The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-11-18 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS. ♦ Newspapers are about to be added to the reading-room at the Mechanics' institution. J. H. Sherson, Esq. has been elected Mayor of Lan caster for the ensuing year. Laurence Heyworth, Esq., M,P., has been lecturing at liawarden on total abstinence. The Bateman Children made their first appearance in Liverpool, at the Amphitheatre. last evening. Last Sunday Mr. F. R. Hodgson, one of the Man chester borough magistrates, was found dead in his bed. A conference is shortly to be held in Manchester, on the subject of juvenile delinquency, and the means to be devised for its suppression. It is confidently stated that Charles Crompton, Esq., the Assessor at our Court of Passage, will succeed Mr. Justice Patteson, as Judge of the Queen's Bench. Thu postmaster-general has intimated to the Hull Chamber of commerce his intention of affording a later Postal departure from Liverpool to Hull than 6 15 p.m. The conference of Manchester Reformers is now fixed for Wednesday morning, December 3, to be followed by treat meeting in the Free Trade-hall. A. lecture on " National and Voluntary Education con sidered" was delivered by the Rev. J. A. Baynes, of Not tingham, on Friday evening, in the Concert-hall. NUMBER OF VOTERS.—The number of voters on the register for North Lancashire this year, shows an increase of 588, the numbers being in 1851, 12,307, and in 1850, 11,719. th.YERSTONE AND LANCASTER RAILWAY. TIIE first Sod of the Ulverstone and Lancaster Railway was turned , 4 few days silice, on the land near Lightburn Terrace, be longing to the Rev. T. Tolming, of Coniston. - The Royal Mail steam-ship Asia, Judkins, commander, sailed from the Mersey at 12 30, p.m., on Saturday, for Halifax and Boston, with the usual mails, and upwards of fifty passengers. The United States mail steam-ship Atlantic departed for New York, on Wednesday, with fifty-nine passengers, amongst whom was the American post-office agent, Major William R. Hobbie. Mr. W. Lassell, of this town, announces his discovery of two n ew sa t e llit es o f th e pl an et Uranus. interior to the Innermost of the two bright satellites first discovered by B ir W. Herschell, known as the second and the fourth. The Philharmonic ball will take place on Thursday next. The l a dy patroness, the Countess of Sefton, and the elite Of the families resident in the town and neighbourhood are expected to be present. The large cotton mill at Townhead, Rochdale, belong -414 to Messrs. D. Jersey and Co., was destroyed by fire On Wednesday morning. The loss is estimated at £B,OOO. The property and machinery were insured. A handsome testimonial, consisting of a complete silver tea service, was presented to Mr. James Dickson, chief Steward of the steam-ship America, previous to the last 'Wing of that noble vessel for Boston. It f 3 proposed to invite the Hon. R. J. Walker, late secretary to the United States Treasury, and now in Eng land, to a public dinner on the 24th instant. The Liver -1)001 American Chamber of Commerce have taken the initiative in making the necessary arrangements. , The - cab-drivers' " strike" has terminated, above one- Ulf of the.masters having consented to the terms pro- Dosed by the men. Some of the larger cab-owners, how ever, refused to make any alteration, but the men have returned to their work. Two setmons were preached in St. Augustine's Church on Sunday last, in the morning by the Rev. J. Jones, Ural dean, and in the evening by the Rev. Herbert Jones ; .after which the liberal sum of £64 was collected in behalf of the National Schools connected with that church. LICA& vv•• LRCTURE ON MORMONISM. — On Thursday evening, a lecture, in connection with the Church of England Insti tution, was delivered in the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson street, by the Rev. J. B. Lowe, incumbent of St. Jude's, 0 o the subject of Mormonism. The hall was well filled. CHURCH HISTORY.—On Wednesday, the Rev. Hugh utowell Brown delivered the third of a course of lectures 0 o church history, in the Baptist Chapel, Myrtle-street, to a full and attentive audience. The subject embraced the whole of the life and reign of Henry the Eighth. , While Mr. Jeremiah Woolley, a respectable tradesman 10 Haigh-street, was passing along Birkett-street, the other evening, he was shot in the calf of the leg by a l iirge musket ball, supposed to have been fired off by some careless or mischievous lads. The Sisters of Mercy, who resid e a t a conven t a t W es t -Derby, have appealed against the poor-rate, on the ground that the building is used for charitable purposes, and that it has been rated too highly. The question was left by the magistrates at Kirkdale, on Thursday, to the decision 0 f the Ven. Archdeacon Brooks. On Tuesday night, C. Cowden Clarke, Esq., of London, delivered the first of four lectures at the Collegiate Insti. tution, on the contrasted characters of Shakspeare, taking b ravery and poltroonery as his themes, and analysing the characters of Faulconbridge, Hotspur, Pistol, and Parol les, as illustrations. A stained window of very beautiful design and execu -100, by Ballantyne and Allan, of Edinburgh, has this week been erected in the chancel of St. Matthew's, Tox- L eth• The centre figure of the Saviour excited general admiration at the great exhibition. We are informed that this addition to the beauty of the church is owing to the iberality of John Hay, Esq., the talented architect. EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH.—On Sunday evening last, a Poor woman named Johnson, the wife of a travelling mendicant, lodging in Charter-street, Shudehill, was Prought to bed of three children The mother and her Infants (two girls and a bo) are all doing well, but the family are in a state of the y utmost distress and wretched ness. —Manchester Courier. „ The spry, lendid om new screw steam-ship City of Pittsb Sundaythe ,zoorning, at 8 30, a.m., from Philadelphia, after a pro tracted passage, caused by heavy weather and a short sup- Ply of coals. She put into Queenstown, on Thursday, to obtain the requisite quantity of the latter to steam to this Port. VISIT OF THE MAYOR TO ST. PETER'S CHURCH ON SUNDAY.—His Worship the Mayor, accompanied by several members of the Town Council, attended Divine service at St. Peter's Church, on Sunday morning, when a sermon was preached by the Venerable Archdeacon Brooks, in aid of the Blue-coat Hospital. The rev. gentleman took his text from the First Epistle of St. John, chap. iv., verse ii., Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought to love one another," from which he delivered a very able and impressive discourse. The collection amounted to £9l. His Worship the Mayor will attend Divine service at St. Barnabas' Church on Sunday next. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAYS.—Another rumour has got abroad to the effect that these companies are very near an amicable arrange ment. We sincerely wish it was for both their sakes, but if one of the rumoured conditions be that the Great Western are likely to tap the Liverpool and Manchester traffic, we do not see how it is possible the London and North-Western directors could face their shareholders with a proposition to purchase peace at such a price. From in formation since received, we can give the rumour a positive contradiction.—Herapath's Journal. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—A most melancholy oc currence took place on the Lancaster and Preston line, on Wednesday afternoon. The poor sufferer who unfor tunately lost his life, was a man eighty years old, named Richard Cutler, who resided in Barnacre, and was return ing from Garstang to his own home. A son of his accom panied him almost as far as the spot where the accident occurred—" Lingart Crossing," when the old man pursued his way alone, and unfortunately, at nearly the same time that he went through the style or opening to make the crossing, the afternoon express train from the North came up, and before any possible abatement of its velocity could be effected, be was struck down, and his body mutilated in a horrifying manner. CELLAR DWELLINGS.—The General Board of Health have issued a notification, under the 67th section of the Public Health Act, on the subject of cellar dwellings. The act referred to makes it unlawful to let or occupy as a dwelling any vault, cellar, or underground room, built or rebuilt after the 31st of August, 1848, or not let or occupied before that date, and any person so letting or occupying is liable to indictment. The act further provides that. no underground chamber that does nat answer to a certain description, that is to say, that is not seven feet in height, of which three feet must he above the level of the street, that has not an open area of two feet six along its entire frontage, that is not drained, warmed, and ventilated in the manner prescribed, shall be inhabited, notwithstand ing that such room may have been inhabited hitherto, The penalty of neglecting these provisions is 20s. a-day. where there is a local Board of Health. To this notifica tion is appended extracts from the Reports of the Com missioners on the State of Large Towns and Populous Districts, and from the Reports of the Superintending In spectors to the General Board of Health, descriptive of the condition of cellar-dwellings and common lodging houses in various towns throughout England and Wales. THE PACIFIC MAIL STEAM-SHIP LIMA.—The fine steam-ship Lima, under the command of Capt. Williams, arrived in the Mersey on Friday at 10.30., a.m., with several of the directors on board. She left the Cloch Light, a little way below Greenock, on Thursday evening at five o'clock, and arrived at the Bell Buoy at fifty minutes past seven the next morning, thus completing the distance, about 180 nautical miles, in the short space of fourteen hours and fifty minutes. Such performances as the above require no comment. The distance, it may be observed, has seldom been accomplished in the same space of time by steam-vessels in the best of steaming trim. The Lima belongs to the Pacific Royal Mail Steam-ship Com pany, and is a consort to the steam-ship Santiago, which was recently despatched from the Mersey for Valparaiso. The Lima, however, has some improvement in mould and extension of tonnage, which will fit her more suitably for the trade in which she will be engaged. She was built by Mr. Robert Napier, of Glasgow; is 1,200 tons register, being 100 tons above that of the Santiago ; and has two side-lever engines, of 400-horse power, supplied by steam from four tubular boilers, two on either side, and two side lever engines. The diameter of the wheels is respectively 27 feet, giving 24 revolutions in the minute. She has t wo funnels, and is rigged similar to the Santiago. The length of the Lima is 270 feet over all, breadth of beam 30 feet, and depth of hold 18 feet. The engines are of the most improved construction, and are beautiful specimens of workmanship. An improvement in the engineering department has been introduced. It consists of a steam indicator, communicating with the boilers, and placed in the superintending engineer's room on deck, and shows at a glance the strength of the steam in the boilers, thus materially lessening the possibility of accident, and ob viating the necessity for the engineer going below to ascertain the state of the steam. The fittings•up of the Lima are of the most superb description. The saloon is a most gorgeous apartment, and must form a comfortable lounge to passengers who may require to take a voyage on the west coast of America. In the fore part of the ship there is a commodious first-class sleeping apartment, where 76 beds can be made up, and immediately under the saloon is the second cabin, where 48 berths can be fitted up. Inclusive of officers, the Lima carries a crew numbering 66, and affords accommodation in all to about 300 passengers. CASE OF OUTLAWRY.-1N RE PATRICK O'TOOLE.— This bankrupt, who carried on business as a provision dealer, in Marylebone, and who had failed to surrender to the notices of the bankruptcy court, requiring him to surrender on the 10th January and 13th February of the present year, was brought up before Mr. Mansfield, in a private room in the Sessions-house, on Tuesday, on a charge of felony. At the instance of the prisoner, the case was then adjourned until Wednesday, on which day he was again brought up in a private room before William Earle, Esq. Sir George Stephen appeared for the assignees, and Mr. Snowball for the defence. Sir George Stephen, after stating the nature of the application on behalf of the assignees, read a clause from the Bankruptcy Consolidation Act of 1849, which certified that any person not surrender ing within seven days after the issuing of the fiat and sub mitting to be examined, was guilty of felony, and subject to be transported for life, or for a term not less than seven years. After submitting the facts, he said there would be no alternative but to commit the prisoner for trial at the assizes. Mr. Henry Ayres, assistant messenger to the district court of bankruptcy, produced the London Gazette of the 3rd of January, containing the particulars of ad judication on the 26th December, 1850, before Mr. Com missioner Stevenson. He (Mr. Ayres) then deposed that the prisoner should have surrendered before eleven o'clock on the 10th January and the 13th February. The petition. ing creditor was John Bristow, provision merchant. He then detailed the whole of the circumstances connected with the case; that he had served a notice of adjudication, in writine, at the bankrupt's shop in Marylebone, with the time of surrendering, but that he had not surrendered, nor had he applied to surrender. In consequence of this non compliance be had proclaimed him (the prisoner) an out law. Mr. Ayres then said the first place he spoke to him after his return was when in the custody of Mr. Kirby, sheriff's officer, when he informed him (Mr. Ayres) that he had been told of the bankruptcy, and of his being pro claimed an outlaw ; that he had been in Ireland, and had gone to America, lout that he was sick of being there, as thepoorbouses were full; that he did not care what became of himself, whether he was transported or not. Mr. Ayres then produced the notice of adjudication, with the dupli cate, which he had served on the bankrupt. Mr. Snow ball contended that the contents of the notice to surrender were not proved in law ; that it was not shown that the notice ever came into the possession of the bankrupt, and urgently appealed for Mr. Mansfield's opinion to be taken on the matter. After Mr. Earle and Mr. Wybergh had consulted, the former intimated that he was satisfied that the notice had been regularly served, and the prisoner was committed to take his trial at the ensuing assizes. , On Thursday afternoon a fire broke out in the timber yard of Mr. Owen Elias, Kirkdale-road, a quantity o f limber, which had been placed in a stove, having become ignited. The fire, however, was subdued before much oarnage was sustained. The engine belonging to the West of England Insurance Company was quickly on the ground. IRARLY CLOSING.—Messrs. Carmichael and Co., of the ! siver-house, h ave generous l y agree d to c l ose t h e i r estab lishment at six o'clock during the winter mo n ths.—M essrs . Frisby, Dyke, & Co. of Lord-street, following the ad mirable example of Messrs. Carmichael, have also deter reined to close their establishment at 6 p.m. during the Irtnter months. 'Clo Wednesday evening last, whilst some young men, "eo had made a bonfire in a field in the neighbourhood of tb its one were amusing themselves by gambolling around '''s one of them, named George Platt, pursued one of his °olpanions sfor some distance, and suddnly fell doe a.• He had, in the excitement of the e running, ru wpn - lsed some of the blood vessels immediately connected /1 1th the heart. U M essrs. LOCKS.—We were shown the other day, at Chubbs' in Lord-street, several locks for the trmon cells at St. George's Hall, and one or two of their ° eke from the Great Exhibiton, for which they obtained tPrize medal and the Jurors' special approbation, a rare °,oour, obtained we believe by about 25 of the 17,000 ;4,eibitors. All lovers of good locks should visit Messrs. i eobbs' establishment,—the beauty of their workman la'P is unrivalled ; and, notwithstanding the efforts of Mr. ilobbs to depreciate them, we believe their locks will still considered unsurpassed for security and durability. 4 . L A NCASTER INSOLVENT COURT.—At the last court b J. Blake, gentleman A.T.• J. Corrigall, owner of the s a !que S axon • h it it 't ; and T. H. Hunt, v i ctua ll er, o f iver -P "001:merchan Liver - ACADEMY.—(Sixth Notice.) 4 , - or Trace' Tomlinson, of Salford, bricklayer ; S. Pilling, No. 67. " Portrait of J. Gardener, Esq." By Mr. J. b,s2, coal-proprietor ; A. Murray, of Manchester, Robertson. This is a very superior production, and will f . linaker ; J. Marr, of Lancaster, out of business ; and utterwortb of Ashton-under- Lyrae, out of business, assist in maintaining the high character of our townsmen ip__ e discharged., J. Sharrod, of Huyton, tallow-chand in the art of portrait-painting. The style is easy and h7r r, and l a t e o f Li verpool, out of business, was remanded bold, the execution admirable and masterly. 17 ,two months. Th e petition of J.. Cooper, of Liverpool, No. 68 . " Creek on the Mersey." By Mr. J. W. utcher, was dismissed. Oakes. A pretty little sketch, but rather unfinished. ~ A,. bitsTA KR RECTIFIED.--011 Tuesday, a pickpocket, „ Sub-Prior." No. 69. "Henry Warden and the (From wingO'Donnell, was charged before Mr. Maude, with The Abbot.") This is one of the productions of the ,tt',living attempted to pick the pocket of a lady in Exchange- lat e Sir David Wilkie, R.A. : a small picture, but power eeton the previousafternoon. The prisoner denied the fully painted. i ,rge. Mr. Maude obser ve d t o hi m, " Why, I'm told No. 70 . " Primroses." By Mrs. Harrison. A beauti faVve been here twenty times !"—P r i soner : " Oh, no, it ful . little bit of nature. It is a group of . primrosr, such ~9Siite a mistake."—Mr. Maude : " Well, perhaps, it is as is se en in every mossy dell in early spring. This repre -09 nineteen times."--Prisoner (laughing impudently) : sentat ion ofgro w w e ig v fl e o e w v e e r r s s i e s en w . ell executed, and is one )~4191 not say that ; perhaps it's more, or may be less. 1!' pr ett i est +3 No. e 71. • Forest of Fontainebleau." By Mr. J. S. is; Maude (to the policeman) : " Well , I suppose there et" mistake about the lady's pocket ? '—Officer : "Not Raven Rather a clever sketch, but the colouring harsh and unfinished. st,, z _til sir." Mr. Maude " Very well, prisoner, you eld committed to hard labour for three months.— No. 72. " The Thames near Streatly, Berks." By Mr. P. W. Ele n . W e cannot say muc h i n favour o f this hatter Cou r i er . specimen of landscape-painting • it is one of a class which in this Exhibition is too predominant. %reit. AORDINARY SCENE IN THEPRESTONTHEATRE. — ttit..lldaY night the theatre was attended by a fi v t erynu- No. 73, " Wood Scene," by Mr. W. R. Earle ; and 74, ~teit : a_saudience, it bein Mr. Harwood's bene • Ser- 4, Grand Canal, Venice," by Chas. Vacher ; must rank gee‘ Wilkins, M r. Oven s, Mr. Thorburn, and other gen with No. 72. tie e —m engaged i n . the dfence of Mr. Ramshay, were No, 75. " Study of a Head." By Mr. James Sant. , At, as also waa Mr. Hughes, eolicitor, of Liverpool. A very masterly and spirited production. At performance had proceeded for about an hour, when No. 76. " Don Quixote reading the Romance." By toill Ita_mshay entered the house, and, on " his appearing in Mr. W Douglass. Thereis'much to admire in this produc tion*, although somewhat exaggerated ; the poor - knight, Z; Ites, some , person called out for three chee rs f o ol. slei;,`..emshay,' and the call was loudly respond ed • lance in hand, . is decidedly the monomaniac of Cervantes, Losii !groans for the Liverpool Journal and three groans but the grouping of other portions of the picture is con 'kis!' Whitt y succeeded, and an extraordinary degree of fused and overdrawn. The folio romances are, to use the Ofuzvelent pervaded the house throughout the remainder -e , e — • language of Dominie Sampson, pro-di-gious, making the On ei leolog.—Preston Pilot. knight appear a pigmy, and his lance dwindles down to a tsks kt ler COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.---RE JOHN steel pen. in the execution of this picture, with all its ti l l t:tt r AND ALFRED ASOWALL.—APPLICATION FOR imp erfections, genius is, however, unmistakeably apparent. • 1e....TE —On Friday these bankrupts applied to "" tli °oil ' No. 77, " Rue Avon, Denbighshire," by Mr. J. 'W. e_tieb„ Pt to grant the usual certificate. It will be re '4(l. 'red that Mr. Lilies', since the year 1845, had been to s , t og s Oakes, is another good sketch by this clever artist. There IsCose l'Y largely as an African merchant, under the is a want of finish about his pictures which makes us qua ntity rather than quality is his principal h )'sti v total style of John Lilley, and Co., and that corn- think that f p e r w e e fi r tab pictures, l e in every more carefully respect. o'rsh• eiV recently he had taken Mr. Ashwall into part- aim. gamer. ° The latter had acted as agent to the house at the execute l d f , so Wou h l e d is b w e ro m n o g re ; li There was no opposition to the certificate 4) as \Trth an e arF sure, from painting b o ave m se e e re n, s t k h e a t t a h ly e l h an as ds t c a a le p n es ts . for a higher class of gOlf of - • Ashwall was concerned. Mr. Carson, on toted A r t hc! assignees, opposed the application as . re- I 78, " Windermere from Calgarth Bay," by Mrs. __ Asp. I land ; and 79, " A Garden Entrance," by Mr. J. Wing- I tl li t i s ' lr • Lilley, and proceeded to put some questions 1 Wing e' to '.. a nkrupt, from which it appeared that unsecured , field. Two pictures of very moderate merits. By Mr. Philip it i g t ee isz`° the amount of £20,000, had been contracted ' 80. " Portrait of Allen Potter, Esq." ,IL Air? ve reber, 1850, principally for goods supplied to I Westcott. Another masterly production from the easel N %11,. e ,. a i n vessels ' belonging to the bankrupts. Besides ' of our talented townsman, who is almost unrivalled in his particular branch of art. kt a ei . Lar ge sums taken from the business, £6OOO had liPs jended on pleasure grounds and other improve- 81. " Fishing Boats off Aberconway." Of several pic tures which Mr. J. W. Oakes has in the Exhibition, this TO, .r . , 1 the Thingwall estate, where the bankrupt re is the best. The scene is well chosen • it has great 4: of ;IT other point raised by the assignees was the , breadth, and the distances and sky are well ' managed. 8L1.84 , - e P r ivate expenes of the bankrupt, from the , 0. , 1 .0 % t o 1 8in 82, " The Stepping-stones " by M T F Marhall s'' s' she ' being ihe enormous sum of £7OOO or IT lswater,"by Mr. Henry J y utsu r ni ; .84, "View at tits ot at rra7 in which this sum had been expended , 83, " '-' Hampstead," by Mr. Alfred Clint; kij ili t4 4 issionafil evident from the bankrupt ' s books, The 1 11 but trued „ r granted a certificate to Mr. As.twa , part Mr. 0. R. Campbell ; are four small pictures Of no and 8 5 , " Meditation," cular merit, ' ue consideration of 31r, Lilley's case. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TTTESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1851. PUBLIC MEETINGS. WEST DERBY UNIO97.—At the weekly meeting held on Wednesday, the following guardians were present : Mr. Roskell in the chair, also Messrs. Lunt, Brown, Bunting, Edward Johnson, Alpass, Mountfield, Carter, Miller, Abrahams, Shaw, Elias, John Jones, Pilkington, Jeffries, James Jump Davies, John Birch, John Davies, Smith, Tattersall, Craig, Bolshaw, and Sutton. Cheques for out-door relief were given as follows :—Mr. Allen, £75 ; Mr. Stain, £35 ; Mr. Potts, £lOO ; and Mr. Pear son, £2O. Joseph Bamber, a member of the Liverpool police force, was elected porter at the Workhouse, at a salary of £5O a-year, with house-rent, gas, and coals. There, were thirty-four candidates. The salaries of Mr. William Hodson and Mr. Thomas Barlow Musker, col lector of poor-rates, for the township of West Derby, were raised from £lOO to £125 per annum respectively. A memorial was presented from several of the inhabitants of le township of Litherland, complaining of an offen sive and dangerous nuisance arising from a deposit of chemical waste at the entrance to Litherland-park, and a committee was appointed to inspect the same, and take the necessary steps for its removal. Mr. Tattersall again brought before the board the subject of a nuisance arising from an offensive ditch near to Prospect-vale, Fairfield, and belonging to the Corporation of Liverpool, which he stated to be in a very bad state, and was a source of great annoyance to the inhabitants f that vicinity. The clerk was desired to write to the Corporation Surveyor upon the subject, and request his immediate attention to the matter. The board broke up about three o'clock. Docx COMMITTEE.-At the meeting on Thursday, Messrs. Chaloner and Fleming were accepted as tenants of the shed on the east side of Sefton-street, at the rent of £lO5 a year.—The tenders of Cramshaw and Sons for iron, and of A. and G. Holme for a shed on the north pier of Bandon Basin, were accepted—. Mr. Roydon was appointed a member of the Marine Sub-committee, in the plac:. of Mr. Littledale.—Mr. R. Tvrer, master of the Formby light-ship, reported that the captain, two mates, and seventeen of the crew of the barque Elizabeth, which was wrecked, took refuge on board the light-ship on the sth instant.—Mr. Bold mentioned that he bad been in formed by one of the partners in the firm of Focke and Boult, that fees had been received by some of the dock vatemen. The solicitor was requested to write to Messrs. Focke and Boult to give the name of the captain who had paid the fees, and to furnish other evidence, in order to lead to the detection of the men who had received the bribes.—The number of delivery foremen at the Al bert Docks was ordered to be increased from 20 to 28, the new men to have 245. per week.—The Sub-committee for th e office of Master Porters, &c., recommended that the new bye-laws be adopted and carried out, subject only to a satisfactory arrangement being made for ascertaining with precision the hour at which each' vessel reports at the Custom-house, as to which the solicitor is instructed to communicate with the collector.—X3o were voted to the St. Anne's Dispensary.—Mr. Evans complained that one of the clerks had refused to give him some information as to the Albert Dock warehouses, and on being informed that a general rule had been passed by the committee to prevent servants from giving information to individual members, Mr. Evans threatened to resign bis seat at the board if he could not obtain information from servants under the controul of himself and others. This led to considerable discussion, which was concluded by Mr. Barber giving notice that at the next meeting he should move that such a resolution, if one existed, should be rescinded. HEALTH COMMITTEE.—The first meeting since the annual election was held on Thursday. Mr. Parker was unanimously re-elected chairman, and Mr. Bennett deputy-chairman. The following gentlemen were also present :—Messrs. Atkinson. Fernihough, Tyrer, Lloyd, Beckwith, J. Nicholson, Johnson, Chalmer, Dover, Clayton, Henderson, Godfrey. Mr. Fernihough, sup ported by Mr. Bennett and Mr. Godfrey, recommended that the general purposes sub-committee should be aban. doned, and a finance sub-committee appointed in its place. Mr. Johnson, Mr. Chalmer, Mr. Clayton, Mr. Beckwith, Mr. Lloyd, and Mr. Dover, contended that the sub committee was absolutely necessary, as thereby the time of the general committee was economised, and the busi ness done in a more efficient manner. After a short dis cussion, the motion was withdrawn, and the general purposes sub-committee appointed as follows :—Messrs. Picton, Beckwith, Nicholson, Lloyd, Langsdale, Clayton, Chalmer, and Godfrey. The visitors of the baths were then appointed as follows :—South end :Messrs. Beck with, Clayton, Picton, Lloyd, and Fernihough. North end : Messrs. Atkinson, Chalmer, Henderson, Godfrey, and Langsdale. Pier-head baths : Messrs. Godfrey, Tyrer, Lloyd, Beckwith, and Langsdale. Parliamentary sub-committee: Messrs. Parker, Bennett, Dover, John son, Beckwith, and Atkinson. Messrs. Langsdale and Johnson were re-appointed on the joint sub-committee for the collection of rates. The outstanding accounts sub committee was appointed as follows :—Messrs. Parker, Bennett, Lloyd, Nicholson, Atkinson, and Beckwith. Rates sub-committee : Messrs, Picton, Atkinson, God frey, Lloyd, Langsdale, Johnson, and Fernihough. Adaptation of streets sub-committee : Messrs. Parker, Bennett, Lloyd, Langsdale, and Dover. The medical officer of health reported that little change had taken place in the health of the town during the last three weeks. Scarlatina still prevails as an epidemic ; but, with this exception, the public health is in a satisfactory state. The deaths in the borough during the last three weeks have been 211, 212, and 222 respectively ; the ave rage weekly mortality of the same period of the preceding four years having been 216. Of the 645 deaths during the last three weeks, 454 have taken place in the parish, and 191 in the extra-parochial wards. HISTORIC SOCIETY OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE.— The first meeting of the present session was held on Thursday evening, in the board-room of the Collegiate Institution, the Rev. Dr. Thom, vice-president, in the chair. Nine new members were proposed, one honorary member was elected, one ex-mayor and vice-president was enrolled without election or entrance fee, and tno ordinary members were elected. The donations to the library and museum of the society were numerous and very valuable, embracing the transactions of four learned societies, some books presented by 'their respective authors, three by their editors, one by the proprietor, and seven others by various members. Of maps and prints there were some presented by Charles Roach Smith, Esq., from his Collectenea An tigua ; one by Maclure, Macdonald, and Macgregor, of this town ; and five by the Rev. J. P. Lee. M. A., Principal of the Grammar School, Lancaster. The miscellaneous do nations included newspaper cuttings of antiquarian articles, and a specimen of natural history. The articles exhibited included an ancient volume, two stone drinking cups from Jerusalem and the Black Sea, two jagged spears from Africa, and one from Australia, an ancient and peculiar fibula, several well-executed drawings of localities in Cheshire, and ancient poll-books of Liverpool, with the local fugitive literature of the time. In the miscellaneous information the attention of the society was drawn to the ancient custom of electing a mayor of Asses'-green, near Rodney-street. It was explained that the liberty stones marked the limits of freedom from tolls, not from civil ar rest, and examples were quoted of the fluctuating nature of the population of the town. It was announced that, with the concurrence of the Library and Museum Corn. tnittee of the Town Council, the society's collection would soon be laid out at the rooms of the Free Public Library and Museum, adjoining Slater-street and Duke-street. A letter was read from John Ireland Blackburne, Esq., of Hale, suggesting that at least two meetings in each session should be held during the day, and, the society cordially approving, referred the details of the arrangement to the council. An interesting paper was read by Joseph Mayer, Esq., F. S. H., showing that King John and King William 111. in reality never visited Liverpool, but that the recent visit of our present severeign was the first and only en trance of royalty to the borough. SELECT VESTRY.—The ordinary meeting was held on Tuesday, the Rev. Rector Campbell in the chair, and present, Archdeacon Brooks, ' with Messrs. Clarke, Bradley, Shakeshaft, Wylie, Gardner, Wiggins, Pember ton, Denton, Mellor, Hughes, Sumners, Dover, Kitchen, Fairhurst, Carne, Ireland, Willmer, Banner, Savage, and Blain. The proceedings of the Workhouse Committee showed that there were 2,406 persons in the house last week, compared with 1,805 at the same period last year. This week the number of inmates was 2,099, compared with 1,775 last year. The minutes of the Industrial Schools Committee contained a letter from Mr. E.*B. Browne, the government inspector of schools, in which he stated that the girls were deficient in mental arithmetic ; and he also recommended that they should be taught music by note. Mr. Earle had been appointed chairman of the Building Committee. A communication had been made with the Town Council as to supplying water, and measures had also been taken to ascertain the expense of . sinking wells. The committee had also directed that estimates should be procured for building a plunge bath in the boys' department. The proceedings of the Cottage Rating Committee contained a series of resOlutions and correspondence touching the conduct of • ••—• two of the collectors, named Wilson and Cotten]. It appeared that Wilson had called upon a Mrs. Noble for rates, and threatened her with a distraint by a bailiff if she did not pay five shillings, and :half-a-crown costs. With some difficulty the woman raised the money among her neighbours, and paid it to Wilson, who gave her a cheque receipt in the usual way, and the person who was with him signed a receipt on the back of the collector's receipt, as G. Edwards, for the costs. It was subse quently ascertained by the committee that this receipt was in the handwriting of Cottam, and he was pointed out by Mrs. Noble as the person who signed the paper. Wilson and Cottam at present stand suspended from their office, and the committee have issued an order to the collectors that in future they ere not to distrain without their permission. The cost of maintaining the poor, in and out of doors, for the years ending September, 1850, and September, 1851, was as follows :—Total amount expended in-doors for the year ending September, 1850, £9,912 10 . s. 9d. Total amount expended for the same purpose in the year ending September. 1851, £10,680 Ils. 2d. Out-door relief, in money and kind, for the year ending September, 1850, £34,628 14s. 3d. Total amount expended for the same purpose, in the year end ing September, 1851, £30,899 2s. 10d. Total expense of relief, in and out of doors, in 1850, £44,541 ls. sd. The total in 1851, £41,549145. Comparing the year's expen diture of 1850 with 1851, in the aggregate outlay there is a net decrease' on the latter period of £2,991 lls. Mr. Peter B. Drinkwater was elected a vestryman, in place of Mr. John Johnson, resigned, Mr. Gardner brought for ward a motion to correct a discourteous practice of which he complained in the admission of vestrymen to the Workhouse. His motion was to appoint every member of the vestry a visitor to the house, with power to enter at reasonable hours, and when he thought Pt so to do, and also to report in the visitors' books a ny ma tter which h e • . • •. might consider requisite to enter. Ag;eeciTo ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. Letters addressed to the Editor should be accompanied by the real name and address of the writer, not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith ; this is indispensably requisite in any statement of facts. ne t.ortor wisnes it to ne understood that he does not hold himself responsible for the opinions or statements of his correspondents.] LIVERPOOL AND THE NEXT GENERAL ELECTION To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SIR, —During the next session of Parliament Lord J. Russell has promised to " alter and amend" the Reform Bill. His colleagues, it is generally believed, refuse to sanction the draft he has submitted for their approval ; and, as a matter of course, a great deal of unpleasantness is supposed to exist amongst them. Our troops have been run down by dogs in Caffre-land, and our colonists at the Cope who escape the brutalities of a savage death live only to endure the horrors of a barbarous war. This is attributed to the stubborn egotism of the Colonial Secretary, with whom not only Parliament hut some of his own colleagues are much dissatisfied. He refused to send a sufficient force to crush the outbreak when it com menced, relying on his own petulant sagacity rather than re ceive a suggestion from Lord Eilenborough, or learn tactics from the Duke of Wellington. Mr. Peel may in a measure be the means of conciliating some of his own intimate friend but still Earl Grey and the Caffre war will be the mei administering a dose to the Russell Cabinet which I its they will not survive The Ecclesiastical Titles Bill was carried last session by overwhelming majorities through the Houses of Lords and Commons. Will they consent to allow the law to become a dead letter, to suit the convenience of tie Russell administra tion, or the personal op'nions of the Earl of Clarendon? I doubt it. Lord John Russell must explain his policy; and if he be detected in a " trick" or convicted of cowardice, I ima gine that either house would prefer to maintain the Protestant ism of England and the majesty of the laws to even a much better administration than that which he created. The Income-tax has to be revised ; the Inhabited House-duty has to be re-considered ; and the general taxation of the coun try will receive such an investigation, that Sir Charles Wood will be too willing—even with all its emoluments—to turn his back oh the office of Chancellor of the Imperial Exchequer at once and for ever. Under these circumstances, I consider that next session may witness a resignation of Ministers and a dissolution of Parlia ment. I ask the people of Liverpool again, therefore, are they prepared for that possibility? Rome, defeated in the day, withthaws to the twilight, and now attempts by stealth what she cannot accomplish by honest argument. Already one of " the members for Rome"—a Peel—has wormed himself into what was last year considered a Protestant Government ; anti one can well imagine the trampling of similar footsteps in his rear. A Graham is announced as the next arrival, in the place of Sir George Grey ; and then will follow a Gladstone, a New castle, a Herbert, and a Cardwell, to perfect the intrigue and to complete the victory 1 What will then—aye, what HAS NOW become of the bill to resent " an insolent and i gressie."? Where is the spirit with which it was to be admf iistered, and the energetic addendas with which, if necessary, it was to he followed up? If the people now foolishly neglect this matter, their folly will induce an awful fatality. That bill must be administered or repealed! The law is outraged as matters stand; and none arise to vindicate it. The word is, now or never! The subjects of the Pope are marshalling their voters for the hustings, and already they have acknowledged Mr. Cardwell to be their man. Protestants of Liverpool ! ye do well to nominate a Horsfall; but why do half the work ? There are two men needed ; is there only one to be found? See to it!—the crisis is immi nent I—the consequences are tremendous to your country, yourselves, and your children !! Oh, waken from your le thargy 1 You know, but do you feel the value of the stake for which the nation struggles? Oh, that you could but he in spired, indiAdually, with a consciousness of this impending danger 1 Then it would be unnecessary—it would be pre sumptuous in me, or any man, to implore you, as you love your country, as you venerate those times of history to which you owe your freedom, your unchined Bible, and your social and intellectual advancement, to rise in godlike greatness, and avert the dangers which envelope us—which both drag at the nation's heels, and loom o'er her path in prospect! I am, Sir, &c., ANTI-S 1 AYNOOTH. 10th November, 1851. PROTECTION, FREE TRADE, &THE CURRENCY. To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sts,—To every person giving the above subjects proper con sideration, it must appear exceedingly strange that the nation has not yet come to a decision as to the benefit or not of the policy called Free Trade. True. the newspapers that support that policy (funny fellows!) tell us about three times a week that Protection is long since dead and buried ; yet the other three quite belie their assertion by firing away at it, as if it was not only alive, but actually flourishing; and when we tell them how strange their conduct appears. they coolly say that they will continue it I Now, Sir, I trust we are quite as certain that Protection is alive and " doing well " as they are that it is dead; but the mere assertion of a thinF, without a proof, is a work of what our Roman Catholic friends would call supererogation, and will most certainly effect nothing, pro or con. Now, suppose we briefly examine what the benefits of Free Trade are—what the " unexampled prosperity" which it actu ally confers. Let us begin with taxes. Between 1815 and 1844, £32,529,339 of indirect taxes were repealed, and £13,451,119 were imposed. The population in 1840 was calculated at about 18,000,000 ; the revenue then was .t 11,000,000. Last year the population was about 23,000,000, and the revenue . - '58,93,1,000, against .460,000,000 in 1849, — showing an increase of revenue of only seven millions, with an increase of population of five millions ;—and yet more grum bling 1 But again, in 1815 the Government raised more than seventy-two millions for the war, which was about equal to 19,000,000 quarters of wheat, takin g it at the value of the staple commodity of the country at that time. And this, I think, explains the vast amount of complaining at taxes which we now daily hear; for though last year we only raised about .'59,C00,000, it must have cost the country somewhere about the value of between twenty-five and thirty million quarters of wheat. Probably its value, reckoned by the Manchester standard of staples—calico—would shew a far greater deficit, which must be made up by increased , labour or diminished pay. • - We are told, almost insultingly, that a poor's rate or a focal burden has not increased in money value; but how much has it increased by the decreased value in staple commodities? Rates or tithes that were paid ten years ago by one hundred quarters of wheat, now require two; so that the smallest in crease in money taxes (and nearly all have to be paid in money) is felt exceedingly heavy in produce. The country feels the taxes, rates, &c., to be getting heavier and heavier, so is obliged to complain ; Government take off more taxes (which it is extremely doubtful if it could put on again even in case of a war), and yet burdens are felt not only not to be getting lighter, but actually increasing ; and so it must continue under the suicidal policy of the present Government. Debts remain the same, or even increase, but the power of paying them yearly decreases. Under these circumstances, is it sur prising that the home demand should not be found as active as might be expected? Every one must allow this • and the con sequence is, that there is a mass of idleness, oicorruption, of depraved characters, whose condition is as bad or worse than barbarianism, of which the higher circles of society have, for the most part, not an idea. Only a few days ago I heard.of a town in one of the midland counties, which has 130,000 inha bitants, and in which religious accommodation of all sorts is about equal to 40,000; take this at double (morning and even ing); 80,000,—what then must be the condition of the other fifty Thousand, who have not the means, even if they had the desire, to attend any religious instruction! I believe that in several large towns and districts, with from 100,000 to 300,000 inhabitants, the case is nearly the same. What, then, must be the consequence, if such a mass—such a sink of corruption— should be stirred up? The consequences, even to think of, are appalling: what, then, would be the reality? Yet, with all this, we find numbers who prate about the " unexampled properity" of the country! HOw far the Banking Acts of 1819 and 1843 may have assisted to bring about this state of things, I cannot say. Certain it is that their immediate and natural effect was to limit the cur rency. But I feel that I have already trespassed upon your valuable space too much to enter fully into this subject. I shall merely state my conviction that the above Acts would ere this have been' rescinded but for the timely discovery of California. . The infinite importance of the subjects on which I have touched, must prove my apology for the length to which I have prolonged this.—l remain, Sir, yours very respectfully, Liverpool, 10th Nov., 1851. F. W. IV I am indebted for many of my figures to Mr. Alison's admirable work on the Currency. LIVERPOOL POLICE COURT. -0-- DEFRAUDING AN EMIGRANT. —On Friday, Peter M'Dougan, a "man-catcher," was charged with obtaining £2 12s. 6d. from Patrick Cummins, an emigrant, under false pretences. From the complainant's statement. it appeared that the prisoner (in whose house he lodged) had sold him a certificate, taken out by a man named Burke, who was prevented from proceeding to America, for the above sum, telling him that he could go out in Burke's plcce ; but, on calling at the emigration agent's office from whence the certificate was issued, the clerk pointed out to him a line in that document, stating that it was not transferable. Not knowing how to read, he knew nothing of that fact before; but the prisoner was perfectly aware, when he sold the certificate, that such a clause was in it, as lie could both read and write. The prisoner was re manded until Saturday, to give him an opportunity of refunding the money ; and if it was not forthcoming by that time, he would be proceeded against under the Pas senger Act, and fined £2O. BREAKING INTO A WAREHOUSE.—Thomas Johnson, John Burchell, and Eliza May, were charged with break ing into the warehouse of J. W. Scott and Co., provision dealers, Mason-street. It was proved that the prisoner May . sold 5 lbs. of cheese to a woman named Ward, resid ing in Thomas-street. When the prisoners were appre hended, the handle of a knife was found in Johnson's pocket, which exactly fitted to a knife blade found in the warehouse. On Monday morning, officers 58 and 536 proceeded to the residence of the prisoners, who were well known, and there found a- quantity of cheese, rum, and wine. .Committed for trial. . A DISHONEST SERVANT.—On Friday, Mary Moran was charged with stealing a £lO note from her mistress, Sarah West, of Russell-street. On Thursday night she was sent out to get change for the note, but did not return, and was apprehended on the following morning - with £7 ss. and two bottles of champagne in her possession. She purchased the wine in order to get change. Remanded for seven days. PUBLICANS' CASES.—On Friday, Richard Walsh, pub lican, St. Vincent-street East, was fined 10s. and-4s. 6d. costs ; and a similar fine, was also inflicted .upon the fol lowing :—Thomas Butler, publican, Tarleton-street ; Jos. Lyons, beerseller, Beau-street; Edward Jones, beerseller, Mann-street; Jas. Hutchinson, beerseller, Wolfe-street; and Michael Blackball, table-beer seller, Naylor-street. BURGLARY.—On Friday, John Jennions, Thos. Smith, James Kilpatrick, William Evans. Louisa Shaw, and Mary Hughes, well-known thieves, residing in Clement-street, Scotland-road, were charged with breaking into the house of Mr. Potts, grocer, Scotland-road, on Friday night last, and stealing a parrot, a pa►r of boots, and two coats. The parrot and boots were found in the house, Clement.street, by detectives Williams and Grace, when they apprehended the prisoners; and they also found some housebreaking tools, which are, likely to lead to the detection of other robberies. The prisoners were committed for trial. - - - - - AN I M P OSTOR .--CAUTION. — Thos. Jones was charged, on Tuesday, with having entered the shop of Mr. Henry Davis, in Scotland-road, and solicited reli e f, ass i gn i ng as the cause of his destitution, the loss of two fingers; but whe n a sked to show his hand, he refused to do so, and was exceedingly insolent. After he left the sh o p M r . Davis called a policeman, who discovered that his hands were sound and whole. When asked what he had to say in defence, he replied, " T thought it better to do so Wan rob." He assumes various names, and is o ft en o b. served with his arm in a sling. The magistrates Senteneed Haim kg two months' imprisonment. A CLEVER ROGUE.—Thomas Nowlan was committed for trial at the Police -court, on Wednesday, charged with having perpetrated the following ingenious robberies: — It appeared that on Tuesday evening the prisoner went to the shop of Mr. Thomas Horsfall Jones, in Mill-street, where he selected a pair of boots of the value of Bs, and said that if a boy would brinc , them and 12s. to No. 8. Warwick-street, he would give him a se. ~, .„ been warned that a person had been cheating people about the town out of their goods and cash, Mr. Jone boots and cash as required, a policeman that he had d Warwick-strei sit down and Having boy went to No. 8 4. , and saw the r he would - n off tit ner, Who attempted to ru pent the street I by the c oiler had cash, but he was cha John-street. The p ffieer who caught him in obtained several other pairs of boots, sums of n head he got a quantity of swindled Mr. Gibson, of F. _ _ and 12s, in the following ingen and bought a hat of the value c were sent, with 12 would give pointed tl hatter to send to, and that Wa3 to he let bet When the ti at and cash off him. I to the back of ti stable before taking i off. and that neither he hou, DESPERATE. FRACAS_ fellows and a woman were brot mitting a deep in Albert-street, Texteti upon a r ber of poli uffiani the statement of the officers, it appeared that about ten or eleven o'clock a crowd of disorderly characters h-' sembled in the above street h.- armed with sticks and stones. succeeded in dispersing them of some other officers. In th 400 Of the Irish popul--'' and commenced an obliged to seek prote was about striking piece of timb'er, when the timber fell ,ttack u on in ac .eant Butler the officers t. One of the prisoners the hem] with a huge an eh the la! ter wa cer or, d off with I was fractured by the blow. Another officer was by a prisOner armed with a poker, who struck him on the head and arm. Three or four other officers sustained considerable injury in the affray. A reinforcement of police being procured, order was with difficulty restored 4 which .ttacked and _le prisoners were then apprehended. The female, who appeared much bruised about the head, was discharged; the other prisoners were fined £5 each, or, in default, to be imprisoned two months, with hard labour. On Thursday, James Glover, a carter, was committed for trial, for stealing a teak plank from a field belonging to Messrs. Chaloner and Flemine. ... .„. On Thursday, Jam es Reynelds, of Comus-street, was fined 20s. and costs, for having I by which a man. named Joseph SI down and severely hurt. oal-grid u: hepherd, was thrown On Thursday, John Williams, mate of the Marion M'lntyre, sued the owners for wages amounting to £lB 58. It appeared that the captain had put the complainant into irons for twenty-six days, and afterwards dismissed him. Mr. Mansfield said he saw no sufficient evidence to warrant the captain to put the complainant into irons, and ordered him to be paid his wages as mate up to the 10th July, and after that to be paid as an able-bodied seaman. CHESHIRE AND WALES. We understand that a new cattle fair is about to be esta blished at Birkenhead, for the sale of cattle, horses, pigs, &c. The first fair will take place on the 10th December. A young man named David Jones has died at Rhyl of hydrophobia, having been bitten twelve months ago by a mad dog. Mr. Alderman Humberston has been elected Mayor of Chester by a large majority, his opponent, Mr. Turner, having only six votes. John Thompson, a smith in the employ of the railway company at Birkenhead, has been committed for trial for stealing from the company's yard a lump of coal weigh lug 126 lbs. John Whitter, master of the national school at the Chester College, has been fined 40s. and 9s. 6d. costs, for punishing the son of a police-officer with unnecessary and unreasonable severity. At the late agricultural show held at Ruthin, for the counties of Denbigh and Flint. the prize for the best crop of turnips was carried off by John Webster, nurseryman, Denbighshire, son of T. Webster, &q, Everton, L'pool. Edward Cunningham, a guard on the Chester and Holyhead railway, has been killed at the Bangor station. He had overbalanced himself and fallen betyveen two carriages, by which his legs were so dreadfully mangled that he died in about an hour. On Tuesday a bazaar was opened at tha Birkenhead, for the benefit of the Presbyterian Church, in Conway -street. On the various stalls were displayed an excellent assortment of good substantial garments, well adapted for the comfort and cleanliness of the working class, on others a very choice assortment of fancy work in general. , TRINITY CHURCH, BIRKENHEA D .—Th e R ev. J osep h Baylee has, with his accustomed zeal, erected schools in connexion with his church, the upper story of which is to be appropriated for the use of members of the Established Church, native's of Wales, so that they may have the set. vice performed in their own tongue. Three very hand some stained glass windows have been fixed, by Forrest and Bromiey, Liverpool. The ornament is in exact con. formity with the architecture of the church; CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the week ended 9th Nov.:—Chester and Holyhead main line : passengers, £1,105 12s. 3d.; parcels, 11., C. and D., £95 ss. 4d.; goods, cattle, &c., £574 2s. Id.; mails, £575 ; total, £2,349195. Bd. Mould ; passengers, £32 18s. 4d. ; parcels, H., C. and D., £2 I s . Bd. ; goo d s, catt l e, &c., £99 ls. 4d. ' • total, £134 lls. 4d. St eam B oats: pas sengers, £lBB 6s. 4d.; parcels, H., C. and D., £27 18s. 2d.; total, £216 4s. 6d. Grand total, £2,700 15s. 6d. CARRIAGE ACCIDENT AT OXTON.—An accident of rather a serious nature occurred to J. R. Shaw, Esq., and family, on their return from Oxton Church, on Sunday morning. Mr. Shaw was driving a spirited horse when, near to a turn in the road called Hulme-lane, a dog ran barking at the animal, which started off at a rapid speed, and, before he could be pulled up, overturned the carriage at the corner of the lane, and threw the whole of the parties out, who received some severe contusions. On Tuesday, Mrs. Baker, an eating-house keeper in Market -street, was summoned before the magistrates of Birkenhead for keeping pigs in a place adjoining her dwelling. The magistrates, understanding that she was willing to abate the nuisance, ordered her to pay for the summons ; whereon, the defendant commenced a tirade of considerable energy, declaring that, instead of the pigs being, as described, dirty, they were such clean animals that she could admit them to her bedroom. Upon this, the case was fully gone into, and the nuisance establi:ehed, whereby Mrs. Baker was mulcted Ils. 6d. in fine and costs, instead of 2s. 6d. LARGE CLAIM FOR RATES.—On Thursday week the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Company weresummoned before the Pol i ce-courtat Birken- head; to show cause why they refused to pay the commis sioners the sum of £285 Os. Bd., township rates. The case was heard by J. D. Case, J. R. Shaw, and R. Barton, Esqrs., Wm. Hall and Wm. Jackson, Esqrs., declining to sit, on the ground that they were shareholders. The commissioners were represented by Mr. Wain, town-clerk, and the railway company by Mr. J. B. Lloyd, their law clerk. The bench took time to consider their decision, and the case was adjourned to Thursday last, when it was further adjourned for another week. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—On Sunday evening last, as Mr. Mitchell, of Calveley Hall, near Handley, was driving Miss Jones and Miss Mitchell, of Bretton, in a gig, towards Chester, the horse suddenly took fright near the Black Dog, at. Waverton, and ran away. Mr. Mitchell tried in vain to stop the animal, and on turning a sharp corner the horse ran into a ditch, where the gig was smashed to pieces, and all its occupants thrown out with great violence. Miss Jones received a severe concussion of the brain, and Miss Mitchell had her shoulder dislocated, and received several minor injuries. Mr. Mitchell was comparatively unhurt. Miss Mitchell, we are happy to say, is gradually recovering, the dislocated limb having been immediately reset; but Miss Jones lies at present in a very precarious state. — Chester Courant TAI EACH.-11ORRIBLE AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—An occurrence of an awfully melancholy character has befal len a fine young woman, about 22 years of age, daughter of Thomas Francis, of Tai Bach. It appears that her father is employed as an . overman at Messrs. Vivian's Morfa Colliery, and he usually sent his daughter, on pay days, to receive his wages. She visited the colliery for that purpose. The parties in the office being busily en gaged at the time, the young woman remained to warm herself near the furnaces , at the mouth of the pit. On leaving the place she forgot her shawl, but returned in a minute or two for the purpose of fetching it. Either from becoming confused by the glare of the furnaces in the dark evening, or through some unaccountable means, she fell into the pit, which is abdut It3o yards deep. The poor girl was precipitated with great violence against a cross beam, and thence to the bottom of the pit. Her body was literally dashed to pieces. An alarm was raised, and her father, who happened to be near the shaft of the pit at the time, proceeded to gather up the fragments of her body. His feelings may be imagined, when, he was informed that the mangled corpse was that of his child. POISONING OF IA FAMILY IN MACCLESFIRLD.-011 Thursday last, considerable sensation was caused on the Common, in consequence of the sudden illness of a man named Rainy and his six children, together with a neigh bour's child, who had been Olaying about his house, all of whom seemed to be labouring - under the effects of some irritant poison They had partaken of me peas•soup for dinner, and in a short time afterwards they were simultaneously seized with faintings, perspirations, cord retching' s The sym idly assumed so alarming an appearance, that medical aid - was deemed expedient, and Mr. Bland was called in, who foun3 the family, even to the child which was in arms, in a most distressing state of agony, with a death-like expression of countenance and prostration. Immediate remedies were . . employed, and such antidotes administered as would counteract the effects of poison. Fortunately the prom pti- _ . tude with which assistance had been called in, caused the means used to be successful ; and though the patients are still labouring under severe indisposition, they are going on well, and it is hoped that they will all recover. The wife, who was indisposed at the time, did not partake of the peas. From the fact of the attacks coming on so soon a fter dinner, it would seem that the soup was the exciting cause. The peas were bought at a respectable shop in Sutton ; and it is possible that they may form part of a crop in a district where the habit of soaking grain in arsenic or corrosive sublimate to protect it from ravage and disease exists. However, a portion of the peas, together with the soda used in them, are being cnninnta~ to etlnitlnia fn es,". which had nearly proved fatal to s field Courier. __ uses of an occurrence •Maccles- THE READING-ROOM AND SCHOOLS IN CONNEXION WITH THE MARINERS' CHURCH. GEORGE'S DOCK.—The , leventh annual report of this useful institution has just le its appearance. The number wh o h ave attended ,he navigation school is 904 Id 591 apprentices ; of the; , 76 Lye been promott tee have purchased a sixtar rUCted 311 navigatior to enab us. The room is comfo lit and books, and is ODE o ten. During the NICE YOUNG us O'Cor quarter a „aid were seamen, res rather a lu his reception no very favourable 'fists of the r n, he was such a I. who received a; invitation went direct to her —because, if not, I wou , when he turned ( That he a twenty-nine years of his life, in try ple. and he had been tempted as n, of bribes On the Bth inst., th a daughter. On the lath inst., at Rock Ferry, t Esq., of a son. On the 13th inst., in Great M of Thomas Lyon, Esq., of a son On the 13th inst., in Mount of a daughter. On fte 13th inst., Mrs. H. H. Sut daughter. Uu he 13th inst., in Cannit daughter, On the 14th inst., in Somerville-street, Birkenhead, the wife of Capt. De Witt, of the Hnskisson, of a daughter On the 15th inst., Mrs. Fox, of Hu RIE D i-street, of a son Lately, at Guilden Sutton, near Chester, Mr. W. Hodgson, letterpress -printer. son of Mr. 'F. Hodgson, of the Blue Bell, Northgate-street, Chester, to Miss Frances Johason, of Lower Bridge-street, Chester. On the 31st of May, ny special license, at Trinity Church, Adelaide, South Australia, by the Rev. Dean Farrell, Robert, second son of Robert Lindow Carr, Esq., of Clifton-park, Bir kenhead, barrister-at-law, to Frances, only daughter of Thou. Deare, Esq., of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. On the 4th inst., at St. Mary's Church. Edge•bill, by the Rev. Z. Bane, Mr. Hll2ll Richard Cochrane to Lettice Anne, daughter of the late John Henry Docket, surgeon. On the 6th inst., at St. Anne's Chnrch, Edge-hill, by the Rev. Mr. Price, Mr. Wm. Johnstone to Miss M. Hawk vfortl). On the 6th inst., at Upton Church, by the Rev. T. Bell, Mr. James Wareing to Miss Shirlock, only daughter of Mr. James Shirlock, of Upton. On the 9th inst., at St. John's Church, by the Rev. W. R. Taylor, Mr. N. Hollinesworth to Miss Sarah Brownbill. On the 9th inst., at St. Philip's Ch urc h , M r. J ohn King tO Miss Anna Maria Pendergast. On the 9th inst., at Cluj. t Regent-road, to Wiry Ann, eldest Thomas Leadsorn, spirit.dealer. On the 9th inst., at St. Mary's Church W- -- fiber, to Elizabeth, •eb, Mr. John Holmes, o f • .er of the late Mr. Edze-hill rootley, Esq., plum,.. late John Shaw, Esq. on the 9th inat., at John son of Mr. George Simpson, Mr. S. Smith, of Bedfoi d-street, loxteth-park. 'n the 9th inst., at St. John the Baptist's Church, Mr. Norman MiLead to Miss Emma Posnett, both of Toxteth-park. On the 9th instant, at Walton Church, Mr. William Roberts, of Everton, to Miss Annie Saul, of this tow. On the 10th inst., at Christ Chu the Rev. W. H. Wright, Mr. Ralr Stevens, both of Walton-lane, On the 10th inst., at St. Mark's _ bed, Mr. David Davies to MISS Hannah Davies. An, he 10th inst.. heatt Knutsford, the Rev. J. W. S. War..Simo AL master ot ramma! School, Farnworth, near rington, to Mary. only daughter of the late Mr. James Guest, of Leigh, near Manchester. On the 10th inst., at St. Bride's Church, by the Rev. W. Falloon, Mr. George Henry Rogers to Elizabeth, second daughter of Mr. Joseph Irving. On the 10th inst., at Haslingderi, by the Rev. Dr. Bayley, Mr. H. C. Lowe, of Heaton Norris, to Alice, youngest daughter of the late Mr. James Pilkington, of Haslingden. On the 11th inst., at St.. Bride's Church, by the Rev. W. Pollock, Mr. Edward Seager, merchant, Constantinople, to Ann, daughter of the late Richard Richardson, Esq., of Upper Parliament-street. !st daughter of the e Baptist's Church, George, _-, ;ooper, daughter of t Homer-street, by ng to Aliss Hannah by Rev. G. Hul- On the ttli inst., at St. •Luke's Church, by the Rev. .7. England, M.A., Lewis Musschialli,looking-glass-manufacturer, to Hannah Jones, formerly of LI.- s. On the 11th inst., at St. Jan 'hur lintrpton, Mr. Thomas Kermoc Park-street, to Miss Cotter, only d Esq., of Bath, formerly of the Isle of mason al er of Ti Church, by the Rev. H. nd builder, Cotter, ►- silos' Church. by the Rev Mr. of the ship Courtenay, to - Ir. Samuel Hender On the 12th inst, at 0.. Duck, Mr. William llendersm., Mary Ann, second daughter of the tali son, of Ramsey, Isle of Man. On the 12th inst., by license, at St. Mark's Church, by the Rev. 'l'. Moeran, Mr. David Parry, master mariner, to Miss Elizabeth Williams. On the l2th inst., at Presc of the late Captain John Jol Mr. T. Bancroft to Mary, relict On the 12th . inst., a to Miss Frances Rowe, p's Church, Mr. Jas. B. Tyrer On the 16th instant, at St. John's Church, by the Rev. Wm T. Taylor, M.A., Mr. William Davies to Miss Mary Laston. DIED 1. Warre, in the service of his General Sir William On the 15th Sept., at Warrun 6 ..., 9th Regiment Madras Native Infanta, Highness the Nizam.) eldest son of Majo, Warre, commanding the N.B. District. Ott the 2nd ult., Jessy, the wife of Peter Thomas Huggins, Esq., of Mountrcvers, in the island of Nevis, and daughter of the late Thomas Moore, Esq., of this town- On the 3rd inst., at Bridgnorth, ageu . Stowas, of Wavertree. On the 4th inst., William, second son of the late Mr. Henry Tickle, formerly of Bradley-hall eat On the stb inst., aged 42, K Roger Green, Esq., of Whalley n be On the Gth inst., aged 36, Ellen ESq., of Gidlow, Wigan. _ On the 6th inst., Emm- near % 1, Mrs. A wife of Joseph G ardn e ,t son of the late James'-road . On the 6th inst., at Bootle, of disease of the heart, aged 67 Mr. N. W. Straker, late of this town. 1., of St, Oa the 7th inst., aged 45, Ax On the 7th inst., at her residenLi aged 57, Margaret, relict of the late 'John Cray. dauhter of the late John Byrne, Esq., of this town On the 7th inst., suddenly, aged 45, (' Runcorn. On the Bth inst., aged 55, Blackfriars-street, Manchester. pondent fix Bell's Life upwards of t , On the 9th inst. at his residence of Strnnd•street, ck low-hill, Cheshire , - ^ I fourth Mr. W. II .ptain Jas. Percival, of 1 the Crown Inn, tsed was corres- a lingering illness, aged 57, Mr. Oeo threelears clerk in the Bank of Englai.-. On the 9th inst., aged GI, Mr. Wilson, the eminent iron master, of Dundyvan. Although complaining of influenza on the previous day, the deceased was quite able to transact busi ness. Shortly after dinner on Sunday week he retired to bed, where he had been but a very short time when he expired, the immediate cause of death being, apparently, a fit of apoplexy. Until the moment of his death lie had always been of the most active habits. On the 9th inst., aged 43, Henry Martinda eldest son of Nicholas Martindale, of Belmoni.-rnau. On the 10th inst., at Lytham, aged 80, W m . M au d e, Esq formerly of Blackburn. On the 10th inst., ThomaseMawdsley, infant Arrowsmith, of Westmorland-place. On the 10th inst., at his lodging Manchester. Dr. Mainzer. • - • On the 10th inst., after a long ant] wife of Mr. Robert Battersby, coops On the 11th inst., in Almond-aft& the late Mr. George Vernon, of Gam and daughter of the late Rev. Laughton•en-le-Mortben, Yorkshire. On the 11th inst., after a few days' Hines., daughter i o t in . B S t m i o u nTf e c. l s G rscHeea a ccur i oi n daen e is: s doi. sea o :r f nr allocaef the E e h e s rh t f at oj o t .au(m James E l i e l therHenryl t s ° o n l b t 11th r o i cficnksh Weetman,r. n Birkenhead. On the 11th inst., Ana Lowis, wife of Thomas On the 11th inst., at his residence, Di year, Matthias Attwood, Esq., so long The deceased had for some time past which induced him to retire from Parham( election ; but he occasionally attended t till within a short period of his decease Parliament .in 1819 have a seat in the Hi of 1832 created the a •elt Orford-street, after rge Anther, for thirty- ParliamMtary bar( and continued to ,e of Commons port of White , Mr. A ttwood t .ers of London of the firm of er of some of ot William Collihole, son of 11 On the 12th inst.. aced le, late of Fairfield the beloved tiri , n of Mr. J. H On the 13th inst., at his re illness, Mary, the wife of 52, Anne, widow of near Macclesfield. Crabtree, vicar of 3*, - Park r. Attarood entered 11847 continued to lizAbeth, 8, Mr. etman. ttweod, and joint-stock and, a tative late of Waver :er her confinement. J. P. Platt, nacre-park, Roc On the 15th inst., aged son of Mr. R. W. Ronald. :sth instant, at Si ttothwell t universally en O gi n ne th er e rlos_tilhatrnrsotwante,nadgenda6g3n, On the !rick, int Afton, aged-6s, Mr. Wi and deservedlysregrettc manufacturers. On the 16th init., aged 16, Anne, el& Chesne On the 16th 'instant, aged touse . of her brother, John treet, Mary Ann Jones. 39 years, of ce In, at the Grafton- , mmit- of the building, r the use of those who are in make lunar obser. y fitted up, with fire and all, free of expense, from ar a considerable addition uentiv upwards —Mr. e local appearance He told young y young lady"- mamma and 3r be there ? to be present !" y door was closed' not, however, the .nt £150,000, and to elevate the peo man was by offers 'n Y ounr some y r Chartism, M run newspaper, came to him message from the Prime Minis lilting with so much )rietor of .d with a a judge- ,hip on the Irish bench if he would give up Chartism. His reply was, no; if he were offered tle , r. mud lord-lieutenancy 'd all the oth er c hi e f o ffi ces bl en d e d in one he would 4 'ool " chid M spurn the offer at such a prim Young, ' All that I can say is, that vou'r BIRTIIF On the 31st ult., Sweden, of a daughter_ On the 3d inst., at Wrea-green, the wife of Frederick Birlen Esq., of a daughter. the Crown Princess of (in the 7th rnst., H. Gibson, of o Everton, of a son. On the Sth instant, the wife of Mr. Rbt. Hopkins, of Porland Cottage, Bootle, of a daughter. of Park-street, of Knott, !y-street, Kirkdale, the wife •s. Alfred Bolsharr, d, of a treet, Mrs. Parkins,