The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-07 00:00:00

Sept. 7, 1847. total goz 5. Lord John Manners has presented £lO to the Licensed Victuallers' Society. On Monday, Mr. A. Sharpe, brewer and spirit dealer, put an end to his existence by cutting his throat whilst he was labouring under temporary insanity. The screw steam-ship Sarah Sands left the Mersey for New York on Friday ; and the steam-ship Britannia sailed for Halifax and Boston on Saturday. 011 Wednesday, a drunken sailor attempted to cut his throat with a chisel, in a yard in Dale-street. He was taken to the hospital, and remains there in a violent state of mind. SUDDEN DEATH.—On Wednesday morning, a woman named Leigh was called into the house of a neighbour in Pembroke -street, to assist in a confinement. She had Bcar eelY entered the house before she fell down a corpse. SHOCKING DEATH.—On Monday, about noon, a man lard Th omas C arter, a f ter gett i ng hi s di nner , sa t d own sit.reli, i ne-kiln of Messrs. Troughton, in Hill-street, to is DiPe. In about half-an-hour after he was found • qm o te dead from the fumes of the kiln. xesns Wednesday wee k t h e men i n th e em pl o y m e n t of were rs. Richardso n , tailors, Lord-street, fifty in number, ,regaled by an excellent entertainment at the Pine Apple, Park -road, in honour of the marriage of Mr. R. Richardson, of that firm. At the thirtv-sixth public performance of the Liverpool Festival Choral Society this (Tuesday) e vening, Handel's oratorio Judas Maccabeus will be performed with a full orchestra, powerful and effective chorus, and efficient vo . ualists. ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS.—A rumour is current that several more Roman Catholic Bishops are to be ad ded to the body in England, and that Liverpool and Man chester are each among the places to which a new bishop Will be appointed. A vessel has just arrived here with 16 baskets and 4 barrels of oranges from Pernambuco. Oranges from South America are rather uncommon ; and the present arrival, when there is not an orange in the market, is remarkable. _ _ . FIRES.—On Wednesday a fire broke out on the pre mises of Messrs. Maddy, cigar makers, College-lane, bnt it was soon put out.—On Monday, some furniture in a dwelling-house in Back Bolton-street, Edge-hill, acciden tally took fire, but it was extinguished before the arrival of the engines. It is a most gratifying proof of the increase of the com merce of this port, even under unfavourable circumstances, that the Town Dues show an increase of £12,000 on the year endin g August 31st, 1847, in comparison with the preceding twelve months. They have this year produced £92,000, whilst last year they only produced £BO,OOO. Mr. Bremner has been singularly successful in all his rindertaldngs of a similar kind. He has now raised no less than 200 submerged vessels. Some time ago he succeeded in saving a cargo of Swedish iron belonging to Messrs. J evons and Sons, of Liverpool, from on board a vessel sunk in deep water on the coast of Scotland. _ An impudent ro bb ery was comm itt e d on the Bo. Ale road last week. A gentleman, after descending from the 'buss, was knocked down in the presence of the a Pa r e L passen gers; his watch was wr ested from his pocket, n villain made his escape in the direction of thes„anal, the Pass engers all the time quietly looking on ! This is one of the coolest highway robberies within our memory. HORRIB LE MASSACRE. —The master and part of the crew of the English brig Avon, from Liverpool, have been murdered by the Indians, on the banks of the Santa Cruz, L 'i? the coast of Patagonia. The Avon proceeded from t Iver Pool for Patagonia in search of minerals ; and while the m re the I n di ans went on board the vessel and murdered aster and part of the crew. AT AL ACCID ENT .—A person named Joseph Sutcliffe, °llO went Sunda oar y weeke on bd th Abbe the purpose lying in Victoria -uock, on , forof viewing the vessel, fell i n t o t h e hold as h e was wa lki ng along between h a ec e Ks• Whe n t a k en up h e comp l a i ne d o f a pain in the l. k, and was unable to walk. In this state he was car iedtovve to the N ort h ern Hosp i tal, w h ere , i n sp i te o f th e care ue!d on him, he died. ~yrileEs IN 1846 AND 1847.—The highest price of Eng ;Zen 1 1 1 . er in the Liverpool market on September 4, 1846, Per bu s l d e ; Per bushel ; malt, 645. per uarte ; oats, 4s. 6d. ld. p er rn ",,,' AMerican flour, 28s. per barrel; potatoes, 3s. per bushelaurae• On the 3rd Sept., 1847, wheat, Bs. 2d. t 705. per quarter; oats, 3s. 6d. per bushel; America n flour, 28s. - per barrel; potatoes, 3s. 10d, per measure. -5 ..... 1N QE5T.—0 n S aturday, an i nquest was hel d b e f ore Ir• Curry, on view of the body of John Tester, a porter, fiwho lived in Hodson-street. He had been ill and con ned to his room for about a week, with swelling of his legs, of which alone he complained. On Thursday even ing a great alteration was observed in him, and he died soon after. On a post mortem examination, it was found that the cause of death was ossification of valves of the heart, the result of natural causes. ITOUSEOWNERS' GUARDIAN SOCIETY.—The third an nual meeting of this society took place at the Brunswick Hotel, on Wednesday last,—William Walthew in the chair,—for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year. From the report it appeared that the society was in a very favourable position. The accounts were passed unanimously. Other business having . been disposed of, the operations of the past year were reviewed by the chair man, who expressed a hope that the support which the - society had hitherto received would increase for the future. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday last, a skip filled with rubbish was being hoisted up from the " eye ' of the tunnel at Freemasons'-row, Vauxhall-road, when in con sequence of its catching against the side of the shaft, a large lump of clay fell out, and in its descent struck a Viler, named Peter Carter, who was standing on the shaft r i r ectlY under the skip, on the back of the neck, forcing .ra do wn . in his fall his head came in violent contact the rails of a tram road made in the tunnel, by which tiesoorat4ined a severe cut on the side of the head and died the m d oaog e , e t r • Deceased had been frequently cautioned of O standing under the skip during the ascent. `The OErs, last - FLORAL AND HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION. spacious an; s how of the season took place on Thursday. A Zn Which —ar quee was erected at the back of Hamer's Hotel, There th e • wa „ bilious flowers and plants were exhibited. pal l y, an ,' a fashionable, although not a numerous, com, " amongst the parties present we noticed the l/. owing :----T homasßoskell, Esq., Joseph Penlington, Esq., Tarlrier nby, Es ,I_2. Mrs. G. Lynch, Miss Simpson, Miss Inigh t ° l l, "e. The exhibition was quite equal to what l'here "aye been expected at this season of the year. Plants was a good display of dahlias and fruits, but the some aid not exhibit anything worthy of remark, athough Et n hj e ry fair spe c i mens were b roug ht forward. Mr. to th s band was stat i oned on the green, an d a dd ed muc h c amusement and pleasure of the. company. .4,I:aMERICAN INTELLIGENCE.—The advices of the Ist e ;t tit from Boston, by the steam-ship Cambria, may be syrcred to arrive on Monday next. The packet-ship rkshire is now due from New York. Probably the itrobria will bring accounts of a battle between the tari x e l s eaa and American troops. Many of our contempo derahihroughout the country we perceive, placed consi joo e reliance upon the reports current in the American pea e, last received that an engagement had already taken t',l_? , and that the capital had been invested. Our readers con pie !icarcely be informed that those statements are as yet we a P r ie telY premature ; and until the arrival of the Cambria not likely to receive any later advices from Mexico, erenl fia,37 the West India mail steam-ship Great Western. t almost due at Southampton on her return from her nrst run to that quarter. Th no is splendid but somewhat THE GREAT BRITAIN 011 Ihe gridiron of the Unfortunate steam-ship Prince's Dock, where she is hewing thorouablv inspected, done to not only as regards the damage which 'Anti" 1," aPi and her exterior plating, but also as regards the sZ. II durability of her hull and framework ; and ir pleasure to be enabled to state, upon the autnor g : ves us y o f • most experienced eng i neer, that so far everythin g h a : appeared most encouraging for the owners. She is quite ' - safe and sound in her hull and frames, not being shaken, strained, nor indicating in th e slightest degree anything that would lead to the supposition that her back had been Injured whilst imbedded in the sands of Dundrum Bay. Indeed it is our opinion, and that of many others who wit nessed the position which the noble vessel occupied in buttiunedrum, that even her sheeting would have been but injured had it not been for the "penny wise and Pound foolish" system adopted at first, while the vessel iirFsnulender the command of Captain lk sken. We allude injudicio us manner i n w hi c h the coals were thrown hider f tons and weights. Se t ciDE,—On Saturday, an inquest was held before was, C urt; 37, on view o f th e b o dy o f John Sykes, who about Itv? l earn, a traveller in the hardware line, and of wen t t ° rtY-flve years of age . It a pp eare d th a t deceased e, eic, the Whi te B ear Inn, i n Dale-street, on F r id ay and fo te stop during his stay in the town. Between three ra ngon . the morning of yesterday week, he Went t o s i u.edroom bell violently. The boots of the inn rfound him still pulling the bell. He 'Pus i t n a Vas of g i n ; l but the bar being locked at that up old not be got. He drank very hard all that xue sd j and liext day, and did not leave his room. On -Y the s oon) evening he requested the boots to sleep in the e bo ot , and he complied. On Wednesday he . asked midi'e s to . get him three ounces of laudanum, which he i be as in the habit of taking, especially after he had t peist: l w ki h ng• The man procured one . ounce from a onts) , 0 told him to administer sixteen drops. .He i. n e L e ease t r'pixtee n drops into a glass, and offered it to ,7 4 e it R ' R ho declined it at the time, saying he would ' m ataini n - eri be wanted to go to sleep. He left the bottle, o'cl ock th g the remainder, in the room. About eleven I) eeeßs ed at night, boots went to bed in the same room. 'walk ed „,_waa then in bed, :but got up soon after and Whe n 11`.%ualit the floor until five o'clock next morning, t he latt e l ! attendant went down stairs. At ten o'clock but 504„4,,N,r1it to ask him if he would have breakfast, Went o „,"u him asle e p. At one in the afternoon he again v t be fa4' and 'hi e d landlordeceased was lying ed, and on his backdec, black in t' o eased was 'aidi ng h . e insensible. A surgeon was called, who, d e t 141 i dying state, applied the stomach-pump, ou t ected thedecoy_ presence of laudanum from the smell ; 'ue op erai e o u did not rally, and died in three hours after 4" found 11 : The bottle that contained the laudanum gutatS. I.,..(ente empty—also the glass drained of its con of' 1 ?oots said that he had never thought decesed e bad h m lod, except that he was affected by drink. dsito_.een r emonstrated with several times in the house ref it g go S . e d t o L ,- much, and spirits had been several times „„ - "s` urn, sta Tra• M. Cauty, the surgeon who had attend -Ised 4.;ed that lie had no doubt but that death was short laudanum. The inquest was adjourned for It th e , :, 4 _ ll _ 4 z in order that any of the dereased's friends, all Mind; `,it,t_ta be found, might depose to the state of his stat e a; son, and two other witnesses appeared. They fits of dev u on at de; cy w . as subject to drinking, and after it to retur ned Tbejure, after some consultation, ed hitn4virdtct to the effect that deceased had destroy ellaPoZyl. laudanum, while labouring under uisamtY. THE LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY. —We understand that the 13th and 15th instant have been fixed on by this society for holding two grand concerts in the lecture-hall of the Collegiate Institution. The first, which is to take place on the 13th, is, we believe, to form one of the society's grand dress concerts, and the other is to be by special subscription. We need only mention the fact, that such artistes as Madame Grisi, Signora Alboni, Signora Corbari, and Signor Mario have been engaged •to ensure a full attendance of the society's friends. This will be an immense treat. A meeting of the subscribers to the engravings from the two paintings by Dubuffe was held at the George Inn on Friday. The pictures, it appears, are now exhibiting at Perth, and the propriety of legal proceedings was can vassed by the meeting in consequence of the subscribers having received no intimation of the progress of the en gravings though four years have elapsed. since they were announced. It was ultimately arranged that Mr. J. It. Isaac should communicate with the principal proprietor, as an announcement had appeared in a Glasgow paper that government had restrained- the proceeding. and that if liberty to go on was not obtained before the end of the year, the money would be returned. ARTFUL ROBBERY.—On Tuesday last, a gentleman, said to be a commercial traveller from Yorkshire, who came as passenger from the Isle of Man, in one of the steamers, was robbed of £lll. During the passage, a young man, of genteel appearance and address, got into conversation with him, and the time passed most agreeably. On landing at St. George's Pier, the young man's friend ship began to show itself in a still stronger point of view, and he offered to carry the gentleman's carpet-bag. This act of kindness was fully appreciated, and the carpet-bag, containing the amount above stated, was banded over to the stranger. The two proceeded together a short distance, when the gentleman suddenly missed his newly-acquainted "friend ;" and, notwithstanding that he made every in quiry, no traces of him could be found. The loss was made known to the police, but no clue to the thief has yet been obtained. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BEGGING LETTER IMPOSTOR.—On Friday, a some what respectably dressed young man was committed, by Mr. Rushton, for three months, for going about with a forged begging petition, to which, among the names, that of the Mayor was attached. AN INCORRIGIBLE.—On Tuesday a female of bad cha racter, named Catherine Headley, was committed for trial for stealing a watch on the previous evening from Robert Millar, iu Dale-street. She has been five times previously committed, and twenty times discharged. UNSOUND MEAT.—On Tuesday, Mary Gogan, who keeps a stand in Pownall-square market, was fined 20s. and costs, for exposing to sale two hundred weight of salt meat unfit for human food.—On Friday a man, who has a stall in • St. John's market, was fined £5 for a similar offence. POCKET PICKING.—On Tuesday, Michael AV Gowen, Bernard Martin, and Peter Goodman, three young thieves frbm Manchester, were committed to prison for three months for stealing a pocket-handkerchief from a gentle man who was on the previous day intently watching the approach of the Great Britain. They were caught in the act by detective constables Tool and Grisenthwaite. STEALING A BOY'S WAGES.—On Tuesday. a young man, named Wm. Roletone, was sent to prison for a month, for stealing 3s. and four bOoks from a boy named Robinson. He warned the boy that somebody might take the money from him, and kindly offered to carry it for se curity for him in his fob. He got the books by offering a shilling each for a perusal, and then ran away. TIMIDITY NO EXCUSE.—On Tuesday last, Daniel Hughes, a suspicious character, was committed to prison for three-months. He had secreted hiynself in an upstairs room belonging to Mrs. Gibson. in Phillip's-street, and on the latter going up stairs, he knocked her down and ran off, but was arrestd in Wellington-road. He pleaded in defence that he had quarrelled with a man who met him that morning and threatened to stab him, and his terror was so great that he had taken refuge where he was found. He was previously, however, well known to the police, and the excuse did not avail. CLAIM FOR DAMAGE.--At the PoliCe-court, on Thurs day, the captain of the sloop Robert appeared to claim a sum of £2 ss. Bd., for damage done to his vessel on the 13th ult. by the Woodside steamer Wirrall. It appeared, from the evidence of the pier -master, that the Wirrall was landing her passengers at George's Pier, and, in conse quence of using the wrong gangway, she projected towards the basin, and the sloop Robert, while going out, came into collision with her. The sloop had her gib torn away, and received damage to the extent above stated. Mr. Rushton made an order on the defendants for the amount claimed, subject to an examination by Mr. Hodgson, the harbour-master. PASSING COUNTERFEIT COIN.—On Saturday, Mary Cranston was charged with having attempted to pass a counterfeit shilling in Lime-street. It appeared that she went into a confectioner's shop kept by Miss Elizabeth Owens in that street, on Friday, and bought a penny Eccles cake. She tendered a bad shilling in payment foa it, and, as it was immediately recognised to be a counter feit one, she took to her heels and ran out of the shop. She was quickly pursued, and when taken into custody, a second shilling was found in her hand. At Bridewell, three half-crowns and 2s. 3d. in silver and copper, all good money, were found upon her. She was committed for trial. SANATORY STATE OF THE TOWN.—The efforts made by the Health Committee a short time ago to do away with the cellar nuisance, have not been attended with complete success. On Thursday, inspector Dalton brought 18 cases before the magistrates. Informations bad been laid against the prties letting thecellars,and not against the miserable tenants. Mr. John Williams, of 52, St. James'-place, appeared to answer to no less than five informations. In some cases the fine was 20s. and costs, which the magis trate said would be enforced daily until the nuisance was removed. The defendants were told that summary means to eject refactory tenants would be taken by the Health Committee upon application being made to them. LOCAL MEETINGS. WALL A.S COMMISSIONERS.—The usual monthly meeting of this board was held on Thursday, at Liscard ; Henry Winch, Esq., in the chair. It was recommended that the wages of Mr. Thomas Scambler, head constable, should be raised from £23 to £25. The Improvement Committee reported that £lBOO would be required for the current expenses of improvements for the year. It was supposed that the rate would not exceed ls. in the pound. In answer to inquiries, Mr. Hassan stated that the amount of assessment of the parish was £32,000 ; and the uncollected arrears up to the 4th of June were from £4OO to £5OO. Mr. Meadows moved, as an amendment, that the rate to be levied should be ninepence. Mr. Lester seconded the amendment, but only three members voted for it, and the proceedings of the committee were con firmed. _ _ _ .....—. WEST DERBY UNION.—On Wednesday Mr. Sheppard took the chair. It was agreed to recommend an advance of Mr. Allen's salary from £lOO to £l3O, and that Mr. Lister and Mr. Christie, medical officers for the West Derby district and the rural district, receive 12s.per week, in addition to their usual salary, during the present pre valence of sickness in their respective districts.—The de putation to the Hay dock Lodge and Lancaster Lunatic Asylums reported that there were 26 patients in the latter asylum, namely, 10 men and 16 women ; and 19 patients in the former asylum, namely, 14 men and 5 women. The report spoke in high terms of the excellent,' clean, and comfortable condition of the inmates.—The chairman said he had received a letter from Mr. Hart, containing the resolution of the Select Vestry, in reply to the appli cation of the Board of Guardians for the use of a fever shed, and offering the use of one of the lazarettoes, if the Guardians would fit it up. A vote of thanks was, after some conversation, given to the Select Vestry ' - but their offer was respectfully declined. The c h a i rman said, du ring the proceedings, that there were 116 cases of fever in Toxteth-park alone during the past week. In the fever hospital there were 123 patients; admitted during the week, 32 ; discharged cured, 36 ; died, 7 ; remaining in the house, 112. DOCK COMMITTEE.-At the weekly meeting, on Thurs day, Mr. Nicol presided, and there were fourteen mem bers also present. Tenders were produced for effecting insurance on the Albert Dock Warehouses, as follows : Royal Insurance £35,000 at ss. • Liverpool and London, £35,000 at ss. ; and Yorkshire, £30,000 at ss. Mr. Royden and other members remarked that these charges were extremely high, much higher than they were in London; and the subject was referred for a week. Ju dicious regulations were adopted for the security of ves sels by proper moorings, masters or mates being required to attend to the same. Mr. Thos. Taylor was appointed Delivery Foreman at the Albert Dock ; at 245. a week . . The Ship-builders' Association, through Mr. C. Gray son, requested that as there was but one graving dock for large steamers, the Great Britain should be permitted to remain in it only a month at a, as while she was there no other large steamer could enter. The matter was referred to the Harbour Master's committee.—Mr. Cubit, writing from Dover, said he had inspected the sanding at the south end of the new landing stage, and was of opinion that Pluckington Bank was the cause. He had always anticipated that a little dredging would be re quired at its south end. There was a tendency to accu mulation under the pontoons, for which he had several remedies. He said the stage would answer well, and would not hereafter be affected by any sand-bank.—The Chairman said, the bill and parliamentary plans of the new dock works were in preparation, and they would be submitted to the Council.—ln reply to Mr. Aikin, the Chairman observed that there was no truth in a paragraph which appeared in the Times, on Thursday, to the effect that the Herculaneum Dock estate had been purchased by the Dock Committee, and that they had given a bonus of £160,000 for it. BIRICENIREAD DOCK COMMISSIONERS.-At the usual meeting, on Wednesday. Mr. Mallaby occupied the chair. An important proposition was received from the Birkenhead Railway Company, in a letter from E. P. Charlewood, dated 25th August. The company state their traffic is affected by the present high tonnage in the Birkenhead Docks, and propose, Ist, that the commis sioners reduce their rates to 6d. per ton on vessels from foreign parts, and to Id. on coasters ; 2nd, that if this be done, the company will pay the rates upon all ships dis charging there from Ist September, 1847 to Ist January, 1849, guaranteeing that such rates shall not be less than £2,000 for that time, and accounting for any additional sum ; the principle being to make these docks virtually free to ships (as they are now to cargoes) for the period stated. From a conversation, it appeared that the propo sition could not be fully entertained till the consent of the crown was obtained ; but a resolution was adopted to the effect that a special meeting should be held on the 16th instant to consider the desirable proposal, and for amending the rates, and taking steps to carry it into effect, On the motion of 'art Potter, it was unanimously THE LIVIrWROOL STANDARD. agreed that it would be for the advantage of the public to admit vessels from and to Liverpool and Birkenhead re spectively on the footing of the nearest English port ; and that as• vessels from Liverpool are admitted at Birkenhead, application ba made to the Dock Trust of Liverpool, to admit a.clause into their next application to Parliament to that effect, if they have not power to make such ar rangement at once. Mr. Bryans moved in effect, that considering the great amount of money required to com plete the works, the commissioners were willing to trans fer the trust to any party willing to complete Clem within a reasonable time. The motion being considered indis creet, was withdrawn. _ _ _ SELECT VESTRY.—At the fortnightly meeting on Tues day, the case of the tradesmen who had forwarded silver and copper to Williams, the releiving officer, and had hitherto got only his I 0U as security, was fully gone into. The case seemed beset with intricacy and difficulty, and the Vestry seemed to think it a great hardship that the tradesmen should suffer loss, trnd ultimately the following resolution was passed ;—" That Mr. Lowndes be in structed to draw up a case for high legal authority, as to the liability of - the parish to reimburse the money stated to be borrowed from Mr. Blanchard, Mr. Riley, and Mr. Fairclough, and as to the liability of Mr.' Williams's sureties in the matter." It was also resolved that Wil liams should be dismissed.—The Committee recommended that 80,000 yards of land be purchased from Mr. Poole, for a new parish cemetery, at the rate of is. 6d. per yard. Rector Brooks said that the parish could not purchase land for a cemetery without an act of parliament, and that the Vestry might take a part of St. Michael's bury ing ground, but they had a better piece of land belonging to themselves, close to the present parish cemetery, on which they had a church already built, so that no additional expense would be incurred in erecting another. The proposal to purchase the land was not agreed to, and it was resolved that a special meeting of the inhabitants should be called to take the subject into consideration.—ln com pliance with the request of the West Derby Guardians for accommodation for the fever patients belonging to that Union, it was resolved to grant the use of the Druid lazaretto; and the Finance Committee were authorised to settle the terms on which she is to be granted.—The number of paupers sent from Liverpool to Ireland, from the 16th to the 21st August, 1847, was 9,547, and from the 23d to 28th Aug., it was 4,360, so that they are now being rapidly sent to their own country, not only ,from the parish but from the interior. 7,960 persons had been relieved from 23d to 28th August at a cost to the parish of £227., The expense had been as high as £1,300, so that the amount is being rapidly reduced.—Mr. Earle then brought forward his motion for the increase of Mr. Evans's salary from £2lO per annum to £250. He said that Mr. Evans was surrounded by paupers night and day—that he was exposed to great risk—that he had been seventeen years in the service of the parish, and that the magistrates considered that he was very inadequately paid. Mr. Hors ley seconded the motion. Mr. Riding moved that the matter be referred to the Finance Committee, and Mr. Woodruff moved a direct negative. Mr. Riding's motion ‘Vas carried by a majority of 12 to 5. Mr. S. Thorneley was appointed a vestryman in the place of Mr. M'Gregor, resigned. TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. The usual monthly meeting of the Council was held on Wednesday. The proceedings of the Finance Com mittee comprised a recommendation to increase the salary of Mr. Lloyd, clerk to the auditors of the town dues, from £7B to £lOO per annum, a recommendation that the salary of Mr. Wybergh, as chief clerk to the justices of the borough, be fixed at £6OO per annum ' • and the salary e of Mr. Jameson, as second clerk, at £4OO per annum ; that the salary of Mr. Taskar, bookkeeper and cashier, be increased from £2OO to £250 per annum ; and that a salary of £llO per annum be allowed for an additional clerk to the clerks of the justices. The proceedings also comprised the purchase of land from the Earl of Derby at Fazakerly for the site of a new borough prison—the price of the land to be £225 per statute acre, and the pur chase money to bear interest at the rate of 5 per cent. from the first of September. Sir T. Brancker moved the confirmation of the proceedings, and said that the ex pense of the magistrate establishment would be less than formerly, even with the addition now proposed. Mr. Ellis had a salary of £BOO a year, and Mr. W. Wybergs would be £6OO. Mr. Parker dissented from the proceedings of the Council against Mr. Norris, of Is lington, as the law seemed decidedly in favour of that gen tleman. Mr. Earle said that Mr. Norris had asked £lO per yard which was an extravagant sum, and after the refusal to give it, the Finance Committee offered him the valuation of Wightman, the surveyor, which was very much more than an adequate value, and they offered him in addition a sum of £l2O to repay him the expenses he might have incurred in the preparation of his plans. Mr. Lace said that if Air. Norris was still determined to go on with his building, provided the act was in his favour, he should move at a later period to go for an amendment of the act to compel him to set back. (Hear, hear.) The Town-clerk said the Corporation had not only offered to compensate him liberally, but to leave it to a jury to de cide it. Both offers were declined ; and an offer to leave it to arbitration, which was made before the trial of Mr. Justice Wightman, was again declined. The clause in the Liverpool Improvement Act was taken from Lord Shaftesbury's bill, and it had been embodied totidesn verbis in the General Improvement Act for all the towns in the country. The proceedings were confirmed. After the reading of the Dock Committee's proceed ings, Mr. Evans said that as the year was advancing, and the time was approaching when Parliamentary business would come on, he took this opportunity of expressing a hope that the Dock Committee would take timely notice to carry out the act of last year, to enable them to build warehouses upon any of the docks, and also that they would give the Council the earliest opportunity of exam ining into the plans of new docks and warehouses upon them, and that they would not delay everything to the last instant, and call upon the Council to come to a hur ried and injurious conclusion. Mr. Horsfall expressed his regret that the chairman of the committee (Mr. Bram ley Moore) was not present ; but lie believed he might say that the Dock Committee were fully alive to the impor tance of the subject now introduced. Mr. Evans said this was perfectly satisfactory; and the proceedings were confirmed. The proceedings of the St. George's-hall committee comprised a long letter from Mr. Elmes, the architect; it stated that the estimates to this date were £151,072. Mr. Parker stated that hundreds of thousands of pounds seemed to be a small item in the expense of the Hall, £2,500 had been granted at the last Council to repair some blunder that had been committed at the top of it, and now it appeared by the proceedings that the cost would be £3OOO. Hundreds were nothing. Mr. Earle said that, with reference to the stone to be used for the pediment at the south end of the wall. he observed a letter complaining of it in the Mail of Saturday, signed " A Practical Mason,"—had he signed himself "An Ignorant Mason," it would have been a more ap propriate designation for him. .The proceedings were confirmed. Mr. Danson expressed a wish that something could be done to reform the District County Court, for there were complaints from every quarter of almost the mockery of law and equity there. Mr. Morris was appointed a member of the Markets' Committee in of Mr. Aspinall, deceased. The Health Committee recommended that a house and yards be purchased in Duke-street for the sum of £lO,OOO, for engineers' offices and stone-yards. This recommendation gave rise to a long discussion, it having appeared that if the purchase were made a rate to cover the interest on the £19,000 would have to be laid upon the burgesses. The property is situated at the corner of Duke-street and Cornwallis-street, and is known by the name of " Morrell's Folly." Eventually, the pro ceedings were confirmed, and the purchase was sanctioned. Mr. Thomas Moore sent a volume called " the Moore Rental," published by the Cheetham Society of Man chester, and, in a letter, expressed a hope that the gra phic description of " the good old town," to be found in the Rental," would be deemed worthy of a place among the muniments of the borough.—The Mayor said that Mr. Moore had also sent some very valuable statistics as to the population of Liverpool, which would be preserved among the muniments, and for which he should receive the thanks of the Council. Mr. Danson submitted the following motion,which referred to the Finance Committ eee —" Th at the t' reasurer to the Corporation be instructed to report to the Council the several amounts received for the parish for the magistrates' clerks' fees, since the 26th December, 1845." Mr. Danson complained that a sum of £4,000 was missing. FASHIONS FOR SEPTEMBER. (From the London and Paris "Ladies' Magazine of Fashion." Pinked flounces continue to be fashionable for taffetas dresses, as also fringes at the edge of flounces; but gimp still forms the richest style of ornament, and each '. day some new kind appears. Many dresses of pale colours are made with mantelets to match, and pretty peignors of pink, blue, or lilac tarlatane have been ornamented with small tulle ruches, made very full and placed in double row up each side the skirt and body to the shoulder; the fazourite colours are white or pale green ground, covered with wreaths of flowers. Many dresses of Bros de Naples, pekin d'ete, and taffetas have had the sleeves ornamented in a new style ; biais sufficiently full to be a little bouffant, falling one on the other, encircling the armhole ; it is a simple style of ornament, but very becoming to the figure. For evening dress white predominates, tarlatanes with deep flounces pinked and ornaments of natural flowers, white crape with triple skirts quite plain, and white taffe tas relieved by carnations; the make of the corsages is rather different from those of winter, light materials being made full at the shoulders ; berthes are confined to thicker materials. The short sleeves form jockeys over a small cambric sleeve. Small caps are very fashionable, and those without crowns are found very suitable with summer toilettes. The coiffure Luisa is composed of circlets of narrow blue velvet, each supporting a row of narrow lace : flowers are much used for dress-caps, particularly mixed geraniums. The ribbon on caps is placed all in front, leaving merely tulle behind. Mantelets have been made of crape, trimmed with lace, or with several rows of narrow frills pinked ; some of tulles are trimmed with narrow velvet. One of the most fashion able manteaus is the Scandinave, with deep revers united by brandenbouughs of silk, and a kind of running wreath of braid on the material, whether of taffetas or batiste ecrue. The mantelet Fontange is trimmed with frills, and instead of collar has a fichu pelerine tying carelessly in front. Bonnets of crape, tulle, and lace, all the lightest materials, are still in demand ; pailles de riz, mixed with coloured blonds, have a very pretty effect. Seine bonnets are ornamented with a fauchon of taffetas pinked, or of lace, which is in still better taste, particularly if mixed with velvet. For straw bonnets they are very suitable, made of poult de soie, trimmed withlice or pinked rushes, or several frills,. falling 011 the 'mown, with bayolet to. match. Bistrtrt 1).tb35. - THE WEATHER AND THE HARVEST.—Tte weather has in these districts been during the past week broken and unsettled, with strong breezes, chiefly from the N.W. quarter of the compass, almost amounting at times to gales, accompanied by heavy downfalls of rain, sometimes mingled with hail. On Thursday it blew so fresh, throw ingzconsiderable seaway into our estuary, especially on the Cheshire side, that the New Brighton steamers did not ply, the pier there being rather exposed for landing on such occasions, and the Egrernont boats ran only between eleven and three o'clock. On Friday it rained almost in cessantly until an advanced time in the afternoon, and we have since had squalls and passing showers—the probable tapering off of the storm—with some intervening sunshine. Between the showers the atmosphere has been unusually clear, so that the fields and enclosures in North Wales were distinctly visible to the naked eye from the eminences at or near New Brighton. Little or no injury has, how ever, been done to the grain, the whole, with very slight exceptions, having been safely stacked. We still observe small quantities of oats and barley , cut or in the stook, which it would have been wise to have secured a fortnight ago. The wind and rain have rather prematurely dismantle forest and fruit trees, in exposed situations, of their leafy honours, and delicate shrubs and flowers, approaching to maturity, have assumed a tawdry appearance ; but beyond this we have nothing to regret. We are in what may be called the " middle latitudes" of the island, and while the grain harvest is on the whole safe and sound, the moisture has benefitted the turnips, Tangelo, late potatoes, and after-grasses, all of which (with some exceptions in pota toes, and these appear to have nearly recovered from the disease in some localities,) look well and promising. We yet look for the advent, when the weather settles, of a pleasant little summer, as a• finale to a season which, on the whole, has been highly propitious. Our supplies of foreign grain and flour (chiefly from the United States) have again been large during the week. On Friday, one of our corn-market days, wheat was in good demand, at about Tuesday's prices ; flour was 6d. a barrel lower, and oats fell 2d. a bushel. Yesterday (Monday) afternoon, the weather became more settled, and the sun shone brilliantly. We shall have a new moon on Thursday morning. The Testimonial Schools, at Fleetwood, erected in honour of Sir H. Fleetwood, were presented to the hon. hart last week. Lord J. Russell has granted £lOO out of the Royal Bounty Fund, to Mr. Sturgeon, of Manchester, who is described as the originator of the electro-magnet, as well the author of the magneto-electrical machine. A Lancaster paper mentions that the driver of a herd of cows that lately passed through that town, was mounted upon one of the animals under his charge, which was sad dled and bridled, and seemed accustomed to serve as a steed. _ _ _ _ CRICKET.—A match between eleven of all England and seventeen of Manchester (with wicket keeper given), was played at Manchester, on Thursday, Friday, and Satur day last week, and ended in a drawn match, all England giving up play, on the ground that their stipulation was to play for three days, which they had done. At the time the match was brought to so premature an end, the Man chester wanted 59 to tie, or 60 to win, and they had only eight wickets of their second innings down. SUPPOSED MURDER.—A case of supposed murder is in course of investigation at Pattingham, Cheshire. An Irish labourer, named Larkin, had been at work in the neigh bourhood, when he was suddenly , missed. His brother received the money due to deceased, and then he also left the place. The body of Larkin has since been found in a pond with a mark of a blow on the head. A jury com menced an inquiry on Monday, but the proceedings were adjourned till the 6th inst. :Mlle. Jenny Lind reached Manchester on Friday week, and played in La Sonnambula on Saturday and on Mon day to fair, but not full, houses. On both occasions she was rapturously received. On Wednesday, she was seized with severe indisposition, and was in consequence unable to appear as announced. She was to have played La Figlia del Reggimento on Thursday evening, and in La Sonnambula on Friday night : but in consequence of her illness, the performances were postponed till Friday night and Saturday night. CHESHIRE BONY MEETING.—On Thursday, the Che shire bowmen held their second gala day in the beautiful grounds of Alderley Park, under the auspices of Lady Stanley, of Alderley, as lady patroness, and Mr. Crawford Antrofius, as president of the day. The shooting com menced at one o'clock, and after two hours close compe tition, the ladies prizes were adjudged to Miss Luch An son, and Miss Louisa Townley Parker. At the gentle men's target, the successful competitors were Mr. Mal lory, of Mobberley, and the president of the day. The company, to the number of 170, immediately afterwards adjourned to the Tenants' Hall, where a luncheon was provided, such as would have done credit to Mr. Gunter. The shooting was afterwards renewed, and kept up till the damp of evening. EASTHANI REGATTA.—This annual festivity took place on Tuesday, in front of the Ferry llotel, and the scene was one of animation and gaiety. In consequence of rain, the first race, for the Stanley Plate, (ten guineas,) for four-oared gigs, was postponed for two hours. The con tending boats were the Princess Royal and the Earl. It was a close race, most vigorously contended, and was won by the Earl by a boat's length. The second race, (by amateurs,) for the Eastham Plate, ten guineas, was won by the Princess beating the Belle. The Mersey Stakes, value five guineas, (amateurs,) was won by the Vivid beat ing the Buffalo Girl. The Ladies' Purse, rowed for by women, excited, as usual, great interest and merriment. The first boat was to receive £2, the second 10s. The boats were the Buffalo Girl and the Vivid, the former of which was the winner. A punt race, for a guinea and a new hat, concluded the sports. The competitors after wards partook of a cold collation, spread at the inn. At a special delegate meeting of operative cotton spin ners of Lancashire and the neighbouring counties, held on the 29th of August, taking into account the great dispro portion which continues to exist between the prices of raw cotton and of the fabrics manufactured from it, the meet ing recommended a general suspension of work, " for a few weeks, during the present mild and genial season, when, in consequence of the abundance of vegetable food, the warmth of the weather, and the possibility, in many in stances, of finding out-door employment, the privations I to which the operatives would be exposed would not be so severe." The Manchester. Guardian adds, "Believing, as we do, that neither the present state of the markets for cotton goods and yarn, nor the present or probable future supply of cotton, will justify a return to full employment in the factories for some time to come, we think that no thing can be better calculated to answer the purposes, both of employers and workpeople, than the entire sus pension of labour which is here recommended. Few of our readers will have forgotten the beneficial effect pro duced upon the trade by the general turn out in August, 1842, and although with the present stocks of cotton in the world, we can scarcely hope for consequences equally beneficial from a general stoppage at the present time, we are satisfied that it would be preferable to any other mode of diminishing production." GREAT SALE OF PAINTINGS, BOOKS, &C.—The sale of Mr. Agnew's extensive and well-selected stock-in-trade commenced yesterday, in Manchester; and the magnitude and splendour will, we have no doubt, attract purchasers from many parts of the kingdom. Mr. A. has carried on business for many years, yet comparatively few persons are aware of the great extent of his premises, and the vast accumulation of superior articles stored within them — great part of which it has become necessary to dispose of, to make way for his increased business, and the enlarge ment and improvement of the shop and other apartments. Thus it is that a mass of paintings, prints, books, bronzes, glasses, chandeliers, lamps, tables, vases, time-pieces, and a thousand other articles of utility, taste, or vertu, are to be submitted to competing buyers. The catalogues com prise a sale spreading over eighteen days. Most of the books, (which will be amongst the first lots offered,) :are beautifully illustrated, and many of them have reference to the fine-arts. The paintings are by first-rate artists, native and foreign, and the subjects such as give them additional value. The engravings are equally choice. There are also a variety of fine water-colour drawings. the Bohemian glass, alabaster figures, &c., are superb, as are numerous articles for use and ornament for the draw ing-room, the boudoir,. and the toilette. The whole is now sia o ien n arcr,dv i, :. - ec i .w e sne w :sawn , floteci a raa n rtE.c d h.o_e t mr he sale is entrusted to Messrs. Winstanley T I pwl eal ever ivt weather esr ofa witnessed.si a c a s raet scarcity last s fe e t pasturage verytu r a pp rehend gs equ exista t l h l squally t , with some copious showers, after some weeks of the finest both rain and depression of temperature will be of much which will serve, we doubt, to diminish the produce of the dairy. The cheese farmers have, however, had one of the best seasons on record, take it on the whole ; and, moreover, they began somewhat earlier than usual, we think, therefore no wonder if the pastures are a little ex hausted. Corn crops in general are got in in splendid condition; a few idlers or late sowers alone remaining out —at least in this neighbourhood. Both wheat and oats may be fairly quoted over average. We hear some com plaints still of the Swede turnips receiving a check ; the leaf, they say, is curling in places, and we have noticed blemishes on parsnips ; the thing is however at present of small consequence. Potatoes continue to decay in vari ous places. We have no faith in the late potatoes, but on the whole we think they are scarcely so bad as last year. A lowering of the temperature will, we have no doubt, serve to check the progress of decay, and we would advise all parties to withdraw the haulm from them the mo ment the leaf is gone, and to take every means to avoid fermentation, which we have little doubt has been one of the most active agents in bringing about the present alarming condition of this useful root. ORNISKIRK AGRICULTURAL, HORTICULTURAL, AND FLORAL SOCIETY.—The second show of the season took place on Thursday, in the court-room of the Town-hall, and went off with great eclat. The attendance was great, and included all the elite of the town and neighbourhood. The two most attractive features were the floral devices, which were in excellent taste, and the dahlias, of which there was a superb display. The vegetables and fruit were very fine ; the show of plants in pots rather meagre. Some fine specimens of foreign ornamental plants, from Mr. Skirving's, (not for competition,) added much to the ex hibition. The dahlia sweepstakes was also a great addi tion. Our townsman, Mr. Musgrove, of Green-lane Nursery, carried off the first prize, for 18 blooms. The prizes were pretty widely distributed„k band was sta tioned in the orchestra, and played during the whole day. SERENADE TO JENNY LiNn.—On Tuesday evening twelve German gentlemen, being all members of the Liedertafel, resident in Manchester, gave Mad'lle Lind a serenade. They proceeded shortly after ten o'clock that night, and having s t a tioned themselves in the garden of Rusholme.house, they sang some appropriate German part songs. It seems that Miss Lind was not at home at the time, but returning while they were singing, she expressed herself much pleased with the attention of the young gen tlemen. Mr. Solis Schwabe invited them in, and they sang some more German part songs. Mad'lle Lind re ceived them very cordially, and, as may be imagined, greatly gratified them by taking her seat at the piano, and singing several giro, wo bolievothyce of them German, t w of Mendelssohn's and one of Schubert's, and also one of her own Swedish songs. The gentlemen of the Liedertafel then retired, charmed with their courteous, frank, and graceful reception by the far-famed Swedish Nightingale. —Manchester Guardian. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL TIMES. Sur,—Yesterday I received a copy of your paper and two pamphlets, in a blank envelope. It was by the merest accident that my attention was called to them ; prind papers being sent to me in an abundance which renders the perusal of even a moiety of them absolutely impracticable. As, however, I did attend to these, and as your paper contains_a letter addressed to me, and signed by a clergy man of this town (the Rev. Edward Hull), 1 will not run the risk of bein g guilty, by neglect, of any retaliation of discourtesy; and, therefore, I request, under the circum stances of the case, you will do me the favour to admit this letter into your columns. Mr. Hull says to me— "On the 9th instant you addressed a letter to the editor of the LivetwolStandard the language which you made use of in that letter is perhaps capable of bearing, and may have been intended•to bear a dilterent construction from that which has generally been put upon it. The general impression is that you intended to represent all persons who voted in favour of those candidates who defend the grant to the College of alaynouth, and the grant which is contemplated to aid the Roman Catho lics in the education of the children of their poor, without call ing upon them to forego, in their schools, the use of their own version of the Scriptures, as persons who "repudiate religion," and act in opposition to "those great principles of revealed truth on which every duty ought to be performed;" as, there fore, I not only voted for_ such candidates at the late election, but have published two pamphlets (copies of which I take the liberty of sending you, and request you to do me the favour of perusing,) setting forth the sound policy and the true wisdom of such grants, you will, I am sure, admit not only that I have a right, but that I am imperatively called upon to ask you whether the construction which the public has put upon your letter is correct or not?" I answer first by transcribing the part of my letter here referred to : "To the best of my ability, and in accordance with my con scientious convictions, I give instruction, not on the eve of an election only, but at all times, in those great principles of revealed truth, on which, as it appears to me, every duty—the exercise of the elective franchise included—ought to be per formed. Those principles. do not. fluctuate. They are un changeable in themselves and in their eternal sanctions, what ever differences of opinion concerning them, or the application of them, may arise among men. They cannot be affected by elections, or by parliaments, or by nations. It, for example, all mankind were to declare themselves- in favour of image or of creature worship, and image or creature worshippers; it would not in the slightest degree affect the great eternal truths, that .such worship is idolatry, and that all idolaters shad be cast into the lake of fire. If all mankind were to declare themselves in favour of the convenient distinction between religion in pH vate life, and no religion in public life, it would not ullect the great truth that whatsoever is not of faith, whatscever is with out religion, is sin, and that, consequently, WI the acts of an assembly so constituted as to repudiate religion, are sinful acts. If all mankind, under favour of Divine forbearance, which does not execute judgment speedily,.were to avow their conviction that no danger is incurred to a nation in consequence of the irreligious acts of its rulers, it would not at all affect the unal terable truth, that the nation or kingdom which refuses to serve God shall perish. To be distinct and determined in such expositions of truth, appears to me to be no more than an honest result of believing the Holy Scriptures to be the word of the living and true god. But when it comes to the matter of candidates and canvassing at an election, 1 do nothing." My letter contained no reference either to the College of Maynooth, or to the Education question, except as they are involved in those general principles which seem to me to be inseparable from a real reception of Holy Scripture as a divine revelation ; but, as Mr. Hull wishes to know my sentiments on these subjects, I have no objection frankly to inform him. I think the endowment of the College of Maynooth sin ful, because it is aiding and abetting other men in sin—in what we know, and believe, and have sworn to be sin. Concerning a large and influential portion of the things taught at Maynooth, I believe, with the Church of Eng land, that they are " blasphemous fables and dangerous deceits." I believe, with the Church of England, that the adoration of the sacramental bread is " idolatry, to be abhorred of all faithful Christians." I believe, with the Church of England, that it is lan ful, because scriptural, for bishops, priests, and deacons to marry ; and that it is unlawful, unscriptural, and in the highest degree tyran nical and injurious, for any human authority to impose celibacy as a condition of the Christian ministry. I might prolong the list, but enough is said to illustrate my mean ing. At Maynooth doctrines are taught which we of the Church of England have solemnly pronounced to be " blasphemous ; ' and practices are enforced which we, with like solemnity, have pronounced to be " unlawful " --of course I mean those among us who use the English language in its honest simplicity, without any attempt to serve a purpose by pleading a " non natural sense." When members of the Church of England endow, or ad vocate the endowment of, the College of Maynooth, al though they cannot in fairness be accused of personally embracing the blasphemous doctrines taught, or of per sonally engaging in the unlawful practices enforced therein, they may, I think, be most justly accused of teaching others to do so. They are, in my opinion, " partakers of other men's sins," and this, on the authority of St. Paul, I deem to be sinful. I am aware it is often said, and I observe it repeated in your paper of yesterday, as a saying of Lord Nugent, that " We have established the Roman Catholic religion as the state religion of Canada, as the state religion of Malta—we have established the Greek religion in the lonian Islands, and recognised the Mahometan religion, in India, and even rank idolatry, and therefore it is mere trash and va pouring to talk of the endowment of Popery in Ireland as a crime." If the British legislature possessed a well-authenticated commission from the Great Author of Truth, to repeal the laws which He gave by Moses, and explained by . Christ. and his Apostles, and to supersede the Bible by its own statute book, there would be force in this • it would, in deed, be conclusive. But if it be true"thaethe law of God, as revealed in Holy Scripture, endureth for ever—that not a jot or tittle of it can finally fail—that though heaven and earth pass away, not one word of that sacred code shall pass away ;—if this be true, (and I believe this to be in deed the truth) then it may possibly turn out to have been little better than trash and vapouring to say, that because we have recognised, and we have established idolatry, therefore it has ceased to be criminal. On the subject of the Education Grant, my opinion is, that the government scheme, in its present shape, is ad mirable, and well calculated to advance immensely the in telligence of the rising generation. Should it assume the shape which Mr. Hull appears to anticipate and desire, it would then, I think, in that branch of its operations, be liable to all the objections urged against May nooth. The question is not, shall the Roman Catholics be called upon to forego, in their schools, the use of their own version of the Scriptures ? (as it is softly glozed in Mr. Hull's let ter); but the question is, shall we engage, on a still more I extended scale than at present, in aiding, abetting, and perpetuating, by substantial endowments, blasphemous doctrines and unlawful practices—doctrines which we our selves have called, and continue to call, blasphemous ; practices which we have called, and continue to call, un lawful ? lam as anxious as Mr. Hull, or any other man, can be, that the Roman Catholic population should be educated ; but I cannot allow that anxiety to make me practically blind to the everlasting distinctions between truth and falsehood. The Rheims and Douay translation of the Scriptures falsifies but little ; what is called the Douay version falsifies much. It contains the Church's notes. The Roman Catholics circulate no translation without note or comment. One word more, on an expression in my letter, which Mr. Hull has wrested from its context, and applied, or re presented me as applying, to particular voters. What I understand, and what I intended my readers to under stand, by " an assembly so constituted as to repudiate re ligion," is an assembly convened on the avowed principle (or as 1 think want of principle), that neithertrue religion, nor false religion, nor no religion ; neither Christianity, nor anti-Christianity, nor infidelity, shall be any hin drance in the way of admission to all the privileges and functions of full membership. Our parliament already affords a tolerable specimen. It will be nearly completed when Jews are voted eligible. I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, HUGH WNEILE. Aillburth , Ist September, 1847. CRITICAL STATE OF EUROPE. , (From the Record.) It is impossible not to remark the critical state of Eu rope at the present moment. The threatening indications may pass away, as, similar appearances have before passed away ; but while they exist, it is our duty to notice them. Portugal is even in a more unquiet state than is com mon to her ; and for twenty years insurrection has been coming and going like the seasons. Absolute rebellion, threatening the throne itself, was only suppressed, a short time since, by foreign intervention; and that affords but a poor guarantee for continued peace. Spain is evidently in the most wretched condition. Louis Philippe, for his own purposes, appears to have thrown the young Queen into the most, dangerous ant difficult of all imaginable positions. Married, almost by force, to a man she despises, surrounded by vicious , and unprincipled persons, having her mother's examplebefore her eyes,—she is at the same time watched by many who will eagerly take advantage of any false step. But even her abdicatiun would not bring peace. The, probable at tempt to place her sister, and the French Prince,,her hus band, on the throne, would unquestionably raisoupa Spa nish rival, and gather the nation around him. Hence how Spain is to be governed or kept in peace, much lon ger, it appears difficult to perceive. France, meanwhile, has been latterly disturbed in a new and peculiar manner. The King has successfully esta blished his own system, and rules, alatost as an absidlute sovereign, by the aid of corruption and intrigue. But a general demoralisation, the result of wide-spre•A infi delity and irreligion, is shewing itself in varioids ways ; and a new fear has recently sprung up, viliet,)%er society itself will not shortly fall in pieces ! Austria, perceiving that France is likely tr.) be embroiled in Spanish affairs, seizes her opportunity., as Russia did a few months back, and makes a forwarq step in Italy. Austria may be right in believing thait 'France will be de barred from any hostile demonstratikr., r eady for insurrection, the morairbut Italy itself is at Austrian encroach ment reaches a certain point. Avad to have a Pope, a riding on the Beast li beral and popular Pope, at the ) will exhibit " the Roman, ti .cad Young Italy," _ding o most striking point of view, " in the Meanwhile, in the face, occurrence, 1, of all this, we have the un precedenteda England, of a House of Com mons in which no one rr ' !an, nor his own any e e set of T m h e e n re , can claim 250 out of the 658, as . jnrity, neither for ',rd John Russell, Sir * Sir R. Peel, nor Lord G. Bentback Hence, there is a feeling of weakness and insecurity Or , cannot but Oa • 1 the part of the Government , which Jne more element to the peculiar difficul• tige of the titer,, POLITICAL VARIETIES. Sir R7Peel bas " respectfolly " declined dining with the Wirig , Radical section of the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce. The Town Council of Sunderland have voted an address to Sir Robert Peel. which was presented to the right hon. hart, on Friday, at Seaham Harbour. Mr. Viliiers - has declared his intention of taking his seat for Wolverhampton, expressing not merely his s ur p r i se , but feels hurt th a t his re p ea t e d and positive assertion of his wish and intention to maintain the connexion with his old friends had not been implicitly believed. LIBERAL. Serra.—No sooner was the election for Chel tenham, which resulted in the return of Sir Willoughby Jones, and the defeat of the Berkel'eys over, than Earl Fitzhardingq forwarded a letter declining to furnish a deer and a pack of stag-hounds as usual, for the promo tion of sport and the benefit of the town. The pack, he directed, should be returned to the Castle.—Even the Berkeley press admits that this proceeding is "ill-timed." NOVA SCO'rlA.—Sir R. Peel sought to liberalise the Colonies. The result of the general election in Nova Scotia has brought into action a critical period for our North American colonies and the empire at large. The returns show an iniclisputed majority in the house of as sembly of eight liberals—a f eight members of the party opposed to the provincial cabinet bequeathed by Lord Falkland to Sir John Harvey. The question whether there is or is not to he a responsible government in Nova Scotia can no longer he evaded. _ A demonstration took place at Oldham, on Tuesday last, in commemoration of the passing of the Ten Hours' 13111, and in honour of Mr. Fielden and Mr. J. M. Cob bett, the unsuccessful candidates at the late election for the representation of Oldham, in Parliament. They were escorted into the town by a numerous procession, accom panied by bands of music, flags, &c., and addressed a nu merous assembly in front of the Town Hall, also about 1700 persons who partook of tea at the Working Men's Hall and the Carpenters' Hall. POLITICAL ON DlTs.—The great effort is to procure a suitable constituency willing to accept of the services of Mr. Macaulay, and it is said a negotiation is on foot with Sir de Lacy Evans to induce that gallant offi,!er to resign 'Westminster, for the consideration of the governorship of Malta, a post which, by the way, was offered to Mr. More °Terrell, and declined. Attempts are in progress to induce Mr:. Barnard to yield Greenwich to Mr. Hawes ; but if they do not succeed, it is hoped that the Under Secretary for the Colonies will be accepted by the people of Stockport, in the room of Mr. Cobden. Mr. Long resigns Wiltshire in favour of Sir J. C. Hophouse. CONSERVATIVES WHO VOTED FOR TIIE THIRD READ ING OF THE CORN-LAW BILL NOT NOW IN PARLIA, MENT.--T. D. Ackland, Somersetshire West; Captain A'Court, Tamworth ; Col. Baillie, Honiton ; Bodkin, Rochester; l3otfield, Ludlow : Carnegie, Stafford ' • Sir G. Cockburn, Ripon ; Di c k enson , S omerse t, W est ; Dugdale, Warwickshire, North ; Viscount Eastnor, Reigate ; B. Escott, Winchester; Esteourt, Oxford University; W. Feilden, Blackburn ; Sir J. Flower, Thetford; M. Gore, Barnstable; W. Gregory, Dublin ; Grimsditch, Mac= clesfield ; G. W. Hope, Southampton ; Johnston, Dum fries-shire • Sir F. Kelly, Cambridge; G. C. Legh, Cheshire, Dum fries-shire; : G. Lyall, London ; M`Geachy, Hon iton • Captain Meynell, Lisburn; R. ,Nevill e , Wi n d sor; F. Polhill, Bedford ; Sir J. Reid, Dover ; Lord Sandon, Liverpool ' • J. Stewart, Lymington ; G. Tomlin, Shrews bury ; fir F. Trench, Scarborough ;. G. IL Vernon, East Retford ; Col. Wood, Breconshire; Col. T. Wood, Mid dlesex. -------- THE LEAGUE AT FAULT.—NO little fuss has been made about certain objections raised to a multitude of league votes at Birkenhead; but the Chester Courant satisfactorily justifies the step for the following reasons. "In Birken head, matters are very different from what they were when the register of last year was examined. Rents are down; and therefore the qualifications of many of these free holders, whose "beneficial interest" did but just reach 40s. have ceased. The practice has been to buy a house, which produces (say, for illustration's sake) £2O per an num : for this house ten claims would be entered; but suppose it can be shewn that the rent is now only £lB, it is manifest that the ten votes are all bad. There are other reasons for disputing the validity of these fictitious claims, which we shall not gratify the Leaguers by ex plaining ; but we venture to assert, that these "objec tions" have not been taken in mere wantonness, or for the sake of factions contention ; but for the purpose of trying a legal question, and making the register, as nearly as may be, an honest record of duly-qualified electors." Sir Robert Peel has just given another significant inti mation of his future political relations, which comes appropriately and well after his celebrated Whig-Radical vote in Warwickshire. He was on his way to visit Lcrel Londonderry, at Wynvard Park on Wednesday. A body of Whigs, with Mr. 'Joseph Pease, the former quaker member for the county of Durham, at their head, got up an address to him, which Sir Robert consented to accept, and accordingly the presentation of it was made at the Central-hall, Darlington, on Wednesday evening. The address was in the usual style of such things, and the " enlightened policy " of Sir Robert was df course lauded to the skies. The right honourable baronet was cautious enough in his reply ; he took care, as he generally does, to envelope his meaning in a multitude of words that might mean one thing or might mean another ' • but the whole business was a Whig-Radical display, and the mere acceptance of an address under such circumstances indi cates the ex-premier's leanings and aspirations as dis tinctly as his vote for Mr. Leigh, in opposition to Mr. Spooner and Mr. Newdegate. A HAsosomE RETURN. —There is no speculating beforehand to what deeds patriotism may not excite a man. There is positively nothing within the range of possibility which a patriot may not do. Between the act of a Brutus, who stabbed his best friend to secure the liberties of his country, and that of a Sir Robert Peel, who cut his associates for the good of the state he loved, there is a wide interval—a multiplicity of possibilities which it exceeds our mathematical abilities to enumerate. As an instance, take the following :—Mr. Coxon, of Sun derland, an agent of the Durham Registration Society, called upon a gentleman of station and property and of liberal sentiments in that town about a fortnight ago to request a subscription to the funds of the ultra " Liberal" society, whose object is to watch intently the state of the Register of Voters. He succeeded in obtaining a guinea. So far well. Judge, however, of the gentleman's sur prise, when on the 25th ultimo he received a notice of objection signed by Mr. Coxon ! . His vote was, it ap pears' recorded at the recent borough el ec ti on f or Mr. Barclay, the moderately " Liberal" candidate ! Hence it was judged expedient to warn him of the unpopularity of his act by objecting to his borough-vote. No other 1 reason can be assigned, for the gentleman's qualification is, we believe, undoubted.—Durham Advertiser. RAILWAY RECEIPTS. The following are the receipts of railways for the past week; that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made:— RAILTS'AYS. Week ending Amiens and Boulogne'. Arbroath and Forfar . Chester and Birkenhead. Dublin and Drogheda.. Dublin and Kingstown Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Edinburgh and Glasgow Eastern Counties and N. Eastern ' East Lancashire Eastern Union and Ipswich a nd Bury Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr. Glasgow and Greenock Great Southern and Western Great Western Lancaster and Carlisle London and North-Western London and Blackwall London, Brighton South Coast London and South-Western Manchester and Leeds, &c. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin colnshire Maryport and Carlisle Midland, Bristol, and Birming• ham Midland Great Western (Ireland)' Newcastle and Carlisle Newcastle, Berwick, and North Shields Norfolk North British Paris and Rouen Rouen and Havre Shrewsbury and Chester South-Eastern and Branches South Devon Taff Vale Ulster Whitehaven Junction York,.Newcastle, and Berwick York and North Midland, &c... Aug... - 28 - 27 - 26 - 31 - 28 - 28 - 23 - 28 1547. Amount, 254 0 6 869 18 4 956 19 6 1,306 19 0 1,174 1 11 4,299 4 6 12,034 4 10 1,004 10 S - 22 - 28 - 28 - 28 - 29 - 27 - 28 2,813 14 4 1,107 13 3 1,575 17 3 1,633 15 3 20,903 17 5 1,G97 0 8 46,677 7 7 11,284 14 3 10,251 10 10,078 15 0 3,0-13 18 11 718 0 4 - 29 - 28 - 28 - 28 - 27 - 28 - 27 - 29 - 28 - 2S - 28 221 726 975 1442 546 4379 9180 23,524 3 7 1,689 18 9 2,642 15 1 45825 1486 10240 7977 9661 2,201 18 2 2,904 3 8 8.840 0 0 3,47 0 0 578 1 9 12,039 2 10 1,833 7 6 773 1G 3 223 3 lo 13,013 0 6 9,287 8 5 '11289 1351 1412 654 Ches - The Prince Waldemar of Prussia and suite visite, ter on Saturday week. AN ICE MOUNTAIN. — De Smet, an EngEsh mission ary, in writing to the Freeman's Journal, from Oregon, says " Not far from the place of our encampment,_ we found a new object of surprise and admiration,—an im mense mountain of pure ice, 1500 feet high, enclosed between two enormous rocks. So great is the transpa rency of this beautiful ice, that we can easily distinguish objects in it to the depth of more than six feet. One would say by-its appearance, that in some sudden and ex traordinary swell of the river, immense icebergs had been forced between these rocks, and had piled themselves on one another, so as to form this magnificent gluier. From the base of this gigantic iceberg the river Trou takes its rise.—Mechanics Magazine. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.—His fat t e r gurnishes a remark able instance of the instability of lk an greatness, and there is no doubt that his digike . to medicine remotely caused his early dissolutiou-elor rather than take some simple medicine, he allotted disease to gain the ascen dancy over his constitution, and death was the result. Thus it is that p ns cannot be too watchful of their state of health ; a eing always provided_ m•-i,t.1111 of a safe and efficient m tine, such as Frampton s t i , fb enjoy the o great blessings of this world—health and long life. arn n London,nualand decrease,htdeed of v,r) Englandas whilst- it is gene- Thewell The rates yw'nsimtliwerstpaloaiptguyrlaaodtfiuon increases considrably. of premium for life insurance have - Been greatly reduced during the last few years, yet,thV offices continue as pros perous as formerly, These facts clearly demonstrate that some cause, either unknown or unheeded, must have produced such favourable results. Amongst these causes, the increased knovtiedge of anatomy and the very many i valuable discoveries in medicine will stand most prominent. The small-poi, that annually carried off thousands , an has been successfully combatted by vaccination ; d gout, that used to claim its numerous victims, has been tho roughly vanquished by Blair's Grout and ItheunAtic Ellie . .