The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-05-16 00:00:00

TUESDAY, INT_ty 16, 1854. 4° e 4 t-t INTELLIGEIVC.E. PPteß 'i P L(ori a r, of the Submarine and' European Tele- Itti oe tnY, at 23, Castle-street, were opened for the k ie °I business on Wednesday, for the first time. tho a e rt nlf FROM LIVERPOOL .-- The number of per tnigrat d f NIL, e f rom the port of Liverpool in the I. -- "g the 30th of April, to all parts, amounted to 1 „ lt,,,'°r.sra..i, Canadian Steam Navigation Cora iptileZ,...stearn'-ship,' arrived at Quebec on . Monday, ~,I4ive l. ;_r,r a passage of 13 days, she having !ailed l'rest'"i on the 11th, at 5 30 p.m. This is the Plits2hage on record tit taao"T• ke out on . Sunday afternoon, in the ship , - k T h ulactory of Messrs. Leftwich, and Co., Mersey % r ang% the promptness and energy of , the fire- L ik e: o kis e fla ie : ie e c s i. were subdued before much damage :: I t e l:t n l ne AILITI —Commissions signed by the „ I llegi m ' ail t, of the county eof Lancaster : "' a rt. el l' of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia : Ile' 'et Atkinson, to be lieutenant, vice Paterson, ~ .-..... 1 , , i c7) It o e nrth or Duke of Lancaster's Own (light ''''° let al. Lancashire Militia : Ensign Chas. Andi:ew h Artjeutenant, vice Kershaw, promoted ; Ensign t'sl : _r c r Crawford to be lieutenant, vice Knott, 'll ;. i .ttay e 'l • o tl l i ci /te p giment of Royal Lancashire Militia : nos. ty elly, gentleman, to be lieutenant. N to ( - ,i• T. LIDDELL, M.P. for this borough, has Pit* Lae Architectural and Archaeological Society_ ~!'t e ll:f ' 3 f which he is a member, a complete. set o of . ltlari es , ?Pa, being the transactions of the SociFty_ e t ~; ti ne "t Newcastle - upon - Tyne, from 1816 until th Nae ; and a of another work published annual of Z:teaertl;evenues of the crown for the oi c7 t arit e ' `I estmoreland and Durham, during the So L 1 1) 47 11, Richard 1., and John. —Arrange ,:tave h:ER' WIVES AND CHILDREN. ___ wri. tc, l ), Thu — ,, en made fora ball tot ke place at the To for 4 , ef o f ll laY next, in aid of the fund now raising ro I Nr.l"e wives and children of soldiers who ha fhl a ''', to the Sir D. Mac- ril e seat of war. Lieut.-C_4,, a Artillery, 'eat., o ,, officers of the Lancashire Malt' the officers ;, B eo tt 'il. Su. T. G. Hesketh, Bart . , and , Militia, kes t k _reginient of the Royal Lancashire , 1 // , e oa. "ll' countenance to the affair, which no doubt k. t) 4: f -„ e ollsiderable splendour. ik' P‘t e i t utrrixs on sugar, proposed by the Chancellor .n esdayeeiter in his budget, came into operation t o Pam The additional duty is 15 per cent. upon he du ar nonnt of the duties now due and payable. kel . N I Proof • • t., la ro _ sp . ints manufactured or d dis . tilled in the ' 4)4 a "., and imported into Scotlao will be 6s. 10d. I: l f ere' at l l Into Ireland ss. 2d., and in proportion for ~, f reni ej or less strength. The dutyon_e.th...er,roexm rd ta D'Notlaticl to Engnd is to be ss. sd. , 11 ' k2d' n gland 9s. 71 ; a nd if from Ireland to cot- 4 4 :t ) , , The duty on malt is to be 3s. ld. per bushel. , (1, ah ''. l B l)irits is to be 6s per gallon if imported into ;kir 1: 1 " 4 43. importe d. into Ireland. 4,1,W ed ,,,... R11 nt Gu ARD ,—The weekly meeting was "s 0 11 — ' 1 a3' at the workhouse . Present, the Rev.l% . i'kir . n t i - e t he chair ; w Messrs. Harrison and Roskell, th 'zi kn ; 'Messrs. Shaw, Carter, Mountfield, Brown, I. k .,. ll) . l kpo e i (i ls ea lf, 'Morris, Horsfall, Siddely, . Whitby, , 1Y b y , Edwards, Daly, Abrahams, LigtbodY 9g• 9d Ledger, Batten, and James_ Birch. ~.`l . 4,1 In the treasurer's hands was stated to be els . ten.'t ~Capes resigned his office as book-keeper 1 ke, ti ' 0 the matron at the hospit..ll. The clerk per atiti,, _to salary of advertise for a master, with a _. . Zof th s'a, in the room of Mr. Capes. The medical CO k ek : Workhouse and Hospital were directed . to ' l e fr 4 res for the removal of as many patients as er ect °ln the Hospital to the Workhouse.. The clerk 4 '.o's o 0 issue notices respecting vaccination to the 4 4 1 tas ra , s _r` general circulation. The number in the wo k orted to be 610, against 672 for the corres ' s qit s ,, (3, last year. m it `vo s e -t I'l'lolt s. HIDE WAREHOUSE .— On Thursday 0 4 a4clPectably attired men, named James Fred r_i_ c l: hji li z t t :ates J ohn Newall, were brought before the poli s Y detective officer Cozens, on a charge of Z yl e e r,ari hides, valued at £6 . 10s. from the ware -1;`',:5'e.1,48.1',3. Isaac lladwen . , jun., Lid Co., brokers, i,„ O "Aa i ll tts u,l . ngS• l Law f ton, appeared, the it. ecutors, and Newall is was a ware kils'rietop"e I ) enr t.. of s era sin sma ll lanyard in Dingle-lane, Kirk da l le. lee . es ,d _hat' ivaconsequence_ Messrs. information ' , is ,-,v 1 I he went down to M Hadwen's ware-IN. 4 4 neen-stre e t, near Oldhall-street, where he saw , (4 1 b ell conversing together , an d after watching for Ls° I ne he saw them enter the warehou se ; a man 11 4 tight five hides to the window of the warehouse , )ao d geY were t a k en by a carter, who was in attend the Put into a car t. The officer havi▪ ng ascertained l ' k r isoners had ordered the men to re move the t they, into that they had no authority to do so, I° l f, e , - " custody. Mr. E. S. Knowles, clerk in :etc cu . tors said the pri▪ sone a r La t w m to o n Lmaol 4 ,. w areho P us ro e s m e `ra are lo authority to sell or goods from an in 'their_em . ploy for some ! , deliver any i l l lti zt i 'Louse without an order from him. In reply to Lawton said he had 14,4(lnestion from the bench, 14 11.11 's '° saY. Newall said he had T a vv ugh o t t p l a ie y l t ii h d e es fu i l n l I t '. r;; L W, al, and he u nderstood he was t committed for trial he c ':ineni. Both prisoners weread for the adpiission 4 il, ic ins, and an application m 14 4 6 ' 4 -N eWall was refused. ..k44.3l4l%;?evtienneadaDvvyLaLuilNeeeitsinrvias"E field W l a theN PG uhicCLAS S ES.-ii aII bkjihey, u nder the pre u s po idency of formation of aAlrolali lk, rook s , to considero. n the forma A t i'll for improvin,, th 3 e i c r ondition of the dwellings of 411,,IIstrious classes. .. Christopher Bushell, in i t 4 . that an association for improving the dwellings of 14 1 7ti t ' l lat!ious classes be formed, remarked remarked that the tk A lal? 4 ,l l lew was to endeavour get the dwellings of la th e isms classes taken in hands by persons willing to tl4, tl,Zttre, ents in such property, and who would at the 8e l)t ' 4 oiityleontent with a lower rate . of interest for feat s -- " , th an the very ~. , of,such invest high one obtained by the pre lagn octage owners, and . supplying by . e ktiii tL ei fit for human beings todwell in, without I,p„roose "Inselves in any pecuniary sacrifice- Mr. Win. '• , ,Lj 4 iot ia i s econd e d the motion, which was agreed to- A 1 4 't , a ec alamittee was appointed to carry ouats tliis. , 4 . ti, 41 to, DAtication to be made to the metropolitan Powerssoela kiLkil! e l° ,, W ers to establish a district associa n wits of 7,,,,,,t0 the provisional committee tot elect a com 'Y f0,. -4411 agement and to circulate a report, together r 45 11 0 ,1 1 1iikk °f t lPPlicat'ion for shares in Liverpool. .I.y. . k '4'y secret .Mr. S. Rathbone were app . ointed yoint ktiikte.., e arles to the provisional committee. k k 'ne -1. VRSTRY.—The Rev. Rector Campbell presided Vat:sleeting on Tuesday, v When it appeared, fmnir the srte Of the anther, that the parish of tk/)e,000 sanctioned advance to h 4 , 4 (Nes 3Vith reference to the recent the' h would W h ,,he o i. l eil, Mr. Hutchison said, that the !*I poll ontePChurch q,„;eos , rg'ed for the placards issued by P t a h: church ticiti., tt;, w hile, with regard to the stoppage of St. Peter's tr et 'ao k tee Chairman said that the Select Vestry had P' re do with that question ; the churchwardens tP l ai mashie , iLspo - the proper ivp, h , , ,Lu s e b and they were Na-elth.%-r°ceediligs of the Workhouse . Committee it authorities. it - th e - --st Mr. Fleetwood had been permitte i d nt t e o l lise g l e ec nt t 413;k01s Advanced classes in each school an him ' girlin the 1 4 5 4 • ' who are Romanists, to assist hid en at 5 , ,, 8 414 .. 1 r , °i• lie ruction of the other Romanist c Vit t , 8 when the Protestant children . are engaged in 6, 1 ,, tsiZ. ni strnetions in their Catechism. The number V I ke ! , I° lls to the V nt Sheds during the pas_ t th we ta el l c the ,f,"---raales 411 number emales, 71 ; and children, tl %f % i ad. P' e total of inmates in the Workl;Ou'se or: 655 'sick O ) 4 N, 62 118 t ., was 2,182. Of these there were_minutes of the i thi p! fever, and 26 of itch. Wil li e,',' e llef Committee referred to Th a e letter received 1k.' 4 115,.. PL Greig rs had meg a to a case of cholera, which, it 4,M t o - ed, one of the district medical-office . . th%rrc,,,aplain Greig, requesting to k 411 (!. at tend. A subsequent letter had been received be supplied_ k e Da'" list a the medical and tticers of ~ 1 4 , ri sh• and the several districts assigndoto callingthem Nes ' e l' 1 a l ag *tit ' 4 ' , been received from Dr. Duncan , ti o , to i nt o the probable approach of cholera, and request tirsilitalw whether any steps had been taken rea to eu p t rov h i a d d e lip,,eli.s ea " e commodation. The . k d li,, e, •• io iise their best exertio ni n e s ai t he o r(ls'scPover suitable .ift,Tal. officers report thereon by the next Imeetindga k 1 of a._ - :"cers had been requested to report Dr. D tif 'ttt e ,,s'arrahce a , &c., to be forwarded to .i u ly n T can thhee . tt t he .w as read from Mr. M`Gowan, the law-clerk the request , .at that Health Committee, suggesting , at be formed ksi l li) c „"uaY, that a joint committee should. tk tit Ve s - 4 . l4l nittees of the Health Committee, the Se ,llloh-:r3r, and the West Derby Guardians, to devise pre -1 1 1 , 1 .,," against the cholera. The Chairman that he had !pl il kar„,, es ,ted by Mr. Liddell, M.P., to state klarita'ti.`" 1 )3 , Mr. Baines to act on the Parliamentary tad at i i,,, e e to which the Poor-law r ill because he was on ~,,,° oth'; he Was disposed. to 1 e B had been referred, fit' ji• nni nlPortant butcommitteesd;ecn,that looking at the %.,..to un .y . rta nce of this measure, the removal of the poor, lii‘. q nlierL he had better withdraw himself from one of the `"'1) . ees and devote as much attention as he could t 'et' ' I L ' th A iv, a He had also . stated that he would be happy to tl i ,ltoi r ,,,n3 , communication from the Select Vestry that to h _Na -h t ut wish to make to him. After some conversation, waare. ~hititi ll e a ris. , It . Parliamentary Water Committee_ th stl eB a, with instructions to watch the bill. After . a qthe discussion originated by Mr. Mellor, relative to N o m ats of the surveyor, Mr. John Reay tCtio - J 4 „..,neY at the board. Various notices of m was , elect o ed tio t n o , 'Dr ""the assessment of warehouse property, terminated C o (keedins.s ) oblfits I " • th,1......,.,,CRAT10N Or Sr. CIIRYSOSTOM'S CMURCII , ECRU teliti444le Church of St. Chrysostom, srhich his . b t. een 't. 41,„• t! l adley-street, Everton, by volunta . ry subscrm ton, li lfi eeZl the Rev. John - M`Naught. is the incumbent, was. dhleeo: Le d on Tuesday, by the Bishop of Chester, in the tti,... e ‘ eO 7 l of many of the local clergy., and a highly respect wniredgregation. The bishop, with his chaplains, was v N ell at the door of the church by the clergy, Church . and conducted to the t",l'try . s ' . 11 (1 other official Persn''' . his robes to the I ;%n oi ,rrom thence he proceeded in ce of consecration Iv ki 111°4 table, where the petition for the consecration Ask ,pre sented to him and the sentence . n Brooks. ` t rto te a 4 aloud by ' the Veil* Archdeacon tyvard, tsqlcita E! the bishop and the clerfy w.---enred t' al down the al aim, repea mg 1. 4 4 e aisle of the church and bac Nii a eIY th k . I pr . e verses of the 24th p5....-Im ag ; read, the morning t ii rvi, e. asers for consecration were. th and d and after which the e T h 4 13 2nd, e Proper psalms were the 84 , 2nd arm' es tb v. ~,A , and the proper lessons, achedpre h bishop We s e "" St. Luke iv. 14 to . 12 .d 2n , rat • h sse r t i ,_ n s t ak ing for his text Psalm xcvi. Bth verse : r ing '''' unto the Lord the honour due unto his name, acid presents and come into his courts." b his lordship v, (1,- --- , c l / 1 1 ing to the origin of the chur . e on , that the ser- In his sermon, 1,11"' in He was happy also in the persuas! all their sim tbritv, uat church would be performed in confident It 'ere` w ,nd in all their entireness. t l e l ' l nth e 7 Kl not, on the one hand, be anHyesuwpageraddition of however un ta N't 4 , l t". 4 aPPendages and forms, which , _ came i m por 1414 scion ti,, pitrinsically in themselves, yet te l d )c taon, art ur consequences when they created tn , ~ ti e offence. On the other hand, he was convinced eordsas the plain L des a l i je Would not be any such neglect , ht affor d ~?.,' th e ..a direction of our Prayer Book, 11 4 0, iafegular omission even a shadow of easxcumisegfor those /4 1 1, : e . 11 Nir t r i egoi le e_PPosite direction, exceeded the Pr i e ie s e v ri . bed Dr. ar additions. In the evening the lees pile tiPr Collections were made after both set "at i n til morning exceeded £45, toff' frO it li t' 015 Tice (ft lot ' Ig The,4, itg e ' P" I '' e l li t : 0 1 os 0 )1e,,4 . A V fi rii , t e !ti'Avd, MR. PETER STUBBS has been appointed bandmaster of the Carnarvonshire royal militia. OUR TRADE WITH AUSTRALIA.. —ere are 742 tons, no Aess than 40 vessels, with an aggregate tonn Th age of 37, now loading in the port of Liverpool for the different ports of our Australian colonies. • CIVIC HOSPITALITY. -011 Thursony, John Buck Lloyd{, Esq., mayor, entertained' the officers of the 2nd regiment. of the Royal Lancashire Militia, and the Lancashire Regi ment of Militia Artillery, to dinner. The company num bered about fifty. JEWISH LADIES' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIGN.—FrOM the fifth annual report of this institution we learn that the c ommittee have been enabled during the past year to. afford re lief to 109 persons, to the amount of £l2B ss. 110., and have also distributed clothing tondoth the aer aidmount of £32 Bs. 5 4d. , b esides providing surgical a. A DEPUTATION from the Liverpool Shipowners' Asso ciation, consisting of Mr. Mann (chairman), and Mr. Carson (secretary), accompanied by Mr. Horsfall, 31. P., and the lion. H. G. Liddell, M.P., had an interview with the Right Hon. E. Cardwell and Lord Stanley, of Alderley, on Monday, at the Board of Trade. ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, FALKNER-SQUARE, will be consecrated on Wednesday, the 24th instant. His wor ship the mayor, and several me of n the coatrporatio collec n, will a tt e nd the ceremony. We understand th a tion will be made towards defraying the large amount which has been expended on the repair and alterations of the church. LA.IINCIT.—A fine new ship, intended for the South American trade, has just been launched at St. John's, N.B. Messrs. W. and J. Myers, Son, and Co., of this town, are the owners. The new ship was named the Matins Causino ; her measurement is about 920 tons. Captain Downward commands the Matins Causino. PRESENTATION OF Cowl:rm.—On Tuesday the cere mony of presenting colours to the Fifth Regiment of Lan cashire Militia took place at Towneley Park, about a mile and a half from Burnley. The regiment is stationed at Burnley, where it assembled, for the second yearly train ing of twenty-eight days, on the 18th ult. It now numbers 956 on parade, including all ranks —being almost precisely the same as when it assembled for its Rochdale, train ing. The men are principally f rom Blackburn, Manchester, and Burnley, about 100 being furnished from the last-named place. The following is a list of the officers : Lieut.-Colonel T ownele y ; Majors Brandreth and Towneley ; Capta ins Fenton (who is also the adjutant), Greenwood, Weld, Middleton, Kingsley, Lord, Hamerton, Brereton, Broadbent, Sagar, and Petre ; Lieutenants Ward, Dwyer, Searle, Lomax, Holden, and Tweedale. All the officers were upon duty. About noon the colours were presented by Lady Caroline Towueley, and received by Lieuts. Dwyer and Ward, suitable addresses being delivered on each side. Lieut.-Colonel Towneley then delivered a very spirited address to the men, and at the conclusion three cheers were given, and the men proceeded to their tents and partook of dinner, which Lieut.-Colonel Towneley had provided for them. PROPOSED MAGDALEN ASYLUM.—A meeting of those favourable to the establishment of this asylum was held, on Tuesday, in the Savings-bank, Bold-street. The meet ing, which was chiefly of a preliminary character, was presided over by the Rev. Rector Campbell, and the busi ness was commenced with prayer. The objects of thre e mee ting and general plan of the proposed inst detailed by the Rev. Isaac Holmes. The first object, he stated,was to afford a refuge for those unfortunate females who desired it. The second, to afford them such religious, secular, and industrial instruction as might be deemed prudent. The third was to restore to their friends those .who had friends, and to help others to an honest liveli hood. Mr. Holmes showed the necessity for dealing with various cases ; and, in the course of his remarks,made the startling statement, that there were two hundred pro stitutes in Liverpool under twelve years of age. In allu sion to the disgusting traffic of some who trade in this species of iniquity ; he said one man in Liverpool derived from it an income greater than that of the two rectors put together. This man has eight splendidly furnished houses in Liverpool, and some on the other side of the water. And yet the law is so delicate, and lawyers so clever, that they can apply it to any mortal thing but to the man, and in too many cases to the woman, who is trading mes's in human life, and disease and deat h, ever y day. Mr, Hol pro position was to raise £l,OOO as a commencement, to take and open a large house as a refuge, at almost all hours ; to appoint a chaplain to instruct in religion ; a house keeper, &c.; and for committees of visitors consisting of four persons each, whose business it would be to go abroad in these numbers to seek out those unhappy women who are often more sinned against than sinning, and to invite them to return to virtue. The question was fully discussed by Mr. Adam Hodgson, Mr. Martin, the Rev. J. R. Conor, the Rev. W. Pollock, Mr. Gregson, and other gentlemen. The result of the meeting was that two resolutions were passed, the first declaring that it was desirable to establish an institution, in connexion with un the Church of E fortunate females, anglandnd , for the purpose of r eclaiming the second appointed a committee, consisting of the rector and the following clergymen and gentlemen :—Mr. Pol lock, Mr. Bardsley, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Hodgson, Mr. Conor, Mr. Holmes, Mr. Carter, Mr. Moore, Mr. Gregson, and Mr. Martin, to suggest to a subsequent meeting the best mode of forming the plan and carrying out the de tails of the institution. MORTALITY RETURNS. The Registrar- General's Quarterly Return, giving a statement of the births and deaths in the quarter ended March last, and of marriages' for the quarter ended December, 1853, shows that the number of marriages in the United Kingdom, during the latter period, was 97,772, a greater number than has been recorded in any corresponding period since the Registra tion Act came into force (1837), and 3,356 in excess of the persons married in the corresponding period of 1852. Among the towns which have exhibited a decrease in the number of marriages Preston holds a prominent place, the marriages having declined from 335 to 258. The number of births registered in the quarter ended March last was 160,892, being a decrease of 706 as compared with the corresponding quarter of 1853. The number of deaths registered in the United Kingdom in the same period was 111,970, causing au increase of population, in the quarter, to the extent 'of 48,922 persons, augmented on the one hand by the immigration , of the Irish, Scotch, &c., and diminished by the emigration of the English. The total emigration from all the ports in the United Kingdom, during the quarter, is stated at 48,665. The number 6f marriages in Lancashire, in the quarter in ended the 31st December, was 6,092 ; while the births the quarter just ended were 21,368, and deaths 15,661, so that 5,707 persons have been added to the populatio same ln St. Thomas's district, Live r p ool, during the . period, there have been 346 births and 276 deaths. The deaths are above the average, compared with those of the corres ponding quarters since 1849. • Diseases of the lungs have been the most fatal. The district is at present healthhy. I n West Derby distri ct the births were 338, and te deaths 204, being 19 above the average of the correspond ing quarters of the past four years, owing to the preva lence of bronchitis and hopping-cough, caused by the cold and inclement weather during two months of the quarter. In Preston the births were 722, and the deaths 504. The population of Preston has considerably decreased during the last six months, owing to the cotton mills being closed. DocK COMMITT EE. —The weekly meeting was held on Thursday, Charles T urner, Esq., presiding. There were also present Messrs. Rounthwaite, Bigham, Holden, Ran kin, James Holme Gladstone, Romilly, Gregson, Evans, Shand, Barbour, Lockett, Royden, Smith, Brocklebank, Palmer, Robinson, and Langsdale. The regulations for traffic on the new line of railway along the docks were s ubmitted. The rules , amon g other things, enjoined that no wagon is to stand on the line of railway north of Hill street, under a penalty of £5 for each offence. No train to consist of more than four wagons when loaded with oak, and not more than six wagons when loaded with deals. No in to follow another at a less distance than 500 yards ap train a p e nalty of £5. No wagon to be allowed to art, discharge its cargo north of Hill-street, except under spe cial circumstances. No two and ns o penalty to stand of £5 on the line at the same time t o unload,. r a . charge to the companies using the line to be one shilling for each loaded wagon.. It appeared that a copy of these regulations had been sent to the directors of the London and an d North-western Rai lwa y , and the other companies, a reply from Mr. Braithwaite Poole, on behalf of Mr the Lon don and North-wester n com p any, was read. . Poole contended that one shilling per wagon was . too much, and suggested that sixpence per wagon was sufficient. After some discussion, the whole question was referred to the committee of works. A letter from Sir William Cubitt was laid before the committee. It wan to? the effect that the wall near the proposed new landing-stage, which the committee had agreed to set back at the expense of the corporation, should be proceeded with at once. The letter was referred to the sub-committee of works. A recom mendation of the surveyor to allow Prince's Dock to run dry on the Ist of Ju ne was confirmed. An application from the library and museum committee of the corpora tion, to the effect that a copy of all maps and plans respecting the docks, made by .Mr. Hartley, the engine Aner, s hould be forwarded to the library, was acceded to. app li ca tion from Messrs. M'Clune an d Tamplin, to be a ll ow ed to lay down a tram-road along the quays, for their steamers in the Nelson Dock, was referred to the harbour masters' sub-committee, the chairman remarking that in th die comm ittee would never consent to allow any private - viduals to lay down a tram-road on the public quays. The chairman next called the attention of the committee to the question as to whether the new warehouses at the Stanley Dock should be worked' by the committee or be let to private individuals. Mr. Robinson, before the general discussion was gone into, entered into a number of statis tical statements, respecting the working of the Albert Dock warehouses, and showed that the committee had realised six per cent. per annum on the outlay, and he contended that this fact was strongly in favour of the committee themselves working the Stanley D in dockividuals. ware houses, instead of letting them to private The outlay at the Albert Dock warehouses was much greater than that on the Stanley . Dock warehouses, and the per centage on the latter might therefore fairly be calculated at more event han the Albert Dock warehouses. preliminary discussion as to the relative cost of Aft tehre somet sets of warehouses, Mr. James Holme said, it would be more advantageous to the estate to let the ware houses to private individuals than for the committee to work them themselves. He believed that if the committee would put these warehouses up to public competition, they would let them for more money than they could ever expect to make themselves, they would save themselves a great deal 'of detail, and they would, in such a case, not unduly interfere with private interests. Mr. Rankin, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Royden, •severally oppo.sed Mr. Holme 's proposition. After some further discussion, the chairman Mr. North, the soli c itor, to state his op called inion as to the legality, or otherwise, of letting the warehouses just referred to. Mr. North then read an opinion on co the point, which, he said , he had drawn up, after carefully n sidering the question. After setting forth the various dock acts, which stated that the committee had no power to let the docks, he was 'of opinion thrt.t as, by these acts, they had not power to let the docks, neither had they power to let the warehouses, which seemed to him to be essentially the same as letting the docks. He was also of opinion that the sam particular act of parliament, which authorised them to e build the warehouses, rendered it obligatory on the part of the dock committee to work them. He was the committeeinio that it would be illegal to let them. The then decided that, as in the opinion of the dock solicitor, they could not leg i a )l l o l kt. le vipo t;l e i e e d. warehouses, the warehouse sub-committee be instructed.to take stepasnafotrhtehieviirntiaiteiragdeismeasenstioonf tohfedeSttaainislezas houses, to the next weelily meeting. This concluded the general business THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. A SPECIAL SESSION of justices of the peace for this borough was held on Thursday, in the Sessions-house, for the purpose of transferring publicans licenses.. The- CITY OF MANCHESTER screw steamer, Captain Wylie, sailed on Wednesday for Philadelphia, with seventy cabin, and a large number of second cabin passen gers. • FLOWER Snow.—The first exbibition of the , Floral and H`orticultural Society, for the present season, will be held at the-Botanic Gardens, on the 25th inst. In addition to the ordinary attractions, two bands will beim attendance. WrGa:N.—On Thursday night two brothers, William and Davenport . Barrow, were drowned. in the river Douglass, near Wigan. William resided in_ Sheriff-street, Liverpool, and was a watch-maker by trade. He has left a , widow and one child. His brother, Davenport, resided in Wigan,. and has also left a widow and five children. SITIPWILECKS.—The Lena, Captain Patten,.which sailed from Liverpool on the sth ult. for Quebec, with a crew of thirteen men, having been wrecked at sea, the crew were•taken off by the Hannah, Captain Kennedy, which sailed on the 7th April, for St. John's,. Newfoundland, from Liverpool. The royal mail steam-ship• Arabia, Capt. Juakins, reports falling in with the latter vessel on the 19th ult. in a sinking state, and taking off her crew, ten in number, in addition to the crew of the Lena, and landed both at Halifax. A Dsmanox from.the Liverpool Pilot Commissioners had an interview with the Hon. Edward Cardwell and Lord Stanley of Alderley, on Thursday, at the Board of Trade. The deputation consisted of Mr. J. Nelson Wood (Chairman), Mr. David Rowland (Secretary), Mr. Joseph Cooke (Superintendent), and Mr. William Hughes (master pilot), and was accompanied by the Hon. H. T. Liddell, M.P., and Mr. Thomas B. Horsfall, M.P. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday,. as a number ' of little boys were playing amongst some timber in Mann street, Northumberland-street, one of the balks rolled over and literally crushed one of the boys to pieces, and severely injured two others. The boy killed is named Alexander Torrens, and his parents live in Upper Mann-street. One of the other boys, Richard Hollinshead, residing at 35, Sun-street, had one of his thighs fractured,.and received ' other severe injuries. THE PRESTON STRIKE is virtually over. The weavers' balance-sheet, issued on Thursday, states that the week's income, from all the districts, only amounted to £3Ol 14s. ltd. The expenditure, including au allowance of Is. per head to 3,967 weavers, was £2BB 3s. 10-111., leaving a balance in hand of £l3 10s. 3d. The report stated that the districts having ceased to pay their subscriptions, the struggle must now cease ; but a strenuous appeal is made for more money, to support the operatives until they can resume work, and to pay off the £l,OOO which the execu tive borrowed to carry on the movement. OPENING OF A NEW ORGAN.—A new organ, built by Messrs. Williams and Massey, of this town, was opened at their manufactory in Back Gill-street, on Friday, by Mr. Evans, organist of St. Paul's Church, Prince's-park, who played a selection of pieces by Bach, Handel, Mendelssohn, &c., in a manner calculated to show to advantage the capabilities of the instrument. CAUTION TO ABSCONDING APPRENTICES. — At the Police-court, on Saturday, Edward Walker, apprentice with Messrs. Vernon and Son, shipbuilders, Brunswick dock, was committed to gaol for fourteen days, for running away from his employers. His wages were 14s. a-week ; and after he had absented himself, it was ascertained that he had obtained work at Mr. Taylear's building-yard, at Warrington, for 28s. a-week. TESTIMONIAL. —Upon the occasion of the Rev. John Lucas Moore's acceptance of the curacy of the North Shore district, Kirkdale, and his consequent retirement from St. Barnabas's Church, a silver inkstand, with a rosewood writing desk, were presented to him by a few members of the St. Barnabas's congregation and the teachers of the Sunday and daily schools, as tokens of their affectionate regard and esteem. Pleasing remem brances were added by the boys and girls attending s chools. The inkstan d bears an appropriate inscripti the on, beautifully executed, on one side, and Mr. Moore's crest on the other. CAPTAIN M`KAY, celebrated in nautical circles, sailed for Boston in the steamer America, on Saturday. Capt. M`Kay, by his professional skill as a sailor, renders famous the clipper ships built by his brother. Since his arrival . here in the Lightning,' we understand he has entered into+ arrangements with Liverpool houses to build from £150,000 to £200,000 worth of shipping — a proof that he possesses the proverbial Yankee spirit of enterprise and business habits. If the beauty and capabilities of the Lightning are to be taken as a criterion of what the new ships will be, there is little doubt their British owners will have every reason to be satisfied with them. Captain M`Kay is expected to return here in a month or two. ROTATORY LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING.—Through the polite attention of Messrs. Maclure, Macdonald, and i Macgregor, we were on Saturday gratified with an in spection of their self-acting lithographic press at work. The apparatus by which the process is performed, though I comp licated in itself, is simple in its o p eration. It is in point of fact a happy adaptation of the cylinder printing machine to obtaining impressions from the lithographed stone. The stone is placed on a traversing table in the position occupied by the forms in letter-press printing ; the ink is supplied to the stone by rollers occupying an analogous place to those used in inking the type; the paper is fed in by hand, seized by self-acting grippers, and carried by a cylinder, composed of cylindrical rollers, over the inked stone, and is again delivered in a printed state on a table immediately under that from which it has been supplied. Thus in all these respects passing through a series of operations strictly similar to those of machine letter-press printing. The chief advantage gained in this, I as in that other process , co nsists in celerit y of working. This will be readily understood when it is stated that by ' printing at the usual lithographic press, for a post or demy ' sheet 200 impressions per day is reckoned great work : by the self-acting machine, which is patented, 800 impressions can be worked off in an hour. A rapidity which enables the proprietors of the patent machine not only to cheapen the price of their printing, in a very great degree, but it also gives them the means of executing orders where large numbers are required, within a short space of time, which could not be undertaken by the ordinary process of litho graphic printing. We may add that the work is in all respects equal to that produced by hand labour, at least for writing, map, or plan printing. HISTORIC SOCIETY OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE. The Rev. J. S. Howson presided at the meeting of this society, held at the Collegiate Institution, on Thursday. I Mr. Gawthrop gave an interesting description of some Old Chester newspapers, one of which contained an account of the battle of Bunker's Hill. Several old books and curiosities were exhibited by other gentlemen, after which Mr. Picton read a lengthy paper on old Liverpool news papers, commencing with Williamson's Liverpool Adver tiser, published in 1756. A vote of thanks having been passed to Mr. Piston for his interesting paper, Mr. Stone house exhibited a piece of lead water piping which had been gnawed nearly through by rats. He also read an extract from a fragment of The Morning Post, of 1808, giving an account of the entry of the Russians into Finland, and showing that similar pretensions were put forward by Russia at that period to those which the Emperor had recently made public. The extract was as follows : " The Russians entered Finland the 22nd February ; their force is estimated at between 30 and 40,000 men. The Swedes had not collected above 20,000. The irruption into Finland has been followed by a declaration on the part of the Emperor of Russia,in which, after some general expressions of his imperial majesty's friendship and regard to his Swedish majesty's person and government, he de clares—' That having contracted 'engagements which urgently call upon him to contribute all in his power to wards accelerating a solid and lasting peace for the con tinent of Europe, he feels himself under the necessity of taking provisional possession of Finland, until his Swedish majesty shall think proper to adopt a new and wiser sys tem of politics.' Previously to passing the Swedish frontier, the Russians issued proclamations addressed to the Swedes, inviting them to rebel against their king, and promising them that their diets should be frequently assembled, their privileges extended, and plenty flow in upon them." Thanks having been voted to the gentlemen who had pre sented donations to the society, and also to the chairman, the proceedings terminated. CAUTION TO DRUGGISTS. On Tuesday an inquest was held on the body of a child name d Henry. Eller, whose parents 'reside at No. 1, Peover-street. The Infant, it appeared, was unwell on the previous Saturday evening, when its mother, Henrietta Eller, a German, with an im perfect knowledge of the English language, sent the daughter of a neighbour, named Dorothy NValberd, also a German, to the shop of Mr. Thomas Andrews, druggist, 49, Richmond-row, f o r two-pennyworth of syrup of rhubarb. This girl, who was about twelve years of age, and gave her evidence through an interpreter, stated that she took a cup with her for the medicine, and saw Mr. Andrews, whom she asked three times for syrup of rhubarb, and told him it was for a child about four weeks old. The druggist took the precaution to label the cup " syrup of poppies ; " but the mother of t he child, not un d e r s tanding the l anguage, or the nature of the medi cine which had been sent, administered a teaspoonful to her infant, thinking it syrup of rhubarb. This was about eight o'clock on Saturday evening, and iu a few minutes a fter receiving the medicine the c hild fell asleep, but awoke for a short time about twelve o'clock, after which he again fell asleep, and the mother discovered him to be dead on her breast between three and four ,o'clock on Sunday morning. She awoke her husband, Charles Eller, and he went immediately to Dr. Nottingham, who sent him to St. Anne's Dispensary , Rose-hill, for a surgeon, who, upon seeing the child, said he had died from syrup of poppies. The coroner, P. F. Curry, Esq., on hearing this evidence, suggested that a post mortem examination should be made, and the inquest was accordingly ad journed until Thursday, when Mr. David Pollock, the house surgeon of St. Anne's Dispensary, was examined. He said lie was called in to see the deceased on Sunday evening, but was unable to say then what was the cause of death. He had since made a post ,nortem examina tion, and found the cause of death to have been hydroce phalus, or water on the brain, the result of purely natural causes. The surgeon was questioned at some length by the coroner as to how lie formed the conclusion that it was the result of purely natural causes. The surgeon re plied that lie considered hydrocephalus a natural cause. Supposing a child was labouring under hydrocephalus, and syrup of poppies (which was known to be a poison) had been administered, lie was prepared to say that he found appearances, on post modem examination, which would warrant the opinion he had ex pressed. There would be about a tenth of a grain of opium in a teaspoonful of syrup of poppies—about nineteen or twenty drops. Mr. theA n drews, the druggist, then st ated that lie had supplied girl with what she had inquired for, and had affixed a label on the cup at the time. The coroner observed, that when they last met on this case, lie took the opportunity of stating that it was one of such importance to the public, that he deemed it requisite to have the body examined as to the cause of death, and to give the ying party his who reason for had sold the medicine an opportunity of suppl d w e o ‘ u li d d ohfavcaereto. give, 7a i s f qquieictthes; they believed the evidence of the surgeon, would not in v i t h e g clear ar under that circu mstancesthe, volve him in any, criminal 'responsibility. He was . anxious that his observations should goo orth to the public in this ease, not with any ill -feeling wards druggists, but that they might be made aware of the fact that th ought not to sell w i s e') to a child. The jury then returned a ver dict of " Died from natural causes," and an opinion was expressed that the syrup of poppies was too commonly administered by druggists in this town as a curative for nearly all kinds of disease ;quoin; infants, GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. FALSE CHARACTERS TO DOMESTIC SERV6.STE3.—MT. W. G. M. J.' Barker, late of Leyburn, pleaded guilty, on Monday last week, before the Leeds magistrates, to the charge of giving a false character to E liza beth Lindsey, his former servant, and was fined £.20, . including costs. The money was- at once paid. THE HIPPOPOTAMUS at the Zoological: Gardens, Re gent's Park, London, has become so fano" that fax its safe keeping a new building is considered. necessary, and will be erected; while its present den is to be occupied by a female hippopotamus, presented to the society by the Viceroy of Egypt, and expected to arrive in June. Isninsissirrx.—ln the Court of Common Pleas, on Monday, a farm-bailiff, named Amos, was mulcted in the penalty of £2O, for having roughly driven, out of a field at Northfleet, Kent, a woman of the name of - Atkins, who, along with other females, had trespassed on the land. It was asserted that the woman was eneiente- at the time, and that the treatment to which she was subjected had brought on premature labour. LAW REFORM.—Vice-Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood, Mr. Justice Coleridge, Mr. Napier, the Attorney and Solicitor-Generals, Sir T. E. Perry, J. G. S. Lefevre, Esq., Mr. Keating, Q.C., T. Greenwood, Esq., J. Stewart, Esq., and Germain Lavie, Esq., have been appointed Her Majesty's commissioners for " inquiring into the arrange ments in the Inns of Court and Inns of Chancery, for promoting the study of the law and jurisprudence, and securing a sound.education to the students." SINGULAR MISADVENTURE.—An aeronaut of Cannes was, on Sunday week, about to make an ascent in a bal loon, and two companions of his air oal trip had taken their seats in the car; when some of the assembled crowd, im patient to see the balloon start, cried out " Let it go." The man who-held the ropes, thinking it was the aeronaut, obeyed; the-balloon rose rapidly and disappeared, and the two passengers, who were both entirely unskilled in the management of a balloon, have not since been heard of. HoU IN LUENCE.—A boy of 13, who has been in prison twice for felony, has lately been admitted to the Reformatory for Juvenile Criminals .at Saltley, at the re quest of the Shropshire magistrates. The following is an account of his family and connexions :—His father being dead, the mother married a second time, and the step father having been transported for seven years, she ab sconded from her home. An elder brother, after having been in prison three times,was transported for seven years ; a sister, aged only 1.4, also a convicted thief, is now a pros titute in her native town ; a cousin, a mere child, ten years old, is now in prison a second time for felony, and the sister of this boy, 16 years old, is in prison for the third time. —Birmingham Gazette. CizzstivEy SWEEPERS.—The Chimney Sweepers' Bill, as amended in committee, contains the following clauses : 1. Every person who compels, or any master sweep who compels, or knowingly allows, any person under the age of 16 years to use or assist in the trade or business of a chimney-sweeper, shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding £lO. 2. In all proceedings against any party accused of an offence against this act the proof of age shall rest on the party complained against. 3. All penalties awarded under this act, and the costs and charges of and attending the recovery thereof, shall be recovered and levied in the same manner and under the same powers and provisions as if such penalties, costs, and charges were awarded or incurred under the recited act ; and all the provisions of that act relating to appeals against convictions shall extend to convictions under this act. THE DARIEN EXPEDITION.—The Panama Star gives an account of the safe arrival of Lieut. Strain at Chapigana, with two men of the Darien exploring party, in search of provisions and boats for the rest of his party, whom he had left a month before on the banks of the Chucanaque river, When he reached Chapigana he was withont clothing, reduced almost to a skeleton , a nd his body covered with sores from the insects. He reported that the nineteen men he had left on the Chucanaque were mostly disabled from sickness and debility, their provisions having failed after being out fifteen days from the Atlantic. Having obtained provisions, Lieutenant Strain has gone back in a boat, accompanied by a party from her Majesty's ship Virago to his party on the Chucanaque, leaving the two men who had penetrated with him to Chapigana behind sick. CRYSTAL PALACE.—It is now stated that Saturday, the has been finally decided on as the day on on the subject of th e nude male statues in the Exhibition. swltothrailcillic'etfi'''ejhuasCnrSel:seteanl a P dd al ree ace sed is t t o o tl b ld o irec pei r d ors . of A ti ‘ te re p m al o ac n e . It is sig ned by the Archbishop of Canterbur y , the Bishops of .St. A s aph, London, Winchester, and Lichfield, Lords Clancarty. Harrowby, Mayo, Blandford, Berners, and others. • The" remonstrants " open by stating that they are crowds persuadedof men and d at eofeixiuhdibeitsitoant,uetsoofprmomenisicn theuous s t a t e represented, must , if g enerall y submitted to, prove women,— Th ver y destructive to that natural modest y which is one of the outworks of virtue, and which a great French writer has called ' one of the barriers which nature herself has placed in the way of crime.' And they conclude by saying that they demand but a small thing, not at all a sacrifice in point of artistic beauty —viz. the removal of the parts which " in life " ought to be concealed, although we are also desirous that the usual leaf may be adopted. The di rectors, it appears, had previously resolved on effecting the alteration desired. AMERICAN VIEW OF THE WAR.—The complete and instant abrogation of our entire commerce with Russia, being under $3,000,000 a-year, the imports and exports nearly balancing, each other would not affect the general business of the country so much as a week's suspension of our trade with the powers which are at war with her. Russia cannot molest the vast trade of the United States with her enemies to the amount of a dollar, because her fleets and cruisers are confined within great internal seas singularly excluded from the great oceans which bear the world's commerce. It is for the interest of the great maritime powers, that the United States should continue its peaceful mercantile career during the pendency of the conflict, since our doing so will contribute to their revenue and resources. Russia might wish to coerce and repress our commerce in this crisis of her own fate, hut, happily, has not the power. Yet with facts like these before the country, the Washington Union, seeming to speak for the government, is teaming from day to day with fulsome eulogies upon the policy of Nicholas, and with covert or open attacks upon the motives of England and Prance ! The evident purpose of the official organ has been, and still is, to revive forgotton prejudices against Great Britain, and to embarrass her in the prosecution of the great con flict on which she had entered, by raising suspicions of the intentions of this government on the questions which may arise in consequence of the state of geueisl war now com mencing.—New York Courier. THE LATE M.P. FOR IPSWICH.—FTOIII proceedings taken before the Chief Commissioner at the London Insol vent Debtors' Court, a few days ago, it seems that a man may have an income of £12,000 a-year, and still involve himself to the extent of £lOO,OOO or upwards in an incre dibly short space of time. This, too, can be done without th e assistance of the hazard-table, the racing -stud, or any of the expeditious aids to the destruction of an estate which so greatly facilitate the labour. It appears that Mr. S. W. Lane Fox, late member for Beverley and Ipswich, from various landed estates, from a house in St. James's square, from funded property, and from coal royalties, d er i ve d an income of more than £17,000 per annum. From this gross income a certain deduction must be made for various charges upon the estate of about £5,000 a-year, leaving to Mr. Fox, in the shape of disposable income, as life tenant, no less than £12,000 a year. This large income has been simply muddled away among. coal-merchants, fruiterers, &c., upon elec. tioneenng expenses to the extent of £7poo, and upon the interest on money raised to satisfy the debts contracted in the two methods just named. Mr. Fox appears just to have kept a good house, to have bought a seat in parlia ment, and to have raised money from time to time, when ' he found himself short of cash, to meet the expenses con sequent upon this mode of life. Twelve thousand a-year and £lOO,OOO besides have been devoted to such uses in the course of a very few years. The Chief Commissioner, in giving judgment, observed that on a case of the descrip tion now before the court one might comment for the whole day. It was, no doubt, a very painful subject to see a comfortable property wrecked by extravagance. The only matter he had to deal with was to say whether, after an imprisonment already of fourteen months, the adjudi cation was to be a discharge or a judgment. The Chief , Commissioner supposed all sources of income by Mr. Fox • to be dried up. Mr. Lewis said, " Entirely." He' was discharged. HORRIBLE MURDER NEAR ABERDEEN . -011 Saturday evening, the 6th instant, shortly after six o'clock, a young woman, named Ann Harvey, left leer residence at Peter miter, where there are paper-mills at which she was em ployed, with the intention of proceeding to Aberdeen, about eight miles distant, to purchase provisions for the ensuing week. On leaving, she observed to the woman with whom she lived, " Not to be surprised though it were midnight, or even after it, ere she returned, as she was to se e Francie" (Francis), a young man understood to be her suitor. Nothing subsequently was heard of her until be tween five and six o'clock on the Sunday morning, when the dead body of the unfortunate woman was discovered at a place called Cults, about four miles from Aberdeen, by two lads, resident in the neighbourhood. The body was lying inside a stone wall which skirts a plantation, r he a throat cut in a frightful manner. Beside t he bod y small tin pail, a small basket containing packages of tea and sugar, and other articles, and a loaf tied up in a nap kin by itself; so that evidently she had executed her err and in purchasing the week's provisions. The wall behind which the body was found is about five feet in height, and is situated close to the turnpike, there being a ditch at the road side. In this ditch, and at the spot immediately opposite where the body was found, must the brutal deed have been perpetrated ; for here, both in the ditch and on the side of the road—though to judge by the appearance of the ground there had not 'been violent s t rugg ling—was found a very grea t q uantity of blood. In the ditch also was found the unfortunate deceased's shawl, bundled up. After the bloody act had been com mitted, the murderer had lifted the body fro m the ditch and over the dyke. This had evidently been a task of difficulty. The stones of the dyke were clotted with blood, as if the head had struck frequently upon them. The contents of the basket—tea, sugar, &c.—also bore marks of blood, and presented the appearance of having pockets of the deceased were examined, and a fallen out and been replaced by bloody han ds. The package of letters found including an embossed love epis tle with some verses, addressed her by " Francis Forbes, East Mid dleton, Banchory, Devenick." On obtaining this clue, the sheriff and an officer proceeded to his house and found him. Forbes admitted at once that Ann Harvey was a sweetheart of his ; but lie denied any knowledge of the murder, and said lie had been In bed all night. HisThisclothes, clothes, however, exhibited various marks of blood. This he attempted to explain, by saying that his nose had been bleeding on the previous day. Forbes was placed in safe custody till evening, when he was lodged in Aberdeen gaol. Besides the marks of blood on Forbes's smock and trousers, one of the sleeves of the shirt lie had on was wet up to the elbow ; and the soiled shirt which he had worn during the past week was nowhere to be found. The prisoner's declaration was taken on Monday afternoon, in which he stated that lie had not seen the girl llarveY since the war fast day, on Wednesday week, His brother and his sister-in-law, with whom lie lodged, also say that he was in the house during the whole of the niht be tween Saturday and Sunday. It is reported th at three parties who live in the neigrhood of Forbe s ' hlaui residence , state that they saw himit S a turday night. Wh the murdered girl late on Tourtrsrs are already flocking to the Lakes of Killarney in large numbers. AMONG THE CREDITORS on the estate of Mr. Charles Mathews, the comedian, are the Marquis of Abercorn for £2,500, and the Mullah; oflcormanby, £3OO, money lent. Locusts have appeared in the province of Cadiz, Spain, and threaten the crops with great injury. Measures have been taken by the authorities to destroy them. Irr THE YEAR •11353 there were 15,498 persons corn mitted for trial in • Ireland. Of this number 8,821 were convicted, and 3,142 . acquitted. In the other cases there was either no prosecution; or no bill found. FIRS ENGIN Es.,-InCincinnati afire-engine, worked by steam, is used with much success. It is only four or five tons, and steam can be got up in the short space of seven minutes. It is proposed to.provide New York with similar engines. THE FRENCH AY - CIACTILAORNA. — A French squadron ' of six sail, consisting of three steam-sloops, one frigate, and two 20-gun brigs, was at Carthagena on the 12th ult , for the purpose of enforcing a claim of $BO,OOO made by a French subject for flour destroyed by order of President Herrera at Camelia a few years ago. CANADA.—Our exports. in 1852 were £3,251,393; in 1853 they reached £5;3502;725.. Our imports in 1852 were £5,071,623 ; in 1853 they amounted to £7,995,359. Great Britain figures at £2,888,200 in the table of exports ; the United States at £2,228,09(1. In the table of imports Great Britain is down for £1:,612,642, the United States for £2,953,605.—T0r0nt0 Globe. THE GOLD OF VscTouTA.—The Melbourne Argus con tains some statistics of the gold-field of the Victoria dis trict for the year 1853, being the second year of its pro duction. The total produce, for the two years, of this district alone, is givenar,t2s,ooo,ooo. THE VACANT SEAT ON THE SCOTCH BENCH.—Chas. Neaves, Esq., advocate, the Solicitor-General for Scotland, under the government of Lord Derby, has been selected to fill the vacant seat on the bench. This appointment will afford unqualified' satisfaction to the legal profession and the public generally.—Scottish Record. RELIGION IN Russza.—The Ecclesiastical Gazette of Vienna states, upon theauthority of authentic documents, that in White Russia, in 1833, 33,000 persons were con verted to the Greek religion. The means of seduction em ployed were distributions of brandy, and to those who resisted the temptation an application of the knout. The Governor of the province received from the State a rouble for each convert. ECONOMY OF TIME.—A writer in the Christian Times complains of " feminine impropriety" at the Exeter Hall meetings. He has.been much struck with the indecorum of a number of the ladies in working the whole time. " To sit working on various sorts of female work, in front of the speakers, under their very eye, all the time of the report being read and the resolutions moved, does seem to me something in. very bad taste, to say the least." A FEMALE PARISIT OVERSEER.—Miss Sarah Matilda George was recently nominated at a vestry meeting as a fit and proper person to fulfil the duties of overseer of the poor of Misson, Notts, and the Retford magistrates have made the appointment. Miss eorge subsequently attended a vestry meeting, declared her willingness to fulfil the duties, and received the balance due to the parish from the outgoing overseers. A USEFUI CLERK.—A New York letter to the Mobile Tribune says,—" There is a remarkable man connected with the Custom-house here, a Spaniard. His business is to receive and test money. He will pour the contents of a bag of gold and silver coin into a scale —for it is weighed not counted—and in a trice announces the amount in dol lars and cents ; then running his fingers through the shining pieces, and applying his nose to them, immediately takes out every counterfeit coin. He was never known to make a mistake in pronouncing money good or bad, and his infallible instinct for detecting the spurious metal is located in his olfactory organs." A WARNING.—A few days since Leeds was visited by a heavy thunderstorm. A workman at a new Romish masshouse, which is being built at Richmond-hill, was struck dead, the lightning tearing his clothes to shreds ; four men beside him were thrown to the ground, and three of them dangerously injured ; two men a few yards off, and working, one at the top and another at the bot tom of a new well, were frightfully injured—the man at the top having his thigh fractured, and the other at the bottom being crushed almost to a shapeless mass by stones and timber, whisk fell-into the well from buttresses which the lightning knocked down. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH has long been in operation between St. Petersburg and Warsaw, and for some time numbers of men have been employed in completing the line, which is to extend from Warsaw to the Prussian frontier. But in order not to lose time while the works of the latter are going on, the Czar has caused the portion already constructed to be connected with the Prussian telegraph near Myslowitz, and by this means St. Peters burg is placed in direct communication with the capitals of Western Europe. There is no longer any reason why the embarkation of a regiment at Southampton, or the depar ture of' a ship from Portsmouth, should not be known in the Russian capital before either can get out of the Chan nel. There is, however, no reciprocity of advantage. The Russian line is not open to private dispatches. SINKING OF THE ERICSSON STEAMER.—We learn by the New York papers that during the storm which was raging at the time the Arctic steam-ship left, the caloric steamer Ericsson was sunk off Jersey city. It appears that the vessel had been out on a trial trip. While return ing up the bay, and while some of the firemen were heaving coal ashes out of the side port, which is a very large one, the squall struck her, healing her down to star board, putting the port under water, through which .she gradually filled, and sank within 300 yards of Jersey city, with the upper decks about four feet under water. The small boats of the Asia, lying at the Cunard dock, were immediately despatched to the aid of those on board. Small boats also came from neighbouring vessels, and steam-tugs also came to her relief. One of the Jersey city ferry-boats, the Jersey City, Capt. Price, also went off to her; but as there were only a few persons on board—it being a trial trip—they were got off in season, and before the ferry-boat arrived. With the company onboard there wore several ladies, who were much frightened by the acci dent, as well they might have been, for it was a disaster which would no doubt have resulted in great loss of life, had she been farther from the shore and the assistance she received. The herald says : "Those on board of her were much pleased with the result of the day's experi ment. They report that she made 12 revolutions per minute during her trip, and attained a speed of about 11 miles per hour. The party were in the cabin, surrounded with all the requirements of social enjoyment, and making congratulatory speeches, when they were suddenly inter rupted in their enjoyment, and were compelled to flee to the deck for safety, in consuence of her capsizing." The same paper, of the 30th, s ays: " This ship was com pelled yesterday to buffet the storm, without any attempt being made to raise her from her uncomfortable bed. Derricks and steam-tugs have been placed around her, and she will no doubt be pumped out, and again walk the waters as proudly as ever, after the first few days of favourable weather. This vessel is estimated to be worth $500,000, a nd she is insured, we understand , for about $300,000." PIRACY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.—The following re port, which leads to the impression that the crew of the Harriet, of London, has been murdered by pirates, may be relied on. It is dated Athens, the 25th of April : "On the 21st instant, H. M. steam-ship Triton, hearing that an English merchant vessel was in distress, sailed from this place and anchored in the harbour of Gavrios, island of Andros, where she found the English schooner Harriet, of London, in charge of the Greek authorities. Upon making inquiries, it was ascertained that the pea sants on the heights of Andros discovered a vessel, with sails set, on the 12th and 13th of April. Her movements were so peculiar, as she kept going round and round the compass, the sails at times full and at others aback, that on the second day the peasants sent to Gavrios and re ported the circumstance to the head man of the place, who despatched boats, and found the vessel on a rock near Thelo, island of Andros, totally abandoned, a dog being the only living creature on board. On the 15th she was navigated to Gavrios. On the examination of her papers, &c., it became known that she had discharged a cargo of coke at Valencia, and was bound to Constantinople for cargo. Her log at noon of the 11th of April placed the ship with Cape Doro bearing, by compass, north-east by north twelve miles, and here that document ceases, stating the weather to be calm and sultry. Large pools of blood appeared on the deck and bulwarks ; the captain's cabin was ransacked and in great confusion, also that part of the ship appropriated to the ship's company. Her books state her complement to be seven souls (all told.) Two boats were on board. And now comes the piestion, where are the crew ? Some people suggest mutiny, but, if so, how did the perpetrators leave the ship ? Two boats were surely sufficient for so small a crew, and the boats are on board. The position of the Harriet at noon of the 11th was about equi distant from the Negropont and the islands Zea and Andros, and she was an easy victim for the law less gangs who are well known to infest the former place ; they use the large row-boat, and a calm is well suited for a dash alongside small vessels of commerce. The Harriet was towed into this port on the 23rd instant by the Triton, and given in charge of Mr. Neale, H. II M. Con sul." Another act of piracy is also reported. The English schooner Sarah, Cole master, which arrived at Alatzatta on the 27th ult., from Trieste, iad scarcely been at anchor two hours when she was assailed and boarded by forty Greeks in two boats, who stripped her of her chronometer, watches, provisions, spyglass, clothes of the master and crew, an& in fact, everything valuable. The master was then menaced if lie did not give them money, but, having none to give, he escaped further annoyance. She was to load a cargo of fruit for London. DREADFUL STORM IN AMERICA. By the Arctic steam ship, Capt. Luce, which left New York on the :30th ult., and reached the Mersey on Wednesday last, we have intel ligence of a dreadful storm which then raged. The " windows of Heaven" (says the Herald of the 30th) are open, " the fountains of the great deer are slightly broken up, and we are in the midst of what the Peruvians on the sea coast would undoubtedly consider a second deluge. It has rained—no, that is not the word—it has poured down upon ns in one interrupted stream from about twelve o'clock on Friday niKlit, and at the time we go to press— two a.m.—not the slig htest indication of a ' hold up" is discernable. The Russ pavement shines in the gaslight like the marble floors of the St. Nicholas, and the homely cobble stones, " long lost to sight (iii the mud) but to memory dear," lift their modest heads in gratitude for the copious ablution. The urban& have suffered, some in the way of overflowed cellars ; the suburbans have had their trees blown down ; and their fancy flower gardens are in a woeful plight.—ln Brookyli a melancholy accident happened. The flood of water carried a mass of earth and rock against a frame building situated on and partly over hanging the brink of the Heights, demolishing the lower story, and, strange to say, leaving the upper . part of the house almost unharmed. Two persons lost their lives, and five other were more or less injured, by this casualty. It I appears that the rain first commenced on the afternoon of the 27th, during a severe thunder storm. We are accus tomed (says the Herald) to witness similar disturbances ' of the elements at this season of the year, but the sudden ness of the transition in this instance, from the luxurious balmy softness of one of the finest days in spring to a roaring, pelting, pitiless tempest, with terrific thunder and sharp bli n ding lightning, was enough to appa l t he timid and - disturb the equilibrium of the calmest mind. This storm has prevailed over a vast extent of country. It has given the coasters oil' the North Carolina seaboard some rough handling. Our inland seas, from Lake Ontario to Lake I.llichigan, have felt its violence, and it will be fortn nate indeed if its disasters by land and sea are one-half as yet reeottntell, MURDER EN - EIV itiiPOOL. Or the morningnf Friday last r one - of the low streets of Liverpool was again. the scene sinsangninary brawl, end ing, in the murder cf one of the brawlers,. by the deliberate and savage use of a dagger, the repetition of which atroci ties has of late, from , time to time; cast a stigma on the town and its inhabitants: In •this‘instance both the victim zed the assassin were fcireigners.- The• circumstances of the case, as these were •elieited ' at' the inquest, held by F. F. Curry, Esq., coroner, on Saturday,. by adjournment frimn the previous day,. were as follow':,—A. seaman, named John Kelly, a Frenchman ,by birth,. but of Irish paren tage, who had just completed a • voyage. from America on Saturday week, in the-ship •Portlande in company with one of his shipmates, went to a •publiCgionse at the corner of Crosshall and Dale-streets ; about half-past eleven o'clock on Thursday night, where • they had some drink. About twelve o'clock a foreigner, named Antonio Tab bachi, a native of Tessin,insSwitzerlan4 accompanied by a female, entered the apartment where- Kelly, along with his companion and others,. were sitting. Shortly after the arrival of Tabbachi, some angry words. ensued between him and Kelly ; but none of the parties present understood their exact import, as they were • spoken , in a foreign lan guage. Kelly then left the public-house, and, along with his shipmate, proceeded to another publie , honse, situated close by, at the junctionof Preston-street with Dale-street, to which place he was followedi by the Swiss. Here, it would appear, the quarrel was renewed, anti Kelly having placed himself in a boxing attitude; was put out of the house by the landlord. While this was being done, Tab bachi was seen to stoop or crouch down slightly, and, uttering sonic angry or threatening expression, he instantly followed Kelly, and, on passing: the• threshold, was ob served to have a , knife. or dagger firmly grasped in his right hand, with which, he aimaa blow at a private of the Lancashire Militia,. who was.leaving the house at the same time, but which the latter evaded by jumping to one side, and immediately returned into the house by another door. A woman passing, saw Tabbachi cross rapidly to the other side of the street, where'Kelly was, and, coming behind him, strike him suddenly in the right breast, over the right shoulder;. with the dagger, which he left sticking in the wound. Kelly immediately fell, and Tabbachi went off; but, after going a pace or two, he returned, and snatching the dagger from the breast of his victim, who was lying in the street, pished a ,part of the weapon up 1 his own right hand sleeve, so as.toeonceal it, and then ran away. The woman called out forassistance, when instantly a policemantame•up, and saw the murdered man in the street. To the policeman she• pointed out the assassin, and he took him , intoncustody.• On being taken, the dag ger, covered with blood, was found concealed in his right hand, and under his coat sleeve ; as above described. It proved to be a regular poniard, the blade of which was between four and tire inches in length, by a breadth of about three quarters of an inch at the handle-guard, and tapering ton very fare , sharp. point. The blade bore the following inseripiion . : , ---`' Never draw me without reason, nor sheathe• me without .bonottr." It also bore to have been made in Sheffield. SO unerringly precise had been the aim of the Murderer, that death was almost instanta neous, Kelly never uttering.a sound, or hardly even draw ing a breath, after he received the wound. On a post mortem examination, it was found that the dagger had passed into the chest of Kelly between the fourth and fifth ribs, opening the aorta, one of the principal blood vessels of the heart, for fully half an inch. After a very patient inquiry, and the examination of several witnesses, the jury returned a verdict of " wilful murder" against the prisoner, who, under the coroner's warrant, was con mitted for trial. lie is, as has been already stated, a native of the canton of Tessin, anal was one of about fifty Swiss emigrants, who had taken their passage for Australia, and sailed in the Great Britain, but were unfortunately com pelled to return to Liverpool by the accident which occur red to the ship, and Tabbaehi, along with the others, was waiting till she was again ready to take her departure. His countrymen appeared to take a deep interest in the unfortunate position of Tabbachi. and several of them were anxious observers of the proceedings at the inquest. The prisoner is a stoutly built, and, on the whole, rather a good-looking man ; and as he scarcely understands a word of English, his case was attended to by the Swiss consul, Mr. Zwilchenbart, and Mr. Meiss, secretary to the consu late, the latter of whom acted as interpreter to him. THE CLIPPER SHIP "OCEAN HERALD." THE fame of the American ship-builders, it would ap pear, is not likely to suffer diminution, so far as that rests fairly on the practical test of excellent workmanship. At the present moment an admirable specimen of their con . structive skill may be seen in the Wellington Dock, in the shape of the fine new ship Ocean Herald. This beau tiful vessel has just arrived from New York, laden with a general cargo. She has been built by the celebrated Cotter, of Maine, the builder of the Red Jacket, and is nearly identical in model with that beautiful example of marine architecture ; the difference of the two being, that the Ocean Herald is a little broader in the beam than the Red Jacket, her lines in every other respect being the same. In extreme length the Ocean Herald measures 230 feet on . deck, her breadth of beam being 42 feet, and her tonnage measurement 2,135 tons, American register. She is of very elegant external proportions, with a sharp bow, and gracefully sweeping lines aft. Her deck-lines are easy, and she is very roomy on all her floors. Her ribs and knees are all of live oak, and she is planked with pitch pine up to her water-line, and above that with white pine ; her masts, spars, canvass, and rigging are all of American manufacture, and from their general disposition and the fine model of her hull, she conveys the impression to the spectator of being an excellent sea-boat. The length of her mainyard is 90 feet, and that of her fore yard 85 feet ; thus enabling her to carry a large amount of canvass. The sailing qualities of the Ocean Herald were well tested on her voyage from New York, which she made, under considerably adverse circumstances, in 18 days, having strong easterly winds from about the longitude of 20: her depth of draft being 21 feet, while 20 feet is her calculated draft for cargo. Notwithstanding this deep loading she logged as much as 3110 miles in a day, her fastest rate reaching 17 knots an hour. She possesses great stowage room, and, from her interior arrangements, is admirably adapted for the purposes of a passenger ship. Her principal cabin saloons, which are placed on her main deck, are spacious, and are fitted up in a style in which elegance is happily combined with comfort. The ladies' cabin is tastefully wainscoated with polished mahogany, and panels of the state-room doors having raised fields of choice walnut-wood, while the interspaces are occupied with rosewood pilasters with gilded capitals and bases ; the furniture being in a corresponding style of beauty. The dining saloon, which is situated more amid-ship than the one above referred to, is fitted up in a form entirely similar to the other, but it is painted white with gold mouldings and ornaments. Six handsome and commodious state rooms open ow each of those saloons, each state-room having two berths. These are roomy and well ventilated. From the height of her 'tweet' decks, and the ample space they contain, the Ocean Herald is well calculated for accommodating passengers on a long voyage, and she is reported to sail admirably even in rough weather. COURT OF PASSAGE-YESTERDAY. (Before E. JAMES, Esq., Assessor.) Tuts court opened, simultaneously with the Sessions, yesterday morning, at St. George's Hall. Theundefended actions were first disposed of. 11Ansnati, AND ANOTHER V. JONES.—This was an action upon a promissory note for £3O. Verdict for the plaintiffs. LIVERPOOL TRADESMAN ' S LOAN COMPANY V. GLED nILL AND ANOTHER.—This also was an undefended action, the defendants being Win. Gledhill and Sophia Scarlett, on a promissory note for £l3O. Verdict for plaintiffs. CHAFFER AND ANOTHER V. HoPsiss.—Thomas and Benjamin Chaffer were the plaintiffs, and Thomas William Hopkins the defendant. An action on a Bill of Exchange for £26 Os. Bd. Verdict for the plaintiffs. GILBERT V. BELPORD. — ThiS was an action to recover the rent of a house and shop, and certain monies lent, the total amount being £36 13s. Verdict for the plaintiff. KIRBY r. ODELL.—Another undefended action, to re cover £3B 4s. 101, on a bill of exchange. Verdict for the plaintiff. ALLEGED ILLEGAL SEIZURE. — FARRELL V. MILLIGAN. —The plaintiff, Samuel Farrell, is a butcher, and the defendant, John Milligan, a grocer and general trader. The declaration stated that the defendant, on the 12th of January, in this year, broke and entered the dwelling house and shop of the plaintiff, and expelled the plaintiff therefrom, and kept him out of it. It also stated that, on a subsequent day, the 31st of the same month, he entered the same dwelling-house and shop, made a great noise there, and severed and seized certain fixtures of the plain tiff, and also took away the goods and chattels of the plaintiff. Mr. Aspinall appeared for the plaintiff: and it appeared, from his opening statement, that Mr. Farrell had been for years on very intimate terms with Milligan, the defendant. Early in 1853, Mr. Farrell got married, and Mr. Milligan let him this house and shop, which are situated at Saltney-street, in this town, for the purpose of commencing business as a grocer. Mr. Farrell entered the shop, and carried it on profitably and respectably ; but, some tune after he had commenced as grocer, he and Milli gan entered into speculations ; they entered intothepotato trade, Milligan finding the money, and Mr. Farrell travel ling about and disposing of the goods. This did not answer so well as the grocery business had done. Dis putes arose between the two, and on the 12th of January,. rent at the time being due, the defendant came down to the shop. Farrell was away, but his wife was there, and both the defendant and Farrell's wife were in a state of intoxication. Defendant sent Mrs. Farrell out, and, whilst she was away, he put the servant out:and locked up the house and shop. Afterwards there was some further negotiation, and in the course of it Mr. Milligan called several times and saw Mrs. Farrell. A good many mat ters took place between them, one relating to an assault committed by the defendant upon Mrs. Farrell, and which would form the subject of another action. But on the 31st the defendant put in a " distress," and sold the furniture of the plaintiff, including in the sale a variety of fixtures which the plaintiff had put up, and which a landlord under such circumstances had no right to sell. He estimated their cost at £9 or £lo.—Mr. Millward appeared for the defence, the principal point in which was that when defendant and Mrs.. Farrell were drinking together, the latter had sanctioned the proceedings that he adopted. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff on the first count, as to the locking out, with one farthing damages. They found also for lam in reference to the fixtures, with 258. damages ; and fixed the value of the furniture sold at i 5. The case, it was intimated, would be taken to the court above. ALLEGED NEGLIGENCE I!.1 CARRIAGE.—MONIES V. Locii.—ln this case Mr. Aspinall appeared for the plain tiff, and Mr. Blair .for the defendant. The declaration stated that the defendant was a common carrier, and that the plaintiff had delivered to him a puncheon of gin to be carried from Runcorn to Liverpsool, and delivered to him iu Liverpool, and, that the defendant carried it so negli gently that part of the gin.was lost, and the rest spoile d. The plaintiff is a wine and spirit merchant in this towi o i,.. and the defendant the representative of the 1 Duke I Ilridgev:ater's trustees. Mr. Monies b o ught from a party giving up business at Mincer?... Arils j: e w 3 Put After it had I into a puncheon when it was 23 node* Pr°, 43 ,_ be 20 wider I been put in, it WAS again tested, and 11)"4 to proof.—lt was well known, Mr. Aspinall said, that, whe i spirits:ere changed from one vessel to another, or expose to•the air, they lose some of their strength, but only in a " small degree. At 26 under proof it was sent from the yard of the gentleman who had sold it, to the Duke of Bridgewater s place. It occupied four or five days in coming, andon its arrival here was found to be muddy, and-42 1-10ths under proof. It was alleged that 15 or 16 gallons must have been taken out by the defendants' ser vante,-and their place supplied with impure water. The original value of the gin was 10s. a gallon, but it was worthnow. about ss. 9d.,- and could only be used for recti fying purposes.—The• defence was principally that the plaintiff had not proved conclusively that the deterioration had taken place whilst it was in the defendants' posses sion. Witnesses were called to prove that. Mr. Aspinalr having replied, the learned assessor summed up, and the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages £l3 105. ACTION. POE FALSE INPEISONNENT. — GYEENFIKLD V. STKEs.—This was a case the circumstances of which must already be familiar to the local reader. It has been not less than four times:tried before various courts. At the October Court of Passage, the present plaintiff obtained a verdict against the defendant with i.:40 da mages ; but, the case being removed to the court above, a new trial was-ordered on the ground that the Assessor would not at that time allow evidence of justification to be taken.—Mr. Aspinall and Mr. Brett appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Millward and Sir George Stephen for the defendant. —Mr. Brett opened the pleadings. John Greenfield was -the plaintiff; Benjamin Sykes the defen dant, and the declaration was for falsely imprisoning the plaintiff; to which the defendant pleaded that he was not guilty by statute. —Witnesses were then ordered out of court —Mr. Aspinall stated the case. He said this was a case which would require somewhat more than usual care on the part of everybody,. in consequence of the difficulties which they had heretofore encountered in coining to justice and right conclusions. They must see this time if they could not come to thereal facts, and a verdict which would be satis factory to the parties•and every one else. The plaintiffwas a person who had for many years carried on business as a plasterer in Liverpool, and up till the time the action arose was doing a fair and.remunerative business. He had been employed by the Corporation of Liverpool about the mar kets and other things, and had also attained a reputation for some facility in curing smoky chimneys. He men tioned that, because by it he had earned a nickname, that of " sweep," which might be repeated by some of the wit nesses in the course of the proceedings. The defendant is a publican in Great Charlotte-street, his house adjoining the Fish Market, which lies between it and the Amphi theatre. rt appeared that on the 31st of May some party or other had committed against the defendant some offence which he chose to consider a felony, and which was no doubt an unpardonable joke on the part of somebody or other. Somebody or other broke Mr. Sykes's windows, took out a bottle of champagne and drunk it, and several other bottles also were removed. That was the whole matter. It had given rise togreat litigation,—on the part of Mr. Sykes three times, and the present plaintiff was now anxious to vindicate his character. That proceeding having taken place on the 31st of May, or ratherthe morn ing of the Ist of June, Mr. Greenfield, he should be able to prove to them, had nothing whatever to do with it. but he was in the habit of going to Porter's public-house, which is next door. He was there that night, and learned to his surprise that Mr. Sykes had been saying that he was one of the parties who had been guilty of an impro per act at his place the night before. The first step that Mr. Greenfield took was that which an innocent person unjustly charged necessarily would; he went to Mr. Sykes's, ordered something to drink, and then immediately asked about it. He had some conversation with Mr. Sykes, and, to his surprise, it resulted in Mr. Sykes deliberately making a charge against him. He had him taken to the Police-office in the presence of a great number of persons, although he was warned as to the con sequences of such a search. Bail was offered for Mr. Greenfield, by persons who knew his position, and were anxious that he should not suffer the indignity of a night in gaol. The charge being that of felony, however, bail was refused, and Mr. Greenfield imprisoned. He was brought before the magistrates the next day, and the case was dismissed. Now, if Mr. Sykes had been a prudent and not a vindictive and malignant man, enough had already taken place to show him that he should not pro ceed further against a respectable man, but he did take proceedings to make Mr. Greenfield pay for a broken window. Those proceedings lasted for a long time ; they had occupied two days before another tribunal, and the result_ was exactly what he anticipated that day, which s could have shown Mr. Sykes that he should hai'e with drawn the charge, and allow Mr. Greenfield to clear his character. Now, Mr. Greenfield had a right to vindicate his character, to appeal to a jury of his countrymen, and after a long course of litigation, such as few men had been visited with, to redeem his character. Anthony Thomas Slack, a policeman, proved that he was sent for on the Ist of June, a little before one o'clock, when the plaintiff was given into his custAdy, on a charge of felony. Mr. Stephen Hurton, printer, Queen-square, was next called. He spoke to offering to bail Mr. Greenfield out, but that it had been refused, as he was charged with a felony, stealing wine. This was the case for the plaintiff. Mr. Millward then addressed the jury for the defence. He said if any of them were publicans or shopkeepers, nothing would be more annoying than to have their windows broken, and the goods stolen from the shelves. It might be well enough to treat it as a drunken joke, perpetrated by per sons coining from Porter's house. A joke! breaking plateglass windows, at one o'clock in the morning, when all decent parties were in bed—a joke, stealing wine and spirits left upon the premises in the usual mode. Mr. Millward then proceeded to comment on the fact that Mr. Greenfield, who must have known all the circumstances, and revealed them under cross-examination, had not been called into the witness-box. He contended, whatever technical difficulties might arise, that he was entitled to give evidence on the plea of justification. Riley, a market constable, saw a man break the window, and join others, and drink the champagne on the Fish-market steps. After giving information to the police, he called up Sykes, and then they sought for the parties who had been guilty of the outrage. Mr. Sykes then made an unceasing search for the parties, which ultimately ended in the plaintiff being given into custody. 'i'he first witness called was Riley, the market con stable, who spoke positively to Greenfield, the plaintiff, breaking the window with his elbow, and taking out the champagne. Mr. Sykes, the defendant, was then called. He stated, amongst other evidence, that he met the plaintiff coming out of an entry, near the neighbourhood, at four o'clock in the morning, and lie said, when told of the charge, that " they were all drunk, and if it were only one glass that was broken he was willing to pay for it." He spent the whole of that morning and next day in search of the depredators. Mary Murphy, the bar-maid, called—spoke to the same admission, if it were such, being made. • Robert Smith, chicken-butcher, corroborated their tes timony. ... . Joseph Parker, a policeman, was on the beat in Great Charlotte-street at the time, and assisted Mr. Sykes in his search. Riley was drunk at three o'clock in the morning. He had had considerable drink. There was the neck of a broken bottle lying on the Fish Market steps. P. C. Wilson, 303, gave like testimony. Riley was not so drunk but that he could get over the Fish Market gate. Francis O'Neill, another noliceman, said that Riley was sober at half-past one o'clock. This closed the case for the defence. Mr. Aspinall submitted that there was no case. His learned friend must prove that he was seen committing the offence, and that he was immediately apprehended. The learned Assessor read the act, which was known as Peel's Act, and said that he was inclined to think that there was no evidence of his immediate apprehension, but it was a question which he should put to the jury. The jury found that he had not been apprehended " immediately," and it was then held, as the pleas stood, that there was no justification. Mr. Aspinall then replied, speaking principally as to the damages which should be awarded. The learned Assessor then lucidly summed up, and the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. Damages £lO. The court at half-past six adjourned till nine o'clocl this morning. CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS, on May 16. Felicia Dorothea Browne was born in Liverpool, on the 25th of September, 1793. Her father was an Irishman, and her mother (whose maiden name was Wagner), was of mingled Italian and German descent, the daughter of the Imperial and Tuscan Consul at Liverpool. She married early. Mrs. Hemans resided several years at Bronwylca, St. Asaph, North Wales ; then removed to Wavertree, near Liverpool, and finally to Dublin, where she died on the 18th of May, 183,5, aged 41. The poetry of Mrs. Hemans may be likened to a cathedral ehaunt-- deep, solemn, and impressive. The King of Naples, in a proclamation, justified the massacre of the 15th May, 1848, on the ground of neces sity. The loss of life was very great, 1,777 bodies being interred on the 16th. Violent affray at Bauchi, incited by Mazzini. The Chartist National Convention broke up. The North Star left the Thames for the Arctic regions, in search of Sir John Franklin. Address from the Irish nation to the Sultan, signed by the leading people of Ireland, thanking his Majesty for his generous donation of £l,OOO for the relief of distress in that country. The money was transmitted to Englind by Lord Cowley, the British Minister at Constantinople. Peter the Great laid the first foundation of the city of St. Petersburgh, 1703. The Baptis - mal Font at Walton Church erected, 1754. The Rev. Gorronwy Owen, curate, and a celebrated Welsh bard, composed English, Welsh, and Latin verses in com memoration of the event. The old meeting-house for the Quakers, in Hackin's key, Liverpool, recorded as a meeting-place for Protestant dissenters, 1700. .The Royal Liverpool Regiment of Volunteers, , c°" 1 " manded by Pudsey Dawson, Esq., mustered in Mossmuo" fields, 1,900 strong, 1798. The Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, in P all-wall ' Liverpool, opened 1787. deter- Making Liverpo o l a p ar i s h, distinct from Walt° mined on, 1654. Battle of Albuera, 1811. Baronets were first created by King James I. in MAY) 1611, in the ninth year of his reign. MiCvonAWC. Liverpool, May 15, LORDWATEEPABK,a rampant radical, was, on Tuesday, elected, without opposition, M.P. for Litchfield, in the place of Lord Anson, called to the House of Lords by hi s father's death. ~ ' HAariNna ELECTION.---TIIC representation of Hastings ' having become vacant, an election took place on Wednes_ day, and Mr. F. North, a Liberal, was returned without opposition. VACANT JVDorEirllr.—lt is said that the seat on TU E the bench, vacant by the death of Lord Cockburn, has been offered to Mr. Neaves, formerly Sheriff of Orkney. an d Solicitor -General for Scotland durin g the Earl of Derby's administration. I)EvoNroRT ELECTION. — The candidates 11. Maxwell, o ere Perry, the 100o axwell, a Conservative , and Sir Erski n wSir 3. rejected of Liverpool, a Radical, Thp - latter Nym rct kO. 1)) , a nAjolity of 1091 to 689, - unal k 1% flat Ni 1) r ' V-i - . 1 • 1 A ki i ~~ ~~ ,