The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-06-19 00:00:00

JUNE 19, I r-i55.] '• ZOCAL INTELLIGENCE. Tz t I ~.._________ ciothed.'IVERPOOL LETTER -CARRIERS are about to be 14 halfniform. • yearly• • titetio, examination of the pupils li i ti l l will take place on Friday next. at the Collegiate illtery 'eßsre.LL, M.P and Mr. Tollemache, t ear 'lv with Lord " 1 on Monday, at the M.P., had an cl of' , Stanley of Alder ley Tg t Trad e 41i.i.ee stahrloonia,al examination of the children of the Caledonian 441 b0r ( , f ' °ol cPlace on Thursday, in the p . rese . nce . of a large A l th the friends and supporters of the institution. a 414 Thom n Pettysessions' William Jones, Joseph Story,. 'nu wl• Pe - bricklayers with having b s t'ea fo xe d i mins, were charged . ckl k w°r king at a railway arch in Lees on the previous til llt t 8 1 11 e,y . were each fined 55.. and costs. tR Ir e ii ; P oierra Nevada, which lately broke her back on ,3`lleinton Dock sill, was on Wednesday offered . for sale . o t A e l eaect• ~..tin‘,,,,,ard, Munn, and Co ; but as the biddings did has pr '-o,ov she was bought in. ch i , Pre eA 11 STREET P RESBYTERIAN CRI7RCH.—The Queen t,eh aid the Rev. Cornelius Giffen, of this church, to the 41 'esi g 1 : 1 ' Parish of Dailly, in Ayrshire, Scotland, vacant by ji lt ktz ton of the Rev.'W. Alontgomerie Wal_k_er.and Mr. Q. hin•l_,TlJTlO'll SCICOOL. 7 3Ir. G. H. ki P m ue ast e ers of the 4latt e seheoik: have resigned their offices, lef t lar ge a ,ii consequence of theirhain a g s engaged to con e lat ely at the lakes . The pupils, whom they have Va p te, inre't,ro'!lY pres.entFd each with a handsome piece of t u v,eriz i , - 0 , 11 of their high esteem. 014,`.4.11tin,.13-CRICRPTCY.—On Thursday, the adourned N as Ndon of John George Claus, who lately carried on i,•Rkls,„,_a inerchant, in this town, was further adjourned, WY,,'".aitt iLienee of the balance-sheet not having been fil m ed e . 4 t f c :eill the absence of the accountant.—On the same "emu ArTidlle, i r e absence Stevenson, in the matter of Sp -.l.v.°M-broker, of this town, the proceedings in I Bi ham came S p an y _we .e an nulled.—On Friday, Jomg rd well, on 1,, ?11 ef ,PPlication for his certificate. Mr. Ba s-d t `, 4 1111 0 " t l,le bank 211. 4 ; r uPt, addressed the court at considerable ttrfoisk t:oe,rclinlstanc of the case, and submitted he was titan 4„.much in demanding es of the court to grant the soli? is th' a , e commissioner said there were many =cum -44-I,llu-ease which called for consideration, and he of 1,8, oi l ; t le ease until Tuesday. ~R a ei wifethe,kftt,ll.---On Wednesday, Mary Stanton, 49 years 44ee ii 4 '\ rtl,'" a Publican, died very suddenly at her resi st'he re - 'll. 4%tlstreet. j Oi n e' was a . healthy woman, but for ireii to as been addicted to intemrance, an_ d . when Re of i• bed under the influ d,.4iilealgaor ca On Tuesday she was much '1(1 , att - , and thvn l yednesday morn . ing she appeared qui h te Ir" l 4 llt half eli gn every attention was paid to her, s e . .thiaPaSt one o'clock. : 4 ,,,t tei,, i 4 'I ~4 , 7 t Im. -ni i , . --- LAWRENCE v. MauLE.—ln this case, i/vl ilii 44%.e V ice-Chancellor Sir Richard_ K .n in o d f e a rs m ley r. , I , l „ ll A san ti ' ll o fl4 oe Xclo ns c l a i me d to be next of I" C bee2 1 ,,," 0 ei , 2 ) ,° 0 1, who died worth considerable property, 4,‘,parti.rateciue or £1,700. It was stated that a probate th e „''', bn t 4'9Unded on a pedigree trant el srob ate ,Oni turnin g 011 t inaccurate, u n a trial at prepared by one of ? e1 : 1: ra, r, te the : 1. ' 4 . 8 recalled and prerogative arministration ; I ke, or v .se Of 41 ° UeitOr of 'the treasury on the part of the w -4-• tatitie-2; iliiiide'ine,_olaims a u nts was the plaintiff, named 4 t e e rl t, for at l vas t ioa P r lna, Who had claimed in the master's office. e the Chancery Amendment 14 : 11°111 4 t o b !,ti al e e r _ a niii?a e t'io un n d at r Philadelphia, by some mem yrkkepi goted ara _ , :an bar, whose names were given. His eom i ea, ii ,, i nether he could order an examinerti orally e Nd n lP4l 3' oil ess he appointed a special e, which he 4rz A l t l Y be exLed: instead of issuing a commission, which the Nit rier z i:'"ed by interrogatories. is seeking a e Not okt/qrs.—The government . i; %t a w. with 'ih A 1 3 h the Peninsular and Oriental Company for k. t' , 4l t , ) ll ti! tr ali til a e , l3 i t c . i 2f a semi - monthly steam . communication t , l oi ,e tr ade, oingapore. This will give great satisfac ps,,,,4 ',lg. wo , alid to the colonies ; for, though . the clippers At i'tie e(lers, great screws might do still more. r, t , Bali tune,_Oftie,ae ef,4nced that arrangements have beenmad oo e as to t 4 4 ' a pro of -el.e 'rs between that port and the western Tg : eat that Mr. Macgregor Laird's speculation has tliiiß Pilttsitcees. 1 4 6.1 es 14 .r ,P 3 tio LI A lES.—It is proposed to hold a .1., NieK-1-eung, at the Concert-hall , Lord Nelson-street, Ni tib,, . 3', the 27th • To tild e , r les 11,m, instant, in tn o n rd it e y r o th f a e t x th r e ess rrd ng e t rt ei hf r ~,It t il 4 ., ,o th e . have an oppor ,i 1 rho' achy) of the Library Committee , (of the [,.. 4 I).. i ng th" 'Pt the care and anxiety manifested t by th_em r otj, let% i chbinries t their present efficient state.. e. 31 f 'Leta a re ' e o to take theechair, and several other influential t 1_, 44 cle,i, or:Aected to attend. The surplus proceeds are I kt• 11 01,. rto the librarian for the purchase of books. 111 14, 14 th 'II,TENT Li tn t th k e, c ; NI LIND.—The necessity for small steam e.,'RSElßattei.i.` ea, Produced by the present state of affairs I;:er k Ft e th'!'as induced several owners of that class of vessels_ 1,,' , o,,rlitt g , - ,,,'s Port to send them out, with the expectation of f %N t .; thei, - Lern at a great profit, or obtaining high rates o ~c 44 4th Services • During the last twelve months a_ 1,,, i1 tte, ,,. L i li }lave been fitted up and sent out. Most or st ra t' a s n l,l Zen , boats, built for river n wo na rk, and what vigation, not Riheie le ' crazy craft " „, 1 1.0 4 , 8 • Near] a strength to stand fu t r WO " o ea r three days' hard il,!sil),Peya.Y all of them, however, accomplished their , 'Ree Nf10 44 ,18 in safety ; but one of them, the t Je o n n ni er L w in a d, i ti:l ellthco eo'4,in a sinking state, on the w e3rlestp%k,ed uph by 3 1 ; ,'s ,t i *NQ, Z:tinople. Her l crew cled at Havre. The Jenny Ntiiieriario (1444 L illiker-e b al ui y l p t s i o vOod au e d n au paddle-hoat, of considerable tt 4 '34 2 1a, and plied for two or three years as a tug and .•4 t4iii ron the Mersey. 1 'km t% T p,No la n 0 RILBRE ISLAND.—In a series of lectures Nuty • *biter in Hope-hall, by the Rev. H. Griffiths, I. l tis s'i th ,,,,_ t Was suggested ' that an excursion should take , tO% -- gier to iiilbre Island. Accordingly the steamer , k, k.t it • I,4loh.specially engaged, and, on Tuesday forenoon, 1 ; 4 1,:,. e 4 4 . s Pier, with upwards of 100 ladies and gentle- th e '.4'il lsi The weather was splendid, and an excellent ] it t) til,., l l ß r la e : i i i e alo %cid li e t cl to . the pleasures of the trip. Arriving I Wh it , Ilt o voii mid-day, the company landed,. separated , tot.ite, tbe 11 . 1 1 , and proceeded to gather wild flow , e a r n s, ; I, lkis. A ‘ 4 .abounds the hyacinth and nar t e o .g the ' il:' to enable''''ere als --•ao•viet 'of insects, interesting,. . ttl!'W.ll thatnthe R3eo4ls.c'vereYd. The sea was not sutht is s en w t e ir l 1 4 1 4 f ii, "ic ne w y g]sts to search for fossils,. but f i ii,c41,,,, ttilio4,..4je4riesslan_d.',:riaeo i s s ar e itot . o 3 r ia lo rr w s e t r t t d r el ias iv , ere o d rm . a forms the itin,: II • i ha '','ld flos.;,,,,t"lseribedthe peculiarities of the Isla Ai . 4 , , Jew: teat the are a which dot its surface. The Y ev s . t of : i.S - ' °iitlie-- description of the submerged ore u _ i i N I e a d tc dr,LePPosite side Afterwards, the several groPs 14, 1. ' Wir'2difer,' a a nd Dr . Edwards succeeded in collecting krl,wh ' "t tie ''''''JnYtes, * which he described at length.. 1N NO ' ll aff lt e a.V e a description of the antiqmty of the : a 1,,,,, L l4 L i w ted t ia g e r ; e l o a r rn io u u c s li:a ea ti tsh f aecr ti osc h e . n — ery Af , ter "pick-lucking, • eltlivelo4 a nd the steamer 'arrived at 4e L . i , v t e h rp e!a o r l g s e h co o rtnly ,,,l.tzt 04.0 IN LAO , t , . ti l alii le ,',. '',"'"-A bill has been introduced into the 4 ,,,,,, - •11;71i g , f - i• _ a ny ....llr. Horsman, to amend the la . w a r n e _- ,c 4 sl l S," e at ih,auing. h contains only ten clauses vest d QiIINC:e 0 ,, r ; lights under bills of ladin should in however, v to %OW stop -11 ' w rsee ; (2) without prejudice , • ht 3. A. the , l e 4 ..11iz i ll Diage in transition or claims for freight. 41 i so ter h, eolitenie hands of a holder fora 4 11s."Arti •"tut, nstve evidence of the shipment,as against valuable icosidera i: c 'sti ot ; p to ;:',B the Bolder has notice that the goods . are n r o e t . r b et - ',Ner o L'ed the master may show that f or his * s t lapver ''nsed by the shipper, the holder,.or his d age °*hi 1 , 1 14 to .. And (5) if the vessel IQ ''t 1. ) " , 01, Gr ai n a toreign vessel for a claim under the f4ti kiat%ehmizter for freight, &c : . Ni i l, 4 Ale e% e „7, its before the applica,tion co t ul l d t b h e n m res adl t , 'lriC i k ,, es, l ' a d tioi lL , - I naY detain her provisionally i 411 d b 3f ( ~ ,- : 41, ,,,z known. But (6) ou the . own t°l4 i' ) t it rh' u to - ii,t the amount of the claim 1 D05,A 31 ::14 ( 1_,, e " I %ey ; e ship may be discharged weifilmthasetecrhieerf from . dFt n en o t f io t n he ; 11 a ,. 0 h e l; 18) . L t ienosited should abide . the decisl9 making such ~Nif4l.o are 6 sue person giving security . or ' t he or an 04 e ndant to any action or suit. 9. for costs, 1 1 4 i ° t i t eo l t a ll i . 1 elaintlraof detention to give security may Any one urt deprive pre laio4 ll,, lo l t a l e i onrot rtecoverd,mtp ti c e la e Les declare words ri v als t hi r „ this act 1. 1 0 e h rPre the same meaning as in the N 4 , 81 1: 0 , 1ri R A ct, 1854. ave 1 1:4 i n th:',3B'A meetin g of the society for promoting o D i p, e , , _ . at the p?uth-west district of Ireland was held n ti,tit.: I', lateir?Pe•hall ; the Rev W. Pollock in the chair. Iti l eelety. .4rty attended as . a deputation from the ir I trta ; a t a, tile i e t r y a ,few introducto observations from N,•...ss.ous h o f ' • -s• Alor' 'Y of Di no or e the irty brrYought describing snject of 1, h e, which meeting. After the kiellYer e c e h l a P p la ia h !ed th wa s in Kerry in the south-west of t at the It • • -,' • • t e d by the Rev• 0 te ll ei g '.,. in 0 Lo r a , ission originated thhßlie being i d, in f ernier ~e_ntry. Th e great fault o fthe forbidden in tl e `,, ir nes, was the use of the Irish! Mire 'or had the Bible b e achin g and preaching of the 11°R1114,M1 language, Irelandin the s e t ri h p e tu l res risli annut • t.,°riginally circulated tqiNk..wa t i ', ll , hoe become as,,,," a ialel, from the time England.th i!i, '"l' that r Purely Protestant as R^-1 tiatt'l:;,eelrocHilateeattn Itaehotit thetigue. h the P ~,, Since the establi d shm ea e c nt of the mis ssions were l eo T iZ, aehlsitabliloar 1835, four new Protestant congregatio ns sa te - t i , th e e `.' of converts from the Romanist popul t a y 1' iit Pi v °llginal Protestant congregation vea i the ‘ t ° ' anti addition 1 1 had been settled ili ''let a l iev? e ight 0 4 •!' e ern'. 4, Of churn, ditional scripture schools established. 1 4.4. tjk w orshi ' ea, two glebe-houses, two other licen . .. sed ts,i...'rW' 9 o se h t , and four sch I-houses had been erected. t,‘Z l l, m -e titaiit 3 ,7 lirra4,_.been added to the Church by the above n ) . „, 4 1, a!1er4.3,, "Lnirteen of those converted had since been 6, . s ' Ant -e "; and a Romanist priest, sent there 6, t,„_Ver a i tiNn the reformation, himself became a co.n -4 % Tr % ai k l ),„ the converts were now labouring as scrip : 01 iarlnc ,Bohoolmasters in various parts of Ireland, ° ' rist4e umber bad died in the faith. He mentioned trlik,' the ~,!8 Which had occurred within his own expert "eiqakipora Zfulness of the missions, and concluded by 1,,...h,; ) ,,tt. e ni eeting to come forward liberally towards t,i,Nyit's - 1 4 garhipt".lll) In t he -ElatAl.—At the Liverpool. Police-court on t eto 1ei, 1,1 et tll „ eaSe of a .returned transport charged with . 1% °4 k e ri we,"ed Australan emigrant of £250, some curious td _l a f . be e , c brought to light. Among the passengers (l l ' I, lt , 4 43 . 11 8 e bY the James Baines which arrived at Liver 4ko'tt' o f I hat°, were Philip Palmer and Joseph Ruddock, I rt,t WV'', serval°l4, had been sufficiently successful at the - v - ii bi e ,-.- -together the sum of X 250, which he carried Po o ''l 1, at th e ‘', ll bag. On landing at Liverpool they took 4414P o rn' aa ,he e ,, ga Australian Emigrants,' Home" in Hunter -4411th R u l e , e Ping with a third passenger in the same h l 'ht iii 11 3' tb. third During the night Ruddock was et 11 1 4 1,.' utird passenger calling to him that " some iliN ,` ,4 40, -c .,_' l l),'' as " Bill" ( eaning Palmer) had gone i t s ,S t4 l c . ) tit le '!' jannediately got m up, and missing his money, 44 . /sr \ rd q u o giving in to the police, and offer- Ik k th eillArph t 6 O for the apprehension of the thief. In )4l\ th e r ,3,', of the local detective force, proceeded in %ti, te>alirawa, whom he traced to Leicester Rb, In -64 4 Ilia o the r l ace . . 8 A 1) 4kl aat r. r P s, obtaining a final clue toPalm e r flv it l4, t.tne _s..,romford, near the Peak, Derbyshire. A e te4l:‘.l:lproaue,.the summit of a rock was pointed out to 'ail ti ' l l't. k `,"N licw",'g bY a circuitous and almost inaccessible th e e t ,,, 1 out of the solid rock, he cautiously entered 414,41iei'kee c s f eet 'red his prisoner before he had allowed Ltc,.ti ei ,,a g ba resistance. In the house the officer found Prisonerssubsequently daughter at a ho use which 14t,, with', whocis at Leicester. On the way to Liverpool l e k i,‘'acti ,‘ n 0.,,, i a strong determined-looking fellow, r l q "Ntt "R. tile ,`" that if he had been aware of Murphy's it t' t b) as steps he h til t ')ti k , til e it ' . would have sent a bullet through i !e tt ai stcw.„ ussians did the English and the French ei 't hcl t ee kh ew tilt gives some insight into the character . 4 1 ,. 4,,, tlo il , .., ...la, about seven years ago he was tran v t4ttett.',. at Leicester and, being afterwards released ''' gat L 011 ; 6 ' 4 . eQ udnet, he went to the diggings as an goriitteu , for ' t e rial ease being tolerably clear, th e pri. Itegfl•silit ve la , 1 e +9 ton t° C4 9 , 9 ‘' ); dOO 0 4 4 1; coy J 1 0' 0 9 11 '90 495' ; n clio,,ier ; ; est,,e r° MR. CorNaLion JOHN Moss has retired from business in Liverpool, and intends to live permanentl , in the Isle of Man. His seat in the Council will be vacated in November next. SINGULAR SUICIDE.-011 Monday week, Wm. Friendly, a labourer was found in a privy adjoining his house, at St. Helen's, with a piece of cord round his neck, which he had twisted with two pieces of stick so tightly as to effectually strangle him. A verdict of temporary insantty was returned at the coroner's inquest. Mr. FRANCIS BOULT has received a reply from Prince Czar toryski to the address lately adopted at a public meeting held in this town. The Prince states that he is convinced " that so much real sympathy and matured concern shown now in England for the Polish cause must end sooner or later in an effective interference in her favour." PRIZES AT THE REV. W. C. GREENE'S SCHOOL, HOPE. STREET.-Ist class, W. S. Shuttleworth • 2nd class, E. H Robinson and H. S. Samuel (equal) ; 3rd class, J. Ellershaw . A. Mozley ; 4th class, W. Brown ; sth class, J. L. Davenport' J. Usborne ; lower sth class, G. Long; 6th class, W. Mozley lower 6th class, L. Mozley ; French prize, H. S. Samuel, J' Marquis, F. Holme ; writing prize, W. Kilpatrick, R. Elliston. - - - THE STEAM-SHIP GREAT BRITAIN.—This splendid vessel, since she left Marseilles, after taking in more troops at Con stantinople, arrived safely in Kamiesch Bay, were she landed her large freight of troops and horses. The commander, Captain Gray, has again been presented with a testimonial from his passengers. In this instance the memorial consists of plate, the gift of the East Kent Militia, which regiment Captain Gray took out 40 Malta. He has, besides, been honoured with letters from the French troops which he has conveyed to the seat of war. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN AND LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE.—On Tuesday the committee on this bill reported that they had examined the allegations contained in the pre amble of the bill, and had amended the same so as only to recite the necessity for a station at Preston being improved, and found the same, as amended, to be true, and they had proceeded with the clauses of the bill as far as clause 3, when the parties promoting the bill stated that, in consequence of the clause being negatived by the committee, it was not their intention to proceed with the bill. FATAL ACCIDENT TO A CHILD.—On Tuesday evening, John Fairclough, five-and-a-half years old, whose parents re side in 42 Court, Hornby-street, was accidentally killed in the same street. Mr. Edward Davies, a cartowner, had an empty float lying cicse to the court where the deceased lived, and the latter was playing near it, when a vehicle, belonging to Mr. Wainwright, and driven by James Aimesly, who is said to have been under the influence of liquor, came down the street, and running in contact with the empty float turned it round on to the footpath; by this means the fore part of the float jammed the deceased's head against the railing, in which position he was litterally hanging until after the vehicle was removed, when he dropped down apparently quite lifeless. He died shortly after. PRIZES AT THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.—The pupils in the schools of the Mechanics' Institution were examined on Wednesday before a crowded audience, and their relatives and friends. Gn Thursday night the prizes were delivered in the lecture-hall, Mr. Blackburn occupying the chair. The prizes having been distributed, the pupils sang some holiday eongs, after which Mr. Aspinall, at the request of the chair man, presented the principai (Mr. A. M'llvean) with a por trait himself, painted by one of the teachers in the schools. The speaker, at considerable length, dwelt upon the exalted literary attainments of the principal, his kind-heartedness, and his extraordinary zeal in the cause of education; and said that. the utmost cordiality existed between that gentleman and the teachers—a great desideratum in schools of such mag nitude as those of the Liverpool Mechanics' Institution. Prin cipal M'llveen, in acknowledging the gift, said he shovld ever look upon it, apart from its worth as a work of art, with feel ings of the greatert kindness and respect for those gentlemen rho assisted him in his daily labours, and without many of whom the institution would probably not be in so efficient a condition as it was. After other remarks complimentary to the teachers, the principal sat down amid loud cheers. A vote of thanks to the chairman, and some music from the juveniles, terminated the proceedings. DOCK CommiTTEE.—Mr. Brocklebank occupied the chair at the weekly meeting on Thursday, when a report was pro duced from the surveyor in regard to the turn-tables at the Birkenhead Railway-station. The surveyor stated that he did not consider the mode there adopted was eligible for the Stanley Dock quays. The sub-committee of works accordingly recommended that the tenders of the Bankhall Foundry be accepted. A report was laid before the committee, stating that 867 vessels had passed through the Queen's Channel, inwards and outwards, during the past month of May. The chairman said the Marine Sub-committee thought it desirable to bring this matter before the committe, to show what a very im portant channel this had become. They made an attempt to classify the ships, but found it extremely difficult. Mr. Smith remarked that that channel was becoming more valuable every day. A letter was received from the captain of the Sierra Nevada, which was injured by grounding on the gate of the Wellington Half-tide Dock, requesting that the Sandon Graving-dock No. 1, where she was being repaired, might be used during her repairs only for vessels requiring neaps, as he was informed that otherwise the expense would be considerably enhanced, a well as the work delayed. The letter was referred to the Harbour-masters' Sub-committee. MEETING OF MASTER MARINERS.—On Friday, a meeting of the Master Mariners of this port was held at the Royal Assembly Rooms, Great George- s t ree t, f or th e purpose of forming an association under the title of " The Master Mari ners' Mutual Benevolent and Protection Society." The chair was taken by Captain Mason, who said it appeared highly desirable that in so large a seaport as Liverpool the master mariners should combine for their mutual benefit and protec tion, and under those circumstances the gentlemen who had originated the matter had drawn up a series of rules and reso lutions, which would be laid before them for adoption.—The Secretary read the rules, which were to the effect that the society should protect all captains in their difficulties, not 00eacmoraed bT miaeoadvok , subscriptions and entrance fees ; that the society should insure the effects of the members from losses by shipwreck and acci dent, and that in certain cases annuities should be granted to members and their widows and children. It was also pro posed that the profits of the insurance department of the society should be devoted to the general benefit of the body ; that the rules should be enrolled by act of parliament ; that all members should be master mariners, but that landsmen should, on payment of the subscription, be received as honor ary members, but without participation in the pecuniary bene fits of the association ; that all cases taken up by the associa tion should be published in a nautical publication, and that a yearly report should be drawn up and distributed amongst the members.—The rules were debated seriatim and adopted, with a few amendments, the proceedings terminating with thanks to the chairman. HEALTH COMMITTEE.—Mr. Alderman Langsdale presided at the weekly meeting of this committee, on Thursday, when the medical officer reported that the health of the town was in a very satisfactory state, the mortality of last week having been 18 per cent. below the average of the same week of the seven preceding years. The total deaths were 186, of which 127 were in the parish and 50 in the out-townships. The mortality from each class of disease was below the average. From the Zymotic class there were 39 deaths, including 12 from measles, 6 from typhus, 2 from small pox (unvaccinated), 2 scarlatina. The deaths from diseases of the lungs, including consumption, were 62. The mean temperature of the week was 67 1-10 degrees, beig 24 degrees lower than the average. Rain fell on every day of the week, the total amount being 1 61-1000ths inch. The chairman stated that, by a letter which Mr. Fresh had received from the Crimea, it appeared that Mr. Newlands left Balaklava on the 30th May, and might be expected here about the end of the present month. Mr. Newlands would be detained, however, officially at Scu tari. The town-clerk was instructed to write to the dock committee, acquainting that body that the committeee had had under consideration the proposed new plans, which removed the flagging at the south-west angle of the Custom house, at Canning-place, 61 feet back, leaving a clear roadway of 69 feet 3 inches, reducing the roadway 20 feet ; and that the committee must enforce the necessity of adherence to the original plans. The deputy town-clerk then reported then the results of the prosecutions which the committee had directed under the Smoke Prenvention Act, and said there was a conviction and fine inflicted in every case. THE RAILWAY ROBBERIES.—The Preston bench was occupied during a considerable portion of Wednesday in inves tigating the extensive railway robberies. There were six aecused persons in custody, viz., John Butler, Joseph Birrell, sen., Joseph Birrell, jun., William Birrell, Edward Caton, and John Parkinson. The last two named had been apprehended since the former hearing. Caton, late a breaksman in the e mploy of the Lancashire and arlisle Railway Company, is the man who absconded on hearing that the police had searched his house and seized a quantity of goods ; after a short absence he returned home, and was found concealed under the stairs. Parkinson (brother-in-law to the prisoner Bu oc tl e e r r , ) wa s a warehouseman in the employ of a P res ton grocer, and, when he was apprehended, had in his pos session a quantity of jewellery, including a valuable diamond pin, answering the description of one stolen from Dr. Jardine, who, having seen an account of the robberies, wrote to the railway authorities respecting his loss. This gentleman's portmanteau had been forced open between London and Carlisle, and the diamond pin and other articles abstracted. John Butler, Joseph Birrell, sen., and William Birrell, were charged with stealing 360 silk handker chiefs, consigned by Messrs. Macaulay and Co., of Glasgow, to Messrs. Brunell and Co., of this town. Numerous witnesses were called to trace the box in which the goods were packed along the various lines of railway. Handkerchiefs found at each of the prisoners' houses were produced and identified as part of the stolen property. No fewer than 70 were found in the possession of Joseph Birrell, sen. The prisoners were committed for trial at the ensuing Lancaster assizes. Edward Caton, charged with stealing 11 1 ,,- yards of moire antique, con signed by Messrs. Campbell and Co., of Fribay-street, Cheap side, Loudon, to Messrs. Macgregor and Co., of this town, was also committed to the assizes. John Parkinson, charged with stealing a diamond pin, a silver watch, a gold chain, four sets I of gold studs, &c., was remanded for a week. Joseph Birrell, jun., was discharged, none of the articles found in his posses sion having been identified. Almost a cartload of valuable property, taken from the prisoners, was produced in court. The cases excited great interest, the justice-room being crowded throughout the inquiry. ! SMOKE PREVENTION.—The patent smokeless furnace, in vented by Mr. John Lee Stevens, of London, which has been adapted by Messrs. Morton and Co., of James-street, to the steam-boiler on their premises in Cherry-lane, has been found to answer completely in the prevention of smoke and the saving of fuel. The main feature of this system is the intro duction of a current of heated air at the extreme inner end of ! the fire-place, which, whilst extending from side to side of the furnace in an ascending stream, intercepts and mingles with the carbonaceous gases from the coal fire, or the assimilated gases of other sorts of fuel ; thus supplying them with the requisite quantity of oxygen in a proper state, converts them, by more perfect combustion, to the required purposes, instead of allowing them to escape in the form of smoke, and thereby causes an economy of fuel at an average of 20 per cent. Each application, modified to meet any particular requirement, in cludes the use of caloric plates, made of cast iron, sometimes protected in front by fire-bricks ; which plates rest against and extend the whole width and to within a short distance of the top of the bridge over which the flame passes from the furnace into the flue, in such a manner as to admit under neath them and between their surfaces and the front of the bridge, the proper quantity of air. In proportion to the in tensity of combustion is the increased rapidity with which the air ascends, the rushing onward of the flame itself acting by way of exhaustion, and the greater heat of the parts surround ing the current of air adding to its velocity. Mr. Stevens's invention has been applied with great success at the famous blacking mart of Day and Martin, the sweatmeat factory of Hill and Jones, and many brewers, iron works, and other establishments in London and elsewhere. GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. THE lugger Mystery, of only fourteen tons burthen, has arrived safely at Melbourne from Penzance. A NEW LINE of steamers is about to be established between Bristol and the western coast of Africa. A LETTER from Lille reports the burning of the church of La Basee, remarkable for the magnificence of its spire. LAST WEEK, John Mitchell, innkeeper of Pulley, Salop, was sent to gaol for seven days, for winning a ham in a raffle ! IN the United Kingdom there are fifteen letters written in the year for every one of the population. In the United States the number is only four. IT is estimated that the government have in the army, navy, church, and colonial service, no fewer than 60,000 places at their disposal. AFTER a failure of nearly half a century the pearl fishery in Ceylon for the present year will, it is estimated, present a return of more than £lO,OOO sterling. THE city of Paris is about to raise a loan of sixty millions of francs for the completion of great public works. It is pro posed to repay the whole within forty years. THE government of Melbourne have exempted editors and sub-editors of daily newspapers from serving on juries, and remitted fines incurred for non-attendance. GREAT numbers of French ladies have lately visited Chartres, to gaze upon the Virgin with the black face, which is placed there, and which has the reputed power of curing sterility. THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY have recommenced for the season issuing return tickets, afford ing a fortnight's tour in the lake district of Westmoreland and Cumberland. AN insurance-company has been started in Paris for the purpose of providing substitutes for persons who are drawn for the army, and who also happen to have the means to insure themselves against personal service. THE PRINCESS DE SAGAN has commenced an action at Berlin, against Gervinus, for having stated, in his " History of the 19th Century," that she had been seen on horseback, seated en troupe behind a CossacV! THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL has instituted a series of pecuniary fines, varying from half-a-crown to half-a-sovereign, to be inflicted on his subordinates who are guilty of errors that endanger the safety of registered letters while passing through the post. THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF CANADA has refused to sanction the Maine Law Liquor Bill, brought up from the Legislative Assembly ; " his instructions being to reserve, for the signification of the Queen's pleasure, every bill of an ex traordinary or unusual character." A market-gardener near Huddersfield, being annoyed by the incursions of his neighbour's fowls, poisoned and shot them all, and afterwards brought an action to recover compensation for the damage they had done in their life-time. It was decided that as he had already taken the law into his own hands he was not entitled to damages. THE PRIESTS, and his pious Sicilian Majesty, have tried to make a little political capital out of the eruption of Vesuvius. The Cardinal has visited both branches of lava, at Cercolo and St. Georgio a Crema, and preached there, and blessed and exorcised there ; his Majesty has followed the bones of St. Rocco, and returning to Naples, has visited and kissed the blood of St. Gennaro !—Morning Post Correspondent. THE TRADE IN HORSES.—A return, ordered by the House of Lords, shows the exportation and importation of horses and mares from and into the United Kingdom. From May, 1852, to April, 1853, the aggregate export to all countries was 2,561, and the import 4,449. From May, 1853, to April, 1854, the export was 1,439, and the import 7,581, whilst from May, 1854, to April last, the export was 3,502, and the import 3,937. THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS of Austria walked on the 6th in the Corpus Christi procession at Vienna. The fine figure and the military bearing of the Emperor greatly attracted the attention of foreigners ; but the Empress was the principal point de mire of the Viennese. Her Majesty, who had on a court dress of white damask, wore some magni ficent crown jewels, consisting of a diadem, a pendent necklace with tassel, and a girdle of diamonds and rubies. Although somewhat pale, Her Majesty looked—it is the word employed by the people—"eharmante." Some of the centre rubies in the crown, necklace, and girdle, are nearly as large as a five shilling piece. HEELAS, a tailor at Wokingham, brought an action which was heard at Nisi Prius, on Monday, to recover from the son of the Hon. and Rev. R. Talbot, an officer in the Rifle Brigade, the sum of £46 7s. ld. for clothes supplied to himself and grooms during his stay at Sandhurst College. The defendant's father allowed him £lOO a year, upon which he attempted to keep five horses and two grooms. The debt claimed had been incurred in about four months. The de fendant now pleaded infancy. The jury, not judging five horses and two grooms necessaries for a boy at Sandhurst, gave a verdict for £5, in addition to £l6 paid into court. A MAN, named Geo. Wadley, deserted from the 46th regi ment about five years ago, and returned to his home at Here ford, married, and became the father of three children. Last week he was apprehended as a deserter, and locked up in the Hereford city gaol. On Saturday the governor, on visiting the cells, found Wadley in a fainting state, and the skin, flesh, nails, and bones of the fore and middle fingers of his right hand hanging in shreds. He said that the tyranny he had experienced and witnessed in the 46th regiment was such as would kill him if he were subject to it again, and that he would sooner be shot than serve again in such a corps. He had crushed his fingers with the wooden blocks. Ix the Vice-Chancellor's Court, on Monday, a bill was pre sented—Manby v. Bewicke—in which the plaintiff, a common day-labourer and gardener, living at Louth, Lincolnshire, sought to establish his title, as heir-at-law of a certain Doro thy Windsor and of his grandfather, Stote Manby, to certain. property 'in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the Bounty of Northum berland, producing a rental of nearly £50,000 a-year. It ap peared the defendant had been in possession for forty years. The vice-chancellor, after hearing the arguments, allowed plaintiff to amend, there being just the shadow of possibility of the existence of documents which might throw light upon the transactions. He said he could not encourage the plaintiff to proceed. Edward Piers, aged 46, a native of the Isle of Man, has been sentenced by the Court of Assize of St. Omer, France, to twenty years' hard labour, for shooting his landlord dead. The prisoner stated the landlord was in the habit of insulting him by foul insinuations, and admitted that he had preme ditated the murder. The defence raised was that the man's mind was affected, and in support of this it was stated that he was very excitable, fancied that people were constantly talking ill of him, used to rise at night to hear if people were not speaking against him in the street, and in February, 1854, fired a pistol at three persons who happened to engage in con versation beneath his windows. But it was admitted that, in spite of all this, he, in ordinary matters, seemed in full pos session of his reason. HERRING FISHING IN THE CLYDE.—A sight which we venture to think not even the oldest inhabitant ever witnessed at the same spot, was beheld from the Steamboat Quay on the morning of Wednesday, about seven o'clock. An immense shoal of herrings, extending in length from the western end of the new platform to the Wooden Wharf, Victoria Harbour, and in breadth from the quay to the mooring buoy opposite the East Harbour, passed up the river. They were packed in a dense mass, and the water was bubbling like a pot boiling (as a looker-on expressed it), while they passed. Large quan tities of this fish are present in the river and the neighbouring lochs, and fishing is going on with great briskness. On Wed nesday morning several boats in Gareloch caught from 7,000 to 8,000 each ; and one boat at Arrochar captured twenty maize or 10,000 fish. Yesterday morning, owing to the rain over night, the take was not so good. An immense shoal was seen crossing the Skelmorlie Bar on Saturday, and a naval officer whose duties on the west coast of Scotland have led him to observe such matters describes it as the largest he ever beheld. The fishings to the north, from Lewis to Skye and Barra, are most successful, some boats securing from twenty to thirty crans, of from 16,000 to 21,000 fish each. On the Ayrshire coast the take is very large.— Greenock Advertiser. A FATAL BOILER Eximosios occurred last week, upon the premises of Mr. Ralph Wood, Crown-court, Salford. One person was killed, Frederick Ashton, a lad 14 years old, who was employed as firer-up • several persons were scalded or bruised, and many narrowly escaped death. The boiler and engine were under the care of Mr. Wood's son, Ralph, about 22 years old, and he was assisted by the deceased. At the time of the explosion the two were standing near each other, and about six feet from the firing-up end of the boiler. There were twelve or fourteen other persons working for Mr. Wood ; but most of them were in the rooms over the brewery, and therefore not exposed to much danger. In a neighbouring shed, occupied by Messrs. Dickens, Hartcliffe, and Co., there were about 47 persons employed. The explosion was accom panied by a loud sharp report, and the surrounding buildings were filled with dense vapour. As soon as this had cleared away, those who rushed to the spot found that two cottages under which the boiler had been placed, and Messrs. Dickens, Hartcliffe, and Co's shed were destroyed. Several of Messrs. Dickens and Hartcliffe's men got bruised and slightly scalded. A search was speedily commenced amidst the rubbish of the cottages, and Ashton and Ralph Wood were soon discovered. Ashton was quite dead. Ralph Wood was alive when got out, but he was very much injured, both by scalds and bruises ; he was at once removed to the Royal Infirmary, where he remains in a dangerous state. The damage done is estimated at £l,OOO at least. _ _ _ _ THE CHIEF JUSTICE A WAG.—Returning thanks for the judges at a Mansion-banquet on Saturday week, Lord Camp bell said that much had been done of late years to improve the administration of justice, and more especially in the Court of Chancery, the delays of which had been effectually got rid of. Indeed, he recollected when a friend of his (Mr. Jekyll) was called to the bar, a solicitor, in handing him a brief, said that he knew of no person better entitled to conduct a case, in asmuch as the first pleading in the cause had been drawn by his great great-grandfather in the days of Queen Anne. — Such things, however, could not now occur, and it must be a difficult case, indeed, if it was not settled within two months. With regard to the Corporation of the City of London, he felt that England would not be England without its Lord Mayor;—(laughter)—and so highly was the office thought of on the continent, that, when Sir Samuel Romilly became Attorney-General, he received a letter from a friend in Paris, congratulating him upon his elevation as being on the high road to becoming a Lord Chancellor, and expressing a hope that he might live to become even Lord Mayor of London. (Cheers and laughter.) Furthermore, he believed that it was now the general belief on the continent that, if the war was not speedily brought to a conclusion, it would be necessary for the Lord Mayor to go and take the command of the army. (Laughter.) A MONSTER OF CRUELTY. — We have the following from Lucknow :—" March 29.—We have read of the terrors of the Spanish Inquisition, the horrors and barbarities of the reign of terror, and the persecutions of Christians by the Roman Emperors, but the atrocities of the fiend Juggernath, if not exactly unparalleled, are of a nature so revolting and brutal as to instil loathing and disgust. The inordinate love of cruelty and refinements of torture practised by this robber, lately elicited upon his short trial, are supremely barbarous. A little while previous to his arrest, Juggernath seized and carried off to the fortress (the pandemonium where the worst excesses were enacted) the child of a mahajun, who was reputed to be rich. He offered to ransom the boy for a sum of money so exorbitant as to be out of the father's power to pay. The robber, determined not to be outdone in his nefarious scheme of extortion, put in force a diabolical threat which he had previously communicated to the child's parents. He cut off the unfortunate lad's ears and nose, and placing them in a brass dish covered with red cloth, sent the hideous spectacle as a gift to the father, with an intimation that, in event of the amount demanded being not forthwith remitted, he should be greeted with a sight of the other members of his son's body. As no blood can be knocked out of a stone, and the sum was far beyond the parent's means, he earnestly implored for his son. The inexorable Juggernath was as good as his word; the fingers and toes followed next, aid finally he dashed out the boy's brains against the wall of his fort. The boy's parents are the principal accusers against this inhuman criminal."—Calcutta Englishman. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS. TUESDAY. A discussion took place respecting the supply of water to the camp at Aldershot. RELIGIOUS WORSHIP BILL.—The Earl of SHAFTESBURY moved the adoption of the report on this Bill, the object of which was to repeal so much of the act of Geo. 111. as pro ! hibited the assembling of more than 20 persons in a house, besides the family, for the purposes of religious worship. He I thought that at the present day, when so much ignorance, especially in religious matters, existed, every impediment should be removed from religious instruction.—The Bishop o , LONDON was willing to give every facility to persons engaged lin the spread of religion, but would not consent to allow per sons to establish in their houses small congregations, to the injury of the established church.—The Bishop of OXFORD had no doubt that the bill was brought forward with the best intentions, but felt bound to oppose it, on the ground that it would interfere materially with the action of the established church. He moved that it be taken into further consideration that day six mouths.—The Earl of GARNARVON thought that if this bill became law it would be productive of consequences which it required no spirit of prophecy to foresee. At present Dissent was known and acknowledged in a way that was recog nized by every one. Those who dissented from the Church were clearly and distinctly marked out, and had full liberty to assemble in their certified places of worship ; but by this bill all the lines of demarcation that now existed between the Church and Dissent would be swept away. All the visible and external distinctions that now separated them would be removed, and temptations would be opened to the people to attach themselves to no Particular religion or creed. This bill would enable any person who took an objection to a particular clergyman or doctrine, and who might wish to act upon the basis of the Prayer-Book, to set up a congregation of his own, and in this way the whole of our parochial system might in time be destroyed. When the line of demarcation between the Church and Dissent was obliterated, there would remain only a tangled wilderness of shadowy and vague Christianity, professed by those who belonged, in fact, to no church or sect. He hoped their lordships would not exert their influence to aug ment the discord which now prevailed in the Church. He be lieved it was founded on the most comprehensive principles at the time of the Reformation, though differences soon grew up in her bosom, and he deprecated any measure by which those differ eirces would be embittered. By this bill the sections within the Church would find themselves put in possession of weapons far stronger than any they had ever before possessed. What ever room there had hitherto been for a division of opinion, there had always been a neutral ground on which men of all parties within the pale of the Church had met, and that was the Prayer-book : but the essence and intention of this bill was the mutilation of the Prayer-book. Modifications and alterations, perhaps slight in themselves, would at first be made, but by degrees new prayers would be introduced and old ones expunged —changes of the most vital importance would be made, and the result would be that we should see many not merely, with their own places of worship, but with their sepa rate forms. The Prayer-book, which was the pledge of the continuity of the Church and its bond of unity, would retain its name, but for that reason it would be all the more danger ous, and their lordships would, perhaps, find themselves at last driven to the alteration of the Prayer-book itself. He would therefore oppose the bill, because he was satisfied that while it would infringe on the rights and privileges of the Church, it would give no additional liberty to Dissent.—The Duke of ARGYLE supported the bill, as did the LORD CHANCELLOR, and after some further discussion their lordships divided, when there appeared—for the bill, 31; against it, 30—majority, 1. The bill was then reported, with amendments. The Church Patronage Transfer Bill passed through com mittee.—The Cambridge University Bill was reported, with amendments.—The Administration of Oaths Abroad Bill was read a second time.—The Education of Poor Children Bill, and the Brighton Incorporation Bill, went through committee. The Romanist Charities Bill was read a third time and passed.—The County Palatine of Lancaster Trial Bill was read a second time; and the house adjourned at a-quarter to nine o'clock. THURSDAY. The Lands Improvement Company Bill was read a third time and passed. NEEDLEWOMEN.—The Earl of SHAFTESBURY moved that the Bill for Limiting the Working Hours of Needlewomen be referred to a select committee, and explained how he proposed to obviate the notorious evils complained of,by prohibitingwork during " the London season,"—defined as a period of time ex tending from the Ist of May to the Ist of August—between the hours of 10 at night and 8 in the morning, and, during the rest of the year, between the hours of 8 at night and 8 in the morning.—Lord GRANVILLE did not rise to oppose the motion, but to point out the extreme difficulty of legislating with any effect on such a subject.—Lord MALMESBURY, on the contrary, thought the plan perfectly feasible.—After some further dis cussion, in which Lord CAMPBELL, Lord STANLEY of Alder ley, Lord 0 , 7E1=0/ . IE, and the Duke of ARGYLE took part, the motion was agreed to, and the bill was referred to a select committee. "The Gold Finger Rings Bill was read a second time.—The Cambridge University Bill was read a third time, and passed.— The Administration of Oaths Abroad Bill passed through com mittee.—The Brighton Incorporation Bill and the Ecclesias tical Courts Bill (Amendments) were read a third time and passed.—The County Palatine of Lancaster Trials Bill passed through committee. &LIPS' MEASUREMENT. — The Earl of HARDWICK, who had placed upon the paper a notice that he would call the atten tion of the House to the subject of the measurement of ships for tonnage and to the mode of estimating the steam power for propelling ships, with a view to amend the law on the sub ject," said that on the present occasion he would content him self with laying on the table a bill for the amendment of this law. Upon the second reading he would state more in detail what the objects of the measure were. Their lordships ad journed at a quarter past 6 o'clock. The Validity of Proceedings (House of Commons) Bill was read a second time at half-past ten o'clock, a. m., and, the standing orders being suspended, went through its other stages and was passed. The royal assent was given by commission to the News paper Stamp Duties Bill, Sewers ( House Drainage), Registra tion of Births ( Scotland), Ecclesiastical Property ( Ireland ), Brighton Incorporation, Validity of Proceedings ( House of Commons), Oldham Gas and Water, Over-Darwen Gas, Lan cashire Water and Gas, Liverpool Corporation Water, .Ashton under-Lyne Water, Manchester Improvement, and several other private Bills. A brief discussion took place with reference to the site of the proposed new public offices. RELIGIOUS WORSHIP BILL.—The Earl of DERBY, on the order of the day being read for the recommittal of the Reli gious Worship Bill, moved that it be referred to a select com mittee, on the ground that it had been hurried through the lower house, and that sufficient time had not been allowed to consider so important an alteration in the law. He was not desirous to impose restrictions on religious instruction, but he objected to sweep away at one blow all difference between the clergy and the laity, and abrogate the functions of the paro chial clergy. A discussion of considerable length ensued, after which their lordships divided, when the numbers were—For Lord Derby's motion, 47: against it, 30—majority, 17. The bill was accordingly referred to the select committee. The Education of Poor Children Bill was read a third time and passed.—The Gold Finger Rings Bill went through com mittee.—The Administration of Oaths Abroad Bill and the County Palatine of Lancaster Trials Bill were read a third time and passed.—Their lordships adjourned at a quarter to eight o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS. TUESDAY. The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock. The Validity of Proceedings (House of Commons) Bill was read a second time. The House then went into committee on the Metropolis Local Management Bill, commencing with clause 69, and having proceeded as far as clause 124, further proceedings were adjourned. DECIMAL COINAGE.—Mr. W. BROWN moved a series of resolutions, " that the initiation of the decimal system of coinage, by the issue of the florin, has been eminently success ful and satisfactory ; that a further extension of such system will be of great public advantage; and that an address be pre sented to Her Majesty, praying that she will be pleased to complete the decimal scale with the pound and the florin, as sug gested by two commissions and a committee of the House of Commons, by authorising the issue of silver coins to represent the value of the one hundredth part of a pound, and copper coins to represent the one thousandth part of a pound, to be called ' cents ' and ' mils ' respectively, or to bear such other names as to Her Majesty may seem advisable." He argued at some length in support of the motion, citing many authorities.—Lord STANLEY seconded the motion. There were two practical questions—first, what should be the par ticular unit or basis ; secondly, whether any inconveniences would arise in effecting the change that would materially detract from its advantages. With regard to the first question, three different plans had been suggested—first, that of making the penny the basis or unit ; second, that of retaining the penny and dividing the pound into 24 pieces of 10d. each ; third, the plan proposed in the resolutions, which was that embodied in the report of the committee. He pointed out the objections to the first two plans, and the comparative advantages attending the last, and upon the second ques tion he contended that there would be few real prac tical inconveniences consequent upon the change. Mr. J. B. SMITH moved, as an amendment, to leave out from the words " pleased to" to the end of the question, in order to add the words, "invite a congress of representatives of all na tions, at some convenient place, with the view of considering the practicability of adopting a common standard of moneys, weights, and measures" instead thereof.—Mr. LOWE did not think the plan suggested by Mr. Brown a proper one ; on the contrary, it was open, in his opinion, to powerful objections. He entreated the house, however favourable men of science might be to the change, before it adopted a measure so puz zling to the poor, to give more time for maturely considering the subject in a committee, and not rush at once into a pro ject which, instead of economising, would multiply labour.— The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the house was under great obligation to Mr. Brown for bringing this subject under its consideratien ; but, in doing justice to his motives, it was necessary to examine the nature of his plan, in order to form a judgment of its practical operation. Assuming the pound as the unit, he had proposed to make the florin and two new coins money of account, so that there would be four denominations of money of account, two of them being new coins. His first objection .to Mr. Brown's plan referred to the cent and mil , as con!, which would be so minute that they could not maintain their ground in circulation. Other inconveniences would result from their employment as money of account. Serious difficulties would, moreover, arise in the practical introduction of the new system, which could not be carried into effect by a royal proclamation, or without an act of parliament ; so that an address to the Crown would be ineffectual. If the Crown should concur with the house, and the house voted money for the issue of these new coins, they could not be constituted money of account without the sanction of Parliament. Under these circumstances, he thought the house would not be prepared at that moment to record by a solemn vote any resolution upon this difficult subject, and he recommended Mr. Brown to withdraw the motion, assuring him that the subject should receive the most careful con sideration of the government.—Mr. CARDWELL said no doubt the scheme was beset with inconveniences, but the difficulties were not insuperable, though he did not think the time had arrived at which this great change could be carried out.—Mr. BROWN proposed to withdraw all but the first resolution ; but, this course being objected to by Mr. Heallam and by Lord Palmerston, the house divided, when the first resolution was carried by 135 to H. The second resolution was agreed to without a division, and the third, for an address to the Crown, was withdrawn. Mr. KENNEDY was proceeding to move a resolution on edu cation in Ireland, when the house was counted out at half-past eleven o'clock. WEDNESDAY. The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock. SUNDAY TRADING. — On the order for going into com mittee upon the Sunday Trading (Metropolis) Bill, Mr. MASSEY moved to defer the committee for three months. He insisted upon the impotence of compulsory legislation . to con trol such social evils as those aimed at by the bill. Their re medy should be left to those moral correctives which were in gradual operation.—Lord STANLEY justified the trial of the measure as an experiment in London, and apprehended no danger to it except from a combination between those who thought it went too far and those who considered it did not go far enough.—M r . K. SET:MEE, in supporting the bill, gave a graphic description of a Sunday market at Houndsditch, during the hours of Divine service, and observed that, although this scene was only a symptom of the moral degra dation of a large class in the metropolis, it was a symptom which must be dealt with before the disease could be arrested. In the course of the subsequent discussion, Sir. G. GREY said the proper time for discussing the principle of the bill was upon the second reading. He had supported its principle, and should now vote for going into committee, where its details would be considered.—Ultimately the house divided, when the original motion was carried by 168 to 51. The house then went into committee upon the bill, the de tails of which underwent much discussion, and after the first three clauses were gone through, further proceedings were adjourned until the 4th of July. The Justices of Peace Qualification Bill was read a second time.—The Dwelling-houses (Scotland) Bill passed through committee.—The report of the committee of Ways and Means was brought up and agreed to.—The Validity of Proceedings (House of Commons) Bill was committed, read a third time, and passed. On the motion of Mr. WALPOLE, a Select Committee was appointed to consider and report to the house whether any and what improvement may be made in the providing for the execution of the office of Speaker, in the event of the Speaker's unavoidable absence by reason of illness or of other causes. Mr. INGIIAM obtained leave to bring in a bill to empower the Dean and Chapter of Durham to make better provision for certain parochial districts in the borough of South Shields. The house adjourned at six o'clock. THURSDAY. The Speaker took the chair at noon. ___ The house having resolved itself into a committee upon the Education (Scotland) Bill, Lord ELciro inquired how the government intended, in the event of a bill passing, to admin ister and distribute the Privy Council grants, with reference to Romanists, Episcopalians, and Presbyterians.—Lord PAL MERSTON replied that there were certain schools for which the bill made no provision, and, as the object of the government was to diffuse education, there was no wish on their part to withhold assistance from schools which would not receive benefit from the bill. The committee proceeded to discuss the details of the bill, which occupied the entire sitting. GOVERNMENT or VICTORIA..—At the evening sitting, Lord J. RUSSELL, tin moving the second reading of the Victoria Government Bill, stated the reasons why the Government had adopted the colonial bill, removing those clauses to which Her Majesty could not assent.—Mr. BELL moved to defer the second reading for six months. He objected to the bill as introducing an element of discord connected with religious en dowments.—Mr. LOWE said the bill encroached upon the Co lonial Legislature, which was invited to encroach upon th e jurisdiction of that house. If th e bill s h ou ld p ass , an d H er Majesty gave her assent to it, a competent cour t wou ld pro nounceit a nullity. He pointed out instances in the bill in which the Colonial Legislature had exceeded its limited juris diction, and trenched upon the rights of the central authority, as well as examples of anomalies in its frame and structure. The house ought to proceed no further with the bill, which should be sent back to Port Philip.—Mr. J. BALL said the same principle had been applied to this bill as to the Canada Bill by the 10th and 11th of Victoria, so that there was no reason to doubt the legality of this legislation. Substantially, this was simply a bill to give legal form and validity to an act of the Colonial Legislature.—Mr. ADDERLEY, after reviewing the long and tangled history of the Australian constitutions, assented to the views of Mr. Lowe as to the form of the bill, and suggested what he con ceived to be a better mode of dealing with the subject. —Sir J. PARINGTON said he had heard nothing from Mr. Lowe or Mr. Adderley which made him think it his duty to vote against the second reading of the bill. He considered this bill and the next (the New South Wales Government Rill) to bear the complexion of an arrangement to meet the expressed wishes of the colonies ; and that, under the circumstances, should they be rejected, except upon the most clear and valid grounds, it would be like a breach of faith, and create the greatest dissatisfaction in the colonies.—Lord J. RUSSELL said that, upon the whole, whether he agreed or not with every particular of the constitution, he was satisfied that it had been framed with great deliberation, and he heartily trusted that it would contribute to the happiness and pros perity of the colony.—Mr. BELL withdrew his amendment, and the bill was read a second time. NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT.—On the order for the second reading of the New South Wales Government Bill, Mr. LOWE said, almost all the objections he had urged to the last bill applied with equal force to this. He should not, however, repeat those objections, but state that the reason why he thought the house should not proceed further with this bill was that the Legislative Council which had sent this bill did not represent the colony or its interests, but other interests ; that the constitution was not the primary object of the bill, but was secondary to another and ulterior object, namely—the obtaining for certain parties in the colony enormous tracts of the public land. He then proceeded to show the influence of the squatting interest in the colony, the manner in which the new Legislative Council was elected, and the animus with which they went to work in framing a constitution, the ob ject being, he said, not to consider the wants of the colony, or what the popular voice required, but to serve the purpose of „ the second reading for six months.—After a short discussion, the second reading was affirmed by 142 to 33. The Waste Lands (Australia) Acts Repeal Bill was read a second time.—The Coal Mines Inspection Bill passed through committee.—The National Gallery, &c. (Dublin) Bill, the Public Libraries and Museums (Ireland) Bill, and the Places of Religions Worship Registration Bill were read a third time and passed.—The Absconding Debtors (Ireland) Bill passed through committee.—The Insurance on Lives (Abatement of Income-tax Continuance Bill) and the Cinque Ports Bill were read a third time and passed.—The amendments in the Burial-grounds (Scotland) Bill were considered and agreed to. —The Spirit of Wine Bill passed through committee,—The Woolmer Forest Bill and the Stamp Duties Repeal on Matri culation and Degrees (Oxford) Bill were read a third time and passed.—The Consolidated Fund (£10,000,000) Bill was read a second time.—Mr. CAIRNS brought in a bill to amend the Court of Exchequer (Ireland) Act, 1850. The house adjourned at 20 minutes before 2 o'clock. FRIDAY. COLONIAL GRANTs.—In answer to a question, Mr. PEEL said that there was no intention of altering the arrangements regarding the grant of lands as an inducement to persons to enlist in the regular army, nor had any offer of such grants been made to Swiss and German recruits joining the Foreign Legion; but it had been suggested to the Governor-General of Canada that it would facilitate recruiting if the Colonial Legislature would enable us to make such offers. He was not, however, aware that any act had been passed by the Colonial Parliament for this purpose. With regard to the officers of the regular army, an abatement in the price of Crown lands in the colonies was now allowed to those who wished to purchase. . . ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM.—Mr. LAYARD moved the following resolution :—" That this house views with deep and increasing concern the state of the nation, and is of opinion that the manner in which merit and efficiency have been sacrificed, in public appointments, to party and family influ ences, and to a blind adherence to routine, has given rise to great misfortunes, and threatens to bring discredit upon the national character, and to involve the country in grave disas ters." It could not be denied that there was a general feeling abroad that there was something wrong in our administrative system ; and it would be for the government to show that it was incorrect, and that the different branches of the public service were properly administered. He denied that he medi tated an attack upon the aristocracy. All he wanted to see was that every man should have a fair chance to raise himself in the public service ; but the feeling out of doors was that this could not be, on account of obstructions arising, to a great extent, if not entirely, from party or family feelings ; if this impression was not justifiable, it was proper that the house should remove it.—Sir S. NORTHCOTE, observing that Mr. Layard had not pointed out any effectual remedy for the evils he had exposed in the civil service, dwelt upon the practical difficulties with which heads of departments in that service had to contend in any endeavour to improve their system or to advance efficient men. There must be, he said, some fixed system of routine on which offices were to be conducted, in order to make them work. The fundamental faults of the existing system of routine were connected not only with the appointment of the men, but with the working good men when they were got, which was conducted upon the worst possible system. The plan he would suggest to meet many of the objections to the present system of the civil service was that which had been proposed by Sir C. Trevelyan and himself, which included division of labour and appointment by competition. The civil service could not be effectually improved without an ' alteration of its tone and morale ; the great bane of patron age must be got rid of, and a fair system of appointment by competition would introduce a very different tone into the service.—Mr. GOWER said he entirely concurred in the prin ciple that appointments should be conferred upon merit, but it was incumbent on those who advocated administrative reform, not only to make clear the objects they had in view, but the means by which they proposed to attain their end. — Mr. PEACOCRE, after a general censure of Whig administra tions, supported the motion, which, he said, was no attack upon the aristocracy, though it might be an attack upon a coterie, liberals in name, but oligarchs in reality; it embodied the national wish and expressed the national feeling.—Mr. GLADSTONE thought the adoption either of Mr. Layard's motion, or of the amendment of which Sir B. Lytton had given notice, was not desirable. He did not believe that the evil of nepotism affected the aristocracy more than any other class, and he was not prepared to join in what would be a delusion of the country. He objected altogether to the prac tice of embodying in a resolution of that House general, abstract, and ambiguous propositions. By thus paying the people off with promises, instead of performances, the House would lose their confidence, and with the confidence of the people it would lose the power of discharging its duties.— Sir E. B. LYTTON moved, as an amendment, " that this house recommends to the earliest attention of Her Majesty's Minis ters the necessity of a careful revision of our various official es tablishments, with a view to simplify and facilitate the trans action of public business; and, by instituting judicious tests of merit, as well as by removing obstructions to its fair pro motion and legitimate rewards, to secure to the service of the State the largest available proportion of the energy and intelligence for which the people of this country are distin guished." It was worth while, he thought, to observe the date when the cry for administrative reform burst upon the country, which was shortly after the accession of Lord Pal merston to the premiership—au event that had created expectations which had not been fulfilled, and the people thought there was no use in trusting to Ministers. He held, therefore, the noble viscount responsible for this cry. The unhappy direction given to this movement out of doors had in it something more dangerous than to any government or to the aristocracy ; it threatened the fundamental principles of representative government. —The CHAN CELLOR of the ExcaggEß said the motion of Mr. Lay ard embodied not only the subject of administrative reform, but a vote of want of confidence in Her Majesty's Ministers, which, if adopted, would lead ,to their resignation. He con tended that in a popular government it was impossible alto gether to exempt appointments from party or political influ ence, and, with respect to family connections, persons could not be excluded from office on account of their connection with the aristocracy. A motion for adjournment was carried by 242 to 31, and the debate was adjourned till Monday. The Consolidated Fund (£10,000,000) passed through com mittee. BILLS or LADING (No. 2) BILL.--The house went into committee on this bill. Clauses 1,2, and 3 were aggreed to. On clause 4 some discussion having arisen, Mr. HENLEY moved that the chairman report progress, which was agreed to, and the house resumed. The house adjourned at half-past one o'clock. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. Rev. G. Bateman, M.A., to the Curacy of Southstoke with Woodcote, Oxon. Rev. J. B. Cane, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Penlethorpe, Notts. Rev. T. L. Clarkson, M.A., to the Rectory of S. James, South Elmham, Suffolk. Rev. E. W. Culsha, M.A., Curate of Little Malvern, to be Head Master of the Free Grammar-school, Colwall, near 3ialvern. Rev. W. J. Denman, late Curate of Brantham, Suffolc, to the Curacy of Stoke-by-Clare. Rev. N. Denton, M. A. to the Curacy of Northstokc with Newn ham Murren, Oxon. Rev. W. C. Dudley, M.A., to the Curacy of Clifton Reynes, Bucks. Rev. E. E. J. Evered, 8.A., to the Curacy of Cross Stone, Halifax. Rev. J. Finley, NI.A., late Vicar of Studley, Warwickshire, to the Stipendiary Curacy of Ingestre, Staffordshire. Rev. W. P. Goode, M.A., to the Rectory of EarshamAll Saints, Norfolk. Rev. C. It. Harrison, B.C.L, to the Rectory of Peldon, F.ssex. Rev. W. W. Howard, M.A., Fellow of Sidney Sussex College,. Cambridge, to be one of Her Majesty's Assistant Inspectors of Schools. _ Rev. B. S. Kennedy, to the Curacy of Slaidburn, Yorkshire. Rev. R. IV. Loosemere, 8.A., to the Curacy of Peransabuloe, Cornwall. Rev. C. A. L'Oate, B.A. to the Rectory of' St. Mary -at-the-Walls, Colchester. Rev. R. NI achell, M.A ~ to the Vicarage of Marton-in-Cleve land, Yorkshire. Rev. J. T. Manley, M.A., Curate of Clapham, to the Perpetual Curacy of Mortlake, Surrey. Rev. G. H. Newman, to the Rectory of Lufton, Somerset. Rev. H. M. Richards, M.A.., to the Curacy of Sulham, Berks. Rev. J.G. Itytie, to the Incuinhency of Trinity Church, Melrose, Roxburgh, Diocese of Glasgow. _ . _ Rev. Thompson, 8.A., to the Curacy of South Lynn, All Saints, Norfolk. _ _ _ Rev: R. Thornton, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of St. John's College, Oxford, to the Head Mastership and Chaplaincy of the Epsom College. ___ _ Rev. W.W.Trumper, to the Vicarage of Clifford, Herefordshire. Rev. A. B. Whatton, 8.A., to the Curacy of Ardwick, Man chester. Rev. J. Wild, 8.A., to the Curacy of Radford, Notts. CLERICAL OBITUARY. On the 6th inst., at Kilternan Glebe, Ireland, the Rev. H. Kearney. On the 10th inst., at Thorneloe-house, the Rev. Thomas Henry Newport, of Hanky-court, Worcestershire, in the 79th year of his age. Recently, the Rev. J. B. Snelgar, formerly curate of Barnoak, aged 41. DIOCESE OF CHESTER. CONSECRATION.—The new church of Saint Margaret, at Dunham Massey, in the parish of Bowdon, Cheshire, recently erected at the sole charge of the Earl of Stamford and War rington, at a cost of upwards of £lO,OOO, was consecrated by the Bishop of Chester on Wednesday last ; it contains 663 sittings, of which 200 are free, but the church has been built with reference principally to the wants of the district, which is one almost exclusively inhabited by the wealthy. The noble earl has endowed it with a sum of £BO per annum for the minister, and a sum of £2O per annum as a repair fund. The pew rents will also furnish a considerable amount in aug mentation of the income of the clergyman. The patronage is vested in the earl, his heirs and assigns; and it is in contem plation to assign part of the parish of Bowden as a district to the new church. The Rev. J. Kingsley, for 20 years curate of the parish church, is to be the first incumbent. The new church at Willaston, in the parish of Nestor, is to be consecrated by the Lord Bishop on Thursday next, at two o'clock. PREFERMENT.—Rev. Henry Maclean has been licensed by the Lord Bishop a.s Clerk in Orders of the parish church of Wigan, on the nomination of the Rev. H. J. Gunning, the rector. VACANCY.—The Rectory of Tattenhall, in the county of Chester, by the resignation of the Rev. G. R. Moncrieff. Value £277, with a house. Patron, the Lord Bishop of Chester. ON ST. BARNABIEIe DAY, the ground was broken for a new parsonage-house, at St. Barnabas, Kensington. This will be the first parsonage built on a new principle lately admitted by the Church Commissioners, in cases where, for the want of an endowment, the Queen Anne's Bounty is unable, consistently with its rules, to make a loan. The incumbent is permitted to purchase the site, to build the house, and to make over both to the Church Commissioners, charging the living with the repayment of a portion of the capital advanced, secured in the form of an annual rent-charge to himself or his heirs, in case of his voidance of the incumbency within thirty years. The admission of this precedent will be of great importance to incumbents of uneudowed parochial districts. A CONFIRMATION was held at Childwall, on Tuesday, by the Bishop of Chester. The candidates, numbering about 350, were from the surrounding districts of Garston, Grassendale, Hale, Halewood, Woolton, Gateacre, and Wavertree, all in the parish of Childwall. ERECTION OF NEW SEES. —The third and final report of the cathedral commission recommends the formation of twelve additional bishoprics in England and Wales. Among the proposed new sees are St. Columb (for Cornwall), Westminster Gloucester, and Bristol (to be agai n ma d e i n d epen d ent sees ) , and Southwell. having died of measles, no person could be found to carry its corpse to its last resting place, when a poor old man offered to perform that charitable office; and had, after resting once or twice, reached so far as the churchy ar d, an d h a d j ust d epos i te d his fatal burden on a stool, at the head of the grave, when his head fell upon his breast, and he sank to the earth and died without a pang. SIR J. 13ROOICE AND THE PIRATES.—The followine , is an extract from a letter, bearing date the barque S—, off' Sin gapore, Easter Monday :—" They have humbugged us here nicely. Owing to Sir J. Brooke's being brought to trial for murder, or going beyond his orders, he did nothing towards stopping the pirates from gathering again, and now they are out again stronger than ever. He was tried while we were in Singapore, (the chief justice of Calcutta coming down on purpose,) and acquitted ; but the mischief was done. I heartily wish some of the heads' were out here, and could see some of the scenes that are witnessed here now, again and again. A junk is taken, (a pirate junk,) her decks are one mass of blood, her paint all stained with it, torturing instruments of all kinds on board, and the men boasting how many they have killed." LORD HARDINGE has issued a general order on the subject of the late attempted or pretended duel at Canterbury. Cornet Evans, of the 6th Enuiskillens, is to be cashiered. Lieutenant Webster, of the Ist Royals, is to retire from the service by the sale of his commission. Lieutenant Hartopp is most severely reprimanded, and his conduct is to be reported every three months by his commanding officer for the information of the commander-in-chief. Lord Hardinge considers Sergeant Brodie's conduct in preventing the duel most praiseworthy, but it would have been better if he had reported his appre hensions to his commanding officer the previous night. Cornet Baumgarten is directed to be more on his guard for the future, and his attention is called to certain sections in the articles of war. Captain Fitzwigram's name is not mentioned, although he is said to have been the prompter in most of the transactions. FATAL ACCIDENT TO MR. GEORGE CITRZON.—Mr. George Curzon, heir-presumptive to the barony of Scarsdale, and cousin of the Earl Howe, met with an accident in Hyde Park on Saturday, which has terminated fatally. He was riding in Hyde Park, just before six o'clock, and when about mid way between Apsley-house and Stanhope-gate, in endeavour ing to pass by two carriages, his horse became restive, and threw him on the edge of the footway. Mr. Curzon fell on his head, which, it is believed, from the very serious injuries he received, must have come in contact with the kerbstone. He was immediately conveyed to St. George's Hospital, and Mr. Holmes, the house-surgeon, on perceiving the extent of the injuries sustained, called in the aid of Mr. C. Hawkins, who immediately pronounced the case a hopeless one. A te legraphic message was then forwarded to Derbyshire, appris ing Mrs. A. Curzon, mother of the deceased, of the accident, and she arrived in London early on Sunday, and reached the hospital about an hour and a half before the death of her son. Earl Howe had been by the bedside of his cousin during the greater part of the night. The deceased. George Nathaniel Curzon, was eldest son of the late Hon. and Rev. Alfred Cur zon, brother of Lard Scarsdale, and was born on the 6th of October, 1826. His remains have besn removed to his lodg ings in South Audley-street. LONDON NEW CATTLE MARKET.—At the inauguration of the new cattle market at Islington. which took place on "Wed nesday, Prince Albert, who presided, said, in reply to the address of the Corporation :—" I have been much pleased by the opportunity which your kind invitation has afforded me of seeing and admiring the great work which you this day open to the public—a work which not only deserves alladmiration in itself on account of the excellence of the arrangements and the magnificence of the design, but which will, I trust, be found eminently conducive to the comfort and health of the city of London. That its success will be commensurate with the spirit in which it has been undertaken and carried out I cannot doubt. A certain dislocation of habits and interests must in evitably attend the removal of the great city market from the site it has occupied for so many centuries, and this may possi bly retard for the moment the fullest development of the un dertaking. But any opposition arising from such causes will soon cease, and the farmers will doubtless soon learn to appre ciate the boon thus conferred upon them by the London Cor poration, in the increased facility which will be afforded to them for the transaction of their business, and the comparative security with which they will be enabled to brin g u p and dis play their valuable stock in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market." MERCANTILE FAILURES. —The Administrative Reformers boast so much of the competency of mercantile men to manage the affairs of state, that of coarse we may assume they are perfectly capable of managing their own. It happens, how ever, that some ugly cases have turned up lately, and if report speaks truly we shall in a few days have as flagrant a case made public as has been exposed for years. We allude to Messrs. Strahan, Paul, and Co., the bankers, who stopped payment on Monday last. The city article in the Timer of yesterday states that revelations have been made which place this case-" as one of the worst on record." Their liabilities, which they represented to be about £300,000, are more likely to reach double that amount, and this enormous deficiency is perfectly at variance with the causes which they offer for their failure, so much so, continues the writer that there is every reason to fear that for a long period the house has been existing upon the property of those who confided in them," so that these gentlemen for the last year or two have been grossly violating every principle, not only of honour, but of commercial and banking laws, in a manner scarcely to be credited of the merest tyro in business. The late case of Davidson and Gordon is another equally flagrant example; and how many more could not be added to the list of late years ? With every respect for the talents and honour of the British commercial class, we beg to dem b u u r si to st their sertion that they could transact the public the a proof of discretion State in so faultless a manner. In the management of their do cook accounts own affairs, they g i ve us none so greatand care. Rail w ay an d other companies to make things pleasant, and even some associations, according to Colonel Freestun, will descend . so lo the art of cookery, as to embellish their bill atm with a list of absent and never intending-to-be-present honourable Members.— The Pren.