The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-27 00:00:00

TO ADVERTISERS. are beg respectfully to call the attention of Merchants, Brokers, Auctioneers, and others, ia the important fact that the LIVERPOOL STANDARD IS NOW THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED . WEEKLY ON TUESDAY, arlick can be read on that day by the thousands of Manufacturers and others attending THE TUESDAY'S MARKET IN MANCHESTER. M. STANDARD is taken at all the Newsrooms rred respectable Inns in that town and the sz.rrounding manufacturing district. SECOND EDITION is published at Half-past Two, in time for the North Mails, containing the MARKETS, and any news qf importance that usey arrive in the course of the morning. Ebt Lthxrpocl &tanbarti. TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 27, 1848. A PERFECT Godsend for our politico-economical 01iilosophers has been the potato rot of 1846. For whatever has gone wrong with us, the universal plea is, this visitation of Providence. If we ask, where is the fulfilment of all the magnificent promises which were made to us at the outset of our free-trade enreer ; why it is that, instead of universal prospe aity, we see only universal prostration; why our exports are declining, our mills are standing idle, our _labouring population is only half employed, and bankruptcy is staring our trading community in the face; why we have a revenue deficient by seve aal millions, and increased taxation becoming inevi table;—the answer comes trippingly fromthe tongue of whatever political sage we address ourselves to, and, as he speaks, he elevates his eyebrows as if in alieer wonder at our amazing obtuseness—" My dear sirs, you quite forget that we have had a dis ;tea e in the potatoes, and been compelled to raise eight millions sterling for the support of the people el Ireland." Turn which way we may, this rotten potatoe argument is poked in our eyes at every step. It does duty, either as a plea of not guilty, or a plea in mitigation of their sentences for every conceivable sort of political impostors. We have just had placed before us the finding of a Select Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to enquire into the causes of the recent and present commercial distress, and especially into as connexion with the working of the Bank Charter Act ; and here, once more, we have the same into erable nuisance foisted upon us. The Report, 'which has had the advantage of having been drawn tip by our present most talented Chancellor of the Exchequer, states that : " There has been a general concurrence of opinion amongst the witnesses examined before your committee, that the primary cause of the distress was the deficient karvest, especially of the potato crop, in the year 1846, and the necessity of providing the means of payment in the year 1847 for the unprecedented importations of various descriptions of food which took place in that year." So much for the "primary cause." We were forced suddenly, by a dispensation of Providence, to do precisely what the Free-trader had been telling as that it was our interest to do permanently, viz.: to import a large portion of our food. We sent out some thirty millions of money into the markets of the world to buy corn; and, as a nation, we are poorer by so much of that thirty millions as we have not paid for in labour. The thing is palpable enough. The whole case may lie in a nutshell. We arc precisely in the position of the farmer who goes to the green grocer's for the vegetables he ought to grow in his own garden; or, of the work ing man, who spends threepence a-week for shaving, though he has a razor and soap at home. The foreign grower of corn has not taken our manufac tured goods in payment, at least in the first instance. Ile has taken a considerable portion of the value of our imports in specie ; and now let us see how the case stands. We are poorer as a nation by, say half of the thirty millions which we have had to pay for food, the other half having been paid in labour. We have lost directly fifteen millions of our capital. What is that to set against the depreciation which bas taken place in every description of property, amounting, at the most moderate estimate, to two or three hundred millions ? It does not more than equal the aggregate losses in foreign produce of in dividual merchants during the last twelve months. In itself such a sacrifice of the nation's capital would be utterly incapable of creating the mass of suffering which we see around us ; but when we look at that sacrifice in connexion with our existing system of currency, and, above all, when we turn back the page of history thirty or forty years, and observe how, year after year, we lavished double this sum in war expenses and subsidies to foreign powers, without creating anything like the present state of commercial disorganization, the cause and effect stand out in bold relief, and must be palpa ble to every man not utterly infatuated with the pet theory of the bullionists, or not dishonest enough to wish for a share of the periodical plunder which it affords the capitalist, at the expense of the in dustry and the enterprise of the nation. To pro cure the required supply of food for our people, we parted with that gold which we have declared should always be pledged with the bank as a se curity for the circulation of the country; and we placed ourselves in the position of a community without change. We had goods and property enough of all kinds to sell amongst ourselves, but none of us could give cash for his neighbour's five pound note. We could not balance our transac tions ; and we had therefore to set about getting back our gold from the foreigner to relieve our selves, or rather to unloose the knot with which Sir Robert Peel and the bullionists had tied up the bands of the bank. How was this to be achieved ? Bow was our gold to be got back ? How has it keen got back ? By an indiscriminate sacrifice of British products in every market of the world; by paying thirty shillings zn materials and labour for every sovereign we received. The failure of the potato crop was the " primary cause" of all the suffering we have had to go through during the past two years. True, most excellent philosophers ! Perhaps a few more pri mary causes might be discovered in the legislation of the last six years. But what was the great, the main machinery which crushed us ? When a Itnan pushes his neighbour under a cart wheel he may be called the primary cause of his neighbour's loss of limb or life ; but the wheel must be taken into consideration. Admit, then, the potato rot as the primary cause of our commercial suffering, and let the currency measures of Sir Robert Peel be the wheel, and we have a tolerably fair solution of the whole question at issue. Of course the whole spirit of the Report is directed to the task of whitewashing the Currency Bills; and in their bungling effort to do so, the Committee has had to cast about, on every side, for ad captandum reasons for the distress of the country. They state That " Among other causes, the deficient supply of cotton, the diversion of capital from its ordinary employment in commercial transactions to the construction of railroads, the undue extension of credit, especially in our transactions with the East, and exaggerated expectations of enlarged trade, have been stated, by some of the witnesses, as hav hig contributed to the same result. "Your committee see no reason to doubt that these causes have in different degrees, in different parts of the country, produced the effect thus ascribed to them." Now, first, with respect to the deficient supply of cotton, we ask,—ls cotton, at this moment, dear ? Have we, at this moment, any deficiency of it ? No. We want orders and consumption for our goods; not the raw material. We want remunera ting prices for those goods. We want those markets which we have destroyed, and that commercial con fidence which has been shattered, in the effort to prop up a system of currency, which one day drives the community to extravagant and mad speculation, and the next robs industry and well-directed and prudent enterpri se o f its fair ' reward. Again, with respect to our alleged unwise expenditure in rail ways, and our undue extension of credit in our transactions with the East—these are results, not causes. We speculated and gave credit, because we had a plethora of currency; because the Bank, in its griping eagerness for profit, would discount any thing in the shape of a bill. The Bank led us into error; perilled the credit of the nation; rushed, in its infatuation, to the very brink of insolvency, in order, it is shrewdly sus pected, to produce a colourable and fictitious prosperity, which might be pleaded as the pro duct of our free-trade policy, and as realizing those "exaggerated expectations of enlarged trade" which were held out to us ; and the Bank, in its effort to right itself, has produced the evil of which we com plain. Yet the finding of this intelligent Commit tee is, that the Bank is to be left alone ! We are told, by one of the most thoroughgoing advocates of the present system, the London Times—and it is all the comfort we receive—that" the Bank has acquired more feeling of its tremendous responsi bility, and a truer discernment of its real and ulti mate interests. No change is necessary to control it in the exercise of its own enlightenEd discretion." A more impudent assumption was never placed upon record. It is, however, only an echo of the opinion of her Majesty's very wise Chancellor of the Ex chequer. DURING the debate, on Friday night, the Protec tionist leader, Lord George Bentinck again admi nistered merited castigation upon the Under Secre tary for the Colonies, poor Mr. Benjamin Hawes, and held his face to the grindstone, whilst he ex posed further delinquencies in the dispatch-sup pressing line. Not one only, hut three important dispatches, from Colonial Governors, containing evidence which would have decided the question before the West India Committee, had been kept back ; neither produced to the Committee when sitting, nor referred to by Earl Grey in his state ment in the House of Lords. The case was evi dently felt by the Premier to be too flagrant to be treated in the ordinary ministerial way. The nail had been hit too hard on the head to be easily wriggled away from. The Premier, therefore, mounted the ancestral chair, wrapt himself in the robes of the Russell that " bled upon the scaffold," and stood for protection upon the honour and dignity of himself and his colleagues, betraying, however, in the act a portion of the innate littleness and nastiness of his mind, which is evinced in the following mean sneer directed against Lord George Bentinck "Now, I must say, generally," remarked his lordship, " with regard to these matters, quite apart from the con duct of my noble friend, and generally with regard to the conduct of men high in public office, that these mean frauds, these extremely dishonourable tricks, which the noble lord imputes to them, are not the faults and charac teristics of men who are high in public office in this coun t try. (Cheers.) They are characteristics of men who are engaged in pursuits which the noble lord long followed. — (Cheers, answered by " Oh, oh.") The noble lord very greatly distinguished himself in detecting a fraud of that nature with respect to the name or the age of a horse — (great laughter, followed by loud cries of " Oh, oh")—in which he showed very great quickness of apprehension. (Renewed laughter, and cries of " Oh, oh !") But when the noble lord comes forward and imputes to a man of the character of my noble friend—(some cries of " Oh," which were immediately drowned in loud cheering)—when he imputes to a man of the character of Lord Grey—(renewed cheers)—fraudulent conduct, with a view of suppressing the truth, with the view of evading the disclosure of the truth, I say he totally misconceives the character of Lord Grey. (Much cheering.) He totally misconceives the character of any man with whom I have been acquainted, of any party who has been in high office in this country for a long term of years, in throwing out those imputations, utterly unfounded as they are—(cries of " Oh, oh !" met by renewed cheers)—utterly unfounded as they are, I re peat again ; because to charge Lord Grey with anything like fraud—with anything like meanness—is an imputation to which he, of almost all men, is the least liable. (Loud cheers.) I say it is true, generally, that no such charges can safely be preferred." The " mean frauds" referred to ; the "extremely dishonourable tricks," as we are glad to perceive Lord John Russell admit these suppressions of evidence to be, used not to belong to the conduct of "men high in office" in this country; and we trust that such men as Lord Grey are above their practice still. But the " mean frauds" and " extremely dishonourable tricks" are practised by somebody, nevertheless, and obviously for a purpose. If Lord Grey's own hands are clean, as no' doubt they are, it is his duty to see that those of his subordinates in the Colonial Office—a suspected one, wherever the case of the West India Colonists is in question —are equally free from taint. With respect to the personally offensive part of the Premier's remarks, we leave him to writhe under the keen and polished weapon of Mr. D 'lsraeli : " I hardly know sir, whether I should deign to notice some of the observations of the noble lord. (Cheers from the opposite benches.) How one of his sneers against a noble pastime of this country may be estimated by hon. gentlemen in this house I stop not to inquire—(a laugh); but this I know from his own admission, that the pro ceedings of my noble friend, in the very case to which the noble lord referred, as on subsequent occasions in this house, proved of good service —(cheers) ; and I believe the same determined spirit of honesty--(renewed cheers) —the same indefatigable spirit of investigation, the same courage that will not be cowed (hear, hear,) by any bravo, whatever may be his position—(loud cheering) —the same high spirit that will not be bullied either in the ring or on the treasury bench—(cheers)—the same acuteness, and the same courage, may be brought to bear with great effect in an investigation of the manner in which our colonial affairs are carried on. (Hear, and cheers.) I ask you to remember that that case in private life to which the noble lord the first Minister of the Crown referred with such excessive taste and such perfect temper—(loud cheers)—led to this consequence—that some of the gentle men of England. as great noblemen as any of the noble lord's colleagues, met together to express their gratitude to my noble friend for his conduct, and to thank him for having vindicated the purity of a pastime which has de generated with the spirit of the age. (Cheers and laughter.) And who, sir, was the chairman of that meeting ? His Grace the Duke of Bedford. (Loud and continued cheer ing.) But, because the Duke of Bedford is a steward of the Jockey Club, because he was the chairman of the meeting which did honour to my noble friend, and founded that contribution which my noble friend, unlike other public characters, refused,—(laughter, and loud cheering)—and handed to that club whose honest feeling he wished to improve, as he wishes to improve the moral tone and honest spirit of the Colonial-office--(laughter and cheers)—is the Duke of Bedford on these accounts disqualified for the office of a Privy Councillor? (Hear, hear.) Does the noble lord the first Minister of the Crown shrink from his Grace of Bedford when any sub ject of importance, especially respecting the administra tion of our colonies, is concerned ? Does he never con descend to consult that man of great sagacity, experience, and honour ?—or, when he meets him, does he say— " Avaunt ! I and my colleagues are men of such high character that we cannot condescend to speak to a man who has been seen at Newmarket ? " (Laughter and cheers.) His Lordship will, by this time, agree with us that he had better have been quiet. The Chinese junk Keying will shortly be brought round to this port. Mr. Jackson has been chosen manager of the new bank in the Isle of Man, which is to be celled " The Bank of Mona." The Baptist connexion are endeavouring to create an interest at Birkenhead. With this view they have taken the Craven-rooms as a meeting-'..ause. We regret to hear that Mr. Sheridan Knowles is in a bad state of health. He accompanies Mr. Driver, of this town, in August next, to Madeira, to pass the winter. On Thursday, a little boy, named Dalim, was drowned in the canal through falling from a flat, of which his father was a boatman. Mr. Simpson will open the Theatre Royal on the 10th of July, with the new play of " The Wife's Secret." Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean will appear. About three week's since Daniel M`Monniss, living with his parents in Prescot-row, was so severely burnt, his clothes having caught fire during his mother's absence, that he died in the Dispensary on Sunday week. The Mail says that legal proceedings have been taken against Mr. Henry Watson and Mr. Ravenscroft, to re cover the sum of £5OO from each, for having acted as Commissioners for Birkenhead without being duly quali fied. THE NATIONAL CONFEDERATION. — Meetings have been held in several of the districts of the town last week, for the purpose of organizing ward committees, and afford ing a working staff in connexion with this excellent asso ciation. A deputation on Birkenhead Dock business, consisting of Baron Goldsmid, Mr. Bailey, jun., M.P., Mr. Laird, Mr. Pike, Mr. Cole, Mr. Maynard, and Mr. Waln, had an interview with the Commissioners of Woods and Fo rests on Friday. DERBY HOTEL.—We perceive that this commodious house, near the Zoological Gardens, has been taken by a new tenant, who appears determined to make the whole of his establishment available in the best possible way for the comfort and entertainment of his guests. COUNTY VOTES.—Persons who are qualified to vote for county representatives may be usefully reminded, that from the 20th June to the 20th July is the period within which claims must be sent in to the overseers of the town ships in which their respective qualifications are situate. MANSLAUGHTER. —On Wednesday, an inquest was held, in Birkenhead, on the body of Thomas Evans. who was killed from a blow he received whilst fighting Joseph Sherlock, the principal, and Samuel Pownall, William Minshull, and William Sherlock, were committed by the coroner for manslaughter. On Thursday evening, some persons who had engaged a coach near St. George's Church were thrown down by the breaking of the pin which connects the carriage pole. The horse took fright, and plunged madly down Lord-street : he struck one or two lamps in his progress, but was stopped in Whitechapel without having injured any one. The District School, at Lane-End, in Waberthwaite, near Ravenglass, after having undergone a thorough repair, and been converted into a boys' and girls' school, was opened on Monday last, by Mr. and Mrs. Fenby, late of Chatham-street, Liverpool, who have been appointed to conduct the respective departments, and under whose able management the school is expected to rise to great impor tance.—Whitehaven Herald. TILE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. REV. F. CLOSE. THE NEW TRAINING COLLEGE AT CHELTENHAM. Before this comes into the bands of the greater part of our readers, the subject will have been explained by the Rev. Mr. Close himself to the friends assembled to meet him, at the breakf as t announce d f or thi s morn i n g at the Adelphi. But as many more o f th ose i n t ere sted in the subject of national education, through the instrumentality of our national church, may be expected to attend the meeting at the Concert-hall this evening, than could make it convenient to be present in the morning, we deem that a word or two may not be out of place in the meantime, were it only to account for the apparent anomaly of asking Liverpool, already burdened with the weight of numerous, and some of them insufficiently sup ported, educational establishments herself, to contribute towards the erection of an additional one in Cheltenham. First of all, though Cheltenham happens to be the site, the operations are designed to be national, of the insti tution projected, at this moment, and for some time past, actually in operation, but still requiring something to wards its final completion, by the Rev. Mr. Close. The two great educational bodies in the country, are the National Society, representing the Church, and the " Lords Committee of Council on Education," represent ing the country at large. The importance of training schools is felt and acknowledged; and the Committee of Council are willing to give every encouragement to the establishment of such schools, and are most liberal in the amount of grants ready to be bestowed, when the party making application for them is able to satisfy the condi tions required by the Committee, in order to the perma nancy of the institution, and its efficiency towards pro moting the object for which it is designed. Besides the training schools in London, in connexion with the Na tional Society, and thus aided by government, there are but two other Diocesan Training Schools, we believe, through the entire kingdom, established on a similar footing. This is manifestly insufficient for the increasing demands of the Church throughout the kingdom; especially when it is borne in mind, that these schools must ere long. from their superior excellence, enloy the monopoly of sup plying masters and mistresses for the whole church. No master, after a while, will, or ought to, have a chance of employment, but one trained in one of those accredited institutions. A series of circumstances, that will be detailed by Mr. Close at the meeting, led to the formation of a school by him in his own parish of Cheltenham, of a something higher character, and on a somewhat larger scale, designed to supply masters and mistresses to the Church schools in the neighbourhood, or through the diocese. This led to the present effort, when the ministers of the privy council held out the hope of sanction and encouragement. A sum, however, of £12,000 was required for the erection of suit-' able buildings, &c., &c., and an annual subscription list, of a specified amount, in order to the school being taken into connection by the committee of council. This latter is nearly complete, and, by means of the subscriptions already received, the schools are now partially in operation. During the iastyearMr.Close, with untiring perseverance, has succeeded in raising £6,000 ; the committee of council have promised £4,000 ; leaving the work incomplete until £2,000 additional be forthcoming. Birmingham, Brighton, Bath, Bristol, Clifton ,Worcester. &c., &e., have responded generously, and now the appeal is to be made to Liver pool, which has hitherto taken a lead, and whose zeal has provoked many. We have no doubt that the meeting will be well attended ; and we hope that, notwithstanding the pressure of the times, and the other numerous demands, a suitably generous response will be rendered to this appeal on behalf of an object so important. The Rev. Dr. M`lsTeile takes the chair, which is in itself a sanction suffi cient to the objecti of the meeting. We perceive that Mr. Close is also to preach in St. Barnabas' Church, Parliament-street, on Wednesday evening, when, doubtless, he will be greeted by a nu merous and attentive congregation. His efforts certainly deserve the amplest measure of success. LOCAL MEETINGS. WEST DERBY UNION.—At the weekly meeting of the guardians on Wednesday, an important communication was read from the Poor-law Board in London, that if the guardians should come to a clear and distinct resolution, it will be for the advantage of the ratepayers and the poor, that the West Derby union should be divided into two separate and independent unions, the one to comprise the townships of Toxteth-park, Allerton, Childwall, Garston, and Wavertree, and the other to comprise the remaining townships of the union, the board will be prepared to give effect to such a division ; or suggesting, as another plan, the maintenance of the union as now constituted, with the erection of a new workhouse in the north-east of Toxteth. park. Discussion on the subject was deferred till Wed nesday week. DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—The tender of the Rugby Iron Company for 1000 tons of iron railing was accepted.—The Chairman announced that a number of the members, according to the resolution of last week, had visited the new north docks, and he (the chairman) was directed to say everything was progressing very satis factorily, and in a manner highly creditable to the engi neer. A report of the solicitor was read as to the con struction of the New Dock Act, with respect to payment of freight out of deposits, and the sale of warehoused goods liable to freight. The solicitor was of opinion that freight might now be paid out of all deposits that may have been paid upwards of fifteen days, and he was also of opinion that all goods deposited in the dock warehouses on account of freight, in respect of which the deposit was not paid, within ninety days, might, without reference-to the time of the passing of the aet,-be legally sold after ten days' notice. The solicitor added that the only legal gentleman whom he had consulted on this point thought differently, and he (the dock solicitor) therefore recom mended the committee to require an indemnity from parties applying for the benefit of the act. This course was ordered to be adopted, and counsel's opinion to be immediately taken on the construction of the act. Mr. Gladstone said in a great many cases the goods would not realize the amount of the freight and charges. He had that morning abandoned a cargo of rice. HISTORIC SOCIETY.—On Tuesday evening a meeting was held in the Board-room of the Collegiate Institution, Shaw-street, for the purpose of forming an Historic So ciety of Lancashire and Cheshire. The attendance was both numerous and respectable ; and if the first meeting be a criterion, the society gives promise of being emi nently successful. A collection of curiosities was exhi bited, which were of an attractive character. Amongst these the following may be enumerated :—A view of Great Crosby, from the west, on porcelain, dated 1716. (This method of painting views on porcelain was invented in Liverpool.) An ancient seal of Liverpool, deposited by the Corporation ; an object of great interest, bearing the initials J,O.N.S. A parchment deposited by Mr. Eyes, of considerable antiquity, giving a bird's eye view and perspective of the parishes of Childwall, Wavertree, and Allerton. Mr. Moore deposited " The Moore Rental." There was a finely painted parchment of the original grant of arms to the family of Ashton of Croston, dated 1588, deposited by Mr. Varty. Dr. Hume also contri. buted a copy of a seal of the Lord High Admiral of Bog. land about the reign of Henry VII. There were a series of rubbings from monumental brasses, chiefly from the county of Kent, which were intended to show what might be effected in Lancashire and Cheshire. The Mayor de posited a view of Liverpool, in oil, dated 1616. Mr. Herdman also contributed several of his original drawings of scenes in Liverpool. The chair was occupied by his Worship the Mayor. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. JUVENILE BURGLARS.—Three lads, the eldest of whom was not above twelve years old, were sent to prison, on Wednesday, for burglary—the elder for three months, the second for two months, and the youngest, after a short confinement will be handed over to his parents. AN IMPOSSIBILITY.—A man was charged with violent conduct, and with having used threatening language to a policeman. He indignantly denied the charge, and, ad dressing Mr. Hugh Hornby, who occupied the bench, said, " I am a special constable, sir, and it's impossible 1 could commit a breach of the peace !" MARINE STORE DEALERS.—On Wednesday a man named Beaumont was sent to gaol for two months, for stealing a quantity of lead from the Workhouse ; and a marine-store dealer, named Robinson for one month, for receiving the lead, knowing it to have been improperly obtained, with an intimation that his license would be withdrawn. BAREFACED ATTEMPT.—A person who was fined by Mr. Rathbone on Friday, for permitting his dog to be at large, laid down the amount of the penalty and hastily shuffled towards the door. He was, however, hailed most vociferously by Boothby. the receiver of fines, who dis covered that half the amount, a half-crown, was base. The person recalled expressed a well-feigned astonish ment at the half-crown being bad, and unwillingly sup plied its place with a good one. STEALING PLUM PUDDING. — WiIIiam Lynch, a boy, not previously known to the police, was charged with, having stolen a piece of pl um pu ddi ng from t h e s h op o f an eating-housekeeper, named William Sutton, in what street did not appear. Struck with the tempting display, he had, it appeared, thrust his hand through a window pane and stolen the pudding. Mr. Sutton stated that this was the third time his window had been broken in a simi lar way, within the last two and three weeks. The boy's fondness for an Englishman's favourite dish was rewarded by a month's confinement in gaol. A POLICE-OFFICER STABBED.—On Wednesday a sea faring man, named Thomas Fox, was charged at the Po lice-office with inflicting several wounds on Police-officer 294, by stabbing him with a clasp knife. On Wednesday morning the officer was on duty near the Waterloo Dock, when the prisoner, without any provocation, rushed upon him, and stabbed him several times in the neck and face. The prisoner was taken into custody. The officer was conveyed to the Northern Hospital, where he received every attention. The surgeon to the hospital described one of the wounds as dangerous, the vessels of the neck being separated. The prisoner, who said the officer first struck him with a stick, was committed for trial at the assizes. SINGULAR CASE. — On Thursday a man, named Thos. Carr, was charged with an assault upon Mary Ann Viner, who keeps a grocer's shop in Brownlow.hill. The pasties, it appeared, came from Manchester, and had been cohabit ing together for the last nine or ten months, but latterly the defendant had behaved with cruelty to her, turning her out, on one occasion, into the street. Mr. Parkin son stated that the defendant was a notorious thief. The complainant admitted that they had both been tried at Manchester, but she allowed herself to be charged inno cently, in order to save him from ten years' transporta tion ; she did not then know so much of his villany as she had done subsequently. Mr. Rushton ordered the pri soner to pay a fine of £5 for the assault, or in default to be imprisoned two months, also to find bail for his future good behaviour, himself in £BO, and two sureties in .f. 40, or be further imprisoned four mouths. THE STEAMER NIAGARA. TO ALEXANDER RYRIE, ESQ., .COMMANDER OF THE BRITISH AND NORTH AMERICAN ROYAL MAIL STEAM-PACKET COMPANY'S STEAM-SHIP "NIAGARA." Sir,—We, the passengers on board the " Niagara," are unwilling to separate from her and yourself on the termi nation of this, her first homeward voyage across the Atlantic, without expressing our high admiration of this magnificent ship, and our great satisfaction with the skill and urbanity which hive characterised your conduct. Since the " Niagara" left America she has experienced but a few hours' fair wind, yet she accomplished the voyage within the shortest period on record, having been but ten days and a half from Boston to Liverpool. We earnestly hope that the vast enterprise in which your company are embarked may prosper, and be a source of national advantage to the two great powers more im mediately connected in its prosperity, and of profit and lasting credit to its spirited proprietors. And now, with our best wishes for your health and hap piness, we have the honour to be, sir, your obedient ser vants, (Signed) Malden, William Denny, Lieut. Col. J. W. Tetley, J. R. Bulkley, Richard Roy Elwes, Chas. Edmonstone, Thomas Cannon, Ward Cheney, Bryan Robinson, J. W. Clarke, Wm. Dinneford, E. J. Xenfi, Chas. N. Hubert, Frederico Badiali, John Stalker, James T. Fisher, Henry Adderley, Alexander Fielder, Elijah Hughes, Frederick Cunningham, Edward Cachard James R. Jennings, M. Meyer, A. G. Sloo, J. M. Walker, E. N. Dickenson, Joshua Follansbee, A. M'Alpine, Nathan Rambo, James M. Wray, Samuel Gunn, R. Earle, R. S. Lee, David Mason, P. E. Praderes, T. Lockhart, J. W. Fraser, F. W. Fredenthal, Stephen Cave, COURT OF CHANCERY, LINCOLN'S -INN, JUNE 24. HIGGINSON V. SHAND. This was a renewed motion for an injunction to restrain the Royal Bank of Liverpool from proceeding to make the plaintiff a bankrupt. It appeared from the bill and answer that the plaintiff had been a guarantee to the bank in question to cover two bills of £30.000 each, ad vanced to the firm of Barton, Irlam, and Higginson, the extensive merchants at Liverpool ; and also to protect further advances. Messrs. Barton and Co. became bank rupts, and the bank then looked to the plaintiff as surety for the firm, and proceeded under the act of parliament sth and 6th Victoria, chap. 122, to made him a bankrupt. Higginson then filed this bill to restrain the defendants from so doing, alleging that the bank bad forfeited the guarantee by not performing certain conditions they were bound to do, and also by having omitted to realise the value of several ships belonging to the firm. The motion was argued before his lordship last term. The Lord Chancellor this morning gave judgmerlt, and said that all the allegations set up in the bill were fully met by counter allegations in the answer. His lordship then went through the passages in the bill and answer, and observed that the guarantee was given not only to cover the two bills of £30,000 each, but also all further advances to be made by the bank to the firm. Under these circumstances the motion for an injunction must be refused with costs. WOODSIDE FERRY.—We believe that it is the inten tion of the Woodside Commissioners to issue halfpenny ferry tickets, which will be purchasable by the public in any quantities of not less than six. It is said that the contracts will remain as a present. This further decrease in the ferry charge will, no doubt, have the effect of increasing the number of passengers ; but we doubt if the money re ceived will equal that obtained on the rates hitherto charged. DEATH OF A Bur WHILE BATHING.-011 Friday evening, Michael Bellinger, a boy aged 14, who resided with his parents in Whittle-court, Shaw's-brow, and some other boys went to a pit near the Zoological Gardens, and stripped to bathe. One of them got into the water before deceased, and shortly after heard a shout that a boy was drowning. The other lad attempted to get him out as quickly as possible, but before he could do so deceased was drowned. SUICIDE UNDER INSANITY.—On Wednesday, a man, named Benjamin Huddard, was taken, in a precarious state, to the Northern Hospital. He appeared to be in a state of insanity, and remained delirious for some days. On Friday night, at eleven o'clock, he was put to bed in a ward where there were other patients, and he was not observed by any of those present until between two and three o'clock, when he was found suspended by a silk handkerchief from the head of one of the posts of the bed. POVERTY AND RUIN.—Our police court is the daily scene of the truth of the axiom that poverty is the parent of crime, and perhaps this connection is most evident in the cases which occur about the docks and warehouses, where thefts of the most petty description are committed by women and children, apparently with the notion of appeasing the impatient calls of hanger. On Friday, an Irish woman named Catherine Macdonald, was brought before Mr. Rushton, charged with having stolen a small quantity of cotton from a lorry, as it was being loaded. The policeman who took her into custody stated that on making his appearance no less than seventeen women ran off. The magistrates dismissed her, with a caution. Several Irish girls were brought up, on similar charges. An alphabetical list of 451 ships, giving the old and new tonnage, has been exhibited la the - Liverpool Under writers' Room. The result gives the amount of old ton nage as 192,951, against 226,360 tons new, showing an increase of 33,409 tons, or more than 17 per cent. addi tional dock and light dues, that the British shipowners have been subjected to since the alteration of the law in 1836. It has always been understood that the late Mr. Charles Wood, of Greenock, and Mr. E. F. Young, were the chief advocates for the introduction of this mischievous measure, likely to become more onerous if ministers suc ceed in carrying the proposed Light Bill and Merchant.: Seamen's Fund Bill, which exact a levy of ls. per ton for lights, and ls. per ton for the Seamen's Fund. BIRKENHEAD DOCK COMPLETION BILLS.—The Select Committee of the Commons met on Tuesday, for the purpose, first of proceeding with the Transfer of Powers Bill, and secondly with the bill taking powers to impose additional rates.—Mr. Webster, for the promoters, said the main question was upon the clauses, and not upon the preamble ; and when the Committee arrived at that stage, Mr. Pemberton, as representing the Crown, might state his objections and the nature of the words he wished to be inserted to protect the Crown. It was proposed to strike out the power intended to be given to the Crown to appoint a chairman, and the provision consequent thereon, because the Crown was not now to find the money to complete the works ; and, instead, management clauses were introduced, by which there would be thir teen trustees under the bill. of whom the bondholders would appoint seven, the Birkenhead Commissioners four, and the Wallasey ommissioners two. The bill, in its present shape, was promoted conjointly by the Commis sioners of Birkenhead and the bondholders. Among other provisions, there was a clause introduced to em power the bondholders to raise a sum of £50,000, as pre ferential bonds, for the purpose of penning up the water so as to make the pool available. In the proposals made by the Board of Commissioners, the Board of Works saw no security for the construction of the outer works, which it appeared might be abandoned ; and the latter body, as at present advised, therefore refused to sanction them.--Mr. Pemberton said the completion of the outer works had all along been the first object of the Woods and Forests and the Dock Commissioners; but the bill, as now altered, was nothing less than a bill for the aban donment of those outer works. The money authorised to be raised for their completion was proposed, by a ma nuscript clause, to be made available for deepening the pool, which was no part of the outer works. It was fur ther proposed that the interest of her Majesty, in right of her Crown, should not be represented in the newly-con structed trust. The consent of the Crown, therefore, would not be given to the bill as altered. Mr. Baron Goldsmidt, on the part of the bondholders, did not object to the Crown being represented. The discussion was concluded by Mr. Laird consenting to an adjournment to Monday.—The Committee then proceeded with the Rating Bill, and after arguments pro and con., by Mr. Webster for the promoters, and Mr. Lloyd for the Rail way Company, the Committee decided that they were of opinion that " the preamble of the Rating Bill is not proved." THE ACCIDENT AT THE ZOOLOGICAL. GARDENS.—The inquest on the body of Richard Howard, the keeper who was killed by the elephant, took place on Tuesday. Mr. Liversedge said :—I reside about three miles from Stock port. On Saturday morning last, my wife and myself were at the Zoological Gardens. On going into the house where the elephant was kept I saw the deceased in the den with the elephant. He was cleaning it out with a besom. When he had swept one side of the den he told the elephant to move. It walked away. When he had swept a little more of the den he called upon the ele phant to move a second time. He then struck it with the tail of the broom and ran away. The elephant followed him, and caught him, and jammed him against the side of the den, and he fell down. I ran to the door and gave the alarm. Several parties came, and I then left the house. After the deceased fell down, the elephant appeared quite tractable. He was perfectly quiet before he was struck. The deceased only struck him once, but it was a very sharp blow on the trunk. I did not see the elephant place his foot on the deceased after the latter had fallen on the floor of the den.—Another keeper stated that Howard had beat the elephant the night before very severely, and latterly had been in the habit of doing so.—The Coroner, in summing up the case to the jury, said—Gentlemen, there can be no doubt whatever that the deceased has been killed by receiving a stroke from the tusks or the foot of the elephant, thereby causing injuries, and, almost immediately after, death. This cannot he called an acci dent, because it was evidently done on purpose—if I may so express myself—by an animal who, though not having reason, yet bad instinct ; and instinct, we all know, is nearly allied to reason. Therefore, you must find that the keeper received certain injuries that produced his death. Gentlemen, the more I think of this case the more regret I feel—and regret that I cannot hut express--that so noble and so fine an animal should have been killed in the way this elephant has been. lam quite sure that the act was done with the best and kindest intentions upon the part of Mr. John Atkins, who has just been examined, and also on the part of his mother. I regret as much as any man that the lives of two men have been sacrificed : but when they themselves have provoked the elephant to do this, I think I will have a majority of the public of Liverpool with me when I repeat, that it was a great pity the animal should have been destroyed if he could have been preserved with safety to the public, and I think he could.—The jury, after a brief deliberation, returned the following verdict :—" We are of opinion that the deceased came by his death in consequence of having beaten the elephant unmercifully, thereby causing the animal, in his fury, to kill him." THE BEBINGTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, AND FLOWER SHOW AT ROCK FERRY. The exhibitions of this society continue annually to excite increased interest, both from the variety and beauty of the productions brought up, and the high respectability of the parties who attend,—including most of the distinguished families of the Wirral peninsula and many from the side of the Alersey. On this occasion it was difficult' to decide whether the fair ladies in attend ance did not eclipse in - bloom and loveliness the treasures of Flora that were displayed arouud them. The tent (though considered large some years ago) was much too circumscribed for the accommodation of the company, and we shall look for enlargement for the next show. The day was warm and splendid, and the steamboats con veying many of the parties to the spot were gaily decora ted with flags, as were others conveying myriads to the Eastham Regatta—the whole giving our river a beautiful and interesting appearance. The principal features in the exhibition were the orchi claceous plants, of which there were some very fine speci mens ; a large collection of rare Coniferw, from Mr. Skirving ; the roses, the fuchsias, and the pelargoniums. The stove and greenhouse plants were nothing remarkable as collections, but some individual specimens were very fine. The miscellaneous collections shown by the nur serymen were remarkably good, and were both larger and more numerous than before at any of our exhibitions. We have but room to give the names of the parties to whom first prizes were awarded in the several depart ments : PLANTS AND FLOWERS. Fuchsias.—(Amateurs only).—(6), Harold Littledale, Esq., Ist prize ; do. do., (4,) J. T. Raynes, Esq. Pelargoniums.-Ist and 2nd prizes, H. Wynch, Esq. ; 2nd, H. Littledale, Esq.,—all fine specimens. Orchidacem.-Ist, J. Johnson, Esq., of Runcorn ; 2nd, H. Wynch, Esq. Stove and Greenhouse Plants, (including Orchids.)- Ist, H. Wynch ; 2nd, Rev. J. Mainwaring. Calceolarias.—Rev. J. Mainwaring. Verbenas.—Rev. J. Mainwaring. Cinerarias.—J. T. Raynes, Esq. Petunias.—W. Hall, Esq. Cut Roses.—J. T. Raynes, Esq. Roses in Pots.-Ist, H. Littledale, Esq., (fine speci mens;) 2nd, H. Wynch, Esq. A device of great beauty was shown by J. T. Raynes, Esq. FRUITS. Pine Apples,—Rev. J. Mainwaring. Peaches.—H. Wynch, Esq. Strawberries.—Rev. J. Mainwaring. Amongst the winners for vegetables were H. Little dale, Eso., Mr. Huntris, Rev. J. Mainwaring, and many others. Messrs. Davies and Co. were successful in prizes as nurserymen, and showed fine specimens not for com petition. Mr. Skirving also contributed a large collection of fine plants and flowers, including a many varieties of coniferous plants. Messrs. Dickson and Mr. Kellock also contributed much to the general collection. The show was altogether fine, and augurs great future success to the society. There was a band on the grounds, and the day's amusement was without alloy, saving the crowding in the marquee. • SUNDAY SCHOOL ANNIVERSARY. The anniversary of the various schools connected with the established church was held on Wednesday. The children, to the number of about 16,000, assembled shortly after ten o'clock, and walked in procession through Church-street, Lord-street, and Castle-street, to the area of the Exchange. The streets through which they passed were thronged with spectators, and the neat and cleanly appearance of the childrea, with their orderly demeanour, was the theme of general remark. Some very neat flags, on which were inscribed the names of the particular schools, were carried in the procession. The children of the Blue Coat School, who are such general favourites amongst our townspeople, took the lead. At the Town-hall the chil dren were joined by his Worship the Mayor, several mem bers of the Council, and a number of the loc a l c l erg y ; and also the corporate officials bearing the regalia. The procession then moved on to St. Peter's Church, where a sermon adapted to the occasion was preached by the Lord Bishop of St. Asaph, from the sth chapter of St. Luke, and the sth verse :—" And Simon answering said unto them, Master, we have toiled all night and have taken nothing : nevertheless, at thy word I will let d own th e net." The collection, which is usually made on the occa sion, amounted to £55. The following statement will show the number of children in attendance at.the various schools : Sunday i Daily. Addi- Infants Total. Schools. tional. - - ---___ Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls Blue Coat Hospital.... 250 100 .. .. 1.. .. 250 100 Female Orp. Asylum.. .. 129 .. • • • • 129 Old Church llO 112 6 5' 86 40 202 157 Hunter- s t r e e t St. James' l7oj 150 10 10 .. 1.. 180 160 Wels a Charily 230 I 110 .. .. 72 50 302 160 Kverton & Kirkdale 2OO 145 20 6 60 54 280 205 Mill-lane St. Mark's 9Ol 95 20 20 1 , 70 50 180 165 St. Andrew's St Paul's Edge-hill Bt. Jude's 176 114 39 83' 70 61 285 208 St. Augustine's St. John Baptist's North Ch of England 240 193 110 140 100 110 450 443 sotto, - - Ditto - 333 ,-.20-1 , St. Bride's l7O 128 34 28 100 80 . 304 236 St. Catherine's 7O 91 2 7, 88 76 160 174 St. Luke's 75 62 12 8 71 86, 158 106 I St. Mary's, Kirkdale B4 88 82 70 .. i.. 166 158 Christ Church 254 200 86 98 86 70 376 363 All Saints' Church.. .. , 90 94 Mariners' St. Bartholomew's lBO 160 30 22 110 90 320 272 St. Clement's, Wind l6O 113 60 70 110 90 330 273 St. Simon's St. Barnabas' St. Silas' St. Martin-in-Fields 127 86 50 60' 60 60 237 206 St. Thomas's, Tox'th 221 190 65 50 159 111 445 351 St. John's l3O 120 80 50 .. 1.. 160 170 W Derby Workhouse 125 93 .. .. 19 13 144 106 Liverpool Industrial 4901 378 .. .. 138 97 628 475 , Total . ....... .... 5012 4831 1 1069 1123 2292 1850 8378 7810 THE Two REFORMATIONS.—On Friday evening, a lec- THE Two REFORMATIONS -On Friday evening, a lec ture was delivered in St. Mary's National School, Kirk dale, by Dr. Serjius Loewe, of the university of Dorpat, on the first reformation under Luther, and last night a second lecture on the recent reformation in Germany. The attendance was highly respectable, and the chair was taken by the Rev. D. James, who introduced the doctor in suitable terms. The doctor drew in his opening re marks a truthful picture of the deadly effects produced by Popery, which he said could not be understood in its true character in this country, where it assumed an aspect which puts the unwary off his guard. The true features of Romanism could only be seen by visiting Roman Ca tholic countries such as Spain, Italy, Poland, &c. He then referred to the causes which led to the reformation, viz., the state of things in the 'church which became the more oppressive the longer it lasted; the unlimited power of the Popes ; the great wealth and extensive landed pos sessions of the clergy and monastic orders ; the endless imposts levied in the name of the church ; the pride and insolence, coupled with the grossest ignorance of the clergy and the monks ; their infamies, excesses, and crimes, &c. The lecturer then went on to notice in graphic terms many of the superstitions and impostures of the middle ages and the scenes of wickedness which took place during the pontificate of Leo. X., whose char acter he set before his audience as drawn by a Ro mush historian. The impieties and frauds connected with the sale of indulgences were also narrated, as proving sufficiently the gross venality of Papal Rome; these roused the indignation of Martin Luther, whose mighty spirit broke through the system and worked its way with every new step to a greater degree of freedom and independence. The power of his language and ac tions produced an electrical effect on the whole of Ger many and the civilized world. The doctor then vindicated the character of Luther from the misrepresentations which have been urged against him, and placed in their true light the various occurrences which took place ere the reformers were freed from the trammels which Popery had laid upon, them. In his second letter the doctor related the im portant events which have recently taken place in the Roman Catholic Church on the continent. The lectures were listened to with earnest attention. At the close, a vote of thanks moved by the Rev. D. James, and seconded by John Walker, Esq., was heartily accorded to the lec turer. TIDE TABLE. DAIS. MORN. EVENG.IIIGHT. HOLYIIAYS, ETC. " June. h. m. h. m. ft. in. Tuesday.... 27 732 8 7 14 6 Wednesday.2B 838 9 9 15 4 Thursday .. 29 937 10 2 16 11 Friday .... 30 10 28 10 53 17 11 Saturday 111 17 11 41 18 4 Sunday .... 2 - 0 3 18 8 2d Sunday aft Trinity. Monday. ... 3 025 046 18 7 LATEST DATES AT LIVERPOOL. Direct. Indirect. Direct. Indirect. Australia .. Feb. 2 8 Lima Bahia .. May 6 Maranham.. ' .. 29 Barbadoes .. 27 Mauritius .. . • .. 18 Bombay .. .. 12 Mobile I .. June 5 B. Ayres .. .. March Monte Video .. April 13 Calcutta .. .. May 3 New Orleans .. June 5 C. G. Hope. .. April 8 New York ' . . 13 Charleston . .. June 10 Peniambuco.' .. May 13 China .. April 25 Rio Janeiro..' .. April 28 Demerara Havana .. 31 St. Helena .* .. May 3 Jamaica .. May 22 Valparaiso .. , .. April 3 La Guavra 22Vera Cruz .. ' May 29 METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER, BY MR. C. H. CHADBURN, 71, LORD-STREET. ATMOSPHERIC 'll ~i Daily Diree- tt S Temperature tion in Humidity at Fall of Pressure at shade by self-1 Noon. registering Diff erence of O f Wind at Nine • Nine Six thermometer Wet and Dry Rain. Noon. ~.7„ • a.m. p.m. Max. Min. ' bulb. ..., •-, = ? 4 • P In. In. Deg. Deg. Deg. In. 29 30'20 30'13 68 58 6 S.E. 67 55 21 30'10 ! 30'12 67 58 4 N. 65 55 22 30'02 29'92 73 60 6 s.byw 72 58 23 29'82 29'68 69 55 7 o'2o E.S.E. 69154 24 29'50 29'50 66 57 5 0'24 E. 64 56 25 65158 26 301)5 30• 7 S.E. - THE WEATHER. - 20th : bright. -21st: morning, misty; bright.-22nd: bright breeze.-23rd; bright and clouded; strong breeze; night, heavy rain.-25th: morning, clouded; afternoon, bright.-26th : brilliant ; afternoon, clouded; even ing, showery. Jane $7, 1848. District eto 5 . The new market at Lytham'was opened on Saturday. Several children were playing at the Rochdale Canal, last week, when one fell in and dragged in his brother. who had hold of his hand. They were both drowned. Several estates were sold at Chester lass week, by Messrs. Churton, at amounts considerably above the valuation. This is a good sign of improvement. About one o'clock on Monday morning a fight took place in the Wallgate, Wigan, which resulted in the death of a man named Peter Meadows, who is supposed to have been killed by being brutally kicked on the head. A fight took place at Runcorn last week between James Montgomery and Thomas Stanley, chain cable makers, which ended in the former's death. A verdict of man slaughter has been returned against Stanley, and against another man as abettor. EXTRAORDINARY CROP OF RYE GRASS.—In a field on Longton Marsh, Lancashire, belonging to Mr. J. Pye, such has been the extraordinary yield of the same, that from two acres of ground, 24 large loads of hay have been taken, the acres in question being 71 yards to the rod ! THE BOILER EXPLOSION AT PRESTON.—We regret to find that three more persons (making seven) have perished by this sad calamity. The cause of the accident appears to have been, the negligence of the engineer in not properly supplying the boiler with water. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was reLurned. EMPLOYMENT IN MANCHESTER.—The return up to Tuesday last is of an unfavourable character, owing pro bably to the imperfect resumption of work after the 'Whitsuntide holydays. There were 882 fewer hands on full time, 502 fewer on short time, 1043 more out of em ployment. On Thursday week Sir Philip Egerton, Bart.. M.P., gave a dinner to the Forest Troop of Cheshire Yeomanry Cavalry, the command of which he has lately relinquished to accept promotion in the regiment as Lieutenant-Col.; Earl Grosvenor succeeding him as Captain of the Troop. The scene of the festivity was the Red Lion Inn, at the rural village of Eaton, near Tarporlev. Sir George Grey, the Home Secretary, has intimated that he can see no sufficient ground to commute the sen tence passed on Conolly and O'Brien, for the robbery of the Rev. Mr. Germon. It is said that the additional evidence adduced tends to show that the whole four parties—the two convicted at Chester of the Adlingtou murder, and the two convicted at Liverpool of the rob bery of Mr. Germon—were closely connected ; that they were all, in fact, concerned in the robbery, and that they had been co-partners in many daring outrages. FESTIVAL AT BEESTON CASTLE.—The annual festival, held on the romantic site of Beeston Castle, took place on Monday and Tuesday, in aid of the Widows and Or phans' Fund, in the Peckforton District of the Manches ter Unity of Odd Fellows. About 1500 were present on Monday, 600 of whom sat down to the tea-tables, which were arranged in a spacious tent erected for the occasion. The receipts realised about £l2O. John Tollemache, Esq., M.P., visited the happy party, and was received with those demonstrations of respect which so kind a landlord and courteous a gentleman justly enjoys among his tenantry ENCAMPMENT OF TROOPS AT MANCHESTER.—A novel sight is to be seen near Manchester—a grand military encampment on the old race-course at Kersal Moor. The camp will probably remain on the moor for the sum mer. It will consist of the entire strength of the 9th Regiment, and three companies of the 63rd. There has been no military encampment on Kersal Moor since 1812, when the Louth, Royal Buckinghamshire, and Stirling regiments of militia were concentrated on that ground. Tents have been sent down from the ordnance stores, London ; but they will not be pitaed until the arrival of the soldiers, who will immediately on reaching the moor proceed to make the camp. The annual meeting of the Salford Protestant Associa tion was held on Tuesday week, in the school-room, Hulme-street. The attendance was numerous. The chair was taken by the Rev. Hugh Stowell. From the report which was read, it appears that the association bad distributed 24,000 tracts during the year, and that the books of the society's library had been more read than in any preceding year. The chairman addressed the meet tng, exhorting his audience to renewed exertions in behalf of Protestantism, The Rev. J. Currie believed the time was coming when all true Protestants of every denomina tion would be driven together to contend as one man for the faith once delivered to the saints. When that time did come, should Protestantism itself be polled, be (Mr- Currie) would venture to say that there was not a true Protestant either in Manchester or Salford who would not vote for the chairman (the Rev. H. Stowell) to be the leader of the united body. Shortly afterwards the meet ing separated, ROSSALL HALL SCHOOLS. LAYING THE FIRST STONE OF ARCHBISHOP SUMNER'S CHAPEL. On Tuesday last, the annual meeting of the supporters of the Rossall Hall School was held at that establishment , near Fleetwood, and the customary distribution of prizes to the scholars was made. The Lord Bishop of IVlan chester arrived at the Poulton railway station by an early train, and was there met by the Rev. J. 0. Parr, vicar of Preston, and the Rev. J. Hull, vicar of Poulton, chair man of the Council and Board of Manazernent of the school, who accompanied him to R ossa ll Hall, at a sh ort distance from which a triumphal arch of flowers and ever greens had been constructed in honour of the occasion. There was also a similar arch over the road leading from the hall to the chapel. The proceedings commenced at twelve o'clock, when a procession was formed, in which the Bishop, the Masters and Prefects of the school, the clergy present, the friends of the school, and the scholars joined, and proceeded to chapel. Among the clergy and gentry present, besides those we have named, were the Rev. Dr. Woolley, head master of the school; the Rev. Garbutt, the Bishop's chaplain; the Revs. Canon Sharpe, Vincent Beechey, incumbent of Fleetwood : A. Rudd, curate of Fleetwood ; R. W. Russell. Thornton; R. B. Robinson, Lytham;L. S. Parsons, Kirkham ; L. Wood, J. Absolam, J. ur, Preedy, L. W. Jeffray, S. F. Page, W. M. Farisb) ' Tris. Hornby, R. Hornby, E. Girdlestone, J. CloWe? , h C. Mackreth, J. S. Master, W. Birley, a n d o th ers • with Royds, Esq. ; R. Ormerod, D. Hornby, T. B. Addison , and J. Winstanley, Esqrs. Te Deum having been sung, a Latin oration was de livered by the senior prefect, Mr. Sharpe; and a highly favourable report was then read by th e R ev . A. Pay" man from the Examiners of th e sc h oo l. The names selected for prizes :—ln classics, 6th forint Sharpe ; sth form, Wood ; 4th form, Master and Allen; 4th form, lower division, Haliburton ; 3rd form; Cooley ; lower division, Mandell ; 2nd form, Whyley ; lower division, Cobb ; first class, Pountney ; lower division, Baldwin. The Hornby composition prize for a Latin essay, and the prize for Latin poetry, and also th e Hornby prize for Greek lambic trimeters, was awarded to Ward. In mathematics, Sharpe, Smethurst, Smith, Woodhouse, Luard, Cooley, Kerr, and Barber were the prizemen. The report also awarded the following prizes :—French Class : sixth form—first prize, Sharpe ; fifth form, C' Wood and Spencer; fourth form, Broughton and Spencer; third form, Evans, Plumtre, and Smethurst ; second form/ Darwin and Grierson ; first form, Irvin g , B roug hton, an u Holt; second division, Barber, Maue, and Hopkinson. German : Brown. The prizes having been delivered by his Lordship, 111311 a complimentary address, The Bishop expressed the satisfaction he derived from that meeting, from the report which he had heard of th e high character of the school, and f rom th e goo d c onduct of the scholars. The procession then again formed, and moved on to the site of the new church, where, prayers having be en offered, his lordship addressed the assembly around o n the importance of the work in which they were engaged; and the Rev. St. Vincent Beechey the n p resen t/to the • Bishop a handsome silver trowel, bearing a Latin inscrir tion, of which the following is a translation : "TO THE HONOUR OF THE BLESSED AND UNDIVIDED TRINITY, AND IN ORDER THAT A PERPETUAL MEMORY MAY BE PRESERVED OF THE KINDNESS, COURTESY, AND WISDOM WITH WHICH THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN 00 e' JOHN BIRD SUMNER, LATELY BISHOP OF CHESTER, NOW ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, PRESIDED OVER THE FORMATION AND ESTABLISHING OF ROSSALL COLLEGE, THE FIRST STONE OF A COLLEGIATE CHURCH, TO BE BUILT ON THIS GROUND, WAS LAID BY THE RIGHT REVEREND J. P. LEE, D.D., LORD BISHOP OF MANCHESTER, VISITOR OF THE COLLEGE, JUNE 20, A.D. 1848." The foundation stone of the n ew b u ildi n g was th e n laid with the customary formalities by hi s lordship, and the procession returned to the chapel, w here the annual meeting, over which the bishop presided, was held. LIVERPOOL AND BRISTOL.—In the a five years ending.. 1846, the rateable value of property in Liverpool proPee's increased 19 oer cent.; whilst that of its out-gar i ,„ sh a y analogous to Clifton increased 50 per cent. 'We "" - e be permitted to add, from the same authentic sourch that the total increase of rateable valuable property la t i o borough of Liverpool during the same period was e es i ) le £400,000 per annum, which is ne ar ly equa l t o the rate able value of the whole of Bristol !!—Bristol Journal. 55 .. INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS, A'IA I4 C II o f TER UNITY.—At the Annual Moveable Committee 0, this numerous body, held at Southampton in .W hi n tsu c ler week, the office of Deputy Grand Master of the Li, ti ff, for the ensuing year was conferred upon Mr. Thos. P rle d of Murray-street, in this town,—an honour justly °r e st, by his constant and unremitting attention to the in ter - r of the society in Liverpool. Mr. Richardson, of Coe: or e y mouth, was elected the Grand Master ; and Mr" li t rY• Ratcliffe, of Manchester, the Corresponding See re l Sr Several important alterations were made in the r u b j e c h tending to improve and strengthen the basis upol l "c dre ds this institution, now numbering its members by 111 1 ,1 1,, will of thousands, stands. The next yearly comteltb e " assemble at Blackburn. n ROMANTIC SUICIDE.—On Tuesday, an 4 .nft-e s t g in/ held at Tranmere, on v ie w o f th e b o dy o f a Yeerl t the aged 17, named Emily Kingd on . It appeared th roan deceased had been keeping com p an y w ith a young_ vri for some time, contrary t o h er p aren t s ' w ishes. C l u t her day evening, whilst with th e y oung m an, she m et lied father, who requested her t o go h om e, when she I. l',: t her she " would not part from her William." Her then left her, supposing that she bad go ne to her co ried In the morning, deceased returned home, and don r'"a her clothes, when he r mo th er t o ld h er she was br e an their hearts." On this she rushed out of the doo _ OO went into a field, and was not seen alive again. A- l' ou passing through the field saw something floatingd out . pond, when the body o f th e deceased was Pull e The jury returned a.verdict of found drowned. Yc QT: De; !Ott N • .tor in a A Tsao\N cutt 27 s toll Hop sailF. Paul Ti lean the shot the 1 Cl 1 hi Wei l , Pri gene ct 1 4th to t , II411:11