The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

FOREIGN 4 COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE ARRIVAL OF THE CAMBRIA The steam-ship Cambria, Captain Judkins, arrived at Liverpool, on Wednesday, bringing the New York mails of the 31st ult., Boston of the Ist, and Halifax of the 3rd instant. There is no matte r f or spec i a l no t e i n the pro ceedings of the American Co ngress . Congress has been occupied chiefly with the discussion of the President's message with regard to the Mexican war. The debates were extremely sharp. The duty recommended upon tea and coffee would not be i m posed it was believed. It is satisfactory to announce that the shipments of corn and flour to England are in no way slackening. A large num ber of vessels were still loading at New York, for Liver pool and London ; at New Orleans, too, there was great activity, and freights rule enormously high, so much so as to make shipowning " fortune making," as the Yankees say. Late accounts received from the armies of the left and centre had been received, We take from the papers the which was all in the quiet possession of the troops under General Worth. No demonstration had been made against him, though at a distance of only thirty miles the scouts of General Worth had discovered about 3,000 cavalry, said to have been sent from Potosi. General Wool has hep. ordered by General Taylor to occupy the town of Parras. The inhabitants made no opposition to General Wool, but were prepared to receive him peaceably. His troops are enjoying excellent health, and are in the highest state of discipline. It was understood that General Taylor would occupy all the ports and towns upon the line of operations to Tampico. He would himself shortly take up the line of march upon Victoria, where rumour says Santa Anna has 10,000 choice troops. General Taylor was to move, in columns, on the Bth, 9th, and 10th instant, for Victoria, with about 1,500 men. Victoria is equi-distant from Monterey and Tampico, and it was supposed that General Taylor would make that place his head quarters. No further demonstration would be made towards San Luis Potosi until further orders from our Government. General Taylor had imprisoned the Alcalde of Monterey and his son, and served valiente hombres for furnishing money and horses to deserters from the American army General We huahua, with.looo men. General Worth was at Saltillo, and will shortly have under his command 2000 men. Co lonel Riley was at Monte Moreles with about 1000 men. General Pillow was to move to Victoria on the 13th. Santa. Anna has sent out a detachment of 2000 men to destroy the water tanks between Saltillo and San Luis Potosi. The United States brig of war Some lost off G . s has been totally .e drowned thirty escaped. Th took place during a norther of the 7th of December, on the reefs of the coast. The British and French officers and seamen of our navy present received the warmest acknowledgments from the Americans for their daring and It is said that accounts from Mexico had been received to the effect that the British minister had withdrawn his previous offer of mediation. M. Bancroft's nomination had been sanctioned by the Senate. The result of the new tariff has been most favourable. Great scarcity of shipping was felt at all the ports. The ship England, from London to St. John's, New Brunswick, was totally wrecked near St. John's on the 21st of December. The ship Richard Anderson arrived at Baltimore on the 28th of December, with crew of British brig Mary Sheill, from Liverpool for Halifax. The Mary Sheill left the port in September last. The Cambria's advices on receipt at New York exer cised great influence on the markets. Cotton, corn, flour, and frefirlits. all adynnopd oak. aur:&u, lie exports continued to De immense from all the northern ports. Accounts from Yucatan state that the opposing inter ests of Merida and Campeachy with regard to the reunion of the department to Mexico was on the point of being decided on the field, 1500 men having assembled on each side. Barbachano is reported to have been deceased. CorroN.—The advices per Cambria to the 4th ultimo, from Liverpool, received at New York on the 19th, being more favourable than had been anticipated, the demand became animated, and 5,000 to 6,000 bales were immedi ately taken at an advance of fully lc. per pound. During the succeeding week the market continued active, and a further advance was in some instances realised of lc per lb. For the four days past the transactions have been li mited, and occasional concessions made of kto c. The total sales from the 15th instant to date amount to 16,500 bales. We quote this day— _ _ Inferior Ord. Mid. Good Mid. Fair. New Orleans and Mobile 92 101 102 11 111 Florida and Uplands 91. 10 to 10i 101 102 11 to 11 Stock, 34,000 bales. Freight to Liverpool id. square ; to Havre, lc square. CROP.-2,000,000 is the basis of the New York opera tions. The Southern estimates vary from 1,800,000 to 2,000,000. The New York Price Current of the 30th instant gives the following statistics : Receipts of crop at all the ports since -Ist of September, 562,357 agst 581,959 last yr., and 708,475 yr bef Exp. to Gt. Brit. 124,381 244,709 240,948 Exp. to France 63,477 71,827 91,119 Total Export 224,580 347,935 401,804 Freights continue high :-2-3d for square, and id. for round cotton to Liverpool. Flour or turpentine, ss. 3d. to ss. sd. per barrel. Corn or wheat in bulk ls. 6d. to ls. 7d. per bushel of 56 lbs. FRANCE The French Chambers were opened by the King in person on Monday last. The royal speech commenced by directing the attention of the Chambers to the dis tresses of a part of the people, and expressing a hope that " by the firm maintenance of order, by the liberty and security of commercial transactions, by an ample and ju dicious application of the public resources efficiently aid ing the zeal of private charity," the trials may be mitiga ted. The marriage of the Duke de Montpensier is allu ded to as " a fresh pledge of those good and intimate relations which have so long subsisted between France and Spain, and the maintenance of which is desirable for the prosperity, as for the reciprocal security, of the two states." He expresses a hope that the affairs of La Plata will be soon settled, announces the conclusion of a treaty of navigation with Russia, and refers to the incorporation of Cracow as an " unexpected event." The revenue has continued to improve, and the great public works are to be " completed with the perseverance which the interests of the country command, and with the prudence indis pensable to the maintenance of public credit." The Paris papers of Tuesday are, for the most part, oc cupied with comments on the speech of the King of the French. They are, all of thenr, exceedingly- fervent in regard to the distresses of Ireland, but seem to forget that the necessities in their own immediate neighbourhood, or that of the provinces, are nearly as severe. The Chamber of Deputies met on Tuesday to organise the nine standing committees ; all the chairmen and secretaries belong to the Conservative party, and were returned by large majo rities. The Chamber of Peers held a, short sitting on Tuesday, after which it retired into its standing com mittee. Two medals have been struck at the French mint in commemoration of the generosity with which the French contributed to the relief of the sufferers from the floods of the Loire. One is to be preserved in the mint, and the other is to be distributed to the persons who distinguished themselves by their activity in rendering assistance to those who required it. . - TIIE DESPATCHES RELATIVE TO THE SPANISH MAR- RIAGES.—On Tuesday M. Guizot presented to the French Chambers the official documents relating to the questions of the Spanish marriages. They are of extreme length, and have occupied several pages of the daily papers.' In substance the documents add nothing to what was already known, as the accounts in the best-informed journals of London and Paris prove to have been in the main cor rect. The Times says, " The impression these despatches leave upon the mind is, that, although as long as Lord Aberdeen remained in office, the Frencii. Govern - ment ab stained from the direct pursuit of an object incompatible with the good understanding of the two countries, yet, on the change of government in the beginning of last July, M. Guizot was ready, if not eager, to convert the vaguest suspicion of a tendency in Lord Palmerston to favour the Coburg prince into a pretext for the direct demand of the hand of the Infanta or even the Queen for the Duke of Montpensier. Lord Palmerston, on the other hand, ap pears to have been equally unprepared either to promote the cause of that prince, to whom France was most strongly opposed, or to resist the pretensions of France iu favour of a prince of the House of Orleans, when they were seriously put forward. The consequence was, an easy and a complete triumph to the Cabinet of the Tuile ries ; and, no doubt, Lord Palmerston's presence at the Foreign-office was a circumstance which afforded an op- portunity long and ardently desired by the King of the French." In one of the despatches M. Guizot accuses Lord Palmerston of garbling. Lord Palmerston is stated to have quoted from one of M. Guizot's despatches words respecting an alleged desire on the part of the Spanish Court for a Coburg alliance which did not appear in it. Doubtless his lordship will be prepared to explain this matter satisfactorily at the proper time. SPAIN Madrid papers of the 6th have arrived. Senor Olozaga is not the only Deputy who has been prevented by the illegal acts of the Isturitz Ministry from taking his seat in the Chamber. Senor Gomez de la Serna, who was elected for Orense, has been refused his passport by the Spanish Ministers, because as Minister of Justice in 1843, he countersigned the protest of Espartero, issued on board the Betis. The Madrid Bolsa was closed on the 6th. SWITZ F R LAN D. Accounts from Switzerland state that the insurgents of Morat have been defeated by the government troops of Friburg, and that, taking advantage of this victory, the government troops on the Bth marched on Morat, the head-quarters of the insurrection. Several arrests have taken place in Friburg by order of the authorities. The King and Queen of the Belgians left Paris for Brussels on Thursday. REPORTED DEATH OF DONIZETTI.-Tho Roman Ad vertiser, of January 2, in a no t e to an art i cle on an opera of this eminent composer states, " we have just learned that Donizetti is no more." Criminal proceedings have been instituted against a Roman Catholic priest in the Duchy of Brunswick for re fusing to register a divorce a vinculo, pronounced by the civil court, between two of his parishioners, both of the Roman communion. The few copies of the London Punch, landed at Vienna on the Ist instant, by extraordinary permission, were of ficially demanded back. The number in question con tains a rather rude caricature of the Sovereigns of Russia, rn utfia, and Austria. it is a curious fact, 'says one of our contemporaries, that the order of Elizabeth the Catholic, which has just been conferreil by the Queen of Spain on Baron Anselme de Rothschild, of Frankfort, was founded in honour of the expulsion of the Moors and Jews. The Austrian Government has just decided on esta blishing a line of telegraphs from Vienna to Trieste, a dis tance of rather more than 120 English miles. THE - CHCFLERA. - News has been received from Persia that the cholera was still raging and sweeping off thou sands. The deaths had greatly exceeded the worst year of the plague. More than 100,000 have been destroyed. It is said to be making its way gradually towards Europe by the roads which the caravans travel. - The coloured citizens'of Cincinnatti held a public meet ing on the 2nd ultimo, and passed resolutions eulogistic of the late Thomas Clarkson, and regrettinc , his death. They also resolved to wear mourning for thirty days, and recommended pastors of their churches to deliver dis courses appropriate to the occasion. PROGRESS OF CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE JEWS AT JERUSALEM.—In the correspondence of the current num ber of the Jewish Intelligeneer, we find the following statement :—" The Jews at Jerusalem are greatly alarmed at the progress of Christianity, which is secretly spread ing amongst them, almost from house to hduse ; they therefore use all the means in their power to stop it. Se- cret mounais are Tormea, wilose business it is to search after those who read Christian books, or who visit our houses. Not satisfied with that, they have recently issued two excommunications against the missionaries, against the hospital, and against all wh o are i n connec ti on with us." The feature of the colonial news is a military move in the south of New Zealand. The scene of action was the bush in the neighbourhood of the Hutt River, and its ob ject the capture of the rebel chief Rangiheata. The expe • dition deserves to be called a successful one, the chief hav ing dodged his pursuers from one log-fort to another, till his knot of followers was dispersed, and himself driven into the open country. A party of natives were then laid on the scent, and the troops returned to their quarters. Cape of Good Hope papers announce the opening of a vein of copper at the Orange River Mine. THE CROPS IN CANADA.—Extract of a letter dated Toronto, December 12, 1846 :—" Business has been very dull this fall, partly owing to the very great quantity of rain, which has rendered the back roads almost impassable, and partly owing to the low prices the merchants and millers have been giving for produce, which has made all who could hold, in hopes of better prices in the s The finest wheat is only from 2s. 9d. to 3s. a bushel of 601 b. weight, and good spring wheat is selling in London for 2s. 2d. ; Indian corn I saw offered for is. 6d. per 601 b. ; pork is selling at from 10s. to 12s. per 100 lb. ' • and I am told very good beef was offered for 4s. pe r 1001 b. the other day in Hamilton Market ; fine turkeys are from Is. 6d. to 2s. each; geese—l saw two very large ones sold for 2s. 6d. the couple in Brantford this week. Butter is the crop, are high ; they are now selling here for 3s. 2d. the bushel ; in London they were selling, when I was ten days ago, for ls. 6d. There has been a large quantity of flour sent off to Montreal, and I suppose shipped this fall ; but much of it was the stock held over from last spring, when the prices were so_ low that no one would IREL A N D The Cork Examiner mentions the total discontinuance of marriages in that county. A Queen's letter is to be issued for the relief of the dis tressed Irish. It seems that the Irish Society have only raised £2,000 for the special fund of £20,000 for the spiritual exigencies of Ireland. There are now upwards of 160 prisoners in Enniskillen gaol, the largest number which it has contained for many A joint-stock company is about to come before the pub- lic for establis £506,000, in £lO shares ; deposit, Is. per share. The Repealers had their weekly gathering on Monday, as usual. All was dull and stale, but not quite so unpro fitable as usual—the rent amounting to £ll9 9s. 2d. £5 of this sum came from the islands of Arran, where the people, they say, are dying like rotten sheep. THE ORANGE INSTITUTION.—Owing to the paramount necessity which (Mktg fnr PI7PrIT (MP INSTITUTION.—Owing 0+ M 'Nisei- Z., their several localities, at this awful crisis, the g e n e ra l meeting of the Grand Lodge of Ulster is postponed from February till some time in April, of which due notice will be given to the members. Accounts of the arming of the peasantry continue to be received. Three lives have been lost during the last week by the bursting of cheap guns imported into the country from Birmingham ; one at Aughnacloy, a female who was standing beside her father when trying his new purchase ; another at Middletown, and another at Carrick macross . One fact stated by Lord Bernard, son to the Earl of Bandon, at a meeting in Dublin on Thursday, is of painful weight. He said that the Protestant Dean of Cloyne and Ross informed him that five thousand persons had already perished of famine, along the south-western coast, since the beginning of September. The Cork Constitution describes the apprehension in Cork city of a man who was driving a cow that evidently did not belong to him. On being stopped and interro gated, he fired a pistol at the watchman ; and on being secured and searched, his pockets were found to contain a second pistol and about twenty cartridges, together with three soup-tickets. THE YOUNG IRELANDERS.—A meeting of the seceders from the Repeal Association was held in Dublin, on Wed nesday evening, for the purpose of forming an association, to be called the Irish Confederation, with a view of pro moting a repeal of the legislative union between Great Britain and Ireland. The chair was taken by Mr. Shea Lalor, and Mr. Smith O'Brien addressed the meeting at some length. Several resolutions were proposed and car ried, and the meeting separated shortly after 12 o'clock. THE WORKHOUSE AT SKIBBEREEN.—The following appalling paragraph appears in the last report :—There are in the house this day 1,169 inmates, of whom 332 are either affected by fever or dysentery. Deaths from Octo ber 10, 1846, to January 7th instant, 266; same period last year being 10, and the preceding year 11. And of the remaining number so many are either aged, infirm, or too young for work, as to have rendered it lately necessary to employ labourers from without to do some of the ordinary duties of the house. In various towns the people have plundered the provision shops. Ma. O'CONNELL'S LAST.—The proceedings of Con ciliation-hall, on Monday last, would have been unusually tame, but for a sudden fillip given them by Mr. O'Con nell, in alluding to the magnificent subscriptions of the English people for the relief of the distressed Irish. " They are offering," quoth the agitator, " bribes to effect proselytism—they are offering food to the poor Roman Catholics to induce them to become Protestants ; and, he would ask, could the fiends of h—ll invent anything more horrible than this ?" We need hardly remark, that the premises of Mr. O'Connell, as his inference is out rageous. There are persons both in Ireland and England who, after feeding the people, think it their duty to take advantage of the opportunity to set before them the truths of the reformed religion. There is nothing "fiendish" in this act—nothing " hellish"—nothing that has been done by Romanists themselves, a thousand times, in every age and clime, since their creed was adopted. RELIEF FOR IRELAND. There are two chief com mittees at present in vigorous action in the Irish metro polis—the central committee for all Ireland, and the me tropolitan for the exclusive relief of the city. Large sums are being subscribed to both. To the metropolitan, the chief secretary has subscribed £lOO, in addition to £3OO to the central ; and the Hibernian bank a sum of £2OO. Nearly £7OO have been lodged within a few days, at different%anks, to the credit of the " Central." An active spirit of benevolence among the gentry is nowhere more necessary than in Galway, where destitution is great, and liberality not very conspicuous. There is, however, one remarkable exception. Mr. Walter Joyce, of Mer view, has offered £lOOO to the relief of Galway. By the last official return we find that the number of labourers close of December, was 398,231. At per day each, £120,000 per week must be disbursed from the public treasury, to afford relief to Irish labour. Yet this em- have no sensible effect in diminishinEdistress. DESTITUTION IN FERMANAGH.—The effects of famine and destitution in Fermanagh are becoming more appa rent every day. The poor-house is literally crammed, containing at present 1,200 inmates, and the renewed and numerous applications that are made every week, render it impossible that such numbers as are crammed into it, can be located there without producing ultimately the most disastrous consequences, additional accommodation be n( U_ must result, (if the outbreak of fever, and other contagious disea;es. Many families, who not long since lived comfortable and happy, are forced to seek an asylum in the poor-house, where they may receive temporary assistance. The streets are daily crowded with the begging poor, and the strong athletic youth, whose squalid and famished looks show that the ravages of famine and distress are making inroads in every part of the country. True, many means of employment have been devised, and numbers are ob taining work, but whose wages are barely able to afford of all this, robbery, on an extensive scale, is going on, and in many instances, convictions have been had against some of the perpetrators. AN " IRISH PARTY."—An Irish party, for the protec tion of Irish interests, has been virtually constituted. We refer to the declaration of Irish peers and representatives, subscribed by seventy-eight of the highest names in the land, including those of no fewer than forty-six peers, by whom the preliminary step in this matter has been taken. The list comprises the names of noblemen and gentlemen of all parties. To borrow the words of the Freeman, " Rathaown, and Farnham, and Waterford, and O'Neill, and Caledon, move in glorious harness with Sligo, and Arran, Shannon, Headfoit, and Cremorne." These no blemen and gentlemen have pledged themselves to united action, in reference to all Irish measures, not exclusively political, which may be produced during the coming ses sion. It is not, of course, to be supposed, that any of them will forego their political opinions on any question ; but that they will, all, make their politics a secondary consideration to the peculiar interests of their common country, and keep them in the back ground until the grand object of bringing all classes in Ireland safely over the present crisis, is achieved. "To this extent, no more, does the present union go. We cannot deny our sym pathy and praise to such a produre. We should suspect and dread a union of Irishmen for the obtainment of any boon for Ireland, inconsistent with the general prosperity and coherence of the empire ; but we sincerely believe no such design is entertained by the majority of those who now constitute the " Irish party." We say the majority, for •we find in the list the names of the O'Connells, O'Brien, Maher, and one or two more, who will doubt less, if permitted, insinuate the poison of their politics into the porches of such ears as may be unguarded enough to imbibe it. There must be a vigilant watch against any surprise of this sort, and, if so, we have no fear of the issue.—Belfast New* Letter. instant FEVER AND DYSENTERY.—The insufficiency of the supply of food is beginning already to produce, amongst the poorer classes of the peasantry, the results which might naturally be expected—namely, disease and death. Fever and dysentery, accordingly, in some parts of the country, are becoming prevalent, and carrying off their victims rapidly. :In the centre of Clonmany parish, we are informed, the mortality has for some time past averaged from five to six per day. Even in this city, which has long been proverbial for healthiness, funeral processions are of frequent occurrence • and we believe the same re mark holds good with regar d to most of the towns in the surrounding district.—Derry Sentinel. SURRENDER OF MURDERERS FROM STARVATION. — On the 15th August, 1845, a man named James Murphy was horribly murdered at a place called Lisheens, within five miles of Bantry. The principal in the murder was a man named William Downing, the leader of a powerful faction in this country. Since then the police were most desirous to arrest him and others, who were abettors in the crime, and though night after night they traversed the hills, and a large reward was offered, they did not succeed, Downing and his guilty associates having been sheltered and protected by his murderous adherents throughout the country. However, on 12th Deceinber last, James T. Flynn, one of the parties charged, gave himself up to head constable Grant, stating that he could not suffer hunger any longer, as those who heretofore fed him were without food themselves. On the same day James D. Flynn surrendered, giving as his reason the inability of the people longer to assist him. On the 15th ult. John M`Carthy, a third party charged, surrendered himself, and on the 24th, the principal, William Downing, came in. He had been an athletic man, but his frame was so shattered and his countenance so haggard, that he was not-recognised until he gave his name. He said he sup posed he would be hung, but even that were preferable to the horrid death which awaited him if he remained at large any longer.—Cork Constitution. GREAT MEETING IN DUBLIN.—The meeting of Irish peers, commoners, and landowners, convened by the pro ductive employment committee, took place at Dublin, on Thursday, for the purpose of "considering the present alarming state of the country, and the measures which may be necessary to meet the crisis—such meeting to be confined exclusively to the consideration of the present social condition of this country, and all extraneous topics and party politics to be strictly excluded." The chair was taken by the Marquis of Ormonde. The Marquis of Sligo, Lord Farnham, Lord Cloncurry, and ten other Irish deers were present. M r . D an i e l O'C onne ll, Mr. Smith O'Brien, Mr. Frederick Shaw, and twenty-three other members of the House of Commons, likewise at tended, as did also great numbers of the principal land owners from every district in Ireland. Several resolution were moved, and carried unanimously ; but their precludes us from giving them. They propose the form ation of an Irish party,—call for a temporary suspension of the navigation laws, and the import duties on corn, — and declare it advisable that permission should be given to use sugar and molasses in breweries and distilleries. The systm of public works, introduced by the labour rate act, is condemned, and a claim is made that the bur den imposed by them shall fall on the empire at large, not upon Ireland alone, still less on the most suffering classes. DESTITUTION IN IRELAND ": On Monday," says . the Mayo Constitution— " Mr. Atkinson, coroner, held an inquest at Rathiskin, on the body of Henry Doherty. Dr. Neilson deposed that the body was reduced to a skeleton, and the stomach com pletely empty. Some of the jurors who were exami n ed deposed that they themselves, since the failure of the po tato crop, were reduced to a state of destitution. Ver dict—" Died of starvation " " Mr. Atkinson also held seven other inquests, of which, _L• " political economy" are as follow. In each case, a fter the examination of a medical man, and other witnesses, the jury returned a verdict of " Died of starvation :" 1. Mary:Loftus, at Millala, on Monday, the 4th inst. "2. Tho Was Tully, on Wednesday, the 6th inst. One of the children of the poor man died a few days previously of starvation 3. James Grehan at Lisglinan, on Thursday, the 4th 4. Mary M`Donnell, at Ballycastle, on Saturday, the " 5. Patrick Barrett, at Killenduff, on the same day. The sister-in-law of the deceased, in the absence of his wife, who was out begging the . price of a coffin, deposed that.the family, consisting of nine persons, were since the failure of the potato crop, living on one meal of thin gruel in the day, and that for many days they had no food at all. " 6. Matthew Temple, at Crossmolins, on Sunday, the 10th inst. " 7. John Grehan, at Farrandedin, on the same day. " We have been informed that a poor man, at Mayo, near Balla, after having been reduced to the greatest,des- titution, was obliged to leave his home to beg, l ea ving his wife, a feeble old woman, behind him. In a few days after his departure some of the neighbours went to the wretched hovel of the old woman, and found her lying on the litter of straw in the corner, with the flesh of her shrivelled arms and face mangled and eaten by the rats. The wretched creature died in a short time after." tended THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. COURT 'tE= UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS OXFORD, JAN. 14.—1 n a congregation held this day, being the first day of Lent Term , the following degrees were conferred :—Masters of Arts : Rev. M. E. C. Wal cott, Exeter college ; Thomas Leslie, Balliol college ; Rev. E. Garbett, Rev. J. T. Pigott, Rev. R. F. Wood, and Richard Ley, Brazennose college ; Herman L. Prior, Trinity college ; the Rev. H. Mansel, Fellow of St. John's College.—Bachelors of Arts : Harry Wright, Magdalen hall, Grand Compounder ; J. W. Taft, St. Edmund-hall. The Morning Post announces- another victim. The Rev. Francis John Laing, 8.A., of Queen's College, Cambridge. The Rev. Charles Perry;M.A. ' minister of the district church of St. Paul, Camb r id ge , has been appointed to the Bishopric of Melbourn, about to be erected in Australia Felix. The Chancellor of the Diocese has conferred on the Rev. Henry Carpenter, 8.A., the respected minister of St. Michael's, in this town, a token of his kindness and regard, by appointing him to the office of surrogate, &c. The Rev. William Cruttenden Cruttenden, M.A., Mi nister of Macclesfield, has been appointed by the Right Hon. Lord Stanley, of Alderley, to the Rectory of Al derley, Cheshire, vacant on the resignation of the Rev. Charles Girdlestone. DR. HOOK.—A correspondent of the London Times asks how, if Dr. Hook be sincere in his professed abhor rence of Popery, he can, when to draw near to Rome is only to enhance her power, advertise a cheap tract with some such title as this—" In the Sacrament there is a true sacrifice." Was it not the denial of this monstrous doc trine, he asks, and the glorious defence of the simple truth —Christ died once for all—that caused the life-blood of the martyrs to be poured out ? And if so, how can we justify any man, calling himself a Protestant, who thinks lightly of a truth so dirty bought, who can tamper with it, fritter it away by nice distinctions or mystical subtle ties of any kind, by which the name of the thing is left, but the substance of the truth destroyed ? If a real sacri fice be once admitted, why should we halt between two opinions.? A real presence must follow, and a change of the elements too ; and who cares by what name it be called, so that the doctrine is believed ? FUTURE COURSE OF DR. HOOK.—A correspondent of the Oxford Herald says :—" Dr. Hook has written to a distinguished member of the Hebdomadal Board to ac knowledge the pain with which he now beholds the part taken by him against the Heads of Houses, with regard to the most prominent incidents of the controversy which has furnished an excuse for secession. He no longer talks of ' usurped authority,' or of the ' unhappy determina tion of the Hebdomadal Board to censure Mr. Newman ;' he can, at length, see that lie was wrong, and confess it. With his own hand he has torn down his colours from the mast,' and from a PROTESTER has become a PROTES TANT. He will issue no more adverse manifestoes, but will henceforth fight with the University." NOBLE THANKOFFERING.—At the meeting of the Lichfield Diocesan Church Building Society, last week, the bishop of that diocese (who has just given £lOOO to the society) related the following anecdote, showing the good effects of this society. An extensive manufacturer at Newcastle, Mr. Herbert Minton, was on a particular occasion to send his foreman 500 sovereigns in a bag, to pay his workpeople. The men came to know of this, and a plot was laid between some of them to waylay the fore man, rob him, and throw him into the canal. One of the men, however, repented time enough to give warning to the intended victim, and the diabolical plot was frustrated. Mr. Minton, in gratitude for this pro vidential escape, although not what the world calls now a wealthy man, gave the 500 sovereigns, which were to have been the price of blood, to the Church Extension Society. BIRKENHEAD N W COLLEGE.—The site of this in- Lg has been fixed. It is to be in Slaty-lane, aughton, about midway between Oxton new Church and Birkenhead new Park, where there are, fronting the eastward, in one lofty block of stuccoed buildings, five large houses, called Kenyon-place." These will form the new Theological College of Birkenhead. The Bishop of the diocese takes it under his own particular charge. His lordship has nominated to the responsible office of Principal, the Rev. Joseph Baylee, the indefatigable in cumbent of Holy Trinity Church, Birkenhead. Several of the leading gentlemen of Birkenhead have handsomely come forward and guaranteed the rent of the premises, in case the Burser should, by any misadventure, find that the establishment will not pay its own expenses, of which there is little fear. The Bishop and the Principal have hosts of applicants already. This is to be peculiarly a Theological College —a sort of Ministerial Training School. Its students will be the agents for the Parochial Aid Association, lately organized for Birkenhead and its vicinity, as well as for Liverpool and the suburbs on this side the water. TRACTARIAN AND EPISCOPAL MOVEMENT.—The Rev. Mr. Macmullen has left England for Rome to join the Rev. J. H. Newman, in that city. He is accomp Jailed by other members of the university who have not con formed. The Lord Bishop of Ripon has, we fear, professed himself unequal singly to meet the difficulties in which the proceedings of the last few years at Leeds have involved the church, and has decided on inviting his brethren of the episcopal bench to a conference, with a view to extensive measures of protection 'and defence. Besides the case of St. Saviour's Church, and the Rev. Mr. Ward, (not the professed Romanist of that name,) Dr. Hook himself has among his curates the late editor of the Oxford Magazine who, a year or two back, was mixed up with Mr. Rawlinson, of Exeter College, Oxford, in designating the English Reformation the so-called Reformation. We fear much that these facts, added to that of the Rev. Mr. Cox, a young clergyman of Leeds, having also gone over to the Romish communion within these five weeks, prove that the bishop has but too .good reasons for the course he is said to be about to adopt.— Church and State Gazette. A CATHEDRAL FOR MANCHESTER.—The local papers have, from time to time referred to the project of a cathe dral for Manchester. It is said that such a building, to do credit to the town, cannot be completed under one hundred thousand pounds, and it is proposed that, at pre sent, not more than the hancel, the two transepts, and the tower (uniting the nave and chancel, the two transepts) be attempted, and these, with ten bells, would cost fifty thousand pounds. This sum it is proposed to raise by one hundred individuals contributing £5OO each, and sub scriptions in smaller sums, for the erection of the nave, might be collected, whilst the other parts of the cathedral were being erected. The site proposed is the high ground at Cheetwood, rather towards Broughton. The Manches ter Courier says:—" We apprehend that, for a work of such magnitude, these suggestions are on a reduced scale. To build a cathedral worthy of such a see as Manchester, —for the extent of country over which its jurisdiction will extend, and embracing Manchester, Liverpool, Bolton, Rochdale, Oldham, Ashton- un d er -Ly n e, Bury, and other large towns, incomparably the wealthiest ecclesiastical district in Great Britain—one hundred and fifty thousand pounds would be required to be raised. There ought to be no difficulty in accompli s hi ng this, simply by the plan suggested by Presbyter'—the plan, namely, of collecting in the first instance large sums (say to the amount of £70,000 or £100,000,) for the purpose of building a chan cel, two transepts, and a tower. •- PRESENTATION OF PLATE.-On Friday, the congrega tion assembling at St. Bartholomew's Church, in this town, presented their respected pastor, the Rev. George Dover, with a piece of plate and a purse, of the value of £lOO, as a testimonial of the high esteem and respect with which his labours have been viewed. The presenta tion took place in the school-room, Naylor-street, Mr. Croston occupying the chair. After a few remarks, he addressed the rev. gentleman in suitable terms, and pre sentedh e m s r p . l p en o d v i e d r i e n st r i m etu on rn ia i l r;g in t h t a h:e i k n s name of '"ritii i n adequate the power of language was to give utter ance to his feelings. He said he was embarrassed, be cause he thought it necessary to do what he would have h •-4ly avonl.a - Q . - f F - -not to the congregation. . cu, which was, to speak o, show, indeed, that he deserved, or was entitled to, any such mark of th e i r es t ee m and affection, but to justify himself in accepting it. lie then took a review of the Christian Ministry in its relationship to God, to Jesus Christ, and to the church of Christ, and said he had en deavot- _ltil this important trust to the best of his power, while he confessed how far his efforts fell short, not only of the standard set up in Holy Scripture, but also of what his own desires would have led him to do. He spoke of the valuable position of the Church of England for the purpose of teaching divine truth, and after men tioning that the difficulties with which St. Bartholomew's Church had to contend on account of the locality of its situation, had been overcome, he concluded by imploring the blessing of Heaven on ie congregation and all the members of their families. The remainder of the pro ceedings gave the highest satisfaction to all present. AND FASHION Th Tl urs ie d Q a family returned to Windsor, on Lord and Lady Stanleyand family arrived in St. James's yu,eefrnomancd Square. on Thursday, from Knowsley. The Earl of Aberdeen, accompanied by the Hon. Ar thur Gordon, has arrived Drayton Manor, on a visit to Sir R. Peel. lib3areymalont. The late Marchioness of Westminster has left the whole of her personal estate, valued at £16,000, to her youngest son, Lord Robert Grosvenor. Mr. Dyce has been commissioned to paint, on the walls of the staircase of Osborne House, in fresco, on a large scale, an historical, or rather poetical, subject,—Neptune yielding to Britannia the sovereignty of the seas." The finished study for the picture has been submitted to the Queen and Prince Albert, who have expressed their satis faction by ordering its immediate execution. Prince George of Cambridge has been a visitor at Sir William Stanley's since Friday week. On Saturday week the worthy baronet's hounds met at the hall. The field was attended by his Royal Highness and other of the noble magnates of the land, who are partaking of that friendly hospitality for which Hooton Hall is so justly celebrated, at this season of the year. On Sunday his Royal Highness attended Divine service at Eastham parish church, accompanied by Lords Duncannon and Francis Gordon. On Monday the royal and noble party had a grand battue amongst the pheasants, hares, and rabbits of the well-stocked preserves of Sir William, Hooton and Eastham. ELOPEMENT. — The Hon. Miss Lister, eldest daughter John of the late Lord R ibb i lisd_ l ale t ,in t n hor the on l ate lri La dav d . y Russell, and consequently ste p- daughter of the Premier, and Mr. Maurice Drunnuond, third son of Mr. Charles Drummond, the opulent banker, and nevhew of the Earl OT „Mut; young lady left the house of her guardian in town, a the lovers proceeded to France, whither they were iron diately followed by the. Messrs. Drummond, and I; back before the marriage had taken place. The lad vought her 20th and the gentleman in his 22nd year. It Is ttu derstood that the only objection on the part of the Pre mier to their union, is their youth. POLITICAL FACTS AND RUMOURS, Sir Joshua Walmsley had an interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, on Monday, at the office of the Board of Trade. On Tuesday Sir M. J. Cholmeley, the whig candidate, was returned for North Lincolnshire, in the room of Lord Worsley, now Earl of Yarborough. On Monday Capt. Rushout, a staunch Protestant, was returned unopposed for East Worcestershire, in the room of the late Mr. Barneby. The Right Hon. Charles Watkins William Wynn, M.P. for Montgomeryshire, is now the oldest member in the House of Commons. He was born in 1775, and has been in parliament during the last 50 years. At the meeting of the committee of the Central Agri cultural Society, on Tuesday, it was resolved that a de putation should wait upon the Premier, to represent to him the impolicy and injustice of the malt tax. A number of parties managed to be present at Lord Lincoln's meeting, on Tuesday, by forged tickets, perpe trated, the Manchester Courier says, by employees of the defunct (?) Anti-corn-law League. PONTEFRACT.—The Daily News announces Mr. Mar tin, the well-known barrister of the northern circuit, as a candidate for the representation of Pontefract. The learned gentleman is a Liberal. Sir Culling Eardley Smith and his Edinburgh sup porters have formally dissolved connexion with each other, the cause of separation being Sir Culling's refusal to oppose Sunday travelling. The Chester Chronicle says, that the influence of the Eaton family has greatly diminished in Chester, and that if Lord Robert Grosvenor comes forward for Middlesex, Sir W. M. Stanley will be brought forward for the city of Chester. A very numerous meeting of agriculturists was held in London, on Tuesday, on the subject of the Duke of Richmond's testimonial, at which a committee was formed for the formation of an institution for the benefit of decayed tenant farmers. Colonel Baillie will retire from the representation of Honiton at the next election, and Sir J. W. Hogg, Bart., at present M. P. for Beverley, and chairman to the East India Company, is likely to offer himself as a candidate for the Conservative interest. REPRESENTATION OF BATH.—Lord Ashley has agreed to become a candidate on the understanding that his sup porters will pay his expenses. This they have cheerfully undertaken to do, and a rapidly-augmenting subscription list is circulating. Little doubt can exist of Lord Ashley's election, as a requisition was signed by au absolute majo rity of the electors. RECONCILIATION.—The Duke of Wellington is under stood to be most anxious to see a reconstruction of the uonservative party, and more than one of his political aides-de-camp have been exerting themselves with that view. Sir F. Trench and Mr. Bonham are both s poken of as being busy at work, day by day, in attempts to ajlaY_ of last session so grievously occasioned. At a meeting of Mr. Bright's election committee, at Manchester, on Thursday, Mr. Wilson, the chairman, stated that 5,526 voters , had pledged themselves to vote for the hon. gentleman. Mr. Bright afterwards addressed the meeting, commenting on the speech of Lord Lincoln, and the proceedings passed off with much spirit.—The hon. 'l'. M. Gibson is expected to meet his committee and the electors generally, at the Free in about BRAVO - 1- I aREAT LIBERALITY. — At a meeting of the Edinburgh Anti-Corn-Law Association, it was agreed to dissolve the body, and to divide the balance in hand (11 7s. 10d.) between the testimonials now in course of being raised for Messrs. Cobden and Bright. By the bye, we have not lately seen any announcement of the state of the Cobden fund. We take great interest in this affair, because we are curious to see the amount of gullibility of which the English people are capable. The fact is, we suppose, that the " Committee" are ashamed any longer to advertise the £70,000 odd, and are waiting_ to see if they cannot raise it to £BO,OOO, before they again commit the amount to the public eye. We fear that our p oor friend Cobden has but a very small chance of pocketing the £lOO,OOO originally intended to be presented to hi m for his gallant attempt to ruin his country. LORD LINCOLN AT MANCHESTER. Lord Lin co l n visited Manchester on Tuesday, to explain his political views to the constituency, or, at all events, to those who are seeking to secure his selection as one of the repre sentatives of that borough. His reception was a v ery gratifying one, and some efforts on the part of the adher ents of Mr. Bright to cause a disturbance, and also to get up a cheer for Mr. Bright on the Exchange when Lord Lincoln passed through, completely failed. The noble lord has not declared himself a candidate ; and will not decide until the requisition from the electors is presented to him. In the course of a very long address which he delivered in the Corn Exchange on Tuesday even ing, the Noble Lord, in reply to the charge that he was a " sudden" convert to free trade, said that almost all the present statesmen and legislators had been converted to the same faith. He would not repeal the malt tax, but would see what could be done with the tea duties, which came home more to the business and bosoms of the people of Manchester. He is favourable to the principle of go vernment education, and he thinks it would be " politic, wise, and just," to pay the Romish clergy of Ireland He is opposed to a ten-hours bill ; and refuses, _point, blank, to repeal the existing duties on imr He repudiates the ballot - and seems not to know his own, mind - upon the legacy ar:d probate duties. He would de cidedly oppose a motion to relieve the bishops from their attendance in the House of Lords. At the conclusion of this confession, the meeting. which is said to have been --s, large, passed a vote o f confidence in his lordship, and determined to pursue their :canvass of the constituency on his behalf. RAILWAY AFFAIRS, Mr. Saunders, the secretary of the Great Western Rail way, was presented with a piece of plate, on Wednesday, by the shareholders. OXFORD AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—It is under stood that the holders of about seven-eighths of the shares have declared in favour of the offer of the London and North-Western Company. Mr. M'Connell, of the Bristol and Birmingham Railway, has been appointed Locomotive Superintendent of the London and North-Western Railway, in the room of Mr. Edward Bury, who has resigned. The proposed lease of the Exeter and Crediton to the Bristol and Exeter has been rejected, by a majority of two to one of the shareholders against the recommendation of the directors. The works of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, from Grange-lane to the Docks, are proceeding with great vigour. Upwards of 500 men are employed upon tkem ; the line is expected to be opened in seven months. A NEW RAILWAY.—The Eastern Counties Railway Company are about erecting large works at Stratford, com prising almost a new town. We learn that no fewer than 300 houses are to be at once erected, at a cost of £200,000. It is also contemplated to erect a church at the same spot, and provide other institutions for the moral welfare of the inhabitants. LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—At the ap proaching half-yearly meeting, resolutions will be sub mitted for a conditional contract between the Lancaster and Carlisle, the London and North-western, and Cale donian Railway Companies, and the Scottish Central, for a lease to the three former companies, of the Scottish Cen tral and its branches. ELY AND PETERBOROUGH RAILWAY.—This important extension of the Eastern Counties Railway was opened on Thursday for passenger trains. This line branches off about a mile below the Ely station, and passes Chittisham, Manea, March, and Whittlesea, running on to the North Western Railway at Peterborough, its entire length being thirty miles. FLEETWOOD, PRESTON, AND WEST RIDING RAILWAY. —The mayor of Preston performed the ceremony of cutting the first sod of this railway yesterday, (Monday.) The corporation and shareholders, with their friends, walked in procession from the Town-hall to the place se lected, which is about half-a-mile from Preston. After the ceremony, the party partook of a cold collation at the Bull Hotel. FINE ARTS AT THE RAILWAY STATIONS.—A corres ptaeov,endt,eloelfn-pt of the A tehne.Leannledtot t ne h r e: tn tee od u i‘N m iro , Felix .rhhi Sm w.lipeusHtearrmndewley, Railway, Ra s ya a , addressed ,a re r s c s hi submit ting a plan for decorating the stations with paintings, &c. thus rendering them a number of National Galleries. He proposes that when, but when only, a line pays ten per cent., any surplus should be appropriated in this manner. RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—From official returns it appears that the amount of traffic for the last week, on upwards of 2,730 miles of railway, was £134,816, thus accounted for:-071,873 for the conveyance of passengers only, £33,441 for the carriage of goods, and a remainder of £30,502 for passengers and goods together, not respec tively apportioned ; being an increase o f £16,898 over the corresponding week of last ,year, when the mileage was about 1,920. DUTCH RHENISH RAILWAY.—The traffic account on this line, for the last quarter, exhibits a great and pro gressive' increase. In October, 1845 and 1846, the re ceipts were respectively £3,853 14s. Id. and £4,045 Os. 3d. ; in Noveniber, £3,059 17s. 2d. and £3,380 4s. 4d. ; in December, £2,864 6s. 10d: and £3,357 2s. 10. During the first week of January, 1846, the traffic produced £5BO 18s. 6d., and during the same period of 1847, £7OB 155., which shows that the progressive increase of December last still continues and augments. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday, a man named Robert Green, who had been engaged that day as a labourer on the Liverpool and Bury Railivay, at'Elton, was run over by a waggon which he was driving, and received a severe laceration of the leg, which caused his death soon after wards. He was employed to drive the waggons along part of the line ; and as there were a number of points at the tri of spot where the accid en t occurre d, it is supposed that he was tripped agbgyon. some of the rails, and fell under the wheels as The Stour Valley passed last week into the h an d s o f the London and North-Western. The terms are two-thirds of London and North-Western dividend, to commence when the line is opened ; the London and North-Western to supply the additional capital for the present line and additional branches ; 4 per cent. to be paid on calls till the guarantee comes into operation. Certain shareholders, who are not identified with the canal proprietary or the London and North-Western, murmur dissatisfaction. They say, even supposing the present London and North- Western continue paying 10 per cent. and the guarantee commence instanter, it would not raise the Stour Valley shares to more than 44 premium. LIVERPOOL AND BURY RAILWAY. This immense undertaking is being carried out with great spirit, and notwithstanding its being the depth of winter, the work is fast progressing. There can be little doubt but a por tion of the line extending from Liverpool to Upholland will be opened in the early part of next summer. A por tion of the cutting of the line near to Aighfield House, the property of J. H. Blundell, Esq., in the township of Pemberton, affords a splendid specimen of the wonderful freaks of nature, by the exposure of a dislocation of the coal measures, called by the miners a fault, whereby the continuity of the coal mines is broken, and one portion, or several parts thereof, thrown down to a depth of many fathoms below the natural range of coal on the opposite side of the fault. FOUR RAILS ON THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN. —The London and North Western opened its annual campaign by taking the carrying business into its own hands, and now are about to lay down four lines of rails on their important line. The decision was made by the directors during the past week, and it is resolved to carry on the works, as far as it is possible to do so, without waiting for an Act of Parliament. No oppo sition from the landowners, as far as Watford, certain, is likely to occur, and no time will be lost in completing the four lines to Tring—where the great necessity for them traffic b begins. They w be ill po b u e re o d f immense from ns e the value aetoth o e f s u tre e a rt m fo s r o d f , Bedford, Buckingham, and Oxford. The tunnels are to e counties lu of the vitality of private enterprise.—Railway Chronicle. be doubled. What an instance this ready decision affords A new point of railway law was on Thursday in the Court of Exchequer—to wit, that the secretary of a co mpany provisionally registered, if he be also a promoter of it, cannot sue any of the members of the provisional c ommittee for arrears of salary, although his appointment was regularly made by a formal resolution signed by one of the defendants as chairman of a meeting ; and although a finance committee, to whom the plaintiff's claim, among others, was refe rre d f or cons id e ration, actually reported a certain are insu a m s fon du o e w . s :Th_, , The appointment of th e plaintiffe ca se in which this decision was pronounced is " Wilson V. Lord Curzon , " and the grounds of by the resolution in question, he having been one of the promoters of the scheme, did not confer on him a right to sue those who signed it in their individual capacity. He only acted, as it were, under the authority of the promo ters themselves, and the plaintiff might be said to have appointed himself. To himself, therefore, he should go for payment of his salary, if any was due." LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEWCASTLE-UPON TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY.—We are much pleased to find that there is every prospect of the disputes between the directors of the Liverpool, Manchester, and New castle-upon-Tyne Junction Company being speedily settled: The Newcastle section of the board having come to the conclusion that the affairs of the company could not proceed satisfactorily under the existing disunion, as sisted in getting up a requisition from the shareholders, for a special general meeting for the purpose of reducing the number of directors (that being the only legal course open to them,) and their temporary reduction will be ef fected at the approaching meeting on the second of next month, in case they receive the support of the share holders, of which, we believe, there can he no doubt. Anonymous attacks are now being made against the par ties who took the step alluded to, with a view to injure them in the estimation of the shareholders. The attacks to which we allude have been circulated, and have also appeared in Herapath's Journal, and are signed "a Shareholder ;" and, we believe, they must emanate from the party who indulged in the same disgraceful and un gentlemanly course on former occasions. The proceed ings, however, are not likely to misguide the share holders, but must recoil on the party under whose sanction they appear. The Manchester section of the board has also issued a circular, apparently for the purpose of producing a similar effect. This circular is signed by seven di rectors, who hold amongst them eleven hundred and eighty-foUr shares, whilst the interest of the Newcastle section of the board consists of four thousand eight hun dred and sixty-one shares, a satisfactory pledge that their own interests are bound up with those of the shareholders generally. Out of the seven directors of the Manchester section, some of them, we understand, occupied their seats at the board for nearly six months after the amal gamation of the two companies, without having paid their deposits.—Newcastle Journal. THE BENCH AND THE BAR NEW COUNTY MAGISTRATES.—On Monday, ( 30 ": g Loch, Esq., of Old Hall, Worsley, qualified as a magis trate., who h o a f s tw thisi twice u fi r e y d ; the an h 1 . E sq ., of Davy u me Man chester, and Robert H. Norreys, Hall, near Manchester, similarly qualified. NEW POLICE MAGISTRATE. - - :._ Air T. J. Arnold, of w r aob , u l o o n : c A r i ef o na I n d. t d ehr ay a , n t y wfal.isrther announced etsarrcryfternof Bingham, ecity tc l of sl the latter gentleman of Worship-street, on the r emova o t the e L ls o T n o d r tohne,rn hasCirc uit, been a appointed ntd Revising dchoanirWofedchiucesfdamya,giAsttrdeartneloaifiKay , to Marlborough-street, ot Mr. Maltby. where a vacancy has been occa sioned by the resignation had that an amicable arrangement been come to in the inter ference of the court unnecessary. It will be recollected that the point involved in this ease is late whether Mrs. North is entitled to the custody of her own children, she 1 in case e n o t f h e m.. en, lay g embraced the Roman Court llo o r f th c , ha tli n a c t c e having, as alleged, died a Protestant. ' CHANCERY OF LANCASHIRE. —We ---- %e are glad to per c•.eive that the chancery court for the county palatine, under the able judicul superintendence of the present and . her husband vice-chancellor, is now becoming a court of importance. was , We learn, only A court was held at Preston on Saturday week. One of e o z f u L se o s T ,L c hi F c o h ld re , l n ated ear to Bo t l l t i o e n w:ill of Mr. Peter Lomax stituted at the latterend of August last ; and although it was necessary to ascertain before the registrar who were the testator's next of kin and heir at law, his report was obtained in time to get the causes set down and finally heard on Saturday. We should think that if a suit can be thus deposited within a period of five months, it will be a great inducement for suitors to resort to it. Jan. 19, 1847. LOCAL MEETINGS. HEALTH OF Towtis.—On Tuesday evening last, meeting was held at the School Room, in Moortields,:Y hear an address from the Rev. H. H. Higgins, M.A.,!ei connexion with the above subject. Sir Arnold' Knight was called to the chair, and several gentlemen, who take l l lively interest in the sanatory measures for the improve. ment of the town, were present. MEETING OF BREWERS.—On Saturday a meeting of brewers was held at the Wellington Hotel, Dale-street, to consider the propriety of raising the price of ale. The, meeting was attended by upwards of f or t y b rewers, and was adjourned until Wednesday, when, we understand, the price will be raised, as it has been in other parts of the provinces, to 6s. per barrel, in consequence of the rise in the price of malt. BREAD ASSOCIATION.—A meeting was held at the Town-hall, Birkenhead, on Thursday evening, by the promoters of a scheme for establishing an association, the object of which is to reduce the present high price of the staple food of man. The doors were thrown open at; seven o clock, and in a few minutes the room was crowded tq excess with working men, principally those who argil employed in the erection of the new docks. Mr. James Birrel was called to the chair, and a set of rules, in force in a similar association in Paisley, was read ; the princi. pal feature in these was, that the association were to pur• chase flour and appoint a baker, who was to act as a sere vent of the committee. HEALTH OF TOWNS' ASSOCIATION.—The monthly meeting of the committee was held in the Clarendon' rooms on Wednesday, Mr. Blackburn in the chair. The treasurer announced the receipt of a number of new sub , scriptions and donations, among which was one of £lO from William Laird, Esq., of Bi r k en h ea d, accompan i e d with a letter expressive of the strong interest he felt in the operations of the society, and a hope that a branch association might be established at Birkenhead. DOCK COMMITTEE. — At the meeting of this body, on! Thursday, the following gentlemen were present :--- Messrs. Nicol (in the chair,) Molyneux, Middleton, Wood i j Horsfall, Mann, Aikin, Tobin, Kendall, Bold, Sandbachd and Lockett.—The width of the six new north graving( docks was fixed as follows : two to be seventy feet widetl two sixty feet, and two forty-five feet.—The Dock Sur veyor reported that he intended to lay the sills of the pro.' posed graving dock gates three-and-a-half feet below the level of the Old Dock, the sills of the inner dock gates sib: feet, and the sills of the outer dock gates six feet sib inches below the level of the Old Dock : the sills mf the Prince's Dock, being five feet eleven inches below the level of the Old Dock. It was ordered that prcrvi:4ol) should be made at the north outer basin for introducing a gate seventy feet wide, in the event of the docks being ex tended hereafter to the north, the expense to do .so at present, being only estimated at £2OO, whereas, if not done now, a far greater sum will be required if the gate should be found necessary at some future day. The exact situa tion of the gate was left for future consideration. Mr. Mann made a suggestion as to providing shipbuild ing accommodation near the proposed site of the gate.—' It was proposed that the double-road bridge at the south entrance of the Prince's Dqck was completed on the 27th• of December, and thrown open to the public. The old bridge occupied two minutes, and required ninety-six turns turns of the handle, in opening and shutting.; the new bridge can be closed and opened in one minute; and only requires forty turns of the handle.—lt was reported that Gower-street was filled up, levelled, and completed according to the act of Parliament.—lt was decided to enforce the claim of £4 15s. against the New Brighton Steam-packet Company, for damage done by one of their steamers to the river wall stage opposite the King's Dock. The Company resisted the claim on the ground that the steamer was towing a vessel which was in charge of a pilot.—lt was resolved that double gates, to open the same way, should be placed at the en trance of the north dock No. B.—The marine surveyor reported, that during the past year 3728 vessels had passed inwards through the rock channel, and 3953 outwards, making a total of 7681 againit 7910 in 1845. Through the Victoria and Northern channels, 13,354 vessels had • passed inwards, and 14,096 outwards, making a total of 27,450 against 28,861 in 1845, being a decrease in the traffic, including both channels, of 1640.—1 t was resolved that the printing for the Albert Dock Warehouses should be given to Mr. R. H. Sherlock.—The Harbour Masters' Sub-committee reported that they could not recommend any increase in the salary (30s. a week), of the master of Toxteth Dock.—A letter was read from the Dock Solicitor in reply to a communication from Blundell, Forshaw, and Blundell. The solicitor held that the Dock Committee could compel every master porter to charge according to the rates fixed by them, or dismiss him from his officer and that the Committee possessed full power to make what regulations they chose as to the porterage on the dock quays.—A letter from Bibby and Son, as to Elias Owen, a master porter, was referred to a sub-committee. —A letter from William Wilson and Co., requesting to be allowed the priority of a berth for the Havre steamer, was referred to the Harbour Masters' Sub-committee. SELECT VESTRY.—At the usual meeting on Tuesday, the clerk read the minutes, from which it appeared that on the 4th of January the number in the Workhouse wits 1318, the cost of whose maintenance was 2s. 61d. per week ; and in the previous week there were 1316, at a cost of 2s. 81d. per week. The relief given for the week ending the Ist January was 4341 cases, at a cost of £527 3s. 10d. ; and compared with the same period last year, the number was 1116, and the cost £l6l more, cal culating bread at the additional value of £2B 12s. 6d., and at £7O ls., or £259 13s. 6d. more than for the corre sponding week of last year. On the Bth January, the annudm comparedb e r o f aT a nh2de s w6 e Bi I nt huu was tsshb. ee4B7r4ds same9.o. 7 fim , dcor. cases relieved t v rohe e rda d , e than oiawers at t te li adtel : acderu l l 6 asit athn l imnef : s gent . hup b l eme Orr period de . s drt ; was ylsEi; six days formed a grand total of 29,417 persona: was stated that Mr. Blanshard, who had contracted to supply the overseers with bread, was desirous of relinquishing his contract, as owing to the great advance in the price of flour, and the immense and unexpected influx of Irish paupers, he was losing by it. The subject was fully dis cussed, the vestry eventually resolving not to interfere in the matter. After the medical report had been received, the Rev. Rector Brooks drew the attention of the vestry to the state of the Industrial Schools, of which he gave a highly favourable account. A letter was received from Mr. S. M. Phillips, secretary to Lord John Russell, stating that the Government had no power to check the immigration of the Irish into Liverpool. Some of the vestry suggested that a petition be sent to Parliament, praying for a Poor-law for Ireland as most likely to meet the exigencies of the case ; and one of the vestry suggested that the Irish paupers should be sent by the cheap train, and set down at all the large towns between Liverpool and London, as a means of relieving Liverpool from the burthen of supporting them. PICTURE FRAMES BY MACHINERY (From the Art-Union.) The ultimate desideratum in the popularisation of art is to bring it as an educational means to the hearths of abodes humbler than those under the roofs of which it has hitherto found a resting-place. It is not necessary to say that in this case pictures are out of the question : we would here speak of prints, of their multiplication, and of the best method of rendering them available. Our own social state owes little, as yet, to art ; there is room for, and now happily the means of, a vast and beneOcial amount of " in debtedness." We have cheap editions of good books, and we desire cheap editions of good pictures. We claim the merit of the broad and steady advocacy, of this principle, the fruit of which is fast maturing ; and it is with such view that / we give monthly to our readers a transcript of some pr°" duction more or less valuabp, and the value of whietvlbau , be henceforth greater • but such engravings have been de prived of an opportunity of effectively " doing their spi riting" from the circumstance of their being unframed. because the cost of a frame will be at least five or . times that of the print. Towards the framing of prints, the reduction of the duties on glass has done much , and the invention we are about to notice effects , w e do hope , the rest in this long-desiderated object. The invention is that of Mr. Bielefeld; and the result at which he arrives is a really good and ornamental frame (eightpence per foot) at which the meanest shelter in which a work of art ever found refuge anufactured. This is as usual, effected b of the commo n 'f o rms, technicallY bevel, hollow, &c., can be enriched with work similar to, engine-turning, or Mr II te t ahe alel t e h d eme machinery.osoteasg t lowest ewne, oobeodv delicateon price imo n,y relieved arabesques of any design. The principle is new, as applied to manufacture of this kind ; it is simply to pass any length of frame under a roller in which is cut the de sired pattern. This roller, the radius of which is but ei few inches, is turned out of a rough cast of gun metal, and is driven by a steam-engine. The wood which is passed under it is necessarily soft, say the best pine, and receives at any length the impress of the most delicate tracert. m le p d le es te ig a n s i a n n a il l n i i t ta s t s i b e a n rp e; which can - be engraved on the metal. The advantages Ot this are sufficiently apparent ; but there are yet other; e rd u also in colours, and hav ing may be mentioned. The wood comes from thg ma' e nier enoynb h efeugco i sat n ;:: : :yi r ttwit y u r eoe: tesri r ehies e cr etra a ;hiNt il oehfw oyatdratiefsfl Florentine been ndimeea snexgheenttti extent b d nndefin i ot. o z e r srtngoeunz, picturesfr deteriorated surface improvemento oa, tt o r hreattetreoednpbedoryfearttalailliolnennoast sizes.hr d cicese i n bp a yt a r: nbolo r tr n e‘ manufacturefm t. frame meansba n o d i of whitening and sizing. The process is a patent, and e° developed, although the inventor will apply it to the ma' accessible to limited means. The want has been a source of complaint, when so many of the most beautiful produc tions of the burin are no longer very costly. An outerl may be raised by those employed in the manufacture ac cording to the old method ; but under the auspices of th° genius temporis, it is the good of the many we must advo cate ; and considering the cheapness o f goo d pr i n t s , 0' that class likely to conic into the po ssess i on o f th e m iddle classes,ths discovery is very appo s it e t o the ti me . this machinery w ill s oon be, if it be nob at this moment , such as to enable him who buys a prin t for a shilling to place it i n a wor thy frame for another shi l " The r esults of ling, or very little more. And when we speak of a shilling print, let no one su p pose that we allude to an inferior work : some ad m i ra bl e pro d u ctions of art may now be at' mined for th a t sum ; may w e not refer to thos e w hi c h aP' N pear in the p resen t num ber of our journal, and those whim i we hope to present to our subscribers ? The consequence will be, ere long, that framed pri will occupy walls that are now either bare or covered wit ) } injurious or unmeaning papers ; and that fine examples° art will instruct the dwellers in houses where expensk i, luxuries cannot enter. We consider that to produce TW" 4"SM ing prints good and cheap. *** We understand that the Messrs. Keys, of Bola' street, have purchased the sole right of sale for Lanes' shire for the above frames from the patentee, Mr. Bie. 1 1; Feld, of London. We have seen some specimens, wturv i surpass in beauty anything we have ever seen produces' kl n osix times tlic Iran. 19, Thee are 136 1 at Liverpool; and A highly-respec 'from the Evang4 resolution of the .no slaveholder be A meeting of t leld on Friday la for the relief of flown their names A corresponden the Irish poor-rat , on the average, w four shillings by t A -petition to sugar and n►olas week numerousl) change News Ro( Mr. F, L. Hat his usual custom week, distributed his numerous woi Mr. Capes Ash himself and satiE treasurer to the H to find, be appoin tee. ROBBERY AT the Rock Ferry, I robbed and murd from a fair at R of £2l. MERCANTILE with 5439 packag discharged in the the whole of her in four hours and PRAISEWORTH Claxton, corn me housemen to give per week in their - all the corn mercl advance. An inquest was 'view of the body tkett, ear-driver, age. She had be day morning was examination it N pulmonary apopl( SHOP Mrs. Tonge, sma robbed of a qua] articles. The thi, window, and car .reach. The robb was being closed. A sermon was Christ Church, of ble institution th amounted to £2B to his congregatic relief of the awf parts of Ireland. r Mrs. Thornton. on Christmas Dz . number of sheep .pieces of flannel t School, and a pai same number of I West Derby has 1 benevolent lady. SMALL DEBTS comprised in the borough bounds] Derby, Croxteth Hill, Bootle-cum tree, Allerton, Netherton, Orrel Little Crosby, In DARING ROBB afternoon, a fello Williams, of Gil not at home dreg to kill Mrs. Wil stole her pocket c up stairs abstrac Mrs. Williams do FRENCH FRIII' Bordeaux, has 1 prunes, the prods sisting of 220 bas . barrels of the lat 122 boxes of the public as Fi cargo, and to st Unusual, DISTRESSING' named Connor, from the county together in a cje mast deplorable all night upon t drink. To add - boy, was found the same mornin d e c B :d G e X d i; o n:SAPIQ BUre . to find, b' giving concert, on Wed C oncert -hall, Lo gaged for the occ of tow— our town, an bumper, so as to expense this con, SINGULAR Ac tached to one of -worthy and Co., Dock that it fell free from shippi winds. The hoi but nearly an ho pilot it to the en hausted. The ho of the kind in th has been injured. DEATH FROM day morning last street, placed a k while her son, "While she was I Call out, and fou thought, as he w, that he had been surgeon, was cal ing under inflam: next day. He wa havabeen caused THE RELIEF o of the Irish paup 9th instant, 29,4 Parish -office, an( 64,990 have be that the numberk ble those in the Lace -street, Mid purlieus of the to their abodes in gi upon the increase was to be expecte Ireland incontesti as certainly as eff we have heard frc state of some disc are now lying up( cutting down the ART-UNION 01 emu) and refinement,. e . .! royal charter of existence of this s blished on a basis --the funds, open Potent superinten admirer t n o print ry oerf future arrangeme advantages. Nkr( character, increasi which t s n d s m e v u be distributed ; as prevented scrupul we have little dou considerably au gir rnerous classical rizes, in additim selected hy the pr o g f ur the I.!tion cartoons, an titled irrespective past year are now try for Liverpool tions should be p s i MUSICAL EDIT( diffusion and culti very certain that i vated, but to mud Among the educat Beth, the most 0, solid and substanti able skill in its pi attainments indee( person who had lady or gentlemar betrayed i g „ rance ill-nurtured, i .ow _ t pang. Of this, pr who paint the ma main, as a 'frivolous pas what has not inapt is one of our most a n d should therefo We refer our each ett, who has rec.( Peter's church ; ai Sound musical educ feasional skill. M of an excellent wo: We perceive that music t a h n e d p le r e g " s e e r h n d ha ve v d e a give t ort, at the Concer evening, Feb. 22nd CHANI CAL Si the attenti on of s anent of Mr. Geo] colum n . BA ILLIR'S P ATE vo utilation free fro aitood every day. , t Pe great and growi t ire, and withal ch( Gent supply of 1 1 the Health of rest, of the Old 11 4Yerpoois—See ad