence on the cloth market, the trans: tions in which have been to a much smaller extent. Prices'- rather lower, and somewhat more irregular. .cb ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET.—The improvement weep took place in our market on the Alonday previous,, has Ve fully maintained this week. Goods of all descriptions ,: er e been much inquired after. Prices same as our last. has has been rather more business doing in the Wool mar eft Prices stationary. The various trades are improving e , t . week ; hands in cotton mills have generally full employinelod LEEDS.—Notwithstanding the disturbed state of Irelanuod the non-fulfilment of the armistice between Denmark to t Prussia, the improvement in the woollen trade noticed. ' es s week has received no abatement. A good amount of bu sili t o has been done this week both in the ( .;loth Hails and O le o, warehouses, and manufacturers are well employed on 00..01 Stocks are not light, and prices, though firm, are comparat" low. 10 3 ' BRADFORD.—WooI : There has not been the same Wei tion in our market this as last week. Our last market assWO. a degree of buoyancy that induced the staplers to seek I!ce vance of ss. or ios. per pack .; and in some cases this t 1(1% , 1 the was realised, but now the spinners arc in better stock, nn,` ,00' supply coming to market on the increase, there is no 0 !;! ii g sition to buy, except for present use, and then without an advance in price. —Yarns : 'I here is nothing more rh e `,, in this brunch of the trade, which has for a long time be a depressing character both for employer and einl 3°, 61 00' .d, Pieces: The continued unsettled state of things on the tinent prevents the German houses from buying, althou..o large portion of orders are understood to be ready for Odle out. The home merchants are not so active this wee k ' u to unsettled weather, and accounts from lremnd, induce theisod pause; but of all kinds of fancy goods the stocks are low; s od Cobourgs equally so. Orleans are bPcoming less pl e ntiful!, de , the production is so limited, that with a few weeks' bri s loo mand, our market would soon become emptier than it has for years. a cell HALIFAX.—Pieces : Our market on Saturday was,. bust dull one, only few buyers attending. 1 here is but litti,`„ o . fun ness done, but some of the mills have commenced runn w i r Locit time, and there seems to he a better pro.,pect. Yarn_ar e t also the same, there being only a very limited demand. wo o , beet' continues much the same, no improvement having Ye lis t V felt, though if the mills continue to run full time there In a HU beer demand. tt DDERSFIELD.—We had another market of considelarg improvement. A number of buyers have been in the 1 1) ::,,oef and a better tone is generally manifested this week. prices are given for goods. LONDON GAZETTE.-TUESDAY, JULY 25' PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. 011i e° Fort, Brothers, and Co., Manchester, and printers—S. A. and J. Cooke, Manchester, ready-made 11 '.:', Hull me , dealers—W. B. ind T. Carrick, Kingston-upon- , _..,. chants—Eggleston and Leadley, Kingston upon-Hull, ei. gravers—ltichardson and Garner, Leeds, wool merchants. DECLA ItATIONS OF DIV] VENDS. T. Bewley, Chelmsford, Essex, iron manufacturer. elsewnere, _.0,.,, „,,d on J. Williams, Great Itusseu-street, Bloomsbury, ..."- i architectural book publishers. ~ We J. Itay, jun., and H. 'telly, Mark-lane, London , - merchants. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. John Shepherd Mayfield, Ware, Hertfordshire, builder. BANKRUPI'S. Thomas Earle, Castle-street, Long-acre, London, fan ers' carriage master. Charles Langley, Little Moorfields, St. Gile's, CripPlega without, London, licensed victualler. • 'lds George Parker, St. Martin's-lane, St. Martin's-in-thei-f:siet. and Great Newport-street, St. Ann, Soho, London, che _ g el Richard Webb, Royal H , .spital-row, Chelsea, he victualler. fi Ids London' Ann Drew, Portugal-street, Lincoln's-inn--e ' stationer. Matthew Death, Hadleigh, Suffolk, bootmaker. Felix Lieven Bauwens, Croydon, London, stearine fact u rer. _ h ot James Munro M'Kenzie and James Fraser, pa pax, London, warehousemen. ngb‘ °l' J oseph Lowe and Thomas Farnell Read Shaw, Bir inl factors. Thomas Merrill and Charles Benson, Salford, typefoun Edward Jones, Bristol, snuff manufacturer. George William Corrie, Plymouth, wine merchant. Mary Riley, Sheffild, tobacconist. Squire Bland, ltothwell, Yorkshire, malster. DIVIDENDS. peoC, Aug. 17, A. Harrison, Friars Goose Alkali Works, r, G. Gateshead, Durham, alkali manufacturer —Aug- 1 , ' 7 4 . E . ,. r , Antill, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, wine merchant —Aug- " IN° Blackwell and J. N. Dunsford, Newbiggin-by-the -Sea ' tliumberland, brewers. CERTIFICATES a i ll° to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrail • day of meeting. 15 , ".1. Aug. 15, J. Peniston, Liverpool, drysalter—An tr, Potter, Birkenhead and Liverpool, merchant:-- - AS 1 5, Torokinson, Liverpool and Runcorn, stonemason — A"' Williamson, Liverpool, join.r. C ERTIFICATES et to be confirmed by the Vice Chancellor acting in Ba n , lc u r i ee s l,. unless cause be shown to the contrary on or before r. M. A. Legett, Liverpool, hotel keener—G. Spearma n i l e silk mercer—J. B. Browne, Newcastle-under-Lyrae , ° COO chant—J. Sheppard, Shirley, near Southampton , brewer. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. C. Finlay, Edinburgh tailor. err , J. Gibson, Kirkford Stewarton, bonnet manufac til J. Macfarlane, Glasgow, horse dealer. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDA Y ' PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. 00 0 5 Troutbeck and Son, Liverpool—E. P. Jones and Cq4ift '.;t• pool, limehurners—Carter and Byrne, shiobrokers -- I,rest Rhodes, Oldham, doublers—A. and I. G. Da Costa , " Helens, merchants. DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS. W. Hardwick, Leeds, auctioneer. R. Cotsworth, Kingston-upon-Hull, joiner. J. Price, Birmingham, jeweller. Otilh BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. I/Ja Edward Bailey, Mount-street, Grosvenor-squa re ' u pholsterer. ba uef. Thomas Cooper, Tottenham-court-road, London, get: BANKRU LYN. r , 1 5 9 ci' Francis James'Ferns, Liverpool. stockbroker, A% 1 4 rOl d oni 8, at 11 o'clock. at the Liverpool District Court of 1;‘ I,oo_ o rei solicitors, Messrs. Keightley and Co. Chancery-lO r a e 'coe' and Mr. Holden, Liverpool ; assignee, I ‘.i r " Sept, Liverpool. , 5, tcY; Thomas Gilbertson, Birkenhead, flour dealer, A11,e10.0 1, at II o'clock, at the Liverpool District Court of 13 400 0 ; ',,0ce , solicitors, Messrs. Chester and Co., Staple's-inn , , ,. .i 000 Messrs. Mallaby, and Townshend, Liverpool; olh e ' Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool. Thomas Spring , Bristol, geocer. Frederick Saldorf, Plymouth, merchant. 19 '9g, DIVIDENDS. i s-- Ricketts Aug. 18, J. Warming,ton, Tottenham, farme r is -- Ricketts and T. James, Moorgate- street, mercha nt H. W. Damsel!, Risley, Glocestershire, draper. on tli ° CE FICAT ES To be granted, unless causeßTl be shown to the colit od e _ s pr , dy of meeting. se lie Aug. 22, C. Radenhurst, Birmingham eating lou •re, .° Aug. 29, J. Adams, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staff, oi ri st r l y, lic e facturer of earthenware—Aug. 29, S. Pratt, COY' ~,tcf, victualler. 9 , CERTIFICATES in io to be confirmed by the Vice-Chancellor acti ll l 4 ,.' e f„re i „aler j, unless cause be shown to the contrary on or " ( lc I" - er" Lee - Lep J. Birch, Liverpool, grocer—W. Gribbon , jos glass—J. W. Busst, Bilston, Staffordshir e, Strange, Abingdon, Berkshire, wine merchant . SCOTCH SEQU EST RATto NS. J. Caldwell, Kiibarchan, Renfrevvshire, farmer P. Garland, Burntisland, grocer. J. Outram, Glasgow, commission merchant. 0° P 1" MEETING OF CREDITORS FOR "'Ol4-,PO .110 July. Aug. 1, Henry Alexander Stewart (Ist) . • '''' 111 1 1, John Shalcross (audit) .................. 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