The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-16 00:00:00

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Mr. Rushton commented strongly on the case -..-so determined, he said, had the government been to put cpwn the cruelty of sending boys of a tender age to such em- Pultnents, that they had provided that half the penalty should go to the informer. It was foolish in any master to place himself in,so precarious a situation, that the boys to " t .hotu he Paid 3s. 6d. per week, could, on laying an informa in' re ceive £2 10s.; £5 being the smallest penalty the act . owed to be inflicted. It however gave power to the Ma penalty,gsesto allow the party time for the payment of such a totil tlie chi and he ordered that Bennett pay the fine within five ile eks, or in default be imprisoned two months. With regard tnneys of warehouses being swept, he said means al u i st be devised thathich the machines would clean them, ki h e suggested appertures be made at the curves. ....._____ TESTIMONIAL TO A CLERGYMAN s,(l:ln.:gonday evening last, a meeting of the pew-holders of r' Michael's Church, in this town, was held in the vestry, ~I °l. t he Purpose of presenting an addretss, with a pocket silver -omtnunion service and a purse, to the Rev. E. Whitley, the l'aergii)nected curate of St. Michael's, who is about to remove to h:),eurobency to which he is appointed in the n.eighbou!"- t i, e uu 9f London. The proceediners excited lively interest in h Q uuds of those present ; anal we are sure, from all we or: of Mr. Whitley, that he will carry with him the respect i.slry member of the con ,, rewation in which he ministered h l "us . town. We understand the rev, gentleman will close Oresen-t' nn e l l i l l a e l l! i in istrY by preaching his farewell sermon in St. I%:li .Sunday evening next. The communion service Dke' ed, hes for the inspection of the subscribers, at Mr. i owin ar Lord -.street. till to-morrow (Saturday R are co repl y ..... pies of the address, and of the rev. gentleman's " TO THE REV. EDWARD WHITLEN II R ev a You r ,• nd dear Sir,—As the time is drawis ~,, )on nexi with us will come to a close ii - te to depart from amonw us without expres„..., ,a. in,,e ,regret at the prospect of"being deprived of your N observed aanareirlvices as curate of St. Michael's Church. lg the period of your ministry in this place, we o Christ and felt your faithfulness and zeal as a minis er f 4,1,01'1' Your labours in visiting from house to hou.e forgo4:he poor in our populous district, will not . soon be th e Seho n i 1.0,1 r perseverance in catechising the children oo. veyeri_e s, and the attractive method in which . you c s sion::lstruction, have produced, we trust, lior h e ? the minds of many of the young. So that we do lasting impre tiou tatitate to say, that while all will rejoice at your promo 'll, eo:le° ineutribency, your loss here will . be deeply felt thi s i, tahering your diligence in teaching whilst curate of ioreli. el ab 4t diligence, dear i is not your only nor your best whethe.ol4 gratitude. s P r o'r , is diligence in teaching, eept tilt:tithe school, in the district, or in the . church.ex with ti,',,tiOality o f the instruction given be in accordance ti osto el Naptures, and the standards of our venerable na mewe relteurbeh? It is, therefore, .with unfeigned satisfaction Wa s d ra __ er that your teaching, in the pulpit and elsewhere, was ere:n eXclusively from these two sources. No doc . tr o in n. kno wn t' t,aught by you unknown to our church, a_nd, alone, ..?ine Bible. The great truth of justification lalf i a o it a h . trious ''', , 1 . E . 1 ,? , tit the deeds of the law,--this. whichthe il see4,4„`,"pler designated ' artieulux stanlis cut .. cadenlis that thi doctrine °I.d a Prominent theme in your m i n i stry • and is , ,__, —to borrow the language of our chyur.ch— is "'esatt, wholesome is well as full of comfort,' your teach faith Rood sat t, by shewinw according to our articles, , ' nil" do 8 • . of a true and lively ins_ pring Out necessarily ' that dentlr kn'umwuch .that by them a lively faith . may f ' (Art. XI. arid xr i.) 11 as a tree discerned by the fruit.' practical effbe as evi " Would th • in our lives the at weecould more fully realise tu . a ble to eets which the al a i Scri tou a g are pr ayer Produc Th e. foe at thi s may be ural so, r we w yuths ould beg ht you o r b ' e . : ra y us, dear sir that the seed you hav t sr av sp r i n. _ watered with the ' Divine blessing, that . dreu!' up and bear much fruit in ourselves and in our chil sii';eiVeaoYalwe be . g y test imonaccompanying pocket our acceptance of the . munion service and purse, as a small but sincere „1,. null of our grateful regard. ou r L i _l', dear sir, farewell! May the God and Father of He euatitinJesus Christ be with you and your family !_ love!y May He t° be You in your future labour of You bl gives you many seals to your inis , ame ie , s to th e ' • ' - Lord rn Jesus Christ We are, rev. a c n o d tli d i e n agr o a f our try and presrve Yours, very faithfully and aff e ctio na t e ly, " Signed O n behalf " HENRY CARPENTER, Minister. of the pewholders, " Liverpool, June .10 SA m cEL LLOYD, 1 Churchwardens. 4.,.., Jo T30.4.L1TT, a 0 il 1 p.. 14'4.. HENRY CARPENTER AND CONGREGATION i, it v°r. ST.' MICHAEL's CHURCH, LIVERPOOL. thisnde „„. Sir . a nd dear friends,—lt is quite impossible for me sufficiently strong ~,,irds liwe tI t a u t i l l o (i n (°, r 1 mark of your affetentioenxaptreesrsegrnaryd.fee ooked tratituae. e Will 4 T lin kl g e s tl?or fo ne r . lso liandsOrne a memento of your approba i s upon by me with the liveliest emotions of la,vitiriltit,ilf:ieloeiefll.ltrheev. sir, and dear friends, that I am altogether mi . - high eulogium you pay me in the warm address _I echo yowa have accompanied the kind present. 1 ich ael _ ,I as ordained and licensed to the curacy . of S ue t. di d .!s . nY the venerableand beloved bishop of the dioce. , tri„i s trE antici graei ni en..‘end w ith, but I have seen the wonderful and ii o. ,_ naut o o l vid : ate, that, I should have had such severe nee:lf God delivering rne out of thena . all.. ear,etr:itir?creful and most deliberate review of my ministerial nlm, , tag the Past eighteen months, though I have had h'el iinudallY infirniit' ' to mourn over before God, yet I the Ri.,';,'!'ghest degree ioefs svtisfaction in the thought, that fe,ti.,,, doctrines of our holy religion, which I have at -4 to preach are as I verily believe them to be, in per inholai;nnllY, not 00 1 ; with God's Word, which is our . only art,kies,:dtive. h ;Ppeal, hut also in strict accordance with the ii 'l li 0, 'ltta"es, and liturgy of our beloved church. I"ded h„4P,,daYS, reverend sir, and dear friends, when ! x , - -aPer,ill," aanzerous error have been revived, and popish tinoalit,,""as introduced, altogether subversive of the spi ;'eeeti i ,.f the worship of g our venerable churli, I have :tan o r d." My paramount duty, in conformity with my so out '44tion yews . , to bring before my hearers, in sea . son ariae fif e , , rnh odi , ason , the leading doctrines of the Reformation, / Th e , e " iti all the services of our Protestant church. - P ,''eer ed se glorious doctrines. have in all ages . of the church ea r l < th e a . tl unra. Bro us spirits of the saints, lighted up the 'Na st ''',°" of our persecuted forefathers, and converted ‘b. Y" s stake into the anti_chamber of heaven. itlir,eesis.,uveizg.r,ejaatt..,iith..so emphatically alluded . to in your ad ti aiv i hold -un by faith alone without the deeds of ie etea, to het he main pillar of true Christianity, and_ t , , Pe e i es ~, aotazoniq principle of popery, and every other l t ri i to thec'h'!.alge rieligioni anns of t , 'I", nas never sser- T f h ai e le c d ord o i o a t l w re it c h e s p t t a i n o d n in o g f t t h h e is a truth ofd relizintlrlaniPruenue,nts, to bring ' forth all the fruits of a holy . , L ;nr eli iireh t:t a agreeably to the language of the 11th article • , i 153 , 4, iltais that to should have been made . in these 4 vit,d I_stead of sound aretiment to turn into ridicule, all that llooeur most holy faith. P'.4tilluie P__re`terendand dear sir, I owe a lasting debt of i'llujifol all`tirithe very great benefit I have derived from 3 . o t u i r a f4in.t'sllB, Promisingand'nemil exhibition of the truth as i ~t , !ly h p. • also that uniform kindness which I and m 37 Z ilo x .. i ori, ' w v h eirxived at your hands, and although our con es to e i n. , ,, .11 many respects I cannot but lament,. is so ,rwf.„ Ilsslv.,let 1 feel assured that the friendship formed lahnXY the t,,.! nnlv cease in death. I G tt's ie the a ° l. l Yd uSopoiar it o c d o rr i u e t abundantlytobless y_o o u r e . t:7:‘ l' n rev c i • ffi I post you occupy, IC k e to fi„, 01.11 cal brethren in this great town, I would e -1!,,, iri4`e Ildlteftil fnt.the very cordial manner in wkich t r e o y . in. t . l te n or my : to their pulpits, and for their . marked PP 4 ' l _ eippe% onduct. To very many lay friends als a 6, - and s at er i l / 4i ,_'"lY to two, whose praise is in all the churches, ' p i , ei . ule that I can never feel sufficiently thankful. e y 4 o r it ee.,tlY in f(! r ' t ' i s ie l t ...dn, the absolute necessity of con_t . ending i si ,. r 4rer _ ~ Lima once delivered to the saints, 1 intrea . t lie thetuat y kept faithf Chr i ste awful trust corn °III,' w ould : s 'n ambassador for ni,, r friend_ ?w, reverend and dear sir, return you and the iiiinniaer in I,%,shni St. Michael's, my heartfelt thanks for o ir co n 4t i o „ s c . ll you hav e on all occasions received my P . ? ti t' ei.4,!(,usiiin, ~,,drid for this token of your attachment, and in ioh er : whieh eommend you to God, and to the !cord . of his a A cts "'Mee :icehle to build you up, and to give )ou ' 32. ong all themi which are sanctified.'-20 ~ I . n_ ig near when we cannot per- Rev. " sir. an d dear friends, Your ever faithful servant, " P.DwARD WHITLEY ver y e r ev .ere nd 1i 41 , 03 th e ab gentleman, a few days previous to the deli 41,itlistqat4 hibjeve testimonials, was also presented with a very Qt4l il.'l.aceoluoanied with an address signed by the x an Y of the congre,ration of he Mantra' ir••Whitley had officiated fora short period. k ; k " " ---'''','-' f'!".'—"!.•ss,t,,,......____ ........_______ ______ 4 ' l tle 4 1 " I N IV „ . r , l i tl D i ll I .' ro se ti- f3ccuttatriNeE.—At this moment . an old il lw 4rl ~ ls 1,, 1f10 from a bench opposite Petrea, with a tea the self and b l ,i n t‘ i . i rd ,; 111 a mania of officiousness she rushed k to assist him in setting it aside. He drew det: l nst f i r and held the cup firmly, whilst Petrea, with 4t niii Ni ned t n 4 and unwear . •,- " permit me sir," seemed to the 0 Lik e it 'll. . , 'eq. Ittietid• take • The strife about the cup continued N e l '' c l 'ltt bows e t he Zentleman and the equally Nal„ our sJos'es of Pet, until a passing waltzing couple N,'er,t without the la - t • whatever to the hl atiii -inalier , • " ceremony 't lb, , rev,. i ,' N s which occasioned a shake of the tea 'aili,"ii l• : 4 " to Petrea the last thing in the world which I.')lTl"Ns„,Pleq. that tl . • (.0 herrent f ' l e ' d ' 't dth old Shocked g and .., and l t lowe to vo e and find out d,,l'/1e curer 7 place.--.lProcrnepe M a ry ea Howitt' s new work, °ln e , or Family Cares and Family Joys." grly^Po, , _ Napoleon's (1 14) , is I,;;C),Si QIIAVC.—The later history of l'i. i 4 tii,, lizttiei.liolit interest, and may be permi t tt S Helena' Pol4ll\4oet ( 1 ) '• 118111! chapter. WI T and that dead, of Isla 'Jilt th,j4,.l4Yourite i;i2lioonly one.trun e_d t. a a p ..__s o a COH ed ' The others still retain ionletle.thit'i'lltaoltiltY, were wremreornyeadie exhumed. The little . Na t! lan which taihiarte s removed we . i. f a cottage, win °r to ll'etehhiit the grew is In the vicinity.o by Prince Joinville, at the ' ccasionally 14t h nahrte, na.ined Tarbutt was accustomed at the time T ow IN fiitlls ai..rival on the island, to retire o (lav,ll. Tile troM the more heated temp I looks t 4 la te _ gib,erver, standing in the gorge of the .. g . I la ' across 4,%! tipoo 17.4iti..e of the deep Alpine valleys of the . is b a ‘ n •ond, and erature_o nt f i James tii4„h.erieeouvgewr°od, on the mountain sp ~t!4 tot'f,°n• one Zie3,,xuanse of oceartetslttast li that Its from Longwood has boundarymnoite. yea r, i:s cottage n ; eilltte w henever sear Mr. Tarbutt's family were ka,dea,trie citw,fis accustomed to walk thither with Coun_teaored. but vvi,,nq tit, _nrotrutui, 1 - a nd to pass the afternoon reading,h as the 4,, i t l i b y it:l the d sofa in the cottage, or on a chair beneath li s ,, Yet s e ~,I e gil It is so sheltered, so rettred, s it q .ould kr ,iett r'"ata!rnhcent in its natural beauties, that •!% ~, Rrati, last to er a via nits for wonder if he had not desired it '' 130„.-t'ernent. The English Government, wishin,, to in plat','iarh di)4rie's dNr Offered tpurchase the glen from y , ut t . ..r, .• e, ? ere . o d ceased ene fize Nh), of a iu, with a liberality toward s a e . 1 200, 14r1,.elrig, t_ a great nation, submitted to pay for it 4. t...,_ the'r.,44ly toui,. that the nation, would retain possessio? of the i eu itt e l ! ve ! 0 4)0°21:: as the body of Bonaparte remained in 111.enq lif, , ' l tm to ,I;tle;refore, as his body was removed, th 1 out e of 'tile' prat,j;;;l• butt ; but troubles hurried him itfor 44 4 , t . ye ar ': Y, was sold, and his widow . now rentsfor herself 9,i4c.hikire„ 7lueav?oring to obtain a livelihood ea i that it _uoes rio '',. tiY exhibiting the tomb to visitors. - s. . a „d it gin b e re , tiroduce to her ave abundant harve t , small pen t° Is thegrerted that the bestowryal upon her of a .j'ain i'lieeoi,whicii°llllPr"lise made to the islanders by Princ r e ema.us pr,eiscovere,- aPPears to have forgotten. The vault . I preserved ' , i fa r el Y ;:i°1111y by a temporary awning, and Ist a t least, ' i lit. " th . " 13`),IaParte's coffin was its tenant will Per: t 6 It • ' tli i s i oughtlesqv and selfishly acquisitive. couec 4,ors, ilititir'''hrdly credibl - h of these relique- actually 4 Qt a c et 'ed Pi t" te'nPorareY'athsaet one of the exhibitor,,tin the ti . lir tre'leiitof the btones of thenrault, and was caw cottage kept!' rar44 Way with it under his arm ! ' Ir:i books ate seri la whi .1 Lt. refreshments •re Provided, and Lieli li°"" tith'e, oee,„() visitors inserib taheirnames, adding ---,t which tllhetri, it "ail°ll4l,Y, s the. e ider very sublime, h b4 to truth, i ti . e„ t9O piT i a Y ue :ith ay consider very sublime, bct which much nearer approach stranger 441 a, eic:tcutible evert for ridicule.—JohnBoll 8 MEETII46 . LOCK CaIMITTEt The weekly meeting of the Dock Committee was held yet , terday, when the following members were present :—Messrs. Sands, (chairman,) Horsfall, - Barclay, Holmes, Middleton, Evans, Boyden, Tobin, Bold, Shand, Aikin, Holt, and Bramley-Moore. Mr. BARCLAY said, that in reading over the proceedings of the last meeting of the committee, he observed that coun sel's opinion had been given, to the effect that the committee were not liable for any loss or damage by fire in the new warehouses, and that, consequently, notice to that effect should be given to all parties. Was it not possible that some difficulty might arise from parties, in such cases, contending that they had not received due notice? if the committee were not liable why give the notice at all? By saying that they would give notice they said, in fact, that it was right to do so. Mr. AIKIN said the notice spoken of in the proceedings was not to be given to individuals but to the public. Mr. BOLD added that it was intended to post it up in each shed. Mr. AIKIN, in continuation, said it would be much better to give public notice. The public was not to complain if any accident happened, and come to the committee for compen sation, and say, they took the property into the possession of the Dock Trustees, and thought they would be all safe, we had no notice. The notice, therefore, ought to be public. The CH A IRMAN.—And also in the sheds. Mr. AIKIN understood that was ordered at the last meeting. _ _ Mr. RVANs considered that the property would never come into the hands of the committee, except where they did not know the proprietors, or scarcely ever. Notice could not be given to individuals if they did not know them. What ever got into their hands would be a kind of derelict—that was nobody's. Mr. AIKIN replied that if property was derelict, it was the duty of the committee to protect it for the party to whom it belonged. He would rather the committee should be in the position of the customs, who had a lock for the sake of the duty. The committee should have a lock upon the goods for the sake of the dues. They did not take the manage ment of them, but kept possession for the dues. The CHAIRMAN read the resolution ag reed to at the last meeting, which was to the effect stated by Mr. Barclay. Mr. EVANS thought that Mr. Aikin had opened up an analogy between the committee and the customs which was excellent, and he should say it ought to be the law of the committee as well as the law of the customs. The customs were not liable. Mr. HORSFALL was of opinion that a public notice would be sufficient, but not to individuals. The CHAIRMAN also thought that individual notices would be most objectionable. Mr. TOBIN suggested that besides putting up the notice in the sheds, it should be advertised in all the Liverpool papers and also in the London Gazette. Mr. EVANS observed that even if the committee did not give public notice, their non-liability of the committee would be borne out by the act of Parliament. The conversation on this snbject now dropped, It being understood that public notice only would be given. On the reeommendation of the Sub-Committee for the de partment of the Harbour Masters the sum of £24 was or dered to be paid to the South Harbour Master for expenses of car-hire during the last year: and further aat the sum of £2O per annum be allowed to him for his car-hire upon ex traordinary occasions. The allowance to John Roberts, superannuated dock-gate man of 15s. per week was ordered to be continued to him for three months longer, in consideration of twenty-nine years faithful service. A report was read from the North Harbour Master on the subject of the damage done by the American ship George Stephens to the shed on the quay of Clarence basin, as men tioned in our last; and it appearing that the damage was caused by an accidental breaking of the ropes owing to a sudden squall, the amount claimed from the Captain be re mitted. A letter was read from Mr. Edward Chaloner, in reply to a communication addressed to him, on the part of the com mittee, remonstrating with him for having appropriated part of the sheds rented by him, from the committee, for the storing of mahogany, to the warehousing of cotton. 'Mr. Chaloner's explanation was of great length. It was to the effect, that he had expended upwards of £3,300 upon the shed, and when he took the premises in 1838 for seven years, at a rent of £4BO per annum, he had no idea of any alteration in the duties on mahogany by which the trade would be diverted into other channels. The consumption of it, now, too was so great that the stock could not accumulate, and under thesecircumstances he con sidered that there would be no objection to his devoting a part only of the premises to other uses especially as there was still ample space for whatever mahogany might come in.— A long discussion followed upon the subject in which Mr. Bramley Moore, Mr. Gray, Mr. Aikin, Mr. Tobin, Mr. Shand, and Mr. Horsfall took part, at the end of which Mr. Chaloner's letter was referred to the Committee of Works, the Surveyor in the mean time to inspect the actual state of the sheds and report thereon to the general committee next Thursday. This being the whole of the general business the parties retired, but the Committee sat a short time longer in finan cial matters. MEETING OF MERCANTILE ASSOCIATIONS, A meeting of the associated bodies of this town was held on Monday afternoon, in the office of the East India and China Association, for the purpose of taking measures for the future protection of property from fire. There was a large attendance of gentlemen. William Brown, Esq. was called to the chair. The CHAIRMAN having briefly explained the object of the meeting, Mr. TODD said that they had met to take a retrospect of the past, nor to indulge in regrets as to the immense loss which had been recently sustained in this town by fire, for that would be an useless expenditure of time ; but they had met to provide for the future, by the adoption of remedies which were now indispensably called for. One remedy which, at the outset, suggested itself, was the support of the bill which the Council were applying for in Parliament. The Fire Bill was introduced into the House of Commons; but, notwithstanding that, the warehouse-owners were deter mined that it should not pass until they had tried an experi ment. " Let another tire take• place," say they, " and we will try if we cannot extinguish it." Well, another fire did take place, before any experiment could be tried under the Water Bill, and then the warehouse-owners, in their mag nanimity, said, " Oh, let us go on with the Fire Bill again." The advice was complied with, thus showing that the ware house•owners were the masters of the council, and that they (the merchants) were completely at their disposal. It was time for them to free themselves from this servitude. The warehouse property of this town was no doubt large; but the property that was stored in those warehouses was much more valuable. He should estimate it at £20,000,000, and if any given period could be fixed upon when the warehouses were emptied and refilled, he should say that property of the value of £60,000,000 passed through them ; and yet a mere sec tion were to dictate what regulations were to be in force, and, in fact, to have the whole of the owners of that property at their mercy. It was time that they should free themselves from this dictation ; and the first step towards it should be the sending up of a petition from that meeting which repre sented the commercial bodies of Liverpool, begging of the legislature to pass without delay, not the bill of the council, but a bill emanating from that body. He therefore said, that in any bill which the council went for, and which re ceived the support of the associated bodies, the classification of goods, and the removal of the buildings in which hazar dous trades were carried on, should be provided for. They asked for power to remove from the neighbourhood of a warehouse, containing, perhaps, £lOO,OOO worth of property, a small building not worth more, probably, than £lOO, and the returns of the occupier of which %ere not more than £2OO a year, giving him compensation for the loss sustained by re moval, and that only. As to the necessity for classification, he thought it was needless to enlarge upon that, after the ex perience they had had. (Hear, hear.) The speaker then 'pointed out the present position of the Fire Bill, and pro posed, that the meeting should agree to petition the House of Commons, seconding and enforcing the prayer of the pe tition from the Council, sent on Saturday. Mr. JAMES RILEY seconded the motion, which was agreed to. Mr. TODD said, that he had had a conference with the Town-Clerk and Deputy Town-Clerk, and it was proposed that several new clauses should be introduced into the bill. One of these suggested clauses was to the effect, that every porter should, as the condition on which he was employed, submit to be searched before entering a warehouse, it• that should be thought necessary. It might be said that this was an infringement on the liberty of the subject; but it was not, if it was done with the porter's consent. The CHAIRMAN.-1 have it done now. Mr. W. RATHBONE thought it would be better to avoid going into details then, and to appoint a committee of that body to see what the new provisions were, and what the bill would be in its complete form. The CHAIRMAN said that he had that day seen the Mayor, toll him of the meeting he was about to attend, and asked him for a copy of the bill. The Mayor's reply was, that it had been so altered and mutilated that it would perhaps mis lead them, and suggested the propriety of their appointing a committee to co-operate with the Council Fire Committee, by which means they could suggest anything which, in their oponion, was requisite or desirable. If such a committee was appointed. they might probably get some useful clauses introduced, and some obnoxious ones removed. _ _ Mr. RATRBONE seconded the motion for the adoption of the petition, which was agreed to. On the motion of Mr. JAMES FOWLER, seconded by Mr. J. B. BRANCKER, a committee, consisting of the following gentlemen, was appointed :—Messrs. Brown, Todd, Pitcher, Wrigley, Gladstone, C. S. Parker, Tobin, Healing, and Naylor, jun. Mr. TODD then said, that at the suggestion of a gentleman well known to them all, he should propose, as the delay in parliamentary proceedings was very great, and as immediate remedies were requisite for thii alarming conjuncture, that they should, either by memorial or deputation, call upon the Lords of the Treasury and the Commissioners of Customs to adopt immediate measures for rendering warehouses, both in their construction and management, more secure. He should therefore move the following resolution :—" That in the opi nion of this meeting a deputation of merchants should he sent to London, in order to suggest to the Lords of her Ma jesty's Treasury, and the Commissioners of her Majesty's Customs, the absolute necessity of enforcing, in all ware houses, sheds, &c. used for the depositing of bonded goods within the port of Liverpool, such provisions as shall secure the proper classification of merchandise, and such rules and regulations for its receipt, delivery, and custody, in bond, as shall, as far as possible, tend immediately to remove many of the well-founded objections which are entertained by the di rectors of fire insurance companies to the present system of warehousing in this port, and to provide as well for the effec tual security of the merchant as of the revenue." After a long conversation Mr. Todd agreed to withdraw his motion. Several other propositions were brought forward ; but, after a long discussion, the Chairman suggested an adjourn ment, to allow time for the East India Association to consi der the subject ; this was agreed to without opposition, and thanks having been voted to the Chairman, the meeting ad journed. Greenwich is described by the old Elizabethian chroniclers as a " peerless place." The revolution of time has brought it to its former state again ; for. since the late accident, it has been as pierkss as before. Greenwich may now be enu merated as one of the Sink-ports.—Punch. LaEctcas.—The following has been handed to us for insertion :—" Well, my good woman, how is your hus band?" asked a chymist in a sea-port town in a remote part of England of an ancient dame. " Oh, sir, we've had a weary night with him, poor man !" Why, did you apply the leeches, as I ordered ?" " Yes , sir , but oh ! my poor husband, I thought he would have died a -taking of 'em. You see, sir, we couldn't get 'em down. He did try, and try, and try, but they did stick all across his throat, and I made sure he would be strangled. At last, he did manage to swallow one; but will you believe me, sir, we couldn't get down another. "Iwere all of no use to go on in that way; but I knew he must take 'em, as you ordered, sir, and so I chop ped up t'other five into nice small pieces—and then 'twere terrible job again—l were up with him nearly all the night, and at last he got 'em all down but one, and so I fried that there last 'un, and he took that 'uu too. Ah, but sir, he bad a terrible night of it, poor man."—Bath Paper. EXAMINATION AND DELIVERY OP PRIZES TO THE PUPILS IN THE LIVERPOOL COL. LEGIATE INSTITUTION. The first half-yearly examination of the pupils in the several schools in the Liverpool Collegiate Institution, took place on Tuesday last, with the most satisfactory results ; and on Wednesday the scholars who had most distinguished them selves were presented with prizes in the presence of the Rev. the Principal, the Mayor of Liverpool. Mr. Rector Brooks, Mr. Rector Campbell, the Rev. Dr. Tattersall, the Rev. F. Barker, and a brilliant assembly of the principal inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood. The capacious lecture room of the Institution was, indeed, quite filled. The front of the raised dais was appropriated to the boys who were to be the recipients of prizes ; and. to the right the remaining pupils were placed. Their appearance was deeply interest ing. A few minutes past eleven o'clock the chair was taken by the Rev. Rector Brooks, and all the pupils sang the chant Venite, exulternus Domino, in which they were joined by the auditory. After this, The Rev. CHAIRMAN delivered the following address : Boys : Before I proceed to the business of the day, I must be allowed to express my regret at the absence of our respected Diocesan, the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, to whom it would have fallen, in his office of visitor to these schools, to pre sent the prizes which are this day to be given to those pupils who have distinguished themselves by their proficiency in their studies during the last half-year. In his absence it has fallen to my duty to supply his place. Ido so with great regret, because, I cannot but feel that had he been here him self; not only from the situation which he holds in the diocese, but also from the general respect and esteem in which he is held, he would have performed it much more efficiently than lam able. It is a source of great satisfaction to the 'Com mittee to be informed by the Principal and the other masters who superintend your education, that they are satisfied with your general conduct during the last half-year—that you have conducted yourselves, generally speaking, with great propriety, and that you have paid attention to those studies which are so essential to your future progress in life. You are now upon the point of leaving the school for a short time, to take your first vacation, and the ceremony of this day naturally takes place at this period. With regard to the prizes themselves, I find that we are indebted to several gen tlemen, who have been great contributors to this Institution, for having supplied us with the means of presenting to those who are most worthy, a handsome testimony of theirs and the masters' approbation. The first I see upon the list, is the name of Lord Francis Egerton, (hear, hear,) who has contributed a prize of ten guineas r to be given in books to the boy who has most distinguished himself by his proficiency in the Upper School. (Hear, hear, hear.) In the second school—or Middle School—l find thatl Mr. Potter, a mer chant of this town, who is entitled by his subscription to a scholarship, instead of presenting it to one of his own con nections, or friends, has, very kindly, thought proper to pre sent it to the master, to be given to the boy most deserving of it in the Middle School. (Hear, hear, hear.) That is an annual scholarship, which entitles him to a free admission into the Middle School ; that will become vacant each year, and is to be held for one year, so that the boy who has been the successful candidate upon this occasion does not neces sarily retain it unless he skews equal zeal and industry in his pursuit of knowledge. (Hear, hear.) In the Lower School we have two scholarships given by Mr. Edmund Molyneux, another merchant in the town of Liverpool, who by his subscription is entitled to four scholarships in the Lower School, and he has given the whole, the whole four,—two only coming into play at this time, but it will be so arranged that one of his scholarships shall fall vacant every year. In addition to these there have been some prizes given in divinity by the Principal, and one in mathematics by the ' Rev. Dr. Booth ; there are some others also given by some of the other masters, and the remainder by the Institution. (Hear, hear.) I shall now proceed to the delivery of these prizes; and I shall request the Principal to present to me the first boy be has to put forward. The Rev. W. J. CONYBEARE, Principal of the Institution, then introduced Master Adam S. Ferrer, (son of the Rev. Mr. Ferrer, Wesleyan Minister, and Superintendent of the Liverpool North Circuit,) mentioning to the Chairman that this youth had eminently distinguished himself. The CHAIRMAN then addressed Mr. Farrer thus :—Farrer, I have the pleasure of presenting to you the prize of ten guineas which Lord Francis Egerton has given to the best boy in the Upper School,—to be presented in books. I have also the gratification to present to you another set of books, as the prize in Divinity ; and I find by the record which the Prin cipal has put into my hands you are also entitled to a prize in History. When I say entitled, I mean so far as your merits go; but in consequence of the rule of the Institution which will not allow any one boy taking more than two prizes, that one will go to the boy who has been second. This, however, does not detract from your merit. I have great pleasure and satisfaction in holding you up as an example to the rest of the school for their imitation. It is a matter which must be very satisfactory to your friends, and to yourself also, that upon the first occasion you have been contesting you should have carried away no less than three prizes. (Hear, hear.) I un derstand it is your intention to pursue your studies, after you leave school, in the University of Oxford. YOu will there enter upon a wider field of competition ; there it will require all the energies of which you are master to keep up the cha racter which you have obtained here ; and I would dismiss you with this single observation, that you must recollect that you have not only your own character to maintain in the University, but as one of the most likely, and as one of the first boys that leaves this Institution and goes there, you)will have the character of the Institution itself in your hands. (Great applause.) bl r. Farrer then retired amidst loud cheers, in which all his fellow-scholars heartily joined. The PRINCIPAL then introduced Andrew Wilson to the Chairman. The CHAIRMAN, addressing this young gentleman, said : Wilson, you, too, I find, have by your diligence obtained two prizes in your class. You have obtained the first prize in the second class,—the first of the school prizes, and you have also obtained the mathematical prize. It must be very gratifying to you, and to those connected with you, to find that your course has begun so favourably. I have great plea sure in presenting these prizes to you, and I hope they will be a stimulus to your future exertions. (Loud cheers.) The PRINCIPAL next introduced three boys, named Gouthwaite, Smith, and Tatham, of the third, fourth, and fifth classes. The CHAIRMAN addressing the youths said, Gouthwaite, of the third, Smith, of the fourth, and Tatham, of the fifth class—l have to congratulate you also upon your having obtained in your respective classes the first prize in history. You are among the junior part of the school, and you cannot be expected to have done as much as those who have larger experience and more mature age. It must, however, be very gratifying to you to have succeeded in the competition in each of your own classes; but you must remember that to keep your place will require the exertion of all your industry and.of all your energy. You will have others to contend with who will tread upon your heels ; and it is for you to keep that place in the race which you have established for your selves at the commencement. I have great pleasure in pre senting to each of you the books which are the prize for your industry, and for the distinction you have secured to your selves. (Cheers.) The PRINCIPAL then said the next pupils who had dis tinguished themselves were in the Middle School; and the first prize had been awarded to James Seddon, who was twelve and a half years of age. (Applause.) The CHAIRMAN, in addressing the young gentleman, said—James Seddon, to you also I am not to present a book, but a certificate granted to you by the Institution upon your obtaining the scholarship which has been founded by Mr. Potter. This is a distinction which does you very great credit. I understand that half the school are older than your self; it must be, therefore, by superior diligence and atten tion to your studies that you have obtained this distinction. I hope you will value it as you ought ; and I hope also you will take care it is not wrested out of your hands so long as you have the power of presenting yourself for it. I hope you will not slacken in your exertions, but that, having obtained it upon the first occasion, will be such a stimulus as shall in duce' you to take care you will keep it now you have got it. (Loud cheers.) The PRINCIPAL then introduced Webster, of the third class. _ _ The CHAIRMAN said, Webster, you present your self to claim the need of your exertions in receiving two prizes, which I have great pleasure in presenting to you— the one for your examination in the divinity department of the schools, and the other for your general proficiency in, the 3d class. Both these prizes have fallen to your share on the present occasion. I hardly know in what way I can address you differently to the way in which I have addressed those before you. You stand here, having gained a character which I hope you will maintain so long as you remain in the school. It is very gratifying. to those who are connected with all the boys who have received prizes to find they have commenced their career well; and I hope and trust, though they cannot 'perhaps always be expected to maintain the exact position they have now gained, they will not, any of them, slacken in those exertions which have placed them in the situation which they now fill.. (Cheers.) The PRINCIPAL then called Hornby, of the fourth class, whom he described as a very promising youth. The CHAIRMAN said—You, liornby, I understand, have come up before your turn, in consequence of your hav ing succeeded not only in obtaining the prize for general pro ficiency in the 4th class, to which you belong, but you have also obtained the first mathematical prize in the school, which bas been presented by Mr. Brown, the head master of the mathematical school, for general competition. Tnis is very creditable to you—that you should have obtained it ; it is creditable to you that several of you should have ob tained two prizes, because it really does show your general attention to your studies—that they are not confined to one particular branch, but that your general attention to study is such that you will find in future life most necessary if you wish to maintain the position you have arrived at here. It is, I say, very creditable to you that, being a boy in the 4th class, you should succeed in the general competition for the first mathematical prize. Ido not know whether you are intended for the University or not; but having gained now, and obtained, the first mathematical prize, I would observe that should it be your lot to go to the University of Cambridge, you will find there a wide field for carrying on those studies which you have commenced with so much credit here—that you may look forward, should it be the case that your pro gress at the University be the same, to be ranked among those distinguished characters who have e arne d t o th emse l ves so much honour in the country. (Loud cheers.) The PRINCIPAL next introduced Wilkes, of the second class, the successful competitor for the historical prize. The CHAIRMAN addressing Wilkes, said to him, I have' the pleasure to present to you two sets of books, the one for the first prize in your class, and the other for the general historical prize. Now, 1 would 'observe, that history is a study which is very important for those boys whose desti nation in life may be generally supposed, from the station they hold here—that is from the station in which they have been placed here by their parents. I find you are from the Middle School. In these times of general knowledge there is hardly any branch of it which is more desirable for per sons in your class of life, than to obtain a thorough know ledge of history. It will give you a knowledge of men as well as of facts; it will enable you to form accurate judg ments of passing events, to compare them with former times, which is always a pleasing study, and may be made exceed ingly useful. I would advise you, therefore, to continue the pursuit of it, for it will be a source of great gratification to yourself—not only as a means of obtaining knowledge but also as an amusement. (Loud cheers.) .., The PRINCIPAL then' put forward five boys, named Pearce, Overend, Haram, Thomas Gibson, Benson, and Leather, whose progress he bri e fly d escr ib e d . The CIIAIRMAN.—To you, boys, I am also to present the books—the volumes—that are allotted to you for your pro gress in your different classes, and for having placed your selves at the head of them in the examination. You, Pearce, have not only done that, but I see you have also obtained the first French prize. Now I understand that in the study of French there is as much competition as in the other branches, because all the boys learn it; it is a branch that is generally taught, therefore it is not like German or Italian which very few learn ; and as th e w h o l e l earn it, your com petitionawlaicdeedr fi y e o l u d r , se c i o f n a s t eq t u he eifitiley You have more ad. , I hope all o f merit in has had having p you will remember that this is only the beginning of g your career—that as you place yourselves now, so more will be expected from you ; you will be looked up to as an example to the rest, and if you wish to continue in that honourable distinction you have already acquired for honourable Y o urselves, you must use your utmost exertions to retain it. (Loud cheers.) The PRINCIPAL next put forward— Roberts, the success ful competitor in the Lower School for the first m 01,., neux cholas*, and for the Divinity prize, given by the Rev. the Principal of the Institution. The CHAIRMAN. ---We have now gone through the two unper schools, and got to the lower one, and I would make this observation in starting, that though there are three different schools, and the lower school comes up the last, yet there is the same distinction and the same merit due to those boys who have distinguished themselves in the lower school as to those who have distinguished themselves in the upper; because you will remember, boys, all of you, that in the exami nation which you have now gone through, and the places )ou have gained for yourselves in the examination, the merits are all comparative. You have contended with those who ought to have the same degree of knoWledge with yourselves ; the competition is the same relatively in the different schools, though the subjects which are embraced in the examination, of course, are higher the higher you go in the schools. Still, however, it requires the same exertion upon the part of you boys in the lower school, to place yourselves in a command ing position, that it does in any of the boys in the upper schools to take the lead in their schools. I have to present you first of all, therefore, with this certificate, which is a proof that you have gained the first scholarship established by Mr. Edmund Molyneux, and also with a book for having obtained the first prize in your school in divinity. The scholarship is a substantial reward ; the book is more of an honorary one— both are equally creditable to your exertion. I will not say to your talents and abilities, because those are things which are not dependent upon yourself; but I say to your exertion. It is not always the boy who has the best talents that con trives to place himself in the highest place : it requires a proper exertion of those talents to do what you have done, and I hope you will continue in the same path. (Cheers.) The PRINCIPAL then called up Atkinson and Yates. The CHAIRMAN.—I have the pleasure of giving to you this certificate. You, Atkinson, it seems, have obtained the second scholarship established by Mr. Molyneux in this school; and to you. Yates. I have to' give a book for having obtained the first historical prize. It is creditable to you to have placed yourselves in these distinguished situations. I hope you will not forget you have been there, but that you will use your utmost exertions to keep the place, and not to allow others to pass you in the race. There are many who will contend with you. I hope you will secure what you have already obtained. (Great Applause.) The PRINCIPAL then called up Johnston, Goulboon, Butler, and Itimmer, and introduced them to the Chairman with a few observations. The CHAIRMAN said—You four boys, I have to present a book to each of you, for having placed yourselves in the first examination at the head of your respective classes. You are all very young. You are beginning well, and it is always a happy thing when the first step is right. The prize is an en couragement to yourselves to proceed in this way, to inspire you to exertion. You find what attention to your studies has enabled you to do now, and with that knowledge you surely will not allow yourselves to go back. Your motto always should be " forward l" (Cheers.) These are the lait prizes which I have to present; b u t I understand that there are other boys whose names will be read over, who, though they have not succeeded in obtaining the first prize in their classes, have yet had a large proportion of relative merit, and have been placed in the second degree in their respective classes. To them, therefore, I would observe, and indeed I would make the observation to the whole of those who have suc ceeded in obtaining prizes upon the present occasion—l would observe to them, that they must not expect to hold the place they now occupy, unless they can keep up the same attention, the same industry, and pursue their studies with the same zeal, which they have hitherto done. (Cheers.) The com petition is now a large one, for I find from the return made to me that there are in the schools now before us 445 boys, in addition to which there are 200 in the evening school, with which we have nothing to do now, making altogether 645 boys receiving education within these walls. And in that number of 445, you must all of you remember that there are many boys who, if they do not go forward, will be treading upon your heels—there are many boys, if they have that whole some ambition which is most desirable in all whoare commen cing to gain knowledge, what they have seen this day, the dis tinctions they have seen given to several of their school fellows, will urge them to additional exertion to pass you in the race, and to take your places from you. Now this is a competition you must expect will be always going on; and you, therefore, who have obtained prizes must remember that you may have greater difficulty in holding your situation during the next half year than you have had now. The system of the school is getting more and more matured; the numbers, we trust, and have reason to believe, will be continually in creasing. The field of competition, therefore, will be wide, and unless you exert yourselves, you must not expect to remain where you are. I would, therefore, urge upon you the greatest diligence in your future studies. You are now going to retire for that relaxation which it is necessary that all minds should have at certain times, to enable them to do justice to those pursuits in which they are engaged ; and you will, I trust, return to your studies again, with the determination to exert every nerve to hold the situations you now fill. (Cheers.) To you boys who have not been successful in the present con test, I hope you will not allow that to act as any disappoint ment, but that it will rather operate as a stimulus to your future exertions. It is within the reach of any of you to distinguish yourselves,' if you earnestly apply to your stu dies. You must remember that talent alone will not do it. No doubt, among so many, there are varieties and degrees of ability and of talent • but, like everything else in this world, distinctions of different sorts, and powers of different sorts, arc spread abroad in different degrees; and it very often happens, it very commonly takes place, that a real exertion of industry and of attention will do more than talent itself, for talent, like every other gift of God, may be thrown away. (Hear, hear.) I would here make one observation, which I neglected to make in opening the business of distri buting the prizes, and which is particularly gratifying to the directors of the Institution to be informed of—and that is. that I cannot speak too highly of the-state of discipline—a state of discipline that will lead on to better things. There must be a well-regulated mind to ensure a boy success in life ; and there must be a well-regulated system to ensure success in schools like these. lam very happy, therefore. in having to report from the masters, that they are thoroughly satisfied with the state of discipline—that it is quite equal to what they could possibly expect. (Hear, hear.) There has not been a great time for progress; and the first quarter was one in which necessarily a good deal of confusion took place in arranging the new schools ; but I understand they have been most satisfactory, and that the examination which took place at the end of the quarter has fully answered the expec tations the masters had formed. Upon this I think I may safely congratulate you and the public at large on the esta blishment of this Institution, as a great experiment, if I may use the term : it is provided to, meetsa great desideratum ; it has been the means of providing education for all the differ ent classes of society in this great and populous town. Not one of them is shut out; and therefore it only remains for those who are wise, (I am speaking of parents,) and who have the interests, the real interests, of their children at heart, to take advantage of it. It is not in many of the towns in the kingdom where they have the same opportu nity; and I hope that, whilst you boys will not slacken in your exertions here, they will not be slack in securing their children the advantages which an Institution like this has the means of commanding. (Loud cheers.) The PRINCIPAL then read over the names of those boys who had distinguished themselves in the examination, although they had not gained the first prizes. Each pupil stood up and made an obeisance as his name was mentioned by the rev. gentleman. In the Upper 'School, the Rev. Gentleman said, there were several who had not obtained prizes there in consequence of the small size of the classes, but who had yet done extremely well, and to whom therefore the Institution would, in some cases, present certificates that they had acquitted themselves well, and that they had honourably distinguished shemselves. Among these were Hodgson sen., Hodgson jun., and Booker. There were also the following additional prizes in the Upper School,—namely, the Second Divinity prize to Wm. Jones, and the Second Historical prize to Samuel Smith ; also the French prize to Duncan, and the Writing prize to Edward Cumming. He now came to the Middle School. In the Middle School the first prize had been awarded in the first class to W. Davidson ; in the second class to Wilks, but which could not be given to him, in consequence of the rule of the Institution preventing any one scholar having more than two prizes. The second prize in the third class to Skerrett ; in the fourth to Smith ; in the fifth to Hebson ; in the sixth to Baylis ; in the seventh to Hall ; and the eighth to M'Connan. The following boys would also receive certificates of having acquitted themselves creditably,—Conway, Leake, R. J. Taylor, M'Quie, Widdowson, and Orme. He now came to the extra prizes in the, Middle School, which he had not men tioned before. For the Mathematical and Arithmetical prizes there were four names, —Leather, sen., J. Roberts, Hitch man, and Brownbill. In the French prizes, besides the first already mentioned, there were C. Baldwin, Rogers, and Abbott; in the Drawing prizes,• Harbord, Bell, Grindrod, and Bailey; and in the Writing prizes. Harem Wilson, Pearson, and Inman. Mr. Wil s on and Mr. Fiume had kindly granted prizes for superior proficiency in English and the Classics, which had been adjudged—the Classcal prize to C. Seddon, and the English prize to Harbord. Now he came to the Lower School, and be read the names of the boys who had gained the second prizes in the first class, the second Historical prize, the Arithmetical prize, and the Writing prize.—The Rev. Principal then retired amidst much cheering. The CHAIRMAN then said—Now, boys, before we con clude the business of the day, I should wish to say a few words. I have principally confined my observations to you. They have principally related to you, and to your conduct; but we must not allow the day to pass, and I should not be per forming the duty which the Committee have delegated to me, if .I did allow it to pass, without calling to your recollection, and bringing to your attention, the great advantages which you enjoy in these schools, in the talent which has been se cured to you by the Committee from the masters who have been placed over you. Their time has been devoted in your improvement ; their talents have been exercised for your good ; and they have shewn an earnest zeal in the discharge of their onerous duties by the regular attention which they have paid to you, and even by the institution of prizes them selves, in order to promote among you that wholesome competition which ought to exist in all schools. The com mittee, therefore, would not think that the duties, of the day were well performed, unless they offered their grateful ac knowledgements to the Principal and to the masters generally —(loud cheers)—for their attention to the schools and to you. (Renewed applause.) And I would observe, as to yourselves, that the greatest proof that you can give of the obligations which you are under to them for instructing you,' and teaching you, and, bringing you up in a way which will make you creditable members of that large society in the world into which you are passing from sc h oo l,—th e b es t re turn you can make to them is by an att en ti ve o b serva tion of all they require, and an earnest and due dili g e nc e in re ceiving thevthe instructions piarici p w A h i i , C ht then said, it h a d b een suggestedey giv e t o you. (Ch eers. ) The to him, by the worthy chief magistrate of this great town, whose presence there represented the feelin g en t erta i ne d by the public of the usefulness of the Institution —( c h eers )—th a t he (the Principal) should express, in the n ame o f t h e ot h er masters in the first place, and likewise in th e name o f t h e It the would not be for place of the whole institution, the gratification whi c h th ey f e l t towards the reverend the senior Rector of this town, for having so Bishkindlyop operformedthe ddiocese e sthe onthis duty of supplyin g f occasion. him (the Principal) to speak his sense of the manner in which the Rector had performed that duty. (Cheers.) There could but be one feeling upon that subject—(hear, hear)—and he would, therefore, simply offer him their warmest thanks, and, perhaps lie should add, the thanks of every person present—(hear, hear)—for the manner in which he had dis charged the duties of the office. (Loud cheers.) Mr. BROWN, the Head Master of the Middle School, begged to second the proposal of the worthy Prinoipal, and in so doing, added his testimony as to the ex d' cee me good conduct which had prevailed in the schools during the past half pa t half year. The conduct of the boys had given great satisfac tion to all the masters. The motion was carried by acclamation. occupied so much of your p l l } :a l s v e e d to bear to any little att M en r tio ß n e a c l t r o e r ad ß y ß . ° l ° w K o s uTd s i i i t a y v b ir u 'g t a very few words more, to thank you for the exertion of mine upon the present occasion, and to assure t p e a s tit i i m cu o l n a y rl y wh a i s c r h eg yo a r u t] you that from the first institution of these schools I have taken a lively end earnest . interest in their success ; and every thing which I have witnessed since their commencement leads me to hope and e xpect that the great object with which ! s la n g s b el e f en they were originally founded will be ultimately carried out. (Cheers.) The Rev. the PRINCIPAL then said the proceedings would conclude according to the manner in which they were com menced, by the pupils chaunt_ing " Te Deum /audamus." This venerable hymn was the=, cha unte d in a u impressive style, after which Mr. R e ctor Brooks dissolved the meeting, and the vast assembly dispersed, highly gratified with the proceedings. The prize books presented to the Su ccess f u l compet it o rs consisted of standard Eng lish works ; t h ey were all superbly hodnd, richly gilt, and on the back of each, was an elegant design, beneath Which was inscribed the appropriate motto of the Institution—" Non solum ingenii verum , etiam vir tutis." Inside an impression from an engraved plate was placed, on which were the 'words, " This prize is presented by the Liverpool Collegiate Institution, to , June, 1813." -- ---~- REPORT OF THE EXAMINERS The following is a copy of the official report of the Exa mii.ers UPPER SCHOOL. GENERAL PRIZES. THE REV. THE PRINCIPAL'S 11st to Farrar, Adam S. DIVINITY PRIZES 1 2d to Jones, William. LORD FRANCIS EGERTON'S to Farrar, Adam S. PRIZE OF TEN GUINEAS. THEPROFESSOR OF MATHE MATICS' TERM PRIZE IN jto Wilson, Andrew. MATHEMATICS THE ISt HISTORICAL PRIZE to Farrar, A.S. • (given by the Rev. the _ Principal). THE 2d HISTORICAL PRIZE I (given by the Rev. Dr. to Smith, Samuel (Booth THE PRIZE FOR PROFICIEN CY IN FRENCH LITERA- tO Duncan TURE (given by M. Bellon.) .CLASS PRIZES FIRST CLASS Farrar, A. S. j Wilson, A. (transferred to Burdo THIRD CLASS ....... . FOURTH CLASS Smith, Samuel. FIFTH CLASS Certificates of Proficiency and Diligence during tl half year were awarded to Hodgson, sen., lmus ; Ho jun., 2dns; and Booker, 3tius. The Prize in Writing to Cumming, jun. SECOND CLASS. he past Agson, MIDDLE SCHOOL. The successful candidate for the vacant POTTER SCI SHIP was declared to be James Seddon. • THE REV. TIIE PRINCIPAL'S to Webster. DIVINITY PRIZE THE HEAD MASTER'S MA IO Hornby. THEMATICAL PRIZE THE HISTORICAL PRIZE.... to Wilks. MR. WILSON'S CLASSICAL to Seddon, C. PRIZE . MR. HUME'S ENGLISH PRIZE to Harboard. FIRST CLASS SECOND CLASS CLASS PRIZES. f Ist. Seddon, James • •' • 12nd. Davidson, W. - 51st. Pearce, E. A. 2nd. Wilks ; Campbel FOURTH. 'CLASS j Ist. Hornby. 1 2nd. Smith, T. J FIFTEI CLASS SIXTH CLASS SEVENTH CLASS S Ist. Fannin. 2nd. Hebson. f Ist. Overend. 1. 2nd. Baylis. f Ist. Benson, T. G t 2d. Hall, f Ist. Leather, A. E IGIITH 2d. M'Connan Ist. Leather, sen MATHEMATICAL A TUTU- 2d. Roberts, J. METICAL PRIZES 4th. Browuhill. {lst. Harboard. 2d, Bell. 3d. Grindrod, J. 4th. Bailey. {lst. Pearce. 2d. Baldwin, C. 3d. Rogers, J. 4th. Abbott. {lst. Harem, Alfred 2d. Wilson, W. J. 3d. Pearson, J. 4th. Inman. Certificates of Proficiency and Good Conduct were a to Conway, Leake, R. J. Taylor, M`Quie, Widowson, Orms DRAWING PRIZES FRENCH PRIZES WRITING PRIZES LOWER SCIIOOL FIRST MOLYNEUX SCHOLAR. Roberts. SECOND Do. Do. Atkinson. THE REV. THE PRINCIPAL'S ? 5 Roberts. DIVINITY PRIZE FIRST HISTORICAL PRIZE .. Yates. CLASS PRIZES. FIRST CLASS SECOND CLASS Johnston. THIRD CLASS Goulboon FOURTH CLASS Butler. FIFTH CLASS Boz's NIGHT THOUGHTS.—A. dark and dreary night ; people nestling in their beds or circling late about the fire. Want, colder than charity, shivering at the street corners; church towers humming with the faint vibration of their ton gues, but newly resting from the ghostly parchment " One; The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yes terday ; .the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral feathers, waving to and fro; all hushed, all noiseless, and in deep repose, save the swift clouds that skim across the moon. and the cautious wind, as, creeping after them upon the ground, it stops to listen, and goes rustling on, and stops again, and follows like a savage on the trail. Whither go the clouds and wind so eagerly? If, like guilty spirits, they repair to some dread conference with powers like themselves in what wild region do the elements hold council, or where unbend in terrible disport ?—Martin Chuzzlmvit. THE BUM AND THE LAWYER.—The following 'curious anecdote is related in the Cheltenham ...Examiner, of a gen tleman of the legal profession practising within the circuit,of that town, who was more conversant with the theory of fluents than with Archbold's Reports or Blackstone's Commentaries. Being sorely pressed by the relentless duns, who wished to present certain loving epistles from Queen Victoria. he was regularly run to earth in his two-pair-back, which he denominated Pantile lodge. There he rested, setting the fates and John Doe at defiance for a considerable time, though they knew very well where the game lay, yet failed in every attempt upon him. To all kind messages the reply of the scout was " Gone into the country." Presents from the country sent as a Htsewere returned, indited "Gone" " Run away," " Not found," and other equally agreeable and satisfactory solutions of the problem. The tender of a couple of six and eightpepces, so dear to lawyers' eyes, was virtuously resisted ; our hero bore this state of siege with a constancy which had done honour to General Chasse himself, and the bailiffs were regularly at fault. Matters continued in this state for sonic time, when one day, shortly after noon, a gentle man—a wealthy grazier in appearance—country-built tops, broad brim, and abundance of broad cloth—was seen walk ing leisurely up street; he stopped short a door with the word " Office" thereon, knocked, and his inquiry of the scout, " Mr. within ?" was responded to by the usual answer, " Gone into the country." " Dear me, that's un fortunate; I wanted particularly to consult him (and pulling out a neat bundle, bound with red tape) ; but perhaps you could write to him, if we could get an answer to-morrow ; if not, I must go over to Mr. —." " Stop a minute," says the scout ; " I'll just take the brief to the upper office, and our manager shall look it over." " Oh, oh (thought the grazier) ; here we are, are we ?" The parcel was put into the hands of the scout, who immediately posted up to the office. In the twinkling of a bedpost, the grazier had eased himself of his ponderous boots, and was creeping tiptoe up stairs; and, in a moment more, a gentle tap on the shoulder convinced Mr. that he was unearthed at last, and the brief required very brief examination. That very night Mr. removed from Pantile lodge to very fashionable and commodious apartments in the county town. So, it seem s sometimes the oldest birds may be caught with chaff. IRELAND IN 1689.—500 n after his arrival from France, King James met his parliament in Dublin, on 7th May, which was composed of Papists, who were slaves to his will, many of them descendants of the forfeiting persons of 1641, who had no freehold estates in the kingdom, and made many fine promises to them. The parliament recognised the title of King James, and declared King William an usurper. They repealed the settlement of 1662, under which many thousands of Protestants had purchased possessions, and were now suddenly deprived of them : this was violently pul ling down the pale of the law, in a manner never before heard of among the professors of Christianity. It wounded na tional faith, and stabbed public credit—broke the merchant at home, and defrauded him abroad—ruined the farmer, and impoverished the manufacturer. The rapparees, or armed mob, deprived the Protestants of all their moveable estates; and the parliament deprived them of all their lands and tene ments, which they had wonderfully improved. By this act King James seemed to justify the grand Irish rebellion in. 1641 • and this was followed by an act of attainder, which ex ceeded the proscriptions of Sylla! They attainted of rebel lion no less than 2 archbishops, 1 duke, 16 earls, 20 viscounts, 1 viscountess, 7 bishops, 26 barons, 33 baronets, 51 knights. 83 clergymen, and 2,233 gentlemen, who were all declared traitors, and their estates confiscated or plundered. Tyr connel had £20,000 a year granted him out of the confiscated estates, and the King the same per month. Many hundreds of poor persons were murdered in cold blood by the popish soldiers, while the rich were robbed of their estates, and the popish priests enabled to collect the tithes, which were pay able by papists. The Irish parliament sat only from 7th May to 20th July, and vet, in that short time, they entirely destroyed the settlement of Ireland, by expelling the Pro testant clergy from their livings and the laity from their in heritances—they would have Ireland independent of Eng • land, and wanted to repeal Poyning's act of 1494. Public robberies were committed under the name of free guar terings, and, though protections were sold to the Protestants, they were disregarded by the Papists. The University of Dublin was turned into a garrison, and all the public schools in the kingdom given to Papists, who likewise seized upon all the Protestant churches. The Protestants were at length forbid to assemble together on pain of death, so that it seemed determined to hang one-halt of them and to starve the other. But while they su f fered so much from the parliament of Ireland. their protection was not neglected by the parlia ment of England, who made Irish affairs a considerable article of their proceedings.—Old History. The Auckland Times is described as being " printed in a mangle," and a strange piece of typography it is accordingly. The " sole editor and proprietor, Henry Falwasser," while, in the meantime, taking to himself the humble cognomen of the " Old Lady of the Mangle," expects daily his own press and materials; when, doubtless, the old lady will dispose of her mangle, and purchase something more useful for a print ing office. The style of the Mangle is quite sui generis. It may be observed, that the occasion of ifs being printed by such a machine is stated by the editor to have been the at tempt of the local government to stifle public opinion, by re fusing the proprietor the use of the only printing materials in the settlement, those of the government, as soon as it was perceived that the Times was determined to be very inde pendent in its strictures on public doings and misdoings. The phrases suggested by the peculiar circumstance are very amusing—" We stop the Mangle to announce the arrival of the .St. George."—" The Governor will repent having driven us to the Mangle," &c. We have only room for one charac teristic description :—" Full many a time and oft have we laughed over the distresses of Mantalini and his mangle, as depictured by the inimitable Boz—we did not think this pro cess would so soon fall to our turn—nevertheless any one of our subscribers, who is desirous of satisfying his curiosity, may call in at High-street and see the Times MANGLED. To here and there one, such as are steady and careful, we might entrust the task of mangling their own copy, but the process is a nice one, and must be as warily performed as if the es sential juice of the pine -apple' herself were standing over the performer. Poor Mantalini used to grumble very distaste fully over his mangle, and nothing but the threatened alter native of enlisting, and all the horrors of pipe-clay and paste blacking,'as could keep him steadily to his duty ; but we have no such fastidious distinctions : we consider our mangle an ingenious and an honourable triumph over as contemptible and sneaking attempt to stifle the press as ever was perpe trated; and when we are enabled, by the arrival of the Sham - rock from Sydney, to return in triumph to the full-blown honours of a Columbian or an Albion patent, we shall part, almost with a tear of regret, from the ponderous revolver which has so efficiently mangled our sheets, and other people's would-be despotism, at one and the same time." The typo graphy embraces, sometimes within a single paragraph, almost every specimen in the printer's book. Brevier, nonpareil, large Roman, and italics, mingle together to give force and variety, not only to successive syllables of the same word ; and the want of the small k, in particular, obliging the printers in every place, to make use of the larger Roman K, adds strikingly to the appearance of the page, even although the compositor may be said to be thus reduced to play for ever upon the same KEY. THE APPROACHINGPOLYTECHNIC EXHIBITION AT THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION. We have been favoured with a preliminary peep into se veral of the principal rooms in the Collegiate Institntion appropriated for the approaching grand Polytechnic Exhi bition—to be opened on Monday next,—and from what we have seen, we may safely state that it will be, as a whole, the most extensive, varied, and interesting that has as yet been tot up in any provincial town, and not perhaps excelled in essential points by the most celebrated " galleries" of art and science in the metropolis itself. As the whole of the exten- sive arrangements—in upwards of forty rooms—are not yet completed, and valuable specimens still continue to pour in, it would, of course, be premature in us to attempt to present more than a sl etch of the coming treat Beginning at the top of the noble building, we entered the Picture Gallery, which is about 220 feet in length, and lighted from the roof. Here the collection of pictures occupies ;the entire walls, and amongst them are many of great value. Those of the old masters are fixed on one side; those of the modern school on the other. The variety of subjects is so great, and the manner in which they are in many instances delineated by mastersin the art, that a whole day might well be spent in examining them, in order to appreciate their beauties, and, if you will, their defects. Amongst the mo dern we noticed as excellent, though in various degrees, a large picture of " The Bearing of Christ on the Cross," by the late Hilton, R.A. : A Hunting Piece, by Ansdele ; Bo hemian Gipsies (large), illaclise, A.R.A.; A Flower or Fruit Girl, sent bv J. C. Shaw, Esq., a swee t p or t ra it ; another near it, A Girl, equally soft and beautiful ; Christ's Entry into Jerusalem, a large and splendid pi c ture, by Aglio ; admirable shadowy Portrait of Hogarth in his Study, by himself; scene from the Bride of Lammermuir ; sketch of a Girl and boys at a well—T. S. Cooper; scene of Hamlet and his Mother, with the ghost appearing, small, but a genuine gem, said to be valued at nearly :.£lOO ; Lady at her toilet — the very quality, texture of the satin dress, and covering of the silk cushion on a chair, may be told • " John Gilpin"— apparently by Wilkie,—full of life and character; entry of the Sovereign into Edinburgh—Eubank, 1828; splendid por trait of a Clergyman —name not then marked &c. Amongst the ancient or continental pieces we noticed a beautiful flow . er and an equally excellent fruit piece by Rachel Ruysch, 1710 ; the Alagdalen, (copy) by Sementi, after Guido; a tine small picture by Ochterreldt—a Lady playing the guitar, with listeners &c.; a splendid landscape, by Gaspar Pousin; a small Murillo; one or two fine pictures by Canaletti ; a very large picture —a Lady and attendants with game. fish, fruit, &c., all admirably portrayed. These are but a few and taken almost at random. _ _ A room is appropriated for water-colour drawings, &c., amongst which there are tine specimens, historical and fanci , fill, by Coply Fielding. Prout, Burnett, Harding, Clayton, &c. Also the passing of the Simplon by Buonaparte's troops, by Colonel Batty; sketch of a Brigand, by Cattermole ; splen did plate of the Examination of Shakespeare in his youth, for deer-stealing, &e, &e. In the Sculpture gallery are some excellent figures in plas ter, from ancient classical marbles, also a few in marble— including a fir head of Sappho, by Nolekhis fine figures of Venus, Psyche, &c The are. also of public buildings which we have seen before - , nd many new and fine specimens in wood, marble, and composition. The Temple of Minerva at Athens; the Cathedral at Flo rence; the Hanging Tower at Pisa ; the Parthenon at Rome and that of Athens; the Temple of Vista Tivoli, and others are beautiful. One room will be occupied by a rare collection of Chinese curiosities and paintings. Another will contain Dr. Raffles valuable collection of autographs ; another for philosophical apparatus, including the electro-magnetic telegraph, and here illustrations of electricity and galvanism will constantly be given. Letter-press, copper-plate, and lithographic printing will be practically exhibited, with the most improved presses. Another apartment is filled with beautiful working models of steam-engines, locomotives, and other machinery, some set in motion by their own steam ; others by a shaft communicating with a steam-engine four-horse power out side the building, kindly. lent by Mr. Tomkinsou. In the board-room are all the fine pictures of royal and distinguished personages from the Town-hall. The large pic ture of the Duke of Wellington, and his horse, by Haydon ; a marble bust of John Foster, Esq. ; a bust of the Reverend Rector Brooks; fine picture of George Canning; portraits of Lord Stanley, Charles 11., &c., &c. One of the n;ost interesting rooms is that appropriated to the nautical department. It is fitted with models ofall sorts of vessels, of all countries and all ages, with many beautiful specimens of the most approved naval architecture of the day, most of which have been contributed by our townsmen, celebrated in the art. Here, too, is the splendid and unique collection of models belonging to Thomas Wilson, Esq., shipbuilder,—about forty in number, in an immense glass case, and considered the finest i n th e kingdom. In a room below, devoted to real navigation and hydraulics, there is a canal and circular basin, the latter eighteen feet in diameter. Here a regular ship launch will be shewn four times a day, by Mr. Melling, professor of naval architecture to the Insti tution' and who has contribut e d man y b eau tif u l mo d e l s b u il t as real ships. I n the basin, steam ships, boats with paddle wheels, or screws, will be constantly in rapid motion on the water. Here, too, will be shewn numerous fine water wheels, pumps, and other hydraulic apparatus, including many new inventions. . room will be fitted up as a baronial ball, with ancient In another there is a large circular mil li run rapidly by its way, upon which ine locomotive v own steam Here too, there are some curious railway In the operative illustration of trades and manufactures, the exhibitio❑ will be peculiarly attractive. Weaving will be shown by the Jacquard loom—also Paisley shawl weaving, The looms , and ate most complex and e rnakitk shown the grand panorama of the . - by Danson (and, in a large room model of Hobart Town, with every .house, and with the shipping in the harbour, floating in real water; also a panoramic view of Sydney. On the first land ing of the great staircase, there is a large fountain, rising from a stone pillar and basin, with a circular sheet of water below 13 feet in circumference, in which are figures of Nep tune's.sea-horse, &c. The space An each sidels filled with exotics, and haWa delightful effect: . The museums of natural history, antiquities, and curiosi . . _ ties, is most extensive, and includes many rare specimens. But we have not space to particularize, and must for the pre sent conclude, by recommending an early visit, confident •as we are, that the exhibition will at once astonish and gratify. The largest picture in the exhibition is the gallery painting of " The Battle of Agincourt," which was exhibited in Lon don last year, where it was highly commended by connois seurs, aed by the public press. It is the production of our clever townsman, Mr. Henry Melling, and exhibits great still in the highest or historical branch of the art ; great fi delity and comprehension as to facts, and indomitable per severence in execution. It covers no less a space than 30 feet of canvas! We shall have occasion to recur to this pic ture, and to furnish some brief notice of the circumstance that roused the laudable ambition of the artist to conceive and accomplish so gigantic an undertaking. In January. 1840, there were in the army—of Englishmen, 51,559 ; of Scotsmen, 15,232 ; of Irishmen, 41,218. The landlords in the north of ,England are very generally making a reduction of 10 percent, upon the rental of ordi- nary farms. DEATH OF THE REV. DR. FLETCHEIL.—We have this momeut received the melancholy intelligence of the death of the Rev. Dr. Flete'ner, after a long , and painful illness.— London Patriot. A person of the name of Tozer, at Teiging race, in Devon shire, has caught a cuckoo, a n d pl ace d it in a cage. The bird is hung outside his house during the day, and early in the morning repeats its characteristic note. It is a curious fact that part of the bird's food is regularly brought to it by a linnet. On Wed ..esday evening Drury-lane Theatre was closed for the season, and according to the Morning Herald, it may turn out for many seasons. It has been under the manage ment of Mr. Macready, and though that gentleman is such a favorite with the public, the season has been most unfortu nate for him. DRUILY-LANE THEATRE.—The very rare occurrence of a royal command on Monday night produced what isillmost as rare—a house overflowingly full in every part. The royal party, occupying eight carriages, came in state, her Majesty being escorted by a troop of horse guards. The cortege ar shortly before seven o'clock, so as to enable the curtain, on her Majesty and suite entering the box, to rise punctually at the accustomed hour. The performances commanded con sisted of Shakspere's delightful comedy of As You Like It, which the lessee has gotten up during the season with so much good taste ; and young Morton's very laughable farce of A Thumping Legacy. The Queen, and her royal consort both of whom we are happy to say are looking ha the best health, seemed much pleased with the performances, to which throughout they paid the greatest attention, but more parti cularly with the farce, and the acting of liitle Keeley, at which they both laughed most heartily. Before the com mencement of the play, and at the conclusion of the enter tainment, the national anthem was sung by Misses Rainforth. M. C. Hawes, P. Horton, Messrs. Allen and Stretton, and other vocalists of the establishment, which was loudly re iterated by the audience, who also heartily cheered the royal party on its arrival and departure. Her Majesty, who was attired in black velvet, with the riband of the garter, wore a splendid tiara, necklace, and armlet of most costly dia monds, with clusters of the same down the front. His royal highness Prince Albert wore a field marshal's uniform, with the riband badge, and star of the garter. THE LANCASHIRE DISSENTERS AND THE FACTORY BILL.—On Monday last a meeting of dissenters, consisting of what are termed " delegates" from the principal towns of Lancashire, was held in an independent chapel at Newton-in the-Willows, for the purpose of giving their opposition to the educational clauses of the factory bill a new form, although these same persons have met, scolded;: petitioned, and me morialized in some dozen other places on the same subject. Dr. Halley, an independent preacher, was called to the chair, and the number of persons present was about 200, embracing, however, no individual of note, and not one Wesleyan Me thodist. It is not at all necessary to trouble our readers with the oratory or the resolutions. It is enough to say that a memorial to the members of :the Commons connected with Lancashire was agreed to, calling on them to oppose Sir Jas. Graham on the lath instant ; and should the bill get over the next stage, then her majesty is to be memorialized to dissolve parliament, and take the opinion of the people at large, rather than permit the bill to become the law of the land. A third resolution was adopted, to the effect that those pre sent pledged themselves not to vote for any parliamentary candidate who would not unequivocally declare his hostility to Sir James Graham's bill. Although this affair was got up with a flourish of trumpets, it was only a poor " demon stration," 'and we apprehend that the county and borough members connected with Lancashire, and her Majesty the Queen, should she be memorialised as threatened, will avail themselves of their civil and religious liberty to think for themselves on the subject. EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—On Wednesday evening Mr. Payne held an inquest at the Joiners' Arms, Westmin ster-road, London, on view of the body of Thomas Morris, aged 48. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased was an upholsterer residing at No. 1, Hatfield-place, West minster-road, and that about eleven o'clock on Monday night last deceased was found by his son suspended by a rope from a hook in the kitchen ceiling. He was quite cold, and had evidently been dead several hours. Two papers were found pinned on his back. On one of them was written in his own handwriting, " The victim of neglect and base cruelty. Wretches! Let your mercenary hearts look at your own doings." The writing on the second paper purported to be a letter to the coroner, and ran thus :—" Shameful ill treatment is the cause of this. Let them glut their eyes with the sitglit of .my carcase. Let the wretches have it to make soup of, or roast, or broil, after it has been used for scientific purposes. They have brought me to an untimely end, a man who, with proper treatment, would have been a respectable member of society." The coroner, after reading the fore going, observed that there could be no doubt as to the dis ordeiTd state of deceased's mind.- Several witnesses were examined for the purpose of discovering who the persons were to whom deceased might have alluded in the above scroll, but without success. No further cause of grievance could be ascertained, except that of abuse from some neigh bours in consequence of dec ease d' s d run k en h a bi ts, b e b e i ng hardly ever s o b er . The Jury, after a few moments delibera tion, returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity." 4'' r -.:' , •ieiy: I P se i s n °t°A I C n le o t ir Comes- street, :' ‘is l8"111 911. 5 c t k r , e e s ts,l;oi tol ti c i . o - f he perceived 4 which he at Cooban, side ltthwe of the soon brewery Y t the west officer Y D E STRUCTIVE s te 2 r s dy w s morning, g eg abort hislil Eh roundsallfl aSse e ° n second floor Richmond-row, in the north part of the town, - smoke issuing from the west side of the street whieltreet, p t p h o e se , d , a r s ol h ro t m T t a l: i e eri b i, r , e , fisnaermsxttetsoustreet, and corner of Richmond-row. afterwards found that it issued chiefly from one o f floor windows of the extensive and well-built p re mises Messrs. Thomas & Henry Croft, soap manufacture rs, coreus next to the brewery, and which, with a fine frontage to are bounded on the north end by Bent-street, d ow n nearly parallel with Richmond-row into Scotland place. place. Ile inuxiediately passed word to the fi re - po li ce s . sta tion, and in a very short time two fire - engines and four water- car t s were brought to the spot , and these were shortly after wards followed by s i x other en g ines a nd a strong body of fi r emen. Meantime police-officer Holding, (307,) who live in the neighbourhoo d, and had been called u p about a quar ters before two o'clock, got to the ground, and then found the place almost in a general blaze, the flames bursting from the windows of the three lower stories—such was the com bustible nature of the mateiials within. He got the plugs all in readiness for the engines, and as there was a good sup ply of water from the mains in that quarter, but for the great rapidity of the fire its progress might have been arrested. When, however, Mr. Hewitt reached the ground, such was its intensity within the building, that it was deemed practicable only to confine it to the works in which it origi nated, and to save the adjacent buildings, in Comus-street and Bent-street. The interior of the soap works was com pletely burnt down, with nearly all its valuable contents. The roof of Mr. Cooban's brewery, which is separated film the soap-works by a narrow cart passage, had caught file from the (south) gable end windows of the latter, and this was by great exertions kept down, otherwise the whole of the upper story of two being the cooling-room, with blind windows of wood—would have been consumed, and in all probability the public-house also. The wind was from about the E.N.E., and threw the flames in the direction of those buildings, but it varied considerable, or rather drafted in different directions during the heat of the conflagra tion, which was very soon so great that the flames burst from back, front, and ends of the soapery ; even tually ignited two of the opposite houses, (east side of Comus-street,) blistered the woodwork of two others adjoin ing; and, about the same time, set tire to several of the houses opposite the end, and on the north side of, Bent street. The inhabitants had timely notice of their danger, and removed precipitately what furniture and other articles they could carry off, at the necessary expense of much break age, destruction, and pilferage. The main portion of the soap-works consisted of an oblong square building of four lofty stories in height, with a handsome facade to Comus street, built of patent bricks with a massive stone cornicing and blocking, and ornamented with a surmounting centre piece of the same material. The premises were, we learn, of the most approved construction in every point, forming, in tldosewtede, i completeit , n o v np eawiniesd i mmense additioneicmph p l aced architectural a t mr o cocnvdeeyidns ttofartksianonfo efa a r d otahi o : ei r cd n o p al kinda r wes te n fo t ic corners 1 e n ,t e h ofe kingdom.the moat an rs d tapering to the walls. These each of about, we should think, 160 to 180 feet in height withstood the effects of the raging element, and are yet upright and apparently uninjured. Behind this part of the premises and adjoining them on the west, were other extensive bnildings of lower elevation. From these last, on the south, rose three small square chimneys, and the north part was occupied as a yard, with cart sheds &O. opening to Bent street. The fire soon found its way in this direction also, and the whole was burned down, the chimneys alone remain ing. Bounding the whole area, thus occupied, on the west there is a small street or passage called Albion Mill place, on the west side of which there are two cottages, next Bent street ; further on another brewery and yard attached, and further still (towards Richmond-row), a cotton warehouse, forinely known as " the old Porter brewery," and containing 6,000 to 7,000 bales. This last was iu great danger during the height of the fire, the windows, the shutters of which are of wood, being left open and the flames passing in that direction Shortly before the engines got up, Mr. Allen, of the Gas light Tavern, was roused from his bed, and on looking out of the window was nearly suffocrted by smoke. He half dressed himself, and hastened with his family out of the house, from which some beds, bedding, &c., were thrown into the street, across which the flames by that time passed. Mr. Whitty was amongst the first on the spot, and used his accustomed discretion. Our worthy mayor, hearing of the fire, came up about half-past three o'clock, and exerted himself with a coolness and intrepidity in giving directions which we have heard highly commended by all parties, and especially by men of ex p erience in the fire-police. The flames from the burning building, fronting C omes . intense for a considerable time. The articles street, were, from its great extent, and the nature of its contents, most and of the articles used in soap-making. The alkalis were, consisted of large quantities of tailow, oils, including palm oil,of course, not combustible, but the oily substances, raw or manufactured, produced a blaze that was altogether uncoi l _ trollable. About half-past four o clock, the roof and floors having all fallen, a n d the bornd timber in the walls having been burnt out, t he cen t re part of the wall of the fa ç ade fell from to p t o ' Cornus-street, filling it across with immense Some of these blocks of stone would weigh upwards stonesfrom the cornicing and blocking, comingled with of a ton each, and bottom bricks. into such was the blow on the ground from the materials, that a shock was felt inall the teetsoNfv was apsrteoe: p. : t , a t 0 get' away. roll in asfar as Rose-hill . i . Several of R h'll S 1 9 sca pe,'' havingscarcely muroiemdeni li t 9 had a aggregate weight who with their lives—officers Dixon, Hodg close under or near the wall, and Bell, in particular. Dixon was ie . son, Nelson, Little, was engaged with one of the engine thetv h e the r yfi narrow r fire-police, neighbouringpelie escapee g , h t o h f o the u w s e e s r , imminent danger. II?, of harm's way mass fell upon time to get out occupied. Mr. \Vhitty, too, had also the spot he had before left Hodgson.. . nearly got his pipes, and bad a truly hair-breadth betbret the whole • ted against the cellar window and qui j c u lt s t t s at Ftloliusrfilreen—gtteslolarvihnogsejuwstertelieb h d th - • cottage -house ,_. smas e em in, with The premises were vaulted beneath. One of the the door ruins. o and rolling into the cell • between them, . • . ai the strong post b bu ro g k e e s a to lo which the inhabitants, who had pre warehouse, or rather soap- A. hay-loft and sta ble fled, had not timeo tire, but it was soon extinguished. ble contiguous also to After the fall —showing ~utted—the gable ends, a portion of f opposite c at each end, sta ll of shis,front part of the works, cry, to be corriple , oe , el ie‘ l l : i o e l d e to them at the angles, the greater part remained ~lo n e standing. p or _ h" ' from time to • and the two tall c . nce fallen time, and the Lions of these have s; leaving portions of it at the h cracked, the front, fine brick work is muemaining stone cornieing and blocking top, and also of the Fe position. The flames that clipped of the back wll hanging in threateninZe n f ti, building have left the bricks an d round the angle s - lour, probably the e ff ect of the com - stones tio f th e oil and a ai. l i c e Air. Ileeitt of the fire had a narr- police, lin' - n ° ef ~t v ell of the fire-ot fi ce, ow escape ' in and Mr- , --a - • the falling of some large slates. behind, from . the lane .i. y et been enabled to obtain any authentic We bare n-- - . Me building was costly, as were also estimate of the lossats, boilers, &c., and the stock was large. the implements — whole stated at from X 24,000 to £27,000, We have the of a bluish lead co but hope l fthe value stated was insured; an d is above the mark. We have also heard that little above oh d underwritten for £7OOO ; and the Sun Phan gam that the the same a mount; and the West of England —no liabilities. ,_,,,,,s titv of tallow, &c., in the cellars, which 'dermal" - n ' the ' d ft of the flames, was saved A cons' .ted by mra had become igni 0 _ f the lire-police in throwing water upon by the exertions he valuable pans, vats, &c., were destroyed for about it; but many of t rearshisaae.ha or injured. „.„ l ear n, the fire was first seen in the story ear the ground, II From what we ''''''c entre of the main front. The next abo ve • fires were at a —ll5l d in the yard behind, there being, we , 0 derable distance from this spot, uuder a A fires or f urnaces under or in the main are informee , took fire. This has given rise to a painful, premises that ded suspicion that the destruction Premi well-founded and, Per ha P ''cliarism. arose fro incen n this, as on former occasions, did their The police force 0 yed present superintendents Leverett, We observed inspectors Burton, Smith, and utmost. and shed, and under grotto , most anxious and active. others—a ' ll of whom were ----9---"" ------- _ Brown, and Jones, a tea last rather e s t r p2o.—rtiTobne foduenlidvebruieyserosf ...--_ week were 488,6001 b. The trade has been dull, and at the juneprol THE TEA TEAVEr BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, June 9.—The raw sugar mar ketlpouwbel i r e r : t a e l essgeonnel r y a a il y s . m all is steady ; the sales since our last report amount not to o about 400 h o gsheads W est India, at prices which were btain able last week. In Mauritius and Bengal s the sales are limi ted.—ln rums there is no doing for want of a supply —Average price of sugar, June 6th, is 355. 5.1 d. per cwt. . A person named Duff. residing in Pulteneytown, described. as a renovator of old clothes, appealed against a charge ma d e by the assessor, of a dog, alleged to be kept by him. He '' Keep a exclaimed Mr. Duff: " No, d'ye think dwoagsla,s,k jeodditgvoatohetlyboard if he did not keep a dog ? I'd keep a dog to support the present ministry ? I should ra ther think not!"—(Roars of laughter.) The assessor not being able to rebut Mr. Duff's statement, the appeal was sustained on reference to his oath'—John o'Groat,s J our- Wednesday along inquiry laamm epd- M.P., and a respect tookmost,otlcikE'aa.kl iArms,ie°nY infant an t aged six Exmouth -street a n residing T nhieg ui itl in a th t e Fl nal. by him on deceaasmecr's lleged to have been killed by weeks , to bail by to the await the various sa tbe S l aeud placeo. urcolxyaGot beforen O ti 1 itceh,c,eE,;:ihatotom;sTEoy a:. Harriet Harper, r. C. steathroad, in an assault committed father on the night of Sunday last. considerable interest, Mr. Evans having been held excited Evans, an extensive potato salesman the magistrates of the Marylebone police-cour o t f result of this inquiry. From the evidence witnesses it appeared that on Saturday 1, after ten o'clock, the mother of the deceased, acco , shortlY. anied by her husbaud, went into Mr. Evan's shop to purchas m e li potatoes, at which time the deceased was at its mother's oe breast. The potatoes having been purchased, Harper found his wife's basket would not contain the whole of them found his wile's basltt gould riot contain the whole of them, and commenced taking those over the numbre it would contain out of the scale. and placing them in his pocket. Whilst doing this, Dl r. Evans, who had been serving in another part of the shop, o b s erved Harper, and at once challen ed with stealing the potatoes. Harper denied it g inm some words ensued between them, and Mr. Evans struck ' Harper so violent a blow that he staggered against his * to gether with her child, fell into a basket wife, who, standing near, and the father on the top of her and her deceased child. A:wit ness n amed Jacobs swore positively that Mr. Evans used the grea t es t violence, and that after Harper had fallen over his wife and child , he dragged by the collar out of the shop, and again struck him so violent a blow as to knock him down on the pasrement. Extraordinaryto f relate, the mother did not think of looking to the safety arr o ival a the at ho m e deceased it .a t a tl i e se time o t i the occurrence, but on her by a lodger to be dead. The coro ner said, with such a s o e v r7o re u s charge as the present against Mr. Evans, it was impossible that they could come to a conclusion without a post mortens examination of the deceased's body, and he should have as to adjourn the inquiry for that purpose; as Mr. Evans w, however, present, be (th e coroner) would hear any state ment he might have to make. Mr. Evans i s did stated that he ob- not ser ved the deceased's father putting potatoes wh belong to him into his pocket. Harper and his wife were both intoxicated, and when be challenged the former with the theft, he used abusive language, and sparred up to him. He insisted on seeing how many more potatoes Harper had in his possession than he had the • and, notwithstanding lie kept throwing them on the floor, when weighed there were still found four potatoes more in his possession than had been weighed to him. When Harper sparred up to him, he certainly struck him. The inquiry was then adjourned. The Courrier Francais states, " that in consequence of the graniteimmens mptio in the fortifications of Paris, the quarries of g in the neighbourhood of the capital have become completely exhausted• That article is not to be pro cured now except at an enormous price." A letter from Rome states that swarms of locusts have made their appearance in many parts of the Papal . territory and caused enormous devastation ; and according to a letter , from A l ex andria, of the 24t of locusts h large portion of Egypt has been ravaged by swarms .. The Conservators Royal Library at Munich—a vast collection. hi c o o nsists of upwards of 500,000 print e d volumes (pamphlet s, it is said, notincluded) and 10,000 man usr ipts—bave been, since the first of May, en gage d i n it s removal to t he palace, lately built for its reception. This consists operat i on is now n earl y completed: and the public , it is expeep ted w ill be admitted to the w new building early i n August.