The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-12-18 00:00:00

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St. riul" Farces is Master Of Wilts, )1: dd-111aWr, lnd South he Society ear North ;ton, near resilford, of Christ iuffolk• Holt. k.- )rnerset. kcheston► nt-squar e ❑,. to the iornerset, Lyclford, ?,astln di Co l~-ille. the new Tfo ll4- ChU rCl, a Of St. with tlie nth %Oh ~e, near .onler" t. i-sorton" pritifi ll )clir l ' eSr leY, diatioVY JO s ill, the- n . , near a edensort Piisltoo, ,ble, %/it° the atheW'St Rlakelf aze• Cazole J for 36 st (loot c.e Bed " eet °l4' loth v 1 - Earl u' on lA. iVb o b",..„ 4 eci M leP- of s hop , Vf iff f o• Con 14 ,. 0 1' ‘ of he P'd DECEMBER 18, 1855.] LOCAL INT_ELLIGENCE. eee Ik A l s ,. l s cliff' erenees hitherto existing between the =City of L:1 11 1 Steam-packet Company and the Liverpool Screw 1-1; 1 7' 111 4) Company have been arranged to the full 'satisfae ,.. of both. si ps , e s , Nalsesseert OP NEWSPAPERS, &c.—By a Treasury war 5, dated December 7, the rate of postage chargeable on 11, 1 !papers transmitted from the united kingdom to any : 48 h colony or foreign ports, viii Panama, shall be ld. each. colonial newspapers between one British colony and `uetlier ' ll viol Panama, ld. each. On foreign newspapers, ld. . le tz PROVEMENTS IN WATER-STDEET. 7 WOrkIIIeII are now a t laged in taking do wn th e ware h ouse i a t th e f oo t o f Water eet, which were formerly occupied by Messrs. Bailey ,jothers, for the purpose of widening the street. The Liver ct7,d Arms Hotel, and the warehouses at the corner of the tse ee ve t m , q will also reuire removal before this much-needed lin ent can be fully accomplished. v i ,„„ li tE ROZIIDALE MURDERER.—Soon after Jonathan Hey- Z"uu Was cond emne d f or th e mur d er of M argare t J ones, h e ed to one of the gaolers and said, " I'm going to be s s , ged. After I'm dead I should like to be buried with 1 7:Raret Jones, in the cemetery at Rochdale." It need k s kelY be added, that of course no attention can be given to b,,,eu a request, the sentence being that his body shall be den within the precincts of the gaol in which he shall have en cdnfined after his condemnation. si&l.sccinnees.—On Wednesday, a woman named Mary s ? 'leo was knocked down by a drunken man, at the Coning isl Dock, and sustained a severe contusion of the hip.—On e s , lar lday, John Smith, a labouring man, fell down whilst in a `e O f intoxication, at the Prince's Dock, and received a is (I: r e scalp wound.—A girl named Mary Tully was on Thurs. e r f emptying some ashes into an ashpit, in Prince's-terrace, ~.4at Howard -street, when an iron grid fell upon her foot arid \I °I two of her toes.—These cases were received at the * 4thern Hospital. st he To WATT, AT MANCRESTER.—A meeting was held tt ,,`'e Town-hall, Manchester, to originate a subscription to t a `„ e ! a statue to •James 'Watt, the inventor of the steam esTo! The statue is to be a copy of the o n e by Ch an t rey , yTestminster Abbey, and is to be placed in the large area loht of the Infirmary, in company with th e s t a t ue o f kington, Peel, and Dalton. Most of 'the leadi ng men ' o f IPZ: s Chester were present, and appeared 'to enter most heartily IjZ the project, which originated in a suggestion from the C'ehester Literary and Philosophical Society. The snb eVions announced at the meeting were 19 of £lO, and 10 la - each. ." 1. SIIIPKEEPER DROWNED IN -Docir.—About midnight on lisses Balch laas, a shipkeeper named Robert M'Avoy, was keeping on board the ship Tribune, lying at the east side of the q; ll swick-dock, when he fell into the water. A customs' t,,,cer named Cornelius O'Donnell heard a splash, and saw the men very near 'to the quay. He handed a plank to him, but p 4 Pade no Attempt to lay hold of it ; lie continued floating, o aad L iv got out in about two or three minutes, but was quite ateis /seem BITENrNG.—On Wednesday Afternoon, a sr: 8 , 11 Years of age, daughter of John Robinson, residing at 4:2 2 , Holly-etreet, was left by her mother alone in the sine, and in about an hour and a-half she observed one of her es;„ 44l sours conveying her daughter to the Dispensary, her t i t 'i s es having caught fire. She was afterwards removed to 4 i tifirnrary, but was so severely burnedthat she died in the p =re l leof "the following night.—Mary Shone, residingwith her ;, I lts, at No. 19, Harding-street, Windsor, was-so seriously Isi"ct'by her 'cleithes taking fire, that sbe died on Wednesday e ll-loon, at four o'clock. 1 0 , 5 ,,. 1 - I )Des DEATH.—Mr. Samuel Nesysham, 'who had been k i t , a solicitor in Southport, and for a number otyears had bied the offieeof clerk to the county - magistrateslor the die ,l4 of North Meols, died suddenly on Wednesday last. He 4 , l st r ecently - teen connected with 'the office of Mr. Welsby, n i `,` , as usual, came down to business about nine o'clock. He titers and. hienrivate office, and it Appears that he opened his s i ,,,'ers and had begun to arrange his papers preparatory to the a r ning's businese About a few minutes to'len o'clock, a ent• entered his office, and found Mr. Newsliam's body re tched et full length on the floor, and quite dead. `e s oehinet-makers in the employ of Messrs. Holden and Fa Cho - evil-street, met on Saturday week, at the Tans t o S hanter, London-road, to .present "'Mr. :Sele, their late h :ernall, a handsome silver watch, with 'a suitabl e i nscr i p ti on, Zevittus to his leaving Liverpool, as a - token of th e hi g h sTeena in which he was held by his fellow-workmen A i'cond compliment, and Itessworthy of acceptance, was „ silre r chain presented by the .apprentices ; and, after '"eral speeches and songs, company --separated, highly We . Pleased with the proceedings. r Ge a i tr l a p r i a , r x - f .;;;A t t e ''9'/ T; e ini C n o t u lff rt of` Chancery, on Wed -1: L sd ox y, a Ar e . . R in this case, who had tPPealed from the decision 'of 'Vice-Chancellor Stuart, pro iounced in February last, dismissing- their bill filed t o se t !Ste the will of th e testator, Thomas - , Ripley, late of Liver ] N 1 ; No . so far as it related tolhe residuary bequest to his widow, Ling contrary to the -etttate of tnortmain, asked, in pur eo7A,. of an arrangement-l e which all parties interested had ; fi tted, that the petition -of appeal might be withdrawn. la t il a l• lordships granted the application on the terms of the "nary legatee paying-costs. li ss `tl'ae ACCIDEICT AT Sax,..—On.Niono.ey last week, Thomas Ita; s 4 rd, 44 years otage, second mate of "'the ship Malakhoff, liir,, , rowned when the vessel was off the Ormshead. The os'" 4 " s tad just come onboard, and the 'deceased was standing Set t le port rail - With a - hundspike in , his hand, in the act-of of t ittle' the anchors orerq9ae bow. In •prising the inner fluke te s ge anchor off the-vessel's bow, the deceased fell headfore k?t on t o the enter 'fitiese, and then -into the water. The I,e', l ' Was reendedimmediatelv, and the eterboard-quarter boat rif Ac hed. The deceased •ava; got on board in about a quarter ta' il l, hour, and every exertion was used' o restore animatio Is o n, s never showed any sign of:life •after being taken •on fait T r ,,, r. , if sc. , A..EPZECRIVIVLTII9I4" OP MANCIIEETER.—The opponents p t , s , e present representatives of Manchester appear to be reiousls- looking out•for suitable candidates, and the names Sir S ir John Potter and 'Mr. Oliver Hey w ood ( o f th e fi rm of th cx tenj ant i n H e y woo d. an d C o ., bankers) are mentioned toas e of gentlementhat are likely to eneure good support. An eedote is current` to the effect that the-d eputation who went to ask Lord Palmerston's Assistance in finding candidates com :sliced by asking -thile noble lord if he would allow his own q, ee to be pint forwardsin the event of !a dissolution ef "the es ent Parliament. ,Lord . Palmerstende said to have good ennlouredly exclaimed; "ire go to 'Manchester, to meet slohr. k ''Rlat. I hawe-quitesenough of him •in- e House of Cern tit(i)tlB !" Nevertheless there is said to bean th intention of put a t the no'le lord -forwerd, without milling upon him 'to ' , Dear personally upon 'the hustings.—DalAt News. ItPaR ENGLISII IVOOLIIEN TRADE.—By-our manufacturing p i . 1, cheap iron and coal, capital and credit, and by a repeal sOn the monopolies anti all duties on raw produce with 4, 1 e1a ou r staple trade •was once fenced round, we are able to , 4 Woollens 'all over the world ; and to buy from Egypt, 44"Yssinia, from Syria, the East Indies, •and all regions where e ll) can live, :anything :which is either !wool or hair, in A 'htion to the Ine qualities obtained from Germany and - L 4 strali a hi Prance on -the contrary, under an absolute ti'stective . system, -foreign %woollen cloth is - loaded with pro ss'itory duties s but,, as the French manufacairers are quite std t o supply Any 'large sudden order fer military cloths I}i'4 bla n k e t s , ‘oranyof the-chap sorts of 'woollen goods, the bench government, -since -the commencement of the war, 1 been obliged -to 'lay out-upwards of £1;000,000 sterling in 6,tish blankets, Tugs, and broadcloth. Petriaps the very p la ', 4 tcoats they lent our troops last winter were spun and g'etl in Yorkshire.—iflouselsold Word*. 4IE SMOKE NTTIBANCE.—'On Wednesday, A preliminary 'tine. of some om f the steam proprietorssof this port , , held at the Commercial Hotel, in Canning-place, to 4 e into eonsideration - themest advisable mode of proceed 144;iti reference to tihe arbitrary law imposed en them, as i 4 aiboat proprietor, Ilay the'aliverpool Health 'Committee, ldee the sanatory Act for the prevention of slflokk. " Mr. fears eveteins who was -called tsars past the ' . to the chair, said that for Pmnr.etors of steamboats had been anxious to et nsume the smok e on board their vessels, but, thosigh every pknown invention had been-tried,:at a great expense, it had een found utterly hiVo sa ib le .to combine consumption of ° v r noke with the generation of .steam in quantities sufficSent to ks l ll - the engines. In ferry steamers running abort trips, 'eh as that from Woodside to 'Liverpool, smoke might be Zlsittned with a loss of steam ..at, the rate of 81bs. in 20Ibs. ; u ,,t !in tug-boats, where great power is often required 'at rts: • te -als and for a s great length of time, it; was i tt , in in rs , r es ,'tically impossible. Several other speakers bore out, the a m "Arlos of the chairman, and it veas,ritimately resolvedthat la,tosarial should be drawu up on-the subject and presented ' A s ‘ lielmtation to the Health Committee. 1 11i 14 0 1 W. NG FIRE AT Ruswoi u !GAT.. — On Monday even leo SAast week, a few minutes after six o'clock, a violent ex- Ps a si nh was heard in Runcorn Gap, antLiestantly the sky for. k6erabmiles around was illuminated by ; .a most brilliant yet, 4 r , l ningeblaze. It was soon diseovered!that the oil and resin la". r ' , B belonging to Mr. D. Fehrman were en fire,, the flames !ottiense, columns ascending in:my-yard:Win height, and ap p 1 , .7: ; i115' -to threaten the range of buildings adjoining, corns std g theleggage departments and stablesof the SL IJelens 4a,',C-arston !Railway Company. However,!lay pulling down tin e of the building and removing the stock of oil, ttirpen- It Co hessin, &e s :the fire was confined to the buildings in which te°comenced,. which are now a heap of ruins. The accident se e :red in consequence of the bursting of :a ;new resin still, is that has not been working more thaina month. The man przarge of the still was just walking away from:it, and had Zis;'eeded about ten yards when the explosion ;took plaee. Is accident to life or limb occurred. Ome man !fell into a IsZ'e reservoir of water near. The yard dog .(a fine animal) t to burnt to deaths-and several people had narrow escapes tin e the falling walls. The o wner i s a t present on the con- Pa i ,nt, and it i s no t ascer t a i na bl e w h e th er the building:is in isi,.ed or no t. The damage done is small compared to ,what! r e ht have been expected. Several hundred barrels of oil, Ne i ' , he., were saved by the activity of hundreds of works (Is , Who were at that time leaving r ne ill age is estimated at between £6oo thei and £l,emplooo.oy meet. st a s ti o 4 seic COMMITTER.—The sveekly meeting was held on 4s,'' s uaY,Turner in the chair. The other Chaloner, members litc,int were Messrs. Shand, Robinson, Palmer, r, esk i4 e l , Anderson, Rounthwaite, Smith, and Evans. The sub- N I loitte e of works submitted plans for laying down lines of k * W aY from the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway across Itit h e i n.t-road, to form a junction at the Bramley-Moore Dock l itk„Lne dock line of railway on a low level, with a recommend lists", that the portion of the line which passed over the estate tl l 4'd be constructed by tbe surveyor, and that a rate be bes s ged to the company to cover the police and other ex lkaa'es--The Warehouse Sub-committee bad nothing to re thi",;". The Harbour-masters' Sub-committee recommended 11/4rsniissal of James Moore, a dock-gateman, at the Canning lioststide Dock ; also that 938 square yards of land at the kitcji end of the Harrington Basin be let to the Harrington 'lls' s , and Iron C ompany a t 2 s. 6d. per squa re yard, subj ec t t o ec'? hths' notice to quit ; and that 885 square yards in the 44,2. 0 ca1ity he let to Todd, Naylor, and Co., on the same 'lf te7s-A not e was read from Captain Schomberg, on behalf li s.• Colonial Land Emigration Commissioners, surrendering 4. 4 1iiii 0 ic al ffice near the Waterloo Dock, used as a place ?f me 4tie t h sPeetion by the medical officers of the commissioners, s (! Nt ss al !king the committee for allowing it to be used.—A viaillwnication was read from Mr. J. W. Green, again corn ,liaß, docks of a charge of £37 for shores used in one of the gra vaaa.ocks in connection with the repairs of the Sierra Ne d that he Chairman said the charges were the usual ones, Zes Brs q s llo redress could be given. —Letters were read from 'ti tt a a s us and Co., and Fowler and Dagnall, applying for a Nkueut berth for their 'Levant steamers in the Wellington ' ,?.0tt.,411 Referred to the Harbourmasters Committee. —M r . 4tas ge o ;eyorted the death of Francis Ssrmes, foreman in 4 a„ellt Of st !_l'ie floating timber, and recommending the appoint tai' rep o ' r tr- Porter, at a salary of 265. per week. -7-Mr. Sloman a ~,,,, ed the IOSS of a horse, caused by the animal treading -''Ke nail. 7148 tunijnate4 the business. THE Bishop of Manchester has presented a donation of 15 guineas to the Bolton Church Institute. THE meeting in favour of the restoration of Poland will take place on Thursday, at the Concert-ball. IT is stated that R. A. Macfie, Esq., of this town, has given £l,OOO in aid of the Presbyterian missions in China. A few years ago Mr. Macfie gave £l,OOO towards the Indian missions. POLL AT ELECTIONS.-It is directed by an order in Council, December 7, that the towns of Longridge and Longton shall be places for polling for the northern division of the county of Lancaster. NEW COUNTY MAGISTRATES.—P. R. Arrowsmith, Esq., ex-mayor of Bolton, Capt. Gray, and Mr. Abraham Brierley, of West-hill, cotton-manufacturer, have been added to the commission of the peace for this county. IN the Bankruptcy Court, on Thursday, there was a divi dend meeting in re Joseph Feeny, when several claims to prove were admitted, and others ordered to stand over until the 4th of January, to which day the meeting was adjourned. , ROYAL INSTITUTION SCHOOL. —On Wednesday, Mr. R. Duckworth, son of Mr. Robinson Duckworth, of this . town, and formerly at this school, was elected Mathematical Exhibi tioner at University College, Oxford. Mr. Duckworth had previously obtained the open scholarship at the same college. A STATEMENT of the debts and liabilities of Mr. Oliver, of Liverpool, has been received. The liabilities 'are about £1,000,000; and the assets, it is to be feared, will not realise more than 2s. 6d. in the pound. THE CITY OP MANCHESTER steamer arrived at Marseilles on the 9th, from the east, with 750 men of various regiments of the French army on board. The • Conte Cavour, a Sardinian steamer, arrived on that day at Marseilles from Kamiesch, bringing home wounded and convalescent soldiers. ON Saturday morninglast, a bare ran into the carpenters' yard belonging to the Bridgewater Trustees, - at - the bottom locks. Poor puss was hotly pursued; she, however, managed to make her escape from the yard, but it was .only out of the frying-pan into the fire, as she ran down the steps "of the graving docks, whence there was no escape, and was speedily captured. THE following patents, among others, were sealed , during the week ending Dec. 8 :—George Frederick Chantrell, of Liverpool, furnace engineer, for improvements in apparatus. applicable to the manufacturelnd revivification of animal or vegetable charcoal ; Joseph Betteley, of Liverpool, chain cable manufacturer, for an improvement in ships' anchors. FIRE IN LOVE-LINE.—A fire broke out about eleven o'clock on Friday morning, in a cotton kiln in Love-lane, at the north end, belonging to Mr. WArdle. Two reels were soon .on the spot, and the fire was extinguiihed in about half an hour. A quantity of cotton was consumed, but the damage done to the premises is very inconsiderable. OPEN CHURCHES.—There is a movement in Manchester, patronised by the Bishop, for erecting, in the more populokis districts of the city, churches entirely free from rented and appropriated sittings. We (Manchester Examiner) learn that some progress has been made hi collecting funds for the Cheetwood district. WEST DERBY GtißDlA:ss.=—At the meeting on Wed nesday, notice was given by Mr. Edwards, that he vvertild, at the next meeting, - move that the salary of Mr. Lythgoe, relieving-officer, be increased from £BO to £lOO per annum. The number of 'paupers relieved durint , the last week Was 4,145, an increase of-253 when compared with the correspond ing week last year. CAUTION TO DEALERS IN l'lsif.—John Burke was brotght up at the Police•court, on Thursday, before Mr. Mansfield, for having 171bs. of unwholesome codfish exposed for sale'in St. John's-market, and fined `9s. 6d.—Mary Ann 'Wright was fined 14e. 6d. for exposing - for sale, at the same place, '9llbs. of unwholesome codfish ; . and Jane Blundell, for exposing for sale, in the same market, 391bs. of unwholesome - eels, was mulct in the penalty of i/4-s. 6d. HrsTomc Socrnry.--L.The second Meeting of the literary section of this society'vms held on Thilisday, at St. George's hall, ,Mr. , Danson in the chair. A resolution expressing the regret , of the society at the death of Mr. ' , Tosnih Brooks Yates was passed. 'he paper for the evening was " The English .Poor-law 'System, viewed in relation 'to Education and Morals," read by the Rev. Mr. Moore. ) A. discussion fol lowed 'tie reading - of the paper, in which Mr. Buxton, the Rev. 'Dr. Hume, the chairman and other members, took part. fi CUNARD'STEAM-SHIP PERSIA, was launched last summer, at Glasgow, is now nearly ready for sea, and is expeOxd to sail ence for New rock on the-2F;th of January. next. The Persia is built .and i tof isroet,piesetlaed to rger: i t n h a a k n e anyino more f ra l vi l Majesty's ships'tf war, passages between this and America than any other steamer afloat has done. Her engines were tried at 'Glasgow last week, and we undersiAnd that they wetted adiniixibly. Comm o d ore •Judkins, late of the Arabia, is to command - the Persia. ARCHITECTrRAL AND AE.CEZOLOtiIeeL SOCIETY.—The 'meting of this society was held on Wednesday, at the Royal Institution, Colquitt-street. Mr, J. 4ltray, the president, e.--rupied therhair, . Mr. John Gibhs,'Aigburth, was elected an associate member. Several donations of an interesting Character were presented to the society. After the ordinary. :business had -been disposed of, the risen on on the paperrtad lyy Mr. Huggins at the last meeting, .was resumed, and kept :-1p with great spirit until the zneetingnejourned. NOVEL 'SURPRISE. —On Thursday might, a young 'thief ikcrept into a house in Blackpool, for - the purpose of plunder. He made is entry through a bedroom window, and, while groping about in the dark, he accidentally thrust his fingers into the .open mouth of the owner of the house, who was in bed and 46:cep. He sudderly.awOke, and, snapping at the - fingers, bit them so severely that the intruder, uttering a loud cry, rushed back to the window, made his exit through it, and escaped. He has since been eaptured.—Darliargton, Times, •TELEJWTE Jos= BROOKS Yxams.—The death of Mr. Joseph Breoks Yates is announced.-in our obituary. His long !life was spent in Liverpool, where the name he bore has long i been asseCiated with the intellect and respectability of the -town. He was originally a prosperous merchant, but afflu ' tnceenabled him to retire, several years ago, from business. His leisure was not unprofitable.; for he devoted himself "to I:archseology, and, latterly, took ,a prominent part in .our i literary-and philosophical associations. At the recent meet , ing of the British Association, at Glasgow, he read several elaborate papers. MAxL-Szavicn wizzr Axtanie.t..--Our readers are well ac quaintedwith the facts which ledto the interruption of .the mail service with the United States last year, several of the vessels- of the Cunard line being 'required in the transport service: -so that, instead of having three communications .-every , fortnight with America, we have had for a year .only,a .weekly mail. We are glad, however, to find, that in January nextilhekCunard steamers will run .every week, and the 'Col dins-stermships every alternate week. Mn.( GraGsox AND Ma. Honsax.—After the unpleasant :scene :at, the town council, on Wednesday week, Mr..J. Buck Lley(l,,as the mutual friend of Mr. Gregson and Mr. Hodson, Interposed his good offices, and - the following letter terminated the affair.::—"Sir,—A communication has been made to me, thattyou desire a written withdrawal of the words regarding -you whichl used at the council oulcednesday last. Haviag :at - the moment, at the request of . the mayor, withdrawn the (expression, I at once accede to -your wish, and express ;regret 'that ,I-should, contrary to the accustomed rules of public , debate,..and lin the excitement of theanament, have made ,use ofan expression personal and offensive - to you, and which I freely withdraw.—M. GREGSON, Toxteth-park." Ro;vil.z. , ..ltsrxruTiox Somoom.---oan Thursday the annual ,ffistribution. of prizes to the boys ,conneeted with the Royal Institutior,sehools took place in the-theatre of the Royal Institution,YColquitt-street. I.l.r..Sandbath occupied the,ehair. 'The prizes ,were delivered by the :Lord Bishop of Chester: Prior to the delivery of the prizes, :a variety of speeches were recited bytherboys. The Bishop, yin presenting the prizes to the •suceessful competitors, addressed some appropriate remarks to each. Afterwards the company :proceeded to view a fine collection ofxlvawings by the boys of •the ,school, under the instruction of }Mr. Win. L. Kerry, the iiravring-master of the Royal institution. SHORT TIME MOVEMENT AT 0.1431CA7 .—We understand that about thirty firms, producing an .aggregate of about 120,0001b5. of yarn weekly, have signed:a declaration to work who from decline to .szn tiiy-e till dark for one month. Many others say that tiles will join the movement should it becomegetterst. It is stated that Messrs. Worthing ton and Sons, of '.lioninwood, 3fe*ers. J. Brideoake and Bro thers, of Waterhead, and :Messrs. Radcliffe and Sons, so far as regards their loine, commenced working.short time two or three weeks since. ilt is pretty certain that an Monday next there will be a commencement of short time 44y a number of firms; but to what extent it will reach mmainst to be seen.- 2 1 Ianchesler Gsardian. DISPUTED RIG 11.(1 ,TO BA.NICRUPT'S PLorDuAY. — .MATHER v. PRASER.—On the 10th, this case came before-Sir W. Page Wood, in the Vice , Cbancellor's Court. The ,plaintiffs are Messrs. John and William Mather, of Livaipool : ; .tire defend ;ants are Mr. John Fraser, lair. P. Thompson, and foot. others, ;the assignees of Jahn arid George Barton, of Manchester, ,eopper-roller manufacturers, who have been declared bank rupts. Mr. Rolt, for -the plaintiffs,- moved to continue the injunction which had already been granted, restrainin the defendants from removing from a manufactory, the Brough ' tomnCopper Works, the machinery which was thereunto Axed, the : plaintiffs claiming as mortgagees. Mr.-Daniell, for -the assignees, consented that the question as to the right-to-the machinery shoUld, be disoussed .on a motion for a decree, .the injunction being continued in the interim. 'biz ;Lords Justices of Appeal have reversed the,decis.ion Tof one of the Commissioners of the Liverpool Court of Bank ruptcy, granting a third-class certificate to a bankrupt-named Strong, after six months' suspensionomith protection for one month. It-appeared that the bankrupt : was the owner of the British Dominions, steam-tug, of 'the port of Liverpool, and the allegations.of the petition of appeal were that the bank rupt had Made false representations as to the state of his pro perty in order.to.deceive his creditors; that, having sold his ship for Onlyt7oo 4 -her value being £1,400, he had paid off a mortgage of £4OO out of the proceeds; but fore disposition of the residue thereof be could only account by a statement that having carried it about in his pocket, and having become An several occasions intoxicated, he had lost it,; lastly, the petition alleged that he had removed his furnitureinto a house under a false name, in order to conceal it from hie .areditors. Their lordships decided that the case was one in which they could not grant either a certificate or protection. HEALTH COMMITTEE.:—The weekly meeting was held on Thursday, Mr. Richard Shiel in the chair. A deputation from the steam-tug proprietors on the river appeared before the committee, and Mr. Watkins, on behalf of the body, pre sented a memorial. After some conversation between the members of the committee and those of the deputation, the latter retired, and the subject of the memorial was referred to the SmOke Committee. The other business was of the usual routine character.—The Medical Officer reports that the mortality of the borough for the preceding week was about ten per cent. in excess of the average mortality in the same week of the • preceding seven years. The registered ddaths were 257. The excess was caused by the unusual prevalence of scarlatina ' measles, and hooping cough. Of these three diseases 74 fatal cases were recorded, viz., of scarlatina 38, measles 20, hooping cough .16. The deaths from measles were more numerous than in . any week for the previous 17 months, and from hooping cough more than in any week since the beginning of January. Scarlatina has now been epidemic upwards of three months, and since the first week of Sept. has destroyed more than 500 lives. From other diseases of the zymotic class, 22 deaths were recorded, including eight from typhus, two from syphilis, one, from small pox, and one from mumps. From diseases of the lungs and consumption, 82 deaths were registereKL_Of ,the total 270 deaths, 173 were children ; and of these 154 were below five years of age. The mean temperature of the week was 40 9.10 degrees, being more than two degrees below the average. The mean hori zontal motion of the air was ' 412 daily, 100 miles more than the average. Rain fell on three (lays of the week. The total amount was 18-100 of an inch. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. GAROTTE ROBBERT.—P. Irvine and George Wl:lowan were charged, at the Police-court, on Saturday, with a garotte robbery :—Thomas Anderson, a lamplighter, stated that he was going along St. Andrew-street, about three o'clock in the morning, when the prisoners suddenly seized hold of him, and while one of them held him by the throat, the other rifled his pockets of a tobacco-box,a knife, and sixpence worth of copper. The prisoners, who attempted to prove an alibi, were remanded for seven days. LIVERPOOL SESSIONS.—At the opening of the adjourned Court of Quarter Sessions, on Friday, the Recorder, Gilbert Henderson, Esq., in charging the grand jury, said—" After a short lapse of time, I find the names of fifty-nine prisone rs committed for trial. This number is moderate, and may be considered as satisfactory, as far as it goes, as the calendar alone is no criterion of the general state of crime in the borough. But, for reasons which I do not intend now to enter into, I am well aware that is not the case ; and we cannot infer, because the calendar is light, that the amount of crime in the borough is small." The trial of prisoners was then proceeded with. LADIES' SOCIETY FOR CLOTHING THE SCOTTISH POOR.— The annual sale of clothing in connection with this admirable society took place on Friday, in the Assembly Rooms, Great George-street. The object of the society is to supply the poor with work, more especially during the inclemency of the win ter season. Such au object deserves every support; and it is not without regret that we add that the very unfavourable state of the weather on Friday prevented the sale being as successful as it has been in previous years. A number of articles are on hand ; and those who are desirous of aiding so deserving a society may be pleased to know that the articles on hand will be offered for sale on each Monday, in the - Vestry of St. George's Presbyterian Church, Myrtle-street. THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS.—A meeting of delegates from several towns was held in Derby on Wednesday, for the purpose of forming a " Licensed Victuallers' Defence League." Mr. Foster, of London, and Mr. Luce, of Hampton Court, thought that as the objects of the meeting appeared to be identical with those of the Licensed Victuallers' Defence League recently formed in London, it was not quite clear why that meeting had been called. Mr. Foster spoke at consider able length on the necessity of having the executive, and also the central offices, in London—more particularly on account of the parliamentary business to be - transacted. If there were two leagues, the interest would be divided. After consider .able discussion, the London and Liverpool deputation left the room ; but the resolution was carried by a majority of thir teen to two. Novsi STYLE OF ROBEEIM—St the Police-court, on Saturday., James Hammer, who sand he was a woolcomber, from Bradford, was charged with entering the house of Mr. J. B. Palmer, innkeeper, Waterloo-road, under the following extraordinary circumstances Palmer said that, about nine o'clock on Friday night, he was told by a neighbour, that somebody had broken into the house by the bedroom windows. 'On going up stairs he found his wife and another female in the bedroom, and the prisoner concealed behind the head of the bed, crying out for merer. The prisoner, in his defence, said that he had been doing'nothing for nine days, and at last 'he determined - to steal some lead from the roof of prosecnter's =house, and to sell it. While on the roof he felt himself fall ing, so he caught hAI of the spout and swung himself into Mr. Palmer's bedroom, through the window. "It was 'not; said the prisoner, with amusing earnestness, " a question of liberty, but of life anthdeath, and all men fear death." The prisoner was remanded, in order that further inquiries might be made respecting his antecedents. NEW Cons'cis SEA. SlGNaLs.—The 'necessity for a new set of maritime Signals has occasioned the appointment, under ' the auspices•ofgottrnnient, of a 'committee whose function it is to investigate the comparative merits of any.pls.n that shall be at once gulple and efficient—qualities which-ran hardly be said to bethe 'cheracteristics of the celebrated code of Captain Marryst, 'Which 'is not only limited in 'its 'capacities; but unavailable When there is little, wind, or the wind drives blear' line with the 'eye. • The use of hanging lags, which are always more &less subject to thesevicisgtudes, is therefore a disavantage. Mr. Alfred Wilkinson, of Lendon, has devised a series of metallic plates or tablets by which those incon veniences are - got over. Painteein party distributions of red, blue andviitte, the five plates are - capable of an almost end less number 6f combinations, 'the Synitolical principles M which are <of the easiest acquirement, and the application saitabletcany emergency. Plates tf ' this kind hoisted in a frame'.atuny part of a ship, acid - at - any angle, appear to he a vast ierprevement upon anything thht has yet been suggested ; ' besidesnohich, it is obvious they - can -be constructed at the mogttilOing cost.—Morrsiny Ifee'dd. Titt - STRIKE IS LISCASttIRE.--Sventy mechanics ; each 'of erlsom acts as a .thairman for his fellow-workmen have published a letter, setting forth the-good effects of an resocia , :tion-Which has been in , existence foi 15 years in the-carpet trade,iits operation extendkig from 'the north of Scotland to 'the Midland Comities of England. - An annual meeting is held :in some central town, to -which the workmen -of each •manufactory send a delegatee-so , that any grievance -existing lin the trade may be known et once to all the masters and all the men. Sufficient ,notim is-- given that the annual meeting will 'take place; 'the 'whole . 'oft the masters generally attend, and a delegate is sent ley the 'weavers of each - l'firm. The 'result of the plan Os that . fer the last `fifteen years the delegates lave -mit -once - retired with dissatisfaction, tend upon that occasion they prayed the masters to !reconsider ' their verdict, The waders; immediately held another meeting, , - , .anii. arranged the disputed point to the satisfaction Of both ig patties. 'Permit ns, therefore," exclaim the intelligent • mechanics referred - to, -" to-urge upon the masters and work , men of that coney flgsucashire) at once to adopt some board of reference simiar to -that .are have described ; and - ,not to lower 'themselves in the eyes otoll Christendom by - pevsevering in a 1; ceutest in which one side 'insanely contemplat es the ruin of -their employers, and se other-side purposes the-starvation of the employed." • STOC KBROETIC 6- Tx- TRACTIONS.--GREATES t. NEI LSO Y.— ' in.the Court of Chancery,: last week, this • case tame before 'the lords justices. The bill.was filed against Messrs. Neilson, -sharebroliers, at Liverpool, liwy one of their- crastomers. It r -sought an accosmt.ef 'various -stockbroking transactions; and iinvolved questions . ansounti, if the. plaintiff '1 -contention was right, to £3.1,000. Me defendants had answered the bill, and , on producing the books hadaveiled themselves of the privilege of covering up 'various parts .of them; as not reading to the :matters .in question. The;: plaintiff; however e had applied °to the Master of the Itollslonan .aspection, on the.grounds that the parts covered up ought to have, been disclosed. His, t enonour having refused to make an order, the.pleintiff now ap pealed. Mr. It. (Palmer ands Mr. Cairns, for the pleintiff, endea voured to show thatehediseovery sought was necessary for the purpose of obtaining .a decree. The Solleitor , ,,General, with. -whom was Mi. Eddis, .appeased for the .defendants. Their loedships were otepinionthatit was not necessary to dispose of the motion :at present,-and-that, in place of the order made by the. Master .of the 02olls,.the application should be ordered. . to'otand over 'uneil - the learicg /of the cause. 'Brumrivortl.24 illors..TEr .finow.—At the „great annual show of poultry .at Birmingham, which closed on Friday, there -,..were several esihiliitors.frosnlieterpool, including Mr. Worrell, ,of ;Knotty Ash, who.exhibited twenty pens, embracing gold rand silver Hanibures,.game fetid; Rouen and Aylesbury ducks, geese, &c. • Mr. Thomas Stretch, of Marsh-lane, Beetle; Mr. Thomas Ifindson e of Bartonthouse, Breck-road, Egerton ; Mr. Gilbert W. Mass, of (Otter-spool. Mr. Jonathan ,Williamson, ....Whitfield-house Waltoo-4emthe.alill; Mr. A. .11 - Wooll, Birk enhead; Mr. Ch;rles.jones,Bkkerhead, &c. Mr...Worrell' car ried.away prizes for golden .peneilled Hamburg* in two classes ; and --the Cochin -Chinas, :Spenign, and bantams, <exhibited .respectively by Mr. Thomas:Stretch, Mr. Jones, andair. G. W. Moss, were marked - "highly.,oommended " by the jUdges. Mr. - . W.. C. Worrall, iof Knotty-Ash, obtained £7,.2e. for the <: gold pencilled Hom w burgs hich took the first prize. For .a partridge-feathered Codhin China, cock and three hens, exhi ',bited, by Mr. Joseph Ilindson, of Brack-road, Ererton, gi3. Os. A golder. pencilled Hamhtmg and three pullets, seven ,raenths old, - the oroperty of Mr. 'W. C.l.Worrall, fetched £4..42c. 6d. ._.:pmerouiznAegs;twata3-EthehAifogaitiilcyNasttleTonlereth.eciamndedE:yo:Doerrbysewxihi:erdwz...e.—neoonf his celebrated Brahmin heifers, which, although not; obteining IVednesdaY, an elderly gentleman, i .was respectably ialls g.)ou ngeimoney t underud e a s t e dressed, ,e false T a g i opl. e n ,. li g : o v n , a M c i h ei a lae rg l e C o r f o orta , •,tene 'lhhiarhs e Fe .s l . rfet . s T hthef h P e it : e court was crowded .by many of the gentry and inhabitants of the town, who represented themselves to have been swindled, by the defendant. According to the statements for - the Proseention, it appeared' hat-4,11e prisoner was formerly .a liemish priest, but having been converted some twelve yens liangsQtites'betebdectoaintill: eh ministerureh of o s f t the . England, a , n ic d in tr g l s s - ilielanhduQricih,l3.o4f County. He was there licensed, but -thellicense was suhse quentb, . withdrawn. On the wiithdllaW3l ,of the license, the ;prisoner , game to England, .and began collecting inaoncrfor " eplargiug and endowing his, church" in Parsons, town, .representing ; .at the same time ;that, his.eonsm, William Crotty, acted as, hia•curate in Ireland. Lately he had come to Preston, ,and collected a good deal of money ; :lust suspicion having keen excited,; the rector of Birreinireland e was written to, who xeptied tbat;the chapel, for which -the prisoner pre tended to he, collectingmoney, was shut np,,and that prisoner's wife and familyresi(led.at Birr, and receivedamsta supplies of money from ,the prisoner. Defendant's cousin, item added, was, a Preeleetetian<rninister in Galway, mad had,not been in Parsonstosvn4er-twenty,years. The police werecommunicated with, and the prisoner -was arrested at 'the railway,station, being on the point of leaving Preston. He was remanded, and in default of hail was removed in custody, loudly protecting against the persecution" to.which he was subjected. • EXTEifinOlf OP IigE'VEAPOQI i .—The Rev. W. Badnalr.,pre sided, .on Thursday, at a meeting of the guardians of rthe West Derby board, 2.nd of persons officially engaged in:the :several out-townships which ,itiis contemplated to add to the , thorough attended. Aft43r <some iintroductory remarks from .the Chairman, who 'said be stood ;before them not only as 'the -representative of his own :township, but as the chairman of the local board of health at 'Waver tree, he said as their representative he would state that they felt it their duty eon aeientiously to oppose this measure. 'Aix. Ledger proposed-- " That this meeting.i.§,of opinion -that the contemplated ex tension ,of the borough of -Liverpool, 'in respect of which such notice has been given, will be prejudicial to the interests- of the several t.ownshiPs comprised in the 'West Derby Union, as mentioned in such notice ; and that it is .desirable that the several official bodies and persons connected, ith those town ships should„ as early as possible, ascertain the precise nature of the bill to :be brought into Parliamen With reference thereto." Mr. Ledger having argued that the proposed scheme would saddle the township with heavy rates, without any corresponding advantage, Mr. Edwards seconded the resolution.—Mr. Aipas rose to move a direct negative. In three' townships, the necessity of the measure had bee n already admitted by the ratepayers themselves. The town_ ship of Wavertree wise the first to adopt the Public Health .A.ct ; Garston followed ; and now the rural district of- Tax tetb-park was about to follow the example. He would admit that they would have to pay snore if they were amalgamated, but the advantages they would derive in many respects would be incalealable. He concluded by snoring that the - word "beneficial" be substituted for " prejudicial"' in Mr. Ledger's motion.—Mr. J. Harrison seconded the amendment, and described the want of sanitary regulations in the various out townships.—The amendment was ultimately put and lost, only four hands being held up for it.—Mr. Shaw moved— " That -a committee be - now formed, composed of a repre sentative from each of the twelve townships ; that such com mittee be•requested to obtain a copy of the intendedhill, as soon as it is .introduced 'into Parliament ; and if they were of opinion that such bill, if passed into law, would be preju dicial, they should adopt such measures to oppose the passing of such bill as they may deem desirable."—Mr. J. Harrison seconded the resolution, which was unanimously agreed to. — It was then 'moved and. seconded, "That it be recommended that meetings be called in the townships-for the purpose of nominating a member of the said committee ; and that a meet ing of such committee be held in this room on the 10th of -January next." It was also agreed that Mr. William Cleaver, clerk of the West Derby Union, be requested to act as hono rary secretary to the committee, A Tote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings. GEN.ERAL INTELLIGENCE. Two SPHINXES of white marble, of large proportions, the first trophies of Sebastopol, have just - arrived for the Louvre. They have been temporarily placed in the Assyrian Museuin, facing the Rue de Rivoli. A BOOT-CLEANING saloon, to which are attached public lava tories and dressing-rooms, has just been opened in Brydges street, Covent-garden, London. The admission to the former is Id. THE Madrid papers say that in some excavations _which were recently made on the site of what was formerly the cemetery of the Nuns of Santa Clara, in that city, a dead body was found, which there is reason to believe was that of the famous painter, Velasquez. WOLVES have been showing themselves in numbers, and with great boldness, near Troyes. A woman of Fresnoy is reported to have been attacked by one whilst going to an out office. The neighbours, alarmed by her cries, attacked the animal, and at last one of them killed it with a bayonet thrust. A MAN named Johnson, employed to attend to the electric light which is burnt at the top of the Lyceum Theatre in Wellington-street, London, fell from the top on Saturday, on to a row of iron spikes, two of which entered his thigh and broke off in the flesh, and from the chevaux de frise the un fortunate fellow came down on his head, which was cut in a dreadful manner. He is, however, now out of danger. BARON ANSEL3I MEYER Rornseninn, the eldest of the brothers at the head of the renowned family of that name, died at Frankfort on the 6th inst., of catarrhal fever. He was born in 1783, and was consequently about seventy-three years of age. Professors Pfeffer and Hesse, of Munich, and Chelins, of Heidelberg, were summoned by telegraph to attend him in his illness, but Were too late. . ROBERT HANCOCK, the labourer who murdered his wife Philippa, at Northam; Devonshire, by cutting her throat and crushing her head with a hammer, and afterwards wandered away from home, but came back and made a wild confession - to her brother, has been acquitted as a monomaniac; the Rev. Mr. Gossett-, clergyman of the parish, and other witnesses, deposing.thai he had long been subject to strange delusions as to the fidelity of his wife. Two bankrupts obtained first-class certificates a few days since—the first was Masters,.late of the Crystal-Palace - Hotel ; the other, William Batley, engineer and boiler-maket, North ampton, whose bankruptcy was caused by the ruinous compe tition of other houses, the default of a firm in meeting their bills, strikes; the negligence and dishonesty of his servants, and the explosion of two boilers. TUE Tagblatt of Berne was in the habit of copying tele -graphic despatches from the Berner Zeitung, without acknow ledgment. So the editors of, the Berner Zeitung took the liberty, at the time, that the Emperor of Russia was in the Crimea, of printing in the one copy of their paper which was be supplied to the Tagblatt the following startling tele graphic intelligenco:-7" The Rmperor of Russia and Prince Gortschalsofr have been taken prisoners by the allies all which was religiously copied into the whole impression of the Tagblatt, to the great amusement of its readers. THE Commissioners of Inquiry into the, revenues, Ice., of the Inns of Law repott - that; the Inner Temple has .a gross income, in 'round numliers, of £21,000; the Middle Temple, of £10,000:; Lincoln's-inn, of £18,000; and *Gray's-inn, of £B,OOO, al exclusive of fees. But such is the system of ex travagant expenditure in these establishments, thdt the Inner Temple Only shows a surplus revenue of £6,000, and the Lincoln's-inn of a "trifle under £4,000. • The 'surplus of the Middle Temple amounts to £1 Is. 10.1 d., while Gray's-inn shows an actual deficit of £320. THE SUNDAY Btrit ACT.-Mr. Whitehurit, 'late solicitor to:the Licensed 'Victuallers' Defence Association, under whose sperintendence 'the proceedings before Mr. Berkeley's corn- Inittee were 'conducted, has written a:letter - to' the seerlTiry of 'the United Kingdom Alliance, in which he states that his opinions on the 'Subject have undergone a total change ; that be believes' the '.'Sunday Beer Act of 1861 wa a, step : in the right direction;:: that it was an error to repeal it ; and that he regrets deeOly the part he took in . fo'rwarding the Sunday Beer Bill of last session. AN inhabitant of the parish of "Bishopsteignton having for some time been at variance with his neighbours, and rejecting the attempt of a mutual friend to bring about a recenciiiittion, the Exeter . Gazette relates Set ween the concluiion of the prayers and the administrsitiai of the Holy oomniunion, on Sundkr morning last, this gentleman rose from his •seat, and witirtvident emotion, which extended to-the spectators, wentand offered his hand to each of his offended neighbours, expresgr:ng himself at the same time as became a Christian. The tender was readily accepted, and, as soon as the excite ment was appeased, the reconciled friends united intim parti cipation of, that sacred rite 'which is a pledge of a higher and holierreconciliation." TEE MISSING CLER'G'S'ItA3T."— The Glottoestean'ireehro wick states that the explanation of this affair, which has un fortimately attracted so much public notice, is as follows - :—lt is .said that some erpressionfdl from the lips of 'the intended hide, during the last interview, which was Mistenstrued bp_ thegentleman into something like a regret nt'the step she was .about to take, and that, without even seeking an explanation, he pondered over the words, which preyed upon his mind, as ' bewalked into Gloucester; and got worked tip into such a 'state ' :of:distraction, that nothing could satisfy him-Short of flight. 't He . now .writes (from 'America), in the . deepest agony of' despair, regretting thetykn he has caused tuall parties ton- I I , , cerned—confessing, on - -"enoler reiection, that he bad put . ad - wrong interpretationupen the words then , utterekand taking -itill the blame upon hims&f. . A CABS op Drsernmes.-31r. Joseph , Ony;iito author of the English School Grammar, and of more than2o other school '.hooks, has, at the age of 72, no resource for his maintenance , than what the sympathy of the public may , afford him. Under the impression that helm' " done the State some service" by '.his efforts, however , humble, tnsmooth the - path of knowledge kto the rising generaticr, be sent in a - petaion to' the Earl-of .Aberdeen, when -prime minister,' in 'the hope of participating i'.:in the fund set aparthy the nation for tbeybenefit of di-silt-L.-seed .4 authors ; but no answer was returned. He has recently pft. i. ..- lAioned Lord Palmerston to lay his Taseisefore her majesty. His lordship, however, gives him no hope; swing to the num r•ber of candidates for pensions.and the limited amount of - the 11und 'at his disposal. An answer more favourable might lhave been anticipated, considering MT. , Guy's age, his necessi '4- ties, and his literary labours for the benefit of the youth of ,Ilhese kingdoms, and it may be , addediof-trar colonies-also. [ A Humor.ars' INCIDENT.—The .hounds of his Grace the fauke of Bucciench -Inet lately at Springwood-park, - when the ilollowing humorous incident: - took. place. Shortly after the t hounds had thrown . -off, a full--„grown foa broke. cover ; and as 71 - the view.halloo lima given, a donkey belonging to Jobn-Arm t,atrong, lahourer,.Sprouston; but betters known by the togno ilmen of "Joek-O'Boon," and which- was-engaged in.cdruwing ?filhe branches oei f trees out of the planlavtion, pricked am her I ,ears, and beingdetenzained• to Ilea :drawer of wood no longer, 't - f'or that day at least, started off-,sans reremonie after the I Tack, at a rattling:pace, in the *Election of Sunlaws: From f tthence she proceeded to Crailing:lidll, and: came down by 4 Wooden-hill, adistanee of nearly tenlaililes, and wouldihave listen in at the death had not' her-owner made his appearance 4,and secured her. It said her LAdyibip was among the' fare ',,anost in the-elasse; - :taking her fences-with as much zestand ' l .4lexterity as thefirst hunters on the-ground. In the ren-she thad thrown two 141te€6, and appeared-as -much fatigued asler :,sturdy owner, who had, with a serrewfild heart, pursued`-her i forleveral ' hours. The meeting betwixt the pair was most .affectionate. Instead of giving her A.,sound cudgelling - (as I.ler-conduct merited),lohn entertained her to a biscuit and a ;:glass of spirits—a. :refreshment she. seemed very much - to zelielt—and simnatirregaling himself,they afterwards einietly ." ..repaired to their humble domicile in the:barony:of Sprousbni. --FlCelso Paper. 1- • SZSAHAN, PA.VI4 ; A.-NZ Co.'s BANKRITPTO7.—The adjourned examination in the bankruptcy of Strahan, Paul, and Co. tea placse , en Tuesday. 'Thopnsopers were in.attendance, but were - not brought intubourt,,and the presentation of a report an the-state of their affairs,,together with -a ihalance-sheet pre pared by the accountant, ,constituted the ; principal proceed ing. - According to this. document, which Aommeuces with some interesting partiotilans of the origin ~of the • bank, the respective members of the firm may be .considered to have been perfectly solvent as recently as four yearsback. 'At that period, namely, December, 14351, the books show an admitted .deficiency :of £65,542, which was increased to XlO,OOO by an advance oirfne Mostyn colliery, but unencumbered, property Awes possessed by Mr. Strahan worth £lOO,OOO, and .by Sir john. Paul worth £30,000. It was not until 186„2 that their ennuexion xith the Gandas,commerred, and the . advances made to those people to carry coat their railway and drainage .schemes, in France and Italy undertaken for , no other profit than a half per cent: commission on all payments made, and the expectation of recoveriiig a debt of £1,4300, which bachheen considered bad. Iheywere rapidly, however, drawn intodhe common:and fatal courseof increasing theirdoans in orderto avoid the necessity Of faciag the loss already incurred, until,:after their credit had been ,pledged in every possible way,' heir private property sold, :awl their customers ,plun dered.,-thesy found theamount to have increased to nearlyihalf a million.sterling. The actual deficiency of the bank is stated at f.8,52,1506,,and of this sum 4183,0€00 is -involved in ttlie transactions with .the ,Gandells and the Mostyn The estimated assets are placed at 4.}.27,670, and if these should be realized, a distaution may beihoped of nearly 4s. in the pound. After the reading of ,report an adjourn. I ment took place to the illth .of March. REMEDY 'OE PRESENT RPM Parcics.—Anaidst all the adverse views of our future, as to the price of bread, there is one channel by which we may:lope to have it sold at a mo derate if not a low price, .and that is, by thetuse of Indian corn when ground and dressed. By the blessing of Provi- Aence this year's enop of Indian corn in Ameriea is super- Abundant, the various estimates .putting it down at from 800 to 1,000 millions of bushels, and it must be appanent that our present high prices and the fear of their continuance will cause the people of Great Britain to fawn their attention to ,the ;use of this valuable article of food. More than half the population of the United States live upon it, and the follow ing may be relied upon by those of our fellow-countrymen who have never known what -Indian corn dour is. It is ground in the same way as wheat, the stones being kept wider apart than for wheat, and driven more slowly; and as the stones used in - the United States are made in England, there will be no difficulty in procuring them, It is also ground into grits, called " hominy," by large band steel mills, similar In construction to those used for grinding coffee. Hominy is eaten by the rich and the poor in America, and the man can work more, longer, and have better health (inasmuch as it is an 'antagonist to indigestion) than with any other food, animal .not excepted,;, and it has one great advantage that it can be eaten hot or cold. It is used in water, milk, or broth, as oatmeal is with us, four pounds, weight being enough for_ten persons ; it is also made into stirabout ; and although American wheat is amongst the finest in the world, Indian corn flour is more nutritious. When broken in a steel mill; it is put to soak all night in warm water, and with bacon or milk twelve pounds will last one man a whole week. In another form it is called " Samp," the skin is scalded off, and used as peas porridge with pork. Wheaten flour, when mixed with, one-third of Indian-corn flour, is preferred to bread made - altogether from wheat. It is also used as pudding, blended with milk, eggs, and treacle. The French Canadians burn the skin off, and boil it in milk for breakfast in -fact it can be mixed with or adapted to anything. The non-use of it in England arises from its not having been tried, and the .climate of tha south and east parts of England will be found favourable for its growth, One pound of this meal put into a quart of water, with three parts of water added at intervals whilst boiling, will weigh tour pounds and-a-half when served up in a dish. In PO-r -tugal, Spain, and Italy, it is the principal food of the people, and it is now extensively used in Ireland. It improves on acquaintance, as - wherever it has been introduced the sale rapidly increases. Indian-corn flour, therefore, if adopted in Great Britain, will tend to reduce the price of wheat flour materially.—Mark-lane Exprese, THE QUE2II has conferred the appointment of Military Knight of Windsor upon Captain Loggan, late of the 7th Fusiliers. ALL the Austrian Army is about to be inovided with new Minie rifles of different sizes, according to the different branches of the service. THE bakers at Oxford, on Thursday, reduced the price of bread 2d. per loaf; the best bread is now selling there at 81-d. per loaf, and seconds at Bd. WE believe the Hon. Mr. Byng has this week been ap pointed the chairman of the board of directors of the South eastern. Railway.—Herapath's Journal. Ma. LABOUCHERE has appointed Lord Sandon to be his private secretary. Mr. W. F. Higgins, (of the Colonial-office), who has acted since Sir W. Molesworth's death, will resume his duties as private secretary to Mr. Ball. HER MAJESTY has commissioned Mr. E. M. Ward, R.A., to paint a cartoon (the exact size of which is not yet fixed) representing the installation of the Emperor Napoleon as a knight of the order of the garter. The scene is, of course, at Windsor Castle, and the picture will include portraits of the Queen, the Empress, the Princess Royal, Viscountess Canning, and other ladies of the court, besides those of the Emperor, Prince Albert, and several knights and officers of the order. The Aberdeen Herald states that a few days ago a young man, with a horse and gig, while; turning, at a part of the road which overhangs at the height of full forty feet the water of Catterline, slipped over the precipice, horse, gig, and man•throwing a somersault in the air, and then falling crash to the bottom of the gulf. The horse was killed; but, strange to say, the young man escaped without a scratch: On being asked what he thought of when going over, he said, " I shut my eyes and held fast," RAJAH BROOKE.—The Times publishes a Foreign Office document which, as will be seen by the following extract, completely exonerates Sir James Brooke - from the charges brought against him :—" The inquiry, which has ended in the exculpation of Sir J. Brooke from the charges made against him, has, at the same time, brought to light abundant evidence of the beneficial results of his administration of the affairs of Sarawrk, which are exhibited by the establishment of confi dence and the increase of trade, and are such as to deserve the approbation of her Majesty's Government." • _ . MELANCHOLY , OCCURRENCE. — Mrs. Buller, of Downes, near Crediton, wife of J. W. Buller, Esq., chairman of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, was on Wednesday at the Exeter station, about to return to. Downes by the 3.30 p.m. train, and was awaiting the departure of the train, when she broke a blood-vessel. Dr. Miller was immediately sent for, and on his arrival he found Mrs. Bailer in too dangerous a condition to be removed. She consequently remained in the waiting room, which was fitted up for her accommodation, until Satur day, when she expired. It is said that this is the second time the same vessel haS given way,. which increased the anxiety felt by, the numerous and distinguished relatives and friends of this amiable lady. . THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON. AND MR. STAFFORD. — The Emperor Napoleon has addressed a letter to Mr. Augustus Stafford, M.P., for his attention to the French soldiers sick on board the Etna, on her voyage to the East. The Emperor says :—" They testify the most enlightened solicitude on your part, and I thank you for it. Bnt your incessant care for our soldiers, attacked as they were by cholera during the whole passage, your self-denial, your courage, the perilous forgetful= ness of yourself in presence of the epidemic —everything in. your conduct presents a rare example of devotedness to your fellow.creatures. Already you have obtained the most pleasing recompense in those letters in which the officers and soldiers of the different corps express to you their admiration and their gratitude. And lam happy to add to it the expression of my own gratitude, and of my sentiments of high esteem for y_ . _ MEMORIAt WINDOWEL—The following, on a brass tablet, is about to be put up on the east wall of St. Michael's Church, 'Coventry :—" The three easternmost windows of this apse have been filled with stained glass, to the _glory of Almighty 'God and in memory of Adelaide, Queen Dowager, widow of His Majesty King William IV. The centre window was the gift of the Right Hon. E. Ellice, M.P., as a memorial of his long connexion with the city of Coventry as one of its repre sentatives." A memorial window in St. Michael's Church is also,decided on as a mark of respect to the late lamented and much respected Colonel Hood, who fell in the cause of his country inthe trenches before Sebastopol. Of all testiaonials, a memorial window is known to be most in accordance with the wishes of the family and the views of the late colonel, who ' had a great objection to disfiguring churches by ugly monu ments. The late Colonel Hood was a regular and devout worshipper at St. Michael's, his parish church.— Coventry Standard. ISIELLIGENT SAVAGES. At the last meeting of the Asiatic Society, the Secretary, on behalf of the council, sub mitted to the meeting the name of the chief king of Siam, and that of his brother and subordinate prince, for election as *honorary members of the-society. The claim of these royal personages consisted in their protection of the interests of science, and in their own personal attainments. The head "king-was a proficient its the•Pali and Sanscrit -languages, and had acquired a considerable acquaintance with Latin and English. . The seeondliing_is stated by Sir John Bowring to speak and write English with ease and correctness. 'Bath are zastrohoiners, able 'to take in observation and work au eclipse ; :'and the second king is also a chemist and mechanician. Both ' have written letters to the Queen in English which are credi table performances. The head king has entered into a treaty of amity and commerce with this country, which gives Eng lishmen a right to hold land and to be governed by their own laws in Siam, and grants other valuable privileges—thus opening up to onr-enterprise a country which has hardly been less shut to us than-China itself. Their majesties were unani mously elected. THE PEACEMACEE..—For some time the mechanical in genuity of Mr. Robert Sandiford, of Woolfoid, near Bury, has been taxed to invent a machine, possessing such power of destructiveness that it might be used in the field of battle with great effect. 'lt •was to be capable of firing with great pre cision a . cousiderible number of shots per minute, and to be so constructed that it could be recharged in a moment and pre pared for another-volley. It wits .to_be_ so .portable that it could be Movedat pleasure, and conveyed from one point of attack to another with great celerity. He named it the "PeaCemaker" , from an impression that its use would be attended with such death-producing consequences that war would become a game which neither kings nor subjects would like to play at. having made a model and satisfied himself !that the machine - would answer the purpose intended, he went to'the foundry toorder the requisite castings, but While there began to consider whether it would be consistent with Chriitian duty to invent a machine the object of which was to destroy humais.iife. The result was, he left the foundry with out ordering the castings, and has since abandoned, from con, scientious motives; the project altogether. A FEMALE JACK SIIEPPARD.—A young woman has just been committed for trial at Walsall, whose proceedings show her to be skilled in the tricks of imposture, and manifest that she has attained ...considerable efficiency in the " science" for which Jack Sheppard. was notorious. Arrested-about two months ago on a.charge of felony, she counterfeited sickness so successfully that, under the impression that she was suffer ing from fits, she -was sent from the police-station to the work house, where, in'the sick ward, she remained for some time attended by the unsuspecting surgeon of the Union. On the morning, however, when she was to appear before the magis trates on her first :hearing, he left her bed at an early hour, tore up one of the-sheets into shreds, and made a linen rope by uniting the ends of each shred. One end of the rope thus made she fastened to the baluster of the stairs, threw the other end out of the window, and, dressed only in a blanket and a pair of slippers, she descended by the torn sheet into the yard, when she escaped from the premises over a refuse pit and through a hole in the boundary wall near to it. A vigilant search proved ineffectual to her recovery ; anti she was heard no more of until, abouta mouth since, the superintendent of the Walsall Police saw her at the - Stafford Iliiihray Station in the custody of a policeman, who was conveying her to the county gabl, for a month's imprisonment for vagrancy in the Potteries. Upon her liberation she was again brought to Walsall. In the lock-up there, at seven o'clock ou Sunday evening, she was seen by the warden safe in her cell. Imme ..diately after he left her she commenced pulling out the fire 'from the grate, and, to prevent herself from being burnt, un .tiressed and placed her clothing where the fire had just been. :S.he then removed a portion of the masonry of the gate, made another rope by tearino , her shawl to pieces, and th en , un iti ng the lengths together, 'she commenced ascending the chimney ,in s state of nudity. She had ascended about twelve feet when ' ,she ,found her further progress prevented by an iron bar which ran across the flue. Having at her command no instrument with,which she could remove this obstacle, she was compelled to return to her cell, where, in about another . hour, she was found-sitting sullenly wrapped in a blanket. She resolutely refused to re-dress, and by command of the superintendent .passed.the rest of time night upon the stretcher. The offence •for which she was committed was the common one of stealing .wearing apparel. Before the magistrates she said nothing in her defence. CON.VICTION OF A CLERGYMAN FOR FORGERY.---=At the York assizes, before Mr. Baron Martin, the Rev. Wm. Beres ford, aged 56,' was indicted for having, on the 4th of Novem- Zer,lB4B, at Bradford, uttered a fOrged indorsement of a bill , for £loo,,.vsith intent to defraud Samuel Laycock. At the And of October, 1848, the prisoner called at the bank of the Bradford Banking Company, at Bradford, and said he was the lev. Mr. ;Beresford. He then tendered a bill for £lOO to be discounted. Mr. Laycock, the manager, told the prisoner that he aims a perfect stranger to the bank, and that before the bill could be discounted, some name should be introduced whom the hank knew. The prisoner mentioned Mr. Kaye, of Man ningliam-lodge, and Mr. J. C. Kaye, of Fairfield-hall, his son, and Mr, Laycock replied that the introduction of Mr. Kaye, or his iudoarsetnent, would be satisfactory. In a few days afterwards the prisoner again called at the bank to inquire if a letter was lying there for him, and as there was not he went away, and called again a third time. In the meantime a letter had arrived, oat of which the prisoner took the alleged forged bill, and presented it to he discounted, which was done; the prisoner had been on . a visit to Mr. Kaye's, and also at his son's,' the latter of whom be had asked to discount the bill in question for him for £lOO, but Mr. Kaye refused, and never gave authority for his name to be inserted on the bill. In April last Mr. J. C. Kaye met the prisener in Regent-street, rmidon, - ind said, " Mr. Beresford ? " The prisoner re plied, `,!: Yes, " and Mr. Kaye then said,- " I am afraid I shall have to place you in the hands of the police." , 'The prisoner inquired Mr. Kaye's name, and on being told it he immediately said, " Have mercy upon me," and added that if Mr, Kaye, would go with him to a Mr. Moss that the money should be paid to the bank, but Mr. Kaye de clined to accompany him. It appeared that after Mr. Kaye's name had been mentioned at the bank, the prisoner wrote to Mr. Kaye thanking him for his hospitality, and inquiring whether 'he (the prisoner) bad left a letter at his house. He required an answer by return of post, and it was suggested on the part of the prosecution that he had done this in order to imitate more effectually the handwriting of Mr. Kaye. When the bill was presented to Mr. Laycock„ that gentleman was scrutinising the signature of Mr. Kaye, when the prisoner stated that he was ill, and had written the indorsement in bed, which would probably account for the signature not re sembling very,exactly his usual handwriting. The prisoner then received £99 6s. in cash, Mr. Laycock retaining 14s. for discount. It was stated during the trial that the prisoner is 'brother to General Beresford, now Adjutant-general in India, and cousin to Lord Decies and next heir to that title, and .hOldi a living iii Cork. The jury found the prisoner guilty. Baron . Martin, in passing sentence, said the prisoner,ha.d been most properly convicted, on the mo s t c le ar an d sat i s ti c 'tory evidence that could be well adduced, of having utter s the endorsement of Mr. Kaye, knowing it to be forged. The prisoner best knew whether or not this was the first forgery he had uttered. ' The sentence of the court was that be be transported for the period of his natural life. The prisoner. who appeared surprised at the extent of the sentence, had to be assisted from the dock. AN iron steam-vessel called the Florence Nightingale was launched at Hartlepool on Tuesday. - MDLLE. JrLIE, whose clothes caught fire during the per formances at the Plymouth Theatre, on the 20th ult., died on Sunday, aged nineteen years. •• ' COINING BY AIR POWER. - It is not generally known that the whole of the gold and silver coius of England are struck by atmospheric pressure, or, in other words, that the air we breathe coins our money. lizssns. NEWILL and Co., of Gateshead, the wire-rope manufacturers, are engaged in making a telegraphic line of upwards of 800 miles in length, which will unite Constanti nople and Alexandria. A WELL -SINKER, who had a quantity of powder in his pocket for blasting purposes, went into a smithy at Shrews bury, and while there a piece of hot iron flew into his pocket and ignited the powder. He was much:burnt, though not seriously. AT the Gloucester assizes, on Thursday, Elizabeth Ken nedy, aged 30, described as a market woman, was charged with the wilful murder of her husband, by throwing a stone at him which struck him on the head, and caused congussion of the brain. She was found guilty of manslaughter, and k sentenced to two years' hard labour. CROWN PROPERTY.—We are informed, from good authority'- that there is Crown property in the county of Durham worth. £lOO,OOO, from which the government do not, and never have, received a farthing revenue. How such a state of things exists seems to be a fit subject for a searching inquiry.— Durham County Advertiser. RUSSIAN RECRUITING. — The general levy is now going on in Poland, and the peasants are driven as is game at a Leine. Poland is one great theatre of misery ; but the peasants have begun to display the energy of. despair, and. refuse to work for the proprietors gratuitously. The same insubordination is said to prevail in several Russian provinces SOME English sailors encountered a party of Chinese sea men in Shadwell, a few days ago, and commenced pullinethem about. One of them cut off the tail of one of the Chinese, which .so exasperated his messmates that they drew their knives and attacked their assailants. The Chinese, however, got rather.the worst of it. One was killed, and an English sailor was severely wounded in the breast. ANOTHER MISSING CLERGTMAN.—Considerable anxiety has, we believe, been occasioned in certain circles in Edin burgh by the unaccountable disappearance of the incumbent of an Episcopalian chapel in this city. The rev. gentleman, who became settled here at a comparatively recent period, left his residence about the middle of last month, and has never since been heard of.— Scottish Press. - AT the Court of Queen's Bench, on Wednesday, by the consent of the parties, an action was tried and decided by the judge alone. By a recent statute it is provided that in cases where both the plaintiff and defendant should consent to have the cause decided by the judge alone, the judge should have the power to dispense with a jury and try the cause him self. THE Montreal Gazette states that the Hudson's Bay Com pany have guaranteed to the Russian authorities the unmo lested possession of the Russian territory upon the American continent while the war shall last, upon conditions that the posts and trading operations of the former iu the neighbour hood of that territory shall continue during the same period to be free from attack by the latter. A NEW and very ingenious mode of " . sweating" sovereigns has come into vogue. Instead of being clipped or filed, they are put Under a stamping machine, which cuts off the edges and leaves a new milling quite perfect. About three shillings' worth of gold is thus taken frcm a sovereign at the first operation. The smallness of the size is the only mode of detecting the defaced coin. THE LATE SIR RICHARD SUTTON, Norfolk, has left £lO.OOO a-year to his second son, Mr. Richard Sutton, of Skeifington-hall ; £lO,OOO to each of his younger sons, and £30,000 to each of his surviving daughters. All the rest of j his immense property goes to his eldest son. It is said that the property in the parish of St. James's, Westminster, alone, amounted to £40,000 a-year. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE ICE.—Many persons ventured upon the ice in St. James's-park on Thursday, although it was in a dangerous condition. In the afternoon, while numbers of persons, chiefly boys, were skating or sliding near Buck j ingham-gate, the ice gave way, and several persons were im mersed in the water. They were, however, all recovered, except one lad, with whom the methods used to restore life were unsuccessful. The body was taken to St. Margaret's workhouse. . . A DRUNKARD DECLARED LUNATIC. Mr. Gerard is- a gentleman of independent fortune in Elgin. He is in the habit 6f getting drunk. Though - perfectly rational when sober, he is very violent when drunk, arming himself with a gun and three pistols, and threatening to shoot those who come near him. Besides this, he accuses his wife of wishing to poison him, and gets up plots in order to make his servants be suspected of theft. Upon the evidence of such facts as these, and on a medical certificate of his state of mind, the • sheriff-substitute of Elgin directed the committal of Gerard to a lunatic asylum as a furious person, dangerous to the lieges, under the 4th and sth of Victoria, chap. 60, secs. 3 and 5 ; and he is now in 3lorningtide Asylum. On this he applied to the High Court of Justiciary to set aside the order of the sheriff-substitute. Of the five judges present at the hearing of the case on Saturday last, two were in favour of setting aside the order of the sheriff-substitute, and three in favour. of sustaining it. The order is, therefore, sustained.--ScoiSinan• THE FIRST AUSTRALIAN MAN-Or-WAR:—On Saturday, a• strange - craft was seen steaming rapidlS- - up Southampton water. She was a man-of-war screw-sloop, of a most beautiful model. She had on board three 69-pounders, weighing 56 cwt. each, and was pierced for eight guns. The smartness of her officers and crew, and the order and cleanliness on board, re sembled what is seen on board a British man-of-war. The uniform of the officers was precisely like that of the officers of the Royal Navy, only the bands, butt - els, and lace were of sil ver, instead of gold. She proved to be a Victoria (AuStralia) , man-of-war, being the pioneer of the Vict or i a nav y. Sh e is quite new, laying been built by Young, Son, and Magnay, of London. She is mahogany built, on the diagonal principle. Her tonnage is 580, and her engines (which were manufactured by Rennie) are o f 150 horse-power. She is commanded by , Captain Norman, late Commander of the Screw Company's, steamer Queen of the South, a most efficient officer. Herspeed is about thirteen knots. She called at Southampton on her way to Australia, to take in two cows, for Sir Charles Hotham, the Governor of Victoria. MELANCHOLY COINCIDENCE.—It may be in the recollec tion of our readers that the wife of Dr. - Blackwell ; of Cran brook, Kent, died in the present year, a few months after making a claim for one of the Dunmow flitches that were presented in July last by W. H. Ainsworth, Esq. There seems to be a fatality attending the claim, as the secretary to, the committee has received a communication from a claimant, residing at Greenwich, and who, if life had been spared to his wife, and they had received the flitch in 1856, had promised to supply a similar prize to any other party who might be entitled on some future occasion. The, communica tion is as follows :—" Greenwich, December 7, 1855. Dear Sir, It is my painful duty to inform you of the decease of my: beloved wife ; the claim w ill therefore be open to others. How true it is the fairest flowers are first culled. She was a beautiful creature in person, mind, and disposition. Had she been spared till next July, Dunmow would have had a visit from us. With best thanks for your prompt and courteous .replies to my letters, I am, &c., P. RICE." Thus, in the short space of one year, death has deprived two loving husbands of their partners, and we may fairly ask, what lady will now be bold enough to claim the flitch, when death stands ready to claim:the claimant ? SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE-Snow.—This annual exhibi tion was opened on Tuesday, in Baker-street, London. Better animals than those which won the principal prizes, whether in cattle, sheep, or pigs, were never seen, but there was an almost total absence of competition. The falling off in the exhibi tion numerically may in some measure be accounted for by the fact of the Birmingham club holding its annual show this year on the same days. Amongst the cattle the Herefords obtained the highest commendation. Tn the department of Devons, Prince Albert was the winner of not less than three prizes, two of £lO for steers, and one of £2O for cows. The first prizes for Herefords were won by Mr. Isaac Niblett, of Filton, near Bristol; Mr. W. Heath, of Ludham-hall, near Norwich ; Mr. Joseph Philli ps , o f Ardington, near \Vantage; and Mr. J. H. Gurney, of Catton-liall, near Norwich. Here again, however, Prince Albert was a successful exhibitor, his three years and eleven months Hereford ox taking a prize of £lO. An ox, the property of the Marquis of Exeter, to which was adjudged the gold medal, a prize of £25, and a silver medal, was a splendid animal, of symmetrical proportions. In the Welsh class of cattle there was a decided improvement, so much so as to give reason to suppose that this description of stock will eventually become as useful as the Scotch. The Leicester sheep also showed an improvement, while the South Downs were considered as good as breeders may ever hope to see. There were a few good pens of pigs. The Prince Con sort was a successful exhibitor of these animals, and carried off two £lO prizes. The other exhibitors included the Earl of Radnor, Sir John Cathcart, Mr. S. Druce, Mr. Stewart Marjoribanks, Sir J. B. Mill, and Mr. George Turpin. One characteristic of the show of pigs was, that there were fewer instances of excessive feeding than usual. There was one fat monster, however, the property of Mr. John Scott, of White wall, Malton, Yorkshire, which was computed to weigh about 66 stone, or upwards of Bcwt. The annual dinner was held on Wednesday, when a testimonial was presented to Mr. Brand reth Gibbs, the honorary secretary, consisting of three pieces of ornamental plate, weighing 536 ounces, and of £360 value. A GOLD EXPLORING EXPEDITION IN SPA IN.—ln a letter just received from Madrid we find the following interesting narrative :—" An English engineer, representing a company of English capitalists, has just returned here from an expedi tion to the SierCa Nevada. He has been chipping away with, his hammer among the rocky heights of the Mulahacen, and the diadem of snow which decks the brows of El Picacho de la Veleta, the watch point. Both of these mountains rise to nearly 12,000 feet above the level of the sea, and have long been supposed to hutch in their loins mineral wealth. It was them, that the Moors extracted the iron with which they forged those blades at Toledo which kept the Spaniards at' bay for eight centuries ; it was, possibly, from the same sources, that they procured the gold with which they adorned the mosques at Granada, and the fairy-like tracery of the Court of Lions at the Alhambra, iu which the ruffian plunderer stabled the steeds of his remorseless dragoons, where his name is still held in the same execration as Murat's at Madrid, and Bonaparte's at the Kremlin. Great difficulties were expe rienced in traversing the inaccessible regions, which are elid in eternal snow. The Neveros, or men who go up during the night for snow, wherewith to cool the parched palates of the luxurious Granada folks—as Wenham lake does for your luxurious Londoners —these men have worn a path with their mules as far as el Cortigo del Puche ; but after that the engi neer had to explore the way on foot. The report which has been brought back is full of promise ; these mountains do assuredly contain mineral wealth to an enormous extent, which may be extracted at a small cost, w h ere labour is cheap, and capital unknown. I know of no srenery . more noble than these Alpi ne reg i ons o f Spa i n. F r om th e Plchaeo ' sublimity of you look down the yawning precipice, and there you see the blue Mediterranean coiling in crystalline folds, with Africa in i v s i o o l l a e t t ed , the background. As Mr. Ford says, ' The cold x i : , l k i i e e: felt on the pinnacle of the these silent eternal snows is fully ) Alps which stands out i windblown height vegetatiOn and life despot. On this barrel in t l f i r e i h e el ' i lle l s u s l and Lpa rte,le have ceased—even the leas wastes its sweetness wherever a stone offers shelter from the- Vscow. Thousands of winged insects lie s h rou d e d on that. i Zill, each in its little cell, having thawed itself a grave with its last warmth of life. In the scarped and soil-divided. heights the eagle builds—she must have mountains for her eyrie—here she remains unmolested on her stony throne.' But the bird of Jove is now likely to be molested by the Auri sacra:Pines, which drives those who are afflicted with it into the bowels of the harmless earth, and to the pinnacles of Alpine solitudes." -~. ~~: Ii 4 '.~