The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-06-06 00:00:00

TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1854 LOCAL INTELLIGENCE• ItOOLTON FLOWER SHOW, with its accom p an y ing 1 po ,L., rY exhibition, is announced to tak e p lace on Thurs -44,y next. 411, HousraLL, M.P., Mr. Liddell, M.P., and a deputa tion,_ had an interview with the Right Ho n. E. Cardwell and Lord Stanley, of Alderley, on Monday, at the Board of Trade. E ARLY Hay HARVEST.—On Tuesday, Mr. John Pritt, of the King's Arms Inn, L a ncaster, commenced cutting a held of grass on his farm at Beaumont. It was remarkably thick for this early season. LORD STANLEY has sent in his adhesion t o the move ment for the repeal of the stamp-duty on newspapers, in. letter to the Secretary to the Association for the Repeal or Taxes on Knowledge. u SmooLs. OF ART.—Two of the pupils of the Warring- School of Art have again carried off priz es at the ex , s ex hibition of the "advanced works" of the st udents of the v arious schools in the kingdom, now open a t Gore-house, 'ensington. •raEna.L.—The directors of the Lancashir e and York shire Railway have given permiss i o n, it is said, to all their servants, with their wives and families, to travel on Y part of their line, at any time, for half the usual gr es . EXPLOSION.—On Wednesday afternoon, an oval -shaped boiler exploded in the mill of Mr. Cunliffe, at Accrington, V carried away with it a part of t he boiler house, .(3 Person was injured. The fireman had left the boiler house a few minutes before the disaster occurred. A BRUTAL ASSAULT, was committ ed on a drunken female in Park-lane, on Tuesday. Some ruffian dealt her a violent blow on the head, which felled her, and the Wheel of a car, which was passing at the time, went over her body. The woman, when taken up, was severely qured. TEsyraroarrara—The adult members of the bible class connected with St. Michael's church, have presented Mrs. `..l'arPenter with an elegant edition of the Rev. E. Bicker neth's Memoirs. A suitable address accompanied the Present. ,_A DEPUTATION, consisting of Mr. Horsfall, M.P., Mr. Mann, (chairman of the Liverpool Shipowners Association) , 1 .1(1 Mr. Carson, had an interview wit h the Right Hon. E. Cardwell and Lord Stanley, of Alderley, on Tuesday, at the Board of Trade. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday, an emigrant, named John Dawless, was drowned in the Mersey : he was a Passenger by the emigrant ship Break-of-day. Whilst assisting some females to get a trunk on board an enmi grant ship in the river, he slipped overboard, and was drowned before assistance could be rendered to him. , E MBEZZLEMENT. —Robert Wheeler, a respectable look ing man, was on Wednesday charged with embezzlement, at the Police-court, by his late employer, Mr. Richard Linford, w h ee lwright. The prisoner had for several y ears acted as clerk and collector to Mr. Linford ; but it had • been found that, on the 24th of April, and subsequently, he had received three sums—£l. Bs., 12s. 6d., and 8s. — which he had not accounted for. He was committed for trial at the sessions ; but was admitted to bail. .DEPARTURE OF TROOPS TO TH E EAST.—The transport 8 1 4 1 ) Conrad, belonging to Mr. Edward Oliver, r, took h her departure on Thursday from thi s port for Maving 0 n board the 4th and last detach ment of the Ist Royal Dragoons, from the Hulme barracks. The detachment consisted of only 15 men and horses ; and there being therefore plenty of unoccupied space in the vessel, 50 tons of hay were placed on board. On her arrival at Malta she will, like all other transports, be subject to the orders of the naval commander-in-chief. A MAN KILLED AT THE CLARENCE DOCIE.—On Thursday morning, Richard Haworth, a plumber, in the -!raploy of the dock trustees, was on the top of a shed at the north end of the Clarence dock, with another work pan. A boy beckoned to the two men t o come towards a adder, when the deceased advanced nine or ten yards along the guttering of the shed, and then fell into the dock. He was quickly removed to the receiving house, where it was ascertained that he was dead. AN UNDUTIFUL DAUGHTER.—On Thursday, a re spectably attired young woman, named Ann Booth, was charged at the Police-court with defrauding her mother of 3s. 6d. The poor woman stated that on the afternoon of the preceding day, having been out washing for the • support of her family, she left the sum named in the care of her daughter with instructions to pay it to the rent collector, whose weekly visit was due that day. The girl, instead of paying the money as directed, appropriated it Y) . her own use, and made 'an entry in her mothers rent hook as having paid it. The girl. was discharged by the Magistrate, accompanying her liberation from custody with a severe reprimand as to the undutiful heartlessness of the s• conduct she had been guilty of. A NIGHT FLOWER. — The Botanic Gardens, Edge -lane, contained, last week, a rare and beautiful object—a Cereus grandiflora (niglat-flowering cereus) in bloom. Although, . according to rule, the hothouses are closed at six o'clock . 1 ,11 the evening, an exception was made b y the curator, on ,xnesday, in favour of a few visiter s who happened to be in the gardens as late as eight o'clock, in order that they might see this fleeting flower , which blooms only during the night. There were no fewer than five large white melo n - s h a ped flowers, each gracefully set off by a long fringe of deep orange colour encircling it, and the rich Perfume they emitted was almost overpowering, as if to compensate by beauty and intensity of odour for their brief existence, which terminates with the approach of day. . PUBLIC _BATHS AND WASII-HOUSES.—At the meeting of the baths and wash-houses comm ittee, held ke on Mondner,ay, Present, 'Messrs. Wagstaff (chairman), Parr, Gard Gladstone, jun., and Fleming, the returns for the quarter ending 24th May were presented by the officers of the different establishments, and it appears that they are all in the most flourishing condition. At Cornwallis-street, the bathers for the quarter were 36,419 ; for the corres ponding quarter last year they were 23,054, showing an increase this quarter of 13,365. At the Pierhead, the bathers for the quarter were 8,427. At the Paul-street, the bathers for the quarter were 13,955 ; for the corres- Ponding quarter last year they were 10,300, showing an Increase for last quarter of 3,655. The number of persons allowed baths gratis, during the quarter, was 2,807. The increased receipts amounted to upwards of £2OO beyond the receipts for the same period of 1853. The wash-houses department is equally thriving, and the Frederick-street establishment seems to be attracting a large number of customers, owing to the comforts afforded by the classifi cation of the washers, and the immense saving of labour which the various appliances effect. DEATh OF CARDINAL WISEMA.N'S BROTHER.—Mr. James Wiseman, brother of Cardinal Wiseman, died at his residence, in Grove-street, on Tuesday morning week. Mr. Wiseman resided for many years in this town, and was at onetime connected with a mercantile firm of high standing here. Latterly, however, he acted as an inter preter of foreign languages, and was the person who was engaged to interpret the evidence given agains t Ca p tain Horner, who was committed some weeks ago for the wilful murder of two of his crew on the high seas. Whilst attending the court in* connexion with this case, Mr. Wiseman took a severe cold from the effects of w hich he never recovered. He was about five years older than the Cardinal, with whom he studied at Ushaw College, and subsequently in Spain, and whose superior in talent he was considered by many. Mr. Wiseman spoke all the modern languages of Europe with fluency and accuracy. In private life he was much respected. His remains were interred on Sunday, at St. Oswald's burial -ground, near the Old Swan, the funeral being conducted under the direction of M. Serle, the Cardinal's chaplain and secre tary. The deceased has left a wife and two childr en. ARRIVAL OP ROMAN BULLS.—The steam -ship Genova, from Civita Vecchia, brought twelve of the wild cattle which abound in the campagna of Rome, and are known for their untameable ferocity an d savage beauty. They left the Papal states on the 9th ult., and, as they are rather dangerous passengers, it was deemed prudent to land them at the docks in the cages in which they were placed on board the steamer. All were safely landed but one bull, who broke through the bottom of his cage, and ran round the dock quays in a style which created no little dismay amongst the " Jumpers " and others who con gregate in those localities. One gentleman was chased round the Nelson Dock gates, and might have been se riously injured, had the distinguished foreigner" not tripped over a chain, and tumbled into the water. A wf ith ter a vigorous aquatic chase, half-drowned, and blinded rage and terror, the animal was towed to the doc k ste p s, and secured safely in another cage. These cattle, two bulls and ten heifers, which are of a dun colour, and fine specimens of their species, have been imported for Mr. • Naylor, who will place them in the ornamental park attached to Hooton-hall, where they will doubtless astonish and horrify the "natives" as ,much as other Roman bulls lately astounded our Protestant countrymen. MYSTERIOUS DEATH.—On Tuesday and Thursday an inquest was held on the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Graham, eighty years of age, who lived at No. 1, Green-street, Crown-street, Edgehill, and met her death under the fol n - lowing singular circum stances :—The old lady had ni bee confined to the house for the las i ' " o lfl ee er y ' e l a m rs at f e ro besi t d i es e ec ts of rheumatism, and the on y n herself was an elderly female , na med Ann Ath ert on, who acted as housekeeper. Atherton deposed that, on Sunday evening, she went to bed about ten o'clock, her mistress having gone to bed about two hours before. On Monday morning, about seven o'clock, she went to call her . up as usual, and was alarmed to find that she was not in her room. After searching the house through, she went down into the cellar, and there, head foremost in a water barrel, she saw her mistress. She immediately procured the assistance of one of the old lady's relative and two Policeaefficers, who extricated the body from the barrel, , and found life to be quite extinct. The top of the barrel =stood about four feet and a half above the floor, and there was a sink-stone on one side and - a step- ladder on the 'other, from which it is supposed the old lady must hav fallen or precipitated herself. into the barrel, which con lained at the time about eighteen inches depths of wade ter. Mr. Richard Kay, surgeon, stated that he believed ath to have resulted, not from drowning, but from serous apoplexy, the effects of natural causes. He felt certain, • however, that the old lady must have been alive when she fell into the water. The jury returned a verdict in ac .. cordance with this evidence. WEST DERBY GIIARD.IANS.—The weekly meeting was on Wednesday. Present, the held at the Workhouse, W. Badnall iu the chair, Mr. Edwards, deputy vice- Rev. ns dcalf Norris, M`Gee, Abra chairman, hams, Wen i s e le ss y rs , AMppeleby, JMamoeusntßfiierledh, Whitby, Reyes, Horsfall, Siddely, Carter, Ledger, and Alpass. The balance_ s m id th . e Ahannedws o v f al t u h a e . treasurer was reported to be £443 19 • tion of property, in Great Crosby, was ordered to t z o l b o e . m T a n d e e . ; by Mr. John Skearson, at a cost notation Clerk was requested to make vested in the guardians Board that a discretion might be to the Poor-law as to what inmates of the Workhouse shAoulndes itte have daily, or other intercourse with each other. g pupil teacher, was allowed £6 to b change of air, in consequence of a d to be ins ured grdereodtohtehaleth. countryne new for n a buildings at the Workhouse were o from loss by fire in £l,OOO. The overseersna wereof nEevteartuoln complained that the rates of their towns directedT collected. An assistant collector was to be a . ap pointed, his salary to be paid out of the Pres went maser commission. Mr. Richard Bulraan was . a , pp. r , pe r annum t collecto's of the Union Hospital, with a salary 0 1 1 -.°" d adjoinpering the and rations, &c. A portion of the hospital was directed to be. appropriateldn e, at the next Mr. Whitby gave notice that he would inov t committees meeting, that the appointments of all present for a stone-yard. d be rescinded. The number in the workhouse vcs_reeppr.t.: _e to be 582, against 648 for the corresponding week t THE PACIFIC, PACIFIC, United States mail steamship, Captain ARRIVALS OUT AT AUSTRALIA.—SeveraI vessels are Nye, took her departure hence for New York on Wed- reported to have arrived at the antipodes, amongst which us ual mai l s 167 passengers and a large cargo, besides the is the Salem, 910 tons register, Captain Cunningham, usual mails on board. belonging to the "Fox" line, which was despatched hence. A SCREW YACHT.—A very handsome little screw yacht, for Melbourne on the 7th December, by Mr. H. Fox, and built on the Clyde, occasionally plies to and from the Cu. has made the run to Port- Philip Heads in seventy-three nerd steamers lying in the river, for the use of Mr. days. The passengers were all well. Charles M`lver, the enterprising manager of the line. The LAUNCH OF THE BERWICK WAILS.—The Berwick vessel is prettily decorated in the cabin, and bears the Walls, a fine ship of 678 tons register, was launched as t appropriate name of the Neptune. week from the building-yard of Messrs. M`Gowan Berwick. AN UNLICENSED PILOT.—At the Police-court, on the ceremony of naming being performed b Mrs' . Joseph Tuesday, Joseph Price, who had been dismissed from the Hubback, of this town. The vessel has been built for pilot service since 1849, was fined £2O, or ordered to be Mr. Thomas Hubback, of Berwick, and Mr. Beasley, of imprisoned for three Hanths, for obtaining £7, in two this toWn. A hands erne dijeuner was served, and a sums, from Captain ding, of the Sea Nymph, and variety of toasts and sentiments appropriate to the event Messrs. Casavetti Brothers, to whom he had falsely repre- of the day were proposed. The guests numbered fully sented himself as a pilot, and by whom he had been paid 200, and comprised many of the most influential, as well for services rendered in his assumed capacity. as the fairest, of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood. SANKEY NAVIGATION. During the recent dry ALL SAINTS' SCHOOLS, GREAT NELSON-STREET. weather upwards of forty coal and other flats have been The adjourned meeting of the committee, friends, and retained in this canal, in consequence of the great scarcity subscribers to these schools was held on Tuesday evening of water, and much to the annoyance and loss of the ex- last, in the girl's school-room, the Rev. Henry Marlen in tensive coal and other proprietors of St. Helens. Several the chair, when it was resolved, after various suggestions, flats have had to be lightened, so as to create a passage. to open the boy's school at Midsummer, thus completing FATAL ACCIDENT IN. THE PRINCE'S- PARK. —On the three branches of girls', infants', and boys' schools. Wednesday, Joseph Potter, a plasterer, living at 93, It is hoped that the inhabitants of the neighbourhood in South Chester-street, was at work on a scaffolding in .Particular, and the public generally who acknowledge that Devonshire -place, Prince's-park, when he fell to the education is the best .security against crime and im ground, and fractured his skull. Shortly afterwards morality, will aid the committee in providing the funds life was extinct. necessary for carrying on this extensive establishment, as UreeveronEsoaen MEAT.—On Wednesday, at the Police- the committee, at present, are under a heavy pecuniary court, the following persons were each fined £2 and costs, responsibility. Every man is a steward, and has a duty for exposing for sale unwholesome meat :—John Whitley, to perform to his neighbour. London-road, John Owen, Peter - street, Mary Anne I MA.GISTERIAL CIVILITY AT WIGAN. ew days ago Hewitt, Manley Moulson, Scotland-road, and Robert 1 one of the magistrates of Wigan was g near his Whittaker, St. Martin's-market. place of business, when he was accos by another Tuomas ATHERTON, who from papers found upon his 1 borough magistrate, who resides some distance from person, appears to be a cabinet-maker, residing at Birken- Wigan, in the following manner :—" Well, sir, you were head, was seized on Friday, with an epileptic fit in a I very particular when giving evidence the other day in shop in Whitechapel. He was removed to the Northern I describing my property." "Certainly," answered the Hospital, where he still remains in a very dangerous ' first, " I had to give evidence upon oath and wished to be state. correct." " You were up the yard and strode it down r NORTHWESTERN AND NORTH STAFFORD/MIRE RAIL- " Yes." " I wish I had seen you there." "So do I," was the rejoinder. "If I had been there you would have WAYS.—An arrangement has been entered into between these companies, by which the former secure s to the lat. come down much quicker than you went up." The answer ter3f per cent, for to this was, "Yon could not ha ve made me do that." one year, from the 30 th June next, and 1 ' You would have seen." " Well; come and try your hand 4 per cent, afterwards , with the o p tion on the part 1. of the North Staffordsh ire to amal g amate at par., , at it now; lam quite ready." U p on hearing this, the magistrate who had held out the threat turned round and with the Loudon and North western, at any time before 1860. went, away. Thus ended the meeting of two of Her Ma- ST. HELEN'S.—APFOINTMENT OF A SURVEYOR.—At a jesty's justices of the peace for the borough of Wigan.— special meeting of the Improvement . Commissioners, held Manchester Examiner. on Wednesday last, Mr. John M`Manus, of Ormskirk, was STABBING CASES.—On Wednesday, three separate cases appointed the successor of Mr. Daniel Burrow, as town of assault by stabbing were brought under notice of the surveyor, at a salary of £l2O per annum ; he was also ap- police magistrate. The first was that of Jane Ann Big pointed to the office of inspector of nuisances, at a salary gings, au elderly woman of forbidding aspect, who was of £3O per annum. Mr. Anfanus has for several years ch a rhged with stabbing Bridget Meßown, a married woman, filled the office of town surveyor at Ormskirk. lived in the same court with the prisoner, in Chisen- A STRANGE CASE came before the Police-court, on hale-street, and about noon onTuesday the prisoner rushed Tuesday. On the previous day a girl, whose name was out of her house, brandishing two knives, which she stated to be Green, was committed to prison for begging. sharpened before the prosecutrix, and told her she " would have her life," and at the same time stabbed her several She was dressed as a mendicant, and her mother, who ap- times in the face. Complainant t ried to g et under the peared in court, said she w as the wife of a labourer. On P risoner's arms, to avoid the blows, when the latter threw T u esday, Sir George Stephen applied to ask for the child's The complainant was taken to the. dispe nsar y , where her Mr. Leyland, away the knives and beat her seve rel y all over her body. release, saying that she w as the daughter of an artist, who appeared in court to support Sir George's ody. The complainant presented a shocking appear application. The mag istrates remarked that as the pa_ custwounds were dressed; and the p risoner was taken into rentage of the child appeared exceedingly doubtful, they ante in court, from the number of stabs she had received, mu st refuse to release her . less than four in different parts of her face, and two on FEES FOR MEDICAL ATTENDANCE. Mr. Gilmour, rer wrists, and she was so weak as to be hardly surgeon, Park-road, sued William Ellerv, a police con- able r to give her evidence. The prisoner did not deny thc stable, in the County Court, on Wednesday, for 155., being but stated that the complainant had been calling her bad the amount claimed for medical attendance upon the names for the last two or three years. It transpired that . defendant's wife on the 24th of March, 1853, and six sub- the prisoner had lived with the complainant's husband for seq uent visits. The d e f endant alleg e d, that as his wife two years, but that he had lately gone back to live wit had been ill of milk-fever she required great attention, his wife. Higgings was committed for trial at the assizes. which was not, he said, afforded by the plaintiff, and that The next case was of a still more serious character. A he had been con se q uently compelled to call in another dissipated-l oo king fellow, named John Gillap , a journey medical attendant, and been also subjected to great pecu- man tailor, was charged with deliberately cutting the niary loss. Mr. Gilmour said he had given the case all Johnson of Ann Barlow, an unfortunate, who lived in the necessary attention, and only desisted when he found -street, on Tuesday afternoon. The victim of his a t roc ity was in such a dangerous state at the Northern that Mr. Higgi nson , surgeon, had been in attendance. Hospital that she could not appear , a nd the case had to be Th e defendant being una ble to prove the allegation he h ad adjourned. It appears that the prisoner deliberately made as to any neglect on the part of the plaintiff, judg knocked the woman down, and taking from his pocket, ment was given against him, and he was ordered to pay the claim in two monthly instalments. knife, drew it across her throat, and was within a hair's AWFUL RESULTS OP DRITNRENNEss.—On Tuesday breath of severing the jugular vein. At the moment of evening, an inquest was held at the Ship Inn, Vicar's the occurrence the thoroughfare was crowded with people; Moss, Rochdale, by Mr. Dearden, on the body of Alice but the ruffian had executed his demoniac purpose with Pickup, who keeps the Moss Tavern bee Aerat e. Mrs. such promptitude and coolness, that no individual, though Pickup had for a long time been of intemperate habits, many witnessed it, could prevent the murderous assault. The officer duty instantly pursued the fellow, and after and on the day previous drank spirits so greedily that by ten o'clock in the forenoon she was quite intoxicated. Her a struggle suaveeded in arresting him. The prisoner and h u sband, on going into the house, and finding her drunk, the wounded female had been cohabiting together for some desired her to go to bed, but she refused- He then asked time, and a quarrel originated between them in the house, her to go into the parlour from amongst the company, but when the female rushed out, and the revolting assault s he refused to do that, and when he carried her in ehe was a bove related ensued. In the other case the parties were soon out again. As he could not manage her any other sailors. Robert Bloom, a tall, athletic seaman, charged way he put her out of the house; she managed to get in another seaman named George Brown with stabbing him. again, and he then pushed her back with both hands and They were . both in span cing-room, in Sparling-street, on she fell heavily on her head upon the flags. The result Saturday night, Bloom dancing in company with a female. was concussion on the brain, and death next morning Brown tried to trip him up several times, and a quarrel en about seven o'clock; Pickup immediately went "and in- sued. The female induced Bloom to leave the house, but formed the police, and gave himself up. The jury brought while he was walking up the street, Brown ran after him; in a verdict of " chance medley," and he was discharged and with a pocket-knife stabbed him under the left ear. from custody. Bloom knocked the prisoner down, but soon became very THE ASSAULT ON CAPTAIN GREIG. — In the Standard weak from loss, of blood, and was taken to the Southern of last week we gave an outline of a riot which on the Hospital. The female wrested the knife from Brown, and, preceding Sunday evening bad led to a violent assault on gave it to the complainant. The house-surgeon of the Captain Greig, the head constable ; and stated that three Southern Hospital said that the complainant had received men, named James Lofthouse, Patrick Coleman, and Hugh an incised wound four inches long, extending from the ear Roan, had been brought before Mr. Mansfield charged to the lower jaw, and there were symptoms of erysipelas, with the assault, and remanded till the following day. On which if it ensued, might terminate the case fatally. The risoner was committed for trial. Tuesday they were again arraigned on the charge, and the 1 3 following evidence was given. A man named Smith T. ...IVERPOOL IND .MANCHESTER AGRICULTURAL So stated that the prisoners were making a disturbance in CIETY.—The journal of this society has just been issued, the street during the whole of Sunday afternoon. Whilst and contains a variety of information highly interesting two of them were fighting the police came up, and, one of to members. With respect to the general prospects of the men ran away down the street. Captain Greig after- the society, we extract the following paragraphs from the wards came up, and the witness saw the prisoner Coleman report : The finances of the society, although . not in a seize hold of him, but he could not say whether he struck flourishing, are at least in a satisfactory state, inasmuch him or takeoMr. Superintendent Quick asked if he saw as the income —notwithstanding the additional premiums the police t any Fran into custody. The witness said which have been given the last two years for poultry, and Lofthouse was the man the officers were taking into cus- the other expenses attendant upon that department-ave tody. The prisoners ran away whilst the officers were as- been just sufficient to meet the expenditure. It is, bow sisting Captain Greig. Before the row, the men threw ever, desirable that the treasurer, instead of being, as at down their caps in the street, and challenged any person present, £lB Os. out of pocket, should have considerably to fight. A man went and touched the cap, and they then more than that amount always in hand, RS a contingent began to fight.—One of the officers heard Lofthouse say, fund. As a further call upon the' members for their ex " She me the man that will fight me."—Mr. Mansfield ertions and support, it may here be stated that additional said there was no doubt there had been a most disgrace- prizes are offered this year, and for the first time, for a ful riot, -which might have been very serious in its result. draining match. These prizes, and the cost of printing By the improper conduct of the prisoners the police were and advertising for the same, will occasion an extra ex assaulted, and the chief constable was attacked. With penditure of £3O or £4O. The number of members for regard to Lofthouse and Roan, it was clear they were 1853, after striking off thirty-nine on account of deaths fighting in the streets and behaving in a riotous and dis- and other causes, but including thirty-seven new mem graceful manner ; and with regard to Coleman, it had hers, is 459. The committee have determined upon con - tinning the prizes foroultry another year, after which, as poultry shows haven w been established in Manchester sbteaehnl wanlaidt fin ho f h o ra the o u n s s t a h u e i t c , h i o e r f c t o w n o month's imprisonment in default of payment ; the other a nd Liverpool, and at more suitable seasons than the time two, who did not appear to have committed any assault on usually fixed and considered best for the society's shows, the police, but were fighting in the streets, were each it is probable they will be discontinued. In lieu of hold fined 305., or in default of payment one month's imprison- ing the next annual show in the City of Manchester, the ment. comniittee, believing that the town of Altrincham will be MATR/MONI/L RESPONSIBILITY. —On Wednesday last almost equally convenient to the members, and that the a claim was brought in the County Court, by Mr. G. inhabitants of that town and neighbourhood are likely to Crosby, butcher, Castle-street, Kirkdale, against Mr. take a lively .interest in the success of the show, have de- George Howarth, to recover the sum of £6 9s. 11d. for termined that it shall be held there, on Friday, the Bth butcher's meat, supplied to the wife of the defendant before September. They have much . pleasure in stating the her marriage. The defence was that the meat had been Earl of Stamford and Warrington, who resides lint the supplied, not to the wife of Mr. Howarth, but to her sister, neighbourhood, has pted the office of president fo the Mrs. Captain Janes, Mrs. Howarth acting, as it was year, and . that pecuniary and other support has been pro a g , Ile ed merely as the agent of Mrs. Jones. From the raised by many of heyhab evidence it appeared that previously to her marriage Mrs. Tim LIVERPOOL POST-OFFICE.—A parliamentary Holies Howarth and her two sisters, Mrs. - Jones and Mrs. Wade, has just been published, containing estimates of the sums lived in the same house, and that the meat was supplied required to defray the expenses of the collection and for the use of all of them. As evidence that the furnishing management of the public revenue for the year ending was at the instance of Mrs. Jones,. it was stated by the the 31st of March next- From this return we learn that the salary of the Liverpool postmaster is £l,OOO a Year ; defendant, and admitted by the plaintiff, that four instal the poundage allowed to postmasters and sub-postmaste rs ments of 10s. each had been made by Mrs. Jones, and also on the sale of postage stamps is £386. There are em that in March, 1853, the plaintiff, when informed by the defendant that Captain Jones was in Liverpool, said he ployed at the post-office here 65 clerks, whose aggregate salaries amount to £5,535 • 76 letter-carriers, whose wages egehtolishies in which all three tthhreeoetrehesridledianlelva.istkwepast amount to £4,122 ; 4 ru;al letter-carriers whose united would show n g t h e a n t n t d h ut to her. His Honour said, in the name of the defendant's wife, and that the bills of furnishings had been made o wages reach E 197 ; and 27 messengere, stampers, and porters, with salaries coming in the whole to £1,732. The that while believing all that the defendant had stated to char under the head " rents, rates, taxes, fuel, and be true, he yet came to the conclusion that the wife of the light, " amounts to £355. 56 sub-postmasters and sub defendantre- had kept the house and ordered the meat. It carvers divide amongst them £495 as salaries and £129 was not pretended that Mrs. Jones had ordered the meat, i s th e sum as or paid one penny, until after she had got into difficulties. masters and receivers." 2 letter-carriers for the "allowances on money orders to sub-t- A verdict was then given for. plaintiff. His Honour informed the defendant that he might subpcena Mrs. postoffices have £7B between them. The total estimated cost of the Liverpool postoffice is put down at £14,029, against have the follow- R 13,787 last year. As a note, we to steps were taken, he would hear her evidence before any in„ Jones, and compel her to attend at court, and, if such • further particulars respecting the Liverpool pos pee, further proceedings were taken. The defendant, however, There is one chief clerk at £l7O a year ; one clerk t£l>; 0 • Jones, as she had been the instig,ator of the present suit, seemed to think that it would be useless to subpeena Mrs. one at £lOO ; three at £9O • seven at £BO ; of the remain one at Zl4O ; one at £l3O ; two at £l2O ; one at, and payment was accordingly ordered to be made in three ing 46 clerks, those under 'three years' service hare £6O monthly instalments. each, and those above three years' serviee have £7O, with sation for loss of perquisites. STRIKE.—We understand that, on Monday last, the the exception of one, who has only £55 a year. Two engine vers upon the southern division of the London clerks have X as corr!pen and Northwestern Railway were on the point of striking, Amongst the letter-carriers there is one inspector at £l2O and leaving the traffic between London and Rugby, and a year ; 69 have 20s. a week, and six 18s. a week. Seven- London and Birmingham, to take care of itself. The teen of the stampers get 110 aye ar each, two £6O, three grievance is said to have been a desire on the part of the 28s. a week ; two porters £2ls. a week, and one at 16s. locomotive superintendent of that division of the line to A man in charge of the gas-meter and heating apparatus introduce the system of working the engines by contract. gets 21s. a week ; and an office servant has 220. Certain HEALTH COMMITTEE.—The weekly meeting was held of the clerks, letter-carriers, and stampers receive addi on Thursday—Mr. Langsdale in the chair. A deputation tional pay for extra duty. The Manchester postmaster from St. Ann-street and the neighbourhood waited upon has a salary of £260, with £360 as compensation for loss the committee to complain of a house which had been let of fees. At Manchester 811etter-c,arriers, 20 rural carriers, as a lodging-house for German emigrants. There were 11 stammers, 107 sub-masters and receivers, and 22 letter about 100 persons in it, and the nuisance was such as to carriers at sub-postoffices are employed. The total cost of be detrimental to the health of the inhabitants. Mr. J. the establishment is estimated at £12,765, against £12,408 H. Pyer, one of the deputation, stated that he had a last year. report from an inspector who visited the house. The SURGEON'S FEES IN POLICE CASES.—At the County inspector found 119 persons there, and they were not Court, on Wednesday last, Mr. Steele, surgeon, Russell spread through the house, but confined to three apart- street, claimed the sum of five shillings' from Michael Hanlon, spectacle maker, St. George's Bazaar, as his fee meats. In ,two of the rooms there were thirty in each, for attendance on Hanlon's wife. It appeared by the lying indiscriminately together on litters of straw, and evidence for the defence, that, Mrs. Hanlon having been throwing themselves dom e in their clothes just as they p t e o c t getors a o i u d t t h o e f stench ou w s a e s . injured by an assault, on the case coming before the glaindspolice court, Mr. Mansfield directed her to be examined tthheatstrheeetue.as The chairman assured the deputation that they might by a surgeon, and the plaintiff was requested to do so. a so pp o e ff n e r n ed siv in e satisfied the nuisance would be abated.—A converse rest . Before making the examination, he requested Mrs. Ran t the co-operation between the cone- lon to say who would be responsible for his fee, and the tion ensued relative o. the medical committee of the vestry, for the police officers assured him that Mr. Mansfield would see mittee and attention, if required, to the cholera him paid. Mr. Steele said the woman was brought to his purpose of directing of epidemic. After a good deal .cony ers upon the in fpolice officer and 1 surgery company o a it being understood that a and the latter requested him to attend and treat her. .lle subject, the matter dropped, Nes ry. The thselect • t --I.'dasked to t abet th ' was afterwar s at enre e agistrates representation would be made to e to somethe followingday in referce to the assault. H Town-clerk read a tof proceedings relative . which . Godfrey, Preston-street, did so, for which lie was paid, a• ie was a so tt~ houses belonging were not in accords with the provisions of the Sanitary attendance at the sessions. The plaintiff also stated that Act. It was agreed that Mr. Godfrey should be allowed the woman's husband requested him to attend at the the usual time for removing the buildings, and at the ex- police court, saying, that if the magistrates did not pay piration of that time, if the orders of the committee were i i im, he (the husband) notingwoul do so.—e judge remarked not complied with, proceedings would be taken.—The that Mr. Mansfield had te powe dancey the money ; engineer called attention to what he considered was one of the defendant must pay for e atten in the first in the first fruits of the new act, a contrivance for cleaning stance, and he might bring an action for the recovery of windows, by enabling persons to remove the window the amount from the person who had injured Mrs. Hanlon. frame, and clean it on the outside, without any risk such DESERTING A Snip.— In the Whitehaven county court, as that to which eervants and others were at present ex- on the 23rd ult., an action was tried in which Captain posed in performing that operation.—Mr. Godfrey called Davison, master of the bark Eilerslie, belonging to Mr. attention, on behalf of some residents in Marybone, to a Joseph Yourighusband, and Messrs. jones, Palmer, and lodging-house for emigrants in that street, which was aCo , Liverpool, sued Mrs. Ann Todhunter, time landlady of great nuisance. No fewer than 500 persons slept there at the' Albion Inn, Whitehaven, for £5O, damages due on night. -The Town-clerk explained that a clause struck the breach of a bond entered into by her as the surety of out of the local sanitary act, for empowering the medical her son, John Todhunter, lie having deserted the Ellerslie, officer to go into a hou.se inhabited by more than one of which he was mate, in August, 1853, at Adelaide, be fainily, had been introduced into a general act recently fore the termination of the voyage. The substantial ssed.—The inspector, of nuisances said that complaints defence was, that Todhunter left the vessel because she bada been made respecting•an emigrants' lodging-house in mess unseaworthy, shorthanded, aiid ill-provisioned. The Lime-street, corner of Skelhorn-street. The medical -- jury gave a verdict for the ,defendant, and the foreman officer repliedthat the house was about to be given up ag explained that their conclusion was founded on the unsea -1 dging-house, and it would be opened as an hotel. Adelaide. 8 o worthiness of the vessel previously to leavillg. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. Tay DOCTOR'S PEN WIPER Doctor Raffles —the papers tell us—was recently arrested in Italy for having "in his writing-desk a pen-wiper which assumed the shape and colour of a cockade." We hardly think this the true cause of the doctor's arrest : it no doubt arose from a philological blunder. The authorities may have considered the pen-wiper as a venomous, mortal article : and for this reason—in Italian there is•no W ; hence, for Pen-wiper, the sagacious authorities read Pen-viper. — Punch. LAUNCH OP THE CITY OF PUILADELPHIA. - 0 11 THeS• day there was launched from the building-yard of Messrs. Tod and Macgregor, on the Clyde, another magnificent iron screw steam-ship, intended as a consort to the City of Manchester, for the Liverpool and - Philadelphia trade. The Philadelphia has only been six mouths on the stocks. Some idea may be formed of her capabilities, when we mention that the length of the keel and fore rake is 300 feet, her breadth 39 feet, and depth 29 feet. She is to be driven by engines of 460 horse-power, and her tonnage is es timated at 2,400 tons. It is caleulated that she will comfortably accommodate 180 first-class, and 420 steerage passengers. ST. Joint, N. 8., LINE OP PACKETS.—A fine new ship arrived here on Saturday, from St. John, N.B. and is n ow discharging her cargo in Huskisson Dock. The vessel is named the John Bannerman, and. is intended to form one of the line of packets between this port and St. John, N. 8., conducted by Messrs. Fernie Brothers. The John Bannerman is a medium clipper," 179 feet in length, 33 feet beam, 21 . feet in depth, and of 1,131 tons. The vessel is built of the strongest materials, under the superintendence of Lloyu's agent, and will class A 1. There are two decks, with plenty of height between them, and there is a poop cabin aft with good accommodation for first-class passengers. There is excellent accommodation for a large number of emigrant passengers. THE QUEEN OF THE SEAs.—Among the many mag nificent vessels at present on the berth loading for the antipodes, is the new ship Queen of the Seas. She belongs to the Fox line of packet-ships, registers 1,337 tons, or 2,000 tons burthen ; is 237 feet in length, 40 feet in breadth, and 23 feet in depth. The bow, though sharp, possesses all the fulness requisite for a good sea boat, and the run is easy and clean, with good bearing. The ma terials used in her equipment are of the best description, and the fastenings throughout, which have been executed under the superintendence of Liverpool surveyors, are of the strongest kind. The accommodations for passengers, which are well lighted and ventilated, are fitted up with every attention to comfort and convenience, and on the decks ample space is allowed for exercise and amusement. Her commander, Capt. Charles Gardner, is a skilful navigator, and possesses the advantage of considerable ex perience in the Australian passenger trade. The Queen of the Seas is now loading in the Waterloo Dock, and it is i n t e nded to dispatch her for Melbourne about the end of the present week. LIE NEw AI - Arnica Docx.—The site of the works at Wapping presents just now a very busy scene at their northern extremity ; the intended enlargement of the Salt house Dock is progressing towards completion. This dock is to be made square, by an addition of water-space at its southeast corner. A gate, with a swing-bridge, is nearly finished from this new portion, communicating with a small passa ge-dock between SalthOuse and the new Wapping Dock. Mr. Hartley, the dock engineer, has a large force of masons, &c., engaged here, and the walling is in a state of considerable forwardness. The Wapping Dock itself is far advanced in the necessary excavations, and the walling is being rapidly proceeded with. The stonework for the bridge to the Duke's warehouses, and an entrance to the north end of the King's Dock, are pro gressing pan pawn with the other works. The founda tions for a line of warehouses along the east quay are completed, and a portion of the lower arches are being turned. At the south end of the dock there will be a passage to the Queen's Dock, which will complete the design of a line of docks extending the whole length of our river frontage, communicating with each other. Messrs. M'Cormick, the contractors, expect the works to be com pleted, and the Wapping Dock in working order, before the close of the present year. THE NEW STEAM-SHIP BATIIINA.--011 Wednesday the new screw steam-ship Bahiana, Captain Daniel Green, made a very successful trial trip in the river. The Bahiana which has been built by Mr John Laird, for the South American and General Steam Navigation Company, is full barque-rigged, and is fitted with a lifting screw, so that, if circumstances require it, she can be propelled by her sails, an arrangement which will no doubt greatly economise the consumption of fuel. Her engines are of 200-horse power. During the trial the Bahiana attained a speed of fully 101 knots. Although the performance fully justified the expectations which had been formed of her, the company, in order to further test her capabilities before they despatch her for South America, sent her on 'Thursday on a cruise for four or five days in the Channel, during which time her sailing qualities, both under steam and canvas,:were fully:tested. Captain Matthews, late of the Great Britain, Mr. Hadfield, secretary of the Com pany, Mr. Thompson, one of the managers, Mr. Miles Barton, Mr. John Laird, and several other gentlemen were on board. The day was beautifully fine, and the progress of the Bahiana all that could be desired. She was accompanied, as far as the Bell-Buoy, by the steam tug Constitution, in which the majority of the visitors re turned to Liverpool, shortly after 6 on. The following figures indicate the performances of the Bahiana between the measure of distances :—Abreast the Rock-light, 2 24, p.m. ; Crosby light-ship, 2 511, p.m. ; Formby light-ship, 3 4 p.m.; and Bell-buoy, 318 p.m. During that time the engines averaged 24 revolutions per minute. In the course of the afternoon an elegant deseuner was partaken of in the cabin. The Bahiana made the Skerries—a dis tance of 4,5 miles—in three hours and thirty minutes. While easing her engines, the Lusitania, which she had left, came up with her, and they ran a short distance together ; the Bahiana then got up full speed, and quickly distanced the Lusitania, showing the superiority she attained over that rapid steamer by her improved model. Both ships are by the same builder, and their engines, which are nominally of 200-horse power, arc from the same pattern, but the Bahiana is 1,000 tons, while the Lusitania is only 1,014 tons burthen. It is fair to say, however, that the latter had a considerable cargo on board, while the Bahiana was in light trim. The Bahiana then altered her course more to westward, and the most interesting ex periment, and the one having the most important bearing on the use of the screw-propeller, was tried. At 10 a.m., on Friday, orders were given to lift the screw, which was accomplished in ten minutes, and the ship was put under canvas alone. Close-hauled, she made 51 knots, increasing to 91 knots as the wind rose from moderate to a fresh breeze. She was then tried before the wind, and answered equally well, proving that with canvas alone she will be a match for most clippers. In her operations she will thus be enabled to economise fuel—a matter, at this time, of the greatest importance. Captain Matthews, of the screw steamship Great Britain, and a number of scientific gentlemen, were out in the Bahiana for the two days' trial, and have returned highly pleased with the result. LIVERPOOL SHIPWRIGHTS AND THEIR WAGES. — The wages of the Liverpool shipwrights, which ruled at 15s. per day, have descended to 10s. per day, an amount likely to be considerably reduced by the scarcity of work ' which now prevails. Although 15s. per diem was the nominal rate of wages, an amount equal to a guinea per day was, in some instances, paid to shipwrights. This tariff, however, must be taken to apply solely to the members of the shipwrights' club ; the strangers,—shipwrights brought by the masters from the outports, and not mem bers of the Liverpool Shipwrights' Club—being paid in pursuance of an agreement with the master shipwrights, 10s. per day. The exorbitant rates of wages demanded by the Liverpool shipwrights seem now in danger of being reduced to their original level. Local owners found the cost of repairs at this port to be so enormous, particularly in the item of wages, and the delays so great, that they have sent their vessels to the outports, where the delay was avoided, whilst an immense saving was effected. American captains refused almost to a man, unless in some extreme cases, to submit to the payment of 15s. per day wages (they were content to pay 10s.), and have taken cop per and other materials with them from this port, to have their repairs executed in New York and other American ports ; and last of all, owing to the high wages prevailing iniLiverpool, the admiralty are determined that no More transport ships shall be fitted out at this port. The result, as might be expected, is that work to a very great amount, which would have kept the shipwrights of Liverpool fully employed during the summer, has passed into other hands, and its want is now being felt here. A meeting consist ing of deputations from the shipwrights belonging to the Liverpool club sod the strangers, was held on Wednes day. It was rumoured that a proposition had been made to the strangers to become members of the Liverpool club. If this were agreed to on the part of the strangers, it would bind them not to work for a less sum than the society might fix upon, but it would also entitle them to many privileges which they do not now enjoy,,—members of the society refusing to work with them at present. DOCK COMMITTEE. —The weekly meeting of the Dock Committee was held on Thursday, Mr. Charles Turner in the chair. The sub-committee of works recommended that permission be given to Mr. C. F. Mellor to place a water fountain, at his own expense, on the landing-stage, on condition that it be removed whenever required by the Dock Committee. Mr. Langsdale said the Water Com mittee had agreed to supply any water which Mr. Mellor required. After a brief conversation, the subject was referred to the Marine Sub-committee.—the sub-committee of works recommended the immediate construction of the south entrance to the lock of the new north basin, to be 100 feet wide and 500 feet long in the chamber, to be tem- . Porarily used as a graving dock for large steam-ships, and to form part of the permanent works at the north docks. — The Chairman said this was a very serious question, and it was brought before the sub-committee of works in con sequence of Mr. ver's letter, stating that further graving dock accommodation for large steamers was required, there being no place at presentred except the Hus kisson lock where they can be repai, and during the time that lock was so occupied there was no ingress to, or egress out of the Huskisson dock, and it was found to be a great inconvenience. In consequence of this the sub committee of works came to the conclusion that this lock should be made for this purpose, at the same time that it would be available for. any plan which might be decided upon by the committee for the construction of the north docks. The estimated cost was £BO,OOO, and finishing the dock necessary for its occupation £22,000, making a total of £lo2;ooo.—After some discussio n directions were given to the engineers to proceed with the stank, the remainder of the plans to lie on the table.—The Chairman announced that lie, with the deputy-chairman and Mr. Rankin, ac companied by the two borough members, Messrs. Horsfall and Liddell, had an interview wit h the President of the Board of Trade, to discuss the question of . the maiming of ships. 'They were received with great courtesy, i and the President of the Board of Tra de entered fully into the subject. He had representations, as they were aware, from the steam-ship owners of th e port, who seemed to think that the proposed mode of measurement bore im properly on the owners of steam-vessels. Mr. Cardwell seemed inclined to thiuk that the matter should be com promised between theuwners of sailing and steam-ships, and, if a fair compromise could be enter ed into, that was the mode in which he would deal with it in presenting Li', bill to parliament. lie said he would endeavour to co':ne 's fair a conclusion as lie could on the subject, and that thl recommend it to parliament. If that v, as not —.:story to the owners of steam or sailing v ea sels, it would be open to them to oppose it in parliaresmt.—Seme disssussion ensued, but it was put a sto p to ', is , the chair man, as it could lead to no practical rcrult.—This con cluded the general business, LORD RAGLAN on arriving in Turkey intimated his wish that the troops should shave. THE LUsITANIA, South American and General Steam THE Chinese Testament Fund in this country now Navigation Company's steamer, sailed on Thursday for amounts to £lOO,OOO. Lisbon, Madeira, Rio, and the River Plate, with a full T H E MinagrestAN on board the Tiger, who lost both cargo, 40 passengers and some specie. his legs in resisting the capt ure of the Russians, is the son i bas i u n s sact , urer, of the Recorder of Newcastle. ARTON. a highly respectable lace manu f ac t urer, of at Basford, near Nottingham, hung himself on Pouru.srTs- of Sir C. Napier are to be seen in all the Tuesday afternoon, in his counting-house. print-shops in Paris. The galhnt admiral is quite a T HE FRENCH GOVERNMENT JousreaL, the Patrie cites favourite with our neighbours. the Moniteur de 1' certainly give great Armes pnf or a gratifying fact which will Mr. ROBERT GREY, formerly a m ason em p lo y ed at Messrs. Swinburne's glass works , South Shields , has re -leas British re i t i o at t i h o e na ß l British nation.ood sav e It is ordered that the tw o b , Queen " and "Rule Bri tannia , shall form part of the turned to that town with his wife and family from Mel. collection of pieces played bourne, on a visit to his friends, having made a competency. the " military bands. One inn alone in Melbourne is said to bring him a thousand m u. R ouEur LA 3 pool, had an leorsts . and Mr. B. J. Thomson, of . interview with the Right Hon . E. Cardwell, GREEN FOOD FOR TEE METROPOLIS. — A farmer o f ion Thursday, at the Board o f Portsmouth received an order, last week, to send to London , Merchant Shipping Bill. Trade, on the subject of the by train 1,300 dozen, or 15,60 0 cabbages. The order was LUNATIC ASYLUMS.—A circular, issued b: the chair executed in a few hours. man of a d eputation of the visiting committee of the - PROSECUTIONS. AT ASSIKES.—Among the sums to be caster, Prestwich, and Rainhill Lunatic Asylums, in ti voted for the current year is £ 250 , 000 for p r o secutions at mates that , iu c o nsequence of the high price of provisio ns, n , assizes and quarter sessions, formerly paid from the county the future charge will be Bs. 2d a-week for each i nmate, rates. This is an increase of £lO,OOO in the preceding year. instead of 7s. 6d. GOVERNMENT PRINTING AND STATIONERY.—No IeSS THE "LITERARY DOG," famed for his attachment to than £255,560 is required for the stationery.—Last year the precincts of the newspaper-offices in this town, and the vote was only £216,420, showing an increase on the whose forlorn appearance was touchingly described some present year of £39,140. • time since, is not, we learn, really in distressed circum- Matinee. Racism, the celebrated French tragedienne, 'stances, but " fares sumptuously every day " with another although but a few months have elapsed since she started canine bon Vivant, at Radley's Restaurant. for the frigid zone, has brought back from Russia 800,000 AN ELGIN TRADESMAN is reported to have invented a francs—£32,ooo 'sterling—to Paris, and her brother has very destructive instrument. He calls it a " longitudinal brought back some £16,000. This enormous sum is the projectile ;"it is four feet in length, may be fired from a result of a few weeks' earnings. cannon, and will " hit to a hair " any object at a distance MEMORIAL TO TUE LATE MR. JUSTICE TALFOURD.— of five miles; on being shot from a cannon it expands like A committee appointed by the Oxford Circuit to determine an umbrella, explodes the moment it alights, and causes the most desirable form in which to erect a memorial to instant annihilation to every material for many yards • the late Mr. Justice Talfourd, have recommended the around. erection of a monument, with a bust of the deceased, in THE LATE MURDER IN DEVON.—The man who corn- St. Mary's Church, at Stafford.—Worcester Chronicle. mitted the murderous outrage on the young woman Arnora,—THE MOORS.—We regret to say the tape named Richards, near Torrington, in North Devon, was worm disease has appeared among the grouse in our higher brought up before Sir Trevor Wheeler and a bench of moors—possibly from excessive drought. Hitherto there justices, at that town on Saturday week.—The evidence of have been few deaths ; but we learn its ravages are great various witnesses was taken at much length. The prisoner in Glenesk and other Forfarshire moors. Singular to say, was again remanded for a few days to ascertain the ter a muirfowl's nest with 15 eggs was found besides the mination of the frightful injuries inflicted on the young sheep fold at Edendon Lodge ; in the opinion of the shep- woman, who had scarcely any chance of surviving. The herds, it is in the "joint occupancy" of two hens, as the , prisoner was on Monday committed for trial at the assizes female grouse has rarely more than 9 or 10 eggs. on a charge of highway robbery, and wounding with intent SINGULAR ROBBERY.—The silver custodia, inlaid with to murder. On Tuesday morning, Harvey was removed jewels, together with a mace of the same metal, and other to the county goal, Exeter. The girl, who had been silver articles belonging to the corporation of Madrid, gradually sinking under beanumerous injuries for thelast ' have been stolen in a most unaccountable manner. The four or five days, expired the same day. total value was upwards of £lO,OOO. COTTON CULTIVATION IN INDIA.—Mr. Blundell, .a' DEATH ON MOUNT VESUVIUS.—A letter from Naples gentleman resident in India, has forwarded to Mr. Bailey, states that, on the 14th ult., M. J. Delius, of Bremen, I - 'of . Y ' president of the Manchester chamber commerce, four having a;cended Mount Vesuvius with a party of his samples of cotton produced in Assam, obtained by him countrymen, went too near the edge of the crater, and, at one of the the ground giving way under him, he fell into the abyss. horticultural societv of .Calcutta. No. I. Dens Kupas His groans were heard from the bottom , but when some indigenous cotton, with seed in it, grown in Debrooghur; persons descended by means of ropes he was dead. No. 2. Jaloha Kupas indigenous cotton, with seed in it , THE TURIN AND SUSA RAILWAY, running from the grown in Debrooghur; B No. 2. Sea Island cotton , southern side of Mount Cenis to the capital of Piedmont, g athered in Debrooghur, in December, 1853 ; B No. 2 . was opened with great eclat on the 22nd ult., in the pre- Gotton grown from .American Gulf seed, gathered in sence of the King and Queen of Sardinia, and the Duke Debrooglitir, in December, 1853. B No. 1 and No. 2 are and Duchess of Genoa. It has been constructed by an both grown from United States seed. The B No. lis I English firm, the Messrs. Brassey, Jackson, and Henfrey. ,said to preserve all the characteristics of Sea Island cot- R ELI GIOUS TROUBLES IN BADEN. — Riots have taken ton, though grown so far inland as Upper Assam; the B place at Brezingen. News from Freiburg state s t hat the No. 2is considered a valuable cotton, and both are held archbishop is under close arrest and confined to his apart- sufficient to prove that even excellent cotton can be grown meats. The people had to be dispersed by the military. in India. The indigenous cotton is poor. Mr. Blundell The clergy have interdicted the use of church bells ; they recommends that a supply of good fresh Sea Island seed no longer celebrate high mass, nor chaunt, nor permit be obtained from South Carolina and Georgia, and sent music in the churches. The local authorities interfered to Debrooghur, properly packed, and upon this recom about the bells, and ordered them to be used as usual, and mendition the chamber intends to act. directly, including on this point the clergy have submitted. also seeds of other American cottons, the upland, the New A Glasgow paper gives a sketch of the travels of a one Orleans, &c. • also of Egyptian and of the Bra z il descrip pound bank-note, whichaleaving that town in November, tion. Th e :Brazil, Mr. Blundell thinks, might answer 1850, travelled to Edinburgh, Carlisle, Airdrie, Paris, well—the same length of staple might be preserved, and Rome, Philadelphia, thence back again to Glasgow, and the fibre made finer and less wiry, by the soil and climate , thence to Stirling, were it was on the 15th ult. Another suggestion which he makes is , that as land in PRICES AT THE DIGGINGS.—We learn by letters from India pays a tax to the government, it might be advisable, Australia that throughout the worked valleys there are should the business of growing cotton at Debrooghur be "streets of stores and refreshment shops ; the wants of taken up by the Manchester interests, to solicit the court the diggers are fully supplied;" but water costs ls. a of directors to forego any rent of the land for the first ten bucket. " Prices, "it is stated, " are very reasonable for or twelve years. every thing except water. Spirits are sold at ls. a nobbler, BENDING SHIP TIMBER.—In noticing a new machine and bottled ale and porter at ss. a bottle." for bending ship timber, the New York Tribune says, DREADFUL SCENE IN A POLICE COURT.—Daring the " All the immense labour hitherto spent in rounding tim progress of the business before the county magistrates at ber to suit ships, and houses, and machines, and furniture, Rochester, on Wednesday, a woman named Harvey, of al- and whatever other things requiring timber so curved, is most gigantic stature, and who had been frequently before now to be dispensed with by machines which can take the the magistrates to complain of ill-usage on the p ar t of her stateliest and straightest oak and bend it like a Titan-bow. husband, was once more complaining to the sitting ma- for the use of the proudest man-of-war, or the loftiest gistrate her husband at the time standing by her side. cathedral, and this, too, adding strength and durability to While the woman was making her statement the husband the wood. The first experiment has just been made on was observed to turn ghastly pale, and, swaying forward, timbers 16 feet in length, 8 inches by 10, bent to as short appeared to fall lifeless against the table. Several of the a curve as can be used in shipbuilding. This machine is bystanders immediately hastened to his assistance and a large one, designed for ship timber, but there is another caught him in their arms, when in a moment they were a lso ready for furniture, and both have just commenced nearly covered with blood, which poured like a torrent operations. The place of action is Green-point, where there from the man's mouth, owing to the sudden bursting of a i s a large foundry for making the machines, and large bloodvessel near the region of the heart. H e was ins- steam-vessels for steaming the timber, with other require mediately conveyed, apparently dead , into the open air. mes a s included in the process. Henceforward all the deli- While the means for his recovery were being used the cate curves of steamers, frigates, or yachts will be of solid brutal monster of a wife looked on with the utmost indif- timber, fashioned by this extraordinary invention. So, ference, never once lending any assistance to those too, all the curvilinear beauties of furniture may be benevolent persons tending her husband, and indeed for a detailed by the same means. The statistics of the value long time would not believe that he w as not feigning ill- of such a discovery are vast beyond conception of the ness. The instant lie was removed from the court, and uninitiated. All the immense shipping and building before any signs of consciousness were discernable, the wo- interests of the civilised world are included in this man actually had the audacity to return into court and discovery." renew her complaint against what was then thought to be n ...ARRATRY.—JONES V. NICHOLSON.—ThiS was a special her dead husband. No hopes whatever are given of the case submitted for the opinion of the court of exchequer, man's recovery.—South-Eastern Gazette. under the order of Mr. Baron Parke, and which came ALTERATIONS IN . THE FRENCH TARIFF.—The London before the court on Wednesday for argument. The Gazette of Tuesday contains notifications by the Board of action had been brought by an underwriter of Liverpool. Trade of several decrees issued by the French Emperor, against the defendant, who is a merchant in this town, with the objection of removing obstructions to commerce to recover a sum of money paid by him under a policy of between the two countries. By a decree dated May 10th insurance. The defendant had shipped certain goods in the article of the ordinance of Feb. 8, 1826, prohibiting the ship Helena, and insured them, and the policy con the importation for consumption in France of merchandise tabled a clause that the underwriter should be responsible the produce of Asia, Africa, and America, laden in English " for losses by barratry of the master, and other losses of entrepals and also the importation, under the British flag, the same nature.. " The master of the Helena, who was of European produce, except from ports of the United also a part owner, in the course of his voyage sold these Kingdom, or of her possessions in Europe are entirely goods improperly, whereby they became lost to the defend- i abolished ; and, in the words of the minister's report on ant, and the plaintiff; having been called on t o p a y which the decree proceeds, "the maritime and commercial the amount of his risk, did so on an understanding that relations of France with England arc placed on the foot- he should bring an action, and that if the act of the ing of common right." By another decree, notified in the matter should not be found to be barratrons, lie should same manner; the duties imposed by the decree of March recover. It was afterwards considered more satisfactory 5, 1852, on wood imported under the French flag from the that a special case should be stated , a nd that if the court Australian and Cape colonies are superseded, and a duty should be of opinion that there was no barratry, the ve t s ac cording to weight, calculated at the rate of 10 per cent. diet should pass for the plaintiff; but if barratry had bee n on the value of Australian wools in French ports, is committed, a nonsuit should be entered. The court were established in their stead. unanimously of opinion that the act of the master was, THE COASTING TRADE. — The Lord s of the Committee according to English law, an act of barratry. They therefore of Privy Council for Trade have desired the Commissioners gave judgment for the defendant. - of Customs to give instructions to the proper o ffi cers that, ABDUCTION.—John Atkinson, organist of Appleby for the future, in the monthly accounts of vessels employed Church, a man about 28 years of age, was brought before in the coasting trade of the United Kingdom, under the the sitting magistrates at the Court-houses, Carlisle, on respective heads of " Employed in the intercourse between Saturday, charged with having carried off from a boarding Great Britain and Ireland," and "Other Coasting Vessels," school at Appleby to Gretna-green, a Misa Ann Jane British and foreign vessel's may be separately specified. Ward, the daughter of Mr. Ward, a gentleman of highly This distinction is to be given monthly ; but an account respectable connexions, residing in the neighbourhood of is also, in the first instance, to be rendered to the Board of Windermere. The circumstances are as follows :—Atkin- Trade, with the same particulars, from the date when the son was engaged to teach the young lady music at Miss act opening the coasting trade of the United Kingdom to Bishop's boarding-school at Appleby, Westmoreland. It foreign vessels came into operation. In pursuance of these appears that about two months ago Miss Bishop observed directions from the Lords of the Council for Trade, the a little familiarity between bins and Miss Ward, in conse commissioners have issued instructions to the collectors quence of which she forbade him the school. Shortly and comptrollers of the Customs throughout the kingdom afterwards she discovered that lie had received a locket forthwith to transmit to the Registrar-General of Shipping from Miss Ward. She wrote to him desiring that it a return of foreign vessels which have been entered or should be returned, and informing him that the young cleared coastwise, between the passing of the act 17 Vic., lady was only 13 years of age, at the same time comment cap. 5, and the sth inst. ing in strong terms upon the impropriety of his conduct. The locket was returned by Atkinson. On Wednesday N EWSPAPE R WRITING.—Though everybody affects se last the scholars had crest', it is • a s ecret known to all the town, that almost from which place they returned late at night , when the every competent man in political life has, now and then, used the newspaper press, the most powerful engine there governess saw . Miss Ward to bed. About 4 o'clock 'next morning Miss Bishop awo ke, and, fancying she heard a is for acting upon opinion. An acquaintance of ours, call- . ing on e of the Bishops, had to wait beside him until on noise below, went down stairs. stai She found the outer door he finished a leader for a daily paper. Several political °Pen, but , omitted lock • thinking she had toit on the pre chiefs affect little secrecy respecting the fact of their con- too k furth e rnotice of the matter, and vions n i g ht , no ' retired to rest. NI• hen she arose at the usual hour she trihuting to newspapers, though they, of course, do not wish to be identified with all their contributions.mi s sed Miss Ward. The alarm inst antly • s You in. was given, and persons immediately despatched pursuit. A young man may think it very easy to write an article for a news- Pe named John Brass lead been employed by Atkinson topro cure.. Paper," said " a Cabinet Minister, at a public dinner, re a conveyance, in which lie and the young lady, cently, "but try it." In truth, to write a good leader on an occurrence of the hour, acute and ready in its ar accompanied by Brass, set out for Penrith, and upon their hired gig, and they arrival at that place At kinson a silents, and humorous or forcible in its illustrations, with forward to Carlisle,where they arrived between 5 and 6 the brief statements of facts, and the skilful management o'clock in the morning. At Carlisle they again chan ged of personalities. which it demands, in reference both to . and in their convey ance , and in another hour had crossed the the newspaper and its party, is•one of the most di ffi cult of all kinds of composition. The political pamphlet is a and weremarrie d by John :Hurray, at Sark Bar, all were Gretna. Here the marr iage ap pears to have been constun series of leaders strung together, according to a unity of •o'clock by rail. its own. Nobody need to be told that, perhaps the most mated. They returned to Carlisle about 1 As soon as upon the platform, Mr. Sabbage, piquant and powerful, certainly the most successful, of they stepped been lished pamphlets of late years, was the pamphlet pub - su p erintendent of police, to whom information had been lished by Mr. Bulwer, when the death of the late Earl forwarded, took all the three into custody. Atkinson Spencer occasioned an intrigue which ousted a Ministry in denied the young lady's name, but Brass admitted that he a day.—Westminster Review. had been employed to drive the party. The proper routine h av i n g been gone through, Atkinson was remanded till T H E AFRICAN EXPLORING EXPEDITION.—Mr. Mac- Saturday, when he was fully committed to take his trial gregor Laird bears the whole expense of the expedition, for abduction at the next Westmoreland assizes. Mr. Sab receiving a certain fixed sum for the conveyance of the bage lodged him in Appleby gaol the same night. The three gentlemen appointed by the government to explore young lady is only 12 years old, having been born on the the Chadda ; namely, Captain &croft, H.M.'s consul at 6th of April, 1842. She is tall and stout for that age. Fernando Po ; Dr. William Balfour Baikie, R.N., an ex- Both Atkinson and she say they were legally married, and perienced naturalist, who has been engaged in the survey are determined to have each other. of the Greek Archipelago, under Captain Graves; and Dr. ENGLISH SKYLARKS IN AUSTRALIA. —Among the William Bleek, Bleek, ethnographer, and author of several tengers taken on board the P. Van Marnix, Dutch snip, memoirs on African languages. These gentlemen go oust of while lying at Gravesend, were 12 English skylarks. Of as passengers, and, protected by the trading natives,character these, one died in the Channel, but another flew on board, the ship from the suspicion or hostility of the observations on and was caught while the ship was skirting the Bay of make their surveys of the river and their productions. The Biscay, again making up the dozen ; but this one soon the geography of the country and its . gagged died fromexhaustion. The remaining eleven crossed the in the steamer will not exc . . number of Europeans line and bean first to sing in lat. 16 S., singing best in thirteen, and those all men of . education and resources. boisterous rounded the Cape safe all the way to d the boat's crew will be negroes ; weather; The steamer's crew an the Isle of St. Paul, where one died, and two more off the to the total number employed being from eig hty ei ninety coast of Australia; leaving eight, which entered the men. The boats to be towed up by the pl ad, thro ugh Heads. Upon the New Land, another died (which 'had the swampy country below Eboe, and employed a ft erwards been some time sickly), leaving seven surviving out of the in the upper part of the river, are three in number, one dozen, which seven were let loose, all brisk and well, on belonging to Her Majesty, called the Victoria, 70 feet long by 12 feet beam, and two .. belonging t o Mr.th e B bool hills, surrounding Pollock's-lord ' vineyard. Laird, When arra When the door of the cage was opened, the merry each 50 feet by 8. The expedition is to be at the mouth of the Kowara on the Ist of July, and to ascend it with n tens fl eon otlllbeen flew off well together in a covey—better than ' lave expected after their long confinement. twenty con uement. twenty or thirty days' coal (twelve hours per day), which, ,c_.. e nired very great attention during the voyage. it is supposed, will be sufficient to carry her to the head Th e y req of the navigable waters of the Chadda without the delayin teresting to watch their • It may be new country.—Galway Advertiser. of cutting wood. From the Ist of July seventy-five days' rising waters are calculated wpon by Mr. Laird. It re- RUSSIAN FORCER IN THE FIELD.—One of the preten mains to be seen whether this, the fifth ascent of the sions of Russia is to possess an effective military force of Niger, will be more successful than the previous ones. at least 800,000 men, and which, acceording to some This Much is certain. that no previous expedition has official returns, would even reach the figure of 1,200,000 started under such auspicious aspects as t he P resent The men. It can easily be conceived with what idea the Rus experience gained in the last twenty-three years, combined siau Government puts into circulation such figures. But with all the appliances of improved steam navigation and if history be considered, it will be at once seen that this shipbuilding of the day, are at once brought to bear on force never existed except on paper. At the period when this, for African discovery, civilisation and trade, so Russia was attacked on her own territory, when her important an enterprize, which further has the advantage nationalty was at stake in 1812, she had scarcely 200,000 of the results of Dr. Barth's and Dr. Overweg's recent men on foot. In 1813, she had great difficulty in sending discoveries in that part of the interior of the continent 150,000 men into Germany, and in 1815, all the Russian which is ahead of the expedition. Nor does it bear that troops that had passed the Rhine, concentrated at the uncertain or rather indefinite character iu point of time as, Vertus, only gave 120,000 men .- 1 In her enterprises for example, the Arctic ex p editions, for it is limited to abroad she has never disposed of more than 150,0(X) inen. one season, or about seven months in all , so that it may That is about the number , we believe, of the army charg ed be expecte d to return to England by next Christmas. it to act in Turkey, and to meet events on the shores of the is hoped that the expedition will fall in with both Dr. Black Sea ; ouu as Russia is obliged to defend herself Barth and Dr. Vogel. The former, according to his con- beyond the Caucasus and on the Baltic, at the same time munications from Thnbuctoo, of October last, had deter- that bile, is obliged to augment her fo rces in Poland, w e mined to commence his retur n t o Euro p e b y wa y of Sakatu doubt t h at tne army of the Danube can easily repair i ts and Bornu ; fortunately so, inasmuch as he was not awaro losses. Let no one, consequently, be deceived by th e elle of the succour sent to him under Dr. Vogel nor the Chadda aggerations of a government w hich is colossal only i n tl ex p e dition, and might have chosen another route. Fur- extent of its territory, and which is.account on that very ther news from both travellers may I • ) e expected with obliged to scatter its for ces on various points to resist every mail.—Athense► m. rivers who dispose of the sea.—ConBtituttonnel, GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. SOCIETY. AT the last meeting of this society, with which it closed the regular business of the session, the most important subject brought forward was that of union with the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. The dele gates from both societies had, in the discharge of duties assigned them, prepared and submitted a report embody ing a new code of laws for the joint society. The society was called upon to consider this report. It was gathered front the treasurer. who acted in the absence of the secre tary, that a council meeting had just been held, and that. in deference to the strong views of some of the older members of the society, they recommended the union to take place upon the old name exclusively, without addition. or abridgment of the same. Four members of the council had voted for this motion,—one voted against it, and three declined to vote at all. The meeting of the society was a large one, and the members who took part in the deliberations delivered their sentiments throughout with good feeling. It was clear that the society was upon the point of a great crisis—either to be united with a larger society, or to be split np once and for ever. The proceedings of the evening were directed to the preservation of the society and the furtherance of the union. With this view it was proposed at the outset that the name of the united society should stand as recom mended by the council, and this vote was to be taken prior to the rec e pti on o f th e report from the delegates. Twenty three members voted for it, thirteen against it—this was decisive. The treasurer urged that the society should be polled upon the question ; but the laws had settled that all votes were to be taken by hand or ballot, and a poll not having . been asked and voted before the motion was put, it -was not competent for the Society to adopt it. The decision of the society on this important question was con sequently established. It was then moved and seconded that, subject to this condition AB any alterations in the code which may at a future meeting be made, the report of the delegates be accepted. This seemed to give general satisfaction to the members, and would have been carried almost unanimously, had not an amendment been pro posed which seemed to embody the motion, and remove a difficulty in the proposed union arising from an apparent dissolution of the society. It was to the effect that, subject to the last vote, the Historic Society should unite with this society, and that immediately thereafter a new code of laws should be adopted. This was carried almost unanimously, and took the place of the original motion. An attempt was then made to move the rejection of the report, but it altogether failed ; and, though it was done reluctantly, the mover agreed to withdraw a motionwhich , was so offensive to the meeting generally. This closed the business, and with a vote of thanks to the president, the society separated. The Historic Society will gather from these proceedings that there is now but one way of bringing about a union which will avoid a split and perhaps litigation about the property. And it were better that they either fall in with the views embodied in these resolutions, and that without further delay, or reject entirely the movement for the union. The Literary and Philosophical Society is pledged to form a new code of laws the moment the Historic Society joins them, and the difficulty which presently pre sents itself will be removed by bringing about the muon in the proposed manner. It remains for us only to remark that, in arranging the subjects for the sectional working of the society, the delegates adopted an alphabetical order. This removes the sting which some have fancied was intended by placing Archeology first. MRS. GRUNDY DECEIVED. IT is really quite refreshing, now and then, to come across a bit of genuine human weakness. It is not that we have any peculiar sympathy with impostors. We regret, perhaps, that their acuteness has been turned to so poor an account as that of making capital out of the follies of their neigh bours, but we echo—vehemently echo—the voice of public opinion, and denounce—as becomes indignant moralists— the wickedness of human beasts of prey. Still, when there is so much fine talk about common sense and know ledge of the world, when the most retired Jones, living in the remotest suburb, is fain to boast his enormous supe riority over the last generation, we are glad when any thing occurs to bring us back to the truth. In this sen se - a fool is a blessing to his race—he acts as a foil to the rank hypocrisy of the day. Besides, say what you will, a man who is imposed upon may be weak, but you cannot dens that the fault is on the right side. Worth a thousand of your hard-hearted, sharp-fingered men of the world, who never sacrificed a moment's pleasure for the sake of a fellow-creature, are the Grundys and Skimpoles who are willing to incur a little ridicule rather than gain a cha racter for cunning at the expense of self-contempt. But to come to our story. It is really true that in this year 1854 an Englishman and his wife have been deluded by an imposture which has formed the subject of some scores of comedies and romances. Mrs. Grundy, of Bridge hall, in the county of Lancaster, is in want of a cook. She is applied to by a woman, apparently about 50 years of age, who, besides possessing all the requisite qualifications , for her post, is withal of manners so engaging that her offer is at once accepted, without even a character being asked. Poor Mrs. Grundy ! the bait is swallowed. The cuisine is admirable, but the same talent which has inns tered all the mysteries of cookery can achieve still greater triumphs. By degrees the cook becomes the confidant That winning smile, that dexterous grace, those savoury dishes—what results have they not produced ! Here ends act the first. When the curtain is drawn up again the cook is seated in the drawing-room. From confidence to friendship there has been a short step indeed ! How is this ? It is simple enough. Such manners—such an air of refinement were too good for a cook. Could it be true—was there any mystery—was it possible that Phoebe Ann Howitt (such is her name) had ever known better days ? By degrees the plot was developed. The cook, - seeing the impression she had made, followed up her advantage, and won an easy victory. She announces, one fine morning, to her credulous victim, that she is no cook at all, but the Hon. Mrs. Scott Gordon. True, she has no estates, she is even destitute of money ; but there are estates in Ayrshire, property in Yorkshire, and the title of Lady Gordon—all looming in the future. Mrs. Grmuly believed every syllable of this cock-and-bull absurdity- Even Mr. Grundy—probably an easy-going man under petticoat rule—became the dupe of this high-born lady. Not, it must be added, without hope of reward, for Lady Gordon had resolved to disinherit her relatives, and the estates should be divided between herself and the kind friends who had raised her from the scullery to the drawing room. Scarcely had the ingenious fraud produced its effect, scarcely had the happy Grundys begun to realise their'splendid future, when their hopes seemed at once to be fulfilled. The Ayrshire relative dies ; the trio (for the Grundys are already connected by promise with the noble heiress) have purchased their mourning, and are ready to start for Ayrshire. Then, as good luck would have it, the Yorkshire relative dies, the estates and title lapse—the dream is fulfilled. The destination is forthwith changed- The Grundys must first visit Newcomb-park. They arrive at Manchester, when Lady Gordon is suddenly called 'away on special business ; her friends make vain search for Newcomb-park in various parts of Yorkshire, return to Bury, and learn that L a dy G or d on h ad been there but had "flitted" with all her goods. Still credulous 'stilt hankering after the " pot of gold," they rush off again in hot speed, but are at length convinced that the whole story is an imposture, and that they m us t res i gn all hopes of landed property and the Gordon connexion. Act third is. at Bury, where Phoebe Ann Howitt, having been appre hended at Tiverton, is brought before the magistrates on a charge of obtaining money under false pretend. Mrs. Grundy declines to prosecute, and so concludes this singular story. Who will now say that this age is less credulous, less simple-minded than the last ? There is Mormonism, with its repulsive sensuality, its mysterious nonsense, its ignorant founder, attracting thousands of men and women to a distant part of the world, which can only be reached by enormous toil and at a vast expense. There is table-turning, spirit-rapping, and Heaven knows how many other impostures, ancient and modern, by whicls fools are duped and rogues thrive. And now we have two educated English people believing a palpable invention, without apparently asking for proofs. The moral of the story is, not that people should be hard-hearted, narrow minded, and believe nothing—but that they should use their faculties and take proper measures for getting at the truth.—Globe.--[We have been requested to state, in reference to the above, as also to the account of the case which appeared in the Manchester Guardian of Wed nesday last, that, although the main facts ment i oned are substantially correct, there is considerable inaccuracy and exaggeration in the details. The impostor, who had been apprehended at Tiverton, and whose examination at Bury had been fixed for Wednesday last, was, in fact, brought up on Tuesday evening before Richard Ashton, Esq., w hen it appeared that no criminal charge could be sub tantiated against her; and she was consequently die charged on her own recognizances.] Messrs. J. W. and J. HAY, of this town, who have .ac quired extensive fame as designers of Ecclesiasticallnulti ings, have just completed the Wynd Church at Glasgow-. This church is one of fifty that a committee of the principal gentlemen in Glasgow have resolved upon erecting in the vryuds and lanes of the densely populated districts of the city of Glasgow, with the view of evangelising the masses- The church will accommodate between 600 and 700 per sons, and seems in every way adapted to the comfort and convenience of the congregation. It is lighted by means of two sun-lights, the invention of Mr. Edwards, of the Liverpool gasworks. The cost of the site was £4OO, and the building was contracted for twelve months ago, at £1,903, and has been completed without one sixpence of extra expense. As the Messrs. Hay have given such sa tisfaction to the committee, the same architects are to be engaged for all the fifty churches, as suitable sites may be obtained from time to time. LAMMAS ASSIZE.—On Thursday the learned judges as sembled for the purpose of selecting their respective cir cuits. The following was the ultimate arrangement : Home: the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Mr_ Justice Erle—Midland : Mr. Baron Parke and Mr. Justin )laule.—Norfolk : The Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas and Mr. Justice Cresswell.—Northern Mr. Baron Platt and M r . J us tice Crowder. —Oll ton. — Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Justice Crompton. — Western e n' , ight _ Western : Mr. Justice Coleridge and 4r, man. South Wales : Mr. JusticeZ Wales : Mr. Baron Martin. — Chief Justice of England, STELLING PROM Rodgers, a joiner, TuE barged. yesterday,' as wLi r r ! s u m ' . Police-court, with s tealp sh p i' : pilbeilli,lsi—he I\° ort rd h IinsIIII , AFRICA.—JamI in town. before the w • e g a dressing glass, and a number i together with a coat be of towels belonging' to ar :i . The prisoner was detected longing to the eR ides away ; and after lie had made carrying a ramblintghestsatoele6netnatrt. of the length of time he had been withoutism having committed any offence, and in Liverpool expressing I regret that ever he had come to such a.- bole, he I%IIS sentenced to two months' imprisonment. G ER —On Friday a charge of forgery preferredCIIIRPEOP 15 I. 7 d . wprd Brooks, at Ashi on, secretary was t o the order of Ancient Shopkeepers, who having obtained £2O from the treasurer, returned a receipt purporting to. be that of the Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, where he should have deposited the money. The prisoner was committed to the assizes for trial. On the previona M on day he was committed to the sessions for trial on a charge of obtaining RS, representing that one of the 'members was dead, and the money was required for his funeral. The prisoner is one of a deputation who recently waited on Lord Palmerston to oppose the Friendly Socie tiel Dill, LITERARY ISOPMCAD I t eved E a• rA 11, 72titio are 0 3 11 t De shot.