The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-09-25 00:00:00

855. __- SEPTEMBER 25, 1855.] - - LOCAL INTELLIGENCE . Tas p ----'-----•---____ gaol was made ourh,..._,llAL CLEARANCE of the old borough f.. 14 4 '' . .._ la Y , when all prisoners whose periods o imprison aett,,,eynded beyond Saturday were removed to the new n alton. Job li t 1 , t_t`tw STRAIIER LIVERPOOL, recently built by A i r n r . . tit4,,,trd for the Commissioners of Birkenhead, and hs ~ ,only on the Woodside and Monk's Ferry stations, a rtnr f the great float on Thursday afternoon, and had ter °c side th R k • purpose of testing ~,,,- a lachi ner , e (lc Lighthouse, for the ta ll N. '' f the te arrival at 'Melbourne on the 26th of June o ~t._ e t4 eleh tlr eee:t il h e e e P°L°."--The advices per the West India mail ;me ar.,_'`areo Polo which sailed from the Mersey h w i l B2 mal. 1,17114ai1s o 3 the 6th of April, a pas!e o vessel. 4 is the fifth voyage to Melbourne ; of this ag famous I! li i)athetr expt4oselhee, conformed that, with the view o i f lw r n e y du c c o i m ng . EdleZu,.attirdayueilridloil and e in Nort hwest ern en from their works at 1°f°,.',,..a1l lofr°,,lllFrewe 2ocolaverte discharged ; and that at least R l e -147 1/. 4 ' th e line, have been thrown out of work.— e g Gas et, ' 4 b Jo,„ l h,,Apa n • -15, gasfitter in the employ of the . Liverpoo - way , 7 3 was brought before the county magistrates on "Itt itY ' -4 teulaziade,reehaie•tned withrobbing the company of a "ait.,,e ProPe"ea4- edoubt as to the identity w i:lse r. hatv rt 4 . the Prisonergrsereived the benefit of it, and tel " 11 4 Op thell, NitiP , TII RR]) j —This splendid vessel, s.,el/... th e t, ,„„ . ACHET. el/ oir " hlte tar" line of Australian ships, left paeartitver he fi r e d sday, or Melbourne, d i t n k r tg ing down out 300 akiht,Rasoe ~ several salutes. Besides a atti pel ltu h ttre‘i,_iarge cargo she conveys destination at the 11;4c1,•1.ERPo t altY, in 68 days. h it °I Alis A, rn -knitr Was an n . t -- .ROTTING RAcEs.—These races, ti s f e,e, h ave b Ainced would take place on Tuesday last, at the action hoihee,n Postponed in • uenee of some oh.. t4titeT',_egratnrnea 14etnt_sexPres;ed by the American party with that th'_el.ng ope n t o ~`,l e_ ,Ports, only one tut of three sweep undersband hake ,3eir„ees to t at tJ .e9es of all countries. of the (1-arnbridge."irac on the occasion of l th e e h visit ro o e f e t e h d e s plutd. rand stare, is in co ntemplation that te P T ed shall i to itteht z Szllloll' TESTIAinv appropriatedAtodetshierePahtarvioiltiiac Griate Earl of as 3'9l:tatters to perpetuate the memory of appro toete„ Mode n, it has been suggested that aria _ tree Cal winiio437Mg out this feeling would be by placing a ''as l a il et West to the west eud of the parish chili n now ~s, eb s , ~_ 1'1)37 1,:::ed bite gteill'il,_ d he of Sefton, in April, 1853, n 4riThe foundation -stone of this church p i , ek e T NI at t i l e r elt in its erection. A subscriptionlist has the bott Aceib 44ellange newsroom. inh ries Y of ..„11,,wp:1;..---An inquest was held on Tuesday on who died from 'sett ii,reeeired Luenes, tight years of age, tl anei . " l " a hob s a fall. The deceased and some other thahat, and 't ak e . in Christian -street, where they coemdinmeq&ead., t i nto " a disturbance A woman, n_ p ayer° 4in l trite th e e house, took hold of the deceased and i .ilie ent . It street and he fell upon his head upon the lolled coneesei:as kfterw'ards ascertained that he had 5 ..... ut- I llO t arn e d 0 °F the brain which ended in Ins ,, death. m nix . 1 1 7 40 11 (wh o a verdict of "'Accidental Death, . n. /itils,4/' 1 51b,_ Wa a.._ in custody of the police) was re the 11 4 4 a -to rs r, 7, uNioN CONTRA.OI9 —The following a rticles di charged. 4at e,l, ---11,,-r,i'4e ensuing • nth; for the several a ever. !tr,ll',4oAtiii.)%aal. Meat, gr B . l T x h ill om o as Tomlinson, 68, n ;Jeet. i,,P„oeal, Peas, and oat catcloe: a P o ro 3 Iztssio'z eturdhospital, M groceries for r out-door o poor, 11',.a: il T a h n o , m l : l as pre :E s ir cou c b te .i Th s, ma l‘ s ir A . If,l e:Mollett_Mad, and Mr. S. Cottrep!elol,. wodurigmht. I,pt,har,,, leatherra4ery and linen.dral.ie.l, eiviliwssarres, yfr. •1114111,223 d rea r t - Thomas Fish t e . and groceries, pe M k r: soap' e. , !zt4 T, 2 2, G eorge-street 'lac tql.l,,,lvitteit a, 5, Ranelag -P on ir oki 4 eab, 0 PRETLSVO SKERRIES.— tnin _Graham, overtaken Cap title kave,,,-',, the schooner Alert, of Belfast, I,e,l'iLlid,l.7o',,f.ol' Memel, with salt, was ashore on t 1av,,,--4 s k —l.ng u nmanageable, w were The crew e en -44'0 Virtilerries, near the lighthou f the crew by the were sea lighthouse. The articles ' board Itt11 "P lID 4° the master and tw w o 7 th e ': th4.oo,save thkr clothes, and other the t kit eaDt ani ,„ a i!' fi lled hr with 50 yards from k * tier: Zgo waswashed ashore about . total wreck.- -rt4 - the water, and threw over 4*i,, e tnei vessel lay. - kit'4 4 T 9n. l' o ol telNitn CAN TERntritx.—The sere!' PI St; ef t 1 ) , ( M with wi nes an d a general tvoreeoell On 1 10 on the 14th of September., 61 men, 84 C'al e ii. l , 6,3 ii.. Tuesday morning, to disembark ergo, e f r or p L u i u v r e o l?- 1,, 1 „, ,a), he,e udren, and two seamen, in medical charge of Dr. and arrived in 57,14.111 on li tt M e sport Canterbury, LrasntexneasarilViganta-rauTbe Douro spoke, .14itow,?,' oft cape Pinisterre H.M. steana-s'hip Malacca, having *sips 041 e St. George, 120 : and on the tbeth the merchant l'w..42aDerdow and Queen, both outward bound. nuaaL u r 6A t i Loll Boys plsoxFn.--OnTateaday,,twoapprentices Zinsilolui%shir eipa3,nl,mlialynninnntelg, tecrge s Dock, named pne locker another, found a canisterTecoult t fining the o a storeswite 0 . 1.'r, • Suppcsing the powder to be cream of tartar,gßennett thl.a small quantity of it with water, and having dru n k off ,t,tr,rytlo3.l.of the mixture, gave it to Quthrig, who also drank ',-,,t,,,e!iate_ Subsefmently.both boys were seized with pain . in ''',., j;11.1.. h and with vomiting. Guthrie tiled on the following iPig t the other youth is now out of 'danger. 4 ‘,Ait v lkl as , 5 1 .. 11, t ExerrRSIONISTS.----011 'Tuesday, a large party of school teachers and their frimids, to the number o lil t 11, 1a1 T , arrived at tot Lime -street Railway-station, from tic,aa,.l,e; Glosso, and her places near those towns, on a Dait'•,l", N1:441'40n. After ting various objects of attrac ketiets, k m ,own ' they divided themselves into several com- Til t 8 Wel;treisSed the Mersey to Birkenhead, where refresh the Lxrt„tii,Arovided for about 1100 persons by Mr. Aitken. Nit Litt! for took a tripiin a steamer as far as Alt k'"nonsie, and in the evening returned home by Rik,t1.441. 1. 4 0 Zit etlktloN nb T n LIVERPOOL:A -. ` r aill 1111d0 ." RINMRRR ' 46 - tof Tranmere koi eto wners and other inhabitan s . lamTict,lie rh‘LelY ofd'healm i? N g i.„ Ab e v.er aaltgaivinah.thion. of thatitowns t h o i a 10 49 caYor ,,. le it was resolved Ore l% Ys, meser,towil upon the •su i communicatePwithLi neys addressed at th hadhe a; letcher and Hull, attor , kw ,eY l?rmeiPal iando nen; ' oTranmere, stating b'ect. Within the f coh!Maere ul et that the 1. from mana ti ng from the Ti 3 ‘l3the e ffect a lette w the town-clerk of Liver 11,:Mitee w ee l'nt had t , PI deputation from c ( ,` genti 0 " onid t_ ee h n i m ili ci ilhenfom, ;he Birkenhead special ,rdir,„ 6 eaen interest,o a ll'Y to receive a 'ltt Via' eall ed a nin,.`-`• Mess Fletcher and Hull a . c . - buttrpose-oeftl. Thursd—;`'lng of Tramnere ra. landowners, which Tkenilead' "Pllnint' a " ' a t the Monk's Ferry Hotel, for the . la4(1 '' sPeeia l Ing a cie t Putat' nt,4,, municate with the ' , A,, „ and ho_ conatiaiLtee 1° that a large number 114141h0u „,,,aseopl3, . ~ It is said ,'10,...1 " 1 .44 Live i'l iT anmerex_re averse to an am e t i o 1'0. 4 ` r ates .. --enni, believing that a large increas ,r:titi,..j t k, to A ncnild be the effect of such an arrangement. ,ti v . 0 the TO ~,,kltlttc,i. A (1411 ,11)0,31 Ann e it --wn ALTSTEALiA.— Post-office : l ttt Y o Post nfa as been issued from the . r. . x Do , eve } t's 'Med f ce, Sept. 1 855.—A new . le t The following ped 4 atd or th . c,, lt l' i te tt aett.Bl34). e receipt of tb t 1 (!a h q4 t l a , l, e invvrs, dressed to America . a office, facing thtl,,''ltlt 'e•strtne wille windows of this o renience of unpaid t n a e d nd A s u t s a t m ralia, I,,,,i'tiik,tort they, and be open for -the con preceding Inenikr Al• it.'4't freb,,-ell,thg and morning ;immediately Australian r'ri N . 14 et.; ;41v,erPoot of each American 0 tili,. ,:e,r,44.l,lo,kl,k'hutestrable that all letters and by the above- 1 , 1 ted at attl,-,ra 'r -,4t '`lt%ralia intended for despatch e pee th, . pre„,,ttet‘,!isaai ' L. podoshou.7 immedi. rtt 1 1 , , 1 1 , , uox theem Ivor d mornings! r newspapers thenigh, oti„ th e ,toh evenings an . lly important Le : t heki,'" r. lett„Y of sailing, and it it equa as they fo p '3' silfh,"" should be deposited therein, thi extra box will paleails they ' l ' seine detent or!'s 44 or e eial , c 43 ot th Pr e re of ace _.. il t of letters a .nd news- IN t.,ie spk venting the hab i T sent or getting out tY b-:-es tient' d being tuts"— . having t o be ion. ele A ra s ting s the despatch of 4 4 ,, kb_ 1,14 i.. lone . d Department, l'eoll44"eretoro,. nog the necessity of their .t e , ttt (1000sipt tha.;,iboiziwllhmake a practice of posting such cor- Lklit, ‘l,:eneit'enr,the Sailors' when and at the Exchange and tiZl)% t4i te—st.,cfnees. Late letters for America lettLW eb e D rew, - —,ped at the new letter-box, .if r a e u p d aid by Late tit 't .s._" s i,-,4 1. 'ees, as laid down in the notices the e fot o ' - -c. . theup BANNING, postmaster. teskktlit, at e b e kt I 3 ' be Posted o the usual time, on of Nt , ,, 44 .t" i l „ l ,et l' h t4 „ RAIL A. ACCIDENT.—A shocking accident I , 4t °-' Lne M w h r ter and Sheffield Railwaynn.Tues th-utN,ithtYt r h t . t i , ch au th e r e e e e s lives were lost. The fatality oc i and timber viaduct across•the river title lelliNictobint?Tnestoy'ale, near Glossop. The station (called ' 1 4,, t 4 4 1 " e tation) is at the eastern end of the viaduct, on O at rl ii 4. 41 t ire 'river, . . 4 tt 1 ter ' °I l and close to the junctien.of the A train with 4 b Il k f r ' with the main line. passengers 14 1' t r "tigh (44 AI 1- e t o th e tt, , ancnester arrived . te!tlrti,l., ktkt,i,`, ttand on the viaduct, being unable to get about 9.36 p.m., :and thlkirB", tN l'Z'll. 4 time, in consequence of a Livarp p o_3l 4' (1,1A4e. 11`,, 4 ' , U. wb.,91. Vteeeded it having to dischargehad cleared kt ti - ah,,en, Ilithil, a train due from . l it , adfield ,' " : 11 . ill tkr,„;yery dark, who had to get out \ ottnt s th' ' -"„,,4.11ed tlO k llehester train, at the station.. and it G ,11 'eeded ,•"), mrsoh •-• the • was already u 8 ---t h ,, trainappears l°Bso that some nn• woman ~Onilar n„,.'",°Pe_ in't, "c Young men and ayn s very `°" t lis a t,; - " ct th e ,;',;,, ,''''e door of the carriage and got out. e Ga t,;-" of th ..lctuct en that side was within a ti`ttp,aness ef tiel carriages, and it is supposed that in owing he the,74ftt,Ltlit!,,ace betw,,e ntght, instead of getting dowu the via at,t,s' gteppeevuhq tn,e, train and the parapet of . over and eo v m oot. 411 alar the top of :the parapet. Immediately roliet'Y of . ri g fact nl , was given that they had fallen ov . , ~.... . I '‘, 4 11,,: . hei r h 7,9 S gOll afterwards confirmed by tnc .,all . i e s n `44'4lll'hf of I P" in the valley below- The y had (aged ktt to 'l fo,,4ndj- feet. Two of t hem, John Healey 21)",,t1d. ,art:e Iladfield, who were lovers, ver, 4 ali i tti 4 ;,,N ~', ether man Thomas Priestnall, weatate 'ttt ,'tkil,,,"9ity' -'-„stling at Free' town, was taken up ullrsiest h 'th i','elin,''t-"n died in about an hour afterwards. were quite dead 'th`'ek .. 44 4,, e , (1 to persuade another young i ii,eNda y k-'0 1 , 4 ' 4 ‘ ahe had not complied with his requ h t Id on 40 ; 1 441Alqii--The weekly meeting was .! kp ri er t , ro e , „, arles Turner in the chair. Present--Messrs. woman to get Itiittit'tL'letlser'sroc„..ltlebaiik, Evans, Chaloner,Bar . ber, Mendel, k n Gladstone, "e le: p11tTa1e..,..",,,,, nubback, Rounthwaite, Ran-A , ter cto t Yard., 441 e Sub- committee of Works recommended .n th e him he t,, of land at the south side of Harrington basi .. Ntltoth4ll4-„,nstees threehe Duke of Bridgewater, at 2s. 6d e eßt eB, at4teelit toe months' notice, without reference to o N bt . (1 4 th th e t eb t of te nantcy, the committee to erect two 26th r• ly the rnstees to pay interest at the rate of V on the i l)4 ed . ei;(1)11nt exPended, and keep the cranes himin repair. ot44,l,lle,ttcclilborn relinquished the ground let_ that the tender t,f , htet eettetiese,ettonrn_ ittee also recommended Illt •I t e t W ' ?.' 1115 - a I' ' art inti of the land on the north side of the 10114'41tIlelleZed.--..IIuIIIIPIY. forty barrels of I 0 all Chairman reported that the Admiralty . situation pitch at 6s. per !tPt 4 Itqlt 114 ' e r I t e all ew Lieut. Parkes to accept the um— tt) e,,/lstA,ll- sarveyor at a salary of I rl, l 4,4 ti vtio Le served i that he had P laced officer for " - 4 4 - 0 4 Of -' a tnarried in charge of the house t . it,:at o. I, Derso4B man, £3oo per ann No. 7 tociesiem off toso aPparently drowned., house was in t,'Llt, fi r. tt,,,t 9f whit rePorted that the receiving t recom '" ('• it stb,, ewaahng, and the comm. tee in place of Ca la 14.4 t1' hi -eklier s ' c 'd be done —A communication wasread tttpo:t.":,.4l,lleikiet..lie ,' tstclialeti,tor to the. assignees of a .. bankrupt's es t, 41 DW, aquae eh,,,,_ ton of the committee to injury done to ttt.tai'le co b-4 lir n T . 15 Y the lowering of the level of Carpen- Nt 4,-4141;14414e,, png that compensation would be_souEht . ‘ t k, e E 0 •or tb. • I, - e tl Nth_ rinnitt -. injury thereby nccasion e 'tc,,,, h o t ti,••••,n,,,, a sak e ,ee of works.--The Chairman intimated "e es.Zreadivlf°,r by Mr. Mann and Mr. Rounehwaite .oral ii t ,„' '';11, Would be prepared for the next meat, —4le es Of the committee then concluded, • THE GIPSY BRIDE, which sailed for Melbourne on Monday, was reported off Waterford at five o'clock, on Wednesday morning, wind S.W., and would clear the Irish land that day. All well on board—no sea sickness. THE NEW STEAM-SHIP CITY OP WASHINGTON, originally built for the Liverpool and Philadelphia Steam Company, sailed from Greenock on Thursday for Marseilles, having been purchased as a transport by the French government. A RESERVOIR for water has just been finished at Higher Stack, Bacup, Rossendale. Its length is 453 feet, breadth 330 feet, depth 25 feet, and it is calculated to contain nearly 800,000,000 cubic feet of water. The embankments are 150 feet broad at the bottom, and 14 feet at the top. AN experiment is making at Manchester to filter the water of the river Medlock, which has long been a filthy abomina tion, and has polluted the Bridgewater Canal, of which it is the principal feeder. The mode of filtration adopted is to pass the water through lime, and it is said that the experiment is likely to prove successful. DRAWINGS BY THE ROYAL FAMILY.—The drawings exhi bited at Burlington-house, in London, last season, by the members of the royal family, in aid of the fund for the relief of the widows and orphans of officers engaged in the war with Russia, will be on view this week at Mr. Grundy's, in Church street. Several other drawings, by eminent amateurs, will also be exhibited with them. LODGING-HOUSES IN MANCHESTER. — From Captain Willis's returns, it appears that at the end of last year there were 393 low lodging-houses and cellars in that city ; 355 being houses, and 38 cellars. There were 56 of the houses or cellars known to be the resort of thieves, 255 the resort of poor travellers and mendicants, and 72 the resort of hawkers. In 200 of the places the sexes slept indiscriminately in the same room. JUVENILE REFORMATORY.—The Admiralty has placed the Akbar, an old frigate of the fourth rate, formerly employed as a lazaretto ship, at the disposal of the Reformatory Committee. This ship has been taken into the Great Float, at Birkenhead, where she is now undergoing the necessary alterations to adapt her to the objects for which she is destined. She is ex pected to be ready for occupation as a training school for boys in three weeks or a month. ACCIDENT TO 'THE MAIL STEAMER LLEWELLYN.—Soon after four o'clock on Saturday morning (the weather at the time being thick bnt moderate), the ship Lady Sale, from Liverpool for Maranham, struck the Llewellyn before the pad dle-box, carrying away the foremast and damaging the hull to some extent. After ascertaining the extent of the damage, the steamer proceeded for Kingstown, and landed the mails about an heur after the usual time. In the course of the morning the Llewellyn proceeded to Holyhead to repair damage. THE HIGH-LEVEL RAILWAY.—In accordance with the re solution of the Dock Committee, workmen have taken down a portion of the wall at the Wellington Dock, to erect the girder bridge continuing the line of railway to the north docks. The line already reaches the east side of Waterloo-road, and within the dock walls most of the arches are sprung. The bridge icgl cross the road by a noble span, and will rest on substan tial stone piers on each side of the read, one of which is al ready built. BURGLARY AT WINDLE.—John Rigbye, Geo. Rigbye, and James Leyland, were charged before the St. Helen's magistrates, on Wednesday, with having, on the night of Sunday, the 9th instant, broken into the house of-John Melding, labourer, at Island's Brow, in Windle, and stolen a Linsey petticoat and a piece of gingham. The prisoners, who had their faces blacked, made an attempt almost immediately after to break into a beerhouse, at Blackbrook, keptlley a man named Thomas Gore. The alarm was given and the prisoners were apprehended. John Rigbye, it was stated, was a returned convict on a ticket of leave. They were committed for trial at the assizes. —Leyland was also committed for trial at the Kirkdale ses sions, on a charge of stealing five pumping buckets, two hose, and five callipers. BANKRUPTCY OF AN OFFICLA.L MEssaNGER. — On nitlay, James Augustus Harding, an insolvent, who, from the passing of the bankrupt 'law consolidation act, has filled 'the office of official messenger in the Manchester Court of Bank ruptcy, came up before John Addison, Esq., the commissiener of insolvents at Lancaster, for the purpose of applying for his discharge from custody. The commissioner, in giving.ijudg ment, said he had some sort of compassion for a man 'with a numerous family, but no one could justify the conduct of a public officer in not seeping accounts, and he thought that justice would be satisfied by his remanding the insolvent for four months from the date of his vesting order. OMNIBUS CRUELTY. — On Monday, Messrs. W. and D. Busby, 'bus and‘ear proprietors, were summoned before Mr. Mansfield for crueltyto a horse, in working it in harness with a raw shoulder. The offence was proved by a police-officer. Mr. Mansfield-: " They are the worst used horses :in Liver pool.' I have heaid people frequently complain of them, and I have seen thenrin a shocking state myself. There must be a fine of 10s. and costs." A second information was then preferred against the same parties for a precisily similar offence. Mr. Busby said : " There is a term in the summons that I don't understand. It is wantonly ill•using: " Mr. Mansfield : "That is, cruelty without a cause. There must be a similar fine in this case. AccinEwT /To TTHE MoNA's QUEEN.—The steam-packet Mona's Queen, in her returning excursion from Queenstown to Douglas, rannpon some sunken rocks just off Scarlet Point, not far from (_,stletown Bay, at about half-past one o'clock on Friday morning. She was running at full speed at the time of the accident, and the shock in consequence was 'very severe. The alarm on board was great, and attempts weremade by the passengers . tollower the boats ; but they were prevented by the crew and the chief mate, Mr. Robinson, whose conduct, in the absence of Capt: Quayle, was very praiseworthy. They endea voured to .get'her off, but this for three hours was found to be impossible, .and-she drifted backwards and forwards off the Point. At:length the tide enabled her to float ont of Castle town Bay., having previously cast her anchor, ty means of which her stern was brought gradually round. In conse quence of the accident she was prevented coming -to Liverpool on Saturdarmorning, and the Ben Machree had-to take her place. The - Manx Fairy, which had an excursioav trip at the same time, also got out of her course, but she kept more out to sea. WEST Danny GUARDIANS.—The weekly -meeting was held on Wednesday, the Rev. Mr. Badnall in the chair. Mr. Mann •reported that the number of patients in the union hospital was - 53 against 57 in the corresponding period of last year. The inmates in the house last week were 590; admitted, 21; , aischarged,tl3.; dead, 6 ; remaining in the house, 593 this week, against 557 in the corresponding week of last year. The 'visiting •tommittee reported that, in pursuance of a resolution of:the board last week, they had inquired into the misunderstanding bewe3n Mr. Collyns, a Dish priest, and Mr. tGough, the master of the workhouse; and, after having heard the , evidence, they found that it eonfirmed the statement of Mr. Gough in his letter of the -20th ultimo. Mr. Shaw moved the adoption of the report, which was unanimously adopted.—The following return of the balances due to the union - from the several townships, on qhe 18th September, was presented :—Great Crosby, £3413 6s. Bd. Everton, £404 , 6s. Bd. ; Kerby, £53 19s. 2d. ; airkdale, £176 ,Ss. Bd. • Orrell and Ford, £4 is. ; Sephton, £7 13s. 4d. ; Thornton, • Os. -8c1.; Toxteth-park, £3499 18s. 4d. ; West Derby, £1356 3s. 31..; -total, £5872 is. 9d.—The board then adjourned. Pnorosnn INCREASE.OP DocK RATES.—At the meeting of the Dock Committee on Thursday, after the public 'business, the Chairman brought -forward a financial statement for the year ending.the 30th of .11une next. He showed an-estimate of the expenditure for the year, including £200,000 for new works and the repair of , existing works ; and taking 'the in come of the ,present year at the same amount as last year, there would probably be a deficiency of upwards of £lB,OOO in the receipts as compared with the expenditure. In order to meet this deficiency it was presumed that it would be:neces sary to increase the dock rates on ships and goods to the ex tent of ten portent. A member of the committee thought that the Chairman had over-estimated the deficiency, which was not likely to lbe more than £12,000. Mr. Evans thought it would have been well if the committee had taken their petu niary position4nto consideration before they had made the purchases of land from the Earl•of Derby and Mr. J. S. Leigh. These purchases amounted to £E40,000, the interest on which was £12,000 per annum, and the bargain was completed in the face of the-fact that the land cannot be made available for the purposes of the dock estate for some years to come. These startling revelations took most of the members by surprise, and the discussion of-the subjectwas deferred till next Thins day.—Mercury. HEALTH CombursEE.—The heath committee met on Thursday in the Council-chamber, at the Town-hall ; Alder man Dover in the chair. The other members present were Messrs. Beckwith, •Crosthwaite, Shell, Johnson, 3/Muffle, Godfrey, Halhead, Robertson Gladstone, and Hodson. The borough engineer, building surveyor, and inspector of nuisances reported various particulars:of the operations in their several departments during the week. The medical officer of health reported that in -the week ending last Saturday 223 deaths were registered in Liverpool, of which 163 were in the parish, and 60 in the out-townships. This shows a decrease of 10 per, tent. in the mortality as compared with the same week in former years in which no epidemic was prevalent. Mr. John Leach requested .the committee to sanction the construction of a slaughter-house in a yard in Gore-street North, Scotland-road. This site was sanctioned by the committee in August, 1853, but, some unavoidable delay having taken placee, the work had not yet been com menced. The consideration of the application was deferred for a week, in order that the officers of the committee might inspect the site, and report. The other business before the committee was unimportant. AN INQUEST was held on Saturday, on the body of an infant named Robert Price, who had died under the following circumstances :—The parents of the child occupy a house in Nile-street, Toxteth-park. The deceased was born on Thurs day, the 6th instant, and in the course of the day the doctor ordered it to have a dose of castor oil. A girl in the room was told that she would find a bottle containing oil on a shelf down stairs. On going to the place she found two bottles, a small one containing vitriol, having been placed there some time previously by the father, who at this time sat in the kitchen, but made no attempt to ascertain whether the girl had got the right bottle. Up-stairs went the girl, who gave the bottle to a woman in the room, and the nurse asked her to pour out half a tea spoonful. This was done, and the nurse poured some into the child's mouth. The infant screamed, and the nurse then put the spoon to her own lips, which were burnt by the touch. The doctor was sent for, and every attention was paid to the child, which lingered in dreadful torture until Thursday, when it died. The jury returned a verdict of " Chance medley," which the coroner said was as near as possible to manslaughter, and had been passed as a mark of censure upon the nurse for not using more care on the occasion. He wondered her nose had not detected the difference between castor oil and sulphuric acid. A SUSPICIOUS HELHET.—On Friday, at an early hour, Mr. John Clivens, who keeps a public-house in Whitechapel, was met on Shaw's-brow by Sergeant Austin, of the 36th Foot, who is on recruiting service. Mr. Clivens was in or dinary attire, with the exception of his head-dress, which con sisted of a brass helmet and plume of the Royal Dragoon, Guards. The sergeant asked the wearer how he became pos sessed of it. Mr. Clivens said he had been celebrating the victory of the Alma with a friend, who had lent him the helmet on the condition that he walked home with it on his head. The sergeant and a police-officer accompanied him to the house of Mr. John Lee, 13, Boundary-place, where they found a pair of Royal Dragoon uniform trousers, some cap boxes and ordnance caps, a Liverpool policeman's baton, and other articles. Believing that no person out of the army had a right to possess such things, Sergeant Austin gave Mr. Clivens and Mr. Lee into custody, and they were brought up at the Police-court, on Friday. Mr. Lee stated that the clothes and accoutrements had been sent to him, as a relic of the war, by his brother, a sergeant-major in the Royal Dra goon Guards, and he pr oduced a letter from him, dated " On board the transport ship Wilson Kennedy, Bosphorus, Oct. 22, 1854." Upon this both parties were discharged ? and the property given up to them, THE Pacific, Capt. Nye, sailed hence for New York, on Saturday, with the mails and about 180 passengers. THE QUEEN has appointed the Earl of Ellesmere Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire. Mr. John B. Randleson and Mr. Patrick Walsh have been appointed tidewaiters at this port. THE local authorities have been consulted as to the advisa bility of the judges trying civil as well as criminal causes at the winter assizes. THE Rev. Dr. Vis'elle preached in the open air on Monday evening last, in the vacant ground near St. Paul's Church, Prince's park. PUBLIC LECTURE.—We refer our readers to an advertise ment in anOther column, announcing a lecture, this evening, on the Trial of the Bishops in the reign of James the Second. THE CHILDREN OF THE CALEDONIAN SCHOOL, to the number of 300, were conveyed across the Mersey and back, free of cost, by the bounty of Messrs. Willoughby, on Wed nesday. EMBEZZLEMENT.—On Saturday, at the police-court, before Mr. Smith, Robert Stevenson, remanded from that day week, charged with intercepting a post-office order for £4 45., di rected to Mr. Baugh, mar manufacturer, was committed for trial, having stated to Inspector Murphy that he had stolen the letter, signed the order, and drawn the money. THE TELEGRAPH steamer, which was employed on account of her rapid sailing qualities to bring General Simpson's recent dispatch from'the seat of war, is chartered by the Admiralty from Messrs. Grainger, Bristow, and Johnson, of Liverpool, and formerly traded between Belfast and this port. The fastest steamers, whether screw or paddle, which have been employed in the transport service since the commencement of the war, have been taken from Liverpool. THE LIVERPOOL PERsloNEßs.—During the last few days this local corps has been undergoing the usual term of drill, on the vacant ground at the top of Hill•street, Toxteth park. The drill has been under the direction of Colonel Swan, and the term, being seven days, was completed on Wednesday. On that day the men marched through the town and drew up on the Exchange flags, where their band played a variety of popular music, including the English and French national anthems. WORKHOUSE ACCOMMODATION IN LANCASHIRE.—A series of important returns has just been issued, showing the popu lation of every union or parish in the kingdom, according to the last census, and the amount of workhouse accommodation therein on the 31st of Dec. last. Lancashire, with its enor mous population of 2,094,800, has workhouse accommodation for 17,282, or about 1-120th of the.population ; the proportion of workhouse accommodation to the population of all England being about an eightieth. Liverpool (population 258,236) has workhouse accommodation for 4,096 including accommodation for 1,250 at the Industrial Schools, at Kirkdale. This is in the proportion of about 1-65th part of the population. West Derby, with a population of 153,243, has workhouse accom modation for 900 persons, which is a much less proportion than Liverpool, or even than the entire county. THE ROYAL MERSEY YACHT ann.—The yachting season • was closed on Saturday, when the several craft belonging to this club had their final cruise this year. The weather was fine, and a gentle breeze from the northward scarcely caused a ripple upon the water. Although not sufficient wind for a race, there was just enough for a pleasure excursion, and each yacht had a party of friends on board. About eleven o'clock, in pursuance of arrangement, several beautiful craft worked down the river with the ebb tide, and hawled their foresails to windward, off New Brighton—The place of rendezvous. Amongst them were the following :—Rosalind, N. Burchell, Esq. ; Nimrod, H. Brideson, Esq. - Jasper, J. Clarke, Esq. ; Simber, T. Brassey, jun., Esq. -, S ea Bird, H. Melling. Esq.:; Blue Bell, R. W. Grenell, Esq. ; Electric, Williamson, Esq.; Mirage, G. R. Woodward, Esq., &c. On a signal from the commodore's yacht, the foresails were let go, and the fleet proceeded to sea in beautiful style. About midday, however, the weather became hazy, and the wind did not increase. Nevertheless, the yachts continued their cruise seaward, and a very pleasant cruise was -enjoyed. They returned: in the evening, and came to -off Birkenhead Ferry, their usual place of anchorage, where they were gaily dressed" with bunting. On board some of the larger yachts there were dinner-parties, and the yachting season of 1855 was thus terminated. LANCASTER AND PRESTON JUNCTION RAILWAY.—The report of the directors of this company states that the net re venue for the past half--year amounts to £26,620, which, after paying the interest of the unliquidated debt and other tnitgo ings, will provide a dividend on the share capital little short of 9 per cent. per annum. 'To proceed with the capitalization of the mortgage debt, afurther call of £1 15s. per share will be made on the £ll ss. shares, and the same will be due on the' 31st of Oct. next. The future meetings of the company will be held at the Castle station, Lancaster, where the new offices are now nearly completed. This arrangement will be attended with a saving of aboutone-half of what has hitherto'been'paid as rent for the premises now occupied. The directors recom ment a dividend of £2 Is. 3d. per whole share, of 21 7s. 4d. per three-quarter share, of 10s. 10d. per quarter share, of 3s.d. per twelfth share, and of ls. 9d. per new £ll ss. shares, less Income-tax. The receipts of the company for the hilf , yerrr ending the 31st of iluly last amounted to £26,B49,ine.luffing £9O from the last account, and the expenses to £228, leaving a balance of £26,e20. Out of this is deducted £21,627 for the proposed dividend, 'and £1676 interest on borrowed money, leaving a balance of .2316. The capital account .shows 'that £478,516 was anthoiisdd to be raised on shares, and £113,000 on loans—total £591;516. The amount actually paid on-shares was £466,106; the amount not called up, £17;866.; to be raised in lieu of loans, £108,044; making together £591,516. In addition to the £466,106 paid up, £62,500 was 'added as 'a bonus of £l2 10s. per share on the three-quarter-Shares, and £39,165 as a bonusof £4 14s. per share on the quarter•shares, making £567,7 .upon which the full dividend is paid. The total expenditure' on capital account was £465;734. The mortgage debt account shows a total of £87,300 borrowedl,y the company. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. IT appears that the expense of printing and stationery for public departments for the present year will amount to £300,470. GOBLETS made ofquassia wood are now sold at the :leading druggists' shopsinliew York. Water is poured into them, which, after bag left for some minutes, is drank, as a cure for dyspepsia. AN inhabitant of'Corfu, who some time ago returned from Spitzbergen after amabsence of twenty-eight years, Sound his wife in good health,'but the widow of three husbands. THE Towx Coralctr, OF GLASGOW propose to pavetwenty miles of the streets of that city with the most durable descrip tion of granite, at a , cost of £lBO,OOO. AT TIIE 11A3LB,IIRG THEATRE, a fountain has beenterected in the 'Middle of the orchestra; it will play duringthe sets, find is intended totool the house. The musicians are .arranged on each side of it. THE body of a respectable and wealthy female was ,found in a house in London, on Thursday, in an advanced -state of decomposition. It is supposed that she had been poisoned by a sham doctor, who hail promised to marry her. REWARD OF MERIT.—A gold medal has been awarded by the French g9vernrnentlo Captain Corrie, of the Eng Ugh ship Robert Finnie, of Dumfries, for having, in May last, rescued the crew of the Louis lc , Grand, of Bordeaux. THE QUEEN has sent check of £5O to Mr. Middleton, station-master, at Banchery, of the Deeside railway, as a :reward for his exertions in "expressing" the news of the fall , of -Se bastopol to Balmoral - - - - - WE have much pleasure;in observing that the Senate of•the Brazilian Government at :Rio has approved of a bill malaing provision for the payment of the prize-money so long due . to Admiral the Earl of Dandonald.— United Service Gazelle. The Vienna Press states a waterspout of a destruetitte character occurred near Massling, in Germany, on the Sth inst. Bridges, mills, and houses were destroyed. There are from seventy to eighty persons missing, and forty persons have already been found drowned. Han MAJESTY has signified her intention of granting a pension of £3O per annum to ithe widow of William Haigh, ,who lost his life while endeavouring to lubricate the axle of ,one of the carriages during the 'Royal journey to Scotland on the 6th inst. AT WARSAW, Prince Gortschakoff has been caricatured. His likeness was lithographed thus : —From one corner of his mouth issued " orders ;" from another, " counter-orders ;" while upon his helmet is the word " disorder." It is not often that Russians, and still less Poles, dare venture to act in this way. A WAGON laden with muslins, eaiieoes, and other articles of the came kind, unaccountably caught fire on the road from Rouen to Caen, on Sunday week. The whole of the goods, ha ba r ely abaut ving " time fran to take cailva cl u t e, th w e e h m or se ten s. sumed, the driver IN consequence of the beersellers of Brussels having raised the price.of beer from twelve to fourteen centimes, a riot took place on , Sunday evening last. Some of the rioters were arrested, and are to be prosecuted. The government also intends to prosecute the beersellers, for illegal combination. CONTRABAND of WAR.— , " A Sunderland man," writing to a contemporary, under date of the 18th instant, says :—" At the present time there are many thousand tons of pig iron lying on the quays of the Sunderland Dock ; this iron is being (and has been during the year) shipped to Stettin, The cap tains of the Prussian vessels say, 'We carry it to Prussia, it then walks off to Russia.'" SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAILWAY.-By the half-yearly report we find that £17,150 was expended on capital during that pe riod. The balance due on capital is £88,406. The total re ceipts for the half-year were £65,066; the working expenses £25,385. The disposable balance amounts to £25,897. The directors recommend a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, payable on the 2nd October. The reserve fund Is £30,192. A VERY PRETTY ANECDOTE IS going the rounds of fashionable " society in Paris. The Empress said to th e P r i nce o f W ales, C should like to give you something before you leave Paris ; can you think what it shall be ?" " A looking-glass," replied the Prince." "And why a looking-glass ?" exclaimed the Empress. " Because," rejoined the Prince, " I should know it had reflected yourself; and I should prize it accordingly." ANOTEER MURDER AT BRlSTOL.—Bristol is becoming rather noted for serious crimes. On the 19th inst. another case occurred. John Hale, a seaman, engaged on board a coasting vessel, called the Cardiff Trader, was murdered by a seaman named George Newman, who is also engaged on board the same vessel. The deceased and prisoner had quarrelled in a public-house, and Hale was struck with a poker on the head, causing death in a few hours. THE ILLUMINATION IN LEEDS.—Leeds probably (says the Mercury) never so generally, so spontaneously, so heartily rejoiced as it did on Monday night. The invitation of the Mayor to the inhabitants to illuminate their houses and plac es of business in honour of the downfal of Sebastopol was re sponded to with an alacrity and a unanimity that was little less than marvellous. The rejoicing was confined to no sect, or party, or class, or calling, or station—each householder, shopkeeper, millowner, merchant, professional man, and banker, appeared to be actuated by one spirit—the desire to do honour to the great victory that has crowned the arms of the allies. BANK OF ENGLAND.—On Thursday a meeting of the pro prietors of the Bank of England took place in the Bank Parlour. The governor said he had to acquaint the meeting that the present was a quarterly general court, appointed by charter, and a half-yearly court under the bye-laws for making a dividend. The net profits to the 30th of August last amounted to £587,032 ss. 3d., making th e am ount of rest £3,605,170 7s. 6d. After paying a dividend of £4 per cent., the rest would be £3,023,050 7s. 6d. The directors , therefore, proposed a dividend of £4 per cent. on interest and profits to the 31st of A income tax, ugust, without deduction on account of THE PATENT right of the " Perambulator"—fashionable child's, carriage —was sold by auction last week for £B,OOO ; the returns for the past year were stated by the auctioneer at £30,000. THERE are many bankruptcies in St. Petersburg-4wenty in in one day. But, according to the government, the State financial establishments —savings-banks, institutions of credit, and soon—are in a very flourishing condition. A SCOTCH gentleman in San Francisco has organized a mili tary company of his fellow-countrymen, who are to be dressed in complete Highland garb. He sends to Edinburgh for the uniform, at a cost of $5,000. REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF BITTER ALES.—The Burton ale brewers, in consequence of the satisfactory accounts from the hop plantations, have announced a reduction of 6s. a barrel in the price of pale or bitter ale. The reduction, it is stated, does not apply to Burton or sweet ales. THE DEAD BODY of a respectable mechanic has been found lying underneath St. Vincent's Rocks, near Bristol. It is supposed that he had been drinking somewhat freely, and having ventured too close to the edge of the rocks, missed his footing and was precipitated to the bottom, a height of not less than 400 or 500 feet. THE PROPOSED CAMP AT STIRLING.—We understand that official notice has been received by Mr. Dewar, of King's•park farm, that it is not the intentimr of Government to establish a camp at Stirling at present. Whether this be owing to the advanced period of the season, or the necessity for the militia regiments being sent abroad, we are not aware; but we think there is more likelihood of the subject being more fully entered into next season. —Stirling Journal. AT THE MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, John Clark, a sailor, was convicted of stealing a coat and contents from a house near the Commercial-road. Clark meant to steal a coat only; but in a pocket were a hundred-pound and a fifty-pound note; these he sold for 100 sovereigns; £BO has been recovered. Mr. Bodkin sentenced him to prison for eighteen months. Had the culprit known the contents of the pocket when he stole the coat, the sentence would have been ten years' trans portation. THE following is the list of fees which each of the gallant officers in the Crimea has had to pay on being nominated a Knight Grand Cross of the Most Hon. Order of the Bath : To the Dean of the Order, £22 6s. Bd. ; to the Genealogist, £22 ; to the Bath King of Arms, £22 ; to the Registrar, £22 ; to the Secretary, £22 ; to the Gentleman Usher, £22; to the Messenger, £lB 13s. 441 • to the Bath King of Arms for the Book of the Statutes, £ 6 13s. 4d. ; to the Secretary, for notice of election, £6 13s. 4d. Total, £164 6s. Bd. KITTEN SWALLOWED BY A COD.—A correspondent in Kirk wall alludes to a recent notice in our Stromness news of a rabbit's leg being found in a ling's stomach, and adds of his own knowledge something more wonderful, being nothing less . tid T io h u e s se ii f i ac t fishing n e j o i t era lo l n f ,re ag n o o i t n pa K r i t tik eu isin a l r l ly ß r al s - f ac ts show seec that uo n than the discovery of an entire kitten in the stomach of a cod caught of their food.—John o' Groat's Journal. A Cuntous QUESTION of decency is pending settlement in the Court of Justice at Calcutta, where an action has been commenced against a commercial gentleman residing in that city for ejecting a Baboo who made his appearance in a rail way carriage in that Arcadian simplicity of undress for which the native population in Bengal are remarkable. 'The Baboo claims 1,500 rupees as damages. The Mofussilite insists that ladies shall be protected by the exclusion of half-clad native gentlemen from the first and second-class railway carriages. AN ACCIDENT occurred on the Paris and Versailles Railway on Sunday, when two trains, one laden with passengers re turning from Versailles, the other loaded with luggage, going out of Paris, dashed together near the Paris station. The consequence was, that at least nine persons, including five children, were killed, and seventeen persons badly wounded. The legs of two young girls, sisters, were cut clean off; and the body of a man was found with both legs cut off, and a Childs tiled by the death embrace in his arms. LITERARY CURIOSITY. — The Fife Herald says :—" We have just received, from a friend in China, a copy of the " Pil grim's Progress," translated into Chinese by W. C. Burns, missionary of the English Presbyterians at Amoy." It is something near the size of demy Bvo., about half an inch thick, and nicely printed on smooth yellow paper, manufac tured from rice straw. It is embellished by a number of illus trations, remarkably well executed ; the figures and faces are quite Chinese. It is not printed with types, but each page is engraved on wooden blocks, which come to form a cheap and , convenient stereotype. The book costs about 4d. per copy." :HYDROPROBIA.—On Sunday week, a shepherd's dog be 'longing to Mr. Edward Kenward, of 'hutted, went mad. It had been bitten about five weeks previously, in a hayfield, by a strange dog; but no symptoms of hydrophobia had shown themselves until Saturday, on which day it bit the cattle and sheep it was tending more severely than usual, and seemed savage. On Sunday it bit Mr. Kenward's son, a young man 17 years of age ; it also bit three cows, two yearlings, and three pigs. Mr. Kenward has Teceived some medicine from Mr. Killick, of Groom-bridge, for his son, also for the cattle, and so far all has gone well —Sussex Express. STRANGE PANIC.—The 'Courier de la Vienne states that last week, at the fair at Ballac, an 'extraordinary panic sud denly took possession of all the oxen, which, with the rapidity of a flash of lightning, overturned the barriers and took to flight in all directions, knocking down every person in their way. The fair, which a few moments before was covered with numerous beasts standing perfectly quiet, suddenly assumed somewhat the appearance of a field of battle, people wounded, and unfornanately some killed, lying about in all directions. The umber of the former is said to be from 60 to 70, and of the latter 3 or 4. FIVE HUNDES.I) Husnawns WANTED. — Last week, at the Halifax Borough Court, John Thomas, a sawyer, was charged by Mr. Jennings, relieving officer, with having left his wife and fanilly chargeable to the :union. The relief given had been after the rate of ,7s. 6d. per week. The officer pressed fat a conviction on the ground that there were no fewer than 600 deserted 'wives within the Bradford union, with 1,017 children, involving an annual expenditure in relief of nearly 00,000. Mr. Cheeseborough (one of the magistrates) ex pressed his regret to hear this, and said it showed a very low state of morals. The defendant was allowed a week to repay the amount.of ?eller which had been given to his family. ME CHOLERA, IN Asra MrNota.—Letters from Constan tinople of the , 6th of September announce an outbreak of cholera in. Asia Minor, extending over the fertile districts of Samsoon, Bafra, Djanik, and all the villages in the back country, including Marzavau and Yusgat, as far as Tocat, in one direction, .and Erzeroum !in the other. Murrain among cattle is also ravaging at Samsoon, Sinope, Alatcham, Alad- Jan, Kopnj, Cavak, and Trebizond. The contractors for the allied forces .are suffering heavy dosses from the disease, and particularly in the oxen destined'for the French, which are not so strong as those purchased for British account. At Samsoon and its immediate environs as many as 1,600 car cases of oxen, sheep, and horses are rotting where they happen to have 'fallen, emitting 'the most disagreeable stench, and so poisonous is the air that bubonic diseases, resembling plague, are manfesting themselves, the only scavengers being the jackals, dogs, vultures, and crows. Khan Yazy is the very centre of putrefaction. A FEIGITTEM ACCIDENT'took place at the East India Company's warehouse, Hart-street, London, on Monday. A man, named James Dixon, was painting some stone-work at the top of the warehouse, seventy feet high, when he was seized with a fit, the board on which he was sitting broke and he was suspended in the air by the leg, which got entangled with the frame-work. He remained;in this frightful position for the space of twenty-Ave minutes, the blood rushing out of his nose and ears. Bundles of straw and sheeting were placed beneath to catch him, should he fall; the royal fire escapes were sent for toxescue him from his perilous situation, but were found to be too short. Hundreds of persons ran in all directions to witness the scene, and the thoroughfare was completely blocked up, and large bodies ofsdice were sent for to keep the crowd back. At last a captain of a vessel passing, , asked for a rope, ascended to the top of the building, made a 'running noose knot, let it down the poor fellow's arm, and, amid the breathless anxiety of thousands, pulled him up in a state of insensibilty. He remains in a most precarious state. Air UNEXPECTED FIN t.—Speaking of the tendency of +temperance orators to set forward themselves as previous ex amples of the blighting effects of drink, the London corres pondent of the Inverness Adoertiser says :—" This predilec tion was smartly satirized the other evening at a temperance meeting. A person in the hall got up and said, 'My friends, three months ago I signed the pledge. (Clapping of hands and approving cheers.) In a mouth afterwards, my friends, I had a sovereign in my pocket—a thing I never had before. (Clapping and loud cheers.) In another month, my friends, I had a good coat on my back—a thing I never had before. (Cheers and clapping much louder.) A fortnight after that, my friends, I bought a coffin.' The audience was going to cheer here, but stopped and looked serious. ' You wonder,' continued the lecturer, why I bought a coffin. Well, my friends, I bought the coffin because I felt pretty certain that if I kept the pledge another fortnight I should want one: " A TrrITELRY CHIMPANZEE.—On Monday, the residenters in the neighbourhoood of Drygate, Glasgow, were aroused from their propriety at seeing a brown-coloured creature, ap parently of the ourang-outang species, nearly six feet in height , gambolling mischievously through the streets, stark naked , and uttering a kind of wild Tipperary howl, or war-whoop, and fastening upon passengers. People were in a quandary as during as on tehoef stiltiteinzgooolgthicealßsrpiteiesihmAeisissociinatteionnd,edwhfiocrhexhabdibitioii to what the creature was ; and some were disposed to regard con trived to elude the vigilance of its keepers. At length a crowd of bold men closed in upon the animal ; and one of them, with more penetration than the rest, recognised in this wild man a startled Irish cobbler, named Moore. Having got him into a sack, he was conveyed by the police constables to 'safe keeping, in North Albion-street. On Tuesday, Moore was charged before Bailie Gilmour, at the Central Police Court, with having been drunk and disorderly, and having struck a weaver. The magistrate had doubts as to the prisoner's sanity ; but it appeared from the statement of his wife, the mother of six young children, that one of their lodgers had been pro claimed for marriage on Monday, and that there was a drop of poteen going, and the whiskey flew to her husband's head, and he had got into the street in the state in which lie was found. The assault was proved, but the bailie sympathised with Moore's wife and children, and having given him a severe reprimand, imposed a mitigated penalty of half-a-guinea. THE ÜBE OF HELIGOLAND.—At the foot of Denmark, out in the North Sea, in front of the mouths of the rivers Elbe and Weser, facing Cuxhaven, in Hanover, and also command ing the island of Neuwerk, is another little island, called by us Heligoland (Helgoland by the Germans.) s Britannia has struck her trident on the isle of Heligoland, and hoisted the union jack on the top, to give notice to all whom it may concern that here is a depot for the Foreign Legion which the English Government is raising in Germany, to help us and our real allies in the Crimea. Look at the map of Europe ; there is a spice of humour in the choice of the spot. The advantages which it offers for the purpose are quite out of the common way. In time of peace Heligoland is an advanced sentinel, who can constantly keep her eye open on what is passing in the north of Germany. In war she is a little Gibraltar, from which, as a centre, Britannia can send her cruisers to wander about, her scouts to spy, and even her smugglers to trade. At all times, therefore, in spite of its tightness and exiguity, Heli goland is by no means to be sneered at as a possession of im portance to the United Kingdom, being a sort of outstretched snail's eye, which allows us to watch whatever is in the wind on the North German coast at the mouths of its two main commercial arteries —Holstein and Holland. According to the reports of the Government agents from all quarters, re cruiting for the Foreign Legion goes on most satisfactorily, notwithstanding the covert repugnance of some Governments and the open hostility of others. Great numbers of recruits are constantly arriving at the Heligoland depot, where a con siderable number are still being trained and organized, and where they are behaving themselves so well that the fashion able world of the Hanse Towns, although a little frightened at first, are again flocking to their favourite dot in the ocean for their annual sea-dips in it.—Household JULIUS CRELECKI, a Russian commissariat officer, has "bolted" from Simpheropol with 150,000 silver roubles, and a false passport. He is advertised in the Silesian Hue and Cry. THE HANGO IVlessAcßE.—Dr. Easton, surgeon, R.N., and Mr. Sullivan, Master's-Assistant, who were captured in the Cossack's boat at Hango, were exchanged at Odessa on the 18th inst. THE SPECIE ARRIVALS of the week, including those on Saturday from Australia, h a ve amounted to £1,300,000. The exports have included £530,000 to India, Egypt, &c:, besides large sums to other parts for grain purchases, war expenses, &c., the totals of which are unknown. ABERDEEN RAILWAY.—From the report of the directors of this company, we find that the gross receipts for the half year ending the 31st of July were £56,992, and the expendi ture £26,994, showing a balance of £29,998 to meet £33,351 interest on debentures, and £6,047 Arbroath and Forfar rent —together £l9,399—leaving a free surplus of £10,600, the total disposable sum being £10,851. A dividend Gn the 6 per cent. preference stock (£8,3000) will be payable on the 11th November, leaving a balance of £2,551 for the next account. At the half-yearly meeting held on Wednesday, in London, a dividend of 6 per cent. was declared, payable Nov. 12th, and the arrangements proposed by the directors for amalgamating with the Midland Railway of Scotland were adopted. A MEETING AT SEA.—Amongst the passengers by the Tamar, which arrived with the West India Mail on Tueslay, was a gentleman from Australia who had come home by way of Panama, and did not know, when he left Australia, by what ship he should reach England, as he could not get on board an English steamer before reaching St. Thomas in the West Indies. This gentleman parted with an intimate friend in Australia who was about to proceed to England by way of the Cape, in the sailing ship Washington Irving. In the Atlantic Ocean, the Tamar, from St. Thomas, spoke the ship Washing ton Irving, 80 days out, and the two Australian friends recog nised each other and exchanged momentary salutations from the rigging of their respective ships. Thus, after a separation of three months, and traversing one half of the globe in diffe rent directions, they met in the ocean desert. The Washing ton Irving passenger had laid a wager with his friend that he would reach England first, and has lost. THE HARVEST IN DEVONSIIIRE.—There are few districts . in Devonshire in which the harvest is not now completed ; and the accounts from almost every quarter are of the same satisfactory nature. The grain crops generally have been exceedingly good, and, on the whole, above the average. The wheat crop varied somewhat in different localities, but except in a few instances there has been little cause for complaint. Smut made its appearance here and there, but it did not extend far, and consequently caused little injury. On the whole the yield was large, and the grain exceedingly good. Barley and oats have also been a good crop, though there have been more variations than in wheat. Potatoes are unfortunately affected with the disease, though not to such an extent as has been generally reported. Still there is no denying that it does exist, and it has already had the effect of raising the price. The crop of apples, to which great attention is paid in Devon shire, is, generally speaking, much below the average, the orchards in many places having scarcely any fruit on the trees. MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.—On Wednesday morning, a woman, about 18 years of age, very neat and clean in her person, and who gave the name of Fanny Elliott a few minutes before her death, was brought to Charing-cross Hospital, London, by two police-officers, in a frightfully-mutilated condition. It appeared from the statement of one of the constables that, as he was standing on the Waterloo-bridge, he heard a bumping as of some soft heavy substance striking against tlieabutments of the bridge, and terminating in a loud splash into the water. Assistance was procured, and in a very few minutes the de ceased was discovered under the fourth arch from the Surrey side, but not under water. She was forthwith conveyed with all possible care to the above hospital. Upon the surgeon examining her he was greatly surprised to find that she was bleeding profusely from several large wounds on various parts of the body, some of which presented the appearance of having been caused by impalement. This was the more singular, as there are no spikes or other instruments to produce such injuries on any part of the bridge. A short time before she expired, her senses returned, and upon some questions relative to her position being put to her, she resolutely declined all communication, further than that her name was Fanny Elliott, but would not say where she lived. After life had become extinct, the body was examined more minutely, when it was discovered that several ribs had been fractured, the breast-bone broken in, and the fleshy part of the lower portion of the body torn away, besides a large hole in the ancle. FEARFUL BOILER EXLPOSION.—An inquest was held at Kibblesworth colliery, near Lamsley, in the county of Durham, on Friday, on the body of John Bewley, an engine-tender, who was killed by a fearful boiler explosion which took place at that pit on Wednesday. The explosion happened at 8 o'clock in the morning, and at first it was thought the pit had fired, but on the smoke clearing away the nature of the accident was , ascertained. It appears that Bewley was intrusted to take care of the boilers at bank, and finding, as it is alleged, some thing wrong in boiler No. 2, he had proceeded to examine it, and while standing on the top of it, it had exploded with terrific force, carrying the unfortunate man high into the air and hurling him a distance of 200 yards from the pit. One of the banksmen was blown over the bank a considerable distance, and a breaksman was thrown into the engine house. Three firemen were very severely scalded, while several workmen were more or less injured. The body of the boiler opened out like a fan at the time of the explosion, and was carried over the engine-house and landed in an adjoining field. One end of the boiler was likewise hurled over the bank, and the other within a few yards beyond where the body of Bewley was found. The body of Bew ley was not much disfigured, but from the deep indentation made in the soil in the spot where it fell, it was evident he must have been blown a great height into the air. The boiler, weighing between two and three tons, was blown upwards of 100 yards from the place where the explosion occurred. Four men are very badly scalded, but hopes are entertained that they will recover. It did not transpire at the inquest, which is adjourned, how the explosion was occasioned, but it is supposed that Bewley, finding that the boiler was short of water, had attempted to hastily supply it, and had thus caused the explosion. Itussralv PRIZEL—A return was issued from the Parlia mentary Paper-office, on Saturday, of all vessels captured during the present war, against which proceedings have been taken in the Court of Admiralty; with the names, tonnage, cargo, and colours ; by whom captured, and when; the grounds of capture; and the particulars of proceedings and amount of proceeds. It includes 135 vessels, mostly of small burden, none exceeding 600 tons, and very few approaching that ton nage. Nearly half of the prizes were sailing under Russian colours at the time of capture ; of those under neutral flags, 27 showed that of Denmark, but we find in the list Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Hanoverian, Hamburg, Lubeck, Mecklen burg, Oldenburg, Prussian, Austrian, Moldavian, Tuscan, lonian, Greek, and Monte Videan. 'lwo vessels were captured under British colours. Most of them were taken by cruisers of the British squadron in the Baltic, but a few were seized in British ports, three instances of this kind having occurred in the port of Liverpool. These were the Christian, a small vessel under Lubeck colours, and without cargo, seized on the 11th August, 1854: ; the Rapida, 399 tons, laden with tallow and bones, under the flag of Monte Video, seized 2nd November ; and the Helsingoer, seized 28th June - last, under Danish colours, with a cargo of wheat, beans, and cotton. The gross proceeds of the captured vessels and their cargoes is not yet fully ascertained, but the amount must be considerable. In some cases the cargo, being evidently neutral or British property, has not been detained; and in others a portion of , 1 the cargo has been restored to the claimants, sometimes on the ground of its being the private venture of the master, at others on being shown not to be Russian property. It has sometimes happened, too, that a prize has been released by order of the lords of the admiralty, in virtue of the right which the crown reserves to itself of restoring any prize, up to the final adjudication. No portion of the proceeds is distributed until after the accounts have been taxed and allowed by the admiralty registrar, when the balance remaining after payment of expenses is distributed amongst the captors through the prize department of the admiralty at Somerset-house. WAR ANNIVERSARIES.—September is distinguished for being associated with many a great battle and commander. On the Bth, we had the anniversary of Oliver Cromwell's death, recalling to our memories the civil warfare of the 17th century, and the deeds of blood under the protectorate. On the 6th, the capture of Malta (1800). On the 11th, the battle of Stirling (1297). On the 12th, the death of Prince Blucher, one of the Waterloo heroes (1819). On the 13th, the killing of General Wolfe (1759). On the 14th, the landing in the Crimea of the allies engaged in the present warfare. On the 16th, the taking of Cadiz (1696). On the 17th, the siege of Gibraltar (1782). On the 18th, the bombardment of Messina (1848). Wednesday, the battle of Poictiers (1356), and Thurs day, the battle of the Alma. We may add that the 7th was the anniversary of the bloody battle of Borodino, in 1812, and of the great battle of Konlikoff, 438 years before, which was fought between Dinitric, the Russian grand prince, and the Tartars, in which the former, for the first time, obtained a glorious, but, as it proved in the end, fruitless triumph over their merciless oppressors. Moscow was, both after Konlikoff and Borodino, taken and burned. The forces on both sides at the latter battle, in 1812, were nearly equal, but the French had a vast superiority in cavalry, and in the quality of part of their troops. We are told by the historian Alison, that the Russian force was 132,000, with 640 pieces of artillery ; but of , these, 10,000 were militia, from Smolensko and Moscow, who had never seen service, and 7000 were Cossacks ; so that for the shock of battle they could only count 115,000. The French force consisted of 133,000, of whom 30,000 were cavalry, and they brought into the field 590 pieces of cannon. By this battle the Russians had to lament the loss of one of their bravest and ablest generals, Prince Bagrathion, who died of his wounds ; and of Generals Kaitaikoff and Touczkoff killed, and 30 generals of inferior rank wounded. 15,000 killed, 30,000 wounded, and 2000 prisoners, presented a total loss of nearly 50,000 men. On the French side, besides Generals Montbrun and Caulaincourt, and many others killed, 30 generals were wounded ; and the total loss was 12,000 killed and 38,000 wounded. The trophies of victory were equally divided; the Russians took 10 pieces of cannon from their enemies, who could boast of 13 captured from them. BIRMINGHAM IDOLS.—Non olet, is the principle of free trade, no less than of the Roman Emperor. What signifies it by what means money is made, so it is made. So think the Birmingham manufacturers who supply the Hindoo market with idols. Who would have supposed that from the heart of a Christian country such an advertisement as the following,— retranslated into English from the Hindoostani,—could be sent forth P We copy it literally :—" Yarnell (god of death,) in fine copper; very tasteful. Nirondi (king of the demons,) in great variety ; the giant he rides is of the boldest design, and his sabre of the present style. Varonnin (god of the sun,) very spirited ; his crocodile in brass, and whip in silver. Couberen (god of wealth;) this god is of the most exquisite workmanship, having stimulated the best powers of the manu facturers. Smaller demi-gods and minor demons in every variety. No credit, and discount allowed for ready money." We wish we could believe that the whole was no more than a clever hoax ; but we fear it is but too true. There is a sound of reality about the business-like addition "no credit, and dis count for ready money," which painfully accredits the "very tasteful god of death," and the " very spirited god of the sun, with crocodile in brass and whip i n s il ver ." A s f or C ou b eren, the god of wealth, he naturally bears away the palm. Who doubts that he "stimulated the best powers of the manufac turers ?" He is worshipped by the people of Birmingham every whit as fervently as by the devotees on the banks of the Indus and the Ganges ; they have just put up his statue "of exquisite workmanship," in their market-place ; and it would have been well for the sculptor if he had gone on their own principle, of "no credit." As it is, the Peel statue exhibits the ruling passion strong in death ; it is a standing memorial of broken promises. Mr. Hollins, the artist, who made the statue, and is left to pay for it himself, is after all no worse off than the British people who made the man, the living idol, and who found in the end that he left them to pay for their Whistle at a pretty smart price, --John Bull. SCGAR, MOLASSES, AND Rtrat.---It appears from a return published on Saturday that in the year ended the 30th June, 1855, 8,233,696 cwt. of unrefined sugar was imported.into the united kingdom, and 8,145,180 cw t . retained for home con sumption. Of this, 3,139,209 cwt. was the produce of the West Indies; 1,237,678 cwt. the produce of the Mauritius; 739,144 cwt., the produce of East India ; and 3,117,665 cwt. foreign produce. The quantity of refined sugar and candy imported amounted to 353,909 cwt. The quantity of mo lasses (actual weight) imported was 892,059 cwt., and the ag gregate of the entries for home consumption, 969 , 1 76 cwt. The quantity of rum imported was 8,622,701 gallons, and the quantity entered for home consumption, 3,390,345 gallons. The amount of duty received in the united kingdom was, on refined sugar, £4,804,213 ; on refined sugar and candy, £310,620; on molasses, £215,234 ; on sugar and molasses together, £5,330,067 ; and on rum, £1,354,119. The average price of Muscovado sugar in the year ending the 30th June, 1855, was, British West India, 20s. lld ; Mauritius, 20s. 2d. ; and British E as t I n di a, 2 3 5. 4 d . ' Th e average price of Havana sugar (ordinary yellow) was 225. 9d. v etßie7,l7nßeNar O K P id A d C er ß m l i lt u E is l ie N r, rl w E a ß s agreeably °•—Th repose, at a late h our on S aturday evening, by hearty demon strationsits of congratulation and welcome, on the return of Capt. Brown Westhead, eldest son of J. P. Brown Westhead, Esq., (late M.P. for Knaresborough), from the Crimea. Tid ings of the gallant captain's approaching arrival were no sooner received than the church bells pealed forth merrily, and a large body of stalwart countrymen spontaneously assembled at the entrance to the park, to testify their admiration of the hero, by removing the horses from his carriage, and drawing him in triumph to Lea Castle, where he was received with lively manifestations of affection and joy by the assembled family and domestics. Few regiments have suffered more se verely before Sebastopol, either in officers or men, than that to which the gallant captain belongs (the 34th), more than half the entire strength of each rank having been placed hors de combat within a brief period, and without sickness ; and few, if any, of its surviving officers have been more severely wounded, or enjoyed more " hair-breadth" escapes from de struction, than Captain Baown Westhead. He still carries in his body (between the right shoulder and the breast) the rifle ball which inflicted the serious wound that caused him to be invalided home by a medical board; and, in his heroic dis charge of the arduous duty wherein be encountered this wound, he was further struck by a spent grape shot, had the low crown of his forage cap ripped up a distance of two inches by a Minie ball, and trod upon one of the enemy's infernal ma chines, which fortunately hanging fire for a few seconds, ex ploded when he was a few paces beyond it. This occurred during the memorable successful storming of the Quarries, and sub sequent carrying of the Russian trenches and rifle pits in front of the Redan, on the night and morning of the 7th and Bth of June, on which occasion the gallant captain headed a company of his regiment. In the numerous letters wherein his brother officers kindly sought to allay the anxiety of his family and friends, until the state of his wound permitted him to write himself, warm testimony is borne to the distinguished gallantry and prowess he exhibited in the action. It appears that he was observed to fell several of the Russians with the rifle of one of his men, after discharging the several barrels of his re v ol ver w ith equa l e ff ect ; an it was in the act of returning the former weapon for reloading that he received his severe wound from an enemy observant of the havoc following his rapid and deadly aim. It is under stood that Captain Brown Westhead owes the omission of his name from among those of his brother officers whose signal gallantry was distinguished by special mention in the despatches of Lord Raglan, to a somewhat remarkable instance of that disgraceful incorrectness which has marked official reports from the seat of war. The despatches wherein the late commander-in-chief signalised the gallantry of the storm ing party of the 34th, mentioned with special commendation the conduct of two of its captains; but although it so hap pens that Captain Brown Westhead was one of the only two captains of the 34th present with the storming party, (Captain Peel being the other), he was deprived of the honourable mention obviously intended for and due to him, by the erroneous and inexcusable substitution of the name of a brother captain who was not present in the action, but who has since heroically fallen.— Wolverhampton Chronicle. [Captain Brown Westhead is a relative of Mr. P. Bancroft, oil merchant, of this town.] ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. Rev. F. A. Bartlett, to the Ferpetual Curacy of St. Olave's, Marygate, York. W: T. Beckett, M.A., to the Rectory of Ingoldisthorpe, Norfolk. Rev. W. Blackley, M.A., to the Vicarage of Stanton-upon- Hine-Heath, Salop. Rev. W. J. Bolton, to the Curacy of Trinity Church, Cheltenham. Rev. R. G. Calthrop, to the Perpetual Curacy of Irton, Cum berland. Rev. J. Goodday, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Mark's District Church, New Swindon, Wilts. Rev. E. Gordon, 8.A ., to the Curacy of Kilnwick, near Pock lington. Rev. W. Hazel, M.A., of Christ Church, Oxford, to the Rectory of St. Peter's, Wallingford, Berks. Rev. C. Hind, M.A., to the Curacy of Stapenbill, near Burton upon-Trent. - Rev. J. Hughes, to the Curacy of Llansannon, near Whitchurch. Rev. T. Lees, M.A., to the Curacy of Greystoke, near Penrith. Rev. E. H. MacLachlan, M.A., to the Vicarage of Tudeley, near Tunbridge. Rev. J. Newnham, 8.A., to the Incumbency of Mountsorrel, near Loughborough. Rev. J. Nicholson, 8.A., to the Curacy of Lyth e , near R e d car. Rev. T. O'Reilly, to the Curacy of Enniskill en . Rev. H. S. Polehampton, M.A., Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, to a Chaplaincy in connecton with the East India Com pany, in the Presidency of Bengal. Rev. A. Pyne, 8,A., to the Vicarage of Horning, near North. Wal.l4am. Rev. C. Sangster, Vicar of Darton, to the Rural Deanery of Silkstone division of the Archdeaconry of Craven. Ray. J. E. Sewell, M.A., Fellow of New College, Oxford, to the Stipendiary Curacy of Ilegbroke, Oxon. Rev." G. Stallard, to the Incumbency of St. Nicholas, Great Be dw yn, Tit! : _ m Rev. W. 'W.' Walby, of St. Bees' College, to the Stipendiary Curacy of Epwell, Oxfordshire. Rev. R. B. Williams, M.A., to the Curacy of South Dalton, near Beverley. Rev. G. F. Wright, 8.A., Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, to a Mastership in the Shrewsbury School. CLERICAL OBITUARY. Sept. 1, at Wansten Rectory,nearFrorne, the Rev. J. G. Howard, M.A. Sept. 6, at Range Worthy, the Rev. James Champion Hicks, aged 74. Sept. 9, at Stoke Rectory, Guildford, the Rev. William Henry Stevens, A.M., in his 41st year. Sept. 13, the Rev. Jas. Longmore, Vicar of Yealmpton and Revel stoke, Devon, in his 84th year. Sept. 14, at Winwick Hall, Lancashire, the Rey. James John Hornby, Rector of Winwick, aged 78. Sept. 15, at Semley, near Shaftesbury, in his 86th year, the Rev. Ralph Ord, Rector of Semley. Sept. 16, suddenly, at Clontuskert Glebe, county Galway, Ireland, of apoplexy, the Rev. Richard Collis, Rector of that parish, brother of the Rev. John Day Collis, Headmaster of Bromagrove School, aged 29. _ _ ORDINATION AT CHESTER On Sunday last, the 23rd of September. DEACONS. George Dewe Green, 8.A., Balliol College, OxforJ, licensed to Dalton-in-Furness. Alfred Middleton, 8.A., Queen's College, Oxford, licensed to Ponsonby. Henry liaugh, Queen's College, Cambridge, licensed to Liverpool parish. Philip Newman Lawrence, 8.A., Queen's College, Cam. bridge, licensed to St. Anne's, Birkenhead. William Gillison Bell, jun., LL.B., Emmanuel College, Cam bridge, licensed to St. Matthias, Liverpool. Philip Winter de Quetteville, 8.A., St. Peter's College, Cambridge, licensed to Distington. Thomas Bourne Dickins, S.C.L., Jesus' College, Cambridge, licensed to Thurstaston. Alfred Whitlow, 8.A., Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, licensed to Little Leigh. William Frederick Whitechurch, 8.A., St. John's College, Cambridge, licensed to Prestbury. William Wilkinson, 8.A., Christ's College, Cambridge, licensed to St. Chrysostom's, Everton. Thomas Brierley, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin, licensed to Latchford. Ralph Calvert Williams Croft, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin, licensed to St. Catherine's, Wigan, Thomas Fauvel, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin, licensed to St. Peter's, Everton. John James Stephenson Moore, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin, licensed to Christ Church, Chester. David Lewis, St. Aidan's College, Birkenhead, licensed to Holy . Trinity, Birkenhead. William Woollam, St. Aidan's College, Birkenhead, licensed to St. Barnabas, Liverpool. Richard Williams Griffith, 8.A., Jesus College, Oxford, by letters dimissory from the Bishop of Bangor. PRIESTS. Rev. Joshua Jones, 8.A., Lincoln College, Oxford. Rev. William Henry Pearson, 8.A., Queen's College, Oxford. Rev. Samuel Bawtree Baird, 8.A., Emmanuel College, Cambridge. _ _ Rev. Richard Dowson, 8.A., Queen's College, Cambridge. Rev. Alexander Eckford Watson, M.A., Queen's College, Cambridge. Rev. Gerrard Lewis, 8.A., St. Catherine's Hall, Cambridge. Rev. Edward Bennett, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin. Rev. William Bowlan, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin. Rev. Constantine Adolphus Lusignan, 8.A., Trinity Col lege, Dublin. Rev. George Perrin, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin, licensed to Vauxhall, Liverpool. Rev. Henry Wescoe, Licentiate in Theology, Bishop Cosin's Hall, Durham. Rev. Joseph MacCartie, St. Aidan's College, Birkenhead. Rev. Samuel Sampson, St. Aidan's College, Birkenhead. Rev. James Skinner, 8.A., University College, Durham. Rev. Hugh Davis Owen, M.A., Jesus' College, Oxford, by letters dimissory from the Bishop of Bangor. Rev. Robert Thomas, 8.A., Queen's College, Cambridge, by letters dimissor7 from the Bishop of Bangor. Rev. Thomas \% illiams, St. David's College, Lampeter, by letters dimissory from the Bishop of Bangor. Ix St. Ann's parish, New York, the rector has a service in the afternoon for the deaf and dumb, using the sign -language which they are t aug ht i nstea d of the voice; and a church is projected specially for the purpose. The New York Church man says—" For nearly three years this undertaking has been characterised by gradual yet steady growth, and everything now connected with it seems to point towards permanent success. By the side of th e proposed church it is designed to have a building which shall contain a lecture-room, reading. room, and library, that thus the gratuates of th e i nst i tutions, as they settle down i n this city to gain their livelihood, may be encouraged to make advances in intellectual persuits." THE REV. JAMES MARSHALL, incumbent of Christ Church, Clifton, who died at that place on the 29th of August, was brought up a Presbyterian in Scotland, his native land, and was ordained a preacher in the Establishment to the congre gation that met in the nave of the old cathedral chnrch of Glasgow. He was afterwards presented to the Tolbooth, Edinburgh, one of the three divisions into which the cathedral church of that city has been separated. Previous to the great disruption in the established body, the existing state of things led him to in qu i re more deeply into Church polity, which ended anc in his being convinced of the divine right of Episcop acy, his breaking his connection with the Scotch Estab • hs d b , the dame 3 the year 1841. He was shortly afterwards p 'hm ent in Bishop of Durham to the curacy Durham, on the nomination of Dr. Gilly, who has died ofcorh bu a o week after him. Rt. Mary-le-Port, He was in 1842 presented to the living the eldest daughter of Bristol, and a few years afterwards to to the incumbency of Christ Church, Clifton. e_ a the Rev. Legh Richmond. His loss called forth much deep feeling, and him funeral gas attended by a large body both, of clergy and laity.